skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's painful, feel bad for folks having to deal with that. This is why regulated utilities are important.

A bit concerned about this website though. Appears to be a despair-themed blog focused on convincing people we're doomed instead of talking about how to make things better. Feels a bit like a disenfranchisement campaign at worst, and obnoxious clickbait at best.
All old games are available.
https://archive.is/sd12w
Texas banned that for residential power.

The average consumer on a fixed power plan wont notice.
Cheap, effective, reliable, durable lidar in cars would be a good thing.

But for self-stopping, not self-driving.
Someone should make an awesome list.
Author here. Here's an additional piece of wisdom that I picked up in over 20 years of doing this. Reliable communication allows for simpler, less coupled interfaces. Unreliable communication demands increasingly elaborate and coupled interfaces. I wrote a short note explaining this principle. https://notes.max.engineer/reliable-communication-allows-for...

> If you make backend create one API call for each page, you will NOT get FE focusing on UI and backend on something else. You will get FE focusing on UI and BE focusing on UI and something else.

You need your backend to focus on something, otherwise it would be focused on nothing/everything. You need to tie yourself down to use cases, otherwise every use case is your use case.
Wi-Fi barely works in a hotel, how is it going to work in a stadium?
Was confused by that as well. Regulation is usually what keeps utilities from really out of band demand-based pricing like this. Maybe they meant deregulation?
what does the expression "let them have cake" mean?
If the crew has asked you not to do something and you do it, then it’s a federal felony (you must follow crew members directions). So as long as they ask you not to do it, it is in fact a felony to disregard that!
I dont think anyone but bulk power purchasers will notice, tbh
Reliable communication allows for simpler interfaces
A big part of Wells Fargos business back in the day was moving money around, same with western union.

Wells Fargo still does that, just in a different way. Same with Western Union.

"The company had built a reputation for taking safety seriously, and its stagecoaches carried gold, silver, and other valuables from one location to the next. To safeguard such shipments, Wells Fargo shipped gold and other treasure in sturdy wooden boxes carried in the front boot of a stagecoach or secured inside the stagecoach in an iron safe."

https://www.wellsfargohistory.com/outwitting-outlaws/

They both kept their billion dollar names.
To be honest, I wrote that just to add a little drama ;)
Because everything needs to phone home these days?

That's frankly quite disturbing to see. A program like this has zero need to even touch the network.
https://archive.is/r6ne2
At the end of the Roman Empire [0] a lot of technology was lost, a lot of Europe went backwards in terms of the progress we see. A lot of people died. There was even a climate catastrophe [1].

The Anglo-Saxons told stories of the Giants who built the aqueducts, because the technology for building them was lost.

If you looked at GDP for Europe, it dived. Completely collapsed. Trade between areas of the former Empire ceased. Barbarians looted cities and destroyed infrastructure.

It took us a few hundred years to recover. But we did recover.

So, couple of points:

1. I don't see this collapse in these smooth graphs with the lines going up and to the right of the last few thousand years.

2. Like most graphs that go up and to the right, it's actually a mess of ups and downs if you zoom in. Progress isn't smooth - it's lumpy and sometimes goes backwards. And it's fractal. There's plenty of space there for things to go down as well as up on a macro scale.

3. We're in an "up" bit of the graph. Both in terms of the last few hundred years, and (zooming out) the last few thousand. That doesn't mean the whole graph always goes up and to the right.

So yes, I agree with TFA that "this can't go on" if "this" is portrayed as a smooth progression from barbarism to TikTok. But I disagree that "this" has been smooth. There have been plenty of downs as well. And so "this" can go on if we agree that the value of "this" can go down as well as up, on a macro scale as well as micro.

[0] The Western Roman Empire at least. The Eastern half carried on for quite a while longer. And arguably the Western half turned itself into a church instead of collapsing. But the point remains.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
Looking at you Make (ex Integromat).
Their SEO got destroyed after the rebranding
All that air conditioning because of all that sunshine -- if only there was a way for homeowners to generate that power themselves.

But that would take them out of the market for all that sweet surge pricing so that isn't going to be embraced.
Yeah, archive.is blocks cloudflare DNS since they remove some privacy revealing data.
Original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/texas-pow...

Original original source: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

We've had several days this summer where wholesale prices briefly exceeded $1,000; fortunately it's just for a few hours or less each time. These prices aren't directly passed through to consumers although retail utilities do need to ultimately pay their bills.
How to measure ranking similarity for RAG systems
I also have a similar perception. It’s probably because all of the whiny people who used to fill up my feed have left, for Mastodon or otherwise.

However, I don’t find Twitter any more compelling than before, still way too much noise for what little signal you get.

