skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post reads oddly anti-renewables. You can't genuinely discuss energy and renewables in 2021 without mentioning battery storage -- so many procurements now are packaged solar/batteries. No one suggests pure wind/solar, but rather batteries as a 3-4 day short-term storage system. Yes, long term storage is needed, that is an acknowledged sticking point that many companies are looking at. There is in fact evidence that solar is beneficial to some ecosystems it's installed in, and it certainly adds value to homeowner's houses too. But with batteries, you unlock the next level for renewables.

With these batteries in hand, you don't need new base-load nuclear power, it's much slower and harder to build, in terms of regulatory and complexity issues, and it's going to cost you a lot more -- see the debacle in South Carolina and their wasted money on a failed nuclear plant. The only place really building new nuclear is China, but why would the US when electricity demand growth is largely flat in recent years and only smaller bits of incremental additions are needed to replace retiring or dirtier plants? Where do you see nuclear fitting in, which design to be used, and how will it be funded?

Compared to solar/wind/batteries, there's simply nothing as cost-effective at stopping climate change.
Collecting, selecting and presenting something. Like art in a gallery
The lockdowns are no longer a credible strategy. The politicians are not willing to implement the draconian measures necessary to actually prevent transmission. So they are implementing half measures they know are ineffective to create a semblance of effective governance. Why else have so many politicians been caught flouting their own policies?
Yeah but I bet they don't test the engine by throwing the turkeys in while its actually flying. Could easily be bird strike broke a fan blade that damaged the outer cowlings enough that they broke off/apart due to airspeed. From what I understand these engines use a unique hollow fan blade; so it could also just be an early/unexpected failure.

I wonder why you would freeze the turkey before throwing it in. Surely their aren't frozen birds that size flying around. It's like shooting a man.. before throwing him out an airplane.
>I don't understand how the United States is reasonably bounded for this example. I'm bounded by my body, which travels together.

You are also comprised of billions of living cells (not to mention trillions (?) of other organisms like gut bacteria). And you're in constant interaction with your environment (e.g. inhaling more bacteria, oxygen, proteins, and so on). Cells also drop off you all the time.

Plus, doesn't America have borders? So, what if it interacts with other countries? You also interact with other people as you said...
To be a "leader in wind power" you shouldn't just be a populous state with an ordinary per-capita amount of wind power. That wouldn't make you "the leader in wind power", it would make you "the leader in large population".

So this person is taking seriously the idea of being a "leader in wind power", and exploring whether there's any merit to it.
Emirates Operates First Fully Vaccinated Flight to the Los Angeles
The people with the debts should go bankrupt/be released from paying; the losers should be the companies who provided services without thinking about how they were going to be compensated.

I can see how this is going to be the taxpayer's problem - but that isn't because there is anything wrong with consumers taking on risk. The problem is corruption in the political process of wealthy politicians are friends with wealthy CEOs and big shareholders. Then magically bailouts happen with near bipartisan support.

The galling part of it is that there probably is a political consensus on the ground against bailing out companies that make bad decisions. I think at least the socialists and free marketeers would agree that if the owners make economically ruinous decisions they shouldn't stay on as owners.
Don't make the important information so hard to read.

I don't think the black background needs to be a thing. If you have to distinguish blocks judt thicken the border a wee bit. You'd be surprised how little you need.
It kinda does: https://1b677b8f8bb20100.github.io/introduction/#why-is-pepe...
You're probably right, but that's not the point.

It's a free/cheap multi currency account with local bank details in 6+ countries, which give you 90% of the functionality you want, namely the ability to hold and transfer cash.

If you need more functionality you get a local bank account.
https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

9 years old.
Maybe she is actually a genocider reborn. Maybe she isn't.

What we know is that she doesn't really have any authority.

If she does something the military didn't like, whoops there's a coup.

If the military is likey or feels so so about it, then it's fine.

If the military wants her to do something, she probably has to.

The coup proves that.

Western people are out of touch. You cannot speak up or playing a martyr in these countries because they will actually kill you and your family and everyone involved.

To answer your question, we'll probably never know.

