skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow a sand-grain backed crypto? Sand on blockchain? Sandcoin is easily worth $100,000 per coin! It's the future of sand!
It's more likely you're just conscious of your hand posture now.
The state of indian population is so abysmal and all Modi/Shah/yogi talk about is Ram temple, construction of Statue of religious figurines, hindu muslim love affairs, national vs anti national and other such non sense. such a shame on the government.
Problems with identifying who took the various Apollo mission photo's seems to be a long running thing:

(Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16067535
Just to add to your objections about wasted energy, I’d add that energy and resources would be expended to build the parts for these things. Wear is proportional to use, so that’s another source of both dissipation, and material losses.
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Go to any penny stock forum on finance.yahoo.com and the parallels are even deeper. Bitcoin, and the entire crypto-space are basically souped up penny stocks for the 21st century.
Like I said, it really depends on the circumstances.

Sometimes having control over your fight-or-flight reaction is better for you, personally, given your value system, than say trampeling fellow coworkers in a panic on your way out the door.

Don't judge too harshly people who don't share your starry-eyed view of the world. Let them have their peace if they're so resolved.
OpenCV on a Raspberry does not sound like something that is reliable and easy to deploy.

It‘s a long way to go from something that you hack together in the living room to something you can deploy on hundreds of traffic lights, that works in every weather, that can easily be configured for different use cases, and that can be serviced by the technicians.
> "Of course you'd have to somehow set limits on consumption in any system where resources are limited. The price mechanism isn't the only way to do that. You could for example have only one game system to begin with so there's no reason to own two. Or you could have public "libraries" for things like gaming systems where you could borrow anything you need, reducing the need to own things."

Okay, but putting aside shared ownership and artificially limiting choice, how do you set limits on consumption?

Let's use a different example. Someone owns a car that they maintain themselves. Their car breaks down, but instead of requesting a new part to fix it they request a new car. How does the government choose which is the appropriate action to take? Before you answer, consider that this is just one decision out of millions that a government would have to make within the space of a month.
YAGNI - You aren't going to need it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
There's always a "first" language - the first programming language that's learned and taught. It was qbasic in the 90s for instance, then vbasic, java, php for a bit, then ruby - it's certainly javascript now.

The first languages, during their reign as first languages are always derided. When something snatches the crown from JavaScript (it'll happen however inconceivable this is), I'm sure things will settle and it won't be so bad any more.

It's like how at the end of its life, most of the people still using AOL instant messenger were respectable computer experts. Same idea.
I finally got around to reading lcamtuf's other book, Silence on the Wire (2005) this wekk.

If you have even a small amount of interest in passive recon, it is excellent- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/silence.shtml
I agree however that could equally happen with any similar Rust UI library that isn't backed by a corporate entity. And seeming as there isn't any corporate backed UI libraries for Rust (at least that I'm aware of), you're literally no worse off with limn than you are with anything else.
If and only if it remains deflationary, someone could completely destroy Bitcoin by maintaining a 51% attack. I doubt China is going to go from nan to an attack, but confiscate all miners in China and they could easily do so.

So, if Bitcoin could easily be worth nothing in 10 years, it's a poor Store of value.
Distance running. Particularly on trails. I like learning about the plants and animals in my area and seeing how many different species and varieties I can see.
I don't think roundabouts would work in the Bay area because it requires that people know how to use turn signals.
A traffic light would only need to solve a much simpler problem than an autonomous car- after image-recognition, given the number of cars waiting/approaching at each direction, decide which lane(s) to give a green light to. Finding a reasonably optimal policy could be hard, yes, but once one is found that could be applied to all (or most) traffic lights, and it couldn't plausibly be more computationally intensive to run than the image-recognition step.

Meanwhile, if conversation involves a plausible future where all/most vehicles (inevitably including police cars and other government-owned vehicles) are autonomous and have the same kind of sensors, its hard to imagine the anti-surveillance angle being a decisive factor. I'm not for pervasive surveillance, and perhaps the NSA will be nice and claim really convincingly that they can't access records from traffic lights... but that bird has flown, anyway.
It wasn't part of my driving test in Virginia, at least when I took it. I'm guessing if your state has a low number of roundabouts [0] then it's pretty unlikely you'll be tested on it. I'd be interested to hear if Marylanders (#1 in roundabouts:intersections) have it on their test.

Personally, I freak out when I see a roundabout coming up, and slow down dramatically. Or, I completely avoid them.

