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> This is counting all output by wind and solar regardless if it is needed and usable when the power is being produced. This is quite important because wind and solar are not on-demand sources of power.

I think you have that backwards: in the US, we lack the ability to scale down coal and nuclear plants. Solar and Wind are generally the first to get pulled offline when generated capacity exceeds demand and storage.

TIL this is called "curtailment" and it's an argument that utilities have used to justify not spending on renewables that are saving the environment from global warming (which is going to require more electricity for air conditioning).

Solar energy production peaks around noon. Demand for electricity peaks in the evening. We need storage (batteries with supercapacitors out front) in order to store the difference between peak generation and peak use. Because they're unable to store this extra energy, they temporarily shut down solar and wind and leave the polluting plants online.

Consumers aren't exposed to daily price fluctuations: they get a flat rate that makes it easy to check their bill; so there's no price incentive to e.g. charge an EV at midday when energy is cheapest.

The 'Duck curve' shows this relation between peak supply and demand in electricity markets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

Developing energy storage capabilities (through infrastructure and open access basic research that can be capitalized by all) is likely the best solution. According to a fairly recent report, we could go 100% renewable with the energy storage tech that exists today.

But there's no money for it. There's money for subsidizing oil production (regardless of harms (!)), but not so much for wind and solar. There's money for responding to natural disasters caused by global warming, but not so much for non-carbon-based energy sources that don't cause global warming. A film called "The Burden: Fossil Fuel, the Military, and National Security" quotes the actual unsubsidized price of a gallon of gasoline.

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of computer workload that could be run whenever energy is cheapest ( 'energy spot instances') so that we can accelerate our migration to renewable energy sources that are saving the environment for future generations? If there were people who had strong incentives to create demand for power-efficient chips and inexpensive clean energy.

Where would be if we had continued with Jimmy Carter's solar panels on the roof of the White House (instead of constant war and meddling with competing oil production regions of the world)?

It's good to see wind and solar growing this fast this year. A chart with cost per kWhr or MWhr would be enlightening.
> I wish that if they’re gonna downrank “good” pirate content then they should do the same (or worse) for the bad/malicious ones.

I'm pretty confident they'd like to but it's a tricky problem. Based on this article, they're downranking based on number of legit DMCA requests - the good sites will generate a lot of signal on that front. The bad/malicious sites won't.

The malicious/scam sites usually come and go quickly, so it's hard to learn which ones they are - if you figure out one site is a scam, and a new one pops up.

A real solution would require being able to make an automatic judgement about whether a site is bad/malicious based on the content of the site, but that's really hard, and it's really bad when you get false positives, so you have to be super conservative about it.
I don't really agree with these kinds of questions, but to be honest I find your response to be pretty childish. In my opinion it would be better to be honest and say you don't really know, but that you believe you could quickly find out. But your response indicates that you have the potential to be passive aggressive and uncooperative when presented with a question you disagree with.

Now from the interviewer's perspective, they don't know you're absolutely fed up with the culture of tech interviews. They can't see the full interiority of your thoughts. So they can't know why you're reacting like this, all they can see is your behavior. Keep in mind that you're most likely punishing an interviewer who has either been given a mandate for these questions or who doesn't know any better. From your perspective this could be a teachable moment or a way to showcase your thinking.

Even though that might have been a poor question to ask, doing what you did doesn't demonstrate that your time is important. It demonstrates you might have problems being professional and communicating effectively. It signals that you think your time is so important that you're willing to potentially burn an interview to spite someone asking you a question you feel is beneath you.

It's not a good look. Don't give people reasons to write you off.
In other news, some cryptocurrency is able to handle 7000 transactions per second on its entire network, on the power of a single windmill. [1]

Bitcoin is old tech. But there is some pretty cool stuff out there, if you care to look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7ucw1a/the_en...
This three click ritual that I have to do on probably 75% of my searches and 99% of my conscious searches reminds me on the 90s when I would have to inconveniently cntrl+alt+del on windows very frequently.

It’s an example of how google is getting more anti user. They obviously have data on this feature usage. They make a bit of a pain and don’t make it a user preference. I fear this means it’s one of the myriad of little features that developers put in that are eventually de supported.

I imagine the following scenario in a design meeting:

PM: SO THE NEW FEATURE IS AMAZING, WE WILL SHOW USERS THE MOST LIKELY RESULTS THAT THEY WANT TO SEE. AND THIS LEADS TO MORE AD CLICKS.

DEV: BUT WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE WORDS FROM THE SEARCH?

