skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try Mosh (https://mosh.org/) if you can for those SSH drop outs.

Did you tested/used anything like Zoom, Google Meet, Face Time, Signal, Whatsapp ? How is the beta experience ? Usable ? Can you comment please ? Thank you
Probably not. But especially in emergencies it's often better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. (Also, domestic in-state political signaling.)

Anyhow, the legal effect may be irrelevant if the gas producers wouldn't bother trying to export. I would imagine that producers are having trouble just delivering on their long-term, fixed-price contracts in Texas. The short-term prices might be so jacked up precisely because there's little to no surplus to export, period.
From a programmer's perspective, you are right that there are no technical barriers to constructing an arbitrary index that delivers whatever value of inflation you want. But of course that is the case for most human things. Which is why institutions are important - hopefully while we are over here being honest and thinking hard about programming, there are people over there being honest and thinking hard about the consumption basket. But then a lot of us work in adtech so maybe that honesty is questionable...

And then there are the other even more severely complicated parts. If next year's iPhone is better but costs the same amount, that's deflation. You got more for the same amount of money. How do we quantify that? Those are called hedonic improvements. How do you account for free services? What is Google worth? What if a new thing comes out that has never existed before? How do you compare that to the previous consumption basket? It would be relatively easy to argue that the preponderance of brand-new, incomparable, improving every year, cheap/free tech stuff that we are living in a relatively deflationary environment. You get more, better stuff every year for less money!
Isn't it the case that car manufacturers will have to issue a recall on defective models ?
> You're one person.

Yes. That is why I chosen Apple to be my gatekeeper - they have appropriate leverage. As long as they understand that my privacy is more important than business need of some developer they will stay in this position.

> Is there a desktop computer that takes your wishes into account? None of those behave like iPhone. What about a laptop?

Expectations are different from smartphone, laptop, desktop tablet, mini PC, gaming PC, console, microwave, car etc.

Those devices need not to be the same, behave the same even if there is CPU that can run arbitrary code under the hood.

That is why we have different markets to cater for different needs.

This is where you fail to accept that others might have different views.
I'm on T3 with an excessive use surcharge, so I'm closer to 45 cents here in the North Bay.
Seems like this has to be giving dwindling returns with so much of the web being on https these days.
They intentionally need to populate a certain number of terminals into specific geographic areas to test, measure and refine how time-sharing contention and the equivalent of TDMA is being setup. Each terminal has a GPS receiver in it and reports home with its location.
I love it, I use it for the gyms, my internet provider, the laundry machine provider, any place that I don't trust their data storage, etc.
I understand your surprise, but the difference is understandable when you think about how each system needs to operate. It's a matter of thermal mass, location, and complexity.

Both a hot water and a forced air furnace work by burning natural gas to heat something up until it's hot enough. In both cases the combustion is separated from whatever its supposed to heat by a chunk of steel, and the gas is simply burned in open air without any extra compression. Ventilation is usually done via convection, which works without power. So far, so good; both cases just need a small amount of power to open a valve and kick off combustion. The similarities largely end there though.

In the case of a hot water heater, the flame is heating a big slab of metal under 40+ gallons of water. It's very hard for this slab to overheat and get damaged, as water is both thermally dense and a great conductor. There's also no need to move the heat around; the flame is literally right underneath the thing that needs to be heated. This proximity also makes the control logic extremely simple; you turn on the flame when the tank is too cold and turn it back off when it isn't. This consumes a tiny amount of power, and you can use the heat generated by the pilot light to keep such a circuit alive.

A furnace on the other hand has an issue. While burning gas in a furnace is easy, getting that heat back up to where you need it isn't. Air is a pretty terrible thermal conductor, and without some cooling that combustion chamber is going to overheat and get damaged. You need to move a lot of air past the combustion chamber to get the heat away before that happens, which means you need a powerful fan to get that air moving. These fans consume a lot more power than you can reasonably generate locally, about 75-400W per hour, with an extra spike needed to get the fan moving in the first place. You also have the issue that it's not possible to measure the outcome of the furnace at the furnace; which means you're going to need relatively complex remote sensing and control devices, which only adds to the system's total power needs.
Hydro is pretty much safe from winter temperatures. Ice will only freeze about 50cm max during a cold winter on a still lake. Source: I'm from Québec, we heat our homes with electricity, our barrage are in the far North.
I think functional currency needs to be robust, scalable with minimalistic fees and PEGGED to BTC.
They absolutely are "usury" in disguise because usury is defined as lending for profit and forbidden and the governments of these countries have acknowledged that they cannot run a modern economy and develop a modern society without allowing for lending for profit, but they cannot admit this because there are serious consequences for admitting that the book is wrong on this topic.

