skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, gridstatus is super cool!

I noticed that you have a page on records that have been set. It looks like Ercot released this data today that might be of interest: https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2023-09-14-ercot-provides...

I’m curious why there appears to be a pretty significant delta between their data and yours.

Also, if you’re open to suggestions, I had trouble finding the pricing for gridstatus. Entirely possible I was missing something obvious, but I wanted to see how much it might cost to get the long term Ercot generation-by-source dataset and couldn’t seem to get a clear answer.

Regardless, building things like this takes a ton of effort, and I appreciate all you’re doing. Keep up the great work!
Are they worse than royalties on albums though? Those were atrociously bad as well.

I think streaming pays out lots if you get to hundreds of thousands or millions of streams (the equivalent of selling 100k albums).

The speeches I’ve read from writers on strike kind of blow my mind because they make $5-10k/week. I don’t think that’s comparable to artists as the average writer makes way more than the average singer.
It always seemed like it would be a sea change if the government actually decoupled "this is an okay idea" from "we won't forcefully stop you from doing this". It thus made it feel impossible that they'd legalize drugs, but it's great to see it start to happen. But there may be other long standing examples I'm not thinking of. Smoking and alcohol seem to be on the edge.
Only ever due to human ineptitude or intentional malfeasance, has a robot killed a human. Never of their own free will.

Life itself is the leading cause of death.
What an absurd name for basically a big resistor generating heat you are paid to disconnect from the grid when it’s about to go up in flames. They need batteries not sudoku solver bots. Talk about doublespeak in this case, wow.
I think a lot of it is the major influx of people that joined the industry in the mid-2010s that never had to write code before. They started on fancy UIs so that's what they know.
It would be more like being charged with murder after murdering 4 billion people and then whispering "don't say 'murder' guys".
The comment above refers to Hume's 'induction problem' [1].

> we've never successfully answered Hume's general skepticism about the existence of causality as something that is real outside of our own minds

The quote seems to imply a strong consensus, but [1] disagrees.

The phrasing "the existence of causality as something that is real outside of our own minds" sounds like philosophical idealism [2]. One can take that view without discussing causation at all, seems to me. Forgive the following blunt questions: how is philosophical idealism either (a) useful or (b) testable? To me, currently, it seems to be neither.

Maybe I'm missing something? For those that get value from it, what are some practical take-aways you get out of thinking about Hume's 'problem of induction'?

I'm very much into philosophy, but I admit I don't see a lot of utility in digging into this outside of historical purposes. It feels to me that the tools from inferential statistics combined with some deeper study on causation are far more useful and enlightening than trying to figure out the historical context around Hume's writing here. I'm glad other people do it, for sure, but what I've skimmed doesn't "grab" me.

WRT causation, I often return to the idea of "no model is perfect, but some are useful". There are many times when we build useful models that -- when combined with proper experimentation -- very strongly indicate causation. The laws of physics, for example. As soon as people get involved, it gets messy.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

[2]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/idealism/
Heroin yes, but I'd be surprised if we ever re-ban cannabis — heroin was a new drug, whereas cannabis was used for millennia [1] by human societies, with criminalization only happening in the 20th century for... pretty suspect motives.

1: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cannabis-found-alt...
What? Aren't stolen high art pieces used as their own currency in the dark web for "priceless" services. I was told that criminals use stolen art for payment and it just goes around one criminal to another. Is this just an urban legend, is it inaccurate?
It is a type in the mathematical sense too, so it makes sense to treat it like it
It’s certainly there but my experience is that it isn’t that different to what goes on at the school (non Waldorf) where my wife teaches.

That said, I’m in New Zealand, which was quite highly vaccinated and also mandated vaccinations for teachers.

I rate the system for getting kids to want to learn - not just at school, after finishing schooling too.
Are there any apks available outside of the Play store?
Does Godot make enough money to be picky about sponsors?
That doesn't make much of a difference.

Profit is only one part of the overhead. They also have to pay agents, adjusters, underwriters, managers, office stationary, postage, fraud investigators, lawyers, taxes, interest on bonds etc.

Similar for hospitals etc. Profit, ie cost of equity capital, is usually (but not always) a relatively small part of an organisation's overall cost structure. And the non-profit alternatives typically don't have meaningfully lower costs.
Cool. If Julia runs much faster for you than for me I'd be interested in hearing it. I was honestly surprised the performance was so bad so perhaps I did something wrong.
This is the outline of a small reading group that has already ended, based on the descriptions provided on their website. I don't think there is a Discord group associated with it, I would like to join if there is one though.
an eye for an eye is fair enough.

but in his case though i think most people felt justice was hugely disproportionate- and only because they wanted to make an example out of a vulnerable person, just to protect their profit.
I'm saying the everything+ model of music streaming can't really happen, because your chosen market participant can just pay blanket license rates to stream you everything; or worst case, a new player can emerge to do that.

