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>I've pointed out to you how one can design a 100% renewable grid without natural gas. You believe something that's just not so.

Can you please provide an example of the energy mix of a 100% renewable grid? I don't even know what it looks like in theory.

> You believe something that's just not so.

Because there isn't one and not without trying. Germany is a perfect example. A very rich, progressive country with a massive budget surplus .. and yet they aren't doing it. In fact, they are building NEW natural gas pipelines from the authoritarian nations and a geopolitical rival. How does that happen? How do you make sense of it in your head?

>It's not possible to have an intelligent conversation with you when you're the moral equivalent of a Flat Earther.

Are you sure you're not the Flat Earther? You just claim things that are in direct contradiction to what is happening in the real world. There is NO country right now, that either implemented or is on the path to 100% renewable-based grid that isn't based on hydro, geothermal or nuclear. None. That is a fact of reality. This means that every country that is at 100% or near 100% non-fossil-fuel energy generation did it with either hydro, geothermal, or nuclear. Those are all facts. I see that and I read your arguments, and it looks like gaslighting to me.
Sorry for my ignorance on this matter, but why do safe harbor provisions not apply to the Internet Archive? Shouldn't they have been served a DMCA takedown request bu the publishers, and then been in violation of those rules and paid the applicable penalties had they not complied and removed the offending content?
Anecdotally, I am a passive LinkedIn user - we're out here. To me it's a glorified address book of thousands of current/past coworkers, I only ever connect with people who I've worked with professionally. All notifications (email) are disabled, I might log in once every month or two to accept connections and initiate some but that's about it. It's a tool, I treat it like one. $0.02
Hmm, I took some time a couple of years ago to follow the right people on twitter and now I use it all the time (I don't post tweets). Delete the app and just use the browser. It's really all about who you follow. I find it's the most "authentic" and also the funniest social media platform right now.
This is curious to me as I’m not sure the benefit from deleting. If author stated some negative value, then that would make sense, but he doesn’t call out any real downsides that can’t be trivially mitigated.

I’ve found LinkedIn useful for learning about where previous colleagues are now working. I’ve also found it useful as a quick way to learn about people’s past experiences that might be relevant to the issue at hand.

I have turned off all notifications and only visit it when I need something. That is normally to add a contact to my Rolodex or to look someone up I’m meeting with.
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They can count on support from many. Maybe they have a plan.
You can thank Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and the like. Discussion online used to be more complex and thoughtful until everything became a 140 character newsfeed entry and that is not just romanticism. People always had certain characteristics and tendencies, good or bad, but nowadays we put them on pedestals.

Also, the magnitude of people who are literally too dumb to comprehend even the most basic concepts (e.g. "science is a constant process of knowledge discovery") is far far higher than I would have ever dreamed back before social media gave everyone a platform. I used to think that some people just didn't get the right education or didn't have the same chances but the truth is that a lot of people are just willfully ignorant assholes unwilling to even listen to anyone but their own brain waves.

I am fairly young but feel fairly old when I see complete morons on YT or TikTok feeling the need to chime into societal discussions without any foundation. Case in point, a very smart YouTube named "Rezo" has politically upset Germany by "destroying" a political party (CDU, party of Merkel) with a 54min video containing nothing but RESEARCHED AND CITED (!) facts and videos. Like a scientific paper in video form. [1]

The responses? "But he has blue hair so fuck him!!!11!"

Every shallow Instagram sycophant has an opinion about issues that others studied for decades and got PhDs for it which in itself is fine but becomes absurd when it is expected that their opinion should hold equal weight and value.

The modern Internet is absurd in the way it has transformed discussions. It constantly works to erode Western values by elevating fringe groups that would never even find a way to spout their nonsense on any other platform - at least not with the same reach.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1lZQsyuSQ
While you don't agree with the quote about how the scholarly definition requires an imbalanced power structure.

What are the false and harmful beliefs?

More specifically, what are some examples of an oppressed minority race becoming racial oppressors while still being subordinate in the power structure? How are they able to oppress with little political and economic power to do the oppression?

What are examples of where it's important to say that an action against a white majority is "racist" when we cannot equally well say it's "racially discriminatory" or "racially bigoted" or other terms?

Yes, there are many terms with differing definitions. We need only look at the differing definitions and understanding of what "rape" means. (Or the "evolution is only a theory" crowd.)

But that doesn't mean (going way back to how I entered this thread) that it's correct to describe this more scholarly-based interpretation as 'the good old "you can't be racist towards white people" mantra'.
> "American police are trained to prioritize their own safety and survival above the safety and survival of suspects or even innocent bystanders."

