skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "centralization" is pretty ambiguous. Is Bitcoin centralized? Full nodes can be run on home PCs, so verification is decentralized, but only ASIC mining is profitable, so mining has become highly centralized. The Lightning Network adds additional roles, like payment hubs and watchtowers, with varying degrees of centralization.

So we can't characterize Bitcoin as a whole as centralized or decentralized. We should talk about specific roles, and the various attacks that could be performed by coordinated members within each role. Like we could talk about the possibility of Bitmain coordinating a 51% double spend attack, or the possibility of a major LN hub bribing watchtowers to ignore foul play.
That assertion is based on facts, not speculation, and I'm happy to back it up with as many facts as you like. For example:

In 1976, after the South supposedly supposedly switched allegiance, shortly after LBJ's (reported) claim that he'd "lost the South for a generation", all the Southern states except Virginia voted for Carter, a Democrat.

(Apparently there's some doubt about whether LBJ actually said that. The media may have lied to us again.)
Yes. Also, consistent, responsible use of anti-inflammatories. For example, one 200mg ibuprofen three times per day, evenly spaced, seemed to pay off more than 400mg in the morning and 400mg before bed. And, of course, you have to remember that you're still injured.

To anyone suffering RSI, get into physical therapy. They'll teach you valuable stretches and exercises that will be useful for the rest of your life.

Probably the single most important thing is this: try to deal with injury before it becomes chronic. If your wrists seem sore or you get tingling sensations, seek help before you develop an injury that's going to take months or years to heal!
Yes, I could have put that more clearly. Kiddicraft were like a UK Fisher Price of the 40s and 50s - they produced a massive range of toys, not just bricks. I think they failed and resurrected a couple of times with new owners keeping the brand name around.
> 2) Using a random LG 330 W panel on top of the Edith Maersk, it would take an array 1/3 of a mile by 1/2 of a mile in area to match Edith's 80,000 kW engine power output. Edith is 1/4 mile long and 3/100ths of a mile wide.

Back of the envelope math says we're short by a factor of ~108. We can get savings in a few places:

(1) We don't have to match the full engine output with solar. Many container ships use super slow shipping at a fraction of the power, [1] says 10% engine load. With batteries you can still increase throughput substantially when needed.

(2) Panels can exceed current ship dimensions, perhaps greatly (tow a long tail of solar panels on floats?). Let's just go for double width and length for now.

(3) Efficiency gains. We're at 20% in back of envelope above but I can get that for my house. Let's say Maersk ponies up for 30% cells.

Still some ground to make up but at least we're in bullshitting distance of claiming it's viable.

[1] http://articles.maritimepropulsion.com/article/Turbocharger-...

> thats before you start factoring in batteries for the night, structure to support the array

Presumably there's some space/weight savings in not having an 80MW engine.
There's plenty of worry over China's hacking, but it takes a back seat to the weight of the allegations against Russia and their influence in US politics.
6'8" makes him slightly above average in the NBA. Comparing his height to the world population at large does not make sense if we are comparing him against other professional basketball players, past and present.

https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/15353/what-is-the...
This would also be a benefit if only half the companies did this, then we'd stagger rush hour a bit more.

Actually it would be more of a benefit if it were staggered in the winter since lots are on holiday in the summer.

So I propose scrapping summer time and bringing in winter time. That'll confuse the cows.
How to Survive Doomsday (2016)
This point seems to imply moral imperatives should be ignored if they don't originate from the engineering department.
Thanks for the reply. Good to hear.
How a Political Machine Works: Candidates Running for 21 Seats, All Unaware
Interesting how there was a green (bias for Clinton) along the southern borderline. Do they not like The Wall?
2018 Annual Surveillance Rpt of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes (USA) [pdf]
That's complete nonsense. Have any hard evidence to share?
IIRC sets used to have instructions for multiple models you could make, which helped to support the idea of making different things. My kids want to make the model and put it on the shelf - they're deaf to my protestations.
Parasitic Vines That Feed on Parasitic Wasps That Feed on Trees
Centralize gains, distribute losses.
It's not necessary to burn your textbook over this. Just don't read the intro chapter if that's necessary.
meditation is the answer.
Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook
The link isn't affiliated, and the profile has a lot of substantial comments. My take is that the owner lost control over the account or their computer, and it's now being used to spam. Possibly a bad browser extension spamming in the background? I've never heard of these, but that's what it looks like.
Ethereum's block sizes are quite small, about 25kb per block right now.

