skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no choice, they bought out my hosting provider a year ago.
The sun and wind are both very low energy density, and are intermittent sources. The sun is only available for part of the day, and wind is highly variable in a short term time frame.

The real cost of using renewables for a primary source of energy is the cost of storage. Using renewables for 80% of our energy demand would require 12 weeks of storage - to get to 100% it would take 3 weeks of storage [1]. These are staggering amounts of storage. Most countries have energy storage that is measured in the seconds or minutes, not in hours let alone weeks.

Solar and wind would be great if we had a miraculous breakthrough in energy storage. But until that happens, we're going to be burning fossil fuels. There's a reason why Germany, which invested heavily in wind and solar, still emits 10x the carbon emissions from electricity generation as compared to France, which invested in nuclear.

1. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...
As the author, I would know :)

Thank you for the praise.

Ours kind of organically grew over time, but as I've been keeping it alive for the last few years I have a pretty good idea of how I would start it fresh.

You probably have some people in the company who either know much more about architecture than others, or are working on projects that are more interesting in terms of architecture. Find one of them, convince them to give a 15 min talk.

Announce the talk widely within the company, tell people to come to the new "architecture guild" slack channel you created to get the details / invites.

Schedule an hour to give plenty of time for discussions after the talk.

Repeat biweekly.
If you look at Atlanta cases are way down and everything is open. People go out to bars, nightclubs, strip clubs, etc. There is not much social distancing and only place I see people wear masks at is the grocery store. I feel like a lot of people that get it and are younger don't get tested and just stay home and ride it out. So the actual cases vs reported cases are a lot higher.
>The few double-blind trials there have been have focused exclusively on HCQ without the additional viral inhibitors and were done at toxic doses when the virus had largely already replicated and the patients had progressed to a "serious illness" with the accompanied "cytokine storm".

Not true.

July 30, 2020, Research Update

Spanish RCT of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with Early, Nonsevere COVID-19 Finds No Benefit.

July 29, 2020, Research Update

United States/Canadian RCT of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with Early, Nonsevere COVID-19 Finds No Benefit

>Lots of bad information out there, 'politically' deployed with little information behind it.

Ironic because you're the one believing and spreading the misinformation.

>I'll leave speculation of motivations behind on why more types of treatments haven't been tried. We're in a strange time when a lot of the institutions that have failed the public are still being weaponized against people who desperately want the best outcome for folks.

Can you explain why India(where HCQ is widely used for malaria) would lock itself down and suffer severe consequences to make Trump look bad? Modi and Trump are buddies and Trump was invited to and visited India just in Jan or Feb.

Why would Europe give a flying fuck about Trump getting re-elected? Four more years would barely make a difference to Europe, surely whatever the impact is, isn't worth a 10% drop in GDP?

>Not a scientist or doctor, but have taken a lot of time to understand how I can protect my family if needed.

If you really took a lot of time to look in the right places, you'd have found that promising observational studies happen all the time in drug discovery which are eventually found not to have any effects.

This explains it well, and it was quite early on:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/06/hy...

It's sad that so many smart people believe and are misled by misinformation that started with Fox News pushing badly done research studies to push a political agenda. The mistrust intentionally cultivated against scientists will harm us for generations.
Can't be totally free. If we all would run random garbage through their search, at some point this evil mudy collapse somehow?
Another nice feature is when you hit a page that is a 404, it will automatically try to load it from Wayback if available
Thank you! I did not realize that the release is so far behind. I've mentioned this on the SolveSpace Reddit sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SolveSpace/comments/iun270/heads_up...
But I don't see any proof that GoDaddy is the registrant of that domain, they're just the registrar. I don't see any evidence of front-running in this case. I see it more as coincidence if anything else.
ctrulib was pretty good when i used it in 2017
Same with the CIS controls which at least come with a tool to test servers against their host benchmarks -- CIS Level 2 is a fairly practical "Server Hardening for Beginners."
That's not disputed. But starting a fire in completely dry conditions is worse than starting one that potentially coincides with rainfall, all other things being equal.
k.

Clearly not that irrelevant if you're in here commenting.
There will be a moment in the human evolution that even the total power of the sun is not enough. We need to explore alternatives to escape our planet, otherwise we are doomed.
I use https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=%s and set the keyword to "rez". That way I can type "rez example.com" and it will send me to the archived version.
> but construction was considered an essential business country-wide and never baked meaning you still had minimum wage day laborers (and unionized construction workers making well over that) working in environments N95 masks were designed for that had no access to PPE but still needed to report for work

IMHO, most N95s on retail shelves probably wouldn't have gone to construction workers anyway; they'd have been snatched up by consumers with no real need. I do think it would have been reasonable allocate a quota to to go to construction supply companies that weren't open to the general public, though, for precisely the reasons you outlined.

