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> Linux Desktop evangelists are horrifically annoying people to deal with

Agreed, and I am a Linux user. I would much rather spend my time with people who are interested in using Linux rather than promoting it. The discussions are much more meaningful. Besides, evangelists from one side tends to attract evangelists from the other side (with each side being as bad as the other). Once that happens, annoying advocacy tends to transform into belittling bickering.
> Last month, the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimated the cost to decarbonize the U.S. grid alone would be $4.5 trillion

So 20% of the US military budget for 40 years. Doesn't sound impossible.
Bird isn't responsible for securing the load on a truck. They need to go after the driver of the truck that dropped them - he has liability insurance, or his employer does.
I am interested to see ROCm. AMD has the contact for the exascale machines and there's a big push for ML at the DOE. So I hope there's some real competition coming (looks like it's already integrated into pytorch btw)
It's relevant to Bird because Bird has money, unlike Random Joe's Trucking Ltd.

Imagine running over a piano that fell off a truck, and then suing Steiner instead of the moving company.
I've been advocating this solution for prescription drugs for many years. The real enemy is the cost-shifting, ban that. I hadn't thought of it when it comes to the doctors but it probably would be a big help there, also.
1.81% is not a massive spike.

Also, "breaking democracy" is quite dramatic. Democracy isn't broken just because your candidate lost.
Tint is cheap and requires little to no maintenance. I can't see how awnings would cost less. That said, awnings are probably more efficient.
Indeed this is already a thing. Denver has a ton of sunlight hours per day/year and Xcel Energy offers homeowners the ability to have Xcel's panels installed on their roofs. In return Xcel fixes your energy bill at some fraction of your present average over the next 5-10 years.

Many of my coworkers took the deal as it feels like a win-win for all parties. Xcel gets a great ROI curve while families feel like they can run their AC's without fear for cost or environmental impact.
Well not to rock the boat or beat a dead horse here, but it would appear my down voting/flagging privileges have been removed since this post, could they be reinstated?
Assigned at birth/immigration/residency

A common misperception. A SSN is not assigned at birth. A child doesn't have to have a SSN unless the parents want to use him as a tax deduction.

I didn't get mine until I was 17 and needed one to get a driver's license and passport.
It was IE. I'd have to hand my nerd card in if I couldn't tell the difference :P

They probably did some hacky shit like

CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "cmd /k C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe" & Blah

and then forgot to set Blah, or it used to be set but somehow got unset in a later update script, etc.
Is using an image different than using JSONP? Seems that both "exploit" resources to get around CORS policy.
It's definitely one of those makes-sense-in-retrospect kind of things. I'm just surprised it never came up as a point in favor of the systems when discussing with the various solar sales reps- we spoke to several different companies, and not one mentioned it.
Not the simplest politically, of course, but yeah, that's one of the primary economic arguments for nationalized health care or at least nationalized health insurance.
And meanwhile an actual data scientist looked at the data and outdid the manager by a factor of 10, by creating a more meaningful report, that is based on an actual statistically sound basis, preventing a disaster.

See, we can all conjure up imaginary people. :)
Check out Glympse.
Or just set on the fire escape!
The spike is significantly greater than the fine (of course the expected fine was likely already priced beforehand and the unexpectedly low fine has reassured investors that Facebook is back to business as usual).
If you're a director that's a new Maserati. Who's my candidate? I have never voted, not sure what you're trying to project on to me.

They broke Democracy. That's putting it nicely, I think, and being charitable to Facebook when you could use much more malicious phrasing based on their actions.

They broke Democracy. Get used to that phrase, you're gonna be hearing it a lot in the coming years, because they broke Democracy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20408227
A Drive train is just a small part of a car. While it is simpler than an ICE, it is not simple to make millions of them reliable for 10 years.
Well systemd did add a workaround but it's pretty hard to fault them here since their original implementation followed the RDRAND spec:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4...

Systemd does not have its own random number generator:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11810#issuecomment...

> No, let's not roll our own PRNGs, we don't want to maintain that. it's fine to use the CPU RNG, the kernels or glibc's, but I don't want to maintain our own version in our codebase, sorry.

There are good reasons for using RDRAND for UUID generation since it's required very early during boot often before the kernel's random pool is filled. This sort of issue is especially common on embedded systems, I've had to use haveged to fill the kernel entropy pool otherwise many applications don't startup properly.:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442698/when-i-log-i...
Well - I read the domain name as a pun on Github of a new open source community featuring literate programming languages, of which a particularly new one named Cairo had a fully correct GC.

It took me almost a minute to adjust all my assumptions. Well executed nerd snipe.
SSN is absolutely an identifier.

It's like given name & surname (also identifiers), but actually unique.

The problem is that SSN is not only an identifier, it's also the means of authentication, which is "the process or action of verifying an identity."

