skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of my comment was that the supply chain issue was significant, sorenbs is saying winterization is the exclusive cause. The ERCOT report doesn't support what they had to say. Winterization accounts for ~12-15 GW while supply chain is responsible for ~5-8 GW. (Page 23-25)

The comment I originally responded to said:

> Isn't it a bit naive to assume the planers of these expansions didn't at one point or another had that exact thought themselves?

The answer is no, it is not naive to assume that they didn't think about these things, because even in a state like Texas where energy is king it was not fully thought out.

Edit:

Also to be clear, I'm not ragging on Texas. I love the people of Texas and I miss being there, but I think the state has some important lessons to pay attention to and learn from.
The article was a good read, thank you for sharing. In the Wealth Dynamics profiling, I am a Mechanic (really close to be a Creator), so that would mean that I am more of an Improver, but my process of improving is through the process of Thinker and Builder. Basically, taking what already exist to create something that would be better down the road. Would that make sense?
https://kiwiziti.com

Named after our cats. We're using Gatsby and it uses JavaScript for displaying a static website; both of those things I dislike. Nothing is special about it, except...

It's running on a laptop in my living room. There's a little Wireguard tunnel connecting it to a Hetzner server nearby. The packet routing should all be done in the kernel of both machines so it ought to be snappy.

I like the fact that that I'm sorta the one shaking hands with your HTTPS client when you connect. I like that the website goes down with a power outage. Maybe I'll get a Honda generator. I plan on getting redundancy once Google Fiber is done installing in our neighborhood.
You don't necessarily know who you want to hire when you have a position. The question is if you already know who you want to hire, do you always go through the charade?
Anyone creating a large database of license plates coupled with location and timestamp needs to be extremely careful. That kind of data at scale can be used for all kinds of privacy abuses and needs to have rigorous checks and balances.

Using just that data you can often determine occupation, religion (what church/synagogue/etc. do you park at), potential medical issues (do you regularly drive to a specialist?), Do you have a drug or alcohol problem (Drive as well as a whole host of other PII, including networs off associates.

Police make broad, sweeping requests with subpoenas. (And there are plenty of other abuses that come outside of law enforcement and the state) How equipped are you to deal with the practical and ethical ramifications of you succeed?
Must admit I'm surprised there don't seem to be more users out there doing exactly this. Makes installing a new program for everyone instant (put it in /usr, now available to all) while allowing personal customisations with the ability to reset the system to a pristine state in a second. Esp. combined with diskless, the computer hardware becomes irrelevant/disposable - just grab a fresh one, boot the same image and carry on (or boot your personal image at a hot desk).
I'd still be fine with 8GB, aside from Electron shitware eating 25+% of that for one app, and virtual machines being memory-hungry.
Same question for me honestly. Is a validator literally just a computer running their blockchain application and validation code?

So instead of having a centralized db, Axie (and other blockchain tech) farms out this work and storage out to 9 computers?
Yeah "it's actually xoring array indices" is the standard solution

Or you can go Deep on memory models and try to apply Ralf's Xor Provenance Hack and claim that, well, provenance is stored in bytes, but it doesn't have to be a pointer-sized range of bytes, so let me have some horrible way to express "the high half has provenance 1, the low half has provenance 2" and handwave magic problem solved.

This is of course horrible and also not at all a portable notion to CHERI which tracks provenance at the granularity of "aligned pointer-sized region of memory". But hey, if it helps you sleep at night.
It's a red herring. The true underlying causes for these things are already solved by Islamic regulations on finance, societal issues, social welfare, etc.
In France the new nuclear reactors have been plagued by hardware issue, delays..
So no, it isn't 'easy' to predict the building costs, it's easy only when you're replicating an already existing reactor and only if it was built recently!
> I've built an app that I haven't touched in many years with about $1M in monthly revenue (extremely low margin) and it's all good. Yes, it hasn't had any security patches in years

You have a product bringing in $12 million per year (EDIT: I misread the profit remark originally, apologies to Kiro), and you can’t be bothered to do basic security updates?

> it's just a matter of time before it gets hacked but no big deal. If shit really hits the fan I will just shut it down.

You’re basically waiting to get hacked and your response plan is to just shut it down? And turn off $12 million in annual revenue because you didn’t feel like applying security updates?

Are you sure you mean $1 million per month in revenue? Because this doesn’t make any sense at all.

If this is true and accurate, you can at least see why this wouldn't apply to virtually anyone else running a high-profit software app, right? Especially not something like Friday.app which includes customer data.
Do Yoga. I have destroyed my body with the combination of working on chair 10 hours day, and then doing hard sports (Rugby, Ice Canoe, Running).
Roger L. Cloutier Jr. (Wikipedia)
That's not true. OTPs are vulnerable to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks, and don't satisfy IND-CCA2. This means the malleability allows learning the contents of the ciphertext.

