skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In June 2011 several energy companies including Centrica told the government that 17 gas-fired plants costing £10 billion would be needed by 2020 to act as back-up generation for wind.

That was highly wishful thinking on behalf of gas plant operators. In fact, I believe only one new CCGT plant (Carrington) has been commissioned in the UK since 2010, and during this time several older plants were closed. No further gas plants are currently under construction in the UK or seem likely to be built in the near future, despite very low gas prices.

Storage technology and interconnects (including reversible interconnects such as the North Sea Link to Norway) are likely to be the better solution to intermittentcy.

> Is this actually a point that anyone disagrees with?

Baseload is an important part of the grid infrastructure, but it doesn't make sense to over-build it...

> In terms of grid stability, nuclear doesn't have a problem with load following, but since the fuel cost is so minimal, it is more economic to not do that.

Nuclear can not follow load like a gas turbine can! Sure, a few plants in France are built with the ability to scale down to 50% power or so (essential because of their high percentage of nuclear) but the vast majority around the world operate only at their full rated power.

Even when designed to ramp, it takes time to reduce and increase power in a reactor (hours rather than minutes, like in a gas turbine) and these ramps are performed to a schedule rather than in real-time response to grid demands.

> "low/no demand"? What developed country on this planet has no demand for electricity at night?

Supply can easily exceed demand at off-peak times if you have too much inflexible baseload power. Thus there would be no demand for the power produced from additional nuclear power plants at night.

It doesn't make sense to build expensive baseload just to satisfy demand peaks. There are cheaper options.

> 50% of all demand on windy days? Do you have a citation for that?

Sorry, it was 50% renewables, including solar and biomass. Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40198567

We are now regularly over 50% for combined low-carbon sources, including nuclear, however.
Gee, I hope my site doesn't happen to anger him in some way.
I'm saying Cloudflare has made a decision which criminal conduct they're willing to allow, which is dramatically different then "we turn off no one".
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> Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins).

Polling (both opinion polling and actual elections) show that it is very strongly an urban-vs-other thing.
Wouldn't someone proving it true be a game changer in that it would preclude the ability of anyone to prove the opposite?
73% of incidents?

This is pure sleight of hand meant to deceive.

When incident can be defined arbitrarily and possibly include both a gun massacre and a spray painted swastika as equal events, this stat is incredibly deceptive.

What's the ratio when you count deaths? I'm on mobile but iirc it's about 90% killed by Islamic terrorists.
Why would you write something like that? I would only write something like that if I was trying to provoke somebody.

I can't tell if you think my questions are trying to offend you, so you are responding in kind? Either way, it only undermines your credibility and motives in my own mind.
Obviously, absolutely not.
> When the internet is no longer privatized and is guaranteed as a public service by law, then this argument will have a leg to stand on.

Fine, lets talk about that then.
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>'If I want to run my own website, I need an IP address at the minimum, and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don't like what I'm hosting.'

That's why the distributed web exists, things like Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org/) Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com/ ) and MaidSafe ( https://maidsafe.net/ ) and tons more exist.

I don't support Nazis, but people should have free speech, even if it's hate speech. Incidents like this will make people realise that in reality a handful of companies 'control' the Internet, and when a company like Cloudflare that positioned itself as a champion of 'free speech' does a 180 like this (no matter how seemingly justified) it's going to push people to alternatives.

Related-ish: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alt-right-money-20170811...
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This would have happened eventually anyway. Cloudflare is not run by robots. It's run by people who have boundaries.

Also, the case of the Daily Stormer doesn't really fall into any kind of ethical gray area as far as I'm concerned.
It's sort of disconcerting to admit this but recent events have me reevaluating the utility of unvarnished free speech as a societal value.

Taken to it's extremity, it's given us corporate personhood via Citizens United, and the codification of the principle that you (private or corporate personage) are entitled to speak freely at whatever volume you can afford to, including explicitly politicized speech.

But more abstractly and insidiously, the value has mutated to give license to liars and manipulators of all kinds. I know there's no way to enforce factual speech in daily life, but the Western ethos of unvarnished free speech has come to mean we tolerate people and companies that just outright lie and manipulate all day every to make a living or a shareholder profit. Sure, the left leaning media makes fun of Fox News or gets worked up about Breitbart, but we have no recourse to the psychological and structural damage they do to our society through their dishonesty. And most average Joes (of whatever political stripe) shrug and say "Hey it's America, we believe in free speech here."
This is in a way much worse than if they actually changed their policy. With this precedent, it looks like what they're saying now is "we're not policing content, except for when our CEO feels like it". Basically this is a clear act of corruption, given their own proclaimed principles of content neutrality. That the ultimate trigger seems to have been that the removed site said something negative about CloudFlare is also worrying.
I would ask why is there a set cycle for raises? If an employee is valuable enough for a raise why wait and risk a competitor poaching them before the cycle comes around?

