skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense. Solar does its thing, nuclear takes over slow or predictable fluctuations, hydro takes over for quick changes in solar output.
Reminds me of how bond yields work. If the interest rate guess from 1% to 2% on an existing bond, the bond itself has to lose 50% of its value. I think the potato story is somehow less intuitive.
Including this one posted this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GYYerlQWs

Any time the subject of Cliff Stoll comes up, I always comment that someday I want to be as excited about _something_ as Cliff Stoll is about _everything_.
For anyone interested in fiction based on ideas like this, check out the Three Body Problem series. I'll avoid talking about it further to keep from spoiling it.
Really interesting. Thank you for sharing. I imagine that on average most things creative or scientific need 10 versions or so to get to the final stage. On a separate note, wonder whether you would classify programming as a science or creative work, a mix of both or something else...
> One day a couple of years ago, I pulled out a list of the traits I wanted in a husband and realized that Charles had almost all of them. He rose early to begin each day with prayers and a list of goals that he ticked off as he accomplished them.

Only in the US...
Google Play Services are closed source, proprietary, and required for many third-party apps to run properly.

There is a project trying to offer FLOSS alternatives, https://microg.org/ but it's still pretty rough.
Decoding it to ROT18 makes some amusing changes to the numbers.

I think I have kinda grown out of such existential dread, once I started having a sort of intuition that the Universe is too inconceivably large to be uniformly altered, let alone "damaged", by any single event or entity (which also makes me cringe at sci-fi which throws the word "universe" around so lightly.)

More importantly, I started thinking of the "backdrop" of Reality itself to not be Nothingness, but Everythingness.

That is, the blackness we see out there, must not be the default state. I imagine a flood of "white" behind the void, and the reality we perceive is just a heavily-filtered slice of it.

What led me to this way of looking at things was a comment on HN or Reddit, that talked about how, in certain axioms of mathematics, you can have a null/empty set but it's impossible to have a set which contains everything including itself. Whereas in another group of rules, it's impossible to have an empty set because everything else is arrived at by "subtracting" from the "infinite" set!

Maybe someone here knows better of what I'm referring to.
The birthday paradox comes up a lot in computing, I wonder if there's more places the potato paradox would apply.
It is not important. As you mentioned, plenty of space.
Oh yeah I miss Kuro5hin as well. It should be reanimated somehow...
maybe you should read Designing Data-Intensive Applications --
https://dataintensive.net/
Yeah, but the article does have a point:

> If you’re going to allow users to turn off something called ‘Location History,’ then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off

It's very unintuitive that location data can be stored even when "Location History" is turned off, even if there _is_ another unrelated setting you can toggle to fix that. (Not to mention that setting turns off other things you might want to keep, like search history.)
Saudis accelerating the world's transition to solar? That might not be in their best interests or they're extremely forward thinking.
Looking back on it now, I think the one thing that's really not plausible is the idea that someone could write a system that can anticipate anything that can happen. It was a little too Foundation/Psychohistory for me.

But it was still a fantastic novel, I loved reading it, and will probably re-read it again and again.
> Our bodies are designed to consume ready to use nutrients and more importantly pre-processed nutrients

I find it hard to believe that we are designed to do something that we have later "designed" ourselves. I see cooking as a survival strategy, by which we have grown our habitat by a lot. I look at man as a tropical being, its the only place I can survive without cloths. In the tropics there is also fruits that man can gather/eat without the use of tech. Fruits, leaves, seeds and bugs. Therefor I expect that to be our diets (see bugs there? so not dogmatically vegan here). Also when I put together a diet of said ingredients in cronometer.com it adds up to what we know about RDIs nowadays.

I'l have a look at the book you recommended, tnx for that. Much appreciated.
This made me think that smileys & emoticons are actually the new generation of punctuation marks :P
"Salt Sugar Fat" by Michael Moss is a great book around using the trifecta to manufacture addictive "food".
I was baffled at some of the impressive times people had until I realized that T was a full register and not just a bit.
You know what's really interesting?

