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> the problem is solar is cheaper, so its profitable for someone to build 50MW of solar.

That's not how that works. The unit cost of generation is inconsequential compared to the fixed cost, so you don't stop generating at any point and you just take the market price whatever it is.

Suppose nuclear needs to average $10/MWh to meet costs but solar can do $8/MWh during the day. Then as long as nuclear can get $12/MWh at night, it can match solar on price during the day and still cover costs. And solar + storage can't beat $12/MWh at night while the storage costs much more than $4/MWh. So then it's unprofitable to build the other 25MW in solar capacity because it would only get undercut on price during the day by nuclear which can make up the difference at night.

And it's the same thing for wind or anything else. Once you have 25GW of nuclear generation, nobody is ever going to be able to undercut it on marginal cost -- they'll never stop generating power and selling it for the market price, even if it would cause the plant operators to yield negative overall returns, because selling for an unprofitable market price is still less of a loss than getting nothing. And since everyone knows that ahead of time they don't bother to build a bunch of unprofitable wind turbines and that doesn't happen to begin with.

> If it takes you 5 years to build the 25MW of solar, but the nuclear takes 15 years, theres a 10 year gap between solar build out finishing and nuclear being ready to take over from that coal plant. What do you do? 10 years of burning coal? or continue building solar so your covering as much demand as you can? But then why retire all that solar when the nuclear plant comes online?

There is no hope of replacing the entire grid with solar in five years time. The production capacity for that doesn't exist, and would be unprofitable to create because once you've replaced the entire grid with solar all those new panel factories you just paid to build would go idle.

What actually happens is that you add solar as fast as you can and it's still not enough, and you add nuclear at the same time and if we're lucky then together they're enough.
There are in fact two kinds of Scrum (or rather, Scrum implementations), both of them compatible with the Scrum guide: ‘Left to Right’ Scrum (backlog-driven, implementation-focussed) and ‘Right to Left’ Scrum (goal-oriented, iterative).

Unfortunately Scrum is too often explained and implemented that first way, leading to the anti-Agile feedback we see on HN with some regularity. The second way is much more compatible with complementary tools such as Lean Startup and Kanban and I wonder if this (to me very welcome) non-exclusivity explains why it is less talked about.

[1] https://blog.agendashift.com/2018/07/04/righttoleft-works-fo...
Be sure to have enough RAM, so you will not run out of it.

(For some reason, when building projects like LLVM with -j 16, 32 GB w/o swap may be not enough. With -j 2, it is enough, but takes an eternity).
Epyc 2 (Rome) will have up to 64 cores.
Hologram to denote the shield, quadracopter cube?
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The limiting factor is generally not memory but processing and power consumption.
Thank you for giving me a really good laugh.
> My model can be complex enough to represent the original system

This does not mean that your model is not complex. It means that the system is simple.

At least, it is simple enough to be represented fully in a model. I think this paradox refers mostly to systems that are too complex to be represented in any model at full accuracy, and must therefore be simplified.
Here is a talk about MakerLisp at BALISP (Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9NtyBCx78
Afaik, browsers have pretty solid compatability these days. I mean, they’re all chromium skins, but nonetheless
With normal brokers, your stocks are protected by SIPC insurance in that case. It plays a similar role to FDIC insurance on your bank account. This should generally apply to Robinhood too. They state that it does.

The reason I would have some doubts is they were talking recently about providing checking and savings features like a bank, only tied to a brokerage account, and they said cash therein would be SIPC insured and the SIPC had to contradict them publicly and say "nuh-uh".

This doesn't indicate your stocks aren't safe per se, but it suggests that Robinhood may not always verify that something is 100% ok with regulators before doing it, or think about all the implications, and some day we might find out "oops" they didn't do something crucial that traditional brokers do, because they were being disruptive, moving fast and breaking things.

Another point is that while Robinhood Financial appears to be a more or less normal broker that is a member of FINRA and SIPC, Robinhood Crypto is not. This isn't exactly surprising, but again, it could make a person slightly nervous that there could be drastically different consequences someday to trusting different entities that are all called "Robinhood". Maybe people will get used to trusting both of them and someday there will be a new "Robinhood XYZ" and it will not be regulated the way people expect. Or what if when Robinhood Crypto is hacked and loses their customers assets, it turns out there is some linkage that causes problems for Robinhood Financial, even though it wasn't supposed to work that way.

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/14/robinhood-ch...
Launch fast. Do not spend a year building your first one without launching.

Your motivation will tank at times... in those moments its extremely helpful to have paying customers--you'll find your motivation replenishes a lot easier.
I think the challenge with having no process is this: You have to rely on great chemistry and raw talent.

