skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that memorization was used due to a lack of writing material is just a modern and shallow interpretation.

The ancients considered written text as less authentic, and rightly so.

Oral knowledge is spread among the populance and can not be destroyed or distorted by few actors.
The PJM market also operates capacity markets, where energy produces are paid for being available to produce energy when called upon. This would be one way to pay people to at least think about reliability, in that they are explicitly getting paid for it.

However, I believe that in the last polar vortex incident, something like 20% of people paid on the capacity market failed to be available. Unless there are steep penalties built into these contracts for failure to produce when needed, there still might not be proper incentive to perform proper design and maintenance.

As we go forward, it will be interesting to see which incidents fall under force majeure, and which incidents result in actually breaking contracts.

This particular incident was foreseen: the 2011 FERC report on smaller similar outages in ERCOT recommended fixes to prevent this. And I know of at least one energy expert who was tweeting days before this happened that he hoped Texas had fixed their problems that were identified in 2011.

Personally, I favor regulating the ever living hell out of it, and having the state force carbon free electricity by 2035. I think that's the only way we will see movement towards more reliability and less carbon: guarantee that there's a market for such products.
Account Deleted from Less Wrong Without Warning
This is interesting, and I kind of know what you're getting at. I've never been a super avid reader, but ive always enjoyed fiction and most sci-fi type stuff. As i get older i find myself gravitating towards more non-fiction. I recently read "Shadow Divers" which is the true story of some divers who discover an unknown U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey and spend years and several divers' lives in the pursuit of an identification. It was completely riveting which id rarely if ever experienced in a piece of non-fiction; felt like i remember the Harry Potter books feeling when i was a teenager. So maybe try expanding the scope of your search a little.
Is it possible to draw one that turns more than 90 deg before reaching equilibrium?
I remember this coming up in a Star Trek episode where a character would say 'please' and 'thank you' to the ship computer.
If it's opensource, there's no need to wait on the business interests of a trillion dollar company to align with your wishes. Camera app developers can be made aware of it and add it to their apps. If there are app developers on HN, they can create pull requests to their favorite apps and add the feature.

That's the power of opensource.
It reminded me of those silly "you wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy ads
I actually made a website called ‘The Artistifier’ at the time the artist was released (8 years ago?).

It let you import any YouTube video, it made it black and white and a bit stuttery, put the music from the artist over the top and let you add silent movie captions. That music had a way of kind of enhancing anything you put behind it.

Unfortunately it is now buried in the mass grave of internet past with all the other Flash websites.
Is 26GW the actual surplus capacity? My understanding is the number of homes without power that were not part of intentional blackouts would have surpassed grid capacity. This aligns with heating taking more power than summer cooling. It's normal for Texas to have a few blackouts per summer season due to demand.
Your edit is where the problem is. Sure there is a lot of plastic in the ocean, but the ocean is big as well. As a whole the size of the ocean cancels out your attempts to do any recovery. You end up using more energy to power the filters (which are typically on ships) than you would by taking the oil powering the filters and directly turning it into plastic.

Plastic in the ocean isn't an easy problem to solve with anything other than wait for it to degrade. Which isn't as bad as it sounds because plastic doesn't do well in the sun, and we can easily make plastics that do worse and thus degrade faster.
The Sinclair Story (1985) [pdf]
Strongly agree.

Free markets often fail to adopt low cost protections to tail events. E.g. the free market didn't get us 100% of new cars having seatbelts and airbags, government requirements did. And those standards were fought by the car manufacturers.

My point is we need regulations to mandate our energy system to be resilient to outlier events (heat/cold/flooding/high wind etc.) and that's a government function separate from the free market structure of ERCOT and actually upstream of the market ERCOT creates.

Said differently, I don't want people to critique ERCOTs market structure (a huge success) when the real issue is the government resiliency regulations in Texas (a huge failure).
"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."

You can and that is what California did[1]. It lead to large scale blackouts, the first bankruptcy of PG&E, the successful recall of California's governor Gray Davis, and brought to light Enron's crazy company culture which lead to its bankruptcy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
Sorry but you're wrong. Take a look at the UK lockdown rules (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home#w...) and you'll find that...

"You cannot leave home for recreational or leisure purposes (such as for a picnic or a social meeting)."

So your statement that the commenter's "entire argument is false" is, well, false.
> so they're saying the form of bullying in this article needs to be addressed with prevention measures. they aren't saying your form of bullying doesn't exist.

Well, now you're just strawmanning. This article is claiming that "most" (not all) bullying is among peers. You're taking down a hypothetical strawman argument where "most" has been replaced by "all". Why did you feel the need to invent this strawman? Literally no-one in this thread has misinterpreted the article to mean that "all" (not "most") bullying is among peers.