That may sound far fetched but my current company has a very rigid and well known cycle and I swear that recruiters know about it. I get way more recruiter calls leading up to raises than afterwards.

Good on you for noticing that the annual review data is artificial. I suspect that is why these processes exist. Companies want to base there decisions on data and don't care if that data is meaningless.
> This wasn't roadrage, it was murder. Now get off your fake high horse

I'm attempting to prevent the cheapening of the term "terrorism", not adjusting my positioning on my high horse. Its a hate crime, not terrorism.

> Think of that one murder as a free sample of what is to come if these people get their way.

More of this will come regardless if these people get their way. Protests, tweet storms, and tearing down Confederate monuments will not dissuade hate. The only way to win is to drag the argument into the daylight where it can be fought.
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Wow! What's up is down and down is up. I assume you are vehemently on the side those wedding cake bakers who refused to make a gay wedding cake, then?

Once a private communications provider becomes recognized as communications infrastructure, they lose the right to police content that goes through their infrastructure. For example, my ISP, even though it participates in "spreading" my ideas, has no say in the matter. If you can argue that some random wedding cake bakers are part of "critical wedding baking infrastructure and must therefore be compelled to make a gay cake," you can argue, much more easily, that Cloudflare has no business deciding what content it offers its services to.
> A protected class is what we decide should be one. There weren't any protected classes at all, until one day there were, and we added things to that list since then.

Yes, we advanced to being a more civilized society.

Adding "politics" to the list of protected classes is akin to removing all the other ones, since someone's "idea" can be that their race/sex/age/nationality makes them superior to all others.

I'd never support a politician who promoted the idea of rolling back Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
I landed my first job with a semi-popular CSS grid system. Funny enough they didn't want to use it they just liked the branding and design of the docs.
I'm glad he feels like it's an upgrade but the whole thing feels a little disingenuous. I have one of the new Touch Bar MacBook Pros and I need exactly 1 "dongle"/adapter for it that includes a USB port, an HDMI out, and a VGA adapter. With that single thing, I can use the computer exactly the same as my last MacBook Pro and I have the added benefit of all the new high-speed USB-C capture devices and hard drives. How that isn't an upgrade is beyond me. I can access far more devices now than I could with the old MacBook and I can change or move whatever port I want and charge all at the same time.
Did you click through to the post? 'weinzeirl's use of ellipsis makes the statement seem harsher than it actually was. Here's what you missed:

>...except that the last time I tried that, it didn’t achieve its purpose, which was to get people to stop asking me about it. So: please stop asking... [emphasis mine]

If Aaronson had directed his comments at the actual researcher or at anyone affiliated with them, I'd agree with you, but it's clear that he's directing them at generally unsophisticated social media users who are too email-happy.
By the by and apropos of nothing, 'Camel Corps' is what we used to call certain members of the British diplomatic service who had 'gone native' in the Middle East and Arabian peninsula generally but more specifically to those diplomats who had passed through the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies school in the Leb (and
Oxford). FO had many Arabists for a time, not so sure nowadays. There was of course a fairly impressive Imperial Camel Corps during WWI comprised of actual camels and mainly Anzacs.
Hate speech is a fake category, recently invented (in the historical time scope of US speech debate) as a means to instigate tighter speech controls by the government. The definition of hate speech is entirely arbitrary, you'll notice it has approximately as many definitions as there are people discussing it. That's by design, it's meant to have any definition desired at any time, to be of maximum use in destroying freedom of speech in the US. The effort is succeeding and accelerating rapidly. Freedom of speech in the US has less than a decade left, the vise grip will start with things that are very hard to defend, and move down the ladder often varying by who is in power.

By the time speech is brought under tighter government regulation, the people pushing for 'hate speech' controls today will be terrified as they watch what a worse version of Trump does with the new power (a serious theocrat for example). That outcome is inevitable, it's what happens every time people don't think through the consequences of handing massive new powers to a very aggressive government.
Fuzzing will catch C related bugs - it won't generally detect crypto implementation bugs, which this appears to have focussed on.

There's a lot of people who can write a fuzzer in their spare time and I'd be surprised if libsodium had never been a target. Comprehensive crypto audits on the other hand, are a different story.

Edit: It does state dynamic analysis was performed for classes of C bugs
Think in a data centric way. What data do you need? What operations need to be performed? Then design your ownership hierarchy such that that can happen.

