skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that these numbers simply reflect the fact that

recent installations have higher capacity factors than installations 10 years ago.

These numbers seem to show the progress in wind power technology over the past 10 years and not a degradation of existing installs
Yep! I remember being amazed at how long Scotland's Cruachan hydro plant has been in operation.
It's kind of like rationalizing the denominator. Useful for testing.

But also, learning to type is a huge barrier to entry. For kids, writing is faster.
Kubernetes is only a threat in that it is a buzzword much as cloud is a buzzword. The cloud and Kubernetes both are used to sell a triple fallacy: You need to care about scaling from day one, there is an easy way to scale, this way is the cloud/Kubernetes.

For almost all startups their app would run comfortably on a single dedicated server. This has been true for many, many years but only the YAGNI greybeards would go with it. Maybe two HA but even HA is overhyped, it's cheaper to be down. Down is part of this industry, you will be down in many circumstances anyways so perhaps don't chase a unicorn? Of course, above a certain size, two servers make sense but ... don't overdo it even then. You don't need microservices, you don't need containers. All of this is unnecessary hype. (And yes, both of you who works at a large enough company where being down is enough of a problem that it worths engineering about: good for you. I have architected a Top 100 website myself and we still didn't use more than a dozen servers and that included the staging infra.)

Gary Bernhardt of WAT fame from 2015 https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546?...

> Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.

Very strongly related: a terabyte of RAM in just 16 modules so it fits most server boards is now under $5000 https://memory.net/product/p00926-b21-hp-1x-64gb-ddr4-2933-l...

Final shot, codinghorror of StackOverflow fame: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/347070841059692545
Technically you don't need a degree to work as a software engineer, or a web developer. You have the option to learn some of the lower hanging fruit of our industry, generate income with your skills, and fund your schooling if you still think it's important. Any way you slice it, it's going to take you a while to reach industrial competency, it will take time to get truly oriented.

Two important aspects of university that are harder to come by in the wild:

It forces you to learn how to learn and it carves out a lot of time for you to dedicate to learning.

If your personal circumstances allow you to force those two things upon yourself (with intense discipline), that's your best bet.

Good luck!
Typing should be easy. Just type ctrl-], ctrl-/, ctrl-[ or ctrl-^. In the bash shell, you may need to type the quote character (ctrl-v) first, depending on your try settings. Copy and paste worked fine for me in lxterminal an xterm.
It's an untested legal situation: EU claims authority (GDPR for European customers) AND US claims authority (various snooping acts binding for US companies even when working abroad). At least in public there's no resolution at this point in time.
If the black hole is moving very rapidly, and it passes through the center of mass of the Earth, and it is moving parallel to the Earth's motion around the Sun, well it's 'less bad', and the path being parallel becomes less important the faster the black hole is going. The gravitational disruption will be equal in intensity to a slow moving black hole, and huge near the path of the black hole (something about 100m from the path would experience an acceleration of about 4 billion times Earth's surface gravity, but only for a very short time, something 1000km from the path would max out at about 40x), but things far from the black hole's path will only experience a few G of net additional acceleration for an extremely short time. The change in the Earth's orbit would be minimized. The amount of energy transferred between the black hole and the earth from the actual collision would be negligible. In fact by far the greatest harm would come from an off-center collision, since that is what would determine how much momentum would be transferred, and that is what would cause our orbit to change.

However, that 4 billion g acceleration is a problem even if it is only for a very short time. If the black hole is going at .999999999c, which is far more than we can hope for, something withing about 100m it's path would be accelerated due to the gravity of the black hole so much that it ends up moving at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, and stuff within a few dozen meters becomes relativistic. Even ignoring the stuff very close to the path of the black hole, the stuff at hundreds of meters from the path would release an epic amount of kinetic energy. My envelope isn't large enough to see just how large, but certainly enough to leave a melted/vaporized tube at least a few hundred meters across all the way through the earth, and this is a gross underestimate.
I think the author could have drawn more attention to how reading has changed recently, outside of just ebooks. Blogs, word processors, and articles are also massively changing how we consume information. Certainly still an interesting article, even if the title is a bit innacurate.
Ask HN: Any tools for checking colleague status from multiple sources
Do you know the problem of finding out who of you colleagues are available? I mean remote colleagues/other offices or even same office but different rooms.

I find myself checking multiple status (Zoom, Outlook, Slack, ...).

What are tools that aggregate status info?

