skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be when the mining cards cost 1/4 the price for the same performance/watt as the gaming cards.
I think the important thing to take away is every state needs to prepare for more extreme weather, regardless of current regulations. While the larger grids don’t require winterization, northern regions already experience cold temps and don’t need regulations to prepare for them. Whatever readies Texas for these extreme events is enough, whether it is regulations or proactiveness.
This is a good argument in general but unfortunately it depends on tax structures and other external forces. For instance, cannabis is legal in many states now yet cartels still distribute it at huge profits simply because the taxes are exorbitant and also that there are weird rules about who can buy how much when (example: prior to adult use laws I still purchased cannabis illegally even though I technically could have gotten a medical license because it was so complex to get one). So while I firmly believe the answer is yes, there is still a balancing act that needs to happen.
I bristle when I have to switch from a shell for loop to piping jobs to xargs. For loops are like infix notation (the operator/operation kind of goes in the middle) and xargs is postfix (the op goes on the end).

for file in *pdf *azw3; do calibre-convert $file $file.epub; done

vs

find . -name \*pdf -o -name \*azw3 -print0 | xargs -I {} calibre-convert {} {}.epub

Something about the former is more natural for my brain to produce. If I want to parallelize, for shell loops my muscle memory very quickly converts the above to

for file in *pdf *azw3; do calibre-convert $file $file.epub & done; wait

... but if I have a million files my machine is going to have a bad day, whereas the xargs version is easy to limit to N parallel invocations.

I'd really like a shell that lets me define my own sugared versions of shell grammar. I imagine writing a 'forp' that would let me do

forp $(nproc) file in ...; do ...; done

and the shell would run up to $(nproc) invocations in parallel. Anybody know of such a shell? (Don't say eshell.)
Well, not much Ars can do about that.
Yes. https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/

> Feb. 16 at 6:15 a.m. SPP declared an EEA Level 3. System-wide generating capacity had dropped below current load of approximately 42 gigawatts (GW) due to extremely low temperatures, inadequate supplies of natural gas and wind generation. SPP directed member utilities to implement controlled, temporary interruptions of service.
That's one way the economy is not zero-sum, but not the most important way. The most basic example of positive-sum economic activity is that if I have something that is worthless to me but valuable to you, and you have something that is worthless to you but valuable to me, we can create value simply by exchanging these two items. No goods were created or destroyed, yet both of us received more value than we lost from our own points of view, and thus net economic value was created by the exchange.

Regarding the real-estate example, the real estate may be zero-sum but net economic value still increases when a piece of land changes hands from someone who values the property less to someone who values the property more—which is the default expectation underlying any voluntary trade.
For a different rabbit hole to explore:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...
For reference, the Laredo, Railroad, and Eagle Pass ties are all connections to Mexico’s power grid. They’ve been at zero most of this week because Mexico is also dealing with major power outages along the border, and so they don’t have any electricity to share.

The North tie connects to the Western US grid in Oklahoma, while the East tie connects to the Eastern US grid near the border with Arkansas/Louisiana. They’ve been fluctuating between 0-600 this week depending on how much power has been available on those grids.
On the contrary: A simple, easily manipulable URL may be the best UI. It's standardized, understandable, and practical to use.

Also, it's mostly a toy, so whining about missing UI features is probably a little silly.
Pandemic-era growth and SPACs are helping edtech startups graduate early
Han, Nim seems nice. I never heard of it before.

From your post I was under the impression it was a super-set of python, or was compiling down or up to python ( what a weird thing that would be )

I'm getting older, I remember when Python was the new cool perfect language on the block, but that no real job existed using it. Specially outside of tech hotspot before remote.

Well, I think python has been consistent at no sucking too much. And it payed off. Slowly but surely it took hold on the job market, captured data-science overnight.. and voila.

Language are less of an 'blocker' it seams. with infrastructure being a commodity, and polyglot microservices being trendy... nobody care what your API is made off.

So don't loose hope on Nim. ( and it does look really neat, but I promess myself to digg more into Elm before try out something else )
When properties are easier than examples
"Removing links to news stories from Google would break the search engine in Australia, opening it up to rivals."

Frightening. The thought of actual competition. Yes, I must agree with the author, this simply was not fair. Aren't there rules in business?

"And so the company signed a bunch of deals under duress."

Threatening a company with the possibility of competition. Duress indeed. Bullies.

I hope Google can recover. No doubt money is tight. I hope they survive.

Paying parties off to avoid competition. Hmmm. Could we live without the middleman. Google does not want us to know.
Self driving cars will have a mechanical advantage too. They can go to maximum braking essentially immediately. It takes time for humans to move their legs and then some time for the pedal to move. Probably a 200-500ms advantage for the AI.
I think "solid" is a relative thing. People weren't comparing the M to the F, which until recently was unavailable except for second-hand units with compromise layouts and weird interfaces. They were comparing them to the value-engineered rubber dome they were selling for $14 at the Office Supply Hut.