Define "true risk sharing", if you mean what I think you mean, the opportunity for a borrower to file bankruptcy is true risk sharing.
That's not how I read it. I read it as baldness increases your risk of contracting COVID.
All I'm saying is we need a mix of generation, including guaranteed baseline generating capacity. A typical nuclear plant puts out 1GW, that's pretty substantial.

Take a look at France:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

They generated 71% of their 582 TWh in 2018 from Nuclear, with the bulk of the remainder coming from Hydro (12%) Natural Gas (5%), Wind (5%) ... (solar was only 2%, same as coal).

They are a net exporter of power and that generates about €3 billion/year of revenue.
Nothing about their privacy policy looks intrusive, at all. [1]

The data they collect is either necessary for them to keep (your name, address, payment information, etc.), diagnostic (IP address, HTTP headers, etc. ONLY on their own websites, plus quality of starlink connection e.g. latency and throughput), or optional (survey responses). They don't sell the data or share it with anyone unless necessary for legal or business reasons (payment info shared with payment processor and such).

[1]: https://www.starlink.com/legal/privacy-policy
As someone who actively] fought against the aadhar/UID program, have to find workarounds to file taxes, and the large evidence of positive support for the program on the ground - sadly, Indians really do like their surveillance state. I think most people assume it won’t happen to them.

Thanks for the update on Germany/Canada.

I agree - central databases are a bad idea.
I interviewed people for Amazon as well before moving to another FAANG. All I would amplify here is that entry level is entry level, especially in software. None of the college hires have professional experience (maybe internships, but they had to start from nothing to get those anyway). So what you are trying to do is

1) not be an asshole; look at their leadership principles and figure out how you resonate with them; answer honestly if you never did that

2) beat the technical questions. they are a proxy for skills and experiences

I used and recommend Leetcode for #2... for entry level I don't think you should need the paid tier.

If there were a Leetcode for not being an asshole, I would recommend the paid tier.
A while back someone posted a look into their finances and business strategy. They were fumbling the ball a decade ago, but are now doing extremely well
I actually suspect that new news carousel product they launched might be related. If they push news articles onto the carousel, they can apply a different algorithm to the carousel.

Honestly, I think that makes sense and it doesn't immediately strike me as a negative for either side. These are articles coming from trusted sources. There's no need to apply the anti-spam parts of the algorithm. News agencies get a more stable algorithm, Google gets to keep their secret sauce.

There is still an advantage to the incumbents. Those carousels are usually in prime real estate. Google would hold the keys to who is in the carousel though, so they could expand it without legislative changes. I like the flexibility, though I don't love handing Google the keys to more kingdoms.
That makes sense.

However my worry is that the economy seems to have become permanently dependent on low interest rates. Sure it won’t be zero but something like 1 % looks like a distant dream.

It seems to suggest that we have run out of ways to increase real productivity. A good example is the shale industry which will basically go bust if interest rates are like 3 %.

We seem to be in a new regime of lower economic growth, high asset prices and inequality. The real danger here is the political sustainability of this. Zero interest rates are an indirect pay cut via rents and mortgages. At some point asset owners will have to take a haircut.
It’s in the US but can have non-US customers, a potential one of which I presume is the GP.
Nuclear is a much more modern, cost effective, and scalable tech today than it was in the 70's as well. France has one of the highest levels of nuclear utilization, and one of the lowest energy costs in europe
Citation badly needed.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question (don’t know much about Lua), but have you tried installing LuaSqlite with luarocks?

It it works like pip for python, I think that `luarocks install lsqlite3` might be enough to start using it.
I don't think waveshare manufactures panels. They're an integrator that sells lots of different stuff. I'm pretty sure they buy panels from different vendors and put them together with their kits. E-ink is like the liquid crystal supplier whose material then gets put into lots of different types of panels.
> In California it’s about 30 to 40 cents kWh during normal times.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/

16.89 ¢/kW in 2019. Where did you get 30-40 ¢/kW?
For what it’s worth, I’ve been in and out of a few subscriptions several times (incl WaPo and NYer), but I promised myself to never again subscribe to the NYT after I went through their cancellation process the first and only time.
I pay 70/month (introductory pricing) for 100mpbs, not that big of a difference and that is with a data cap.
Waymo drives on (vastly more) restricted routes, so comparing as if they are the same thing is questionable. The problem is several orders of magnitude more simple.
People who don't live adjacent to a public thoroughfare are sometimes quoted 5 or 6 digit installation costs for cable.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1607004-charter-cost-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/9ytg25/comcast_wan...

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r9512648-TWC-TWC-wants-want...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/want-...

This is for those people.
> You can update during an interactive rebate if you need to, why not?

You said your "trick" is to explicitly not update the submodules until you've finished the rebase? By definition that means you're not updating the submodules during the rebase...