But they're trained very badly at that. They're trained to escalate, which endangers everybody, including themselves.
This test does not simulate actual product recycling where the plastic is exposed to sunlight and liquids. Its environmental iterations that cause the degradation.

Interesting findings though.
As a non American I don't know how you label things, but can this guy even be considered black? He looks like a regular person from southern Europe.

https://news.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/horizontal_...
"There's no issue, it's easy! Just don't do it the obvious way. Instead use this other tool, then create an environment, and don't forget to activate it. You need to specify the interpreter you want, and then installing the dependencies is simple, just run `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`. I don't know what the problem is?"

> It's the same for thing for Node, except it implicitly handles it for you.

Indeed.
I think Frontend has the right to take over certain domains of the backend. A very clear example of this is templating. Templating used to be a backend task, but it became very clear it was the frontend developers that needed power over this domain. Going over to a backend dev to make adjustments to the templates is an inefficiency that had to be solved, period.

I agree with you that writing optimal queries or data modeling should not be shifted over to the frontend. With that said, there are basic aspects of this equation that can be factored out. There should be a layer where frontend can at the very least pick or mix the data they need. That doesn’t necessarily mean Graphql, but could also mean a simple middle stack layer where one can do this basic thing without being able to shoot themselves in the foot.

There’s a responsible way to do this, and most likely will be an ongoing discussion.
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In Spain it's half the speed limit.
I do like macOS’s UX and the fact that OS updates have been literally painless for the 16 years I’ve been using macOS as my daily driver.
At the same time, it being a Unix under the hood, it gives me POSIX compatibility all over the place.
Regarding developer tools, Homebrew has done a good enough job so far. YMMV.

I see why people dislike macOS but banning it at the workplace would be over the top.
To expand on this for non-Australian readers. Native title in Australia stems from the Mabo court case in 1992.

IANAL, but my understanding of this case is that the High Court overturned the concept of terra nullius in Australia. Essentially meaning that the Crown (as in the government formed after European settlement) never had valid title to the lands where native title holders maintained a connection to their traditional lands.

Hence, addressing questions from other commenters, since the government never had title nor any rights to the native title lands, they could not have placed any caveat or restriction on the rights of native title holders as to how they use their traditional lands.
Is the pine you use soft? Southern Pine is too soft for a desk or most parts of an office. You could write on it and the letters would be visible in the wood.

It’s great for framing but I’ve been hesitant to use it for my beginner woodworking stuff.
Can it? I don't know of any other public internet archive anywhere near the scale of the Wayback Machine.
Or the netflix-1080p extension. It's not a matter of DRM.
Codecheck confirms reproducibility of Covid-19 model results
I'm hoping this doesn't come off as snarky but, why can't / don't we tell people to prone at home? As I understand, it's literally just lying down on your stomach.

I first encountered the concept in a new york times article where the interviewed nurse was saying the problem was people got bored and stopped doing it. That sounded... dumb. And as though being prone should be plastered all over the public health recommendations.
Ask HN: Self Learn iOS Development
I learned frontend development (just HTML/CSS and some basic JS) and want to go to iOS development. How should i learn the programming fundamentals like OOP? Is there a roadmap I can follow? As frontend dev, I never learned this.
I am sorry to anyone that finds the word "female" offensive. I just wanted to start an open dialogue, not offend anyone.

Sorry.
Never liked it. The first time I open a LinkedIn account, a long time ago, most of my connections were people I didn't know. It seems--like with any other social media--people likes to see big numbers, and I connected with people I had no relation simply because I accepted their request.

The second time? https://collantes.us/2019/07/29/closing-linkedin/
My question: how is this allowed? Won't this create a massive monopoly?

I and many others had the same concerns when Just eat bought Hungry House. Now we've got Deliveroo and Uber Eats too, but how can a smaller player survive with these behemoths?
The reason this post was written was for users of Sourcehut, especially for people writing to its API. This post isn’t particularly relevant or explanatory for other audiences, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be so that’s fine.
I wonder how much a refrigerator costs to design and manufacture that just keeps things cold. That might help with margins.
TIL that HN still runs on a single box
Hypothetically speaking, if a country can afford a standing army and pay the thousands of privates for doing pushups and running around in circles with backpacks and guns.

Then its not crazy to assume they can afford bunch of people trolling internet forums in an attempt to destabilize (even slightly so) the internal politics of neighboring countries.

