skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean by outcompeting is that if rich cryptominers are pricing poor Kazakhs out of an electricity supply which was perfectly fine before, I don't see how that counts as a win for their robustness and stability of power supply.

And PoW crypto isn't like aluminium smelting. The value of aluminium smelting isn't in winning an arms race with other aluminium smelters based on how much power they consume, so if you bring more power plants online at a lower-than-average price, market logic doesn't dictate that competing aluminium smelters should immediately seek to buy all that capacity until they've bid the price up to the original level.

The whole "crypto creates demand for innovation in power supply" only makes sense if you believe people haven't been investing in innovation in power supply because there's been barely anybody that wants cheap electricity for the past century or so! That might be the case for [formerly] tiny niches affected by new use cases, like say, lithium batteries suitable for powering vehicles. It isn't the case for Kazakh ability to keep the lights on
Get your colonoscopy. Period. Don't let people tell you fables about "the prep" or be afraid of something going up your butt.

"The prep" is a bit unpleasant for a couple of hours, but no big deal. The actual procedure is done under propofol. Consider that part the best nap you will ever get.

You will either get a clean bill of health, or the doctors will find something that is easily treated right then and there. The stigma (especially of men) about this procedure will lead to countless numbers of them to die from something that doesn't have to be.

Get the procedure when your doctor says. Just do it. Please.
All this complaining about recruiters is so stupid. Yo…they can help you get a job. Get paid more money. Get that dream job.
I don't know why I'm still shocked by things like this, but I am.

> The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money.

> Ten sailors paid with their lives.
where are they going to get enough fuel for these? Where will they store the waste?
You are aware that aerogel is porpous?
Correct. I'm not saying he "fixed" the problem, but that he made his and the companies positions more clear.
if you just care about pairings, you can use alcohol-free wine/beer/flavorants.
Apparently you didn't fully read the article. The shortages aren't the miners, it is the fact that 3 plants shut down...

"On October 15, the national grid operator, KEGOC, announced electricity rationing after three major coal-fired power plants shut down. KEGOC did not directly blame miners, but it used language similar to the energy minister’s and said it was cutting off customers who “over-consume.”"
The same as if a human hits someone with a car -- nobody.
Looks like you're being downvoted by all of the people that refuse to own up to their own hypocrisy over this issue. You're exactly correct, of course. China manufactures the vast majority of this equipment, and China runs on coal.
Then that would be the perfect solution for you! Interpreted Rust has no compilation step, you can jump straight to execution!
What did they do after the patriot act that they weren't doing before it?
The government absolutely did interfere. The government told businesses they can't operate; that is interference.

Not only did they do that, but they also became arbiters of which businesses were "essential", part of the wealth transfer problem you mentioned. Couple that with ppp loans being processed by requested size because the government attached size percentages to the payouts realized by banks.

Government paying people not to work was interference, along with everything else. I believe that people are owed just compensation for it too! But that would look a lot different than extended unemployment benefits - people would be receiving their full salary.

All of this is interference and bad and not supportive of free markets.

Rather, the government should have done the necessary thing and forced people to evaluate their own risk. Nobody wants to visit your store anymore? You go out of business, and the gov isn't on the hook. That would be free markets.
Let's eliminate pointless jobs like waitstaff and retail point of sale operators.

People can order from a kiosk, or their phone.

Self checkouts remove the need for cashiers.

We no longer have people who punch buttons in the elevator for good reasons.

Want to be posh and still have these in your restaurant or store? Charge a premium and be prepared to pay people and give them benefits like health care.

Until we can automate cooks, busboys and dish staff those are the food service jobs available.

We need a higher level cashier to watch the automatic kiosks, but not cashiers.
Is it really unintuitive? Most Americans only save about 7% of their income IIRC, wouldn't it make sense that they would mismanage most windfalls by default? In recessions, this number jumps up dramatically, proving that it's mismanagement that contributes.
I'll repeat this as many times as I like until I'm satisfied but Apple should have made the trade off of trackpad area for the touch bar and not the function keys.
Not to mention that the clicking firmness is programmable:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204352
1. What is the official way we're supposed to handle this?

2. How should the tech world communicate that better so that it's more user-friendly?
The human term is "sarcasm", Lt. Commander Data. There are only a certain number of business domains that deal with multi-petabyte monthly data transfer. So it's an amusing leap to presume the oldest profession on that list.

Thanks for researching a footnote cite to the TOS document. But it's not literal. Whoosh.
> Tap to click should _always_ be turned off

It’s off by default, so someone at Apple seems to agree :)

It’s the first thing I usually turn on. The next being “dragging (without drag lock)” which has been hiding in Accessibility for a while now.
Nope. This is not supporting the browser, it's supporting their VPN that they develop, that takes time and effort from the browser work.
What is there not to understand? This is not hard or complex.

