skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This response is just insignificant and ignores everything I said. Segwit adoption is at 50% and again, as I said in my comment, Lightning will be further adopted over time for people who want lower fees. The options are here its up to people and services to use them. And they will as their customers get angry.
Originally it was distributed in a very fair manner, compared to other coins; it had a faucet which required captcha solving to get coins: https://medium.com/nanocurrency/the-nano-faucet-c99e18ae1202

Now, yes, you have to exchange for it from other currencies, as there is a finite supply which has already been issued.
It’s been a while now that some MacBook models have had soldered on SSD storage; it’s not new with the M1 Macs. If there were serious reliability issues we’d have seen them already.
Live in MN. We have a lot of solar and wind here. In fact solar gets a boost from ground cover snow based on the reflective property. Do panels lose out on snowy days or some accumulation? Yes, but there's a solar farm a mile from my house that covers probably 40 acres with solar - and I've never seen the panels covered.

As for the wind turbines - they work fine in cold weather. It's just that with ice build up on the blades the operator will force the unit to lock down so it doesn't become unbalanced and destroy itself.

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To add some additional color I know Texas is not the only state dealing with some rough weather over the last few days / week - but for context, where I live, today was the first day we broke 0F since February 10th. Yesterday morning it was -27.6F in my backyard (Ambient weather station - air temp). I'm curious to see what the actual root cause of the outages really was in Texas. Curious if it was all naturally related or if we see any inklings of strategically timed cyber related events.
Doesn't relying on the Lightning network compromise Bitcoin's promise of no-trust finance?
Yes I'm sure. The team that I joined surprisingly writes very little logic.

In order to implement a JSON GET and POST to one endpoint, they had to write 186 lines of code and unit tests so something is clearly wrong!

Even just being smarter on manually writing the client will save us a lot of time.
There was a game way back on the TRS-80(?) - I think it might have been called "robots" - and you had to program these robots to do things based on logic gates... (I can't recall the details, but surely some HNer will)

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It would be cool to have a CPU/GPU/Circuit design game that literally made a game out of designing logic gates and instructions as a game - but based on real-world circuit design....
I know several people personally that did. Among people who have worked in the cryptocurrency industry it's not unusual that they've cashed out small portions of their stash in each bubble but still hold some today.
Until you get into mods.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Factorissimo2
Allows unlimited nesting of factory objects.
I just scrolled through the entirety of the comments waiting for someone to provide this most obvious answer of all. Of course it's downvoted, this is hn.
1) There are wind turbines in Antartica. There's nothing inherently bad about wind turbines in the cold.

2) This might be a black swan event, but we've seeing a lot of "once in a 100/500 year" weather events in the last decade. Which is exactly what climate scientists predicted would happen if we continued ignoring climate change.

3) and as everyone else said, the fossil fuel plants are also offline.
It's a flat fee. The $18 may be the average currently, but it's on the high end. You'll probably be fine with $5. It all depends on how much you want the transaction to be in the next block. If you're sending $50,000 in BTC then you don't care about $18.

If you're transferring smaller amounts, why are you using Bitcoin? Use Bitcoin Cash or Litecoin or one of these newfangled proof-of-stake currencies. Then it'll be a couple of cents flat.
Please stop calling it Ponzi. A Ponzi scheme is a well defined scam with structural hierarchy. People lower in the hierarchy are obliged to pay the upper level money in order to stay in the game. They also try to recruit others in order to get paid themselves.
Bitcoin is traded in the free market just like a stock. You are not calling Apple stock a Ponzi scheme because some people bought at 1$ a piece am I right?
Makes sense, though covered in my “natural” clause as formaldehyde practically doesn’t accumulate in nature as we find it.
From what I hear, only about 40% are on non-critical circuits. There is room for improvement.
paging Mt Scott Locklin for the inevitable eruption
Yeah it's "overcollateralized". The borrower has to put 150% of the principal into escrow (this is enforced by the smart contract). If the borrower decides to flake, the lender gets to take the collateral.
"supply chain manufacturing as code"
> And that's a problem?

It's a problem if being a revolutionary is part of your identity, as it invariably is (by definition!) for the radical left and most likely also the radical right.

(As an aside, how can an article about Marcuse and *anon revolutionaries not mention Fanon? /s)
To ensure it's clear for other readers, footage from the new cameras will not be streamed live during descent, but made available several days later.

To get a very "rough" sense of what that footage may be like afterwards (with a lot more cameras), Doug Ellison has a good composition from the Curiosity landing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZioPhfxnSY
You can isolate yourself from cascading blackouts while still being able to share power. This is why they may cross several states, but never hit nationwide.
> I wasn't into early Twitter or Facebook, but were they also full of scammers and hustle type people?

