skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rail is also more environmentally efficient, once the initial infrastructure is put in place. Airplanes burn tons of fossil fuels, trains can run on renewables.
>Peeling enough garlic for a 7 person dinner is actually quite time consuming.

If it takes you more than 10 seconds you're doing it wrong

https://youtu.be/0d3oc24fD-c
Coindesk did a write up of this.

https://www.coindesk.com/microscope-real-costs-dollar/

Looks like data was taken from places like: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ba...

and rest of the numbers were taking into account of how much each note costs to make.

"The Euro publishes sustainability statistics on their currency, and according to latest estimates, 3 billion banknotes printed in 2003 had an equivalent energy impact of 460,000 60W bulbs switched on for a year, which equates to 240 million kWh, or 0.87 million GJ. With circulation now at 15.8 billion notes, this would scale up to 4.6 million GJ (European Central Bank, 2007). To get to a global figure, for the purposes of this report, I will be multiplying this figure by a factor of four (i.e. a proportional share of global M0/M1 money supply). Therefore, we reach a figure of 18.4 million GJ, which would correspond to almost 3.07 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent."

This is just making a bank note, nothing about cost to distribute (guarding money, banking system, credit system).
You haven’t tried astringent until you’ve had an Asian persimmon like Hachiya that’s not quite ready.
Well if a moving company would do this to me I'd simply call the cops for theft/extortion.
It was "donated to go to...", so I think the eastern Europe was the intention of the original donor. But I could be mistaken.
And then subtract fares.

http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/ridership/ridership_revenue...
Would a reasonable analogy be to phantom phone vibrations? I know a lot of people have those and if it’s similar it might be a good analogy to hearing things. Aka just like feeling your phone vibrate but it didn’t.
A Short Long Time: Digitally Different in 2018
There isn't a hard limit (that I know of), you're just consuming more resources for each page load and likely doing it slower than nginx would.
Kind of disappointing to see it is about cars not for cars. Kitt and Lighting Mcqueen must feel kind of left out.
As I know, there is only 2 million Bitcoins unmined left. Once we mine all, aren’t we done with mining and miners ?
That was my grandmother with her - I’ll never forgive her for it, may she Rest In Peace - mashed garlic and lemon purée drink. Blergh!
A clever hack to define custom infix “operators” in Python
It will be interesting to see how VR/AR plays out.

On the one hand, if say Tibetan prayer gongs, or trees swaying in the wind, are your Pavlovian triggers for relaxed centering, with VR, zing, you're there. And with eye tracking and other biometric and task monitoring, you might even autotrigger them upon need.

On the other hand, checking you're phone? How last decade. With AR, you can immerse yourself in your phone 24x7. Your friends are all around you - the open office^H life plan. And Bubblegum Troll is playing with your cat.
Eh. Close enough. Go is 9yrs old. I don't think the difference in 9 and 10 years deserves all caps.
Rail costs go down as traffic and network expand. Most of the US is under-served by rail, and California is pretty ridiculous too. I was shocked by how few stations Amtrak had when I last visited (about 7 years ago). Like for most things, if you invest, costs go down in the long term.
Irrelevant question though, in many ways. There's simply no chance that bitcoin is replacing fiat money. I realize that offends the bitcoin True Believers, but fiat money is not going away unless nation states go away, and if that happens there's some more issues we have to deal with than the cost of a transaction.
No wonder Werner Herzog didn't want to report it when he got shot by the BB gun during an interview.
What a ridiculous article. Household air-conditioning wastes energy. Running your television wastes energy. Serving up webpages for The Guardian is apparently a waste of energy. If the problem is that the price of energy does not encompass the negative externalities it creates, then we need a Pigouvian tax on it. The price rises, and miners reassess whether or not they are profitable in a carbon-neutral world. The author seems to think that market participants using energy in a profitable manner are at fault here, rather than the policymakers who are not interested in tackling the Greatest Moral Challenge of Our Time (TM). But sure, jump on the bandwagon and write op-eds while Bitcoin is in the news.
> how many days of use until they fall apart?

Well, it's cardboard, so you just tape or glue it back together. Or tape another layer of paper or cardboard on top.

> Will Nintendo fight copycats who provide cheap replacements?

You're paying for the software, not the cardboard.
None of those are recent innovations in programming language design. Higher-order functions, in particular, have been part of mainstream programming for so long.
Hoopes (yes, a misspelling) gets autocorrected to hooves for me, so could’ve been a typo and not that they didn’t know the expression.
And if they don't have to be licensed, they're likely not going to be easy to find.
Been involved in music for 10+ years... first time I've heard solfege referred to as solresol. Neat!
Is this the advice that nascent Google took? Considering they are infamous for not responding to support requests at all now that they're big, it appears they did put in place a support system that didn't scale.
(2005) it seems from the comments on that page.
You are comparing operating costs of air travel to capital costs of rail travel - you need far beyond airplanes. The trains themselves are not that expensive, after all.