Alternatively who else'd be interested in something like this?
To the parent comment’s point though, would that really be any worse than an earth-sized planet colliding with the earth? If anything it sounds like it might be less destructive.
They are trying to reconstruct tasty food (who would have thought?) in what they perceive to be a healthy way (which it might be, you've just assumed "paleo brownies" are unhealthy without any supporting argument).
If you're punished for professionalism, you know it's time to find a different place to work. If you don't it's a one way ticket to stress and depression.
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Thanks - I hadn't heard of Graphiti before, but it looks really interesting. I like a lot of the aspects of its design and capabilities, I'll definitely need to read more about it.
lol. Trying to get around the rules by linking to a pastebin that contains a short link to your church I think will make you pretty unpopular.

Best approach would be for OP to consider therapy with a psychologist, after all it is a mental health issue, addiction, dependence etc, covering it up with an imaginary man in the sky isn't treating it. That is about as good as trying to "pray the gay away".

They will likely run through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy which is used for a lot of things like that.
Searchable groups are an antifeature to me. They encourage random strangers to come and go which prevents ever building any sense of community. One of the things I like about the group chats I am in are that the same people are there from years ago.
Because there is a top tier spam filter that is powered by the ai, and cloud computers?
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Do Cryptocurrencies provide value and do something that country backed currencies can't? They do have their own advantages and disadvantages, but it purely boils down to how many people trade in it.

Take gold for example, people believe that it has value and trade in it. The price of gold is decided on the basis of market forces of demand and supply. Similarly, a cryptocurrency's worth is decided by the demand for it. If enough people trade in it, then it can be used as a bartering currency. Heck, even if enough people decide to use eagle's feathers as a token to buy and sell goods in exchange for, it is valid currency for those set of people. The larger the set, the more accepted the currency.
I once had a storage unit, and lost the key to the padlock. The manager said "no problem", and we went out to the unit. The manager pulled out a battery operated angle grinder, and cut the lock off in about 5 seconds.

You're going to need a bank vault to beat an angle grinder. Those tools are the shiznit.
Cryptocurrencies are not a scam. Doubly double End. This is very simple.

But seriously, sure some people just push blockchain stuff to get money from investors. But I can buy drugs using Bitcoin. I can't buy drugs using git. So there's probably a difference between them.
Yes. The article and others fail to recognize that in practice, some customers cost more than they're worth.
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Thinking out loud, the utility of the book seems to come from it being composed of standardized, discrete units (pages). It's easier to progress through it by turning pages, and it has addressability (ability to mark pages, such as to indicate the current place you're at).

And the downsides of the bookroll -- awkwardness to progress through it, having to 'rewind' them after finishing them, and lack of addressability -- comes from them being continuous.

It's interesting to note that modern reading on the web is usually continuous (scrolling). It doesn't have the awkwardness of moving through the text that bookrolls did, as the computer handles that. But it does have the problem of lack of addressability.
You're right that there is no mechanism to make primordial black holes in the standard theory. That's because they're new, separate things, so to have them, you of course need to add in new ingredients.

They can be created by the collision of topological defects in the early universe, which in turn can be created in phase transitions during the cooling of the universe, like imperfections in quickly frozen ice. Or they can be created by simple collapse following inflation, if inflation is modified to create large inhomogeneities.
eHarmony is disgusting. Or they were, the one time I tried to use their service ten years ago.

My wife and I had been separated for a while and in the divorce process. (We were and remain on friendly terms, but it was definitely over.) I thought I would check out some dating services, and eHarmony sounded like one that wasn't sleazy or weird.

So I filled out their lengthy multipage onboarding form, with all kinds of personal questions where they ask you to write heartfelt essays about various things.

At the beginning they asked my marital status and went on from there through the whole questionnaire. After I entered all of my information and wrote my personal essays, they got to the last page and said:

"Sorry! We don't serve your kind. You are separated! Come back when your divorce is final."

Those weren't the exact words, but that was the message.

Now if a dating site wants to serve only a certain market, and if they don't want to serve people who are separated but not yet fully divorced, I totally respect that! But they need to say it up front after asking your marital status.

Instead, they led me through the entire questionnaire, asking all sorts of personal questions, without even a hint that the very first question about my marital status was going to disqualify me.

And then they offered no way for me to recover any of the information I had just entered into their site: all the essays, personal questions and answers, all gone.

No online service of any type, dating or whatever, should ever do this to anyone.

Luckily, I'd had the sense to copy and paste all my little essays into a text file and not trust them to give them back to me. That just seemed like common sense. But in the case of eHarmony, it was necessary!
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Thanks for an LPL reference!

