skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another example of how the "free market" electrical grid in Texas really works --- i.e. not very well and not without increasing government regulation and taxpayer money.

Texas; a state overflowing with energy, is slowly being coerced to accept reality that most others did long ago (Enron anyone???) --- that some things are simply too important to leave to the whims of the "free market" --- and reliability of the electrical grid just might be one of them.

With Trump promoting crypto, the situation looks to only get worse.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-bitcoin-min...
The analogy I was going for was that the team is the public, the finance department is the corporations and state-owned fossil fuel companies, and the board are the governments involved in the COP.

Admittedly it wasn’t a great analogy or particularly clear.
> We were managing 47 Kubernetes clusters across three cloud providers.

Not a Kubernetes guy, so perhaps ignorant question. Why would you run 47 clusters?

I thought the point of a Kubernetes clusters is you just throw your workload at it and be happy?

I get you want a few for testing and development etc, and perhaps failover to other provider or similar. But 47?
Pirate radio is a lot less fun to run if you need it to be two-way.

Because you need your customers on the ground to run their own pirate transmitter (which can be located and penalized by ground authorities), and your satellites need to receive signals from the ground - which ground authorities from first-world countries can make arbitrarily difficult, deciphering a multitude of <1W transmission from customer cellphones is kinda difficult when a modern electronic warfare radar transmitter is tracking your satellite at the same time.
https://archive.is/GoiDF
This is how you end up with another Enron
I can finally change my name to something that represents my personality: ^G^C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Text_character
Swiftair Boeing 737-400 crashes short of runway Vilnius Airport
I had to shorten the title due to limit. It was a cargo plane operating for DHL.
Indeed. I went to what was considered an elite university program in my country. Most of the people even there were borderline normal, although probably in the top 1% of the population in mathematical abilities, but some few people seemed to just do whatever the hell they pleased, and always succeed. I'm not sure what was it that drove those people. Were they just so genetically gifted, or was it just crazy high confidence in themselves combined with the same top 1% mathematical abilities that the rest of us had? Or did they have some behavioral models from home that allowed them to flow the way they did? Or did they just give it way more effort than I did, year after year?
I've noticed this effect pretty often, as one high-profile article leads people to go looking at the author's other work and then submit it.
It can be counterintuitive because the user terminal is shaped like the kind of satellite dish we’re mentally prepared to understand, the kind we’ve had for the last 50 years, but it’s fundamentally different. The “clear view of the sky to the east” is the source of your problems. Starlink satellites move quickly across a the sky, and the dish needs a comparatively massive 100+ degree view angle to ensure continuous contact. If you look around online you can see comical configurations with Starlink mounted on enormous poles to get them above the tree line. This issue is the #1 cause of problems we see with new installs.
I do a lot of volunteering work with the Woodland Trust in the UK, negotiating with people who want to donate their land to restoration purposes. Britain is a land of fields and hedgerows (distributed). Many people fail to understand that most "wilderness" that we want to bring back is reliant on density (or concentration). I know many land owners who want to rewild parts of theirs, but are expecting temperate rainforest on a plot of land a couple acres across. It doesn't work like that.

The only way to bring back these lost or dying ecosystems is across large stretches of land, hundreds if not thousands of acres across. We have tiny pockets left in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland, but for the most part the country is ecologically baren in comparison to that a couple of thousand years ago.

Vast and continuous National Parks are one of the few viable ways to maintain or bring back our species rich ecosystems. Distributed "wilderness" between city blocks or cattle grazing land is duct tape on a leaky bucket.
> It's used as a buffer between the dev team and the ops team, who usually have different schedules/budgets

That depends on your definition. If the ops team is solely responsibly for running the Kubernetes cluster, then yes. In reality that's rarely how things turns out. Developers want Kubernetes, because.... I don't know. Ops doesn't even want Kubernetes in many cases. Kubernetes is amazing, for those few organisations that really need it.

