skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no nuclear waste, only different kinds of nuclear fuel. We _could_ have started building reactors that can extract power from that fuel decades ago.
They can't kick down all the doors. If ideology spreads faster than doors can be kicked down the increased velocity of information is a net win for the offense.
I'm discouraged no one is asking about the elephant in the room - which is why the polar vortex has shifted to the extent that these events are happening at all.

It's not just Texas. There has been extreme cold across Europe, and unseasonable warmth across parts of the Arctic.

Of course it's far too late to fix the primary cause now. But it's still true that extreme weather events caused by climatic instability were being discussed more than twenty years ago.

Adding more of Power Source [X] is a bandaid. The real problem is structural, and it could have been solved more cheaply back then.
When has the market been given a choice?

The choice now is between Apple and Android ecosystems. The best Android phones have comparable hardware to the iPhone, so people are choosing based on software, price, and status.
Hi Anon,

Since you have limited time to find a remote job and nobody has mentioned it yet: HTML/CSS still pays pretty well, is fast to learn, and may be even easier to get paid for than Javascript or other coding work since a lot of "better developers" do not want to do it. I would start by building yourself a personal website and using that as your portfolio, and then expand that portfolio as quickly as you can while hustling for work.

On the hustle side, if you're looking for an entry level job in tech that you can do remotely and doesn't require much experience, you can also use Google Maps and Google to get lists of consulting shops in every major city in America (dev, design, marketing, etc.) and just work your way down the list until you have sent a brief email to every single one of them letting them know that you're looking for work.

Plenty of other techniques in this thread as well.

Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part. Good luck!
Texas has taken a very "free market" approach to regulating electricity. I lived there during de-regulation and whatever else happened it didn't lower the price of electricity very much. In my opinion it was an excuse to line some pockets.

At any rate there has been zero investment in grid interconnects which could have been much more helpful. ERCOT only has the capacity to source sub-1% of load over the interconnects which is not meaningful. That's one of the ultimate failures in my mind: A relatively small investment in HVDC interconnect upgrades would have allowed the grid to import power - especially from the US Western grid which has not been impacted the way some parts of the US Eastern have.

ERCOT is fairly toothless as well. I'm not sure they bothered to issue any requirements for weatherproofing prior to the freeze but they wouldn't be able to do much about it if the generating plants refused to comply. And the Texas Railroad Commission regulates Natural Gas. And by "regulate" I mean let them do whatever they like.
Agreed 100%. It's just dumb. "How this Ends". Uhh... what?
Feedback: You should add one notch on the progress bar for every step so you can visually see that every move adds another step you can move back to.
Its the Oscars!, you need the opposite of a broader context. Just give the award to the most qualified and avoid the controversy.
The reason a computer usually isn't considered "something you have" is that malware can clone them or they can be configured for remote access. Half the point of a yubikey or other hardware token is that they are supposed to be unclonable (and hence tied to a single physical device). Some of that can be replicated with a TPM I'm guessing but that isn't the norm yet.
> determined to be a one in ten year event

Good estimate.
It wasn't any extraordinary critical thinking skill. As Tufekci points out, this is a common and expected skill for people who pay attention in authoritarian countries. (And for various other groups of people, e.g. those who grow up with manipulative parents or who study political rhetoric.) I watched Dr Conley's remarks in real time and thought exactly the same thing without hearing any external analysis or discussion. I assume many others did as well. But that doesn't make us special geniuses.

When you get a little bit of experience paying attention to people who are motivated to be intentionally misleading/obfuscatory but don't want to expose themselves to ethical complaints or legal liability, it isn't too hard to learn to read between the lines and parse language carefully.

> forgone conclusion

I don't know that it was "forgone", but it was a straight-forward inference from careful parsing of the statement which turned out to be correct.
Capitalism working as intended was the main driver of the Texas power shortage. Texas' grid was explicitly designed to profit off of shortages, which is why it has always been kept separate. Former governor Rick Perry said Texans would rather have no power than have federal regulation of their grid. The mayor of Colorado City Texas said the government owes the people nothing and that the strong will survive and the weak will perish.

