skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew that already because of a pretty good Columbo episode ;)
You're absolutely correct. USD is a poor store of value, by design, because productive activity is better than unproductive activity.

However, this doesn't say anything about Bitcoin, other than that it fails to be relevant as a currency. The reason why Bitcoin is a poor store of value is that owning Bitcoin doesn't guarantee that there will be an economy in the future that actually provides value equivalent to the value of your Bitcoin. If you invest into stocks or real estate you are making sure that there is a company or house out there that contributes to the economy.
> Well, as soon the solution doesn't scale - which will likely be within a couple of years - one needs to rearchitect and recode.

Your project is far more likely to die within a couple of years from having too few users than from having too many. If you find you're having scaling issues then that's a good time to solve them - your project is popular enough to justify the investment.

You'll likely be recoding your project quite a lot in the early phase of the development anyway as you learn more about the problem and (most importantly) more about what your users want/need. Anything that can reduce the cost of this early iteration will pay dividends later because it makes it more likely that you'll need to scale - and by the time you do need to scale you'll be scaling something that you understand and other people want.
As many others have commented, IKEA's online ordering has always been bad and so has been their service, delivery fees are also quite high (in the UK at least).

IMHO, their focus is the in-store experience and have an online offering because they feel they have to but they never wanted to develop it too much.

Even their "click and collect" service is quite bad in my experience (but maybe that was that particular store): It's not well organised in-store, the collection area looks a mess, and the employees are uncaring.
This is why I'm anticipating a vehicle/drone delivery system hybrid. Essentially an Amazon van will drive around, and the drones will fly off from the moving vehicle to deliver packages. Meanwhile, the driver starts and stops the vehicle as is typical right now to deliver the heavier packages.
I think a better term would just be “rise in asset prices/values,” or “asset appreciation.” You can add “in real terms” to clarify after inflation.

It more accurately conveys the fact that 1) the assets are increasing in value, compared to a basket of goods or the USD; and 2) doesn’t imply that the asset is a currency.
All your base are belong to Stingy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0TLiWa8Dw
IDK why are you being downvoted. Databases leak all the time, private and public.
I'm honestly surprised direct vent gas fireplaces are legal.
nothing. there is no incentive. its not about money its about providing value for free and for the world to use....at least that's what it used to be. Idk what it is now with all these corporate garbage going OSS.
The Innovation Wars
This sounds interesting! I would love to read a post about this. (I am currently working on automatically generating belt balancer layouts, but that is an entirely different beast.)
This is great! Forth is such an interesting language.

Does anyone know of uses in industry?
I made a micro social media site during the first UK lockdown which allows people to share their favourite track each week.

I thought it could be a cool way to get music recommendations from people you know. The main concept is that by limiting shares to once a week, no one person could dominate the feed.

It's called Earworms: https://earworms.club

You can search by genre tag as well: https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop
In the UK the forecasts are often very accurate up to 3 days in advance, with the hourly one accurate on 24 hours.

After 3 days there's just too much chaos normally for the models, but it does depend on the conditions, and what you are predicting.
And what about the CO2 impact of using traditional banking (air conditioning, heating, commuting...)
You have a slightly condescending tone here that I'm not sure is necessary. Perhaps they're "all-looks-no-function" because they're mostly meant to be decorative rather than functional?
What hahha, and it is just my second post! I think it may have to be with Show HN: tag
I think it's not SO specific. More generally people that want power are not often the one that will use it wisely.
That should be the opposite.

GP has fond memories of a commercial brand, for a company, that should be priceless. He even intend to keep a catalog on his bookshelf, his kid will grow with an IKEA ad, for a company, that should be priceless.

Except that there is no such thing as "priceless" for a company. And they probably put a price tag on that, and decided that the "childhood memories" value is not worth the costs.
Animals do it doesn't sound like a good reason to me. There is plenty of things humans do and animals don't and vice versa and it's perfectly fine.
Tax evasion would be much easier in all-cash economy, regardless of punishments. Banks and their databases are an important resource in fighting tax evasion.
> its about providing value for free and for the world to use

The article clearly lists that as one of the incentives considered.
I agree that the author has mislabeled "text".

What are characters if not pictures? What is text if not a sequence of pictures? What's a picture if not a depiction of a concept?

In a bag-of-words type of model, I see no difference between a word and a painting, no difference between the body of work of van Gogh and the body of work of Kafka. They both use multiple sets of concepts to compose new sets of concepts.

