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> The bottleneck is the grid.

Sure the grid is a bottle neck, but it is a bottle neck that can be fixed. Aging infrastructure is the problem, not the grid per-se, it just happens to have older and less well maintained segments.

> The Grid has to match the production and demand

No, the grid transports power from places where it is generated to places where it is consumed. Whether the consumer is local or remote is not that important other than that you'll incur some more losses.

Demand matching is the job of powerplants that can change their output power quickly.

> and at times that is why CA gives away electricity to AZ and pay for AZ for consuming its electricity.

That's because there simply is an excess of power in CA and shedding it to AZ is cheaper than shunting it locally.

> A tanker with LNG is much more flexible and denser form of energy than photons to electrons..

Of course it isn't. That LNG tanker needs a port and it needs a plant to convert the LNG to electricity. LNG is hamburger, electricity is steak.

> Once electrons out they need to be consumed asap!

There also exist load leveling measures using superconducting loops, these are used for windfarms whose output can change very rapidly especially when they're on the end of anemic grid infrastructure (remote location), these can be used for solar as well.
We do the same thing with Redshift. Using temp tables also gives us more direct control over the query plan, since we can specify distribution and sort keys. On top of that, we can run unit tests on the temporary table (explained in another comment) and fail the query if tests fail.
Original industrial was far from danceable. It wasn't until the post-industrial in the early 80s w/ groups like Skinny Puppy that what you describe started to happen.

However the first part of your point holds, acts like Throbbing Gristle (who coined the "industrial" term) definitely came out of the British punk community.
SpaceX successfully launches and recovers second Falcon 9 in 48 hours
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I'll add this, since there's the whole dark electronic dance music scene (the music those kids wearing black with bits of neon on it listen to).

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuOHgateiw (Synthpop / futurepop / EBM)

(And beyond that, there's the harsh/industrial genres, but I can't think of anything I'd recommend for this discussion.)
> it paints Kalanick in a far more positive light than the headline suggests.

Not to me, if I'm doing business with someone and they say "oh, I also stole this other stuff you might like" I'd take that as a red flag about their ethical fortitude. The actually appropriate thing to do would be to Google/Waymo of the potential IP threat and insulate Uber from future legal repercussions. Walk away from the acquisition.

The behavior is still unethical.
> I wonder how many users have experienced intermittent crashes

I wonder if it's exploitable ;) Maybe that's why they never release the details of these CPU bugs.

> Was it a software-like bug in microcode e.g. neglecting some edge-case, or a hardware-level race condition related to marginal timing

Not sure about microcode, these x86 cores execute many simple operations natively, by means of dedicated circuits. Microcode is only involved in emulation of complex x86 instructions.

And hardware problem doesn't have to be marginal timing. It could simply be a logic bug, i.e. the circuit operates as designed but it was designed to do something else than it should be doing in some unforeseen circumstances.
> I want to get strong in SQL -- where/how do I start?

1. I suggest the PostgreSQL documentation itself (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/). It's well-written, but still wordier than need be, and if you try to read it from start to finish, you will probably die. However, the beginning chapters are overviews of SQL. Once you feel in the mud, you are probably in very specific, technical chapters. You can just skim these, jump to ones that interest you at the moment, etc.

2. There also a separate wiki (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Main_Page). I haven't gone there much, but it is a nice complement. It has practical summaries of things that the main documentation spins out of control (like setting up replication). It also has some examples of how to to do really advanced things in SQL.

3. A well-reviewed, short book. The first book I read was SQL Demystified. It's a short and easy intro to SQL in general. Find something like that. I have tried hard to find good books on SQL, but most are huge tomes that will crush your soul.

4. Practice. For the past decade at my job I have been forced to learn complex SQL for various business reports, across a variety of tables. And I still feel like an intermediate.
A CRON or calorie restriction optimal nutrition diet is a thing, not only eating fewer calories but what you do eat has to be absolutely perfect in nutrition.

Micheal Mosley on BBC interviewed a CRON advocate he are an apple peel but threw away the inner part.

I've read that a rumbling stomach is necessary for gut health without it your microbiome suffers, CR may incidentally do that.
So I'll kick this off by saying yes. I have a gaming desktop I built, a 2016 MBP spec'ed out I use for work (video editing), and down the line tablets/phone. My wife needs something for work processing, Skype, and the internet. I got her a $400-$500 Dell Inspiron laptop a few years ago (I think it's Pentium 4 lol) You can swap batteries, they're solid machines. Basically just a little more than a Chromebook and a little less than a 2in1, which will be her next one as she loves the touch screen.

Love to hear what everyone else is using/thinking as well.
Speed of Electrons
Don't bother with specific tech stacks, because as mentioned, the churn rate is really high. Instead, hire good problem solvers who you can tell from their interviews will be able to choose a framework that works well for your new projects, or adapt to the framework you've chosen yourself for your existing ones.

