skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a settlement layer. Who cares. And you think they already cant access your transactions through the traditional system? Thats how they catch criminals every year.
Zero Wing Zero Hour is here at last.

https://xkcd.com/286/
We’re not ready for this kind of weather here in Texas. I’d you’re so smart you should know people 150 years ago lived differently and built their houses differently

Are you without power? I don’t think so. Real easy to talk shit when you’re warm and comfortable. It’s not like you built any infrastructure or built your house, so don’t take credit for keeping it warm

What’s more is that it’s not only hackers and engineers in this situation. There’s a lot of elderly people, sickly people, families with babies, small animals, and so on, that are far more at risk. I made it the two days but I know some of my neighbors didn’t

The real question is why are so many people rubbing their nuts till they pop with schadenfreude, it’s not just you
Seems like CA might has 15-20GW of spare NatGas generation capacity. Looking back at the summer peak (9/6/20) I see 25GW generated at the peak, while we are currently only needing to generate about 8-9GW from NatGas (looking over night when solar drops off).
Indoors??
My gas fireplace had a place you could put in D batteries to run it. Pretty cool feature if the power goes out.
(only if bash and sudo are installed)

/bin/sh is part of base and can be relied upon (outside of esoteric setups), as well as /usr/bin/su
They aren’t that expensive, seeing as probably most states can operate their power grid at reasonable cost at these temperatures. They definitely aren’t expensive compared to the economic damage of an event like this every 15 years.
I also don’t understand how covering yourself in even more devices constantly buzzing for your attention is supposed to lead to less distraction and being more present.
I guess my point is, can you describe what activity will take place on-chain? If it's just money moving between a handful of big banks, why should they use Bitcoin rather than a centralized scheme they all agree on?

For the rest of us, the next layers sitting above the Bitcoin blockchain can either be a truly decentralized, trustless layer with on-chain settlement, like Lightning Network, which might incur too many on-chain transactions to be practical. Or it can be a centralized, trusted layer, like Mastercard -- in which case, what's the point of having Bitcoin underneath it?

It goes right back to gold. Sure, we can back currencies with gold, but it's too impractical to move around for individuals and businesses to transact in. So paper currencies developed. They were backed by gold for a while, then ceased to be, and not much fuss was made about it because it changed nothing for the average user.
>My opinion of Bitcoin will change when it stops using more electricity than entire countries, for something Visa can do for comparatively nothing.

To be fair, Bitcoin does not do what Visa does. Visa uses trust in existing institutions to accomplish transactions. Bitcoin mining creates trust out of electricity. And trust is a valuable resource, no different than any other form of value creation.
The helicopter is the thing I am MOST excited about!
It was staged according to the western guide though. I suppose they saw the exact same couple often enough. Some others:

* Spot the same nice cars parked in different parts of the city. They were moved to the tourist routes for display.

* Entering a tower, someone was late opening it up for the group. When reaching the top, there already was a couple admiring the views, obviously they were already waiting there.

It was all a big theatre.
I’m definitely not saying renewables are a bad idea, but I think there are some flaws in your comparison. For one, the delta from 32F (right around freezing) to 65F (heated home temp) is much less than 0F to 65F. Second, I’d imagine that buildings in Denmark are designed for this kind of cold. Unlike Texas where many homes have much less insulation because it rarely gets this cold. Both of these issues would compound the energy demand issue Texas is seeing right now.
You're absolutely right, It is about money and profiting.
Aligning yourself with Bitcoin's ideology is supremely profitable.
From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota.

To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.

>This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm.

Not according to this professor of meteorology:

>“We’re living through a really historic event going on right now,” said Jason Furtado, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, pointing to all of Texas under a winter storm warning and the extent of the freezing temperatures.

https://apnews.com/article/2-dead-texas-subfreezing-winter-w...
“A helicopter running on fossil fuel spraying a chemical onto a wind turbin”
I invested, work in, and continue to believe in bitcoin / Ethereum / crypto ecosystem because of my beliefs in exactly those things. Austrian economics made so much sense to me the first time I sat down and properly studied it. Keynesian / mainstream economics was always shoved down my throat but it came down to “there is a man with a money printer and when shit gets bad he will print money” which made no sense to me logically. I think many of society’s problems come down to easy money which has caused enormous malinvestment and warped incentives.

I didn’t buy crypto as a Ponzi. I bought it because it makes perfect sense if you have a libertarian / Austrian / free market / individualist / free people mindset. Which I do!
They have absolutely 0MW capacity that they would be willing to put online to earn millions an hour? Seems unlikely.
I have a gas-only fireplace less than 20 years old that does not require power to function. There's a mechanical spark generator for lighting the pilot, but in colder months I keep the pilot on all the time. I believe the opening/closing of the valve for the gas to the main flame area is powered by a thermopile once the pilot is on.
Have you delegated all thinking on all topics to Elon Musk?

