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But this way is carbon neutral. Every CO2 molecule you pump out, started out as a CO2 molecule you took from the air. There is no reason to dislike fossil fuels, if they no longer come from fossils. It's the releasing of carbon from millions of years ago that's creating the excess.
> my thinking with Terrabook was like, what stops non-devops-savvy developers from starting to use TF?

That they can provision using a GUI console without having to understand all of the underlying AWS components required behind the scenes for a common setup.

I've seen a few takes at tools that attempt to "export your live infra to resources using standard providers in HCL files" but I haven't seen anything that's really good at that yet. Hmm...
> Being wrong once doesn't mean you'll be wrong again

it certainly doesn’t instill confidence
_Ask Your Developer_ by Jeff Lawson (CEO and co-founder of Twilio) since last weekend, 3/4 way through. Very good read even for just a developer like myself who has no aspiration of going into management.

_Midnight Riot_ by Ben Aaronovitch A fun read set in London about a new cop who sees ghosts and finds out he has ability to do magic . He becomes an apprentice to a master magician who also happens to be an inspector for the the police department. Started about 2 weeks ago maybe and just past half way. _Ask Your Developer_ took precedence for a while but now give each equal attention.
Not that terrifying when humans are involved… assuming competence
I can relate. Best thing to do in your position is delete this (cause it's overly specific in public) and then talk to an employment lawyer. Call your state bar and ask for recommendations in your area (they keep lists for this purpose) and call around. Most attorneys will give you a short consultation for free. Book appointments with 3 or 4.

Make a timeline with short and to the point paragraphs for each incident and job change. Keep it as simple as possible. Give that to the attorneys and they'll give you good feedback on your options. They'll appreciate that you took the time to prepare the information in a structured fashion.

In the meantime, set aside somet ime just for your wellbeing and mental health, during which you don't have to stress about your last or next job. Learning to set boundaries so that people and events don't just take over your feelings and thought processes is important for managing problems and maintaining yourself.
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>> I searched for "high voltage DC" in that article and didn't see a mention of it, or anything much else about long distance transport of power.

Since they want to use solar/electricity to produce hydrocarbon fuels, there is no need to transport electricity. Make the fuels where the sun shines. Maybe build a pipeline or two out of the desert.

I think it might be viable for aircraft even if ground transport eventually goes all electric.
I was raised on the plains of the Eastern Dakotas. The summers were always noisy: crickets, cicadas, coyotes, prairie dogs, wind, plenty to fill the air. The winters were incredibly austere, sometimes incomprehensibly so to those who haven't experienced them.

On particularly cold and windless days outdoors the silence is almost unbelievable. You hear your heartbeat, the snow underfoot crunches so loudly you cringe, and sounds travels so clearly and without interruption that a half-mile seems within arm's reach. It's absolutely surreal and can be very disorienting, almost like space compresses around you.

It was hard enough to live there in the 90s. I can't imagine how isolating it'd have been on a claim.
“Hey, I don’t believe any of this stuff, can we skip the Jesus talk and just hang out?
You can simply type “https://archive.ph/“ followed by a URL, like https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/21/colorado-river-drought..., and archives of the page will be shown:

https://archive.ph/https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/21/col...

I have https://archive.ph/ as autotext on my mobile device for convenience.
They must have usernames and passwords to UPS and FedEx accounts of larger sellers/shippers.
As far as I understand it, either two incommensurate frequencies or the Fibonacci sequence ABAAB… approach produce similar physics. The Fibonacci sequence is easier to simulate numerically on a (classical) computer because there is a recursive property to it that allows you to jump forward in time in large steps, making it nice for theorists even if the experiments are fairly similar.
you can build the largest reservoir in the world, but if water consumption and evaporation exceed precipitation in the watershed you're on borrowed time.
I've been on a non-duality kick lately.

Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self by Jay Garfield
Do you think most people wouldn't get new cars more often if they were free?
The Journalists sunk first due to Tech. Now the knives are out. They will contribute to the societal mental model that this is true before it even is.
Don’t forget Mexico who’s allocated 1.5 million acre-feet per year (59 cubic metres per second) by the Colorado River Compact [1].

Which I believe was drafted during the wettest decade in the Southwest’s history.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact
I came to the comments to see other people also having books on their night table for months. Am I really the only one here who takes longer than half a year to read a book?
Guess I have to adjust my habits..
This particular example is trivially restructured into a version that passes the current borrow checker: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

It isn't the gotcha you're looking for.
When talking about pumped hydro the roundtrip efficiency usually is around 70-80%. Not even close to batteries but way more scalable.

Chemical storage is horrific. Creating diesel and burning it in a turbine or similar you start at 40-50% for the burning phase, without even converting anything in the first place.

If you go the fuel cell route you tend to end up somewhere at 40-60% efficiency.

