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> Responsible drug users sounds like an oxymoron. Is there any data that shows those people even exist?

I mean, there's the billions of people who manage to consume alcohol without it interfering with the rest of their lives and the lives of others. Don't pretend that one substance that alters perception and behavior somehow isn't a "drug" in the same way that many others are just because of its legal status.

But if you mean drugs that are illegal, yes, there are also plenty of responsible users of those too. My wife and I have taken MDMA together a few times and it has been transformative for our relationship. As well as sharing our love for each other it also helped us talk about difficult subjects, something which I found hard for a long time, and as a result I am now better at talking about hard things when sober too. I think most people would say that going on a date night is a "responsible" act of relationship maintenance and I don't see what we did as any different, except much, much more enjoyable than a cocktail and meal. Every time we were careful with dosing, made sure we had no other responsibilities, and so on. It's as responsible as quality time with each other at a cafe.

I recognise that the production of illegal drugs is damaging and awful, but that's the fault of our legal framework. In the same way that producing soft drinks or beer isn't necessarily damaging nor should be producing drugs that are currently illegal.
The US has four states with population comparable to Australia.

It would be perfectly centrist for a couple states to enact the policies you mention, assuming they can work out the details and balance the books. When these policies turn into wild success stories, other states might follow.

It probably makes sense to start with some small-medium sized, well-governed blue states first, like when MA implemented Romneycare.

But the left position is to enact these polcies nationally across the US, which has >10x the number of people in your country. And there are a ton of details that nobody really even wants to talk about, and no plan to adapt when things don't work out. So, we are just supposed to trust Congress with a huge amount of extra money and a lot more power because the title of the bill sounds nice?

There are also a lot of policies that seem uniquely designed to punish the "right". I am pro-choice, but I recognize that a lot of people in the US are really, really not. But a lot of people on the left don't just want it legal, they want to use taxpayer money to pay for it. Think about how that makes tens of millions of evangelical Christians feel? There are enough pro-choice organziations that they can pool money from pro-choice people to subsidize abortions. The taxpayer money isn't needed. Why force it?
Depends on what you’d consider easy. I’ve been trying to get into some RF/SDR projects which seems like you can get by with some undergraduate level calculus.
If a vertical farm scales up and sells their produce to a super market, dont they still have to package up all the food and ship it on trucks before it gets to the end user?
Exactly this. A loan of 30 years isn't paid off in a year.
> plants are more efficient at capturing energy from the sun than solar panels -> light bulbs -> plants are

This is a counterintuitive misconception that I mention elsewhere in this thread. Plants aren't optimized for raw sunlight utilization, because that's not the bottleneck for growth or survival. Plants deliberately reflect away 90% of the sun's energy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency) because other factors are more important: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc...
Requiring winterization for energy suppliers (both green and fossil!) seems like a pretty obvious regulation that would have helped.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't have access to the article. The deregulated option allowed people to pay an extreme price for a scarce resource during a rare and extreme weather event. The regulated option forced blackouts on people, and they had no option even if they wanted to pay $10,000 for one night of power.

Well, except for the fact that the "free market" arrived at one year contracts with sticky prices.
hieratic?

"of or concerning priests"
I am all for renewables but if you focus on one area you might neglect others, it is a matter of focus. I have seen it also happening with software where some reliable software is neglected for the new shining thing, less resources directed to maintain the old system which is still providing the bulk of the income to the business and then it crashes and all hell breaks loose.

Especially with climate there is a push to solve "climate change" which nobody can predict exactly what it will be or how to solve while not enough attention is being directed to solve basic "weather change" issues.
It's all here at HN (covid, politics, race stuff, etc.) except sports and
performing arts.

I read HN through Gnus via Emacs so I crunch through articles more efficiently
and comprehensively than most.
Sure, but that is way beyond the threshold of the EMH. And it might just be that making frequent decisions is not a good way of exploiting market inefficiency.
Vertical farming isn't necessarily about saving space. It's also about using typically urban spaces to grow food, where before there was none. It's about pest and predator mitigation. And so on.
I had exactly the same thought. Whenever I write a tool that manages a complex process, I try to add a dry run mode, and more often than not, I use it.
It's the old big business joke. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". You can easily replace Oracle in that sentence.
Do you mind pointing me to some reliable links that do highlight the actual problem?
One more thing it saves:

Transportation (!) from miles away, as a skyscraper could feed a city or a part of it.
you get to think in terms of SQL and relational algebra is the basic idea. Here's one of my talks that discusses this: https://www.sqlalchemy.org/library.html#handcodedapplication...

as for "it's hard to translate from SQL to ORM" that's a huge part of what 1.4/2.0 is trying to make more obvious. But to be fair I get very few "how do I write this in SQL" questions these days as things are pretty 1-1 in any case now; the remaining weak spots (awkwardness with unions, support for table-valued expressions) are addressed in 1.4/2.0 and the relatively awkward "session.query()" model is now legacy.
Yeah, don’t bother with reading articles that exclude the largest source of clean energy in US.

