skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I do as well both in my current and previous jobs. I've never advertised exactly how much time I spend on courses but did ask (and get) permission to spend some of my time on personal development. Sometimes I would take Coursera/EdX courses and sometimes just read through books and do some exercises, generally around analytics/computer architecture/numerical methods. I've generally always been able to apply some of the things I learned somewhere in my job, leading to happy colleagues because I injected new solutions and insights.

I feel like as long as you prioritize your work well and you make sure to finish enough high-value tasks employers tend to not care too much about whether you actually fill up 40 hours with these tasks. Being able to use any left over time for myself also incentivizes me to stay productive so I'm pretty happy with this system.
Ok fine, but I hope it's now a little clearer that it's weird to refer to actually private, corporate space as "public space".

It's I'd venture a symptom of a culture dominated by capitalism and corporatism, such that the former two things become so dominate that their presence is invisible. Malls and Facebook pages become "public spaces" in the minds of citizens even though they are spaces, public regulation notwithstanding, controlled by the rich and existing in the main to profit them.
One of the projects is to build an interconnect to the snowy mountains. When this happens the power can be used to pump water up hill to fill the hydro electric dams.
Also IRL clubs like sports and other hobbies where groups meet up in halls to play shared experiences. With headsets like the Quest this is much more attainable now.
Anti-phishing trainings are exactly that...
I didn't know the Arab world has their own "wumao"s.
I don't know why you're downvoted, because I find your comment funny. Reminds me of a similar real fix for a race condition I found somewhere in one of the companies I worked before:

Thread.sleep(Random.nextInt(1000));
Is it possible to like Jewish people and strongly dislike the government of the state of Isreal?
Dual 7702P with 4TB ECC RAM and 4x RTX 8000 would be a dream ;-) At the price of Corvette...
As for the Soviet Union - I was talking about their centralized / planned economy. Socialism. We have a socialist monetary system in the West.

Yes New Zealand is the least corrupt government in the world, apparently, and despite that, the divide between rich and poor is increasing. It has become way less affordable to live here since the mid 2000's and is not getting any easier. We are locked in to a corrupt global system. Our monetary policy is a slave to the global socialist monetary system.
California had a 200 year megadrought in Medieval times [1]. Mother nature doesn't care that we built a state of 40 million people on top of a drought prone region. A megadrought can and will hit CA again. Who knows if it's going to be this century or not, but it very well could and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. We don't control the rain.

[1] https://www.peopleplacesandpastimes.com/california-drought-p...
You’d be screwed because your employer would fire you because their fingerprint reader-based security does not work for you?
Well, I don't know. Let's think about how you would turn off solar panels. I remember hearing about solar panels (~10 years ago?) that would actually break under very-sunny-but-zero-load conditions, so I did some research using queries like 'solar panels without load' and am led to think that this isn't usually a huge problem (with regular/modern panels?). But physically speaking, unless you cover the solar panels with a blanket, the amount of incoming sunlight won't decrease, and when you aren't turning that into electric power, it'll turn into some more heat.

If your solar panels are on an open circuit with no way to generate electric power, I guess the amount of heat produced in the panels would be roughly equivalent to the heat produced by other dark objects -- which may or may not be too hot. If you keep turning the sunlight into power to route some of that energy into the ground, that may be a lot if you're doing that in a single spot, but I don't think it would be impossible to come up with a workable grounding system.

That said, I'd be very interested to hear how a large solar farm like this turns off their panels.
This is not React
Even the giant crypto farm is a type of energy storage - as long as you can afterwards sell coins to buy electricity.
> what we should discuss is, what kind of zoning is appropriate, and for what reason. some people may like the mix of short and long term rentals, and some don't.

Essentially the people who like short term rentals are the landlords who can extract higher revenue from short term rents and the people who can enjoy the benefits of a residential area by renting them. Maaaybe the local businesses that are tourist driven but I suspect that for the most part tourists decide where to go first and then pick the style of accomodations based on availability and pricing.

For everyone else in the residential area
You've created a unit which is unavailable for locals, driving up long term rent/house prices.
You've created a unit occupied by people who need not concern themselves with the long term consequences of their actions. (I don't want to p* off my neighbor with a loud party because I have to live with them for a long time)
You've created a unit where a continuous stream of short term renters may accept more cramped quarters in order to save on cost, the effect being that a 2 bed apartment may effectively continuously house 9 people, creating undue noise and resource consumption, even if they are considerate neighbors.
You've created a unit which needs to be cleaned as frequently as daily, creating noise.

