skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're doing it for money. It's not difficult at all IMHO. Note that the new-fangled, earlier discussed licenses mongodb and others are using are targetting the case where your business is hosting sw for your customers (like cloud providers do); commercial use is ok when you self-host the software.
Sunk cost shouldn't be a factor at all.
It is already spent, it shouldn't affect future investment decisions, see the 'sunk cost fallacy'.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/03/25/the-sunk-cost-fallac...
I interpreted the term “random load” to mean unpredictable supply given variable external factors like specific locations’ weather.

Edit: fixed wording
Santa Fe data center outage forces much of Mexico banking services offline
The company is called Argus, which is very similar to Angus. I guess that could explain the relation to beef
This quip is a common trope that has several problems with it and is years out of date. Please stop using it.

First, oil-based energy doesn't compete with solar to a large extent. That will change as EVs get more popular, but outside of islands like Hawaii, oil isn't used much for electricity generation (where solar competes).

Second, solar is already attractive for most new generation scenarios in many locations, including dispactchable situations where you also need storage. It's getting so cheap that it's starting to compete with existing generation.

http://ieefa.org/ieefa-u-s-solar-plus-storage-is-undermining...
Society chooses to discourage anticompetitive behavior because competition fosters innovation and leads to prosperity. If you’re fine with Google, great—let’s let others have a choice so that Google can be encouraged to work harder and make an even better product.
In the article it says that some sources say that they sold it for less than $3 million, compared to what they bought it for it's quite low. Wonder what are the reasons for the selling. There's also more info here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordp...
I'm no electrician myself, but I know that it's not easy to generate a really good sine wave with a constant frequency and match it to the grid.

While electronic componentes are making big steps in that direction, "classic" mechanical generators are still superior for this as they are running very constant.

That's why lots of people fear that solar panels with their sudden power generation (as in "clouds are gone, let's bring it on!") might be a danger to the grid as they are fluctuating quite a bit.
I think they're saying don't write it because you want money, rather than don't write it in exchange for money.
> AWS
One weak book doesn't make the man into a Kurzweil
It's an epidemic right? It is about the speed of spread, not number of victims.
Do you think “amassing” would sound better even if it described the actions on the ground more accurately?
If you are a military force, there absolutely is a concept of entering your own territory, going back to the Rubicon.

When a country deploys it's own troops internally, as opposed to the police, it's often a forerunner to martial law or civil war.
The government nudge should target the energy storage issue by creating cost incentives for energy companies to build out this technology. I don't see how consumers can reasonably cooperate on consuming during daytime, when production is peak. (Automating home consumption via connected devices might result in net loss of energy as the devices' production/use gobbles rare materials and data.)
I believe the english term is "feed in laws" where the utility company must pay market rate for power individuals put onto the grid. My understanding is that this was a key driver of Germany's rapid growth in wind power capacity. In the US we dont even have feed in laws
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Live thread that I've been following:
https://old.reddit.com/live/133sixros7tu5/
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New Zealand legalises salaries paid in cryptocurrencies
It's working out fine for 'us,' mostly. Putin has exhausted his only card though, the energy card, which was used to give Russia's economy a jump; now there's no follow-up maneuver. The Russian people have of course started to take notice of that fact. Russia is an increasingly inconsequential regional power, with a relatively weak and small economy (now smaller than Canada; about to be smaller than Australia). Generally they pose zero threat to the US and Western Europe in their present form; at least so long as NATO remains intact. Their military is weak and broken, they can't afford to maintain it properly - much less upgrade it - so they've shifted to magic scary super weapon propaganda and PR desperation.

It's Belarus and Ukraine primarily at issue, not Poland.

Poland is doing great overall, they've almost entirely left Russia's orbit in terms of overt influence. Their economic output per capita is beginning to embarrass Russia, it's now 50% higher than Russia's figure (that gap will increase). Poland is starting to push into the upper tier of the middle income nations, with a real shot at leaving that group and moving into the upper economic tier in the next two decades, along with the Baltic states.

Russia can't do much to countries like Poland, the Baltics or eg Romania. They know that of course. They can and will persistently, aggressively mess with Belarus (forced union) and Ukraine (constantly seek to destabilize & split it) however. In Russia's ideal world, they keep those two nations impoverished beneath Russia's economic level, so that Russia can perpetually lord over them; then given enough time figure out a way to de facto annex all or a lot of their territory. The people running Russia - including Putin - believe that is all really Russian territory.
Apple sued for storing iCloud data on third-party servers
Off the top of my head;

* No Active Directory/SAML/other SSO.
* Gaudy/gamer orientated look-and-feel, messages and notifications is hard to sell to business.
* No/Poor implementations of "Enterprise Features" (read: eDiscovery, DLP, etc.)

