skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the point is that wind was already expected to provide much less than its installed capacity. So expectations weren’t underwhelmed much.

The only electricity source that delivered with 100% capacity, minus a short outage of one reactor due an unfortunate sensor problem, was nuclear.

Nuclear power has - by far - the highest capacity factor of all sources of energy and if you don’t want to risk power outages in winter, your best bet is more nuclear.

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity
What percentage of Google Photos users exceeded their new quota though?

If i'm not mistaken, most people that use Google Photos are just the ones who decided to sync their photos to it on Android Phones
> (this vehicle’s battery pack alone is ~1800 lbs)

The weight of an entire small car!
Data Operational Maturity
Ask HN: Helping a refugee with only an Android phone learn programming?
My girlfriend works for MSF, and met a young refugee who was a civil engineering freshman before fleeing ethnic violence. He said he was interested in learning to code, so she asked if I could help. I recommended he install Grasshopper by Google and he's working through that. What are some other resources I can send him? His Internet access in the camp is very slow so videos aren't appropriate.
We've added ~1000lb to the weight of these monstrosities (now 6,500lb), faster acceleration from a stop, and preserved the enormous front, with its twin features of blindspot and zero chance that someone can roll over top of it when you hit them. But now it's there for trunk space...
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27218029
As a small business owner and someone who is currently hiring for remote positions, I will say the CO law will not in any way dissuade me from considering candidates from CO.

Every jurisdiction has laws and compliance regulations specific to that jurisdiction. These requirements seem in no way onerous or out of line to me.

I think the companies that will avoid CO applicants for jobs will be doing so because they want to avoid the wage transparency more than they want to avoid the regulatory burden.
Same argument as with Nvidia for example. Why won't Nvidia just take part or all GPU and mine some tokens on them? Technically they can, but if they will do it, they are forfeiting every single tech innovation they have made over last decades in the area of graphics, drivers, interoperability, all the software they have created and so on. By doing that they will immediately stop getting revenue from that efforts and start losing non-crypto customers.

Same with Hetzner. They aren't just renting a box to people. They rent a box and SLAs, basically promises that that box performs as advertised. And to achieve that they have invested a lot, which will be pointless if they'll start mining themselves.
> This long and rambling article starts with an anecdote about the author's own merit and class ascendance, only to move on to point out that class mobility is worse now than ever.

How is this a contradiction? His personal anecdote betrays the data around class mobility?
Bill Gates’s Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks
> copy flat regions

A map or pretty much any nontrivial data structure is not a flat region.

In any event, waiting to optimize until a profiler tells you to is a reasonable practice as long as you pay attention to scaling. It’s very easy to write, for example, a JSON parser that performs fine in small tests and has a nice small n^2 coefficient. And then someone throws in a bigger input than you tested and your game takes ten minutes to load.
People buy Bitcoin expecting that holding onto it for a few years will vastly increase their purchasing power. "lambo", "to the moon", etc. People are starry eyed over the 1000x return they could have made if they bought years earlier, and are hoping there's still some of that juice left to squeeze. Maybe not 1000x but 100x or 50x or 10x. Just search "bitcoin price target" and browse the dreams and napkin calculations of "assuming Bitcoin's market cap grows to match all gold" or "all M2" or "the euro" or whatever your favorite goal is, "...then 1 BTC == 1 zillion dollars and I can retire".

For investors to get that growth they desire, they need exponentially more new money to come into the system. If I buy 1 BTC at $40k, to double my money I need to sell it at $80k.

Maybe I sell it to one rich guy, maybe to two people on my level each buying 0.5 BTC at $40k, or maybe to 1000 poor people each buying .001 BTC at $80. But somehow $80k needs to come into Bitcoin.

Eventually you run out of people in the world with more money to buy in. And since the Bitcoins themselves aren't useful, the person who bought the top is SOL. The whole utility was "get more money out than you put in" and there's no bigger buyer left to make that possible, so now what is it good for? That's why people compare it to a pyramid scheme because pyramid schemes have an identical problem, with everybody making money until there simply aren't any more rubes left to buy in.

The dollar, even though it's still just scraps of paper and shared make-believe, doesn't have this scaling problem. People aren't holding onto their dollars expecting them to double in value. It's a currency, i.e. a handy abstraction layer over bartering, not an investment. I use the dollar because it beats trading my software development labor for chicken eggs from my boss's side-gig farm and then trading those for apples and gasoline and mortgage payments and electricity. I don't expect to get more out than I put in.

Stable currencies make sense and work. Double-your-money schemes run out of steam. It's that simple.

