skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, flow looks like a very powerful WYSIWYG based automator on their demo I just watched. Like they took the best of IFTTT and then baked it into business logic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKWKJc4b4c

I've seen a handful of these over the last few years, but this one does look like it hit the right UI/UX spot.
If this were Stack Overflow, your comment should be the winner.

Yes a typical nuclear power plant would average 1 GW, so to me, the smallness of the coal plant and its exorbitant price should be the core facts of the article.

Maybe due to the remoteness of the location, they couldn't build an offshore wind farm and send the electricity over the grid (although I'm skeptical that they put enough energy into exploring this option).

Someday we'll probably be drying algae, hemp, switchgrass or peat as feedstock for these legacy fossil fuel plants.
The Titan's Shadow
I'm interested in seeing how the section about "Future branch prediction methods" (page 17) will change in our post-Spectre world.
The market segment of "people who are willing to pay a premium for computing devices" is pretty vast, isn't it?

Most people would be fine with a $200 Chromebook, $500 bare-bones Windows notebook, or a garden-variety PC from 2007 but millions of us choose to pay more because we value the additional things that newer, more powerful computing devices give us.

Lots of professionals and enthusiasts gladly pay large premiums for higher-spec gear, even when the improvements are quite small, because those small improvements are enjoyed over many thousands of hours of lifetime use.

Perhaps more to the point, you already see gamers paying premiums for higher-specced memory to enable their overclocking and tweaking endeavors.

So I definitely think there's a market of people who'd pay more for ECC...
Nope. That wasn't why the second Iraq war was declared as your own article says:

> The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

Nobody ever claimed Iraq had no WMDs, since that was in no small part what the first Iraq war was about. The claim was that Iraq was actively developing WMDs and that the US+allies had to intervene in the 2000s, a claim that has been debunked heavily.

I'd go so far as to call it an established fact that no WMD program existed that required international intervention in 2003. Most of the evidence otherwise has been debunked, and no additional evidence was found during the war itself.
> I feel like when ever you need to put that much money into ?an idea, it’s likely not an effecient use of money.
For instance, if you invest in 200 startups at $5m each, you’re more likely to get better returns, than betting almost $1b on a single company. There’s higher risk with the one company (probably).

There are fewer entities that can place bets like that, which means that it is unexplored and likely has more opportunities. Seed funds with $20mm are a dime a dozen.

With this being said the failures are much more catastrophic when such investments are done blindly, without fundamental market / technology forces (e.g take a look at Theranos or Better Place). I believe this is what you are alluding to.

Good investments in this $100mm + category are precisely justified in terms of demand and precisely justified in proof of technology execution -- they are largely for scaling technology to fit a known demand.

A fundamental paradigm shift happened in the past decade which Peter Thiel describes as "moving from the world of bits to the world of atoms" ... this necessitates larger capex to win. With software the scaling costs are constant, with atoms -- they become linear.

This paradigm shift was driven by mobile technology and AI ... so the world is completely different from the days when spreading 10 $1mm bets was a solid strategy. One of the fundamental problems with applying past intelligence is that it was built on top of a different world.
In a Blue Ocean, Your Users Are Somehow Hostages – Stockholm Syndrome?
I just finished reading Ted Kaczynski’s (the unabomber) book Technological Slavery. Yeah he was a domestic terrorist who most likely hurt technological reform more than helped it, but there were still a lot of good points related to this post.

The more we rely on technology the more powerless and less free we become.
An awful lot of humor is either really ugly stuff or vacuous. Either of those violates the guidelines here. Trying to be funny without being either ugly or vacuous sets the bar pretty high on what you can successfully joke about.
Those assertions are invariants so that the test fails with a meaningful error message rather than raising IndexError or what have you.
An argument from authority is a fallacy when you assert authority from irrelevant credentials, e.g. when someone uses the fact that they're a scientist to lend credibility to their claims about climate change, even though they're an economist.

That doesn't apply here.
> The problem with languages is when the type system isn't strong enough in some cases, but too strong in others. It would be nice for prototyping to use `var` and let the compiler figure the type out. However it would be awesome to write a method that says position 1 is a number between 1 and 100.

Out of curiosity, which of those two cases do you think of as having too strong a type system? To me, both of them (type inference and numeric bounds at the type level) seem like they require a stronger type system to fix, not a weaker one.
Here are the top sports leagues with revenue summed by sport (in Euros). Soccer is far ahead of football. [1]

Ice hockey is surprisingly lucrative.

