skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to put this into perspective: my i7 4790k takes around 2 minutes to render about 1 minute of 1080p 60 fps footage at x264 medium.

If you wanted to run a YouTube competitor you would likely require better compression, which would take even longer. Now think about it running in the browser, which likely slows it down even more.

You upload a 10 minute clip and then your browser eats 100% of the CPU for the next hour.

And all of that is just for one quality setting.
Iron has a specific energy of 4.9 MJ/kg (for comparison: wood 18, coal 26-33, natural gas 53.6, jet fuel 43, diesel 45.6, gasoline 46.4).

So having ships, planes or even cars powered by burning iron seems to be unfeasible (at least from energy production standpoint). Albeit iron has much higher density, so if weight is not a problem then it may work. Iron has energy density of about 40 MJ/liter which is comparable with coal, diesel, petrol, which have ~34-40 MJ/liter.
I think we all need to be mindful of forming conclusions too soon based on incomplete data. It’s easy to get fixated on our first impressions even as new data comes in.
Maybe this goes for law firms and investment banks as well — at least to some degree?
Radiation increases mutation rates. Natural mutations occur through not vastly different mechanisms either.

In case you think no positive mutations come out of it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding

We literally blasted plants with radiation and then bred the ones that looked like they had some positive mutations.

Especially the list of notable results is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding#Notable_muta...
"It seems that while these firms do sell concrete consulting services to their customers, what they are mostly selling is a prestigious aura around that advice."

It's actually the network: CEO A is in trouble, investor B says "you need help, get help or we will get you out". A asks B "who can help", B says "Firm C know how to help you - know the managing partner there and he fixes stuff like this all the time".

This is code for "give C work or you will get sacked."

B will receive information and assistance from C, possibly a job himself in the future.

A will receive 12 - 36 more months of employment as CEO while she/he implements the change program proposed by C. A will get $4m -> $45m of pay for this. The change program will have a random impact, because there is no evidence that any of them are efficacious or applicable in any context - so they are randomly applied and even if they can help sometimes they don't mostly.

But, if you are smart you go along with this and don't argue because you absolutely will be forced out if you do. A, B and C all have more power than you, and they all have incentives in the millions of $ to do this.
Is this comparable to what is explained in this kurzgesagt video? https://youtu.be/TnzcwTyr6cE
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One nice thing is that in brewing it can be used to generate heat for boiling during brewing rather than converting to electricity first. They mention a furnace but not a generator. 81% of Dutch power is fossil fuel based, if you have an environmental concern about that and it's good press why not.
Could we do the same for ticks?
Not unique, but the twist is that they need heat, not electricity. I thought it interesting.

Edit:
Made me day dream about Iceland exporting iron powder for burning, electrolysed with their geothermal energy.
KYS for messing with youtube-dl
Don't lose sight of two things:

Erlang is designed for massive, distributed, highly reliable network systems. Therefore, it is likely that a lot of Erlang code does a lot of waiting around for the network rather than needing every available CPU cycle.

This is the first time they're releasing a JIT. They'll deliver their performance gains, and if they want to and it seems feasible they can come back and do further work in the future.

But you have to put work in where it's valuable, and somehow I doubt RabbitMQ (for example) is going to care about this being missed this time around.
Can it be done faster on a GPU?
Not farming but if you get a chance to watch Homestead Rescue on Discovery it is great.
I am happy now. There is a hope. Now we are talking about real decentralisation. Make this way of thinking popular and use technology properly on a small scale and really good things will start to happen.:)
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> the lark is on the wing, the snail is on the thorn, and all's right with the world

bit of a Wodehousian twist there. appreciated.
Iron powder burned cleanly producing iron oxide, then reformed into iron powder with electricity. Effectively a battery with combustion as the output.

> "the idea certainly seems to have some advantages over hydrogen, pumped hydro, batteries or kinetic energy storage"

What advantages though? If the process needs combustion then it's interesting but if the combustion is just used generate electricity then how is this better than the other methods?
Yeah this is OK, but running macOS commands for Linux deployments doesn't work all the time. What about `lsblk` or `ip`? Also md5 vs md5sum. Also and I don't have macOS handy to try it, I'm pretty sure grep has differing options. I can't count how many times friends and colleagues who use macOS for development have put BSD commands into Dockerfiles and CI pipelines and have wondered why it didn't work.
Iron powder probably wouldnt work in an internal combustion engine - wear on engine components would be too high.

Instead it works well I. Big open furnaces where you extract the energy via superheated steam.
Please include the mandatory marquee
Remarkably good science journalism - I appreciated the caution at the end about the economics of the process and the understanding that there are many different factors that can make a process attractive.
Estonia has a National ID with a smart card on it.

This isn’t possible for nations which do not want mandatory ID laws.

