skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m part of a team that is looking at basically that for a pitch competition.

Figure out some carbon capture thing that economically works at some low rate of power and it runs whenever the price of power is low enough.

It would just use those periods of renewable overproduction though.
It also took exactly 15 minutes between encountering the live agent for the first time and the final sign-off. That's nothing given that they had to communicate via live text chat. And as others have pointed out in this thread, it's actually possible to cancel just by filling out a form, not that this excuses the dark patterns and endless offers.

This reads as someone determined to get something juicy they could screenshot, or else someone who was already so annoyed from having to find the cancellation method on the site that they let it cloud their responses to what was a relatively painless process.
I don't think they're discriminating, probably just massive laws they have to deal with for every new country, and they're still pretty new so probably don't have their resources.

Can you use a VPN?
It’s actually not expensive at all and fully paid by the energy companies.

The costs are always inflated by the anti-nuclear movement, but when you talk to actual nuclear engineers you will learn that these costs have never been a problem.

I have visited multiple decommissioned nuclear plants in Germany and the guides talked about the decommissioning costs which were 6 billion Euros for the two plants of former East Germany.

And keep in mind that a single nuclear reactor produces electricity worth more than one million Dollars - per day - with the NRC already having licensed plants for an 80-year lifetime such as the Turkey Point station.

And don’t forget that solar and wind will _always_ need a backup solution such as natural gas. You have to include these when comparing costs.
The next great SAAS idea? nytcancel.com: $1 flat rate and we will cancel your NYT subscription for you
PG&E has been raising rates to pay for upgrades to stop their grids from starting wild fires, wouldn't that explain most of this?
They always had "developer tips" even on their YouTube
And he somehow forgot the costs for any backup generation that is needed for volatile renewable energy.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're looking for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No business gets a pass for crappy behaviour bordering on malpractice. NYT is a left-leaning, propaganda paper today which has fired most of its older and rational staff writers and editors.
> theoretically, great

Except then this thing were they assign you to a single cell and the vessel may pass the boundaries of said cell? Do you expect some sort of protocol for automatic handoff to the next cell in the future?
BBC, NPR, /r/news, etc.

There's tons of decent news sites.
> The root issue is that media companies no longer make $$$ from ads, instead google does and they want that money back. This is "silly" law to accomplish that goal.

The problem is that Media companies didn't lose their revenue to Google. They lost it to other more specalised websites i.e. Seek, Craiglists, Gumtree and so on.
It's not just related to age?
There's no simple way, the virtualization vendors have to write virtual hardware, and their signatures are all over everything in the virtualized PC stack. There are numerous ways to detect these, let alone the API hooks vendors leave in the guest OS for the guest to query the hypervisor.
It needs to be able to tilt and angle itself.

Trees cannot be in the way. 11GHz+ doesn't like trees.
The snow won't last, the prices might
I don’t understand how this can be low latency and how the throughput and bandwidth can be high. Can someone knowledgeable explain it?
I have excellent coverage but I've given up and for the last year been buying my topicals from India. This country really needs to re-evaluate which drugs really need to be gated by a prescription and which are essentially harmless. I loved visiting pharmacies when I was abroad. A few bucks for a few pills and that was that. Once my doctor here started telling me I could only get certain drugs from certain "specialty pharmacies" I had enough. The system isn't broke. It's engineered to screw everyone.
This seems very much like a beta-only limitation though.
A friend used to work for a call center handling AOL cancelations. They had a goal of keeping 85% of the callers subscribed.
I think that's the appeal of Bitcoin and/or Gold: it's both cash in that it might act as a safe haven in the case of an asset crash and would retain it's value during hyperinflation (since you can't print more of it).

Though bitcoin has really been untested as a safe asset and currently behaves more like a speculative one.
what if we do both!
comcast has been doing it for years, it seems to be working out pretty well for them?
That plant is already back online:

> https://twitter.com/Beazy_Rampezy/status/1362043827800977414

The average capacity of nuclear across the US is never below 90% which is far better than any other source of energy.

Wind is 25% capacity factor on average, solar 10% and natural gas around 50~60%.

So while the tripping of STP1 was unlucky, the plant was just offline for a short time providing how extreme reliable it is.
Why is no one talking about that terrible font! It's def not monospaced from the looks of it!
NYT just lets the partisan hacks write the articles.
zsh4humans is the most recent zsh “trick” I’ve discovered. zsh is a bit like emacs when first installed: it can do a lot of things but it’s not nearly as useful without a lot of manual configuration. I’m honestly surprised it doesn’t have more stars on GitHub.

https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans
The usual things that are brought up in this kind of HN thread are that studies don't show an advantage in delivered software, and tradeoffs / limitations of type systems are bad tradeoffs, and the vast majority of things caught by static type systems are trivial errors that are easily caught anyway, and that these days a lot of interfaces are APIs between systems that the static type systems don't cover anyway.

