skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you are in a region/demographic being crushed by foreign powers, i'd say someone hitting even 1 of the 14 markers could legitimacy be considered one

I don't understand this, could you elaborate?

> you can have that one friend with the racist jokes that even have a couple black friends, right?

I don't know. I guess if a friend was exhibiting racist behavior, I'd be more interested in trying to get him to stop than trying to figure out if he's a racist, or a fascist.
And where is this attractive new construction you speak of?
Just about every sentence in your comment is wrong:

> First, Texas has its own independent grid as a matter of physics.

Except that every state directly north of Texas is either on the East or West interconnects. ERCOT having its own grid is solely a matter of political desire.

> One top of that reduced capacity, not all equipment is prepared for ice storms because it doesn't really happen here.

Except a very similar event happened in 2011, and a specific set of recommendations were made by FERC to winterize power producers, and the recommendations were promptly ignored. Better discussion on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/ll2slh/texas_failed...

> And finally, the wind farms are not handling the ice well

Yes, this is true, but this is almost insignificant. The grid is already designed to handle windless days: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/frozen-wi...
I've never seen anyone cleaning them anywhere. Pretty sure the solar farms either have slightly warmed panels that will reduce the friction of any coverage enough to leverage the panel tilt - or since a lot of the installs will follow the sun anyway they probably have a mode of operation to "dump" the panels clean.

I have someone coming out to go over a solar quote I had done, so have some new questions to ask!
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If everyone agrees with an investment then it no longer has the potential for high returns as everyone is already in. You need to look at what others don’t and decide for yourself. No one can know the future, you need to have personal beliefs, ideals, and investment theses. Not listening to the HN groupthink helps for investment decisions. The people here are super smart about many things but money is not one of them.
No, the extremes not only get more frequent, but also more intense.
Gio is coming along nicely. Once they go full tile-based-rasterization ala Pathfinder it'll be a contender.

https://gioui.org
> but during the first year of grad school I realized that AI, as practiced at the time, was a hoax.

This is a lesson we learn over and over and over decade after decade. At the same time, AI makes incremental improvements to existing software and services without actually replacing anything.
Thanks for this comment!

How do you view daily maps from Landsat 2A? I couldn't find it in the options on nationalmap.gov.au
Nothing I said in my comment is incorrect. Texas has 5 different connections with the other grids and can import/export through them. But they are irrelevant right now because the other grids do not have enough spare capacity to send to Texas.

>If Texas was part of the Western grid they could be drawing excess hydroelectric power from the pacific northwest right now for example. Texas also could have contributed to help the California power shortages last year.

No. That’s not how the grids work. Just because Oklahoma and Washington are part of the same interconnection, that does not mean that people living in Tulsa can pull power as needed from a dam in Washington, which is why Oklahomans are struggling with power outages today as well. Most power still must be generated locally. Long distance transmission is difficult and inefficient, and often requires converting to DC just like a grid-to-grid connection requires, so you have the same issues as you have when you’re on separate grids.
It sounds like GP is saying that at current capacity, there isn't enough renewable energy to supply all of the demand 100% of the time.
Well, one thing you know is that poster knows no one reliant on powered medical devices.
Some of my hobby forums have seen a resurgence in the past few years now that Reddit has consumed all of the low-effort posters.
Symmetry Investments hires D programmers every year and is continuously adding new developers.
I tried to say the same above. When the entire south is low on capacity, being fully AC interconnected probably doesn't help much even if the DC ties had more capacity.
This is essentially the crux of the problem, multiple friends/and coworkers are staying in islands of power that have been interrupt free due to proximity to Fire/Police/Hospitals and others have been without power for extended periods of time, if 60% of a grid is essential you can't roll non essential loads because simply maintaining the critical loads takes up 100% of capacity. More granular control could significantly help alleviate this issue which is specific to Austin Energy.
Fads.

Not derogatory, this is what they were called at the time.
Yes, that’s correct. Texas has 5 ties to the western/eastern US interconnections as well as with the Mexico grid. But none of that matters right now because those grids don’t have excess capacity to send to Texas anyway.
JPL produced a video titled "7 minutes of terror" that detailed the landing procedure they used for Curiosity, and it's worth a watch. It goes into detail on everything you see in the articles landing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
It is a valid point of view.

It may be true in a lot of places that we should step back from 100% coverage as the cost is just too high, and it is better (cheaper) to put the resilience in housholds than in utilities.

But your anecdote is just that - a anecdote. We need to carefully weigh those options.

