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Solstice Initiative | Data Scientist | Remote | https://solstice.us/solstice-initiative/

Solstice Initiative is a nonprofit that empowers traditionally excluded communities towards a just and inclusive clean energy transition. We're seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join our team and continue the development of our EnergyScore product and assist in Solstice’s research to expand access to clean energy in the United States. EnergyScore, an alternative to traditional credit scores, is a machine learning-based algorithm that improves access to clean energy products for low-to-moderate-income households. By predicting the probability of utility payment delinquency using several consumer datasets, Solstice can ensure better accuracy in consumer underwriting for clean energy while making the industry more inclusive.

https://apply.workable.com/solstice-2/j/BC753889B2/

Solstice Power Technologies | Vice President, Product and Engineering | Remote (US Based)

Solstice is an award-winning clean energy company working to put affordable renewable energy in the hands of every household, including low-income populations and communities of color. The clean energy revolution is happening now; Solstice is working to ensure this transition is equitable and widespread by making it simpler and more affordable than ever for homeowners, businesses, and even renters to go solar.

We’re in search of a compassionate leader who will cultivate a deep sense of community in ourselves and product experience, coach and develop the team, and who is passionate about clean energy access for low and middle income communities. You’re customer-focused and have an established background in developing and shipping products that customers love. You will help create empowered product teams that are outcome focused, while ensuring, while ensuring we have the kinds of systems, processes, and frameworks to execute consistently at scale. You're able to deliver valuable gains with our product while having the entrepreneurial mindset to expand our offerings into new areas to scale our business and further our vision.

https://apply.workable.com/solstice-2/j/E0877AA5CB/
He's probably smart enough to know that his discovery and fame was one-in-a-million, and that lightning doesn't usually strike the same place twice.
Such as? What other mechanism makes it possible to pay 700 billions per year to the private sector for something that the taxpayer can't see, because it's secret?
Is there something similar for people with visual sensitivies? Bright lights mess me up. Even something as simple as the headlight on a bicycle can trip me up. Bright billboards in the dark are the worst.
I agree that P3P was way too complex, but so are the cookie popups that plague us today. P3P was built around legalese and privacy statements rather than simple consent, I think a modern take can do much better.

The extension you propose would be my vision of a modern P3P, but with categories you can set up with defaults. You don't want to force a NoScript/uMatrix style screen onto users, so the browser should simplify a bit, but a header that says "yes for necessary services, yes for analytics, no for tracking, no for advertising" (or something like that) would fit my requirements.

I think websites should also have a way to show _why_ and _how_ they process data, because that's part of the informed consent users give. A simple text field with a maximum size to force short descriptions, maybe with a "more details" button next to the selected purpose could be enough.

I don't think just sending a header would suffice because you'd still get consent popups if there's no other way to get consent. A boolean "sell my data" kust doesn't encompass the consent you're giving websites when you allow/deny.

It's a challenge to keep simple, for sure, but the UI and server-side API can be simpler than the underlying protocol. Consider the browser language list that nobody uses: to the user it's just an ordered list of languages, but in the user agent headers each language gets a numeric weight added to it. Or Firefoxs's "block trackers" button that substitutes Javascript when you enable it and applies all kinds of weird rules and detections to work.
Didn't read the article. Is it .0001% to .0006% or something?

Cannabis may or may not trigger schizophrenia, lets assume it does. But schizophrenia is very rare, Cannabis use is not so the chance is obviously very low and perhaps it's just speeding up the inevitable rather then creating new actual cases of schizophrenia.

Also, lets assume Cannabis use can trigger (rather then cause) latent schizophrenia. Why would frequency of use matter? It's a binary thing, either you ingested the causative agent or you didn't. One use maybe is enough.

Overall this article appears designed to frighten casual Cannabis users but maybe those are already "proved safe" from this particular tragedy.
Most likely, a missile will be rotating about its axis of symmetry making illuminating a single spot possible only in a short pulse mode.
Seems reasonable. YouTube is a platform for content creators with some skin in the game. New accounts producing viral livestreams are a hotbed for spam and scams, such as the ubiquitous free cryptocurrency livestream scams.

Frankly, I’m glad to see they’re doing something about it.
I could apply as a data deletion specialist.
You could just use another application such as Windy Maps to answer that.
Author mentions Twill. https://demo.twill.io/. Looks interesting, like a big shiny ACF front-end. I wonder what the back-end looks like for dev.

edit: ah, it's a laravel package.
WP doesn't control where folks host it. Limiting its support to one .Net implementation would severely limit its market.
So, this was your argument

"All energy storage solutions we have are low capacity, slow to charge, slow to bring online, and often are extremely harmful to the environment to produce."