I am guessing that if you are not getting what the problem is here, you must be pretty young and have good eyesight. Perhaps you also mainly use single-screen setups.

(By comparison, I am 53, myopic, and normally wear varilux spectacles to give me different focal lengths which my eyes' lenses can no longer provide.)

As an example: I have 3 screens on my work setup. A 24" screen in portrait (80dpi), a 22" in landscape (87dpi) and the laptop's built-in 12½" (110dpi).

The difference between the 2 external screens is not really noticeable, but the internal screen's density is significantly higher. When I put windows on that display, their contents become much smaller, to the extent that they are hard to read.

That is the problem here. On my Macs, when I attach an external screen, the OS adjusts the scaling factor so that windows, text, controls and so on are the same size on all displays. You can even position a window over the split between monitors and the OS adjusts the contents on the fly.

X.org can't do that. You get one global scaling factor for all displays.

I would like my internal screen to show its contents at 1¼× the size of the external screens, but X.org can't do that.

Wayland can, but I don't like most of the desktops that run on Wayland. I can't stand GNOME and dislike KDE. I prefer Xfce or Ubuntu Unity -- but they don't run on Wayland. (Yet, in the case of Xfce.)

This leaves 2 less-than-ideal choices: run LCDs at non-native resolutions in order to roughly match on-screen sizes, or put up with things changing size and possibly being unreadably small.

These options are tolerable on standard-definition screens, but they aren't on HiDPI screens. Worse still, a mixture of HiDPI and SD screens can be totally unusable.
Could you explain the moral and legal reasoning that necessitates that Github block ICE from using their public services, but also allows them to continue their "Developers should be allowed to user our service" that allows them to defend youtube-dl and usage in Iran?
There is no way they fired him. He is leaving by his own choice.
I (Nils) was the maintainer of it for many years at the point already, and I was genuinely considering to let it die for quite a while. I was furious at what mozilla did to the loyal and active extension community and especially on how they did it - essentially by decree without community interaction at all. I was part of the mozilla volunteer army, not just with DownThemAll! and a few other more minor extensions, but I also had been on the team reviewing add-on submissions - I think I reviewed something like 2000-2500 individual submissions including updates in the end - and contributed a few minor bits to Firefox itself. The carelessness of how mozilla approached this large chunk of their community, after declaring their "1 million mozillians" goal not too long before, was mindblowing to me.

I eventually decided not to let it die... DownThemAll! had been a big part of my life, and while I recognized that I had to dumb down the feature set, I saw a way to at least make the core stuff work, maybe. I am glad I tried it even though it required a considerable amount of time to fully rewrite this thing.

The net result of mozilla's move was that they killed a large number of useful extensions entirely, while the survivors then usually became available for Chrome as well thanks to the mostly shared API - DownThemAll! is available for Chrome as well right now - giving users even less incentive to stay with Firefox. Oh well.
They mentioned 500TB for a single glass disk, isn't that 100,000x more than a 5GB blu-ray, or are they comparing it with the 10-layer blu-rays that never really hit the market?

Is this the same UK group that did all the holographic disc research that is basically vaporware in the mass market (I don't want to call their research vaporware, just that it never hit the consumer market)?

Edit: Whoops. 4.7 geebees is for a regular DVD, not a Blu-ray. Dual layer blu-ray is 50GB
A lot of developers are of the late chronotype. That has nothing to do with being a diva, immature or lazy, it's just how we're built. There are plenty of reasons developers can be divas, but being a night owl isn't one. Chronic sleep deprivation will drastically shorten one's life span.
> another comment mentioned Waymo cars just rerouting to the next turn when no cars would let them in. There are a decent number of situations where that will cost you 5-30 minutes of extra trip time

I took a wrong turn in heavy NYC traffic once (trying to get to the Lincoln Tunnel on a Friday) and it cost me over 2 hours.
Most companies can't easily set labor prices on the spot market - it's hard to even imagine a business saying "it's easier to find workers now so I'm cutting everyone's pay 20%". So even if there can't be long-term shortages (and I'm very sympathetic to that argument), it's easy to have a situation where employers structurally can't pay a temporarily increased market-clearing price.
The cynic would say it's a scam to transfer wealth from the cancer-afflicted to the medical industrial complex. After seeing how both my parents' cancers played out, I can see the appeal of that idea. Years of discomfort, hundreds of hours spent in medical facilities (mostly waiting around) and expensive medicines and fees, and in the end you're still just as dead.
> "We don't know the long-term effects" -> triggering an immune response is extremely quick in terms of effects. Any issues (eg the highly unlikely potential clotting issue in Astra-Zeneca) are actually identified quickly.

