jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> 90% is pretty close to the 50 days of empty battery.

That's not quite how I understood "50 days of empty battery", but fair enough. This is not something that can't be solved, though. Even the 90% estimate is the worst case estimate, since there's actually a high likelihood of 3 TWh of storage being sufficient for 100% of renewables in any given German year.

> My approach was very very simple: if production is higher than consumption, store energy. Energy storage is limited, so when the stroage is full, energy is lost. If consumption is higher then production, take the difference from the battery.

That's Sinn's approach ("waste no energy and store everything, no matter the cost"), which yields significantly higher total costs (and storage capacities) than Zerrahn's approach which actually takes costs into consideration and leads to much smaller storage capacities on the basis of throwing energy away or using it opportunistically being actually cheaper than storing it for later grid use.

> Also keep in mind that this ignores transport an heat.

Transport and heat actually simplify things significantly for the grid since charging of EVs in Europe can be shifted around by as much as several days while heat will have been largely solved by the EU's 2010 and 2012 energy efficiency directives.
Dunno about the paper, but the design is trying way too hard.

All those faux-meaningful graphics, the 3D rendered vitruvian man, that the company is called ‘Crown Sterling’ and the logo is a metallic griffin, means that it’s likely that they’re at least 80% woo. Similar to a company that peddles pain relief patches which use the power of quantum harmonic energy to transmit healing bio-activated energy or whatever. Funnily enough, the people behind the former also sell the latter.
Yeah, I remember Nima, and I also remember a similar feeling upon discovering Beatmania. Now that I'm digging into the cobwebs of my memories, I am beginning to recall a game called O2Jam which was essentially a South Korean Beatmania flavored MMO. Very challenging, and it definitely usurped some of the space I was otherwise giving to Stepmania Online. Did you ever get into O2Jam? I think it might even still be around.
Doubly tough that the eucalyptus tree is an excellent fuel source for wildfires (hence there's been an extensive removal program by northern California municipalities over the last decade)
It is much longer than two paragraphs.
I’ve consistently gained karma faster than that. By my estimate, there’s still a handful of people who are currently accumulating karma even faster than I am (one of whom has been mentioned here), though I expect to only really be sure in a year or so.
Nah they specifically rank MSM higher
That misses the point. I wish the internet was never used for financial gain. Just the sharing of information.
Could a theoretical new US-based competitor lobby to have TikTok removed from the app store as it is a tool of the CCP?

TikTok seems easy to defeat if you were to use the law to ban it.
Sorry I apologize. Truce. :)
Ok, so TikTok has up front chosen clearly to be a publisher of content. I have no problem with this.

It’s when a site/company only pretends to be a platform that I take issue with.
Every iDevice other than the iPad Air 2 has only 1GB of ram, and that's an issue for them (source: search every mention of the iPad Air and RAM, especially since the Air 2 came out).
Playframework: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.1/guide1

A step-by-step example helps alot.
Why, again, was this needed? HTML5 is already looking like a security and management shitstorm; anything that makes it simpler is fine by me.
Holy hell, the app is two weeks old, there are tens of thousands of tweets about it every day, and it has $20 million dollars in the bank. Is this really what we're calling "dying" now? Because if so, pretty much every other consumer product since the beginning of time is fucked.

I haven't turned off Meerkap notifications on my phone, mostly out of sheer curiosity, and I am seeing literally hundreds of meerkat streams per day of my followers. Apparently you don't have to be at the top of the chart to get hundreds of thousands of downloads (not to mention the app being featured by the app store).

This is such shitty journalism I can't even stand it. Let's have a substantive discussion about a product, but calling it "dead" is bullshit clickbait and even the author must know it.
I was always confused by lack of definition of randomness in statistic/probabilistic meaning, so I've somewhat mixed these 2 branches of math.

Thanks for clearing this up.
How is the lack of resource curse working out in Yemen and Egypt? (nations fortunate enough to be without oil) They are doing even worse. Arab nations with oil do better than arab nations without oil. I'm only arguing against the notion that large mineral resources will always be a catastrophe. Yemen and egypt has about a tenth of Saudi Arabias gdp pr. capita. Saudi arabia, the emirates and kuwait all have welfare states for their citizens who are better off (materially) than egyptians or yemenites. Those (really) poor and oppressed people are guest workers. They were desperately poor before they went to Saudia Arabia, the Saudis merely gave them a marginally better option.
Prior to reading this post, I did not know about your book, but found it interesting and bought it because of this post.
I'll have to see if I can find this page in google's cache - I'd be curious to see how many of those 'ridiculous measurements' were really ridiculous, or whether they served a similar purpose to the BED; to allow the average person to understand unfamiliar things in everyday terms.
Yeah, that is a difficult cat to let out of the bag. I'm high enough in the company that voicing that I think my personal success is going to be found elsewhere is going to be a hard break no matter what. That said, a few weeks later I could probably get some endorsements and maybe recommendations but for now my skills are a competitive advantage (if only because I'm the only one who's actually done this particular work up until now) and they wouldn't be inclined to help anyone else secure them (I think).
ability to do what I want, when I want. This is what I'm hoping money will buy me. Will it? I need to know.

