skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tow planes and gliders routinely fly with a disconnecting cable between two aircraft, and that seems at least as impractical and unsafe (or it would if you were proposing it as a new idea). Though maybe that's the sort of thing that's "grandfathered in" from earlier, more permissive days of experimental aviation.

A tow cable does not have live electrical conductors in it.
Nobody wants to argue with GDPR regulators which cookies are "strictly necessary" and they certainly don't want to pay lawyers to review the purpose and use of every cookie.

It's not a trick, it's just that the easiest path for all sites to comply is to obtain blanket consent for everything.

Classic perverse incentive.
I want my covid stimulus $300 Nixon Bucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_HyY-8dQJA
> why should she take my name and lose her identity?

You should probably ask her. No one is forced to change their name, but some do.
Hi, can you consider adding some accessibility to the library? Currently, I don't have a way to know that a term could be expanded, because the signal seems to be visual only and not detectable via a screen reader. Adding aria-pressed might be the solution, but I'm not an expert, just an user.
No, that is not accurate. I disagree. I think ivy league degrees are a great proxy for intelligence and work ethic. Ivy league grads I've worked with are fantastic. If you have to hire a bunch of college graduates, it's a fine strategy. If you are hiring on the open market, though, you don't have to rely on it, you can rely on someone's professional accomplishments which is a truer proxy of the values you are hiring for.
> There's no way to transfer USDT into USD. The few exchanges that say they offer withdraws actually don't if you go and try.

So what actually happens when people sell Bitcoin? They get USDT on an exchange and then can never get cash out? Is there some convoluted series of trades you can make from USDT -> ??? -> USD or something instead? And people selling Bitcoin have made enough profit to just ignore the overhead of those trades I guess?
What are you using for 'Lighting and tornado detector' out of interest? Curious how a tornado detector works.
How is it "like eugenics" to state that children inherit genes from their parents, and are often similar in many ways to their parents? That just sounds like biology.

It's not helpful to trivialize terms like "eugenics".
Unfortunately, I have learned that there's no value in doing so, since anyone who has managed to be willfully ignorant of the obvious conclusions here that have been consistent for decades will not be convinced by anything I link to; instead, typically "shoot the messenger" techniques come into place. Anything 'bad' that anyone I link to has ever said will poison the well for any factual claims they make, etc.

It's a shame it has to be like this. There's plenty of valid statistical / demographic information out there that lines up perfectly with everyone's lived experience, but the conclusions drawn from it are not pretty. All I can say is that it is possible to make inferences without making value judgements; we can point at problems without having evil intentions and without suggesting tyrannical interventions.
Not a fan of revisionist theories and unsubstantiated fan fictions, but your idea of India being a British creation is utterly misinformed, India is a very old political entity and had been United under multiple nations states & empires throughout its recorded history.
I feel like the inserted text should be highlighted with a light yellow background or some indicator. Just appearing like that inline seems a bit funky or unexpected.

But I see there is a css class which is nice.

Just a simple rgba(x,x,x,0.5) where the x’s are the usual yellow height.
> At which point I'm basically running 3 virtual file systems on top of each other just to have a better UI, which seemed a bit silly.

This sounds like a system administration problem.

Why, exactly, did you jump to docker/etc instead of what everyone (including NextCloud) recommends which is basically "keep a copy of your nextcloud folder and a dump of your database"?[0]

If you're not confident you can properly recreate your nginx config, then keep a copy of that too.

At that point you're literally like four steps to restore from a blank slate:

pkg install nginx php74 php74-extensions mariadb105-server
mysql -e 'CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;'
mysql nextcloud < backup/nextcloud.sql
rsync /path/to/backup/ /

It sounds like most of your pain comes from trying to optimize the long tail here (recovering from a backup) at the cost of normal operation.

(FWIW, my backup strategy is cron running a shell script that "rsync/mysqldump to second disk; rclone off-site". I've recovered from this successfully (from my local copy, no transfer times) in about a half hour.)

[0] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/mainte...
Is that documented somewhere? The applicant clearly has presented at Pycon which doesn't seem likely for an entry level candidate.
I believe you've transposed "harm" and "good" in your quote. The linked Pew article lists the question as "Do more good than harm."
Assuming the app vendors still targets old stale releases.

Fragmentation on Android makes it worthwhile to only test on the flagship phones with a few different version. Everywhere else is pretty much too small to be worth the effort.
I used to do that before the introduction of docker+kubernetes. Once you've incorporated this into your solo workflow, you will never look back.
>That's fairly easy?!?! That's a textbook yak shaving exercise if I heard of one

This. If Tether truly were just a token backed 1:1 with USD on deposit at a commercial bank, you would not need to make multiple hops across multiple entities to actually convert it to dollars.
What a cool problem to work on - would have never have thought of it. What is the approx. hardware cost?
Single-celled slime mold with no nervous system that remembers food locations
Incorrect. We can __prosecute__ against those who break the law. We __must not__ censor, because that is the slippery slope; all the more so when it is done without judicial oversight in an adversarial review system.
Speaking as someone who worked in private equity, our Principal had generational wealth- literally he was an Italian count and his family money came from the Crusades.

