skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, not at all, I wasn't aware I was engaged in an argument.

It just makes more sense in a lot of cases to let the utility provider convert to solar than turn your house into a power station you then have to secure accordingly and maintain.

I'm not interested in having to surround my property with barbed wire topped chain link fences, which is what you'll see around power stations for good reasons.
> Basically permanent magnets.

Basically iron, which can be magnetized or demagnetized just like you can use a magnet to magnetize a steel needle.
"The top is full of people who hate what they had to do or who they had to become to get there."

What a great quote. There are so many things I could be doing as a blogger/YouTuber/solopreneur/whatever to try to maximize my chances of success, but I would hate myself for doing them. Things like putting horrible newsletter signup popups on my website, or gaming the system on YouTube to get more subs (because it's all about the subs, right?).

I once worked as a software developer for a marketplace-type project where they started talking about faking analytics data for profiles so people would think the platform is successful. I voiced my hesitation at the time, and thankfully I ended up off the project before I was told point-blank to implement it, but that's the kind of crap people pull in order to rise to the top.

All the privacy headaches, security breaches, UX dark patterns, and other garbage we're having to deal with online and in the computer industry is all because of people sacrificing their morals on the altar of "making it big." Silicon Valley did an excellent job marketing itself as a better capitalism than the robber barons of old, but now we see the cracks in the armor. Props to DHH for constantly and consistently pointing out the fallacies of all the entrepreneurship BS.
I agree; you should save if you can. But perhaps you should not expect it to last until your retirement (or perhaps even you yourself will not last until your retirement) as climate disasters become more common and deadly.

I was responding to someone who said we would not see a Mad-Max-like world in our lifetimes; my point was merely that some people already are seeing such a thing. (Though I admit I never saw the Mad Max movie, so I may have missed the mark.)
> Others have these vertical slats that you can stick your front tire in between, but you can't lock your frame to anything secure.

If this is what I'm picturing, you can often just lift the bike over so the rear of the front tire is in the vertical slats, instead of the front of the front tire. Then the frame is close to the rack, and you can lock your frame to the rack.
I don’t feel like getting too scientific today. My gut feeling is that the accelerated loss rate due to greater Watts per square meter will at some point intersect with the curve denoting cleaning needs. At one point water waste and man-hours might become a problem.
> This photo was just very, very cheap, and that’s why they picked it.

The corollary to that is that by focusing on price Ikea makes the best products for the price.
This misses the investment context which leads to companies choosing coal oil and gas over solar.

The limiting factor on deployments continues to be "what to do when the sun doesn't shine bright". Night for starters and in a lot of the world, you have whole seasons where the skies are overcast nearly all day (monsoons).

If you anyway have to couple solar with something else to make up for the variability in power generation (largely fuel based because Hydro and nuclear are massive government led projects) and you have to invest in expensive and bulky power storage to handle even the nights, why not pay a little more incremental money and get a slightly bigger fuel based power plant.
Half is a very, very conservative estimate. Hell, Linux was made 'just cause'.
Like many issues in the US car market, it's exacerbated by CAFE. The light truck segment (which includes SUVs) have a less restrictive fuel economy standard and offers consumers more car for less money.

The US would be better off sunsetting CAFE and harmonizing vehicle regulations with European nations. Just like the train cars mentioned in the linked story, that would allow US consumers to buy fuel efficient cars without the market distortions caused by CAFE.
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Data, please: how many documented cases of this type of theft actually exist? No offense, but it sounds like you live in the middle of nowhere and are slightly paranoid.
The Serverless Sea Change
Existing HTTP is not in the kernel. If you want to speak HTTP, you already need a library.

With existing HTTP, that library needs to handle portability concerns to use TCP on different operating systems.

With new HTTP, the library will need to do the same thing but with UDP.

Seems like the complexity is no higher, just a difference (TCP vs. UDP) in how your library will interface with the platform network stack API.
Except optimizing the cars has been very much diminishing returns for 20 years now. Ban all the touch pads and widgets from cars and that is easily double the improvement from whatever car manufacturers have been doing.
Discussion of original source, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518407
Sort of off-topic, but every time someone says this, I am reminded of the subprime car loan market where the same car is sold at inflated prices and usurious interest rates to people who have bad credit, then repossessed and sold again. If we had decent public transport, that wouldn't happen.
I think you have just finally solved a problem with a piece of hardware that I was asked to work on decades ago. Never could figure out exactly what caused the problem but reading this I suspect you are correct in that that particular system had a broken refresh design. It worked most of the time and then would crash in the weirdest ways, and it did contain 64K of dynamic RAM, I never thought to check the refresh circuitry. I was tasked with debugging the software end of things, and you know the proverb about programmers faced with a hardware problem. Extra silly of me because I really should have started with checking the hardware first, the assumption that the problem was software related clearly may not have been a valid one.

