skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is amazing, thank you. Seeing as IBM trivia is perhaps of interest to you, you might like to know that the extreme last vestige of IBM Greenock closed in Dec 2018, when the railway station attached to the plant closed. It served only an eerie, deserted brownfield site by its end. I once tried visiting to go dumpster diving for old keyboards, but there was nothing around and demolition was nearly complete. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_railway_station
If you read the article, you would see that there's a strong chance they still wouldn't have power. Texas' grid currently exceeds the requirements set out by NERC for winterization.
I think you can usefully tackle this problem without too much difficulty. At least, within a langauge like Gleam you can.

An effects tracking system can be used to determine things such as use of FFI, `assert`, recursion, and side effects. With these statements like "this function does not crash" is easy, and "this function does not diverge" is also possible, though it will not detect all functions that do not diverge.
Genetic and Fossil records will not reveal a single point where Humans Originate
To put this in comparison, a solar farm would need 50,000 to 100,000 acres to match the net output of those nuclear plants. Plus the land used for energy storage, which would typically involve damming rivers which has its own set of ecological effects.

And it's possible to build much denser plants. The Shin-Kori facility in Korea is massive energy relative to the land it uses. Nuclear power is far more energy dense than solar or wind. This is just thermodynamic fact.
>If somebody refuses to pay you the promised wage, that would be theft and a case for the law.

This is in fact what happens and one definition of wage theft (there are many ways for employers to steal from employees): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft#Wage_theft_in_the_U...

>A common form of wage theft for tipped employees is to receive no standard pay ($2.13 an hour) along with tips.

>A 2009 study of workers in the United States found that in 12 occupations more than half of surveyed workers reported being denied overtime pay: child care (90.2 percent denial), stock and office clerks (86 percent), home health care (82.7 percent), beauty/dry cleaning and general repair workers (81.9 percent), car wash workers and parking attendants (77.9 percent), waiters, cafeteria workers and bartenders (77.9 percent), retail salespersons (76.2 percent), janitors and grounds workers (71.2 percent), garment workers (69.9 percent), cooks and dishwashers (67.8 percent), construction workers (66.1 percent) and cashiers (58.8 percent).

>The most blatant form of wage theft is for an employee to not be paid for work done. An employee being asked to work overtime, working through breaks, or being asked to report early and/or leave late without pay is being subjected to wage theft.
It's really very simple. All the debt must be paid back by diluting everyone's salaries through future inflation which will create even more debt. If you're a salary earner and not a capital owner (I.e. earn passive income from assets), that debt represents the degree to which you are a slave to capital owners and also the degree of difficulty for you to get out of this situation.

If you're not a capital owner at this stage and you don't have a rich daddy. You're a slave. No other way to put it. Your salary is held hostage by that debt. It's your salary, not the assets of the elite that is going to be paying the interest.
Now is the part where someone brings up even with the low relative velocity, you haven’t accounted for the simultaneity issues we’d have if the earth collided with a black hole while the rover landing was happening.
> Cruise Mass Balance Devices

They put those in to make the probe seem higher-quality. They got the idea from Beats headphones.
Also, in the source for the page on a graph view is a commented version in ASCII art!!
The name "power of two" seems to misrepresent the algorithm to me. Shouldn't it be called "least of random 2"?

What's the history behind the name?
My question is why so many plants went down in such quick succession that such a quick reaction was necessary. From the graphs I’ve seen, it was 10GW in less than an hour. That is dozens of power plants, presumably geographically distributed and not using the exact same gas supply or experiencing the exact same weather conditions.

This caused prices to increase by about 200x and caused electric generators in Texas to earn about an extra $10 billion per day.

This reminds me of Enron in California in 2000.
Remediation for this vulnerability basically caused complete gridlock for the internal tools at a certain FAANG company today.
One thing I am curious about with this research is how they would get reliable numbers for high functioning opiate addicts. Addiction is really a spectrum from "no dependence on the drug and no negative life consequences" to "high dependence on the drug and many negative life consequences". I'm sure that many people fall in the middle where they continue to responsibly live their lives while still being dependent on a drug that they may wish to quit, but can't because the withdrawal is too much. I also would not be surprised if many of these people did not seek out help and tried to hide their problem from others due to the major stigma associated with being addicted to opiates, not to mention those who are dependent on opiates but in denial about their dependence.
> How does the newer unicomp compare to the Model M's?

To compare to my original M.

Pros:

- it has all the windows keys, menu keys etc.

- It really is the best Unicomp keyboard I've ever had and I can't really tell much of a difference between this any my original M. Not sure if my original Model M is showing its' age, but it really doesn't feel worse.

Neutral:

- It's nowhere as heavy

- The sound is different (not better or worse for me).

