skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in the UK, where average houses are less than 1000sqft? :)
I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_Society_Relative_Val...

"Supply, demand, and what the market may bear do."

I agree about "what the market may bear". Normal supply and demand market ideas really don't apply to a lot of medical areas.
From blogging to YouTube – my experience
Somewhat, but hot as those flames burn, they don't bring up the same depth of life-and-death emotion that real battle does. When people feel existentially threatened—which is very much how it feels in political battle—we go into survival mode, and in survival mode there is zero ability or willingness to see the other side as human. How does that manifest in internet forums? As snark, as name-calling, as refusal to acknowledge any truth in the opposing comment, a willingness to distort whatever is said in order to get the upper hand over it—basically, all the conceptual equivalents to what you would do physically if someone were literally trying to kill you.

One would think that the relative triviality and distance of internet conversation would allow for greater feelings of safety, but in practice it's exactly the opposite. It seems to provide the perfect blank screen on which to project all our shadows, and so we end up feeling surrounded by demons: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., and since they're demons of our own creation, they know exactly where all our sore spots and vulnerabilities are, and keep activating them unerringly.
Luckily, you can have an 800 sqm house on the Mediterranean seaside for the price of a garage in SFBA :)
> If it's 20 times as deadly, why isn't that reflected in the all-cause deaths?

How many people already had it in Sweden? About 5%? And how many will get it until herd immunity is reached? About 70%? Then it seems that it will probably come back next winter and probably with force. What we've seen this spring and summer may only be a tenth of what's about to come.

Those numbers are only some estimates and we don't know for sure but time will tell.
You got me curious:

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur. From Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), from Latin ambasiātor, from Latin ambasiātor. From Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹 From Proto-Germanic ambahtiją (“service”) Borrowed from Gaulish ambaxtos (“servant”) From Proto-Celtic ambaxtos (“servant”) From ambi- (“around”) +‎ ageti (“to drive”) +‎ *-os.
I looked at Sovereign a while back, and came to the same conclusion, and ended up going with mail-in-a-box, which is possibly a little too far the other way, but at least very low maintenance.
Yep. And Craig also said the Mac is staying open. And that he was sick of trying to convince people that!
Hey!
It was actually the PyCon 2015 keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6SdUF-BaM
I should have put a smiley face on the pedantry comment...

I get what you're saying, and if this project in question just wants a "hosting service" and to never touch any of its features, then ok.

But the broader point is that these are not hosting services; they're full-on toolsets and workflows that people are migrating to (or towards, in this case).
Show HN: AWS Product Announcements, but without boring stuff
> Heroku really screwed me over once

How?
>But it should be noted that COVID19 is an RNA virus. Its a stray piece of RNA floating around in the air, without any cell walls, cell membranes, or other apparatus for protection. //

Your description of Covid19 as being a stray bit of RNA floating around doesn't tally with the fact that it's a coronavirus - the name comes from the morphology, it's encapsulated.

Eg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peplomer

This might be the reason. I dare say people dismissed your comment based on a headline factual error.

I wonder about microwaving; kills most things.
This doesn't quite get to ELI5 but hopefully is understandable to an HN audience (please feel free to correct if I've gotten anything incorrect):

"Topological" and "magnetic" are two separate concepts (see below). Phase just refers to "phase of matter" - it's used here because a material has different properties depending on the external environment (like heating a magnet beyond a certain point means it's no longer magnetic).

Topological typically refers to a "topological band structure". If you know some band theory: a material can be classed as an insulator, conductor, or semiconductor based on its band gap. A topological material is "mostly" an insulator, but has a special set of conductive channels on the surface.

Remember that an electron has this additional property of spin ("up" or "down"). The topological material is furthermore unique in that these conducting channels only conduct electrons with a particular spin. The channels are also "topologically protected", so they are immune to material imperfections and have dissipation-less conductance (kind of "superconducting" in laymen's terms, but this has a different specific meaning in physics).

Normally these topological materials are not magnetic (the topological effect is closely related to magnetic ordering), but this paper shows evidence of both, and also demonstrates that the electronic properties can be modulated by applying external magnetic field.

So combining all of this, an application of interest in computing is "spintronics", where electronics use spin current rather than charge current. Dissipation-less conductance means much more power efficient, and spin isn't volatile like charge (HDD vs RAM). Topological materials are also being explored as a promising hardware platform for quantum computing.
You don't see any benefit in his sharing details about this incident in a blog post so others can avoid his mistake?
Geez, that's brutal. I'm glad I'm seeing this....it never crossed my mind that this sort of thing would be something that might get built into headphones.

