skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It likely wouldn't. North Dakota is a small enough market that Apple would probably prefer to just not sell there than change their policies.

Things like tougher vehicle emissions regulations (than imposed at the federal level) work because large states like CA require them, so it ends up being cheaper for manufacturers to just build to the CA standard for all states.
Or is it trimodal? As open-source developer I earn nothing for developing
Nope, simply bad housing standards leading to no isolation. Passive houses work in the Scandinavia. This is coming from a Swede who lived for a while in Texan suburbia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
Facebook has been down talked plenty here too so I’m not sure it’s a good comparator.

A lot of the proponents of Bitcoin are pushing it in the same way people push MLM and ponzi schemes and for the same reasons, which is unfortunate.

For many, including me, it seems a great shame to be consuming so much computing power (and energy) to solve increasingly difficult mathematical problems for no human benefit when the same effort might be used for better ends.
Isn't it reasonable to expect people reliant on powered medical devices to include a plan B in case the grid goes down? It's not like the grid is perfect. Even in high-reliability countries like the USA there are unforseen events.
Simplistic, but:

http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/181766/IntGenbyFuel20...

1/4 of the mix is wind, and turbines were frozen. Maintenance in extreme condition not done, because either they didn't think it was needed, or because they didn't want to pay for it.
It is surprising that windfarms are freezing. Here in Quebec, we have windfarms that have more than 6 months a year of snow and temperatures much below the freezing point. How can they freeze? they dont use water or gaz or oil.
It is only a fan and dynamo. Did water seep inside and freeze it?
I think the big lesson here is “when you have extreme weather events, things can go wrong”.

No more than that.

To say this can always be avoided is misleading. When black swan events happen, shit goes bad.
Despite the theoretical decidability of rank-2 type inference their actual implementations in GHC are the same IIRC (so rank-2 types are not fully inferrable by GHC). I think the difference is really just one of historicity and backwards compatibility at this point. They resolve to the same underlying mechanism.
Even countries that do have hyperinflation experience it at a somewhat predictable pace. With Bitcoin, you don't know if it's down 80% tomorrow, then up 200% the next day, then down 50% the day after. It's a huge tail risk.
his load to his reflection in the mirror holy shit

his games aren't even his pride but his 'design philosophy' which is immediately understood by anyone who attempted to make a game. the irony is he brushes his actual achievements aside because he saw the matrix and thought this is totally me
I agree that Bitcoin is here to stay and has utility. The issues that I have are

1) It is volatile and impossible to value; any price is as reasonable as any other. What is my benchmark here? The amount of USD in circulation? The value of outstanding U.S. Government debt? (if it is indeed going to replace Treasuries as reserve currency / safe haven asset). Can someone more knowledgable than me chime in?

2) Its utility as a currency is inversely proportional to its utility as a speculative instrument. And speculation appears to be 99% of the interest and discussion.
Free Will is a positive claim, so the proof requirement runs the other way.
At present time, $5 for a fast transaction with segwit.
BLM is a movement. Not an organization. The organization that owns blacklivesmatter.com is called BLM Global Network Foundation. Few people in the BLM movement pay any attention to the BLMGNF organization.
haha

I love using sites like that for my personal computer/projects, but I never copy and paste code snippets or install PPAs on work machines or computers with magic internet money on them
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No, the issue is that the draw of the heated air up through the flue creates a negative pressure inside the home, which gets made up through all the little nooks and crannies around the house.

As a result, the room where the fireplace is will be warmer but the rest the house is typically colder.
Ya, that seems like a good idea. As of the last few years, philosophy courses at my school were not required, but you'd do them as part of your electives. I don't know how you'd actually formulate a comp sci specific ethics course, but it's an interesting thought experiment
Monado 21.0.0, an officially conformant OpenXR implementation
You clearly haven't been in many 150 year old West Texas houses.

Good lord...

The spread of AC in the 1930s resulted in everything in Texas being insulated out the wazoo.

Your typical suburban home in Texas -- with no electricity -- is perfectly habitable without power.

Its an inconvenience, to be sure.

But, all this handwringing over a freak -- and fun -- event is laughable.

Want to fret? Fret about floods, tornadoes, hurricanes... those events leave people without housing altogether.

But, an ice storm and some snow?

Gimme a break.

If you were stranded in the wilderness in 3f temperatures and stumbled upon a typical suburban home without power but well-stocked with blankets, clothes, frozen food, comfy mattresses, bags of charcoal, a grill, flashlights, candles, and a new package of Oreo cookies, you would shout for joy. "We're saved!! Shelter! Thank God!"
F-Droid builds all of their apps from the publicly released source code. There's no reason why Google couldn't do the same, at least for apps hosted on well-known coding/review platforms like GitHub.
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if you have domesticated herds and you live in an arid climate, you can regard your milk animals as portable water fountains that eat vegetable matter which you cannot, and produce protein and hydration more or less on demand, for free.