My rule of thumb is: If your worker nodes aren't entire physical hosts, then you might not need Kubernetes. I've seen some absolutely crazy setups where developers had designed this entire solution around Kubernetes, only to run one or two containers. The reasoning is pretty much always the same, they know absolutely nothing about operations, and fail to understand that load balancers exists outside of Kubernetes, or that their solution could be an nginx configuration, 100 lines of Python and some systemd configuration.

I accept that I lost the fight that Kubernetes is overly complex and a nightmare to debug. In my current position I can even see some advantages to Kubernetes, so I was at least a little of in my criticism. Still I don't think Kubernetes should be your default deployment platform, unless you have very specific needs.
Look with a historical lens - democracy in USA. From the point of view of say Chartists in 1776 it is a good start, 80 years till slave males can vote, 80 years till women can vote and another forty till civil rights. In 1776 can we call that a “concrete plan”?

Or is the fantasy “votes for all” actually a plan?

Yeah we can have plans - get Zuckerberg to give up power and place it in the hands of employees? Maybe convert Meta to a co-operative?

But on the literacy point - at some point we ran everything with illiterate “managers” - but slowly developed organisations that use literacy. My, yes ok fantasy, is not only democracy but that everyone inna company is software literate and has access to (maybe not write access) the code base of the company.

So there is a concrete plan - a whole org test rig, a company that every IRL action has a virtual shadow, a codebase that directs this IRL actions day-to-day and everyone having access to the codebase and able to suggest / comment or even vote on pull requests.

Run the company through code - change the company through democratic politics
If you don't have a lot of services to access, you can hard code the tailscale IP address in /etc/hosts.

My personal /etc/hosts is at 10 services all hard coded since the internal IP address of a machine on tailscale is static. Way cheaper and easier to deal with than setting up a separate DNS resolver.

Of course that won't work if you have hundreds or thousands of services to work with.
We’re off to a not-great start this year: https://gas.kyos.com/gas/eu
Says who? A photon is a photon.

Also, having to be in a dim room focusing on a brighter light is itself uncomfortable.
This should be applauded more loudly
May be not, it could be just new normal. Reading old books I noticed how nicely people are talking to each other. But it may only sound nice by modern standards while being actually the same by old.
They never did. The account is identified by the key, so it's impossible.
Factory square footage is the new crowd sizes. Tell your friends.
How Fast Does Java Compile?
Strange article. Saying "99.99% uptime maintained" and that they had 4 major outages in a week is kind of strange, since 99.99% uptime only allow for 4 minutes of downtime a month...
Yes, I truly learned a lot from them. Immediately after school, despite getting a degree in Math / Computer Science, I decided to just go for it like they did, and joined one of the Big 3 strategy consulting firms where I worked for a few months, where I learned even more about these types of people. We need to actually contend with their very real ability before we dismiss them with memes.
The cells are large, dozens of dishes in one location are not a problem if there's few other dishes for miles in any direction.
I’ve tried this with a cheap projector from Amazon, it almost worked but unfortunately the edges of the screen were too blurry, only central area of the screen was perfect, the projector’s fan was noisy as it generates a lot of heat, and the placement was a bit hard and messy, I didn’t want to drill it and hang it as it was just a test.

Then I’ve tried oculus quest 2 and honestly it might be paranoia but I’ve noticed my near sight dropping too obviously after just couple of sessions.
Apple's 2026 A20 Pro Chipset May Shift from TSMC to Intel's 2nm Technology
I've written patches for F#. I do know what the hell I'm talking about.

However, the compiler does not, has never, required that it does things via a different syntax. In fact, in the early branches before that was adopted, it didn't! The same behaviour was seen in those branches. This behaviour you expect, was never something that had to be. It was something chosen to simplify the needs of the optimiser, and in fact cut the size of code required in half. It was to reduce the amount of code needed to be maintained by the core team. And so 1087 [1] was accepted.

