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Tried it out with about 10k short docs and it works pretty well as a potentional algolia replacement. I had to use 'sort_by' : '_text_match:desc' to get good results.

I couldn't find a way to create synonyms, is this possible?

Is it also possible to control typo sensitivity like algolia? e.g. min chars for 1 typo, min chars for 2 typos.

The curation features looks handy, but I haven't tried it yet.

Install and config was a breeze which is appreciated.

I hope it takes off for you. Nice work.
The CIA kills people over metadata.
Mitsubishi?
South Australia participates in Australia's National Energy Market (NEM): https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...

The market operator, AEMO, hosts a NEM dashboard here - pretty interesting. The first tab of the dashboard is showing the supply and demand in each australian state that participates in the market. It also shows the flow between the different states via interconnectors, highlighting which interconnectors are at capacity. Some of the other tabs show the electricity price & the fuel mix for each state: https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...
About 20-40% of the population seem to be constitutionally unable to save, so any time a population gets wealthier the rich tend get richer because if property rights exist someone is going to end up owning any new wealth.

There isn't any inconsistency with the article's commentary and the observation that it was better to be a peasant post-plague than pre-plague. The rich got richer, the merchants became fabulously wealthy and the poor became better off.

The important trend here is that power moved from aristocratic landowners, who aren't really that bright as a class, to merchants who tend to be pretty clued up.
Your second suggestion would be extremely exploitable, because you'd be allowing the licensee unilateral control over the price. Your competitor just came out with a cool new widget that's going to keep them in the black for years? Copy it, shove it on the market at near-zero price, and enjoy your uncontested market.
Exactly how would it apply to open hardware, in which the exact point of licensing is supposed to be zero-cost other than the sale of hardware?
I agree. I've seen some marvelous pigeon hole explanations of why you cannot write a general lossless compression algorithm that makes all files smaller. I have no idea what that explanation would look like in terms of maxes and averages, and I have to believe it would be much more difficult to understand.
The matter is too complex for me to have a good judgement, I was just confused because your comment didn't seem consistent with what I thought I knew.
Franklin Roosevelt? While it's debated on whether the New Deal policies actually lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, it's undeniable that a mix of the New Deal and his leadership during World War II propelled the country to becoming a global superpower.
The SA gov investment is $15M and there is an additional $8M from the federal government[1].

The $150M savings is a little unclear - [1] gives is at $40M/year for 2 years.

Those savings are to consumers and businesses in the state, not to the government itself and there are a number of additional clean energy projects underway in SA, so the maths on the appropriate amount to invest in each one is difficult to calculate.

In particular, batteries save money by removing the (very high) peaks. They are important because they reduce the effectiveness of market manipulation which SA was suffering from. But increased diversity in power generation within SA and an upcoming second interstate interconnector[2] help with this too.

> what other car company has market trading software as part of its energy division?

I think every single energy division has energy trading software? It would be astounding if they didn't - I worked for a power company last century for a little while and they had energy trading software back then.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-19/sa-big-battery-set-to...

[2]
> The US kept its promise to Europeans, even those not then considered white

No Europeans were ever not considered white under US law. Blacks, Native Americans and Asians have all been othered racially under US law. All Europeans have always been considered white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th...
Public schools are government-funded, therefore the bill of rights is at play. Your private employer can absolutely fire you for the contents of your t-shirt if they so choose, assuming it has nothing to do with protected classes/speech or anything like that.

Here is some reading on this topic: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
what is one human lifetime? that seems an uncertain measure. Also most astronauts I've seen look like they're halfway through one human lifetime when they first get off planet.
I think both patents and cooyright should be taxed so that the time progressivity is high. Say first year or two practically free, but if you want to keep your ip at 20 years, it should cost you billions. You can stop paying tax any time you want and your ip moves automatically to public domain. Solves also orphan works. (Yes, I know, Berne convention needs likely to be amended for this to be possible)
Canada is great. It’s virtually indistinguishable from America for the typical person.

I don’t know where you’re from, but as a Bangladeshi immigrant to the US, but I wouldn’t emigrate to the EU. 76% of Americans say that a naturalized citizen is a “real American” and just 13% disagree: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/.... In France it’s 55-28. In Italy it’s 41-36. There is no place in the world more welcoming to immigrants than America. Look at what’s happening in the EU. America has been dealing with huge levels of illegal immigration for decades and for the most part we’re still very positive on legal immigration. Europe accepted some refugees from the Middle East like five minutes ago and already right-wing nationalist parties are winning elections left and right.
Kanye West will run for US President in 2020
Years ago when I was building out a Docker hosting startup that never went anywhere, it was largely based on using Tinc to create a VPN so that your applications in different containers could all talk together.
In pretty much any major negative event, the rich will get richer. As the negative event starts to impact non-rich people financially to the point they have to sell off things of value (stocks, property, etc) it is the wealthy that can buy it from them.
> It’s a huge success story.

