skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, there appears to be many environmentalists and conservation people against large desert solar arrays claiming it threatens habitat of whatever lives there. It probably does have an impact but at this point unless population declines or energy use dramatically decreases I think we need to focus on minimizing human impact on the environment and not stopping everything that isn't completely harmless.
So what are we supposed to do about bed head?
> and push us to single payer at ludicrous speed. There would be no other option palatable.

Considering how many people are against any kind of collective payment for health and how many protections Republicans are happy to sacrifice... is it really the only option? It could just go worse with few people getting any kind of insurance. (Enough to keep the system profitable, but not necessarily helpful)
I am what OP describes. Recently burned out and went on leave for 6 months, and it's happening again two months later. Can't take leave this time, though, since I emptied my savings last time.

The biggest loss wasn't any of what was listed above. No, I knew about the risks and accepted them because I was passionate about creating and contributing. Now the passion is gone. Working and trying to improve causes so much dissonance, like trying to swallow roast beef that always seems to cause food poisoning.
Check what PriceUSA or Shipito would charge. (not affiliated, have used both of these services before)
This is really tempting. If Apple hadn't made such great strides in iOS for the iPad over the past three releases I would jump on this in a heartbeat.

But I live my life in a combination of the Apple and Google ecosystem and this supports neither.
I am SURE video games and, ahem, online activities are largely responsible for these trends. The amount of time spent on the computers/tablets/smartphones is staggering, and it has to come from somewhere.
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Your right to vote does a lot more for you than get you money, it can keep you alive! For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go due in Vietnam.

Additionally it could keep you out of jail.
Also, my guess is that the success rate for interviews would be fairly low, making any comparison of the success rates for different languages/editors even more statistically shaky. They should definitely publish the total sample size and success percentage for these results to be meaningful.

Example: Say they hired 5 out of a 100 applicants who used Python, and 2 out of 20 applicants who used Ruby. That's a 5% success rate vs a 10% success rate, a 100% increase. I'd hardly call that a significant result though.

Disclaimer: I'm no statistician either
I'm in the same boat. Mostly C# for 15 years, and now Rails. I've seen bugs in production that were non-trivial to track down that a static type checker would have caught. Refactoring is tough, not just because of the lack of static typing, but because of implicit dependencies, crazy and inconsistent ways to handle and invoke method messages, etc. In short,I'm not a Ruby fan...
This is definitely how I felt as well. The discussion is kind of circular, "You need a clock because doing things without a clock doesn't fit well into a clocked paradigm."

It's not an argument against clockless design, but an observation on the limitations of doing everything in a single clock tick of an already clocked chip.

We can surely build a circuit without any clock, but what challenges do we run into? How does imposing discrete clock steps help? What exactly is a clock? I would have liked to see the discussion drop a level or two of abstraction to EE or something.
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Wow lots of pretty defensive responses. I'm not saying, nor did I ever say I did want monkeys. And anyone who has ever worked with us I'm 100% sure would not consider us to be rigid or obsessed with process. I'm just saying you can be constructive and flexible in acknowledging the company's challenges as well vs just saying "fuck you". I really don't get how that message was turned into "your company is rigid and you probably get filtered by sr devs". We have very good Sr devs and have very good luck recruiting them compared to the challenges most face in SF.
> Considering how many people are against any kind of collective payment for health

There is more support for single payer than you might have been led to believe.

"Currently, 60% say the federal government is responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans, while 39% say this is not the government’s responsibility. These views are unchanged from January, but the share saying health coverage is a government responsibility remains at its highest level in nearly a decade."

"Even among those who say the federal government is not responsible for ensuring Americans have health care coverage, there is little public appetite for government withdrawing entirely from involvement in health care coverage. Among the public, 33% say that health care coverage is not the government’s responsibility, but that programs like Medicare and Medicaid should be continued; just 5% of Americans say the government should not be involved at all in providing health insurance."

Emphasis mine.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-suppo...

EDIT: HN throttling, sorry for editing this instead of replying.

@nerfhammer:

That doesn't mean you don't try.
Probably not enough interest.

It'd be interesting to see the costs split out based on available sun. I would guess they are lower in Phoenix than in Connecticut.
I really like the that you don't need a templating language on top of it, just use shorthand php syntax instead.

I also find that developmemt time is quite fast, even without using frameworks.

You probably don't need templating languages or frameworks, php makes it easy without it, it's built for it.

The performance is quite good, way better that most people think. It's also easy to write functionality in C if you really need to go all out.

