skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point about intermediaries is that you are paying more to use Bitcoin than I am to use my credit card, and getting a lot less for it.

COGS: $10.00, retail after CC markup: $10.30. I get a 2% rebate, so I paid $10.09, and for that $0.09 I get a one-month interest free loan, chargeback abilities and numerous warranties.

COGS: $10.00, retail after CC markup: $10.30. You have to buy the $10.30 from an exchange for $10.51 (assuming 2% fee). You then pay another $1.26 for the BTC transaction and get back nothing, for a total of $12.07. That means your total fees paid are 23X the total fees I paid. No chargebacks, no warranties, no loan, 23X higher fees. Then, you have to report your cost basis to the IRS and can't do your taxes easily. That makes your payment method inferior for any normal, legal purchase. That's one of the reasons buyers don't want it. Sellers don't want it because it exposes them to enormous FOREX risk.

Yes, it's hyperbolic, however the fraction of businesses accepting BTC is already practically zero and falling, it's not unfair to round it to zero. Otherwise we would just be happy with Overstock.com gift cards as a medium of foreign exchange. After a 2% cash back rebate on a credit card their cost is negative.
France is more like 80% nuclear.
Yes as we are doing this as a side project, we couldn’t spend too much time on the auth and other infrastructure features but we understand this can be a problem — sorry about this!
> The highest point of the flight recorded by the flightradar24 is 8600 ft AMSL which gives the plane's altitude of around only 1000 ft at highest!

Not to be pedantic, but altitude is the distance measured from MSL, height is measured from the ground. So their altitude was 8600ft, their height was ~1000ft.
Experiments like this are almost guaranteed to produce a result. Let's take:

- The worst off population (individuals hospitalized for brain damage)

- Image them shortly after they "stop drinking" (within six weeks)

- Using a very sensitive technique (MRI)

So ok. It would be nice to understand the truly long term effects, since that is what everyone will care about.
Not a single mention of Bohemia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia
If only we lived in a universe where there was an easy to find and ready to use dockerpack ruby-node. Oh wait.
Rearranging operands with their operations is commuting.
Rearranging parentheses is associating.
Yes, floating point operations are also not in general associative.
I don't feel strongly one way or the other to be honest. It looks nice but it's not a syntax that I have been wanting or needing. If it enables people to express themselves better through code, then I'm all for it.

I think as far as Ruby goes, I don't like the idea of introducing a new abstraction for something that already has a solution; however, I wouldn't villify someone for using it unless they wrote something that took a large number of arguments.
He just asks government to make some laws so he can just obey them and forget about the whole thing. He can't figure how to be good so he asks for explicit rules to be legal. Because business only needs to be legal to continue.
Or Pocket.
>Testing against betas can cause regressions for non-API reasons .

if the regression is not listed on the behavior change list, create a ticket on the beta bug tracker to determine if it is intended or a beta bug.

What in this is not ok ? That's what I have been doing in the past cycles and have had no issues. I can't speak for all the usecases, but that's a reasonable process.
The Burden of Proof: Why People Must Support Their Arguments
> That’s just not how that relationship works.

You're suggesting this is an unrealistic example? The tool is far from elegant enough to facilitate such a reunion, but I can count a handful of such estranged father/son pairs for which the right mediation might help.
> transmission grids are built to handle peak demand, and a doubling or a tripling of total electricity use does not mean a doubling or tripling of peak usage.

Well, in theory no. But in practice, if you look at the duck curve [1] of any electrical distribution system, you find that the difference between lowest and highest load during the day is pretty small, maybe 30% of peak load. So really there is a very limited potential to be had by smoothing out the curve, maybe you can get a 20% increase in total electricity use, but certainly not a 200% increase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

> What is the amount of money spent each year on maintaining and upgrading oil and gas infrastructure? For that matter what is spent maintaining the existing grid?

Annual maintenance cost for the US T&D grid is $40 billion. We're talking "increase it by a factor of 10". If you assume the power companies pass this cost onto customers with zero profit margin, it's an increase in the electricity price of 9 cents per kWh. Current national average price is 10 cents per kWh. So it's doubling the price of electricity, while saying "we will use 2x-3x as much of it". An increase of 4x to 6x in your electricity bill.
A documentary on one of the german channels said the same some months ago... .
I was clicking this hoping it would be something on programmers making music, like with Sonic Pi.

I feel tricked. xD
Actually Draw on Top now has its own "bubbble API" in Android Q.

So it took a lot of time, but finally this is going to be formalized
It's not a tech thing. "Small/big government" / hegemony / balance of power is an age old debate.
Ok, I can agree with this :)
A more interesting question is, how do you do spellchecks lazily and efficiently on arbitrarily large documents that's being edited in real-time? Rerun on modified sentence? Paragraph?
I'm confused - what is the alternative you are advocating?