Such articles have an ideological bias.
> Would this mean that developers living in high-priced areas in North America would just need govt assistance since their salary would not be able to meet cost of living?

What do you think is fueling the high cost of living where developers are concentrated in North America?
What if the taste of the particular strain isn't what causes blandness, but growing it in water with plant food mix instead of soil is? It might be possible to develop choose tastier breeds for hydroponic use but it's likely that even they would taste even better if grown in real soil on a farm, with all the added nutrient intake that sustains.

So far the most success has been with fast-growing salad mixes and such, and to me it resembles an offshoot of the fresh sprout industry more than a heavy lifting type of agriculture meant to sustain the billions.
Yes. My mother lives in Montana on an Indian reservation. 60 miles from a population center greater than 50k. She has better broadband options than I do and I live 40 minutes outside of Atlanta and had to file an FCC complaint for ATT to hook up DSL at my home.

...her CLEC/co-op is still in existence because it was too small to be a valuable acquisition during WorldCom's flameout.
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"If you support this, we'll give a million dollars to your next re-election campaign. Otherwise it will go to your opponent."

It doesn't take a lot of mental gymnastics to decide to support it.
Data on inbred nobles support a leader-driven theory of history
This is exactly where I think the debate around "socialism" needs to go. The key issue is reliability. I don't mind private healthcare or electrical grids. I appreciate the power of free markets. What I do mind is being stranded without power in freezing temperatures or a surprise bankruptcy due to a medical issue. That shit is ridiculous in a modern society.
Other people in the thread have cast this vision as puritanical, but in my view the more interesting angle is that its Judaeo-christian aspect has more to do with the sense of expecting punishment. We are trained by the media to have this idea of people eventually paying a psychological price for doing things considered shameful by the majority. In reality, the propensity of people to feel shame sometimes corresponds to that pattern, and sometimes doesn't. It all comes down to the inability to theorize of different minds.
Search "sqlalchemy activerecord" and you will find tutorials, compare and contrast posts, pros and cons, and several implementations for sqlalchemy and many other languages and libraries using the activerecord pattern.

SQLAlchemy, and Python in general, is highly extensible, it can do the ActiveRecord pattern and many other patterns depending on the data, not just the needs of a content publication system.

Here's a couple random AR/SQLA implementations I plucked from DDG:

https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-mixins/

https://pypi.org/project/Flask-ActiveRecord/
But do you think in the rest of the world it's the same thing? In Germany we have good consumer protection laws, even though there of course are lobbyists (or, the old-fashioned name for it, PR people and employees of a company).
Lithuania closed their own plant with pressure from EU, and later voted down a proposal to build a new NPP instead. I guess that gave them a feeling of "nuclear safety". Now they lost that safety through no fault of their own, and they can't have it back, so they are upset.

I only hope Lithuania will take it to a good direction: if there is and would never be any nuclear safety anyway, maybe they can at least enjoy the benefits of NPP by building their own.
The cost of transporting the conventionally grown plants would have to be accounted for as well, but I'd be pretty surprised if that got anywhere near tipping the scale over to vertical farming.
I had never heard of UberCheats until now. Remember the Uber app actually routes the driver from pickup to pickup so they know exactly how much they have traveled. Seriously, Uber, "as the crow flies" instead of the actual distance traveled?

This will I fear, quite happily, will unleash the Streisand effect on UberCheats.

Uber bans UberCheats and founder savvily decides to fight it instead of relaunching under a new name. I predict he will end up with a seed round. Uber will end up with more reputation as being UberDark - as in we pick the dark pattern every time we can because why not.
You do not need a gun if you have an Xbox.
The problem with talking about photosynthetic efficiency is that there are different endpoints you can talk about. The more efficient plants (C4 plants like sugarcane and maize) have something like 4% efficiency converting sunlight to biomass, but they actually absorb a 53% of the incoming light based on spectrum, and lose about 24% of the energy because photons with shorter wavelengths have excess energy which the plants cannot use. We’re not interested in the 4% figure, we’re interested in the 53% and 24% figure because they represent the part of the process that we can change.

