skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The logic makes no sense because it specifically fingers Russia, yet any adversary of the United States could conceivably benefit from "sowing division". Once you've left behind the specific support for Trump the underlying logic linking it to Russia collapses but the conclusion has been kept, which indicates motivated reasoning.

There's a deeper issue here too. It paints the posting of political talking points from both sides of a US election as generic "sowing division". That is a world view that is quite totalitarian. I could describe it equally as "invigorating the democratic process by increasing interest in the election" and be no less accurate.

a large part of his support was due to the fear created by the appearance of growing civil unrest

You haven't shown that, you haven't even laid the groundwork for that. It's actually the first time I've ever seen such a claim. Most analyses of why he won point to the weakness of Clinton, his policies in immigration and trade deals, his opposition to political correctness and so on. Not "the appearance of growing civil unrest".
O(sqrt(N) + log N) = O(sqrt(N)) by definition
The massive paradigm shift that is powershell (ie object based instead of text based) gives it enough space to exist alongside bash. It will not replace bash, and at least on other platforms I highly doubt it's supposed to, as powershell is so heavily Windows focused
On top of this, writing PowerShell feels like programming rather than scripting. I know that's sort of ambiguous, but PowerShell is astonishingly verbose compared to bash, or sed/awk, or Perl. PowerShell may be a better programming language than bash, but the times I wrote some, it took me a lot longer (maybe mostly because of my own familiarity with bash) and the resulting scripts were bigger (which I think is unavoidable).

I just don't find PowerShell fills a niche I need to fill, even though it seems to be really powerful and designed by smart people. I guess if I worked on Windows it would fill a niche since it has hooks into the system that are harder to reach in other non-MS languages.
Dutch Supercomputer Uses Gaming Technology to Study Fast Radio Bursts
IS that this: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17991/tac?
Very little oil is used to power the grid. It's almost all used in transportation.
Sure you might not like SAP's business practices but there are very few large software companies in Europe.
https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2005/01/21/larry-summers-wom...

(Disclaimer: I just found the quote on Google. I don't know much about the author and his writing. And so I don't somehow endorse it or agree with it more just because I pasted the link).
Optimizing Tagless Final – Saying Farewell to Free
Imagine if the world becomes so rich, that even the table scraps are enough to make everyone's lives amazing.

The average poor person today has access to way more resources and quality of life than most of society in the 1600s. Why wouldn't this trend continue?
With the Tax incentive in California, a used Nissan Leaf could effectively cost $6K used now.

And then if your work or city offers subsidized electric charging stations... it would definitely be worth switching now.

However I think there is a real chance that a fleet of automatic driving Ubers may make ride sharing cheaper than buying an electric car for most people.
Stellar and the State of Cryptocurrency
Teardown: What’s Inside a Christmas Laser Projector?
Thanks raatgift and frutiger.

It seems that the single particle may not be alone in the universe and that there is a vacuum entity that the particle could be depending upon. I'm not sure what forces or other properties the vacuum imbues the particle. Traveling along a curved spacetime wouldn't imply a force on a neutral particle, would it? I'm curious what properties of the particle the vacuum would change over time. I may have to dig deeper into the math to find out. I don't want to burden anyone with my questions.

My lay observation was that many of these properties are built up from relations (functions) between two points. The equations for distance have two points, velocity depends on distance over time, inertia depends on velocity. It's difficult to imagine what the other point would be in a single particle universe. It's why I wonder if there would be inertia in a universe with one particle. These concepts seem to spring forth once you add another particle, which causes me to think there isn't inertia per se, but a relation we observe that we call inertia under the condition of having a point moving relative to another with a certain mass at a certain speed. Useful no doubt, except perhaps in single particle universes. Similarly, if we have a party balloon and we take away all the gas and balloons in the universe except for one molecule of nitrogen, do we still have pressure? My answer here is not really, not practically, because these forces spring forth from the context of having multiple molecules. It's a helpful concept for use in the case balloons, tires and pipes, but there doesn't appear to be such a thing as pressure that exists in the universe independent of the particles within it.
Shouldn’t this change US Mideast policy immediately? My guess is that planners don’t believe this to be true.
No it’s not.

Unless you think of a heroin addict as simply ‘enjoying a well designed product’.
> but software engineering doesn't seem to fit in this category

I was casting a significantly wider net, but you're correct wrt software-related fields. Moreover, women used to be far more prevalent in early-"IT"/operations than today, a shift that happened really quickly - a generation or two, depending on where you like to start counting. Shifts like this (they've happened elsewhere, too) is one massive argument against the "women just don't like math" silliness that always pops up.

> As far as classic economic theory goes, the argument seems to be correct, it's just a poor predictor for what humans will do.

