skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also seem to be ignoring cost and land value. Just because land seems to be available doesn't mean it actually is. Or that it would be economical to convert it. And I also wonder how a solar panel, which blocks sunlight, would allow crops/grass to grow underneath it at the same time.

It seems like trying to make land do these two sunlight dependent things at once is not as efficient as having dedicated agricultural fields and dedicated solar farms.
Seconded. Don’t forget updating with ads and spyware. I’ve resolved never to update the software on my TVs going forward unless there’s a major bug.
Some of this is because the first order effects have come and gone, and media is going to try and focus on the most current and relevant things. As you move through a timeline, second order effects will turn into first order effects and we will come up with a new set of second order effects.

Given that, I totally agree with you on the sentiment.
Time will tell... My province (Ontario) use to have one of the largest coal plants in the world (Nanticoke 3964 MW).

It was finally shutdown and now most of our power is "green"
59% from nuclear, 24% from hydroelectricity, 8% from wind, and 1% from solar.

Curious.. if "solar" and "wind" are so great why is Nuclear producing 59% of our energy? Perhaps because our climate isnt great for solar (dark winters)?

No matter the energy source, NIMBY will be there to protest.

when we built wind farms the protesters claimed it "made them sick"??
"Wind turbines making us sick: Protesters"

When we built solar, they protested that too:
"Solar project demonstration in Tay Township"

Everyone LOVES the convenience of power, as long as the generation is not near them?

I live within 10KM of a rather large (3,100 MW) nuclear plant, i have no issues with it as it is cleaner vs most sources and delivers reliable power.
I'm slightly embarrassed to say that my first "almost new" car purchase (Hertz Used Cars) came down to two - both of German make amusingly enough.

Since everything else I cared about (price, legroom, etc) was basically the same, the brand I went with was the one who's stereo worked better with my iPhone.
"On average, probably once a week or so, somebody will go in the lake. Most of the time when they miss, they miss coming back onto the boat. So somebody's outgoing mail might get wet.

We've got a little pool skimmer down below. If we have to, we have somebody lean out the door and scoop stuff back up out of the lake."

- Ray Ames, Mailboat captain
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Whatever it is I need experimental justification
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I want a book on my shelf that I can thumb through. I'd be willing to pay what it would cost to get that.
Even on hdd it doesn't take 5 minutes to get to desktop.
When you have to express things in code, what code allows you to express at various difficulty levels matters. When things like models come into the picture and change how you can express the problem and/or solution it changes what matters in a given scenario.
Apart of the labor, I am in the EU and in the offer I have got, the mounting for one panel (some weak metal parts) is the same as the costs of the panel itself.
I find this a bit crazy given that all these panels will have the same angle and are mounted in a row.
So instead of individual ones I can just weld two long pieces in a fixed angle and screw them on. And get the double amount of panels for the same price...
I'd like to see some data to support their claim about Mensans, but it doesn't surprise me either. I have been invited to join in the past and I declined because when I interacted with the people involved they were dreary souls with large egos, not exactly the sort of people you want to spend considerable time with. You get much more intellectual engagement making friends through work and hobbies, many of whom maybe wouldn't qualify for Mensa, but are much better to be around and perhaps more intelligent in their own ways. I've certainly had more fun covered in grease at 2AM in a race track parking lot with a few blue collar dudes wrenching over beers than I ever had sitting around with a bunch of people who think being smart for smarts sake is the highest pursuit one can have in life.

All that said, the analysis in this article seems very hand-wavey and doesn't really seem to be supported. And at least for myself, I know that many of the people I've had as coworkers over the years, including myself, who are on the higher ends of intelligence have some sort of mental health issue, many of us are also on the autism spectrum (including myself). Certainly it would make sense that if someone is a genetic outlier in one respect they would likely be a genetic outlier in other respects, and not all of them positive traits. To claim otherwise requires stronger evidence which isn't really provided to counter-act the studies that uses Mensa samples.
After living in Austin for 24 years and working at Samsung Austin Semiconductor for a decade, I decided that I wanted to work remotely. I learned new skillsets and started working for smaller startups where remote work was a possibility. This was pre-COVID.

I researched every town and county between Brenham and Junction for about 18 months, studying publicly available data as well as traveling to the towns to see them for myself. I tried to introduce myself to the locals, asking them about the town and their businesses. Sometimes I would call the sheriff's office or school district to ask them questions about the community. I would walk into rural hospitals and start talking to staff about their facility and services they offered.

I moved to San Saba in 2018 and then bought a second house in Lampasas in 2021. These towns are northwest of Austin, at the northern tip of what's known as the Texas Hill Country.