For other stuff than web development PHP has it's downsides. It's made for building websites and in my opinion it's doing that job very well, but most other languages are general languages that works better for most other things.

I think most people would enjoy PHP way more without a heavy and insanely slow framework.
Via a write-up in Science News [1]

[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-test-water-ripples-s...
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Why? Actual terrorist activity is rare. People being harassed, detained, etc. in the name of fighting terrorism, not so much.
Also to be clear we don't do 1-1 pairing sessions in our code using our editors (nor did I say that either). My point was entirely that a "fuck you I'm not a monkey" response is pretty jaded and that jaded developers, even very sr devs, have a cost all their own that no company should want to take on.
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> Conclusion: Even if the modules cost $0.0000001, the total price could not fall much more unless the rest of the business model gets updated.

Which is where solar roofing comes in, taking up the cost of installation almost completely and dropping price almost to grid scale. Of course, the only solar roofing available forces you to get it installed by their technicians, but hey. Baby steps.
Just survived Irma on St. Maarten. That sounds like a solid plan. Good luck. If your experience was anything like mine, I seriously doubt you will be able to fly on Thursday, but I hope I'm wrong. If you get a chance to stock up on even more water + food, do it -- you really can't have too much.
are you saying that most base images don't have ssl?

because i'm a baseimage maintainer (http://github.com/phusion/baseimage) and I don't think that's true...

https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag...
When you need to start worrying about memory allocation control, garbage collection latency, pointers, byte padding, and CPU instructions per operation, Go might be not be the best tool for the job anymore. Seems like Rust might be a better choice here? Instead of reverse engineering what the compiler might do, then structuring the code in subtle ways to get the compiler to actually do what you intend to do, why not pick a language that lets you command the compiler do to what you want?
I liked how at the end of the article the mom classified behaviors as "all kinds of risky stuff that I can imagine would be age appropriate." Right. As if she was never that age :)

Climate change seems like an odd thing to pick as a scary reason not to have sex or drink. Endless hysterical news stories about kids being abducted, maybe.

It's hard to get too excited about kids delaying driving if they're ALSO not being allowed to go out on their own on transit or bicycles or whatever.
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I am not sure about your claim that sex doesn’t require money. At least the male side courtship seems to be rather expensive both in terms of time and money. Granted that depends on what side of the pareto distribution you fall under.
I agree with your point that having the breadth of human knowledge at your fingertips helps you make better decisions especially with how inforgiving the internet’s memory is. It does come with a different set of pathologies though. I find that socializing with real people requires a lot more work than it would if I didn’t have an amalgamation of internet people to talk to.
Ubuntu 16.10 is already out of support, they should update that. Artful is out in a month or so.
Might I suggest trying out JavaScript Standard Style [0]? It has editor plugins and a CLI tool for linting.

You can write JavaScript just fine without semicolons. I used to be in the same camp, but Feross eventually convinced me to try dropping em. Despite being cautious and a bit skeptical, I tried it out in a few projects by removing all semicolons with a search and replace. In every single case, I encountered zero issues.

[0] https://standardjs.com
Also, afterward, don't go near wires or any floodwater that may be in contact with something electric.

Source: Was electrocuted in post-Irma floodwater, and am lucky to be still alive.
You forgot to add:

Now GET OFF MY LAWN!?
What makes Apple different from Google is that I give them money and they give me stuff. My interests and their interests are mostly aligned. They make money by selling me stuff, not by tracking me around the web, collecting information etc.
I think he is confusing "sex" with "stuff people go through to get sex"...
Imagine that I give you a magic piece of paper with two binary digits (00/01/10/11) on it. I also keep such a paper for myself. If we both start by looking at our first digits then those will mysteriosly match, but if we then look at our second digits they will have just a 50% chance of matching. However, if we both start by looking at the last digits, then those will match, and our first digits will have a 50% chance of matching. If you and I start by looking at different digits, then the digits we read are just standard random bits.

The cool thing about this is that our magic paper will also work instantly even if we are lightyears apart. However, if you decide to look at the last digit and you see a 1, then that tells you nothing about me or which digits (if any) I have looked at, so I can't send you a message with this paper.
> why is it unquestioned when building much larger, more complicated systems that we also need to reason about?

It's not unquestioned at all. See for instance, CQRS and event sourcing.

Mutable state is generally a problem, but undelimited mutable state is a serious headache.
I'd say giving one a grade they didn't earn, because it is more convenient for you, is the wrong thing.

It's surely a breach of ethics to evaluate someone's work and report that they did better than you concluded they did for convenience. I'd call that ethical breach "the wrong thing."

