skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The only nationwide incentive that drives negative prices in the US is the wind Production Tax Credit. It's paid per MWh generated, regardless of market price at the time. The solar Investment Tax Credit incentivizes construction, not generation, so there's no incentive for selling solar MWh at negative prices -- though they can go arbitrarily close to zero.

If the wind PTC were to be renewed in the future, it could be structured so as to avoid negative-pricing incentives. Instead of $N dollars per megawatt hour, it could be something more like "up to $N dollars per megawatt hour, where $N <= the current average price paid to all generators." At a cap of $23 and current market price of $10, the wind generator would get $10 of tax credit per MWh. At a current market price of $35 the wind generator would get the full $23. State and local incentives would also need similar conditionals to eliminate all negative pricing incentives.

IMO a change like this would take a lot of wind out of the sails of fossil generators decrying "irrational and unfair" renewable tax credits. But it would not actually solve the overarching problem of unprofitability. The things mostly killing profitability for threatened fossil plants are lower price spikes and lower median prices. Ensuring slightly-above-zero prices instead of negative prices won't save them.
What if China takes over the world? What if a ton of countries that act this way start appearing and people in our country start using them as examples to follow. I feel like these things are already happening, that's why I care. When parts of the world get worse off, it eventually will get worse for all of us.
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It probably has more to do with not wanting be constantly spied on. That’s how I think I would feel, anyway.
This is what I was planning to do when I landed my client but they trust me and enabled the option to log "manual hours".

I don't trust UpWork anymore than I trust PayPal so as far "guaranteed" hours are concerned it doesn't matter - I withdraw my funds every week.
App Service on Linux is not in Beta, it is GA product for over year now with SLA of 99.95%. It does not use Service Fabric in backend, it uses it's own custom Orchestrator (which essentially removes the quirks of learning about orchestration away from the user)
I'd be curious if there are loan options that would cover the cost. Then it's not such a crazy thing for renters to consider installing a charger. (I mean, they're already paying ~$30k for a car on loan; another $1k isn't much).
"We're not creating any more carbon" Exactly.

"The law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, or the entities associated with it may be changed in form"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass
They will only have a disincentive to act when people are willing to leave toxic platforms, and people will only leave toxic platforms when there are viable alternatives.
India's impressive concept about nothing
That would require lifting my hand off the home row, which would be uncomfortable on my wrists. Playing around with it now, the motion seems to be more of a sideswipe, with a bit of muscle tone to keep the finger from just bending out of the way.

Side note - I've noticed a big improvement in general hand pain since I got into climbing regularly, and specifically starting working with a hand exerciser.
Yeah, I just don't see the risk here. I don't keep my old magazines in a safe. They go under the coffee table, and then they go outside to the recycling bin.
What HBR Gets Wrong About Algorithms and Bias
I worked at a company with multiple teams doing basically the same job at multiple sites. The guys out in CA were always talking on the conference calls about the metrics being gamed by some other sites. It was all blame and innuendo with these jerks. Their numbers weren't as good as other sites (despite being paid substantially more than anyone else).

Finally the guys in CA got their wish and a stupid amount of energy was put into finding who might be gaming the system..... it turned out to be the people who worked for the guys in CA... their own direct reports.
GM’s dress code is only two words
Not to shamelessly plug, but this Upwork monolith (and the general sub-optimized gig economy right now) is harmful not just for the freelancers themselves, but also the clients (from a price optimization perspective).

We're trying to solve it with a blind marketplace model at ContentFly (http://contentfly.co/)
And the follow-on implementation: The Scheme-79 Chip
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334

There is also the assq chip, meant as a co-processor for Scheme-81 chip design (which doesn't appear to have an AI Memo), as told by the fascinating Phil Agre (later of Red Rock Eater News Service fame):
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41168/AI_WP_2...

I'm sorry I missed out on this:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/gerald-sussman-scheme
I don't think this is a bad idea at all. Micro-work should be tracked for both the worker and client's sake. Paying hourly is highly inefficient as we all know it's very difficult to work every second of an hour. So if something could more precisely track how often you work during an hour it may encourage you to work less not more as you'll be able to see when you start to taper off; the longer you work the less efficient you may become.
A bioreactor full of algae is a bit more efficient. You can even pump CO2 exhaust from your power plant directly into it.

Then you can sell the glop.
Only browser testing right now. No native mobile app testing.
That doesn't help if the underlying cable leading to that circuit isn't thick enough to handle the current draw.
I make 75 to 150 per hour on upwork. The biggest thing I find is a lot of clients are uncomfortable with a 150 per hour contract, but very happy about a fixed price 3k project that takes me 20 to 25 hours.

I have to be pretty diligent about thinking through how long it will take but it works out.