San Saba is more remote, more pristine. The population density is three people per square mile and there are two traffic lights in the entire county. The downtown has been revitalized over the past decade and the local ISP is very forward-thinking, offering gigabit fiber.

Lampasas is closer to Austin (an hour away), has a hospital and definitely has bit more bustle than San Saba, but nothing like the congestion one experiences in Austin.

The people out here are incredibly neighborly and hospitable, with a live-and-let-live ethos. They do not like to be preached at or lectured by outsiders, so respecting their way of doing things is of paramount importance. I've been very successful by attending city council meetings, joining volunteer organizations, teaching classes myself in the library on weekends, things like that. Figuring out how things work and contributing as best I can without being too loud about it. People will appreciate you if you can do that.

It's important that one be fairly self-sufficient when moving to an area like where I live. For example, I had to tear my house apart in San Saba to fix some structural issues caused by water penetration leading to rotten wood in the structure. Working with the contractors was definitely a learning experience and something I never want to do again. But you have to be able to figure out things like that if you live out here.

The peace and quiet, the pristine environment, the quality of life, the low crime and great community, these are all things I wouldn't trade for a spotted hog. It's not for everyone, but after living in Austin for 24 years, I much prefer it here now.
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Edit: IIUC, it's usually a 2-5 person job. And it rarely takes more than a day.

IIUC, the actual laborers aren't making anywhere near ~$20k per day (even for 5 people).

Overhead on labor should not be 2000%+.

If laborers were capturing all of the "labor" cost - they'd be making $1M per year working 5 days per week. Obviously, they wouldn't be 100% booked.

But they're probably not even averaging $100k - since electricians make less than that in most parts of the country, and most of the workers are making a lot less than the electrician.

The actual "labor" cost here - even counting for vacation and other benefits - is probably less than $5k. What's the other $15k?

It's certainly NOT profit. These companies don't have high margins.

It's also not materials - that's broken out into the materials costs which includes the more expensive regulated grid-tie inverters and whatnot.

Whatever it is - it appears to be unique to the US.
> $1/W range

That is similar to what you'd have to pay in Germany, up to the beginning of this year. My landlord installed 30 kW of panels and a 10 kWh battery storage for around 40 k€ including all fasteners, cables etc.

Installation can be done by yourself, although I think you'll have to use certified fasteners etc. for the insurance company. Connecting to the grid and checking everything once has to be done by a certified professional (electrician) once, which differs in price. Some only check systems they have installed (and therefore made money with) themselves, but that differs.

Prices have obviously gone up like nothing after Russia decided to fuck everything up.
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Definitely appreciate the reply, and I don't mean to trivialize network extension development on iOS. You may still be angry at the platform, and on the other side of that coin, I'm a fan of yours who just wants to use this same feature on iOS that Android got. But again, I appreciate being a small team and wanting to focus on dev experience. If there's any hope to prioritize custom endpoint config on iOS, that would be great, and I'd be quick to use it!

For what it's worth, my want is to use Tailscale (or similar) for a family setup, which ends up feeling like enterprise to me as a tech guy, but without the pricing of it. Things like SSO are big to me, but I can't justify paying enterprise pricing for it. If there was such a plan, I'd be your first customer.
I'm just totally amazed that a one man project absolutely can compete with Google on providing an enjoyable search experience, and can even compete with Google on search results in some areas.
Then, as a Tailscale customer for business, it'd still be great if you would prioritize the MDM stuff for my personal uses. Or just expose a field in the settings, even if it's behind some hidden menu.
It’s normal for several persons scattered around the globe to solve the same problem at the same time with neither of them knowing about it.

I guess it’s one of the reasons we got patents and the like.
> If that's even a possibility it's not responsible to allow DIY work in this area.

At least in the US, in most states, you're entirely allowed to do your own electrical work on your primary residence, and it has to meet the same standards, same inspections, same permits, etc, as any other install.

As far as grid tie and rapid shutdown, the only thing that really matters there is the inverter. If they're a UL listed inverter, they'll shut down properly when the grid drops, at least on the backfeed ports (some have automatic transfer switches and such built in to continue powering the house grid down).

Also, can you cite evidence of a DIY install actually killing ("plenty of times") a lineworker? The techniques I've seen for line work involve "dead shorting the phases and neutral all together before doing anything," which makes the grid segment quite impossible to energize for invasive work, even if someone somewhere else screws up. And I've seen some reports of generator based backfeeding injuring or killing lineworkers (who generally were half a dozen safety protocol violations in at the time), but I've not seen any related to solar - because grid tie inverters simply don't work that way for any I've found.
>Bluetooth has hundreds of different use-cases.

That is probably true but part of the problem is that, as I recall from years of Intel Developer Forums, Bluetooth was originally focused on mobile headsets and there were a bunch of other wireless technologies floating around for other purposes.