- key pressure is close to the same.

- I can't tell the difference between the lettering on the keys (used to be an issue with Unicomp keyboards).

Cons:

- Blue LED is distracting at night, putting white tape under the LED cover fixes it perfectly (might be able to request this when ordering -- never tried).

> it required too much pressure and gave me mild CTS

I've only noticed additional pressure in Model Ms (including Unicomps) after applying grease or WD40 to make the keys more quieter (usually a bad idea). There are a bunch of second hand Unicomp keyboards out there where people have done this and made them difficult to type on.

> I bought a Unicomp around 2010 because it has USB

Surprisingly, a lot of modern motherboards still come with PS/2 support today.
>it's impossible for them to build fabs or to foresee and plan for the supply chain disruption that was caused by COVID-19.

This has been happening for half a decade, it is not remotely a COVID issue. And no, they can't build their own fabs but they can certainly invest (either directly or indirectly by securing larger orders at a higher price even more years in advance) all the premium so there's at more fabs at an earlier time.
I'm still reading this, so I may be getting the wrong end of the stick, but this seems to be conflating Shannon stating that his work is the study of the behaviour of information in the abstract and the notion that information theory is totally disinterested in anything else.

This piece just seems a bit dull to my eyes - maybe there's something interesting trying to get out, but currently it seems like it's fumbling around the edges of Shannon's work and trying to find a dichotomy where there fundamentally isn't one.

The connection with Jane Austen in particular seems to be completely spurious - let's say that the information of finding this in Austen's work doesn't seem to be very high.
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My employer started using microservice as a way to update technology. We didnt have time to rewrite the main app, but new features were written in microservices, and those services used new technology. The savings wasn't a number, it was quantified as pass/fail.

We needed to update tls and other security areas, customers would have sued us and/or left us otherwise. This was made possible by refactoring into microservices. We also did it for quicker deployments, again customers were seeing our competitors update a website with no down time, so if we didn't switch to microservices to increase our deploy time, we would have failed and lost customers. (This is a > 10 year code base for B2B enterprise software, so don't judge us too harshly on these short comings)

Quantified savings is a hard and confusing thing to track from a tech perspective, but a sales person stating how many licenses you're going to loose if you don't do x is pretty easy to track!
The Texas grid does have interconnects with the other US grids and Mexico. However the capacity on those is insufficient for current demand.
I don't think Monster energy drinks use the ø character. It has a vertical line through the o and is likely just stylistic. https://i.imgur.com/1PCs1a3.jpg
Hum, duplicated. Sorry.
No, because the fusion reactors using HTS still have horribly lower power density. The ARC design has a power density 40x worse than a PWR primary reactor vessel, and involves far more difficult engineering. How is this going to be cheaper than fission, which itself is not competitive?
This has been going on for half a decade. Yes, it's not as easy as ec2 but it's not a problem that money can't help with solving faster.
What do you mean by "directly"? Color is a human abstraction over the reception intensity of certain wavelengths of light.
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I write 90% of my stuff in Haskell. When I need speed, I used to use C, now I use Rust.

> why waste my time with the manual labor of imperative programming

Someone has to.
https://github.com/ghc/ghc/tree/master/rts
The thing is, Texas winter weatherization standards exceed the NERC standards. Effectively the guidelines that NERC put out have been codified by the PUCT as requirements that are audited every year.
> As far as Nvidia is concerned they are selling as many units as they can produce, so it is a gold rush for them.

It actually is not, because those cards sold to miners don't just magically vanish, when crypto prices finally fall the miners will flood the market and the prices for new cards will have to be depressed as a result.

Mining sales should largely be thought of as a "pull-forward", they represent revenue that you're not going to make in some future quarter when everyone is buying used miner cards for 40% under MSRP. And NVIDIA themselves don't crank the chip price for OEMs (all of that was locked in a year ago) so they aren't making more money in the short term to make up for it.

That is specifically what NVIDIA is trying to address here by banning mining on gaming cards and creating mining-specific cards that can't be gamed on. Now cards that are sold for mining can't flood back and hit their future revenue in the gaming market.
Except with NVIDIA there's already extra demand if they need it - they can allow GeForce into data centers which are currently artificially disallowed.
It require some skills to manage for sure but a lot of full time job only require actual few hours of real works.
Short answer: No. We (the majority anyway, as some are colourblind) only perceive lightness, reddish, greenish, and bluish. The brain uses the info and effectively synthesises the image in our brains.

