skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but that fixed cost of the grid is entirely determined by the peak capacity needed, not by average usage.

And actual usage of that capital often has peak usage much more extreme than a typical 90/10 rule, meaning that the vast majority of that fixed cost is mostly unused.

The key to decreasing that peak is the distributed storage that's paired with distributed solar. It allows massive amounts of cost savings, despite needing to beef up the distribution side of the grid for this to work.
The Communication Problem (Or, Why I Love Voice Notes)
This sounds more like something CIG would do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon but written by the authors of C
Show HN: I'm building a new political party (feedback welcome!)
Hi HN! I'm working on building a new political party (http://allogov.us/), and would appreciate some feedback on this!

If the website isn’t clear, the idea is to get voters to sync on who to vote on. If the party wins, voters will get direct access to individual policy items, instead of a bundle of policies (the representative will vote in line with the app.)

What're you looking for in a new political party?

I'm not sure how to go about finding the first users: Anyone know anyone who has advice on this?

Thanks!
"... you won't see any correlation between vaccination rates and death rates."

That sums it up nicely.

Good that some of Europe is opening.
> I do not understand vegans who eat "imitation" meats. If you are ethically opposed to the slaughter of animals, why are you OK with pretending that you are still slaughtering them by actively buying things called "chik'n" and the like? That is perverse.

I'm a (25+ years) vegan who eats "imitation" meats.

Here's why ...

I like how they taste.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. 99% of the ride is on interstates. Much of that remote for that type of rig.

It’s the same reason Jeep’s use very simple mechanics. You can repair them yourself and carry appropriate spare parts.
The money should first go to Ottawa residents besieged and subjected to 24 hour honking, diesel fumes and noise from engines running through the night.

Then there's revenue loss for the businesses forced to shut down and wage loss for their employees.

Class Action Suit could rightfully clean out the GoFundMe.
I wonder if this will create some opportunities for solutions to shipping to inland ports along the Columbia and Mississippi. There is a company developing boats to handle more containers on rivers.

https://www.americanpatriotholdings.com/affiliates1.html
Veganism is about being kind to animals. You can argue whether or not it matters to be kind to animals, or whether it's more important to satisfy human taste buds. But I don't think it's arguable that farming animals is unkind to them, and "EatKind" is a relevant and clever name.
Paradoxically the ribbon makes harder the one thing it was supposed to make easier. Nothing lines up, so a visual scan of the whole thing is very hard to accomplish.
Super-local news and gossip may be very relevant. I am not on Facebook, but I think I am missing out on it. For example, why was there a police car parked two blocks away last Thursday? Someone might have posted about it.
I like permissionless ponzi schemes more than permissioned ponzi schemes.
Ha, in Germany it's called "Fernwärme", which corresponds nicely to "teleheating" (which Wikipedia lists as an alternative name). It's great, not only does electricity and water magically come from a wall in your basement, but also heat :-)

I thought they had abandoned the idea of using heat from a nuclear power plant for district heating in Russia, but apparently that is actually done [1, 2] extensively.

Having a pipe into your house directly (well, not directly, indirectly, but still) from the nuclear power plant next door... not sure how I'd feel about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER#Tertiary_cooling_circuit_...

[2] https://www.powermag.com/district-heating-supply-from-nuclea...
Whereas to my UK eyes it's instantly reminiscent of Volvic[0] mineral water, which is definitely a V sound and doesn't read or sound strange at all (see also: pelvic, civic, Slavic). It wouldn't occur to me that there might be an F sound.

[0] https://www.volvic.co.uk/
Yes, they even say it in the post, which is a bit confusing since I was specifically looking for this.
US could have helped them out. That old WMD ruse.
Firefox 98 is adding a new CSS Compatibility Panel
Since our voltage is 120/240 volt split phase or 120/208 open Y service (less common) we tend to need higher currents for main breakers/fuses. The old standard for a home was 100 amps whereas modern homes are built with 200 amp mains. I suppose the low cost of air conditioning and heat pumps has raised this demand. Otherwise our lighting and appliance loads have become more efficient.

A 230/400V open Y service at 25 amps is just 10kW which to me sounds like an old standard or mains for a small 1-2br apartment. I'd expect at least a 50-60A service. Though I know some (many?) homes in EU are on actual 3 phase so 25A at 400V 3 phase becomes 17.3kW which is not far from the 24kW a 100A 120/240 service provides. Still anemic but quite a bit of power for a 1-4 person household living modestly. Though in the USA it seems utilities make residential 3 phase difficult or impossible to obtain as you might do commercial stuff with that electric without paying commercial rates or your neighborhood is served by a single phase feeder.
It’s at least $1,000/sqft all-in. Construction costs have gone up a lot in recent years, and architecturally designed houses like this are expensive to design and build.
It was watching Beanie Babies that inoculated me.