PM: THATS NOT AN ISSUE, OUR ALGORITHM SHOWS THAT 80% OF OUR USERS CLICK ON THESE RESULTS

DEV: HOW WILL I SEARCH STACKOVERFLOW? HOW ABOUT I ADD AN OPTION TO JUST USE THE EXACT TEXT?

PM: WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON SCOPE, CANT WASTE TIME ON BONUS FEATURES

DEV: ITS NOT A BONUS FEATURE ITS HOW SEARCH WORKS BEFORE YOUR CHANGE. IT TAKES 30 SECONDS.

PM: WELL EXACT SEARCH MAKES US LESS AD REVENUE

DEV: ITS REALLY USEFUL

PM: OK MAKE IT HARD TO GET TO SO USERS DONT GET CONFUSED

DEV: OK, AND ILL MAKE A SETTING SO ITS NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL

PM: NO SETTING THAT WOULD BE A COMMITMENT TO KEEP THE FEATURE

<dec shudders thinking of how she will be hated my millions of users who are inconvenienced, wonders where her life has gone, dreams of a better world, starts typing...curtain>
Android Firefox, with the built-in Tracking Protect feature enabled, did block it for me, FWIW.
I suppose sibling comments were downvoted because they didn't address (a) the probable truth of the parent and (b) it's comedic nature.

I'm curious if any natural being could ever last so long. To stand that sort of test of time would require an environmental design to withstand everything the cosmos can throw at a species. Humans won't last that long, but if they did it would be because they augmented themselves.
That’s absolutely true. Once you’ve delivered hardware with certain bugs that can be worked around by firmware/software, often that means the firmware/software teams don’t need or even want those bugs fixed. Fixing the bug means they’d have to go back and change their workarounds, which not only costs time/money, but adds risk that their may be unintended consequences and new issues.
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Same for me with respect to online gaming. Having worked in the games industry and made my own too it's a sad realization that a seemingly large minority of our own customers are abusive. Too many are just an unhappy bunch of people frustrated with life. Attacks extend beyond personal to companies too. For instance, games offer some of the best value for money entertainment and yet many 'gamers' just constantly complain about the price of anything even if it's low. I don't think a lot of these people understand how the general economy works. Some of this may be due to age or immaturity too.
What a fascinating read. Thanks for posting this.
Exactly. If they ask for an explanation give a high level and offer to dig deeper if they want. Most people just wanted the high level.

I've never been asked to explain anything to my grandmother except during interviews. Occasionally I will get asked to explain Bitcoin because people know I understand the blockchain and are curious.

Closest I've come is being asked by a client to detail the architecture for cost reasons. And/or because they are trying to write a job description to get the right person/people to maintain it after I hand it off to them.

On rare occasion I'll get the person who thinks, "That looks easy I could have done it myself!" In those scenarios it is one of two things...

1. They don't understand the complexity or

2. They actually could have done it themselves. Maybe even with an easier to maintain tool like Excel

In the first case don't dismiss them. Be polite and explain it to them. In the second case, don't let your ego get in the way and don't always assume you need a big complicated tool to solve an issue.
Underlining and highlighting have a mechanical failure for recall — they do not exercise the output circuits even once.

Instead, if you want to remember the thought you were about to highlight or underline, write it out long hand, and from short term memory not copying rote, in a note book.

This exercises the full path: reading, comprehension, decision you’ll need to recall, storage, retrieval, and output from mental storage back into physical world.

Plus, the notebook then provides a hook for refreshing the information geography in your storage. Reskim the notes and you refresh the larger narrative and how it hangs together. Revisit the notebook on a periodically decreasing interval, you’ll still recall the narrative decades later.
What search term(s) did you use, and on what page of results did AntiPolygraph.org appear?
In my highly subjective view artists are expecting to get paid for something that most of us have the capability to participate in with reasonable results given a similar investment of effort; in other words, most artists differ from the general population not in artistic aptitude, but rather in the desire to be an artist. I would love to sit around and play with ideas for a living, but it doesn't pay the bills in my occupation.
I just closed it instantly because it didn't have a JS-free fallback of any kind and I run NoScript. As usual, turned out to be the right decision.
1) Safari, preferences - check 'open with new private window'
3) Enable Bing as default search engine

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You can pay them for GSuite, but I don't know if the terms are any more favourable.
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A real solution would be to employ competent humans rather than build and rely on incompetent algorithms.
HTML pages (written properly) don't need metadata for that. It's part of the document.