Elected politicians have a bad reputation for making these trade offs sensibly. I have heard it said (by a fictional character I think - no source) that (in popular opinion) the present trumps the future every time
I'm mildly skeptical of any shortcuts that are based on "learning habits". I've already gotten enough of user interfaces that move items based on use all the time (The spotify playlist list is the worst offender - playlists move up and down in rank after every use, so there is never any spatial memory, startled every time).
Wind farms have been freezing up in texas
So TypeScript is a separate language from JavaScript, but Mypy is just an extension to Python. Isn’t that merely a difference in marketing?
But that is true for all computationally irreducible systems, including inanimate objects. But people want to feel like there is something special about them that goes deeper than the current arrangement of their atoms. That there is a real possibility of more than one outcome starting from this configuration of atoms, and that the outcome that actually materializes is theirs for the choosing.
But at this moment people aren't so whether it's actually helping the environment is debatable. It's like selling a vegan burger that's made with beef but claiming it's totally fine because that's offset by some other guy eating a plant burger.
Anecdote: All 7 developers in my Houston team (semi-geographically scattered in the city) lost power; half for >24 hrs (it's 10-25 degrees F here for the last 2-3 days).

Most lost water for some stretch of time and some still don't have it.

I don't think any completely lost heat (most have gas) but at least one person found their gas fireplace they were hoping would heat them up when out of power didn't really work that well.

(I haven't found clear findings on what determines whether your fireplace net-warms or net-cools your house in super-cold weather (by sucking heat out of adjacent rooms and pulling cool air from the outside and sending hot air up your chimney). Pointers welcome.)
The US, of course, didn't undergo decimalization until 2001.

https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/decimalp.htm
Are you people for real?

What did people with children, elderly, and pets do 150 years ago?

If your house is 25f, put on a couple sweaters and a coat and have a beer. It’s not the end of the world.

As far as the kids go, they’re outside building snowforts.

In short, you make do. It astounds me that the typical HN poster can whip up a C++ compiler, pontificate about solutions to every social-ill, purport to speak intelligently about mRNA, economics, epidemiology, and race relations, yet can’t figure out how to survive for a few days without power in freezing temperatures.
nothing of security threat I guess. It uses your permissions, to modify the current permissions for different product. If u do have permissions to modify things, then this will work. if you have no permissions, it will fail.

So can it be used with bad intention, yes. But if I am a hacker, would i want to open all the available doors? or choose 1 or 2 doors only instead and keep the rest as is!!
> the dark background it has in Chrome

...eh? https://i.imgur.com/Qwn7A4f.png
"Pretty good" isn't good enough for this sort of thing though.

If you care about contracting coronavirus, if for you infection is a death sentence, then you need something daft like a 99.9999% certainty that people and things you interact with aren't carrying the virus, and that doesn't just include their nasal passages; it means them not having it on their hands, or on their clothes, or whatever else.

In the real world, outside of these hyper corporate events, most people I know who aren't vulnerable just take basic measures because if we get the virus it'll probably be fine.

But that's not good enough if you're selling snake oil.
Tools like this always make me faintly uncomfortable. The idea is nice, but as a systems guy I would liken it to a mechanic’s toolbox that tries to predict what tool you want and puts it in your hand. Seems like it would be nice except you would need to carefully check what tool you were given to make sure the algo didn’t make a wrong decision and you’re using a wrong-sized wrench or something.

I’m not sure I want the fundamental building blocks of my field to be “helpful” like this. I’m much more a fan of naming it easier and faster for computers to do what I want, than I am of computers trying to divine what I want without my explicitly asking for it at this level.
What can we, private citizens with entrepreneurial skill and talent, do to combat this partisan schadenfreude?
No, they're just not allowed to export, you can still generate.
That's TypeScript and it works only with type signatures, you still have only one actual implementation.
I'm in a similar position - though for various reasons I did a bit of a username landgrab early on, so I have about 10x what most people got 'for free'.

The price fluctuations are wild, and because we're not talking megabucks (a couple of thousand USD equiv) and I'm not actually out of pocket in any real sense, they're fascinating to watch, and incur no great temptation to do anything with.

While Lumens are extremely unlikely to go the way of BTC, watching what's going on with bitcoins the past decade does make me want to just sit on these.
your insistence that opinions imply “free will” is an interesting position, but your attempts to invoke it as a frame for your replies without bothering to substantiate it on the merits does pattern-match to common troll behavior. Consequently there’s nothing wrong with someone joining the discussion to address this.

> Doubly so if others like Erlich_Bachman, who was involved in the subtread earlier, have already answered to the parent what was meant...

I’ve read and responded to Erlich_Bachman, who was kind enough to offer some remarks in support of his position. We have yet to understand why you and others believe that opinions require “free will.”
Hey great. My blue-lipped toddler is very happy for you.

Hour 42.
This is a thoughtful reply; thanks for it. I know that my framing is a sorites paradox, and won't have a tidy answer.

