skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue you have less choice if Epic wins as you as the user no longer have the choice to choose a walled garden (iOS) vs open platform (Android).
Quality heat pumps will extract heat from the air even below 0F, and they are more efficient than resistive heat (disclaimer: I have a high quality heat pump). It's not a silver bullet, but combined with weatherizing homes properly, it would've reduced peak demand on ERCOT (although ERCOT should probably have pressure applied on it to force natural gas generation and infrastructure to winterize so that this infrastructure can continue to operate during extended cold snaps, because it's clear in the decade(s) ERCOT has known this is an issue [1], they haven't done a damn thing to address the problem).

[1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex... ("A federal report that summer recommended steps including installing heating elements around pipes and increasing the amount of reserve power available before storms, noting many of those same warnings were issued after similar blackouts 22 years earlier and had gone unheeded.")
I think it's worse than this.
Patents can reward shallow, crappy thinking.
You can patent an idea which you haven't figured out how to build -- which I think almost always means you can patent it before you've finished figuring out enough to make it useful.
Natural gas fireplaces don't need electricity to work, though, and they are fairly common in some parts (maybe not Texas, but Ontario). But they're not very efficient, either.
They're not news organisations covered by the code, but what they publish is news content, according to the code:

core news content means content that reports, investigates or explains:

a) issues or events that are relevant in engaging Australians in public debate and in informing democratic decision-making;
or

b) current issues or events of public significance for Australians at a local, regional or national level

This just proves how misguidedly sweeping the legislation is.

52A: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
I wonder what made up for electricity shortages before they had wind turbines.... Oh, right. It was coal. Thank goodness we got rid of coal. Sure, it's way cheaper and more reliable than wind power, and a couple dozen people are dead due to the blackouts in freezing temperatures.. But there's a strong chance that ditching coal in Texas has somehow kept the planet from overheating by .0000001 degrees, so it's all good!
It has been a while since I wrote iOS app code but I’m pretty sure iOS does not, although the libraries provide a mechanism you have to save and restore state yourself. And iOS doesn’t swap, it just kills apps when it needs memory.

Anyway, how would you handle connections to remote servers?
to be honest it feels like a huge boost would be for there to be a mandate for airliners and the like to start buying e-fuels (since fuel is like 10% of the current costs, if that triples we would be looking at maybe 20-30% increase in prices? Which is obviously a lot but to be honest feels pretty manageable). Like on some sliding scale over time.

So long as standard fossil fuels are on the market and cheap nobody has much incentive to go the other way.
Enya soothes ketamine's side effects, even for hard rock partisans
You can beat the market on average with one good investment and a whole lot of doing nothing.

So you can't prove much about very passive investors.

But if someone is making a 2:1 payout decision every month, and manages to be right 75% of the time, you can be quite sure it's not luck.
> … how to bootstrap a software portfolio …

This is how I got my first job in the industry. I built software and websites to solve problems that I personally found useful. Though the solutions were (in retrospect) rather unpolished, they were good enough that a team saw some potential and were generous enough to take a chance on me.
The Waymo open dataset is about 1TB. I don't think releasing a 3TB dataset would present a technical challenge for Google.
I agree that not everyone is fortunate to work in a job that they enjoy, but the OP is saying to purposefully choose not to work a job you really enjoy even when you have the option to do so.
> if you have a go, you will get a go

OT and I do understand the meaning, but as a matter of language isn’t this in the wrong order?
"All of our growth at Waze post acquisition was from work we did, not support from the mothership. Looking back, we could have probably grown faster and much more efficiently had we stayed independent."

Their support was not crushing you. How many serious Waze competitors are there these days?
They *should* build more nuclear, but most environmental activists are staunchly against nuclear for misguided reasons.
The daily upload quota for a user is ~750 GB. It'll take a few days to upload that much data to Google Drive!
You are aware that those holes are leaky relative to the half-life of the waste they contain, right? Decades? Pffft. No, that problem's only deferred, not solved.
Even if we don't like artists due to marketing, I'm fairly sure I only become aware of artists due to marketing.
Texas relies heavily on natural gas power because the price of natural gas went very low in the past decade [1], and Texas has historically favored low average electricity prices over other electrical system attributes. Modern gas generating plants are cheaper to build and cheaper to run than modern coal plants. Coal-generated electricity used to dominate over natural gas in the US and Texas because coal was so much cheaper as a fuel that it was worth building more expensive, maintenance-intensive plants to use it. But that's no longer the case. Every coal plant in the continental US is a legacy plant whose construction started before natural gas prices reached the low levels of recent years.

The same price forces caused Texas to install a lot of wind and (more recently) solar. The federal production tax credit makes wind-generated electricity very cheap for Texans, if somewhat less cheap for all Americans.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44337
You’ve got it backwards on the efficiency front. Burning gas for heat at home beats out most forms of electric heat efficiency wise.

