skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that this is about solar is diminishing the actual lessons here - don't sign contracts that are tied to your home's title. And if you find a home you love that has a contract on its title, just walk away before getting attached.
What is the big difference between ARM RISC chips and RISC-V?
Despite rigorous engineering, you still get:

Fukushima Daiichi

Chernobyl

Three Mile Island

Enrico Fermi Unit 1

SL-1

Sodium Reactor Experiment

Windscale

via https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-accidents...
Yeah, Espressif joined the RISC-V foundation, so it will be interesting to see if there is an ESP32 with RISC-V instead of Xtensa sometime soon.
That answer talks about mouse movements. Most captchas I do these days are mobile. So I don't trust this as a very solid answer.
Roulette doesn’t have that bad of odds. Blackjack under suboptimal play could be worse. Keno is by far some of the worst games in a casino.
Have you ever purchased something custom for business use?
Yikes. Talk about ignoring externalities. The energy industry is still run by oil and gas, not renewables, not nuclear. We've made a lot of progress but to think that Nuclear is a better solution than renewables is not an automatically won debate.
The Verge “YouTube copyright system is extortion”, proceeds to strike YT videos
A thousand bucks? Seriously? This is why the Qualcomm centriq arm server cpu never caught on for use with Debian, centos, or any mainstream distribution. Same problem. Unavailability of normally priced cpu+motherboard.

I'll check again in six months...
And the mouse pointer when hovering hyperlinks was super-weird!
Nuclear power is cost prohibitive. Additionally, it's hard to predict and account for that one-in-a-million catastrophe that creates a nuclear wasteland. The sample size is too small.
TBitBtn ;)

In fact in Windows 95 and everything after it simply looks totaly out of place and the Delphi documentation tried hard to dissuade people from using that and instead presented some idea of what MS's HIG say (notice that Delphi 2 does not use TBitBtn anywhere and tries to match W95 UI style very hard, even more than Office 95), obviously for a long time it didn't really work.
A lot of people are missing the point and arguing past each other here.

Bitcoin and the like couple two distinct things:

1. A distributed ledger of transactions with no single point of failure that can cryptographically prove possession of the currency itself.

2. An anarchic monetary system that serves the needs of illicit commerce and inspires the imaginations of libertarians and erstwhile goldbugs.

JPM has decoupled these two aspects. And I think it’s an interesting move. Most people either love or hate cryptocurrency because of the second aspect, but the first may very well still be a good technical solution to the problem of electronically shifting money around—even if you’re just shifting around USD.
some guy made a lot of money with poofychairs.com
My favorite way to think about this is to apply a reverse Conway's law. Architect your microservices like your org chart.

One of the main benefits of decoupling a monolithic application is getting the freedom to release, scale and manage different components separately. Each team becomes empowered to define their own practices, procedures and policies that are appropriate to their business requirements.

Have a mission-critical component that needs 5 9s reliability (auth or billing)? Great, release that carefully over multiple days with canarying across failure zones. Working on an experimental API for a new mobile app? Awesome, ship every commit.
Yeah, there are definitely still places the samples fall short! Keep in mind we're still using very naive sampling techniques.

RE Winograd: WNLI is different, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07461.pdf
It's always going to be a matter of economics.
I wonder if that will be the next abstraction layer.

A programming language that compiles down into target programming languages.

Reminds me of Haxe.
RISC-V is an open ISA created by these guys: https://riscv.org/. ARM RISC chips are ARM IP and not open. There's a lot more to unpack there, but that's the gist of it.
"Making" anything non-trivial takes a surprising amount of time. You just don't notice that it does, but the time pressure is real. Here's how I discovered this: I started tracking how much time I spend on doing various things, using Harvest. That simple bit of code that you thought would take half an hour at most? 2 hours and it's not 100% done. That soldering job that you thought would take an hour? 3 hours in total. And so on and so forth. I was surprised, frankly. Now I track every bit of work I do, and track commute as well. The results are quite eye opening.
This is a slanted screed by a guy who publishes nothing but nuclear-shilling and attacks on renewable technology[1]. I don't know why anyone would read it, except to catalog the cherry-picking, omissions, and outright falsehoods. It is basically an example of the Brandolini Principle.[0]

So, to make the ad-hominem explicit, consider the source.

[0] https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521?lang...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#641ea3afb...
You probably won't find much that will help you because there really is no "right time". I've done a lot of surveys, and what I've found is that if you're running microservices, about 25% of your engineering time will be spent managing the platform/DevOps/Not writing product code. That time can either be 25% of every engineer, or 25% of your engineering staff.

In either case, the best time to do it would be when you feel the increased speed and agility is outweighed by the added overhead. The speed and agility comes from small teams being able to operate mostly independently.