The people who pay Dan don't participate on this site.

That's how awful the culture is here. That's how bad he is at setting the tone.
Didn't know that...
I thought it was indisputable that women are stalked vastly more frequently than men, harassed more often online, and typically less comfortable being alone in dangerous areas.
Check out indiehackers.com it is a great community for those building profitable side projects.
It is interested that the review is not yet finished. The author writes in the comments section:

Hey everyone, sorry for leaving a few pages blank right now. Jet lag hit me hard over the weekend from Flash Memory Summit. Will be filling in the blanks and the analysis throughout today.

I am disappointed in that, as I was looking forward to reading the test setup and power draw sections, as I have a 2990WX on order, and I'm dithering over what motherboard to get (I'd prefer an older one, which matches the features that I want better... eg, clear support for ECC and no bling) but there is some concern that older motherboards will be too close to the edge in terms of the power draw of the 2990WX.
LineageOS supports Moto C. You can easily take control of your phone and lock down any and all Google services.
That was my point, a dim list - although the first in the list in "under construction - in undefined state", so it's not only planned. I looked for other lists but couldn't find one. Yes, I can't see a lot of coal power plants build in Germany.
You can't really "dry" water balloons. The water in them don't really evaporate.
Read his book, if you haven't yet. He's honest, likable guy, always curious (and hungry) to live. He wouldn't have scored high in a coding competition, but it makes his accomplishments only more impressive.

Being "talented" and "winning" looks like a railroad track, interesting life is worth more imho
Don't forget camera and mic.
Battery technology might not be a limitless path, but wouldn't super-capacitors have more potential? The ability to store large amounts of power very very quickly and for a decent amount of time could be an important addition to energy management, if such capacitors could be commercially viable and practical.
It's hard to say what you might learn from this experience given your explanation. Some things that I would point out, is that there is no such thing as an original idea, however this is such thing as a differentiated idea. If you are building something that someone else already has, then they will win no matter how much money you raise. The other bit I would suggest is that investors like to believe that their investment will provide at least a 10x return. Unfortunately, it's really hard to tell which ideas will go huge and which won't, so they tend to work from a baseline set of metrics such as monthly recurring revenue, users, sales pipeline, go to market strategy, and also verifying that your goals are all reasonable. I'm not sure how much of this applies to you, but I would say that if you really believe that you have something special then keep going. Less than 1% of companies in the US get VC funded, I imagine that the number is even smaller in your area. Don't get discouraged.
What sort of argument is that supposed to be?

jevgeni made an excellent point and actually articulated his concern. Open source has absolutely nothing to do with how Google is tracking users here, and not only are there major parts in the Android ecosystem which are not open source but even more importantly, the case at hand obviously shows that is irrelevant whether something might be open source or not.

And that does not take into account that the vast majority of people do not run any version that has such features removed, as you hinted. If anything most users run versions which have additional stuff added (Samsung, etc.).

Once all of that is not true anymore you might have got a point, until then it is jevgeni who hit it on the head.
I didn't like Kill Decision; the extrapolated premise from "X occurs in nature" to "let's harness it with technology" was just a hair too ridiculous for me.
I cannot possibly imagine that Norway would gamble with such a large stake in a single company. Such funds usually have some strategies to reduce risk and thereby protect the wealth of their citizens.
I hope you don't fly on any airline that uses Boeing or Airbus planes - both firms routinely dump inventory on the Saudis.

I hope you don't fill your car with gasoline - chances are, even in 2018, it came from Saudi Arabia.

I hope your security is not supported by American military technology - once again surpluses of which are commonly sold to Saudi Arabia.

HN really needs to follow through with action behind the pompous grandstanding. Start your finger wagging with the man in the mirror.
The only way out is leadership with a longer-term plan that has credibility from both investors and employees.

