skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curtailment is never a bad investment. If anything it’s fantastic for wind investors. Someone is paying you twice for not using your assets.

You get all the revenue, and have zero wear and tear on your equipment. In an extreme scenario you could even be paid for not turning on non-functional equipment. What a fantastic deal.
Summer of 2017 in small-ish town Iowa I was buying eggs at Aldi for $0.37/dozen. When I moved to a "large" Iowa town the price was suddenly around $0.55.

I recently went to buy eggs at a higher end store and the only eggs available were cage free, but would have been less expensive than generic eggs.
oh so, space changes... not the light?
LendingClub to Cut 225 Workers, Take Charges of $5.7M
Run Obsidian Clojure(Script) Codeblocks in Babashka
Yeah, they are. The compile times on the toy rust projects I've worked on are in the same region of my work c++ projects.
Please don't put C and C++ in the same boat. This are two different languages and while C++ is definitely far from perfect, at least there is a lot of contruct to manage memory in a safer way (smart pointers raii) and usage of void pointers and c-like arrays are heavily discouraged.

Obliviously if you can use Rust, it's even better but that's not always the case.
I also know very few people who use Facebook, however a couple of degrees seperated from me, most people do. They all use Facebook Messenger (but just call it messenger). Other people a couple of degrees a different way use Twitter extensively.

On HN, we're in a bubble as we're people who give a shit about privacy and the companies running our social media. I'm fairly sure we're a tiny minority.
> School/ysc 'admin' are good: basically if the 'chief' (don't know the English term, sorry)

The head of a school below the university level is called the 'principal'; the head of a university may be called a number of things. It looks like Harvard and Yale have 'presidents' while the University of California has 'chancellors'.
Yeah I remember fretting so much over things like MLA, but then you get a job and your bosses boss can't seem to figure out the complex landscape of their/there/they're... preeeettyyy frustrating
It might just be that we haven't made any noise yet. All the EM radiation we have ever emitted is barely above CMB once you get out a few light years.
Or... you can use a websocket gateway if you need this type of functionality... a lot of people already are for things like VNC or Terminal interfaces.
Reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect , I have the impression the mechanisms are not _that_ poorly understood, at least from my layman's perspective.
Ubisoft shares plunge after forecast cut
SEC sues Gemini and Genesis over crypto asset-lending programme
The dumb thing is that electricity transmission and distribution are usually fixed. This already doesn't make sense because it's peak demand that drives the capex. Opex is peanuts.

But the retail buyer doesn't usually see the negative/low electricity prices of high-supply+low-demand time periods for their "inefficient" uses that should still be economic.
Nuclear Thermal/Electric Propulsion Enabling Fast Transit to Mars
Hah - what a vivid recollection.

It's been a while - we should catch up soon :)
At least this shows different prices in different regions, but I'm not sure why. The article contradicts it.

https://www.edfenergy.com/sites/default/files/r505_deemed_ra...
To me it's worth it because as opposed to languages designed to be strictly statically typed, the type system is there to serve you, not the other way around. It's pragmatic and tailor made for its use case.

People who've always programmed in traditional statically typed languages like Java scratch their heads on why would anyone not want to have static typing, but the reason for that is simple: in a dynamically typed language you can (and often do) produce code that's hard or impossible to type in said statically typed languages.

TypeScript's designers recognized this, so not only there are escape hatches here and there, but also the type system over time evolved to adapt to the real-life use cases instead of imposing some abstract, complex type system which might not even be very useful when used against all the creative ways JS programmers write their code.

And it works.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34344009
I’d build a workshop, explore some interesting scientific advances that haven’t yet been productized, build a cabin, take up fly fishing, launch three companies I have ideas for, hire the half dozen Capable people I know who want work.
Wait that’s more than six months. I suppose I just planned out my next five to ten years. Thanks!
I have no problem with that! Probably delicious, too, if that is your thing.
In Australia there's no need to sue, if you approach a government agency with evidence they will investigate and force the employer to back pay.

Yes you can sue for wage theft it works both ways.
Question was about the CIA. The two are not the same.
''I am here to tell you: if you are running a software business and you aren't at, like, Google-tier scale, just throw it all in a monorepo.''

Google _is_ a monorepo
ChatGPT Highlights Copilot's Fundamental Flaw
"everyone thinks it is ok" has been used pretty much forever to justify some awful things! I'm sure you can think of a bunch!
What good is cheap if you can’t use it?