But maybe that's my point: Fascism is but one particular flavor of malicious totalitarianism, and totalitarianism can coagulate around a vast variety of beliefs across the political/religious/cultural spectra.

Studying the commonalities of particular flavors can be helpful, but it's tremendously unhelpful to whip out the list, check some boxes, and decide that someone is A Bad Person as a result.
When Bitcoiners talk about "inflation" they don't mean inflation of prices. They mean loss of purchasing power.

Demand-pull inflation in fact is exactly what is happening with Bitcoin and bitcoiners would agree. There's huge demand for bitcoin and an ever reduction of circulating supply. What that means is that it can maintain/increase purchasing power incredibly relative to other assets that have unconstrained and erratic supply (fiat).
The majority of people will also never own a Berkshire A share. It doesn't really matter.
In southern california too, once So Cal Edison discovered the risk of liability for fires, power has been shut down more and more for frequent high wind events.
I wonder if that equation will change...

It seems like there is no shortage of scapegoats, so my money says "no".
Rust is more unreadable to me than Perl, in all fairness.
> at least not in myself

I'm not worried about HN users' ability to assess their own internal beliefs.

I am worried about HN users beginning and ending their self-reflection at a mere assessment of whether they think their intentions are good/benign/etc.

To go old school with your broken clock example-- if everyone's unset VCR eternally reads "12:00", you probably want to know whether the current time is exactly 12:00 when you try to convince a neighbor you programmed yours. (Well, theirs would blink, but you get the idea.)

It's a bigger deal when a benign belief intersects with the beliefs of neo-fascists or other asshole ideologies.

That may or may not require one to do anything in particular in response, depending on the context. But to not realize the intersections with asshole ideologies, or-- worse-- to actively resist caring (not saying you are, but that seems a growing pattern on social media)-- seems at best like electing to be a willing troglodyte in a complex world.

Edit: clarification
As they say - have fun staying poor.

Think about it - if you had invested at any point in Bitcoin before today, you would have made money. But keep on resisting.
I won’t shill you on anything in particular.

But regardless of your opinion on crypto you haven’t missed your opportunities. Projects still 100x.

Next time it’s off everyone’s mind and not in the news, just pick 3 or 4 newer projects that have a decent sounding team, put $1000 in on each, and forget about it. Check back when everyone is manic again.
Ugh, the site is giving me an eye sore. Bad font or bad color choice?
> but there is no reason debian packages could not be subject to the same supply chain "evil maid" or upstream "evil new maintainer"

I'm always suspicious of the number of blogspam generic linux help advice sites that get you to install some random ppa complete with a nifty little code snippet that automatically installs certs and updates your sources.list! How handy!
If you invest in winterizing and the winter doesn't come till the next election your opposition will have you voted out.

Yes governing is hard.
"The demand for USD is robust because people need USD to pay taxes..."

You cite this a priori - but it's so much more complicated than this.

Demand is intimately connected with supply in many cases.

Soemtimes this can be because demand is latent. If production of food goes through the roof - and people were previously starving because the price of food was too high, then that latent demand will be released when supply improves and costs drop.

But currency is different - opposite even. If supply goes through the roof - then demand will respond inversely. People will rush to unload that currency for other assets as they watch their wealth evaporate. It may hit some sort of baseline determined by the daily needs of payroll and tax payments - but other than those moments everyone will try to store there wealth anywhere but that currency.

What is actually happening empirically is that people are coming to see Bitcoin as a reliable store of value over medium to long timeframes. You can continue to believe in your theory a priori, believing that in the even longer term, the lack of goverment mandate in Bitcoin will see its value evaporate... You can even continue to do this when everyone is vested in Bitcoin except you. At which point, you can claim, with 100% theoretical consistency that everyone is a stupid lemming.

But ultimately, it will be the case that the Bitcoin folks had a better explanation of supply and demand than you - and their prediction of reality will be the measure of this.
"Zero wing Rhapsody" is worth watching too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6emvdmg-M
Really it means that many many people end up paying for safety measures individually - if they can afford them. The total social cost is likely higher than building adequate infrastructure in centralized places.
To me, unsoundness doesn't sound too concerning. It is a theoretical property, and when programming I care about practice, which means that I care about consistency and predictability. If a type system is unsound because of certain edge cases, but works well in practice and those edge cases case an error later anyways, I don't care too much. I mean, most typed languages will have casting operators that can make unsafe operations precisely because programmers sometimes want to bypass the type system. Why sacrifice usability in the name of 'soundness' when in practice people are just going to bypass the type system when that happens?
That's nonsense. It's incredibly easy and convenient to move BTC out of an exchange account to something you control (hardware or software wallet). Hell, some hardware wallet GUIs even have the ability to buy crypto baked right into the app (trezor suite for example).
The parent stated their experience (one day without power) and the willingness to pay more for a specific change, they didn't say anything about longer time frames. If a single day of power outage will cause a person to die, such as those with certain medical issues, you must make preparations for backup power. I hope you can agree at the extreme that treating the entire power grid as if it were a hospital's internal power network would be absurd.
Nah, that feeling is just corporate life. It’s not you.

