skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool trickery, but should I ever encounter one of those hex tables in a program I am maintaining, I would certainly hope to see at least the state graph of the encoded machine as documentation.
Peaking power plants actually cost more per kWh than solar backed battery storage. However, until we install enough solar that’s a pointless exercise as simply directly using solar energy is more efficient and there isn’t a regular surplus to capture.

The economics of this get really interesting. In a largely solar grid, 1 axis Solar tracking systems add production in the morning and evenings, thus offsetting the need for a lot of battery storage. However, we aren’t currently using significant battery storage so that isn’t worth it yet. Similarly shipping a surplus East / West time shifts it, but we don’t currently have that surplus.
Cool idea, but I'd worry about all the malformed markup.
What would their shareholders say?
I agree with 1 being possible, but if 2 is the case, then this will surely just be scratching the surface and it won't suddenly turn usable by fixing a single div.
The first point is already demonstrably false. Similar countries right next to each other have different death tolls in the order of multiples (Sweden vs. other Nordics).

Also, similar geographic and demographic countries have performed vastly different in different parts of the of world (eg. South Korea or Japan vs. UK in order of magnitude)
>> HN will get a dark mode

Maybe in 2022 ;)
It's the opposite. In a FSM you have clearly defined states and all possible transitions between them.

If you write the same code as normal imperative code that modifies some variables - to understand what it does you have to "run it" in your brain and reverse engineer the states and transitions yourself.
The Mutated Coronavirus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
They still use coca leaves to make the syrup, just with the cocaine removed.
It's an interesting twist. It doesn't change the fact that Apple takes shit from Chinese gov to be able to make money.

I understand, rule of the land and all that, but I won't pull any punches: Apple knows exactly what they are doing and they are no fluffy angels.
What people are using Spaced repetition for? Just curious on what people have been studying
Bit of slight of hand there tacking Cryptocurrency onto videoconferencing, electric cars, and online shopping.

Cryptocurrency did not prove more useful in 2020 than it did in 2019.
Are they using telemarketers, or just underwriting for any independent insurance salesperson. When you buy a used car the dealer isn't doing the warranty himself, just selling for some warranty company.
I see; pretty much the same reason a common problem is that only the happy path works properly - that's the thing for which it's inherent to the development process that it gets tested.
With the maturing of the Holochain framework (a novel data integrity engine for fully distributed applications [1]), Valueflows/hREA and Holochain apps will start taking off.

My hope is that this will rewire our society in two significant ways:

1) Through hREA and REA accounting in general, we will start having better wealth acknowledgement systems and a new grammar for different types of wealth [2],[3].

2) No more exclusive Intellectual Property rights (trade secrets and patents) that privatize and monopolize knowledge and ideas, the use of which currently comes at the expense of mother nature and society [4]. Our accumulated human knowledge is a shared inheritance, and it belongs to all children of the world, in the commons.

-

[1] "Holochain is a framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is not based on blockchain technology. It is rather like a decentralized Ruby on Rails, a toolkit that produces stand-alone programs but for serverless high-profile applications."

This Medium post by a Holochain core developer is a great intro: https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...

[2] http://mikorizal.org/Fromprivateownershipaccountingtocommons...

[3] https://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55

[4] Wendy Liu, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
Because if would like to have a honest delivery service that is not faking some restaurant, with the new law you will not be able to provide such service.

It will be a lot more hassle to pick up something.
Or you can spin up more machines.

The integral and derivative part will tell you when spinning up more machines or when to tear down the one you already got!
> in the shape of a pog

In case you are wondering what a "pog" is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)
Have you stopped to think for a second where science would be if every possible hypothesis was thrown out as soon as its inventor realized he couldn't conclusively prove it in a day?

Also exactly the fact that it hasn't been fully proved out yet is why the nuance is missing. But now all the sudden you want them to be able to give you an explanation of the nuanced mechanism that prevents visual from taking over everything else? (Plus why on earth would it? What are you even talking about? I'm seeing all day long, but I'm also smelling hearing touching and tasting) Make up your mind!
It's a regression as far as code readability goes for fairly straightforward reasons: almost everything in Matlab is a matrix. Matrices are not first class citizens in Python, and it matters. I use Python a hell of a lot more than Matlab, but for examining how an algorithm works (say, for implementing in another language or modifying it to do tricks), Matlab wins. Go look at these PRML collections in Python and Matlab and see if you disagree:

https://github.com/ctgk/PRML

https://github.com/PRML/PRMLT
You could probably run your bank website in incognito mode and avoid extensions. I do this all the time because I don't completely trust any of my installed extensions. Even if I did, they are auto-updated and their code can change at any time without any notice.
- Niche social networks will thrive, innovating beyond infinite scrolling and Stories.

