skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the thing is the economics of rooftop solar are a lot different than power station solar. The DOE has public data on how much utilities pay for electricity. In a market like mine, Southern California Edison isn’t an electricity generator, they buy power at about $0.02/kWh but then they sell it to the residential consumer for up to $0.32.

So clearly it’s a very different calculation. Regardless of that generators are building large scale solar arrays to sell power to the utilities at very much lower rates than what a rooftop owner pays to generate their own power. It’s just the rooftop owner can bypass a lot, and potentially all, of the utility and grid fees which are >90% of the cost. The other thing is that many utilities are hugely subsidizing this with net metering policies, which basically means the utility is acting as a huge battery for only the grid connection fee which, depending on the market, can be as low as $15 a month. Which basically seems to make products like the Tesla Powerwalls a really tough sell. Why pay $5000 for a tiny powerwall when, assuming you want grid connect anyway, the utility will be a way bigger powerwall for free?
Actually, the SSN is an account number, solely intended for tracking money paid into and paid out of an account. It isn't meant for identification, and the method it's used for identification is terrible. (Largely: If you know the number, you are identified.)

It's treated like a secret, but as a 9-digit number you give to dozens of organizations in your life which follows a predictable and partially guessable pattern, it is an absolutely terrible secret.

Absolutely good explainer video about how this travesty took place historically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Yup, FB is Zuck essentially. He owns ~53% of the voting stock shares.
Drivers licenses are already contentious in some respects, and a National ID is likely to be contentious in those same respects. Namely, if you create one, is it then acceptable to require voters to present it before allowing them to vote? Partisan disagreement over this issue is likely to stall progress.
Funny, meanwhile in my state the schools are moving to Microsoft. Unfortunately, skepticism of Microsoft and other American companies isn't as widespread as it should be here in Germany.
Originally I had terrible battery performance like what you are describing. I have a dell xps 15 9560 with a 97Wh battery. With bumblebee installed with proprietary nvidia gpu drivers I can get all day battery life no problem (easily 10+ hours of active usage). The same cannot be said for when its booted into the windows partition. Yes this is because of the gpu settings but why would windows need to utilize it with everyday tasks like google docs or casually browsing the web? It took some work to get the battery under control but after I did some reading about drivers and bumblebee I didn't have any problems. Been on this install for a bit over a year now without any show stopping issues.
> Just need to pump some water back upstream

In this situation, you'd simply never let the water flow through in the first place. This amounts to releasing water while generating energy, only to pump it back. The net result is just a lot of wasted energy.

Pumped hydro requires two reservoirs. There's no way around it.
You willing to apply them to something that you are trying to open specifically because you are concerned about the electrical state of the car?

Your spreaders will open it like a tin can...but did Tesla rev the location in real time during manufacturing?
Thanks, I missed that. It seems difficult to go from a $100mn loss to breakeven so quickly if the cost-cutting measures are like reducing staff by 5% but it’s not clear where that $100mn loss was coming from (includes a “one-time” write off) and it’s not clear what do they mean by break even either.
I wouldn't say our insurance system even remotely promotes preventive care. My insurance plan gives me one official a year and to teeth cleaning. That physical does not cover even basic testing that the doctor may want to do (this is ridiculous for people with family histories of problems). While I'd say this is better than just seeing a doctor when you're not okay, I wouldn't really call this preventive or actively incentivising people on the plan to get preventive treatment or testing (other than those things are already cheaper, but that's by the nature of the disease/problem not because the insurance is doing anything to incentivize this behavior)
> I believe that Apple also exempts Radar, its internal bug reporting app used by Apple engineers.

Safari whitelists a number of URL schemes used by its first-party and internal apps:

adir
applenews
applenewss
itms
itmss
itunes
itms-books
itms-bookss
ibooks
macappstore
macappstores
rdar
radr
radar
udoc
ts
st
x-radar
icloud-sharing
help
x-apple-helpbasic
Show HN: I made a tool which generates a sitemap automatically
It's always been the case, back to NCSA Mosaic in 1993, that web pages could hit URLs of local web servers. Before javascript, you had to use an embedded image, like:

<img src="http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/reboot-router">

And it didn't have to be port 80 -- you could try fuzzing someone's X server with

<img src="http://127.0.0.1:6000/lsjdfjlk23jlrkj">

Fortunately, most protocols bail out on the first 4 bytes "GET ". One of the reasons that Gopher support was phased out was that you could make a gopher request contain more or less arbitrary bytes and attack many local servers.