Absolutely agree. That's the general thrust of my point overall.
That's fairly true, although I suspect the reason for the press' attitude towards Trump lies in the ratings/advertisement-driven nature of media. I don't think they're necessarily being held to different standards. Trump's daily tweets are cannonfodder to any (faux)journalist whereas Obama rarely gave anything for the media to criticize, which is why they harped so much on his birth certificate.

To your second point, I think the sheen of Obama's Presidency is definitely beginning to fade a bit. His failure to truly effect change in the Arab Spring showed amateurism in foreign policy. If there's any irony, it's in the Nobel laureate selection process (at least for the Peace prize); Kissinger won the damn thing in 73, which should tell anyone that the whole award is a farce.
rcnn is two steps and ssd is single step.
You're already seeing utility scale battery storage displace the most expensive oil and natural gas peakers who operate less than hundreds of hours per year (Tesla has an additional order in Australia, and a new order in New Zealand after the press from the Hornsdale Power Reserve [1]).

The winners will be renewables, battery storage owners who can arbitrage, and technology companies who can arbitrage using distributed resources in partnership with owners of those resources (ie Tesla and company).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Wind_Farm#Hornsdale_...
There are tax incentives in California for used electric cars?
Ok, thanks for helping me think some of this through, but I'm still skeptical.

It sounds like this wouldn't be very useful for just one or two transactions, because to open a channel it requires a real bitcoin transaction, and then LN transaction fees on top of that.

So instead, it would only be useful if people plunk down a large amount of bitcoin in order to conduct a large amount of transactions. So you'd have a huge amount of money tied up in this network, and people would be spending it as if it were real bitcoin when it isn't, and the double spending problem is truly only solved when the channels are closed.

The only guarantee against double spending is the blockchain.
"Outshining the master is super-unemployable"

Any founder worth a grain of salt, i.e. one you'd want to work for, realizes their weaknesses and strives to hire people smarter than they are.
This was a highly contrived test - an interesting point to note is that they don't talk about how long it would take new nodes to perform an initial sync if there were weeks / months / years worth of gigablocks in the chain.
Surely this is in breach of Nvidia's updated EULA for GeForce drivers?
Italian village? Where you from? Romania?
OP is slightly incorrect about two way data binding. Vue doesn't have two way databinding in the same way that AngularJS does.

Vue's "two way databinding", i.e. v-model directive, is actually just a syntax sugar that's equivalent to adding an event handler and a dynamic property on the value/text of the element.
In my opinion, Google already is evil--they are pushing collectivism, which I wholeheartedly disagree with. And they using mass surveillance in a grossly unwholesome manner. It would make the East Germans blush, quite frankly. Nobody in human history has gone this far. Plus, their collectivism is a least-common-denominator approach to the Chinese market! It's dangerous for all kinds of reasons. They are trying to crush dissent internally, too.

I don't care to live like the average Chinese person, sorry Google.

Apple is a weird case, too. Corporations optimize around profit and don't concern themselves with individuals. Mass market items are one-size-fits-most, and if you look at Apple products, you still see that.

There's not much left in the tech world other than Linux for people who don't care to be a counter-party to tyranny.
I don't see how that works either. People know that 20% is out there just waiting to move the market so that has to have an impact on spot prices which either means that buyers or sellers of storage (or both) are getting a bad deal. Again, why would they do this?
Assuming the reason you're doing an RMA doesn't preclude you from reverting to OxygenOS
Ask HN: Unbiased tech review site
Any website or YouTube channel which provides unbiased tech reviews, not just phones but speakers, monitors and the list goes on
MX920 won't print in black and white when color cartridges are empty
Ah I see it now, thanks!
I'm particularly susceptible to writing crap commit messages so I really appreciate this article. I've found it very helpful to focus on smaller commits in addition to well-thought messages. Few things are more frustrating than trying to locate a particular change via a commit log and not finding it because I was lazy.
If you watch the video at the end, you'll see that they actually exploit the fact that CMOS pixels are read out sequentially and use the data from each row to extract surprisingly decent high frequency data from even 60 Hz video!
Minus Elon Musk ... like who are the big players though?
But there's the chicken-and-egg problem. IM was solved for a long time, yet the masses didn't adopt the FLOSS version, because that required everyone switching at the same time.

Yet if people get to use the platform anyway as a secondary device, this could get these tools a significant steady user base that might grow to critical mass if/when a security/privacy scandal happens, disparaging the stablished players.
They article says they were able to use the rolling shutter on standard cameras to extract data at a much higher frequency than the nominal framerate would allow.
> Maybe a bit off-topic, I wholeheartedly agree with your teacher [...] it's very common for there to be a single trigger that starts the whole thing. Everybody "knows" that the first world war started with the assasination of the archduke Ferdinand, but the causes were many

Yes! That is exactly what he tried to make us understand!

