skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
15% capacity factor is reasonable for rooftop, but utility scale PV in the United States was at 27% last year: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

Emissions are pretty obviously not going to peak by 2020, unless there's some sort of civilization-smashing catastrophe in the next few years. Large scale active carbon dioxide removal measures will be needed later, or natural processes will eventually restore the pre-industrial equilibrium over ~100,000 years. We're not going to stay in the "safe" zone below 2 degrees. Reducing future emissions is necessary but not sufficient. I say this as someone who fully wishes that humans had cut emissions quickly enough to render active CDR measures unnecessary, but recognizes that we did not act in time.
Yes. But isn't it odd that our diets cause information in the first place. In an evolutionary way, that feels odd. So, then I have to wonder, is this further incrimination of the modern diet? And lifestyle?

That is, is CR simple a proxy / correlation for putting less (modern) shit in your body?
This was the first launch of the titanium fins. The BulgariaSat booster from two days ago was an older block 3 first stage with the "original" aluminum fins. They did glow quite a bit during the very hot re-entry, visible on the last few video frames before the feed cut out: https://youtu.be/Y8mLi-rRTh8?t=1405
FWIW, the proximity fuse was a World War 2 invention.
The scary bit for LNG is a BLEVE (Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion). Even non-flammable liquids undergoing a BLEVE can be incredibly destructive, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfgxLApL4

So it's nothing to do with vapor cloud detonation, that's pretty much irrelevant compared to the destruction of the rapid phase transition from liquid to gas.
Yup. It was kinda a passive aggressiveness rhetoric question ;)
Are there longitudinal studies of comparative Muslim-population health outcomes for people who follow this precept vs. people who don't?
you're a consumer. Are you thinking or not? Seems like avoiding thinking about it means that you know it's a thing.
Meanwhile, the two top stories on nrk.no, the norwegian state supported news and tv network, are both about how Norwegian Air spoils peoples vacation with their cancellations and poor service.
The use of earphones and iPods is for personal mobile convenience. Live music is still in hot demand as an activity, and in fact one way artists have adapted to loss of revenue from the end of album sales, has been to focus on touring and other events.

People socialize with producers all of the time. Twitch streamers, Instagram influencers, YouTube stars- there is hot demand from fans to interact with their internet celebrities. Traditional creators get huge attention from Reddit AMA's.

It is true that smartphones have become a massive attention drainer. And automation has created a culture of seeking convenience and availability from machines instead of people whom you know. But your post conflates two different types of human activity- creative, intellectual, entertaining pursuit and logistics-heavy, service work. People will always prefer real people doing the former, until Holodecks really are a thing.
>What is false about the statement, "consumer's don't think, they consume"?

There exists at least one consumer/thinker.
Agreed. But the article seems to misplace the root cause / blame. I was just wanting to point that out.
Ramadan is popularly associated with gaining weight, because people tend to binge before dawn and after sunset and are more sedentary than usual.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/cairo-the-...
You can keep track of big new tools and libraries without hopping on every bandwagon, which I guess is why I haven't felt JS fatigue. I'd argue just knowing certain tools even exist can help you do a better job and enable you to make more informed decisions as you tackle new problems. Just create a mental index, in case you later find yourself having to tackle a problem for with the tool is a good fit.
1M dollar AGI prize
Has it been also tested by proponents of IF? That is, skipping breakfast and lunch some days of the week.
Might be an artifact of the weather conditions, which was said to be less than ideal.
That's a good question actually. I'll try to do some digging. If I find anything, I will update this comment.
Yes. Probably due to pitching drone ship deck due to heavy seas, the stage reached zero vertical velocity above the deck and had to shut down. Even at the lowest throttle setting the first stage still has a TWR > 1 and cannot hover without accelerating upwards again, so calculating the "suicide burn" timing is really crucial.

edit Corrected "TWR > 0" to "TWR > 1".
Uhh... It mounts after downloading? Aside from that I doubt (or don't want to believe) that's what's happening... Doesn't that sound inherently dangerous to you? We've seen files that could infect Windows machines just from having the file browser look directly at them.
Yeah, it's like being called a Canadian as an American.
Yes. The arc of my point, kinda, was that we eat for what we perceive as nutritional. When we should really focus (more) on eating for our gut.
I would say good tooling really lowers the barrier of entry for these things. Things like good editor integrations (such as being able to see the type under the cursor, or highlight errors inline) and a package manager make things a million times easier for a developer to get started on this. I'm not entirely sure how to do the package management , as that's kind of a religious argument, but it's relatively easy to make basic Vim/NeoVim, Emacs, or Atom integrations, which I think would make a lot more people be willing to check it out.

I am nearly positive that the tooling that came with Go is a pretty big reason for its success.
Formal verification of a decode unit simply will never happen. The complexity is far too high.

