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I'm not trying to be that guy, but have you ever worked for an extended period of time in the American South?

I had a mentor at a college internship request I be transferred to another mentor a couple days after they learned I was atheist. The ~50 person software dev org I was in was 90% male, 90% white in a >60% Black city.

For context, I'm a tall, straight-passing white dude with a slight Southern accent. I'm a guy who has had people tell me racist jokes unprompted because they assume they're in good company, and I could still see this kinda shit around me. Shit's unreal as a woman or person of color.

This was at a Fortune 50 company with a couple thousand IT/engineering employees (and this was <36 months ago).

I get that the Bay Area is not always the progressive paradise it pretends to be, but "California == liberal" in many non-West-Coast eyes for a reason.
> What incentive is there now for banks to even try to entice people to deposit their money?

Two things come to mind:

- Banks can blast you in the ass with fees, which they seem to love doing, so your (real) money becomes their (real) money by virtue of some 600-page long illegible contract

- At some point, the Fed might increase this rate again, at which point I don't know what happens, but banks might have to start getting capital on-hand to meet the reserve. Maybe they want money in there just in case? I don't know the rules around "ok, the rate was 1% but now it's 10% so you banks better a) get the money immediately? b) get it in the next 10 years? c) ???"
I'm not sure if you noticed, but your argument is that I'm not doing a good enough job accounting for the space needed for solar, and the thing you're trying to counter is that if you _ignore_ the space needed for [solar] then vertical farming makes sense. Those are two completely logically independent ideas which can't be used to refute each other regardless of their respective veracities.
I still can’t fathom why NASA completely retired the worm in favor of the meatball from 1992 until last year. The worm looks like something from a high-art sci-fi movie, while the meatball looks like it’s from, well, 1959.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they aren't useful. I find dialyzer is not awful at finding mistakes that I make.

I have thought about this a lot (I'm writing a static typechecking library for Elixir) and really the problem is the dialyzer typesystem. Almost all of the problems stem from the root fact that there isn't a granular concept of how to treat functions in the type system. What does `(int, int) -> int` mean? Dialyzer does not have a good answer for that question.

Mind you I am not a "PL theory" type of guy, I do have a math degree, but my PhD is in the sciences, so I am more approaching this issue from a "discovering what would be truly useful" perspective more than "applying an existing typesystem to the BEAM", which is I think in line with the traditional pragmatism of the BEAM ecosystem.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that. My old boss used to say that a dog that has 2 owners die of hunger. When we started having 2 reviewers for PRs, he was adamant that there will be ONE that would be the person actually responsible for it. So the main reviewer always had the same responsibility as if they were the sole reviewer.
Sick!

Will this rover make contact with its forebears at some point?
I almost got VHDL STDIN/STDOUT <-> UART <-> H2 core working, which would have allowed you to interact at run time with the VHDL simulation, but I do not think it is possible to do without using non-standard extensions, which is a shame. The attempt is still in "tb.vhd" and can be turned on by modifying "tb.cfg". I was quite impressed that I managed to get a VHDL program that could process a text file at run time so I did not have to keep compiling it.
* Jira for work allocations with a solid source control integration. On the human side, a well defined structure to how branches/commits/merges must operate.

* Code formatting. A decision is made and everyone follows (by force from the formatter) a single formatting methodology. In JavaScript land, Prettier is great. Python has Black, which is alright. The biggest benefit is making code reviews easier.

* A standing desk raiser. I would prefer a walking desk, but I haven't made time to set it up.
Machines, Minds, and Madness: Review of “The Cybernetic Brain” (2011)
Not saying the Linux analogy isn't good, but this is more like if entering the flags for `tar` in the wrong order could send you and your immediate family into irreversible ruin forever.

It simply should not be possible, this is about literal tons of money, they shouldn't rely on something this banal.

Simple safeguards can be put in place to prevent this. They don't even need to be very fancy:

Fairly sure a simple trained-human-readable description of what was about to happen (think: this money will go to this acct, this money here and this other money over there) would have saved this people a whole lot of grief.
Ebay has this for USD 80
There are many failure points but one are the high voltage carrying power lines themselves.

As they reach their capacity they start to droop quite a bit, which in itself can cause issues like touching something they usually would not.

Because HV lines are made from aluminum they loose some of their strength as they are heated up. Above 100C or so the aluminum anneals which means strength is lost. Now you just need some wind shaking those lines and the whole thing breaks. If you have reached that point you likely have to replace the entire length of the HV line.

Of course the cold weather counters some of this. But only to a certain point.

If just one HV line fails you now have to deal with the cascading effect as the current is load balanced on the remaining HV lines.
The Startup Owners Manual is my bible! I've built my entire business by using the principles that Steve Blank pioneered
Just saying, usually it's less of a worry since credit cards are temporary.

