skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that nearby neighborhood already has enough power being generated to meet its demand. You can't just send the power somewhere without either increasing demand or reducing other suppliers.
That stupidly assumes all energy sources are equal. Oil has an extremely high energy density that makes it useful for travel where battery isn’t even close (heavy industry, air travel, long distance trucking/travel).

There is an article on the front page about solar companies in Australia shutting down every other day because of negative energy prices. Burning 100MW for 10MW of oil makes perfect sense under these conditions.

Here’s a thought experiment for you: why do you think we have batteries given they take more energy to create than they will produce?
I tried really hard not to upvote this ...
It isn’t the PV farm that is paying people to take there power. It is the baseline coal generators.
> This is nice but I would have expected “probability at an advanced level” to mean the measure theoretic foundations of probability.

Fair point, though with no intention of being too literal, might this qualify as the difference between "Introduction to X" vs. "X"?

In case anyone else is interested: measure-theoretic probability theory "unifies the discrete and the continuous cases, and makes the difference a question of which measure is used. Furthermore, it covers distributions that are neither discrete nor continuous nor mixtures of the two." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_theory#Measure-the...
Another distracting discussion of criminal behavior. As I said two posts up, we all agree such abuses should be banned. Opposition to censorship and defense of free speech is about censorship based on opinions; free speech advocates aren't fighting for an unlimited right to make threats or yell "Fire!" just for fun.

By "ignoring the unclear phrase 'hate speech'" you've ignored the very issue under discussion.
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I don’t understand why so many people are excited to sign up for something that’s so obviously designed to trick them.
That is really really confusing given that there is lots of prior art for = meaning variable binding and := assignment (Algol, Pascal etc). Using = for assignment was a bad decision and it's coming back to bite.

EDIT: Based the examples given, the Python := operator doesn't appear to behave as a let binding. The scoping suggests it is another form of assignment.
Pretty sure. I physically removed the HDD that shipped with the laptop, put an SSD in, and did a fresh Windows 10 install. 16GB RAM, too.

(Yes, part of my reason for buying this refurb'd Dell is because I thought it would be hilarious to put 16GB of RAM and a huge SSD into a crap netbook hahaha)

I haven't dug too deeply into it, but in dozens of hours of use and casual observation... it seems to me that if Windows Defender's realtime protection is enabled, then any disk access causes Windows Defender AV to be invoked which in turn leads to high CPU usage.

Dropbox was an absolute killer while it did its initial several GB of file syncing over the LAN. Dropbox pegged one CPU core, while Windows' antimalware pegged another. Same with iTunes while I was downloading my music collection from iTunes in the Cloud.

Now, both of those examples involved network traffic as well as disk I/O. So, I'm not exactly sure what Windows' antimalware was fretting about.

(Also keep in mind that the CPU we're talking about here, is a very low power dual-core AMD A9 chip. I don't see this problem on my desktop machine. On that, the antimalware CPU usage is low enough that I just don't care)
> lack of any outside visibility, (...) space restrictions

Oculus Quest has managed to solve both of them, even though they do their best not to exploit it. Because it's an untenthered headset, you have to designate a "play area" for safety - and to do that, you get to see the world through headset's cameras[0], and paint it with your controllers! Even though the view is monochrome and grainy, you can see enough to walk around and do tasks. I've frequently interrupted my play to do something, without taking the headset off - as soon as you walk out of the designated play area, you get the camera feed back.

Currently, Oculus is using this view only as a safety feature, and AFAIK you can't access it as an app developer. Moreover, using the headset outside is discouraged (perhaps because direct sun focused on the optics could burn holes in the screen). But Quest is essentially a working proof of concept, showing that the possibilities are there.

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[0] - Apparently they're used for controller tracking.
So that mysterious Gitlab customer's demand to protect their data was... not unreasonable.
> New Zealands actual inflation is way, way higher than 1.5%. You are very naive and gullible if you believe that number.

It's defined with a mathematical formula based on a basket of goods. You haven't provided any sources other than your gut and a baseless assertion about gullibility. I have references [1, 2].

> You also have no idea how the cost of housing is determined.

It's literally on the investopedia write-up. [3] And also, it's basic, fundamental market economics. More supply, price goes down. Less supply, price goes up assuming constant demand. Sure lending makes unaffordable places more affordable. That doesn't really matter if you flood the market with supply though does it? [4]

FTA [4]: "Tokyo rent is cheaper because it builds lots of housing. Every year, the city adds about 100,000 new homes. This increase has more than kept up with the increase in population, leading to a housing surplus." Average rent is $2.50/sqft in Tokyo vs $6/sqft in SF. And they have negative interest rates. Supply. Matters.

