skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right. The system expects a certain voltage, if the load increases too much, the generators would struggle to keep up, and the voltage would begin to drop.

However, the total amount of power would remain the same, which means that the electrical current would increase to compensate.

The problem is that the amount of current increase is a square law increase compared to the voltage,

V = I * R

P = V * I

P = I^2 * R

So now you have equipment having to deal with the heat created by resistance (since nothing is 100% efficient), but way more heat than it can handle.

I'm not an electrician either, and my knowledge of AC isn't great, so I'm sure there are other reasons too, like the frequency is also effected if the generator can't keep up with the load, and that causes other problems
How do I try it out?
I've been looking for an excuse to buy the NASA Graphics Standard Manual. It looks like Standard Manual has published new books dedicated to the Worm and Bruce's work on the Bicentennial logo. Time to make room on my coffee table!

https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...

https://standardsmanual.com/products/the-worm

https://standardsmanual.com/products/american-revolution-bic...
I'm trying to imagine what you think went through the mind of Satoshi Nakamoto. Do you imagine he just woke up one day and said "You know what I like? Carbon emissions! For no reason but carbon emissions! Somehow, I benefit from carbon emissions!". I really just don't think that's how it panned out.
Given that there are no great ways to store large amounts of power at utility scale, the first thing to know is that demand and supply have to always match. (There's mechanical inertia in the grid, pumped storage, and batteries, but those are modest in capacity and mostly short-term storage.)

So, absent ways to support the full demand, the grid essentially slows down. You can see this if you look at the frequency of the current at the wall outlet - the nominal 60Hz will dip, and it will also dip across the entire rest of the grid. (In this case, across the entire state of Texas.)

The next thing you need to know is that the rotational speed of the generators on the grid are bound to the grid's operating frequency. The frequency lags, and so does the speed of all the generators and sychronous motors connected to the grid. (In this case, across the entire state of Texas.)

What happens then is that each generator with the capacity to do so will throttle up, try to hold the 60Hz, fail to do so, and potentially do things like jump poles. This is where a rotating assembly trying to maintain 60Hz on, say, a 58Hz grid, mechanically skips cycles, and jumps forward suddenly, and potentially catastrophically. It can literally physically destroy equipment.

So what happens instead is that the generator trips, goes offline to protect itself, and the overall load imbalance problem gets worse. This is why grid operators pay a great deal of attention to the amount of reserve generating capacity they have online at any moment. Some of this means the ability to turn on a generator that's completely off, but it's also very important that there be enough generation with the capability of throttling up quickly to deal with short term transient failures (like other generation tripping offline, etc.).
$500/mo for 40 years is only $500K at 5%/yr ROI. Good luck retiring on that. At 4% drawdown that's only $20K/year
Curious, does anyone know if is any safety concerns with these methods?
They don’t have the mental capacity? In what sense?
Dust falls much, much faster on Mars. The density of Mars's surface atmosphere is ~160x lower than on Earth.
im really sad to say that NASAs website is an absolute dumpster fire... does anyone know of a simple repository of all the images and videos captured by each mission? i just want to flip through the pictures perseverance has taken so far without sifting through cancerous news sites.

edit: the closest thing ive found is data.nasa.gov. how hard is it to just generate a fucking simple html website with chronologically ordered images? this is bullshit

edit: ok, here is almost exactly what i wanted: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
the internet really sucks compared to what it might be... go to nasa.gov and click percy mission from the drop down and it takes you to a part of nasa.gov thats filled with eye-cancer tiles and javascript with sensor imaging mixed in with PR images and promotional material. but they tuck the (sort of) clean, organized data into some other website basically? maybe its a small gripe but this way of doing it is disorganized and infuriating.

edit: wow, this website is fucking amazing! you can see the real-time position of all nasa mars vehicles 3D google earth style: https://mars.nasa.gov/explore/mars-now/ anyone who has not looked around in mars.nasa.gov should bookmark that right away

curiosity shots:

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/895098/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/896437/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/895971/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/895971/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/895077/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/891625/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/888957/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/887028/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/886343/?site=msl
If that sort of error lasted more than a few days I doubt any court would believe it's a mistake. Uber has how many hundreds of engineers? And they can't figure out how to do routes? Last time I was in an Uber the driver was forced to take a specific route if I remember correct (it's been years. I hate Uber so much)
This is the first time I've come across your work! Very cool stuff.
The revolution in this product is that it's available to general aviation users and the UX is "push button to land". It'll even squawk 7700 and announce intentions on 121.5 [1].