The best Twitter was around 2009, when the timeline was linear, retweets were effortful, and you didn’t have to use the God-forsaken official client.
Did autocorrect drop a de- from that "regulation" for you? Texas has been a poster child for deregulated energy markets.
[It needs to be said that domestic consumers by and large are insulated from this price variance]

Surge pricing has always left me feeling a bit cold. Laura Ingalls Wilder writes about her father surge pricing the food and fodder he held in the great storm. If you read around the topic, shopkeepers who did this were lynched.

In effect, its rationing. But unlike state rationing which makes everyone equally unhappy by doling out less than anyone wants (except of course the poor who often find under rationing their quality of life goes up: this happened in the UK in WW2) Surge pricing says "sucks to be poor"

I get it. I get that mechanistically its pure market. I get that some people like this. I just think its stupid and a-social.

I think we should work harder on how to manage the public utility function of power when there isn't enough to go around. '

Thats why sensible economies do in fact have "death panels" in health, because deciding to let the rich live and the poor die is worse. Of course once you call them that, its "game over" -And I have no doubt a power rationing function in the state would become weaponised to make the poor pay, more than the rich because rich people vote more. Surge pricing has the same outcome, but more simply. "it wasn't me, it was the _market_" is a great get-out clause.

You could (for instance) pay people not to use power. Thats a model being trialled in the UK and it was enormously popular. You get everyone with a TOU (time of use) smart meter and you tell them for every KWh they can demonstrate they stop using you will rebate them for that months bill. People RUSH to turn off devices, and sit in the dark with phones on battery to make some vig.
So in terms of accessibility, Weinberg < Griffiths < Sakurai?
They were high in the spot market for a brief period a few days ago. They're at ~$40/MWh right now. And in the end people pay on fixed rate contracts not the spot market.
Regulated utilities cannot magic more generation into existence. Shortfalls are paid for with or without regulated utilities.
For those who follow the Geowizard Youtube channel he has some videos playing this when it first came out:

https://youtu.be/iYjpElPF8K0?si=BkeNVmgdK4XcQObD

and then a week later:

https://youtu.be/lbP4sRWbozQ?si=U43aOYdFSRYBbrQK

Interestingly it appears the slider worked better when it first came out but was quickly changed.
again, if you can get a good grasp of the differential equations of GR and QFT, then you can make the leap to other topics. it's not like starting from zero. there is a large base of knowledge
Regulation would have prevented this.
Radical moderates would get vilified by both sides as insidious milquetoast charlatans!

What a sad but funny thought.
Dealing with stuff is dumb. Thank you, non_fpi secondary system, the round file of my brain.
I’m pretty sure Musk was a much more stable person back then. The thing that completely made him hate the left and lose his mind was one of his kids becoming trans. It really is annoying there isn’t any true centrism and if you have to align with the left you have to buy into this trans ideology or your only other option is the logic defying insanity that is the right.
> Implementation Defined behavior means the standards authors provided a list of possible behaviors

The standard definitely does not require implementations to pick from a list of possible behaviors. All the standard requires is that the implementation document the behavior.

For example, the behavior on integer demotion is implementation-defined and there's no list of possible behaviors:

> When an integer is demoted to a signed integer with smaller size, or an unsigned integer is converted to its corresponding signed integer, if the value cannot be represented the result is implementation-defined.

> Unspecified behavior is more what you're thinking of, though in that case the standard still provides a list of possibilities that compiler authors have to pick from

That contradicts the standard's definition of unspecified behavior. For example, from the C89 draft (emphasis added) [0]:

> Unspecified behavior --- behavior, for a correct program construct and correct data, for which the Standard imposes no requirements.

[0]: https://port70.net/%7Ensz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#1.6sd
Sure, but they're generally covered and not exposed to the consumer, at least not in the form of major spikes.
The unique feature of the Texas deregulated grid is that lots of end user products expose consumers to dynamic pricing. There will be lots of households that are exposed to these extreme price swings.
The price is listed as mega watt per hour but the average house uses just 3% of a megawatt per day. It looks like on the graphs it spiked for just a couple hours and was normal price the rest of the day. Presumably this was at a time people liked to run their AC full blast, but nonetheless feels like worst case scenario it meant your electricity bill went up $15 that day if you didnt save energy?

Which would be very annoying - though realistically dont know if it deserves the doomsday comments. I'm curious if they texted people ahead of time to remind them about this so they could shut off stuff and save money. If they did send out these reminders (in attempt to lower collective demand and allow people to save money) then it seems reasonable.
100x speed on what though? bootup time?
This is not just engineering case, but this is really large project where involved lot of management, and management in Russia is just hell.

So I think, even with best engineers, this is impossible task for Russia, because lack of good enough management.
If your game bundle was the same as mine, it was Redline Racer!
Okay, but what exactly is 100 times faster when measured? Simply the sorting algorithm? If it not be a bottleneck to something then it doesn't matter much.