After like 2015 or so, when firms like Ducky and Filco began to bring appealing, consumer-focused MX-switch boards to market, the M becomes just one choice among many.

There's also the more subjective angle: people like specific key feels. I like the Model M sound and feel product, probably better even than Model F (too tangy). People will put up with a lot of rubbish for a better feel.
And that's exactly what this move is meant to do.
Yep. I never took psychedelics, but I spent a decent amount of my time in meditation.

I think these drugs can be very beneficial if you use them to "expand your mind". But the cases you mention above are almost the opposite. Instead of an expanded, non-attached viewpoint these people formed new and even stronger attachments.

In the end it's more than just legalization. Regulation and quality control are key factors as well. You easily kill yourself with alcohol, but due to regulation, quality control (and experience in society) we can manage the risks vs the rewards.
I agree. Thanks for your measured response. Perhaps I have some crypto community ptsd and an itchy trigger finger. This is definitely exciting news.
It's easy to forget that the impact of mining comes in waves - most gamers weren't complaining when the market became saturated by seccond hand GPUs at the end of the mining craze. At the end of the day GPUs are a luxury.
For me, semantic information is information which allows you to predict future world states, or remove uncertainty about current world states, while optimizing for your utility function.

If your utility function is to remove all sense data, then a website with suicide techniques helps you predict future world states (if X then Death), and aligns with your utility function, so it is meaningful information for you.

But then you get into heterophenomenology territory: someone may state they are not hungry, while desperate for sustenance (or vice versa). People may temporarily act counter to their typical utility function. Do we want to allow such craziness to influence the formal value of semantic information?

> has nothing to do with keeping me alive, yet I find it informative.

Imagine having to read the exact same information every day. It won't allow you to adapt to a changing environment or be exposed to new ideas, so you can form new ideas yourself. You'd be stuck in a rut, and as good as non-alive. Soon you'll probably perish out of boredom.
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I don’t think it would.

Legalizing drugs would come at the cost of governments and cities taxing it and putting it above what price is on the street for cartel product. The cartels can easily undercut on price because they don’t pay any taxes.
How would that be possible?
You can just say "they".

(Not trying to be judgy. People just seem to forget about the gender neutral use of "they".)
I don’t know if the previous model was actually that good foe users. Because the releases were static every time there was a breaking software or hardware change you would need to buy a new version of the software.

It also reduces accessibility for lower income people. Not everyone can force over $1000 for Photoshop software but paying $30 a month is a much easier pill to swallow.
You might be interested in this [1]. It sounds like you might be more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am, but Shannon did have some passing interest in his definition of information and 'structural' information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences
This exactly, I use github.com/doug-martin/goqu for some of my projects though. Only the query builder part though.
UPDATE: I've tried to log in again today with the password I reset yesterday and it no longer worked! xD So I've tried "reset password" again now and no reset password email is coming (I have checked Junk folder and even Exim SMTP logs - I can see the email from 17th there from Amazon SES but none from today).

Apparently someone from Netflix read my comments here and deactivated the account completely. :P Thanks!
Sorry if I spoiled your clever marketing strategy but I think sending a fake "suspicious login" email and keeping cancelled accounts for 10 months is just not right.
Unless you pay 0% interest rates it clearly increase inequality as all it does is transfer money to the rich.
This is a very interesting perspective, I'd love to hear more about the disastrous effects.
Cartels can't compete on quality or safety.

People are happy to pay a 28%+ tax here in CO for legalized, recreational marijuana - a relatively expensive-to-produce product.
As does the statement that because hydro dams are being used mining is not doing environmental damage.
Well, if the tax rate is lower than the cost of running a large organized crime organization and trafficking the drugs into the country, then the legal price may still be lower.

There's also the fact that buyers ALSO care about the risk. Many people will only purchase drugs legally, if given both options.
This just landed:

#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

https://lexfridman.com/jim-keller-2

I haven’t listened to it yet, the topics covered in the show notes look pretty cool.
> If now the debtor comes and asks for the money back because their wire transfer was a mistake...

One of the questions here was at what point in time is notice of mistake required. The defendants argued that notice was required prior to funds actually being received. Citibank argued that notice prior to the debt being discharged should be sufficient. The court held that notice should be required prior to the funds being received.

In the case of a wire transfer that happens instantaneously, that interpretation essentially eliminates the possibility of giving notice of a mistake.
1. This specific effort is for psychedelics like LSD and ketamine; the overdose problem is with opioids.