There are of course a ton of exceptions to this. For example, if you're using AWS Lambda or Google cloud functions, they do a lot of that 25% for you, as long as you're willing to do it their way, so now you have an incentive to go microservices sooner. Also, going microservices will probably allow you to scale up faster if you've done it right. So if you expect a huge spike in traffic, that's a good time to go microservices.

There is lots of good material on the pros and cons of microservices, but when to actually make the switch, or if you should start out at microservices, is a very situation specific question and relies on a lot of external factors.

The best I can say is look at the pros and cons and figure out what that costs or gains you in your particular situation.
Just put it on Saito and pay for it to stay on-chain for however long you need.
Congrats! Fellow entrepreneur, interested to hear more about your story.
Ask HN: Nazi “atomic pile” criticality in WWII?
I had seen on a television documentary where men with radiation detectors entered an overgrown tunnel entrance in a German forest, and in the tunnel the radiation levels became extremely high. I had seen photos of Allied dismantling of a prototype Nazi power reactor on Wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program#/media/File:German_Experimental_Pile_-_Haigerloch_-_April_1945.jpg

however this photo appears to show an industrial prototype and not a physics experiment, and criticality had not been achieved at this facility. So, I wondered if the underground radiation was from the original research prototype.

WWII nuclear scientists from Germany were secretly recorded conversing after after the defeat of the Nazis, and of course they were unaware of the U.S. "atomic pile" criticality at the University of Chicago. In the transcripts of their discussions, they refer to an "engine" which seems to be their term for a power reactor. I see the following statement on page 12 of the transcripts at http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf

"History will record that the Americans and the English made a bomb, and that at the same time the Germans, under the HITLER regime, produced a workable engine."

which tells me they were all aware of a research reactor having achieved criticality. Does this seem correct?
>Why can't the business suffer losses instead of everyone pay subsidies?

Because the old model of coal power plants makes people pay in other ways (pollution). Subsidies are reasonable if it means that the negative externalities are diminished.
I believe the rods were graphite, just like the moderators. Of course the problem with that was that by the time they were inserted the reactor was already out of control. All the graphite rods did was burn, which certainly didn’t help matters! Worse, after a while the blocks of graphite used as the moderator also burned, and was difficult to extinguish. What they needed (other than better reactor design) was a ready store of neutron poisons that would have flooded the reactor vessel before rod insertion. Unfortunately, by the time they were using neutron poisons the explosion and fire had already destroyed anything like containment.
Marking menus
It works very well on macOS, which is an OS that I use for a large amount of time?
830-930 ish.

I'm not a hard-working, sleep-deprived entrepreneur. I just have a hobby that requires clarity, presence, and focus for me to be happy with the results, and I've found that the morning is the best time for that state of mind.
Highly recommend the book National Security Cinema by Tom Secker and Matthew Alfred.

They trawled through FOI documents to uncover a lengthy history of US intelligence agencies having holywood scripts changed to suit their needs.

> the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles.

> Vietnam is evidently another sore topic for the US military, which also removed a reference to the war from the screenplay for Hulk (2003)

> It seems that any reference to military suicide — even an off-hand remark in a superhero action-comedy adventure — is something the DOD’s Hollywood office will not allow.

> If there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD don’t approve of then the film-maker has to make changes to accommodate the military’s demands. If they refuse then the Pentagon packs up its toys and goes home. To obtain full cooperation the producers have to sign contracts — Production Assistance Agreements — which lock them into using a military-approved version of the script.

> Strangely, Phil Strub denied that there was any support for Tomorrow Never Dies. But the DOD are credited at the end of the film and we obtained a copy of the Production Assistance Agreement between the producers and the Pentagon.

> changing the code name of the military operation to capture the Hulk from ‘Ranch Hand’ to ‘Angry Man’.
‘Ranch Hand’ is the name of a real military operation that saw the US Air Force dump millions of gallons of pesticides and other poisons onto the Vietnamese countryside, rendering millions of acres of farmland poisoned and infertile.

> They also removed dialogue referring to ‘all those boys, guinea pigs, dying from radiation, and germ warfare’, an apparent reference to covert military experiments on human subjects.

China and Russia really have no qualms about being explicit in their censorship ways, most the population are aware of it. The Americans generally stay coy and go to great lengths to hide or at least minimise knowledge of what they are doing propaganda-wise because culturally it's an embarrassment and would be politically unpalatable to a country where freedom of speech and freedom from government interference are expected.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-...
We should be absolutely clear about this: you are not getting "one month free rent." The cost of that "free" month is built into the other 11 months, as well as the difficulty of getting your full deposit back.

