skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The overwhelming majority of electricity demand is base load. Usually on the order of 70-80% [1]. We don't need "some" base load, almost all our demand is base load.

The article you linked doesn't really back this up, at least in the way this discussion means it. It shows that with flexible production, you can drastically scale back on "traditional" base load power sources, and that is representing a real power grid in Germany. Nothing about the graph actually says "this is as much renewables as you can pack into this power grid".

If you look at the graph closely, you'll notice that solar is big during the day, and wind is big during the night. With greater installed wind production capacity, the fossil fuel lines would drop drastically in the graph. It's that simple. We would still need to have "peaker plants" available until there is enough grid energy storage capacity, but combined cycle natural plants work fine for that. We can keep pushing down the time they need to on by building more renewables even without batteries.

> The storage facility you linked to was the biggest facility in the world when it was first constructed, and it stored only 129 MWh of electricity.

I specifically linked that one because it talks about how ridiculously profitable it has been, and how much of an impact it has had on the local grid. If it can save money for a traditional grid, then it is a no-brainer for utilities to install bigger and bigger grid batteries. More demand for batteries means more battery production facilities, increasing global production capacity over time.

However, the world is also transitioning to Electric Vehicles, and most EV manufacturers are offering V2G (vehicle to grid) solutions, so millions of EVs can contribute a portion of their battery capacity to the grid in the future, and the grid can compensate them for their contribution.

> Battery production is expected to increase, but it's unclear whether raw material inputs can keep up with manufacturing demands [2].

Lithium is not exactly rare or hard to extract, you can even extract lithium from saltwater, so this argument seems specious. But, various alternative chemistries are being explored which could help in different ways.

> At our current rate of battery production it'd take us a century of dedicating 100% of our battery output to grid storage to reach 1 day's worth of storage.

How did you determine that we need a full day's worth of energy storage? We can drastically decarbonize the grid (and lower electric costs for consumers) with a lot less than that, based on what I've seen, but this is a highly speculative part of the discussion so it's interesting to hear how that number came to be.
I also didn't like the abstract. It feels more like what the introduction section of the paper should be. Instead here they should summarize what their key finds or results were.
Looking at the control room displays they use imperial units all over the place - lb/ft/F. I'm very surprised that none of that stuff is metric. I wonder if this is part of some regulatory requirement.
Between transportation and slaughter, if I had to say which is more stressful/harmful to animal I'd definitely say transportation.

Near me at least, pigs are usually transported in semi trailers with perforated sides. They can see out, hear the traffic around them, and are mostly exposed to the elements.

You don't want to try to slaughter a group of pigs that was just unloaded off a truck - ideally, you want to pen them overnight so they have a chance to calm down and become accustomed to their surroundings. Otherwise they'll be very resistant to being herded into a chute or separated from their herd.
I disagree. It would probably prompt a few support calls and emails, but otherwise I think it would be great.
Probably skipped it as I tried to get to the meat of the artic- never mind, I'll see myself out.
You're basically describing the system as it is intended to work. If a business cannot survive without paying someone minimum wage, we've decided as a society that it is not worthy of existence. On the other end, if the person sucks at the job and is costing the business money, I don't know why there is an expectation the person keeps the job. I certainly don't receive that benefit.
It doesn't take an IQ 3 standard deviations beyond the mean to figure out I was talking about the websites in general
I've never worked anywhere that was deeply invested in microservers and had a workable development environment.

n=3. All small companies. I'm sure this isn't representative of all companies, but I also never claimed that's the case. Smaller companies tend to have worse dev tooling in general, so not a surprise this extends to this, too.

> If your team failed to setup a dev environment, that problem is on you, not on a type of software architecture.

Running 15 servers is harder than running 1 servers. These things are certainly related. It's not "trivial" to run any of this.

It's not "on me"; I joined long after all of this was set up. Usually there seems little interest in getting anything going, it's all pretty complex and often undocumented, so not so easy to "just" fix it by myself either, and after a few weeks or months of basically getting fuck all done I've ended up leaving (
AI could someday make medical decisions instead of your doctor
More like Veblen good. Try selling a diamond.
I've never seen them be the former - they're always the latter. Reliably. Dash in a bit of intersectionality and a discussion of capitalist oppression.

I really hate those trainings.
Ice Cubes is another great example. Very exciting times! https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
> No way that could possibly throw off peoples' subjective feeling of how bright the sky is, right?

They're not being asked to evaluate the glow itself, but how many stars they can see in a particular region of the sky.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/19/light-po...

"Participants were asked to use a website to view a selection of star charts for their location – each showing an incrementally greater number of the stars that exist in that patch of sky – and pick the chart that best matched what they could see. The researchers then created a model that related the number of visible stars to the brightness of the night sky."
So that means one engineer can do the job of ten? Unlikely. It is even more unlikely that person is working in your organisation, unless you work in one of the FANG companies.

