skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't anymore, you do need an account but doesn't have to be a Facebook one.
Do they have to get up there (or rather does their groundsperson have to get up there) and mow the roof?
Curious question re: your personal experience, is there a relationship (direct or inverse) between max_rate and interesting work? Or are they independent?

At your level, and with your specific focus, I've no idea what the market looks like. I.e. Big Boring Corp pays best? Cutting edge startup? Or effectively random?
Maybe people are posting drunk more often now that they're "working from home." I'm half kidding, but it might explain a lot of what you see happening on the internet these days.
I agree that the article is maybe not very clear in its conclusion. But one valuable thing I took from it is this pernicious tension I hadn't been aware of before between pricing electricity in accordance

- to actual production costs: large fixed "standing charge" (per unit of time), small consumption charge (per unit of energy)

- with environmental goals: small fixed standing charge, large consumption charge.

You could argue that you should just (that word is doing a lot of work here) internalise the external costs, and then price it as "undistorted" as possible. Does that lead to the right answer here?
Oh, well that's good. We have one or two or hundred settings... https://docs.fastcomments.com/guide-customizations-and-confi...
Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s a mess. My big issue with playing regularly is that it’s better with friends but as you add people the odds that one of you is experiencing issues at any given time approaches 100%. So you’re trying to group up, but first you fall down the stairs and die, then your friends ship spawns with its landing gear in the floor, does a few flips and explodes. When he replaces it, the engines are missing, so your other friend goes to pick him up instead. But they fly too close to the moving space station rings that are out of sync between the client and the server, and now their ship blows up too. Meanwhile you finally get you ship into space, and one of your friends respawns, falls down the stairs, and dies.

But then you also have moments like these when the game is pretty cool: https://reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/s7y1wk/last_night_...

I hope they finish it, and I feel like I’ve gotten my relatively small amount of money’s worth out of it. But if I were one of the people who’s bought in for thousands of dollars I’d definitely be worried.
> they have an outdoor heated pool, though, so crazy as it sounds they are presumably using electricity to heat it.

That’s an almost ideal case for an air-to-water heat pump though, the heat capacity and efficiency of which go up as the output water temperature goes down. Pool heating (and snow melting) are ideal use cases that can support a very low output water temperature and still get the job done (as compared to baseboard or cast-iron radiator space heating).
Those aren't examples of the media gaslighting people. Those are about the CDC and FDA saying they aren't effective (or not proven effective). You're conflating the media with scientific advisory boards -- and notably those under Trump's own watch at the time.

Media gas lighting would be if the CDC/FDA/etc said that Ivermectin was effective and the media saying it wasn't or not reporting on it.
In a world where Activision is worth $70b, Valve would be worth similar. And you would have to leave them alone post acquisition because of their eccentric organizational style. And hope that Gaben maintains and Mike stay centered despite receiving $35b in the bank overnight.

Anyway Facebook's cash position is $60b, they can't afford it
Haven't noticed this, but perhaps I avoid the relevant threads.
>>> The general type of person on HN is more rigid-minded than a decade ago. They are less interested in exploring new ideas and more about the status quo.

>> Examples?

> If we are continuing with the generalization about this 'type' of person, you can point to just about any controversial topic posted here. The mental gymnastics these people use is as old as history...

> This is just one example of how this type reacts to particular issues, the full impact is pervasive throughout the whole site.

Your reply doesn't actually contain any examples. It's, as you said, just "[you] generalizing about this type of person."
Living close to a water source or reservoir doesn’t make conservation less important.It is a intricate system with complex interconnects

A lot of places downstream will be using the water from your Lake /Dam /river as their only source. Same reason why in some states like Colarado it is illegal to rain water harvest. Riparian rights and ethics are complex
Saskatchewan to remove all public health measures
Yes, I was hoping for something more insightful around DIY, costs and sustainability. Instead it's an article with some nice pictures that mostly boils down to "pay someone else to do it" and I almost laughed when I got to the bit where they were using too much electricity and their solution is just to burn more gas :/
There's some really bizarre tribalism that develops in the Kickstarter/preorder realm. I back a fair number of board games and see the same thing there.

Its like the people who get in that early feel like they are part of the development team and make it their mission to support the game at all costs. Any dissension among the ranks (delays, scope changes, cost increases) are violently shouted down as ITS BETTER FOR THE GAME!!!!!. Organized brigading is really common as well, even before there's an alpha release but they go around trying to force it into every "Best Of" type list out there.

I've gotten some great games out of it but avoid the comment sections at all costs.
Those Apple ads are just search placement ads inside their App Store. A much smaller scale and limited scope than Facebook or Google ads.
Pros/Cons don't directly answer the question though. That's just pontificating on the subject to add fluff.
> That's not true at all, as people use more electricity, aggregate usage gets higher and the grid eventually needs beefier interconnections, beefier transformers...