[1] https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/noticeView.aspx?nid=11667
Private banks charge interest in general because that’s the opportunity cost of that money.
Gas leak leads to discovery of bear family sleeping under Tennessee home
Anyone claiming money printing helps the poorer part of the population is uninformed or virtue signaling.

Money printing transfers wealth overall to the asset owning class, not the bottom ~40% of Americans who do not hold assets.

Research from the NY Fed and impact of money printing:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
For record/object-at-a-time, an ORM saves tons of code.

SQL's design is optimized for processing unordered sets of records.
Just looking at some spectrum charts for grow lights... They certainly vary, but not in any uniform fashion.

There is an exception to this: there is a standard LED graph which shows up quite frequently, identified by it's peeks in the deep reds, yellow, and dark blue, with a marked trough at cyan.
> Imagine hitting your car accelerator to the floor in neutral - things blow up when spun too fast.

The problem here is the opposite - put your car in top gear, drive up a steep hill, and watch the thing lag and lag behind as it tries to keep up with a load its unable to support.
I'd say the suffering they meant was political and not referring to environmental conditions. The governor's residence almost certainly has its own source of back up power. Ted Cruz is on vacation in Mexico. I doubt most of the higher up politicians have been suffering too much from lack of heat or power.
New data shows Silicon Valley's low-wage workforce hit hard by pandemic
There’s an old Fred Pohl[1] novel (I forget the title) where this is a plot point. A time traveler finds himself in a post-scarcity utopia, but everyone’s wasting away spending all their time in the “dream theater”.

Fun little book, but firmly a pulp: the lucid dreaming scene is really raunchy.

[1] Edit: Maybe Poul Anderson. It’s been a while.
Thanks for the descriptive analysis. Will use your feedback to improve in writing.
Potentially, but I hope not. Diversification is incredibly useful here.

The various power generation approaches have different strengths, weaknesses, and risk profiles. Despite this week, it's rare to have a situation where multiple are greatly impacted at the same time.
How useful should copy_file_range be?
School Board members caught on tape mocking parents who want school reopened
…or they can just continue using C.
> "the US federal government without a warrant or probable cause, per Apple's own transparency report (see FISA orders)."

Do you not know a FISA order is a court order?
Greetings from Jezero Crater! Really doesn't look alien. RLike the high mesa of New Mexico sans flora ;)
> Unfortunately for you, the majority of people must agree and be ok with the walled gardens

I am sure that many people would be fine with being given the voluntary option of turning the switch on, to side load if they choose to do so though.

And you have no significant evidence that if many people were given the option to buy a perfectly identical Iphone, that simply was easier to jailbreak, that people would automatically choose the locked down version.

You have evidence of people prefering iphones over android. But you have no evidence about if someone was offered two otherwise identical Iphone, that people would always choose to not even have the option of switching the jail break switch if it were easy.

The obvious solution would be to give people the option of getting access to the easy to jailbrake iphones and seeing what they would prefer.
Minimal example:

>>> import ctypes
>>> x = ctypes.c_double.from_param(1e300)
>>> repr(x)
Segmentation fault

This happens when getting the string representation of a foreign function float. It doesn't affect the standard builtin float type. So it's not extremely common.

But I can imagine this cropping up if you e.g. find a way to cause an exception that formats a value. Or if there's aggressive logging.
Actually, all the Starship flights are fully automated, possibly except a very nervous person somewhere with the self-destruct button and binoculars.

If you though there is someone in Boca Chica flying Starship remotely with joystick and steady hand, I'm afraid I need to disappoint you.
Mars does have an atmos.

Or are you reffering to something else?
Woah great video. Thanks for sharing!
I totally agree with this. The point of being productive is to integrate and contribute to society, not dedicate your life to society. It shouldn't be about squeezing every last ounce out of an employee but somehow, that's what the American dream has become.
> If there is a case where the pilot made the wrong decision, something needs to change so if a pilot with similar experience, wouldn't have made that decision with a different UX. Basically force the pilots to do the right decision, always.

If it were possible to do this, we wouldn't have pilots at all.
If the head of a self-driving car company exclaimed "100 car accident deaths per year is too many," we wouldn't say his opinion is wrong, we'd be throwing money at it. It's just that, an opinion.
Simulation: You need high vaccination rates to stop a pandemic
Exactly. The level at which one might "OD" fluctuates. So even if you know the dose, you can be wrong about your ability to handle it.
Starlink will have data caps as well. All models show that when loaded with the amount of subscribers they're targeting you will either get very low speeds (no throttling), or they will need to cap/throttle the heavy users. I'm not sure why people keep misunderstanding that the beta performance/price/rules are exactly what will be there for the real service launch. It's simply not feasible.
The specific licensing issue is that both are under GPL v3.0. Which means that you can sell a derivative, but you have to clearly advertise that it wasn't your work, provide source upon request, and so on.

