skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make a kidding-not-kidding joke about skill with bolas making a resurgence as a counter to drone harassment.
Valuable comment. But ... maybe Elon's a Nazi?
Should articles like this one be flagged?
Can someone with a microecon background explain how this is possible?

(My guess is that consumption is somehow completely independent of unit price and that its also inelastic?)
It sounds like business as usual. Profits over people.
Exactly - this will finally make them think twice about installing more generation capacity and will force them to consider installing battery storage or other solutions to fix issues on the grid.

These non-generation solutions exist, but utilities love to just install more generation because it's in their playbook and they don't want to innovate.
Do you believe it is morally wrong for China and Russia to pass their own GDPR-esque legislation? And for corporations to comply with said legislation?
My understanding is that in 2009 Ford rejected the bailout the US automakers were offered (taking instead a loan which they are still repaying, through 2022).

GM was effectively nationalized (at a reported cost of $11b) and the creditors lost their shirts.
It has nothing to do with Musk legitimizing the Saudis. The Saudis have a sovereign wealth fund, which can invest in private and public companies.
Egyptian hieroglyphs decoded to describe Electric Universe
"... the new keyword is now optional...".

Why optional and not deprecated?
Sounds a little like the “decentraleyes” extension...

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes
Shorting is fine when you're predicting the stock will go down, it starts leaning towards evil when you try and damage the company to cause the price to go down.

Billions on the line create a nasty incentive and a publicly traded company is more at risk of negative attacks when they're not yet profitable.
It's rare for word of mega deals like this to not leak out in some fashion, doubly so after it's already been tweeted about by the CEO. If they had seriously been shopping this deal it would have already been in the WSJ. Considering the letter mentioned no funding I am under the impression that this is more of an Elon solo project and less of a serious undertaking by the company.
Astronomers Have Detected an Intense and Mysteriously Low Frequency Radio Signal
That's fair. Thanks for explaining.
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Don't feed trolls; don't post flamebait; don't go on about getting downvoted. All that is in the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Each of those has 4 to 6 escalators and the main one has around a dozen.
I think it's because government and electrical utility systems have a weird regulatory setup. Many utility systems have to petition to alter their prices with these governments. No one ever asks to "reduce" prices voluntarily in most systems like this. So this must have the long-term effect of propping up prices where it is hard to compete for business where everyone is supposed to charge the same "approved" rate for energy in a given market.
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Those are very heavy, and electricity is pretty cheap. Losing proposition.
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Even go a fraction of the way towards maxing out what you can do with the available mass and energy in a solar system and it's simultaneously hard to go away from a solar system right?

I don't understand the "too big/locked to a star" idea. It's not like all that mass/energy would be locked into one giant indivisible entity (if that is your assumption, why?). With current space travel, we don't attempt to move our entire civilization to the Moon or to Mars in one big go. We send out a small piece that establishes itself and then grows, and perhaps over time the rest is migrated if necessary, but the original entity goes on existing for some time while the probe gets established.

I'm not saying they would deconstruct everything in every solar system but it seems it would be pretty likely for a civilization at that level to develop a program that establishes some kind of presence in as many systems as possible.
I don't think that the effects of the bomb were as well understood as we imagine, I think that unleashing the bomb on Japan was also a test. It was targeted at civilians and they just HAD to see what it would do, they knew that what it would do was going to be bad, but they didn't really know how bad. IMO they didn't really care how unpredictable or targeted it would be, they knew it would affect Japan only though, so thats all that mattered.
Deal with what? A website that relaunches in the cloud from a different bitcoin account every 20 minutes? Anonymity is great from a personal-freedom point of view, but not so much when assassins start advertising their services out in the open.
I don't think anyone's said it better than Joel Spolsky in his 2006 article on why bad developers are over-represented on the job market:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-deve...
That's reasonable. The headline says it's spreading though.
"Saudi-Arabia is actually already going pretty far in their fight for regional supremacy, that would fit perfectly."

Doubt it. Too many cultural problems. Tribal, backward societies with people who don't like to work (companies prefer to hire foreigners. They are obligated to hire locals, locals stay often at home while getting paid). Based on the huge discrepancy of wealth, they don't seem to be very successful in the War against Yemen.

https://www.meforum.org/articles/other/why-arabs-lose-wars
I think from an outside POV the sorts of divides are more in your face and more geographically dispersed in the south.

