skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gobi is famously dusty, is that a factor? Also a lot of Chile is at high altitudes (thing Atacama), are PVs more efficient there?
I wonder how you're supposed to price in externalities in cases like this. We all know that climate change and crumbling infrastructure will have real and devastating effects for future generations but unless we can somehow price in those effects today, we will likely not see any change taken to mitigate them.
I can readily attest to having no taste in music. So much so that criticism of music (in reviews of albums, etc.) is incomprehensible to me; I tried using good reviews as a way to find music I'd want to listen to but discovered that music only serves one of the above functions (looking for a good beat, or whatever).

I can't tell good music from bad; either I like the way it sounds or I don't.

I suspect a fair number of other people are like this. And more power to people who have good taste in music.
I think of Bayes-opt as addressing multiple challenges: (a) the function being a black box, i.e. gradient info isn't available (b) tolerance to some level of noise - the author addresses this in one of his comments here (c) economic # of calls to the black box function because it might be expensive to evaluate (like in the case of hyperparameter optimization, where a function evaluation means retraining the model).

Powell's methods - COBYLA et al - address only (a) I think. But I might be wrong not having worked on them extensively. Do they also address the other challenges?
Everything else - financial sector, web, etc - would move to quantum resistant PKI algorithms. It will take time and there will be issues, but that's mostly because management is dumb and incompetent and will postpone quantum resistant PKI until it's causing a lot of financial loss.

The blockchain is in particular trouble because it's decentralized. Every wallet holder would have to re-sign their transactions with quantum resistant key pairs. But this is unlikely to happen to a good number of wallets (eg Satoshi's wallet), meaning a bad actor will crack the wallets that haven't done this one by one. They will then accumulate a truly ridiculous sum of Bitcoin and devalue it for everyone else.

In fact, if someone did develop a quantum computer, they'd probably not announce it - letting it passively crack wallets, slowly accumulating vast sums of wealth, and also decrypting communications at the behest of intelligence agencies. It will likely be years after the development of such a computer that we will actually know it existed.
"And a jackass was elected President in 2016/2020" (depending on your political affiliation).

I still think Missouri holds the topper on this one since they literally elected a dead guy to the US Senate in 2010:

https://www.wired.com/2000/11/posthumous-victory/
The only potential problem I can see with a deaf team is that they would seem more likely to miss the referee stopping play. For example, a receiver for the non-deaf team fumbles a pass, a deaf player recovers and is running for the goal getting ready to try to plow through a couple opposing players who are in the way, and the ref blows their whistle to stop the play because the receiver did not have possession before fumbling so it was really just an incomplete pass.

If the deaf player does not know the play has stopped they might still try to plow through those other players who did hear the whistle and are no longer ready to take a hit.

The article says that the refs are asked to wave their arms around when stopping play in addition to the usual whistle blow, but that requires the player to be looking at the ref.

In a pro stadium or top level amateur league stadium, where the whole damn field is going to be encircled by animated advertising at field level, it would be possible to make something that detects when the ref stops play and flashes "STOP PLAY!" in some hard to miss color scheme. That should be noticeable by any player who is still standing (and players who are not standing aren't going to cause problems if they miss play stopping).
Still doing the wrong thing. Biofuels are environmentally destructive, both where the biomass is grown (soil loss, runoff eutrophication, pesticide use, biodiversity loss) and where they are used (nitrous oxides, PM2.5, larger particles, noise, waste heat, spills, etc).
You should post this as a Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638. It's also good to follow the advice we give to YC startups about how to launch on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. The logistical aspects only apply to YC startups, but the communication parts apply to anybody who wants to get attention for their startup or project on HN.

Since the submission today has been on the front page, you should wait at least a few weeks before doing this, to let the hivemind caches clear. Follow-up posts shouldn't come too quickly or else they start having an anti-curiosity effect (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

If you want to send a draft to hn@ycombinator.com, I can help you edit it. The same offer goes for anybody. However: be aware that the inbox is brutal, my worst case latency is shit, and so you may end up having to wait a long time!
This is great! Thanks!

I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?! I try turning off the setting but it randomly turns itself back on.

Also, how do people set up a reasonable dev environment not built around Visual Studio? On my Mac I just use Terminal + MacVim (with my plugins), so I don't have particularly demanding needs. I tried WSL, but its just Linux side-by-side with Windows, not integrated with windows. If that's what I wanted I would just use Linux, but I need a command-line where I can still build Windows apps. Currently I use bash-for-git (so I can run `cmake --build ...`) but its so non-standard in lots of ways that it drives me a little nutty.
And the CPU and the chipset's cooperation. In many cases it is even a trade secret how data is striped across the different slots/banks.
Very honorable of Paul going out there, assuming the mistake and making this write up.
> I know do not speak proper English. Nor do they follow the rules of English taught at any of the US schools I attended.

