skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the "Net demand trend" graph here, and take a look at yesterday: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

Non-renewables (edit: all minus solar and wind), hit their peak at 6pm and stayed there until 8:30pm.

The problem is that solar isn't available during the late evening hours, where, e.g., A/C demand remains high.
There was lightning and thunder (and hail depending on where you were) in the last year and even big summer across the sky lightning events like this in the last 5-7 [actually 8]years (I was on an airplane landing at SFO for it). It's just not common, and 100+ temperatures aren't common so together it's pretty weird. If it was the US central plains, it would be Tuesday during every summer month.

[Edit It was 2012:]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thunder-lightnin...
> That's the whole reason that you don't get to take a copy of your ballot home today.

My ballot gets mailed to my house. I fill it out in my kitchen.
Debian slink was old stable when I started with a potato cd I borrowed from a professor's desk after my third crash of the day with Windows 98.
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Yeah, I know it's a podcast but not everyone has heaps of alone time. The alternatives are imposing on everyone nearby or earbudding off the listener.

Text is polite.
Don't worry they've rebalanced recently. Next year they should have wasted significantly less on technical staff and about the same invested on management and advocacy. It hard to see why more folk don't donate really.
If only there were some way to store power so we could use it when solar drops off...
> "...they're for risk assessment and public policy."

even for that, it's inconsequential. there are many greater and more relevant risks to worry about at a policy level.

food-borne botulism has a different risk profile in that the ever-increasing centralization of food distribution can potentially unbound those risks.

> "...another now-quantified danger does nudge your average 'danger score' higher. ...more people than before will now consider this when..."

that's just fear-mongering. the risks of incidental/accidental deaths are the lowest in history. there's no reason to worry about this particular issue outside of research.
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I've made a comment about this on hacker news before. It's only a Mac thing. You can install a 15 year old DAW on Windows still to this day. You can't install something from 3 years ago on Mac.

That being said I use an Akai MPC Live and a Roland Fantom because I've been burned by OS and VST's. I only use a computer to arrange and finish the audio. It's also a better workflow for software developers because your not staring a computer screen to do music, which works for me. If you want a cheaper setup a MPC One and something like Yamaha Modx works fine too.
Going to disagree here, i2c and spi work fine in micropython.

Is it as fast as C? No. Does that mean it's useless? No.

The absolute coolest thing is to take a $2 Wemos D1 clone, put micropython on it, hook it to a sensor (I've been using temp and humidity sensors lately) and have it periodically fetch "http://webserver-ip/temp?t=<value>&p=<value>" every 10 seconds and have a little python webserver sitting on an machine on your network that is stuffing the values into influx or some other DB.

This is trivial to do, and takes little to no embedded coding experience on the ESP8266. That's a win as far as I am concerned.
Recent (1-2 years?) AMD BIOS supports disabling the Platform Security Processor (their ME equivalent).

I haven't been able to figure out what exactly this means, but it does seem to be disabled after system initialization. Kind of like Intel's HAP bit, except user-settable.
I understood. What if you need a feature that is not implemented in C and exposed? You need to write C.
Only because they only sell products with a legitimate manufacturer, which is the point.
Tech companies are a direct product of your government's structure. If your constitution didn't allow lobbyists from megacorps having more power over legislature than the collective mass of its citizens, these companies would not be in the position of monopoly they are in.
Marks aren't awarded by the school per se, they're awarded by one of the agencies such as AQA. This results in a lot of angry and upset teachers as the marks just received are a surprise to them too.

The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams.
Tell me any part of the country where it wouldn't be news to have months of essentially no rain, followed by 1200 lightning strikes, still with very little rain.

The issue isn't simply the lightning (that would be rare in the Bay area). It is the lightning combined with drought conditions making wildfires a major issue.
That is pretty easy to integrate as they claim to support "data driven" testing.
It might be something to do with the age of employees. I work at a company where the average age is probably early 30s, and maybe a handful of people would come into the office back when it was still optional, everyone else wanted to stay home to spend time with their families. For me at least, the only people I've talked to that prefer working from the office are young people who live alone and depend on work for socialization, and parents who use the office as a way to get a break from their young children for a few hours.
Peak indoor temperatures (and, therefore, peak air conditioning demand) on the west coast of North America tend to happen from early evening to sundown.