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I will give Bitcoin credit though for being the first decentralized pyramid. It doesn't die, so if you miss the peak in one cycle, you can always hope that a few years later it'll come back in style and reel in a bigger crowd before collapsing again.
Abbott should work at Comcast and supervise outage communications.
So... You want people to provide proof that the cryptocurrency market isn't manipulated? That feels slightly backwards. Usually we want to have proof that something is happening, not proof that something is not happening.

And since you also claim it's do easy to manipulate, wouldn't it be easier to provide proof of this?

When thinking about it, i'm not even sure how I could provide any evidence that it isn't manipulated... Any ideas?

> Like, if I were to set out to design a fertile ground for manipulations, it would pretty much look like the cryptocurrency space.

One tip for your future scam-network: don't design your entire ecosystem around the idea that you want to have a forever-stored global ledger of all the transactions, as it'll be easy to trace everything whenever. Better to have a few entities controlling the ecosystem that the public don't have insight into.
The thing that worries me about this is that it’s being increasingly clear that the US is becoming too partisan to do anything.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I’m guessing that a very high percentage of people will continue to blame wind. And I’m guessing this splits pretty heavily on party lines.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this removes all accountability from the government. If your constituents are always arguing about something other than your governance (I.e constantly in some ideological battle), what incentive do you really have to govern well?

The US still does many things well. But I think the system supporting the ability to do things well is decaying.
If a touchscreen is bad for volume, it is probably bad for most other up and down adjustments too (e.g. temp). I'd argue touch screens are bad for everything when you are driving, because you can't feel your way around.
What happened in Texas was the sum of all of its past elections and policy decisions. Texas has the government that it wants and rightfully deserves and I’m not about to interfere with that.
I've noticed that in that era of Ford vehicles, including my own. I have a 2006 Mustang that mechanically has been a tank, but electrically has had multiple issues (it's on its 4th alternator). The audio deck has been similarly flakey. They may very well be better nowadays.
Short answer is yes. Just one significant example all instructions 32 bit long and no Thumb.

If you read Patterson and Hennessy (Arm edition) there is a slightly wistful throwaway comment I think that Aarch64 has more in common with their vision of MIPS than with the original Arm approach.

Elsewhere you've commented that it's more similar to x86 -> x64 than x86 -> Itanium - which may be true but Itanium was a huge change. However, Aarch64 is philosphically different to 32 bit Arm so it's not really like the x86 -> x64 at all which was basically about extending a 32 bit architecture to be 64 bit.
As a side note, I think that VCs are not fueling innovations as much as protecting capital against it.

Simple hedging strategy to compensate for the potential disruption.
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union "busting" laws generally speaking are about REMOVING regulations around who is required by law to negotiate with and/or join a union. So these laws by definition are not imposing any regulatory burden on anyone they are removing regulatory burdens
The nuclear power plant shut down because its water supply froze and the pumps to cool the reactor shut down.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/how-and-why...

> “It’s very rare for weather issues to shut down a nuclear plant," said Brett Rampal, director of nuclear innovation at the Clean Air Task Force. "Some equipment in some nuclear plants in Texas has not been hardened for extreme cold weather because there was never a need for this.”

> According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown of the nuclear reactor was caused by a disruption in a feedwater pump to the reactor, and that caused the plant to trip automatically and shut down early Monday.

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...

> Rowland said Feb. 16 the unit shut "due to cold weather-related issues in the plant's feedwater system." Weather conditions did not impact the 1,312-MW South Texas Project-2, which operated at 100% early Feb. 15-18, according to NRC.

> Rowland said the unit shut at 5:37 am CT Feb. 15. STPNOC said in an event report filed with NRC that the unit tripped at 5:26 am due to low steam generator levels. "The low steam generator levels were due to loss of Feedwater pumps 11 and 13," according to the report.
> To give just one example, despite paying Israeli taxes for decades, Diana Kurd, a Palestinian widow from Anata, was stripped of her pension because her deceased husband had slept on the wrong side of their bed.

I found this so unbelievable that I had to confirm. It's not clear how big a role the sleeping position played in the courts decision, but other than that the story seems true:

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5183494
From the outside, Greg appears to behave like a saint through this enitre process. The university, professors and students involved in this calamity have demonatrated precisely why software developers really need to be bound by ethics.
While I'm a big fan of this NLP analysis, it's disingenuous to state ML can "prove" something. Journalistic bias is fundamentally a subjective judgement; 90% accurate ML models don't make the claim true.

That said, the paper itself is a good read.

http://web.mit.edu/hjackson/www/The_NYT_Distorts_the_Palesti...
Who wants a Cybertruck anyway :) I am all for F-150
"it's okay that Apple made this mistake, because they were always willing to replace your useless trash when it broke for you!"