This story is pretty interesting, construction workers/companies are having to make similar kinds of adaptations to the shortage as healthcare workers are:

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/coronavirus-constructio...

> To combat supply shortages, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has temporarily adjusted some of its requirements for both health-care and construction workers, including allowing them to wear N95 respirator masks for longer than their intended use — normally a day or two for construction workers — and to use other types of respirators, such as KN95s shipped from China....

> OSHA is advising employers to reduce the need for N95 masks at jobsites any way they can, a Department of Labor spokesperson said. The National Association of Home Builders advises those who can’t find masks to minimize dust by vacuuming and wet cutting.

The article even talked about construction companies and unions donating their existing mask stockpiles.
You think so? I thought joke culture says you need to pick a pre-approved reason to explain dumbness. I changed it to "rookie".
I believe that Actions was a port from Azure DevOps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/?nav=min) so it does seem the teams are working together to improve the products.
There's a vast gulf between people A and B starting a company with person C as a cofounder vs starting the company with C as their first employee.

This is about more than just names. An employee will probably be paid better, will get far less equity and will probably end up with a different class of shares.

Making someone a cofounder is a far bigger bet and being a cofounder requires a lot more risk tolerance.
Oh, you are right - I hadn't noticed, but now I am concerned. In what ways is free speech "limited so much already"?
2.8 million lines , 100 billion business. Rails can scale.
Probably because the GUIs are always missing something.

today I wanted to see the commit history and changes of a single file. I tried for 20 minutes to figure how to do that in sublime merge some of that searching online. Failed. Used the command line like I probably should have in the first place.
This presents an interesting attack vector.
If you know that a competitor is looking at purchasing a particular domain name, type it into godaddy. It costs nothing and the act can’t be traced back to you.
For those of us not paying attention to UK-specific stuff.. did that default-on porn filter legislation happen? How is this different?
The registrar is GoDaddy, not the owner of the domain as far as I can tell. I don't see any evidence that GoDaddy did anything wrong in this case.
components are

- same database
- same runtime
- same deployment
- same repository

That said, I don't think this is an either/or. It's a spectrum. you can have components within the same runtime and repository that have separate databases, or components that are using the same database but live in separate repos, etc.

From one monolithic app towards fully separated microservices is a spectrum, and I think developers should be enabled to move freely around that spectrum.
The catch for me is looking for businesses interested in this kind of arrangement. How do you approach that?
> The former aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders locked up in a Belarusian jail is being pressured to confess to crimes he didn’t commit, his wife says.

A reliable source if I’ve ever heard of one.
Not sure if sarcasm, but yes, I do think this is a factor. Although minor compared to economic growth.

https://ourworldindata.org/suicide

There might be other issues like depression that doesn't end in suicide that could be induced. But the overall political situation is far more relevant than some utterances of people on the net.
FreeCAD is amazing, I just migrated to Fusion 360 for ease of use but I will have to go back I guess.
Most downvotes here are just pathetic.

It is amazing how people claim to have some insight other people just don't get, while they fight dirty and want to shut up other people.
I also got burned trying to buy a domain from GoDaddy a couple of days ago. Never again ...
XDP Hands-On Tutorial
This would make for a pretty gnarly funeral... lowering a body into the ground...
Hey, author of the post here. Thanks for your story and I appreciate you commenting.

It feels a little rediculous to be sad about missing out on books with all the things going on in the world right now, but to me it's like a proxy thought for considering my own mortality.
Not sure what point you're making, but my point is there are individual smaller states in the US that do more prescribed burns by acreage than California. To name a few, Florida, Arkansas, South Carolina [1]

[1] https://assets.climatecentral.org/pdfs/May2019_Report_TheBur...
People really see what they want to see. As a Swede this whole pandemic has been truly enlightening regarding peoples propensity for confirmation bias. It has been truly shocking how prevalent it is throughout entire societies and ideologies.

Here in Sweden the right-wing folks want to lock everything down and the left-wing want to keep deferring it to the experts. In the rest of the world it seems to be the other way around.
Coal and gas still kill a LOT more
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

Less dramatically so do Solar and Wind just by increased rate of people falling off roofs and towers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Interview with the programmer who hacked Tony Abbott's boarding pass
I learned this _years_ ago that Godaddy will steal your name for fun and profit. As the HN comments confirm, there are several shady outfits that do the same thing.

For years, I've gone to ICANN directly to check domain name availability: https://lookup.icann.org/
In wet/cold climates like in Nordics you also have to consider where the dew point will be inside the structures.