Sport "SUM of Revenue (€ mil)"

Association football (soccer) 32,412
American football 11,394
Baseball 10,868
Basketball 6,658
Ice hockey 5,495
Auto racing 2,491
Australian rules football 754
Rugby union football 710.8
Twenty20 cricket 480
Rugby league football 414
Canadian football 200
Handball 103
Grand Total 71,979

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_le...
This article has no citations for the history/use of the term. It was largely written by a single editor over a decade ago.
I use Buttondown also. It is not full-featured compared to MailChimp — I wouldn't use it for serious marketing or ecommerce — but it's beautifully streamlined for the purpose of maintaining a simple newsletter.
To be clear, my point is not that Football is boring -- I like to watch it now and then when it's a close game. It's that without the government sponsorship, the sport and viewership would be significantly smaller, probably about as popular as rugby.
I'm a fan of Grokking the System Design Interview, it's a great rundown of system design terms and concepts along with a guided solution to some of the most commonly asked questions.
https://outline.com/VMPhuC
The golden handcuffs are real.

From my own experience feeling trapped in a job that makes significantly less than $500k, and those of several friends, sure it may be a privileged position to be in, but the human mind doesn't care whether it should be feeling a huge mental burden.

Taking the leap and giving up a well paying but soul crushing job is hard. And it can feel really isolating and guilt inducing, when you certainly can't talk about it to your friend who is barely making ends meet and yet has a job seemingly less soul crushing. I'm sure they would tell you to go cry in your pile of money.

But work is most of life and I basically see finding work you like as a primary means to happiness. I've been scoping out interest for a coaching business around this topic lately and it seems that a lot of people have this problem. Heck, the "is freelancing the best thing ever or your worst nightmare" posts seem to come up every other day. I'm glad we are taking about it.
We are already going that route due to people stealing packages from front doors....People are buying package lock boxes.
Not a fan of Angular, am a fan of most of Material Design.
Cryptocurrency Was Their Way Out of South Korea’s Lowest Rungs
> 350 lb athletes are a product of the current rules. Penalize concussion-causing blows and I bet you’ll see players shrink to a healthier size.

So what changes first? What happens in the meantime until the players become a "healthier size"?

And why would the players change? Those 350 lbs athletes who move like sprinters would be extra lethal without protection. It's already been shown that the league wants performance before any regard for player safety, why would they back off on the big guys?
I was actually thinking of this recently. People have:

* unlimited minutes,

* limited mobile data,

* many don't use their home phone, and

* their home internet is rate limited instead of data limited

So, what's stopping anyone (besides know-how) from getting unlimited (albeit slow) data by making a call to one's home computer, and using it as a proxy to get access to one's home internet service from anywhere?

All one needs is something to hookup their home computer to a phone-line.
> I suspect that at least part of the difference is that veterinary medicine is mostly uncorrupted by insurance.

It’s mostly uncorrupted by million+ dollar malpractice suits.
I found this idea really interesting and I completely agree with you that stores want insights / actionable data instead of aggregated metrics.

Maybe start by focusing on one specific field (grocery store? fashion?), or become the technology provider to enterprise clients?
What does it mean to speculate that growth is faster than we think?
Hi. If you are into open hardware and free software don't hesitate to check https://libre.space a non profit developing open source space technologies

We've built SatNOGS a global ground station network https://network.satnogs.org with more than 100 stations online globally and 50 more in testing build by volunteers

We've also built the first Cubesat under CERNs OHL license. https://upsat.gr
Not if you manufacture the cheaper alternative.
Want to get into Flutter mobile app dev? I'm creating tutorials and other
Until death.
What's better: 15 million viewers 17 days a year or 300k viewers 365 days a year?

1 viewer who gets the channel anyway and has social pressure to watch, or 1 viewer who goes out of his way to pay to watch something on his own?

I think there is far more nuance to trendiness than the story told by a Nielson Rating System calculated decades ago.
Depending on the amount of patients, even a 1 percent point increase for $3M could be a baragin. If, e.g., everyone undergoes such procedure once in their lifetime, 1% times the population of UK is 660K people that could be saved for $3M, roughly $4.5 per life saved, which is a no-brainer.
That's the problem with JavaScript, not TypeScript. TypeScript doesn't eliminate that problem but it doesn't cause it either.

TypeScript does heavily mitigate that problem by verifying all the types that it can at compile time.
NHTSA's Flawed Autopilot Safety Study Unmasked
Work to live, don't live to work.

That is, I believe, an accurate summary of the article.
Interview with Betsy, a Head of Content and remote work routine expert
Despite demands to other countries, the US telecom providers still use Huawei equipment. The US government has made demands for them to stop using Huawei base stations but ultimately the economics don't make sense. I don't see the US government ripping out domestic equipment anytime soon, yet alone being able to enforce any kind of demands internationally.
> It's hard to find,

This wasn't my experience either on memory.net or crucial.com

> expensive

Yes it is, much more than the 1/8th more RAM would require.