Maybe Apple should have just swallowed their pride and addressed it in a single product cycle. I was one of the people waiting for the keyboard to be fixed before buying a Mac, and I just ended up switching to Linux before it happened. I ended up buying an M1 Macbook Air, but it doesn't get much use these days besides multiplatform testing.
U.K. Set to Tell Homeowners to Ditch Gas Boilers, in Green Plan
All you have to do in Texas to deflect political blame is point to a Democrat and say "get a rope." I don't think the state was even entirely thawed before they started blaming the Biden Administration and AOC personally somehow.
Energy sources have been partisan since before Reagan had the White House solar panels removed.
So according to this[1] it looks like the motors and batteries are in the bottom of the car like in other EVs. Which makes me wonder:
What's under the enormous hood in front? Is it just empty space?

[1] https://www.ford.com/is/image/content/dam/vdm_ford/live/en_u...
After going through their marketing, and considering the needs of family in the construction industry, I think they've touched on the right use cases here that a tech worker Tesla fan wouldn't be interested in but that tradesmen/contractors do need. My relatives do in fact:

Use the truck bed always and fill it with tools and supplies.

Drive around all day going from job site to job site transferring tools and supplies or meeting with current and prospective clients.

Use electric generators and in fact carry one in their truck bed.

If the onboard generator has enough juice to bring a crew to work and back, while also powering their tools all day I can definitely see contractors getting excited for this truck.
You need a RF engineering textbook. Start by understanding how a co-axial works and what is impedance matching.
Lie vs. miss is relative. Every single inspector in the US at least has liability that only extends to the cost of their inspection (or, sometimes, 2x their inspection cost...). Hardly enough to cover any losses if there is major damage that is overlooked.

I had a friend who bought a house with major termite damage (i.e., every wall had to be removed to repair the studs basically), and 2 inspectors overlooked the damage. He said in retrospect (after doing a bunch of research on termite damage), it should have been obvious to inspectors, but they missed it.

He tried to pursue legal action against either the seller or the inspectors, and basically was told: impossible to prove seller knew (as there was no repairs done), and inspectors are not held liable.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH5%2Fi7OvsjSmqADv@kroah.c...

And the resulting conversations between Aditya Pakki and Greg. Aditya was never part of the hypocrite commit research, accusing them for this is just bad.
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Unfortunately, there is partisanship among clean energy proponents, they're split into the nuclear party and the solar/wind party, and they keep fighting each other while we keep burning fossil fuels.

It's a textbook display of the narcisissm of small differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
Yeah, +1 this. I mean, if you're genuinely in the country pulling logs, or even just in the US, then fine. People drive around my tiny country town in England in these tanks. I just find it obnoxious. It's wasteful and it's intimidating for others on the road. And it starts an arms race, because now being in a small car you can't see past other drivers and you feel more vulnerable.

Saddest emblem of modern Eurocapitalism that I know: the BMW "Mini". It's a vast, charmless travesty of the original.
Moving from DevOps to DevSecOps
Every language has its quirks. "They" works in this case, at least in english. You can say "After they sign up". You can also say "After the user signs up", just beware the repetition.

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In portuguese, "the user" has a gender as well ("o usuário" i.e. "(the male) user"). We usually ignore linguistic gender in most places, which causes all sorts of confusion to people coming from countries where nouns are "un-gendered".
> They'll always need a bigger collider. That's where new results will always be.

Bigger colliders are a low-risk approach: we'll definitely learn something, even if it's just better constraints on our models. This was a no-brainer back when colliders took up rooms or buildings. We've gone so far down this path that colliders are now measured in kilometres (and straddle national borders!), making it harder to justify the expense.

Higher-risk approaches can be much cheaper, by looking for new paths (where we haven't hit diminishing returns yet). EmDrive is an example; wakefield accelerators are another. These have a greater chance of going nowhere (again, EmDrive), but cost so little that we can fund a whole bunch for the equivalent of a bigger collider.

Of course, in best approach is to strike a balance between these two extremes: don't spend everything on the biggest possible collider; but likewise don't avoid projects just for being expensive.

Another good example is ITER versus the various fusion startups.
Note that generation capacity doesn’t say much of the actual amount of electricity available throughout the year.

Wind and solar don’t provide dispatchable electricity and will always need a backup plant.
I disagree. This too big, heavy, and deadly for other people like cyclists, pedestrians, or even city car drivers.
Ya I get that, but the statement is a society/government issue and has nothing to do with Ford.
>Having touch controls for volume is a horrible idea

I second that. This also applies to heater controls and lighting and almost everything else that i can't think of. The benefit of the tactility of physical buttons and switches is sadly being coldly ignored by those who design our cars.
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Nice points but honestly truth be told I am a bit fed up with UIs.

It is just a thing to get from an intention to insight or execution of an action.

I spend a lot of time with UX designers debating a lot of things in this doc, there are of course standards that reduce friction and help us get to decisions quicker but I much prefer investing time to get rid of the UI in the first place if possible through automation.