This seems like a blatant appeal to authority.

If it's not bad, provide reasons it's not bad. Throwing out Elon Musk's name does not provide any actual argument for your position.
This does not seem to be true at all. If you look at a power outage map of Texas you can actually see exactly where the ERCOT boundaries are. Everyone else in Texas that's on the other, federal, grids, are not experiencing widespread power outages.

https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/landing_pages/89373/ERCOT-I...
https://poweroutage.us/area/state/oklahoma

Per your comment about long distance transmission, that doesn't matter in a situation like this. If you're on a large grid you don't necessarily need to transmit power to Oklahoma all of the way from the PNW.

You need the areas surrounding OK to supply excess power to them, then those surrounding areas can get whatever excess they may need from slightly further areas. This needs less and less excess as you go further since every area is over provisioned.

Eventually at some point, yes, the PNW may be supplying excess power to states around them as a result of Oklahoma having outages, but that power isn't going straight from PNW to OK.
Ah the only heat exchange being radiant makes total sense. Thanks!
Interesting to read this, as my instincts are completely different.

Wouldn't a better strategy be to e.g. wait until Bitcoin doubles (which you believe is likely to happen), then sell half (so that you get your money back, sans inflation)... and then for the following twenty years, sell 5% of the remaining Bitcoins each year?

The greatest risk is that maybe Bitcoin never doubles, and maybe you lose all the money you put it. But at the moment the price doubles and you sell half, so you get your money back... why throw away the chance of maybe getting insanely rich in the future?
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Different choice of lubricants? I have no idea really, I also read they have wind power generation in Antarctica so its not a fundamental problem just a result of certain design/engineering choices.
There is little to no fine for stopping service during the high wind events.

The incentive pushes them to shutoff, its simply cheaper than repairing the grid.
Probably to a small extent but the more pronounced effect is the heat gradient. The rest of the house becoming quite a bit colder just sends you back to the fireplace, which is generally not a bad place to be, so overall it's not a major issue.
I feel like I want the opposite. For me, command lines work. They are precise, they are consistent, they are easy to reason about, and they are composable, which allows me to do very powerful things on the fly. There is a reason why I do not have a natural language interpreter wrapped around my Linux command line.

What a lot of these natural language systems do is they force me to intuit their interfaces instead of just looking them up. It's more complex, harder to learn, and much less powerful. What I want is very reliable, accurate voice detection with a well-designed, composable interface.

I want to treat Alexa like a computer, not like a person. People are not the most convenient interfaces to interact with, computers are better to interact with for me than people are.

I understand that different people are in different positions, some people want to have a conversation, but you're not going to make a voice assistant that's good for me if you follow that goal. At some point the ecosystem needs to fracture and diverge so that normal people can use whatever NLP interface Google/Amazon/Apple spits out of their AI opaque-boxes, and people like me can use a voice interface that is designed around well-tested decades-old computer UX principles that have been proven to work well for power users.

My vision of a voice-operated utopia isn't treating Siri like a person, it's on-the-fly composing a complicated new task by voice that is saved for later use. It's using timers as a trigger for other tasks with some kind of pipe command so I can tell Siri to send an email after ten minutes, or so I can have Siri look up a search and seamlessly pipe the result into a some kind of digital notebook.
You can sell OTC. Pretty sure all the major exchanges have OTC desks now.
I would assume they use different technology for different climates, or use different maintenance regimes, or simply their operating procedures have different parameters. (that is to say, it might be "safe" to operate them, but they're not "allowed" to). But those are all just guesses.
Hey, I did not say that it does not, because I have no idea. :)
I doubt this net-loss is the case for most new gas fireplaces with direct-vent exhaust systems, in which case the combustion air comes from the outside. This is what I have. Not sure how common these would be in Texas. It can also be used in the event of a power outage. (Minus the fan) [1]

[1] https://www.heatilator.com/owner-support/troubleshooting-and...
I already listed those reasons in my comment also in this thread. Maybe dont jump to conclusions. Just pointing out different people have different opinions but the frantic people seem to be shortsighted in my opinion and those of brightest on such issues. I think Jack Dorsey knows how it works as well but is not startled. Perhaps people yelling at the sky are missing a thing or 2.
Had not thought of that. But that will give me one count per bar that goes past the encoder, yet there are four transitions that could potentially be counted. Of course, the pulses are not precisely symmetrical, so the four sub-counts are potentially not the same size.
Especially given the household dynamic I see most, where only the person who actually pays the energy bill is actually considering the cost of heating.

