skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the chart, the seasonal variation in wind generation can be as large as 4x: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2015.02.25/main.png

Overproduction without storage results in diminishing returns, as most of the excess energy is wasted.

"New nuclear" is 4-8x more expensive than nuclear power built at scale. When multiple copies of the same plant design built in series, costs in the range of $1-2 billion per GW is typical. And remember, that's a GW of generation with >90% capacitor factor, as compared to 25-35% for most renewables.
That's incorrect, you can't "change anything in the database" with a 51% attack. You can block transactions from being processed, reorder new transactions, and reverse your own (but not others) transactions to double spend. You can't just go arbitrarily deleting previous transactions, or modifying balances.
Thanks - appreciated.

However, if I understand correctly, the law is the mandatory reporting of abuse or neglect ... but the directive she received, that " ... a child walking to school by themself was evidence of neglect ..." is not a law.

What school district is this, by the way ? What ages are we talking about ?
What is your standard of “operating”? Are you talking about just you not having a bank account, or are you trying to not even be bank-adjacent?

For example, it is really hard to pay rent without a bank account in average circumstances, but if you have a roommate that will take your cash and has an account, that makes things easier.

I’d suggest trying it out. The answer has more to do with the requirements of your lifestyle than some arbitrary concept of “possible operation.”

Do you consider unbanked homeless people as “operating” people? If not, what do you call them?
The massive information asymmetry involved in the student loan system means these kind of black and white judgements not particularly useful.
Not a good few months for Java
No different than any Web 2.0 website there. Except in Web 2.0 it's whenever the business decides to stop paying to keep the servers going and supporting that content (or until they go out of business), whereas for 3.0 it's when the whole network goes down, not a particular company.

Happens all the time. Nintendo announced they're shutting off their Wii U and 3DS eShops next March, for example. At that point players are on their own to hack their hardware so they can make backups.
> government putting a tax of 0.38% on every financial transfer (does not seem like much until you think of all the cascading effects)

Unlike crypto/web3 which checks notes puts a tax on everything

> If you are talking about Bitcoin (or crypto currencies in general given how BTC unfortunately still makes its own gravity in the crypto market), I will 100% agree with you.

Bitcoin's price fluctuation in the past year is 200%

Etherum's is ~300%

Monero, 330%

...
I know what you're saying... but using Java as the counterexample? I'm still reading the stacktrace from a Java error I raised in 2003.
AWS replaces an entire ops team for me. It's invaluable.

I would prefer not to need it, but for large complex applications with a lot of parts, it's a lifesaver.
Whether it be healthcare, housing, or education, the government always responds to rising costs by subsidizing demand rather than helping increase supply or fix incentive structures. Really frustrating but almost inevitable because subsidizing demand is the one "solution" that sounds good to almost everyone involved. The suppliers make more money, some consumers benefit short-term, few understand that this just drives prices up further. Anyone have ideas on ways this cycle could end?

(I realize this article isn't what it seems, but I'm still taking the opportunity to discuss this issue)
s/physin government's Federal Ministry of Education and Research./physi/g

sigh fat fingered this one
I'm skeptical about the ecosystem as a whole, despite running a project myself, but a distinction needs to be made between web3 as a technology and web3 in its current iteration.

I do believe there's something there around business model innovations (e.g. near fee-less micro-transactions tied to a crypto identity as a low impedance alternative to SSO). Concretely, if I can jump onto a website and consume content without having to go through the hassle of signing up to a monthly subscription and entering my credit card details, that's a step change improvement in my enjoyment of the web. Want to read a particularly interesting paywalled news article? Sure, pay 25c via crypto wallet (2 clicks), read article, move on.

The other interesting application are the technological innovations brought on by smart contracts. Blockchain-based serverless compute powering dApps. Instead of having to write a lambda on AWS, I can just submit a smart contract to the blockchain. Provided it's a read only use case, I pay once and can freely call the contract for as long as the network exists.

This might seem uninteresting but as the contract gives access to the current state of the blockchain, there are interesting applications that you can build on top of this [1], particularly if you combine it with oracles that give access to real world data.

Crypto as a financial revolution seems incredibly contrived but web3 as a tool has potential merit. Whether web3 is the best solution to such problems is a question worth exploring.

[1]. I use it to determine whether crypto tokens are honeypots or not by simulating a buy and sell.
OK, this objection sort of makes sense to me. Do they have something in their Ts and Cs which says "by submitting your work you consent to us storing your work..."? Presumably people who submit their work to them also benefit to some extent though, because then plagiarisers of your work will be caught?
Same thoughts but also Sam Bankman-Fried, although his is better understood as likely “billion $ grifting is worth it if it’s used to benefit humankind more than it harms”
The link doesn't work and there's no record of what the image was on the chain. But believe me it was cool.
Hashing power is not the only line of defence. The (non-mining) nodes have the ability to reject blocks that they don't consider legitimate.

