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NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia Power Systems
Me too. That was pretty much the only condition when I was looking for a job. Who does the testing? If the answer was "developer", or "everyone" I knew that they don't have a person who's responsibility is testing and that was very bad sign because I knew second pair of eyes responsible for looking at your output is worth their weight in gold.

Being a great tester requires very different set of skills than being great developer.
Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh
No one is asking their parents not to teach their children how to be good people. And yes, the context you commented on was about million dollar inheritances.

As someone who went through gifted classes in public high schools, as they exist, I have no issues with them being removed. They have very, very serious issues with socioeconomic discrimination and discrimination against people with mental health issues, from first hand experience. So unless we can figure out better ways to select people for them, and so far it looks like we can, I agree that they do more harm than good compared to the alternatives.
Training Computers to Transfer Music from One Style to Another
I am allergic/sensitive to natural or not. I have only met two other people with the same affliction.
> Creating business at the scale of these companies, and the economic activity that yields is the core of a capitalist system. It's better for everyone in it's purest form.

Asserted without evidence. There's no inherent reason that a world in which ubiquitous e-commerce was the name of the game, but there was no Amazon, and in which all of the employees in this sector made middle-class income, should be impossible. Would that be a better world than ours, even though it could still be entirely capitalist? I would say so.
Let's circle back to this topic in 2 years when you can explain that Ford just needs another year to catch up.
Hacking DEF Con 29
Lol, ironic
Crypto democratizes and decentralizes finance, banking the unbanked, debanking the overbanked, and rebanking the debanked. Using lightning network crypto eliminates middlemen and the annoying experience of transacting money between businesses and customers. With brain wallet seeds you can take your wealth with you anywhere as long as you can remember it or write it down where nobody else will see it, ever. For maximum security you can send your funds to a burner address, withdrawing them from circulation and ensuring nobody can ever steal them.

I know you said no loans, but I can't skip mentioning DeFi which enables anybody to borrow their own money from themselves, anytime, fully electronically and without centralization.

Then you have smart contracts, which are like a computer, but on everybody's computer at the same time. You can write full programs with complexity nearing that of FizzBuzz and run them worldwide for only hundreds of dollars.

Just imagine a world without crypto. It would be like a world without hackysack, or a world without mail order swords on the shopping channel. Unrecognizable and primitive.
> But lawsuits are a rich man's game. She couldn't justify trying to find an attorney or fighting a big, publicly traded company that would pursue her for $2,700.

This makes no sense and calls into question whether the article is being honest in its description of the debt in question. No superior court would waste its time over $2,700 - that's small claims territory, eg. no lawyers or fees for defendants.

In general if you owe a debt to a company that gets acquired the debt doesn't just disappear. A bunch of fluff about the pandemic doesn't change that either. So my take is that the lede is disingenuous and the piece smells like agenda-pushing.
I'm not entirely sure what to think of cryptocurrencies but I'm pretty sure ransomware predates them and banning them wouldn't eliminate ransomware.
Runtime safe and statically type checked are two fundamentally different things is my point. Interfaces in most typed languages are static concepts, though there are always exceptions.
I generally agree with your response. There is nuance and every project will be different and every team will be different.

There was a PM post this last week[0] where I can cite possible flaws. The PM creating this post has engineering experience, so it's possible that he will make all of the correct decisions, but he is also centralizing a big portion of the decision making. That can be good, especially if he is of the PBFD variety.

> "Do we absolutely need discount functionality at launch?"

This is a good question to have. You want to only build the MVP. But if you don't know what it will take to build[1], then you can't make that decision. If you make that decision, and don't communicate to the team that you made that decision, and they build a product that needs to be completely redone once that feature needs to be done, that's not ideal.

> "Which tasks depend on which other tasks?"

This is a good question to have. Another good question is: What parts of these tasks can we work on even if the entire story is dependent on some other task? Is the entire job going to take at minimum 23 weeks, or can we on week 1 spend a bunch of time doing "product cart price calculation" spike engineering task, while at the same time doing a "shopping cart containing product" spike task. Then when we get to the story, suddenly the implementation of the entire pipeline can be completed in a single sprint. If your engineers only see the story when its popped off of the top of the backlog, they won't be able to accomplish that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906886

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1425/
As always with patches to something of this level (if it is indeed Pegasus related say) it's important to note that if this was a rarified targeted-use exploit before it won't stay that way for long. Now that Apple has released a patch for it widespread reverse engineering will begin immediately and it'll only be a matter of time until packaged exploits become part of standard mass-use toolkits. Having a patch ready to deploy is great, but simultaneously means it's all the more important to get it deployed fairly promptly if it's something that could have serious root/remote execution potential.