Recall that IND-CCA2 says "given encryption and decryption oracles, can the adversary figure out the contents of a challenge ciphertext".

In the OTP case, the adversary proceeds as follows. Upon receiving the challenge ciphertext c = b xor r, where r is a random bit, it computes c' = 1 xor c = (1 xor b) xor r. It then asks for a decryption b' of c'. If b' = 1, then the adversary knows that 1 = 1 xor b => b = 0. If b' = 0, then adversary knows that 0 = 1 xor b => b = 1. So it learns the value of b without breaking the security of the OTP.

This assumes that the same random bit r is used to encrypt c' and c, but there's no way for the challenger to force different bits.
Right. But Change-sets and Change-set browser are still a great concept. I wish other programming environments would support them. You see exactly the set of changed objects you have changed or created, and can save them to a file and share that with others.

One reason they work so well is that Smalltalk treats methods as objects, not just as functions defined in some file. So a change-set knows it contains specific versions of specific methods. That is not possible in a typical git-environment where the most we know about a change is that it consists of some specific lines changed in a specific file.
It probably wouldn't appeal to me, but I just stayed at an AirBnB in Maui for part of my vacation. The owner offered to optionally rent their Jeep Wrangler through Turo if I was interested. I already had another rental (at less than half the price) but for someone who was "Yeah, let's rent the cool Jeep," she'd have approximately doubled her take from the stay given the car rental would have been not all that much less than the room rental.

So, yeah, I get there's some associated risk and effort, but it is probably pretty tempting for some to collect a fairly hefty rental fee on an otherwise unused or little used asset.
Everywhere? Probably not. Enough to live a fulfilling life? Absolutely. Everyone deserves that much.
Nemo's Lu Luo on how we extract important questions from virtual team meetings
I've used Turo a lot - most of the people renting cars own a fleet of rental cars, like AUdis, etc. Their entire side gig is renting out those cars. They meet you in a parking lot with their other cars. I've almost always had a better experience with Turo than any rental agency, except one rental that was in pretty bad disrepair and had a battery die on me on the top of a mountain.
I think deep learning is better thought of as "science" than "engineering." Right now we're in the stage of the Greeks and Arabs where we know "if we do this then that happens." It will be awhile before we have a coherent model of it, and I don't think we will ever solve all of its mysteries.
These are used in blockchain technologies, but blockchain technologies are not necessary to obtain them, or am I missing something?
I wonder how this will fare where there is a hard grant budget = 20% more wages/benefits = 20% fewer grad students?? When I was a grad student in 1964 I received a stipend from a chemical trust and a salary of $88/month for giving labs for 15 hours/week. My room was $10/month and I lived on hamburger/rice/green peas as a daily mono diet. I was happy as a clam...
I have no idea what these rates are now.
Good data is worth it's weight in gold. I've heard stories of startups paying journalists 40/hr to write samples for nlp datasets. Imo this is not a good place to cut costs
What about Ukraine?
My two cents:

1. Turn off social media. Or at least avoid all the fake, self-promoting garbage.

2. Accept that you're probably not gonna cure cancer or solve cold fusion. Nothing wrong with that.

3. Get a hobby that has NOTHING to do with computers. I like wood-working - building patio furniture, stuff like that.

4. Contrary to #3, get a Raspberry Pi. I've worked on many completely useless, yet totally fun, Pi projects.
Twitter Spaces will die, its only a matter of time.
Thats not how these CPUs work.

The CPUID instruction allows software to query the CPU on if an instruction set is supported. Code emitted by Intel's compiler would only query if the instruction set exists if the CPU is from Intel, instead of just always detecting.

AMD can choose to to implement (or not) any instruction set that Intel specifies, and Intel can choose to implement (or not) any instruction set AMD specifies, however, it would in 100% of cases be wrong to check who made the CPU instead of checking the implemented instruction set. AMD implements MMX, SSE1-4, AVX1 and 2. Any software compatible with these must work on AMD CPUs that also implement these instructions.

If AMD ever chooses to sue Intel over this (likely as a Sherman Act violation, same as the 2005 case), a court would likely side with AMD due to the aforementioned previous case: Intel has an established history of violating the law to further its own business interests.
Gwern makes it pretty clear that the objective is a minimalist aesthetic, not a minimalist design through-and-through.

Not to mention that the same paragraph specifies a design requirement of the site:

"What does it take to present complex, highly-referenced, link-intensive, long-form text online as effectively as possible, while conserving the reader’s time & attention?"