Actually, block sizes are not limited by bytes like in bitcoin, but by 'gas'. This gas limit can be dynamically adjusted by miner votes, and the way the incentives work, it keeps the blocks not too big, but also not too small.

One feature of Ethereum is that it automatically discourages mining centralization using the 'uncle rewards' system. When the blocks increase in size (and thus put pressure on centralization as you noted), the uncle rate increases too, which is undesirable for miner profits. If the uncle rate gets too high, miner's interest is to vote down the block 'gas' limit, this ensures all the blocks can prpagate around the network fairly.
Ever heard of: many a little makes a mickle?
I didn't notice them (on my phone) until the last few, not excepting that tiny text to be anything important.

I also had no idea of the difference, but got most right by choosing the one that looked "wrong" to me, that one was usually helvetica. Someone above suggested the prevalence of arial makes it look more normal.
Should have made it more clear that I meant that in the general case not in this particular. I've never seen AFAIUI.
Rather than trying to re-invent plastics they should just be making the base stocks directly. In theory you can suck in carbon dioxide and build your own carbon chains to make anything you want.

Or they could just keep making them as they've always done. Not everything needs to change, just most things.
I recently went through same thing at our company and decided on angular. I really appreciate the overall framework architecture angular provides. React doesnt really give that
But what about the other 78 genders?
I don't understand the negative comments.

Let's suppose for a moment that we lived in a fully environment-friendly world. If a company decided to use coal or non recycled plastic, we would be now bashing them.
If the same happens in the opposite direction, we think "well, it's not gonna change anything".

It's the equivalent of 200000 cars, a 60000 people town,.. Who cares. It's nice, and ethically it's the right thing to do.
But what about the other 72 genders? This is unfair to the other 72 genders.
Hopefully they have the honesty to stick with ABS if they can't find an alternative that is actually better for the environment. One fears that, if they do find an alternative, they'll switch for the sake of public perception even though it's actually worse in terms of pollution, energy use, etc..
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17889132
Further, making plastic out of petroleum is a form of direct carbon sequestration. Carbon sitting on the floor of a kid's room or inside of a landfill is not warming the atmosphere. It is normally burnt!
I think most kids will choose screens over Lego any day. But we try to limit the time our kids spend on screens and Lego is almost always their go-to toy to play with for an afternoon. I'm always amazed at the creativity it fosters.
The actual filing:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/36a7cf14-592c-4197...
A bunch of hungover Canadians?
Obviously it's beyond the purview of the study, but I have to imagine the correlations aren't too far off for adults either.
I did this too (with a Goldtouch instead of the Freestyle), and it worked... for a couple years. Then I get RSI so severe that it took me off work for 12 months.

In my case, I think it was the bad posture, smartphone use, and laptop use in bed which continued to damage the tendons, despite the ergonomic setup I used during the day at work.
Hmm... I've seen a couple shipping related stories, but nothing container related.

This one is about tankers, and the other was about bulk carriers.
They called it superior autobiographical memory.
Kinda, but I think it's small potatoes compared to the scale of Enron and the amount of damage they did.

In any case, would love to see the folks who made the Enron documentary ("smartest guys in the room") make one about Theranos.
When react already has to be "modernized" I become thankful that I don't work in JS land. I honestly don't think I could keep up and remain happy.
Those are the two that stumped me, too
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California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country
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Doesn't seem particularly notable, they got rear ended at 15 miles an hour while essentially stopped.
That's why you gotta ignore the instructions from the get go.
I just grabbed an article that had a few sources to dig further if someone so chose. I learned about it through working in the industry.
I want to say Great work, even if it's not done yet.

The react team obviously works well together, the vision is here and as an engineer who's been doing frontend work for 15 years (using flex, vanillaJS, various home-made frameworks, backbone, knockout, angular, etc) let me tell you I've never seen another framework/library come half way close to React.

By the way, why not use this big, breaking release to start offering another way to write stateful components from functions? (ES6 classes, prototypes and anything that forces me to use "this" are still part of the very bad parts of JS, imo)
I'd love it if I could have both handset and server Android devices and they could talk to each other. Imagine running the server-side part of apps (e.g. always on, attached storage) on a bit of cloud that you own yourself.
> The new string interpolation feature is so good I don't even allow old-style string.Formats in code reviews.

String interpolation doesn't fully replace String.Format, because it does not provide a way to re-arrange where the placeholders go in the format string, which is important for localization.
Yes, one of the many reasons it is totally impractical.
Once you are satisfied with the assembly use glue, epoxy, wax, or chewing gum...[seriously]
That's pretty disgusting from an American point of view. It's unfortunate that they don't have such rights.
'Screaming nightmare': William Shatner boldly goes into VR
Trickster – Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Prometheus
The parent sounds a lot like UK Civil Service working conditions.