Look at Spotifys videos on their process. Every team is self-driving, because everyone knows how to do stuff. If you work at a company where there is no process, and not every is able to complete the whole task from A-Z, you end up with deadends and people who get stuck. If the culture doesn't encourage knowledgesharing, people end up making crappy solutions.
>Data Scientist is a buzz word for Statistician

It's really not. The skill set we need in terms of some software, system design, and a rich knowledge of modern data science libraries and trends is not something you should expect a statistician to have.

Similarly, I certainly cannot prove asymptotic theorems like a statistician.
I imagine it's not the cheapest phone company due to the additional service, so if you're not using it, you might be wasting money.

In any case, I think it's good that there are phone companies that compete on quality service rather than price, and specialised service for a specific demographic makes a lot of sense.
When cooking I have never needed to know what temperature boiling water is. The fact that it's boiling is enough. Never mind that water only boils at 100°C at sea level and most Americans don't live at sea level.
It’s been subsumed inside traditional BI teams, who don’t interact with “generalist” developer teams and are an entirely different audience.

So the field keeps growing, but in more specialized forums. Increases in Python adoption, for instance, mostly come from re-skilling initiatives in BI teams inside my customers.
It's old-fashioned because it's from Plato. It would probably help a lot to unlearn that.
I know of the G series and I know why they are usually a GEN behind specially given the quality of discrete graphics AMD has and they need to sale. But for work, for just productivity a lot of the savings washes up with the GPU. It used to be that you get super lowend graphics card for those workload but these days almost the lowest price GPU is ~90.
> It's not different from what pip install or gem install do by default.

Pip installing required packages is alright. But I expect setup.py to NOT call pip install by itself.

> A mature Haskell project such as hledger has probably a few hundred of transitive dependencies

That's horrifying!
It would yes, but my argument is this. Anyone who has a modern ("AAA" gaming machine) has probably paid a fair chunk of money for it. For a high end one, maybe $2-3k. Now consider how much of that money went into the last 10-15% performance of the machine. There are significant diminishing returns. It's for example the difference between a mid-range i5/i7 and the highest end i9 on the CPU end, or the difference between a 1660ti and a 2070 on the graphics card side. It's often several hundred dollars that went into the last 10%.

So: even if I built that machine to not be exclusively used for gaming (which would be an outlier), anyone who has a machine of that kind could easily motivate making it exclusive for gaming, because there is so much money in that 10-15% that we can buy a second much cheaper machine (e.g. a low end laptop, chromebook etc) to use for other things.
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Also, it's easy to get caught up in daily stuff after work, so you have to make it a priority above most other things.
The best quote I've heard for ML is "ML promises to deliver what Computer Science promised to deliver in the decades before as AGI will promise to deliver in the future"
> I haven't need good estimates for Tokyo's rat population, but there are about 5000 reports of human encounters a year (down from 20k/year in 2001).

What do you mean reports of human encounters?

I was in Tokyo a few weeks ago, and I saw some rats. I didn't report it, because who gives a shit if you see a rat in a city? I've seen rats in every city I've ever been in.
Physical 1:1 maps are still useful. They have numerous military applications, and in general allow you to become familiar with an area without having to physically be in that area, if being there or getting there is difficult for any reason.
I anticipate that a project with 8 paid members to be more similar to a package in debian than a average project on Github. A package in debian goes through a curating process. It is not a one-click registration but involves making sure the package work, is relevant enough to gain sponsorship, and is mature enough to be stable for a 2 years release cycle.

We are not comparing the linux kernel with this library, and I am not sure what prompted the comparison. There would not be 80% GPL in Debian and downstream if the kernel was the only package that with GPL. 80% GPL mean 80% of all 30 000 software packages in the repository.

In this context I also find it relevant that Chorodata seems to have two teams, half that focus on building this tool and an other that work on real-time performances and installations that I assume is not done for free. That implies the model that this motion capture library seem to follow is similar in spirit to open core, where the revenue does not come from the tool itself but from work that is enabled by it. Such project, new and old, usually go with GPL.

I thus expect GPLv3 to be a quite suitable license for this kind of project and it is a license that many artists that use Creative Commons understand. Share the work as much as possible, invite collaboration if you want but retain some control.
I think the above can simply be summarised as "real managing and communication".

As opposed to trying to create a couple of metrics because you don't really understand what people around you are doing.
The people who care about home ownership are either trying to justify/maintain the value of the home they own, or they’re trying to sell you a home.

