skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are somewhat old stats:

> One growing solution to this, Bolinger said, is the addition of batteries to utility scale solar projects. While adding storage can increase the PPA price from $5-$20/MWh depending on the size and duration of the battery, Bolinger said, they are growing in popularity. Of 460 GW of solar projects in queues around the nation as of 2020, 160 GW included a battery.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/developers-increasingly-pai...

We are right at the inflection point of deployment, where projects are cheaper with storage than without, so the amount of projects with storage is going to skyrocket very soon. The thing that makes it cheaper to include storage is lowering of prices during peak production hours, or even curtailment. So after a state gets > ~10% or so of their energy from solar you will see far more storage.

Standalone, for-profit batteries are also becoming common these days, especially on highly-renewable grids that are purely profit driven, like Texas' ERCOT grid. And ERCOT is purely pay-for-energy, so deploying a battery there requires analysis of the arbitrage opportunities, and understanding the grid congestion, etc.

Here's a small battery deployment, but the interesting thing was this current analysis of arbitrage market depth:

> According to John Hancock’s Andrew Mazze, the first hour of energy arbitrage is the most valuable in ERCOT’s market construct and adding extra hours of storage does not justify the extra capital cost required. “I don’t need four hours to maximise the value of the battery [in Texas], you can get 90% of the value with much less capital cost, with a one or two-hour battery [system],” he said.

https://www.energy-storage.news/texas-broad-reach-power-brin...
Russia does 5 times more trade with China than the US. Most of the west is reliant on Russian oil or Russian allies oil making it difficult to put down hard sanctions as Russia holds more power that the west would like to admit.

Military intervention is the best solution Russia has a large army but its old and would be unable to deal with western military, but there is no real path for that to happen.
Down for us as well.
Down by the Old Mill Stream is nice. I like that one. It's not pretentious or corny, and the harmonies are interesting enough.

Let Me Call You Sweetheart is also totally fine.

But yeah, I get your point. I was like huh "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" wazzat… oh… um, cringe
tell me you've never worked in sales without telling me you've never worked in sales
> What is sad really, is that China doesn’t give a fuck.

They give loads. They are watching from the sidelines, committing to nothing but learning a lot, and thinking about how they will proceed with Taiwan and the bits they like in South-East Asia.
Not sure why you're being down voted, this is the most honest statement about so called "homelessness" in the united states. It is affordable housing advocates essentially leveraging the mentally ill while completely ignoring their plight.
The risk of US/UN intervention should be high, because that was the quid pro quo for Ukraine to abandon its nuclear weapons in the Budapest Memorandum.

No country with nuclear weapons is ever going to give them up again. No security assurances will be seen as sufficiently reliable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
It all started with ancel keys' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys suggestion that cholesterol and animal fat are bad to human.

Whole industry started because of this claim, plant based cooking oil, margarine, trans fat. Each targeted in replacing one aspect of animal oil. Each are later found to be (more) harmful than animal fat.

I would recommend the book big fat surprise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130316-the-big-fat-sur... if anyone is interested in learning how the oil industry evolved
> unhealthy

There is no concrete evidence that ghee is unhealthy. Even the linked study is only talking about a "possible cause," that too in Indians who are not even in India. Indians adopt western habits when they immigrate. Who knows what they have been eating once they assimilated into English and West Indian societies.
The author is specifically talking about paths taken in life that are not uniquely yours, but one that was taken "for all the wrong reasons".

It isn't about finding a dead end in a path you chose, it's about realising that YOU didn't make the decision at the fork, you simply did what OTHERS thought you should do without reflecting on the choice.

We can accept that losing the path is part of the path (which I agree with you on) while also being more thoughtful about how we go about following it.
Yes, exactly right. That is where they can learn and establish structure in their life, and build a foundation. These were once referred to as Independent Living Skills. Once taught and established, then they can hopefully translate that into a healthier life on their own.
The Cuban missile crisis was over nuclear missiles, not conventional. NATO put nukes in Turkey and Italy, Russia tried to match with Cuba. The crises ended when both sides agreed to withdraw nuclear missiles from said countries.

If my irrational neighbor says my quiet, well-behaved dog is actually barking all day and night, growling at him as he walks by (even when the dog is inside), and if I don't stop it he'll break into my house and kill my dog: I keep my dog inside, put up some cameras, clean my gun and file a police report.
Maybe this isn't what you want to hear but never waste time on someone who doesn't want to be with you.
"fighting for decades" is not shipping some people over to die and then walking away, as was proposed upthread.
Then you did not listen to Putin's speech where he declares all territories which have once been part of the Russian empire as illegitimate states which should be forcibly reintegrated. He outright declared himself an Imperialist with dreams of empire. The only thing which would have dissuaded Putin was overwhelming force.
Ours are up. US East. Heroku Shield.
Vaccine mandates were always about preventing transmission. There isn't great data yet, but Omicron seems pretty good at infecting vaccinated people, so I suspect people with breakthrough cases still transmit it somewhat well. Santa Clara county is heavily vaccinated, but Omicron was still its biggest wave by far.

