skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much every functional nation is fundamentally reliant on a healthy, competitive, tax-paying and stable private sector.

In order for this to exist, you need people to trust that their capital is well protected and handled in a fair manner. "Fair", when talking about the global economic perspective, is a cost/benefit analysis taking account of your tax burden.

Private investment is a way of putting your money at risk in exchange for a potential reward. Wealth redistribution at scale implies that you massively reduce or eliminate the rewards associated with your capital. This is a big problem as it drastically affects the incentives to put your money at risk (i.e. in a private company). This will absolutely tank the private economy, which, as mentioned, is the backbone of a modern country. No one will want to hold capital in your country or invest it in your country because it's going to be redistributed.

This is why even the most "socialist" countries from the uninformed American perspective actually have very low wealth and corporate taxes: they recognize that encouraging the private economy is fundamental to the stable function of a modern country. (Instead, they heavily tax income, which has much less economic side effects)
> This will only penalise average users.

How?

Currently, average users can't get their hands on any of these cards because they're being bought in bulk by crypto miners. As soon as mining becomes unprofitable, the market will be flooded with cards that have been run 24/7 for months or years, which isn't a recipe for a good experience.

The average user can only benefit from getting access to these cards again. nVidia knows they can't afford to burn goodwill with their customers, whom they depend on to buy card upgrades every few years.

> Worse, their detection isn't going to be 100% perfect. What if After Effects does something that looks "kind of" like mining. Is it just going to be crippled? What will nvidia do then?

nVidia isn't a resource-limited startup. They have a lot of smart people. They're obviously going to test the firmware against common workloads.

Regardless, don't buy a card unless you know it does what you want it to do. These cards are all mining-limited from day 1, so it's not like the performance will regress suddenly.
Well it will make it easier to get promoted if you are good looking and/or mentally and physically fit enough to do a shit ton of drugs every day so you are "friends" with everyone. So yeah a lot of people don't want it to go away.

I don't like mixing it with professional life because it pushes people that can't take it away from a job were partying and getting intoxicated is "required". Even if they are good at that job.
You’ll get a lot more benefit by using Ed25519 (or ECDSA if browser support is required)
While cool in a way, it was also annoying that infocom games in the day took several seconds, then started the disk to load whatever the next response was.

The limited parsers of the competition responded almost instantly to input. The limited parsers were enough for everything needed, most everyone I knew just used the two word sentences even though more complex ones would work.
Last time Austin got down to these temperatures was 1989.

https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/TX/Austin/...
To be fair, comfort can be a mixed bag for system safety, especially when humans are alone, safety critical and on weird schedules which can all be the case for train drivers (which is what I understand "locomotive engineer" to mean in this context) - because comfort is conducive to sleep.

One of the setups I come to almost expect in maritime accident reports is an officer taking a night watch, alone, while somewhat fatigued. Warm, dark, quiet. After a few hours the ship has drifted significantly off its intended course. For unknown reasons (the officer was probably asleep) no attempt is made to correct... When they do wake up, they often don't have good situational awareness, and their focus is on pretending nothing is wrong, even if they are in fact already in serious trouble and need all the help they can get.

Night-time railway accidents are less common in my country, perhaps because the relevant unions insist on proper "if you're too tired just go home you aren't fired" type rules to reduce fatigue errors, but I do recall a case where a freight driver was dipping in and out of consciousness. When he was conscious he could see a red lamp out of the window, signalling "Danger" ahead so he'd reduce the traction power. If he'd been less sleepy he'd have noticed those red lamps were not getting closer each time, they were moving gradually away from him. His train was on a steep climb, and he'd reduced power so much it was gently rolling backwards. Oops. Nobody died, that time.
How much overlap is there now that two similar yet 10 years different rovers are in operation ? Is it possible to share some of the human/software/planning resources or are they basically two separate efforts by this points ?

Also, do the Rover Drivers still live on the Mars time that makes their working hours shift by 45 minutes every day, like in the good old MER days ? ;-)
I don't think that's a problem with psychedelic drugs so much as people fitting their experiences into pre-existing molds that only prospered because of their illegality (so the experiential dialogue around the drugs is biased towards the small set that take them, which generationally reify the lore).

I think it's especially worse with psychedelics because the experiences tend to be hard to articulate into language so people take those experiences and relate them to their ideas of God or extra-dimensional beings or the hippie culture we're often taught prospered in the 60s.
Being most-upvoted doesn’t mean there is any truth to it.

