skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a bank in risk.

The premise of the article is correct.

Risk is cost. A company that can manage their risks better face less costs and ones that can eliminate the risk altogether (for example by passing it to their customers) fares even better.

Normally, companies like Griddy buy financial products (which I help build) that let them insulate themselves from some portion of that risk. These products are not sold for free, obviously.

When you buy an insurance it is understood that the insurance company is going to make some money on it. You buy insurance because you want to insulate yourself from an event that could potentially cripple your finance, living standards or future prospects for a long time.

By passing the risk to their clients, Griddy did not have to pay for any kind of insurance or hedge against market volatility in any way.

Unfortunately, people who bought this were not savvy enough to understand they need to insure themselves in some way and that this is not really worth it.

It does not help that it is apparently not that easy to change where you buy energy when nobody wants new clients and would gladly get rid of the ones they already have.

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I am not from US and I also don't know energy markets, but my understanding is that these kinds of markets are going to be volatile because of basic fact that energy demand is quite inelastic.

Normally, when the demand is elastic and the price goes up, some people would decide to stop buying thus keeping some kind equilibrium between supply and demand at some sensible price.

Unfortunately, most people will not decide to stop heating their houses when demand is not able to meet supply and this means energy market can behave in an extremely volatile way.

What I wonder is where are businesses, industry, factories that I think should normally consume most of the energy and should be first to switch off when supply falls.

People wanted energy to be deregulated? I personally think basic necessities that people absolutely need to have should be regulated to some degree. You don't want to wake up and find a medicine you need to sustain your life just went 10000 percent up because of some random market event or that your hospital suddenly can't buy energy because it is too expensive.

Some systems (like home budgets or small businesses) are built on a very tight margins and are really sensitive to that kind of volatility. Maybe large companies can absorb large swings in prices but normal people should not be living in fear that their livelihood is going to be taken from them for some random market swing or AI decision.
Setting this case aside because it's sloppy reporting based on what another classifier found, this is a hard problem. Youtube gets too many videos and comments for humans to manually review them. Flagging helps, and Google likely uses ML more complex than just text and classifier (who is commenting, is the post trending, patterns in comments, etc.) When things do reach manual review, remember that humans make mistakes, possibly more often than ML, this could be human error.

You actually want the algorithm to be a black box so that people don't know that you can trick it by only commenting between 5pm and 8pm on an IP in the Netherlands from Chrome, and avoid using words like "cactus."

The important part here is a transparent appeal process, not that ML is only pretty good at these problems.
As of yet the human is the problem engineers are currently working to remove from the equation
> I would like to have something similar for Python.

Depending on the application, F# is a fantastic alternative to Python if you want some succinct code (with advanced types too) and fast runtime performance.
I certainly agree with what you're saying. However, isn't this standard in many devices nowadays? Your iPhone can run any set of instructions, but it is artificially restricted to the subset found in Apple app store. It's the same thing in the car.
Jung made the more conservative claim that (US) entity is unconscious. [1] Like a baby in the womb.

If you subscribe to emergentist theory of mind or integrated information theory of consciousness [3][4], compared to what comes, still a dissolute level of being.

There is an argument of telos here. [4] I like to think of it as a cosmic historical process. Is it circular or linear? Maybe the geometric metaphors are lacking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument

(Also the frontispiece on Hobbes' Leviathan is great visual representation of this old idea.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)
You can't even wipe out a continent with a fusion bomb, how would a nuclear power plant even have enough material to be that damaging? Yeah, it might spread a bit of radiation if the entertainments cracked open like an egg, but that would be very obvious if terrorists, say, were trying that.
Following the example of trend-setting hip SV companies like Twitter ( https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/twitter-drop...) our BigCo has recently issued a policy, and those terms have been quicky replaced everywhere accordingly. It isn't a trend, it is already happened reality.
I’m proud to be white and I will never let anyone make me feel ashamed for being white.
I guess this is why it's "the worst career". In other "professional" careers, salaries generally keep pace, or even far outpace inflation, and one's standing (and salary) within the profession generally improves with experience.

With programming, it seems as though salaries are set to decline, and skill experience is constantly eroded as new technologies (and cheap pools of labour) become available, and then there's rampant ageism.

It's somewhat like being an athlete perhaps - if you haven't made it big when you're young, you're looking at declining prospects, which is stressful and depressing.
The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat.
Using a big battery in this way under a time of use rate isn't arbitrage, its exactly what the utility company wants you to be doing. That's why they incentivize you to do it with a nice rate.