Until we have socialism, exploitation and abuse of the poor will continue.
> Under the code, presuming Google also do not agree to the code

Google has effectively agreed to it. Google is making deals with news media organizations now:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/google-nine-agree-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56101859

There's no need to use a VPN in any case. Just go directly to the news company's website.
And one can imagine home cogeneration that would produce power at the same time it heated the home.
Wind can perform fine in cold weather too. Wind actually outperformed what it was projected to, Coal and Natural gas plants did not meet their design goals.

But this isn't about wind vs. coal vs. gas, it was about weatherized vs. not weatherized.
I like the idea! When I added authors, I noticed that they weren't being checked in anyway. So 'haruki murakami' appeared as valid as 'asdf'.

confidence-wise, an author checking step would help me be sure that I'm adding the right authors to my feed.
What I imagined years ago is that the Occupy movement and the 99 percenters would become the Democratic's version of the Republican Tea party. You can kind of see this to a degree in AOC and Sanders, if I understand everything correctly.
My Go Mistakes
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/8533767.html

Several pieces described in that patent still run on VMS in 2021
Yeah, I think this is why GP said "especially international news". The more producers capable of producing the content, the lower value the content is.
I follow WW2, and you'd be surprised that there's several areas of technology that were secret for decades afterward:

- the US submarine torpedo computer (one is restored in SF now)

- Lorenz streaming cipher (I think the Russians continued to use it)

- Britain's entire signals intelligence process was "transferred" to the US, which made a global system still used today.

- and Britain just doesn't declassify anything quickly. Some of the WW2 computer experts tried to get bank loans after the war to start mfg. companies, and I think the bank loan officers called MI5 or MI6 on them. If you follow the MSM, there's a related article or interview annually about this mindset in Britain, where most people expect to go to the grave with any knowledge from the 1940's.

What's interesting about German technology was that:

- Britain didn't know you could do long-range radio navigation until they detected German broadcasts

- the V-1 and V-2 were thought to be fake by Churchill's science advisor until they started landing in Britain, as reliable rockets were "scifi only." The V-2 was a hypersonic ballistic missile that was designed in a Mach 5 wind tunnel, first entered space, then descended at 3600 mph. Even today that sounds like scifi.

Ironically most of the advanced WW2 German technology was leaked in the "Oslo Report", but it was dismissed until horrified British scientists realized it was all true, and it was so far ahead that they couldn't understand it.
Would you mind expanding a bit more one one of the ideas you find novel and interesting, for example the stack as the source of truth for all computation?

I had a look at the examples section on the bel post and read a few pages into the bel document, but all I saw is basically scheme with a slightly funky syntax and primitives (like where). So I guess pg must really be burying the lede (which, from what I gather from the above has at least partly to do with a elegant way to model concurrency, which ur-lisp lacked?).
> This is the sort of thing we should have some baseline regulations to support -- critical infrastructure should be designed to support a temperature range of X to Y, where X is a record cold times some factor and Y is a record heat times some factor.

Meanwhile the folks in the El Paso area (which is not regulated/managed by ERCOT) are going just fine:

> 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...

The first step is making sure you have regulators who are somewhat clued in.

Of course being hooked up to the national grid could be useful as well, so as to allow for energy inputs when your own infrastructure is having problems. Though that would mean dealing with the Feds, which seems to be undesirable:

> Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid.

* https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-woul...
It's pretty predictable that people in (relatively warm) Texas would buy cheaper models that cut out at higher temperatures.

Weatherization makes any heating and cooling more efficient too, so everyone should assess for improvements.
Right, I mistook the subject at large and misread VMS as VMs. Thanks!
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Million-year-old DNA provides a glimpse of mammoth evolution
There is a device that lets you install your own apps (more or less), and it is an Android device. No-one is forcing you to buy an Apple device nor does Apple even have a monopoly in marketshare of mobile devices.

Some of the security and excellent user experience in fact comes from the enforcing and prevention of arbitrary third party apps. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you don't want that experience go get an Android (many do, and are happy with it, but forcing Apple to become Android is nonsensical).
That is correct, if you are currently holding with the idea of selling before maturity. However, if you are holding to maturity or investing in money markets or CDs (that are short-term), you do want high interest rates.

Imagine yourself in 1981 and could have locked up a 30 year U.S. treasury at 14.5%. Sure, there are riskier investments that may have beat that. However, if you are a retiree, that type of consistent, non-risky return is what you would want.
how is it possible to have a 400k per month cocaine habit? was he giving it to his 100 closest friends every day?
GitHub Action for building your own RSS/Atom feed aggregator/reader
>We may see price inflation of consumer goods and labor too, although that is less clear.

