skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a large number of people are allowed to trade electricity in the wholesale market and end up with bills they can’t pay, that’s not just a you problem, it’s now a structural one. At least for Griddy, and if they go bankrupt maybe for the electricity grid market itself. Kind of like how people’s unaffordable mortgages weren’t just a ‘them’ problem in the financial crash.

Some people are asking for the state to bail out people with these bills now. In other words, people liked the ‘freedom’ to benefit from cheaper wholesale prices, but when the market moves against them, the downside risk will be socialised.
I wish everyone would treat email as the temporal medium it is.

It's fine to use email to announce for example that a new procedure/policy exists, but if it's not posted in some canonical location (where the latest copy will always be found) it might as well not exist. Email is where your keystrokes go to die.

Just the other day I asked about something and was forwarded a document titled ".... FINAL-v2 (July 2017)". I can't tell you how much that enrages me.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/keystrokes
I think the point of being in Hawaii is to be outside, with predictable steady breeze and lots of UV. Parts of Germany (and many other places in world) are quite a different environment (predominantly indoor with recirculated air and little sunlight. Sigh. Why do we live this way, raymond?)

Also, Kauai did go on lockdown forcing every arrival to quarantine for 14 days regardless of testing status after they had a local COVID death. That policy was in early December, but I think they’re back on the general state plan now.
Tolerate intolerance to tolerance of gaybashing?

That is just not being tolerant to intolerance. The question stands
All the engineering in the world isn’t going to save you if the pilot is as incompetent as the one in the Buffalo crash was.
Frankly the whole thing stinks. On the whim of an unaccountable AI basically anything can happen. We need laws around this sooner rather than later. AIs are getting more powerful but less responsible.

Just don't have an argument about a book or you could end up on death row. Gordon Dickson wrote a short story about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
If you don’t believe in freedom of speech you believe in censorship.

If you believe this then you must believe the US is poor at censorship given the amount of chaos in the past year.

All this really means is China will guaranteed to be the next superpower, they have perfected censorship. Freedom of speech is the only thing giving the US a competitive edge at this point.

Either the US becomes a mediocre censorship state or freedom of speech stays.
For all the calling for "follow the science", I don't see much scientific behavior in how the crisis is handled. I see lots of politics instead.

For example, Dr Fauci says we won't achieve herd immunity before fall. But he also says vaccinated people should keep wearing masks, because they could still get infected and be infections.

But that would mean herd immunity is impossible. Herd immunity totally relies on vaccinated people not being infectious.

For another, Congressmen are outraged that some rich people are buying vaccines at $10,000 a dose. But Congressmen moved to the front of the line in December to get vaccinated, including the young & healthy ones.

Politics.
But remember, there literally wasn't enough power to heat everyone's homes.

In a simplified universe where everything is as described in an entry-level economics textbook, this variable pricing system saved everyone. People with health conditions or particularly valuable homes were willing to pay exorbitant electricity rates, everyone else turned off their power, and they all lived happily ever after.

Real life, of course, is more complicated.
Minecraft, but I made it in 48 hours
> It only took one complaint from someone in Canada to get Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" cut in half on SiriusXM for an entire continent

Even after the decision was reversed[0]?

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/canada-lifts-b...
I'm not sure whether their fees are really that low. For transfers between your own accounts, for anything over very small amounts, I found that their 0.35% variable fee is pretty large compared to adding the funds to a brokerage account and then doing the conversion there (ie. IB charges 0.002% on currency trades, with a min of $2), and transferring back out into the desired currency.
this is a cool project!
Could we have done this before we destroyed a significant percentage of small businesses with lockdowns?

And what's the mortality rate for otherwise healthy people? Greater than 99.9%?
Also similar: “on the beach”
> Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?

Maybe the advertisers are doing this on purpose? Deep down they know they would lose almost nothing by pulling from those platforms for a short period of time (the quality of online advertising has been in doubt for a long time), while pleasing the vocal minority.

At the same time, by playing moves like this would absolutely bring Google/Youtube to their knees, making it clear who is paying the bill.
I totally agree that many sites put the scores in to maximize revenue. I'm just trying to consider scoring systems in the wider context of user <-> website interaction techniques.

If score systems were just to generate revenue, I'd imagine that users would have a roundly negative view of them like dark patterns that help revenue (spam, tracking, sponcon). I think you're absolutely correct about scoring systems reflecting your position in the ontology of the sites' creator, and so if you want what the site wants you want your score to go up. I suspect that the popularity of scoring systems comes from users understanding they could be bad or good and being drawn in to the enjoyable play of discovering what their score reflects based on their own experience.
There's a distinct difference between trying to make things less accidentally discriminatory or exclusionary.. and banning an entire channel in an often un-appealable way (which can in many cases end up disabling peoples personal google accounts etc as well).
I don't know what it means to define consciousness without self awareness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Lol gotcha. As someone who runs an ad network... good luck with scaling, RIP
They already had a lot of brand recognition that this really strikes me as odd as well. I'm guessing this is a better name for an IPO?

