skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the opposite of what is happening if you look at the population changes of their respective MSAs. Chicago's is barely growing and SF added an estimated 9% to the population from 2010-2017. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...
Some background:

28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. https://www.cnet.com/news/net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...

The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/12/10/0037222/fcc-refuses...

Pai's office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:

This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet
regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort
to defeat Chairman Pai's plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled.
The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.

As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.

And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.
> As you have more and more renewable, you need more and more gas plants

This is only true if the load on the grid is growing. In North America, it is not. Otherwise, you already have enough dispatchable generation available when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
Those will have a lagging effect.
I think the key is that we can start to develop infrastructure just fine on lithium cells, and it might even accelerate the development of more efficient alternatives develop because it proves the market to investors.
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Seems very useful. As someone who has recently started rolling out solidity contracts to learn and eventually create contracts with real money behind, having something that adds to my own confidence in the security of my code is helpful. Do you plan on eventually charging for the cli used in the marketplace demo?
I don't think this is accurate. First: there are lots of places that actual police officers conduct administrative searches; for instance, any time you go to court. Second: if the TSA finds contraband during a search, you can be arrested for it, and that happens routinely. Yes, the airport police arrest you, not the TSA, but the arrest is based on evidence from the TSA's search.

Do a Google search for [administrative search fourth amendment] for more details.
Is there a good supply of bamboo in SF? If there is, they make really good ladders. Very light and very strong.
One answer is undeniably clunky, "these pineapples are from Hawaii."

The AP's style guide uses Hawaiian as an adjective.

It is a messy thing when typical ways of speaking English conflict with nuances.
Planet Money covered this recently:
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

Here's an entry on the storage facility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

"The biggest battery in the world is a giant lake tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains on the border between Virginia and West Virginia"

One of the more promising things is actually water-based storage using back-to-back reservoirs. Water has a lot of mass per volume and is really low tech. And it's a proven strategy that has been operational for many decades.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? This is a significant step to the worse in what was already a terrible subthread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The frustrating part about solar is that because the peak generation output doesn't line up with typical peak consumption ("the duck curve"), utilities need natgas peakers, which sit mostly idle, to fill in the gap. As solar installation grows, coal baseload falls behind due to cheap natgas, and nuclear languishes due to huge capex, established baseload capacity will decrease. From now on, new capacity will largely be a mix of natgas CC, natgas CT, solar, and wind. CCs (combined cycle) are most able to serve in baseload/load-following capacity, but if solar and wind are reliable for a particular interconnection, CTs (simple cycle) are cheaper to build, if less efficient to operate.

Much of the strategizing in the future will be about trying to find the right balance of CCs and CTs to complement intermittent and opportunistic (load-ignorant) renewables, while balancing an onslaught of new regulations and activists that will force battery storage as an issue. This is already happening now, well before battery storage is cost-competitive.
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Actually, there is only an advantage to radix after 100,000 elements - djb is much faster for small arrays. Also, while radix is cpu constant time, you'd need to do some kind of secure shuffle in advance to make it truly constant-time (considering memory locality timing).
the amazing thing is, much of the comments in response to Donald Trump and other major figures are real. the bot problem probably has to do with fake followers, hahtag spamming, and keyword spam of sorts. Much of it is invisible to the naked eye.
That does look like the right info. I think Utah has a typical emission credit program. Maybe xahrepap was overstating the case when (s)he suggested that every Utah land owner has emission credits they can sell. Emission credits seem to be limited to certain large businesses.
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Ah, I missed Honolulu.
This is assuming that you're replacing old, bad power (ie coal, or old-fashioned unresponsive gas plants) with a solar/responsive gas turbine combo. The US still has a fair bit of coal that could stand to be replaced, but I doubt there's enough gas to take up the slack of a solar/gas system without building more.
Created an account to comment on this, so I'm new, but I read the Welcome and Guidelines.

This is something deeply interesting to me and I'd love to see more comments around it. Here are some questions I have, as someone who has been in the health insurance brokerage space for 3 years early on in my career.

