skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be saying "en masse" 18 months prematurely. But at the speed utilities move, that's a blink of an eye.

I'm often reminded of Steve Balmer in 2007 laughing at the iPhone: "it's $500 and it doesn't even have a keyboard!?"

Less than 10 years later smartphones are ubiquitous. Not popular--ubiquitous.

That's where EVs are right now: "they cost more and they can't even go 250 miles!?"

EVs will be cheaper than gas cars by 2022, and a few years after that nobody will buy another gas car.
The yearly peak, in summer, occurs when solar is running.

The daily peak, on spring and autumn days, falls outside the solar peak, but also well below the yearly peak.

So solar does help displace the least efficient and most expensive part of your gas fleet.

But it's not the peak that's the point of the duck curve, it's the solar falling faster than gas can switch on and that difference is very amenable to being fixed by even a small amount of battery storage.
I don’t think eye witness testimony is reliable enough to be anything but supporting evidence.
Install uMatrix and block all 3rd party JavaScript. It breaks functionality in some sites that embed social networks' widgets, but other than that works like a charm. As a bonus sites load at least 30% faster.
Yeah it sucked, but when I was living at home with my parents I had to put those things aside.
Hahaha. Sorry, that wasn't meant to be a brag. I just know that I haven't turned anything off, so maybe it's a behaviour of a particular commit?

I installed via Cargo, version 1.6.5.
It's pretty impossible to make an sdk or plugin that's runs on every version of Unity. I haven't seen it, anyway.

Studios have the same issue. They pick a version to ship with and work around whatever known bugs there are. Upgrading is a huge event and it's never painless.
> The best approach I've seen so far is to focus on "get rid of duplicate systems"

In my experience this still requires finding the right balance, like almost anything else in programming. If you're too eager to get rid of duplication you can end up combining things that aren't actually quite the same and creating leaky abstractions that are a lot more painful than the almost-duplication was.

There's also sometimes a trade-off involved. Maintaining two very similar systems can be more work/require more engineers, but maintaining one system that is used in different ways can make you more likely to introduce bugs unexpectedly if you make a change focused on one particular use without testing all the others enough. It might depend on the particular system which cost is more acceptable.
I've seen those in various places in the US too.
The secret is to acknowledge that 25% is better than 0%, if you don't have leverage to force the fair 50%. And begrudgingly accept the 25% "under duress".
This same old tired story...

It turns out happiness takes lot of work. Having a healthy social life takes a lot of trying, failing, and some successes that you cherish.

Some people tragically take their co-workers as their friends and the office as their social environment. That's really dangerous. You need to go out there and try, be awkward, fight to make some close friends in the real world. Office drama and venting over a beer after work is not a social life. Also the office is not a dating pool. Being depressed that your office doesn't have any cute girls or boys... oh boy, I've seen it!

Isolation and depression is due to lacking social skill and not having the drive or insight to develop that skill.

Remote work is hardly related. It's related only because people take the office as their social scene and of course when they go remote they lost their entire social scene.
The majority of general Google SWE interviewees rarely interface with a hiring manager; they're only interviewed by other engineers.
There's centuries/millenia of culture that serves as a guide for how to do it right. Nurturing humans to achieve their potential and live their life to the fullest it not a new problem. It's not like Victor Frankl invented this stuff sixty years ago.

And I don't think it requires absolute precision in action -- just a willingness to observe, think and iterate. After all, the influencer is as much of a human as the influenced. We're talking about influence over the scale of years, if not decades.

This is one of those domains where the "Lindy effect" might be a good rule of thumb -- the longer a guide has survived, the longer it is likely to survive, because the likelier it is to add value. Conversely, many "modern breakthroughs" are likely to be fads.
Yeah, thanks. It's a home computer because I don't work any more - I set-up and operated a continuous production VM pipeline on my boss's rack, back when I had a boss.

Docker had turned up; I evaluated it (quite briefly - I had work to do, and nobody had asked me to evaluate Docker). We had fairly specific requirements that I couldn't match to Docker.

I recall now that Kubernetes is principally a deployment system - sorry. Perhaps it is well-integrated with some container systems, such as Docker. Kubernetes didn't exist when I had a boss. I use Ansible.

I get that LXC is not very friendly. But it works OK, doesn't it? Just wrap a shiny skin around it. Don't re-invent the wheel; we already have enough wheel inventions.

I'm not by any means knowledgeable about containers; I evaluated LXC way back when, and decided that VMs were more secure. And never revisited that decision.
They would also need to do away with the Commercial Abatement Program -- except that would drive up the cost of deliveries as well.
> This kind of pseudo-psychoanalytic approach to dialectic is always left wanting when contrasted with cold hard logic and evidence

I can see why you'd say that. It certainly feels that way too. Some of the points though are worth a consideration, if nothing more... as communication is hard but key to co-founders and a promising startup's success.