Needless to say, the ability of solar power to cover this peak is highly limited because the solar peak is earlier in the day.
I wondered this, too. Also--which draft, if there's more than one? Is it like, "latest available", or "easiest to parse", or do you have a policy like only shooting scripts?
Yeah the docs have been a sort of pain for quite a few folks. We had some new team members join our team and revealed how much of our process is focused on being next to someone to ask questions while you're trying to figure out how to make your project boot. Part of the problem comes from the fact that until fairly recently, UEFI didn't have a great emulated platform so you could build stuff but unless you had the exact hardware (that often comes with NDA code that can be hard to get a hold of), tutorials are not very helpful/rewarding.

Yah, lots of communities have established rules and even as a relative newcomer myself, getting something into EDK2 is a long and somewhat arduous process. They don't accept PRs, it's all over mailing lists.

https://microsoft.github.io/mu if you're curious about
Are not these much heavier than SVG image backgrounds? I tested by putting five backgrounds into my real web project and scroll does not seem smooth anymore.
I wanted to use the word 'contentious', but I felt that would bend Hacker News rules. 'controversial' certainly feels like the right word in this case.

The scheme is flawed, as it clearly penalises some students, and benefits others. And many are rightfully outraged by that.

So yes. 'Controversial', I think.
Gusty wind gusts
Promotions can double your salary or more from that level so people are plenty motivated.
> That's like pondering whether submarines can swim.

It's an old adage. But it's less smart than it sounds [1]. Swimming is an action defined by its mechanics- you swim when you do certain precise movements with your body. Understanding (or thinking, in the original formulation) is a process that is defined by its consequences. The consequences of understanding are simply that you respond in an appropriate way to the original stimulus with speech or actions. To go back to the original metaphor, it's not about the specific movements of swimming, it's about going from point A to point B in water. And yes, submarines can do it. And yes, GPT-3 seems to understand a lot, in that it responds to a lot of inputs in a meaningful way.

[1] Take that, Dijkstra!
My genius idea was once to use toupper() to normalise paths on Windows, which are case-insensitive. One day, a customer from Azerbaijan reported that my application failed to access a file in C:\WİNDOWS\...
AMD has a similar backdoor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
Next innovation: Nail non-hand-washers w/ a dye packet on exit.
I was in the Bay Area for the 2001 and 2008 tech crashes. Cheap space made all kinds of things possible: performances, art projects, experimental living arrangements, bootstrapped startups, maker spaces, high-concept restaurants, ...

When people can start things without institutional funding, they can build interesting, speculative things. Some of those speculative things end up making lots of money, while most go bust, but either way it's an interesting environment to be part of.
Bro have you ever visited indianapolis? Yes the two cities are about the same size population but that’s about the only similarity. SF has a different climate, geography, cities, people, food, politics, etc.
GPT-3 can't do arithmetic very well at all. There is a big, fat, extraordinary claim that it can in the GPT-3 paper but it's only based on perfect accuracy on two-digit addition and subtraction, ~90% accuracy on three digit addition and subtraction and ... around 20% accuracy on addition and substraction between from three to five digits and multiplication from between two measly digits. Note: no division at all and no arithmetic with more than five digits. And very poor testing to ensure that the solved problems don't just happen to be in the model's training dataset to begin with, which is the simplest explanation of the reported results given that the arithmetic problems GPT-3 solves correctly are the ones that are most likely to be found in a coprus of natural language (i.e. two- and three- digit addition and subtraction).

tl;dr, GPT-3 can't do basic math for problems it has not been directly trained on.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

See section 3.9.1 and Figure 3.10. There is an additional category of problems of combinations of addition, subtraction and multiplication between three single-digit numbers. Performance is poor.
A good reminder that technology opinions here too only represent the tip of the iceberg of the software engineering world and hardly are representative of the industry at large.
> Success here could indicate to CPU vendors there are people who care about these things.

If the Libreboot FAQ[1] is to be believed, then we are well past this stage. It states:

> Even Google, which sells millions of chromebooks (coreboot preinstalled) have been unable to persuade them.

[1] https://libreboot.org/faq.html
I started a family in NYC and we are still here. It’s very possible to do it without being a billionaire and it’s a fantastic experience rich way to grow up. I grew up in the burbs and that was great too. There is no one way to do things. But if you really love NYC don’t believe you can’t have a great family life here.
Also related is clojerl which is Clojure running on Erlang VM: https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl (http://clojerl.org/)

Some past submissions of clojerl:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21965469

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219563
MILD SUMMER?

We've been breaking records...