The stock market doesn't require short-term thinking. But it does create a default focus on short-term performance when leadership does not articulate a plan.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
One can only hope that is sarcasm
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yes yes, I get that but it also competes with their current cash cow. They obviously want a say in this technology that is inevitably going to destroy their oil revenues (and that is not a good thing).
First 90% of the project takes the first 90% of the time/budget and the last 10% of the project takes the other 90%?
Elon Musk confirms to take Tesla private, backed by Saudi Arabia’s fund
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As a former DEFCON attendee I remain confused why the hotels feel there is enough cost/benefit to host this event. I remember one year at the Rio attendees pwn'd most of their systems, took down the POS systems of most of the retailers, installed fake ATMs and even set up a rogue cell phone tower in someone's room that pwned everyone's Android phone with a side loaded poisoned Android update.

It was great fun. But if I had been staying as a non-DEFCON guest I would be furious.
Presumably having some taste helps so you know what to cut and what to keep.
Not to detract from the good overall point, but isn't the math here a bit wonky? In the first example, he shows 160k insertions and 130k deletions and claims that therefore he wrote 160k + 130k = 290k lines of prose. That's... wrong? He wrote 160k lines of prose. If you want to express it as a sum, it's 160k (total inserts) = 30k (current size) + 130k (total deletions.)
The specs sure sound quite interesting. Intel i9 or Xeon, 64GB memory (also ECC), dual PCIe SSD (up to 4TB), 80Wh battery. 3mm thicker than MacBook Pro, but bit lighter. And since it is part of Lenovo professional lineup, I assume you can get the onsite warranty for this, meaning the components can be actually replaced with normal tools.

Interesting to see the reviews on screen. The display has been usually the weak point on the more powerful Lenovos, but hopefully this is not the case here.
Solar power currently generates less than 1% of the energy consumed in the U.S. [1] Solar power is not currently displacing fossil fuel use — it’s merely contributing to the growth in consumption.

In order to fulfill the Paris agreement of limiting warming to 2°C (which would already be a global catastrophe), developed countries must reach zero CO2 emissions by 2035. We need to be reducing emissions about 10% per year. Instead, emissions are increasing by about 2% per year.

If you want to convert all of the ICE cars on the road to electric cars, where will the energy come from to do that? Manufacturing the cars requires fossil fuels. They have a limited lifespan, and then you have to replace them. By that time, our economy must not be running on fossil fuels, so how will those cars be replaced?

Even solar panels require fossil fuels to be manufactured and transported.

In sum, at the moment, we’re actively robbing from the future in order to appear to be heading toward sustainability.

[1] https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/energy/us/...
It's not like the suicide nets and 14hour days at foxconn did stop anyone from praising Apple.
Let's play a game. Here's what I want you to imagine:

- You're on a game show and your aim is to summarize my position in good faith

- If you get 70 out of 100 impartial observers to agree that your summary is a fair reading of my comments, then you get $100 thousand

- If fewer than 70 out of 100 agree, then you get nothing

- Do you think you'd still write down, "[I]t sounds like [he is] claiming it is OK for people on electric vehicles to slam into pedestrians in pedestrian crossings because a lot of people have died in accidents involving cars"?

Integrity is coming up with the same summary when there's no money on the line as you would on that game show.
Digital audio workstation workloads are massively multithreaded, with hundreds or thousands of DSP processes. Performance scales almost linearly with core count.
maybe because people don't want to become victims of crimes but they don't care as much if they buy the "best" TV.... but either way, the government has access of all the data ...
France actually has such a high fraction of nuclear in their grid (70%) that their reactors load follow.

Granted, due to the cost structure of nuclear, it makes sense to run flat out if possible, but technically it's not necessary.
What's the difference between science and creative work? I'd say that science is creative work. Programming too.
80/20 Pareto Principle
The OP is talking about teaching community college mathematics. That's not introductory university mathematics; if you are lucky it's Pythagoras' Theorem and quadratic equations. The purpose of community college is to provide the students with a degree certificate that they can use for another degree.