They did none of this and so are in copyright violation. And so should be sued.
NASA actually made a pretty informative page about it[1], with some simulation of sound on Mars, compared to Earth. Hopefully we won't need the simulation much longer!

[1] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/
The 40 year old house is probably in an area that has been developed for 40 years with schools, business and recreation.

Anecdote, but illustrative: Myself and a friend bought houses in 2020 of comparable size. My friend bought a build in a new neighborhood (technically put the money down in '19), I bought a 30+ year old house in an older neighborhood.

Thanks to COVID, none of the businesses to support that new neighborhood actually materialized. My friend has to drive to the nearest convenience store, and has to hop on the highway to go to any other business. I can (and do) walk to my local convenience store, pharmacy, grocery store, pizza joint and mechanic. And I can bike or e-scooter to various parks, restaurants and healthcare.

Accordingly, my old fixxer-upper of a house is worth quite a bit more than my friend's brand new house.
No font list is complete without Comic Sans. Guess that font is not available in Latex?
FWIW, after my uncle showed me how to start his 1936-or-so truck, he gave me a ride around town. Got lots of waves. :)
Great point. I suppose it depends on the location-- west of the mountains, in the mountains, or east of the mountains.

With remote work, and an off-grid equipped van, I imagine someone who works from a computer can explore a large swath of the state, and nearby states, to find the right mix of weather and activities.

That said, they'd still likely be based in the Seattle area, and would largely remain subject to its weather conditions.
I agree entirely. It's a sales job to the general public.
I would claim it is easy to think you're seeing GPT-3 fail because it's taking the wrong association path (not noticing the hierarchical decomposition of the context). But the general problem is that there is no fixed decomposition of the meaning of a text.

It's tempting to think a "simple" procedure like summary doesn't need "deep" meaning but it doesn't seem like that's the case. It should especially be noted a lot of the plausible "summaries" could be summaries of any privacy policy or just what people say about privacy policies on the net. It would have been interesting to give the system a novel bit of text to interpret instead.
We do this at my startup. Instead of hiring FTEs, we hire people for 10-30 hours per week. This is great for people that want to make more money than they could as an FTE, or for people that want to work more on side projects.

It helps that we have no bullshit meetings, everything is async, and we take advantage of automating almost every aspect of the business.

I’ve found that hiring contract devs for say 20 hours per week yields the same output as an FTE at 40. Why? Because we don’t fill the rest of their week with bullshit.
> asset inflation

That makes sense.

But then other investment vehicles should also do fine.

I suppose it then comes down the fact housing can have a higher leverage than any other investment vehicle.

So buy a house, but don't pay it off.
You can download it for free at https://screentovideo.com/download/.
Exactly but with the benefit of using the Safari engine and some other bells and whistles
>This may have more to do with the US not getting blown up during WW2

It's been 80yr and Japan and Korea are doing fine.

The USSR basically force created a large single market over the course of its existence. If it was such a net win for prosperity the economic would have stuck around.
No one is using bitcoin for transactions since the average transaction fee is $28.
It looks like the game is rigged on Stellar.

All of the above exchange links that I've visited required account registration and login, which means that they are not decentralized. For the celsius, you have to download an app on your phone. Ewwww. Whatever. Claiming to be decentralized and then requiring signup is dishonest.

It looks like there is not not much liquidity. Also, the only type of exchange supported is "Limit Order", which is also cumbersome to use on a blockchain, and you would probably prefer Automated Market Maker (AMM) type exchanges once you experience them. (You can perform all the steps I've outlined in a single transaction for example)

Also, it looks like that all the assets on stellar are custodial. There are no non-custodial stablecoins for example.
Bitwarden – open-source Password Manager
You are quite correct that fine-tuning is necessary to improve accuracy. I did not intend to dismiss that. The point I intended to make there is that it would be nice to be able to see whether, when interpreting a statute, GPT-3 relied heavily on a blog interpreting a statute v. legislative history v. Supreme Court precedent. The right approach would be to control the proper hierarchy of authorities. It would be helpful to understand, even as a textual matter, what GPT-3 was most heavily relying on for a given prediction. That would speed up categorically fixing bad prediction patterns.

It is also true that high quality data is necessary. There is a reason why lawyers rely on Westlaw and LexisNexis to search for relevant laws and even scholarly articles. They are trusted sources. A better approach would rely on something like those with a more narrow universe of quality sources. There is a ton of labeling work that needs to be done, even beyond the “KeyCite” type of labels Westlaw applies to documents. Note that YC company www.rossintelligence.com ran into some trouble recently with Westlaw and LexisNexis.

