skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is. It’s a well know social phenomenon. It even has a name. It’s called a run.

Even at the time, stores and suppliers were saying nothing was wrong with any part of the supply chain. If you think there was some vast conspiracy to cover up the toilet paper shortage of 2020, not only do you have to explain where all the toilet paper went, and why the paper mills had a sudden drop in production, but you’re also going to have to explain shortages of flour, sugar, noodles, and most bizarrely of all, bottled water. Bottle water shortages, at a time when there was nothing wrong with municipal water supplies!

This isn’t even the first time in my life I’ve seen a run that was caused by panic buying. I think back to the afternoon of September 11, 2001.[0] There were gas runs. Gas stations literally ran out of gas. Prices were gouged.[1] Lines formed like the 1970s oil crisis.

The next day everything was back to normal. Why? Because there was nothing wrong with the oil supply. The only shortage was at the retail stations. As soon as the tanker trucks returned, it stations reopened.

[0] https://tulsaworld.com/archive/9-11-attack-fueled-panic-at-t...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/gas.prices/index.html
emacs _is_ an IDE.

Some might say the best IDE
It is super sad. He was pure kindness.
> So, when you said hydrogen rapidly corrodes any metal it comes into contact with, that didn't include the metal that the chemical industry makes their equipment from? So, let's just put a "this is chemical industry" signs on our hydrogen storage plants, and presto! Magically protected!

I'd say you're being deliberately ignorant here, but I'm really not so sure. A gas turbine spins rapidly, putting huge stresses on the blades. They also operate at extremely high temperatures.

And from your link:

> The use of hydrogen as a gas turbine fuel has been demonstrated commercially, but there are differences between natural gas and hydrogen that must be taken into account to properly and safely use hydrogen in a gas turbine. In addition to differences in the combustion properties of these fuels, the impact to all gas turbine systems as well as the overall balance of plant, must be considered. In a power plant with one or more hydrogen-fueled turbines, changes may be needed to the fuel accessories, bottoming cycle components, and plant safety systems. GE’s broad field experience enables our engineers to understand the impact of using hydrogen as a gas turbine fuel.

Hmm, maybe not so simple.

And when we look at what's actually being deployed, it's not 100% hydrogen it's a mixture that's mostly natural gas with only a small portion of hydrogen:

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/gas-turbines-hydro...

> The new gas turbines will be commercially guaranteed capable of using a mix of 30% hydrogen and 70% natural gas fuel. Between 2025 and 2045, the hydrogen capability will be systematically increased to 100% renewable hydrogen.

These turbines still mostly burn natural gas. GE says it'll get there eventually, possibly over the course of 3 decades.
See above but yeah from what we have heard speaking to a few tax accountants, is that issuing equity to non-canadian can cause tax liability for them.
The view through the atmosphere is more hazy than it is perfect.

I bet the statistics are pretty dire after 3000 years too.
> My only job was to say welcome to people and ask if I could help them find what they are looking for so that we'd get graded well by secret shoppers.

> Ironically, as soon as they began to ask where to find something I was required to point at another employee

If that were me, I would have substituted "Can I help you find anything?" with something more like "Do you need any help?"
I breaks my heart. His VODs are still on twitch. Lots to see if you'd like to enjoy their banter once again.
I’m a Caltech alum. It’s common knowledge.
> To [hypertap], he developed a unique one-handed grip: with his right thumb on the control pad, he flexed his right bicep until his arm shook, pressing down with each tremor, about fifteen times per second.

Did anyone else do this for other games? I used to pull this move all the time in those mario party style games where you had to be the first to press a button, or had to tap the most in a certain period of time.
No, then you’re not building enough. If you build enough supply to meet demand then prices would fall. This isn’t speculation, this is simple law of supply and demand taught in every economics course. What you’re talking about is just not based in reality.

> It isn't a supply and demand issue IMO.

With all due respect, you’re wrong and haven’t read about it enough then. Think about it like this, over the past few decades we’ve built fewer housing units than our population needed. This allowed demand to keep rising faster than supply, this pushed prices up. If you reverse that trend and make housing easier and cheaper to build, this trend would reverse.
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A market designed to expect people to act in a way that humans have never acted would be an utterly useless market. Self interest is one of the most dependable features of humans, especially in the face of scarcity, and is one of the most effective when exploited correctly.
I think some people on all sides are tired of reading about Stallman.
In British Columbia they are building a 1000 MW hydro plant that is going to cost 10-12 billion. Similar story at muskrat falls in Labrador.

Large projects are just expensive now. Nuclear would be competitive with either of these hydro projects.
I dunno, seems a stretch to blame the kernel for e-waste when theres tons of other well funded parties creating the waste in the first place with zero intention of supporting the device beyond a year, let alone enabling anyone else to support it.

