skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in Austin they shut off every non-critical circuit for nearly 48 hours. There are still over 40,000 people that haven't had power since Monday. Most of south Austin has no water because of burst water mains.

I think most people are understanding of the fluke weather and wish the infrastructure was better weatherized. The problem is some really horrible leadership at all levels. Austin Energy said the were going to do rolling blackouts, ERCOT told them to shed more power than they anticipated and could not do the blackouts, Austin Energy only communicated this after the fact so no one was able to make preparations for a multi-day blackout. Austin Water saw water demand spike 250% and noticed that their entire reservoir was draining away due to leaks, they put out a boil water notice and then turned off the water 30 minutes later. Like Austin Energy, not giving people a chance to prepare. People are basically begging them to stop putting out vague hopeful statements and give a real assessment of the situation. Also disaster relief has been slow in coming, luckily neighbors have stepped up for each other, but the government getting supplies to the most vulnerable have been terrible. Texas has a disaster every year, it should be good at mobilizing help, but few people were getting the water they needed for their children, insulin, fresh batteries for oxygen pumps or blankets. These are the same supplies that people need during hurricanes so there is really no excuse on why these aren't going out.
But some companies might not want it but may never ask or clarify their position. What about that case?
100% agree

Reading both articles, the whole time it’s like “No shit guys, you were the owners”
Or we just unionize.
While this timeline might be optimistic, this is what came to my mind when I heard about the current timeline for Mars sample return - samples returning back to Earth in 2031.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission#NAS...

Like it's nice to finally have a firmer timeline for that, but damn, 10 years from now. A SpaceX employee gathering the sample tubes into his backpack in a couple years time to be returned on the next milk-run flight back to Earth is just so much cooler! :)
Can’t talk to the statute mile, but the nautical mile is sublime: one minute of latitude. The amount of math you can do in your head with a system with so many factors of 2, 3, and 5 is truly amazing.
Lots of different problems that are complex! For example:

+ Text internationalization system

+ Payment processing

+ User auth

+ User verification

+ A/B testing system

+ User metrics collection from UI

+ offline storage of said metrics

+ data pipelines to process stored offline storage

+ iOS app

+ android app

+ Image storage and caching infra

+ fraud detection

+ search ranking and indexing

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnb-engineering-inf...
Sounds like Texas is a bastion of energy.
Or a solar panel that is transparent to red and blue, and only captures green light?
Wipr is fantastic! It basically convinced me that manifest v3 wasn’t going to be the end of the world after using it in Safari.
Beautiful Code
Architects, for example, can name their favorite structures and likely discuss them at length. Can software engineers do the same?

Provide examples your favorite pieces of code throughout history, any language.

Code can be aesthetic in many ways, I don’t intend to limit responses to any particular metric. Whatever floats your boat. Bonus points for explaining what you like about it.
IBM did this all the time.
so how do you handle the "undo make a change and no longer can redo" conundrum? Just have the branches in the tree of edits laid out flat in chronological order so that in order to bring changes back from the past you go to an earlier time, copy and then paste the changes to the alternative branch in the present?

Idk I do think version control is probably a much better tool to sanely manage rapid workflow when working at scale on huge projects, I just think the problem is that there too many features and far to few people who actually take the time to learn how to use them effectively.

To prove my point, the awk tool is super powerful and solves many "quality of life" problems developers begrudgingly deal with on a daily basis over and over again.

Now lets see a raise of hands of people in here that can actually write an awk script one liner without referring to the manual?

We have all these wonderful tools but most of us are too spoiled by having a mouse and powerful editors that we don't ever learn how to use them to improve our performance as developers.
There are incubators that pair technical and nontechnical founders, or provide advice to technical founders about marketing etc. You may want to consider something like that, where you can meet and evaluate people in a more structured way.

Maybe its unintentional, but the way you described the person you met - serial entrepreneur, online marketing, hustling, makes them sound sketchy. I'd take them out for beers (or whatever today's equivalent is) with a few of your good friends and see what kind of vibe they get. For this kind of thing, I think gut feeling and other people's impression goes a long way.
The first time I had a flashback to a real life near death experience was scary. I can't imagine how weird it would be to relieve repressed psychological abuse and how hard your instictive defense mechanisms would fight it.

That being said that's not the only path to getting sucked into bullshit by a trip. You can create a narrative were some enhanced perception effects, like being more sensitive to gestures or actual real visual resolution enhancement, are some kind of superpower you have and others don't. That will sometimes lead you on a "fake path to enlightenment" in like pseudo buddhist terms. You can get sucked into some kind of narcissistic delusional state, no trauma required, and it can cause you great harm.
I know how I'd do it but nobody paying me to do it so it's not really tractable for the time being. Is the mining payout actually attractive? I thought people were still running at a loss.
No I wasn't referencing that report. I was explaining why gas has to be processed before use and it's not a straight line from wellhead to burner tip.

