skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I meant the part where the OP had to go though an obscured workflow and wait over months to receive slow replies just to get the process moving to be paid for their solar contribution.

This is the same workflow that commercial entities go through but employ an army of lawyers as expensive lubrication to keep the process moving.

> If it was a long time because that was an inherent difficulty of complying with necessary safety regulations...

Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but I think you're classifying regulations as primarily for safety reasons. The important part here is regulations determine not only safety, but who can participate, what are the required qualifications[1], who gets paid, and what they get paid[2].

> But here, it’s where there are obvious attempts to scare off all but the most diligent...

Yes, the regulations are fully meant to scare off anyone who isn't diligent (or the word they would prefer is "compliant").

> ...just to get the super-watered-down version of being paid.

This might be a bit of hyperbole, but it's probably because the end goal is to eliminate net metering[3].

The telecom industry went through the exact same thing in the late '90s, early '00s. Its version of net metering is called "reciprocal compensation" (based on call flows). Regulators and incumbent lawyers worked in tandem to chip away at this until the rates were so low it didn't matter.

> Ditto for stuff like “you can only trade energy within the same time bands because we have no concept of a conversion factor between different time bands”.

Hoo boy, look at page 4 and 5 of that TX PUC document[3] where the regulators make a decision to disallow the utilities from using meters that would allow for net metering due to time bands.

1: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.37.htm

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing

3: https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/rulesnlaws/subrules/electri...
A) This is counter to everything I can find online. Going to need citations.

B) This is true. Not sure how it relates to my point though.

C) Aren't we doing both? I've seen both "get vaccinated" and "be healthy" messaging this whole pandemic. Again though, not sure how it relates.

D) True. Again, not sure how this relates.

E) That was a big effect when vaccines just came out, but is a much smaller effect now.

Though I hadn't heard this before, and would be curious to see a study on it if you have one: "when your immune system is weaker and succeptible to catching a bad case of covid."

Edit: Your thing about susceptibility after vaccination is incorrect. It's an Alex Berenson talking point that has been thoroughly debunked.
Increasing the cost of Prime now??? My recent prime orders have all exceeded 1-2weeks for delivery.

Prime is really losing its stickiness for me:

The only things I get from Prime that are of value to me are:

1) 5% off all purchases using a Prime CC.
- I can get 2% with other cards and have the freedom to pick and choose where I buy from.

2) Free shipping (that once was quick, but now it isn't and I have had no communication as to why and when it will return)
- $139 pays for a lot of shipping - particularly if I am patient and aggregate orders.

Dropping Prime gives me the moral benefit of kicking a monopolizing data thief to the curb. Starting to sound like a no-brainer.
Is anyone working on a VR-based library simulator?

Sounds so cool to browse the Project Gutenberg library in VR. You could slip in fun additions like this as easter eggs.
Caching has always been broken.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton, around 1996 or 1997.

There are "cache busting" techniques that mostly work, appending a random string as a url parameter https:example.org/path/page.html?5trf6783gf7rvf5 will _almost_ always fetch a current version of the page from origin. If you have stuff where being able to bypass the caches that are out off your control between you and your users, it's worth making sure you have a way to do that.

I always use date stamps on things like T&C and Privacy Policy pages, so the actual URL changes when the policies/legals change. So use something like https://example.org/privacy_20220204.html - and make sure you have a good way to update all your internal links and redirect requests to old versions to the new one (or leave the old one in place with a big notice at the top saying "This policy was superseded on 4 Feb 2022 - click here for the current privacy policy")
My very first linux distro :)
The general profile of the aircraft also resembles the F-16XL, which the USAF/NASA do periodically pull out for various reasons. It has that same sort of delta profile - which is of course shared with many other aircraft.