Pre-Delta, mandates made sense (though the vaccines came too late for this to ever be practical). With Delta, the case was shakier. With Omicron, they're really only effective at preventing severe disease. That's huge for saving lives, not so much for preventing transmission.
Our Heroku applications are all down, it seems to be that it is a Heroku Router/DNS issue.

We can access our logs and the application is running, just no incoming requests.
Let me bet: it's DNS.

It's always DNS.
I don't believe there is a consensus with regards to net positive effect from what I've read, but like Fed interest policy, it is a blunt tool yet one of the few tools one has to influence.

Instead of sanctions, I think providing humanitarian visas would serve the situation better: you help expatriate citizens to countries better governed with superior economics, and you drain citizens from the offending nation, which is far more effective from a future productivity (which translates to economics over the long term) destruction approach.
status, dashboard and landing page are down for me. (socal.)
AWS status page is up, but going VERY slow, and says no issues.
I agree 100%. and the fact that there are still only a handful of form controls is just jarring. The people who champion using JS frameworks to make up for the lack of form elements are contributing to the problem, especially on mobile. No library, not even well tested JS ones can make up for the native controls. This is why users do prefer mobile native apps.
Rebranding an Open Source Project
"That is hard to implement in a free country"

The past 2 years proves that entirely untrue.
I guess it is if it swings back the other way.
The British Empire and the United Kingdom are not the same entity. The UK was a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy that ruled a non-democratic empire.
AWS must be only partially down, all of it is running fine for me in us-east-1. Elastic beanstalk ftw! :)
Nope. There is some fringe theory about a bacterium but Morgellons is almost certainly delusional parasitosis and the fibres are just that - fibres from clothes.

It emerged from an odd nexus of Munchausens, Munchausens by proxy, internet diagnosis and schizophrenia. So it's not "fake" but it might be faked.

Morgellons is a really fascinating mini model of Qanon, in a way; it now "exists" as a "thing" that has to be discussed, even though it doesn't exist as a thing.
% heroku status

› Warning: Our terms of service have changed:

https://dashboard.heroku.com/terms-of-service
Apps: Yellow
Data: No known issues at this time.
Tools: No known issues at this time.

=== Availability of Common Runtime apps 2022-02-24T16:50:47.249Z https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402
investigating 2022-02-24T16:50:47.249Z (1 minute ago)
Engineers are looking into reports of connectivity issues to Common Runtime apps in the US and EU regions.
is it related to an AWS outage? https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20220222233114/https://fireinabo...
You can't really compare skis and rifles to modern military.
As usual whenever there's an AWS outage
We're down
All 6 of my apps & dashboard are down too.
>>>Tell me, when has NATO threatened to place nuclear missiles in Ukraine? Because that's the only way this comparison holds water.

The comparison is that missiles in Cuba = "disturbs the Mutually Assured Destruction equation". Anti-Ballistic Missiles in Russia's near abroad....disturbs the MAD equation. That is the national security concern. It's the same thing Russia has been saying since....2007? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6599647.stm

Do you think Putin wants to until US ABMs are already deployed in a NATO Ukraine to then voice his concerns? That would be too late. Consider this a very drastic preemptive action, but it's entirely in keeping with Russia's approach to security in their near abroad for the past ~15 years, for anyone who has been paying attention.
What I’m shocked about is, it’s only been a little over a year without the former guy and the world is already falling apart.
Used to be safer than the water. Some places here in the US, it may still be.
Alcohol is certainly safe, just not while operating machinery or so much that it poisons you. These are pretty much modern problems. Back in the day, it was safer to drink alcoholic beverages than water. Alcohol wasn’t as strong back then, or use industrial methods so this is like comparing apples to apple juice.
So don't use batteries. Pumping water uphill is still the most efficient large-scale technology for electrical storage.
Go try and eat only coconut oil for say, 2 weeks, you'll feel the difference.
Russia has been preparing for severe Western sanctions for the better part of a decade. Sanctions are obviously not a sufficient deterrent.
Right. This is a trade-off.