Of those the first and second are arguably the most important as it is often a requirement for businesses of any size. The third is a bit more larger/enterprise-y business.
Hackers lay siege to voting systems to spot weaknesses in security
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rule #1 of hn: anyone on hn is smarter than everyone not on hn no matter the domain. we could solve all the world's problems by just getting everyone into hn!
Electricity absolutely does not balance itself. Passively, the energy that goes into the grid must come out somewhere.

Electrical utility companies manage this with two major levers:

1) Standby power plants, that are running but not producing at full load. The plant load is actively adapted to the monitored needs of the grid.

2) Hydroelectric storage, to soak up excess production, where hydroelectric dams with secondary reservoirs are available.

Grid load management is very much an active process, not a passive self-correcting one.
Your argument is good and well-written. However, SCMP is well-known to be China newspaper even before Alibaba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post

I find it very hard to believe that SCMP has both accurate and unbiased reporting after reading the Wikipedia article. This makes your comment read like a China-sponsored chill.

I'm talking about this as someone who is neither if favor of any party. Media is going to be either pro or against. It's very hard to find an unbiased media. An unbiased media needs to earn their reputation with time and a lot of effort. They also must have independent and verifiable funding that does not cross with neither party.
You mean monetized for access to the content content like spotify? Most creators get peanuts, some get barely enough and some get a huge chunk.

Wikipedia is already monetized, but not like most platforms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Finances
Not everyone comes to this conclusion, one line of reasoning is: because there shouldn’t be a meaningless universe in the first place, it must actually have meaning.
What ideas do people have for how the Hacker News community / Silicon Valley might organize to help fix this problem?
We removed rel=nofollow AFTER the rankings went down.
Is there any organization that you could recommend for planting trees?
As someone who frequently uses E - scooters in a major European city i can see both sides to the argument on rather or not the6y should be banned. While they are convenient, there is minimal supervision in terms of following regulations and they are dumped around the city. That being said, they are fun and make getting around a city a lot easier, especially if trams are delayed or busy.
I take it to mean that sometimes you have lots of energy coming in (during daylight for example), then suddenly very little (during nighttime). Weather can affect it also.

So to balance the supply of electricity to customers you need a way to make sure there is an not too much and not too little.

Many years ago in Britain, it was predictable that at the end of the TV show Eastenders, people would all go to turn on their kettle for Tea. The surge was so big that someone had to monitor when the programme ended and initiate the additional supply of electricity to meet demand. That supply even had electricity from France as a backup.

I recall an interview where they had that energy available from a Hydroelectric Power Station where they could release the water and get an instant source of electricity.

All for tea.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/06/britain-turned...

[2] https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tea-time-in-britain-causes-...
From what I’ve read (which obviously is removed from the “ground” and has bias) China has inserted agent provocateurs, but haven’t coöpted the movement to that degree. It appears to be mostly grass roots though some of the lighter moderates evaporating leaving the moderates and hard core protesters to fight on which results in heavier tactics.
It may be but these keys are ultimately in RAM.

If you are root on the local system (as all AV is,) then ultimately you can collect these keys, the only question is how much work you may have to do.
If you have a better memory, this is how it was:

1. Local police was sent, it either did nothing or deserted

2. Troops from BJ itself were sent in, largely the same happened

3. Liaoning military region troops were called, they fared just a bit better than BJ troops, made few attack attempts, but nevertheless withdrew

4. Finally, as Beijing was getting more and more desperate, Shaanxi military region troops - "the primitives," were called and given a total cart blance. They made a blood bath
Not what I said.

This surveillance state dates back way before Obama. The thing is, it was brought to light during his era and he still approved it along with widened it.

Point is, don't give trump sole credit for something that's been going on for 50+ years before him. The article acts like there was no surveillance state before him.
You're right I did miss it.

Short version the page has a few "false ends" where the structure and content indicate the end of the page-specific content has been reached but there are definitely pages without any citations showing for me on mobile.

Long version, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20684636.
Bananas are the chicken breast of fruit. Boring/predictable, depending on your perspective.
Would it be possible to use this as the infrastructure for a clandestine, low-bandwidth, text-based mesh network? An internet for nerds kind of thing.
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The oil was already flowing in 2003.

