skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but the point is that when my friends ask me for help, I can use the circumstances under which they got themselves into needing help in my decision of whether I help them, and whether there is any moral obligation on me to help them. With government, there is no such option: they will take my money by force, use it for anything at all that they might possibly want, and all I can say is something on the order of one or two bits of feedback every 4-5 years.
Thanks for sharing this info. One critical detail is missing. Context.

Take the US case. 23.2 GW "capacity". Over what period of time? A second? A minute? An hour? A day? A month? A year?

Let's take a case study of California, the "leader" in energy storage in the US. California removes reliable and cheap organic power plants, and is surprised to find at periods of peak demand when energy is needed most (heat waves, cold spells) the system falls apart. [By the way, removing reliable access to electricity is how you expose the most vulnerable segments of the population to danger of life and safety.]

"The state’s grid operator blamed the blackouts on “a perfect storm” of extreme heat and unusually high demand, as well as a drought that’s limiting hydropower resources and a decline in electricity imports from neighboring states also struggling to keep air conditioners humming. Compounding the problem, 1 gigawatt of wind unexpectedly went offline Saturday, along with a gas plant."....

"“In some cases, we have built a reliability plan that isn’t completely realistic.”"....

"The dearth of battery storage has long been a key barrier to transitioning to a green grid. Though the price of batteries has fallen significantly, they’re still not in widespread use. California only had enough to tackle about 1% of Monday’s peak load forecast, "

California storage cannot handle 1% of battery needs. Please keep in mind when reviewing assumptions, claims, and statements about solar & wind grid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-17/californi...
> If you have never been poor, you may not realize how awesome Small houses and Toyota Corollas are.

Love this. These are luxury products for upper middle class folks in a lot of developing countries. I don't think people really grasp this until they experience it themselves.
I mean, I'd say Neanderthals are humans. I'm 2.x% Neanderthal myself, according to my DNA vendor.

If we're talking about other sentient and moral species, those are admittedly hard questions.
Picking something unlikely but possible, imagine if water becomes scarce enough that half the population of India can't afford market price and must do without.

That thought is pretty much enough to refute the refutation. The idea that a resource can't run out because "economics happens" is simply a non-sequitur. Economics is perfectly comfortable with optimising a bunch of humans out of the system because they can't produce enough to justify their resource consumption. That is what a Malthusian collapse would look like economically speaking.
Did this work on iTerm?
So I guess this is a US thing. Is 'auto-pay' the same thing as setting up a monthly direct debit to pay either your minimum payment, a percentage, or to clear the full balance?

If that's the case, and I can only speak for my experience in the UK and across the EU for a few years, I'll take the automated payment over the infinitesimal threat of being compromised and clicking a 'dispute this payment' link in my account.

ATM withdrawals have far more risk and you wouldn't do those with a credit card.
They are created with better materials and also do not require special one offs for every single tile, unlike the shuttle.

Replacement is supposed to be "break it and attach a new one" without needing special glues, curing times which was the reason why shuttle heat shield refurbishment took so long at high cost.
Other than shopping, I don't think I have any payments from my account that aren't auto-pay (direct debit, the other person chooses the amount).

I check the bank account every 6 weeks or so, and can investigate then if necessary. It's never been necessary.
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Very interesting. WebGL game dev here - could I host a project or interactive world using this?
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Definition ->

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Default actions ->

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Probably best to take this to an appropriate forum, like /r/investing or /r/stocks.
What city has public transit that will get you safely and quickly to work at 3AM? What city design will still accomplish all that after your job relocates 15 miles further away?
Wow, there's something incredibly heartbreaking about summing things up that way.
One interesting (but probably creepy by todays standards) feature of AIM was that you could put %s anywhere in your profile and AIM would replace it with the screen name of whoever was looking at your profile. An example would be:

%s is my best friend! -> angelc408 is my best friend!

This also worked on links you added to your profile so you could make custom links that would send the user's name to your server to make a simple guest book.

<a href="http://buddytracker.us/?user=%s">Sign my guestbook</a>

I was a sophomore in college when I made a simple guest book service that blew up to over 3 million users in a year. I contemplated dropping out of college my junior year and making it into something more than 20 lines of PHP with a MySQL database. In the end I stayed in school and AIM removed profiles from the desktop client a year later. Dodged a bullet there...
tldr: if you're doing something quickly you're more prone to make mistakes.

Did this article present any new information that everyone doesn't already know? Or is the article just re framing the word "thinking" with "rate of change."

Many analogies and quotations don't serve to to present new information. The catharsis of relating something to an unrelated concept makes it feel like new information was presented but in reality you learned nothing new.

