skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps that means gold is now cheaper than the index and thus will perform better than the index?

Germany has weird taxes. There there is a 25% tax on stock market returns. But no tax on gold sales. Nor on Bitcoin sales. Although silver is taxed.
yeah that would be very cool. Some of the sub-components essentially exist (3d printers and pick-and-place machines come to mind), but not in a single package that could print/assemble complex objects (AFAIK).
>So it sounds like lemming group think. It seems like someone one should hold “just in case,” but no real valid reason to do so yet (that I’ve heard).

Honestly what more do most people have? You could work your entire life but even all the earnings and scrimping and saving isn't even be a tiny fraction to what you would have if you had been the one to fulfil the order for the bitcoin pizza and just held.

Think a lot of people misunderstand just how hopeless the world is for most people.

GME and Doge are just the start, get used to hearing people are sinking their entire savings into far flung gambles multiple times a year from here on out. Especially in a post pandemic world where people are been completely downtrodden to their limit. Property is so exorbitant, pay is so low we're now entering a world where just gambling seems the smarter option than living within your means because anyone who has tried that can tell you it gets you nowhere. Pay just hasn't increased enough in line with property and your dollars are worth less and less every day.
I realize they're very smart and very thorough, but this sounds an awful lot like "I ran the test suite - if you can apply the patch in production it'll work".
I'm all for more nuclear as a stopgap but they had to shut down large parts of their nuclear energy in TX because the water froze.
> Of course you have to design your turbines not to freeze.

While true (and I'm not saying you don't know this, more just pointing it out), wind works great in cold climates. We've done our homework on this one already.
Good question. I am unclear about heaters but I do think some of them are out for some team members and you may be right on that. Ovens also are commonly gas but ones since 1990 require an electric light. But... stovetops which are gas do not require electronic ignition. The risk is of course carbon monoxide poisoning; hopefully you have such detectors as part of your in-home fire detectors.

The problem is not so much the deliberate rotating blackouts who can get restored after a time, but large groups of people for whom power is out due to some other weather-related outage issue; there are large swaths of them in Houston at least according to the Centerpoint Energy outage map which distinguishes between the two (but does seem to be not the most timely updated data per various people I have talked to whose status has changed during today: http://gis.centerpointenergy.com/outagetracker/ )
Large-scale collaborative filtering to predict who will like you, with JAX
> My experience with fireplaces is that the house winds up net-colder

Why is that?

EDIT: Oh are you saying that the rate of heating provided by the fire is less than the overall rate of heat leaving the entire house?
Gas heaters still require electricity for basic management.

I'd imagine heaters have batteries for specifically this case. If they don't, it's frankly a miracle if we don't lose anyone, and someone needs to get prosecuted.
A tight wood stove in the hands of an experienced user is a remarkable thing. The amount of heat that can be extracted from a large oak log is nothing short of remarkable.

Sadly, most wood stoves are not tight, nor are most users experienced.
When I was living in California (no, not a large scale event - just a suicidal squirrel and power to 8 small houses)...

The mother in law of the guy who handled the property would fuss at him about his RV. She didn't like it and would have loved to have him sell it.

And one day, there was a suicidal squirrel. Took out power for six hours. She only has two tanks (1h each) of backup oxygen... and shortly into the outage when we found out that PG&E would be awhile before repairing it he powered up his RV and plugged her oxygen into the RV.

She didn't fuss about the RV after that.

If you don't have an inverter and a long lasting source of power, an outage like this can (and probably has) kill many people who depend on the consistent power to keep their medical devices working.
Great question. If something good comes up here I'll jump on it.

I agree that "An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments" isn't a fit for kids. The pictures are good but the language wouldn't make sense.
The City as a Tile-Based Game
Beginning with FreeBSD on exotic devices like these is going to ensure a poor first impression. Had she started on a standard x86_64 PC desktop or supported laptop like the thinkpads, she would have had much better results.
> In fact solar generated more than expected.

This is technically true, but kind of irrelevant to the big picture. Solar beat expectations, which is great until you realize how little it was expected to produce in the first place. Solar and wind do not scale to demand as well as non-renewables.

And look, I'm not saying that Texas should have invested in coal, I'm saying that it's tone deaf to admonish them for not embracing green energy when they did embrace green energy pretty strongly, and when their lack of capacity currently is mostly about their lack of production in renewables.

The core problem is that you can almost always burn more coal or NG and get more juice out of the coal and NG plants. But you can't make the wind go faster, and you can't make the sun shine brighter or longer. Had they invested in an abundance of non-renewables, people would not be freezing in their dark homes right now. It's not Texas fault, proponents of green energy need to have a better answer for this.
It's very well hidden, but (at least on Android) there is an option to sort alphabetically. I was quite annoyed until I googled it and found out how to do it. I can't find it in the UI now despite having done it before... Anyway, I fully agree.
Your question is not very meaningful/vacuously true for two reasons.

