skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on the site for Overpowered Mats, day in and day out. It's been a challenge but I'm very happy that I was able to work on such a cool idea. The "Custom Mat Designer" for it is going to be soooo cool. We're super close! There will be room for improvement when the project is launched, for sure, so hang tight! Feel free to check it out and let me know if there's any improvement that could be made or bugs to fix! You can pre-order now, by the way.

https://overpoweredmats.com/
Does gravity happen, because the space is lazy?
In a computer games you usually experience lag on crowded places because, the game can not handle the exponentially growing amount of interactions between all the players on the a area. If you want to get quickly to the other side of such a crowd, the shortest way is not directly through. Does this sound familiar? Is it not how light particle behaves when bending on the gravity? So in a nutshell what do you think: does the gravity happen because the space is kind of lazy and shovels the ‘shut up and calculate’ to a dark hole?
Some risks are just uninsurable, even for countries. Large scale flooding and earthquake damage caused so much loss that no one can afford to pay for it. The US is lucky it can issue debt cheaply.
Deployments are a mess and as it is interpreted, performance is closer to Ruby than Go. I found the community to be pretty disappointing (but YMMV obviously) — it seemed more alternative oriented than the Rust community (which seems more solutions oriented).
Maintaining some marginally-novel open-source projects, and looking for a new side-project idea. I burned out and ended up shutting down my previous side-project the other day; just taking a break before starting up a new one.
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I mean, of course that's plausible. If I gave the impression that it wasn't, my bad. I was just hoping to clarify to eugeniub why BTC enjoys a first mover advantage, and why first mover advantage has nothing to do with how often "people use it in their everyday lives".

Assuming a limited amount of resources to invest, someone who is already invested in X, is less likely to remove their money from that and invest into Y, unless Y is really good. All things equal, there is no reason to move from X to Y if X came first and you already invested into X.

So, the first mover advantage for BTC is the fact that new coins need not only be equal (in the eyes of the investor) to BTC, but better enough to convince that investor to move out of BTC in favor of that coin. People who are, in addition, buying other alt coins are still solidifying BTC's first mover advantage if they do not remove their investment in BTC in favor of something else.
Sure they get to, as long as they control politics.
No, it doesn’t give value to the banks. Banks only have value because you can use them to store and borrow money which has value. Your theoretical bank has no value because your theoretical currency does not, either. FDIC insurance reinforces the value that banks (and the currency one can access through them) already have.
Make it a Lisp-2 then I’m keen.

But I don’t mean to dismiss. Lisp persists because of its elegance. It’s a thing of beauty and who doesn’t want to work with a human friendly AST?
Berkshire Hathaway does not pay a dividend - is it therefore speculation? Surely not - its valuation is based on it’s earnings.
I was referring to government force.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> What you’re saying is that the car to gold ratio should be constant if your understanding is correct, right?

No. I am aware that the value of gold fluctuates, but it is safer than many national currencies, stocks of failing companies or overvalued real-estate. The amount of gold in the world is known and stable and there's no way to massively "print" gold to crash its value. This stable supply is mimicked by algorithms built into cryptocurrencies. As long as there is demand for a something, and there is limited supply of it, it will be worth >0. Cryptocurrencies satisfy both requirements: they are limited in supply and have demand because of their usefulness (fast & cheap transactions).

> Re:your criticism of fiat money, I would accept that if I lived in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or Turkey. But, I’m talking about specifically the USD and other established currencies such as GBP and EUR. There is literally no danger that the US, UK, or EU is going to experience hyperinflation short of near total governmental collapse.

No need for hypotheticals. The government of Cyprus confiscated 47.5% of all holdings above 100 000 EUR in 2013 during its banking crisis. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/29/bank... Cyprus is full member of the EU and Eurozone, so these risks are not limited to corrupt and failing third-world countries.

> Oh, and if you think BTC can’t be confiscated, I have news for you:

Most cryptocurrencies cannot be confiscated by network nodes like traditional banking institutions can freeze or rewrite payments and accounts (see Cyprus above). Only the one who has private keys controls the assets. This is a major feature.
Working on a fully automated UV unwrapper for 3D meshes. Its basically the process of flattening a 3D object down to a square. used mainly for texturing. http://www.ministryofflat.com
Working on a new version of hardware, firmware and app[0] for new payment features for AU client.

Together with a local friend; garden & home automation/security with Pi’s and Arduino’s.

[0] https://scramcard.com/
Programmable configuration is always and without exception a monumentally stupid idea.

Programmatic generation of static configuration files can be very useful.

Sufficiently complex examples of the latter might as well be the former as far as maintenance is concerned.