Servers have always had the burden of defending against this.
So extremely, criminally awful?
I suspect GP had the same confusion I did, that your triathlon was five components, not that they were separately. But you have answered that, the transitions between activities counted too.
a 30 foot walk is too far?
You might be able to negotiate with the medical provider itself. Say you want to pay without insurance and ask about the cost and doing any reductions.

The number on the bill before the insurance discount is entirely imaginary, no one pays it.

There is always a built in cash discount for people without insurance.

For example, for a while I was having trouble getting insurance cards (stupid reasons) at a new position so I was paying out of pocket for prescriptions and office visits.

They were less expensive paying cash than with insurance pre-deductible.
Made this after being frustrated with existing tools with similar functionality, which either do no adhere to the standard/do other weird stuff. Anybody have some feedback for functionality they feel are missing?

Still want to add:

-automatic generating hreflang elements

-make it a bit faster

-support for larger sitemaps.

-make it look nicer( I know almost nothing about making nice-looking software)

-add support for recieving a link to the results by e-mail when the crawling is done
And also have the greatest bosses on the history of earth giving you unlimited time to do this.
More patients are being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain
Cynically: to first approximation no one lives in Saudi Arabia. Even if it devolves to a Venezuela style anarchy, we'd still be more worried about Venezuela.

Practically: Saudia Arabia is an oil source. Petroleum fuels are going to be with us forever. It's coal (first) and gas (eventually) which are being displaced by better electrical generation options. But if you want to fly an airplane, you really can't replace the savings you get from not having to carry 2/3 of the reaction mass on the vehicle. Oil wealth will be the very last to go, likely well after they're tapped out anyway.

And politically: "the Left" you postulate doesn't really exist anyway. You can be a raving socialist and still be pleased that technology solves your problem. You can be a market centrist and still believe that carbon regulation is a good idea.
I'm not saying Bird isn't responsible for some damage, but if the scooters fell out of a pickup, I can't see how anyone but the pickup driver is liable in this case. Or do you mean that the pickup was a Bird maintenance vehicle?
Perhaps this could be a good application for fuel cells?
That's not true. Regulation can change it.
I think spreadsheet usage can be done in good ways, but not when it is done in Excel, because Excel is a typical MS lock in product.

Things that should be obvious to do when having something important in a spreadsheet:

* Use well labeled (row name, column name, cell above, below, left of it, whatever) cells for in-between results.
* Have some checking for mistakes formulas for cells to show you a warning when there seems to be some calculation or entry mistake - like assertions in normal programming.
* Use plain text formats and use version control. Do not run around with 10 copies of the file named after what the index of the copy is.
* Have explanations of the formulas and the reasoning behind them somewhere, maybe even best inside the spreadsheet.
* Make only use of macros in there is no other way. Macros simply break things, at least in Excel. Only a few days ago I witnessed a case, where someone simply could not run some macro, even after reinstalling Excel, using an MS cleaning tool for "completely" removing Excel and various other attempts. And it only happened on that person's machine. The macro is not as reliable as plain text formulas.
* Have your data elsewhere as well. Do not use a spreadsheet as your single database.

And those are only the few things that come to my mind, although I am not a daily spreadsheet user. More frequent users might have many more guidelines.

I also recommend people to take a look at Emacs Org mode spreadsheets in combination with various other Org mode functionality. Those can be quite neat.
The history of wikis[1] page says that the wiki concept was introduced to the general public by Wikipedia.

Of course this is a one sided perspective. Growing up in Sweden I was introduced to the concept by susning.nu. Which is also mentioned on that same page.

For a while it was a concept to look up things on susning. Just like googling.

"Skaffa en susning" is an old swedish saying that means "get a clue", "educate yourself".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis
Inertia's definitely important but 75 years is a long time, long enough to discount it as a valid excuse. But if we're allowed to dig into history a contra example is another ~70 year old system, the UK's NHS. That system managed to pull itself up by its bootstraps in spite of the loss of empire, material shortages, and left over war ruins, and a superficially more discouraging class system than our's that turns out to have more upward mobility than our system. Weird.
I hope the scooters don't vanish. I used to get home on the train, get in the car, drive to my son's daycare (no traffic in this direction), and spend 45 min in rush hour traffic driving him home. Now, I get to the train, take a scooter to his daycare in 10 min, and walk home (30min). If I walked both ways I'd get to his daycare too late. The scooter has unlocked a really awesome transport modality for me.

I get that the business model is fucked but hopefully they can design a more robust piece of hardware and also figure out the charging problem, perhaps with swappable batteries.
If you are homeless but able to contribute to the economy if you weren't homeless the programs are very good. If even after getting off the streets, you still require additional help, the support available to you is significantly less good.