If you look at this report you'll see 28 Bcf was pulled from non-salt storage and 61 Bcf from salt storage between 2/5 and 2/12. But that still left 233 and 593 Bcf respectively in each storage type. Far more than the 14.8 Bcf loss mentioned in the report.

https://ir.eia.gov/ngs/ngs.html
Full power was restored to NYC on the 16th. Yes, that seems about right - I stayed at my office for two days until a coworker commandeered a car that was in our parking garage (owned by a guy who was out of town on business) and gave me a ride home to Freeport. The city was pretty much paralyzed for two days. Some places might have done better but NYC was dead in the water for about two days.
How is this different from other whiteboards?
Building a Fast Command Line App with Clojure
jquery created an amazing api
if your entire definition of culture is an alt-right on ramp, then sure
> The obvious challenges seem to be managing temp-branch vs. “real” current branch state in a way that doesn't mess up or get messed up by other tools interacting with the repo (including ha sling things like pulls and other inbound changes to your “real” active branch), and generating non-noise automated commit messages.

Low-level plumbing commands, if the VCS has them, can help with that, e. g. `git commit-tree`.
Interesting idea...

I suppose I can stash my current code, reset to where I started somehow, and then unstash.

I've also toyed with the idea of having two repos on my disk.
Why is it less of a surprise?
Ask HN: Beautiful Code
Architects, for example, can name their favorite structures and likely discuss them at length. Can software engineers do the same?

Provide examples your favorite pieces of code throughout history, any language.

Code can be aesthetic in many ways, I don’t intend to limit responses to any particular metric. Whatever floats your boat. Bonus points for explaining what you like about it.
Think of a world without MG. Is that world notably different? Do you think that even your communication style with others changed in noticeable way ? If it can't be externally measured or noticed then it is arguably not part of culture.
Interesting reading these comments. I think it is fair to say that HN is disproportionately wealthy, and the replies here seems to echo that.

I'll admit I am an outsider here. I used to work 2 jobs, before the pandemic, and made $46K annually combined, typically 65hrs/wk. Mind you this is in the NYC area too. I now make $40k thanks to a raise at my full-time job (defense manufacturing, its really just a private equity racket). I can barely afford minimum living. Part of that raise also includes more responsibility, so it might even be a loss because I'm not sure I could still work a second job.

I can assure you that there are tons of people in my position. Way more than there are tech workers with 6-figure salaries who are bored on the weekend. It's not pretty here on the bottom floors, and it has only been getting worse.
I can't keep doing this: gig workers say pay has fallen after California Prop 22
Why not corn? My understanding is that it’s one of the most efficient crops in calories/acre terms (which is presumably what you actually care about, not kg/acre).
If you’re talking rain barrels, sure. But some states in America make it illegal for you to collect rainwater on your own property because it legally belongs to someone else.
Jira. But seriously. The main one is a lack of ownership. When there are 20 different people asking for stuff from engineering and no on managing or prioritizing those requests, I'm out. That's chaos.
I don't expect that I understand someone else's beliefs at a particular point in time. But I find it implausible that anyone changes their actual beliefs fast enough to keep up with these political fashions. So that's why I don't think most left-leaning people believe in these fashions.
>It is unlikely that Texas could have made up the loss in generation power

To me that doesn't justify the choice to be disconnected.

So let's say they might not have made up the entire loss...so what?

Making up for some of the loss would help wouldn't it?

That seems like using perfection as a justification to make worse choices...

The whole disconnected grid wisdom or lack of it seems unrelated to me as far as if winterization is being done well enough generally.
Some interesting reasons: the proverbial "2nd genesis", panspermia possibilities of our own planet, and answering lots of questions on formation of life on ours and any other planet we might encounter.
I haven’t heard of any reviewer that was compensated for a review, though I once won a reviewer award that had a small honorarium.

Editing is generally a paid service — the journal will not correct your typos or your prose. They will find incomplete reference data and ask you to fix them, and that’s about it
> we don't know if psychedelics "accelerate" the onset of symptoms of degenerative mental conditions. For example you may experience schizophrenia-like symptoms under the influence of LSD and while that may be a warning that you need to see if you will actually develop "natural" schizophrenia, maybe you will never do. But maybe you will!

This sounds like there is only downside risk.

Schizophrenia can be hard to treat. Bringing it on ‘early’ seems like just losing good years, even more so if there is a chance it would never have developed at all.
Next thing will be cuts for deep learning on cheap cards
Government uses Oracle based financial software too.