Why would I want to pay for cheap wind energy I can’t use, and also pay for gas energy that I can use? Unless the cost of the wind is £0, paying for wind in addition to gas is just a waste of money.
Only things that needed to be done behind the scenes that could take a long time, like we would take JTIFFs that could be gigs of data, and analyze them and create variations of the same image. You don't want someone who just uploaded a 1GB file waiting for you to also analyze it as well.
Accept two facts. One, everyone assumes you know and care about what
they're talking about. Two, nothing that you or they do on a weekly
timescale matters in the slightest to the bottom line.
Biggest threat to democracy is echo chambers and fake news. How does this help with that?
This is good. If we merely confirm what we expect to see, then we don't learn anything new.
That seems like RISC changing everything. How much did it change things? CISC has been transformed from a true competitor to RISC to a sort of abstraction layer on top of it.
There’s nothing obsolete about it, though. It does exactly what I expect it to do and it’s better than my previous electric stove, in my opinion.

And it’s none of your business. See to your own house.
Have you ever heard of an event called the First World War?
Why wouldn't it? They can suspend your account for using a third party application to access their servers.
I use a megarepo, if that's a thing.

One repo with multiple unrelated apps, plus a "shared" directory.

I could put the shared dir in a package, but so far I don't really see the need.
Escape from McKinseyland
Type checking and strongly typed languages are rapidly taking market share and in the near feature, except for niche specific software, mostly everything will be typed. There are a few reasons for this: it makes software easier to change and to test, and in a scenario of fast-growing complexity like the world we live in today, it is better suited for software development.

I would recommend to every software developer to learn the type ecosystem inside their language to make sure they have a good/high-paying job in the near future.

In 5 to 10 years, almost every serious engineering job will be working with an ecosystem that contains types.
I'm guessing it's about creating a GOMAXPROCS pool of goroutines which are then (wastefully) competing with each other for an atomic loop counter.

It got me curious what's faster when looping over a slice of million elements: to use a million separate goroutines or to use that pool.
> skepticism

This whole picture some will read as an invitation to skepticism. «Science» does not exist in a vacuum - as this very submission re-shows.
VoiceDream on iOS, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I honestly don't understand it completely, but there are a lot of casual players who will not even read the rules intro in the players handbook, and will play for a long time without ever learning how their character works. They don't want to leanr anything, they just want their DM friend to take them through some games and make it fun, so learning something they aren't even vaguely familiar with sounds like a lot of work.

It's also a longstanding, odd thing that even experienced players will spend a huge amount of time homebrewing hacks to D&D to make it work as a different kind of game instead of learning a new system that works well for the kind of game they want to play. Ttrpg systems seem to have a lot more momentum/brand loyalty than you would guess.

A lot of D&D players play a fairly "adversarial DM" style and, rightly, don't want to play the more narrative focused or rules-light systems that are easy to learn, because giving players freedom will lead to them abusing it. The dynamic is players wanting a power fantasy and relying on the DM to stop them from ruining the game with their rule bending.

I'm one of those people who likes learning new ttrpg systems and trying out different systems, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this. It seems like it's a lot of compounding factors, including a lot of growth being driven by streamers and new players who want to play D&D, not some nerd stuff they've never heard of.
Only if the interconnects are there. Scotland can operate without gas for periods now, but it can’t get enough power where it’s needed.
Aluminum (American pronunciation) not being 'from/ of the Earth', or 'of Scandinavia', it would appear.
First part is mostly explanation of greenhouse effect: predictions are here: https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?t=698
Are You a Product Manager?
We’re thinking of creating email courses for product managers to help them grow their careers. Are you a product manager? If so what would you like to see as a short 5 day email course? One topic we had was having our mentors write about the top ten traits that successful product managers have. What other ideas do you have? Thanks for the input!
GPT3 cant even play tic tac toe properly (at least in my attempts). What makes you believe it can build and manipulate a model of the universe, and then answer questions about that model in a way that goes beyond what humans can do?
> You mean dielectric moments and static electricity?

You're confusing what with why. My understanding is that everyone knows it has something to do with electrons collecting on the balloon; but nobody quite knows why rubbing rubber against hair causes the electrons to do that.
I good PM does great things if they are very busy across teams and don't have time to hassle people about shenanigans and instead talk to users and understand the product deeply. Many places though have too many PMs that never talk to users and pretend like they know what they want.
Those are general demand curves, and are not necessarily representative of the coolest days of the season. What we care about is the gap between supply and demand.

From experience buying large industrial quantities of natural gas, the larger market can see bad effects at low temperatures. Even in the upper Midwest you can get force majeure events, particularly when temperatures drop below 0 F for a couple days.