That's why it's important to the Bitcoin community that the average person can run a full node and that as many people as possible also do so.
I'm pretty bearish on crypto long term, but Vitalik is one of the few crypto people who has actually thought critically about crypto. Most people who try to defend crypto struggle to answer the fourth or fifth why when pressured (if you use the five why philosophy for example).

The problem (like many others) is that Vitalik doesn't necessarily think practically about the situation. For example, how do you explain to my grandma that the fork of BTC is the newly reached consensus or the original one? Vitalik would have an answer for this, but it's not a practical one.
> I don't understand why you would need Timsort. If the pivot element is chosen randomly, Quicksort is always (or with probability bordering on certainty) O(n log n).

For starters, it's a stable sort, which excludes quicksort right out the gates.

Second, the primary hypothesis of timsort is that real-world data is non-random, timsort is biased for partially or almost-sorted sequences, which it can sort in as low as O(n). That would be the point westurner was making, timsort's creation is very much predicated on "really benchmark sorts on different data patterns".

Third, for very short sequences (also a common situation) it's an insertion sort, which is extremely efficient due to the low overhead (even more so combined with the adaptivity which insertion sort also has).
Almost everyone who really does need it (and is not just ridiculously inefficient) eventually moves off of AWS, including most large startups. Revenue makes it possible to hire and build whatever you want.
RapidWeaver vs. Stacks: A Little War
Ten years ago, Apple discontinued iWeb, web sites were increasingly mobile-first and novice or occasional users were out of luck. RapidWeaver extended a lifeline and many iWeb users came over to RapidWeaver. One feature of RapidWeaver was seamless integration with a plugin called Stacks, produced by YourHead Software. Stacks enabled dozens of developers to extend the functionality of RapidWeaver and made web page creation easy. For a decade, all was well.

Now, RapidWeaver has announced that it is adding an internal Stacks-like function, to be called "Elements," and in response YourHead is creating a stand-alone program that will permit the use of existing Stacks plug-ins without the need to purchase RapidWeaver at all. Users seem to have lined up on both sides. Will they be caught in the crossfire? YourHead's side of the story: https://forum.rw4all.com/t/no-stacks-in-rw9-stacks5-app-is-c...
I remember hearing similar things.

The difference here may be that I think in many of the cases I’m thinking about it might not have been locked-in so much as people thought to be in comas or with other serious damage he where the truth is they probably weren’t capable at all.

That doesn’t seem to be the case here. He seems to lack the physical ability to communicate but I’m not sure there is a reason he would lack the mental ability.
I cannot get this in the U.S. thus I have to wince while consuming marmite.

But you are 101% correct.
>In Chicago, it's pretty much illegal to be a kid without an adult present in most places

Funny story about this. In highschool I had a teacher who lived with her 12 year old daughter in Chicago, where the legal age for leaving your child home alone is 13. If she needed to run errands alone she'd just leave her daughter to do a loop on the L train (which doesn't have as tight age restrictions). Bizarre.
Well thanks for providing us a good example for his comments about the average citizen.

(The comment I'm replying to says that the dogs are looking for meat while heroes are fighting for the country).
That’s a bad thing when you’re running programs on it that may have unintentional behavior aka bugs.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=beanstalk-farms-stablecoin-...

Who can afford to keep their money in a ledger that you can’t fix mistakes in? Not these people.
I care about being prepared. My question was more of a visceral reaction to the overall experience encountered after clicking.
Once again, you're completely missing the point. Yes, it's both deflationary and volatile.

What part of "300% value swing over the year" do you not understand?
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Things like Office 365 are also still pretty much a hard requirement at lots of offices. More enterprisey projects can definitely require working with all kinds of moderately complex technical or non-technical documents in Word or Excel.

It may be possible to get it running on Wine or CrossOver Office, of course, but most generic Windows-centric corporations probably aren't going to buy Crossover, and "I can't send you a commented version of this document by today because I'm having a random compatibility issue with this non-commercial software combination that other Normal People don't need" isn't going to make you popular.
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It's a misfeature for everyone saying "let's put social media on the blockchain"; good luck telling Disney that when they DMCA one of your users.
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
>It might change parts of the world where redundancy and integrity are threats

Sadly it won't. There is nothing about any kind of cryptocurrency that makes it incorruptible or immune to integrity problems. That's more myth-building that I hear quite often but it's not true. The hardest part in any data integrity problem is verifying that the data going into the system was correct in the first place, and blockchains cannot solve this. And actually they make it worse by making it prohibitively expensive to remove incorrect data from the database.

