skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An explanation of the mechanics of how I'd have to pay somebody else to take my electricity (e.g., a negative rate) would be helpful.

Sure. Let's say you have a million people producing a glut of electricity on sunny days from 11am to 2pm, when there is not a lot of demand. So there's massive overproduction and you need to create a financial incentive to incentivize the overproducers to pull back. So you have negative rates. It's as simple as that.

How much you can charge has nothing to do with your cost. Your amortized cost of providing excess power every sunny mid-day might be extravagant. That is no matter as far as the market is concerned.

Solar energy production still costs a lot. But there's tons of articles claiming that it's now cheaper than pretty much every other energy source. Yes, it's cheaper to buy at noon in sunny areas during some months because of economics. That doesn't mean it's cheaper to produce and supply though.
If English isn't your first language, then you should have a native speaker thoroughly edit your 5,000 word essay before publishing it. And I don't give a fuck about your company, you sound insufferable.
How does excess electricity impact the frequency?
This is an old strategy, nowadays the army works differently. But still, these are interesting tidbits of history. Many old bunkers have been decomissioned and taken over by associations preserving them as museums. Others are opened for the public like the Great War's bunker just below the top of the Sigriswiler Rothorn (Schafloch). Instead of hiking over the top I just went through it with my son. It was very dark, labyrinthine and scary. My son loved it.
The market reacts quite quickly if a company is going bankrupt; so assume for the sake of argument that all the electricity producers in the market are turning at least a small profit.

If power prices are negative but the provider is making a profit, then at some other time prices will have to be very high to bring the average price sold positive.

I assume that is what is happening here. I don't have a lot of respect for SA's electricity strategy, but it may work out. At least there are interesting opportunities if anyone can think of a way of profitably sinking vast amounts of power; there has to be something useful that can be done. Ironically in this case, using more power might reduce power prices because the providers don't need to charge as much in off-peak times.
Imagine a model trained just on college essays, and you feed it an outline. A sentence or two intro, some topic sentences, and citations.

Probably if someone had a dataset of essays large enough, you could do this right now and cause a lot of trouble.
Lubomirski Palace in Warsaw in 1970s, was also moved to line it up with a park. But it wasn't functioning during the move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomirski_Palace,_Warsaw
> Can’t they discharge it for free?

Yes they can and should and that's why they have to pay since there is a mitigation cost to handling the excess.

> Why do they have to pay to send it into the grid?

Because it's bad when there is a glut of overproduction.
Indeed -- so called "net metering" ignores the fact that the costs are driven by both consumption and capacity. Providing a 400A supply to a house is expensive even if you never draw any power, because the utility has to be ready to provide the power.
Just as with RIs, Savings Plans do not apply to spot.
Great link, thanks. I do think I got the jist of it right? Fundamentally, a company proposes a method and the accountant, when applicable, under IFRS, allows for the method to be used when he signs the financial report.

From my (risk management) perspective and in an environment where it's usually mark-to-market and mark-to-quite-sophisticated-model, I just had to blink a few times when I learned that things like the net assets-approach (why is that even an approach) exist. I do understand that in the cases I see there would be materially no difference for the investor (small investments, large firm) when using a more advanced approach like DCF (which still hinges on a few key assumptions).
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Secure software supply chain with Azure Pipelines artifact policies
Compute Savings Plans applies to Fargate as well.
Telecom companies manage to piss off people everywhere. Here in India, before 2016 and before Jio, operators used to sell plans like this - Rs 749 per month with FREE 1GB of data and 750 mins of FREE calling and 100 mins of FREE roaming. Airtel was particular bad about it.

They managed to stuff the word “free” in pretty much every ad and service included leaving one wondering if everything is free, then what the hell am I paying for?

This was on top of awfully complicated plans (especially prepaid ones) which felt as if you were preparing a tax return.
That's a pure efficiency perspective. When discussing content sources, however, privacy is also an important concern. By necessity, a push-based protocol needs to know who to push to. A pull-based protocol only needs to respond to requests, which may be anonymized. The operator of an RSS feed gets a list of source IP addresses of feed requests - and that's it.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. Yes, there are valid technical reasons to use telemetry, but the tricks Microsoft is playing to get these data against the wishes of their users can't be considered fair.
There are older bitcoin ASIC miners that aren't nearly as efficient but if you are getting totally free electricity... definately an opportunity here.
It's called, “getting your VR legs”, akin to sea legs. It worked for me, at least. As an extreme example, I can now play as a character in a space suit, twirling and spinning around for hours, without getting motion sickness. I also regularly play rally racing games where I'm constantly subjected to bumps and jumps, and don't notice it at all. This was after around 100 hours of VR, I think.

