skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a challenging position to take.

The failure point was a repeat of previous cold events -- it wasn't really a cascade event, of course, given wind turbines provide only 20% of power on the ECOT mini-grid.

Given there are similar capacity wind turbines running happily in Antarctica, and the heads-up from the 2011 & 2019 events to winterise the Texas fleet, it's difficult to see how this is a 'windmill problem'.
Paperplanes. Why is my team not doing what I expect from them?
Windmills generate more than 1% of power. Thus if you scale up the wind turbines by 100x (to cover more than all power generated over the world), they still kill over 100x fewer birds than cats.
Mathias Meyer with an excellent framework to help you feel the team is more proactive and autonomous by focusing on setting clear expectations. It's also worthwhile to take a project or two and set an example for the things you ask. Show them how you'd approach it by always explaining your decision process and why you do things in a certain way or a certain order.
The people funding Israel to the tune of billions would have been outraged at this white supremacist proposal.
VIDEO GAMES!!!
It looks like climate change denial nonsense.
Coincidentally I recently started watching the Pacific Rim anime series (on Netflix). I found it surprisingly great; much darker than any of the movies, real character archs, great Kaiju, highly recommend.
Thing is, after GaoGaiGar, I was saying that series would be impossible to top. It took a decade, but TTGL did happen.

I think leaning into super robot tropes might be the thing, rather than some mix of real robot shows. It's not like those are doing any better in the market right now.
We already have laws for those things - second, third degree murder; involuntary manslaughter, etc.
(Webjanitor) sorry the site is slow to load, I’m actually amazed it’s holding up at all considering how it’s really not dimensioned to! It is a one core vm with no ram and Mb throttle: it’s normally doing a few dozen visitors a minute, kinda thing.

There’s loads more super interesting tech posts on this blog, so do bookmark and visit later when it’s quieter :)
"Speed" is latency and bandwidth.

Bandwidth is solved with phased-array antennas at a high carrier frequency (Ku/Ka?). The high carrier frequency allows for high (literal) bandwidth. However, the phased-array antennas are physically the same size as some smaller, lower frequency antennas are, and thus transmit/recieve more power. This stuff in general is called a link budget and is standard in satcom.

Latency is just satellites at a lower orbit. This is only possible now because:
1. Chip manufacturing can produce a cheap phased array antenna that's electronically steered to follow the satellite in low orbit.
2. Launch costs low enough it's economical to launch tons of satellites
i wish the site would load faster. this is wildly fascinating.
One of the sort of conundrums of UX is that the more work you put into it, the easier it looks (because you've simplified it for the user by moving the complexity to the app/service's end of things).

So a shitty UI with a million random buttons looks complicated and hard and users respect it, but an intuitive UI looks so simple and clean it's like the software's barely doing anything!
The die off is attributed to a mysterious disease affecting sea stars, and a couple years of warm marine weather. It's wholly possible this has nothing to do with humans at all, and is a natural event.

Yes, the disease may have been caused or spread by human activity, and yes, the
warm marine weather may have been caused by human-created global warming, but you're jumping the gun to say that this is because we have 8 billion people who want a certain standard of living.
Are the local purple urchins edible?
Possibly Indonesia to Singapore, but unlike Spain they will very possibly kill you if you get caught.
The cause of the wasting symptom is still unknown, that's why the link in the article leads to a school that is looking for specimens to analyze.

It would be very surprising, to me at least, to find ultimately humans did not contribute to this chain of events. Whether it's something like microplastics causing the lesions on the star fish or water temperature/chemical concentration leading to some fungal spore growing, I suspect ancient kelp forests aren't vanishing without our help.
Humans being unpredictable at the individual level although true does not invalidate the original point that employing a poorly understood neural net training methodology in critical systems of any kind is incredibly rash and presumptive
So how are you hedging?
Of course reviewing PRs is work. I bill the time I spend on PRs to _their_ ticket all the time and that's how it should be.

I think what the OP just means is that just like keeping slack green and responding to people there, responding quickly to merge requests shows that "you're there" (i.e. "working"). If that's what's required to not get any dumb questions about the rest of his day, that's very smart. As in, it seems that the hours he "works for real" + helping out others on the team/in the org are enough to satisfy his boss that he's doing the work that he's being paid for.

Awesome for him I'd say.
Interesting. That explains alot.

Ye it has got worse alright. I don't know the timeframe since it has been a slow boil.

Easy queries like "who is the king of Spain" has got priority over hard queries making hard queries even harder.
Why do I have the feeling I have seen this movie before?

"Adelina of Naples"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday,_Today_and_Tomorrow
That’s a long walk back from ‘won’t survive.’
Not any better, unless you value having the exchange recorded in an immutable distributed ledger. Some people value that.
The examples in that video might have been really neat in the 1990s, but in 2020s, we have Apple Watch devices that make this look like Tron tech.
> I assume no one is staging ASW operations against Narco submarines.