1991 was fought over the oil, 2003 was fought over ideology and wishful thinking.
It's basically a way to make bank runs illegal.
If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017)
You will be able to get a bullshit job, but you will find it extraordinarily hard to keep because your managers will find you too odd unless you are good at pretending to be normal.
Even that purported rationale for the second invasion of Iraq was false. “We” secured that Iraqi oil to export it mostly to Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq
The OP started without substance while trying to smear HKers fighting for their freedom from the authoritarian CCP so why attack the person who highlights the suspicious nature of the accusers account? We live in a world of ever increasing propaganda. Pointing it out is as substantive as it gets. If anything your message is better suited for the OP. They did exactly what you are flagging the child comment for.
> China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, wants to make Hong Kong more like a mainland city, using economic incentives to buy happiness and propaganda to win loyalty. The protesters, who represent a wide swath of Hong Kong, want a government that looks out for their interests, not just Beijing’s, to help resolve problems like astronomical housing prices and low wages.

> The two sides no longer seem to recognize each other’s concerns.

This kind of language is why the NYT is the subject of so many centrism memes. There are no "two sides" that can "recognize each other's concerns" and get along. There are democracy and authoritarianism. I'm kind of flabbergasted that they can't find the courage to take a stand on even such a black-and-white issue. It's always "two sides."
Your timeline is a bit muddled here: the invasion of Iraq (involving a great many Western countries) was in 2003, the Arab Spring (where Western countries by and large steered well clear) was in 2010.
The Arab spring is probably a bad example. The west got a bit over-enthusiastic about the Arab Spring which turns out to be more of an Islamist Spring. I don't think many people think it was a good idea to destabilize Libya and Syria in hindsight.
Germany already has extremely high energy prices (~0,29€/kwh) of which nearly 0,07€ is just for renewable energy subsidies. More investments will not increase jobs, because China produces solar panels at way lower costs. While I agree that coal needs to be phased out, it's not so much about the 20k jobs but more so about base-load. You either need massive storage (which comes at massive cost) or some other form, i.e. nuclear. Germany could have very low CO2 emissions if coal would have been cut first, not nuclear energy.
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That makes no sense. I’m in Atlanta but I’m pretty close to Saudi Arabia if you put the US over Europe. I can tell you I don’t live in a desert.

Chicago is comparable to Rome yet Rome rarely sees snow or the very cold windy weather Chicago is known for. You’re ignoring the whole jet stream.
> they absolutely cannot come into Hong Kong, it would be a totally stupid move

Strategically, for China? Yes. Politically, for Xi? Maybe not. Remember that Xi is a dictator. Moves that boost him in the short term at China’s long-term expense are on the board.
Yeah but all the things you're listing are ongoing services.

Maybe the app in TFA is one too, it does need constant updating because the browser is a moving target right now.

However that doesn't go for the other 3 million productivity apps that want a subscription.
Not real office, web-based office. Why not make a native chat app that opens Office files in the real full-featured Office ?
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Is it still Freenode / IRC?

Why do I ask?

I remember 15 years ago, say 2004, technical sites weren't commercial. Except Experts Exchange ofcourse.

Nowadays I can't trust opinions of people because I fear they are selling me something. Framework authors are only building frameworks on the side, their real business is building a hosted service for whatever they are building.

Nothing wrong with that.

I just miss a simpler time. And want a slice of that again.
Also, half of the Legislative Council are elected by "functional constituency" including even agriculture and fishery. These constituencies are largely pro-establishment and anti-democratic.

And in the last election, the government was able to even disqualify candidates from the general election.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/10/12/breaking-hong-kong-ban...
Wow, that sounds insane
I can understand Middle Eastern and muslim majority governments taking that view. I don't understand the ordinary Muslim believer that is prepared to go out and protest against America or Europe thinking that way. Why should they care? After all the reasons you give for treading carefully against China all apply to the US and the west just as much.

Take Pakistan. It gets billions in military and economic aid from the west and does a lot of trade with the US and Europe, but protests against the west are common. I really don't get what it is about China that, in the eyes of the Muslim man in the street, gives it a free pass to mass intern and re-educate muslims into not being muslims.
Of course it is. This is Hacker News.
Yes. There are times in the German power grid when you can get paid for consuming (green) electricity!
Or, perhaps, this article is naive and the market realizes that there are some unseen costs associated with solar investment. Not to mention the opportunity cost of the capital needed to convert to another type of energy infrastructure.
Yes and no. It's famously congested and challenging to drive in--one of the most expensive road infrastructure projects in the US ever (the "Big Dig") notwithstanding. But the downtown core as well as large parts of the adjacent Cambridge are actually pretty walkable and the public transit, subway in particular, is pretty decent. (Regular users rightly complain a lot about it, especially in winter, but then thats true of most cities including in Europe.)