The refresh circuitry was provided by a video chip and this is most likely where things went wrong, either in the configuration or in the actual wiring.

Thank you!
Despite overwhelming bad-faith manipulation of the legislative process by Republicans, Obama managed to move the climate status quo in the U.S. and the world tremendously in dozens of governmental and diplomatic spheres.

The Trump Administration is in the process of dismantling all of that work as fast as possible. Here's an article from early 2017, which expresses the contrast between the two quite well:

"The order sends an unmistakable signal that just as President Barack Obama sought to weave climate considerations into every aspect of the federal government, Trump is hoping to rip that approach out by its roots." [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump...
Hi! I would love to read your articles and discuss this further but right now your blog is not viewable by Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Firefox gives the most descriptive error string as SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG.

Multiplexing two models together to my mind just constructs a new model whose values are tuples of the existing models and which subscribes to both of those models in order to notify its own subscribers whenever either side of those tuples change. If you do this, you can have a bunch of local stores and still say "this component's value changes whenever either of those values change." The key is that "normal" models accept a set(value) message to set their value to something, and you might play around with "dict" models which accept insert(key, value), deleteAt(key) messages, but a multiplex model would not be easily able to abstract over all the different possible messages to send upstream and so the easiest approach is just to make multiplexes nonresponsive -- you can't "dispatch" to them, in Redux terms.

redux-thunk is nice in that it helps keep people from making the mistake of sending otherwise-no-op actions to the store which then, inside a reducer as side-effects, do a bunch of async I/O to compute events that eventually make it back to the store. I would broadly agree with that.

My basic beef with redux-thunk is that it's unnecessary and complicates what would otherwise be a type signature that has no reference to I/O, which I regard as a good thing. Developers ought to know that, to quote one of the Austin Powers movies, "you had the mojo all along." It's a sort of talisman that you are using for purely psychological reasons to reassure developers and to coax them to doing updates outside of the reducers, but it's OK because "it's in `dispatch()` so it must be a Redux thing so we'll make it work." But such a talisman is unnecessary.

Like, here's what you've got (in the readme):

function makeASandwichWithSecretSauce(forPerson) {
return function (dispatch) {
return fetchSecretSauce().then(
sauce => dispatch(makeASandwich(forPerson, sauce)),
error => dispatch(apologize('The Sandwich Shop', forPerson, error))
);
};
}
store.dispatch(
makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('Me')
);

Here it is with simpler type signatures:

function makeASandwichWithSecretSauce(forPerson, dispatch) {
return fetchSecretSauce().then(
sauce => dispatch(makeASandwich(forPerson, sauce)),
error => dispatch(apologize('The Sandwich Shop', forPerson, error))
);
}
makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('Me', msg => store.dispatch(msg));

The indirection here wouldn't even be necessary if Redux core just preventatively declared when creating a store that

store.dispatch = Store.prototype.dispatch.bind(store);
store.getState = Store.prototype.getState.bind(store);

which I mean maybe you do; I don't know.
The irony isn’t lost on me, but it does not mean the article is wrong in some way because it is published by Buzzfeed News.

If anything, I would be inclined to trust Buzzfeed’s expertise in garnering views, clicks and ad revenue from Facebook when it comes to them criticizing the system they thrive in.

Additionally, if those changes drive less traffic to Buzzfeed, it will likely hurt publishers across the board and they will all have to change to survive. Perhaps that could be in the general best interest.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518407
I have a very different take on why you're struggling. I read this in some book a long time ago when I too was struggling with a similar problem of procrastination and this advice helped me a lot (but YMMV).

What it says is (in my own words) you have three people living in you called the id, ego and the superego. The id or the kid is the child who wants to play, be happy all the time and wanta instant gratification, while the exact opposite is your superego that wants to impress others and wants to be perfect. The ego is the middleman trying to settle the two. So anyway long story short your superego or the perfectionist is what is making you obsess over the technology and you're doing the same work over and over again (if I'm correct you've rewritten it 4 times?) yet your id is not getting any reward and just more and more mundane work, so it revolts and creates resistance and starts giving you the excuses for not doing it anymore or calling the whole thing lame.

