skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on how to bring the cost of solar down, at least for "homeowner installed DIY" systems in my area (legal, grid tie, permitted, inspected, etc), and I'm fairly certain the latest iteration of this will come in around the $1/W range, pre-incentives. That's without labor costs, just raw material and wire costs, but it's for a 21kW ground mount A-frame system with three string inverters, and a couple hundred foot of wire run through the ground between the panels and inverters.

I'm not sure how Australia does rapid shutdown (if they do), but Enphase and the requirement for per-panel shutdown devices on arrays in the US is responsible for a decent chunk of cost - somewhere on the order of $0.30/kWh. If you have lots of shading, microinverters are fine, but by NEC 2017, they're basically required (or you have to have per-panel optimizers and shutdown boxes, which add about the same cost as just going to microinverters). I don't know the exact details of it, but everyone I've talked to in the solar industry seems to feel Enphase "lobbied hard" for this particular shutdown requirement, because it's very much to their market advantage, even if it has no meaningful safety benefits in actual array failure conditions.

I hate to say "Because installers think they can get people to pay," but I've also seen a lot of "around the edges" evidence that the sales commissions for solar are fairly obscene (couple grand, if not more), just "tacked on" to the price. Hey, they're interested in solar, dial the commission up, and make it look like they'll save money! Even if the assumptions embedded are simply wrong.

And then, of course, there's the "solar loan" price inflation, in which your "0.99% APR" loan has a couple grand in fees up front, tacked onto the price. You can often save quite a bit by asking for the "cash price," but nobody does that out of the gate, because of course you want an expensive up front and low interest loan, right? Who wouldn't? Oh, and those loan origination fees count as install cost for the purposes of the tax credit... ;)

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. When I can get, as a random low volume homeowner, the equipment to do solar for $1-$1.25/W, I have to wonder about the prices installers charge.
Today's "classic version" is just a variant that allows pawns to move two squares on their first move.
Or, some people will never learn from the past and give out money.
The Commandante is one of the ones we would have purchased, though it wasn't available when the pandemic was in full swing. The one that I ended up with was the BPlus Apollo hand-grinder (made in Taiwan).

Very sturdy, easy to use, easy to clean, and surprisingly quiet.

Random review: https://www.home-barista.com/blog/bplus-apollo-hand-grinder-...
I see, but I don't find a problem with that either though.

Seems no different than crime stoppers, it's usually just a reward for information leading to an arrest, it's not an actual bounty. It's not excluding that, but he's most likely hoping someone who knows the person who stole it will rat for the money.

And I think you'll have to provide examples of the "terrible outcomes caused by private vigilanteism".
I get the point but I actually see this all the time in tech reviews on YouTube. Granted they don't go beyond "it works" unless the pairing experience is notably terrible
And unfortunately there is an implicit expectation that the reply is to be sent immediately as well.
It depends on who appointed the people reading the comments. I suspect we have some Biden and Obama people in at the moment.

Also, there are people in these organizations that have made a career of working at the FTC because they believe in its mission. They will also be involved in the process.
> but don't like new Unifi's "use our cloud, or else..." attitude

They don't have this attitude and never have. You can use local accounts, have always been able to use local accounts.

The only thing out there that's better than Ubiquiti is actual enterprise gear, all of which now requires subscription licensing. Unfortunately if you want a buy once / cry once solution for prosumer usage, Ubiquiti is the best option. I hunted for alternatives several times, and nobody is competitive. Microtik is the next closest option, but it's frankly garbage and with bigger security issues.
How do you know those mandatory inspections doesn't come from oil lobbyists trying to make solar more expensive than it has to be? You can always frame bad regulations to look reasonable.
I think the wireless pairing/device switching experience with AirPods is a big reason (not the only reason) why they are so popular.
I'm sure that's exactly what happened here. You can opt out of that but it's a pain in the ass and some companies make it so you have to do it for each merchant
Authors may be "language pros" but the content can use more proof reading. One (trivial) example:

> Kanji are ideograms imported lock, stock, and barrel from __mainland Asia__ into Japan over hundreds of years, starting around the 5th century, followed by Buddhism in the 6th century.