Depends; you can do this on a lot less than you imagine - if you want to live in a 10 bedroom mansion, drive sports cars and so forth then you're going to need the big money.

Realize now you are statistically unlikely to get it; and, given that, think about what you specifically want rather than broad concepts.

Another consideration - are you thinking of wealth in the right terms? pg points out in his essays that wealth is not only about money; it's just that this is an easy way to gauge relative wealth. The point he makes is that you can make wealth by creating something that converts to cash (even if you never convert it to cash). But there is another point; which is that you can be wealthy without being financially super-rich.

I got lucky (am about the same age as you); as I dreamed about being super rich I ended up messing around with something in my spare time which worked out as being worth something. It was nothing stellar but in the right place at the right time it made me some money - and I found it, actually, wasn't buying me the "wealth" I expected.

Since then I've figured out exactly what I want to attain in life and my drive towards that is much more focused (I will post the list if you like, but it's not really important :) after all, what you want is a personal matter)
Sure, growing the pie, and then eating it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo#Colonial_economic...

I don't quite understand how pg's essay applies to the Belgian Congo, is there some specific paragraph you are referring to?
This is what I saw when I opened that link on my macbook without ad blocker: http://i.imgur.com/hSiC3.jpg
This is a positive, as long as video recordings that show the police in a negative light, don't mysteriously get lost/corrupted.

The net benefit is still probably positive though, since the police will self-police themselves as the article already mentions.
Do not talk to the police.

Do not talk to the police.

Do not talk to the police.

http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc

Police includes any federal agents, border patrol, CBP, et c.

Do not talk to the police. You cannot talk your way out of being arrested or explain your way on to a flight. They record everything and even an accidental misstatement is a felony.

You gave them address history, work configurations, business associate information... why? Did you somehow think you could talk them out of being afraid? This sort of breach of privacy (volunteering private corporate information to cops) is a firing offense in my book.

Do not talk to the police.
You're not wrong, but if we care about privacy isn't that an association that we need to break? Wanting to live in a society where people can have secrets ought to be reason enough to use technology that keeps yours.

And then there's my mom, she's on a grandfathered mobile plan that charges her $1 every day that she sends any text messages. I got her on signal so she didn't have to pay the $1 when she texts me. She got her whole church music group to switch for the same reason.
By silicon valley standards I think modest outcomes can make you rich. Consider bootstrapping and selling for $5m...

I do agree with the article in the sense that you need to have a relatively concrete vision and execute on that, then iterate repeatedly to a more grandiose vision. There are so many kids out here with $ signs in their eyes imagining Facebook or Google success without realizing all the stepping stones along the path.

There are of course more capital-intensive businesses where it's either worth a $100m or nothing at all, but even those have to start with a focused vision. Operationally a $100m biotech startup probably looks a lot like a $5m SaaS startup.
You mean like the kind that already exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
Hmm, arguing GNU/Linux is better than Windows on security is passé. Torvalds too often dismisses security bugs.
Who voted for Female? :) hehe.
Looks beautiful doesn't it? I'm certainly never going to block Safari reader on my own blog. ;)
Note: this is not visible at all to logged-in users who have iGoogle set as their default Google homepage.
Just a little bit further back than anything that could be called a "standard English", then. The languages in England at the time were not mutually intelligible, nor were they codified in any way -- "axe" (or "aks") and "ask" were regionalisms, and one would hardly say today that "axe" would be acceptable except when recording dialog. And just try going to the store and asking for a dozen eyren and see how far that gets you
thanks, it will be interesting to see what the prices are and if its worth it (probably). The lack of control can be a bit scary.
I was kinda hoping they would have done this version of the speech -> https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/this-speech-was-written-for-...
Not unless they are operating an emergency vehicle. That requires lights or siren to be active to qualify. Emergency flashers on a civilian vehicle do the same thing for everybody else.
Well, it's a magistrate. They tend to not know/follow the laws/rules in my experience. They aren't even required to have a law degree or even pass the Bar. I think in my state they only require 40 hours of training.