1. Piss off the anti-vaxxers by having a mandate.
2. Piss off everyone else by giving in to a paranoid fringe.

They did not solve this problem, they just moved it around into a more complicated form. Instead of dealing with people who want to stay remote so they don't have to follow the mandate, it's going to start with someone who has an immunocompromised family member and discovers an unvaccinated person on their team came to work with a cough.
Yes, I was confused because my Dell laptop power input doesn't have 3 wires (unless there's somehow a third wire buried in the barrel connector), so I was assuming that the ID signal is somehow just combined with the actual input voltage.
https://nissan.com/ . The owners of the domain are adamant on keeping it and not handing it over to the car company.
There are thousands of possible explanations. Indians may just tolerate the western lifestyle worse than westerners do. This study seems to look at a single chemical compound that is suspected of some connection with atherosclerosis, which is pretty thin.
Show HN: I built a website that shows you active GitHub forks
Can Zero-Knowledge Proofs achieve Layer 2 privacy?
All that may be true, but this research is about how old existing democracies are, not about which countries have a tradition of democracy that precedes the existence of the current democratic state.
Stupid question, why doesn't NATO extends membership to Russia if it were to match accepted/existing criteria on corruption control, free press, free elections, etc.

Putin never will accept, but Russians surely aren't all Putin's buddies...
I absolutely recommend a split Keyboard. I bought one and it changed my life.

https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/

I have a Dygma Raise. It's cool, but the main problem is that it doesn't work under the BIOS or Grub. Besides it, I love it. You may find some other split keyboard is better for your specific case.
Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.
So does this mean they should have similar effects on the body or that they are different enough to be essentially just two different fats that are significantly different enough not to draw conclusions that ALA causes the same (potential) effects as LA as brought forth in the article?
The 328 is also available in dip...
What's the preferable alternative? It's not perfect, but democracy is undeniably better at serving the interests of average people than any other alternative that I'm aware of ever being tried on a large scale.
I buy every one of your arguments except "A pro-west Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia," and I think this one deserves significant pushback:

How is this not the case for Latvia and Lithuania (not to mention Estonia), which are both NATO members directly bordering Russia, and in fact separating them from their Kaliningrad exclave? On the other hand, if those countries _are_ an existential threat to Russia, then why is Russia "starting" with Ukraine?

More to the point, who gets to decide what makes for an existential threat? Doesn't "existential" mean "at risk of destruction from"? Does anybody really suppose that a Ukraine that is pro-west, or even belongs to NATO, poses a direct threat of invading/destroying Russia? This sort of language frustrates me, because it seems to carry more heat than light. To your specific hypothetical, I would not welcome a pro-Russia Mexico, but I would not consider it to be an existential threat to the US for precisely the reasons I suggest here - a pro-Russia Mexico does not mean a Mexico that is even somewhat likely to invade the US.
Okay, start by becoming homeless.
This lines up with that big research paper that came out last year saying the obesity epidemic almost certainly has an environmental cause beyond pure calories available, based on water table data, etc.
Selects are the absolute worst when it comes to customization. I totally understand it from a design perspective, but I will always push back on it aside from customizing the box itself. The actual dropdown options? Sorry, they're going to look how they look.
I see this a lot, why is it assumed that Russia invading a NATO member state and NATO responding with force => WW3? NATO would repel the attack, but it would be completely unwilling to attempt significant aggressive action due to MAD. NATO states have absolutely nothing to gain by invading Russia.
True, ultimately it comes down to which country is more willing to let their population suffer. I know where my money is.
> Why should the CEO be making medical decisions for 1000s of employees?

I would not choose to work with selfish colleagues, who don't know or care about their medical decisions causing harm to others (or the burden they potentially place on the medical system; the data is clear vaccinations reduce the severity of a COVID infection from ICU worth to something more benign). It's company culture (with regards to company leadership mandating vaccination).

Citigroup employs over 200k workers, and lost less than 2k who refused vaccination [1]. The only employers this would impact would be smaller employers who predominately employ those against vaccination.

TLDR Why would I not want to work for a CEO who cares about public health, as well as the welfare of others and myself by mandating a proven safe vaccine? This is what leadership looks like.

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/citigroup-hits-99-percent-comp...
Huh? How?
Canola is a genetic evolution of rapeseed. They are not the same thing.
What is the proof that AWS is down? Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.
I'll cut them a deal. LA can send me a check for merely $500,000; and I'll agree to never camp out on their streets. I also expect some sort of formal recognition for helping them meet their targets of reducing homelessness.
Can we apply this argument to everything that's for sale? Seed oils are for sale too...
My coming up with idea process:

I have most of my good ideas when I have good mental stimulation. A diet of well written books is the gold standard. Talking to interesting people also helps.

My research process:

Fermi estimation.

Like when I started working on my search engine, I had a raspberry pi 4 with 8 Gb of RAM. I estimated that a webpage was 10 Kb. From that I figured a raspberry pi ought to be able to hold an index containing about 800 000 documents.

This is of course ignoring the fact that the index information is smaller than the document, and that an index requires metadata and operating system space. But like, ballpark wise it's not bad. I got a pi to index about 500k documents.

