skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing "stopping" it, except the tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars worth of hardware investment it would take before your new hashrate becomes at all competitive. It's a bit like saying there's nothing stopping you from launching your own soft drink and beating out Coca Cola (you could try, but you probably won't win).

China has a huge and possibly insurmountable lead in not just existing built hardware, but a head start in the know-how of rolling out new ASIC designs to production, (relatively) cheap factories to mass-produce hardware, access to cheap/state-subsidized electricity, and (in this hypothetical scenario of nationalization) the support of the central government of one of the largest/most-powerful nations on Earth.
Why is it not available for a Linux machine?
The Untold Secrets to Write Great Instagram Captions That Convert
"guys, i feel quite frustrated to write my Instagram captions.
Sometimes i want to be very active to my fans and post more often. But it takes me at least 2 hours to craft that post captions. It really demotivates me.
Could anyone share the good content to write ig post caption?
Here is my pick of today: https://riotlysocialmedia.com/blog/write-good-instagram-captions/
Tried this last month, and it totally didn't worked. Tried 3 times and even went in to the cashier twice, who tried to figure it out. Never got it working.
size.
Yes, it's complicated. Yet I don't think I committed an equivocation. As I said, what makes the difference is compulsion/coercion, which causes us to interpret scariness in one context as bad (e.g. falling off a ladder), and scariness in another as being good and part of the fun (e.g. skydiving).
One thing I was confused by: if I check the box that I work remotely, do I put in where I work from or where my company is based?
Could you expand on point 1? Or maybe point to some references?
I think I misunderstood. I thought you were saying there was a way to add a link to the settings app to the control center. In other words, having a button in control center to open settings.

I go there enough I wish there was a fast access to it.
>> Therefore we should try to limit the power government has over us to only basic necessities.

A stable monetary climate is one of those that I am very happy to delegate.

>> In the end money is just a commodity, same as bread,

No, it's not, it's a method of exchange and follows different rules.
Yeah, here in the UK Smyths Toys (a large out-of-town toy retailer that first entered the UK market a decade ago) seems to be doing doing a roaring trade these days and expanding rapidly, Toys R Us not so much. I believe Smyths are still owned by the original family that founded it too.
I noticed this too, a bit bizarre and out of place
How did an unhelpful and unprofessional comment float to the top of this thread in HN today?

This is NOT an acceptable standard of comments here on HN. Not everyone has to be a power user. Using a GUI app over CLI is not a big deal.

Quit trying to "fix the marketing" with your snarky comments.
Cannabis is already completely legal in a number of US States. In Portland, Oregon there is practically an embarrassment of retailers. Further, one can buy a pen-sized vaporizer which contains concentrated cannabis resins in a variety of fruity flavors, and enjoy your habit pretty much anywhere in public. So far, I don't get the impression that legalization has affected the society here much. It doesn't really rise above the background levels of weirdness here, anyhow. I believe that most other instances of cannabis legalization have been similarly non-newsworthy.

And on the subject of drug availability, I'm aware of a few remote Alaskan towns where it's difficult to obtain drugs. I'm sure that there is some more developed and less isolated region of the world where it is also difficult to get such things, but that's probably not the common case. There is a global demand for such things, and there's only so much you can do to restrict the supply. Regardless, people will still find ways to get high. In the Alaskan towns I mention, bored teens will 'huff' paint fumes instead. There's not really a winning situation there; we can only minimize harm.
Strictly speaking, Facebook is a screen ('screen' being a technical term for the physicality of a digital experience). We can say that, to a good approximation, the sum total of our experience of the world beyond our immediate experience comes through screens. In this way, we say that all media is a screen.

So, there is your first order experience - your apartment, your car, the road on the way to work, your office, the restaurants and cafes you like, your friends; and there is everything else, ALL mediated by a screen. The world at large, how it looks to you, what you know about it, all mediated by a screen.

Facebook is not just a website to millions (billions?) of people. It is THE screen that represents THE most valuable, pleasurable part of their life - their friendly and familial relationships. What makes FB so potent is that it makes these relationships more efficient, and in some sense safer, and erodes that first-order offline experience of relationship, which makes ALL participants more dependent on the screen experience!

When you see a group of kids at a cafe hunched over their phones, or a couple on a date hunched over their phones, what do you think they are looking at? What first-order experience are they giving up? Is a thing that can literally steal your real, first-order life away from you, and in such vast numbers, really "just a website"?
How Hackers Hacked into Bitcoin Wallet [Demo]
It is this 'obviously' that I am challenging. It might seem easier to do it for statically typed languages, but it is not something that is only possible there.

