skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it is not sarcasm. You all are missing out on the train going right in front of you. The point here is that you all are not even trying to understand the advantages of crypto - with innovations such as DeFi, NFT and Store of Value. For you, it comes back to Bitcoin wasting energy and the fact that it is being used by criminals. Keep on believing your theories while the rest of us become rich.
I've had power out for over a day and am fine. I would not pay any more money to avoid this once every thirty years, or even once a decade, for a few days. Mostly because paying the cost to prepare for one of these is reasonable, but preparing for all of them would be very expensive and I will trade cheap power for the occasional inconvenience.
Wind was supplying more power than forecast right as total capacity plummeted...
I think the point that was trying to be made is that wide-spread deployment of residential solar isn't a panacea.

You still need to provide sufficient grid capacity to serve the customers when there is no sun. And you have to pay for that standby grid capacity whether you are using it or not. That isn't a problem when the residential solar is a tiny percentage of the customer base but it is a problem with wide-spread deployment.

The same problem exists at the grid-level as you ramp up grid-scale wind/solar -- that doesn't mean you can decommission the other generating capacity and so total cost of the grid goes up, not down.

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2018/11/renewables-cheap-...
The title is misleading, it should be “One should NOT use...”
I've been playing with some ideas for creating a SQLite database of classes, functions and suchlike found in Python code, so I can analyze my codebases with SQL queries.

I've had some good initial results with https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi - which is the Python introspection library that powers various editor autocomplete implementations. I have a prototype which uses that to create a SQL database of functions, classes and places that they are used.

I've also been playing with https://github.com/github/semantic - it can parse Python, JavaScript and other languages and offers a --json-symbols option which dumps out a JSON object showing the symbols (functions, variables etc) found in the code.
Why would you hedge against something like inflation, which is relatively constant over a year, by putting your money into a highly speculative risk asset with absolutely insane volatility over that same timeframe? Like many arguments for Bitcoin, this one just doesn't make sense.
The video wlesieutre linked of the Curiosity landing is a great reference of what you will experience for Perseverance's landing while watching it live. The video cuts short but about 10 to 30 minutes after landing they will likely have a half dozen low resolution images from the rover itself, much like they had with Curiosity.
if you don't mind going impure, you could translate those functions into actors and (easily) test their resiliency against alien attack using a virtual machine like the BEAM.
I have been in Bitcoin since 2016 and have enjoyed my riches. The next wave of new users will come from institutions. Hacker News audience is not what will pump the price further.
>isn't it your responsibility to know the intersection between your own personal beliefs and what's being used by, say, a neofascist movement in order to gain more followers?

I would say...no? Maybe in some cases, but I would think it rather unsustainable for humans in general to have to 1) keep records on what fringe elements believe and 2) be held accountable for people who share the same beliefs but also do things that are bad.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic or ideological flamewar, or any flamewar. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are some charlatans on Clubhouse for sure. I was listening to this guy M.L. Billion https://www.instagram.com/ml.billion and he is just full of shit. All flash and no substance. The guy probably changed his last name to Billion to make it sound like he was wealthy. Some people don't have a BS detector and eat this shit up.
I found it hard to read too.
Oh, come now, calling C++ templates generics belittles their power. :p Honestly, the one thing I miss in any language is the complete power of C++ templates, but I definitely understand others' reluctance to include something like them in their language. Something that allows me to write simple generic functionality a la Java generics and not have to write the same code multiple times is good enough for me in go.

Luckily I do have some ability to use C++ at my current job, so I can get my fix again there :)
> Something interesting is that when I set the user account to nologin I actually was unable to log in as the user. Usually in Linux you can hack around this with su flags but FreeBSD doesn't have this escape hatch. Neat.

For anyone who is wondering, it is: "su -s /bin/bash user".

Typically when you want to su to it and it has nologin, it will say "This account is currently not available." or "su: user /bin/bash does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required field". The former mostly.

You can bypass this with the aforementioned flag to su.
Governing is hard. Owning the libs/cons is fun and easy!

Anyway seems like this storm is so bad Texas would be in trouble no matter what, but letting utilities under-invest in winterizing and not joining either of the major grid corridors just made a bad situation 100x worse.

The good news is this is fixable going forward, and hopefully Texans will demand their politicians address it.
I'm a sucker for any site for book lovers (Good Reads, Open Library, Gutenberg Project, some of my faves). Looks early but cool stuff!
I've been in computing for a long time and it was never effortless. Try getting a Commodore 64 to do what you want with only a reference manual and a few magazine articles for help. That shit was hard.

