skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nuclear plant stopped generating because the turbine froze; components were exposed to open air because Texas doesn't normally get that cold.

People built to a certain set of assumptions, with an implicit risk, and the risks came due. The only way to avoid another event like this would be to make the generation more resilient to extreme cold, which will cost more.
That's not true. If you install it from the Mac App store, you do then get the extension and can activate it within Safari. I just switched from LastPass to Bitwarden and by all accounts it seems better than LastPass (for my basic usage) and the Safari extension is working fine for me.
Reading the Wikipedia link, most of his activism seems to be aimed at being able to allow comedy with religious aspects ("...they felt would give overwhelming power to religious groups to impose censorship on the arts") and the ability to poke fun at people in general ("...which aims to reform or repeal Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, particularly its statement that an insult can be grounds for arrest and punishment.").

Please explain what parts of his activism are we are supposed to be troubled by since those of us who are not in the UK don't have the background to know.
.net performance is good once fully warmed up JIT, wich never happen for most usecases, only in raw and longrunning benchmarks

so no, real performance scenarios, .net don't do better than GO wich is AOT compiled

mono performance is very bad actually

generics isn't playing on same level as metaprogramming in D, not even close to templates in C++, even Rust do better here

using roslyn compiler API is nice, but again, it is not the same as using the language itself already, the experience is different, it is on other hand much better than what GO has to offer
If they were properly hedged then there would be no profit from Bitcoin going up. Global companies should be hedged so that currencies going up or down do not affect performance. Unless you’re betting on a particular currency.
One of my smartest Austin friends predicted the outages by watching nat gas spot prices as early as last friday. Weird world
Indeed, but then it wouldn't be a salt allergy so much as an allergy to those additives (and one that you could easily fix by cooking with proper pure NaCl).
If they are in the same subnet you could use mDNS! I use it for my NASes and Linux desktops and it works great.

`ssh seanlaptop.local` is much better then having to ping broadcast or log into the router :)
seasoned tree planter here. It’s mostly bullshit. most lots that are dedicated to ecological “reforestation “ are usually clear cut 20 years down the line. and yes generally no more than 5 species of trees are planted. Plot density is chosen based of statistical tree survival rate per land piece.

What’s interesting about the hole topic is- how small of a felid habit rehabilitation and reforestation actually is, and how much of the knowledge is currently applied in the felid today. It’s tiny. there’s one small planting company I know of, whom imply practices like planting pieces immediately after logging. roots, mycelium, and soil bacteria is still thriving. Opposed to say planting the same piece 5-10-20 years after.

logging, and mining could actually be fairly “sustainable” if the right management practices are put in place.
On that basis it is impossible to literally know anything. At a certain point to function as a human some basic reasoning and common sense needs to be applied.
You can't eval in extension context, but injecting a <script> would work given the permission that lets you edit the page's DOM.
I see Tim Dillon, I click.
So many negative comments. As someone who don't want to be distracted by smartphone, I can see myself using this. Especially this one - https://www.adidas.com/us/gmr-pack/FS0156.html

Some of the reviews about this product do say it stopped working after one season. But, it is not as bad you describe. Hopefully, it will improve over time.
As I understand the situation, the problem is that several coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants had to shut down because it was too cold. It's not that there isn't sufficient baseload capacity to deal with the demand, it's that the baseload capacity wasn't sufficiently winterized to handle the situation. Many wind farms were also insufficiently winterized to handle the extreme cold.

With the exception of natural gas (where some plants shut down to allow the pipeline capacity go to people who heat their homes with natural gas instead), the primary driver of the lack of capacity appears to be a failure to winterize for what is objectively a pretty rare situation, combined with an unwillingness to draw the power from those places where production isn't so heavily impacted by the weather.
Are customers being asked to pay 20% more? 20 whole percent more?
Generative design is almost always in SDF form. Things like point clouds, images, and 3DNN also dovetail nicely. SIMP in topology optimization is a good example also. I believe alot of SDF applications are still held back by mesh extraction. There is no silver bullet that can handle adaptive methods, sharp features, and generate a manifold.

