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Australia does not need any more coal stations. Wanting to build new ones has weirdly become a strange infatuation by the conservatives, but there is absolutly no need in Australia for more baseline capacity. It's all in the peaks, which is all gas (which mostly of sets the benchmark price given where it sits in the AEMO stack).

So most of our price problems are just the price of gas, and the introduced reservation program has helped with that a little but does not go far enough. That, and the gold plating of the infrastructure (which alone is like 40% or something IIRC of the price rises over the last decade).

Most of the 'reliability problems' than the politician are on about are really just 'fears of possible future reliability problems', stirred up by the blackouts in SA that were mostly due to transmission lines being blown over in a massive storm while one of the interconnectors with Victoria was down for maintenance, and some wind turbines tripping out because of dangerously high wind speeds. There isn't really that much reliability risk apart from the fact that our coal stations are all pretty unreliable (the Australia Institute has taken to tweeting every time a generator trips out, it's pretty crazy how unreliable our coal stations are).

Perhaps we will need some more gas peaking stations but new pumped hydro and big batteries will probably take over some of that.
Even when I disregard the inate desire of humans for popularity, forks and esp. stars are a sometimes-useful signal for the size of your user base. If I have 10 repos with 1-3 stars and 1 repo with 100 stars, that is useful information to consider when planning the next project.
Absolutely. The advantage of the liquified air approach is that you don't need a handy mountain. You could pop storage into city infrastructure quite easily.
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Another article that is of interest to me personally but I am surprised to see on HN.
I am part of several organisations and all my tooling is based around git and sometimes third party github extensions.

I can move. But it's definitly not painless.
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While the article doesn't explicitly make the association, I get the impression that a lot of HN readers make the assumption that India's tech sector is synonymous with its IT services industry. Not so. While it is true that IT services is plateauing, that is not so with the tech sector as a whole. E-commerce, cloud-computing, fintech are exploding in India driven by a massive domestic market demand and an ability to reach global markets easily. There is a new breed of product startups out of Bangalore and other places that are born global (e.g. Zoho). They build products (not services) for the world, and not just India. Inward investment into the Indian tech sector was the highest it ever was (though still dwarfed by investment into the US tech sector and China's tech sector) https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/2017-saw-... So the doom and gloom are not quite accurate. Yes IT services may have plateaued after two decades of torrid growth, but tech is doing fine thank you.
> they are disincentivised to automate repetitive tasks

That's definitely the issue here.

As an engineer , you are usually trained to automate as much as your work as possible , and we create framework for that.

Outsourcer won't , or will not tell you about it because they need to charge you money for it.

At some point , it's very likely that India will suffer the same crisis as China labour from automation.
The problem is that only the top 10% of Indian programmers are in the top ten percent.
The culture of always say yes, and never contradict what the western project manager says, regardless how ridiculous it might be?

Until it explodes and escalates all the way to the top.
While gitter generally is a good idea I have yet to land in a active channel. The partly abondened IRC channels often still show a lot more activity even when they link to their gitter in their meta.
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I believe you are describing epidemiological studies.

Some of those studies are already done. Viagra's effect on erectile dysfunction was based on collecting data about side-effects when evaluating its use as a treatment for angina.

But I don't see how they can be applied to most drug tests.

For example, in the news recently we learned of a new treatment which lead to a "complete response in breast cancer patient." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/nci-nat06011...

This requires an intervention and special personalized analysis of DNA and RNA from both a tumor and her normal tissue.

There won't have been any observational data which lead to Taxol because it's not something that cancer patients would normally inject into themselves, outside of a clinical study.

Most new drugs require complex and expensive synthesis, many may require special treatment methods or schedules, and most are for uncommon diseases. I don't see how a observational data from a non-clinical study can be effective.

Similarly, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and other such treatments are not normally found outside of clinical studies, and I don't see how it could be otherwise.

As for basic theory / models, I follow the blog "In the Pipeline", by Derek Lowe, a pharmaceutical chemist. Links to his blog come up not infrequently here on HN. I get the very strong impression that models are used all the time, that model building is an important part of pharmaceutical chemistry, and the reason for iterative testing in assays, cell cultures, and the like is because the mathematical models aren't that good, even after decades of attempts.