The android ecosystem is already better than the completely proprietary feature phones of before.
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This comment feels like it was written by someone who hasn't done much Windows development (which is fine!). The kernel changes a lot over time, introducing entirely new driver models (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model#H... for an example), OS-wide features, etc. Things like thread scheduling or timer granularity can and will change (see https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/windows-timer-r... for a recent example)

Let's not forget about massive stuff like the whole Windows Subsystem For Linux, which was literally an entire separate process type alongside Win32 processes, with its own set of syscalls etc. Added and then deprecated (and probably eventually removed entirely) over the span of years.

Maintaining a stable kernel ABI is no doubt a big investment, but it's possible and doesn't have much to do with whether your kernel is a microkernel or not. Lots of Windows drivers these days are user-space which helps maintain compatibility and stability.
When the largest electrolyzer we have in the world is 10MW... and hydrogen storage hasn't been demonstrated at anywhere near the scale you're talking about... it's a tad of a stretch to talk about it being "off the shelf." Particularly when you point to nuclear fuel reprocessing and breeding as nonexistent in the same thread.
This brought back memories of the lunch box alarm in "Dear Mr. Henshaw." Maybe if I read the book now I'd figure out who was stealing the poor boy's lunch.
The interface isn't closed anymore, is it? [1]

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mhi/mhi.html
It looks like they disappeared a few years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/world/asia/myanmar-buddhi...

:-(
Cloudflare is an agent for website owners. Nearly everything is configurable and the defaults are permissive.
I encourage you to perform the experiment. Speed is like coffee in that it can move productivity and energy around but it has limited effects on the quantity of either.
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Given sufficiently generous unemployment benefits (ie. mincome), I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
Ok thanks, all fair enough. I guess mainly "It could have been 5 pages to get the point across, but that doesn't sell a book." seemed...unreasonably hostile/cynical.

Someone is going to complain this exchange is too civil–it's happened to me before on here. :-)
Is nano really That Bad? It's always been good enough for my needs, and in the cases where it's not I generally hop on Sublime or vscode, make the changes I want to make, then paste it into my term.
> that they got a special exemption (which is not part of ARM's official license offering

I agree except I'd say that it is part of ARM's official license offering, but only if your name is "Apple".
"Opting" to become addicted?

I know one person who says of herself that some days she just can't go into the city. Because she knows on those days she'd get hooked again if she were to pass a place where she used to shoot. And she talks about "it", that urge, in the third person.

I fully "discount" her judgment in some areas and she would agree. Like I can't reason you into holding your breath for longer than a minute, I can't reason her into ignoring the urge. I would not treat as "legitimate" a decision she takes following that urge. Whether she stays clean or not depends a lot on her surroundings. Does that put responsibility on her friends? You bet.

I wonder, what do you make of Toxoplasmosis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Rodents
Your point is fair, but a big difference is that those regimes murdered those people via starvation largely on purpose, or just through gross negligence. Hopefully, in the event of a famine caused by natural disaster, the opposite would be happening.

You are quite correct that history does not paint a hopeful picture on the subject.
Qualcomm upstreams tons of support for their SoCs.
>to accommodate the unreliable supply.

You're conflating "expensive" with "unreliable". Even with infinite batteries, buying stored energy will always be more expensive than direct solar/wind.
Fermentation usually goes along with sealing too, to give the good guys a head start and avoid contamination.

I've been making kefir lately and it sure feels weird putting a jar of milk in the cupboard at room temperature for a day or two.
Well, looks like we are unable to “reassemble a coherent view” of current events, even. (And, speaking of physics, the light will die out dissipated by clouds of gas an dust.)
Dunno. Haven't seen the guy since 1988. I would suspect he was, goes with the territory.
Your grumbling and desperate denial doesn't change that turbines burning hydrogen are old hat. This is not something that any reasonable person would think won't work.

None of the issues discussed there are showstoppers. They are things that should be, and have been, tweaked.
That's a question that can't be answered until people actually build hydrogen storage facilities at scale.

Why shouldn't nuclear plants scale? They're mostly just steel and concrete. Uranium is more than 40 times more prevalent than gold, and it's energy density is such that it represents a negligible cost of operations. The technology is just scaling up existing components, we had nuclear powered submarines for a while. This is what people thought about nuclear power in the 1950s and early 60s. As plants actually started being constructed problems such as corrosion, large amounts of earth moving, metal impurities, and more were discovered and made the plants more expensive.