I have a soft spot for Citi because where else can you get 2% back on your credit card? They're not bad, they just like giving money away to their customers...
Even so, how does free sunlight with longer transport compare to the cost of electricity with short transport.

I imagine electricity, regardless of source, is still the most expensive factor.
The industry has become absolutely stupid! I abhor all the crap you have to take just to get considered for a position.

Unrealistic expectations and stupid code tests!

I'm sick of it!

The ageism, the misogyny, the racism, and all the "Oh, we're one big happy working family!" Working family!? Are you f*cking kidding me!?

Currently I'm not working, but are considering something really simple like a cleaning job!

I have more than 3 decades of experience in multiple programming languages and sysadmin tasks for many different systems. I don't even want to waste my time doing any interviews any longer.
> creating money is a method of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich, since the newly created money ends up going mostly to the rich.

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Creating more money reduces the value of money that already exists. It helps those who are heavily indebted (including the government) by reducing the real cost of those debts and hurts anybody with a large amount of net worth saved in cash. Both rich and poor people gain a lift from this debt-reduction effect; rich because they use leverage to purchase income-producing assets, and the poor because it erodes the cost of any consumer debt they have. The savers are losers, regardless of net worth.
You still haven’t provided a basis for your claim that 1950s america wasn’t safe for non middle class white people.

My claims of the safety in america are based on aggregate crime rate statistics since the 1960s from the FBI UCR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Cri...
Now this is some great innovation. I’ve never felt comfortable with the electronic shifting, feels too much electronics for mountain biking, but this I can support.
"Autoland" in an airliner is nothing like this. It performs the actual landing (and in some cases part of roll out) only. The airliner's designers assume that since their planes are designed to be used only with at least two fully trained pilots there is no reason to worry about scenarios in which a non-pilot is now in charge. Those simply don't happen.

Is it possible that they could talk a civilian down in an otherwise perfectly functional jet airliner given the pilots both are totally unavailable? Yes, but it'd be really hard and I would not give them great odds for it working.

Plenty of random non-pilots won't even successfully work an airliner's radio, if you end up talking to yourself, or the passenger cabin, that doesn't help you.

In contrast what Safe Return Emergency does is really one button "Oops, the pilot is unconscious/ dead, fix it". It has the same reassuring "Don't touch the controls" you get from Waymo cars. The SRE system is flying the plane, you can best help by staying calm and maybe trying to fix the pilot if that possible. It will figure out where there's a viable landing strip it can reach, broadcast its intentions to nearby humans, fly to its chosen strip, set up, perform the landing, roll out, stop and shut down the plane.
There's a fork called mundo which has an inline diff mode that I'm a big fan of — https://github.com/simnalamburt/vim-mundo
If you're in a good state mentally and suffer from depression (I know - seems like a bit of a contradiction), you should consider finding yourself a source for mushrooms and experimenting with microdosing.

The effects of mushrooms on depression are great. You can research the probable mechanism of action (possibly neuro-plasticity or neurogenesis), but the feeling of being "less affected" by the world after you recover is freeing.

Be careful, be smart, do it in a safe setting. Consult your doctor before you start. If you have a history of severe mental illness, consult a specialist.
>It's a bit absurdly reductionist, imo.

The more reductionist, the better imo.

>Meaning, as we humans experience it, is fully bound up with consciousness and sense of self.

And it is important to avoid giving meaning an anthropocentric framing which will constrain the analysis too much and thus miss important phenomena. Why should meaning have some qualitative experience associated with it? All sorts of organisms and processes behave in meaningful ways that suggest meaning is embedded in these systems without consciousness. A successful definition of meaning should explain the widespread appearance of meaning in the world.

>we should not be projecting our experience of the phenomena of consciousness and sense of self (agency) to black boxes that can already be modeled as computation.

But computation is necessarily meaningful! We cannot take some meaningful information, apply an arbitrary sequence of transformations on it, and expect to get meaningful information out. In other words: garbage transformations, garbage out. We see that program can meaningfully transform an input sequence, and that same program will produce garbage with another input sequence. The context of the program, i.e. what input it is operating on, determine what those operations mean, or whether they mean anything at all.

