skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If California is a guide, the "optimization" is for share holder dividends. PG&E in particular, in the last twenty years in particular, gutted needed repairs, a gutting which has lead to periodic shutdown due to different bad weather (high winds). I don't know the exact situation of Texas but if this is a similar situation, I would be unsurprised.

All of this is somewhat conditioned by advancing global warming, which known to lead to more severe weather conditions (more specifically, with the slowing of the jetstream, the polar vortex migrates South, has been doing so for the last few years).
Last year, I went on vacation to Alaska. Me and my friends airbnb'd an off-grid home/cabin in Talkeetna, about several hundred miles north of Anchorage. It was powered entirely on solar panels on the roof and right by the house. Water from the rivers. Granted, it had a wood stove, like most cabin/homes are in the north. Just want to chime in and say that renewables are absolutely very prevalent in colder, remote climates.
I get the feeling that right now is not actually still "early" Clubhouse, if that makes sense. I can't remember where I saw it but someone created a timeline of how Clubhouse grew with different key events.

I've been on it since early December and I've seen it become gradually more and more focused on marketing, cryptocurrency, and how to become a millionaire.

Maybe it's also a result of different communities coming to the platform as invites spread.

Anyways, how I've seen it change just in the last few months is that it seems that people are using it in a less exploratory and more promotional way, a less flexible and more focused way.

But that's clearly just what I've seen, I'm curious how other people have seen it evolve since last April or so.
Hosted in Texas, maybe?
So many truism and dogma it's really hard to take this person seriously, why so many upvotes for something that is just conjecture at best:

> it harms our brains in a way that we don’t yet fully understand

He even mentions "we don't yet fully understand" so why keep building on this narrative just to try to prove a point? That should have been the last sentence of this post but I guess that would have made for a pretty mediocre post one that doesn't tap into FUD of the reader.
a letter from the Accademia, which had been delayed because they'd sent it to Cambridge England instead of Cambridge Massachusetts

One wonders over the years how often this mistake has been made. I recently made timezone assumptions about someone who said they were in Cambridge that turned out to be wrong.
Texas is pretty large and their solar resources are way the hell out in Pecos County where it hasn't been snowing. This is actual ideal to have your solar power plant far to the west of your population centers, to handle the evening load peak. If Texas had California-scale solar power installations, they would be warm and happy right now.
Over the last 100 years, you'd have done significantly better by putting your money into an index fund -- and had less volatility. As far as I can tell, gold is just a lousy place to keep your money.

What kind of long term are you talking about?
Just because you find it readable does not mean others can; also, color contrast is not the only thing that affects readability. In this case, the issue is font weight.

Here's some discussion on the issue: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/665
I do this too and it's another reason that I use 1Password. I use this functionality a lot too because I very rarely have my wallet on me but I always have my phone.
Anyone have break down of which areas had their power cut for how long?
I had my wood fireplace going for the first time this weekend when the daytime temperatures were around -12F. It can easily raise the temperature of my living room, dining room & kitchen (one open space) to 80+ but that's with electricity to power the circulation fan.

How are you keeping the whole house warm if you can't circulate the air? I'm genuinely curious.
cd is yahoo circa 1999 (hierarchical organization of information)

z is Google (just give me what I want based on a short description of its name).

z is amazing.
The Clubhouse generator is nice and all but I'm really blown away by perchance.org and the whole infrastructure and authoring environment it hosts for making random text generators.
And many things are cheaper. Or they aren’t growing with inflation anymore. Most electronics, for instance, and many mechanical devices. Even food stuffs (some) have been more stable in price than inflation suggests they should be.
> Why bother spending millions on preparing for a once in a century event when your upside is capped? This is further compounded by the wholesale rates not being passed to consumers, which removes a lot of backpressure from the system. If turning on the heater costs $100/hr to run you're going to find alternatives (eg. co-habiting with your inlaws).

If it's a once in a century (or once every 10 year) event, consumers aren't going to pay $100/hr to run their heater. They're going to refuse to pay the bill.
>is being able to get my computer to effortlessly do things I have to and want to do.

Which time in history are you referring to that this was possible?

From what I can tell, it's easier now than all the years i've had a computer to do whatever I want, pretty much whenever I want.

This wasn't the case for most of the 90's and 2000's.

Not only that, but the sheer amount of things I can use my computer to do has sky rocketed.

>tracking my budgets, life metrics, doing research and tracking my notes/thoughts, and ideally a bit of digital and IRL automation. Most of that (along with my day job) falls squarely in the realm of web development.

I disagree that most of those things are 'squarely' in the realm of web development. You could do many of those things without web development.

The friction you're experiencing may be in fact trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

>Tools should at least not get in the way, and ideally they'd be a joy to use.