> For example, I think that we should always have "Level 3 conversations". Anything less sounds horribly thoughtless and automatic.

For the same reason you can't communicate with kids the way you would with adults, I believe there might be even more nuances with the way communication among adults need to take place to be more effective.

> Frankly, these situations make me doubt whether there's any point to looking for insights about language in these sorts of ventures, as all I can see are ways to divest responsibility while holding onto power.

Agree. Though, rhetoric is key and I believe at some level theorising abt communication is not without end-goals. I've personally known folks whose communication skills have worked wonders for their personal and professional life.
Why would I want insight into my partner's siblings' personalities?
I saved up some money and quit my first programming job after a year and a half to freelance. I only had a vague idea of the work I wanted to do, but I wanted to have no master and I thought it would be my absolute best life.

Within two weeks I was deep into anxiety and depression. I tried to establish routines, tried working from a coffee shop, etc. None of it really helped. I was still fairly new to the city I lived in and didn't have many friends, and wasn't a social person by nature. I was incredibly isolated.

I started dating someone a few weeks later and that helped. I picked up some one-off contracts, built a website for a local music store, did some personal projects, etc. But still, after another six months I was back in a hole. I wasn't quite so isolated but I still crumbled under the pressure of not knowing what to do next, not being able to take a break from the working mentality even though I could barely bring myself to do any work at all. I ended up taking a desk job just to pull myself out of the spiral.

Economically I probably could have made that work as a source of income, but psychologically it was just unbearable.
This seems like the sort of claim that can only be checked with math, not intuition. Without further ado: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fcwuNd2XANIXmKGPRN_...

Basically, I got some raw data by tracing the graph in Wikipedia[0], as well as the current amount of hydroelectricity generated per day. I made the (highly pessimistic) assumption that aside from hydro, solar would be the sole energy supply for the grid by scaling the production numbers in the graph until the area under the solar curve matched the area under the total, minus the production of hydro. I don't actually know that anybody is seriously advocating for pure solar + hydro, but I wanted to run the numbers.

The result, assuming cars with 85kWh batteries that can be 70% available for grid balancing (leaving ~80-100 miles of range for driving and such) is that California would need 4.3 million cars acting as grid balancing.

For reference, that is just under 30% of the number of cars currently in California, where electrics made up 7% of new car sales last year.

Ultimately, I think the bigger problem is battery degradation, not battery capacity. Being used this heavily for grid balancing would at least double total battery usage on a car, and apart from Tesla with their million-mile drivetrain, no other manufacturer seems to be over-designing their batteries enough to support that. Perhaps that will change if the economics of feeding power back into the grid become compelling enough.

[0]: https://apps.automeris.io/wpd/
About 33% of that GDP is controlled by the richest 1% according to The World Bank [1].

Yes, Chile's HDI is quite high for a Latin American country. The problem is, in the same city (Santiago) you've got communes with HDIs above Norway's (Vitacura, Las Condes, and Providencia got HDIs above 0.953) and then there are communes less than an hour away that got an HDI lower than Panama's (San Ramón HDI is 0.786) [2][3][4].

By OECD's data, Chile is the third country with the highest income inequality amongst OECD members [5].

[1] http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496131468228282235...

[2] Calculated with INE's data (2017) https://imgur.com/GKMcGw9

[3] http://reportescomunales.bcn.cl/2012/index.php/Categor%C3%AD...

[4] http://www.desarrollosocialyfamilia.gob.cl/informacion-socia...

[5] https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
Key word is simultaneously.
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I'd like to see a replication of the Mouse Utopia experiment. It seems to have the character of a lot of the "Failed to replicate" studies in psychology and sociology. The study finds a conclusion that is directly applicable to the issue of the day (overpopulation and overcrowding in Calhoun's time) and has an interesting metaphorical attention getting alarm to it ("We humans are the rats!").

One problem that stood out to me is how the mice in Calhoun's experiment are any different than any other kind of laboratory or pet mice. They are given unlimited access to food and water - but, aren't all pets and lab animals given all the food and water they want? What's special about these?

Another problem is that Calhoun does a lot of evaluating rat behavior. They all eat together - is that abnormal? Some of the rats and lazy, and live by themselves. Is that abnormal? Some rats kill their young and the infant mortality rate rises as population density does. Is that abnormal?

I'd like to see a modern recreation of it, along with better statistical representation of the data and the changes over time. If it's possible, I think a control setup should be added, where the rats in the control "universe" would have to engage in activities like their natural behavior to get food.
It's seems plausible to create a "company" around the freelancer to keep things as they essentially are. Make it a company to company contract, freelancer has minimally more overhead
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
Again another article of “It applies to me, therefore must apply to everybody”

If remote work isn’t working for you, don’t do it. I’ve done everything this dudes done but it has been the happiest time of my life. One would perhaps dare to think, different people react differently to the same things.
Well said. Very well said.
Tbh, I have more hope in the Pinephone because they aren't trying to be too pure in that they're supporting Android to start but hopefully will allow other OS'es as well.