Apparently, you probably don't know either since your question implied that she had authority.
Would it be safe to use this if you're transferring a very large amount of money, for example to buy a house in a foreign country? Anyone have experiences (good or bad) with large transfers they'd like to share?
They froze the turkeys to make them easier to fire out of their pneumatic cannon at several hundred miles per hour. (I saw this on a documentary about the 777 on TV, and I can't find the clips on YouTube).
Derived Reactive Observable State with Slice
From a glance it seems to be mostly Haskell-ish but with Scheme style macros.
I completely understand and the two paragraphs in my comment are two separate things. One comments on the fact that they said you can only have another citizenship by birth if you want to keep the German one (false) and the other one reminded me of another sort of funny passport and different/dual citizenship situation from my life, which is why I said "similar-ish". Emphasis on "ish".
Per capita or per square mile are meaningful comparisons. Per state is silly.
Electricity bills are post-paid. There's an inherent credit mechanism.
> Do you really believe that this will result in fair, unbiased reporting?

One could make the argument that the eras in which only those who had money or political power had a real voice resulted in a more stable society. Allow everyone to have a voice (full freedom of speech) but outlaw platforms that truly try to give a voice to everyone. If someone really wants to put out a message they can go to the street corner and shout whatever they like, no matter how bad it is, unrestricted.
I don’t see the association as particularly unnatural: black = dark = scary because we cannot see, and white = light = not scary because we can see. The use of the term ‘black’ as a negative modifier predates its use as a descriptor for race.
Has anyone built any new map sets, mods, “total conversions” for it yet?
Where do you live? Bank wires are pretty expensive everywhere I've seen. (local bank transfers like ACH are free on TW too)
I haven't read heavily into this debate so this comes from a position of ignorance of the arguments. Feel free to link me to a reference if this has been analyzed along these lines already, I would like to learn. The convention seem to me to follow several similar motifs from the sciences.

Black holes do not allow matter to escape and white holes are theoretical constructs that admit matter to the universe.

The color Black is the lack of visible light and white is considered to be the color of "all" light together.

In all cases discussed, black correlates to absence and white to admission or presence. Now I guess it could be asserted that these terms are also racially tinged but again I am not aware of any sources making those assertations. Feel free to link me.
As a materialist, you don't require a "soul" to consider something conscious, much less so consider having one the unique province of humans.

So, with rabbits, their having brain matter makes them so.
Complete utter nonsense. Humans are as conscious as the hands on a clock moving from the gears that control them. Yes, there's no reason for anyone to believe the electrons making the hands on a clock, aren't aware of forces interacting with them at any given moment and the same can be said about humans.
Excuses like “protectng human life in the face of uncertainty” seem valid. History should look back more fondly on someone who tried to save lives in the face of unknowns rather than gamble them.

Not to mention there is a gray are. You be a supporter of lockdowns but also believe the government did not sufficiently protect people/businesses.

This is a multi-faceted issue, not a binary one.
> having an excuse to go to war with China

I don't see any evidence of that. The current administration is pretty friendly towards China.

(China would lose though. Just block the oil and coal supply routes)
Their face regulation wouldn’t recognized certain faces.
Before You Were a Twinkle in Your Father's Eye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world (A fascinating article.)
> The fact that China has been pretty open about investigators coming to see whats going on

Could you substantiate this? How many international journalist teams were allowed into China?
We're not talking about people, we're talking about governments, and other governments do not have to obey your governments tax law.
I am not sure if this is completely true. Bitcoin core can change via Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process. If 95% of miners vote for a specific BIP it gets into core. Now I am not sure what happens if 95% of miners are in China.
Before the printing press came out, literally no one had a voice. It was simply too expensive. Printing press actually allowed some people to have a voice, but you still needed money to fund it. Going back to an era where you need money to have a voice wouldn't be a bad idea. A good start would be to outlaw any social network from also running an ad network, for-pay social networks only. Then I'd know only people who actually cared would be saying things.
I'd love to hear an answer for this one.
You would think that but some municipalities like New Orleans are addicted to the franchise taxes from new gas plants and roll over for the utilities (I am speaking about the South in general)
Pre-paid plans are relatively common around the world and becoming more so in the US. Much of that is due to utility companies requiring quite large deposits that they will forgo if you are pre-paid.
> If you’re a materialist, you probably think that rabbits are conscious...

But only someone who is coming from a perspective outside of materialism would find this "consciousness" some magical property.