Formally verifying something like a multiplier block is difficult but doable if you care. Formally verifying an FPU is probably at about the limit.

If you want formal verification, you would have to simplify a modern microprocessor a lot.
Middle Eastern cuisine doesn't help either. Most of our food is high in carbs and fats, and we eat a ton of bread!
At the same time, I eat what I want and when I want to. I have been 172 pounds, with some exceptions, since I was about 18. I am retired and almost 60.

I am active but not for the sake of fitness. The only time my weight really changes is when I am sick.

My physician doesn't know, I don't know, and it is just how it is for me. I've tried to pound calories into me, but I pretty much stay at 172 pounds. Why 172? I have no idea. I can get on the scale and that's usually what it reads, within maybe two pounds.

If I eat less, I stay the same unless I really, really eat less - like go on a binge of illegal substances type of not eating. I dunno?
>US voters are apparently OK with this

US voters are impotent. Millions are about to be kicked off Medicare and Medicaid because of the signature of a man who repeatedly pledged over and over again that he would not ever cut them. Politics has become a metagame of tribal signaling with only a tenuous connection to actual policy.
This is a pretty ahistorical argument. We've had overtly racist Presidents and Klan members at the highest levels of government in the past, not to mention a 100+ year history of lynchings.

The First Amendment wasn't repealed when Steve Bannon accepted his role as Trump's chief strategist.
Yes the world has been brutal and violent for a long time. Fortunately there has been a trend towards less violence per capita over time. To me suggesting that we should regress in this dimension in order to deal with the problems being generated by the current economic and political system seems completely unacceptable. I think as long as all labor can be automated and we as a society do not try to keep humans alive, power will just keep concentrating in the hands of fewer and fewer regardless of how many wars are fought.
Gifted while female
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Not removed in favour of Let's Encrypt, removed for them not being good CA's - but it doesn't `matter` because we now have Let's Encrypt
> never documented as far as I know

It happened in Brenham, Texas, in the 90s.

http://www.theeagle.com/blogs/fajitas_for_one/salt-dome-expl...
I'm not arguing about what attracts adherents of Nazism to Nazism. Something is deeply wrong with anyone who decided to become a Nazi, and I'm not qualified to diagnose what.

I'm simply saying that movie producers and game designers don't cast Nazis in the villain role because of Nazi weirdness. They do it because we all agree that Nazis are, almost alone among historical western adversaries, categorically and indefensibly evil.
I don't see the relation.

Neo-nazis and white supremacists are espousing a viewpoint that takes away rights from other people, and in many cases threatens their very lives.

That's what anti-abortionist people do too, in fact. They're trying to take rights away from women (specifically, the right to control their own body), and in many cases threatens their very lives (abortion can be used as a medical intervention to save the life of the mother).

The only real difference I can see is that anti-abortionists are more likely to be able to be reasoned with.
I'm not Russian, but it feels like emotional responses are more... emotional in Russian. Like thinking about something or swearing.

English is a more rational language, and my "native" (I don't use it much) language is a bit restrictive when expressing anything, whether logical or emotional.
Well, of course it is. You don't go rioting in the streets while thinking rationally.
All you're saying is that you disagree with anti-abortionists. Because if the anti-abortionists are right (spoiler: they aren't), then it's nowhere nearly as simple as "they're trying to take other people's rights away from them".
Which machine are you using?
It's fairly obvious that less (or no) disposable income leads to less consumer spending, which leads to fewer jobs, which leads to less consumer spending, which leads to.... That is exactly the ongoing story of the vanishing middle class.

The lack of demand snowballs and branches out to impact many other things the exact same way that a strong increase in demand spreads out to impact other things.

With a predominantly consumer driven economy, eventually all of this will catch up and be a significant drag on GDP at best, though it'd be easy to argue we're already at exactly that point.

So, what happens next and what do we do about it? If only we had some sort of large team of people who were elected to solve this kind of problem, and if only they had some sort of historical periods of widespread prosperity to reference and model policy on....
Not computer trust. Emotional trust.

As for telepresence falling in price, I remember expensive telepresence room we're advertised as "being there" and there was specific design for eye contact and body language, but I haven't seen that yet in those cheaper "telepresence" systems.
Maybe the instant gratification and easier learning curve just doesn't give them the same amount of gratification that we got from tabs an figuring stuff out our self. I've learnt songs from tabs on the internet but the resources people have currently are amazing and make the process big learning easier.
I build MVPs for a living, and I still use vanilla JS and jQuery. I can recruit engineers easily, and my clients really don't care. The technology really doesn't matter. Once the apps move past MVP stage, I let the team decide on what framework they want to build it with. It's generally hard to know what the "ideal" FE framework is until after you have something running. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.

