skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transaction fees are horrendous right now. I wanted to transfer about $30 to a friend, but the cost of the transaction would be ~$20. Its sad to see the intended use not be practical anymore.
As I sit in a cold, dark Dallas apartment just waiting for my cell phone to also run out of electricity, I am reminded of The Black Swan.

While shopping for electricity providers I saw deals from companies like Griddy that promised to save me money by utilizing all sorts of complicated schemes. I ultimately chose a flat-rate electricity plan. One, because I didn’t want to think about hitting certain requirements, and two, there’s always the possibility of some unseen but certain to happen event that would ruin all my savings. And this is exactly what’s happening to Griddy.
You may as well just Arduino one yourself at that point.
Increased A/C adoption? I mean, presumably the same thing is happening in other areas of the Southwest (nobody's ripping out their air conditioners and throwing them away, and some are installing new ones). The reductions in per-capita electricity consumption in CA must be made up by great efficiency increases, since no doubt A/C usage is going up at the same time. OTOH, if power was as cheap at is in Texas, perhaps investing in efficiency wouldn't be worth it.

Also, it sounds like Texas' population has increased by 3.8 million to 29 million from 2010 to 2020. That sounds like pretty darn close to 20%.

https://thetexan.news/texas-population-increases-in-the-last...
On reddit i follow /r/woodstoving. My inspiration for getting it right
There are plenty of other stores of trust. You could buy index funds or government bonds or any number of other things, and the price will be less volatile than Bitcoin to boot. I know a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts are skeptical of traditional institutions, but really, if all the world's governments go bankrupt you're going to have bigger problems. Heck, if you must use a cryptocurrency, at least pick one of the newer ones which aren't as inefficient as Bitcoin!
Pellet stoves sound nice in concept but my experience with them (n=2) has not been good. The hoppers break and jam, the fans die, and they’re generally just a pain in the rear. Usually happens right when you need them most, too.
You could have a better insulated and much smaller home, but clearly this person has never lived in <30F weather, you obviously need to heat your home to have any modicum of comfort. Its unconformable if you are well prepared and healthy, life threatening otherwise to young, old and infirm.
It can get worse. When the price is going up, up, up, people borrow money to buy. That makes the bubble blow even faster - it's not limited to peoples' cash on hand. But when the price dips, and people bought with borrowed money, they sprint for the exit. The crash is much faster than it would be if "I could lose some of my gains" is the motivation.

Even worse: If people can't get out fast enough, and the banks didn't judge the risk properly, it can threaten banks - see 2008 for how this works.
Visa is no medium of exchange - only a payment network. CO2 emissions are bad for sure. CO2 tax would help with the migration to green energy. Energy consumption however also has a reason -> security. I don't think there is a secure alternative and I don't think anyone wants to continue staying in central banking hell.
If the user, as an intelligent adult person decide to buy from this third party using the payment processor of the third party, this is his choice.

Apple teaches users to become assisted depended stupid individuals.

"Ohhh look at this nice shinny company that is here to take care of my best interests, lets withdraw all my rights to them".

That makes me think about the book "the animal farm" book also from Orwell.

Users that are almost begging to be put into servitude...

Imagine if real life was like that?

Like the post office looking at your mail and delivering only the one that they decide they approve (and serve their financial interests).

- "oh, I see that this person bought a Xiaomi phone, it is probably not a secure device, let refuse to deliver it."

- "Look, someone sent a 10e bill reimbursement inside a letter to their friend, they should have used our shitty money-remittance service, lets burn this letter"
We also have some of the most expensive power in the world. Kinda goes hand in hand it seems.
It's possible to trademark an existing word if it's being used in a different class. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/trademark-classes.ht...
A huge chunk of what we now consider internet culture was derived from the Something Awful forums and some of the other sites that sprouted out of it (4chan). I believe most/all the images in the video the OP is derived from were from a "Photoshop Friday" content from Something Awful.

