skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0.05? You probably misremember the amount. For reference, in 2010 the Bitcoin faucet gave away 5 BTC just for visiting a web page. A decent incentive for subscribing to a newsletter, more involved than visiting a web page, would have to have been higher than 5 BTC.
I certainly wouldn't call being Canadian an "edge case."

Protesting ought to be something you can do in any Western democracy without fear of losing access to your accounts.
What makes you think my goal is to make the iPhone less successful? What I want are markets with a wide array of healthy competitors, not our current shambling duopoly.
Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
This is not true. I fully submerged my phone in a pool and took video underwater and they replaced it under warranty.
Site, your home, your web
Yes, would love to see a wasm runtime comparison
Hiding the screen during the ticket purchase userflow/UI at 15:20 is laughable.
leverage, options, etc. more than 3%
That does say a lot for sure. Thanks.
It appears to be $500 cheaper and is a handheld device rather than one that is worn. It also has a screen.
In the keynote they claim to not store credentials and seem to imply they're using OAuth.
Crypto is a scam (including Bitcoin) anybody treating it otherwise is overly credulous or in on the scam. Maybe it started out with better intentions but it is irredeemable.
The pitch video makes me think of General Magic.
Probably because it's the only known carbon-free source of dependable and non-intermittent energy that can be deployed nearly anywhere.

Let's be realistic about the devastatingly massive amounts of environmental damage wind/solar are doing by requiring unimaginably large amounts of minerals to be mined for both solar/wind AND the required batteries.

Right now, it's an "out of sight, out of mind" kind of a problem because the mining happens in poor countries. How many cobalt and lithium mines have been approved in the U.S? I can think of only a couple in the past couple of decades. Why? Because they're terrible for the environment.. so we outsource the environmental damage to poor countries.

Nuclear is expensive, but if we build a new plant every 40 years... what do we expect? Each plant is a one-off bespoke creation. The same economies of scale that have made solar+wind so cheap also apply to nuclear tech.

We have the technology to solve the climate emergency. Nuclear lets us do it. Everything else is wishful thinking.

p.s wind and solar have a part to play - specially in unstable and failed states where the existence of fissile material could be very dangerous.
Seems to be only for login/setting up OAuth.

Honestly that's the best solution for a V1, in terms of security, privacy, speed of development, etc.

The target audience is early adopters, that definitely isn't people who want to use Spotify/Uber/etc but don't have another device.
Being a trucker in Canada is a edge case. Also being a human interacting with police in the US.

Did you mean intellectual property? You draw Mickey a year ago and a FBI helicopter would soon be overhead to kill your dog and take any cash they find in your wallet.
It’s such a reasonable thing to expect any level of hacking. Consider the idea that w3 is the transition of assets into literal Internet money. We digitized wealth and w3 concentrated those supplies into readily available large quantity targets.

The idea that there would be anything but a massive acceleration of crime and fraud as a result of the digitization of actual money is actually hilarious.

It’s a fact that North Korea relies on hacking it for funding critical imports at this point…

The real question is who and how this massive financialization and tokenization exercise will benefit, because it’s increasingly clear that the old guard has designs on how to control it pretty effectively and it’s not actually as free or anonymous as many people think. Some exceptions apply.
Microsoft, PNNL use AI to discover new battery prototype
We Chose Pants
There's something to be said for advances in storytelling/graphics/quality. The AI reanimation may be too far, but there are other useful storytelling tools.
No it doesn't. Pure V: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/net
They don't work for many species. For example, one study found that 3% of American shad were able to use a fish ladder. https://e360.yale.edu/features/blocked_migration_fish_ladder...

Fish ladders are akin to greenwashing.
Has any startup succeeded by starting out offering shiny hardware running innovative new software, all of which they have to develop?

It seems like a fatal dilution of focus to have to worry about the design and logistics of a fancy dumb terminal widget when you also have to get the software/AI/app integration stuff right.

Just make an app with text and voice interaction. Accept that the thing in our pockets with a screen and an internet connection is going to be a smartphone. You will not build an own-hardware moat with these weird little bits of e-waste.
People that buy Alexas in droves.
You wouldn't say that if bitcoin used no more power than it did in its first 4 years, before all the speculative use that drove up prices and energy use.
I'm guessing you did not live through the hellscape of browser compatibility issues at the turn of the century.
put "AI" in the name?
Well we had this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-twitter...

(full opinion here): https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1365-trump-twitter-s...

which while resolved, really opens more questions than it solves (which is fine because legislating from the bench shouldn't be the norm...)

There need to be very clear laws about how social media and modern tech is used to present information. Hell for the first time the government should have the ability to directly release information and not be reliant on normal privately owned distribution, and that should be investigated as well.