There also seems to be more political homogeneity.
It may not be the worst metric dysfunction we encounter at work, but it's the one we have the most control over, so it feels like a self-inflicted wound even when it's your coworkers doing it.
Which numbers in particular do you have problems with?
Occasional unresolved kernel panics are a common feature on Hackintoshes. Why trust enthusiasts to provide support better than Apple?
I think your points about Dart being treated unfairly are legit. OTOH, Google certainly invited criticism - early Google efforts on the web were VERY "let's make JavaScript into Java", and as the JS community matured this attitude was viewed with less and less favor. I think it's notable that the community that DID end up having strong influence in the JS world (Node & npm) had much more of a Ruby background than Java.

None of which invalidates Dart, but I know I was less than excited when Dart was announced as it seemed more Browser Wars crap rather than an improvement. Nowadays I'm more inclined to hold Google's history of not supporting products consistently (or at all, in most cases) against Dart than anything about the language specifically,
I can't say for sure, but quite likely renewables cause high costs like the article says. The problem is that electricity generators of all types have very high fixed costs. If you have a lot of wind and solar power its a problem that it ruins the profitability of the traditional generators half the year, so they need high prices in the other half to cover the capital costs.

Also California isn't most expensive, seems pretty much the same as many blue states.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
These days it's mostly about apps, because apps are the main thing that facilitate the transfer of $$$. In the 80s and 90s, enterprises were full of $$$ and needed fast and safe languages for writing all their software. C++ came out to solve this need, and Java came out saying it could do it better. Today enterprises are moving many of their internal tools to the web. Enterprises don't need apps per se, but they do need the tech needed to build internal apps and apps to bridge between them and their partners. Consumers are using desktops less, and mobile or web more. Apps are basically the current de facto software "product". But a lot more goes into making apps today than 30 years ago. An example is how most apps need ML for spam protection and recommendation algorithms, or they are instantly going to be considered outdated and behind the times.
I can tell you from experience that building a Hackintosh is a terrible idea for almost all people.

I have no moral objection to it and I totally understand the motivation. Apple is completely failing to provide hardware that runs at a fraction of the performance you'd get from building a commodity $2500 AMD/Nvidia desktop even if you give Apple $7000 for a Pro model. Apple's platform especially sucks if you do anything with deep learning since they refuse to sell anything with Nvidia GPUs anymore.

But the actual experience of running a Hackintosh is terrible. Even if you buy exactly the right components, it will still take you days to get everything patched and working perfectly. And then every minor security patch will completely break your system, so you end up never updating. Finally you hit a point where your system is so far behind that you give up and either buy a Mac or just install Linux/Windows.
The only way to do it is to have admin/root on all the devices so you can install your own SSL root certs and "steal" google's domain internally with suitable certs.

It can be done but not in a BYOD situation.
React and React Native Sharing Business Logic
Correct me if I'm wrong:
1) this is an effort to provide an abstract graphics API for any OS/CPU instruction set
2) it is rust and therefore usable from rust and C(++).

If so, great news! Maybe we'll one day be free from tyranny of Windows when it comes to gaming. In my ideal world, operating systems should be interchangeable like web browsers and competing to provide the best implementation of an open standard rather than trying to trap developers and users by providing the most enticing proprietary API.

Have there been any previous attempts to do this? Any success?
It's certainly not a free market economy because almost every electricity utility is a state monopoly.
I believe aluminum is nicknamed "solid electricity" due to the ore purification process or somesuch; which dovetails well with the strategy you outline here!
For many utilities, it's not as simple as that. They're heavily regulated and their prices are generally set, capped or otherwise limited to give them a certain percentage profit. They often have to get price increases approved by their regulators. If they have debt outstanding on underperforming gas power plants, they may need to make this argument publicly so they can adjust pricing.
If you have cheap desalinization capability, why would there be wars over water?

"Cheap" desalinization is like "bargain" chip fab. It's still an inherently expensive proposition.
I can't imagine anything more distracting than a big number that goes up and down minute to minute changing the value of the equity they hold
Explosives are heavy. Are drones a realistic delivery vehicle?
This seems super cool! One thought, though admittedly I'm not the target as I'm not fundraising, I found myself wondering who would be doing the analysis and why I should trust them. "VC analyst" doesn't necessarily mean "good VC analyst".