If you need to write a program to configure your program, you're probably doing it wrong.
Is this the equivalent of having a custom domain email address? Basically yeah. Maybe it would be easier to have an inbox locally on your website, so users don't have to

1. Locate the "contact us" page, copy the given email address and
2. Open their email provider to send the message

Both actions are awfully trivial but users' attention/willingness to give feedback can be fleeting. In the past 2 hours I've received hundreds of well articulated pointers via the Chitter add on. Would I have gotten as many over email? I'm guessing probably not.

It remains to be seen, however, if users even want to revisit a website to simply view a message. Maybe or maybe not.
Cue is a bit too cute trying to combine the subtyping and inhabitance relations into one.
Hemp growing has a long tradition in the USA: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/facts/george-w...

"At one point in the 1760’s Washington considered whether hemp would be a more lucrative cash crop than tobacco but determined wheat was a better alternative."
Elixir is compiled, not interpreted.
My comment isn't specifically about Dhall, but about the note on Turing completeness. I often read comments about how YAML/JSON is not turning complete. These comments normally frame the lack of Turing completeness as being a short coming of the format(s). I find this interesting because one the reasons that the industry moved away from XML was to have cleaner separation between data and logic. I generally tend to think that it is cleaner to separate logic and data, instead of creating a tight coupling. I don't read many people making comments from this perspective though. I am not trying to say we can't do better then YAML/JSON, I am just trying to offer some food for thought. I tend to view JSON/YAML as a data exchange format, and not a programming language, so I am not bothered by the lack of Turing completeness.
It was also felt in Fresno, which is probably the furthest north large city (pop 500k) in the region.

https://earthquake-report.com/2019/07/04/moderate-earthquake...
There's a need for HTTPS everywhere, because to not HTTPS is to invite hostile networks to inject advertising, exploits, etc. into your readers' web browser.

Everything needs to be HTTPS.
I'm on my phone in the country side with slow internet so I cant look up a link, but if I remember correctly, you should search "Alan Savory TED Talk" on youtube for an introduction to the use of livestock to reclaim land. Essentially, the issue with most livestock grazing is that it does not mimic natural grazing, which is a seasonal, high volume, high density event where the herd moves on and allows the grazed area time to recover.
I’ve been looking for a new Raspberry Pi project since I devoted my last one to being a Pi-hole. I might have to try this one out!
they're much more sophisticated than that. they'll do things like say the damage was caused by wind, not water. they'll influence forecasters to call it a "super-storm" instead of a hurricane, and for an earthquake, something equally creative:

- the building was defective/you didn't have it inspected by our experts, so maybe the foundation already had cracks from the last EQ, in that case we can't pay the claim

- insurance only covers up to 5.0/6.0

- although it was reported as a 7.5, you live 4 miles away from the epicenter, meaning the EQ was likely below a 6.0, in which case your policy doesn't kick in/we'll only pay 30% of your claim

- the EQ cracked a water main/gas line, and most of the damage to your house is from the flood/fire, which isn't covered under EQ policy. try suing the insurance of the utility company.

- we determined that fracking is likely the cause of this quake, in which case it's manmade and not covered. you can sue the oil company though.

- we checked the seismometer and we dispute the USGS reporting that it was a 6.0/7.0/8.0/our geologist has published research saying that current methods of measuring earthquakes are in question. so although we don't need correct science to collect your premium, we do need perfect science to pay any claims. Or if you settle now, we'll pay 40% of your coverage or else you can try to sue us and maybe get paid 10 years from now

- we don't cover the specific region where all the earthquake damage occurred/that requires a different policy

- we only cover incidental/secondary damage, like clocks falling off the wall (which, of course, you must have a receipt for and will be paid minus depreciation and deductible). your policy doesn't cover utility line damage, structural damage, or earth-moving damage.
Hmm, I'm primarily a C# dev and recently spent a morning getting to know Elixir, and was actually surprised with how flat the learning curve was.

Now, writing idiomatic functional code while coming from an OO background, now that is difficult!

I have to say though, I loved the short time I spent with Elixir so far - it's hard to put a finger on it, but it just feels right. But... I do wish it was statically typed :(
An unfortunate name.

I've seen more and more folks trying to reduce their use of 'crazy' in recent years and I'm starting to come around to the idea that using 'crazy' as shorthand might not be helpful in a society that already struggles with helping those with mental health issues.
> I actually almost prefer the keyboard, I feel like having less travel means I have to press slightly less and can type marginally faster on my Mac keyboard than a normal one.

There are actually mechanical switches, like the Cherry MX Brown, that register the keypress before actuating. They're usually preferred by gamers because you can rapidly tap the keys without fully depressing them.

It's a shame there isn't a convenient way for people test out the variety of switches out there to find the style they prefer. Like Warby Parker for mechanical keyboards.
Also Relaxed JSON. http://www.relaxedjson.org/
You're probably looking for the "Liquefaction Hazard Maps" page for the Bay Area: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/urban/sfbay/liquefaction...