The quality v. quantity of data debate is particularly relevant here. The power of GPT-3 is in part supposed to come from the sheer scale of its training dataset size. It would be nice to leverage some of the semantic training from a large non-legal dataset to be able to stylistically output in layman’s terms while sourcing the authorities from more closely vetted sources.
To me a neat consequence of quantized motion and dimensional extent is that there's a hard limit on angular orientation and hence accuracy. That is to say, it's possible to be far enough away and in a proper position such that a particle in another certain position could not be propelled directly at you, only at positions around you since you could be standing in the middle of the maximum angular resolution of the propelling force.
I won’t call you crazy, but I will call you naive. Modern civilization was what brought us centralized states and corporations. And yet we always seem to think that that next hill, just over the horizon is where everything will flip on its head and we will be back to some mythical past where we could roam wherever we please—all enabled by technology of course.

New World 2.0 isn’t coming.
Dealing with Java interfaces for Oracle 18 years ago is why I refused to touch Java for my entire career.
Altanta has issues but the reason why it hasn't become a tech-hub is external to these factors. It is basically a snowball effect - one major company settles and the rest will come. There is a bit of inertia.

What you're alluding to is simply not true. I worked at several companies and have several friends in Atlanta area that have no such problems. I think you're extending African American population density in Atlanta to fit a narrative that simply has no backing. In fact, companies in Atlanta area are more diverse than Austin or whatever techhub you want to name, except SF Bay Area I would say.
This is not surprising. Using 'Uber' in the name is trying to build off their brand which big companies will not allow. This is the reason why companies that allow you to build apps for their platform will have rules that say - you should not include the company name in your App.

Someone posted here on Hacker News how Android sued him for his app for making use of the name 'droid' (i think) or something close to the logo (can't remember the exact details and can't find the post)
See Searle’s Chinese room.
I am not sure, but since the files affected in are ctypes, I think it can only affect applications with bindings that are written with ctypes.

As far as I know, ALL bindings in CPython are written with the C APIs and not ctypes, including the JSON library. (I can't guarantee that but it shouldn't be that hard to audit.)

The official page is not any more clear on this:

https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/ctypes-buffer-ov...

I use one ctypes binding for convenience (a single function for CommonMark) but I prefer to use C APIs for this reason ... it's a lot of complexity and unsafety. Using ctypes wrong can crash your process due to invoking undefined behavior.

It would be nice to have a list of bindings created with ctypes, since I think most consumers probably have no idea. I thought that PyOpenGL is done with ctypes but don't quote me on that ...
I'm sorry to hear about your brother-in-law. I've met many people who have had similar issues with alcohol. And yet, myself and many people are also able to use it in balance, in a way that contributes positively to our well-being.
Nobody doubts that Nordic countries have generous social safety nets, but I think rayiner is scoffing at the notion that the US's social safety net is "non-existent", which is laughable.

The US spends close to 80% of its Federal budget on social programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, EITC, SNAP/EBT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

And that's not even including State-level welfare. Each State has its own unemployment insurance, welfare programs, and subsidized state university. In Georgia (where my alma mater is), university is essentially free if you can maintain a GPA > 3.5.

On top of all that, the government is currently debating another big round of welfare and stimulus. A Republican has proposed a massive overhaul of welfare to provide up to $15,000 a year in cash for parents: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22264520/mitt-romney-chec...
Well, nssa worked on Delta Clipper and DC-X. Also Venture Star. And the integrated powered demonstrator/FastTrack & pointless injectors that formed the basis of the Merlin engine IIRC.
> is to cut funding for green energy in favor of greater investment in coal, oil and natural gas.

Can someone lie and tell Texas Republicans that nuclear power is really really dirty so that they subsidize it to spite the Democrats?
>In the current climate, they would create numerous equity and social justice committees, making sure that everyone gets a personalized pat on the back and 10% of the population will get a small bonus, while 50% of the funds will be spent on the friends of the management sitting in the committees.

Huh? We currently have a "single payer" health insurance system in the United States. It's called Medicare[0].

And the administrative costs of that system are ~17 times less (~2% for Medicare and ~34% for private insurers[2]) than that of the administrative costs of private insurers[1].

As such, I'm not really sure how you're assessing this. I'd add that administrative expenses for other national healthcare systems are also much lower (Canada ~17%[2]) than private insurers.

Please provide examples and data for your assertions. I'd certainly like to see such data and information, as it doesn't comport with the data and analyses I've seen.

[0] https://www.medicare.gov/what-medicare-covers/your-medicare-...

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/20/bernie-s/c...

[2] https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20200106/a-third-of...