This is 100% bullshit. Energy storage solutions can be scaled as high as we want. They can charge as fast as is needed. By "slow to bring online" you might mean two things (cannot be switch on to deliver power to the grid from an off state quickly, or cannot be built quickly), both of which are false. As for "extremely harmful to the environment", I also see no reason to believe that is true, especially compared to either the harm of CO2 or the harm imposed by the existence of industrial civilzation at all.

So, you listed reasons, and they appear spurious. Care to defend your claims?
First off, I'd like to see some additional proof that this isn't a hoax. There's other people in that thread claiming it's real, but I have yet to see anything other than the image posted.

Assuming it is real however, this is another baffling decision Youtube has made in recent months. I assume the thought behind this is to try maximize their walled garden in some way, but unlike other sites Youtube has such a long history of being embedded in external sites that they can't block all external access all at once. However, the main continued success of Youtube is arguably the emergence of new viral videos that boost new blood into a position of becoming a long-term profitable creator. This is being done in the name of "small creators" but it seems apparent this will have the opposite effect.
They will ask the companies to delete the data and take action if there is evidence they didn't, just like how all of GDPR is enforced.
Telemetry traffic is multiplexed with user traffic on a single socket thread, per article. That creates a single point of failure where telemetry can affect user traffic.

Of course all network access is shared for a machine so it's not possible to not have a single point of failure, but there are different ways of slicing up the access.
Are you high latitude? You may not have good enough coverage until they get more satellites up.
TIL: Kaizen is a Japanese word for continuous improvement
It's a business philosophy that focuses on gradual growth rather than large initial output in hopes of improving efficiency and improving the work environment.

Is there a word for continuous self-improvement, unrelated to work?
Something like this? bsonspec.org
> US policy regarding prosecution of leaks, etc is mostly independent of which President sits in the White House. The fact that you believe otherwise shows that you have massive blinkers on - propaganda has successfully done its job.

As my other comment mentioned, this is not about leaks. This is about open questions being raised by citizens of a government, who wish to see more investigation into the activities of the government. I said nothing about prosecution for leaks, nor is this discussion even about that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30176959
Terra UST is doing quite well in spite of being receiving some FUD recently, right?
> Very true, however it's not clear how a truism about something else relates to the topic? Was this supposed to be persuasive about collecting digital data?

If a business model depends on spying on users, it's not sustainable, and moreover, it's illegal in the EU. People are not giving their data away freely if they have a) no way of understanding the consequences of clicking a single button, b) get tricked into consenting using dark patterns, and c) their refusal to consent isn't even obeyed (TCF loads tracking scripts before users can consent).

In general, one of the requirements of the GDPR is that all information on usage of provided data has to be written in simple, comprehensible terms. Please tell me how you knew the implications of giving consent on a IAB site, namely your data being shared and sold across thousands of companies. If even techies fail to understand that, how can anyone expect that of ordinary people, our parents, kids?

It should be clear that with a law like the GDPR in effect, the IAB is acting unlawfully.
I'm curious as to what you see are the benefits of using Rust in high assurance applications, compared to the alternatives already available? In my experience (which doesn't include anything related to formal verification), when everything's said and done you're left with a fairly limited subset of your chosen language anyway.
Not to mention programming isn't a sport.

I don't care who has the best paint brush technique. What is interesting is the art and how to creatively solve an interesting problem. There is no shortage of people who can masterfully paint absolutely uncreative shit.

This article though didn't really get deep enough to learn much from.
ReliaQuest Review: HelpNet Security
That's so insane; he's a legend for sure—one for the history books.
Yes but this is an extreme example
Great use of humanity's time...
Never, as far as I could tell. That was the whole point of the "reject all" button: to trick you into implicitly "agreeing" to the "legitimate interest" section.
Solana is pretty centralized, it was designed to be an efficient version of a blockchain. So, it works more like a traditionally engineered HA service would, but with some blockchain bits attached. This makes it fast and cheap, but it isn’t very decentralized as a result.
But seriously, shouldn't the original Wordle be treated as the reference implementation?
He doesn't need to sail away for tax advantages. Tax lawyers are expensive, but not as much as the largest yatch in the world.
People have figured out that one of the ways to get to overnight wealth is to solve the collective action problem and they're getting better and better at fostering it and at coming up with legal ways to avoid existing regulations against pump and dump schemes. Doing it "for the lulz" to hose a bunch of hedge fund shorts. Or creating NFTs around "things" you "own" and pumping them up. Knockoff dogcoins that have nothing to do with the playfulness of the original.

The sad part is that we could actually solve some real problems by coordinating collective action on, say, starting a new city that's designed around non-motorized transit within the city limits. But we don't. We get Snoop Dogg crypto instead.