Doing the math, that’s around 59% loss which you could mitigate by using LEDs that produce the correct spectrum—but solar panels and LEDs have 90% losses, so you’re noticeably worse off.

It’s worth remembering that the reason why plants only absorb certain parts of the spectrum is the same reason why photovoltaic panels only absorb certain parts of the spectrum—in both cases, you are using light to move electrons, and these processes only capture energy that corresponds to the underlying band gap. Light with shorter wavelengths has additional energy which is wasted, both for photovoltaics and for plants.

You can increase the efficiency by creating multijunction solar panels, which results in multiple band gaps. For most applications, these aren’t cost-effective. If I remember correctly, plants are also “multi-junction”, which explains why they are so efficient.
There are a lot of comments here, that imply (or I think they imply) that had the EU decided to pay the much higher price, production and deployment would be much higher. Is there any factual basis to this, or would we just be in approximately the same situation, but paying more?
Yeah, and people have already been calling for that to be regulated.

If anything, people are openly calling for a specific type of regulation before the event itself has even stopped - which is probabally too soon, even if it does look like the lack of winterization might be the root cause of the issue.
The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander
A reminder that wage theft is endemic to the types of jobs that people who work multiple jobs have. We absolutely need stronger worker protections in the form of actual punishments for business owners who shortchange workers, stronger labor union protections, and government-provided healthcare so people aren't held to their jobs at metaphorical gunpoint.
>It's feasible make multiple smaller boards on the bigger ones by panelizing the PCB. The joints between the boards are specially processed, which is easier to divide later. Rails can be added around the boards for fixing during processing.

I've seen at least one PCB shop that asks customers not to panelize for small lots, so they can mix layouts from several customers and get better packing efficiency.
It might have started in 1989 - but in 1993 when I encountered it it was still alive.
Yes but the idea is you are now shipping it 5 miles instead of 500 miles.
The fact that one of them was working on a PhD on a lisp variant makes a whole lot of sense. No wonder. Great article!
Honestly that’s my favorite part about SQLAlchemy—you need to think in SQL. It doesn’t try to hide anything behind leaky abstractions, it’s WYSIWYG. Just gives us the good parts of an ORM while sidestepping the whole “ORMs are the Vietnam of Computer Science” problem.
Directly contradicts a story from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637337

That story

>A study published in Nature shows that a segment of DNA that causes their carriers to have an up to three times higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals. The study was conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

This story

>We show that a haplotype on chromosome 12, which is associated with a ∼22% reduction in relative risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19 when infected by SARS-CoV-2, is inherited from Neandertals. This haplotype is present at substantial frequencies in all regions of the world outside Africa. The genomic region where this haplotype occurs encodes proteins that are important during infections with RNA viruses.
Most probably not Borland. That scrollbar looks like Swing.
Who did Apple write this for? Enterprise security teams evaluating whether to allow employees to use Apple devices?
> Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels.

Solar panels don't have to be on land; they can be on buildings. Moreover, they don't have to be on land that is arable. Moreover, solar is not the only way to avoid fossil fuels in the quest of electricity.

Also, it's cheaper to transport electricity from a distant electric farm, than vegetables from a distant vegetable farm.
> Ideally, there should be some sort of a credit transfer mechanism, where an employee working multiple part-time jobs that combine to 40+ hours a week could get benefits equivalent to a full-time job at one of the workplaces, proportionally covered by all employers.

There's actually a much simpler solution - divorce basic human rights (healthcare) from the employer.
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I don't see anything about the "Unlock your iPhone with your Watch" feature that 14.5 is going to have[0] - i'd be interested in reading the in-depth security considerations they had. It's also currently a mystery if this feature does a partial Face ID scan in addition to requiring an unlocked Watch.

0: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/01/iphone-apple-watch-unlo...
Why is nobody ever writing raw SQL? I've never understood why ORMs are sine qua min.
I'm pretty sure going it alone ("We are the Lone Star! Freedom!" etc) is not the answer when it comes to building an energy grid:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/even-power-disasters...
They would raise prices? Which would disproportionately affect me, who makes a good bit more than minimum wage, since I still buy from those vendors but my wage is not increasing.

While lower income workers would have the prices raise on them, but less than by the amount that their page is rising (because the cost is also spread on people who won't have their wages increased).

Which is fine by me. It can present a problem to positions like, say, academic adjunct, since those are budgetary and can't simply increase prices. But for the most part I don't see anything apocalyptic about a minimum wage increase.
If you have to study for the interview, they're not selecting their candidates for intelligence, really, but either intelligence or studiousness.
That really depends on what your conception of an average person is?

