skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$40/MWh is for combined cycle gas turbines that operate at high capacity factors. According to this BNEF report, gas peaking capacity is now threatened by battery replacement:

Electricity demand is subject to pronounced peaks and lows inter-day. Meeting the peaks has previously been the preserve of technologies such as open-cycle gas turbines and gas reciprocating engines, but these are now facing competition from batteries with anything from one to four hours of energy storage, according to the report.

The report itself doesn't give a $/MWh figure for these peakers. Lazard's 2017 report puts the lower end of CCGT generation at $42/MWh, close to the EIA number, but gas peaking starts at $156/MWh and goes as high as $210/MWh:

https://www.lazard.com/media/450337/lazard-levelized-cost-of...

Note that they put gas reciprocating engines no higher than $106, so I don't think that batteries at this price threaten gas reciprocating engines yet. Mostly they threaten open cycle gas turbines.

Diesel reciprocating engines show a cost of at least $197/MWh and are also threatened by battery-backed renewables. Diesel generators have been heavily used to supply electricity for small remote villages, islands, and off-grid mining sites. For a few years now there has been a trend to reduce consumption of diesel at such sites by partially substituting generator output with renewable electricity. It's possible to make deeper cuts in diesel use with added battery storage, and the payback period is shorter than you might guess from looking at the local gas station's diesel price. Getting the fuel to certain locations can cost nearly as much as buying it in the first place.
It's generally the linker you need to worry about, but it depends on what you're doing with the assembly.
I am somewhat open to what you're saying here. I think perhaps what could be needed is a decoupling of the idea of a woman and the reality of the female sex. My friend Alice is a woman. She also has a penis, testes, and prostate. I don't think that the presence of those organs makes her less of a woman however I couldn't argue that biological she is female. She doesn't even make that argument. She had a testicular cancer scare two years ago that gave us the opportunity to have this very discussion. I apologize if my point of view on this is I'll informed or offensive. It's hard to talk about.
"At the bottom, people tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have."

Misdirection. Not money, ot more properly, wealth, but power.

Much the topic of Smith's Wealth of Nations, actually. Though modern economics likes to pretend otherwise.
might be a premium for drives with open-source controllers.
Heh, yeah, it depends on your definition of "Buddhism", too. It's probably somewhat better defined than "worship" in some sense, but still a broad target. Between the two fuzzy words you can craft significant overlap or make then virtual opposites.
The approach is rather closer to Zircon.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/
Web servers - lambda

Build server - CodeBuild you either run with prebuilt Docker containers or you use a custom built Docker container that automatically gets launched when you push your code to GitHub/CodeCommit. No server involved.

Fileshare - a lot of companies just use Dropbox or OneDrive. No server involved

FTP - managed AWS SFTP Service. No server involved.

DHCP - Managed VPN Service by AWS. No server involved.

DNS - Route 53 and with Amazon Certificate Manager it will manage SSL certificates attached to your load balancer and CDN and auto renew. No servers involved.

Active Directory - Managed by AWS no server involved.

Firewall and router - no server to
Manage. You create security groups and attach them to your EC2 instances, databases, etc.

You set your routing table up and attach it to your VMs.

Networking equipment and routers - again that’s a CloudFormatiom template or go old school and just configuration on a website.
>>Apparently, everyone is a victim these days simply by making life decisions they end up regretting. Nobody is responsible for anything concerning themselves anymore.

No one makes decisions in a vacuum. People's behaviors are informed by their upbringing and circumstances, most of which they have no control over. Studies show that people are deeply affected by those around them, and their role models (whether those be friends or family members) have a deep impact on the paths they take in life. For example, arranging regular interactions between kids in school and young, successful white collar professionals drastically increases the likelihood that those kids end up picking similar careers. In contrast, if they are surrounded by high crime and poverty, they tend to not do so well.

This is why one should not rush to judgment when discussing these issues: things are never as simple as "well, they made the wrong decisions in life." Even if the decisions were indeed wrong in retrospect, at the time they might have looked like (or actually have been) the right ones, or simply the best ones available.
Nope. You can use AirPlay to stream music from other services (like Spotify) through your iOS/macOS device to the HomePod (while using voice commands, if you wish, to that device), but Apple Music can be natively played by the HomePod by issuing voice commands directly to it.

So far, HomePod is looking like a Version 0 product from Apple. Given that it’s not even sold in many countries yet (compared to iPhone/iPad/Macs), it will be a while until it becomes a little more open. Looks like Apple hasn’t yet completely figured out the market and utility for it.
And you're in other threads complaining that the people that had five hammers were still doing it wrong, that all the outages they report are fake somehow...

