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Training cannot substitute for Engineering controls aka physical safety features that make it impossible to explode the entire lab or send 1 billion dollars by mistake.

This is no more user error than Boeing’s recent sensor disaster. Sure if the pilots had the proper training none of that would have happened, and Boeing didn’t make sure they had it. But it wasn’t a training failure that was the issue with with the Max 8. Training was only a second order cause.
Making the cost of healthcare visible to everyone that currently thinks their employer is screwing them with $100 premiums isn't exactly going to get in the way of a better system.
Their actions meet the definition nearly exactly. The only difference is that Robinhood didn't directly execute the trades. However, the party making the trade doesn't matter. If insider information was used to benefit someone else, it is still illegal. And this case, it is clear that Robinhood acted in close coordination with 3rd parties to benefit themselves and their friends. The actions they took and the order they took them could not have occurred without Robinhood sharing insider info.
> can be used for solar.

And there are many other renewal energy sources.

Like geothermal power in some areas or water (fall or tide) based power in other areas.

And you can put this power sources in a lot of places which are fully unusable for farming.
"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

– Paul Kedrosky
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? It's tedious, predictable, not what this site is for, destroys the curious conversation that it is supposed to be for, and does nothing to help the ice caps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: on closer look, I'm going to ban this account until we get some indication that you want to use HN as intended. There are already too many signs to the contrary, such as the insult in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168564. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

Using HN primarily for political or ideological battle is generally something that we ban accounts for, regardless of which ideology they're battling for. As I said above, it's destructive of what HN is meant to be for.
The circumstances of the overdose are important though. Many of them occur because the victim consumed it with another respiratory depressant like alcohol.
Commercial nuclear takes up a lot of space, to the point where replacing it with solar is surprisingly close.

For example the the Brunswick nuclear power plant in North Carolina, covers 1,200 acres or 4,860,000 square meters for 1,858 MW = 382 w/m2. It’s stated lifetime capacity factor is 75% which is much higher than solar, but that’s ignoring the long construction and decommissioning process afterwards.

You can find both higher and lower energy density examples, but I personally was surprised how close they where.
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Manipulating the value of money wasnt done because it wasnt possible. Not because nobody thought of it.

The gold standard is a protection against exactly the problem you are complaining about.
Nvidia Launches Dedicated Mining GPUs to Free Up GeForce RTX 3060 for Gamers
NASA works.
Ingenuity is maybe the most interesting and coolest advance for space travel. The idea of a remote drone to explore Mars is just rad! I can totally nerd out about that!
> The arrogance of being sure you are smart enough to never make a mistake in the ideas you pick up is pernicious and deadly.

I actually really like that Slate Star Codex had a page where Scott listed his mistakes, and that he makes public predictions at the start of each year and rates whether they were correct. These are great ways to keep track of one's thinking, and more people should do it: https://web.archive.org/web/20191224063106/https://slatestar...
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And audio as well!
> "make a glass window on your roof".

Doesn't work as you can't stack plants with it nor can you grow them underground.
> 1 bitcoin is worth $50,000 and has less utility. Tesla stock is worth more than every other car company put together, yet I don't see half of global car sales being Tesla.

I think there's a distinct difference here. Bitcoin believers think that bitcoin is worth that and that it's so important. Tesla believers think that Tesla will take over the world, become the self-driving handle-every-transit-issue company, and become dominant in the power industry as well. I'll throw in that gold is of extremely limited utility (for jewelry and industrial purposes), but people think that's really valuable. Warren Buffet talked about how gold was worth as much as 16 ExxonMobiles plus all the crop land in the US plus a trillion dollars left over. Would you rather have a cube of gold that fits in a baseball infield (68 feet per side) or companies that make stuff. If you had $15T today, would you buy the FAANG + Microsoft and still have $7T burning a hole in your pocket or would you go for the shiny cube!

But people still believe gold has so much value.

That contrasts with GameStop where the dialogue was about forcing someone who had a short position to have to buy the shares to cover their position at a high price and drive the price up further. Most people who invest in gold aren't thinking, "I'm going to make money off the bigger idiot who comes after me". People who believe in Bitcoin aren't thinking they have to hoodwink a bigger idiot into buying them in the future - they're just so awesome! People who are Tesla bulls think Elon Musk is going to change the world and grab all the profits across several industries.

