skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"research supports that conclusion" - from some marxist think tank perhaps. Definitely bullshit. People are not better off without property rights.

And with your attitude, I guess you celebrate colonialism. After all, those were people looking for new places to live.
Yes, the lack of regulation around winter weatherization. Lack of regulation is a product of the broad trend to deregulation. California has suffered PG&E's despicable policies fueled by deregulation, that have also killed dozens of people and caused billions of dollars of property loss. So it's not a Texas only problem. But it certainly is a behavior of Texas (Government, regulators and industry) problem just as California's problems are a behavior of California (Government, regulators and industry) problem.
Hmm perhaps decree a method/routine to processes like nail gunning. A bit like the Japanese rail staff with their pointing routines.

Film the worksite or send surprise inspectors to catch workers too lazy/reckless about their nail gunning. Maybe show them videos of nail gun injuries!

Improper nailgunning I think is more related to ingrained attitude than ephemeral competence degraders (drugs)
This thing looks like a toy project by a group of designers and frontend developers. Are you suggesting that their skills could have improved the search somehow?
Releasing dedicated hardware for mining cryptocurrencies is the only way to go forward. Miners that use gaming hardware to mine must just be priced out of the market by more efficient dedicated hardware.

This happened for bitcoin. If you don't have latest ASIC you can't even dream of mining bitcoin unless your electricity costs nothing.

And even then you are still better off investing in ASIC as opposed to gaming hardware.
For absurdly obvious reasons (not all places have the same climate) there are no winterization standards. There are merely recommendations, none of which were implemented by ERCOT.
Er.. “power”? ”Harnessed”? I do not understand your use of those words. How do you “harness” a dream and use it to “power” a change? Are you thinking that lucid dreaming might alter one’s brain? Change one’s real-world behaviour? Because on the face of it, I’m not seeing any way that a dream can directly change anything in the real world. Strange use of the words, IMO.
CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome
So for that event which states experienced state wide blackouts that lasted for days on end?

Here is a write up of that event:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/us-polar-vorte...

Not a single mention of blackout.

And the reason for that is the grid is well designed and has backup options that makes it resiliently to extreme weather events.
I mean, high-school age children were predicting this. I am skeptical that the goal was to try make things better for workers. It seems much more likely that the goal was to appear to try to make things better. At least they did something, amirite?
This is my strategy as well. I use browsers which allow selective enabling of JS and avoid sites which require JS to display content.

In the process, I've found a strong correlation between quality of content and quality of interface accessibility. When a site makes me jump through hoops to view the content, be it enabling JS, video DRM, paywalls, or modal overlays, the content is typically of low quality as well, and I feel like I actually gain more from avoiding it than from going through the trouble of accessing it.
Perseverance is powered by an RTG, but the Ingenuity, the helicopter, is powered by lithium-ion batteries recharged via a solar panel.

I'd expect it to kick up a fair bit of dust on landing. But I suppose that's something else that'll behave a bit differently on Mars to what we'd expect in Earth's atmosphere.
I believe in purple.

After you get done exploring how we perceive colors associated with different wave lengths of light, and how nobody really knows whether these are common somehow, or unique to each of us, that sentence should bring you both a chuckle and some wonder about perception.
Ask HN: Question About When to Get Seed Funding and What to Use It For
Hypothetically, If my startup has validated most/all aspects of the lean canvas (problem, early adopters, solution, acquisition channels, value proposition, costs, revenue channels, key metrics, and unfair advantage (this would be the only iffy one, since, with a smaller amount of users, it may be difficult to validate)), but has not achieved product/market fit, would this be a good time to get seed funding, $800k - $1.3M? (I'd use this seed funding to hire and work with a small team of engineers (3-5) to build and grow a professionally designed product).

For some more background info on this hypothetical situation, I've been talking with customers as often as possible and have an MVP that has a couple hundred users (early adopters). I've been interviewing and chatting with these users (and trying to get new ones and interviewing them), iterating and pivoting my lean canvas, learning more about the problem, etc.

At this stage, I feel that I'd use this seed funding to hire and work with a small team of engineers (3-5) to build and grow a professionally designed product (since I've validated that early adopters need this solution, and all the other aspects of my lean canvas and the MVP is pretty crap). I'd now be focused on finding product/market fit and working with my small engineering team by having them talk with users some, having meetings on what we've learned (once a week), doing customer development, etc. Is my thought process correct or would this not be the right next step (after showing that the MVP I had made and the lean canvas has been validated)?

