skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They neutered HOPE unfortunately. Used to be you needed a 3.0 high school GPA to qualify, now you need a 3.7 (not counting the GPA boosts you get from Honors and AP), and they don't cover books or fees anymore, and they upped the in college GPA requirements.

It was really unfortunate to see such a blatant money grab.
Right, I mean physically what is happening that causes that.
Guy is regular heroin user a he is trying to prove that drugs are ok. Who's paying for this bullshit research?
They are rather unavoidable, many videos are only available on YouTube. And if my email address was on my own domain it wouldn’t be on gmail, of course. It’s not as if my use case is rocket science, just sending, receiving and storing mail. It’s a legacy application from when gmail was special.
Or maybe we should hold off on paving over the Earth's surface, and recognize that cars are dangerous, noisy, state-subsidized machines that have created an ugly culture full of strip malls, big box stores, and drive thru fast food chains. We could also realize that they are literal weapons and one of the top choices for terrorists. A fleet of them if networked and self-driving could set off a major terrorist incident.

We can make them pollute less, we can eliminate the cost and burden of ownership, we can reduce the safety problems by eliminating human drivers.

But other issues involve basic values of what kind of world we want to live in, and a better car won't fix these problems.
Generators are spinning machines with mechanical power applied to the shaft via some type of prime mover such as a gas turbine. The gas turbine has a throttle which controls how much mechanical power it makes, and how much electrical power the generator makes.

When the power applied to the generator shaft by the turbine is greater than the load placed on the generator by people’s lights and heaters, the turbine and generator speed up until the gas turbine backs off the throttle a bit to balance power out of the turbine in to the generator and power out of the generator.

If people turn on more lights and heaters and power out of the generator is greater than power in, the imbalance is made up from the rotating machinery’s inertia and it slows down. If the imbalance isn’t corrected by opening the throttle on the gas turbine it slows down until it stops rotating.

If the throttle is already wide open and demand exceeds supply the machines slow down until they stop and nobody gets any electricity, so they have to have some blackouts to reduce the load so that demand is not greater than supply.

Nothing should blow up though.
Ah, I understand your point better now.

I think the best we can really do is look at each successive generation's cultural adoption. Besides something like vinyl, there are many phenomena that persist in spite of being "outdated". I mean, a car will get us somewhere faster, but people still ride horses for other reasons—and for reasons that a car will never be able to even emulate.
Chloroplasts are a pretty efficient way to capture and store solar energy already and they don’t produce nearly as much toxic waste as solar panel manufacturing.
I'll just leave Thunderf00t's latest video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxkE_oYrjU

Let's not diminish ether's breakthroughs, but financial isn't one of SpaceX's.
(Disclaimer: V8 dev)

This post is unfortunately nonsense, because it's making a fundamental measurement error: not including renderer processes for Safari, and only measuring the browser process (which should be expected to be roughly O(1) memory in the number of tabs).

To the author's credit, they _are trying_ to include child processes - I'm not sure why, but `psrecord` seems to not (in local testing) include child processes for Safari even when the "--include-children" flag is passed. I guess it does for Chrome, for whatever reason.

I'm somewhat disappointed that the author, or half the comments on the post, didn't question these _wildly_ different results though...
Yeah, or simply buy Bitcoin and wait it over.
They're all going to get wasted tonight, mate.
It is available both for download and in cloud. So they would have to pull the download if they dont want to release source.
He's arguing (to paraphrase) "Because we've already incurred such costs we should continue or even expand the policy which caused them."

Claiming that hazardous nuclear waste represents a fixed cost no matter how much you generate is simply absurd.
Which startups let their employees sell stock?
Given enough eggs, a chef will eventually throw the eggs in the trash and put the shells in the pan. Given enough orders, someone will do that every single day.
> ...whether someone had already thought of it

Stephen Wolfram certainly did in A New Kind of Science:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physi...

And Louis Nielsen:

https://www.rostra.dk/louis/

And probably many others.
>How is this different than the current US situation across multiple industries, especially in the medical field?

The current mess with the medical field happens because the hospitals can charge you whatever they think you can afford to pay. You can't compare quotes, pick a reasonable bidder and pay what you were quoted for. Sure, each case is unique and sometimes there are unforeseen circumstances, but currently the majority of out-of-the-network medical billing is just outright extortion. And, of course, it's done in the name of a great cause. "We are doing it out of necessity to pay for those poor folks that cannot afford healthcare". Except, most of this money is landing in the pockets of administrators [0].