I appreciate that these are externalities and you like the benefits a serviced apartment gives you but Airbnb has managed to bash these into residential areas and steal the value from those who live there with little recourse but to enforce the existing regulations (which the hosts are often breaching!) or regulate Airbnb out.
Oh please, that's a _thouroughly_ incomplete answer. I wasn't questioning the importance of Pakistan's military, but the importance of this particular military cable. My question was _why_ it constitutes an "important historical fact" about said military.
You mean this, right? https://sivers.org/trust

That is a very common tax shelter rich people use to avoid paying capital gains tax, called a CRUT. It hardly makes him a saint.
Why would you assume something as silly as everyone having similar wealth production capabilities? Wealth is not an oil secreted by a wealth gland.

It’s a really complex process of getting the right market fit for your product (i.e. your time in the laborer case). Someone who can produce a lot of wealth in one society can completely fail in another. Or they can just fail in a different market environment. Wealth production comes from giving the market what it wants at a higher price than it costs you.
> in what system wouldn't this happen?

In any system designed by half-competent engineers, instead of by politicians who hate renewable energy for ideological reasons.
> and my guess is that Australian electricity isn't cheaper on average

South Australian electricity is actually some of the most expensive in the world due to incredibly high transmission costs.
It's electricity. Break the circuit and it stops flowing.
should get a (2016) tag.
widely discussed those times.
It’s about time.

Earlier this year I moved to Cape Town, with an Airbnb booked for the first month.

I was the first guest, and the place did not meet even the most basic standards of hygiene. What’s worse is that there was still evidence of the place being used as a crack house.

Needless to say, I refused to stay there and Airbnb gave a full refund.

All of this could have been avoided by a simple verification system.

Any new listing should, at the very least, be viewed and assessed against a list of basic standards before a paying guest arrives at the door.
I won't defend the law itself, I think knives are useful tools, but I am disappointed that I can't find more detail about the potato peeler incident. Important context like what he was doing when police arrested him and why they stopped him to see what he was carrying in the first place are no where to be found. I did see that he was on bail for "another unspecified offense" at the time of his arrest, but I'm not even sure he was arrested for having the peeler. It's possible it was just something they tacked on after his arrest. As sensationalist as it sounds, my guess is that it was more reasonable than headlines and conservative websites would suggest.
I love this. Individual self interest for the collective benefit.

Now, I wish there was something like this for translation and summarisation. I'm a fiend for renaissance/enlightenment lit that is in Latin or just hard to read -- but amazing and world changing.
Here is another data point for you about Coca Cola's water coming from municipal taps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani

That does not mean it is 'bad' water. The point is that municipal tap water is perfectly fine to drink in most places.

All water, whether bottled or tap, comes from 'springs, rivers etc.', the 'etc' being pumped up ground water in most cases.
You're right that it wouldn't be as easy for different kinds of jobs and working in a bar is a good example. Even there though, I think you could be clever about it - you can find opportunities that blend in with your work (e.g. coffee foam art, small talk in a language you're learning). These probably wouldn't increase your value as much but with some creativity I'm pretty sure in most jobs there is some kind of opportunity for learning.
Rich people do not have access to credit lines if they don’t have assets to back the loans. And their rich friends certainly aren’t going to invest in someone who just lost a ton of money.
>Like my email server having to poll every other email server in the world to discover if I have new messages.

In AP you don't need to follow anyone to have messages for you delivered directly to your inbox.

You have to check other servers if you're interested in messages to others but I guess there is no analog to that for email.
friend of mine just got his hd encrypted, and i told him to try and talk to the guy instead of just assuming it was just a bot. And indeed he got a conversation going. He’s still unsure about paying, and hope for now that someone will release a decrypter. He’s got all his kids pictures and videos and no other backup..
I've heard of it, too. The example I have in mind was getting an overly-broad subpoena that could be construed to include every sales receipt issued by the business over the last decade. These were delivered, unsorted and mixed in with other documents in a gigantic box, with "for attorney's eyes only" written on them, and bundled together with high-tension straps that would scatter the pages about the office when opened.

The parties settled and the documents were never touched.
Australia has some of the worlds largest aluminium smelters. Unfortunately they are on the south east side of the country and the places that have the negative price events are in the north and south west.

The long term solution is to connect the grids together so the places with an excess of supply are connected to the places with an excess of demand.
Whether the insertion was contrived or not, what would it have to do with anti-semitism of all things?
From the story -- "The Edmonton and Albany sites make the majority of their ad inventory available via Google’s ad network, meaning the tech giant facilitates the programmatic sale of ads on the sites and takes a cut of revenue when ads are displayed. Along with Google, the sites also list their inventory with AppNexus, another large ad network."

