skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is not one of supply, but of generation. It wasn't sufficiently weather-proofed. It's entirely possible that it isn't profitable for them to do the winter-proofing. It's only needed once every decade or two.

This also ignores that power demand is largely inelastic during a winter storm in a state where homes are not built to withstand them. That introduces a cap to how high the prices can go. At a certain point, people are going to consume power to stay alive and then just declare bankruptcy on their $15,000 power bill. Or if your free market doesn't allow bankruptcy, they simply won't be able to pay it back.

It's entirely possible that the prices the market can bear before customers start becoming insolvent isn't enough to pay for the winterizing. They keep publishing those studies about how most people in the US can't afford an unexpected $200 or $500 bill. That's not a lot of room for prices to go up. The market rates put some people's power bill up by several thousand dollars for this month.

I can see how having to maintain winterizing equipment for a decade to get 10x the profits for a week might not be profitable.
Of course, you can explain your way out of that one too: The aliens found out we got smartphones, so they decided to stop making appearances now that they know they can be recorded.
The Guardian headline reads:
California BILL would decriminalize psychedelics...

The Hacker News post omitted the world BILL, and is very confusing.
That the virus exists or is a practical problem. I'm in deep QAnon territory here.
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLlWf-Fk_YM

Fear of declaring an emergency seems to be fairly common in GA incidents with lower airtime pilots.
For starters, the moon has helium-3, which is incredibly rare on earth and would be very useful for nuclear fusion should we ever figure that out.
I know people that would gladly use ham bands for business uses, and with encryption allowed it would be "just another encrypted QSO". And the ham bands would slowly fill up with non-ham use.
The marijuana industry has been doing it for decades with only a few big setbacks. It certainly has not dissuaded any entrepreneurs or customers!
> As evidenced in the community-developed ham exam, which deals with such exciting and timely topics as tuning vacuum tube amplifiers, receiving analog slow-scan TV signals, memorizing Morse code shorthands, and DX contests that lost most of their "oomph" when the Internet showed up.

That's a lot of text to just tell everyone you made up a bunch of shit. None of that shit is on licensing exams. What is on the exams are things demonstrating you've got enough knowledge to not electrocute yourself, not get RF burns, not turn your radio into a jamming device, and understand the etiquette for sharing very limited bandwidth available to amateurs.
> The ancients considered written text as less authentic, and rightly so.

I know some of the ancients were skeptical of the impact of writing on knowledge and culture, but others seem to have held rather the opposite view:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent
A Cap Theorem for Career Development
Integrating regalloc with a more streaming approach is something we may want to look at in the future in our backend -- for now we have a more conventional regalloc that extracts live ranges and either does a backtracking allocation or linear scan. That happens between lowering, which is where empty crit-edge blocks are created, and final emission, where the branch peepholing happens and empty blocks disappear, so the blocks exist during regalloc if needed. Anyway, there's an interesting design-space here!
Blue Origin is making slow but steady progress on New Glenn, which is about as capable as Falcon Heavy and has a reusable first stage. First flight could be next year.

If they bought ULA it would be for the established cont(r)acts , but it would feel like an odd lateral move after investing so much money and effort into to their own vehicle, and a non reusable one at that.

ULA s next rocket also uses the engine developed by BO for New Glenn, but is also not reusable apart from an optional future possibility of catching the engines with a helicopter.
I played with Meshtastic and was disappointed with range. I did not really expect miracles given LoRa's limited power, but 50 yards with direct line of sight was underwhelming.
Yes. I probably overstated my case. How quickly would that deliver a benefit?
I'm 25 years in, give or take, and I still find myself amazed people want to pay me money to do this. I do find it romantic. The whole thing.
I don't think you would hear about the entrepreneurs or investors that choose not to touch anything federally illegal.

I know many investors that are "no way, no how, absolutely not" on anything that remains a federal felony, such as the entirety of the cannabis industry.
The conclusion is not a bad place to start
https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138/#6

If I was to add my own spin to the problem outlined, I think it would be one of information and organisation. If we can significantly improve the bandwidth of information flow between individuals and groups, and then more efficiently organised larger groups towards a singular task we could achieve many things.

Some groups do achieve great things but it's not clear to me that we've codified how this can be achieved and/or identified what is required for such success.
My realization was similar but different wording. "If you have to work hard just to show up, find something else".
Without trying to imply any criticism of the life extension movement, when I read about arguments in support of technological immortality, they usually rest of the notion that death is a bad thing.

Which seems intuitive. But I frequently wonder to myself: why is life preferable to death?

Obviously we're all been programmed through evolution to fear and avoid death, since if we didn't we wouldn't be here reading this thread. Our entire society, all human society, revolves around avoiding death in nearly all circumstances. And with the invention of religion even death isn't really 'death.'

