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Dumb question: is there any difference (in terms of costs and effect) between solar panels and solar furnaces?

I mean, say you have N square meters of solar panels. If I understand it correctly, then it doesn't matter whether you make them flat or turn them into parabolic solar furnace, does it?

Yes, with furnace you can concentrate that energy on smaller area (hence more heat), but does it matter for house owners?
I was born in 91, so for the first half of childhood (0 - 9) there were no tablets or smartphones or smart TVs around. During the latter part of my childhood (10 - 17) these things started to propagate but we were still in the initial phases of smartphones and social networks. We had game consoles growing up but they were not as networked as they are now.

Watching my goddaughter (age 3) is pretty terrifying, she knows how to operate Netflix and has seen some movies dozens of times, she spends a lot of time on tablets and smartphones and is already conditioned to them.

It's difficult for me to see parents capitulate to their younger kids outbursts and simply hand them a phone to placate them, I'm not a parent yet but given everything I know about the companies behind big tech I don't feel comfortable giving my child access to a phone until high school. If I was able to survive w/o one I'm sure they can too.
Yes, the other poster has pointed out that some legitimate Tor users might click "agree" just to be able to use the page, without really agreeing with it.

so in my sibling comment I suggested that all Tor users could be blocked, while making it clear that the operator does not support their rights.
You have to consider that you are an outlier. I think the problem with most millennials is that they don't have jobs that can afford them to save anything or are constantly in between jobs where by the time you find something you have to pay off additional accumulated debt.
So 15-30 minutes (assuming you got your "start here" number tickets essentially right away after opening) according to what the DMV measures, presumably at an off-peak time, which means, for a 69 minute average, with an even distribution, there would be people waiting 108-138 minutes.

Even just tacking on the 75 minutes the DMV "don't have a way to track" [1] without scaling it up, that gets 3-3.5 hours, which isn't too far off from the 4+ hour anecdata in other comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743559 https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmaker-a...
> The parent's comment still applies. If the progressive brackets were just swapped for a flat tax, the tax man still needs to know how much each employee had as deductibles, e.g. number of dependents, donations to charity, mortgage interest, etc.

No, because the idea behind a flat tax is to eliminate most or all of those deductions, the same way they've already been eliminated for people who pay AMT instead of normal income tax.
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I’ve worked in design and with/in startups for 25 years including 4 at IDEO. I’ve used techniques like the book explains, but before reading the book. The book is one of the better ones at introducing the right techniques (especially for SW products). So many startups and big companies ask the wrong questions, the wrong way and get useless answers. If you’re dealing with physical products, services or other things where the interaction with real spaces/things is important, this book might get you started, but others might be better.
You can choose to lump Popperian epistemology (what I have been calling "explanatory theories") together with other kinds of inductive reasoning, but that misses the point. If you cast your linguistic net wide enough, then there are a lot of different kinds of inductive reasoning. But only one of them actually works, and it's not the one that Goodman uses. At that point calling them both "inductive" robs the word of its utility.
1. It's your meeting and you should write the agenda, not your manager. Usually this is 1-3 things you want to tell/discuss with him/her. It can help to keep note of important things that come up during work for you to discuss at the next 1-to-1.

2. Make sure your manager schedules more than 30 mins, ideally an hour. Prefer longer meetings to more frequent meetings, if that's a trade-off. It's important you can get into long or difficult topics. Often you won't need all the time, in which case you can always end the meeting early.

3. Focus on important topics, e.g. career development, rather than "updates", e.g. week done this week.

4. Avoid cancelling meetings; they're primarily for your productivity/happiness. How regularly you have 1-to-1s should depend on how experienced you are at the job and can change over time - probably somewhere between weekly and monthly. At the end of each meeting, try to arrange/confirm the time for the next one.

The book "High-output management" by Andy Grove has a great section on this, and I've found the advice there very helpful over the last few years.
I agree to a point. It's common for Europeans to forget about VAT since it's included in the final price consumers see, for example.

You often see income tax comparisons between the US and European countries, when in reality if you actually spend your money you are paying a 20+% tax.

With our tax system, you can see clear as day how much money you are losing out on for social security, medicare, and standard income tax.
> Any idea why Recommendation Engine as a Service has not picked up?

