skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things we can all learn from NZ:

* respond quickly

* remain consistent

* be an island with <6 million people
https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+e+ink+so+expensive
Meh, at least it goes into some technical details. More than I can say for some of the crap that reaches the front page.
It's been around for 12 years and nothing even close to a killer app has come and it's one promise of utility (as a currency) has proven to not be scalable.
Cleaning the panels periodically on that size farm means continuous maintenance, especially in the desert, where most people seem to want to put them. If you clean them with water, that's going to have to come from somewhere (I'm not sure if high pressure air would be good enough). In utility terms 25 years isn't that long. Nuclear plants are good for ~80 years, so you'd need to 2-3x the capital costs right off the bat. I'm not under the impression we have storage where it needs to be either, so that's additional cost + infrastructure that's already baked into nuclear.

Grading the land destroys the existing ecosystem, and putting panels on top of the ground will obviously have an impact on that area of the biome. Deserts are important ecosystems, and if we thoughtlessly destroy them to build solar farms, we'll have to deal with the consequences 30 years down the road. I'm not against solar farms, I'm just not religious about them. They have downsides and there is a lot of money to be made, so it's worth being weary of magic bullets.
It’s now as simple as can be - the basic camera app on most phone is enough to use QR codes, but it seems it’s not natural, apart from specific usecases.
keeping old fossil plants sitting idle but in working order is possible but will cost nearly as much as generating at full capacity, minus the cost of fuel.

Imagine a car that sits in a garage and once a decade you take it out and thrash it. Machines degrade just from time not necessarily wear as rubber and gaskets become brittle, metal rusts, capacitors leak, fuel degrades, algae grows, rats chew on whatever they can, shafts and bearings and motors seize or get flat spots from sitting.

Look at Texas and their fleet of plants that didn’t start when they were needed. Any machine that is not running is likely to stay not running.
Terrific tip. If you're contemplating Croatia, I'd highly recommend Slavonia too - that's the eastward-pointing piece along which the Sava river flows. The area around Sisak in particular is stunning - Lonske Polje and the village of Čigoč.
My company has mandated all of this. Change blacklist and whitelist, change the git master branch name, don't use master-slave, there's a list of "racially charged" terms and the replacements we're supposed to use.
It's all a corporate virtue signal mask so they can lay people off and increase exec compensation and still claim to have some moral high ground.
Yeah. AUS, NZ, SK, Taiwan, Japan did not weld their doors shut. SK, Japan, Taiwan had more doors open than most of the US.
Thanks for the follow up, and glad you're safe.
https://archive.is/Cv3Pb
Parler may be a shithole and this person could be a racist, but this is exactly the kind of thing we need. We may feel secure in our ability to silence people we find odious, but it's only a matter of time until the system evolves to silence us for one reason or another.

In particular, I think the magic sauce Pepe has is every user having his / her own moderation filter.

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Ethereum:
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Monero:
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That one's a bit more understandable in that it's actually referencing a master/slave relationship. "Master" as in "master copy" is... not that.
it has a power chord?
> But name stored in MX doesn't have to be FQDN.

On the contrary, an MX record can only contain a FQDN. If you type “foo” as your target in an MX record in your domain “yourdomain.example”, what actually gets stored in the MX record is “foo.yourdomain.example.”; a perfectly normal FQDN.
> "Oh but we can't expose details of our ban process for people to game" Bullshit.

Exactly. If that were the reason, they should also make the rules of the platform secret, since making the rules public will result in people "gaming" (aka "acting in accordance with") them.
The flight route between Melbourne and Sydney used to be the second busiest in the world (not sure what is like now with the pandemic). There are a lot of people moving between the states of NSW and Victoria.

But during outbreaks in both cities, there were border closures which included not just airports but also roads on the land border which is about 1000 km long. This protected one city from cases from the other.
Germany is probably the least comparable country here. It's smack dab in the center of Europe, has a population density of an entirely different magnitude, and is - most importantly - surrounded by some countries that do not take Covid seriously for whatever reason, and it can not easily close the border, which also doesn't physically exists anymore, because it is a huge political thing on multiple levels from local to EU.

Germany is more locked-down internally (like Australia and NZ) than it is on its outside borders.

Is it a mess? Yes. Should it be done better? Yes.