You need to consider capital investment required for that air travel: How much does it cost to build the airports, repair centers, specialized land equipment, etc. to enable 640 billion passenger miles, and buy all the land required? Then you need to add airplane purchase costs - that's not optional either; before you even get to operating costs.

You need to of course include airports for each city on the trains' route. The train goes through a massive population corridor across dozens of towns and cities, not just SF and LA. What's the capital cost of connecting these people to air travel?
As someone who does video games in his spare time, this was a very enjoyable read.
Actually I think it is too big to fail at this point.
A few years ago I was very cautious, but a lot has changed since then, there's a great technological path ahead, and the general sentiment from the people and media is positive, regulations are very friendly compared to what many of us were feared of.
What makes you think they’ll invest it in the US?

Rich person/fund X will get a larger dividend than before, and they’ll invest in the same way as before. It’s not like this money is somehow earmarked.

If giving more money to the rich were the solution to America’s problems, it would have worked by now.
If you're suggesting virtual currencies won't need trustworthy managers, I think you better check your wallet.
It's the same thing in Europe. On a passenger/km basis, and without subsidies, budget air transport costs ten times less than train (look at company expenses and how much people they transport). It is also much safer. It is counter intuitive, but that's how it is.
Nicely seasoned and cooked beef can get the umami, but a leaf of lettuce and a couple of tomato slices and pickles don't hold a candle to a big mouthful of pickled carrot/daikon and fresh cucumber and cilantro in a proper banh mi.

There's nothing fresh or fragrant-tasting in the average burger, unfortunately. When I think of my local favorites, they are practically veggie-free. The delicious Patrick's Cafe burger (French style), with finely chopped bacon/mushrooms/onions/ketchup fried into an almost black paste of pure umami... delicious, but not vegetable anymore. The famous Matt's Bar Jucy Lucy (yes, that's the right spelling), just meat and cheese and bun and some onions if you ask nicely. Total umami bomb, but none of the clean fresh taste of banh mi.
For intrastate moves only about half of US states require a license.

For long distance, interstate moves it's federally regulated and requires a license.

Do a quick google search on 'moving scams' and this should give you a good idea why licenses and regulations are a good idea in this industry. It's ripe for scams and shady characters.

Unbelievable, some of the stories I could tell...
Subtract actual farebox revenues, yes. But I don't expect that their revenue projections are any more accurate than their cost estimates were.
I was not addressing "rights", but that the concept of "property" exists independently of the state.
> One significant downside is the way the bonds and ballot measures work. In CA, we're asked to approve a few billion for the project in each election.

No, it was all Prop 1A in 2008 for ~$10 billion. Voters have not been asked for additional CA HSR bond funds since.

Presumably, given the level of other funding that has been secured, additional bonds will at some point be necessary, but the “every election” thing is not even remotely related to reality.
No, because miners secure the blockchain. They will be rewarded primarily by transaction fees as the reward gradually phases out.
Are there any resources that describe the sort of UI rendering engine you think you would need to beat browsers?
Fried chicken is the perfect food to eat at a restaurant. Prep starts 24 hrs in advance with brining the chicken. Breading process is messy. Lots of oil required. Difficult to get the temperature and timing just right. None of these are issues for restaurants where they are making it constantly and have enough experience to dial in the cooking. Plus, since those restaurants are usually selling large volume, it's still cheap.
It depends on how you measure and account for cost. My last big on premises project landed about $10M of hardware, which wasn’t at capacity for about 18 months for various reasons. And that was a very successful project.

Yet it wasted about $2-2.5M in hardware value alone. That’s not free, especially when you wouldn’t be incurring cost on a pay by drink cloud model.
First realize the aptitude modulation in this radio is very crude. Unlike normal radio which has many amplitudes, this radio only has 2. On and off. Tone or no tone. This radio has no control over the exact amplitude.

Due to this limitation, this radio can only transfer a single tone at a time. Music must be monophonic.

To transfer a 60htz tone we just switch between the on and off state at 60htz. The On state will be at some random amplitude that we can't control.

What are these states? In the On state, we write to a memory address repeatedly very very fast (as fast as the computer allows). And in the off state we sleep.
You poor one. My mother also gave me "onion juice" when I got a cold, but there was one big difference: The onions were cooked with tons of rocked candy. I have to admit that it was my favorite medicine.

Maybe you should try that recipe to cure your onion juice trauma ;)
I'd say that "Don't Care, rely on random public people" scales rather well.

