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The underlying problem is that ops doesn't scale well unless they can use generic abstractions over things like reliability, scalability, security, etc. Those generic abstractions require applications to adhere to ops best practices, or they don't work (e.g. Kubernetes can't scale a stateful app).

Without those generic abstractions, you need a ton of ops people. Enough that there are at least a couple members of ops with in-depth knowledge about each app, and each ops member can only realistically know <5 apps that well. Really, you need several ops members to know each app that well, because that style of ops tends to burn people out rather quickly and they quit. Ops also has to be intimately involved in the design process, and have some kind of veto power to say "you can't build a stateful app, then throw it over the fence and demand we somehow make it scalable".

With the generic abstractions, you need fewer ops people, but they really only know the generic abstractions and can't help diagnose errors via log messages.

A lot of (bad) devs want a world where ops is just held captive by dev. Ops has no authority to say no to the design process, and no ability to say that some things aren't possible with the application architecture. It just doesn't work. Even if ops can somehow do things like remove state from stateful applications, everyone capable of doing that work is going to quit. It's not fun or interesting work to do, it's exhausting and frustrating to expend man-months of effort on a problem that could have been solved with man-hours or weeks of development effort.
Mismanagement and greed are everywhere though. Coal plants don't have to dump CO2 and toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in massive quantities, but foregoing scrubbers and carbon capture saves money. Solar panels can be recycled reducing both pollution from manufacturing and disposal, but throwing them in landfills saves money. Falls from great heights maintaining windfarms can be avoided with proper safety equipment and training, but that costs money. Dams can be prevented from bursting with proper inspections, but that costs money.

The difference though is where coal kills many tens of thousands per year and a single dam burst typically has a death toll in the hundreds, the worst accident at a nuclear power plant this century has had 1 death attributed to it. More people have died from building collapses in the past 2 years than from nuclear power over its entire history.

Nuclear power is just fundamentally a technology where it is really difficult for mismangagement and greed to produce harm. It takes a lot of bad decisions and bad luck to get any substantial quantity of nuclear material anywhere near potential victims, the wider the affected area, the less potent the threat, and simply leaving the area after the accident is an effective defense.

Pretty much the only way to get substantial casualties from nuclear power is to deliberately disable safety features, blow up a reactor, prevent people from evacuating or taking other precautions for an extended period of time while actively suppressing information, and forcing hundreds of thousands of poorly trained and equipped people into the still burning reactor building and not letting them out before they've gotten far more than a safe dose. If you live in a place where that level of mismanagement is possible, you probably have bigger problems.
>99% still means 3 full days of blackout every year.

Or using some excess wind capacity to generate some windgas at and keeping it stored using existing natgas infrastructure.

The windgas process is only 50% efficient at converting electricity so it's only cost effective if it's used for say, <1% of electrical needs.

These calculations also dont take into account demand shaping. If you can convince people to stop smelting aluminium so much and charging their cars on the off day that reduces storage needs still further.
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If by 'randomly select' you do mean randomly, the TABLESAMPLE is what you want (although random means random pages not rows and the amount returned may be over or under)

SELECT *
FROM Sales.Customer TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM (10 PERCENT) ;

for example. You can of course specify by rows instead.
Wikipedia, obviously.

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

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301639075_Sexual_Or...

This one says 20%, according to polls...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/6961/what-percentage-population...

Kinsey said 10% : https://www.hli.org/resources/prevalence-of-homosexuality-in...

5% is low, then, for some. But it's far more than OP's 1%, which was my point.
This. Metadata for the intelligence commmunity is a double-edged sword: is it something less, meaning it’s OK to mass collect? Or is it more, meaning it’s enough to justify a killing?
Public infrastructure is important, but most people can get by just fine by plugging it in at home when they're done for the night.

That is a far more energy and cost efficient way to charge anyways. If you're just commuting around town/to work/school/etc, fast charging is mostly unimportant.
Well, part of me wishes this particular "car" wasn't separated into two replaceable pieces. A fender-bender or bad battery shouldn't warrant replacing half of my car! Not only is it ridiculously expensive, but it's insanely wasteful if the half it's replacing isn't being salvaged for components.

Apple has the resources to fix this. They choose to actively neglect it, since they have a very successful side-business dedicated to replacing your iDevices at-cost.
John Carmack on avoiding distractions
The best example of Go code of "knowing what might happen" is `pv_controller.go` in kubernetes, which is commented "space shuttle style", ie: "PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SIMPLIFY THIS CODE. KEEP THE SPACE SHUTTLE FLYING."
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/con...
It's not about too expensive for me - it's about why a manufacturer is able to pick a method of "sale" that has unbounded costs for the "purchaser".