Thanks.
You can only tell it's a VM via sidechannel because you know what not-a-VM would do already. In the case of the universe we have nothing to compare to, no way to say "that's an effect of running on the underlying hardware" vs "that's a special case of how the hardware runs". E.g. one could take speculative execution rollback after certain workloads as timing jitter from being in a VM if they didn't know that's just how things work on a CPU and the instructions recently ran have an impact on how the next ones will predict.
It sounds basically like paying someone to be "on call" in case you need them in a hurry. That does seem like more of a bandage over the existing system rather than an optimal design.
> And read about how it will use Terrain Relative Navigation to find a safe landing spot:

So basically TERCOM from cruise missles but used on space crafts? All you need is a radar countour map of the area and it can automate it's way to the endzone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Apple is making its syringe emoji a vaccine dose
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)
zzzeek is an absolute beast and the SQLAlchemy codebase is a gem to read.
I think it makes sense to give people some rights. For example if you build a highway right in front of their house, it devalues their investment, and they could deserve compensation. Or make it a garbage dump. Are you really of the opinion the the government should be allowed to simply create a garbage dump in front of your house? What about a garbage dump in a poor black neighborhood, would you consider that OK?

It's possible there was a promise of "quiet surroundings and lovely views" when they bought the land from the government. So the government should stick to those promises.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google
Does it matter?

The reality is the same.
Right, but getting 1000+ more techies who mostly lean left into Georgia might change the result of a statewide election.
I actually think a lot of the things that were very difficult are much better now.

For browser incompatibilities we used to have to hand write CSS. We now can use normalizers and autoprefixer on build, including reading from a browserslist file, so it only includes what's necessary. Same thing for JS; instead of including a dozen hand written polyfills, babel-preset-env will only include what I actually need for the same browser target list.

People complain that now we need a while bundler, and that's correct, but it's a needed step. In reality, the easy things might have got a bit more complicated because you need an organized build instead of just a simple HTML, but the difficult things got way easier. And I'm ok with that.
OK I'll bite. Airbnb is a website. A hard-to-navigate, overproduced one, but it's still basically just a website coupled to a database. And it's not even as complex as Uber's because it doesn't need realtime GPS tracking of anything.

Why does Airbnb need a "tech hub?"
Saying they can make more money selling the cards doesn't make sense if the cards are actually profitable to use as mining equipment. Plus, investors don't care if nvidia is a video card company or they sell toilet paper, they care about their performance as an investment. If nvidia could pivot and double your investment, would you really care what they were pivoting to?
If you stay in crypto (e.g. usdt). Buying in is easy. Cashing it out in viable amounts is very problematic even for individuals, at least where I live. Transferring a usd-crypto-usd million would take a couple of weeks and unclear risks. In US, can you accept usdt from an exchange and grab the cash right away?
Also one batch of PV panels equivalent to a reactor cost 6x as much and with a lifetime of 20 years to the 60 for a nuclear reactor so you will need to replace these at least twice. All 32.5 Million of them.
There is plenty of biotech HQ'd in the Bay Area to seriously compete with Boston as the #1 spot: 10x Genomics, Guardant Health, Twist, Natera, CareDx, Verily, Invitae, Nevro, Berkeley Lights, Genentech, PacBio, etc.
That's putting it in the best possible light. Mining gold leaves the world with physical blocks of gold, which has no continuous upkeep cost. "Mining" cryptocurrency leaves the world with an asset that requires continual upkeep (further "mining") in order to maintain that asset. Any significant drop in the network's hashrate opens it up to attacks.

The upkeep cost for Bitcoin is, and by necessity must be, proportional to the value represented by Bitcoin.
This is one of the cooler things that I learned today.
Could they go even further: make the caps themselves lenses+filters. Take photos. And then blow them off for new photos.
The problem with the VM example is that in this case you can actually compare the VM behavior with your knowledge of real bare metal behavior and try to detect differences. But what if you have nothing to compare to. If you are inside a VM and never heard of bare-metal and have no chance to get at it for comparison.
My wish for Python 4 is for it to get faster.

There was a proposal on here recently about a guy who wanted to speed it up by like 3x. What happened?
Yes, those are recommendations that weren't implemented. Anywhere. The issues identified in 2011 for Texas caused issues in the Eastern Interconnect in 2014 for the north and 2018 in the south. In 2018 many of the same recommendations were made and finally NERC has started the standards process however they wont be approved until November.
> although the interconnect bandwidth was fully utilized, we need solid data on whether the neighboring states facing similar struggles could spare significantly more capacity. If not, then having more interconnect bandwidth would not have helped much. If they had power to spare, then the interconnects were indeed a problem.

As a data point: the interconnects were not fully utilized, as the Eastern DC tie had to be severed yesterday because power emergencies in the Eastern US meant that grid had no electricity to spare.
Here's[1] the CSS I use on my blog to treat the table of contents differently depending on screen width. I'm probably also "unqualified to be touching" this stuff so take it with a grain of salt.

