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Some folks in Texas listened:

> El Paso is not apart of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a major grid operator that controls about 90% of the state’s electric load. El Paso Electric, which oversee's the electricity from Hatch to Van Horn, said the Borderland is apart of the Western International grid.

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> El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection.

* https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing...
Isn't using an electric truck powered on solar or nuclear a far easier and more cost effective solution than vertical farming?
Light has a tendency to zoom off at, well, the speed of light, and colliding with objects causes it to lose energy. There have been some experiments in slowing down or "stopping" light although they involve some elaborate setups that almost certainly use more energy to trap the light than you'd get from storing it.

You could also store it in or orbiting in a black hole, but good luck getting it back in its original form! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere
They knew how to fix this after it happened in 2011. El Paso fixed it. ERCOT didn't. And the reason their small number of wind farms had issues, too, is that they didn't winterize those either.
So you thought the OP asked "What software engineer salaries are common in Atlanta at various levels?" and you replied, "Here is my $540k salary. (This datapoint should be included in your perception of what is common in Atlanta.)"
Sounds difficult to test for. Thinking about a Pilot I think there would be data points you could measure on the job that predict likelihood of making a bad judgement. For example heart rate variability, cortisol levels, skin moisture.

I think the better solution is to abstract out the judgement into a formula that the pilot must follow, so not courting "gethereitis"
I was talking about minimum-wage earners, the difference is day and night. So,yes they do.
Thank you for that data. Your other comment is very helpful too[0], although I look forward to seeing some good hard data. I've been a bit spoiled by how much detailed data ERCOT provides.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26187282
You know what’s missing? Anything about business value and problem solving. Everyone has a laundry list of buzzwords and skills. Tell how you saved money, or increased revenue, or made something an order of magnitude more efficient. Or how you led or worked in a successful team.

A pro athlete resume would list their wins and teamwork and show an ongoing record of performance. It would not list the brands of shoes they wore.

The actual profile for almost every job is “Can add business value, solve problems, work with people, achieve goals.” Match that profile.
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That's all well and good, except they didn't. So "requirements" should probably be in quotes.
Agreed, meanwhile large banks do things that are technically incredible but get seen as boring.
A few years ago, I saw a proposal for multiplayer games which suggested that the time passage between ticks vary depending on how many users are playing within a close space, to help deal with the increased network load. This is something that Eve Online does, but it segments its game-space into discrete sectors and therefore it slows down time uniformly in these sectors. This proposal was to do the same, but variably within one contiguous gamespace, meaning players would observe each other “slowing down.”

This seemed interesting to me because, well, what on earth would it do to your game physics to have varying time passage between ticks depending on your position in space? So I rigged up a simple simulation of 2 points connected by a spring force (a “body”), gave them an initial velocity, and set the tick to slow down linearly according to distance from a “center.”

The end result was that the body orbited around the center. The varying time passage meant that the spring force’s effect on the point masses would be reduced for the points in the slower tick speed. So it seems like you can create a kind of “gravity” by bending time but not space.

Here’s a link to the sim: https://pfrazee.github.io/gsim/
It's not too unreasonable if we could also have a transparent, competitive, reasonably priced healthcare market. Doing that would require a lot of changes to how we conduct medical school admissions, residency, and medical licensing that'd be fought tooth & nail by the healthcare industry, though.
I know when I've clicked on a medium.com link because my CPU fan spins up chewing on all the framework junk.
Frotz is still around for iOS and it still works great!
Great demand usually does great things for the future of supply and since renewables are getting cheapest I think they will get the most development in the future. We may end up with way more resilient power grid and abundance of clean energy thanks to cryptocurrencies.
Ignoring the masses of people who mine in their own homes - e.g. pool miners on places like nicehash.
I'm German, can confirm the replacements you mention is universally understood here.

In case you ever want to type German, have a look at using the US-Int layout on your US keyboard. It adds keyboard combinations like Alt+S = ß, "+U = Ü etc. It is a little cumbersome, but probably good enough for occasional foreign languages.
Interesting, but I’d be interested if they had compared against CitusDB with cstore_fdw columnar backend.
"The US is a poor country." CMV
Someone's out there digging ethereum out of the wall of a cave? Panning for it in a river delta?

No? Then it's a calculation. Or an abstract and useless one in your terms.
Except the east and west grids have enough geographic variation where they are unlikely to have the same grid-wise problems as Texas with a much smaller grid.

