skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that is mentioned as "one of the downsides of renewables".

That is like saying, "one of the downsides of using a cooked noodle as a fork is that it doesn't hold its shape". It's disqualifying until that issue is sorted.

The value of solar right now is that it provides energy at the hottest, most energy use part of the day. But there is a tipping point where marginal solar is not really valuable for a grid anymore. California and Germany are at that point.

Hopefully we get cost-effective day-scale energy storage, it's not going to happen in the next few years unfortunately.
>for stating simple statistics

No you're deliberately calling out numbers that blows things out of proportion. 9/11 was deliberately used because it was a tragedy. Why didn't you compare COVID to car accidents which is the bigger more comparable number? Because you want to raise emotions. Don't pretend.

You're not a doomsday prophet but you are definitely manipulating the situation towards your own skewed perspective, you were dialing it up to 11, you're just back pedaling now.

If you indeed had something unbiased to say you would not have brought 9/11 out of nowhere to say that covid is like a bunch of 9/11s happening back to back because so is the flu so is car accidents. You have an agenda and you are promoting it with biased numbers.

> Well, I find it strange that people are easily triggered by reality, so much so that they want to drown it out, ignore it and think that those who are not content with the status quo should be "hit with a belt in the ass and told to stand in the corner", like the comment I replied to said.

Triggered by reality? Nobody is triggered here. We're saying calm down. You're the one that's bringing up 9/11 trying to trigger everyone.

Nobody is saying be content with the status quo, what we're saying is that don't push the panic button, we are not in a 9/11 panic situation... humanity is more at peace then ever before and the numbers show it when you look at the overall timeline of human existence.

I am saying that much of it should be drowned out though. All the news you've been inundated with 2 months ago is already outdated. You're loaded with an over dramatization of problems that humanity basically deals with on a normal basis and becomes useless and outdated within a week let alone a month.
Dude, those articles are from May and June, respectively. This is an eternity ago in pandemic terms.

Now that the US essentially has cases everywhere, there are not, and will not be, enough ICU nurses for all the cases.
so because other unrelated vaccines that have existed for a long time and known to have no long term side effects, we should assume that this brand new vaccine has no long term side effects?
Confronting and solving the duck curve[1] and producing high duty-cycle electricity during non-sunlight hours is going to be a real challenge. We're at the point now where states will often pay other states to take excess renewable electricity during peak hours. What's the point in cheaper when we're already effectively throwing away electricity?

I personally don't believe batteries are going to do it. The world needs too many batteries. They're an important part but they aren't going to cut it, especially not fast enough.

The kind of power we need starts with an "N".

1. https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...
As a beginner programmer I did not have any more trouble understanding the Hoon tutorial than I do C, Go, or Haskell tutorials, for example.
Low effort content.

There were 5 Covid infections in the vaccinated group and 90 in the placebo group. The efficacy of 94% is simply 1-5/90.

When you have only 5 infections in the vaccinated group, you can have at most 5 minorities represented there. So, if for example you don't have any Native Americans, it will look like the efficacy for Native Americans is 100%.

The better title for MIT's research would be "No statistical difference for the vaccine efficacy across racial groups", but that wouldn't be so exciting, would it?
Using GitHub Issues as a Hugo Front End with GitHub Actions and Netlify
If you don't like the way Google does business, you are free to not do business with them, either as an employee or customer. I don't understand your snark.
Boycott by Buying Local
this is using GS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1) to identify the origin of the product, inaccurate, please advise better option, cheers
They've done a lot less in large parts of the country than basically any other developed country, so it's closer to nothing than most of Europe.
Last year, a Hb polymerization inhibitor came to market: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-dru...

It's a remarkable breakthrough.
This sounds like something from Better Off Ted
The OP suggested that risk shouldn't be communicated in absolute terms because people can't be trusted to make sound decisions. Presumably it's therefore better to only share relative risk numbers, which are almost always more frightening.

That's what I was responding to. I probably agree with most of your views on personal liberty versus the common good, but I think it's tangential to the original point about risk communication.
No it's categorically different. The dot example lets me know when my manager is looking at what I'm doing. That's a feature which adds bilateral transparency about who can see what.

The MS Office features which are relevant to the article let my manager see what I am doing without my knowledge. The fact that someone can watch you without your knowledge is what makes it creepy.
Presono – Present, collaborate and manage – all in one
There are numerous options to resolve that and stay fully within the rules, including having an agent represent you and purchase the domain. It is not reserved for businesses in Italy.