That's how all retail businesses are approaching as well- get rid of as many people as possible, and replace with fixed cost machines. It's a great advantage from the business side of things, but really sucks with regards to people.
Lately I've realised I'm exhausted from consumption of * media and entertainment (I don't watch TV, more YouTube etc).

Last night I was awake at 2am just thinking I would like to just purge all phones and computers from my house, permanently.

I'm not entirely blaming the devices; However, this behaviour is unsustainable.

I've also noticed a worrying trend, my parents are getting more and more addicted, I feel they have less change of realising it and getting help.
People think salt is bad for you... They don't understand the role of salt in cooking. Let them try eating unsalted bread. It will be an educational experience.
Usually when X "loses" money Y "gains" money. The verb itself is relative. A tax cut means the government collects less tax; so it has less money. That sounds like a loss to me. I think it is deliberately dishonest to re-frame this well understood verb in any other way.
It sounds like you're talking about a more binary approach to categorizing wealth. It either "is paper" or "is realized". To me, not all paper is created equal.

I see assets representing wealth as a spectrum. There are shades of paper wealth that make it closer to realized wealth than others. Google stock doubling is a paper gain that is more substantial than a paper gain in XRP because Google stock has larger current utility than XRP.

Everyone has different ways of calculating utility which impact how substantial they feel a gain in a certain asset is when compared to another.

That's my theory, how do you see things?
It's actually a good industry to look at for any economist looking to study regulation affects.

In the 80s they deregulated the industry which led to a proliferation of shady movers and scams. Since the 80s they've been slowly adding back in more and more regulation.
Of course banks wouldn't go away with Bitcoin. There are still physical branches despite the ubiquity of online banking and credit/debit cards. People like having humans to interact with. And Bitcoin is trying to add in the Lightning network, which requires large trusted entities where people can store their coins for off-chain transactions, IE banks.
Portier (formerly Let's Auth) was set up by a bunch of people interested in decentralised identity solutions after Persona was killed, as a sort of spiritual successor: https://portier.github.io/
My understanding is that what capacitors would mitigate. Computers run on DC.
Our family still has one of these where our ancestors homesteaded in Wyoming.
> I thought one of the bars for being mental competence _was_ something about being competent enough to play a role in your legal defense?

Right, but it sounds like a big part of the problem here is that the bar is set very high here, perhaps more than is reasonable.
The cost for Amtrak and other commuter train services is inflated due to the fact that the rails are owned and/or preempted by commercial rail services. The whole point of California building out the line, directly from tax dollars, is to go around that. A dedicated line drops in price, is far more reliable and can be managed by text according to traffic.
Chrome Dev: WebAssembly.instantiate took 2254 ms (5.5 MB/s)

Firefox Nightly: WebAssembly.instantiate took 158.2 ms (78.3 MB/s)

Edge 41.16299.15.0: WebAssembly.instantiate took 99.2 ms (124.8 MB/s)

I did not expect Edge to be even faster.
Because google is notoriously bad at profitable products, besides search?
I agree, what you get in stores is an insult to the name. I used to make my own burgers from scratch each morning for breakfast, it wouldn’t take more than 20 minutes and in the days they came out just right.. mmm spectacular!
The original Persona proposal had the concept of browser-based identity. Your browser would provide secure authentication, and then Firefox Sync would let you bring the authentication credentials with you to other systems. You'd just click "sign in" on a site (or in the browser UI) and your browser would sign you in, with no other interaction required.

However, outside of a prototype addon, that approach never materialized. And without that, Persona didn't have a compelling use case except for people who didn't want to trust signing in via Facebook or Google or Twitter.

We're finally starting to see standards proposals that address this, and allow signing in via cryptographic authentication built into your browser. I hope to see those make OAuth obsolete for any use case other than API access to an account (e.g. "allow this site to integrate with Github").
Indeed, but when the automated system driving verifies real-time what the limits of the road are, it is trivial for an "Auto" to dispute and provide evidence.

The only thing these auto-scammers would get are human drivers not driving precisely and accurately.
Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Minority
They are spending money to improve Caltrain; the plan is to move to electrified trains by 2021. It's the "service between Caltrain and the Central Valley" part that's a more significant challenge.

I'm not convinced that the current HSR project is the best way to do it, but I'm also not aware of any serious counterproposal -- and it's hard to even imagine one that wouldn't also be a huge, expensive undertaking with limitless opportunity for missed schedules, cost overruns and undue optimism.
Scalable Machine Learning with TensorFlow
Every single assisted dying statute at this point requires you to be terminally ill. The Netherlands is on the path to waive this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/13/netherlands-ma... but only for the elderly. We will see what age they set but I feel like it'll be like 70 or something.
Miners are transaction processors, and instead of block rewards, they get paid in transaction fees. So, no, you're never done with them until you're done with Bitcoin.
Then I offer the ease with which we see faces where they aren't. The very constellations?

