skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not compared to doing pretty much anything else with that power. Which includes easy things like pumping water uphill, charging lithium batteries, or just making H2 and distributing that into the gas grid directly.

To make CH4 from CO2 takes 8 electrons at (near enough) 2V, giving 1 / (96450 * 8) moles CH4 per amp second. Per tonne, that works out to roughly 1000$/tonne CH4 or 2900$/tonne CO2. Assm 4c/kwh.

So with an exceptionally efficient process requiring negligible capital expense or labor it is possible to convert 3000$ and one tonne of CO2 into 200$ of natural gas. Short of making rocket fuel on Mars, I'm not smelling even the slightest whiff of an application: which is why I am so derisive of the article's proposal - charitably it is at best proposing the equivalent of solar roadways.
Feel free to add some more facts/sources/links to prove your claim please.

Brave proxies requests [1] to Google to ensure they do not get the details of the website you are visiting.

1. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected...
You get “bat” ethereum tokens for every ad displayed, which you can sell for a profit or “tip” websites as a sort of microtransaction.
But what constitutes the most salient points is a matter of opinion. Which explains the considerable length of the NYT obituary[1] In such a lengthy piece, which omitted items could the blogger think were more important than the boy scout lobbing? Because that did affect quite a few thousand lives.

Of course to those who don't think gay's have a legitimate claim to rights, emphasizing discrimination is just a political attack on an otherwise good guy. Just as Fifty years ago bringing up a "good" man's discrimination against African American would be called politically liberal bias. Just as a hundred years before that the legality of Mormonism was merely a political topic, completely unimportant when describing the overall charter of a man.

Those who feel that lgbt people _do_ have these rights will obviously think those who act against those rights are crucially defined by that opposition.

For contrast, consider an extremely philanthropic atheist had worked hard to keep Mormons out of the boy scouts. Should the NYT down play that or would it shameless biased and political to mention it?

It turns out, the NYT wrote a lengthy obituary covering Monson's acts and including boy scout lobbing. And since that last is of extreme interest to millions of people, it certainly qualifies as important enough to be in a paper.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-...
67% for right time (i.e. <1min late) arrival seems to be pretty average. I’d be more interested in the % of arrival at destination within 5mins as that’s the standard used in many countries and thus easier to compare different systems.
Alternate Article:

https://sputniknews.com/us/201912241077783862-its-not-santa-...

This sounds like a commercial operation. They're obeying the law, staying below 400ft, and operating in a rural area. It seems like the news articles are doing their best to make this sound bad when there's nothing nefarious going on.
It will be better for both you and him if you stop enabling his continued lying and fraud. His actions, which are you are benefiting from and enabling, are hurting a lot of people.

He's very lucky to have family that care about him to defend him like you are... but defending someone who is doing wrong isn't doing them or the world any favors.

He's made the claim to have purchased Bitcoin.org in public before and it was shown that his 'evidence' was fake-- just a recently created screenshot of a public webpage that anyone could load: https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152

> He did not commit tax fraud,

That isn't what the Australian tax office concluded. For example, he was fined 1.8 million dollars for backdating invoices: https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scrib...

> in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means

They are well explained by an addiction to dishonesty. Numerous administrative judgements and courts have found that Wright consistently lies and incompetently forges evidence to attempt to cover up his lies.

There are straightforward means by which anyone claiming to have created Bitcoin could unambiguously establish the minimal credibility required for their claim to be worth even listening to-- such as producing digital signatures with keys that were previously controlled by Satoshi. Wright has said that he would provide that proof but has instead over and over again only provided forgeries.

His attempts to silence people criticizing him through lawsuit have been effective at shutting some people up, but he keeps losing these lawsuits. Unfortunately, many people are easily silenced through threats and harassment.

Your brother himself has repeatedly tried to silence me by plastering the internet with absurdly untrue malicious false claims about me (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=...). He has filed spurious lawsuits against my friends for simply pointing out that that his claimed evidence (like the domain link above) is fraudulent. People representing your brother-- and likely your brother himself-- have threatened to kill me and my family for speaking out against him. Harassment directed and/or inspired by him have chased away numerous people from contributing to Bitcoin. Please stop and consider what you are enabling. Wright is not right.
> We are investigating whether fitting Uninterruptable Power Supplies to each signalling location would have prevented this failure, although it is also possible they would have had to shut down to protect themselves too, as happened at another location during the same event.

This specific remark sounds rather amateurish. This is part of the reason UPSes were invented. A Double Conversion Online UPS would have been able to handle this situation just fine.
I think Second Life or VRChat seem to have more similarity with Ready Player One. Maybe not the scale and popularity but everything else.
I can tell you from experience the trains in the UK are expensive and miserable.

