skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the whole land belonging to the site, most of which is nature, not the plant itself, which looks like less than 200 acres, including the car parks.

In any case, it's not close at all either for that specific example or in general, not least considering that a nuclear plant can produce 24/7 and that solar often does not reach peak production because of the weather.

"A solar PV facility must have an installed capacity of 3,300 MW and 5,400 MW to match a 1,000-MW nuclear facility’s output, requiring between 45 and 75 square miles. For comparison, the District of Columbia’s total land area is 68 square miles." [1]

[1] Nuclear Energy Institute @ https://www.nei.org/news/2015/land-needs-for-wind-solar-dwar...
Of course it's Oracle.

We use Oracle for our HR system and it's the single worst piece of software I have ever used (and that includes Windows Me!).
Flynn(PaaS) is no longer being developed
Sounds like it's time to crack some NVIDIA drivers. I already do it for the video encoding limitations, why not this too? Miners are willing to go to some really hacky extremes, reflashing firmwares, custom fan mods, extreme overclock configurations, etc to maximize hashrates and certainly won't care if they have to jump through some hoops to patch a specific version of the Linux driver or enable unsigned drivers on Windows, as long as they make more profit.

Good luck with this one NVIDIA but you're playing a losing game. As soon as one un-restricted version of the driver exists, this is as good as useless and demand will be the same as ever for these cards unless they're able to ship CMP cards at a very high rate, but my understanding is the restriction here is silicon.

Let's not forget that last time they produced "mining only" cards, people managed to crack the drivers to render graphics too... this is no exception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4
> but that the open source origin has been hidden.

What is the specific licensing issue here?

If this is about them not liking the product, fine, but don't dirty the open source ethos unless they are breaking the license. Part of the problem is the current HN headline perhaps.
Line frequency increases if the supply is larger than the demand.
Did 3 people really check it though? I've worked with many groups where the one guy takes the lead and the other 2 are like "sure, whatever."
You got about 10 minutes to look at Reddit with the new design
Building more fabs is the only sustainable solution. Demand is higher than supply, and miners will just use older drivers or figure out a workaround pretty quickly, unless the new mining cards are substantially cheaper yet just as fast as the "gaming" GPUs.
I don't think anything has been published yet. It's very much in the early ideas stage, but there's a couple private mailing lists with some discussion going on.
The "design life" figure is something like the 5th percentile, if previous rovers are anything to go by. As in, they can estimate a 95% chance it makes it through 5 flights.

I'd bet on it making 20+ at evens.
> Demand for power overwhelms the supply of power generation available on the grid, causing equipment to catch fire, substations to blow and power lines to go down.

I very much hope that the critical equipment on Texas’s grid would trip to protect itself instead of catching fire. I also very much hope that ERCOT knows how to start their grid from a complete shutdown in a couple of days, not months.
The links are supposed to tell you that this is standard, well-established moderation practice that has been explained countless times and has been going on for years. They're also supposed to save me from having to write an essay-length explanation every time, since I can't do that.

Yes of course ideology and politics enter into lots of things. The question is if an article has enough substance to support an intellectually interesting discussion that doesn't end up being dominated by flamebait and boilerplate. There's no intention to sweep political or ideological topics away altogether. That's another point that's been explained many times, but I'm afraid I have to give you another one of those links to point to it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

These criteria don't seem particularly wide to me and they certainly aren't random. They've evolved out of the 13+ years of experience we've had running this place. I do get, though, that they can seem random at the level of a particular post, from the perspective of anyone who hasn't seen the dozens/hundreds/thousands of previous cases that motivate the moderation style. That's another reason why I quote those links so often - it's an attempt to show how the practices here have accrued from a large corpus of similar cases over a long time.

The main thing we're trying to avoid on HN is too much repetition. The generic topic in this case has been repeated many times over many years on HN, and since there isn't a significant new development in this case (that's the point about proposed bills), there's nothing to steer the thread in a non-repetitive direction. To my eye the comments in this one make that point quite clearly.
You do realize there is a global chip shortage right now? It’s not as easy as clicking a button in ec2 to suddenly make more gpus.
Eh, not necessarily. There might be a thought on the UX team that shopping cart is something anyone can relate to, so they use that as the metaphor.
worked up? self righteous? alarmed? You seem to read with a lot of -bad-faith- (edit: no that's the wrong idiom.. ähm read while assuming the worst?). Take a step back and relax. It's obviously not about mafia fronts and money laundry ^^ The whole story is about the user interface being unclear and not being understood by those who use it. Could have made it clearer i am playing with that theme ... maybe an /S would have helped, or one of those smiley things i keep hearing about that are so uncommon on this page.
Lithuania is too small to have any nuclear industry of their own. They would have to depend on some big nuclear power in supply chain and spent fuel processing. And Big Nuclear is like Big Oil - very corrupting to your society. What is going to work for them is combination of solar&wind - that combination works great on Baltic - plus natural gas with diversifying supply from Russia with LNG from US, Saudis, etc. plus high power integration into EU power grid which they have already done.
While I agree with what you are saying,we should keep in mind that people tend to sensationalize and emphasize the human element. This in turn would make it seem like it is a closer and less procedures process than it really was. Bottom line, we should probably take a statement like that with a grain of salt.
That there were no winners is the point.
The grid is a mesh network that self-balances -- eg: electricity automatically routes around damage. It's great when things work well (supply > demand) but if things go sideways then there can (and there has been) cascading failures.