Even when you're supposed to have redundancy, there are still certain failure rates that are acceptable and some that are not. And redundancy doesn't solve every problem either.
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>>> I didn't start off criticizing AWS; just large companies in general, based on my experience with them

I will reply on that because I have experience with both.

If you worked in big companies, you do have to constantly debug half baked internal tools written by other people, with little or no documentation. It's horrible when you change company later, the institutional knowledge is lost when you leave and it's worthless for you to get a new job.

AWS is absolutely nothing like that. The tooling is working and polished and documented. It's much much better than any internal tools you will find in big companies. When you're out of your depth, you can just google for help. When changing company you can continue to apply the experience and never worry about the tooling in place.
Because random businesses don't know how to hire good programmers. (In fact, even good businesses struggle with it.)
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What a time to be alive! I've just started populating the sqlite virtual fts table. I will report back with my findings!
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If the state of Washington made it illegal it couldn't effect ICE though could it, since they're a part of the federal government?
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Like many other programmers, I originally picked up programming because I wanted to write games. I spent time on my own in high school messing around with rudimentary 2D libraries in C++. That feeling of awe and accomplishment that was captured the first time an image successfully moves across the screen was what got me hooked.

After starting college I soon learned of the trials and tribulations of software engineers in the gaming industry. I changed my degree to Computer Engineering, took the embedded track, and recaptured that sense of awe by staring into the abyss of an Oscilloscope. Albeit, I did still take several graphics courses as electives (simply because I loved the subject).
By your standard then, Stallinism and Maoism is socialism.

The rest of this comment is beyond ridiculous.
The government is powered by belief too. When a critical mass of people start saying "This is not my government, and I'm not subject to its authority", it ceases to be the government. This last happened (unsuccessfully) in the U.S. in 1861, but is a regular occurrence in many other parts of the world.

The effect of 2009's QE was to couple the full faith & credit of the financial system with the full faith & credit of the government, effectively backstopping the financial industry with the trust that the government had built up over 230 years. This worked, but it was not free. The cost was an erosion of that trust in government, which you see in movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the alt-right, Trump, sovereign citizens, and Democratic Socialism.

As long as things are good, the government (and the financial system) can continue to build up that trust that they spent down in the financial crisis, and we'll have weathered the storm with no problems. Things are still not good for many people. And so the risk is that if there is another crisis in the next few years, while that trust is depleted, the whole society will come crashing down, like Syria or Venezuela. Not just a financial crisis, but a political crisis as well, because the two of them are now coupled in peoples' minds.
I mean, I just get the blurays from netflix so I can upload them to torrent sites.
Woah, amazing stuff. And such depth in the comments. I threw away a good half hour just reading them.
> On the internet, you don't get the benefit of the doubt -- you need to prove to me

Why? Why not disprove it yourself? In science theories can never be proven, but they can certainly be disproved. Mandating people never form an original opinion without first proving it to you sounds incredibly ignorant and hopelessly entitled.
KeePass is more secure than LastPass, not less. I've tried a couple different password managers, but always come back to KeePassXC with a simple auto-type workflow. My reasons:

A. The auto-fill extensions don't work on enough sites to make it annoying (maybe ~20%). Auto-type is a more consistent workflow for me.

B. Lastpass (and friends) browser extension doesn't do anything for desktop apps, SSH sessions, or anything outside the browser. You have to copy and paste one at a time.

C. I like all my passwords to be a particular format because it frequently happens that I have to type them in manually (Phone, vCenter console, BIOS, etc.) and I just like that to be easy. (I use 5 groups of 4 lower case separated by periods, with one number and one upper case letter in the last group. Still very strong but also manageable to type into an iPhone).

D. I like to record more than just passwords (the email I used, answers to security questions (always random, but legit looking), bank and credit card details, stuff like that). The KeePass UI for keeping those kinds of notes is just so much cleaner, simpler, and better than anything else.

E. KeePassXC has first class support for Yubikeys.
If we'd be truly honest with kids, we'd tell them that most of them can't become investment bankers either...
Both should be "coffee" and "saving" - not $5 coffee and maybe saving. In other words, if you figure out how much you need to retire at the lifestyle you want, in the time frame you want, and put the money into your investments (retirement, brokerage, etc) and then pay all your bills and then you have $5/day to spend on coffee, go to town. If, instead, you spend $5/day on coffee, pay your bills, and don't have any money left over each month, so you skimp on your retirement contributions, you've lost control of when and how you retire.