I remember the first time I saw what we'd now call "memes", but were then called "image macros" on some of these forums. (This is the most work friendly example I remember: http://bensbargains.net/thecheckout/wp- content/uploads/2014/01/discount-tent.jpg )

It's incredible to me that the form of media is been largely unchanged in almost two decades of accelerated cultural change. 20 years ago the big joke was photoshopping "All Your Base" into some photo. The biggest meme of 2020 was photoshopping Bernie Sanders into some photo. The biggest difference is that these things used to have a relatively burn as they worked their way through the culture and now they burn white hot for a few days and are immediately dated a week later.
Probably. I just picked something at random that I know uses a lot of power - I think in the order of one nuclear reactor for a typical installation. Should have known better than to do that here.
My brother's house is currently 38°. Inside. Also, gas is not useful for a central, forced air system because it depends on the electric motor driving the blower.
I mined in 2011 and sold at $5500. It was enough for a down payment on a house in a major metropolitan area but had I kept holding I would be a millionaire now. :(
>>> Someone asked (and deleted their comment while I was writing my reply):

Oops, that was me. Sorry! I realized that it doesn't, and didn't want to leave what seemed possibly like a snarky question in the discussion, but I'm glad you picked it up and clarified the answer.
Why don't we run radiator water pipes across the chimney, to bring that heat back to the house?
The US government investigated and sued Microsoft for anti-trust violations many year ago. The anti-trust legal issues hampered Microsoft enough, so that smaller competitors, like Apple and Google, were able to gain traction in online and mobile space.

If that didn't happen, you would most likely be a Microsoft serf speaking into a Microsoft Windows Pocket PC Phone consumer edition.

Apple and Google has much tighter control over the platforms now than Microsoft ever dreamed of in wildest monopoly fantasies.

Government can use the same anti-trust regulations to break up Apple and Google and monopoly control over mobile app stores.

It's governments duty to keep fair competition in the marketplace, so innovation and free trade can happen for benefit of consumers.
Did the allergy doctor do a skin prick test with perfumes?

Did I write anything that downplays your partner's problems? Perhaps you think that psycho-somatic problems aren't common, or are somehow the fault of the people suffering from them? Psycho-somatic symptoms are real. I experienced them myself for many years. I do not dismiss your partner's symptoms.

Human bodies are complicated and diverse. Finding solutions to health problems requires an open mind and effort to learn and try various potential solutions. Please try not to react defensively to this stranger's words. My intention is to help you and your partner.

I am quite certain that your partner's perfume sensitivity and skin allergies are different biological processes. Allergies are a very specific process involving histamines and leading to inflammation. Nobody has demonstrated that process happening because of perfume in the air.

It's possible that your partner's skin allergies flare up when the brain releases stress hormones. Stress affects the immune system in complicated ways. Stress can trigger hives [0]. That doesn't make them perfume allergies.

Consider this process:

Smells perfume -> brain enters fear emotion -> brain releases stress hormones -> immune system increases sensitivity -> infection alert goes off in areas of skin (hives)

If this is the case, then you can prevent the hives by preventing the brain from entering the fear emotion state.

[0] https://medlineplus.gov/hives.html
My daughter recently encountered this in Roblox. Her friends gave her a hard time for her default skin. The peer pressure to spend money is real.
Lets assume it is a ponzi scheme and then make judgments based on that assumption.
A clue as to the origins of the Zero Wing translation in this interview with Masahiro Yuge of Toaplan:

>-Toaplan also ported Zero Wing to the Megadrive. Who came up with the broken English “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” from the overseas attract mode?

>Yuge: It may have been this guy who was in charge of our exports at the time. He was always having business meetings with people from overseas, and I went to a few of them myself, and his English was really terrible (laughs).

http://shmuplations.com/toaplan-yuge1/

And you can see the original All Your Base thread posted by Bad_CRC archived here on Tribal War (all image links are dead, though):

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2453...

I can remember when this was posted on Tribal War and the deluge of mediocre photoshops that it generated. Back then, your internet cred was measured in your photoshop ability. Good times.
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I just got power back a couple hours ago. What happened is that they finally started to cut power away from business and industrial users. Empty ass Downtown was lit up like an Xmas tree yesterday, and so was dell, ibm, and so on.

