skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My view is that this is a byproduct of a flaw in the way human attention works. we deal with events not the whole landscape of reality as such. well because thats what it takes to survive. Politicians & media have caught on to this so all they have to do is manage attention when an undesirable event happens. once the event is lost its very hard for us to go back and review it as daily life take over & the cycle repeats.

IMO the only realistic way around this is to have more eyeballs looking at it and have smaller pools of resources so there is less incentive to distort. both of these converge to the solution that we need smaller constituencies and a more EU like structure with a lot more representation per capita. Otherwise everything becomes a 51% attack & with this electoral college & Senate composition we'd be lucky if that.
Even if solar can only run a third of the time, that's still a third of our electric carbon emissions taken out, which ain't nothing to shake a stick at.

> what am I missing

Battery storage is a thing and will become much more of a thing
Joannou vs. City of Rancho Palos Verdes
> I anticipate that rate to accelerate

Historical cost declines would agree with that thesis. Renewables will approach a price so close to 0 that the battery storage will be the dominate cost in supplying dispatchable energy (but still a lower cost than fossil fuels). Utility lithium battery storage is already cheaper than the most expensive peaking plants, and the cost model improves as costs continue to decline.

https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/24/Capture2....

https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-b... (A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-ion Battery Prices)

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf (PDF: NREL Cost Projections for Utility-Scale
Battery Storage)
> DO: Assume competence.

The code reviews I've had the most trouble with are the ones where I can't. Blatant copy/pasting, 20 blank lines checked in, unrelated configuration changes included, one-line fixes implemented via complex logic, zero git hygiene/cleanup, zero self-review of the code review before assigning it...

If I leave a comment like:

> This logic is repeated in both view controllers. Should be DRY.

I'd love to be in a situation where that was actually intentional and a DRY implementation was considered but abandoned for X reasons.

Far more likely is that they needed it in 3 places and thus pressed CMD-V 3 times.
What about water? Isn't it a more obviously natural resource?
What are you asking lol?
Even better! I would suggest studying for interviews with something like interview cake & leetcode and getting a job at a FANG.

Try moving to seattle or if rain doesn't work for you, the bay area. With an income of $300k+ you could probably save that $100k amount in a few years. Don't move until you have job, that way you get a relocation benefit and that $3000/month rent won't seem that crazy to you.

Even working at a startup will pay you better than what I'm estimating you make in austin.
This - I just got a neos smart cam (as they were on offer at work) and for £20 I can use it 'forever' with movement notifications, live stream, basic short recording and no ongoing fee. Up against that, this seems expensive.
> dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology

I don't want to be negative and please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they only open the platform well after they grew to a substantial size?

I don't know exact dates but I vaguely remember maybe reading a post there where the main guy said the platform wasn't open until well down the line.

It doesn't really matter in the end, this is more of a question on the accuracy of openness.
Your CA rate is off by 1%, and you're adding additional contingent levies to breach 50%.
There's more to it than just structural integrity - the heavier plane is generally less safe in an emergency, and despite some ideas proposed around you can't "get rid" of takeoff-power engines unless you drop Go-Around capability.
You might want pgrouting[1], if you can find access to appropriate datasets for your routing (road) network.

[1] http://workshop.pgrouting.org/2.5/en/chapters/advanced.html#...
Yes, it's absolutely an addiction. I constantly hear people talk about how they can't leave facebook because they'll lose connections with friends and/or family, won't be able to find out about events, or will somehow otherwise be missing out on life. I deleted my account 7 or so years ago and the impact on my life has only been positive
Not according to the article.

Unsubsidized solar and wind are both listed as $40 while coal and nuclear are listed as $34 and $29 respectively. The article also mentions that increased solar and wind necessitates batteries but doesn't list a price for those.

> "In the case of both utility-scale solar and onshore wind power, this rate has dropped to about $40 per megawatt hour..."

> "With government subsidies, the average costs of onshore wind ($28 per megawatt hour) and utility-scale solar ($36/MWh) are roughly equivalent to those of coal and nuclear generation ($34/MWh and $29/MWh, respectively)"

> "Third, in order to be able to use more wind and solar power, we’ll need to improve our ability to store that power"
I think that refers to bicycle (and/or motorcycle?) riding - not being a passenger.
Where does this carbon "tax" go? For example if the U.S. federal government imposed this tax it's just gets paid to the government to use on whatever?
Then again, for things like C64 picture formats, you need to work within the various limitations and the cheat programming one can use to extend the palettes and forcing badlines more frequently and so on which makes the artist need a lot of programming skills too.
Sorry, got Hungary confused with Romania. But that doesn't change the conclusion: Hungary is 0.13% of global emissions and has even less industry than Romania.
Commander X16 by The 8-Bit Guy may possibly count: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommanderX16/
(C64-like board, also based on 6502, with as much of C64 as possible with more of less off-the-shelf hardware while keeping costs as low as possible)
> An alternative design would have kept await, but supported async not as a function-modifier, but as an expression modifier.