2. For opioid and cocaine decriminalization efforts, the mentality isn't that policymakers want more drugs in society; it's the experience of how criminal prohibition isn't helping deal with the problem. Specifically, it makes it harder to deliver social services (including both rehab and safety measures) when the targets for those social services are worried about getting arrested.
> This all makes me think there is some other microcontroller somewhere that controls the bios flashback process, which would almost certainly be an extra chip.

I believe they just have some sort of extra microcontroller wired to a USB port and the SPI flash chip that stores the BIOS, probably with some sort of switch to ensure the host can't touch the SPI flash when the external microcontroller is attempting to flash it.
I guess I could have left out "literally," but picking words from a learned probability distribution is picking at random.

Since words are chosen in order, picking one word differently will likely mean that every word that follows will be different, and this choice between suffixes is not made intelligently.

This randomness is there for a reason. Yes, you can turn it off, but then you get loops, which is obviously not intelligent. A bit of randomness makes it less obvious.
Very few people articulate the upside of the data sharing well. And that is the internet allows people to connect with the long tail customers. All of a sudden I can make friends with other worm farmers in the world. Not only that, but using this data I can effectively find other people who would probably be interested in worm farming and tell them about it. And grow the community of worm farmers. Not only that but individuals can now build niche businesses based around worm farming because they can find their potential customers. You can replace worm farming with every esoteric interest.

On one hand the internet and the big data platforms of Amazon, facebook etc. have allowed this economy and communities based on esoteric interests, but on the other hand they are able to manipulate us else like nobodies business and greed ensures that if it isn't being used adversarially now it will certainly be in the future.
You can place solar panels in urban areas, even sidewalks and streets are being tested, besides solar roofs.

You can use nuclear, fission or fusion. You can use tidal, geothermal, wind energy.

You can concentrate-then-diffuse sunlight with parabolic mirrors and optical fibers.

You can place solar panels in deserts and transmit energy to vertical farms.

You can distribute multiple crops in multiple floors depending on their water, light and soil needs.

You can farm fish and chicken on the ground level of the same vertical farms and use their waste as fertilizer.

You can do all that, or you can keep chopping down the Amazon rainforest to plant soybeans.
> old VGA cards would show some company text before handing off to the PC

My Gigabyte motherboard is doing that. Ain’t too old, has AMD’s X570 chipset.
> It's interesting if you want to support 50B people on Earth, but the resources required to build it out mean it isn't really even a viable solution for restoring farmland to wildland without massive amounts of mining.

Also it seems to be mainly about producing calorie-poor produce like lettuce. If you actually want to feed people, you need to produce calories, and I don't see how that's helped by putting several extra conversion inefficiencies between the energy source and the plants.
But that's.. literally what money is. 1 dollar is a dollar to every person aware of a dollar.

What you're talking about is what the PROMISE of a dollar right now in some hands can be, in which case you're not solely putting value on the dollar bill in my hand but on the value created by my person in your belief - which is where people get to disagree and think whatever they want. And be right and win big, or be wrong and lose big, and anything in between.

It doesn't change the fact that whether the promise is mine or some other person's, when you give us a dollar it's a dollar to either of us. What we're making of it is the added value from human contribution at t+1 (and on and on).
> It's the ultimate VR because whatever you think, the mind will create.

I've been thinking about this problem from the other angle. When we lucid dream there is a certain part of the brain that is deactivated that otherwise makes us aware that we are not in the real world.

That is, in the real world we don't really need to perform the reality check, we can tell intuitively. In the dream world this intuition is lost. I don't remember which part of the brain is involved but it has identified by comparing activity during normal dreams and lucid dreams.

If we could stimulate the brain in the right spot the right way we could inhibit that part that knows what's real and what's not and maintain full continuous presence in VR.
The dog is a fine addition to any meeting.
With all the tweaker camps under freeway overpasses and homeless junkies on heroin, now seems like a bad time to be legalizing even more drugs. The entire state already feels like Mad Max. Quality of life is in free fall and rule of law basically not followed in major cities, and this is what our legislators are concerned with. It's appalling.
But the upkeep cost of protecting the gold is continuous in the same way as bitcoin mining. If you want to own some gold you need to protect it (usually with the state apparatus of violence, which has massive externalities).

In other words, if you just mine a physical gold block, you don't really have an asset without the state's (or your own) continual upkeep that keeps it protected from attacks.
It seems that most people have forgotten what it was like at the end of the mining craze and GPUs were plentiful, or that they've tried this tactic before (without the aggressive artificial restrictions).
Wow, Gleam is written in Rust. Great to see other languages being developed in Rust
No, it's not "worst case we spent a bit more". Total global lithium ion battery production amounts to less than one hour of storage for the United States alone. Things like pulleys and synthetic methane remain in the prototyping stage.