A basic gas furnace is 80% efficient, with a nicer condensing unit being 96-98% efficient. Meanwhile most gas turbines hang out in the 32-38% efficiency range, plus transmission losses. Maybe if you’re using a heat pump and your local power plant is a triple pressure high efficiency model (~60% efficient) you might end up ahead, but for most users in most municipalities it’s actually better to burn the gas at home directly rather than at a power plant, at least for heat.
I will bite the bullet here. I think the patent system is a net negative, and I think eInk is a great example of how the patent system discourages useful innovation.

I can imagine alternate patent systems that would better encourage innovation. I can also imagine that no patent system at all could work fairly well.
A refurbished mac-mini is $275 from New Egg or a new MacBook Air for $320 from Wallmart at the moment. If that would help at all.
I’ve been on projects with non-developer (but technical) QA that would barely go as far as diving into development tools... the pay for those team members was extremely low, but they were foreigners and the pay was still above minimum wage. If you wanted to be pedantic, these were, simply put, just testers.

With that in mind, I think OP immediately has a shot on job boards for such a position if priced correctly — especially with the added perk of great written English / better communication.

EDIT: that’s not to say they should not learn to code; agree with your general sentiment, but I think growing in that sense shouldn’t be a barrier to entry.
SRE vs. Platform Engineering
One of their nuclear plants is offline, I’m guessing because of uninsulated water pipes.
I don't see how stating that something is expensive or complicated is a complaint. You clearly are not trying to understand what my original comment meant. I was trying to point out my perceived irony of the situation, then state my opinion, not complain about Waymo.

I'm not really sure why you are being so adversarial, looking at your other comments here, I don't think we disagree all that much
Russia operates this thing in an area that gets to -50C. It's not like it's not doable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibino_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Nope the waste-disposal problem has conclusively solved: you bury it in a deep unmarked hole [1]

I tire of the constant opposition to nuclear energy on HN and in general. We discovered rocks spicy enough to power our civilization 50+ years ago, but got outplayed so hard by big oil that to this day people are still opposed to it.

Waste? Nope not a problem
Too expensive (HN's favorite critique), nope, not really.
Unsafe? Patently false
Doesn't work in cold weather? Only because of ERCOT's ineptitude

The current crisis in Texas is a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. Had we gone big into nuclear 50+ years ago this might have never have happened

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

I'm not even really responding to GP anymore I'm just salty. Give me an ENORMOUS breakthrough in energy storage. Or give me fission power plants.
Show HN: Update to My Compiler Optimizations Playground
Nah. That doesn't counter it, because that sword cuts both ways. You know the thing I don't want you to know, but I can figure out you know it just as fast.
The gaming was more about how to minimize capital expense to throw a few more pennies on the dividend.

This stuff isn’t rocket science.
We’ve had some difficulty deciding whose backyard to dig that hole in after Nevada changed their mind and said no. If only we could just sprinkle radioactivity from nuclear power up into the air the way we do with radioactivity from coal...
Thanks for highlighting this. The initial reporting and FB’s own blog posts do not make this clear. Even running experiments at scale could be problematic with the way this is written (interpretation as a non-lawyer).
But it does affect me. Apple's "walled garden" approach only works if they are able to actually have walls and force companies to abide by their rules. Removing those restrictions removes any leverage Apple (and by extension consumers like me) have over other large companies. For example, Netflix could say "you have to use this other App Store" and many people would convert. It's essentially a tragedy of the commons.

Sure, it may not be fair to these large corporations, but it's currently a great situation for consumers. Everybody is free to either go more laissez-faire (Android) or more walled garden (iOS). I don't think the courts should ruin that.
Some do, some don’t. Depends on how they’re designed to handle ventilation and heat distribution. Quite a few that I’ve seen are fully sealed and can’t be started without power. A lot of these are really for looks and not heat.

For backup heat generation nothing beats an EPA certified wood burning stove, especially the free standing ones.
I think this is the last generation color from E-Ink, IIRC this kit has been available for a while.
Gas plants run just fine in the cold, they just apparently didn't bother to weatherproof the ones in Texas.
This seems like a bad idea. If I own a physical store and you’re in it I don’t want to encourage you to leave quickly. I want you in there as long as possible putting things in your cart.
congrats and thanks for sharing
> QA requires a pretty different mindset, one which developers lack entirely.

This place cracks me up sometimes :)
I recently submitted an article, which after I read it, made me think the same thing. We could’ve had cleaner indoor air and fewer points of failure if just used electricity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128180
I think the individual victim certainly has some interest in the punishment outcomes, but the state also has a proper interest. Neither holds a monopoly. (In particular, was she his only victim? That seems unlikely.)
> Why does everything need to become like Android?