If I want to avoid this sort of thing, I'm thinking / hoping it's sufficient to simply avoid headphones that require an app.

Does that seem right?
Is the implication that this is an intentional practice to drive out small players?
I wonder if it's possible to build a language filter that excises the "named chair" names from someone's title, so:

F. Duncan Haldane, the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics and the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton

becomes

F. Duncan Haldane, a Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton

It would vastly increase the readability of some of these things.
Nope. Godwin’s law involves comparisons to Hitler or Nazis. This was a use of Hitler as a marker in time to indicate the era de Havilland was from.
Iron is available in plants. The question is mostly, what animals can produce by consuming plants that we need and we can't produce on our own.
One of my first management mentors taught me that my job as a manager is to make sure I have no work to do (and that it takes a lot of work to get there ....), and I adopted this philosophy wholeheartedly. If I, as a manager, cannot take a month off at any time (after e.g. a year at a job, and with no highly improbable events occurring recently), I consider that my failure.
> Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?... That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does.

Literally nothing else? Not the fact there's an international pandemic so collections right now are like squeezing money from a stone? Not even the fact they didn't stop (i.e. people kept receiving collection notices right up to the People First Initiative)?

> And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.

The pizza parlor running a pedophile ring out of its basement had no basement. That's as concluded as it gets.
If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If you think that one side gets consistently moderated while the other side doesn't—on whatever divisive topic—then you might be falling prey to the notice/dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Because of that bias, all sides feel like the site, the community, and the moderators are lined up against them, and they make interchangeable statements about it (except for the bit about which sides are supposedly favored).
The idea that it 'levels the playing field' is an opinion. I reject that opinion out of hand. If a company's workforce unionizes, a company cannot do much but pay the wages they demand. That is not a fair playing field. That is a cartel. Cartels are bad.

>After all the boss already has the power of a large organization

Poor representation of the facts. A boss has the authority to buy labour as he sees fit, and to offer a sum for it that he thinks he can afford. He does not have the power to force an employee to be hired at a price he wants.
Well, not much point to paying extra for the short commute if you aren't commuting anyway.
>information density

That has absolutely nothing to do with usability.
This is apparently a video of theirs that was removed from Instagram for "Hate Speech"

https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/12854428530369085...

Mostly just unflattering cuts of Trump talking...
Joke Papers on ArXiv
Actually the pi doesn't even know about the concept of code quality. Or even your code at all.
The problem is the business model; managing all these common services is a big deal and takes serious engineering effort to keep online. You then fairly quickly should enter into relatively high prices to make this cost-efficient.

The cloud providers, however, have a trick: they can eat these costs and make serious $$$ on the actual compute, storage and bandwidth.

If you’re trying to compete with AWS et al based on price for bandwidth etc “but with common services such as S3”, you’re gonna have a really hard time convincing a customer your expensive managed Kafka is reasonably priced. And then you’ll just find yourself competing on just VPS servers...
> > We desperately need a standardized open source phone. The raspberry pi of phones.

> It seems like we're getting there with Prism [1] and Pine [2]. Seems to be a couple more I've never heard of [3].

But are they standardized? That is, can I have a single "phone OS" distribution which can be installed unmodified in all of them? We're already there with the Raspberry Pi: the 64-bit Fedora I installed on mine boots through UEFI, and the same Fedora install should boot on any other UEFI-using 64-bit ARM board. That's the only way to get the necessary scale; otherwise, the community will stay split in separate silos (a purism silo, a pine64 silo, etc).
If I had the resources, I would establish an organization for privacy badges for products. From "absolutely anonymous", through "necessary violations of privacy for function" till "unnecessary harvesting of data".

Till such an organization for handing out badges will exist, it will be a hard task to buy any hardware and being able to trust its privacy.
I can't believe people are victim blaming the db admins for not knowing about vulnerability. What good comes of destroying the db instead of talking about the vulnerability to the open source projects? Coincidentally shodan; that I've never heard of.
Then how are you comfortable routing it through a cheap service instead?
Asked more precisely: how do you determine reliability from price?
Oh yeah my (boarding) high school had a dorm built in the “electricity will soon be too cheap to meter” era and had heating elements set into the concrete floors. It housed like 50 students and used more electricity than all of the other buildings on the 500 student campus combined. The warm floors were very nice though!
Who would clean that? 250sqm is more realistic ;)
Do you think facebook is the only place that is getting your data?
Nope, it takes far more delta-v to get from Luna to anywhere because everything launched from Luna first has to be landed on Luna. Without aerobraking that takes a large amount of delta-v.
There are for sure many other benefits of increasing the forested land, eg from protecting the soil to host a whole living ecosystem (from which humans can benefit from)

Not only reforestation helps with cleaning the air, but it tries to rolls back a (irreparable) damage we made to the environment during the last centuries.
R should be killed.
That is beyond insanity to assume there is a causation between the two.