Long answer: Colour is a very rabbithole topic but Captain Disillusion has a summary of it (https://youtu.be/FTKP0Y9MVus) and Technology Connections has a discussion (https://youtu.be/uYbdx4I7STg).
Would be interesting if Citibank could sue Oracle for the confusing design
I'm guessing this is tied to some legal issues ongoing:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/02/uber-bankrupt-engineer-...
I don't think competitive fusion power will ever be a reality, unless one is talking about fusion in the core of the Sun.
>Most people who invest in gold aren't thinking, "I'm going to make money off the bigger idiot who comes after me".

Uh... this is literally how any investment works.
It all boils down to utilities not thinking they needed to protect wellheads from these kinds of temperatures in Texas. I get how that can happen, many of you make the same mistake with outside faucets. I spent the past few days with rolling outages, I would love to find a way to blame this on government, but mostly i blame the weather.
Medicare for all: individuals shouldn't be paying for healthcare personally.
There are configuration warning systems (most are aural tones, though there are available spoken systems). There are two challenges with a gear warning system: When to trigger it. How to present it.

In my aircraft, it's triggered by ((no gear safe indication) and ((full flaps) or (very low throttle setting))). The presentation is a loud, alternating warning tone and a red "Gear Unsafe" light directly in my field of view on the glareshield. These are not silenceable by button as is common on training aircraft.

Even though a handful are inadvertently geared up every year, I'm not convinced that better warning systems would significantly reduce the rate. Better training would. If I ever do the deed, I'll be the first to admit that I was the primary cause and that I failed not only to follow the checklist, but my own SOPs and flew the aircraft onto the runway with a large red light right in front of me and a blaring horn. Making it a voice seems not likely to help.

If I gear it up after an electrical failure [which some of the inadvertent ones are], that's probably slightly more understandable (and a scenario in which an additional, electrically powered, warning system would presumably also be INOP).
Yeah, Texas needs energy they don't have. They could have it if they were connected to any other power grid. But they purposefully built their grid to be incompatible with the US's other grids. There are still some interchanges, but those are inefficient (have to convert power from AC to DC and then back to AC at a different frequency) and running well over their capacity right now.
I had the same impression, which is an insane idea. The reason people should have universal healthcare and universal pensions and so on is to use society's size to shield everyone from individual risks.
> There are only limited amounts of land to own, water to drink, desirable places to live ect.

It's important to note that the third of these is not like the first two.

Yes, the Earth is a planet of finite size and there are only a finite amount of acres of land and molecules of H20 on the planet. Note that the actual land used by humans, and the actual H20 used by humans, are both much smaller than the total that is available. And the H20 gets recycled anyway. But yes, there are finite limits to both set by the Earth's finite size and the physical characteristics of humans.

"Desirable places to live", however, is subjective. Different people have different desires. And we have the ability to create different places to live that satisfy different people's desires. 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.
Storage solutions are advancing fast enough that your argument cannot succeed. What you are saying used to be sort of plausible, but the sell by date on it passed long ago.
Good to see the removal of autocommit, with the detailed discussion of the design decision. I've always felt a little uneasy when going with autocommit=False in my old projects, thinking that the default of autocommit=True was the "blessed" way to use SQLAlchemy.

EDIT: Looks like autocommit=True has never been the default, must have been some possibly 3rd party documentation.
As in, Texas has a fair blend of both parties but get perceived as being "red". With the current political atmosphere, people tend to want to make issues political. What this article is trying to point out is that this was an engineering problem, not a policy problem.
I can understand if you’re venmoing your buddy $20, but if your are transferring millions of dollars, and faced with that horrendous interface, you might think to consult the standard operating procedures.
LLVM does not support every proprietary embedded device. And even if it did, rust support does not come for free. (One must add support for the target ABI and other stuff)
3D printing would probably be rather expensive but you could put the file up on 100kgarages or similar and get it machined for you (not sure on the price but the bids usually significantly undercut the online services)
Are not those mining the coal that's burnt for the electricity to power the Bitcoin mining operations the first humans in the chain?
No, ads are a big problem too, let's not pretend they aren't a horrible blight. With that said, it is a bit ridiculous that webpages load MBs of JS (SPA-related or not), and that browsers load hundreds of MBs to JIT said Javascript...
This might have been true before the internet, but it’s completely unnecessary now that it is trivial to shop and compare prices for insurance and investment funds.

There’s tons of near zero cost investment options from Vanguard/Schwab/Fidelity, you can go to healthcare.gov for health insurance, and you can go to term4sale for life insurance, etc, etc.

The only difference nowadays is that employers large enough to do non discrimination testing and handle the paperwork have an unfair advantage over small business and individuals by being able to compensate people with tax free benefits, whereas small business and individuals can’t.
You have it exactly backwards. Risk tolerance is higher for the government. Fox example, SpaceX would never just send a rocket to mars just to do science which would bring it zero profits. It won't take risk funding something where the science may or may not bear any fruit.

