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> And? How does that make it any more defensible in the context of the point I was making there? What is that replying to?

> Yes? That was my point all along? That rather than make token efforts to get the incentives in alignment, they’re just stubbornly fighting things that would benefit solar because “sigh, more work [as things currently stand]”.

It's not defensible. I'm stating what exists today and it's uniform for GiantPowerMegaco who wants to bring on megawatts of capacity or the Doe who just wants to light up a few panels on their roof.

My overall points have been a) this is entrenched for a long time and b) the utilities are not the primary ones making the rules. Regular people may be noticing the friction now due to increased touch points via solar, but it's not in response to solar.

They did not calcify overnight. No, that doesn't make it right but it does make it harder to change. So things that are long entrenched but need change usually get the "sigh, more work" response and lots of push back.

> No, I was referring back to your own claim[1] that some of them are for that reason

> ...you’re redefining the point to refer to the former, and then acting like I don’t understand why we’d want people who can follow regulations.

I'm not redefining the point but I should have referenced that I was reacting to the callout of safety but the other aspects play into it just as much.

It's not my intention to imply you don't want people who can follow regulations -- it's more about clarifying that if one has to play in a regulated space you accept the whole pie and all its hangups, literal or figurative. Or not participate until the pie becomes more palatable.

The reason I mention law firms that operate in this space is they are generally ranked for their experience and ability to navigate around these confusing, slow, or non-existent responses from these agencies.

> “Crediting you for your power contribution” is an accounting-level concept, not a hardware-level concept. you don’t need special meters for it beyond their ability to know when the power passed through.

I guess my personal hangup here is on not allowing meters to rollback or "reverse".

The portion of the document I referenced is where the PUC says you cannot use a rollback meter for net metering but must instead use a meters specifically capable of measuring in-flow and out-flow.

They go on to state the reason for measuring out-flow is to determine when the energy was made available to calculate the wholesale market price at that given point in time.
Over the years I've gone from Ubuntu to Debian to Slackware and back to Debian. I took a chance on Slackware for a few years precisely so that I could force myself to understand *nix from the bottom up. Unfortunately I didn't have nearly as much free time (or patience) as I needed to get the most out of the experience, and having to deal with missing dependencies turned out to be too much overhead for just getting anything else done. I'd definitely recommend it for folks who enjoy (and have the time for) getting their hands dirty.
Isn't field of view much better in the European version?

I've only been a passanger in an EU semi and I was itching to drive it, because just how high you were and how much you could see! It reminded me of the Homer's car from the Simpsons - ugly but you can't help but wonder how pleasant it would be to operate.
It's a proper linux distro. Everything is in a sensible place. If you want to configure your system, you configure it with.. configuration files. If you break it, you get to keep both bits.
> I don't know if any other apps do this...

https://www.descript.com/ comes to mind
> Jump Trading fixed the problem by depositing $320M ETH tokens

Do you have an etherscan link (ie txid) for this?

At the moment all we've got is a "funds are SAFU" tweet.

$320M is not chump change. I have trouble believing this ends any other way than (a) Wormhole goes kaput, (b) hacker gets doxed and gives back the loot. There might be a lot of fractional-reserve posturing before one of these occurs, of course.
> There is a reason malware is a huge problem on android but not on iOS.

So it is said, but is this actually true? Anecdotally, my non-technical parents have been android users for 10 years and malware is a non-issue. I'd be interested in data that could demonstrate otherwise.
Masks are still required where I live, yet we have some of the highest infection rates in the country. (Southern California)
> If the centerline didn't extend under the covering, I'd be sure that is what we are looking at in the enhanced photo.

Why wouldn't they paint such a detail on it? If they went to the lengths of painting the aircraft (as opposed to just covering it) then presumably they want it to be credible.

I'm no expert in this stuff but to me the shadow of the plane matches other shadows pretty well, and also the shadow off the side of the hangar is light and looks like the rib structure, rather than solid so the roof is probably not solid. That seems much harder to fake.

You can also see the roof beams over the plane. Although that kind of detail could be painted on or come through the canvass if it wasn't perfectly tight.
Slackware was actually my second distro. My first one came on CD-ROM :). Bought my first ever CD-ROM drive specifically for the purpose. Yggdrasil Linux. As I recall, that was around 0.98 or 0.99, and the support for networking was a bit rough. But it's been damn near 30 years so my memory is hazy.
Cool and Bucharest and Los Angeles are both major cities in their respective countries and on a worldwide basis and yet the cost of housing between the two is significant. So based on my anecdotal experience I can therefore conclude that all real estate is cheap in Europe. And if anyone challenges me on that statement I'll simply say that won't change my reality and then tell them they're being disingenuous. Or more aptly someone else will say it for me.
The main question is: What about push notifications? WHAT ABOUT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS?!!