If you spend 70k on a battery and then think you're getting one over on the power company by giving them 100 kWh of storage for the price of the cost difference on their daytime and nighttime rate, the power company is laughing all the way to the bank.
With Bitcoin, there are quite a few completely independent clients available: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Clients, but the beauty of proof-of-work is that you do not need to trust any of them.

With proof-of-work chains, one can download the blockchain even without a client and write a simple program/script to calculate the total work (hashes) embedded in the chain. This provides a completely independent measure of trust.

With PoS, you must assume you can trust the client or root of the blockchain, which really kills the primary use-case of a decentralized currency.
I personally like Eric Rosen, because he's got that calm and relaxing Bob Ross energy.
To put it bluntly China still has CFC emissions.
A significant gap in culture between the United States and many other developed countries is the idea that there can ever be an "entirely you thing".

Even your own health and well-being is not entirely you. Whatever you do to yourself has ripple effects on society. You go without health insurance, but when you fall ill or die prematurely, who takes care of your dependants?

Or more to the point, you sign up for Griddy and turn off your main breaker because the price went too high, then your pipes freeze and damage neighbouring properties or even worse, you freeze to death or die from carbon monoxide poisoning.

No man is truly an island.
Wallstreetbets would undoubtedly also be a user here. They were worried about the discord channel being taken down, their reddit moderators being taken over, etc. Then the SEC started investigating. Strong anonymity would be of value to the retail trader mobs. Online mobs are not going away. They will get stronger.
> According to the designer of the Texas system, the incentive was to have extra capacity in order to capitalize on any transient spike in wholesale electricity prices. That obviously didn’t happen.

For an unsophisticated observer, this is a proof that free market doesn't actually work. So something better should be used, and those trumpeting raw competition are either ignorant or willingly lie.
Pick up a magnet and slowly wag it around. There, you've emitted some low frequency photons.

As DC is essentially 0-frequency AC, there's no lower bound to the electromagnetic spectrum.
Looks like Boeing will have a hard time back again. Are Boeing 737s flying now?
Exponential Growth Is the Baseline
Living in Melbourne, Australia, where we went through some pretty brutal lockdowns, I think they’ll be viewed very positively. Life here is pretty normal now (I’m going to a concert with thousands of people this week), and there’s no vaccine resistant “Australian strain”. To me, these are good results from proactive lockdowns.
I'd look at other options like OFX, they end up being cheaper for large transfers and are geared towards the kind of transfer you mention.
I guess this won’t get much use in Italy, where the name is a classic slang word for vaginas...
Speed, fuel economy and redundancy
Isn't that a real option with Arrow?
What they forgot is that pressure to get the vaccine has collapsed because the average person thinks there is no point. Public policy has to be smart.
Tolerance is the default strategy of out-groups. When an out-group becomes power dominant, its narrative changes. Tolerance is no longer a high value. Now the high values are conformity, unity, obedience, etc. etc.
HashCash whose difficulty is chosen collectively based on the load. Since threads/boards are represented with Merkle-CRDTs, there's eventual consistency, so participants can reach some sort of consensus based on the message rate. This limits the posting rate and gives some time for moderation. Threads eventually die off, so it's not a big problem there's shadowed spam in them. And regarding boards, people will simply not participate in making swarms around spammy threads, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
and a mean looking version with GNU boxing gloves! https://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/older.html
I suppose you could replace "master" with "graduate"
How is Amazon in that list? Seriously, there are tons of other viable options to sell online and in stores. You even listed an alternative!

Last I checked for a vacation, VRBO still was a viable alternative for renting people’s homes. Then there are tons of other location specific real estate companies specializing in renting vacation homes.

If you think there is no alternative to these big tech companies, you haven’t looked very hard.
Hello, I'm the author of ProSudoku. This is a project I've been working on for a few months (mostly as a lockdown project to keep me busy).

This project has been a journey for me, and I've learned a lot about how sudoku puzzles are created, graded, and solved. I learned about the solving techniques that pros use to solve hard puzzles and I've incorporated them into a step-by-step solver that explains to the player why a move is legal.

I have also implemented my own handwriting recognition model using Apple's turicreate and the EMNIST dataset. The main reason I trained my own model is because I wanted to use the X character as a way to erase numbers, and also because I want to be able to add scratching over a number to clear it (I just need a dataset for that, which I'm working on).