So perhaps you might need to read more into the process of the why and how async was introduced into C# and F#. It was a maintenance team problem. It was a pragmatic approach for them - not something that was the only way that this became a possibility.

As said, in the original branch for using tasks...

> Having two different but similar ways of creating asynchronous computations would add some cognitive overhead (even now there are times when I am indecisive between using async or mailbox for certain parallelism/concurrency scenarios). [0]

[0] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/581

[1] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0...
The FCC will be lenient, they have no reason not to be unless Musk is leaning on them.
https://archive.is/JeTY9
> and aren't nearly as rude as modern Americans

You haven't been in Russia or post-USSR.
"Things never change."

-- Random wisecracker on the interweb
I tried estimating how much power was curtailed from their big scary number(tm).

3 million megawatt hours per year.

Assuming 2200 hours of sun per years that's 1.4GW average. Total solar is 15-18GW maybe. So what 10% gets curtailed.

Maybe throw some more containerized batteries at it.

LA Times always feels like The Wall Street Journal of the west. Your go to source for reactionary negativism.
We should slaughter everything that produces metheane to save the planet.
Let me get this right. Farmers, who are already struggling to meet ends, will have to pay CO2 tax in order to produce FOOD that we all need to SURVIVE and not starve to death? What diabolical plan is that?

I am the a huge fan of forests and spend a lot of time in the woods, but man, more trees will not feed us.
there is no meritocracy. there is a moneytocracy. if you have a lot to start with you get extra points towards anything. if you make a lot you get extra points towards anything. this is what billionaires all seem to have figured out. they can do anything they want because they have enough money. there isnt any other metric that is more worth optimizing than money. thats why people go to finance and consulting. it optimizes for making money.
The quick maths indicates that to achieve this, they’d have to launch 22.5 satellites per week every week for the next 18 months until that deadline. SpaceX seems to be launching at nearly twice that rate, having launched [1565 satellites](https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/30/live-coverage-spacex-t....) in the first 10 months of this year.
You can analyze the name and direct a case to a CSR who can handle it. May be unrealistic for a 1-2 person company, but every 20+ person company I’ve worked at has intentionally hired CSRs with different language abilities.
Scripts can do almost everything, for example replace the whole page with login page identical to the real and send entered password somewhere. Leaking session identifier is bad, but it's not as severe compared to other things scripts can do.
If China where to compete they also need LEO satellites that is just over China for a couple of minutes, that have to take a long round trip around the word to give a couple of minutes access again.
That’s why you need a huge constellation.

It’s either selling to the whole world or nothing. If you don’t want to go for slow GEO stationary.
>I imagine most people in the US (and else where) live in structures younger.

my experience living in the U.S is most people live in structures considerably younger, and most places you need to travel to find a house that old (as opposed to a town hall)

places lived in U.S - Midwest and West, traveled through South and East.

My experience living in Europe is most people have lived in a place that is over 100, yes I think the terms young and old are fairly relative, and in much of the U.S a house that is 100+ is old, the house has history and might be preserved as such, whereas in lots of the world that is pretty new stuff and maybe we should tear it down and build something even newer.
Aren't these the same problems for Starlink?
It's very strange to read an article complaining about the homogenization of the cultural elite that name drops the university of every author of a book/article that supports his opinion. David Brooks himself is part of the very same cultural elite that he's complaining about.

If someone really wanted to bring about a culture with leaders drawn from different economic strata the first step should be addressing people's material needs. Parents can't help their kids if they're spending all their time working multiple jobs only to live paycheck to paycheck. It's also hard to take risks or cultivate different skills when you're saddled with college debt you can't get rid if, and when healthcare and rent are taking up a large chunk of your income. People voted for Trump because neither side is willing to do anything to actually help people. That's why people don't trust institutions or "the establishment." For all his faults, and least Trump is willing to lie to his base and promise some sort of change.
DbGate: The Smartest SQL+noSQL Database Client
What do you mean compete?

