skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are absolutely other benefits to solar other than return on investment, but this thread was about solar being 'worth it' financially.

Also worth it to add in this context that the 5 or 6 solar-dependent/off-grid homes I've seen built and lived in have been anything but reliable. It seems to take a while to fine tune the system to the point of not having a blackout every 3 months.
You might like https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

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My clients love Wagtail. The 'streamfields' feature makes it really easy to offer editors plenty of flexibility without offering them the opportunity to butcher the site.

The development experience means I love it too. I never did find a simple Wordpress workflow for managing staging and live sites in git. With Wagtail/Django keeping the configuration in code, a git workflow works.

Edit: Apologies if you were actually asking about a solution to allow non-technical people to create a site, rather than manage it.
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> One question, though: towards the end, it suggests that GPL/AGPL products, which are more defensible against commercial competitors who simply resell the open source project, are "legally murky" and might be rejected by customer legal teams. But does that matter? Can't you just do what Sleepycat did, and offer commercial customers a clean commercial license?

It isn't an issue of "clean"; GPL/AGPL aren't "legally murky". (Though if a customer is willing to pay you because they think otherwise, by all means.) But if they're "rejected by customer legal teams", that's an opportunity to sell an alternative license or exception. I've collaborated with the legal teams at various companies that review both inbound and outbound FOSS. Inbound, there's no open legal question with GPL-family licenses; they're only "rejected" in cases where they're functioning as intended and that isn't desired. (That includes companies that systematically reject AGPL; they're concerned about the license working as intended.) Outbound, the pressure to not use GPL-family licenses when a choice is available doesn't come from the legal department; it comes from product teams who don't seriously consider copyleft and what benefit they might gain from using it, because all the other teams they see are using Apache or MIT or BSD. And then those same teams become shocked when their own code is used to compete with them.

There's a strong tendency towards "do what other people are doing", and there are a lot of companies releasing permissively licensed code. This seems self-defeating.
In states like CA, this means paying $4,000 to $10,000 in sales/use tax with each purchase. It’s an incredibly inefficient way to pay for having access to a car. If you’re going to trade in that frequently, it’s probably smarter to lease. (I say this as someone who generally opposes leasing and has never done so.)
I think that the author of this and I can just agree to disagree, which is OK with me.

I am on mastodon https://mastodon.social/@mark_watson and I get a lot of value from it.

re: “I’m privacy-friendly; please donate”: I donate but don't mind identifying myself. If you want anonymity then don't donate to whoever runs the server that you use.

You are free to follow and un-follow (if you see toxic material) as you wish.

I hope that I don't sound like I am lecturing or otherwise being obnoxious, but if you don't think that the large Internet platform companies have too much power then I recommend reading "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" and "privacy is Power."

The great thing about the Internet is that anyone can get a domain, get creative, share their stuff, meet people, make business acquaintances, etc. I see the Fediverse as another tool to use.
Net metering or battery can timeshift the energy usage.
From where I look at it, Japanese culture seems to be quite interested in adopting exotic elements very quickly and likes them for that reason.

There is nothing more Japanese than a parfait in the afternoon, a good curry in the evening, and a traditional Christian wedding before attending the Sintou shrine for a final blessing.
It's not the main problem, but it also could do better. A system encouraging drop in additions could have a way of validating them and blocking plugins which fail.
Our family has a 2012 VW Golf and a 2017 VW Golf. Compared to the former, the latter has a number of worthwhile upgrades. CarPlay makes both navigation and music enormously better. Automatic parallel parking comes in handy for getting into tight spaces, especially when there's pressure from cars waiting behind you. Automated emergency warning/braking has probably saved our 16-year-old from at least one minor accident so far. Radar cruise control definitely lessens fatigue during road trips.

None of this is essential, but to me the difference in user experience is notable when going from one car to the other.

A year or two ago I had access to a Tesla Model X for a period of time. I remember when the Netflix and YouTube watching features came out; I thought it was the dumbest thing. But then I realized I was spending probably a couple of hours a week sitting in parking lots waiting for my kids to get out of extracurricular activities (pre-covid), or waiting at the cell phone lot at the airport, etc. And having a huge screen and high quality audio to pass the time was pretty nice.
Having driven in both Houston and Dallas, Austin traffic is worse. The freeways just aren't designed for today's demand.
Housing and transportation seems to have two local maxima: car dependent or high density. A walkable high density area with apartments and mass transit. Or free roads, free parking, and sprawl that reinforce each other. If you try to bring a car to a dense area you become frustrated with traffic congestion and expensive parking and insurance. Likewise if you try to maintain an urban lifestyle in most of America you will be braving long waits for a bus and pedestrian hostile layouts.
> ...and requires armed security effectively forever. (making the cost effectively infinite).

