skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> new energy-intensive industries will become economically feasible, opening up vast new areas of the economy.

This is a very exciting idea that never occurred to me. We always talk about the challenges facing solar regarding residential use. But a factory could schedule its operations for peak solar or even relocate entirely to places with reliable, consistent solar power. Very interesting.
Mainly that they mean different things.
"You don't gain any ground by pointing out how long or how short the other user's account has been around."

You misjudge me. That was a sincere comment.

"They don't have to agree with every dictate to agree with some of the conclusions of the body."

Agreed; but then why bring the UN's decrees up at all? It'd be better to impartially argue why it is immoral instead of making an appeal to an authority that they themselves sometimes disagree with, no?

"[Y]ou probably have to say more to justify a lower-approval response as the right answer".

I picked it because it is verifiably neutral. My supposition is that the former attack on the account's partiality fails because the UN is neither always correct (as you agreed), and is most certainly not itself impartial (as I hope you would agree).

Mentioning that a biased party calls something illegal and that the truth is unpopular is a tangential response at best. What specific facts are being disputed?
> Because European know-how and industry, and thus competitive advantage, gets lost

1. This assumes that the way we build solar panels (or whatever) never changes. We lost a lot of steel-making knowledge in the early 20th century. Of course, all that "expertise" was replaced by machines, so it was mostly a loss of obsolete knowledge.

2. The solution is to pocket a fraction of the savings and keep that in your back pocket to maintain a teaching/research corps and to ramp up internal expertise when/if the subsidies stop flowing. Of course, this assumes a level of competence, self-control, and foresight that may be missing in modern legislatures.
This is not either/or. The UK has routinely unarmed police, and no soldiers on the street, instead having specialist armed police.
Trump read Hacker News? I wouldn't worry...
> if you look at amazon they have never generated cash relative

Isn't this one of those big Amazon myths?

I thought the truth was that the income has always been there but it's the constant reinvestment that has kept profits low?
Hindi and Konkani (its a regional language spoken by a few million people in South Western India).
In 2012 the Obama administration introduced tariffs on solar panels, but only those from China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/business/global/us-sets-ta...

There was some controversy, but much less than with these current broad tariffs.

Such broad tariffs usually leave the industries weak and fat, and after they are finally lifted they will do no better at competing in a global marketplace.
I think the key is correlation with some controllable action. Pain is useful when it tells us something useful. Chronic neuropathic pain is useless because it doesn't guide your actions away from causing yourself damage.
Are you talking about their shows sometimes costing $7M an episode? Do you know which ones besides House of Cards and The Crown?
They are also perceived to give worse citizens in term of empathy and understanding.

Where is the research on that?
I like both Montana's plan, and this plan.
I assume you’re against the usage of it in every now non-mathematical field then?

Because it’s a perfectly applicable usage when used outside of mathematics
> I am frustrated at how terrible most of the content is, and how hard it is to find anything with the current interface.

I use criticker.com to solve this problem. They have an "On Netflix" filter, that lists everything available on Netflix. They also have a rating system, where you can give movies a rating from 0 to 100. If you rate enough titles, it'll give you a "Probable Score" for each movie/series/documentary, that you haven't rated. I rated about 150 titles and their suggestions are quite accurate already. I can now sort the list of titles that is available on Netflix based on that "Probable Score" and work my way down from 100. Their interface is a little confusing and buggy at times, but it's really powerful (IMO). The database is quite complete, it contains stuff throughout the entire cinema history from multiple countries; series and documentaries as well.
This will, of course, raise the cost of solar equipment and washing machines in the U.S. I can understand the GOP wanting to raise the cost of solar power in order to increase the use of fossil fuels, but why washing machines? Did Maytag make a large campaign contribution?
And/or simply implement CORS headers.
Primecoin is an example: https://primes.zone
The problem is that NTSC isn't 30Hz, it's 29.97Hz (or exactly 30/1.001Hz). This was due to some technical issues when introducing colour transmission, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#Lines_and_refresh_rate
Interviews are in late April. We'll update!
Will be interesting to watch. Between Gigalixir and now this, it’s starting to look like GCP is positioning itself as the place to go for Elixir apps.
we used gravity forms for one gig. On mobile a mobile browser say an iphone, you can take snap a pic with a camera and upload / attach it and send it via the form. That was our basic need / feature for this particular MVP.

i found this article in stakoverflow:
In 2015 Google introduced a new approach for developing web apps for Android: progressive web apps. One can create an application that will look like a native application, will be able to use device's hardware like camera and accelerometers, receive push notifications, have a launcher icon, work in offline, store local data, etc.
The cited source does not support the stated proposition. It merely contains an unsourced, parenthetical, editorial comment to that effect.