> whether one happens more or less isn't really the point.

Yes it is, it's literally the whole point of this article. This article would never have been written if its point was "some undetermined amount of bullying occurs among peers". This article was written specifically to claim that most bullying is of this kind.

> Its about identifying an underserved need and addressing it.

Sure, I agree this is also in the article. And I'm arguing they're wrong. They're saying that most bullying is of kind A, whereas existing programs are largely treating bullying of kind B. I'm saying that the opposite is true: that most bullying is of kind B, whereas existing programs are largely treating bullying of kind A.
Hard to follow for me and depressing at the same time
Ask HN: How did Pinterest beat the Google search ranking?
The Google search:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA805CA806&ei=Q40xYNDRCJXZ-gSS4pCQCw&q=egypt+africa+or+asia

First result:
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/144889312994570447/#:~:text=Egypt%20is%20physically%20part%20of,west%2C%20the%20Mediterranean%20seaRead%20More

Google query of "egypt africa or asia" would result in Pinterest as the first result. Huh? And clicking into it, it doesn't give any meaningful answer unless I'm supposed to deduce it from the map of Egypt?

Contrastingly, the first result from Duck duck go brings me to a blog article, which would try to answer my question.
I think you've just described Germany, which has the highest electricity prices in the world.
>> create a new programming language

The problems with software engineering aren't technical. They are organizational, political, and cultural.
Barber shops and restaurants are a fairly small part of what people spend money on (especially with COVID) and have seen a big drop in unit sales across which to spread fixed costs. So, inflation there is higher than general inflation.

Inflation across different sectors varies a lot; the overall level is a aggregate but not one around which the sector-specific numbers cluster tightly.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_02102021.htm
By their own admission these chemicals are everywhere, and yet by a lot of measures people are more healthy and living longer than before... I feel just a bit suspicious.
I have setup a syncthing to dump data from my devices onto a staging server which nightly backups everything onto Wasabi using encrypted target with an rclone though any targets that rclone supports would work.

The only thing that I have not figured out how to backup is photos from wife's iphone. I guess I'm going to bite the bullet, buy a mac and do her phone to her icloud, from her icloud to a mac and from that mac to synthing to the staging server.

I have also brought up an edge server that acts as an on the fly decryption proxy to a different Wasabi bucket where I drop files I want to share.
I think psychedelics will ruin the minds of many teenagers. They should never be legalized. Anyone who has spent time around people who used them in their youth knows this, we don’t understand how they affect brains
Adding TLS into the picture introduces many extra failure modes. Examples: clock out of sync, wrong version of SSL, certificate signing problem. All of these things would cause your install to become non-upgradeable by a non-expert.
Isn't it worrisome that something like openssl is listed as having no owner? Wouldn't a sneaky patch in something as low-level and widely-used as that have devastating consequences?

Is there another Linux distro that gets multiple eyeballs on (core) package changes and proper security reviews that you folks would recommend for daily driver?
I used to love programming, but after doing it for some years professionally I feel like a lot of people (clients, managers, co-workers) look down on it. Like its just a neccessary evil they wish they didn't have to deal with. I feel like it is the lowest status profession you can have in the tech world.
One of the best parts of everyone carrying a camera in their pocket is you can get high-resolution images of incidents like these as a matter of course.
How's that possible it managed to fly with only one engine ?
That is not a problem.
I know the Baofeng UV5R's are cheap but hear me out. I've gotten some great use out of mine. Lots of preppers have these. Because they're so ubiquitous parts and know-how are easy to come by.

If you want to buy radio that you're never going to use, or probably won't take the time to learn, get the Baofeng and save your money. Don't wait for "perfect". Good enough is better than nothing when the SHTF.
Chrome Used 10x More RAM Than Safari on macOS Big Sur in Recent Test
Yep it works fine. Three basic steps - 1) configure your environment; 2) record; 3) process. Steps 1 & 3 take the most effort here, but once set up you don't really have to sweat over any of it again. Step 2 takes the most duration since it's realtime. But the cool thing is there's no DAC happening.

1) Configure Environment

* In Spotify set quality to Very High (nominally 320kbps)

* Using some virtual patch cabling (I use Voice Meeter Banana), set Windows to use it's VAIO input as the Spotify output device.

* Make sure B1 channel (the virtual output) is enabled in VMB

* Set A1 channel (hardware out) in VMB to your speakers if you want to monitor music, otherwise set to nothing if you want it to do all this in the background

* Set Audacity to to use the VAIO Output as the recording source

2) Record

* hit play in spotify, hit record in audacity

* Audacity should stop recording after prolonged silence when playlist ends - you can tweak the sensitivity of this.

3) Process
* Select all in Audacity, then Analyze/Detect Sounds, set silence threshold to whatever (e.g. -60). Spot check your results for accuracy.