Russian government is at weaker bargaining position when dealing with EU, then when dealing with single small country. So their vested interest is to push other countries to leave the EU.
Go is a small community, and there's just no chance they managed to donate $36M worth of anything, whatever the electricity and hardware costs, that's just too much money. KataGo's page says it was developed using resources donated by Jane Street, the company that its developer worked for; the general magnitude of numbers is also way off: sure they're a quantitative trading firm, but it's implausible that they'd donate $36M to develop a go AI.
It is indeed independend and has a lot of nice ideas and theory contributions. It turned up after I stopped actively competing in computer Go, so I can't tell how strong it is. It certainly has a lot of potential and I'd probably pick it as a base to work from nowadays.
How is "humanity" going to substantiate this claim?
Thanks for the link to the documentation. That is updated with every major Git version, and can be used to track what features are present. Also, the release notes can be helpful.

In particular, the recent Git v2.27.0 release does include an implementation of Bloom filters with speedups for `git log` and `git blame`. You need to manually run the command to make it work. The version I prefer is this:

> git commit-graph write --changed-paths --reachable

After that first write (which writes filters for every reachable commit) you can do a smaller write by adding `--split` to write incrementally [2]

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/updates-to-the-git-com...

By writing these filters, you will speed up most `git log` and `git blame` calls. There is an improvement coming in the next version that includes speedups for `git log -L`.

Caveat: The biggest reason these improvements have not been widely advertised is that the user experience has not been completely smoothed out. In particular, you can only write the changed-path Bloom filters using the command(s) above. If a commit-graph is written during GC (due to `gc.writeCommitGraph` config setting) then the filters will disappear. Similar for `fetch.writeCommitGraph`. We plan to have these resolved in time for v2.28.0, along with more performance improvements.

(Full disclosure: I am a contributor to Git, Scalar, and VFS for Git, which are referenced by the article.)
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I don't think Mac has moved in a direction to win over power users, and Linux has a slipping desktop market share.

I don't see a power-user exodus from Windows, really.
>I don't know what other conclusion to draw about what "overwhelming force" and "dominating" would mean in this context besides murdering people.

It could mean that you do a show of force so strong that the opposing side gives up. In this case he was probably referring to putting so many policemen/national guard out there that they could disperse and detain all of the looters and rioters. This would likely prevent further looting and rioting as people would see that they would likely get caught.
Ask HN: How to meet like-minded people during Covid-19?
As a longterm organizer and frequent visitor, meetups for me have always been an excellent way to get to know likeminded people. How do you cope with the fact that currently, nearly no in person meetings are happening, effectively drying out getting to know new people? Do you have best practices, tools or online services? Is there something like chatroulette focused on technical topics?
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Really nice. I have a particular curiosity on this topic because I am studying data science with machine learning and until the covid19 pandemics started, I had a small business where I made music to free big chains/retail shops from paying music copyrights. I wonder where all this AI/Machine Learning thing will take music (and the business) to.
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I did something similar lately. But it's hard to keep up with local news, now. I couldn't find a news aggregator for my country/province. Maybe, I need to build that myself.
> Simply starting over today with current civilian leadership to draft a new doctrine guarantees a dramatically different outcome.

The current leadership (Trump) is very racist and authoritarian, so I'm not sure that your confidence fits the current time;
Good discussion! I'll just respond here, but plenty of though-provoking points all around ;)

I think what I was looking at was the result that has been often observed, that progress in AI research roughly tracks with hardware developments. Looking at AlphaGo to AlphaZero to MuZero. Training time for self-play increases. But parallelism in the tensor units of the hardware is an order of magnitude faster. It's great for problem domains like autonomous vehicles, contactless payments in retail stores and fraud detection in the data center. But what about generalizability? What about the black box communicating how it has learned? Will it be suitable for next-gen applications like robots designed to assist humans in space expansion?

I attended an event in NYC around the creative use of AI by a new breed of emerging artists like Mario Kliegmann from Germany. ArtBreeder can train a GAN on a single input sample and generate paintings in the style of Fragonard or Picasso or Rothko. And someone made a remark along the lines of: "if this had existed in the 1960s, we wouldn't have need Warhol to invent Pop Art!". But in reality, Andy Warhol experimented with a wide variety of media and techniques. From film to "oxidation art". And it struck me that was the truly creative part of the process. One that arises from a place other than rational optimization on a single task or even multiple known tasks.
> but I'd go so far as to say that unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good.

> You and I are just another candidate in a tall stack—ie. our profiles are more useless information they can use to cross our name off.

That seems a very naive interpretation. Or maybe my profile is truly exceptional (who knows)

I've came across several potential good job opportunities in LinkedIn, and of course, while you won't jump hoops too frequently and most of them might be not great opportunities, I can totally see the value.