The common theory for why is because of the mess made of privatising British Rail in the 1990s. The government did it in a way which managed to create monopolies while at the same time splitting out responsibility between different companies in such a way that millions are drained away on legal costs while the companies argue with each other about who is responsible for each problem.

There are many articles analysing the problems you can find online, here's one that turned up at the top of search: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/railways-pri... Edit: Better article: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/09/why-britains-...
I will not fly in this plane.
New billboards are banned in Houston anywhere (and have been for decades). So they're not along tollways, or any new road. Old ones still exist, sadly.
> Star Wars: A New Hope?

What is this? ;)

Star Wars, and the later Empire Strikes Back were good films, well worth seeing. I still have the "making of" souvenir from the 1977 UK premiere. Then he started the endless pissing about reinventing everything. Last time I tried to watch one, some asshole had ruined it, and my memory of it, and that dog eared magazine souvenir looks quaintly inaccurate.

Now I essentially hate the whole franchise, and actively avoid anything George Lucas. I think I've seen 5 of the 7. Or is it 8 now? Don't care or notice any more. :)

Stargate, Star Trek and those 50's B movie sci-fi and countless others like "classic" low budget Dr Who have managed to last the decades far better... I actually still like those, and still watch new productions!

As for cats, far better to accept they got entirely the worst spot on the anthropomorphising spectrum so even stills look weirdly off and the story telling failed, so it's a dud. Try again in ten years with a new approach and team...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646280
FTA: He declined to allow The Washington Post to photograph beacons in classrooms, saying “currently students do not know what they look like.”

I would guess he underestimates his students. Chances are the probability that some students are gaming the system (e.g. by having multiple phones, one of which they can borrow to a fellow student who does attend) is way higher.
IMHO, the best stack is the one you are most familiar with.
Start with what you are most comfortable with and build from there.

The hardest part is coming up with a product that someone else would pay money for and then making that first sale.

btw, I love reading about tech stacks, This vs. That vs. Other blogs/articles - but honestly, it just a distracting hobby at best.

This is advice for bootstrapping. If you're trying to get a job, then yeah, focus on some specific stack and start learning it and building projects to put on github and blog about.
Half of the U.S. Population Will Be Obese by 2030
Merry Christmas. Made it to 07:30 church service now preparing for gigantic brunch. Happy holidays
Soviet Santa
Hydrogen is a lot harder to store than Methane, and afaik you can't substitute 100% Hydrogen for natural gas without changing large chunks of the heating infrastructure. But you're of course right that making hydrogen has a much better efficiency.
I've only seen clips of the movie, but those don't look very promising IMO. I read that this had a $95 million production budget, I can't fathom what they spent it on when looking at the end result.

Beyond that I'm quite a bit sceptical of choosing Cats for a movie adaption at all. It's nowhere near 'Phantom of the Opera' in terms of popularity, and the last (2004) movie of that musical didn't do particularly well at the box office.
Ask HN: Are you offended by the HN Christmas styles?
Saw the christmasy look of HN this morning and immediately thought of the VS Code cristmas hat fiasco.

So are there any offended/annoyed people by this?

I personally don't care much, don't need it, don't like it, but also don't hate it.
There’s simply no amount of CG fixes that can make this movie better. If anything the really poor CG made it at least somewhat entertaining. It’s just a bad movie, it happens.
True: The customer loyalty card is a very common screw-over (ahem price differentiation tactic) to make tourists pay more than domestic/regular customers. It's done by most railway companies in most countries though.
I don’t like arena games, but they have been popular for a while. From what you can’t avoid picking up from general gaming media, it’s a genre that has been plagued by companies who offered horrible support and user experienced.

It seems like Epic took the best bits of a popular formula and added a decent customer experience to it. Which, if I’m right, is a really nice message.
Laser-Linked Satellites Could Deliver 'Internet from Space'
avs is talking about less-than-legal operations which are more likely and incentivized to use less-than legal force to guard their operation.
I worked for an ISP that was deploying switches nationwide... We got a lot of space in BT Telephone Exchanges and thought nothing more of it.

I have never seen such dirty and bad power! Literally once a week we had to go to exchanges to reset fuses that had tripped.

We then started deploying (rather entry level) UPS to all locations and the problem just disappeared completely... we then invested in more high end UPS systems, but, yeah - dirty power is a big problem and UPS help.
Merry Christmas all
Ask HN: HN Holiday Theme
Happy holidays!

Is this the first time HN’s been themed, @dang?
Are you suggesting that things that are legal now, subsequently deemed illegal in the future, could then be retroactively brought against you? That sounds... incorrect.
> I just want to work without feeling bored or overwhelmed.

Imagine being bored AND overwhelmed. Now that's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

But if you want to deploy "real code", I suggest choosing a programming language and building a "complete software".

