skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Name some. And then explain why a private blockchain, controlled by a single entity, or a group of companies that trust each other, is better than a database.
My cousin worked at European owned bank that had "mental health days". I liked that term because it sounded more proactive than reactive. They were viewed as a way to take care of your mind and reduce stress. You could use them for baseball games or just relaxing at home.
That's what you get when most bills are either unpaid or paid at cents on the dollar by insurance companies.
Your right, but Golem will be. And golem is built on ETH.
>If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. And that quote (above) is basically where I stopped reading.

Do people think that telling others they "stopped reading" an article before it was over makes their opinion on its contents more valid than having actually read it all AND calmly?

>If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken.

Maybe not "only", but mostly rich people will. Including middle/upper middle class people who can afford all they need, even if not technically rich.

For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue...
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I agree it's a hassle - it would be nice if there was something like a kickstarter for ICOs.
None of these tokens do anything useful today. And at least 99% will never do anything useful, since the market is full of scammers and over-promising start-ups who use the magic 'decentralize' word.
Measurement and Analysis of Online Adult Traffic [pdf]
What about the environmental costs of these batteries? Have reserves been made for the cost of safe disposal?

If you say that one technology is environmentally destructive and must be replaced but never bother to evaluate whether or not the replacement is actually better this just makes things worse.
Vocalizing your stream of consciousness is very handy any time you are programming in front of others. I have found it to be especially useful during interviews, or while working with mentors/mentees.
As a foolish man that had not experienced war.these pictures remind me of Call of Duty a lot!!???.I am kind of wonder the magics advance VR can do in training of soldiers?
What is the difference with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14724188 ?

This version has a nicer github page because it has a few image samples. You will get more results here if write a blog post with the expanded version of this, with images and examples, and perhaps a comparison of the two projects. A good recipe to HN is mixing some technical data with relevant images of the result of the algorithm.

Edit: See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14710459
It is effectively a database with specific features.

A blockchain isn't magic, I'm currently working on a project with the royal mint that will be used for correspondent banking applications.

Think of it this way you have a database that is guaranteed to be consistent across all nodes, offers you full tracking of any action performed on that database, offers you non-repudiation and much more.

Sure you can probably hack it over an existing standard DB but at what cost?
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Many applications that do a round trip per UI interaction work over the Internet, even games.
My library physics books section.
Twitter Turns Increasingly Influential
I hate that people use shorturls on Twitter, especially news sites with paywalls. I check the full URL of articles in my Twitter client before I click them, especially when people share the links without any description.

Since Twitter gives all links the same allotment of characters, it's really frustrating that people insist on sticking to shorturls.

Goes to show how tracking and advertising keeps ruining the Web.
I tried doing the same thing, now on my laptop I've installed Redirector chrome extension[0]. Every time I try going on Reddit or HN I get a random wiki article.
I've found myself using my phone more often, or incognito(extension disabled) to browse those sites.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...
I've heard that idea mentioned a lot but it doesn't seem like anyone has a good strategy for dealing with abuse. This seems especially problematic with a blockchain which cannot be altered: what do you do when someone creates a fake profile, uploads revenge/child porn, nazi propaganda, etc.? In many parts of the world that has a legal requirement to be blocked which would seem to either require a way to rewrite history or the entire system being blocked in that jurisdiction.
Absolutely, I know plenty of native speakers who wouldn't be able to write anything as correct as that without serious effort, if at all.
So basically we are transitioning from a fossil energy based world to lithium based one. Why does media never talk about the sustainability of build lithium ion batteries at large scale? Have the recycling problem been sorted out (I have a couple of lithium ion batteries and I don't know what to do about them) I also heard that lithium is very very scarce on Earth.
The photographer is a man.
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Prevention of Internet addiction: A systematic review [pdf]
Qt is apparently used a lot in company-internal apps and other specialized tools. Now these can be offered remotely for mobile devices, or laptops not supported by the tool (eg Linux or Mac in a Windows shop). Less clunky than a remote desktop setup.
I disagree that most native English speakers would be able to give you a reasonable definition of 'transduce', let alone 'educe'. I love Clojure, but I find the naming cult a bit absurd from time to time. I suspect that most Clojure programmers just learn them as abstract words, much as a non-native speaker would and as the OP describes.
what level of traffic do you have ? comparison websites were hit seriously when google shopping started to occupy the top of the serps.
You're essentially saying that our brains can't exist.

But they do, and we can copy them, what is the problem with making a synthetic brain? Why is the natural brain an allowed exception, but the one we make is not allowed?

