skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I haven't noticed in the price of goods. I wouldn't be surprised if services increased their price since we're still in the middle of a pandemic. I imagine the flow of customers are down (I love restaurants but don't have any immediate interest in going to that or a barber shop) and the people going are more motivated than the average customer hence willing to pay more. I also think a price increase might be done because of sympathies knowing those kinds of businesses are struggling.
> Because there is no I in AI.

This a common refrain but fairly obviously untrue. It assumes there's some secret sauce in human brains that makes us "intelligent" whereas AI is "just a machine".

It's pretty clear that human brains are just programs. Extraordinarily complicated highly optimised programs, sure. But nobody has even found a shred of evidence that there's anything fundamentally different to programs in them.

Thinking otherwise is along the same lines as thinking that animals don't have feelings.

Every time there's an advance in AI the "it's not really intelligent" goalpost shifts. Clearly intelligence is a continuum.
Are they lacking technical skills or social/tribal knowledge or both?
Oh, a 2x3. Did you get into Amateur Radio late?
Data-related programming paradigms that every developer should know
Respectfully, I don't see the issue as one of choosing to have a capacity market. There was ample excess capacity (at least 26GWs!), just no natural gas to run it as the natural gas infrastructure was frozen.

So what was the nature of the failure? Well, there was not resiliency standard that required the natural gas infrastructure to be winterized. Because this infrastructure froze, the state ran out of methane ('natural gas') to run it's massive excess capacity.

Now this isn't hard to do, Siberia, New England, and Scandinavia all have massive natural gas infrastructure that's fully winterized. But Texas never required that winterization, so they ran out of actual methane when they needed it most and then the turbines could not turn.

Said differently, the underlying issue is regulatory and 'energy system' one - having a capacity market (like PJM or New England ISO) would in no way have changed the outcome because the state would still have run out of methane.

Do you see it differently?
I thought interest rates and rate of inflation have an inverse relationship.
If the market solves all problems why would the government even need to mandate winterization? Wouldn't smart businesses have done the risk analysis and done the work? Maybe the problem here is that loss of electrical power has a significant external cost that isn't absorbed by the utilities. In other words, the cost of winterization was more than the cost to fix the damage to their equipment but doesn't take into account the cost to everyone else.

Externalities are, in my opinion, one of the primary reasons for market failure.
I don't think you can tell much about somebody by looking at the single datapoint "has MBA" or "not has MBA". My feeling is there are people with MBA's who are completely useless, and people with MBA's who are amazing. The only thing that I'd really say about this whole deal is just that there are plenty of "existence proofs" out there that you can run a company without needing an MBA.
United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
> Yes, they are CHARGING power plant operators who rushed to bring capacity online.

A negative cost incentivizes the operators to turn it off, no? I imagine those power plant operators can easily turn it off in an hour? 9000/31=290.3, so there is plenty of margin to break even.
It optimised against resiliency and the state oversight did not capital invest. If the market was meant to ensure resiliency it failed. Now, the green sources are being blamed by AGW deniers for causing the outage, and the coal and oil baseload story is back on the table.
Oh, and I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect.

Note that the music is only intended to be filler.

Otherwise, watching this in black and white really made obvious how well staged and choreographed the film is. I don’t consider myself much of a Spielberg fan, but I was impressed.

If the music bothers you, try the section at 1:22:35. It goes pretty well with that scene.
Great points, especially,

> They can only get widespread adoption by other hams if they are documented.

> So this regulates itself

Until the first project gets traction that allows you to easily drop in public/private key encryption of payload.
"The one disadvantage of the new materials Mecking identified was their cost."

Oops.

Biodegradable plastics are available. They're useful for things likely to be discarded with ordinary trash, like food packaging. Some are made from starches.
The only way to exclude the market from the equation is for the state to have total control over the entire energy pipeline, from pulling natural gas out of the ground to the power plants to delivery.

You can't simply mandate that energy prices will be a certain amount if the power plants still have to buy natural gas and other power sources from the free market. If you tried, the power plants would simply shut down when it wasn't profitable according to the legislated rate, making the problem even worse.

If you tried to legislate that power plants or energy producers must sell energy at a fixed cost no matter what it costs them to produce and they can't shut down, they have to price that risk into their long-term model. You're now paying more for the same service just to make it worth someone else's while to take the risk.

