skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your version of 'where applicable' seems to be just about anything. Like you say F-22 will still use oil and not batteries, but its not just weight but ease of transportation and economies of scale of pulling oil from the ground vs. manufacturing and maintaining the whole supply chain.

Transportation in what part of the world? Please be more specific, you made it sound like countries where people can barely afford to live are suddenly going to hop onto Tesla grid and their lives change. Who benefits from this narrative do you think? Definitely not the people who will be shackled into further debts by purchasing the new paradiagm shift in energy tech.

Until you have an infinite source of energy, the battery is not truly sustainable. They all have a shelf life, maintenance and harm to the environment. There's a lot of money thats going to be involved and so will people profiteering and selling their reality and attacking people who say otherwise.
When I studied organic chemistry in high school, I vividly recall one of the authors of the chemistry textbook saying something to the tune of: its unbelievable how much stuff you can make with petroleum but our civilization has decided the best use is to burn it.

If the world's population continues to grow at its current pace, and more people are lifted out of poverty, the demand for petrochemicals and petroleum derived products will only keep increasing. And in the further future when humans colonize other planets, petroleum will be a uniquely Earth-based resource making it even more valuable.
I lived for some years with incredible chronic back pain. It really is a kind of nightmare. If you're lucky, your doctor will give you something addictive and dangerous for a bit of temporary relief. But more probably, it's just a burden you're expected to shoulder and get on with your life.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, you are correct in that very little fossil fuel is used in electrical energy production [1]. However, quite a lot of natural gas is used, which is what the GP was describing, so I think his question is still quite relevant.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/images/charts/consumptio...
Serverless migration quirks and hurdles
Strikingly (YC W13) is hiring designers and devs in Shanghai
Before assigning a valuation you’d have to ask whether this was better than alternatives. In the case of digital notaries, PKI does the same job except for anonymity and it seems like many people – especially in legal contexts – would value the notaries not being anonymous.
So you quoted my observation about the general case, then defended the OP in this specific case. Let me suggest we have a misunderstanding here.
You are comparing oranges and apples.

But let us assume that all those thousands of financial institutions and their associated infrastructure are just there to handle transactions.

Bitcoin is doing about 20 tx/s and Bitcoin mining uses as much energy as the nation of Denmark.

Visa is doing about 1700 tx/s.

> Renewables! Almost free, unlimited energy!

Oh man, I should have been reading your last sentence a bit better. With all those cryptomaniacs my sarcasm detector is a bit confused.
It's sort of ironic that a proposal not to show "likes" comes in for strident criticism on HN. After all, this very site has vacillated a few times on whether or not to show the karma score for each post, and seems to have decided it's better for the community not to do so.
csi.exe runs C# interactively as a script.
It's also often possible to set up low balance alerts including text and email. It's one of the first things I look for when setting up a new bank account (at any bank) - right after turning on 2FA of course.
Not necessarily. Right now cash is anonymous. It changes hands without any record. It has no provenance. And is a centralized currency. There was a joke at the top of the crypto reddit a few days ago about how cash is just more convenient than bitcoin for ordering a pizza. It doesn't have to be government but I would like to see a trusted owner actually own the governance of a crypto currency. Right now it is way too wild west to instill a lot of confidence. Which is great way to make a lot of money quickly. But over the long term I can see a lot of issues coming up.
Indeed. To the degree that Dr Seuss' books had a sociopolitical moral, whether or not I picked up on it depended how old I was when I (re)read it and what i was aware of in the world at the time. I picked up on the environmental message in the Lorax the first time through. But then again, "Save the envrionment, kids!" was very much a part of the zeitgeist from the late 80s into the mid-late 90s. The anti-discrimination message of the Sneetches on Beaches didn't hit me until I was old enough to realize that having different skin color was an intrinsic thing that people cared about only if they wanted to be meanies, and not simply people who'd gotten more sun tanning time than me.
> It's just a case where the common pronunciation doesn't precisely match the spelling. How about Wednesday? Wennsday. Receipt? Island? Colonel? Do those bother you too?

The difference is that I think that most people agree that 'Febyooary' and 'Wennsday' are incorrect pronunciations, whereas 'reseat' and 'i-land' are correct pronunciations. I don't know the stories behind these, but 'colonel' is fascinating: the reason for the pronunciation–spelling mismatch is that English used the Italian spelling (colonelle) and the French pronunciation (coronelle).
Crypto = cryptocurrency. Cryptography = cryptography. We may not like it but the public has decided and there's nothing we can do to prevent it.
This is a good point, but your partition space implicitly has a unique compound key (part_unique_id, part_key). In almost any case I can think of compound unique keys are probably sufficient, but if you really must have a single UUID, then you could combine these two keys to create a unique identifier.