These kind of services aren't so much exposed to the public and likely don't start at <100 bucks a month, which could be why those services are not that visible. However, there are some e-commerce services going in that direction, such like AgilOne...
See also https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/room-temperature-sup...
Many speed limits were set at a particular percentile of observed speeds early in the road’s life, then lowered in the 1970s to conserve fuel. Safety-oriented calibration is less common than you’d think.

Drivers mostly go the speed they are comfortable with, which is a function of the roadway’s design and conditions. Traffic engineers are learning that you can’t just slap a 30mph limit sign on something that feels like an interstate highway, but must instead use the road’s physical characteristics to slow drivers down.
I imagine they mean not in a retirement account that has restrictions (penalties for drawing money out early) but also has tax benefits
Connections and a strong network will improve odds of success but there is a lot of great software that has and will be made be people starting at 0 without a fiancé who has doctor friends.

There are a lot of things that might discourage a young hacker and we shouldn’t add “you don’t have a network” to that list.

Maybe a more positive message would be “it shows how building a network along with apps will increase the likelihood of success and certainly the likelihood of making it to the hacker news front page”
Not the parent, but I'd imagine that the real worry is less "they're just paying down loans" and more "once those loans are paid they still won't be contributing towards retirement".
What can I do to prepare me to get to X (whatever that is for you)? Do you see any areas for improvement? How am I performing against my performance goals?

One on one's are not time to shoot the sh^t. You can do that anytime. A one on one is used to get explicit feedback from your boss, so make it count. You want your boss to know what your goal is and how you are progressing toward the goal; which sets up the conversation for what's going to happen when you make the progress. This is a very transparent way of keeping everyone aligned. If you want a promotion, to hit your bonus target or whatever, there should be no surprises. Use your one on one to you know, a week or two at a time where you are at. It'll help you either get what you want or set the stage for taking your next job elsewhere; no surprises either way.
When you say "The Democrats", who are you talking about, exactly? Because I'm pretty sure every rank and file Democrat I know would agree with me on this issue.
I'm probably pretty unusual, but I'm 25, living in a high cost of living city (Boston), and have right around 200k saved right now between retirement and taxable accounts. Started at -15k out of college. High salaries around here definitely help, as does being relatively careful with money (though I don't limit myself much). I do plan to buy a house in 5-10 years, most likely in a lower cost of living area, ideally in cash.
Have you got something that will handle replies (in date order) too?
Nice work. +1 I would 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 to see this as a chrome plugin.
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It was not initially 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 to me that I could 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 things that I typed.
To put it another way, there's little reason to not (extremely) simplify something for, say, 60% of the population, just because it's going to remain complicated for the remaining 40%.
the best counterargument for me is that remote galaxies run away from us with the speeds larger than c. So space expansion and the speed faster than c as a result is possible. Without exotic matter, etc. Now there is just an engineering task of implementing it as a practical space ship drive.

The arguments against FTL are based on fixed spacetime frames of references. Which is obviously not-applicable to the situation where the spacetime is what you actively manipulate. Spacetime manipulating approaches don't violate SR as nothing is moving faster than c wrt. local space. The same like with those remote galaxies - while running faster than c from us they don't move faster than c wrt. their local space.
Could you make another one, where the patient looks like a clown and call it, "a game" ?
Some interesting tid bits of toy design in the interview e.g.: "never show the white of the eye above the pupil... it emotes shock/unpleasant surprise", and if you get doll emotions wrong it becomes Chucky. LOL
One instance of this might be "running a performance-intensive game fullscreen on one virtual desktop while having a browser open to read strategy guides on another virtual desktop". This is a common use case for me that also seems to be the first place where performance starts to diminish.
It's not just Tor. This also affects VPN users. It has affected me. I wouldn't call my use of a VPN for privacy as "illegitimate."
It's easy for tests to pick up structural artifacts from the code, creating friction for making changes instead of reducing it.

At the end of the day it's a matter of the quality of the tests. Bad tests can be worse than none (because at least you know to be afraid).
I knew people who had nearly no limits and had the same problem later on.

I think that this one can be solved only by teaching kids to do positive/needed things. By that I mean not just limit gaming, but more of teaching importance doing chores, homework, sleep, socialization and other such things. So it is not "stop gaming so you stare at ceiling" but "I did not done homework damm have to can't game yet" sort of thing.
It's okay, most people don't wish to get rich, most people wish to be the boss and run things, you just discovered which part you fall into. Since you don't wish to get rich, walk away and start something new, next time don't accept funding.
I’ve seen this mentioned in a few places. I feel like it’s becoming the new Stanford Prisoner Experiment, a completely contrived “experiment” that’s bogus science but becomes popular because it reinforces a popular belief.