Compound that with the fact that, unless utility billing has changed a lot in the last decade (I haven't been a master tenant in a while), people won't see how much more expensive that power is until after they've used it.
There’s a fourth option: that we understood it was absurd and had no belief that the Russians were working on anything of the sort... but wanted the Russians to believe that we were trying to play “catch up” to their own non-existent program, resulting in the Russians diverting their own resources into a similar program.

As a bonus, presumably the Russians would put significantly more resources toward it since their US-based intelligence sources were reporting that we were having success with it.
I strongly suggest to read up on Allen Dulles — the guy who had sole responsibility in creating a number of US three letter services.

A bizarre freak he was.

I don't know if anybody similar would've ever been elevated to the apex of power of a nation by anybody in his sane mind.
Please don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar. We're trying for something opposite to that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You can always just accept the risk.

Or you can not, and work to control your supply chain. Host the artifacts yourself and choose carefully which ones you use.

There is no magic bullet, just boring and painful risk-control processes. But they do help.
You do still need generation closer to Texas that works, but as a whole the grid can balance the generation and output a bit depending on the gradient between the sources.

Imagine a 'bouncy castle' with several input fans. Texas is like an entry ramp that isn't hooked up to either of two big banks of fans and sinks next to it. If it were just ganged in with one of those other two groups even though Texas is having a bad time the other blowers could compensate in aggregate.
I don’t agree. There are way, way more jobs than qualified candidates for San Francisco & New York level of salaried jobs across a bunch of major cities, and as the candidate pool increases, these companies are likely to just increase demand for more headcount.

My forecast is that prior to the pandemic there were X “FAANG-paying jobs” across ~5 big cities in the US. After wider remote work normalizes in the next two years, there will be 10X that number of jobs and the average wage will likely only go up.

There will be room for all the headcount there currently is across the ~5 largest tech hubs, plus nine times that amount in additional, new headcount. People from all kinds of regions of the US and the world will have much greater chances at these jobs. And it will create spillover effects where lesser tier employers have to raise wages to compete for the remaining candidate pool and so on.
Sure, but it has the classic problems of the memory/storage required for the sort

No problem, just create a file of the necessary size on disk if you don't have enough RAM available.

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From a theoretical perspective, this cannot be a surprise. There is no evolutionary advantage to producing lactase if you don't drink milk. There is a cost, which is why most populations stop producing lactase after weaning.

It isn't possible for lactase persistence to spread in an environment that doesn't already feature adult consumption of milk; this finding was guaranteed before a study began.
I'm just surprised every time I hear of someone working in an office!
Isn't it immensely difficult to restart an aluminum smelter? Also, my vague memory of these is that in North America most of them are in areas with abundant hydro power.
As a general rule, you really should read whole comments and not stop in the middle of sentences, otherwise you will miss half the words and misunderstand it all.

As I wrote, there aren't much differenciation between washing machine brands today. Of course one is empowered by getting a washing machine, any washing machine. That much is obvious. It doesn't mean however that washing machine manufacturers are in the business of empowering their customers , although they certainly were in the mid 1930s.

Nowadays though, the folks who are getting their first washing machines right now are simply catching up with the times, which is precisely what Rosling is saying in that talk. In fact, there hasn't been much innovation in washing machine technology over the last few decades, it's all mostly come down to gradual improvements in their general efficiency. For people who already owned washing machines, those improvements are very small in nature.

This is why this Jacquard project is a different thing altogether: we're currently in the mid-1930s of the smart cloth. Whether it's a fad or a complete paradigm shift won't be apparent for a few years.
I personally think that the huge increase in the money supply and all of the stimulus money that has went out to people is the primary fuel to speculative investing (like GME and Crypto). Savings rates in the pandemic have never been higher.

I see it less as desperation and more of 'whoa, i have more money now, i want to put it into things that go up in value!'. I haven't seen the data (so do correct me), but I would suspect that less sophisticated retail investing is on the rise over the last year, correlating with increased savings.
> Since nuclear uses water, which freezes

I suspect that the water involved in the steam generation (heavy water or otherwise) wouldn't freeze since it's inside/near the core, and constantly temperature regulated.

The water used for cooling would go through heat exchanging and would also not freeze, especially if it's underground, or deep in a lake somewhere.
You obviously don’t live anywhere near texas. No houses have insulation for this kind of weather.

It’s like if I went to Canada and started shitting on people unable to deal with 110f weather without electricity .
Yes and no.. She was using qemu/KVM on amd64 and had sendmail hang doing a DNS looking, blocking boot. I wish sendmail was not enabled by default.