It is also worth reading this

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8804291
I only use uuid as PK in Postgres. So many benefits, it is easy to migrate data between environments, client can generate its own ids etc.

I don’t know about performance but I think in most cases that is not a big concern anyway.
Not defending t-mobile here, but perhaps the local talent pool wasn't interested in solving security problems for a telco when just up the street either of AWS or MSFT could give them planet scale security problems to sink their teeth into.
China's reactors are cheap in China Bux. But we just got to see how 'cheap' South Korea's $2.50/W reactors are when they exported one and let slip the 'service' contract that put the final price at $10/W (net)
If that was the right decision, none. But it might have been the right decision, it also might not.
Nah history in information security repeats daily. How many unsecured mongodb databases exposed to the internet and unsecured S3 buckets did we see? Credentials have been committed to github so often that Github chose to build an automated alert system on their own dime that you don't even have to sign up for. How many times have lastpass and Experian been breached? How often do we STILL see sql injection attacks, a problem that has been actually solved for decades?
That’s a remarkable assertion, given that there’s plenty of countries where strong taboos on having multiple sexual partners has effectively controlled diseases such as AIDs. For example, AIDS prevalence in Egypt and Pakistan (which have relatively well developed healthcare systems with accurate statistics, and are also the target of extensive western healthcare aid and associated scrutiny) is just 0.1%. In the United States it’s 0.36% and in many countries it’s well over 1%.

Many poor countries have largely been spared the ravages of the AIDS epidemic because it is in fact possible for societies to reduce risky sexual behavior if they choose to do so.
https://archive.ph/XTV5g
FTC wants Martin Shkreli held in contempt of court for forming new drug firm
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Surprised all the takes here are so negative. I suspect that the vast majority of people using Twitter won't be affected. The vanishingly small tech population that cares about these things is likely going to have no impact on Twitter's overall user base. Sports and Celebrities, news organizations, normies, they'll all continue to use Twitter and won't be up to date on any of this drama.

I don't have a twitter account. Until today, I had never heard of tweetbot. Who installs an app when you can just use the mobile site?
A lot of people think the only way to be safe is to have multiple exterior lights on their property. It's a waste of energy and a blight.
Thanks for posting this. I am broken by my current employer and I've just hit rock bottom (hopefully). Little backstory:

In 2019 I've had burnout because of team members that didn't care about being in a team. They just messed up the team dynamic completely and I just couldn't handle it. I asked my supervisor to act upon this, but he didn't, so I went on sick leave (Netherlands). Nothing happened for about half a year when I was sidelined in another team.

In 2020 and 2021 I just had nothing to do. Or just stupid chores doing rework or refactoring, but it just didn't do it for me. I asked constantly for work, but there wasn't any. I had to, however, justify my hours, which was becoming impossible.

Whatever I did finish, often didn't make it in the final product. Or I got berated for spending too much time, without getting any time allotted prior. It destroyed my motivation for working.

In the mean time I was looking out for other jobs, but not finding anything that suited me. You see I'm visually impaired, so I hate commuting as it costs me quite a bit of energy, which I'd rather spent on something else.

In the end of 2021 I urged my supervisor to find a solution as it was becoming dire to me. He promised that he would, but as you can guess, he didn't. Going into 2022 I wrote him a letter saying the situation was unsustainable for me. I had quite a lot of panic attacks, especially before starting a new week. That didn't change anything. So in march of 2022 I went on sick leave.

During 2022 the situation only deteriorated. Everyone 'tried their best', but without any results. I got assigned a budget for 2500€ for external help. Which wouldn't be sufficient for any meaningful help. But inquiring on how I could use that budget left me with no answers. This finally resulted in conflicts with my supervisor, HR supervisor and the CEO. And still no help. No psychologist, nothing.

I also went to my GP in May of 2022, but the waiting list for mental help are extremely long. I just got my first appointment last week. In the mean time my mental complaints only increased. I'm now suffering from depression, anxiety, anger, suicidal thoughts and being unable to stay asleep. Because of inflation financially things are getting harder too. It's just stress upon stress upon stress.

I just want to leave. I want to get out of this situation. I don't want anything to do with these folks ever again. They fucked me up by sidelining and ignoring me. And finally they don't take any responsibility. I don't even enjoy my computing hobby anymore.

I just wanted to ventilate my story to a bunch of strangers on the internet, like you. Thanks again for posting this and I hope I can start over soon. Good luck!
> Thou shalt initialize thy static variables, else The Machine shall set them to zero.