The “principle of least privilege” is a cornerstone of developing secure software and if you view Apple’s new security features through this lens you can see what they are doing: sandboxing and translocation, moving input processing to isolated services, requiring permission before accessing privacy-sensitive APIs, preventing privilege escalation through inter-app debugging/tracing/code injection, etc. Code running in the kernel violates this concept and the only way to put up walls is to eject it to userland. And maybe having things like huge network file system implementations in the kernel wasn’t a great idea for system stability or security in the first place.

macOS will continue to be locked down but Apple has consistently built “escape hatches” for tinkerers: System Integrity Protection can be disabled; all Macs including the M1 can boot non-Apple kernels[0]; the kernel can be built from source[1]. The iPhone security research device program was in response to complaints about iOS being too opaque, and was a significant reversal in Apple’s position in locking down its crown jewel OS.

You can argue they don’t go far enough with those escape hatches---I sympathize, speaking as someone who publishes a kext that patches the kernel. I hate that holding certain kinds of entitlements makes a process much more difficult to debug. And they can always change their minds later.

Orthogonal to least privilege is vetting that code is trusted, which is the root of fears over an App Store-only software distribution model, but most changes regarding code signatures can similarly be viewed through the lens of malware protections, given a sharp increase in the number of attacks targeting macOS.

0: https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1339914714055368704

1: https://kernelshaman.blogspot.com/2021/02/building-xnu-for-m...
Do those things have affordances or do you pull out your state table?
Arguably, the term itself was only part of the problem; the ensuing propaganda deluge that followed in its wake also seriously conflicts with the claims. tl;dr: hyped-up panic usually finds itself at odds with findings mere years later. Slow down and step carefully, and you'll find you don't get this kind of whiplash.
That is solar - wind can work through geographic distribution alone without so much as a potato battery. A local area may be becalmed by wind but since temperature differentials produce wind and the earth rotates into and out of the sun the only things which would lead to no wind render the power generation question a moot point.

Grid scale batteries make wind cheaper by allowing less overproduction but they do that for everything by assisting grid balance and acting as a form of high frequency trading which is productive in ways other than increased market liquidity.
Malcolm Gladwell would be a serious thinker and cultural hero.
I employee numerous people at entry level jobs. I can not beg people to come work for me. I am having the majority of applicants being second jobs.

This is a labor demand issue, because of federal involvement .
This is a nice overview, but I disagree with the dismissal of the root cause:

The interconnects to the East and West coast grids do not have enough bandwidth to provide electricity in a true crisis. This is intentional to avoid federal regulation. As pointed out, there would still be issues caused by a complete lack of winterization in Texas—rolling blackouts would still be likely—but humans would at least be able to keep their homes above freezing and not have to resort to heating their houses with propane grills.

That is the difference between a major inconvenience and a crisis. Life and death.
Big difference in the type of drugs being used here... don't you erowid? You can't compare homeless people on crack living under a bridge to tech bros boofing ayahuasca with their personal shaman on a weekend getaway.
Those same apparatus are also needed to maintain a global internet without which Bitcoin is useless. You can also just bury gold to keep people from finding it, which is one of the reasons it’s maintained value throughout history.
I'm not sure resistance to crashing is a good way to think of it? It just means that you need to pass it an int for logical results, and if you do it'll return you an int if everything goes well.

The types don't prove the logic doing the right thing or that nothing can break while the function runs, but they prove that you are using it mostly correctly in what you give it and what you do with what it'll return.
The actions can be embedded in the files as well. Pretty handy if you need to recreate something that's not been touched in a year.
For anyone who wants to get into the technical details on efficiency of growing crops under lighting, here's an informative talk from Bruce Bugsbee of Apogee Instruments:
https://youtu.be/wsaufB5F8dk

He shows that wheat, which was the example used in the article, would cost 100x more growing under lighting, but for greens and microgreens the lighting costs are only a few percent of the market value of the crop so those are very viable as indoor crops.
It does matter. See the errors caused in the past by using the imperial system. The metric system has a number of advantages.
Looking in my area of the SPP, they were scheduled to be one hour long, "call us if your power is out longer, especially after 90 minutes."

That's just for residential customers, commercial and industrial customers were required to shed a great deal of their load; for half a work day according to one report I read of someone who what sent home yesterday or so.

Agreed not anything like being without power for multiple days. From what I've gathered so far, the Texas grid operator had the lack of courage required to shed load early before things get catastrophic. After the northeast blackout of 1965 which resulted in a lot of reforms, a common if not nearly universal final cause of these sorts of disasters.
Does anyone know if there’s a good way to do this in VS Code? I often hold cmd-z until I get to some version and copy code from it. Ideally I’d like to have a separate window where I can see a previous version without affecting the current file/view.

