skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a kind of revisionist argument that I read a lot. The Bretton Woods system only existed for about 30 years until it collapsed from a variety of pressures; it was unsustainable. Even during its short lifetime various suboptimal policy adjustments were required to maintain it.

I think it's a mistake to attribute the stability of the post-war world economy to the Bretton Woods system alone; there are numerous factors that coincided. Bretton Woods probably helped to some extent insofar as it allowed the US to rapidly exert a lot of influence, but we in the US still do that now without the Bretton Woods system.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/nixon-shock
> Japan blamed SK for taking action.

According to the article you linked Japan blamed China and Russia, not SK
John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel laureate who studied superconductivity, dies at 88
The Moon is older than previously believed
Because mined diamonds have at least some resale value compared to the lab grown diamonds prices - which are a race to the bottom.
So one of these units would cost 1-1.5 million (if my math is correct) - that doesn't actually sound too expensive for utilities like this, especially given how operating costs would be lower than the gas peaker wotsits that were mentioned earlier.
As mentioned in another comment, I posted this because it’s interesting and encouraging as a Baltimore resident.
> "tell me what it does, not how it does it"

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It's not always obvious to decipher what it does, either.
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There are already companies out there doing 'biometric' analysis of user sessions to discern between authentic, fraudulent and automated sessions, and they're already being applied to things such as loss prevention in financial firms.

I had always assumed that this sort of analysis was already done on the 'slider captchas'. It wouldn't surprise me if this becomes a thing.

Humans are almost never going hit the exact centre of the box, and unless the browser does some smoothing I suspect they never swipe smoothly and horizontally.
JS already has immutable objects with `Object.freeze()`.

Personally I just use TypeScript which can enforce not mutating at compile time (for the most part).
Really? Because I've used for free for a long time, with seemingly no content blocked by a paywall.
Soon you’ll be able to watch PBS on YouTube
Object.fromEntries will be super useful, surprised it’s taken this long to become a native feature.
There's nothing like going up to a white board and covering it in obscure Z-Notation hieroglyphics for winning technical arguments
How is gold more real than debt?

To me debt is far superior. Debt means you have a commitment from a human (directly or indirectly, if the debt is owed by an organization). Gold has no inherent value at all apart from some minor uses of relatively small amounts in the economy. Except by agreement, which debt also has.

An example for debt-based I once read somewhere was a kid writing an IOU for garden work. As long as the debt is not paid - i.e. the kid does the work and the IOU is destroyed - that piece of paper circulates through the neighborhood. It has real value (actual work). This example also illustrates what's wrong with calling for all debts to be repaid, which makes sense for the individual but not for the economy (like so many or maybe even most suggestions around money and power, where things that work very well for someone make no sense if applied to everybody, the difference between "works for anyone" and "works for everyone").
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Care to link where you got your data from? I looked quickly and everything agreed with him.
Contact me on LinkedIn if you are seriously interested in pursuing something like this :)

We, at Liquid Diamonds, are building an online exchange for naturally mined diamonds; think Nasdaq for diamonds.
https://liquid.diamonds/
Not sure, if this is what you want: https://www.clevver.io/

There are others, like https://www.ukpostbox.com/address/free-po-box-rental , which offer free or cheap street or po box addresses with scanning of incoming items.
Another death on trail to 'Magic Bus' from Into The Wild won't stop adventurers
Wholesale prices are location specific. The northeast has quite a bit of pumped storage, but it’s a poor location for solar power, and not that good for wind either. That wholesale market looks very different from say California or Texas. Further, you need infrastructure to transport power to and from the pumped storage and generation. Several ways or model this, but increased costs are the simplest.

Price inversions are also generally rare and location specific, pumped storage wants to operate every day and can’t wait for unusual events thus increasing their average prices. Further as you increase storage you change the local market reducing price swings. More to the point a company that’s building both generation and storage for say an island needs to build extra production to be guaranteed to fill up that storage. It’s only useful with surplus generation and guaranteed surplus is not free.

As to solar production prices that’s completely independent of wholesale prices. These deals involve low prices specifically because of the intermittent nature of solar power and it’s close correlation with other solar production. The fear for these operators is the wholesale market changing over the next 20 years with ever more and ever cheaper solar not how the current market operates.
Dump them in the poles then.
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It likely wouldn't be a big bang replace job, just a few cells / year. That won't do much for the total cost of ownership, but would avoid bursts. Also, I don't know what that would cost, nor how much the alternative solutions currently in place cost. I'm sure Tesla will spin it so that their TCO looks a lot more attractive than their competitors.