The very west (i.e. El Paso) and east parts (Beaumont) of Texas are not covered by the ERCOT grid, they invested heavily in weatherization after 2011, and neither of them are experiencing anything close to the catastrophe in the rest of Texas:

https://news.yahoo.com/parts-texas-not-ercot-power-080159059...
I know people that do this. If you are doing it correctly then there is no deception, both companies are aware and expressly allowing it. The key condition is that the two companies are not competitive.

Unstated, the people who are allowed to do this are superstars who are incredibly productive even at a reduced capacity. Companies view it in terms of retention risk: 75% of a superstar is much better than forcing the superstar to choose, which may leave you with 0% of a superstar.
You are correct, I was misinformed.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p560#en_US_2019_publink1000...

It seems only people who are employed by employers that don't offer 401k get screwed if the spouse does have a 401k and you're over certain incomes:

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p590a
What signs do you see that it might work at all (and that it's not a hopeless endeavor)? As a layman it's so hard to understand how something so hot and so confined could ever be made to react reliably with continuous fuel and energy production to produce power on a large scale.
> I am not sure what the government can do.

Stop treating employment as a vassal-servant relationship in which the employer is a subordinate lord underneath the government to which responsibility for the basic minimal support of citizens can be transferred. If there a minimum level of income, healthcare, etc., a person should have, don't tie getting it to full-time employment and demand that employers provide it, provide it directly and pay for it out of taxes. Mandate job-protected leave if there are good reasons, sure, but if it 8snto be paid leave, provide pay for qualified leave at public expense (maybe actuarially paid by employees out of payroll taxes, but probably better out of general progressive taxes which should hit capital income the same as other income; otherwise, the tax itself makes production methods that are less labor-intensive more attractive.)
Is there any reliable data on the actual environmental harm? I've heard so many times that it's renewable energy being used because it's so cheap. There was something about mining near dams.
Complexity != Importance.

Airbnb is investing in their business, in what they believe (and they probably know from their numbers) will grow their future. They don't have to rationalize it only if there is complexity involved.
EDIT: nevermind, I didn't realize the 3060 wasn't out yet. In that case, I think this is a good move (if it actually works).

Disregard everything below...

I hate mining, I love my (old-ish) Nvidia GPU, and what this will do for the availability of cards and reliability of cards on the second-hand market is great.

But, FUCK this. Nvidia just removed a feature from a product customers paid for, and then sold it back to them in a new product. This is like if Apple disabled Wifi on old iPhones to force you to buy a new one.

It doesn't matter whether the reasoning behind this particular decision is something you agree with, a company should not be allowed to get away with doing something like this.

I hope a class action lawsuit comes out of this and Nvidia loses big, because a world where a company can do this by adding sufficient spin to the decision, is terrible for consumers.
> simultaneity

not in the true accurate to the picosecond sense of the word, no, but the exact word simultaneity is used when discussing number and density of satellites about a given latitude/longitude in the starlink beta program. Since they're LEO and orbiting at only 550 km, the satellites above a given spot on the ground vary greatly in the not-yet-complete sparse network.

Usually related to discussions of whether a beta test customer terminal will briefly hiccup and lose connection to its default gateway, or if somebody is at a sufficiently high latitude that they can have full coverage for all 86400 seconds in a day.

https://satellitemap.space/ has a good animated visualization of this.
And that doesn't even get into decommitting and related things, where you mark memory that you have used as no longer needed but still "there" in a variety of different senses. Not to mention the extra fun on OSX where you can mark something as unused, but OSX makes you pinkie-promise to let it know before you start using it again. If you don't, it works, but the accounting becomes inaccurate. "Fun".
Google is an overhyped advertisement/data-mining company first.
The search engine is compromised by design(see previous sentence).

All of their other products are eternally beta and if it happened to be a good product, don't expect that to last too long.
>ALL THREE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS TASK WERE CONFUSED

I know you didn't mean it this literally but the issue is worse than that. They weren't confused. If they were confused, they would have sought clarification. Instead, they were sure they were doing the right thing.
What is happening in Texas will keep happening until we take action
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

It seems that NASA is being awesome and making all raw images available as they get them. So far just the 2-ish.
This report talks about how areas in Texas NOT covered by ERCOT did invest heavily in weatherization after 2011: https://news.yahoo.com/parts-texas-not-ercot-power-080159059...
> than in anywhere else the world

This is definitely not true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...
I don't believe a transparent healthcare system is realistically achievable without essentially moving over to full government control - I wrote up a thing above[1] if it's of interest.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26187260
The amount paid by an employer for its employees' benefits is much smaller than the sum of what all employees would have to pay for the same benefits if they were to sign up as individuals.