But honestly, if Germany was an Island, it would be doing just as good as Australia and NZ. It locked down internal travel several times, had one of the best contact tracing when it was still possible, and generally just got outplayed by new strains swamping through land borders that neither NZ nor Australia even have.
I don't disagree but the virality you speak of is heightened because of the centralization.
I agree with every part of that sentence except the "just". People have been trying desperately to do that for 40+ years without success, it's clearly not easy.
"Contributed to [x] open source projects, having 95% of my [y] pull requests accepted" is becoming common on resumes at the younger end of the labor market. This kind of PR is easy to automate and serves to boost those numbers on the resume. They don't even have to care about the issue at all, it can simply be a way to market themselves with little effort.
I had 3 of these people show up in repos I maintain which is surprising since none of those is much popual;r, it would be strange for 1 to appear and is very much not in ordinary for 3. I just vlosed the issues and didn't reply like i would do for any other troll. Because it is basically just low effort troll. There only 1 return more time with more repeat issue but i am simple her block.
Maybe it’s just that the name became available and the boss always wanted a short, dictionary-word name? Dreams of ubiquity?

I think it’ll make searching a lot harder especially for an international service.

Wise? Waze? Whys? Ways?

But... it seems to have worked for “véz” so maybe this is just the “go big or go home” startup thing.
I don't think we'd ever be able to, unfortunately. The difference between us and the theoretical United States super-consciousness is probably as different as our own consciousness and the cells we're composed of. Communication in either direction is impossible.
No. You are simply misreading the definition, or perhaps misunderstanding it.

By the definition I quoted MacOS is an open platform. The provider of MacOS (Apple) doesn’t have control over access to applications and content.

It is not a walled garden in any aspect, even by the definition you yourself provided.

Installing OS itself is restricted by commercial license. But the platform is open.

You are trying to make the definition fit, but it just doesn’t.
Yes. And we could do the same back to you.

Presumably society would eventually get over itself and evolving into something more tolerant of personal opinions, and questioning internet-sourced information.

Or, from another perspective, the only alternative is that only some people can do that. (E.g. politicians, security services, etc)

I'm not sure that would be preferable.
how much is Dwolla in comparison?

their ACH fees does seem a little more expensive
I don't know much about the internal workings of planes but every time I fly I feel so relaxed,almost like if I've gone to a meditation or something. I had a handful of near misses in my life( not with planes) , where you just get to realisation that if things will go wrong, you won't just break a neck,or sprain a muscle, but will 100% be dead. That knowledge somehow allows to remove the panic and simply focus on the task at hand. How I'd react on such a flight is hard to say,as nothing would depend on me.
It gets more ridiculous with every day.

I fully expect people to start developing vocabularies to harden their group communication against these automatons.

Also, please, don't use term "AI". Calling it intelligence is too charitable for something that can't distinguish game of chess from hate speech.
Amber Electric in Australia has this same model of passing the wholesale prices on to customers.
But they have a cap.
"We pass through the 30 minute wholesale prices directly, and this is typically significantly cheaper than the Government’s Default Market Offer, but to give you peace of mind we guarantee you will never pay more than the Default Market Offer (or VMO in VIC) over a year or we’ll refund the difference."
https://help.amberelectric.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/36003745...

I think this is only possible because there is lots of regulation on electricity providers in Australia.
I linked to the costs in my comment. For ballot initiatives in 2020 it was between $5.59 and %10.37 per signature. Somewhere around 15% of signatures are invalidated putting the recall effort between $9,615,165 and $17,837,077 for the signatures alone.
have you looked at Currency Cloud?
Black list and its opposite, white list, associate black with bad and white with good.

The usage of black in “black box” means opaque, not bad.

So these aren’t the same.

I had never thought about the connotations of blacklist and whitelist before it was pointed out to me. In retrospect, blacklist and whitelist are unnatural meanings of the words black and white, and blocklist and allowlist make much more sense.

Consequently, I changed the code I’m responsible for at my company to use block and allow.
There's a difference between "we can't tell you exactly why X was classified as it was", and "this phrase was classified as bad". Here, YT knows exactly what triggered the issue and can review the decision.
>How about reduce that to 0 for night-time?

No, GP is averaging out across the whole day. If you get 100W during daylight and 0W during night, you can average to 50W for an entire 24-hour period. GP took 30W as a conservative estimate, which is entirely reasonable.
They also link to the order which explains why they made the decision:

http://www.puc.texas.gov/51617WinterERCOTOrder.pdf

Previously consumers were getting cut off because large industry was still getting low wholesale power and generators were not incentivized to spin up more capacity.
From my faint memory as a ~12 year old in 1980, Acid Rain killing off woodlands and lakes, caused by European and UK heavy industries, was a massive concern back in the early 80's at its peak, fortunately mostly rectified in Europe now. Shortly afterwards the media latched onto the hole in the ozone layer which lead onto the climate crisis. Hard to believe these things were 30+ years ago (when I became aware), but we seem to be no further forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
If this is true then the US will be guaranteed to fall to China as a superpower. They have perfected censorship while we have floundered and ambiguously identified things worth censoring or not.

