skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the world is screaming at you "You have been played" is quite a powerful statement.
With current interest rates and inflation, I believe that GBP stored in savings accounts actually decreases in value over time in real terms... There doesn't seem to be many great places to store money in general, which arguably has resulted in bubbles in absolutely everything.
Then that will be a good market for a startup, or other players. Are the telcos obliged to provide you with telecommunication?
Thanks for the link on delegative democracy. That is essentially what I've been thinking about.

TED talk by cofounder of DemocracyOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXfYNdapq3Q
> Have you seen malwareinvestigator.gov?

They need to add an A Record for @ because when I malwareinvestigator.gov I received NXDOMAIN. But www works fine.
Wouldn't that be the Atacama?
I started lichess.org as a hobby side project. AMA
I don't think you can compare Bitcoin to stocks, housing, tulips or any other commodity and draw bubble conclusions based on that. I think we're dealing with a whole new area of economic psychology that the world simply hasn't experienced this before.

Not saying it won't crash though but I think the reasons will be different than traditional bubbles.
In other words, you're saying bitcoin is the stock market.
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Verizon never got subsidies from New York. Verizon pays the city for the right to wire it up (5% of gross revenues).
I like the idea of Proof of Steak. He who controls the Filet Mignon controls the world!
I'm sure there are people dumb enough to trade their dollars for tokens too. That doesn't mean dollars are worthless.
The hard basis of USD is printed on the bills. “Good for all depts public and private”. This means that any bills owed to USG is payable in dollars as well as any payment of debt ordered by a court. I agree that the worldwide value is largely theoretical but the non theoretical value is large in a several trillion dollar economy. If the dollar goes down, it is guaranteed to be useful to buy us companies and land. That has a strong lower bound.
Newspapers are afraid of criticizing Tesla because its a litigious company and they have nothing substantial to suport the hot air baloon they became - any credible criticism and all this BS pyramid is falling apart.
So the risk that they will attack anybody writing something not favorable is quite high.

On the other side, does anybody sue CEOs for talking BS and using clever tricks to hide the truth, or making new promises without delivering on the previous ones?
There is always the new hotness. The researchers and research money needs to go somewhere. Until it reaches silicon levels of efficiency and durability it won't become a serious contender. Silicon has reached the point where it is 'good enough' to go further and further. Usually 'good enough' wins versus 'perfect but not quite ready'. We may see with great interest where the perovskites start to level out in efficiency. If they really come close to silicon and stability is solved the market might shift very quickly.

Keep a close eye to the NREL chart.

EDIT: 22.7% for Perovskits vs. 26.6% for Silicon. It's getting hotter as CIGS and CdTe are beaten: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/images/efficiency-chart.png
Same doom story I've been hearing since it all started. Bitcoin is real, get used to it.
Let's imagine the entire rest of the world thought that the dollar was worth nothing. Well everyone in the US still needs dollars to pay their taxes, so they'll still want to get their salaries in dollars. Similarly, people will sell stuff in dollars too. Now if someone outside the US wants something that someone in the US produces, they'll be able to get it really cheaply by trading their valuable currency for tons of dollars. They'll do that, buy stuff from the US, and make a huge amount of money. This obviously presents an upward pressure on the dollar's value, until the cost of things from the US more or less balances out.

As long as there's a base of goods/services that can be bought and are priced in dollars, dollars will continue to have value.

Why would the fed need to buy back dollars?
I think one of the financiers is into amateur radio.
Font Awesome 5 icons are available in SVG. However, it's still in beta and available only to backers via early access until it is released.

https://fontawesome.com/
Linux champion Munich will switch to Windows 10
The point being that unsafe code had to be marked as such to be compilable and that tainted the binary, which was only allowed to execute after given permission.

Formal proofs can also contain logic errors.

