skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texan here, living in a suburb of Houston. This was a really unique week, but not that bad I think. Everything was totally covered in snow Monday through Wednesday, which was super-weird for Texas. My power was only out on Wednesday, 9am-6pm precisely. Pretty sure it was a rolling outage because it died and came back on the hour. Our water comes from a neighborhood well shared by about 10 houses here. That means when we lose power, the pump stops and we have no water. Our heating is natural gas, but lack of electricity to run the fan motors means no heat.

When the power failed, neighbors went door-to-door making sure everyone had enough food, water, and blankets. Some people had indoor fires going and invited others to come and stay warm. One neighbor had a backyard pool and he let us come in with buckets and take back some water for flushing toilets.

Putting aside the power plants (which have been discussed to death), parts of the distribution system were going down all over the place-- lines, transformers, etc. Those who reported 24-48 hour outages were probably victims of this rather than the rolling blackouts. Most of the roads were covered with ice on Monday/Tuesday so safe driving was limited to 15mph. This made it hard for repair crews to get to where they were needed.

Grocery stores had lots of empty shelves, but plenty of food, too. Safely driving to one was the hard part. Again, 15mph is pretty much your limit unless your car has AWD, winter tires, etc. I saw some photos showing huge lines to get into stores, and that was misleading-- it's probably just people waiting for the store to open. Store hours were heavily reduced. The store website might say they'll be open 12pm-5pm, but then not actually open until 12:30. When that happens, people would line up and wait (or wait in their cars). With dangerous road conditions keeping non-desperate shoppers away, I never saw the stores get overcrowded.

Overall, things were pretty okay as far as I saw. I feel like some of the media reports were focusing in on the worst of it and gave readers a very wrong impression of how the average Texan was faring. To be fair, though, it would really suck if you broke a leg or otherwise needed medical care on Monday.

[EDIT] Couple things I forgot to mention- There was another neighbor who had a generator that she was using to run an electric heater and heat up a single room in her house. She invited her neighbors to come and spend the night there if anyone was too cold, but power came back before the night came. Also, we had every faucet in the house dripping water-- this was enough to keep the pipes from freezing. I saw some burst pipes spraying water when I was driving on Monday, but they seemed to be in "abandoned" businesses-- some small auto repair shop or something where no one came in on Monday, so the heat was off and the faucets weren't dripping.
And the NERC report for the south east failure in 2018 talks about how many of the same issues identified in 2011 were still issues outside of ERCOT. See around page 92 in this: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/07-18-19-fe...
California has already saturated the daytime energy demand on sunny days. So does Hawaii. The market forces already exist. But people aren't building storage. Because it's not feasible, short of a decisive breakthrough in storage technology.

Maybe one of the proposed storage solutions will pan out. But building out trillions of dollars of infrastructure projects on the hope that a future breakthrough will make storage feasible is very risky. Fusion has been 10-20 years away for the past 50 years. General artificial intelligence has been 10-20 years away for the past 50 years. Between:

1. Going with a known solution, that already generates more electricity than solar and wind combined and one we have 70 years of experience working with.

2. Going with a solution contingent on a massive technological breakthrough to actually work.

When the stakes are as high as climate change, I cannot even remotely justify going with #2 over #1 even if the costs are potentially lower on paper.
Nice! Is it publicly available?

I wonder what percentage of regular full-time drivers need to participate for the occasional driver to not matter. But yeah, even if it did work there's always the threat of politicians being bought to make it illegal.
>Now you have to tell your household "I didn't have time yet to put all the clean stuff out but the light is off, please remember that".

Search for "dishwasher magnet", which is made exactly for this.
Yellen says investors should be careful with some sectors
Facebook Calls Australia's Bluff
because productivity, or, more accurately, 'busyness', is in line with our ethos. openly relaxing is viewed as squandering (unless you're already wealthy)
This is a good example of how one dimensional thinking won't get you very far. Let's add a dimension and see what happens. We'll divide "we" into "usurers" (U) and "exploited" (E) where the former are defined to receive net positive interest income and the latter are defined as those who bear that net negative cost. By definition we know these sets of persons must exist and together with nonparticipants in the ledger game, who we can ignore, they are exhaustive. Now if membership in U and E is randomly distributed and ergodic then an argument can be made that there is no cause for concern and the system is basically "fair." On the other hand if membership in U is restricted to a tiny and mostly hereditary minority one can see why members of E might not be quite so pleased with the arrangement. Which of these scenarios more closely approximates reality and who the typical members of U and E are is something folks should draw their own conclusions on.
Honestly, no. A one-off event around a really stressful time (forcing unionization on a small company) is not indicative of a toxic workplace. It's a bad look for management, but I don't think that means the workplace is toxic.
To be pedantic, the plant isn't illegal - in some states it is illegal to grow and possess, and in most states it is illegal to sell.