Thanks for the interesting sounding talk link. It's "Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen - Matthias Felleisen" from ClojureTV, for those who rarely click on youtube links. Mathias Felleisen a well known Racket guy, author of How to Design Programs, etc.
I'm reading between the lines, but my understanding of the (fixed) new law is that "plain linking" would still be okay, "previewing" would require sitting at the table. What's the difference between the two?

Plain linking does not keep people on FB. Automated previewing does. Can't this be interpreted as raising the bar for fair use?
But which way is it going to go? Is there a set of investments that will benefit off either outcome?
In the link they said it’s only 4% of their content but on the radio this morning (national Australian station Triple J), they stated that it’s a big deal as “many people rely on Facebook as their source of news”.
That "but" is demonstrably wrong. There are lots of places that are heading towards relying exclusively on renewables where nuclear, coal, and gas plants are basically shrinking in use as the grid expands to shift to being exclusively powered by renewables.

Most of those places are not affected by blackouts being a regular thing. I can't remember the last one in Germany, which has lots of wind. I can't remember a single power outage lasting more than a few minutes/seconds, ever. I'm 46 and I only experienced only a handful of those. Just not a thing in Northern Europe. We have interconnected grids and coal/nuclear are basically disappearing rapidly. I believe the UK had an interesting cascading failure on its grid last year and that was big news because it is so unusual. That only lasted for a few hours.

If you look at the economics, it's pretty straightforward. Texas was an early adopter of wind because it's a cheap option for generating power and it takes power to produce power. So a lot of that Texan wind power is actually used for oil and gas production and was installed primarily for that purpose and payed for by very much for profit oil companies. Probably with the help of a lot of tax money because big oil basically owns the local politicians.

Ironically, the thing that's currently driving up the prices of gas in the US, is basically oil and gas production being affected by the sudden demand for gas for heating. As demand spiked, gas production capacity started dropping because the electrical grid got disrupted (which is of course about 50% powered by gas plants in Texas). Probably Texas is more reliant on gas now than in the past, which is probably a big reason for the current issues.

Yes, some older wind turbines are not capable of dealing with cold weather. Texas of course has lots of those as it was an early adopter and is not commonly affected by cold weather like this.

But there are lots of regions with extreme weather that have large deployments of wind turbines that reliably produce power through very extreme conditions. E.g. Antarctica has wind power. So does Iceland, Norway, or Alaska. Ice proof wind turbines is a high tech business and a fairly recent development. So, wind is basically part of the solution here and not part of the problem.
Careful what you look at. The relevant number here is the RTT-SPP level from your link (not RTM-LMP), which then shows $9000/MWh everywhere in Texas.
> Overselling can push those numbers up, but I don't think they can oversell enough to take them to a trillion dollar company.

You’re vastly underestimating how much you oversell as a consumer ISP. Fiber companies with dedicated lines to your house can’t even handle all of their customers pulling 100mbps at a time because the bottlenecks are the IXPs.

The AMS IXP is one of the largest exchanges in the world, and it only hits about 10,000 gbps max per day.

You’re also forgetting that $100/mo is a cost offered to consumers on the ground. Commercial shipping and military won’t bat an eye at paying $1000/mo for a measly 10mbps to a ship in the pacific. Oil rigs, mines, military bases, etc, etc.
A lot of these can be easily done in Bash, too!

1. `mkcdir () { mkdir -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"; }`

2a. `bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'; bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'`

2b. Default behavior for Bash.

3. `shopt -s autocd`

4. `mmv`, `perl-rename`

5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate

8. Default behavior for Bash.

9. Default behavior for Bash.
tl;dr; Yes, this is happening - as soon as there are enough satellites in orbit and terminals are certified to be used on the move.

1. Officially confirmed that moving to a different location is currently locked due to sparse coverage. As soon as this improves to a point it makes sense and starlink has logistics of this figured out it will be allowed

2. Officially confirmed that putting terminal on a car (or even a plane) will be possible, but this only makes sense with much denser coverage and requires separate, stricter (vs fixed terminal) certification from FCC.
What you are saying is true but irrelevant. Yes there is a baseline of demand. But that does not mean that there is a requirement for a similar supply. The demand you described can be supplied by cheap renewables, complemented by gas or hydro as I discussed above.
I just cancelled and it was relatively painless, to their credit.

When they asked the reason, I said that political coverage was unfair. Left is OK, unfair is not.

I don't consider myself "on the left" but I really don't mind a publication being left of center or right of center. If it's good, I will pay for it (I subscribed tp The Atlantic at least twice, and the New Yorker once, and probably others in a mix of print and digital).