Edit:

On the one hand you want to use Church-Turing to invalidate the possibility of us creating non-Turing based technology, and yet in a previous post you claimed the human brain likely violates Church-Turing. So which is it? Is reality allowed to violate Church-Turing or is it not?

If you honestly believe that the human brain violates Church-Turing, then you have to explain why you also believe that we can not copy the brain and achieve the same result ourselves.
He didn't complain about this article being here. He asked why 40+ people found it interesting. I share his question, I don't understand what's interesting about this at all, and there's no actual conversation around it here either.
Not sure why it's downvoted. That was my first thought too. There are tons of educational videos, lectures and inspiring interviews. If you keep watching this kind of stuff recommendations also get quite reasonable.
Something that would be helpful is "How is it different than X?", such as bitcoins or whatnot.
Okay, so let's say a perfect company exists, where it is 100% perfect. If such a thing existed, it would mean word of mouth would be infinitely successful and every customer would be converted into a cult member and spread the religion of that company... ergo, they would not only not need advertising, but advertising could only be viewed as a negative aspect.

This isn't the outcome you were expecting, but that's the logical outcome of logic.

As far as BA, everything I've heard is bad (not one single good story at all), but I'll never be a customer of theirs anyhow: I can cook already.
Thanks for writing the article! It was really helpful for me.

One technical question: How do you make OBS switch to showing your browser when you open it up to look at docs? Do you manually toggle it in OBS or is there a tool available for this?

I was doing JS development using OBS and couldn't find a good way to make the IDE show when it had focus and make the Browser automatically show when it has focus. So I was frequently showing the wrong window to my viewers.
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> This is a very bad precedent for Microsoft to set.

Such a surprise they started just forcing upgrades..
It'd definitely not computational efficiency. Vitalik has repeatedly pointed out that the total computation available on this network of thousands of computers is less than that of a first-generation smartphone.

But it doesn't say "computational efficiency." It's talking about efficiency of the industry, which is a completely different thing.

As a developer, I have various ideas for startups that would handle money. The easiest way to implement them is to build on Ethereum.
I think you are missing the point -- The Roomba barely works better than YOU cleaning floors. And this weeding robot does a crappy job compared to ME weeding my garden.

But our Roomba was a miracle worker when my wife was laid up in bed for 6 months with a shattered pelvis and I was also extremely sick. And while I know how, and have time, to weed my garden, this robot could help people who don't have the time or energy to keep up with such thing. And the stories don't even have to be that dramatic - in a family with 5 kids, there are better ways to spend time than vacuuming carpets.

Sometimes having devices like this isn't about the quality of the work - it is just about the work getting done at all, so your time can be spent on more important things.
I'm quite happy with Safari on my Mac. I've never ever used Chrome and I don't desire to. Of course things may be different on Windows but what's the excuse to have such a resource hog? Surely people should feel a bit ashamed for encouraging this waste of resources by focussing usage and testing on such a wasteful platform.
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> Since Twitter gives all links the same allotment of characters

Does it? The documentation I've read doesn't suggest this, unless you're including Twitter's own wrapping of links with its own shortURL t.co
I would also add

* Open sourcing data to promote transparency and integrity.

* Whistle-blower protection of both civilians and law enforcement who witness and report misconduct.

* A national registry for those ever suspended/terminated for serious/repeated misconduct.

* Continual training and development beyond academy training.

* Transfer to different departments after a period of time in one department (as part of continual training).

* Yearly internal reviews by external (national) agencies
I always found disturbing the way a mixing "art" with this kind of subject. It's giving a much more positive feedback, as in "it looks cool" or the feeling of emotions you get in a movie (because it doesn't look real).

Let's not forget war is freaking horrible and there is nothing worth idealizing one way or another about it. That's my personal belief, but I don't think art has its place here. Any form of heroic spectacle are truly misleading about what the people and soldiers truly endure.
His website won't load. No wonder they're not sold.
The proof of work system imposes that and the fact that all the nodes compete to mine the blocks to earn coins. May proof of stake can make things more optimized.
The 'next generation sync client' is partly built in QT
I disagree with 1 as a blanket statement.

There are technical reasons to consider, as well (yes, it's DNS again). If you want to receive emails @foo.com, you have to set MX records for foo.com., and that means you can't set a CNAME anymore - you'll have to make do with A/AAAA records.

For a lot of applications this is not an issue, but it does mean an overhead for highly distributed services. You won't see many global/high traffic companies drop the benefits 'www' gives. This is not purely to get the 'old folks' market.