"One month free" is one of the oldest tricks in the NY real estate book, along with "preferential" rating.
Here’s the Aliexpress link to buy the package with wifi, LCD and camera, it’s about 40% more expensive than "taobao.com" if you’re not a Chinese citizen with ID but still cheap as: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/LEORY-Sipeed-M1-Dock-Develop...
ghost.me
Well, at least I can do simple query with SQL and Elasticsearch and on Hive.
Similar except go and ruby.

I’ve tooled around in rust a bit. I like it much more than go, but all-the-ops-things are go, so I feel that’s where I need to put my play time.

About 3 months ago I started setting aside an hour every morning before work specifically to only work in go.

It was the only way I could learn it because on the job I would just lean on the languages I knew I could develop fast in.
What I mean is that your initial outlay either needed capital or a loan. This is money that could have been invested, with electricity bills taken out of that kitty. What's confusing me here is that you've said you've been saving $2600 per year in electricity costs but it took 11 years to save $20000 off your bills. Either you've averaged about $1800 per year in savings or you've spent more than $20k on the system + maintenance, or I'm missing something. Was there some sort of tax offset here to make it more cost effective?

The point I was trying to make is that a dollar spent 11 years ago isn't the same as a dollar spent today.
Wardle has his own style for these apps. I’m personally not a big fan if it, since it looks out of place, but I guess it is a “branding” thing for him.
Totally agree that it's easier to plan a centralized system over a decentralized one, provided that you adequately fund people to maintain all the components. (And trim trees!)

But have you ever been in a power outage, used your cell phone as a flashlight, and thought, "man, I wish my entire house ran off of a battery like my cell phone?"

A home builder already plans for 95% generation adequacy of hot water -- they literally find space in the floor plan for a hot water heater, and decide how big the tank should be. If you run out, either you ration usage or you buy a bigger water tank.

If home batteries had the right safety-energy density ratio (admittedly -- hard problem; see the RFS for Energy), you could just include one in the floor plan based on 80%ile usage, like the batteries in laptops, and cell phones, and electric cars. They're just too big and expensive now.
But you can also cut curved glass with traditional glass scoring? And this has been so for a long time.
I'm of two minds on this issue, but: how can the city have good mass transit if there are no tax dollars to pay for it?
Our tools suck because there is no strong profit motive to produce improved tools.

Is it? From my experienced with tools from other industries where there is no subsidization of FOSS alternatives, I wouldn't say they suck any less, would you?
And the penalties for lying are severe, most importantly.
if you ever see the toxicology reports, and the testing that goes into U.S. prescription medicines drug-discovery, you might be surprised for a moment. There are many parts to this game. That does not negate the greed part (who was the snotty Frat guy again?) .. that part is real too.. its just not simple.

Someone once said that modern pharma is akin to modern banking, in that there are only a small number of groups that can pass all the hurdles, regulatory requirements, necessary conditions, etc to start.. then when they do, they go for the financial jugular.. Oligopoly is a word for this?

The pendulum has swung, from the bad medicines and shortages of just three or four generations ago, to the new new of high tech, plentiful, and goosed for money to the maximum...
Certainly it was an attempt to be hip, not sure if it worked.
Haters will hate! :)
> old GUI paradigms were just right

It's a permutation of "worse is better". Skeuomorphism and hierarchical organization cargo-culted as evil, ignoring that our traditional built environments work using these paradigms.

User-hostile design. Let's replace all buttons and text labels with arbitrary flat abstract icons! See also: nosql and SPAs.
I like the idea, but keep wondering what people do for illustrations. Diagrams and whatnot are best rendered in SVG if you're going the HTML route, and I haven't yet found a nice way to both draw and present such things other than standard PowerPoint/Keynote.
yeah, I don't want to be overly negative but I think this must target a very niche, possibly non-existent set of users: people who need to see all open files and sockets for whom lsof+grep is too complicated. Personally I have "sudo lsof -i | grep <port>" burned into my muscle memory and this tool just seems slower
Cobol and Community Libraries
There is no personal tax rate decrease in EB5 in exchange for the investment.
While msft did abuse their position to solidify an IE centric world, people need to realize that when ie4/5/6 were released they were dramatically better than the competitors. The problem is that post-domination they simply stagnated and so the design shortcomings start being a problem.

It needs to be repeated: at the time IE /was/ a good browser. Just like chrome today. And similar to chrome played fast and loose with web exposed features. Sometimes for the better (XHR was an IE invention), sometimes for worse (so was activeX).
Nuclear power is cost prohibitive.

Really, because it’s widely employed around the world. If you have some evidence that it’s “cost prohibitive” though I’d love to see it. Evidence mind you, not flat declarations devoid of substance.

Additionally, it's hard to predict and account for that one-in-a-million catastrophe that creates a nuclear wasteland. The sample size is too small.