The people who made the investments and ran the fund came from State University of New York at Buffalo. The count had a team of three assistants and one's entire job was to coordinate shipping cases of wine from his vanity winery to everyone their kids encountered to lubricate the wheels of their success in life. Elite squash trainer might take on the son? Case of wine to the wife. College tour? Case of wine to the tour leader. I was an analyst reporting directly to the CFO and wasn't an assistant but would routinely get asked to do lifestyle chores like help the count's uncle hook up their ipod to their Range Rover's bluetooth.

Hence why I left finance and went into medicine which is more of a meritocracy.
Perhaps it's la petite mort
> Keep in mind that Firefox opens their website [...] on every update

I haven't experienced this since the rapid release schedule started. They're pretty silent now.
I also have a Oneplus 6T and it has been running android 10 for a year now. It also receives security updates frequently.

If you are talking about android 11, it is also in the works. Maybe in a few months the first beta will come out. They have confirmed that 6T will receive the update though.
Good point, I do suppose that's a growing issue everywhere, not just in the Ivy League.
My apartment complex fire alarms go off once a week due to one smoker or food burning in a single building which then causes every building to start alarming. This week, they are doing testing which means that an entire building fire alarm will go off for every individual unit they test. There are 1000 units here and almost 100 are in my building. I have heard the fire alarm go off nearly 100 distinct times and I don’t even register fire alarms as being useful anymore. These people hate me and want me to die in a fire.
It's a reasonable trade-off for those who seek wealth above all else.

Want to get absurdly wealthy? Fine, but you're part of the eunuch class now.

This way, as a nation we can harness those rare useful wealth-obsessed people, while preventing them from creating hereditary lines of societal parasites. It's a win-win.
I still find myself diagraming some general code bits at an extremely high-level, to help guide programming and communicate with team members.

I don't think I've ever formally used the "standard EMCA Flow Chart" notation, but I can see the benefits in standardizing upon forms (diamond shape for branches, "page" symbols, "disk" symbols, etc. etc.)
LinkedIn Down
What's wrong with the wife not changing her last name? Why does there have to be change?

Islam does it, and there are no issues at all.
> This is why it's a good idea for people from non-top tier colleges to run away from prestige. You'll never be able to compete on merit at a place like McKinsey, a top law firm or an IB

It certainly won’t be as easy as folks from Ivies might have it, but folks from state schools can make it big time.

Tim Cook is an Auburn grad, for example.

A friend of mine is a Michigan State grad. He worked his way up the chain in NYC by providing tremendous value. He retired in his 40s with a mid-eight figure net worth after being a partner in a hedge fund that ran its course (raised money, made money, closed down).

If someone is ambitious and talented, their degree won’t stop them.
Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin
I do a bunch of stuff in the gaming space, and WP has been one of the bigger causes of pain for streamers. Often separate 2FA-only - to prevent account hijacks - cellphones that are paid monthly and used nowhere else still show up, and the result is attempted murder (via swatting). This happens so frequently it's absurd.

None of this is opt in, all of it is extremely unwanted, and those companies really should not exist.
Proper attire on Chapek 9.

http://theinfosphere.org/images/2/23/Chapek_9_Propaganda_1.p...
Haha, text summarisation has been a traditional NLP task for ages. Google Scholar has 16,000 results just from the last year.

More leads: https://paperswithcode.com/task/text-summarization
Maybe because these attrocities were committed by people in recent history and the technology and record keeping have made it possible to quantify the destruction and pillaging. And that the west is open to being held accountable.
I read that post. It was enough to convince me of malice at the time. I don't have the link though.
This is my common issue with "free" services. It's free, but you have to input your credit card. Ah and also, if your website blows up, such as from being top 10 on HNews, you'll have to pay, but don't worry about that now.
This really isn't true. There are very few actually incompetent people going through Ivy's.

You have some really talented people (especially on full rides), and you have a bunch of average to slightly above average talent with a) a 1st class education from birth and b) good networks.

Both of those things have real world value, you can't dismiss out of hand. Yes, it's privilege - that's how it works.
It simplifies your code that depends on configuration. Instead of having to parse the config language you just read the JSON. Pretty much every programming langauge has a JSON parser built in to its standard library, while support for higher level config langauges is a lot less ubiquitous.