With any luck you credit card will expire before you do :)
An important detail here is that as imbalances happen it pulls the grid frequency around. Bad things can happen to various systems if the frequency goes too far out of range. Yes in theory all equipment should be able to trip fail safe, but in practice a power grid has a ton of inertia and there are limits to how you can engineer around that. Even if the grid blacks itself off safely with minimal equipment damage, bringing it back up is hugely more complex than just resetting the breakers on your house/apartment.
$236k in Columbia, South Carolina is vastly different than $236k in Seattle. Cost of living calculations are not only not silly, they're essential.

Stock market shares are the same, but things like gas prices, groceries, utilities, and rent are vastly different.
This comment is peak Liberal hacker news.
the US has 80000 tonnes of spent nuclear reactor waste. SpaceX launch cost in 2017 was $2700/kg. presumably lower now.

by my math, that's $215bn to launch all our nuclear waste into space. Is there a reason that's not a viable option?
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The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
> This seems to be a post about how Atlanta isn't right for you.

Yea definetly. I have friends who love living there and are raising families there.
> That's a pretty clear cut market failure that's only possible because the barriers to entry are so high.

I see that as a market success. People with lighter needs can purchase a neutered chip at a lower price. While people with greater needs can purchase an unlocked chip for a premium.

An alternative is to only have one chip, which is priced higher than the neutered version. Because of lost sales, fewer people overall buy the chip, so the price per unit goes up. This is a net loss to the consumer.

Another idea is to build two chips for each market. This increases design and production costs. And is a net loss for the consumer.

Or they could always just avoid making the more powerful chip at all, and stick with the volume seller.

This is a really common strategy in consumer products because it makes so much market sense. It sounds unfair when you think of it as, "paying for a product which you can't access the full potential". But it sounds pretty nice when you frame it as, "getting a discount for not using a feature."
> "Plant things in the ground" is also cheaper, though it does suffer from potentially poor soil conditions.

"Poor soil conditions" to include "soil" that is alkali dust, sand, dry for eleven months out of the year, frozen solid and under multiple feet of snow for more than half the year, and so far from either a river or reliable groundwater that any and all water used must be trucked in. In tanks. On trucks.

Plus, you only get to dump more fertilizer in the water if you filter it back out again.
thanks! work on my typechecker has slowed recently due to excitement with nerves + zig, and then nx + zig, so my plan is to do a bit more work with the typesystem starting next week.
Always just around the corner, just like functional PoS. I won't believe it until I see it.
Green roofs are a thing, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof
The environmental issues are concerning to me. The amount of electricity being burned through for what is essentially a skeuomorphism of gold mining, pretty much primarily for speculation now, is beyond belief. It's a completely artificial, and artificially scarce, product.

Whatever original hopeful goals the creator(s) of Bitcoin had with this idea, and decentralised currency...if there was any victory at all it is a pyrrhic one when you look at the externalities.

If you can call a digital gold rush a victory, anyway. The physical one in the US was pretty bad for a lot of people.
There is lots of land, at least in the USA, covered in parking lots, buildings, roads that would be excellent places for solar panels. But acreage of cultivated land peaked in the Fifties. We could till far more land than we do now. In the USA, vertical farming is a solution in search of a problem.
Those turbines also stop spinning when they freeze -- same as the ones in Texas.
Face-to-face interaction acts like a 'vitamin' for depression, study suggests
I feel like this could be cool but don't quite grasp the use case. Could you add a video or walkthrough?
The SRB segments vere regularly reused, not sure about the parachutes and the nozzle stearing gear. Still reportedly it was more expensive to reuse the segments (basically big metal tubes) than to build new set if SRBs for each flight, possibly using better techniques (monolithic carbon fibre overwrapped solid motors, like on Ariane 5/6).
Instacart Is Punishing Its Gig Workers for Orders They Can't Deliver
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No, it isn't. ERCOT does not micromanage the grid.

ERCOT owns 0% of the power grid. They are a facilitator, and coordinator. All power generation in Texas is done on privately held equipment, and transmitted on private infrastructure.

ERCOT facilitates a marketplace where power and generation capacity is bought and sold, and they have the ability to tell all providers to shed load or do things with their infrastructure to support the grid.

The onus for implementing is on the utilities themselves. Some, did great. Others, were a dumpster fire.

Read the bloody About page and stop letting the press sell you the narrative that this is government mismanagement. This was just a case where there was not a cohesive distributed amongst all providers plan completely rehearsed.

I find the entire thing funny because you'd think ever since the Midnight Connection nonsense, there'd be a bit more inter-utility coordination, but eh... No accounting for the lack of effort put into becoming hyper-reliable.

