skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have some sources? All windfarms I know of are designed for at least 25 years. Not many have reached that age yet, so if they last is yet to be seen.

The first offshore wind farm Vindeby was decommissioned in 2016 (after 25 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindeby_Offshore_Wind_Farm

In 2015 Yttre Stengrund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttre_Stengrund_offshore_wind_...) was decommissioned after only 14 years in service. But that was a really small park and the decision to do so was mainly economical as the turbines were rare and thus spare parts expensive.
had just a few (<10) and really small (<2MW) turbines. Currently parks are designed/built with perhaps 100x9MW turbines. Because fo the scale differnece, older parks are reach end of life more for economical than purely technical reasons. The same reason why computers only lasted a few years in the early 2000's: they just became so much better so quickly that there was no economic point in holding on to them for more than that.
True, but this seems like a reasonable exception, in that it provides context as to why post the link now.
They won’t replace it right away but a spelunker will eventually get to it after some years.
the 3900x base clock is actually higher.
Likewise (I 2nd L1Techs btw). Having 16 cores/ 32 threads will greatly aid testing server applications. Making multi-threading & locking issues much more apparent (Amdahl's law) than they would on a slightly older CPU with only 4-6 cores (a i7 6700k in my case).
> and user contributed

There's been a lot of debate in the enthusiasts community, but reviewers believe that user benchmarks don't have much value. There's so much variation in software, cooling, RAM speed, GPU speed, etc. Even misconfigurations like different running background apps can skew the results.

However, for a processor that's been in the market for a while, I think userbenchmarks is a good site to look at the aggregate data. Their rankings were recently updated to disfavor AMD chips, so don't take those too seriously. But for head-to-head comparisons of processors with a lot of users, you can get a good idea of how much faster a processor is.

However, I disagree that review sites should consider "user data" because 1) these are new processors and people who read these reviews are usually early adopters who want to make a buying decision and 2) the testing setup and methodology is a time consuming and scientific process and shouldn't be discounted by just asking random people to run an app.
Worth noting that we took 60 years after the great smogs of the 1950s before cleaning St Paul's Cathedral
I don't mean to insult your comment, but this is the first time I've heard someone say "think of the birds!"

How many birds are the turbines killing and what kind of impact is it having on ecosystems?
I understand being somewhat cynical about acquisitions under certain circumstances, but expecting ruin or a pivot of this sort feels like quite a leap to me. Are there other examples of profitable SAAS companies, particularly ones with enterprise offerings, later pivoting to that extreme? I understand selling lots of ads happens after an Instagram acquisition. (They're buying eyeballs/attention after all.) But this feels like a totally different beast to me.
A Problem of Ramanujan
Also includes a big, new, labeled(!), public dataset of high-resolution satellite imagery, covering a variety of natural disasters around the globe. Freely available for download.

+ this article from NASA shares some additional context: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/applied-sciences/maki...

So good to see tech and data resources being used to stimulate progress on such a relevant and urgent problem.

I'm part of the xView2 team, happy to answer questions, technical or otherwise...
Once you can have a single BAT wallet that is used by all your devices (another feature that I assume is in the works), it will make a bit more sense to buy BAT with dollars (instead of with ad views).

If you're making that purchase, you might as well time it with a down-swing in the price (or away from an up-swing). Some users will spend more cycles on timing their buys than others, and those users will have a stabilizing effect on the price.

Also, the price of BAT in USD over the last 60 days has stayed between 0.12 and 0.24... it's not exactly as crazy as you're making it out to be.
Ask HN: What are good books for learning JavaScript?
As already said by others, Phoronix has some compilation benchmarks.

I have recently bought a 3900X. Some things about compilation I would note is that it heavily depends on your programming language and tooling. And that you would note is that you get most benefits on clean builds of big projects, which scale very well per core. On incremental builds or smaller projects it is however not uncommon to see < 25% of the CPU being used. That is especially with Rust, where a single compilation unit (crate) is compiled in a single-threaded fashion. Might be better with C or C++. But then again linking might also be blockers.