Someone monetarily buying into an idea + in communication with a large community who has also bought in + future promises = cult

It may be a productive cult, but it's still a cult. And has all of a cult's reality distortion effects on its members.
European cabs are traditional.

At least in Europe
those are average rates, not actual retail rate schedules - useful for talking about something like an annual consumption number but not so much for something like net metering where the time of use is a big deal.
Yes, the critique became quite boring in the last year.

"You're burning the world!"

"We are saving the world!"

Both are obviously BS.
There’s a proclivity recently to justify these posts as “on-topic” by citing the most vague guidelines. I’ve seen the following quotes used more than a few times to justify those threads

> Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Those Australian "road trains" that run the outback definitely use more American style cabs, but I guess for obvious reasons.
Star Citizen is a topic I sink a bit of time into every year or so, because I find the whole phenomenon incredibly curious and somewhat unique to our times.

Don't be generous to Cloud Imperium Games (CIG).

If I had to present but a single slide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...

They've spent more time & money than any other game development studio for a single project, broken promises, and delivered nothing that resembles what most people would qualify as a playable game. They've only given evidence that they will continue wasting resources.

For some really entertaining coverage, I'd highly recommend:

"Sunk Cost Galaxy", an amateur YouTube series made by former fan/investor/associate/!?: https://youtu.be/gU3uEBUBIEA

And LTT's more recent feature, which definitely pokes fun but is still overly generous IMO: https://youtu.be/bYs_zn2pTZo
I've personally found people that don't come back to respond to any comment whatsoever to be of the most frustrating sort. They tend to seem to drive-by attack, possibly with an essay of a statement, and then when they're called on it, or when someone tries to help or clarify, there's silence.

Come to look at their account and they post maybe once every 3 weeks and never respond to a single thing that is a response to their post.

I've even considered making scrapers to find and avoid those kinds of users; but that's just me.
That's a real time capsule, latest news posted in 2013 (spectrum stories section): https://robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/universe

This Star Citizen 2021 video looks nice though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNrU27WMr4E
A Reddit discussion highlighted one important way Star Citizen is not like an NFT; there's no supported resale of the virtual assets. If you want to buy a fancy spaceship to stare at in your hangar you pretty much have to buy it from Star Citizen and the revenue goes to them. (There is some third party trading but it looks pretty minor.)
I think some of it is optional, they pitch it as a data saver so you don't run out of data. Or tell you can get unlimited streaming data as long as its low resolution. And for QoS reasons, to keep bandwidth available for everyone. I think they are attempting to do it across the board for all video, so its not prioritizing one specific service over another. And remains semi neutral, I guess.
No. Guilt is based on intent, not harm. And there are many victimless crimes (like buying controlled substances) where the harm is zero and the penalty far from zero.
As evocative as this thought experiment is, and highlights the extreme difference between modern and preindustrial life, trying to appeal to the well-being of that medieval monarch seems like it's falling into the natural fallacy. The past is a completely foreign country. The ancient elites would have absolutely killed for the HVAC systems that were absent from their drafty castles. The most basic of foods we eat would have driven them mad, wars were fought over simple seasonings and spices. Not to mention the advances in medication and basic hygiene.

That said, it would be interesting if it became a fad (among the classes of means, naturally) to try to revert to premodern sleeping habits. Paleo-sleep, perhaps. It could lead to the return of biphasic sleep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886907

Or, perhaps, not:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
Look at all the massive tech companies that took root in 2000s. Most are tied to privileged kids who won the birth lottery, had access to computers, and the financial cushion to "try shit". Google, Facebook, PayPal, and earlier - Microsoft.

Convincing my parents to buy a computer so I could program was a struggle. We were on public assistance.

I am not saying that it's all like winning a lottery - you still have to take advantage of the opportunity, but they were born in Earth's orbit when trying to launch to the Moon, while most of us had to overcome gravity first.

Luck is not everything, but it IS a factor.
$ time ./wasmer fill_buffer.wasm --llvm -i fillBufferWithSIMD 1000

real 0m5,233s

It seems to be a 25% longer run-time with LLVM backend.
I did not know about that option! Very interesting.
Hard to call it modern with those kinds of energy demands. I'm on a similar path, but a large part of the plan is to have a minimal footprint. I have access to a community well and electricity, but the goal to make it self sufficient enough to be off grid, while maintaining a reasonable lifestyle. So instead of a heated pool/etc the money would be going into solar arrays and batteries and a well.