Additionally, I've gotten multiple clients with constant work. Was getting paid 8k per month for about 20hrs a week. They've scaled back a bit so its 5k for about 14 hrs a week now. Not all clients are good clients though. Still figuring out how to interview them up top.
Can't the inverse also apply?

If it didn't work they wouldn't spam LinkedIn.
I'd bet a lot of money that Bezos could do actually do that. And if the SEC chairman doesn't know the law, why is the news asking him?
You make some good points about a useful papertrail for one's personal use, but I think the hard line here is whether the papertrail is for your benefit or for someone else's. In this case it's pretty clear that it benefits the contracted not at all, and it's a simple case of @techcompany wanting the benefits (no min wage or paying for health insurance) and none of the drawbacks (lack of control) of an independant contracting.

Rooting for this idea's death, personally.
If I were in that situation, I would do one of a few things:

1. Donate more to charities that I respect because they are better prepared to help than I am. Furthermore, if possible, volunteer in some way in your local community. What you do for volunteer work depends on the local community's needs. The main thing with this is to do things regularly, but it doesn't actually have to be fundraising. Bonus points if you can use your professional skills to help somewhere out - but if not, no worries, there is usually plenty to do.

2. Get involved in politics, up to and including running for office. Make sure folks have actual choice on the local ballot for all positions. Recruit like-minded folks if you can, especially for those positions that only one candidate is running (in total). You can even volunteer to work the polls and/or making sure disadvantaged folks can get to the polling places - among other imaginative things. This provides some catalyst for longer-term change.

The option with a non-profit job is completely up to you. In the end, it will still be a job, so I'd take care to make sure you'll enjoy the work (as much as possible). I'd likely keep my eyes open to see if the right opportunity comes about.
Deep Work and Remote Work
> We need both equal access to politics and proportional access to politics based on resources. Otherwise, democracy devolves into two me's and a Jeff Bezos voting on who pays for my stuff.

I've actually considered that, because it's effectively the status quo, but then I conclude: Why should wealthy people have special proportional access? There are so many more groups who are so much more at risk: Small business? Orphans? Groups facing systemic discrimination (women, minorities, LGBTQ)? Homeless? Minority party members in solid red/blue districts? People with rare diseases? With unpopular political beliefs? OpenBSD users? Wealthy people already have so much power and so many advantages; they might be the absolute last group that needs special protection.
I don't think poor people from China don't have the ability or money to leave China. The poor of any country usually have limited mobility. Most people in China are poor. Also, it's not like the world has open borders, and people can move to another country without huge efforts.
I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_deionization

I was wrong about the desorption step, I thought they scraped the ions off...

Incidentally at that page: "Part of the energy input required during the adsorption phase can be recovered during this desorption step. "

With enough of those electrodes, can't we use the sea as a big electrolyte battery? the energy is storedd capacitively
I think oil-to-electric conversions may be a thing once electric is mainstream
What form of evidence would you like?

I don't see the difference with the exact opposite of the statement (ie. that some engineers with more work experience are in fact better than others with less work experience), aside from the potential novelty. How would you prove that statement, so that someone else could prove the opposite. Are you saying that in outliers shouldn't be considered at all, when they are in fact a subset of a population? If so then you missed the point that someone above was talking about outliers and that was the only observation made.

Alternatively, is your stance that there is no difference to claim something is ageism if it is directed at an older population or a younger population? that noticing that older experienced engineers would also fit the criteria for ageism against a younger population making this whole conversation moot?
> Obscenity isn’t protected by the first amendment.

Right, I must've missed the "except for obscenity" clause. Oh wait, there isn't one... that's just something the courts made up out of thin air.

The freedom of speech includes all speech, even obscene speech. It is never appropriate to respond to speech with force.
SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Extended into 2021
The better EVs available now will support a typical commute without charging for a week or more.
I move every 3 or 4 years, so I'd basically be paying each landlord to make improvements to their place and then leaving those improvements behind.
China was nearly crushed by the Mongols but absorbed the invaders into their society and rose again to great heights.

The Roman Empire cracked under the pressure of mass migrations of well-armed peoples forced to move West by climatic shifts.

Perhaps there is a lesson there.
3D printing the next generation of batteries -
TBF, the experience I have is with physics and mechanical/civil engineering labs, where there historically hasn't been much of a reliance on R. And in any case said experience is several years out of date.

Speaking of, I haven't played with R - what are its standard methods for handling dependencies? I'm particularly enamored of the pip and npm way of doing it, where you create a version-controlled artifact (requirements.txt and packages.json, respectively) that defines your dependencies. Does R not have a similar system, or do people just not use it?
Trapping light that doesn't bounce off track for faster electronics
Rails 5.2.1 has been released
What you’re proposing is synonymous with “let’s make unobtainium with our spare electricity!”

