skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little off with the 1.5e12 W. More like 1.333e12 W capacity or 1,333 GW capacity.

googling a bit shows that solar capacity factor is between 13 & 30% Say 18% for a variety of geographies.

1333 GW x 8760 hours * 18% = 2,100,000 GWh

2.1 e6 GWh = 2.1e9 MWh

5e9 MWh is what the US uses now.

Solar is still maybe 1.5 or 2x more expensive than wind. By combining wind and solar, with 2 trillion investment, you'd get most of the way towards a major greening of the grid. (of course batteries, etc will make it more expensive & EVs may double or more electric demand)

So instead of that war & it's bloodshed, we could have gone a very long way towards solving the energy problems & uncertainty facing the US for decades and maybe even establish a system that could last us into perpetuity.

Thanks for reading.
So they haven't heard of epiphenomena, epithelium, epigenetics, epigraphs, epiderm, epithets? Or monosyllabic words, monoski, monochromes, monogamy, monograms or monologues. It's not hard to guess the meaning of the roots.
I think this is inseparable from the current fake news controversy. The US Government to the rescue, in the same manner as the 1950's Red Scare, and the 1790's.

H.R. 5181, which passed Congress and awaits the President, gives the USGOV $20 million to allocate to companies, NGO's and other institutions to correct anything it deems misinformation on the internet.

H.R. 6393, not yet passed will Give the USGOV additional authorities to choose which news it deems to be misinformation and to take action.

I can't recommend enough Richard Rosenfeld's "American Aurora", or because its over 900 pages long this mixed review: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

Striking is the similarity in vitriol, personal smears and false allegations among papers in the 1790's and the internet today. We're doomed to repeat past mistakes and learn over again past lessons. This manufactured crisis will be no different.
Why would you care?
Perhaps someone should add "(2013)" to the title.
There is wipr[1] though.

[1]: http://www.giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
and is being overhauled in GCC 6 I just read: https://lwn.net/Articles/691932/
Since there was recently a post about fusion, and this seems to be of interest to many people on HN, here are really fantastic videos from University of Wisconsin's Intro to Plasma Physics class. These got my dumbass through the program http://mediasite.engr.wisc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/de...
Yep. That's exactly why the idea of unions being necessary goes all the way back to the beginning of capitalist economic thinking. The first person to make a version of that observation was Adam Smith himself.
> The reasonable and acceptable level of spam, web advertising, malware, and user tracking is zero.

Given that you put advertising in there with the other items, I assume this means that you pay for all websites that you block ads on? Because it seems to me that your model is "I get free stuff, fuck everyone else".
Awesome idea, please make it available in the EU.
By "arbitrary" I really mean "tags without classes". A plain <p> or <img> tag. But what I left unsaid is that I don't really mind such ads - they are like ads in a magazine. I use UBlock Origin to disable tracking not to disable ads.
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> Intel has been trying to build a "good enough" iGPU for years and years, with almost zero progress relative to their contemporary discrete GPUs.

Intel hasn't had real pressure to innovate for years. They watched the battle and fall of NVIDIA/AMD, and in the meanwhile enjoyed good sales of CPUs for all the cloud computing.

Now, they have intense pressure to innovate - as in the server space ARM is going to eat them up, due to the superior power efficiency, laptop/desktop sales are down (again, because a four-year old computer works just fine if you upgrade its RAM to accomodate Chrome).

Intel needs something mind-blowing and that quick. And NVIDIA too, casual gamers are shifting to console (where AMD has quite a customer base) and mobile (where Samsung/Apple with ARM are in the lead). I haven't seen any performant Intel or NVIDIA mobile SoC solution yet.
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Hi,

I'm working on a project that trains neural nets. I've been using EC2 instances to train with but I need something full time in house.

Desktop gaming rigs to start with, I'm thinking. Any recommendations?
What would be the the only right result in your opinion Carole Cadwalladr? Please post 10 links which Google should show to everyone to make your day.
Then you messed up somewhere, both use the same block lists. except uBlock enables much more block lists than ABP by default.
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> Why save a salary, when you can create a business, create value, and scale to the entire Internet and give people some benefit?

Risk tolerance.

If, for whatever reason, my business doesn't turn as much of a profit as I'd hope, and I've spent everything I could on it, I'm in an awful position: both as a person who needs to keep a roof over my head, and as someone hoping to do good things for humanity. If I'm on the verge of bringing humanity miles forward, and fail, I've done less good than if I reliably brought humanity a few inches forward.