Hell of a lot easier than oasis hunting.
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It seems highly unlikely that exactly 100% of the capacity of the interconnects is, coincidentally, precisely equal to the amount of excess power available to be fed into the interconnects at the moment. Do you have anything to back up this extraordinary claim?
Good point! I'm certainly not denying that the ROI was high. And of course, Bel's story is not over yet.
Doesn't "Turing Complete" require 1 and 3 already?
This is one reason why a gas fireplace is a great thing - even without electricity, you can at least heat half a room.
> overloading of the `|` operator

There’s a short discussion of this here: https://github.com/gvanrossum/patma/issues/146
pypi tgz at archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210216214208/https://files.pyt...

Also https://github.com/hirajanwin/endgame is still up as of 00:58 Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Zip file download of that Git repo here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210217005905/https://codeload....
Hunting vs agriculture, nomadic vs settled lifestyle, both without notable metallurgical capability. These are the primary capability differentiators between the paleolithic and neolithic periods [0].

You are absolutely right that these terms are bound up in the study of particular places at particular times. They are generally not applied to the Americas directly for the time element skews the descriptors. However, relative to what the Europeans were encountering in North America upon contact - and indeed in some areas right up into the late 19th century, it was societies that shared these characteristics with their own history. Yes, people know what you mean when you use these terms in this context. I am not the first or last, and could point to contemporary books on early America that make these comparisons.

Societies thousands of years apart are not at all to be strictly understood through the lens of one or the other, but the insights into how hunter-gatherer tribes live even today, and 100 years ago, are highly valuable to gaining insight into the human condition under similar constraints eons ago. This is highly valuable in anthropology and informs archeology, certainly. One must be careful, but to say it should be avoided? That's wasteful.

>> protest using the term "advanced" unqualified

Do you feel my use of the term was unqualified? My intention was to qualify it in the context of energy sources and material science, which I think is not an unreasonable way to understand development. It is iterative, societies can regress or progress along this continuum. Progress is generally synonymous with advancement.

If I may ask, what is your discomfort with the term?

[0] i.e. https://www.wappingersschools.org/cms/lib/NY01001463/Centric...
Climate change _is_ a result of global warming. It's not that complicated, so let me try and explain: climate patterns will change as the earth warms up. Jet streams change, hurricanes get more powerful and occur more frequently, etc.

As for "no big deal", I don't know what else to say other than 15 people have already died. When it's below freezing and people are without heat, they will freeze to death. Not to mention people who have medical equipment they need to stay alive that requires electricity.

Many areas see this temperate every year and they're prepared for it. It's not the same thing in Texas.
It is not feasible to run a gas furnace off a battery (short of a "whole house" battery like a Powerball). It's more than just basic management. You need to run either a blower or a pump to distribute the heat throughout the house. You'd need a substantial battery to run a 1/3 HP motor for any length of time.
>Bitcoin is not just technology, but a multi-faceted ideology founded around cypherpunks ideas, liberty, sovereignty, austrian economic system, free markets.

This is the narrative that people use to make it seem more savory. But it's just about the money. No one cares enough about any of those ideals for them to be a meaningful part of what Bitcoin is. Those ideas have existed forever in the back channels of the web, and are memorialized in the endless plethora of abandoned decentralized technologies that were never profitable. It's money, plain and simple. There's nothing wrong with that, but for whatever reason the crypto community has some kind of chip on their shoulder about hiding the fact that it is just about profit.
Isn't Mars known for extreme winds and dust storms, which seem like quite the challenge for an ultralight drone resting on the surface, let alone flying autonomously?
Do the other grids publish their generation/demand statistics live? I remember being able to check the CalISO page during the rolling blackouts in California during the summer.
So does bitcoin then just become an alternative unit of account in the existing banking system? If so, what's the point? Especially when users have to eventually convert back to their local currency to pay taxes.
Especially if you use an outside air kit for the firebox.

For the uninitiated, take a look at the forums at hearth.com.
Fireplaces typically draw air from the house to sustain the fire, then up the chimney or out a vent. That creates negative pressure, which draws cold, unconditioned air from outside into the house from wherever air can leak in.

How this works out in terms of net heat gained/lost will depend on the fireplace design, but, from what I hear, it's not uncommon for this to be a net-loss type of situation.
The bill is pretty straight forward and can be found here [1]. There are 4 requirements which together fill about half a page. A, C, and D seem entirely reasonable in my opinion.

B is the controversial one.

A provider of a digital application distribution platform may not:

B) Require a developer to use the provider's digital transaction platform or in application payment system as the exclusive means for accepting payment from a user to download the developer's software application, or purchase a digital or physical product or service created, offered, or provided by the developer through a software application.