The winter months bring planned shutdowns for power plants to perform maintenance, trying to prevent downtime during the summer heat. The non-linear nature is a concern, though in cases almost up to the 1:1 point, it's more energy efficient to burn natural gas to create electricity and use a heat pump compared to burning natural gas in the home.
Would you bet that we'll see a paradigm shift of a similar nature to the classical physics -> quantum mechanics / relativity paradigm change, but for Cosmology in our lifetimes?
I don't Jepsen has any relevance to embedded (in-process) databases, nor to any single-node databases. The properties its testing for are related to network partition tolerance.
Global warming impact of airplane contrails
You're right - in pure information theoretic terms there is nothing special happening here. It's a tradeoff like always. But, in human perceptual terms (i.e. how JPEG/MPEG are designed), you may find substantial gain in useful information per bit by applying dithering.

The useful amount of information represented by any given bit of data is much larger in this arrangement. 1 bit = 1 entire pixel. In other schemes, you have upwards of 24 bits representing the contents of 1 pixel. To human eyes, only 8 of these bits really matter. You can usually throw away 50% of the other 16 without anyone noticing.
You don’t get larger - just like you don’t dissolve in water and wind doesn’t spread parts of you all over the land. There are interactions of matter keeping you together.
sadly, my searches for "gigawatt resistor" and "gigawatt electric load" have been fruitless.
To be honest you don’t really do those things if you had a legitimate business, he commingled finds because he ran out money. He ran out money because he was making poor risky bets. Over a long enough time horizon his bad trading was going to realise losses, and as we’ve seen, he was going to cover it up.

If FTX had 100bn in the bank, he would’ve kept going until the whole 100 was gone trying to chase the losses.
A classic. I was trying to not copy it too closely, but the bit about vibrating air is a little close, haha.
They haven’t but they will
Not the person you are replying to, but I hold the same opinion as them regarding Bill Gates and OpenAI, and I am totally fine with vaccines (vaxxed myself and would recommend it to others). What's your point?

There is a reason for why "assume good faith" and "please try to assume the strongest possible interpretation of comments of others" are a part of HN comment guidelines. Instead, you just immediately jumped to an assumption that the reason the grandparent comment author is not a fan of him is because BillG is pro-vaccines, and the author is an anti-vaxxer.
Maybe Schroder-Bernstein could simplify. Easier to write 2 injections.
PMs tend to have a lot of leverage, so a bad one makes a very large negative impact. A good PM is worth their weight in gold though.

I think of them as basically glue. They just help make shit get done. That could be helping co-ordinate between eng and design, doing customer research, managing expectations, etc. Whole range of things that different PMs do.
But it’s expensive and takes a long time. The U.K. isn’t building enough quickly enough to take benefit of production in the north.

Maybe if variable prices encourages energy intensive demand to shift to Scotland that will help, but that’s not quick either.
You're misinterpreting the "when not if" adage. For prostate cancer it's generally used as an example of how there are cancers you die of and cancers you die with. Many prostate cancers are so nonaggressive that men will die with them and never know they were there.

And that's the problem. If you did a test and saw something & then immediately eradicated that prostate cancer, what if it was going to be one of the ones that wouldn't have caused you real harm during your natural life? In that case the likelihood of the treatment causing more damage to you than the cancer itself is high. And predicting which are which is improving but still imperfect.
So galaxies are falling off the edge of the universe never to be seen again?
Panics are categorically different than errors. Errors are normal, panics are not normal.
Not so sure. If we're not early ourselves, the likelihood that the universe is swimming in intelligence -- if not already part of an enormous computational fabric -- is higher. That naively seems like it would place an upper limit on Earth-originated intelligences.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=amichail
This is where I'm at right now. We have 40000 items on the store and I'm writing an updater for it, and the entire official ecosystem is a dumpster fire.

I've found some ok golang api clients which seem to do the trick so far.
I always got the vibe Shopify developers didn’t want to rock-the-boat to much with Tobias (founder/ceo) on tech stack, given his past role as a core Rails developer.
One example is producing hydrogen from water with excess power. It can then be added to the natural gas network, or used by trucks or trains, or stored for a power plant.

Orkney is trialling this.
What choice is there for consumers but to demand oil? If cities create suburban sprawl and inadequate public transportation, it's the consumer's fault for using a car? If every industry whose products I require to participate in society uses oil, how can I choose otherwise?

I really don't understand your point and your smug judgements on consumers. Do you consume no oil products? Or are you just saying that you knew all along oil is bad so you're better than the 'naive masses'?

I'm not shocked that oil companies provide oil, I'm shocked that many people don't want to take any action even when it comes out that the oil companies baldly lied about their role in climate change.

I'm also baffled that some people want to shift the blame away from the oil companies.
With the current rate of expansion, no. We're still bound together more tightly than the rate. This extends all the way out to a fair distance (galactic distance).

If the rate does get to the point where it is noticeable the "galaxies can't hold together" you get into the Big Rip end of the universe situation.
This is how I understood OP, too. Last time we had a "crisis in physics", it was the early transition from classical physics to quantum mechanics, when some good new ideas had been coinceived of, but trying to reconcile them with the classical way of thinking and with experimental evidence required increasingly convoluted hacks in the models to make it all work - until folks like Heisenberg, Born, Jordan and Dirac found more holistic and clean ways to approach the problem space.