Actually I've found the experience somewhat magical, in that I get the same stress relief from being couped up all day by leaving the house to go do something outside as just playing a game for an hour or two. It feels like I'm actually going to another place, nowadays.

This really only started when I got the high end, Valve Index, which has a 90hz+ refresh rate, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I think AMD's marketing team is more based on partnerships ( and custom solutions), than on big ads.

They should push more for partnerships with OEM's though.
The idea there isn't that you store power but rather that you only run the plant when power is cheap (and then keep a large enough fresh water reservoir to serve demand until the next cheap electricity arrives). Demand management rather than supply management, effectively.
But it also increases load on small yet popular sources. On the other hand proxies, conditional request headers and HTTP 304 make for a great yet simple distributed caching infrastructure.

Of course if you’re thinking in terms of “broadcast internet” with a Facebook at its center you may be correct
The problems are also not always technical. In CA I've read articles with descriptions of similar moments where power needs to be shutoff from renewable sources and/or offloaded from the grid, but in part because contracts locked in priority for some fossil-fuel peaking plants over renweable sources.
This headline makes me happy. I want more of science to be tiny-car based.
Doesn’t that imply that each fingerprint registration becomes per website? So if you want to add a second finger to the device after the fact, you can’t just add it globally to the device but need to do that on a per-credential basis?
Did you read the article? It goes into reasonable detail on why they don't necessarily do that.
Am I out of the loop, what have Microsoft done to support open-source? Made linux containers easy to use on Azure? Wrote a code editor so that they extend and extinguish developer mindshare and get them onto Azure? Im being serious, what have MS actually done to claim they have supported open-source (and of course, open-source != free software)
That's correct. The same commit allows you to run workloads across EC2 and Fargate (note that the discounting is different).
I would imagine it definitely isn’t that simple as otherwise anyone could add their fingerprint when you weren’t looking.
These kind of metrics should be mandatory for self-driving cars. Just because, say, you can produce a painstakingly detailed timeline should not free you from consequences if that timeline indicates you acted with wanton disregard that any reasonable person could tell you would result in loss of life.

If someone is so stupid that they don’t realize that a car needs to be able to avoid people in the road, even outside crosswalks, they have no business doing development of self-driving cars. They simply aren’t qualified. Ditto if that person simply doesn’t care. We’re not learning anything from this that we didn’t already know. Of course if you do nothing to avoid a person or a bicycle at 40 MPH, you’re gonna kill someone eventually.

This kind of thinking reeks of the “it works with expected input, problem solved” that causes so many issues in critical software.

This is like Boeing with the 737 Max. They didn’t want to deal with failure conditions, so they avoided detecting them so they could pretend like they don’t exist. Subsequently, those failure conditions then caused two airplanes to crash and kill the people aboard.
Some companies care, if you have one day free that means they can add tasks to your list.
Have you thought about materialized views that pre-aggregate your queries and then updating those views with triggers? I got this idea from a forum so it’s not mine but it works.

Sharding by month or other bucket of time could help.

We have a very similar situation except it’s billions of rows. One benefit is it’s a bit denormalized in that we store the meat of our data in a hstore field
Interestingly enough, I fed those lines into an AI[1] and it spit out:

1) Start copying some text from another source.

2) Start rephrasing text.

3) Present result as own work.

You are now a master plagiarist.

-----

So I think you're onto something. The AI is a far faster rewriter of text than human beings.

[1] https://talktotransformer.com/
I don't climb rocks and my finger is recognized maybe 50% to 75% from my phone and only under good circumstances. If they are wet or dirty forget it.

There are probably just different recognition technologies around and my phone probably uses a very cheap one.

Personally I don't really care about biometric protections, because they can very often with more or less effort be copied and faked and once they are leaked, you cannot change them easily yourself.
This doesn't make a ton of sense and the article is so poorly written it's hard to understand what's going on.
Oh cool. What’s Oracle Cloud?
More desalinated water would be handy, but typically it's not needed anywhere near the salt water and where it is needed more electricity isn't.
CTRL + F: Recommendations

Find next occurence 30 times and look when it's filled in.

If all is good, i think you need a minute or so.
>>> But we have since upskilled our cafeteria staff, so it will never happen again.