Many decades and thousands of reactors on land and naval applications with only a few notable disasters beg to differ. I’m also curious where this “wasteland” comment is coming from. The worst nuclear disaster, one singular in its extremity, has led to something far from a wasteland, although quite a few people had to be relocated.

Either way, trading in the known mass casualtiesin the millions per annum, and environmental catastrophe of burning hydrocarbons, for scaremongering “what if’s” so profoundly out of touch with reality as yours is the falsest of dilemmas. The total death toll from everything nuclear, including weapons can’t match a year of deaths and illness from burning coal. Never mind mining coal, drilling for oil and transporting it and the associated sociopolitical disaster of the Middle East, the environmental harm of fracking, and the sheer stupidity of not addressing climate change now.
If skyscraper-studded Manhattan is hostile to businesses, I am really curious what a city friendly to businesses looks like....
I am reading "Building Microservices" by Sam Newman. He has got some really good insights into how to break up a monolith into micro-services.
The boundaries are between logical components of your application in your business domain. The two you identified (auth and payments) are a good fit, especially because they also rely on external services a lot.

The other heuristic to follow is how your company is organized. If you have a separate team working on a major feature then perhaps that could be its own service so they can own the full-stack.

Otherwise, stick to the monolith for the best results.
In ideologically pure liberalism, the “melting pot” is dead. We’re a salad bowl now.
The same memory model as any other shared variable being mutated by multiple threads - you either explicitly synchronize, or you just don't do it. But given that lambdas are far from the only way to get there - and those other ways are already idiomatic in the language (e.g. statics) - why single out lambdas specifically for this?

The ideal solution is to make this a part of the function type - so that APIs that do intend to invoke lambdas concurrently can mark them as such, and then the language would enforce sharing, while other APIs that do not use lambdas in a concurrent context, can use their full power.

Same thing goes for lambdas that cannot escape vs those that can - if you reflect this in the type system, then you can also support safe nonlocal breaks and returns in the former, for example. One of the early Java lambda proposals, the one by Neal Gafter, did just that, and it was awesome.
yeah, this is a good example where a temporary(?) web-of-trust could work. in retrospect, i think the cross-signing proposal (https://github.com/uhoreg/matrix-doc/blob/cross-signing2/pro...) has some thoughts about how transitive trust between users could work, but i'm failing to find it now.

I've raised a bug to track: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1886 - thanks!
Isn't the whole definition of OOP as some kind boogeyman god class with everything cramed into it, a bad comparison? Worse, this seems to be the only description of OOP used by it's detractors. A very trendy topic now.
pointy haired boss who read a couple forbes articles about blockchain succeeds in missing the entire point
Thanks for saying this. People are forgetting the effect this move was going to have on locals. I am very dubious of the Queen's polls saying things like 70% approval. A dear friend of mine does social work and volunteering with inmates and was telling me how all their families were scared as hell at getting priced out.
Or simply use the canvas api, which has super optimized graphics libraries behind it - rather than reimplementing the wheel :)

But I get that really this was a how much can wasm help performance as % vs js - you could always write an “optimized” routine and compare those and theoretically achieve something similar.
Look for domain driven design. It’s all about the data and understanding that microservices benefit from data redundancy.
If Facebook were broken up into a dozen Diaspora instances, the answer is yes. That's the whole point of using antitrust law in this way. To solve that problem.
The way I've generally thought about it and have seen it done successfully in practice is to create a microservice for each component that scales independently. Auth and payments make sense because they scale independently. You may get authorization requests and financial transactions at a different rate than traffic to your application itself.

Similarly, if you run a website that does batch processing of images for example, the image processor application would be a microservice since that would scale independent of website load. It could be that you would need to process 100 or even 1000 images for each user, on average, and it doesn't make sense to scale your whole application when a bulk of the application processing is for image processing.
But will ML companies pay link tax? Assuming ML would write/fill in forms to incorporate itself, have a conversation or two with some tax office person, and then off to the wild...

Where can I study computational law to stay ahead of the curve?
Nuclear in the US has historically been the victim of deep pocketed fossil fuel industry and their PR and lobbying efforts. Now, it's getting it from the fledgling renewable energy industry also.

Many of these environmental groups are likely funded by both the fossil fuel industry and the renewable industry. Heck much of the renewable industry is owned by the fossil fuel companies.

People forget how big and powerful fossil fuel companies are. The largest company in the US ( by revenue ) is Exxon. 3 of the 5 largest companies ( by revenue ) in the US are fossil fuel companies. Nuclear doesn't stand a chance without some real heavyweights pushing for it.
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Why both a ClusterIP and a LoadBalancer services to expose frontend 8080 as 80?

Also, no persistent data storage (no data to the store owner)? (I guess for easier example)