skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussions on specialist sites like reneweconomy are mentioning that the Tesla powerwall is able to operate as an 'islanded' powersource across blackout. So as well as forming a distributed generator capable of supplying FCAS and power, I think it also has good behaviours under blackout: the homes which are enabled don't represent surge load on the public power net when the circuit is re-established, so the engineering of turning power back on is easier. Once the distribution network is back, the Tesla units can re-synchronize to the supply frequency, and get back online.

Also, since the battery has maintained you as an isolated power source, your solar cells can continue to run. In other situations, your solar cannot power your house if you lose grid. So although people think PV makes them resilient under grid loss, thats not how they operate in practice for safety reasons.

The economics of this move feel right: people who cannot self fund into reliable or cheaper power are going to be enabled to benefit, albiet at reduced benefit (no income stream as private owners have) but for a huge community benefit: lots of distributed power, able to make the overall network more resilient.
I think it's a perspective problem. Since this issue is more complex, I'll use a simpler one - nuclear weapons. There has not been major unrestrained warfare directly between modern nations in what's approaching a century. Very few people alive today have lived through this sort of warfare. So it becomes a unicorn. Yet we still have things like nuclear weapons. And people see these as a relic of times past. Why would you want these sort of weapons when this sort of warfare no longer exists? And so naturally we have an increasing push to try to get rid of nuclear weapons, a stark reminder of a 'less enlightened times.'

Of course the reality is that this era of peace we've created has largely been enabled by nuclear weapons. Mutually assured destruction is indeed MAD but it has been the one thing, in the entire history of our species, that has managed to prevent this sort of conflict. Without nuclear weapons nations like the US, China, and Russia would certainly have long since came to 'hot war' in the process of determining who's ideology will be the world ideology. And that certainly would have drawn in the rest of the world, one way or the other: to wit, World War 3.

And so too today in economics, most people have lived during an era when the US has been more than capable of 'printing' (not how many is made - another complex topic) vast sums of money while suffering no real economic consequence, as well as being involved a system where we are only able to pay off old debts by taking on new debts - with no expectation of this ever really changing. If a private organization was behaving as we do, it would be considered a Ponzi Scheme. The reasons for this economic immunity are complex -- the fact our currency is indirectly backed by oil is a major player. But the point is is that people don't see any nuance here. We've always been able to behave this way (from the perspective of most people), so why would anything suddenly change? Probably a similar scenario to what happens at the end of any other meaningfully long era.
this podcast says its because the usd is the dominant world reserve currency (a lot of trade is priced in usd, critically oil due to USA alliance with saudi arabia) so there is high foreign demand for usd. they allege that keeping it this way - keeping demand for usd high - is why USA occupies the middle east.

it also says that the usd is dying and that the USA's free lunch (ability to borrow endlessly without consequences) is now ending or already ended, though the politicians will deny it.

they also say that if you are russia or china, the obvious move is to hire a bunch of blockchain engineers, try to unload your usd treasury bonds (forcing a financial crisis in the USA in the 2020s when the USA politicians don't realize they can't borrow anymore), and then simply wait, and when the dollar dies you can step in and "save the world" from the dying dollar with their new cryptocurrency.

obviously, russia famously had meetings with Vitalek (ethereum founder) and there is a huge amount of blockchain investment happening in China right now.

https://www.macrovoices.com/336-anatomy-of-the-u-s-dollar-en...
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Sentient observers have got nothing to do with that – interaction with any macroscopic system will destroy the entanglement.

If that macroscopic system (a galaxy that might have a catastrophe triggered or not) is causally connected to us, then it's destiny doesn't depend on the measurement, because it's state have already been "decohered" with us. (That is; the information about the other photon has already indirectly entangled with us.) If it isn't, then it's still entangled, and it indeed does depend on the measurement – it's a Schrödinger's galaxy.
My experience is that common can be one-third of preferred. I'm sure that spread varies, but it's wider than you're describing.
As a former chemist, colors were always a fun part of the work. For myself, the color of copper-ammonia complex is just stunning.[1] It's incredibly deep. I used to keep a vial of it on my bench.

The spectral line of strontium is also something to behold. I was using an ICP (inductively couple plasma) torch and the color is incredibly rich.

[1] https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/copper...
[2]https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/1-stro...
That's loss of productivity.
In this case it sounds like they just lost the build artifacts, not the actual assets. Although, when you read about how people have recovered the source for old programs it makes complete sense.

