skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per the beginning of this long thread, wind and solar can supply 75% of annual US electrical demand without storage. France supplies about that much of its annual demand from nuclear power and Belgium supplies a bit over half of annual demand with nuclear power. Both countries rely on fossil generated electricity for meeting demand peaks, both via domestic generating plants and cross-border imports from foreign fossil plants. There was never a year when France met its peak electrical demand without fossil power.

The example of France proves that electrical generation could have been largely decarbonized in the 20th century, if other leaders had made a concerted push to reduce fossil fuel dependency like France's leaders did. It's tragic that other major economies did not do the same. But even France did not eliminate all fossil generation. 10% of French electricity generation is fossil as of 2017 [1].

Getting the USA's electrical generation down to only 10% fossil would be a vast improvement. I don't think that a contemporary optimized plan for getting there involves much new nuclear power even though a 20th century plan would have. A cost optimized plan from 1985 certainly would have called for a lot more nuclear power. The costs of building American solar and wind farms have plummeted since 1985. The costs of building American nuclear plants have not.

[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
To clarify, the issue is that the old version of software won't work with the new libraries, and the old libraries won't work with the current GPU models, so you can't run the old code without modification unless you have old hardware as well, and you can't virtualize the GPUs.
As others have pointed out, it depends on time of year and where you live. Far north, e.g. Canada, the U.K, Scandinavia the sun won't give you any Vitamin D at all for roughly six months of the year.
I think it would be possible for intelligence services to obtain and pass on information about a citizen while still trying to work for the overall safety of the country.
Large chunks of this particular code was in fact originally written in Fortran and then machine translated into C++.
And so we find ourselves in the same situation as the rest of the scientific process, throughout history. When I try to replicate your published paper and I fail, it's completely unclear whether it's "your fault" or "my fault" or pure happenstance, and there's a lot of picking apart that needs to be done with usually no access to the original experimental apparatus and sometimes no access to the original experimenters.

The fact that we can have that option is an amazing opportunity that a confluence of attributes of software (specificity, replayability, easy of copying) afford us. Where we are not exploiting this like we could be, it is a failure of our institutions! But it is different-in-kind from traditional reproducibility.
Yeah, you're right.

I guess there is a fine line between "just do it" and "measure twice, cut once".

Of course you can just put your head down and follow the traditional path, and end up fine - with kids, house, etc. But was that the path best for you? Was it the most fulfilling path? Shouldn't overthink that, but also should spend some effort to think about it.
In Germany the economy is geared towards production. Companies that do something real have benefits. Purely investment activities (financial industry) have to pay higher taxes. This makes the country more productive. In the US, the first thing everyone does is to move production out of the country and put their money on financial investments. It is great for investors because of the higher profit margins, but terrible for the economy in general.
Yes, the table merging is what mine actually does. It clears the old table reference and inserts the contents of the new module into it. It seems to work well enough for my use-case.
It's very likely the UV is an essential trigger of the benefits of sun exposure – either through supporting chemical processes like internal Vitamin-D synthesis, or simply providing the right amount of chaotic 'eustress' that exercises, without overwhelming, essential self-repair mechanisms. So, I'd strongly disagree that "any UV light exposure is causing harm".

Instead, there's a dose-response curve, as with almost everything else, and some moderate level of UV exposure is almost certainly net-beneficial.

Further, getting a light natural tan from the sun itself, without ever becoming uncomfortably burned, is probably more indicative of that optimal level of UV exposure than remaining ultra-pale from absolute avoidance of all sun-UV.
Apologies for running slightly off topic, but there's another way to look at this. The fact that Apple services like FaceTime and iMessage are restricted to Apple hardware means that those of us who haven't bought into this ecosystem encounter a fair amount of pressure to do so. So I think Apple's "saintly" behaviour is also self-serving.
I learned this lesson from Clifford Stoll.

He said that astronomers figure he must be an exceptional programmer, since he's clearly a mediocre astronomer. While programmers figure he must be an exceptional astronomer, since his programming is strictly middle-of-the-road!