(the F-16XL is a very interesting story and would have been an interesting airframe to explore! It's sort of like the relationship between the F-15E and the F-15, a heavier fighter-bomber airframe built on the F-16 airframe.)
Several ISPs charge you a 'connection fee' to get some weird locked down hardware, and if you close your account it becomes useless.
The grieved might not be up for talking or doing much. Parallel play, where you’re both just in the same room doing your own thing on a laptop, can be a low pressure way to let them know they’re not alone.

Likewise, if this has been an exhausting time for them, don’t just say “how can I help”. Saying “hey, I’m making lasagna, do you want me to bring you one” or “I rented a power washer for the whole day, want me to swing by in the afternoon and do your porch” is an easier decision that requires less executive function.

Besides that, encourage them by saying you’re doing something to celebrate the deceased’s life. Big funerals aren’t happening, so the passing of a loved one can feel surreal. Knowing someone else is acknowledging the liss can mean a lot.
Just about every smaller grocery store I’ve seen places themselves into some of the highest priced real estate in the city.

This far negates the overall cost under most scenarios by my calculations.
Congratulations Slackware!
Agreed, my only gripe is that the app has never been snappy fast.
The fact that they collect them at all is what seems illegal to me. They know full well they don’t intend to pay these funds out when their politics disagree with the cause. So they’re soaking up the momentum of the movement and time of donors and then locking it away until it is irrelevant. It’s plain old political warfare.
i am not op, but as someone who owns 2 vr headsets it's true. for the first few months i definitely played vr games but frankly at this point the only reason i get out the rift is to sink even more hours into beat saber, possibly the furthest thing from the shitty second life/vrchat clone facebook is making
One could argue that if we actually committed to market fundamentalism it would work, but price-gouging laws prevent the market from addressing this kind of risk.
Typically you plow right after it snows.
It's also a big indictment of them. I remember with Rogue Legacy, a game I was into for a time, a central debate about whether it was good or bad related to whether it was "too grindy", with some insisting it was (which was bad) and others insisting it wasn't (which is good!). And yet, whatever you call it, the grind, the accumulation of upgrades is central to the experience of the game.
JIT doesn’t really apply to grocery stores as food rots, it’s a very different supply chain vs microwaves.

JIT only saves meaningful amounts of money when you had significant amounts of inventory sitting around. The difference between 2 days and 3 days of parts at a factory simply doesn’t matter. The difference between 3 days and 3 months worth of parts is a big deal.

That said, the entire reason companies used to have months worth of parts on hand is because shutting down factories is expensive. Missing a 20c part to build a 20,000$ car using a 200 million dollar factory is a big deal. JIT was about minimizing risks such that you didn’t need to keep as many parts on hand, that failed with COVID to the point where factories are once again trying to stock up with months worth of parts because the same basic economic rules apply.

You can argue around why and how the assumptions built into JIT failed, and if mitigating them would have been worth the investment. But that’s a different story.
> You're right that unity wasn't a great example though. A better example would be the xbox, playstation, switch, etc.

Not really. Gaming consoles are usually sold at loss.

"The reason game consoles end up being profitable is through a combination of software, service, and accessory sales, but it's still surprising to find Microsoft has never achieved hardware profitability"

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have...
> Quick Question: Why?

>People still use OS9! It's me, I'm people. I just like programming, I like this style of game, and I like giving myself a reason to turn on my iBook or iMac.

So good
Most of the inflation is created by expanding credit, and the interest rate of credit controls where it happens. The assets you write are the easiest to get loan for, so it makes sense that price inflation happens in those assets / services.
Check out the series "Long Way Round" if you have access. It has a Kamaz -- impressive to see the rivers it can cross.

https://bestride.com/news/the-kamaz-that-saved-ewan-mcgregor...
Happened to me with FIFA in college. I could see balls passing and common patterns of crosses/attacks/corners playing on the back of my eyelids. I realized I had drilled the football patterns into my neurons.
As someone who grew up undocumented, I'd like to point out a common misconception this article reinforces. The "marriage path" is not all it's hyped up to be in the media. And for some people it's not even really an option at all. My family came here without papers when I was 5. For me, the marriage path would've meant self-deporting for about 10 years while my documents would get looked over and, depending on how that went, it could take many more years after that. For someone who grew up here and barely speaks their native language, that's not really a "path".

