skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can’t accurately tell someone how much they have spent, how can you expect them to stop before it’s too late?

If you can tell, then you can set a limit.

Besides, if they can trigger alerts at a particular spend then they should be able to create a limit.
I tried this today, picking a local home region that wasn't in their list of "oversubscribed" regions (Zurich) and have not been able to create an instance. Even 1vCPU/1GB RAM is seemingly unavailable.
In fairness to the GP, I've never heard anyone call it a "game" in the > 20 years since leaving school (and even at school people only said it in reference to a friendly kick-about at break time). In fact you'll find a great many football fans get quite offended if you call their much loved sport "a game" as they think it belittles the importance of the matches.

So I'm very surprised to read a fellow British-man advocate the usage of the term "game" in reference to football.
Dismaying if true...but I would be curious to hear from anyone who knows more about the situation, especially if they are in attendance at Portland State University. Any HN readers out there who fit that description? Does this sound like an accurate depiction of Portland State, in your experience?
ByteDance had 37B in revenue in 2020.

A 3B refinancing deal - done at a time of very favorable interest rates - is really a non-story.
I think Reddit and other Reddit style forums in general should definitely have the following features to not end up as echo chambers filled with fundamentalists

- don't have karma, it just becomes a popularity contest and popular and positive ideas usually get to the top while criticism usually goes to the bottom, even if it's genuine

- sort all comments randomly on each page load, this would complement the first feature of not having karma

Of course, spam and irrelevant content can simply be reported and removed but these two features would ensure unpopular opinion isn't.

I, for one, would really love this feature on every NeoVim and Linux related posts everywhere on the Internet.
Analysis of failure:
https://csengineermag.com/the-great-boston-molasses-tank-fai...
I see people talking past each other here and I suspect it has to do with the level of achievement one is picturing.

Many smart (and talented) people work really hard at chess with good methods for many years and don’t become grandmasters. Talent must play a role. On the other hand, probably anyone can become much, much better than the average person on the street.

So people saying talent matters, and people saying deliberate practice alone can ensure success, can both be correct for slightly different measures of success.

As the article says, the very top levels of any prestigious competitive field have people with both talent and good training methods. Talent can separate people at the very top. That doesn’t mean that becoming very good is out of reach for less talented people.
One alternative to capitalism from where we are now is a market economy of worker cooperatives. The market can still allocate resources, but the profit/surplus is distributed more equally (between the workers.) By encouraging the creation of worker cooperatives, government reforms can move us in this direction.
Without this activism, they could not compete with the big players in tech. At its essence, this activism is advocating for an alternative to the privacy unfriendly or in this case disinformation that is largely driven by "rage-clicks". It creates a conversation about the future of the information age outside of the business centric motive actions shown by say google.
It would certainly be faster, though the idea behind the proxy is that it prevents Reddit correlating browsing habits to a specific source (assuming the one hosting the libreddit instance is deemed trustworthy).
I'm truly boggled as to how many on this page seem to think the SEC's reasoning makes sense, let alone how the SEC reached this seemingly narrow-minded or lazy conclusion in the first place.
Notion Acquires Automate.io
Not just convicts but also the prison guards.
See the argument for having a high transmission also justifies this. It's win-win. If you have low transmission, we need to enact these laws to keep it that way. If it's a high transmission, we need to enact these laws to lower the transmission.

I'm amazed people have this much trust in their government officials. I mean they're just people with the same ethical flaws as everyone else, they just have a lot more power.
The best part is what happens when they cannot refinance anymore. There is a wall in front of the car, but speeding is fun, so why not accelerate a bit more.
Crime: Whale Sushi. Sentence: Eleventy Million Years
I don't see how this is meaningfully different from any other period of social conflict in the US. This article could just as well have been written about the struggle for gay marriage, the Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, women's suffrage, ending slavery, or any other period of struggle for equality. Also interestingly, "communism" and "communists" were the pejorative used by reactionaries against civil rights advocates, desegregationists, and women's suffragists. Maybe this resonates with the older, more reactionary generation that grew up in the cold war, but this language (and set of ideas) seems to hold less purchase as time goes on.
I have to imagine it must. Perfect practice make perfect. Another comment mentions the mission has hundreds of single-point failures, and JWST is known to have had testing hiccups on Earth.

How much better would the program run overall if it were comprised of a series of increasing-stakes missions, like Apollo? Build a dummy instrument just to test the heat shield. Send a satellite up to L2 with no optics just to test the 26Ghz link. Heck, even just one "dress rehearsal" launch and deployment would inform so much.

