skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but part of our operating reserve is in form of industrial consumers. The slow (has 15 min to get to full power) tertiary reserve is partially provided by arc furnaces in steel mills.

Also, going beyond this, charging spot prices to consumers (both commercial and residential) serves to align incentives. Such as dis-incentivizing the use of resistive heating for extreme cold, as the prices are correlated with the extreme cold, making alternative heating setups for extreme weather more affordable in comparison.

Or, building houses so that extreme cold can be tolerated without damage by allowing pipes to be drained and the remaining sections to be heated separately, so the house as a whole can be unheated (and the people stay with friends).

Longer-term predicted loads can be billed at a fixed rate, but spiky loads, especially those correlated with ones at other customers of the utility, can't be.

You'd raise the prices until demand falls below the limits, instead of needing rolling blackouts. If people can't afford to take a hot shower right now, they just wait. At least in the absence of certain diseases, the human body is fine without showering for months.
And as long as your building doesn't take damage, you'd gladly be payed a few thousand $ to put on really warm clothes for half a week.

And depending on the details, you'd even conclude it more economical to have to replace some pipes after water damage, than to keep that area heated.
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Social media app Parler crawls back online on 'independent technology'
> stop flattering yourself

What does this even mean? Why would it be flattering himself?
Is it true that you mined coins on the Apollo Guidance Computer?
> the point has come to switch to a client/server database

Windows has an embedded NoSQL DB engine which is fine with concurrent writes and multi-versioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine

There’re disadvantages too. It does not implement SQL, the queries need to be done manually on top of various indices in these tables. The DB has much more than a single file. The API is way more complicated than sqlight. The databases are portable from older to newer versions of Windows with automatic upgrades, but not the other way.
(and OpenBSD as well)
It may be too hard to do with a source base that old. Who knows what's required to even build it!
The author wrote follow-up book called The Dichotomy of Leadership specifically to address the problem of people taking EO too far in one direction. But like my sibling comment mentions, I don't think you should blame the Gallagher problem on EO without clear evidence connecting the two. And even if you do, the follow-up book is there to clarify.
I feel my comment is being taken way too seriously... but yes, I agree.
You are right.

A few days back. I was thinking along similar lines.

> Enjoy Reading! https://www.amazon.com/Slanted-Media-Taught-Censorship-Journ...
I play a lot of Apex Legends and recently I found out that when you go purchase a loot box it explicitly tells you the chance of each item's rarity. My initial thought was that it's a step in the right direction (of banning loot boxes entirely), but it also made me wonder how anyone can be sure those numbers are actually true in their backend.
Slightly off-topic, but I found M1 to be extremely fast at Gaussian Processes (using GPytorch/Botorch). I'm doing a PhD in Machine Learning for protein research, and for the heavy Bayesian Optimisation loop, the MBP M1 is almost twice as fast as my 16 core Ryzen 3950X "deep learning" machine (both use the CPU).
> Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to?

I thought the NYT held off publishing the original article, and although the article published in the last week did name him, this was only after Scott relaunched his blog under his real name?

I know they were threatening to reveal his name prior to this, but in the end Scott revealed his own identity first.
I don’t worry about it.
Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to?

The “why” is easy. The first part of this article makes the reason quite clear. This reporter believed that Scott’s site was giving safe harbor to “white supremacists” while making it hard for “social justice warriors’” voices to be heard [1].

So the reason he was doxxed is in keeping with a recent trend in the media: punish perceived right-leaning people for their views. Drag them out in the public square, and get them fired or at least ensure that their life will never be the same. It’s Mccarthyism, 2021 edition.

Welcome to the newly “united” America.

[1] The part of the article I am referring to is this: “...The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard, Dr. Friedman said, were "social justice warriors.". The author knew that the left-leaning readers of the NYT would be upset over this, and would want to know whom the person behind such a community was so that cancel culture could carry out its duties.
Bitcoin’s Volatility Should Burn Investors. It Hasn’t
> In 2010, I laid out an argument against quantum computing as a field based on the fact that no observable progress has taken place.

I'm a physicist by training and a quant by profession - from what I can gather, not unlike the author.

Without judging the merits of quantum computing I will just notice that arguments like "has no merit because it has made no progress" are backwards-looking. You're not assessing anything from first principles, you're just saying that nothing has happened _yet_.