That won't happen in movies and tv, because there's no blanket license available, and rightsholders sometimes refuse to license their content.
Maybe those gambling sponsors didn't fund other open source projects?
BMW tried that. You weren't allowed to park the car in a garage, because it had to vent the hydrogen as it thawed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouW9_jyZck
> "management" skill

You mean sales and marketing? Because there isn't anything about management on the article.
> Three weeks ago, I was pro-weed recreation legalization. Today, I'm strongly anti recreation use.

The other posters here have a point. If one is vocal against cannabis while mostly giving alcohol a pass - it makes it harder to respect warnings of harm.

After 5 generations of lying drug war PR and ridiculous propaganda, this deeply incredulous debate needs a lot to be worth considering.
Great. Now let's talk about the addition operation not being available for some units / dimensions like Temperature, Density, Speed etc.
Why was alcohol legalized then in the US?
This is like the people who say that auto company lobbying is the cause of poor public transportation in America. Sure, that is a cause, but there are many other causes as well, and the other causes likely dominate the named cause. Framing it as the cause seems implausible and even cartoonish to me.
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Corporations can't be nice. They exist to multiply capital of the investors. Among those investors there is a big one - 401ks, index funds and other assets of small people managed by big firms. As an individual investor, do you want your 401k to grow? If you do, you're among the many who force Google to promote efficient nihilists who bring money. If you don't, why haven't you invested your savings in a nonprofit fund helping the homeless?
It's difficult to 'educate' people when we don't know a lot about it. For example, for many people weed is good for a few years, but eventually descend into paranoia, unable to smoke even a little bit. What is causing that? A change in the brain? Is that harmful? Are there other side effects?
Hey, author of EndBASIC here. Surprised to see this bubble up to the front page again :D Previous discussion from June 2022 in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37495166

I did significant work on the project back then until Jan 2023... but I haven’t had a chance to work on it at all since then -- another side project (https://endtracker.azurewebsites.net/) is keeping me busy in my scarce free time. I still have many plans to work on this though, and they are itching because working on EndBASIC is super fun.

My next addition will probably be to pick up the Raspberry Pi I have around here and a tiny LCD I bought specifically for EndBASIC, and then make the console show up on it. Up next might be audio, or a “boot to EndBASIC” disk image for the Pi. We’ll see. Open to ideas.

More details in the about page (https://www.endbasic.dev/about.html) or in the EndBASIC section of my blog (https://jmmv.dev/tags/endbasic/).

Otherwise... AMA!
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GP is not implying anything, they're saying there is a safe level of consumption.
Seems like there are apks on the Github repo: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases
This reminds me of the old Simpsons ep where Homer realises their pet elephant costs a lot and decides to retrospectively update pricing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQNPS9v_VU
Many criminal trials have no direct evidence and are totally reliant on circumstantial evidence, so the statement above would be very detrimental to the defense.
You are right for catastrophic insurance, ie insurance that covers outlays that would financially ruin you, or at least be majorly inconvenient.

Many people buy (or are forced to buy) insurance that covers minor outlays, too.

Using that kind of insurance has pretty big (relative) overheads not just in terms of money but also in terms of annoying paperwork and bureaucracy.

Some of the worst offenders are probably health insurance plans that include a fixed hundred bucks allowance towards new glasses every year. They might just as well charge you hundred bucks less in premiums and strike that allowance. (Unless in cases where that scheme is a tax dodge.)
The biggest online dating site in the 90s had a minimum age of 13 o_O. I thought that was weird, even back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaker.com
The Wikipedia article is a good place to start:

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

So e.g. assuming a fully causal association with bipolar disorder (unlikely due to the strong genetic influence on bipolar disorder) you need 25 people to stop smoking weed to prevent one case of bipolar disorder. You can also calculate it in terms of how many people do you need to imprison to prevent one case of bipolar disorder.

This is particularly revealing when you look at studies giving an odds ratio of 2-3 for cannabis use associated with schizophrenia. The base rate for schizophrenia is <0.02% [1], so the NNT is >2500. You probably need to imprison hundreds of people to prevent one case of schizophrenia, again assuming the association is causal.

The claim that these studies should impact marijuana legality is just plain bad math.

1: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
I’m asking if their definition of safe means zero risk. Because that’s the same rationale that the WHO uses to claim alcohol has no safe level of consumption (I.e., there is no level of alcohol consumption that is zero risk).

So either they think there is a level of cannabis use that is zero risk, or they have a different definition of safe consumption that they could elaborate on.
I love the idea of a co-op game engine supported by hobbyists and studios relying on it. The blender of game engines (though blender tried this too it wasn't in their wheelhouse really).