> Hadden : First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
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It’s manifestly similar. The specific arrangements regarding third party and in house are more surface matters.
You have the choice to nose dive off the Burj Khalifa, sign over all of your assets to me, or record a chicken dance video and put it on YouTube.

OP's point is giving a set of all undesirable options which under normal circumstances and given freedom, you would decline all the options. "Choice" tends to imply you have at least some desirable options or at least have the option to refuse all of the choice options (not choosing has to be an option in the proposed choice).

If you're given a set of constrained options where you must choose and none of the choices are desirable, you're really given highly constrained freedom to the point no one considers it freedom. It's even worse when it's clear that most the constraints (choice options) point to only one option for any sane "chooser."

Sure, you could jump off the Burj Khalifa but is that really a viable option? Pretty much everyone would record a chicken dance video and choose minimal public humiliation over the other options. I gave options but they're not really options, not from any sane decision making perspective. That is the illusion of choice to make people feel like they have control over direction. We have a lot of this going on in society these days, where people have options but the options lead to one obvious path, meaning they have no viable alternative options.
This looks like important context:
https://twitter.com/BennettTomlin/status/1435473153078214660
"Chief Legal Officer who wrote Coinbase’s response that includes the following nugget has sold $24mn worth of Coinbase stock recently"
Miegakure Update September 2021
O Bayes, where art thou?

Life is tragic. A tiny fraction of kids die of covid. A tiny fraction of kids die of flu. A tiny fraction of kids die of RSV. A tiny fraction of kids die of bacterial pneumonia. While the effects of covid can be severe, we need to recover our perspective: how prevalent is the worst cause scenario, death or significant long term lung impairment?

There are 2 studies the article comments about.

* One study from Sweden was based on a pre-existing long-term study and found no measurable lung impairment. Possibly simply because nobody in their sample developed severe respiratory symptoms. Given that 27% did have covid IG, seems that the risk for measurable long covid in kids is on the tiny side of things. Note that their sample, while small (661), was deemed statistically significant for the purposes of the long-term study, which started long before covid.

* One study from Germany where they focused on kids with covid. They excluded those with 'severe acute respiratory covid infection', true, but their method says nothing about how prevalent 'severe acute respiratory covid infection' is in kids. That could be as small as 1:100k or lower, we wouldn't know without additional data (see e.g. first study). Edit: After reading the full text, I have to say this study is too technical / too small of a sample size and not sure what the layman takeaways are. Their qualitative assessment: 'our study is the first to compare pulmonary function in symptomatic and asymptomatic children and adolescents with and without evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection; no difference between these two groups was observed. Even most patients with persistent respiratory symptoms did not show impaired lung capacity. Severity of infection proved to be the only predictor for mild pulmonary function changes. To conclude, our findings suggest that children and adolescents after SARS-CoV-2 infection do not suffer from persistent deterioration of respiratory function, including body plethysmography, multiple-breath washout and diffusion capacity testing.'

In short: Study #1, statistically significant sample of young population, no long term lung impairment. Study #2, perhaps too technical for a layman conversation.

Edit. The full study #2, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.22.21259273v....
Show HN: Network Of Time – visualize connections between notable people
I'm pretty sure this is a plot point in the Mistborn trilogy

[spoiler]

the planet is getting hot because the all-powerful entity messed up, so it makes big clouds, which in turn kill all the plants, so he makes all plants able to run with less light ..
My hobby is collecting rare and obscure photos of historical and notable people together then adding them to my website where you can see how any two people can be connected through appearances captured in photos.

With this website I aim to make the close proximity of all living and recently alive people a fact you can visually process.

Basically a “Oracle Of Bacon”/”Six Degrees Of Separation” visualizer.

Some interesting examples:

– James Joyce to Muhammad Ali in 3 photos

– Napoleon III to Ja Rule in 5 photos

– Grigori Rasputin to Lizzo in 6 photos

– Nikola Tesla to Elon Musk in 6 photos

– Charles Dickens to Frank Sinatra in 6 photos

I plan to add a user registration and submission system so you could add yourself with photos of anyone you have already on the network.

Any feedback is much appreciated!
I've used AWS for my personal projects and at work. When I started at work, I didn't fully realize that "when an EC2 is spun up, you are charged for 1 hour, even if you terminate it" - so I accidentally racked up a big bill.

I was thinking it would be useful if Organizations could pre authorize users at $X before preventing them from doing more - of course the better solution is to manage releases through a pipeline that checks for stuff created and code scanning and... whatever

In the end, we use cost monitoring, but no AWS billing alerts
It must be approaching 40 years ago now, but I remember watching a BBC TV weekly documentary called Horizon that was all about the fledgling computer graphics industry - I think the episode was called Painting by Numbers. Alvy Ray Smith was interviewed along with other luminaries like Ed Catmull, Loren Carpenter, Jim Blinn & Nelson Max.