* Export this track list from Audacity (txt file)

* Use a tool like https://watsonbox.github.io/exportify to export your playlist details from Spotify (csv file)

* Use Excel or Python (or whatever your hammer of choice is) to merge your spotify playlist data with the audacity label export file, basically creating a new label file for audacity. For example, your audacity label name could be "artist-trackname".

* Import your new label file to update the track names;

* "Export Multiple" from Audacity using track name as file name.

* Use some media management tool to clean up and download all the metadata for the file. I used MediaMonkey for this. Basically imported detecting artist and track name from filename, then let it do its thing to look up additional metadata and album covers.
Linking [pdf]
TIL how programs are combined
It makes the device non-serviceable without a central authority. You could not do anything with it offline.

That means it is no longer a general-purpose computer, but an extension of Apple's cloud.
Definitely agree that there will be cases in which a computer vision operator ships features specifically intended to create a new automatic defense.

One thing that seems unique to technologies that are mostly just statistical learning is that each new manipulation approach can basically widen the distribution of possible inputs. In particular, I'm thinking that as more obfuscation and protest technologies are made public like this, the distribution of "images of faces available for computer vision training" becomes more complex. That is to say, whenever a adversarial tool creates a combination of pixels that's never been see before, if that "new image" can't be reduced back to a familiar image via de-noising or pre-processing, the overall difficulty of computer vision tasks increases.

All a long winded way of saying, I think for ML systems, there's a unique opportunity to "stretch the distribution of inputs" that may not exist for other security arms races.

Totally agree that economics of the arms race(s) will a huge factor in determining how much an impact obfuscation and protest can have.
The Evolution of the Synapse
"Among the most easily recognizable features of any nervous system is the synapse. While the question of how synapses evolved has been a longstanding mystery, it can now largely be solved. In a nutshell, it appears that the synapses between neurons evolved directly from the original cell-to-cell contacts, namely, the adherence junctions and other bonds that linked the primitive epithelial sheets of early multicellular organisms."
In footnote 3 the author says, "it is both reasonable and absolutely necessary for a project to have the most critical parts of the organisation of the codebase being designed upfront".

Is that so? Why? Where is the evidence?

Let me counter with a quote from Fred Brooks Jr.: "..plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."
No problemo. :)
PoC||GTFO article on this also good: https://archive.org/stream/pocorgtfo09#page/n39/mode/1up
What if we stopped measuring inflation? Can't help but think inflation causes more inflation and it's just used as a lazy excuse to raise the price of goods.

Why have train ticket prices gone up? Inflation. Why have the debt repayments gone up? Inflation.
Demeaning or proposing ‘charity’ was not my intent at all.

I’ve edited my comment to clarify the subtext, but to answer your question: if we could find a health-safe fire and UV-resistant plastic formula that made solid building materials out of the pollution in the ocean, I would definitely live in the first plastic house with my family. It could survive hundreds of years and have a lot of benefits.
Amazingly, I believe planes are designed/certified to do everything (e.g. take off fully loaded) with only a single working engine.
It's really easy to store gasoline.

This makes the spot prices far more stable, and in case of shortage you don't instantly cripple households. And households that run out can easily get an alternative.

It's a completely different product, so the ideal market is different.
Depends on what you mean. If we are talking about whether or not TabFloater itself can be trusted, then I'm 100% confident since I wrote it :) It's fully open source, the companion binaries are built through GitHub Actions, so I have no chance of introducing malicious code. The Chrome extension is also published through GitHub Actions. All this means that you can be sure you're running the same code that you read on GitHub. Publishing the Firefox addon is manual at the moment (they don't offer a great API for automated publishing), but Firefox requires me to submit source code alongside the extension, and they review it.

If you meant an unintentional security issue, then I think we are still good. The only thing the extension communicates to the native application is the title of the current browser tab, which is arguably personal information. However the native application is running on your machine, and you chose to install it. There's no way for remote machines to get your info this way. The only scenario I can see for leaking private info is if someone creates a malware that mimics TabFloater Companion and somehow manages to get it on your machine without you knowing. Then, they will get the titles of the sites you use TabFloater on. There are so many better ways for attackers to get the same information - I think this risk is negligible.

Of course, if you see any other issue that I might have missed, do let me know!

Also have a look at the privacy policy if you haven't already:
https://www.tabfloater.io/privacy
I vaguely remember there was a TV watch around that time as well:

https://monochrome-watches.com/seiko-t001-mother-smart-watch...
I've been programming for about 40 years. Had ups and downs. But I mostly worked on creating new products (not always purely software). Also been on my own for the most part. In the end. I love it and I hate it. I love it because it let me express myself and it is a great feeling when you see others using your products. I hate it because there is always way too much non creative work and general BS around but that's life.