My current institution's nursing school has a set text called "Calculate with Confidence", which teaches the kids to calculate concentrations, unit conversions, measurement uncertainty and similar things. Someone might say that these are essential skills in nursing, and they are, but the incoming students are supposed to have learned these things from their college science courses, from their degree that got them admitted into nursing school. Yet here it is again because all previous education didn't take.

60 % of incoming students at my institution must take remedial math, up from 50 % a few years ago.

That's community college. If you think that's cynical or exaggerated you are insufficiently cynical.
It's a true story, and one that's discussed in HN comments ad nauseum.
the whole point of driving a Tesla is not to rely on the Saudis
Take some long walks, do some thinking, breathe. You might have to pivot as the company grows, your role will evolve. Try applying the 80/20 rule to things. Think of it as an opportunity to grow a new skill set.
It strikes me this must be wrong. The 90% churn rate is way too high, surely?

Looking at own git logs (for code, not prose), I notice git is very happy to add and delete lines even if just some characters on those lines have changed. Is it not the case that the author of the article has simply edited 90% of the lines in his book, rather than rewritten them completely? That seems much more likely to me.
I'd posit the idea that we primarily use the punctuation that we find on the keyboard of the device we use.

On Windows/Linux, I use a 101 key. We all know the symbols. And those are the ones I use. There are cases in which I can use an interrobang or kanji-related emoticons, but I'm doing a google search and copying and pasting. But long story short, I don't use these other symbols because they're not easily available.

Sure, I could remap my keys, at least on Xorg. (No clue how to do that on Windows. ) But then, those symbols just aren't used. It's also a reason I don't bother with APL, because the language uses dozens of characters that aren't normally on a keyboard. I'll mess with ones I can type.

Now, phones... Oh my. A phone will auto-substitute picture emoticons from things like :D . Technically, these are a Unicode character set with device implementations. It means even though the pic is a 32x32, it's only usually 2 bytes (unicode is fucky, urgh, so many bugs). I'm more leery in using unicode because of character handling and badness, but things seem to be moving that general direction.

But for the wider issue of Unicode, these "failed symbols" are right in there. But good luck exploring and finding them, since characters can be from 1-6 bytes, or 2^48 space... Alas, back to searching google and copying and pasting.
> Very few does anything serious on it. A desktop OS on the other hand has access to the very most sensitive information

Thats why more and more people use it exclusively for everything, including online banking.
That GE Digital failed, is no surprise to folks like me who worked (left there a couple of years back just before things got especially bad with layoffs) at GE's R&D labs and were always skeptical of the flashy sales pitch surrounding GE Digital/Industrial Internet with very little to back it up. When I tried to look into playing with Predix and utilizing it on GE projects I was working on, it boggled my mind that they wanted to charge me, a GE employee, money to use Predix on projects for GE.

That of course meant that internal adoption of Predix was negligible unless mandated by higher ups, and if your own company isn't going to adopt and improve the product, I sure as hell don't see why anyone external to GE would.

Apart from that, GE Digital was a fundamentally mismanaged effort. The people in charge seemed more interested in talking the talk rather than walking the walk. Most people at San Ramon seemed very disillusioned and their frustrations were out in the open during any of the company-wide all-hands meetings with a Q&A component.
Not only is this really impressive, but it also sounds like that whole hanger is his. Of course you have to have money if your hobby is planes but look at what else is inside the hanger, that's incredible. And the view outside the hanger door windows is unobstructed mountains. Doesn't get much better.
What metric are you considering? The rendering tests show the 2990WX to be both faster and cheaper than the i9.
To add some anecdotal experience here, I replaced my 2015 MBP which I loved, with a 5th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon and I can honestly say I have no regrets. The machine is wonderful for development. Light but powerful, very pleasant to type on, checks all the right boxes. You can use Linux or Windows (which honestly has come quite a long ways and works quite well). Also, you can game with these laptops now thanks to USB-C external graphics enclosures, giving you a work machine on the go, and a gaming machine at home.
Season 7 episode 9 (Force of Nature). I believe in Voyager they mentioned something about a new warp engine design that mitigated the problem.
Darknet by Matthew Mather
About an AI entity taking over the financial market and buying its way into the political system.
Hi Scott, I had a few questions about this role and another role that I was looking into at Asana. Is it possible to chat briefly?
2 big variables I forgot about.