On the other hand, if I do save my salary up, I can choose at some later point to spend all of my time and energy on something cool, and keep spending that time and energy until something happens, because now my risk tolerance is much higher. And then it's much more likely I will bring humanity forward by the miles I wanted to.
Yes I think it helps to dilute power at the top - This is especially true for countries like Australia where the queen (through her Governor General) literally has the power to remove the elected Prime Minister.
It keeps them on their toes.
Thanks for the suggestions.

We're already planning a separate router for the management network ("Apart from those routers we'll have a separate router for a 1Gbps management network.").

All Ceph journals will be on SSD too. I've added a question about combining this with bcache in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/a9cc9aad...
Paper by Leslie Lamport (2008).
I'm sorry to hear that but it makes sense. Unfortunately I don't think it is an option to run ZFS below Ceph.
The day Palantir was founded? Oracle founded? Cisco caving to NSA backdoors in the early 90s?

Seems like there may be many days where this occurred.
Can you elaborate on what deficiencies 10GBase-T has in server applications?
TL;DR:

1) You feel better

2) You were never actually accomplishing anything by watching the news

3) Most current-events-related conversations are just people talking out of their asses

4) There are much better ways to “be informed”

5) “Being concerned” makes us feel like we’re doing something when we’re not

My own personal experience: I quit watching the news the day after the 2016 Election ended. I felt so ill the next day I couldn't even get out of Bed. So I googled stuff on "how to stop watching news" and came across this post by Buffer Co-founder Joel Gasgoine => http://joel.is/the-power-of-ignoring-mainstream-news/

It completely opened my eyes. Ever since I quit the news (everything incl. google news, reddit, huffpo 538, etc etc, except HN of course :) I've been feeling the following +ve effects

1) I am generally more happy and mindful, less stressed

2) I've finally made the most progress on my side-project that was languishing for years.

3) I am more mindful and get more things that are in my control, done. Related graphic => "Circle of Control vs Circle of Concern" http://www.jdroth.com/images/circle-concern-control.jpg

4) I smile more. I think this is because I finally realized that I can neither control, nor contain all the bad things that happen around the world, that we read about in the news.

Don't let the new "wash over you". Take control of the things you need to get done, for you and your family and friends and career and retirement and life, and start hacking away at them using all the time you would previous waste on following and watching "the news"
Where do I remove my account?
As someone already mentioned "all the other services" are missing (dns, ntp, monitoring, etc.), but also:

- Shouldn't there be a puppet / chef / whatever deployment coordinator in there somewhere?

- There's no mention of a virtualisation environment. While it's not a hardware issue really, all the extra services mentioned before will not take the whole server and you'll want to collocate some of them. (maybe even some of the main services too, if the resource usage on real hardware turns out wildly different than the estimates) If the choice is KVM, great. But if it's VMWare, you want to include that in the cost. (and the network model)

- The "staging x 1" is interesting... so what happens when you need to test a new version of postgres before deployment? You can't pretend that a test on one server (or 4 virtual ones) will be comparable to actual deployment, especially if you need to verify the real data performance.

- "Backing up 480TB of data [...] with a price of $0.01 per GB per month means that for $4800 we don't have to worry about much." - This makes a really bad assumption of X B of data produces X B of backup. That's a mirror, not a backup - it won't protect you from human errors if you overwrite your only mirror. For a backup you need to have actual system of restoring the data and a plan for how many past versions you want to store. On the other hand, gitlab data seems to be mostly text files - that should compress amazingly well, so that should also help with the restore speed.

- Network doesn't seem to mention any out of band access (iLO, or similar). That's another port per node required.

- Because tech is tech, I expect both the staging and spare servers to be repurposed soon to be used for "that one role we forgot about". One each is really not enough. (seen it happen so many times...)
Not a new concept. I guess its akin to "eat your own dogfood". I'd also compare it to how everyone at McDs starts from bottom up.

In your example though what if an employee is so plain awkward on the phone that they're performing badly. Still on Holiday Help duty?
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Function definitions and stuff like that I agree you probably aren't going to get much from it but memorizing large parts of the standard library is somewhere you could since in a lot of cases you aren't going to be using a lot of parts regularly but when you need them you'll save a lot of time if you have them in your memory vs having to google/check docs.
Let's not pretend Google Chrome is somehow less of a walled garden. You can only install extensions from their store, and yes, they've removed extensions for business reasons before.
AFAIK Caltech lectures that served as the basis for "The Feynman Lectures" don't exist in video, audio only.