These failures are by design -- if too much electricity is routed through a given section of the grid then those sections will (for example) get too hot and surrounding materials (eg: plastic, wood, debris) will catch fire. Intentionally designing your equipment to fail in a non-catastrophic way is a sensible precaution.

That said, the "seconds away from system-wide catastrophic failure" message could be (and probably should be) parsed as "long-standing cost-cutting measures made things go from bad to catastrophe rather than bad to worse."

Sensible upgrades were skipped over (because those cost money), due diligence was not done (because that costs money), safety standards were lowered (because that saves money), etc etc etc.

The argument that this was a Black Swan event is weak because the government should do its planning on multi-decade-long timescales, which should account for Black Swan events. The entire premise behind Texas having its own power grid was that being beholden to the West Coast/East Coast electrical grid dichotomy was to guard against a Black Swan event (civil war) -- this flies in the face of that rationale.
I was expecting the bars to form the shape of a giant middle finger.
I’m affected and have been stress-reading every report ever about this since it began.

The short version is, to a first approximation power generation requires power first. For many of the same reasons your house with solar panels is itself on the grid - your one source is not a reliable way to operate all the equipment on your home.

Another issue is that on a grid everything has to run on similar clock. The process of aligning the clock frequency takes time and you have to do it for every node.

There are special plans to “black start” a power grid but if you didn’t prepare adequately for cold which happens every decade, you definitely didn’t plan adequately for black start which happens theoretically never.
Why? Californians got ripped by Representatives from Texas, both Senators from Texas AND a sitting President.

And you expect them to quietly turn the other cheek? Actually, I'm amazed at the amount of restraint I'm seeing.

Personally, if I had been Biden, I would have made every single Senator and Representative of Texas come to the White House and perform dogeza before approving the state of emergency declaration for Texas.

Of course, that's why I'm not cut out for politics.
Being addicted to the hero's tale is what holds this country back the most.
This is the reason i was used in past two Facebook sites - mbasic. and m.

But Facebook surprises me with removing Messaging functionality from mobile sites. So i must use desktop site. Within 5 minutes fans starts howling...
The two things I've seen:
1. People bringing up things representatives of Texas said about California last year during the fires, and using that as ammo. I think this is just a case of people hating these representatives and throwing it back in their face. It's not great, but also it's pretty reprehensible to see the things the reps said about he California fire situation.

2. People in states who are acclimated to this kind of weather being snobby. This is annoying, but common in any scenario. I have friends who live in Alaska and I live in Chicago. Two years ago I was bitching to them about hitting -20 degrees Fahrenheit and having issues with my furnace. Their responses were jokes and screen caps of their weather history. I will say though I saw a lot of this at first, but people seem to be understanding that Texas woefully unprepared and that the dunking on them right now isn't helpful.
I'm not trying to say that SpaceX is better than NASA. I am responding to the point that NASA has done things that SpaceX hasn't (e.g. landing on other celestial bodies) by pointing out that SpaceX has done things NASA hasn't (e.g. SpaceX rockets land and can be reused).

I don't think it makes sense to talk about which is better unless there is some specific metric that can be measured so a conclusion could be reached. I am encouraged though that SpaceX has a trajectory that will allow greater access to space. By bringing the cost of space travel down, I expect we will get a lot more of it. NASA (and other governmental space programs) started the initiative, but I think SpaceX is continuing it marvelously.
To be fair -- Texas as a State and identity has been very outspoken about being pro fossil fuel and quite anti-renewables. The Mayor blaming renewables when it was gas pipes that froze was simply disgusting.

Many many Texans are not very envoirnmentally consciencious. It's very much a climate change disaster and many Texans felt insulated from such a global change.

