skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I don't know how the landscape looks today.

At the time, FreeBSD could run Linux binaries faster than Linux could on the same exact hardware, for one.

At Yahoo, we used FreeBSD on all of our servers and Linux on zero of our servers, and that probably changed over time. I don't know.

It was just very stable. You could reboot without worry that a kernel update would break anything or prevent boot-up. It was almost a realtime OS considering how light it was. I don't think it actually qualifies as an RTOS but we knew exactly what performance we could get out of a particular server configuration, and if the performance ever deviated, we knew there was a problem. It was very deterministic in that way.

Linux may be as good or better than FreeBSD now. I don't know. But 20 years ago, Linux getting all the attention saddened me a lot.

At the time, if you wanted an open operating system, without any cruft clogging things up, FreeBSD was it.
Maybe they were drinking fermented milk like yoghurt or kefir. No lactate sugars...
I really wish we could get something like this for local, desktop apps. I'm super tired of most every new desktop "app" being just an electron runtime (which, of course, can read and write all over my filesystem) that runs now-unsandboxed js both from its own bundle, as well as downloaded willy-nilly from the internet.
Singular, yes, of two total. I think the point still stands, simply saying "nuclear good" isn't the answer to the problems from this event.
Value is a product of demand for both USD and BTC. So as I said above, your question was tautologically true: if the demand of Bitcoin will always be high, then yes it will be a store of value, because things that are in high demand have value. But that is true for any good.

I could ask the same question about cow dung, or any scarce good. If the demand for cow dung was as high as the USD, will it be a stable store of value? Yes.
As I got heavily downvoted a month or so ago for saying. In TX the wind backup is NG plants. The storage is really only there to cover tiny glitches, and its quite expensive. Which I why I keep pointing out that the price of wind conveniently ignores the storage costs and NG generators required to back it up.

At least part of the problem here seems to be the fact that the NG plants can't start due to lack of gas because the supply is frozen.

The other problem is of course that backing up wind with NG means that its not actually "green" anymore. Its reduced the carbon footprint, but at the growth rates in TX its only slowed the increase in CO2 output, not decreased it.
Yeah, we used to call them "Web Designers" and "Web Developers".

If you met someone at a free cracker and dip event and they self-identified as one or the other, you could potentially network and collaborate and not step on each others toes. Even in Flash. One made art and masks and timelines and tweens, and one wrote actionscript...I think you get the picture.

The issue is more that the front and back end have divorced. As we all actually know, the backend receives a request and responds to it, some of which can be contextually appropriate to the particular source of a request, if you know what I mean, nudge is as good as a wink.
Such a response, that probably has a "bundle.js" shoved up it's nether regions, actually constitutes a sort of tennis "serve" or volley, that may unleash a programmatic payload, via said javascript (no need for bundle.js. You can hard-code js and css right into server-rendered templates, voila scoped css lol)
the interactions between this initial page rendering and the activation and machinations of said javascript are an implicit set of dirty activities folks often allude to in discussions of SSR and hydration and other such silliness encountered by running your entire webserver application on the dynamic single-threaded event-loop runtime known as "the web-browsers programmatic API, brought to you by javascript", and having the largest spyware erm browser makers scripting engine blessed with more money than most countries raise in annual GD whatever annually dedicated to the impossible task of making it map to how computers actually work, which it wasn't built to do, am I digressing here? I was trying to say that isomorphic code is not anything remotely desirable to most people for most things, as the real implicit goal on this tangent is that the server wants more intimate knowledge of what a client is doing in order to better provide the illusion of the user manipulating the data, etc, etc.
RPC gui is different than remote folder browsing in a vast open scientific institutions network in which index pages provide valuable insight as to the sort of files/documents/data/research-papers/cat-pix available at said resource endpoint...ah such trust...was I digressing again?

We used to say "Web Designer" and "Web Developer"
Does anyone have time to discuss our good lord HTTP?
AC transmission absolutely does work over large distances. It’s just not a point-to-point system.

Imagine four cities in a row, all connected with AC. City A generates extra power, which gets sucked up by city B, whose power goes to the next city down the line, to city Z.

Sure, it’s not actually that simple, but when was the last time NY literally had no power? They benefit from being highly connected.

TX is paying for being isolated.

Their handful of DC interconnects do not have the capacity to power their mini grid. They’re short 35GW of generation, and I assume the DC ties are at capacity.
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Yeah, but none of that appears to actually be what happened.

Renewables are down from their peak capacity in Texas, but they're actually performing above what the grid thought they'd do. So it's not like ERCOT got caught with their pants down when it comes to renewable generation.

Instead the issue appears to be that thermal (gas, coal, and nuclear) plants all over Texas are failing in the face of cold weather, and because Texas has its own grid it can't shift enough power from nearby states in order to cover the demand.