> Central banks have artificially manipulated interest rates to an extremely low level.

Set them at a low level. That's their job. To maintain a consistent, low, predictable rate of inflation.

> The reserve bank governor even admitted they were at fault.

Look I'm not saying they're perfect, I'm saying inflation has little to do with the very real issues you call out.

[1] https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/inflation

[2] https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/consumers-pri...

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040215/how-does-law...

[4] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-ed-california-ho...
Yes that's what I wrote too. Because AP provides a mechanism to "push" messages more or less like emails, one does not need to follow/subscribe to anything in order to receive messages unlike RSS where one does have to subscribe.
Hmmm, I must confess I don't know the specifics of the laws and controls, but box of medicine have to state the composition: the molecules present and their quantities. Got prescribed 3 mg of TradeMarked(tm) <moleculeXXX>, a generic would be 3mg of NoName <moleculeXXX>. I think labeling a generic incorrectly would result in pretty heavy fines.
But for financial data there is a mssive industry for auditing problems. I would like that because it would make administrating user data extremely expensive, but I don't see it becoming feasible.
Likely if they need to most of them can turn the panels away from maximum sunlight and that would take care of the turning off/full light no load problems. Same with the molten salt tower systems, just just the aim on the mirrors.
That's interesting, do you think you would buy a Camry that was as responsive as the BMW - if it were available- and replace your BMW with it?

I think most of car ownership is Signalling personally
They already have that in place for reserved instances: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta... I hope they expand it to these savings plans too.
Something similar already happens with natural gas in manufacturing. You can either sign a contract to lock in a rate, or pay as the price changes. If you are a factory that makes a good that you can stockpile (like sand), it makes sense to run more in cheaper parts of the year.

(Same thing also happens with iron / steel. I would assume electricity is the same, but I don’t have much knowledge. )
The cameras are used for controller tracking as well as headset tracking. It’s a 6dof optical mouse.
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The operations guy is here. I'm probably biased.

If I were you, I would use free monitoring services like uptimerobot. There are some other options available. Typically these services provide some basic functionality for free, it would be enough for a small enterprise.

On AWS it is quite easy to create your own external probes for a reasonable price. However, it would require some basic programming skills.
Weird. He did not understand what caused the bug. To me, it always is about understanding the issue so that we can make sure that it doesn't exist in a similar condition in the code; Just removing the bug is half the job of debugging, the other part is understanding it - this is also to me where I have my biggest a-ha moments.
You should check out Mark Text (which is the main topic of this thread) - Mark Text can open folders and it looks very similar to VSCode. In the settings you can even say "open this folder by default, if I open Mark Text"... this looks like it would make quiet a nice and easy note taking solution.
True, although you could say the same thing about jpegs back when chatting online involved reading descriptions and guessing what the OP looked like. It takes time for new technologies to become widely adopted and utilized. The difference is that any sighted person can view and appreciate pictures, while there's an IQ requirement of some kind for a person to understand and appreciate what's going on spatially with AR. There's some chunk of society that isn't mentally tall enough to ride and messing with it will just frustrate them.
Instead of switching off, why not just mine crypto?
Sure, UK will have it's desert that paid for and can decide what to do with it. These things are settled in the withdrawal agreement. After all, it's not a fine.
It's like the difference between a static website and a JavaScript web application. RSS is straightforward, ubiquitous, and thus maybe superior for one-way publishing. But if your content needs a more stateful interaction with its consumers, you'll end up needing the richer set of actions provided by ActivityPub.
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Odyssey isn't even responsive on a local gaming pc, your character moves like it's behind 50ms of latency in any case
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Those giant cooling towers that are most people's image of a power station are almost exactly this. They are a giant system for dumping heat into the air, usually (but not always) by evaporating water.

(The heat being dumped is usually low-temperature waste heat, not final output.)
In summary, Python needs it to be written := and not ← because the latter is not ASCII and not on standard keyboard layouts. And it cannot be written <- either because that would redefine what "if x<-5" currently means, ie. "if x < -5".

Interestingly, the PEP considered the close alternatives "if x from -5" and "if -5 -> x": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#alternative-spelli...
I'm under the impression that CRDTs are somewhat limited by the lack of a clear way to combine several structures along with application-specific logic.

In the 2012 paper "Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming" (by Conway, Marczak, Alvaro, Hellerstein, and Maier) they write:

> CvRDTs present two main problems: (a) the programmer bears responsibility for ensuring lattice properties for their methods (commutativity, associativity, idempotence), and (b) CvRDTs only provide guarantees for individual values, not for application logic in general.