Even if water does not get in, the temperature difference between inside and outside can create dew point that resides somewhere inside the wall, ceiling or floor. Then you have water from the air condensing inside the structures and ruining the house.
That happened to me in the past, the short and concise name I tried was quickly taken and becomes unavailable, I since lost interests in using godaddy.

anyone has better options to try new domain names?
> We're okay with social media companies regulating free speech, but draw the line at governments.

> Ironic, isn't it?

Not unless you're Alanis Morissette.

The difference is the concept of monopoly: A government has a monopoly on being a government in a given region. That's pretty fundamental to what a government even is, as per Weber and Westphalia. A social media company isn't a monopoly on being a social media company. You can talk online without using Twitter, or Reddit, or Facebook, or even Hacker News.
Speaking purely about the technical side of things, I’m curious about the use of six servers at $55/month. I’d expect to do such a thing with one and $5/month, or two and $10/month if I wanted to absolutely minimise downtime.

It’s well documented that making systems distributed to achieve high availability very often actually reduces availability, because distributed systems failure modes are gnarly, and so there’s just a lot more complexity in the system as a whole, a lot more moving pieces to go wrong. (Relatedly, it is also well understood that error-handling code is about the buggiest code out there.)

For starters, I can’t think of any reason to separate web application server from forwarding servers, so that’d lop it by one.

Then I’d lop the three database servers and put them on the forwarding servers as well, with something like a simple streaming replica arrangement if I was keeping both of the forwarding servers rather than reducing it to one.

This is pretty much guaranteed to be more robust, because now requests are depending on one machine only, perhaps with a second just hanging out in the background paying attention to what’s going on; whereas in your distributed system, there are at least two machines that can take things down by failing (if the DB server you’re talking to goes down, it’ll still be a short time before the system sorts itself out and switches to another one).

I would love kernel live patching to be better understood, tooled and used; then you could safely keep your single machine up indefinitely, just gracefully restarting your HTTP servers and databases as needed. As it is, if you go down to a single box, you’ll want to do the occasional quick restart. Ten seconds of downtime every so often doesn’t feel too terrible to me, and if you happened to have an HTTP proxy in front of you it might even turn that into just a slow request. But yeah, the second server might be warranted so you can avoid this altogether: just switch which server is the primary and direct all traffic to it, and then freely reboot what is now the standby machine.
Kanye West has been kicked off Twitter for 12 hours
I’ve started using rdap first for this kind of thing partly because it works in browser and also because corporate firewalls like to block whois. Having a standardised response format is also really nice.
> static analyser working using only an understanding of the language [...] looking over the ast

The part I quoted is called "tainting". Or if you are more academically inclined, "data flow analysis".

When it works right, it is an incredible force multiplier in security. You get detailed, actionable and above all helpful error messages directly from CI, because as a static analysis tool it's pretty fast and can be made part of the common linting pass. As you hinted, it does require a suitable config setup and/or code annotations to mark sources and sinks. And when it does work, it can eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities - good taint analysis will prevent you from even accidentally using user-supplied data in anything that involves relaying, storing or displaying information.

The downside is, when it doesn't work, it's a source of unhappiness. Debugging a taint failure because the AST analysis gives a false positive can be infuriating.
Wow, that’s some really great stuff :)
Any particular reason this was article was posted on multiple sites, and multiple URLs with their dates redirect to this one? Seems a little weird that it "was posted" today, when really it was posted multiple times.

Yes, I realize it's the same author, doesn't make it any less weird. I bring it up because I'm not sure why qvault just keeps reuploading the same article and changing the date.

https://qvault.io/2019/12/31/very-basic-intro-to-elliptic-cu...

https://qvault.io/2020/07/21/very-basic-intro-to-elliptic-cu...

https://dev.to/wagslane/very-basic-intro-to-elliptic-curve-c...
Never use GoDaddy for anything. They're well known as being scummy in virtually every way.
> "They accept that the structure of the family will change ? Example, families with more than two parents (that is a real possibility due to overpopulation)"

What does this mean? How is alleged population related to family structure and sexual relations?
Yeah, PowerShell is light years ahead of any linux shell. I wonder when will we see first linux distro that uses it as default shell.
How Wealthy Is Mr.Darcy? Pounds and Dollars in the World of Pride and Prejudice
Previous iteration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Google_Groups
True, the way PS passes objects is great and I really miss that on Linux now :)
There’s so much truth in this. It’s full of lessons I tell clients at the outset of similar endeavors yet they often do not heed until they experience the pain first hand.
Is there a way to use openscad in a higher level manner? My ventures into it (very brief) leads me to believe it is very coordinate based. The tutorial for example:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_Tutorial/Chapter_1

...that seems like a low-level way to describe relations between the primitives. It reminds me of the coordinate virus:

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf

...hope that doesn't seem too negative. To put it another way, openscad seems like the C of geometric modeling, lowish level, procedural. Is there a Prolog or Haskell of 3D modeling?
I always use gandi.net for searching for domains. They are honest brokers. Never had an issue.
Building a Creativity Kanban
I get why a licence is required to receive software updates as software is being distributed to you outside of the original sale of the device, and I get that Apple can sue Corellium as they are making unlicensed copies of iOS.