It's not like Android. It's like computers before iPhone.

> Why can’t Apple and its users do their own thing?

Because if I want my startup to succeed, I have to have an iPhone app.

Apple makes this hostile to everyone that isn't them. You need design approval to push updates, you can't deploy when you want. You have to pay the 30% tax and use Apple payment rails. You have to support Apple sign-in, which means you can never form a customer relationship. (It's fine for Apple to have that relationship, but not anyone else.)

Taking advantage of the rise of the internet, Apple has used their incredible market position to elbow their way into every aspect of business. If you want to reach "their" customers, you have to play by the arbitrary rules they set. Rules that defend their market position and extract tax.

> What’s with this Borg mentality HN has when it comes to Apple?

What’s with this Borg mentality HN has when it comes to Apple fans?

> Assimilate or perish.

Assimilate or perish, the Apple fans tell other businesses and entrepreneurs.

> I genuinely think it’s deep seated envy, frankly.

It's anger that we're being abused by a gorilla-sized mobster and that nothing has been done to protect us.

It's anger that the open computing and world wide web of the 90s and 2000s has been grifted and coopted by Google and Apple. That computing has been redefined as something proprietary. They've taken advantage of open source and open Internet, and leveraged that to capture and control the market. Software freedoms that enabled their rise are now dying because of these companies. They're making it harder for us to succeed and taking more of the pie for themselves. They got theirs, and now they're putting it under lock and key.

Call it envy all you want. It's not fair for computing to be owned by the incumbents.

Would you still have this opinion if history had been different and Microsoft's Windows Phone had taken the place of the iPhone? Would you be happy with the Windows Store, Microsoft's 30% fee, Microsoft's design guidelines, etc?

Replace everything Apple you own with Microsoft, couple it with the same proprietary stance, and tell me you'd be happy.

Take that thought process one step further and disregard the company altogether. It doesn't matter who is doing these things. Apple is immaterial. The behavior is bad and it shouldn't be allowed.

This is why the DOJ hammered Microsoft -- rightly so -- and will do the same to Apple.
I'm in Walnut Creek... I guess not really East Bay anymore, but it's fine for what it is.
Maintainers do not review code. At best they test it to make sure it works. The Debian maintainers let in a timebomb borderline malware in to the xscreensaver package without them noticing it.

Maintainers do not have the time or ability to check for even intentional malware let alone security bugs.
Digital Humans: A 2021 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trend Explained
Maybe, but only in a sense that doesn't really mesh with the right wing criticism. The adoption of wind and solar isn't because it is green, it's because it is cheaper. And then natural gas is the cheapest make up for when those fall short (or really, it's profitable to build capacity that can come online when energy prices rise).

In any case, the current generation mix isn't particularly dependent on wind/solar (a couple percent of predicted winter generation).

http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/216844
It really feels like they're trying hard to manipulate the statistics. They mention that wind lost a full 50% of its capacity, but only mention that natural gas / coal made less than "was estimated". I don't really care what somebody estimated it would make, I want to know what capacity was lost. 10%? 90%?

That and the last 5 paragraphs departing from just reporting facts and instead start trying to convince the reader of a viewpoint gives the article a smell for me.
I’m sure it’s neat but nothing loads when I access it on my iPhone and it repeatedly hijacked my back button.
Just as a point of comparison, how many of your contemporaries who were taught by him went on to become chemists?
Nice, I love Minesweeper. By the way, the link to your blog post is incorrect in your README.
I'd argue you could have said this in a more constructive way.

If this were a sports game there would be yellow and red flags all over this incident.

-No talking politics

-No overuse of anonymous accounts

-Be Kind,

-Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive

I really like that last one.

As I'm not a moderator please just consider this a friendly reminder that there is always a human on the other side of the keyboard, even the anonymous ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Compression is part of human communication also. Sometimes it's used to keep the communication short, sometime to hide the meaning behind what is said.

lol, brb, PFA, W.H.O., IMHO, IANAL, GPA, GTA.. word soup for a different audience..
How to generate a new Ethereum address in Python
A Step-by-Step educational guide on how to create a new ethereum address using Python.
If it’s ML that is doing all the work to display articles. Then ML has a long way to go.
$10 BoM and the replacement costs attributed to curious nerds :)
They are only a nuisance right now. Almost all of the issues you encounter are minor implementation problems and not fundamental issues with sandboxing or flatpak. Things are getting better.
Google has been busy making major deals with news organisations. Facebook has chosen the opposite track. The problem Facebook has is government in Australia is wildly popular because of the pandemic. They can do what they want right now it won't lose them any votes. Ministers are already telling Facebook to leave the country completely!
I have an oil furnace, and when I was looking into it it sounded like setting up a battery backup that could allow me to keep the fans running through a power outage like this would probably be more expensive than replacing the oil furnace with an electric one.
It’s not clear to me who to believe. This fact check claims only 4 GW of wind power was down but the link that precedes that claim doesn’t actually state that. Meanwhile the WSJ article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-deep-green-freeze-11613411002) claims 42% of power came from wind in the week before the freeze but there’s no sourcing of that either.
That works fine for me, but try getting the average American to read a book.
Explainable models do not preclude the systemic problems you highlight. Plenty of systems before the advent of non-explanatory ML models had those defects. One option is to define test and validation sets and encourage 3P validation, somewhat like how accreditation works in other contexts.
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013)
That's dang's problem, isn't it?
Gas is very efficient.
Whoops, fixed! Thank you
It's not only in ePub.