It’s a scandal

San Antonio was able to do rolling blackouts, Austin really messed them up
When I try this in an incognito window with wifi turned off it doesn't seem to work. I see some invalid date error messages.
Well, yeah, the populated areas of Texas happen to be insanely cold right now at this moment we've cherry-picked, and the populated areas of California happen to be.. checks thermometer between 55-65f right now. (Bay Area, Sacramento, LA, San Diego).

Also, Texas heating is HEAVILY reliant on electricity (heat pumps), since they're used as air conditioners in the summer. Presumably this means CA has a lot more forced air natural gas, like my house. Of course, I keep hearing ads encouraging me to replace my polluting "methane gas" furnace with a clean, efficient electric heat pump....
Strictly functional cookies don't mean the site doesn't work without them.

It does mean e.g. clicking "°F" every time on a weather site, because you're an American living in Europe. A strictly functional cookie could remember that choice.
I have a colleague where an upstairs neighbor had a pipe freeze and leak because of a crack in the outside brickwork. Had to move out for a year. And, for many people, insurance won't really fully cover this sort of thing.

I often debate if I should get a generator for outlier events in a house.
404. Did they pull the repo or make it private?

https://github.com/salesforce/endgame
Editors write headlines usually.

Safe space seems to refer to the article's claim "voices who might push back were kept at bay". Anything about masculinity is your own imagination.
A carbon price wouldn't damage Bitcoin. Electricity costs for some miners would go up, some would drop out, hash rate goes down, difficulty adjusts to keep blocks coming out every ten minutes, and everything continues as before.

(Still think proof-of-stake is big improvement though.)
From personal experience, a heat-powered fan helps a lot. I used one when I lived in a Franklin-stove-heated cabin in Montana, and while you wouldn't mistake its power for an electric fan, it more than did the job.

https://www.amazon.com/heat-powered-stove-fan/s?k=heat+power...
Yes I agree state's legislatures did not prepare. But maybe that shows why a body of politicians is not prepped for engineering nuances. Maybe they should have adequately applied leverage to the power companies to "push" them to better practices rather than trying to fine and inspect and regulate which is an inherently "pulling" option which the companies will always try to weasel out of.

This argument to incentivize rather than punish applies to many issues with legislative bodies across all complex industries like Big Tech and other Engineering fields. You pass a law that drinking water cannot have over 10ppm of XXX carcinogen? There is most likely going to be 9.99ppm because that's the bare minimum.

We really need to move from stick to carrot.
This is well-described in James C Scott's "Seeing Like a State".
I've always had this flag in my run script but find I still have huge amounts of crawler traffic. I might need to look at that again.
"No electricity = no heat, regardless of natural gas supply."

For the furnace yes.

The gas fireplace and gas ovens/stoves though probably don't need electricity.
>Climate change _is_ a result of global warming.

You mean the cold weather is a result of global warming.

Yeah. Whatever.

As far as the rest of your comment, the warmth of your virtue and sensitivty has raised my room's temperature by a degree and I thank you. I am tearing up as I write this; your comment struck me to the core. Oh, the children... the poor freezing people on covid-ventilators... the 15 who have -- sob -- died. I am going to save the salt from my tears and use them on my driveway. Someday I hope to be as thoughtful as you. Thank you for being such a good role-model to the rest of us.

If only we Texans had the foresight to realize that -- sob -- instead of a single day of freezing weather in February, we'd have -- sob -- three days. In a row, no less! How could we have been so foolish?
I’ve read that the reason is to extend playtime for as long as possible to limit resale market.

Maybe with the advent of digital purchase (and the death of selling your used copy) we’ll see a return to designing games for fun.
Some do claim that the software on the key is open source. I have not looked that deeply into those claims. Random example:

* https://github.com/trustcrypto
Vite 2.0 (a build tool like Webpack or Rollup, and powered by Esbuild) was just released earlier today. It's seriously awesome.