It is not because of people fighting against it. It just that English is damn complicated and not easily to be an expert on it. Written and Spoken English does not have the same discourse style. There are times when I thought I structured it correctly and turns out it not. I am natural-born American and English is my first/second language (ASL is my first). Even English native speakers struggles with it than non-native English user.
And repeatedly trying to trick or force us to use Edge and probably a few others.
The J-shaped curves that you mention might be due to flaws in study design. In particular, the category of alcohol-abstainers includes people who are abstaining for health-related reasons (for example, former heavy drinkers!), so you would expect this to inflate the rate of negative impacts for abstainers. When these biases are controlled for, the benefits of alcohol consumption -- in any quantity -- largely disappear, especially when it comes to all-cause mortality, where the relationship may be closer to linear than J-shaped.

For example, see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4803651/
or
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31571-X (has some useful references)

If you have seen other studies which refute these ideas, I'm interested (as an alcohol consumer :)).
There need to be criminal penalties for the sort of things he did.

Neglecting infrastructure and poisoning water despite warnings?
It might be an ethical move to name and shame this company. It could save a future employee from joining them.
> offloads the entire burden onto those without children

Are you including "people with children over the age of five to six years" in this group? Because it seems like they would be helping to raise others people's children (in your words) but would also have benefitted.

According to the first Google result I found it looks like in 2018 only 15% of women age 50 were childless. A first-order approximation assuming younger generations have kids at the same rate and it's the same for both genders (neither of these are guaranteed but it's a starting point) would lead me to believe that more than most people have children and would benefit from a policy like this over the course of their lives. People without cars help pay for roads, people without children pay for public schools...I'm not really seeing much here to suggest there's an undue burden on those without children.
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There are many people for whom the most important characteristics of wine (and other alcoholic beverages) is "how cheap is it and how likely am I to get drunk from it before I get sick?"

Also, some of the most appreciated wines by wine connoisseurs are nigh-undrinkable to the uninitiated, and this tends to happen with most foods. Just sticking with wines, some greatly appreciate wines high in tannin, while I personally feel like I'm chewing cotton when drinking one of those wines: give me a decent vinnegar over those any day of the week.

You'll find similar acquired tastes in every food culture (stinky cheeses, fermented teas, ultra-hot peppers, acidic coffees, etc.).

The same actually happens with most art: most abstract art is completely meaningless to the vast majority of people - whether they're looking at a Pollock or generic art at Ikea, they wouldn't prefer either. Minimal music, such as Steve Reich's Four Organs, are profoundly distasteful to much of the population, while being adored by some in the music scene. Art films are routinely incomprehensible to general audiences, while winning critical acclaim.
I think you have not been following this situation. It wasn’t something overlooked — there were plenty of alarms ringing (articles in the local and national press, posturing by the governor and certain legislators etc).

I agree what you mention can happen. That’s not the situation here.
Almost all government agencies use USAJOBS for job postings. For DHS/CISA: https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?a=HSCA

NSA, FBI, and CIA have their own internal job application website (or used to).
> You’re 100% right - don’t doubt your logic! :)

Thanks ;-). I wasn’t sure there wasn’t something I was missing.

> the more reliant Tinder is on Apple, the worse for Tinder and the better for Apple.

So you’re saying that the long-term impact for going through Apple IAPs isn’t just the 30% margin, but also increased reliance on Apple, and less knowledge about their customer base? That makes sense, I get why Tinder wouldn’t want that. Thank you :-)
> This will be a massive opportunity for ARM & SoC manufacturers in the coming years, as its far better positioned to offer, for example, a single rack appliance with 64 individual 2-core mini-computers at a price-point competitive with a 128 core x86 rack, as one computer.

I'm curious about the eventual end-game of security in this space. Take the 64 individual processors in your example, give each one their own independent memory bus to their own ram chip, isolate them from each other as much as possible. What else can be done, if a malicious process on processor Z has to go all the way to disk to try to get back at data working on processor J, is that as maximally secure as it can be without being in a completely separate chassis with only network access to the other device?
Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail for me, too. I was worried of that exact situation. I'm a great employee, with a great team/manager, but it's a F500 company, where I'm just a replaceable body.

