jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most of the market models have some means of pricing out spinning reserves or nearline capacity and other ancillary services that aren't necessarily spinning a meter. Unfortunately trying to determine the correct price incentives is complicated and it often only becomes apparent a serious mistake was made after an event. One element of this is that overall US power grid and associated infrastructure was hugely over-engineered from like 1940-1980 and some areas are only recently pushing the limits of 1960s era transmission and generation planning, in many cases because old nasty coal plants are closing and non-dispatchable renewables are cropping up at locations power plants wouldn't have made sense historically.

Other market operators in north America have different means of doing it. PJM's capacity market strategy ( https://pjm.com/markets-and-operations/rpm.aspx ) has been a reasonably successful, at least so far. CAISO has their resource adequacy planning but the changes in the western interconnect have been seriously straining both the market model and the reliability coordination in parts of California. Can't dig up a good link right now but there has been some discussion that one problem with ERCOT's forecasting was that it assumed demand stopped increasing once it reached a cold-weather ceiling, which may or may not have contributed to lack of early action in the 2021 storm. But they also have no good means of early opportunistic demand reduction, which might have trimmed several GW off peak demand during the storm as many empty buildings and industrial users were still up and running with no one able to safely go to the facilities and safely shut down unimportant loads.

I remain personally of the opinion that if it takes increasingly complicated rules and financial structures to get the desired results, that maybe the modern US concept of a deregulated power market isn't such a great idea to begin with, but it's not going away any time soon.
Would that be less work than running one server?
That's actually kind of why I don't like it. Combining a Laravel project with docker makes you end up with multiple env files and it gets a little confusing.
I've been driving a rental Model 3 with FSD for the past day - for the first time - and totally agree. And after a day's experience, it's obvious it needs to be watched. It's an amazing capability but there are clearly still corner cases, and it makes you very aware of them.

I liken Autopilot / FSD more to a horse at its current state. You keep a firm but gentle hand on the rein and let it find its way. Sometime you have to check it.

If you get complacent (which the screen explicitly warns you against), yeah, things could go wrong. That's also 100% true when driving a normal car.

Edit to add: I think a lot of criticism focuses on the term "Full Self-Driving" which implies "Full Self-Driving". That's fair, but I think it misses an important point. ("Autopilot" made a lot more sense to me: real autopilots can't do everything either. They can't even taxi.)

When you're actually IN THE CAR, enabling this functionality for the first time, you have to enable three separate toggle switches. Each one pops up a progressively longer, more dire WARNING dialog, emphasizing the software's primitive state, the importance of paying attention and keeping your hand on the wheel. It also demands your constant attention while engaged.
I'm inclined to agree, because I think our civilization should exist to serve humanity, not use humanity simply as another disposable cog in the machine.

But that's not the way our legal and political system actually works.
The Hydroxychloroquine discussion is pretty bad as well.

We were confidently against Hydroxychloroquine because it was well tested in the RECOVERY trial in June 2020 [1].

The time to be optimistic was during the trial-phase of the test. Once that time passed, everything beyond that point was unnecessary and unhelpful hype.

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What's amazing to me, is that the RECOVERY trials showed that Dexamethasone cut the death rates in half [2]. Where did the Dexamethasone hype go? Why was the political discussion on the snake-oil Hydroxychloroquine?

Even months before we had a vaccine, doctors had discovered how to save roughly 10% of lives in the most severe category. (29.3% death rate vs. 41.4% death rate for those on ventilators). Doctors quickly started using the $20 steroid to save so many lived throughout the pandemic.

Instead of hyping the stuff that _WORKED_, the political system was hyping snake-oil like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Why were so many people optimistic on such bullshit?

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Here is where being skeptical helps. Whenever Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin came up in a stupid discussion, I'd pivot the discussion towards Dexamethasone and Monoclonal antibodies. People need hope. People want hope. Before we had vaccines, people wanted to know that doctors had an idea of what to do. Dexamethasone and Monoclonal Antibodies did the job and did it properly (saving lives long before vaccines were developed). No one cared if it was "hydroxychloroquine" or "dexamethasone", these are all just giant chemical that few people memorize. People wanted hope, and it was important we kept that hope factually correct.

You can't promise the world with bullshit snake oil. When someone gets COVID19, they'll demand Ivermectin (yes, my sister is a doctor and she's seeing patients who are literally dying and demanding Ivermectin from her). Ivermectin has given these people false hope and is turning them away from the actual care that would save them.

[1]: https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-...

[2]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2021436
Blockchain has a lot of mythology around it right now, but really no special status. For these purposes, it's a distributed database. If you opt to put a distributed database with criminal materials on your computer, you could very well break the law.