The conclusion that "the United States is probably conscious" is only interesting or shocking if you come from a perspective that human consciousness is some special thing to begin with.

From a materialist perspective the idea that essentially 'all complex systems share a lot in common, including what we would call "consciousness"' is sort of the point.

When you regard consciousness as not particularly more interesting than any other complex system, such as a tornado, because it is just a material process like any other, driven by the same forces as any other, then all of the wind is taken out of this argument.

Only someone who already objects to materialism would find this claim remotely interesting.
Congratulations, that's great! There are certainly different paths towards achieving the same goal. I'm sorry you weren't able to get any promotions to work out.
Time for chess to follow our lead on this one.
> but can't typically "find their own way" to the proof of a theorem

That's not what proof assistants like Lean and Coq are about. Sure, they can automate some trivial things, but generally their main utility is that they check your reasoning, not come up with it for you.
Or, from an insects perspective:

"The swarm doesn't think humans are swarm-aware. Swarm still thinks they have some form of consciousness"
There are way too many videos for manual review and the relatively rare false positive (one high profile case every few months vs how many videos uploaded every day?) is worth the gain in efficiency. But there should certainly be a better manual review process once the AI messes up.
Calhamer's book on Diplomacy, Calhamer on Diplomacy: The Boardgame "Diplomacy" and Diplomatic History, is probably the best set of game designer's notes I've ever seen. Discussions of the state of Europe in the late 19th century mixed with tactics and play suggestions.

It's hard to find, though.
How would you trust anyone? Anyone can claim they are the good guys. With open source software, you can at least audit a project and the technical decisions (that make sure no one controls the network, even the authors) behind it.
If you're saying that people can't transfer money into your account via ACH, then that's not true. Being paid by a client is a specific use they describe.
> For StackOverflow - a simple rank system would be nice

There is one which is based on your rank as a user against every other user. The problem is that SO has 15+ million users, anyone who's able to gain a reputation of more than a few thousand ends up in the top 0.1% or so because there's such a long tail of low/no-rep users. They should probably work on fixing this because it's a bit artificial.

I'm one of 976 users out of these 15M+ that has a rep of over 100k (112k), I don't contribute much now, but still accrue points for upvotes on past answers (rightly or wrongly). Though there is a daily rep cap to prevent this getting out of control, but John Skeet :/, that said I did put a lot of work into these answers at the time, so why not keep accruing points, even if my participation has waned. I dunno, I don't really care much now.
That's probably referencing this filing: http://www.puc.texas.gov/51617WinterERCOTOrder.pdf

The PUCT makes a salient point: why was energy trading at less than the maximum if we were shedding load? If demand is so high that the generators can't keep up, then pricing would be expected to follow. PUCT directed ERCOT to ensure that their pricing is commensurate with the scarcity on the market.
Offsite backup is not enough. I have done consulting on many projects and on every one of them, someone getting access to certain servers would be able to sabotage backups as well.

If your data is important, you should replicate your backups to an append-only storage with a long retention period.

I've been using S3 in "Compliance" retention mode, which coupled with Glacier is cheap, and more importantly lets me sleep at night.
Texas Republicans are absolutely planning to socialize the losses by using federal emergency funds to offset electric bills incurred by residents.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/21/texas-republ...
Will anyone ever finish VC Summer? Maybe after they will have done Vogtle right?
I use blacklist and whitelist. These ideas are a part of my consciousness. The definitions for these words as a result of this change are a conscious choice, not some accidental result of the nature of the words themselves.

I don't use it to mean "black" or "white." I use it to mean things that aren't black or white. Blocklist and allowlist don't exist because they are things. I don't think about the "Black" and "White" in these words. I think about what they mean to people. This is why you don't hear that many people complain that the use of these words in games has changed or changed. The people complaining, I think, are the people who have changed the way they think about these words.
I don't know what it means to define self-awareness without consciousness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
I wonder if discussion of this article will get banned on Twitter.
>serious conservatives haven't been touched

Are you familiar with former american president Donald J. Trump?