For most people, the marriage path is something you take only AFTER you've gotten your green card. When you get a green card, you can apply for full citizenship after 5 years. The only benefit of the marriage path is it'll let you do it after just 3 years instead.

The other "marriage path" is one that is relatively good if you're not already in the US. If you're overseas, your spouse can apply for an I-310 and, SWOOSH, in just half a year to a year+ you can interview to be given a visa that will let you come to the US. Then you can start the insane process of applying for a green card and 3 or 5 years later you'll get to vote!

If you're undocumented your only hope ~~is~~was DACA unless you manage to somehow get asylee or refugee status. My family finally got asylum after living here for almost 2 decades. In two years I'll be able to apply for a green card and then just 5 years later I can vote too

TL;DR: The marriage path is not really an option for most immigrants already in the US
Yeah. I grew up in the USA, and I realize now that our freedom/liberty rah-rah is something we like to hear ourselves say and an excuse to bully or coerce others.

We still have government-sanctioned slavery, per the 13th amendment to the constitution banning slavery except during imprisonment (lookup “UNICOR”, one of the ways manyof our corporations make extra profit).
>>When a billionaire's yacht causes a historical bridge to be dismantled you are degrading yourself, it debases the city.

I don't think we're ever going to agree on this. Imagine the bridge had to be dismantled to move a large wind turbine part instead - would that change your view of the whole thing? If yes, why?

The people building yachts run a business - dismantling the bridge allows them to complete the sale. If city of Rotterdam doesn't want their historical bridge dismantled then it simply....shouldn't have allowed for the project to go ahead. Simple as that. But even if it did, I don't see how that's debasing anyone or anything. The bridge will be reassembled as it was and a week later it will be a funny story to tell your friends at best, if you live in the area.
Market cap is stupid.
Amazing project. My first serious Linux distro. Good for Patrick and the rest of the community.
should have done that in iOS and watch them all get rejected.
To answer the question of who within an organization pushed to prioritize it: Users, lots of them.

I've worked on few big apps and sites that needed to adopt dark mode, and even before browsers and operating systems implemented preferences for dark mode, it wasn't an uncommon feature request from users to completely redesign the apps/sites to be dark, even if that meant replacing the light color scheme. Once browsers implemented prefers-color-scheme, we got lots of requests every day months until we implemented dark mode. Project managers had to prioritize it because it was in such demand.

There's lots of research that dark text on a light background is easier to read, but I suspect it differs by individual. I've always had a much easier time with light text on a dark background. Light tends to bleed at the edges for me, so light backgrounds make dark text look thin, while dark backgrounds make light text look bold, much easier to recognize. From reading a lot of the user requests, I'm not alone. For various reasons, lots of people have an easier time reading light-on-dark.