A union works by resctricting supply of labor to increase the price it costs to procure it. Just like OPEC with oil. Cartels are bad when OPEC does it and they're bad when labour unions do them. Please don't defend cartels.
I'm a fan of this version. It's got more scifi.
Ah, my mistake. That comes off pretty asinine then, apologies.
The one comment I'd make is that lots of companies already have distributed teams and, in the case of open source software, are typically working with outside people distributed all over the place. So "in-crowd mentality" is pretty much an anti-pattern as soon as the butts-in-seat co-located assumption is broken for whatever reason.
It seems to me that "on a stand-alone basis" can be interpreted to mean "without context," which would mean that publishing with proper context of the data is acceptable.
>Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English

Than English...that article is complete bullshit, the Inuits have 30 different words for snow = more information density, but is it usable for every culture?
The Stanford Physics Curriculum
Both my mom and my aunt died a couple of years ago. I had all the paperwork that I needed but it was 2-3 hours for each account that needed to be closed and a new account opened for the estate. I was able to close one of my mom's and that was relatively easy, like 15 minutes.

It did seem incredibly expensive to provide a person to interact with. One of the banks involved was Chase and they did have a video interface where you could interact with a banker somewhere else.

I guess it works out, since the banks had thousands of dollars sitting in the bank paying no interest. And the amounts surged to hundreds of thousands as their houses were sold and before the money was distributed to the heirs.

But dealing with the general public for accounts in the hundreds of dollars has to be a money loser. Except for the overdraft and other fees, of course.
Instead of `ls` I use `lsd` https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd.
@latexr if you think that then I am doing a very bad job
Politics has never been completely off topic on HN. It's a grey area that needs to be decided case by case (i.e. thread by thread)—which unfortunately satisfies no one, but no other solution that I'm aware of is remotely feasible. It's neither desirable nor possible to ban all topics with political overlap (which includes most topics, after all); nor can we just let all political flames burn, because the site would become scorched earth in short order.

I've written extensive explanations about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... If anyone reads those and has a question that isn't answered yet, I'd like to know what it is. Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN.
Talk: NP-Completeness
We do offer paid plans with enhanced features.

And we're completely open-source, store zero logs, and store zero metadata too. All source code is on GitHub as well.

I formerly worked at DuckDuckGo, and take privacy very seriously.

Privacy Policy: https://forwardemail.net/privacy
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You can delete your account at any time.
Isn't double descent explained by the following?

The network contains many more parameters than data points.

Therefore there is an entire region of lowest training error.

A random point sonewhere in the middle of that region probably generalises better than at the edge.

Once SGD enters this region at the edge, generalisation can still occur because the randomness will most likely cause it to random walk inside the region.

To test this hypothesis you could run gradient descent with line search instead of SGD, and then you should not see this extra generalisation. Then if you add a bit of randomness to gradient descent you should see this extra generalisation again, if this hypothesis is correct. Also, under this hypothesis you'd predict that the speed at which generalisation improves depends on the batch size.
Patreon CEO shares his most epic failures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5rKTCMNnU

It is very inspirational and shows us once more, that the path to success is not a lucky shot, but rather a path intertwined with ups and downs along the way.

From my personal experience (which I'm writing about [1]), I can also relate and say that those "up" moments come in waves. It takes time, will, and effort to make those waves increase in volume, tendency, and strength. It's a slow process. An up hill push.

Keep pushing.

[1] https://gum.co/side-project
Forwardemail.net seems to have paid plans.

Reading through the about and FAQ they also seem to be driven by decent principles.

https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#how-is-it-free
When you are in your office, are you even having verbal communication with a manager? Is the manager even in the same office? None of this is a given. When I was in an office I had a closed door and communicated mostly via chat and IM and I often reported to managers in different offices. My office was remote from my manager's office. When I moved to a home office, it made no difference to that manager.
That server is at least 10 years old and quite custom. For example when an email is received the address is queried to an ldap and if it's a mailing list the email is sent to all the recipients of that mailing list which can be other mailing lists ! This goes on until an user address is found and then the email is delivered to the cyrus server.

