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> Your first link is just one jpg of a table on a blog of a progressive institute.

Is 'progressive' a problem for you? You can easily google for SAIDI and SAIFI numbers yourself. They will look the same.

> The second one just a broad publication in German by the the German environmental ministry. Should I refer to its imprint as proof?

A proof for what? I showed you a publication where the ministry communicated its goal for the share of renewable electricity in 2020. Higher up we already established that the number has been reached in 2018.

> To which I'd say, look no further than 10 January 2019 when Germany's policy of legally enforcing right of way for renewable energies almost brought down the whole of Europe's electricity grid. [1]

Which is factually wrong. Seems like you are not able to read the German text.

It hasn't brought down the net at all, not in Germany and not in the rest of Europe and it wasn't even near that.

The reason was a combination of data problem and a demand increase because of two power plants were going offline. Nothing to do with the 'Energiewende'.

https://www.montelnews.com/de/story/datenfehler-bedarfsspitz...

If you read the above statements, it was far from bringing down the whole of Europe's grid - as you have claimed - even the French operator denies this. The whole of Europe is actually very large and includes countries like Ireland, Finland, Greece, ... none of which would have seen an effect. It's just a sensational headline.

> Thats a non sequitur.

What?

> Clearly, your statement of the surpassing of "any goals so far" can't be based on that one data point out of a 140 page document?

If you cite me, then cite me correctly. I said: 'The share of electricity from renewable energy has surpassed any goals so far.' I was explicitly talking about the goals for the share of electricity as an example and then gave you an example for that.

Your statement was this: 'until now the government was great at missing even the most conservative goals on basically anything'

I gave you an example where it wasn't missing its goals.
Sadly such an opinion as yours would be deemed, as the GP mentioned, as just not understanding. Those that willingly accept the tradeoff are often assumed to be ignorant and most don't voice their opinions online making the narrative appear one sided.
Take a moment to introspect and stop blaming others for your own bad, arrogant choices. Is there political will in the US to rebalance the economy away from debt-fueled consumption, which is the ultimate source of the trade imbalance? While Xi is an undereducated buffon, so is Trump. Truth be told both countries are run by technocratic bureaucracies and there won't be a meltdown in one without a meltdown in the other.
Reading this for a year and posts have become less interesting.
> But it has also happened often to me that an old bug I was trying to fix was simply gone, either because the error mode has gone away, or the feature that the bug related to has been removed.

And this is why groups like the OpenBSD team and the Linux kernel team are so eager to remove support for old hardware. Removing support for the 80386 cleaned up code which no longer had to have special cases to handle opcodes and features the 80386 doesn't have but later x86 processors do.
>Is the US really able to build nuclear plants with the occasional total budget shutdown for 3 months?

When did the US Govt Shutdown for 3 months (90 days)? Source please.
No, constexpr is in no way similar to the compile-time programing available on Rust. It's not on the same ballpark, it mostly does not have similar goals.

> It’s “just functional programming”

Well, yes, it's just functional programming where all the data is text, you don't get to query or debug intermediate values, and functions aren't even first class.

That's to say, it's a pure language, and lacks all the other features of modern FP languages.
modern day enterprise sales is essentially providing free consulting work.
They are small potatoes and may simply not care about European fines as afaik they have no presence in Europe. Next year they will be subject to CCPA and if they care to support that, GDPR will pretty much be supportd too.
> Is the US really able to build nuclear plants with the occasional total budget shutdown for 3 months?

When has there ever been a three month budget-based shutdown, much less occasional? You're inventing a premise that has never happened as a supporting argument and then furthering pretending it happens from time to time. That argument is entirely void.
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Respectfully, the question isn't "do doctor have a much work-life balance". I'm sure some do and some don't. I'm sure plenty work a lot, but the question wasn't about working a lot.

The question is ....

"what skills and careers are most compatible without needing to constantly be active in the field to stay relevant?"

Docters have a few continuing ed course, but that's it. They can work for five decades making six figures without having to spend huge portions of their personal life re-learning their craft. They could take

My friend is a nurse who works 2-3 12hr shifts a week. She is considered full time 24-36hrs, but most importantly to the original question...she is not required to re-tool.
Every transaction has an numeric identifier. These identifiers are used to order versions of updates to a data item. Versions from higher transaction IDs are considered to be "after" lower ones. Reading versions as of a particular version identifier must be consistent. But the system as a whole needs not be deterministic.
Yes, AlphaStar was already up 15 workers -- "build a Phoenix" would have completely shut down the prism and is apparently something that particular agent never learned how to do properly.

Camera management isn't part of that equation.