Any kind of safety improvement is better than what C offers.
Historically, yes, telcos have been obliged to provide service. The post you replied to mentions this:

The point is that regulations previously required the telco provide an alternative service that works just as well as the existing copper before they are allowed to stop maintaining the copper. But that is no longer the case as of this vote.
It’s highly possible that aliens travelling far distances are merely a century or so ahead of us, with the major distinction that they figured out interplanetary travel.

We figured out rockets well before nuclear ( Robert Goddard’s rocket launch in 1926, vs the Chicago Pile in 1942 ). Seems to me that the same thing could be true for something like warp travel.

Secondly, we try to communicate with dogs, apes, dolphins, etc. That gap is pretty big, but nowhere near ants -clearly it could be, I’m just saying there is no reason for it to be that big of a gap
The potential I see on the moon is:

- having a base to store things for later use.

- a space elevator on the moon should be simpler than one on earth.

- water could be extracted from the moon and shipped to earth orbit.

- more convenient extra vehicular activities.
Some believe that it can easily scale to the that point, but there are corrupt and powerful people who are stifling that effort.
There's a fundamental reason why lunar He3 isn't worth mining: if you can get net power from D-He3, you can also get net power from the easier D-D reaction, and the output of that reaction is half He3 and half tritium. If your D-D reactor is profitable then the He3 is effectively free.

Ycombinator-funded fusion startup Helion is working on a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reactor, and says the combined reaction would release only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation (compared to 80% with D-T).
When to Stop Learning New Programming Languages
pls respond. also interested.
Note that the only explicit mention of Facebook is in the title.
After many projects with Rails and one with Phoenix, these are my remarks on the list in the post:

* The directory structure. Rails has a simpler one. Phoenix has some weirdness (why the migrations are in priv/db? They are private and all the other modules are not?)

* The naming conventions. About the same.

* The database migrations. About the same, but with Phoenix we have to duplicate the schema definition in the model, which is not DRY at all and encourage bugs. Either the ActiveRecord way (the truth in the db) or the Django way (the truth in the model).

* The use of dependencies. About the same.

* The ActiveRecord features. AR is much easier to use than Ecto, which is more general but often unnecessarily so. Proof: there are modules on top of Ecto to make it look like AR [1] [2]. Personally I won't use plain Ecto in an Elixir project of my own.

* The ERb templates. About the same.

* The form helpers. I really don't know: my Phoenix project was a backend to a SPA, we generated JSON plus some email templates.

* The built-in support for testing. About the same.

Advantages of Phoenix:

* no need for Sideqik, just spawn processes and send emails and the like

* create some GenServers to run long running processes side by side with the main web application

* the websocket server is an example of the previous point and it performs better than the one in Rails.

* Elixir's pattern matching is so good to use compared to any language without it (Ruby, Python, etc.)

Advantages of Rails:

* ActiveRecord is so easier to use that it translates in visible productivity gains (of course it's also 10 years of Rails vs 4 months of Phoenix). What it means for the long term maintainability of the application is up to you to decide. In my experience the impact is zero because none of my projects was meant to scale to the millions of users or to a complex architecture and none did. Your project might be different.

* The object oriented notation is more compact than the functional one: object.method.method.method vs value |> function |> function |> function, maybe with some Module.function thrown in to make it even more verbose.

[1] https://github.com/sheharyarn/ecto_rut

[2] https://github.com/MishaConway/ecto_shortcuts
I haven't looked at the article but ... tourism?
> The point being that unsafe code had to be marked as such to be compilable and that tainted the binary, which was only allowed to execute after given permission.

And my point is that this is useless in the absence of someone or something capable of reliably determining whether the code is safe to run.

> Formal proofs can also contain logic errors.

So you have competent people write them.
How would you invest $100K USD aggressively?
Say you want to double it in 3 to 6 months. What would you do?
I am not certain you will find the equivalent of the NRC, the IAEA, the NEPIO, or various international treaties involving most (any?) other construction projects.

https://www.iaea.org/topics/construction-and-commissioning-o...

Why wouldn't you want a random state, local, or national business design and regulate a unique nuclear power plant? What could possibly go wrong? LOL!