[1] https://gitlab.com/kevinjfoley/assorted-array/-/blob/master/...
Florida outperformed lockdown states on excess deaths, education, and economy
Shouldn't we stop wasting energy on that ?
Neither a gamer nor a miner but would love some perspective here because something about this doesn't make sense to me.

If Nvidia has the capability to make a differentiated mining product, shouldn't that be enough to get miners to go for it? Why halve the hashing rate on the "gaming" GPU artificially? If it is a supply issue, shouldn't Nvidia, as a company, try and solve for it directly (maybe it is really hard?), instead of making their products unattractive to a certain set of customers?
Ask HN: Are you being micromanaged? How do you feel about it?
Litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
They should make km the default unit and not miles....
Manipulating surge pricing is basically a strike, and it'd be very hard to pull off consistently when there's such a huge pool of drivers willing to work for the current rates.

I've actually created an app that maximizes hourly earnings for drivers, and I'm working on another. It's hard because the driver's TOS prohibits use of third-party apps to interact with the delivery company's servers. Just another way the definition of "independent contractor" is being stretched.
It is just simply not true that we can maintain a huge portion of the population on unemployment for an indefinite period of time. It would come out to trillions of dollars per year, the math just doesn’t add up. And I should remind you that not every company is McDonalds or Amazon, but this kind of thinking supports their dominance rather than undermines it because their competition are less able to afford to comply with regulations. Wouldn’t you feel like a fool if you killed all small business in the US and ended up only with a few big players? Isn’t that the scenario everyone is afraid of? Stop making it a self fulfilling prophecy.
Ok I'll bite...Solana and other blockchains have cracked 50k+ tps. Mining is not required anymore with staked blockchains. Things are improving.
Want to highlight the most upvoted comment on the article:

> At the end, their goal is that MacOS is just iPadOS with Terminal and Xcode.
This claim is contradicted in detail by the article, with numerous sources given. Do you have any sources for your claim?
> (The altitude record on Earth is 85,000 feet, set by the SR-71.)

The A-12 Arkangel flew higher (95,000 feet) and faster, but was short-lived and so highly classified that it doesn't hold any "official" records.

And a MiG pilot flew up to 123,000 feet, but only on a ballistic trajectory, it wasn't a sustainable altitude.
In the early 2000s COBRA reorganized as FAANG in response to changing geopolitical realities.
When GPUs are know to use signed firmware, when open source coders need to ask for signed firmware to make even a minimal feature open source GPU driver work, and when there’s no evidence at all that high performance custom made mining-only drivers exist, then that seems very far fetched to me.
Today: several thousand tx/sec in "rollups," just by compressing transactions to minimal information and using zero-knowledge proofs that everything is valid. That's in production. The same transaction data is available on chain but e.g. instead of a sig on each transaction you have a compact proof that every tx had a valid sig.

Later: data sharding, where you're doing the same thing but each Ethereum node only has to store a portion of that data. That will multiply rollup capacity by 23X.

Details from Vitalik here: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html
Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago
But croptocurrencies have legitimate value propositions that needs to be recognized if you want to put the emission/energy-argument forward in good faith.
>By inevitable, I mean that space travel will become affordable enough to be personal, and that this is a question of time, not physical limitations.

Saying "a question of time, not physical limitations" however is the handwaving of physical limitations "because technology will advance" thing I wrote about.

Why would it be a question of time?

How is time gonna make "faster than light" travel possible, or bring the closest stars any closer than many light years?

If anything time has shown that space travel capability can go worse and languish completely for decades just as easily as some external force (like the Space Race in the Cold War, or easy excess credit to fund things like SpaceX today) makes it so -- it's still been 40+ years since we last went to the moon, and the US had let languish the capability to launch people into ISS for decades...
That's a completely theoretical max with 64 shards of the whole network, and reconciling those shards is an unsolved problem
No it is not, at all. Investments [are believed to] have intrinsic value that may be realized over time. I DO NOT need to sell an investment to make money on it. It is this belief in enduring value creation that gives an investment its present value, and certainly I can buy or sell the investment at any time based on this present value. Circumstances can change the relationship between the value creation and present value, and give me more opportunities to exit an investment profitably, if I want to.

But an investment is a belief in enduring value creation, not a belief in selling to a greater fool, or selling at all.

This is why (for the most part) gold, currencies and other 'stores of value' ARE NOT investments, in the proper sense.
You’re right, it’s a 2070
Well, it's 6:30 PM somewhere.

lifts glass
> What a short sighted rule enacted by the government. I don't see how they didn't recognize what would invariably result.

What results is...reduced headline unemployment, and reversing the policy would instantly and significantly boost headline unemployment, and result in lots of people losing jobs in a way individually and obviously traceable to the policy change.