The handwriting recognition also supports inserting pencil notes, and clearing them.

Overall I've had lots of fun working on this, and I hope you can give it a try and let me know what you think. I am already working on improvements, and so feedback will be extremely helpful in making it better.
Yes, I did that and it worked fine.
> the idea of buying a car - buying anything that has hardware in it that I have to pay extra to activate, it just seems wrong.

I made this point in another thread but this seems to be appropriate too.

If you use an iPhone or android you are under a similar regime. The hardware is capable of running any set of instructions that can exist. But it is artificially restricted to the subset found in the app store.

You can pay an extra fee to partially unlock it. You still cannot fully utilize it though.
Yes this is very true I believe, engineers are still 'just nerds'.
Why do we need laws around this? We need to hold the people accountable that put this into production and/or produced it. People should be able to build bad AI, but if that causes poor real world outcomes, then the people that okay'd its use need to take responsibility.

"An AI erroneously banned the channel," shouldn't get any more leeway than "A support staff member banned the channel."
To expand on this - a museum is just a pile of stuff without a curator who selects and organizes it to tell a cohesive story - a well curated exhibit is a wonder.
It seems we are using black for bad and white for good in English, which is strange since we had never used them before. Also, I feel like blocking and allowing makes sense when it comes to language, because bad and white mean the same. But when it comes to code, which the rest of the world uses black to mean bad and white to mean good, I don't know if that makes sense.
His truck is an environmental abomination, and almost certainly not as safe as a more modern vehicle, not to mention the hundreds of hours (thousands?) he's had to pour into understanding his vehicle and performing his own maintenance.

You make trade-offs, which is fine until you pretend like your set of trade-offs is the best set, and everyone else is wrong.
We have no leverage and the global economic system doesn’t care enough. Let’s be real, China is the new world super power. The US is still riding the coattails of prior success.

We’re a confused divided country and China has a brutally efficient system of exploitation the US needs.
> It's called an externality. It doesn't matter if you'd pay $10 for it if the cost imposed is too great

The cost imposed is proportional to the fee, since the fee has to pay for the electricity used to mine the transaction. And $10 of electricity is just... not a lot to worry about.

If you believe the electricity consumption in general has huge externalities, you have bigger problems than mining, and once you address those the mining cost/diffiuclty will adjust
> Daley first shut the field down in 1996 with the intention of turning the airport into parkland, in order to boost slumping Chicago real estate values and shore up political support by closing a symbol of elite privilege. > https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/day-shut-down-meigs...
> Not sure what a thinly resourced piece like this is doing so high up on HN.

Honestly, and anecdotally, I think there's been a large influx of people recently on the right wing spectrum and/or the more outrage driven spectrum. I've noticed a considerable shift in the number of outraged comments and right wing view points in the last few months.

I believe this ties in to the deplatforming of Parler. I can only surmise that it either led to a lot of lurkers becoming more active, or an influx of new members joining to share their outrage and sticking around. Or maybe it did shift existing members over to being more sensitive about what they perceive as internet policing.
i would try to rebuild the station database.

put up a form to ask for the name of the station, and get the browser to share the gps location. also ask for which lines stop here and where they are going.
submit all that to openstreetmap.

then do a search on the station name and gps location and display some useful information.

for the scavenger hunt, save the station codes in local storage in the browser, so that visitors can track their progress but you don't track visitor movements. only upload highscores to the server.

also display a random family friendly joke to encourage scanning.

experiment, see if you can find something that makes this go viral...

let people submit photos of the station...

let them report on bus delays...
"We should improve..." and "I hate..." are completely different statements, no?
Yeah I am aware of this project, and I am current trying write an alpha-star like AI for another holdem simulator https://www.pettingzoo.ml/classic, I already made some progress and I somehow believe the code for a alpha-star like texas-holdem AI will be released in sometime of the future.
Load shedding is implemented at the distribution substation level, not individual customers (unless they are very large customers connected directly to the high-voltage network like a manufacturing plant).

Furthermore, the retail energy providers offering these wholesale pricing schemes are just over-the-top resellers of energy, they don't own or operate any part of the electricity network. They can't instantaneously turn off anything.
We will never do anything, because iphone.
Perhaps this is true - it's quite plausible that there are too many videos uploaded to YouTube for any manual review to scale in a cost-efficient manner.

