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What you say is True, but can be solved by an ORM, though that adds an extra layer of complexity
Like most other articles on this topic, this article too fails to make a strong case for an application where blockchain would really be useful.
Complains and jokes about JavaScript have been here from the first time JavaScript was released. Many of them fully rightful. There are even
years old memes about it like thousands of variants for this https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_1585_DY1Kk.jpg

The complains about CSS being something that is hard to learn and remember and about its shortcomings and hard maintenance have been here also for years. The thing people acknowledged was that it was improvement over writing it all into html.

Original HTML contained everything that CSS contains now - unseparated. And for that matter, everything is DIV because CSS people and designers like it so. It has nothing to do with backend people who would happily use table everywhere if only they were allowed to. Then again, css people and designers did not pushed for divs out of whim - they want it that way because it is practical for them.
Raw Gadget is a kernel module that allows to emulate USB devices from userspace
Windows has a big ole flaw nowadays: not friendly to SSD+HDD setup where you put the OS on the SSD. It insists on storing everything on drive C:\ which is on the SSD, even the behemoth that is Visual Studio (though that can be offset in large part with junction links). I've allocated 64GB of SSD space to my Windows and it managed to fill it up already even though I make it a point to install and save everything the HDD. Now, Win10 can't install any of its stupid updates anymore. Microsoft seriously needs to stop living in the 90s where it was okay to shove all data to drive C:\...
Sure; Nix is transitional, and runs on existing kernels. That is the main distinction between what you are imagining and what we currently have.
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Try their Merlin app. It has an optional "bird pack" for the British Isles.
"So why not make HS2 more like HS1, by allowing it to perform shorter journeys for frequent travellers"

Because the whole point of HS2 is to increase capacity by taking the high-speed long-distance trains off of the existing lines, where they get in the way of running local stopping services (because everyone has to get out of the way of the high speed trains).
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How about we do the smart thing here and keep it simple.
Notably better = good
Better than what? Better than the competition in this sector in this general area.
There. I don't think it requires an investigation into secret sauce.
I've seen European Starlings in San Francisco. Birds care not one whit about human borders.
Distributed cache and K/V store in Go. Embeddable or independent service
I don't really get why it's such a high priority to expand the London commuter belt. Train lines may be at capacity but if more money was devolved into the northern regions so everyone doesn't have to commute to London maybe we could solve the problem in a cleaner and less costly way.

But then the contractors won't get their back pockets filled.
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Ask HN: How do you pay attention to emotions in your remote teams?
Hello remote workers!

If you're in a remote team you know how difficult is to "connect" with other colleagues. Everybody is always in a hurry so there's no deeper synchronization.

In my team, we're doing a "check-in/out" inside each meeting where we take turns by answering "With what emotion you're entering/exiting this meeting?". From time to time we change the question with something different in order to build awareness. This helps with establishing mindfulness and understanding what is the emotional climate in the team. For a team of 5-10 people, it takes 5-10 minutes to do it. It makes space to slow down before jumping to the agenda. We also do retreats every 3rd month but a lot of stuff can happen in 3 months...

What are your habits for increasing your team's emotional intelligence?

Disclaimer: I'm doing product research in this field by implementing a tool[1] which helps teams to harmonize their emotional states.

[1] here's a sneak peek https://imgur.com/a/dDkfRVg but I won't go into details as I fear it may derail the topic. Part of it is inspired by research from Yale and Geneva universities and their departments for EQ.
I particularly enjoyed (paraphrased) -

"What exactly are proposing?"
"That you go away and learn more about blockchain"

I mean wow, what a pitch. You need to use my thing, I can't explain how exactly, or what it'll do for you, you need to figure that out yourself!
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So for whatever reason, people are determined to confuse the issue here.

> It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars

"Pollution" here is defined to exclude CO2.

> And if the shipping industry were a country, it would be ranked between Germany and Japan as the sixth-largest contributor to global CO2 emissions.

And now a reference to CO2 to muddy the waters.

Shipping is highly CO2-efficient per kilo relative to air travel (and cars and so on) but because we do a _lot_ of shipping, it's still a big CO2 emitter. Separately, due to extremely shoddy international regulation, many large ships put out large amounts of non-CO2 pollutants. This (the non-CO2 bit, not the CO2 bit) could be fixed, at relatively small cost to the industry, via changes to fuel and improved filtering, but until someone forces them to fix it it'll stay the same.
This is why I said 'words', multiple :-).

My point being that these generation models should be conditioned on something more than just word history, like something they want/are instructed to express.
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I had a DEC Alpha to play with, back in the day. Was a port target for some of our projects, and I occasionally booted it into NT for the druthers.

