skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of those stories that get posted every other month about "How I racked up $xx000 bill for Firebase" explained that they had billing alarms but they weren't exactly real time.

Also, you might be the main/only site administrator, in which case falling asleep might end up badly for you.
I heard one of the reasons Microsoft had to ruthless kill support for phones when switching from WP7 to 8 to 10 was Qualcomm not willing to ship chipset drivers for the older devices with the new kernels in each of those iterations.

It would have gotten Microsoft a lot of goodwill if they had, but strangely enough Microsoft at that time did not seem to be interested in the goodwill of Windows Phone users anyway :-)

I'm still hanging on to a 950XL for some weird reason.
What an odd title. Why not just say 'bank note' instead of 'currency'?

Does currency sound more intelligent
Ask HN: Companies Focused on Ocean Health
Wondering if anyone knows of companies focused on improving ocean health and fish populations
Hold up the browser is sending them a unique-to-me microphone test audio recording hash? Um?
Actually, thinking more about this, I think they might be misconfigured, because they clearly don't want robots touching /cgi-bin etc (reasonable!) but they are actually only asking the named robots to do that, all other bots have no guidance about what not to touch
I agree in general, but in this case you can prove it for yourself by growing your own tomatoes (or whatever works in your climate) and comparing it to what you get in the store.

At least in California, the difference is often night and day.
Man, you're taking me right back to 4th grade. Well, at least the good parts, anyway.
At least for Jekyll, GitHub Pages has been excellent.
An additional benefit of solar is that it is the most politically stable energy source since it can be deployed off-grid. This is important because the more unstable regions of the world can sometimes be seen as hopeless because investments require high upfront costs and can't be trusted with being properly maintained. Therefore solar can enable growth and be deployed during periods of unrest/conflict.
I think even that "poor social skills nerd" engineer trope might be partially an example of Berkson's Paradox [1]. You have to have serious technical chops to compensate for a lack of social skills, and it's hard to see all of the people with weak social skills who aren't engineers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

edit: removing markdown syntax
The FT is well worth the cost if you are a daily reader of their reporting.
CGNAT
Ask HN: How do you host your mailing lists?
If you ran a small community mailing list, where would you host it? I'm looking for something aimed at community-builders as opposed to marketers, as this list is totally non-commercial (although that might change in the future).

Emphatically not looking for things like Discord and such. Just good old-fashioned email. :)
Chicago school basically published a bunch of position papers that made feudal corporations a legal entity that "aren't monopolies" because the give things away for free. Because the consumer isn't paying, it can't be bad.
This is a really great success story for Annie! She's an incredibly successful founder in my eyes.

We have a subscription to a 12-pack of mac n cheese; it is a reliable meal for our kid, who would subsist soley on them if we let him.

I think there's an entirely different story to be written about how many of the organic companies from a different era have become simply brands of a few mega food corps; how one coop / organic food store looks like another one in its homogeneity. That worries me a lot. The food system is disturbingly opaque: having worked in it, it's opaque in ways that are slightly variant from the conventional organic stores' narrative, but I find equally, if not perhaps more disturbing.
While I suppose it does accomplish the purpose of decreasing heat in threads, for me it's a big usability issue since what usually happens is, I would comment on something, then forget about it and only check back days later, at which point there are several relies to my comment. Then, at that point, if I do reply again, chances are the other person won't reply back because he has no knowledge of my reply.
No respect is due, I know nothing. I see what the article is saying, it’s point being about doing more research. It was really well written. I was just trying to see if I understood the theory of the events that happened that the article presented correctly, since there would be a much greater than 0 possibility that I missed some crucial step in reading it.

As far as the larger point of the article/last paragraph, I couldn’t agree more. We keep taking up more space and using more resources while the plant stays the same size. It’s not sustainable. Maybe we need to stop shipping so much stuff around since let’s face it a decent amount of it is useless consumer junk. I can also see us building ships so large that they don’t go to ports but rather get unloaded onto smaller ships off shore, similar to how a planet to planet spacecraft might not be able to land/take off but only go between orbital stations.
He has opinions, having opinions shouldn't lead to your cancellation. Arguing 13 years old (which is the legal age of consent in Japan, btw) are old enough to consent for sex is akin to arguing that a 6 year old can consent for sex reassignment surgery, yet, one is acceptable, not the other one. Go figure out why...

Btw, this is the same as Chomsky having been cancelled in France in the early 80's. Just because Chomsky made an argument against historical truth being set by law doesn't make him a supporter of Robert Faurisson's theories.
This was what I observed as well when living in Japan. While the other reasons given seem to be valid as well, the most common reasoning for new home construction I heard amongst my coworkers was this cultural/spiritual reason.
One might even say that it’s a net negative for society.
> Regardless of "but who's going to maintain it", the benefits should be clear here.