Plus, pools suck, sure its a lot of fun for the kids a few weeks of the year, but they tend to sit unused most of the time, while consuming electricity, chemicals, etc. I have a heater that broke a few years ago, and i haven't bothered to fix it because getting out of an outdoor heated pool when its 60F or colder just isn't something most people enjoy. So I just stopped heating it long before it broke.
The fact that they can afford to build a second mansion while millions are homeless. It's a pretty simple equation.
Someone should run sentiment analysis on all the comments over time and see if there's anything changing.
The title reads like a zero-day attack vector
Shout out to KFMF, some of my earliest exposure to electronic music
How much is enough? "Just a little bit more." (Attributed to John D. Rockefeller, but apparently never said by him.)

I think it works like this: You're just scraping by. You don't bother dreaming about a ski vacation or a nicer car, because you know you can't do either one.

Now you get an extra $100/month. Now you can dream about a ski vacation or a nicer car, given enough time. But you can only do one, or at least you have to do one first. That is, when you got more money, your number of possible dreams went up faster than the number of dreams you can actually do. This means that your discontent may go up rather than down when you get more money.

But, you think, even more money would fix that. But then, even more dreams become possible.

The only way out of this is to not chase the bigger dreams. Sure, $80 million can buy a really nice yacht. But I don't actually need to dream of that yacht, even if I have $80 million. (If I decide I really want it, I can rent one for a month. I don't have to buy it.)

For me, personally, I think "enough" is around $5 million. That's enough for everything I want to do, and to live on for the rest of my life.

But I don't actually need that $5 million to be happy (because my happiness isn't in stuff money can buy). So maybe "enough" is "enough to meet my needs, and some of my wants", and $5 million is well past that. For example, I don't have to never need to work again, because I can work, and sometimes I even enjoy it.
Note that it's $8/kW/month (presumably based on peak kW production); not $8/kWh.
Seed Stories: Blair – “Better Student Financing Through Income Share Agreements”
If anyone’s curious what they’re actually promising for servers/shards, here’s a Q&A about it

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/18...
> It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang.

Isn't this the crux of the NSO Group exploit on Iphones?
Because people like the taste of meat and at the same time don't want to hurt animals. They also want to maybe cook the same kind of food but without animals. What's wrong in that?
Always intrigued by this idea. But the thing that I never see addressed in these discussions: what's the plan for schooling? just do small local rural schools? do online supplementation? This is the sticking point that keeps me from going far down this path.
I know a surprising number of Starlink customers who are paying more for slower service compared to our incumbent ISP (Comcast). This seems to have been a very common part of the hype. I get it, there have been times in the past that I've used fixed LTE to avoid Comcast, but I actually think I was still paying less and getting faster service on fixed LTE as compared to Starlink.

Notably these are all of the Starlink customers I know despite living in a region with vast rural areas... I've heard from a couple people I know out in the country that they are stuck on the waitlist. I think Starlink may have prioritized urban areas first for whatever reason (just higher customer count presumably).
A lot of programmers want to divide logic into Categories of Behavior and then package them up into behavior packages, so that you have to hopscotch all over the directory tree to reconstruct and navigate an actual process from beginning to end; then they want to chop it all up into microservices in an attempt to compensate for the resulting mess.

If you package logic according to the process, it's a lot easier to control the scope of logic that is exclusive to a given process (some things are of course shared). Languages that can enforce package privacy, file privacy, etc. help a lot here.

In general, unlimited scope & dependencies is what strangles a dev team to death, so any option that restricts scope to what is necessary is arguably best.
> The usual cost of a full off-grid system can clear $100k if it's sized to cover HVAC.

Or is essentially absurd... my 6.6kW system generates about 3x more than we need for 8 months of the year, but about 1/3 of what we need for 4 months of the year (the period when our air-source heat pumps, aka minisplits, are in use).

To be able to go off-grid would require either:

- a systems 3x bigger than we have, generating 9x more power than we need for 8 months of the year

OR

- a gigantic (10MW?) battery system to store the excess power from the summer

Neither of these make any sense to me, and seem like well-intentioned but fundamentally ill-conceived designs.
True if you consider only consumer money. But if you consider investors that is not true. There are NFT "games" that have raised a lot. I don't know if they would define themselves as games, but functionally they all look like they are trying to be an MMO or Roblox.

And they haven't had as much time!
Are you really confused why people want to continue eating the food they've eaten their whole lives minus the animal suffering?