To a degree, but not in a linear fashion to the amount of power delivered, and certainly not on a unit-power delivery basis.

>The delivery charge would actually be fairer based on peak usage, as it has more relevance to the sizing of the grid.

Very true, and also very common in commercial power billing, usually called a "demand charge" where you pay a specific tariff based of that peak of usage. Unfortunately, it can create really spikey and hard to manage bills, so I accept the argument that it's not appropriate for residential use. Thus, a flat charge on your meter size. On many commercial bills, the demand charge can exceed 75% of the total bill!
"K" is also a HN reader from what I know.
ACX Grants And+: The First Half
Hahahahaha, people try ponzi schemes in different forms every 50 years or so and it always makes few sketchy people rich and ruins a ton of idiots :D
We used Skyline: https://www.skylinehomes.com/ They're pretty standard American-looking houses, though a little narrower than a traditional house because they put them on a truck.
Very interesting, and surprising conclusion. I hadn't seen this problem before. (Though, note regarding "coming from far off" - the articles you cite are from 2013, 2014.)
Maricoin: The first coin created by and for the LGBT+ community
How does one start a rural ISP? Would you mind sharing a bit about that?
Interesting view point. But by that logic - you shouldn't use contraceptives if you're against having babies. Or kill people on video games if you're against murder. It's not like vegans imagine killing animals while eating fake meat. They are just taking care of their taste buds. In fact nobody thinks of animals when they eat. If people did, more people would eat less meat. And that's why all meat should look exactly like the animals they come from. And not random shapes that they are made into.
Obviously I’m not saying I don’t have any recurring fees. But I’m not about to have fifty more recurring fees because every app wants ARR.
> Although there's no prize or verifying authority for completion.

And that solves many problems stated in the article. Rewards are tricky and create a willingness to optimize on how to obtain the reward instead of enjoying the experience.
I went to the link hoping to see what it was, or what was the motivation for the project. So disappointed.
Snow removal must be... fun.
CakePHP is also quite active and popular.
I suspect availability of 5G or LTE "home internet" service is gated by not only signal strength but also by the vendor's assessment of their (tower, backhaul?) capacity in the locale.
well law is only as good as the enforcement. Possession of cannabis in the US is still a federal offense. But some states choose to prosecute them and others choose to ignore it and legalize it at the state level.

Enforcement in this case is not LEOs but rather the smart contract that lives in the blockchain. Except there are no grey areas
But doesn’t California have rolling blackouts? That makes it seem like the grid needs to be larger than 3x.
A New AI Traffic Light Could Help Shorten Your Commute Times
Sudden outbreak of common sense. I hope this passes and forces Google/Apple to justify the value that their app stores provide, for the amount that they take from developers.
Many people just want a normal life around family and friends and what they're familiar with. Having family around in particular is especially important when you have children or when your parents are approaching their end of life. Children get sick and having a relative around to help watch them is essential.

Many don't optimize their life their lives around "better opportunities" and "diverse cities". It sounds like you do, and good for you.
It's very low if you're sending larger amounts of money.
What baffles me is how they pretty much destroyed the social network aspect of it.

10 years ago Facebook was the place to know what’s going on in your social circle. You’d find out about events or share experiences, setting relationship status was something of significance.

Then the feed became more and more laden with sponsored posts or posts by meme pages. Sharing something personal in this kind of environment suddenly felt awkward.

These days it’s rare to see posts by actual people you know - so why bother?
Par for the course with doctors. I really don't understand why they are always so against doing any kind of investigation.
Minor correction: in case of the work visas it's not the employee that files for green card, but the company. It's not a cheap process(and AFAIK, the employee cannot pay even a portion of the main process by themselves), so some companies hesitate when filing, leading to the long periods of uncertainty and stress.
This should be title 'Hiring someone else to build a modern home in the wood (if you have a lot of money)'
That looks really nice.

Does the ISP cover your expenses or is it supplemental?
Thanks for the note. I settled on "content-repackagey" because it was the closest I could get to a ~neutral common-denominator of their behavior, and I don't really want to directly judge their intent/purpose.
Really cool music, thanks for the demo!
> They've spent more time & money than any other game development studio for a single project

The Wikipedia page states:

"Most game budgets are not disclosed, so this list is not indicative of industry trends."

I would expect ongoing major MMOs to easily exceed that number. For example WoW, but probably even games like EVE online.
I've often wondered about this. Here in North America we only get the Mercedes models that need their disc rotors replaced every 30k, and we see nothing of the indestructible and serviceable models that seem to wind up in places without posh MB dealerships.

