skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ant farting in a hurricane.

and then

It provides enough power to run he state for 6 minutes or so

Powering an entire state for 6 minutes is massive. That's not what it's designed for, however. From what I've read it's designed to be a 'smoother' in times when the power system is under duress.

South Australia is the most unhealthy energy market in the developed world

I think you mean all of Australia. The market is severely gamed by primarily the gas generators at times when members of the aging coal fleet trip during either the night or when there's little wind, and so gas is left as the saviour. There have been times that gas generators have intentionally left turbines switched off so that the electricity from the operating turbines is of more value, as well as ignoring advice of the Market Operator to have generators 'ready to fire up' due to predicted dips in generation from the rest of the market.

The current government believe in 'the free market', which would ideologically allow gaming of the system by the few participants who can jump in at times of need. However, this is what's a significant part of the cause of power prices in Australia being some of the highest in the world, and thus resulting in some people not being able to afford their bills.

Imagine, in 2019, having to go back to candles? What an age we live in. A government at the helm when people were having to go back to reading stories by candle-light might have some multi-generational difficulty repairing their reputation. So they've been feebly attempting to bring the generators to heel. With little success.

(There's also a lot of validity in the arguments about poor building regulation resulting in poorly- and un-insulated homes where electricity is used to fill comfort void whether for heating or cooling or both. New housing estates in Australia are a series of snug-fit cardboard boxes with pitched roofs)
How do you feel about companies that buy land and build housing on it, hoping to sell? By most definitions that would be speculation and investment...
I'd like to agree but the evidence suggests differently, e.g. [1] Arguably, there was an increased awareness in the US of drunk driving as a problem during that period but the effect still seems to be real even correcting for that.

Of course, if we assume a completely different culture around alcohol, the results might well be different.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20497803
> Boeing charges extra, for example, for a backup fire extinguisher in the cargo hold. Past incidents have shown that a single extinguishing system may not be enough to put out flames that spread rapidly through the plane.

Well that's something that is not comforting to read. Charging extra for comfier seats, I can understand, but charging extra for features that might be the difference between life and death for 100+ persons, that's just sick and criminal in my mind.
> An ant farting in a hurricane.

Thats a touch disingenuous. It was never meant to power the whole of South Australia. It was specifically built to mitigate the peak power price gouging [0] that had been happening the for prior 10 years.

The 6 minutes it can run for during each cycle saves millions of dollars a year. Specifically 40mil in the first year. The cost of the unit was 66 Mil [1], so thats an insane break even time for grid infrastructure.

[0]: https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-big-battery-powerless-to-s...
[1]: https://interestingengineering.com/tesla-battery-installed-i...
Quite! If you don't have them backed up to your homeserver Riot asks you if you want to share the keys with the new device, you check that the device ID and key match, and then hit ok and it happens.
If you have them backed up to your homeserver, you just hit download from server then put in the password you encrypted them with.
To be blunt, hitting the ground at 300kts is what caused 346 deaths. There hasn't even been a preliminary report on the Ethiopian crash so we can't say with any certainty that the failure was the same.

It is quite likely that the pilots were overwhelmed with warnings (e.g. stick shaker activation) and conflicting data. It's not clear that presenting yet more conflicting data would have averted the disasters.

Limiting the authority of the MCAS system is likely to be the real fix.
Apache promotes Unomi CDP to top-level project
Sorry, but you are incorrect. Technically, every manufactured good has a learning curve.

A very quick google search will show you that there is sizeable documentation out there on the learning curve for li-ion batteries.

See: https://www.solarchoice.net.au/wp-content/uploads/Solar-PV-l...

Additionally, while nuclear is definitely a good option for delivering clean, always on electricity - the reason nuclear power plants aren't being built is because whoever is financing it / coming up with the money has to deal with not only a 5-10 year construction lead time but also a 50 year operating period. Given the cost reductions of renewables, how do you price in the risk that your plant will become completely uneconomic at some point in that time period?
You can buy two meals if you like. The policy applies a cost disincentive to unhealthy eating, an approach which has proven success as a disincentive for nicotine addiction and alcohol consumption. Since society pays a steep price for the pandemic level of obesity it is justified to apply a modest price signal. And while the effect on each individual is small, the benefit for some individuals is enormous -- they will avoid the effects of obesity, like type II diabetes, and live longer lives. Your tiny soda sacrifice will save lives.

In contrast, obesity penalties at the level of some insurance companies is really extreme, to the extent of controlling their daily actions, and leading them to seriously consider use of dangerous weight loss drugs (amphetamines basically) and major gastric surgery.