Doing the whole nine yards (in addition to trying to make the thing blob free) is going to take more than up front investment that other, already established manufacturers don't have to deal with, which is giving them a handicap in a fight they start behind in.
Cloud Prototype Manufacturing and Saving Up to 400% Compared to Other Services
It's _really_ good for Twitter posts. Formatting is non-existent, so sharing an image is unfortunately the best way to do it in-feed. Links to Gists, etc are the best if you don't mind leaving Twitter for sure. That said, if images are a necessity, might as well make it look good with Carbon.
it's kinda crazy, but it's fun thinking about how it would affect how you might compute values.

Some things seems like they could become very easy - e.g. addition is just pouring the water from one location into another. Overflow becomes literal overflow...

Subtraction becomes a problem of opening a valve until you've removed the right amount of water... Maybe you could use a weight mechanism that'll close once the removed amount equals the amount you're subtracting?

A precise one and/or a fast one certainly would be very hard to make, and I'm sure the real ones were a lot more complicated, but many simple operations seems like they'd be quite easy to figure out.

Can't imagine it'd be remotely practical at any kind of scale, though... It's amazing they were used as much as they were.
As far as I know, there are replacements for Play Services, and it might be easier to write and maintain them (the API is public, right?) than rewrite existing Linux apps for mobile screens.

For example, in China Google is blocked but they can use Android and applications from local stores.
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
Publicly traded companies have to file 10-K's, and failure to file ends in delisting. Similarly nonprofits have to file Form 990 or get their tax-exempt status revoked.

Meanwhile "the failure to furnish a social purpose report does not affect the validity of any corporate action" (https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23B.25.150) and the sole remedy is for a shareholder to request production of a report after 2 years.

But failure to pay the annual filing fees is grounds for immediate dissolution (https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23.95.255)

I think the story is that Washington SPCs are LLCs in pretty much every aspect besides shareholder-board disputes.
We've mostly been focused on getting candidates jobs within the US. We're working with several international candidates on how to get them jobs in the US. I've already begun conversations with lawyers to create an ISA that applies to roles outside of the US; mostly likely it will be similar but exchange rate adjusted.
A shitstorm must be a-brewin', because the "my account" pages at puri.sm are giving 502s right now (2019-10-27 12:59 PST).
> Or we could just stop kidding ourselves.

Speaking of kidding ourselves,

> If you're concerned about climate change, please take a serious look at nuclear energy.

Please take a serious look at human political structures over the last decade. I don't believe that any nation in the world has sufficient stability to safely manage nuclear waste for the next few decades, let alone hundreds of years.
From what I read and observe, trucks are already basically maximally loaded to what can be delivered in a shift -- they adjust the number of trucks and their routes to fit whatever the load of packages is. The software is really good at this.

In other words, they don't send out a truck out half-full when they could wait until tomorrow to send a full truck, which seems to be what you're suggesting. They just have a truck cover twice the area so it's full.
That's true for POSIX shells but if you're breaking POSIX comparability then you can start doing all kinds of clever/stupid hacks to turn pipes into something more than dumb byte streams.

Coincidentally, this is what I'm working on with my shell.
There’s an audience for what i call “poverty porn” that attributes a condescending nobility to poverty.

End of the day, people are stealing bikes.
One danger with overuse of stored procs is unit tests; they're hard to write in sql, and also hard to keep in sync with tests in code. There are also dangers with ninja patching stored procs without corresponding code deploys.

It does make query development much easier to use a database specific IDE for writing the queries versus munging big strings in code.
I've seen the phone actually make a phone call at the chaos camp this year.
If you tweak uBlock origin's setting I'm fairly sure you can remove stuff like banners/intercom bubbles popping up.
“Cognitive Prosthesis” Enhances Productivity
The media is obsessed about Trump because those stories bring money and is more relevant to American media and audiences, Chilean protests don't fetch the same amount of dollars or American attention.
If I'm not wrong, the fight for the right to repair if it were to succeed would facilitate this.
I think op is referring to something you’re ignoring. Simple algorithms can often become quite gnarly if you can’t ignore some base assumption. I’ve seen some really elegant mathematics represented in a single equation turn into thousands of lines of code simply because reality means we can run out of stack space.

Similarly, I can tell you that dealing with ill formatted feed data, parsing any given value can be trivial, until you find some random example of data that abuses some seperator. Then suddenly you need to do thing like try seperating on X and see if you get data that looks right, else seperate on Y. Oh, and include some data (if it exists) from a prior seperation based on Z. I feel bad for anyone who has to modify my code. Hopefully they won’t ignore the unit tests that include all the gnarly cases...
Hmmm, so I work in the distributed energy resources sector, and I disagree that people in this space aren't recognizing how hard it will be to deeply decarbonize using intermittent generation. You're completely correct that as we add more and more intermittent generation to the grid, keeping the grid always online becomes crazy difficult.