- Travel will boom towards the second half of the year, with people spending more on vacation/leisure and more “active” travel (e.g. luxurious hiking/camping trips).

- Protests and social upheaval once countries reach herd immunity via vaccination.

- People will spend more time looking at screens and socialize less.
If some people like to leave their house unlocked because it's convenient it's not my duty to make them a more convenient door lock, it's quite enough to warn them about the dangers and let them make their own decisions.

It's not like using a wallet is hard or inconvenient, it's just an extra step, like reaching for your keys before entering your house.

But there can certainly be a business opportunity there, sure.
This does happen but is not necessary. Cases in point: Norway, France, Eastern Europe, Germany after WW2. The crucial difference seems to be that the winner must immediately invest in nation building or the defeated must be crushed.
Yes -

If Northern Ireland is following the Republic of Ireland/EU commercial regulatory framework, and not the rest of the UK's as that quickly diverges, there will be a new pragmatic argument for Northern Ireland to leave the UK.

I'd give it at least 5 years, though.
Well, why are you implicitly insisting on the unproven theory that "sleep serves just one single purpose" - one that no one else has proposed? What if sleep is needed for more than one reason? Is the complexity of the world so hard to fathom that you throw up your hands and yell 'bullshit' on the first hint of challenge!
And, more importantly, on smartphones!
Well the difference is that as a general app developer you barely ever need to interact with Google. As for Apple, you do it a lot. I'd rather take rare and abysmal interactions than constant, annoying ones.

I've had numerous app rejections because of reviewers simply incapable of reading instructions, and it's immensely frustrating. Especially when important hotfixes etc. is put on hold for days for no reason whatsoever.

Instruction: Do NOT tap button X to log in, instead use method Z.

Rejection: Tapped button X, could not log in. Your app is broken.

Welp, time to resubmit and wait for a couple of days to possibly get the same rejection again.

EDIT: To clarify, the login procedure is different and simplified for test accounts, such as the ones reviewers are using. Real users need to identify with real ID for (valid) reasons.
Given Humans arrived in Europe about 40k years ago (on current estimates?), I look forward to referring to ethnic Europeans as young’uns.
> Because the mRNA vaccines are too complicated to manufacture and deploy.

Don't you think some of the other vaccines (like AstraZeneca's, or maybe Novavax or the Russian one) will be deployed at a large scale?

It might take the EU and US regulators a month or two to approve them, but then things should move pretty quickly...
My prediction is that Hate Speech definition on social media becomes so watered down that no one would agree what we are talking about. Every day people with anti-mainstream thoughts will get so used to be canceled all the time that they will start to hate the internet and themselves.
> consistently interrupting REM sleep will lead to death.

I’ve seen this claim many times, but I’ve not seen any studies that say “no [REM] sleep causes you to die”. The closest I can find are studies in the form “less [REM] sleep correlates with all causes of death to go up” - it’s not like you can literally kill someone just by keeping them awake for a month.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2020/study-links-poor-dream-s...
I would recommend rereading the article, your reading comprehension wasn't up to par to tackle it in one pass. Also you're assuming a TON of things that were never suggested. Jumping to conclusions won't help you read what was written I'd say
The full text PDF linked at the top is interesting. I am wondering what bone apple had to pick with him.
This is an awesome idea and great work! I didn't even know I needed this until now. Now I even feel like something similar should be a regular part of a web browser, just like web development tools :)
The word medium identifies a mean of communication. The commenter uses it to identify a mean of exchanging value. IMHO the word was both misused and misspelled.
* Facebook will enter a downward spiral and start declining

* A security breach bigger than SolarWinds will be discovered and will severely affect market position of a major cloud provider

* Google will make its biggest acquisition ever

* Inequality, censorship, and polarization will continue to increase
Technically FLP impossibility only applies to deterministic algorithms, not randomized ones, otherwise no consensus protocol would work. So you could imagine a complicated technical solution that could work (eg. treating everything as a big Raft cluster and using Raft's membership changes every time a device is connected / disconnected).

In practice the solution is to realize that failures are rare (especially compared to events like the soldier simply misplacing the card), and to have a trusted human available to resolve any issues that do occur.
Releasing apps for the App Store is also a nightmare to me. Every reviewer reviews your app differently.

I like that apple only allows apps of a certain quality. But some guidelines are multi-interpretable.. Causing issues when submitting app updates.
In fact, governments like New York have cracked down on Uber and AirBnb. I do think if BTC or another crypto were to be a problem for a country they would simply legislate away people’s right to hold or exchange it. US would pass a bill that makes the exchanges illegal. Sure, people would find ways around that, but it would be enough to deter your average citizen and to squash widespread adoption.