And we don't have AC either really
Most of the Sierras don’t require any type of permit or ticket to access. I’ve noticed among techie friends with a new desire to go outdoors a belief that they need to make an appointment to enjoy nature, and since all the appointments are taken online, there is no nature to enjoy. Or to google for “best hike San Francisco”, go there, and find that the parking is full.

In fact the nature is much larger than the city, and it’s most entirely empty if you aren’t intentionally visiting the most popular spots.
> but it appears that the highest-paying outfits will judge me on things that are at best very tangentially related to how I can make/save them money.

IMO, this is a popular misconception but it's not really reflective of reality.

Leetcode is ultra-popular with new college grades and people with a few years of experience who want to break into Big-N. As such, the vast majority of Leetcode discussions online revolve around that demographic.

It's true that the Big-N companies will still be heavy on the algorithmic interview questions, but it's not true that they'll ignore everything else on your resume. The early 20-somethings talking about Leetcode online don't have a long resume to point to, so Leetcode is the focus. If you show up with a 25-year career of successes, you're going to have a very different interview experience.
So your weather has been unusual as well? Would you say that this might be reminiscent of a changing climate? The anecdotal accounts of weird climate changes in many locations are really stacking up at this point. Together with the scientific data it is looking like all the changing climate is due to climate change.
How did you contact them? Curious. Is it some kind of way feedback?
We got permits for desolation wilderness fairly easily in June.
Zillow link for Indianapolis, it is not exactly a rich city. https://www.zillow.com/indianapolis-in/?searchQueryState=%7B... You can get a fine house for $100k but it is not the life coastal city folks are accustomed to.
Language evolves

Linguistic prescriptivism is usually a losing endeavor.
Of course! There are tons of cases where you need to store in "sentence case" (first word and proper nouns and acryonyms capitalized, nothing else) so you can convert to title case or all-caps as needed for display purposes. Templates are full of this kind of stuff.

There are similarly tons of cases where you reduce everything to lowercase without accents for searching and indexing purposes. Depending on your setup, your database might handle that for you, but there are edge cases where you need to do it at the application level.

Long story short, every string has a locale, and you should never change the case of something without specifying its locale. Either be explicit that it's American English or ASCII or Latin1 or whatever... or that it's something else. Never leave someone reading the code guessing.
From my experience in Europe, providing housing only works together with very low tolerance to substance abuse and disorderly behavior. I can image conservative Utah having very similar attitude.

IMO, the SF public sees the right to disturb others as an extension of personal liberties, and hence this solution won't work very well.
Fantastic job, thanks for sharing!
i feel your pain
If only we had some sort of energy clean generation technology with a high duty cycle which could ramp up regardless of sunshine or wind...
It was around 35C here (London) for a week straight! I can't remember anything like this before. As you say, our flat has no air con and it was pretty difficult trying to work and sleep in that heat.
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You mean other than today at 97F / 36C. Brutal.
No, climate change works in both directions. It causes extremes in both directions. Source: I have a PhD in Oceanography with focus on climate modeling
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The great thing about having so many transplants is that nobody cares about basic weather patterns like this.

The only news is the fires if there are an abnormal amount of them.
There is also ELK Audio: https://elk.audio/store/
> Can someone direct me to some code where I can see the full potential of Lisp?

There's exists no code that shows the full potential of Lisp because its potential lies not in the code itself, but in the way of working with it.

The language is interactive and image-based, meaning that you do not program in it by passing code through a compiler into executables, but instead you modify the running Lisp image until it contains the program you want. This is usually done by connecting the editor to the running Lisp image and sending commands to it: usually that is to compile-and-load (or compile-and-replace) individual forms/functions/variables, or whole files, or whole systems, or to work with the read-eval-print loop, or to interactively inspect objects, or to interactively resolve signaled errors via the debugger. This provides a lot of introspection into how the Lisp image and the program contained within works, and drastically reduces the feedback loop since the overhead of compiling-and-loading individual functions or even whole files is unnoticeable.

Disclosure: I am a Common Lisp programmer.
Yes, tolower_l(string, locale)
Because mark inflation is a thing, and schools are different. There are schools that will give out A+ and others a B, for the same academic performance. School reputations don't change from year to year. So a school that inflates marks one year, will more than likely inflate them the next year. Are you suggesting that this should not be taken into consideration? That you should simply trust the relative weight of grade (relative to all the other schools) at face-value?

>"bad" schools get bad marks.

Why the quotes? There are schools that are at the bottom of academic rankings. That's a fact of reality.

>students are finding their grades marked down, almost regardless of their performance.