Metadata is good for things like thumbnails, authorship, or summaries, none of which are necessarily distinguishable in valid HTML.
Boeing will never pay for this by themselves. It's an attempt to get $$$ from Uncle Sugar, just like the SST ferment back in the 1970s.
> This way ultimate power lies with the member nations, not in the Brussels hierarchy.

This is a slight simplification. Only the executive branches of the state governments hold power over all branches of the EU. The legislative branches of the member states get none of that. This imbalance is part of what makes the EU lawmaking such an opaque (and arguably even exploitable) process.
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> Are we really still pretending like Goog/FB/etc. aren't effectively mass information control mechanisms first and foremost?

No. They are a search engine and social network first and foremost.
Maybe they could use an ML model to narrow down which one of their million use cases would benefit most from an ML model. ;)
Recently, I searched "united states" and Google picked up the word "us" in a page footer -- "Contact us".

It's not just averaging of results. That's a problem, but the aggressive reinterpretation of terms is insane and makes it impossible to search for some things.
> I hope my feeling of relative safety is justified, but I'm not a security expert(?).

If you want to be properly paranoid, you should consider getting a VPN. If you're not hiding your IP address, hiding all the rest is of limited utility. A VM doesn't really provide much meaningful anonymity - if someone wants to prosecute you for piracy they'll start by finding the IP address that was downloading/sharing the stuff (that's publicly visible).

On the other hand, it's pretty likely that this sort of paranoia is totally unnecessary - piracy prosecution against individual downloaders has been historically a PR nightmare for the groups doing it, and more or less everyone seems to have given up on that particular approach.

Still, if you want to be paranoid, a VPN will do a lot more for you than a VM and some add blocking.
> I've found that usually when people say they're "passionate" about something, what they're really saying is that they have a deep yearning for the high social status they would attain if they were great at or well-known for that thing.

This is you projecting your own motivations onto others.
This is the first I've heard of this. In tech circles I feel like calling it "oceangate" is odd because I immediately think of some sort of conspiracy or drama :D

I was fascinated by the Titanic after the movie came out (~13 at the time) and while the progress here to be able to take a trip to see the ship is impressive I would be terrified to try something like that.
Speaking of pessimism, i just hope we humans destroy each other before we destroy earth to pave way to species which is not so hell bent on personal over society.
Sorry, some people don't want to support scams, even legal ones.
I dislike this meme of thinking that PMs are all useless and devs are the only sane people in product development.
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Adding to this:

- search for [anti inflammatory] shows the site as first result and it's on page two for [polygraph controversy]. At the least, the blog post is misleading.

- as per other comments, the site isn't mobile friendly, which has a huge impact on mobile ranking.

- searching for [polygraph] the first page includes several listings discussing the controversy around polygraph results. The results are reasonably high quality stuff, i.e. valid choice.

- a more valid test search might be [polygraph accuracy] or [polygraph controversy] to focus on the debate and less on testing centers and basic information.

Disclosure: former Google engineer and worked at 3 search engine companies on various search products. I've done SEO professionally outside of Google, with success. I've also seen smart people botch SEO, myself included.
Clojure is just so coupled with the host language. Which isn't a bad thing, since it helps make interop effortless, but does make it difficult to appreciate as a standalone language.

I first tried to learn Clojure before I knew anything about Java and things like error messages made it really difficult to get started.

Coming back after having written Java professionally for a year, things like random Java exceptions showing up or long stack traces suddenly became a lot more tractable, although still not "beautiful".
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I vouched for this story when it was flagged dead and I wanted to note why I did.

I think it's more likely than not that the "innocent" explanation is correct here. But even if that's the case it still says something important about how google works and those things are being discussed in the comments.

Further even if the article is wrong, I don't see how it violates any of the guidelines. I think there's a tendency at HN to be very protective of google. I'm not sure if that's external fans or employees or what. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but I think it should be primarily expressed in comments rather than flagging or downvotes.
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For statistic purpose, I have it at 8.8$ on .com from France (but in a french Caribbean island, so sometimes IP locations are messed up)
If I knew the answer, I couldn't tell you. :-)

More seriously: people have mooted this possibility for as long as I've been in this field (~20 years). But keep in mind that, when Cocks and Williamson at GCHQ discovered what would later become known as RSA and Diffie-Hellman key exchange---so, 3-4 years ahead of the open world---cryptography essentially didn't yet exist as an academic subject. Almost all the action was still closely tied to the intelligence community. So, no surprise that a not-yet-existing discipline had fallen behind!