I much preferred my SGI boxen at the time. And when Linux hit Alpha, NT was little more than a plaything.

Oddly enough, its how I feel about the "NT on non-x86" rigs I occasionally run into, also being pitched as a port target for some of my modern projects.
Airbus has a lot of experience with fly-by-wire. The problem with the 737 MAX wasn't fly-by-wire as such.
IMO, this type of communal living strategy is the best remedy to a lot of the problems faced in America and in western cultural in general. Many of the problems were already stated in the article, so I'll just add suburban sprawl, the high cost of individual ownership of everything, including the house, and the increased workload that results from not sharing the labor of common tasks like cooking, cleaning, and caring for children. BF Skinner's Walden Two is a good read that goes more into detail on the advantages of communal living. As a non religious person weary of politics, neither the state nor church are good options.
Interest in almost all dutch banks is zero, or damn near zero (.1%), if not going negative soon enough.
> We could afford slower transistors, if we had a larger surface to work with.

Yes, but the transistors are a lot larger to begin with. You wouldn't be able to put a modern CPU on an A4/letter sized sheet.
I actually did some benchmarking on this once upon a time[1] and it turns out that it's actually really easy to write something that is only ~5x slower[2] (until you get to matrices that don't fit in RAM):

(4, 4, 4) (5, 5, 5) (32, 32, 32) (33, 33, 33) (256, 256, 256) (257, 257, 257) (512, 512, 512) (513, 513, 513) (1024, 1024, 1024) (1025, 1025, 1025)
–––––––– ––––––––– ––––––––– –––––––––––– –––––––––––– ––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––
:naive 0.0 0.0 1.3e-5 2.0e-5 0.0114 0.0133 0.0942 0.106 3.25 2.39
:tiled 0.0 0.0 2.7e-5 2.2e-5 0.0139 0.0121 0.154 0.101 1.25 0.888
:fastf77 0.0 0.0 8.0e-6 8.5e-6 0.00543 0.00563 0.0426 0.0445 0.437 0.448
:blas 4.5e-6 4.0e-6 1.9e-5 2.1e-5 0.000972 0.00109 0.00712 0.00744 0.0582 0.0607

(Units are seconds per multiplication.)

Obviously OpenBLAS is so easy to package that it's not really worth avoiding it, but it was very eye-opening to see just how easy it is to get within an order of magnitude (easier, in fact, than getting into the 10x-20x range).

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Sean1708/69c5694048e9a9ca7bd84fcbc9e...

[2]: 8-core 3.4GHz Haswell i7 with 32kB L1, 256kB L2, 8MB L3, and 8GB RAM.
I've been on the internet for so long that I genuinely don't know whether this person is serious or trolling hard.

Also that person chiming in calling Jimmy anti-capitalist cracked me up.

Oh an OT: WTF is a cashtag? I'm not using Twitter, the linkified $BSV in the very first message was new to me, and on hover the URL reveals it's a cashtag. I'm feeling old.
The website you link to states that the support for non-MySQL-derived db's (PostgreSQL and SQLite) is buggy and that not many people are working on it. It seems that legacy constraints are essentially forcing them to stay with their old flaky PHP codebase and MariaDB database. So much for that blockchain thing!
Eh? Boeing has made prototypes that look vaguely like this in the past, but the patents would long since have expired. And you can't patent visual design. If Boeing makes a weirdly short stubby aircraft, Airbus can't sue them for copying their A318 concept, say.
I see some. Top of my head :

Games development are limitless in scope and technical complexity and very passion driven. So, a developer could spend countless hours each night improving his game.

Next day, all the team has is a tired developer, drinking coffee and unable to code straight or analyse issues without missing subtleties.

Opening a wordpress for your mom and her gardening hobby is a significantly less time consuming task.
It's easier because the current tools of building the planes are not made for this new type of planes. Update the tools and building this new type of plane will be easy too.
at least, if not sleazy then at least very hypey. and such hype/marketing and "reputation management" doesn't really sit well with me.
Global flying demand has been increasing[0] year-on-year and is estimated to continue increasing[1] into the foreseeable future, partly due to flying subsidies provided by many countries[2] to encourage tourism, etc. If you are alluding to a problem of people flying too often, I would work towards eliminating these subsidies first.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/193533/growth-of-global-...

[1]: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/d4b60cffceeb4213bb5993d5f...

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318691221_Subsidies...
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The birds cared, at least about the ocean. But Eugene didn’t.
Sure, but even if you assumed Tor was perfectly secure, there are still other ways of being exposed (like someone causing your web server to issue a network request to a host they control).