Speaking of "smartlocks": here’s one that doesn’t even need a drill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCGTosv-_c

Edit: and another one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpMaShltbc
The reason why we start to see problems in the repo market is clear: the FED is paying banks to keep their money in a safe place, being rewarded for taking no risk! Why would a bank ever lend money to others if they see any problem whatsoever appearing in the horizon? In the next recession, you will see that ALL banks will stop lending to each other and let their excess reserves safe and sound receiving interest for doing nothing. The FED has created the very conditions for a sure repetition of what happened in 2008.
Pay for your email address to solve the problem. On my email provider, I can create a catchall alias: *@example.com will end up in my johndoe@example.com mailbox.

So, instead of doing johndoe+hn@example.com, I can do hn@example.com.
It’s like a progress bar for the internet.
Very interesting. Here is a list of the 5 articles from that discussion:

· Johnson, Brian D., Eric A. Stewart, Justin Pickett, and Marc Gertz. (2011) Ethnic
threat and social control: Examining public support for judicial use of ethnicity in
punishment. Criminology, 49(2), 401-441.

· Stewart, Eric A., Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Eric P. Baumer, and Marc Gertz. (2015) The
social context of latino threat and punitive Latino sentiment. Social Problems, 62(1),
69-92.

· Mears, Daniel P., Eric A. Stewart, Patricia Y. Warren, Miltonette O. Craig, and Ashley
N. Arnio. (2019) A legacy of lynchings: Perceived black criminal threat among whites.
Law & Society Review, 53(2), 487-517.

· Stewart, Eric A., Brian D. Johnson, Patricia Y. Warren, Jordyn L. Rosario, and
Cresean Hughes. (2019) The social context of criminal threat, victim race, and punitive
black and latino sentiment. Social Problems, 66(2), 194-221.

· Stewart, Eric A., Daniel P. Mears, Patricia Y. Warren, Eric P. Baumer, and Ashley N.
Arnio. (2018) Lynchings, racial threat, and whites’ punitive views toward blacks.
Criminology, 56(3), 455-480.

All centre around racial issues in the criminal justice context.
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Or maybe TikTok just want their platform to be filled with cheerful silly jokes and 10 second dance moves? And not politics, religious stuff or anti this and that ...

Maybe it is even a businesss strategy and not something the CCP actually has forced upon them.
If you order tea at Panera, that's what you get. I'd say they sell pretty well. It is good stuff from personal experience.

The bags seem to be cotton or very light paper.
Title correction: "third-party" should be replaced with "non-Apple" or "non-genuine" to be precise.
Pish! The number of programmers supposedly doubles every 5 years (according to bob martin.) So there will _always_ be people who don't know as much as you and every 5 years people will hear it again for the first time. I'm thrilled to hear the young folk are as fascinated with this stuff as I am.
I do the same but I also mix it up by running 10 miles every other day during which I reflect on the emptiness of the cosmos and our purpose as a tiny speck of imbued with consciousness but without an essence.
or the are Wix users because thats all they want to pay for.

If I tell sombody that a full custom site costs idk 20 times more than a Wix site they might not want to pay for that.
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Getting pissed off over an experience like that is probably an appropriate response. Or bringing the 10 year history of being a loyal client to the management's attention. But going to war against them for a once in 10 years event sounds like first world entitlement.

In general I'd be inclined to agree, but two things come to mind. One: if I had a reservation I'd expect it's for a table not a seat at the bar. Two: being deliberately singled out versus being an accident. If the staff had been more obvious (e.g. tables are for whites only), would you suggest giving them another chance?

DOSA in SF (the one on Fillmore) deserves an honorable mention for not honoring reservations. We showed up early with a reservation and they continued to seat people before us, after like half an hour we all left because we were going to a show. I talked to the manager who claimed we arrived late, etc., etc. I wasn't a regular customer, I didn't make a scene, but you can bet your ass I'll badmouth DOSA every chance I get. If you're not going to honor reservations, why take them?

You don't make money by trying to profit on every transaction or treating entitled people like you know they're acting like an ass.

And what makes someone entitled? Wanting a table to go with the reservation? Or looking different than the typical customers?
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Depends. Is the velocity of the black hole relative to the sun higher or lower than the escape velocity of the sun?

If higher than it's going to keep going, if lower, then yes eventually it's going to consume the sun.
That’s brutal.

My new hypothesis is that Match acquired OKC just to get Rudder to STFU.
The issue here is the spread of Chinese Censorship beyond China. With WeChat, so far, users outside of China are not subjected to the same level of censorship when communicating with other non-Chinese users.

