skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is, frankly, statistical malpractice. Limits of Growth predicted continuations of historical trends followed by sharp reversals; the data in this article shows that historical trends have continued, and the authors conclude that the sharp reversal must becoming soon. You could confirm any model you wanted that way.

The peak oil discussion is especially anti-prescient, because innovations since this article was written have made both oil and renewable energy much more available. It's generally acknowledged nowadays that demand for oil will peak long before the supply starts to run out.
Also self driving cars, VLSI, FinFETs.
People are more often forced to enter a specific ecosystem due to networking effects. There is no real choice for these common folk.
They need to participate in their universe and outsiders cant join. Neither can they experience competition.
For this, train the cars in DC.
Mike Brown wrote a post [1] on his blog about this, and also made a twitter thread [2]. Konstantin Batygin also posted on twitter [3] about it. They are not persuaded by the paper.

[1] http://findplanetnine.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-planet-nine-fi...

[2] https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/1361754940121640962

[3] https://twitter.com/kbatygin/status/1360381088216936451
Usually whenever I hear someone in business complaining about the free market economy being harsh on startups in a niche it’s because they absolutely suck at marketing and they blame the system for not praising them for existing
Possibly, but that ends up looking a little different. Its more like learned helplessness. "X is possible, but we could never do it." That's different than "X is literally impossible".
It applies to any company the Gov wishes. If company XYZ is a news aggregator, then the gov could target them on a whim.

It's not about the monopoly that FB has. If company XYZ started getting fined, we'd hear nothing about it. That garage based company would just go away.

FB, just happens to have enough cash to say no.
Cost of doing business. Pretty much nothing is cheap in SF, I dont see any reason autonomous cabs cant charge 10 or 20 or 50% more than tamer locales.
Surely it's because when you've borrowed a lot against a highly-valued property you don't want its perceived value to be reduced (by having low rents) in case that triggers the lender to recall the loans. But I too don't know enough about the commercial real estate "industry".
I throw my newsletters in a shared folder and use various TTS programs to listen to them as podcasts. Working to cobble together a manual but not particularly intensive process where news letters are aggregated into a podcast with newsletter as transcript with timestamps. Some podcast apps have bookmark/note support which is a bonus, though non are cross platform. Ideal setup is physical button press will highlight current sentence and spit out a summary. I can see a service with some sort of collaboration system especially with improving TTS quality.
> The Governor of Texas just got on Hannity to bad mouth a New Green Deal as people died in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold.

Of course even the wind turbine issue is a canard given that Texas installed a regime that ensured no reserve capacity. Point the finger at wind turbines is absurd since wind only account for 10% of the Texas grid, and Germany isn’t having blackouts even though they also have frozen turbines right now.

This craven scapegoating and deflection when there’s a crisis going on that, which every economist agrees is a policy failure to properly incentive reserve capacity, really pisses me off.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/what-went-wrong-with-texas...
Since we’re sharing weird work stories, I was working for an early cloud provider in SF back around 2010, coming out from NYC about once a month or so. Got into the office right off the plane late afternoon once and one of the sales guys wanted to get drinks after work, told me he’d come by the company apartment to get me.

So he swings by to pick me up and I didn’t ask where we were headed, figured just some cocktail bar or something normal. Nope, we roll up to a strip club out near North Beach. It actually was my first time in one, I was young and it never was my thing. The guy had a bottle of vodka on a shelf behind the bar that he used for clients (but honestly for whoever), and the strippers all knew him. I start talking to one of the performers about regular things - the school she was studying at, her family, etc. Then somehow we start talking about how they had a private room that was mainly for Zynga employees, with video game setups, bottle service and private dances. She made it clear that lots of tech companies came in to entertain clients, investors, and whoever else they wanted to.

Last time I let a sales guy bring me somewhere without telling me what the plan was first.
sorry what? my point is that it is a system wide failure.

but the wind power dropped to 8% of power generated. carbon power obviously has to make up the difference and there are plants shutting down because they dont have fuel.

all wind power has to do to exceed expectations is to lose 50% as opposed to the expected 60%. (random numbers)

its easier to pump gas than it is to construct a wind turbine? the politifact article is blaming carbon plants, and I said that's true, but you need to understand the context. theyre blaming carbon plants because theyre the only source of power you can ramp up quickly without the wind complying
Perhaps create an external boot drive and run it from there?
yet another blog post describing in depth why my decision to turn down companies larger than a certain size seems to be correct (for me)
Technically, published by Verso, Black and Red Publics and a couple other publishers. Translated by Bureau of Public Secrets (Ken Knabb) as well as Donald Nicholson Smith and Freddy Perlman.