The number of question marks piling up in cosmology does feel similar. It will help to shape new theories that reconcile all this experimental evidence.
You just showed you don't know anything about finance.
On the whole, this is a fairly good write-up but this is just not right:

> Being at a startup is hard in a way that is almost indescribable to anyone who hasn’t experienced it.

Being at a startup as an employee isn't necessarily hard. You hear this type of "startup is so hard" because running companies well is hard and successful startups will often grow faster than their founders are able to grow their own ability to run companies, which makes their own job challenging. And a lot of startups are poorly run in ways that are entirely avoidable (often as a result of their CEOs not being able to grow as quickly as their company) which can make life hard for the employees as well. But this isn't a necessary part of the startup experience.
You clearly made your point but comparing this tool with my introduction seems a bit unfair ^^.

Indeed, I was not thinking about that level of attacks. However, if individuals and organizations do not understand the minimum required to secure their instances, they can't stand a chance against advanced threat actors and skilled adversaries.

Thanks for your detailed explanations.
Pump water in a loop through a radiator to cool the braking generators and the resistor bank :P

Could try also melting some salt on the side.
I am not saying I expect them to be better documented, only that the reality is that they are not well documented in TS and that makes TS difficult to use.
That may or may not be to some extent true, however I find negativity isn't generally the best way to encourage people to do something you would like.

I think Safari has also made progress over the last couple of years, and there is indication of them being more receptive to PWAs. I'm going to cheerlead for that.

It's also worth noting that the EU and UK competition authorities are looking at forcing Apple to make changes to some of their rules around web browsers on iOS. They have a big stick, I don't, hence my nicer words.
There is a clear, immediate problem: are experts correctly identified? But there is also a second, more subtle, but also more fundamental question: even if the experts are correctly identified, delegation deprives the electorate of the richness of noisy but abundant information distributed among all voters. Unless the extent of delegation is modulated correctly, Condorcet has taught us that a smaller number of independent voters, even if more accurate, may well lead to worse decision-making. This very basic trade-off is the necessary point of departure of Liquid Democracy and is the focus of this paper.

Seems highly tendentious to me. How is abundance synonymous with richness when processing costs are ignored? The whole point of delegation is that it's not efficient or enjoyable for everyone to get up to speed on everything. Representative democracy is ass because representatives' own intellectual capacity is limited and the incentives for self-dealing vastly outweigh those for probity. Liquid democracy proposes to delegate on a per-issue basis, but the cost of expert identification is necessarily a function of the cost of expertise acquisition. Further, the payoffs for right or wrong decisions isn't always apparent in size or time. These latter considerations don't seem to have been factored in, causing the paper to read as a dismissal of a proposed heuristic by comparison to an impractical ideal.
I would like for any article insisting I adopt any practice to put a little more effort into doing so. This seems to amount to "it's good", "I should have done it sooner", "it's not so bad, trust me", and "smart people like it, too". Could have been a tweet.
This.

Port forwarding goes both ways.

I may, or may not, have used ssh forwarding and reversing forwarding to create a shadow IT tunnel(s) between my home and work when VPN was acting up.

Also, SOCKS proxy is very useful if you can puncture a hole home and your work requires a proxy to access the World Wide Web from the office location.
Hey, I don't disagree. I'm just explaining how it works: just because a bunch of people get together to vote on something doesn't make it binding. Maybe it should, but it doesn't.

There's a million things I'd do differently if I were in charge. But not only am I not in charge, what little power I do possess has been systematically diluted to the point of effective nonexistence.
I guess my comment assumes a certain level of awareness

Like if I see my block swarmed by cops, I'll lock my door.

If I see 20 cops outside the mall, I'll take it as a sign to not even approach bystanders.

If traffic is blocked, even Google Maps will show the trip time taking into account if a semi flipped across 3 lanes or a stranded vehicle is blocking 1 lane.

If you hear gunshots so close you start thinking "I wish I knew why those just happened" instead I prefer staying indoors and away from windows since bullets don't care if they were shot for fun.

If you have the awareness to respond to the plainly available context, then you don't benefit from having a police scanner in your pocket.

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No one is saying you're not allowed to find things out about crime, the problem at its root is a live crime feed precludes any sort of meaningful deep information.

Police act on so little info because it's their job, and as a result they end up being jumpy and trigger happy.

Willingly opting into that experience yourself in anything short of a warzone is not hard to chalk up to fear...
I'm going to be very amused if the Steady State Model - an unpopular relic from the 1940s - turns out to be correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_model