In the US SpaceX just announced a contract with Tmobile, AST has contracts with Verizon and AT&T

For service it works, and for business viability AST just has to launch more satellites, which they will

for a business case thats their only overhead cost and they dont need cellular partnerships in a bunch of countries to be viable

They have to raise capital for more satellites but it all looks possible
This is a useless article without explaining what their use case is exactly. Running 47 kubernetes clusters sounds weird as hell.
> At-will employment laws protect employees that want to quit

Does your unemployment insurance work after you quit? Or does it only work when you're fired?
In my limited experience this is often from overloaded virtualization platform where this VM is located on. Can be vmware or proxmox, on proxmox its sometimes when VM is being live migrated to other virtualization host. Can also happen when backend storage where this VM is located is busy with other hosts.

EDIT: none of the VMs where I have ever seen this had btrfs, it was always ext4 mentioned in follow up error message, so pretty much filesystem agnostic issue. If this is on hardware however, then I don't know whats going on there.
Indeed…I wonder what the path not taken, a more optimal k8 rearchitecting would look like
why not? I thought you could get them with prescription lenses?
This is a nice trick. But if you:

* use a dedicated work machine and

* also want to version control your dotfiles (including ~/.config/git/) and

* don't want to leak your work repository organisation via your dotfiles,

you can instead add something like

[include]
path = work.gitconfig

which will override any settings above it and also fail gracefully/silently if work.gitconfig does not exist.
You need to activate the plan in the US and return to the US every 90 days (or lose your mobile data). So it’s not really an option for people outside the US.
Farmland is not some natural balanced healthy state for the land to exist in.
The irony is you calling it irony. CJK "the same or trivially derived" characters are nowhere close to that yet given same code points. CJK unified ideographs is just broken.
Show HN: Indentation-based syntax for Clojure
Ah, right. E.g. using separate GH accounts for personal and work. Forgot about that!
The illusion of simplicity: how OOP can overcomplicate simple problems
Can we normalize sending the archive link by default? (in the submission)
A lot of discussion focuses on the supply side (not unexpected given the article).

The demand side is where we can take individual / small group action. On the one hand, you have CA (and most of the US) phasing out incandescent light bulbs (great - lowers baseline demand) - but you also have an order of magnitude increase in compute (model training anyone?) as well as a push towards electrification of cars, household appliances, heating etc. All fine - but that energy has to be moved (unless you're generating locally with Solar Panels).

Grid scale batteries and similar ancillary services do a pretty good job of levelling this out - making the market more "liquid" (to borrow a stock market term) - but they take 3-7y to bring up depending on the usual infra variables.

<shill>
We think batteries to absorb household demand are part of the solution. [www.energyapplied.com]

If you can control when these batteries act in unison (and, as with anything, the devil is in the details) - and deploy them densely enough to absorb forecasted demand spikes (another comment ITT mentioned LMP markets - astute) - then you complement grid scale storage with something you can roll out in weeks to cover a high stress area, not years
</shill>

Another comment mentioned "differently regulated" - and that's right - in order to participate in any of the supply and demand programs on the grid, you need to do a lot of things a certain way. The more you can encapsulate that for the user (don't have a household participate in Demand Response, do it through Nest or something similar and have 1mm households participate) - gets a lot more achievable.

In a funny way, power markets are probably the US's last real free-trade market. My first few years deep in the back office of an investment bank, there were 31 NYSE floor traders, when I left 13 years later in 2020, there were 2, and most volume is program trading / etfs / electronic trading. Ditto fixed income (bonds and bond like instruments), foreign exchange (though these latter two are slower).

Financial Markets inherently move towards being vanilla and scalable because it's cheaper - and this has been one area where the race to the bottom hasn't entirely harmed the consumer (there once was a time when you had to pay a broker a commission on each stock trade. Etrade / Robinhood anyone?).