That logic makes a lot of cheap things cost an effectively infinite amount, like shopping centre security.

A waste storage facility doesn't need armed guards if it isn't being used any more than a shopping centre would. If the facility isn't being used then it can be sealed with a big plug of concrete or something else that has a cost that is small vs. infinity.

Plus there is a decent chance that the dangerous stuff will be a valuable fuel source in 100 years.
Cities offer privacy and anonymity. Smaller towns lack both. Dense urban areas with reasonably easy access to nature on public transport are fantastic resources which are missing in car oriented suburbs.
You sort of can. Isn’t belonging to a car share essentially that? The car share leases more or fewer vehicles depending on demand.
Algolia is doing just fine. Open source contributions by volunteers are typically very small compared to the work done by the corporations behind the open source projects. At least for the vast majority of projects.
> Isn't part of the reason you get all your contributors to sign CLAs so that you can put whatever license on your product you need to close a deal?

This is true if you use a CLA, but that's going to reduce external contributions. In some cases you may not care about that.
such things do exist: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-SDHC-Adapter-40Pin-Driver/dp/...

https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/

https://www.drem.info/

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
not OP, but I think the 'smart' features are what feel dated. Perhaps not quite the same, but in late 90s, I first saw 'high end' cars with GPS/maps built in to dash. not even a few years later, you could buy much fancier ones, that would update, and were faster, and had more features. The 1998 'luxury' in-built GPS felt way out of date by 2002 (UI, responsiveness/speed, display, etc). The rest of the car didn't feel as dated, just the "high tech" bits.
I'll ask again, when you say a small team, what exactly are you thinking about? Order of magnitude is fine. 3? 30? 300?
Well my fellow fluctuation of highly organized atoms, take luck. Let me know when somebody can explain how everything works without positing a magical thing we can't see, measure, or touch.
You say "but" as if there was some contradiction.
It is a very good way to confirm that you're in fact a person though.
You know what "decimate" meant, but what it means in modern English is different. It's less the "real" meaning than the "original" meaning, but age doesn't make it more correct. "axing a question" is over a thousand years old, but its acceptability depends on your audience, not any inherent realness of meaning.

The people who collectively decided what words mean centuries ago were not special. We are them, just with smartphones.
I'm going to give an anti-recommendation for the Dell XPS 13. It was considered the top Macbook alternative back in 2017-2018. The design is good, but the parts are flimsy and the customer service is poor.

My wife and I both bought one: me a 9360 and later her a 9370.

Around a year into using my laptop, the power button started to occasionally get stuck behind the case and turn off the computer. After 3 years, it's gotten so bad that this happens any time I close, open, or adjust the angle of the laptop screen. The screws that hold the bottom of the case together tend to get loose, but the root cause of this problem is a crack in a metal part of the internals of the laptop that's probably been there since day 1. Currently, I'm using KDE Neon since Plasma gives a good warning when the power button is pressed.

Additionally, I had to replace the battery since after 2-3 years just outside of warranty, it went down from 10 hours to 45 minutes.

Dell Support refused to fix either of the issues.

You might think this is just a case of getting a lemon, but my wife's 9370 had problems too.

The computer came with several keyboard keys not working. Dell Support took over a month to ship a new one, and I spent forever on the phone with them figuring out why the repair was still "processing".

Now after 2 years, the battery has started to swell and has cracked the outside of the case a little. No luck from Dell Support getting this issue fixed.

Unless you buy a good support plan like many large companies do that have large amount of Dell Laptops for employees, I'd stay away from the brand.
That would solve the migration problem, but not the others which are definitely social problems and not technical problems
Or we could find a way to remove them from, say, the brine.
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Prototype and expensive motorcycles are self-balancing now.

etc

The tech always seems to come.
Very well written article. Why are VCs very interested in FOSS companies
The rumors says third quarter - at least 6 months.
Mirrors:

https://outline.com/unMZCw

https://archive.is/iVSvI
Yes. It's just not called a lease. I belonged to one of those for a time. Form some, it's just right.
Clearly different people have different tastes; one benefit of capitalism is that it is supposed to provide more options than strict planning (though it requires planning as well).

But this comment of yours struck me in particular:

> It is impossible to have downtime when you’re surrounded above, below, and all around you with neighbors.

Where were you living? We lived in busy Paris and Berlin and were able to consider our homes quiet refuges. We had a kid and all the other reasons why people transition from city to suburb. It felt more accommodating than the German suburb my brother in law lived in with his kids, full of bike lanes and the like.