In finance this reminds me of trend followers. Yes, you can make money by following the trend, but you're the last crowd to jump on the opportunity, right behind the guys who were looking ahead instead of back.

That said, such people also provide a nice balance against "we don't know everything therefore anything is possible" crackpots.
I would argue that the majority of developers are juggling half a dozen tasks that need to be done ASAP , so they skim a bug report and mark it as irrelevant to the use case they had in mind, and there definitely was no time to read the bug report carefully and understand the core issue it was describing.
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Home Security Worker Hacked into Surveillance Systems to Watch People Have Sex
I only keep half an eye on bitcoin, so I'm a bit out of the loop.

Was there some thing (or things) that happend in October/November that started the most recent growth in price? It seems to have bounced around $5-10k for over a year and then in early october just started to take off and is now 4-5x that and not showing any signs of stopping. I heard about the Tesla thing, but that was very recent. What did I miss?
ungated: https://archive.is/PT0h7
The title is slightly off. The limit is to a single device type, not device.

If you only use LastPass on 2 devices of the same type (on your desktop and your laptop or if you only use it on your Mobile and your Tablet) you will be fine to stay on Free, However if you use it on your Desktop and your Mobile (like me) you will need to swap password managers or pay up for the service.

Before LogMeIn brought them the service was free on "Computers" but you had to pay up for Mobile (Although you were able to access your vault via their website, the mobile app just made it easier).

Guess it's time for me to invest my time into actually settings up and exporting my passwords to something like KeePass (I've been meaning to do it ever since LogMeIn brought them, I was just far too lazy to do it until now).

$30~ for a year (the offer they included in the notice) aint that bad, but I just don't like having the rug pulled from under me and would rather support something like KeePass than support LastPass.

Maybe I will change my mind after I've had some time to digest the news and play with KeePass (and its alt's).
> Case in point: I was shadowbanned on HN for linking to a video where the BLM founder described BLM as a Marxist organization. It’s her own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5zUwiCTzw

BLM the organization has diverged pretty drastically from BLM the movement. Linking them together without acknowledging that is a tad manipulative.

It's much like the slogan "defund the police" has been watered down from the original meaning. You can't hold those using the term today to the original intent.
I have done plenty with threads but never used thread-local storage except when forced to by some other library using it. To me it seems like a bolted-on monstrosity that provides thread safety to thread-naive code after the fact. Am I missing something? Is this a good solution to some problem I haven't encountered? Are there situations where the performance of TLS is better than some other solution?
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Hi all, I am a confused data scientist but i'm quite well integrated as a person. So I think it'd make sense for me to use my life skills to confront my own confusions with the data science profession and the tech space as a whole.

Please constructively critique my interview skills, this is the first time I interview someone and I wasn't prepared. Any talking points from it will be valuable data points for me to improve upon the quality of my podcast.
>Everything that would be done with the extra component could more easily be done with BIOS code

This is tricky because on newer platforms the BIOS is signed and verified by the CPU. The signing keys are likely going to be located in the engineering offices (in the US) rather than just lying around in the factories, so getting them would require much more access than just bribing/threatening a few technicians at the factory.

> attracting no attention. So it doesn't pass the sniff test.

Compromised BIOS is a known threat, so I'd presume paranoid customers would verify/reflash the BIOS upon receiving them. This can be done without booting the motherboard at all (ie. attaching SPI clips to the flash chip and reading/writing directly). A tampered bios would get detected this way so it's not exactly "no attention".
One of J.V. Cunningham's epigrams ends "Can/Imagined adultery fulfill his wants/And still be sleeping with the other man?"
Ahah. You forgot the most important part:

"The writer, a former chief executive of Aston Martin and chief operating officer of Nissan, is chairman of Switch Mobility"

There, now the thing is whole.
Thanks for sharing the second link. It's the first time seeing it an encapsulates my own philosophy on alerting well, while providing examples of what to alert on.

I've been with teams who treat alerts as informational and then quickly get alert fatigue. Then when something actually does happen they don't recognize it because they've trained themselves to ignore all alerts.

At my current company we regularly review our alerts to make sure they are actionable and meaningful still.
Following up on this, I checked ERCOT status this morning and none of the DC ties are moving energy (at a moment when you might expect they'd really like to):

http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi...
There always exists _an_ optimal solution for any given algorithm. But question is if you can compute such an optimal solution. Or even if you can compute if a solution is optimal.