The end goal for any conscious saver is not "the most money at the end of your life" but almost certainly something more meaningful and useful. Retirement when and how you want! Having retirement accumulate faster such that you have enough to retire when you're 55 instead of 65 means 10 years of meaningful autonomy over your life. Of course that probably isn't possible if $5 coffees interrupt your retirement plans entirely. There's a spectrum of incomes, cost of living and what your optional spending looks like.
I like the idea but data collection seems like a big chunk of the costs. And if you going to go that far why not create an api to host it and charge for usage and pay back initial "investors".
As with most coding questions, the important parts are when you start looking at corner or edge cases. Or when you refine your initial implementation.
I wish that were so for all over. My library does indeed offer dvds, but the selection is no where as robust as Netflix.
> ... to believe that virgins can give birth ...

Even if unlikely, given that we might postulate this as asexual reproduction caused by some super rare genetic mutation, wouldn't it be disingenuous to say that it can't happen?

> ... and that people can come back to life after being dead for more than a day ...

Again, even if unlikely, couldn't we postulate the resurrection as an event akin to the origins of life; as the ingredients in the right place at the right time but for a person?
Another example is the Professional Engineer (PE).

Bridges don't just get designed and built. A PE is usually required to sign off that these structures are safe and usable. Little Fischer-Price playhouses aren't the same as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Though not a guild in all but name, the PE acts just the same.

In fact, there is guild-like behavior in a lot of professions, come to think of it.
Germany has almost no hydro power compared to the 24% average in the EU. Biomass, PV and Wind Power alone produce 38% of the electricity in Germany. This percentage is growing by 3-4% a year. Combined with nuclear and other zero emission technologies it produces 45% of the electricity without emitting CO2. If Germany had hydro power it would already be at 69% but it wouldn't matter.

Despite this massive success the total CO2 emissions haven't changed. The electricity sector is obviously only responsible for around 24% of the total energy used in Germany. Therefore the renewable strategy only amounts to a 12% reduction.

One of the biggest problems that Germany suffers from is that the transportation sector still uses gasoline. Over the last 10 years people have started buying more cars and driving them for more miles. Less efficient diesel (which is taxed less than gasoline) cars also resulted in a minor increase in CO2 emissions. This completely negated the CO2 decreases thanks to renewable electricity.

If anything what holds back renewable energy is the total lack of mass market electric cars that can compete with ICEs and lack of charging infrastructure.

Battery technology is currently improving at such a high pace that we might never even need anything better than lithium ion batteries. Tesla has managed to reduce the cobalt content down from 14% to less than 3%. The yearly cost reductions even make cheap flow batteries which basically are just sulfuric acid with vanadium mixed in uncompetitive.
Why would ICE run "latino-sounding" names through and not just all names through whatever ICE database they're cross-referencing? Did they get a 10,000 page print out instead of a spreadsheet file? (why not Scan + OCR + cross reference with database - would be way faster)

Just seems like ICE employees are only targeting latinos... intentionally. And that's the most bothering part of this to me. We're cool with Swedes overstaying their welcome...
Or wealth / property taxes.

Or exim taxes on international money transfers.

Or taxes on bank balances, particularly offshore.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...
Elon needs to hand the reigns over to a Tim Cook type-guy who thrives in an environment like that. There's no way he isn't bored with Tesla and its mundane supply-chain challenges at this point.
Yep, this sounds fair! For smaller things that aren't 10+ queries, I can imagine it not being that bad, but for that, yeah, that sounds much slower.
what would it take to make that happen? what would it take to make this happen? it's funny people are happy to let creditors tax everyone at 20% (like a shitty credit card with a 2k limit is what's used to buy lattes), but bring up generating real wealth for a huge percentage of the population that has nothing, and oh noes this is against everything we stand for. this is why we can't have nice things. minimum income, yes, forced savings, no. yes i would like 2k per month for free, but no i don't want to save 2k per year so i can have 500k when i am 60.
Yeah that's my experience as well. I went for a B.A. so I was able to take a larger variety of CS courses than the average B.S. student and it still was only my Web Applications professor that did live coding with web2py and Vue.js
Oh, I do check out my local library as well. It's no Netflix, though.
I, too, hope this will deter other companies from illegally handing over the customers‘ data for frivolous fishing expeditions by law enforcement.
> (not well, maybe, but it worked)

Obviously we don't have the alternative universe where President McCain opted to do nothing for comparison. But looking at the economic boom we're living in 10 years out, it's difficult to make an argument that the government's handling of the housing crisis was poor. I have a hard time coming up with an outcome more ideal than what we got.