What numbers are we talking about here? No matter what algorithm or heuristic they chose, some unfairness was going to happen and my argument is that these cases are overstated. I'm sure they exist because we're talking about hundreds of thousands of students all in different circumstances. Having said that, in cases of egregious outcome, an appeals process would make sense. Also I'm sure many universities will take the pandemic into consideration and the fact that this was a best attempt at replicating standardizing test result without a test actually being taken.
Your strawman was ridiculous and low. Nothing in the article—which simply presents data—was arguing for

> a ton of bureaucracy, a right to sue VCs when you think there was a gendered element to the decision, HR drones policing every comment by VCs, and affirmative action investments. That will fix everything right up! Oh yeah, and diversity training, including “white fragility” or “toxic masculinity” lectures, which are totally not racist or sexist.

It just disagreed with me that having somebody point out an inequality just triggered you so badly that you just had to go and write a sarcastic comment that didn't do shit to actually tackle the problem at hand.

My point—which could admittedly have been aimed further away from you personally—is that if we all take a tiny bit of responsibility, we don't need to have bureaucracy that kills innovation and difference. And right there and then, your comment was not taking on any responsibility (and indeed, it's possible you have none), but was in fact saying "those problems matter less than others". We can have a human civilization that's both dynamic and fair.
Not fully, not yet. Still missing the css selector, for one.
Well, imagine if NeXT became Apple. I would guarantee people would be obsessed with the backstory and some even thinking that a good logo is the magic bullet needed to win
since at least 2002

https://www.weather.gov/media/pub/pdf/sdata/072002.pdf
Climbing actual mountains typically takes hours to just get there even if yoi are on them.

It is also different more dangerous sport then wall climbing (which is pretty safe).
Seattle usually has a mild summer. And a mild winter. It's overall just a mild climate all the time.

Today is hot. There was a hot day in July. Rest of the summer so far has been pretty mild.
Couldnt we go further and just say “wow I dont find anything wrong with this study how refreshing”
Indeed, 'Silicon Valley Privilege' is a thing
That law is the root of the problem. California will bankrupt before it goes away.
> it's hard not to be sceptical that this wasn't intentional and class-motivated.

It's incredibly easy "not to be sceptical".

The teacher's predicted grades are, on average, unprecedented. And represent many times greater than any previous yoy increase. This is far less true at top-performing schools where teachers are predicting far more consistent grades (by the very nature of being a top performing school).

Teachers shouldn't have been asked to predict grades. That's the heart of the problem. Not some harebrained in-public conspiracy.

This whole thing is dumb. And the media are deliberately failing to explain basic facts about the education system to provoke this kind of nonesense outrage.
Adults in the Bay Area. who can't remember lightning have memory issues. There was a huge [lightning] storm in 2012, and there was lighting in [edit: this] May... I've seen lighting, thunder, and hail (caught on video) in the last 12 months.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thunder-lightnin...
This topic is well understood so there's no need for "odds". All the chips have ME. AMT is a firmware feature that can be removed or not bought.
I was there a few years ago, and saw several homes built in the same era as mine, 1908.

I live in a rural city and paid less than $150k, I saw the equivalent home in SF for $9mil.

Location matters for sure.
Deel and Pilot are two of many doing this
> Has anyone here ever had a use case for toLower() where they actually wanted localization to apply?

If you are collecting data which include people's names or addresses you probably want localization to be applied correctly so that you can compare data coming from different sources and possibly with different cases. Having your name spelled differently in different documents can cause a non trivial amount of problems with an overzealous bureaucracy.
Why would the city care about income taxes? Those go to the state, not the city (with the exception of NYC).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661545

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17422770
I have 2 friends who work at the Amazon office in Denver. Both work on boring projects utilizing internal tools Amazon built over the years and completely hate their lives. But the salary and stock options make them stick around. You can look at this as "Omg, this is total shit. I'd never want to work here." or "I don't mind suffering 4 years to get fully vested, get the fuck out of dodge and enjoy retirement a little earlier than others." Both of my friends picked the latter.
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Not nearly as common at night. The last time I recall a night time thunderstorm was in the 80's. That said, this morning at dawn it felt straight out of a movie thriller. All we needed was the leading edge of an alien spacecraft to emerge from the cloud bank :-).

It was also interesting to note on Nextdoor the Midwesterners who were unfazed by the storm and people who have lived here their entire lives freaking out. Those roles reverse when we have a magnitude 5.x or lower quake.
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I'm also working the planetary sunshade. Any source for the Chinese $60T price point?