They give this example of the second point:

> A replicated, fault-tolerant courseware application assigns students into study teams. It uses two set CvRDTs: one for Students, another for Teams. The application reads a version of Students and inserts the derived element <Alice, Bob> into Teams. Concurrently, Bob is removed from Students by another application replica. The use of CvRDTs ensures that all replicas will eventually agree that Bob is absent from Students, but this is not enough: application-level state is inconsistent unless the derived values in Teams are updated consistently to reflect Bob's removal. This is outside the scope of CvRDT guarantees.

They continue:

> Taken together, the problems with [CvRDTs] present a scope dilemma: a small module (e.g. a set) makes lattice properties easy to inspect and test, but provides only simple semantic guarantees. Large CvRDTs (e.g., an eventually consistent shopping cart) provide higher-level application guarantees but require the programmer to ensure lattice properties hold for a complex module, resulting in software that is difficult to test, maintain, and trust.

This leads to a research project about monotonic logic as a distributed programming paradigm.

http://bloom-lang.net

http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu
Interesting. Where I work, we have a well defined scope for a sprint. That will get divided into tasks and then are assigned to team members. So I usually know what is my pipeline for next 2 weeks and it is fairly finite. Unless of course I am working on a more exploratory project where scope is not well defined. Of course people falling sick, or getting stuck in their task and needing help, and few other attributes can change that to some extent, but not a lot. So in summary, even though there is an endless supply for tasks that can be done, for the sprint, it is fairly finite.

Also I dont spend less time at work, I just use post lunch hour, and 30-60 mins throughout the day to do learning.
Agree with all your points.

South Australia gets additional energy from grid interconnections from other states, and it's gas turbine power plant at Torrens Island.
Additional power from other sources like diesel generators when required

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/energy-and-environment/energy-s...
Yubikey has USB-C touch models so likely a USB-C bio version is next on the list.
There's also https://fed.brid.gy/ : if your site has microformats2, it'll turn the site itself to activitypub.
Apparently there are quite a lot of "sloppy" people and they are screwing up even more researchers.
This is so cool. What I am worried about using fingerprint is that they are either stored on a laptop or a smartphone. You have to trust a lot of hardware, the whole software stack made by many third parties to protect that data.

With this key, that's already many less parts to verify and trust.

Let's hope it's not easily reverse-engineerable and the key is never shared with Yubikey.
However my underlaying channel isn’t 8bit clean.
> Why is anyone entitled to own a chip fab?

Why is anyone entitled to own food? If someone invests their resources to have something built (or help make it themselves), why wouldn’t they be entitled to own it?

The rich daughter gets to own it because that’s what the owner wanted and the thing about owning something generally is deciding its fate.

If someone builds themselves a house out of wood they chop from trees they grew, do they get to keep it? What if they exchanged goods and services for the wood instead? What if they also exchanged goods and services to have someone else build it who needs the goods and services.

> have to work their whole lives, and convince hundreds of others to work with them, to create a chip fab, if they wanted to own one.

So? That’s how many of the successful chip fabs existed.

What’s your proposed alternative when 10,000 people want chip fabs and there are only 200 for you to steal? The government seizing them certainly doesn’t make more and it completely discouraged anybody from wanting to invest their time/labor/money into building new ones.
That's what nfc cards are for
if you really make it to the top of the mountain and sort out your trauma then you would probably have less of a need to go to the top again
Is it somehow possible to make relatively cheap iPhones or nikes without slavery-like labor (indian or chinese for example)?
So, where is that post?
Probably because crypto miner ASICs are not cost effective when run only every once in a while.
Don't like someone's narrative? Just call it racist/sexist/anti-semitic.

For shame.
Think that was a rhetorical question
Keyboards generate scan codes, not characters. The character translation is all done in software. How do you think input language selection works?
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I've run DevOps for a few organizations and learned quite a bit through that.

Ultimately you can engineer your systems, even if they are quite complex, to be manageable by a single person. It's not one thing though. It's years of experience and gut feel. It's also totally distinct from technology.

Some things that come to mind:

- use queues for background tasks that may need to be retried. If things go down and you have liberal retry policies, things should recover.

- use boring databases. Just stay away from mongo and use something like rds which is proven and reliable.

- be careful in your code about what an error is. Log only things at the error level you need to look at.