We haven't discovered these issues with hydrogen storage. We won't discover these issues until we actually build hydrogen storage facilities at scale. We don't know what challenges will lie in store when building hydrogen storage, because we've never done it before. This is why it's useless to talk about the cost of hydrogen storage until we actually have experience building and operating hydrogen storage plants. Our knowledge of cost of hydrogen storage is in the same situation as nuclear power in the 1950s.
“And there goes my account as well, just like Erdayastronaut [ ]”
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> I have a hard time squaring how you can be in a union with an adversarial relationship to management, whilst at the same time being an owner of the company. It's one or the other.

Unionized ESOP companies aren't uncommon.

You've got it a bit backwards about the adversarial relationship: having an ESOP and a union isn't some kind of organizational impossibility, and it can decrease the probability of a serious dispute between management and the union. [1]

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr347.html
We can run electrolysers in parallel to scale to any desired output level. There might be economies of scale to make them even larger, or there could be economies of manufacturing scale of making smaller ones at higher volume. PV and wind are examples of technologies that work well with large numbers of not so large units, replicated as needed. This is a nice place for a technology to be.
This is true, but we have to keep in mind that victory gardens were supplements, not replacements. Also, if we had another 536 event, even the gardens would suffer.

We planted a garden for the first time in years right at the start of lockdown, and it was not nearly enough for food replacement. I laughed that it was good thing we didn’t need it for survive, because we’d starve.

Still, gardens are a great hobby and way to offset food costs and be a bit more self sufficient.
I have to agree with parent. I've had a custom domain without Jekyll on GitHub pages for well over 5 years now, and it's been free the entire time.
Reagan would love this public-private partnership, no? The government is too incompetent to do things in house obviously, so they hired contractors!
Async/await is just syntactic sugar over callback-based continuations, though.

And in .NET at least, you can easily tell if await will block or not, by looking at Task.IsCompleted.
> When I was a kid it was essentially unheard of to own a second property for rent.

Sorry but that’s flat-out wrong. Owning a second property for rent has always been a thing. How would you have known, you were a kid!

Case in point: my family was middle class. My parents were a college professor (new grad from graduate school, not a big deal) and a stay-at-home mom, living in suburban America. They owned a second property for rent. I didn’t even know until 20 years later that they had owned it!

Lest you think I’m some kid who grew up in the 00’s: no, I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
This [1] article posted elsewhere in the thread alludes to the Justinian Plague and this famine hastening to fall of the Eastern Empire. I assume that's what the parent comment is referring to, but I don't see the connection.

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-ye...
You can read the patented algorithm in the patent, and even implement it, but you cannot legally distribute it, until the parent expires.
There are also some methods that are a little more chemistry based. Unless I'm mistaken nitrite qualifies in that it kills bacteria (mainly targeting botulinum) in a more chemically active way by inhibiting certain processes specifically.
The Wynns went there a few years ago. $530 USD for two cleanings and a crown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAECrmAOqy4
This makes me very sad.

While she will probably be more remembered for the Ramona and Henry books (and don't get me wrong, those are fun, and if I had kids I'd probably try and get them to read them), a favorite of mine (even to this day) is "Dear Mr Henshaw".

I think it holds a special place in my heart because it was one of the first books that I read where I understood the themes, and they are good themes. Understanding that the world will be unfair, and that there's not a lot that you can do about that, but also understanding that that shouldn't subtract from the good and beautiful things is a genuinely good, clever theme for any age, but especially for a book meant for children.

RIP Mrs. Cleary. Your books are provided the source for nearly all my book reports from grades 2-5, and you will sincerely be missed.
From your own source:

"The solar heavy network wouldn’t need energy storage with an HVDC network."

So no, we wouldn't need that. HVDC would be far cheaper.
Probably but it’s still fun to think about.
That link you provided doesn't encompass gas turbines. Gas turbines capable of burning hydrogen do exist, but only at smaller concentrations, 70% methane and 30% hydrogen or less.
I recently did a pass through CC it took me 5 days, there were 80,000 1GB warc files. I had to just filter the information I wanted and dump the rest because I can't possibly host that much data on my machines. It's great data but very noisy, like the web is. Lots of repetition and useless junk mixed with useful data.
Because most people who do work are being productive, doing useful things, serving their fellows. And being unemployed if you’re of working age and without some other productive role is awful.

Unemployment is bad for society generally and for the unemployed. Maybe one day we’ll get to fully automated luxury gay space communism but France is not there. Those extra unemployed people are having their talents and productivity wasted by economic mismanagement.
I'd love to see a segment/page/row added for Data Science.

- thinks Pandas is a subreddit

- said they have dplyr in his Magic deck

- saw data mining in a documentary about bitcoin once
This looks like it's a computer science competency matrix instead programmer. I think accessibility/usability is an important skill to have too.
Why would a thief use the same address more than once? Especially one that is sophisticated enough to do what You have described? Is it possible that the address in question is a public address pointing to a gambling or tumbling service? Have You Googled it?
One pretty huge downside for GitHub Pages, is that they still don't seem to serve content to IPv6 addresses.