The alleged practice is not something the United States does.
>Cryptocurrencies and ICOs.

What value is being created here, exactly? There's plenty of idealistic notions being thrown around, but I've yet to see a single, real, useful product or service materialize

>Applied neural networks.

Same.

>Automation.

This is way too broad to be invested in. Of course the world is automating at a greater rate, but is this a cause for growth? Will automated factories produce more goods for the same consumers?

>Good electric cars. To the point where people are prepaying for something that might be built in a few years.

Again, how is this growth? People will simply replace their existing cars at a known rate with electric cars as they become available/affordable

>Good cheap batteries.

Granted this one would be a technological revolution greater than the internet, but it's just a fantasy for now. I think the grandparent is dead on here. Real inflation is 10 times the official rate since the mid 2000s. We are all playing with funny money these days, and this won't end well.
We've been through that, vaccine manufacturers marketing, I don't remember having flu - because I've never been vaccinated on anything.
> A thoughtful conversation requires a lot of insight and experience, both which appear to have taken a leave of absence

Yes, of course that's true, but all you've done is state the default condition of an internet forum. The whole idea of HN is to try to rise above that sludgey default, at least in part. It's a constant struggle because there's a constant downward pull, so we need users like you to understand the intention and post at a higher quality level.

I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park, even if there was already some litter there. You might even pick some of the litter up, if you were feeling like a good citizen that day.

If you'd take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html, I'm sure you'll get the idea.
Amazon has had positive free cash flow every year since 2001.

Netflix has had free cash flow of -$53 million, -$840 million, -$1.6 billion, and -$2 billion in the last 4 years respectively, and their debt has grown to $5 billion.
Right, MUBI is more like an online movie theater. FilmStruck and Fandor are traditional streaming services. They're small, though. I think FilmStruck's catalog numbers much less than a thousand.
In these discussions i find myself wondering how many of the firearms owned are pistols or something equally concealable, and how many are longarms(?).

Norway similarly makes it relatively easy to own a rifle or shotgun for hunting. But it is that much harder to get a pistol.

Best i recall, you need to have been a member of a target shooting club for some time before even being considered. And even then you are only permitted to transport it to and from the range, not general carry.
Which is fair, but I still have a problem with the sheer temerity of licensing a unit of measurement.
Excellent!

I recall someone on here (HN) saying that many of Elixir's strengths are weakened significantly because K8 does similar things (auto distribution, hot reloading, etc.)

Any truth to this? Also, can you distribute nodes on VMs and deploy them to Google Cloud?

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As a side note, is there a front-end equivalent to Elixir? Elm is functional but is non intuitive. Elixirscript is a thing but seems a bit too early.
The more of those things you can deal with, the better. We certainly don't require a person to know about them all. We're trying to redundantly cover all those skills with a few hundred people.

Hmmm. Maybe I'm scaring people off.

For example, we'd hire somebody who is fully focused on x86 if they are good at that. The sort of level we'd be looking for is a person who can recognize the common string.h functions in bare x86 assembly code.

The Arduino usually uses a ATmega8 CPU. I just encountered that CPU, not in an Arduino, and might soon be dealing with it. Adaptability is really desirable; this is a CPU that I've never dealt with before and I'm not about to wimp out.

The ESP8266 has a core based on the Tensilica Xtensa, which I've dealt with.

I think I heard somebody around the office dealing with a Z80, but I'm not sure if I remember that right. Chances are, we've done Z80 work.

It's kind of fun to encounter a new CPU. It's especially neat to encounter one for which step 1 is to write a disassembler.

I certainly do post the same jobs year-in, year-out. That doesn't mean we got nobody. We need more than one person.

Lots of people really won't move. Maybe for a $million they would... but only "maybe"! It is particularly hard to convince people on the west coast that there is civilization elsewhere. There is a fear of being stuck if the job doesn't work out, yet here I am in a city with at least half a dozen large defense contractors and a whole bunch of cyberwar-related startup companies and even some space program work.
If a native speaker makes an utterance that they don't consider to have a mistake, and that other speakers of the dialect would accept as correct, then I think it's hard to say that it's wrong, even if it deviates from another dialect (and even if the dialect it deviates from is the one considered the "standard" form of the language).

Even taking it in a more linguistic prescriptivist direction though, those words did often have more than one accepted pronunciation listed in various dictionaries.
I have no idea, but some quick googling tells me they currently earn around 100k.

I guess I was trying to say that even at twice that it doesn't sound like a good deal to me.