1. Write a compiler for C ( or more realistically a subset of C )

2. Write a basic web server

3. Write a basic database ( RDBMs )

4. Write a basic browser

5. Write a basic chess engine with board ( if you are interested in AI topics )

6. Write a basic kernel ( or pieces of the kernel )

7. Write a basic debugger

Or if you graduated from a CS program, go look through your projects that you did and redo them or expand on them. Anyways, hope you find the project you are looking for and good luck.
I don’t mind delays very much, even long ones, as long as there is information readily available about why the delay happens and how long it is likely to last. I have very positive experience with UK railways in this regard; this post is a prime example.

Contrast with PKP (Polish rail), where it’s not uncommon for a train to stand in the middle of nowhere for half an hour, without so much as a single word of explanation from staff. It’s changing for the better, but slowly.
To spray holy water on your Devil's advocacy, there have been multiple occasions where documents from NSA have been released to all. Greenwald's reporting has held up when cross-referencing the documents.
Was there a reason you decided to use SpinalHDL instead of Chisel?
As a naive guy who is looking at this straight on with admittedly limited reflection, it makes sense that this would be a complicated space:

* You've got a data capture problem - how do women securely and privately obtain and transmit shape data in a way that is culturally acceptable?

* You've got a modeling problem - how do you determine how much structural support is required on a case by case basis?

* You've got a manufacturing tech problem - how do you create bespoke products cheaply?

* You've got a culture problem - how do you address the fact that a large portion of the population is by definition going to be smaller than average?

There are probably a series of other things I'm not thinking of but each of these are non-trivial.
It seems kind of disappointing to remove these additions. It's interesting by itself what all was added and thinking for what reason. At least the previous versions will always exist online for anyone curious, and it is neat to make comparisons before/after restoration.
I have 37,000+ images in my Darktable database. I rebuilt it from scratch last month. I hooked up each disk and let it chug away.

+ Tip: If you have:

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|---dir2
|---dir3
|---dir4
|---dir5
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Don't select Pictures with the recursive option. The import will run in a single thread. Instead select dir1,dir2,dir3...dirn all at once. Then the import will run in as many threads as are available. The number of available threads Darktable can use is set by the config menu.

You can select more directories than you have threads available. I saw several orders of magnitude speedup in the import. All those threads kept the CPU running. All that running CPU kept the IO flowing.

+ Advice: Work in two stages. Get all the images locally first. Download from Dropbox and Facebook onto that big disk. Then import them. Once they are local, you can manage them, back them up, etc.
WebAssembly for the server side-open-source Wasm runtime for blockchain,AI&cloud
“Obeying the law and not nefarious” doesn’t always mean good.
Fully agree on the economic merits of English here. I think the point is more than methodological though. It is one of equity and access.

Broad swaths of society don't have the same access to the technology. My mother tongue Malayalam in the 1960's redefined its script to be better suited for typewriters. It is still non-trivial to typeset correctly. Like my Chinese colleagues, there are all sorts of constraints on how text is input.

Machine translation beyond the "main" languages aren't too great. To see bias in action just try English->Turkish, a gender neutral language. "o multu. o mutsuz." translates to "he's happy. she is unhappy."

Things built for English don't readily transfer. Its worth raising awareness around this as Emily does.
> Apple initially attempted to integrate the Control Strip’s features into the Dock. After this was found to be too clumsy, most of its features were again duplicated in the menu extras of 10.1.

Ha. The Control Strip is back today, it just lives in the Touchbar now. You can search in System Preferences for "Control Strip" and you'll be taken to a pane where you can modify the items in it. Notably less phallic, though.
Did you actually see it?

I imagine a lot of people will enjoy it. I saw the original musical decades ago, and it was ok, but I prefer the CG cats. I'd watch it the same way I watch music videos.
>>>how exactly does seasteading accomplish any such thing

Not sure if i capture your subject currently, but you literally do what the article states, for one.

>>>>>what other means of government are they itching to try exactly?

Why does that matter? If it does to you, should you not research it? The point is that competition will allow the best to replace the garbage we have today. More choice is always better. That is a fact. If you want to know what those choices are, you should inform yourself.

>>>>>And how do you judge the success or failure of each experiment?
Its not as hard as you make it out to be. The seasteading project didn't gain traction. Failure. The opposite will be deemed suceess. People vote with their feet. It really is that simple.

>>>how can you possibly eliminate externalities from any such system?