And those are not only through direct recruiter contacts, but also through friends sharing job posts (or candidates).

(Yes, recruiters still ask for CVs sometimes sigh )
Not the parent, but if Sketchup is like a simple hand saw, Blender is a massive workshop filled with a whole array of advanced power tools [0]. For example you could go from a blank screen to creating, rigging and texturing a 3D character to a photo-realistic movie featuring the character, targeted at different display devices.

[0] https://www.blender.org/features/
I find it useful for getting info on non controversial topics, but can't stand it as a political forum because it censors right wing opinions.
Yes they do. I am going to library regularly with one of goals being saving money on childrens books.
I call this profiteering on dilemma. Disgusting in my opinion. Just my opinion.
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Yes it's not down to companies at all, the best fit should always get the job.

I guess in cities the ratios would be better. All the women in tech I know work in London.

I would say the UK is quite good at not gender shaming roles (Except nursing for males unfortunately)
"I like the idea of running a Tor exit node"

Do it. It's the best thing you can do. Thank you in advance.

You can also run a Lightning Network node!
I think people care when they are properly informed, in a setting where they are ready to hear such information. The primary reason they seem not to care is because "everyone is using X, so I guess it can't be that bad" and an information/concern overload.

We are constantly bombarded with new concerns and this particular topic requires expert opinion to truly know which software you can trust. Then there is the problem of choosing which expert to trust. And you still have to have time left simply to live your life. It's just not an easy thing to let yourself be concerned with this.

In my personal experience, I've yet to meet a person that turned out not to care once I've taken the time to discuss this with them one on one.
I saw the same thing a while ago and deleted it. I got my first job in a different country easily without LinkedIn. I see no value in LinkedIn for job hunting, many of the ads are just links to different job boards or application forms that I have to fill out or upload my CV to anyway.

Ironically I created a LinkedIn again after starting this job, I think mostly to flex on my exciting new job and measuring myself against my peers from college, while some small part of me also thought it could be important for networking. If you really want to keep in touch with peers from college you will find a better and much more genuine way of doing so. If you want to network maybe it can be a useful tool but I'm not sure stroking each other's ego is the best way to do that.

Once again I was coming to the conclusion that it's a useless and pointless platform (like most social networks, but that's another topic). My feed right now is nothing but cringe memes, humblebrags, and weird flexing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I think I will delete it for real this time.
What was the mistake? There are no options here anymore. You want an OLED? You're getting a smart OLED.
Safe harbor applies when other people upload books on your service and you are taking it down as you go. It does not apply when you publish books on your service.
This has been happening for a while. There were posts on HN about the revision wars around the Orlando shooting, and then again on almost every major world event.

When it comes to political events, you cannot take Wikipedia as a reliable source anymore.

The sad fact is that the people who have the most time to give to wikipedia, are typically the most biased.
For the love of all this good, please do not let the poison of political correctness infect Wikipedia.
Here is a take from the early 2000s: https://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

Not really sure how much of this is still true. Since cloud services and locked devices took over most of the software that people use, it doesn't come up much anymore.
My linked in is a constant source of anxiety and is never a source of employment
There was one by the creator of Ansible but sadly it never reached production status.
Ask HN: What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?
A lot of examples from the past show that people love to hurt themselves with their lack of knowledge:
- bloodletting was a popular medical procedure up to 19th century
- adding radium to toothpaste, hair creams and even water in the early 20th century
And from much less distant past:
- smoking
- greenhouse gas emissions

What are we doing wrong now, which the general public isn't aware of currently?
There’s some other YouTube channels I liked but after watching for a little while I noticed the same thing. I want to learn the right way to woodwork not how an engineer or a very clever person would invent a solution for an already solved problem.
> I wonder how the positive and respectful space here may be reproduced in other social media platforms.

It's very simple once you stop chasing growth and engagement metrics. The main reasons the other social media platforms are cesspools is because outrage generates engagement so the platform is designed to encourage it as well as encouraging users to join and stay regardless of the quality of their contributions, where as here the design itself acts as a small barrier to entry, in addition to a karma system and competent, human moderation that discourages (and eventually bans) bad behavior.
No, this is more likely simple opportunism. They want to supply the police of course, just not yet when public opinion is against police.
The entire sentence is not a lie, as you know. You extraction of the first part is misleading.
I still don't see it being justified. The only time I can see no-knock raids being okay is if a person is being held hostage.
Ask HN: As Software Developer, how can I contribute to protest movements?
Looking at current protest movements in US and other countries, I think we are in historic time for real change.

How are you contributing to it? I am looking for some inspiration. May be there are ways I can contribute with my skills so that it can have most effect?