She could have just ^C'ed it, but coming from Linux, how was she supposed to know that?
> It's the same with the builtin documentation generator.

The syntax of the documentation generator is also far more convenient than JSDoc or JavaDoc.
> If it costs you one billion dollars to discover a drug

This never happens. Generally what does happen is it costs one trillion dollars to do the basic public domain research funded by the people to discover a drug, then some corporation makes a crappy version of one derivative, patents that version, shills it and falsely markets it for the duration of the patent term, and then tries to run away when the damage from the patent emerges (https://longbets.org/855/).

Source: spent a few years in medical research.
Wow, that surprised me. Current demand is 45GW in Texas vs. 24GW in California. Over double per capita.
There's nothing wrong with an honest pay-to-win game. The dangerous part is the randomness.
It’s about money to me in-so-far it is an enormously profitable way to earn a living given we are at the earliest of days in a ground breaking technology. That’s the same logic as internet entrepreneurs in the 90s.

The main difference between myself and HN groupthink is I believe crypto and blockchain have inherent value and revolutionary potential. There is a loud group here that says all of blockchain is a scam, refuse to look into it deeply, parrot the same bullshit, and when they are proven wrong by the market they just say “Well wait 5 more years and you’ll see!” which is impossible to prove as the crash can always be in the future. It’s so exhausting and the only thing that makes me feel better is the fact I was super right they were super wrong and I’m rich and don’t need to spend my life building some stupid middleware that powers the middleware that powers the privacy-violation pipeline for some SV dweeb or megacorp. I just keep delivering value that frees people from the corrupt state and earn insane money because few talented people know how to do it or grasp how useful it is.
People waste their entire lives working for the govt to print away everything they have saved for - wasted energy. I think its worth it and still a noble cause.
Airpods (or any modern earphones) are absolutely the first really useful AR product available to consumers.

Transparency mode is a critical success even if it’s so boring as to be unremarked upon by most people. An AR device is most useful if it’s ubiquitously available. Transparency mode makes that possible (even if it could use improvement). The device also needs to avoid a negative social stigma. Airpods have largely achieved that as well (at least along younger people). That is partially marketing/brand image - but it is also based on utility. Older folks would generally find it rude to leave headphones in while having a conversation because they assume the listener isn’t listening, but I work with a lot of teens, and it seems like they couldn’t care less. It’s understood that the speaker can still be heard. A quick tap/squeeze is the social signal.

The author is right that there is huge untapped potential in auditory augmentations, but the focus on verbal input control is misplaced. It’s simply too obtrusive for public environments.

If I were betting, I’d say Apple won’t open up this kind of functionally until the (cross device) input control is generally codified, and that scheme will be intrinsically linked to a forward facing camera/sensor package to provide contextual awareness and implied user attention & intentions (i.e. glasses or similar).

Working on AR UX would be incredibly exciting.
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> for free

Sort of. You have to feed them, often by moving from site to site throughout the year as pastures become overgrazed. Even more importantly, you have to guard them against rustlers. The incentive for someone else to steal your animals is so high that preventing raids ends up dominating your life.
Apple propaganda.
That's a pretty good quote!

It's also worth noting that if your size is bounded a simpler quadratic algorithm might be more maintainable overtime than a linear one (if it's easier to grok). Say max(n) = 25, it doesn't really matter if it's linear (say 4N = 100) or quadratic (N^2 = 625). In practice they're both fast enough (even though one is 6x faster) and not worth optimizing but if it can grown unbounded that's when the BigO runtimes start to matter. For something like ESBuild your input size grows larger and larger as your codebase increases and that's when you start to see slowness creep in.
If you like poorly documented/supported hardware, try taking a stroll outside of the Raspberry PI ecosystem.

I bought myself a rk3399 based compute module a while ago, the support was... sparse.

* The small amount of documentation that does exist is vague and incomplete. Many of the links were actually broken, so I had to fall back to using the docs for older models.

* The key expired on their apt repo and they never bothered to renew it.

* The selection of prebuilt Linux distributions is small and several generations behind.

* The community is small, so you can’t rely on things like stackoverflow as much as you might in PI land.

Overall, I had a good time with it, but getting started on a PI would have been so much easier.
Get rid of party primaries and move to ranked choice, approval, or straight ranked voting, like Alaska did.
Love it!

I have a technology that will be really useful for disrupting tax filing in USA.

Basic pitch is here: https://github.com/breck7/copypastetaxes

I'd be interesting in talking about some type of collaboration if you're interested in chatting! Email is in profile.