Understand that good programmers are kind of hard to find, but okay programmers with experience in XYZ stack are not. Why? Because any reasonably competent programmer can become familiar with a new framework or library in about a week or two. Being able to separate the signal from the noise, and architecture an application well within that framework? That's what you're looking for. The tools themselves aren't that important.
How many million dollars would he keep for each year spent in jail?
Man, it is so not about the IKEA effect.

This isn't about some puppy-dog infatuation with a spice rack or a bird house. It's about having your fucking time wasted, when you could have been out doing pretty much anything except coaxing some shitty interpreter to JIT compile a blob into some blinky lights for a herd of indecisive squawking ostrichs, amid their kangaroo court pecking order.

Hours of my life gone. And for what? A clicky-doo button at a company that might not exist in 10 years?
Thank god someone invented this. We needed another front end javascript library!
"Considering that PV's capacity factor is around 15%"

In the SW United States, capacity factor for a ground-mounted system utilizing a single-axis tracker is between 28% and 35%.

Source: I am a developer of utility-scale PV power plants.
SpaceX lands first stage in poor weather with new titanium grid fins
They should just open all of it up under some license that prohibits forking and allows for contributions.
I'm not talking about the confederate battle flag, but about the German one and its 'Kekistan' version.

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1266803-kekistan
For some reason people have this idea that LNG tankers are a big bomb waiting to go up, but that's not really true. Vapor cloud detonation has never been considered particularly likely, and never documented as far as I know. Mostly it seems the vapors that hit the right mix of oxygen and such would burn pretty rapidly, while the warmer gas began to rise. It would certainly be a large fire for a while, but shouldn't have the lasting impact of an oil spill. Here's a paper[1].

[1] http://www.mhpa.co.uk/uploads/Marine_docs/lng_carriers.pdf
Ask HN: What is the biggest obstacle with surfing the web without JavaScript?
...and is there anything that can be done to improve the situation?
That's just the workaround until a fix is available for your CPU, if I understood correctly.
it is one of the ways it ends in blood and imo the least likely one. The other ones is more and more countries elect facist leaders and yet another war between nation state happens. Or mass murders. The anger that people feel will have to flow somewhere. One way or another.
My favourite Zsh features (2014)
It is quite unlikely that five disks would contain cafeteria menus. I don't thing that judge would buy such theory as plausible. In any case, it is goggle data even if not related to cars.

Another question, why would you kept lawyer out of loop if planning to do something dirty? It is dumb to do it over mail, but lawyer won't rat you put and can have advice about how best to hide it (in person not in writing sInce lawyer want to keep license).
> Or you can use ES6/ES5 by setting up a build pipeline.

> import { h, app } from "hyperapp"

I might be misunderstanding here, but isn't `import` unavailable in ES5? (I.e., just a future reserved word?)
It probably doesn't mean that anyway.
That is not how it works. Living an additional 5 years does not make a difference; however, you "could" be living a much more productive work life, have better sex, be more friendly, be more active with your children etc...

It's like when someone says I rather smoke and die at 75 vs 80. Sure, but then you spend more time at the doctor's, you get exhaust faster, you are not always fun to be around with because your clothes may smell like cigarette and more.
Our brilliant governor Cuomo has decided to remove Indian Point power plant from the grid. It generates electric with no greenhouse gas for 1/4 of NYC and Westchester County which in total is a population of about 10 million (8.5 + 1) meaning that the equivalent of a city of 2.5 million will go from no greenhouse gas back to carbon-based fuels. The power company that runs Indian Point wants to shut it down because it costs more to run than natural gas.

Are you certain that there is limitless hydropower in Quebec? I think we are using capacity and that more damns would have to be built? We already get a lot of power from Hydro Quebec, some of which runs our subway system.
> Worked in a mall for a decade.

How does someone like this bump into HN?
The civil lawsuit against him would take care of any money he has left.
Not entirely true -- I know there's at least special processing for filters: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/syntax.html#Filters
The UK is also one sea blockade away from losing a huge chunk of the food its population eats. The merits of renewable energy don't include permitting the UK to endure another World War-style blockade attempt, because either the blockaders are swiftly destroyed at sea or have their land based supply and command chains destroyed, by nuclear means if necessary.
I remember hearing about a fictional story about a mediocre backwater planet called YourNameHere. No company had ever purchased the planet or planetary naming rights because it's a rather dull planet. Now, corporate-named planets litter the known galaxy. There is literally no planet, asteroid, or moon without a name on it. Planet Starbucks, the Amazon System, the Microsoft Belt.