To flatly disregard long-term effects seems quite premature. The adjusted risk for narcolepsy in younger people, following exposure to adjuvanted A(H1N1) pandemic vaccine (Pandemrix) in 2009 for example, seemed to be "increased 14 times during the first year after vaccination, three times elevated the second year" [1].

Regarding the current vaccines, Pfizer informed the FDA, that "long-term safety of COVID-19 vaccine in participants 5 to <12 years of age will be studied in 5 post-authorization safety studies, including a 5-year follow-up study to evaluate long term sequelae of post-vaccination myocarditis/pericarditis" [2].

> "Just vaccinate the people at risk" -> we don't really know who they are, particularly in young people.

We also don't really know who is at risk of getting vaccine-related side effects, particularly in young people. A pre-print study from University of California "suggests that boys aged 12 to 15, with no underlying medical conditions, are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid over a four-month period" [3]. This is not a fact, but definitely a call for further studies.

> "This was rushed" -> Actually, it wasn't. DARPA had promoted mRNA vaccine research for years before Covid-19

From my perspective, people seem to be mostly concerned with rushed clinical trials, not prior research. Scientists repeatedly told the public that, despite the speed, "the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines currently in use have been rigorously tested" [4].

"But, for researchers who were testing Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial" [5]. Did it only happen at several sites in Texas? We don't really know. But it seems to be a valid concern.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pds.4788

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/153409/download

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-clot-idUSL...

[5] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Life is not binary, just because the president isn’t an absolute monarch doesn’t make him powerless
To elaborate on this answer: Prometheus was written by ex-Googlers who had no shame in copying Borgmon pretty much exactly, syntax-compatible and all.
Technically, it should be "200 watts". The losses happen due to all the inversion and conversion (I think... right?)
In power systems there is a number called the capacity factor that is used to relate the average actual output to the nameplate capacity over whatever time interval. In this article the author note that they are expecting 600Wh in a day, or about an average of 3h at nameplate capacity. That works out to a capacity factor of about 0.13, which sounds about right for a solar installation that wasn't purpose built in an area of high insolation.
Yep, sounds like the problem is that they just can't get healthy price market for electricity going to regulate consumption by just increasing cost to certain brackets.

My shitty country has the same problem, too many illegal power connections that they fail to properly control and punish.
Not sure what the author is pushing here. But any process can be derailed without putting discipline into it.

He talks about daily stand up being a communication pattern that is broken because it enforces people to be transparent and it forces, if applied correctly, that people can't hide.

Agile is about delivering value to the business. That means that the team has to come together (as a team does) and deliver upon request.

I see teams all the times where the process is detailed. Mostly it's because of weak scrummasters and/POs.

And I have learned during my +20 years and 20 some teams that if someone tries to tell you something is better without objective proof they usually want to sell you something.

Good luck
You seemed to be asserting that without a major user near the dam, they would need to build more transmission lines or otherwise waste the generating capacity available.

This seemed unlikely to me, as transmission grids are built with significant redundancy, especially for the high-voltage networks. For example, the transmission capacity for the 8 500kV circuits from Bruce Nuclear (ignoring 3 230kV circuits) is 1.5 times the generating capacity. I wasn't sure about this particular station, but with a bit of digging, it seems like the Massena-Adirondack lines alone (there are several others) can carry 900MW, which is more than the capacity of the power station. So no additional lines should be needed.
Python has a compilation step, you can't jump straight to execution in Python.

Interpreted != not compiled.
This is ignoring that wages have more-or-less remained stagnant while productivity has risen tremendously for decades. The bill's coming due.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637
Coordination Headwind in Organizations Explained
No reason to be polite to someone who has wasted your time and tried to take advantage of you.

Thanks for wasting my fucking time, is more polite than they deserve.
Incorrect. You don't have to be rich. I am currently being evaluated for deceased donor transplant outside my home state of California. You just have to register at another center and you are allowed to multi list. Some states have residency requirements but lot of them do not.
I found driving in Manhattan to be fairly civilized, honestly. Boston, on the other hand, is by far the worst city I've driven in on the surface street level. Atlanta the worst for highway driving.
> It's not even 1% of global energy consumption.

For now. As its usage goes up, its energy consumption will go up, <<by design>>. It's crazy that we're even talking about a <<currency>> (!!!) using this much power.

> It's the oil companies who are boiling the world but nobody dares to touch them.

We are working on all of that, I guess you haven't been following the news. It's not easy, but we are.