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To draw an analogy, username is an identifier. Password, SSH key exchange, etc. are mean of authentication, i.e. the process of verifying a username identifies the user.

SSN is both a username and a password; it needs to be one or the other.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423819
Google employees are eavesdropping, even in your living room, VRT NWS finds
There has in fact been fuss over driver's licences, specifically as a requirement for voting.

Voting is a guaranteed right of the US constitution, but there are some real barriers for some people for getting state issued ID. It's has a monetary cost, it expires, it now requires a birth certificate. If you're poor, older, or happened to have your birth hospital's or county office's records destroyed by a fire (not uncommon at all), you may not be able to get a valid, state-issued ID.

For instance, my mother was born to Irish parents with US citizenship through naturalization (granted under a law according citizenship to people who fought for the allies in WWII). When she moved to a new state and needed to renew her driver's license, it took months to get someone to accept her documents and explanation even though she had been a US citizen all her life (but born outside the country).

Whatever national ID system would be implemented, it would have to be bulletproof. Otherwise it could incidentally disenfranchise people.
Windows 10 has a P2P Windows Update service, maybe that's it. Look under the Delivery Optimization settings.
Ahh COBRA. "You've just left your job and have all the regular expenses still, but you won't mind an extra $1500 a month for health insurance, right?"
Does anyone who follows this more closely know what mapping support there will be? I worry that it will be hard to match the quality of Google/Apple Maps with free software. I've tried using OsmAnd, but it's just a terrible experience compared to commercial map apps. This is a big deal for me and I imagine many others, because losing the traffic data and turn-by-turn navigation of commercial map apps is a dealbreaker, but allowing me to get rid of these most invasive apps would be a huge selling point, and would probably get me to buy the device all on its own.
That's a deliberate misinterpretation of the title, isn't it? Obviously the title is talking about the system, not the people.
This looks great and is maybe exactly what I'm looking for! I have a couple questions:

I don't see anything in the docs about supplying an unsubscribe link. I don't see an endpoint in the API that could be used with an anchor tag in the footer of the email. Is this something that is supported?

And: my client is concerned about email/spam regulations, which I'm very unfamiliar with. Is there anything I'd need to look out for in this regard?
It´s basically one of legitimacy, as you point out with "lawful government" (so I guess you disagree).

The police ARE the state goons, so the outcome doesn´t change much .
It's unbelievable how entitled people can be towards things that are published for free by authors who owe them nothing.

Mirth hasn't been released. I found it and decided to share it.
Compared to your next door neighbour (the Netherlands) privacy awareness is a big thing in Germany. Or at least that is the perception I get...
Why would it cost $43k for a 16kW system? You can get the panels for around $0.50/W so those would cost about $8k. Labor is expensive but not that expensive.
It's worth checking out the response from the Bird founder:

https://twitter.com/travisv

The Information willfully printed misleading information here.

https://twitter.com/travisv/status/1149763861731352577

I know of them doing this in a very messed up way at least once before.

They've got a business to run, but they seem to have let their "exclusive", scoop driven brand excuse their crossing of clear, ethical lines.
As do I. It’s crazy to me that we don’t have them.
At the bare minimum it could be an argument for a public option, which was initially part of the Obamacare proposal until Lieberman threatened to cooperate with the GOP to block it.
This was already priced into the stock value which is why it hasn't had an effect
I'm surprised the 2 democrats voted against the settlement. Republicans are normally seen as the pro-big-business party.
That's always a dangerous game though surely, you know from the outset that the API provider might come out with a first-party solutiom and all but kill your, what is essentially a, plugin.
Facebook doesn't have a consumer facing product that people pay for

Equifax did and offered it for free (credit monitoring/freezing upsell), even though it didn't fix the problem its monetary value masked the settlement.
Rooftop solar makes sense because cost of land is a sunk cost, and thus doesn't have to factor into the total cost of the install. This assumes that solar makes sense for the area though, some houses are shaded too much.
More general questions I would consider asking:

1. It appears there was a safe path with more safety and scrutiny, and a fast path with less. In this case, over time, the fast path became routine. Are there other places where this pattern could develop or has already developed? Is this tradeoff between speed and scrutiny actually necessary? (ie could you have urgent updates reach production faster but actually receive more scrutiny/more testing, even if that happens after the fact?)

2. In a similar vein, if the system has a failsafe configuration (eg only changes that have passed the full barnyard, or configurations that have been running safely for more than a certain amount of time), would it be plausible to automatically roll servers back to that configuration if they remain unresponsive for a certain amount of time?

3. It seems as though there are multiple points (big WAF refactor, credential expiry, internal services dependent on working prod) where a sufficiently cynical engineer would say "I bet there's something here that could, if not bring down the site, at least ruin someone's day". Is there a suitable voice for this kind of cynicism? Eg, a red team or similar? If you were Murphy's Law incarnate, messing with Cloudflare's systems to achieve maximum mischief, where would you start?