Note, I am decidedly not claiming it is easier in a dynamic language. Just making the claim that it is possible in both.
I am guessing it has more to do with your role at the company, than the type of the company itself. Take this for example: one might say that a company that focuses heavily on "brick and mortar" retail would be less likely to demand IP ownership than, say, Google. But I'd bet that it's more like this: If you work in retail at the Gap store at the local mall, you probably won't be asked to sign over IP rights, etc. But if you work in the Gap corporate office as the CIO or something, you probably would.
On the other hand if you don't need Python because it's a container running a service like Redis or Nginx you can keep entire Alpine-based image around 25-50% of the size or bare minideb image.
IIRC, when I lived on the East Coast in the 90's, Exxon was a pioneer with contactless payments. They had a little round thing that looked like a quarter of a pencil that you could put on your keychain to make payments at the pump.
HashiCorp Vault 0.8.3 released
Distributing Electoral Votes Proportionally
Out of curiosity I've downloaded the app and tried it, because everyone seemed to hate it. Bloated, slow, eats RAM like crazy they said. Everybody says it so it must be true, right?

No. I was expecting a disaster and instead I got a nice little Git client (not really feature packed, but the advertised features worked as expected). It starts quite quickly (compared to GitKraken for instance which takes ~10 seconds on my machine). UI is very responsive. After few minutes of usage ate 120 MB of RAM which is less than Sublime Text which I also had running in the background (and compared to more than 500 MB used by Slack, also an Electron app). At idle it uses almost 0% CPU.

I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. I was under impression that HN was better than that - issuing judgements before actually trying the bloody app.

Edit: To clarify - I am using version 1.0.0, on macOS 10.12.
Yes. But isn't the IPO most often represent the biggest capital inflow of a company's life typically? How would any post-IPO debt issuance or sales of stock compare to the cash generated from the IPO.
https://www.neowin.net/news/china-experimenting-with-its-own...
Sort of but not really.

Companies can issue bonds if they want to raise large amounts of capital. Those are traded on a different market and are fundamentally different than stocks. They are debt instruments, not ownership.
From painting to software engineering at Tesla
On using every bit of space: I also recommend a visit to Johnson Space Center in Houston. If you are lucky you can catch a tour of the life-sized model of the ISS they have. It's interesting to see the different countries' engineering approach to "using every bit of space." The American modules are fairly well put together, generally non-surprising space saving solutions. The Russians appeared to just give up and hew everything out of solid blocks of some sort of light metal. Then you step into the Japanese module and it's just... perfection...
«Instead of the vastly changed future with digital currencies and the breakthrough of the Blockchain technology we were promised, we’ve just been stuck with a huge bubble and growing complications»

This guy simply needs more patience. The social & economic changes that cryptocurrencies sparked are barely beginning. They will take decades to fully unfold. Just because "it" hasn't happened yet doesn't necessarily mean cryptos are worthless and will all crash to zero.

It is true, however, that there is a bubble. But there are always bubbles at various points of the development of most revolutionary technologies. And Bitcoin's bubbles are becoming tamer over time.¹ In fact they are becoming tame enough that Bitcoin's returns are sometimes beaten by blue chip stocks: in 2016 AMD went up 420% but BTC only 170%.

¹ It took 1 month to go 10× from $120 to $1200 in Nov 2013, but 1 year to go 10× from $490 to $4900 in Aug 2017.
Why are they "necessarily done on carbon paper"? You would be hard-pressed to find locations in the US, where credit card holders generally wander, where there is no inet access..
PEP 498 – Literal String Interpolation
> Do you not count e.g. jQuery as a framework?

Not really, it was used as a library to make JS work consistently across browsers and add missing features like querySelector and ajax fetch. But it had no opinion on how you should structure your app.

Angular, Backbone and Ember is from the same post-jQuery era when talks about Web components started.

> Being standardized, i.e. any old framework that can work with the DOM can with them

But does a developer really care that it's possible to use the same component in different frameworks, when you need it to work with just one (yours)?

I think the biggest fallacy is that people expect a technology to appear where you could just drop the component and it would work perfectly. From my experience, that will never happen - external component libraries are 90% what you need and 10% of hacking around missing features. The easier it is to safely and predictable hack the last 10% the better the framework/component library is.

Web Components provide nothing that help in UI development:

Helps manage multiple components state? Nope.

Provide a declarative API for components? Nope, imperative - the one we are trying to get away from.

Prevent CSS from affecting components? Cool, or I could just not write global styles, use BEM or CSS modules.

Easy to share components? NPM still works just fine for that.

> It's a massive waste of resources that M > 1

Agreed, that's something I thought a lot about. So I have created a cross-framework visual component editor - one component exports to many frameworks:
https://github.com/UgnisSoftware/ugnis
""Science" needs to be wary of speaking for science, instead of speaking as well informed and interested individuals."