Have Unity to thank partially for my career in Systems Engineering/SRE/Full-stack dev. Took comp-sci(C++) and Cisco CCNA in high school but didn't pick up programming again until about 4-5 years after; it was C# for Unity. That is what got me back into programming.

Kind of a shame where they are now but nothing lasts and they aren't the company they were; same as Hashicorp, same as always. Forwards is the only way.
7/10, so a pass. But as others have pointed out, everything in the photographs (from lighting to the angle of the subject) tells nothing about the subject. Unless you've seen pictures before, you wouldn't know, and even then you wouldn't know. People don't matter. Your perception of them DOES matter and that can change from things such as a single photograph.
There are many things that provably have much higher risk of harm than cannabis but have no serious attempts underway to make them illegal. Unhealthy food. Motorcycles. All kinds of dangerous hobbies. And alcohol of course. The list is long.

I don’t think it has much to do with wanting to help or protect anyone, or else you would see more consistency in the things people want to make illegal. It’s more akin to religious people who think they know the “right” way to live and want to impose those values on everyone.

Many people just have an emotional dislike of cannabis for whatever reason—seeing its effect on others makes them uncomfortable, so they want to stop everyone from doing it. Soda and motorcycles don’t make them uncomfortable, so they don’t care about those.
So what?

You imply something, but what do you mean? You're asking this in an innocent fashion, but presumably there is judgement against linking to what is a legal activity. Just say it.
> "Not sounding like you do illegal things" is how you avoid violating the law.

only if the regulators investigating you are complete morons, which may be the case once in a while, but I doubt it is for any large case like this one.

regulators see straight through doublespeak and careful wording. buzzwords and corporate lingo are completely transparent to anyone who spends a single moment thinking about the message that the words are conveying, and regulators have far more experience cutting through that stuff than just about anyone else.
This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React version.
brilliant! very excited to use this.

what will pricing look like (tried CMF-F)?
While their wording takes some work, it’s simply not "just HTML". Even less so than react is "just JS". It’s a DSL applied on top of HTML.
It’s not an absolute floor no, but it’s a strong factor in price determination. It feeds back the other way too, if a competitor is acquired for far less than public price it smacks the public price of competitors.
No use to me, have booted linux on it
When it comes to pricing products at absolutely outrageous multiples of material cost, the "audio community" seems to be in its own league. I don't think the desktop toy market is quite there.
Conflating marijuana, heroin, and shoplifting is kind of embarrassing. Why do you think those are comparable?
including Bard and Gemini?
What can an individual do about this?
It's apocryphal, found in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes etc. Levenson's book (which BTW has a lot more of interest beyond whatever I put in the blog post) cites two sources for this point:

• Richard Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (1980), p. 483

• A. Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought (1992), p. 231

I looked up both those books and both of them call it an anecdote.

Westfall:

> There is no way to pretend that Newton played a leading role in its deliberations. According to a story that rests solely on anecdotal authority , he spoke only once; feeling a draft, he asked an usher to close a window . It is not merely anecdotal that none of the surviving accounts of the Parliament contain any record of his participation in its debates. Only to a limited extent do we know where he stood on the great issues the Convention Parliament decided.

Hall:

> An anecdote records Newton's only utterance in the House of Commons: feeling a draught, he requested that a window be closed. However, anecdote may be erroneous. Since Newton asked leave to bring in a Bill to confirm the charters and privileges of the University of Cambridge, he must have made some remarks, however terse.
Wow, this should be higher. It’s perfect. I don’t think someone could even find an XKCD more relevant.
You are mistaking what the CEO and the VCs want with what a long term stable company would want.

The incentives don’t work that way. The CEO gets his bonus and ability to sell shares if he pleases VCs and VCs are looking for bagholders for the company. So the CEO creates a revenue narrative to sell to institutional investors so they take an increasingly mediocre asset from the VCs at a premium.

The pattern is all around, exactly the same as Reddit for example.

As a game designer - there is zero built in incentives for the C level of a publicly listed company to do what’s good for the company long term. It’s much better to get rich quick and cash out.

It’s just that the desperation is now now sky high and narratives for the next earnings call need to be generated quickly
I’ve been toking for half my life. The equivalent of having a shot of wine or something mild and barely noticeable like that. I believe at this point i’m incurring close to zero risk. I have my reasons and benefits from microdosing and will continue to do so. I’m also in agreement that cannabis has become very potent, dangerous and abused.
For cars, it’s actually even more cartoonish than that. Read The Power Broker; auto-centric urban planning is basically entirely the result of Robert Moses’ insane power and influence (in the same way that the reason everyone has smartphones is basically solely because of Steve Jobs).
I've been thinking about the privacy model of E2E encrypted channels with AI processing before sending back for a while now.