And it's not like these plants were off and everyone is surprised that they didn't turn on; Texas gets most of its power from natural gas most of the time. More to the point cold weather specific recommendations from back in 2011 weren't followed with sadly predictable consequences.
it doesn't matter how long it takes for people to download it

it is plain and simple, waste of bits, and bits is money, the more you have, the more money it'll cost you to move around, process and store

scale this to billion of computers, and you'll understand what i mean by waste
While I agree with your sentiment, I have to wonder if it would be possible to make a non-random pay-to-win game be compelling both from a financial and gameplay standpoint.

Say you can buy max-level weapons/characters/whatever for a defined price. The meta rapidly breaks down to "this is the highest yield of power per dollar" and "the optimal build costs exactly USD 1143.76."

It's not compelling for new players to say "I know that I'm going to eventually spend eleven hundred bucks if I love this game." You can't dangle the chance of getting a super-powered item on that first 99 cent lootbox to get someone on the IAP treadmill. I'd expect the game design itself would have to feature hard breakpoints to trigger a purchase/hundred hour grind moment.

And then, how do you convince the whales to pony up 5 and 6 figures once they possess an optimal build? Fashion and equivalent power churn only goes so far.
Yes, there were sub zero temperatures in Dallas last night.
Many gas ovens (and stovetops) work just fine without electricity thanks to pilot lights.
Actually I'm thinking this is a good route, you can use a few simple standard backends (Firebase, Mongo) and all the work is just in one layer, the browser gui.
I find that whole statement in the article totally unnecessary, especially from someone calling themselves science mag.

To be honest I found the actual report from the original study to be far more enlightening.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20682-3

From their discussion section

>Our study provides a rare opportunity to link the LP status of specific ancient individuals with direct evidence for their consumption of milk, drawing on combined palaeoproteomic and archaeogenetic investigations. This research clearly demonstrates that ancient African individuals who do not appear to have had a genetic adaptation enabling lactose digestion were nonetheless drinking milk. As noted, not all individuals or populations who drink milk have LP, and ancient dairy consumption may have been enabled by fermentation practices10,11 or gut microflora12, as is suggested for populations today.

That's actually pretty awesome. Yet the news article wipes it away with a snide comment about white supremacy.

Why not explain how Africans seemingly adapted to drinking milk in ways that were different to Europeans? Why not talk about the possibilities this opens into more research and just how adaptable the human body really is?

It turns what's actually a pretty amazing discovery into some political baiting nonsense and I really dislike how that kind of thing is creeping it's way even into scientific reporting.
What's a good place to learn the art, do you know? I'm not in Texas, but I have two woodstoves now, and my one experiment with them thus far has taught me only that I have a lot to learn.
Huh? They're removing a flag, and recommending use of a environment variable. The environment variable can easily cover all cases in which fetching dependencies can occur, whereas the flag would have to be glued on to a bunch of `go mod` subcommands. There's no need to export this to your environment, you can just use it as a one-shot, similar to the flag:

GOINSECURE=foo.com,*.bar.com go get ./...
Is rising price "supports" those people? I suspect that they have to pay more transaction fee due to rised price.
I use 'cz' which is like 'cd' but for git workspaces only.
Uses fzf to present list of matches.

bash source:

cz-index ()
{
sudo find -L ~/work -type d -name '.git' | sed 's;/.git$;;' | sort > ~/git-dirs.txt
}

cz ()
{
cd "$(cat ~/git-dirs.txt | fzf --tiebreak=begin --exact -i -q $1)"
}
Yep, that's it. Turns out, Safari/Chrome change the page background automatically based on your OS setting. FF seems not to.
I think you might have missed this important line:

> Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas.
Demand-pull inflation is not happening with Bitcoin. Again, inflation refers to the devaluation of currency. If the purchasing power of Bitcoin goes up, Bitcoin is deflating, not inflating.

Maybe you are trying to say that the USD is inflating (w/ demand-pull inflation) because USD is becoming less valuable, relative to Bitcoin.

But that theory is still problematic, since you can't measure inflation against just one asset. An asset might appreciate because of a shift in consumer demand -- the currency itself might not have "devalued." Instead, a better way to measure inflation is wrt. a basket of goods, like CPI. CPI has not changed much in the last year, which implies that the USD is not inflating much.
They can probably run at lower power? I imagine you slow everything down. After all you just have to melt it again.
Ask HN: Equity, convertible note, SAFE. How did it turn out for you?
I am going to start pre/seed fundraising next week. I am seeking $950,000. Consumer social space.

Here is the problem. I still trying to decide on the preferred funding type. Broadly there is priced equity, convertible note, and SAFE.

