skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This entire piece is based on the assumption that the only sources of energy are solar panels and fossil fuels. This is false.

Right, and more than that, it appears to be relying on the old fallacy that a solar panel takes up "land" the same way a field of corn does, to the exclusion of other uses.

That is not necessarily the case, especially when we're imaging strategic uses of space that might become more prevalent in the future. Solar panels can go on top of things, including other solar panels in the form of vertical solar farms.

If we talked about pages of books the same way we talk about solar panels, you could claim that War & Peace takes up an acre of space.
Ensuring the electric grid doesn't collapse when it gets below 20 degrees is in fact exactly the sort of thing that can be fixed with enough application of force.

Spend the money, or we'll take it from you. Done.
One step closer to Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream!
It’s like Apple saying you can’t use Linux emulators on iPhones through the App Store, but allowing Linux emulators through safari WebAssembly, which is 10x slower. Not that big of a deal IMO.
Isn’t Miami going to be underwater in a few decades?
Serious question do you live in California or have you spent much time here? Do you think decriminalization via prop 47 has had a positive impact? I cannot comprehend you saying yes to both of these. The quality of life is in absolute free fall, even compared to only a few years ago. Comparing the Netherlands to California is laughable. There aren't junkies with needles in their arms passed out under freeways all over the Netherlands like there are in California. The slums of the Netherlands look clean compared to California living standards.

I understand psychedelics aren't habit forming, but it's not going to make the drug situation better or the quality of life better in California. It will simply be an abdication of responsibility. More kids will take them and drive and kill themselves doing something stupid. Same thing happened with prop 47, now you can get caught with meth or heroin and it's a ticket, as a result it's treated like weed was in the 90s. It's a race to the bottom for society.

Raise the minimum wage, pass universal healthcare, increase access to universities and job training. The rest of this is just bread and circuses to keep us distracted. "Sure, take your soma and leave me alone"- Newsom
>and BAM, color!

and BAM, false color! FTFY
Nearly one fifth of GDP came from advertising in 2014
There were text based muds that you payed by the minute to play. That was a decade or so before.

Ultima Online was the first modernish MMO to use the monthly model that I know of but I bet their were others before.
Yeah, its because it really doesn't matter.
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Yes, even further the guidelines suggest that snark has no place on HN. One day we may undo the damage done by the massive influx of C19 redditers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit:

Replying to the misrepresentation of my words:

I did not state that HN is turning into Reddit. HN is not turning into reddit. The culture of HN has been damaged, however, by the lack of acculturation of last years influx.

Quoting the guidelines is not "throwing them at" other users. Please read the words actually written.
NASA Uses Three.js to Simulate the Landing of Perseverance Rover
Weed. They grow weed like that. Not wheat.
Well, BLM has served its purpose, elections are over. Ofcourse he doesn't want to deal with the actual issues in any real way. I think if you get a black person to be president for 2 terms that would solve everything ;)
Wait what was COBRA? I looked it up but couldn't find it.
I thought this was a great video about NVIDIA chasing the profits while screwing over gamers.

https://youtu.be/sg__YdXbRtI
They secure the network by showing up and participating with minimal calculation. I don't think that falls under proof of work. Even if it does, it's not the terminology that matters. What matters is that there is no reward for burning cycles.
Medicare has premiums, deductibles, co-insurance and co-pays you realize?
Mr. Nobody here...

I tried using my RasPi3 as a stand alone box for a few days, but it was too feeble.

It's not an SBC, but I'm currently running a Chuwi LarkBox Pro for the last 2 weeks.

Chuwi LarkBox Pro Stats:
Intel Celeron J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz × 4
mem 5.6 GiB
Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 605
Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon
ver 4.8.6
kernal 5.4.0-65-generic
Win10 dual boot, but only use Win for a video chat app that isn't ported to Linux.

Yeah, I needed a usb hub with a NIC, but it works just fine.

It's been working without troubles for basic email, web surfing, text editing, spreadsheet, etc., handles 25+ tabs in Firefox, video plays fine, I have no need for 4k content.

It's likely not up to tasks like video editing, but audio editing on Audacity is great.

Can't beat the price if one is on a strict budget like I am.

SBC's keep getting more powerful, so soon they'll be ready for a single box replacement, some good looking boards coming out these days.
I agree that the analogy does not extend past the surface look, but that's the point of calling it a skeumorphism: a new thing that tries to perform the function of an old thing, under a facade that mimics the old thing in a shallow way to ease transitioning.
>Google & FB do not just link.

>Rather the way they find, sort, curate and present news content adds value for their users.

>They create compelling previews, usually by offering the headline of a news article, sometimes the first few lines, and often the first image extracted.