Also, who knows where battery technology might be in ten years; given that these are modular batteries, they could replace them over time with higher capacity ones.
It does, though I wouldn't go to the same conclusion. It gives more freedom to the developer. They are lot of cases where errors are in fact, expected. Parsing a user inputted JSON. Making a request to check internet connection availability. Any promise that is going to be consumed by an async - await pattern. In those cases (and many more), you may want to try something just simply to see if it works. It's completely different say to being on the backend, trying to write to a database which may or may not fail.

In those cases, forcing the extra parameter in the catch, even though you are not using it, is slightly annoying. I mean it's literally 3 characters, but in this age of linters encouraging to not specify arguments you don't use, it just feels unnatural.
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Mongolia's Capital Banned Coal to Fix Its Pollution Problem. Will It Work?
Release notes:

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
Replace all air in the facility with Halon. That'll put out most fires.
Solving a puzzle would be much more fun than identifying street lights

But that wouldn't give Google free data annotations.
Par for the course with shipping companies in my experience.

They're pretty damn good when everything goes according to plan, but when something unexpected happens it turns into a nightmare.
I really like Python's design here, if we are not talking about full on language features to enforce immutability, where functions that mutate never return a value and are named with verbs (e.g. 'sort()'), while functions that don't mutate return their value and are named with adjectives (e.g. 'sorted()'). This feels natural - mutations are actions, while pure functions are descriptions.

The only real downside is the lack of return values mean you can't chain mutations, but personally that never bothered me.
With an Eye Toward Lower Emissions, Clean Air Travel Gets Off the Ground
Not necessarily. The idea here is that the customer has an idea about what he wants, but has only a vague idea about what he actually _needs_, and no idea about what is technologically possible.

Methods like XP embrace that by allowing requirements to change over time, to account for the customer accumulating more knowledge about all three areas.
Tommorrow's headlines - Goats in Ethiopia have eaten 350 million trees.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zctymnb/revision/4

http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/11/importance-goats-east-africas...
>the (unverified) rumour that I was told is that they built a matchbox sized singe use battery that in theory could power a car for 400 kms.

Unless it was run off of antimatter this is just flat out made up. Even if you start with the assumption that that matchbox sized battery was 100% solid aluminum that was oxidized to aluminum oxide to release energy and 100% of that energy was usable power that still only gives you 2.2MJ of energy. To put this into perspective a 15 gallon tank of gas contains ~1940MJ worth of energy and while an internal combustion engine is relatively inefficient, it's not like it's going to use almost a thousand times as much energy to go the same distance.
That's called successful marketing.
I love statements like: We are aiming for 70% code coverage!
I think there's a lot of room for finer-grained permissions. Why is it that removing (uBlock Origin), adding (Stylus), and modifying (Privacy Badger) elements all require the same permissions?
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But the problem is that quality and sales go together, no? You can't really separate the two, unless your business model involves actively deceiving customers. This dichotomy is analogous to how UX is sometimes thought of as lipstick put on functionality, where in actuality it should be integral to the design and implementation of said functionality

Probably what you meant is that level of quality needed is only as much as is needed to generate the requisite level of sales. The problem then becomes one of judgment: management consistently under-estimates the level of quality required, or they focus on the wrong sort of quality. The world is full of bad products simply because of such issues.
The money one holds always has ties to the people surrounding its owner, no matter if those people are known, unknown, born or unborn (I honestly didn't understand the thing about the unborn people, as we as a society do lots of societal stuff for the people not yet born), and in that regards money is indeed one of the most social/societal things ever. As a matter of fact sociology itself as a science was partly born as a result of Georg Simmel's book called "The Philosophy of Money" [1], published more than 100 years ago.

> Probably considered Simmel's greatest work, Simmel saw money as a structuring agent that helps us understand the totality of life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money
The biggest downside to large corporations is the feeling of powerlessness you have. Good thing this guy was only shipping some paper. I've been screwed by corporations before and there will literally be no possible recourse for someone like us to fix the scenario if the corporation decides not to help. The amount is always too little to sue, but enough to make us homeless or unable to pay our bills. It's fucking disgusting. It's sad we rely and enjoy so many services that would be difficult to do without these large unmoving and immoral beuracracies, but this is the world our overlords have chosen for us.
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Under symbol.description:

const test = Symbol("Desc");

testSymbol.description; // "Desc"

---------

Should testSymbol be replaced with test?
All the mitochondrial lineages trace out of Africa in relatively recent times. This is more to do with genetic incompatibility between closely related species.
A reality check on the role of machine learning in cybersecurity
I think the point was that China would take advantage of the energy weakness of other countries during the winter somehow.
I still don't understand why neither JSs var or let allow you to redefine the variable with the same name.