There is no need to construct an enormous and improbable straw man if you want 'nanny state' regulations, there are plenty of examples. For example, alcohol sales policy. Why can you buy lite beer in many places in the US, but not full strength beer or wine or spirits? It isn't because of cheap drunks -- they are cheap and buying in bulk, a $40 bottle of wine isn't going to interest them. It is a hodge podge of local and state govt regulation with little tangible benefit.

The difference between good and bad regulations is often whether they are based on evidence and statistical re-evaluation, or knee-jerk politics. Well considered policy will identify groups that suffer detriment. I can't identify a group that will be harmed by discouraging discounted soda.
I actually bear a contention to the purported truths herein exposited. The pragmatic psycho-developmental trajectories inherent to greater schematized efficacy is contrary to the supra-regular array of hyper-excitation stimulated by the cognitive architecture latent to domains such as this. I'm sure many here would concur with this rather apparent folly in your conjecture.
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server

https://github.com/getfider/fider

https://github.com/ketchuphq/ketchup

https://github.com/mantishk/galore

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia

https://github.com/netlify/gocommerce

https://github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu

This is a list of webapps written in go. I didn't check the source and can't guarantee it's good quality
You could heavily regulate rentals and/or make rentals a service the government provides. That's how we fixed this problem for Water, Electricity, and Natural Gas.
Analysis of Open Source Kubernetes Operators
Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Interesting, thanks for this.
> Everything that has been negotiated and decided so far would have to be ignored.

I'm not disagreeing. The current procedures are brought to close. IF new proceedings were brought, the EU would be well within its rights to say no and that anything it agreed to previously no long applies if the UK tried to rely on anything negotiated previously. It does not, however, prevent those new, independent proceedings starting at all.
I find the little differences between U.S- and U.K.- English interesting.

In U.S. English, "spin-out" usually refers to an automobile spinning while out of control, for example when it hits a patch of ice and gets uneven traction.
There are still important second order effects. Making those the responsibility of the renter makes it harder to comparison shop (remember what it used to be like buying plane tickets when everybody just showed the base fare?) and it means the renter bears the risk of any sudden increase in those costs.
1). The number is the current demand, it's 12am here.

2). Australia is larger than the EU. That there's sunshine in North Queensland is all well and good but you need power in Victoria and South Australia. The links between the states are already saturated (and absolutely tiny).

3). Can you name me one river in Australia that isn't already damed passed the point of viability? The Murry-Darling flows backwards about as often as forwards these days.
According to [1] which references [2]:

An element must meet four qualities to stand alone as a premium currency... First, it can't be a gas — gases simply are not practical for currency exchange... Second, it can't be corrosive or reactive... Third, it can't be radioactive. [Fourth, it] must be rare enough to be valuable, but not so rare that it's impossible to find.

That brings us to five elements: rhodium, palladium, platinum, silver and gold. Although silver has been used for currency, it tarnishes easily, so it's out. Rhodium and palladium were discovered only in the 1800s, so they'd have been of no use to early civilizations. That leaves gold and platinum. Platinum, however, has a melting point around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,600 degrees Celsius), which could only be attained in a modern furnace, so early civilizations would not have been able to conveniently shape it into uniform units.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/32863-gold-best-element-money.ht...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/15/131430755/a-ch...
Torrents aren't really good for small things that quickly change like news whereas websites like reddit are and I'm pretty sure the people who are pushing for articles 11 and 13 are news agencies. Here is my thought process:

News agencies know they are using dark patterns to skirt by GDPR while still using targeted advertising but since they know the fines will eventually start hitting, they want to move to paywalls. However, A paywall for a news company is practically useless as any major story one makes gets linked to and paraphrased by dozens of other news agencies within minutes. Users won't pay for a news website when they can get practically the same stories only slightly delayed at a free one that just paraphrases and links back to the original. Article 11 solves that problem and article 13 is to prevent 1 user who does pay for a website from copying the entire article and pasting it in a comment (I see that and archive/outline links all the time here and on reddit).
To be fair, it could be that this is what the camera segmentation does before it is combined with other sensors, and before it is used to update the word model (which then has temporal information)
Two quotes from the article contradicting your outdated talking point:

> “The battery pipeline has grown exponentially,” Dixon says

> Other projects include the 4GW Walcha project in NSW, proposed by Energy Estate and Mirus Wind, which aims to combine huge amounts of wind, solar and storage for the biggest project proposed so far for the main grid.

Battery power has obviously been improving asymptotically towards zero (i. e. the inverse of power growing exponentially): https://www.google.com/search?q=costs+of+lithium+ion+batteri...