>Except that in the case of socialism you can actually vote the leadership out while under the current oligarchy your only recourse is to complain on Twitter.

In the current situation you could vote for someone that would offer to bring more transparency and competition to medical billing. Except, you won't get a chance because people benefiting from the current system and people owning mainstream media play golf together and intend doing it for years to come.

[0] https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...
I recently moved to the bay area, and I've gotten the vibe that work life balance is less respected in the bay area compared to where I came from.
Facebook: High time for Australians to wake up and smell the roses
Django ORM has grown on me. I think it isn't quite as powerful as SQLAlchemy, but it is really quite decent. SQLAlchemy lets me think closer to SQL if I want to, and that is nice as well. I tend to use the Django ORM the most lately... but all 3 of those are rather full featured and accomplish the average user's needs. SQLA is still my favorite ORM anywhere.
Wires behave differently when supplying AC power over very long distances from multiple power stations to many different loads. You have a given force from your steam turbine or whatever turning a generator which is frequency matched to the grid. If the grid doesn’t use as much power the turbine is still supply the same force so the generator spins faster and the grid frequency increases.

Impedance losses for example are proportional to frequency, and a generator spinning faster also produces more waste heat etc.

PS: Many systems are designed to avoid this situation, but a prior assumption is this stuff has failed.
There’s been only garbage replies to your question, which is really unfortunate. In reality, we aren’t that far away from being able to do this.

If you are a 1099/gig worker and file your taxes with a schedule C, you’re almost certainly eligible for a SEP-IRA (1). This is way better than a 401k; you can contribute up to 25% of your income (max $57k per year) pretax with all the same investment options as any other retirement plan. Sure, it could be made easier to setup, but it’s been around forever and works. What we need to do is say that if you have an employer who does not provide a [baseline] retirement plan, you are eligible for the SEP-IRA on all income from that employer.

The Covid-19 relief legislation established unemployment assistance for 1099/gig workers with federal backing and administered by the states. This should be kept around, improved, and made sustainable (add a line to the Schedule SE for paying the same kind of unemployment taxes that businesses pay on behalf of employees).

Obamacare allowed for association-based health plans and the Trump administration approved one of them. I don’t recall the details or the current status, but that’s a start in the right direction. Employers pay a lot of money for health plans and their size allows them to negotiate better deals. We need that leverage outside of employers and plenty of other improvements, but at least we have the basics.

This is achievable!

(1) https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/retirement-plans-faqs-r...
Not really. Plenty of middling to world-class chess players aren't technically literate, but use chess engines for preparation. And Chessbase is the biggest name in chess software, though they've always had a slightly scummy approach to marketing.
maybe if the plants are fixed on a very tall pole, and spaced some meters from each other, because of the sunrays inclination, all the plants on the pole can get sunlight. this will not save space in a big farmland setup, because then the poles need to be spaced from each other in proportion to their height, or they will cover the sun from the neighbour pole, bit this can make small isolated empty spaces useful for growing a lot of plants.
Who will man and operate the factories when you have gone to war with all the employees? Isnt it easier to pay them a fair price and move on?
You need someone to accept Syrian pounds for the nvidia gpu too, and you need to buy electricity and have functional internet service... there’s really no reason to mine instead of buy in this case.
You need a person to interact with each client in the law business, whereas you can sell the same subscription to all customers, most of which don't call support.
Migrating from MySQL to MariaDB
The next generation of software is going to include check boxes and text fields to confirm to enter data in "front", "fund", "but*" and check boxes to confirm "I am not smoking", "Yes, I understand the software cryptic codes 110%", "I acknowledge that the workflow is super dumb down" and "We all thank Oracle consultants' support for super intuitiveness". It is a question of time Oracle gets dodo dna. The one trick pony has outlived itself..
Think of it from the scientist’s perspective. You can’t ignore the work in journals who have business models and policies you do not agree with.

Pretending research doesn’t exist slows progress and it is anti-science to put your head in the sand because you don’t agree with the location that knowledge was published in.

If you did read the papers in journals you don’t agree with, built on their ideas and didn’t cite them, then you just committed plagiarism and obscured the scientific record.