In the case of the Jordans, they had a $2K deductible that the article fingers as the main source of their obligation. However, it further says that they ended the year owing ~$8K (on top of their monthly payments of $501). That just seems like a bad plan: high deductible, low lifetime max or bad coinsurance split. So on top of a high deductible, it offers bad coverage in the case of catastrophe. To me, that brings up two things: 1) lack of savings (I think there's a statistic that like 50% of americans couldn't get $500 together in case of an emergency) and 2) high deductible plans that can bury families. This strikes me as similar to the problem of treating addiction; it takes so many people to treat addiction: psychiatrists, therapists, internal medicine, financial support, job searching, housing support. Healthcare, specifically how an employee navigates it, seems to be a similar problem, requiring budgeting, finding time to find a doctor, etc etc. Are there any companies or people working on this kind of stuff right now?

It also appears that short-termism is another factor in play here. Because of changes to the tax code, companies began offering cheaper plans, thinking that it would cause employees to be more frugal but instead it just caused them to cut back on all preventative care. Does anybody know of example companies that didn't do that? That recognized the risk up front and resisted the short term gains on quarterly guidance?

Lastly, I think it's admirable what the new Gawande-led venture stands for, but I just had a vision of a future where only giant mega-corps will have the leverage—both financially and politically—to properly insure their select few Chosen employees. Is that at all likely? Or have I been watching too much 3%?
As an aside, those you refer to as "indigenous Polynesian people" are actually a later wave of Tahitian colonists who conquered and oppressed the previous settlers from the Marquesas Islands.

http://www.waimea.com/people.html

So it's not automatic that this particular wave of settlers uniquely deserves to be called "Hawaiian".
Eliminating all bots is not desirable. Many of them are useful and interesting.

Eliminating the bad ones with few false positives is hard.
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> It's a super, super simple problem.

No offense, but that's incredibly easy to say when you're not the one responsible for doing it.
So wikidata but for crypto? That's pretty thin. Why didn't you try to 'update' wikidata?
Well, someone is bound to make disassemblers/decompilers/debuggers for us to dissect the innards of the VM.
As a side note, I am half expecting the announcement of a web assembly ISA any day.
It's not a simple problem. It's a complex economic calculation with at least a few variables where the false positive rate directly impacts the bottom line as well as customer happiness, and the battleground is constantly changing as spammers get more advanced over time.
I share your frustrations.

I am enamored with serialization libaries like Protocol Buffers that schematize data in its unmarshaled form and strip the symbols from the data in its marshaled form. By representing properties of the data with codes, one is free to add/rename properties (but not remove) from the schema over time. Different versions of the schema can successfully marshal and unmarshal the same data as long as codes (and semantics of what the codes represent) never change. It's a very forwards/backwards-compatible way of working with data as long with you can handle managing semantics over time.

By contrast, schema languages like JSON Schema or XML Schema may be more expressive about target language constraints than something like Protocol Buffers, but they often suffer from the brittleness of the "messages I consider correct must be considered correct by you in precisely the same way"-problem when their messages move over the wire.
But would they withstand fire ?
Pumped storage is great where the geography makes sense, but there are a limited number of good sites which can be economically connected where needed to grids. Long-term, I'd have more hope for currently emergent tech (flow batteries etc).
The histogram for Seattle looks unconvincing for me, because the entire downtown-pike-denny area is slanted to align with the coastline ( https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6090857,-122.3407184,15z ). Possibly due to weighting?
And this should be fixed. Name constraints would be incredibly useful for a number of things, if only they were supported.
This has terrifying geopolitical implications, so probably no-one will want to depend on it anytime soon.
> Alex Howard, an open-government advocate and founder of e-PluribusUnum.org, which has urged safeguards in the comment system, said the FCC fixes are a small step. “Adding a Captcha to try to prevent spam, unfortunately, sounds like a solution from the last millennium to a decidedly 21st century set of problems,” Mr. Howard said.

What they really need to do is check to see if the referral header is also from the FCC site to make sure people are using the website and not just hitting the API.

/s
Why is this a surprise? Solar costs have been falling for multiple decades.

NON-SURPRISING HEADLINE: "Falling Costs Are Actually Falling".

The important statistics to pay attention to are the implementations and if the components are recyclable not the cost per megawatt. Increasing renewable energy is important but not if you cannot recycle the components.
For anyone in Europe I can recommend a visit to Völklingen Hütte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lklingen_Ironworks). I went there last year on holiday in Germany.

It's an old iron factory built into a museum. Most parts are open to public and are left in a 'frozen' state since it was closed in '86 (although maintained and sometimes still fully functional). It's a really nice travel in time and insight into an industry of this scale. I remember how parts of the complex seen organised and architected and other parts are just a big mess of pipes and parts that have been added and shoved in over the decades that this factory ran (24/7, all season, without a roof, I might add).
> The frustrating part about solar is that because the peak generation output doesn't line up with typical peak consumption ("the duck curve"), utilities need natgas peakers, which sit mostly idle, to fill in the gap.

