skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there are other options. But they each have their downsides:

* Natural gas supplemented by renewables like solar and wind is cheaper, but it's still emitting carbon (plus fostering dependency on natural gas exporters like Russia).

* Hydroelectricity and geothermal are excellent carbon-free and controllable energy sources. But they are geographically dependent. If you don't have a river flowing through a dam-able valley, or access to a seismic fault line you're not going to be building any of these.

* Renewables plus storage can hypothetically delivery cheaper power. But storage at anywhere near the required capacities remain hypothetical. The few solutions that do seem to deliver good storage costs are geographically limited, like hydroelectric reservoirs.

Nuclear remains the only non-intermittent, geographically independent source of carbon-free energy.
We just might have to accept that Ukraine can't join NATO, or even the EU.
You made a jump that I'm have a hard time following.

Today I'm basically all digital as far as money goes. I can't remember the last time I handled coins or bills. I don't feel like I have no control over my transactions or what I do with my money.
And for a time it was punishable in the US too. That they haven't caught up yet is a reflection of their governments more than their people. Or is it our genes that make us enlightened?
United Downs Deep Geothermal Power
Or the math covered in finite math classes which is a mix of combinatorics, stats, probability and linear algebra. I remember doing my time in the math tutorial room during my grad school days and helping the kids from the business calc classes who were learning math they weren't going to use from books written by people who didn't understand the domain that they were trying to teach math for. Seriously, what business use is there for f(x) = x^1.3 or the indefinite integral thereof?
The regulations changed a loonoverleg that time period as the tech evolved, so old designed needed expensive modifications and recertifications to meet new standards which would often get released during construction.

Being able to build modular reactors in a factory would change that.
If there was now digital currency economy wouldn't really work as it is now, right?
Wasn't this a conspiracy theory not that long ago?

And this is bad. This means that one entity can take away everything from you with one click, so you can't even buy a pack of bubblegum, and on the other side, you can't even buy a dildo, without some entity tracking that somewhere.
Would you please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar? You've been doing it repeatedly lately. That's not ok, especially now.

;https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files
I feel like this is a more complex situation than you're making it out to be.
The latest ~15 MW off-shore monsters are up to capacity factors of 60-64% now.

https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...

https://www.vestas.com/en/products/offshore/V236-15MW
I've read that Malda wished a 'dot' TLD was available back then so it could be 'aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot'.
You support freedom of speech, but only for citizens of your country?
Snapshots are the best thing in the world for me on Arch. I'm specifically using it cause I like to tinker with exotic hardware and it has the most sane defaults for most of the things I care about. Pacman is great, but the AUR can be a bit a sketchy sometimes on choices that package authors make. Having snapshots every time package changes happen that I can roll back to from my boot loader is _awesome_. If you've ever used a distro that does kernel backups in your boot loader, it's like that, except it's whole packages at a time! And being able to use subvolumes to control which parts of a snapshot to restore is awesome. I can roll back my system without touching my home directory, even on a single drive setup!
> have a credible nuclear deterent, that is why war is not declared against them by other countries

Nobody “declares” wars anymore. If Russia were believed to be responsible for this, it would make it politically feasible to attack their critical infrastructure through targeted (plausibly deniable) cyber attacks.
"Should the amount of CBDC held by a single end user be subject to quantity limits?"

What a scary question to ponder...
Love, relationships, seduction, etc. (emphasis on psychology first, sociology second, but admitting fiction as a valid information source.)

It's certainly ironic that I am pursuing an antagonism relative to this subject but the antagonism started after I started studying it!

(It's more contradictory than you think... Whether you transmit emotions by osmosis or physical synchronization, plant your feelings like seeds, or pack them into balls and throw them at people to hit them like lightning bolts you find it doesn't matter if your feelings are 30% hostile, 10% hostile, 1% hostile, or 0.01% hostile... you drive somebody out and the only consolation you have is that they can never quite articulate what you did. I'd like to think that I use that antagonism as a "probe" or a "lightning rod" to keep ahead of those feelings.)

I've got no interest in being a trainer on this subject so I certainly don't need to teach it, but being able to "talk a good game" helps me use discursive reasoning to align myself morally (as a practitioner I really can make the world a better place.) Also like it or not I am always having to explain why I am doing something that seems incomprehensible... Myself "talking a good game" has sometimes convinced me completely of things I didn't really believe also so it helps me as a practitioner.
I've known many homosexuals in the Middle East. A government's line does not define a country.
Need feedback for a new open-source back end as a service thing
Hi everyone,

First time positing here.
Well a buddy of mine along with his team built an open source baas similar to supabase, firebase, appwrite etc.