> much slower

to quantify, the fastest currently is DDR4-2666 while non-ECC goes to the crazy DDR4-4700.
thank you for providing your judgement on benevolence of policies in countries and regions you admit not following. At least you're "morally right"...
The key value in minor, based on my understanding, is that it's unsafe for a package manager to automatically downgrade a package that was developed against a particular minor version because that would constitute removed functionality.
You brought this up as an "ah ha! I caught you in your absurdity!" kind of thing. However it is absolutely true that the US needs to better regulate food ingredients to shield consumers from their bad decisions. Right now the industry is set up to exploit how easy it is to make those poor decisions and become addicted to them, and most food ingredients for sale are consequently more calorific than they need to be.

(Some personal context for me: I lost 100 lbs over 2017-2018. So I have some experience both unwittingly falling in the trap and successfully getting out of it, the latter part seems pretty rare from what I can tell.)
This response will satisfy probably no one, but the recourse is to stop using their service.
Out of curiosity, if you were a foreign (but remote) startup looking to set up an office in the USA - would you recommend Boston? From the perspective of sales/finance, rather than technical, if that's important.
Can you solve the plastics problem? New prize invites ideas
What eSport gets 300k viewers 365 days a year?
I don't think you get it. For big companies like amazon they realize that the key to competing against traditional retail is to get the package to the customer as fast as possible. The faster the better. Amazon already has same day delivery but just imagine if there was a service that provided you the item within 60 minutes....and even better yet just imagine if during non-peak hours this service was even free? That's the direction we are going.
There are a lot of "missed" calls basically and some that are invented. Pass interference is the big one that can change momentum.
What are you trying to accomplish by using or emulating modems vs just a serial line?

Your best bet would probably be getting a terminal server style multiport serial card and just do PPP over serial from the client devices. The modem is an extra layer you typically don't need at all for local connections. You can get relatively inexpensive 16+ port cards and I'd expect them to be far more reliable and manageable than a wad of usb dongles.
Also a woman, and I don't mind urinals being there... as long as no one is using them. Which isn't particularly realistic if it's a normal multi-person bathroom.
True, it's not the same kind of leaky abstraction you find with other technologies. I'm thinking more about the newcomer to JavaScript/TypeScript, who has only focused on the latest language features, trying to get a grasp of what is going on in the ES5-compatible code that gets generated.

Same is true with relying on Babel, of course.
There is also uops.info which has a different, more formal characterization of latency:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04610
"Carbon neutrality" isn't about preserving known reserves of fossil fuels. It's about net-zero emissions by balancing new carbon emissions with carbon reductions or sequestrations.

Regardless, burning a tree is only carbon neutral if you actually plant more trees, and probably a LOT more trees, since the tree you burnt was presumably more mature and it still takes a long time for trees to grow. Moreso, you can achieve carbon neutrality with fossil fuels through the exact same mechanism - burn coal, then plant trees.
deflategate, peds, spygate, etc

https://yourteamcheats.com is a decent collection.
Here's a recent talk/screencast by John Wiegley that covers a lot of Magit tips and tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-k-lkilbEs
Legal Managed Marketplace Provider Rolls Out with The Florida Bar
Not to completely disagree, but I've worked mostly with web based applications, not specifically static content (with few exceptions)... I find working with React and similar far easier for mid-large applications than most of what came before. I was optimistic around ASP.Net (webforms not mvc) and in practice it was a bloated mess without doing a lot of goofy things.

If you're building web applications, it's usually easier to build with components than to think in terms of web controls. If you can separate state slightly from the components even better. This is why react + redux scales well. It makes very little sense in smaller apps, or those that are mostly static. It makes huge sense when you have hundreds or thousands of components, and a lot of application logic and structure.

It isn't just because management wants an SPA... sometimes an SPA is the best option.
Docker runs privileged by default, doesn't it? Seems unfair to put all the blame on the end users of it.
You know, never in a million years would I have expected the reply to be breathing. I can't argue with that either, better breathing is something I think I'll take a lifetime improving.
Google Voice adds VoIP feature to all users
Yes, absolutley. It does it both in browser as well as client side provided you're connected to the internet.
Pompeo's ex-CIA background coming to the fore- My way or the Huawei.
This site compiles all cheating violations: https://yourteamcheats.com/cheaters/
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55734
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"Watts per kilogram"

Why does the weight of the phone have anything to do with radiation emitted?

By this measure, you could have an extremely heavy phone that emitted a high amount of radiation, but it would be on the end of the list?
Not to the same degree. And given how much smaller these things are than a passenger car or SUV even in the event of a crash, regardless who is at fault, I would be very surprised if the other car involved would sustain enough damage to be life-threatening.