OP said to think twice about "honest grading" so I think dishonest grading is the problem with what you are calling "soft grading."

I don't think anyone inside wants it changed, I don't think anyone ever does when a broken system benefits them more than those outside. That's why it was in quotes.
Is there marketing when it comes to hashing? That's absurd; it seems more like a hard stop being put to an unfair comparison.
About time for someone to start offering an insurance plan where all consultation is via facetime/video chat and expensive non-critical operations are done in Mexico or a ship parked in Int'l waters close to major cities on either coast. Only get an emergency room insurance for the US!
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Melatonin and St.John's improved my sleep to the point of no longer needing afternoon(feeling sleepy around1300-1500) naps.

Also keeping tabs on sugar and caffeine consumption.
So you still can't name the language that won these benchmarks and which other languages it ran against?

Because they're not on the page, so I can only conclude you made this up.
Two scenarios:

1) Company pays you 100k of which you then go spend 19k in the private insurance market to buy insurance leaving you with 81k after insurance costs.

2) Company pays for your health insurance and then pays you a salary of 81k.

They sound the same right? But they aren't! In #1 you will pay income tax based on a 100k salary. In #2 you will only pay income tax on 81k of salary. So you're better off in scenario #2.

Given the strong employee preference for #2 most employers in competitive hiring situations will tend of offer employer sponsored health care.

There are some other reasons why this happens too, but this is one of the biggest.
I'm currently taking CS61C (Machine Structures) and part of the course focuses on RISC-V. Could you elaborate on the importantance of RISC-V? I don't think I have a formal enough background to appreciate it.
How is the lack of a headphone jack "evil"? They support standard Bluetooth headphones and come with an adapter in the box. Was it also evil when they got rid of the Ethernet port and forced users to either use Wifi or get an adapter?
I have no experience with any of this, but to my knowledge what you're looking for is the Rocket Chip.[0] It's a RISC-V core implemented in Chisel. The primary FPGA target is a bit steep at around $500 [1] but there's a "small" config[2] that targets a more reasonable $190 board [3].

[0] https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip

[1] http://store.digilentinc.com/zedboard-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc...

[2] https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip#-how-can-i-p...

[3] http://store.digilentinc.com/zybo-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc-tra...
Yup, one of the few sites that really gave my 6 year old macbook air troubles. Adblock counter was running up like crazy.
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You need to incorporate. You can't write it off as a 1099 contractor. You CAN write it off as an employee of an LLC.

There's a lot of other good reasons to incorporate as well. Use an S-corp election (as an LLC) and you can get out of paying the SE tax on a significant portion of your income. There are some limitations and you need to bill over a certain amount, but anybody who makes a six-figure income consulting should be doing so under an LLC, not as a 1099 contractor.
There are startups popping up that offer consultation via facetime/video chat but unfortunately, they are only covering small areas or big cities at the moment. We're really behind on this in the US unfortunately.
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RE: Portability -
Not sure how far you'll be able to get by gcc -S'ing something like nuklear[1] (cross-platform ANSI C89) but it might save you some time.

I don't have much HLL asm/demoscene experience personally so I'm not sure what's "impressive" as engineering feats these days but this looks cool. As someone who aspires to see a viable Smalltalk-like runtime self-modifiable introspective debugger at the OS level with a decent layer of POSIX compatibility and the ability to run AVX512 instructions, I like the idea that tools like this are out there. Cheers, mate

[1] https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
Probably you wait until you're drowsy after lunch, intake caffeine, nap from your drowsiness and then wake up when the caffeine hits.

I don't know, genetically and functionally I'm a fast metabolizer of caffeine so I can drink energy drinks and go to sleep after a bit (15-20 minutes or so) of laying in the dark.
There's an increasing amount of people that won't buy a new car unless it has Android Auto/CarPlay compatibility. To ignore these consumers and think that you have a better solution is ignorant to what's happening around you.
Expanding on the breathing example in the article, could we say there are at least three distinct systems in the brain that control breathing? They are:

- Conscious breathing: I follow a chosen breathing pattern with no immediate awareness of the breathing process.

- Meta-conscious breathing: I choose to be fully aware and in control of multiple aspects of breathing. I control my diaphragm and lips directly, I listen to and feel air passing, I consider how the position of my body affects breathing, etc. I also may choose an appropriate breathing pattern: deeper for hiking, more rhythmic for aerobic exercise, or slow for contemplation. After I have chosen a new pattern, that new pattern soon becomes conscious rather than meta-conscious; although the special breathing continues, I am no longer immediately aware of my new behavior. A change in activity reverts my conscious breathing behavior back to normal without any meta-conscious choice.

