skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but this didn’t prevent recessions in 2001 and 2007; in fact, efficiency improvements have been occurring since the dawn of civilization. It’s not a lack of efficiency that causes recessions, it is over-expansion mediated by greed.
you're very gullible to not take a side here. the idea that the same man responsible for something quite libertarian (pseudononymous distributed currency) would sue someone for saying he isn't satoshi in a court of law is insanity.

not to mention satoshi himself wished people wouldn't obsess over who he is, and rather think more about the larger team of people behind bitcoin's development, according to a post of his.

fraudulent proof is proof of fraud. you have to play mental mind games to believe there's a case for him being satoshi. all it takes is 30 seconds of basic logical thinking.

people who believe he could be satoshi are the reason the cryptocurrency community is so awful.
Previous thread on the previous article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19942219
I don't find the complaints about noncompliance to rfc8020, a 2016 rfc altogether convincing. Yes, it might have been nice if everybody complied, but changing the rules 30 years in and expecting people to change right away is a bit uh optimistic.
>there are an awful lot of people in this thread who are OK if 3G and 4G never finish rolling out in rural areas as long as they, themselves, get gigabit 5G connections

i think those people are simply not making the false conclusion that we can improve rural coverage by preventing the improvement of urban coverage.
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier is quite usable as a "workstation" as well. I actually develop ARM SIMD code on it. 8 cores + GPU. $700 on Amazon right now.
To clarify: the bitcoin open source project was renamed "Bitcoin Core" to avoid confusion with Bitcoin the currency and protocol (it didn't help).

It does seem to follow Open Source best practice: but I'm not even sure what "decentralized" development would look like?
Amazon still lists the first item of a purchase for me (e.g. an order of X and Y shows up as "X and 1 other item"). Google then lists that on my purchases page.
>And that budget is completely separate from the pot of money out of which subsidies are doled.

but there's no reason that has to be true, other than "that's the way it is". The money itself is fungible.
Before software there was Jan an, operations management, industrial engineering, interchangeable parts, division of labor, agriculture... all the way back to math, etc. Software is just how modern day improvements are expressed.
I agree, some kind of "Local access: enable/disable" the same way that notifications and location services work would be great.

Especially since there's only a handful of use cases where this kind of access could maybe make sense.
I think the healthiest communities have norms of openness and common knowledge that make fraud very difficult.
It's also possible (and I recommend) to set up the dns resolver for the LAN to be unbound (openbsd's recursive dns server, supports DNS over HTTPS), thus allowing all devices in the lan to transparently use DNS over HTTPS.

Alternatively, there's dnscrypt-proxy, but it's somewhat slow and eats way too much ram.
>And yet many blow at least $3000+ per year on worthless consumables like cigarettes and lotto

being poor impairs your cognition[1], so it's not surprising that they are wasting money on stuff like that.

[1] random google result: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-poverty-affec...
This is an exceptionally well written essay on technical debt and scope creep.

But most of all, I found the definition of “conservative” so apropos to politics (accidentally, surely) that I both laughed and cried.
beth.technology

Solid source.
This is how it worked before Elon Musk reinvented it by buying a sewer boring machine and running it dozens of feet under a desert.
Some people will deliberately make their stuff public domain rather than being copyright. My opinion is copyright is bad, so I also will make all of them public domain, too.
> It seems that what defines humanity has to be a bit refined

Since the discovery of Darwinian evolution, we've understood humanity to be just one more outflow of natural processes (albeit one having its day in the sun). The search for a specific marker of human uniqueness continued for a good century after that, but is fizzling out as we understand more about the nonhuman world, and as the intellectual influence of monotheistic religions wanes. We're a species. We emerged. We'll go away. No essential uniqueness, no destiny.
I agree 100%. A Go fat binary has all the advantages of Docker with none of the added abstractions and complexities.
PatrolX Vigilance has been acquired by bitVelocity
‘Fingerprinting’ to Track Us Online Is on the Rise
Could do a home built VHF repeater, kinda like a cubesat, and see what the furthest distance is between contacts. Would need to coordinate frequencies and you'd probably want to run it like a contesting thing with very short QSO to maximize the number of contacts. I'd donate a hundred bucks. It would be nice to have a telemetry radio onboard too.

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Please just put links on a normal line of text — code formatting prevents them from being rendered as clickable links. It also makes them harder to read on mobile.
Ah ok, looks like there is no code that he wrote, that is pretty much enough to know :)
A fresh phoenix project where you render a nontrivial template easily reaches sub millisecond response times, without any kind of optimization.