The canonical source for the documentation is in doc/book, with HTML formatted copies in doc/html and a Markdown copy as doc/RETRO-Book.md. The glossary of words is also included separately as a text file under the doc directory.
The WSJ Editorial board was writing editorials outright denying climate change as late as 2016, so it's not like they have a strong track record to sully.
Building Serverless Applications with FastAPI and FaunaDB
Keep it as simple as possible and focus on the experience not the technology.

For straight up web or small companies, Wix, Shopify or Wordpress is fine. Look how great HN is with minimal tech.

For 'Web Apps' it's obviously more difficult, and the current of tech is unavoidable, but if you stay in the middle lane and don't use anything to risky, certainly with 'backed' tech like React you should be fine.

If your business is Widgets, then everything else should be 'off the shelf'.

If your business actually is web-tech in some way, you can start to push the boundaries.
> Or give me fission power plants.

We have those. Did you mean fusion?
“but in the long term, were the losses worse than what they saved by not implementing extreme cold weather mitigations?”

A lot of people (and businesses too) have been without any power for several days. In the case of Austin, “a lot” appears to be around 40%. Many more have had power only intermittently. That’s got to be a pretty sizable hit to economic output. Not to mention all the busted pipes.

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> BrightID

Thanks for sharing, it's really interesting. From what i understand different communities using nicknames could still use this system, though some applications may require that different communities recognize you as the same entity.

> (1) your friends can assign to you their own nickname for you, or (2) you can buy an ENS name that is globally findable.

Yes petnames is a common pattern with crypto-secure naming systems. Tor has been thinking about it for a while, and the GNU Name System (GNS) has basically implemented what you described over a "simple" (compared to Ethereum) DHT, so no need for $$$$. On top of that, GNS should be backwards-compatible with DNS (which it intends to replace), and opens doors to cool stuff like Reclaim:ID which is a decentralized identity/authorization provider. Feel free to checkout GNS presentation from ICANN if that's appealing to you.
Here is the video linked in the article: https://youtu.be/Q8fyUOxD2EA
While the proximal reasons may be technical, the systemic cause is our dual focuses on meeting demand no matter what and growth but not focusing on resilience. The result is that when demand is always met, we grow (population and consumption) until we hit problems like this. Then we build more capacity.

It costs a lot to go from 99.99% uptime to 99.999%, but we do it every time.

The savings to go from 99.99% uptime to 99.9% is also huge. Most of the world does fine with under 99% and we could too if we built our systems and lives to handle power going down sometimes, even unpredictably. Hospitals, elderly, etc would need special treatment. The rest of us could reduce our needs and learn from how people lived all the time for hundreds of thousands of years.

We'd save tons of money, live healthier, and pollute a lot less. We'd learn to treat nature with a bit more humility and respect.
Does anyone else think that a system dependent on constantly increasing credit supply is foolish? The system is wholly and totally dependent on more bank loans to create all the interest money. This is bound to create booms and busts since the number of entities that can take more debt is shrinking (boomers aging out, fewer kids, fewer immigrants).

Maybe alternative ways of money creation should be explored. For example, UBI or banks taking equity as assets on their balance sheet instead of debt.
Now that would be a cool competition. Self-driving cars dropped into a random locale, it would be a no-holds-barred race to the finish line/battle royale. No human drivers means so safety concerns!
>What’s intellectually honest about hating people for their sexual orientation and advocating for discrimination against them?

Can you provide any evidence he does any of these things?
Methane melts at -295.6 F (It's cold in Texas, but not that cold!) so if NG facilities are having freeze ups it is absolutely due to the presence of water or hydrates.

Because people have died, and the energy industry is heavily to blame, you're extremely unlikely to get any information to confirm or even satisfy your curiosity until a federal investigation has completed.
They had to turn off a nuke because the water intake was freezing. Everywhere else in the world, you put your water intake deep enough into the body of water that it's not going to freeze. Sounds like engineers in Texas cheaped out on their designs because they thought "oh, that will never happen". We all know what happens when we do that in software...
I’ve heard of “bring your whole self to work”, but I didn’t imagine anyone would ever take it that far.