> Because the lack of a simple removal command does not warrant the "avoid submodules at all costs" sentiment currently the top voted comment on this thread.

It's not just removal, though removal is definitely a big chunk of it. See last paragraph.

> No. The world isn't a dichotomy; both things can be true.

The world isn't a dichotomy, but you "admit the commands need some polish" and then propose a 4-step workaround for issues you've "not once had"? Did you not encounter issues at some point to lead you to propose workarounds and conclude commands need polishing?

> A submodule is just a ref, just like a tag. Init and deinit can be finicky, that's about it. If you fully understood refs, then submodules shouldn't be that difficult to reason about. What, specifically, do you find "painful"?

I don't think you understand how annoying it is for submodules not to add/remove/update seamlessly. Maybe you only use submodules for your own personal projects and rarely modify them so you rarely see the effect. But especially in a team project that's evolving constantly and the submodules aren't frozen, and especially in projects where you have to go mess with your own submodules to figure out if to-be-proposed changes to dependencies will actually do what you want, having to constantly go out of your way to make sure everything is committed and synced properly every single time you check out a new commit gets annoying fast. Especially when you don't even know what commits contain submodule changes to begin with.
This will become a factor, where there is a factor, a solution will be needed - Starlink may be able to geo-tie you to your location, and in fact, may also be able to offer selectable geo-tie locations, like many VPNs do, esp for foreign locations with dictatorships who want to clamp down what their people see. It could be an option with a fee, as it will be a network burden of some cost that you would have to bear - how much? How much of a profit motive will be there? If not, various VPNs may also be capable to doing this service, but that would need some cooperation with Skylink - which may be unreasonably withheld if it might cause Starlink problems in some manner?
I'm currently in the middle of trying to help loads of human rights defenders in Myanmar plan to deal with the internet shut downs that are happening. Satellite stuff like Iridium is too crazily expensive to be useful. I really wish some thing like this was available.
To add to your last comment, there are relatively cheap courses to help get AWS certifications on places like Udemy.
GP said fireplace, you're talking about furnaces. Plenty of fireplaces don't need power, but I've never seen a forced air furnace without power, and I don't think it's possible.
No, no, you have to cross a certain revenue / profit threshold before you can claim money. We can't have any Tom, Dick, or Harry eating into News Corps profits.

The original legislation proposal didn't even include the SBS and the ABC news services. They got added in to make it look less like News Corp wrote the legislation (which they pretty much did).
Thanks, I hereby revoke my assertion.
Recommendation for B2B open source platform
Hi there,
I am trying to build a B2B platform and would like to leverage an open source if possible.
The main feature I would like to have is multi-vendor support, where multiple vendors can manage their inventories.

I prefer python but other languages are fine if they have good features.

Any recommendation or comment is appreciated.

Thanks.
To be honest, good. I don't want the government to use Facebook as the primary/only mechanism to communicate with the public...
A fiber and 4G/5G station won't work for such scale community?
One of the big issues I’ve had with anything but wired ISPs is latency. They specifically talk about 20-40ms latency being expected in most locations, but don’t specify to where. I currently get about 20 +/- 4 ms from me to 8.8.8.8 consistently. Is their latency to my first hop?

Also, what is their IPv6 support like? Can I get a routable /60 or similar? Static IPv4/IPv6? And do you need to use their router or can you hook in anything you want? Bandwidth limits? Any other restrictions, either via their TOS or through some kind of firewall? Is this experience ever going to approach something like fiber or even cable?
Not sure how you read it like that. It starts

> Recent observations by Wambier et al suggest that men with pattern baldness are at high risk for severe symptomatic COVID-19 infection
What is the latency? I find there is a material difference in my internet experience with 5ms fiber connection vs 100ms+ cable connection. I imagine it’s worse for satellite links due to the limitations of physics.
Hedonic improvements like the ones used to multiply up Intel's revenue in order to claim that "US manufacturing is doing better than ever!" while we were shipping our entire industrial infrastructure to China?

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...

I found that episode informative and convincing, but in the exact opposite direction. I stuck my neck out on the basis of those numbers while arguing with conservative family members and it turns out the numbers were rigged after all. For a very reasonable definition of rigged.

In the face of shenanigans, I tend to put more faith in simple concepts like "assets hedge inflation" than in indices.
has it gone offline
> something needs to be Baseload generation on a cloudy week with no wind

That's not the only solution. Texas is big enough that a lack of wind across the entire state is even less likely than the weather they've been having. Wind has held up better than oil and gas there, and properly weatherproofed wind would be even better. Texas also has rivers, and waves. There's still untapped potential in energy storage. Most significantly, better interconnection to other grids would be pretty helpful but has been foregone to protect Texas suppliers' profits. There really doesn't need to be that much non-renewable baseload generation in Texas.