Where do you work? Sounds great.
Do you have any ideas for a more ergonomic way of accessing the fields? I'm asking because I'm working on an enum library for Python (shameless plug: [0]) and looking for ways to improve it, though of course it has different constraints.

[0] https://github.com/lubieowoce/sumtype
Not sure if you're trying to be intentionally misleading to "win" an argument here, but look at the stats for the top 1M, 100k, and 10k sites if you want to be honest about the portion of actual web traffic Google is able to capture detailed data on.

The fact that "Uncle Joe's Fishing Blog" with a total of 5 hits that weren't crawlers or Uncle Joe doesn't include GA, doesn't really mean much in the context of this discussion. The vast majority of traffic on the web goes to a very small portion of those 1.5B sites.
Why would you expect a step effect from abortion legalization? It depends upon current criminals dying off or aging out, which happens gradually.
They sing while they're playing and/or working at the computer.
You should read the link, these changes are less "modernizing" the API, and more doing the internals, many of which haven't changed since 2013.

In that process there will probably be some breaking changes, but Facebook has some insane number of components they use internally, so they try to never make any breaking changes that can't be automatically migrated.
Are there any differences on "prisoner" and "slave" ?
It's not a "learned" thing. Go can pull it off, because it's much younger, and doesn't have so much accumulated cruft. Eventually they will - and then they would either have to make the decision to break compatibility in some future major release - or become the next Java in a sense that there are parts of the language and the library that are warts upon warts, that no new code will ever use, and that confuse new developers, but which are needed for old code to run.
That is certainly not how fly by wire systems are designed. The FAA would never certify a design that relied on allowing software in an unknown state to access critical flight controls.

Here's how it's done:

Assertions in Production Code
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b14.html

Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b39.html

Designing Safe Software Systems Part 2
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b40.html
This is something to consider if you're buying a house, and are thinking of having kids. I wouldn't do very near to a airport where they fly planes that use leaded gas. The airport near me definitely does.
Bionicle always had an issue balancing "re-usable pieces" and "one-of-a-kind pieces". The original single-piece torso[1] is a great example of a piece that has almost no other uses.

Things slowly got better with more re-usable pieces until the 2008 a of Matorans, which consisted of 2 feet, 2 hands, 4 limbs, 1 body piece, 1 translucent head, 1 mask, and some combination of single piece weapons - most put together with ball joints.

I personally think this move from technic like "composable" pieces to ball-joint only single purpose pieces was the downfall of Bionicle, but there's probably a thousand other factors involved ;)

[1] http://img.bricklink.com/PL/32489.jpg
Also interesting to see all autonomous accident reports: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...
Your submission doesn’t link anywhere.
> Now we have open-world set of user-defined elements

Maybe this is true at Google, but I just don't see much demand for s/Web Components/Custom Elements.
The notable part is that it appears to confirm that Apple is testing self-driving cars.
Swift also has 94UL which I believe all the Cirrus aircraft are certified for and I imagine most of the other high performance turbos could get an STC for. There's also the mogas STCs if we could drop the stupid ethanol corn subsidy. Personally I'm currently working on an EAB that will run E10 without issue because I'm so sick of the 100LL shit. There's a LOT of lead in 100LL (despite the name) and aircraft operations naturally expose you to a lot of it.
Although the title is not inaccurate, we don’t have all the details yet. “Apple self-driving car rear ended” would be a more accurate report.. especially considering what comes to mind for the average person when someone mentions a self-driving car in an accident.
I will then consider in the rest of that second from my math education (public school no less) that when dealing with orders of magnitude incremental improvements basically will never get you where you need to be. Might feel good though.
wouldn't be surprised if they went to something that was unusable after 3 years and said 'its for the environment'
This method works because both languages corpuses talk about the same things. Life, death, love, war... they happen to people speaking all languages.

To translate whale song, you need data that corresponds to what the whales are singing about.
Here ya go: kris-ffdd9e150679
Not sure what you mean. React is 5 years old. Frontend development is more volatile by nature as devices changes, UX guidelines change, etc but overall React was very stable during these years.

But even Java changed A LOT in 5 years...