Sure, there's a good story to tell about how the situation without the rule is better in the long-term steady state, and maybe even in aggregate in the short-term. But it's a more complex and abstract story.
Intense weather due to climate change...

I laugh at both color-teams, and heartily encourage Texas and any other states who so choose to secede, but it's still difficult for me to imagine that a giant continent-wide blizzard is a sign of global warming. How much deeper would the snow have to be, and how much further below zero would the temperature have to be, before we could call it "weather" rather than "proof of global warming"? In general I think "intense weather" is supposed to signify hurricanes.
If minimum wage goes up the stores will simply be replaced by Amazon- is that what you meant to say?
> Free college education

Is free college part of the "safety net" given that the majority of people in Scandinavian countries don't go to college? How is this relevant to a discussion of minimum wage workers?

> 4-6 weeks of mandated paid vacation
> Substantial paid parental leave

Paid vacation and parental leave are good examples of social benefits that exist in Scandinavia but not in the U.S.

> Option to opt in for half-time working and the companies are mandated to comply

Is working half hours a problem minimum wage workers actually face? This sounds more like a benefit for more skilled workers, who

> Universal healthcare not related to your job situation nor to the whims of the coverage of your health policy

For minimum wage workers, the same exists in the U.S. A full-time minimum wage job where I live in Maryland pays $21,000. Through the Affordable Care Act, someone my age (36) at that income level can buy a "Gold" plan with low deductibles for $75/month. That works out to about 4.2% of income, basically the same as the higher income taxes you'd pay in Sweden on that same income. Except in Maryland your sales tax is 6% rather than the 25% VAT in Sweden.

> Option to join an union with no repercussion

Same thing in the U.S.
What Is Going on at Google?
Can someone give an insight what's happening with Google?
The search engine is becoming worse by the month, YouTube is full of bugs, Android issues never get resolved and new versions are barely worth calling a "new version" for the last couple of years.
Some of the development teams are booted out like the internal studio for games for Stadia and projects like Angular are seeing mass exoduses.

Seriously, anyone have any clue what's happening? Is it toxic people/management pushing out talent?
> .... In other words, "desirable places to live" is not a finite, limited resource; we can create more.

> Most human wealth is like the latter, not the former; we can create more of it. But you have to have a mindset that you can create wealth. That is a fundamentally different viewpoint than the viewpoint many people seem to have.

Agreed. Another thing many people miss is that money isn't wealth: its simply the measuring stick or common language/protocol we collectively use to measure the wealth or value people create through their work.

Simply creating money out of thin air, or out of non-collateralized debts results in systemic distortions in money's ability to accurately measure wealth and value. This leads to price signals that no longer communicate real needs, which in turn leads well-intentioned people to make malinvestments.
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
implementation issues such as, wanting to maximize profits at the expense of workers.
Anyone know how likely this is to pass?
The Georgia program (HOPE) is for in-state high-school students getting their undergraduate degree, not people getting graduate degrees.
Do you have any data that says the cost (ie. money or security) is materially increased from this point forward given the space to store is truly small.
> none of which were implemented by ERCOT.

The NERC recommendations are requirements in Texas. There is the requirement to plan for extreme winter weather events in Texas but not in NERC.
So if people make babies, they are entitled to take your stuff away? I think that is too simplistic.
> Their actions meet the definition nearly exactly. The only difference is that Robinhood didn't directly execute the trades.

So...not "nearly exactly" at all. Moreover Robinhood isn't even an insider with respect to GME.
RFC 5737: IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation (2010)
How about making it legal to import spores, just like most other states?

https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_law8.shtml
I guarantee you that there is a device in your house that Rust does not target.
It comes from the paper "The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results" - http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...
Sounds like a good systems design interview question. Design an Airbnb like website operating globally.

I think going through this exercise will show it's more than "just a website"
I think the exact opposite of what you're saying is in the article.

>Why didn’t these plants have a winterization plan? Because it wasn’t required

>1989, the PUCT (Public Utility Commission of Texas) issued several recommendations and guidelines for winterization of power plants and gas wells

>What has been done since 2011? Not a whole lot. A request for a new standard was issued to NERC in late 2012, however a few months later it was denied.[15] Also in 2012 NERC put out a set of guidelines for developing a plan for winter weather[16]. In 2017 NERC put out a special reliability report on the relationship between gas and electricity[17]. Finally, after the 2018 event NERC received another standard request that was approved[23], however it won’t be finalized until late 2021[18,19,20].
> Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA.

Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri all had blackouts this week. The SPP had to stop sharing electricity with the Texas grid because they had no spare capacity due to dealing with their own power emergencies.

The headlines this week have all focused on Texas, but this was happening over the entire region.