How is inflation not inevitable given the massive amount of money the government has just printed in such a short amount of time? What's a safe hedge?
An electric heat pump would not be cheaper than natural gas at heating. If you follow the rabbit hole of links from what you linked to, it comes to https://www.ideasmiths.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IdeaSm... and the claim there is that summer cooling would be cheaper with newer more efficient heat pumps, and result in the annual heating/cooling expense being lower. But it’s not drawing a direct comparison of the cost of natural gas heat versus electric heat pump heat.
Revolution OS (2001)
Lending money at predatory interest rates is predatory. Lending money at interest, full-stop, is not predatory. Just because an activity was widely condemned by ancient religions does not make it evil in fact; see homosexuality.

Further, these prohibitions originated in a different era, an era centuries before the existence of anything approaching modern finance. For instance, in the Roman era, loans were a purely private thing, and from what I could find, the rich elites who would loan out money would do so at rates potentially approaching 48% per year. It's fairly easy to see how a mostly poor, mostly minority religion during the time of the Romans would consider this practice sinful, considering it was likely a common tool used against their communities. As more modern commercial practices began to slowly form in the 1600s or so, average interest rates began to drop, and with it went much of the prior vehemence against usury.

Interest is what encourages a bank to lend me money now so that I can afford to build a house. The total value of the house is $200,000. I am willing to make a bet that over 30 years, I will earn enough that I can afford the purchase price of this house in present value dollars. However, the people building my house need to be paid now; materials need to be purchased now; and so on. Not in 30 years, but now. Who in their right mind is going to give me $200,000 to use now with no promise of recompense? At the very least we need interest to cover risk.

People no longer live in houses that they can build themselves with a modicum of diligence and work. (I am using houses here as just one example, but you get my point.) We have an unimaginably better standard of living than we did 2000 years ago. A large part of how we pay for that is interest. I'm just not clear how we could keep living in anything approaching an approximation of our current world without the existence of interest. Having idealistic visions of constant charity is not workable.
Mixture of experts architectures like this are a specific design decision to increase the parameter count but use and update those parameters sparsely. Sure, that design decision doesn't fit all scenarios, but it fits some, and it has its own advantages, like faster training time.
Good stuff - keep at it, looks like a very solid offering.
A really good way to learn about concurrency is to write a SOCKS5 proxy. Start with a simple one using Python threads, then Python asyncio, and if you're brave C sockets with poll/select. The C parts are in Beej's guide to network programming. The SOCKS5 spec is very simple and has an RFC.
Where I come from, locations are published by the government/regulator:

https://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.main_page/
I suspect that they're common, because they create curiosity, which leads to clicks. Those clicks (if the article is good) end up leading to upvotes.

So, I suppose the answer is we're in a marketplace that probably prefers cryptic titles
A central generator plant may be more efficient than a house furnace. But electric heat is 1/3 as efficient as natural gas. I suspect it's a net win for gas heat, as modern furnaces are 80+ percent efficient.
More Than 1 in 10 Americans Have Now Been Vaccinated for Covid-19
However many times it happened, that still doesn't tell us whether the costs exceeded the savings. "Twice" isn't much more often than "once"
Any idea if this sort of data is still available?

I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly
How Respeecher Took Part in Creating a Digital Vince Lombardi for Super Bowl LV
(2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-insect-ha...
If you do documentation editing well, you might try and look for a role as a technical writer or freelance as one.

Other than that, I would keep improving documentation on open source where you can and should. Then highlight that work as much as you can on your resume.