Are they clear?

Or is this the "Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System" all over again? aka the gigantic disaster that somehow spawned the Extreme Programming "experts" and implemented the easy 80% while missing the really hard 80% (yes, that totals to 160% intentionally).

It's really easy to produce something that majority like but doesn't get even basic use cases. For example, let's start with some simple stuff:

- Does it meet GDPR guidelines?

- Does it meet accessibility guidelines?

- Does it meet security guidelines for protection of personal information of minors? (Apparently the original government software completely blew this off. As always.)

As I have pointed out previously on HN, that adds a bunch of cost to government software that MUST be paid if the software is part of government functionality.

I can whip out a single page app in a hurry. Ask me to comply with those issues and I'm going to have to spend a lot more time on things.

Don't get me wrong. Big IT projects like these always become boondoggles. However, everybody always simply gives the open source project the benefit of the doubt at being "better" when it probably just blows off a lot of functionality.

Government CRUD applications have to be able to handle the majority while still allowing the 0.1% to be handled.
Yes, it's interesting, but ultimately pointless. This kind of manipulation is very easy if you get everyone onboard. Once something is politically unpopular enough, everyone will swear on an <insert holy book of choice here> that they disbelieve it (even if they secretly believe it). So really, your friends perhaps believed the lab theory, but if someone spouts politically unpopular opinions like that, they will seek to bring you into alignment or else distance themselves from you, all without revealing that they believe it also.
> Now ordinarily I'd say "WTF who would build that for free?" but by the looks of it someone has done substantial work for free already.

There's a Cunningham's Law parallel here: the best way to get a good free open source system is to first build a terrible expensive proprietary one with shady business practices, and let the frustrated users do the rest.
I just meant for digging the ground
Doh! My name is Kevin.... probably too late to change it now...
What if instead of pulling carbon above ground, we inject oxygen underground, produce electricity and CO2 below ground and then leave the CO2 down there. Has anyone tried this?
I don't like to hand out downvotes, but your conduct here is possessed of bountiful opportunities for improvement.

Might I suggest taking a walk? Perhaps come back when you're more inclined to engage with the commenter's not-completely-unreasonable point about cognitive biases?
$700k is the median. The average is even higher, and especially so in “outlier markets” (where outlier here means the cities and surrounding suburbs where most people live).

Also, more Americans live in California than any other state. So if it’s an outlier, it’s an especially impactful one.
Sam Fussell: An interview with the author of Muscle (2014)
The author, Rose George, wrote a tremendously interesting book on the shipping industry called “90% of everything“. Definitely worth checking out.
To repeat the key info from this case that makes one question the NRLB ruling (from reddit originally):

The tweet is https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808

> Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.

where he is talking about the fact that other companies with the UAW do not have stock options for their employees , which he even clarifies in this next tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999415738967277568

> Exactly. UAW does not have individual stock ownership as part of the compensation at any other company.

This is apparently "intimidation". And as for the guy fired

> In another incident, a union-affiliated worker, Jose Moran, accessed Workday, Tesla's internal HR system, to look up information about an employee who opposed the union. Moran took a screenshot of the other worker's Workday page—which included his name, photo, job title, and other information—and texted it to another union-affiliated employee, Richard Ortiz. Ortiz wound up using the anti-union employee's picture in a post on a private Facebook group for pro-union Tesla employees.

> Richard Ortiz was fired after the incident , but because Tesla did not have standing rules against browsing employees' profiles on Workday or screenshotting them , apparently that's not allowed.
Today we have Karenism
>international grids

Europe didn't want to act when russia invaded crimea, because russia supplied all the gas. Being dependent on your neighbors for your electricity supply and having no backup would only make this problem worse.
> In 1991 Sam Fussell published the book “Muscle” about his experiences in body building. The book tells the story of how he went from being a good 6-4, 170 pound college soccer player to a committed body builder about 100 pounds heavier. It is perhaps the best first person account ever written about one person’s entry into, and ultimate engulfment by, an athletic subculture. Muscle also contains insights into “why people dope” that go beyond what the cyclist Tyler Hamilton and others have explained in books like the “The Secret Race.” After publishing the book Fussell more or less dropped out of sight. He has no website and has not done much to try to cash in further on his book.

> I found Sam Fussell and he was generous enough to answer questions and engage in a multi-day e-mail exchange and reflection on the topics covered in his book and all sorts of related digressions that ultimately ran to more than 9,000 words. Consistent with what I expected his answers were thoughtful and articulate. What struck me more is that 25 plus years after his experiences in the gym, he has incredible insights about the search for what is real in our manufactured world. I believe these insights will hit home with a lot of people who have gone to the edge chasing physical goals, they certainly have for me.