I would say that a reasonable definition of an optimal solution to a problem, excluding concurrency for now, is the same as minimizing the number of steps needed to complete the algorithm. Take my proof from the other comment, it states that if you have a perfect optimizer, you have solved the halting problem.

Adding concurrency to the optimization, i.e. the OPT function can return a program that executes concurrently in which ever way possible on some given hardware. It will still return "return false;" if and only if the original algorithm never terminates.
For stocks you look at earnings and dividend yields to gauge valuation. What do you look at for Bitcoin?
How does Germany ingest technologies from outside Germany? Is all tech in DE home-grown?
To Alaska???
It would be reasonable to say that a movement may not be all that interested in being critically studied if they've got a conclusion they like and want to keep it. Staying "at the fringes" and claiming oppression is a good way to avoid having to answer critical scrutiny, or react to new evidence.

Once you start having scholars and other official positions in the hierarchy of discussion, you can't just ignore what you don't like any more.
You bring back fond memories of the Lindows Rock song :D
I recommend your site to my junior AppSec folks, and I used your Capital One walkthrough two years ago to explain the hack to our business. Well done, really love the site.
It actually depends a lot on circumstance and half the work of software engineering is figuring out your different use cases. Every aspect of a system can have a different beneficiary.

Data analysts are interested in different things than end consumers, who are interested in different things than admins or sponsors...

If you can't split a generic abstraction of 'users' down further, you're either umplementing a very generic tool, or you're simply not standing up a system where the idea of access control is important.

The rub is how nefariously sneaky that access control abstraction can be employed as a fundamental tool.
Socialism has a proposal that we as a society should cover the basics of life. Which most governments weakly attempt to do. You can generally find shelter, food, water, and safety.

Socialism was tried in many countries and is now dead. It died a bloody death in 1989. The world is slowly shedding socialism now. Places like Venezuela and Greece are unable to provide the benefits that socialism is supposed to offer.

China has the Uighurs, russia has the gulags, vietnam has their "rehab camps". Socialism requires forced labour camps.

The funny thing to me, there is a way forward to make socialism work and it can even happen under capitalism. That's automation. Make the robots our slaves who do everything for us. If we built vast arrays of fully automated food producing farms that dont need people and we produce an excess, food becomes so cheap that it's given away.
No, I never said other companies make as much profit. I said other companies experience the same multiples or order of magnitude impact effect from software engineers that tech companies experience.

Ultimately your business’s total revenue is a function of external demand for what you sell. Within that limit, some employees have a big impact on realizing that revenue, some have a small impact. What they are really worth to you is their share of contribution of revenue by that impact.

What I have said is that virtually all companies employing software engineers experience this impact from software engineering in similar ways (meaning the engineers’ value is much closer to their direct impact on revenue than some lower “market rate” wage floor).

It’s frustrating that you are misinterpreting this as me saying other companies earn the same profits, in absolute dollar terms, as tech companies. Because I never said that at all - and more importantly, that does not need to be true for my earlier statements to be correct.

A company doesn’t have to make the same profit as FAANG to justify that the fair value of one of their software engineers according to their revenue contributions within the company’s (much lower than FAANG) profits is already at a FAANG salary level (which they already have the ability to pay).

Remote work just takes away the greedy rent seeking mechanism (local “cost of living wage” excuses) that had been used to artificially suppress what should have been a FAANG-level wage (paid out of the current revenue) all along, based on the way the company leverages software engineers for their contribution to existing, current profits - not any hypothetical ability to generate future FAANG level revenue per employee.
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Right, this would be like going into Amazon Prime and saying the median content is what American TV is like.

To be fair, it may be, but the Certified Fresh tab of Rotten Tomatoes is what viewers talking about TV have in mind.

To your point, look somewhere applying a touch of curation by quality for a fairer take on what Americans want in a documentary.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/tv/genre/metascore/documen...

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-netflix-docu...
That's not true at all.

Many many people save everything they touch to Desktop, so it builds up cruft over time. There are ancient jokes about it. And computers were slower then brute-forcing big-O complexity was less feasible.

And the "barrier to entry" gets lower as an org gross and needs to higher thousands of people and get less picky.

I'm sure that MS doesn't require people to ace the hard leetcode problem to get an offer. It's just there to provide a broad picture of algorithm memory and coding speed (which is a stupid metric, not a "high" metric).
If you are referring to the propositions as a failure of the state, I tend to agree. It’s also the only way to directly address other propositions (like Prop 13).