SDF and mesh extraction are one of my favorite areas of research. I think it is very important for additive manufacturing in particular. The value will be hybrid SDF and spline methods for complex and highly integrated applications such as fluid and heat transfer or compliant mechanisms.

Modeling a box or cylinder with SDF isn't the right application IMO. Optimized topology for a given PDE is.
OpenAPI v3.1 – The best thing to happen to OpenAPI since OpenAPI
PCI pass thru, eh? That's pretty cool. I'll hand it to the BSD community (the community is another thing I love about BSD btw - attended MeetBSD a few years ago and it was such a fun crowd) - they create some killer compatibility layers. Like in this thread, that simultaneously illustrates this, and also why I'm afraid to put it on my primary work machine: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/would-it-be-possible-to-p...
For reference, a wire transfer at a major bank like Wells Fargo is $34.
Not sure how this will be received in HN, but I just want to say... when I grow up, I want to be like fogleman :-). Just look at his portfolio of truly great projects [1].

Something that I find inspiring in his work is that he seems to use pretty !boring! tech (imho). No rust?! No lisp/reactive/functional/esoteric programming!? what?! You can't be cool if you use mainstream tech like go or python, right? Well, it turns out, you can!

Well done sir :-)

1: https://www.michaelfogleman.com/
I've never had an urge to buy lottery tickets or gamble for money. Mathematically, I know the odds of me winning are highly unlikely so my non-urge turns further into complete disinterest, I can pass by lottery shops and rolls of scratch lottery cards in shops and not even notice them.

I've only been in one lottery and I was forced to enter against my wishes - that was the draft/conscription which, unfortunately, I did win - along with many others.

If I've an interest in lotteries/gambling then it's to question why I'm so disinterested in the subject compared to others. I've not been able to answer that adequately.
I know complex adaptive systems are hard to understand, but you should really try.
Cash, if it's in a bank an not under a mattress, gets reinvested by the bank so it's not the same thing.
After experiencing that event? I think so. A lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum are very pissed right now. The state of Texas and its Republican rulers have been embarrassed in a big way, as the sham that is “free market” has been revealed for all to see.
For anyone who has ever looked at the code for betaflight, arducopter or px4 and built a moderately complex quadcopter from parts... I really wonder what the balancing/descent/sensor package and software looks like on the rocket-crane thing.

As I understand it, after it jettisons the aero shell, it reaches a certain height by radar altimeter and then activates active rocket thrust to balance a big square flying platform over the landing area, with a very limited flight time possible (based on weight budget/fuel supplies), and then uses the skycrane system to lower the rover.

What sort of 6-axis IMUs and sensors must be on that thing , and how quickly can it adjust thrust per corner to keep itself flying level while descending...

https://www.space.com/16889-mars-rover-curiosity-sky-crane-l...

Does it swivel the small rocket motors? Or is it based on thrust adjustment only? How many different radar and laser altimeter type sensors does it use to determine that it's above a suitable flat spot? All sorts of fun questions.
“I'm aware of the 21 million maximum BTC cap”

Better thought of as a configuration value set by people with most of the mining power, which last time I checked was PRC
This article suggests that he and JL were half of a self-funded YC that took 6% of each company they funded. The YC portfolio is estimated at $300 billion from a random article I just Googled.

3% of that would be nine billion, assuming all four YC founders had equal shares and disregarding dilution as the portfolio companies took on more investors.

Likely off by an order of magnitude in one direction or the other but still fair bit higher than 50 million.
The spatial audio feature makes me think that Apple has some level of head movement tracked with airpods.