Case studies might help show the value you provide, in addition to the social proof. Would also be interesting to include a quote by a VC.
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Just because those companies have massive market caps and cash reserves doesn't mean they can cut a check for 40B+ to buy a company that is burning cash. Hard to imagine any board signing off on that deal.
The key thing to understand is that the electricity market is unusual in that electricity can't be easily "stockpiled" the same way most commodities can be. This means it needs to be produced at almost the same rate it's consumed.

Some types of generators have long ramp-up/ramp-down times so it can actually be cheaper to keep them running and pay someone to consume the excess power they're producing compared to how much it would cost to stop them when the energy they're producing is no longer needed and then start back up again when it is. Additionally, some other types of generators (wind and solar) receive tax credits for every kWh they produce so even if you lose money selling the energy you can come out ahead when factoring in the tax credit.
Were those numbers in the article? Consumer drones already beat those numbers by half, I'd be surprised if purpose-built equipment would take a step backwards in battery technology. Also, why would you need that many drones instead of swapping batteries? I feel like I'm missing something, what do you know that I don't?
> Donald Trump IS the person the electoral college was put in place to stop.

Wrong. It was put in place to stop someone who was only popular in urban areas. You need to carry a majority of states in order to represent the states. There are plenty of other checks to "stop" (curb) the power of the office. The voters can have a big say whether or not those should be invoked this November.
I believe the classic argument against this is that it's statistically improbable/impossible for us to be first.
> Now, each member of your organization doesn’t have to go track down everyone else’s public keys and make sure that they’re authentic. You don’t need to hold regular key signing parties (though I do recommend that the tech staff uses the authority key to sign each as they add it to the keylist in order to build an internal web of trust). The users don’t actually have to do anything — they just write encrypted emails to their colleagues, and it just works.

This is a huge improvement on the traditional OpenPGP user flow.
> If you want to try building a mobile app then definitely go for Flutter+Dart, even if you don't need to support both Android and iOS I think it's just much more easy to start with than alternatives (RN/Swift/Android Java).

How is it easier? You can literally start your React Native development by opening up https://expo.io and scan a QR on your phone.
Not directly related to the thread, but I'm surpised by the extreme anti-short seller sentiment? Why is it important that they suffer?

Short-selling is what makes almost zero expense mutual/index funds available to mom n' pop investors. Fidelity are about to offer ZERO TER funds on the basis that short-sellers pay heavily to borrow stock from them.

It seems analogous to expressing hatred for umbrella sellers because you don't like rain.

When I lived in Ireland before the GFC banking collapse, I remember bank executives whipping up public support for a government ban on short-selling bank stocks on the basis of "protecting decent companies from shady speculators and evil gamblers". In terms of cost to society, it was the bank executives who inflicted massive damage and bankrupted the country, not short-sellers of bank stock.

Since then, I've been quite skeptical when people blame speculators and short-sellers for the behavior of markets. There's usually some basis for shorting.
Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia are good enough right now that this actually might make the deal more likely, rather than less.
>Because at the heart of it, that's the real effect that decreasing incarceration will have...closing jails, firing police officers, lowering ridiculous attorney fees, and shutting down county court complexes.

I don't think reducing prison time would necessarily result in all of those. Closing jails perhaps, but it's possible such a thing would require more police and county court bandwidth, not fewer.

That said, I believe non-violent offenders should never be put in jail. Give them mountains of community service or some other more productive remedy. If it's financial crime, freeze their ability to access the financial system. But sending them to jail is more likely to make them more effective and more hardened criminals.
I would start with the main coins and do them well. I think you are trying to bite off too much. Start of with BTC - it's in the media the most and is talked about the most. You can add Ethereum, EOS, Monero, etc later.

Then have a list of the "best" predictions of Bitcoin. I.e. Bob Lee (made up name) says "$25,000 by March 2019".

My main problem with your site is that I don't think you can rank these people with your formula. There is a lot that goes into it - their reputation (some guy vs crypto hedge fund manager), their number of roughly successful predictions, how many predictions they have made (success ratio), etc.

I know this is very generic, but hopefully it helps a little bit.
I'd recommend something like this. We plan on switching to it for WebRender in the future.
I wrote this up:

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/08/07/west-virgini...

They're sloppy with security, and they're ludicrously unable to scale.