Pictures and text are both programming languages of concepts.
Due to tax incentives, the EV Mini is 29k€ where I live, 31k€ in France. Even though it's outdated tech, it's still a nice short-range EV and you save money by not having to buy, maintain, and transport around an ICE.
I will tell you about my scam anecdote. I had been receiving an email once every few months for several years about the possibility to create an account on the website of my electricity provider. All of these emails were suspicious because of the very diverse and weird emails used by the sender, usually a slightly different one for each email. After a few years, I thought that these might be legit and clicked on the link provided in the email. I did not put in any personal information, and did not end up creating an account on their website. The week after, I received phone-text messages about some debt payment for electricity bills. I even received phone calls about it. Unless it is a coincidence, the people on the other side of this well-elaborate scam had to know my email and my phone number, and started the phone scam after they noticed I fell through the email scam. They tried to get me to pay their fake debt, which had always the same ID number, but a different amount of money to pay each time (sometimes lower than before). And they did not know my name: I know this for a fact thanks to the brief amount of time I spent on the phone with one of them. They thought I was someone else. They kept spamming my phone with text messages and phone calls around 8 a.m. or noon, once or twice per week. After ~9 months of them being blocked by me (I could only block the phone calls, the text message still went through, because they went through some kind of public advertising proxy with 5-6 digits), they completely stopped.

So yeah, rule number 1 of email protection should be: do not tell the scammer/spammer that you actually use this email address. In case of a doubt, click the "spam" button, block the address, but do not click "unsubscribe." Only click "unsubscribe" if you trust the sender, because once you have done it, your email address is suddenly worth a lot more, especially to bad actors.
It's not like extreme weather events getting more and more frequent weren't foretold long ago by those pesky climatologists...

Sure it's possible to learn from this, but the "efficiency" of that learning is predictably low.
Looks like there were some complaints about the EC provided system and some people decided to roll out their own & get it certified. https://citizens-initiative.eu/openeci/
Thanks for the awesome feedback! We are improving this helped a lot
From https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/science-blog/201..., more plain language discussion about low cloud at https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2017/04/07/why-is-forecasting-...

"Convection is complex and hard to model because it involves multiple processes, many of which take place at scales smaller than the model’s grid cell, so they need to be parametrized. The assumptions that have to be made when parametrizing convection explain many of the systematic errors in convective precipitation."

(in other words modelling physical interactions on a relatively small scale (1km) is hard)
Fair point. I guess we've seen a lot of surprised people on Twitter lately, for a similar reason.
IME submodules are mostly fine for external dependencies that only very rarely change and remain pinned at a specific version over weeks or months.

Giving submodules a special set of git commands, and providing the users so many easy opportunities to shoot themselves in the foot are baffling design decisions though.

E.g. I'd really like to know why "git clone --recursive" isn't the default.
> His posts are ridiculous.

I went through some and it doesn't seem so. Yes, he is opinionated, but so are many HN-ers. His set of opinions is quite specific though (based on the comments I see, MS SQL Server users are a minority here, for example) so you might have that impression.

> How he’s ended up with so much karma

We're supposed to be adults but we still fall for this behavior engineering trick called karma. Really, who cares? What does it change in my life if I have a few points more or less?

One could even argue that you can create more value for the community by lowering your karma, making comments that are alien to the collective mindhive. A downvote is almost impulsive in such cases, but your comment (before it greys out) can spark a thought, an interest, an idea, or even some important doubt that would otherwise not arise.
because a lot of energy is not utilized if it will be lost in transit. they don't send it and there is extra capacity on site and from the specific source of energy. there are gigawatts of energy that can only be used at the source, which has never had a use until the mining machines showed up.
I would be curious to see your list of movies, primarily aimed at children, where there are two protagonists who disagree in the beginning and don't end up reconciling in the end.

("Up", which you cited as the last Pixar movie that was 'worth it', is in fact largely a conflicted parent/child relationship)

It reads as if what causes you 'grief' is actually the intended format of the content you are consuming. Yes, it's nice that Wall-E had a layer of critique of rampant consumerism (among other things), but it also had a joke about an unkillable roach too.

My hunch is that the -primary- intended audience for these films spends a lot of time dealing with "conflicted parent/child relationships", and that you are simply not the intended audience.

I don't mean to be overly critical of you here, I think if you take two steps back what you're saying is "the majority of these kids movies don't speak to me."

A movie being "worth it" is pretty different from a movie "speaking to me", which is so subjective that it is hard extract actionable insights from. It's a hop, skip, and a jump from saying "I don't know why you like this flavor of ice cream, because I don't like it."
Me too, captcha broken.