They say that it's going to be the only backend you'll need to build an app. (In the future I guess).

They offer something like ready-to-use backend stuff so a dev won't spend much time on basics and fundamentals.

Tbh I've got no idea how this works (I'm a Designer )

But I offered to help and start asking for feedback for this platform here on various dev communities. Skip if this ain't your thing.

So, any devs here willing to take a look? You can check it here: https://github.com/ConduitPlatform/Conduit
Breaking the site guidelines like that will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Inch is diagonal so a 17” 16:9 would be to wide.

Unless I’m thinking wrong we’d need something at (sqrt(17)*(16^2+9^2)/(16^2+10^2))^2, which should put us at 15.23”, I know 15,4” exists so that might be doable depending on how much room there is to spare, 5mm is a bit but it could maybe work.
> That layer of commands is hopefully very well protected.

Typically some form of HMAC authentication. You can read about it in the CCSDS Blue Book.
speedcrunch is simply underrated. ticks so many checkboxes
> but I would guess that the chain and primary sprocket would wear out slower than a tire friction-running a flywheel.

Yeah, direct drive trainers vs wheel-on trainers have the advantage of not ruining a tire or requiring a trainer specific tire.
A digital only dollar also seems like it would be key to implementing negative interest whenever the central bank wanted.
1) People are skittish on Nuclear because of the perceived danger.

2) We still can't solve the waste problem, the best we have is putting it underground in Finland.

I disagree with these opinions, since the waste is minuscule for the amount of power generated. (1 cubic centimeter of uranium per million homes per day or so) and coal is killing more than nuclear ever will.. but, hey ho.
Good to know, thanks! I was originally considering a name more like "universal text finagler" but then I realised that there's already a well-known "UTF" (:
He looks puffed up compared to 2018. Corticosteroids?
This means you never have been threatened by your bank to block your account and assets. Good luck eating when that happens.
I have been using Morris in my class.
Artifacts on sensors, or even active jamming could explain massive changes in speed for recorded videos
No, I didn't. I wonder if any of those episodes are still around?
and a blown up coal or natural gas facility would probably pollute to a similar degree.

Not even close. Radioactive decay can continue for centuries and is difficult to contain. Burnt fossil fuels are burnt and that's it. No need to build a containment or maintain an exclusion zone.
One in twelve of all security issues—in a period that begins when Flash was already on the decline and extends far beyond when Flash was at all relevant—were caused by a single web browser plugin and you're trying to handwave that off as not a big deal? Adobe has the highest percentage of exploits listed there for any company that is not an OS vendor, and Flash has the most of any single product that is not Windows (in an era when XP was still supported!) or IE (which it ties with).

And, yeah, Flash did suck as an end-user experience. For a few years it seemed like every restaurant in existence had an all-Flash web presence, and, no, waiting for endless animations while wading through some entirely non-standard "rich media" experience, while listening to my laptop fans kick into overdrive, did not "surprise and delight" when I was just trying to find their hours and a menu. It was absolutely infuriating.

This is ignoring that one of the major malware vectors that wasn't a zero-day at the time was to just put up a webpage claiming that Flash was out of date, and then linking a fake updater. Sure, that wasn't entirely Adobe's fault, but if they'd done a better job of keeping it up to date on their own it would have been an awful lot less believable to end users.
> They were too early would be my guess.

There were rugged PC's available back then for automotive use (think cop cars and the like). To me it sounds like they did not spec the hardware properly or installed it improperly.
Graham Lee explains the consequences of a non-unionized workforce
Coinbase Blocks 25K Russia-Linked Addresses Allegedly Tied to Illicit Activity
Does This Amazon Rock Art Depict Extinct Ice Age Mammals?
The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/toppling-sadda...

> “Now, when I go past that statue, I feel pain and shame,” said Kadhim al-Jabouri in 2016. “I ask myself”: Why did I topple that statue?” He regretted the fall of Saddam’s regime. What came after, in his opinion, was a disaster: “Saddam has gone, but in his place we now have one thousand Saddams.” Kadhim even wanted the statue back. “I’d like to put it back up, to rebuild it,” he said. “But I’m afraid I’d be killed.”
The reasoning behind having geometry be the standard high school sophomore math class is that that’s the age where kids would be ready to do proofs. Except that curriculum designers seem to have forgotten this and except in honors classes, most sophomores don’t get taught proofs in geometry and instead get a set of inert rules about shapes that they have no use for.
Preferably from a village tribe of Ninjas.
HN title uses summary from newsletter's summary of the article, rather than article title:

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-42-trade-unions/
Carly Fiorina was some sort of history or literature major I believe, and she was an ineffective CEO of HP. You are correct about Angela Merkel, she was a physical chemist, but I believe many of the energy problems that Germany is currently facing have to do with her policies.
I guess that part of the reason to look at these tier-2 or 3 companies is that they have fewer products, and those products are all part of their core business, so interviews can address relevant questions without obsolescence being a concern. I have no illusions about avoiding the FAANG hiring process if I want to work at a FAANG … but that’s why I’m avoiding them altogether.
What I wouldn't give to have more physical interfaces for our devices. For large classes of problems, touchscreens are fantastic for programmers and terrible for users.