Additionally the author makes a claim and instead of using evidence to validate the claim he uses analogies.
http://archive.is/v7Ups
Nice talk on the simple and powerful error handling philosophy enabled by this approach:

Crash Course with Bastion— Mahmut Bulut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsBNjJBlA1E
"This is not a bug, this is by design."

Please provide some clearer support for this statement of supposed fact.

We've got so many MUCH MORE likely scenarios.

These are the common ones that disable or lock account:

* Repeatedly entering an incorrect Apple ID and password.
* Not using your Apple account for an extended amount of time
* Billing issues such as unpaid iTunes or App Store orders
* Security reasons
* Charge disputes on your credit card

I've yet to hear of a missed payment on an apple card resulting in this (and I have an apple card and have missed payments).
will this be the beginning of another boom or bubble bursting..
I imagine there is a senior programmer working for another game company. They are currently kicking themselves about the poorly performing and rushed loading code they wrote while still working at R*. But there is nothing they can do about it now, since they have moved on.
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So here's the weird thing.

> No, Apple did not disable my account.

I believe you, but I also trust the original poster by reputation. So what is the difference?
> Xiaomi now announced that they will turn off collection of visited websites in incognito mode. That’s a step in the right direction, albeit a tiny one.

They may also collect fingerprints and other biometrics (voice, pictures) in a similar misleading way. There's a lot of wise tricks others have learned from Google. IMO only strict laws forbidding data collection from smartphones completely will change that.
I think that to a great extent this is a matter of trust in the speaker. When an audience trusts the speaker's opinions, they can easily accept the use of problematic language as benign.

But when the speaker is not trusted, it's easy to take what to the speaker seems like benign use of a word the wrong way. For example, the speaker here believed they were just clarifying the use of a word, to distinguish between someone saying the literal phrase 'the N word' vs someone literally saying n**r. The speaker knows themselves to be above reproach and very conscious of their use of language, having often engaged in debate about appropriate VS inappropriate use of this word, with careful consideration etc. They are used to speaking to audiences who sees them in this way.

However, one day he finds himself doing this with an audience who doesn't know much about their antiracist credentials, and who is weary of him as someone who seems to be pretty politically incorrect. They are probably primed to see him as an establishment old white man, who is by virtue of this alone usually, in their (real or just imagined) experience, on the wrong side of history on this issue. One of them is probing him on a sensitive issue, and is careful to say 'the N word' since that is what is proper in their view. And here this man comes and feels the need to use exactly the word that should be avoided, perhaps condescendingly or because he just isn't aware of how hurtful it seems to them.

None of the parties is truly right or wrong here. The journalist didn't mean to cause any harm, and didn't think he could possibly be construed as meaning so. The kids don't trust his intentions are not easily convinced by nuanced debate. He should have known better than to use his usual discourse. They should accept that he knows better than them these topics and should know who to trust and who not to.

Note that this is exactly the reason why rap is one of the very few places where use of the N word has persisted. Rappers were trusted by their audience, and their use of it continues to be trusted in general. But if Sean Hannity used it, who would believe that he was not being malicious?
I guess I'm a pessimist, but won't this help people put you on a list so that they can find your posts/comments to grudge-downvote you?
> Should I believe you, or my own lying eyes?

Neither of course! Either believing your own experience to generalize well or believing someone random on the internet would be crazy talk.

What you should believe is the research on this, which admittedly is difficult with anything this politicized. What I base it on is a combination of reading some of that (though I'm no expert) and knowing some people quite well who have had state level responsibility for programs of this kind.

Fraud, and "Steves" certainly exist, but it seems that the numbers are small enough they don't have much systemic impact, there are many much bigger issues.

That's what I meant by "to a first approximation"; not that it doesn't exist, but the effect isn't of 1st order importance.
> Can we please discuss the problem in isolation and especially the interesting technical bits?

Sure, but you also see this problem doesn't exists in a vacuum. Noted by you bringing up concentration camp numbers in this exact comment section. Maybe you should listen to your own advice?
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Thanks, I didn't realize it was broken
People talk about the attention economy and how Facebook is optimized for mindless scrolling but HN is by far the worst drug for me. I get serious FOMO from potentially missing out on a good thread so not sure this would actually help but I like the idea nonetheless.
> We can befriend you for years, and then bite off your arm just as you’re offering us a treat. We can’t help it. It’s the nature of the job.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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OK, at least it isn’t only me.
So you are only deserving of a life free of poverty (even if you're lazy) if your parents happened to be rich?

Yeah, I disagree. We're talking about on the order of tens of millions of dollars or more being passed from one parent to one child.
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This is a very interesting chain on how people interpret comments. To me (and you) it is obvious that GP only had one reason to mention Google (the 1.4 trillion valuation), but both the OP and the person you are responding to were convinced the GP "didn't get it". Fascinating.
But is there some guides or books that teach people write safe C codes? Is writing safe C codes possible?
http://archive.is/SwoK5
Angel investors have had been around for a long time at that point.
In the realm of music, I think the mainstream has stayed roughly the same size but the rest of music has exploded in size and variety via Spotify/Bandcamp/Soundcloud/YouTube.