(Note that in general computers and automation cannot solve this because "correct" here refers to whatever the humans designing the system specified according to their human purposes)
This will sure stop the only 2 children in the UK that use iMessages?

I'm not sure if this is going to be rolled into other apps or the camera app itself but the main app kids use to communicate in the schools in my local area are Snapchat, TikTok and Insta DMs, and they have Facebook messenger and WhatsApp for messages from their parents.

I'm sure some of them aren't even aware there is a stock messaging app.
Related: support the proposal for the USPS to offer basic bank accounts.
my point was no matter how good it is, it's time limited to how productive you are, not how much you need.
Yes, a clearly superior product.
I have a strong suspicion that "Cindy and Fred" are in fact minorities and this is just plain vanilla southern racism at play. This is the state terrorizing minority communities to remind them who is in charge. That's usually what is going on when you see gross miscarriages of justice like this in the south.
source?

(I only ask because you sound knowledgeable and your answer implies some hefty interesting legacy)

A better way to put it is OP is a "reverse engineer" whereas you sound like a "forward engineer"
I love Python, but any definition of 'web3' broad enough to include the things GvR despises also includes many foundational things likely to outlive Python, with greater influence on human welfare, like:

* cryptographically-anchored decentralized identities

* content-addressed publishing

* natively-software-accessible incentive systems engineered with the same rigor, & productivity-multiple upside, as our personal-computers/mobile-devices, world-wide-web, & ecommerce/industrial automation systems

'web3' may even give a new life to the semantic-web vision TbL had under the name "Web 3.0", which "died in a flaming ball of fire" via the dominance of the Web 2.0 platform monopolies.
> Sidebar: I love sentences like this that go on and on but say literally nothing. Nothing in the preceding or following context gives it any clarity.

So you don't actually love sentences like that. That's interesting, I don't see it as one of those sentences. I don't know what insight you are missing such that you can't apply it here.

Where would you like to start?

Do you know what a funnel is? Do you know how convoluted they have become as businesses compete for the future illusion of revenue?

Do you use any "web3" services? Is that a farfetched thing to consider for you because you are first waiting to understand why anyone would bother, while ironically limiting your ability to understand what I consider to be a simple sentence?

Maybe something else?
The company I work for is making a big deal about client-side hydration. We use nextjs for our sites. My director was asking about Svelte.

"Something i wanted to mention is both the React team and nextjs team are aware of this and are working on a solution to address needing to load Javascript on the client. Its called React Server Components

React Server Components Documentation
https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react...

Nextjs Blog on Server Components
https://vercel.com/blog/everything-about-react-server-compon...

Nextjs Documentation on Server Components (Alpha)
https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/react-18/server-co...

We can try it out today on a platform that supports a node environment. This is from nextjs docs. I have a few thoughts on Svelte, but just wanted to point this out!"

With Server Components, there's zero client-side JavaScript needed, making page rendering faster.
Not far from the outcry around when the eiffel tower was erected.
Often you don't really have a choice, if you're enrolled in a school. Tough luck you get to give up your rights.
Also, it runs a 2KHz and needs a constant flow of tons of coal to keep working.
It's not about technical superiority … I think it's more about morality/ethics: is it _right_ that we should introduce scarcity artificially when it doesn't exist naturally, with the primary outcome being that a small group will exploit it at the cost of many who can't? Is that healthy?

Yes, it is a free market issue, and people will choose what they know, and will choose based on their fears.
http://waifu2x.udp.jp (set style to "photo" if you want to upsample photos instead of cartoon images)
I'm aware. and but these things are being trotted out by people as 'look hes (biden) done so much!!'

when in reality: hes done jack shit except what already is suppose to happen!

I promise you biden's PR group is the force behind these articles.
I always thought that this was the worst aspect of TCGs! People complain about "pay to win" business models in PC games, but it's 100x worse in dead-tree games. Maybe you spend a few bucks here and there on some kind of premium subscription, whatever, things cost money. But having to physically buy cards always really sucked, especially as a young person without a lot of money, and it was one thing that kept me away from getting more into games like Magic: The Gathering. There was some thrill in collecting, sure, but I would rather have the collecting be an optional side activity, not an essential part of the game.

I do see what you are saying about micro transactions though, and about the player's ability to re-capture some of their investment after they are done with the game or ingame item.
Meanwhile the world still deals with the Python 2 vs. 3 debacle lol. But glad he was able to clear up Web3.
Guido is not a controversial figure in the industry. This isn't an Elon or Linus tweet. This is a well-respected individual poo pooing pretty directly on the "web3" scene.
AITA for...
I patted a dog on the head and rubbed it's belly.

>NTA.

>I don't know about you, but when I'm eating or drinking something, I don't ask strangers to Take a Hint.