If we could make anodes which weren’t destroyed by falling to a low temperature, we’d already be doing it.
Surely you realize that making data a liability reduces the ability for you and I to host it, not increases it. I understand you are against centralization of data, but you can't magically commoditize and distribute it via punishments. You'll only strengthen those that can take a hit. While it seems mathematically logical to say "well, if we make it less financially beneficial to have data, they won't have it" what happens in practice is "well, if we make it less financially beneficial to have data, nobody will have it". There are alternatives to decentralization that have less effect on smaller orgs.
Distinct multiple fermionic states in a single topological metal
Dockless bikes have free parking all over town. The expense is in maintenance and redeploying bikes at the start side of mostly 1-way flows, and in Dallas, the new $20/bike-year fee that forces careful utilization management or higher prices (which lowers demand).
I’ve been working on that. It’s a hard problem, but emule works quite well. I propose something based on that: when you start a program, you advertise all the sha256’s of all the files you share. Whenever you need a resource, you send a request to the dht for its sha256. Anyone who has the file will opportunistically try to send it to you.

Since it’s a dht, there’s nothing to take down. And since it operates on sha256s of data, it’s implicitly secure. And it uses tor for the rendezvous, so it’s not possible to track who is requesting what, except by unique ID (which can just be a bitcoin wallet address you control).

The hard part is, what do you do about abuse? What if someone spams the network with bots that try to fulfill every request with bad data?

If anyone has research refs in this direction, I’d be grateful to read them. I’d also like to avoid a blockchain if possible, since it seems unnecessary for simple federated distributed data.
Applied for a different position there. Had the exact same problem about not being a gamer, but I had at least watched the original LoL championships at Staples and sporadic tournaments since then.

My fatal flaw was that I asked about work-life balance. They had none. The team I was being recruited to worked 10-12 hour days, 7 days a week. They weren't programmers, or artists, or involved in the development of LoL in any way. They didn't even actually have the workload to justify those hours. They spent that much time in the office just cause. I think they framed it as "supporting the developers" or some silly bullshit like that.

I declined the next interview. They kept calling me for a few weeks after that. Apparently I had gone further than anyone else they had tried to recruit to that position in some time.
If we're talking about intelligent species, first question should be : Why ? Why would they come here in the first place ?

Now, you could make the same argument about evolution. Bacterial evolution is far quicker than human evolution. If they saw an advantage to killing humanity, we'd be dead before dinner. So why haven't bacteria killed us yet ? No advantage ...

The simple truth is: it's not worth it. Large bacterial species lose and gain more biomass on a daily basis purely through accidents than all human biomass combined, and they wouldn't be able to use all that biomass if they took it from us, nor would they be able to harness the energy humans use, so that's no good either. So it's an idiotic thing to spend energy on, and so they don't spend energy on it.

For space faring civilizations you can make a similar argument. Despite the movies, there is nothing on earth that is worth coming down the gravity well (especially not water. There is FAR more water in the asteroid belt, and it's far easier to collect and use), and maybe it goes so far that it's just not worth it to come into a yellow dwarf solar system : there'll be exponentially more materials and energy available in many other solar systems. So at the very least, we'd be last in line for a visit, and maybe just outright not in line at all.

Reality is that humanity will never leave earth, and AI will never return home. We will launch AIs, and they'll decide to venture out, and conquer and multiply in starsystems with huge stars, massive asteroid belts (lots of resources ... no gravity wells you have to spend energy getting into and out of).

Why haven't we seen aliens ? Same reason bacteria don't kill us (well, only by accident) ... we're just not worth their attention.

And would they do it to study biology ? Well, you'd have to take into account that any race hopping solar systems we wouldn't be the first race they meet. Or the 100th. We'd be the 10000th. So would they still be interested ?
Absolutely!

Is there something Congress should be doing? Perhaps it's not the thing for them to be involved in.
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Totally agree. Also, Go was refreshing. Intentionally limited, yes, but simple-yet-powerful. Then they show off Dart and it looked like yet another 90's-style curly-brace language, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who asked "why bother?".
Memory-processing unit (MPU) could bring memristors to the masses
test to see if I'm banned
Power draw by a SoC like Nvidia tx2 (can probably do it with a cheaper chip too) for camera based navigation without GPS is not a big issue, the motors are far more power hungry
NIST Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo
India Startup Preps RISC-V, AI Cores
A Different Lens: Automation
"after two weeks of training at our office in San Francisco"

