skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know enough about Sunrun or the author here, but I will say that - as a general principle - when you see a human interest piece about a multi-billion dollar company with close to 15% of their shares sold short (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RUN/key-statistics) then I would take it with a grain of salt and question what is being presented.

edit: and you have to get more than halfway through to see the author managed to take the path of maximal pain: "Sunrun calls our insistence that Jug’s trust buy out and remove the system “incredibly unique and rare.” It’s far more common for home sellers to transfer the lease to the buyer—Sunrun says 94 percent of customers do this—or to prepay the lease and leave the hardware on the roof for the next owner to use. I’ve been kicking myself ever since I learned about this latter option. It would have saved the estate around $12,000 and allowed us to support solar and get “free” electricity, even as Sunrun remained responsible for maintenance and repairs."

edit 2: "On consumer review sites and in local news reports, rueful customers warn others to stay away from TPO solar offered by Sunrun and other companies" - is that true of everything, and none cited? What if this was an article about car dealership?

edit 3: Having finished the article (and having never heard of Sunrun prior to this) it has the feel of a hit-piece. I don't think it is necessarily (author seems to have a solid investigative journalism track record), but it cherry picks very small sets of data without context and it frames things in what seems like a maximally negative way. Not sure if their experience with their specific bad experience and Bloomberg's comp based on moving markets had anything to do with it.
Soap bubbles behave kind of like catenary curves. They want to minimize their surface area (which has potential energy), but also want to reduce their gravitational potential energy. The surface tension of bubbles behaves much like elasticity of thin solids.

It makes sense then that this would be a useful model for shapes of elastic structures whose thickness is much smaller than the horizontal length scale. Such structures should be built to be in an energetically favorable configuration, otherwise they'll sag like a loosely-pitched tent.
Maintenance? I bought solar from a company in San Jose. They guarantee production, they warrantee the installation to be leak-proof, the panels and inverter have factory warrantees.

I guess they won't come over and wash my panels for me, but, no kidding.
At least on messaging, we mostly swung back to private protocols and centralization (Whatsapp, Slack, Messenger, etc) - maybe email is the big exception and walled gardens always somehow “win”...
It'd be great for transporting large amounts of packing peanuts, though.
I didn't really understand this part either.
Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets
Hello, HN!

We're Antonio, David, Jason, and Mark. We’re building Glide (https://glideapps.com). Before this we worked on Xamarin, quicktype, Ubuntu, Mono, and GNOME Do :D

Glide makes it easy & fun for anyone to create apps without code. Pick a Google Sheet and Glide assembles a polished, data-driven app that you can customize, share as a PWA, and publish to the App Store and Google Play if you desire.

We've spent the last decade building developer tools. In that time we've watched thousands of developers struggle to design, implement, and maintain apps, and most developers we know avoid mobile development altogether.

Apart from developers, we hear worthy app ideas from non-technical colleagues, friends, and family every day: apps for work, new business ideas, and silly apps just for fun. All of these people can make websites, so why can't they make apps?

We were dismayed to find that there are hundreds of 'low-code app builders', but none that excited us. They're enterprisey, they output kludgy apps, and their low-code contrivances often felt more complicated than the code they replaced. Why hasn't anyone made the Google Docs or Figma of apps yet, we wondered.

That's our ambition. Glide makes app development web-based, collaborative (coming), and fun by combining data-bound components with a familiar spreadsheet model. Spreadsheets are the most successful programming model of all time, and smartphones are the most successful computer, so we're bringing them together to enable anyone to create apps without code.

We've implemented a component model based on self-adjusting computation (http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation), which allows Glide apps to update efficiently and continuously just like spreadsheets. You can see the benefit of this in our Comments component, which syncs comments in real-time to instances of the same app. In other words, Glide apps are multiplayer by default.

We're just getting started and would love feedback on the approach. There are many technical/design challenges ahead of us but we are encouraged by the useful apps our users have created with this early version. We even use Glide to build Glide–internally we've created dashboard apps, an app to share updates with our advisors, a directory that shows us which Glide apps are trending, and an app for our YC group.

Next on our roadmap: forms, improved image handling, notifications, and offline.

- Get started: https://go.glideapps.com/?signUp

- Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNwrz9wMxU

- App templates: https://www.glideapps.com/samples

Thank you.
Oh, you're right, thanks! I doubt it changed, much more likely it was my mistake. ;) It was either operator error, or maybe the menu didn't display correctly while I was browsing using my iPad.
But they do result in them often enough, dont they? Or are at least used to justify a lot of war-related actions.
Predicting stock prices using LSTMs
Black backings produce ever so slightly less than white backsheet, and premium panels can technically be worthwhile if you have limited roof space like we do.
I understood some of it, but quite a bit of it went over my head. Is there a more detailed resource for understanding quantum computing for a layman?
0-prefix octal notation continues to be a mistake.