Saying that because I tried it out again a few weeks ago for a friend's website (https://neasair.org), and nope... it doesn't provide AAAA DNS records (IPv6), just A (IPv4).

So, had to put the website on some other infrastructure already hanging around, that does do AAAA records.
That's a good question. Somehow we perceive our thoughts. We perceive whether they are in English or in German. We perceive the likeness of what our ears would perceive if we spoke those thoughts out. Now what kind of sensor-mechanism could there be that would perceive those non-spoken thoughts? Well it can simply be perception of "brain-waves".

The (original) stimuli for perception need not come from the outside only. When the light enters the eye it immediately becomes brain-signal. Same with our ears etc. So what we "perceive" is really brain-signals all the way. Therefore it does not sound mysterious to me how we could be able to "perceive thoughts", and it appears we can, we can "hear our thoughts".
> I'd say you're being deliberately ignorant here, but I'm really not so sure. A gas turbine spins rapidly, putting huge stresses on the blades. They also operate at extremely high temperatures.

Seriously, your projection is out of control here. A gas turbine burning hydrogen does not experience any stresses that is meaningfully different from one burning natural gas or kerosene. Simply applied engineering can solve all of the issues associated with hydrogen gas turbines.
I'm using them for a rust rocket site, and about to for a django/vue thing. It's extremely slick and easy to get going. But they are just personal projects. I haven't thought about whether it would be suitable for a prod deploy, or how I'd do something like take django down while database migrations are running on deploy.
Scientists Thrilled to Observe the First Milliseconds of Gold Crystal Formation
It's been getting more difficult to host any kind of services at home. My current home internet service is behind triple NAT.
In some areas they seem to ask, but you can just walk by or flip them off. It's unclear to me what they really do to their bottom line.
Annie's isn't even that much healthier.

Made it for my wife, she prefers KD.

We been dabbling from scratch, much better results
You really think there is a cultural shift?

The US started lifting restrictions well before we had even vaccinated vulnerable old people. A few weeks of inconvenience deemed unconscionable.

Here in Michigan the faster spreading variants are taking hold, people don't appear to care. We may do okay, vaccines appointments are just about available to everyone, but it can be another rough couple of months for no real good reason.
Hurricane China as Viewed from Hong Kong
Kroger is coming straight for instacart with Ocado. With instacart no longer picking from stove shelves and online orders being filled by Ocado sheds, boh is way more accurate and Kroger can also provide a better service. Rip instacart
That hydro project doesn't sound competitive.
He stepped down in 2019. The FSF added him to the Board this weekend.

Moreover, they did so with no announcement - the only source was Stallman's own statement at LibrePlanet, and the FSF had to issue a clarification that nobody involved with LibrePlanet knew that he was returning. https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128 It took them a few days to update their website. They still haven't said why he returned (did he ask? did they ask?), what he plans to do on the board, etc.

Nobody was paying attention until he rejoined. He never stepped down as leader of the GNU Project, nor did the FSF ever suspend its relationship with the GNU Project. They could have just not added him, and maybe some weird people like me (https://twitter.com/geofft/status/1207131726176227330) would have thought less of them for it, but it's pretty clear they were continuing to exist as an organization, continuing to run events, etc.

Which I guess brings up your last point, about who will champion his good ideas. First, the man is 68 years old, and the challenges facing free software and the importance of the cause are both greater than ever. He won't live forever, despite his prophetic appearance, and the FSF ought to have been figuring out who will champion the cause in the future. And he can't be everywhere at once and championing everything at once. Second, he did leave (at least on paper) in 2019. They've had over a year to actually figure out that answer. If the FSF has no answer for how to advocate for free software without the person of Richard Stallman, and that's why they brought him back, I really have no idea what they're doing at all.

(And if you're wondering if there's anyone else who can be as uncompromising about free software, without being an un-asset, I want you to watch the acceptance speech of the Free Software Award from last weekend: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/mar/22/fsf-award-bkuhn/)
I think one of the versions of processing would be ideal for this.
A solar heavy network would still need 12 hours of storage to accommodate nighttime energy use. More actually, because of greater seasonal fluctuations further from the equator.

All of the Americas experience night time simultaneously for at least 8 hours a day. Even if we ran HVDC lines to the Sahara, there's still a period of time where most sunlight is shining on the pacific ocean.
Makes everything sound so mechanical and boring. Do they want normal people or some bot like creature that they can just assign numbers in a matrix? Depressing.