Though I suppose if this bug can be used for a jailbreak there may be some people who'd actively want to stay on 14.7 as well. It's too bad on iOS Apple forces people to choose between security and control of their own systems and doesn't at least allow a purchase-time option to have the ability to load ones own root signing certificate.
My fault, I meant USDC. DAI is backed by USDC, and USDC is a competing stablecoin to USDT.

I guess an important distinction is DAI is not 100% backed by USDC, but it is backed >50% as of this time: https://share.streamlit.io/tadzz/maker_dai_collateralization...
By the time solid state battery are thing, Tesla will be much bigger (and moving faster) in the EV space, so it's highly probable that the industry (including cell manufacturers) will line up to support Tesla rather than Toyota. Also, Tesla's margins are improving to a point where they'll soon be more profitable than Toyota and be able to pay a better price for any cell production capacity available (solid state or not). It's getting really late for the Japanese giant and they're still in denial (a good friend of mine is responsible for the deployment of Mirai in Europe and he's well aware that).
Crypto in general isn't liked because it generally is BS propped up by holders to others to help their position like an MLM coworker. It isn't green (in it's current form for most). It doesn't solve real world problems(in it's current form for most). And it has effectively no avenue to ever being supported by major governments because lol, shocker, they would rather regulate money.

The thing about it all is that it has use, but 98% of all who are pro-crypto are just trying to get in on the gold rush rather than actually make it useful. Diamond hands is good for your position but awful for making it an actual currency.

I'm sure I'll get some five paragraph long response to this pin pointing little bits here and there that might make it possible but the fact of the matter is that as it currently exists and is being propped up, it is just burning our planet for a potential goldrush.
A Croatian player named Stjepan Tomic is trying to do exactly what you are claiming is impossible: https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns/videos The odds are clearly against him, but we'll see how it goes.
That doesn't say he got fired. But why let facts get in the way of a good story.
> The most obvious use for it is heterogenous containers.

You mean runtime generic container without the benefits of compile-time type checking, opening the developer to runtime type errors purely for ideological reasons...
Application Verifier can help detect handle leaks afaik. Honestly, an amazing tool when you have a situation that calls for it.
But where are cryptocurrencies used as a currency except by criminals? They offer no benefit for legal transactions except in rare edge cases.
I haven't yet seen anyone bragging "this came from my fields and was converted in my lab," I have seen "we bought these incredibly cheap perfume misters filled with something and put our label on them."

Some large fraction of the "unsellable hemp" crops were because the farmers hadn't handled it right; stored wet in garbage bags or poorly cleaned etc. Many people with decent product haven't been able to keep up with demand.
My point is that expense has been rising, and both use (passenger-miles driven) and ownership (vehicles owned percapita) have plateaued or fallen across much of the U.S. over the past 2+ decades. That's already shown in the statistics.

The effect isn't uniform by region, and is most pronounced in cities. New York has never had high car ownership, and IIRC it's fallen elsewhere, notably San Francisco.

You obviously don't want these increases to occurr suddenly, or without any compensatory changes --- improvements in transit, changes to land-use, alternatives such as bicycles (for the healthy) or paratransit or rideshare or deliveries (for the disabled). Sudden hikes give rise to protest (see the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests in France. But phased over the course of a few decades, and with the land-use and density changes that are needed to support this, as well as changes to basic wages/income, and pensions, the effects could be quite pronounced.

But in tandem, increase costs (both monetary and hassle) of private car ownership and enabling of alternative transport, would be far more effective than either side of that alone. In economics: raise prices, lower consumptive usage (in most cases).
so for people who likes chess: What level/rating is a good target for playing chess as a hobby, without trading away your life as would be needed for GM or other high statuses?
Why write an article if you quite literally have zero understanding of the basic benefits of crypto?
This feel like corporate geopolitical diplomacy.
ah yes the war on money, because the war on drugs went so well.

moral panic has never helped anyone. appeals to authority and banning peoples jobs and hobbies wont get anyone on your side. prove your way is better, we'll keep building ours too.
> humans cannot possibly organize activities amongst themselves without wampum of some sort

Yes, insofar as every band of humans has edges, and on those edges money is a hard prerequisite. We've coevolved with it since the dawn of anatomical modernity, the burden of proof is very much on anyone who wishes to claim that that we can get along without it.

I guess I consider the existence of activities, even economic ones which don't involved the exchange of money, to be trivial? Like it's obvious they exist, it isn't saying very much to point them out?

