skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market should deploy the cheapest grid possible that can produce emission free energy. We should be using those market forces.

The problem that we have is that governments steps in to subsidize grid stability. Industries and citizens in general do no accept a government that allows for black outs, and they also do not accept a government that allow the energy price to reach the natural market price when supply is very low and demand is high.

A second major problem is that if cheap renewables can produce 90% of supply and we need to 10% of expensive storage to meet demand, the cost that customers will have to bear is as if 100% of the produced energy came from the expensive storage. This make it very expensive to customers to have a combination of very cheap and very expensive energy production.

And finally, EU law dictate that if a country has surplus energy production then they must sell it to countries that has a deficit in energy production. This makes grid stability an EU wide issue, and even if a single country has an very stable production they will still share the high costs of energy unstable countries.

All of it create a market where the cost of $/kWh of energy created within a country is just loosely connected by the real price that customers pay. This winter demonstrated that multiple times, and all the governments subsidizes and price roofs illustrated how ready governments are to pay when the real cost of grid stability lands.
Grad students do the heavy lifting of teaching and research. Universities would fall apart without them. That's plenty of leverage.
This was increased from ~10% to 12.4% in 1983 under the Reagan Administration. The extra funds weren't paid to beneficiaries: they were intended to build up a trust fund for future generations, but they were instead borrowed by the government for general spending, and to mask the effect of Reagan's tax cuts.
Vogtle 3 reactor reaches first criticality
The more I think about it, the more complex it sounds to me ....

Let's say you're listening to a Youtube MV on your computer while cleaning the dishes. A Skype call comes on your phone, and you take it.

- Do you still hear the youtube sound in the background ?

- What does the play/pause button do on your earbuds ? Or the volume button ? Which source does it act on ?

- An alarm starts on your iPad somewhere in the house, how do you stop it ? Do you keep getting the sound until you physically find the device and act on it ?

And that's just 2 min of thinking about it. Not saying it can't be done, just that you'd need to deal with all the edge cases as well. Auto switching sources is annoying (I personally disabled it when I had airpods, and don't use it on any headset), but I think having all sources active at all time could be as annoying, or worse. If Apple couldn't solve auto-switching, I wouldn't be holding my breath for them to solve the all-devices at the same times edge cases.
This is exactly how America became America.
I've shot content for a professional tourism contract on my phone. Helps that phone cameras these days are very good!

I think what stands out to most people is when something looks non-standard. Usually that's because it's shot on a camera while everyone else is using a phone. But increasingly, it's shot on a phone by a photographer who's just using it in a slightly different way or who's edited it.
Yes, a few good sharp knives make a big difference in the kitchen.
Better approximation would be saying "gear is a multiplier on skill".

Sometimes good gear just makes it take faster. Sometimes it allows you to do stuff otherwise not possible. But lack of core skills can't be compensated by fancy equipment for all but the most extreme difference
> internally, the x86 memory bus is word addressable

The 'memory bus' is not architectural. Different microarchitectures implement things differently, but most high-performance microarchitectures these days have relatively efficient misaligned accesses.
Hmmmmm I don't see what famine has to do with nuclear power.
You guys are pretty much out of fighting age males, but you're also pretty much out of gas for your propaganda wing too aren't you?
This is a much better war story than most of its kind, thanks. I was terrified that you were just blithely doing a 16 bit read, I'm glad there was a much better explanation.
The great news is that changing your gender is but one government form away in most of these countries.

It's been done before:

In Canada, to deal with the sexism of car insurance premiums for example: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/alberta-man-legally-cha...

In Argentina, to retire 5 years earlier as a woman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5544173/Argentinian...

In Switzerland, also to retire earlier, which seems almost trivial given the 1 year difference between men and women, but by spending just 75 francs for the reassignment, they unlock of 28,680 francs of additional retirement over their lifespan: https://www.europeantimes.news/2022/02/a-man-changed-his-gen...

And I realize these sources are not great, but I chalk that up to the fact that this is an untouchable subject for mainstream, a taboo subject for many, and an uncomfortable subject for most of us. These are also still fringe cases, even if the benefits are quite clear. There is also something unsavoury about exploiting the system in this way, but it's counterbalanced by the fact that it's a system that's screwing you over.

In a way I do look forward to cases like these ending up in court, solely because I want to see the decisions that result. Do we get a legal ruling on the mutability of gender? Does gender become permanent at a certain age? Does the court instead decide to deal with each case individually, knowing they could potentially set up a tsunami of cases?