And they've put this out in an environment with state-backed hackers. It's very blockchain.
I'm overall a fan of Tesla and SpaceX, but there are a number of valid criticisms you could make against Musk:

Occasionally childish relationship with his investors. Unfoundedly calling a diver a pedophile after he attacked Musk's rescue submarine as a dumb idea. He thinks he's an expert in any field he touches. Has an overall tendency on social media to promote Trump-style tribalism--you're either on team Elon or you're an idiot. There is no such thing as valid criticism of anything he does.

Some of these things also make him great. He assumes that everyone who looked at a problem before him was just too incompetent, corrupt, or complacent to solve it right, which can be a useful trait because it's often true. But when it's false it just makes him look like an asshole.

To be honest a lot of the hate just seems to come from how he responds to haters, so it's a bit of a vicious circle. If he just took a break from Twitter it'd probably benefit his image considerably.
Very scary to see Tesla fall into the hands of a despotic nation that is cracking down on free speech

https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-orders-16000-students-...
If they can produce so much cheap energy, doesn't that balance out with the more expensive batteries they have to buy? (which will only get cheaper in the years to come)
Emancipation was a political decision that was made for practical purposes.

Race baiting incited draft riots in the north. Low wage labor was very much threatened by the prospect of freed slaves migrating.

Prison labor isn’t a uniquely American institution and IMO was less about appeasing southerners and more about practical management of prisons.
I find it funny that the "evil Russian" in the video is actually a gunsmith from Valdosta, Georgia.
>I doubt any company would ignore that risk and produce a product that put people at a direct and unknown risk

History contradicts your statement. The most recent one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

They knew. They did it anyway.

But I agree that most companies, and most people, will not take that path. But you just need a very few to create a global health problem.
Desalination is AFAIK energy AND capital intensive, so it's very expensive having such equipment sitting around doing nothing until energy prices fluctuate low enough.

Now, there are situations where demand response makes economic sense; just not enough by far to balance a huge amount of variable renewables.
This thinking is common that more middle-upper class people won't put up with a dictatorial regime.

But isn't Singapore kind of a counter to that?
I was sexually assaulted a long time ago, and my therapist at the time recommended this book to me. I've re-read it many times.

What you say is a point that the book drives home many times. De Becker says it is better to stay away from a decent person than to allow a malicious person to get close to you. And if the person really is decent, they'll understand your reaction.
good point....yeah you're right.
We are special in one sense, we're really near the start of the universe, 1% of its lifespan, rather than the average of 50%.

Given you probably need 3rd generation stars to create enough complex elements for life, it's only very recently that life has been possible at all
With your desal example, I think a bulk of the energy requirement for desalination is building a pressure differential. That seems like it would be very easy to parallelize.. you don't need full on duplicative Desalination sites, you just need pressure vessels that can store large amounts of compressed air to take advantage of energy gluts.
Repo is here: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil

Plenty of examples within.
Right, a 15 billion meter wide beam aimed at e.g. a solar gravitational lens relay station some 542 AU out, or even aimed at much closer receiving stations around Jupiter, would not intersect Earth most of the time. At 308 nm it wouldn't be visible to ground based telescope since the atmosphere would mostly absorb it. If using gravitational lensing to set up system-to-system communication is the norm, the beam might not be bright enough to be observable by current space based UV telescopes.

All of this could just be driven by ordinary post-biological-alien good engineering practices. It would seem extremely stealthy to humans, but that doesn't need to be intentional, any more than ham radio communications are intentionally stealthy against observation by whales.
Late response here. Yeah I clearly missed the reference to the economics term, but that makes sense.

To respond on the main debate, my argument is not that "efficiencies in production will drive the prices of goods down" but instead that "efficiencies in production will drive the production costs of goods down".

Just because it becomes cheaper to make a product, doesn't mean that the consumer price will drop the same amount. Especially if that cheaper production can only be utilized by a few companies with automation skills.

The economic benefits of automation may trickle down to consumers, but will largely be taken by the few large companies capable of such automation.
Low/negative prices (caused largely by various regulation/policies) have been putting a lot of economic pressure on existing nuclear power generation - sometimes causing it to close [1]. Generation that is largely replaced by natural gas plants. So maybe this very non-free-market state is actually not helping make forward progress on what many would consider to be one of the most important issues relating to energy - climate change.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/05/16/natural-g...
If you look at the top of HN there's a "show" link. It's a thing people do here to show off something they have been working on. Not completely necessary, and I don't think you should resubmit -- you already hit the front page.
That's mostly due to the hydroelectric dams, though. Negative prices come from too much solar power in the middle of the day.