The caveat being the South Australia has a power grid that is sometimes a contender for the worst managed (and most expensive) electricity grid globally. Or at least highly challenging to get it working smoothly.

So the battery is a huge success story and we'll see more like it - but the conditions where it succeeded are not necessarily where the gird wants to be.
The first step in dealing with these issues, is to have a serious discussion about the term "intellectual property", and whether or not an idea can indeed be "property".

I think a very large part of the problem, is that our society has somehow come to the conclusion that yes, they can be. I strongly disagree. I think a better way to look at IP, is as an "intellectual lease".

When you have an idea, as the person or group who originally conceived of it, you are presumably in the best position to make use of it. You can therefore "lease" from society, the right to use it exclusively for a short, well defined period of time. At the end of that term, your lease expires.

At no point do you "own" the idea, because as soon as you release it into the world, it is already in the minds of many, some of which may be able to put it to better use than you, or to improve it faster than you.

This has several ramifications, including ones that effect creative works too. I posted a few long comments recently about copyright that expresses my view, but to summarise - creative works should have a limited window during which the author or creator can be the exclusive seller of the work (eg copyright should be about restricting who can profit, rather than who can copy). After that time, anybody is free to sell as well. This has many benefits. I used Harry Potter as the example last time as it is well know. Harry Potter now is known by almost everybody. We all know the story, we know the characters. JK has made a ton of money - more money imo, than any one author deserves, but that aside. HP is part of our collective humans story now. If I want to make a mobile game about it, or write a play about it, or adapt it for a new medium, or translate it - why should I still owe the original author royalties when I could reproduce the plot from memory? Again, I use the example of ancient Greece, and the way in which aural story telling was paranount. Stories spread, adapted, becamr part of society. The ones that survived that we have written down are simply one version that would have been told aurally at one point in time. The way that we insist that works and derivative works be set in stone in order to maintain profit is prioritising profit over the joy that is the spreading and adapting of stories that has been central to most human cultures since the beginning.
They're building one in Ventura, CA that is about 3 times bigger than the one in south australia. It will be 100 MW/400 MWh whereas the Hornsdale power reserve is 100MW/129MWh currently and will be 150MW / 129MWh after this update.

Then there is the absolutely monstrous PG&E Tesla battery at Moss Landing (also in California) which will start as 182.5MW / 730MWh, but is forecast to eventually grow to 1.1GWh of energy.

A contract for a "smaller" one with Hawaii Electric that works out to 135MW / 185MWh was just signed in March with Tesla.

etc.
Bulk payment of couple of billion can get the job done.
It is not that I don't understand the "problem" - after all, I ended my very first accidental vi session with a reboot as well. But that was 23 years ago, long before Linux/GNU distros would be installed with a GUI and then boot into a GUI.

If the "newborn" in 2020 insists on using the terminal instead of the much more beginner friendly options that are the default nowadays... granted, but why compare a terminal editor in unix to a GUI? That is like comparing apples and oranges and then complaining that the strawberries don't taste like bananas.
Fair. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries develops just about everything.
What to a slave is the 4th of July? https://youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM
What if they wanted to deflect attention from themselves to large numbers of relatively minor criminals?
Not if the event is fundamentally disruptive enough for existing business. War, disease and famine tend to redistribute wealth.
I guess ... but "God Bless America!" seems like a statement to me.
"but is also more family-friendly and less intense"
Is it just me or does S2 appears rolling to the right in camera?
Coming to US after living in UK for a few years, what astonished me was not the fact that US is using the imperial system, but the US Gallon is different to the UK Gallon...!
Thanks for the question and the link.

My sense is that being able to move through other dimensions (specifically a fourth spatial dimension) and into/out of our 3 space happens ‘superluminally’ since it’s more or less instant. The speed of a particle in 3 space has no dependence on its speed in the 4th dimension (by analogy with flatland - the speed at which a particle on the plane moves out of the plane).

No reason to assume the 4th dimension is constrained by the speed of light. I guess I don’t know enough about Bell’s inequalities and entanglement (yet! Will look forward to reading more) but I think that might help. A fourth spatial dimension is both local and nonlocal (it affects particles at all points in 3 space but isn’t constrained by 3 space). And it makes sense that it shows up only when we get down into the fabric of 3 space (subatomically) since...honestly am still trying to figure that out.