Available online:

Bureau of Public Secrets: http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/
Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.ht...

Film version:
https://archive.org/details/thesocietyofthespectacleguydebor...
Thank you for insight. I hadn't considered that others might have a different opinion.

All sarcasm aside, to take it to a logical and pedantic extreme, even while I wouldn't want someone to change their body based on my opinion, you probably wouldn't want someone to tattoo themselves with black face or a swastika, so I don't entirely agree.
Oh phooey. Distribution is as easy as uploading it to youtube.

I've also seen a lot of pretty marginal content streaming on Amazon.
It could be made to work fairly well with hardware / driver support. Timing information of frames is known rather precisely, and delay spread is <100ns in most environments.
Kano Model
That’s great that El Paso got this failure mode right. Are there other modes that they de-prioritized?

El Paso Energy is interesting bc it represents the old school community monopoly. I wonder if the JPM buyout will help or hinder its mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso_Electric
They do. When GP says stuff about not having flex in a cell, that essentially means "has not provisioned any quota whatsoever in that zone". Once you do the baseline work to provision some quota, generally speaking you have a somewhat over-provisioned pool to use for whatever.

The need to run in a particular cell is unusual.
I wasn’t close enough to him to reconcile his receipts, but this was a place were people talked a lot, the number was 400k per month, they sent him to rehab because they were afraid how his family might react if they dismissed him, he had to hold a job in order to continue to receive funds from his family.
Wondering if the large number of semiconductor fabs has anything to do with this? These fabs like to be in flat areas with stable temps and access to water. Places like Arizona and Texas are the best places for these types of facilities and they use boat loads of electricity.

Haven't look up the numbers but it's possible that this and other industrial facilities consume a large amount.
30ms-50ms average, some spikes up to 100ms but rare enough that it hasn't caused me any issues.
Ask HN: Are certifications counted for experienced software professionals
Hello HN

I am an 16+ years of experienced software programmer, architect. I have the tendency to think I can learn anything if the job needs it within couple of weeks. I also see certifications generally take anywhere between 4-12 weeks based on the complexity. I am of thinking that what could you really master in 4-8 weeks than working on them day and day out and gaining experience. I usually have gained good records in terms of performance throughout my career. Are my thoughts valid about certifications or certifications are the way to go. I am searching for a Job but my Linkedin Applications are rejected and I am at loss to know the reason. I tick all the boxes for the jobs I apply. Whats wrong ?
How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)
Passwording a Jitsi room in the way you would a Zoom meeting seems pointless, just give it a harder to guess name and save trying to memorize two separate facts when only one is needed.

Jitsi's end-to-end encryption passwords would be a reasonable choice (if your clients are capable) and you would need to memorize those separately from a room name since Jitsi's servers don't do anything with the encryption

(If you join a Jitsi call with say, four other participants using a password you don't know, your copies of their four audio and video streams are nonsense, chances are your decoders will give you silence and a black rectangle, although weird glitched blocky nonsense video is also possible and I guess it's conceivable you'd likewise get weird audio nonsense)
It depends on how you price a human life. Give me that number, and I can start to answer.

More than 300 people have ended up in ERs in Houston alone for carbon monoxide inhalation as a result of misguided efforts to avoid freezing to death, I'm not entire sure how to allocate that cost, either.

1989, 2011, 2021. At some point, having been told twice now, and soon to be a third time, you spend the money to avoid the pitchforks.
An important perspective: this is not an article, but a wiki entry specifically about the alarm clock. The rest of the wiki goes in to detail about a whole bunch of other topics from a brain-function perspective.

Here’s Caffeine: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Caffeine
I’m just not sure why they should be forced to open a platform they made and own so other people who don’t own it can get what they want. If I sell property I don’t have to give mineral rights and the purchaser accepts that up front. Why should phones be any different. Should we force all software companies to give us the source code of their proprietary software that we buy? They sell us compiled versions of it which are not hack friendly. If we can get upset at Apple for controlling it’s platform why not lash out at all the software markets?
I posted this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26106281
> I, a Texan, would welcome regulation when it comes to electric power. Please.

Actually, you do have regulators. It's just that they're incompetent. Anyone who ignored them did fine:

> El Paso is not apart of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a major grid operator that controls about 90% of the state’s electric load. El Paso Electric, which oversee's the electricity from Hatch to Van Horn, said the Borderland is apart of the Western International grid.

[…]

> El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection.