The energy market at least provides a feedback loop to large, energy-consuming businesses. Large consumers of electricity like manufacturing facilities will simply decide to shut down when energy prices are too to be profitable, and wait for the cost to go down. You don't see this as a homeowner, but there are industries that adjust their schedules around energy pricing.
Can you link this tent kit? The official one doesn’t seem to do that much. I am in the market for new options so I’d be happy to try that out.
The British have a plan for this and many other things on the National Grid.
For decades they have used pumped hydro to manage this. Paired with a TV in the control room showing Eastenders or the football as appropriate.
> This in an enormous accomplishment given the vast corpus of text preserved without any errors creeping in.

This bit is particularly questionable. It's unproveable -- if a text was only transmitted orally, there's no way to compare its modern form to an older version -- and it's probably wrong. The short-range memorization techniques described in the article don't guard against larger-scale errors in memorization, like omitting a "chapter" of a text, nor do they prevent single-word changes, like a student mishearing a word for another similar-sounding word.
> The energy market is not the solution. The energy market is the problem.

No, unreliable power sources such as wind, solar and gas are the problem.

Except for a short outage due to a sensor failure, the four nuclear reactors have been steadily supplying electricity.

The overall availability of nuclear across the United States is >90%. It’s far more reliable than any other source of electricity.

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity

To avoid such outages in the future, Texas needs to build more nuclear reactors.

No other source of energy is weather-independent, can store fuel supplies for several years on site, is emission free and extremely high capacity factors.
How much lower then the rest of America? What about compared to Canada?

Is that difference more then the human lives lost, property destroyed and time wasted during the last few days?
Cherry picked much?
It's interesting that they only tackle a single model architecture (a pretty common one). It makes me think that is is likely an attack technique which uses knowledge of the model weights to mess up image recognition (if you know the weights, there are some really nice techniques that can find the minimum change necessary to mess up the classifier).

Pretty cool stuff, but also if my assumption is correct it means that if you _didn't_ use the widely available ImageNet weights for inception v3 then this attack would be less effective (or not even work). Given that most actors who you don't want recognizing your images don't open source their weights this may not scale/or be very helpful...
Also, when an obvious market failure kills dozens of people, “free markets fix everything” is not correct.
“Tusi” Motion
Climate change leading to temperature extremes in both directions is an open question within climate science. There are some theories suggesting this is the case and there are skeptics of that theory, but if you've proven otherwise then you should probably submit your research to them.
Curious about your mentoring program. How does it work? I always feel that who am I to really provide advice?

I was recently asked to attend a virtual mentoring session and I didn't due to scheduling conflicts but I had no idea what to say had I attended. I was going to kick it off if they had any questions about anything and then move into my career over the years. I didn't want to share too much because I feel it would be bragging.
Fact check: lab leaks are not "conspiracy theories", they are historical facts. For instance, in 2014, the US had 3 different lab leaks involving smallpox, anthrax, and bird flu, which led to a ban on gain of function research.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly...
There's not much market for them, that's the issue.

You can't use much transmit power on a free license. And hams are not allowed to use encryption as a licensing condition. The idea behind this is that you're a community. It's not really meant for private communication.

Some business radios offer excellent encryption but can only be used with an expensive commercial license.

The Family radio service ones are more for like walky talky use on the go where encryption isn't so important, and they have more limited range.
I think packages listed as “RFH” aren’t unmaintained really, just requesting for help maintaining it. Clicking-through on e.g. grub2 shows a mailing list thread requesting for help from…2004. grub2 has certainly received updates in Debian since then.
nominal interest = real interest + inflation
I explained the problem already (the error does not show up where it actually happens).

I also explained a huge difference between the two already (you know how large an array is and can detect an out of bounds access when it happens).
I was confused as to how the researchers created a black hole in a lab, which I hadn't heard of being done before. As far as I can tell, an "analog" black hole is different from a normal black hole in that it doesn't use gravity and only works on acoustic waves or electromagnetic waves, depending on the type [1]. That said I don't really get what's going on.

I'd be curious if someone who actually knows what they're talking about could try to clarify how the researchers have a black hole here.

EDIT: There's a link[2] to another article at the bottom that describes how the researchers are simulating a black hole. My bad for not catching this earlier.

[1]: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/bh/analog.html
[2]: https://phys.org/news/2014-10-mimic-hawking-lab.html
Re: sudo, not exactly: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/02/msg00234.html
There's a blog post from a CS Professor that I stumbled across a bit ago - Find The Hard Work You're Willing To Do - http://www.cs.uni.edu/%7Ewallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018...

Its short, only a few short paragraphs - but it has one key piece that I've found myself oft quoting to people:

> Maybe this is what people mean when they tell us to "find our passion", but that phrase seems pretty abstract to me. Maybe instead we should encourage people to find the hard problems they like to work on. Which problems do you want to keep working on, even when they turn out to be harder than you expected? Which kinds of frustration do you enjoy, or at least are willing to endure while you figure things out? Answers to these very practical questions might help you find a place where you can build an interesting and rewarding life.