It's all nice and fast, but on day to day use you likely won't see a 100% speed increase compared to a 3600.
Very nice. This guy is going places.

Hey Rodrigo so how performant do you think this didactic example would be compared to React? Maybe 80% there?
Could 'invisible barcodes' revolutionise recycling?
Chilean protestors take down police drone using lasers
Node.js Project Structure
And then puking them up!
The Great Paper Caper (2014)
I haven't found anything about police in the article.
I don't have the exact grouping on hand, but I'm able to run a Ryzen 2700x (8 core) with a 2080 (Windows VM GPU) and wx4100 (manjaro host GPU) all on a GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 5.

USB passthrough with an Startech USB PCI-E card was a bit problematic as the group was not isolated. Turned out the 2080 has a USB controller for the type C (I'm told for VR).
If HK goes dark, will SpaceX Starlink/Google Loon deploy in the area?
>hard water makes it difficult to rinse soap off

Isn't it the opposite (i.e. soft water is the problematic one)?
If the PM lies about this to Morningstar, they are in violation of the law.

Specifically, I believe that they would fall afoul of FINRA Rule 2210 [0] and SEC Rule 34b-1 [1].

(I run a financial firm, but am not a lawyer, so they may target different rules specifically for the issue of bond duration.)

[0] - https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/2...
[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/270.34b-1
"At the age of 17, Nobel Laureate Physicist Abdus Salam found a 2-page long elegant proof of one of Ramanujan's problems. This was his 1st paper ever published..."

https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/118916752447211929...
I think the intent is less moaning about it - and more learning about the blocking points so they can be better surmounted. At the very least, perhaps the blocking points can be avoided in the future. Those who do not learn from history... etc etc.
> looking through the summary one of the standard features was "over-the-air updates". That is the last thing in the world I want.

I agree. Under no circumstance would I buy a vehicle that is connected to the internet or is capable of wireless communications, unless I could physically disable that and still be able to use the vehicle.

The industry seems to differ, though, so I pretty much expect that any car I own in my lifetime will be a rather old one.
Co-mingling inventory.

Amazon isn't a marketplace. It's warehouse where the real goods are mixed in with the fake goods and you can't buy directly from a specific seller.

The fix is to stop co-mingling and allow users to buy directly from a seller. That would be a true marketplace platform. Sellers shouldn't need to pay Amazon for an add-on anti-counterfeiting service to fix a problem they created.
I think it's pure ignorance on the part of the author, thinking that text-to-speech is somehow harder than speech-to-speech with a voice change.
Fully agree with you, best option is to start your own blog using either Blogger.com or a statically hosted site at Github.com (they allow static-hosting). And if you can spend some money on it, why not register your own domain and go for your own Wordpress or Drupal hosted site? Own your content and be your own master if you call yourself a developer!
So disappointing journalists never understand the difference between power and energy. The opening sentences make me cringe so much I don't even want to read the rest of the article

> Last month the American wind industry hit a major milestone — 100 gigawatts of total installed capacity. That's enough electricity to power the state of California and New Jersey combined for one year.
Frank Bourassa counterfeited $250M USD, and only had to pay a fine of less than $2K
"average user wants Material Design" - is that a fact or just a wishful thinking from people trying to push said design?

EDIT: Personally for me while I find for example older windows interfaces ugly they were very consistent and functional. In modern designs I sometimes could hardly find what is clickable/actionable. It is not interface working for me but the other way around
Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews
On the topic of not enough carrot, I’m curious how impactful the end of support for python2 will be. How many programs stuck in python2 are encountering bugs in the runtime?
Wouldn’t have taken much effort to verify this. Doesn’t even sound like he was that sure it was his CEO, just says he had a German accent and a similar melody. You’d think for a transfer this large he would want to be a bit more certain than that!
A cloud you can control yourself.
That latter part happens all the time, it’s called SIM swapping.
I wouldn't be surprised if the domestic HK security services haven't already sunk their claws deep into this organization... Pretty much every pipe is being tapped in western countries and I'm sure in Asia too.