Freedom of speech is the only thing making the US remotely competitive at this point.
Funny you mention that. We do have Stackoverflow (check it out if you like this sort of thing. You can have your own private section basically) but I personally don't find it useful. We basically only use it like a troubleshooting section to document longer lasting information.

For proper persistent documentation we have README.mds in the source code. For transient problems (like the above, it's actually something buggy in our code but nobody has been able to figure it out yet), there's slack and I don't think it warrants spending time to write it down somewhere else. Let's say you are a SaaS company with one product. You use kubernetes. Let's say one day you have a problem with minikube on your dev machine because of an OS upgrade (say MacOS Big Sur effs something up). Does it make sense to document this specifically somewhere (takes time i.e. money) vs. the next time someone upgrades their machine they search slack for the error message that someone posted, figure out all they need to do is upgrade their minikube version. After some time, all your devs have upgraded to Big Sur and upgraded. The information will automatically age out of slack.

I find this is actually pretty neat and the most efficient way of doing it. Especially because 90% if not more of your developers will always "ask Bob" before searching anyway, so putting effort into the wiki (or any other doc) is wasted effort anyhow. That's because sending them a link to an old slack convo vs. the wiki or an SO thread or whatever you use is really not that different.
The github change is brought up by a lot by people, but, all github does here is this. On the default set of commands it shows you if you don't have a repo pushed, it shows you the help command with 'main', instead of 'master'. Just a word change on a default help document, that's it. If you knew your commands you wouldn't even notice this.

If you just make a repo and push your existing code to github, it will work with 'master' as it is.. they actually don't have much of a say in how people name the git branches without severely shooting their whole service in the foot..
It depends on the product. It's viewed as perfectly fine to buy and sell futures contracts on global commodities without protection, because the people doing that know what they're doing. It's likewise OK to sell win chances on lottery or slot machine payouts, because the customer is presumed to understand the risks well.

But not everything is like that. In particular household utilities aren't elastic things: people need them in a way they don't need to gamble. So the government needs to be regulating this on our behalf, because it's not reasonable to assume everyone knows the weatherproofing state of the Texas power grid.

That doesn't mean that no consumer ability to exploit spot power should exist. I mean, there are similar products envisioned like "charge overnight" for EVs that seem safe.

But the idea that somehow consumers were going to be so sophisticated as to manage their risk to tolerate a $10k electric bill is just bananas.
Why does mathjax require an internet connection? It's simply a js file or am I missing something?
If I remember correctly, it wasn't just YouTube. Because of that people lost their entire Google accounts, including e-mail, drive and whatever else people trust Google with nowadays

That in particular made me go from just not using Google personally and occasionally bitching about their practices to actively discouraging everyone from using anything related to that company
it’s wry humor, if you take everything seriously (such is your choice, i’m not criticizing) then you probably won’t enjoy anything the author ever writes
The real problem, IMO, is that we're all left guessing what the reason is. YouTube has a gargantuan task moderating its content, and I don't expect them to be error-free in this: false positives will happen, and that's okay.

But it's the complete lack of transparency, as well as some YouTubers having difficulty getting their accounts restored that's the real issue.

Maybe he used some specific phrase that triggered something? Or maybe he used some words just a tad too often? Or maybe something else? No one seems to know...
We were told to no longer call free time between meetings “white space.”
It's a reasonable point, but if I can be a little bit "whataboutist"

If you're against entirely fictional depictions of child abuse, then how do you feel about other fictional depictions of a crime? (That's a lot of films and books to ban). Or pictures of actual real crimes? Would you remove photos of Auschwitz from text books? Or from a far right meme?

Not saying I have any better answers, just I get slightly niggles when others think they've solved the issue, by everybody else agreeing with them.
For those on Android, check the conspiracy app. It includes about half a dozen variants as well, ranging from 2 players (cold war) to 15 (known World 901). Great platform to play.
San Francisco, LA, Seattle, etc. are all still magically there. Those "properties", where most of the GDP and people are, were relatively untouched.

So to say that "the entire West coast" was burning is objectively false, alarmist dribble.
> Edit: ... Most parts of a nuclear power plant aren’t easy to recycle either,

A nuclear power plant is compact compared to the energy produced, and has an exceptionally long lifetime in comparison to current "renewables".