The best thing I could do for my child is to not rock the boat.
Most electricity is consumed in the early evening and during the winter. That's why such a cable would make sense because of the time difference and the inverted seasons.
Control Center is also built using SwiftUI I believe. SwiftUI still has a lot of rough edges especially on Macs, I wonder if that's the issue?
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A local move (cheap market) is 4k out of pocket after factoring in 1st/last/sec, utility deposits & endless move/cleaning expenses. The local move (cheap market until this year) we just did was ~5x that.

Moving to another city where savings have to be firehosed until enough jobs are secured (us:3-4) can easily burn thru ten/tens of thousands of dollars. A pretty big chunk of America doesn't have that much cash sitting around.
Is this purely an x86 concern or does it affect non-x86 usages of DRAM? ie, ARM cores, Apple Silicon, RISC-V, etc.
>This is the reason I am not at all concermed about running up the federal deficit to fix infrastructure. We can put future generations in debt by taking out loans, or we can do it by sticking them with a massive repair bill.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
-Not me

Everyone knows quality investment in the future always works. Especially in infrastructure. Building a new bridge across the detroit river will pay for itself. The caveat with your position is that you cannot indebt a future generation with bad debt. Only 5% of that infrastructure bill is really 'planting trees' but rather instead a bunch of ideological vote buying.
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Too bad inflation has already eaten it all in rent, gas, and food costs. Probably the only reason we have a worker shortage is that existing wages were so low they didn't even cover twice the cost of gas getting to and from work. Add to that the fact that new and used cars are getting more expensive. At that point you can make more money selling your car and staying home.
Follow up post to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930083
If you want to jump to the cutting edge of Web 3.0 options, you might consider Dfinity and their reification of smart contract use value in the form of canisters: you can deploy your static or dynamic React (or even React Native) project "fully Web 3.0" enabled by dropping in their js-agent library into your project and get all the decentralized, distributed trustless (and if you look at their stress tests/network moments reliable) benefits of a Web 3.0 backend more easily than you'd ever imagine (their CanCan tiktok clone is ~<1000 lines of code, source is on Github).

Apologies if Cloudflare is actually "a competitor" with Fleek (a similar hosting option built on Dfinity) I'm not trying to spam or shamelessly self promote (not affiliated with any enumerated here), I just mention this because the ease of use (between using Eth or Icp to adopt Web 3.0) is a difference of day and night; and if you are a developer looking to get into Web 3.0 you'll thank me later.
I just don't get why .NET is percieved as having a high learning curve - I mean it's probably non-trivial, but I hardly think getting into any other complex tech stack is easy.

For example, I'm a newly minted C++ programmer as of 2 weeks ago - while the language is not that easy, my biggest struggle was getting everything to compile and link, and I felt like it's in a different class of difficulty.

Another example, while node.js/Typescript is often seen as an easy language, I remember trying to set up webpack+scss+typescript+react+styled components + a zillion other made me very sympathetic towards Mr. Cobain's life choices.

And another thing - I don't get the Microsoft is evil angle - I mean they are certainly no saints, but neither is any other FAANG company.
They would see a difference, but wouldn't find one better than other: they're still grilled cheese, and thus worthless in their value system.
It smells pretty clean/normal.

You can lick the walls and they taste like salt.
Look at the mess that is Apple Home. They added it because Google and Amazon were doing it - and, that's about it. Hey, I can add some lights that I can change color to any color I want! Too bad if I want a thermostat, a doorbell, or...

Okay, what about Apple Wallet? It'd be really nice to add my digital driver's license, health insurance cards, auto insurance card, frequent shopping cards - basically make it so I don't have to carry my phone and wallet. Can I do that? Not really.

Alright, so what about their iWork suite? On second thought, forget about it. People are using Google Docs or Office 365. Next...

That's the problem with Apple software. It all feels kind of half baked and neglected. Apple built their reputation on It Just Works and now it feels like it sorta kinda works, I guess.

If Apple's software were a tenth as dazzling as their new hardware then it would be awesome. It's not even close. Their software division needs help.
"Meanwhile, Biogen had set the list price at $56,000 per year. Media analyses suggested that at that price, the drug could cost Medicare up to $334.5 billion per year, which is nearly half of the budget for the Department of Defense[...]In November 2020, a committee of independent advisers for the Food and Drug Administration voted nearly unanimously against FDA approval for Aduhelm. The data did not indicate the drug is effective, the committee concluded. Ten of 11 committee members voted against approval while one voted "uncertain." But in June of this year, the FDA approved the drug anyway"

That's almost twice of the entire NHS healthcare spending for one drug that probably doesn't do anything for Alzheimer patients? This isn't actually going through at the end of the day right? The US healthcare, drug and regulatory system has lost the plot, that's just nuts.