I wasn't in super-early Twitter, but early Twitter was not at all like that. What I saw was that relationships and followings made on blogs translated to Twitter, and most of the movement was organic. I don't think at that point people thought of becoming an "influencer" like the ones we have now, so Twitter didn't attract those types too much. It was also far, far easier to participate, it was way more welcoming than it is now.

It was also less open, in the sense that Twitter didn't recommend you what was popular to keep engagement up like they do now. Back then you wouldn't see too much content outside of your network, retweets were manual and likes (favorites then) didn't show up in your timeline. So you only saw what the people you followed actively wanted you to see. That meant that these accounts made just to sell you things and scam you couldn't reach too far, as people didn't actively share their content. So content that gets attention now in Clubhouse wouldn't be popular in early Twitter.

Recommendation algorithms and engagement metrics have just completely ruined social media...
"though that'll probably land you on some FBI watch list." I have no idea why you would think this.
They didn't invest in the weatherproofing needed for these extreme events. It wasn't worth the expense for them to ensure that people would have heat if we had a record-breaking cold snap (only have to go back 30 years to match the one we are in now). I wonder if that equation will change once the state is back up and running again.
> I can't say I hate I hate the game

Sure you can

and many times
> Where are Python, Bash, etc.? [...] While there exist extensions to some dynamic languages imbuing them with static type checking these are not part of the language, and the complexity depends not on the language but the extension.

But TypeScript is included. Isn’t it an extension to JavaScript in the same way that Mypy is an extension to Python?

Is there a technical difference that justifies one being included and the other not, or is it just a case of popularity?
Honest question, why not just literally use vim if you love vim workflow? Why do vim users force vim support on every other text editor?
At the worst wind only provided 0.7GW on 30GW installed, with capacity they count on during winter peaking events for wind of 6.2GW it only 11%.
When I read a message like this, I conclude that bitcoin has another 10x to go since gold has a 10 trillion market cap.
(Preemptively I'm going to say that gold market cap has almost nothing to do with its usage as a commodity, google it)

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Electrical codes require grid-tie solar inverters to shut off if the utility power fails.
Well, if you have the power to go back in time and change your decision to buy BTC, you might as well also go back in time and change your decision to then not sell it. :)

That's basically what the "hodl" meme is: just decide to not sell until you need the money or until the money could significantly change your life. Of course, that's not exactly a new "investment" idea: there's always been a big difference between day-trading and just buying stocks (and index funds, etc.) with the intention to hold essentially indefinitely.
I have multiple lists set up for shopping so I can say "Hey, Siri, add wood nails to my Home Depot list" or "Hey, siri, add butter to my Costco list".

Works beautifully for me and the lists are shared with our household so it updates for everyone.
If it costs you one billion dollars to discover a drug and then that drug can be sold by others making generics immediately for five cents then the drug will not get created, the business model isn't viable. This kind of thing is what I mean by incentives.

Even with modern IP laws you see this play out, if a drug is less marketable even with the IP protections it doesn't get made.

If you write a book and that book can be immediately distributed or sold by others giving you nothing then the only people that will write books are people that have money and are willing to do it for free or donations (this is already a little true, but would be more extreme in a world without copyright). We want a society that empowers more people to create.

Policy is not equivalent to physical laws like gravity. It turns out you can have property rights alongside patents and copyrights, we do. Just stating that you're correct like gravity isn't convincing. I could state my position is equivalent to gravity too.

As far as the length of copyright, I agree and the link in my first comment goes into that.

This is clearly an issue you're passionate about and have held for a long time, I can relate somewhat because I was more partial to some of those ideas when I was younger. I changed my mind when I read more about it.

The reason the slavery bit bothers me is because it confuses the topic with an unrelated and especially terrible historical issue that's particularly provocative. I find that rhetorical style a sign of bad faith. This kind of thing plus the hashtags I generally dislike and find unpersuasive.
Indeed. In fact, we've even spotted kids using "default" as a slur - which is exactly what you design for if you're building a microtransaction slurry game.
This cold snap is due to the polar vortex destabilizing and pushing arctic air down South. Normally the polar vortex stays stable and that arctic air oscillates at higher latitudes. But with warmer temperatures in the higher latitudes that stability has been disrupted and a large part of the vortex air has been pushed South.

The arctic is warming much faster that the rest of the planet, so these events will probably become much more common. Other sorts of extreme weather events are also going to become more common with climate change

Some explainers on the polar vortex: https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-is-arctic-warming-linked-...
Makes them look bad, frankly. Not the fact that it’s a promotion, but the fact that the issues it lays out are so elementary and yesterday’s news.

