skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll agree with about 20% of my comments are written and then not posted. Similar reasons to you--argumentative, disagreeing with unimportant trivial parts of a larger argument, or just not really informed enough to make a good comment.
Points that you omitted from your initial comment. Both jdanders and I were pointing out that your comment - as written - wouldn't actually save any money.

"quite a few of these folks lived in apartments"

What are you talking about?

While some of Griddy customers are in apartments, the news articles I read on the topic (this FT article is paywalled so I wasn't able to read it) only report problems from house owners, not apartment owners.

Unless several neighboring apartments switch to Griddy, such that all cut their breakers, I would expect the shared walls would provide some heat transfer - an advantage that house owners wouldn't have (some townhouses might).

Or, for that matter, knock on the door of an apartment neighbor on a fixed rate plan and ask to plug in a space heater for the duration. That's harder for a house owner to pull off.
Puritanism needs sinners to crusade against.
Note sure this is reliable source but “ In general, twin engine aircraft allow for faster speeds, and faster pickup...”[1]

1 - https://www.vikingair.com/twin-otter-information/twin-otter-...
Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI conspired in his murder
You might not have, but jumping directly to using the most dangerous tool in the shop is not what one would expect for the most inexperienced person in the room.

The idea is that we ramp the responsibilities and the agency as the person is ready, not by some date.

I have known 10 year olds that could schedule a 100 person party and 40 year olds that are incapable of paying a parking ticket on time.

The thing I take point with is bringing up the most extreme counterpoint to the concept I put forth has the affect of either derailing the conversation or shutting it down. Don't vanquish imaginary dragons, give cover to a spring flower in a hailstorm under blue skies.
>is that right now there is no "better" use for that electricity than bitcoin.

You can't abstract away the fuel for energy production. I'm sure bitcoin miners would be fine with mining every last bit of coal on the planet and using it to run their rigs if they can do it cheaply (which they probably can as coal prices drop and renewables ramp up)

Majority of bitcoin mining is run on fossil fuel power.[0]

A better 'use' is keeping it in the ground.

Here's a byproduct of bitcoin mining, basically throwing a lifeline to dying coal plant: "Bitcoin miner Marathon signs for coal-fired electricity in Montana"[1]

[0]https://decrypt.co/43848/why-bitcoin-miners-dont-use-more-re...

[1]https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/bitcoin-miner-mar...
> Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal

This completely ignores scenarios of extended cloud cover, cold temperatures and low wind (somewhat like we just saw in Texas) where properly winterized baseline power would be the only way to keep everything up the whole way through.

Barring future unknown tech, we will always need either nuclear or natural gas if we want five nines of uptime in our electrical power. There is just no practical way currently to build enough storage across the grid to maintain 100% uptime during a week or more of reduced renewable generation.
What do you classify as the basics of programming. for loops and if statements?
Not entirely correct. With a Beibehaltungsgenehmigung you can also obtain other citizenships than what you mentioned and it doesn't need to be by birth. They do make you answer all sorts of questions though to give you that certificate.

Source: we went through it.

We also had a similar-ish experience passport wise while the kids had non-German passports only while we only had a German one. We held up the line of cars waiting to get on the ferry to England (going from the Netherlands) for quite some time while they asked and checked why some Germans were driving Canadian kids to England: o see the Scottish Highlands, duh :)
Really nice tool. I will try using it daily.
"Smart Positioning" is not perfect yet, but for me, it's the killer feature.

This is way better than what any window manager can do.
I'm not sure what it would look like, but I'd like to see kids a few years older teaching younger kids. You get a much better understanding of the subject when you have to teach it.
The newer proof of stake coins solve this in a much more sane way. Proof of work is going to kill the planet
I'm guessing a lot of people also tried to get in on the dot com bubble, does it mean we write off the internet as a speculative bubble that's not providing any value?
In high school, state and ETS (e.g. PSAT/SAT) tests were always required to be taken at a school from another district.

For example, if you went to school in district A, everyone from district A took the test in a school building located in district B. The reverse was also true.

This has always struck me as such an easy system to implement that I'm always surprised when I hear about the "teachers just changed the results" stories. While I'm sure this doesn't eliminate the risk of collusion, doesn't it dramatically reduce it?

Plus, wasn't an entire chapter of Freakonomics dedicated to how teacher cheating can largely be caught algorithmically? In this day and age I would think it's even easier.
Trade blocs and economic sanctions?
For those not getting the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn#Flight_from_Japan
we clearly get something useful from bitcoin
I tried to fix something at my work once, it was a small bug but any bugs in a large system take time. When I fixed the bug and submitted it, I was scolded for working outside of my sprint task. I tried to defend myself that it was time-sensitive, but it didn't help.