Also, why do you (and others) assume that anyone who mentions unsolved problems with nuclear must be flat-out against it? I for one am not. It can be part of a complete energy solution, but until some of those problems are solved it can't be a primary solution by itself. What I object to, mostly, is not nuclear power itself the simplistic "atomic energy please, this is a solved problem" hand wave. Contrary to the HN ethos, not every problem has a simple technical solution, and people who point that out wrt energy are not necessarily shills or dupes of the oil industry. It's a matter of being empirical about things and working them out instead of turning technologies into new religions.
>>From 3rd Jan 2009 until today, "Many often lose everything" is not true. All holdings are in the money.

This is correct if you bought on 3rd Jan 2009. It depends on when you bought it. Whenever you bought it, you need some ready to buy it from you at a higher price. So as long that is true, you make profit. In fact that is profit and loss by definition.

>>We don't know of the future.

Exactly, ensure some one will buy from you at a higher price. So as long as you do this, you should be fine.

>>The thing is, in all asset classes, it tends to be the way that early investors reap massive gains. Housing. Stocks. Cryptocurrency.

Not true. Take housing for example, Housing tracks people ready to stay at a place for employment and other opportunities. Its value is tied to the businesses around. Stocks themselves are tied to how the company does well.

What does Bitcoin track? Electricity spent to mine it? Speculative people hoping the next idiot comes along to bail them out? Well electricity isn't exactly scarce. Supply of electricity is unlimited for all practical purposes.

>>The great thing for you is it is still very early days for Cryptocurrency. It was only invented in 2009!

We don't know. Only the next people ready to invest $60K for a coin can decide that. And then the ones ready to put in $70K. Eventually some body needs to be present who can put in something like a $500K or a million.

>>What should be concerning is the sustainability of a 'scheme'.

Indeed.

>>When unlimited USD can be printed at the desires of the administration, how can a fixed emission asset NOT outperform something inflationary?

Because unlike USD backed by US government and its military. Bitcoin owners are in no position to invade some country like Iraq to liquidate themselves.
Baseload + peakers is one concept that allows a grid to meet demand. But it's not the only way - decorrelated intermittent generation + peakers could work too. But what doesn't work well so well is baseload + intermittent generation. If you must have baseload (i.e. nuclear) as the foundation of the grid, intermittent renewables (solar/wind) aren't going to have much of a place because you need dispatchable power generation to fill in the demand peaks.

As long as we need peakers or other dispatchable powers supply, I like solar and wind over nuclear to provide the main quantity of generation vs nuclear. I don't see nuclear catching up to renewables on cost terms at this point.
He was the CEO of Waze, but not of Google. After the acquisition, he had to adopt Google promo processes.
AOL was great when you were on a free trial and called saying you wanted to cancel but forgot. They just kept giving me another month. I was given maybe 6 months free when it should have been 3.
Don’t worry, the invisible hand of the market will solve this.
This is amusing but if you aren't trying to make memes, just email unsubscribe@nytimes.com, include all the necessary info about your account (account number, billing address), and in my experience they'll do it right away. Of course my experience has N=1, but there it is. Don't waste your time, use email.
4096 implies 4 bits per color. I don't think they can do that with their tech. Their tech is based on pigments. So I don't think they have 4096 pigments in each pixel. I think maybe 32 pigments at best and this isn't like LCD where they can control brightness so 32 is just 32, there's no 32 * 2^4 to get more.
You're correct that, "30 GW of thermal capacity is offline for various weather-related reasons is the primary reason the power is out."

I think wind can play a huge role in fixing this. Check out:
https://www.windy.com/?37.539,-94.134,4

And you've got plenty of massive offshore wind resources on both sides of the continent that are blowing right now (Feb 17th 7:49pm PDT) if we had installed capacity.

We need to keep our nuclear fleet (20% of electrical generation) and invest in a TON of transmission.

If we had this electrical grid, we'd be doing far better:
https://twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/status/1356442256866037766
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If you wanted to synchronize the motion of two parallel output shafts that are being driven independently, this would be one mechanical arrangement that would get the job done. The two parts that engage in this configuration would be called gears. (most likely they would use sprockets and a timing chain...can't wait till someone finds that in nature)
The primary way for the government to communicate with the public should never have been allowed to be a foreign, private third party
>It’s wonderful to take a look back at a time when overly ambitious ideas would be naively pursued, unrelated hobbies would prove fruitful in unexpected ways, and to remember that inspiration can be found again many times through the course of life.

It's a good feeling that after "retirement" this all still lies ahead of you if you still want it.
Compared to other satellite Internet solutions, I believe Starlink has much smaller "cells". Obviously nowhere near as small as terrestrial 5G in dense areas.
Users are completely free to not use an Apple product. They have lost no freedom of their own will. Users choose this ecosystem over many other options.