The best approach as others have pointed out is because you're being a perfectionist. As soon as you can stop doing that you will suddenly see that work even though mundane is getting done. Also you may need some play too as you've said you're feeling like a failure (search play it away), that book may have some invaluable advice for you on how to get back in the game.
It's worthwhile to hear the whole quote in context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxOywaoUKo

I would say Google started out with a "Spirit of Enlightenment" but lost the plot.
21 Lessons from Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters to Shareholders
Performance, bigtime. The benchmarks don't do the change justice.

It is a lot bigger and heavier than the 11" and there is no getting around it except get used to it. But for the speed, touch Id and keyboard it is worth it.

If a superior ARM macbook is released next year i'll probably sell this though.
Calling procrastination resistance is a bit rich. And wasting time writing a blog post about it ... kind of nullifies the blog post itself.
Um, you do realize that silicon fab lines generally recycle practically everything in terms of waste materials?

It used to be that the waste material from processing was more pure than the actual industrial infeed material. So, the first thing that semiconductor fab lines would do would be to take their "new" industrial material and feed it into their "used" line for reprocessing. I think this has changed as the industrial sources have gotten better, but I suspect that recapture is still almost perfect.
It's kinda funny seing an outside perspective on this. I live in europe and while we do have a decent rail system I always dream of a truly unified european rail network that can eliminate much of the air trafic. I don't know if that is possible with current technologies but a man can dream. Still it is pretty good what we have as the author states. I will spend an equivelant of about 50 us dollars to travel home and back for christmas, around 700 km total, which is actually cheaper than the equivalent cost in just gas if I was to drive (if I had a car that was, also not factoring bridge toll, which would make it substantially more expensive).
Looks more like you're procrastinating writing blog posts
Both Russia and China have way better train systems than the US, both in the cities and outside them.
Where are the turtles?
Http is done in kernel on Windows http.sys is a kernel driver which IIS and some other windows servers use.

Some UNIX distros also have their kernel implementation, and Linux has/had TUX but I’m not sure if it’s in use anywhere.
Written in the most pompous style I've read in a long time. He still has ways to go.
The users are not the only driver of change. Government regulation is very likely to happen at this point, in both the US and the EU.
That's not good enough. If this was real, Supermicro motherboards with that "feature" should have been found by now, and the technical press should have scanning electron microscope pictures of what's inside that chip.
Perhaps "huge pensions" was not the best choice of words. I was referring to the size of the pension funds in the aggregate and their growth over time rather than per employee. The CEO (who invested millions in Sears before and after leaving his hedgefund [0]) stated that $4.5 billion was contributed to the pension funds since 2005. See [1]. However, even then, the pension funds are underfunded by $1.5 billion. See [2]. To be clear, I don't place all blame for the bankruptcy on the pension obligations; I just think it is an important contributing factor should be mentioned in the conversation. Additionally, the bankruptcy will be interesting to watch for its comparison to GM back in 2009 (another company with a large pension obligation on its balance sheet at the time of bankruptcy).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lampert
[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-sears-bankrup...
[2] https://www.pbgc.gov/news/press/releases/pbgc-statement-on-s...
I would love for all globalist climate change doomsayers to put their money where their mouths are and stop flying across the globe in jets, driving in cars, and eating vegetables and meat from commercial agriculture, but I am not holding my breath.

Let's face it: The science behind climate change is likely sound, climate change is real, and we should probably do things to address it.

What is not science is accurately predicting the future. That cannot be done. Relying on computer models that can't possibly take into consideration every variable that can affect the climate, to me, is a waste of time, resources, and human lives. It is definitely not something we should base our governmental and societal decisions on.
Because the author is a millionaire living a millionaire lifestyle and telling other people not to try to imitate him. It just comes off as very hypocritical.
That's an assumption you have to defend.
IPython has a pretty neat feature where you can await at the top level:

https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version7.h...
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It makes me sad that, in 2018, people still think that assertions about the future climate made by predictive computer models is seen as a "fact".
Geologist here. This reminds me of the previous story about massive paleoburrows (also in Brazil) that are thought to have been dug by extinct giant ground sloths [1,2].

