skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the discussion at the bottom about decimal and fractions...

The link is just a loooooong explanation about how IEEE-754 works. It's equal to what C (and other languages) do with double precision floating point number.
If anyone has free time and is willing to, I think the Kodi team is looking for Android developers as the Android version is unmaintained.

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=360369&pid=3012332#...
This comment hurts the signal-to-noise ratio of this site.
From their page it seems like it's from the US...?

https://www.transmedics.com/ocs-hcp-heart/

https://www.transmedics.com/our-company/
Well, you've successfully constructed a hell of a strawman! My comment was to express my support for the following statement:

> I'd say more generally, it's about control and having something police / government can hold over almost anyone, or any demographic, if convenient for whatever reason.

I didn't say anything about Democrats or Republicans. I happened to use a quote that touched on Nixon in support of my claim.

I would also note, for people not well-versed in American history, that up until around the 1960s, the concept of a Southern Democrat still existed - people mostly identified with opposing desegregation in the American south. Some of these politicians, including Strom Thurmond, who voted against civil rights and for the Controlled Substances Act, later became Republican figureheads. Party ideals shift over time.

With that said, I don't think the current state of drug laws in the US are an issue of party. It's a lack of evidence-based policy, and it's extremely problematic.

One might not blame politicians for looking at the effects of narcotics and their relation to organized crime in the mid-20th century in America and say: "we need to legislate this, because the problem is ballooning and we don't have any other tools at our disposal." Addiction science didn't exist yet.

One might even forgive the Controlled Substances Act as an extension of this reaction, were it not for the fact that through the subsequent creation of the DEA and the scheduling system, the effects of drugs and addiction became significantly more difficult to research in the US. This happened under Nixon, and I think that's why he receives a significant portion of the blame for the current state of affairs (rightly or wrongly).

The DEA has also simply failed in its remit. They've shown themselves to be completely incapable of assessing the medical utility and controlling the abuse potential of drugs (marijuana on the one hand, prescription opioids on the other). This, combined with the fact that the CSA and the DEA's existence prevent us as a country from evaluating other approaches to the drug problem, make for a lose-lose situation.
> You just keep moving the goalposts by using the most extreme argument you can muster.

The most extreme arguments I can muster? There are tons of industries that produce negative net value when accounting for externalities. $1 in profit for $2 in external harm is not at all that ridiculous.

> I think society should outlaw sport - so many people are hurt in injuries

My argument is that we should price carbon usage to account for externalities. I highly doubt sports turns out to be net unprofitable, even once accounting for those externalities.
My (perhaps erroneous) understanding nuclear is the only power source that can generate the power/heat that many very heavy industrial use cases need can’t be supplanted with renewables, no matter how inexpensive/efficient they are.

That’s why countries like France have significantly lower coal usage whereas Germany has higher, even though both have similar levels of renewables.
who said anything about backup email

but sure? probably if you just alternate between a backup email tied to an email you use everywhere
> Like using `cron` or `at`

A technological aside that's neither here nor there with regards to the broader 'boring' debate: one of the advantages of Erlang/Elixir is that it's more of a self-contained ecosystem than, say, Rails, where you can run a bunch of different "applications" inside the same process, and it's easy for them to talk to one another. There are a number of 'cron' type things that you can easily run within your BEAM system. For some kinds of applications and deployments, this is pretty convenient. It's easier to create jobs programmatically, to introspect them, and to keep track of them all within the same system, without an external dependency.
Relocating is not a solution, you need to live sustainably where you are. Use wood for heat, pump water manually and grow/breed/hunt/conserve food yourself. The human made system will crumble surprisingly fast (starting with authority, with which borders really are made) and the only thing we ever made by inspiration from nature (the internet) will survive.
>Tldr; Tether gets printed whenever Bitcoin demand goes up and that's in their whitepaper.

The theory is sound, but the experimental verification of the theory (an actual audit of USD reserves) is sorely lacking.

Plus, if you really dig into the history of the folks involved with Tether, I mean, I'm generally no fan of ad-hominems and generally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, the reek of fraud is overpowering [1]

[1] https://nicolaborzi.medium.com/the-lawless-rollercoaster-of-...
> Pushing troublesome kids out isn't gaming the system in the same sense that fudging exam results is, because it makes the school better for all the remaining kids. (I think "gaming the system" should be reserved for things that are overall zero- or negative-sum.)

The troublesome kid goes somewhere, very likely somewhere worse equipped to deal with troublesome kids, not being a fancy school with a ton of money and all.
IMHO Discourse is pretty nice.

