skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this Cable specifically for connection to go from EUR to JAP without going through China?

...Is there really any meaningful amount of EU>JP traffic going through China? No matter what I try to increase by bandwidth between the two (from residential as well as cloud) it always gets routed through US. Usually Phoenix. Never been able to get north of ~15Mbps IIRC. I’m sure there are providers that can provide better through private backbone and premium peering agreements, but I haven’t figured that out yet. If anyone has any tips or strategies on how to approach it would be very grateful. Even 50Mbps on a budget would be a game-changer.

My guess would be more about resilience. If a couple of key points get knocked out or saturated I imagine things could break pretty fast.
"I was okay with shipping with these issues, but the other partners weren't."

Maybe on a different timeline, you would have regretted shipping too early - because first impression matters, too and many people who walk away, after the first try will not come back for second try.

The trick is, to find the right time.
Festivus pole in place!
I realize it is too late to get rid of mobile devices. But I have long advocated for “Techno-lent”: a period of forty days and nights where you put your mobile devices off and in a drawer, you turn off your WiFi.

Before you claim it is impossible because of your work, is it really? Did you try and think of a way that was possible?
Not necessarily meaningful for technologists, but Joe Rogan's interview of North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park, is up there with reading one of the great fictional dystopian novels (1984, brave new world, fahrenheit451).

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO
I’m with you, I have no friends and I’m getting really depressed. Online games and friends aren’t a replacement and I don’t know where to go these days to meet people who have my interests. I don’t even know how to talk to strangers anymore, and I wasn’t very good at it before the past 2 years. I’m sick of spending all my time with my wife and kid, even though I love them. I can’t go many places or interact with people who aren’t very safe, because my wife has bad lungs and if she gets Covid there’s a real chance she’ll die, even vaccinated and boosted. What do people do about that? I’m getting to the point where I just work all the time to pass time and the rest I’m doing stuff for my family like chores and errands. I’m not doing great right now.

Edit because who the f downvotes this? Fuck you ya dirty rat.
Shared a few lessons along the way in the articles.

Definitely worth it from my perspective - not in a revenue per hour sense, but I learnt things that I wouldn't have otherwise without going full time on a startup (imo).
GCP E2-micro compute instance- GCP gives it to you for free and is an excellent place to throw things up for which you don't expect much load.
Vaxxing, Anthony Fauci, and Aids
As far as I can tell he seems to like playing it by ear. He may well use the feedback, but it feels less calculated than that.

I don't entirely understand why he's not taking more credit for it. He seems to be caught between taking credit for the cure and denying that there is anything serious needing to be cured.
Just to add to your example list, as I house painter, I pay perhaps 50% of what the major paint brands/retailers will charge out on the shelf for most of the products that I buy. I don't have to throw crazy 'volume' at them, but honestly, I'm sure any painter buys substantially more paint in a year than any homeowner.

They provide tiered pricing -- If I tend to buy a lot of xyz, then I get better pricing on it, etc.

Being a reasonable folk, I only mark up a handful of % off my price -- I hunch many in my industry do a similar markup off retail.

Pricing is a very strange world.
I very much agree, but I still would like to add, that not everyone enjoys light pollution ...
That makes you laugh? I weep.
Merry Christmas HN & Google. Hopefully one day Google will acknowledge Christmas and Hannukah instead of Holidays.
Ask HN: Have you been in a team that did “daily standups” asynchronously?
In the past, all of my teams have had daily-standup meetings. Ie, recurring meetings scheduled for a specific time, when everyone would join the meeting (either physically or virtually) and give their updates

In an attempt to reduce people's meeting load and avoid interruptions, we're considering doing asynchronous slack standups instead. Ie, everyone posts their daily-update on slack at the start of their workday (no specific time). People can then follow up either on slack, or in-person, or offline, regarding any of the updates that others have posted.

Has anyone had experience with doing similar asynchronous daily updates, as an alternative to daily standup meetings? If so, how did it go?
Sure, hindsight is 20/20. Really though, we probably would have failed either way, mostly because we didn't know the right people.
I'm dumbfounded as to why you think it is wiser to listen to mostly anonymous Hacker News readers than to epidemiology experts.
GCP offers a similar machine for free- the E2-micro- 2CPUs but only 1 GB of RAM so if you can live with that you could save the $30 https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#always-free...
Yes, those are problems. Just like the existing textual contract system has problems, so does this new system. The new system is, obviously, much newer. The practices around the modern textual legal system have grown up over hundreds and thousands of years of refining practice. The fact that the crypto ecosystem is not yet as developed in terms of questions like that is unsurprising.

