skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be useful to think of Legends Solar panels as a kind of fixed income security. It depreciates over time but produces a steady stream of dividends. Significantly lower risk than the stock market, but with somewhat predictable returns.

The important thing we hope to capture is the experience... it'll feel much more like owning a consumer product than an investment.
When people talk about conductors and what they do, it's almost always "what do they do in the concert?" They'll say, disparagingly, "hey, the musicians know how to keep time."

Not quite true, but anyway, what that ignores is that they give the orchestra (and chorus, which was where I was) directions in rehearsal, and the eye and hand gestures during the concert are references to that.

So in rehearsal they stop and point to the horns and say "I want you to crescendo / decrescendo here" and have them do it until good. The horns mark it in their scores.

Then in the concert, the conductor just points, and the horns see the pencil marks on their scores and do it.
This happens all the time. Not sure you can expect a post-mortem on this one specific case
Yep, it's the first M.

I think in general the rule is this:
- Any Ms in the correct position turn green (duh)
- If there are X Ms remaining in the answer, turn the first X (non-green) Ms in the guess yellow
Can't you sell it next year? And you know what? At some point somebody has to lose money to the tax collector. You can't deduct everything, can't shunt it all onto the customer (typically a leaf-node employee, someone at the bottom of an org chart). The business has to be profitable by enough that it can eat some taxation. Or what, you expect the orphan to do it instead?

Has to push through friction for others. And plus, cost of goods of unsold inventory isn't that painful if you actually are making huge margins on it, like you ideally should, because you built a better mousetrap that was that much better that you could protect it from copycats with patents and therefore let everyone benefit enormously from it.

In the end, the businessman must be creative. Must be an inventor, basically. Or a leader. And so in order to overcome that friction for the sake of the orphanage, the businessman must resolve friction in nature, some inefficiency of some sort, something that could be much better than it is. Something ineffective that could be effective. Plant a seed and reap two.
I imagine many frustrating arguments.

Truth is dictated by authority. That's just how our society works. For like 10,000 years. Scientific enlightenment notwithstanding.

Like a network of solipsists.

If the authority told us to cut off our nose we'd be a 90% noseless population inside a week.
It's bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Huh... that makes me thing... how do Ghost do it?
Don't the batteries wear down after a few years? I thought the batteries were only good for a few thousand charge/discharge cycles.
So, how exactly does this work for the random developer that somehow ends up in the top 500 but doesn't have 2FA turned on?
> You and the person you're quoting are not really talking about the same thing.

The reason I responded to the parent comment was that it seemed to me like they were misinterpreting the person they were responding to; the original comment that started this thread was that people who only have wage-based income instead of asset-based income would not be able to effectively retire and would have to work for their entire life. The response to this was to argue that if people didn't work, then humanity wouldn't progress. I don't see why "humanity needs productivity to progress" implies "every human needs to be productive for every moment of their entire life", which is why I responded with both a direct answer (i.e. arguing that people should be able to retire is not arguing that people shouldn't be productive _ever_ in their life) and a tongue-in-cheek response (nobody actually is productive every single moment in their life).
Matrix has threads.
"Engineer good, MBA bad" ...there I fixed it.
I hate pages like this one. Just tell me what it is in plain English, don't try to sell me on stuff before I even know about it.
Thanks for bringing this up, @atleta– I'll look into why that particular channel URL doesn't work.
I worked for a post-startup company early in my career.

The Christmas parties were awesome, my first few years there included parties at the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum. There were subsidized vending machines as well. I knew engineers who would spend a dollar on the vending machine and get a few bags of chips for lunch.

Subsidized vending machines were the first to go. Then the Christmas parties. Then a bunch of other changes which showed derision for customers and employees both.
Potentially interesting idea, but the founding team doesn't inspire a lot of confidence: https://www.legends.solar/v2-the-team

One "product designer", one former art gallery manager, and one embedded engineer with a couple years of experience.

Advisors include another "product designer", someone who describes themselves as a "storyteller film maker", and someone in the solar financing space. At least there's one person in here with semi-related solar financing experience.

Of course, it's entirely possible for a scrappy team like this to execute on a startup if they can get all of the right pieces aligned. I do get skeptical when the founding team and advisors have more "designers" than doers, though. Seeing the founder have "summer design associate" as a title within the past few years doesn't really inspire confidence in a capital-intensive solar company.

Would love to see them succeed! However, I would need to see some proof that they can execute before I'd even consider touching this. This is the kind of business where you lose any claim to your solar panels the second they go out of business, and many lenders are happy to prey on those scenarios.

The numbers on their example page also raise a huge red flag that they don't seem to understand the economics at all: https://www.legends.solar/get-early-access $250 as an estimated investment for a panel they show as 350W is way below the installed cost that anyone is pulling off right now. I'm guessing they picked random numbers to collect interest to fundraise with, not from actual models.