So no, the only use case for chemical storage is either where you want energy density. Say aviation or maritime shipping. Or nation state like energy security, where you can pay the efficiency price.

For all other use cases any optimization done, or better usage of the energy, will eat into that horrific round trip efficiency.
Canning food is pretty simple for those that can follow instructions. I've found the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving to be a good resource for anyone starting out.
It sounds like the actual unique number is only 6 digits long and chosen by the manufacturer, so it could either be a mistake or identical randomly generated numbers. My math is a bit rusty - how you you solve the birthday problem for 1mil instead of 365?

https://containertech.com/articles/shipping-container-number...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
It's possible to have many correct points but miss the forest for the trees/argue past each other. I didn't mean that last comment to be condescending, by the way.

To my original post (the second part), the BLS primarily measures the spending of people who never save a substantial portion of their income. Vehicles are a necessity for most of these people, so they are going to stretch out the lifetimes of their vehicles if the prices increase relative to their wages. Furthermore, people who might have bought a Camry with some upgrades in 1998 might be relegated to a stock Corolla in 2020. Sure, things are getting nicer all the time, but it's getting easier to make things all the time, too. Technology goes both ways, and at the end of the day, it's still a car. If they took out the rear airbags and removed all of the cheap microcontrollers, would the price really drop 40%?

The way the BLS does its survey does not account for preference changes due to price increases. When wealth inequality is constant, it's probably a decent measure. But even then, it's a political metric and the Big Mac index is the best, simple metric we have for true inflation (which has been consistently higher than CPI for decades).
What happens when somebody has more than a million containers? 6 digits doesn't seem enough to guarantee uniqueness.
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When did you last check? The Yosys+VPR toolchain currently supports a full Linux capable SoC with Ethernet and DDR memory on the Arty A35T (which has a Xilinx Artix 7 part), see the example at https://f4pga-examples.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building-exa...
What about https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/TCP-Function-System.h...?
In some definitions sure.
I'm on book 4 of the Bobiverse series and am really enjoying it, easy reads started the series last week! Read Blake Crouch's latest Upgrade over a weekend and would reccomend as well.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191728
New Mexico had a way of attracting "quirky" peoples long before UFOs became a tourist attraction. The residents encourage the tourist appeal at least partly because they like having even quirkier people come through; just for the joy of the company and because it makes the locals look normal by comparison. Well, slightly less odd.

Much of the state is a dire place to get a flat tire; caution when traveling through there whether by horse or mystical air chariot would be smart.
No, but that's not the point of C

The problem is Rust advertise itself as a safe language due to the borrow checker, wich is a false and dangerous claim
Old Man and the Sea. Was forced to read it in high school and promptly forgot it. Read it again and it's amazing. A short but big story about wants vs. needs with a surprising but inevitable ending.

Before that, The Great Gatsby. Same thing - forced to read earlier, then decided to read again. I missed so much about it the first time around.

It's kind of sad how education can tarnish classics in this way.

To re-iterate another commenter, Code by Prezold is surprisingly good (based on first few dozen pages). I had low expectations based on what seemed like hype, but so far it's holding up. It reminds me of the way that James Burke in his series Connections wove what seemed to be entirely disconnected technological threads together.
> Young people aren't taking care of themselves because they don't have access to the kinds of resources which will help them to do that -- namely, affordable, regular doctor's visits.

You don't need to visit a doctor to know that if you're overweight, you need to eat less.
> and an efficient way to transport power from a very sunny place to another location where the loads are

The point of the article is to make synthetic hydrocarbons, so no, do not need HVDC so much.
Amazing, thank you for posting! Wish this existed a few years ago... :]
Just so happen to be in La Rochelle tomorrow. I’ll go find Joshua!
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> it's a back of the envelope analysis that just projects trend lines on charts and makes no thoughts for emergent phenomenon due to the massive market swings it projects.

seems like there's a lot of this going around recently
The best part for me was discovering that a site called "container news" exists.
I don't know of any long distance HV AC or DC transmission lines that use copper. It's all aluminum already.
You don't have any problems, or you don't have any problems that you can solve with your current tool set and budget?
Anything is potentially cherry-picked, but there's no question that superinflation is real now (inflation is really much higher than the officially reported), and we stand on the precipice of hyperinflation. Later this year, the dry, hot summer (that's just weather, folks, not global warming, but the timing sucks), in conjunction with skyrocketing costs of fertilizer, diesel fuel, and hay/feed will drive real food prices higher than they've been in the lifetime of all but our oldest citizens. Food will become a very significant part of family spending.

It's no better on the industrial side - I've got a client in light manufacturing (oilfield sensors) - they can't get critical components, they can't get wire, they can't get adhesives and chemicals. They can't even get some of the blocks of metal that they start machining with!