The components of a solar panel are individually recyclable, but that doesn't mean that anyone has really figured out how to recycle the actual finished panels in any kind of significant energy/resource saving way.

Similarly, the amount of fuel needed to be mined for nuclear energy is trivial, especially if one allows reprocessing.
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When they don't incorporate quick banning they get piled on by a mob for letting this or that bad person on their platform. And it's near impossible to monitor all of Youtube just with content moderators.
And the tickling by the beach ball alien, though possibly to death. So there's still some menace there :)
Didn't the option just cover the AOA disagree indicator? AFAIK even the planes with that option only read from the pilot flying's AOA sensor before their fix was implemented.
I was out, when it didn't use Blockchain
Ah, thank you! Some interesting info in that piece: the channel owner didn’t think it had anything to do with race and instead because he mentioned COVID.
Arguments in bad faith drive out those in good faith.

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
and sneaky practices like not allowing you to uninstall YouTube from android devices.

Remember Microsoft and Internet Explorer..
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I find it interesting that companies often rebrand themselves to a generic word. Would Microsoft, for example gain anything by calling themselves "Micro" or "Soft"?

I also wonder if they tried to rebrand to "Transfer" as that would at least describe themselves and give them some interesting opportunities, e.g. money.transfer, coin.transfer
> you can't find it anywhere in the internet.

would you have time to change that by uploading some (e.g. to archive.org) ?
yep, not interested
There are times when my brain is neither consistent nor available for certain data. I conclude that these are not requirements for consciousness.
Japan has had an explosion of cases. Not a great example. The others are islands and they could easily restrict movement.
There are occasions where globals cannot be avoided.
Funny, in my market “SimplePay” rebranded as “Simple” and I just had to double check my “Simple” iPhone app to make sure it wasn’t the former BankSimple.

It wasn’t. So I guess there must be multiple apps called “Simple?”
Yeah, so Ruqqus does something very similar at the moment - using "guilds" and allowing individuals to maintain their own. The problem is with the people that the platform attracts - basically every guild on Ruqqus is something along the lines of "blackcrimesmatter" or "wakeupwhitepeople" not because the site is explicitly disincentivizing people with other beliefs from joining but because the audience is self-selected (people who think Pepe is a symbol of resistance) and because it's hard to end up with a diverse userbase. Decentralized networks where participants interact are still bound by the laws of human behavior, and people aren't going to frequent a space where they aren't welcome. The reason that Matrix 'works' is because there is no cross-cluster interaction: I have a server set up where I can chat with friends, but have no reason to interact with the pretty horrible use cases. Sites like these, on the other hand, are designed to normalize those use cases and encourage you to join those communities.
> piled on by a mob

That’s the perception - but usually it’s at most a few hundred busybodies on Twitter, out of Google’s billions of users.

People just need to start ignoring these people. They are a tiny minority of people. (It just so happens that seemingly half of them are journalists at the nation’s biggest newspapers.)
>After winning widespread recognition for its handling of the coronavirus last year

WHAT? When exactly was Germany a model of Covid response? Maybe when they were bashing Poland for closing borders on March 14 just to do the same thing two days later? German state run TV station ZDF Claus Kleber lecturing Poles about historical importance of open borders between Poland and Germany (face palm) on March 14, and a day later praising Germany for doing the very same thing: https://twitter.com/thomaskycia/status/1239671652755091456

Results of their "widely recognized" policies, like not mandating masks in public spaces:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/#g...

compare to border neighbor with early heavy handed and actually enforced lockdown (which paradoxically got loosened in October :/): https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/poland/#gr...
>It's a necessary common value system that underlies peaceful cooperation. In this sense it's an evolutionary advantage to treat each other morally and have a shared ethic. That includes not exploiting others for personal gain.

It's an evolutionary advantage for a species.

For an individual animal it's an advantage to not follow morality anytime it can get away with it, and thus gain more sexual partners, food, influence in the herd, etc, and from that, more progeny.
This comment perfectly encapsulates the logic of neoliberalism and inadvertently provides insight into how it is sending us full speed on an ecological collision course.
Right... the wholesale cost was artificially being held low during that time because ERCOT was load shedding by disconnecting consumers.

The algorithm just sees load < available power and sets the price.

This means that as the load continued to shed, wholesale price would have continued to plummet, which would have caused more generation to go offline (as there's no demand for it, and price per kWh is dropping), which is the exact opposite of what was required to stabilize the grid.

Generation needed to be brought back online, and wholesale customers still connected to the grid (think large industry) should have pulled their load off the grid to restore capacity for the retail consumer.