Going from Phoenix to Rocket.rs I saw a pretty dramatic speedup on even simple pages. Phoenix was faster than the Rails version of the app, but still slower than a compiled language.
Before Polygons: Sega's Legacy of 3D
It is SA free only for one color, not for every color.
I disagree that the title is misleading. To anyone familiar with solar cell technology, theoretical limits are discussed in relation to the material in question. Multi-junction cells are not something that are commonly discussed outside of those with expertise, so confusing a theoretical limit with efficiency gains through band gap augmentations is not likely.

This is analogous to an article about a chemist discovering a way to get more chemical efficiency out of gasoline and someone saying that we can already do that with a richer air-fuel mix using a turbocharger. The two are not comparable.
Is a windlass something else or does that man have a ballista on his boat?
There are no old bold pilots.

Those are called astronauts.
This article contains very little beyond people at Intel try to state they can 'keep up' with the 'delusion' of Moore's Law.

Intel's real threat will be ARM-based computers, IMHO.
On infant mortality statistics, at least part of the difference is that the US reports that figure rigorously, while other countries do not necessarily do so: https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/09/infant-mortality-dece....

As to income distribution: that’s the OECD’s estimate of the median household. So it’s not being skewed up by super-rich households.

As to bankruptcies, less than 0.5% of households file for bankruptcy in a given year.

As to homicide or suicide rate: again, that affects a tiny minority. Meanwhile, the much higher income affects 60-70% of the whole population.

The U.K. is a society where you’ve lowered the median to lift up the floor. That’s one way to do it. And I don’t even disagree with you that the US should do more in that regard. But if you support an expanded welfare state (and I do), it’s dishonest to sell that policy to people by pretending that the average person is going to be better off. Unless they place a very high value on security (avoiding low probability outcomes like medical bankruptcy) over material comfort, they’re going to be worse off.
While it's an ongoing project producing them, as of the 2015 article "Today, there are 18 of these wondrous trees across the country, with three more being planted this spring in Illinois, Michigan and California. Seven are located in New York—including the very first Tree of 40 Fruit that’s still on the Syracuse campus—and six more are in a small grove in Portland, Maine."
Bitcoin Core is the name of the software that was originally released by Satoshi Nakamoto and has been continuously been developed ever since. It is the most widely used software to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain, which makes sense, since at the beginning it was the only client and essentially the reference implementation.

The confusion stems from the fact that it was renamed at one point to make it clear that "Bitcoin Core" refers to this specific software whereas "Bitcoin" refers to the protocol and blockchain more generally. This distinction wasn't originally needed, as there were no other clients.
I like to point out the efficiency gains and load shifting will also reduce off peek demand somewhat. Industrial users will chase lowest cost if possible. If electricity costs 3X at 1am the price at 11am, no ones going to be running an electric furnace at 1am.

Either way I'm actually rather confident that the whole storage thing is more or less solvable. Since there are a host of technologies that are workable.

So it's slightly pointless argue as some do that lack of current solutions is a reason not to move forward with renewables. Worst comes to worst we already have peaking plants that could substitute for baseload power.
The lack of humming and hawwing isn't nearly as convincing as the lack of demonstrable knowledge that should be expected of the real Satoshi.
Has it actually happened though, that's the part that seems a bit fanciful. How have they measured it?
Ok I think his entire lifestyle is about freedom (FOSS, boat life, supra-national living) and you are kinda reiterating the point. Everyone shouldn't have to conform to a specific standard and he has the freedom to leave places where people such as you want to tell him how to live.

Yes there are probably safety concerns, yes you might find his boat unsightly but really this is closer to how people lived for most of history, totally free in the world unconstrained by government limited only by the relationships they choose to make.

When people leave this planet to live elsewhere they will be more like this guy and less like NASA, just like the Europeans were that left for the new world.
How does it deal with spam filtering? This is something I understood to be a problem, along with security.
Doesn't that make perfect sense then? Of course you run the native to you language natively. 80% of my work is currently Java, I have a Java-first IDE, Maven, a bunch of different JVMs, I'm ready to go. But if I have to run someone else's Ruby project, could I please have a Docker image?
https://www.stopcraigwright.com/screenshots

"Tonight I am downloading Java Security courses" - haha, that's epic...
I agree - the capisco is the best chair I’ve ever sat in. However I find the cheaper capisco puls comfortable enough to sit in for 10 hours when I work from home. Much more comfortable than the steelcase gesture I use at work, or the Aeron and Sayl chairs from Herman Miller I’ve used at past jobs.
Doesn’t directly answers your question, of which I suspect parenting very high on the likeliest reason — as that is the reason I’ve seen others provide for him stepped down and out from YC. But you can see from his last major period of activity https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg ends with his departure blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856 and the top comment is his wife hinting that Mr Graham was overly consumed by managing hacker news ;)
> Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions.