An interesting related question for me is, when did dark modes start becoming so unusual? Sure, they were never universal, but there were quite a few sites in the late 1990s that would have a dark mode link that would set a cookie that would swap out the CSS for dark mode. There were even a few sites that would flip over to dark mode at night. It wasn't used for large corporate sites, but there were also apps that allowed user skinning, and I suspect dark mode sites started to disappear around the same time app skinning did.
Personally, I'm more interested in a night-vision mode, i.e. black (not contrast reducing grey) background and red/orange text. Chiefly for nightly outdoor activities, e.g. astronomy observations.
What exactly do you want evidence of? That U.S. intelligence agencies disappear people? That they do so to send a message? Or are you asking for specific examples of that happening to foreign intelligence operatives? Because you will never be able to read of an example of that happening - when we learn about people kidnapped by U.S. intelligence agencies, it's only because they were eventually released. It's an inference from the fact that US intelligence agencies kill many people for multiple reasons including sending a message, and that U.S. intelligence has clandestine facilities on American soil where they commit crimes on foreign intelligence operative (See the case of Yuri Noseko) without consequence, which have only been expanded since then - the CIA now has extraterritorial black sites, so nowadays Yuri would simply have been sent to Romania and then no record would be available of his torture unless he was released.
Would this allow alternative browser emgines on iOS?
That's the 'value engineering'.
I wouldn't go that far. I should mention that I'm now happily married. I married someone I would have put way out of my league. In my case I was not self confident enough to land a relationship. Once I got over that I was able to act normal around potential mates.
Could you recommend a more in depth reading list?
Hostapd/wpa_supplicant: new release v2.10 (with CVE fixes)
How to Verify Cosigned Container Images in Amazon ECS
Insert Ron Swanson happy dance gif here
What gets me is that the space doesn't seem to get you very much - it's a 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath house.

I dunno, maybe my thought is unrealistic - but if I were to splash out a ton of money for a palatial rural manse, I'd shoot for something with a bit more space than a large-ish suburban home.

Especially because one of the most common uses of such a property is entertainment - forget having folks stay over unless you make the kids bunk?
Conservative news sources put out insane stuff all the time. Do all Conservatives believe all of it?

It's not odd to publish editorials from activists when a bunch of protests are going on. That doesn't mean everyone is on board.
Trudeau also called the protest “anti-trans”.

Since this protest is making him look bad, I’d take what he says with a grain of salt.
In most of these types of salary surveys I've seen they report a single average salary for a position. I wish they would break that down by years of experience -- probably have to pay for the "full report" to get that level of detail.
After you’ve had a bunch of excess deaths (of the oldest and most vulnerable) wouldn’t you expect it to go below normal after that? Isn’t staying above normal still indicative that lots of excess people are dying?

No country was even close to what you could call significantly vaccinated until mid-2021. The winter 20-21 wave is almost entirely unvaccinated populations.

The winter 21-22 is now mostly vaccinated and, surprise, it’s much lower (and unvaccinated are still the majority of deaths).
I don’t see a personal attack here.
> to weather a shortage like recent COVID shortages

It's been 2 years.
Congrats on the launch! It’s great to see validation of the usefulness of notebooks in data workflows even when moving beyond the proof of concept/exploration stage into production type workloads and deployments. Once deployed, iteration is often still necessary or desirable and that’s where having notebooks available for continued iteration is a big advantage.

For those who’d like to compare and contrast different solutions that support the use of notebooks in the (batch) deployment context you can also check out Orchest (https://github.com/orchest/orchest). I’d say a meaningful point of difference between Ploomber and Orchest is that we are more container oriented as we’ve found that gives robust units to deploy in production with isolated and well defined dependencies. In addition we have a more GUI first approach which might be more familiar to those who come from RStudio, JupyterLab, Spyder, MATLAB, etc.

Disclaimer: I’m one of the Orchest creators.
There was a video of them kicking out some dude with a confederate flag. I’ve only seen the Nazi flag in a couple pictures and seemed like it was never in the middle of the rally.

Source: https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-trucker-convoy-confro...

If you’re trying to discredit a group of people it’s pretty low hanging fruit to send people in with a Nazi flag for great photo ops to show the masses.
If the virus hadn’t mutated from alpha to delta, and then to omega — each of those could have achieved essentially hersd immunity. Unfortunately it mutated before we could tamp it down everywhere. That doesn’t make the people who said vaccines could end the mess wrong, just means we all got unlucky.
> what's the point of gigabit internet if I can't watch a measly 50Mbps stream?)