I've always thought that this was because NA has air pollution laws that are strictly and honestly enforced and that that would make diesel cars difficult to offer.
White priviledge is not something that would be on my mind(for all I care, they could be black), but unsustainability, destruction of nature and self-righteousness to do so... I would really wonder why such article has appeared in HN, as it is going against current global social narrative and NH is not really far-right nutwings, but rather on the left-spectrum.

IMO, modern home should leave as less impact on nature as possible - be it materials used to build it or energy demands to run that house.
> The only difference between Theranos and Elon's ventures is

that Elizabeth Holmes is in jail for fraud and Elon Musk signs and delivers on deals with NASA.
Acton is 50 today, 96 in 2068. I'd bet his estate will have stipulations for this loan.
But that’s what I enjoy these platforms for: I want to precommit some small sum of money and if lots of us do it this guy is going to take an honest shot at it.

Since it’s so little, I get no equity and I just get one unit of product. Fair deal to me.

Disappointment isn’t that they tried and it sucked. It’s only if they don’t try. But to be honest, I don’t even feel disappointed then because I usually make a satisfactory judgment as to the likelihood of success so if it fails, that’s just a failed bet. And nothing wrong with failing on a bet.
Any reason in particular that these spy firms seem to be coming out of Israel?
What happened there? From the outside I thought it was pretty smooth and successful. Delivered what was promised and only a couple months late.

I think the worst I've seen is people realizing it was never all that good to begin with, and being disappointed a reprint of a 35 year old game doesn't really stack up in the modern era.
after the dawn of extremist content--i dont even want to see what my friends are up to anymore lmao
It's not about hiding from the reality. It's about how energy storage (and generation) systems scale and can be activated/deactivated.

On the generation side: If I had put in a 21kW system to cover our winter needs, the extra power it generates during the summer would have been unconditionally generated. Do this broadly across the population and the power grid has a substantial management problem. Conversely, utility-run systems are likely to be built so as to be much more modulatable, to match demand.

On the storage side: yes, obviously the total storage required is the same, but for more or less all the technologies I'm aware of today, this would be much more efficiently done with large storage systems than per-household distributed ones.
Can I ask, in Germany, are there (many?) days when households with solar are net energy positive?
Counter-intelligence is not attack, it's defence. What this is is the US attacking Uganda and throwing a hissy fit when they defend themselves.

If those were Ugandan spies in the US they could have gotten dissappeared.
This seems endless and if the users are still there... does it matter?

The only real risk is if people quit the game, but apparently not enough to actually change anything.
Pretty sure they mean "modern" as in the architectural style. Like "Victorian"
> Does it really make a difference being somewhere else (for eg. Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK etc.) and being in the states?

Yes. If you are any good you would make at least 2x in the US. Probably 3x to 4x.
The current system in PG&E territory encourages me to prefer gas to electricity everywhere I'm able to make the choice. That's surely worse.
Very nice!

FWIW, I can't figure what to do on the "ride the line" level. I don't understand what the motors do exactly (powering both motors simultaneously makes the car go sideways) and what the sensors are sensing.
How do you run demos ? Do you actually setup VMs etc. or something else ?
I've used it a few times. It was the most useful either to "prove" the conditions for a bug[1], or to gain confidence that an algorithm I had worked on was safe under tricky conditions involving concurrency.

The main downside of TLA+/PlusCal is that it's so different from programming languages that very few engineers are familiar with it. Even PlusCal which is supposed to provide a Pascal-like syntax that gets translated to TLA+ can be tricky to use and has a few pitfalls that can be frustrating for beginners.

The tooling is improving, but some design choices are really not ideal. For example, you write PlusCal in a `.tla` file inside a comment block(!) and when you transpile it to TLA+ the generated code is written after your comment, in the same file[2]. This is just one of a number of baffling decisions that create a ton of friction when using these tools. Others on this page have mentioned issues with scope, this is certainly something I've had to fight with.

[1] The bug I wrote a model for was CASSANDRA-8287, "Row Level Isolation is violated by read repair": https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8287. The error trace describes a clear scenario under which this would happen.

[2] See this very simple model for an example of how PlusCal is written in a comment block followed by the TLA+ code that's generated from it: https://gist.github.com/nicolasff/bcc92627485c3d4d9e0c25eeea...
This resonates: while replacing the obsolete 2d physics in a game to 3d, we renamed the old directories into a long 'dont_include_this', so it was easier to detect in the larger project.
> 55 saves lives.