To be clear the number of unique (because looks are important) bridge designs proliferates and the suppliers change regularly while every new nuclear reactor is a close derivative of one that has been built and tested for decades. That's not because it's the easiest or highest profit, but because international regulation and public fear are real.
Life is bad for you.

Did you know oxygen was once a terrible, toxic substance that was "bad for you"? [0]

It still is, to some degree. But cheap sources of energy always win in the end.

My point is that we (as humans) suck at processing some things and appreciating the true timescale of optimization. Our bodies fight old cargo cult wars, an exercise in wanton complexity. Hardly an argument against change.

I suspect the same applies to the "badness" of junk food and social media, except it has accumulated less baggage and hence can steer faster.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
HN is not the kind of social site Facebook is. You don't post you dogs pics and your kids and the funny mushroom you found on yesterday's hike on HN (and yeah, people do that all the time and they want to do it).
GitHub posted a write-up [0] on how they switched from icon fonts to SVG icons. It's worth a read.

[0] https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg
> Soros is not a 'boogie man', he is a man that sabotages countries for his own personal gain. I do not trust him, and do not trust his 'philantropic' reasons. The end game with him is always the same, getting more money for himself in the end. He uses legit humanitarian/human rights issues simply as tool towards that end goal, and this disgusts me.

[quotation needed]

He sabotages countries through philanthropy... Could you elaborate?

1) Funds philanthropic projects.

2-3) ... Evil manipulation? Sabotaging countries?

4) Profit?

The reference was regarding conspiracy theories around the legitimate huge protests throughout the US in the last year. Suggesting that Soros (and/or other boogie men) paid thousands of people and bussed them around the country to protest, because surely people would have no legitimate reason to do so voluntarily.
> But it’s the visual equivalent of empty calories—delicious but not nutritious.

modern life #someta
Sure. That'd probably be an improvement, even if you switched the discount. America didn't always have universal suffrage, so I can hardly see how this new requirement would be a threat.
Eh, the value is being able to buy drugs and exploits and botnets and ransomware unlocks online and move money between countries without delay or paperwork or reversal.

If you're a CTO of a major company and you don't have a wallet with at least $1m in BTC in some wallet somewhere then you're risking a major disaster if someone breaks in and locks up your data.

But just because there are real uses doesn't mean that I think that the government will allow it to remain legal.
By the end, power levels were at absurd numbers (I think in the billions?) Crypto bulls' collective wet dreams.
"exportrello is not affiliated with Trello in any way, and by permitting access to your content you assume all related risks and liabilities."

So what are my assurances? I don't even see a privacy policy.
No. Software evolve and there's value in knowing your assumptions still hold after the change/refactor.
Another small lisp implementation: http://piumarta.com/software/lysp/

Also, another, more interesting Lisp by the same author: (http://piumarta.com/software/maru/). Maru is basically a lisp where some of the core functions like eval and apply are extensible from user code. There's basically a global map of types to evaluators and applicators, with some functions for you to register your own types and get the evaluation behavior you want.
Under current rules yes and they are paid for it. Check Connect America Fund
Yea Australia have ruined the NBN. In New Zealand (a small island with 5 million people) I have 1Gbps. Had Fibre at 100Mbps+ for 4+ years now. It makes a massive difference when compared to ~10-20Mbps DSL2/VDSL.
Is goalpost-moving some kind of sport these days?
> That means that a passenger could leave at 8 PM in a sleeper self-driving car, and arrive well rested at 11 AM the following morning.

Unless the vehicle has restrooms and refrigeration, there's also the need for food and periodic bladder/bowel maintenance, which will likely negate the speed advantage.
I also dont get all that hate either. Just use it as a tool for what its good for. For me that is mainly to stay in the know about (1) events hosted by friends, (2) activities in common interest groups, (3) the life of friends and family overseas.

- Dont use your real name, gender, nationality, etc. Just create a random identity.