Revenue from ricer "networkophiles", like the audiophiles before them.
It's not automatic, but there is this marker tool that uses an audio track to make note of important timestamps while you are recording: https://github.com/evankale/Blipper

The author also wrote supporting scripts for Vegas to extract scenes based on the position of the blips in the audio.
I've been using Linux for ~25 and have never tried Slack. I'm now on Slack/Manjaro, should I try it?
Every consider buying a home with like a 3% down payment? Many states have first time homeowner incentives; you can borrow against your own 401(k), etc
That must have been harsh. Please accept my condolences!
A Startup Made NFTs of Musicians’ Songs Without Asking. Hell Broke Loose
No SOL was created, the transfer was sent to a zero address.
Yes it is exactly like that.
The problem: there is solderpaste on the board before placement. Therefore, you have to bring the components to the board from above and push them into the solder paste. The suction based pick and place machines are well suited for this task. Tiny robots walking over the board (with lots of obstructions such as solder-paste and through holes) are not such a good match.
Australian mining billionaire files lawsuit against Facebook over scam ads
ACK :)
It was live coverage on major network television.
Fine. I get the need for the need to cover my offload, downtime and night time when grid tied. What really grinds my gears is that many states REQUIRE you to be grid tied and pay those fees. I would like to go it on my own. Not a legal option.
> If I was alone and started building star citizen back in 2010. I would have delivered something...

But how many Lambos could you buy on the money from your 'something'?

/s
If your screen outshines the background so much that your eyes hurt, perhaps its time to dim the screen or light up the background?
Didn't Cinema 4D more or less clone Blender's UI?!
It's just another nice house, there's nothing interesting about the house build. No real construction details.

It is "modern" in architecture, but makes a lot of aesthetic choices over function (flat roof, no overhangs, a heated pool in a cold climate).
>Japan for instance has seen their M2 money supply 3X from 1990 to 2022, while the affordability of a house there hasn't decreased since 1995. This is due to their federal zoning rules which permit housing construction practically everywhere.

I mean I've no doubt that's some sort of a factor, but on the other hand the population of Japan is also almost exactly the same as it was in 1995 whereas the US population has increased by 25% in the same period - I'm not sure I'd so easily rule out demographics as a factor!
Yes, but lots of software made for PPC began requiring OS8, then 8.6, and then a bunch required OS 9 to run.
I think the Sonos home theatre which consists of two rear channels, a sub and a dolby atmos playbar would give your cheap two Samsung speakers a run for their money. The beauty of it all is that don't need to plug anything in apart from power and a HDMI cable.

It's important to note that the creators of Sonos speakers were ex-JBL engineers. Not just randoms who wanted to create a smart speaker.
My kids never stopped being normal. I never saw a need for them to wear a mask.
In related news, there is the tetrabyte SSD drive: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1484017857696464898.html
“Allegedly”
Raising the prices of what has been stocked won't feed any more people, it'll just guarantee that the wealthiest won't go without.

If you're talking about raising demand in order to raise supply, that implies that the virus will react to that and retreat accordingly. Or that regulations will be relaxed. Or that people will be paid enough to show up to work sick.
The Kootenays are beautiful and it's probable that you'll find a less costly piece of land. Good luck
I see this all the time in home decoration and design. We tried to decorate our home and we had an idea what we wanted but it was almost impossible to escape the "Big Furniture" bubble as almost everything we wanted almost always lead back to the same 5 or 6 mediocre major retailers. Visited any of those big sites? Well then Pinterest is going to flood your searches with content that leads back to them.

We enlisted a designer and she sent us over 30 incredible online stores that we had specifically been looking for that none of our previous searching lead us to. Most were small independent places and had incredible quality/value and originality.

It was exactly like taking the red pill.
> depreciating, decaying pile of material

Certain markets have been amazing from an appreciation point of view - for example, the Toronto area housing market has been on a 25 year bull run.
My first Linux install was a Slackware 3.5 from a cdrom magazine, but I’ve dropped Slackware in 2006 when they ditched gnome in favor of KDE.

I still remember the emotion when I managed to get the system to boot and startx