Pragmatically, it seems easiest if you just erase gender from these systems, but realistically that would benefit men which makes it unlikely from the current wave of Western-influenced lawmakers.
Using wifi to trigger real-time software is often a bad idea, but using it to configure responses to future triggers isn’t necessarily so bad.
I remember a studio art class I took and the teacher had us doing just about everything using Sharpie on sketch paper. I guess he wanted us to get used to putting in what's visible and not trying to play with layers, shading, erasing, etc. To train the visual system first, and worry about the fancier stuff later. It made a lot of sense and it's sort of like sending new cinematographers off with a silent super-8 camera and telling them to work on story, lighting, and framing rather than worry about color, sound, dialog, etc.
Historians are not just observers. They are themselves the target of political action. I'm married to a history professor and therefore an unusual number of my friends are history professors.

I have friends who are regularly harassed by TPUSA students who write hate speech in protected course materials. I have a friend who is a Russianist who cannot do any more archival research because of the tense relationship between the US and Russia. Legislation in states like Florida explicitly targets History education both at the college level and in ordinary public school. As one of the final acts of the administration, Trump released the 1776 Project - an effort to remodel history education in the US around conservative propaganda, which had no actual historians involved in its production.

This piece is weird. It seems to set up a wild strawman that no criticism of The 1619 Project is warranted or that Sweet has somehow been made a pariah - but this isn't the case. There has been ample criticism from the academics that would be described by DeSantis as woke propagandists. Sweet's faux-pas AHA was criticized as tone-deaf - and it was. The concern with the piece was not criticism of the 1619 Project. Oodles of academics have criticized that. That's pretty much what academics do when they get together, they shit talk a lot of work.

Like, I really don't think the article is being honest about the actual thing that happened to Sweet. It seems to speak about everything he did other than the specific portions of the article that people were concerned about and instead cast the field as critical of the broader elements of his article that were utterly uncontroversial.
Domain squatting issues aside, I must be the only person I know that’s actually used Freenom and don’t trash them. Registrars certainly can be held liable for domain squatting but it’s typically when the registrar actually registers the names and sells them, not on when a 3rd party registers them.

I’m only familiar with the .ml and .gq TLDs and at least for those I’d like to see the respective countries allow more reputable registrars to manage them.
I feel like the USA is focusing on the wrong thing with net neutrality. The core problem is that individual ISPs have total monopolies on infrastructure (or at least on the better infrastructure) in a lot of areas, and so can do all the anti consumer bullshit they want without repercussions.

Enforcing net neutrality is just treating a symptom of the monopoly. Other countries fix this by having the shared physical infrastructure controlled by a government entity that rents access to any company that wants to sell service as an ISP.
I'd be surprised if he really spent most of his time repeating that he worked at Google. That's certainly hyperbole.
Brave's Summarizer AI seems to as well.
Interesting to note the number of YouTube channels and such that are making millions of dollars shooting their videos with iPhones, GoPros, and consumer drones. The price gap between that equipment and true professional grade gear is astronomical, but in this case it does not matter.
> the quantities in which you buy gems

This is a fairly common tactic when you have intermediate in-game currencies that you actually use to buy stuff in the game. For example, you can only use gems to buy stuff in-game, and most items in-game are worth a multiple of 200 gems. But when you buy the gems with cash, they're somehow only offered in multiples of 500 that are also not multiples of 200. You end up buying a few extra that maybe you didn't want, and they can later hook you in with the 'well, you already have some in your wallet' approach.
Very disappointed in this paper as it seems to be overscrutinizing the results and has all the hallmarks of overfitting. The explanation they give doesn't even seem very coherent to me psychologically or statistically.
The biggest thing that matters besides comfy boots is what type of skis (length and width).

I personally use all-mountain skis which are, well, good in most conditions because I typically ski in the Midwest with trips out west. If you frequently hit powder and/or live near a mountain a pair of powder skis may suit you well either alone or as a compliment - don’t over think it too much.

I highly highly highly highly recommend taking lessons next time you get to a real mountain. They are well worth the money. I usually do a tune up lesson to start the season the first time I get out west.

I’m not sure what your budget is and your ski frequency is but if you ski a lot I’d spend the most money you feel comfortable spending and buy a great pair of boots. Rent skis for a while if you need to. Then get a pair of skis. Don’t skimp on boots. Don’t buy cheap boots. Get them fitted at a ski store by a professional. Boots make/break your ski life.

Tl;dr

Buy an expensive pair of boots, it matters. Pay for lessons. They matter. Arcteryx jackets? Not so much.
"There is no downplaying France in 18th century. It was basically the center of the European world."

Centre not center (-re is French/English, -er is mostly American). There was no such concept of a European as we understand it today, back in C18.

"center of the European world" - no, the Parisian meridian effort was eventually ditched in favour of Greenwich, London. Again you persist with the non French -er.

I do applaud your deft handling of a Germanic language: "English". English is of course the modern lingua franca - French.
No SSL certificate on the site, so here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/norbertrostaing/BlinderKitten/
I dunno, in my case it just made it faster. Shitty knife can be made sharp, just not for long.