The kids tormented one robot and not the other because doing so with one was fun and the with the other it was not. They were playing. It’s what children do. It doesn’t reveal so insight into the human mind.
It’s really not a screenreader’s job to guess what a character might be being pressed into service to represent in a given scenario, and to try to work out when that’s inappropriate and it should be using the original specified meaning.
Those are all big cities... Are you unable to imagine anything other than an urban environment? That's sad
I feel basically the same way. I think I'm saving a bit more than average for my generation, but that doesn't mean much since the average is so low. My wife and I are both making decent salaries, but we started late and both have heavy student debt, and when it comes to deciding to start a family, we're feeling stressed from the conflict between advancing age and not yet being financially comfortable.
All you're saying is that any Muslim picked up is more likely to not be a criminal, which seems expected. The problem with "strong sampling", is, perhaps obviously, that they focus too strongly on the 'brown skinned people' and therefore might miss other criminals. The article you link seems to suggest some profiling is good, but that strong profiling AND random sampling are equally inefficient.

"A mathematically optimal strategy would be 'square-root biased sampling,' the geometric mean between strong profiling and uniform sampling, with secondary screenings distributed broadly, although not uniformly, over the population."
I have been using https://yaytext.com for quite a while. Only for novelty purposes, of course.
At 32, I would have had very little saved. I was finishing my second Master's degree about then and had worked for a few years but most savings from that first job were burned in grad school and I had gained a bit of debt in the process.

I bought a house 10 years later and have generally done a decent job of saving money but, depending upon your priorities, education choices, etc., I'm not sure that not having saved money for retirement in your 20s (except perhaps to the degree that you're forsaking 401k matching, etc.) is automatically a sign of poor money management.
If both parties agree on something without significant contention, odds are a strong majority of the population also agrees with it. Which may or may not be a good thing (see racism, history of), but it does suggest that this idea that a handful of opposition can affect change through direct democracy is wrongheaded. It might matter for issues where the parties are well behind the public (ie the War on Drugs), but most of the time, it won't matter at all.
Reminds me of the stinkymeat project [0] for some reason.

Sweet memories from a more playful online experience, and probably part of the reason I turned vegan.

[0] http://www.stinkymeat.net/stinkymeat/day1/
A starting point would be eating canned food as little as possible and avoid non pet bottle and thermal receipts

(this for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A )
I think it varies. As a scientist from a lesser known group, PR is essentially a way for the establishment to keep others from docking units off their genital length as well as threatening their grant funding. I find that more established scientists from the most prestigious universities make tend to be okay with PR because it seems to benefit them and they tend glowingly review each others papers. After recieving my dearth of harshness from reviewers and seeing trash (that is often rife with the same issues and worse!) from these same cats make it into Phys Rev it becomes too painfully obvious it's almost self-satricizing.

I think the primary issue with PR is its fundamental assumptions are flawed. Papers authors are NEVER anonymous and can't be while reviewers make it obvious who they are.

BTW, that you have a paper that took you years to prepare puts you in the far tail of the distribution.
True in theory, but virtually every mainstream "flat tax" that actually gets to the stage of having a concrete proposal acknowledges the need for deductions. I don't recall ever seeing a true flat tax.
You're absolutely right. Read a book 5 times and your imaginative representation will differ. Read it after years and "get" other aspects that you were not wise or mature enough to understand at a previous reading. Films have their own qualities but they are pretty much what you see. I'd be honest, I watched films I didnt get when I became more mature and they were somewhat different too.
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HN supports italics it's not entirely plain-text
>When you say "The Democrats", who are you talking about, exactly

DNC, DCCC, the people who control the party. The actual people who vote would agree, but the party leadership itself does not care.
Well, look forward to spammers using this to bypass the spam filters...
Even when I'm playing Kerbal Space Program, there's a marked difference between just being able to play KSP and being able to play KSP while having reference materials open on another screen (the KSP wiki has a great delta-V map of the Kerbol system, for example). Long before my computer is old enough that games like KSP become unusably slow, it gets old enough that the only way I can run games like KSP is to close my browser and free up all of my resources.
He means income tax
Yup, appears relatively hard to use via Chrome mobile with Gboard. You just about can, but most words get swallowed and the site popover is in the same place as the Android text assistance popover
Since the 11th century Norman conquest we've had pig/pork, cow/beef, sheep/lamb
That's the cost though. I can complain all day about how expensive everyone's startup product is, but that's the price. Is it wrong for me to steal those products?
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> I think the IRS is super paranoid about people hiding information from them, and then never being liable for the taxes