>If someone is eating or drinking, you assume they are doing so because they are hungry or thirsty and want to consume something.

>It is rude to assume someone is doing something for some other reason. If a stranger patted my dog on the head, I would assume they were simply trying to be friendly and not because they were thinking I was a bad owner who never took care of my dog.

>It is the same with people. You do not know someone. You do not know that they are not doing something because they are thinking about how they are going to take a hint that you are not going to get off of their lawn.

>It is generally considered good manners to assume people are doing things for the reason we assume other animals are doing things.

>So, in summary, you were being polite and respectful. You did not do or say anything to bring the interaction to an end.

>Asshole

>YTA. You're rubbing a dog's belly and patting it on the head at the same time.

>This is how you pet dogs, not how you shake hands with them

>Toss-up

>NTA, but rubs the wrong spot. If you want to get the dogs attention and give them a belly rub you should rub their butt.
> This fundamentally can't be fixed because otherwise you can't have something like a wallet that stores a balance which is assigned to you and only you.

This statement is false. Zcash's shielded transactions hide both the wallet ID and the transaction via zero knowledge proof.
>Focus on what you can control, its a one-step one-click funnel that is inherently a payment and insatiable demand right now from the users

right now is the really, really big issue here. We're talking about pay once read forever, not pay once read right now, or pay once and read while there's still interest or demand in running nodes.
Guido is obviously a talented PL designer but I’d wager he knows very little about the crypto space. Not sure how this is interesting enough for front page HN but I guess it’s fun to see how emotional people are about this topic.
I agree that there is weird cult-like thinking around AWS, when the reality is their base services like EC2 or s3 are pretty great but most of them are just mediocre. Yet, people will insist on using services just because AWS built it, mostly just brand mentality.

Running things on prem or on something like Hetzner cloud can be much simpler in some cases, and with Kubernetes now you can provide a great platform anywhere. It just isn't the solution for every use case.
I often see unfit/overweight people riding electric bicycles. One could assume that it means that these bikes don't provide a good workout, but one could also assume that these people would otherwise not be riding a bike. I'm leaning on the latter explanation, in most cases - especially an inductive argument can be made, since there seem to be many more bikers nowadays than a few years ago, and many of them ride electric. Though I think, if you're already riding a bike regularly, you probably shouldn't switch to electric, because it'll definitely mean less workout.

One thing that pisses me off from time to time, is that some (especially older folks) seem to overestimate themselves riding these - or rather, they underestimate the speed of seasoned 'manual' riders. They overtake other people last moment while coming my way and endanger themselves, others, and me. There were many instances where I had to brake hard or even go off-asphalt because of such maneuvers from people presumably aged 60+. The question I ask myself is: what to do about it. Willingly crash into them is out of question, since that'd probably fuck them up for good, considering their advanced age. But there's also nothing else to do other than brake or get out of the way, which can be immensely frustrating.
People are conflating intelligence with wisdom here. Both Gavin and Vitalik are clearly extremely intelligent but have shown a lack of wisdom. A lot of us technology types are like that.
> (re)deploy CSAM scanning for all accounts

Isn't Apple already scanning, just in iCloud, like all the other cloud providers?
Show HN: Android app for solving sudokus from images
I am learning android development and here's a project I made, a sudoku solver using MLKIT text recognition. I would appreciate any feedback, thanks!
Web3 is a big fluff hype of slow tech with a lot of inflated expectations.

Btw, web3 is an old term, back in the days the semantic web was seen as web3.0

Failed, just like the "new" web3.0 will...

Crypto/blockchain will still exists, web3 will have some use-fullness.. But no, it wont change the world. Centralised systems work quite well in a capitalist system.
Quick and easy. Thanks.
How does Mandarin compare on that scale
They don’t claim to own your paper though.
They can't just abandon billions of dollars of infrastructure they've already created just nilly willy. Alot of it was bespoke to the park and the cost of recreation would be massive. It would also take at least a decade to replace what all currently exists in another state.

Climate plays a huge impact on where they could open a park. Weather where people want to be outside all year round (and when it gets to where people dont want to be its because its too hot which means you can easily control what people buy to get hydrated and where they go to get cool) is only gonna really available in Florida.

It would take a massive amount of money to relocate Disney World even if they could find a site that was suitable. Not just buying a new site, but they would have to decommission the old site, and close the parks and lose that revenue stream to boot. And who is going to get them to come with the same "special administrative district deal"? They would be fleeing to spite a red state, and it would be very odd politically for a blue state to grant those privileges.
What do you think of, fire, electric light, and the wheel?
I'm very confused how this relates to christianity
Isn't that just "management" vs. "production staff"?

You can't do both, each are full time jobs.