To try to turn this comment into something only very slightly more interesting, I find it a bit of a challenge as a career thing, not being an expert in ML but being interested, to sort through who is actually doing the worthwhile work and who is just spouting buzzwords and regurgitating truisms. But I guess that’s part of the learning as with any field.
Bugs get patched. Features are protected, and sometimes simultaneously abused. Thank you!
Still a catchy song.
What's Up with Monomorphism?
If you have a HomePod and an Apple Watch, you can have Siri turn off all media devices when you leave the house. If you have a CRC receiver for your TV hooked up to an Apple TV, you can have it power down the whole entertainment system when you leave.
Ha. I love how ‘global warming’ transmogrifies into ‘climate change’ to suit the argument.

Not everything is as big of a crisis as your Facebook posts make out.

A few days without power... big woop. The power goes down longer in most coastal cities every summer during hurricane season. Not to mention the usual outages of a day or two due to tornados and ordinary storms. And the cold? Who cares? Kids are playing in the snow, most everyone in my neighborhood had been grilling out, if it’s been a wake-up call for anything, it would be to maybe buy a quieter diesel generator.

Jesus H... can’t we have a winter storm any more without using it as grist for ideological arguments?

It will be 70f in a few more days. All this will be forgotten.
Show HN: Magic Login – Passwordless login and transactional emails as a service
Tim Dillon gets it.
The counter point to GME is to look at gold.
Deno addresses this problem by not giving module’s permission by default I think
> This is a black swan event -- this is the coldest it's been in over 100 years.

While everyone else is taking you to the woodshed for the rest of the comment, I'd like to take a moment to address this, because I think it's a misunderstanding of the term and a misreading of the book.

The point of "Black Swans" was that an over-reliance on standard distributions derived from historical data generates predictions and confidence intervals that misrepresent the underlying phenomenon by assuming away "fat tails" and ignoring changing circumstances. If there's not some good reason why an event can't happen, any forecast or plan which precludes that event is necessarily flawed.

To describe this as a "black swan" event assumes nobody could've seen it coming, there was no reason to suspect it would happen, and it's unlikely to happen again. All of those are false. Every bit of climate forecasting over the last ~decades has pointed towards increased weather variability and increased likelihood of extreme weather events. Specific to this case, increasing the overall energy levels in the atmosphere increases the variability of the polar jet stream and increases the likelihood of polar vortex events like the one Texas is currently experiencing.

So, no, this wasn't a "black swan" event, this was a predictable - and predicted - outcome of climate change, which is a predictable outcome of burning as much coal and carbon-based fuels as we have over the last couple generations.
> No, property is literally a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. Coercion comes afterwards, when people seek to enforce this norm on people who dispute it.

Me: "Water is wet"
You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it."

You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement.
The contrast is fine, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26160608
I'm just one small voice but I still have fun with computers on the web.

Every day, I build https://kinopio.club and enjoy it. Maybe that's partly because experience has taught me to deliberately/conservatively pick the technologies that I build with (https://pketh.org/how-kinopio-is-made.html).

Basically, I avoid douchebag tech.

I'm not a gifted coder. My only real talent is a strong bullshit detector.
This honestly seems needlessly arbitrary. If you’re the person whose job it is to write the component for a button making that button “work” (which almost always making a call to the backend and/or loading up an additional component or making changes to the current one) is not anymore complex nor is it really a different skill set. Front and backend makes sense as the two don’t even have to be the same language and front end is GUI work while backend is more number crunching, etc. “back of the front end” and “front of the front end” doesn’t have anything close to the same kind of compartmentalization. At least not in my experience.
Biden Threatened to Shut Down Domestic Travel to Florida
An Update on the Future of I3
At worst wind provided only 2% of its capacity, 40GWh would be gone in minutes, please count on TWh.
Good thread! As many have voiced, the math is necessary for mastery. I can recommend Justin Solomon's lectures. Target audience is MIT students. High-level, but rather clear. Starts with a gentle linear algebra review and then into very tractable concepts behind Bezier curves, NURBS, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ3UicqQtfNuBjzJ-KEWm...

To learn from code instead dive right into the ThreeJS examples

https://threejs.org/examples/

Best of Luck!
Stablecoins aren't popular?

In the last 24 hours, there's been $108B traded.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/stablecoins
No one should use AT&T syntax ever, for any reason, under any circumstances
Detect caterpillar, grasshopper, aphid and simulation program
The protection of crops from pests is relevant for any cultivated crop. But modern methods of pest control by pesticides carry many dangers for humans. Therefore, research into the development of safe and effective pest control methods is promising. This manuscript presents a new method of pest control. We used neural networks for pest detection and developed a powerful laser device (5 W) for their neutralization. In the manuscript methods of processing images with pests to extract the most useful feature are described in detail. Using the following pets as an example: aphids, grasshopper, cabbage caterpillar, we analyzed various neural network models and selected the optimal models and characteristics for each insect. In the paper the principle of operation of the developed laser device is described in detail. We created the program to search a pest in the video stream calculation of their coordinates and transmission data with coordinates to the device with the laser.
Uniswap Fundamental Valuation
You do have to be legitimately careful with that. I've tripped myself before while sending objects through a self-pipe. The D GC only runs upon a function call, so with a bit of care you can defer runs, but here I allocated a new object while another one was still in the kernel's pipe buffer... and the GC assumed it was dead since it can't see that buffer and reused its memory for the new object. Took me a while to realize what was going on.