Of course explicitly controlling it and manipulating it is a bit different.

This is probably a better article than the Wikipedia:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1269773/hong-kon...
You've got to be incredibly concerned about feral domesticated cats and window collisions, which kill 1,000-10,000 times more birds annually (on the upper end between the two orders of magnitude) between them.
Cool to see this on HN. I briefly worked there on a closely related project during high school after this paper was published. It was my first real experience doing wet lab work-- learned a bunch, met cool people, was fun. (Also did a lot of pipetting and PCR.)
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That's great to see, thanks. I thought I had asked about it some time ago to no avail. Still, if the interest is moving the front forward, making it available as cc-by would be nice, so people could use and contribute their own analysis around it.
Who are you, and why are you seeming to post these sources multiple times?
This is pure conspiracy theory through "news" sources that have highly dubious credentials.
HN shouldn't be fueling this kind of unsubstantiated speculation.
Along a similar vein, Sophie Alpert did a talk[1] at React Conf this year on building your own React custom renderer by using implementing the interfaces that React exposes. Sophie explains how you could use React as a declarative API for pretty much any platform if you wanted, similar to how react-native works.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGpMlWVcHok
It was my impression that the main reason for building offshore is because the winds are much more steady there. The definition of trade wind is a "permanent prevailing wind"; building someplace with "permanent" winds sounds like a good idea to me.
Should we also have private companies arrest people who the police say have committed a crime?

Hey! That guy is in your restaurant. Hold him down before we get there. If you don't comply then you are in contempt.
Fallout: New Vegas, a bunch of Telltale games, Myst/Riven, dozens of JRPGs (Chrono Trigger/Cross come to mind immediately) with branching endings and characters who survive or die based on player actions. Yeah, games are made all the time where the player has a meaningful impact on the game world.
I'd dispute this. I built a vector tile package out of OpenStreetMap a couple of years ago. This gives you offline building level mapping for the entire globe on an SD card, and can be displayed on a smartphone app. Whilst OSM isn't perfect and coverage is variable, one would have to get pretty far off the beaten track for it not to be of at least some practical use. So with this capability all you need is a charged phone and you can travel anywhere in the world knowing you have at least some sort of mapping even without a network connection. I suspect one would need a truck to transport the equivalent in paper maps.
Not many at all. Wind turbines pose a negligible risk to birds:

http://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-sl...
Its why he posted the link. Not what the link is about.
Maybe, but that just makes us bigger, more complicated robots because we too have our behavior influenced by parasites and viruses.
Ford pins electric future on new Mustang Mach-E
English semantic parsing is small part of AGI. And a system that can only do that or only for one language is never going to be general.
> My god, what are we spreading here?

Putting aside whether or not the claims are true, why are you reacting as if this is particularly damaging or shocking?
It's factual that Beijing does seek to censor and control information everywhere in China, and it's factual that they're currently attacking CUHK.
What a beautiful article. I have read Bayes many times and each time just when I thought I had it it slipped away. This article does a beautiful job of explaining Bayes in simple terms and its application in classification. Thank you!
It's interesting that, the more stars you filter by, the higher Go climbs up the list. It eventually passes both C and C++.
Lattices seem like they'll have great value, in general, once higher dimensional data structures become common geometric orientations like in crypto apps and databases.
By definition, you cannot have complete information or you wouldn't have risk.

Maybe you are trying to say something else?
> any examples of any games [...] that let you meaningfully impact the game world?

Dwarf Fortress
I myself, speaking for my self and only my self find that, in regards to myself, the redundant self keyword, in my self's opinion, is somewhat selfish and easy for my self to accidentally omit. Self.
Betteridge.
Trust is under full on assault by the nefarious among us.