Is our 3 dimensional “flatland“ hurling through 4 space really fast? Are we suspended like with a magnet on both sides of our flatland, holding particles in place - except for leptons and photons which can oscillate above and below the plane?

Is the many worlds hypothesis true? Do we mostly move through 4 space on an arrow of time? And there’s a clear inertia there. But at the edges we can move through other 3 spaces? Why is there such inertia? How do we not be totally bound by it and move without its constraints?
Realtime software often means "hard real time"[1] which is a constraint where a response is guaranteed within a particular time.

This is a fairly specific area where special real-time deterministic operating systems are used etc.

I think your usage was fine, and the pedantic use of "real time" is dying anyway. There's a whole field of "soft real time" which blends into online, and some parts of the battery control SCADA systems may well be true real time anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
At that point, you're playing world police. Other countries can take care of their own problems.
Sorry to hear that! If only there was a way to download media that you could then save/duplicate across many devices without needing to pay rent every-time you want to acquire it.

Hopefully some industrious programmer eventually figures that out, it would be really useful. The genesis of such a library would be so useful. Too bad it would be really hard to keep the pirates at bay!
https://insideevs.com/news/369722/tesla-jeff-dahn-new-batter... Tesla has battery cells that can last a million miles thanks to Jeff Dahn's research.

Jeff Dahn is one of the original inventors of the Lithium Ion battery btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dahn
sorry I wasn't familiar with the term. It took it to mean "joke company" or something like that
I believe Microsoft pays competitively for external hires.
Yes this is the correct term. Realtime processing in the operating system context vs the streaming data context are different things.

https://blog.syncsort.com/2015/11/big-data/the-difference-be...
1932 now, this is getting dark.
As an American from birth, and speaking for myself, it's not hating my country. It's frustration and sometimes anger at our failure to do better. I believe that doing better than we are is within our grasp, but we, as a nation, so often seem to turn away from positive change in favor of a comfortable and easy (for many Americans) status quo that is ultimately inadequate and often blindly hypocritical.
You can synthesize alcohol and other carbohydrates straight from air and water as well. This actually is something that, similar to producing hydrogen using excess clean energy, would be technically feasible.

The problem is scale. We eat far less food than we burn fuel. So replacing our fuel with a by product of food production is not going to scale.

Bio fuels at scale only make sense with heavy subsidies currently E.g. the corn industry in the US is a good example of something that would not exist without subsidies.
The time scales it operates in are usually quite a bit larger than systems that would typically be discussed here, but I don't see how "online" would be a descriptor than "real-time".
On the changing asymmetry of global spillovers
My post was #3 on Hacker News
Democratic capitulation. It has been replaced by Democratic obstructionism.

And if suspect that you should be able to tell that, if you care to actually look.
Then why were 30% of Americans not able to pay their rent on time last month, along with a similar percentage in April and May?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/30percent-of-americans-misse...
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Ofc, I am aware of it - I am only comparing poor Vs rich. Privileged Vs underprivileged. Not comparing countries with other countries.
All reasonable points. But except in an ideal world, I don't see how people who shape and enforce the laws are incentivized to realize them. That intellectual property is "out of control" is perhaps but part of a bigger picture that the government is dysfunctional and out-of-control.

You can talk about how things should be until the cows come home, but at the end of the day, the big question is how do you realize your ideas in the world.
What about Soundcloud and Spotify? Were there more people actively listening to music before the internet? Maybe more that actively listened to full albums, but I find the music community to be pretty vibrant and diverse, albeit in a very stressful situation right now.
This is true, and one of the reasons the Telsa battery was able to make so much profit was because it took the peaks off the very high peak prices that other market participants were happy to allow to occur before.

There is a market regulator that stops most of the worst of the manipulation that happened with Enron, but it is an imperfect system.

Large parts of Australia are on a single market, but with separate quasi-state based pricing sections. South Australia had a difficult market, with large amounts of renewable power (mostly wind and roof-top solar) and a single interconnector to coal-fired stations in another state.

That left it very vulnerable to price spikes, especially at ~17:30 during summer when people would get home from office and turn on their air-conditioners. That would case huge price spikes.