I love when programs mysteriously fail when passed an IP address like 192.168.001.009.

Thankfully modern tools have been moving away from supporting that notation and are less likely to explode all over unsuspecting users.
Sure, but there's a big difference between simply distrusting people who try to sell you stuff, and seeing actual proof that a particular company has truly horrible and evil ethics.
Love this!!!!
The Rise of Activism in Tech Companies
That buyout price is insane. It's more than we paid outright to have the same number of panels installed in the bay area.
Sure, someone is going to have to pay for greener power. But the problem is that Sunrun is claiming it's cheaper, even though it isn't, and that the owner ends up paying both Sunrun's expenses and their profit margin.
eBay restructures leadership, confirms layoffs of 2-3% of global workforce
Maybe it is because it is getting near lunch time but this article seemed really rambling and disjointed.
Is it about Sunrun or is it about the industry? Or is it just the author's experience? It seems to be all three cut and pasted together haphazardly.
It's not their price I'm complaining about -- it's their financial break even model they pushed claiming huge increases in public utility rates -- which didn't seem realistic given recent history.

It's in line with their scare tactics and emotional push.
I wish I knew this 10 years ago, when I decided to study math and get a CS degree. Sadly, while I'm good at programming (at least to the extent that nobody ever complained and projects got shipped), I'm really uncapable at math. I don't know what it is exactly, I just can't do it, no matter how much books, video lessons and tutoring I throw at it. I always understand theory but I cannot solve most exercises and problems despite a lot of practice.

Anyway, I wasted my 20s trying to get good enough at math, when I could've pushed on my talents instead. I really thought it was all about hard work and that I wasn't working hard enough, or maybe that I should've approached the problem from some other angle. Big mistake. Wasted opportunities.

The article says that China is doing good and the US is not doing well in this regard. I think they're both wrong. It's really stupid, and offensive and immoral, to put individuals into boxes. We don't know how the talents of individuals can express themselves to serve the needs of other people. That's why there should always be complete freedom of studying and working, instead of universities and States deciding who can do what job and on what terms.

Eventually I know programming will become a closed profession and I won't have access to it because of my inability to do math despite my ability to ship software. I can't even imagine how much we have lost in other closed fields in terms of productivity due to this belief that you just have to put in the work.
I hope I'll manage to get out of programming before it's too late. Clock is ticking.
Quantity is important, but quality is important as well. If I practice my karate 1,000 hours and another man in Alaska practices 1,000 hours of karate as well BUT he has received higher quality instruction, he might be practicing effectively twice as much (measured in quality, which is hard to quantify..haha)

10,000 hours of practice seems like a reasonable gauge of mastery. Its also how you define mastery. Mastery is defined by the people who came before who set the standard. If athletes' top running speed reached 3MPH and I came along and broke the record at 5MPH, I would seem like a master.
Sequel Pro has dark mode already in the newest nightly build. Sometimes I got import failed which Sequel Pro working well.
Ok, I do love this feature because it fits perfectly with the kubernetes offering. It's getting easier to manage things in Digital Ocean k8s.
And that the star wars religion will be split into three sects, one for each trilogy (all hail the prequels)
Goodbye, Opportunity. Thank you for letting humanity see Mars with your eyes
To be fair, there is an argument to be made that a person's beliefs are better represented by their actual behavior under the conditions of life, rather than what they profess about them in hypotheticals. In that perspective, the best way to be an atheist would be to simply act like one.
Nice explanation. I would add “I have no opinion but I still want to look like a leader”. It’s the same with guys who always ask “insightful” questions but never answer a question.
The Infosec Reckoning Has Arrived
It's not greed to want to keep your money from an already over-bloated bureaucratic government. On one hand, people complain about government authority and then those same people are happy to grow the government as large and powerful as possible, both through taxes and regulation. Then they cry foul when that double-edged sword is used by people like Trump to do things they don't like.
i get file not found on any of the video downloads at this link? Anybody able to get it?
Do these use dedicated VCPUS or Shared VCPUS?
Really? Can you honestly say with a straight face that there is no theory behind why convnets are the right choice? Or no theory behind how an LSTM is structured?
MBA-type here, the way I have seen data science described in large organizations is much more like an analyst with a more robust set of tools than excel for deriving information/wisdom from data. Using the tools that other "data scientists" develop to solve business problems.

That's almost certainly diluting the term but it's much closer to the work I do than the title might imply. Since 90ct of business problems can be solved with regression, typically logistic or decision trees, knowing what tools are appropriate to apply to a certain problem is more valuable than being able to actually write those tools. Bootcamps don't spend enough on the why of what we do because I think it's just something you pick up through experience.
> Free daily backups with point-in-time recovery
Your data is critical.

