skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The gases currently used in the vast majority of refrigerators and air conditioners —hydrofluorocarbons and hydrocarbons (HFCs and HCs) — are toxic and flammable. When they leak into the air, they also contribute to global warming.

R-600a (isobutane) only has 3.3 times the GWP (global warming potential) of CO2 and for a fridge you only need about 80g. For safety reasons, the limit is 150g.

For comparison, the GWP of R-132a is 1,430 and R-12's is 10,900.

R-600a has mostly replaced R-132a in Europe.

Isobutane is of course flammable, but the operational pressure is very low. Aerosol cans also use isobutane. It's comparable to those.
Running Experiments At Auto Trader–building a fit-for-purpose A/B test platform
At Last, Scientists Have Found the Galaxy's Missing Exoplanets: Cold Gas Giants
The User Reported That BTC Is Being Traded on the Nasdaq Exchange
I think the thousands of dollars really just sped up the timeline. The domain definitely helps, but I don't think it's required. There's others that could have been used for a good business, it's only integral to this specific story. The $10k loss in boxes to me seems like he got ahead of himself and took a risk to save on shipping supplies, and got bitten for it. A slightly more conservative approach might have put that off and paid more for shipping for a while until some smaller amount of boxes could be tested from that supplier.

The good thing about a business like this is that it's much less likely someone is going to swoop in and steal your idea and customers because you took a little longer to work out the kinks.
Rust-based WASM front-end libraries will likely be small and also high performance. Unfortunately, all of the existing ones are highly experimental right now.
Blender isn’t at all an intuitive interface, but it’s sort of like Vim in that time spent learning it pays off exponentially.

But most people don’t want to invest that much time, so OpenShot is a good solution.
Tobacco also contains some fairly addictive, antidepressant-like compounds called Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI).
Probably what's holding that back is shipping cost since stock is mostly water, quite heavy and needs to be sent frozen or at least cooled with freezer packs, further adding to weight. My favorite place for andouille sausage [1] will ship cooled packages but the shipping costs are roughly equal to the product cost. So whenever I drive to New Orleans I take an ice chest with me netting twice the product for the same price.

[1] https://www.cajunsausage.com/
> “To say that they don’t have any evidence of any wrongdoing is not to say that nothing untoward happened,” Raskin said. “It’s simply to say that we don’t have the evidence of it.”

What kind of "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" nonsense is this? Why doesn't this article talk about how DHS was caught red-handed hacking into GA election systems?
One way to make it harder for those who "own" the voting system to rig it would be to reform the voting system itself so that it isn't the first-past-the-post winner-take-all system we have today.
I don't think blockchain necessarily means anyone being able to make blocks.
The author explains exactly what happened and still refers to it as a “selfie-related death.” That is atrocious.
But slides have one big advantage: they can be posted online for later review so students can follow the lecture instead of taking notes.
No offense taken. I see it as an exercise of tech minimalism and exploring the boundaries of how much "obsolete" tech can really achieve.

I'm not really interested in enterprise customers (too much pressure and liability). I envision it for students, side projects, and small operations.

It is also currently in invite only beta while I continue my experiments with the platform. I have been meaning to work with the homepage; I do not want it to seem snarky.

Thanks for checking out the site, I appreciate the feedback!
Well, there are certainly German companies operating in the US market, but:
1) Germany is a NATO ally, and the US has military bases in Germany, which is very different than the relations between China and the US
2) Germany does not have any possibility of dominating the US economy in the way that US companies could (if allowed) dominate the Chinese economy

South Korea, like Germany, has a military alliance with the US, and the US has military bases in South Korea. Again, there is also no real danger of South Korea dominating the US economy on the scale that the US could (if allowed) dominate the Chinese one.

Lastly, there are rules in the "global" economy, but those rules have mostly worked to the benefit of the countries that made them (see results in Latin America and Africa for what happens if you follow IMF and World Bank advice on opening up your economy). South Korea, Japan, and other "Asian tigers" mostly did NOT follow IMF/World Bank advice, and that's why it worked for them. China is basically doing the same thing Japan, South Korea, etc. did a couple decades ago.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't care, or even respond, but we shouldn't be surprised, or expect something different in the future.
Nim also has it
Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inheritance
It would be pseudo-anonymous like Bitcoin. You would keep the mapping between public keys and real-world identities private. But perhaps some percentage of people would choose to waive their right to privacy, further strengthening trust in the system. Statistically, the public voters should be in line with the final outcome.
Similar outcomes != true equality of outcome.