But generally I enjoy it and are not planning retirement. Will just maybe work less.
The press will make a big deal out of this because of the spectacle of parts falling on people’s lawns... but other than that this looks like a fairly routine engine out situation. Nice job by the crew.
For what I'd suggest is 90% or more of their use case, which is using them to improve muscle mass, strength, or appearance, for your typical gym goer or fitness enthusiast.

When you use the term "recreationally", my assumption is that you are asking about how to use these drugs in contrast to using them in an "addicted" state. Since I am very interested in fitness and physical culture, my .02 is that recreational use is anything where you are not endangering your short term health, endangering anyone else's health or well being, you can afford and understand everything you are using and what side effects and ancillaries you would need to take, and you are taking an amount of drugs that are "way less" than what would be necessary to compete at the Mr.Olympia.
At the end of the day it's all machine code running on silicon. What point are you trying to make? I was responding to the claim that a lack of good support for dynamic linking in a language prevents it from using shared objects for plugins and modules. My point was that dynamic loading is an operating system feature implemented through system calls, and can therefore be done in any language that can do a system call, whether or not the language makes it easy for you. I also claim that dynamic linking is not equivalent to loading, but I agree with you that they are related to each other and linking is indeed implemented on top of the system calls that provide dynamic loading. Dynamic linking specifically implies (for me) that non-static application symbols are resolved one way or another before the program counter jumps to main().
Planes must be able to do this to be certified.
> At a mile high conceptual level, AI is nothing but a program created by a computer based on the data it is provided

Your brain is but a preprogrammed, biological computer that reacts to data obtained from its interfaces and attach peripherals.
I wouldn't be surprised if most Gen Z people had never picked up a hammer in their life (Speaking as a Gen Z myself).
It’s designed to fly with only one engine. Not with great performance, but it will stay in the air. Routine procedure for twin engine aircraft.
>I take 1000 samples and look what doesn't change to make a signature.

There's fully metamorphic viruses where even the code mutating part is changed. Algorithmically it's equivalent but there's no "static" portion of the virus.
he doesn't, he just has some weird sense of humor and enjoys attention.

The problem is people will buy something when he mentions it (see also when people got an unrelated company named "Signal" to soar after he tweeted about the messaging app), not in him tweeting random memes.
Lesson's learned in the aviation industry are worth their weight in blood, so the engineers have learnt the hard way to plan for every reasonable eventuality.
The boot and recovery process is very similar to that of iOS.
Seriously! I keep feeling the same lack. I want something in the form factor of an early Blackberry or something.

I'd love it to have three radio decks: One ham transceiver, so I can use direct APRS-or-whatever with other nearby nodes or digipeaters, though I know the antenna will suck. One Bluetooth, so it can act as the QWERTY UI for a more powerful radio that lacks a decent keyboard (or as a generic peripheral for other projects). And one Part-15, perhaps LoRa or something, so it can also operate in an unlicensed mode with Meshtastic or something as the protocol over longer range than Bluetooth.

I'm pretty sure I could design the hardware, both the electronics and the enclosure, but I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag, so that's sort of a non-starter.

The bigger question question is, why doesn't this exist yet? Are there HTs with native Bluetooth so the texting UI could be implemented as a phone app? I know there are some with Bluetooth for other functions but I'm not clear on whether they can act as a KISS TNC over SPP.

If so, that would be a great interface to standardize on, implement the phone app for testing, then turn it into a physical gizmo to enjoy longer battery life and cheaper/rugged hardware. Then as a next step, bring the Part-97 hardware into the gizmo.
No, not bitcoin, other crypto currencies, including monero, eth etc.
I really appreciate focused news sites like avherald. Just the facts, a collection of photos and videos, straightforward.

The video of the landing & the passengers cheering—- that huge sigh of relief. Brings a smile to my face.
Getting nearly everyone on the planet to do that, including all governments to allow it, is impossible. As one very prominent example, the odds are dramatically higher that China will banish Bitcoin from being legal inside of their country than that they'll allow everyone to switch to using Bitcoin instead of the currency system they directly control (and can manipulate as it fits their aims). All nations generally feel the same way about controlling their own currency, they more than overwhelmingly prefer to retain that power in their political system. If Bitcoin actually threatens that they have all the guns that matter and will act accordingly legislatively. They might be willing to allow Bitcoin to be a store of value competitor to gold however, but that's all they're going to allow.

We don't have gold backed currencies for the same reason we're not going to see Bitcoin overtake all national currency systems. The guys in power with the guns determine how your currency system works and they all universally say no: you may not have your fiat currency backed by gold (or in the future, swapped out for Bitcoin).
Non-standard solutions to some technical problems
This sounds like an interesting read, what's the title of the book?