No matter one's assumptions, it makes no sense to me that someone would register a VPS with their own information when it's pretty trivial to do so anonymously. Especially if you're running an illegal content hosting empire.

DPR's mistakes at least made sense to me; they're something anyone could have overlooked, even if they were still very naive mistakes. But I doubt DPR used his personal information when paying for servers. That's well beyond "unrealized mistake" into pure incomprehensibility.
So you're considering the worst case scenario is 1) you release the MVP 2) a competitor sees it and releases a finished copycat version within say 6 months 3) they take all your business?

If this were true and the only thing standing between you and success is a small head start, then you'd lose anyway as skipping step 1 will only buy you a small window of time.

Releasing a polished, targeted, marketed and paid product takes a massive amount of time and mental energy. Realistically, most indies have projects they're working on already and can't finish, and other teams aren't going to switch direction without a very good reason. Copycats will never be exactly the same either so there should always be a way to differentiate yourself.
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I bet those old school terminals are faster than what most corporate IT systems would deliver with an over the top modern framework. It's probably cheaper to train new employees than give away millions of dollars to an outside IT tech firm which may not result in an improvement.
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While on the surface, this looks interesting, can anyone help me understand who exactly needs to do and redo neural network training that will take advantage of these optimizations? I’m struggling to understand which companies/data scientists would use this.
>Such aircraft are complex to control but produce less aerodynamic drag, making them more efficient to fly.

Fuel effciency is big incentivising factor in the airline industry. If we can have an AI control the extra complexity involved to bring safety to a par I can see prototypes being made for further experiments. It is visually interesting though.
> then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain

It's software. A blockchain can be programmed to accommodate your use case. It can also accommodate preventing bias all powerful editors from destroying or manipulating information without the approval of the community, which wikipedia does not.
but once you put people on it you f that number up.
I believe making proper sense of FCs and the seemingly arbitrary at first glance rules of hooks requires knowing the underpinnings of how hooks get called.

In class-based components “didMount”, “willReceiveProps”, “willUnmount” et al. would be more or less intuitive to a newcomer with just a general idea of how it works.

That I believe makes FCs fundamentally more complex to learn from scratch.

Personally having some experience I go with FCs if there’s a new complex front-end project that is based on React, but I use class-based components if I need to sprinkle a few on a mostly static website that may have to be maintained by someone else.

(Class-based components in a basic case, which would be the case in question, are also quite straightforward to convert to FCs.)
I wrote an article showing a (probably naive) way how it could be done, but also discussing some of the limitations. At the end I think it would be better to think about these kind of tool as partial, automated tests rather than full-blown static type checkers.

https://nextjournal.com/jbieler/adding-static-type-checking-...
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Poems About Life
This virus brought us far,
But we can’t get back by car,
It spreads itself far,
All without any mark,

Inadequate protection let it enters us,
Without us knowing it is there,
As it begins attacking cells,
As the attack, rings just as a bell,

We might run fast,
But can’t avoid the virus,
As it infects the iris,
As there’s no way out,

We might eat grapes,
Without knowing the escape,
As it flies through the body,
As a shape free to undertake,

Round but not weak,
As it looks for a victim,
Not immune to such infection,
That victim is seeking protection,
A protection as that virus is nonstop.

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I don't see where your link points to this and I mean it's pretty obvious the Shadow Brokers were aligned with foreign policy interests of the Russian government. If it was another adversary, I don't see why they worked so hard to benefit mostly Russia.
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I can't help but think the next response is "Do you use MongoDB? MongoDB is webscale".

This is just trolling. No thought has gone into whether Wikipedia has a problem to solve, nor whether blockchain has the capabilities to solve any problem. It's just memes.

>Bitcoin can help any system to become more Byzantine fault tolerant
Are you able to share the use cases for production ready models?
Ask HN: How to disrupt the payment card industry?
The industry of payment cards is essentially an oligopoly of few companies that control the entire market(visa, mastercard, maestro and few minor ones).

This has been possible due to the way the things worked in the past. But now when we have internet connectivity everywhere and most banks have public APIs, why do we need to bow down to these few selected companies and play by their rules?

What would it take for this market to get opened up so new players could come in?

Essentially a payment card provides a way to send money from one bank account to another, not necessarily in the same bank, via intermediary. This intermediary is able to do so because the banks themselves are connected to it. Paypal on the other hand is the reverse of this - it is an intermediary that has accounts in all the banks on its own. Which could be taken as brute fore approach.

With banks now being forced to have public banking APIs, how do you think we could finally get rid of these few big players and enable smaller companies to take part in this business?