- test driven development. Saves a ton of time.
I like it! Reminds me of one of my favorite Haskell extensions: https://wiki.haskell.org/Unicode-symbols

I mean, I've never attempted to actually type that beastly notation during programming, but it does print out quite beautifully!
They mentioned moving water uphill with the Wivenhoe pumped hydro which is about 3000km away in Qld. This is also where the NSW interconnect will help as most pumped hydro is in NSW.
If you can create an AI that can fake these images well enough, maybe you should publish that instead of publishing fake research.
The standard HTTPS benefit of making it impossible for ISPs to inject into and/or modify the page, usually for stupid reasons.
That you actually get what the website sent you.
I imagine that the social aspect of team sports or hobbies in groups are a big driver for participants and could not be replicated entirely with XR. There's a reason humans meet in person at e.g. a restaurant for talking instead of using a video call.
I actually plug in my nano key upside down while I am not using it. Inadvertent texting aside, I had real issues when programs like Lightroom suddenly started acting on dozens of random text shortcuts.
>For many products and people that will just be the visual appeal, and advertisers target their widest audience.

I... think this is usually unwise. If you attempt to appeal to everyone, you appeal to no one. I personally think one of my advantages when I ran prgmr.com was a consistent brand? At the very least, it was very recognizable. (I don't run it anymore, and I'm not claiming to have done a great job when I did. But I can point out several mistakes I made where I would have gotten... big at least by my standards if I had zigged rather than zagged. I think I did a memorable, if not a good job at branding, and "just get my name right" is... well, it's halfway there.)

Personally, I think that if you want to appeal to different markets, you should use a different brand with a different customer-facing layer, even if in the bowels, the product is produced on the same equipment.

>This is a case where tracking can actually be seen in a positive light

I'm not sure? I mean, I think that the connection between the advertiser/brand values is important, and you destroy some of that if you tailor your advertising to the consumer... if different people get different views of the same brand, well, it's really different brands.

(Also, the decision to track/not track is a brand value decision in and of itself- a rather big one, if you can credibly communicate that to your customers.)
(traditional, not "American") Socialism isn't central planning it's the state owning the means of production. To my knowledge, there's no concerted effort in New Zealand to have the government own the means of production.

> ...the divide between rich and poor is increasing...

For sure, and it shouldn't. At least in the US it really started to get bad after Reagan dropped the top income tax from 90% to the current 35%. And the estate tax from 80% to the current basically-zero. Nothing to do with inflation, in fact, inflation would reduce this spread as it would disproportionately affect those with more money, and aid those with debt.

Who would have thought that letting the wealthy keep more money would lead to the wealthy having more money? Shocking.

> We are locked in to a corrupt global system.

Explanation needed.

> Our monetary policy is a slave to the global socialist monetary system.

Is the global government (United Nations?!) trying to own the means of production?
No, it's not always valuable. If you get free electricity for an hour, some days of the week, then your giant biofuel plant spends a lot of time sitting idle.

It's not obvious that your mostly-idle plant is a better business than a much smaller one which runs all the time. The costs of building and maintaining the thing are real too. (Not to mention needing to design the plant to ramp up to full production in minutes, while a more traditional one might spend a day warming up all the pieces to operating temperature.)
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Also interesting is on pg 17 where they search through his Apple ID account (notes specifically).
According to this https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/71445:

> Electric power is the product of voltage and current. If there is no external circuit, there can be no current and thus no electric power can be delivered by the panel, i.e., the "electricity" is never developed and thus, there is no need to consider "where it goes".

There's also an interesting discussion in the linked post in more depth about electron hole-pairs.

My takeaway is that the temperature in the panel will not rise due to it absorbing any power that would otherwise go down the wires were the circuit complete.
That's the big thing that pushed me to add LetsEncrypt to my blog. I was on some Belgium sim card and the ISP injected some crap via JavaScript at the top of my website. I couldn't even read it; didn't properly detect language/locale, but it looked like some warning about being near my data limit.
> Lvalue stands for locator value.

Wait, I thought it was for a value that could appear on the "left" hand side of an expression…
People do, we have snowy hydro who normally correct these negative prices by pumping water uphill into a dam. They then double dip on profits by generating when the cost is positive. Very profitable operation although the initial infrastructure cost is high.
They [1] did not make not a quantum computer. They made a BosonSampler, which is a different way of demonstrating quantum supremacy. A BosonSampler is not a universal quantum computer because it's circuit depth and/or width would group exponentially in the size of BQP [2] problems.

Very much like Google's chip, this machine is only good for solving one useless task: sampling from a probability distribution formed from the permanants of the nxn submatrices of a mxm unitary matrix, where m>n. This task is hard for classical computers but easy for quantum devices because you can just make this chip and each run returns a sample from the distribution.

The initial estimate threshold for showing quantum supremacy via a BosonSampler was n=30 photons in m=100 modes, but this might have increased recently as classical simulations methods have improved. These guys have 20 photons in 60 modes, so they are getting close.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09930

[2] set of problems solvable by a universal quantum computer efficiently.