People have been criminalized for bittorrent, music sharing services, etc. Uninformed people I know hesitate to use Tor clients due to its reputation; well-informed people hesitate to run Tor exit nodes. Why would blockchain get special status?

For example, imagine a blockchain explicitly intended for use by drug dealers to exchange money or CSAM users to exchange materials (maybe they read on HN that it's anonymous, impossible to censor, etc.): Could the government shut that down? Would they? Would you dare allow any such thing on your computer (ignoring that you probably have no interest in either service).
The second paragraph is pointer tagging, it’s used quite a bit, including in the upper bits for some (e.g. objc stashes the ref count in the class pointer).

I think Ocaml also does something interesting with integers, IIRC they’re 1 bit less than the normal range and a shift stores a flag in the freed low bit: if the bit is set it’s a shifted integer, otherwise it’s an unshifted pointer to an integer.
By a National Bank actually, Sweden's “Fed”; not any private bank or banker.
Dupe

More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
not sure if you’re a troll, but that’s the reason why you trust it. you can actually verify every transaction that happened on the chain.

the way this is done is not unlike any system that uses event sourcing (including the distributed databases that you worship).

here is a killer use case for blockchain: supply chain management with a lot of entities and lack of trust. smart contracts are a thing.

also, there are blockchain implementation that are really performant (don’t get stuck on bitcoin)
Even larger communities. I don't think nuclear family is actual the natural state for our species. But recent invention.

Things start to scale much better once you get to bigger family units, with 3 or even 4 generations present. Grandparents, uncles, sisters and brothers of different ages. Looking after the kids. Or in tribal society whole tribe up to 100 people.
Do they use a web browser for the scraping or simply a http library?

You could look at the http request headers and perhaps identify the scrapper script. You could also put a javascript challenge that is required to solve before pulling more data, and disable it for Google and Bing ips, so it's more work for them to pull data for some time.

Instead of simply blocking, you could detect them and do some kind of http slowloris response.
In most financial systems, there has to be a "banker" to make the market, i.e. they have to close the deals when the aggregate buy/sell deals end in surplus or deficits. So Paypal has to close the ending position -- at least that is my understanding.
Thanks for the explanation!

I think in this case Clojure provides pretty strong competition with core.async - you do have to use the async specific calls for sleeping and channel IO but it still works using the same API on JVM Clojure and ClojureScript sides.
> This idea that therefore the Netherlands has a zero-tax policy that's screwing other countries is nonsense. There are many other examples and discussions you can have about Dutch taxes creating issues overseas (the Netherlands is certainly not perfect), but the tax regime for corps with a legal HQ in the Netherlands isn't one of them.

Sampling from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/netherlands-tax-...:

Of Nike: “ The sports apparel maker used a common, legal method of shifting profits to a tax haven, according to the consortium’s research. First, it allocated ownership of its “swoosh” trademark and other intellectual property to a subsidiary in Bermuda, which has no corporate income tax. Then, its subsidiary in Hilversum paid royalties for the use of the trademarks to the Bermuda unit. The royalties counted as business expenses and in that way avoided taxation in the Netherlands.”

And more generally: “ The Netherlands long justified its laws by arguing that they encouraged multinational companies to establish their headquarters in the country, creating jobs and investment.

More recently, however, legal thinking and public opinion have turned.

Officials in Brussels have accused the Netherlands of violating the European Union’s rules by helping Ikea to shear its tax bill. And polls show that Dutch voters have become increasingly angry at what they see as special privileges for wealthy corporations paying little or nothing — middle-class residents of the Netherlands, by contrast, can easily pay more than half their income in taxes.”
Directly installing APKs by hand is something that is only for people who know what they are doing. However, providing the APK for download is something that is helpful for 3rd party package managers, which can verify the hash.
Out of interest's sake, what kind of resolution are you running? I found 3008x1692 to be perfect for my 4K screen, but it actually doesn't show up in Display preferences unless you option-click the "Scaled" radio button.
One of my favorite apps, Clubhouse.io (the project management solution, not the controversial audio social network), mimics realtime by just having a really, really optimized polling endpoint for the last timestamp the project was touched, then the client refreshes as needed (which would hit cache if you account for distributed systems propagation, if you even need to worry about that). It's an amazingly simple solution and one I'd recommend for anything in B2B modalities.
Gotcha, I respect that you have a focused model.

I would also think that local government would be a good target audience- We have sat through some endless school board zooms (due to COVID). I am sure "shrink and share" would work there as well.
> I remember people in space forums actually laughing at me because of my absurd believe the Falcon Heavy would launch before the SLS.