Even the minimalist answer to that question would probably feature the things you're objecting to.
no offense but I think you should consider 5g of cubensis and report back after a few hours.
Ask HN: What tool/app do you use for writing a non-fiction book?
I used Scrivener, Google Docs, LeanPub (online editor) but I’m not happy with all of them. I especially need a way to document research and rearranging chapters. Scrivener is awesome for that, but it’s mobile app and cloud sync is so crappy. And the final book generation (pdf, epub, etc.) is really clunky. I discovered leanpub a couple of months ago and it’s simplicity and fast generation is cool, but the online editor is not available on mobile and the asset management is way too simple.
I'm sure there are a billion frameworks that persist state automatically for you exactly like that.
Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?
I don't know if it's universal at large companies, but your cut-off is at least an order of magnitude to small.
Clutch those pearls harder. Your program wasn't more difficult because it was more selective. Stubbornness is refusing to believe difficulty can remain constant across varying degrees of selectivity of cohorts. You're making the assertion it can't, I'm simply calling bullshit on your unsupported and specious claim.
FYI, your downstream comment is "dead", only people with showdead on can see it - I think this is because of the fourth last word you used. Don't ask me how I know, but variations of this word automatically kill posts
Absolutely, both my partner and I have been doing inner child healing work, and it helped tremendously in our relationship.
Sculpt is an amazing keyboard for programmers who need to press a lot of hotkeys. It has short spacebars and huge modifiers, very comfortable for your thumb. Not to mention it is split, negative tilted, tented and has a built-in wrist rest.
art criticism should be off topic here. This is more like chopping off the visual cortex and some association cortex from a brain and stimulating it. there is no person signaling to us, nor can we attribute any striking images that may come up to a person with agency.

But its like a giant database of decent clipart for anything we can imagine
I'm literally reading this in a hunched position, so yeah... I'm gonna go sit in my yard or something.
The goal of people doing basic research in math and science is not producing more economic value. They really do it just for fun. If what they do happen to be useful for others outside their club, great, but that's never the goal. They might twist words a little to get grants. Historically, their work has been useful. ;)
The problem might be that people are simply lying. Their real reasons are religious/ideological, but they cite humanitarian concerns (which their own religious stigma is partly responsible for).
So you're saying, there's gambling in Casablanca? Who knew? (your competitor did)

I think there is a corollary to "If you don't know who the sucker is -- it's you":

"If you didn't have the inside track crafting the RFP to your specs, you won't win the bid."
I already designed several new convenience methods for making this kind of thing simple and the PR to rust-lang is already open :)
Diffusion models are indeed pretty magical.
Stossel and Yang are both Libertarians. The platform is not the message.
What Every Programmer Needs to Know About Game Networking (2010)
One way to deal with volatility is dynamic minute-by-minute adjustment of prices, and appliances (like car chargers, water heaters, HVAC systems, etc.) that turn themselves on and off based on the price.
There is a cultural difference there, which at one point was relatively small. In the past of Europe medical cadavers were supposed to be confined to the bodies of executed criminals. In China historically accounts of western doctors trying to teach noted the reception, tampering with a dead body was abhorred and living criminals were the suggested alternative. Now this is in the distant past and there has been a lot of distance and divergence since then.

The Hippocratic Oath has had great influnce in the west, perhaps related to the Greecoroman romanticization. To frankly guess why it survived as a meme was that the taboo against doctors killing sounds essential for trust and relatedly survival. A patient already gives up considerable control and leaves themselves vulnerable and doctors would be regarded with suspicion. It would make heterodox doctor orders something nobody would prefer since 'doctor but specifically without the oath against murdering patients when paid by somebody else' is really suspicious. Doctors already face grief misplaced anger for inevitable patient deaths, as a profession were already tampering with cadavers by neccessity and given prevalent theologies frankly a few steps away from being declared some sort of twisted heathen cult.

That "open secret" sounds like an outlandish combination of scapegoating Israel by local powers looking for unity and recycled blood libel. Stop and think about the logistics of assassination, which depends upon surprise and organ harvesting, a delicate and slow process. Why not kill someone with an elaborate tattoo of poisoned ink with that combination? Trying to assassinate somebody in a landlocked city using a killer whale is more plausible.

It is up there with hanging a monkey as a French spy in batshit paranoia.
Yeah, it would not surprise me to find out that this is an innocent bug, but it would also not surprise me to find out it's a bug in some other bullshit behavior that's just going off the rails in this case.
I thought the screen shot was of the page.

If you want generic advice, here's a couple blog posts.

https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/increase-your-conversion-rate/

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-increase-conversio...
Congrats on your success! How big is your team?
They do. Actually their own (LLVM based) compilers are about as fast as GCC and LLVM

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=aocc32-c...
Apple aren't in their current market position because their chips are a bit better so I don't think that their chips being a bit worse is a big deal.
I would just add here that definitively not all therapist are good, and for me I've preferred some coaches, but again not all of them are good. But overall, usually coaches seems to have worked better for me.
If you look through the listings of used books for sale via ABE or Bookfinder, you can find a lot of listings at irrationally high prices. There's been grumbling that something like that is going on, but of course, mainly hearsay.
DE doesn't want anything nuclear - they just vetoed to keep their existing nuclear plants online, even with their huge dependence on Russian gas -

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-ministries-say-c...