I ask you, how will we be able to trust moving forward? Will all transacting be in person? We can fake id's too.

How will we be able to verify reality in this age of deception?
Yes. Land based ones are often on plains or ridges. Steady and unimpeded wind is why aerial and offshore have better EROI.
You should really listen to the modern WaveNet samples.

I can't distinguish most of them from human, even knowing ahead of time which one is which:

English: https://r9y9.github.io/wavenet_vocoder/

English: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adapt...

Japanese: https://r9y9.github.io/demos/projects/icassp2020/
There are some rather clever Discord bots with this capability and I relish in it.
The posting of this link with this title does not seem to adhere to HN guidelines, even though I see your intentions. I think it will soon be removed/moderated, but meanwhile, I did want to pose a technical question.

I feel that the monitoring of traffic is unlikely. To clarify, this is not about taking a pro-China side, but more on technical aspect. Most modern web traffic happens in some form of encryption (most commonly https/ssl) and some are end-to-end encrypted (various messenger apps). Filtering is certainly possible/likely (just like the great firewall), but monitoring seems difficult (in the case of https traffic) or impossible (in the case of end-to-end encryption... hopefully impossible at least?). There'd have to be hardware-level/low-level trojans planted in individual devices to make that possible. Which isn't to say it's unlikely (from what we've heard in the past few years), but only that it's unlikely to happen with just a hostage of HKIX.
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Transferring $230,000 to your cousin's account, and hoping to stay out of jail, by telling everyone that a deep-fake CEO told you to do that is an incredibly dumb way to steal.

I mean, people do incredibly dumb things, so it is certainly possible. I doubt it, though.
I was eager to hear more about the Popcorn, but after reading the specs, it doesn't really meet my needs. However, if I can install Linux on the Gemini, that looks like a perfect fit! Thanks for reminding me of that.
> I think it's quite unlikely his solo work in a new domain will leapfrog an entire field of researchers.

Researchers didn't build the first airplane. Nicolaus Otto, Carl Benz, Gottfried Daimler also weren't researchers. AGI will be a program and not a research paper and John Carmack is pretty good at getting those right.
> simple email server

These days, DKIM is necessary for even the simplest of email servers that wants to interact with any of the major email platforms.
I bought the LG 27UL850, I have a 2019 XPS 13.

I don't run Windows so I can't answer that but Ubuntu 19.04 runs fine, although I've had minor issues with the laptop coming out of sleep and not outputting to the display occasionally.

EDIT: It's really nice in portrait for coding. I don't use the supplied stand but a desk mounted arm.
Epoch times is a newspaper created by the Falun Gong cult FYI.
You will find people using Hackintosh machines with AMD cpu's just fine (as much as fine it is possible for a Hackintosh, that is).
Is Docker in Trouble?
There is zero information to backup the claim this was a deepfake and not just impersonation.
PC Culture Does Not Exist. It’s a Myth
Those patios are next door and above Dick’s hamburgers. The patios are beautiful but the smell must be incredible.
To be clear it's a shift from 8C8T to 8C16T (8C with SMT). The main change here is a massive (~3x) improvement in per-core performance.

It's not actually a shift to (significantly) more threading but actually a shift to more per-core performance, like desktop PCs currently use. Consoles are getting desktop-like processors for the first time.

This is creating quite a bit of anxiety in the desktop gaming community since high framerates depend on desktop processors being able to significantly outperform consoles on a per-core basis, and that will no longer be the case.
Excellent content. I did find that the code previews in the side bar occasionally changed before or after I expected. I understand the intent with having them adjacent rather than inline ... but I'd probably prefer inline. It would be nice to make this an option of the presentation format.
This is such a good point. Take SQL. It has survived because it is well designed, and changes so little and so slowly, and it’s obvious what SQL is and isn’t meant for. Amateur programmers can port SQL queries between database systems semi-painlessly. In the right environment a query can survive with small edits for YEARS.