Subs on covert missions don't exactly fly flags. I find it hard to believe there's anti-sub tech that can tell if a given vessel is being operated by cartel members or the Russian navy.

Well, yes, if it's a high-tech vessel then it's obviously some nation-state. But if you know your enemy always goes after high-tech subs and ignores low-tech subs, Russia can simply build a fleet of low-tech subs and use them, knowing the NATO commander on duty will take a glance at the sonar readout and say "Ahh it's those drug smugglers again, law enforcement's business, not our problem, we do nothing, boys."

Point is, they should be doing ASW operations against the Narcos, if they can't tell without boarding the sub whether it's the Narcos or the Russians.

While it's probably impossible for the Narcos to build a Russian-looking sub, I'm sure it'd be pretty easy for the Russians to build a Narco-looking sub. And the Russians have quite an incentive to do so if, as you assert, "nobody's staging ASW operations against Narco submarines."
Ahh yeah I misread the comment.
Well, I'm talking about the OP, which discussed deficit spending and and growing government but didn't get into specifics. It seems like you want to fight about direct bottom up stimulus, but I'm afraid I agree with you. Direct payments to individuals in particular seem really efficient right now. The comment you quote is about program-oriented deficit spending - including e.g. the USA's PPP - which can get captured by incumbent interests.
The day I proposed to my wife on a beach north of Monterey, we found a nearly perfect abalone shell on the beach. To this day she uses it to store her jewelry in. Saddens me to think that no one else will ever find one of these mother of pearl treasures there again without the kelp forests intact.
This is wrong in two ways. First off, electricity in France isn't particular cheap by European standards (which already is not cheap)[1]

Secondly, the EDF is debt-laden and heavily subsidized by the French state, this is why other providers cannot compete. Nuclear energy itself is on the expensive end when it comes to energy sources. As the article points out, France has not even allocated a third of the money it needs to decommission existing plants.

[1]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I can't see this working well I'm afraid. It's bad for people who are very poor (can't afford time to navigate processes to issue ID), people who don't look like their ID due to changes in physical appearance, and people at risk of harm from being identified (whistleblowers). Conversely, a hostile nation state seeking to use social media to destabilise an enemy state will have the resources needed to forge or steal IDs. Finally, unless the UK builds its own great firewall, people will just use social media networks without ID requirements hosted outside the UKs jurisdiction.

This will not produce the outcome the petition starter wants (the ability to ID and prosecute people who abuse his son online), and even if it did, the costs would far outweigh that benefit.
"Tulips for Sale".
I can’t think of any but it’s a cool marketing point to have literal cloud computing
There is a middle ground of outsourcing the comments handling to companies like Disqus. But the Philadelphia Inquirer does say that (a) it has tried everything, presumably including considering this option, and (b) the comments have proven to be not actually useful to the publication nor widely used (outwith a small group) by readers outwith two specific areas.

"BBS system" is RAS Syndrome, by the way. (-:
I don't know if the Moon is really "infinitely" easier to get to and back - in a real sense the Moon is "most of the way there" - getting to Mars surface is only 25% more delta-v than the Moon, and that's without considering that aero-braking is available when you're landing on Mars.

The round trip is harder, sure, but we're talking maybe a factor of 10 rather than infinity.
In it's current form NFTs don't seem very compelling.

I have concerns for future DRM and MPAA-lobbied legislation could make this - or similar but scales well - the foundation of digital file ownership.
No source but my poetic heart. But perhaps you've heard about the massive energy consumption of these magic bean systems?
> After Riborg's death, it was found she had kept Andersen's poems about her.

LOL, brutal.
Really, America was first "discovered" by the indigenous folks who lived here before any European
Depends what sort of battery you're on. The cheapest car Tesla sells (or at least that is displayed to me when I visit their site), for example, has a 54 kwh battery. It could run a 100 watt load for ~22 days between charges (not counting driving). Or to put it another way, if you charge every day, and you never turn the dish off, this would only drain 1/22nd of your range.
The forcing function difference to deep sea living is extreme. All the underwater hab/lab things tanked (hah) because the capital to benefit (there is no ROI on making people live under the sea) is zero, and you can fix things in the time to decompress people to normal athmosphere (so walking off the gig is trival). Mars, its a one-way burden. Stuff something up? its a mars injection orbit time to send the fix, or make the fix, or die trying.