By contrast, quantum computing has been openly studied for decades and has thousands of people working on it all over the world. The central thing that causes me to be skeptical of the "million-qubit quantum computer sitting in the NSA's basement" hypothesis, is that we pretty much know who the best people are, and we haven't noticed any effort to vacuum them all up analogous to the Manhattan Project.

Like, it's no secret that the NSA and DoD, and other military and intelligence agencies around the world, are interested in this field and fund a good deal of work on it. In fact my main grant right now (the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship) comes from the Office of Naval Research. But if the secret world is light-years ahead of the open world, then they'd also need to be executing a giant cover operation of pretending to care about what we in academia are doing! :) So at what point does it become an unfalsifiable conspiracy theory?
Normally I only use Google, but I've also experienced this. In contrast with a few years ago, more recently Google gave me such bullshit that I was like, "Just give me the pages that have these keywords, this is so obvious" and I went to duckduckgo.com. There, with literally the exact same query, every one of the top links was relevant and had my search terms. On Google none of the first page of links had what I searched for. This certainly supports "they show me what they want me to see", rather than what I asked for.

On the flip side, I still find Google useful and I must say that I often am happy to read what they decide to give me: even if it's not what I searched for.
I see many of my friends falling is this trap, that they care way more about the company cares about them. They seem to believe that if they dedicate their lives to a company that will be rewarded. It might be, but they might as well be made redundant.

They keep giving but the company rarely gives back and this hurts their mental health.

So care just the right amount. And put yourself above your job. If you can't do that you need to find another job or rethink how you are doing your current job.
You can enable region specific search in the settings.
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400 years is enough time for us to nuke ourselves out of being able to sustain our society, and climate change is a classic cause of wars.
If you are searching a commandline argument, such as "gcc -g", you are probably not going to find ANYTHING useful at all. Why? Because the minus sign (-) means exclusion! Same thing applies for lots of other symbols that may appear in the output of a computer program. Using quotes largely solve the problem.
The thing is - this is interesting because nobody is doing it anymore. Once everybody starts doing it, i.e. literally "human politics" gets directly involved on all levels of development, everybody would try to escape this style to get some development freedom for themselves to stay sane.
I've had similar issues with other google services. It seems that no matter the persistency with which you pursue a result from google they will take their time and eventually do what they want.

In fact, in my experience I was setting up a new google service while on the phone with a google technician and got locked out while on the phone during initial set up...it took nearly 5 days to get unlocked.

I still use google, but mainly to the point of @jocoda - I don't want to deal with the hassle of using something different.
It's simple, fast, and easy ... unless something goes wrong.

EDIT: I recommend following others advice and get out while you can if you can't live with the issues you are having because in all likelihood it will get worse, not better.
> the process of paying careful attention to a scene

I think you've hit on the main thing here that (in a sense) differentiates you from the "normal photographer". Honestly, a lot of people just "point and shoot", in the article's "save an ephemeral memory" sense. You're taking the time to make a careful composition (and artistic composition is not something most people study). Your "capturing 'the perfect moment'" and "analysis and critique" are just not something a lot of friends and family do on vacations.

Not that there's anything wrong with any of that! But I think that's probably the difference here.
There simply is no way to predict what life will be like in 1 trillion years. We are still riding horses in many parts of the world, we are still killing each other..

its like asking a caveman what the next update to windows will look like.

We simply have no capacity to think yet.
I dont know too much about search engines, but I think that's a side effect of how they normalize their ngrams
As much as I’m against algorithms on closed platforms and walled gardens, I believe algorithms are the way to go on the open web, especially since the amount of content there can be infinite.
No need for that either, you could just jam the GPS receiver.
> In the first case don't dismiss them. Be polite and explain it to them.

The explaining part is fine. My problem is I love tech. “Extremely passionate” is the polite way my friends call it. So if you give me a chance to talk your ear off about tech, I’ll take it :-D

But when dealing with someone who misunderstood the complexity finding that balance of being perceived as being passionate (something I don’t mind being perceived as, I am a geek :-p) and being a “know it all” I find to be tricky at time (I don’t want to be the “know it all”, I don’t know it all and in my experience those people come across as being a dick, something I don’t want to be.)

> In the second case, don't let your ego get in the way and don't always assume you need a big complicated tool to solve an issue.

I try to live by that, some times slip up and fail. But I have this in my office to try and remind me to keep too such a mindset

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/file_transfer.png
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