If you're happy to share, I'd love to know what you cover in those two weeks. Most companies spend more like 4 to 8 hours (5%-10% of your 80 hours) training new hires on how to interview.
The Ethics of Neuroscience (2017)
If anything, I think liability would be a forcing function that would strongly encourage centralization. Only those with deep pockets could afford it.
Sure, random drone people are a problem but in this case, I don't see why the airport themselves cannot hire trained professional drone operators. Drones opperated by the firefighters themselves might prove to be useful.
Read until

> Democratic Senator

Anything coming from the party without power is dead in the water for now. Maybe it will inspire someone but this is just a waste of a cycle until then.
Employee email explains Elon Musk’s plan to take Tesla private
> But the old cliche that getting hardware to work on GNU/Linux is not true these days

That's only true if you make a point of buying hardware you already know there's linux drivers for. I work with a few headless linux boxes, but not a GUI. Every year or two I try a distribution or two on whatever hardware I have, hit a problem, sigh after reading through numberless blog/SO/reddit posts contradicting each other on what's possible, and abandon the attempt.

I have a 2018 Dell XPS 15. From what I've read, there's only an 'experimental' (ugh) driver for the fingerprint scanner. To switch between integrated/GPU graphics, you have to log in and out (or you don't - depending on who you read). Not sure about the touchscreen, but I can't summon the motivation to find out. So much depends on fiddling, experimenting, and reading. I'd rather go for a run, and put up with Windows (which I loathe, but loathing seems to be a precondition of computer use in 2018).
I recently moved and have been lazy about getting a charger installed at the new place. I’ve been plugging into a standard outlet in the meantime. Turns out that’s plenty. I still want to get something faster because it’s more efficient and it would be nice before and after long trips, but there’s no rush.
"Gettin' ready to carve out the Master Dining Hall and what do we find? It's smack dab against a vein of mithril ore. You know what happens when you start digging mithril, right? We ain't doing that for no union scale!"

I used to work at the old IBM buildings in Austin; there were a few halls that went around a few corners only to dead-end. With a bunch of spare desks and chairs piled against the end wall.
Of course they won’t propose those other things (which would require “more legislation” too fwiw).

This move reinforces the location of the goal posts that define what is “acceptable discourse.” Along with supporting unfettered corporate control of the means of production. The economy must run on big business and nothing else, amirite?

All those other things will undermine them.
But fried chicken on pizza is literal heaven.

- Use buffalo sauce, top with bleu cheese and bacon, and dip the crust in ranch for an amazing Buffalo chicken pizza.

- Use ranch sauce, top with pickles and jalapenos, and at the last second (like before the bite) top with a very acidic slaw for a Hot Chicken Pizza.
Check out Dat: https://datproject.org/
It is probably a job for the next generation rather than this one; this generation wasn't ready for this boom of communication we are living in; all these social platforms where created for the economical benefit of their creators (FB, twitter) and not any sort of societal benefit; so yeah I think that the solution must start from early school years where children should be taught to doubt all sources of information -internet and peers alike-, investigate better, know that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, they should also learn to discuss important topics with people with completely opposite views and to stay calm while doing so. A world where a black kid can discuss with a nazi kid about racism and neither of them lose their heads over it (just as an extreme unlikely example to state my point).
There's less reason for racist white gangs to form in Norway when the country is largely homogeneous.
Shenzhen just went to 100% electric buses. 16,000 of them.
China is going electric faster than the US is.
Hacker swipes Snapchat’s source code, publishes it on GitHub
It did/does. I did not have an issue with it, besides occasionally having to go delete a ton of screenshots when I accidentally left the tracker running while I wasnt working (not attempting to be fraudulent, just careless)
And I think the red zone is a century away. We have no understanding of how our brains work, yet alone making devices as smart as we are in causal reasoning.
Government hasn't historically been the one building parking spots. See the history around mandatory parking minimums, like from this video from Vox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U
> Hybrid big rigs on the other hand, could be game changing.

How? I believe most of the efficiency of the Prius and other hybrids is realized with city (stop and go) driving. In highway driving it is not any more efficient than any other car with a similar 1.3L engine and aerodynamics.
I know of at least one pumped storage dam in Belgium, in the mountainous southern part (Wallonia)
NGINX cache: move open to thread pool
Yeah this is really dumb. If you're charging hourly, but don't trust someone is actually working, don't charge hourly.

If you want full control of an employee don't get a freelancer. If you want to constant surveillance of any artists' computer; fuck off. If you don't trust the artist to work, get a new artist.
Small nitpick, he's the CEO, but not the founder. Tesla loves to forget telling this part of the story, but it was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon invested the next year, but didn't become CEO until 2008.
Umm, that lead to a maze of twisty javascript heavy glossy marketing hype, all the same....

Any actual documentation and code examples of what it is?

I couldn't get anything from the marketing speak as to what stORMi actually was...

In the space of data modelling, my bet has long been on http://www.orm.net/