Again, to reiterate my point, hammers are fun to use as long as you're hammering nails, trying to hammer screws is much less fun, likewise, trying to screw in a nail isn't very fun. It's an exercise in frustration.

Maybe exploring different technologies to achieve the tasks you want rather than dropping into a web development mindset for every single thing you need to do on a computer will make computers fun again?
The counterpoint to that is that gold has an "intrinsic value"; it's a store of value because it happens to have some use outside of merely just being a store of value.

Of course, the counter-counter-point to that is that the Bitcoin network also has "intrinsic value", and it's that it enables trustless/permissionless transactions to people that might be engaging in illegal commerce or are trying to escape the currency of a regime with poor monetary policy (Venezuela, Bolivia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, etc).
> To prevent these issues from occurring again in the future, Google has been pushing a "Manifest V3", which (among other, more controversial requirements) bans the practice of executing any JavaScript loaded from a remote server

It's a bit ironic that this security issue doesn't exist in Firefox [1] when they actually implement features promoted by Google in the Manifest V3. Why doesn't Chrome already block remote scripts?

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-...
It is a ponzi scheme. I think eventually majority of investors will participate in it. At present, total stock + gold market is $100T. If you expect 5% of this diverted to BTC then upper bound on BTC market cap is $5T. This means upper bound on BTC price is $250K. When that price arrives, suddenly things will become stagnant. People will wait for few years in the hope something will happen and then sell out for more appreciating assets. This will eventually cause BTC prices to oscillate between $100K-$200K.

In addition, you have couple of major risks such as feds making it illegal or taxing it heavily or some other coin that Elon Musk starts preaching heavily. At this point, if you do have BTC, you should sell out at $70K-100K range just to be safe. If you keep holding after that then you are taking increasingly bigger risks but much less reward.
"Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the first computers to use integrated circuits, the Apollo Guidance Computer was lightweight enough and small enough (70 pounds and under a cubic foot) to fly in space. An unusual feature that contributed to its small size was core rope memory, a technique of physically weaving software into high-density storage. In this blog post, I take a close look at core rope and the circuitry that made it work."
Seems like an unnecessary quibble. If everyone was using a "100% renewable" provider, would non-renewables be consumed?
Natural gas plants also had to shut down. This was a systematic failure to plan for cold weather,
I get the sentiment but it’s just not useful to tell people not to heat their homes. Fly less. Go veg. Downsize. But asking people to freeze? You sound like a lunatic.
The fact that it can't be banned is one of the main selling points.
This is what happened...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evjMjpd4PNM
Type annotations in recent 3.x releases though have made Python a much better language, and in practice the Jetbrains- (Pycharm-)-bundled type-checkers work very well. I'm much more comfortable recently working with larger codebases in Python and don't miss the C++/Java type constraints now.
The first page or two was promising, I'll try to get through it later.

> it doesn't seem to be Eco's intent, and I assume most people who share this article these days are mainly trying to broaden out our understanding of history

Yeah, I agree with this. One way I've been starting to look at it is that anthropologists/sociologist will study this stuff academically, observationally, but then some distortions can happen:

- In an attempt to provide a tidy narrative, various shades of gray get lumped into the black and white columns

- The results of the research get weaponized. Guilt by association.
Huh. Hadn't thought of the snow-reflection boost.

But yeah, cleaning off solar panels is a totally doable bit of maintenance in snowy conditions, or even just tilting and coating them so snow falls off. A human with a broom could make rover solar panels work for decades on Mars, we can do it in Minnesota.
It's an odd thing. The way people talk, you'd think NodeJS and JavaScript are synonymous. Turns out, NodeJS is this generation's JScript, including shoddy support for the language proper, and it includes vendor-specific extensions that you're expected to use instead. It has somehow though managed to escape any of the criticism that gets thrown at other projects pilloried for stuff like this.
Where can I find more information related to these issues?
Yes and no :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#Seq...

I really like this minute by minute play.

> Estimated total affected people 55,000,000

Now this is not supposed to be a "NA vs. Europe" thing. So here we go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout#Timelin...

Funny how this was actually caused by a planned shutdown of a specific line to let a ship pass. Something that had been done before :)

> In total, over 10 million people in northern Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and Spain lost power or were affected by the blackout

It's especially funny how while this was less total people affected, it spread much more so to speak. I would tend to believe that this is actually due to the fact that Europe's power grid is way more interconnected, meaning that they could power more people more quickly again by just routing electricity differently than they would usually do.
Hydro doesn’t really suffer in the cold
I feel like there's something wrong with your setup, then. I've literally never had to use the option in 1Password to create a new login for a page. It prompts me 100% of the time to save the login info when I login to a site and, sometimes, even prompts me to create a login when I go to create an account before I've ever logged in for the first time.
Record keeping has always been one of the most important and key parts of any government.
The page has a different (lighter) text colour for dark mode but the background colour doesn't change on dark mode, making it nearly unreadable.