A DDG search for 'Boldrin' on that blog shows several articles which reference "Against Intellectual Monopoly", including http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2006/04/02/dow... . I am too ill-informed to be able to provide any commentary on my own.

As I understand it, most of the "me-too" drugs are because multiple drug companies are working with relatively few drug targets. If company X comes out with a drug, and company Y comes out with a 'me-too' drug two years later, most likely what happened was that companies X and Y started looking for a drug some 15-20 years ago against the same target, and found similar compounds. Then when X got its patent, Y had to figure out some way to extract profit from its decade of work, which would otherwise go down the drain.

It's not so much that Y "researched" X's existing drug to make a me-too compound.

In addition, just because some drug appears to be a "me-too" drug, that doesn't make it useless. People's bodies are different. Quoting from a comment at http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/08/31/me_... , "Some people may not respond to Zocor but may respond beautifully to Lipitor. Or they may experience less muscle weakness under Crestor." See also http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/02/29/mor... .
> Legacy code. Bob was the only one around when this code was written and it hasn't been touched in years, now it's breaking and no one understands why. (In an ideal world, there wouldn't be knowledge silos like this, but there always are)

Not sure how well/different that works in a remote-first company, but at previous workplaces I was, we tried to have one day a week dedicated to refactoring, which might reduce that problem.
Interesting. In Australia do people regularly install rooftop solar installations without also installing battery units? What's the logic there? Just selling it to the grid?
I feel like a horrible person for this - but in an outsourcing scenario: listening a LOT to direction and not explore solutions very much themselves. This is probably amplified by their management giving them hell if they spend too much on exploring instead of ticking off the boxes that they can bill for.

I.e. not only "you get what you pay for" in the sense that cheap labour might not be the most skilled labour, but in the deeper sense in that if the outsourcing scenario is such that the western company orders a bunch of stuff from a checklist done, well, that's what's going to get done.

This is the same problem a large organization has locally too, but it gets amplified when you try to outsource things and increase turn-around time.
Absolutely. BTW, that's one of the key issues why the Panaya acquisition was a failure for Infosys. The business strategy was right: automate for the corporate entity to increase quality and reduce costs. The problem was the outsourcers on the ground had no incentive to bring Panaya into the picture.
You have something like a 1 in 4 billion chance of entering a valid bitcoin address if you made a typo, whether it's "one letter wrong" or some other combination of changes (there's a 32 bit checksum). So actually this never happens.
Since there are so many threads already, here is a recap of the competition:

Self Hosted (in order of anecdotal popularity)
- Gitlab
- Gitea (fork of Gogs)
- Gogs
- Phabricator
- GitBucket
- Rhodecode
- Kalithea (fork of Rhodecode)
- GitPrep
- Allura
- GitSSB
- Pagure

If you want hosted Git, there are many competitors, but some of the notable are
- Gitlab
- Attlassian BitBucket
- Google Cloud Repositories
- Amazon CodeCommit
- Canonical Launchpad
- Sourceforge

All of which assume you want git, but other DVCSs are Mercurial (which is supported by a number of the above servers) and Fossil.
My enjoyment of fravia's philosophizing led me to try my hand at the crackmes and other stuff. I could get a few but never really got the hang of it, it was a great educational exercise.

I highly recommend anyone who's interested (particularly people who don't remember a pre-Google, pre-Facebook internet) in bold (and crazy) ideas about technology reading his work.

Edit: I suppose many if not most of the essays aren't strictly "pre-Google" but they are from its much earlier days when it was a very different service.
Some of us were already doing it in 1992, with our own string classes as passage rite, but adoption takes time.
From the article: "the growing peak demand that comes at the end of the day, as the sun sets.". So the solar production of electricity peaks earlier than the end-of-day consumption peak.
The thing that r2 is lacking is a good decompiler. IDAs decompiler really helps a lot if you are reversing a big binary with many structs.
Google in the past had Google Code, which was fine and had some level of success.

Microsoft had Codeplex and was rather similar. Didn't use it enough to form an opinion about it.