It also makes it easier for other tools to generate, validate, or output config that feeds into your system. They can do whatever processing they want and emit plain old JSON.
I was hopeful about this, but sadly, it's just not true. NuScale is a great example. They're failing because they can't hit the cost numbers on their pilot project, and note that this project is cited on DoE land that did not require any form of political negotiation with voters or anti nuclear activists.

I'd be ecstatic if someone figures out how to change the ROI on nuclear, but I'm no longer optimistic about it. Just saying the words "small modular reactors" isn't a solution.
I've seen way too many people in the tech said that they would only hire Ivy League, or even if they don't say it, based on who they hire it's not hard to find out that's what they do. During CVOID, you see students need to study from home, but yet the price of Ivy League school never drops a cent. It's pretty much like GUCCI or Chanel would rather destroy the products don't sell than selling them cheaply to destroy the artificial scarcity.

The problem is never why we shouldn't get more people into Ivy League, nor why don't we get more poor kids into Ivy League, or even just bring them into college. The problem is, in the era you can learn literally pretty much almost anything online, the cost of learning is very cheap, and yet people are arguing education is human right, so government should just wipe out student loans? I think the real solution is to look at how education works now and solve the problem with new technology. However, it would be very hard to do and may take very long time, given the Ivy League folks are pretty much the same group of people in power, none of them would like to make their degree looks cheap, and the irony is they often claim that they support social justice. If people truly care about social justice, it's time for people to think about the college requirement for a job and Ivy League only hiring policy.
Have you considered that "Total Cookie Protection / Isolation Partition" would be a much better name? :D
TBF you can learn how MOSFETs and compilers work on your own too, you don't need college courses for those either. A higher education degree is a package deal and isn't necessarily intended to be a vocational training course, for better or for worse.
The “companies can choose to sell or not sell whatever they want” line of reasoning falls apart when you consider the fact that these big tech companies are either legit monopolies or sort of “grey area” monopolies. When you have only a few gate-keepers who effectively control what nearly everyone can access, the existing rules need to be re-evaluated with that in mind.
just limit power to maximum efficiency. My card mines eth 52MH/s@100% and 49MH/s@55% power
The membership of /r/country subs skews heavily towards teenagers and people in their early twenties. They aren't a very good source of tourist advice, because they haven’t had the opportunity in their lives yet to travel much themselves. Also, they tend to be a demographic that identifies itself as cosmopolitan and English-speaking, to the point where they are often ashamed of rural and folkloric traditions that tourists would be interested in.
That's a good point. Students get bogged down in parsing, which is a solved problem but a fussy one with way too much theory.
Then the course glosses over optimization and code generation, which is where all the real work takes place.
That;s it! So 100% of the country in lockdown because only 30% even know of a person who has died? And how many of those 30% are the "friend of my cousin's friend's niece..." type knowing.
Family remittances to Iran are specifically exempted from the USA embargo, but good luck finding a way to do that through a bank: https://www.wiggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/26580_advi...
This seems likely to have a good overlap with safety procedures. As such integration with the big bads in this space would be a nice box to tick - i think the term to google is EHSQ - the only one I know of is intelex. Might be worth looking at.

Overall, I love the rfid two-step idea - it's simple and brilliant. Good luck ! :-)
I wouldn't hold those cities you mention in high regard... They are festering crime walhallas in their respective countries.
Genetics have no predictive power on future impact to society. Take one of those wealthy children and put them in an orphanage, see if they do the same as their siblings.
You would have changed the title of a hit piece against Hitler himself on the grounds that he didn't call for the genocide of all Jews, just putting them in camps to concentrate.

Disgraceful.
Against BTC: The strong state collapse
Yeah I don't disagree--I have yet to see a Power BI dashboard that isn't a slow, horrible mess.
The thing about democracy is that there are so many levels of government - and quite literally any decision made by a democratically elected government can be condemned as undemocratic (Because some other layer of government - or better yet, a Joe on the street - does not agree with it.)

This is how you get people shouting about how a democratically elected president, who was given, by a democratically elected congress, powers to operate a regulatory department, is acting undemocratic-ally [1], when he appoints someone those people don't like to head that department.

What those people forget is that in a democracy, you can't in good faith cherrypick outcomes as 'undemocratic'. You can only ensure that the process for making changes is democratic. If the people you elect decided to turn your country into a police state, well, that sucks, but that's a democratic decision that they've made - and as long as you can vote them out, it can be democratically reversed. Prohibition was reversed, after all, communist witch hunts eventually ended, it's no longer illegal to ride in a train car while black, people in the US are no longer jailed for writing pro-German newspaper articles, and we no longer round up entire ethnic groups, and concentrate them in a camp (Which are all hallmarks of a police state. They are no longer present in our society, thanks in part to a democratic process. Other hallmarks still are, but if enough people care, we'll eventually get around to them.)