This is an unbounded cost. That makes sense when the service provided has an unbounded cost associated with it that the manufacturer is paying, but that's utterly untrue in this situation.

This is about a manufacturer taking a cost saving measure -
simplified manufacturing lines

Then manipulating a digital device to also take a profit increasing measure - creating a digital on/off switch for heated seats that they refuse to provide a key for.

Do you think it's ethical for the previous owner of your home to keep the keys? "Hey - you own this house now, but if you want access to the basement - I got the keys and you have to pay up! It's only 25 bucks per month!"

That's clearly hostile. What makes you bend over so far backwards to let BMW ream you up the ass here in exactly the same way?

Why are you comfortable giving them digital control of something you (in theory only) own?
That's why I prefer the Superior(TM) Korean age counting. You are one year old when you're born (it's your first year!). You are two year old on the next New Year's day. (Congratulations, it's your second your now!)

So, if you're born on December 31st, you're two years old the next day. (I see no problem, but apparently some people are hung up on such minor details. I can't fathom why.)
This IS how the real world works now. Don’t think it will stop at student debt, 20 years ago government bailouts were unthinkable, now we did it for the GFC, the ACA, COVID, and now Student Loans.

A decade from now the government will be printing money to pay off car loans for low income borrowers who got themselves underwater buying a $50k BMW. And similar bailouts will be done on the backs of the working class, at least until the financial system collapses.
It's not that simple. Providers simply can't go back to the old days. They will push consumers to their limit, but I just don't think people are interested in paying $150/mo for scheduled programming with ads any more.

In the end it will likely be a compromise. But it's a good time to vote with our wallets.
Cool! I do this, but I haven't seen anyone else do it. Is any of your code public?

I wrote about it at https://sive.rs/pg

and posted my SQL shopping cart at https://github.com/sivers/store

Please contact me if you'd like to share tips: https://sive.rs/contact
They're only in favor of a "free" market that they control. Decentralization empowers everyone, not just plutocrats.
I often see drivers arguing that not only is it ok to speed, but that drivers who obey the speed limit are actually doing something wrong!

I don't think I've ever heard of a cyclist getting mad at another cyclist for stopping at a red light. The propensity to violate traffic laws seems to be higher among drivers than cyclists.
I've changed parts on several Apple laptops and one Mac Mini using iFixit manuals. In every case, it was really useful to read all the comments left by readers. Sometimes the comments tell you that you can skip several steps, in some cases they point out when you need to be extra careful or when the iFixit photos were misleading.
Can you name a few that you haven't been able to find?
What about mamils?

Middle-aged men in lycra
Why specifically on the dev page?
In 2010, an American citizen was killed in a drone strike by the US military, without a trial or any attempt to make an arrest. This was the first time in history that a US civilian was killed by the US military. Before 2010, we were doing just fine without executing citizens on suspect legal grounds.

Edit: Edited to state that this was not fire of combatants in a combat zone.
Glad to see constitutional rights being upheld.
I, too, am interested in learning more.
This is the reason I always think of when I hear the question
> I believe BMW did offer this option, at least for some of the features. Heated seats were $450 or so, or $18/mo.

That's a good call-out. I don't think there's anything wrong with offering a monthly option (it seems weird and I think there's probably some social commentary in there, but whatever), I just don't want to be forced to pay monthly.
> "we didn’t realize how truly awful SQL was or would turn out to be (note that it’s much worse now than it was then, though it was pretty bad right from the outset)."

I wish the "truly awful" stuff I come up with was 0.1% as successful as SQL.
Ask 100 random people on the street and I'd be surprised if even 1 knew the definition of "ordinal". It's an uncommon word.
The flip side is it's virtually impossible to hide a large-scale mining operation. The meatspace footprint is just gigantic. By contrast a validator node, even one securing billions of value, can run on consumer hardware sitting behind a VPN or TOR gateway.
The has CIA tortured US citizens, destroyed the evidence and got away with it, I doubt anything will happen.
According to ultrasound.money, Ethereum's current 30d inflation rate is 4.1% annualized. If the merge were already behind us (flip the "simulate merge" switch), inflation would be 0.1%.

So, not quite deflationary but pretty close. If Ethereum network usage picks up again like it did in 2021, Ethereum will experience long stretches of time where it is deflationary.

https://ultrasound.money/
> lack of ideological purity of Ethermine?

Yes, and the fact that everyone in the Ethereum community has largely glossed this over in their enthusiasm for the "merge" and what it will do the price of their assets.

Cryptocurrencies that embrace the centralization and censorship of fiat currencies are completely unnecessary and have no real utility. Tornado Cash and Ethermine should have been a line in the sand, a hard boundary for what's acceptable and what's not.