> When I asked him if he had been waiting to expound on these issues for a while and I just sort happened to be the person to ask, he responded “I have been thinking about these issues for over 25 years. (And honestly, being something of an obsessive, not thinking about much else).”
Of course, you can test macroeconomics with a water tank too

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
What a great writeup underscoring so many of the problems with the current mobile ecosystem as well as highlighting the possibilities that we already have available to us for the future.

The gap between what web applications and native applications can offer in both features, ease of use, security, and performance is closing and in some cases even been flipped. For example, web apps entirely skip the need for installation and can provide transparent updates without user intervention, and the promise of new tech like WebGPU may actually make it more of an appealing target for games.

The biggest piece that I see missing is users understanding + embracing the web app pattern and developers adopting its patterns by default rather than trying to force native experiences into a web app format. I've built websites that offer identical experiences on mobile and desktop and had users come with feedback of "can you make this an app?" Even with it configured with PWA capabilities making it installable with a custom icon etc., there was still a disconnect in users' minds between what it and a native app were.

I really hope (and believe) that the open Web will prevail here. If more viral web apps that present a web app-first or web app-only experience gain mass popularity, the balances will start to tip regardless of Apple's obstinate efforts to keep users stuck using its neutered Safari browser.
But the key is that if you're averaging globally, the solar power probably doesn't change much. You'll need a way to transport the energy instead, obviously.
There's another real-time NeRF viewer that just came out here: nerf.live. For comparison between the two. Chair:

http://alexyu.net/plenoctrees/demo/?load=https://storage.goo...

https://phog.github.io/snerg/viewer/index.html?dir=https://s...
No, it's not. I can setup a login page and keep you out if I want. And I can do it however I want.
A note on the article it lists as one of the code flaws
"Validation functions which simply return true".

That got me thinking what's so bad about returning true? What should they be returning?

Then I realized that what article must is trying to complain about is:
"Validation functions which ALWAYS return true".
The writing and amendment of constitutions does seem to correlate with the importance of conscription. The French adopted their first constitution and the "levee en masse" in quick succession. The British famously avoided conscription as hard as they could, up to the point of going into WW1 with an all-volunteer army; and they also avoided a written constitution. Israel, still relying heavily on conscription, made significant changes to its basic laws as recently as 2018.

As for the US, the longer gaps in amending the constitution: 1804-1865, 1870-1913, 1971-present (yes the 27th was adopted in 1992 but proposed in 1789) correspond within a few years with periods of little to no conscription. This doesn't bode well for prospects of further amendment, by the way.
Personally, I have zero doubts that if NSA/CIA types felt slighted by Qwest's (or anyone's) refusal to assimilate, that someone would attempt to railroad those that were to blame. That's only because of the hindsight of all of the revelations between then and now. That's just standard MO for anyone in power to clear the roadblocks.
Because of all of the above I disagree with the ruling. While yes Elon's tweet is borderline "intimidation", the guy was fired for very legitimate reasons, taking internal company information about employees and basically doxxing them on facebook. The NLRB shouldn't be defending doxxers.
London isn't representative of the UK mate. Likewise, OP said on average, not that it wasne possible.
You were not confined. At any time you were free to leave what ever constraints you placed on yourself. Moreover, your place of self-isolation was not deliberately stripped of sensory opportunities.
Relatedly, the Mississippi River has pilots associations who are responsible to navigate vessels through the river.

The Mississippi probably a more complex environment than the Suez Canal given the significant number of turns and strong currents but I'm somewhat surprised there isn't something similar there in Egypt as it seems like a narrow passage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Pilot

https://www.crescentpilots.com/
powders are a great trick for reducing costs, since you don’t pay to transport the much heavier water that makes up the bulk of the hydrated counterpart, given we already have water at home. unfortunately, many people also buy bottled water by the case, which is puzzling (a filtration system can be employed if concerned with tap water).
Did you hate them as a kid, or as an adult reading them to kids?
Yeah, that seems like opposite of Georgism. You don't have to look very far to find examples of land being worth much more than what's built on it, that's the case in much of the US.
https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm chronological list, there is also https://mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update
90 of it is probably that they're thinking there must be a more involved solution than something a 7yr old could solve, otherwise no reasonable person would use it to differentiate candidates with a university degree for a professional position.

As an option, you could try prefacing the game with saying "the solution to this might be very easy", and see how many more solve it.