It also then makes the ID card a good target which specifically the Estonian one was found to have quite a few issues.

Lastly trust in a voting system isn’t just can someone alter the vote but how easy it would be to deny people from voting and any electronic voting system will be susceptible to a wide range of denial of service attacks, what’s worse that these systems are susceptible to denial of service attacks that could corrupt votes cast causing not only those votes to be cast out but making the entire system being suspect.
So its like every other customer-service job. Just with less pay ;)

Just because something is open source, does not mean you have to engage with the "community". Slapping GPL on some code on a git repo somewhere, with a big sign saying if you don't like it you have the right to fork, so please fork off, is also open source, and a totally ok thing to do if you don't want to develop a community [Open source maintainers don't owe the world anything beyond what they freely want to give it]
This is the natural result of building a publicly funded empire of literally hundreds of ex-perl hackers in a room and telling them (i) justify your job and (ii) you are not allowed to do anything different because the BBC must not compete with private sector websites. Looking forward to the next iteration in raku using My::Cro.
Shown a waitlist signup page? I liked the screenshot with Xanadu style linking I guess.
Looks like someone has a case of the mondays ;)
> That's why the system was designed with an electoral college. So that rural farmers could be represented as equally and strongly as city business people.

This isn't all that accurate. One of the main reasons why the framers came up with the electoral college was due to the fact that, 200+ years ago, information exchange was extremely low. The US was already fairly large at that point, and the concern was that 18th-century voters in rural areas would lack the resources to have an informed vote about national candidates.

There was concern about equal representation, but reducing that down to just "farmers" is a little disingenuous. The reason why Southern states agreed to a voting system that granted electors based off of population was because they were able to work in the Three-Fifths compromise. States like Virginia, where enslaved people counted 60% of the population, greatly benefited from this, and at one point enabled Virginia to count for 25% of the national electorate.

These decisions might have been reasonable 200+ years ago, but neither of these are the case anymore, and are not good reasons to cling on to a system that was largely born out of necessity.

Also, one point that's usually glossed over is that when people gripe about the electoral college, it's usually referring to the fact that the candidate with the majority of votes in a state takes all of their electors (e.g. winner takes all). However, the framers never defined how states should conduct their own elections. This system of allocating votes only began catching on around 40 years after they ratified the Constitution, where individual states gradually decided to implement this system. There's nothing in the Constitution about it, and even James Madison famously wrote a letter in 1827 complaining about how adopting this system could undermine our entire Democratic process.
Sure, that part is good and in some cases their approach has improved the state of the art (adding an automatic formatter to the language is perhaps the most obvious?), but at the same time I'm happy to use another language and not be a labrat, because not all the choices have been great.
Iron can be produced from electricity as the article mentions, but most iron today is produced with coal, since its far cheaper.

This is just a way for the brewery to get cheap heat, with a level of indirection from the source coal so it can be advertised as green.

It's a shame the journalist that did this article didn't think to research how iron is typically made...
Modeling an arbitrary graph with reference counting immediately leads to the problem of cycles and the need of some form of GC to collect them. It is better to use a GC from the start (not collecting things until the graph owner decides to discard the whole graph is often a useful approach), or reduce the graph to a tree and use weak references for references between branches. Or even use handles as advocated by the article, which essentially reduces the graph to an array and uses its indexes as weak references.
> I also noticed, that a lot people talking about the principles of "Clean Code" (either PRO or CON) did NOT even read the book (entirely) nor hat other sources of wisdom ;)

In your opinion, why do you feel any of those points you made are relevant or have any substance? I mean, the importance of Clean Code is to improve your output by following a few guidelines, not be pedantic and use the book as bible to bash others in bike shedding discussions.
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Yes, Richard Perkins knows and has done a lot of good stuff over years in this space, at his permaculture mixed farm in Sweden. I mentioned him and a few other successful people in the regen ag space, like Gabe Brown and Geoff Lawton, with brief descriptions, in the recent thread about a long-running no-till no-herbicide farm here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827234

Edit: Also, Aanandaa Farms, started and run by a couple of ex-city-job professionals, the Guptas, in the Morni hills near Chandigarh, Punjab, is another good example of success, this one in India, although there are many others in India as well. They too have good instructive videos about starting and runnning a small-scale permaculture farm on YouTube. I believe they are starting a PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course in the near future too, which may be a combination of online, and learning time on their farm.
Hydrogen embrittles metal, combusts too readily, and generally must be stored at pressure for transport; pumped hydro requires the right geology/topology; batteries wear out; kinetic energy storage is low-density.
Congrats, your advertisement now looks like every scam ever on the internet.
Using more ... aggressive metals might help energy density here, though it would require more energy losses during rebuilding the oxides.