Well said.

"It's fine to speak for science on purely scientific matters."

The thing about science is that one high-quality study is often all you need to have a lot of confidence. They don't need 100 experiments confirming the Higgs boson, they just needed one really good experiment.

And bad studies can be summarily ignored for the purposes of fact finding. 100 bad studies are no better than one or zero. The only thing they tell you is an area that may be interesting to conduct a good study later.

If there are a hundred high-quality studies saying one thing, and one high-quality study saying something else, then something very interesting is going on and everyone should pay close attention and get ready to learn something new. But this is very rare and is certainly not a situation where you want to inject politics.

So the only time when it makes sense for science and politics to intersect is when you have one good study concluding something relevant to the policy decision, and no high-quality studies to the contrary. And in that case you only need to cite one study and be done with it -- you don't need to "speak for science".

There is room to argue over the quality of experiments and studies, of course. And that's where the sparks should fly -- not over signatures on a report. If the results of one study are contended, it could go through some kind of extreme peer review that can re-analyze the results or question the data collection methods. The great thing about this is that laypersons will back out and wait, and the scientists and statisticians can argue in peace among their peers. When the smoke clears, then you can take those facts to the bank.

This doesn't for scientific fields where study quality is a major problem (social sciences are hard and don't usually have nearly enough funding to produce quality studies -- or have funding from overly-interested parties). But in that case, you definitely should not lend undue weight to the claims by speaking for science.
'Click watch' seem to make some amusing looking ones http://www.click-watch.com/shop_cat.php?CatID=1

I think the nixie watch from http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/ seems my favourite though.
Technically supply does diminish. People like to calculate the market cap of Bitcoin based on the theoretical amount of them in existence however people lose their wallet.dat files all the time which contains the password allowing someone to send those bitcoins elsewhere. This causes deflation to occur on top of the regular limit on the amount of bitcoins.

Tldr; Bitcoin is deflationary because math.
Yeah, I lived in Bend for 3 years and miss that (among other things).
This is getting out of hand. Domain registrars should not have the power to silence speech they disagree with. Not everything is hate speech, and not every platform promotes it.
However, very useful if you're code generating Terraform config because there are not a lot of HCL serializer/deserializer libs in existence.
Ugh, that pricing model though. $50/yr for something as 'simple' as a frontend for git when so many comparable alternatives exist for free.
Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank
Machine Learning for Making Video Game Characters and Autonomous Cars Smarter
Yelp, Google and other review aggregators do an interesting technique where they isolate significant phrases and intents from reviews and collect them into one report, and present it to the end user to help them make an educated decision. How does your technique compare? Are there significant differences in the objectives when catering to an internal audience (ticket management) instead of an external audience (public reviews)?
yay, no side-bar header sounds great :)
thank you!
> (except during the build process)

That's the key point though. In a large scale system (think multiple systems written by multiple groups running on multiple machines) when you modify a shared data type, how do you update the systems?
I disagree, the section you complain about sits at the hook or "why you should care" section of the book. You don't need theory to talk about income inequality, and they do a good job. You looked, but not far enough.
You can also write to longbets@longnow.org - but we will have the registration open again shortly (within weeks).

Dan @ Long Now
The Moon Is Full of Money: Capitalism in Space
Hmmm. I wonder if there'd be a market in recreating that style of push-button LED watch.

Nah.

/me thinks about how much volume it would take to make it worthwhile selling at a $100 price point.
I agree that the title of the article is hyperbole. I believe what people are reacting to is an increased recognition of the how effective advertising in general and social media in particular is at persuasion and how it affects our behavior. Free will or no, advertising is effective or companies wouldn't pay for it and Facebook wouldn't have the revenue stream it does.

You can choose to handle this a number of ways. One is to modify one's use of Facebook as you recommend. Another is to decide there's not enough value in Facebook to justify that effort. A reaction to the idea that you're having your buttons pushed can also weight one's decision to break off entirely. How long would you choose to stay in a relationship if you feel like you're being manipulated? On reflection you might behave rationally, but I can sympathize with some level of emotional response. It might be over the top, but I understand where it's coming from.

You seem to be choosing the latter with respect to HN: you'd rather leave than put in the effort to make it worthwhile for you. That's completely your choice. If HN notified you of content it thought you'd be interested in or reminded you to check on updates, you'd probably disable those as well. That's effectively what people are doing when they delete the app.

People also recognize that Facebook's utility is inherent in having as many people as possible on the platform, and that they may miss out on some events and information when people post only via Facebook (crikey, there's a meme for that too: FOMO). Part of "I deleted Facebook" is reminding people that not everyone is on Facebook.