1. We need to eventually switch our winter gas heaters to electric which while helping balance summer vs winter electric usage, electric heating isn't as efficient and we have to increase the outside air a lot more in the winter than we have to cool it in the summer (for most people at least).

2. I forgot to add in the extra electric demand needed to power the cars which is currently powered by oil.
Jigsolved: Computer Vision to Solve Jigsaw Puzzles
The water does really evaporate, just takes a lot longer than potatoes.
[OP, not the author]

I found this to be the only working solution to manage a todo list, where manual scheduling became cumbersome and error prone (often > 50 todos, all of which "asap", but with a wide variety of deadlines (2 days to 3 months) and with very different effort levels between 10 minutes and 10 hours involved). At this level it becomes difficult to give reliable estimates to clients and detect bottlenecks when needing to re-schedule on new and urgent tasks or meetings.

I have tested taskjuggler, but it fails to schedule tasks when a mixture of with/without deadline (end) tasks is provided.

Other todo apps/software do not even try, but only show me the seemingly unsurmountable heap of todos before me with convergent deadlines and no proposed solution.

Only downside though (for me) is, there does not seem to be a (paid) self-hosted (privacy aware) version available.
Piston engines have air intakes too. A 600ish HP turbine is also moving a lot less air than you probably think.. it's not a high-bypass jet on an airliner.

Small/medium sized turbines are used all the time on helicopters, which routinely see backwoods operation.
I wish a screen was as good at angles like the fake marketing photo suggests: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13208/ThinkPad_P1_Lifestyl...

Images like that have no place in a journalistic article in my opinion. It turns it into a full ad.
Ford is deploying exoskeletons in 15 of its factories around the world
I use the remote control feature to annoy my son - use phone as touchpad - but as Firefox can already sync my browser usage I don't need to move stuff around.

You can copy phone numbers, quotes, etc., I just never do. Given you can cloud store all of it, why bother with manual local sync.

In short it seems cool, just doesn't fit any workflow I use so I was curious what THEIR use case was.
Whatsapp Business API: A Chat Market Disruptor?
The Cuckoo's Egg
true story
Many vulnerabilities found after analyzing 20,000 WordPress plugins source code
Interesting. A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about 4 being the factor you should use to multiply rough estimates with [1]. Seeing 10 here as the input to output ratio makes me wonder how those two factors relate to each other ;-)

[1]: https://arendt.io/#!posts/Pareto_for_Estimate_Correction
What about the trackpad ?
These are among my favorite books, and I've read thousands of books. It was written in the 90s or early 2000s, so the tech that was so futuristic now exists everywhere (IoT). You question believability? The tech is so not "just way over acceptable", much of it already exists. If we can suspend our belief to read about aliens, hobbits, magical schools, talking animals, etc., this hardly stretches the imagination at all.

Don't let this guy stop you from reading these awesome books! I recently re-read it, and the first few chapters are pretty tough because it lays out all the tech premises. Stick with it. The plot will keep you engaged, and the storytelling is supurb
...As long as it's pretty enough.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-solar-insight/insid...
Product strategy and the myth of the creative genius
The Korean government is democratically elected as recently noted in the news. Aren't you saying "I hope the Korean people aren't stupid enough to try and save themselves?"