The “link to the PDF of the author’s homepage” trick doesn’t work because eventually that page will go away, as we have seen over and over in the age of the web. Part of the value journals add is promising to archive the work _forever_. They don’t promise it will be free forever (or at all) - which is what needs to change.

The answer isn’t to “not cite”, but to not publish there in the first place. That takes systemic change. Change of both the incentives: “how do I get promomoted?” or, fundamentally: “how do I make an impact and measure it?”. Citations are the de facto standard right now. It will change when we can measure impact (and get more promotions, grants, etc.) in a way that doesn’t favor the richest journals getting richer.
So what you’re saying is we need some regulations that they have to winterize the pipes.
Ask AMD why scaling up to mining demand is a bad idea.

A sudden implosion of demand combined with a flooding of the used GPU marked. Better not plan on bringing out any new GPU architectures when your warehouses are still full of the previous generation.
I think (and hope) it is just a brief reflection on how useless many of those same attacks coming from texas politicians were every time there was a power issue in a blue state; examples-
https://mobile.twitter.com/blkahn/status/1361682089310052354...

There is also the fact that Texas isolated itself from the national grid purposefully, which is worth reflecting on after this event.

I agree that we should move on from that to helping our fellow Americans asap however.
Same here, I'd like to dive into golang. But there is nothing as good as SQLAlchemy. Maybe with generics we will start seeing some projects that can fill the gap.
My wish for python4 is that it isn't called python. I think at this point, language divergence would be more beneficial
Raising the minimum wage in a vacuum is not doing to do much.

The problem with the US is monopoly corporations, monopoly landlords, monopoly banks, monopoly educational institutions and monopoly governance, while the individual and the family unit is left to fend for themselves.

Automating jobs does not always work out.

Self-checkout counters are a nightmare if you are blind or cannot read the local language.

A society that would value the wellbeing of the blind and weak would not try to automate everything.
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With WFH and reduced in office time our car usage has dropped rather significantly - fill up the cars maybe once every 6 weeks since March 2020 where it used to be every 1.5 weeks.
> Ordinarily, the law would be on Citibank's side here. Under New York law, someone who sends out an erroneous wire transfer—for example, sending a payment to the wrong account—is entitled to get the money back. But the law makes an exception when a debtor accidentally wires money to a creditor. In that case, if the creditor doesn't have prior knowledge the payment was a mistake, it's free to treat it as a repayment of the loan. Judge Furman ruled that that principle applies here, even though Citibank notified its creditors of the mistake the very next day.

Key point 'wrong account' is not 'right account but for the wrong reason'.

The article most likely written by a non business person confuses a mistake (money sent to the wrong account) with money sent to the right account. The law almost certainly doesn't allow a wire transfer sent to be recovered for that reason and type of mistake. Importantly though it does (by design) allow a transfer sent to a mistake (like a typo) to be recovered. This actually makes sense and here is why:

A wire transfer is payment for 'goods or services' let's say. Often that 'goods or services' is released (or relied upon) when money is received. In the sense that it is not reversable under any and all circumstances. A wrong account is 'going to the wrong place'. The right account is the right place.

Wire transfers are by design 'final'. ACH is not. An ACH can be reversed (for a number of reasons).

If you could claw back wire transfers all sorts of things (that depend on them being final) would break down and you'd have many problems down the transaction line.
I mean there was plenty of schadenfreude directed at California during their electrical utility problems as well, much of it from the same people now scrambling to cover their ass regarding Texas's problems. You can argue whether tit-for-tat is a mature or useful behavior, but it isn't coming out of nowhere.
RTX 3060 has not been released yet, it goes on sale February 25th.
I agree that "conspiracy" is loaded and inappropriate in this context. But the GP is referencing a social phenomenon that exists: https://archive.org/details/ceremonialchemist00szas
I think you dropped a thousands somewhere.. 127.8M miles/4,881hrs = 26,000 mph.[1]

But in reality, it obviously didn't fly in a straight line, Looks like it traveled closer to 292 million miles[2], so more like 60,000 mph.[3]

[1] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=127800000+miles%2F4881...

[2] - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/

[3] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=292526838+miles%2F4881...
Plants desire more stability in energy output from photosynthesis (e.g., clouds moving overhead) at a lower level, rather than attaining maximum output. Trying to always maximize output means you'll have high fluctuations in energy output.
You mean "the really easy part"? The Beacon Chain doesn't do much at all. Last time I checked, they hadn't even got a design for how contract code would be executed in Eth 2.0.
I use Zoho mail with my own domain - personal though.
> My guess is that using color sensors would have either increased the 3D mapping precision or added weight/power/bandwidth requirements, or otherwise been less robust in that environment.