The Firefox tools tell me it has a contrast of 1.43
>Does this update add new network requests, for example.

this is fundamentally impossible to do because you can smuggle data out by injecting content scripts to a given page and make requests in that context.
I believe it's still selling a major discount from it's true value, so you definitely didn't miss out. It makes sense to put a small % of your portfolio in as part of risky bets you should consider taking.
Without commenting on what OP meant I would say memes definitely used to be more quirky and funny and lighthearted in general. Heck, originally calling them memes was because they stuck around and passed between people despite often being nonsensical. They tend to be more opinionated nowadays, and popular ones are usually topical, political, snarky, or all of the above. Not a random mistranslation of an old video game.
Parts of this article are good, assuming they aren’t fabricating it (I’m in Florida but know little about Pennsylvania‘a experience of lock downs). Until we get to this sentence

> The fact that Biden would brazenly threaten to shut down travel to and from Florida may correctly be seen as a sign that, thanks to their successful massive use of unverified and unverifiable mail-in ballots and the unqualified support of the media, academia, Big Tech Robber Barons, and major woke elements of corporate America, the Democrats believe that they have the formula for “winning” elections and maintaining control of the government regardless of how many of the middle and working class they offend, harm, or abuse.

Lockdowns are definitely a mixed bag, and they should be used only if effective and for the absolute minimal necessary length and scope. I think we can all after to that. But it seems difficult for people to agree on the details, and Trump politicizing mask wearing, for example, just make it more difficult.
Ok this is pretty funny. Now I want a Clubhouse invite.
They make weather extremes more common, but those weather extremes have always existed.
So the benefit is strictly in slow-moving traffic?

And it's never occurred to me that steering wheel torque is an issue. And so many of these processes -- lane centering, not bumping into the car ahead of me -- are subconscious for me at this point, but I've been driving for decades.

May I ask how good is the technology that notices when someone is distracted and forces them to attend to the road?
We had two hours without power due to rolling blackouts
Considering you have to pay a yearly fee to keep your extension published, that seems reasonable.
It was just an offhand number, there's already 17GW of storage in ERCOT's interconnection queue for the next few years, which is 40GWh - 70GWh. By 2035, the soonest we could expect to see a new nuclear reactor powering on, we will have many multiples of 70GWh. Not sure if TWh will every be needed for a grid that only peaks at 80GW. The cheapest solution will be a tradeoff between excess renewables capacity and storage, it will be interesting to see what the market picks for Texas.
See also: the Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision to slip a Microsoft repository into Raspberry Pi OS without so much as a by-your-leave.
Google, VCs Like Sequoia Major Donors to Gay Predator Anti-Trump Lincoln Project
i have solar panels in texas, snow slid right off.
Granted. And PHP runs like 30% of public websites. I doubt it's the JS driving most of the value though. I suspect much of their success was/is still possible without requiring trusting novel, 3rd party code, to be run on demand.
> These all complement each other, not sure why you pulled out only wind from that.

I wasn't trying to call out wind. I just should have said "intermittent'

17GW seems like a strange unit for storage. That should be GWh I think. So my question would be for the demand that exists right now in Texas, how long would those batteries been successful in providing power to delay the rolling blackouts?

My understanding is that batteries are mainly used in grids to react to short term demand changes and not to continuously feed energy into the grid.

Totally willing to be educated on this though. I'm not an expert.
Nuclear power plants in Texas are down due to the cold.
Your perspective is very self-centered. People die when power goes out for extended periods like this. Especially if the weather is exceptionally hot or cold.
Yup, same. Hell if I put in money now and it did 2x and went to $100k, I'd get out, too.

There's just no way I see myself not getting out at $100k or say $200k. And I'm not risking my money on an investment that can 'only' do 2x or 4x. Bitcoin was cool as it could do 10x or 100x in the span of 1-2 years. But with the numbers where they're at and knowing myself, I'd cash out way before that.

In the end because bitcoin isn't being used by virtually anyone, and is only valuable because of the momentum/hype (i.e., the reason I'd buy it is only because other people buying it solely for the purpose of thinking even more others will buy it only for speculation and not use, and the price rises), it's just not an interesting investment for me long-term. Short-term it could be but I'd be as not surprised if it did -50% as if it did +50% in the next year. Not really interested in that kind of exposure, given that I don't think I'll ever hold enough to enjoy the extreme potential upside.
Like other winner-take-all markets, it splits into multiple winner-take-all markets when their are natural (or let's say "national") boundaries. Note that we don't still have deutschemarks, francs, guilders, schillings, lira, peseta, and escudo, though. The network effects of having a single currency are big enough that 19 nations were willing to give up their national currency.
Great points. I suppose, in the end, that social media are like any mind-altering substance. But, it seems to me that we're not fully aware of just how "mind-altering" they really are. There are certain things that are so addictive and damaging that we ban them, because they make people unable to function. That's the conversation, I guess: Where's that line?
Right, should be on the shelf in a month or so.