This whole thing is a giant can of legal worms anyways, and it only gets worse because our legislative branch has decided to devolve into high school popularity contests and just let the judiciary sort it all out.
Show HN: DataMapPlot for beautiful plots of data maps
> The problem with rooftop solar is that it is very expensive compared to utility grade solar:

that's not the utility's problem
Official: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wlLy7hKP4
no it really should have been an app, this thing is stupid.

"phones have too many apps so buy this toy device and also keep your phone because you're still going to need it to do most things"
Of course not. That's what MyPy is for. It was only about the answer to exactly this question in this function.
For a second I thought that this conductor somehow supports functional programming instead
I can just get an amazon echo if I want that.
> - It tells me when I should do a "cleaning cycle", i.e. that I should run an empty load in "Machine Care" mode to avoid it starting to get odours.

Leave the door cracked so the drum can completely dry between uses and the machine will never smell.

Same goes for washing machines.
PerformYard lands $95M to grow its staff performance management platform
What I’m saying is tech displays a tremendous amount of hubris in its ability to wrap complex systems in clean tech protocols, ask/pressure/demand users to switch to the tech version of the complex system, and then deny or ignore their innovation doesn’t, at a minimum, come with a rash of negative side effects caused specifically by the inexact or deliberately mangled version in the technical protocol.

Ie:

- social relations -> social networks

- customer service -> chatbots and Jira

- media -> AI news, if the silly IP battles get out of the way.

- residential housing and vacations -> home swap markets

- jobs -> gig jobs, minus the benefits, plus an algorithm for a boss

I’m not sure how many other industries tech has to wade into, disrupt, creative intense negative externalities if you don’t have equity in the companies, leave, and repeat, prior to industries getting protective finally - like this lawsuit
OODA loop?
Crypto schemers are trying so hard to restart crypto hype.
Same here. From there you can control all sorts of open alternatives for smart things, if you need that. I prefer most of my appliances to be "dumb" but resilient.
There is nothing of meaningful physical scale that can be built that doesn't encroach on some animals habitat. There are no exceptions, whether we're talking about a house, a road, a store, a factory, a power plant, a train line, a commercial office building.

Humans only have two choices: de facto suicide, or encroach.

I vote encroach.
This may just be the shittiest product website I've ever seen. It conveys absolutely nothing of value about the product. What problem does it solve?

It's just "ooh, pretty pictures, buttons and camera." Seriously? I'm supposed to trust a product from a company that can't even tell me what it's about without making me sit through a 25-minute keynote? Are they out of their minds?
The new language would have to be truly transformative and revolutionary to justify the switching costs. JS is pretty good and it gets better every year. I would love nothing more than a world with LISP in the browser and everywhere else but even if everyone agreed with me, the cost of getting there from here is far too great for even my unrealistic love for parentheses.
It's gotten worse, now (and the article mentions it) you get a ChatGPT answer first, which often is completely hallucinated. It's really great when you get a result where the AI answer and human answer totally disagree.
Amazing, thank you! I'll try it out later this week.
V has been open source since its release on June 22, 2019.

Vox is not released yet, and the website literally says "upcoming".
Surely they could afford maintaining a dozen of them.

> They had no control over their actual use

Assuming they could not bypass the protection, they could still extract the radioactive material and create their own designs.
The Netherlands and Belgium certainly do
I'm pretty sure none of those network TV dramatic reenactments had a 2-year-old actor talking about how their grandmother stuffed them in an oven. I think that would have caused a bit of a stir.
And I would hate to see the total payload of the page too for those running with 5GB/month limits on their data.
I live in Europe. I don't have a fund manager and I have invested in stocks on a low cost trading platform. Now I also have an account on Coinbase, which is an entirely different beast- different security, different responsibilities. It feels much more like owning physical goods than investing.

There is a friction that would undoubtedly be solved by bitcoin ETFs. There's hundred of millions of causal investors who prefer to simply treat btc as any other stock and don't want to bother with actual ownership of the asset in any form and don't want to have to deal with anything different from normal stocks.
And lowering friction increases usage.
My washing machine shows how many minutes it will take based on the combination of options chosen. I mostly just remember the number and walk down after so many minutes. Or I could put a timer for that many minutes on my watch. No need for a network stack and spyware on the washing machine.
> it’s probably a great technology

It really isn't. There's nothing legal it can do that something else can't do better. It's not even that good at the illegal stuff.
In Russia they have passed a law some time ago that you can never post dead children faces in any mass media (so they pixelate or draw over).

I was thinking that it is most stupid law, but now I don't. Oh boy how right these lawmakers were in light of this new development.
> but maybe there is demand for a vehicle for speculation that isn't tied to anything real, at all.

I'll go with completely agreeing with this statement, the way it's written. Let's be honest...There's nothing semantically or generally wrong with it to argue against.