I think this is key and still something I am trying to fully embrace
And why is it a surprise that media pirates or gangs weren't enough to change their minds, but Nazis are?

Your phrasing implies that if they're willing to kick out Nazis, they should be willing to kick out media pirates. That's bizarre!
> They then defamed a private organization by claiming they too supported that vile sentiment.

This for me is the only real defense for taking them down.
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I am just wondering if anyone else shares the same experience. I have 10+ years of software development experience including 3+ years in leadership roles. I am working on all latest hot technologies such as hadoop/pig/hive/spark etc.

I think it is a bit easier to go into roles such as software engineer, data analyst, BI engineer etc. However,I am finding it a bit hard to transition to managerial type roles. I am already leading a team of 5 engineers, but work us ultra boring. Most of senior management is utterly clueless and have focus on things that are not important.
It's always fire in the east and fire brigade in the west.

For the record, I work for one of the big 4 tech companies. My organization moves damn slow and I am bored to death with political correctness.

Please suggest what steps should I take to get a managerial job at high performing companies who move very fast.
As I say. Not surprised at all. It's a hard but well-understood problem that applies across a lot of content providers.
What gets me is that Nazi ideology is itself violent.

This isn't a disagreement about taxes or social programs, it's an ideology that led to the Holocaust.

Last weekend's terrorist attack on the anti-racist protest, leading to the murder of one anti-racist, tells us exactly where this is going again.

That's what makes all the "well free speech" stuff seem so hollow and stupid to me--we know what's at the other end of the Nazi road, and it's nowhere we want to go.
> This country isn't getting fixed without empathy, understanding, and compromise on a national scale

They are nazis. We do not compromise with nazis. The only understanding necessary is that they are nazis.
Note - that post is from 2010, and was in fact about a different proof with a different author (Deolalikar). I don't disagree with you, btw.
This isn't mere hate, and I'm not "mandating tolerance" either. I'm mandating you at least read people like Hannah Arendt and Sebastian Haffner instead of you projecting your naivety on me.
>I actually don't really support these movements. I would prefer that we entirely deligitimize the notion of 'terms of service' having any measure of enforceability or weight.

> No, I have not read your terms and I do not agree with them. I do, however, reject the legitimacy of their use and will happily check a box that lets me proceed unmolested.

Do you feel the GPL should be enforceable based on the header comments in GPLed source code?
Fair point and I agree that the tweet on it's own didn't sufficiently back up the claim. I posted the link in response to your comment for other readers who might stumble on this discussion.

In my case I did research the claim on my own and verified with other sources prior to submitting, as I certainly don't want to participate in spreading false information :)
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It's not about amplifying someone. There is a difference between ignoring someone and silencing them. Cloudflare's move seems more like silencing than ignoring to me. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think everyone should be able to put their (sometimes terrible) opinions on the internet, and we'll trust society to decide which ideas are terrible and should be ignored.
> What's the ratio when you count deaths? I'm on mobile but iirc it's about 90% killed by Islamic terrorists.

53% Islamist, 47% (other, as Islamist actually fit this description too) far-right, 0% other. (So the ratio is closer to 1:1 than the 9:1 you suggest)

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/16/...
That's misleading. Many transactions are many payments baked in a gigantic transaction, these tend to be big with a high fee. That and other applications drive up the average a lot. Normal users don't have to pay $5.

Some wallets do still have broken or easily games fee estimations (Blockchain's is notorious. Armory broke down completely.) That is a problem that should have been fixed already but can only be adressed by their respective developers.

However, even at $.5 many use cases are priced out of the network. On chain gambling most notably. This problem is inherent to the extreme replication factor trustless global systems require and is definitively not something that is advocated one way or another.
If it were taken down, yes.

What he's arguing, though, is to use courts because he knows courts would never do that in the US.
Software complexity increases exponentially with linear growth in features and polish. Occasionally someone takes the time to step back and rethink things, but generally you’re just adding another layer on top of the ancient ruins. Code archaeologist should be a job title in many organizations.
The site could, in theory, sue Cloudflare for failing to provide the services they paid for.

That is, they could do so if they paid anything for the services they received (they didn't).

And it's only if Cloudflare didn't have a "we reserve the right to discontinue services at any time for any reason at our sole discretion" clause in their ToS (they do).
> Did not go well.

And you're telling me this, why?