But the preference of being alive over being dead still seems arbitrary to me. In the same way it seems odd to believe that water is preferable to ice. People may argue that giving the people the choice of immortality lessens the suffering associated with dying. But what about the suffering associated with living? To be alive is to suffer, you can't suffer if you're dead. Perhaps if we really want to reduce suffering human extinction is our best bet.

I also feel like when most people imagine technological immortality they imagine it is 'them' that remains alive for hundreds of years, which involves a continuous static self that I'm skeptical of. I already change so much from year to year, it's hard to imagine that this body in a decade will be 'me'. And a hundred years? Maybe that future person would have some of my memories, but they'd be so different that I might as well be dead anyway.

What if tomorrow somebody offered you a lifetime supply of one of two pills.

One pill will prevent you from aging, you will be functionally immortal until you are killed by some other circumstance (like murder or an accident).

The other pill will completely remove your fear of death, or the death of your loved ones. You won't become suicidal or take irrational risks, you'll just be as zen as this guy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Th%C3%AD...

Which pill would reduce suffering more in your life?
The exact headline is 6 characters too long
There are diamond lenses [1]. They could be just the thing for Venus, which may have sulphuric acid rain. Diamond has no known equilibrium chemical reactivity below about 550 deg C.

[1] http://ndtcompany.com/products/diamond_lenses/
That’s my favorite essay of all time, and an incredibly accurate.
Simplifying Spring Security
Replying to you because their post got flagged (sorry)

I didn’t downvote but felt like this was worthy of a response.

Your whole perspective is a mechanical pragmatic one but the goal of a space program goes beyond that. It’s intended to be aspirational because we are species that wants to be inspired. It’s why NASA dedicates part of its mission to outreach. It’s also why a lot of countries have a space program when they have even larger problems to solve; it’s serves as both inspiration and national pride. If we only care about pragmatism, we might as well get rid of literature, music, art... you know the things that help make life worth living. Personally, I think doing hard, pioneering things to help inspire a populace is worth 0.45% of the national budget*

And from the extreme negativity in your post, a little inspiration might be of use to you, too.

* I also say this as someone who left the space industry to focus on an industry geared towards more immediate problems
Glad I found this useful post while refreshing HN for some mental stimulus.

A book I found silly when I read it was Future shock. It said that change and information would be so rapid in the future that people would be in permanent state of shock. Seemed like a ridiculous notion at the time but not anymore.

22 year old me read about the Jewish tradition of Sabbath day and found it so silly. A day where you’re not supposed to use any technology or do any productive work ? How silly !

I totally get it now. They were onto something. We’ve now reinvented it as “digital detox” and “dopamine fasting”.

Got my hit by writing this comment now off to the the next post I go.
> countless (monetarized) apps and courses which gamify the meditation experience

What do these apps do? Ive been giving meditation a shot recently. (Because i have similar thoughts about my distractions) So im aware of them, ive been mediating just by setting the timer on my phone and finding some quiet time and then well mediate. Mediate as i understand it is just sitting still and being present and aware of your mind wandering then bringing it back to being present.

What am I missing?
So she was fired after making demands the employer wasn’t prepared to meet, including keeping her employed until after her vacation.
yeah maybe sql injection is a good analogy: bug bounties for it, then automated fuzzing, and now built-in to frameworks. there a companies and oss here, so building robustness into training sets, tf, is normal . I'm not sure if bet on a new Coverity wrt VC $, but definitely r&d and smaller groups
I'm dubious of the claims made on that page.

"Divisional protection" appears to simply be stating that the Vedas are divided into sections. This doesn't provide any form of error correction; it's simply a means of organization.

"Meter protection" states that the Vedas consist of metrical verse. This provides a limited level of protection against certain types of errors (like inserted or deleted words), but not against larger changes.

"Swara protection" and "Mudra protection" state that the chants are tonal, and that those tones are associated with particular gestures. I'm not sure what protection this is meant to provide.

"Patha protection" is a restatement of the same memorization technique described in the OP.
Did you read the "Note" at the top of that link? From that it's clear that this is a many-decade project: if it had been started in 2011, it would only be partially done by 2030. That would not be the "reasonable amount of time" requested by parent. Technology will improve, and eventually all sorts of things will be feasible. More reasonable plans can be hatched at that time.
Yeah but the actual raid card got kaput. Interesting recovery process. (Basically read the firmware and flash to another card as far as i remember)
Put a beer opener magnet on the fridge.

Horizontal is dishes are clean

Vertical is dishes are dirty

Simple problems demand simple solutions
PBS stations also run local news programs, too. The ones that I've watched have always been great compared to most entertainment news programs.
The process of mining helium-3 won’t be cost efficient for a long time. It’s an overhyped material that requires sifting through kilometers of lunar regolith for grams of H3
Except he led them to the amulet in the first place.