I remember people in space forums laughing for the suggestion of the opposite. More, it's already in early 2000-s there was a strong opinion that NASA is wrong and commercial approach is the way to go, and birth of SpaceX was a logical development - after unfortunate closing of Beal Aerospace.
Basically you are saying that California cities should not have planning authority. I happen to agree but that's not on the table.
It never made any sense to me either until I learned that there was effectively no black population to speak of in the Bay Area until World War Ⅱ and the Second Great Migration, but now I just see it as a form of easily-deniable economic segregation: https://i.imgur.com/Ke7GP1Q.png

See also: the "freeway revolts"
Based on other stories though, the customer experiance between the 2 companies appears to be simliar even if not a YC Company.

Google has never had a good reputation for Customer service, they believe they can solve all Customer Service with bots and Automation, this will ALWAYS lead to a lower level of customer service.

Amazon started in retail sales where customer service is king, so it naturally has batter customer service philosophy than Google.

Google has shown zero signs it even desires to have a customer service philosophy that is remotely similar to Amazon, or even Microsoft Software which is somewhere between Amazon and Google on the customer service scale
I can beat that.

A couple of years ago, I'd asked where their UPS's were (I'd bought one from a Best Buy more than 10 years back so I knew they had stocked them) and they told me there was a Fedex near by.
Thanks for signing up and trying it out.

We actually drive people to use Descript for most use cases, that aren't relevant.

Think Photoshop vs Canva.

Since speech-to-text APIs have become really good (props to companies like AssemblyAI (https://www.assemblyai.com/), the transcript-based interfaces are going to become much more common.

Our product goal is to solve the use case around making the visual output, when editing/correction isn't the goal. That being said, the editor should be performant and work well, so lots to improve there.

As an aside, there are a few evolving open-source libraries that consume the output of these STT services (https://github.com/bbc/react-transcript-editor) and make turnkey transcript interfaces.

The newest/most developed one I like is based on Slate, and made by a really amazing engineer at the Wall Street Journal named Pietro.

Link: https://github.com/pietrop/slate-transcript-editor
That price volatility is an interesting thing. It could actually accelerate the transition to renewables in places like Texas. Gas for peaker plants becomes a lot less attractive when the price can jump by 100x when it is most needed. If that becomes a regular thing, people will want other options. And of course such options are readily available in the market now in the form of e.g. solar + battery that you can install in your home.
Shows that having fun is subjective.
Child protective services for one - it is criminal in most states to neglect your child’s education
> the kind with glowing elements

There are far-infrared ceramic heaters that don't glow. Less smell and more energy converted into radiation instead of warm air.
I've wondered why this didn't exist for a long time. I thought I heard something about an issue of liability in case some part of the process is incorrect, which the "Big Boys" (TurboTax etc) have worked around or priced into their business model.

At any rate, I'm grateful, and I will consider using this. I may just have to find a way to doublecheck the work done.
> One reason Canada has fallen far behind its neighbor to the south is that it ordered lots of doses from European factories that have struggled to meet production quotas.

Canada were forced to work with Europe as Americans won't export any vaccines. I know dozens of 20-30 year olds vaccinated in America, while the largest hospitals in Canada haven't vaccinated even a fraction of their staff. Luckily for America, Canadians are too busy blaming each other for it to really damage the international relationship.
He did blow it. He missed the last 30 years of evolution in game design. Every single game released, in one way or another, uses this idea of approximating complex human systems with simpler mathematical formulae and algorithms. Closer to home to his two hits ('Eastern Front', 'Balance of Power'), very sophisticated simulation war games have been releasing for years now that put his games to shame. With very little effort anyone can come up with a list of those.

This is why it's so hard to innovate when you don't test your theories in the market of ideas. It's why you don't tend to see Lone-wolf Geniuses revolutionizing the relevant field (whether the field is physics, or game design). Even a genius like like Grigori Perelman, of Poincaré conjecture fame, who comes close to embodying this 'lone-wolf' stoic ideal, needed to use techniques developed by others in order to prove the conjecture.
I have been waiting for a particular type of study on the current pandemic and this isn't it, so I'm going to comment a bit about the book I want to see as well as what we have here.

As the reviewer and the book author note, analyses of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the various pandemics of the 20th century have all supported that mask-wearing mandates had no effect on spread of the diseases. Hence, as of early 2020, it was the common position of Western health agencies to discourage public mask-wearing.

However, in spring of 2020, governments all did a flip and instituted mask mandates. What I want to see is a detailed study of what happened. Was there new scientific evidence or was it all political theater? Unfortunately, this book doesn't deal with that. From the review:

Miller confines himself to the data, and if there’s a limitation to his book, it’s that he does not offer any compelling explanation of why the expert class threw itself a policy it once regarded as worse than useless.