It's funny how the wider tech community has this obsession with nuclear technology. It's a sort of scientism, where the actual science has long moved on, but a certain group just clings to outdated ideas because they are still invested in a culture clash. It has gotten to the point where I think the potential danger of nuclear technology is actually appreciated, as a sort of sticking-it-to-the-environmentalists feature. Or it's a symptom of people growing up with science fiction culture prominently featuring nuclear power, unwilling to let their ideas of a glorious future go.

But the facts have simply moved on, and renewable energy is now winning on economic arguments alone. Thanks to actual scientists, and to a significant degree politicians (especially Germany) offering magnificently effective subsidies, solar, wind, and storage are now competitive even with coal. Nuclear power is big hairy dangerous technology some people somehow adore, but it's also prohibitively expensive.
The "wealth" created is that there is a new house up for rent, and thus more options for those who want to rent.

The advantage of renting compared to buying is that you can occupy an house for a limited amount of time without being financially exposed to changes in the value of the house, without having to find a new buyer when you move out and without needing upfront capital or credit to buy it (there are of course also disadvantages to renting, so some prefer to buy instead).
So that’s another way of saying 46GW?
$13k for 2.3% of the company is one thing, but how about $13k for 0.023% of the company? Your company could be headed for a "washout round".

In the end it's a question of how dear that $13k is to you. If you've got millions in the bank, do it. If gathering that $13k would require you to max out a couple of credit cards and call in your last couple of favors, then don't do it.

Wherever you lie on that huge section in between is going to determine your decision, I think. There are a couple of companies that even for nonpublic stock will buy your exercised units, so if they value each unit/share at $200 then this is a simple decision: exercise and sell (some or all).

Alternatively, you might be able to stretch that $13k a lot further by investing in the next round. Get a good finger on the pulse of the ask price and see how low they'll go before they give up. Your $13k may be the lifeline that buys the company the 15 days it needs to not die, and should be valued accordingly.
This is nonsense. I've rented for 10 years now and I love my city just as much as anyone. Buying doesn't really make a ton of sense at these prices so I don't, but I don't see how I am less engaged than an owner. Hell, I actually go to city hall and write my council regularly…
Since the mother already have a lot of estrogen in her blood, it might simply be that the effect of a female twin does not impact the amount of circulating hormones. The effect of increased estrogen in the male twin similar to the increase in testosterone in female twins would be interesting, but it might just not be something that can occur naturally.

Thus if I speculate a bit, the reason for the non-symetric effect should be that the mother and father does not have symmetric roles during the pregnancy. If half the time it was the father that carried the child we would likely have seen a similar effect on males with female twins.

What would be interesting is if they looked at mothers with different levels of estrogen and see if that effects male offspring, in particular those with exceptional high and low levels.
Sure, the historical reason was to end conflict between neighbors, piggybacking off the already formed connections between European Steel and Coal community.

But indeed, parent's comment was codified in the "four freedoms" explicitly laid out in the early 90s: movement of goods, services, people and money. But even as early as the 1960s, most union members stopped strictly enforcing custom laws with respect to trade, and it was well known border enforcement was extremely relaxed, especially when it came to labor movement. Only the '73 Oil crisis forced some members to crack down on migrant workers, but again, by the time that was resolved, the EU was back to the status quo.

I do not think calling his comment factually incorrect is warranted, but more fair to say it is a more modern take.
what part of scare quotes didn't you understand? oh right...
you might be interested in marble racing, it is very exciting and uses much less energy
I get spam from legitimate companies, probably because they don't validate the email addresses their customers give them, and thus incorrectly assume that I have a business relationship with them. I do not, thus it's spam.

Companies need to validate email addresses.

I get AT&T bills, OnStar notifications, etc. I have never used any of their services. Someone else probably signed up with my email address.

Additionally, other companies are violating the CAN SPAM Act by hiding the unsubscribe ability behind a log in. Nextdoor does this.
>consumer shopping for a car can decide how much safety they want to pay for

I have seen this argument before, by a Nobel Memorial prize in economics, Milton Friedman.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jltnBOrCB7I

Overall he said, that it is not possible, as a principle, to put 'infinite' economic value into individual life.

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Perhaps the argument can be made, that in a different situation the 'other data' pilots were to use, would increase safety.

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Either way, I think there is something wrong with Friedman's argument.

'Optionality' -- when related to safety features, should be treated very different, than optionality in, say, comfort features.

Passengers themselves should not be expected to make choices which optional safety features, on a car, a bus, or plane should be purchased by the drivers/operators.

Drivers, should not be expected to make these choices, either.

My thinking here, is that
An optionality in safety device, should change the whole major (not minor) vehicle model number designation, for example.

This would drive different visible profiles: different training, cost, marketing and so on.
Fake wasabi actually contains a tiny amount of real wasabi. Sometimes as low as 0.1%.
> return/if/while/break/continue actually work in Hylang. Common Lisp doesn't have these. Scheme purists won't let you have them.