Somebody on YourNameHere gets wise to this. Suddenly, they have something worth a lot of money -- being the last place in the known galaxy without a corporate name on it, worthless backwater mediocrity be damned.
I'd suggest the 1943 essay Political Aspects of Full Employment would help square the gap. http://www.bradford-delong.com/1943/07/michal-kalecki-politi...
Thomas I can't help observing that you're completely ignoring my second point about what differentiates anti-fascist activists from anti-abortion activists.
I think they do that on purpose. Mozilla presents itself as a good guy and many people still believe that, so those people could get offended and not get the point eff tries to make.

But yeah, Mozilla follows Google in this regard and it's in Mozilla's best interest to preserve tracking and allow advertising industry to "hijack our attention", otherwise they won't get enough funding to exist.
You can install Linux on many Chromebooks, something to keep in mind. I was looking for an extra computer a while back and it actually seemed to be the best option.
You are assuming basic income will happen.

Why would it?
I don't think you have to be an engineer to lead but I do think the leader needs to see the vision/goal to properly communicate it to the engineers who make it happen.
tfw you fell into the machine learning meme
> lz4's decompressor is simultaneously simple and also the fastest thing aroud, at least at the moment

The proprietary LzTurbo [0] and free Lizard [1] both claim to be faster at decompression while having better compression ratios.

[0] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench

[1] https://github.com/inikep/lizard
Australia invested over $200 Billion on LNG export facilities. All based on long-term contracts, now none of the countries require anything like the quantity agreed to. They are selling the Australian gas at lower prices than their contracts, so they lose money but less than they could.

One interesting thing is the Australian domestic gas prices are much high than the same gas purchased in Japan despite the $5 per GJ processing and shipping costs.
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?
It didn't even come to my mind that people who are not developers could want anything other than a tablet or a phone nowadays do you think the longer battery life would be worth the bigger form-factor for people?
(I kinda get mixed signals from people whenever I ask, so I'm not sure at all)
How did I miss that? Will try tomorrow!
I think you're being overly reactive here. The article really had nothing to do with what you're talking about (though I understand that sentiment exists). It did make a general class-based argument about "emotional IQ," but none of that was directed specifically at analytic programmer types.

The reason that programming was mentioned was to illustrate how our culture is currently very focused on knowledge work (programming for everyone!), so they could make the counter-point that another type of work is currently undervalued. You may agree or disagree with that, but it is a huge stretch to take the whole thing as a slight against analytic/less emotional types.
I haven't seen one that does both for the homescreen lock.

But you'd always want the biometric verification last, since it provides a powerful clue about who can authenticate all the other layers of security on a mobile device.
>It feels great. It's called culture, and being aware of it, not a blind consumer of what tastes good (McDonalds tastes good too).

oh please, elitism isn't culture it's a perspective. you have a perspective about the things you like which is no more or less valid than anyone else's. no matter how enlightened you think you are when it comes to music I promise there is an entire subculture that finds your tastes closer to "blind consumption" than "true music fan". 100% relative.

>No, but human culture has, and always had, a way to prfioritize what's important and what's not besides mere consumption or influence (crap has also influenced a lot of imitators).

please, please describe for me this mechanism by which "human culture" has prioritized important art. I would love to hear what unassailable framework you think draws a line between "important" and "crap".
There are plenty of machines like the Asus X205ta.

Small, low specs, 10 hour battery life.

Some of them use weird chipsets or have low ram or 64 bit processers and 32 bit uefi, so installing linux isn't always as simple as it normally is.
Comparing a $100, $700, and $10,000 bass guitar
Almost none of those people plan on hitting you, either.
An Artist's Review of the 2017 Microsoft Surface Pro and Wacom Bamboo Ink
Didn't they originally deny that there was any sort of wrongdoing? If so then why should we believe them now? What I mean is

1. "There was no problem, nobody stole anything"

2. "OK fine we knew he stole, but he said he deleted it and we believe him"

Doesn't the flat out lie in #1 completely destroy any sort of admission in statement #2 that conveniently suggests they're off the hook?
It's not that mysterious. Political factions have patron industries and large-scale donors and their voices count way more than anybody else's.
Could you re-state it? You know I'm not inclined to blow you off; you've been on my list of favorite commenters for something like 5 years.

I seriously do not see a distinction between the two perspectives, other than that the anti-abortion activists would be employing violence to actually stop what they believe to be real, immediate, kinetic violence.

Again, it's not like my argument here is novel. It's the ACLU's argument, from National Socialists of America v. Skokie.
So basically she worked hard on her skills and invested a lot of time and effort to talk to a lot of people to meet the persons that allowed her to grow her business. Most people don't do that and complain. ;-)
If I understood `oneplane` correctly, that's exactly the point. Coal miners are in the energy sector, and cowboys are in the food sector. Whether or not a specific worker in those industries will be required may change over time, but the general demand for the output of those industries likely will not.
Why Elsevier would feel entitled to the copyright of publicly funded research is beyond anyone's guess.