Of course, these days, he's the best dang Klein bottle glass blower in the game. No substitute for finding your niche.
FWIW I take one of those 5000 IU capsules - but I take it every Monday.
I asked my doctor about getting my levels checked in regards to vitamins, testosterone, etc. She somewhat rudely brushed it off. Is there a good way to ask about this or should I seek out a specialist on my own?
The problem is most restaurants in my city unless they're pizza just don't deliver, and this applies to lots of cities across the country let alone suburbs.
You can always put "certified by the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative" next to each paper on your CV. It might influence people a little, even if it isn't part of the formal review for employment / promotion. Although "Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative" does not sound very impressive. And Federal grant applications have rules about what can be included in your profile.

Informal reputation does matter though. If you want to get things done and not just get promoted, you need the cooperation of people with a similar mindset, and collaboration is entirely voluntary.
Focus on what's important, not urgent
I was approaching a toll booth near Albany years ago seeing the incredible queue of cars and I thought that getting an E-ZPass would be good for me but also good for other people.
How do you make an AGI smart enough to be helpful but not so smart that it gets cynical and figures "what's the point of helping these dummies anyway?"

Kind of the Ayn Rand problem...
Real time has nothing to do with response times or performance. It has to do with predictability and ability to reason about how much time an operation will take (most of the time it is enough to be able to have some kind of hard limit on how much time something will take).

This means that you need all your operations that you call from critical realtime code to not suddenly start doing some housekeeping.

On Linux, even as simple operation as dereferencing a pointer can cause context to be switched to kernel to suddenly start doing its memory management stuff (not really Linux fault, that's how x86 architecture is built).

So while a machine might be able to respond "orders of magnitude" better than needed for control systems it is the one response in X thousand or million that is not meeting the limit that is deal breaker here.

I have implemented an embedded controller for coin acceptor. If the driver does not respond within X milliseconds the coin passes the gate and there is one more angry customer.

I have implemented a framework for algorithmic trading for one of largest brokerage houses on Warsaw Stock Exchange. You have XX microseconds to respond to market on event and if you don't there could be financial consequences.

Both apps were implemented on Linux. In both cases I had to work my ass off to track down multitude of potential causes of unpredictability and I think I did pretty good job but I cannot give guarantee that it will always work within time limit. If there was somebody's life at stake I would refuse to do it.

Did you know that x86 CPUs stop from time to time to do their housekeeping, like checking temperature to decide whether to throttle or not? You can turn it off (at the cost of the server potentially overheating) but how many more potential sources of problems are there?
Updated the GitHub repo and the HN post. Thanks.
To be clear: I was running a non-raid (single disk) setup where I found `btrfs balance` to be needed.
Not OP, but had a similar experience.

The key, I've found, is figuring out the role that maximizes your strengths, and converting your current role into that (gradually) or finding a company that has a position that matches.

For example, I loved a lot of aspects of being a PM (leading the team, breaking down complicated tasks/releases, designing great UX) but am an engineer at heart. So I worked with my PM to take over responsibilities that leveraged those skills, and then I used that experience to get a new role where I'm able to do those same things to a greater degree (at a company now that combines typical tech lead + PM responsibilities into one).
The analysis was related to both sides of the coin. I imagine the presentation would offer alternatives: stay and lose 3 weeks, evacuate and lose 4 weeks, so which one do you worry about more?
FWIW, it's not annoying or upsetting to me. However, I took Russian years ago. The only thing I remember is the alphabet and some random words. I also live in a country where the language is not my native one. So, when I saw this in a language I may be able to pronounce like a 3 year old, my immediate response was to think "oh, let's see if I can guess what this says" into "wait what..." into "wtaf" into "oh, that's dumb." I skipped that article this morning because while I wasn't upset or annoyed, I was disappointed. I was disappointed that a skill I once worked very hard for was wasted. Since it was also at the top of the page, I felt like it was abused in this community. In fact, I attributed the title for the only reason it was on the front page. When I just clicked to see what the comments were, I was pleasantly surprised to find I was not the only one disappointed with the alphabets chosen for this title.
Pay $5.00 a month. Docker is a business that deserves to get paid if they offer something valuable.
Would you rather work in a charming shop or restaurant as a minimum wage service worker dealing with the public, or as a better-paid skilled worker in a big factory?
i've talked to a few biotech startups, usually a ceo or founder. the main issues are a consensus in the startup that (1) it's easier to combine numerous unrelated technologies that may not even run in similar environments/platforms to solve a very specific problem, and (2) it doesn't matter their level of skill in applying the tech to solve the very specific problem.
Cars don't come with a guarantee that it will last until you're 80 though. You go over a certain mileage, you're counting down the life of your car.