- Dont post pictures, ask friends to not post pics of you. Remove all tags. NEVER EVER POST PICS OF YOUR KIDS.

- tailor your news feed: Aggressivly remove/unfollow people/groups that add only trivial noise and no interesting content. In doing so, I actually started to enjoy my thinned out feed.

- comb through your friend list once a year (I always do after New Years) and clean house. Some people collect friends like trophys and are proud of their 1254 contacts. Instead, do the opposite: Try to keep it as small as possible. Ask yourself, do I really need and care for this contact? Remove people that do not add value to your life.

- Dont use the messanger app. Turn off all notifications.

EDIT: Why jump through all these hoops? FB gives me a unique value. The trick is to fold all the virtual social network back into real life. This is especially useful when you are in multiple disjunct groups. Most of my social activities are organized through FB:

- arrange the next casual soccer kick

- see when is the next social dance and who is going

- friend organizes a christmas dinner party

- other friend goes to a science slam, I might join

- who wants to go bouldering this weekend?

- see this neat trick in the "Upcycling" group how to reuse an old ...

- oh, this old cafe in my borough is getting kicked out. Friends are organizing a solidarity march.

Since almost everybody is on it, organizing/getting this info would be so much harder without FB.

I also like to keep people in my feed that have a contrairian view point to mine. Keeps you sharp and sometimes you learn that your viewpoint might not have the best argument...
This was probably true 10 years ago, but these days it's basically FUD. Since then Ruby improved performance something like 5-80x from 1.8 to 2.5 and moved from an interpreted language to a VM nearly as fast as LuaJIT. Go only has 3-5x the throughput for tasks like: grab 100 rows from PostgreSQL, serialize to JSON, respond via HTTP. Lots of the hot code in Ruby around fetching rows from the DB, serializing to JSON, and HTTP parsing have also since been implemented as native functions in C, massively improving performance with zero effort required by the developer.
Could we not build some kind of massive solar farm on the moon? Then beam down all that power to earth.

(Just thinking out loud here)
> It's amazing to watch the price go up as utility has gone down.

Couldn't agree more. I've been following crypto since 2012. The most exciting aspect of bitcoin personally was being able to hold both cash(private/low fees) AND and an asset(scarce) on the internet without having to trust any 3rd parties. Sad to see the community is just settling on the latter (at least for now).

I don't think there's a need for two different currencies to represent both 'cash' and 'asset'. I think in the future it'll most likely be one crypto that fulfills both needs. And as of right now, I wouldn't bet on Bitcoin.

But hey, what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
About that, and I stand by it. Of course if I were some kind of psychic and could precisely predict the burst I’d be fuck-you rich. Seeing that I can’t, I’m not going to risk it all on tulips.

Especially tulips that burn through soooo much electricity.
Give it to me, I promise you the return you deserve.
Are you willing to loose all $100k?
bitcoin, you may get 10x in six months
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It's a lot cheaper to build huge solar farms in deserts. Probably a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper.
Phoenix is way overhyped, particularly on HN. This is the same as what happened with Golang and then with Rust.

A few years ago, I remember that all these articles kept popping up about people switching from Node.js to Go.

Now it's funny because fairly recently I read a well thought out article on HN encouraging developers to dump Go for Node.js... These days you hardly read anything about Go at all. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but reality caught up with the hype and it's no longer pretending to be a silver bullet.

Right now Phoenix is pretending to be a silver bullet, but it's really not.
What killed Facebook for me was their creepy targeted advertising. About a year ago I saw an ad buried in my facebook feed to "buy Gallium and Bismuth metal in Australia" I thought it was an oddly specific ad so I made a joking post about it - turned out several of my friends were seeing the same ad.

A common friend we all shared who is a high school science teacher spoke up. He explained his class was studying the periodic table and he had purchased samples of Bismuth and Gallium online to show to the class. That was the eye opening moment for me if my friends and I can see ads based on another friend's online purchases what can my friends see about me? I've rarely used the site since then.
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From the article you linked,

"ITER is hoping to produce 500 megawatts over 1,000 seconds from just 50 megawatts of input power and 0.5 grams of hydrogen fuel."