Now before one points out that burning lithium just makes this a battery; kinda but also no. If you burn lithium to turn a generator, I'd argue it's not much more a battery than burning oil to turn a generator. If you wanted a battery, you'd need a non-generator variant. That is where I'd differentiate.

Could also use Flourine and burn CO2, might be a viable carbon sink. Flouroalkanes from burning CO2 would be organically inert, don't deplete ozone if released and don't bioaccumulate. Only downside is they're very good greenhouse gases if you don't burn them down to the alkanes that are solid or liquid are normal temperatures. Those you could easily bury deep below the earth.

The only issue is obtaining a shitton of flourine to burn your carbon with and then not blowing yourself up in the process.

(Also yes, Flourine will burn CO2 and act as the oxidizer)
Thanks to the collapse of the USSR and with help of our inept corrupt leaders (Gorbachev and Yeltsin and their US "friends") destroying all the industry and economy, millions of ex-soviet citizens know exactly how hard it is to become self sufficient.

I worked really hard on our family "farm" all my childhood and that's maybe the only thing that helped us survive. Although we did experience hunger from time to time.

It's not even a question of land, it's a question of how much work you can put into that land. It's a backbreaking work every day.

It's a good option if society collapses and there's no other option to survive. Otherwise, it's just not worth it. Millions of current Russia population hate working on the land because they already have that inoculation from 90s.
Seems like this is only refinancing? And is this just for Fanny/Freddie-backed mortgages, or will all banks be charging this?
You are definitely right, but I probably should have specified. Irradiating seeds is vastly different than irradiating already living specimen, and hardly transferable to insects I believe.
At least for creative programs it is better not to have any color, as this might alter color perception on your current work. But for other type of apps this might not that big of an issue.
No, the point of a stable family is the relationships. Kids may be one of those relationships.

The point of reproduction is kids, and they can happen without a stable family as well... Quite often in fact. And they can be raised in different arrangements too, like wards of state and in kibbutzim, which is implemented right are not destructive. Or even by single parents (but that one is hard) or by surrogates who have a stable family.
remember to marry eva gabor before you purchase.
I've been looking for something to create a data model that can be translated to many programming languages, and came across https://github.com/airtasker/spot.

It looks great: definitions are written in TypeScript, which as it turns out, can express really advanced data models quite well. Spot can translate TypeScript models (they must start with the API definition, but that can be just a single entry point to the model) to JSONSchema, OpenAPI, and from those, to basically any language supported by them (Java, Kotlin, Swift, C# and many others).

Spot also can create a mock server to provide testing, random data fitting the model, as well as a server to view the OpenAPI definition online.

It's really great.

The project posted here seems to not do any of the useful things I expect, which Spot does (though it's still very new and there's some bugs) so I thought others would like to know about it.
I'm certain that there's a lot of these issues that could be solved browser-side. Something for a breaking html6 maybe
I'm 37, and my parents do own tons of vinyls. However, they're all albums and we never used any 45s, so I guess the whole 33/45 thing didn't really stick in my memory
But for your scenario, an integrated GPU is just fine, and Intel already cover that market well.

To justify it existence, a discrete GPU need to be better than that.
There's a different protocol to do the same job. Or two if you want, RA and ND. Router advertisement, neighbour discovery.

DHCPv6 does exist, but I don't really understand what it offers over RA+ND.
I think there's actually another side to prestige and wealthy up-bringing. You sort of inherently act differently if you were bought up rich. Its hard to describe exactly but you tend to be more (blindly) self-confident and just behave a bit differently compared if you were brought up in a lower class family. Having worked in banking I've seen this myself (although anecdotal experience always tends to be biased in itself). Some of the more brilliant entry recruits/interns but from low income families just tend to have trouble fitting in and sometimes end up not getting a return offer. It's unfair and kind of sucks but I don't really see a solution for it either.
> On a side note, what's the point of a brewery (single business) using it? Do they have some unique energy requirements?

It's a collaboration with a local university to test the technique on industrial scale. According to the researchers there the goal is to grow to grid-scale and convert coal-fired power plans in the coming decade.
pushd and popd. Thank me later.
Not even close. Second law of thermodynamics puts a limit on heat engine. Gravity storage is not subject to such limit.

But it is a great idea to burn any fuel whose oxidized product is not a gas. The only reason why burning hydrocarbons is problematic is because carbon dioxide is a gas, otherwise it could be captured and recycled like this.
Interestingly, the only persons I've ever seen doubleclicking in the web are from my parent generation (>60, >70 years old).

Also since 2015 the mobile adaption increased more and more. On mobile devices, the "double tap" concept never was very important, I think (at least not in the web context).

Therefore my feeling is that this issue is mostly a thing from the past.