> That’s why we ensure it’s backed up every day. Restore data to any point within the previous seven days.

Seems very similar to Heroku's model at that price. Which is actually pretty fair. I'm so happy to see DO doing this because there is always part of me worried that if Heroku were to go out of business, change their pricing model, start dipping in reliability that I'd be stuck spending a bunch more hours on dev ops instead of focusing on development.

More quality competition is great to keep Heroku on their toes (though I've had nothing but love for them).
I recall that Alan Kay distinguished invention and innovation: Invention is creating new things, and innovation is bringing them to market. He said that innovation creates billion dollar companies, but invention has created trillion dollar industries like semiconductors and computer networking.
Fearless Security: Thread Safety
Some folks manage to act and speak in the customer's interest and still sell things.
PR is quite similar to a neural network with a single extremely wide layer. Unless you are hashing the polynomials, you will quickly run into an intractible problem, while properly setup NNs automatically learn which polynomials are needed for solving the problem, giving the budget of the network architecture (number of layers, number of neurons, etc.).

Nobody in industry will abandon NNs over PRs if they are looking to making it easier to handle. I doubt on most industrial problems, that PR even comes close to NNs in performance.
Here's another great job explaining quantum computing starting at a basic level & working up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA
That was my thought when I read the comment. I had not seen that they had been acquired by github and by the commutative property Microsoft. I'm guessing their biological distinctiveness will be assimilated into Teams at some point. :-)
What happened to the ones Tesla was coming out with?
Which company did you buy from? Which panels are they using? LG, Panasonic, Chinese?
I may be in the market soon..
You've got the weight of the things bolted to your roof. Is your roof new or less than new and needing replaced before the solar panels are paid for? Do you know a roofer who will touch solar panels during a re-roof? This doesn't even discuss the installer incompetence and the damage they'll do to your roof during install. Those panels are bolted to the roof and bolts cut through shingles and the sheathing underneath. All entry points for water.

Bolting solar panels to the roof is not viable in the long run, IMO. The damage and the advancement of tech means these things will be obsolete in the near term.
L. Ron Hubbard fans are already waging war on anyone who crosses them.
That's why I used the word "but"...

Some reading I've done on check-cashing and payday loans:

https://www.businessinsider.com/check-cashing-stores-good-de... (I was able to read this using reader mode in safari)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/payday-...

full list here:
https://pinboard.in/search/u:dwight?query=payday
I think people have different connotations with “brutal”. I would say “straightforward” or “unguarded”.
Also, if you like my mathy design instincts with this stained glass piece, you may enjoy looking through the painting work (mostly oils) I've done over the last couple years:

http://art.joshmillard.com/
Try this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA

I found it easy to comprehend. It starts explaining to a child & works its way up to a doctorate level.
Holy fat controller! This whole source code is mostly in just a single file. https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth/blob/master/source/Slot...

Curious what patterns you iOS developers out there do to avoid code like this? Personally I am a big fan of ReSwift.
So even U.S. gas-generator engines like the RS-68 have this extra gearing?
Block party: Nintendo's 99-player Tetris is savaging my self-esteem
Safe data structure library – say goodbye to null (and maybe); say hello to zero
I forgot one failure case: a few hundred/thousand 128px pixel art Pokemon sprites. StyleGAN seems to just weakly memorize them and the interpolations are jerky garbage, indicating overfitting. (No GAN has worked well on it and IMO the dataset is too small & abstract to be usable.)
Writing clear tutorials is a fair amount of effort, more than I originally thought when I first did it.
> A 2000 Danish Sports Science Institute investigation reproduced the earlier study, giving a large group of Kalenjin boys three months of training and then comparing them to Thomas Nolan, a Danish track superstar. When the Kalenjin boys trounced him, the researchers -- who had also conducted a number of physical tests and compared them against established human averages -- concluded that Kalenjins must have an inborn, physical, genetic advantage. They observed a higher number of red blood cells (which lent new credence to the theory that elevation makes their bodies more effective oxygen-users) but, in their conclusions, emphasized the "bird-like legs" that make running less energy-intensive and give their stride exceptional efficiency.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/wh...
The article says the payments to buy out the contract totalled $27,300.

I wish I had the kind of income that made me call that a 'minor cost' !
I think I've been misunderstood, I'm not advocating people to quit being a developer. I was pointing out that what the person was originally suggesting is actually start doing non-development work.

> where as a developer they can anticipate business needs

The thing is, a developer isn't normally in the business meetings where these are discussed. It's not a developers job to be in on a meeting about using X pricing model over Y.

