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frustratedlazyon The moral panic over data centres is foolish

FYI - EIA has analysis on the energy increase - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65284

Relative to data center growth, the correlation doesn't match - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/monthly-spending-data-cen...

More analysis here - https://www.wri.org/insights/whats-driving-us-electricity-pr...

But TL;DR - sounds like in the northeast / PJM it's load increases, in North Dakota increased load is causing drops in prices, California it's mostly from wildfire mitigation + insurance, natural gas oscillating across the US is causing price changes as well.

frustratedlazyon FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens

More context - https://viewfromthewing.com/diversity-in-the-skies-faas-cont...

frustratedlazyon San Francisco residents complain of late-night honking from Waymo cars

Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41241120

I believe this is fixed already - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41246860

frustratedlazyon Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing

That's not crazy in Denver :). I saw a place which was 850$ a month (literally this month), and it was in a decent location, and relatively large. I totally believe you could find something small and cheap for 500.

frustratedlazyon Is finding gaps just hard now? As a 24 yo, everything seems to be done already

There are pretty massive gaps.

Hiring people is really really hard (when was the last time you hired an expert to do something)? Coordinating people is really really hard. (These are problems facing every company, government, and group of people in the world). There is now way we're at a optimum.

Most systems were created, and then became stuck robots should - buy my groceries, move my money, book my events, schedule my events, suggest events, tell me what to buy, book my flights .... All of this is possible, it's just not automated :(. And frequently the barrier is data access.

More of my day is consumed by things that could be automated, but are not.