The Cornell ones recorded by BBC and mentioned here exist in video form.
Well, in Germany (I've had a business there before moving to the US, that's why I know some about it), you're free to milk "your" company, but if you end up going into bankruptcy you'll likely be hold at least partially liable to the money you took out of the company, even if it's some form of limited liability company. So essentially, yes, to the banks. Not if all works out, but in the cases it doesn't. To my knowledge that's largely not the case in the US atm.
As an alternative, perhaps Hostess could have paid their employees with $10/hour worth of equity and no cash. Would that have made you happier?

I suspect the workers would not have liked it. They preferred cash to illiquid equity in a questionable company, and received it.
The presentation you linked is something we've considered. But it is build on top of Google's distributed filesystem. So we consider our move to Ceph a first step in that journey.
Same experience here, going on seven or eight years. They offer a great solution between cloud native and 100% owned/leased/caged bare metal.
Webpack and the Public Path Config
Norman Finkelstein, author of "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering"[1] coined that phrase. He lost ancestors to the Nazis.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GZ4J76/
I asked the EFF about Privacy Badger, they said it was in the works.
This is confused.

EVERY contribution you make to a Roth IRA/401k can be pulled out, tax-free, at any time for any reason. It's the earnings you have to be careful about. But for example if you have contributed $20k to your Roth IRA or Roth 401k, and it is now worth $35k, then you can pull out $20k at any time for any reason, while for the other $15k you have to wait until 59 1/2, or use SEP withdraws, etc.

In addition, for a first-time home purchase you can pull out up to $10k without penalty (but with normal income tax applied) from a traditional IRA or 401k.
Hello everyone! I'm the founder of Pear.

We are in beta testing at the moment, so if you would like to test app please sign up and I'll invite you to Test-Flight (IOS only at the moment).

Also happy to collect feedback on the concept or other marketing ideas.
I don't think I've ever typed in a search query before using the word "holocaust", but my results are largely the the same as the author's - Stormfront is #1, "The Holocaust Hoax" is a little further down at #5.

I think the scary thing about this query, though, is that for better or worse people DO search Google for factual answers. Sure, someone searching "Did the holocaust happen?" is likely to already be doubting the Holocaust actually occurred, but given that I think it's a very bad thing that the top answer from Google confirms their false beliefs. It turns from "Some crazy bullshit white supremacist website told me the Holocaust didn't happen" to "Google told me the Holocaust didn't happen."
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>Great business model, especially given that the filter lists are made by volunteers.

And the leverage by its users who do not get paid them.
IIRC ABP gets paid around a third of the advertising revenue from whitelisting the advertiser if it reaches 10m impressions, so the more users seeing ads ABP has, the more money they make.
intriguing idea. Especially if we could also get Edge on Linux and OSX. Personally I quite like Edge when I have to use it.
At RS we would burn the servers in measure the load with a clamp meter. For large scale build-outs(swift, cloud servers) we would burn-in entire racks and measure the load reported by the DC power equipment.

I would recommend verifying everything is fault tolerant/HA as expected every step of the way. We ran into issues where the power strips on both sides were plugged into the same circuit(D'oh), wrong SST's, redundant routers getting cabled up to the same power strips, etc and you name it.

After a rack is setup have people at the DC(your own employees or the DC's techs) help simulate(create) failure in power, networking, and systems to verify everything is setup correct. It sounds like you have people coming onboard with experience provisioning/delivering physical systems though, so I would expect them to be on the ball with most of this stuff.
Banks in the US are free to demand personal liability that goes beyond the company if they feel the risk demands it. Of course, it's a free market, so if some banks are willing to make the loan without doing that they'll probably win the business instead.
You can get around it with a Babel transform:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements

Disclosure: self-promotion. It's really frustrating that I see this React-is-crap-because-no-conditionals come up again and again but if you want them all it takes is an npm install and a line of babel config :(.
The point is that climate engineering should be revealed by the scientists only after the mathematically challenged, climate change naysayers are literally defecating in their pants watching a tsunami wave washing towards New York city.

Otherwise, they'll just start doing that & continue burning the coal.
The difference is that the extension platform itself is open. I can compile Chromium and create/install/redistribute extensions all without ever asking for Google's permission, and still have an acceptable user experience on non-Windows platforms. Afaik, Edge doesn't allow easy extension installation prompts from third party websites.

Yes, redistributing extensions for Windows Chrome users (not Windows Chromium) does require the Chrome Web Store. This is unfortunate, but at least Google has a better track record when it comes to banning extensions that modify their things on their own web properties.
Note that those aren't "change commits", but merge commits aggregating large swathes of other changes. And it's not even all merge commits, it's just the merges from Linus' "top lieutenants".