I guess without to cooperation of the banks, this is where any attempt would stop. Plus the user base of the physical cards. But everybody has a cell phone and Apple Pay and Google Pay are now quite common, so the piece of plastic is no longer needed.

Hence the question - what do you think it would take to finally get rid of this oligopoly for good?
It’s not that simple: you need to factor in size and latency, too. If my SPA loads 2MB of JavaScript and then makes 50 API calls, it’s going to be a lot slower than the server sending 20kb of HTML in a single response.

JSON may or may not be smaller or faster: if you have to load data you don’t need or, worse, chase links it’ll be worse. GraphQL may help but that’s bringing it closer to server-side performance, not exceeding it.

Things which aren’t possible otherwise are the best argument for SPAs, but another approach is progressive enhancement: you can load quickly and then load features as needed rather than locking in a big up-front cost if all you need are real-time updates or push notifications. There’s a spectrum of capabilities here and there won’t be a single right answer for every project.
You are off by an order of magnitude. Global oceanic shipping of all kinds is <3% of anthropogenic CO2[1]. Closer to 1.5-2% if you include land use changes.

You are correct about cruise ships, although it's more like 2-3x.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-cargo-ships-emitting-boatloads...
People new to blockchain and tech in general seem to think that blockchain invented the database and public key cryptography. All the ideas they propose are solved by them.
Looks neat! Shouldn't there be a better way to get the required permissions than asking the user to put their login password in a plaintext file?
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How do you figure? I'm pretty sure we still call it "chicken egg", "duck egg", etc. even if the egg isn't fertilised.
Isn't that already possible with a LUKS container?
I would argue the Merkle tree (or any other recursive signature algorithm) is the most important quality of a blockchain. To say that git is technically a blockchain is not entirely inaccurate IMO.

I think you are looking for the other qualities that typically apply to a blockchain such as the implicit need to "mine" its resources. Git simply produces these resources incidentally. I think this is the only major difference.
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Great idea to use sudo in shell-scripts.
Just joking, it is retarded.
Wikipedia does have a database that is in its sole control though. The fact that people outside the organisation interact with that database (as is the case in most uses of databases) is irrelevant; the interaction is controlled and mediated by Wikipedia.
Forget “feels faster”, I use that for stability every time new reddit hangs - usually 2-3 times a day I have to do that because they don’t handle errors yet, and they recently added a new bug where you can’t tell whether a reply was sent.
I wish there was a single accepted standard for deploying native components. Last time I checked there were two competing implementations, JS modules (<script type="module" src="my-component.js">) and HTML imports (<link rel="import" href="my-component.html">, my personal favorite).
I'm not a big fan of conflict resolution, and LWW is a pretty bad choice in most cases. Conflict resolution means data loss (it violates the D of ACID, as an user expects that a transaction that was committed would endure, but it is deleted or overwritten by another one), and most likely C.

The effects of this are hard to predict and can hit pretty hard your business logic. This is not the kind of expectation you get from Postgres. This would fail Jepsen at second 1.

So I'd advise not to use it. The only use case I see for bi-directional replication is where you ensure that all the master nodes have disjoint sets of data, and the logical replication just aggregates them, without a possibility for conflicts.

If you really want multi-master you need a system that works on top of a consensus protocol. And there are definitely tools out there for this. But not LWW.
There's likely a way to get root without having to read the password each time, this is just what I managed to hack together. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions I would be happy to fix this ASAP!
In a way windows are more of a psychological problem I think. They are already quite small and not that reachable for most passengers, but closing an option is tough.

Would it be possible to have at least roof windows for natural light or then it's not worth the bother?
Oh I suspect the end game here isn't to preserve wikipedia as it is but instead create a system by which they have a wikipedia with facts they approve of and a means to track down anyone who dares correct them.

Pretty much the goal of all these fact checking systems that keep getting offered up. We need protecting, facts need protecting, provided it is all approved facts and people and a means to track down those who are not approved or have ideas that are not approved
> I'm not sure using this definition of blockchain (i.e. optional consensus protocol) is very useful

Honestly, "blockchain" as a word feels ill-defined and badly understood at the best of times. You could argue that "blockchain" deconstructs to nothing more than a "chain" of "blocks". What "blocks" actually are is up to the imagination, proof-of-work or other algorithms aside.

I get frustrated when people hail "blockchains" as the solution to everything because the term is so vague in everyday use that it's effectively meaningless.
May I ask what the status of parallel computation is with SciPy?
Everything is RMDB

I advocate: Building a relational data model on top of hash-map to achieve a combination of NoSQL and RMDB advantages. This is actually a reverse implementation of PostgreSQL.

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