Without a central location where all the IP is stored, it becomes easy for older pieces to fall off the radar during company transitions, system upgrades, whatever. I suspect as people move away from large company wide SMB/NFS shares this is once again going to start being a common story. Particularly as people try to shrink their online storage footprint and move things to "archive" only. I've worked at places where I've had to repeating justify why i'm eating up a $LARGE_NUMBER GB for the last $SOME_NUMBER released versions of the product because the build process triggers a complete archive of the entire artifacts directories when a release build is specified.

Online storage be it, S3 buckets, or LTO backed NFS shares have real costs associated with them, and invariably IT comes along and starts asking why they have to upgrade their systems, or justify their OPEX numbers. Having a few TB of build artifacts that are rarely (if ever as the versions get older) referenced sits right up there with keeping previous employee's machine images, or home directories live.

The problem though is that putting things in an offline archive is just the first step in forgetting it exits. At that point your basically saying that in 10-15 years the only remaining copy of the data is going to be the git repo on some guys laptop sitting in his attic (the modern version of the floppies in shoeboxes).
There's a JS gate, so you might have a JS, ad, privacy, or similar blocker preventing it, or a shaky connection, or you might just need to scroll up and back down again to trigger the load.

It's a mediocre practice executed poorly, but not surprising from a company like Advance.

EDIT: To confirm, the true last line of the story should be:

> “Yeah,” she said. “He left that, too.”
I'll love to see that, but what I'm really looking forward is seeing the core and boosters separate.

If only because that'll be about the time I breathe again, and I'm sure I'll be pretty close to running out of air.
They measured photon 1 because they wanted to prove correlation (it would be impossible to do without measuring it). If you believe they proved it, it works both ways. Hadn't they measured photon 1, our measurement of photon 4 would determine polarization of photon 1 a billion years ago. Entanglement works both ways, according to the theory.
To me, this effect is only prevented by the fact that I get the articles emailed to my Kindle. If I was just marking something to "read later", and expecting to read it later on my computer's web browser, it would never happen.

But instead it shows up on my Kindle. I'm in a completely different mode when reading my Kindle than I'm in when on the computer. I'm calmer, slower, and I'll actually sit down and read the articles.
Nobody from the 1960's will ever believe that for almost the entirety of the decade of 2010, the United States will be without manned space flight capability...
> interaction with any macroscopic system will destroy the entanglement.

How do you know it? I'm not aware of any proof of this statement.
They are still not sure what to do. I think it also messed with the team chemistry. Rather than 5 people working towards a common mission, it become 5 people thinking about cool projects they might like to spend their time on. The cohesion seems weaker, and I wonder how that will impact things when they have to come together on a product to deliver.
In the context of a language with a working garbage collector, doesn't "memory leak" just mean "accidentally using lots of memory"?
> I suspect we all had the feeling that we'd shaken a velvet-gloved hand on friendly terms and sensed that there was steel underneath.

Could someone explain what Dennis means when he says this? I didn't really understand the phrase
... that's what the Bolt and Model 3 are.
That sure sounds like a rationalisation to not bother.

Sure, I don't dispute the current system has huge flaws. It is the system we live under, however, and trying to change that system doesn't require not participating in it.

There is an obvious least-bad. It may not be everything I want, but it goes from people I care about suffering seriously to not seeing as much progress as I'd like. I'll take that every time, while also pushing for more serious reform.
Yep, and $coin is right now a big steeming pile of..

Pretty much no matter how you shake it, there's scammers everywhere, fakecoins abounds, and liquidity transfer from $coin to paper fiat currency is fraught with dangers.

Look at the coinbase horror stories - it's now well established if your money is stuck there, you must get the help from having a high post here on HN if you want a reasonable response.

Long story short: some people will make a mint. A lot of people will lose their shirts. It's a repeat of the stock market of the 10's and 20's, right before the foundation of the SEC and the controls we now criticise.

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Edit: aaand here comes the -1's. I hit a nerve here from the looks of it.