I must have watched it 30+ times via my parents’ wheezy old VHS player and would dearly love to see it again but never managed to find it.

Being so enthralled and exhilarated by the magical things they were doing seems like it should have led me into the same industry but I was never clever enough to do so. I still get a thrill when their names come up in articles like this though. Thanks for sharing.
What I'm surprised by here is that the rocket didn't self destruct as soon as it started tilting - it could have easily flown towards the crowd. Is self destruct not a thing most rockets have?
Take reporting done by ANY media on ANYTHING with a grain of salt.

It is totally redundant to add mainstream or bitcoin into that statement.
When the most accessible form factor for a screen is portrait in orientation, it's kind of inevitable.
Blame Amazon for coining the term.
I think this would be great for the same reason that using a Remarkable tablet is great.

Exactly because it is limited in it’s application.
> El Salvador has a national ID called a DUI (Documento Unico de Identidad). When you first open the app, you type in your ID number and date of birth. Then you scan the front of your DUI card, the back, and take a selfie. You wait a bit for it to validate and then you're done. It knows your name already, there is no email/account registration, there are no address forms or weird credit check challenge questions to fill out. Easier than coinbase, venmo, or paypal to get onboarded and running... This really shows what's possible with a national ID system IMO

That's nothing revolutionary, neobanks in the EU have been doing this ( or an older school version where there's a video call with a real person that inspects your face and if it matches your ID) for some time now. Yes, having a national ID is some pretty basic "how to government 101" stuff. The reluctance by Americans for anything resembling that is baffling.
So by your strange definition unstable currencies are not currencies. Is Bolivar not a currency then?
Yeah that's not the case for me. I only gave them a phone number. The salesperson did give me a call, but gave up after I explicitly said I'm only here for the free stuff.
The big problem with code review is they are hard to do right and easy to do wrong. I can look at code and see that you have the brace in the right place and the correct number of spaces. I can see if you misspelled a variable (I'm personally a bad speller, but I know a lot of people who can so I'm going to claim this skill for discussion even though I personally lack it - I guess this is a "royal I") There are a number of similar things that should be delegated to automated tools run before you even start the review.

However to read the code and figure out if it works right? that is hard. Logic errors - rarely found. Code that works but will be hard to update to the next requirement - good luck seeing that.
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years (2012)
That's what they want based on some artificially made numbers saying "hey look our growth is exponential it will never stop come play with us". Now the banks will have to decide if they are at risk of being the ones with the bullet in the chamber of this russian roulette debt game.
Approximating Lenna with a Neural Net
Thanks for the survey of similar applications. What I want is (inspired by Deep Work) an application that allows me to do time-blocking for a given day around my typical schedule.

For example, in a given day, since I'm a student, I may have two 75-minute blocks of class and a 45 minute meeting scheduled. I want an app that encourages me to think about what I'll be doing with the rest of my time and fill in the gaps in my calendar with whatever (reading, doing assignments, note-taking, etc.). Does one of the apps you've linked to provide this?
The Next DARPA X-Plane Won't Maneuver Like Any Plane Before It
Yes, but "too much battery for car" is subjective. The Mach-E has more range than its closest competitors, so they could have used fewer cells and remained competitive.
Talent doesn't have to be "natural", just uncontrolled factors. Something that is "in the person" at the time of training. This could have come from past experiences, genetic, even things like diet, who knows. The point is, it's still not understood and not controllable.
I really like the picture they used under the headline (https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/756c829022c84b995499d3c076e2c...)

There is something fun about the change in perspective used in pictures like this.
I live in NZ, and after a recent exposure to Covid, I experienced said daily check in calls from the government that really relied on trust (honesty) more than anything, as far as I’m aware — I suppose it’s possible they were tracking my phone in some way to ensure my location stayed contained/consistent? Seems highly unlikely though.

I will add that if I’d been caught leaving the house, outside of a short daily workout, I’d have been liable for a fine and/or jail time.
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Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues.

They have been taught the magnitude of their outrage makes them righteous. And their outrage is never satiated. These people are toxic and sometimes evil. They'll eventually come for you too no matter how much you generally agree with them.

Some of them are certainly sincere. But as Milton Friedman once said, "sincerity is an overrated virtue". The damage they cause is the same irrespective of how sincere they might be.
That was my first idea and when i found out the video url i was quite pleased to figure out the solution.