Say new_key = <part_unique-id>-<part_key>. Now new_key is guaranteed unique across the partition space. You could consider hashing as well...although I don't recommend this since hashes don't have collision guarantees (even if the chances of collisons are small for most modern algorithms).
Because mostly its all about the coin, there are no users, only speculators... ahhh but build it and they will come mentality rules here!
100x yes. The amount of times per day I do something along the lines of

git add --all && git commend

(commend being an alias for "commit --amend --no-edit")

or

npm install && npm prune && npm run watch

This is the main reason I use git-bash as my primary terminal whenever I'm working on Windows.
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While Natural Gas was considered a byproduct in earlier times when it couldn't be harvested efficiently (and had to be "flared"), current technology does allow us to do so, and wells targeting gas specifically are not uncommon.
Resorting to calling an entire country names, because their beliefs differ from yours in a way you don't understand is "nuts". Not commenting, in that case, may indeed be prudent.
The article and the person you're responding to are saying that oil demand will peak -- start to decrease after reaching an all-time-high -- as electrified transportation displaces it. Neither is saying that oil use will go to zero.

All shipping and aviation combined -- military and civilian -- accounts for a minority of global oil use. Hummers and people in India with ancient diesel tractors are just a footnote to global oil demand. It's entirely possible for oil demand to peak without F-22s, warships, or Indian tractors ever converting to batteries.
Like this author and many here I've been dismissive of the blockchain ecosystem as it stands. Especially Bitcoin, for while I appreciate the potential of Ethereum as a platform in itself, Bitcoin seems much less flexible.

However my thinking has begun to change since reading over the technical specs of the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

The basic idea is that open payment channels of liquidity will be part of a payments routing scheme, directed from me to whatever address I want to deposit funds into. You can read about it here [1].

This system is still being developed but if it works it could reinvigorate Bitcoin.

[1]: https://lightning.network
I prefer curiosity and generosity, Viktor Frankl be damned.

Curiosity has led me to a better understanding of how large-scale systems work, which removes many of the negative emotions that people tend to have about them, which is important when you're living inside one. :-)

Generosity provides an emotionally powerful "desired state" to work toward. I think most people enjoy the idea of a harmonious, prosperous, generous world, and that's a fun challenge to work on.
As a counterpoint, the German government has been implementing its "Energiewende" (energy revolution) for much longer than that. The Renewable Energies Act became law in 2000 and brought heavy subsidies for deployment of renewables on both individual and utility scale.

And as always, government usually trails behind political movements, in this case by several decades.

As another data point, the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997 and went into effect in 2005. The Paris Agreement, its most important successor, was signed in 2015, which correlates with the timeline you suggest, but it's pretty impossible that this is connected to the events in Crimea since preparations were already underway for several years at that point.
> So will stealing regular explosive shells, and setting them off. For some reason, though, nobody's eager to outlaw bombs.

what's the difference between a bomb, and a big pile of demolition explosives?
See my response above :)
Depending on how "ancient" you're looking for, Cooking the Roman Way is a very interesting read and focuses on Italian recipes passed down among families over generations. These will tend to be shaped by history and altered as availability of ingredients changed.

Presumably, the person altering the recipe knew what the old version tasted like, so while it won't necessarily be authentic, I think it's probably better than the wild guesses made during translation of actual ancient recipes.
The 1D-case for edge filtering is already quite impressive, when done interactively.
http://david.li/filtering/
They can be both misused.
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> I wish people in this thread would stop turning the discussion into a straw-man argument about Linus’s language and focus their attention to the technical and security problems at hand.

Nitpicking, since everyone can tell what you mean, but FWIW, the phrase you are looking for here is someting like "ad hominem" or "tone argument", not "straw man"; that's something completely different.
> I picked human usage of computer language, which got me a C+ because the prof was adamant computer languages aren't human languages

It's not like he was wrong about this?
I wasn't even able to discover that!
I didn't say that it is a problem. I said you'd expect to see it (ASSUMING NO BIASES). I think you are reading more into my comment that what I wrote.
This is true of a lot of Silicon Valley startups I've seen lately as well. They make a big show of how they can do things better, faster, more efficiently, and cheaper than existing incumbents, until the government comes in and says "Did you buy your insurance? Are you paying your employees (or treating them as employees in the first place)? Are you providing benefits? Are you certified?"

Then suddenly, the SV companies say "hey, this is BS, we can't be competitive like this! If we have to do all these things then we can't be cheaper than the incumbents!"

Joel Spolsky said it pretty well[0]:

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: it’s harder to read code than to write it.