EDIT: And now I'm banned from posting. Thanks HN. Sorry I don't agree with your hive mind.
This looks fascinating. Does anyone know much about it? The documentation is somewhat Spartan.
I applied last year to use their services for my officially registered company based in Canada. They didn’t approve it, and when I asked for the reason, they said it is their algorithms. It was not wise thing to do.
The car one is still giving great mileage: https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-parodies-you-wouldnt-steal-...
Interesting. The company I just left sells a load balancer/application server/do-everything-box and one of the rules of the coding is that it must never crash. Even out of memory errors need to be recovered from and we shut off the kernel feature that makes malloc not actually malloc memory.
The goal however is not to prevent bitcoin mining, that can be easily achieved, the goal was to reduce. carbon emission, and now they are being emitted by the ton in another country that uses cheap coal to power the them. You've achieved a net negative from the stated goal.
In an alternate timeline, using four 16-bit numbers instead of octets could very well have been a solution to the IPv4 shortage. :)
How Wall Street Is Devastating Our National Security
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> Tolerate intolerance to tolerance of gaybashing?

Which explains why you should probably re-phrase. And also because not all societies on this planet are the same in terms of "tolerance".
I disagree with you on the light metaphor. Black things admit photons. White things reject photons.

Here's some more extensive reading from an earlier article when Maven did this: https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/no-more-inf...

The key bit:

> It reminded me of an iconic BBC interview with Muhammad Ali in 1971 where he recalled that all the positive things he grew up with were white, from White Cloud tissue paper to the White House, while all the negative things, from the bad luck of a black cat to the term blackmail, were black. Nearly 50 years later, that linguistic measuring stick is alive and well.

He's right. Lots of English therms equate black with bad and white with good. Blacklist and whitelist fit into that pattern, and changing it takes a small step in the other direction.

Blacklist's etymology isn't racist, but if black folks prefer that we use something else, and something as similar as blocklist is there and easy to use, it seems like an easy fix.
FAA Statement on Boeing 777 Engine Failure
I think this was a valid mindset last March when we had little trusted data, limited mitigation strategies, few treatments, and no vaccines.

A year later, to have all those things and follow the same policies implies we either a) nailed it from the start or b) are not applying what we've learned. One of those is unlikely and the other unacceptable.
Some software / sites put one there for you. Which is annoying when you don't want it.
Big fan of TransferWise, been using them for years as they're the only FX provider I've used who are actually transparent about their fees which are derived from the real-time actual market rate at time of submitting the transfer - which end up being substantially lower (and much faster to deliver) than any other FX service I used to use.

I get why they'd want a rebrand to "wise", similar to "Apple Computer" -> "Apple" when Apple started doing than just computers but IMO it's a bit early as they're still only known for their core Transferring funds services. At the same time having a short company name & domain like `wise.com` does give the impression of a more global trusted brand for anyone who's never heard of them - so I'd say it's a good move for them overall.
Has there been leadership change recently?

A shiny new top executive just trying to mark their territory in the best way known to humans and canines.
Oh hey, this was me. Happy to answer questions if anyone has them :)
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but 555-1212 is the number for directory assistance.
A lot of folks on reddit are complaining that SMB no longer works on their Android TV devices.
So?
The only reason it's "the best it has ever been" is because people in the past didn't accept that argument as a good reason to stop improving things.
I'm curious to know how you verified this. The help text in the app is explicit that "There's no fee to receive ACH payments, or any other kind of payment that uses your ACH routing number."

I remember the app used to show two sets of US bank details, and that the routing number for receiving wire transfers was different from the one used for receiving ACH transfers. But that seems no longer to be the case.
I don't know the details of this particular case, but it's not a hyperbole.

Another commenter here pointed out the Markiplier case. They banned entire Google accounts for spamming emotes in YouTube chat and those bans were un-appealable. They unbanned the accounts only after the public outrage on Twitter.

Besides, people don't take it seriously anyway, because they actually agree with real censorship and they dismiss it with the "private company" argument.
This is something that future generations are going to look back at with a lot of shame. It's going to end up being in textbooks as another thing where students wonder why we were OK with genocide happening under our noses.

In the US at least, we are not taking this problem seriously enough. There's a lot of acknowledgement that something bad is happening, but not a lot of clear coordination on an international scale to actually stop it. I am generally a non-interventionist, but this is an area where we need to get more involved and we need to be more forceful about pulling the economic and social levers that we have at our disposal.

It still feels like we're just treating this like "problematic" behavior from a contentious ally, rather than a genocide. At least in the US, we are still not really grappling with the gravity of that word.