I first learned of Esbuild early 2020 when I complained on Twitter that JS build tools are awfully slow [1]. Most my (mainly Vue) projects use Webpack and starting the dev server takes typically anywhere between 5-50 seconds.

With Vite, cold devserver start in a mid-sized project on my 2015 MBP is ~2-5 seconds, but vast majority of the starts happen almost instantly as the deps are cached. Hot module reloading and most changes is also very fast and feel instantaneous (where in Webpack projects they would take anywhere between 1-20 seconds). This has HUGE affect in developing experience as you can just keep writing and almost never need to wait for any changes. (The one exception being TailWind/PostCSS builds that take few seconds every time the config or main import changes.)

I absolutely love Esbuild and Vite. Been using them daily for few months now, and I'm currently in the process of converting all my old vue-cli based projects to Vite using a project template I made that has TypeScript, Tailwind, and e2e tests w/ GitLab and GitHub CI configured [2]. If you work with React or Vue and Webpack and haven't yet tested out Vite or any of the other Esbuild based build tools, definitely do check them out!

[1]: https://twitter.com/uninen/status/1230673711910576130
[2]: https://github.com/Uninen/vite-ts-tailwind-starter
TIL. That's... it makes sense in one fashion (keep health care cost reasonable (reasonable health care costs in the US… kek)), but it utterly defies the idea of being ready for disasters.
Now a 404.
DAI isn't so much a derivative of Ethereum, rather it is a dApp (decentralised app) that runs on the Ethereum smart contract technology.

ERC-20 tokens are the magic that enable second-layer "currencies" such as DAI and others to work on top of Ethereum. There are other tokens, even WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin).

DAI itself is backed by a basket of token-based assets such as WBTC, WETH, USDC, USDT etc.

The Ethereum dApps are definitely a fun rabbit-hole to dive into, e.g. UniSwap, Synthetix and other DeFi applications.

The main problem as I see it is the transaction costs are very high (I looked into using UniSwap but it was going to cost > $50 to transact what I wanted). However, in the next few years the Eth2 improvements will help scale the network and hopefully see transaction prices fall.
Yes it is because a journalists job is pain tourism. I guess it needs some entertainment not to become a total doom story
The term "meme" for such internet things started in the early 90's.

https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/
404 also.
I live in North Dakota AMA
Huh?

If we're reading from disk, then we DEFINITELY don't want radix, as then it's almost guaranteed that all time will be dominated by loading pages rather than cpu cache locality being leveraged by linear time algorithms - which is what this entire discussion is about.
Here are my use cases:

1. Timers. Super useful when cooking. Also my kids can use it as they are doing remote learning and need to know when to get back to their video calls.

2. Playing videos while cooking. Sometimes I enjoy watching a sitcom while cooking on my Echo Show. Or I might want a cooking video though that’s more rare. My roommate uses it all the time for questions like “how long do you bake salmon?” With mixed results.

3. Controlling lights. “Alexa give me a light” as I walk into a room is way easier than turning on three separate switches in separate parts of the room. Turning them off is equally nice.

4. “Alexa tell me a kids joke” is a frequent thing we use.

5. Answers to random questions while at the dinner table. “Alexa who is the prime minister of New Zealand?” That type of stuff. It feels more natural than whipping out our phones.

6. We tried using Echo Show’s drop in feature but it is just too intrusive as compared to something like FaceTime. The other side doesn’t have to pick up the call. You just are in their house, camera on and all.

7. My kids really like when we play Harry Potter quiz. It’s a silly app but it is somewhat entertaining.

8. Really funny “routines” (their word for scripts). “Alexa, set condition two throughout the ship” to turn off all the lights. “Alexa, release the kraken” to set off the Roomba, etc.

9. My kids listen to podcasts all the time.

10. My kids use it to help them spell difficult words.

What I wish I could do a bit more with it is integrate it with things like random status dashboards. I combined a power metering AC plug with my washing machine and Home Assistant to know when it’s done running. Would be nice to be able to say “Alexa notify [roommate’s name] when the washer is done.”