Instead of zines there's a million or so blogs and forums and newsletters.

Podcasts are an entirely new realm and only a tiny sliver of it cracks the mainstream.

The number of outlets for "TV shows" has exploded, so there's plenty that comes and goes without any significant mainstream exposure.

Much of the above is created on an enthusiasts budget for a tiny audience.

And I'd argue a lot of the above are exempt from "cancel culture" if only because most people don't know they exist.
Did you not read the original article? There's a million and one ways your career can suffer without being fired. Passed up for promotion, not getting funding, not hired in the first place...
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I agree with your sentiment, but it wasn't that long ago that people were being brought to court in the US just for accusations of being socialist or communist. Any there wasn't even anything against the law with have different economic ideals.
>Orson Welles said in his autobiography that several police officers arrived at the studio during the live broadcast, prompted by calls from listeners

Is there any documentation of that actually happening, though? How many calls were they responding to? Remember also that this is before the internet, if you wanted more info about something, calling the police is one of the few things you can do.

Plus, an author writing an autobiography has a vested interest in trying to build the story up.
If you are purchasing an apple device, the apple card gives a competitive cash back reward. Many people use credit cards while always paying the balance in full and use them for rewards (you could argue that these rewards are priced into the cost of goods so not getting them is leaving money on the table).

I think it's reasonable to believe that this system as a whole is exploitive and unfair, those with poor credit pay more to fund cash back for others and the high interest rates leading to circles of debt, but given this is the way it is, I think its a perfectly good idea for someone to have an Apple Card depending on their circumstances.
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Someone in power at the NYT wanted him fired, and cynically used this as an excuse. You’re looking for good faith where there wasn’t any.
Why does an A note sound different across instruments?
I don't know why you're being downvoted, the word has a very precise meaning. As much as we can whine about Google and such, all of them solved a valid problem many people were facing, and they did it brilliantly. For a really long time Google Search really was the only game in town.

The problem we have is with their externalities. For oligarchs, the main line of business <<is>> the problem.
When it comes to co-workers all I care about is can I trust them to complete the tasks assigned them correctly, on time, and without inhibiting others from doing the same. I have worked with happy and grumpy people who could and couldn't meet those simple requirements, so I generally could careless about regarding happy vs grumpy.
The trick is that to provide Bazel with a custom toolchain involves way more than just setting an environment variable, because Bazel wants to control installing and making available the compiler reliably (e.g., what if `emcc` is not present on the system where Bazel was invoked? Bazel solves that problem by fetching it and building it for that system)

There are projects that provide drop-in support for custom toolchains (e.g., we use this project[0] in Sorbet to fetch and build a custom LLVM/Clang toolchain for every host we build on (rather than relying on the system toolchain). But I'm not aware of a project that has done that for Emscripten. Maybe it would be as easy as plucking out what we've done in our project into a project that others could depend on, but to quote a colleague:

> Setting up a cc toolchain in Bazel is a unique sort of pain.

[0] https://github.com/grailbio/bazel-toolchain/
The 24-hour restaurant with the golden arches does this here. Incidentally, it's one of those delivery/takeout restaurants we've had a lot of mishaps with in the past. Mostly, because the people packing the bags get distracted and someone else moves them around or they don't read the labels on the customised burgers, etc. However, I've always notified (in a friendly tone) their customer service and suggested they train their employees a bit more - and it helped. Had no issues there in the last 2 years.
Its the nature of struggle sessions. No matter what, unless you admit to doing harm, no matter if you did, no one will let you rest until you admit it.

I'd like to think the only winning move is to not play, but I dont think modern social media allows that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
That's really clever idea, no wonder they can get it to work, thanks for the article!

BTW, that's something else I noticed in Japan - train stations are almost always hubs of commercial and often also cultural activity - there are shops, hotels, good restaurants and often also galleries, event spaces, monuments and even the buildings themselves are often architectonic masterpieces (for example JR Kyoto station, just check it out!). This definitely helps with passenger numbers and keeps the whole thing sustainable not to mention profitable.

In comparison Czech & Slovak railway stations (Prague, Brno, Bratislava) are often run down, dirty, fregvented by questionable people who aren't going to ride the trains and any shops or food places are cheap low quality ones. As a result one tries to spend as little as possible on these train station, let alone spend there any money for the few sub-par amenities available.

It's really strange why it is like this, given the missed commercial opportunities, seems to be much better in other european countries (Vienna, Eindhoven, etc.).