I spent a lot of my youth in an ashram with up to about 10,000 people in it, and the dishes got washed. The breakdown of that kind of basic uncompensated labor in small (usually flat/anarchist) communes says more about their inability to escape atomization than about the possibility of doing so.

I don't get the sense we're disagreeing about much if anything here, though. Perhaps choosing to emphasize different pieces of the puzzle.
If I literally stole 1 trillion dollars from the richest Americans and gave it to the poorest 20 million Americans, I'd have substantial impact on the standard of living (both for them, and for the country on average).

No increase in productivity required.
>Tether had had the cash, until it was stolen from them, and they started lying to pretend that it wasn't stolen.

My understanding is funds in a bank account were seized and the account closed. Describing the shortfall that followed, while they tried to recover said funds, as fraud, is a tremendous mischaracterization.

Did somebody at Bloomberg have a BTC short position blowup? They have a long history of publishing FUD to manipulate markets in their favor. I hear people are still looking for the mythical SuperMicro "spy chips"... lol
Toyota could spray silver paint on a dog turd, slap a 40k sticker on it and people would buy it. Toyota isn't in the business of selling cars. They're in the business of selling billboards that say "look how financially savvy I am" on one side and "look I can afford premium products" on the other side to upper middle class types. Toyota isn't innovating because they're under no pressure to innovate as long as people keep buying and tinkering with a brand image like that is fraught with peril so it's hard to justify unless you absolutely have to. This is why they've been so conservative for the last ~20yr.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636743
banning bitcoin is actually GOOD for bitcoin
Who's going to take the time out to explain that to a defendant? Certainly not the people trying to sue.
I like the design of this site. Reminds me of notion.
Yes "user experience" things like that are improving. And StaticCompiler/GPUCompiler is making good progress.

But I see no movement on the deeper problems, like the limitations of the type system (no effort on traits, function types, interfaces, etc).
I agree. AlphaFold's approach isn't what I was hoping. Something ab initio would be ground-breaking. Especially if you could apply it to chemistry more broadly than protein folding. AlphaFold's approach seems like a recipe for over-fitting.
> Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables.

Here is a brilliant idea...What if all of that renewable energy was...not wasted on crypto?
I worked in a finance company for a while and told my manager I was finding it difficult to concentrate at work. A year or so before the company had got rid of all small offices and gone 100% hotdesking. Meetings were done almost exclusively remotely via Skype, but everyone had to be sitting at a desk to be part of it. I would often find myself surrounded on all sides by 3-4 people all on different calls. We already had VPN set up and when I was ill I ended up working from home one day. Suddenly I remembered what it was like to actually achieve something at work. I had done more in one day at home than a month in the office.

I explained this to my boss the best I could and he said I could work from home one day per week on a provisional basis. I left shortly after.
"The Endless Frontier Act, a bill to beef up resources for science and technology research is being debated on the Senate floor this week. An amendment was added to that legislation by Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell, to hand over $10 billion to NASA. Cantwell’s amendment is no sure bet though."

This doesn't sound like money for Jeff Bezos. It's money for NASA. What it sounds like is some tortured analysis of a bill that probably isn't going to pass by a journalist who also hates rich guys.
Maia plays like a human: https://maiachess.com
> Caring about income inequality is quite different than caring about GDP. And it is precisely caring about income inequality that become a visible point of difference between the left and right, particularly since Piketty's book.

Right: my thesis is that unless you are simply envy-stricken, income inequality is a red herring distracting us from interesting metrics like "How well-off is the median person? 10th percentile earner? 1st percentile earner?" and that GDP is a flawed proxy for this.
So, I'll preface this that maybe this only applies to my workplace and IMO what I'm going to write might be rude.

I also work in a technically hard space and remote work isn't perfect, specifically because there is a hardware component to my job. However, I really think its not a huge deal because I think people are overestimating how good communication was pre covid. I have generally observed that people who I didn't really understand or who were simply bad communicators in person, are bad in a WFH environment. If people are bad at giving clear & concise answers, the problem isn't WFH, its that their writing and communication skills aren't actually that good. I feel though that in person, people get to lean on being funny, nice, etc. but in a remote environment clear & concise communication is required or else people get ignored or they waste a bunch of time. Their lack of communication skills and potentially technical skills are more obvious in a remote environment due to this. The people who could get things done didn't stop once WFH started, it was the people who were already pretty "meh" who's issues got amplified during covid.
Some apartment renters can charge at home too. Just depends on the setup. But sure some can’t.
I did look for a similar thread but couldn't find it... That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
It will target leftists too; many of whom are highly critical of the current regime. It's just being branded as far-right so they don't get pushback from both sides simultaneously.