Since there’s such a large number of renters, what happens if we just convince them to ignore the non-renters?
I think the pragmatic answer is that unless the country cares about the stick (sanctions, tariffs, military conflict) or the carrot (financial aid, access to markets, military alliances), you can't do anything. How long have we been talking about human rights in China... 1989? They don't care, and why should they? It works better in smaller countries that are easier to isolate like North Korea or Venezuela, but even there it doesn't work great if a larger country like Russia or China is willing to support them. Beyond that, it's just symbolic gestures like expelling diplomats or lodging protests with the ambassador.
Phoronix is the number one site for that sort of article.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-md...
My worry would be people continuing to use carbon sources to generate more heat than light. With LED lights as efficient as they are, nobody is going to replace them with lanterns. The real trouble is if people don't replace their existing oil and gas furnaces with electric heat pumps, because that's something we need to happen but also has the disadvantage of requiring an initial capital expenditure. Adding higher nighttime electrical costs on top of that would not be helpful.
> I've got several still functional 4.x-5.x devices [...] that can't even use the market anymore

4.4.x and 5.x can certainly use the Play Store. I use both of those versions regularly, and they still works well (in fact, I keep 4.4.x support, and do not plan on stopping soon).

In Europe, a few manufacturers still sell 5.x devices. In particular, my manufacturer of choice only recently decided to finally upgrade the small tablet / low cost option to give us the chance of having an OS that's not 5 years old on purchase /sarcasm.

May I mention that contrary to iPads, older devices allow to side-load older app versions (that you can easily find online). I recently re-used a 4.0.2 device and installed VLC and Firefox on it (all it will ever need). And for 4.2+, you can just use F-Droid, most apps are going to be compatible.
>the company argues that 85 percent of smartphones today run machine learning workloads with only a CPU or a CPU+GPU combo.

Gotta admit I'm not real clear on what my phone does that needs on-device machine learning.
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i got hue bulbs (adjustable white) for:
- lights turn off at night/when i leave
- lights turn on when i get home
- i can ask google or siri to turn them on or off as i am doing other thing

as for the colour ones? I have on on my deck, its blue. sometimes i change it to another color if i'm asked but otherwise i can't find any use for the color ones.
First, I think you have the right mindset and you are thinking about this the right way. So that is a good start.

- No one can stop you from learning. Learn what you need to to help prepare you to do something of your own. BUT do not use ANY company assets/laptop/network etc. to do the learning/research etc to be on the safe side.

- Build something. Yes definitely. On the side. even if just a concept. Tinker with stuff. Again do it outside of your company time/assets etc.

Remember that most companies won't give a shit unless you actually become big and noticeable. For example, I am sure google won't come after you for creating something that makes you $10,000/Month and you did not directly steal from them. I could be wrong but I am sure google has better things to do.

Finally, Do not let anything or anyone stop you from what you really want to do in life. life is short and It is not worth living it doing things that you don't want to do.
This! I had the same issues during high school. First it started with unnerving belly issues, bloating and so on. It turned out to be some virus, what the doctor concluded. It just took me to recover a bit, it stopped gradually. But that really impacted my self-esteem, all the noises my stomach made and the constant thinking how will it be today, and a few episodes of severe lightheadedness. I started getting psychosomatic symptoms after everything cleared, when I would start thinking of it, basically the reverse.

Today I have some residues, I think. Bursts of hypochondria here and there, psychotherapy helps me keep it under control. Although a lot more things went into developing that one :-)
I think installing an AdBlocker is one of the first things I do when asked to help someone.
While I understand and regret the impact on people's business models, it seems to really mitigate issues for those less tech-savy (anecdotally that is).
Something like uBlock Origin or the like might be a good idea to avoid this issue.
I was reading an article recently about Charles Schwab from the point of view of an investor in SCHW and it argued that Robinhood is not that great of a threat, because Schwab already makes most of their money from things other than commissions. Therefore if they have to cut commissions to zero to compete, so be it. Brokers can make money from loaning stock to short sellers, and from interest on customer cash balances. Not to mention selling order flow - getting paid by markets to give them customer orders to execute. Schwab is trying a tactic where they encourage you to use an automated "robo-advisor" that tells you how to invest, and the advice includes a significant portion of cash, which allows them to collect the interest.
So far, AMD has only been exposed to the Spectre (branch cache) information leaks haven’t they? They aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown or any of the recent MDS information leaks because they don’t speculatively execute if the thread doesn’t have access rights. Intel chose to speculate regardless and fixup the register contents on instruction retirement, which is why they have had so many problems.
Unreadable. As soon as I click on the (X) button, the article closes and the browser goes back to the root page of https://techcrunch.com/.