The big battery is able to supply enough to get over much of that peak load spike, and an additional gas generation peaker plant along with even more geographically diverse renewables has fixed the rest of that problem. There is a second interstate interconnect being built too.
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We don't hate our country! We want it to live up to its promise for everyone. Truth and justice for all is hard. If we didn't believe in it, we wouldn't try.
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I've seen RSA in hockey and ZA elsewhere but never SA.
Guilty as charged but I thought it was a reasonable jump to speculate on how there might be a cumulative effect of being in the "shallows" where critical thinking skills are atrophied and people are susceptible to misinformation. I did read the article but I was under the impression that HN doesn't restrict comments to the specifics of the article.
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> Today's backlashes against social media platforms is just the existing elites trying to take back their control.

That's not really the case, as can been seen by the hate given to both FB and Twitter on HN.
Note that you said descendants. They were not slaves, nor were their parents nor their grandparents. What remove does it take to get over it and stop acting like everyone owes you? Immigrants have come to America with nothing and having suffered unimaginable trauma (such as having had their entire family incinerated) and prospered.
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Do you mean that n95 masks can't work fine? If so, I'm genuinely curious as to how they failed for you.

I've used them while working on-site at a coal mine, as long as you're using a genuine high quality n95 mask and have it properly fitted you can absolutely wear one for 4+ hours without the inside getting contaminated. It's certainly not fun but I've done it many times without issues.
At least we know Rocket Lab's webcast uses real telemetry, unlike Blue Origin, where they break the laws of Physics by pausing at 0 MPH: https://youtu.be/sUEj4dxPMbI?t=2658
The last two params are why I like the proposal of Twitter becoming a "dumb" protocol leaving all filtering to the client.
NAT in this context is preventing the ability for whomever this is to separate and track users. That is a good thing.
You're off by a factor of 10 based on wages for cleaners in Pakistan which is about $1/hr.

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=164&loct...
There is basically no penalty (social, legal, financial, professional, etc) for going "too far" in condemning America, especially if you are a middle-to-upper class white person in an urban area. In fact there may be rewards. So just thinking about the dynamics of that, why wouldn't people go too far?
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Even from just examining the present, it's hard to find much to like about how the US is handling a pandemic.
defeated Nazi Germany

Correction: helped defeating Nazi Germany. Compare the number of American soldiers who fought in WW2 to the number of Soviet soldiers.
> Written and printed records do not guarantee historical accuracy.

Jeez, I never said they did. They're better than a vacuum, though. Many suspicious historical accounts have been verified by later archaeological discoveries. For example, some accounts of Jamestown have turned out to be correct, and the descriptions of Richard III's curved spine turned out to be correct, and not just propaganda by his detractors.

I also know that the history of England entered the "Dark Ages" after the Romans left, not because they were literally dark, but because little is known about it. 200 years is a long time. The paucity of records:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur#Historicity

is where the legends come from.
This looks like a fun exercise, but ultimately it seems to just be reinventing Iterators except each step yields a new copy of the iterator instead of just mutating the existing iterator. The other difference is there's an explicit Skip, which I don't understand the point of because the next function could just be written as a loop until it either finishes or yields an element.

So this basically just seems to be "what if Iterator couldn't use &mut".
Cargo measurement & testing, with particular emphasis on developing new & improved laboratory techniques for international use.

Although I did plan & deploy the first little batery-powered TRS-80 suitcase computer for measurement use at the docks and on board the vessels, but it was before IBM PC's appeared and way before the actual PC-compatible laptop. But it did look like what would later be known as a laptop as you carried it up the gangway.

The measurement is a very traditional business, and the independent testing only seriously became a major component starting about 50 years ago.

My first employer in this port had been doing it since the sailing ships, and I was trained by operators who did it during World War II. An incredible bureaucracy with core essential elements that can never be eliminated since we are actual commercial bureaucrats and our primary deliverables are paperwork. But I sure have invented a lot of apparatus while waiting for my ships to come in, and had proven performance beforehand so the clients get their money's worth.

Interestingly, when I was in private laboratory practice for over 20 years it could almost be considered a small-scale Theranos-style business.

I know it's scary but I have to admit it.

Except my technology really works because I validate it for as many years as necessary before deployment. But these can be some toxic cargoes so it's best to keep a low profile, and industrially I'm about the furthest thing from consumer-facing retail operators.

Plus these are kind of big ships, and for insurance companies there's a lot more at stake from a cargo sample than for a single sample of blood for instance, so there is that.
> We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

Yet here we are... the US two party system continues to devolve into a bitter no-holds-barred us-against-them battle.

There are so many other foes - both internal and external - that need addressing, yet in-fighting is weakening the nation's foundation while the real enemies are rubbing their hands in glee.
Or just get people to correctly implement and deploy PCP in their products, which also solves this problem without the privacy downsides.