I'm not saying one way or the other that the government should regulate these trades, but there is a big difference. In one case, people genuinely believe in the things they're buying. In the other, they're trying to manipulate or take advantage of something in the system - in this case, that someone was short and could be squeezed if enough people/money went in on the squeeze.
Snarky comments generally get down-voted. I would like to take a look at your point though. Is death the outcome of life? I don't buy a computer to wait for it to break, even though that is the inevitable outcome. The meaning of life is not to have an opportunity to die.
> If you let a central system manage everyone's funds without competing against dozens of other parallel systems, the management's incentive would be to appropriate as much of the funds as possible as management expenses.

How is this different than the current US situation across multiple industries, especially in the medical field? Except that in the case of socialism you can actually vote the leadership out while under the current oligarchy your only recourse is to complain on Twitter.
The blog appears to be talking about 2 very different things, space utilization and the tradeoff of electricity consumption. I have to disagree about the statement it does not save space. Vertical farming is a means to utilize space in a new dimension, hence the word, vertical.
I think their analysis is mistaken. I think NYT lawyers could successfully argue that virtual chat complies, at least enough that they'd get a slap on the wrist at worst. From the law linked in your article:

(b) A business that makes automatic renewal or continuous service offers shall provide a toll-free telephone number, electronic mail address, a postal address if the seller directly bills the consumer, or another cost-effective, timely, and easy-to-use mechanism for cancellation that shall be described in the acknowledgment specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a).

Edit: I do see a later clause that says transactions that start online have to be endable online. But there's no stipulation that it be a simple "click". Even though I think this is scummy, I think they're within the letter of the law.
Raw sql is not composable.
Robinhood boss says GameStop episode 'unacceptable'
Here in oz its not live
I love space science and engineering! It's such a beacon of hope and a demonstration of what we can do when we work hard and innovate. And it's pretty interesting in its own right.
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I would carefully argue that there is a lot of fear-mongering from the Lithuanian side because the new NPP poses a great financial risk to Lithuania's investments into liquefied natural gas.

Good article on the issue: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/28/eu-nuclear...
Because it’s literally the minimum wage. States are free to raise it higher if their cost of living is higher, but it makes sense for the federal government to say “there is nowhere in the country where you can support a family on less than this dollar amount so everyone should have to pay at least this”
They've been saying this for literally decades. It's science-fiction. True AI is centuries away at this rate.
You had me until you started to bash SpaceX for no reason. NASA has had plenty of failures and you're framing it as if they haven't ever.
> If they banned buying and selling GME then they'd have shitloads if pissed customers who lost money

this is nonsense and illegal.

RH went insolvent, paused trading for a couple of volatile stocks in the direction that made them more insolvent and allowed the trades that made them less insolvent, and borrowed at least a billion in cash to stay alive.
What do you mean by common and what would you wager the ratio is between dosing errors and unintentional OD with known doses? 1:10? 1:10,000?
Currently I have no non-apple kext running, not sure this is a big problem any more other than old legacy hardware or mostly esoteric usage.
T-mobile can be dirty. The law specifically prohibits holding numbers hostage--but they found a way to try anyway. My employer had gone under, I wanted to keep my number. No problem with my employer, they released it. The problem was I was trying to port the number to a pre-paid T-mobile number (at the time you could buy 1000 minutes for $100/year, the unused minutes rolled over. For light use it was the best deal out there.) The port kept failing, though, puzzling the employees. I finally got the truth out of someone in a call center--there was a big bill owed (duh! But I wasn't the responsible party.) I pointed out that what they were doing was illegal, the person I was talking to didn't care.

A letter to the regulators, though, a few days later I got a call from a much more friendly person who made it work like it should have. It's amazing how much better companies behave when the regulators come calling.
Haha, good point - we'll have to come back in 4-5 years time when SpaceX have touched down on the moon and mars and check the cost. Considering their low cost & speed at getting things into orbit these days and the plans they have for starship I hope that the data will prove me right in a few years
That snipe was really unnecessary.

Not to mention weird, considering how successful SpaceX has been at dominating the commercial launch sector.
Right. I thought it was an app so my bad.
> The dimensionless %age terminology is misleading

These ratios are not percentages; they're measured in years = [balance in dollars] / [flow in dollars / year], by convention.

In the case of households, debt/income gives you a rough estimate of how many years of income it would take to pay all debt, with everyone understanding that not all income can go to pay debts. The ratio is a rough measure of debt service capacity, measured in years.

In the case of businesses, debt/EBITDA gives you a rough estimate of how many years of operating cash flows would take the company to pay all debt, , with everyone understanding that not all operating cash flow can go to service debts. The ratio is a rough measure of debt service capacity, measured in years.