This is from their FAQ:

"The registration of a domain name in the ccTLD .it is permitted only to persons who have citizenship, residence or a registered office in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), the Vatican, the Republic of San Marino, and Switzerland."
related, this fun blog post by mandejan: https://blog.mandejan.nl/posts/smallest-echo.html
As someone who just subscribed to Audible, thanks for sharing this. I'm still on Plus and really floored at the poor selection. :-/
Why Small Talk Is Good for You
> YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes.

Despite the fact that your Google Play Music "like" data is migrated into YT music, it doesn't seem to properly incorporate it in the algorithmically generated playlists.

What I've found is that I basically need to treat YT music as a clean slate, and specifically start playing and re-liking things (i.e., I'd re-play my favorite albums, thumb-down and thumb-up again the songs in them).

Now that I've done this, it's doing well enough - in some ways better than GPM was (multiple "mixes" presented as options with different clusters of artists in the summaries).

I can't say whether re-thumbing was what did the trick, or simply re-listening, though. And it's incredibly stupid that I should have to do this to make it work correctly.
Baltimore students learn math faster with holiday help from HailBytes
“ Table 1 of the new paper is an “error budget” listing 16 sources of error and uncertainty that affect the final measurement. These include gravity and the Coriolis force created by Earth’s rotation — both painstakingly quantified and compensated for. ”

That is dope!
You just buy a new personal phone in that case. At least the data is wiped the moment they seized it.

Imagine a hypothetical phone that is covered in fingerprint sensors where if it senses foreign hands touching it, it auto-deletes everything. That might not be the most feasible hardware implementation but I'm sure we can think of something to that effect.
Well, at least the upside is that this will be another forcing function for better battery tech.

Another step up in battery tech would literally level us up as a civilization.
tiny-regex-c – A C regex library in ~500 lines of code
And there goes the hope that they were just more efficient in working through the available data...
So, as a Google employee, they do. If you don't want to run corp software, you can easily just request a corporate phone and that's that.
That is a really good idea! Does this just schedule a one-off pod, then have that do the build?
Scantranx – Cloud based omnichannel retail solution
in the past they were cheaper. Now renewables are cheaper.

Right now, intermittent renewables actually drives up the cost of fossil fuels! Renewables do wacky things to the spot price of power - sometimes electricity is free or even has negative value, sometimes it's expensive. Ideally fossil fuel plants would only spin up when they could sell power at a profit, but they can't dispatch so quickly, so they end up selling power at a loss for minutes or hours after the solar panels or wind turbines kick back on.

This is producing market conditions that are favorable to batteries and super-capacitors, because they can dispatch in seconds, or milliseconds. Arbitraging between times of cheap power to times of expensive power can already be competitive with fossil fuels some of the time. And batteries are getting cheaper, too.

There's some question about what the ideal mix of generation vs storage will end up being. While storage is expensive, we'll tend to over-provision wind and solar, and end up throwing power away... unless we can come up for some use for it when we have moments of surplus. There's some talk of using it for things like ocean water desalination, but most of our machinery has such a high investment cost right now that the cost of electricity is not the biggest expense, so we don't actually have many machines that we idle until power gets cheap. Maybe that'll change eventually.
Two words seem always worse than one in my point of view
If you don't know the way Google does business, because you don't know the terms of the contract, then you cannot make an informed choice. You are not free to choose unless you have information to guide that choice.
The budget changed due to covid, we definitely anticipated using more than 10% in a year. Even at normal usage, we discussed with the rep that we could not finish in 1 year so what the point of a contract and he said it was easy to roll over and they will just issue new paperwork. That it would be with min. purchase was the condition that I think he should have disclosed but that's my issue for not pushing harder. That said, these new purchase min may be new policy after we signed because there seems to be newer policies that require even bigger purchases, which may or may not be disclosed at sales time/in their contracts.

My post is definitely a lesson learned and shared to others who are small and may be interested in getting better engineering support from Snowflake (a benefit of signing up that was the main reason for us that we ended up not needing) by the contract route to question their sales rep in depth and get it in the contract itself, and honestly, should just stay on demand.
Pursue Mastery, Not Status
Albert Lin pays tribute to Tony Hsieh in a final letter
>I'm not convinced that anti-vaxxers are on the increase

I didn't mean they were on the increase, I was saying the people against them have been more outspoken because of the pendemic, to the detriment of people that are skeptic (but not anti-vaxxer). The issue isn't about the anti-vaxxers, it'd be more about radicalizing more center people.
There's already a host of those artifacts in other technologies. Ctrl-Alt-Del, for one.
Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
Someday I hope to own my own little pub, free and clear, and just do that for the rest of my life. It wouldn't be stress-free, but I enjoyed my time working in a bar, and I like the idea of operating a little community hub.
The value of the electricity can be measured by comparing it to the value of a petroleum product. transportable energy can be made using from CO2 in the air using Fischer-Tropsch.