Now we've gotten to the point where people are taking entire buildings and making them short-term rentals (they're called Hotels), ride-sharing services are talking about multi-person trips to and from designated locations (it's called a bus or shuttle), and so on.

Everyone wants to be Stripe or Square and reinvent and simplify things that people hate, but no one stops to think if this is an area that's complicated on purpose or if people just think they're smarter than everyone else who came before them.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I find "uBlock Origin"[0] very effective ad-blocker (in some cases it can decrease page load by more than half)

Opera, of Firefox with "uBlock Origin" would be a very good choice for phone browsing

Endless OS [1], a free debian based disrto that comes preloaded with so much things, actually their focus/mission is to target situations pretty much like the one you described

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

[1] https://endlessos.com/
Interesting. Haven't used it for a while. I miss that OS. Last used it some years ago, so things have moved on since then. For the time, I found it good, though. And HP had pretty good quality in those days - in both hardware and software (the stuff I used, anyway).

Also, I only used it on HP business servers - the PA-RISC series, not on their workstations. Don't know, but there could be some differences in the HP-UX versions between the servers and workstations, the latter which, IIRC, were based on the acquisition of Apollo (but don't know much about that).
I would have said Python.

My rule of thumb is that if a bash script is > 10-20 lines or needs a function, then I rewrite it in Python. It's simply way more readable.

The main downside to using Python is that if you're running on a minimal system, in a container, or on Windows, Python is a large install.

But I don't see how porting Powershell to _nix solves that issue. _nix systems are more common in most web-centric companies nowadays. If you're a company that uses both you're better off installing Python on your Windows boxes IMO since they probably have bigger disks anyways to handle the large OS.
That would potentially work, but I expect that it would require a dataset of size larger than the average lifespan of a person (2.4 million google searches per minute).
Why do we need any of this? Physics takes care of it if we just hook everyone up to a grid. Electricity pretty much finds the sources and sinks by itself if you provide capacity (it’s more complicated that that, but simpler than what you are proposing). It’s kind of like saying why don’t we pump and sell well water to one another instead of using a common water supply where the runoff from all our land goes to the same pipes.
> For everybody else, a shutdown means you stop working right away.

This is not correct; for many a shutdown means you keep working entirely as normal on the understanding that when things are resolved, you'll get paid retroactively.
You used the present tense in your initial reply.
If I am given the choice between 'A world with nuclear weapons' and 'A world without nuclear weapons', I would choose the latter every time.

However, no person or nation is ever given THAT choice. The choice is always between 'A lot of countries have nuclear weapons, and yours does, too' and 'A lot of countries have nuclear weapons, but not yours'.

Given that choice, I would probably pick the former. It doesn't make you immoral to not want to be the country without nuclear weapons when others have them.
As a Syasdmin, Powershell is a scripting dream: it has tab completion for the commands and the switches. I don't feel like I have to guess or look at man pages to figure out why there's a -s and an -S. The help pages are usually written for human consumption by comparison. Saying that it is 'unnecessarily inscrutable' is quite hilarious - have you seen some Linux commands & the lack of output they give? Powershell, if anything, ins extremely verbose & is clear in when something goes wrong.

At least, it doesn't insult you like Ansible tooling with the
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YOU MADE A MISTAKE HERE BUT WE CAN'T BE CLEAR WHAT IT IS
I've always found these machine fascinating, never seen one in person though. I am surprised the molds are aluminum instead of steel. Typically aluminum molds are considered suitable for smaller runs only. If they do 100 parts a day that's 36.5K cycles per year.
and, being a subset, his point still stands.
I'm pretty sure that toomanybeersies means new country as in, "a country from which an orbital rocket has never been launched before", rather than "a country which is new".

Edit: Also, as far as I can tell, agriculture including meats is only 8% of New Zealand's economy. Hardly the "main industry". Like most high-income industrialized economies, most of the economy is in services.
His reasons seemed really strange to me. If I was considering such an offer, my decision would be based in large part on what exactly the company was doing in the space and whether I felt it was good or bad.

It's like turning down a job with government just because governments sometimes do bad things.
You’re right, I forgot to mention that people deemed “essential” in any agency keep on working anyway.
A specific implementation not being particularly optimized does not mean the underlying concept is flawed.
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Computer languages are human languages, because the purpose is to communicate to humans what you're doing. Unless you want to write raw bytecode?
It will very probably not be double caches and nothing that kind of order for requested new silicon area. Its only an annoyance because the design are not gonna change for solid Spectre resistance (at least for its currently known versions v1 and 2) for the next chips, because their design are already complete since month if not years, and yes, that would be very significant changes. But separating the caches? Never gonna happen. Anything taking the same space as separating the caches? Never gonna happen, and actually not needed.