Awesome to see people doing it and wish you the best of luck.
I mean you can apply this kind of comment to literally any technology. Cars, carpentry, electricity… computing is part of the fabric of society and making it totally inaccessible won’t help anyone. Imagine this:

> Who should never have been using electricity in the first place. There's really no point. Using power tools and washing machines doesn't teach anything of value. A lot of the other appliances are pricey and sometimes even detrimental to the school result.
They might have well devised the first of its kind "ransom by installations" in the history of software, by making it possible for attackers to fake mass installations and get gamedevs into fatal debts. And they are taking the executioner role.
I wake up at least 4 times a night and get horrible sleep unless I eat an edible before bed. Just 5mg THC helps me sleep through the night. I just started regularly consuming marijuana this past year and it's been great as a sleep aid. I've tried a couple of prescription drugs and they make me feel awful.
If you're using a service.

But there are actual setups where storage can be encrypted with a Yubikey, and the Yubikey is protected by a PIN that's in your head, and other possible factors, so now we're in $5 wrench territory.
Wait. How is Microsoft banning phrases to change corporate culture but google banning phrases isn’t to change corporate culture? Or is google just consider evil in intent by default while Microsoft isn’t?
Surprised to see this article makes a case only about the Republican Party's loss of interest in the Constitution. I personally know more Americans on the opposite end of the political spectrum and have heard the Constitution called illegitimate due to absence of input from BIPOC at its creation, or that the First Amendment is harmful because it does not curtail hate speech. The Second Amendment in the age of more powerful weapons than existed in 1787, is a popular subject of debate at this and similar sites.

Thus, there seem to be a broad array of Americans who no longer feel invested in the guiding document of their polity, which might augur tumultuous times as factions strive towards some new foundation for a country.
Prescription drugs carry a risk. Even water use has a risk. Everything has a risk. Should someone be stoned when performing serious tasks like driving, taking care of other humans, or working? No. Can cannabis be consumed safely when not taking care of these responsibilities? Probably.
Here's the blog post where they announced they were creating a github repo: https://blog.unity.com/community/updated-terms-of-service-an...

It's the easiest thing in the world to write another blog post announcing they're deleting the github repo.
Unity IPO'ed in 2020, which isn't super recent, but is probably the reason behind these changes. IPO'ed means they gotta report some quarterly improvements, every quarter forever under the totally unsustainable growth model.
this discourse is like people reading an invisible script every time i've seen it online for the last 20 years -- "weed causes <some negative effect>", followed by a chorus of, "oh yeah well what about alcohol!?!"
I don't disagree with you, except browsing creepjs from Tor Browser it says there have been hundreds of visits with my fingerprint since June (when the 12.5 series was released).
The upside is a lack of adverse inference.
Yes, and it takes no effort to make a rocket. Just put fuel in and ignite it. 100-year-old tech.

Making affordable EVs with a good range and fast charging is hard. Toyota' EVs are relatively expensive, and their batteries and drivetrain are mediocre.
Svelte is mentioned on the site but not in here. Is it harder to put Nue, or another framework, forward as an alternative to Svelte/SvelteKit? I think SvelteKit is batteries-included while still being fairly small and easy to understand.
If I'm not mistaken, both are written in FASM (Flat Assembler). And unfortunately FASM won't run in recent MacOSes because it's a 32-bit app. No problem with Windows/Linux, though.
> I personnally totally saw it as a different project as gnome 2 didn't become obsolete immediately

Yeah it did. They announced gnome 3 and deprecated 2 on the same day, and seemed to have made the deliberate choice to not allow them to coexist. As soon as your distro moved, bam, you were done.

> Mate&Cinnamon forks took over so quickly

After some months. This stuff was not there on day 1.

In the mean time, those of us who did not want to work the way Gnome 3 decided we should, had to find an alternative. And when we found a good one (Xfce for me), we stuck with it.
You are not really engaging with these training materials in context. The entire point of the training is to not draw conclusions in areas in which you are not an expert, in discoverable media. For example, you are a software developer. Writing to your colleague that this change-list reduces an algorithm from quadratic to linear time complexity is within your wheelhouse. Posting on a mailing list that you think some other team's product will crush the competition is not really within your domain, because you are not an economist. Drawing conclusions of law is the worst of all things to do because even though you're just some idiot, those conclusions become discoverable and opposing council will put them on the record out of context even though you are just a Junior Associate Moron, not a person in a position to draw that conclusion.
I can’t be the only one who finds a lot of these new federated social networks to be a bit fishy… the whole idea is really great but bluesky & now metas “threads” are really only pseudo-federated. They both claim the future option to choose your instance but by default you start out on their centralized instance. This feels like a predatory tactic to be able to control the average user who doesn’t care about the value of decentralized networks.