Who wants to break old SQL? Nobody.
Wondering how The Salt Lake Tribune got 501(c)(3) status?
Oh right. I meant to say anonymous (mostly male) super-critical narcissistic arrogant shaming-happy vote-whores.

But also, less than 10% of Stack Overflow users are women.
You don't even need toothpaste. Taste is also a state of mind thing.

Bet a friend/family member that they can’t taste the difference between whole/2%/1%/skim milk, or some combination thereof. Blindfold them and have them begin tasting the milks. Now, replace the last milk with orange juice. The brain prepares the body for milk, and the unexpected acidity usually causes a gag reflex, and sometimes vomiting. Keep a bucket handy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlhfIN_qbEk
>How many birds is it worth sacrificing to build huge wind turbine farms instead of compact nuclear reactors?

As many as it takes to keep even more birds being sacrificed to keep fossil fuel plants (and in particular coal) running longer. I certainly support nuclear for non-terrestrial-power reasons, but the fact of the matter is that it just doesn't have the free market power going for it that solar and wind do and thus I don't think it can be competitive fast enough. Solar and wind have enormously lower capex, enormously faster iteration, and avoid security, military, and geopolitics concerns that affect much of the global population. That in turn means they have a lot more raw scale potential too.

Nuclear has foot print advantages and many designs may have lower impact in other ways (though be careful, issues like where to dump heat can be significant such as a river getting too hot). More importantly in my mind, nuclear expertise will be necessary for space and they're important sources of very important isotopes. But on power alone I think their moment has probably passed. It'd be a very different story if we had internalized carbon emissions and had a Free Market in energy decades ago, but at this point I don't think bringing up nuclear as a contrast to renewables is very helpful or interesting on its own.
Thats a great idea thanks. It's a shame the monitor didn't integrate this for when I switch display input, I was hoping to reduce the number of cables and boxes I use :(
Wind power doesn't scale down well at all.
But manufacturing and installing wind turbines would be $1T/year revenue, since that's where their investment goes.
It matters for engineers reading the article. It doesn't matter for the business. What they delivered was good enough. Could they have delivered a better solutions? Yes.

Should they have searched for a better solution instead of implementing the one they found? They could have spent some time researching, but you can always miss something. It's better to err on the side of delivering something now with a not-so-good solution than constantly searching for a better one.

I say this as software developer who is obsessed with efficiency. I'm starting to turn around and focus more on just delivering.
So a fake deepfake - not sure where this is going to end.
This is great.

Implementing core libraries/frameworks you use day-to-day, from scratch / for fun, is one of the best and most practical ways to level up as a dev.
The only purpose of this "story" is just like the goals of Russian-fueled (or whoever) fake planted news -- to confuse and prevent people from having a clear understanding of what's going on.

You advocate for allowing unsubstantiated news to be spread just because it fits into your view of what China admittedly has done in the past?

Couldn't this story have been spread by the protestors to get people on their side with fake motivations?
> They now need to hit $1BB or die trying

What are you basing this off exactly? The only case where failing to hit valuation targets can kill a company, is when the company is reliant on continued funding to operate. A profitable company is free to disappoint it's investors in any way it chooses.
https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe...

Hundreds of thousands, apparently
Presentation is amazing here.

That said, I recently wrote a webcomponent based router and I was surprised at how easy it was to get to a very usable point at such a minimal amount of code. All too often I get in the loop of just `npm i`'ing whatever it is I need, even if the functionality I really need is just a tiny subset of whatever huge library I'm importing.

Rodrigo's right that something like this helps you understand React and how to contribute to the codebase, but I think it goes further than that - it lets you understand that the library isn't magic. It gives you the confidence you need to think that maybe you don't need that full 560kb library.
> Smartphone keyboards with glide typing function very well for language

I have literally never been able to make those work acceptably well.