2008->2018 was a much nicer decade than 1928->1938.
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Sure... But what you describe is not how the Federal Reserve works. The Federal Reserve is accountable to Congress. If they do their job poorly, leadership can be removed. The Federal Reserve is not a private company.

They don't "buy shares in the government". I'm not even sure what that even means. Nobody can buy shares in the government because the government isn't a company. I guess you might be referring to government bonds. But those aren't shares, they're contracts to get paid a greater amount when the bond reaches maturity. The whole concept of "shares of the government" is just not valid because nobody owns the government. At least not in the US, there are some monarchies where all government assets are owned by the royal family.
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The greatest con that copyright holders pulled is to convince the public that service providers are to blame. (Netflix, Hulu, Apple for movies; Spotify, Pandora, Apple, Deezer for music; ebooks, audiobooks etc.)

Meanwhile dipshits like Warner, Sony, Disney hold everyone hostage.
Do you have more info on their falsified LGBT study? My Google-fu is failing me
My post is only concerned with income tax. Government revenue up until that point had been provided by sales tax and tariffs. Income tax for 99% of Americans did not exist. Income tax is just another revenue stream, promised to be temporary. This isn't a general gripe about taxation, touching anyone's bank account, or generating revenue. There is zero misunderstanding of economics. The post was about a special tax for the general populace, that was introduced as temporary. That "temporary" part is a lie.
Erm... not quite. in the Insolvency vs Illiquidity stakes, 2008 was all about Insolvency.

That's why the government stepped in and bought the mortgages from the banks - if the banks had had to account for the losses on those loans it would have brought down the entire system.
Of course the submission disappears in true corporate controlled fashion once uncomfortable comments appear.

Must be a fun place to work at. Is Cloudflare tracking this post?
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there is a time for optimization and a time for learning.
I'm curious how they come up with that, actually. Aren't batteries at ~100/KWh at the moment? I would have expected a MWh to be closer to $100k. If I'm not mistaken, 1000 cycles at that rate would get you close to $100/MWh.

Obviously I am misunderstanding something in these calculations.
>> there was once a yogi or guru-type that criticized the denuclearization effort saying why get rid of nukes if we still have the mindset that can justify using them

Probably because politicians are more aware of the realities of _current_ human nature rather than some future hypothetical that may never happen at all.

Also there's an important point to be made that the powers that actually owned the majority of nuclear arsenal on the planet had enough missiles to destroy most of the human civilization.
A good reverse analogy here would be TV advertisements targeted at children.

In the US, nobody really thinks twice about toy commercials run during cartoons, but in Sweden, these have been made illegal.

I'm not advocating for or against either, just pointing out that it is usually significant to the culture for some historical reason or another. As long as it's not causing harm, it's usually up to the service provider to decide to or ensure if they are going to cater to the cultural norms of that market.
I heard that story as well. It was fascinating. Despite knowing many transgender people that story did more for my understanding of a trans person's experience than almost anything else. As you said. It really seems like a case of a brain in the "wrong" body.
Honestly, it was probably a compromise many years ago to get some other kind of legislation or tax-code pushed through. Last decade's "compromise" is this decade's "loophole".
There's also Kanopy, which is a free limited-views-per-month streaming service you can sign up for with some library cards. My boring Midwestern city's main library has it—the library network in the outer 'burbs didn't, but most people in the area can get a free card in the main system anyway—so I assume it's pretty widely available. Signing up was kinda clunky but now I can watch 12 things a month on it. Selection skews "art" and documentary but there are quite a few mainstream movies on there. Lots of Criterion Collection, too, if you're into that. No idea if you can inflate your views-per-month by having others in your house sign up for it too, and juggling logins.
Langtool[1] is Open Source and can be either used with a subscription or selfhosted. Works well when used in combination with a few gb of n-grams [2]. There is also a Libreoffice plugin and most important also one for emacs.

[1] https://languagetool.org/
[2] https://languagetool.org/download/ngram-data/
> So someone can act unethically, reap the benefits of it, be caught red-handed, and suffer no consequences.

> Sounds like a loophole in the justice system to me.

No, it's the fundamental distinction between what is illegal and what is unethical, which is a bit more than a “loophole”.

It may be that it should be illegal for ICE to ask for certain information outside of the circumstances where it has a warrant, and this may be in that category. Or perhaps ICE should be legally prohibited from asking without a warrant when there is, as here, a state law prohibition on the person they ask giving them the information.

Or maybe the law should just disband ICE.

But none of that is the law now.
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Thats not the point the author is making.

The point being made is that if all that is stopping you from financial ruin is a $5 coffee a few times a week, you're pretty much already in financial ruin. The coffee really isn't and shouldn't be the thing making the difference.