What is true is that crypto enables a new mechanism for doing something vaguely analogous to parts of the existing legal system. This new mechanism has disadvantages to be sure, but it also has advantages (for instance, it is border and jurisdiction neutral, the code runs the same everywhere, no matter what). I am certainly not arguing that crypto is strictly better than the existing legal system. It's not. It is just an alternative that is useful in some situations, and worse in others.

Over time, I think the domains in which it is useful are likely to expand. They are unlikely to replace the entirety of the existing legal system, of course. But I think the existence of a border neutral code layer for asset transfer and custody is a useful thing for certain applications.
you sure it’s crisp? Not another word starting with cr and ending with p?

Seriously, TeX is a bad maths language [http://xahlee.info/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html], surrounded by a terrible document markup language, wrapped in tooling straight from the 1980s, plus a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong.
I know. I think there is a study, that showed digital ocean is the provider that sends the most spam emails, and just doesn’t care. As self defense, some providers just block their ips because of that. And if you try to unblock such an ip, they require you to do a lot of erfrort. You can skip it, if you get an IP from a provider with good reputation. AWS for example doesn’t kid around if you send spam. You need a special permission in the first place to even be able to use port 25 outgoing.
> [Edit] My point is that it's not hard to set up an artisan mail system; what's hard is that you create a job for yourself that is at the same time networking, user-facing, and technical. It's an interesting learning point, and I recommend it. But don't underestimate what you are taking on.

This. So much this.

I will happily run my "artisinal" mail system for myself. Would I put customers on it? Oh, hell, no.

I, sadly, always recommend that companies pay money to Microsoft for email. You are really paying for the customer support service rather than the email service.
I wonder about this from a legal perspective. Everyone knows that no one reads the T&C but companies will argue that they do. But here they're tacitly admitting that they know their customers aren't reading the T&Cs. So where's the meeting of the minds to enforce any of it?
But all major powers have now demonstrated they retain the option if needbe.
I'm a well versed software engineer and even I had trouble setting up my email. After a while I realized it was not worthed, so I keep using Gmail, hoping I don't violate any of their policies or get tangled in the algorithm. As I see here, it's a hard thing to recover once this go wrong with big tech.
Therefore people are discouraged from holding deposits, and encouraged to spend Lira - exacerbating inflation.
The documentary about her, by her nephew, is still on Netflix. I just watched it. It's excellent. Initially I was a bit sceptical, because I only knew her A+ screenwriting and her lifestyle reporting, but she was a great one.
A bit off topic.

I think it's fascinating when people say that meditation doesn't work for them but then discover the benefits of meditative states all on their own. That's what Quiet is anyway.
> Even one accidental click will inundate your suggested videos with right wing hatred.

Right-click, copy link, open new private window, paste link.
I always say more generally “explain the why”, business OR technical reasons.

Bigger architecture decisions should go in ADRs (again, explain the why) but smaller stuff like explaining why you monkeypatched a library can save future devs a lot of lost investigation time and pain. Maybe by the time they are reading your comment/code, the patch you wrote is supported in the main library!
>It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound

How does this work? Do you just sign up for aws, then set your outbound SMTP to whatever SES provides?
No Such Thing As A Bad Movie is consistently entertaining and has helped me find some truly weird bad movies, like The Legend of Simon Conjurer and Night Train to Terror. It's my go to when I want to learn about bad movies but don't have the option to watch video (in which case I watch Best of the Worst).
> Neither gold nor crypto will bring you to what ever "the other side"

If only there was some kind of marketplace where you could make incredible amounts of money with your 100% certain understanding of the future, this would be incredibly useful knowledge!

Alas, it doesn't exist and all there is to do is impotently yell at other people on the internet that they are wrong.

>Labor is the only kind of value

I wonder if we took a survey of professional economists how many would agree with this statement. I'm going to say less then 1%.
A little context here: my wife is not vaccinated, and neither are my 3 children. My wife and my oldest child had it for 2 days before I got it. It's likely the viral load in my house was extremely high.

Just had my 3rd dose of Moderna, and the first day after was just as bad as full blown COVID. You'd be hard pressed to get me to do that again.
The distinction between use value and exchange value is incoherent, so there is nothing to be gained by studying Marx's writings on it. Any theory of value that does not include the concept of marginal utility is a best worthless.

There is certainly no consensus that the global rate of return is in long-term decline, and much evidence to the contrary, particularly over the recent decades when econometric data has become sufficient to measure it. And anyway, even if there were a secular trend, Marxian economics could not explain it because that theory is dependent on Marx's law of value, which is entirely contradicted by evidence.
Ask HN: How to deploy VMs from CI/CD in 2021?
Deploying container images is pretty straightforward nowadays (e.g., using Helm with Kubernetes or using fully managed services like lambdas).