To be clear shadenfreude is in poor taste but there is also a lesson for anyone who feels that climate change is other peoples problems. What is happening is awful and Texans deserve all the help the US can give.
That's the point, you cannot. Most high impact journals are with Elsevier or Springer. As a researcher you need papers in high impact factor journals. As a researcher you also don't want to spend precious grant money on open access. As a researcher you also want to be on review committee of said journals because it enhances your resume. What a lot of folks saying let's not use these journals don't understand is its not easy to get away from them. There's too much invested in a feedback loop that you will have very limited success with just individual researchers. You need to advocate for legislation.

fwiw - I'm also not sure why IEEE and ACM get a free pass either.
> Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too?

While their move is questionable (I don't judge, but recognize that it's questionable), there is a situation out there that is 1. specific and 2. concrete (gaming cards that can't be purchased for gaming), which is unlikely to apply also to machine learning.
GA modified their constitution in 2011 in order to make non competes broadly applicable and enforceable. Software engineers probably fall under their "company professionals" category that allows for non-competes. They also removed time limits on the non-compete; non-competes can be valid for as long as the trade secrets you were exposed to are still trade secrets (so can be forever).
Texas has made price/reliability tradeoff. Lower price with less mandatory contingencies.

In other girds electricity costs little more and produced are required to maintain excess capacity and prepare for larger fluctuations in demand and weather. It costs little more, but is more reliable.
> Well, look at the Russian space program.

Excuse me, but the Russians tried to compete with the US moon program. Their rockets were so unsafe they killed one of their most famous cosmonauts (friend of Gagarin, who told him not to go) and finally gave up. He knew it was a one-way trip, but boarded because patriotism.

The problem with communist countries is that the Party and its narrative always comes first, and the "little people" are last.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars
Anyone know the bandwidth they're working with, at least roughly?
Wind turbines in Texas have failed for the same reasons that fossil fuels and nuclear have: failure to winterize.
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Okay, you've got a fixation on wind power, so keep blowing that hot air. Shame you can't blow it into my living room.

In the meantime, I hope this state can winterize their natural gas plants, which your link shows should be more than half our power source. Not so much when the machinery is frozen, it turns out.
> is this what NASA calls 'weights'?

Well no, the Cruise Mass Balance Devices are intended to Balance the Mass of the spaceship during Cruise conditions. That these Devices are single-part and constructed out of a single chunk of metal each should not be construed as merely being 'weights'. :)
Laser Galvos and an ESP32 Recreate Old-School Asteroids
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770332855/how-to-run-for-offi...

https://runforoffice.org
You can't gloat that you have a purposefully independent power grid, propose secession bills and mock Californians for rolling blackouts and then be all `Surprised Pikachu` when people talk shit about your infrastructure's catastrophic failure.
Honest question: Have you calculated your profits now VS what your profits would have been if those same $$ purchased the cryptocurrency of your choice on the day you bought the cards instead? Which would have been more profitable (taking selling the equipment after into consideration as well).
It seems a lot of this could have been avoided simply by winterizing the most high-producing sources of power (nuclear and nat gas). These plants are PLENTY capable of running in extreme cold and snow.
> And of course the means to run

I'd vote for fixing this first, everything else will follow.
I'd vote for you if were to do so.

I imagine we'll see an influx of people running on infrastructure in the near future, hopefully some of them will be doing more than "not wasting a good catastrophe".
My understanding is the entire grid needs to be at a stable frequency of either 50 or 60 Hz (affected by demand) , if a generator goes out of sync/phase you are going have major trouble.

Bringing up a grid from scratch from a total blackout scenario is such a time consuming process so you rather throw consumers off with no warning even in the coldest winter imaginable.
While I largely agree with you, Apple can manage more than two things at once and money talks.

Microsoft obviously has large corporate presence, but also Xbox for example.

I just see so many already operational/technical/financial/branding assets in Apples favour compared to incumbents that I'm not sure how they'd fail to make money. OTOH, someone smarter than me in the company clearly thinks otherwise. I just wish I knew what they knew.

Maybe it is as you say, "just not Apple's DNA."
> but it seems like every avenue of "you deserve it" is being explored on social media

Trolls are still a thing, this is what they do

Edit: As other comments are pointing out, poor planning is not unique to Texas [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA
Absolutely, and him and I both know this, but... I still like to remind him of it (only because we're close enough to prod each other like this).
"i have work that needs to be done yesterday, but no team ready to take it on. i know, i'll send a frustratingly cryptic invitation which will make everyone wonder whether it's voluntary or 'voluntary', and then reveal a scenario that offers no reward to them, no risk to me, and masks the highjacking of these peoples' schedule as teambuilding. surely grabbing the people who are willing to jump through hoops to impress me is more effective than assigning this to a team that has internal cohesion and relevant skillsets."
Here's something I've been wondering: an "infrastructure platform" sounds cool in theory at least in part because it's so vague; anyone can kinda take what they want from it, like the phrase "America is in crisis". Especially right now, I'm sure an infrastructure platform in the abstract would poll well.