Even if we sideload an app, with modern mobile OS architecture many classes of apps will be almost useless if sideloaded apps will not be able to use push notifications provided by an operating system.
> Jump did have to fork over $320m worth of tokens

txid please
> In the unprecedented case over freedom of speech, the Helsinki district court must also decide whether citing the Bible can be considered a crime in some cases in Finland.

It's really sad that there's even a hint of possibility that that might ever be considered a crime.
Why even ask for a grant proposal? Require some evidence that the applicant is serious, and then let luck decide. You might be suggesting this already (but your last sentence read to me as if you're thinking of vetting proposals). Obviously not all funding should be allocated like this, but maybe a small fraction. Perhaps only to those without any grant support at the time. I think it could be a good hedging strategy for society.
Because it invalidates the anti-white narrative.
I saw that section. It's weird to me to use tenure here instead of industry experience or level since tenure specifically means how long you've been at the same job.

In my experience in tech, staying at the same company (long-tenured) is the best way to ensure you are underpaid. They seem to allude to that with:

> The “Great Resignation” may present an opportunity for long-tenured, underpaid workers to find competitive pay elsewhere.

If my understanding is correct then that doesn't account for what I'm calling experience or level.
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Yes that is correct. What I'm quoting is in the summary paragraph above that.

How you present data is important and I'm wondering why it's not presented there.
a) iOS customers pay extra for the service protections of easy subscription management and keeping payment information out of shoddy payment platforms. Registered charities can accept Apple Pay to avoid the cut.

b) The Keyboard API is designed to be tiny and blocks broadcasting keystrokes. It is like it was not designed to be a general computing device.

c) Again not intended as a general purpose device. I recall early on they added hardware to the camera to prevent it from detecting out of sight spectrum to prevent it from being used to find heat leaks and the like.

d) Android is the only platform where other people can secretly control your device.

e) Apple gives lots of hoots. They are clearly trying to craft a specific experience.

f) True of most anything with a chip. Cars, game machines, smart TVs all have anti-tampering tech even without your banking data on them.

g) Web servers are often compromised so bad for security. Computers never made good WiFi bridges. Plenty of music apps. I see point of sale iPads all over the place.

h) yes. The idea of billions of devices out there with constantly running background Location/Bluetooth sniffers reporting to ad-tech is horrifying to me. It would make the AirTags stalking seem like a joke if every phone secretly tracked every Bluetooth.
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines! I like to think that Donatello inspired my love of coding. Best turtle.
> so the $320M has come from the deep-pocketed investors and VCs

If that had really happened there would be a txid, and people would be parading around an etherscan link.

At the moment, this is no different from "funds are SAFU"
I hear good things about Void, but last time I tried to install it, the mirror I was pulling from had the download time estimate at a couple of days, and I didn't have time to muck about that day.

Might be time to try it again - or a different mirror
> Um, the fact I've told any semi-non-competent person to buy iPhone because it very specifically won't screw up like the popup ridden land of Android.

How does this relate to your original comment claiming you're losing something you paid for?
> It seems that they have a chart for pay gap by tenure, which is by years of experience.

Tenure just refers to how long someone has been with a specific company, not how long they've been in the industry.

So it's suggestive of _something_ bad that the pay gap increases with tenure for many categories of job, but it's not at all conclusive.
> Just like how good tasting food isn't a bad thing, and my enjoying the taste of apples isn't a dark pattern

Exactly, and a company having a leveling system in a video game isn't automatically a dark pattern, as this website erroneously asserts.

> If you aren't worried about the amount of dark patterns in your games at all don't bother going to the website.

Look, this is blatantly disingenuous framing. I've made it clear that I take issue with what they're categorizing as a dark pattern, that it's overbroad, but you're responding as if I'm making a completely different point.

It's fine to disagree, but please argue the point I made, not something else.

I think it's a good idea to have a website like this, but they should be using more sensible definitions, not something that catches almost all video games.
The whole tone of this article with respect to money is really frustrating. The guy is obviously very wealthy, but doesn't want to admit it. he really wants to feel as if he's sharing the struggles that normal people have, like getting a mortgage, but the "struggle" is just a vanity thing for him - he wants to feel like he's still normal, so he's pretending to have financial worries that he doesn't actually have to have.

if he could just admit that he built a silly house because he's rich AF and he can, it'd be a lot more respectable.
Note: this data is from https://www.sequoia.com/, which is a company unrelated to Sequoia Capital.
I think this is very wrong and offensive to the memory of All journalists who have sacrificed themselves to tell the general population about facts, including women. Like Galizia, Siani etc. The proud boys are not attacking you because you're a woman but because you're against their herd. This is just some sort of woke bullshit, if you want to be an author be an author and complain about the rights of authors and journalist to be safe from physical repercussions over their content but quit the crap about being attacked as a woman author, and the victimism for a couple of posts of 4chan and twitter, that people have been killed

The issue is not about the gender, the issue is about the violence of people disagreeing with some point of view, unfortunately I would have no sympathy for your point of view as described in this article even if I of course would not be as raging and repressive as the people reported
Wolvic sounds more natural to me than your other suggestions. If someone verbally told me about the project, my first guess would be to spell it as Wolvic.