I loved that teacher. To him, learning history was not about memorizing dates and places[1], but understanding causal relationships. Also that us Germans had kind of lost our historical memory after World War II.

Also, he taught me the important lesson that two people can have diametrically opposing opinions (I was very left-wing at the time, he was "conservative"[2]) and still respect each other as human beings and acknowledge that the fact I disagreed with him on some important issues did not make either one of us an idiot or a bad person. When I look at the people often "debate" on the Internet, I think lesson might be more important than anything else he taught me.

[1] Those are important, too, obviously. But knowing the exact date World War I broke out was not nearly as important to him as understanding why it broke out, and why it would have broken out sooner or later, even if Archduke Ferdinand hat not been killed.

[2] Note that "conservative" in Germany does not mean the same thing as in the USA. My teacher was, for example, vehemently anti-Marxist, but he also pointed out to us that Marx's analysis of capitalism and its inherent contradictions was spot-on in many ways and still very relevant today.
The article talks about this. The rolling-shutter effect means that you can get information out at higher than frame rate.
> I understand they only run signed boot loaders / kernels / etc., but that was also true of the PS3 and that was broken wide open some years back ...

That was due to security flaws in Sony's software, though. Apple's software may have security flaws, but if it does, the flaws apparently either haven't been found yet or haven't been publicly published by anyone who did find flaws.
Part of the reason Bitcoin's value exploded the way it did is probably because stock market valuations have been looking rather frothy lately; there's a lot more money out there looking for good uses to which it can be put than there is actual investments.
The idiot libertarians are the only people actually using cryptocurrencies for anything other than speculation.
I can get a 2014 Nissan Versa in good shape with 60,000 miles for ~$7,000 here, so the maintenance and fuel savings would have to be more than $3,000.
That's why I wonder why it gets so hyped. Many of those ideas get sold as if you can guarantee correctness of everything, solve every problem once and for all. But nobody thinks about the problem that you can still manipulate the data before it is in the blockchain.
Yesterday?

If you only need typical commuter distances (less than 50 miles per day), then it's already practical to switch today. Go buy a Bolt / Volt / i3 / Leaf / Zoe / whatever. Used ones are already around, and reasonably cheap.

It's only really the edge cases that aren't super practical right now. (i.e., 'what about roadtrips?', or 'what about rural lifestyles', or 'what about cross-country trips', 'what about hauling a lot of freight', etc).
Can you be more specific? There are "big players" in utility solar/wind generator installation, utilities themselves, battery storage manufacturers, etc. I'd like to be as helpful as I can be in explaining, but I need the question constrained.

There is no cartel that "owns" a distributed generation and transmission future. Transmission systems operators are typically non-profits, utilities are heavily regulated, which leaves opportunities for generators (solar, wind, natural gas, batteries), residential consumers (rooftop solar), and industrial consumers (load shedding, batteries for reductions in demand charges, on-site colo generation).
If you hamstring them, they're less profitable, so they have less to spend on acquisitions, so the expected value of creating an innovative startup decreases.
limiting the minimum practical transaction size

If the minimum transaction fee is X then the minimum reasonable transaction is ~10-20x. Based on current fees you can't do 0.0001 BtC transactions, thus it fails one of the primary goals and the entire value from irreversible transactions.

Really this get's to the hart of irreversible transactions. Without artificial limits like the current 1MB block size transactions take meaningless amounts of computation and bandwidth and so they should basically be free. It's really oversight which is why Visa can get away with 30cents or more for what take a computers well under 1/1,000th's of a cent to maintain.
I agree that if you have “tangible” evidence of a fact it makes it easier to disprove a claim. I would still be wary of this logic, as chain of events can be unintuitive as well.

For instance some politicians make a bold move that has clear and immediate positive effect. Yet if it has huge indirect and long term consequences that only surface once they are out of office, from your perspective they will get all the credits and none of the blame.

Having different perspectives from “experts” is in my opinion important. The problem is of course to find the right experts, and to have an insight on their limits or their biases, which is usually the beginning of become a kind of expert yourself.
Disagree. You can anonymize and aggregate data such that any data that could deanonymize would also allow you to fully reconstruct what you're looking at. Then you aren't adding any information.

As an example, a list of Google searches, aggregated at the minute level, is a useful dataset, but it won't tell you anything about my search history unless you already have my search history, in which case you already knew the answer.
I pay around $1/mile to drive my (rather new) ICE car. Of that, less than a quarter is fuel. The majority is value depreciation. I haven’t seen any detailed calculations of EV ownership costs but I think it looks optimistic to hope for half the cost.