Yeah, why do people pay out all that stupid money, when its as simple as just not telling the taxman? Really, if it was like that then tax evasion would be pretty simple...
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This is not a good comment for Hacker News and it breaks several guidelines. Please don't post like this, no matter how you feel about what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are induced to show up somewhere to prepare their taxes, either a professional tax preparer or a volunteer trained by the IRS[1].

I imagine they would probably lose the free option. It's true that they would still have the paid option, but I don't think most people would bother if they didn't have to.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/free-tax-return-preparation-...
People might find Unicode Text Converter useful as well.

http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=Hacker_News
Fun read, BTW.
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Greg Hendershott's `racket-mode` for Emacs is the best to work with Racket in Emacs. The reference manual is here:

https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/blob/master/R...

It supports both `paredit` and `smartparens` see more about this in the Readme.

https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/blob/1b78827d...
I like to 2x and then use the extra time for reflection and review. I find that on 1x I zone out because I'm not engaging with the person speaking like I would face to face. On 2x, I have to pay attention or I'll miss something.
It’s okay that your startup doesn’t have a communications strategy
I've really wanted to start something similar but with a natural language dictionary randomly assembling plausible, grammatically correct sentences as a way to pre-emptively copyright creative work.

Actually that reminds me of a question I had, is there any legal precedence for copyrighting the output of a computer program? One could argue either the program is a creative work, or, the program is a tool that allowed me to create many creative works, but is the output of my program considered 'creative' ?
This makes me happy. Carl Woese has been one of my scientific heroes for decades. The magnitude of his contributions have been very much under appreciated. On top of that, David Quammen is one of my favorite science/nature writers. I am eager to read the book.
Return is a function of risk. There’s very little risk in accepting a job offer. There’s a lot of risk in starting a company.
I mean 2% of the property value, then that $ amount as %age of income. California is much lower.
So over 85% of millenials saved less than $20,000 for retirement?
It doesn't and shouldn't.

The whole point of having Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols as separate unicode code points, rather than just using normal latin characters with style markup, is so they can be used when the different letters have semantically different meanings -- in particular in maths when 𝘹 and 𝘅 can be in the same formula, representing different concepts. They're not a replacement for style markup.

In other words, they're different characters specifically so that screen readers can know to read them out loud differently!

Trying to 'fix' screenreaders by having them read anything that them as if they were normal latin characters, to accommodate people who like using the Mathematical Symbols block for fun in places which only allow plain text, would completely defeat the actual purpose of them.

https://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Pf6
I think that everybody does this in almost every industry, huge players get different rules than everybody else. You might not like this but I can almost guarantee that if you were running a successful app store the amount of money involved would make you behave in the same manner and bend the rules for the big guys to get a piece of that big money.
Bring your own prioritized agenda and go through it. Recommend printed copy to minimize distractions from screens. Having a rapport and chatting about personal stuff is great for building a relationship and trust but keep bringing the conversation back to the agenda until everything has been addressed. You can generally copy/paste these from meeting to meeting and just make the necessary updates/changes so stuff doesn't fall through the cracks. Be sure to include accomplishments - having a history of your 1:1 agendas can be very useful when it comes to review time and needing to remember everything you did for the past year.

Flag problems early on and indicate if/how you need them to intercede/escalate. Green/yellow/red (or whatever scheme you like) indicators can be useful here for "all good", "advising of problem but I have action I'm taking on my own" and "I need your help" at a glance.

Make sure you ask for feedback and be open to both praise and criticism. Try to get some kind of action plan put together for growth/development and keep tabs on how you're addressing it.
> Games had a structured environment, with rewards for specific actions, rewards that I did not find in my real life with doing anything

Which is something reality can't provide: short-term rewards disproportionate to the effort made.
I don't find defeatist conspiracy theories about the Powers That Be to be a very convincing argument.
It's not about whether your personal use of VPN is legitimate. It's a numbers game. For any successful site that deals in user generated content, moderation is hard and relentless work.

If they observe that a high fraction of visitors from AWS / VPN / Tor exit IPs are attackers, they will add countermeasures.