[0] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/03/america-traff...
"Amazon has zeroed in on Seaport Square, a planned complex of office buildings and housing along and near Seaport Boulevard for which Chestnut Hill-based WS Development recently won city permits. Amazon and WS are in talks about 500,000 square feet of office space, with an option to later lease a second building of about equal size."
I honestly think the real toll is the mental concentration required and the stress caused by driving a car. Self-driving cars automatically fix that problem by removing the need for the passenger to concentrate on not killing people. When I take the bus I don't worry so much about my commute time, because I spend the ride relaxing and reading.
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I don't think you've really understood my comment or understand the space at large. Bitcoin is only one player (and the largest currently) but by no means does it represent the entire space. My comment had nothing to do with Bitcoin specifically.

This may be the peak of Bitcoin (of which I have 0, by the way) or maybe not but it is by no means the peak of the cryptocurrency space collectively. Not even close.
It's because of Hitler that Germany has laws against hate speech and proscribes displays of Nazi insignia, is it not?
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Because holding a non-laughable amount of any asset can (and does) influence my opinion, both on the present and the future. To disclose potential influences is (or at least should be) standard practice.
Swap was a great idea, but its time is gone. Swap doesn't make sense anymore, hard drives have not scaled and kept up with the improvements in RAM.

In the Pentium 1 era EDO RAM maxed out at 256MB/s and hard disk xfer was 10MB/s. Common RAM size was 16MB.

In today's era DDR4 maxes out at 32GB/s and hard disk xfer is 500 MB/s. Common RAM size is 16GB.

RAM xfer rate has grown is 320x. RAM capacity has grown 100x. Disk xfer rate has grown 50x.

Swap is no longer a useful tool.
This all works okay if you can trust every car on the road, but what about XYZ hacker broadcasting false information to slow everything down? Or more nefarious, they could cause an accident.
What kind of beauty do you find in that?
I agree, I missed blender because my stand mixer has a blender attachment, pasta maker and meat grinder so I tend to lump them all together, but yes a blender is absolutely essential.
I had to distribute my Python program as EXE because Windows PC where the program needs to be executed did not have Python installed.

That is why using Python as configuration file was not possible.

Hope that I have explained it well.
I liked how this piece tied all the trendy emerging tech into one short narrative. You could play Techcrunch bingo: driverless cars, drones, voice commands, blockchain etc.

But I couldn’t buy the part about a drone delivering food in 6 minutes to a vehicle that’s travelling between cities.

At first I figured the food would be prepared in the closest town or city. Assuming that there could be distances of tens or even hundreads of miles between adjacent localities, drones would have to cover at least 10 miles every minute (or 600 mph).

But instead of traditional restaurants, you could have driverless food trucks everywhere. Presumably, given enough density and clever routing algorithms, you could significantly cut down on the drone travel distance.

Edit: If the mobile hotel room in the story was only travelling between the airport and a nearby city, that would make it more plausible, but also less useful.
I lost about $20 in the hack. They claim they have a plan to pay me back, but we will see. Like I mentioned above they have paid me for my mining since the hack so I trust them enough. I would probably switch to a new service if there was one as easy to use as nicehash.
Why exactly would you want a long term value holder? (And if you did, what's wrong with gold, which has a bit of a track record?)
How has life been with transportation abstracted away into an app? Any unintended consequences?
This is clearly on the State of Hawaii not the US government.
I wouldn't call the IBM 709 a bigger version of the 705. The scientific machines (701/704/709) and the business machines (702/705) are really entirely different systems: completely different architecture, console, word size, instruction set, physical construction, and even basic internal circuitry and voltages. You're better off thinking of them as unrelated systems that marketing tried to turn into a coherent product line (see also Intel 4004 and 8008).
You're using derogatory terms to make an argument which is not an argument.

Secondly, you could make the same argument about gold.
Why? What makes it more likely that bitcoin will be with something in 5, 15, 25 years than a fiat currency backed by a large and relatively stable government?

And what prevents greedy people from forming Bitcoin to remove (or increase) the maximum coin count and getting enough other geeedy miners to go along with it to be the majority fork?
Thanks for the insights. Could you please share the Dockerfile so that one can make the other languages work?
Reference counting does not handle cycles.
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When did BC become a place to store value? It was meant to facilitate unblockable transactions. It was to replace visa, not gold.
I've heard "Second Breakfast" is actually a thing with farmers, i.e. they get up super early (say 4am) to feed the livestock or do some other such thing (cow milking?) and they have a lightish breakfast - a cuppa, some cereal or maybe toast. Then later on, say 730am-8am, once these tasks are done and dusted, they head back to the farmhouse where they have a more hearty affair - sausages, bacon, eggs.
This, so much. I wonder how much time and grant money is wasted because people don't publish negative results.
Interviews with people who've made money in cryptocurrency
Well, yes, Ordnungswidrkeiten are "Straftaten light", if you will, so consequences are generally less severe, the process has a shortcut for undisputed cases, ... but the essence is still that the state makes a member of society experience some consequences for not following the law, and thus in particular the same constitutional protections apply.
> people can switch easily.