I will say, in the towns I know people, the community has been rallying to support each other. I've been rather curious about the stark difference between the small townish response vs responses in the urban centers. Austin Energy has done a terrible job.
Feels like a super odd edge-case where someone accidentally overpays a loan exactly in the amount that is due in total, but I agree. It's a fair assumption.
So the secret sauce was just greenlet?
My experience is that the Bay Area is a big place with a variety of employers and work cultures. May I ask what kind of social viewpoints you’ve seen causing a hostile workplace for people who disagreed with them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

I said without a warrant or probable cause, which is accurate.

The FISA court is a bullshit, rubberstamp farce, to allow the state to pretend that they give a shit about the rule of law. The fact that they surveil everyone, inside and outside of the country, without warrants or probable cause, is evidence that they do not.

The FISA court issues orders without a requirement of probable cause, and its decisions and targets are classified. They are not warrants, and there is no due process. Calling it a "court" at all is a stretch.

Here's the FISA "court order" demanding 100% of all call records, every day, from Verizon, even local calls that start and end wholly within the USA:

https://epic.org/privacy/nsa/Section-215-Order-to-Verizon.pd...

This kind of overbroad stuff is precisely why we have the fourth amendment:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

That's exactly the opposite of what the FISA "court" does.
Part of me is sad that I’m too young to have seen the moon landings. But stuff like this gives me a taste of the thrill of those days. Congratulations to everybody at NASA. Thank you for this inspiring endeavor!
> strongly implies ERCOT had absolutely no working plan

Another way of looking at it is that they implemented phase 3 of this plan:

http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/current_guides/53525/04-030...

"absolutely no working plan" would look different.... which is the point of the article.

> to deal with this issue and instead relied on observance and skill of operators to save them from complete and total blackout.

Sometimes the operators have to intervene to keep things running. In in big moments like this, and many, many, many smaller moments you never even notice.
To the first hop? 600ms is the round-trip latency of geo.
I think most people would agree. The federal government had good intentions, but of course, large businesses found a way around it, which just screwed over the employees even more.

But even 40 hours at $12/hour with no benefits is not something you can survive on in the long term. It's not like there are very many advancements or raises either. You might be surprised to learn, that the manager at many of these retail stores only earn about $2 more than their floor employees. So that's where you cap out, unless you some how have connections and get into regional or corporate hq.

I am not sure what the government can do. It seems like any rules they make, business will find loopholes. In my opinion, retail workers and food industry workers need a union. That is the only way they are ever going to get full time work, benefits, and better pay.
Rediciolous comparison.

The size of the objects that SpaceX is landing is much larger. The approach that was used here for Perseverance (Skycrane) would not work for larger ships, like those required for a human mission. Just like the previous approaches, e.g. Lithobraking with Spirit and Opportunity, would not have worked for Perseverance.

Larger objects are much more difficult to land. Simply put, while mass will increase by the power of three, surface area, which is used for aerobraking only scales by the power of two, relative to size.

In order to land something large enough to carry and support humans (10-100t), you need hypersonic retropropulsion. Guess who was the first to achieve this? SpaceX. And they remain the only ones. When they light the three engines for the entry burn the earth atmosphere is very similar to the relevant section of the future Mars decent. By developing the first stage landing of Flacon 9, they solved one of the biggest development challenges for humans landing on Mars and it was not by accident. NASA was very happy to get that data and helped them collect it with their chase planes.
https://hashify.me/bmljZSB0cnkuIGh0dHBzOi8vbjB0ZXMuZ2l0aHViL...
Look up Gabor Mate
I want to live in a world where I can drive wherever I want, whenever I want without having to schlep all my stuff to the bus stop.
I recently went through the process of designing a board based on an STM32F411RE. I highly, highly recommend the YouTube channel, Phil's Lab. With his tutorial I was able to produce a working board on the first try.

https://youtube.com/c/PhilS94
same! i like that SQLAlchemy made me actually learn SQL.

but for like, boilerplate stuff, Django's ORM works so well. also, because it's all within the same "framework", every single library can adapt super well to it and more a shitton of dumb code from your hands.
Is it just me or does just about every domain name there make you think it's a spam site?
The people holding the purse strings are old men with an affinity for stodgy nostalgia. Know your customer.
The difference with solar/wind space requirements is so big that it does not matter.

If the land is reserved and left to nature that is still a positive thing because that helps the environment and biodiversity. But I'm sure that they could put solar panels on it if they wanted.

The point is that this land is not required for production and in any case solar require much, much more land, so, no, it's not even close.
Building more fabs is the general solution to the demand in silicon. And that's happening.

