skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Absolutely. If we are in a simulation, then I want our species to [...] bootstrap into becoming "real"

Why? Undoubtedly the world outside our own has its own problems, all of which are possibly utterly alien to us.

> or finding out how far the turtles go from the developer's world.

To what end? Why is the top-most reality more valuable? If it is merely a matter of having more to explore, well, there's still plenty of this universe left.

> If it is a simulation, then I want to alter the damn rules to eliminate the scarcity we currently labor under.

Fair enough, but if there's a way to do that it hardly matters if we're in a simulation or not. Any exploit we pull off may as well just be some quirk of physics from our perspective.
There's already a killing endangered species framework and it's not stopping people from harvesting Colorado River toads to extract 5-MeO-DMT from them, even with the molecule being illegal. The exclusion is literally doing nothing except relieving the legal system of burden because no Native American is going to stop harvesting Peyote because it's illegal.
As far as I am aware OBS [1] did a complete rewrite:

- Old: https://github.com/jp9000/obs

- New: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

[1]: https://obsproject.com/
Stars and fusion nuclear weapons exist.

And I'm only half joking. The energy yield of fusion is there and the basic physics are pretty well understood. Progress has been agonizingly slow but steady. We generally understand what needs to be done to get there, but it's a slow and complicated process that will take a long time and several more expensive, large-scale tests like ITER to push it along. The payoff is still a ways away and the up front costs are high, so barring investment on the scale of the Manhattan project it is something we will have to continue slowly grinding away at. The upside is fusion research is truly pushing the bounds of engineering, which will continue to yield benefits in other areas along the way.

Edit: I'll also add that we have already built fusion reactors, we just haven't gotten them efficient enough that they generate enough energy to sustain themselves.
> browser make a misbehaving site wait

would be a nice operating system feature
Nothing you said addresses the core and critical issue that Bitcoin and most blockchain currencies have terrible limitations on transaction-per-second, and are wildly inefficient with power and computing resources for what they provide.

And thinking that bitcoin is a terrible idea is not the same as thinking you can predict its market value. When something is as volatile as bitcoin, shorting it is almost as bad as going long; eventually its value will likely drop but being early is the same as being wrong.
Really? Why? I figured it would be something like "I make surveillance equipment for a living" or "I am the reason you see ads before your favorite content" or maybe "I caused a genocide and am the reason you can't talk to your uncle anymore."
Absolutely! But not just tech, the internet as well.
No one is denying that gold is 100% free.

But let's be honest, Fort Knox doesn't require 0.5% of the world's energy consumption (and increasing) just to continue existing.

False equivalencies don't help this argument. Yes, we know everything requires energy. No, that doesn't make it all the same.
Came here to say this. It is a really old feature.
I'm quickly reminded of Photoshop's "History" window and how it was one of my first adds to the standard environment setup to make it visually prominent in the top right of the workspace. You could quickly click up/down it and view the steps, but the functionality is in the end the same as undo/redo, where you lose the others once you make a change after walking backwards.

I can't imagine it would be too crazy for IDE's to begin to add the same, per file at first but maybe also per project and then with saving some of those trees.
I don't get it (and it's not because my math is lacking). You're saying total GDP is only a function of time? Meaning there are other things one might think it may be a function of, but it actually isn't? Like what exactly? Isn't it a function of all the products and services in the world? Meaning that at any two points in time, the same products and services result in the same GDP?
Employer negligence is not covered by workers' comp.
There were outages elsewhere, but not as severe and not as widespread. No one is saying that the NERC-regulated areas handled a 100 year storm without flaw. Just that they did it a lot better than Texas.
Depends if winterization keeps you at 100% output during cold weather. It might, but I don't know enough about the subject to say for sure.
iTerm2 has an Instant Replay feature in case you want to see exactly what you were doing on screen in the past.

https://iterm2.com/features.html
They have been developing DriverKit, an API for third parties to develop device drivers in userland.
if person A owes 10 dollars to B, B owes 10 to C and C owes 10 to A, there's a total of a $30 debt that can be paid off with a single $10.

A lot of countries and companies have a lot of debt, but at the same time they're also often owed. So, from those numbers alone it's impossible to know what the actual situation is.
Of course there's workarounds, and tons of ways to create your own signal. Would just be nice if the built in one didn't have this one flaw...
Because it is cheaper to build many blades and posts. Plus economies of scale - wind is more factory scale in efficency as it is mostly assembly. The containment building alone is construction scale and is inherently pretty one off in requiring geology and planning as opposed to "look at weather patterns and slap it down".