And - although I agree this is ridiculous - there are plenty of prohibited plants [1], and some of that is for good reason.

[1] https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/import...
And I'm sure you believe that US and foreign competitors of SpaceX who says the same thing are just spewing PR, right? It was a random video. The message is not wrong. Being snippy doesn't change facts.
I think you're reading too much into my comment. I'm talking about harnessing it for entertainment (or if you're more subversive, subjugation) purposes, ie for fun for many individuals, or like in Inception, as a drug of the masses. It's a phenomenon that can be used for many purposes, good and bad, and one that is yet to be tapped because we don't really have the technology to do it yet.
This will probably get some hate but stick shift is an anachronism to an era when it was needed due to lack of computerization. Some purists will say it's better for high performance vehicles, but when do you really need that manual shift that the automatic won't do? It's like saying more people are growing up not knowing how to use a rotary telephone - of course, it's no longer necessary, like manual shifting.
The biggest hurdle is the morning scrum, I've got two pretty much back to back between 10am and 11am. Other than that, both are relatively flexible and there is not much critical meetings which can't tweaked.
These are great! Thanks.
Interesting. Guess it would be cheaper to go to an in person graduate program in Europe: https://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees
Another example is Dove the soap brand and Dove the chocolate brand. Both are currently co-existing.
I use Django with "real data" as well and, generally, it's pretty good once you learn how to wield it. My biggest issues are lack of multi-column primary keys and inefficient queries when doing .count(), that often introduce unnecessary group by statements in the subquery. If either of those could be addressed, I'd enjoy it so much more.
To be even more pedantic, mushrooms are not plants. They are fungi.
Check out R-Go Split. Never tried it myself, but seems to fit your description

https://www.r-go-tools.com/products/ergonomic-keyboards/
I agree, sometimes it takes a traumatic event to push that recreational use to habitual use. Maybe he's in a good place mentally now, but what if..
The worm is objectively a better logo. It has less details, can be simplified in painting on large scale (rockets) and it is extremely iconic from any distance and any color. B/W image of worm is easy, try that with the meat ball.

Logo design for the worm was exceptional in everyway. It was thrown away for reasons of executive team wanting to do something new.
I saw a great Linux quote recently. I'm paraphrasing, but it goes like:

"Linux gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn't think you could shoot yourself with a rope, you should read the man page first."

That said, as Linux has gotten more popular, it's put more safeguards in. For instance, you can no longer "rm -rf / file.txt".

I know someone that works for a (smaller) bank regularly processing loans in the mid six figure range. When I think about all the steps she has to go through around verification on each loan, It's just crazy to me how they're able to accidentally send an amount over 1000x times what she has to deal with.
> Most of my information on the topic so far has come from HN and reddit. That being said, what is being said on HN/reddit does appear to match up with what's going on, at least from the consumers perspective.

Sigh.... I give up. Please read my post history if you genuinely want an industry perspective on these matters.
Thank goodness that's just your fantasy. Can't think of anything more useful to stave off leftism than cryptocurrencies (BTC specifically)
Tangential to my original question, but as I was trying to track down the article I remembered, I re-discovered Paul Krugman's Theory of Interstellar Trade[1], written in 1978 which discusses the economics of shipping goods at near-light speed.

[1] http://www.standupeconomist.com/pdf/misc/interstellar.pdf
I don't need to. A 5 year old can understand that you're not entitled to take other people's work without their permission.
> this implies that the government-run enterprise is more efficient.

it does not
I don't think that point is accurate. At best, it makes a ton of assumptions that aren't warranted.
What about webpages on suicide techniques? Do those count as information?
I’ll wait for the other person to chime in

The “no” was to emphasis “negligible” correlation
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Linux and windows
Are humans as productive as they were in 1850, the only thing changing being technology?
Crypto provides global access to a decentralized, permissionless, censorship resistant financial system. Bitcoin provides a savings vehicle that has a completely predictable and transparent supply. That's very valuable.
Games are the main audience that benefits, but not the only intended one.

Really, any consumer who isn't buying the card for mining is the intended beneficiary here.
I'm not entirely thrilled with the cargo solutions here, but when I compare them to the options in other languages I think they're adequate.

If you're making a small change, you use a [patch] section in the Cargo.toml for your workspace if you're using one, or the Cargo.toml for your binary/.so/.a if you're not, and it will cause your entire dependency tree to use your forked library. You don't need to fork the entire ecosystem as you suggest.