Some other alternatives:

https://vanillaforums.com/en/

https://www.simplemachines.org/
The problem with looking at salary is that the fact you're in the 80th percentile doesn't mean much if everyone you know is in the 90th percentile - you're still going to feel like you're badly off.
José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26076680
Not really. This is actually a primary design consideration taken very seriously at nuke plants. The same can NOT be said about the rest of the grid, and renewable generation facilities.
The alternative is asking dependencies to never ever make any breaking changes anywhere.

This is not sustainable long term. It forces library authors to grow APIs purely additively, which eventually makes them overcomplicated and full of traps that can't be fixed, e.g. look at X11 and its recurring drama of screensaver lock security.

Library authors have to eventually clean stuff up. Ossified applications have to eventually update. Semver just adds a way to coordinate it.
This is called a “shadow” profile, I think.
Right, where would people even get 700 B.C. technology to “use” gold!?

(Of course gold has intrinsic value! Just because you can’t use a thing, doesn’t make it worthless to me, I’ll still buy your gold despite you not knowing anything but how to pull it from your pocket)
Sign In With Apple does exactly this — generates a fake e-mail address for each account, so the data harvesters never get your real one.
Hi folks, Alex Cabal here! Looks like the site got hugged to death. Here's an archive link posted by DanBC deeper in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210220133950/https://mythaxis....

Happy to answer any questions people might have. We're always looking for new contributors to produce ebooks. It's a combination of a lot of different disciplines and a lot of fun--I often say it's like building your own lightsaber.
Now that launching stuff into orbit is getting much cheaper, is there any reasonable calculation to just ship nuclear waste into orbit? Or even further away (crashing it into Sun would be ideal but too expensive I guess)
HN is filled with ultra talented devs getting offers.

It's not that easy to find a new job for 90% of the population.
There are over 8.6 millions snapshots of Google plusone.js since 2011
What, exactly, do you mean by the “civilian government was partially included in the genocide?”

The military does not take orders from civilian government, it’s the other way around. Civilian gov has no legal or de facto control over Tatmadaw, or border control, or home affairs (police, courts). There is no civilian legislative control over Rakhine operations. Tatmadaw just does whatever they wants.

And anyone who speaks against their actions is imprisoned. If AASK spoke against them they would have imprisoned her again, like they just did. The politics AASK is dealing with are complex.
The "opportunity" is often a dangling carrot from a big enterprise customer. It's very hard for a cash-strapped startup looking to make bank and reputation to turn these opportunities down, and they don't look at the TCO and long-term costs in terms of complexity and tech debt.
If not, having enough money and a musical instrument case may suffice.
They would be hooked up to a Nokia 6110 with a serial data cable and use Gammu :D

Edit: I just noticed that Gammu is still a thing and even used in this article.
Why is it not possible?
> The CMP version is a straight-to-landfill product. As soon as it stops being profitable for mining it will have zero resale value, and become e-waste.

Like literally every other piece of Bitcoin or crypto mining technology. It’s straight to the landfill every 6 months.

Bitcoin generates 100 GRAMS of ewaste for every transaction. Every 2 transactions consumes as much energy as driving a Tesla from SF to NY [edit for clarity: round trip] and as much ewaste as throwing your phone out the window along the way.

Don’t hate the player; hate the game. Nvidia is maximizing shareholder value as per their charter, creating differentiated product offerings for different segments. Quadro, RTX, CMP. It’s all segmentation, and better, likely binning. I wonder if CMP products are just failed RTX and Quadro parts they’re offloading. For every card Nvidia doesn’t sell, Ant will sell 2 ASIC miners.

Time to push back on proof of waste, and end the economic incentive.
Nuclear reactors don't make sense as peaker plants, hence are not a battery replacement as such.

You're correct that one should factor in the cost of storage if one wants to considers renewables as an alternative to nuclear for providing base load power.
> When you have a dataset that is shared and aggregate information is needed not so much and you are likely better of considering a SQL database of some sort.

There are best practices for this. Simply create a microservice per table, and then create a microservice that acts as a client to the other services and aggregates or joins the data from those services.

No, I'm not kidding. This is literally what people do and recommend.
I’m not sure you understand how it works.

Please explain to me exactly how Tether is used to onboard clients and how it gets printed.
You don't bother thinking about that. Over time you have a large enough sample size for attrition rate and you hire based off that. it doesn't matter if a few leave, a few will always leave.
Solar doesn't provide off peak power without storage. So comparing nuclear directly to solar in the way you've done makes no sense.
I'm not sure criminalization is the answer but there should be some controls on stuff like LSD - I've seen a few people mucked up by it. Maybe only supplied by licensed suppliers who have some responsibility for the results perhaps.
Is there an easy way to play Tux Racer today on a mac?
Possibly the tests were stored on site, and the social engineering was needed to gain access to the room where they were stored.
But sometimes NHS won't pay and will forbid you from paying yourself: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/25/health/alfie-evans-appeal...
TMI (plus other 80s US NPP incidents) and Chernobyl had happened in the previous 10 years when Simpsons started. Those plants had real problems and caused badly needed corrections to NPP safety culture and standards. It was a pretty reasonable take for its time.
True, but that's using SMS for telemetry (totally valid for use cases where power or connectivity are challenges) or remote control, not brokering SMS between another medium; this use case is forwarding SMS messages to Telegram. Maybe if you had a SIM for a geography that wasn't supported by a VoIP provider for programmatic access?
>> It's no longer cost competitive

If you compare apples to oranges it is not. Once you start to compare apples to apples it is very competitive. What do I mean by this?