Honestly, I'd much rather see a corporation set up as a publicly-traded company that builds solar installations and pays out a dividend to investors. That keeps investors aligned with the company and maintains their claim over the installations. The way this is set up feels like it's designed to strip rights from individual retail investors by funneling their investment through the platform while someone else owns the company.
At this point we should just rename HN 'cloudflare support'.
One interesting thing I found is that there is a downward trend for electricity prices (adjusted for inflation) for the last 40 years so it doesn’t seem like there’s no future growth:

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/electricity-...
Super anecdotal, but I once interviewed an engineer who was currently working for Oracle. During the interview he told me that every six months he would go apply to jobs at startups, get an offer or two, and bring them back to his manager and ask for a raise. He had been at Oracle for 15 years doing this apparently the entire time. So it seems some people very much like working there. Needless to say I recommended we pass on him...
This is some bizarre as heck branding for Microsoft, even considering Microsoft's history of weird and bad branding choices.
Would it impact Standup Paddlers?
> Shouldn't this be expected to a certain extent?

Not really. It's a stochastic model, so after a bunch of random denoising steps, it could easily just be mapping every bit of gibberish to a random image, and it be vanishingly unlikely for any of them to be similar or the relationship to run in reverse.
That's the reason why I walk away as soon as I hear "microservices". It's cargo-cult mentality where complexity and the issues you speak of above are considered a feature.
I used it for my personal email.

>I also find that nothing is being served from the domain mnf90.com after it's reinstated, not sure if this has been the case in the last few months.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/mnf90.com

lol there was nothing else running here. Now that you mention it, maybe I should start blogging here.
Have you looked into lite (https://github.com/rxi/lite)? It's quite minimal, but easily extensible and is very lightweight.
They don’t teach cursive anymore.

Depends on the school.

Low-end public school? Probably not. But private schools, and my nephew's Catholic school do.

I've never understood the internet's hate for cursive. Are people who don't learn cursive not able to read the first line of a California license plate, or locate a Walgreen's pharmacy?
Hey @pks016 - if you recall a new channel URLs that didn't work, can you please reply with them? Then I can look into why and fix that bug.

Thanks for checking out my project!
I don't think it's "worse" is the intention, but rather that we need electricity as well as photosynthesis, and combining the two effectively is efficient for us. And now "it from bit" rears its beautiful head.
> It's totally possible to self host the official matrix 'synapse' daemon for self hosted slack-like functionality within an organization, and use the official 'element' client or any other compliant matrix protocol client. If it's for something like company slack-like functionality you can choose to federate or not federate.

Having attempted to do exactly this recently, let me assure you that while it may be technically possible, it is practically infeasible.

Almost everything in Matrix, at multiple layer of abstraction, is built on the presumption of federation: federated events, federated authn/authz, etc. Try to turn federation off, and you're in a no-man's land of untested and unpredictable behaviors. Want to turn off federation _and_ make E2EE obligatory? Good luck! Even if you manage to get Synapse configured to work that way, you'll be delighted to discover that retention rules don't apply to encrypted events.

Synapse, by the way, is a real resource hog. It used an order of magnitude more resources than any other service in my entire infrastructure _at idle_ with no users and no federation. I would have loved to use one of the alternative server implementations, but none of them supported both E2EE and SSO.

Matrix is a dead-end.
It will depend on so many factors. Our current accredited investors are getting about 10%+, but that's only because they have access to tax equity benefits.

We are still in an early stage of creating the financial product, and the realized returns will be a function of the risk profile we choose (i.e. will there be construction risk, insurance, who is the power purchaser, etc.)

Don't worry, you'll get a detailed financial profile/pro forma before you have to make a investment decision.
overcomplication? lol

to that; mozilla's answer was to raise the salary of their CEO and fire the firefox development team?

rebrand Mullvad VPN and act like it's their own self made product?

spreading their propaganda for privacy, while at the same time selling their userbase to both Google and Pocket?

competition lost their users because their product is bad, and the direction they are taking doesn't appeal to the users, as simple as that

i tried firefox again last week, i was welcome by a plethora of slow dialogues about colors and stuff, and a huge address bar

"100 Thank-Yous
It’s our 100th release! Thanks for being a part of our community. Keep Firefox one click away for the next 100."

and it was super slow to boot

even if i was paid to use firefox, i'd still choose chromium
> - I doubt owners want to give their energy to the grid from expensive batteries

Well, of course it would have to make financial sense. Since you want those batteries anyway for driving long distances (say, more than twice the distance of a regular commute is not something most people do daily, but they'll want to be able to go quite far so most cars have quite big batteries), that is a sunk cost. Might as well put them to use on days where you don't want to drive far and electricity is expensive (no sun or wind, or high gas prices or so).