In short, you're fine. Don't worry about it. Keep building things in jQuery. It works, there's plenty of documentation, and everyone's familiar with it.
The low compression ratio / fast speed trade-off has always been valuable.

For example, block-level filesystem compression (what lz4 is used for with zfs) has been valuable for filesystems essentially forever.

There's always been a need for very high throughput on the local filesystem.
Thanks for the heads up. I have a better idea of what to expect, then :)
She and her cofounder were already in an an industry niche before then as graphics and compression experts, so I'd assume they already had a lot of contacts from former co-workers, meetups, conferences, etc. If you're an expert in something and you meet someone in a related corner of the industry to yours, they'll usually be eager to talk about what they're working on and recommend you to their contacts.
Thinking about it, it was in about 1971 that US left the gold standard, and that was partly due to government spending. Watergate came not long afterwards. This design of the economic system where the government prints money still exists today.
I really, really, really hate it when they refer to things like taking physical care of the elderly as "emotional labor." Caretaking can have a huge emotional component, but this framing has serious inherent problems.

Furthermore, art, fiction and music are things that can do a lot for people emotionally and psychologically, both the makers of such and the consumers. Yet no one ever seems to include those in these ridiculous articles about so-called emotional labor which perhaps should more accurately be termed traditional women's work.
> I was speaking of norm for the body, not norm of what most people do. In any case, my point was "restriction" isn't a restriction if you're over-consuming to begin with. It's a language/communication issue. Telling people to reduce (when they think they're normal") is, imho, the wrong message. We've normalized obesity by, to some extent, allowing people to believe obesity is perfectly normal.

Almost no one actually thinks obesity is normal. a very small set of people argue it's healthy, but that is a tiny minority.

As for "norm", caloric restriction is not about being normal weight. Caloric restriction is about cutting calories significantly below the level needed to maintain a normal weight. I don't see any way to argue that this is "normal".

> As for sedentary lifestyle and obesity...those are symptoms. What happens in the body is, often, inflammation. Inflammation in turn gets manifested as various diseases. Obesity is not what kills you per se. But it does trigger various things (often rooted in inflammation) that will.

All indications are that sedentary lifestyle is a root cause, not a symptom. Obesity is perhaps a symptom, but sedentary lifestyle is a step before that.

I don't believe there's actually any evidence for the claim that inflammation is the root issue for most disease. I get the distinct impression that this is a pseudoscience claim made by people who are selling quick fixes (as opposed to the diet and exercise people already know they need). "Inflammation" is almost a magical claim. It sounds scientific but there doesn't generally seem to be any actual science behind claims of inflammation causing arbitrary health issues.
This is the kind of thing that should be massively mirrored in onion links.
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I thought the OSCP, which is the one he recommends, was a little better than the others. Not enough to be a requirement, given other skills, but better than the multiple choice tests of the CISSP and Security+. Unlike with those, the OSCP involves an actual network and using actual exploits.

I wouldn't automatically discount someone who put the OSCP on their resume, like I would the CISSP, CEH, and Security+. Any experience, even non-pentesting, would probably trump it though.
True, but I'm being pedantic about the use of "anywhere". Also it's a pretty important port for Russia, though of course the population is small at only 300k people.
I have no idea. That would be a good thing to test, though.
There's absolutely nothing to be done.

Most of those small rural towns -- and I grew up in one -- have zero reason to exist besides inertia. There's fewer skilled workers there every day, a combination of:

* stupid, uneducated people / skilled people moving to population and manufacturing centers

* devastation of unions which, whether you like their politics or not (I do!) often ran comprehensive training programs

* the deskilling of the blue-collar workforce in America in order to boost corporate profits by outsourcing manufacturing

* a decline in infrastructure, including a reasonably educated workforce, teachers + schools (see eg in WI Scott Walker cut many teachers salaries by north of $10k/year. Totes weird they keep losing skilled teachers, eh?) but also roads, power, etc

Even if we were to fix the deliberate policies pushing outsourcing of manufacturing, I still see no reason it would return to places like rural Wisconsin. It would end up, rather, eg on the outskirts of Chicago, because of the same reason tech employees concentrate: you go to where there are skilled employees. Plus networks of supporting manufacturing businesses are close, good transportation and infrastructure, etc. And unlike tech, which may or may not eventually get serious about remote work, manufacturing can't do that.

NB: This isn't the answer I would prefer, but it does have the benefit of being the truth. Also, while Democrats have not been a shining light in terms of supporting good jobs for people without a college degree, voting for Republicans is a pretty astoundingly stupid response.
If I'm honest, and I feel like I should be when it comes to talking about my profession even though I'm going to be a little impolitic here and it could cost me elsewhere: yeah, I definitely do discount people a little bit if they volunteer to me that they have OSCP certification.