I makes chaining things while debugging so much harder:

let a = a.project();
let a = debug(a);
let a = a.eject();

vs

let a1 = a.project();
let a1d = debug(a1);
let a2 = a1d.eject();
To be fair, you should compare to a demographic group similar to Foxconn workers. Comparison to the whole population may not be very informative due to confounders.
A lot of crime does indeed go unsolved because of people keeping their mouths shut.
The problem with diamonds, unlike stocks and commodities, is that there is no price discovery or liquidity in diamonds.

We, at Liquid Diamonds, are looking to change that :)
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Then bot makers will start applying fuzzing to the movements, randomly placing the cursor inside a region over the target, varying the speed, releasing the slider and trying again, etc.

There's no reason yet to go to such lenghts, so the extra effort would be wasted, but as soon as it becomes necessary, someone will do it.
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'They could achieve anything any other human could in their lives.'

this is just preaching
> for(let e of arr) e = b

Is that just

arr.map( e => b )

?
The way I see it, Captchas are an approach to fend off _untargeted_ spam bots. If someone specifically targets your website and tailors his spam bot accordingly, then you have a problem, but that is not inherent to Slider Captchas.

On the other hand, a Slider is much more user friendly than a scrambled image or having to select all pictures with light bulbs.

So I think this article misses the point a bit...
"Starting at US$6,250/month (Billed Annually)"

No lunch is free, the small plan is a single dev and max 100 users. Which means, once you go have 101 customers you'll have to charge users at minimum 62,5$/mo just to cover expenses.

I'm not saying that's not cheap for what you get, but the "free" constraints are there.
> Blender 2.80 is almost ready! The stable release will be available in the coming days.

It is not stable release, Release Candidate 3
Having quality software is a force multiplier for everything else.
"we did nothing"

Who?

These companies get sued, that is a reaction.

Congress? Well if you make a law twice as illegal, I'm sure that will make it stop /s.

No one wants to be hacked, let's not pretend there is no fallout from ignoring security.
I said this on the other HN thread about CapitalOne but I found it ridiculous that Aaron Swartz was facing a hefty sentence and the culprit behind this hack last I checked is facing up to 5 years??? What the heck?

For every person exposed in this hack is a single victim to be added. Not to mention the numerous indirectly affected people part of small businesses. Aaron Swartz hacked some ebooks by comparison harming only a school.

Can the punishment for crimes stop being absurd. I am only reserving further outrage because those are the current charges against the hacker. We know more can pile up as they learn more.

Really though if that kind of PII can give you access to ruin someones financial life then it should be made harder to get credit cards. If you dont have a drivers license and other things to show you shouldnt get a credit card.
Hard to believe that
const arr4 = [1, 2, , 4, 5];
is valid.
An externality is a cost someone incurs that they didn't consciously choose. They can absolutely be involved in the trade. For one thing, excessive sugar intake is a blight on children. Childhood obesity is an epidemic on this country fueled by the corn industry. Excessive HFCS is in everything from applesauce to bread to juice boxes. It's hard to argue children are actively involved in the trade.

But it applies to adults too who purchase the goods. Most people if you ask them don't realize how much sugar is in the food they consume, and they don't understand the connection between sugar consumption and heart disease. No one chooses heart disease.

People can read a percentage or a gram count on the packaging, sure, but the nature of sugar is that of addiction. It's not just that people like sugar, it's that we are wired to want to consume it, and Big Sugar takes advantage of that by loading a surprising amount of our food with too much of it. Many people are surprised to learn their bread has sugar in it. Even with soda they are surprised just how much is in a can if you measure it out physically on the table in front of them. People aren't well-informed about what they are consuming and the long term health related effects, and even if they are they are too addicted to stop. Big Sugar knows this and takes full advantage, because millions of people dying every year does not affect their bottom line (and they can easily replace their old, dead customers with new, young ones)
Note that lock-free is not always faster because contention is complicated.
Thank you - exactly what I was looking for.
I love your last paragraph. It's extremely intuitive and yet I don't think I've ever seen it explained that way.
Faith is the only real money. The only thing money measures is optimism about the future - both micro ("I am optimistic that you can repay this loan") macro ("I am optimistic this country's military spending and worker-hostile environment guarantees my investment will be protected"), corporate ("I am optimistic about the contents of this earnings call"), and specific ("I have more faith in this asset class than in other asset classes.")

Crashes are a manic-depressive devotional cycle. Collective optimism becomes stretched to delusional levels. Then it snaps, pessimism and debt paranoia take over, the central government has to make reassuring noises which reassure the right people, and the hype cycle can begin again.

Gold is a faith-token - valued because it's heavy and shiny and because there's a long tradition of valuing it when investors become pessimistic about more evanescent asset classes, not because of its relatively limited practical utility.

Fiat money is just faith-token money without a tangible base. The process by which it gains/loses trust is the same.