Edit: I guess your comment suggests you think they are paid fairly. Are you cop? Would you consider a career with the NYPD give current compensation?
Most freshman undergraduate mathematicians have had their fair share debating whether you "invent" or "discover" definitions and proofs. The general consensus is that you "discover" things that are very natural, and you "invent" things for which different mathematicians would have perhaps come up different ideas. But only one thing is shared between both sides of the debate: the distinction really doesn't matter and is definitely bikeshedding.
I was passenger in a car with a girl who tried to pull this by handing him her card along with license/registration. He looked at it for half a second and said 'You can go ahead and hold onto that' and then gave her a ticket for what she was doing wrong(speeding). I'd like to think he might have let her off with a warning if she didn't try to flash that card.
I call BS, it's the responsibility of the server to check Host headers and implement CORS. All browser provide these security measurements. There are valid use cases for having domain aliases for local ips.
I was referring more to its use (abuse?) of the word "isomorphic", which already has a well-established meaning in mathematics.
Anecdotal, but: I myself turned down a job offer in SV in part due to Trump. When asking 4 random co-workers, none seem keen to move to the US, 2 of them even citing safety concerns (they are minorities from India and Africa and heard horror stories of former colleagues still in the US).
No the stolen funds remained on the original chain, ETC on most exchanges, and the attacker maintained ownership.
I live in a quiet backwater of England with a low crime rate. I was very suprised, after a sad incident where a chap started waving a gun about, to read that some police who were on patrol did have firearms in the car (ie not a special SWAT team that we usually hear of). The incident ended up with a dead police man along with a dead perpetrator. Many felt that the policeman was rather gung-ho and if he had waited for proper armed support it might have saved his life
well, if their catalog grows to 50% original content, here's hoping netflix adopt more UK/HBO style formats for tv shows.

have a clear defined arc lasting ~3 seasons with 6/8 episodes in each season..and then just stop.

point in case, house of cards should have been a 2 series show with frank never becoming President.
The fossil fuel industry basically can hurt the US at this point and they will hurt the US. While everywhere else is starting to head frantically for the exits. China, Europe, India, and bunch of African countries have make commitments toward solar, wind, and transportation electrification.

China's banking system is loaning scads of money to solar manufacturers while in the US the banking system has loaned $1T to fracking, oil and gas companies.
I'm really hoping that we'll have self-driving cars by the time that I reach that stage of life
I guess these thing has lead to the saying that the police force is the biggest gang...
> Now, if somebody could come up with more energy efficient way to achieve that consensus at such a scale...

A handful of the top cryptos are using some variant of proof-of-stake (like dPoS, dBFT, etc.), all of which are energy efficient. Ethereum is currently experimenting with PoS in Casper.
They only recently put in a disclaimer clearly stating the ability to buy and not sell, here in Canada. Was deceptive as hell before that.

Set up a GDAX account, send your coins there (save fees), then transfer them to a better off/on ramp for your location.
And it's one of my favorite things about the USA. I hate dense European style cities.

Different people like different things. The nice thing about the USA is you can pick. You can live anywhere from a remote farm to a dense apartment.
I suppose could estimate if I knew the number of GPUs sold but I've only seen estimates of that. As far as I know nVidia doesn't give their shipment numbers.
I'm curious about this as well. I hate vendor lock-in, so I'm for anything that's a minimal deployment that doesn't tie you to one provider.
I don't think you understand the comment you are replying to.
Bitcoin obviously has flaws, but Bitcoin is still doing a better job at distributing wealth than the banks are, thats for sure. Bitcoin may not be doing it efficiently or as well as it could be, but its doing it. Also... there are other cryptocurrecies with different intents and purposes. If you are unhappy with bitcoin, build an alternative. Ethereum proves that its possible. Our financial system, laws, and government are all malleable, and from the looks of it could use some serious change.
The problem is that if you're big enough business-wise you don't care that much about NN. It's like in Germany when Google has to pay for content in Google News and they just tell the publishers they will not include them if they don't give it to them for free despite these new rules (which are stupid). But if you're a small startup or company and you want to do this you have no chance doing this. Same goes for NN. If someone wants to block Google or Netflix now they can't really get that much from them because they need them to sell their own product or otherwise people will leave. If you're small no-one cares and your can't do anything about it. So it hurts innovation from new companies but doesn't hurt any big established players.

Besides that they also have enough revenue to invest in their own fiber infrastructure like Google does and really everyone wants to get good access to their content so they connect to them.
How will you get in the car?

If the car itself was the only problem then Uber solves that. But it's not enough.
You're lucky. I wish I could speak with my 3yo in my native language but my wife can't speak a word of it. My son refuses to speak my language because his mind refuses the idea that things can have two names. Maybe when he grows up he'll want to learn but right now there's just now way, I tried and failed.
Md4rd – an emacs mode for reading Reddit
> 1. This assumes that the way we build solar panels (or whatever) never changes.