Before imagining some dystopia where government impose the same lunch menu to everybody, start by imagining a government that would fund healthcare enough so that life expectancy could be unrelated to parents' income. That would be a fucking good start.
Why can't we program robots/etc to "wander" and use leisure themselves?
I'm doing a series on concurrency models at the moment for personal professional development, and I recently reviewed Clojure and its native ability to separate identity from state. It's a very properties-based and specifications-based language, and the thing about properties and specifications of languages are that they're nigh impossible to retrofit at a later point in time. Other languages need to have external tooling or frameworks on top for things Clojure supports out of the box, and even then those frameworks may not be as reliable as something guaranteed on a language level.

It's actually a pretty sizable moat. Python broke encodings between 2 and 3 and split the community for at least a decade. Some companies will likely never be able to migrate from Python 2 to Python 3. Now imagine breaking now `dict` works.

https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/01/26/concurrency_with...
Funny article. Like a lot of people I also collect domain names, some day hoping to make a business out of them. :)

My current business and startup take too much time, but some day..
Planners of the Boston Tea Party.
Blockchain is not the same thing as cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is just one application of blockchain. Double spend wouldn’t exist because we’re not talking about money, and the voting servers don’t need to be run by random public people. You’re confusing too many things here.
No, it's hierarchical (because we nest collection types) vs relational.
Hah! I think you'll be surprised to hear: I agree with you!

But my question was about Bitcoin's comparison to gold, specifically with respect to its scarcity.
> If you have an old AC unit, try to dispose of it responsibly by not sending it to a landfill.

Considering someone stole the AC unit off the roof of the house next door to me in the middle of the night (it was a rental property and nobody was currently living there).

You know - meth.

Anyhow - something tells me there might be some valuable material inside an AC unit, so why anyone would just take it to the landfill (unless it has an A/C recycling program - some do)...
This post makes good use of one of the 48 laws of power.

Law 30: Make your accomplishments seem effortless
Hey I had an idea for a board game. Maybe worth a chat sometime?

Think settlers of catan but in an office setting.
GV-backed Fleet and Freight startup, KeepTruckin, nabs $149M at $1.25B valuation
Dark matter is a supersolid that fills 'empty' space, strongly interacts with ordinary matter and is displaced by ordinary matter. What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter. The state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter is gravity.

The supersolid dark matter displaced by a galaxy pushes back, causing the stars in the outer arms of the galaxy to orbit the galactic center at the rate in which they do.

Displaced supersolid dark matter is curved spacetime.

'Astronomers Discover New Galaxy That Is 99.99% Dark Matter'
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a22542/gal...

> "A relatively large fraction of the stars is in the form of very compact clusters, and that is probably an important clue."

The more compact the cluster the greater the displacement of the supersolid dark matter connected to and neighboring the cluster, the greater the displaced supersolid dark matter pushes back and exerts pressure toward the cluster, the faster the stars in the cluster move.

'Scientists Thought All Galaxies Had Dark Matter, but They Just Found One Without It'
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/galaxy-without-dar...

> "DF2 upends current theories about how galaxies form, which predict that the gravity of dark matter is necessary for early galaxies to hang together."

The reason for the mistaken notion the galaxy is missing dark matter is that the galaxy is so diffuse that it doesn't displace the supersolid dark matter outward and away from it to the degree that the dark matter is able to push back and cause the stars far away from the galactic center to speed up.

It's not that there is no dark matter connected to and neighboring the visible matter. It's that the galaxy has not coalesced enough to displace the supersolid dark matter to such an extent that it forms a halo around the galaxy.

A galaxy's halo is not a clump of dark matter traveling with the galaxy. A galaxy's halo is displaced supersolid dark matter.
Herein lies the rub with blockchain systems. If they're public, they're attackable, and if they're private, they're slower, more power hungry, and less flexible than a plain old database. It's not a dumb question, but blockchain doesn't provide good answers :)
There's an energy cost to keep food frozen for weeks or months at a time. It's common for houses to have multiple fridges and freezes, you wouldn't need to do this if food was delivered when you wanted to eat.
Protecting SSL Private Keys in Nginx with HashiCorp Vault
Spectre is a great example of what effect public perception has on software development. After it's disclosure the industry absolutely scrambled to patch it because mainstream news outlets declared the sky was falling. A year in, and we have hundreds of thousands of slightly older computers with a 20% performance drop and even modern machines with a 5-10% performance drop to address a purely hypothetical threat.

Compare this to the various Intel Management Engine exploits from the past couple years which received no media attention and thus no industry attention.
> If you are foreign to the US and want to get in you need to accept their conditions that they deem needed for your entry.

Except, AFAICT, Canadians. (Unless you want to sign up for Nexus.)
As an old fart I expect to type "./configure; make", however it did seem to compile.

It runs, just doesn't look like it's reading anything from "sudo ./termshark -i eno1 icmp". Works fine when reading a pcap file, works fine when launching from a root session (rather than via sudo)
Making Waymos in Motor City
Yeah I would expect one of the world's richest people and a notable investor to put a decent sized bet on BTC, just like he has with countless other companies and ideas.
If you believe that people should be free to interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of others, on what basis can you object to imprisonment or fines?
Might not make sense to you, still received many upvotes before being flagged for unclear reasons.
My... The strawman escalated quickly.