However to me this does not negate YouTube's good-faith responsibility to clarify what kind of product they are and what they intend to do with their service as the years go by. These mistakes are extremely costly and potentially offensive to the end user, no matter how rare they may be in daily practice.

YouTube made very foolhardy decisions to encourage the ingestion of any and all video content from just about all kinds of people. This had the impact of normalizing video content production practices, giving AI-directed content moderation a false sense of success in its early days of deployment. As content has grown more complex and nuanced on these platforms, the AI systems deployed have miserably failed to accommodate these changes in the ecosystem. It's all in an (IMO) futile effort for YouTube to make good on their reckless company roadmap without specific people having to take personal responsibility for their blunder.
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In some venues, up to a point, some types of intolerance, of course. Beyond that, some laws and harsh consequences have to exist for the dangerous cases too. The venues and the red lines should be natural result of society's history and consensus, it should not be imposed artificially by lawmakers or other powerful classes.

Allowing people to manifest mistaken, stupid or repulsive opinions is a basic tenet of free society.
> Not in the sense of being brainwashed or being influenced by some external force - like the religious right

Oh I don’t know about that. The “religious left” of today looks, acts, and smells a lot like the religious right of the ‘80’s to me. It’s the same instinct that’s being leveraged in people, just righteousness wrapped in a polka-dot cloth rather than a plaid one. Institutions clearly promote “right-thinking” whether it’s banning the use of words, doing mandatory internal critical race theory sessions, coordinated deplatforming, and let’s not even get started on the soft sciences in schooling and the state of what’s called “news”. The other day I skimmed a headline about a librarian burning their copies of books by Trump and Rush Limbaugh. In some ways the sheer weight of secular institutional support for today’s self-righteousness makes the American church of the eighties look like amateur hour.
I'm disagreeing with this thread. So I guess prepping for the down votes.

> it trivializes all this historic pain to some inane game of word association

I think addressing one issue does not 'trivialise' everything else. It can be horribly overstated but changing small fry can help provide momentum to change something more significant.

> It's complete bullshit,

It is obviously associating racism with something not intentionally racist. But does it not strike to you at all problematic, at the moment, that 'black' is a synonym of 'bad' and 'white' of 'good'? Does it not occur to you that it might improve our language to change that? Given changing a metaphor 'black' into a meaning 'block' doesn't seem to me a generally bad idea.

I understand the logic of 'that's just what languages is.' But language changes when people use it differently. It seems to me very reasonable to say let's use this language a little bit less unfortunately.

I'm not suggesting this is 100% the same but re: language change. I remember that time not too many years ago when people would argue that referring to a 'man' or 'him' at work was non-gendered. And those women complaining that we only talked about business men were just being unreasonable. I'm sure there are still places like that but I'm very glad that my co's & clients changed.
Survivorship bias. You don’t know how many good people were completely missed and were left with nothing in that super inefficient discovery system.
That argument is political, not scientific. Exactly my point :-)
The author of piosolver stop providing the free version for obvious reasons.
> Bitcoin looks over-sold right now

Loads of talk for crypto for years now. They yet unproven, and it seems its more about speculation than use at the moment with very little high street economic use.

Im mixed as it seems the future....because tech, but also consider governments use localised currency to profit + control economies.

And currency by nation actually adds a really good buffer to shifting world economies, monetary policy, debt payment etc and could cause serious issues if bitcoin became the global trade currency. There is a reason we dont all use USD, and you see how failing nations actively fight their economies from using USD or another nations currency.

Why would the world governments then allow bitcoin or other? Maybe cause it gets too big and cant be stopped without annoying voters? Maybe there is some failed state event with major nations and people rush to it? But assuming the world continues along within reasonable ups/downs, why would people you move to bitcoin as day-to-day from a practical sense and why would governments not strongly resist this?

Apologies if overdone topic but curious why people believe in the fundamental of use vs speculative price growth.
How can an individual understand and influence the risk preparedness of the whole grid? It's one thing to pay 3-4x for a day or be uncomfortably but safely warm. But a whole other thing to have costs increased by several orders of magnitude or alternatively freeze to death / heat with you gas stove/oven and suffer carbon monoxide poisoning / ....

People freezing to death because they can't afford to heat has externalized cost at a certain scale. Even if you just want to look at the economic effects.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is excellent.
If someone thinks chess colors are racist, they should get educated on their history first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_and_Black_in_chess#Histo...
Thats a lot of words to say "The wrong people are making money."