Isn't that last part a bad assumption since it could be arbitrary values as well? Because people expecting a default zero value might be surprised otherwise.
Very encouraging to hear!
I hear you in your belief. Everyone experiences different levels of stability depending on the many circumstances
> I was driven to actively contemplate suicide due to my boss and his shitty attitudes and issues but no one actually seemed to care. Even then I convinced myself with "aww, it's not so bad" when in reality it was absolutely horrific.

But what specifically was bad (project? the company's product/service? customers? market? internal stuff? development process? middle managers? team?), and was it only like this for you, or your coworkers? It's impossible to get an inkling from reading this. (Equivalently, if you could have changed three things about the company/dept, what would they have been?)

> I am however still resentful over the lost years.

I really don't see framing things like that is helpful. You chose to stay out of (extreme) fear; you could have left. Again, what did you learn about what you most wanted as changes in the company, or about yourself or your psychology? Unless you can articulate (/reframe) something positive, I don't see there's much other people or you yourself can extract from this account. (For example: when you see management hierarchies of bullies, incompetent, cronies and no accountability, you learn the signs to look for so you can detect them the next time, at interview or even before. What are those signs?)

A superb book is Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" (1946/1959). TLDR: no experience is inherently negative or positive, you can always reframe it to extract something positive. This determines your outlook. People here cite it often: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=+%22Man%27s+Search+for+Meaning%22
How do you reduce ambiguity quickly if the customers do not know themselves what they want?
That's not a JS thing, 0 and -0 comparing as equal is specified in the IEEE 754 floating point standard.
I think the reaction from your American hosts was either unusual, or they privately disagreed with your assessment of the server's rudeness. Maybe that is a restaurant they wanted to return to later and didn't want to burn bridges.

I don't hesitate to refuse a tip if the server is truly rude, but I'll also not return to that restaurant for a long time. This has only happened a handful of times in my life. If the service is neutral then I'll leave a neutral tip, usually 15% unless the total is low and rounds up to a nice whole number.
You sound like the kind of person who thinks saying "it's just a prank bro" makes a variety of awful behaviour ok.

AF is a day with a mix of corpos trying So Hard To Be Cool (remember this shit? https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/1/11344044/google-gmail-mic-...) and plainer-than-usual disinformation campaigns.

The only redeeming thing about that day is I get to have an excuse to not be reachable for a day and can be disconnected for a while. Hopefully my loved ones don't end up in the hospital on bad timing.
Tangential to the article itself - the page is fairly unreadable, at least on mobile due to the silly number of ads, an overlaid video ad that doesn’t seem to have a close button and so on. I understand that this is a business that needs ads for revenue, but how do publishers feel good shipping such awful experiences and somehow expect users to want to return to their sites?
Do .... do you not think that Twitter mobs exist?
As is so often the case it isn’t any one issue like decommissioning that’s the problem alone. It’s that nuclear has such a wide range of costs that they collectively become expensive even if each cost in it’s own isn’t prohibitive.

Aka if we only needed to pay for fuel rods and waste management then nuclear would be wildly profitable. Similarly if the only cost was a large workforce and expensive maintenance then again it would be wildly profitable. Being forced to act as base load generation with long periods offline for refueling isn’t a deal killer. If it was just the long construction times and NIMBY issues that would be fine. Etc.

Unfortunately because there is such a diverse range of costs there isn’t a single silver bullet that’s going to solve all problems with nuclear power. At best by addressing individual issues we might increase the percentage of electricity generated by nuclear power. That’s very realistic and IMO a worthwhile goal.
> what they expected out of EMs vs engineers, as it varied a lot

I'm curious about the rough models which exist.
I'm hoping some of the new Mastodon clients come out have great accessibility features.

At the very least, one of the core features of the platform is it (at least on web) highly encourages captions on images for accessibility :)

(I know there is the issue of where people she was following on Twitter may not move over etc, sadly)
No, not every problem is solvable. If my boss asks me if 1+1=3, I will never tell him it does. There are managers who want to hear 1+1=3. And won't accept anything less.

There are managers who actively look to destroy people. It happens, for various reasons, including favoritism, nepotism or whatever. It isn't mine to know why. It is mine to know that it happens. And I've seen it plenty.

When negativity is in charge.... negativity wins. When zero and negative sum is the only game to be played... those of us who play a positive game suffer.

I'm glad you've never seen these dynamics, and been able to dodge them. But trust me. I've seen it, and I've seen it destroy great teams.

The way he can change his state is exactly how he did: Leave. Sometimes it really is that bad. May it never get there for you.
There is never going to be a software developers union until you can accurately define what the job of a software developer is.