Basically the people who are getting screwed here are the advertisers, Google gets their cut, the web site gets their cut, and the advertisers just burned a pile of money advertising out into space. It is very sad, and one which takes advantage of the fact that all of the brands have outsourced management of their advertising to third parties. It is like giving your office the manager the ability to approve invoices and sign checks. Never a good strategy.
> The annual losses from ad fraud are estimated at billions, and even tens of billions of dollars.

I like it when such estimates are linked to no source at all.
I think we all agree with you here. But none of it contradicts what the parent said
China Says It Agreed with U.S. to Roll Back Tariffs in Phases
I agree with your view. Just want to add that from recent intel and AMD server purchases, the price difference in processors though considerable, is shadowed by the cost of memory sticks... for a fully loaded server, the cost savings from going to AMD appears like a small number next to the cost of mem sticks.

PCIe 4.0, more mem channels, and faster memory (3200) does make things very attractive.
The "experiment" you mentioned here is observational. The reality is, major digital ad platforms today (google, facebook, etc.) all provide rigorous RCT experiments. That will reveal the true effectiveness of ads.
It's not to protect market price, it's to protect the grid.
You basically need to use as much power as you produce, if this becomes imbalanced, you damage the grid.

In this case, demand is lower than supply, so either you decrease the supply (shutting down the solar farm here), or increase the demand (lower the price).
Because this is transient, and some powerplants (e.g. nuclear) take time and effort to shut down, for those operators it is cheaper to pay you to use their energy during those times (negative prices), than to shutdown/restart when needed.
The kinds of revelations you might have, the conclusions you come to, the discoveries - they're all relevant when you're back to a regular state of mind.

I don't share this experience. Some experiences stick but for me overall after a week or so a lot of the "revelations" seem pretty crackpotty.
Affect "culture". You mean Xenophobia ?
Because the whole premise is that you don't really have a way to store or use that energy in other ways. Then converting it into cryptomoney makes sense- then you can use that crypto to buy things which are helpful to the local community- even things that are produced on the other side of the world, where your energy could never reach.

An interesting thought is that of using that crypto exclusively to buy energy when the prices are non-negative. But I'm not sure that makes sense from an economic point of view, it's a snake biting its tail.
This article is so full of bullshit that listing all the wrong things that Chris Fox wrote would make an even longer article. And no, this time I'll not start making such a list because it would be a complete waste of time. This guy is completely ignorant and a very bad developer. Read books before start writing such shit.
Good way to destroy your laptop by pulling it to the ground when you pull away from your device rapidly.

I've done it enough with wired headphones to know you never really acclimatize to having something hanging from your body
But in commercials 'your' car is always the only one in the world. Whether they are driving mountain roads, seaside highways or city centers, you will never see even a single other car on the road. Talk about misleading advertising.
There are chains that operate exclusively that way in China, where Starbucks is big, and they seem quite popular.
Forever Young
EXPLANATION: Some power sources can’t be shut down and restarted quickly and cost-efficiently. If the cost of stopping and restarting plant is higher than the cost of selling energy at a negative price for some time, prices go negative.

This kind of price fluctuation can increase the overall cost of energy production. We need cost effective power storage solutions and better electric grids to make renewable more effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Genuinely curious, by what proportion does it increase CO2 footprint by? Tried searching online but couldn't find anything.
‘Do Not Draw A:’ A Game About Automated Censorship
i have the feeling based on a recent experience that at least for individuals, you’re not really « targeted ».it’s more of a fishnet approach , and then some people will do the hotline to help you pay the bitcoins.

The guy asked my hijacked friend for the equivalent of 200€ in bitcoin. I don’t see anyone spending time specifically on his case for that amount. A skilled hacker able to « target » someone could make much more money actually developing real software.
Thank you. Please read directly from the source instead of participating in anything to do with LessWrong.
Inequality is bad because political power is correlated to wealth. As soon as we switch to a political system where Charles Koch has the same political power as the minimum wage janitor working in his office, I will stop fighting economic inequality.
Israel has wumao since before wumao

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-...
They never really embraced it despite it being used internally for several projects.
The solution is to deregulate the market and allow multiple companies to buy and sell electricity. The problem here is not an over supply but poorly regulated demand that causes energy to be priced higher than is justified; mainly to protect expensive sources of energy such as coal and gas plants.

The basic issue is not that there is no demand but that it is unevenly spread. People turn on their ACs when they get home after work. Peak demand is in the evening when the sun is about to go behind the horizon. Peak supply is in the late morning and early afternoon when people are at work.