I assume the entire performance of FreeBSD hasn't improved a hundredfold by this small change.
> boot to full interactive UI in 300ms for automotive usecases.

Amazing. In the meantime latest Skoda infotainments are starting up when they detect a key approaching the car to be at least somewhat ready by the time you start the car and drive. My friend states that for switching off a "simulate engine noise inside cabin" he need to let infotaintment "warm up" for another minute or two, before it becomes responsive enough to actually be able to turn that off.
According to the article a warrant is not enough in Kansas. They had a further obligation in local law that raised the burden on the police force. That they didn’t seem to meet that burden is the crux of the article.
> feel bad for folks having to deal with that.

Nobody is directly. People are almost always on fixed rate contracts. Those have been mostly trending down over the last year and are cheaper today than a few years ago in real dollars.
I kinda feel like solar+battery should be legally mandated in some climates
The other element of surge pricing is that it encourages reallocation of resources to the places where they provide the most value. I'm not sure how you could achieve that benefit with rationing.
Duplicating meaning that the smart pointer deleter is going to need a copy of the allocator (or a pointer to it if you prefer, but allocators are already typically pointers). If your container is storing N separately allocated elements, holding them by unique_ptr instead of raw pointer will waste N pointers worth of space with commensurate extra cache use. Fine for homework but not production data structures.

If you control the order of destruction, then you're just manually asking for things to be destroyed, and not actually making use of the smart pointers main functionality. Why use them at that point? That's why I also used the phrase "meaningfully" use them earlier.

Look inside the STL, boost, abseil, etc. You'll very rarely see smart pointers used to implement containers/data structures.
I was going to ask that. But still l, on average, 1 in 4 of every adult you meet would have a tattoo.
Consumers weren't exposed here. Nobody got their bills massively spiked from this.
Wasn’t the big deal from the last ERCOT incident that lots of people in TX actually pay the spot price not fixed-rate contracts?
A reference to Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
If you are willing to use it consistently, cromolyn is an old drug that may be effective pre-exposure. As I understand it, it’s essentially useless post-exposure. I’ve been told that it’s safe to stack it with antihistamines.

The ophthalmic form requires a prescription, for some reason.
Well Fargo's previous business wasn't really express deliveries. It was secure deliveries:

"The company had built a reputation for taking safety seriously, and its stagecoaches carried gold, silver, and other valuables from one location to the next. To safeguard such shipments, Wells Fargo shipped gold and other treasure in sturdy wooden boxes carried in the front boot of a stagecoach or secured inside the stagecoach in an iron safe."

https://www.wellsfargohistory.com/outwitting-outlaws/

So, basically banking. Securing, and moving money as a service.
It's a misquote of the common idiom "let them eat cake"

> "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
Fun game! 38k on the first try, but I probably could have gone a bit higher had I placed the pins more accurately.
> the Planck length is presumed to be the smallest measurable distance before stuff turns into a black hole

This is not correct. The Planck length happens to be very very roughly the scale at which we expect effective theories that ignore quantum-gravitational effects (i.e. the Standard Model) to break down. It has no special physical significance.
Do you know any use cases, other than iteration? Would love to know any interesting ones. Thanks!
This is the wholesale price of electricity. The distributors plan for price surges like this, and the retail price stays the same.

Although, the Texas electricity market is deeply weird, and people can actually pick an electricity provider, and some let people pay a price based on the wholesale rate, but not many people do that.
There has been absolutely no legitimate, scientifically proven study that can completely eliminate confounding factors and prove that gluten alone is the source of all these people's problems.

You'd think this community alone would be able to accept that until such a study is done you simply cannot draw such a dramatic conclusion.

Wrecking your microbiome with antibiotic overuse, and alcohol, is where my money is at. Every single person I know who swears gluten destroys their gut, also has a past of abusing antibiotics and or alcohol and utterly destroying their natural microbiome.
It's near impossible to sign up for a dynamic pricing like Griddy anymore. Practically nobody is on it. Even back in the Griddy heyday it was like ~5%~ 0.3% of consumers on those kinds of plans.
> treating eczema in infancy is believed to stop the later development of other allergies and asthma as well.

Out of curiosity, do you have a reference for this?
We knew smoking was bad for a long time. It took time to push through tobacco industry's lobbying and massive amounts of advertising convincing people against what they could evidently see in front of them. I don't think tattoo industry has remotely near that level of push.
Oh, the carriers hate it. Apple is the only company that can bend the carriers to their will. China is their one market they can’t lord over the carriers. How will they lose customers with older phones? The carriers can still offer SIM cards alongside eSIM.