And what on earth is going on at the FDA to approve this? Even if I was a literal pharma lobbyist I would probably skip that one because it just sounds too wrong
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It is not only about night time but also about inverted seasons.
When it is summer in Chile it will be winter in China.
From the US and live in The Netherlands now.

Europeans can understand the Republican party through their own history. They're basically just corporate fascists. Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece all had very similar corporate fascists governments for many years and their policies, politics and backers very closely tracked those of the contemporary American Republican party. Whereas the Dems are a better spoken, slightly more watered down and cuddly version of the same.
The latest Safari is by far the buggiest thing I've seen out of Apple in some time. It fucking crashed on me the other day! That in addition to multiple bad behaviors and glitches.

But then, I don't do betas and usually wait until the first big patch to update the OS.
hmm, 500 gigawatts dissipated over 300k square gigameters of ocean surface gives a forcing effect of 1.6 milliwatts per square meter. Global warming right now is forcing 1w/sqm, so it's not a problem at this scale. But it's not a crazy question either.
I am not assuming causality.

See this comment for explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29230197
Nice to see a Roger & Me reference. I also recommend it.

Most of his other productions were taking aim at issues on a national level, and so they could be very polarizing. Roger & Me, which was his first production, is really localized on Flint, so it's hopefully less polarizing to someone watching it for the first time. Additionally, given what we now know about Flint, Roger & Me takes on a more poignant tone than it otherwise might have. [Edit: Spelling]
I'd say pretty good jack to not allow the cable to pull out. Should have been using a magsafe jack!

I can't count the number of times I have done this very thing.
Yeah but as others pointed out, you can't produce solar power at night, no matter how costly the transmission is compared to local panels. Chile can produce solar power while it's nighttime in China.
Are these decisions we don't agree with? Sure. Evil? No. At least not 1999 Microsoft evil. I can find just as many bad decisions from every other major tech company.

For the record, I actually did give Edge Chromium a spin and I was a bit impressed. The Deals feature creeps me out, but I can browse the reddit homepage without an ad blocker and it's actually a smooth experience.
Jesus Christ, thank you. People act as if bullshit like TV and FaceTime are perfectly innocuous binaries without 6478 daemons molesting your memory irrespective of deliberate use & permissions.
since recently, there's a cross-platform desktop client in development using compose for desktop as its UI framework
We gotta make consequences matter again. No one or no philosophy behind this have been punished. Small government is still a valid approach because the message of 600M is >> $80/ day doesn't get traction.
This idea has been floating around for a long time, I first encountered it as https://www.desertec.org/. It's great to see an ambitious project that would test the viability further.

There was a proposal to connect north Africa to Europe with HVDC lines, that seems a lot more feasible being only ~2000 km: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec#High-voltage_direct_c...

It's also a more compelling story when the connection is part of a "super-grid" that blends disparate energy sources from many countries, as this could even out a lot of the local fluctuations that make renewables challenging, and as other commenters here have noted, even better if you can pull solar from another timezone when your local solar cells are not producing anything.

Given the level of infrastructure investment that China is deploying currently, it wouldn't surprise me to see many more projects like this emerging. (Though China has enough territory that they could reap the gains of HVDC-connected renewable generation without necessarily involving other countries.)
>> I have to admit that I don’t fully understand why COBOL is so difficult to replace. If the systems are so vital surely there is a detailed specification and writing in an easier to maintain language would repay the effort?

> Realistically If there were detailed specifications, they were hard copy print-outs from the 80s that are probably no longer readable, and undoubtedly were thrown away in the intervening decades.

Or not kept up to date. My employer has some mainframe systems, and when they were built they had technical writers and created pretty good documentation, organized in binders.

For the last two decades, at least, these systems have been "legacy" and the company stopped employing technical writers. During that time, they were still pretty critical, but I'm pretty sure no one kept that documentation up to date with whatever changes were made.

Also, about a year before the pandemic, we had building reorganization, and a lot of those binders were thrown out during the move. They were kept on several large, neglected shared bookshelves, and I think anything anyone didn't specifically claim was discarded by facilities.

The thing with legacy systems is they can be vital, but they also can be neglected. The gamble most businesses seem to take is: "as long as it works, starve it and hope it doesn't blow up on my watch."
"Lower density" is a really hard sell at the moment...
Can't mention git command naming without linking to the parody Git Man Page Generator[0].

[0]: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
This reads a bit like those old filmstrips where some character gets annoyed at a common object like springs and then wishes them away, only for some supernatural cartoon character to grant their wish and show how the world would fall apart without that corporations product.

Basically long form marketing for your product.