How is that different than an `async` block?
As an average Ruby developer. The first 100ms I saw:

if request.get?
# serve authorization page HTML
else
# grant permissions to app
end

I know that's really smell. Why would I put a serious statement inside `else` block?
I meant in the context of energy conversion. Solid oxide fuel cells produce high grade heat (~800C) that is perfect for conversion via organic rankine cycles (which will convert ~30% of that heat to electricity) or supercritical co2 brayton cycles (~50% heat to electricity with extremely high power densities[0]).

Even without heat capture, SOFCs run at 60-65% efficiency, which is probably good enough.

[0] https://www.ge.com/reports/call-ecomagination-ge-building-co...
> Why aren't they driving the cars with the driverless software in learn mode, scaled up to many human drivers that are training the autonomous classifiers edge case dataset e.g. human driver stops for this particular shaped object (person in darkness entering street) in 99% of cases, so we stop as well. (As opposed to not stopping for a floating grocery bag where it applies the opposite rule to keep driving based off recorded human driving behavior)

This basically is being done already - recorded data is hand labeled as ground truth for classifiers. "human in darkness entering the street" might be a rare case, though. Humans in the dark on the sidewalk should be pretty common.

> Also, we can detect human gait already can't we? There has to be better signifiers for human life that we can override these computer vision systems with to prevent these tragedies.

I'm not a perception expert - it looks like in this case the victim was mostly classified by LIDAR capture. I don't know if the cameras were not good enough for conditions or if their tech was not up to the task. This is sort of a red herring though - even if the victim was classified as "bicycle" or "car" she still should have been avoided.

> What about external safety features, such as an external airbag that deploys on impact, cushioning the object being struck if the system senses immediate collision is unavoidable. Some food for thought for anyone working in this space, would love to hear your thoughts and ideas.

Why not do this on all cars?
Its an important optimization otherwise each go routine would use a lot of memory, but its not required. The stack allocation strategy has changed a couple times in main compiler, gccgo originally support it and CGo functions behave like normal go mod the stack.
We trust human vision for this purpose; is there anything human vision is doing that would be impossible to emulate with a computer, given enough research and development?
First of all all wealthy buy expensive land/real estate. We can start by that. They buy a lot of luxury goods as well. It does not even have to be aimed at uber wealthy. We can start taxing gas more for example.
When these sorts of issues come up people tend to argue that learning to speak respectfully is a huge imposition. It's hard to change, but it's a really, really useful skill to learn. It makes everything go more smoothly.

It's totally possible to joke and have fun, just don't... attack people and their ideas. Try not to blame. It's actually very simple in practice and isn't very far reaching at all.

You can still have fun, you can still joke around, but you have to realize if you attack people it's going to create a hostile environment for a lot of people, men and women included.
I hadn't realised that we do struggle to believe it; I've always been aware of the fact that I would die.

What took me a good while to "realise", in the "existential shock" sense that the author describes, was the nature of life _before_ death; the process of maturation.

That you won't always be a sparkly eyed young man or woman. Your first love will be forever unique. Your school years happen once. You are only ever eighteen for one year. If indeed you have children, that will be a phase of your life, and then you'll be a mother or father. And so on and so forth.

All of this might sound quite trivial, and perhaps it is, but it certainly hit me like a wall of bricks to realise that we're hurtling forwards without a reverse gear.
This is pretty much what most people think. Though if smart grids are built and there are huge advancements in battery technology (like way beyond what the Elon hype stuff is), and if our energy demands don't continue to rise at a high rate, then wind and solar can completely solve the problem.

But what you're pointing out is why the IPCC and most climate scientists want nuclear as a stop gap. Because it's better than coal. But then the conversation becomes about nuclear vs renewables, which no one on the nuclear side wants to get rid or even slow the development of renewables.
Honestly, I don't think it'd be possible to return to an internet without advertising, at least not in the sense of people paying for content via microtransactions or what not. Like it or not, many people now see content as 'free' by default, so their interest in paying a creator to access something is pretty much gone.