1. The premise is false. Bitcoin does not have the same demand as the USD.

2. The whole point of my original comment is that value is a result of demand. So your question is circular.

"If Bitcoin had equal demand to the USD, then it would be a better store of value" is as logical a statement as "if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a wagon, if you define a wagon as anything that has wheels."
Opportunity had been driving around Mars since 2004 when Curiosity landed.

When NASA does their typical "get kids interested in science" outreach programs the kids they talk to have lived their whole lives with something driving around Mard.
It's even worse than that, because it's not even that there's no historical data to draw from! It got just as cold as this back in December 1989, resulting in power shortages and rolling blackouts, because of increased demand and reduced generation capacity.

And then it happened again in February 2011, for almost exactly the same reasons, despite the weather not being quite as severe.

https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/February%202011%20Southwest%2...
Really interesting piece. I like how it discusses various seemingly disparate issues and ties them together.

> In our codebase, we have hundreds of these jobs, each with their own run_config. If you look at this codebase as a database, you can imagine these jobs being rows in a jobs table, where the fields on each row correspond to the parameters provided to the RunConfig class.

> Wouldn’t it be great to be able to browse all these jobs in a table?

I know the article suggests a database / table, and that could work but I feel like there are a suite of things you'd want on top of that that aren't given for free -- JSON validation, history, libraries with caching, namespaces, etc.

For this exact subproblem, I created www.config.ly .
Ancient memes? 90s? memes?

https://twitter.com/oldmemearchive
This is awesome. But would be good if "Working on the intersection of" couldn't pick the same word twice.

i.e. "Working on the intersection of bitcoin and bitcoin"
If only somebody would have told him that leaving once you learnt everything you could is a nice idea. But we don't seem to get such lessons, but rather have to learn them ourselves, right?
How many years can I watch you scam people with get rich quick arguments "invest now, it can only go up"? Forever.

Make your money the way you want, but I wont participate in something I have no chance to control.
With all of the connectors and interfaces, this is more of a dev board.

The article notes that CPU performance is similar to the Raspberry Pi 4, which is already available with 8GB of RAM and has better mainstream support.
My impression is gold is largely seen as a low risk inflation hedge rather than a growth investment. A better comparison would be a savings account or maybe municipal bonds.
The question is why is BTC getting so much interest, when it serves little real purpose to most people.

Facebook on the other hand, is deeply entrenched in half the world's daily entertainment routine.

I understand the hype around BTC, but I don't know if it'll all come crumbling down if a few big fish get irked and decide to liquidate.
gas furnaces do not have batteries.
Someone else on HN used the phrase "cognitive automation".

I like this as a descriptive phrase. ML won't be "intelligence" per se, but it can do repetitive tasks that otherwise required thought.
Sannyrion
Node came out way before any of these features were invented, and the ES committee knowingly broke compatibility when designing for the browser. Modules are supported since v14 but you have to opt in.
>Anyway seems like this storm is so bad Texas would be in trouble no matter what, but letting utilities under-invest in winterizing and not joining either of the major grid corridors just made a bad situation 100x worse.

The weather in Texas is in the single digits. The weather in Minnesota is in the double digit negatives.

Texas would not be in trouble "no matter what" if they had bothered to spend the money on winterizing their power plants. They chose not to, and this is the end result.

The roads shut down due to lack of snow removal is completely understandable - and quite frankly most people should be perfectly capable of surviving in their homes for a week if they have heat and water.

The lack of updating power plants so they can function in below-freezing weather is just straight incompetence. This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm. They have extended below freezing temperatures on a fairly regular basis.
These communities are much higher touch than I was imagining but would love to engage more deeply and pick your brain!
TIL the pacel pirate bomb marker guy worked at JPL for 9yrs. That's a really interesting career trajectory.
I do not know such a place in Germany as well. It is very disappointing after growing up reading BOFH
In a way, putting your transactions on a public ledger is like voluntarily adding yourself to a watch list. The government (and everyone else) can then come and inspect your financial history at their leisure in the future.
To get access to a wealth of libraries, support, documentation and tools, that D is sorely lacking in. To be able to use a state of the art garbage collector that provides some degree of guarantee about runtime performance as opposed to D's very poor garbage collector that provides basically no guarantees and is known to sometimes block an application for upwards of dozens of seconds at a time [1].