Or was the “half” just the marginal cost of the last mile driven and not the TCO per year divided my miles driven?
Its a good question. I think Tesla is on to something with home Solar re chargers though. If we transition to a model where every (or sufficiently many) homes rely on solar power to generate electricity, the increase in EV's wouldn't much change the demand of electricity from the grid. That seems like a great solution to prevent the grid from being the bottleneck for the growth of EV.

(With self-driving cars I see an even better future: drive your car to the office, then indicate its not required for the next 8 hours. It searches for a nearby solar recharge station and drives itself, charges itself and returns by the time you need to leave. Seems like Sci-Fi right now but oh well... I can still dream )
But, but ... "the children", "the poor". Someone has to protect us from all these blockchains, stealing our money!
Sometimes I just want to open a shell and run an exe. With powershell you need to run a command which runs the application. I gave up after that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1673967/how-to-run-an-ex...
Fraud protection is referring to protection against double spending and protection against chargebacks - it's not the same type of consumer protection that folks are used to with credit cards. However, it's worth noting that this type of consumer protection /is/ possible and can be built on top of the system using reputation and escrow services.
And here[1] is Woodhouse's coherent latest reply as of a couple hours ago on the issue, which explains for all us in the peanut gallery (his words, which I think are spot on) exactly what this is about, why it's included, how it actually affects the situation, why it was put forth at all, etc.

It appears much less sinister than Linus was insinuating, but Linus has yet to reply.

1: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html
I sense great pedantic joy in the text. One of my personal rules: When people are enjoying themselves I must figure out why I'm missing out. If I can just hold onto 1% of the joy I can usually expand it later on my own.

Its not that I have to make my own candles and my own candle holders then burn them for specific purposes - but I do know how some manage to enjoy that process.
You seem to be arguing about whether or not the tax cut should be popular, which is completely different.
China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ (and it seems to be working)
As soon as you have somewhere to charge your car? Driving electrics is already cheaper today than driving a newish ICE car.
Abstain from candy. And coke. And checks article again bricks.
> Motivation: You know why ;)

Yep. We love to kick ass, break things, and have fun. We don't give a shit about the rules. If we can get away with it, other people like us think we're cool. Did I leave anything out?
I wouldn't suggest this as an explanation at all. Another, equally-plausible explanation, is that retail investors are looking for the next BTC before its price pops.
I don't think giving up at this point is something I would do in your position. You're pretty much primed when it comes to interviewing. Not sure if it's kosher or not, but I'm curious on your background, experience and what your resume looks like.

Also, how did you come across these 30 interviews?
That's a good point, but in my experience the founder interview usually takes place last, and only if you've been green lit by the previous interviewers.
Most of the “investments” in “stability” of the region have payoffs in the many decades.
I was surprised to learn that the book had been banned in some libraries, although in hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have been. It would explain why I didn't know about the book until sometime in my late 20s.

Reading it, it was immediately apparent to me that it was a cold war allegory, which was a bit of a surprise to me. I didn't recall Dr. Seuss books having much in the way of sociopolitical commentary, and I still don't, outside stories like Yertle the Turtle or The Lorax. If the politics apparent in Yertle the Turtle went over my head as a child, it's possible that other allegories went over my head as well. I should go back and read those books again.
When these findings came out in November, SciMag felt the results were less promising.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/blood-young-people-d...
Which is very unfortunate in my opinion. Powershell does the UNIX philosophy better than the equivalent traditional toolset by a wide margin.

Bourne shell is a clumsy, ugly, footgun-laden automation language and the toolset uses text formatting and parsing in its piping io. The whole thing could really stand to be rethought.
I dislike the title here: Pain isn't necessary. The path evolution took - why pain exists makes sense - but the author's statement in the title is absurd.

I can easily imagine a future where we have obsoleted pain as a communication channel. Pain is a neurological version of a healthcheck system and not even a particularly good one; it's slow, has no off or way to silence false reports, and lacks context. Pain doesn't tell you what the problem is; only that there is a problem. Any engineer who had to deal with such a low-bandwidth protocol would be complaining about it loudly.

Pain is not necessary. And I hope it is replaced soon.
This email helped me turn my internship at a startup into paid employment
Is this article satire? How is blatant corruption like this a thing?
Same with pret-a-manger in London.
Everyone pronounces 'pret' to rhyme with 'let', although most people know the correct pronunciation (more like pray). No-one even attempts the 'manger' part.

Apparently in Germany it's just the opposite: they go out of their way to pronounce things the 'correct' way, as they're pronounced in the native language.
The blockchain has solved one real-world problem—making ransomware practical.
Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers
> By a guy who is arguably not an expert at the issue

Linus is the defacto expert on the Linux kernel. His familiarity with the kernel and long history on these issues gives him the credibility to say a patch or code is completely nonsensical.

This isn't Intel's first rodeo. They know what is expected and they continue to play games with their code. If they are pushing garbage then there's a very good chance they know it's garbage.