Whether BTC becomes a problem is a question, but if use in laundering or escaping taxes gets past a certain point, I do think it is a risk.
I wonder if the fact of making babies by couples in lockdown will not be offset by singles in lockdown unable to go out and meet people for baby-making purposes.
I mean the guy sounds like total shitheel, but how is it "American exceptionalism" to be against helping enacting state censorship? As a libcom and an internationalist I think no government has the right to determine what information people do or do not see. If your state relies on information control to exist then it is a fucked state.

Get out of here with this pro-authoritian crazy talk.
Yes, this is true that every asset will go to the moon, especially the stock market.
I hope that the mainstream cultural perception of bitcoin and blockchain will change from being purely speculative and related to dark markets to actually being used with a good intent.
I can tell you first hand that at least not always true. I removed it once and its gone ever since.
These things sound like catalysts, but not as the fundamental reasons things were happening. Just look at history to see that violence was there before training, equipment and logistics were available.
Microsoft and Apple get more egregious on that you don't own your device, some people will complain but eventually the Stockholm syndrome will take over so that Apples and Bananas will make even more money. General purpose computing becomes even more of a niche thing.
That is not the same thing. I doubt your friends are claiming to be some sort of insider expert and then imposing that expertise upon others like a hammer, which is entirely different than just being disagreeable.
You are asking why the UK would be weaker without Scotland. I do not understand why you do not find convincing the very claims you already concede? 10% weaker is weaker, specifically by 10%.
I don't know why this is getting down voted, its absolutely naive to assume this isn't how it plays out in the real world.
Most of the Islamic fundamentalism that the USA is fighting today can be traced back to that one event.
This is very specific.

Either Flutter Desktop or Sciter will be the defacto mode of cross-platform app development replacing ElectronJS and QT.

If Flutter desktop will be a thing at the end of 2021, Sciter will be abandoned.
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9a92320c599e6...
Show HN: Docker-run – API for running code in containers
I remember building a system about 15 years ago which automatically failed over in under a second - the application connected to the most recent one and set up replication to the other one. If the master went down then the slave was promoted to master and when the original master came back it was configured as slave.

Looks like https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/05/30/introducing-pg-aut... will sort out a Postgres master master for you.

I certainly don’t have auto updates on all my servers (wouldn’t be good if a tv program going out to millions of people suddenly vanished — there’s always a glitch when it fails over), I do have it on public facing servers though, so in your case I’d have it on the web servers but not on the database.
> If everything in the economy is tied together, such that $10 is still an hour of work at a grocery store, and $10 still buys you a lunch or three gallons of milk, and $10 still buys you 4 gallons of gas, etc etc, then I don't see how you can say that there has been some kind of "secret" sky-high inflation over the past few years that is only detectable "from the outside."

The key ingredient missing from your calculation is time. If you are simply measuring how much an hour of work can purchase now, you are completely ignoring that some people want to save money.

If $10 is the measurement for an hour of work and 4 gallons of gas today, in a decade or so, you might need $20 to pay for 4 gallons of gas, and you might get paid $20 for an hour of work. But somebody who saved $10 worked today, and chooses to spend it a decade later, will only be able to acquire 2 gallons of gas. The result of their labour would have been reduced to half.

This is what Bitcoin intends to fix. We want to be able to store wealth into the future - so that an hour worked today is still worth an hour (or more) tomorrow. The potential appreciation in purchasing power is reward for thrift.

As it stands, if one wants to preserve wealth into the future, they must put money into risky investments to ensure that the dollar value of the savings appreciates at a greater rate than its purchasing power is lost to inflation. They also run the risk that their savings or pensions could be lost with companies going bust or if hyperinflation occurs.

Bitcoin is a pension plan.

As for using Bitcoin as a reference frame of measurement, there's a good reason to do this. Bitcoin is a fixed system of measurement which is disjoint of time or other externalities. There is an absolute maximum of 21M bitcoin, so any whole bitcoin is always 1/21M of the total supply. This is a truth that holds today and in a decade. It is immutable.

Consider measurement of length. If you only have cows in a field, how do you measure the length of a field? You could say it is 100 cows long and 80 cows wide, but how long is the cow? The cow grows as it ages. Once you get hold of an external tool of measurement - a meter (or yard, etc), then you can measure both the field and each cow against it.

The same is now true for economic value. Before Bitcoin, there was no fixed scale of measurement. The dollar was flexible, just as any other commodity. Bitcoin OTOH, is not flexible. The exchange rate of BTC/USD might be flexible, but when you use BTC as the frame of reference, you can instead measure how much value the dollar is losing against bitcoin. https://usdsat.com

As you can see, the dollar is losing value so rapidly that inflation of the dollar is negligible. It is the perception of inflation which is causing it to plummet far quicker than the actual rate of inflation.
> They then came back saying that I had to assume any liability they might face for using it.