Said micro-service is coded in X, requiring Y libraries, etc.

Docker satisfies packaging all of that together, removing host-OS dependency hell (who the fuck wants to go back to that stupid shit?)
GitHub recebtly introduced a domain verification system for an unrelated feature, they should really integrate it with Pages.
A fork can be made with any amount of hash power, it doesn't need to be the majority. A fork happening doesn't mean it will be followed, or even contentious.

51% attacks do not allow double spending on the blockchain. If a block is overwritten the attacker may choose to change the destination of their own transactions for that block, but the previous spends are undone. This is why merchants wait for multiple confirmations. Typically 6, which would require a 98% attack to undo.

At this point it'd take a nation-state to produce that much of bitcoin's hashpower, if it's even still possible.
It's a common issue especially with technical people. Their identity is tied up in things they know about the world and how things work. When you point out that either what they know is actually false, they know less than they think they do, or that the world is changing making what they know obsolete. They get upset and then want to punish you for that.

Automobiles are a perfect example. They are complex sources of powerful knowledge. And now about 80% of that is rapidly becoming dead knowledge that confers no power.
> How environmentally sustainable is it to replace all the billions of cars with electric?

More sustainable than replacing them with more gas cars?
You're implicitly relying on a consistent left-to-right evaluation order,

That’s standard, I think.
It is so clear that nuclear is dead. The US has abandoned the only two it has tried to construct since the 1970s, after pouring in billions.

Like or it not, I don't think we'll ever see another new nuclear plant constructed outside BRIC countries.
Maybe this link will help: https://www.theepochtimes.com/microsoft-finds-backdoor-in-hu...
> overloaded operators or keywords in different contexts (C++, Perl)

Woa there, ever look at vector math libraries in C - horribly unreadable and ugly.

> too much verbosity

Verbosity describes a programs behavior without implied knowledge thus a reader of some code will understand exactly what is meant. I disagree that the definition of readability is all about how quickly you can skim source code - and ew too many words.

> And almost everybody and their grandma dislike their syntax (especially Ada's), and would prefer something less verbose.

Well, they were objectively designed to readability based on studies of other languages (at least Ada). And hey, I like it but I guess I am biased : P
I was speaking about the census because that was your example, but the concept applies to all data.

To be as general as possible, people focus too much on the negative value of data without considering the positive value. If the positive value is definite and the negative value is remote, we shouldn't let the existence of that negative value prevent us from receiving the positive value.
It's like PHP but Python, eh?
That's democratic consensus. It's not centralized. You can fork if you want.
That's a great guide.
"They" always had a voice in the same way women always had a voice in science and black people always had a voice in America. "Having a voice" which is technically true but you can't use it for social reasons, and nobody listens to it, doesn't count as having a voice.

I am not sure you have been keeping up with things. That is exactly what is happening. Say the wrong words, end your job.

Sure it happens. Does it happen a tenth as often as the times a woman gets sexually harassed in an office and is expected to ignore it as normal? That any rebalancing of power will involve some problems, doesn't mean that rebalancing is entirely bad and should be avoided, and that the people on the lower side of the power scale should be quiet and stop being uppity because the people on the high side don't like it.

> I will not let you take my or any other persons individuality and water it down to some group you define.

You just grouped a huge number of people from disparate backgrounds into "they always had a voice" to bulk-dismiss their speaking up. Why aren't you taking their situations as invidual situations with their own merits? Why aren't you willing to admit that any of them at all might have a valid point?

> Words are never violent.

Words are not physical, but that's not enough to say they aren't violent. Look at a definition of "violent" and its synonyms, many of them apply to words: synonyms: harsh, rough, aggressive, bullying, threatening, terrorizing, fierce, hot-tempered, frenzied, inhuman, heartless, callous, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, cruel, destructive, damaging, painful; 2. (especially of an emotion or a destructive natural force) very strong or powerful. "violent dislike", synonyms: intense, extreme, strong, powerful, forceful, raging"

If you can have "violent dislike" you can sure have "pitiless cruel intense extreme terrorizing callous bullying" words..
Boys trapped in Thai cave were drugged for risky rescue dives
Very nice - please add Celsius!
That's an interesting topic. I wonder if the cooling down of steel in a steel mill can be used to increase the temperature of the smelting pots.
Does anyone use this Gmail GTD setup with `Multiple inboxes`?

http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...
I used to work at American Apparel, and people would try to get an "influencer discount" a few times per week.

I don't blame them for trying. Many of the "influencers" were women in college or their early 20s that just wanted to buy cute AA clothes, but could't really afford to pay 2-3x what stuff costs at H&M or Forever21, so they were hoping selfies could be used as a coupon to save money. I would totally do the same; worst that could happen is someone says "No" and my pride is a little hurt for a moment, but then everyone moves on.