However, everyone I know in the space looks at that challenge as opportunity rather than discouragement. It's not like we're going to hit high penetrations of intermittent renewables overnight. It's going to be a gradual ramp over years that allows us to also deploy complimentary systems to deal with the ever increasing intermittency. Piece-by-piece we will deploy flexibility technologies (DR, DERMS, storage, etc.) and move to new regulatory incentives and utility business models (performance-based ratemaking, etc.) that allow us to reach our 100% goals.

There's a ton of super smart people already working on the intermittency problem, and entire businesses are being built to solve it (disclosure: many of them use our platform). So I guess while I agree with your assessment of the level of difficulty, I don't agree with your level of despair. There's way too many smart engineers working in the space now for intermittency to be in impossible problem to solve.
Calling the "Facebook police unit" - a group of city police officers assigned to the Facebook campus - the "privatization of the law" is quite overblown, especially when compared to the actual private police departments that exist across the United States.

If the residents of Menlo Park don't like how their police department operates, then they can elect new city leadership to change the police department accordingly.

Compare that to university police, which is often controlled by the university trustees. Who elects the trustees? It usually isn't the undergraduates, which comprise the majority of the university's population. Whether it's the state governor, legislature, or alumni, the decisionmakers charged with administering the police power do not answer to those against whom that power is used.

It gets worse with railroad police, which are wholly owned, funded, and operated by private railroad companies, and have national jurisdiction.

The powers of the state should never be in the hands of a private corporation, organization, or university, but what's happening at Facebook isn't that at all.
Efficiency improvements don't seem to be what the recent push against Exxon is about. In fact, according to Massachusett's lawsuit against them, claiming that efficiency improvements in hydrocarbon-powered vehicles reduce CO2 emissions is an illegal attempt to deceive the public because the vehicles still emit CO2.
> As I understand it, financial companies often want to gather data from multiple places but consolidated in a digestible form to make financial decisions.

Yes, this is spot on.

> (what kind of financial decisions, I'm unclear on, since most trading is done by computers now, but maybe this is for ETFs or OTC trades)

Sales & Trading is but one part of banking. Yes, a lot of S&T is automated, but long-term strategy isn't defined by computers and neither is pitching to win new businesses. Besides S&T, there's also Restructuring (advisory and financing) and Mergers & Acquisitions. My opinion is written from the perspective of an M&A banker. I probably make ~3-4 PPT books every week on average.

> And they're use to looking at it on PDFs and Powerpoint, because that's what people email around, and no one trusts having financial slides on the web. (why, btw? In case they leak?)

Concerns over leaks is certainly a driver, but traceability and auditing also play a role. 3 years from now, I can certainly retrieve info that was attached to an e-mail but a link may have long expired. Also most recipients are over the age of 40 so might not like using links in general

> It does seem like a giant waste of time to cut and paste data from excel into powerpoint by hand. However, you should be able to export Excel data to Power Point via the Visual Basic Editor. (https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/vba-powerpoint/) Do people not use VB to prepare this?

Certain tools like the add-ins provided by FactSet, S&P's Capital IQ and, less commonly, Bloomberg, export data into PPT with some metadata attached to it that allows you to refresh content quickly (in theory). It's all built as plugins on top of MS Office apps so your experience is not always smooth. Plus they don't solve the bigger issue of reusability

> I don't get the impression that analysts in finanace would be willing to move from Excel to a notebook. Do you get a different sense? What would a notebook have to offer to get them to switch? Analysts generally seem to love Excel, with the exception of the slow first load and crash.

I think Analysts like spreadsheets with very responsive UIs and countless hotkeys. Muscle memory is a major thing in this business.

My vision of a solution would be one that still implements spreadsheet-like functionality but does so in pieces that connect together all the way through publishing via an integrated paradigm
Yes, it's a random byline generator. I had fun with it while making this, getting a new byline every time I tested the site.

I replaced it with a real byline now.
I think having the header visible would also slowly teach people patterns of what looks legit and what doesn't.
How's that meaningfully different than performance and code cleanup cases? Frequently, a team know how to implement a feature in an efficient manner, but only has time for a low-performance hack job. Similarly, "code cleanup" is as much a code word for "not how I would have done it" as it is for "bad architecture that will start constraining us very soon".
"you don't need to fret about Kubernetes"

Don't know why you got voted down.

I'm retired, but I want to keep my hand in. I like to be able to throw up a server quickly. I like to be able to automate testing and deployment - Ansible is my friend. But I don't have to throw up and configure 100 servers by 10:00am :-)