I'm not sure it's even useful to look at an average person, vs the bottom 10%? Your average person could be doing fine even with slavery taking up a reasonable portion of people
I used to be a cat-like dual wielding rapier knight with totem-skills, had a lot of fun with my old guild until the RP requirements were dropped. Still z thank you and the rest of the gang fort giving me so much fun and be able to meet so many nice people. I'm sure my character (Shearr) is still gathering dust somewhere :-)
hope it crashes.
My local supermarket has hydroponics on site and sells them there.
Sorry, but there's no way I will ever believe it's just a crazy fluke that given the broad spectrum of political beliefs in the US, two parties each have roughly 49% of public support in terms of issues and voting power for decades on end, and that they regularly swap positions of power every few years.

The US is the only developed nation where you have no hope of getting elected to political office at _any_ level of government unless you pledge to align yourself with either Red Team or Blue Team. Campaign platforms and public opinion always boil down to some variant of, "if you think we're bad, you should see the other guys!" as your comment confirms.

To the extent that both parties engage in creating and retaining laws that further ensconce the practical existence of only two parties (see gerrymandering), yes, both sides are equally bad.
The ArsTechnica article is a decent place to start.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/even-power-disasters...

This is still an on-going event so the “history” is still being written.

Also
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...
We owe this money to the central banks
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Don't take this wrong, but I'm pretty skeptical of a positive outcome of your life too. We all die in the end.
Ok, the links from the article are interesting. I can't claim any deep understanding [0] but are there rural/underserved cross-subsidization issues with muni broadband if the feds don't get taxes/fees from it?

The bill that directly addresses muni broadband [1] seems very specific to "a State or political subdivision thereof." Would a community nonprofit/coop style muni broadband be affected by this bill?

0. https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/press-rele...

1. https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uplo...
His name is now in a court filing AND published on Ars Technica. He's toast.
I hear a lot of people saying they want to do this or that they could do this but... I would love to hear more stories about how it works in practice. Like, isn't there some level of legal liability, whether justified or not, that you would be opening yourself up to by doing this? Especially if the companies are in any way related, which could probably be hard to quantify.
EV rate, yes. Off peak price is 22.2c/kWh in the winter (cheaper), it's higher in the summer.
The other thing to remember is that there is a lot of land that isn't suitable for farming for one reason or another that can be used for solar.
Attempting to quantify Keynes’ concept of “animal spirits”
On average Texas isn't in this moment, so their problems don't matter.

They aren't freezing and without power on average
This is the first time that I've seen Apple riff on its logo (the Apple + lock on the front).
I played Zork via the Arpanet in 1978. (Yes, I'm "experienced"). A friend showed me how to reach the net via a local phone call, even though we were in a school computer lab Washington, DC and were accessing a machine at MIT. We had a 300 baud modem and a DECwriter terminal; we wasted a lot of paper playing the game.
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Note that in Europe the economies are not as dynamic and has lower GDP growth on average. There are costs to higher taxes and more regulations. We're not exceptional, things are done differently.
> Add in that governments generally do a bad job running businesses (wasteful)

It's always strange to see this kind of statement presented as axiomatic. This sort of circular reasoning sounds like ideology on autopilot. Utilities should be run by businesses, not the government. Why? Because the government is bad at running businesses.
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Why not just get rid of the connection between employer and benefits? Employer pays cash, tax system allow people to manage roth/health/etc accounts based on caps and percentages of earned income.

If the free market was supposed to handle the distortion of employer benefit programs, then every employee would need to monitor their employer's yearly benefit negotiations such that 10-20% of them would be giving notice on the basis of any negative benefit change. That isn't happening.
Is he really laying blame on renewables? I mean, he pointed out the reality that the current weather situation has caused wind generation difficulties and that wind and solar, at least, are fueled by something we have little control over -- i.e. we can't add more wind/sun when we need more power. Frankly, I felt he presented it honestly -- it wasn't a "Enviro-Mentalist Bad!", it was "it is great a lot of the time and when we the ability to store it better, it'll basically be a non-issue".

Totally agree -- the issue is one that's clouded with BS on both sides. This article did a good job of explaining why it's a really hard problem; regulations are too often a big, blunt, instrument aimed at a delicate problem and are often just as destructive as "letting unregulated capitalism solve it". Too important of a resource for either solution so both sides aim at things that look good or appeal to their base (Big Energy Bad/Environmentalists are Communists!) and the blackouts continue.