Common Lisp does have them, as does. Scheme purists will let you have pretty much whatever imperative control structures you like (that's what macros are for), but you would be right if you said that none of the Scheme standards mandate simple equivalents for all of those (though since Scheme looping is usually recursive—which is perfectly imperative—“break” is usually just not recursing.)

> The fight against imperative programming has come so far that we banned not just goto but every commonly used control flow primitive.

Well, they weren't banned, Hough of course you won't find them in pure functional languages like Haskell. But CL and Scheme and Lisp-family languages with strong roots in those have robust imperative controlled structures and the foundations for building more if you need them.
Two main thoughts here. First I love that municipalities are thinking creatively about the housing crisis.

"I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en....

There is no need for "creative" solutions; this is a straightforward supply-demand mismatch.
"Rent control is the only thing more effective at destroying a city than bombing"
If your car uses the G-meter to deploy airbags and not having one results in hundreds of people dying, then yeah I'd call it a safety feature.
> What is it you want to say but feel you can’t?

Okay, here I go: "Modern progressives aren't liberals because freedom of speech is a core tenet of liberalism and therefore they should be treated as a hazard to the liberal movement."

There, I said it; I feel better now. Thank you for your kind invitation.
If you automatically get the newsletter of a company where you have signed up on their web service, you would mark that as spam?

I would unsubscribe and delete, but have not really thought about marking as spam or not yet. Just interested in some input there.

If I would get it from a company where I have not signed up the answer is of course obvious.
Just wrote some emails to politicians and demanded that they stop messing with Wikipedia and enable it again. I could do it myself (content is still there, just a css issue), but I'm too lazy.
The law doesn't mandate building apartments either, so if the same people who build/buy houses as rental properties are unwilling/unable to invest in apartments (because building a 400-person complex is a lot more expensive than a house), then rental property supply can only be constrained by this law or concentrated into the hands of management companies (who have a vested interest in constraining supply)

Furthermore, I'm not completely convinced that restricting rental property ownership to property management companies who can afford to build apartment complexes is inherently more equitable than letting a middle class person with good credit buy an extra house and rent it out. Where I'm from originally (Alberta), it was common for electricians/plumbers/tradesmen to buy an extra property with a combination of credit and wages and maintain it. It's a relatively simple and time-tested path for moving from working/lower middle class to being upper middle class or even wealthy.
Safety Breakaway Lanyards and Beaded Lanyards
The lanyards have a huge range of breakaway tabs. The safety features eliminates the danger of choking hazards when it is being pulled apart with force.
https://usingeverythingsimple.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/safety-breakaway-lanyards-and-beaded-lanyards/
If you want to try your hand at self-hosting - which unfortunately still comes with a steep learning curve - try: https://switch2osm.org/.

It is possible to simply reuse OpenStreetMap's TMS with OpenLayers or Leaflet (both JS Frameworks) but their service is rate limited for obvious reasons.

Which means you need to decide depending on your use case. It sounds though like it's a core feature of your App.
Create Japanese floating ink pictures with Python
> my 2 cents: A few days of outrage will do absolutely nothing to stop or change the law.

Yep, it's going to be just another "oh lol there's a protest" and a week later nobody remembers it.

I'd be happy if wikimedia just completely blocked all of Europe for a 2-3 weeks.
You nailed it. It’s cheap to borrow money and if you have a large deposit you can get a mortgage which your tenants will be paying off. Then you buy another. In Australia you can actually write the interest off as a tax expense. So it lowers your taxable income. With enough maintenance and repairs receipts and a few properties you’ll pay fuck all tax. Awesome way for people with money to make more money.
This looks really interesting. "A series of eight articles … from the March 1970 issue of Astronautics & Aeronautics."

Quickly summarizing the table of contents and some of the internal content, these seem to be the main takeaways:

• Create design principles that stress simplicity.

• Test exhaustively.

• Develop mission rules, procedures, and plans for potential issues ahead of time; iterate as new information comes in.

• Execute rigorous post-mortems.

• Prioritize flexible yet disciplined management.

It's notable that this was published before Apollo 13. It'd be interesting to see what changes Kranz et al. would make to these articles after that.
My girlfriend has a twin brother. Since they were born in Haiti and we live in the US I'm not sure how relevant this study would be towards her, meaning the socioeconomic changes between living in those two countries is pretty wide. How does prenatal test affect someone after they've gone through puberty? I just don't see how that can be attributed towards college graduation or marriage rates. Is that not a far reaching statement to associate the two?
I am sure that some pricing and bundling consultancy has made a "good" job here.