Before anyone comments, git doesn’t cut it for this because no one commits after every -+1
That is a very good point. I'm not necessarily opposed to their names being mentioned personally, but you're right that had they not been mentioned, those peoples lives might be quite a bit less stressful.
Obama promoting the site on Between Two Ferns might be the most astute PR move by a President in the 21st century (35m views as of today)
The blast chamber that you chuck nuclear weapons in is not a good analogy, I suspect we don't know how to build such a thing that has a net positive energy yield when you factor in how much energy it takes to build a thermonuclear weapon and the terrible thermal efficiency such a contraption would have. Inertial confinement fusion is basically a more manageable version of this idea and we still haven't hit breakeven there. Magnetic confinement fusion is widely believed to be the more viable path to commercial fusion energy anyway. Right now fusion is largely a game of chasing margins to get things efficient enough that first the plasma is self sustaining (ignition) and then second yields a net positive of energy. ITER or its successor will hopefully achieve the first goal (ITER was originally supposed to but is no longer targeting full ignition, at least initially), then hitting the second goal is what will be needed to be practical as a power source.

Also, just to add to your point there are (basically) continuously fueled fission reactors, see e.g. CANDU as well as some more exotic actually continuously fueled designs that use liquid fuels. Continuously fueled designs would probably be more desirable if they weren't such a proliferation concern but that's a different story.
I don't understand what are the benefits of it? Some of the psychedelics mess with your head way more than most people would want to, so what's the reason for it?
Radio Amateur Copies Signal from Mars-Orbiting Satellite
Yeah, the ML example doesn't really work because we're already paying through the nose for the privilege of running GPU's in production processes. This development is really nothing new, Nvidia and ATI (and Intel and AMD) have always charged extra for their "professional" lineups usually enforced through software alone or even just the EULA.
Texas is the leader in wind power in the US, and #2 in solar.

https://www.kxan.com/weather/green-energy-report-where-does-...

If Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world: The installed wind capacity in Texas exceeds installed wind capacity in all countries but China, the United States, Germany and India. Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas
It's the same point over and over again. A bank can give out a loan because it is operating in a place where the government (a.k.a people) give it a place to operate, in a system of currency regulated by governments, and ultimately has to answer to governments when it runs into the limits of its smoke screens.

What this inevitably means is that when it fucks up and doesn't juggle fast enough or people all change their expectations (like if everybody wants to suddenly pull money out of their accounts), then the money that doesn't exist has to end up existing one way or another - and governments foot the bill directly and/or indirectly.

In less "agitated" times, that "fake" money being created is a direct measure of the value that banks are agreeing to see in the people they loan the money out to (and in fact they see a higher value over the exact same horizon of time and at any given value of t, otherwise they wouldn't loan the money out unless regulations force them to).

In both cases, money that circulates at any moment in time is money that exists in the system (yes it's a tautology), with money that exists at t+1 being paid one way or another by the system. If everybody takes out their money right now and that's more than what the banks have, governments step in and the impact over the financial system is the value of money itself falling, with the cost being that everybody having relied on money now has less value out of it.

It's not because it's not using the term "dollar" that it isn't a cost, just like on the other end of the system where we bet on humans creating value the humans in question aren't magically producing fully-formed dollar bills. Both ends of the system aren't formulated in dollars in and of themselves, because dollars are only the medium to 'illustrate' or represent the value, not the value itself. Ceci n'est pas une pipe, etc.
Another fun state: open the door, then turn the deadbolt. Now the door can't be closed! Attempt to close it hard enough and you can bend the deadbolt shaft. Now the deadbolt can't be retracted, and the door is entirely disabled! An arcane edge case, but something a clumsy child could do in less than a minute.

How could we tolerate such an awful design? Who is responsible for this catastrophe?
For the most part people take on leverage because they think they can get more value out of the money than the interest they'll owe on the debt.

That's not how people in poverty view or use debt. But we are talking about global debt holdings. When zoomed out to the global scale, the VAST majority of debt is owed by large scale entities and it is pretty incoherent to describe that as a transfer from the wealthy to the poor.
what happened? Did he eventually realize you can't just pour in top of the funnel, and any reasonable person would look at 1mo 3mo or 6mo retention
I've used credit unions that managed to have worse UIs than Citizens Bank. Can't say I've used Citibank though. Ally seems to have it figured out pretty well, which they kind of have to.
> [Yes, type annotations can be extremely useful, but they do not (currently) "fit my brain".]

Why don't they fit your brain? I wonder if the author ever tried statically typed languages.