Disclaimer: I am a geologist, but I'm not a P.G., hence all that I say on this topic is bullshit. p.s., Does your conference have beer? If it doesn't, I'm not going. I mean, I'll be so happy when AGU rolls around, because, man, I'm thirsty.
Bitcoin has two things going for it:

The inflation is fair, in the sense that it is well known. It is also fair in the sense that nobody decides who gets the newly minted coins, everyone has an equal chance.

There is no creator still around. Nobody can dictate any changes to the rules. Sure, development is still ongoing, but if a change does not have close to unanimous consensus it's not going in. There seems to be a general understanding that unless this is so the community would be splintered which not make for a working economy and everyone would lose. Game theory holds this system in place.

(There have been a few coins which mostly shares Bitcoin's history, but so far the market seems to treat them as separate projects in their own right and valued separately, which so far seems to validate that theory.)

Not many other projects have managed to replicate the above (although some come close), so talking in terms of first mover advantage is selling the project a bit short.
The question was which would be the worst scenario, I gave my personal opinion.

I did not explicitly say I would prefer neither to happen, but I wrongly assumed that would not be necessary to write, my apologies.
JS solves the tagging issue using "symbols". They're extremely weird at first look but they're basically around for that reason.
Calling the development team "incredibly conservative" isn't accurate. The idea of Bitcoin is peer to peer electronic cash directly between two counterparties. The current roadmap doesn't focus on that as a priority and instead focuses on intermediaries for scaling. That isn't "incredibly conservative", it's a different system of priorities entirely, that have little to do with technical risk or original vision of Bitcoin.
The most interesting part of Nerves for me isn't rpi/embedded/resource-limited environments, but rather the ability to remove most/all of the security surface area of the userspace (say, in the cloud).
Could you please not take HN threads into flamewar? or post unsubstantive comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Been working on a piece of 2D animation/vector editing software called FlowBetween for a while now:

https://flowbetween.app

Seemed like a good way to combine my interest in building software with my other interest in creating art.

I've been spinning off the various components needed to build it as separate rust crates: interesting ones are flo_curves, desync and flo_binding.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.
From your comment I gather you're new to FP. Same here, but with around 20 years of OO experience, I really struggle to understand what idiomatic FP code should look like - was wondering how you'd coped on that front?
Get to Know the Brutal Artillery of the Revolutionary War
Looks great. I want a compile to Go lisp 2, though. Just putting it out there. :-) My efforts are likely to take a while...
To be fair in both everettian and de broglie bohm interpretations there is no physical wave function collapse. Even in neo-Copenhagen interpretations like QBism the apparent collapse is merely a reflection of an agent's belief update process.
Please don't cross into personal attack or post unsubstantive comments here. If you know more, it would be great to share some of what you know, so we can all learn something. If you don't want to do that, it's also fine not to post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you're denying the evidence that partical forcing from coronal hole streams and CMEs have significant effects on climate.
I was peripherally involved in chaos theory in the early 80s. I never met Mitch but I still think of him as a kid not much older than me. I had no idea he was 74. Age creeps up on one.
It rather illustrates the reasons for this rule - Kuwait economy is/was quite different from pretty much all developed countries in that it was so predominantly based on oil fields that this invasion made sense. The largest oil producer in the world currently is USA, and still the USA oil fields are just a tiny fraction of its wealth production.

You could capture half of Kuwait's wealth if you got control over its extractive economy. You can't capture half of EU or USA wealth if you get control over all their natural resources, not even close to that.
Nah, there's just not a whole lot in that part of the world.

When I lived in that general area, there was a 7.1 or 7.2 and I think there was one death. IIRC, it was due to a heart attack and locals joked it was in reaction to the amount of liquor bottles broken in some liquor store because photos of the broken bottles got splashed all over the papers as one of the bigger points of damage.

A train was derailed in that quake and I think someone broke their arm but no one died because it was going unusually slow for a passenger train, having been scheduled behind a slow-moving freight train.

We had aftershocks for weeks that interfered with my sleep. Some of the aftershocks were above a 5.0.
Writing my dissertation over summer on Asian Equity Risk Arbitrage. Nice long summer days in Cambridge spent in front of a Computer ;)
These cheapo ones seem to be around $20, while a proper Mitutoyo is $120. Those last forever, as do the batteries in them. Why not get the good one?
If Pakistan can do this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Tsunami
This is really interesting. I'm fortunate enough to live in a city that collects yard waste and composts it. I've never considered that it could be used as an energy source, much less a carbon negative one. I doubt I could produce a usable amount of electricity by myself with something like this, but I'd be curious to see how much energy a city of 900,000 could produce with yard waste.