It's already bad that it want's your complete name and address. Yet another data set with me in it that will get hacked and sold at some point. And, without knowing what else it's going to demand on the second page. What if it suddenly asks for stuff I don't want to give on page 2 (copy of passport or something)? Now I have already given my name and address, and that is already in that database, so if I quit at that point I've just put my personal info in a database for nothing.

I get why they make it so hard to participate as a citizen though, the EU isn't exactly democratic.
My closest encounter with LISP was a long project with Wolfram Mathematica. Can you elaborate which tooling and set of "standard libraries" you use? I'm doing day to day work in Python ("batteries included") and reall would like to make the switch.
I had to delete after I completed the 5 tutorial missions. Or else I would have failed my midterms.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25937728
>when media are crossed

This is not correct. [1] has examples of court cases on transformative and non-transformative. Simply changing media, while copying the image wholesale, and the image alone, is not transformative.

For an interesting case, look at the famous Obama poster [2], which was made from a photo of Obama, but was clearly transformed. In the ensuing legal battle, which was settled out of court, the creator of the poster went to great lengths to destroy evidence that he created it from someone else's photo (which he later regretted when caught by the court).

So if the Obama poster is not transformative by your argument, then there is no way the Miles Davis tattoo would be.

There's plenty more cases showing media changes are not enough.

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transf...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster
CD’s and DVD’s require players which are susceptible to EM pulses. It seems extremely unlikely for that kind of global EM pulse to happen, but I can’t exactly say it’s impossible.
> Since people are already weary of clicking the unsubscribe link and instead casually mark everything as spam, every little bit towards keeping your reputation counts.

These slackers are the worst. Not only they cause trouble to legit email newsletters, they also affect the subscribers who want to read the email. Every time I check my gmail spam folder, I'll find at least 2-3 legit newsletters classified as spam because "It is similar to messages that were identified as spam in the past." At least gmail makes it easy to tell them apart from email marked as spam because they were deemed malicious.
I mean, if you use Gmail for instance it's incredibly likely I'll be dead when I stop checking my email for a year.
A government may be too overreaching in something and yet very weak in something else. It is actually a common state of things.

For example, lots of countries across all ages were perfectly capable of fielding large armies and winning wars while the average citizen didn't have enough education to sign their own name.

A balanced state is a rare exception of good governance and I am not sure how many of them are out there.
Thank you, good excuse to give it a new listen today. I have a soft spot for "The Survivor's Suite", I think is his album I return the most often to.
- I think 80 tons of CO2 for BTC is wrong. It should be around 15-20 tons (75% of BTC is mined with renewables, I think approx 20-25% is coal)

- for US, CO2 per $ GDP should be around 0.3 kg

- so if BTC is 50000$ value, it is almost same CO2 then something else US produce, (it would be 50000* 0.3 = 15 tons)

- if we assume those numbers correct, lets assume they are both 15 tons, it means 50% of the things US produce is less carbon friendly for environment than bitcoin.

- also BTC will be reused ( it is on article though )
It is just text (using Unicode nomenclature). The makers of the HN software deliberately broke the functionality in an obnoxious fashion.
> It really is beyond me why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea.

iirc some japanese character sets already had them (introduced by telecoms for text messaging?), so originally they were included for compatibility [i.e. to fulfill Unicode's goal of being able to encode everything]. then people discovered the emoji keyboard on iphones and it got popular
My experience is that fundamentally, usually good backend developers are not good UI developers. They don't know or care about how to write nice-to-use interfaces.

It's not a technical ability issue in general, though there are a whole bunch of quirks such as browser compatibility that it can seem a little unfair to expect someone who mostly deals with optimising database queries and algorithms to also have to learn.

There is always a gap between what the designer produces and what needs to be created to make a fully functioning application. A good frontend-of-the-frontend developer has the passion, experience and user empathy to fill in this gap and make a site that is pleasant to use.

I say all this as a backend/platform developer.
The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with. Craziest part is the artist isn’t actually that similar to the 3 suggestions I gave it, different genre and everything.

Spotify and Apple Music (my two main sources of music) both constant suggest stuff to me I have absolutely zero interest in, almost to the point where it seems like a parody, yet this site just nailed it first go (and subsequent suggestions were really good too).
This drift happened to me too, mostly because the most interesting things for me were happening later in the day, I would read some engrossing book, code something or watch / play.

The moment I put an interesting thing to do right after I woke up (martial arts training) my internal clock started going the other way. If I don’t intentionally stay up late, my clock will drift and I would get up earlier and earlier ... its weird and fascinating at the same time.
> why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea.

That puts blame on the wrong organisation. The consortium is to the most part only standardising existing character repertoires. Emojis were popularised by a mobile phone equipment manufacturer as a marketing stunt. http://enwp.org/Emoji#History
For subscribing, you just described double opt-in and that already happens.