In the case of governments, debt/GDP it gives you a rough measure of how many years of output the entire economy would have to produce to match the balance of public debts, with everyone understanding that economic output can never be taxed at 100%. The ratio is a rough measure of debt service capacity, measured in years.
mostly opinions that are often considered "common sense" on our side of the pond.

The NYT’s views on race relations are so far from normal Europeans that Macron called them an existential threat to France.
There is this recent-ish paper (DOI: 10.1126/science.aba6630) on why it might be, that plants forego the peak of the solar spectrum. Essentially it boils down to being able to regulate the photochemistry of photosynthesis. If it were centered on the peak of the spectrum there's not a lot of regulation possible by means of shifting the reaction energy levels around.

By placing the light absorbing parts of photosynthesis on the slopes of the spectrum, by mere adjustment of the energy levels the reaction undergoes it can shift its activity to parts of the spectrum with more or less light intensity.
> Some years ago, when learning about quantum mechanics, and how you could find a particle inside a forbidden region

Where can I learn more about this? It sounds interesting.
Microsoft designed Office with professional features, but they artificially neuter the Home version with a compile switch.

This is no different.

As long as you know what you're paying for, segmentation is fine. It allows consumers to pay for what they need.
I'm sorry if my comment struck negatively with you. The library has been very useful to me and teams Ive worked with in the past. In fact, I've lobbied for corporate sponsorship of your work a few times. Thank you.

The problem I'm describing isn't really the ORM libraries' fault as its outside the scope (hah). Your library is great. Most of the trouble I see is where the ORM meets the web framework. I think that gets tricky for lower experience developers because it's fundamentally tricky in Python. What the scheduler (e.g. gunicorn) does and how it forks and how sessions are handled at the wsgi layer are where you have to be very careful. Django has brought that in scope and you haven't -- which is why thats a better wholistic webdev experience and SQLAlchemy is the more powerful ORM.

With that said I stand by my comment having read the full changelog (commendably thorough btw). Unless you can afford to figure those things out as a team, it would behoove most web devs to reach for Django first.
Consider for a second that blowing up no prototypes or blowing up lots of prototypes are both well considered methodologies and what you state is by design and expected.
Is part of the joy that they now have secure jobs for years to come?
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> Most of the others remove regulatory requirements or speed up permitting processes for ISPs.

This, I can possibly get behind, depending on the details. Part of the reason we end up with regional monopolies or duopolies is the high up-front capital costs involved with building out a network. This unto itself favors bigger players. Additional costs, whether from regulatory controls or making the permitting process more painful than intrinsically necessary further stacks the deck in favor of big players. So removing unnecessary regulations and making it easy to get permits is Good.

Arguments against government-provided services are not intrinsically wrong in all cases, either. It is quite easy for the government to set the rules such that competition is impossible for all but the biggest or politically-favored (or both) players. That's if competition is possible at all; de jure and de facto bans have the same effect. So, I do view government-provided ISPs as something to be approached with caution.

However, if there's any governmental level where the locals have a chance at keeping their government accountable to abuses and forcing the government to allow an ISP that sucks less to offer services, that's going to be at the local level. It's a numbers game, and the getting the numbers together needed to remind the administrators, councilors, and other officials that they are servants, not masters, is far more achievable at the neighborhood, municipal, or county levels. At the state level, it gets a lot harder a lot faster, and come the federal level you are playing on hard mode.

That's why consider this proposal to be misguided at best. Time to add another thing to the list of things to write my rep and senator about.
> Oracle paid Citibank over US$500 million for this company.

Maybe they saved the US$500 million they were paid for this software, and they can use it to cover the US$500 million it just cost them.
Yeah fair enough.

Though I'd like to see AlphaStar perform with comparable mechanical limitations to humans as well. That's a complete non-issue for Go or Chess, but for Starcraft it matters a lot.
Considering the pressure on the environment and biodiversity, and the disappearance of wilderness, I think we don't necessarily want to exploit more land.

IMHO a key point of the article is that solar is not really a suitable source of electricity for vertical farming. There are other sources of clean electricity that more suitable in order to reap the benefits of vertical farming (less transport and less use of land, and also less water and pesticides).
A couple of thoughts.

1. I often struggle to really focus and learn/get something done when I have a concrete objective to complete. I have many half-completed ideas on my personal laptop that all taught me something, but never amounted to much because there was no ultimate objective for them. They weren't intended to be released, they weren't intended to get me a job, they weren't intended to make me money. Many were duplicating existing software to satisfy curiosity, but, eventually, if I wanted to get things done, then using the existing software just made more sense. The more successful projects have had the clearest objectives for executing them (this includes learning objectives).