Yes a solid Spectre fix will obviously make designers rethink their microarch in some deep aspects. But somewhat good mitigations should be available as soon as the next chips, and off-by-default is completely utterly insane. The OS is not part of the platform (except in some special cases that can disable the mitigation for performance if they like), and the platform is supposed to be retro-compatible, maybe not perfectly but reasonably. Ok it has already been somewhat less true than before in the few recent year, but lets not encourage that behavior. So shipping new CPU that are broken by default but can be somewhat less broken as an opt-in is an attempt to mask the level of the fuck-up, or maybe to avoid the creation of a new stepping. We should not tolerate that from Intel, a stepping is expensive but they have the money to do it.
Everyone except the exchanges, particularly bitfinex, and some people creating coins and ICOs... and some hackers here and there
So writing incomplete or misleading news is the solution?
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I don't think powershell is slow because of the everything-as-object philosophy. I think performance just isn't a massive objective because (possible chicken and egg) it's not that prevalent. It could very well be that object passing could be faster than the serialize-unserialize overhead, but powershell is poorly implemented
A good podcast about just this topic: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...
How Canada's addiction to road salt is ruining everything
Wonder if perhaps Intel is under classified and gagged duress from the government? There has been plenty of evidence the government is not acting with citizen security foremost in its technical and telecommunications policies.
I think that's an idealization of what it should be.

I think that's what would be best for business.

So, back at a company called Buzzr, we had an opportunity to hire a very talented programmer known in the Drupal community. Many many accomplishments, it's safe to say if we took him on, it'd radically change our day to day operations (we needed to do something, in my opinion). He really did espouse the best of the concepts of Drupal, which was perfect, since we were a Drupal SAAS platform.

We didn't take him on. There wasn't much chat - but I was able to scoop up hearsay of why: He'd shake things up too much; too opinionated.

Here's the thing though: who would he be butting heads against? Nobody really had strong technical opinions. I was really junior at the time, and would be honored to work with him.

If you're somebody that has accomplishments and a track record, you're going to have opinions and a style. And for some reason, even startups where there is open room for delegation, decision makers lean toward protecting their turf. Even in situations where they couldn't do better themselves. Even when they're desperate for help.

We're making the mistake of viewing organizations being game theorists that make the most optimal decision - that's not always the case. Organizations don't hire, divisions and teams within them do. In practice, it's more nuanced and political.

It's safe to say, the decision maker's self-preservation overshadows the business making the best decisions.

Sometimes irking the decision maker's pride - disdaining something superior to them - is enough to end the process. It's less cognitive dissonance to just move to the other 999 applications in the pile, than worry how we're going to manage a generative, creative force. The narrative shifts to finding the most "appropriate" candidate based on the hiring manager's sense of safety.

That's my anecdote.
Not sure how that launch is relevant, here.
That world was the late 90's / early 2000's. Yes, Linux was around, but every startup was buying Sun hardware since it wasn't quite mature yet. Sun was the dot in .com after all.

I actually worked at a startup that threw out a working Linux / MySQL solution in favor of a Sun / Oracle one. Because, you know, VC...
To add to the edge case -- my normal commute is 50 miles a day. But on closing day of the sale of my old house, and purchase of the new one, I had two closings to attend to, in different locations. Had to drive from my old house to the one closing (about 30 miles in one direction), then to the closing on the new house (30 miles back, plus another 20 miles to get to that closing's location). Then had to drive to the storage unit to get a few things I needed for that night at the new house (bedding, some furniture items). An electric car with a 200 mile range would have had me extremely anxious. Oh, and when it was all over, still had to drive into the office for an hour for a meeting.
If you are going to correct someone you shouldn't lie:

Current and former Blockstream employees that work on core or have worked on core:

* Dr. Pieter Wuille

* Greg Maxwell (CTO)

* Andrew Poelstra

* Mark Friedenbach (Founder)

* Luke Jr (Contractor for Blockstream)'

* Jorge Timón (Founder)

* Patrick Strateman (core tech engineer)

* ฿tcDrak (anonymous dev, but publicly support blockstream)

The list is more extensive than this, but I can't be bothered to waste my time. Your propaganda and lies are disgusting.
And you make it sound as though there is literally nothing on earth that contains chemical energy, except for oil.
A non-crypto solution wouldn't have to have all of these features. These are just some of the possible desirable ones.
Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime are being used in very different ways
Since nobody saw it all the other evidence can be summarily dismissed? Then again, this isn't what Darwin's theory is concerned with in the first place. Darwin was concerned with how animal morphology changes to fill in ecological niches. His answer was Natural Selection - which is something we've actually seen.