If it's fun and easy then you're probably not solving any hard problems or building products that people want.
Nuclear is the cheapest, cleanest, safest form of electricity generation.

Do some research into who pushed FUD propaganda about Nuclear industry, (Big oil) and who paid off the shrill environmental FUD lobby, (Bug oil).

Nuclear power is used safely in aircraft carriers and submarines for decades. It's time to build more nuclear power and build the cleaner, safer, cheaper electrical energy future.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? This is over the top.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Modern management is still lingering on Process Management as the way to build and describe their functions.

However, in the developed world more and more organizations (especially Government) are becoming information organizations and we need to focus more on Information Management over Process.
The Need to Remove Bad Management
One of the HDL-to-Minecraft(Redstone) projects was done by undergraduates - from scratch even!

These kinds of projects are one of the only things I get FOMO over studying physics - I really like the idea of getting a few months to (say) write a compiler as a group rather than piles of utterly inane lab work teaching me how to use equipment I already know how to use
> 60GW more of wind and solar, and 10GW/40GWh of storage

These all complement each other, not sure why you pulled out only wind from that.

We do have reasonable grid-scale power storage, last year there were 17GW of batteries in the interconnection queue for ERCOT alone, from independent investors. The major holdup from this happening, say, 5 years ago, were ERCOT regulations that made it hard to be both a generator and a consumer on the grid. But there are huge arbitrage opportunities on ERCOT because of the huge price swings, which make it a perfect place for batteries. Other energy markets, like PJM, which have capacity markets in addition to energy markets, will also see huge amounts of batteries installed since FERC order 841 forced all grid operators to allow batteries to compete.

Other regulated utilities will only install batteries when they are forced to by their regulators. As a money-saving device, it's generally bad for utilities' profits, and it also requires them to learn something new. Far more profitable to rate-base unnecessary transmission or another natural gas plant that will never be fully used.
Okay but we do have that. Nobody is saying that this is the entirety of the evidence, just that this could be the wakeup call where people realize it affects them personally and they should do something about it.
No, that's per process. Not very useful and can already be done with selinux etc
I tried the rk3328 on my 1080p monitor. Was fairly slow, and video playback was problematic.

Otherwise good enough for light usage.

Hopefully the Rockchip VPU patches are still making progress.
Not much discussion here of the fundamental problem: why is Texas so energy intensive? In the last decade ERCOT energy generation has expanded 20%, which is much faster than the population of Texas has grown. Why? Just gigantic, detached houses for everybody? I think this is why people say the California housing crisis is such a calamity for the environment. A person in Texas consumes 150% more energy.
In my entire life, the largest transfer of cash I have ever done between institutions was I think $30,000 and it was between a bank account I owned and my brokerage. I'd wager that the majority of people have never transmitted more than $5,000 in their life.

Power to the people?
> But at least it's a case study from history.

It doesn’t substantiate your claim that taxation is inescapable.

> It is difficult to agree on a definition, because once you suggest that any law with punitive measures is invalid, no matter how light the punishment is or how innocuous the law is, you can denounce anything from taxation to property rights to jaywalking as built on coercion.

I agree that it is difficult to define “coercion” in a way that allows you to differentiate between cases of coercion that you approve of and cases of coercion that you oppose. This is the crux of the issue.

> It's not my opinion, it's Proudhon's, and we've already discussed it. If you wish to continue to engage this point then I will go dredge up his writing in more detail.

I’d prefer it if you restated the relevant parts in your own words.

> Why is payment any more a concern- or an outrage- than punitive laws that force people to conform to public morality?

Are you asking what difference there is between a system where one person works to produce food that is unilaterally expropriated via violence and threats and a system where community norms permit the forceful removal of people who insist on copulating in public?

If you insist, in the case of the former, there is a hierarchical relation that specifies that some people work to produce things of value, and other people have the discretion of determining who is entitled to the benefit of that value. In the other case you have norms that apply to everyone (in accordance with egalitarian principles) and specify a response that is intended to remedy the unwanted phenomenon (rather than punish the offender or deter unwanted conduct).

> Why are coercive claims on labor less valid than coercive claims on capital?

Who says they are?

> Okay, then rebrand taxes as citizenship fees or community funding and this entire discussion is rendered moot.

The rebranding doesn’t solve the problem, as the problem is the essential nature of the activity, not whatever label is applied to it.

> Again, you seem to have a singleminded conception of taxes as something that is inherently coercive, possibly because of real-world oppressive and opaque tax regimes, rather than considering that people might actually voluntarily pay taxes, because they do want the public services and functions of government that their tax money is funding.