But in the context of "I'd rather they have scaled up the demand", where "they' is Nvidia (or almost any other fabless semiconductor company), it's not a solution because it's impossible for them to build fabs or to foresee and plan for the supply chain disruption that was caused by COVID-19.
Amazing. I've been using repl.it to teach my cousins how to code and it just completely eliminates the burden of having to learn git, terminal, build processes so we can make cool things as quickly as possible.

I feel like you could teach programming with real languages at a much earlier age with tools like Repl.
It's state by state, and at least in Arizona (where I'm from), there is no minimum.

Link to our laws: https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/sta...
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park . It's not conclusively relevant to humans, but it does at the very least cast doubt on the models historically used to understand addiction.
(Thanks for finishing your numerous edits. It's hard to understand someone's point when they keep changing it.)

Now please re-read my comment and find where I criticized wind or any renewable.

You can say "omg a politician said something bad!" all you want but it a) ignores the data and b) doesn't lead anywhere productive.

Personally, I'll stick with the facts and data.
Forget GPT-3. Let's talk dataset bias
Those turbines are on permafrost so its safe to say they can still spin at the temperatures Texas is seeing this week.

Edit: It's also worth noting that the wind turbines in Texas are producing a good amount of energy despite cold conditions there.
Jane Austen's concept of information (Not Claude Shannon's) (2013)
This morning on the radio and Australian scientist told the listeners he had spent 10 years working on his small part of the Perseverance mission.

That would help to make the landing quite a nerve racking event.
Thought: Put PV inside the "safety zone" to increase output and use "unusable" space.
More power to ya, so to speak.

But seriously, we're pulling for you to get through this and fix the underlying issues. I don't want to see my countrymen suffering from entirely avoidable reasons!
> What does `(int, int) -> int` mean?

This is an interesting question. Do you have any thoughts on what a better answer to that question might mean? Or languages you think do better here? Thank you
Any idea when they will start experimentation? I want to find microbial life!
People are and still will be buying up every card that they can get their hands on at a price that turns an ROI of less than 6 months. They-ll just download a different driver/firmware if needed.
Dental insurance isn't really insurance. It's a benefit that exists mostly because it's tax advantaged. [1] Health insurance is, of course, really insurance. With Obamacare the biggest issue is probably that it's really expensive to pay for a good insurance plan (or even a not so good insurance plan) on your own. Though, honestly, not so cheap even with employer participation.

[1] By not really insurance, I mean that most people with it (especially older people) may consider it a nice perk but it doesn't really protect them from out-of-pockets they can't afford.
Nothing wrong with that.

However, after spending almost a year hanging out at home and relaxing, it's actually kind of nice to get out and do something.

And of course, to each their own. Some people just enjoy accomplishing things and don't like sitting still. Others prefer to spend their idle time relaxing as much as possible. Neither is inherently wrong, and there's no reason to shame either group.
I don't think the video show a representative sample of the employee at either company; I suspect picks where selected for stage presence with a touch of preference for diversity.
I've been using two Unicomps since 2008, one for the office and one at home. They haven't died yet. I've only had the replace the rubber trackpoint nub on one of them.

Supposedly, the build quality since they retooled last year is even better.
No, they do not. Norway is the only Nordic country that has a higher median adult income, and it's not by a whole lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

These numbers are after taxes and transfers, so they encode all of the welfare programs in the respective countries.
Yes..i have concatenated SQL i must admit.
are you referring to modern wind turbines and solar farms which have their output converted through power electronics?

I have literally never seen a large induction machine used as a generator, every machine larger than 300 kW I have seen has been a synchronous machine. If I've read about 600 different power plants, 598 of them have had synchronous machines.

Where in the world, what application, and in what age of installation are engineers choosing induction machines + power electronics over synchronous machines?
Something I don't understand: when they say "X is 1 minute from happening", does that mean it's really 1 minute from happening or does that mean "in 1 minute we'll receive the signal that X has happened"?

Maybe my question makes more sense in the case of "X is happening right now", because then I should either understand "we infer that X should have happened right about now" or "we have confirmed via signal that X has happened", and that's a big big difference.

I know in some cases they explicitly say the latter, so I guess my real real question is, do they just keep the communication delay implied in all countdowns & references in discussion, to avoid confusion?

(ETA: No need to let me know about simultaneity problems in relativity — earth and mars are, relative to c and to macroscopic time scales, essentially not moving relative to each other AFAIK, so that simultaneity is essentially well-defined. My question was about a much more boring classical-universe problem.)
Or maybe something like what's being investigated for greenhouses on Mars (which gets less than half the sunlight that Earth receives) using mirrors and optical fiber cables to redirect light.