1. Coinbase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261136

2. Almost 1400 altcoins in existence. https://www.justcryptonews.com/120/how-many-altcoins-are-the...

3. "Investors" mortgaging their house to buy bitcoin. http://fortune.com/2017/12/12/bitcoin-investors-mortgages/

4. History of the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/Article/whatwedo.html ----

Companies publicly offering securities for investment dollars must tell the public the truth about their businesses, the securities they are selling, and the risks involved in investing. --- WHICH ISNT BEING DONE

People who sell and trade securities – brokers, dealers, and exchanges – must treat investors fairly and honestly, putting investors' interests first. --- WHICH ISNT BEING DONE
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I had it free with Telstra too. Sadly this breaches net neutrality rules and shouldn't be encouraged. I eventually moved to Spotify and pay for that instead.
Is your intent to argue that vegetarians should consume only air? If you take just a split second to think, you can come up with the obvious vegetarian rebuttals to your statement.
Actually my statement doesn't depend on exponential growth. If in future GDP were to switch from exponential to logarithmic growth, debt would still be serviceable as long as it also switched to logarithmic growth.
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At least for personal loans, debt to income doesn't use your total debt, it uses your monthly payments made on debts against your monthly income. So I assume you would have to compare the yearly payments on the national debt to total federal revenue.
What about applications that are used day-in and day-out? Applications that average dozens of "page views" per session. It seems that an initial load is worth a better UI.
Sales killed it really
> queue systems built into most frameworks

Note however that these queue systems are not really PHP. You need supervisor (Python) and beanstalk (C) for this to work. Laravel just abstracts it away. And its good if everything is working until its not (hard to debug).
Perhaps a company would allow it because the labor market coordinated amongst itself and demanded it? But alas you're correct capital can fuck labor over and over again with no recourse in the current climate.
The entire reason they decided to make it a standard rather than keep it as an implementation detail is to make things better for users. It’s not about just looking after cpython.
why would a compiler do that?

The theory is that constraint propagation enables optimizations that aren't possible otherwise. In particular, it lets the compiler avoid emitting code for conditions it judges are impossible to occur. This usually doesn't help much with C, but can be useful with C++, and many of the optimization decisions are driven by C++ performance.

To satisfy the Rust community's desire to spread FUD throughout the C community?

I'm a big fan of C, and consider it my primary language. I have barely used Rust and am not part of the Rust community.

A more logical thought process here is that signed operations aren't uniform across architectures and are sometimes emulated, leading to UB for certain edge cases, like overflow.

Personally, I would love if this was the vision for C that compiler writers held. But it is not, and has not been for at least a decade.

Its more practical to believe that a future C standard will fix this loophole rather than think compilers will exploit this and punish their own community.

Unfortunately there is no chance that this will happen. That ship has sailed. Compilers are taking ever greater advantage of undefined behavior for purposes of optimization. Overflowing a signed integer is undefined behavior, therefor real-world compilers can and do strip out checks that they determine would require undefined behavior to be occur.

I realize this is hard to believe, but try this article as an intro: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=...

Or even better, just look at the assembly that is generated here:

#include <assert.h>
int add_one(int num) {
int increased = num + 1;
assert(increased > num);
return increased;
}

Both GCC and Clang completely remove the assert from the generated code: https://godbolt.org/g/5k43pV. To confirm, try adding "unsigned" to the "int" declarations and notice that it then keeps the check.

I don't think either removes the check yet in the exact multiply by two case that you offer, but it is not safe to depend on this behavior.

Very not impressed with this thread.

I can see why you feel that way, but I think if you research this further you'll come to appreciate the stern warnings that people are giving you in this thread. C does not work the you want it to. Your choices are to adapt and avoid undefined behavior, or switch to a better language. I'm sticking with C because I think it's the best choice for what I do, but you need to be aware of the dangers if you are going to use it.
Keeping the dict ordered is actually faster. There’s a link to a YouTube talk a little upthread that discusses the algorithms used. It’s really interesting.
> Long story short: some people will make a mint. A lot of people will lose their shirts.

Zero. Sum. Game.
This is a very common trope, but it fails to address what might be the cause, rather than the mere correlation, of age-driven conservatism: imminent mortality.

Well, the main factor I'd say is that being older involves having accumulated a lot "functional" opinions and solutions to problems. That is, a lot of approaches that may not be absolutely optimal but work (and which would require a lot of time to work out alternatives to - in the fashion it takes a lot of time to train a neural network). So basically, it is extremely difficult for those who have a fully functional coping strategy to go back to "not knowing anything" and relearn.

I mean, while most people are more flexible at twenty than at fifty, most people are more flexible at ten than at twenty and it would be hard to revisit the "personality choices" that happened at ten when you are twenty even when mortality is a ways a way.
"Nature is extremely clever, and she has crafted an intoxicating cocktail of oxytocin and other neurochemicals to rivet the attention of parents on their children.... The research on whether this response is stronger for mothers than for fathers is inconclusive."