They have orders that have been sidelined waiting for parts for a year now. Most vendors have stopped quoting delivery and now just say "52+ weeks", since they have no idea when they'll have product to sell again. Their customers are furious, but they can't deliver what they don't have.

This cannot end well. Our economies, worldwide, have been deliberately destroyed in a very intentional set of moves that are not nearly over yet. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, unless there's a massive uprising. Canadian truckers and the farmers of the Netherlands are just the beginning of the unrest that's going to happen.

Prepare for something much worse than the Great Depression, because our governments sure appear to be colluding to make sure it happens. The only thing good about this is that social media and tech companies will be the hardest hit. People need food, they need manufactured products, but no one NEEDS Facebook... (We're already seeing people drop expensive unessential subscriptions (Netflix, etc.), and even seeing enough late payments to AT&T that they have to call it our in defending their falling earnings.) The Great Reset is here, and it's likely to turn bloody before it's all over...
because of autocorrect
But it seems they need places with ample sunshine and water to electrolyze. That rules out the American west, the Sahara, etc. If they can use seawater, then arid coastal areas could work.
I couldn't get into it. They changed some of the characters and beginning plot and I hate when hollywood does that.
> Either way, it seems like finding that entity, and preventing it from interacting with Amazon, would stop a majority of this in its tracks.

From the comments I was expecting a flood of knock-offs or really problematic products, but it seems the main argument is they’re cheap and delivery takes a boat trip across the globe.

Is there any solid reasons these vendors shouldn’t be on Amazon ?

The knock-offs on AliExpress look to me like a different problem.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...
I go through phases where I will read on a near daily basis and then stop reading for months on end, or, start something and not finish it.

When I was a kid I always had a book. I really have no excuse not to read more but sometimes the internet just gets in my way.
The Colorado River Basin states are already in crisis mode. The governors just agreed to some emergency action that may head off the worst but drought conditions are expected to keep going so who knows if the reservoirs will recover.
Same! It was excellent.
It's wild to me you think someone using the phrase "police state panopticon" would have an always on voice assistant enabled.
Many years ago I encountered cheap knock-off network cards¹ that had default MACs in the range of a big known name brand, and as far as I know it wasn't some cross-branding/affiliate/other deal. So yes, there has been and no doubt still is.

[1] in fact, back in my student days most NICs I had were cheap knock-off versions, the "real" things were not the inexpensive items they are today. This predates it being common to have one built into your motherboard, even more expensive ones, by some time.
Absolute truth. Lol. Buddy. God doesn’t exist, you have been lied to all your life by controlling beings who wish to fill you mind with ancient fairy tales to keep you in submission. Religion is a refuge for the ignorant.

Hacker news is not the place to be spreading fear, it is a house of science and engineering. We like logic, and freedom. You are advocating for ignorance and superstition.
Maybe. The calculus works out from my pov. Maybe I just really value the flexibility
Several years ago I worked for a company that made a usb+network and usb-only skew of their product. The usb-only boards were the same as the usb+network boards with a few parts not populated.

We started getting tech support complaints when we sold the product into China. Turns out, an enterprising vendor bought a single usb+network printer, desoldered the EEPROM (containing the ethernet mac address). Then that vendor bought usb-only (cheaper) products, added the additional parts and bulk copied the single eeprom image (with the mac address) onto the new products, selling them as the more expensive usb+network sku. Result: a dozen+ of our product running on the LAN with the same mac address.
What's really horrifying is this: "such an incident cannot be detected unless the boxes arrive at the same port at the same time"

So they running this port with pencil and paper? No database? No sanity checks?
The good news is that humanity has saved up a few trillion for emergencies. The bad news is that it's been saved up and hidden in tax havens. Pity
My point was that maybe we should transport the electricity to where it needs to be used over high voltage long distance lines, rather than running an artificial hydrocarbon fuel generation process, storing it in tanks or pipelines, and then sending it to where it needs to be used, and feeding it into combustion engines.
Not if all my free cash is in their stock
You assign a second owner number to the group, probably
Another use of natural gas is to make fertilizer. Maybe you'd use a different process though if your end goal is to make ammonia? (I'm not an expert, but it seems you'd use electrolyzed hydrogen either way, but Haber Bosch reacts with nitrogen instead of CO2.)
There's only about six million active containers in the world. If one owner has more than a sixth of them, an easy fix would be to issue them a second owner code, basically extending the six-digit field by a bit.
The follow up to Children of Time, Children of Ruin, is also fantastic and a third book is slated to come out this year!
Viruses DNA can be added into animal DNA. Maybe a virus infected a bird, then a mammal that later evolved into the platypus.
There are billions of smart phones out there, and hundreds of thousands of technical minds both working at the companies who make them, and owning and checking them for these things.