Though it is fair to conjecture that Mana may have won the earlier Blink Stalker vs Immortal game, if camera management were required.
I believe this is called slave morality.
That’s not nessisarily relevant. If you flip the fuck out 5 days in your life it’s not going to escalate much, but it might prevent a postal episode.

That said if it’s a weekly habit that’s another story.
LINQ can be slow. And the language is way too verbose imo.
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Do solar farms and windmills harm birds? How many birds are killed each year compared to how many die from nuclear? The flippant “lets do renewables” ignores that plastering the landscape with windmills and solar panels has some significant effects on wildlife that would exponentially increase with more widespread deployment. How many birds have died in France as a result of nuclear power?

Perhaps the answer is to not put nuclear plants in seismic areas and instead improve storage and transmission technology so that nuclear can be used more. Putting a reactor on a fault line, in a tsunami zone isn’t necessarily a beat practice, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Solar farms and windmills are ugly and environmentally harmful.
I'm not saying we shouldn't hold Zuckerberg accountable. We absolutely should. But we shouldn't be measuring him by what he says. What he says is just a bunch of hot air. There are plenty of values worth protecting that doesn't rely on him being true to his word (which is worth less than zero, it's actively harmful).
It's not a matter of "things you think are wrong", it's illegal activity. As a cyclist, they are breaking the rules, invading my space, and putting my life at risk by forcing me into car traffic, just to save a few seconds.
> However, saying that renewables are the cause of this is the same as saying that nuclear is the cause of Chernobyl.

Are you suggesting SA renewables suffered an unplanned failure this summer? I havn't heard anything about that and I expect that they have been functioning as expected and that you are mistaken. Do you have a source?
That's an interesting thought and one I hadn't thought of. I think the author would agree with you too given how he (briefly) describes the animal rights movement.
I love my '05 Toyota 4Runner, bought new. No serious issues and gets pretty heavy daily use. My mechanic says it should be good for another 8 years at least. Basically I hope to drive it until self-driving tech is widely available.
> to me it feels like a functional language in disguise

I disagree on the "disguise" part.

Yet, I don't see why you consider it an opposite of being a system language.
They have specified the lambda runtime. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-api.ht...

Basically: your instance POSTS to an endpoint to get/reply to requests, one at a time.

I can't wait until you can specify that a lambda instance can handle a certain # of requests in parallel. Ex: things just blocked on IO/DB. That would make better use of your RAM.
Geo IP is a reasonable last resort; it'll usually show at least what city you're in.

The images you upload may have location data on them.

If you're using a wireless hotspot then your location is correlated to anyone who also used it while sharing GPS data.

And so on.
I am not a physician at a non-profit! But I had read a few years of Tenet and HCA annual reports a while back, and have a few other points of exposure to non-profit vs teaching vs private systems. Perhaps we can agree that there are many opportunities to improve the system in many ways.
Oh wow is that the famous american 'anything slightly left is communist'? Last time I checked he Rosa Luxembourg Foundation was affiliated with the leftist Party and not the DKP.
Yes. Panels based on crystalline silicon have 95% market share and require none of those elements.
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(Disclaimer: generalization ahead) That might be because they're starting to get hip to the fact that too many data scientists struggle to produce professional-level code, forcing you to pay a software developer to create the actual deliverable from their prototype. At that point, why not just hire a really bright software engineer who can code well and knows how to work with data?
Trump is on the out it 2 or 6 years. Xi potentially has far more staying power which makes the long term risks much higher.

The regular party shifts in the US actually add quite a bit of stability to the system where dictatorships can more easily enter a downward spiral. Xi’s early term has seen a rather stark consolidation of power in the name of anti corruption policies, but don’t be fooled it’s a classic political move aiming for a long term in office.

Remeber Mao’s long term was associated with huge issues. China’s growth has come when the upper echelon’s have been relatively unstable.
Theoretically (i don't work at facebook) there's a number of ways you could go about it.

- Geocode down to the lowest applicable level of IP address

- grab it from the photo metadata

- Piggyback off of similarities to other people obtaining similar photos or activity

- grab it from other database sources that do have your location

- correlate it to your interactions with other hardware/infrastructure with known locations

- transitively deduce it from your friends and acquaintances who share their location and tag themselves and reply to your stories/photos

Theoretically you could try to train some neural nets on images themselves. Geoguessr.com is a fun game website where you can try to do so as a human, and you can usually get pretty damn close. Images themselves leak a tonne of information on time/place: clothing styles, fonts and languages on signs, shadows, light colour, fauna/flora, asphault + stone types, arichtecture and design quirks. In many ways the neural net might even have some advantages over humans, because not many humans memorise the thousands of minutae: eastern USSR uses this particular kind of road barrier and reflector type and this kind of font on its road signs.