One thing I’ve seen in full force with for instance Prop 19 (which rolled back some of the egregious prop 13 issues such as broadly inheritable grandfathered property taxes), is that the easily accessible descriptions were all (charitably) misleading marketing fluff to sell the majority of the public on significant impacts to taxation on property that they would almost certainly not have passed if they had known the implications - people were scrambling even in Jan/Feb to figure out what it even meant for inherited real property. In most cases, it means it doesn’t actually make sense to do anything but sell it now; which is a huge shift from before, and will cost many children of regular middle class families hundreds of thousands of dollars long term (but correspondingly give 100’s of billions to the state, and close loopholes related to some commercial property or large family landlords)
Why do you believe "that's how communists act"? Did you learn that in third grade? Imagine if capitalism were tarred with the broad brush of the terrible things that some capitalists have done...
The safest thing is to downvote and not argue.
Sounds good, may want to tweak the parameters. $500 is a lot to get skin in the game for a small seller, $10 seems good, but then a month is probably not long enough. I buy a lot of tools and machines and gadgets, those are probably best reviewed after 1-2 years of use.
LastPass is making a huge change to their Free product and giving users only a month to adjust. This is irresponsible at best. I completely empathize with the notion that good software is worth paying for, but a widely-used password manager needs to provide more time for users to transition into another product if they choose not to convert to paid.
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How has that person not gotten in trouble for writing terribly slow software at work yet?
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I guess via Intel ME drivers installed in Windows.
Falling behind on what? Low end assembly line work at the very bottom of the value chain just isn't worth fighting low skilled workers from rural China or Vietnam over. The chances are all of that will be done by robots soon anyway, which is a whole new ball game.
No, it seems the beads came across the Bering Strait. I don't see why Venetian beads entering North America from the Maritimes would head north west across the tundra to Alaska instead of south and south west toward more populated regions.

Plus by the 13th and 14th century, when Venetian trade was rising, the population of the Norse colony in Greenland was dwindling and the colony was approaching its end, due to cooling climate.
The sentiment in Python has been trending toward using "classes" (either with dataclass or attrs [1]) as essentially namespaced logicless containers, and away from dicts (or TypedDicts [2]) and namedtuples/NamedTuples [3]) for that purpose.

This is very different from the useless "you don't need classes" classes.

Think of classes nowadays serving as being both traditional OO classes and Scala case classes: they can be types of stateful objects, or just dumb record types, which you now can easily extend with logic if you do happen to need it (and you often do, in nontrivial applications).

Now this is also a very yagni view, and maybe TFAA uses the structure they build for inspection before the final consumption, but their point that the posted script could be half the size and work the same without loss of readability… is compelling.

I find this "it would be half as long and work the same" argument totally bizarre. Do you look at a basic Rust program and say "it would be half as messy and look the same if we did away with all the move/borrow stuff"?

Of course not. Yes, YAGNI is fine and all, but at least recognize that there is an upside to this tradeoff. I am not going to need internal state on the object, but I sure as hell am going to want the type checking.

And yes, you could (perhaps should) use Typescript or Kotlin for new web server projects instead. But some people want Python with types, including me.

I wouldn't accuse Python of being "concise" in the first place, so I am happy to add some up-front verbosity in exchange for a much smoother developer experience later in my project, with significantly less mental overhead as my IDE can do a lot of work for me.

1: https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/

2: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.TypedDi...

3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio... and https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.NamedTu...
And for good reason considering some of them lie about actually encrypting the data, or are very bad about keeping it safe.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitlocker-encrypts-self-en...
#1 best jetbrains idea feature IMO - save on focus lost. Just alt tab into your app, or into your terminal to git commit, no worrying about "did I remember to ctrl-s".
There should be a "video games" section of the NY Times ;)

Even if you are not an avid sportsball fan, don't sleep on the sportsbook growth as legalization and even deregulation abound with the introduction of crypto. This is a triple digit growth year over year market through the foreseeable decade. And state tax revenue is usually allocated directly to education.

And there's plenty of interesting prediction science and forecasting math involved ;)

Sports betting's growth in U.S. 'extraordinary'

https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/29174799/sports-bettin...
I assume that Microsoft never noticed this problem because there are so many ways to hang Explorer (mine is hung right now) that they'd never get to the "1000 icons" case.
So you can tell what a plate that no longer exists was like? Amazing.