> We should be careful to a) not call everything Nazi

Oh I see, that's why. Well, you should be careful to c) not confuse me with anyone else.
Am I correct that you are equating a private company terminating its business relationship with an avowed neo-Nazi website with the U.S. military killing civilians?
That's not how postgres works. You're talking about 2PL. Serializable isolation level in postgres does have something called predicate locks, but those are actually quite a different thing.
buying passes to all 5 top streaming/content services costs $53 which is less than any cable package costs and give you access to so much content across all your devices and absutely no ads.
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What about their .ru domain though?
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Well, at least the CEO fully admits that it's an arbitrary decision. And indeed it is in his power to make.

CloudFlare is not the only player in town, and that's far from censorship.
So what other arbitrary decisions has made that haven't attracted as much publicity?
No, they're not.

Kinderstart v. Google for one of many examples.
see, I think Bi-rite is mediocre at best. I prefer Humphrey Slocombe. also available in some flavours at he Exploratorium. But lines, or queues, are annoying. But I'll use them to learn some Zen.
There are few things worse than nazis. Just make sure your content is better than fascist propaganda and you should be good.
If he has the power to do such things then does it that is definitely HIS official policy going forward. Apparently company policy doesn't matter when you're the guy at the top, or at least that's what he's trying to tell us. Way to send a terrible message to your employees BTW.

If he doesn't like your site and has a bad day he's going to take you off the internet.
that kind of thing is a collosal mistake in my opinion - just on the face of it I/o at compile time seems very wrong.
Aside from the net neutrality or freedom of expression concerns, I wonder if it just became too costly to host them because of ddoses
I don't quite have the domain knowledge required to tie weird/confusing app breakages back to specific QEMU issues, but I'm curious what "testing" actually means. For example, using american fuzzy lop to run apps inside qemu-user-??? could be one way to generate a steady stream of noise/data.

Using AFL like this sounds like it could be fun to experiment/play with, although I don't know if it has the necessary comprehension to handle "emulation or host program running guest program" semantics at the moment, where two programs (the emulator and the guest program) both need to be tracked for best results.

These ideas don't exactly find any time to fix bugs, however...
Tell them what I tell them ("You have to climb the mountain to reach the guru. Otherwise you won't appreciate his advice!")

That usually gets the recruiters out of my hair.
As soon as his house becomes a major content-neutral platform that you practically need to use to publish online.
I wouldn't view it like a warning so much as a reconition of our fears for the future. Few of the techs discussed would be easy sells for people.
They protect a large amount of the DDoS-as-a-service sites ("stress testers" or "booters").
The organization was publicly claiming that cloudflare secretly supported them.
I'm willing to bet there is a good chance that if all of those employees went through standard Google hiring channels, not a single one would make it through in their first try.

For a company that takes pride in hiring engineers who more often than not fail the hiring process at least once before eventually getting hired, it's a bit far fetched to assume that Google would not do anything un-Googley and would still end up hiring a non-zero fraction of a company they just acquired based purely on that company's outward success in their favorite arenas (mobile, app-downloads, capital-raising, AI, etc) that have nothing to do with technical performance in 45-minute chunks of time.

As someone who failed the process more than once and has read about and is familiar with the process and the arguments surrounding it on both sides, feed me the mantra that Google is coveted enough to afford to fail smart people in interviews (a common response to the potentially false positive rejections). But don't insult my intelligence by claiming that if Google liked and acquired a successful startup, there was absolutely zero change in the interview process before 10%-30% of the staff was hired.
Who's talking about unreliability? I'm talking about perfectly reliable tools of oppression.
Serious question: where's the line?

The government shouldn't be censoring.

I don't allow white nationalists into my house.

At what point does "I" represent something too big for me to no longer have the moral privilege to refuse to collaborate with white nationalists?
Their service may be good enough but they are hardly investing enough into their product at the moment. mailbox.org is also not a core product of theirs. Just read through the forums (mostly in German); there are basic features/aspects missing you'd expect with a paid service nowadays like automated DKIM next to bug fixes needed around the web interface, which also can't compare to Fastmail's or Google's mail UI in terms of efficiency and usefulness – it's clunky: consequences of being fully dependent on foreign upstreams, I guess. Plus there's plenty of downtime. And that's for prices similar to Fastmail and GSuite when looking at similarly featured tiers (GSuite Basic – Fastmail professional – mailbox.org Mail XXL plan).
> Whether that will continue to hold I don't know, mobile has certainly pushed certain parts back towards caring about efficiency (though more because it impacts battery life).

Has it? Try using a low end phone with something like 8GB of internal storage, mobile apps are ridiculously slow and bloated. It's to the point where I haven't looked in the play store for years because I simply don't have enough room on my phone. That means the dev community has screwed itself over with wastefulness.