The [patch] works at the "workspace" level (and you generally should stick your entire complex system under one workspace), so if you use that feature properly for your "complex system" (keeping everything under one workspace), it is a one line change to replace the dependency for your entire system. If you use multiple, well, one per workspace that produces a binary/.so/.a.

Also, for big enterprise projects, I would assume you would use a private registry in the first place, which is apparently well supported (though I haven't used it). That's how the enterprise places I work at have dealt with python dependencies for instance (I haven't used rust in a enterprise).

I can sort of understand people trying to maintain LTS linux distros complaining that for their purposes this is a bit of a pain compared to C style shared libraries (because they need to modify a lot of rust workspaces)... but to be honest I think that's a question of their package management tooling not rust's. Rust provided the tools they need to make their custom tooling work. As a user the number of times shared libraries have caused me pain makes me think that this static linking is the superior method of packaging.
The only way significant progress on commercial fusion is likely by 2030 is if it's approached by industry and government similarly to how COVID vaccine development was -- everyone drops everything and throws everything they've got at it. Another example of similar financial and institutional commitment would be the Apollo program.

This level of commitment will probably only happen if climate change (and the related ecological and economic collapses) are taken as seriously as COVID, which is unlikely since, once the effects become obvious as COVID, it will be too late. And even COVID has large numbers of people denying reality.

Even if a massive commitment to fusion started now, by 2030 we'd likely only have a promising proof-of-concept or two, with several more failed projects on the side. Wide-scale deployment would still be years away even with many companies tooling up to start building pilot commercial reactors while assuming high financial risk, since profitability would be far from guaranteed.

[edit] Another point of comparison would be semiconductor manufacturing advances over the past 10 years. Tens of billions were spent researching and building factories, and in the end only a few companies made it to 7nm. And that was a clearly profitable endeavor iterating on already proven techniques!
If you're talking about bitcoin, most btc is mined in China by Bitmain and one other company.
My entirely uninformed opinion is that radiation hardened silicon is something that comes from government that isn't actually needed for most purposes. It's something you do when cost is no object.
I guess death could be viewed as the ultimate move away from the equilibrium (of being alive)?
Self-Archaeology and the Internet Movie Car Database
Energy dumped as heat into the atmosphere does nothing bad to the climate.

And I am not particularly for any energy conservation measures. Except for isolating buildings because most dirty stuff we burn is for that purpose and not isolating your home is just negligence.

Wasting electrical energy is only bad because it came from burning stuff. But I don't think any fossil fuel power plant was closed because people used less. Maybe some were not built because of that, but then some renewables and nuclear power were not built for that reason as well and I believe that's very bad.
On this point, I don't get why "ASIC resistance" is a feature of cryptocurrencies (Not that it's impossible, just something people like to say). We're in the same boat because no one can get a GPU, and at least those can game/do ML.
Looks to me like FL did worse than CA in terms of total deaths [1].

I think a better case could be made about Utah, yet I suspect their good CFR is due to differences in reporting COVID deaths.

[1] https://covid19chart.org/#/?start=8%2F1%2F20&series=deaths&s...
This is really interesting feedback, but you didn't respond to the Flotato numbers (since this is an ad for their software). Is the dev tricking themselves into thinking they're doing well because they're measuring their own app usage incorrectly?
I would suggest contacting an involved legislator if you genuinely care about this, because the bill doesn't address it but it seems likely to be an oversight, as the general provisions against growing the things which produce the listed drugs is explicitly lifted in the bill, but the separate specific provision on spores is not.
If you go to about:memory and click on "Measure" you can get some information about what is in memory. In addition to web pages, Firefox uses child processes for things like the new tab page, extensions, talking to the GPU, and some other things. It also uses a preallocated process like another commenter suggested, to speed up opening a new page.
Hey maybe you can try quantitative trading firms. They work with C++
So there wasn't a final screen that said something like

You are about to send $83,932,198.83 to (various account information fields)

Unlike, say, a site that sells hand knit mittens or maybe organic kibble.
Contributing to society is more fun than lounging.
> If you're not going to put more effort into understand something new, it is not my job to make you understand it.

I’m quite confident in my understanding that ‘free will’ is nonsensical and useless but that confidence doesn’t extend to assuming that I couldn’t be incorrect. However you’re asserting that its useful and so the correct response is to invite you to teach me. Now your response is that (after days of discussion and many replies) you can’t be bothered to explain yourself to someone who won’t educate themselves. Well that implies that I should have explained why ‘free will’ is nonsense in order to prompt you. This reveals a lack of understanding of the issue. My arguments are going to be unpersuasive unless I use the same definition of ‘free will’ as you (which you refuse to provide). Of course if I had made the argument, the natural response would be to say that I didn’t understand, used the wrong definition, etc. so we can avoid all that useless banter by having you explain to us what ‘free will’ means and how it is so logical and useful of a concept.