That's a small budget for purchasing a new chair. Around $800 is where you start finding a better durability and a fuller complement of adjustments than a mediocre $200 Office Depot chair. If you avoid chairs with foam-cushioned seat pans it's reasonable to expect a Big Name $800+ chair to effectively last forever (usually they have 10+ year warranties). I sold my Aeron after at least 40,000 hours use and after a thorough cleaning it was indistinguishable from new.

As others have said, try to find an office furniture supply company that will let you trial a few chairs. Avoid foam if you don't want to be replacing / refurbishing seat pans every 1-3 years.
> we already have solar cells over this theoretical limit

I need to ask my brother how this new method compares to his work[1] on high efficiency heterojunction solar cells. While this is all really interesting physics, it quickly races past my electrical-engineering-level of understanding.

(the apparatus he made to build these heterojunctions one-layer of atoms at a time (molecular beam epitaxy) was crazy; you're in the sci-fi future when your project needs a high-purity sapphire substrate and vacuum with a mean free path >10km)

[1] (Lang) https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3575563
(Tiny)Go to WebAssembly
It's not a mess. Mostly It was just unclear mixed of runtime and compile time configuration that contribute the inconvenience. Elixir 1.9 just comes up with a simple built-in release mechanism with more clear on how you put configuration.

From the sound of it things have gotten better (by throwing out oft-touted features), but Elixir deployments are inherently far too complicated. With Go and Rust you get a single binary and a single program to run. With Java (and other languages targeting the JVM) you get a single jar archive. With Elixir you get to bundle the whole runtime and spawn a few separate supervisor processes to run even a hello world app. Lord help you if the only maintainer for the deployment tooling takes an unannounced vacation or if the various BEAM processes stop talking to each other because the stars are misaligned (and the deployment tools are minimally tested) and you can't even run an Elixir based database migration as a result.

When I started toying around with Elixir and Phoenix I'd just come off of a Clojure kick. You can get most, if not all, of the syntactical sugar that Elixir promises with other languages that all offer infinitely simpler deployments with more mature tooling. In the case of Clojure you get whatever JVM tooling you'd like.
> with heavy cultural idioms and norms, you can keep a lot of the people safely hemmed in, while retaining all the escape hatches.

Empirically, no, you cannot. Nobody has succeeded at writing memory-safe C++ at scale using normal software development practices.
> I don't know if my workloads would be memory latency sensitive and worse, I don't even have a clue how I would find out.

If you develop on something unix-ish valgrind's cachegrind will tell you about your L1 performance. On recent Linux you can get this straight from the kernel with `perf stat` https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ (cache-misses are total misses in all levels)

The most basic question is: are you randomly accessing more then your processor's cache worth of memory?
Alert tones for electric London buses are controversial
> What is Docker for? You can take your old Python and Ruby and Perl apps and wrap them up in Docker, and thus those old apps can make the transition to the modern world of cloud computing.

There's no reference to isolation with namespaces and cgroups.

> There are older, mature options, such as Java and C# and Erlang, and there are many newer options, such as Go or Elixir or Clojure.

The JVM, BEAM, or Go process still needs to run on a machine and interact with an OS. They still need to be scheduled across thousands of machines that are constantly breaking. They still ought to be isolated from each-other when running on the same machine. There is nothing magical about these platforms that solves these problems.
I am honored to have been mistaken for boilerplate! Thank you. In truth, this morning I woke up, read the claim, "I don't think China is any more evil than the US," and decided to examine it. What followed was 100% my own words, off the cuff, based on reading Wikipedia and their citations and sources. (For what it's worth, not much of this resembles what I remember studying when I was younger; "modern" Chinese history focused on Mao and Deng.) I stopped after I realized that no amount of refactoring would revive footnote 14.

Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you think that these aren't fresh words, then please explain where they came from.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Do you have commentary on the state of human rights in China?
as it's the UK, I expect them to settle on selling "drivetone" sponsorships. The buses will mutter "virgin" as they drive around.
I am very much not saying that C++ is the answer for large-scale productivity software. In fact, I'm saying the opposite.

Let me be clear: Given the choice between Rust or C++ for writing Photoshop, I will pick Rust every time.
> punish hard anyone trying to take advantage of it, way out of proportion compared to the magnitude of the violation, in order to discourage people from abusing the trust of others.

I strongly disagree. This would make sense if humans were all rational actors who only took an action after performing the risk calculus of expected reward vs. potential punishment. But that's not how humans work, and thinking this way only results in a justice system that is unnecessarily cruel, ignores rehabilitation, and doesn't actually work that well at preventing crime.

Relevant sources:

Sentence Severity and Crime: Accepting the Null Hypothesis "Most reviews conclude that there is little or no consistent evidence that harsher sanctions reduce crime rates in Western populations[1]."