A developer is a doer job. Developers do things. They don't decide things other than the technical details. If you're going to learn the business properly, you need to start entering other areas. Such as product management, start defining problems with the product and what can be changed. That a developer can start doing, but sitting here pretending it's not developers work is just lying.

Too often I read on the internet and hear at conferences that "every developer should do X for their company". Guys, I'm going to break it to you guys. X is literally another person' job, if I start doing it, they're going to get pissy real quick (or they're lazy and will just take credit for it) For some reason people seem to think developers are swiss army knives of businesses. It's not our job to find problems with the product, that's the product managers job. We can start doing it but we're going to start moving away from development work and towards product work. That's not a bad thing per say, it is just what is.
>Carol Dweck "growth mindset",

Can you point me to where Carol Dweck says this? I've read a little of her work, but do not recall such a claim. The primary work that made her famous was that emphasizing talent resulted in:

1. A focus on the very narrow area the person is talented in, and being very quick to give up outside of that discipline.

2. The same people who have the talent, when effort is emphasized, do not suffer from this.

And that at times, people with less talent often end up doing better than people in bullet one above in the long run because they're less likely to view short term barriers as made of bricks. But I don't think she ever claimed that such people will do better than those in bullet 2 above.
> So far no one has seen the utility of this vehicle. There are millions of families that have multiple vehicles, and where both partners work. When taking a trip as a family, they might want a minivan or SUV. When they commute, one might drop the kids off, but the other will be driving alone. If the commute is not a very long one, this vehicle is perfect. ... But if they need to pick the kids on the way back for whatever reason, this vehicle is useless.

Case in point, in Vancouver, where this comes from, both evo and car2go provide the same car sharing service.

Car2go is phasing our the smart two seater car in favor of 4 seaters.

Versatility is key to usability. This is doomed.
that's not how it works. Presuming you don't already know chinese, I can do something like show you a new chinese character that you've never seen, once, and you will be able to pick it out of a group of ten random chinese characters. Almost every time.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
I wrote a blog post showing off the service here and just did a live demo capturing GitHub data into Postgres. Check it out for some screenshots and to find out more https://www.openfaas.com/blog/serverless-single-page-app/
When we toured our home, the water softener system said rental on it. We inquired and the home owner confirmed the unit was purchased out right. So water softener systems is another potential example.
https://twitter.com/googleeurope/status/1095787316889690114
It reminds me of this article:

https://external-brain.redwolf.com.au/2002/06/26/cd-pirates-...

Published in a mainstream Australian Newspaper (But they've since deleted it). These journalists are outraged that it will soon be legal to copy your own compact discs.

And they just assume that anyone doing so much be a pirate.

There is similar language in this article. If someone just wants to watch a movie they own without DRM, they must be a pirate.
Many sales scripts appeal to the emotional side of us as humans. I don't have a problem with that. My primary criticism is that they focused on using the negatives, specifically "pain and fear" to try and sell their product, instead of using the positives.
That’s why you need a culture that allows people to listen to criticism without immediately feeling the need to be defensive. At work I have a few people I can be honest with and it’s very refreshing. I can tell them that I think some this isn’t right and they can tell me. If there is mutual respect and self confidence you can do that.
Might be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJrg7j8Uag&t=342s from DJ Aviation that explains the problems with a A380-F.
For an aircraft that is not yet flying, the 777-9 has pretty healthy demand from multiple airlines. Lufthansa, Etihad, Qatar, All Nippon, and Singapore have all placed orders. Iran Airlines as well, although nullified by trade embargoes. The bigger 777-10x is also selling well.
Both terminals, shells and Emacs suffer from the problem that you have to configure them out of their ancient defaults.
Yes, have a look at this study for visuals: https://wewanttolearn.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/plateaus-laws...
Depends what percentage of that 10k is quality practice. But that would mean 10k a useless number to go by.
Yes, you are right. This seems to work better:

$ printf "%1.0f\n" 009

9

$ printf "%1.0f\n" 00125990

125990
True, if he doesn't really care about his family in TX then he should have no reason to care about his taxes not going to benefit them.
My history is 3x 7->8 and 1x 8->9, 3 with VC, 1 with no VC...we definitely found it easier to go 6->7 in all four as the “early adopter” set all talked to each other and that was enough to get momentum and small enough that bigger players take no notice. 7->8 you start to get noticed which is both good and bad. Convincing enough buyers to “cross the chasm” and not go to a competitor is an entirely different org challenge. Also the expectations of the larger buyers adds cost and complexity (ie channel sales vs outbound vs inbound)

If you are in SF area happy to host 7->8 beers/coffee meetup!
Ah, my mistake; I misunderstood their comment.
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