So now I don't "make", I only comment.
> As bitcoin mining is mostly using clean energy or a sustainability solution

This is misleading and Bitcoin is currently an actual environmental disaster. Electricity is fungible and Bitcoin miners using green power sources are preventing the shutdown of coal power plants that would have otherwise shut down.
This is in fact how Lean works - the basic logic is constructive and excluded middle is an "extra" axiom. But even that is not as elegant as just writing non-constructive statements in the negative fragment of the logic, where (AIUI) one can already reason classically with no need for extra axioms.
Pointing to the top journals is again a statement about who is well-connected, so if anything it is further proof of my claim of elite provincialism. Mathematics has politics, like any other field, and it's politics that determine that the proof of the Robertson-Seymour Theorem appeared in the "Journal of Combinatorial Theory" and not JAMS.

The irony is that I suspect every single mathematician, elite or not, knows what the four-color theorem is, far more than could tell you what chromatic homotopy is, or state anything about the Langlands program beyond "Uh, it's something about number theory? And groups? Maybe?"
I am not an anarchist or libertarian, so I believe in democratic governements. And I do believe it's their job to establish rules/regulations/laws that benefits society as a whole. Obviously and important point is the government must be democratically elected, to be able to control/revert things if the governement screws up.
My favorite way to play is one move a week, and getting together in person for half an hour before and after the moves. It's hard to set aside enough time to run the game straight through in one sitting, and as people keep getting kicked out it's awkward socially.
It seems like a lot of people are too lazy to simplify things though.

You see this a lot with writing as well. It's very easy to ramble on, it's very hard to concisely convey your point.
How do I cash out monero?
Yeah Mongo is 10 years old or so at this point. This article was written in 2015 about decisions made years earlier. It's now reached maturity and stability. It's now "boring tech".
How nice, you'll still be able to receive messages, but not reply.

I hope this puts a real taste of the censorship these platforms arbitrarily wield into the mouths of millions of people.
It has a MathML fallback, but does not require MathML.

Here's a useful discussion about MathML support in KaTeX (an alternative to MathJax) and it's importance for accessibility- https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/issues/593
It's not nearly as deadly as we feared when we initially started this lockdown insanity. Survival rate is what, 99.7% now? Back in March the fear was another 1918 (CFR of like 2-4%). It's by basically every country's estimates an order of magnitude less deadly than we feared.

Yet here we are, many folks scared so much they're praising their jailers and starting to love their cages.
That may be an additional interesting problem, but why shoot down the OP? I think the things it goes over are entirely legitimate and important lessons-learned.
Similar to the reason why someone is married the wrong one but just can't get himself/herself to divorce. Certain types of people tend to be very averse of sunk cost even if they are well-aware that they will lose more if keep going. This is very unfortunate though.

I found that academically excellent people are especially easy to get in this type of trap -- maybe because that "never give up" and "overcome the difficulties" rather than giving up is engrained by the process.
> Well, one example is having a JSON object property that is nominally typed as `number` but a JSON parser/library would also accept a number-in-a-string, so both `{ "foo": "123" }` and `{ "foo": 123 }` would be accepted.

This is a great example of "paving over bad behavior with worse behavior."

If JSON is specified to only represent numbers that fit within a JavaScript double, then a correct parser must fail on numeric literals that don't fit into that type. It's up to me as a consumer to interpret strings that represent larger numbers.

I've had this exact kind of "helpful" behavior cause potentially exploitable bugs in programs before: a complex system was using more than one JSON parser, and parser Foo would accept numeric inputs that parser Bar would silently fail on (mangling large numbers into garbage). The result was a potential arbitrary read primitive.
Not sure what they want to recall him for? Anywhere the GOP have been in charge, its a disaster. Just look at Texas currently, or Florida etc. In fact, most GOP states sponge federal dollars, that the Dem run states provide. Do people really want to Texas or Florida up California?

In a global pandemic... you can stay open.. but who is gonna go in to your store?
> Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight.

Yeah, it's almost as though they had invested in Bitcoin during one of its crashes. What do you think they will say next time Bitcoin crashes back to 10% of its value?
I'm curious about any reading material that illuminates the relationship between these two things:

1. healthy amount of diversity and competition among a large number of publishers

2. robustness of free speech protections

My speculation is that the more competition there is among a large number of publishers, and the more diverse their reasons are for publishing, the harder it becomes for attackers to chip away at free speech protections.

But it's just speculation so I'd like some background reading on the topic.
Wow... you're right. I saw your comment and is like "what's this asshat complaining about now"

I went there and moved my eyes around the example ad and immediately got vertigo and my stomach turned.