You always have to keep up as a developer.
I disagree with that. Every time the whitewashed story is repeated the real one is forgotten a little bit more. The article is about Lego bricks, tries to use the brick and its history to frame the story, if you're going to do that I think it should be historically accurate. That would not distract from what the article is about at all, and if it was a distraction then so is the story the way it is written right now, they could have simply omitted that part.
That is extremely interesting. Do you have any pictures and do you know exactly when this all happened?
Old legos contain toxic chemicals... fyi..
That's a valid concern, although for programming purposes I don't think there's anything of any importance missing from these slightly older models. I just bought mine about three months ago, after much research; I couldn't determine any reason why a newer model would be better.
There are, as far as I can tell, no Linux drivers for the OV2740 and IMX136 cameras (yet.)

It's unfortunate that the Qualcomm WiFi does not work out of the box. However, the fix is fairly easy, and day-to-day WiFi performance is solid: fast, stable, no issues resuming from hibernate/suspend.
Great post! I have yet to try Linux on the Go. So thank you for sharing. I'm also a huge fan of the Go.
Almost everything contains toxic chemicals. The question is whether or not they leach out.
TOYOTA was completely impossible to me. I had AGFA wrong because I'd forgotten which had which G. I got lucky on MATTEL. The others are easy once you know that Helvetica loves its horizontal lines.
which would allow people to publish fanfiction involving mickey mouse
Could you elaborate on how you find it to be a hassle? I find it interesting that the imperfection of most people's memory could be a feature.
Huh. That's interesting. I don't see any on your profile either. I've added a bug to figure that. outhttps://github.com/dschep/proven/issues/21
Technic doesn't connect with studs if that's what you meant - the life size Chiron, for example, doesn't use glue: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/bui...
Already well known in the literature.
Then cite it
Was in autonomous mode, “waiting to merge”.
Yes. Google scanning your gmail for targeted advertising. Seems Yahoo has at least fessed up to it.
You should come and try to take some Lego away from my youngest sons. I wish you much good luck and hope there won't be any sharp objects nearby. Also: up your life insurance ;)

Not all kids are different, some will take to Lego like fish to water, others don't care. In my family almost all the kids (girls and boys both) like Lego. This in spite of Lego doing what they can to destroy their image with all the fads an the horrible sets they put out every couple of years until they find their 'true North' again.
The competition is fierce, here in Montevideo (Uruguay) it's unbelievable the amount of delivery startups for a population of less than 2 million...

We have the local PedidosYa (sold to DeliveryHero), U.S. UberEats which is making a heavy bid, Rappi as well, some other local challengers...

I love the services but some are too predatory (PedidosYa takes about 20% of a delivery unless the restaurant has high volume).
By the time it gets to a jury, it's typically a lock.

But prosecutors lose plenty of cases by surrendering before it gets to a jury. Doesn't count against their sky-high conviction rate, either.

For that vanishingly small number of people who refused to take a plea and walked, go tell them bargaining was the better bet.

Bargaining wasn't the better bet in my case either, no matter how many lawyers pressured me to take one.
I think it's generally understood he went to LA in part to kick start his post playing career.

I'm curious about this, do you know of any good reading?
That's going to be a no-go with the current wildfire situation, full stop. GA is actually pretty important and the US has enjoyed a lot of benefits from having a strong GA sector. Keep in mind that the US trains the lions share of the world's pilots because in the rest of the world it's either too expensive or too restrictive (many governments don't like the idea of people having access to airplanes). Either way though, I'm going to make you defend the personal risk statement as ground fatalities from GA accidents are exceedingly rare by any reasonable metric.

There is a lot of money going into replacement engines but they're mostly diesel since the most dominant fuel in aviation is Jet-A (essentially diesel/kerosene). These have found some success in Europe where 100LL is much more expensive as the operating costs of the diesels is much greater given their complexity, maintenance needs, and initial acquisition costs.
Retool (YC S17) is profitable and hiring engineers / AEs in SF
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Because there's only so much the React team can tackle at once :)

Yes, they've said several times they want to introduce a "stateful functional components" API, but based on comments I've seen, that's probably still about a year or so off.
Bionicle was one of the worst things to come out of Lego, with Ninjago a close second. Lego really loses its way every couple of years, and then somehow they go back to their roots and they prosper.
Is this the result of the old, "Every company that gets big enough also becomes an investment firm." or does Apple really think autonomous cars fit into its portfolio of technology?
so i wonder if its like sports... they aren't paying for workers to be or stay healthy. like a football team, they are paying a handful of superstars until their bodies are used up and broken, then they can discard them for the next generation.
Amphetamines. SSRIs.
I wonder when we will see the first accident between two self driving cars in autonomous mode. Especially between different brands.