Put another way, if it was likely you could get yourself out of the homeless situation there's plenty of support in place for you. If you require help, there's little that is in place.

So, whether the support is good depends almost entirely on what type of homeless you are. It can be good for some while being abysmal for others.
This is the way I think. That it'd be cheaper to cut out the middle men. Take the total costs of procedures then distribute that back to the public weighted by their income levels (i.e. taxes). Everyone benefits from a healthy society: one with strong herd immunity and where less people are taking time off of work because they are sick. Health isn't even close to an individual practice.
ah I see, empathy towards minorities is now racst.

I'm done.
For people who don't want to learn a new language to typeset something, LyX is out there and is fantastic and covers most use cases of a word processor (except it doesn't have mail merge).
I'd say one of the problems is that often, the heads of an organization are almost never held to account. This is particularly the case when it comes to American companies, as we've seen in the case of Zuckerberg. Maybe if the front line felt the pain in some way, there'd be more pressure to change the internal culture. I don't see any easy solutions here, unfortunately, while companies make insane amounts of money off of violating our privacy and our right to control our own data.
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There's a phrase for it even: Job lock. It's a real employer benefit.
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One of the differences is that industrial production is paid differently that residential costs. Eg on a Windy and Sunny cool afternoon the spot price of electricity is very low, but residences are charged the flat rate (say 10c), so any energy you generate saves you money. On a hot, windless cloudy day the price is very high but you can buy at 10c. So as a residential customer you can game the system. Industrial Generators can't do that. Its unfair on them and inevitable we'll move to constantly changing residential prices too - some areas already have. Then solar farms will be move efficient (despite transmission)
Few tight-knit communities would consider those to be "values" (i.e. beliefs that are core to identity). Your view is also a bit of "throwing the baby out with the bath water." Humanity has lots of vices, and those vices are often amplified in tight-knit communities. But those shortcomings can be improved without undermining the social order or adopting pernicious individualism.

Again, I can't help but notice the irony of your assertion. What is the virtue in not being xenophobic against Bangladeshis, if you're going to condemn the way they structure their communities and raise their children?
Before posting that comment, I searched not only for such addons but for the last updates to those addons and for reviews of those addons, which seemed to suggest that they work as Web Extensions and function as at least some people want. That said, I can't vouch for them personally, and I appreciate you providing some firsthand experience.
At the nosebleeds, poker hasn't been around those things in a long time.

Poker is about exploitative play against people who base their play off emotions, and unperfect game theory optimal against players who don't base their play off emotions. The more perfect the GTO play is, the higher the winrate against the latter group, but higher stakes games are built around one or more bad players - pros will literally stop playing as soon as the fish busts.
So it works double as another layer of isolation. Seems obvious but I had not considered that before, interesting.
The massive spike in FB stock as this was announced is not exactly encouraging. All those executives getting paid largely in equity learned... what exactly did they learn?

They don't even have to admit they did anything wrong? Zero fault? For breaking Democracy? What the hell.
To be fair, many modern social media sites break bookmarks.
>Well the Left may lament the fact that it will not be due to any change of heart or international cooperation [..]

Pretty sure they've just been advocating for making the 'mercenary calculations' more accurate by pricing in carbon related costs.
Seems like there may be a slack integration, just not thoroughly documented --
e.g. https://github.com/MacroConnections/openteams/blob/550b7bd43...
Or build a reservoir next to a body of water. The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant next to Lake Michigan has 2172 MW of generating capacity and 19,548 MWh of storage capacity.
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Government regulation of tech written by people who don’t know anything about it. What could possibly go wrong?
non-native authentication solutions do deal with these problems. HTTP Basic auth does not. full stop.
lots of VC money does, in fact, come from retirement funds (e.g. Calpers, the CA pension fund) and from university endowments.
No, there's no insurrection of Native Americans going on. And they can, if they wish to, speak their indigenous languages, and are not being expelled to Alaska. Indeed, you properly identified the cause-and-effect relationship between imprudent and reckless insurrections, and the repressions that follow. That link is the reason why so many residents of the Kingdom of Poland were strongly against insurrections at the time when they were provoked. And it is the very same reason why there was no such thing in Finland, which was also part of the Russian Empire. Finland, in contrast to Poland, kept its autonomy the whole time, and patiently waited for the right moment to say “cards up” to try to separate from the Empire and have an independent state, which was at the end of World War I.
Pokerstars who suspect accounts are bots actually require the player to film 360 degrees around themselves, then play for an hour with a camera focusing on input devices and the screen, they check for differences between current behavior and historic behavior
Seconded. Really appreciate this.
Not an expert, but they basically could have listed on the stock market at the same cost and with similar parameters. At this point you’re just raging against securities and investment as a category.
> You're literally advocating drunk driving.