It's like the situation on smartphones with apps. Many people and companies have tried to get people to pay for them again (like Nintendo with Super Mario Run), but the audience wasn't having any of it, since they'd gotten used to 'free with in game purchases/ads' as the default. So the attempts faltered, and most went back to the exploitative models instead.
Among other things, when it gets really cheap you can start over-provisioning. Cloud cover sometimes cuts the solar irradiance in half? No problem, just build twice as much solar capacity (and maybe add a HVDC transmission line to the next state over for the high production times)

Wide deployment & interconnection will also erase some of the local variability of, e.g. a cloud passing over.
Batteries are made from metals which have to be strip mined. It's really not any more environmentally friendly
The exceptions tend to escape notice for years. They get a lot of attention (and are often really hard to fix unlike the early ones), but I stand by my statement: most are easily found and fixed - but they are also fixed early in development so you don't hear about them.
You'd be surprised. They certainly want higher yields and returns, but many people can be resistant to making the kinds of changes or long term investments to actually realize those goals.

Corporate/bureaucratic governance is arguably more prone to doing the sorts of bloodless cost/benefit analysis that can push productivity, while smaller family farms might be more focused on just getting through the day-to-day work.

That plus a lot of productivity gains come from returns to scale and logistical capacity that you need to be at a certain size to realize. It's just out of reach for smaller entities.
What gives you doubts I'm serious?
Yea it's pretty obnoxious to be told "try not to use so much power during these hours: [when you get home from work - when you go to bed]. This is when we need electricity.
About a quarter of it is from Niagara Falls, ie: run of the river.

The amount that they divert varies by time: they want to keep the falls nice during the day, but divert more at night.

And a lot of dams are dual use: controlling water levels while generating electricity, so it really depends on weather. When it’s dry they can maybe do this, but when it’s wet, they gotta be careful. Or vice versa depending on which side it’s raining more on.
Competitor comparison? Most (SaaS) sites would benefit from stating - plainly and clearly - what features they offer and what are the benefits from those features. The whole "free trial" approach is a joke. My time, no one's time, is not free.

If you can't communicate the essence of your product to me [1] then I can only presume you don't know. That's not a good sign.

[1] Everyone is always asking "Why should I care?" if you don't care to answer that then I'm not going to care either.
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Well, ammonia coolers offer cheap storage in the form of liquid ammonia. This applies to both absorption and compressor coolers.
I don't know why you start buy giving an irrelevant example and then give another that agrees with my point but yeah we can be creative about what type of transactions we want to tax.
Depends very largely on your industry. In enterprise, this is a terrible strategy as it leads you away from a discussion on value add to one largely centered around features and price. Deals that are focused on features and price tend to be harder to close and generate less revenue.

I’d question it for most industries actually - what you are tacitly acknowledging in the standard feature comparison page is that the features of the competition are equivalent to yours, but that you have a few additional ones. Usually people will in that situation go for the solution that does 80% of the job but is significantly cheaper.

Overwhelmingly the research shows that people buy on value add, not features, so this strategy is likely to force down your price for marginal gain. Also, the competitor pages tend to be a competitive paid search for a challenger in the market. Rare that you see this with organic.
The amount of storage needed is massive. 1000s of hoover dams (including the lakes on both sides) for example. Batteries might work, but so far they haven't scaled that large.
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It's about 6000 Tesla Megapacks [1] for the entire US, roughly 20 square miles of land use.

"Using Megapack, Tesla can deploy an emissions-free 250 MW, 1 GWh power plant in less than three months on a three-acre footprint – four times faster than a traditional fossil fuel power plant of that size. Megapack can also be DC-connected directly to solar, creating seamless renewable energy plants."

We need more Gigafactories (regardless of manufacturer/owner), which needs demand to be proven (contracts with utilities), which allows for more capital to be acquired from capital markets to build more battery factories. Batteries are a known quantity though, versus nuclear where you can spend billions and a decade and still not produce a kWh of power.

Tesla built Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai in 190 days, from breaking ground to manufacturing validation of a Model 3. These are tractable problems.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scal...
> Thinking about the words you use in daily conversation with diverse peers doesn't have to be "robotic".

I'd much rather save my mental energy for the coding.

If having to carefully think about how every turn of phrase could be seen and completely giving up on being able to make friends at work is the price of hiring less privileged people? I'd rather stay in my privileged monoculture thanks. The underprivileged can go join the company with the underprivileged monoculture and everyone can be happier, communicating in the style they prefer with people who are ok with that style.
Ah stoicism, toxic masculinity lite
The happiest introverts may be extraverts
Pissing in the wind is likely going to cause a mess regardless of gender.
An Interview with Chuck Peddle (1982)
You could cover the arabian peninsula and sahara with panels and use UHV lines to connect to china.
I'm not sure this is true anymore. Chrome and mobile browsers have built in password managers that automatically sync across your devices.
Don't confuse aggression and assertiveness. Have rules, and stick to them.