The food wasn't the problem, the suffering was.
tech firms actually add presence in israel but ip is usually owned by other entities, outside of israel.

usually the biggest problem with ip in israel, it's in case that there was investment into company/development by chief scientist. it comes with a lot of strings attached and requires payoff to transfer ip outside of state
Why inject worthless politics talk into your otherwise fine comment...
> you can simultaneously care about commercial surveillance ("advertising") and the plight of small businesses despite those small businesses also patronizing the surveillance economy

If you define caring as expressing passive concern in comment boards, I guess you can. If a small business depends on a surveillance infrastructure and removing the infrastructure negatively impacts the business, then you can't equally "care" about both at the same time--a choice must be made. Whether it's destroying energy jobs to lower carbon emissions or lowering the sales of an independent seller to diminish advertising reach, a choice must be made.

Society pays a greater price diminishing its civil liberties than compromising the sale of consumer goods.
It's unfair to compare the setup experience because Valve has healthier margins? I'm not sure I follow.
why do European trailers have 3 axles instead of 2?
Elite is, without a doubt, the best spaceship parking simulator ever made.
I don’t think there are two sides.

I don’t think I’m self-righteous when I say that the use cases for crypto just aren’t there yet as they require a non-speculative environment to be viable.

I like the idea of smart contracts and general ledger. It’s useful for buying things in theory. But at $10+ for a transaction fee that’s impossible. I’ve been waiting over 10 years.

I think this is pragmatic. And I don’t think it’s self-righteous to roll my eyes when some crypto fan tells me to just wait. Especially if they are financially bound up in convincing people to raise the price of crypto.

I do care where people spend money as it affects me and people I love. Lotto is bad. Spending lots of money on lotto is bad.

“Betting” on crypto is driving up the price and crowding out real use cases.

Also, ethically, pump and dump schemes are bad. I feel bad that victims lose money. I want these schemes to stop. I’m not self-righteous in my anger. I don’t care that much, I just want the SEC to investigate and prosecute.
>I think people have become more vary to post personal things online. I know very little parents that would be okay to publish pictures of their kids online (including on Facebook).

I have a few Facebook friends that refuse to post pictures of their kids on Facebook. I also have a LOT of friends that post nothing but.
These are all HSBC-UK related, indicating some kind of issue with that particular bank.
Is water scarcity a thing in your area? Perhaps your water is cheap because its readily available in your area. In Chicago, they have so much water in Lake Michigan, most homes don't even have water meters.
We are merely days away from Star Citizen from announcing its NFT plans and obviating this statement.
I'm normally simpatico with you, but I need you to help me find the data that says that this will work without cutting energy consumption in rich countries, and do that without creating a permanent underclass of poor countries forcibly held to a lower consumption rate than than those rich countries.

I have yet to see a scientific case for luxury communism where every Indian peasant gets their own suburban yard.

edit: and I do see a lot of people saying that technology right around the corner will just solve the problem without anyone having to change their lifestyle in the slightest.
None were quite so dramatic but I've worked with a few people with this kind of attitude. All of them were more interested in chasing shiny things and their own personal projects than in getting actual valuable work done.
The larger picture is animal and human transmission.
I think media treatment of him was really weird. Some things were exaggerated, but something like suggesting, during the '16 campaign, in a plainly favorable tone, that his supporters might assassinate his opponent if she won, should have been the only thing anyone wanted to ask him or his proxies about until he was hounded out of public life. Instead it was dropped surprisingly quickly.
Indeed, and wolves seems to be pronounced with a v both in the US and in the UK.

> UK: /wʊlvz/ US: (wŏŏlvz)

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/wolves

You did think of Volvic as well!
Whilst there is some SEO repetition in the article, there's also a lot more information in there than your "summary", including some of the pros and cons of each and actual descriptions of the different designs.
I like the idea, but as other commenters have already pointed out, it only recommends brand name items, which is a bummer (off-the-shelf vegan substitutes are generally very expensive).

It would be great if there also was a section "DYI", with the different types of replacements offered (thinking of eggs, specifically, which are always a pain to replace without messing up). A partnership with some vegan recipe websites to offer alternative battle-tested recipes would also be a great addition, because in my experience veganizing recipes without careful and repeated experimentation often ends in disappointment, particularly for cakes or pastries.
Leah Labs, a YC company, is using CAR-T therapy for B-cell lymphoma cancer in dogs. They're currently raising if anyone is interested.
The social network graphs of the people contributing to e.g. a local group or marketplace helps in making sure that people behave somewhat honestly, I've found. At least in locales with like < 5k people.
It's different from traditional square houses. Most houses are a big box with a sloping roof, so anything that deviates from that expectation is interesting (for some).

My 2¢ from observation. I could be completely wrong, too.