* https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing...
Because they self evidently are, markets are so self evidently irrational the concept of "animal spirits" is one of the first thing we learned in econ 101, almost every post about the stock market will have someone saying the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

unless you want to explain how what happened with gme reflected a rational valuation of the company
> The (ultimately false) class antagonism narrative of /r/WSB that the game really is rigged is a fitting end to a decade that at the outset told everyone they could be a unicorn (or enjoy part of the spoils) if they could deliver a cash cow to elite investors if they only pulled up their sleeves and grinded through.

WSB is a subset of Reddit's bigger issue: A mix of populist ideologies and misinformation. The GME pump was fueled by misunderstandings that people could get free money and hurt corporations by pumping up the price of a stock. Anyone with a basic understanding of investing could see that the stock price was coming back down, but instead Reddit went all-in on the "diamond hands" narrative that encouraged people to hold forever and blamed conspiracy theories for the inevitable fall of the stock price.

The irony is that the barriers to entry for well-paying jobs are lower than ever before. Traditional trade jobs like plumbing or welding pay well these days, and safety standards have never been higher. Breaking into tech is as simple as loading up some free tutorials online and practicing away at any number of free websites. In 2021, you don't even need to live near these companies to get the job.

Reading the front page of Reddit, you'd be convinced the world has never been worse and we're on the verge of societal collapse. Combine this with politicians eager to fan the flames of discontent and promise easy solutions (much like this article) and of course people will be angry and disillusioned. The social media effect works to amplify the negative and dismiss the positive.
20 years ago this would be joke about rugged individualism of Texans.

I think America is becoming a parody of itself.
<subrant>What's even worse, and equally common, is no date on the article or if there is a date it's hidden away somewhere near the bottom of the content. These things are just so basic. I think we need to resurrect Jakob Nielson and get him on the speaker circuit again.</subrant>
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I worked with one guy who actually tried, on his yearly review, to pass of the number of Jira tickets he completed as one of his primary accomplishments. Anyone want to take a wild guess at the percentage of tickets he closed were tickets he created?
Switching phones OS is not a smooth experience where you click a button. Your app configs, purchased media, etc. won't transfer easily if at all.
Not paying the bill worked for me.
I agree about the learned helplessness. I observe it, and then I feel it creeping up myself when I see too many people around me have been bit. But no, we’ve got to find a plausible explanation for mass learned helplessness or we're part of the problem.
I'll give that a shot. Thanks you for the tip.
This is the best advice. It's 1000x easier to learn this stuff remotely than it was when I was starting out in the late 90s. Back then it was all black magic or institutional knowledge or higher-education backed.

Learning JS would be my pick too. In fact, there are coding schools/bootcamps that also make this their #1 pick.

Learn JS, HTML, CSS. Play on codepen, make things. Once you've got that down then you're ready to tackle cracking the coding interview and get that job.

It's hard for us vets too you know. With ever increasing requirements, frameworks, tools to learn. We also practice this make stuff in order to stay relevant. Coding is a life-time of learning (new frameworks, new languages, new ways of doing things) and is very rewarding. Graphic Design is as well in the right brain category of work. Web needs both. Right brained people, left brained people, new coders to grow teams, old coders to mentor and lead those teams.

Either way, either path you choose - Backend or Frontend, there's never been a better time to learn this from online resources in the comfort of your PJs.
Yeah there's probably a wealth of people better informed than I on the matter, I merely wanted to point out an extreme case of the disavowed negligence running rampant from the top of our society on down
I’ve been running https://xn--i-7iq.ws/ for the last few years... Godaddy should have solid support end-to-end, but it’s supported by other registrars as well
lol worthless, your not able to receive the files if you do not sign up to the pro account,

instant.io and many other webRTC are already free as open source.
the bitcoin to sell is being mined, in hype driven markets restricted supply is no issue
> If you're mostly interested in hardware support and raw performance, I think Linux has "done it".

There's alot of room for adjustments/experimentation within the posix-like OS space; Linux is not always the best vehicle for this experimentation (witness various threading/ipc/scheduling differences with others, security protections, etc. that a) exist and/or b) have been imported/emulated in Linux )
This problem is not limited to Apple mobile devices, it is shared with every manufacturer curating all the software on their platforms. Apple, Nintendo, Sony, John Deere, and so on. Every manufacturer gatekeeping their platform for security, financial, community, repair, or quality standards. They should all instead bust the machines wide open, allow anyone's operating system software to be in control, and give up the notion that curation in exchange for restrictions is something anyone can willingly buy into. If you go after Apple, you go after all the other platform companies, because their justifications do not hold water either. If you go after just Apple, you have to convince the judge that there are good reasons Apple must conform while nobody else has to.
Report it for what, having an opinion you don't like?
> Sure - but what we’re really talking about is Epic wanting to take part of the profit without doing the work to build the platform.