But the NYT has drifted too far down the path of politically-correct fashions, and away from robust debate and discussion of challenging topics and how they intersect with real events.

It feels more like they want to persuade me to hold a set of opinions (which shifts rapidly), rather than informing me and letting me form my own. "Persuade" is even the wrong word; more like "pressure" or "coerce". If it's all ads, so be it; but when I pay, I expect that I am the customer and not the product. So I don't pay as of the end of my billing cycle.

Also, the NYT cheers on, and even participates in bullying. Scott Alexander being a recent example, but there are a lot more when it comes to politically-charged topics.

I should reiterate that this is not a right-left thing. I would have remained subscribed if the NYT had simply drifted left, and concerned itself mainly with arguments betweed various left-of-center factions. Lots of worthwhile things to discuss and debate there, and lots of events to tie it to.
Simple trading technique to make a fulltime income trading cryptocurrencies
> Hypothetically: a friend borrows your car, but you didn't fix the break fluid leak, and he runs over someone.

> Who's at fault?

Legally the answer is crystal clear. If it was intentional? He is. Unintentional? You are.

I don't really see the comparison.
Once upon a time, black lives were important, every death of the pandemic was the personal kill count of the president..
There used to be hilarious mask debates.

Then the elections got over, and nobody gives a shit.. some would think the real root cause of the pain of these issues was actually just not being in power..

Reader, don't mind the musings of this spectators outside perspective of American politics.. I can't vote in the US, so for all practical purposes not human from an Americans perspective..
> It would take ~six years for the Z8 to break even

Do you mean six months?
Yet the code targets all links, not previews, just links. This is a cash-grab.
Another way to frame it is as a form of communication:

You have made cancelling through English difficult so I am communicating cancellation to you financially.

It’s funny how they listen more to the latter. The only dark pattern they have is credit reporting which has real risks if they cross a line.
I'm agreeing with you. If you read the article, most of the opposition arose from PG&E botching nuclear. Especially given their track record over the last few years, I am /immensely/ appreciative that PG&E never had the chance to rollout nuclear in California.

There are rational arguments against nuclear when the stewards are incompetent. :) It's high time we get the right engineers and companies in place to make the switch.
Well riddle me this, Batman...

The entire fucking world of government and business runs on paper. I have to print out literally reams of shit for regulatory requirements, shit that could be easily stored in multiple locations, on tiny ass microSD cards that could be filed away into a single filing cabinet, potentially holding billions of records, damn near indefinitely, and near-immediately accessed on ePaper displays, with the color documents being displayed on color ones and the black & whites being displayed on greyscale displays... instead we have an enormous off-site filing warehouse to retain documentation for up to seven years. Hell, my corporation probably has several of these.

And it sure as shit isn't the legal framework holding all this up... everyone I deal with in government and business hates having to shuffle all this shit around, and would much rather be tossed an 8.5" x 11" eInk display with all relevant documents than having to shuffle through manila folder after manila folder of printed pages, and they'd all gladly lobby to have these laws and regulations changed and revised to allow for that.

I guaran-goddamn-tee you the market for eInk is there.
Uh what?
Maybe it makes sense? HN readers on average probably have a better idea of what they are getting into. And probably make more money than average so they can buy multiple devices and try them out.

I have iOS and Android devices. Nothing of worth is stuck on iOS (or MacOS). But iOS is my daily driver. Though I've switched back to Linux for daily work.

I'm happy to mess around with something, but it's definitely great to have a platform that is not so easy to mess up and has great support for the rest of the family. And I'm happy to stay compatible with them.
> I never said Fauci did something connected to Newsom. Read more carefully, stop jumping to conclusions.

The comment I was referring to was this statement of yours:

> The policy reversal on masks last spring was not based on new science. It was in part a big rip-off (Newsom paid 4x and spent >$1B of the California taxpayers' money,

You talk about Fauci flopping his stance on masks, you talk about policy reversal on masks, you talk about Newsom's mask expenditures, you call Fauci a corrupt careerist in the comment I'm replying to and mostly in consecutive sentences.

No doubt my reading skills could be better, but perhaps you should stop and realize that while what you intend to say may be crystal clear in your head, you perhaps could have stated things more clearly.

> Please educate yourself better before coming at me with such gaffes. COVID-19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus,

Are you always this pedantic? And always so belittling?
There’s nothing wrong with storing your possessions in your car; it’s just not what it was designed for and your possessions are at greater risk of theft.

Similarly, if you need a risk-free value store (e.g. because you’re very close to retirement) the market is not going to provide that for you.