One could uncharitably argue recursively that they find your type of post incredibly odd, that one doesn't have to respond to such memes, that one should exercise their free will (and self-restraint) to just let it slide. That would also fall into the same trap: it fails to recognize that you're responding in a similar way for the same reasons: you've had your buttons pushed in a way you yourself recognize as unconstructive. And you're taking action on it, exercising your free will.
How to read a recipe
This is almost certainly a pro on the consumer end of things but ultimately how much of a win is this really? Facebook and Google will still be fine so if anything this further consolidates the information monopoly. I'm happy Apple did it, and I don't think the "Six major advertising consortia" are going to do themselves any favors by coming out guns blazing against them for this, but the problem is much deeper rooted than this.
If you are going to unfriend them, you may as well not use FB at all.

My wife's happy medium is, basically, to not login until a close relative or friend (usually her mother) phones and tells her there's something there to check; and at that time to batch process the latest events in her wall. This way she still is in contact with everyone she cares about, but it only eats a couple of hours of her week, at well defined blocks of time.
Data science is less than devops on average? That doesn't sound right...
China will nationalize the domestic creation of Bitcoin. This is their sphere of influence. Thus they will control the domestic production of bitcoins. This nationalization will kick off the next leg up of the exponential growth for bitcoin. Just as the US Marshals auctioning off the Silk Road coins established legality in the American market. China will want to control capital flight and will use bitcoin as the release valve for their outrageously overhigh investment in US Treasuries.
I too am a Florida Resident and my power costs are 8.3 cents/kwh. (Duke Energy) I've attached my normal rate sheet below.

https://www.duke-energy.com/_/media/pdfs/rates/peratespefres...
Poetry is like visual art or music, sometimes there is nothing to "get". Of course there are ways to approach analytically, but I don't believe that's where the awesomeness can be found.

To me its about connecting to a particular phrase, image, perspective, or description. Once you feel that connection to a certain poem its a lot easier to feel like you understand it.

The poem I always go back to when people say they don't get poetry is:
"
so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.
"
- William Carlos Williams

It's simple and effective. A single image, a specific point in time and place, are being described with only a few lines and yet you can almost reach onto the page and touch it. You can try to see it as an extended metaphor, or take it completely at face value. Either way - it's beautiful.
> Can we agree that taking photographs of people without their consent is nothing more than extremely creepy?

In public? I'd replace "nothing more than" with "at worst".

These, for example, I don't think most people would consider creepy: https://petapixel.com/2017/01/28/40-best-street-photos-2016-...
Forking the technologies that underpin the platform of the web I think tackles the wrong problem. The problem I see facing the open web is the consolidation of users and services into single platforms. Facebook is an easy example. You can build a Facebook alternative with any technology you like, it would take a completely different force to change the social paradigm around it.

The great thing about the open web that you rightly mention is still kicking, is that it's full of places and services that are driven by humans and passionate communities. Nothing about EME stops those communities existing, but nothing about those communities is going to stop Netflix being the most popular platform and using EME/DRM.

If you will excuse my fluffy analogy, the web is a farmers market that has a shopping mall being built right next door. What I think would help the web, is educating people that it's better to go to the farmers market so that we can support entrepreneurial and local community endeavors rather than stuffing corporate coffers and enabling that consolidation.
Mercury's poles are icier than scientists thought
One of the ways it reduces the size is by pulling out things that are very unlikely to be required in a container, but are important for running on real hardware. Things like udev, systemd, file system tools etc.
It actually works with the native keyboard between Spanish and English but not between Dutch and Spanish or English. I just start typing in English while it's on Spanish and after one or two words it will autocorrect in English and vice versa. I guess Danish and Dutch are too niche at the moment.
Not every language.
Building a World Class Growth Team –An Interview with Matt Bivons and Nick Soman
How the BBC trains junior engineers
Minio raises $20M Series A
Come on though, it's not that unreasonable to point it out, and it doesn't mean anyone who points it out is a menace to society like you seem to imply.

It's not that different than when people (used to) talk about not paying sales tax on online purchases, but hopefully you wouldn't conclude that "petty criminality and fraud seems to run through the heart of ecommerce."
How is it illegal in Russia?
I understand that this article is self promoting, but they could have at least said why this generation is competent.

All I read was that there is a group of people that SAYS they care about parenting. This is exactly how social media works, we all say a bunch of things. The smartest curate their content by saying only the things that will generate the most engagement.

Aside, labelling/branding in the US is so powerful that now my generation called the millennial is turned into a sort of minority protected group that is fighting for it's right to express itself...
https://github.com/magit/magit
Udacity's Flying Car Nanodegree
Hm. Care to qualify your statement? What do textbooks get wrong about money creation?
(1) Pietro Pellegri, Wonderkid Genoa Pemecah Rekor Sepakbola Eropa