"mainland Asia"? This makes me laugh. Technically not totally wrong, but, do people really say that? Won't people from India get offended? If someone (e.g, a child) googles "mainland Asia", the first result is Indochina. Did Japan import Chinese characters from Indochina in the 5th century? I believe a textbook should be clear, straightforward, and shouldn't obscure/blur facts.
100 years from now: “New evidence suggests giant asteroid impacts DIDN’T create Earths continents”
The size of the paired devices list isn't even in the spec. It's entirely up to the manufacturer. All the spec tells you to do is store the specified info somewhere and gives an error code to be returned if you can't for some reason. 8 is typical, but there are various reasons you might want to chose 1 instead. It simplifies and speeds up reconnection, eliminates unnecessary button combos, and potentially reduces BOM cost, etc.
I've been doing this for over 10 years, but I do get spam on some of them.

It comes in two forms.

One is that companies subscribe to the marketing emails without asking. When this happens, they tend to re-offend on unsubscription, so they had to be blocked by blacklisting.

The second form is that they do in fact share my email address with others. Not two months ago booked a hotel in Europe and got a spam from some other company before I got a booking confirmation. So this happens.

That all said, the point of using per-company emails is less about spam and more about denying them an option of collating my online activity. The fact that you don't get spam doesn't mean your email address (+ relevant personal details) aren't getting resold, shared and otherwise vacuumed by the data collectors. That's them I more worried about than an occasional spam.
Cool website, any way you could like have a domain so I could send it to people. Looks kind of scary now
Hey man, I've read your comments and just gotta say, there's definitely some pent-up emotion or something behind there. Whatever you're going through, I'm sorry, I feel for you, and I hope you come out the other side. I've been there.

FWIW, the reason we started Parsnip wasn't any of the ones you listed. I actually wrote about it here: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/why-we-started-parsnip
Here in Bend we have an airport that gets you to Seattle, San Francisco, Denver. For some people like me who do not travel much, that kind of thing might be 'good enough'. I think that sort of thing is reasonably common in regional airports. It'd probably be annoying not having more flights if you travel regularly.
I mean if we're just deferring to whatever the supreme court interpretation is today (which by the way, changes all the time), why even have a debate? Just spend your time reading court proceedings. We're both aware the supreme court has upheld infringements.
This is why I only use operating systems that I have personally glued together from scratch.
Coming up in Sept!
Odin isn't happy right now.
If you're doing it right, your registrar doesn't run your DNS, so there's no DNS migration. Of course, if your registrar is also doing DNS, email, and web hosting for you, it's messy.

For this poster, I don't think they can migrate to a different registrar while their domain is in the 'redemption' period, and they may not be able to migrate within some time period (30 days?) of renewal, either.
Only some of the issues you list are inherent to Bluetooth. Others are a result of trying to balance doing the right thing for the 80% case which results in sub optimal experiences for edge cases. I don't see a lot of evidence that just coming up with a new standard would address many of these.

The main issue with Bluetooth is the sound quality sucks. That is actually due to the Bluetooth standard.
That is a somewhat controversial claim. See also this issue page: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3046

Also, bubblejail ships all of 8 profiles; I'm skeptical of its claim to be a full replacement.
>July marked the 46th-consecutive July and the 451st-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average.

This is the better fact.

>This made it the sixth-hottest July in the 143-year global climate record.

This provides good context. (Followup question: Given some random distribution, how often should you experience a "6th hottest month" with records starting a particular year?)

>The five warmest Julys on record have all occurred since 2016.