I am personally of the point of view that if we went on a nuclear power plant building spree back in the day to replace coal plants/provide for growing needs and used breeder reactors to deal with waste we would be far better off. Renewables are cheaper per kWhr now however. For the future, who knows if fusion or renewable will work better for terrestrial grid applications once fusion reaches the point of a positive energy balance?
Stockfish developer statement on Fat Fritz 2
Even if AaronFriel's assertion is true and they received no special deal, it's a naïve view of corporate governance and SAAS v.s. in-house devleopment to say that (as an example) if their license fee was high enough that they'd start incurring a net loss in 10-15 years that they made the wrong move.

For Citibank that was US$500 million then, which they could either invest directly or return to investors. The opportunity cost of that cash has to be factored in.

It's also an a large ongoing liability to have a sizable in-house development effort when it's not your main business. Departments need to be staffed and run, business plans made etc.

For all of Oracle's flaws they're presumably going to have an incentive to improve the software, and more capital with which to do so from clients other than Citibank. For obvious reasons other banks would be more inclined to buy from Oracle than a direct competitor.

There's also often tax reasons for why it's preferable to buy a service v.s. maintain in-house software, and naïve back of the envelope math usually doesn't account for that.
Missed one point:

Extreme winter events like this, now being seen more often in unusual locations, are EXACTLY what was predicted 15-20 years ago in a number of reports and research papers about the coming effects of climate change. Global warming and climate change doesn't just mean "everything is getting hotter everywhere all the time", it also means shifting global wind patterns and unusual weather that breaks previous 100-year records every 5 or 10 years.

And where else in the USA has been a bastion of oil/petrochemical industry climate change denialism, than Texas?

Atmospheric co2 increase over time: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/475891-extreme...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/11/2...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49753680

https://globalnews.ca/news/7634414/another-12-new-record-low...
Can you provide examples? I'm having trouble thinking of anything that is based on frequency alone. Laser light can be illegal if it is beamed towards aircraft. Radio waves can be illegal if they are transmitted with high enough energy to disrupt a licensed frequency, or if they carry information that is not compatible with the frequencies' license.. but otherwise they are still legal. I can have an FM transmitter in my car to play my phone legally because it is too low power to cause interference.

What frequency of light is illegal just in itself, regardless of power, information content, or target?
Maybe it was the low gain antenna but via MRO or other orbiter? 30 bits per second seems like a bit too slow to get even the two small images back so quickly.
The United States has land borders with two countries: Canada and Mexico. However these are NOT considered to be major sources of Covid infection in the U.S.--instead it has been China and Europe. The U.S. could have set up controls eliminating people movement by air as easily as Australia did--but it failed to do so.
There are certainly people who made their career by beating the market consistently. Many, in fact.

What you're requesting is that this happens in a specific way. That specific way might not be the way that is optimal.
Blender 2.8 I think was a rewrite.
You might be on the same circuit as a hospital or fire station or other essential place that power stations avoid load shedding to at any cost.
> is how they would get reliable numbers for high functioning opiate addicts.

He's very clearly advising against getting addicted, something most opiate users accomplish.
If you're looking for something more cost effective, you might want to consider building your own with some LED strips and a driver. You can get higher quality components and a lot more power than kits typically sold by companies.

I'm building a 2ftx2ft indoor herb garden for my apartment right now. I found the LEDgardener to be a good resource and forum for getting started.

https://ledgardener.com
As a repeat small business owner I would say the lack of public healthcare is the biggest obstacle to entrepreneurship and business formation in the US. It is brutal trying to get a company off the ground and not being able to afford to offer benefits, as it puts you at such a huge hiring disadvantage.

Having to pay fractional benefits etc. would not “fix” things, it would just making starting a new business even harder. For big companies it might end some bad shenanigans they pull, but more likely would just result in layoffs as they consolidated to a smaller labor force.
I immediately thought of this, it is so good, like a source control-lite.
SPP went back to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 1 not long after 6 pm, just like they did 5 minutes earlier to Level 2 yesterday, Wednesday the 17th: https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/

I'm also in it, and have heard many reports of rolling blackouts earlier this week when it was at Level 3.
Was SpaceX uncompetitive in its bids for the government launches or something? My understanding is that they were much cheaper than other bidders, not more expensive.
I'd like to try to gently point out that this isn't a very helpful way to comment. Perry did make very strong statements that show hostility to federal regulation. I myself would not characterize it as "attacking regulation", but it's not completely unreasonable to. One should allow for that kind of difference in viewpoint—speaking from experience, quibbling about precise wording won't get us anywhere, so it's usually better to allow your opponent (or partner) a generous amount of leeway. (Sometimes there are exceptions, as defining something as a "riot" or "insurrection" can be the whole crux of an issue, but this is rare compared to number of times that debate over wording completely derails a discussion).