So not only do they link, but they make the links rich with media from the story to make them even more appealing to click on and drive more traffic to the news site than otherwise? Preposterous, I tell you!

If this had any semblance of credibility or logic, option #1 would be to remove snippets and images and option #2 would be to stop linking altogether. The fact that neither of those are acceptable options to the Australian government tells me everything I need to know about their intentions. And I gotta give credit where credit is due, they're good at being slimy bastards, because they have people like you fooled.
> The point is that politicians should be marketing themselves as leaders who take care of this kind of stuff so I as a constituent do not have to worry about it. ...

They do (at least partly) market themselves that way, but they don't follow through because if you don't worry about it you're not checking if they follow through.
With the added benefit of being able to blame renewables if it happens. Like they did/tried.
It’s not like he’s trying to use Uber’s name to promote an unrelated product, he’s using it in direct reference to the company. Regardless of how the courts rule, it seems pretty silly for a company to say “our name is Uber, that is how you should refer to us” and then sue someone for making an app for using that name in direct reference to them. I’d see Uber’s side if the app was for cheat sheets on exams or something, but this is fundamentally different.
What else happens when you borrow from yourself on a smaller scale, or someone else borrows from you? You take stock of what you have available and anticipate coming in and evaluate what kind of pain you’d experience on default.

Taking the national debt example, that’s asking: can I reasonably and safely bet on four years of comparable value generation?

When you need to worry is if anything you’re extending debt that you can’t say that about.
I don't know how they limit the performance, but I suspect that mining perf/watt is better than full load so possibly not bad for mining on higher electricity bill country.
The opposite of saying "yes, everyone should wear a mask" is not "no, nobody should wear a mask, it doesn't help". It's extremely common in public statements for authorities, especially in crisis management, to avoid saying something simple because they know it to be false but at the same time they can't acknowledge that it's false (because that would endanger their efforts). All Fauci and his commission should have done is avoid giving a statement on the matter while they're working on ensuring health care providers do receive their masks.

If you're in a position of authority and you DO come out and say something you know to be false then don't be surprised at having to deal with long running consequences for making such a statement.
There was one called Disco Elysium a couple years ago that made quite a few waves (but more graphical obviously)
Each hour 430 quintillion Joules (430 exajoules) of energy from the sun hits the Earth.[1]

It is almost exclusively reflected back out into space, and wasted. We have nearly no incentive to capture it, so the energy is being wasted at a mind boggling scale. I've been mining cryptocurrencies with solar power for about 6 years or so.

The great thing about crypto mining is that it creates a price floor for energy usage. This gives people real incentive to build the tools we need to harness the energy on our planet.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-potential-of-sol...
They can't exactly procure a bunch of parts and then call it a day. Lots of the cost is tied to the verification and validation. Then there's the system design, requirements engineering, trade studies, system integration, engineering models, simulation, software, environmental testing, launch costs, ground command and data systems, interfacing with the rover, etc. Paying engineers to do all that is what makes it so expensive.
You should familiarize yourself with the polar vortex, the impact that ongoing climate change has on its now semi-regular collapse, and how this leads to massive cold fronts pushing south in the central region of the US. What is changing due to atmospheric warming is the frequency and magnitude of these events. Maybe do a bit of basic research next time before revealing your ignorance.
SESO is providing a way for migrant farmworkers to get work status in the US
Rolling blackouts are not the same as multi-day blackouts.

You are a liar.
My Python4 wishes would be to:

- make python packaging as polished as the rest of the language

- modularize the standard library a bit more, so that the precise chunks of battery to be included at install time can be more finely tuned

- start making the all the shiny new features (I grasp the marketing need for MOAR FEETURES!!!) to be library opt-ins. While I'm personally turned on by structural pattern matching, the anti-featuritis crowd has a point, too.
No, it is "worst case we spend a bit more". We absolutely know that storage is possible. Pumped thermal electricity storage, for example, uses only well understood technologies.

We solve climate change by raising CO2 costs high enough. Again, this is not a go-no go thing, it is just haggling over the price.

> We're already at the point where markets are starting to see saturation with renewables.

This just means CO2 taxes aren't high enough. BTW, they'd have to be $300-400/ton for new nuclear to compete with gas in the US.
Yes, Texan here, our neighbors had their faucets dripping but lost power/heat for 30+ hours and pipes froze and burst in the ceiling.

Several factors involved—- the pumping stations lost power so water pressure fell to a trickle. Also homes in Texas are not insulated well-enough to withstand the extreme cold and prolonged lack of heating we experienced.