I'm imagining a system where you can just use nods/head shakes to move through some sort of binary decision tree to execute some basic interactions, like reacting to incoming alerts/messages.

new text, music pauses, siri reads it to you: "Your mother asks if you'll be home by dinner, Would you like to respond?"
shake head no -> interaction cancelled, music resumes
nod head yes -> "Ok, how would you like me to respond? Yes, you will, or no, you won't?"
gesture head for appropriate response

Easy? Dumb/ridiculous? Sure, you can't get suuuuper deep with the decision tree and it's tough for non-binary responses, but it's enough of an interface to have a meaningful, non-verbal engagement with a computer.
Gigawatt scale nukes would need to go down in an unreliable grid. They have virtually no demand response compared to LNG and other fossil fuels. Frequency stability is the ultimate constraint.

I think a really good question to ask: Why was there missing generation in the LNG and other fossil fuel plants? Was it because they all froze over at the same time, or was it because the price of LNG went to the moon on Sunday night? Was this price increase caused by natural supply-demand mechanics, or was there an artificial component as well?

The way I see this - LNG generation providers shutdown to avoid incredibly expensive fuel costs, which they were unable to pass onto the customer. PUCT did make a change last night to try and alleviate this market model issue. Fundamentally, the whole thing is broken. I was looking for some historical precedent for all of this, and you would probably not be surprised to know this has happened before and would certainly not be surprised to find out which company was involved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...

Now, I am not alleging that the current situation has any sort of malicious or criminal element, but there are some direct quotes from sources in that above article that trouble me as a Houstonian going through this exact kind of hell right now:

https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/enron.tapes/
Um. E=mc^2 and reducing a piece of meat with heat does not increase calories.
Check out Arccos! Requires you to add little sensors to the butt of each club, but it’s seamless as far as tracking goes.
Ah you're right, they did say Solar days.
That seems like the literal opposite of snark.
But the meth voices say to keep browsing for patterns
Size plays a huge and underappreciated role here. Hacker News is small enough that if you wanted to you could read the comments on everything that interested you from the first two or three pages every day. It might take you an hour or so, depending on how many interests you have. Probably not worth your time, but not debilitating either. Metafilter is sort of an experiment of taking this to its logical extreme: anyone on the site (IIRC) is allowed to post directly to the front page, but you're a member of the community and expected to post thoughtful stuff that's going to be worth the time of most site members.

Most social media platforms do the exact opposite, and intentionally at that. The whole point is that there's (practically) no end to how much you can consume, you can ruin your life on one site alone. Notably, HN and Metafilter don't have ads, but the incentives are clearly very different for almost any other social network.
I got caught in the storm and have been without power 24 hours and counting. Thankfully there is a hotel downtown that has their own power generators for the same amount of time that I've been staying at and have been staying safe. My thoughts and prayers to those without power who have not been able to find shelter in these trying times.
"Supposed to be" funny, sure, but this is drifting towards "funny sad" or just anger.

I think with all the frustration out there, urban red-state Millennials like myself are stuck expressing themselves in meme form since our congressional representatives (Missouri) appear to be chasing rural voters who think Biden is a scary socialist. One of these days I'll find time to grab a stamp and mail off a few memes on paper to my congressperson, since they don't seem to be reading my emails to them or listening to the voicemails I send them.

To wit:
"If the money to feed, clothe, and house the homeless has to come from taxing Jeff Bezos... I'm not going to lose any sleep over that."
I do have a feeling though that putting too much attention and funding into renewables, which Texas did, takes some attention and funding from other issues like "weathering" which is basically either warming or cooling or anything in between.

It also raising the question about funding climate change initiatives when we don't know what exactly the "change" is going to be in any given year. I am not saying renewable is bad or dealing with warming or anything like that, but maybe a more conservative and humble approach which takes into account the assumptions that we can't exactly predict the future, is more appropriate.
Hate to be an insensitive jerk because people are suffering, but kinda agree.

There was a 3 hour long line at trader Joe's in downtown Austin today. Uber eats has been down maybe 24 hours.