No, it doesn't. It was a pointless law that was seldom enforced and blatantly ignored. It really only served as yet another reason for authorities to pull someone over due to profiling. Traffic is much safer if you have everyone traveling at or near the same speed, rather than having a wide differential on the road. It's also why US interstates have minimum speeds. US highways would be safer if the speed limits were set to something that actually makes sense for the road. I gather from your comment you're east coast centric. There are humongous parts of the US after you get west of the Appalachians where 75-85 MPH speed limits are reasonable and would be safe on interstates.

Safety is much more than a catchy slogan.
Neotron: Embedded Rust Home Computer Platform
OP uses 'kids' to imply maturity, not age.
That's not the issue. The issue is the US getting mad at counter-espionage by Uganda while they are themselves engaging in espionage. It's very hypocritical.
Very cool. Are there curtains on the window to prevent people from seeing where you are sleeping?
That's great that your power has been mostly reliable, but it is not the case for a lot of the people here.

In my family alone, my brother and his wife lost power at the apartment they had then for 3 days during the ~2014 winter storm, during which our apartment lost power for around a day. My parents lost their power for all 4 days of the storm last year, and had to travel 15 miles or so to my brothers house after their inside temperature dropped below freezing on day 3. They just let us know their power is out again this afternoon. My wife and I are lucky enough to have since purchased a house close to some critical infrastructure so we've rarely lost power comparatively, but we still lose power several times throughout each summer during heat waves.

I also want to reiterate: this happened in 2011, again in 2014, again in 2021, and again in 2022. The storm in 2021 was objectively the worst of the bunch, but 2011 was similar. It is _not_ a 100 year freeze. It is happening more regularly, and our government has ignored recommendations to better prepare for it going on over a decade now.

EDIT: Just to round this out, a federal report was provided in the wake of the last "100 year" storm that occurred in 2011[1]. In it, there are several dozen recommendations, many of which were at least in part the cause of the 2021 outages as well.

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[1]: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-re...
The alternative is billions dead and cultural extinction - at best.

"I didn't want to cut down on drinking/CO2/media pollution/etc so I killed myself instead" - which of these is a winning move?
Infrastructure pipelines: How are they different from application CDs?
Same. My kids are in sports and Facebook is how they communicate with us, including changes to schedules, "snack duty", pictures and videos from games, etc. It's basically impossible to be a judicious parent and not be on Facebook for me.
I've seen commentary before that this messaging could actually backfire, if you imagine intrepid explorers seeing this message and thinking there must be some great ethereal power located inside, ready to be unleashed with the right set of rituals.
Thank you, this is a very good TLDR.
It sounds like you're saying that you did become slower. I.e. you weren't always slow. However, it isn't due to health. It may be constructive for you to figure out where the efficiency went. Perhaps start with when it went. It could be something that you could reverse, or it may just make it clear to you what you're trading off.
Is there a payment processor I can embed on my website today that uses Layer 2 Ethereum?
Written in 2018?
I think the media treatment was fair and evenhanded. I think what has changed with the media is that nothing sticks for very long. As you note, what might have been a big story in the past has a really short news cycle now. What was remarkable about Trump was the shear volume of stories -- each lasted for days, but was then followed up immediately (or concurrently) with another. Even Jan 6 is having trouble sticking in the news.

I think this was one of the issues that the Republicans ran into with the election. They thought that certain stories about Biden would stick and last. They missed that none of these stories last any more. You need a huge volume of stories to paint a narrative over a long period of time.

Someone else mentioned the uncharitable interpretations of things he said. That was earned over years of such statements. It wasn't a new isolated incident.
conducive environment; maybe even shared knowledge or spillover from one company to another...
Hacker News has always been Nitpicker News but it may have been gotten worse lately. If you post something personal there's always someone there to take a cheap shot at you. If I write that I find Haskell difficult and complicated someone will reply that it is because I'm not smart enough and so on. One random example from something I posted two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987132

Not that I'm better myself. HN's point system really favors knee-jerk reactions and one-liners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074128
Do people use the conference room more than once?
Don't these people have tests?
Their goals were ambitious, but hardly impossible.

It's not realistic to handle an arbitrary number of players interacting within a small space, sure. That limit is probably in the hundreds. But a zillion players all within the same game world? Yeah, why not? That's really easy if you're talking about a big universe that doesn't have the entire population congregating in the same place.
VR is all about content, I don’t see how Apple could deliver there.
This is great. I kind of assumed a judicial ruling would be necessary but this would make things a lot easier.
Just delete cookies for the site in question. Poof. Paywall gone. Seems to work on every “first 3 articles free” paywall I’ve seen.
Wow I had completely forgotten about this.
I wouldn't necessarily look to someone who thinks their house needs a 400A power supply for energy conservation wisdom.
I haven’t seen anyone voledermord trump b4
well, now I know about ZINE radio and demozoo. Thanks!
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