> EVs are NOT cheap and NOT cheaper than ICE so far

That surprises me. You say you've got a "small" PV installation, how small is small? From what I've heard of PV installation owners with EVs, the per-kilometer cost over the lifetime of the car is much lower, you just have to be able to invest in (or loan) the up-front costs of both and that's what makes it prohibitive still. Does the math not work out for you in that way?
This didn't started with covid19. It started with Bologne.
We had something akin to this happen at my company. For context, this is a well established mid-sized company with around 5000 employees. Some beancounter decided that they could no longer afford to subsidize the plastic spoons in the break rooms. So they announced that when the current stock ran out, they would not be replacing it.

The backlash was pretty strong. Not because engineers can't afford plastic spoons of their own, or some other alternative, but because it was such a petty thing. These spoons come in cases of 1000 for under 10 bucks, so nobody can argue with a straight face that it was about the cost.

I don't know that anyone actually quit over it, but it leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
If you use the "Object" data type (json), you can have a schema-less datastore and that can alleviate the need of complex ETL pipelines. But yes, if you need to decorate the data before ingestion, you need some ETL pipeline. In other words, if the ETL pipeline is just storing the data in columnar format by reading some JSON fields, you don't need that anymore with the new CH json data type
While that's true, the two densest cities in Switzerland are Geneva (~12k / km^2) and Basel (~7k / km^2).

NYC sits at about 11k / km^2. Unless 10Gbps internet and up in Switzerland is only available in Geneva, there's clearly more than just population density at play.
True, although this is one step away from being a multihead messenger, effectively. It's just that the protocol-specific modules are daemons using a standard API rather than in-process.

For instance, I can't think of a way that one would run an Element Web<->Rocket.Chat bridge clientside, as web browsers can't use local web services, short of a service worker... but by the time you're running a dedicated service-worker for a webapp which lets it talk to another webapp, it's basically become a multihead msgr.
> practically all teachers now have multiple students who actually had a parent die.

This is extremely unlikely and if you know multiple teachers with this condition you just have really bad luck.

Only about 60k COVID deaths are 30-49 [0] with another 200k for 50-64. This is about 25% of COVID deaths in the US.

There’s 50M school kids between k-12 [1] so the odds of a kid having a parent who died is really low: 1:50M/60k2 for typical age range of school age kids or 1:50M/260k2 if you lump in the older age group, but I think that age group is less likely.

So if you’re a teacher and teach 7 classes of 30 students your odds of having a single kid with a parent who died is 50% so certainly not “practically all teachers.”

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372#PK12-enroll...
why is he in remote places, all by himself wearing a covid mask? - kinda of makes them the whole premise laughable and easy to write off.
500 Lines or less [1,2] might be of interest: it doesn't build up a single complex project from scratch, but it several show the core implementation of various complex types of software.

[1]: https://aosabook.org/en/

[2]: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
>And despite an original valuation of around $186,000, it just sold for $1.8 million at auction.

Somebody almost got away with something there.
Nice :)

Doesn't `volume 128` saturate sound though ?
> You lose usable space not putting all your drives into a single parity array

Well if you're aiming for a specific ratio but want greater capacity without upgrading all disks to larger capacities, your only option is to use more vdevs configured just the same.

Example: 66% usable capacity, 6 disks in a raidz2 (4 usable + 2 parity) or 9 disks in a raidz3 (6 usable + 3 parity). If you want to add capacity but maintain your parity ratio (for a given fault tolerance risk) there is no raidzN with N > 3, so you must add vdev.

Increasing the size of the raidz vdev means you're reducing your failure tolerance.
I agree. The last three companies I worked for were large health care companies. They spend millions on SaaS products.
It's going to be really interesting when they roll this out worldwide.

I'd say Netflix execs are delusional if they think they'll be able to get a net positive to revenue out of this change.
I wrote a userChrome.css which repurposes the hamburger button w/ the jwz throbber.

There are no browser chrome class changes when a tab is loading in modern ff, so it sadly doesn't animate on load, but it does animate when you hover over it!

https://imgur.com/a/xSoDYai

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30820894#30823413
I'd say that we are like Community Solar (what you described) but more portable. We combine aspects of stock equity with aspects of community solar. A different model, but one that can exist in symbiosis with Community.
Indeed, but also it’s a sign that senior management collectively - inc the CEO - now see trivial cost cutting as a worthwhile use of their focus and a good way to generate value for shareholders.

Not a good sign for any company.
When I was a postdoc at Oxford there was an article in one of the university magazines complaining that full professors could no longer afford one of the lovely giant late-Victorian villas in North Oxford that used to be occupied by academics.