People like to compare nuclear to wind or solar. There is a fundamental difference. Wind or solar is not controlled by the energy demand while a nuclear power plat's energy production is. This is why you cannot compare them. If you talk about solar or renewables you should talk about:

- the production part (solar panels or wind mills)

- the energy storage part (some sort of batteries or pumped-storage hydroelectricity)

- if you do not want to build either batteries of pumped-storage then you have to build in the same amount of quickly accessible power source (this is natural gas
turbines mostly)

There are few other challenges:

- solar or windmills require massive amount of construction because the energy density is very low

- the damage to nature with windmills especially is bad (there is preemptive maintenance during animal activity for many of the windmills)

- weather can damage these facilities

- the lifetime of windmills or solar panels are much shorter than nuclear power plant lifetimes

Given all these and the general public's hatred towards nuclear energy largely fuelled by politicians many countries shut down research into nuclear with very few exceptions. Instead, these countries invested billions into renewables without much success yet. I think soon we are going to be at a tipping point when this whole circus ends and we are going to get back on track with nuclear which is much needed in the coming of space era.
It is though, unless we had a major breakthrough in the last decade i'm not aware of, you can't just "plug in" 1 TW/h of solar pannels on a power grid when you need to. You can however start a generator, an eoliene, a turbine. PV don't offer that, although other kind of solar can.
> There's something fundamentally wrong with the idea of deciding for people what might improve their lives and what isn't allowed to try, rather than letting them decide for themselves individually

This is literally the whole point of having law.
One (hopelessly futile) tactic may be focusing on the ROI of various reading material. Internet comments take ~5 minutes to write, 30s to read (6x ROI). Blog posts are ~4 hours to write, 10m to read (24x). Magazine articles are ~3 months to write, 30m to read (960x). Books are ~5 years to write, 8h to read (1300x). Obviously, reading books is one of the best sources of reading. But it also works with video and audio material. Movies are better than YT vlogs which are better than ticktocks. Albums are better than singles which are better than soundcloud covers. I know that teenagers are never going to listen to this advice (I sure wouldn't have), but there is that fleeting chance!

(Also, the ROI stuff is a rough guide, read/view/listen to whatever you'd like, I'm not your dad!)
Academic BS is just as bad, if not worse. You have far less options. It's way easier to just "find another job" than it is to "find another phd program" and colleges/professors abuse the shit out of it.
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> Just an FYI: one hiccup I heard of giving up your US citizenship is that banks didn’t recognize you could be born in USA but not a US citizen.

I had this issue just last month with a UK financial institution (Raisin). I tried to explain it but they obviously were not interested. I actually still have my citizenship (I'd love to renounce but that's currently impossible) but I felt it was worth pointing out their policy was unnecessarily discriminative.
And hopefully they won't ever need a European bank account, or any other kind of financial service. All I ever signed up for, besides asking for citizenship, also explicitly asked for having US citizenship. Presumably checking that box is the immediate end of the application process.
Yea, plus we've reached the point where even if you do believe the most optimistic timelines for fusion power development, its not going to come in time to make a meaningful contribution to fighting climate change.
Oh, if you are going to include manmade space-related objects there have been many deaths. Dig into how many Chinese rocket stages have landed on villages. If we include such things as "aviation" I would retract my above statements re debris. Rockets do sometimes fall on people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...

"It has happened many times before, including most infamously in 1996 when a Long March 3B rocket veered off course shortly after a launch and crashed into a village. Chinese officials reported six dead from the accident, although Western sources have speculated that hundreds of Chinese citizens may have died in the accident."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...
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Right now, many US stocks are overvalued and are at high risk for a correction within the next few years. Using historical averages for the last 20 years, the CAPE ratio for the US market is projecting returns to be only -3% to +3% for the next decade. Interest rates at are an all time low though, which may push expected returns up a bit from those numbers, but interest rates probably won't stay low forever. US index funds are a risky play right now.

Not all stocks are overvalued though. Look into buying value stocks that pay large dividends. Unsexy REITs, tobacco, bank stocks might be worth looking into again, as well as international or emerging market ETFs.