As far as the "gambling" part... My objection would be that speculative vehicles aren't really on the "stock market" as much as they are the "derivatives market", if anything. Problem here is that the derivatives are, by definition, tied to the value of something else that could be called an investment. I'm not opposed to people trading. I made my money with market making algorithms and will make more as people keep trading. I'm just saying that classifying it as an "investment" poses quite a few issues for the SEC in terms of regulating it. Introducing it into an ETF that does nothing but hold crypto will be viewed by the public (that doesn't understand what crypto is) into presenting it as an investment. There are issues with that.
I have a hard time seeing the SEC not delaying until at least March after that fiasco (or even pushing back against the tweet itself if they were intending to approve anyway), but I guess tomorrow will tell the tale. It's fees BlackRock cares about, not the Bitcoin price.
imagine everyone in the airport lounge all with these.
The market manipulation and legal drama for crypto is truly the most entertaining thing in finance. The only sure bet are popcorn futures.
Idaho researchers develop reactor digital twin
> Drones have not shifted the balance of power in Ukraine v Russia for example.

Because both sides use them.

They made armored attacks impossible for both sides. A tank is detected in 1 minute and destroyed in 10.
Not only Russian or Chinese, you should open the bracket for any individual, organization or country that the western democracies will deem bad in their view. Or even have the any doubt of association with them. For example we can talk to many Muslims in the UK where no banks will grant them accounts (close account without notice) and how safe they feel [1]

Not that I am a crypto supporter, but the current western based financial system hegemony is good until you are have wrong name, religion, country... etc.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-16/british-m...
Previous discussion (1474 points by Ariarule on June 20, 2022 | 708 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259
Stronglifts 5x5 starts you on an empty bar. There are tons of form videos online, and anyone can videotape themselves to see how they compare. Seems like injury is easily avoided by anyone with a modicum of interest in doing so.
I dunno, I disagree, this kicked off my understanding of shaders and gave me enough of a foundation to explore the unfinished topics on my own. I think it's a fantastic resource and, sure, could benefit from having its unfinished chapters rewritten as a "further explorations for curious readers" section.
Design firms frequently upgrade their hardware. So you can frequently find great hardware at very low prices. Also snagged a fully loaded Mac Pro trashcan for $1200 back in 2017 when they all went for the iMac Pros.

I spent $50 for each monitor and additional $50 for 2 x Chromecasts.

Net out, 2 x 24” auto-updating photo frames for <$200.
SEC Twitter account hacked, posts a fake Bitcoin ETF approval tweet
I know the $1000 device in my pocket is capable of all the things they implemented ... do I just wait for a Rabbit clone app? Or will Apple/Google just enhance their native offerings to include this sort of thing. I absolutely agree with the premise. Our phones are just mini-desktop computers accumulating unused programs that don't integrate with each other storing random bits of data all over itself. The whole device seems to be a more polished semantic web that we were promised years ago albeit being brute forced by AI because interop never evolved.
Keep in mind that about half the cost is the transmission line. [1]

Vogtle closely matches nuclear costs in Europe so trying to frame it as a special snowflake we will never repeat does not add up. Until proven otherwise it is what nuclear construction is expected to cost in advanced economies.

Bent Flyvbjerg has studied megaprojects. Looking at those the most likely to come in on time and budget are solar pv and wind projects. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum we have nuclear energy only beaten by the Olympics and nuclear waste storage in terms of cost over runs and delays.

The HVDC line adds risk but we have gotten quite experienced at building those globally.

The equivalency in risk you try to construct does not exist.

https://patternenergy.com/pattern-energy-closes-11-billion-f...
I’ve recently come across this library in a book I picked up over the holidays. The book is called ALM Modeling and Balance Sheet Optimization: A Mathematical Approach to Banking. If you’re looking for an interesting domain to apply optimization theory towards, ALM and balance sheet optimization has a good set of problems to work on. I have not worked for a bank that takes optimization to the extreme discussed in this book, so it was a fresh view on what has become somewhat routine work.
There are two kinds of people who declare a crypto is going "to the moon":

- The ones who don't believe it, and sell off their inflated coins after the price jumps

- The ones who do believe it, and are the rubes the first group is counting on
Do you know which app you are talking about?
Blockchain is not a technology in the sense of being a better "how" for some existing problem. blockchain is before anything else, a social contract based on the premise that everything humans care about ('value') really does boil down to "voting with money," and thus requiries enforcement of such economic consensus through technology. It is sufficiently removed from expectations people normally have about how they relate to one another that it would require quite a revolution indeed to be adopted in the capacity in which it is intended to function as intended, that is, to become the ultimate source of truth for every transaction on Earth.