4. I get the sense that there are many reliable and well-tested layers of safety, but is it common to test what happens if they fail anyway? Eg: let's pretend Cloudflare just got knocked out globally by a wizard spell, what do we do? Or let's say our staged rollout system gets completely bypassed because of solar flares, how bad is it? Beyond developing a procedure or training for these kinds of situations, are they actively simulated or practiced?

If anything, I'd guess the root root cause here is a success failure, where the system has been so reliable for so long that the main reactions to it failing are disbelief and unpreparedness. I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but it gives me a chuckle to imagine the SREs speculating about Mossad quantum-tunnelling 0days or something because the idea of everything falling over on its own is so unthinkable. Meanwhile, those of us without so many 9s would jump straight to "I probably broke it again."
The kernel doesn't have enough entropy to provide sufficiently randomness at the point the call is made.

RDRAND is a cpu opcode. Systend should be just as able to depend upon it as it is upon the JMP instruction working. This is an AMD bug and failure period.
So if municipalities tracked the cost to install and maintain the utilities accurately they could split out the infrastructure rate from the kilowatt rate. Once you pay off the cost of your portion of infrastructure then you would only pay for maintenance. This would result in more efficient pricing for watts used of electricity.
Disintermediating Your Friends [pdf]
Lease a bike, and offload all repairs to the leasing company (https://swapfiets.de/en/)

That doesn’t guarantee you will have a bike available at all time (if it breaks down, you won’t get a new one in a second), but neither do bikeshare programs.
Nanotechnology could efficiently deliver hepatitis B vaccine
I suspect remote/on-prem would be much less important than the difference between permanent employee with predictable salary versus freelancer/contractor with less predictable income.

If the bank were really on the ball they might try to estimate the probability of you losing your income stream and the probability you'd be able to replace it with a new one to keep paying off the mortgage. Then where you lived and what local opportunities for work were available might come into it. Giving a loan to a person in a small town with only one big employer / one industry is riskier than giving a loan to someone in a location where there are many alternative opportunities for employment. But on the other hand, land is probably cheaper in the small town, so the loan might be smaller..
Great point! Will change that now. I've had some amazing feedback on the copy, so updating this afternoon. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and give feedback
Response from Bird https://mobile.twitter.com/travisv/status/114976243959386112...
> The number on the bill before the insurance discount is entirely imaginary, no one pays it.

Until they don't pay it. Then that entirely imaginary number becomes a very real debt that gets sold and reported.
I don't just think it's a feature, I think it's a killer feature.

You are much less likely to reinvent the wheel if you can add your one critical niche feature / bugfix to an existing library. In python, learning C and C build systems and python's C API are gigantic barriers to doing that.

More importantly, if every fast data manipulation needs to be written in C, a few of them can be profitably shared, but you need more than a few of them. Pretty soon you wind up with a giant dumping ground of undiscoverable API bloat. See: pandas.
I had a run-in like that some years back. The insurance was rejecting the bill as a duplicate (it wasn't, the doctor legitimately ordered the test done on three different samples. Two got processed on the same day.) The lab wouldn't just accept the negotiated rate and just kept re-billing without listening to me telling them what they were doing wrong, the insurance wouldn't budge and simply "pay" it ($0 out of their pocket) on my assurance it was legit.

I ended up with the last laugh, though--eventually the insurance rejected it as billed too late, denied, drop it. Instead of collecting the negotiated rate they got $0.
Lowest risk, yes but not bulletproof.

Smaller customers don't have the same web traffic, which may not be enough to trip any given failure scenario. One could imagine that the backtracking in an onerous regexep is only triggered with a sufficiently large customer that has a path that is especially difficult to match.

With staged rollout and without a "fast" deploy procedure, by the time it hits the larger customers, it's already been deployed to some percentage of the fleet - and then you still have a problem, with a significant proportion of your fleet.

Staged rollouts are an entirely reasonable risk mitigation idea, mind you, and not one I'm even arguing against.

My point is that unfortunately it's no panacea, especially at scale. Which is what makes this all an experiment.
Full checkout experience here, 18ms average. PHP 7.3, Symfony.
Let's fix some false assumptions first.

1. The cost of a solar power plant is dominated by real-estate and infrastructure.

2. Energy companies are already building large scale solar farms, and have been for over 15 years. As any non-trivial large-scale construction project, these take years to approve and execute.