Employers (ie a group of employees) go through a broker to get benefits. The broker (ie a group of employers) goes to insurance carriers to get good prices for benefits. There is power in numbers.

In principle I completely agree with you, it drives me nuts to change my benefits every time I change my employment, but it would take a while for the "invisible hand" to do its job. If tomorrow, employers start giving employees the cash they spend on benefits, there would be a massive gap in premium that employees would need to cover.
I forget which book exactly, but one of Scott Adams's has a story from a reader about a process consultant who comes from a background in aviation into some typical Fortune 500 company and tells them the trick to improvement is just to never make a mistake, ever.

And then proceeds to use reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate that if you can be perfect for 5 seconds, you can string those together to be perfect for 5 minutes ... 5 hours ... 5 days .. your whole life!

And when someone in the crowd pushed back on this idea, the consultant said something like, "If the airlines took that same approach to flying, we'd have 1,000 accidents a year!"

And then maybe the reader looked it up later and it turned out there were about 1,000 flying accidents a year.
Last thing a "crypto" user wants is his account being put on hold for months for various reasons (i.e paypal style), usually "for his own protection". I believe it's a mistake see crypto payments like a replacement for visa/mastercard. It's good to have some competition.
NASA is making the raw images of everything available:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
It would be very suspicious of nvidia if it acted in others interests. What bugs me most is that in many win-win situations (specifically, nvidia takes more markets, I get a videocard for much less than $2500) there is a guy who proclaims freedom über alles, stretching good intentions ad absurdum.
This isn’t true. No one has bought an RTX 3060. It is going to be released next week. Nothing is happening to products people already bought.
> Nvidia just removed a feature from a product customers paid for

Isn't the 3060 a new product?
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> why not just let the government run it?

Insurer's roles would be marginalized to competing on doing just enough administration and estimating/negotiating cost/pricing.. They also would still have incentives to cut costs as they get temporary benefits of cost cutting until copied by the other insurers. It's not a lot but it is areas medicare has problems with (and pricing would get harder still without a reference private market) and retaining a private layer is more compatible with the politics of the US even when it is a pure cost.
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They are still available in the archive though: https://archive.is/MQTXQ
thats a super catchy name!
Thats basically what their long term strategy is. It makes sense from a “normal user” point of view, dumbing down everything to meet the lowest common denominator.

The real question is, where are all the hardcore coders like us doing to end up?
I hope there probably will be a suitable alternative when that time comes.
miners are using laptops with rtx, they will eat the new minning gpus along the rtx lol
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>I believe the comment above was advocating for closing Small and Large Group coverage (and probably self-funded pools as well) in favor of those customers being dumped on the Individual market which does exist - and does definitely have it's own problems.

The only problems I know of in the individual market are due to the fact that so many healthy lives are locked up in the government/small/large business group plans. If everyone, and I mean everyone was dumped onto the market, then there would be sufficient healthy lives to balance the whole situation. Basically, it would be the same as taxpayer funded healthcare, except you get to choose your insurance company.

>Oh, and the Individual insurance market predates the ACA and healthcare.gov - it was much harder to navigate before the ACA due to the pre-condition exclusions but there were a variety of plans on offer to individuals.

The individual market pre-ACA and the one that exists now are completely different. It's actually possible to compare different insurances in the one that exists post ACA due to standardization and certain stipulations for being ACA compliant.
how do you manage the logistics? I could see it working if the jobs had enough of a time zone differential and were flexible about hours.
Interesting. My latest info was an income difference that is far smaller (around factor 2 to 4 in tech jobs). Thanks for the update.
Great prosperity often comes at, or with, a great cost. California today doesn't make a great picture when you look at the homelessness and inequality, and the exorbitant cost of living anywhere near where the action is.
I suppose it could be that if you had a prior success, your chance of future success is the same as if it was your first attempt.
We can also increase yield and desirable traits by providing the right wave lengths at the right point of the plants lifecycle, we can make the basil more intense, the lettuce bushier and more red. And we can control the environment to easier prevent vermin without pesticides, bad weather, etc. We also do large scale installations in the desert under ground where we previously couldn’t farm at all.