That aside, and disliking the source, I wouldn't personally fault the logic. I think Musk is selling a dream to achieve other more prosaic outcomes: dominance of heavy lift to LEO is worth so much more to his net worth.
"Carbon neutral" isn't the same as "non-polluting". "All" you need to be carbon neutral is to not burn fossil fuels for your energy.
> freely admit I have little desire to put effort into pretending I can somehow help the planet - that's the job of governments to set the policies society needs to accept, we either do it together or not at all.

Offsetting ones carbon footprint is cheap and easy. The fact that few people want to take any action individually undermines collective action.

The obvious path forward is for the most passionate people to lead by example.

The idea that somehow government will serve to overrule the self interest of the majority isn’t realistic.

If the majority doesn’t want change, the government can’t help.
I think docker and VMs are providing a different kind of abstraction. Docker is abstraction on an OS level where as a VM is abstraction on machine code level. Like, can I run my x64 compiled go binary on an M1 docker host? (Might be, because of Rosetta translating x64 byte code to M1 Arm byte code, much like the CLR translate IL to x64)

I think at the time when Java an .Net where invented, there were more CPU architectures/ISA around than today (like Sparc, Itanium, MIPS). I think having only 3 of them (PowerPC, ARM, x64) is what made VMs “obsolete”, not docker.
Most instances of the organising principle I find here are amazing. I think "I would never have done it that way" followed almost immediately by "but damn: its good"

for comparison: I have ~/bin and I don't distinguish between compiled and scripted personal commands.
SpInside Macintosh
dubai seems to be devoid of people, how come all this insane building for so little population? is it ego stroking mainly? i also wonder if they do manage to populate all these places what is the practicality of it all decades from now.
Many of these ISPs are shitty because they service the hardest to reach places. Comcast and Verizon have gobbled up billions in government aid to bring service to rural areas and end up delivering only to fringe areas which they can reach easily. The small companies end up struggling to get the government cash and end up underfunded providing service to the absolute-most difficult to reach consumers. It's a real crappy deal.

Arguably satellite service erases all of this and is a hard reset on rural telecommunications. Unfortunately, it's not a industry small businesses can participate in.
I think that mindset is what has led us to the current predicament we're now facing.

We have to understand the connection between a seemingly "innocent" event such as throwing trash in a random place and something else happening thousands of miles away - the events can be interconnected and the various documentaries have been trying to make us think about that.

If our activity causes warming that causes more storms that causes species to migrate earlier to different parts of the globe than usual that causes unpredictable food for other animals which they were relying on and have done for years, which in turn means they can't reproduce or sustain their cubs meaning other animals might suffer as a result and suddenly the entire chain is broken, disjointed and collapses.

Humans have no idea how fragile the ecosystem is or how resilient it may be (since we've never had this many humans living at once, consuming at the rates we are and causing the warming we've been witnessing).
> The die off is attributed to a mysterious disease affecting sea stars, and a couple years of warm marine weather. It's wholly possible this has nothing to do with humans at all, and is a natural event.

It is, and we keep hearing this argument for situations across the entire plant. There is a clear trend.
There are 96 nuclear power plants in the U.S. supplying ~20% of our electricity generation. I'm not sure I'd call it a failure?
For fans of both Calvin and Frank Herbert's Dune, I give you Calvin & Muad'Dib:

https://calvinanddune.tumblr.com/
Climate change is also just one of the ecological problems we’re making worse by the day. Micro plastics, importing non native species and parasites, insecticides, herbicides with unknown systemic effects, destroying most wild areas, etc.
> "Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them." — James F. Byrnes

A great quote that could be understood as a proof that decentralization is a mirage. For decentralization to work it requires its participanta to voluntarily surrender their prerogative to accumulate a relative advantage through exceptional personal agency.

"Decentralization for thee and not for me."
Hell, it's barely gone from "bleeding edge" to mere "cutting edge".
The large group of undesirable men also suffer further stigmatization as incels. Here's the same research discussed from their perspective:

https://incels.wiki/w/Tinder

https://incels.wiki/w/Tinder_experiments
My dumb guess is that whereas Fortran was kinda designed with scientific computation as a first class use case and c/c++ let you do anything with memory (and make it easy to use inline assembly to access specific instructions), most other languages are designed as general purpose language without scientific (as in "high performance") computing as a main design objective.