There's no way to avoid clicking on it, as it follows you around and grabs your attention, not letting you read.
I don't know if they're good. WriteFile and CreateDirectory are fine, but when I think of the Windows API, I think of much longer function names. I had to use ConvertStringSecurityDescriptorToSecurityDescriptorA() once (and yeah, I had to use the ANSI version explicitly.) Another C/C++ developer might have called that function sec_sddl_to_desc(), which is much better IMO.
What are your garbage bins like? Whenever I see pictures of New York they always have open, rat accessible bins and garbage bags on the street waiting for pick up that take a rat 2 seconds to get through. I'm not sure if that reflects reality but if it does then I think they're half the problem.
Intel are planning a 10 core desktop part, so the moment it pops its head up AMD will drop their 16 core chip on it.
The paradox invokes an absolute. How do you even know the system is "too complex"?
Maybe it is too complex for humans but not for a galaxy brain?
Here is what I'd do.

* Pick a tech stack and get really good at it. You can do it at your company's time and equipment as it is gaining knowledge.

* Give yourself 6 months to blog and contribute to open source on your own laptop. Get something decent to get started. If you feel buying a Macbook Pro or a similar Dev laptop is a huge expense, look for options to rent it in the short term. Consistency is key, ensure that you are pushing out a new post every week.

* Get into a freelancing gig where you are able to set your own times. This will give you a sense of business priorities and how to pitch and get clients. Conduct trainings and workshops and charge market rates for your expertise.

* Then if you really find a problem that needs more than your mind and two hands to solve, by all means setup a company, hire people and do things. As a developer looking for freedom from the man, freelancing is a good way to gain that freedom. Your own employer might hire you on your terms for twice the pay he is paying you currently.
Mostly just because there isn't much urgency to improve in the west. There is plenty of IoT in China. I wouldn't say 5G will be amazing in this regard though.
Huawei can't patch basic security holes (namely ancient OpenSSL versions sprinkled through their LTE Basestation codebase): https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversi...

HCSEC asked Huawei to update these vulnerable libraries last year when Huawei promised a $2 billion investment in security, yet this really basic firmware maintenance task has yet to be performed.

Huawei also did the same thing with a Windows driver: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/how-microsoft-found-...

This company does not give a fuck about security, even when they are under scrutiny. It isn't the "Chinese hackers" I'm afraid of, but rather normal blackhats and greyhats exploiting this cornucopia of vulnerable software to our detriment.
1. Be fair to your company. They are paying you to make their product succeed. Imagine a future situation where you are running a succesful company. Would you want your employees taking your money while working on their own pet projects?

2. An hour or two every day and code marathons on weekends can get your a basic version of product out in a few months.

3. Never give in to temptation to steal office hours to work on your project.
While that is true (anything not H or He is "metal") they have long had a sort of guild requirement that every phenomenon must be explained with nothing but heat and gravitation; if a magnetic field is invoved it has to be generated by a massive body. Anything that can't is not to be discussed, because plasma dynamics is too hard.

The wall is starting to crack, though.
If you build LLVM often, use the shared library build (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=true). Most of the memory usage (and a large part of the time in incremental builds) comes from linking final artifacts if you do not use shared libraries.
Text is superior to video. This fuels my hatred for bad essays on YouTube (which they don't even mention that they are highschool lever essays) and a lot of video editing and then people go nuts and +1 million views
I only quickly read to page 11, (all pages super interesting) but I don't think it says outright he was there, though strongly implies it. But it says Wounded Knee made it apparent to him he was not a fighter.
Policeman make 400k? Not according to this https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/careers/sworn-j...
Mosquitos are a legitimate, serious problem in some parts of the world as fatal disease vectors. I don't know enough about their role in the ecosystem to know whether it's okay to wipe them out, but considering the number of human lives they claim every year through spreading disease I'd happily go that route myself.
> The difficulty of exploiting also gave some leeway to deploying those mitigations.

That's putting it lightly. Exploiting Spectre to get private data is difficult. Turning that into a privilege escalation is exponentially harder, so any "hack em all" exploit on hundreds of millions of devices would have needed an entirely unrelated mechanism for spreading.
I am that kind of person and have already spent way too much money on this. By this time next year I’ll have an atomic purple Iris with mito laser keycaps that light up on individual key presses. I’ll also have an ergo infinity with symbiosis space cadet 2 keycaps. All that I’ve built myself, hopefully without issues.

The real kicker is the waiting. If delayed gratification made a noise it would sound a lot like cherry mx switches.
Wait, rainbows are a shared hallucination?
The entire point of a content algorithm is that it handles different content differently.

Regardless, the selection of the algorithm is not impartial. Content is pushed up or down to maximize engagement or whatever metric Facebook has decided it wants to maximize.
But how did you ensure that you udnerstood the requirements if you were potentially just left to it for a few months?

At the end was there ever an instance of the client not using what you produced because it wasnt what they wanted?
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When your main mode of political reasoning is reasoning about myths that you compartmentalize... It's obvious that in terms of politics there is no reason, it's simply what you or your society want to believe to justify what you want to do... and what you want to do is what you desire. And what you desire is a function of your passions.