[1] Despite neither the constitution, the law that brought that department into existence, the judiciary, nor years of precedent requiring that the department must be ran by an elected official, or that the department's every decision [2] must be voted on by Congress.

[2] As it turns out, it's quite democratic for an elected official to defer decision-making to an un-elected underling. That's fine. What makes this democratic, is that you can punish the elected official, if the underling behaves poorly, by voting them out. As long as all power flows from an elected office, this thing works. What is not fine is if the un-elected underling is not appointed, or fire-able by an elected office, or by an agent of an elected office. That's where the difference between democratic, and undemocratic lies.
About $20-25/month.

But it's not as if the cost of power is wasted. It's generating heat which I desire. If my GPU is consuming 300W, then that's 300W of heat that my heater doesn't have to generate.
> Energies are better used to build a prosperous and well-governed country rather than dwelling on who took what from whom in the past (everyone took whatever they could from everyone else).

Fair enough, but in today's age of liberal democracies, we can maybe take lessons from the past and use that to inform decisions that our countries take in the future. Perhaps a population better educated on the atrocities of colonialism may be less willing to support unjustified wars and exploitative projects in the future.
It would be fantastic. Regular allergy pills for dogs is insanely expensive ($100+/month).

If there’s a way to spend $25/month on this for my dogs I’d be all in!
It has never been more obvious how lawyers and politicians run this country as a giant scam.
How are the swatters getting access to the phone number if it's used nowhere else?

Disclaimer: I also work in gaming, and deal with streamer security.
How is asking Fox for viewership numbers, "a chilling attempt at limiting speech"?
To the many people arguing about mobile phone radiation - just move your phone to your back pocket & move on with your life. Your body will act as a shield. Will it matter? Maybe. Maybe not. Now go think about something else.

If you need something else to think about: non-antibacterial soap is better anyway, and a RO filter is less than $200.

Ok, NOW go do something else.
Show HN: SinglePageCloud – one page showing all your EC2 instances globally
Reminds me of the last part from The Secret Life of Chaos [1] (after 51:00) and their 100 random brains.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv1j0n
Because it doesn’t ‘address’ any of that. It’ vanilla PoS. Still a good idea for other reasons.
Great questions

For roll out, we try to upload the data into the GreaseCloud before going to site, then we have someone manually fit each tag to each zerk, they then use the head unit to read the code and map it into the GreaseCloud. Once it is in the grease cloud we can set the grease volume, grease interval, etc

For the timing, we have a function to set the operating timetable of each machine - most plants this is 24/7, however some are M-F 9-5. The intervals are calculated relative to the operating timetable of the machine. Machines can be "paused" if they are tagged out of production.
With the new apple watches and iphones it should be possible to get a widespread map of noise pollution even finer grained than EPA monitors.
I love this game! If you haven't read the trilogy that inspired the game, I recommend it. I only got to reading it a few years ago, but was impressed by how much of the book world and the game world naturally intersected. I assumed that the shuba (a garment that allows you to glide between trees) was an offhand item in the books that became a central game mechanic out of necessity, but it turns out that it's a major part of the books too!

Anyway, yes, it's a great game. The C64 version is better than the DOS version (better graphics, polyphonic sound), but a little harder to get hold of. Worth playing on any platform as a piece of adventure game history (and much better than the original King's Quest in my opinion).
Hey there HN, developer here.

I made SinglePageCloud.com because I once found an ec2 instance that had been sitting there for a year running and I had no idea I was paying for it. Ugh.

And Amazon doesn't make it easy to get a single page view of your resources across all AWS regions AND all your accounts.

So I figured maybe this will save other people money too.

It's a single page that finds all your ec2 instances and all your ebs volumes across all 16 AWS regions. If you have multiple AWS accounts it will search all of them.
> This is a dystopian future

No, pretty sure it's now. This is a dystopian society we live in today.
Depends on what role you're hiring for, because a good network does not help you write code (for instance).
Blargh.

I wrote that badly, didn't I? Let me rephrase that more clearly: Let's say I expect 100% inflation over the next 5 years.

I can buy an investment which will lose 50% of its real value over that time. I come out neutral compared to holding cash.

In dollars: I buy today at a nominal value of $1 million, and sell at $1 million. Same as cash.

In value: I buy today at a real value of $1 million. I sell at a real value of $500k in 2020 dollars.

I can buy into investments whose real value is falling, and still come out ahead in inflationary times. Value-losing startups suddenly become okay investments since they lose less value than dollars.

Both due to COVID19 and government debt generally, I think we're heading for high inflation.... People are looking for assets to put money into. Real values can go going down, while nominal (dollar) values can be going up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_versus_nominal_value_(eco...

Selling at $2 million would mean I didn't lose value, but I'm not sure people are finding alternative investments which won't lose value; it's why people are grabbing bitcoin, and stocks are hot.