Both were largely left behind by Github.
My experience with our programmers in India is that only the top 1% of them are at or above mediocre. Most Indian universities are garbage degree printers. The top institutes are super competitive, but those people rarely stay in India.
It's from https://hott.github.io/book/nightly/hott-online-1174-g29279f...
> At some point , it's very likely that India will suffer the same crisis as China labour from automation.

Is China really suffering that crisis? I have the impression that they focused early enough on high-tech industries and that the increasing wealth (leading to higher cost) drives more manual labour away than automation.
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Why not? Do you think if you were born in their position, to their family, in their circumstances, you would be any different? Are you unable to understand the responsibility of NOT the individual and everyone else (parents, peers, society, racism, etc.) in creating the "monster" you deem unfit for being treated, dare I say as a human, and compassionately?
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Yeah, we had extremely generous feed-in tariffs for a while. It's generally net-metering too so pretty good value, even as the prices have come down. We have no shortage of sun most places, so it's pretty easy to almost wipe out your entire bill (except for the service/distribution fees, which have gone up a lot over the last few years, I guess to combat that).
How long ago was this? You could take it up with someone higher up the food chain, providing you can demonstrate your successes and prove the review is unjust. A decent company doesn't want to lose talented, hard working employees through the malicious actions of middle managers.
It's certainly a lot more complicated than that, and India doesn't have a free market. That's precisely one of the biggest problems they need to resolve, their economy is hamstrung by backward, legacy regulations. Assuming they can reform their economy over time to make it more competitive, there's no question they'll have the world's third largest economy in 15 years.

If they don't reform it properly, the population alone guarantees very little. Just ask Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh or Indonesia. The outlook was supposed to be bright for Brazil, they were going to be a new economic juggernaut. They've spent the last five years rolling from one disaster to another, with their economy not net expanding for over a decade now. If the proper steps aren't taken along the way, it's easy enough to fall into that sort of trap as a developing nation trying to overcome an endless supply of challenges. The persistent diligence required to not fall backwards, is rather incredible (especially when you're competing with the first world, China, developing Asian economies like Vietnam, all of Latin America which similarly wants to keep progressing, and so on).
May I ask which technologies have you worked on?
Look at other societies and ask yourself if your type of thinking that drives societal thinking may actually be part of the cause in creating these "monsters". Why are homicide rates so much lower elsewhere (say Europe)? What is it about American society that creates this?
Sounds very naive to be really honest.. working random hours without any info for your peers when you are avilable to consult is counter productive, I've witnessed project holdups too many times because someone decided to come late or really early. I also see no real way for manager/sup to know when someone is slacking off and maintain discipline. Cant really see any compamy thriving on such model.
Agreed that is weird wording. When I look at my environment there are basically 2 kind of developers (from this point of view) those who do Net and use the MS stack, and those who don't do Net and at max worked with VS code.

I really don't know a lot of people who do anything with the MS stack. And those who do code on and for Microsoft (which already is a minority)

I personally don't know anyone who switched from Atom or Sublime to VS. Only VS users I know have been using real VS before.
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Better just to use it for aluminium smelting or some other productive purpose instead...
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well that's not panacea neither, since budget comes from government/state, and so with change of government leading directors are often changed too for 'a more compatible view'.

just look at post-soviet/eastern block media, we all have those (tv/radio) but nobody expects anymore true objectivity there.
All the ballyhoo stunk to high heaven to me -- a case of "doth protest too much". So, my guess is the tech actually worked (even if not as perfect as originally hoped). And the company was destroyed by industry players via government regulation and a massive smear campaign -- and it worked like a charm. Ultimately they even murdered the lead scientist, faking his suicide, to ensure the truth is never known. The tech was simply too disruptive to the hand-over-fist $$$ in the industry, so it had to be put down.

And if you think that's crazy, you haven't read enough history.
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It runs deep than that.

C suffers from a macho culture, where many developers deeply believe that only the others do mistakes.

Even Dennis was quite clear that C was not supposed to be used without help from lint (developed in 1979).

"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions."

-- https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Guess how many do run lint or any other static analyzers as part of their build.
For Java related projects we use to have Codehaus. But it it shut down [0] and the repos are now at Github [1].