Now as to the book actually written. It is primarily an analysis of data collected during the current pandemic to evaluate the effectiveness of mask mandates. His conclusions appear plausible because they agree with studies of previous pandemics, but my experience with analyses of complex events so close to the fact is that they are often subject to revision after longer analysis.
I like that we can disable Intel ME entirely via undocumented instructions. The fact that whether it's running at all and whatever computation is running depends on hiding certain x86 instructions and the code/memory of the security module is what i refer to "security by obscurity".

If everything is taken into the design, great! Just open up the design and let us check. Also, if we can't change/upgrade the firmware without cooperation from Intel and motherboard manufacturers, how are we supposed to operate such hardware after Intel/others claims EOL? Or after those corporations die?

I'm not exactly a fan of hardware tokens like Yubikeys but at the very least the design is clear/open. You know the protocol and can probe things around. Those things i don't call security by obscurity (unless your threat model involves someone doing electronics RE on your key). And if a flaw is found with the design, "just" get a new key no need to throw away your entire motherboard. (I still find environmental waste to be a major problem with hardware tokens but that's a discussion for another day)
No, traces. Horses were traditionally ganged up using long lines of leather, called 'traces'.

see:

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1358886
>[a game in a favicon is] the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days

This will now be used for advertising in 3..2..1.

Seriously, this is going to be used to make alert favicons and such that interact with the webpage showing if a file has downloaded/uploaded or a message is sent or any other action has been completed or is being requested, etc. Number of messages waiting in your online email, that sort of thing.

The actual implementation may be useless but as a proof of concept it seems good.
That was exactly my thought process when I ended up deleting my account. There were people who I wouldn't be able to contact, but then again, I never talked to them anyway even when Facebook made it convenient.
I pity even more the computer-savvy relatives/friends/neighbors of the aforementioned uninformed consumers.....

// praying that no-one I know buys one!
I wonder if it includes the UNIX copyrights.

Novell's waiver got a whole load of SCO's claims rejected. Hands up: who wants to see that particular can of worms reopened?
As much as I'm afraid of Facebook turning the internet into a walled garden, this post is pure FUD.

The OP complains that "You Can't Delete Messages." Hm, that sounds a lot like email. Everyone knows when you hit "send" on your email client you better mean what you wrote.

They then complain about how "Non-Facebook Friends Can E-mail You" and their main point seems to be that it's being used as a way to "bully more people into joining." That's an emotionally charged interpretation of a company trying to increase conversion rates. I have a feeling if Facebook were a YC startup they wouldn't be referred to as "bullies" for requiring user accounts.

In the "There Are No Subject Lines" section, the OP's main complaint seems to be that without subject lines, email search will become unusable. I don't understand why this would make much of a difference, but I don't think Facebook ever intended to compete with Gmail or Yahoo head on as a robust, productive email client. It's aimed at high school kids who couldn't be bothered with all the bells and whistles of Gmail and are used to viewing their lives in one constant stream, whether it be Facebook's news stream, Twitter, or text messaging. Another lame complaint.

The last section is about automatic friendships, which I have misgivings about myself, but I'm one of the rare individuals who thinks Facebook needs to be more open in the way that Twitter is, not more private and restrictive.

As a web developer and startup guy, I am just as worried about Facebook taking over the internet and ushering in a new age of walled-gardenism. On the same HN front page I saw this article on, there was another sensationalist headline, "Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future", and both that and the headline of this article immediately appeal to my developers instincts.

However, I know FUD when I see it, and I'd rather admit and accept Facebook's continued dominance than delude myself by buying into poorly written articles that pander to us geeks.
Printing, also.
Yeah, this was always my understanding - time zones, DST participation and dates, etc all change more frequently than you'd expect, and time zone databases keep track of when things happen precisely for this reason. If that weren't happening, I think people would have found that many of their timestamps become obsolete / inaccurate relatively quickly.

That said, it does tie the stability of your datetimestamp to the stability of the tz database. I think that's a pretty good bet, but it's nice to be aware of where your abstractions can leak.
How? Kleiner partners and Kleiner ladies probably diverge in their ideas of what's fun.

I'm often not invited to my colleagues parties, and I don't invite them -- we are very different.
I think people generally underestimate the sales challenges associated with selling tech to restaurants. Restaurant owners are too busy running their restaurants to be looking for this stuff themselves.

That's why Groupon, Yelp, and OpenTable all have massive sales forces dedicated to finding and acquiring new restaurants. This costs money. The same pretty much applies to every other restaurant technology company, ever. (Particularly point of sale companies.)
In a far distant future an interstellar scientific exploration vessel will approach the lifeless remains of the solar system and discover, stashed away in a big artificial moon, one very huge data archive consisting entirely of harsh noise. They will be so happy.
Being incorrect in one area is often indicative of wrong thinking in many areas. The recommendation to use SHA-256 is dangerous and it makes me distrust the entire post.