But aside from a research activity, i imagine facebook already has the data it needs most of the time...
That US infrastructure is widely crumbling - such that the US somehow can't get a handle on it - is a myth. The US requires targeted infrastructure investment, it is not suffering a broad based problem.

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/infrastructure-US-crum...
Reading your comment 42 minutes later your fear that it would not inspire useful discussion appears to be demonstrably unfounded.

Flagging a post out of fear of what might be said in response to the article is the aspect of HN culture I find least admirable. Flagging a post is not the same as downvoting. Flagging amounts to "I believe this article should not be read by anyone from HN" because a fully flagged Article (flagged by more than one person) removes the source link from view. That's a pretty serious statement to feel you can make on behalf of all the other readers of HN, and should be used only with the greatest of care.
Agreed it didn't make any sense. OP, please change title to say "email addresses" instead of just "emails."
On the TV show White Collar, there's an episode where a fake (paper) case file is put together and adding coffee mug stains is part of the process.
magicalhippo asked a similar question both with regard to complexity and garbage collection. I think it is best to combine these threads, so please see my response there ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19003212
That's easy: not doing it.
Thank you. Whenever I see someone compare nuclear deaths to solar deaths (lot of solar death are falling off a roof), I slap my forehead when they suggest full speed ahead with nuclear (despite it being too expensive, uninsurable without government backing, and no waste disposal plans) instead of...making it harder to fall off of roofs when installing rooftop solar.
What successful company doesn't disregard relevant laws when the returns outweigh the penalties?

It's obvious, this is how businesses operate.
> However, saying that renewables are the cause of this is the same as saying that nuclear is the cause of Chernobyl. Nuclear plants don't inherently melt down if they are properly designed and operated and renewables don't inherently cause load-shedding if they are integrated to a properly planned and operated bulk power system.

Isn't this just juggling semantics? Nuclear is very much a necessary condition for nuclear meltdown. Removing nuclear power is a foolproof option to avoid nuclear meltdown.

Likewise displacing dispatchable generation with renewables enables the conditions where we can get these super high spot prices. To guarantee supply during peak load you need a lot of redundant dispatchable generation sitting around gathering dust until the $14500 day. On that day it needs to pay for itself, hence $14500 per megawatt hour.

EDIT: Oh wait, I'm a dummy who didn't read your post correctly. I agree with your comments about the market needing to correctly price reliability of supply. In WA we have a capacity market for this reason.
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> some of the async socket IO in C# is not easily awaitable

Do any examples come to mind? I thought Microsoft did a pretty thorough job of adding async support to nearly all of the BCL in .NET 4.5. Not saying there aren't gaps, I'm just curious. Sockets' non-blocking model is an excellent candidate for async/await-ifying.
> Even the most law-abiding delivery company is going to end up with some parking tickets

Why? If you don’t park illegally you don’t get tickets. They aren’t random or accidental.
Categories are part of the content (at the bottom of each page) and actually require a lot of Wikipedia-specific knowledge.
It's unfortunate that this is being downvoted, when the core of the parent's point is that three month total budget shutdowns are occasionally happening (the fact is, that is entirely untrue).
Thanks. After 4 years the only thing I know for sure about marketing is that you have to spend more every year. Everything else is a shot in the dark.
Forgjs-examples
Hey everyone,

I just finished the forgjs example page , ill be more than happy to have some feed back. The code is not the cleanest and I havent used any fancy framework just some vanillajs.

Thank you.

https://oussamahamdaoui.github.io/forgjs-examples/
Onboarding with default content – The content as the tutorial
Doesn't burning natural gas produce just as much CO2 as coal?
Just as deflating the tire illegal.

Imagine there's no bike lane and you ride on the street, or when you wanna ride more relaxed, you ride on the sidewalk.

It's not a problem either way if everybody is somewhat relaxed. But with your mindset, everyone's against everyone.

Phew...

It just riddles me.

If you were in a car, you would be the type of person that honks at cyclist because in their mindset, it's illegal.
No you're right, it's an unsolved problem right now.
> It seems the system operator has been relying on reliability services provided by large synchronous generators without actually pricing and creating a market for those services, which has caused them to disappear with coal retirements and leave the power system in a chronically insecure state. In order for the market to ensure both day-ahead generation adequacy and as well as real-time operating reserve margin for unit contingencies, generators need to be able to get paid for providing those services, at a level that makes it economical to invest in new assets or maintain existing ones.

Aren't these frequency response services the same provided by Tesla's battery system at the Hornsdale Power Reserve? If so, those reliability services are paid for by the South Australian government. Additionally, the Hornsdale Power Reserve responds to frequency sags within milliseconds, whereas legacy thermal needs upwards of 15-20 minutes to raise the frequency or voltage back up.