Indiana Jones a Nazi collaborator? Film at 11.
I’ve come to see this as a feature not a bug. To get a significant amount of money from elected officials there has to be a there, preferably their district. SLS was the giant scaffold that allowed for the effective seed of commercial resupply missions to occur and grow. Without SLS’ distributed network of Government friendly contractors and contracts all lined up in an immaculately conceived waterfall the focus would be on the commercial efforts which have to be run a different way to get better results. Imagine instead of Joe Rogan, Musk is spouting off to some committee of crusties. That wouldn’t be pretty, and success means avoiding that conflict in world views by funding SLS. In some ways it is kind of like funding a semi-fake cathedral in order to attract and develop the bazaar you really want.
People said the same thing about reusable rockets only a decade ago. Now they're common place.

All the things above are fully realizable in the coming decades, they are not in the realm of science fiction what so ever they are merely engineering problems.
That mission is targeting something the size of a washing machine not a car. Something around 5,000kg is reasonable, but asteroids are denser than your thinking.
This is incredible. Process transmissions sent 40 years ago by a foreign spacecraft, make better-than-official pictures.
HO HO THAT'S RIGHT BOB
Nice README and examples.

Notes:
This seems like a “Show HN” post, you might want to title it that way.
The inclusion guard of json.h is P4_LANG_MUSTACHE_H, might not be what you want.
> it will run under (Free)DOS (which by today’s standards is almost bare metal)!

This statement holds for raspberry pi’s too.
‘Panne’ is French for ‘breakdown’. (Like ‘m'aider’ is French for ‘help me’.)
If life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness doesn't include willingly and responsibly putting whatever you want in your own mouth for whatever reason you want then I don't even want a country.
Well with that mentality why don't we just give up all human endeavours and let entropy wash over us?
Easy. Having my heart broken so many times.
Can no one even be bothered to debate the point?
I love maps (and atlases), but do printed maps really matter much in practice anymore?

Most of us looked at this on a device that already contains either a 3D model of the Earth, or a web browser that will happily display one in seconds. We can now easily view undistorted views of the world whenever we want — why do we even need ‘better’ 2D maps of the world?
First what matters is the sum of all deaths by a specific age not deaths at a specific age.

Anyway, the average age of fathers in the US is 31. Men over the age of 40 make up 9% of all fathers. So, dying at 30 or even 40 is directly meaningful from an evolutionary standpoint. Further, losing parents is a significant issue.
Isn't the internal storage NVMe?
Very well worded. One thing I'll add -- some of the best code I've written has been the shortest and most plain, simple and obvious. Perhaps for the reasons you stated -- it makes it more likely to come through untouched over time.
I support any language that lets me use unless (if!) and until (while!).

I really wish more languages would adopt this syntactic sugar.
Sync your GitHub fork directly without using CLI
https://www.discourse.org/
Maybe a system for emergency detaching of the failed engine with a parachute would help aleviate the consequences of flying with a uncontrollably vibrating fireball?
Yeah. I remember using it a toy graphics engine. I ported to DJGPP (32 bits) one day, and everything was 10x faster. Never looked back, but it’d be nice to have an independent compiler company.
No big mystery here, people who buy Macs, prefer MacOS and don't see why you'd bother with Desktop Linux in general.

I'm personally interested in Linux on the Mac as a curiosity and as an alternative in case Apple ever screws up MacOS so much I feel desktop Linux is the least bad alternative.
Indeed, most people are not shopping for other ideas. Most people are too busy with their lives to think too deeply about the world, and are content to simply let the ideas find them.

That is the bargain of politics: "give us power and we will tell what to think". For such people, Twitter is entirely sufficient. The design of twitter as a textual broadcasting platform is ideal for a unidirectional transmit/receive of ideas.
Agree. If the OP's concern is the Gamestop fiasco, then IB is just as bad as Robinhood.
Also probably tests things like signals/job control. I ran into an issue bootstrapping ppcle (on linux) where everything but the signal handler (and vDSO) were working, but context switching from a kernel to a signal handler ended in SIGILL. Booting multi-user probably wouldn't work without working signals.
Human spaceflight has always been, first and foremost, a political thing. The only thing that's changed since the mid 20th century is that the politicians can no longer agree on where to move the football and how for more than 4 consecutive years at a time.
All of their channels are in the same LTT page on floatplane, although apparently they will be moved to other pages later.
Last I know of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 running out of fuel.
That second-last photo of the ?cowling? on the ground with no damage to the house or the vehicle is just astonishing.
"Find the hard work you're willing to do" sounds very similar to what an economist would say, "find your comparative advantage"
The great extension is to find the hard work that you're willing to do, that few others are willing to do, and that many people need.
I don't think it was Raid 0 if you're talking about the time a long time ago they nearly lost data. If I recall correctly, the data was in Raid 6, but there was no external backup.
Here is one of those bio-product bags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRqwoSD94w

at 0:30 the video explains bags are made of "polyvinyl alcohol and raw materials like limestone" not sure how costly these primary materials + production are, but given final "state" is non-toxic, would be worth paying for this.