I am not sure they are being entirely serious with their random excuse generator. I could not recommend use of this to corporate legal.
For Blade Runner 2049 the sound/music crew located an original CS-80 to compose portions of sound for the sequel.
You mean new types of batteries?
> My writing a common risk is to warn people from going towards the extreme of becoming psychedelic enthusiasts (abusers would be more apt).

That is a very different claim than:

> Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.

... which is what the discussion started with.
Correct.
One for master nodes.
One for worker nodes.

The code is all the same on the SD cards just conditional logic depending on the type.
In the US, by abiding by federal law which mandates reasonable accommodation; able rock climbers categorically need not apply.
So perhaps they should drop the costs to encourage more usage and thereby also reduce the wholesale cost.
Someone needs to commercialize unique artificial fingertips. Use them to register with your Yubikey or phone :)
I actually thought about this first! Doing a PXE boot, but wanted something easier to replicate in a guide for other people in the community.

But the reality is it wouldn’t be too difficult. Something like this:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Nice. Really wish it would apply to Lambda too. Or that Lambda have another kind of reserved capacity plan (similar to DynamoDB perhaps).
I wouldn't say glorious but if it's anything like telecom billing system, I'm glad I don't work with them anymore.
I thought voltage needs to increase because a differential is required to add power to the network.
You under estimate my willingness to overspend on things :-).
You can move miners easily between inefficent sources of energy. Water, dams, etc... not that much. Using current battery technology would be too nefast for the environment.
For startups, creating a category is hard
> How is it cruel or unusual to subject someone to risks posed by a system they're building?

More unusual than cruel, I must admit. We just don't do that anywhere.

If I were to guess why - if we did, people would either not work on experimental systems or would gold-plate the safety features way beyond what was reasonable. That sounds nice if you don't think about it too hard but in practice it would shave % off how much we produce in goods and services for no reason.

Aeroplanes are a great example. It sounds nice to say they are a super-safe form of transport, but actually thinking through the risks people face on their commute to work each day the amount of money we spend doesn't make sense. I mean, what if the risk of being in a plane crash was only as rare as being struck by lightening? And the ticket was much cheaper? That wouldn't be so terrible. I don't know a lot of people who were struck by lightening but I know a lot of people who don't have much money but take overseas holidays anyway.

> I bet if that engineer thought it would be him in front of that things bumper, he would've put in a bit more work to figure out what was going on.

Probably not in my experience. It is quite hard to get better performance out of a knowledge worker by threatening them. From what I've seen they tend to either resign or just do what they were already doing and hope. It isn't like anyone can stop writing buggy code by trying harder.
That's a chance I would not take. You just might win that particular lottery.
I am basically repeating myself here.

Yes, there are thousands of them shared everyday but only a handful of them turn out to be as prophetic and foreknowing as Cable 1971. In the unlikely case should you have missed it, this cable was shared in December 1952, which warned that a nation found on hardcore religious principles might be divided into two, since minorities won’t feel safe.

As destiny would have it, that nation broke up in the year 1971. Co-incidentally the cable which augured this was also numbered 1971.

This stands out from the rest of the cables for its foresightedness of a nation breaking up and coincidence of conveying the year too.

PS - Fate, as it turns it, does have its own sense of irony
FYI, it's called Bottom Line Up First (BLUF), and comes from military.
Improved Ryzen for laptops so battery life would be better ;)

Current iteration is "not good enough" on that aspect ( = battery life).
Smart air-condition and cooling is also a possibility, a here Finland we have started to piloting programs where heating is smart so houses are heated more when electricity prices are low.
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> Who does this work for? It doesn't for people with spouses and children. I can't be removed from the real world when my child wants my attention. How many hours of game play do you think the average family person might have available to them where they can just remove themselves from the real world?

You could also ascribe the same issues for a parent who wanted to leave the house. In fact more so, since if I left the house with a small child, I can't instantly return if I become aware of some urgent situation. Yet, bars, pool halls, bowling alleys, movie theatres, restaurants, etc., etc., still seem to have survived this seemingly momenumental issue you are harping on about.
Bunch of stuff they should be doing; negative power prices are an economic emergency. If your lot can figure out something that works for consumers I'm sure we'll start copying it up and down the east coast. I'm glad it was NT doing this expensive experiment and not NSW; for all that we've mucked up our electricity markets something shocking.
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There are other options, like generating a Mac based off the real Mac and the ssid or bssid.
Basically you use carbohydrates, fat, and protein to make energy and when you don't eat those things you don't have energy. Really interesting stuff.
You should be able to place a USB C connector on one end of a flexible cable/ribbon connector.
re space restrictions/gaming, this is what I mean behind a "content" problem. With the restrictions we have, the limiting factor isn't the tech insofar as that creators don't know (yet) how to use the tech to create content. (incoming rant)

I mentioned it in another comment, but this is what LBE (location based experiences) is all about. You're not just looking at a "game" you play, but a confined piece of content that you experience, like a game, like a film, like a TV episode, but none of the above all the same. It's a completely different medium for telling a story, creating

There's a lot of really cool, niche things out there right now - creators are exploring new ways to create art that maximizes XR's ability to remove a person from their environment (wholly or in part) and uses that combined with audio and video technology to create an interactive, immersive experience as a piece of art and/or storytelling.