Overall I think something much simpler that does processing locally could replace it for me but so far these things are cheap enough (echo dot) to put in every room.
You're referring to a pyramid scheme, not a Ponzi scheme. (Enough people mix the two up that the Wikipedia pages on both articles have sections on the differences between pyramid and Ponzi schemes).

Ponzi schemes are where you pay investors using the contributions of new entrants, so investors only make money so long as new entrants are joining. It's not exactly a new tradition for people to be referring to financial markets and bubbles as Ponzi schemes, although whether or not this appellation is appropriate is somewhat contested.
Motivation should be a significant part of teaching. Pedagogy is quite outdated in this regard, as a whole I think.

Not a teacher, but some thoughts.

Direct "telling" of motivation, i.e. a rational explanation, doesn't necessarily achieve intuitive motivation, which is excitement, that knack for learning or doing something great; but I'm certain it's a good step. Talk to them: why should they learn things in the computer? You can make games, you can change the world (it's complicated, but it's true enough to be valid to tell children!), you can understand how nature works (when building models and simulations); you might use (increasing chance) it in most jobs you can get in the future, from a writer to financial analyst to lawyer. And motivation ought to be about taste as well -- show, and tell, how it is awesome what you can build, how it is awesome how everything works, develop their internal (intuitive) motivation and sense of beauty.

Try to get them to do it, however simple: make a tiny simple game using perhaps pygame or scratch, or draw some lines using p5.js. Let them have fun. Teach them about science and philosophy. Things will develop from there I'm sure.

Good luck!
I was responding to "people never" do this kind of self reflection, which isn't true. Pointing out that there are a lot of hypocrites isn't really a counterpoint. Unless you're saying the problem is universal, which is more uncharitable than I think is warranted.
^C on Linux used to work; that it doesn't under systemd (or at least Debian's default configuration of systemd) is on my list of grudges.
Wouldn't the bulk of mining just move to the one part of the world without a carbon tax? I know that's a danger with carbon taxes in general, but it strikes me as far easier to do with Bitcoin than anything else.
Haha, feel free to want that and then 3 years later the big G closing down your service and you wont be able to use it at all.
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Nit: IF this gets built (big if), it will be in New Mexico, not Texas.

It's also very unlikely that it would be near 30GW of transmission capacity.
Thank you! I want the same, but sadly consumer culture drives so much of the U.S. (assuming you're in the U.S). And because consumer preference is so arbitrary, there's an irreducible amount of arbitrariness that flows through the system regardless of how well the internal org incentive is set up or managed. Basically I'm saying if the value of your product is imaginary, then the people who can sell imaginary value gets the top pickings.

The most pure people I find are in quant finance, engaging the market at the abstract "number" level purifies everything, even if money corrupts at the individual level.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler is one of my faves and teaches you how to read at higher levels of thought.

Also, it's a kids book but current book with the 2yo that I really enjoy is "My favorite book in the whole wide world" by Malcom Mitchell.

Thanks for the tip to Illustrated Book Bad Arguments. Looks interesting, just ordered.
Maybe this was unclear, but the point wasn't that there is a good singular notion of free will, and that that is a commonsense one.

Even if I leaned towards this view (I wouldn't say that I do) my point was moreso to point out that while the average person (if not everybody) can't define free will, they certainly will be able to use the term and understand its meaning. In fact, they will understand it in virtue of a plurality of definitions (or senses).

The claim that if you can't define a term you do not understand it is defeatist because it simply does not reflect the role of language. Does a child who asks for chocolate not understand what she is saying if she cannot define that term? Do names (pointing to objects) have definitions or just abstract objects and types; if so what do these definitions consist in besides their names, if not why this dualism? And so on.
It sounds terrific. Also make sure to check out the fish shell if you haven't before. It's tab completions/up-arrow completions including for cd are really useful in a similar way.
TensorFlow codebase viz using gource from 2018
Since the atmosphere of Mars is 1% the pressure of Earth's, even very high velocity wind would have little energy behind it.