Solar does line up with peak consumption. The duck curve is not a consumption curve, but a "Net Demand" curve -- the demand remaining after solar and generation is removed.

Peakers existed before solar. A typical load duration curve is a sideways "S" The peakers may run less than 5% of the year but are necessary to meet the hottest hours of the year.
Is there an alternative ad network that doesn't spy on users?
Minor nitpick about their exit code technique [0]: The command checks if the table exists, but it does not appear to re-run if the source file has been updated. Usually with Make you expect it to re-run the database load if the source file has changed.

It's better to use empty targets [1] to track when the file has last been loaded and re-run if the dependency has been changed.

[0] https://github.com/propublica/ilcampaigncash/blob/master/Mak...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Empty-Tar...
Not if that's not the question before the court.
I'm not a fan of consumer-facing dynamic pricing in a lot of contexts, but power by far makes the most sense.

An interesting side effect may be that it could encourage us to return to more natural sleeping schedules, based on the actual time when the sun is in the air. Of course that does pose problems in areas that are very close to one of the two poles
If you can't suggest a better word than "Hawaiian" when someone wants to say an adjective meaning "from Hawaii", perhaps you should keep your peace?
Ah frustrating... its been down for 40 minutes so far. I did not expect youtube outage during WC semifinal :(
I don't mean to be a downer here... but what impact does this project realistically hope to have? A dollar spread that thinly might as well be nothing.
That's a really good point! I've tracked this as https://github.com/ory/docs/issues/29

We're a very small team, so it might take a while for us to tackle this (especially because we mostly use k8s with oathkeeper proxy as a sidecar), but that does make this not lesser of an issue!
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This comment gets made in every single solar article put on HN. The true price of solar is what the market is willing to pay for it. If the solar was ruining the grid or was way more expensive than what it seems, we would not keep seeing solar installed at this pace and at these costs.

We need to get out of the mindset that all power generators need to produce a steady amount of power 24/7. A flexible grid made of many power sources that can be ramped up and down can just as easily meet demand and may even be best since it is resilient when any one power source goes down for an extended period of time.

You can't just say that solar should be more expensive because it only works half the day. You could just as easily turn that argument around and say that nuclear and coal plants should be more expensive since they are only economical if run at a constant load and require long shutdowns every year for maintenance. There needs to be extra capacity on the grid to meet demand during nuclear/coal shutdowns, but no one states that nuclear and coal should be more expensive as a result.
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Typical negative comment when it comes to blockchain technology.

Some people have made millions, some brand new technology is created after a unique technological advancement that solves the byzantine general problem, even YC is investing --- yet old people cry "it is nothing but a fad!", so much that it becomes comical, like the black knight in the Monty Python (especially when it comes from someone confusing Dapps and Tokens)

Eventually, you guys will have to admit you were wrong. A bit like people who thought horseless carriage were a fad. It's ok, we all get things wrong someones. No bad blood.

Technology is here to stay. Many people are ideologically opposed to the libertarian roots of cryptocurrencyes. Many others regret not investing in time, or selling too early.

I get that. But maybe it's time to move on.
so, how does it taste?
That is a dangerous mindset though. From intels perspective everything done beside the Desktop was pocket money.

Now they have no pockets to put todays money into for tomorrow.
Someone had a site where you could search to see if your name was used when it came to the Net Neutrality comments. I was horrified to find mine was on there .... then I realized no wait. I actually did sign a thing about it and it appeared to be an appropriate comment that was associated with a petition that I agreed with. I think, it was actually hard to tell....
What advantage does bringing ActivityPub to this blogging platform have over just subscribing via an RSS reader?
I believe you! But comments like that are the first term of an infinite sequence leading to hell.

The main insight is we're all responsible for what follows what we post. It's a bit weird, but it's a model that actually works. I think of it as similar to how one handles fire in other places, like campsites or gas stations.
Amplifi should be manageable through UNMS by the end of the year or so. I cant seem to find the chart, but here is an image from the forums: https://usercontent-community.amplifi.com/461f0130-9835-459b...
Solar panels are easily recyclable. There is an operational pilot plant in France doing so.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling/europes-f...