I think you meant to say decreased? In which case I think you would be correct! Camera pixels are made up of these things called photosites which don't by themselves record color, only brightness. In order to record color information, the photosites are placed behind a Bayer filter[1], which effectively reduces the resolution of the camera by 3, because in order to get the color of a pixel you need its red, green and blue component. Bayer filters also frequently have a small blurring filter in front of them to make sure that nearby photosites with different color filters get the information they need.

If you're looking for the highest resolution image possible, black and white is the way to go!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
> I've been all through GPU firmware flashes in a quest to get both NVIDIA and AMD cards passed through to VMs w/ QEMU on Unraid

I you refer to the infamous Error 43 on Nvidia, it can be worked around by setting some QEMU flags.
California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
When I was in college and early 20s, I usually had 2-4 different jobs at any given time.

There's a demographic component to this that seems missing, given that we have two big baby booms behind Gen Xers (millennials who I guess are old now) and Gen Z.

Is the share of workers 20-30 today higher than the share among 20-30 year olds in 1996?
Well, ask Apple about that.
One big difference is NINJA loans aren't really a thing on mortgages any more. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_income,_no_asset
Not really "shocked" to see it, given that Texans mocked Californians during their wildfires earlier. [1] Especially given even as of yesterday Texan politicians were trying to blame this on Democrats and their plans for green energy. [2] That said I think/hope the sentiment is toward the politicians rather than ordinary people.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2021/02/17/texas-republicans-mocked-ca...

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-governor-walks-back-fox-0524...
I'm not surprised at all --- it's because climate change is so political and everything is so polarizing.

Talk to a right leaning person and they will tell you that the rolling blackouts in California are due to the fact that the electrical grid is too dependent on renewables, and the forest fires are due to too much environmental regulation. They will probably indicate that the Texas storm was a 1 in a 100 year storm, so there was no way to plan for it, it was a black swan.

Now go talk to a left leaning person and they will tell you the Texas electric grid is too dependent on nuclear energy and de-regulation of electricity is the root cause. The storm might have affected the poorer neighborhoods, so it was yet another example of systemic racism. They will say the Texans need to stop electing people that dont believe in climate change.

Of course there is probably some truth to both, and both sides can actually have valid points, but 99% of the US doesn't seem to understand or speak with any nuance anymore - and it's a huge problem. They re-tweet, re--gram, and re-post content in fits of confirmation bias, only skimming headlines on clickbait.
The issue seems to be that it's the driver doing the halving, not the hardware itself, which is a little odd. Given the large profitability, anyone who actually buys 3060's for mining will hack the driver/pay for a hacked driver that removes this limitation.

> RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.
Pattern matching and accepting change in Python with Brett Cannon
Our failures were with natural gas and coal. Un-winterized gas turbines freeze if it's cold enough.
Washington has a ton of cool outdoors stuff. Just be ready to have maybe max a couple months of great weather per year to enjoy it (unless you don't mind overcast and drizzle, or forest fire smoke in summer). Also competing with the other 4+ million people in Seattle metro to get it in out there. Amazing diversity of things to do though.
This is a joke right? This also confirms their figure (5-10%) for crypto mining was a blatant lie.
It isn't consultants it is 501 charities doing the work. The charity hires the consultants.

There are a lot of tricks needed to make the above work, and details that you need to consult a lawyer and accountant for.
Really, dude?

> Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction

> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use,” Carl Hart writes

> Let’s just talk about alcohol first. When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers.

> It’s just like with alcohol. Most people drink alcohol on a regular basis, but they don’t become physically dependent

> I don’t know a term. I simply mean people who take drugs, like alcohol users, somebody who may have a glass of wine or two every night for dinner, whereas somebody else may only drink on the weekend. It’s a wide range. And the same can be true with cocaine or heroin

> Why do you use heroin?
> That’s like saying, “Why do you use alcohol?”
I rediscovered this effect myself and it’s why I harp on people for flaky tests. Eventually you discover the build has been broken for hours, everyone assumes they’re just the same old errors, and pushes rebuild without even looking at the error messages.

Everyone does it. I’ve caught myself doing it. So I move to the previous domino and work on that.