Like....the human body can absorb a 3 to 5 day water only fast reasonably well in most cases and its even becoming trendy in certain longevity circles.

On one hand it points to society getting soft. On the other hand who knows maybe in this pandemic some people really got hit at bad time. As long as no one dies it will all be fine.
Okay, so to rewind the discussion as I see you can't be convinced away from Capital as the only way to view this. I'll reframe in terms of capital to point out the problem with how you describe "Efficient Capital Allocation".

Capitalist A hires Worker X to generate some value (P) for them and they pay X: W (wage) - M (margin) (the difference being the surplus value SV). (So W+M = P, and P - W = SV) --
(Edit: Sorry to make that so confusing I could have done that better)

That is how capitalism works. I don't think you'd disagree.

Now A takes SV and hires worker Y and repeats the process and generates another lot of SV.

Why does A have rights to SV at all? The thing you are referring to as "Capital" is really just the "Right to collect others SV" -- where does that right come from?
The origin of most of the photoshopped images that made it into the animation was on a web bulletin board dedicated to this FPS game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsiege:_Tribes

I remember seeing them all in their much higher resolution originals before the animation existed.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2453...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-u...
Concurred. Just opened and saw 「Clubhouse Elites How to grow your network」
Looks more like poopey Garbo to me.
> Inflation of an asset means that the asset itself drops in value, relative to the value of other goods.

That assumes an asset can be used as a medium of exchange. In its current form, BTC is not a medium of exchange, it's a store of value.

In other words - the word inflation has to do with purchasing power. If the asset isn't used as a way to purchase then comparing the characteristic of inflation is basically pointless. It' be like saying "trees are inflating as an asset". No one makes purchases using trees so the concept is irrelevant.
What's your thinking w.r.t XLM?
Where is it most common?
So your company has no obligation, but random person has to keep track of your money, and send it back ASAP? Very convenient, you should also demand interest on your money...
Samsung's New HBM2 Memory Thinks for Itself: 1.2 Tflops of Embeded Compute Power
I remember that storm! Week off of school and you could skate right on the sidewalk.
The parent said there is not enough transmission capacity not generation capacity. Generation needs to be near loads. If not then transmission lines are required to bring current from generators to loads. Transmission lines have fixed capacities, like your internet connection can only transmit so much data/s, they can only transmit so much power.
Self modifying *code
First, the relationships are voluntary. Second, the relationships are mutually beneficial else one party would end them.

Lastly, free trade doesn’t create a wealth transfer, it creates new wealth for both parties. Chinese assembling iPhones lifted a huge number of Chinese laborers out of rural poverty working in much more physically demanding and dangerous jobs at a fraction of the pay. A significant part of Apples market share, market cap, and tens of thousands of US iOS developer jobs are owed to cheaper iPhones enabled by Chinese labor.

The only time “wealth transfer” occurs is when free trade breaks down a monopoly. Like if we ended sugar tariffs, the wealth would be transferred from certain politically connected families in Florida, to US consumers and foreign workers.
In parts of Europe (definitely Germany) heating with water based radiators throughout the house is normal. And that goes from individual houses to big apartment complexes (I lived in a 52 unit one with a central furnace). It's totally normal to let the air out of your radiator from time to time. And they (or you in the individual house case) fill up the water in the 'closed' system from time to time.

Different places, different 'customs' i.e. systems we are used to. All have their pros and cons and sometimes it's just that we don't know that different systems exist.
Let me know if you do anything cool with it!

I just got text working, which is very exciting. It was surprisingly easy, too.

1) Render text to a high resolution 1-bit array using PIL
2) Compute the distance transform using scipy
3) Do some index fiddling to map it into world space, and it's done!

Even works with unicode: https://twitter.com/FogleBird/status/1361523405821005824
Next time you need to buy nat gas futures.
Give that pg is someone who can walk away from running YCombinator to work on other stuff for fun, he probably doesn't care about maximizing utility or impact at this point.
Taking the simple core of it would be a good teaching exercise for a beginner class.