> First, let’s recap on some of the important points. The Tesla big battery was built without subsidy, in a period of just 4.5 months from design to full operations, and at a cost of $91 million. If the figures available to date are any guide, it is making plenty of money ($24 million in revenue this year) and may deliver a payback to its owners of less than four years.

> Even better, it is delivering an even bigger market benefit for consumers ($40-$50 million in its first year) by lowering costs, particularly in the frequency control market, but also in wholesale price. Add in the value of grid security, and the avoidance of blackouts, and the savings are considerable.

> Tesla makes its money through a $4 million a year contract (for 10 years) with the South Australia government, and sets aside 90MW and 10MWh to provide grid security, mostly by intervening when major events happen.

So we build more batteries.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/deep-dive-into-first-year-of-tes...

https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1520406/hornsdale-b...
The point with the acks is, as far as I can see, that the client initiating the transaction has to 1) know when each worker has received the transaction request, and 2) when the first worker has completed it and what the result of the transaction is (failed due to constraints or success).

Point 1 is in case a worker dies before it has durably stored the transaction request.

Point 2 is so that the client can move on.
Wouldn't it be a great way to make some money? If you know they target fragile boxes, and you get insurance on it under $1,000, you're guaranteed a payout! As a bonus, right some politically charged messages on it or troll-y statements.
First of all, most Chinese farmers, like all farmers the world over, never had an education during most of history, and most were still decent, moral human beings. Second of all, poor people do shit rich people don't have to do in order to survive. It was not until wealth inequality increased and traditional social safety nets deteriorated that morality declined. Could a better education have ameliorated this? Certainly, but not in the way you say and not directly, but it would have created earlier conditions for political change and for the protection of individual rights, things that are still happening, but at a slower pace. This generation is still vastly better educated than the last.
One thing people (like me ) often say is that it forces you to “learn to write better.”

One way you can think of it is this:

- Rust rejects some programs that are truly wrong (`“2” + 3` style)

- Rust rejects some programs that really are just fine. They are actively improving this with stuff like “Non-lexical lifetimes.”

- Rust rejects some programs that are fine _how they are now_, but which are hard to keep fine when you change them. This is part of why linked lists are hard to write in Rust :-)
My Toyota is only 20 years old. Still goes great so will keep for another five.
How do you do that without compromising yourself politically?
In a crowded urban neighborhood, there is not going to be anywhere for a delivery vehicle to legally stop. Unless the delivery company refuses to service the area, it’s going to do some double parking.

Downtowns address this problem with yellow commercial loading zones but those don’t really exist in residential neighborhoods.
> However, the number of shards that have possibilities of state-based aborts is known before the transaction begins, and since the same values are being sent everywhere, you can always use standard network broadcast techniques to bring the complexity back to O(n)

Ah, good point. That assumes the workers are within broadcast range, but you'll want that anyway for speed. This means a worker will have to push values to other workers, so they'll maintain a queue of these then?

Anyway, thanks for the responses. Like I said, not my field at all, but really fun stuff to ponder.
I mean, I get writing boilerplate SQL can be annoying, but honestly if you organize your code well then you end up making changes only in a few places (your repository class and wherever the new column actually gets used). By encapsulating your database in a set of repository classes you can avoid most headaches. Even if you don’t write your own SQL for most things, this is a really valuable pattern to follow in data-centric code of any kind.
Sure, and then there’s of course old school ADO.NET for bulk inserts.
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> or when you wanna ride more relaxed, you ride on the sidewalk.

Common misconception. Riding on the sidewalk is considerably more dangerous than riding in the street. While you are less likely to be hit from behind, you are much more likely to be hit by drivers turning.

> If you were in a car, you would be the type of person that honks at cyclist because in their mindset, it's illegal.

The difference is that blocking the bike lane is typically illegal (and dangerous to cyclists), and riding a bike on the road is typically legal (and at most irritating to drivers). The two are not equivalent.
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They figure it out, I assume? - LR parsing is accountancy, not rocket science. You don't need to be a genius.
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>But the question is, why do a country with such ability still want to spy United States? That ability should be more advanced than the current US technology for decades ...

Mainly because it's cheaper to let somebody else do the research and find the problems.

If you were interested in stealth aircraft technology, you might be glad to read about another country's research into Schiff base salts for paint. Or somebody else's modeling for multistatic radar aircraft detection.

It costs tons to do these sorts of things. If by spying, you could just eliminate half of the tech dev blind alleys, you've saved a lot of money and maybe time as well.
I think the pattern is to give the socket to a `NetworkStream` constructor, then it has all the regular async methods on it.