Also, SpaceX IS mostly funded by NASA anyway as a government contractor. SpaceX exists because the government wanted to create a private space market. Strangely thank George Bush for it. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/02/05/how-profitable-is-...

As you can see, SpaceX was so cash strapped in 2017 it obviously didn't go to mars in 2018 as they wanted. Also notice Elon didn't fund that trip (otherwise it would have happened). There is no way he would risk HIS own money on that.
That has little to do with personal productivity and more to do with technological advances.

It doesn't matter how much you "side hustle." that isn't going to invent nuclear power or discover AC current.
I would say the majority of those outside responses are from people who see Texas as some kind of backwards red state that was overdue for some comeuppance.

If you look at the red vs blue divide nationally, this is quite literally the perfect storm for blue team to yell at red team "I told ya so". Intense weather due to climate change which red team denies, loving the idea of an independent grid that cuts you off from other states, being against federal regulations but asking for federal aid, and having one of your senators fly to Cancun in the middle of it. I could go on, but all of this happened right after talk of succession was trending on social media.

I also believe a lot of online activists are hoping to capture the energy and anger over this event to "turn Texas blue" as they have been wanting to do.
Yeah it takes time to design, spec out, test, bugfix, and work on other features.

Once you make changes to a chain its not easy to fix without making a huge mess. Hopefully the migration with be done by Q1 2022.
It is well know what the risk is. The phase 2 and phase 3 test involves testing on human subjects, no way around it. The size of that group of subjects doesn’t make a difference. It’s just a choice.

I’m not even going to comment on the New Zealand utopia fantasy.
I'm not commenting on the rest of your post but the "dominating the commercial sector" just so you don't think I'm badmouthing SpaceX. Just wanted to add that if you sell X pounds of cargo to the commercial sector but sell the same capacity to the military for X times 3 then your are not dominating but are subsidized by the state and in a position to undercut the commercial competition. It's not just for PR that SpaceX competitors, both foreign and nationally, are saying SpaceX is propped up by the state.
I can't seem to find the report that they're referencing and the conclusion seems to be directly at odds with the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly assessment of multiple job holders[1]. Does anyone have a link to the publication?

[1]https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2019/08/moonlighting-in-the-...

EDIT: Here's the report https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2020/CES-WP-20-26.pdf. One explanation for the discrepancy seems that the number of individuals holding multiple jobs when measured on a monthly basis has been decreasing over time while the number working at more than one job at any time during a quarter has increased over time. People seem to be more likely to occasionally work a second job but less likely to consistently work a second job. The paper's authors disagree with this take but I'm not sure I find their explanation totally convincing.
Exactly; I'm tired of this being conflated into a ~political issue.~

Edit: Sorry, let me specify. I'm tired of this being a Texas-only political issue. I agree that politics are at play but this isn't localized specifically to Texas' grid.
We want to eventually use ai for 1) smart contracts. and 2) payment route optimization and FX. But first, we need to live the whole process, from manual to automated, to intelligent and evolving.
"Over the last few days I read online people saying that Texas' power outages had been caused by Texas being on its own grid… deregulation… Not following national standards…"

And he goes into detail and discovers that this is basically the case. And sure, other providers in other states also have problem. Which means ... regulators should be more on the ball. So his summary is correct despite there being more details.

It's like someone can't comprehend that if corporations didn't systematically hamstring it, regulation could work, that regulation and leadership did work for a good fraction of the 20th century.
Storage is needed, but storage has finite cost, and the cost is falling rapidly. Nuclear's window of opportunity is now closed.
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If you're working 3 jobs to pay the bills, and then someone starts paying the bills for you, you're probably not going to continue working those 3 jobs. I don't see anything remotely controversial about that logic.

The reason people work minimum wage jobs is because they require that minimum wage to live.
Even back then there was an exception for "blockchain processing".
What's the actual "problem" that solipsism deals with? Solipsism is simply a poor explanation of all phenomena, since when one says "nothing exists except my own mind," one could just as easily say "nothing exists except my own mind, that table over there, and the piece of bubblegum stuck under that table." Both explanations account for precisely the same set of phenomena (all observed phenomena), and both can have a multitude of variations applied to them without losing any explaining power. That makes them poor explanations for phenomena, just like "God did it" or "a magician did it" are poor explanations for phenomena.
Literally no-one I know wants to hotdesk. It's the proletarian option for junior staff; it's a very clear form of cost-cutting.

A fair few people I know do want to visit the office 3 of 5 days, sure.

Reading this sort of thing is just bizarre. It's like that special brand of American "fake smile".

Open offices cut costs too. Are they better?

"Everything is fine".