Now we’re in Palo Alto, a walkable suburb, which doesn’t seem much quieter. I still can’t see the stars, and getting to concerts, art exhibits and the like is inconvenient and doesn’t really happen. At least I can still walk to the grocery store or restaurants through of course the selection is limited.
I actually love Algolia. They know they're good and they charge a pretty penny for it. Excellent.
I just took it to mean they were a veterinarian and now they work as a programmer.
40% of feed corn goes to making ethanol now. That's a huge amount of monoculture for a crop that requires a lot of fertilizer and a ton of water. You could use a fraction of that for solar, today. Less in the future.
I was talking about the rings. I remember something that used them.
Oh, come on. The Democratic left also opposes the ACA. I'm sure somebody on Twitter or in The American Prospect managed to write the sentence implying that opposition to the ACA is somehow "racist", but nobody actually believes this, the same way nobody actually believes a lot of crazy things right-wingers have claimed. There has to be room for people to say stupid stuff without the constant risk that the entire debate will be characterized by those stupid things.
I'm working on an "open core" knowledge base [0] right now and have been for the last few years. We're definitely leaving money on the table by offering an easy docker install option and I'd largely agree with the points made in the article but it's hard to understate the value of the distribution that open source brings, particularly for product-lead teams that aren't so hot at marketing.

[0] https://www.getoutline.com
> Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics), Germany (under the euphemism "migration background")

That is the point. They don't track race; they track country of birth, as does Japan. — this is an objective standard.

The U.S.A. is rather unique in that it tracks subjective, self-reported race.
Phone service was expensive. For calls to the neighbor it was okay, but calling that city an hour away quickly cost money. A one hour long distance phone call costs more than a months income.
A better comparison would be to Typescript which is a breaking change from JS but is branded differently. I'd love native typescript in the browser but browser vendors aren't going to go pushing a massive breaking change like that.
And keeping our in-transit coronavirus molecules contained.

The horror.
Probably someone who is a developer or has been a developer in the past who has also written articles or blogged a lot on technical issues. The problem is that tech writers tend to get paid less than developers so if you are a decent developer who writes you are probably not going to want to switch career path. Hence you get technical writers that do not actually have development experience.
Smart companies use a whitelist of licenses.
Yep, this was just one example of many :)
What license do you use?
> and is a low-volume, high-margin product

If past Apple is anything to go by they'll be aiming for a high-volume, high-margin product. Very few people were willing to pay £600+ for a phone pre-iphone, but plenty of people do now.
Wishful thinking. Several of the best/most successful trolls find plenty of time at work to shitpost.
Skipped right past the really odd glee and skipped right to "we might not survive as a species"

Yikes... it's the "Children of Men" scenario that I never thought could happen.
These are indeed very common as walrus01 points out. I use the CompactFlash versions in my 286, 386 and 486 set ups.
Absolutely. “People are asking for money to host our timeline!” Well, run your own server and don’t charge yourself.
A Thinkpad that runs OpenBSD!

OpenBSD developers mostly use Thinkpads, so everything works - suspend, hibernation, wifi, camera, etc. Packages for firefox, chrome, and all the usual other open source software are just a pkg_add command away. Two commands and a reboot to upgrade the system and all installed apps a couple times a year.

It might not be the right OS if you are a gamer, or you gotta have the latest phone-app-thingy, but if you're a unix person and want a rock solid well organized and documented system that you can trust it's bliss.
> I've been a fan of SpaceX for years, but apparently even a whiff of anything short of pure adoration is enough to send some fanboys into a tizzy. It's tiresome.

I think it's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction leftover from when SpaceX was still trying to get its foot in the door and was more vulnerable to the whims of public opinion (since early on, it was wholly dependent on NASA contracts which strong public pressure could get cut).

Spaceflight is also one of those subjects that tends to attract opinions and fears more based in sensationalized headlines and Hollywood depictions than reality. This is natural since space isn't exactly accessible to general public, but it can be frustrating for enthusiasts, especially since unfounded claims spread much more widely and quickly than corrections do.

All that said, no company is above criticism and I do not encourage fanboyism.
I think it is also about being smart in what you spend your money on. Being rich doesn't help at all if you buy things that don't actually improve the quality of your life.

Now, what will improve the quality of life varies from person to person, but I don't think it is the case that everyone is getting the most out of their money.
I heard really good things about 14” and 15” version, it seems that LG really good something good going on there.
I posted this not only because of the topic of the article itself but because it makes my think about systems planning (e.g. are we overprovisioning our back end for demand that may never occur?) and business plans.
It used to take 6-7 years to recoup... 10 years ago when I was doing the math. I am surprised to hear that it is still the same even though the prices are supposedly going down.
Web is indeed unique. No one else would consider a magazine article "an application".
So interesting to back into the numbers through partial information. This was also a good look at what good into the manufacturing process. https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
Escalating the tensions is not a solution; it just makes it harder down the road to find actual, workable solutions.