For example if output from one UI interaction is an input to another UI and the human actions across those UIs can codified into rule(s) then you can start to get the knife out and really reengineer your business processes.

Obviously this takes some serious commitment but the payback can be huge.
Wait, wait, are.. are you suggesting there should be sudden volcano in curtain places? ;)
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...

> TP Nuclear Operating Co.'s 1,312-MW South Texas Project-1, which automatically shut Feb. 15 amid bitter cold, connected to the grid at 9:07 pm CT Feb. 17 "and is currently ascending to 100% power," company spokeswoman Vicki Rowland said Feb. 18.

> The unit, located in Bay City, Texas, was operating at 36% of capacity early the morning of Feb. 18, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a daily reactor status report.

> Rowland said Feb. 16 the unit shut "due to cold weather-related issues in the plant's feedwater system." Weather conditions did not impact the 1,312-MW South Texas Project-2, which operated at 100% early Feb. 15-18, according to NRC.
I doubt it would be a very viable choice for recreational towing, but then, that market is probably significantly smaller than the standard truck use-cases.
Good luck. This is like being a fan of non-touchscreen or non-capacitive touchscreen phones. Been there...
Not if the computer becomes a paperweight after those 5 years. If Apple wants me to consider a Mac, they need to make the NVME user-servicable, no exceptions. If the current chassis leaks are true, Apple has no excuse not to use the extra space inside their Professional(!!!) machine to give it a relatively standard feature found in laptops half it's price. There's no excuse anymore.
Before that. Reagan had them removed not to create a new partisan issue, but because it was already a partisan issue.
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I wanted to reply, but I did not want to disclose everything on HN, so I've sent you an email.
Honestly, I'm not handy at all and I've only owned my home for a couple of years, but the desire for something with a truck bed grows more every summer, it's just so damn useful to be able to do something as simple as pick up a lawn mower or a ladder or not worry about the size of the flat pack we're getting from Ikea.
I take it you've never had to:

1. Take a bunch of trash/old furniture/whatever to the dump

2. Move furniture

3. Pick up materials for a home renovation like 16 foot long baseboards, drywall, a few dozen boxes of laminate flooring, etc. (no need to be a professional construction contractor here)

4. Tow a camping trailer

5. Much, much more

I'm literally using my truck tonight to pick up ~500 square feet of flooring material, which is saving me ~$300 in shipping costs. The truck itself only cost me $3,700 to begin with, and between this and several other home improvement projects it has saved me ~$2,000 in shipping/moving/other costs so far in just the two years I've owned it. And I'll be saving a bundle in shipping costs on new kitchen cabinets in a few months as well. That's before you get into the convenience factor of not having to rent/borrow a truck anytime you need to move something big.
> I think there are many who don't realise how major the shift from ICE to electrical will be

Could not agree more. With all the things we're talking about using batteries for (electrifying almost all wheeled transport and some aviation, huge amounts of grid storage to smooth out rough solar & wind inputs, grid-independent installations), this is going to be an absolutely massive, sprawling industry.

Batteries are likely to be a bottleneck for a long time. We will find ways to reuse and recycle the ones from old cars because there will be enormous incentives to do so.

The downside to this is that I'm not expecting battery prices to really drop much for quite a while. They may even go up. These aren't microchips after all; the laws of physics prohibit any significant miniaturization.
Trucks have the ability to use fifth-wheel couplings. They also have higher ground clearance.

I suspect the first is rarely used. The second is paraded as a feature, for reasons which escape me.
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We take our analogies very seriously here, no jokes sir.
It isn't fair to characterize everyone this way. I've owned my fair share of small cars (by US standards) but I bought a used F150 (my first truck) a few years ago and I love it. I don't care about how loud the engine is, nor do I think it makes me any more macho (I don't buy things for what others think of me.) It carts my family around comfortably and I can haul lots of things with it without caring if it's dirty/wet/etc. My second favorite vehicle is my wife's minivan - it's too bad they have a bad stigma.

My concern with the Lightning (and EVs in general) is range anxiety. I can fill up my F150 in what 3-4 minutes. How long before I can go 400 miles on a charge? What happens during an extended power outage, can I carry 100 miles worth of range in a portable container that's as easy to handle as 5 gallons of gas?

None of these concerns have anything to do with this vehicle making me feel more manly ;)
Sure, risks exist everywhere. But you claimed "but only if your bank vaporizes your balance every so often" which when read seems to indicate that your balance gets reset randomly/at a set interval, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Also, no one ever said DeFi is like a normal bank account. In fact, the biggest feature of cryptocurrencies and DeFi is exactly that it's not a bank account. It's likely the top reason people are involved in the first place.