Apple did nothing to create Fortnite, but they want about a third of the revenue from Fortnite. Epic did not create the iOS platform, and they are not asking for any of Apple's profits from the iOS platform. So your characterization of who's wanting profit without doing the work seems completely backwards to me. Apple's demands here are essentially rent-seeking.

> There are reasons why people trust Apple’s platform, and integrated payments are one of them.

As far as I know, Epic did not prevent people from paying through Apple's integrated payment platform. They simply offered an alternative.

> My point is that Epic actually is a company that has the resources to compete directly if they wanted to.

> Apple just isn’t the leader in games, and it would be great if Epic leveraged its position to build a real alternative platform, rather than just attempting to force its way into being a middleman in Apple’s platform.

Your suggestion is that if somebody wants to sell things to users who happen to be on smartphones without paying into the duopoly's protection racket, they should simply develop their own hardware supply chain and manufacturing capabilities, phone operating system, mapping and GPS software, email software, ditto for every other piece of software that is table stakes for a phone — and do all of this to a level of quality sufficient to compete with companies whose primary businesses are doing these things — and then finally develop whatever it was they wanted to sell in the first place.

This is not a reasonable position, and even if Epic is in a position to do it (which I'm not sure if they are), most companies aren't, and it is not reasonable to demand every company develop its own phone.

It's also bad for users, because then they'd have to buy a phone for every app.

It is much more reasonable to just not allow smartphones to be the 21st century equivalent of a company town where employees are paid in scrip.
For years I've told loved ones, friends, and anyone with a passing interest in the nascent space to avoid Tether like the plague. In my opinion, it's only a matter of time until it blows up.
Exploring OLAP Databases Plus Extract Transform and Load in PostgreSQL
> It depends on the company.

You aren't offering evidence for entertainment companies "it" doesn't happen in, just sayin.
It's not like the waste comes up after decades. The waste will still there until we find a better purpose for it.
Most of the power plants that went offline were natural gas.
A bold statement from a company that essentially seemed to gain from news and websites, until it seemed to reach a conclusion a user that reads trustworthy news outside Facebook, is a user that spends less time on Facebook. The very approach that seemed to conclude in lowering trustworthy news pages reach on the platform, and seem to boosted fake news.

Now the company tells it will not pay trustworthy publishers for the content. As far as it seems absurd, it just shows that any news in Australia on Facebook can be considered a fake news as default. The clarity is a benefit.
From the Wikipedia page on the Amazon rain forest crash...

The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke. Despite a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, an eye injury, and concussion, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days and found shelter in a hut. Local lumberjacks found her and took her by canoe back to civilization.

It was later determined that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial crash but died awaiting rescue.

It's just one case, but in the case of isolation, moving seems smarter than staying put.
I think the 42 to 8 statistic is measuring a different metric.

My understanding is that natural gas, coal, and other fossil fuel-based electric sources only run when it is profitable to do so. When the price of natural gas is low and the price of electricity is high, it makes sense to use natural gas to generate electricity. When it's the other way around, turning natural gas into electricity is a money-losing proposition.

By contrast, wind and solar power have no input cost. So long as there is wind or sunlight, renewable power is being provided to the grid.

Last week, temperatures were higher and there was less demand for electricity. Prices were lower, so less fossil fuel energy was needed/wanted/generated.

This week, the temperature drop greatly increased demand for energy, increasing prices with it. More fossil fuels are burned. While the amount of wind/solar power generated did not greatly chang, the total amount of electricity generated increased, reducing renewables' share.
If you subscribe through Apple it’s just as easy to cancel it as canceling any other subscription.
Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review
I'd say the only time I ever read SMH is when there's a link in my FB. When mates or groups I'm a part of drop a link in. To be honest, I don't remember the last time I read general news that wasn't in my feed.
Apart from a few other aggregators (hackers news included)
Isn't this comment just the epitome of HN.

A person shares their personal experience with the hope that someone avoids the same mistakes.

Citation needed.

Let me guess, FAANG boy, good mom and dad? Somehow you have the right to ask for a citation?

GTFOH
How Calendly got their first 1000 customers?
We need this for the whole world if we want to stay within ecological limits and avert the worst horrors of climate change. GDP is bad news
Now what constitutes "forced" and I'm pretty sure there were lots of wannabe cheerleaders who would rather be in their place.
As a lifelong Texas resident, I can tell you that ol’ Rick is right on the money. Notice, my reply is just as useful as the the original comment. All generalities are wrong, and is obviously a divided issue.
Less misinformation!! Congratulations, Australia!
How do you invest in Tether? I thought it was just like a dollar peg for btc for inter-exchange operations.