Based on their other comment it sounds like they said they didn't remember when asked by the magistrate if they committed the act, which isn't the same as invoking the fifth. Thwy also said they were able to prove the officer couldn't have witnessed the act they were testifying about. Then the magistrate found them guilty (based on false testimony?).
We ran some analyses and determined the rise is not due to an increase in spambots. I don't know the specifics of how that was determined, sorry.
If we by dumb mean having a low IQ (and/or other correlated qualities) I think very few hacker news readers are under average.
What a fantastic image. Just imagine being able to map the entire sky dome with this level of detail...
You should write a script to create a million users and for them to automatically upvote this post.
I just use Google Docs, store the links I find per week using date and now I have it everywhere I go. Easily searchable as well.
It's rather interesting that Alfred Lin, the other board member who opposed the VC board, ended up going to work for Sequoia Capital..
> > "Is this important that I'm willing to die to leak it?"

Can't just quote out of context... there's a lot of other stuff around that quote...

> Couldn't politically sabotaging this war (by leaking embarrassing videos and criminal backdoor political deals) be interpreted as making his country and colleagues safer by sending them home sooner?

First, that's some pretty tortured logic. Second, he wasn't just leaking "embarassing videos and criminal backdoor political deals" - that's where the whole quoting out of context problem comes in. It'd be a lot more understandable if he was just releasing that sort of info - he said he "exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history" - he stole all sorts of info. That's the crazy-go-dangerous-reckless-endagerment-treason part right there. That's not the right thing to do.

> It's unclear if people would really die from his actions. If you leak supply-run schedules for two months in the future, this hardly puts any lives in danger - the schedules just have to be changed

In theory. In practice, there's millions of moving pieces in the war, and some things like best practices for specific events can't be changed. If he dumped everything classified he had access to, that'd be a HUGE benefit for people who want to kill the people he's serving with.

> And I think this is why we try not to discuss politics here...

Riddle me this, mate - does it feel weird making a comment supporting what this guy did in an earlier comment, and then responding to someone you disagree with saying that's why we try not to discuss politics? I mean, you're obviously a smart guy, but you're quoting me out of context, ignoring facts of what he did, commenting favorably and calling the guy brave, and then in response to a comment you disagree with you say this is why we don't discuss politics? C'mon man. I mean, if anyone cares, I wasn't at any point in favor of the Iraq invasion or ongoing war either, but a military analyst can't randomly steal classified data without flinching - maybe taking just the helicopter video could be sympathetic, but stealing random data like supply chains and timetables is totally unforgivably putting people's lives at risk for no good reason.
"If something moves, you need a focus puller and a special rig with special Hollywood focusing hardware to shoot with a DSLR.

DSLR video is for serious professional production, which is why you'll see it promoted as being used on big productions."

So amateur/indie film makers cannot use manual focus. Riiiight.
you can sell wu wear
One small point, "Google Experience" refers to the OS installed, not who the device is made by. The Desire and Droid are both Google Experience devices-Those are the only devices that get access to all the Google API's and apps.

Also, updates being slow are more often than not the fault of the carrier, not the manufacturer.
Additional trick: 2 gravol and a glass of red wine (you don't want to become an addict, but this is a huge help when you don't arrive tired)
Source: I used to be a consultant and flew 2-3/week for two years.
Can you direct me to the manager of Antifa so I can tweet @jack and tell him to ban them?
I'm not convinced that "proof" is the right term but I'd like to hear the response to the claims that time-series data from election night reveals negative vote updates.
Because you don't always know which words the man page uses to describe specific functionality. So many ways to express similar ideas, language is fun that way.
Exactly, I said business, not company. Gaming is a business, Apple is a company. Understand the difference?
Look at computer science. We design the computer, we make all the rules. Yet there is plenty of room for science.
They have too much Control
It seems to be a joke of sorts: It's the original "They Write the Right Stuff"[1] with a find-and-replace job where "software" has been replaced with "AI" - almost everywhere.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050830190246/www.fastcompany.c...
My native language is Japanese (which is very different from English), and its availability of interesting online/ebok contents is rather limited. It's especially true for technical materials.
Bluetooth (BT) is simply a wireless standard for exchanging data between devices over short distances. It is very widespread, reliable enough and easy to develop and integrate. It's an understandable and common choice in the medical devices field.

In a more developed, market society, you typically have several commoditized, replaceable products and most tend to leverage BT. The idea of replaceableness belongs to the product itself, but what we see in common for all of them is BT connectivity, so we tend to perceive BT as an identifier of replaceableness as well.

Neuralink very casually and tongue-in-cheek BT "paired" to the monkey, reinforcing the idea of replaceability and commoditization of the monkey.

Many people have empathy for animals and monkeys are seen as precursors to humans. It's very easy to see how treating a pre-human species like a replaceable product, leaves humans themselves creeped out and feeling like in the future they may also be treated like a replaceable product.

Neuralink needs an ethicist in a high exec position or board and a better PR manager. They should have done some of these to reduce that perception mess:
- allude to the use of BT in serious medical applications before "pairing" with the monkey
- reduce or change the common BT terms like pairing
- use a computer rather than a smartphone
- don't mention BT, just say wirelessly connected
- don't use a Bond-villain smooth British voice

By talking about it as a PR problem, I don't mean to say that is the root cause, it is just what we can see at the surface.