So, all you need is tuneable demand. Say you had a web service that simply announces the current price of electricity that updates in real time based on your production capacity and a whole bunch of things that can turn themselves on/off based on that price. Whenever there is excess demand it just continues to drop that price until demand picks up. Now say you have an apartment complex with a lot of batteries in the basement and a bit of simple electronics that controls the charging behavior based on the price several energy providers (why limit to one). Now basically you have an energy sink that charges cheaply that automatically picks the cheapest provider.

Now imagine that battery has some overcapacity that can be sold back to the grid when prices are highest (aka. demand is high). Now you have an apartment building that buys energy when it is cheap and sells energy when it is expensive and it has enough capacity to serve its own needs.

Add EVs to the mix and battery to the grid technology and you have a mobile battery capacity that when it is not driving around can be plugged in to act both as an energy source and sink as well.

Now make the rest of the energy available to industrial users that can install their own solar panels and you have even more supply and demand.

The key bottleneck in this system is the current oligarchy that controls prices: the existing energy companies. They make the most profit when prices are high. They don't mind buying in some excess capacity cheaply but they have no incentive to do that when they don't need it. And since they control the market, there's nobody else to sell it to. Worse, since they have fixed cost associated with legacy plants, they have to keep prices high to prevent those becoming loss leaders. The whole system is geared towards protectionism rather than efficiency. Once you create an open market for energy, that's no longer sustainable.
Decal plant when the power is cheap and well water the rest of the time?
You'll have company-provided proof that the lack of fingerprints can be overcome with reasonable accommodation. Feels like that should be grounds to mount a (moral, at least) defense, but I'm no lawyer.
When I stop a turbine I'm not simply breaking the circuit- I stop converting some fuel into energy, and keep it for later. If I break the circuit on a solar panel, the "fuel" keeps hitting the panel anyway. I guess the panel just reaches a different thermal equilibrium. Which is the same as dumping the energy in the ground, only more distributed.
The thing is, the fuel for fusion energy is available everywhere. The energy demand of a small town could be covered by only a few liters of deuterium a year, if you can do it with hydrogen then the fuel cost of a fusion reactor is essentially 0 per kWh produced.

The energy produced by a fusion reactor could be plentiful enough that we can build more fusion reactors at lower cost than before using that extra energy to save money (either by selling it or by using it to use more energy costly but faster and cheaper processes).
We should ask our governments to ban the use of https and just trust each other

(</ironic>, just in case some internet random folk thinks I’m serious)
One of my earliest jobs was working for a mobile-phone billing company, in Scotland.

Every day we'd use UUCP to copy billing-records from random-systems to a central host, running SCO Unixware. Then the daily "billing run" would total, reconcile, and massage the data.

The result of the processing would be a pile of CSV files which would then get further massaged by a collection of Perl scripts.

Days I definitely do not miss!
It might be a browser extension interfering for me, but otherwise it's lovely that Hacker News automatically removed the word Penis from the title.
If you suppose a well-designed grid, I really doubt that free electricity is something that clients would refuse. Electricity is valuable, at any time of the day. There is no reason for it to go below zero.

Sure, storing energy is hard but spending it is easy.

Hell, give me free electricity and I will be running a pyrolysis rig, making biofuel for free.
I would follow the money to find the answer. People aren't less risk averse, but companies are because the huge financial toll of potential litigation.
> Personally, I enjoy working hard - usually more than 40 hours per week.

The very first thing that needs to go is this glorification of working hours. Nobody should care how long you work. Time doesn't have any inherent value in a knowledge industry.
Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink
Whilst I'd be the first to cheer for the end of ads and targeting, what monetisation model(s) are planned to replace advertising and fund free email, messagingz photo sharing and social media platforms?
Welcome to Google. We are on your phone and in your life for total surveilance and control, not for providing particular service. Please toe the line.
At a wholesale there is flexible pricing. The grid has to do that sort of scheduling because if more power is put into the network then is consumed then systems get damaged.

This is also why the turbine based systems that coal and hydro systems are so important to the stability of the grid. The physical momentum of the spinning metal stores considerable energy and can smooth over short lived inbalences in power consumption.
Are they doing Google Ads fraud or ad fraud not related to Google?
Actually I haven't been back in France for years, so it may have changed.
Building Intuitions on Non-Empirical Arguments in Science
It's a free product.
Smalltalk (among other languages of the 1960s and 1970s) had a left arrow symbol as the assignment operator. 95 was ← instead of _ in ASCII pre-1967.

Also, anyone pretending to be a competent computer programmer while whining about being unable to use Unicode in your text editor, please find a new hobby.
What if the author decided to make the minimal testcase to make the camere lock up, and reported it as a vulnerability to the camera manufacturer.
I think the camera vendor is obligated to fix the defect. It's really annoying to work around such obvious issues when communicating to hardware and frankly the manufacturer should be held against a higher standart.