Or put another way, it would be a bit strange to say that everyone who works at a corporation is an unsuspecting loser.

From what I’ve seen, academia is both worse and better. So don’t feel like you’re missing out on something.

Just do what makes you happy.
NA panel takes Twitter's regional head to task over Kashmir policy
According to a study, the AstraZeneca one has about 22% efficacy or something. I cannot find the study right now. What did you read about it? 22 is a very low number, IMO.
Where did you get that number? I think it really varies. One of the products I manage is a lower price point but the implementation and use cases are complex and different for each customer. It does not make sense to enable self-service implementation for our software.
Just move to the south.
It's not really a matter of whether the grids have capacity; the ties themselves can only handle a limited amount of power.

As per ERCOT's status page, both of the high-voltage DC ties between Texas are currently operating at >99% of their rated capacity, and they have been every time I've checked since yesterday. They're not being limited by the availability of power from the other side.
Historically energy production has always been near population centers, because transmitting is across large distances in infeasible.

Mining and future energy production is not constrained by these needs. Miners can use satellite internet and be isolated in the Siberian tundra if they needed.

What I'm saying is renewable energy is both cheap and becoming abundant. There is no need to fear mining consumption of energy.
Apple has a list of commands somewhere - even if it’s just the source code. That I cannot find that list and have to try and guess the magic words pisses me off to no end.
I was actually shocked. I have friends in a biz high in the food chain so I typically can get a small number of what they get at cost + pay us for shipping. Sometime in October a bug bit me and I decided I was going to build myself a kick ass workstation to replace my aging 4790k and a server for VMs/containers. I did all the specs and build outs, including figuring out how I was going to change my "office" at home to accommodate additional gear. Imagine my surprise when my contacts said "Yeah, that's not happening. We can't get any."
as long as they're an independent grid, optimizing for the 99th percentile isn't really acceptable. that's only two nines.

if you have a contingency plan for winter storms, then it makes sense to skip the winterization. but it appears their plan for a winter storm was just to fail.
Simplistic take. The most important roles of government include maintaining stability, continuity, defense, administering domestic policies, and crafting new policies.

And data about people can enable metrics on the country and metrics about progress towards strategic goals, but in truth mostly exists to satisfy some internally imposed reporting requirement, or to prevent people double dipping in government programs and benefits.

The author is not wrong in their tweets that "database management" is akin to the challenge that governments face, but more precisely it's fact management that's at stake. Every division of government ought to be able to assert facts they've been authorized to measure, maintain, and assert about people, and those facts ought to be visible to other divisions in some contexts, in line the with laws and ethics of the state.

The problem is that instead of federated attributes, most government business is still at (or below) the level of mere "database management".

The author admits that they used to lobby against ID cards. ID cards simply move identity proofing into a one-time ordeal, instead of one that must happen every time a person wants to interact with the government. ID cards do not violate privacy; the inappropriate consumption of data violates privacy.

Vaccine passports and other similar instruments are tools of policies that are designed to limit freedom of movement. This is by design. The reduction of movement among individuals of unclear health status is a key goal of these policies, alongside developing an incentive mechanism to encourage the receipt of a vaccine, and simply to curate knowledge about people's health status to craft further policy.

It's a civil liberties issue of course, but the government can deny you access to a military base too, and few governments send you food or provide shelter despite these needs being critical to existence, so it's another policy that tries to make difficult choices fairly while trying to avoid direct harm. Care should be taken to ensure equal access to vaccines to all people within the same priority group.
Whoa, I’m in Seattle. I’ll look it up! Kinda cold at the moment, but we’ll be moving by May, so.
How did you originally setup the lists?
Please refrain from assuming that anyone asking a question is being "snarky"
The real issue is frozen pipes which can be pretty expensive/catastrophic. As someone in New England, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't find a power outage all that big a deal--at least for a couple days. But frozen pipes can lead to $10K's of damage.
Thank you for having a sane reasoned look at this.

People use extremely low probably exceptions to attempt to radically rewrite the way things are done.

Bad shit happens very rarely. Sometime the best action can be just to do nothing.
Perhaps South Park will pillory this the same way they pilloried the segway. I'm thinking special hollow smart fibers that allow you to huff your farts continuously while tweeting the methane content.