Then you'd know you're likely not making a decision based on any signal of skill or ability at all, and just on them trying to make a prediction on what you're looking for.

Edit: I had to come back to this, because the more I think about it the more it's mind boggling to me. You interview is very likely filtering out the smartest candidates and selecting for the rest.

A typical strong candidate, that's prepped on interview questions, has maybe had other interviews at companies with challenging problems is going to look at it and think "This is a problem this interviewer uses to differentiate between top tier candidates and those who don't get offers. There is no way they're asking me a question that's so easy that any 7 year old child can answer it. There's gotta be something I'm missing." And keeps digging into it.

And a very weak candidate will say think "This is my 10th interview, and sweet, finally a question I can answer!"

These absurd backwards mindgames are exactly (one of the many things) thats wrong with software interviewing.
In the Android smartphone world, most big OEMs abid by the GPL properly, with nothing closed source in kernel.

But if you have bugs either in other processors' firmware, or in userspace binary libraries, kernel's GPL won't save you.

One could say that userspace binary blobs are meant to circumvent the GPL, but I don't have that feeling: GLES libs are userland just like Mesa, modem is userland just like ofono It looks like userspace/kernelspace separation is pretty much the same between oss world and android smartphones' proprietary world
> Well that's just inefficiency or graft. The rest of the world is able to achieve far more for far less cost.

Citation?

> Who's our? Generally voters tend to be older, wealthier and landowners. The large pile of younger, less wealthy, more transient renters isn't represented well. I don't think the outcome means the system works.

That’s how democracy works. If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice.
We could use day time electricity to generate fuels to burn at night. As long as it’s net-zero wrt to CO2 emissions, it will be fine.
Search 77004 on har.com and sort by ascending rather than descending price.
Actually, they're flame retardant [0].

> Mycelium has been found to possess certain flame-retardant properties (e.g. high char residue and release of water vapour) and could be used as an economical, sustainable and fire-safer alternative to synthetic polymers for binding matrices.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36032-9/
The headline doesn't actually match the contents of the article...
Nominal interest rate (which is the rate quoted on your loan) cannot go negative. So your actual amortized payments for acquiring a home will never be subsidized by a "negative" mortgage APR.
Templates in C++
Are there really posts advocating similar behavior to this story? I think I've missed those.
I think the flight arrivals/departures is a bad example. A good example might be putting flights.google.com on the first page or even allow it to exist.
This IMO is a bad bad bad idea. If you host PII on the site, any site you visit will be able to just ping your ip's port 80 and figure out who you are. This exact setup lead to the 2012 LinkedIn hack
Fine, the content is free. But if your crawlers want access to the content, then pay! Simple as that.
I can think of a few ways I wouldn't want to die, even at 104.
What about blender, vlc, and Firefox?
Isn't that an argument for greater integration, to provide redundant sources of energy?
His daily routine isn't very different from mine and shows what I currently neglect. I also noticed that when my phone/email are all on silent many problems that would cause me anxiety will resolve itself after some time. Been working to reduce "sync" tasks where I can.

Having a personal "What I am interested in" is also advisable.

Non-famous people can still be less radical on ignoring all messages.
I prefer to minimize the waste I generate with my daily activities. A reusable notebook sounds ideal for me. I don't use paper for this very reason.
I wonder how Swedes maintain their reputation of having a well-run, corruption-free public sector?
And then you leak your info to whatever malicious site does a port scan to its visitors. I'm highly anti residential hosting
French unemployment has been well above US unemployment since the 70s. This isn’t a free lunch. If the state makes employing people more expensive employers will employ fewer people.
Yeah but sometimes you want to reach out and bomb someone without the knowing what's coming
This was how Multics was designed too. It was one of the important features left out when Unix was written, because it was very hard to do on a PDP-7.
In modern Java you really don't need to tweak anything G1 defaults are typically more than enough. Maybe if your latency sensitive you would switch to ZGC or set the max pause time.
> I made very, very few mistakes

How do you know? How often did you follow up on rejections to see whether they should have been hires?
Less than northern continental climates sure, but you're ignoring the jet stream. Tokyo is considerably colder in the winter and hotter in the summer than, let's say Monterey at a similar latitude.
> RMS does not fully condemn everything we call pedophilia.

He does currently:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
I’m eagerly awaiting my refinance into an 0.725% rate mortgage.
If the forces (wind, effects of the shallow canal, sides of the canal) cannot be neutralized, then I can only imagine slowing down the craft itself to at buy more time to keep to the center of the canal....

But I couldn't help but thinking about the future effects of global warming, specifically gusting winds, and wondering if we're going to see this kind of jamming of the Suez more and more frequently.