I did a school project a few years ago called NotherButton[0] which was a wrist-worn device that was intended to simply add a few physical buttons that could be mapped to arbitrary actions on your phone via bluetooth. I wish such a product existed. Just a few buttons and a click wheel would be incredible.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTOxHxHFjwJXeCLROAPf6OJD...
https://archive.org/details/Geeks_In_Space
Pyphonetics – a Python3 library for phonetic algorithms (e.g.: Metaphone)
Leg muscles are the most powerful in he body, but they are not used to the extent on a bike as they are on a rowing machine. Additionally, they extend the work done by the arms and back, ie the work is not just the sum of the individual muscle movements, but the combined action.

Yes, it is silly and the author intimates that in the OP and the article I linked too, but I don't think meaningful power generation is the point of the exercise.

BTW a decent average male should be able to do 100W easily for an hour. I'm a (not particularly powerful) rower in my 50s and can easily sustain 150W for an hour, ie circa 120W accounting for generator inefficiencies.
Folks who run small businesses like grocery stores and barber shops deal with cash all the time. Also there is a large class of unbanked folks in the US. Your experience doesn't generalize to everyone.

There are a lot of benefits to cash. I believe that a digital dollar that acts like paper cash is possible, but you need a lot of technologies to make that a reality (e.g. zero-knowledge crypto, and then mechanisms to peg digital asset to fiat). It doesn't quite exist yet today.
Can someone explain to me how is this different from how money is in my bank account right now? Is the difference something like an int (just a pure number) vs something like an abstract data type like Money where you can have fields like source/destination/purpose/date issued/etc. for indexing and tracking purpose?
Not yet, as they haven't conquered any part of Ukraine. If they stopped their offensive today, they would be pushed out in days.
I've seen lots of calls for the USPS to act as a retail bank but never for the Fed to do so, but maybe the idea would be for the Post Office to be the retail store front for Fed accounts?
Amazing write-up! This is a super example of a responsible disclosure.

I mean, compiling 17 kernels alone takes so long that most people would've given up in between.
The thread regarding Ubuntu 20.04 on the official frame.work community forum has a bit more information : https://community.frame.work/t/ubuntu-20-04-4-lts-on-the-fra...
Even the fingerprint reader apparently works out of the box !
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220307154144/https://www.nytim...
> Examples of current experiments include

> building a hypothetical CBDC that would leverage existing technologies and systems: The Board's Technology Lab has been assessing the potential of a centralized CBDC design that leverages existing infrastructure and technology;

> exploring a CBDC design that would leverage newer technologies, such as blockchain: The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Digital Currency Initiative to explore the development of alternative platforms;

So, it could be centralized, it could be block-chain based. The potential range of what they could be talking about is so broad that it's hard to make anything specific of it.

But an interesting area of concern that they kind of skate by is how to safeguard against future innovations in cryptography. Will quantum computers be effective enough in 10 years to break a lot of public key cryptography? How long should people have an expectation that their financial activity remains private?
Have a look at Canada for a recent precedent: People had their bank accounts frozen for having made donations to support the protests.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...
> I want a mathematics education designed for all those kids (likely a large majority?) who spent math from about junior high on wondering, aloud or to themselves, why the hell they were spending so much time learning all this. One that puts that question front and center and doesn't teach a single thing without answering it really well, first.

The problem is that the answer will depend heavily from person to person and from field to field and often the most sensible answers require a mathematical maturity that creates a chicken-and-egg kind of difficulty.

Do you care about engineering? Well you'll need some calculus for that. Do you care about prediction modeling? Well there's some stats you'll need for that. Do you care about finding patterns in the world? Well there's abstract algebra for that. Do you care about reasoning itself? Have fun with mathematical logic. But because humans have different motivations, there's no one-size-fit-all motivation-based approach.

This is especially painful for mathematics because I think most people who have learned some amount of pure mathematics will relate heavily to what helpfulclippy says in a sibling comment: "However, one thing that has been VERY applicable is proofwriting. Although math proofs are far more rigorous than most real world stuff, the discipline I learned in writing proofs has carried over into pretty much everything from programming (will this algorithm work every time?) to executive decisions (why, specifically, should we believe X?)."