Hilariously, it turns out that was always the case. The profs with the fancy houses were never doing it on their university salaries; they were doing it on family money. Meanwhile, one of my colleagues resigned and left because he couldn't afford to pay rent for him and his partner in Oxford on a postdoc salary. Plus ça change...
First, yes: there absolutely should be better tools for authors to sign & authenticate their own tools, with heightened cryptographic authentication means. Projects like sigstore get this (and wish to respect privacy![1]). But what's spoken of here is a deep imposition, and doesn't empower authors, but demands of them.

> I fail to see how MFA resolves the fundamental trust equation

Nothing ever will. Your desire for a cathedral is incompatible fundamentally & at every level with the bazaar.

Trying to drive open-source society towards an industrialized security state for the convenience of your probably non-contributing, not-paying industrialized software production needs is vastly unfair.

If you have needs, you need to take your own responsibility. If you have risks, you need to pay to hedge them. Go hire NodeSource to help you get the Certified Modules you can trust. Go sign contracts with authors to get the support you need. Heck, just checkin your package-lock.json and go see what you are downloading: npm is immutable! You could literally do anything to help safeguard yourself, but you ask for absolute protection, something that even the biggest best corporations can never truly promise. Trying to prevent even one reasonably placed malicious employee from causing disruption is a near impossible task. But you ask for a fundamental safety. This is laughable. None of us can expect nor deserve that.

> Until GitHub requires government-issued photo ID in addition to MFA

What a vile & fascist imposition this would be! Woe be unto us if industrialzied software so hotly presses for it's own security that it embraces such ludicrous & perverse a cowardice as this. Relying on github as your source of trust, and pressuring them to pressure the world into turning over core information, is just as antithetical as I can image to the open source behavior & society that has advanced us so far. What a terrible thing to wish for! Egads, gross.

[1] https://blog.sigstore.dev/privacy-in-sigstore-57cac15af0d0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31533997
I like the explanation from this article [1] titled "Why perks matter": because perks like that avoid context switches and remove "distractions and other things which could disrupt [my] flow".

As a human being who regularly needs to eat, not having to worry about having the right amount of snacks and/or change at hand can make or break my day. Trying to code while hungry is a waste of everybody's time and money, which is how free food pays for itself. And don't get me started on trying to code when all you really want is a nap...

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/16/context/
I think that you have really misunderstood me. I believe in a social safety net, but a modest one. I also think that a modest universal basic income would be better than what we have now since people can also work and get a combined income. I also don’t know anyone in my family or circle of friends who consistently gives more money to charities (monthly auto payments to three charities). Also, re: unfairness to African Americans in the housing market: absolutely true. I don’t know what I can do about that right now. When I was a teenager I volunteered in a head start teaching program for a year, ensuring that for at least a few kids they had equal chances in school. We all do what we can do, if we are motivated.

A lot of people talk a good game about social justice and fairness, but sit on their asses and don’t actually do anything.
That's how I read it. Okay, we just have a difference of opinion, its no big deal.
CH is actually very good if you can model the dimensional data as dictionary. Also CH can use external store like PSQL as dictionary. But yes, if your fact table data size is as big as dimensional data, CH or any other such system will be quite slow.
Why the Amazon River Can't Be Crossed by Bridge
No, that was a framework on the Mac.
I don't think thin vs thick is really the right metaphor here. The core of the platform services are moving to hosted infrastructure that is true, but this is orthogonal to whether the client using those services is thick or thin. The main reason we see thin clients using them is just that in the short amount of time for adoption you can't really do much more than build thin wrappers around these things yet.

But then, I have a more cynical take on the whole exercise. There isn't much more here than big tech trying to cannibalise / sabotage open protocols with proprietary ones, so that they can rent seek off the people who get trapped using them.
We are still structuring our first retail investment (though we've done a few with accredited investors). We pledge to be upfront about our fee/cost structure which is likely to be an upfront financing fee and a portion of payments.
Good Idea, for those who live in places that are not optimal for Solar on the roof , they can fund one of these and feel good about it. The biggest problem is the green-washers have unlimited marketing budgets.
Although Luke did not lose his arm in wampa cave on Hoth (he lost it at Cloud City) he could've gotten a new one at the Redemption which was stationed at Hoth at that time.

Ontopic: I wouldn't give a shit about soda or free soda, but coffee and tea is always free here for employees in my country (quality may differ!). I simply would not work for a company which wouldn't feat this. So the social norm defines it and keeps its own behavior status quo. That's also a reason why its difficult to get rid of smoking/smokers tobacco in society
I worry about the idea of abandoning safety requirements for these smaller cars when in the US purchases/usage of overweight,tank-y SUVs and huge trucks on the rise. Or am I mistaking the kind of safety requirements you mean?