If its voluntary then its a consensual transaction, and not coerced, and not taxation. This is well understood and if you’re in agreement then we can agree to have an opt-out system of “taxation.”

> And if you argue that there's a lot that you never agreed to funding, then I agree with you, but that's an implementation issue, not an argument from first principles conjured from pure logic in Plato's world of forms.

I can agree with this.

> So really that's what it all boils down to. Taxation is oppressive language. We should call them public donations instead.

This only works if you remove the coercion part, as I have been saying.
This seems like an example of survivorship bias. That Honda is an outlier. Not every car will go up that much if at all. Hondas are known for reliability but it takes time to know if a car model is reliable and not a lemon.

The purchase price of that car would have been $27,320.28 in today's dollars. Also, you still have to store it and do some minor maintenance even though it's not being used. The true cost of ownership for 21 years isn't really known. It's hard to know how much the real profit actually was. Either way, it's a gamble as an investment strategy.
This is not correct. Because the Texas grid is isolated, the frequency is not synced with the two other major grids and cannot import electricity at any meaningful capacity. (See http://fnetpublic.utk.edu/frequencymap.html)

Frequency conversion is a costly and difficult to scale problem. If Texas was part of the Western grid they could be drawing excess hydroelectric power from the pacific northwest right now for example. Texas also could have contributed to help the California power shortages last year.

Edit: Here is a map of the grid interconnects in Texas with capacity. As of the time of this comment the total importation capacity is less than 1% of demand. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22095643/49019079-...
Bitwarden is open source. Dashlane's free plan is limited to 1 device. Does Dashlane have any advantages over Bitwarden?
Really, I was talking about VoIP, but being integrated into the native calling app as a configurable option where you could just plugin details of your SIP provider or something like that. Presumably that would be done over LTE, but would be essentially obscured from your phone plan provider for privacy sake.
That and they inserted random javascript from a website that can change at any moment, created a shady domain name mascaraing as affiliated with a different analytics to funnel analytics to (and who knows what else but i think passwords and logins were pilfered). they also gave themselves webrequest permissions for no reason which alters the threat profile too.
> You can also use lightning at this point in time

It has a big warning saying to not use it with cash you aren't willing to lose.
They know exactly what the air density and gravity is and tested for the exact conditions. It it makes to the surface in one piece it will fly.
From a practical perspective, I think considering throughput is a task that should be done by something utilizing the typesystem rather than the typesystem itself - i.e. give all Operations a throughput but don't try and do the checks on every single application of said operation.
Likely trust, security and network effects.
I agree - I already use an extension for emacs key bindings that mostly works.

With such a rich extension ecosystem I'd rather see them invest in enabling extensions to do this, rather than adding the functionality themselves.
Novel, but predictable (and, indeed, they were predicted decades ago, which should have given plenty of time to prepare).
Man, what are people with children, elderly, or pets doing.
I have come to accept that I do not and almost certainly cannot understand spacetime. I cannot fathom the consequences of the passage of light through circumstances. I do not see how the concept of 1 Billion years can be thought to apply universally; how the Universe can have an age when as I understand it, time is circumstantial and potentially as meaningless as speed without a point of reference.
I think it’s an important difference: TypeScript is a language that has a typechecker bundled with it. The language and the typechecker are clearly connected, and TypeScript users are very very strongly encouraged to use the typechecker on all typescript code. Type checking is also implicitly described as a language feature.

Python has no bundled typechecker, and its authors do not insist users use MyPy, Pyre or any other SA tool.
Can you point me to current "layer 1" solutions that you anticipate Bitcoin replacing?

SWIFT and ACH don't seem to be it. Assuming a generous 3,000 transactions per block Bitcoin can do ~158M a year.

ACH does ~25B a year. It's harder to find numbers on SWIFT but it looks like at least 10 million per day, so ~3-4B a year.

Let's say I'm running a business. I have day-to-day transactions going through some higher layer network, but I expect some money "settled" in my account each month. That's 12 transactions a year. The US has around 30M businesses, so that's 360M settlement transactions a year. Already more than double what Bitcoin can do and we're not even talking about, say, having employees paid on the blockchain.
> every thirty years

Climate change says hi.
It’s actually the least strange thing about the news.

(And probably the most accurate)
Nope, you're still benefiting from the base layer's security while being able to transact much faster and cheaper on layer 2.
The 3,034 days refers to how many sols (Martian days) it has lasted. The discrepancy is due to the fact that a Martian day is roughly 24 hours 40 minutes long. That extra 40 minutes over roughly 3000 days leads to the 82 day difference.
There were reports over a decade ago that such destabilizing events would happen.
I remember when Hertz was deeply discounted this last spring. What an amazing deal.
It sound like we're in agreement that it's a pump and dump scheme and not a true investment.
ATX?
Yeah, it's kind of interesting how two extreme camps have evolved out of the "controversial" decision not to include generics in Go 1.0:

* Camp 1: generics will always be horrible, Go is right not to include it, it's too complex, Go is meant to be simple, etc.