I agree with your statement in the sense that, as I posted above, he was only criticizing one specific type of regulation. But if that is your take, or if you have a similar point to make, you really need to spell out exactly what you mean. Your current comment comes off as "you're wrong" without any helpful explanation. But, as I explained, his choice of wording is not at all unreasonable. It's very difficult for anyone to know how you think he's wrong if you don't spell it out.
I actually find it hard to believe it's less than 10%. My wife has always worked .ore than one job. I have worked two jobs before (one full time and kne part time for about 60hrs+ per week). Even now, I run an LLC after my fulltime job, although it doesn't take up enough time to really count as a second job.
I've been just casually browsing this discussion, but your comment stands out as an example of the kind of mental gymnastics people are playing to try and justify something so obviously wasteful.

As was pointed out upstream, capital and resources are required to get a solar panel, and if its output is directed to something frivolous like crypto mining, those inputs are being wasted. The fact that there remains unused energy from the sun is completely orthogonal to the waste that is happening.

To be clear, I'm less passing a judgement about the efficiency of crypto than I am pointing out that crafting objectively absurd arguments about why it is not actually wasteful helps nobody.
I don’t, that was a blind guess that missed. Insert a real extra and compare to the prospect of crypto prices rising and nvidia doing nothing. What would ML people gain from that while gamers lose all?
"actually write the App."

I assume FORTH is mostly used for embedded development these days? And perhaps umm... instrumentation?

What about mobile apps? Or REST API?
> How exactly do you "censor" something information that is part of the public record? It's part of the public record.

Ars censored themselves. It's the chilling effect against free speech in action.
It's not a perfect analogy, but it's better than freaking out just because the number crossed 100%.

What's so special about 1 year that a government shouldn't borrow more than 1 year of GDP? Why not ten years or 1 month?
(Not the parent poster)
At a press conference, a SPP spokesperson said they had to cut up to 6.5% of load for 3h21m on Tuesday (Feb 16).

https://youtu.be/NUa3AKdCYvM?t=693

(Just wanting to set the record straight, under the SPP region myself. Given what I've seen, I'm pretty happy with how they've acted considering it could have looked like Texas. I wish there had been more and better communication with the public about the importance of conserving electricity but it's not like I followed their Twitter feed at the time.)
Not trying to be a jerk, but I’ve lived in MN and WI and can’t count the number of times we lost power in the winter - usually for somewhere between 4 and 8 hours, so no big deal, but it does happen. I never minded it, power outages are a great opportunity to catch up with ham radio friends, ha ha.
Newb emacs user here. Heavily reliant on spacemacs and tutorials and copy-paste, but I use it often.

The undo-tree terrifies me.
The $80M doesn't cover the launch costs. That would be part of the $2.4B for the overall rover project.

For comparison: SpaceX's entire Falcon 1 program cost $90M over 6 years. That was to develop two new rocket engines (Merlin & Kestrel), build out the launch site on Omelek Island, and launch five times.
There are limits to how much you can distribute. AC does weird things when you try to power too large an area with several power sources, which is one reason for Dc interconnects. Too large an area and you can't synchronize the cycles.
Right, which is a major problem for the decentralized currency narrative. It also creates a massive incentive for market manipulation to continue keeping prices high enough for them to get ROI on the mining investment.
My car dashboards (and most cars as far as I know) are actually a good example of avoiding alarm fatigue.

Red lights mean that the sensors have detected a state that may damage the car or put you in danger. You should stop immediately. Examples: low oil pressure, overheat, emergency brake still on, low brake fluid. You can safely tell a new driver that if they are driving and they see a red light on the dash it means stop right now.

Yellow means that something is operating outside of nominal ranges and you should try and fix it soon. Examples: low tire pressure, low washer fluid, check engine light.
How often does someone get killed by an up-market dealer? I have no doubt that it happens but most of the deaths I read about look like street drugs or maybe somebody who scored in the bathroom at a bar or club.
How do you disable Keystone?
Even ESAs Mars Express is still around - since 2003!
Then we should just make demon possession illegal and it would solve the problem.
Then buy his book, how is he supposed to cite his sources in an interview?
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Similarly, there is way too much emphasis on taking heroic doses, or achieving "ego death." When someone gives a trip report after some reasonable dose, say 150ug of LSD, almost always someone will egg them on that they really should be doing much more than that if they really want to experience what it has to offer.