The fact that nature picks the useful transformations out of the space of the garbage, or a human programmer picks out the useful transformations needs to be explained. The explanation is that some transformations are meaningful in a given context, and operating in the space of meaning helps guide one through the space of possibility.
I lived in northern states all my life. Never experienced a power outage due to cold.
> EXACTLY what was predicted 15-20 years ago

a nitpick, but an important point:

this is 100% not what was being said 20 years ago - thats why its called global warming and not the destruction of global weather patterns. thats also why all the sources you linked are less than two years old.

the initial alarmism really shot itself in the foot by making specific predictions (ice caps melting, sea levels rising). we still arent even remotely close to being able to model the global weather system today. it really delegitimized the movement and slowed humanities reaction. they had to do this awful, awful position change and say "well, we were 100% wrong about all the predicitons we made but we're still right!" it helps explain how we ended up the way we are.
>it's a 100% chance of a mental illness

...wut? That's ridiculous lol.
Smallest Global IoT Project
Strange comment. Psychedelics aren’t really life ruining drugs. You’re probably thinking of opioids.
What's the alternative? What should I be doing instead of cmd-z?

> I'll Ctrl-A and Ctrl-V this into a new tab before it gets too messy

I did this about 400 times today
From your original post:

> and if we actually want to fix things we need to stop playing these ridiculous partisan games and be honest with ourselves with the full picture of issues.

One side takes these issues very seriously. We have been fighting tooth and nail to address climate change, improve the nations infrastructure and provide adequate safety nets for when things go bad. The other side spends their time screaming about socialism and stolen elections.

The point I am trying to make is that this is not a "both sides" problem. One side is taking these issues very seriously the other refuses to even engage in a conversation about them. Obamacare is a perfect example of how this played out. The legislation literally originated as a Republican proposal, but Republicans refused to cooperate and instead trotted out the "death panels" talking point. And here we are 12 years later, and they still don't have a replacement plan.

If you are actually interested in hearing about the solutions that are on the table you can get a rough idea by visiting Biden's energy plan[1]. These are very real proposals, with broad democratic support. But to get any of this stuff passed, it will likely require input and support from Republicans. And unfortunately, I have little to no faith that they will come to the table on this. I hope I am wrong.

[1] https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/
Transactions can't time out and there are two main solutions for businesses that want to accept bitcoin:

* Accept transactions that are in the mempool
* Use the lightning network

Accepting mempool transactions obviously has lesser guarantees and unfortunately lightning hasn't seen great adoption even from centralised exchanges.
Everything can be hacked...
Having read the article, I didn't see any suggestions towards a solution... just clarifying which regulations would have helped/stratified the problem.

Why do you have an issue with a non-expert clarifying that he's not an expert? I prefer people call out their own ignorance as apposed to implying expertise they don't have.
Tangential to this. Does anyone know of an app/service like etherpad, but for handwritten notes?

Would love to be able to replay notes that I write with the pencil on the iPad.

I also feel it would enable a cool way of storytelling in which you can play with the way you write so readers get to experience the text in different ways. Imagine that as you are reading something all of a sudden the letters start getting bigger, or thicker, or star changing color. Anyway, just replaying handwritten notes would be nice.
I hear this point a lot about the power of group purchasing. If everyone purchased their own insurance the market would be larger and be able to offer larger discounts.

Doing it at the company level doesn't make sense. Companies with larger sizes have better leverage under this model.

Would the purchasing power be greater at the state level or federal level?
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so..... the data this is based on is from https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/vlhcc.2014.6883030 which is 21 students programming.

Seems a bit suspect the whole premise really. I don't really end up doing what this article outlines. I find a lot of programming studies are often done on what is immediately available... students, and I think this tends to not really be indicator of what experienced programmers do.
Seems reasonable, but I wonder about the SD card.

Hopefully data is duplicated from the computer to the SD card, instead of living on the SD card. I'm not sure they're as reliable as other media.
Terraform to Manage Application Lifecycle
I do this too. Sometimes I'll duplicate the entire code and comment out the lower one as I write a new version or parts.
> Coal power plants close because there are cheaper ways to make electricity now, not because demand dropped.

The price for power is set by supply and demand. Increased demand for power increases the price. This means that coal plants can afford to operate depending on the amount of demand.

Here’s a story about coal plants closing due to lower demand: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/the-covid-1...

Here’s another article about how natural gas plants are replacing coal and nuclear:
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natur...

Any increase in demand for power will increase carbon emission by keeping coal plants from shutting down, building more natural natural gas plants, and keeping those plants online more often. Renewables are important, but only satisfy a minority of demand for electricity.
This has become a real cancer on the net, using CDNs for everything. Put the stuff you use on your website, that not only eliminates all the extra DNS querying, but it also prevents someone like Cloudflare to track users.

I'm running with uBlock Origin and I block ALL third party CDN stuff. If a website cannot figure out how to store content locally, I wont use it!
Because we don't have enough energy demand to make it worthwhile. Even if we had enough money (and political will) to fund it, we'd be better off spending it on a space elevator, since we can actually use that enough to cover the costs.
I'm so confused as to why anyone would do this.
whoa this is cool

does it understand syntax boundaries like curly braces / functions? ('undo within function' would be key). or just line #?