I can see possibly someone non native spelling it as Wulvic or Woolvic (if they heard the name in a conversation). I'm sure some may misspell it with an f also but if the project grows, it won't matter.
> There's not enough information in the photo to determine

There's enough that I can say it's not an F-16XL. The mystery aircraft is much larger - 20 meters long x 15 meters wingspan, vs the F-16XL at 16m x 10m.
The numbers are off because it is a private company. They have $150M in disclosed assets, the true number may be magnitudes higher and probably is if the company can cough up $320M on a dime. Unless you have insider trading information there is no way to know Jump's real AUM.
California requires[0] new construction to have solar now, so while you might not have to worry about installing it you very well may be stuck with a system if you move.

I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that increased solar installs will leave less money for grid infrastructure. With the moves away from gas for heating and cooking and the proliferation of electric cars, it seems that demand for residential power is only going to go up with solar offsetting it, so demand on the grid should stay fairly steady with increases in areas that solar doesn't work as well. Higher density housing will also increase energy demands with limited ability to offset the demand with solar. Overall, that should mean income to maintain the grid should hold steady or even go up, though I suppose only time will tell.

[0]https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2018-05/energy-commission-ado...
I love this. What a fantastic story, and what a wonderful kid.
Git dad: improve Git's error message for a common typo
Ask HN: Is remote work the new normal?
Such that it eventually spreads across most white collar professions?

I suspect the primary driver is cost reduction and staff compensation- the delta of cost savings can be passed on for a stipend office bonus
Do you live in the entire city of NYC? Or do you just like opining on what the entire rest of the boroughs should do? How practical do you really think it is for the entire country to make special considerations for some special snowflakes that can't handle the standard trailer everyone else uses? If you don't like the long trailers, you're free to choose to not shop at grocery stores and other places that may be using them. Free market and all, maybe someone can open up a store than only unloads cargo from short trailers, we can experiment on what is more successful.

If the NYPD enforced (were somehow able to) every single law at every moment to everyone, New Yorkers would be crying to go back to discretionary enforcement in no time.
NJ to pay $52.9M to families of vets who died of Covid in state-run homes
> The choices don’t seem particularly shocking to me

Did you see all the glass? And the snow? Those two don't go together, even with triple glazing. Then again, if you have major $$$ to spend on heating, I guess it doesn't matter.
Speaking for myself only, it was my first linux distro in mid to late 1990s. Computer books, large reference type computer books were a thing back then. You could buy books titled something like "Slackware Bible" in very large print on the cover that promised to tell you how to run your own web server and maybe email server. In the back of the book were cd roms that had the Slackware source ready to build. It was immensely attractive to me. The internet was not much a thing back then, mostly AOL for regular Joe's. For academics or adventurous types there were universities and independent isps offering gopher,www and Usenet sites. Downloading distros over 2800k modems was not something you wanted to do. I remember installing Slackware but imo at the time it was horribly primitive and esoteric and promised days of driver and build hell. I remember having to build everything from source and wondering why in the hell was that required and it was not uncommon to o completely wreck your system by installing the wrong library or passing the scripts the wrong flags, etc. But it did get you a web server and other cool stuff. You could for nearly free host a website in your bedroom. But it could break at any time (I mean the whole system, requiring rebuild from scratch). I never enjoyed linux installs until I discovered debian in the early 2000s which was a God send. My apologies if my memories are off and no take slight to Slackware developers intended, it was just the state of the technology at the time. For the time the efforts were amazing.
>Yes, even the less effective vaccines help against serious symptoms, death, and the overwhelming of health services

This is where you overstep. Israel, Portugal and Australia all with 90%+ vaccination rates have their health care systems collapse, this simple fact is hidden by the fact that all 'optional' procedures, like say hip surgery, have been postponed for two years (and getting longer every day).
tl;dr: Bug reports and feature requests aren't welcome in the rxdb project, unless reporters write the new (originally failing) unit tests themselves.
I think today's version would be ulisp[0].