(PS: The subdomain doesn't have to be www., of course - cnn goes with edition.cnn.com., for example.)
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The problems with this article are legion but what I want to know is what the real contract terms were?

I know Musk promised the 100-days or free thing, which makes a nice headline, but I really doubt that is what the actual contract says.

I may be wrong but would be very interested to know.
You are right. I am currently building another product, which is lite version of what I have and which is applicable to broader market: not just wine farmers, but all farms and consttuction companies.
Seems like there is plenty of lithium, but mines are not keeping up with demand. Here's an interesting story from FT about Chile's lithium mines, with pictures:

https://www.ft.com/content/cde8f984-43c7-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c...

(You may need to Google for the title to bypass paywall:
"Lithium: Chile’s buried treasure")
You can get a box with 48TB RAM so 20TB has more to do with time it takes for DB to come up. To provision DynamoDB to the same performance as PG on i3.16xlarge instances you will be paying north of 50K/month vs 5K/month and that's with all limitations that come with DynamoDB.
Both migrate and participate earnestly with no attempts at dishonesty. Most discussion of smart contracts or sales where abuse wasn't either ignored or differed to the same courts and trusted third parties everyone currently relies on, at which point the discussion goes from revolutionary change to minor incremental improvements.
Is there a secret area on HN where people worship CSS/JS with blind faith? Because whichever post related to it I visit, there's a healthy dose of skepticism, especially in Electron/ReactNative/AnyOtherJSWrapper posts.

Further down you replied to someone else complaining about how other's work is belittled, then you write this

> somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.

I am not sure if this is bait or lack of self awareness, though I'd lean towards bait, considering you are also worried about downvotes.
The article has received both the Reddit and HN hugs of death, it might be a traffic problem. And it loads fine (quickly, even) for me...

Try the author's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isawgold/ or personal website: http://www.kainoalittle.com/mosul if the Petapixel link is not loading for you.
What are you a denier? Once we have consensus that means we shut off debate and stop doing economic analysis. Get with the program buddy.
Can anyone comment more generally on using lithium ion batteries for grid scale storage? It seems nonsensical to me.

Lithium makes sense for cars where power density is essential. But with grid scale storage, there are so many drawbacks, including

1.) High fixed cost vs. other batteries

2.) Degradation from dendrite growth

3.) Need for constant cooling

4.) Possibility of catastrophic failure in case of short circuiting

In contrast something like Zinc-Bromine flow batteries have unlimited cycling with zero loss of energy storage, and are inherently composed of fire retardant materials, making them impossible to catch fire or explode [0]. The trade off is in energy density, but that shouldn't be an issue for fixed grid-scale deployments.

This story feels like forcing a solution with the power of good marketing, not solid engineering.

[0] http://redflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Garth-Corey-as...
Ahhh, wonder if this is why Disney hasn't yet said what is replacing La Nouba in Orlando after its last show - they were waiting for the acquisition to clear.
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Not much. But, possibly, Ed25519?

But, yeah, I just forgot about S/MIME while I was writing that comment. It's probably a better fit, especially in terms of revocation (OCSP, etc).
It's scary enough getting in a drivered car. Who in their right mind would ride an automated vehicle at this stage?
What's the flower delivery app from an earlier YC batch, Bloom? They should partner with this and insert a small audio tag on the child's line before connecting, "Calling mom every week is great, but don't forget to occasionally send her flowers too, use this phone number at Bloom checkout for promotionaloffer. Don't just tell mom you care, show her!"
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Pumped hydro storage is also inefficient - about 20% losses.
Yeah it's impossible to get reliable statistics without using sleazy tactics to force every single one of your users into your spying 'telemetry' oh wait it isn't. Microsoft has a bazillion customers, their statistics will be fine if 99% of all users disable their spyware.
UK Power networks recently completed a 2 year trial of a 6MW/10MWh battery system which was installed as an alternative to adding a 3rd circuit to meet future peak demand of a town. At the end of the trial they produced a projected business case for future deployments of:

Conventional reinforcement (another circuit): £5.1M

Future Net Method Cost (battery): £1.6M

This data is from figure 8 of "SNS Close down report v1.0". This report and other information about the trial can be found at:

http://innovation.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/innovation/en/Projec...
Product integrated with 4 major accounting systems, so it was more like frontend for those legacy stuff. Major thing was warehouse/logistics system which was my own.