It's energy intensive, and uneconomic - which is why people are stringing HVDC links across bodies of water - Denmark/Sweden, Australia/Tasmania, NZ North/South Islands instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
Leave it, store the 11th bit in the top bit of the first byte of the company name. That'll future proof us.
I'd vote for "post-advanced batteries" instead of "post-solar". Solar will only be one of the energy sources and the thing that will take us to the next level will be advanced battery tech, in my opinion.

Imagine something with the energy density of kerosene but rechargeable. My brain can't even imagine what we'd do with it, but it would probably transform our daily lives more than the invention of the automobile did.
The Abstraction Machine
Thanks, I agree that the default path of "be like Steve Jobs" is a trap that I've fallen into enough times to realize that there are more ways to build where you don't have to have the insights up front.

The key in my opinion is to be able to identify market opportunities and problems to solve, then be REALLY flexible about how you go about solving them b/c your first product solution ideas are very unlikely to work.
The application crashing while awaiting durability is equivalent to not awaiting the assurance mechanism in the first place.

Ways to recover from this could include simply scanning through entities modified previously to determine durability status. Other application nodes could participate in this effort if the original is not recoverable. An explicit transaction should be used in cases where partial completion is not permissible, as with any complex database operation.

This is a tricky way to think about the problem because you are still getting transactional semantics regardless. The only thing that would be in question is if your data can survive an asteroid impact. With this model, even with an application crashing, there is still an exceedingly high probability that any given object will survive into additional asynchronous destinations (assuming a transaction scope is implicit or externally completed).

I think the biggest problem in selling this concept is with the fatalists in the developer/business community who are unwilling to make compromises in their application domain logic in order to conform to our physical reality. From a risk modeling perspective, I feel like we have way more dangerous things to worry about on a daily basis than an RPO in which the latest ~150ms of business data at one site might be lost in an extremely catastrophic scenario. Trying to synchronously replicate data to 2+ sites for literally everything a business does is probably going to cause more harm than good in most shops. If you operate nuclear reactors or manage civilian airspace, then perhaps you need something that can bridge that gap. But, most aren't even remotely close to this level of required assurance.
This has been a long time coming.
Upgrade your ssh server and use better encryption, you should have stopped using RSA about 15 years ago. On a different note, you deservedly will only be receiving mediocre applications since anyone technical enough will pass on after seeing this mess.
I learned this the hard way, and now insist upon a contract before agreeing to move to a company (i.e. I dont tell my previous job or give a start date until I see a contract).

So far, it hasn't been a problem.
They don't in mine. What Android version do you have? What phone model? Mine is a Galaxy S8.
Wood and biomass are renewable. Fossil fuels "disappear" after being consumed. The sun, however will reliably be around for quite some time.
I'm guessing that you've only worked at / interviewed at large firms. They're large and your prospective role there wasn't senior enough for them to afford you special treatment.
I used to work at a lottery company and I can confirm your hypothesis. Numbers below 31 and magical numbers like 7 or 13 are picket more frequently. In a game where we draw 5 numbers out of 90 the combination 1,2,3,4,5 was played 4-5000 times a week on average, which means 1 lottery ticket in every 3000. Which is a bad strategy in games where the pot is splitted up equally between the winners. You could have statistically duoble your expected win (return on investment) picking unusual numbers. But ROI was still at 70%.

[Edit] We had a lot of funny stories dealing with obsessed players. One of them accused us of cheating because he found the winning numbers in the newspapers of the last week, in the section of financial news. He also sent us copies of the newspapers, filled with encirceld numbers. It remembered me of one scene in the movie A beautiful mind where John Nash does the same with words.
For sure, ideas matter A LOT. But we over-index on product solution ideas by default.

I think ideas that matter most for is for founders are the ones around a strong conviction on the market opportunity and then be flexible about the solution that is built to capture that opportunity.

The latter is where I think process is more important than the product solution idea having seen my product solution ideas fail hundreds of times without changing my market vision ideas.
Instances take longer to start up; Lambda processes requests in milliseconds or less. Lambda automatically manages a pool for you.

If you're running a predictable process and you know how long it'll take in advance, an instance may make sense. If you're running an unpredictable process, where you won't know how long it'll take until it's done, and it might be quite fast, the low startup time and fine-granularity billing helps.
> It's likely a preliminary filter to the audience. "If you don't think qanon is a problem and don't want to hear me talk about reasons why people believe it, stop reading".