How do people deploy VMs? Curious to hear from people of various team sizes (I imagine the way a 100+ person engineering org deploys VMs is different than a 10 person engineering team).
I'd even add email for that matter. It's not the same as social media addiction but it plays on the same impulses. Turning off email notifications greatly improved my ability to compartmentalize work and personal time.
Russia fines Google $100m, Meta $27m, over ‘failure to remove banned content’
> If you believe in democracy you would celebrate the failure of a coup.

That depends, I suppose. Hitler was democratically elected. Hard to say what might have happened, had one of the many plans to assassinate him had worked, but I'm not sure we'd look at it retrospectively as an attack on democracy.
>> "I am also assuming once the cable are laid, it doesn't make much of a difference whether the surface is Artic or Pacific? I am assuming the sea floor is roughly all the same."

The ocean is incredibly difficult to explore under the best circumstances. We barely know what's down there in places with lots of traffic and a need for regular, slow, imprecise mapping. More than nothing is known about the floor there, but it's likely less precise and more out of date than places that were easier to reach. The Arctic Ocean wasn't even discovered--in the Age of Exploration sense, not in the "nobody knew about it" sense--until the 1800s. Exploration didn't properly begin until the 1950s.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Arctic-Ocean/Topography-of-...
Merry Christmas to everyone here on HN!
Would you say that the people unhappy in general to be Romanian are due to the economic situation in the country, from the breakup of the soviet union until now, as compared to some of the more prosperous/high-income countries in Europe? Or is it some sort of more generalized malaise?
Hipster mail system. Also known as "mail like we've done it the last 4 decades". Strange!
What’s your method of detecting tracking pixels? Is it just as simple as scanning for size 1x1 images?

I mean this as an honest question. I don’t really know variety of tracking pixels out there. Are there other similar things one should block?
I've always avoided those and source my own for this reason. I doubt they have the best coverage for the renter as opposed to best for landlord outcomes. Landlords have enough money and power, this is one thing we can do within that balance to maintain some control.
Doesn't running the light show require plugging in a USB device, which in turn already requires open doors?
> Why would you want some company thinking what's best for you?

If you are a customer of a company, you're paying for what that company thinks is best for you. Whether they're right or not is another thing entirely.

In this case, Tesla decided that what's best for you is a car with a touch screen with no tactile feedback that serves as the car's only interface for everything: current speed, tire pressure, potential collision warnings, HVAC status and controls, an app that makes fart sounds, and so on. The list of what it's used for probably has over 100 possible items, with one of those items being "play games."

All of those features, including that last one, are features Tesla decided are best for its customers.

Giving their customers a choice to play games or not while driving wouldn't even be up for debate if they never shipped software with games in the first place.

Increasing a vehicle's safety isn't disrespectful and doesn't undermine responsible adult behavior. Adding features that invite drivers to be unsafe seems far more disrespectful. No one dies because their passengers can't play video games while driving on a vehicle's only interface.

I think that "respecting responsible adults" is also just silly. Why make laws that punish drivers for texting and driving? Can't we just allow people to be responsible? History has made it crystal clear that when given the chance, people will choose to not be responsible often enough to be disastrous.
So you are just not that well versed as you thought you are.
Not a python guy, so confused as to why a thing called namedtuple behaves like dataclasses, what are their different usecases?
Pydantic is dataclasses, except types are validated at runtime? It's nice and looks just like a normal dataclass looking at https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/

For any larger program, pervasive type annotations and "compile" time checking with mypy is a really good idea though, which somewhat lessens the need for runtime checking.
Fixed now xD
I skim contracts, I’m mostly running a diff in my head as most contracts use copy and pasted clauses so its easy to notice divergences very quickly and only read those parts

But as someone that does this I have one small request: shut the fuck up while I’m reading your contract

I’m not looking for dealbreakers, I’m looking for rights and privileges. I will ignore onerous clauses if I know the state doesn't support that clause or that I’ll challenge it either way, 99% of the time there’s no reason to bring it up or walk away even if I notice an assignment of my soul.
You don’t decide what is relevant. Ukraine has not forgotten and it is clear which side they have chosen now. No country in the world has such bad relations with it’s neighbours than Russia.
Even listening is hard.

I spent quite some time with the Swedish retroflex fricative, and always heard something else than my teacher described. I finally settled on learning it by IPA, i.e. learning where exactly the tongue needs to be.

Even harder are Russian consonants for me: I can try as much as I want, but I will probably never be able to distinguish Russian hard and soft consonants, even with a Russian speaker saying them slowly and in contrast (and with lots of "you're kidding me, right? Those sounds are nothing alike").
The universe is not single dimensional.

why would anyone want to constrain it that way? To ban no one or ban everyone would be terrible.