Then the "generated" folder made me think, and i decided to test it a bit more, so i started the experience at 15:00 and 35 seconds, just the right amount to get to the time reveal just after the clock change, and i was blown away, the video shows 15:01 and not 15:00 as i expected, whatever they are doing here to replace the video at the exact time without us noticing it is quite crazy.
>> Expedition 66 is also notable because it will include two Russian civilians, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, who will launch on a Soyuz rocket on Oct. 5 to film scenes for a movie called The Challenge.

Space tourism or a genuine a commercial venture in space? With today's film budgets, perhaps the next Marvel movie will involve such a trip.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems creates viable path to commercial fusion power
How to Turn a Business Profitable
Reading through this guys Twitter feed makes me happy he no longer has a platform at a university
Interesting that the bad characters are all women and the good are all men.
It also turns out that SRM might not even be able to save us if things get really bad. The marine stratocumulus clouds they talk about depend on being able to cool to space (at the top). If you increase CO2 too much, this can no-longer happen, causing a collapse of the cloud system and a large decrease in planetary albedo (and hence warming) [0]. These SRM techniques are no silver bullet.

However, as other have pointed out, this might be able to buy us some time to develop negative emissions technology (which is ultimately the only way out). Hopefully we would use that time wisely.

[0]- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1
That map is a screaming invitation to Summer Students looking for a nice Half-Life adventure in the deeper parts of CERN.
if we so care about having larger GDP numbers (as we do), we should simply try growing those parts of GDP that do not necessitate devastating CO2 (equivalent). Simple as that.

(however, me personally, I don't think growth is really necessary anymore. The real problem since at least the 80s/90s has been inequality, so the thing people should really look at is redistribution of wealth/income etc.) We have everything we need, we just don't have the political and economic systems to put it in good use.
>Besides, if they can trigger alerts at a particular spend then they should be able to create a limit.

That's not really true. The alerts happen when the billing is re-calculated (periodically) and you've exceed a predefined, not when you hit that exact threshold.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...

>When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data.

Real time billing is actually a Hard Problem to solve.
reminds me of the short poem I had read long ago :

- - - - - - -

He worked by day and toiled by night.

He gave up play and much delight.

Dry books he read, new things to learn.

And forged ahead, success to earn.

He plodded on, with faith and pluck.

And when he won, they called it luck.
At this stage its a clickbait/propaganda article.

Price went down few thousands, that's like ever other Tuesday in BTC world.
He meant the Espionage Act, which is currently being used to seek prosecution of Snowden and Assange, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
https://www.hackerslist.co/how-to-hack-someones-phone-6-ways...
people are downvoting you but you are dead on.

they're far more interested in tearing down existing systems, without any real plan that has any chance of being laid out and accomplished.

What you have is a scattering of anarchist, socialist, and communist groups - all small in their own right, all with their own little ideas, and even vast deviations of those ideas within their little groups.

Everyone has some alternate way to organize hierarchies, wealth/resource distribution... and they really don't get too hung up on the details of all those differences and hte problems each of those plans have.

What they do have is a consensus that the "system" is so rotten to the core, so irredeemable that the whole thing must be torn down. In fact, in some ways, they court agreement with moderates, centrists and even some right-leaning anarchists and libertarians in some ways (at least as it might apply to government or corporate capture of government).

So there's consensus in destruction. There's zero consensus in what to build in the wake of that destruction. Theres' little enclaves of DIYers, doomsday preppers, anarcho-houses, urban farmers, etc..

So what you will have, if said destruction ever gets anywhere is a power vacuum they're unable to fill.

And instead what will fill it is foreign powers, capital forces worse than what you already have, criminal/mob groups, and a whole lot worse actors than we already have.

Downvote me too. But 25 year old, often testosterone pumped up male, radicals normally can't see 5ft in front of their face. All they see is what they're mad at, at the moment, what is immediately unjust and they're willing to throw the baby out with the bath water like a Republican is to the entire taxation system.
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Did Facebook slow down or move away from React Native?
>People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms.

You mean, they aren't allowed to spread absolute blatant lies and falsehoods, that have already caused at least one deadly riot, in an attempt to overthrow a fair and legitimate election that just happened to not be convenient for their personal agenda? Good.
Show HN: Figstack – Automatically understand, document, and translate code
Is Subscription the Future of Ecommerce?
I'm confused. Isn't it Coinbase's responsibility to be GAAP compliant now that they are a public company? These would be standard things a CFO should understand....
China may seem like another planet, but it’s actually part of Earth.

When the question is “How do we fix this global environmental issue?” (which is part of solarpunk even if not all of it), you literally cannot just move county.