> I would like for Python 4 to get inspired by Racket and introduce "dialects".

> Having repeat as a keyword as is available in TygerJython and Reeborg's World for the construct repeat nb_steps:. It might perhaps be also useful to have repeat forever: as equivalent to Python's while True: . [Other possible uses of this keyword are described here.]

I don't see how this would be beneficial. You're basically proposing that beginners learn something that is literally not Python - then when they switch to the "main" dialect, they have to re-learn basic things all over again.

Lisps have this neat functionality where you get to basically define your own syntax, and that's really useful in a small set of cases (i.e macros in Racket, super duper useful, would wish C macros were as clean as Racket macros). But Python simply does not fit this mold. It wouldn't do Python any good to have a macro system - and it definitely wouldn't do it good if it has 4 different sub-languages, each of which have it's own syntax and warts.

Stroustrup said "Within C++, there is a much smaller and clearer language struggling to get out." The Python the author is describing is to me, even worse than C++ in terms of complexity.
It turns out that they took 640lbs (!) of weight to mars to be tossed off at various points during EDL. The video is worth watching if you'd like some more of the nitty-gritty behind the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0NakShgbHY
Sure. I meant it more in the sense that there are some launch costs associated with the Mars Helicopter because it consumes mass budget.

As to the SpaceX point. Yes, I think SpaceX is more efficient with their money than NASA, but this will boil down to a discussion of counterfactuals and degrees of "wastefulness". Was NASA wasteful? What does it mean to be wasteful? What's the threshold? What would it cost SpaceX to build the Mars Helicopter? Can we really compare a launch vehicle versus a tech demo of a rotorcraft operating on another planet? Would that $80M be better spent just funding SpaceX? I don't know. I just don't think it's fair to simply say "If it was made with off-the-shelf parts then it's a testament to how wasteful NASA has become". The engineering has to happen. Could NASA have been more efficient with it? Probably. Was it wasteful? I don't think so.
You are asking the wrong question. It’s a supply and demand issue. The number of people going into Comp Sci is higher than it’s ever been, and you have an entire global economy willing to also work remotely/cheaper. You also have an entire group of non-stem majors switching over to tech to find careers. Supply has simply outstripped demand.

In other words, who cares if Leetcode means you are good or not, there’s too many of you in general at this point, so you’ll have to do whatever it takes to get the job.

I would not advise a younger person to go into Software now days due to this simple reason.
Yeah, with launch windows every two and hal years only, 9 months of travel time, still expensive launch costs and complicated landing requirements you really need to make sure stuff works.

Sure, for stuff you can reasonably test in Earth gravity and atmosphere you can just weld stuff together in a field and then fly it until it stops crashing. Thats a case when you can iterate quickly and relatively easily with lots of COTS stuff.
I really appreciate that.
If the "Flotato" program sold by this website gets any traction it will immediately get fingerprinted and banned by the bot-detection algo vendors.
"and there's no way out of the debt. You can't file bankruptcy."

To me (not from us) this sounds like indentured servitude.

It's like a concept from the days when we used to burn people at the stake and executions happened on a public holiday so everyone could watch.
I remember using eclipse and a plugin for cfml years ago. If I help undo for a couple seconds to see old version and then redo for a couple seconds there was a 50/50 chance it would corrupt the code. If you haven't saved your latest changes or accidentally saving the corrupt code and have to compare to repo it gets old quick. Switched to Sublime.
A couple of month Pre-pan our Computer Support vocational training department intercepted 2 dozen Dell E5420 with i5-2520M CPUs on the way to electronic recycling. We upgraded them to 1TB SSD and 16GB memory, half Win 10 half Debian 10.5.

Post-Pan, they became our workhorse remote training platform even running both Hyper-V or Virtual Box to teach virtual installations.

Admin had budgets for new laptops for remote teaching. Nothing offered had the specs to replace these upgraded 2012 vintage machines. (Budget was repurposed).
And we will soon find out that renewables are not reliable enough and require a higher degree of planning than we are typically good at.

Texas recently is a prime example, wind turbines froze and gas turbines had co2 regulations that made it difficult to ramp up. Other issues aside these were major contributing factors and indicative of the challenges many states will have.

We can't control the weather and many of these renewable are dependent on it. In comparison every fossil or nuclear based energy source has well developed supply chains, control and planning. Issues will be likely compounded because severe weather often times means increased energy needs as well.
You could just append a new state to the end of the timeline when you “undo”, so you never lose history. This is how undo works in Emacs by default.
Ars Technica must have redacted the name. It just says "subcontractor" now.