You have pointed out that the legality of Apples’ EULA hasn’t been tested, but I’m having a hard time of understanding how an EULA could be used to restrict how a device could be used. Does anyone know of the legal theory behind this?

Can contracts or licence agreements be used to restrict use of something even if you now own it? I’m not a lawyer, obviously, but I thought as long as you buy something up front the contract can be deemed to have been successfully performed and thus ends? I.e. there is no longer an ongoing relationship.
They could probably infer that if I'm watching comedy,and the last 5 videos were comedy by the same artist, I don't want to watch some guy's channel about bassists that they've tried to get me to watch 100 times prior.
Clinical study protocols are usually confidential and not publicly available. I see a lot of discussion on HN about clinical trials, so this is a good opportunity to dig into the details if people are interested.

In terms of measuring efficacy, it's explicitly spelled out.

- All participants may have up to 7 scheduled clinic visits, including Screening, Day 1, Day 29, Day 57, Day 209, Day 394, and Day 759.

- Surveillance for COVID-19 will be performed through weekly contacts with the participant via a combination of telephone calls and completion of an eDiary starting at Day 1 through the end of the study. Participants with symptoms of COVID-19 lasting at least 48 hours (except for fever and/or respiratory symptoms) will return to the clinic or will be visited at home by medically qualified site staff within 72 hours (an “Illness Visit”) to collect an NP swab sample for RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens, or alternatively, if a clinic or home visit is not possible, will submit a saliva (or nasal swab) sample for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing.

- In the event that success criteria are met either at the time of the interim analyses or when the total number of cases toward the primary endpoint have accrued, participants will continue to be followed in a blinded fashion until Month 25.
They've been doing it for years, it's a pretty well known thing at this point which is long past the point of needing new evidence.

PS: Use gandi.net, both for search and registration.
I guess the drums create a standing wave of neural activity in the brains, similar to how the same drums would create a standing wave in a cup of water.
For folks missing an eye, "manual" parallax is one of the primary ways we do depth perception in real life - you get it for free by having two eyes; we have to move our heads around sometimes. =)

That's an interesting theory but I think that's not what's happening.

For those unfamiliar, the 3DS uses a lenticular screen. It renders two separate images: the "right" and "left" image. The one you see depends on your viewing angle. If my good eye was seeing both images, I believe I'd experience a sort of double vision or as least discontinuities.

Perhaps more to the point, the 3D effect disappears if I close my "bad" eye! So my "bad" eye is contributing... somehow.
The target audience was programmers who are at least familiar with the basic concepts of stack, heap, and pointers, including but not limited to newer Rust programmers.

You make a good point about 'a; I could have made that clearer. In practice it works the same way as a generic type (the letter is arbitrary, and it's declared inside the < >), which I assumed people would be familiar with, but I can see how the connection between the two may not have been obvious.
My mom had the same reaction upon seeing a 3D movie with polarized lenses for the first time. For years she was like "I don't see 3D, I only see 2D." Then she actually tried it and... wow! My guess is your situation is similar to hers: you have a "lazy eye" and the artificial 3D stimulus somehow provides enough feedback to allow your brain to focus your lazy eye in a way the natural world does not.

The eye and brain are fascinating things. One time I broke my eyeglasses and did without for a year. Then I got a new prescription and was a bit disoriented at how flat the world seemed, to my mind it was "like a PlayStation game". What had happened was, my brain had trained itself to use blurriness as a proxy for distance (I'm myopic), and the eyeglasses removed that.
Twitter suspends Chinese virologist who claimed coronavirus was made in a lab
Rural area with high average age (plus young brain drain) combined with average life expectancy.
The day of reckoning for smartphone contact tracing is here
Little confused on the pricing?

it mentioned 8x GPUs in the blog to run a GAUGAN for this. What would that cost and how long did it take to run?
If it looks too good to be true...
It also makes it nearly impossible to do a spy swap in the future. Putin gets to do that once.

I don't think individual FSB agents whom skripal blew the cover of give a fuck about this but I'm certain Putin does.
> They cruelly punished disobedience.

And this is really where the "but you I just told him to kill that man, I didn't pull the trigger" argument falls apart. Because it's not the telling them which is inducing them to do it, it's that doing it is the only way for the trigger man to get paid or not get fired or killed themselves. And it's the payment, or the expected retaliation, which makes the crime. Not the speech.