But the fact that no one even cares tells me that the community will be happy to accept even more censorship as long as their bags keep going up. Pathetic, really.
It's fair because the "burden" is much, much less when dividing across an entire population, and education shouldn't be made available only to people with stuffed bank accounts and rich parents.

It's fallacious to think of this as the full impact being transferred to other people. The cost is being transferred, but it's being spread over many, many people, which lowers the impact on everyone.
23% of the French population is more than 6km from a train station [1], which is considered close enough to bike. That's 15.6 million people. Assuming those are families of 2.2 people on average, they would need 7 million cars. That’s 18% of the current 38 million cars in France.

We could have five times fewer cars, and half of the country’s carbon footprint if the 31 million car owners who don’t need them gave theirs up. But somehow, the 7 million necessary cars are used as a loincloth to shelter the rest from poisoning everyone else

[1] https://www.cairn.info/revue-transports-urbains-2014-3-page-...
Companies don't kill me. It's the government I'm worried about, and the governments of the world have literally no intentions on respecting your privacy.
> The 1 makes a lot of sense in a human world, when we count, we start at 1

As a kid I learned "one one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand" when counting time out loud, but at some point I realized this was incorrect. The prefix is the start of the nth second but it isn't complete yet, so for example stopping in the middle of saying "two one-thousand" you actually haven't reached two seconds yet.

My fix was to move the prefix to the end, so I say "one-thousand one, one-thousand two, one-thousand three".

In retrospect maybe I should have used "zero one-thousand, one one-thousand, two one-thousand".
My 4 year old starts at 0 when asked to count, so proud! Never said a thing about starting at 0.
That’s an empty argument. People don’t have a choice on what third parties share and disclose. People don’t have a choice on things like HIPAA and banking regulations and they shouldn’t because those regulations protect people but don’t regulate people.
Maybe we should treat SQL like JavaScript, and use it as a compiler target instead of coding in it directly. /s
It's not the choice you have though in areas where those killings take place. It's either drone strikes or nothing. Boots on the ground to catch bad guys and bring then to court isn't possible.
Historically, I think it's when we started controlling the path of cutting tools with other tools, such as the thread cutting lathe of Henry Maudslay.

The Portsmouth Block Mills are the first example of integrated mass production using machine tools.[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Block_Mills
I wouldn't advocate for new nuclear (for the same reason the creator of this model gives, it just isn't cost effective) but existing nuclear in stable, northern regions that also have hydro is definately a positive if you're aiming to get to carbon-free power faster.

If you don't have the much hydro then it can fight with solar/wind for usage of that dispatchable resource, and if you don't have the nuclear you can build solar/wind for less so there's no reason to start.
I am still fairly early in my career. I've worked mostly in Java, but my current job is a mix of Python for E2E testing, PHP and JS for application work. Go is my preferred language for tools.

My favorite language is by far Java with Go a close second. I dislike the others. The only thing I wish Go had is more functional support, but only in the style of Java's fluent API. I strongly dislike PHP, JS, and Python functional style and would almost prefer they not exist.
Victim blaming is not a very effective strategy to advance a cause...

Edit: as said I was actually hit twice. I don't keep track of the near misses...
I thought that but it turns out that Netflix is culturally/principally anti-advertisement. They’re caving to shareholder demand and introducing a cheaper, ad-supported plan but their regular plans are - at least for now - to remain ad-free.
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The Earth is only 6 thousand years old. Just look in the Texas elementary school science textbook.
Good advice, thanks. I've replaced the battery on my wifes 2013 MBA and it was incredibly easy.

My MBP is maxed out and was quite an investment so I want to keep it around for as long as possible. I'll probably just be safe and have Apple replace the battery around 5 years assuming it stays usable for that long.
Yes, but "human-focused" 1-based indexing comes at a cost since at the end of the day the CPU has to add (index * element-size) to the array base address to get the address of the indexed element. With a 1-based index there's additional overhead in either having to subtract 1 from the index or to have a wasted "element 0" to avoid the need to do that.
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it also creates another problem - solar generation drop off very quickly when the sun is obscured. going from 100% to 10% or 20% in many cases. Where doe the power come from during these swings? What generation source can ramp up and down at that speed?
So you can buffer the wind/solar output for just 78 minutes? Doesn’t sound like a complete solution.

Edit: I guess per the paper it really depends on the specific details of generation/load timing. Could be workable for a certain region but not for another.
If your mortgage is 1000 and you charge 3 Students 700 a head, you now have 1100 left over. Put 500 away for repairs and pocket the 600. 600x5 = 3000 USD Straight Profit. If you don't put anything away for repairs: 2100 - 1000 = 1100 x5 = 5,500 a month = 66,000 a year for 5 homes

That is shockingly bad. I was going to make a comment about how ridiculous your comment is..until I did the math! Kudos
Governments killing people without due process in this manner is criminal homicide.