SAFE seems most simple, but articles like this
https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/differences-between-safe-and-convertible-notes/
warn against how it can hurt your equity if you raise again with another SAFE or convertible note and not a priced equity round.

Question for HN
If you have raised (or have good insights), what funding type did you pick, why did you pick it? Did investors influence the decision. What worked out about it and what didn’t? Is there something you would have done different? What was final cost?
Also, BSD is Dying:Netcraft confirms it.
Duncan also did 'The History of Rome' podcast. Which was amazing. I'm still grinding through 'Revolutions' and am only on the Haitian revolution still.

But, this early on, one thing I've noticed is that the cycle of revolutions is, well, pretty easy to predict. Brett Deveraux of the ACOUP blog has a good few on the greek idea of stasis. https://acoup.blog/tag/stasis/ . It's application to Duncan's 'Revolutions' is perfectly fitting.

One other thing I've noticed is that in a Revolution, unless you are very wealthy or very lucky or very cunning, the best way to get through a revolution is to get out of it. Go somewhere else, be an expat, write some essays, just don't be anywhere near the mobs or the soldiers.
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Large energy intensive businesses have been moving to TX too because our governor(s) runs around telling people TX is open to lax regulation. Heavy industry is frequently also very energy intensive.

So its not just a statement of per capita consumption. Toyota, Tesla, Samsung, etc moving their factories are not insignificant.
What is the back end (not back of the front end, but just “back end”) in this framework?
No profit vs Big profit
Obviously there's lots of candidates here. I've recently switched from entr or fswatch to watchexec [0], because it can restart a server, so something like this gets me where I need to be:

watchexec -cr "make && my-server"

[0] https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
What does "without septic" mean?
I hate it when I get the wrong lubricant. It can pit a real damper on my own household activities.
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I think solar panels and power walls are clearly the future. You have some issue with the snow but maybe the wall helps you get through it.
Lived in TX all my life. Every residence I’ve seen has had a heat pump for decades. The the thing is though it switches to resistive heat at something like 20F when they are no longer efficient. Rarely a concern in TX, most of the time we’re complaining it’s over 100F!
Your argument is just appealing to authority. You also assume I don't even have any bitcoin, and that I've never 'gotten in'. None of this answers my original questions as to why Bitcoin is a shrewd investment with long-term potential versus being a Ponzi scheme.
Good luck, and here's some advice from a midwesterner that has dealt with cold, ice, and snow forever. If it's cold enough to start freezing things inside then make sure you have some water flowing in your pipes. Keep your kitchen sink running on a low (very tiny) dribble. Maybe even keep a shower/bathrub running at a very low rate too. You do NOT want to be dealing with frozen, broken flooding pipes on top of no power. Can find more tips here: https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergen... Good luck (and happy birthday)!
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Sorry, but no. A 2011 FERC report cited problems in Texas gas/coal/nuke plants for failing to weatherize. They didn't fix the problems, and gas and sensing lines froze, taking gas/coal plants offline too.

2/3rds of the power that went offline from the storm was fossil.

Moreover, Texas's independent grid (not connected to the rest of the US) makes it difficult for them to import power from neighboring states.

Stop trying to push political tribalist stories that blame renewables for bog standard failures in traditional systems that could have been avoided.

https://www.powermag.com/ferc-nerc-february-blackouts-in-the...
This is incorrect. MISO, the system to the north and east of TX, has capacity. The DC ties cannot handle it. You can see this by checking the price signals on their page. Right now, the TX hub is about $1,000 but the MS hub is about $60.

https://api.misoenergy.org/MISORTWD/lmpcontourmap.html
You've never been winter camping?
> I don't think anyone wants to continue staying in central banking hell.

looks like cryptocurrency community's filter bubble
Would take one hell of a generator to heat a home, even then you'd need to get fuel to them - which is what many of the power plants are having trouble with.
I think that having a compromise between types and untyped is best.

So first, have a type all other types can be cast to, call it object and allow it to perform generic operations. Then have a type that can be cast to all other types, call it null. These two gives you a lot of the nice parts of untyped languages while still allowing for tooling like quick refactoring or name completions. When I code in a system lacking any of these I feel way slower.
SYSTEMD ITSELF is on my list of grudges.
There was a time where I ran a sports blog and embedding tweets from journos covering the sports in question was common. The iframe widget was always terrible. Wish I had this back then. Nice work!
This is why metrics versus real world measurement are at odds. Sure, measure the luminance all you want; sure ignore the fact that color spaces and visual impairment aren't evenly distributed. But don't tell someone they can see something they can't.
So, to answer my specific questions

1. So basically, this is the worst winter in the history of Texas to such an extent that nobody could have possibly predicted this?

That sucks.