But the issue to me is this: if you look at the history of technology and art or multimedia, tech has almost always chased the artists' vision. And this is the problem I see with all of Google's plays into XR. They're not saying to artists: "imagine you had a medium that allowed to remove a person from their environment, construct a new one around them, immerse them in it, and interact with your vision. What would you make? What do you need?"

If you want examples of this: Walt Disney's animation studio pioneered many animation techniques and technologies. That didn't come from engineers experimenting; it came from animators wanting to create something they couldn't, and engineers figured out what to build to realize their vision. Game engines have never added features for the sake of features, they are demanded by game designers to add something new to present a new experience to the player. Same goes for paint brushes, instruments, etc etc.

And that's why I feel a lot of VR plays struggle. They're engineers putting the cart before the horse. Throw money at creators, and figure out what they need to create.

It's also why some of the best VR I've experienced has come from LBE. It's content first, figure out the platform second. Monetization third (which is interesting, since it's a theme park ride model).

If there are two things that are absolutely certain in media: if the content is compelling, the technical side is secondary. And if the content is compelling, it can be monetized. All these VR plays are screwing up by focusing on tech and money over content, which is what actually drives people to spend their money and use the tech.
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Enough to get things going, I guess, but very inefficient, because he would have to make too many decisions himself and there would be no way to actually control the operations. This is the Soviet Union model where the recipe for a cake in Estonia had to be approved in Moscow and the level of falsifications in what should be reliable internal reports was unprecedented.

My point is that to organize coordinated work there must be some way to persuade people to comply and endure hardships, like working at nights. I see roughly three: slavery (inequality in offensive power?), "economic inequality" in capitalism, and spiritual leadership (inequality in wisdom). I like the latter the most, but it's hard to scale, and I prefer economic inequality to slavery any day.
This is one of my gripes with Google and not being evil. Allowing competitors to outrank you for your brand if they pay and you don't is racketeering. Allowing this is so blatantly wrong I'm not sure why it doesn't get more attention.
It is possible! Happens more on HN than it does on Reddit at least. I'm ok with being wrong.
Python isn't that strict about whitespace? It's just using indents to delineate blocks and newlines implicitly terminate statements (unless you have an unclosed brace).

Anywhere else, you can add as much whitespace as you want.
Haven't read the whole article, but it sounds a lot like what the value proposition canvas would deliver:

You start with the JTBD by the customer. Then you identify pains and gains of these jobs.

Then you think of what "pain reliever" and "gain creators" you could offer and how to bundle these in products/services.

https://youtu.be/ReM1uqmVfP0
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> A fingerprint is only going to stop a very opportunistic attacker. Someone who already has your desktop and app password and physical access to your desktop can probably get a fingerprint off a glass, cup or something else.

I do hope you realize this raises the amount of work the attacker has to do to actually get access to your device. It's a little like saying a second lock on your door is not going to stop anyone, but in practice statistics are clear: adding one more layer, even if that layer can be defeated as well, reduces the chance of a successful attack, or deters the attacker in the first place.
That's not on my keyboard. Assuming you are serious, if you think a mainstream language like Python would ever accept an operator that can't be typed then you're mistaken.
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The people bullish on VR are the same crowd who were bullish on 3D tv. If people don't want to wear a bit of flimsy cardboard they sure as hell don't want to wear a plastic sarcophagus on their head.
Page 43 has some really good numbers for you.

Montreal-Ottawa travel time is 13% faster by train than car, and 30% faster than air. Average fare is $48.50 CAD ($35 USD). For comparison, a flight would be $167 to $186 each way, 4X more expensive and 30% longer end to end.

Numbers are more comparable on the Toronto to Ottawa and Toronto to Montreal corridors, with train travel coming in approximately the same time end to end as a flight but 25% less expensive. This corridor is highly competitive and similar distance to SF/LA.

Rail does in fact satisfy your requirements for short trips.