Edit: From the feedstocks page (http://www.allpowerlabs.com/support/support-feedstock) it looks like this works best with wood and woodlike fuels. I'd still be curious if grass clippings could be processed in a way to make them work similarly.
The best chance of reforming EU would be with UK still in it :-( Brexit is just a loose for everyone. Well except Russia of course.
There's a quick add functionality which allows you to add a task with a keyboard shortcut. Would Alfred integration still seem useful to you?
Thank you!

This is the draft for the next version (The texts are placeholders, it's just a UI/UX draft) :

https://twitter.com/MaxenceCornet/status/1144929703058399232

EDIT: Direct links to the draft:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-OberFXYAA3dMR.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ObfgRWwAA9m0O.jpg
The Weathermans Guide to the Sun is a good place to get started on the new ways were identifying how the sun is the min driver of climate change.
Even when abusing unsafe, it's hard to get away with as much laziness (especially sneaky, dangerous, indirected laziness) as you can get away with by default/accidentally in other languages when you disable their linting/analysis tools.
MapR Misses Deadline for Sale
It's about keeping Russian control of a Black Sea port, which can be considered "capturing wealth." NATO was already at Russia's doorstep without Russia invading.
> Some Iraqi officials have accused Kuwait in the past of using advanced drilling techniques developed by Amer ican oilfield specialists to siphon oil from the Rumaila field, a charge that American drillers deny, noting that the oil flows easily from the Rumaila field without any need for these techniques.

I’m not sure if I trust a genocidal tyrant or an oil company.

Perhaps it’s a bit much to claim Kuwait was asking for it.
We tried to kill the ones that were bad for us, like mosquitos, cockroaches, locust s, etc. But i the process, we ended up affecting the ones that are beneficial (bees) and the wild ones that are neither.

The consequences are a collapse of the food chain, like others already mentioned.
I’m curious why people are downvoting because this appears to be a correct assessment.

The paper here is probably legit (perhaps correct, perhaps not) but it’s claiming a 2.5 degree change by the year 2600, and not claiming to contradict climate change. In fact it kind of hints that a large portion of its trend analysis may be driven by human activity

> Although, it is not clear yet if this trend in the terrestrial temperature and solar irradiance is caused directly by the increased solar activity itself or by some other factors of the solar-terrestrial interaction in the whole solar system and human activities.

Feels a little too heavy on the doubt propagation for my tastes. The blog however claims this is direct evidence that man made climate change is wrong.
Would you please not be so rude on HN? You're breaking the site guidelines. I'm sure you can make your substantive points without doing that, even if you have reason to be frustrated about something.

Attacking someone else for their work is particularly unwelcome here. Imagine if everyone did that—what reason would people have to discuss their work here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok, what can I buy with BTC vs what can I buy with USD? BTC is useless in comparison.

What exactly do people mean when they say they expect to make money on BTC? Do they mean they’ll get more BTC, or that they can sell it for USD or some other currency? Why do you think that is?
What hardware do you use? I’ve looked into this and found power management really challenging.
I’m working on Devev, a visual programming language which integrates with TypeScript and JavaScript: https://m.imgur.com/a/zLS1g0t

I’ve been working on this on the side for awhile and hope to launch an MVP by the end of the month. I transitioned to full time on the product 2 months ago and I’ hoping to make money by providing domain specific visual programming products. I’m currently thinking about a visual build system for example.
Ironically, I tracked the real world identity of someone using stolen credit cards in my ecom site BECAUSE he posted a tutorial/how-to on YouTube showing the vulnerability tool (script kiddie), under his real name. SMH.

This won't stop this information from being disseminated, but it may save some idiots from themselves.
Hey, please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewars, or any flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not having this already when you are lucky enough to hit the front page of HN (something most startups would kill for) is unfortunate.
So a wet bulb condition occurs at 50% relative humidity and 46 °C (115 °F). Many places are reaching that already. Thanks for the tip, I hadn't heard of this.
Trees don't disperse their seeds an unlimited distance. But, if you look at a map of where they want to plant new trees you will find many trees already in those areas.

Edit, back to your point. Forest fires and other natural events regularly kill off large chunks of trees. They need to be able to grow in those areas in order to survive.
You are talking past the person you are replying to. Parent comment points out that MySQL has quirks that helps you shoot yourself in the foot moreso than other engines. Eventually you will slip up, no matter how diligent you are. The argument is that it's easier to slip up and with more frequency in MySQL, so when faced with a choice there are safer alternatives.
There may be no need to genetically engineer trees for construction at this point, at least not in north america. Some kind of beetle (or was it a fungus?) has killed off a mind boggling number of trees which can be used as engineered wood in construction. As CLT and maybe Brettstapel.
"The Curve of Binding Energy", John McPhee. Also some original research.