And just in case you didn't know, in California the penalties for driving a scooter drunk are exactly the same as a car. The law makes no distinction between driving a car, driving a scooter, or riding a bike. If you are in control of a vehicle and drunk, you are committing a DUI.
> If your insurance company gets a lower or higher rate, really doesn't matter to you directly

But it does indirectly because this influences the price of that insurance and how many networks your provider is part of. There's definitely a feedback loop here (network effect) where the larger the provider the better deals.

If my out of pocket is the same by having insurance and not having insurance, why get insurance? Or maybe why get a better plan (which I assume are more profitable)?
The problem isn't the name. America has an absolutely huge number of Christian Fundamentalists and Evangelicals who honestly believe that a national ID card is the Mark of the Beast that's talked about in Revelation 13:16-17. Even mentioning it as a politician will cause large sections of the country to start referring to you as the Anti-Christ (it's not even political: it happened with Bill Clinton and it happened with Bush just the same).

The people who believe this vote at a much higher rate than the people who don't. And even the people who don't directly believe it, many of them are influenced by the people who do. "I don't actually believe Politician X is the actual Anti-Christ, but Preacher Y does make a good point about their tax policy..."

Anything new that could be called a "national ID" is going to be met with a lot of money saying it's the Mark of the Beast.
Pinboard is great if you use multiple different browsers on multiple different devices and want to be able to quickly access any bookmark anywhere. Or in an environment where you don't want to sync all of your bookmarks but you still want access. I also really like the tagging feature which I believe Chrome does not offer. The read / unread toggle is nice too.
You are underestimating how much of your electricity bill is going to capital costs. It's possible that the cost of electricity consumption will drop, but only if it replaced with other costs to subsidize the cost of the various electrical infrastructure.

Installing a small amount of solar to offset personal usage at the hottest part of the day is much different than ensuring that varied demands can be met across an entire city 24/7. This is also true on a personal scale. It is much more costly to go fully off grid, and the payoff times are much longer (if ever).

The only reason that rooftop residential solar makes economic sense is because of the way we price electricity based on consumption. Utilities are building most of the infrastructure regardless of if a handful of people using 40% less electricity on sunny days.
I find its excellent for article writing, but note writing not so much the semi coding style doesen't lend itself well to free form writing at least for me. I'm in engineering grad school and writing equations from board to free hand notes is much easier for me than writing to a program. Though I have some friends who prefer using computers and some of the note taking programs you can use with a stylus and tablet are excellent.
The manager goes to the people, who really know how to make a report (maybe that is "accounting"?) and asks them to make the report taking into account some single report specific things that they talk about. Then those people, who know how to do it deliver. They might have someone in their team, who knows how to work with dataframes, which would come in handy. Those people store the program written to generate the report from the data and are ready to modify when more is requested. Instead of doing code in Excel, they simply write their code in whatever language they use to process spreadsheets or other data sources.

If they have knowledgeable people there, it will take no longer than coding something up in Excel and will be more reliable.
Perhaps the author should also link to the source of the material more directly: https://www.usenix.org/node/186195
Ask HN: What will the implications of IR35 changes be in the UK IT industry?
The UK government has released a draft of what they are planning to do in regards to IR35 which impacts IT contractors heavily.

How do you guys foresee this playing out? Will companies start allowing contractors to work remotely with their own equipment? Pay higher rates to counteract the loss of having to pay extra taxes? Pay a higher permanent rate? Or will it just be a hit that contractors will have to take?

Draft:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-for-off-payroll-working-from-april-2020
In the capital San Jose it has about a mile's altitude and is in a valley ringed by mountains. In the capital every day is pretty much 70 - 80s F / 20s C and a little colder in the mountains, the coastlines are at sea level and quite hot.
I wonder if it would be cost effective for a solar power provider to line the streets with their panels such that they shade the pavement on either side to some extent. If they managed it, they’d save on transport losses and possibly in cost of space. They could possibly even host their batteries in the panel supports.
I'd much rather have something more secure than a literal piece of card printed decades ago.

Considering how there seems to be a major data breach every week, I don't think we've come up with a "secure" alternative to that little piece of card yet.
They hadn't released anything new for a long time when that happened either. There doesn't seem to be any pressure to innovate in the fitness tracker space.