* Camp 2: I will never use Go because it doesn't have generics, serious languages have generics, etc.

When in reality, both camps are pretty much wrong. Yes, generics are useful in a lot of places. But they also add no value in a lot of places. It's really on you to pick the tool you want to use. If you really want generics, pick C++ or Java instead. If you couldn't care less, Go is an option. It's much more fluid than this binarization of the topic has made it out to be.
It sounds like it would be really easy to make a game like that, without the hassle of a 2D grid.
If the posted reply takes the form of meddling in a discussion you weren't involved to question why one party dared to write what they wrote and scold them, it's somewhat apt though.

Doubly so if others like Erlich_Bachman, who was involved in the subtread earlier, have already answered to the parent what was meant...
You are completely right: Bitcoin is an absurd piece of technology and its value is based completely on speculation by people who want to make you buy it and then pull the rug.

Congratulations for the incredible insight. Now you can short Bitcoin in a futures market and make a huge amount of money with your brilliant observations.
I (presumably along with GP) am using Firefox where the background shows up white and the contrast ratio weighs in at 1.43:1. But it looks fine on Chrome.
She could pay the $12 or whatever it is.
Same. I've been a 1Password license holder for forever and I was looking at switching away from it because they seem to be moving completely to their subscription service but now the value of the subscription service is looking better and better since I started looking at other options. I can get multi-platform apps for my entire family, with the features I've been using for years, and the cost is cheaper than what I was paying in the past for each individual license on each device.

The only thing keeping me from switching is my past experience with these types of services where, once I make the switch, they remove the standalone license and then raise their prices and I have no alternatives besides dropping the ecosystem entirely or ponying up the ransom. I don't like being in that situation.
I find this response hilarious, because you jumped to a standard to make your argument without considering that what you are seeing may not match what others are seeing.

The page is super hard to read with the white background it has in Firefox, but fine with the dark background it has in Chrome.

I.e., the problem is that the website sometimes renders with a white background and very light pink text.
Searching 1.5TB/SEC: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
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Ok. Every investment. Bonds, real estate, stocks, metals. Magic cards probably don't count.

The point is that "use BTC as a hedge against inflation" is obviously not a thing since people are chasing 10x growth.
Texas is so so so overwhelmingly single family homes. How do these folks not have generators? This is supposed to be independent rootin’ tootin’ Texas.
Google could have some automated checks with the results shown in the Chrome Web Store. Does this update add new network requests, for example.
Testing in Production
> using sampling profilers

> at least 10 times more efficient

Ah, it is such an obviously good idea to optimize the basics of profiling and then just generally always log some profiling information that I'm sure this will catch on and become standard practice for all software.

Reminds me of the adage "a little documentation today is better than a lot of documentation tomorrow". Or in your case, a "a little profiling today is better than a lot of profiling tomorrow"
Austin Totally Xtreme?
One might argue that your debt to society is ALL of the legal consequences of your crime including not just imprisonment time but also fees, fines, etc. In these discussions it often seems like people have the feeling that the prison time is the sole punishment for the crime when in fact that's not the case. Your debt to society is the entirety of the consequences.

That being said, I've read some of the details of the particular fees/fines/etc and they are often times a wholly unjust prison trap that is difficult to escape. Laws that allow that sort of thing should be changed to provide reasonable cost offsetting onto people who commit criminal acts without creating nightmarish situations that people can't rationally be expected to deal with.
No, we shouldn't rethink independence. We should build back better.
It's most certainly behavioral. I can look at the George Floyd case and say, "Here's an instance where whipping out your camera phone is beneficial" but the vast majority of cases are people just trying to embarrass each other via the metaphorical internet army. 4chan, when I was a kid, had a saying that went "not your personal army" that was organic from what I could tell and for precisely this purpose. I don't think you'll get that level of awareness out of post-2007 internet denizens.
Glad you are doing so well. There are a lot of people out there who are not.
Govt's adoption of technology seems to lag society as a whole. What I wonder about is, is the lag a steady 20 years behind for example, or is it that the pace of adoption is just slower, which would imply that the lag (or gap between technological adoption in govt and society as a whole) is getting bigger and bigger.

Is Earth going to be at war with the planet state of Mars, in the great water wars of 2150, and the Earth forces VA department is still processing injury claims on paper?