It was somewhat thermodynamics too— their house was a smaller 1-story house, ours was a larger 2-story house and retained heat long enough to weather the freeze before power came back.
Which is why I dislike just decriminalization

It doesn't come with any consumer protections

I think the happy medium is legalization + a decriminalized framework

Many methods fail because the legalization-only path just creates a parallel criminal path
Open roles at SESO: https://www.notion.so/Open-Roles-at-Seso-e0930b0ef9794bb7a29...
The simple answer is that my family is here, but it's honestly more than that.

I've spent time in SF, Portland, various cities in Texas, and a year in Florida. (Never the northeast or Colorado, which are omissions - but I hate snow and cold.)

Spent a year in Japan, and a few months in China. Expat life might have been fun if I was still in my 20's...

Despite all of that, Atlanta has always felt right. It's incredibly diverse - way more than many cities - and full of culture. The music scene is on point, and I used to go to shows at least once a week before the pandemic.

I'm frequently on the Beltline (and used to use it to commute to work pre-Covid). The Hooch, ample outdoors, hiking, lakes.

I also own an amazing condo here. 25'' ceilings, penthouse skyline view with 20'' windows, historic all-brick walls. It's amazing. It'd easily cost millions in another city, yet my mortgage payment is less than $2k/mo here.

I'll probably be able to retire at 40. Or start a company with minimal risk.

Georgia has a ton to do, and the cost of living is still incredibly cheap. I can't imagine leaving, just buying a second home.
You might want to check the book by Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace (1989)
> "It also reduces accessibility for lower income people. Not everyone can force over $1000 for Photoshop software but paying $30 a month is a much easier pill to swallow."

Companies didn't switch to SaaS out of the goodness of their hearts or out of concern for low income people. If the old pay-per-version model were making them more money, they would have stuck to it like a barnacle on a ship.

The SaaS model has always been more profitable than pay-per-version because it took control of when to do a version upgrade out of the hands of the end-user.
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I’m wondering if OBS Studio, an FOSS product, can be directly compared with this.
You keep seeming to miss where its clearly stated it isn't about a one-ff event.

"The BA staffers’ stories deserve to be told, but to me it’s damaging to have that reporting and storytelling come from two people who have actively and AGGRESSIVELY worked against multiple efforts to diversify Gimlet’s staff & content"

And Gimlet isn't a small company! They were bought for $230 million.
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From GI Joe.
I don't know if it's that black and white. The risk calculus changes based on stage of the startup for example. Joining doordash pre IPO is still more risky than google, but I there's some reasonable confidence it'll be of some value soon.
I work on a large financial transaction system. A dumb backbone for bank the same size as citi.

This UI is pretty good ! Haha.
No seriously today we had a one hour conversation on what happen when a user cancel a trade twice. I don’t think we’re gonna find a elegant solution within the contraints of the clusterfuck of sub-system we maintaining. Kinda disheartening.
PowerBI is pretty cool though, so thanks for that
Or was predisposed for mental illness.
Here's another site to look at death rates of all the states:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

...interesting to compare the various U.S. states to different countries:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

...seems like the mortality rate should be one of the more consistent measures between jurisdictions.
Kraken tells me my account with them allows up to $10mm per day in fiat withdrawals. (I'm in the US)
K-Meleon Browser – A low RAM usage lightweight web browser for Windows
My wish for Python 4 is to compile to the same IL as Python 3 to be able to mix Python 3/4 libraries, or keep backwards compatibility. Rust showed that it can be done.
Conpletely agreed.

There was just this:

> But [Shannon's] choice of the label "information" in his publications seems to have confused many highly intelligent people.

But there was nothing further about who was confused or where or when. The article seems to be clearing up a confusion that doesn't exist.
That wouldn't solve the fundamental issue of supply and demand during a mining craze.

Mining crazes appear quickly and dissappear quickly leaving little opportunity for the much slower silicon pipeline to catch up. The demand for cryptocurrency ASICs in the last mining boom was much higher than the production.
Thus even if they could meet demand that would just result in less allocation to gaming hardware.

The reason it has been successful for bitcoin is becuase sha256 utilises only half of the gpu whereas memory hard algorithms like ethash utilise almost all of it. Designing a specialised, power efficient ASIC only matters when the return isn't ludicrous.

During mining bubbles it makes a lot more sense for miners to purchase general hardware to use during the craze and sell afterwards. Until these bubbles aren't as crazy that's not going to dissappear.
We need a social context for how and when to take them (beyond "let's partee!"). If you look at cultures with a long history of psychedelic practice, the use tends to be very ritualized, with a lot of specific context as to when they are taken, how often, and for what purposes. There is also substantial effort taken to integrate the experiences.