There are no industry standard tools or procedures for the role. Every job description is unique. There are no education requirements. There is no licensing body. There is no boundary for what constitutes software development and what doesn't. A group which ~every knowledge worker in the world can be part of is effectively useless.
Social media has been the driver of an enormous level of democratic empowerment, an unprecedented new degree of bottom-up communication. I think society hasn't experienced such a structural shift to political power distribution since the printing press's arrival in the West. Unlike China, the West had no central authority, so what was printed and distributed could not be properly suppressed.

The counter-reaction to this, I believe, is the increased concentration of wealth and push toward monopoly and control.

If democracy prevails, I believe social media, like Youtube, Reddit etc will drive a level of cultural, scientific and technological enlightenment to equal the Renaissance.

If autocracy prevails, if the whole world falls under the dominion of a single authority, we will all end up in one single shithole country.
> If a business cannot survive without paying someone minimum wage, we've decided as a society that it is not worthy of existence.

An appeal to the decisions of society? I'm not sure that's the argument you're looking for; American society has decided that it works differently for waitresses.
Accidental File Deletion Led to Notam Crash, FAA Says
> In the State of JS 2020 survey, the fourth top answer to “What do you feel is currently missing from JavaScript?” was a pipe operator.

In 2021 (https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/opinions/) it fell to 7th place.
> official Twitter client is a LOT less accessible than the one she was using

She should submit an ADA complaint [1].

[1] https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/
Is this mostly just a story about Databricks?

PayPal mafia refers to how many other companies they founded after PayPal, not the fact that they founded PayPal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
The "ongoing maintenance cost of software" can also be the additional complexity in the mental model of developers that have to deal with nearby parts of the codebase. Even if no maintenance is needed for a specific feature, it doesn't always make sense to keep around.

There's also knock-on effects, e.g. an offering like this could attract the type of user that would add a lot of additional support burden for the value that the company _and_ the user gets out of the feature.
Even as a pure software weenie it may be worth playing with gcc -nostdlib sometime, just to get a feel for what is done for you in crt0 and libc.
This assumes everyone is tipping the same, "fair", unified rate; they aren't, though: people who tip more--for a variety of reasons that might have nothing to do with the wait staff--are subsidizing the prices for people who tip less. I wrote more about this in my adjacent comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459678
> other 3rd world countries

Which countries? I’m super curious since I have work/school friends from all over and afaik it’s mostly just a US thing due to federal minimum wage set to less than $3. And Canada just follows suit.

Yea tips exist in other countries but not the regimented 15-18-20-25% and is usually only given for large groups at a fixed rate.
Yeah, for all the shit WV gets, their origin is NOT something to be ashamed of. Virginia was the most powerful and wealthiest state, too - it cost WV greatly to leave. They fought like hell during the war and lost a ton of men.

Pretty badass.
Best way to learn (as with most things) is by doing. As mentioned, TDD by Example (Kent Beck) is a good start. Pairing or coding in a group ("mob programming" or "ensembling" as it's called) is even better than doing it on your own.

You can also watch me build a complete small game from scratch using TDD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjYKzodYuoE&list=PLBHctPrH7Z...
Which means I have to trust them to do that verification correctly. Which is the whole problem with them signing the APKs in the first place.

On edit: What I meant by "unless something is checking" was that something independent had to be checking. Thought that was obvious.
Annoyingly, seems to be Mastodon-specific - can't OAuth to GotoSocial and flat-out refuses to even consider an Akkoma instance. Let's hope they sort that out soon (since both of them support enough of the MastoAPI that other clients work fine.)
there are some security guidelines available, see e.g. here:
- https://tminus365.com/microsoft-365-security-baseline-cisa-s... (https://github.com/cisagov/ScubaGear)
- https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...
I think, in that case, the slow and steady ones will outcompete us rushing few and all will stabilize soon. Until then, I'll be seeing you guys on the playing field.
Perhaps unintentionally, you changed your argument from “fossil fuels are responsible for blackouts” to “ I cannot recall any major blackouts caused by the fossil fuel plants operating normally while renewables failed to produce on schedule”. These are different arguments.

I am very much on team renewable, but the only reason those fossil fuel plants are needed in the first place is because of the very nature of renewables. So it’s disingenuous to say that fossil fuels are responsible for blackouts when it’s the dispatchability of renewables that required fossil fuel burning in the first place.

I don’t think the GP meant anything other than this.
It was A&W and it's almost certainly BS. The only source for this was a single restaurant that hired a marketing firm to identify the reason for the failure. The marketing firm conducted a single focus study, whose methodology remains unknown but reported that one participant in the study asked why they should pay more money for a smaller product.

Let me tell you something about marketing firms, many of don't exactly hire competent statisticians or people with a rigorous scientific background to investigate matters, and I doubt the situation was any better back in the 80s. Even today I've seen such firms ask leading questions, push people to give certain answers, have incredibly biased or non-random focus groups, or many other very basic mistakes.