Bluntly put, do we want a trade war with China to go hot?
US has massive IP portfolio advantage, it will lose more. IP intensive sectors account for 1/3 of US GDP and affects as much employment. China is very far away from that and even if she creeps towards or surpass parity, these sectors will employ relatively smaller fraction of total population, i.e. it will affect Chinese society less - these nascent sectors may mature slower or not progress, versus US/west already heavily invested would actively regress. These scenarios have very different ramifications.

It's in both US/west and Chinese interests to maintain general IP racket and deal with sectors of exception. China is obviously not going to respect IP that it is willing to license if said denied via sanctions / geopolitical posturing. Just like military R&D, lack of access = valid rationale to espionage and undermine. West sanctions arms export to China after Tiananmen, now China has massive indigenous military industry. Semiconductors seems no different. Would have been better to draw out reliance on foreign hardware.
Is there something like this for the entire US Code? Laws in the US are often written to say something like "Amend Section X to say Y.", and it's very hard to follow.
All motorcycles are self balancing.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention the (Sony Electric Car)[https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056404/sony-vision-s-ele...}. Sony isn't getting into building cars either, they did this partially as a design exercise and to help them understand the needs of their customers, who are the car manufacturers using Sony chips.

Apple is in the auto industry with Apple Auto, and it's entirely possible they are building cars to not be constrained by the design of what the car makers are supplying, like reference design for PCs that intel makes. Intel was never going to make a laptop, but it helps them better understand the market, and sell more of their products, if they have a deep understanding of, and can help their customers sell/use more of Intel's product.

I haven't used Apple Auto, but I assume they don't have much of a leg-up on Android Auto, and with Volvo using Android as the OS for it's cars now, I'm sure Apple is looking at the opportunity for deeper integration and Apple Auto only features they may be able to develop with auto makers
Apple's "Car" will not be a traditional "Car". I don't know why so many keep thinking this will be the case. Completely remove all those assumptions you have about what a car is today, and think what it will be in 10 years. As Jobs said, go to where the puck will be.

All the predictions out there are 100% wrong, inaccurate, and lazy. Apple will NOT release a "car" as you currently know it.

It will be software on wheels; it will be an entertainment system, work/social hub, and by accident happen to take you places. It won't have a steering wheel. It won't need maintenance or a dealership network like traditional auto makers. It won't need insurance or even a drivers' license to own, because you won't be operating it. There's a good chance you won't even be able to OWN it. Those future profit margins exist is the future automatous taxi fleet, the entertainment system, and the ecosystem that exists inside and around the car as a product.

There's so much potential here if you just forget what you already know. Yes, Apple will partner with some existing manufacture to produce the car (like they do with existing products). No, it won't be based on any existing platform, it will be built from the ground up, both hardware and software, and be totally unlike anything that currently exists.

Apple is laser focused on one thing: the end user experience -- take the user somewhere, with as little input as possible, and wow the consumer with something so profound they didn't even know they wanted it; instantly make everything before look so old and clunky you will never look back.

Think back to UX 101: All user input is error.
Hmm due to the cookie banners probably. I've started this as a side project for my personal website, without looking for existing solutions :D

The landing page is... meh, a placeholder more or less right now.
It varies with wind and heat, yes. Some days it's fine, others are god awful.
Total price: 30.43 ct/kWh*
Supplier’s cost (23%)
Grid charges (24%)
Renewable energy surcharge (21%)
Sales (value-added) tax (16 %)
Electricity tax (7 %)
Concession levy (5%)
Offshore liability levy (1.3%)

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house...
I hope the Eve Online server folks are paying attention. Good work, pyston.
So economically viable if the government subsidizes the construction. I would be happy for my tax money to go to a project that gets 70% of electricity generation off of carbon.
Unironically this. If I stay in my big city my projected outcome is nothing but poverty in old age. Once a man stops caring about partying and getting laid the freedom to own something substantial and build on it is the new sirens call.
https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ is the goto resource for this, at least for hexagons
http://archive.is/ncBWW
That's pretty accurate, though many of the cities that make up the DFW Metroplex are relatively large cities in their own right (Plano/Irving/Arlington/Fort Worth). Fort Worth is actually as big as San Francisco, in terms of population.
Sorry maybe I couldn't explain my point clear.

Think Mastodon instances (hosts) as reddit subreddits.

Basically you are creating an account in not universe (reddit) but on instance (subreddit)

And this subreddit is deciding, which other subreddits you can see with your account. (fediverse)