[0] https://www.javaworld.com/article/2892227/open-source-tools/...

[1] https://github.com/codehaus

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If gitlab were to fold, they would probably move to whoever is the best candidate at the time.

While moving is very painful, the fact that git is distributed means that setting up camp somewhere else is pretty smooth. Even the headaches of the other stuff, such as issues et al, will probably be handled by whoever the new host is.
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Yeah, that's pretty apparent. :)
You can do it by yourself, if you create any algo that is able to perform above 50% hit, you can get infinitely rich. Why work for a company if you can do it? Or why would a company that does it would exist if somebody solo can do this?

I'm a fundamentalist, so I hardly believe anybody can reliably make money doing this. Maybe with HFT or insider information, which both are fields I don't really wanna compete in, as they both feels like cheating to me(and the second, illegal).

If anybody could reliably make money doing trades of any kind, which doesn't either abuse insider information or latency of systems, they could as well predict the future, the lotto ticket etc.

The people I think work on this field are working for big companies and investing other people's money, which generally got a huge amount and by themselves can sort of try to manipulate the market, usually have a taste of inside information and generally get outperformed in the long term by somebody that just reads balance sheets.

But this is a comment from an outsider, which has been making constantly more gains than S&P(by a tight margin, dunno if this will last, maybe I'll just regress towards the mean) for a decade, just checking balances sometimes. I just invest in companies which are well managed, by my criteria, while I work fulltime as a software dev.

Just try to imagine how many companies with open capital exists, and how bad management can be, if you could find the good management in good markets, also try to understand more how the government will influence it, you could create much more powerful methods.

I've done a fair of trading though, mostly flipping IPO's, but I don't believe somebody can make money doing trades.
Solar isn't the problem, but the renewables situation is related. We had a Labor government with the Greens holding a balance of power from ~2010 to ~2013. The Labor party had, I believe, been opposed to a carbon tax up until that point. Then, likely because of pressure from the Greens, introduced a carbon tax.

The lesson there will not have been lost on big investors. If anyone invests in fossil fuel generation (ie, the economic option) then the Greens will find a way to destroy their profit margins at some point in the next decade.

And so, little serious investment in the energy sector seems to be taking place. I'm not aware of any big developments planned except an interesting hydropower project by the current government and creeping smaller-scale wind and solar as prices rise and justify their existence.
The book Bad Blood is amazing and extremely gripping. The question, however, why Holmes did this is still open. The critical point to remember is that Holmes never sold her shares and in fact she kept accumulating more. She didn't need IQ of 150 to figure out that going live with erroneous medical devices would get her slammed with lawsuits from patients. If she just wanted to dup investors to become rich, she could have done it real easy by stepping aside, let someone inherit the mess and then selling her stack. In fact her board asked her to do just that before WSJ found out and she refused it. I have seen her plenty of talks/interviews and its super hard to believe she was working with malicious plan all along. Part of me wants to feel that her desire was genuine to some extent and she just hoped things would work out if she pulled lies and deception long enough to keep raising funds. She had lots of top tier advisors who have done exactly that to establish their own companies. I'm not defending her by any measure, she was classic bad manager with Balwani topping even her. There was a very little chance she could have actually ran talented team longer term - but this is precisely the part book conveniently leaves out.
> It's how markets work.

The "labor market" is a pretty good example of how markets don't work. Workers are pretty much forced to participate in the "market" because they have to eat. This alone is a ridiculous distortion of market mechanisms. There are also huge information asymmetries regarding salary levels.
That would make sense - the previous slides talk about adulteration/faking the "olive" part, which had me confused.
Reminds me of this game company (Campo Santo) using DMCA against PewDiePie [1] because they were offended at something he said while playing an unrelated game. It's another weapon in online fights.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xxwyg/pewdiepie-...
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How can you work and drink at the same time?
>>Why not? Do you think if you were born in their position, to their family, in their circumstances, you would be any different?

Conversely, does everyone in those circumstances grow up to be a violent offender?
I think you should do it! Have you made any progress as of yet?
Your hear many people here on HN actively discouraging the use of the AGPL because it prevents software from being used by companies. Goes to show how well the PR departments work.