Edit: A quick googling confirms they've indeed started talking about an IPO recently.
And the list is constantly growing (and growing more ridiculous).
It's when grounded design decisions become ungrounded. Sure, creating an umbrella company called Wise - where TransferWise is one segment they're targeting would be a good way to do it, and then launch other products under Wise, but they shouldn't rebrand TransferWise to Wise.
I don't know about you, but my consciousness availability is a lot closer to nine fives than it is five nines.
I first saw it ~1980'ish, I was a bit older and it gave me a massive lump in my throat, and still does in my mid 50's.
Did you end up getting an email?
If you do not feel like donating, consider showing the referenced blog post to your friends who might be interested in this project. Donations will fuel the development, but the author is going to work on it no matter what.
Well, it wins for those of us who dislike Go/Rust syntax.
Crystal is much easier to read/write than Go/Rust (Yes, I know that the majority of programmers like it the other way).
Indeed, hate speech is just a guess. It is just as likely it was taken down because it was a Pawn Site.
[0] https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
I haven't heard about someone hacking a bitcoin wallet. I've love to hear more details. If I knew how I would try for the genesis blocks.

Can someone hack an exchange or your bank account login/password or your bank or worse setup for an account under your name no phone needed?
How weird are company names going to get in the future just because of the need for a domain name?
A Vault-Tec ship docking after 200 some odd years in a port city sounds like a good idea for a Fallout game. Get on it Bethesda!
It’s tokenism and if anything it is detrimental to actual, concrete, transformative improvement. Malcolm X spoke at length about this going back to the early 1960’s. And it hasn’t changed. Condescending tokenizing is a way to avoid anything that would take effort or energy while comforting the narcissist in a warm blanket of moral righteousness. If you look around you’ll see endless tokenism but not much in terms of effective improvements.

I don’t doubt these hall monitors think they’re doing the “right thing” or being a “good person”. But really they’re only exploiting people for their own benefit.
Granted, I’ve never worked on a natural gas fired turbine, but I imagine every generator given the option would prefer to run consistentently at maximum output as that is how they would get the maximum ROI.

Hydro plants can adjust output but it changes river levels and flows with environmental consequences.

I imagine nuclear plants could use control rods to generate less power if they had to?

Or if you have the nuclear power because you need it anyway in case it isn’t sunny/windy but it is a sunny and windy day how do you decide if solar/wind or nuclear should be curtailed? Both have near zero marginal cost.
I generally think more can be done.

But your post is simplifying much.
Every way into German is literally all of it, except small parts in the North which are sea.
Germany is all land border, essentially. Too much to control with any army.
Ask Americans how that wall with Mexico is going. Like that.

Also, when Europeans speak of border posts, they mean some scanners on otherwise open highways. However, this doesn't mean that there's some sort of restriction outside of these border posts. Shutting them down doesn't mean anything is closed or whatever.
You can cross into Germany literally anywhere. There are no borders, not in the way that you think.

When I was on the wrong side of the Dutch border soon before a local lockdown during a shooting, but was in a hurry, I just went through a village road.

Heck, there's even towns that practically cross borders. How are you going to control every street?

Right now, borders to several countries ARE closed.
Does it stop most people coming to Germany? Nope.

There are also political considerations that are too complex to discuss here. Livelihoods across borders depend on coming to Germany, as well as a lot of pan-EU traffic.
An overreach is likely shut down by courts, in the worst case by an EU court, which opens a new can of worms.

It's not as easy as you think.
You can tell that the pictures of the debris were taken by drones. The area around them has been taped off with police tape, I'm sure photographers aren't allowed close enough to get good pictures.
> It’s disingenuous to…

This is an interesting thread but not applying the principle of charity to the person you're in discussion with, when they've done nothing worthy of putting charity aside, really lowers the tone.

There are a lot of other ways to put your riposte without questioning the motives of those responding to you simply because they or - even just a point they've made - disagrees with you.
Aah, I am mistaken. My apologies.
This was very interesting, I had no idea these services existed. I really enjoyed reading it. It wouldn’t hurt to provide more context about the artist, genre, and scene the artist is operating in. Is it a band getting some hype that listeners might recognize by name or someone totally unknown to listeners?