But in terms of concrete economic choices, the popularity of services like Griddly seems to indicate that many quite explicitly choose low (instantaneous) cost over reliability/price stability. It's like airline tickets: everyone loves griping about seatroom or whatever but revealed preference is for low-cost offerings.

Put differently, as a non-Texan looking in, I guess I'm asking how hopeful you are that this zeitgeist can be capitalized on once you get down to actual policy and the inherent trade-offs you've got to deal with therein (and also when participants are warm and comfortable).

To be clear I personally would vote for you in a heartbeat, but the cliffs in support between vague positive overarching statements and concrete policy proposals in other areas don't leave me super hopeful.
Author of the blog post here. What you describe can already be done: https://aroberge.github.io/ideas/docs/html/. For example, if you wish to use a new syntax so that you can use Decimal literals, you can install https://pypi.org/project/decimal-literal/.
It's remarkable that the article seems to be saying "it's not working now but maybe with a few tweaks we could swing this" where the real situation seems to be that this won't be doing any "meaning-critical" tasks for a long time, if ever.

GPT-3 seems like an extended Eliza-effect device [1]. It seems that a general database of word-fragments sufficient to give the impression it's following-along on any topic but that doesn't involve any coherence but rather shows how much of ordinary language is "just associations" (which isn't entirely unimportant but still).

Altogether, it even seems less sensible than narrow, hand-tuned chatbots like Alicebot[2] but it's harder to see it's limitation because of it's huge dataset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Linguistic_Internet...
That is additional latency, especially if you can't find a VPS near your ISP.
It seems like the participant since they have to proactively signal they’re in a lucid dreaming state with deliberate sweeping eye movements (LRLRLR) before answering questions.

It definitely matters because it implies we are consciously aware of ourselves during lucid dreaming but we’re asleep!. The memory of the dream is the only part that’s fragile. It’s another blow to the view that brain activity during REM is just randomly firing neurons rather than a creation of our consciousness.
Right now it is 11 minutes away!
To some extent, yes, I am. On the one hand, their elected officials are absolutely asking for it. On the other hand, 46.5% of those who voted (5.3 mil) voted for Biden and 48.3% (4 mil) voted for Beto when he ran against Cruz. There are more of "their tribe" living in Texas than live in many blue states combined. And even despite the control of Republicans there, Texas is blazing towards green energy wrt wind and solar investments.

The polarization and alienation worsens just as empathy becomes more and more important to facing the massive ecological problems at hand.
Thanks for that, I will look into these links.
That's simply an issue with winterization. It's nothing inherent to their operation during a winter snow storm. Russia runs all kinds of gas and nuclear power plants in cold parts of Siberia that regularly get this kind of weather.

This is something unlike current solar and wind technologies. Which can't be "winterized" in the same way.
> Solar panels are maybe 30% efficient. So 10-acres of glass-roofs need to be replaced by 30-acres of solar panels

Not remotely. Plants are also extremely inefficient, converting only about 1% of the solar energy that falls for their use. [1]

Most of this inefficiency is from solar energy being in the form of frequencies that the plants can't use, but solar panels can. So the panels can capture this energy, then funnel into the red and orange lights that are most efficient for plant growth.

I've read a bunch on this, and haven't been able to find an authoritative source for what the efficiency conversion is -- how many acres of solar panels power how many acres of vegetables, and is it greater or less than 1:1? -- but it's certainly not as simplistic as "solar would need 3x more land because they are 30% efficient."

1. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-energy-conversion-solar-cells....
It's intentionally vague because they want people to read that page and think "oh, it's all encrypted, it's safe", and not realize that they intentionally preserve this backdoor so that they can provide data to the FBI at any time, with or without a warrant, at the FBI's explicit request:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Apple provided user data on over 30,000 users in 2019 to the US federal government without a warrant or probable cause, per Apple's own transparency report (see FISA orders). All the feds have to do is order the data from Apple, and they get all of it, on anyone they like.

You're going to be waiting a long time; it's a design goal for Apple (and by extension the feds) to be able to read your every stored text, iMessage, and iMessage attachment out of your device backup without your consent/knowledge.

It's not really that different from the situation in China, where Apple provides the same sort of backdoors to the CCP to be able to sell devices there. (There, the CCP requires that it be physically stored on state-owned and state-operated hardware, as I understand it.)
It's #4 / #5 by market cap, how is it shitcoin? Please elaborate.

It's about to take over ethereum's market share once smart contracts are released later this or next month.

It's built from scratch with some strong academics in the CS field working on R&D.