(My emphasis.) The half-gram of fuel is to run for minutes, not months.

With optimistic assumptions, complete fusion of one gram of He-3 (with deuterium) can produce

1/3 * 6.02 * 10^23 * 18.354 * 4.4505 * 10^-20 = 163913 kWh

of primary (thermal) energy. If world primary energy demand is 18 terawatts, that's

18 * 10^9 * 24 * 365 = 157680000000000 kWh annually.

157680000000000 / 163913 = 961973729 grams (962 metric tons) of He-3 per year to cover all primary energy demand.
The Web has killed the desktop Linux dream, in case you have not realized it.

The browser platform makes the kernel completely irrelevant, ChromeOS is a very good example of it.
Why Bitcoin forks? Exchanges would be where the fraud happens. MtGOX was insolvent and yet they inflated the price of Bitcoin across all exchanges. Bitfinex is alleged to be engaging in the same market manipulation through margin wash trades and their central bank scheme of free Tether minting.

Bitcoin forks are funny because it's decentralized software with a shared database history from the time of the fork. After an update, users can choose to use one or the other. Unfortunately the incentives are warped for miners and devs, so users might not have the best possible design.

There's an excessive amount of propaganda surrounding cryptocoins because "investors" need to psychologically lure you in to buy their supply, which they've acquired for significantly lower value, lower capital, and lower computational work then you if you're starting after them.

[0] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest
This chart suggests at 1800m you can expect below 20mbps

https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/2013/chart-bt-fttc-...

Which is both slower than the fibre that had already been planned, and slower than the then incoming government's "25mbps for everyone by end of 2016" promise (which they missed).

It also doesn't have a good cheap upgrade path and assumes that the copper is good and doesn't need to be replaced (it isn't, and it does in many places).
Brew has a terminal animation. It’s cute.

http://brewformulas.org/Nyancat
The incredible inventiveness of Hedy Lamarr
I'd very strongly suggest you read media theory.

The role of media -- the press, cheap paper, high-speed printing, widespread literacy, pamphlets, telegraph, radio, cinema, audio tape, public address systems, mass media, advertising, television, cable, talk radio, BBS systems, Usenet, the Internet, the WWW (versions 1.0, 2.0, and mobile), etc., in political and social matters is absolutely profound. And often quite unexpected at least by the initial creators.

Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is one introduction to this, though there are many others. I'm going through Robert W. McChesney's work presently.
While I agree that it's not just historical interest - there's still much that can be learned from Lisp - this implementation is certainly not the place to learn it. There's no garbage collection, which is really the biggest concern of a proper lisp implementation in a language like C. Without GC, it's a gimmick implementation. There's no practical use for it.
This. Nobody has a monopoly on corruption and back room dealing.
> The "True" one was in 2008, and based on the law as it was written. The second was in 2013, and based how it turned out after it met the real world.

This is exactly the problem. They made some predictions about the law (which turned to be completely wrong, but that's not even the point) and tried to pass it as "objective fact", not as their private conjecture, implying that those that disagreed with it (and turned out to be right) are just lying.

This is the exact opposite of objective fact. This time they got caught because their predictions didn't come true and their subjective opinion disagreed with the facts so obviously that they were forced to flip. But many other times they do not get caught because there's no such sharp contrast between their private opinion and facts, and you can always muddle the waters and spin the arguments to try and present why your opinion is "objective truth" and anybody who thinks otherwise is just "truth denier".

As a political propaganda, it's fine - everybody tried to prove their opinion is correct and the other guy's opinion is wrong. But it takes special kind of hutzpah to call one's opinion "objective fact" and try to paint all the other opinions as lying. Exactly the kind of hutzpah the "fact checker" sites are swimming in.
there is a dispictable me joke in here some where, the villain in that movie tries to make a great deal of money from the moon.