For me it's mostly "the better thing makes it quicker". Sure there is some minimum that makes stuff below impossible, but outside of that it's mostly convenience
> Probably some 50% of the economy is pure bullshit that nobody asked for, just keeping each other busy.

You mean that 50% of the economy is bullshit that you think nobody should ask for. You and I may agree that developer at an online gambling company is economically useless, but the their boss certainly doesn't and the gamblers probably don't either.

Even if we accept your premise, you can't just assume that tanking the economy will only cut out the useless jobs instead of the useful ones. Useful jobs are perhaps more likely to survive, but that's not always going to be the case. During the next recession, people will more likely give up on a solar roof than give up gambling.

> The economy doesn't work for the people anymore and drastic productivity increases have somehow not really improved our lives in terms of freedom, time, physical/mental health, quite the opposite.

People's lives are objectively improving. It mostly just happening in Asia though. It requires a lot of money to build power plants, hospitals, and water towers, and much of that was financed by selling "useless" trinkets from the West.
If Google recommends costco.com and then you buy something and get harmed, should Google be liable?
Lol ok. Meanwhile the rest of the industry is moving on. I mean, how do you even do an wired connection to a drone? A lot of times guitarists will perform on a stage and the clients wants aerial views without the cost of a crane. Do you just tell them you can't do it and have them go with a different company?
For the average person, Net Neutrality with respect to Big Telecom is mostly about contract disputes between multi-billion dollar corporations. Because of the common carrier laws, most people are worried about being censored by their telecom.

With Big Tech, there is worry about censorship. A big example is how any discussion of the lab leak was censored as a conspiracy theory.

People are far more worried about censorship.
I just had this interaction with ChatGPT.

Me: Reverse the digits of 12+39

ChatGPT: The sum of 12 and 39 is 51. If you reverse the digits, you get 15.

Me: Reverse the digits of 12 + 84. Only respond with the reversed digits, no explanation

ChatGPT: The reversed digits of 12 + 84 are 96.

Which makes me think that longer explanations give it more of a chance to think because it gets more passes through the model. Weird!
With enough data it's possible - I remember a colleague going to a conference and chatting with some Atlassian people and they said their priority (this was probably 2016 or 2017) was getting Jira to be performant for companies with 500,000+ people. With enough users, labels, releases etc I can see Jira churning on something for minutes.
> You're still not getting it. First-class status means that anywhere a value or variable can be used, a query or table should also be able to appear, and vice versa. This means a table or query can appear as a return type, a parameter to a stored procedure or query, a variable, and so on.

I doubt you could implement a query planner that would cope with that degree of flexibility. Which means you’d be forced to deal with the mechanics of the query, pushing you away from declarative SQL and into procedural and functional programming. At which point you might as well ditch SQL anyway.
Interesting, I thought for stuff like these - you just need to complain to ICANN.

Very interesting to see that Meta feel that it needs to go to court for this. Does this mean that ICANN is broken / does not have the capability to properly take care of these things?
It sounds like you're trying to use it like Wikipedia when it's really more like Microsoft Word.

Asking it for plain literal facts is the weakest use of it IMO.
I'm always amazed at the high-level shit that even the most casual hobbyist buys these days.

You can't even cook a chicken breast without a $250 sous vide, bespoke cast iron pan, and then slice it up with a $149 Santoku knife.
They were paid to other retirees at the time. Some excess dollars were loaned to the government for general spending, which put Treasury bonds into the "social security trust fund." You in turn received credit that entitles you to receive similar payments when you retire, paid for by then-working taxpayers and by repayment of those bonds (which also comes from tax revenue.) As other posters mention, the democratically-elected government could change the law so you aren't paid those benefits: if that bothers you, you should avoid voting for politicians that want to change the arrangement.
Ah yes, blame the victim style of debate.
A relative took a very good picture of another relative and I said "you must have a really nice camera!"

Photographer's partner burst out laughing and said "that's what everyone has said no matter what they took the picture with"
> It's not a big deal with only a few people on the grid, but if every house were doing this,

"Renewable is great, but if we're already generating all our power by renewables then..."

This argument is silly because we are nowhere close to having this problem yet. And as we start to approach that golden age (I mean, "problem") we'll have other alternatives.
> Just...Why?

I can imagine some cases where you might want to setup infrastructure-related software on your cluster and to do so through Ansible (using manifests or Helm charts under the hood), so that you have one template that you can use for setting up clusters later, for various use cases. For example, you might want a custom ingress controller, or to deploy a service mesh like Istio, or maybe Kiali as well. Perhaps you want to launch Rancher on your cluster to give your engineers an arguably easier way to interact with the cluster, or to explore it in a more visual way than just using something like the kubectl CLI (though tools like k9s are great, too: https://k9scli.io/).