- Unconscious breathing: What I do when I sleep. It's clearly different from conscious breathing because I may snore, and many people even suffer from sleep apnea, which means they momentarily stop breathing while sleeping. Neither snoring nor sleep apnea are part of the experience of breathing consciously, so unconscious breathing must be very different somehow.

Am I using the terms correctly?

Curiously, many activities like speaking, eating, and swimming interrupt normal breathing yet do not necessarily invoke any meta-conscious decision making. If I had to think about when to breathe every time I wanted to speak, my meta-conscious mind would be overloaded with that task alone and I would forget what I wanted to say.
I found that after a few weeks of trying to take 20 minute naps after lunch I was able to fall asleep pretty quickly. One thing I read at the time said that even if you don't fall asleep during the 20 minutes, you still get some of the benefits. I think napping sort of taught me how to fall asleep quickly.
Here are the exact numbers that went into the figure you reference, the key costs findings by category for 2010-2017:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nrel-u-s-solar-photovoltaic...

Soft costs decreased appreciably from 2016-2017 in both "utility-scale" categories (Fixed-Tilt, and One-Axis Tracker), and have increased slightly at the smaller "commercial" and "residential" scales. Across all scales, soft costs claim a larger portion because other costs are falling more quickly.

Only at residential scale has soft cost growth consumed much of the savings in other costs:
$-0.18/(watt installed) total cost,
$+0.16/(watt installed) soft costs.

At commercial scale:
$-0.32/(watt installed) total cost,
$+0.05/(watt installed) soft costs.

While this direction of change is certainly suboptimal, I don't think the magnitude is worrisome yet.

EDIT: paragraph/line breaks for clarity of presentation.
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There are many startups which make products that take more than a month to make.
That or provide universal health care not tied to employment.

Given my experiences with in-person doctors I think video-chatting with one would be about the most idiotic waste of my time possible.
>> There are a few people who cannot get insurance individually thanks to pre-existing conditions

It's allot more than a few. Insurance companies consider a single night in a hospital a pre-existing condition.
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66% sounds about right. People left for all sorts of reasons, not just flunking out.

I wonder what has changed since then to so drastically change the graduation rate.
> At that point you could step up and be the person who communicates & reinforces that with the team.

You have a year or two when you can do that with authority without being in the code day to day. After that, you're a fucking blowhard.
Another point here that was true during my time: almost all exams were take home, open book. Some were even unlimited time, although that was much rarer. Generally though, time was not the constraint keeping you from completing the exam.
... yes? It's still relevant and missing info which of the addresses that have been used they looked at.
This is a great idea - it's like the medical demos they use ar/vr for but for engineers.

Someone should make a VR version for mechanical motions like that How to Make a Car course that was posted here a while ago
> One of the most confusing things I find with web development (which I'm mostly new to, coming from a backend background) is that everyone seems entirely happy with JS (or more accurately the DOM?) and CSS being giant mutable state buckets.

Actually, as you guessed, lots of people in the modern web community are unhappy with the mess of mutable state, and have done something about it! Redux [1] is all about using immutable state to tame the mess into a simple model involving application state expressed as an immutable object, the ui produces events, which get piped through a reducer, yielding a new state. If you skim over the "redux motivation" link below you'll see it talks all about the issues you're raising.

There are tons of variants of this theme, including NGRX which is the same concept applied to Angular 2. [2]

> CSS especially is a nightmare. It's near impossible in complex projects to work out if your change is going to change other things adversely...

I feel your pain, and have struggled with this endlessly in the past. However, this is a mostly a well-solved problem in modern environments. For example in Angular 2, the css is automatically scoped for you down to the component level in a sane way[3].

Try React with Redux, or Angular2 with NGRX and see if it solves the issues you're concerned with.

It's enough different options to make your head spin, I know. Just try out Angular 2 or Redux and see what you think.

[1] http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/Motivation.html
[2] http://onehungrymind.com/build-better-angular-2-application-...
[3] http://blog.ng-book.com/css-isolation-in-angular-2-component...
The fact is that we have political circus in the US that will kill the nation long term.

The Chinese have a 100 year plan for dominance they are working toward.

The only thing the US appears to have is a strong military and a current monopoly on the available technologies.

In 100 years, china will likely dominate the globe.
Seems like machine learning could be used to provide greater insight.
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Ah ok, makes sense, thanks! I guess thats a less than ideal tax condition where entity X can tax write off expense E, but entity Y can't, so it makes sense for Y to pay X rather than buy directly.
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