By this logic why not just use fusion? It's possible. We don't know which exact approach we'll use (lasers, magnets, etc.). We don't know how cheap it'll be, but hey it'll happen eventually right? No.

It's not "worst case we spend more money". It's "worse case we never solve climate change". And that's a pretty bad worst case.

We're already at the point where markets are starting to see saturation with renewables. But this unfounded aversion to nuclear power is hampering actual progress to decarbonization. The cost of waiting around and hoping for storage to become viable is not just the cost of building those storage systems, but also the continued release of fossil fuels as we wait for that to happen - and who knows when that will happen, if ever.
> My biggest concern with legalizing LSD and psilocybin is that we don't have a good way to combat these delusions when people take them on.

You are falling for the classic delusion that drug prohibition prevents drug use; even after illustrating multiple times how false that assertion is.
That's rover directly to earth, when reconnaissance orbiter is used to relay it's around 2 mbit to orbiter.
They have strong unions with sectoral bargaining
That is why there is the need to at the very least discuss government taxation over the mining and transaction of cryptocurrency without evoquing heated but unfruitful debate
> Here's a breakdown: https://youtu.be/4TxkE_oYrjU

I watched the first 90 seconds of this. On the cost of re-usability of a falcon 9 point, the figures are shown as from Wikipedia.

So 1) not a primary source.
2) fails to calculate the percentage correctly between $62m and $50m as "around 10%". It's almost 20% on those figures.
3) and most importantly, those numbers are the cost to the customer, not SpaceX's internal cost. As they have no current competition in rocket re-usability, they are able to recoup the R&D cost for developing this technology.

I don't think I'll bother watching the rest of the video.
It’s well known that they don’t encrypt backups in iCloud. That’s how they’re able to reset access in case you lose access.
Absolutely. I'm in my 40's, and not only was buying cannabis a little sketchy when I was younger, but you literally had no idea what you were getting: indica, sativa, percentage of THC, percentage of CBD, etc. It was all just a total crapshoot.
Pineapple, mushroom, artichoke, caper.
Which is why we all still buy moonshine at speakeasies instead of a pack of Bud Light at the supermarket, amirite?

Slightly more seriously, obviously people will continue to smuggle if there's a profit to be made, but a lot of consumers and producers will quite willingly switch to legal options if they can. Jail time is pretty expensive too.
I've been trying to get a 3000 series card for months. I could have just settled for an AMD, but I want use the hardware for more than gaming. I'll still be buying an Nvidia GPU, but definitely not this one.
It certainly is true, but academics who want to conduct sophistry can use the metric that gives them the answers they want. Comparing USA to Denmark using in-country income percentiles gives Denmark a much lower bar to hop over for this BS "social-mobility" as defined in the article.
Not relevant. Since the operating philosophy is that industry "knows what it is doing" and doesn't need to suffer the burden of regulation, they should demonstrate such competence regardless of any lackluster standards. An isolated event is forgivable but this has happened before with no effort to fix the issue.
I don't see GP suggesting that anywhere in their comment?
Is inspection enough to operate reliable services?
I left Atlanta in 2011 and discovered the closer I was to the West Coast, the more money I made (including adjustments for cost of living). Atlanta has a lot of things going against it, such as a mass transit system that doesn't serve the majority of the suburbs, bad traffic, poor health statistics, low education ranking, and being in the bible belt.
Does anyone know of a hosted Clickhouse service?

I'd like to use Clickhouse but on a very small team without an ops person, it feels like a liability managing a server ourselves.
Are Flask/Django APIs that take floats as parameters vulnerable to this under any circumstances? Any POC code that can be used for testing?
I'm not advocating for prohibition, just asking "what are we going to do with the next problem that comes after legalization?"
Don't buy digital kitchen scales. The spring scales with the twisting number ring are so much better.
Who? The US?
I think it's more like the mainstream media downplayed just how significant and unusual this weather was for nakedly partisan reasons - specifically, to feed a bogus narrative that this happens every decade and Texas just doesn't fix the problem because they're a bunch of right-wing anti-government morons. It's hard to overstate just how awful and corrosive the current state of the US media is. I've seen people elsewhere insisting that their Texan acquaintances must've been brainwashed because they think this was a once in a lifetime occurrence. (Which it was.)
This driver will be patched in a few days. They're kidding if they think this will stop miners looking for cheaper rigs.
If you're logged into reddit, there's an option to just use the old layout which doesn't need an extension to redirect you.
> If you dig into the sourcing if the Colorado Sun's article, it cites an Instagram post[1] as evidence the business is closing, but the post says no such thing

In that post, they announced that they will be closing, with the proximal cause being a surge of cancelations immediately after the accusations. I cannot copy paste the text as its within the images.

Edit: "...I have decided to close Kindness Yoga." Previous slide uses vague, passive, avoidant language to reference the accusations.