I wonder what kind of deal made these 5 months of Lenovo exclusivity worthwhile for AMD.
It's just the right amount of contrast to allow you to read a word or two easily, but it's difficult to scan the article. I used Dark Reader and tweaked the contrast, and made it much easier to read.
It's not that extreme. Texas is huge. Having it's own grid is not some support of excessively-local craziness.
Lots of early holders have either sold at local maximums or lost their keys all together. It's estimated that 3-4M BTCs are permanently lost.

There's certainly some concentration, but I'm willing to bet it's much less than current fiat currencies.
Intersectionality is at its root a similarly syncretistic idea and praxis, though obviously it sits on a radically different "side" of the political spectrum than the Qanon nutcases.
It's a balancing act. It's the least amount of magic necessary, IMO. I think it's a great solution over all!
I agree with you, really.

I do like his style, but not because it is a good style, or should be emulated. But because it is entertaining, and is getting rare (among people worth listening too, anyways)

By "the way" I mean the alpha males of days gone by who were so certain of their correctness that... they acted like Uncle Bob

Big Swinging Dicks
Perseverance: Seven Minutes to Mars
I had no idea what you were talking about until I read other comments about annoying modals and whatnot. I do not get these with uBlock Origin, and uMatrix installed. You should install uBlock Origin at least. If I disable it, I get that modal people are talking about.
So where has your focus been when it has needed to snap back in?
Lightning network is currently functional if you plan on making lots of transactions, you pay the fee once and use it as much as you want.
Tracking visitors at the client level deflates the actual number of visitors. On the other hand, server-side tracking provides a more accurate number with the tradeoff of not knowing for sure if the client is a human behind a browser.
I can't think of a product I'd want less than this.
The Texas Interconnection has DC ties to the Eastern Interconnection, so... power can be shared.
I seem to recall mainly experiences or events (not details like PG).

Eg I can recall the super bowl party from 10 years ago, no idea who played or won.
Also thinking longer term, climate change is making the polar vortex more unstable and more prone to "freak" incidents like this. Of course there has been zero thought put into any of the effects of that.
I've lived through years of load-shedding. The biggest difference was we were entirely decoupled from the system - well/handpump, gas cylinder, overhead tank to store water, ..etc. It's not by choice - we just can't rely on any of the city provided services.

Even today, homes are built with an overhead tank and anyone who can afford it has a UPS capable of powering the home for a few hours under load or a few days if used sparingly.
"I wouldn't pay any more money to avoid this" is a remarkable low cost tolerance.

I would love to know just how much we'd be talking about per-customer. Ten cents over ten years? A dollar over ten years? Twenty dollars? More?

Without knowing that "I wouldn't pay any more" seems foolhardy.
> a highly consequential long-tail event

Hip jargon aside, planning for low-probability events was invented a long time ago.

Unfortunately, so were politicians, who will operate within the parameters they are given. If you want real resilience, you want better governance.
Here's a good counter,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454566/

> Hundreds of chemicals (e.g. metals, epoxy and acrylic resins, rubber additives, and chemical intermediates) and proteins (e.g. natural rubber latex, plant proteins, mould, animal dander) present in virtually every industry have been identified as causes of allergic disease. In general, allergens can be classified as low molecular weight (chemical) allergens and high molecular weight (protein) allergens. These agents are capable of inducing immunological responses that are both immunoglobulin E and non-immunoglobulin E-mediated.

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IgE receptors can match against almost any shape. And they're not the only immune receptors or signalling pathways by a long shot.

The problem is we often sample our environments when we're experiencing unrelated inflammation. Inflammation is a signal to our immune system that something's up. Unfortunately, a match during this time can and often does teach the body the wrong thing. If they find signal, they'll self-amplify against it, and you could be stuck with a new allergy for life.
I'm not sure how true this is. There are DC ties that allow Texas to import from both the East and West interconnection, but power is scarce everywhere now. So even if their region was fully AC connected, all the other nearby regions were scrapping the bottom of the barrel as well.
Maybe they expect you to ask how many elements are out of their place.
It is in factorio though.

Factorio, as normally played, is much closer to analog electrical circuits than it is to digital computers. In flows of resources and outflows of products that change dynamically and in real time.
"Recommended Extensions" on addons.mozilla.org still get the full human-reviewed treatment.
Oh, word? Mine's at 1.43. https://imgur.com/a/AVQxh20
This is a documentary . It’s told in a way that is funny, but it’s all a true account of real things that happened.