On the other hand, marriage is touted as this perfect "till death do us apart" deal.

Should weddings be sold like cars? With "your mileage may vary" and "you will have many marriages throughout your life?" Maybe then I'd agree with your logic.
In case anyone isn't aware, the trick is to create a group with any contact and then remove them. Mine is pinned to the top and named Notes - and unfortunately is the most robust way to share images and notes from desktop to Android (I tried Pusbullet and Join too)
It sounds like it definitely does trigger the rate limiter.

> There is a small tradeoff – if you pull an image you already have, this is still counted even if you don’t download the layers.

I expect we're just going to see a lot more recycling of build nodes once it has "used up it's docker credits".
>How do you do leverage these strengths?

What is your goal? I identify with the parent comment here, (the parent of that too) and feel like I've reached a point where the most obvious answer to your question (on leveraging strengths) is management.

If you can code, project manage, and communicate effectively with [non]tech people and don't mind the stress of dealing with other people's issues, then it might be up your alley.
You’re confusing Dutch with Danish. MH17 was investigated by the Dutch :)
> the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient

I used to be in charge of the website for a company you’ve heard of. We once realized some huge proportion of our traffic originated from a hosted CI company requesting the site thousands and thousands of times (guessing one for each build they hosted) every 5 minutes.

I can’t remember what proportion of traffic it was but I’m pretty sure it was a majority, maybe even more than 80%.
Eventzilla is probably the best alternative. It's free and has similar features to Eventbrite.
Happens all the time. I want a status of "Developer in denial" in JIRA.
Presumably companies that pay 5-6 figure salaries to devs can probably pay those devs to set up caching or pay docker for the privilege of not bothering. The team pro plan with no limits starts at $25 a month for 5 users.
I'd take these allegations with several grains of salt. This smells (stinks) of politics.
>Could you imagine a government agency spying on its own citizens? In America that would be illegal and unconstitutional.

I thought that was the case in most countries, so they get around it by getting their buddies to do it for them, hence five-eyes (or n-eyes).
This article set off a number of red flags for me, and by the end I found it very hard to believe that this was done by a group of impartial researchers.

And sure enough, Phillip Thomas, the lead researcher for this study, comes from a 20+ year career with the chemical and nuclear industries. I would take everything in this article with a grain of salt.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/people/philip-j-thomas/...
Yep. I wrote a netlist analyzer in Perl that provides statistics... in 1997. It is still part of a regression suite because it is very small, very fast and callable through the command line without loading hundreds of megabytes of libraries (unlike foundation tools). I reconnected with a peer on LinkedIn who still works at the company and joked that he still sees my sill script name in verification flows. The only changes I made to in 20+ years it was moving to PERL 5.61 so that I could parse files >1GB, but it has been maintained and kept to standard practices.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that Mark Zuckerberg was spreading FUD in Washington about TikTok: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-st... (soft paywall)

TikTok is an excellent app with great content and an algorithm that works like magic based on your revealed (not stated) preferences. I hope the Microsoft deal comes through without the government demanding a cut.
> Seems more like "why lack of rigour in policing has lead to false arrests".

The worst part of this is that police are often very well, often more than software engineers, and this is the quality of work they put out.

The median salary for cops is more than $105,000 a year[1] and some cops can make over $250,000+ a year[2] with over time. They can retire with full benefits and a pension after only 20 years of working.

This level of laziness and ineptitude shouldn't be accepted from what are often the highest paid government workers on the books.

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2017/05/how_much_is_the_median_cop_s...

[2] https://www.nj.com/somerset/2019/11/4-cops-in-this-nj-town-e...
I think you'd find some fascinating answers on accounting, finance and actuarial forums, that might not turn up on HN.

A few years ago I worked on a couple of different financial services projects that involved porting massive Excel-based jobs over to sturdier setups. Even the relatively simple spreadsheets (for people with a finance background) were long, complex projects that needed an RDBMS, an R or Python program, and a web app to do what Excel was just about handling on its own.
Does it have such a short run effect? My impression is sun/supplementation build up circulating blood levels, and then what’s in the blood is converted to an active substance the body can actually use.

For a week long vacation your body would just draw down those stores.
I used it at a previous gig. It's ok. I prefer Splunk, but the cost difference is massive.
Ask HN: Do you save 2FA “backup codes”?
I prefer Call Newport's point o view:

Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyond-passion-th...
No, I am not aware of ChocoPy. Thanks for letting me know.