I can scream and yell at my dog all day long because he pulls on the leash, but I'll just be angry and the dog will continue to pull on the leash.

If I'm calm, kind, but firm, I find it's usually quite a bit more effective. I'm not getting angry, but if my dog wants to keep walking, he's got to calm down first. I'm willing to wait.
I think it could be better solved by a jury of random people with some leeway to bend the letter of the law. Similar to, but not exactly the same as jury nullification.
I have no idea how you got it in your head that i'm advocating for DAC. I not only did not do that, I specifically did the opposite by saying I have "0%" hope for it. The fact that you've twisted this around now into trying to get me to defend it is an example of why i'm being insulting to you. Your behavior is bad, and I hope you feel bad about it. Why should I treat you with respect when you're ignoring the context of the conversation in order to correct internet strangers with your tangential distraction of a point? What makes you feel entitled to other people being graciously receptive to that?

The actual topic at hand here is the GHG footprint of air travel (see topic, OP). My comment was about the time constraint provided by the IPCC that people fail to include in their analysis. Here you are 5 replies deep twisting my arguments into their opposite while failing to even address, let alone refute or propose your own alternative for the central point.

On a micro level your behavior is just garden variety piss poor social skills (can't say i'm the best either!). On a macro (and specific to this topic, climate change) level your behavior is the sand in the gears that keeps any of the rest of us from discussing this challenge in good faith and reaching rational conclusions. You are poisoning the well. You are pissing in the pool. Please stop.
It's possible he's terrible at devops, terrible at selling himself or was generally barking up the wrong tree. I wouldn't recommend taking my comment as a nudge away from getting into devops consulting but just that a friend I know struggled with it
Soon Asia none of those are public school buses, especially China where they are all private buses painted yellow and have no special treatment (no stop sign popping out of the side). Similar differences exist in Europe. Or I guess my point is, none of these systems come even close to resembling what we ache in the USA and Canada.
This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there.

I think the single worst thing Facebook was documented as being involved was genocide in Myanmar, which was indeed certainly terrible. And while FB's poor policies are no doubt partly to blame here (obviously, blood on their hands), the people who actually did it, the state that aided etc, are likely more to blame. And similar horrors have been committed in other regions through mass hysteria instead spread through email or text messages (pogroms against strangers in India, etc).

Which is to say that Facebook has many terrible qualities and I'd love people to come together in the kind of social network I want instead, but still, I can't see much or any unique evil in Facebook compared to many systems and processes that it just happens to a part (choose from media, capitalist, elites, whatever).
That's probably something like a ~10% guess--GP's is more in the ballpark of 90%
Not OP but CRM consulting work usually involves customizing existing CRM solutions (often Salesforce) for a client's needs. This means interpreting vague requests from usually non-technical users and finding a way to bash it into the really terrible developer experience that CRMs have.

The reasons its pays so well are several:

1) Most CRMs are initally setup by non-technical users and suffer from a litany of performance issues stemming from bad architectural decisions (i.e. lets do all our analytics in Salesforce Apex (java-like) code instead of a mainstream ETL solution).

2) The process of customizing a CRM is the epitomy of enterprise development, there is a severe lack of standardization and many examples of close but not quite: Salesforces SOQL is kind of like normal SQL but with lots of weird quirks, Salesforce lignteningforce components are like some front-end frameworks but not quite and with lots of weird quirks.

3) Most development knowledge is tribal, meaning you learn Salesforce by going through the trenches and then that knowledge lives or dies by you and your team. It's difficult to learn and train for legacy development (training docs are often for the ideal cases which rarely exist in the wild) thus you get to charge whatever you want. Often the really tough questions can only be solved by wading through the customer support muck (if your licensing allows it) until you get to denvercoder9.

4) Every few years the Sales reps of the CRM company shove new development techniques and methodologies at their clients which can mean a large refactoring or migration is needed.
In my experience, the cube extension is unusable for >10M x 128D vectors without PCA. I'm using Faiss now with ~500M vectors, and it works great!
Curious that you're the first to mention an obvious first step in the right direction: Heavy tax on non-productive consumption and assets, a/k/a luxuries.

Nobody "needs" a penthouse suite in Vegas, a 100 foot yacht, or a Ferrari. Why not start there?