The only really annoying influencers were the entitled ones who acted like they're Kylie Jenner because they have 1k followers (which are easy to fake in the beginning with free trial bots or follow4follow apps to cross the "1k" threshold quicker). Some of them would be straight up mean. Plus the regional manager would get mad after seeing too many discounts being applied in the daily closing report for items not on sale or promo. I think if someone brings up getting a discount for being an influencer and they get rejected, then they should just accept it and move on. The "Do you know who I am!", "Look at how many clothes I sell on Depop!", "You're gonna be sorry for not giving me what I want" customer is never a fun one to deal with. Then a few just flat out stole clothes in the dressing room then would leave the store. Working in retail was definitely not the best job, but it created a desensitization to dealing with shitty people.
Leaf+ is a little over 200 now.
72% of the population of Kabardino-Balkaria did not vote for Putin
So if it doesn't work, a great injustice could be done.
How is employing people to work in San Francisco “ruining San Francisco for working people”?
Good catch, I posted 2014 numbers. WNA says as of November 2018 that France uses 75%[0]. They note two important things though. 1) France is one of the largest net exporters of energy in the world (citing the low cost.) 2) That they will reduce nuclear output to 50% by 2035. Bonus 3) 17% of energy is purely from RECYCLED nuclear fuel.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
It's worth noting that square footage is not the only metric that houses have increased by.

Houses have more amenities (e.g. central air). Houses have more volume via higher ceilings; 30 or 40 foot foyers were mostly for the unbelievably rich before McMansions. How big are lawns? The garage? And so on.

I don't think it's everything, but it's not insignificant.
> What are they replacing their nuclear with?

Russian gas. That's why they're building a new pipeline in the Baltic.
My thought exactly... Python Hypertext Preprocessor...
Completely agree that the best and most market-friendly path is to take socialized CO2 costs and apply them to point-of-emission prices — though I doubt entrenched interests of the iron triangle variety will allow that to happen. Nonetheless, if we assume Johnson and Hope (2012)’s range of $55-$266 social cost per ton of CO2, even current capture-and-sequester methods look price-competitive, which is encouraging!
Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver
Facebook sure as hell won't create such a tool. If you do, open source it and I shall use it for sure.
There is no realistic scenario where all the remaining oil stays in the ground.

The best practical case is that it gets applied towards transitioning to renewables ASAP.

What seems more likely right now is that most of it gets burned gratuitously on Business As Usual; frivolously flying around the planet and driving archaic gas-guzzling machines without even preparing ourselves for when it runs out.

Actually stopping CO2 emissions and not burning most of the remaining oil is a ridiculous fantasy.
Anecdotally only (I don't have data), it appears so from Model 3 owner complaints on Tesla Forums and Reddit (it could be selection bias; Model 3 owners are more likely in my opinion to park outside or on the street than a Model S or X owner who will garage the vehicle). A recent software update attempts to mitigate the issue, but there's only so much physics you can solve with software (similar to how Tesla cheaped out on a ~$15 rain sensor and tried to use machine vision to handle automatic wipers, and it still doesn't work well).

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/model-3-lr-awd-does-no...
Who drives 10 hours a day on a regular basis?
A given pocket can contain many more invariants than implementations.
> the influencer will not be trying to get free stuff, but will be selling his/her audience

Yes selling their audience... for free hotel rooms and stays in resorts. It's not cash but they're still selling it.
Pretty sure it's a joke* or satire.

edit: usage of Comic Sans (or something closely resembling it) gives me the (wrong) impression that the project is a satire. Bootstrap or something indeed.

edit 2: https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__the_stack first ikwyt link is wrong https://aytwit.com/about/ikwyt

* edit 3: now that I think about it I believe the term joke is way more offensive in English than in my first language. Parody or social commentary would have been more appropriate.
Oh jeez. So you think that medium article is accurate? It would be pretty nuts if what they are saying is true. Makes something like Cambridge Analytica and whatever happened today with At The Pool be a question of "when" and not "if" when it comes to the leaking of FB user data.
The article makes no mention of who’s doing the poaching or where they’re shipped to.

I’m sure we can make some educated guesses. Hint: it ain’t America or Europe.
More like a keep-warm element on the stove top. Maybe it’s too close to the heating elements. Dunno. Would probably be fine for an inductive range.
Yeah and there are people who enjoy going to concerts, and festivals, and events.....
> 'At least they bring home some money'

This is a valid argument. What would you prefer 5 years old child to do: work at a factory or die from starvation?

These are sometimes quite real choices in poor countries.
The Myth of Self-Control
> Cool premise, but how will the recipient know what they're receiving?