Shedskin uses the Python interpreter if I remember correctly. I aim not to.
I love the simplicity of Alpinejs, why bothering with old tech like React ;)
Looking at extraordinary people can be both encouraging and disheartening. I've always wanted to practice drawing after seeing all the incredible things that extraordinary people can make. However, the more you dig into something, the more that chasm between you and the peak seems to widen.

The one point I appreciate about this article is how it points out that there are physical constraints that come with being extraordinary. With the example of drawing, reaching a higher level of understanding could be possible with more time dedication, though I personally may want to use my time for other purposes.
Of course Microsoft will be announcing the Epic Game Store on XBox Live any day now.

Right?
Totally agree. When I think about the maxim "it's about the journey, not the destination," I think that curiosity is what keeps you taking that next step, and lets you stay immersed in the journey. Every place you get to along the way, if you find something in sight to explore, sooner or later you'll find yourself far beyond where you started.

I don't play golf, but I imagine there are so many minutiae, from driving, choosing which iron to use, putting, stance, hand positions, comparing clubs of the same type from different manufacturers, and same for golf balls. Each has a breadth and depth to explore as you get more and more into that topic.

I'm willing to bet the people that rise to the top are the people who love to tinker with all those parameters, not necessarily because they know it will make then X% better, but because they just want to see the effect.
https://kali.training

Thats free, and a great place to start if you are not sure if this field is right for you. Only needs a time investment.
It's not a hang up if you can't pay your bills or afford to take a vacation once in a while. Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs does require us to meet some basic needs regardless of our passions.

Even if you are an extraordinary woodworker, if you can barely meet rent, you are unlikely to find any happiness due to the stress you will need to manage day-to-day.
Does anyone have any good ideas on how the Docker Hub could be monetized in a way that's user friendly and makes sense?

AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and even GitHub / GitLab all have private container registry offerings.

If your stack is on X provider, chances are you're going to use their private registry service instead of using the Docker Hub because you've gone all-in with that provider. That means private repos alone isn't enough to get folks to pay for Docker Hub.
It isn't short sighted, you just don't like it and try to use a moral high ground on the equivalency of why you should unfairly force me to pay for HBO when I don't watch HBO. "For society you need HBO, for later when you need it". How about you leave what other people in their lives need or want and focus on yourself?
All these things cost money to run why would it be surprising if they cost money to utilize their resources beyond a point?
Police are also moulded by politics, they answer to someone, which usually isn't the locals. Consider Louisville, KY, where there have been demonstrations for 3 months now against the Breonna Taylor shooting, with no visible results. Such an environment attracts a certain kind of person, with a predictable outcome.
Yes, there are huge differences between the needs of various fields. For example, some fields have a lot of papers where the authors are presenting a superior method for doing something, and if code is a key part of that new "method and apparatus", then it's a key deliverable of that paper and its accessibility and (re-)usability is very important; and if a core claim of their paper is that "we coded A and B, and experimentally demonstrated that A is better than B" then any flaws in that code may invalidate the whole experiment.

But I seem to get the vibe that this original Nature article is mostly about the auxiliary data analysis code for "non-simulated" experiments, while Hacker News seems biased towards fields like computer science, machine learning, etc.
> because an Uber actually shows up when you want one.

When Uber starts to face its economic reality, I predict the first thing to go will be service in my neighborhood.

Uber has been subsidizing rides everywhere in the city. Which means that my neighborhood is excessively cheap given the low demand. I've paid $14 for what would cost $35 in a taxi.

When Uber stops subsidizing this, it means that fewer people will use it and fewer cars will be in the area. That means drivers would have to drive an extra 10-15 minutes to get to me. That's a lot of driving time without getting paid, and drivers don't like that. That's why taxis never came to my house, pre-Uber.

It still doesn't make sense at higher prices. Pre-Uber, I would pay limo services $60-$100 just to ensure someone showed up. That's not something most people would pay to use regularly. That $14 price can't jump to $60 and still get many customers.

So when the cuts come, I just imagine that my neighborhood will just go back to they-don't-show level service like I used to get with Yellow Cab. And I expect to just start seeing "nothing available, sorry" in the app, resorting to arrangements with limo companies again.
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