And therefore it clearly follows that bitcoin is worth, what, $13,400 per BTC?

If the amount of crypto-coin is near limitless (hint: it is), why is any of it worth anything at all?

Which is yet another flaw in the original Bitcoin premise... that because Bitcoin is scarce, it is valuable. But guess what... bitcoin isn't scarce at all. It can, and has, and will continue to be forked. And yeah yeah yeah.... "network effects" and "first mover" and whatever. If, as you say, the switching costs are basically zero... why does any of it have any value at all?
http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/11/28/write-your-next-ethere...

"Pyramid Scheme is implemented using the appropriately-named Racket."
>destroy Bitcoin by maintaining a 51% attack

The 51% is a better chance attack, you can still try to perform it with 10% and succeed and you can try with 60% and fail.

>Bitcoin could easily be worth nothing in 10 years, it's a poor Store of value.

Gold is more and more used in electronics, less and less in jewellery, if we move to graphene-based computers gold will not have much place there and its value in USD will probably drop. One nuke on Hawaii or California will cause huge drop in value of USD compared to other currencies.
I don't know about that but I do know I can't walk past a river or stream without peering in to see what aquatic life is in the water.
Just goes to show how little the FDA can even imagine to protect us against.
Every day, $33 billion dollars worth of "traditional" currencies are traded for $33 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies[1]. Coinbase, the top bitcoin exchange, is the 5th largest personal finance site in the US[2] -- the only bigger ones are chase.com, paypal.com, wellsfargo.com, and bankofamerica.com -- and Coinbase is rapidly closing the gap and is on track to overtake all of them within 6 months [3].

This is nothing like the "sand coin" from your example. It's real, measurable economic activity on a massive scale.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com (cryptocurrency 24 hour volume)

[2] https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries;1/US

[3] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coinbase.com#?sites=coinbase.c...
Yeah I agree we are not doing well.

A number of things:

* framework - use popular, battery-tested framework. Avoid new shiny HN front-page framework for production. If you want to experiment with it, and eventually replace the old framework, then wait until the community is strong enough.

* frontend - mostly HTML/CSS/JS, we carry too much legacy baggage: years of hacks and workarounds in the spec and in implementation. Make smart use of CSP.

* backend - quite stable these days if you first take care of your server. However, sanitizing inputs and outputs is both context-sensitive and challenging. Don't forget about sandboxing, authorization and state eviction, and keys management (api keys, user keys, server keys, automation keys such as Jenkins credentials).

* package management - there are vendors and SaaS (Github, and I think Gitlab too?) provide alerts and reports on software dependencies updates, so we are doing slightly better in this area.

The entire stack of an application is not as simple as putting a pipe system together, indeed.
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Maybe, but it's an interesting concept.

My city put bridges over a lot of the major roads for people to cross. A few roads have a tunnels underneath as well.
Does anybody really hold EUR or USD though? They hold gold or stocks or similar, denominated in USD. You could say Bitcoin is the same as gold (which is also deflationary?), but has gold really been a particularly viable way to store value? Gold may never again rise to the price it was 5 years ago, despite being deflationary. Deflationary isn't enough or even required to be a store of value, it rather needs to be in demand and liquid.
This happens to me with ad sales reps. A blind add from them with the default message.

I have to ask any sales people seeing this--does this ever work? Is it simply to get your content marketing materials to show up in my feed for nurturing? Or do you expect me to accept and be open to hearing a sales pitch? What is the success rate of this tactic?
Gold is kind of heavy compared to Trezor.
> Why exactly would you want a long term value holder?

Because it's nice to have a long term value storage that cannot be randomly seized by the state, debt collectors, thieves, burglars or anyone. We have seen such things during the many times in the past where private gold ownership has been outlawed, or during the financial crisis where the balances of account holders above 100k EUR were used to pay off the debts of the bank.

> And if you did, what's wrong with gold, which has a bit of a track record?

Can be seized by the state, is subject to export controls/tariffs, and for the environmentally conscious: the production process of gold and many other metals is incredibly nasty, however gold is a special kind of bad given its chemical properties.
In principle, I don't see why a look at the life of average Germans under Nazi rule would be a bad thing per se, nor do I think it out of the question that certain groups had a better quality of life under Nazi rule (of course founded on the back of atrocities). I certainly didn't take the linked article as suggesting that the Soviet Union was a net positive (and it goes without saying that Nazism most definitely wasn't), just showing another facet of it.
It sounds like your argument is 'people should ignore our laws against hate speech because we're the people who brought about WW2 and the holocaust, so you shouldn't trust us on this stuff.'