Related to that, what about the playlists themselves? Did the author of this blog post feel that they were grouped with artists of a similar enough genre the audience would appreciate them? Were those playlists all new/upcoming artists sourced from services like this, primarily popular/established artists with a few select artists mixed in, or a mix of both?

The psychology of what music people choose to pursue is fascinating and brutally frustrating. Details like the ones above could tell some very different stories about the author’s experience. It’s possible that a different artist would have a vastly different experience on these services.

Of course, having said that, I would have been blown away if this experiment yielded any significantly positive results. This is the newest face of pay to play events and compilation CDs run by labels and marketing companies. There are no shortage of people eager to exploit the enthusiasm of artists.
My parents followed the usual schedule. I was born in 1986. I'm not sure what the schedule was exactly back then, but I had several shots under the age of 5, a few more leading up to age 10, and a few more up until my last shot in 2016. Iirc the majority of them before 2001 included thimerosal as a preservative. I don't think any one shot was a specific cause, and rather it was a cumulative thing. I do know that the MMR shot does not contain thimerosal.

This FDA Q&A is a good read, although obviously biased against my perspective:

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/thimer...

The FDA does acknowledge that kids in my generation were exposed to mercury slightly exceeding the established safety limit for oral exposure, but makes no mention as to how it is not appropriate to use an oral limit when the exposure is through injection. Toxicologists know that the exposure route makes all the difference in how toxic a substance is, and it is specifically written into environmental regulations like RCRA. For example, ingested substances are first directed straight to the liver through the portal vein for detoxification before being spread to the rest of the body. Injected substances bypass this defense mechanism. No exposure limits have ever been developed for injection, because the laws are all written for pollution, and people obviously do not inject pollution into themselves. (I was an environmental engineer for several years.)

That FDA Q&A also discusses how there was a lot of concern expressed by healthcare professionals regarding thimerosal, and that's why it was (mostly) removed, but they stress that it was just to be safe, and they have no reason to believe that it's dangerous. To be honest, it sounds like covering-their-ass double-speak to me, and reminds me of how polluting companies handle their coverups. The reality is that these things are so difficult to prove one way or the other, and the liability and denial issues are immense. No one wants to admit to themselves or others that they accidentally poisoned someone. Not just for financial reasons but for their own psychological well-being.
GDPR contains automated decisionmaking rules: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
I’m more interested in substantive comments, including thoughtful criticisms, about such a platform and am appreciative of those in this thread. Can we have more of that instead of knee jerk flagging, please? Thank you.

Edit: I believe that free speech being absolute is problematic, but I also see issues with the changing contours of what’s allowed or forbidden in the “not absolute” classification that’s commonly used.
I completely agree with you for documentation that is not developer centric. A wiki and a WYSIWYG editor is the way to go there. Though it is funny to see PMs and other people fight with say the Confluence editor (that's what I'm stuck with at the moment @work and they've recently effed up the Jira editors as well in favour of non-developers). It's abysmal and since they changed it to remove proper wiki syntax editing I can't even really fix things for them easily and have to use workarounds myself instead of teaching them a little bit of wiki markup syntax from time to time or using it myself to fix things. It's like MS Word and everyone learning all the workarounds of how to undo weird formatting or fix documents. What was wrong with LaTeX? :)

That is absolutely not what we're talking about here though. If a project manager really wants to set up a local dev env for whatever reason, they can be my guest but don't expect me to tailor our whole everything around them and not my developers.
Super Mario 64 Decompilation
I did not see this article directly linked in the comments:
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
That's a great read! She was spot on, as far as I'm concerned.

But I have her beat. I made a lot more mistakes; some, quite embarrassing. Nevertheless, people seemed to like having me as a manager, so I guess I got a few things right.
I don't know how radio stations handle "Alice's Restaurant" since I listen to my own copy but I did see Arlo Guthrie sing it live at a concert when he was in town a few years back. When the song got near the slur, he stopped playing for bit and went off on a short tangent before picking the song up after the slur. It's his song so I doubt anyone minded him changing how he performs it. The change felt a lot more natural than simply bleeping or cutting the audio.
That sounds suspiciously similar to the historical argument about pornography in general: no one could defend that; it's bizarre to bring up.
You've never heard of using a file to store data in?
Drop (formerly Massdrop) rebranding is also a bad example.
Without code, "I am building a service no one can silence" is an empty boast. Moreover, it's an empty boast that could stimulate opposition, like running toward a heavily armed border checkpoint screaming "I have a gun!". So it's best seen as trolling.
That's my favorite example of how silly it is! Lets give all the people with a master degree a change to "main degree". "main of arts", "main of engineering", "main of science" lol
Chromium already handles that. There is no need to rewrite Freetype in JS and require websites, which display text, to ship a freetype.js. But this is what happens for maths in Chromium.