From semantics to gulag in 2 messages.

One must really hate the idea of a fair society when one equates equality with the crippling of society.
Why cringe? Hype creates burnout. The churn is absolutely untenable in the UI space right now and hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Where I work we have 3-4 different ways of accessing our monolithic backend, and on top of that 3-4 different ways of accessing and manipulating application state.

It drives me up the fucking wall.

I'm not sure I agree with the little lip service statement. I feel like the feelings are most likely mutual.

Stable systems that don't need constant heroism and don't diverge much from original choices made at the architecture level don't make for good places for juniors to make mistakes and learn from them.
I would feel better if these folks https://www.gaming.nv.gov/index.aspx?page=15
helped establish the best practices for voting machine approval.

Seriously, what does it say about our society that it is harder to deploy a slot machine in Reno than a voting machine in Peoria?
So the important part is the visibility of the blockchain, not the distributed control? One could still verify whether tampering had occurred?
Lets take that thought experiment further, would Jeff Bezos even waste the time in bending down to pick up the $20 since it is worth so little? The act of bending down, the minuscule risk of falling over, possibly scraping a knee, possibly wasting more time trying to get back up, etc. Is the $20 worth the potential hassle of picking it up?

For me: without a hesitation. It's roughtly 130 times my average 5 second earnings.

For Jeff: probably a net loss.
It may surprise you that reusable glass bottles are the norm rather than the exception in some developing countries. I lived in Rwanda for a while and every soda and beer bottle is reused glass. (and it is indeed great and no burden at all)

This seemed the norm in East African in general.
By the same logic, the death was also "oxygen-related".
New Turmoil over Predicting the Effects of Genes
If you're going to modify the processor to add a feature to prevent speculative reads from the same address space when you control the JIT, why not add an instruction that enters a mode that passes the address of all reads and writes through an implicit mask until it has been switched off.

This would outright prevent code generated by the JIT to do out of bounds speculative loads directly, it would just load a rewritten address from within the restricted region. Instead you'd have to trick an API call (which would be executed without the restriction) in to doing it for you.
>Banning plastic would mean you'd need to buy more fresh vegetables, which would reduce the amount that's wasted now.

It would not. If I (and frozen vegetable buyers in general) switch to buying fresh vegetables, the market will increase production of fresh vegetables to compensate.

>shop somewhere closer to home

I already shop as close to home as possible.
There’s no reason to have identifying information at all. That would be handled at the voting location just like it is now.

Blockchain voting doesn’t mean you can then vote over the Internet — you’d just have a better type of system in place at the voting locations.
I read through the entire pitch and I still don't understand what is special about Polar. There are a ton of apps that do all this and more in no particular order:

1) Xodo Reader
2) Liquid Text
3) Margin Notes 3 (AWESOME)
4) KOReader (Open source)
And several dozen more...
All that is weighing heavily on us is due to being attached to false assumptions. There is, after all, no actual social reality by which to judge ourselves. It’s all made up and seemingly supported by a deranged consensus reality. We are free as we are before and beyond any false assumptions. There is no need to be anything special and therefore, there are no serious moves to make.
Waymo picks Detroit factory for self-driving fleet to be operational by mid-2019
Pico Iyer Reflects on a Quarter-Century of Life in Japan
Where are you getting 130 from that page? I don't see it. On this other page [1], it clearly says 320. "NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus™ achieves an unprecedented 320 TOPS"

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/drive-platfor...
The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, a Hired Desk and a Handful of Clothes
How Correlation Analysis Works?
About 6 years ago, I decided to take a crack at redefining how Art was generated, consumed, and shared : https://vimeo.com/73825583

Thus JuicyCanvas.com was born : https://JuicyCanvas.com
-- With a bold Manifesto: https://juicycanvas.com/manifesto/

It was the first social marketplace where visual artists & designers could upload their work to be 'forked' aka 'remixed' by 'remixer' users [1], who then could curate, share, and sell to their friends, fans, and communities.

We managed to attract +500 incredible artists from over 50 Countries who were bold enough to allow their works to have such freedom of re-interpretation.

It was to be the end of 'zombie consumption'..and the beginning of `active consumers` who could finally break free of mass produced art & fashion.

But like all new behaviors/habits, these things take a lot of time to catch on...and time was sadly not our side this time.