3. Electricity is far from a free market. In many countries (not sure how US works wtr), there are long-term commitments from grid operators (which are commonly the state) to buy zero-carbon electricity at a set price (in short, clean energy is subsidized pretty much everywhere).
The feed is terrible. No filtering, not ordered chronologically (which is incomprehensible to me, since instead of seeing activities as they happen, I see 5 of my buddy's activities all jammed into one batch). Challenges pollute the feed. Sponsored activities ("Tom ran with a Suunto!") are incredibly annoying. No way to disable "friend" recommendations, even people I've unfriended. And almost zero new features added since I joined. It's only marketing for Summit, at this point.
Double-layered roofs are a really easy way to avoid daytime heat gain, and a slightly more sophisticated design minimizes nighttime heat losses too.

Here's a tropical house with multiple roof layers to stay cool: https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/09/a-passively-cooled-ho...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/12/something-practical-n... or the paper: http://callippe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ORNL_roo...
Most research suggests that net metering is underpaying the households that deliver it. This seems very counteri tuitive to people, but remember you're paying an average cost. Gas peakers can cost thousands of times that when load is high. If you use AC then solar and high demand are correlated. At the extremes that means building a whole new powerstation that might only be used for literally hours per year.
Dumpster fires are everywhere not just large companies: contractors, restaurants, marriages etc.
You can make jet fuel from air, water and power, it's just hydrocarbons. If we had enough electricity from renewables we could just make all the fossil fuels we wanted.
In Denver as well and agree completely. There are too many cars as is. I've never been more than two blocks away from one of these scooters, and they're fun to ride. I don't use them often as I have a bicycle. The general concensus among my peers is favorable or neutral on scooters.

Funny enough, because in Austin it's the absolute polar opposite. Sentiment there seems to be to fear and litigation. Even worse in Nashville. Southern, car-dependent cities prioritize the private car-owning driver above all other forms of life.
Yes, you are correct. A person is eligible for a SSN upon birth/immigration/residency.

The federal government requires it for Social Security benefits, and states may require it for driver's licenses, birth certificates, etc.

Practically speaking, between state laws and banking requirements, virtually every U.S. citizen has one.
If you want to keep your conversation private it is not enough to choose a rare language in Berlin. There is always somebody who understands what you are saying.
The one system I've seen do that in a way that still allows you to multiplex the device and the buffer cache was XOK. But the case of sharing both securely required a very custom filesystem, and there was still a lot of work to totally validate the concept.
You _can_, certainly. But I still have the suspicion that a good chunk of the political Left will be dissatisfied that the carbon emissions will plummet without any changes in political beliefs or policies being involved.

As for Saudi Arabia: there's a lot more people living there, than did before there was oil. Yes, we will still use _some_ oil for many years, but if the oil revenue drops to, say, 50% of current levels, I think that there will be problems sooner rather than later.
The fact someone calls a story literature does not imply someone else could not benefit from a third party's bullet points. If you like stories, don't worry; it's not an endangered art form.
is your name Robert Paulson?

Agreed with the other comments, this comment = blog, looks like you know what you're talking about, short, to the point.

Good find, and thanks for sharing

off topic comment:

For all, what are people blogging on these days? I am not too fond of Medium, but I just got into Ghost and really liking it. It seems like a great short post / resource to write something. I have it installed on a cheap DO server, plain text like lapcat?
Because the powerwall allows you to "buy" power at the opportunity cost of $0.02/kWh vs paying up to $0.32/kWh ? If you end up generating a lot of excess solar using a lot of grid power at peak times, it could pay for itself.

But of course, you need to do the calculation for your situation.
Which app was down for 7 days?
Thanks for taking the time to write this informative post. I am grateful that HN is home to real engineers. :)
I don't know all the details, but COBRA prices have always seemed exorbitant, likely to discourage people from doing this. In my early 20's, when I had about the worst health plan ever, COBRA was still hundreds of dollars a month. Out of pocket, I bought a plan for something like $45 a month instead. I have trouble believing what COBRA offers is the same price as what a company pays - and if it is, they are getting hosed big time.
Not so sure about that. We are possibly also talking about reports as in some other comments. Those might need to be exact. Very exact.
> Good. I'm all for taking profit-by-default out of health care.

100% on board

>>It always seems to me that these half way positions between universal health care and commercial end up being worse than either.

> ...

It's an issue if consumers have to pay more. Those affected the most are those that have the most to lose. I'm all on board of getting money out of the business and making health care about people. But my worry is that these "small step" methods is just causing worse coverage at higher costs. I mean look at how Blue Cross is making record profits but coverage is going down (and they blame Obama Care the whole way).

Really I'm saying stop with the small steps and just get along with it. Sometimes small steps is the way, other times there's a chasm in-between and you have to make a leap to cross it. I feel our health care system is in the second category.
If you like data and are a runner (or a cyclist.. I think they support cycling now) then I like https://runalyze.com/. To be honest, if anything it gives me too much data as I don't know what most of it means but it's free to use.