It's all so depressing.
Idea* that has been beaten to death :)

From a consumer perspective, a product has to be 10x better for me to pay for it. There’s simply no way to make a bookmarking app that’s 10x better - there’s just not that much room for improvement.
Is that still happening in 7.3?
They're already skirting the rate that they're supposed to be paying through various machinations. They have an army of accountants, lawyers, powerful people working for them to do just that.
How do you convince good programmers to spend their life writing lisp? It's very hard to find lisp work after your company, so it kind of wasted years.
My guess is that the purpose is to prevent people from creating throwaway accounts that re-broadcast sport events, movies and so on.
"why not let me continue to use X11?"

You CAN continue to use X11. There just isn't much point for most applications especially since XWayland lets you run X11 applications in a Wayland session. Wayland is more efficient than X11. Phoronix recently did benchmarks with games in both and Gnome's and KDE's Wayland sessions outperformed the Xorg session while using less power even though those applications were using XWayland.

"Why not just integrate Weston X11 backend into Xorg and then let application developers to drop support for X11 completely, while letting me keep using X11?"

That isn't how any of this works. Weston's X11 backend, just like the X11 backend of all DEs, relies on Xorg. There's nothing worthwhile from a Weston's X11 backend to implement into Xorg.

"Do we need an IPv4 vs IPv6 battle again?"

I mean the same people who worked on Xorg work on Wayland.They didn't come up with it for no reason. X is a protocol from 1983 and has been on version 11 since 1987. It predates GPUs, OpenGL, compositors, and multi-core desktop CPUs. They actually explain the rationale behind Wayland and what's wrong with X11 in the Wayland FAQ.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html

If you look at the ideas that were drafted for X12, you can see that Wayland is pretty in line with it. https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/?action=diff

"Moreover, those «program X uses Wayland, but bla-bla-bla... set this environment variable to use X11 backend» are frustrating."

I don't know how else you would like that work.
It's a monumental bridge dating back to 1878, being the first of its kind in Europe. It was one of the first bridges to be reconstructed after the heavy bombardment of Rotterdam during WWII, and is a national monument. It holds significant value to the people living in the city. Any damage to it would be unacceptable.

Meanwhile, the yacht-under-construction was partially constructed at a different boat wharf, and moved to the current location for finishing - including installing the masts. They could have chosen to finish it downstream of the bridge but chose not to due to convenience.

Partially deconstructing a historic landmark to make it more convenient to build a billionaire's toy is not a good look.
> None of the Workspace data you provide is ever used outside of Workspace, nor is it used for any other purpose than for the benefit of you and your users

Apologies, but this line is so formulaic it just triggers PTSD for me. In five quarters, management and TLs turn over and suddenly someone plugs this hose into that one, sometimes by accident, but usually deliberately. It will all end up in the giant Google smorgasbord, parts of it draped with a fig leaf that calls it "anonymous" and offered up as a data source to be raided by dozens of internal Google services to feed on.

> we can't create machine learning models from your data to improve the experience for other customers, for example, without your prior consent

Somehow "anonymized" data is constantly up for grabs, without consent required. As a PM you should have interacted with legal by now, and if it hasn't dawned on you yet, the organization will eventually do whatever it deems is not explicitly illegal or is within an acceptable envelope of risk. "Anonymized" is a particularly import legal blessing, however technically inadequate the actual process turns out to be.

You are in a particularly difficult position to be responsible for this, so I don't envy you, and don't take my comments as a personal attack. But yeah, we've heard all these lines before.
Holy cow. As a fan of IT Crowd, I thought "Countdown" was completely made up. But it's almost completely a real show!
How would they know if they did or didn't, though?
The belief that politics is primarily a contest for power is a very limited view of politics. Politics is also a means for idea exchange, collective weighing of priorities, debate, the proposal and then choice between competing visions, etc.

Reducing it to being primarily about power is not only a disservice, but potentially a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> The NYT won a Pulitzer for helping the Soviets cover up millions starving to death. They've always been a propaganda rag

Your comment itself is a example of how to mislead with facts.
Nope.

> there are less intrusive ways for companies to comply.

These intrusive ways are companies not complying. This is what is currently being litigated, an industry pulling out all the stops to not comply with the GDPR.

This ruling is a major victory along the way.
Well either the jobs are worth it or they are not. This actually does seem like a clear cut case of "if you won't do this for us we can't keep building here".
I switched to Insomnia about a year ago for two main reasons:

- Didn't choke when having ~50 request 'tabs' open

- Didn't try to sell me shit

Granted, Postman had quite a lot more tools in its box for scripting, testing, sharing etc. but I didn't need those.