I get your point to an extent. However, I think it is presented stronger than it is. Specifically, the semantics of imagery are not much more than non frequency analysis of the pixel data your eye sees.
it support is where thought goes to die
Clean Energy Predictions for 2018
Yeah, everyday food is a matter of where you live. I make a point of going out for banh mi every two weeks or so. I eat a remarkable amount of Somali food, thanks to a local restaurant I like (most Somali restaurants aren't that great, but this guy Gets It). If we had more western African food rather than just east African, I'd eat a LOT more of it... I love Nigerian and Ghana kinds of cooking.
I don't think it's really possible to do much better than the next-gen browser architecture (Servo, fully-fleshed-out Quantum) if you support the entire feature set of browsers (once typed CSSOM is a thing, anyway). You can certainly do better in constrained environments, though. For example, Leo Meyerovich is doing really neat things with data viz, where all the elements to be laid out have the same shape and you can take advantage of that to do things like GPU layout.
Docker certification program
> This is #fakenews.

Please don't; it breaks the HN guideline against name-calling in arguments. Your comment would be fine without the first, and perhaps also the last, sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Recall that shaping is implemented by looking at the contents of your network traffic to see if it belongs to a given application. We can exploit this observation to “turn off” shaping as follows: we simply send the same traffic, but replace the original contents with random strings.

Is this accurate? My understanding was that T-Mobile and others throttle based on the source network since most streams are encrypted, preventing content analysis (which would also require significantly higher processing).
> I'm sort of losing hope that it isn't a gimmick or fad

Visual coding is huge among people who aren't technical. I first got into "programming" when I was 9, through lego robots, they had a visual control flow thingy, basically visual coding. I think that must have helped me understand programming and its implications much faster when I got into college.

Visual programming is not ergonomic enough to justify never writing code again. It will remain a paramount educational tool, and a great tool for designers and game developers. I believe people do use visual programming for Unreal projects (Unity, maybe?), textures, effects, etc.

I don't think it is aesthetic enough right now to get the masses into it. Visual programming will eventually be important in getting people to do more complex things on the web (think IFTTT).
> "The Times observed construction on site in Paris, which is building a project similar to the Second Avenue subway at one-sixth the cost."

I'm not taking issue with the fact that similar infrastructure projects have different costs in different countries, nor that there are reasons as to why this is.

I'm trying to understand why you think the comparison is misguided.

Only by way of comparison are we able to ascertain that the US is, probably, paying too much for infrastructure.

I mean, this whole conversation is predicated on the comparison.

It's not that the similar infrastructure can't work in the US; it's that for reasons-known similar infrastructure may be untenable. If the infrastructure was built anyway, say by an Act Of God, it would probably still function as expected.
I don't understand why it can't all be done over standard in / standard out? Why bother with ports at all?
Piecework is not necessarily a bad thing. Food for thought:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-textbrok...

http://writepay.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-value-of-not-chasin...

http://writepay.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-to-improve-your-de-...

I would start a file and start tossing articles into it that have snippets that seemed potentially relevant. Make a list of skills, assets, whatever and start looking for your niche.

Someone I knew on an email list once sent me money to take care of a fine for them for the state I was in. It needed to be done by a certain time for legal reasons and this was just not possible for them to do themselves from another state. It could not be paid online or whatever. It had to be done in person.

I briefly wondered if I could do sort of a reverse Task Rabbit: Instead of looking for locals who were listing specific tasks they would pay for, I could advertise myself online as available to do tasks in my location for people at a distance.

I never quite worked out the exact value position, so I never did anything with the idea. But perhaps you could do something with it.

You might also be able to make local goods available.

My mother is German. I was born and raised in the US. She continued to value certain German products that were not readily available in the US. When I lived in Germany in my twenties, she would send me money to purchase German products for not only her but some of her friends and ship it to the US.

This seems to be a fairly common occurrence among international immigrants. They stock up on favorite products when visiting family or family brings them stuff. There is probably a market for immigrants who want certain products from home but who don't have access to personal connections of that sort.

My mother didn't need a personal connection anymore after a local German store opened in her town. But you have to have a concentration of demand to support such a store locally. You tend to see "Little Italy" type areas or similar only in large cities. But immigrants don't all live in the big city. A small distributed network may be able to serve this niche.
Looks like it does. At the top in the third line you should see something like `$language = "php";`. Click `php` and it will select a new language for you.
Would you please not use HN for ideological battle? At the point this stuff gets generic, it gets predictable, and therefore boring in HN's sense of the word.
Implementing a CNN for Text Classification in TensorFlow
> We're finally starting to see standards proposals that address this, and allow signing in via cryptographic

could you point us at these - would've very interested as thelack of PKI in the world does bother me
Better Containerized JVMs with JDK10