Avoid certification.
Italy Bails Out Two Failed Banks; Cost to Taxpayers: $17B
> People socialize with producers all of the time

When it's a one-way conversation, that's consuming.
I'm sure the politicians will solve that problem.
Charlie: the concept is highly analogous to Amdahl's Law, in some regards. The limit to performance increases in parallelisation is limited by the non-parallelisible portion of a process. The limits to productivity increases are limited by the irreducible labour component of a productive process.

The other element is that wages represent the provisioning costs of labour, or as Adam Smith puts it, "A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him." (Further qualified upwards in subsequent text.) WoN, Book 1, Ch. 8.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#link2H...

Which is to say: wages are not defined by productivity, but by the general wage level. What is defined by productivity is instead the quantity demanded of a good.

If some quantity of a high-labour good is demanded, then that quantity will pay wages based on the minimum prevailing wage (and if that's a sustainable level: the minimum living wage), plus additional premia for various other factors elevating wages above that floor, as described by Smith in chapter 10 of book 1.
Journey to Reinforcement Learning
This is becoming really astonishing. It's more and more fitting the quote “They did not know it was impossible so they did it”

I mean, the company was founded only 15 years ago, they started (with success) launching stuff into space only 10 years ago and now it feels like they are able to launch rockets into space every week. Reusable rockets should we add.

Musk very often sets impossible deadlines, but in this case, even if you take a step back, it's scary to make 10 years predictions based on this company track record !
What's wrong with WTFPL?

I needed some wtfpl code for something, and asked a team of corporate lawyers to evaluate it.

They deemed acceptable, and whitelisted it at one of the biggest software companies around.
In good years, airlines have some of the lowest profit margins of any industry. Maybe instead of allowing a bunch of crappy carriers to come and go, it would be better to allow consolidation into a few majors. Ticket prices might be somewhat higher, but they would still be more affordable than they were when the industry was fully regulated.
Patterns for Application Augmentation on OpenShift
Demand to interact with a celebrity is not the same thing as demand to interact with a milkman, a paperboy or a waiter. And it is rarely satisfied in any meaningful way since the celebrity is a human being with limited attention. Whereas the delivery man can gladly interact with his customers but how often do you do that? In short - demand for the local interactions has been dropping.

Concerts today do take place, of course, but they are not the same as 20 people getting together in a salon for interaction and a musical soiree.
Here's a chilling story from a local cult currently operating in the Bay Area: https://www.facebook.com/confessionsucberkeley/posts/8829034...
Never do commercial work for free. You won't be able to turn them into paying clients. If you're under-utilized, make an impressive portfolio piece on your own time. That will be better marketing than free work.
Not exactly uplifting data.
I'm currently doing a PhD in electrical engineering. I've just finished my first year, and I'm starting to realize that the work I'm putting in to research projects isn't being appreciated monetarily. In other words, I feel like my time is worth more.

I like to think of myself as a decent programmer, but I'm not well versed in software security (more of a hardware person). I've also never had a full-time job as I jumped straight from my BS to a PhD.

I'm considering taking some security-related courses next year and getting my MS. I have two options after that: 1) look for summer internships in the field of software security and see if I like it, or 2) look for full-time positions and withdraw from the program temporarily to test out the waters. The issue with 1) is that there are less intern positions available, at least based on what I've seen.

Am I approaching this correctly, or is there something else I could do? Any advice is appreciated!
Yes, most people "doing IF" are just skipping breakfast. There are other styles but of course adherence is lower because skipping breakfast is easy and actually fasting for extended periods of time is hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK5aKOr2Fw
Debian and Devuan
That's true but we don't need to, energy markets are large enough over the distances that we can ship those electrons.

And 'damn hard' is not the same as impossible, there have been studies done on how to ship electricity from Africa to Europe.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-north-africa-...

That's not quite Japan or Europe from the US but it would be intercontinental. The biggest hurdles are political rather than technical. For the really long haul (say, US to EU) I doubt it would be economical, but as a way of leveling the day/night difference it would be an awesome way to make solar power more feasible for base load generation.

Long before that happens though we'll see windfarms in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.
Python is the most popular tool used by developers and tech pros
If it's any consolation I did provide a counterargument and got downvoted for it.

As for the 'flag', that's not the same as downvoting. Or at least shouldn't be used in the same way although I have lately seen a disappointing number of comments marked as "flagged" which shouldn't have been. (There's some guidance about flagging posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Downvoting is something that's only available to members above a specific karma threshold (2000 IIRC).
Sure it is. People normally go to concerts with friends. Demand for music festivals have also increased:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/77...
That was probably not just glow. That was the shielding material actually burning.