Edit: Many suggest that using something like Argo CD would be a better tool for this, due to its specialization, though.

I actually utilized a similar approach when working with Ansible + Docker Swarm (since I needed a more lightweight orchestrator that played nicely with Docker, but to manage the nodes with Ansible): I deployed my own "ingress" (just a web server container with some configuration), some supporting software like Sonatype Nexus for storing custom images, Portainer for graphic cluster management and some other software for similar concerns. Once that was done and other server configuration (e.g. user accounts, groups, permissions, folders, services etc.; though most less relevant for the containers themselves) were set up, other CI/CD pipelines could deploy apps across the cluster without Ansible being involved - but it was good for setting up the base for it all.

But if you wanted to use Ansible for deploying almost all of your apps, like in the article? I guess you could do that if you have a lot of buy-in into using Ansible and just prefer the way you do things with it. Admittedly, using Helm or one of the alternatives in this case might be a better choice.
If a team created the company then why don’t they own it already?

If a team didn’t create it, then why should they own over the team that actually created it?

It here == whole company or any substantial part of it.
ATT fired all the old HBO leadership, so I have doubts if they maintain the quality of shows they used to.

Also, the new leaders at Discovery have a track record of saturating their viewers with shitty, low quality reality style shows.
Basically the same thing in this case. You can't have no zoning, but having a baseline bare minimum set at the federal level without carveouts for specific neighborhoods or districts is mostly just about superseding the authority of councils to mess around.

We need to use a state or federal authority to take the power of municipalities in the same way the builders remedy works.
TAs are paid based on how many hours they are expected to work and don't receive additional pay if they work longer. At my uni TAs are paid as if they worked 12 hours a week, but often have to work 14-16 to get through the assigned work
Now I'm hungry
We are starting to see the effects of this. Individual ISPs can cause huge disruptions by dropping packets that pass through them. This was done to kiwifarms recently where middle ISPs would simply drop the packet and break the connection despite not being the user or the hosters isp. Simply a relay.
I'd generally agree however... I'm a drone photographer first, but wanted to supplement it with some ground video. Bought a gimbal for my phone. Wanted something smaller, so bought an Osmo Pocket. Bought a GoPro. Bought a GH5; bought a Ronin S. Wanted something POV, so bought an Insta360 Go 2. Found shifting bitty content to my phone annoying, so bought a new phone with stronger video capabilities. All the gimmicky options have paid for themselves on their first jobs, but in hindsight, I wonder if I shouldn't have just skipped most of them and put the budget towards something better than the GH5. Or better lenses for the GH5.
Working in embedded systems nowadays, it's funny to think of a time where a hardware designer would claim its impossible for it to be a HW bug.

Perhaps it was rarer back then, but these days cross-talk is carefully addressed, and my HW designer friends have nightmares of these kind of issues slipping through.
Net neutrality went away and as far as I can tell, nothing changed.

On the other hand, FOSTA-SESTA killed Craigslist personals and, I think, lots of other stuff.

I've seen an almost infinite amount of advocacy for net neutrality and almost nothing against FOSTA-SESTA.

People worry about the wrong things.
There isn't a personality type, astrological sign, or whatever rubbish you're into,that makes it ok to behave like such an ass.
This is a very good guide, although if it’s truly aimed at normies it’s still far too formal/mathematical in certain parts (ChatGPT itself could probably help you rewrite some of those sections in plainer terms).

The ‘token window’ section does a fantastic job of answering “but how does it know?”. The ‘lobes of probability’ section does a fantastic of answering “but why does it lie?”.

The ‘whole universes of possible meanings’ bit does an okay job of answering “but how does it understand”, however I think that part could be made more explicit. What made it click for me was https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands - specifically:

“Every pair of token sequences can, in principle, be stored in a lookup table. You could, in principle, have a lookup table so vast any finite conversation with it would be indistinguishable from talking to a human, … But it wouldn’t fit in the entire universe. And there is no compression scheme … that would make it fit. But GPT-3 masses next to nothing at 800GiB.

“How is it so small, and yet capable of so much? Because it is forgetting irrelevant details. There is another term for this: abstraction. It is forming concepts. There comes a point in the performance to model size curve where the simpler hypothesis has to be that the model really does understand what it is saying, and we have clearly passed it.”

If I was trying to explain that to normies, I would try to hijack the popular “autocomplete on steroids” refrain. Currently it seems like normies know “autocomplete for words”, and think when you put it on steroids you get “autocomplete for paragraphs”. Explain to them that actually, what you get is “autocomplete for meanings”.

(Please feel free to use these ideas in your post if you like them, don’t even think about crediting me, I just want to see the water level rise!)
Never: Zuck owns the company (he owns a majority share), so he can't be forced out.