Chainsaws are really great tools and I'm glad I have one, but every time I use it I treat it with respect and view it with a healthy amount of fear of what can go wrong.
any suggestions for new grads looking to move to ATL?

job search, places to live, lowest crime areas, good food, etc
The upper bound on environmental harm is the damage that would be done by the most harmful energy production method used: any renewable energy spent on mining could be used instead to replace that harmful production.

(It's only an upper bound because energy isn't perfectly fungible.)

Renewable energy is also better than fossil energy in terms of environmental damage, but it's not free from damage. A dam is a massive localised environmental impact, and a huge amount of concrete. A solar farm requires (holes-in-ground) mining and significant industrial processing to build. The lower bound on environmental harm is the cost of building renewable energy sources that are used for something so unproductive.
> None of us are trying to die for the glory of a psychotic marxist ideal

You sure about that?
Variable tyre pressure wheelset is a mountain biking breakthrough
> > (3) There is no visual indicator of where you are are in your undo/redo history.

> There might be plugins that somehow present this info in the interface.

The undotree vim plugin [1] does this, and gives both the file at the time as well as a diff of what changed.

[1]: https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
I'm sure they already have such agreements, but little is know about them as that would upset their target market.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76468/cant-buy-new-ampere-gpu...

> if crypto [mining] is really viable and long-term profitable

This is still a big if, with the most profitable gpu mining crypto moving to proof of stake in the next few years it's unclear if gpu mining will be as viable.
> It was a leading question, pretending to claim that regulation was the cause.

I just stated the opposite, are you calling me a liar? And then you mock me for crediting your argument, does that make you feel good? Are we like fighting or something?
Top of the line card (90HX) is 86 MH/s @ 320W whereas 3090 is 106 MH/s @ 350W [0]. Am I interpreting this wrong? Doesn't seem more efficient to me...

[0] https://cryptoage.com/en/2186-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-the-ha...
I think the debate is that the charges are not fair. Reviewers often donate their time to journal reviews. The research may often be paid for by government grants.

researchgate.net & arxiv provide a away around this. Arxiv is well known, not sure how researchgate is doing. Scientists could setup their profiles and papers in arxiv or researchgate and then they can be accessed over google scholar.
Pycharm has a local file history that even allows showing history for a selection. I'm not sure what triggers the periodic records, but it has saved me multiple times.
is this a ML kinda post?
The term global warming really did a number on the awareness of climate change.
Good point - I’m right off Lake Ray Hubbard, and we have a big natural gas power plant on the other side of the lake.
Where on earth did you get this idea? There are multiple reputable economists advocating wealth redistribution, from mahor intitutions like Oxford

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/reducing-wealth-inequ...
I am not the first one who made a claim in this thread - your reply would be better placed under that comment talking about gold. Surely opening the homepage is reasonable minimum before posting a negative comment.
Show HN: U.S. will send $2B to vaccine program for developing nations
I've seen significant sections of a system be rewritten. This is usually done as an upgrade - meaning we can sell the business on some new function/capability or reduced cost. It's much easier to do on the systems that are not tightly coupled, so you can replace whole chunks and flip things active-inactive, but I've seen it done even in tightly couple systems too.

I can't give you the names. Even if I did, you wouldn't know them since they were all in-house systems.
How is it good?
Edit: I worded that badly
Many of the same jobs that drug test for safety issues also have alcohol use as part of their off hours culture.

This same logic would also apply to lack of sleep, and is often glorified as part of the culture (doctors).
I helped rewrite Reposurgeon. It was originally written in Python, and is now written in Go. In the process we shed all of the overhead from the Python interpreter, which sped the program up significantly. I made further improvements that cut the memory usage of the Go version in half (from >256GB to <128GB of ram for the task of converting the GCC repository from SVN to Git), and dropped the run time to about a quarter of what it was.

Now that I've learned Go, it wouldn't be my first choice. Around 70% of CPU time is currently spent in the heap scanner, looking for garbage to collect. Initial experiments with Rust show a marked decrease in memory usage and run time, and that's without any really tricky optimizations that Rust could make quite easy to do. Just the storage space used by all of the filenames in the GCC repository is a huge amount of ram, and in Rust a string interning system is quite easy to write. (In Go it would be impossible, though perhaps now that generics are on the horizon that will start to change.) All I need to finish the task is about 4–6 months of free time… or a grant, now that I think of it.
JetBrains' various apps can do this as well with a feature called "Show Local History". I'm not sure where it is in the menus but you can hit shift twice and type it in.

It automatically commits after every change since the IDE was opened, and can easily be diffed and reverted as needed. Reverting saves another entry, so you can revert back to the future as well.