In wine business thats quite complex thing: you might want to sell bulk wine, you might blend different stock together or bottle one lot in multiple times. There is strict requirements by govt about declaration of those thing. Each country qlso have different requirements and reporting formats.
Fallout 4 under fire for ‘repugnant’ ads as ‘The Wanderer’ singer files suit
Yes I think this is actually a big factor I had not thought about.

People with families, children, mortgages etc might be more prone to staying and hoping for the ship to be righted rather than preemptively moving.
A lot has changed since 2014, including the adoption of Google Widevine CDM over Adobe Access CDM.

The sandbox has also changed as have the requirements from vendors and content provider. and while firefox has protected the user better than others, this is also why Firefox is restricted to 720p by all content providers and will likely never get anything more than 720p because they do not allow the deep Operating system inspection and bypasses required to allow for HD and 4K content.

Currently only MS PlayReady on windows 10 is allowed to play back Netflix 4K content because PlayReady is built into the Operating System and treats the User as the enemy.

Mozilla in their ever ending chase to recover some market share has proven time and time again they will sacrifice privacy, and their more Technical User base in order to keep up with Chrome and get back some "regular users" So if Netflix says "We will give you HD content if you drop the sandbox and give widevine full access to the users system" I have little reason to believe Mozilla will not say "Yes Sir Mr. Hastings, anything you want"
I hate newsflood. I figure if it's important enough it will either float up to

news.ycombinator.com

or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality).

I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).
So he/they did not run any supercomputer simulations of what their product would do to the world? You can bet their funders did.
What are the most interesting new developments in this realm? I'm aware of Drip (https://ilovedrip.com/) by one of the Blue Man Group people (every audience member might get drenched in paint, the nerves that this show has.. wow :-D), and just interactive and immersive theatre in general. But I haven't heard of any emerging big shows that rival CdS and BMG.
I just wanted to thank you because while I viewed it this way I've never seen it so eloquently in words. My way of putting it into words was still a bit chaotic, so thank you!
https://www.amazon.com/Dow-36-000-Strategy-Profiting/dp/0609...

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Missing-Real-Estate-Boom/dp/03855...
The Fall of the Empire: The Americanization of English
https://github.com/jwilk/skeptica
FITCAZE: The iPhone case that does more
Some time ago I built https://10hn.pancik.com/ to aggregate and rank interesting articles and make them easily readable on the phone. There are days when I don't read anything else, just swiping through 10HN reading few long reads.
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I spent the whole article wondering when Gödel would be mentioned, and was disappointed that he wasn't given that the Incompleteness Theorem was at least partly a response to Russell's work, and because it applies directly to computer systems. The conclusions Gödel reached are asserted in the article but not cited which is weird given the other references.
Excuse the photographer for the fuzziness of a photo taken while BULLETS ARE FLYING AROUND.
Please don't complain about downvotes
Yeah, what the fuck? Most software engineers just want to get shit done quickly so they can go home to their wife and kids.
CSS is all client side. Inline CSS can be overridden. Besides if I'm adding some 3rd party widget to my site I would want to be able to integrate it with the look and feel of my site. Embedded iframes are just ugly and most any modern web developers are not going to want to have to deal with an embedded iframe. That's like some old HTML4 stuff. Same goes with randomizing CSS via JS. I'm not going to want a bunch of crazy CSS injected into my webpage. What would this widget do? It would have to be one hell of a widget for me to pay a subscription fee for, especially when I just could make an equivalent on my own. The other consideration is the server side setup. What happens if your server goes down or get overloaded? Your users are going to either have slow load times or a broken element. That's a good way to lose a customer, especially if it's a businesses site. Your best bet for monetization is make it a Wordpress or some other popular CMS plugin and add some slick features for the paid version. There's already a market there for things like widgets.
Not a denier. Global warming is a fact regardless of what is causing it. Phasing out fossil fuels is a first step for more innovation in how we produce and consume energy.
It was hard to get all the company to use it. If you use it just for small subset than it is not that valuable.

Say you are tracking work done in vineyard, but nothing else. Then your calculation of price of produce is off, because you havent add the price of input. There are multiple roles in the company and they are usualy using they own systems for reporting.

Also quite a lot of production tracking have to be done on paper using special notepad with marked pages (another funny story) and people dont want to do this bookkeeping twice.
You can either use hotkeys for scene switching, or use screen capture instead of window capture. If you regularly forget to switch scenes screen capture is probably the way to go, just keep in mind that viewers will be able to see anything that shows up in the capture area.
With battery tech and solar panel efficiency improvements that we get every year I am of the opinion in 10-15 years even natural gas plants will not be competetive. I am talking about the tech articles we get every year but actual pannels and batteries that are delivered.