2. Can you answer my question about the spot price increase? What does that accomplish in immediate terms?

As a sub-question, the article that I'm asking about says that electricity generators haven't been able to make money for over a decade. Why have they been providing this for free (or worse at a loss!) for so long? That sounds like some top-notch philanthropy! Is this an issue of the private company providing electricity at a loss statewide for so long that they can't stand the financial hit of maintaining their systems when strained for more than a couple days?
Many fireplaces that HSE outside air sometimes put hot smoke out the intake. The intake probably wasn't designed for this so it is a fire hazzard. This can be avoided, but if you don't know how you probably didn't.

Then again Ben Franklin figured out how to make a fireplace that worked yet most don't.
I am in MISO, which roughly runs up the Mississippi River, and borders TX. They have some real-time data available publicly.

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/real-time-...
Go supports a slimmed-down version of OOP compared with Java/C# via property and method "promotion". There are no static properties/methods and no abstract classes but you have interfaces with Ruby-esque duck typing. I've omitted generics as that's due in Go 2.0. I find listing methods beneath their corresponding struct definition to be quite adequate when OOP is the best fit .... which isn't that often. I just finished implementing most of the functionality in Matt Zandstra's "PHP Objects, Patterns, Practice", 5th edition, in Go and didn't miss much.
Older gas ovens used a standing pilot light. They would work without electrical power. Really old ones you light with a match.

My kitchen has a gas range, the oven uses electical resistance/incandescent ignitors so it won't work without electrical power. The top burners have spark ignitors but of course I can light them with a match.
With 2 70MW reactors these fall squarely into "small-scale nuclear". A traditional nuclear power plant has reactors with 10-20 times the power output.

I think these kinds of applications have a lot of potential, and are the future of nuclear energy production. But using these kinds of small reactors outside the military (or Russian icebreakers) is an idea that only recently gained traction (at least since it was originally abandoned around the 60s).
>Citing "latent demand" or "induced demand" as counter-evidence to my original statement shows your (mis)understanding of basic economics.

Your original statement:

>The demand for USD is robust because people need USD to pay taxes and to purchase most goods

...remains an absurdly simplistic explanation of USD demand. I wasn't citing latent demand as a counter example to this explanation - just an illustration of easy to intuit scenario where demand responds dynamically to supply so that folks can see it happening in another context besides currency.

Clearly I was not referring to latent demand in my actual counter-example - which you even seem to acknowledge later...

> This is terrible reasoning. It depends on why that supply is going through the roof.

I don't disagree. And at least one scenario where USD demand has skyrocketed has been because of its safe haven reserve status... which again speaks to how simplistic your original claim about the robustness of USD demand actually is... and lo - suddenly we have another vector of possible future weakness of USD demand that Bitcoin folk can consider. A vector, mind you, that was completely elided by that simplistic explanation of demand that I contested.

Which is all I really want to achieve here... to remove this veil of simplicity - folks like you repeat ad nauseam these one line, simplistic claims about why Bitcoin demand must be illusory or idiotic... "Because you can't pay taxes with it! Hurrumph!".

But no - there is considerably more complexity and nuance to all this - as you yourself are admitting in your response. That all I wanted / needed to do to demonstrate the obfuscatory contribution to the discussion of your original comment.
If you don't have sewer service, you'll usually have a septic tank instead. It's basically a mini waste treatment plant in your backyard, eventually the water will flow into the ground. Modern systems have pumps and such that depend on electricity to function.
I was working in a mobile gamedev in 2013 before the whole thing about Facebook and stuff and after talking to one of the game designers I thought to myself "Drugs. We're making drugs and invent techniques to milk users for their money". I could never feel proud of what I'm doing after that and left shortly after to work for a telecom.
Sewer systems, i.e. toilets and waste water.
If BTC is the only currency and everyone is transacting in BTC, then people are incentivized to hold BTC. Now that everyone is holding BTC, the value of their holdings are increasing alongside everyone else holding BTC. If you go into the store to buy items you will notice that the price in BTC terms will be decreasing b/c more BTC can't be "printed". (Each BTC is worth a lot now and continually increasing, but at a predictable rate) Each person will continue to pay with less and less BTC over time all the way until the lower unit bound, which is a satoshi (0.00000001 BTC), is reached. If we ever reach that point in our lifetime the code will need to be forked to upgrade the protocol to handle further subdivisions.
Can't even read this as I was banned from Twitter for doing nothing but sharing truth and facts.

This should alarm you and motivate you to ditch Twitter for other alternatives.
And the GDP of New Zealand will go up 100x because the USA has a $21T GDP. (Preemtively I’m going to say that US’s market cap has almost nothing to do with its sheep population, google it.)
its been updated for perseverance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tdMR5HLtg