> I realize that "Find your passion" makes for a more compelling motivational poster than "What hard problems do you enjoy working on?" (and even that's a lot better than "What kind of pain are you willing to endure?"), but it might give some people a more realistic way to approach finding their life's work.

--

I enjoy software development - and I do so because I enjoy solving those problems. To me, software development is like being paid to solve sudoku puzzles all day long (and yes, I watch cracking the cryptic from time to time)... well, at least when I'm not in meetings.

One of the important skills that I now realize that the dreaded math classes that I disliked (integrations and eigenvectors - ugh) was about the skill of continuing to solve the problem rather than giving up (and searching for the answer). Yes, there's a place for people who go to the back of the book or Stack Overflow for the solution - but many haven't learned the hard skill of continuing to solve the problem when its not easy.
Godmode2019,

I suspect we're strongly agreeing. My point is that Texas didn't assume the 'weather' would ever be bad. So when it got cold they ran out of natural gas to run their electricity system.

The reason I bring up methane is that's the raw fuel they need to power their generators. And my proposed solution is to require the energy infrastructure (here the natural gas infrastructure, which is required to power the electricity infrastructure) to be designed to handle bad weather. As you said 'weather' means in gets both hot and cold.
Irrational Optimism
With a big caveat: you can't have a dependency on a crate that is a dylib/cdylib or even staticlib in Cargo.toml. Your only way out is to have a build.rs that somehow builds the dependency with cargo. Which, if you're using a workspace, will deadlock. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8938
> If the market solves all problems

Straw man.
Does remarkable have a web browser or email support? I don’t use chrome so it will be hard to add reader articles. Mostly I want to add them from twitter on ios.
But why do that though?

If the currency is going to be centrally issued then what reason is there to use a DLT given all of the drawbacks it would introduce?

DLTs aren’t a solution to a technical problem, they’re a technical solution to a trust problem that comes with some pretty hefty implementation baggage and performance constraints.

If you have to trust a single issuer anyway (as would be the case with a CBDC) then the core reason for using a DLT doesn’t exist.
If the consumer retail electricity rate was allowed to float minute by minute, there'd be no need for "peaker" plants.

The notion of fixed electricity rates is the source of most of the problems.

After all, there are regular events where oil refineries go off like, burn down, blow up, etc., and yet I'm still able to buy gas because the pump prices go up, reducing demand to match the supply.

Note that this big freeze also impacted gas deliveries, and gas prices went up, and no shortages. A fixed pump price would have produced shortages and lines.

Whenever there are shortages, there's almost always a fixed price in there causing the problem.
Positives: great idea. it really makes you notice the beats in each scene. The ups downs ups downs. Spielberg is so good at that.

The negatives: music does not fit at all. No dialogue. Would love to see a more deliberate attempt at making this an old b&w movie.
As someone who has used http://www.vanmiddlesworth.org/vitrite/ to toggle always-on-top and transparency for a long time, it is strange to see this -- browser-specific -- reinvention of basic window management.

On the other hand, my desktop is 2560 pixels wide, and as a result, I've never had the need nor desire to maximise anything. I also rarely use multiple tabs, preferring separate windows instead, which I can then arrange as I please. I wonder if the popularisation of tabbed browsing has decreased the desire/visibility of comparing/contrasting in general, since as you mentioned, it is much more difficult when you can only see one site at a time.
> The question now is, does this change with more computing devices with longer uptime (for e.g. a smart phone)?

Not in the slightest; in fact, that just makes the problem worse. Relaying data through a smartphone would force its radio to stay on constantly, draining the battery much faster than normal.
It's hard to justify building a billion plus dollar dedicated railway for this, since that reduces the potential pool of people who would use it.

I imagine it would also make things like customs a bit of a headache. You generally don't need to go through customs when transiting within the same airport, but a long airside railway would make violating a border as easy as jumping off the train.
That's pure speculation. We don't know what they would want, what they would do, how their society would be arranged. The only thing we know about a race of immortals is the fact that they are immortal.
works great on linux
I have been using Debian on and off since the late 90s, including some time creating packages. It was wonderful to be able to install a recent, working version of pretty much anything you wanted for the vast majority of that time.

More recently, so many things I want to use are not available as a reasonably up-to-date package. Some examples are hugo and eclipse, where the versions provided are unusably ancient.

https://lwn.net/Articles/842319/

Meanwhile, more and more software is actively hostile to packaging / distributions, and things seem to have devolved into grabbing things from random github repos, or various dedicated/language-specific package managers like npm, pip, brew, ...