2. In general, establishing intermediate goals is a good way to get past the hurdle of completing an apparently large goal. If you have to learn trig, linear algebra, calculus, a bit of classical mechanics, and a few other things to get to the goal of making some hot new piece of software, then create goals along the way that exercise those learning objectives. This way you can build more deliberately to the final goal, and get some emotional wins along the way (the 6-12 months of effort aren't waiting for a result at the end, but get results throughout).
Correlation not causation. They don’t have minimum wage because they don’t need minimum wage. This is like saying that antibiotics give you an infection because only people with an infection have antibiotics.
I'm curious of you and your wife's age. Seems as if those in late 40s to 60s have no hobbies except for working, and therefore are continually working jobs next to me throughout my 20s and 30s. Many in that older age bracket have benefits and retirement through other means, therefore not caring about lack of benefits from work and possibly being part of the no votes when my coworkers vote to unionize, not to mention occupying spot from a younger person who instead is a few rungs behind.

This is not meant to be personal or attacking, but I'm curious how much of this applies or not to you and your wife.

This is meant to demonstrate my general frustration with younger folks having many barriers to stability or opportunity by being crowded out politically and in the workforce by those who've had years more in better economic situations and just can't seem to develop a life that isn't revolving around consumerism and lacking in signifcant social/familial time investment.
Helicopters on Mars, what a time to be alive!
The problem is that something like “are people confused” isn’t something that can be codified in the law. Try to codify an algorithm and people will game it. As such, the only solution is a judge.
Five! To think I've been goofing off with MUDs for personal projects the last 20 years and have only written maybe .05 of a MUD.
Hard for me to imagine what it's like to spend years of your life working on a singular launch project. So much riding on what happens in a handful of moments, whether that's launch or EDL. Pretty sure I'd just start sobbing in the control room if that were me regardless of outcome.
> It is perhaps also worth mentioning that the construction of the Hanhikivi plant has not started yet.

Looks like it has: https://twitter.com/PekkaTMakinen/status/1354383491937538051

Also, Finland already has a plant with two VVER reactors built in cooperation with the Soviet Union:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant
> lot of land that isn't suitable for farming

> We're talking about powering a hydroponic greenhouse. The alternative to "Solar Powered LEDs" isn't "plant things in the ground". Its "make a glass window on your roof".

I think what they were getting at is that you can take land wholly unsuitable for farming or greenhouses (e.g. severe slopes), apply solar panels, and then funnel that energy to a vertical farm. Since the vertical farm does save space in the abstract (just not necessarily once accounting for space needed for electricity generation), the scheme overall is still a more efficient use of land.
Think long term. I see many people that want to "get it fast and now"... My advice would be: be slow but recurring. Think learning in terms of years, not in term of weeks.
SpaceX hasn't been around as long as NASA. Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?
> Yes, but Elsevier and Springer open access publishing is prohibitively expensive.

Pretty much everything is prohibitively expensive when it comes to Elzevier and Springer, or so it seems. But that's enough reason to avoid them altogether as publishers, open access or not.
> Mistakenly lays some blame on renewables, which are overperforming right now in Texas. Renewables are not in play here, we are having major problems with natural gas and coal plants not being prepared for cold weather.

Last night[0]—when it's coldest—wind was producing at under 15% of installed capacity[1]. Photovoltaic generation was at 0%. You can technically claim that wind exceeded expectations, but you should qualify that by explaining that wind was expected to produce almost none of the supply, despite ERCOT having 28% of the wind capacity of the entire country.

The fundamental issue is that summer demand funds the construction of electrical capacity in Texas. As this is unavoidable given the climate, we need our summer capacity to be able to handle unusual winter load as well. You are essentially defending wind by saying that it's not expected to be able to produce more than a fraction of its power in winter, when the problem at hand is that we need capacity that can do exactly that. The more capacity we have that works in summer but not in winter, the more vulnerable we will be to unusually cold weather. Our current wind generation systems are by far the worst choice of power by this measure.

Solar capacity is actually performing great right now, in the daytime (looks like around 80-90%), and wind has picked up a bit (30%) but still lags every other generation source by a tremendous margin.

[0] http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi...
[1] http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/219848/Capacity_Chang...

I absolutely agree that requirements for winterization are in order, and that could change things significantly. Perhaps winterized wind power would have great output in this weather, or perhaps not. My analysis applies only to the actual current ERCOT capacity, not any hypothetical capacity.