Possibly it's from the dots...?
On point 2, you're ignoring that nuclear has the same problem only even worse. There are very few companies in the world that can make reactor vessels and related stuff. In particular a lot of projects are bottlenecked on one company in Japan.

In any case, I think it's a weak point. We can scale up battery production. I'm not a fan of the Elon Hype Squad, but he's right about this point.
Pay money to Rosatom, they'll build nuclear plants for you. If US lost its nuclear competency, it does not mean that everyone else lost.
... Not to mention the decommissioning costs
without context it is hard to make sense of this number. Does this mean 1.1% of COVID cases still result in death? Wasn't 1% about the guesstimated death rate already? What about in older age groups?
Yes, once he had proved it. You usually get an avalanche of awards once you successfully rocked the boat.

There was a long time where he didn't have a proof yet, but it was OK, because he told no-one that he was actually working on one. If he had told people openly that THIS what he chose to spend his time on, without actually having the proof yet, he would have been ridiculed, because it seemed like such an utterly hopeless enterprise at the time.
It's worth noting that, even taking second-order effects into account, the total number of deaths from nuclear accidents is actually quite low compared to other methods of generating electricity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzfpyo-q-RM

Nuclear seems more dangerous for the same reason planes seem more dangerous than cars—when something goes wrong, it's a big news event.
I think that was the point of the 'more' secular interpretation?
+1, instantly felt unsettling in my stomach.
don't forget - as long you are being harmed by a private corporation and not a government - it's A-ok!
Interesting, thanks for adding that. I'm not a sophisticated investor but I do like to invest in REITs to capture rising property values.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Big Establishment, Big Government, Big Business, Big Media, Big Tech. Big Fascists.

It doesn’t matter if it’s left wing or right wing. Both are now controlled by Big establishment elites and oligarchs.
It's a special kind of authoritarian who believes that everyone except them are incapable of making an informed assessment of the risks and exercising their freedom to participate or not in the activity. Many of history's greatest human rights abusers committed their crimes in the firm belief it was for the greater good.
It can use MathML, as an input or output format, but it's certainly not limited to it for either.
Can you provide more details? I’m unsure what this does
Another reason why every asset is going up right now: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

Savings rates have exploded, and those funds need to go somewhere.
Crashes when going into reader mode.

The insufferable self-righteousness of journalism is justified when they expose truths like this but that justification is mooted when they “expose” “truths” by putting them on a disfunctional webpage.
I use it as a media player for screens in a retail store. Runs nicely off a Raspberry PI.
This governor hasn't been following his own rules. I don't blame small businesses for being angry with him

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-18/gavin-ne...
I think there's some nuance here. Being liberal in what you accept is good for the growth and connectedness of a network. It's so powerful that it's not so much a suggestion as an inevitability -- if you're trying to be perfectly strict, then you will be excluded from the network and other people will find a way to be included. A party will always be bigger when you are less strict about the invitation/rsvp protocol.

But it has obvious downsides. One is that the protocol keeps evolving, because people find novel ways to be non-conforming senders. This means an implementation is never "done". Another is that it becomes so hard to create a new implementation that accounts for all the non-conforming behavior, that the "standard" essentially becomes defined by a few of the big implementations.
...missing point - multiply comment by the weight of the commenter. Weight may be respect (personal, community, based on their history/work/karma ie. on github/whatever).
Not sure who is arguing that.

I have problems with the idea that devs really should spend most of their time coloring by number rather than amassing domain knowledge and expertise in the craft of development.
We played this in college, but with a couple twists. We had probably 30 people playing separated into the seven teams. Each week, we'd execute one round of orders on Friday evening followed by drinks.

Really upped the intrigue as the time scales better matched real diplomacy. Plus the distinction of having to balance internal and external politics better matches real life diplomatic tradeoffs. "What you're saying makes sense, but I'm not sure I can sell that to our ruling council" was something you'd hear a lot. Teams also got really into their countries going so far as basically cosplaying at the end. There was also enough people playing that we were able to keep a regular cadence; it didn't really matter if even a whole team couldn't make it one Friday because they'd get a whole week to get their next orders in. The actual execution was more ceremony than where the main mechanics of the game occurred.
The result of the election, if there will be one, will depend more on political affiliations than for the merits of the recall. In the past century some of the worst people on the left or right of the political spectrum were elected and were popular with their electorate at that time, no matter what the outcome was. It is one of the cases were democracy can fail and transform in a mob rule.
The title of this article, which makes rounds on HN, bothers me.

It's not about choosing a "boring" tech. It's about choosing tools you understand well and a master of.

You can be totally excited about e.g. TypeScript or Elixir, but as long as you have a solid experience of working with them, and a good understanding of their internals, they are safe bets.