I live about an hour outside of Boston and have to go in for a few days later this week and I'll be taking public transit.
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Unreadable on mobile - even if it's only meant for desktops you need people on mobile to easily read what it's about. I also just see the "whoops" message.
looks like censorship.
And on the flip side, it would be interesting to have better tools of distributing the funds collected in this way. Ie. how to best allocate the funds between the FOSS project participants/contributors.

Who decides where the funds get spent, how to automate some of it etc
As if Google and Apple don't have to obey the wishes of FBI, CIA, NSA,... regarding "making the world safer".
Solar, when combined with energy storage, can serve as a dispatchable resource. Even with battery storage, solar is already cheaper that existing dispatchable coal generation.

http://ieefa.org/ieefa-u-s-solar-plus-storage-is-undermining...
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Why aren't we talking more about the history of HK's creation, namely the Opium wars? I suspect that the majority of people that feel strongly about China's behaviour don't actually have any idea what the British did to China in the middle of the 19th century, namely: in the style of a mafia get 10s of millions of Chinese addicted to Opium and then go to war with them when China tried to put an end to the trade. It is by all today's measures what I'm sure the majority of people would call evil.

I am of course not at all advocating today's Chinese violence. I just don't understand how any of us have a leg to stand on in feeling outraged. This is the world, the so-called modern world, that, by using mobile phones and modern medicine, we've implicitly signed up for. HK is but one example of the price of modernity. What if native Americans or indigenous Australians rose up in the same way, asking for their land back? Or Indians and Africans rose up asking for their natural resources and slave labour back?

The real "crime" here is that we're so morally bankrupt and out of touch with history that all we can do is watch and tweet hashtags. Globalisation is here to stay. The quality of Western life is fundamentally dependent on Chinese labour, manufacturing and technology. We don't get to reap the benefits of that and at the same time arrogantly and unreflectively denounce their political policies. And to repeat, this is not a justification of China's recent stance on HK or any of its other foreign or domestic policies.

Perhaps we should boycott everything Chinese? Of course that is never going to happen. But we can at least help each other remember how exactly the West came to be. Though of course we don't because we're the top dogs and no one is forcing us to. Which I might argue is the true source of the outrage that most of us feel in hearing the news from HK: outrage that something is actually forcing us to reflect on our own circumstances. And what better scapegoat to deflect those difficult emotions than a quintessentially foreign, little understood far far-away culture.
> The person giving birth

You meant mother right?
My favorite, relayed to me by an ops planner in the business of such things, which I'm told was briefed up to the president, was Operation Double Dutch Rudder. The content I cannot discuss, but at one point said ops planner found himself low-crawling in-country to deliver a projector on his back to the HQ tent. Can't make this stuff it up. By the name, you can estimate the year of action.
I'm an anxious person, but my anxiety just looks like regular anxiety. It led me to take sub-optimal decisions and overall made my life more difficult that what it could have been. I didn't know anxiety was a thing, and that it was "curable" until I was 25. At that time, my gf who just became MD noticed my issue and prescribed me benzodiazepines. They really helped. I know they have bad press as they can be abused, but in my case, I take them occasionally and I haven't noticed any side effect or addiction.

I don't think anxiety can be cured but the symptoms can certainly be alleviated. It really helped me to understand that it was a condition, like headache, and that it was temporary and could be controlled to some extent.

It's also interesting that while I'm still anxious, I'm not anxious for the same things anymore. I used to be paralyzed by the mere thought of giving a talk (esp. in English). I don't care as much anymore. Now it manifests itself in other occasions.
> The title makes it sound like Shenzen is not part of China. You don't "enter" part of your own country.

Believe me or not, 10 years ago Shenzhen had a wall around it to separate if from the rest of the country.

For all intent and purposes, SZ does feels like almost like a different country. Not to the same extend as HK, but still.
Cry me a river for the poor optimization function.
They are literally drills: nobody is getting shot in Shenzhen.

Of course the drills are sabre-rattling, a show of force intended to send a message, and preparation for a future assault if necessary -- but they're still drills, not use of the military in anger.
The "whataboutism" of naming other media outlets doesn't really help your argument here.

You only just have to open the SCMP front page to find them calling military deployments in a stadium near Hong Kong "drills", citing anonymous sources that say "they are not of concern" and quoting liberally from anonymous posters on Chinese message boards spouting hate.
Xi is very much a dictator, but he also needs money to maintain his dictatorship. HK for all its faults and bads is still quite important to the Chinese economy.

That's why we haven't become Xinjiang, IMO.
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tried it, seemed a bit easier to read. Maybe a nice option would be to adjust background color, font size and line width. Pure black on white especial with long sentences makes it really hard for me to read. That is why most of the time I rather read form my phone than from a printed book.
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