Why are grocery stores not moving into this big time? Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Might be hard to figure out what nuclei are usable for that, but I’m sure high frequency lasers would be useful
Google can't even tell that the search is coming from DuckDuckGo, as DDG sends this when redirecting to a Google-owned service:

<meta name='referrer' content='never'>

Interestingly, it doesn't to other networks. For example, Wikipedia, Reddit, and Twitter redirects use this:

<meta name='referrer' content='origin'>

So they can tell it's from DDG, but not the exact URL (not that it matters because they get the query anyways)
There are almost zero similarities between the current US and the late Roman Empire. You could make a case that there are similarities to the late republic, but even that is a fools errand
> If you are not invested in the well-being of the userbase, you will get called out.

The person doing this might get called out, but will the negative consequences of that calling out outweigh the resume padding benefit they experience?

If not, then I would expect this to keep happening.
Part of it probably has to do with his hatred of short sellers. People who short sell have a vested interest in seeing the stock they've shorted drop. They tend to make their opinions known and attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"I bet a billion dollars this stock will go down."
"Well shit. if he bet a billion dollars the stock will go down I better sell it before it does."
Gee the stock went down!

People have been vocal about shorting Tesla. Musk probably sees their bets against his company as a personal insult.

GME is massively short sold. By some accounts many multiples of existing shares have been sold. I'm not sure that's legal but it seems like it's being done.

If a bunch of people buy and hold a massively short sold stock the short sellers (who've sold a stock they don't own) have to buy it back to cover their promises. This causes a short squeeze which spikes the price and costs the sort sellers massive amount of money.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/melvin-capital-redd...

Or maybe he just likes the stocks. There's an argument to be made that Gamestop is undervalued. That AMC will emerge from the COVID crisis stronger than ever and that Dogecoin while it seems like a joke is actually a cryptographically and structurally sound cryptocurrency.

Although probably not the latter since he claims he doesn't own stock in any publicly traded company except Tesla.

I think he's just in it for the memes.
This is a fantastic idea and I don't think it's impossible. Though I'm only an amateur physicist, it seems plausible that decay could be a little less random than we think.

I remember reading about seasonal half-life variability that could have been due to changes in solar neutrino flux.

I also remember something about changes in half-life when atoms were placed inside c60 spheres.

I haven't read anything for or against it, but I'd be interested in if a Bose-Einstein condensate of a fissile material may exhibit a tendency to particular products.

I'm with you on this one, and I think there is much room for improvement and further experiment.
Bill is arguably the 4th most important word in the headline, I think there are better ways of shortening it.
Actually, one thing I was wondering after I got the alert about the 7700 (via flightradar24) - is there anything I'm missing in terms of a reasonably reliable way to figure out what Center frequency a given airplane is currently communicating on, when not low enough to be talking to Approach? I'm assuming there isn't, because handoffs from departure seem to vary frequencies when I fly.
Yes My Dear, All White People Are Racists
Not an expert, but: if there had still been fuel supplied to that engine, the fire would have been a lot worse. If you watch the video the fire clearly becomes less intense over time, and the footage of the landing suggests it's out by then. Remember that fuel isn't the only flammable thing there - engines need oil for lubrication, and in combination with whatever residual fuel was in the system and potentially sprayed everywhere, it's not surprising that you'd have enough to burn for a short time.
Likely, I would be posting this from a flying car on Mars if it wasn't for the church.

This now defunct website put it beautifully:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050314130905/http://www.supers...

The church forced people to believe in the Geocentric model, they murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, they harassed the fuck out of Galileo, Kepler's family, and countless other scientists. Now they're all about preaching about forgiveness and altruism, but before they ruled people's lives with an iron fist.

You cannot discover gravity if you believe in Geocentrism. Without gravity it's harder to get to the laws of motion. Without laws of motion you have no physics. And so on, so forth.
The Nazis found the amulet independently; at least that was always my interpretation. There was no indication I could find that the Nazi in Tibet followed Jones.
Which makes the whole system even more despicable: they weren't fired because of the content. They were fired because they were caught.
I've heard composting PLA is pretty bad for the environment as it produces a lot of methane, which is much worse greenhouse gas compared to CO2.

It also seems PLA doesn't degrade in landfills. It requires a built to purpose composting facility.
Right. That’s what math is for. Intuition is well and good, but rigor demands deriving the path you leapt ahead on.
So, uh, now what? Everyone who uses Bitcoin locally (as opposed to via an online wallet) has child porn on their computer?
What is the alternative confusing interpretation that the omission creates? I don't see it.
Show HN: Tape Machine
So strap a rocket to one and find out. If it doesn't work grab another.