Edited to add: clarification about the analogy.
TLS certificates specifying hosts via the CommonName field is more or less gone
My wife carries the majority of her weight in her hips and legs, whereas I carry mine mostly in my abdomen. I have high density fat, and hers is low density. We both have a high BMI.
I remain unconvinced that she has zero risk, whereas I have 100% risk.
As far as I know, there is no opt out for account updater features. If you are unable to cancel the subscription with a company and you don't want to do any future business with them, I recommend issuing a chargeback through your credit card company.

Note that chargebacks should be a last resort, as if you use it too much, they may just close your account. It may be worth raising the issue with th se subscriptions saying that they should cancel or you will just start issuing chargebacks.
If you live in CA this is because they have a law requiring this.
I’m so surprised to read this. My only interpretation is that your sense of smell might be diminished. Your Big Mac can be smelt from around 3-4 rows away in both directions. It’s really unpleasant to sit there for a period of time smelling that, but people aren’t going to say that to a complete stranger.
Does it mean that all of the missing cases apart from that hundred were resolved and confirmed as not abductions by strangers? Otherwise, how many of the remaining cases were? I suspect this number might make a world of difference.
Time decay happens on options. You pay interest on the tether you borrow.
They've been trending the last couple days.
Narrow streets without road markings is what we generally do to slow traffic here in Europe. They are safer and slower without the need for speed bumps. We have full sections of the city centre without markings under free-for-all and pedestrians can freely walk on the street. Less crashes and safer strees.

No need to make them poor visibility tho. That would be just stupid.
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Back before prices got better, my parents used to call up the cable company every year to "cancel our service". Why? "It's too expensive." Eventually they would "give in" after shaving $20 off our monthly bill. This of course was their intent the whole time: they saved thousands of dollars over about 10 years as a result.

Very few people actually determined to cancel are going to be convinced by something like this, I suspect. There's a whole cottage industry of mostly older, upper-middle class folks who call customer service lines once a year to get their rebate. I find the whole game rather reprehensible (on the part of the companies that allow it). It constitutes a kind of wealth transfer to the people who have the free time, energy, and ability to play the game. I'd much rather these companies just reduce the price across the board towards the "average" payment, and stick to their guns with the people who call in.

This would eliminate so many hours of pointless work and frustration.
We are too early and messed up by coronavirus.

Most of companies have no idea how to manage and control remote work, not just that, but it turns out most of management positions are useless waste of money. That's why remote is unpopular.

However, the whole landscape is changing, and people are slowly accepting the fact that if things like Linux kernel or GHC could be done remotely (without management with high salaries) then everything else can be done too.

But because of corona the demand for anything skillful has been collapsed. The only demand I see is mechanical boring tasks for $5/hour on Upwork and similar sweatshops.

Right now there is zero demand for knowledge or good minds, because it is difficult for management to squeeze itself between better minds and bigger money, which is all management is all about.

So, just keep swimming against the current. Some of us do it for decades.
I had to try my fiber connection. I get 0.6 - 0.8 ms within our town which is not that big, < 10 km from me.

To Stockholm, which is only 80 or so km away if you measure straight line, is 3.5 ms away.

Iv'e always been curious as to what adds so much latency and what I did read was that its the network equipment itself mostly. The inherent latency in the fiber should be on the order of much less than 1 ms as far as I understand. 3.33 us per km, and 3,33 * 104 (more realistic distance) is only 346 microseconds.

Its weird though, using mtr its very clear that its the "long" hop that most of the latency, or at least 2.8 ms. So is the figures for speed of light in fiber wrong, or is there something else that adds up to a lot of latency in fiber connections? Is it the optical components?
When I looked at it, you want a tree. Small branches -> large branches. Head first or tucked in. Yes it might skewer you but if you are worried about that you don't really understand your odds.

This talk is really good, just for critical planning it's interesting, (Luke Aikins did the jump without a parachute into a net) -

Skydiver Luke Aikins at the 2016 GeekWire Summit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtrpLIDHFGU (23 mins)
Every single outlet you just listed is just as bad as the New York Times... /r/news is absolutely the worst cesspool shithole I've ever encountered on reddit, with the possible exception of /r/politics.

It isn't just their rabid anti-conservative bias, which I'm more or less fine with as its pretty clear their possessed by their ideologies, but its their fascism of banning anyone who has a different opinion, while hilariously hiding behind "fighting fascism". I guess it makes sense though... fight fire with fire, fight fake fascism with real fascism...
Did they? I have two properties serviced by them and didn’t get any notification.
That is also a bad monopolistic practice we should be against. Apple isn't the only culprit.
Last time I checked it was slower than https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k, because it doesn't decouple the rendering of the prompt from the background processes collecting status information. Ergo no instant prompt. Also, some other cool tricks w.r.t. prompt vs. backscroll.

Has that changed?
So how do you know? Is it documented somewhere? All I could find was one unclear mention that could also be about the automatic mechanisms built in to storyboards.