Meanwhile, the world's increasing complexity is exactly why people turn to explanations like QAnon. To help them grapple and make sense of it.

There is nobody who needs more to understand that nobody is driving!
Funnily enough, I used to drink too much water and sent myself into seizures at one point. The nurse ran in, in hysterics to pull the IV fluids out of my arm, when the diagnosis came through. My coaches had always told me to hydrate, and I worked out hard (at the time), but I wasn't replacing the salt =) Ah, the innocence (and ignorance) of youth.
Seems like this was removed from the front page? Why might that be?
I wonder if that balaclava thing is similar to why I sometimes like sitting here in my home office with my hoodie pulled up like a hollywood hacker.
California is not a Right to work state. It is an At-will employment state (as are all states). "Right to Work" laws concern union contracts requiring all employees to pay union dues.
Thats what adopting full grown adults as sons is for.
Not following. Are you're saying this is "Gish Gallop" tactic [1]: flood your opponent with so much BS they can't possibly respond?

If so, I see what you are saying: the same level warning for thalidomide vs. something less deadly is a problem. If everything is bad, the bad guys sneak by?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
WMR: Tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps
But still in Schedule I with cocaine, heroin, methadone, morphine & opium.

Isn't this kind of silly at this point? I'm not into weed (it's always weird to feel the need to append this disclaimer) but for God's sake at this point I think pretty much everyone recognizes where it lies on the harm spectrum and we still treat it like a deadly narcotic.

The baby stepping toward doing something that seems to extraordinarily black-and-white - particularly in countries that have laws that allow cigarettes and alcohol - is really quite absurd.
Not-So-Solid State: SSD Makers Swap Parts Without Telling Us
No evaluation of how it got there in the first place and what other mistakes were made and continue to be made?

Nobody can expect the “UN Committee of Narcotic Drugs” to be anything but a political tool.
> Sickle Cell protects against malaria

I knew being heterozygotic for sickle cell helped. Does having two copies of the gene have a net benefit? ... Wiki seems to say no: "The protective effect of sickle cell trait does not apply to people with sickle cell disease; in fact, they are more vulnerable to malaria, since the most common cause of painful crises in malarial countries is infection with malaria." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease#Malaria_pr...
I understand that arsenic is a carcinogen, but my one minute of research suggests that it's usually/often more of a poison. There's also some difference between organic and inorganic variants that I don't quite understand.
It's in the article, no?

> The constant is everywhere because it characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic force affecting charged particles such as electrons and protons
Haha, exactly!
> California has one of the most, if not the most, expensive electricity in spite of years of investment in renewables

Some municipalities have improved a lot on that issue. See Santa Clara, Silicon Valley Power. Prices are most lower than PG&E.
This is great news. Should never have been on there to begin with.
Sure, we've all known founders who've created products that were successful without talking to potential users, but it's very rare. What we've all encountered more often: founders who stubbornly don't talk to users as some sort of half-understood adherence to the biography of Steve Jobs. And then their product fails. If they had only tried a different way -- I don't know, talk to the people who might pay them? -- they could have avoided complete failure. It's not as glamorous as magically stumbling on a good idea, perhaps, and requires extra work, but it's often a more viable path for most of us.
I check my e-mail for it pretty regularly, and I searched my history for it, no go.

From what I've read, they had a lot more people sign up for beta testing than they needed, so some people just didn't get the invite.
In my home state of Florida, it's pretty nefarious because they often advertise that the proceeds are used to support education. While that is true, they also removed other sources of funds such as taxes. So in the end the funding level is about the same while less of it comes from taxes. This means Florida can tax people less to pay for education but as other have pointed out, the lottery is essentially a tax on stupidity or at least innumeracy. I guess using an innumeracy tax to fund education is kind of poetic but what Florida has done is tax the uneducated to give tax cuts to everyone else.
It's slipping and sliding faster and faster.
I'm keen to see the end of this stupid episode in history. The plant has so many positive and environmentally-friendly uses that it is completely absurdity to keep it banned.
What's even crazier is that I have coworkers (that are paid very well) that install the "management" software on their personal phones so that they get the cellphone stipend. The other option is to get a work phone but then they'll miss out on the money...Blows my mind why they would allows their employer to install spyware on their phone for a couple hundred dollars extra a year.
Right but thats more or less the same thing. Why worry about it? We've got bigger fish to fry right now.
>"FAQ

Q: What differentiates this library from other C regex implementations?

A: Well, the small size for one. 500 lines of C-code compiling to 2-3kb ROM, using very little RAM."
> We know that psilocybin alleviates depression by reducing inflammation in the brain

Do you have information about this?