Then I did some basic research on data structures, both on what's typically used and just independent thinking.

When I had a sketch of an idea, I just go to work.
Agreed, this is a terrifying prospect. Governments, hospitals, transport links.. anything.
I thought it was a common myth that the smoke point of an oil correlates with toxicity -- do you have a source that there is a causal relationship?

The reason for olive oil not being used for deep frying is mostly taste and cost, as far as I know.
Anyone still seeing outages? Our services are all back up.
As someone stuck managing bare metal servers behind closed networks, can I use these tools to get insights and alerts on how my servers (and docker services) are doing?

It all seems cloud native these days and I'm not sure if it's worth the time investment to learn these tools.. Our in-house solution is a set of systemd services to collect data (write to log files, read lines from log files) and push to a remote nodejs/express service that holds recent values and averages in memory to display a spreadsheet-like dashboard with colored cells (signaling status) and basic sms/email alerts..

It works, it's fast, it's cheap, but there's many things missing (APM specifically, log analysis etc)
I've been using the following to pick up a new hobby (wood working [surprise]) and start learning about potential business ideas (data/ML space and pet industry):

I'm sure there are topics you're curious about or sound interesting to you. Maybe there's a hobby you wanted to try out? Spend a little bit of time watching YouTube, listening to podcasts, reading blogs or joining discord/slack communities for that topic.

This doesn't have to be some huge investment. Spend an hour or two looking at a topic. This can be in 5-minute increments or a 2-hour block, w/e.

Are you still interested? Do you want to learn more about the topic? Do you want to try your hand at it? Go for it. Go as deep as you want on it, actually make your own version of w/e you're interested in.

Now go talk to people in various communities online. There are so many slack and discord groups out there, you'll find something you connect with. Ask questions. Engage in conversations. If you're feeling up to it, reach out to people to setup video calls. Some meetups are starting to offer in-person events, if you're comfortable doing that.

Still interested, still want to turn it into something more? Check out The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick. It's fantastic guide on how to actually do customer development. Doesn't have to be about making something into a business. He's got great tactical advice on how to get info from people in a regular conversation and learn about stuff.
Well that sounds familiar.

Some emails were posted here just a few days ago. Fed and facebook discussing propaganda strategy.
Step 1, get on hard drugs
This isn’t the goal of the vaccine. You can and probably will still get mildly ill with newer variants and remain contagious. Vaccination will prevent you from getting seriously ill.
There also is no mandate to return to office, and employees that do not provide proof will be required to wear a mask and complete testing
Could you explain a bit about what lead to the emotional harm? I'm not sure if it was the threatening email or not -- if the email had been as non-threatening as possible, yet a mandate was still put in place, would you have felt the same or not? (And what exactly was in the email?)
Heroku just sent an email to us confirming issues. Links to a status page but that isn't loading.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402
> The risk of NATO intervention is high, right?

I don’t know where you’re drawing such an assumption from.

Russia has repeatedly invaded its non nato neighbors for years (including Ukraine!) with zero military response from NATO.

Would NATO have the upper hand militarily? Yes, sure. Does NATO have the political will to incur that level of cost? No.

This isn’t “globalist” conspiracy, there is just no appetite for it at any level of society in nato countries. Not in France, not in Germany, not in the US.
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402

(It took a few minutes to get this link to work for me)
the fact that any housing is getting built is frankly a refreshing turn of events.

for people unfamiliar with los angeles, is very much a city of landed gentry. republican legislation designed to curtail rising taxes for elderly residents 40 years ago wound up creating a cloistered elite of land-owners that pay nearly nothing in tax and resist any attempt to create additional housing. They coast on a bubble of six-figure increases in equity per year with little to prevent a ramshackle bungalow in inglewood from fetching a cash-only two million dollar price.

when legislators typically try to address the very same landed gentry's cries for relief from the homeless, they wind up collecting windfall bond measure revenue. as they gain momentum and start striking ground, most communities put up fierce NIMBY opposition and mire whatever initiatives that are approved in court. the city in turn eventually gives up, settles, and uses the remaining funds to quietly continue sanitation and cleanup efforts of camps, occasionally running the homeless away for a day or two.

for the city to bemoan rising costs and slow pace is a bit ironic as well. when LA decided to give up on property taxes it had to find a way to make up the difference. hence a league of esoteric inspections and byzantine permitting started popping up for new homes. it means contractors sit idle and watch the price of lumber skyrocket while your self-licking ice cream cone melts in the sun.
Is there an "afterwards?"

I don't know if there are "one time" or "one shot" solutions. Certainly there are some unhoused that can be helped by that but I'm under the impression that most have issues that go substantially beyond a one time check or a pill or a one time treatment.
Find out first if you can get a market for it. It is better to have a product with competition than a monopoly on something nobody needs.