However, for whatever historical reasons, Bluetooth through a number of iterations pretty much ended up gobbling up all the non-WiFi wireless use cases (other than cellular and NFC of course). And it arguably wasn't really suited for a lot of them.
Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning
I can't speak to the original intent for severely limiting the language dtrace uses (no loops, user defined functions, etc). However, I can say that web assembly itself is designed to be sandboxed so I wouldn't say that is too dangerous at all. It would be quite nice if Microsoft explored a web assembly kernel engine. You see designs like this with ebpf already, they all are trying to do the same - create a statically verifiable language and isolate it's execution. I'd argue using something like web assembly is much better than designing a new language like dtrace does honestly. It's good enough for browsers to run untrusted code, kernel is not terribly different. My WASM kernel driver is however just a POC to vet the idea.

For dlls in the kernel, yes absolutely insecure. It's intended to be a tool run in an analysis VM not on endpoint user systems. The security model is simply different for the DLL based architecture. One of the big reasons I am ok with this design is because driver signature enforcement already must be manually disabled to load the C driver that uses DLLs like this. With DSE off you can already easily load unsigned kernel code so this doesn't open any additional security holes.

it's a dtrace reimplementation because it's using those kernel interfaces. The architecture of the scripting system on top of that could be anything. The wasm rust system mirrors MS' architecture, the C++ DLL system differs intentionally from it.
$23M YouTube music royalties heist is a reminder that online copyright is flawed
>US solar systems tend to perform for 20+ years

Do you have concrete data for this or are you going off manufacturer claims? To the best of my knowledge - and i work in the industry - the vast majority of rooftop or domestic PV installations are under ten years old. Some of the oldest ones that were mass-installed are in Germany.

I highly doubt PV panels will last 20+ years under most environmental conditions.

Also, before you compare PV lifetimes between the USA and australia, bear in mind that the great majority of Australian installations are very close to salt water. That plays havoc with anything installed outdoors, particularly metals and glass.
Didn't realize that might be annoying... I added 24 hours to the comment.
Tuck the cable inside the shirt, and most of these aren't issues. Quality excellent. Also don't have to worry about earbuds falling off to be run over, or falling in a storm drain. Sounds unlikely but my keys just narrowly missed this on a recent bike ride.
> Therefore you also agree that solar still competes for land use with crops.

No. It just means that some places are better than others.

Since there is overwhelmingly more crop and pasture land than could ever be needed to satisfy power needs, solar may be placed exactly and only where it does the most good.

It has been known for centuries that most plants benefit from partial shade. It is an exceedingly tiny step of logic to go from "shade" to "shade provided by solar panels". In the past, providing shade just cost money. Now it yields direct revenue, year-round.
> There are a lot of things that go into it, but from my point of view, it really feels like it's a lot of "Because we can, and because we convince people to pay it" going on with the installed costs.

I think this happens a lot with anything that’s relatively expensive. I mean let’s say you could get your 21kW system down to $8K installed. A lot of people just don’t have that kind of money laying around. But they’d be more than happy to finance $12K (so 50% markup) if the monthly payment comes out OK. So basically, anything expensive has a lot of room for “value add” in the form of making it “affordable.” Solar I think is never going to be so cheap that people will generally pay for it outright, so you’re going to see a lot of this.
The article mentions that other planets don't have continents, but isn't that an argument against this hypothesis? The same process of asteroid collisions would have happened there too.
tl;dr: "Two of the largest ways that Australia’s solar industry has reduced overall solar pricing is through easing both the permitting and inspection processes for new solar homeowners. These aspects of a solar installation require time and money. In fact, these “soft costs” of solar–or non-component costs–can add up to $1 per Watt to every installation, or $6,000 for an average 6 kW system."
To me, this kind of acquisition speaks of anti-competitive behavior. They didn’t want the product or people; they just didn’t want to compete with them.
The first rule of contracting is always do shitty work. Only fix it if the lead or inspector requires it. Eventually when you're really skilled you can do exactly the right amount of shitty work that doesn't get called out. Contractors that go out with the ambition of doing great quality work don't last long in most markets. The biggest force on this is that the lead is going to find something wrong with great work only almost as frequently as they will shitty work. So do the bare minimum on the first run.
Bye-Bye, Bluetooth (2004)
We have AT&T fiber and it continues working when the power is out, at least for longer than my UPSes last. We have a fair number of short power outages, and I've never had an AT&T outage at the same time.
One of the things that would annoy me the most was when the open office was so loud that the executives would close their doors. Because apparently it's hard to work in a loud environment.
You usually sign up for "company updates" or some such nomenclature, but after Bob's Discount Swords pivots to Improved Plowshares™, it's not really relevant anymore.