It's a back door attempt to fundamentally rewire how value is routed through society, and in the abstract this _might_ be a good thing (perhaps too generous with that 'might') in practice it cannot possibly happen due to physical constraints on consensus formation at the global, realtime scale that it would have to happen. As a result shortcuts are taken (or appear organically, i.e. exchages) in the form of centralized nodes of consensus settlement (what the promoters like to call Layer 2, sharding, or similar), and it's the people controlling these centralized nodes who end up becoming the new kings of this "revolutionized" system, the trust-me-bro's of trustlessness. I've met some of them, and they are not people who I would ever want to have anyone I care about to be under the thumb of.
Why do government agencies even have accounts on proprietary walled-garden online platforms? Those are for purposes like celebrity publicists, influencer brand promotion, disreputable mob behavior, and astroturfing.

The SEC doesn't need brand promotion, nor to be caught up in nastiness like pervades X/Twitter. The SEC already has the authority, they do their job with it, and presumably they value respectability.

Earlier Web showed us how to do this right, before commercial entities steered the influx of the newbie masses back towards being captive to proprietary walled gardens.

Stop choosing proprietary walled gardens to endorse with the government seal of approval.

Put press releases on your .gov open-systems Web site. Optionally do supplementary alerts with an open-systems email announcements list and/or Atom feed. Let journalists, citizens, and lawmakers take it from there.
Please please please only hammer the site if you intend to create a public mirror. While I appreciate the DataHoarder mentality (I am one as well), when sites announce they are going offline don't send hundreds of rabid nerds when that bandwidth is better spent on making sure public archivists can get everything.
To some extent, those sorts of motifs are a dramatization and personification of death itself. A very real threat that's usually rather immaterial and conceptual, cast as something you can see and touch. And that can chase you down an alley.

Nothing got you today. But something might have! And something definitely will sooner or later. It's always lurking, it doesn't rest, it's relentless in its mission, and it can strike at any time. If it hasn't taken someone you love, just wait, it will—in fact, it'll take everyone you love, eventually, if you stick around long enough.

You see similar use of the unstoppable-killer with marked victims (achieved via copycats and other trickery in Scream, but it's the same idea) for the purpose of representing other fears, traumas, or threats that have a degree of universality and don't tend to entirely go away, as in It Follows. You see this whole thing made perhaps a bit too on-the-nose in works like Final Destination—which is why, I think, you can have endless unstoppable-knife-guy movies and they may retain some appeal, but a little bit of a "cute" very-literal twist on the formula like Final Destination goes a long way; the world only needs so much of that, much as a joke that subverts a particular standard joke-form only works once or twice before it stops being amusing.

The fun thing about the Scream series, when the movies remember it, is that the killer's emulating this fictional trope of an unstoppable and possibly-supernatural-but-not-omnipotent killer on purpose, in "real life", which is good fodder for creative narrative, twists, and well-earned winks at the camera. The movies are meta not because they've arbitrarily chosen to be (though they do choose to lean into it, of course) but because they aren't about these kinds of fictional unstoppable-personification-of-death killers directly, but about "real people" doing the unstoppable-personification-of-death thing in "real life", in imitation of film (even in the first one, before the idea of copycats hunting the survivors entered the picture, there's a particular thing done in order to imitate not just a human knife-wielding killer, but specifically this kind of wholly fictional, unkillable death-dealer).

Actually, as with Final Destination, this is another thing the world only needs so much of, for similar reasons—I'm not sure the market would support a much greater rate of release for this kind of film than we already see. It's not as immediately-played-out, though, less of a one trick pony.
It's a striking condemnation of the current state of things that my $1K+ mobile phone does not do anything close to what's in this demo. I would pay $200 just to have a voice assistant that isn't totally incapable of playing songs requested like "Play SONG_TITLE from ALBUM_TITLE".

As an example, yesterday my daughter asked for a song from Snow White.

EDITED FOR CORRECTNESS (originally I said I asked for Heigh Ho from Cinderella)

In the car I say, "Hey Siri, play Heigh Ho from the Snow White Soundtrack". Siri: "Sure, here's Snow (Hey Oh) by Red Hot Chili Peppers"
(try it yourself!)

Why are Alexa and Siri still so useless, inaccurate and inconsistent? Why can't I yet ask Siri to "book me a ride via Uber from location X to location Y" or "reorder the same thing I got last Tuesday from Uber Eats"? I assume it's down to compute costs, but I would absolutely pay an additional subscription fee for more intelligence behind these voice assistants.
California built 4.2 GW of storage in 2023. With a typical 4 hour storage rate that is 16 GWh being cycled daily.

There are now times in the California grid where the second largest producer is batteries.
I have never looked at BTC as a quick trading rather a long investment, I still have many BTC since 2010 and never sold it.