Bitcoin looks over-sold right now, but gold is relatively cheap as a hedge against inflation. The Fed pumping huge amounts of money into the economy will eventually lead to inflation. It might take a while though, since people need to be able to spend that money for inflation to happen. Various lock downs around the world are preventing this from happening, currently. If you're patient, I think gold and other commodities (Uranium possibly) are going to do well over the next few years. I think there are a lot of people buying Bitcoin as speculation and as soon as you have numbers go red, there might be a mass sell-off and switch to gold. The last Bitcoin halving event was just this past May which usually leads to surge in price as mining becomes more affordable, but as with other cycles, miners may start selling (since you can't yet pay bills with it) and prices will go down again until the next halving cycle.

To put things into perspective though: Aside from owning property, I'm about 5% REIT, 5% Gold, 20% Canadian index ETF (Canadian here), 30% international index ETFs, 10% US value stocks, 20% bonds, 10% cash.

I am not a financial advisor, please do your own DD.
I think bitcoin can be a technological marvel that has utility to humanity, even if it's being pumped artificially and its value falls back to (or below) what it was before it was pumped.

I think you underestimate just how mighty 'fragile' sentiment can be.
In computer science, though, I have several “ABD” (all but dissertation) acquaintances that have had fine and lucrative industrial careers. I don’t see it as such a black mark.
Is that because of the Bitcoin protocol or because people are dumb and lost their coins?
There is no such thing as "solar fuel". Nothing in space flight is free except failure.
No it’s not a better comparison as banks genuinely create money by lending. This is the whole point of FRB.

You can cherry pick your numbers but it doesn’t change the fact that Tether’s reserves likely don’t exist in the way they’re supposed to (cash and cash equivalents).
Cleaner than than the air compared to what? Coal? No shit.

How about the cost compared to solar and wind? Oh, don't want to talk about that? I wonder how much nuclear waste solar and wind creates.
There is that, but mostly the concern of many engineers is that they need to stay buzzword-compliant to have a marketable resume, otherwise they risk career stagnation. It's an indictment of hiring managers, and to an extent a self-fulfilling prophecy, but we all know the best technology does not always win in the marketplace.
Lazy Simple Traffic. Is it really?
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2019 hackers - Bitcoin is going to collapse + downvoting anyone who beleive in bitcoin.

2021 hcakers - USDT is going to collapse + downvoting this.
Probably not, Kodi is designed more as a client. I think the classic setup is installing it on a HTPC or Raspberry Pi under the TV and it plays files either locally on it or from a NAS.

If you want to stream stuff checkout Jellyfin or Plex.

EDIT: To give more context since people are downvoting; yes you can theoretically stream from Kodi using various other apps, but it doesn't do any transcoding by default and isn't a strong choice. Quite frankly, I've also never gotten it to actually work but perhaps that's just me.
I tried chemical engineering first because in my country's system we more or less have to pick what major we want to apply for since even before finishing high school, and I had to do this at thirteen. And then I got my very first computer as a high school graduation present.

Quickly found out that enjoying the high school chemistry classes the most didn't translate to chemistry processes being what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. On the other hand, I fell in love with tinkering with the computer's software (first in windows, and then even more after I installed Linux) right away.

I stuck it out with chemical engineering for a year and half, before finally dropping out and starting fresh with systems engineering (more or less my country's equivalent to computer science) during what would have been my fifth semester. Haven't looked back since and, much like the author says, I love solving those puzzles.
It is even worse than gold: it has negative value due to the insane energy consumption.
Please keep in mind that some HNers are modeling their behavior after buggy machines and bad code and that this influences their thinking and language.
Worth noting is that some countries such as Poland switched away from this system 2 decades ago and experienced exactly all the issues attributed here to 6 grade elementary schools. They have since switched back to 8 grade elementary school.
Liquid value that's easily transferred has utility on its own.

It's not a genuine argument to claim that "bitcoin isn't used for anything".
If it imports carbon from Country B then it uses carbon, so treat it as such.
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> steam based thermodynamic cycles

Technical question: my understanding is that the frequency of an electrical grid is literally related to the RPM of turbines providing power, and that over/under frequency are related to supply and demand.

https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/45640-grid...

If we hypothetically had a grid that was 100% solar, presumably there'd no longer be any spinning turbines. At that point, would the grid frequency be completely synthetic? How would supply/demand impact the frequency in that case?

Edit: partially answered here ("smart inverters):

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/solar-integration-inverter...
Sure, the cost of living is way lower, but given the ability of working remotely for companies abroad, there shouldn't be such a large gap. I think (and hope) it's a matter of time for most developers to realize how many opportunities there are for working remotely with better economical conditions, and along with that local businesses will have to up their game as well.
The french classes, where the exam cheating took place, were specifically described as lower tier.
Always a pleasure to hear the boss speak!