DE wants to instead setup other renewables, such as wind, at Tesla speed.

Comparing DE government bureaucracy to Musk's Tesla is ludicrous.
Ask HN: Should I turn down an investment with an MFN clause for YC?
We've applied for YC for this upcoming batch, and have currently been talking to angels / pre-seed investors in the event we don't get in.

We currently have the ability to accept a $250K SAFE note with no discount/cap, but with a MFN clause. We've been told that SAFE notes with MFN clauses are now very common across a number of angels / earlier-stage funding sources. (For those that don't know what that means, an MFN clause basically says that the $250K will convert at the same discount/cap as any subsequent SAFE that has better terms.)

Does this mean if we accept the investment, and then get into YC, we would be giving up at least 21% of our company? (Because the $250K note gets the same terms as YC's $125K for 7%.)

That seems like a huge amount to give up, since we'll probably lose another 25% equity during our seed round, meaning we'll only have ~50% of the company left after just our seed round.

Am I looking at this right or am I missing something? Doesn't that mean anyone wanting to go through YC shouldn't raise any money that come with an MFN clause (which seems to be super common these day)?

The investors unfortunately can't invest without the MFN clause (it's standard), can't wait for 2 months for us to find out YC results, and can't invest any less than $250K.

Would love to hear your thoughts on how to think about this. I might be crazy, but I'm leaning towards turning down the funding in the event that we do get into YC.
UK Crypto Push: Royal Mint NFT, Crypto Engagement Group
If you are boring to yourself, you are boring to others.

Learn to enjoy your own company and how to keep yourself from being bored even when you're alone.

Then find others who enjoy doing the things you enjoy, and you can have fun together.
2/3 of small businesses last two years, 1/2 make it to five years. This has not changed much over the last 20+ years. See the link below.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Business-Survival.pd...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
> We did not focus 100% of our work hours on only one business.
> We did not pivot.

Does this mean you didn't focus on 1 customer or you didn't focus on one product? Because if you built multiple products and focused on the most successful, I would argue that you did pivot.
I actually got a ticket in the airport dropoff area while I was trying to get familiar with the car. :) But I'm sure there are liars.

I have the same feeling overall now, though. The same car had a huge bulge in its tire that they were either negligent about, or deliberately hid. And they have to take a picture of your ID to complete the handoff. The kind of people who have a fleet of fancy cars to rent out like this? Yeah, you don't want them having a picture of your ID.
Thanks. Hospitals are still requiring you take off N95 masks and put on surgical masks.

It's very annoying (having been in them a bit recently for elderly relatives, new baby etc).
TrueAnon has Mark Ames on often -- well, twice, at least, but he is not a core member of the podcast, and was not featured on these episodes.

EDIT: I do agree that Mearsheimer is another good person to learn from, but I don't know of an article or video from him that takes a holistic view at things
> Air travel is 1.9% of global emmissions.

2% of a lot is still a lot, and keep in mind that these 2% of emissions are being emitted by a very very small group of people (relative to world population)

> Overcharge large households using energy above a given quota per square foot

That's a terrible metric, it just encourages bigger houses. Better just to make energy more expensive, and tax house size (which most countries already do)

> Exponentially progressive tax on personal vehicles above 2000cc.

Quite standard across the globe
Off topic! This author combined the folksy 'aint' with the fancy 'en route'. Was it jolting for you too? Not only for the weird combo but for it's awkward meter. :) -- I apologize in advance for this comment.
The request headers have no-cache set. I assume this is because it's in a live developer playground page instead of a production deployment.
Ask HN: Who are the most engaging writers / bloggers in (Dev/Ops/SEC) Tech?
I feel like I may be behind the times or missing some of the better tweet thread writers as well since it's so noisy there.

Some of mine, for example: Jeff Atwood, Steve Yegge, Cindy Sridharan, Julia Evans, Kelsey Hightower, James Govenor, Charity Majors, Martin Fowler's blog...

Who else? Who's on the rise? Who should we follow?
At the moment we are three (co-founders) + a part-time dev doing integrations.
Or just have them Venmo you and say "splitting bar tab awesome night out!"

Once it's a digital transaction it's a digital transaction I am not seeing the benefits here of getting Turo involved and lots of fees and costs when literally any platform will do this more easily. Like call it a car detailing service and get a square reader and only pay a couple percent.

Having used Turo in the past my theory is that there's just a bunch of people mildly delusional about what their car is worth, or maybe that found renting their car is usually not worth the hassle but will take an exorbitant rate for when the super bowl is in town or some other time every rental car option is totally sold out.
Discussion already happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30932095
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30932095>
Good. I hope you've learned that you shouldn't trust large companies.