It's definitely annoying, seems like a step backwards, and its not clear to me whether there's some better distro i could be using, whether some funding / volunteer time could help, or the world has just "moved on" (backwards...) from the idea of a linux distribution with reasonably stable, up-to-date packages that "just work" for basic infrastructure so you can spend your time developing on your own project, instead of with the tedium of fetching and installing software and managing version compatibility problems yourself.
Seriously, I was between jobs for a while and it was the best time I've had in ages. I could (and would) do random projects that struck my fancy all the time, go out, see friends, write, design things... It was much more productive than a job, and I was constantly doing things with the parts of technology that don't suck.
"We were running into this issue where we were getting a 504 Gateway Timeout on the update balance call so I eventually found the Slack room for that team and asked about it.
They ignored me for a couple weeks,...."

Someone could have documented this and/or simply answered a damn question instead of wasting weeks of opportunity cost. Too many dicks and idiots on that website, it seems.

"who honestly cares if it gets fixed" - everyone that comes after this and has to deal with it and waste weeks of their life trying to pry some required nugget of info from a passive aggressive group of maintainers of stuff which actively ignores industry standards?
This is the market screaming for energy storage.

If large negative-price swings, on account of higher power variability, become commonplace it could very elegantly pay for storage. It would also let storage be compared, apples to apples, dollar to dollar, with base load power supplies.
In a truly free market, Texas would have simply received power production from nearby states that were connected into their grid.

This isn't a free-market situation because the state has gone to great lengths to keep this power system isolated.
> Do you see it differently?

Yes. If minute-by-minute retail electricity pricing was there, then there'd be a large incentive to winterize the fuel supply, because the ones who didn't would lose out on the profits from higher electric rates from the ones who did.
Massive, sweeping, baseless assertions there.
Because "people" are just monkeys, ruled by their emotions.

And you can't do anything about it. Because you're a monkey.
Free markets seem to do a bad job with resiliency. Redundancies, winterisation, warehousing N95 masks just in case, etc is treated as inefficiency by a free market and eliminated.

These aren’t externalities - is there an economics name for this? I’m sure it’s been noticed before.
> Retiring sounds good right about now.

My personal plan, instead of retiring, is to work on inventing solutions to the issues plaguing large and complex software projects. One of my primary sub-goals under this mission, is to create a new programming language that'll handle complexity excellently, while also making it hard for a programmer to write bugs in it (strong static type system, deep static analysis, thorough linting, some kind of automatic proofing or verification, paradigms that make writing bugs less likely, paradigms that handle modularization and complexity gracefully, etc).

Overall, when there are big problems in the world (poverty, human rights abuses, climate change, bad software), I want to try to use my skills and abilities toward solving those problems, rather throwing my hands in the air, and giving into hopelessness.
I’m thinking of going back to school for Biology, but not sure. Have been thinking about it for a few years (getting older, seeing people around falling ill, and now the pandemic). Ultimately in Bioinformatics or Genomics. At least I can still utilize my technology knowledge than start from 0.

Also, the pay is less than a normal software developer.
With fixed electric rates, balancing supply and demand is always placed on the supply. With variable rates, demand can adjust as well.
I think that's why so many of my peers (including myself) are keen on removing ambiguity from code. Code itself should be as clear as possible and only able to be interpreted by readers in the way it's meant to convey instructions.

However the solutions are where the elegance, creativity and poetry should lie.
And hams are not allowed to use encryption as a licensing condition.

But are they allowed to use steganography...? Same difference, really.
Software did less in 1996. That's why it was so much better! :-)
Technical Concepts for Non-Developers, Part 4 – The Cloud
Griddy customers face $5k electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas
Twitter's Fail Whale is an example of the last. I was surprised how long the good will lasted. Twitter started in 2006, the SXSW where it gained a lot of traction was in 2007, FailWhale looks like it was publicaly "named" in 2007/2008 and they discontinued it in 2013. The image itself was a stock image they bought.
I don't have an ad blocker, I simply have js disabled.
There’s still a taxiway at Narita which has a kink in the middle of it that blocks use of the adjacent runway when any plane is travelling on it. The kink is there because of a parcel of private land that the owner refuses to sell.

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/G83NUkot4i7JwwWBA
IdentityServer last open-source version
Not as a 1st party feature, but there are several open source tools for doing that: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Gasoline pump prices always retails for the spot price, and no shortages have occurred since 1980 when Reagan repealed all oil & gas price/allocation controls.

This is despite plenty of oil shocks, wars, refinery explosions, the current freeze preventing gas transport, etc. Nobody has reported gasoline shortages in Texas.