Power still has a long way to go before it's there - but it will _probably_ be a good thing when it does, and given that it touches hard infrastructure and nobody's forgetting Enron any time soon - it _probably_ will end up better off for the consumer.
The Rust people pursue "solidarity" as a virtue. They don't understand that factions is a way of life, so any sufficiently impactful technology will be "fractured" to some extent. This is a good thing. Unitarity, solidarity, homogenous philosophies—are not, but they would have to learn it the hard way like everybody else.
Yup. That’s why I put it inside the quotes.
I like aider with the claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, haven’t tried it with O1, though.

Also, https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html offers some nice possibilities.
It would be weird, if these two points were talking about the same time frame.
Even if you like Elon and his companies monopolies are still bad. He is not going to live forever, somebody else will be in charge sooner or later and that person/group may not adhere to same principles.
If I can make 1 unit of food for €50 and use 50 tons of carbon, or make it for €60 and use 10 tons of carbon, a carbon tax and food subsidy would allow me to sell that €60 low carbon food for €50 and force me to sell the high carbon food for €60

This gives an economic incentive to use the lower carbon method, funded by those who use more carbon, while not changing the end price or output.
You can replace all twitter.com (or x.com) links with xcancel.com:

https://xcancel.com/taylorogan/status/1859146242519167249
If I read the article correctly, that number relates to statistics collected only after they ditched k8s.
It's not an ignorant question! Running 47 different clusters is insane.
An overall truthful statement to be fair to the authorities. Perhaps less fair to those at the other end though.
That's nonsense. It's not about the cookies, it's about the data collection. You can use cookies without having to use a cookie banner by simply not gathering data you don't need. And if you do gather that data without using cookies you still need to ask for consent.
"convincing a substantial portion of global launch demand to use Chinese rockets seems the trickiest bit, give the CCP's relationship with the rule of law."

Expound more on this please assuming I'm a potential Brazilian South African ,Saudi or Thai client .
Relax, we’ve got AI to save us, right? Something cutting-edge like quantum cyber dark matter hyper AI—or whatever the buzzword salad of the week is. Meanwhile, the entire government is limping along on Windows XP and Windows 2000 servers, probably still trying to figure out how to close Clippy. But don’t worry, we’ve got some of the best non-technical project managers on the case, and we’re putting them through a cyber security AI AWS bootcamp as we speak. What could possibly go wrong?
user.useconfigonly=true can also help
A big percentage of the land usage are to grow crops to feed animals to feed us.

If we bring back our meat consumption (especially beef) to something more balanced for our health we can free-up a massive amount of surface.

I'm not saying that everyone should be vegetarian or vegan. I'm following the notes of the IPCC and studies that says that we can, and should, reduce some of our meat consumption and get those proteines from all the many other sources (peas, tofu...).

Beef is the coal of food. Lets progress to something more efficient, dense and good for our environment and our health.
They are already massively subsidized and this will only increase their subsidies. In Denmark farmers control government similarly to the way big oil abd gunmakers control government in the US.
DHL cargo plane crashes into house near Lithuania airport, killing one; 3 hurt
> Being tightly wound must be an East-coast thing.

To some degree, yes. Boston is just 4-5 hrs away from NYC, where just 6 years earlier two commercial passenger jets (from Boston) crashed into the WTC in the deadliest terrorist attack in US history. If you think police departments in Portland or LA felt the 9/11 attacks as acutely as such a nearby place as Boston, then you'd be mistaken.

(Please note that I'm not arguing that our freedom should go away because we need to be protected from terrorists. I'm just trying to show you the mindset of a law enforcement officer in Boston at the time, and that mindset was indeed to be suspicious of things that looked suspicious.)
In theory, yes. Phased arrays can steer as many independent beams as the connected electronics support. I real life, it's probably going to be dozens or maybe hundreds of beams.