> There is like 10 differnet ways to explain it with different kinds of logic, how am I supposed to know which one you want to hear?

The context of the discussion is clear as to what sort of definition would be appropriate.

> So you couldn't even find one example huh? That link not people talking to GPT as a converstaion with an sentient being.

I see you have shifted the goalposts by invoking another ill-defined concept. Thanks for the reply.
You may be interested in dragonfly then: https://www.nasa.gov/dragonfly
Thanks for your thoughtful points

> Expert's Ideas Get More Traction effect

That's a good point, I only added my favorite ideas from a list I've been keeping for years. I also tried to pick ideas that I thought would be interesting to the communities I knew I'd be sharing the app in. These are just more layers of advantage.

> next time you can try making sure you add a couple clearly bad ideas (off topic?)

Interestingly, at the beginning someone did post a pretty bad idea. It got downvoted to the bottom, (before some troll fake-voted it to the top and I had to delete it) so I guess an idea still has to have merit, not just be early.
Don't swallow Rick Perry's horseshit about Texans preferring to go cold and starve than suffer the burden of regulation or government. This was not the philosophy of Texas governance succeeding as intended, it was clearly a monumental failure. None of us are trying to die for the glory of a sociopathic libertarian ideal.
The only place Citus is mentioned in the post is in the title of a chart. Might be worth updating to include this, would also clarify note #3:

"ClickHouse is still faster than the sharded Postgres setup at retrieving a single row, despite being column-oriented and using sparse indices. I'll describe how we optimized this query in a moment."
> (unless you're already wealthy)

There are plenty of kinds of wealth that don't involve money. Being wealthy in time is probably the most important one of all, given we can never get more time in this life, no matter how much money we acquire.
I've been building data analysis tools on top of SQLAlchemy's declarative system over the past couple years. It's got to be the most well documented, carefully designed library I've ever interacted it :).

It looks like most of the changes in 2.0 are aimed at the ORM system, which makes sense. I think a lot of complaints that come up have more to do with the complexity of interacting with a SQL database, so appreciate the effort in the docs not just laying out an API, but essentially educating around the problem domain.
> you can build switches to be loud of quiet, clicky or soft, long or short travel

I'd like to add actuation force to this list. It's one of the most important characteristics.
Point/Counterpoint – Sane Defaults vs. Configurability [2010]
It's a very important point the paper makes, which is the disconnect between what is commonly called Shannon information (he actually called it entropy) and what we call information in normal parlance. A channel may transmit a high amount of Shannon entropy, but contain zero information of the regular sort, since the transmission is just random noise. A concept that is closer to our intuition is mutual information, so named by Shannon's colleague precisely because Shannon entropy is not concerned with semantics.
The article definitely does not discover "...that this is basically the case.". It's hard to understand why you wrote that; it can't be based on a fair reading of the article.

What the article shows is that:

* Texas's power providers were not adequately winterized.

* The regulatory standards of the larger grids would not have caused them to be so, even if they were subject to them.

* Nearby states suffered outages due to the cold as well, even though they're connected to the larger grids.

* It is unlikely that Texas could have made up the loss in generation power -- estimated to be as much as ~45GW at times -- by drawing on the other states. States near to Texas don't generate nearly as much power and power is not like sunshine, diffusing evenly over the grid from every point.
> Ok so aside from well known out of control things like another process telling the vm to brutal_kill you, cosmic arrays, or miscodes [...] the crashing surface error for a BEAM process is extremely well defined.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Crashing "miscodes" (like pattern match failures) are a thing, no? A "well defined" thing, but not one that a type system that doesn't include proper theorem proving will save you from.
Mere bills are usually off-topic per dang in your link; upvoting is a very fine way to say that you think that is not the case in this specific circumstance.
Thats not really true, the probabilities are the literal explanation that precedes any interpretation.
Great, humans are starting to accumulate trash on Mars before we even step foot. Descent stage, heat shield. Pile it up!
Stock prices are up because they are being artificially inflated! Quantitative easing gives money to banks, which lend cheaply to companies, which buy-back all their stock, keeping themselves inflated! It's a legalised scam it's what it is.
Just for reference, the project has been updated to allow users to disable this automatic conversion[0]

[0] https://phpetite.org/#2021-02-18-disable-image-to-base64-con...
That is not Ingenuity's source code, that's the software framework used to link the various software modules. It's generic to any mission / instrument.