I was an engineer at a company called Heliospectra, we specialized in this and I personally built systems that on an industrial scale enabled above light/environment control down to umol of individual wavelengths every minute based on variables such as sensor feedback, algorithms for specific types of plants and traits as well as learning to adapt based on the environmental daily patterns from sensor feedback over time. It was actually quite fun to work on, I do still keep in contact with the company.
can't wait for the choppah
It would be interesting to learn whether other options were considered. I would have definitely tried Presto (or AWS Athena) querying ORC data, which would amount to a columnar storage with a sparse index, just like Click House.
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> El Paso is not apart of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

More accurately, El Paso is apart of ERCOT, as it is not a part of ERCOT.
Hm, then I guess that given that this is a so far unreleased product (and assuming it's not supported in current drivers), Nvidia can at least sidestep the issue of miners just using an old driver version to get the hashing functionality back.
> I think you meant to say decreased?

I did, thank you. I think my brain had already skipped ahead to the added weight/complexity concept while my fingers were stuck on that part of the sentence.

I should probably read things after I type them...
Even with 16TB disks I would not worry about 12 or 15 disk vdevs running in raidz3.

Which is to say, beat the shit out of the disks before deploying them[1] to weed out early failures, then aggressively fail them out at the first sign of trouble[2].

We don't use hot spares - we just very aggressively pull drives that give us any meaningful smart errors ...

[1] perhaps with the badblocks tool ...

[2] smartctl
In my recollection (but I could have read it wrong the first time) it tied to the OS. It had those problem on Linux, but both Mac and Windows users were capable of running it without much hassle (although they did experience the occasional crash). Also, people running Arch had less problems than us running Debian. But I just wanted to pass the course and didn't spend much time debugging it, so it could have been another thing (just a couple of ideas from the top of my head: library versions, conflicts with other running programs, some compiler weirdness...)
It's a calculation, but not a useless one done just to simulate gold mining, unlike Bitcoin. Look deeper into what Ethereum actually is, it's not just a cryptocoin, it's also a computing platform.
That's irrelevant. Apple doesn't offer that option so discussing something that doesn't exist right now makes no sense.
Very similar but still not a game. Games have rules, objectives, victory conditions. This would still be a text-based "walking simulator" or "lucid dream simulator" to put it more accurately.
And by "increased" I meant the "decreased" kind...
Interesting project, but it has not worked to select stocks over the short time period considered. Below, FFER is his ratio of market value to fundamental fair value, so a high FFER indicates a stock is overvalued and should fall. Of course, value investing has done badly for many years.

"I have tried using backdated FFERs to predict future returns. The results are the opposite of what I would have expected. While the relationship is somewhat weak, stocks with higher historical FFERs tend to generate better returns."
You'll have to provide some citations.

Here's one study, reviewed jointly by Dr. Henrique Schneider, professor of economics at Nordakademie University in Germany and the chief economist of the Swiss Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...

In the US, we have welfare programs that target the poor (yes, some slip through the cracks unfortunately). Once you account for all taxes, transfers, and non-welfare benefits, the poorest 20% are on average richer than most European nations. This is measured by looking at annual per capita consumption among the bottom 20%.
Replacing panels is just a cost question which dramatically favors solar. 2c/kWh is massively better than any nuclear reactor ever built or operated.

As we are talking land use, construction and decommissioning is a major hit to nuclear. But with solar you can operate continuously by just swapping panels and replacing wires etc as needed.

Basically, in steady state a 50 year nuclear power plant spends the first 30 years with the previous reactor being decommissioned, and it’s last 10 years with it’s replacement being built. Effectively you need 1.8 locations for a single power plant.

Also, I used a specific 75% capacity factor over it’s operating lifespan in that calculation. Some are higher, but the trend is down over time so you want to use an old reactor as your baseline. Here is 72.5% Decommission date 29 June 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant
No one has bought this product yet. It's not out till February 25th. So Nvidia isn't removing/nerfing a feature that someone paid for.

This isn't like Sony removing Linux on the fat PS3 post launch.
Well, there is no equivalent of majors in the UK, so "majors in the US" can't "mean the same thing as those things listed for the UK".

There are no majors in the UK, and no equivalents of the major/minor dichotomy.

There is just a straight degree in X, studying topics about X. You don't get to decide your major later on, and you don't get to throw in a minor to your degree as well. You study a specific thing from the first year.
Fission is only not competitive because of regulation and safety measures, is it not?