Of more simply 'ignore laws that aim at preventing a repeat of a crime because of the commission of that crime.'

¯\(°_o)/¯
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In terms of performance, bad code is bad code. There's nothing about OOP that inherently results in non-performant code. Like all things, one needs to know what they're doing and, more importantly, what their compiler/runtime is doing.

For example, anyone that has been using OO in a non-GC'ed language for a reasonable amount of time will know that it's bad news to constantly create and free small objects due to the MM overhead. However, I constantly encounter JS-heavy web sites/apps that a) become slower as you use them and use an inordinate amount of memory, and b) really thrash the GC because they simply don't pay attention to allocations at all and constantly use constructs that result in one-off allocations that then need to be recycled.

The fact is that the browser and the DOM is a UI layer, and UI frameworks fit perfectly when implemented using OO architecture.
The program can output "necessarily true" if it is true in all possible worlds, "self-contradictory" if it is false in all possible worlds, and "contingent" if it is true in some and false in others.
valid argument :-), accepted
> I suppose one wouldn't be surprised if a gold conference didn't accept gold payments.

What a false equivalence. That is specifically why processors like Bitpay exist, because Bitcoin _is_ meant for these type of transactions. You can't really shove gold down the computer screen.
I've done it with a Citi Double Cash card. It's a nice all around card: 2% cash back, price matching, temporary numbers, etc. Don't take my recommendation blindly though, do your own research first of course!

Edit: As a meta-sidenote, it was very difficult for me to write this comment without feeling like it would come across as corporate shilling. I have no connection to Citi and nothing to gain from recommending their card, but there's no way for anybody else to know that, and the issue of selling old accounts is a real one (though don't know about HN specifically). I wonder what the best solutions are to this sort of issue.
Good point :) Just feels a bit like USSR although obviously purely market driven situation
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No, a 51% attack works 100% of the time. You may or may not win a single hash, but by 100+ hashes your chain is longer invalidating their chain. Further, if it looks like your winning people will defect to you're side.

> gold

Gold is actually used for a lot of things (ex: gold leaf on books), historically it's price has gone up and down quite a bit, but within a fairly narrow band. ~0.1x to 1x while being easy to hide or smuggle.

> probably drop

Even then it's still worth more than 0.

PS: In reality you would likely cause a fork, but that would also drop the price causing miners to migrate to some other coin making further manipulation easier.
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For static sites hosting on AWS S3 is super cheap, plus with Cloudfront CDN in front you can be sure your site is being delivered to the user by a server near him. It's not 100% free but still very cheap for static websites[1]

[1] https://medium.com/@sbuckpesch/setup-aws-s3-static-website-h...
Please don't teach people how to centralize the web around a service that isn't even supposed to be used for personal web pages [1].

[1] - "We offer Pages sites primarily as a showcase for personal and organizational projects." https://help.github.com/articles/github-corporate-terms-of-s...
We have something very similar in the UK tax service (HMRC) which is "password".
I'm not following how the linked story relates to Lorde. Probably there's some news I've missed. Could you fill me (us) in?
GPUs are on backorder almost everywhere. So suppliers that still have them are all at 2-3x the price. When they are in stock they are ~$500.
IMHO, "code is law" is a silly thing to aim for, and by ignoring that saying for the DAO incident proves that Ethereum is more valuable than it would be otherwise.

The "code is law" is just hype about how amazing and new and unprecedented this thing is, but it's a truly bad idea. The reversibility of bugs is a good thing. In human law, there are exceptions, and appeals, etc. Aiming for a completely mechanical system is the type of unnuanced thinking that leads me to be extremely skeptical of the entire cryptocurrency community, and in particular made me think that Ethereum was a total joke run by unserious people.

Computer tools must adapt to human nature, not the other way around. Ethereum's hype train ignored that. Such temporary hype trains can help get the train moving, but it's always important to separate the hype and marketing from the reality. Especially in everything from post 2000 in the Silicon Valley, hype and marketing are what drives success much more than product itself. We need to remember to not get high on our own supply, and not believe the bullshit that gets peddled in order to drive platform adoption.
How would the example from the post look with s-expressions?
One of my first TVs had vacuum tubes. When it failed, you took he tubes out and tested them at a drug store or radio shack for a failure. You could also take it to a repair store or call a rech to come. Very few vacuum tube tvs were easily portable.
In many large cities in Asia, the solution has been to elevate the pedestrian layer entirely using a system of skybridges, at least at the most congested roads. Of course, this would require a large investment in infrastructure.
It looks like the Galaxy S9 is getting a variable aperture camera
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Many of those features (e.g. generics) are in Java and/or C#, which are nonetheless widely outsourced.
yep I noticed this months ago. Very annoying, I set mine to public for a reason...