It seems reasonable that the app store should be able set processing requirements the for apps within the store.

What should be legislated and allowed is the ability of users to download alternative app stores onto their devices if they want to live outside of the walled garden.

https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-1044-...
>I fail to see the difference between "they don't have a reason to revolt" and "loss of revolutionary potential".

People, according to Marcuse, are more readily able to see the problems of the system when they are on the outside and the margins, and being on the outside usually entailed a lower standard of living, low wages, and soul-crushing work. Marcuse thought that there are serious problems with capitalism, ones which may be reason for revolt, but increasing material security and integration into the system in which the worker becomes part of the machinery of the establishment (sometimes quite literally in lock-step with the machines or even a particular brand of machine) leads to this conversation not arising. He argued that contra Orwell in which "war is peace, peace is war", the contradiction is hidden in the noun itself by unintentional ideological forces. This precludes even most conversations about freedom, never mind critique.

The point is that people should have revolutinary potential even if they deliberate and decide not to revolt. I should have the potential to read a book, even if upon reflection and consideration using that potential I decide to watch a movie instead.

He argued that the modern system and the state, with its educational system, dull critical thinking or fail to nurture it in the first place. People have fewer options, including the option to revolt. In Repressive Tolerance he argued that because these potentials and critical abilities have been dulled, core democratic functions of deliberation cannot meaningfully be carried out any more.

The point probably also applies to, say, the Soviet system, its integration of the people into its state machinery, its totalizing ideology, and its propaganda which precludes informed deliberation among the majority of people.
Debian has been working towards reproducible builds [1].

What this means is that the package maintainer is unable to alter the binary/package outside of the publicly available sources.

In the case of the web extension, the maintainer could build whatever software they wanted, not necessarily the source you see on github or elsewhere. A reproducible build system would prevent this type of attack (that I'm talking about here).

1: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
The most bizarre part is people referring to this as a once in a century storm. It’s more like a once in a decade or 15 years storm, seeing as similar temperatures were seen in 2011 and 1989. Things that happen on that cadence shouldn’t result in people freezing for days in their homes.
`sudo -u user /usr/local/bin/bash` works on FreeBSD.
Oh interesting. So you're saying it actually accelerates net heat loss to the environment?
Yes. You’ve got a big hole in the wall/ceiling with a pressure differential blowing most of the heat up & out while sucking cold air in. Balanced improperly, you get a radiant heat area with rest subject to cold air.
I'm fully aware of that, but there's many financial instruments to hedge against inflation. To that end, I'd sooner put my money into Rolex watches or sneakers than cryptocurrency.
Baudrillard (1989)
If its so bad then why does Elon Musk himself believe in BTC? - mr green man. Its obviously hyperbole and one dimensional thinking.
The first open source thing I ever did! <3

http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/txtutl-bydate.html fixtxt.zip
Back before the Raspberry Pi made hobby-class computers a norm, I had a habit of collecting old PCs and "doing things" with them. The Simtel collection was a favorite for finding things I didn't know I needed in my life.

In the mid 2000s, a radio station near me (WFNX) broadcasted a great morning show while I was in school. I ponied up for a PATA-to-CompactFlash adapter and a 2GB CompactFlash card (probably $50 at that point), downloaded Digital SoundSystem from Simtel, hooked up an FM radio to the sound card of a Packard Bell 386, and used Digital SoundSystem (I believe from the "sound" collection) to record the radio on boot. When I got home from school, I'd unplug the card (which was hanging out the front by the ribbon cable), plug it into my computer, and listen.

For most of the late 2000s and early 2010s, I was running PClock (from the "clocks" collection) on an old Dell Latitude as my alarm clock. As my then-girlfriend was unhappy with sleeping three feet from a laptop screen, I later relegated it to my mantle clock in the living room. It no longer runs PClock, but actually is still my mantle clock.

At some point I was browsing through and stumbled on the APM utilities, not knowing that MS-DOS would run the CPU at full steam. Several changes to autoexec.bat's later, I probably saved a good deal off my electric bill.

Good times!
It seems unlikely and reductionist to think that taking Texas' existing power system, and investing more money in reliability, would make it LESS reliable. But this is what happens when you compare two very complicated things (different states' utilities) and consider price of service to be the only relevant factor.

I'm not familiar with rolling blackouts in the winter in CA. And, in fact, I've never been part of a rolling blackout, period, in my 20 years in CA.