Do the math: 1 million of 2 Billion legit users get banned wrongly. 2.9 Billion of 3 Billion slammers get banned.
That leaves a huge amount of false positive and false negatives while still being almost perfect.
>Imagine FED giving guidance for interest rates decrease then out of the blue dramatically increasing the rates at midnight once the pals of the president position themselves correctly and saying that the public shouldn't have listed to the economists.

The Fed has done worse, just on a longer timescale. Alan Greenspan may, in fact, be the devil.
It's an absolutely amazing effort, from the design through all of the problems they had to deal with along the way to seeing it sit there on top of that booster. A few months from now we could be in a completely new era of astronomy.
Pydantic types will be checked by mypy or any other static type analysis tool as well.

I don’t expect any type-related thing to be remotely safe in Python without applying at least mypy and pylint, potentially pyright as well, plus, as always with an interpreted language, unit tests for typing issues that would be caught by a compiler in another language
Wish you’d do the same
Acceleration is defined as the change in velocity, and velocity is defined as the change in position (w.r.t. some inertial reference frame). There will always be some bending when thrust is applied at one part of a body; nothing is perfectly rigid.

As an extreme example, imagine a stick one lightyear in length: if we ignite a rocket on one end, firing perpendicular to the stick's length, then the other end cannot start moving for at least a year.
That's a pretty unforgiving interpretation of what I wrote. Sounds came out of my mouth and people didn't understand what I was trying to say.
Our data on the 1889-90 pandemic is pretty thin. We don't have any reliable records on deaths in poorer countries so the error bars are quite wide.

A lower infection fatality rate in that previous pandemic is not at all surprising. Back in 1889 elderly people made up a much lower fraction of the population. And there was a lower rate of co-morbid conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.
"Really though, we probably would have failed either way, mostly because we didn't know the right people."

Maybe, but from the little I read, it seems like it might have been more the technical challenges (performance) too hard to overcome with the given ressources/target hardware.
I still have a @gmail.com account and every time I check it there's a whole lot of spam sitting in the inbox waiting to be classified as spam. Very strange as my main address (which I've had as my main address for almost 20 years) is on FastMail and hardly gets any spam despite the address being much more exposed e.g. it's found on many public mailing lists and it's been part of more data breaches than I can count. Yet it's Gmail that gets the torrent of spam including many obvious ones ending up in the inbox. YMMV of course but I don't rate Gmail highly compared to FastMail and even Office365.
"Better than New York" is damning with faint praise.
Pydantic works with mypy, so you have validation at build-time and parsing at runtime.
> A 5-year-old would just try.

And a 5 year old would be cut a lot of slack for screwing it up.

One of the issues with learning anything as an adult is that other adults are viciously unaccommodating. Foreign language learning turns that up to 11.

Personally, I think this is the primary issue with adult learning. You have to be a very strong personality to have an intrinsic motivation that will cause you to put in long hours of work because you aren't going to get any external motivation for a very long time.
>> Acknowledging religion as something that deserves any sort of deference by the State isn't acceptable.

What next, enforce a communist uniform on everyone and strictly control their freedom to express their thoughts? Do you realise how ludicrous you sound? I note you're French and your religious expressions laws are not made in the name of secularism, rather specifically intended to discriminate against a sizeable minority.

Presumably your also include a Christian Cross necklace? What about a symmetric cross that's visibly a cross but not a traditional cross? A cross at an angle?

You're entitled to express your point of view, of course, but please be more convincing and informed than a nationalistically ideological charlatan (how ironic).
A mine to the Earth’s core would be exceedingly rich. Such a mine would be impractical, given the large amount of planet to be bored through.

A large amount of space is more easily traversed. Core material from shattered proto-planets exist in the asteroid belt, unsurrounded by planet. It’s as if some heavenly hammer cracked the thick egg crust imprisoning a cosmic platinate egg, and left that creamy yolk of gooooold for us.

To you as a jeweler in New York City, this is perhaps irrelevant. You’re neither digging to the center of the planet nor are you flying in space.

But people do fly in space. They might need metal and lots of it, some day.
So, how many people died in that conflict?

Because, frankly, I don’t give a damn about oil or territorial claims. That’s just politics. People’s lives - that’s what matters.
The division is the only killer part of this killer virus.
> by an AI researcher

EY is an AI researcher the same way Elon Musk is an aeronautical engineer.
Do you have concern with speed or memory footprint of pydantic compared to the rest (attrs, dataclasses etc)? Pydantic seems insistent on parsing/validating the types at runtime (which makes good sense for something like FastAPI).
those ugly soviet standardized design concrete apartment blocks in bucharest have a cousin in Kabul, called the "macroyan". Some of them have now been fixed up and are part of the more desirable apartment/condo real estate because they're near the center of the city, and generally known as a nice community to raise your family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/world/asia/kabul-afghanis...

https://www.google.com/search?q=kabul+macroyan&client=firefo...