Insomnia has got a bit fatter since then, but it remains more responsive than Postman was.
... due to code in Telemetry being different and triggering different code paths in the network stack.

There is a why here, and it includes Telemetry mixed traffic as a potential culprit. There are reasons to unify traffic (proxy support, QoS and whatnot) but unification of the user and Telemetry streams isn't without risk, as has been shown.
This. Thank you for overthrowing the comment above you.
50/50 on privacy. Sure, privacy is cool but I pity the people whom must endure seeing the shapely flabs and curves of everyday people. That's got to have a toll on anyone's psych over time, as an "occupational hazard".
It runs so well because in the west folks more or less hate their parents: When they become inconvenient (read: need care), they are put away and politely ignored until they die. That's why those places are so hostile to their inhabitants: They know nobody cares about them enough to really do anything about it.
We don't have to outlaw yachts, just tax extreme wealth
In large part because those models are easy to formally verify. I've become interested in SPARK of the past few years, but people tell me while you can verify it, it is hard to do right. (I have no idea)

I don't work with them myself, but some of my coworkers do low level control of similar hardware and they mostly work in matlab for that reason. Well for new code, there is still a lot of C from 20+ years ago in production, it isn't formally verified but years of real world experience says it is pretty good. Everytime there is a new feature there is a decision to rewrite the whole in matlab, put in shims to write the new part in matlab, or just add the C.
Well, all those popups are at least showing how much you've been fucked up before by tracking and analytics and other systems in place.

While the outcome isn't optimal (for the moment) we now at least see what's happening.
As we're discovering: plagues are universal
Yeah agreed.
They should pay for the bridge’s removal/construction.
The way I envisioned it was that attributes are also files themselves, and the contents contain the values. So:

// given:
<div id="myID">

// `id` attribute is located in
/dom/html/body/…/div[n].id

So unless you look at the contents of the files, you wouldn’t be able to find a certain ID. Because of that, DOMFS (when XPath is enabled) would expose that same "file" at `/dom/[@id='myID']` as well.

I guess you could do something like this?

grep "myID" /dev/**/*.id

But why would you even use this “DOMFS”?
Price it in real, old-fashioned USD, because these beginners don’t hold Monopoly-coins! ;)
Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows.

I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one.

[0] https://paw.cloud/
[1] https://rapidapi.com/
Your temp is too high, pressure is too low, or you didnt wait long enough.
The building of the superyacht brings in money to the ship builders this is true, don't know how much will assume at least 1B if it costs 500M to move dismantle part of bridge.

But of course that money could have been spent on other things, it even seems suboptimal for Bezos, which implies to me he must have so much money he doesn't actually know what to do with it.

But even worse, the 500M to dismantle part of bridge evidently isn't considered in cost of superyacht so there is a loss of 500M from city's budget because of the money because building superyacht is worth more than this loss to city - but you can see how that is a worse deal for Rotterdam then if Bezos had superyacht built without needing to dismantle bridge.
> However, the main continued success of Youtube is arguably the emergence of new viral videos that boost new blood into a position of becoming a long-term profitable creator.

This appears to only be for live streams, not uploaded videos.

The livestream feature has been heavily abused to promoted cryptocurrency scams and rebroadcast copyright material (sports games), among other things. Livestreams are also likely the most computationally expensive videos (on a per-viewer basis) and tend to run for hours, unlike a 10-minute cacheable video.

Honestly this seems reasonable. They don’t want the platform to become a livestream free-for-all and they’re already under fire for hosting scams and misinformation content. Limiting the reach of livestreams from new accounts is fair.
"Check it out, Larry -- the Dutch are taking down their bridges for my boat!"

"That's real nice, Jeff. Call me when you buy a whole Hawaiian island to moor it next to."
Yes, and the last time that happened it caused such a commotion that the government promised to never do it again.
Ask HN: How to acquire best practices for a role?
(Trying to keep my question generally applicable, if a key info is missing, let me know, and I edit it in.)

It seems like I'm going to transition into a new role in a company where I'm going to be the first person being in said role.

In software engineering many of the activities are tangentially related to eachother, so other team members are probably already doing parts of what I will have to do, so some siloed knowledge already exists on how they like "stuff" done.

Everything technical can be learned from courses, but I'm not sure how to quickly pick up the nuances coming naturally with years of experience.

The role being new, and without a senior specialist in this company I think I'll have to figure out (some of) the best practices.

This is a medior level job, so they don't expect managerial skills from me, but getting myself on track is probably expected.

I can be productive from day one, but I'm afraid of making costly mistakes which only manifest themselves down the road.

Although simply trying out different approaches before "committing" to the "best" is doable, due to my lack of deep understanding of the topic it could still result in a sub-optimal solution.

How can I accelerate my growth into this new role?