Each person needs to held individually accountable for their crimes. State secrets should be declassified and released. Each person's individual actions should be documented. And they should be tried in court and serve sentences commensurate with their level of participation.

This does not secure the country. This creates enemies and makes the situation worse.

If we lived in a just world ever single one of these people would be serving a lifetime in jail. This includes the politicians that approved funding for it as well as any lawyers and judges that rubber stamped it.

There is war and then there is what the Federal government is doing. They are not the same thing.

It is unacceptable. It is global tyranny.
If you follow everything religiously you start at p.47. You definitely don’t need the 25 pages for replacing keys. And all those pages include reassembly, which is missing from the 26-step iFixit guide, which stops at “remove the battery”.
Solution for for full transparency and digitalization of sessions
Japan to Consider Building Next-Gen Nuclear Plants, Nikkei Says
Incorrect. See https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/services/arr...

The exemptions are limited to issues of accessibility, refugee status, natural disaster, etc. If you don't have a smartphone, they say to have someone else do it for you or use a web-based version. I'm in support of these measures, but be accurate about what they are.
>Pay $9.99 a month not to see homeless people

Better hope that's context-sensitive. Street meth addicts commit enough random assaults and smash enough car windows now, just imagine what they would do if they were literally invisible.
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Devs can do whatever they want server side. Leave the client machine alone. But also, at the end of the day, they're just games. I think we started taking things a bit too seriously.
Clickjack may have been the wrong word to use. I was referring to this from the HN guidelines [1]:

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think Australia will use mostly batteries, but we are building more hydro. I think hydro is miscast as being green though, when in reality it causes enormous ecological destruction.

Hydro is also intermittent - it requires the right amount of rainfall, currently hydro in Australia is not able to reach full generation because it will flood downstream as it's been a wet year.

Hydro is not that cheap (depending on the metric you need) - see an example[1] comparing Australian hydro to the aforementioned Victorian Big Battery.

[1] https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/snowy-2-vs-battery-stora...
How about you write it? I'd be curious to read it.
Cable was also started because certain areas had bad reception so they multiplexed the signals together down a single cable to avoid the reception issues.

There's a lot of competeing "cable was started" stories
> 99% still means 3 full days of blackout every year.

Or 3 days running otherwise-mothballed (and, yes, quite expensive per MW) gas plants or whatever to fill the gaps. There's a real problem in this discourse that wants to interpret things in absolutist ideas, when real solutions always end up looking a little patchwork in those last few percent.

Reducing electrical grid carbon output by a factor of 100 (!!) is more than sufficient to meet anyone's climate goals. At that point, the low-hanging-fruit analysis will have long since moved on to transportation anyway.
Chances are high that it will not end in disaster, in my opinion.

They've simulated the switchover dozens of times on a diverse set of networks, including development ("shadow") forks of the main network itself.
For more clarification: According to Mudge.
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True. But there wouldn’t be a growing number of easily accessible websites happily letting everyone type whatever prompt they desire, and there wouldn’t be further development being done in this area.

“Zero people trying to disrupt my job with art generators” would be ideal, but “a lot fewer people trying to disrupt my job with illegal art generators they can get in trouble for using” is still better than “hey we released this great copyright infringement machine for anyone to use for free”.
Please, with the anniversary coming up shortly, remember the event that they used as an excuse to start "programs" like these: 9/11.

I was too young and dumb and propagandized to know what I was getting myself into, signing up to go fight "those evil terrorists", but it didnt take long for me to realize something wasnt right. I spent the vast majority of my life since I got out of the Corps trying to understand the why of it all, starting with the small picture view from an infantrymans perspective, working my way up piece by piece until I was at the 30k ft view at the global scale.

You can't solve the war on terror or the turning on of the totalitarian surveillance state without solving 9/11, the justification that enabled those things. The story as told by government and their operation mockingbird 2.0 lackeys in media just isn't true.

What I realized, that still terrifies me, is that all these tools and techniques we used "over there", are going to end up being used against us (and other countries) domestically.
> when you look at any country

This is true of any group of people, particularly a tolerant one, because actions deemed necessary by some will always be abhorrent to others.
Problems for Netflix started when they started competing against other content providers with their own original content. If they didn't produce their own content and just provided a distribution platform for others I think we would still have everything on Netflix
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I’m guessing because it’s wireless instead of plugged in. I bet a wired USB TCP connection would be much faster.

Also, if you notice, the laptop response is much faster. To me, this suggests that the drawing on the tablet might require a round trip back to the server. If so, it could probably be sped up by drawing locally/async.
This seems to be a new PR spin on the same technology that was posted a while ago. 3D printed optical neural networks. I'm surprised I haven't seen more interest considering the energy efficiency and speed of computation.