Nevertheless I sometimes see forms which implement this "disable after submission" principle. Especially when it's about money, such as when booking a hotel or flight, etc.
It’s mostly about mindshare.

Microsoft are running Bartertown and and are doing a pretty good impression of Master Blaster. Ironically youtube-dl just got dragged into the thunder dome.

You can trade outside Bartertown but it’s going to have low visibility.
Irradiating the entire specimen is not so different if you also irradiate the part of them that produces the seed. You're just irradiating an earlier stage of reproduction, the result is unlikely to be different. Seeds have the advantage that they do not move and contain little water that could interfere with the radiation. The insect will produce it's own seed once irradiated, infertile or not.
>I'd be interested to know the overall efficiency of the process,

From the article:

"High-efficiency electrolysis of iron oxide can store as much as 80 percent of your input energy in the iron fuel"

"Using this kind of cyclical process to generate electricity could approach a theoretical efficiency around 40 percent"
No word about convolutional sequence modeling: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rk8wKk-R- (PDF)

It is even more unreasonably effective, outperforming already unreasonable effective recursive neural networks on reasonable spectacular number of tasks.
Eh, ffmpeg is already pretty long in very optimized native builds (as in, reencoding from a 4k master to a 1080p decent quality MP4 for yt can already be 0.5x the duration of the video)... I don't see it becoming faster by being put in a web browser, especially when there is likely no access to hardware encoding APIs.
That's actually because this "like" model is designed based on a martingale, a hazard game with a betting system. Just instead of you getting returns on your betting, you're getting (virtual social) returns on other people's bets.

We're literally wired to seek social approval, a strategy that has made civilizations work as well as they have.
Windows PE files have, in addition to the section table, also the "Data directories" which are a whole bunch of pointers into some of the sections. Some of these serve the same purposes as some ELF sections. So it's a bit unfair not to include them in the count when comparing the systems.

And of course many of those 42 ELF sections are for debug info. On Windows debug information is usually stored in a separate file (.pdb), which also makes the comparison unfair. I have to admit though that Windows' handling of debug symbols is much more useful (especially when you have a symbol server).
> What he's talking about is returning a union type. You have a single return value, it's type is either a valid result (i.e. a string) or an error. The compiler expects you to do runtime type checks (basically) to assert whether your return value is actually a value or not.

Not quite. I am suggesting a tagged union. Not a runtime type check.

You'd check the tag.

Some language only support the runtime type-checked version of union types. That's a bit silly. For example, it makes it much harder to write a function that may either error out itself, or produce an error message as its bona fide value.
Thanks for this. One of the reasons why I love HN. The points are not only interesting but provide useful information to the discussion.
This was a massive problem for me as well. And they laughed at me using a virtual machine with Linux in it while they were pissing around with broken stuff...
The copyright holders can be harmed by actions other than direct copyright infringement. In particular, the law recognizes DRM circumvention as a harm. Other commenters had already covered this aspect before I made my comment, so I'm unsure why you expect me to cover it again.
Surely just strip the executable/LTO?

Where else is there to go anyway, Forth running on a microcontroller?
Depends on which farm sector.
Part of my family is into flowers. I can tell you that flowers are like gold. Almost every flower farmer in our region is loaded.
Lowest tier for farming are traditional crops. You need lots of acres and good machines to get efficient en break-even. Only a few manage, but most do not.
I would probably focus on farm tech. Automated greenhouses growing tomatoes, cucumbers etc is for example big business. If done right you can be 10-50 times more profitable per square feet than a outside potato field.
100k isn't enough to start something like that. More in the line of 5-10m start capital needed.

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Who uses a wired mouse today anyway? I haven't used one in years! I associate it with a ball even ;)
They don't. The comment was on labelling. There is nothing in the presentation of unsigned commits to indicate that they are unsigned. The presentation is indistinguishable from that of a hypothetical GitHub that never shows commit signatures, you need to have seen a signed commit on GitHub at some point to know that the absence of that Verified note is significant.
Yes, either a deep_copy() or a way to declare things immutable. (Or both.)
Some people think RIAA’s DMCA notice is not legally valid, arguing RIAA is not the copyright holder and there is no infringing material.

Almost all of the lawyers at HN, and the lawyers at the EFF, and the guy at Popehat, are all generally in agreement that there was nothing wrong with what the RIAA or what GitHub did. It should tell you something when the people most in a position to evaluate the situation don't see anything amiss.
Successful people are very often full of shit - since perception is hugely important in any human endeavor, the people who have attained success must have mastered bullshitting (incl. faking confidence) along the way. Then, like any other life skill, they pass it onto their children. I see this mechanism in my father and in myself.
> As others have pointed out, much of GitHub is written in Ruby.

Security by oh yuck it's Ruby.
The predictable problems with the Vulnonym naming scheme