Then again, I actually fill out that little question after unsubscribing. The above I consider "legit" as long as unsubscribe works.
I can't speak for the guy running this network so I don't know if he has investors or creditors or what, but I live in the same area as he does and can say that if you have a high-paying tech job well into the six figures and live in a LCOL area like this (AND don't blow it all on hedonic purchases like luxury pickups), it's not hard to amass a surprising surplus of cash in a surprisingly short amount of time.
While it does happen (shorter lifespans) you have a lot of choices in Australia too when getting solar installed in terms of the panels and the inverter used, many of them around the same price ($5k AUD for 6.6kwh panels + 5kw inverter) batteries vary wildly depending on brand.

Some simple research of the options ahead of agreeing to anything can lead to much better results.
I always did weekly 1:1s with everyone I was TLing, even when we were all in the office together 5 days a week. I never felt it was a waste of time. I'd let them set the agenda, and if they didn't have anything on their minds (rare), we'd just chat about whatever was going on in the broader team, their lives, whatever.

Figuring out people's strengths, interests, and where they need to grow is key. You want to give people projects that are going to help them grow by pushing them a little bit out of their comfort zone, but not too much, because you also want them to succeed. Someone on the team needs to work on presentation skills? Giving a presentation to 10 people is a good opportunity to learn from mistakes. But if the audience is 100, maybe don't set them up for that kind of failure. Someone wants to grow into a TL role? Encourage them to host an intern. Etc.

You also need to understand people's career goals. You might be an (in Google terms) L5 TL with two other L5s on the team and a couple L3-4s. Who wants to get promoted on which timeline? Should the high-impact, interesting L5 project go to the L4 who wants to get promoted, or to the L5 who doesn't care about getting promoted but just wants the most interesting project?

A lot of that sounds like manager stuff, I know. When you're a TL, your manager is your partner as well as your boss, because the two of you are working together to keep the team happy, productive, and successful. And you'll both have information and perspective the other doesn't.

Google has a great viral slide deck about how to take credit for things as a TL. It works better visually but I'll try anyway. Basically, if the project is to deliver a big square, the TL's job is to cut differently shaped pieces out for teammates to do based on their skill, interest, what will be a good growth challenge for them, etc. Then, as a TL, you do whatever scraps are left over (imagine cutting a big circle, a rectangle, and a smaller square out of a square). So the IC work you do might seem like weird odds and ends, but if you get the whole thing done and everyone on the team was happy and productive, you succeeded as a TL.
Yes, I should have said more about the channel. If only we could all have teachers who are so enthusiastic and makes topics very interesting and easy to follow! All of his content is very good and captivating. If anyone is interested in pacific northwest geology, I'd highly recommend watching more of his stuff. He also has his own personal channel separate from CWU here and still making new content: https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick
The Importance of Empty States
True. Prices are higher than of competitors. In my case, since I don't have many domains, paying between $10 and $20 per domain per year doesn't make much of a difference.
Same with my Zojirushi rice cooker, as well as my Zojirushi water heater and thermos. Their stuff has lasted a long time and performed great for me.
Used gandi for forever, then they had a major hardware issue and lost customer's data and kinda was rude about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822 - so I decided to move my business elsewhere.
Eh... installing panels solo can be done, but especially on a roof, shouldn't be done. It's far, far easier with two people, even for ground mount systems. Three is some benefit over two, beyond that people are just standing around unless you're able to install multiple strings at once.
> Don’t you need a basic router/nat to protect your systems?

No, not really. It's no longer the 90s so tcp/ip stacks aren't easily crashed. And it's no longer the 90s, so no services are listening by default or it's say openssh which isn't easily crashed either (you may want to consider if you want to accept passwords via ssh though).

Additionally, decent OSes will rate limit responses to pings and SYNs and what not, so you won't be a good reflector out of the box.
I'm honestly pleasantly surprised that "commercial surveillance" is the term they're using. You're also absolutely right, the time to lay the case is now.
GoDaddy are known assholes. Take your business somewhere else.
When we actually understand how the moon was created, or when we understand the lumpy core of the earth (some people say they are the same thing) I suspect we’ll know more about the plates.

I would also like to invite some aficionados and scientists to spend some time watching olive oil floating on simmering water. Lots of weird stuff happens, and if subduction and aduction zones aren’t cause by plate separation but instead caused it as I suspect, then there’s probably some food for thought to be had in a pot of noodle water.
> I showed up without knowing the subject at all

This is so interesting I had the same feeling and now as an adult it seems so strange, school was supposed to be about learning not testing what you already knew so why was I worried about it? Strange