This is different because it subjects all users to a Chinese "standard" which basically means any conspiracy crap about how evil America is and typical whataboutism videos can be prioritized via "algorithms" while a whole range of "sensitive" issues can be blocked. It gives the Chinese government tools that slowly enable it to "guide" discussions online. What is interesting about TikTok is that unlike WeChat, it seems to have users beyond the Chinese diaspora which gives Beijing far more "soft power" influence to craft a "positive image of China"
I don't enough to destroy anything that existed and was massive. But it would be giving off the gamma rays from collisions and we haven't been detecting them.
I work in civil engineering so I'm fully aware of what monstrous cluster fucks some projects turn into. Doesn't change the fact that the majority of projects (by number) are simple, small, unambitious projects that basically go as expected.
This would be an extraordinary sci-fi story and I would pay good money to read it.
Mental math skills are for prosaic daily-life problems, and have almost nothing to do with mathematics as a discipline. (Being good at spelling on its own does not make one a good writer.) Not needing a calculator at the grocery store to figure out which of some competing products are cheaper per unit mass, or figure out change + tip at a restaurant is useful knowledge.
There is a perfectly good alternative which is encrypted DNS or DNS-over-TLS. That should be implemented instead. Sure it’s harder, because it’s decentralized, but that’s the whole point of DNS.
Is anyone still seeing problems like this? I found duplicate entries in our Parquet CUR reports, but not in the CSV versions (we export both, for reasons). The duplicates were from 24 September beween 00:00 and 13:00 UTC and only for Usage and DiscountedUsage. Not limited to EC2, though, it was Redshift, CloudWatch, and a lot of other services too.
> Trying to get around the rules

Care to share which rules?

> covering it up with an imaginary man in the sky isn't treating it

I'm sharing facts about what really worked for me. Are you calling me a liar?
This article suggests that there is a gap, and is widening. Only 1 to 61,000 people. It also mentions that they tend to be clustered in more populated areas, leaving some places without any coverage.

https://aansneurosurgeon.org/departments/neurosurgical-workf...
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Which is quite a contrast from Snapchat's current environment, where you can select political filters for your snaps.
or maybe posting simple things like any reference to a certain quadrilateral in online games like league of legends is enough for any Chinese player to be removed from the game

games are fun and completive things arent they? there shouldn't be any politics around them, yet, China decides to censor references to a certain quadrilateral by removing players from a game
No, I'm making a point: if "Hacker News" is supposed to be where the information technology elite is, then what kind of "elite" is it if editing a filesystem in situ is considered impossible without the source code? Or is anyone who can turn on a computer these days and boot some kind of an OS program to dabble with the computer a hacker now, so the bar has been dropped to the ground altogether? Are we now all inclusive here too, is that how bad things have gotten? Maybe I'm completely wrong, and hacking has been changed so nowadays it's completely disassociated from being competent?
Agreed, still it needs some base reserve to not run afoul of regulation - the initial capitalization based on which it could lend out that first loan.

Even for a central bank, the government has to capitalize it first with some amount to kickstart the process so that it can borrow more from it.
Where's the regulation?

I'm upset that the democratic party has been increasingly more focused on social issues than worker issues in the last decade. Once neither political party cares about the working man then you'll start to see unregulated capitalism like whats happening with healthcare/insurance costs.

The republicans are starting to care more (or at least pay lip service) for the working person but neither party is fully committed.
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FYI: I've put together a free book format called Manuscripts. See http://manuscripts.github.io and find an example bookshelf @ http://yukimotopress.github.io Happy book writing. Happy book reading.
> It’s sensible to buy a support contract. It’s charitable and good PR to give them money.

If the development of an open-source project significantly affects your commercial product, there is nothing charitable in supporting it: because you are the one who needs that project to survive.
My best illustration for the world economy is a group of people owning pieces of a balloon. As the balloon expands, everybody is happy to see that their property is growing and expanding as well. The only problem is that they don't seem to realize that blowing the ballon forever will certainly cause it to pop, reducing their property to nothing.
What do you think the density of a black hole is? :)
> Also, fwiw, I lose significant weight on keto without moderating my calorie intake at all; fatty meats, cheeses, butter, oil, etc., plus a lot of vegetables. If it's not ketosis, what is it?

Unless you were very carefully tracking calorie intake before and on the keto diet, it is not justifiable to assume same caloric intake, even if keto food seems very calorie rich.
I asked because I googled, and the only thing I could see is a wikipedia reference to the expenses scandal. I've just searched again and cant find anything, so have you got any references?
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In reality, dating sites/apps are really first date apps (even when they're being honest, not like here). I would like to see a start up that will connect you to someone, but their business model is around keeping you connected. So much of their tech is around curating good dates and helping you maintain a healthy relationship.
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