Yeah but the Chinese basically took the European process, scaled it up and dumped the prices by using extremely low cost labor and massive state subsidies both at construction of the plants and at selling the product. There's no invention there, only the aim of totally destroying the competition. The only inventions happening are in research labs - and as there are no more notable fabs left in Europe or the US, that research will be applied in China. Our taxes basically funding our continued downfall...

> Of course, this assumes a level of competence, self-control, and foresight that may be missing in modern legislatures.

The only country which ever had this is Norway with its ultra massive oil fund. The Arabian countries are playing catch-up there with their recent investments but... well... building a fully air conditioned soccer stadium right in the midst of a hot desert isn't exactly a wise (or environment friendly) investment, much less a dozen of them. In addition, engaging in more-or-less pointless turf and proxy wars all over Arabia (and parts of Northern Africa too) are a totally unneeded drain on their resources.
Sure, if you'll follow the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we won't ban you. The basic idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

(Public figure doesn't enter into it, btw, because the issue is the effect of such posts on the community here.)
I really enjoyed this article. AI has dramatically overpromised every decade since 1960. Advances have always been made, but why do they have to exaggerate so much about its potential?

I’m too scared to comment or say anything else though. It would be the equivalent of saying something negative about bitcoin on r/Bitcoin.
I agree about 90%. The Wacker plant in Tennessee was actually completed and is currently operating, though. There is excess capacity for high-quality, low-cost polysilicon in the US to be soaked up if some more American wafer/cell facilities are developed (since the product can't go to China any more).

And US based cell manufacturing may indeed grow; Tesla is one driver, and JinkoSolar might be the next in line:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/01/22/jinkosolar-looks-to-s...

I have a little hope that this might also finally get Hanwha Q Cells and 1366 Technologies to launch a full-scale manufacturing partnership. I really like what 1366 has invented but if they wait years more to go industrial-scale they'll get their cost advantages erased by continued incremental improvements in traditional wafering.

These tariffs are not going to make American solar manufacturing dominate the global solar market. It might end up like with foreign automobile trade wars in the 1980s -- factories owned by overseas companies, but actual manufacturing operations in the US.

I'd prefer if we didn't go through several years of artificially elevated prices from these tariffs in the first place, but I think there's a decent chance it will actually lead to new American factories for cells and modules. Those plants will need to be bigger scale than past American facilities if they don't want to die as soon as the tariffs expire. Suniva's biggest problem IMO is that they were trying to manufacture in America at ~5% the scale of globally competitive manufacturers. They were unprofitable so they didn't scale up, and they didn't scale up because they were unprofitable.
I'm in the same boat, being the only speaker is a really complicated spot to be.
> Until cable companies wise up (which is probably never), Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video will continue printing money.

Hulu lost over $600 million last year, so they must have a conveyor belt from the printer directly to the toilet. We'll see what happens once Disney takes majority control, but I bet this time next year Hulu's going to be very different.
> with cable you still get ads lol

Amazon Prime shows you short ads of other Amazon shows, at the start of episodes. Not in the middle, though.
Exactly, Amazon also has lot of assets. They have logistics networks across multiple countries, warehouses, data centers, etc. May not be commensurate to their market cap but it does give them a solid moat.
Excellent and informative sources, thanks.
I always get an inkling that buses (like Bolt/Mega/PeterPan) + the existing highway + roads are superior and more scalable than any other type of transportation, dollar for dollar.

Why do people push for rail? Self-driving cars obviously can enhance this (the bus idea), but I suspect they will create even more traffic if we insist on having 5 passenger cars be 75% empty. Buses are great because demand can be reallocated easily.

Imagine a place like New York, where buses can go out to the suburbs and bring people into the city and the evening and morning (say, 50% of the fleet), and during the day 90% of the fleet stays in the city doing intra-city transportation.

Rail doesn't have this flexibility.

EDIT: Rail definitely has its place, but you almost never hear anyone starting a bus project. Just curious to why there's relatively little mention of buses in the public transportation (new project) realm.

I imagine perfected public transportation would involve linking between self driving cars on the square mile level, buses on the square deca mile (is that a thing?), rail for a hundred mile radius and obviously planes thereon.
It is possible the patches are submitted on behalf of others.
Good to hear, since the FCC was so loud about a handful of small ISPs like yours being vaguely against the Title II rules.
Typo, meant: "that does not require"
At the point that you need to hire mercenaries to protect your coin's value, why not just use them to rob people, or extort protection payments?
Nice Elixir is becoming more mainstream
The US really has no completed high-speed rail. The map for the US should be empty.
Very interesting take on it.
"A seriously sick person has no ability to receive the training and certification to wear an N95 mask." What does that mean?
It's a great book. Motivated me to switch industries and relocate to Seattle as an NT kernel programmer.