And most importantly, to be able to use a platform that has pretty strong guarantees about backwards compatibility and that is able to run code from 10 years ago without modification, as opposed to D where even a minor version update can end up breaking D's own standard library.

Certainly D has a niche of users who are very passionate about it and for those guys, all the power to you guys and don't bother listening to me... but for most of us, well after 20 years it really hasn't established itself as a reliable language to use beyond that niche. It's no longer 2005, a time when C++ was stagnating and there was a lot of opportunity for a new programming language to sit some where between Java and C. Instead of being released with a roadmap, some promising libraries and frameworks that establish a clear use case where D could shine, and a license that allowed broader community involvement in the implementation of the language and its standard library, it was released as a proprietary compiler that ended up quickly resulting a very fragmented community with a lot of infighting, many missteps and mismanagement made on the part of D's leadership the result of which is that D lost on the order of 5-10 years worth of progress for nothing.

It's now 2021, C++ has advanced significantly since those days, there's many new languages such as Go and Rust that have taken the steam out of D and are progressing far more rapidly... and D, which at one point in time was actually innovating on language design, is now constantly trying to play catch up with other languages and implementing half-assed features. The language is often referred to as a kitchen sink of functionality and I kid you not when I say D is literally in the process of working on adding a quasi-borrow checker to the language just so it can keep up with Rust.

[1] https://pointersgonewild.com/2014/09/09/ds-garbage-collector...
Well, this article helped me understand monads better than any of the other articles (though they provide important pretext).
Can we now add the profusely mentioned weatherproofing to the solar/costs? Because nuclear works better at 0°, at no added costs.
No actually that makes it even better! hahah
I like the first few lines in the intro video;

> What if Technology helped us focus on what matters most? Keeping our lives free from distractions. To help us be more present.

Laughable, coming from Google. Or Apple, or Microsoft, or Facebook.

> This thing, we really think it'll help you focus and live free from the distractions of all the other things that we make. We're not going to stop making those things, though. Or change them in any meaningful way, because no one here actually believes anything we say.
One can think both that it's a shame they aren't rich because of Bitcoin and that it's a horrific waste of energy, I don't think one really takes away from the other.
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I'm not sure if they mean "contemporary" by "modern", or the more expansive definition of "modern", but in the long-term things like street addresses and official last names were invented and enforced in order to make reality itself legible for "database" management, as part of the dawn of the modern notion of government, indeed.
Because they have relatives who work for the EU office that hands out startup subsidies?
>>> def a(b=3000):
... return b is 3000
[...]
>>> a()
True
>>> a(b=3000)
False

That's not something I knew before. Corner cases like this put Python on par with JS, JS maybe even being less of an impossible to understand mess
Incidentally, I think being in QA and being a good engineer is a recipe for a very good career. A surprising number of QA software developers are... just not very good developers. Working with a good developer that just happens to specialize in QA is an amazing experience.
The issue is that the plants weren't built to handle these temperatures, and the deregulation and political climate in Texas makes it difficult to incentive those plants to make those changes. (Pre-pandemic) you'll see some random electric company setup outside of a grocery store asking everyone who walks in what their rate is, and offering to beat it.
Useful trick, I'll try that, thanks.
I think it's not the best idea to allow apps on your store to use third party payment processors. Users won't have the same protections that the app store gives to them when they use a third party payment processor.
Printed in days, a house: New York firm takes 3D printing to the next level
The energy usage (and its side effects to the environment) seems like a problematic and valid aspect, and it seems that is the price to pay to have truly permissionless, decentralized system (proof of work).

But I imagine there is also a lot of opportunity for innovation in that realm to move to clean solutions for instance.
Yeah, I kinda feel like Apple would consider "customers in North Dakota" as a small enough number that it'd be more important to them to keep the status quo than keep the customers.

And customers from ND would just get pissed at their elected representatives and pressure them to repeal the law. And in the meantime they'd go to another state to buy their iPhone or iPad or have an out-of-state relative buy it for them and mail it to them.

Unfortunately this kind of law needs to be from a state like CA or NY (or quite a few smaller states) for it to be effective.
Just virtue signaling. If bitcoin replaces gold it would be a net win for the environment. And btc uses mostly renewables and excess energy. Also there are many other random applications that use more energy than btc like HFT, gaming, video rendering, but we dont persecute individual liberty, expression, or advancement. A society moving forward simply takes more energy. The solution is to tackle the entire energy space, not persecute energy users which is a band-aid "solution" and counter to a progressive society.
That "hip jargon" is concise, specifies characteristics, and clarifies meaning.
This is 50% of the reason why pellet stoves were created, with the other 50% being you can burn scraps instead of large oak logs that could be used for furniture etc.
It's factually a horrific waste of energy. People pointing that out are not looking back in "hindsight", but are actually concerned with the damages it is doing to our planet.
My opinion of Bitcoin will change when it stops using more electricity than entire countries, for something Visa can do for comparatively nothing. I would hold the same opinion of any technology which used so much energy when there was a less wasteful alternative.