Just because you havent formulated it in your mind, doesnt mean it is not possible. And even if it was not possible, it shouldnt matter. Not everything is black and white. You dont need to eliminate externalities to have something that helps working people live better lives. Eliminating externalities is not the goal
Thanks for the comment! CockroachDB is now under BSL and CCL licenses. Different users have different opinions but you are right, we need to be accurate about it. Please give me some time to consult our user and see whether we can update this case study.
> get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text

Is using slang pretentious now?
C++ templates are not the gold standard of generics. In fact, they are a glorified text substitution system, totally broken and flawed.

Generics are still absolutely necessary for ANY serious programming language. They are required by the DRY principle. Algorithms must not need be repeatedly implemented for every new data structure. To say that generics are astronaut is simply unprofessional.
A 20 second overvolt period does seem exceedingly long - I'm curious to find the cause of that.
The author's point is that the obituary only mentioned recent events, ignoring the rest of his career. Most obituaries don't restrict themselves to only the last few years of a person's life, they tend to discuss a range of notable events throughout their life. The fact that the NYT merely focused on events within the last few years implies that they didn't dig very deeply.

I don't read newspapers because I want to read something that fits my worldview, I read newspapers to get information so I can form my own opinion. To do this, I need dependable information that covers enough of the subject matter that my opinion is reasonable.

The freedom of the press absolutely protects their right to release whatever they want, but that doesn't mean I have to continue reading a paper that shows poor journalistic standards. If they're willing to stake their reputation on putting down a recently deceased church leader without bothering to read much into his life, I question the integrity of their articles on more important topics. I would much rather the NYT not cover something if they're not going to put in the effort to cover it well.

I have considered subscribing to the NYT in the past, and this highlights a few reasons why I may want to avoid doing so. I'm interested in the author's opinion of other respected newspapers to see if any of them are more deserving of my attention.
macOS and Emacs. I only use one of them as an OS though ;)
I'm surprised CO gear was not running on -48v rather than AC power
I wouldn’t worry about the popular hipster stacks, but rather shoot for something productive and preferably slow moving. There is a reason things like Django or Ruby on Rails help people actually get things out the door. They come with a lot of batteries included, and while it may not be the hip (or even smartest) way to do things, that doesn’t really matter nearly as much as getting shit done. stacks like Flask or anything JS backend really, will make you write tons and tons of code that other frameworks will give you for free.

At the end of the day, not a single one of your users are going to care about you tech-stack.

I work in the public sector, and we have a lot of legacy stuff. One of our most popular web apps, that always scores really high in user saturation when we review/audit, runs ASP web-forms. That’s some really old shit, and you really shouldn’t pick that up in 2019, but the point is that no one who uses it cares.
> They're obeying the law

The article states that small drones must be flown during daylight hours according to the regulations. These drones are flown at night, which means they would be in violation of those rules.
I have a four month old daughter. My job takes eight hours, almost two hours more for the commute, at least an hour each day for cooking and meal prep, six hours for sleep, and the rest is taken up with the baby. I get some work done on weekends or in the middle of the night but it's not enough.

I recently negotiated with work to drop down to four days a week. They refused to let me do three days a week for the worst reason: my coworkers depend on me too much, so they need my butt in the chair. I tried it for a bit, but it's still nowhere near enough time to bootstrap my side project. So I decided to quit. I'll burn savings for a bit while I try to prove out my idea.

My wife knows she married a starving artist. I feel a lot older than I wanted to be when starting a family, but we're getting old enough that we don't have the luxury of putting it off any longer. I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford a house.

Am I failing your level zero test? Not everyone is a 21 year old college graduate with zero expenses or obligations. Saying it's just the "sorriest excuse for an excuse" and "you don't have what it takes" is just insulting. Real people have real time commitments in the real world.
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not surprised on the downvotes. Many devs will choose reinventing the wheel over using existing solutions. Their competitors will be on to release 7.9 while they're still trying to figure out how to ship version 0.2 without losing all the data from 0.1

Batteries included systems are a force multiplier. Engineers like writing code more than shipping. Go to any game jam and watch the teams using Unreal or Unity. Their progress dwarfs those that start from zero. While the teams using the full engines are adding game play features the teams starting from scratch are trying to figure out how to load 3D data or debug why their graphics aren't on the screen yet.

It's no different with apps. A good app framework or web app framework gets you to a working state ready to just work on what makes your app different. Starting from scratch means you're still trying to figure out how to get your DB backed up while the other devs are adding features.
Ideally cover significant events from each decade of his life. There's a lot of material there, and plenty of it has been very impactful. To ignore it speaks of laziness IMO.
do they report suspicious transfers--or all transfers around $10k as a matter of routine?
As well as access to the whole internet. I'd like to grant access to one domain, that I can match with the company that mkaes the app, and that's it!
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This is amazing, I look forward to more posts!
I'm trying to get into more hardware projects, stuff like this is very inspiring. Thanks!
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Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and joyful new year!