The geological background for both of these stories seems to be that certain types of iron-rich soils ("cangas") found in South America have been found to erode extraordinarily slowly [3], in part because the iron oxides recrystallize to form a hard surface known as a duricrust [4]. This slow erosion combined with deep chemical weathering leads to old, thick soils that can hold a lot of ancient surprises.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236249

[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/03/28/paleoburro...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X1...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670371...
The Past, Present and Future of Diablo
Weather is not climate. Natural disaster is not climate.
Part of the advantage is that you can update the protocol implementation independently of the OS. So google does not have to lobby OS vendors to implement TCP fast-open and other extensions to make their stack faster.
It also misses HSV and HSL. And a ton of other things if you aim for completeness. Not long ago I was tempted to write my own library but stepped away from it after a few days of research into colorimetry and realizing how deep that rabbit hole is.
I too have a side project that is nearing completion but I'm nervous to launch it. It's nerve-racking not knowing if and when someone might sign up. As a a non-dev it's even harder since I had to pay a developer out of pocket. I'd this doesn't work I'm out of a lot of my personal money.
Passengers lose
I'm not sure if Russia's rail meets your criteria of proper service, but it has both passenger and freight transport in abundance, and I haven't heard of problems with that. Both long-distance and commuter passenger services are used extensively. However, freight service is mostly used for industrial materials while finished goods are mostly delivered by trucks (afaik), so that might be the difference.
"modern" doesn't mean better.

Now we get flimsy aluminum cans just like Europe has, so we can die in crashes just like Europeans do. This is thought to make trains more appealing.

The impact hazards are different. Europe mostly doesn't have freight rail, at least nothing like the USA does. Here in the USA, our rail is almost exclusively freight. We even have a train service just for orange juice. Freight is everywhere.

Europeans take the risk, and it isn't too crazy because there is no freight. That's nice for them. We have freight.
We don't need to "accurately predict the future" at this point. First, climate change is the present. Second - does it matter if we're in "best-case" of only so many millions dying, or the worst-case (end of civilization)?
Something not mentioned much when discussing MVC* is that each part often runs in its own process and each have distinct constraints, or performance characteristics. View is dependent on graphics rendering, Model is often dependent on IO, and Controller is typically dependent on User.

In contrast to the author, I consider MVC to be a very well defined concept. However it is a concept and the implementation details are left to each specific application. In fact in any GUI there are multiple incarnations of the MVC paradigm each designed to their specific responsibility and happily ignorant of the others.
The Case for Dropping Out of College
Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?
The highest cost of Solar installations these days is the installation cost itself and the batteries -- if you're willing to spend the cost for the batteries. 90% efficient is great but the real value for most would be in reducing the cost in the additionals to the solar cells.

Less than 40% of the installation costs are the actual solar panels.

If someone came out with a DIY solar installation, that would be a major advance.
“Made in China 2025” is going to cause Beijing more headaches than anyone
Gold Frank and Grrr
Weight is often an issue to some degree. For example the US military has adopted solar for many remote bases because moving fuel is a logistical issue.

Again, I think for the most common case the only real advantage of increased effecency is lower installation costs. I am just saying solar fits in a very wide range of use cases and sometimes say for satilites you want something very specific and paying for it is worth it.
Happy to help
Why is this report so low-key? Shouldn't climate scientists by now man up and just tell the public in plain English that climate catastrophe is inevitable?
Sonic boom visualization
Chapter 2 has a plot of our understanding of the impact of all natural and human causes on the change in temperature:
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png

It's pretty clear (according to the models) that the human created aerosols combat a fair chunk of the increase caused by carbon emissions (around 0.7 deg C at the moment, which is substantial; we'd have already been around 2 deg C without it). Is deliberately increasing the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere a viable path forward? Is this economically feasible and safe? Can this be used to bring us back to the pre-industrial temperature levels?
Exactly. Nobody cares about the cars, it's about the contents. And a train that cannot deform, will come to a very sudden stop when it hits an unmovable object, which is not going to be good to the occupants. Crumple zones are generally better.

Downside is that that's probably where the train driver is. Preventing collisions is definitely the better approach.
This is pretty brilliant. Now if only they added a paycheck-as-a-service feature for those who are figuring out what's next as well! :)
Content regulation is very unlikely in the US given the Court’s near-absolutist First Amendment jurisprudence. Regulation of advertising and privacy is more plausible, but something like the GDPR is a constitutional and political non-starter in America.
It interestingly starts off with a disclaimer about working for Huawei that could indicate that they're going to speak against their parent company, and then just defends them completely and says that because of the American/Iraqi WMD fiasco about 20 years ago their company is above-board (how this is related or provides some sort of defense is beyond me). It's certainly devoid of all of the criticism of Huawei and cherry-picks a single audit of their code.

Taken with an appropriate amount of salt indeed... a metric ton.
They are wrong. Suicide rates in Australia rose in 2017.