Do Harsher Prison Conditions Reduce Recidivism? "Inmates housed in higher security levels are no less likely to recidivate than those housed in minimum security; if anything, our estimates suggest that harsher prison conditions lead to more post-release crime.[2]"

[1] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/652230

[2] http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Chen_Shapiro_2007.pdf
The reason that I don't switch is because, Verizon is the only provider I have used that works all the time, everywhere I go, and that's important to me.

The only time I can remember it not working was on the California coast near Big Sur, even then, I was able to get a text out.
You're speaking for 'most of your country, and "Sweden", when you lived there.

Ever been to a refugee camp and spoken to Iraqi's, Syrians, Lybians, Yemeni, Afghani victims of the illegal wars being carried out by America and its allies?

I live within walking distance of a refugee camp. I've spent the last few years getting to know the victims of America's illegal wars.

The vitriol is warranted. Real human beings have been smashed to pieces.

(Note: am Australian, have lived and worked in the USA, and am now in Austria, also a non-NATO country. Austrians inform themselves, and have done a lot for the victims of America's illegal wars. Swedes?)
While I usually enjoy a good amount of fluff, I must say I, too, was underwhelmed by the amount of detail and/or substance reported. The formula makes no sense to me, and was apparently just thrown in in this form for a gag.
Do you have a link where the words speak for themselves? The quote mentioned

>Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.

is only really a problem if you assume something bad for 'trump situation' as opposed to just preventing Russian trolls hacking overseas elections.
It's pretty clear you aren't actually interested in obtaining a balanced view of design flaws in aircraft, rather just trying to win some kind of points.

Some design flaws take time to show up, due to life cycle aging. Most of the rudder issues were in 737-300's, which began full production in the mid-1980s. There isn't just a single "737" model, even for the same 737-XXX series.

You can do your own research from here on out. If 6 fatal crashes plus non-fatal incidents due to the same design flaw don't persuade you then perhaps you are not persuadable.

The basic fact, that there are plenty of previous cases of serious design flaws in aircraft that became quite safe, is sound, whether you choose to accept that or not.
A monitoring function stack to visualize FaaS-flow functions and requests
Getting at the natural gas requires fracking which ruins the surrounding environment. Large swaths of land across the US are uninhabitable with toxic water, soil and air as a result of fracking.
If you are looking for cheap open hardware, there are not that many options around. Last practical one was the Asus C201PA with Rockchip ARM. The only closed component was the wireless chip, and that's easy to fix with a little Atheros dongle.

I'd love to hear about other alternatives if you know any.
Right, but the point is you could pick almost any arbitrary language, show some basic examples, and people would be able to read it. For example, take someone who's never seen Lua and show them the exact same set of examples written in Lua, and they'd be able to answer the same questions. Hell, you could probably do it with Haskell too, even though nobody would ever pretend that you could "Learn you a Haskell in 0 minutes".
UK would do best supplementing wind with solar, rather than going wholly solar. UK is famous for many things, consistent reliable sun isn't one of them. Maybe in 20 years we'll have a more Spanish climate, though I would hope not. Adding solar on every roof that's suitable should be plenty for starters.

There's probably dozens of spots around the UK suitable for Dinorwig 10 GWh pumped storage style solutions. NIMBYs permitting.

If the UK fully built out offshore wind it would probably have enough to power the whole of Europe. Same goes for Ireland.
After trying a number of chairs I settled on the first-gen Leap. It was far more comfortable for me than the Aeron or others I tested.

I'm still using it today, almost 18 years later. It's held up incredibly well. The fabric shows only the faintest signs of wear. A few years ago, the gas height-adjusting strut failed, and the Steelcase tech drove an hour to my house and replaced it. He also replaced the armrest caps as well - all for free.
Holy hell, they dropped the price on that thing pretty quick! I think you could originally only get the $700 price tag for Xavier via the "developer discount", which only applied to one unit.

As a word of note, though, the chips in the Tegra machines are, IME, extremely powerful -- but you're stuck with Linux 4 Tegra and Nvidia's Ubuntu-based distro. At least for the TX1 there was some success getting other distros working (without GPU) but I remember several people running into trouble with the TX2. That may or may not be a dealbreaker for some people (it's a sort of franken-Ubuntu and your only hope for problems are the Nvidia forums)

The Solid Run LX2K machine however should (eventually) run any standard AArch64 distro. They also have 16 cores and expandable SATA, as well as an open PCIe 4x slot on these boards, so you can install whatever GPU you like onto it. Not to mention you can plug in a bunch of RAM. You can even buy a slightly different variant of this board with a 100GigE cage on it, still under $1000 USD, which puts it in a very unique position vs any other I've seen.

I think the LX2K boards are (now, at this point in time!) a much better sell if you want an actual "arm workstation" as a developer. But the Xavier will be vastly superior if you want a lower power profile (mobile) or if you're doing something like DL inference.
Way riskier market (consumer goods). It will eventually trickle down though, once it's really mature and countless factories in China have access to it.