If I were Nuro, and if it isn't already factored into the design, I would purposefully design the vehicle so that the Nuro would be squished and minimize likelihood any other vehicle involved in a crash would sustain too much damage.
LENR is a much better name for a still little-understood phenomenon.

From the NASA archives:

"Low Energy Nuclear Reactions is a source of thermal energy. It is an immature technology that requires further research to determine the best propulsion system integration on a vehicle platform. LENR has the highest specific energy of the alternative energy sources mentioned at about 51,000,000 Wh/kg.3

This is a conservative estimate from the recent LENR reactor test that was conducted in March 2013."

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201500...
Yeah... "because google|apple|microsoft|ibm|facebook ..." is generally a bad idea on its' own merit. I do like React though. I like similar JSX tooling around inferno and preact too. It's just something close to what I wanted when first playing around with e4x with flash/flex and mozilla browsers.
layout and rendering can happen asynchronously in background threads, but you have to carefully structure your JS code to not read back layout properties any time soon after modifying the dom, otherwise it will block and turn everything back into sequential execution
Add up all the “Association football” from here and it’s huge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_....

Soccer is a much larger sport by revenue globally. It’s simply split into different nations + an international competition. The US is a single market so if you split things by country it tends to win.

PS: The World Cup is based on the best national teams vs using each individual team. Much like the US men’s basketball team at the Olympics vs NBA.
> Do consumers give a rats if their groceries are delivered by a person or by a robot?

Of course, they will. When savings will be passed to you.
I don't think we share enough common ground to have any further useful conversation about this.
Completely anecdotal but my daughter plays club volleyball and their main season is Winter/Spring. Anyway we had our first tournament a couple of weeks ago. I was shocked at the number of girls, all teenagers, having AirPods. I think they're the new status symbol because you can easily see someone's AirPods even when you can't see their phone.

Even more surprising is the number of adults I've been seeing recently wearing AirPods. As the article alludes they have appeared to sprout overnight. Now I'm seeing them everywhere. I'm also noticing more and more Apple Watches. Maybe they're related? Whatever it is I'm seeing them everywhere.
It seems to me that your point was exactly that it was boring and that its popularity is due solely to US government propoganda. It seems that way because that's exactly what you said. I just don't know how you escape that given what you wrote:

>For anyone who has ever wondered why American Football is so popular in the US in spite of being fairly boring to watch (and in spite of being fairly unpopular nearly everywhere else in the world), the NFL receives significant funding every year from the US Government and is part of the PR strategy to promote military enlistment as a patriotic act (1).

>I'd argue that many Americans view watching football to itself be a patriotic act.

And now we have

>It's that without the government sponsorship, the sport and viewership would be significantly smaller, probably about as popular as rugby.

Where did you get this idea? The military stuff is very recent and does not in any way constitute a large portion of the NFL's revenue. You're just making things up to fit your own notions of how the world works.
Not who you're replying to, but I wanted to say I respect you for offering thoughtful, measured responses to what seem to be throwaway comments from internet alphas who couldn't resist projecting their own biases and stereotypes into their replies, simply because you happened to mention your ex-spouse was a woman.
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Excellently named!
There are fundamental challenges primarily regarding excess liquidity, which SVF is a reaction to but not a solution to. There would be no data to suggest that SVF is better at this, but we can recognize their utility in the market without being required to prove or disprove these claims.

SVF is a vehicle to deal with excess liquidity from central banks, who have pushed everyone out on the yield curve by flattening the yield curve. The primary way to flatten the yield curve is by purchasing short to long dated government/municipal bonds, and short to long dated corporate bonds, until none of that looks like an attractive investment (overbidding on bonds makes their ROI lower). These purchases are done with newly created money, which is now in the hands of the prior owners (financial institutions) and also the issuers (governments, mostly investment grade corporations).

Because society itself is not comfortable purchasing riskier assets, at the speed of which the addressable investment landscape demands it, SVF collects this capital and deploys it in riskier private equity. Keeping the money in circulation better than without SVF existing. This behavior is the point of why the central banks dampened the yield curve with new money, to force people to make the money circulate instead of sitting so passively in bank accounts or holding government bonds.

SVF is a reflection of reality, which required the vision of independent people and the assertiveness to form the deals and do it. This is completely independent of acumen deploying large amounts of capital, and should be seen as a natural progression of capital formation. SVF's shouldn't be seen as an outlier in deal size 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, if the money supply is able to continue its expansion at a similar same pace. People will get used to it, ideally wages increase or the benefits of the deal flow reaches a broader population.
I'm not sure when/why tabs should be an issue... it depends. To me it's a difference between localStorage and sessionStorage for the most part.
I'd like to be able to easily support the kneelers without regard to a decision to watch or not watch the NFL.
That's absolutely wrong. The main revenue stream for the NFL is advertising, not government subsidy.