Please provide a singular credible source for your statement.
The open source toolchain doesn't quite support the PCIe interface yet but all the other stuff should work in theory.

The best place to see what works is the F4PGA examples documentation at <https://f4pga-examples.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building-exa...>.

If you want to start with fully open source tools on a Xilinx 7 series FPGA the best option is the Digilent Arty A35T board <https://digilent.com/shop/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-development-b...>.
Thank you, that is what I gathered, give or take. I guess I was just taken aback by the idea that instead of displacing natural gas we would use more energy to make natural gas. Seems like the ultra-gargantuan investments needed for this kind of transition would be better spent transitioning to a mostly-electric energy economy.
There are some alleged frauds in the UK that rely on lots of small ephemeral businesses, one after the other, I could see that being an valid strategy here too
Yeah we gave up when we got to using lambda. Even if the api works it can’t scale the same way!
Try Snapshot Testing for Compilers and Compiler-Like Things
How is it as scalable when you're at the mercy of the local geology? There are not that many places where pumped storage is viable, its not just pumping water up to some random hill.
Cheap approximation is square root.
I have no such desire.
This is Hacker News, not "Hackers who read the article News"
https://sourcenm.com/2021/09/18/memory-of-a-river/
> There's only about six million active containers in the world.

Huh, that's a lot less than I expected there to be.
I haven't yet read the books (they're in the queue, but I'm currently going through Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga/Universe[0] first)... but the show was both really interesting and really awful, imo. It had a good premise initially, the bit about mathematical formulae that can guide humanity through existential struggle, and then it just kinda dropped the ball on that concept beyond a few scenes. The show apparently introduced a concept not really emphasized in the books, according to others I've talked to, in the form of "Empire" - a singular man, cloned multiple times, with a youth version (Dawn), an adult version (Day), and an elderly version (Dusk), some of which overlap beyond just the 3 generations. That was one of the more interesting bits of the TV series to me, since the rest was somewhat muddled and incoherently presented. Acting ranged from decent to awful. Too much mystery building for a show with no guarantee of a renewal. Worth a shot if you're bored and into SF though.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/series/108563-commonwealth-univers...
It all comes from the same factories. Some just has fancy branding and pricing attached. (ie. American middlemen.)
That's slightly better but they should never have printed it. Imagine writing such a story about the tiny amount of lead in a million solar panels without mentioning that every car battery sold in California comes with more lead than 2000 solar panels combined.

Edited to add: """…Current CdTe panels contain approximately 6 g/m2, resulting in cadmium emissions of 0.5g/GWh, equivalent to that of a coal fired power plant. The majority of these emissions (77%) result from mining and utilization of the modules, therefore a comprehensive collection and recycling program would not reduce the environmental impacts of these panels. """ -- Brookhaven National Lab

So there you go. Even if you take all retired utility-grade thin-film PV panels, grind them to a fine powder, and scatter them in the biosphere, you still emit less Cd than a coal-fired power station.
There’s also a phenomenon where people are convinced they have an obvious answer everybody else, including experts in the field, missed.
Not the original poster and perhaps it was adversarial, but I think it is also pretty clear that they did not read the article. Of course, they won't admit that (who wants to admit not reading the article?) so they will reply contextualizing their point to the article.
Ahem, 10 million
Self-reply after some consideration.

It looks like the one on the right is foot-operated, which is cool for people of average height and two feet. I smell an ADA lawsuit, but at least most people wouldn't need to touch it with their hands. But it will encourage people to throw out their returnables, which leads to the question "why do so many people rifle the trash?"

In the Vancouver area, trash cans have a little ledge where you're supposed to put returnables. From what I can tell, there's a pretty high rate of participation. It keeps the valuables out of the trash, and it simplifies collection. I guess it flies in the face of the American culture of security and authority, but it's a simple fix that takes people's actual motivation into account and addresses it there. Because, unless those cans are guarded 24/7, somebody is going to figure out how to quickly jimmy them open and that knowledge will disseminate quickly.
They use vast amounts of seawater, storing the leftover brine, or crystallized salt in huge quantities will become a problem.

Existing medium sizee drinking water desalination plants already create a huge amount of brine.
They can edit reviews though no?
I am not angry at anyone. If I can’t afford to own a home or don’t have the job stability for it then I am happy to pay for short term flexibility (vs renting long term) and live anywhere. It is more just a “dont give a fuck” attitude to home owners because I aint one
Powered thru Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin. How the Bolsheviks ended up in power is just such a ridiculous, improbable tale.

Fantastic book. Super hard to read, given the current events here in the USA. Paraphrasing, Kotkin's thesis is that revolution only succeeds when the elite stop defending the current regime.

I've since been wondering what our elite will do, when push comes to shove.