This ruling actually makes me realize that SciHub is a single point of failure, and if it gets closed, there won't be anything else to replace it. Unlike the thousands of torrents and streaming sites for movies and TV shows, research paper sites aren't something that the average Internet users care about.
Yes, but they had to sign a very aggressive NDA.
This is such good news.
>then what is it about our foods that trigger so much inflammation?

Huge quantities of sodium and sugar, all kinds of BS half-tested preservatives and additives, growth hormones and the like.
If you grab hyperapp from the CDN https://unpkg.com/hyperapp@latest, you'd use it like this:

> const { h, app } = hyperapp

If you setup a simple build pipeline using npm/yarn + browserify you would instead:

> const { h, app } = require("hyperapp")

And if you compile your app with babel using babel-preset-es2015, etc., then you can use the ES6 import syntax.

===

Here are some gists to help you on your journey:

- hyperapp + hyperx + rollup minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/fac2c3de24e5171596fb189f9c1...

- hyperapp + hyperx + webpack minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/c6a6bdb5383a985cec6b0ae4ebe...

- hyperapp + jsx + rollup + buble minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/f714dd6d64041591e5e53dbff85...

- hyperapp + jsx + rollup minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/0c0da8f1256a0a66090151cfda7...

- hyperapp + jsx + webpack minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/6010a83891043a6e0c37a3cec68...

- hyperapp + hyperx + browserify minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/48c1edb4fb0ea1aa5415b6686cc...

- hyperapp + jsx + browserify minimal boilerplate https://gist.github.com/jbucaran/21bbf0bbb0fe973455056648831...
I comparison shop - and while Amazon often beats other retailers in price due to Prime, it's not not always the case. Most times, unless Amazon stocks the item, the price of shipping is padded into the Prime cost compared to another retailer.

I smell an opportunity for google here to eject some kind of a price search engine that maes it eas/y/ier for us to find products ... That's usually what it comes down to anyway, once you know what you want to get.
I think free education is valuable public good but I'm not convinced that machines are replacing home health aides anytime soon. At least at present the economy seems to be creating a lot of really low-paying jobs.
I find it ironic that your reaction to the article proves the point you imagine it makes, but that it doesn't actually make. The way I understood the sentences you point out (and I am pretty certain that my reading matches the author's intention) is that certain things are put in opposition to technical subjects merely because this is where power is currently overwhelmingly concentrated. When you write about the importance of dry land in islands in the Pacific ocean, it is not to imply that the water is bad in any way, but to contrast it with the obvious overwhelming predominance of water in the ocean.
Well there's a slight difference, it seems like now that Kalanick has left, they want to use him as a scapegoat, and the narrative here is that Uber as a whole didn't know until now. So theoretically, 1 & 2 could both be true, albeit 2 would be more like "Kalanick knew but didn't tell us".
When HT first started appearing on P4 chips I was looking after NetWare, 2K and XP boxes, they would freak out with HT enabled all kinds of oddities, I suspect most because of the OS's not fully supporting it.

To this day I disable it by reflex on everything!
Ask HN: Are there any ad blockers that successfully block Forbes interstitials?
i.e. something that not only blocks the ad, but also prevents the 3 second delay.
>The bottleneck is the grid. The Grid has to match the production and demand, and at times that is why CA gives away electricity to AZ and pay for AZ for consuming its electricity. In turn, AZ turns off some of its production.

Europe is handling it well: http://www.powermag.com/europe-rebuilds-grid-to-accommodate-...

America will probably lag significantly in this regard because too much of the grid is owned by companies that also own coal/natural gas, etc. and have a strong incentive not to upgrade.
I wouldn't really cast it that way. Companies would like to tell themselves different but they don't really select for nothing except intelligence. There are a lot of unwritten rules which end up favoring candidates who have the "right" background over those who don't.
1. If H1Bs are shown to have depressed wages of computer programmers etc., why would it not be logical to expect illegals to depress wages?

If there were 12 million fewer people in the USA (the laughably low "official" number of illegals in the country), would demand for housing be less? Demand for doctors and related health care?

Even former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, in TV interviews, admitted that "Undoubtedly access to lower-wage foreign workers has a depressing effect [on wages]".

2. Quoting 1 article from a progressive magazine (which incidentally, endorsed Hillary Clinton) to "prove" the voting behavior of over 100 million people is kind of ridiculous.
I know that this is something that would be very useful to college students and most people's parents. My mother has a chromebook because she just needed something light with a good battery life for word processing and surfing the internet (read: facebook). The chromebook comes with its own series of issues which she has to work around, so it would be nice if it was not a chromebook, but just a normal laptop.
>Consumers don't think, they consume. Much like zombies.

Nearly every part of that statement is false.

>If you want consciousness in the system that has to come from gasp government.

So, the masses are too stupid to know where to buy toilet-paper, but they are intelligent enough to elect the right politicians whom will enforce the right regulations?