But the rolling blackouts that some areas experience now are by and large due to (fire) risk avoidance by the utility, not by generation issues.
This isn’t a problem for governments to solve. I would like it if there were additional methods to install software on my phone OOB besides the App Store, but I it’s not the government’s problem.
So if there was a cryptocurrency with only one coin, the value of that coin would be even more astronomical, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin
If this is the subthread for AYB remixes: Steamed Hams but it's a meme from 2001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-kEchCKHo
Exactly, and it almost certainly makes sense for the few people who rely on them to get generators rather than to pay to improve the entire grid.
Those were some interesting failure cases, but the conclusion is unwarranted. These mistakes are not because of any shortcoming of Inception models (except maybe the upside-down car example). They are because the examples are out of domain for the training data, the model just has never seen sliced apples. Commercial providers likely have their own private training data.

BTW, it would be interesting to see how OpenAI's CLIP does on this problem, since it has more varied training data.
ERCOT does have shutdowns agreements in place, but there’s a limit to what you can do when simultaneously facing record demand and having ~30,000 MW of capacity go offline. For comparison, on Sunday evening demand was roughly 70,000 MW.
>Make your money the way you want, but I wont participate in something I have no chance to control.

Sounds like you should avoid effectively any form of investing according to this principle.
>Most lost water for some stretch of time and some still don't have it.

This is extremely problematic. Power going out for periods of time less than 48 hours is one thing, losing water from the utility is a problem 3rd world countries have. You sure these people's pipes didn't simply freeze.

If its the utility, shame on Texas.
This volatility is why it will never be a useful currency.
Right, if you think about it almost all of the heat from the fire goes right up the chimney. The brick of the firebox & chimney are generally built outside the building envelope for safety reasons, so any heat in the brick doesn't warm the house. The only heat that actually makes its way into the house is the radiant heat cast from the fire itself, which is small.

The smoke is poison, and unlike a furnace, gas fireplace, firebox, or wood stove, there is no heat exchanger, so you can't capture any of the heat out of the flue gasses.

It's counter-intuitive, I know. But this is why everybody congregated around the hearth in the days of fireplaces.
Houston right now, haven't had power, nor water since yesterday. My room is sitting at 20ish degrees and has been all day. I've quite literally been snug under a load of blankets with my wife all day just to stay warm.

My office back in Dallas which is not normally open offered to let people stay the night since they happen to be on the same grid as a hospital and I seriously considered trying to make it there today
The tone seems markedly different from his other writing. Breezy, casual, like a friend. Very refreshing.
There's a .gif on Imgur - https://imgur.com/gallery/yvIAcvB

Its... yea. That's going to be rather expensive.

Also, part of the power problem is frozen pipes - and not just water pipes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/texas-pow...

> Operations in Texas have stumbled because temperatures are low enough to freeze oil and gas liquids at the well head and in pipelines that are laid on the ground, as opposed to under the surface as practiced in more northerly oil regions. The big question now is how quickly temperatures return to normal.

For nuclear... the cooling ponds froze: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/town-squar...

> First, Representative Gene Wu, Texas House of Representatives District 137, walks us through the “cascade” of problems that caused multiple generators to go out without back-ups in place. Including, water vapor inside natural gas generators that condensed and froze shutting down the machines and nuclear power plants whose cooling ponds froze, setting off automatic shutdowns. Rep. Wu also advocates turning off all non-emergency electronics to reduce the strain on the energy grid.

Imagine the fun of having those pipes freeze (this is the cooling loop - not the reactor loop so "just" power down the reactor - it's not the loop that deals with the water that passes through the core).
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Aside from, y'know, being way too slow & expensive to function as its originally stated goal of being decentralized currency.
plant. singular.
> We should immediately discount stories about cryptoassets from any site that can't manage to set up a TLS cert.

Very interesting conclusion. Let me see if I can follow along:

Adding an SSL cert = SSL

SSL = encryption

EnCRYPTion = CRYPTocurrency

Cryptocurrency = Bitcoin implementation

Bitcoin implementation = Bitcoin price

Yes, I see now how they're equivalent.

The article definitely is hand-wavy and there are other reasons to be skeptical but conclusions like this rarely help the situation.
We had an incident early this AM and of the eight people we paged, only one had power. I’ve been without power, heat, internet, water, or septic more than 90 minutes at a time for two days. My house was 44 degrees this morning when I woke up. Sunday night we were without power or heat for seven and a half hours. Our DR plan didn’t really account for all of our staff being on the same power grid!
Yes. Do it. We're still far from the more or less stable price. You'd still be an early adopter.

But personally I'm waiting for the next 30-40% dip.
Who can forget the DevOps League: http://devopsleague.com/
Nice! I suspect you're in a minority of developers who need this level of control, though. I don't think I've ever used "unicode" directory, though I reach for "unicode/utf8" often enough.
Maybe it's changed lately, but most of the medium sized gas heaters (thinking fireplace inserts, fake wood stoves, etc.) have a feedback loop where the pilot light heats a thermocouple that opens the pilot light valve, plus a thermopile for opening the main valve when the thermostat switch closes. The fan won't run, but you'll still get radiant heat without main electricity.