But one particular interpretation confirms a common biological determinist bias in the tech industry, and so generates endless attention and pontification.
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It turns out that manned space flight capability just isn't very useful.
Maybe so, but as far as I know no one in the 1960s guessed that weightlessness would prove as harmful as it actually is to human health.
Out of pure curiosity, what perspective would give one this experience? I guessing working at a VC fund?
Is it?

That doesn't sound correct. Bitcoin didn't exist a decade ago. The amount of wealth it added can be measured directly.

But perhaps I'm not thinking of it in the right way.
I'm technically a successful professional, but I'd certainly love to work less than 70 hours weeks. I don't have a choice, we're understaffed. It's been shown in black and white to management who is betting a sale will bring those people in. The scam comes into play when we realize we're salary. I used to look at salary as something to achieve, flexible work schedule where I could put in the work and go home when I was done. Now the work is never done. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm good at it, but the drive to push everyone in the tech industry into burnout is a cancer that's carving the industry out.
Think OP is talking about public debt (~$15 trillion) not intergovernmental debt (~$20 trillion). GDP has little to do with federal revenue; the federal government doesn’t tax 100% of all exchanged money. Federal revenue is about $3.6 trillion.
certainly, but at what cost?

When autonomous cars become ubiquitous, this will increase even to places currently outside of reach.
Great example.

I hate to think of all the developer hours wasted because JSON doesn't maintain key ordering.
Apologies, I overcomplicated it.

Someone lends you money to exercise your options, you pay them back (at IPO or acquisition) as well as additional compensation for their risk of your shares being worthless.
It is not arguing for elliminating educations. It is arguing that we don't need force every one education. It is arguing that a forced education is not a really a good education.
Why is so much solar and Tesla related stuff happening in South Australia lately?
I'm not sure about beta blockers, but Adderall doesn't do well for games - it's more suited to holding down attention on things like spreadsheets. Modafinil doesn't work nearly as well as sleep. It helps in learning, but not so much on the battlefield, unless someone had an all nighter.

A few cups of tea might just do all of these better than drugs would. And things like L Theanine or creatine don't really need to be banned.
It is well known in crypto world that you should not cash out and hold crypto until it all takes over the world /s
Are you aware of some proof that it is specific to sentient entities? If not, Occams razor implies we assume it is any macroscopic entity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305565

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That's correct. With DAS tuning it's much less frustrating to play at the speed at which you can think. Here's one of the top online players of puyo puyo tetris, for reference.

https://youtu.be/7AjbWroX4vA?t=18m57s
I don't think that it is a zero sum game is relevant. The problem is that people are getting scammed out of their life savings. These are illegal scams, and nobody is regulating them before it's too late.
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The new dict implementation was introduced in 3.5 (with forced order randomization, which was removed in 3.6) because it is faster and uses less memory than the previous non-ordered dict. Ordering is merely a nice byproduct. So you're not paying any penalty.

OrderedDict is fundamentally different because it is designed to allow inserting/removing keys in the middle of the ordering in O(1) time. It does not use the new dict under the hood, or vice-versa.
The government borrows by selling treasury bonds, then the Fed buys them and keeps them on their books, and the Treasury gets US currency in exchange.

The Fed can also buy other assets besides T-bills and use them to back new issuance of US currency notes.

You can read the federal reserve act at Frb.gov
> Monero, the most prominent fork of Bytecoin, the result of years of work of a very dedicated community, probably the most anonymous currency in circulation today - in the form of an ERC20-Token?

What about Zcash? I'm pretty sure that's a serious contender for the title of "most anonymous".
Is there any cure for it apart from the restricted use of antibiotics?
Assuming Bitcoin is totally worthless in the long run (which I strongly believe it is), the right way to think of it is that people who own it have lost however much they paid for it. When you think of it that way, all the sums add up to zero.
This sounds like exactly what YC fellowship is for.
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Taking a page from Seveneves, what is the minimum set of robotics required for parity with the general-purpose abilities of a human astronaut?

Humans can repair electronics, perform assembly in space and run a wide variety of experiments. Automation works, but it's hard to make as general-purpose.
Diversification of investments is the key thing these folk are missing.

I think part of the cause is a lack of financial education, but as large a part is no easy way to make diversified investments without adding significantly more effort, fees, or risk.
This is why google/facebook/snapchat/airbnb etc. take the best talent. There is an opportunity for early stage companies to create equity packages that attract great people. It is really a shame.
I was half-expecting this blog post to be in French, first, with English following in a slightly smaller font.