The skills of rigorous and abstract thinking that pure mathematics provides is both nearly-universally helpful, but also simultaneously as a result very difficult to motivate. "This will help you think better across everything you do" is lofty-sounding, but generally not a convincing sell unless someone is already curious. But it's true that being able to wrap one's mind around pure abstraction (after rattling off a rigorous definition for an abstract question: Question: "But what is X really?" Answer: "X is just that. No more, no less.") has ramifications for all that one does.

And the most painful part of all of this is if you try to start by teaching the wonders of pure mathematics instead of all the messy, boring rote stuff, students' eyes are liable to glaze over even more because of the aforementioned chicken-and-egg issue with mathematical maturity.

In this way it's similar to trying to motivate someone to read and write. The key that unlocks that interest for everyone is going to be different and it's very hard to explain the near-universal benefits that reading and writing bring to one's way of thinking (but I can always just have a computer transcribe it or read it aloud to me!) without some inherent curiosity in them.
Total control by whom? Most financial transactions occur between numerous financial institutions and wiring intermediaries in between. The finance network is far more decentralized than the web even after consideration for things like SWIFT.

Your financial transactions are already tracked by numerous parties. This is neither secret nor suspect. Without visibility over the transfers, distribution, and behaviors therein how would governments and financial institutions account for ethical violations?
Not to be overly cynical, but this sounds like, "China's doing it so we need to do it too."

I personally support the digital dollar but this paragraph stuck out to me:

>Some have suggested that a CBDC could reduce common barriers to financial inclusion and could lower transaction costs, which could be particularly helpful for lower-income households.

First, I have no idea who the "some" are that they are referring to. There's nothing more inclusive than a piece of paper that you can hold, regardless of socioeconomic status, condition, or location. There's no doubt that a digital dollar would do very little to be inclusive of vulnerable populations, especially if you need hardware to spend it.
Just an fyi drills are not good for tight tolerances. They cut trilobular holes, not circles.

Reaming or boring are the route to tight tolerances.
75-100 years is roughly 3 generations. Which is, I guess about the average number of generations we have in our smallest social unit: the family. I guess we learn a lot from our parents and grandparents, but hardly anything from our great-grandparents, as they are usually not longer around. Which means 75-100 years is the learning horizon within our families, and therefore for a big part of our journey to become social beings.

I am a bit worried that we are loosing quickly the last people remembering the atrocities of ww1+2.
If TC can run the code (not sure why not in this environment) - then it not compiling should probably be a no hire.
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No one in the government cares that you are purchasing a dildo. No one at Visa or Mastercard either. There are other forms of currency as well, specifically ETH, BTC, and other cryptos that will continue to power black market purchases.

Your cash transactions also aren't as anonymous as you think they are. You need to be essentially completely analogue, and even then, you probably are still being tracked somehow.
I hosted a paper reading talk on this paper a few weeks ago. I think there are some genuinely interesting ideas here.
They could be, with RF and laser equipment running reasonably-advanced software to spoof such sensors.

There are a lot of gotchas to work out here, but it's my best guess, aside from "craft that defy physics."

Source: worked on such military equipment, back in the early 90s.
Thank your good graces the state doesn’t freeze your account. This has only happened 1000s times before in history, most recently in Canada.

You don’t have money if it’s in the bank. The bank owes you money. Your credit card is a person liability that the bank will let you pay with their money, and they owe you less.

You have no control over your money.
Agree, but I have a feeling that statistics is more like (theoretical) physics, in the sense that it is "not math."
BBB has not been relevant for at least a couple decades, certainly not since the internet came around.
Every financial institution that processes your banking activity is also making an allow/deny determination on every transaction. Sorry to break it to you.
>You either still believe in a god or need to google the price of harddrives these days.

That was pretty funny, and I agree a thousand times over. When I was younger (read: had shallower pockets) I was willing to spend time on these hacks to avoid the need for intermediate storage. Now that I'm wiser, crankier, and surrounded by cheap storage: I would rather just have Bezos send me a pair of drives in <24h to chuck in a sled. They can populate while I'm occupied and/or sleeping.

My time spent troubleshooting this crap when it inevitably explodes is just not worth the price of a couple of drives; and if I still manage to cock everything up at least the latter approach leaves me with one or more backup copies. If everything goes according to plan well hey the usable storage on my NAS just went up ;-). I feel bad for the people that will inevitably run this command on the only copy of their data. (Though I would hope the userland tool ships w/ plenty of warnings to the contrary.)