You get a powerful, structured, and easy to learn language that is also pretty trivial to implement while also being capable of low-level assembly access if really needed and to even compile native binaries for much better performance than most BASIC ever dreamed of.

[0] http://www.ulisp.com
CRT is entirely concerned with examining racism as a systemic, culturally generated phenomenon rather than an innate aspect of human nature, and criticizing the neutrality of modern liberalism as being an enabler of that racist system. Regardless of what you and I were taught, the premise that systemic racism exists is currently interpreted by opponents of CRT as part of "woke" ideology intended (they claim) to oppress and stigmatize white people.

What CRT actually does or doesn't bring to the table isn't relevant, since opponents aren't using a good faith or accurate interpretation of it to begin with.
Greenwashing is a state of mind.
well what about them? an oversaturated channel that inevitably will become useless. Maybe users should be trained to seek the information they want instead of a device telling them what to think. It's heathier.
This post is dumb and the author is trolling. The discussion about energy usage took place at length over 10s of forum pages in 2021.

To the author: you should be ashamed of yourself for not mentioning or acknowledging the well formed reasons and longform discussions of the early bitcoin community. You also seem to be unaware of their point.
Yes, completely wrong. I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that I only care because it affected me.

Coronavirus has affected and still does affect me. I know people who have suffered and died from it.
At this point Apple zealots usually say you are free to buy device form another manufacturer, because Apple is not a monopoly.
10.7 sq ft in a sq m.

10.7 x $535 is $5,724 per square meter in Seattle.

Which is less than 1/2 of the $11,686 per square meter in Paris.
High paying jobs is what will bring people in. For example, oilfield jobs in the Bakken complex of .. North Dakota.
The article The World's Most Profitable Traffic Jam [0] is linked somewhere in this article and explains very clear why America has internal supply chain problems. IHMO a better read. It was submitted 3 times here on HN since dec 21 last year but never got much traction.

[0] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-profitabl...
At 55, I vastly prefer dark modes...I generally find light modes too bright, too harsh.. Also, 'light modes' seem to differ a lot more in color then dark modes. Seems like you always have to fiddle with the contrast since some sights are bright white, and others are cream.
>The only thing stopping us from being done is in people's heads.

Of course. The actual political debate in the US is whether society should accept and normalize daily mass death. If we applied today’s standards, 9/11 would have been a non-issue. It’s only about a days worth of covid deaths, after all.
here's an article from this summer when there were four out-of-control fires burning in the pemberton region. pemberton is definitely less of a concern than the other side of the mountains, but there is definitely still a risk. and that risk is only growing.

https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/pemberton-area-fire...
News Flash: Economic Configuration Optimized for Normal Circumstances Is Not Optimized For Rare Circumstances
The trials would have had to have tested every participant daily to qualify protection against infection. However it was most certainly presumed, and the entire narrative around the vaccine push was achieving herd immunity: when enough people were unlikely to shed viruses in any likely transmissive volume because of achieved immunity (whether via vaccine or previous infection), transmission would trickle to an almost halt and life would return to normal. This wouldn't require 100% coverage, nor a 100% effective vaccine (no vaccine has ever been 100% effective, or so-called "sterilizing") to accomplish.

There is a bit of rewriting now that is happening that is a bit disturbing and seems like gaslighting. A notion that the vaccine never sought to prevent infection (and thus viral transmission). That is obviously and easily proven as completely wrong.

But then protection faded maybe quicker than expected, and variants broke expectations and some protections. It sucks, but it's where we're at. The vaccines still have the enormous benefit of reducing case severity, but they certainly did fail in some of the goals.

Sidenote: If you are infected and thus replicating SARS-CoV-2 viruses, you have COVID-19 even if entirely asymptomatic. As with the prior points, this is trivial to verify. The "COVID-19 is only severe cases" claim is a part of the prior bit of gaslighting where we're redefining everything to somehow make early proclamations (e.g. "prevents covid-19") fit the unfortunate situation today.

Cheers!
I think that speaks more about being a bicyclist on the roads of New Jersey than the dangers a cop faces.

It's funny when people complain about HN being too US-centric, when in reality it's CA,NY/NJ, and MA centric. NJ is awash in money flowing from Wall St, so I don't feel bad that their cops make a decent wage.
You know, I didn't realize that till I read your comment. Thank you.
Very interesting, I'll take another look. However if we take the paper at face value circa 8200BP there was some widespread climate event which is likely what drove the change, not people.

Why I consider this paper suspect is that the mechanism that drives the modern preservation of the prarie and sometimes its encroachment into existing woodland is well understood. It doesn't require the involvement of people. It does not exist today because the grassland is gone. Lightning during the drier days of fall would lead to grass fires, burning the trees. There were microenvirons near streams that had trees but they were not common.