Perhaps one day soon, such an idea will rise again...and stick around with more...juice.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMQYwnPaVg
I had a math instructor record his blackboard lectures and posted them online later that day. Just another consideration.
Sure! But that is trading off user experience for technical simplicity (which you do often have to do at some point). However: the argument was that this system was better for user experience than a design that could accept requests in parallel, which is what I'm resisting/not yet understanding. In reality, I'm sure that the system was fine for the use cases they had, which is what I meant to admit with "I'm not saying you needed all that". I will say that the single threaded no-queue design already carries a big risk of request A blocking request B.
Note that this article doesn’t say what percentage of teens claim to believe they’re vaping only non-nicotine products. With n = 500, and with about 20% of the sample vaping, if you assume that 20% of those kids are claiming to vape nicotine-free pods and 40% of those are misinformed or lying, you end up with... 8 kids out of 500 who said they avoid nicotine but actually don’t. Which is a non-story.
all social media (or any system) where you dont trust the entities that are holding your data are candidates for blockchain.

With blockchain based databases you can have entities that store massive amounts of data encrypted, but they cant read it or access it. The blockchain controls access to it. The data itself doesnt need to be replicated, just the access control. This resolves the issue of very slow blockchain databases.

The storage providers can charge the blockchain for storage and access.

blockchain disintermediates access control, storage, and display.

With open protocols for data, you could use any number of reader clients to access your (and other) data.
From what I understand, Pegasus consumes about 500Watts, compared to under 100 Watts for Tesla's FSD computer. Elon in particular emphasized the performance per watt (as it's always possible to cram more chips to increase performance if you ignore cost and power consumption).

The comparison made in the video: 500Watts for an hour consumes about 2-3 miles of range. In a city in slow traffic, going 12mph, that's a significant range reduction. So you might have a 10% improvement in range for the Tesla ASIC in low speed conditions.
The Pentagon Is Investing in Space Robots to Repair Satellites
> I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid. 5 minutes later, I was the proud owner of VidaliaOnions.com

For those that are looking to replicate the success of this Vidalia Onion business only have a $10 budget for a domain here are some other options:

onlyvidalias.com

vidalias.net

tryvidalias.com

yummyonions.com

ordervidalias.com

buyvidalias.com

organicvidalias.com

vidaliafarm.com

allvidalias.com

simplyvidalias.com
He wasn't arguing for autarky, but having an industrial base.
I suppose every election they could randomly distribute voter ids that are unique to that election? Ie, pull an I'd from a hat at the polling station then use it and keep it for verification?

Edit: undo auto'correct'
Hey, could you please stop acting like the idea that someone would follow the law is absurd or laughable?
Really we're talking about public key encryption. In an ideal scenario, every voter would have a public and a private key. The government would have a list of public keys to determine who is eligible to vote. Each voter would hold their own private keys. Each vote is signed with their private key and then published to an immutable ledger that everyone can audit.
I'm no fan of the blockchain, but this may be in the middle ground where blockchain makes sense: multiple independent trusted-but-not-completely parties verifying each other's actions.
I think the application of the language is quirkier than the language. There is a fairly high barrier to doing something ideal. In languages like python or c you can pretty much just write a few lines and you got something representative of what you can do. In this thread for example people are arguing whether you should make command line programs even in elixir: https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-static-app-binaries/15335/4...
I had this attitude until my late 20s. Then I realized that I really need a career to set myself up in life. So now I'm a senior programmer.

And my programming hobby? Better than ever! Turns out, having actual professional experience makes things easier and I can just play around with it whenever I want with a lot less stress than if I didn't also do it as a job.

Of course, I also have other hobbies. But making money on my main hobby was great in the long run.
The problem is that we don't know what the compiler might think..

If I write something along the lines of

int& bar = *foo

if(!foo) {
// do something
}

The compiler very well might (and would be perfectly within its rights to) completely eliminate everything inside of the if(!foo) since it can assume the pointer is non-null because it is being dereferenced.
Is it too bad if you do your own repairs?
Actually, I’m not implying that. What I’m implying is that this department uses images of public figures for them to give good examples of individuals. As said in my previous comment, Depardieu is a well known public figure, and he allows the use of his images in other public places, so his use in government documents is justified.

Trump is on there as well. Do you also want to complain about his depiction?
I don't have such faith in blockchain anonymity. Data will leak.

See the paper "Backpage and Bitcoin: Uncovering Human Traffickers" which talks about using timing based reconciliation, relationships between wallets, and superficial metadata within Bitcoin to deanonymize human traffickers:

http://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/sysnet/miscpapers/backcoin-kdd17....
Whoever told you that your dollars are worth more than in 1831 should not be trusted...
This sounds like some grade A projection. His interpretation is sensible and follows from the article. Stop gas lighting.
It would bring up extra risks as the machines would most likely then need to be connected to the Internet to be able to participate in the blockchain network.

Otherwise the reason we don’t have that is because there’s no money in it. Maybe if we allow the voting machines to also mine cryptocurrency when sitting idle...