I also happen to be skeptical of Bitcoin's long-term outlook, but that's not why I'm actively against it as a technology. If it wasn't for the planet, I'd say people could put their money wherever they wanted. Actually, I still think they can—as long as they're willing to pay for the negative externalities they create. But then no one would actually use Bitcoin...
That goes both ways. It seems like you can’t live in CA without shitting on the middle of the country despite the govt here being in worse shape generally.
You said:

> Fascism is but one particular flavor of malicious totalitarianism, and totalitarianism can coagulate around a vast variety of beliefs across the political/religious/cultural spectra.

I can go through a list like that, make sure that I check none of the boxes, and decide that I am verifiably not A Bad Person. (As if the only kinds of badness are fitting Eco's fascism checklist.) Or that the movement I'm attracted to is verifiably not A Bad Movement.

(All that said, it's not a totally bad list, and it does cross over some between different flavors of politics. Even Antifa checks more boxes than they would be comfortable with, if they seriously considered it.)
The big issue isn't just the control board-- most forced-air furnaces (at least, of the type used in the southern US) use an electric blower to actually distribute hot air to the rest of the house.

End result's the same, though-- no electricity = no heat, regardless of natural gas supply. (But, at least in this case, a relatively small generator can provide enough power to get the furnace up and running and heat the house; the electric furnaces and heat pumps that are most common in places like Texas would need something quite a bit beefier to run without grid power).
I don't know what people expected. You provide an entity with certain incentives and it will tend to follow those incentives to their logical conclusion. If you make fires much more expensive for power providers, and you prevent them from charging any more money for the service they provide, they are going to have to reduce risk elsewherre. They'll do this either by cutting service when fire risk is the highest or by doing more maintenance, whichever is least expensive.
not just targeted at 'critical thinking' (so includes maths and Logo programming) is Barry Newell's book Turtle Confusion. long ago i used this book with kids aged 12. you can read about it here: http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/?p=1451
One of the three use cases presented is competitive soccer. How many people carry their phone while playing competitive soccer? I usually keep the phone in the locker.

The product page is unclear on how much information is cached on the device before you need to re-connect to your phone.

Im intrigued, but this seems more like an early teaser.
You mimic very well the typical bitcoin scammer!

They were all over in 2017 before the price dropped to 3k,I admit I was a bit of a savage when that happened.

In all seriousness with the scam you re running online, be careful and protect your family for when it goes back from 50k to 3k. A lot of people will have lost a lot of money :(
There is no M in FAANG?
Belgian Virologist Proposes a Plan to Eradicate Covid-19 in 6 Weeks
What protections does the app store give over other payment processors?
This time could end up being a bubble, but it is very different for many reasons.

The first is that Bitcoin is thriving as a store of value. It hasn't seen much adoption as a payments system and is unlikely to do so in the future, but 2020 saw many notable people using adopting Bitcoin as a store of value. See MassMutual, Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller, Tesla, among many other examples.

The second reason is that defi protocols grew in usage by an insane amount in 2020. Decentralized exchanges like Uniswap are beating centralized exchanges in volume and lending protocols like Aave have billions deposited in them. These defi protocols are generating huge cash flows. This is real people using decentralized technologies built on blockchains like Ethereum.

Even if the 2021 bull run ends up like a bubble, 2021 will be different in that a lot of the price rises will be based on fundamentals, not pure speculation like in 2017. One thing to note though is that a Bubble is not necessarily a bad thing. In every past Bitcoin "bubble" (2011, 2014, 2017 etc) the price Bitcoin crashed to has always been higher than the price it started the run up at.
This is about as meaningful as saying base64 encoded pngs are text based.

Most tools operate on the compressed, binary header including, base64 encoded blueprint strings, not the raw blueprint JSON payload.
Many people on HN who talk down against Bitcoin are indoctrinated into the current ideology. Anything that goes against the current ideology is refuted, ignored, dismissed as fads, bubbles, scams..etc Ideology is a powerful thing and it's hard to break out of it.

If you want to learn more about this concept, you should research about Slavoj Zizek's work on ideology. Bitcoin is not just technology, but a multi-faceted ideology founded around cypherpunks ideas, liberty, sovereignty, austrian economic system, free markets.

Even the way Bitcoin is developed (slow, methodical) and Bitcoin apps are built is different to SV way which is move fast, break things, iterate.