I think https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints answers your question.
After downloading the dictionary from libreOffice, it seems there are only ~53,000 entries. Compared to the OED's second edition of nearly 300,000 entries, I would say that is staggeringly small.
> I think some of this is just because those of us who remember it, are starting to ache over it a bit for all kinds of reasons, one of which is because that's what old people do.

Bullshit. Don't you ever dismiss serious concerns as nostalgia and old man worries.

I remember the old internet. The old internet NEVER told me that I cannot watch content because I'm in Europe. The old internet NEVER told me that this video was taken down due to a DMCA/(insert your favourite copyright law here) claim. The old internet NEVER told me that the content is not available in my country. The old internet NEVER imposed DNS blocking on me. The old internet NEVER forced me to enter my phone number. The old internet NEVER made me solve arcane google CAPTCHAS that could not be solved by god himself. The old internet NEVER broke when I deactivated JavaScript. The old internet NEVER had cookie or GDPR banners. I could go on. Don't you dare dismiss that the web got worse in many ways.
The tendency to prognosticate without any real evidence will increase in the future.
Maybe this makes you fortunate for having kind relationships throughout your life, or less fortunate for not knowing the difficulty of reconciling a relationship.

One perfect use-case for this is for an adopted person. They don't know their birth mum and dad, and it takes intense bravery to face up to that and reach out and trust them to feel the same way as you. What if you get rejected? Wouldn't you try to make this interaction safer? What if you could even practice it knowing that the communication would be erased in a short time?

Yes, I'm talking about me. And others in my position.
Richard Stallman à Genève, Suisse (Geneva, Switzerland)
I like that you are running these numbers. However, solar and wind will be overprovisioned when costs are low enough, so they will not run at capacity when the weather is sunny and breezy. Also, they do not provide zero output when it is cloudy or calm. Output should not drop from 100% to 0% in this example.

The residential battery cost is significant, but should be broken out by home. A home generator would be more appropriate for several days of emergency power, just as now. These cost about $3,000. Anyone willing to buy a Tesla power pack should not find this cost objectionable.

Also, I would not look at popular discussions such as the one we’re having as representative of government and private sector ability to plan renewable energy capacity.
Just to build on your comment so other hobbyists don't get the wrong idea, Peltier modules are significantly less efficient than compressor-based coolers. To the tune of 30% or more efficiency drop depending on ambient conditions and your heatsink setup. It's also important to note that the overall setup for a Peltier system ends up being a lot bulkier than most people expect when they start. You need a really beefy hot side radiator and fan to get any significant cooling potential out of the system - think large CPU heatsink + fan size and you're close. If it's humid you'll also have to deal with condensation on the cold side so you don't accidentally get water dripping on your electronics.
Sure, but my point is that "Okay" things are not as good as "Great" things like spelled out type definitions.

For example look at this object declaration in Ada - you may not know Ada and the symbols associated with pointers but you will know exactly what it is:

type My_Arr is array (1..10) of Natural;
My_Fancy_Obj : not null access My_Arr :=
new My_Arr'(1..4 => 0, others => 1234);
There's an aluminium smelter a 100kms or so away from where I live which is using electricity for smelting. It does use a lot of electricity but by being such a large consumer, it gets very large discounts.
5 is highly optimistic. Real world average efficiency is closer to 2.5 (lower in colder climates) because there are a lot of variables you have to get exactly right to hit that 5 COP, and they very rarely line up.

Source: I have a Fujitsu 36K BTU cold climate 4-zone system installed two years ago to replace electric baseboard heat. [1]

[1] - http://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/products/multi/2-3-4rooms/a...
And the world would be a much better place if it was harder to impose higher costs of doing business on controversial, but legal businesses.

Which is why I support solutions that undermine attempts by a couple monopolies to impose larger costs on legal, but controversial businesses.
What the heck, how is it that I haven't seen these yet? Maybe one of the downfalls of becoming comfortable enough with the syntax that I'm not having to look up documentation on the docker website anymore is that I'm more and more out of the loop on this stuff.

Thanks for posting that!
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Note: it’s been known for awhile that the kids were probably drugged (not necessarily with ketamine), but the news hook is that there’s a new study today. I’d link to the study but there’s a subscriber wall: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1900831
You claimed "Nobody in Venezuela has bitcoin." I provided evidence of a group making a difference in Venezuela using Bitcoin, so it does refute your previous statement.

I pity someone who is so offended by a simple technology.
I think I'd want the same treatment!
It could prove its own correctness, but there is still the possibility that it has a bug that causes its proof of correctness to be meaningless :-)
This comment breaks the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) as well as the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Would you mind reviewing those?

It doesn't take much poking around to see that the project is in earnest.
Yeah, sure they don't...
It is unethical to restrict the movement of individuals based on the birth lottery.

It is unethical to eliminate native inhabitants or force them to adopt your values.