And thus specialized data type, operators and syntax look like overhead. And thus language designers leave it out.
This is huge. India is 6th largest economy in the world and 3rd largest by purchasing parity.
Ooh doesn’t this provide a legitimate reason to hold Monero? So maybe this will expedite crypto currencies that are intentionally difficult to track.
I'll share but these are not necessarily strong recommendations haha—many of these decisions stemmed from what I used in the last few years as a full-stack eng at Pinterest, and being able to move quickly came from muscle memory from using these dev environments.

iOS - Objective C, UIKit, IGListKit
web - React on next.js and native css
Android - Kotlin
> he’s not actually arguing against any of the conclusions we might draw from the spaceship Earth concept

he's criticizing the ideological component of spaceship earth. nature worship is a powerful tendency within the cultural imagination, and different political groups have mobilized it in ways that have sometimes been catastrophic. e.g., ecofascism was a significant component of nazi ideology.

also, your second paragraph is not valid. you equate "life and intelligent beings" with "varying distributions of protons, electrons, and photons," which Deutsch never did.
Hermetic Principles of Computing
While economy has historically been coupled to resource and energy usage, recently we have decoupled economic growth from things like that, countries can and do have economic growth with stable or decreasing ecological footprint as the service economy and digital/attention economy can provide more and more things people want without necessarily consuming more physical resources.
India's government is due for a reckoning. The reckless behavior of their conservative representatives has crossed several lines, and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. If they don't correct course, I think they're going to become even more hermited than they already are, which only gives their government more power to oppress theological, racial and political minorities. Hindu nationalism should be stopped before it causes more harm than it already has.
Don't hit the bottle. Keep the lid on, invert, and shake vigorously, until flow. Then remove the lid and shake gently to apply.
NFTs have slowly been taking over online art communities for the last 6 months or so, it's just reached a fever pitch lately.
UAP Physics, Thoughts?
Have they been migrating north like the lobsters on the East Coast?
At least a dozen counties already achieve basically all of this, today. They have done for a couple of decades. That's plenty of proof.
I'm familiar with the cantor set, and I know it has 0 measure.
Just because you can succinctly describe the cantor set, which has 0 measure, doesn't mean I've messed up.
If I assign a uniform distribution over [0,1] to some number outcome in the world, and an element in the cantor set is the result, then I've messed up.
But, when we measure numbers in the world, we don't measure specific real numbers, as all our measurements have some amount of error.
So, that can't happen.
We can measure that the result is in some interval, and that this interval contains some element of the cantor set, but the probability of what we observed, is not something that I assigned 0 probability to.
Like, heck, every interval will have a rational number in it, and the rational numbers also have measure 0.

"the measured value is in the cantor set" isn't a thing that we can observe to have happened.

("the value, when rounded to the finite amount of precision that our measurement has, is in the cantor set" is something that would have positive probability, under the uniform distribution over the interval, and therefore something I shouldn't assign a probability of 0.)
https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2018/07/26/why-we-should... Perhaps yes, but I doubt that can undo the damage done without an overcorrection and more issues.
“ The senior official told Reuters, however, that the plan is to ban private crypto-assets while promoting blockchain - a secure database technology that is the backbone for virtual currencies but also a system that experts say could revolutionise international transactions.”

Flashback to a couple years ago when “blockchain experts” proliferated to attempt to apply the technology to seemingly every domain, benefit or no.
Compute! magazine had really cool stuff (really nice monitor/debug program for instance) in hexdump format with checksum bytes on the end. They had a custom program that let you enter the hex, then calculated the checksum and compared it to the check digits entered. Prevented a LOT of typos :-)
Thank you for the thoroughness! I appreciate any technical "eyeballs" on the site for finding bugs, and this context helps speed up the fixing process. Much appreciated!
> easy, popular and highly lucrative.

Eh? How can it be all three of these things at the same time? If it's easy and popular, won't that push down the prices you can charge?
That doesn't really matter, the point is that an authoritarian regime has an easy solution. In Russia they may or may not limit it to fines (I'm not sure if it can be converted into criminal charges if you accumulate too many fines?). In China they may go for jail time right away and given China's past performance I don't see that as a too wild assumption.
Compute! magazine had a similar system for Commodore machines..
Serious question: what's the difference? I've seen both of these terms a lot but never with a concrete definition. I get the impression neither one refers to a terribly precise concept.
if one is homeless, it's not really due to inflation, but due to their productivity not keeping up. Globalization has moved manual labour and low skilled labour away from the USA, and those people affected were not given help to re-skill into other work, and most have to move to providing low-skill services (like hospitality, casuals etc), which is notoriously low pay.

Blaming inflation (or how inflation is calculated) for a societal problem is a distraction.
Probably patented
There's a big market in cars stolen abroad. Because they're not legitimate at all, they have to be smuggled in.
What a shame...
vast majority of those 8 billion people use very little resources. It's over consumption of the worlds top 10% (probably includes you and me) that caused most of the damage.
This is pretty much the argument I always made to crypto evangelists who touted cryptocurrencies as existing "outside the reach of government": governments can pretty much make anything they want to illegal.

Yes, on some level this would be basically impossible to enforce (you could always transfer your currency to a new "brain wallet" where you just memorized the key words), but on the other, it would mean actually buying anything with crypto, or exchanging it to fiat, would put one at great legal jeopardy.