Do they really care about ethics? Is it execs, engineers, video directors, everyone, no one? Do they care, but are just bad at PR? Do they not care, and this video is a reflection of that? This is what matters, for all those people to genuinely care about ethics.

Can they still genuinely care though, after becoming a corporation? Can bringing shareholder value align with ethics?

One botched video is simply one data point in the public trying to understand Neuralink's genuine stance on ethics.

Only people with close contact to Neuralink will really know. We are all hyper connected, but sadly, only superficially.
> For first 2 months read books on how to discover and develop innovative ideas, customer discovery, identifying customer needs, user flow and stories, everything a good product manager does before a product specification is written.

Any suggestions for books?
I think you missed the point regarding Tor. I mean that for Tor to be compromised, a state actor would need to compromise on the order of dozens to hundreds of nodes simultaneously. The fact that Tor works shows that they are unable to do this, and so they would also be unable to simultaneously compromise dozens of checksum authorities. Nothing to do with using Tor for uploading checksums, I was just using it as an example.
That's definitely a good point, but even a madman with a printer counts as 'supply outweighing demand'. The principles don't really change. That's why printing all this money is going to catch up with us sooner or later.
You should look at the Kensis Advantage, though it may border on too "radically different" for you. It takes a bit of getting used to, but everyone I know who has one swears by it (myself included).
> Norwegian Wood, The Contortionists Handbook

I hope he reads both these books consecutively. These two books are worlds apart but both equally excellent. It would be an interesting contrast.
They're proper almost any time that week is the fundamental unit of aggregation. I've commonly used these for naming folders (or more recently AWS S3 buckets) for storing log files or periodic data dumps. For example a structure like

/year/week/date.log

If you don't want uneven sized weeks you want to use the ISO year and week. Here's an example with date, we're already in the first week of 2015:

% date '+ %G/%V/%F.log'
2015/01/2014-12-29.log

and 3 days from now still will be:

% date -v+3d '+ %G/%V/%F.log'
2015/01/2015-01-01.log

Contrast that with the "non-ISO" year and week:

% date '+ %Y/%W/%F.log'
2014/52/2014-12-29.log

in three days that rolls over to a new week

% date -v+3d '+ %Y/%W/%F.log'
2015/00/2015-01-01.log

And we'd have 2 folders or buckets containing a less-than-usual number of log files.
I've heard meal worms thrown around as having potential as a protein base, however I think the thought of plant based burgers much easier to stomach (pun!)
If you're bringing up MySQL as a counterexample, I think we've lost sight of the original conversation.

The original Paul Graham essay[1] had a lot of focus on "startups". The companies in the early days scratching and clawing trying to make things work. I thought that was the context.

MySQL was started by 3 guys in Sweden working in the same office. Even if they wanted to have everyone working remotely in 1995, there was no technology (high speed internet) at the time to do it. Sure, as a company becomes bigger, and also as technologies improve, there are possibilities for organizing remote work.

Anyways, back to the context and constraints of startups: If you're a startup, it would be great to recruit the "exceptional" talent in South Africa, Ukraine, China, New Zealand, etc (because 95% of the best programmers are not in the USA).

The MA.TT says remote work is the answer. I don't see how because I've not seen any evidence of any billion-dollar American startup that was built by a 100% virtual team from multiple timezones of Europe/Africa/Asia.

If you're creating a 24/7 tech support department that "follows the sun", having staff in far off timezones is awesome and necessary. If you're trying to build a product with hard challenges for the team to solve, MA.TT's "answer" of international remote workers is not an answer.

[1]http://paulgraham.com/95.html
Why the seeming random downvotes in this thread regarding WGU?
I'll briefly exercise my pedant muscles to provide some technical terms for general interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Prog...

The first bullet is an example of past perfect progressive, which combines the past tense with the perfect and progressive aspects -- in other words, it describes that specific part of an ongoing action (progressive aspect) which has already been (past tense) completed (perfect aspect).

The second bullet exemplifies the past perfect, describing an action which has already been completed, without the additional progressive aspect to signify that the action is ongoing.

Both are correct, and would likely be understood to mean the same in colloquial usage; the only difference is that the former is somewhat more specific than the latter, in stating that the action is ongoing rather than leaving that to be inferred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_verbs#Third_person_sing...

This is a slightly unusual case in English, in that otherwise regular verbs almost always take a trailing (e)s in their third-person singular present-tense form. For example, conjugating to tell in the present tense:

1st person: I tell; we tell
2nd person: you tell; you tell
3rd person: he tells; they tell

Presumably this exception exists for historical reasons; why we keep it around, save habit, I have no idea. In any case, we do it with more or less all English verbs, save a few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs#Verbs_w...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_modal_verbs