No need to turn simple documents containing some formulas into applications.
This is great, well done. While at (now defunct) Dotscience we did a lot of work on Dotmesh which you might find interesting: https://github.com/dotmesh-io/dotmesh

I would also look at data science/ML as a potential use for the tool as there are real issues with using Git for training data.

Last point which is more of a tip: Show don’t tell. If you did some side by side workflow walkthroughs showing the difficulties with other tools it will make it easier for people to see that this problem is real (which it definitely is)
It wasn't un-appealable. They restored it within 24 hours per the article.

Please don't hyperbolize about this stuff. If you want people to take you seriously about real censorship you need to not fly off the handle with accidents (which have ALWAYS been with us, c.f. buttbuttination).
"In this position, black is better."
> Can we stop calling people influencers [...] if they’re just taking money to promote stuff?

That is literally my understanding of the term "influencer". What is your definition?
Why? YouTube has no obligation to host anyone's videos. If these chess channels don't like it they can make their own YouTube.
I'm curious how I ended up with that line there actually. Maybe it was a copy-paste that missed a character? Maybe it was an example I grabbed somewhere? I searched but the only occurrence of that string on the indexed web seems to be my own comment. So maybe I did this to myself.
Yep, just have A and AAAA records for the hostname the MX points to
It doesn't have to beat other languages, it just has to enable new domains for people who only like ruby like languages to be successful.
Python 0.9.1 source code launched 30 years ago
SQL Server has indexed views, which is "real time" refresh since it's a separate clustered index that's written to at the same time as the base tables.

https://www.sqlshack.com/sql-server-indexed-views/
Blank screen came first, then I refreshed page, it worked, so obviously there is a problem.
An old coworker was a private pilot. He told me that the purpose of the second engine in a twin-engine private plane was to get you to the scene of the crash.
Having tolerance for speech we don’t agree with does not mean we need to tolerate harassment, eviction, or termination.

You may argue that free speech may lead to intolerant laws and actions - but history suggests the direct opposite: free speech has mostly expanded tolerance.

And it makes sense: we have gay rights as a result of free expression. For the longest time the “offensive” idea being censored was that being gay was ok and not a result of mental illness. Without free speech we wouldn’t have gay marriage.
During Q&A there was a friendly quarrel about 'mainstream' vs 'constructive' maths. I think there's a funny analogy in here, if you let:

mainstream proof : constructive proof :: program code : machine code

then Kevin is arguing that the idea of actually compiling his beautiful algorithms into machine code is silly, and that compiling program code in general is rather pointless.
Wouldn't the same laws apply regardless of payment? If a store defrauds you or if you know who the other person is in the exchange (regardless if it's cash or bitcoin or gold).

If you don't know the other person then cash or bitcoin it wouldn't matter.

If you drop your cash it's gone. If you drop your bitcoin wallet and you backed it up you still have your bitcoin..
Engineers can make all the parts safe except for the nut behind the wheel.

(Having a copilot helps.)
> Out of curiosity though: why is it like this?

In order to have a pointer to what you actually want to have.

MX points to a hostname. This hostname can have many records including A, AAA, TXT, etc which are used by MTAs such as postfix and sendmail for delivery and verification. Also you'd have to make changes only in the hostname records which would affect all other records in the zone that point to it. Easier to maintain.
> This worked in a world when there wasn't much software, when releases were rare and when most programs only had one or two dependencies. None of these properties are true any more.

I don't think this is even the problem.

It's that upstream maintainers have stopped worrying about compatibility.

Once upon a time you would have regular minor releases of some package. 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, but they were all backwards compatible. If you had version 3.0.4 and some software that was built against 3.0.2, it still worked against 3.0.4 because the only difference was that things were added or compatibly improved, not removed or incompatibly changed.

Version 3.0.x wasn't compatible with version 2.9.x, but then the package maintainer for the distribution only has to package versions 3.0.4 and 2.9.16, i.e. suitably recent minor versions of each compatibility revision. Compatibility revisions so old that nobody relevant uses them anymore can be ignored, so they only had to package two or three incompatible versions which together are compatible with everything in active use.

The problem today is that everything is a compatibility-breaking change, so there are dozens of releases from this year alone that are all mutually incompatible and would have to be packaged separately. And that doesn't scale.
Also

‘What’s the Point?’ Young People’s Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On

Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a “mental health pandemic” that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/world/europe/youth-mental...