When unsubscribing, users are very sensitive to any subsequent emails (just read the other comments in this thread). Sending an email to confirm their unsubscription might annoy a lot of the users, or will make them doubt that you're above board ("legit" newsletters boast about not sending any emails after unsubscribing, so this is a little red flag) - they will then flag that email as spam, and then we're back at square one.

They also get annoyed when you ask them to confirm that they still want to read the emails.

And Gmail will flag you if you keep sending the emails when they're not opening the emails.

I think there really is no good solution here.
It can be a bit cumbersome sometimes, but the only thing that
really slows me down is the rendering performance. As soon as
the detail level exceeds a certain range it basically becomes a
bottleneck the size of a singularity.

Just the last few days I spent hours creating an external
preprocessor for a project so I can feed as little data as
necessary into OpenSCAD. Luckily it kind of worked and got me
from "process gets killed after 70 minutes" down to "finished
rendering in 5 minutes".

Still it's my favorite CAD software because the coding paradigm
just feels so much more intuitive and simple than what FreeCAD
and others do.

I'm definitely going to try out this project, though; it looks
very promising as well.
Which would be more compelling if Bitcoin weren’t hoarded and were actually usable as a currency.
We can find out, no? But we'd have to try first.
Curiosity compels me to ask, what is the website? =)...
I woke up unable to speak English (2018)
I was skeptical too, but approached it from this end:

At the moment, one Bitcoin transaction costs me about $10 in network fees. The party pushing it through gets, say, another $90 or so in reward for mining it (6.25 BTC reward per block ÷ 3500 transactions per block × $50000 per BTC).
Thanks for the comment and great input. Web maybe soon but this is our current focus.
Some comments claim that those connections have small capacity. (DC-DC interconnects are a lot more expensive than a synchronized grid.)
if something has two valid answers, who are the moderators to judge the correct one for you?
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Frozen teaches kids all the wrong lessons. Shirk your responsibilities. Ignore your community. Focus on yourself.

"Let it Go" is like an ode to everything I dislike about American culture. It's so very American.

Best animated movie I've seen in the past decade was probably Moana, but I can't say I've seen many.
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I suspect smart meters are optional / being lazily phased-in. I've been out of the US for a decade, but I know my dad gets a discount on his electricity because he opted-in to a smart meter.
Frozen is as cliched and as boring as possible.

Compare it to, say, Coco. Or Zootopia. Or Klaus. Or, if we're talking about relationship with parents, Inside Out.
I've found that git subtrees are a much better option. Good intro here:https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-subtree

They're like submodules, but you can edit them and they're embedded in your history, not just a reference.
Used the online version a lot before, and I'm tempted to grab the desktop app just to show support. Still unsure if I would use it over the web equivalent.

There are some things still unclear after reading the FAQ page.

Does the app require an install and admin permissions, or does it come as a zipped executable?

Buying the app is described as "pay once", but is it pay once for this version? Will the buyer get updates for no additional cost? (EDIT: I missed the fine print in the EULA - the updates are free for 12 months).

Also - keyboard shortcuts on the FAQ page are all using Ctrl, except for "F11 or Cmd Shift F". Likely an omission.
God bless GDPR. I only wish it was enforced more. Small businesses seem to not be aware or are faking it that they have legitimate interest for the most basic information. Gyms and similar facilities have been very adamant about me signing the consent form. They tell me "and now just the GDPR form" and I tell them "oh, it's ok, I don't want to sign it" and they keep insisting "I have to". It's ridiculous
What about the people commuting to the factory producing the cpus used to mine bitcoins, what about the people commuting to the car factory producing the cars of the people commuting to the cpu factory ? &c. We can play that game for a long time and nothing of value will be written
Tracking pixels in email should be worthless, because loading external images should be disabled by default in email clients.

Instead, all email clients I’ve ever seen default the other way. Maybe Apple would some day be willing to make its client more secure in the name of privacy by flipping the default. I’m sure they’d face a backlash, though.
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It kind of sounds like you're following an extremely unnatural sleep pattern. Chemically, psychologically, humans were meant to be awake with the sun and asleep with the dark. Do you remember sleeping poorly when you did this?
Why are people so afraid of moving forward?

Imagine saying “always bet on punch cards”. Look at any whiteboard in any company or school. It’s filled with text and diagrams. Then watch how someone interacts with a PowerPoint or whiteboard. There is animation and dimensional extension. The way people think and organize and communicate thoughts is multifaceted and multidimensional. It only makes sense that we should be able to work and program in the same way.