I wish you the best of luck and hope that you find your start!
Indeed. The relevant documentation: https://esbuild.github.io/api/#keep-names
Global Cyber Alliance is at least listed as a founding organization:

https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/

When you are that closely connected to US and UK government, don't be surprised whan people don't trust you.
Elon Musk Loses No. 1 Status as Tesla Stock Falls, but SpaceX Value Jumps
There's no inherit reason why lidar can't be cheap afaik (and it's already getting there - prices are dropping pretty rapidly).
The waste is less radioactive than most people assume and it's put deep enough that it doesn't even matter. In fact, we don't even need to put it underground. Because of activists fear mongering, the construction of underground storage has been blocked for decades. So the waste has been safely sitting on the surface all that time. Why change what works?
Mount Etna erupts in spectacular fashion
And an ancestor comment said:

>your friends can assign to you their own nickname for you
"Put it in a hole that will keep it stable for 100,000 years" is not a solved problem, especially since Nevada cancelled Yucca Mountain.
Demand-Side Thinking: Creating Pull for Your Products
Gzip vs. Zip
But is it greater than the impact on economic output of having done a safer, but slower and more costly expansion of the electrical grid? That's much harder to measure
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170945 .
I want more. Modern designs, not the old dangerous (but still extremely safe) kind that is predominant today.
> Since then I guess nobody bothered to do anything?

The folks in the El Paso area (which is not regulated/managed by ERCOT) are going just fine it appears:

> 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...
There was a post on HN few months back where the author listed atleast 30 tasks that a manager should be doing. The list included planning, mentorship, motivating team, hiring, communicating to higher management etc. It was a long list. I don't thing any person doing those task can also be a competent programmer.
1) If you are self employed (at least in the USA) you are responsible for some taxes typically paid by your employer. Additionally, your employer does not provide you any benefits. From the perspective of both the employee and the employer, this alone can make a 1x employee compensation effectively the same as a 1.5x contractor compensation. I personally HATE doing taxes for contracting work so I will not work for less than double my salary.

2) Anyplace in Europe, you are going to be comparatively "close" to Eastern Europe where the cost of living is low and super talented programmers can be found for "peanuts" and compensated under the table directly via paypal. This drives the local cost of talent way down.

3) Don't move to management unless you are sure that is the right role for you. A great programmer is not (necessarily) even a mediocre middle manager. If you are suited to it then great. If not, start your own company or look to find a senior position some place else with better compensation (remember, not all compensation is pay) For example, many employers off discounted home loans, education assistance, retirement contributions, or stock purchases.
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.

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

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.

That isn’t actually going to result in more platform competition.
We shut down the last of the CDMA here in Australia back in about 2008.
Ask HN: Priced, Convertible Note, SAFE. What funding type did you choose?
Seeking advice on pre/seed funding.
Raising $900k in the Consumer social space.

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

SAFE is most simple & least upfront cost, but it seems 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 anyone with 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?
Pretty sure Google was doing this regardless.
> On the BLM side I see a subset of violent criminals in a movement aiming to reform policing and governance.

Again, the arson, the vehicular terror attacks, the kidnappings, and the mass shootings are bit too much for me to stomach. And no effort is made to distance themselves from the violence and coercion.

It is like trying to say that soup is really good except for the poop in it; 'mostly' peaceful.

I don't think there is any evidence that Trumpists wanted to overthrow democracy. The Trump supporters did a BLM-lite style protest of the capital building. They were actually much nicer than BLM usually is. They shuffled around the hallways of an empty building for 45 minutes and then left. A guy had plastic zip-ties, which people theorize that he was going to take hostages or something (but didn't). Their action was clearly symbolic, and the overreaction to it just shows how detached and insincere people are.

So no, I'm sorry I just don't see what you are seeing.
I love the idea.

One suggestion for the marketing site, it'd be really cool to be able to input a url and test out the service directly/conveniently
"E Ink is part of a consortium that owns all the patents around the technology used in their ePaper displays."

That appears to be nonsense as far as I know. And I'm actively involved in the display industry. I keep seeing this kind of comment in HN which is surprising and each time I always ask give us some evidence or links we can read to verify and I get no answer. Same when I ask what patents are apparently blocking innovation or keeping EInk displays expensive, no answer or non-verifiable answers like patent thicket, secret conspiracy. As a person actually involved with displays, the biggest problem with E-Ink displays is they can't get to the next level of scale because they can't solve yield issues and they can't solve those because they can't get higher volumes. If someone like Apple suddenly put in a pre-paid order for 10 million E Ink displays, I bet you they could get to the next level.
Eink has very low refresh rate usually. How long does an eink last of used regularly with high refresh rate e.g. What is the lifespan of Dasung's eink monitor or the Onyx Boox paper tablets which you can even play games and watch videos on?
You ignored this part:

> controls access to much more of epic’s revenue than Apple does.

They can dictate a policy.