If you just take a bunch of stuff at a party and believe everything you experience is literally true, sure you are in a risky position. We need to push people towards communally-meaningful experiences with integration afterwards, and away from just blasting their minds into space willy-nilly.

We can't do this while they are illegal though. Keeping them illegal encourages the worst kinds of uses, with no oversight or integration or cultural meaning.
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jetbrains IDEs have a local history feature that seems to do this
Beaumont has indeed been subject to blackouts. They’re covered by MISO and were under EEA Level 2 and rolling blackouts, and the area is currently under a boil water notice. They had ~30,000 customers without power at one point. For comparison, Austin at its worst peak had ~230,000 customers without power in a city 5x the size.

My family in the area lost power for more than a day. And as another anecdote, my friends in Lubbock (also not part of ERCOT) were powerless for two days.

I’m in Austin, and while things indeed seemed worse here than either Lubbock or Beaumont, they were still quite bad in those places, too.
What will happen when Bitcoin and other cryptos have awarded the max number of tokens and there's no more incentive for miners? Who will keep the system running?
I used older laptops for years, but Laptops take too much desk space, plus, I already have monitors and don't want an aditional screen tied to a laptop.
Yeah let's use more efficient cryptocurrency. Bitcoin was really excellent for PoC but should not be used anymore.
The PoS network is actually up now, it'll still be a year or two until the old network is connected in, and the PoW can be shut off though. Real progress has been made in that area.
I think one of the nice things about Python is that most people write it in a similar way (with the exception of classes vs not and annotations). "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." There are already "accents" on how people write code, and the beginner dialect sounds a bit too close to Visual Basic to me.

There are some chances to smooth out some warts. I like typed languages like TypeScript, though I find Python's type system not very natural comparatively.

My biggest gripe though is that it's not possible to write functional code where you can read the operations in order. For a contrived example, if you wanted to know the total length of all strings in a list that start with the letter 'a', you would do the following in C#:

strings
.Where(s => s.StartsWith('a'))
.Select(s => s.Length)
.Sum()

Each step follows the last: first you filter the list, then you get the lengths, then you add the lengths together.

The equivalent in Python is this (I broke it out into multiple lines for a better 1:1 comparison):

sum(
len(s)
for s in strings
if s.startswith("a"))

Okay, maybe in this example the only difference is the location of the if, but in more complex example I really lose the flow by using list comprehensions.

And before anyone says I can use `map` and `filter` assign each step to a variable and write it in an "imperative-ish" style, I find it difficult to come up with descriptive names for each intermediary variable, and don't want to call them `l1`, `l2`, etc.

Gripe over, hopefully I conveyed my message.
I agree that random drugs have more dangers. I've been watching with interest what has happened with pot in CO. For people who don't like to break the law, it has worked and been safer. However, it has come at a cost. All that testing and quality control and middlemen adds cost. Now buying the quality legal pot is way more expensive so people are going back to the black market. This is the big challenge. For the middle class people who want an occasional fix, legalization works out great for everyone. For the poor and desperate, not so much. I don't know how to solve it.
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> Queries went from a 12 hour table scan to ~2 minutes, and production queries from 45 sec to 400ms.

Hmm, why do you have such large tables and then do full scans?

Edit: and if it's analytics why were you using a row store instead of a columnar database? It's like saying changing to a Ford Mustang was 10x faster than a rusty John Dere combine.
Was the implementation worth it? Did it works?

From what your describing it seams that what was missing was an API allowing browsers to get back the uploaded files?
From the article:

> New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday showed that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by a full year in first half of 2020, yet another reminder of the devastating toll Covid-19 has exacted.

Because this is attributed to Covid-19, this sharp drop will (hopefully) not impact life expectancy for years to come.
It was a leading question, pretending to claim that regulation was the cause. Nice walkback, though.

Nuclear is in a bad state in France. Their recent attempts to build new reactors have gone massively over budget. Existing reactors are aging and it looks like they cannot replace them.

Fission has some disadvantages over fusion, but those disadvantages won't make fusion cheaper than fission (the costs of fuel and waste disposal for fission are minor compared to other costs.) Fusion is inherently much lower in power density than fission, which will make the nuclear island much more expensive to build. It will require a minor miracle for fusion to be competitive with fission, never mind the cheaper sources of energy that are beating fission.

> Tokamak Energy is building its third iteration in 12 years,

They haven't built a fusion reactor. They have built experiments that are smaller and less complex that what a fusion power plant would have to be. Small fission reactors iterated well too; they weren't commercial power plants.

The chance that we have thousands of fusion reactors all over the world in the next 20 years is indistinguishable from zero.