>>> 1<<2**8
115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936
>>> 1<<3**8

114235622173779374328348175648643910549218134760744031862028761
...quite a few lines later...
52363416415356114173952

Ask students to explain wtf is going on...
Also, leaving water trickling when you’re on a septic system can ruin your grinder pump because it stirs up the solids in the first separating tank. And, as I learned the hard way this week, even if all the faucets are dripping, there’s no way to trickle a toilet. The supply lines for both of our toilets froze while the sink next to them kept right in dripping. And then there’s the question of how to keep your water heater from bursting when the power goes out and it can’t heat anything.
> For one, the delta from 32F (right around freezing) to 65F (heated home temp) is much less than 0F to 65F

Not sure what you're trying to say with this point, the average low of e.g. Dallas is 39F not 0F. I'm quite sure the record low in Denmark is going to be lower than the record low in Dallas if that's what you intended to compare instead.

The second issue is valid logic for why you need higher peak generation not why renewables can't supply it. Wind was overproducing estimates, the problem wasn't wind couldn't provide during the load period it was that the plants of all types weren't prepared to operate in the cold.

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I think the main differences are:

- Denmark is part of a larger grid system instead of independent

- Denmark pays more for electricity

- Denmark prepares its equipment for extreme conditions

and I think these are all true for all power sources.
I absolutely prefer "boring" tech.

Thanks for the kind words.
Of course it could have been avoided: much of the rest of the country has much colder weather regularly than this "extreme" Texas cold weather event.

That's my point. Other parts of the country have "colder weather regularly". Texas doesn't.
It would be interesting to see a plot of price vs. uptime in the face of unlikely events for electric grids, and which spot on the curve has been chosen here.

There are definitely points on such curves, of course, where you've exhausted the sweet spot and just have the option of paying e.g. 3x as much for a very modest marginal decrease in risk. But that doesn't sound like the case here.
I understand the dude needs to sell himself, but "hey I'm _____ and I worked at NASA!" isn't really that different from "hey I'm _____ and I went to Harvard!"
Now we only need to find a hash function which is faster to calculate by hand than using a computer.
Which is dumb because it's not that much more to make the system reliable in all climates. Especially considering climate change.
LPG or Propane is awesome down until -42 celsius. Then it’s basically useless as it won’t vaporize. Live in Quebec too and my backup is a dual fuel generator. Propane and then regular fuel if it’s too cold or I’m out of propane. Never too careful!
That's a pity for Stack Overflow, but I don't blame him one bit.

Also: I recognized the name immediately because gman helped me out with a WebGL question* last year.

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62784790/what-is-the-fas...
Texas gas plants aren't "backup generation". Those are always available, almost always on, full-time-operated facilities.
Cars operate across a spectrum of climates... no reason your power plant should not.
Terrible headline makes it sound like the open-source-ness made the attack possible to occur instead of possible to be discovered.

"Of course, as the vast majority of the users of The Great Suspender were not interested in its open-source nature, few of them noticed until October, when the new maintainer made a perfectly ordinary release on the Chrome Web Store. Well, perfectly ordinary except for the minor details that the release did not match the contents of the Git repository, was not tagged on GitHub, and lacked a changelog."
Your most recent example is 80 years ago?

And yeah, politics is involved. Unless the engineers want to work for free and fundraise for infrastructure, they need to compete for limited resources.
God this point doesnt make sense. Bitcoin exists in lands that are governed by men. The governments could make it valueless at the first sign of threat to political currency. BTC is not a hedge, it's just an asset class that is growing fast and gaining attention faster than adoption.
there are many paths to Yes.
Bitcoin at this stage in all practical purposes is functionally is like a stock. It may go up to 10 trillion dollars? Which is 10x. A lot of stock have that potential in the long run.