Keep in mind, solar panels have a 25 year warranty, and after that will continue to produce power (at about 80% rates output). We have decades to get recycling infrastructure in place.
Over the past decade (since the wide-scale commercialization of fracking in the US), coal plants have been retired or repowered (with gas) at a record pace. I believe the share of generation has dropped from 50% to 30% in that period.
Or they want it to go bad quickly so you buy more...
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The amount of people who are not nationalistic, and essentially opinionless over globalism is large enough to be significant.

An extremely small number of people, however powerful, may be in favor of globalization, but that number is absolutely dwarfed by people who are either almost completely without preference or exclusively staunch nationalist hawks.

Based on this, such a "divide" isn't best characterized by such wording. This is not a polarizing territory of opinion or endorsement. Not to ordinary people.
You say it like its a bad thing. They build a product that consistently has carried firefighters and civilians to safety. They should be making a living wage, and have the ability to retire instead of dying on a factory line at 90.
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99% sounds like a trumped up stat.
This was a fun and interesting read. I wanted more like this, but I missed the part where The Awl stopped publication early this year:

https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/okay-go-be-as-stupid-as-you-w...

Damn.
The previous slide in that presentation also shows a cost breakdown for a thermal process, multi-stage flash desalination.

Fixed charges (primarily capital cost) 42%

Energy 41%

Maintenance and parts 8%

Supervision and labor 7%

Chemicals 2%

Energy is nearly even with fixed costs for MSF, but fixed costs are even larger here. Leaving this type of plant idle between dusk and dawn would again raise per-unit costs a lot.
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Id + live camera video doing a certain motion every week
have you tried audiobooks? i find listening to a difficult book read well really opens it up for me. makes it easier for me to understand and follow.
Plus, just because the sun goes down doesn't mean all solar generating stations stop making electricity.

I'm not even remotely an expert in this field, but the towers at the solar furnaces I've seen continue to glow well into the night, meaning they're hot enough to still generate steam, and thus electricity, long after it's dark.

I don't expect they generate electricity all night, but maybe not as much energy needs to be stored as people assume.
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Is this really an effective way to fund projects? What are all these projects going to do with $1? Wouldn't it be better to give 1 very promising project $2,000?
We stopped our (tiny) $1500 per month Facebook campaigns for exactly that reason. So scammy: we pay real money for a bunch of bots to “engage.” Until robots start buying our product, I won’t be buying ads where bots are the largest source of engagement.
I can only agree with that. Having security contexts as a formal concept and requiring secure transport for certain features. Stuff like webcam or other hardware access (bluetooth) should really not be allowed from a insecure (MITM'ed?) source.
A hothouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia had an agave that bolted so fast they had to remove it from the building. I think it grew six inches per day, that just as interesting that a plant that big can grow that fast.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4318649/agave-americana-halifax-p...
Hello HN,

I built this website because: 1.) All meme apps(Imgur, 9GAG..) out there lacks Nigerian content. 2.) I want to learn a new technology(Node.js).

I need your feedback on how I can make it better. This is basically v0.1.

Thanks.
They should consider something like this:

https://www.cipheredtrust.com/using-irs/

Every citizen can generate cryptographic certs that they can verify their identities with, even anonymously.
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So basically, it doesn't really matter if comments are fake or legitimate, if pai is going to ignore them anyways.
We use them because they are osha mandated, and have to be rated for like 350lbs. And aluminum will just kink and bend the first week on the job.

Huge downside to fiberglass is they are UV sensitive - i've seen ladders just crumbling because they were left in the sun
Just because you don't, like, literally know what it means, doesn't mean it means nothing! In any case, I could care less.
Bots shouldn’t be allowed to follow people.
I'd prefer a wild-west type of world where certs are decentralized and "blind trust" towards big authorities becomes optional and still there as a reinforcement, but not necessary and definitely not required to communicate securely.

I mean- if there are adversaries out there trying to hack our communications- then we need to let these adversaries try so that we can engage them head on so that their methods become published, public, and thoroughly analyzed by the people in charge of strengthening our protocols.

This approach would be like fracturing the bone to make it stronger- we allow nation state hack us in order to figure out ways to stop and prevent such hacks using open and transparent software alone. Trusting any group of people anywhere "just because they're trust worthy" feels like a variable defining <the contents of its data> as equal to <the contents of its data>. It just doesn't make sense for a variable to trust itself "just because" because then I wonder if something fishy is going on under the hood.