The tangible items that aren't primarily faith-based are land and housing, so they do well as reliable investments. But even they're not faith-free, because they will still lose value in an area if no one believes it has a future.
At most large companies, IT sets the policy and developers are required to work within that policy. I've worked at about 10 jobs. The only one where devs could write their own ticket was a startup
Tess hits the trifecta: Nearby bright star has 3 interesting planets
If the Wikipedia page for the Law Library of Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Library_of_Congress) is to believed (and I see no reason why it shouldn't be), then the Law Library of Congress contains 2.8 million books on the subject of Law, alone.

That's a lot of books on Law.

You seem to be telling me (by implication) that

a) That the sanctions are absolute, because they are Law.

b) That all people, under all circumstances, must follow all absolute Laws.

c) That in the 2.8 million Law books, there are no conflicting Law or Laws.

d) That in the 2.8 million Law books, there are no Laws, written at an earlier time, that govern the passage of laws at a later time, and what they may or may not contain;

e) That no trials, nor court interpretation of a Law in the broader context of all other Laws -- are necessary ever.

f) That courts have never interpreted similar Laws and changed, modified, and/or deleted their efficacy;

If I am misreading you then please feel free to correct me.

But, my point is simply this. If someone placed $1,000,000 on a table, and told me to bet that that "Law" was absolute in all of its aspects, and that he would bet against me, based on what I know, I could not take that bet...
That's a great writeup. I wonder if there is some further server-side validation going on. It doesn't seem like the author actually submitted the forms - there could be further checks.
Based on what?

When I visit https://lightyear.one/ the default location for the range estimate is "Rotterdam, Netherlands" and the default display is "year max" which is "5311 Wh, 59 km per day"

Firstly, the moment you select "Summer" that drops to "2731 Wh, 30 km per day" so the headline figure of 59km is already exceeding even their claimed summer range by almost 100%. So they're fudging figures right from the front page.

Secondly, that's 6.9 miles per kWh, whereas the Tesla Model 3 gets 4.1 EPA-rated miles per kWh [1]. So they're going to be 69% more efficient than Tesla?

A 69% increase in efficiency is a 40% drop in battery cost for the same range. To me it seems unlikely that Tesla, Hyundai, Nissan, Kia, Mercedes, Jaguar and Audi would have all left a cost saving that big on the table, if it was easy to achieve.

Thirdly, [2] says the Lightyear One has "five square meters of integrated solar cells", and that "The 12 km/h added by the solar roof and hood during daylight exposure extends the range as you drive", i.e. 7.4 miles/hour of solar charging. Even assuming they're 69% more efficient than Tesla, that means they're getting 1.08kW out of 5m² of solar panels.

For comparison, if you look at a random rooftop solar installation in California [3] with 40m² of panels, from 9am-5pm the mean output was 4.5kW - so with 5m² of panels, the output would only average 0.55kW. So the Lightyear One claims 96% more output - even making the very generous assumptions that "during daylight" is only the peak 8 hours a day, that the shade and angle of the car panels are as good as a residential rooftop solar installation, and ignoring winter and places less sunny than California. Unless they're using solar panels made of Unobtainium, used in price-no-object applications like satellites, this seems unlikely to me.

Seems to me there are two possibilities here:

1. They've developed an EV 69% more efficient than a Tesla, AND solar panels 96% more efficient than rooftop solar, AND rather than selling either of those technologies to the existing car or solar companies that would very much like them, they've decided to start their own car company.

2. They're quoting efficiency figures for driving at golf cart speeds, or solar figures for noon in the Sahara desert, or daily range figures assuming you'll visit a plug-in charger every so often.

I know which I think is more likely - and my €149,000 will be staying firmly in my pocket.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119556_tesla-model-3-r...
[2] https://lightyear.one/lightyear-one/
[3] https://pvoutput.org/intraday.jsp?id=21356&sid=19238&dt=2019...
Is Jurgen Etienne Guido Debo Satoshi?
But.....that means you are assuming that all reactors have failure modes of an RBMK reactor - which is just simply not true.
> Off Topic but from what little I saw, the content on TikTok is pure cancer.

Mate you're an indian cunt. Fuck off.
I agree with the 10 seconds problem. But that’s a problem with Youtube’s implementation - nothing to do with fair use, incidentals or copyright law.

Edit: having replied to another comment, I think I’ve realised something. IIRC The original YouTube license deal with PRS meant that they only sent over video level data - no cue sheets of music tracks etc. They specifically wanted this in their license. So their current implementation might be a remnant of that.

News and educational content actually have quite narrow scope. And those episodes/segments probably wouldn’t fall under that scope.

And then you have to take into account the overall purpose of the channel. Which is not one of news/education.

People watch it for entertainment much like the old Michael Palin travel documentaries. None of which are considered news or educational.
You can generally tell the auto-formatter to ignore extra lines of code.

Most of the things that get covered by a formatter are eminently sensible.