But on the other hand, I write a lot of D code and often go back to that same story because it isn't terribly common anyway and easy to manage when you know how. Just yeah if you are mixing techniques without knowing the potential issue you can have trouble.
While you (and siblings) are all correct, I don't get the down voting of the poor guy trying to make a joke while being considerate-ish and hoping that you guys were actually warmer than you were.

That said, I've been out in the hammock in 0F here, including snow and wind chill on top and been warm (oh wait, I'll be down voted too). It's all about insulation, which actually helps in both warm and cold weather. You can see that in Spain for example, where they have very warm weather (like Texas) in summer. It's a fallacy to believe though that there's no insulation used and that there's no heating in Spain.
Under normal conditions because everything backs off.

Under high-load conditions this is very definitely not true.
Indeed. Not that you should, but you could leave an ESXi cluster running without maintaining it at all, and it'll probably keep going for five or ten years all on it's own. It's stable by design.
Sure, but it costs money to store it and maintain it in a good shape. Also try sending the equivalent value of 100$ using a Honda Civic. Barter economy is impractical.
I watched a little mini-documentary on QAnon the other day, and I was struck by how diverse the adherents are. I figured it'd be mostly older, middle-class white people, but footage of some of their protests revealed them to be a cross-section of all kinds of ages and races. It really does seem to have some kind of universal appeal.
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We have updated our GitHub issue templates as well as added a new project goal on the i3wm homepage:

Do not add further complexity when it can be avoided. We are generally happy with the feature set of i3 and instead focus on fixing bugs and maintaining it for stability. New features will therefore only be considered if the benefit clearly outweighs the additional complexity, and we encourage users to implement features using the IPC whenever possible.

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I have no relation to i3 team or maintainers, just i3 user.
As a Californian, it is also very easy to espouse malicious soundbites about our self inflicted dysfunction...
My shareware program was on simtel. Made me a few bucks. Taught me in hindsight the pointlessness of not sharing my source code.
You can have very wide synced AC grids and even couple them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPS/UPS#Interconnections_with_...
If you use a language that lets you program in terms of data rather than operations this principle can be applied to programs - it's a hard problem, however.

Clock signals do seem like a very useful abstraction (when I have my software-hat on) - not sure how you'd do it for a general purpose CPU however.
There’s a huge difference.

If you buy up all a local farmer’s apples for your cider business that is not protectionism. If you arrange for him to effectively become your sole supplier during your busy period that is not protectionism. It’s free trade, that well known opposite.

Hard enough to defend the EU’s protectionism and disorganisation when it’s just food, didn’t think I’d see anyone lining up to do it over vaccines.
Bluespec is also based on Haskell and is now open source
I think it's fair to say that their top two energy sources are natural gas and coal, although "mostly natural gas and nuclear" would also be fair, in its own way.

https://www.utilitydive.com/user_media/diveimage/ercotmix.pn...
FYI the Texas grid runs on a different frequency than the other two grids and as a result incurs MASSIVE efficiency penalties for that hubris. If I recall correctly it has to be converted from AC to DC then back to Texas’ AC.
the weather patterns induced by climate change are novel though
The "fries" were not what were being canceled; the French were.
Yes, that's the Southwest Power Pool, which covers 14 states. Here's some news from them,

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/local-news-local-news...
I had been looking recently for a way to invest in companies doing interesting things with the blockchain. I came across the ETF called BLOK. It’s largest holding is with Microstrategy .... because they hold a lot of Bitcoin. It’s really unfortunate to see something like that. They aren’t doing anything with the blockchain (that I know of), yet are the largest holding in a blockchain ETF because they have a bunch of Bitcoin. Hopefully we don’t start seeing more and more companies hodling in hopes of making their balance sheets look better.
TX grid is connected via HVDC, but keep in mind that even if it was "fully" connected there is no hope in hell it would be much better. There wouldn't be enough transmission to transfer 40GW+ from the East or West coast grids to TX. It's an enormous amount of power to go offline. I don't think California for instance has more than 10GW of transmission north to south.

Basically, no amount of grid infrastructure can really help you much when you lose 50%+ of generation capacity on your highest demand days in history.
Barnabees, thanks for the tip. when you mention scraper what tool set would you recommend?