Choosing a perfectly boring thing like Cobol is not going to help if you have no solid mainframe experience.
The nearly 500k dead Americans would like to think otherwise.
> Is BTC really more stupid way to burn resources than making sports cars? F1 racing? Gold mining?

Or the entertainment industry as a whole, it's pointless.
No, no near term concerns at all. It’s a very silly sci-fi scenario. You could smash the mass of Mount Everest into Earth a hundred times a day for a thousand years and it wouldn’t even increase the planet’s mass by 1%.
Reading the essay it felt very ressentiment-driven, that is, while some phenomena were described with wit, they lacked a somewhat sympathetic grounding - it all screamed: I just do not like it.

For one, a strong society is one that allows both the subject and its critique to live without fear.

Beside: There exist far deeper dissections of society, even darker, containing more uncomfortable truth, and not grounded in ressentiments at all.
Yeah. I don’t see it as stupidity, but entirely rational behavior in the face of complex existential issues.
I understand how being scolded for doing the right thing would have felt, but I'd encourage you to find ways to influence the culture of allowing these types of development, instead of swapping to become an ally of those who scolded you in the first place.
Never noticed that while coding the frontend xD
I will change the animation to something else. Maybe a little bounce. Haha
“Small-business owners have also been an engine behind the effort, said Randy Economy, the spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign.”

Economy decidedly un-randy, declares Randy Economy.
Hi HN!

I am trying to develop an e-paper smart display as a consumer product. The first available layout will be a calendar.

I'd love to have HN's input on this: Do you think it's viable? Does it look okay?

What would be a good selling price?
This makes sense. I didn't think about it specifically from a manager's POV, since I'd like to think they're more likely to act in the company's best interests when it's a tiny/small eng org.
That's not censorship, that's generous. If you don't agree with the Google terms of service, it's not as if you can make use of their services. Facebook apparently allows people to still have WhatsApp, run the software, connect to the servers, and receive messages. Presumably to make other people talk to those users, making them want to reply, and then sell their soul after all, rather than haunting those users off the platform altogether. It's clever and insidious.
> misleading

only because it's not a simple binary answer that people wish for. its a long answer with variables that have to be actively monitored. an annual dissertation really.

even your acknowledgement of bitcoin miners using green power sources runs counter to detractor's worldview, and forces people to need to understand it better than "huh thats a lot of energy must be bad"

so now we're at "wait they are green but now here is this indirect other problem when the goal post moves because I don't like how the energy is being used and I presuppose that energy is fungible"

okay, yeah sure we can move the goal post a lot further and still show that its a working economic sustainability solution which can be improved when people direct their mental energy in a more nuanced way. your position is not to improve it, its to deflect towards there being no energy use at all, and that will never get you anywhere as the people that would actually have the authority to represent your wishes would look at it and come to my conclusion

for example, not all the energy is fungible which is why it is being used by miners, and that's only in some of the variety cases, although a major case
Pretty cool idea! We did something similar when we launched ads on Read the Docs, which we call Community Ads: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-ad...

Basically, we show ads for OSS projects & conferences in the ad spot on a small percentage of our traffic. It's a nice way to give back, and in the past we've shown ads for many Pycon's around the world, the PSF's annual fundraiser, and a bunch more worthwhile community projects.

The hardest thing has actually been finding projects that are well targeted for our community, and getting design assets for them. A lot of OSS & side projects don't have this stuff, and the ones who do probably don't need much promotion.
Proof of work needs to go to the gutter. It was a bad idea to begin with. Proof of stake makes more sense and operates like a bank deposit interest rate
Bald eagles, if that's what you mean, are a "least concern" species. That makes sense, because while in my neighborhood we never saw them several decades ago, now I see them multiple times a month. The other day I saw a family of four perched in a dead tree. Somehow they've overcome the dual menace of housecats and wind generation. Now that we've scaled back on DDT, the bald eagle is fine.
Hmm, I got the notion that makers are welcome to comment on the works of other makers, but if you're _only commenting_ knock it off and go make something. It's different when you have experience making (or writing) something, and that experience makes feedback more useful and more actionable.
If curious, past threads:

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18159770 - Oct 2018 (71 comments)

Backstabbr: A modern web interface for the classic board game Diplomacy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8468378 - Oct 2014 (63 comments)

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913183 - June 2014 (153 comments)

Others?
There are other safe-havens against inflation which have existed for hundreds of years. Bitcoin didn't invent the concept of an inflation hedge, and the citizens you refer to had and still have standard alternate solutions. Which in all honesty are a lot safer than a digital collectible token with no intrinsic value that's primarily used for speculating and drug deals, which can be regulated, shut down, or taken over whenever your or another country wants to shut it down.