That's a fairly scary consequence of not using a standard Free and Open Source software licence. As you made a special arrangement to permit them to use the code, I presume your code wasn't already publicly available under a standard copycenter licence?
> buying from random morale things, like the Fox at the 'Deid

Took a bit of searching to understand what you meant: buying drinks at the Fox Sports Bar located in Al Udeid Air Base within the nation of Qatar.
That's the amazing thing about HN, it's so easy to create accounts that you can make one every time you need to tell someone they're wrong or pedantically correct a minor technical error, so you can experience this glorious feeling over and over again!
Or the suspense of, “wait it’s quiet... too quiet, oh no what’s wrong”
In a certain way it is quite funny that a "communist" society is actually using western capitalist's money to undermine everything about their society.
If you had a 50/50 chance, would you go for it? I guess your answer shows how much you really want it. No shame I’m not wanting it THAT bad.
That’s the thing, in English when enough people make a mistake it stops being a mistake.
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And the other 18% is probably "non-profitable" ads e.g. YouTube.
>aliasing sounds a lot worse than analog imperfections

The Commodore Amiga has the crudest possible anti-aliasing filter: a single fixed-frequency low-pass filter shared by all 4 channels. It does not work very well, so aliasing is a defining characteristic of the Amiga sound. Aliasing adds high frequency content that compensates for the low sample rates required by memory limitations, and extra harmonic complexity that compensates for the low channel count. I think Amiga modules sound worse if played by something with good anti-aliasing filters.
If someone can round up 51% of Bitcoin's miners and hold them at gunpoint, then they have full control over Bitcoin's rules.

Well over 51% of bitcoin mining happens in China, so Xi Jinping can probably change Bitcoin's rules tomorrow if he desires.
That’s very insightful. Thank you. Some more questions since you are the person which shows up for esp32 and nim in the whole wide world :)

Did you try out the esp-idf 4.3 release yet? I think you mentioned somewhere to not use 4.2. but 4.3 gives you the esp-managed Mqtt service on Aws (rainmaker)

Do you have any thoughts on Freertos vs Zephyr whilst using Nim?
How much has the velocity of Venezuelan Bolivares increased in the last few years?
Saw a documentary about israeli soldiers living in army asbestus housing. It was mortifying to reslize how backwords we still are.
I don't understand Feynman diagrams, but the analogy with them makes sense in that both FGGs and Feynman diagrams generate a potentially infinite number of pictures, each representing some calculation. One difference is that (as I understand it) you have to do some kind of computation for each Feynman diagram, and if there's an infinite number, you have to cut off the enumeration of diagrams at some point; whereas with FGGs, in at least some (important) cases, you do not have to enumerate the factor graphs and can in fact do computations on the whole infinite set at once.
Thanks especially for the Streamlit suggestion.

We've tested JH with K8 in GCP which was straightforward also. With a small team though tending towards a single VM deploy (based on "The Littleist JupyterHub") which looks a lot easier to maintain.
Mobile data is cheap in southeast Asia but not very cheap in Japan.
JDK 17 Early-Access Builds
ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/kjz70b/recaf_java_byt...
"Medium of exchange" is standard terminology in economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_of_exchange
As the first sentence in that paragraph says, it's explicitly discussing a speculative bubble.

"There is no question that crypto is in yet another speculative bubble"
"whats the capital of south africa?" is more interesting!
Chechnya after the 1994-1996 war is also an excellent example.
There are already ways to avoid that outcome today. You can use a fresh wallet and launder the money through a mixer like the other poster suggests, but you can also use shielded transactions like Zcash has (based on zero knowledge proofs) or coins where transactions are private if there is enough volume like Monero.
As mentioned, copper sheathing also provides a speed advantage by keeping the Hull smooth and free of seaweeds, etc. This thus was doubly beneficial and the Royal Navy was a pioneer.
Lol, yep. I always use my gf for that purpose and vice-versa.
can you provide some examples, preferably the best you can find. I'm curious what great experiences of PWAs actually mean, as I myself have not found any.
This reminded me of "How to vintage your synth", which features DX7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_N3A5gVhQ
Yeah, a lot of health-focused people add yeast (usually dead, sometimes not) to recipes. I guess as an example more related to myself... I make mead and I'm also an amateur mycologist. Meads can be flavored with spices and fruits. I have seen some meads and beers made with mushrooms or mushroom extracts. I've also seen some mushroom recipes that call for yeast. If you were to make a mead infused with shaggy mane mushroom, you would vomit. Shaggy mane mushroom causes vomiting when alcohol is consumed with it.

This is sort of a cheat to the question though. The foods do pair well together from a flavor perspective, but there's a physiological issue when consumed together.
If you’ve seen the hackernews “predict next 10 years” threads you’ll see we overestimate decades too.