This is how it gets implemented, then it'll expand to include dissent more broadly.
Cross-platform and being a good tool are orthogonal concepts. We use HTML/CSS for GUIs IN SPITE OF their general unsuitableness because the value of easy distribution wins over developer sanity.
Unfortunately, like everything unbalanced in life, things will bounce back the other way around and not for the better.

Instead of trying to find a middle ground which is acceptable on both side, I fear the response will be to accelerate remote working outsourcing to cheaper countries (I.e. “why bend to these whiny brats if I end up with remote workers, might as well get those at a fraction of the cost, that won’t complain”). So the only nice position that will remain local will be top talent and people managing that outsourcing.

Top talent won’t be hit too much but I fear anything below will soon or later, and I see too many average DEvs thinking they are untouchable. They haven’t lived through an economic crisis yet and living pay by pay. I don’t see how this will end well in a few years from now.
I know, I watch his channel a lot. He has been training hard for three years and is still only 19XX elo. He doesn't have a chance. He may get a FM title eventually though.
The Growing Problem of U.S. Patent Trolls, and What Should Happen Next
It sure does, the EU announces they're going to invest X tens of billions in chips, and the next thing you know, the largest backer and beneficiary of EU gets this new factory.
Solid article. I understand the arguments against full, 100% remote, but have yet to hear a convincing argument against flexibility in general (whether that means going in a couple times a week or month).

If your job is a desk job that doesn’t require specialized tools or equipment it just isn’t necessary to be at your desk every single day.
You can swap out hydrogen tanks a lot more easily than you can swap out batteries. Something to consider.

Lol. All the downvotes. It's like I said something bad about Apple 10 years ago. All hail Elon, dear leader.
I found this via the r/hnblogs subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/comments/optip1/the_magic_o...

I thought it was great so sharing it to HN.
Huh.

You're basing that on this
https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.php?incfile=/state/seds/...

Also, much of the industrial use seems likely to be energy-industry related. I'm presuming: Wyoming (coal), Louisiana (oil), North Dakota (fracked natural gas), Alaska (oil), Texas (oil and gas).

Or it may be electric power. These states' energy use is dominated by coal, and see Table 26 which bundles "industrial" and "power generation": https://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/pdf/table26.pdf

Texas is the only high-population state listed.

Note that small states have lower per-capita efficiencies across the board, though yes, those specific states have high industrial/transport usage. Note that per-capita variance in smaller states tends to be higher than large ones regardless (more of them, smaller populations, more opportunity for outliers).
If I understand this correctly, the potential problem lies not with the citric acid itself, but with the fungus we use to produce it, traces of which can make it into the end product and might cause allergic reactions.

I'm surprised, I thought citric acid was created synthetically. Does anyone know how much more expensive would it be to synthesize it without involving an organism?
Population decline is not killing people. Japan and S Korea aren't killing anyone.
I understand the case for tariffs or even sanctions (though western nations should obviously get their own houses in order first), but how would immigration quotas make any difference? Do governments care at all where their citizens are allowed to emigrate to? I don’t see why they would.
Yeah, I guess only seeing one side of the argument can be a bit misleading...

It would probably take another 1,000 word blogpost to go through why Julia is amazing, despite all these problems. I'm sure I will make that post someday.

While I do like Rust, the basic design of Julia and Rust are just very different. They're intended to solve different problems, and the problems I have are the problems Julia is designed to solve. The love comes from just how well it solves those problems compared to every other programming language out there.

Compared to Rust specifically, Rust is a complete nonstarter for interactive coding, since there isn't a REPL. Even if there was, it's way too complicated to use interactively - a garbage collector would be a must, and a lot of these compile time checks that I praise would be a major pain in the ass when coding casually. It's also way too slow to write: Even after having written Rust for a few months, I estimate I can solve a problem using Julia 4 times faster than using Rust, using maybe 2/3 the number of lines, or less.
I think the issue is only targeting one side. There are conspiracy theories held by the left. There is radicalization and violence on the left. Instead of trying to stop this on both sides they are only focusing on one side, which just so happens to be the side the majority in big tech oppose. It makes this whole thing feel political instead of a genuine attempt to improve society.
Just because it doesn't serve a clear purpose doesn't mean it should be banned.

If governments simply allowed cryptocurrencies to exist outside of any regulation except the obligation to pay taxes on transactions and gains, eventually participation would decline as users of the currencies lost their money to scams or mismanagement, in the absence of a state interest in
protecting participants.

If the system is designed to resist state intervention, maybe letting it run as designed, and suffer the consequences, is the best approach. There's no need to regulate it out of existence just because it serves no apparent purpose. This is one case where the market will sort that out if we let it.