> The cars, the factories, the developed nations and their comfortable lifestyles supported by such a highly polluting economy.

Same. Electric cars, environmental regulations for factories, increased energy efficiency for houses, etc.

> China is the most polluting country in the world, but will the US, Europe stop trading with it? No.

China's working on it and the US and EU are actually kind of gearing up towards a trade reduction.

> No. How will the west survive without its cheap consumer products? The very computers we're posting this on?

These computers are also used for work, hobbies, making people's lives better.

> No, I refuse to care. It's a drop in the ocean compared to the real problems that no government will lift a finger to solve.

It's not a drop. It's something we created about a decade ago and it uses up a 100th of the energy the entire world is using. That's crazy. And those real problems are being tackled, you just don't know it or refuse to see or think it's simple and easy to solve.
The internet your company (and workforce) needs for success
I dunno, I see plenty of anti-google sentiment around (e.g., arstechnica, every government around the world, just about). I think the dirty tricks campaign perpetrated by MS against open source and linux was worse (from my point of view, anyway) than anything google has done. Their recent 'we love open source and linux' rings pretty hollow, judging by what their actual contributions have been. As a marketing campaign, it's a stroke of genius.
Sun experimented with an UltraSPARC-branded ultra-wide CMT design in their last days -- Niagara. It was very unsuccessful, because, realistically, what can you do with 32 low-performance cores that you couldn't do with 8 high-performance cores?

The answer turned out to be "nothing"

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The "conventional" UltraSPARC designs -- US IIi, US IIIi, US IV, and the canceled "Rock" project -- were just really very mediocre chips sold at tens of times the cost of a similar x86.
Yeah, I've been burned by Goog Authenticator not being cloud. I use 1pass for 2FA now and it works in the cloud at least.
How to Play MP3 Files from Command Line
Awesome, I'll reach out when we start building that! Thank you so much!
Yep. Still waiting for my tesa drive.
Instead of "Thank You, GitHub", the post title should be "GitHub's CEO farewell address" or something.
Thank you. As a tangential point:

> Take the 15 minutes to listen and judge for yourself.

I don't think that's possible without knowledge in the domain. Human beings are bad at judging trustworthiness, especially the trustworthiness of their own judgment on the issue. IMHO, that's exactly how mis/disinformation spreads; sophists can easily sound trustworthy.

> Signal to noise ratio matters. The SNR in nutrition is terrible, and will more than likely lead you to analysis paralysis. Save yourself some time and pain.

Agreed. And that was the context of my original question.
> For that matter, negotiating is a thing. They start low, you counter, etc.

Is it really a good idea to negotiate salary with someone whose starting offer is well below market rate? I mean, even if you feel you can get a change of heart out of them, is that really the character you want in someone who can have a considerable impact on your well being and even life?
I use Authy, which stores the 2FA on their cloud safely.

Super easy to move between phones and to recover in case of disaster.
Of course it's a standup, its a metaphor these days you don't have to literally stand (otherwise how would a remote standup work? Do you have to insist everyone gets out of their office chairs?).

We used to have huddles at work, but it didn't mean that we were actually nestled closely together for warmth.
And also count all the misbehavior of sober depressed / angry people.
There absolutely are things worse than cancer.
Never heard of THAT Corporation and their preamps, can someone give context and how they compare to preamps from the usual suspects (AD, TI, LT, ST, etc.)?

edit: fixed opamps to preamps
I built this, if anyone has any questions or comments!
Technical feasibility of sustainable fuels production demonstrated
Yes.

I feel like my PC is should be the source of truth for my identity, not my phone. Phones get lost, stolen, and destroyed at times and there's no guarantee that I'll have access to my phone number for the rest of my life. I'm already completely screwed if my phone number changes, because not every service offers one-time-use codes to bypass 2FA.

It is absolutely baffling that there's no desktop 2FA program that's widely used. I guess tech savvy people are using android emulators on their PC to run google authenticator, but that's such a pain.

Has anyone had luck with yubikeys for personal accounts?
At some point you've got to sign off on 'acceptable risk'.
Yes they sometimes go down.

Up, or down, there are always sales at hand in price movements. And, everyone has a price.

The common upward bump is partially because, why would you IPO if you didn't think there was long value? But also (I think) because in the first few days there isn't that much interest (volume of shares that are 1. tradeable and 2.
which people want to let go of ~ IPO price), so the supply is constrained and the supply/demand value dynamic is biased up.
that does suck... they do provide backup codes... and they do present a page every few months for you to verify that... i would recommend a 2fa app such as Authy maybe as a good way in the future to have a backup for your 2fa codes...