I think you’ll find that iPhones are used all around the world. They are ubiquitous in the US so people tend to scoff at them being held up as a status symbol but they absolutely are in the world at large. If you look at who is using iPhones in the countries you say the iPhone is irrelevant in you’ll see it is the wealthy and the ones that want to emulate them. Those are the customers the carriers want to have. hell those are the customers every company wants. My guess is that Apple is giving carriers a few years to get on it before being left behind by iPhone users.

I wonder if Apple has any other long term plans with esim? Will they have their own MVNO offering? It would fit in with their services expansion goals.
Reminds me of this Rob Delaney tweet from 2011(!):

>A neck tattoo used to say "Watch out, motherfucker." Now it says "I'd love to read you a poem about my vegan bicycle!"

https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/64775497468485632?lang...

Though now I think even that hipster association is gone, tattoos are just another aspect of fashion these days.
(41,991 points!) And why does the year default to 1962?
It's just that the value allocation is weighted by wealth; there's apparently no value whatsoever in providing essential life-sustaining services to people who can't afford to pay for it.
Hey, dont do that. Thats damaging your eye. It may not affect your vision, but your eyes are super soft and squishy, you can do damage if you rub or press on them to the point of color visualizations. Yes, even the amazing deep knuckle rubbing eye scrub, is bad for you. Still happens, but yeah, dont do that.

You should go see a doctor if you have that much pain or strain. Your vision likely isnt as good as you think.
> One Tokyo newspaper for grade schoolers declared last month, “Emergency! Fewer children,” warning that the national birth rate had halved in four decades. On a recent field trip to her workplace, elementary school students peppered Iwasawa with questions about the difficulties of raising a family.

It's weird reading this, like the political consensus is approaching panic. Makes you wonder if the US will ever get to this point, doesn't seem like it
Is that a value? If you kept that line of thought then only cities would have cell towers or postal delivery, etc.
I have the same experience running good old fashioned Debian.

It just worked out of the box on both my desktop machine and Framework laptop. Detected all the necessary drivers meanwhile wifi, touchpad, and all the usual suspects just worked.

I've been doing most of my work on Debian for a pretty long time, even using Debian in WSL2 when I have to use windows, and I can't recall having met with a single problem that using Ubuntu would have solved.
Years ago some people did. A very small chunk of the market did. Those kinds of plans aren't commonly offered anymore, I think some regulations changed in offering them to residential customers.

Even then it was a tiny fraction of people on those plans. Practically everyone is on some kind of fixed rate or time of use that switches between a few different contracted rates.
A New Interactive Method in Teaching Functions (Math) [video]
> People RUSH to turn off devices, and sit in the dark with phones on battery to make some vig.

You mean poor people sit in the dark. The rich aren’t going to sit in the dark for a rebate.
I’ve found Adetailer and Regional Prompter to be way better than the Comfy equivalents, sadly.
https://archive.is/D9piB
Well in Leningrad during the siege (as it was at the time) they did that by sending more food rations to fighters. It sucked. So there's direct and literal command-economy ways to prioritise.

There is a case to be made money is simpler. I'm not going to say I prefer sky faries to decide who gets AC and who doesn't. So, I suppose I'm just saying "value" here is a bit decoupled from "has money"
The retail electric providers eat that cost from their profits if they didn't buy enough in the day ahead markets.

End customers won't notice. If it happens enough maybe plans will be more expensive when they renew.
I’ll check with my Flipper!
They do this temporarily when someone dies.
https://archive.is/6UIJ2
>I tell you I have two children, and (at least) one of them is a boy born on April 1. What probability should you assign to the event that I have two boys? If you think that is going to be too cumbersome, simply tell me whether the probability is close to 1/2 or to 1/3, or to some other simple fraction, and provide an estimate as to how close.

I am going to not heed the author's suggestion of setting up the problem correctly and use intuition:

For the week problem it was 14+13 = (7 * 4 -1) in the bottom and 13 (7*2-1) on the top.

So for a normal year (365 days), it would be (365*2 - 1)/(365*4 - 1). Close to 1/2.
Can we have one of these with probability and stats?
Christ, enough with the goddamn Regulation-as-a-Service solution. What we need is companies to not intentionally be a public nuisance, just to make a quick buck.
On the sorting of SYSINIT (not sysint as the title says) calls during bootup. The actual speedup is only a couple milliseconds but that means the old method was in the order of hundreds of milliseconds. Which is indeed a lot for a sorting operation.
6k% is title gore! 61x is nicer.
It's always fear, isn't it?

We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen.

But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that.

Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort zone and avoiding to avoid situations.

It's important to remember, anxiety is a useful defense mechanism, but not 99% of the time.
One of the most beautiful things in Ruby that I have ever seen is this fibonacci code.

fib = Hash.new do |k, v|
next 1 if v == 0 || v == 1
k[v-1] + k[v-2]
end