Each user can also have many alternative addresses that map to an unique mailbox

Those mailings lists are used a lot internally and managed with internally developed tools. This make migrating to an external service difficult.

That's the classic example of some critical piece of infrastructure that nobody dare to touch because it works... until it doesn't anymore.

That's why we don't use external services to receive email. I'll consider using mailJet if setting up exim & related stuff correctly to send email in 2020 proves too painful.
You seem to have a clear view of what will make you happy, and I genuinely commend you for that. My initial question was "To Whom (does it matter)?" and you seem to have answered it with "To me and my beliefs about who I am". Fair enough.

But I wonder,
- Do you want a brilliantly gifted surgeon or one who gets by on grit to operate on your loved one?
- Do you want to listen to the effortless musician who seems to have some gift from god, or one that practices 6 hours a day even though they know they kinda suck?
I don't think hydrogen powered planes will substantially replace normal planes for reasons having to do partially with safety and partially with performance, but I think the engineering problems are surmountable. There are existing prototypes that have flown using hydrogen fuel cells, and the Tu-155 which ran on liquid hydrogen (used as fuel for its jet engines though, not to power fuel cells). So it's not like this stuff doesn't work.

I think you are overestimating the difficulty of dealing with embrittlement. Many materials don't suffer from embrittlement at all, and others (like aluminum) only suffer at high temperatures.

Edit: I also wanted to add to the person who made the claim "kerosene burns, hydrogen explodes" that kerosone can explode too, and it obviously is possible to handle hydrogen in a way that explosion is unlikely or it wouldn't be used as rocket fuel (where it is literally combusted with oxygen... combusted, not exploded). I agree that hydrogen is more dangerous than kerosene, but it's not like kerosene is that safe either and the question is whether you can create good enough processes around the storage and handling of hydrogen to offset the risk.
> If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.

The problem is that we only see the cases that go viral. We don't see the cases that didn't, and thus can't actually judge how many cases get reversed via the official escalation channels.
How does this compare to exa?

https://the.exa.website/
Yep! Both free and paid. We have some pretty serious security principles. I'm the creator, so if you have any questions let me know. All of my work I do is open-source -- and we also have a public Slack channel and Twitter where I post updates. The paid plans are for if you don't want to use free DNS-based forwarding setup, a small fee for unlimited domains/aliases/etc to help me maintain server costs (see the FAQ). I may make Enhanced Protection available for free at some point in the future, but I built it this way at first because the website used to be a simple wiki, and I used the DNS-based setup myself 2 years ago.
Apple rumored to be working on an iPhone running macOS
~ https://tosdr.org/
> Remote enables you to be forgotten

This became clear to me every time I was hired or transferred into a new job where I had to sit at a desk removed from everyone else on the team. Think issues with not having an empty desk nearby when I walked in the door on Day One or something along those lines, but several times over.

Making yourself routinely, regularly, and frequently visible goes only so far when you're not cubicle neighbors with your direct coworkers or managers.

"Out of sight, out of mind" isn't just for working from home, it can be as easy as working from down the hall or in the next room over. I've done the satellite office thing too, and it's in the bag for this as well.

All this said, I am finally in a position where I -- for the first time ever for me -- can and am encouraged to work from home as much as possible. My boss and those I work with are all very active and proactive on making sure we become, are, and remain glued together as we all play ventriloquist on the job. I'm about to start my fourth week at this place so I'm trying not to have rose-colored eyeglasses during the honeymoon, but so far so good.
I went through the journey of configuring Postfix for a small side project I was working on.

The idea was to accept emails sent to a unique, per-user address and forward all attachments to the user’s cloud storage account.

I looked into using mail services like SES and Mailgun, but given the average expected email size and the fact that I would primarily receiving mail, the additional cost didn’t make sense. Along the way, I ended up learning quite a bit about Postfix filters, virtual domains, SPF, and DKIM.

I also learned how quickly spammers can detect open relays. Apparently, while copy-pasting a config from somewhere, I had a slightly incorrect 172.x subnet listed as part of “mynetworks”. As a result, a spammer with a machine belonging to this subnet was able to use my server as an open relay. Long story short, it took me quite a while to root cause the issue and get my domain off the blacklists!
Aside from things you order in the room or charge to your room, what is changing on the hotel fees? Typically they are quite straightforward, unlike rental car quotes. You can even pre-pay.