But I sympathize. I often spend more time on commit messages than the actual changes...
I had never heard this term so I looked it up: the only usage of the term Google points to in the first couple pages are in specific reference to Norman Finkelstein's 2000 book of that name. The author himself lost family in the Holocaust.

I don't have an opinion on whether or not it's acceptable to say here, but thought it might be relevant context given that I didn't know what precisely the term implied.

EDIT: Whoops it looks like the parent commenter himself provided the context in between me starting and finishing this comment.
That is why I worded my comment carefully and called it selling at an inflated price instead of rent-seeking. As far as I can tell definitions vary and at least some only call it rent-seeking if the state is involved in one way or another.

If you take the definition Wikipedia currently gives, [...] seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth [...], then you are looking at a very broad definition that also includes selling at inflated prices, at least that would be my interpretation.
I think "over promise and under deliver" has been part of business for far before any of us were around :)

Or spoken in more buzzword silicon valley speak - you have to set customer expectations and then aim to exceed them.
Link to what specifically?
مولد الحق” وبمناسبة حلول المولد النبوي
And memtest86.
Amy Hoy wrote a great comment about burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063

I wrote a comment about her comment on another article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157608

I remember her writing something about burnout being to do with your brain being effectively trained to associate hard work with failure (but I can't find where she said that, so it might have been someone else). My strategy to self-heal was to put myself in situations or activities where I had many small-to-medium-sized wins.
You can install a Chrome extension manually. The store is convenient but not required.
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It's all interesting theory, but Sergey Brin is Jew. So it's all bullshit, sorry.
Other Ways to Carve Up the Math Curriculum
Whether explicit or implicit, that would still be targeting certain opinion groups... because yes, antisemitism and many types of racism and hate speech are still just opinions until acted upon.

If somebody is looking for hate speech, they should find hate speech. I understand that search engines should avoid promoting hate speech when it is not needed, but like the parent comment showed that is currently the case for Google.
Excellent. Depressed me.
5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news.

You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening.

I have done it(I don't know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality. I remember talking with a Syrian showing me a CNN video from US News of a Syrian manifestation(from natives that were being flood by foreigners with bad intentions), they reduced the audio volume and told everybody the manifestation was from the other side(the side that US was supporting).

The fact is that people that understood Arabic could listen what the protesters were saying and they(CNN) DID NOT CARE.

They did not care because it is a numbers thing, most Americans don't know Arabic, and millions of them will watch the channel and make themselves an idea from the eyes and ears that people in power have chosen for them.

The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.

If you control the perception, you control the emotions that people will feel, and you could make them do exactly what you want. They will even believe they are "free", because they are to behave as they wish, but they are not because emotions are quite automatic.
Ads provide literally no value to me. If you can't figure out a business model which serves both you and your users then I'm sorry, but I'm not going to put up with your pop-ups and annoying gifs.
> Each of the two physical network connections will connect to a different top of rack router. We want to get a Software Defined Networking (SDN) compatible router so we have flexibility there. We're considering the 10/40GbE SDN SuperSwitch (SSE-X3648S/SSE-X3648SR) that can switch 1440 Gbps.

Noooooo. Do not go for Supermicro for anything where the operating system matters. Their software quality leaves a lot to be desired.

You might want something Cumulus Linux supports, since it seems like you have a lot more Linux experience then networking...
Err, I didn't say anything about any browser. I said that performance and battery life are not at odds, they often go hand in hand.
I don't agree. What could be more personal than one's own ass?

Whether we agree definitionally or not, the standard here is well established, and when accounts can't or won't abide by it, we ban them.
I'm happy to see this - I could not agree more with these points.

I think they are coming at this problem from the wrong perspective - instead of growing from virtual servers to their own dedicated hardware to get better CephFS performance, they should take a hard look at their application and see if they can architect it in a way that does not require a complex distributed filesystem to present a single mount that they can expose over NFS. At some point in the future, it will bite them. Not an if, but a when.

In addition, this means that running physical hardware, CephFS and Kubernetes (among other things) are now going to be part of their core competencies - I think they are going to underestimate the cost to GitLab in the long run. When they need to pay for someone to be a 30 minute drive from their DC 24/7/365 after the first outage, when they realize how much spare hardware they are going to want around, etc.

As someone who has run large scale Ceph before (though not CephFS, thankfully), it's not easy to run at scale. We had a team of 5 software engineers as well as an Ops and Hardware team, and we had to do a lot to get it stable. It's not as easy as installing it and walking away.