Not exactly sure based on the wording here, but I think an entirely true headline with the opposite impression would be "Earth had it's coolest July since 2016"
Is this the same Emil Kirkegaard who holds controversial views on child porn?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard
Is it true that there isn't any mechanical / manual way of opening doors from the inside in a Tesla?
> Covid has BECOME a disease that primarily effects the elderly and immunocompromised.

Could you point to a reference on this? My understanding was COVID had always primarily affected the elderly and immunocompromised.
Only an entire failure ever to have looked at Google Maps "satellite view" would lead anyone to think UK has a paucity of crop and pasture land.

It has, in fact, easily many, many times more of both than could ever be needed to share with solar and wind.
I've studied Japanese for 10 years and would never recommend any material that uses romaji. Hiragana takes only a few weeks to get familiar with, and avoids mixing up Japanese pronounciation with English.
Cronyism is alive and well on Sand Hill road but "Adventure" left Venture capital long ago.
...never use GoDaddy. They are a shambolic organization, and their reputation is both well earned, and insufficient to really describe how abysmal they are. And even though the root of their gobshite culture, founder Bob Parsons, is long gone to go do 'philanthropy', they have stayed the same since.
The Kinu m47 was unavailable (fire in the factory, pandemic...).

Went with the BPlus Apollo. See my response below to yaldiz.
But there are choices, sometimes you're not conscious of the effect of your choice but it was made nonetheless.

For your supermarket example, instead of going there you could go to a local farmer's market for those vegetables. It might cost more, but most expect higher quality there than at the supermarket. So there is another "market" option, you shouldn't just expect all your "market" options to be placed in convenient aisles at the grocery store.

If you live in the city and have to drive over an hour to get to a farmer's market, well that was also a choice you made. Perhaps you didn't make that choice because you wanted to be away from locally grown produce, but the supermarket being your only option is a consequence of that choice.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, just trying to point out that much of the choices we make will reduce the other choices we have and we should be conscious of the ones that drive us to become mindless consumers and remove other options from us in the market.
> technological innovation in the housing space to facilitate both social cohesion and affordability would be a very good thing.

Sure, just not one led by Adam Neumann or a16z, certainly not one led by both.

Maybe they will do something legitimately good, but from what we know of both of them, it's highly likely that they will optimize for what will increase their respective net worth as fast as possible, no matter the consequences and not for what will have the best impact on society.

And sure they don't have any obligation to optimize for social good, but you can't ask us to be excited about it.

Neumann already had bought close to 4000 apartment in January, presumably linked to this venture. So if you are somehow expecting them to come up with a solution to the affordability crisis, I think you are deluding yourself. It's far more likely that we end up with an airbnb-like for long-term stays that will continue to push the cost of the housing market ever higher, greatly enriching Neumann and a16z in the process. But hey, at least you will be able to book your place for the next 6 months right through an app with a nice UI, you won't need to line up to visit an apartment and it will even come pre-decorated WeWork-style to make you feel right at home!
> And this some small glitch? This should not be the first problem you would solve, detect big objects, then you move to the next problem detect the object speeds, then you move to determine the objects next position.

As far as I'm aware it was a regression (though I could be wrong), as it's a very rarely seen thing in reality and there was a sudden rash of news articles about it and then little since.

> It seems they did not solved the first essential problem yet.

That's not how neural networks work.

> The numbers are not public because it will show that the AI is less safe then a human, if it were close then for sure Tesla PR could have spin it in a good light for them.

Again, as I stated, it would result in the media comparing apples and oranges as Tesla does not restrict where you're allowed to drive. I'm sure if you took a Waymo to a snow covered dirt road in the winter time it wouldn't be able to drive at all so is that infinite dis-engagements?

> The numbers are not public because it will show that the AI is less safe then a human, if it were close then for sure Tesla PR could have spin it in a good light for them.

The released numbers show that at least where people drive with autopilot, there are less fatal incidents.
> There is a massive incentive to do this kind of work poorly, because it leads to being able to do it quickly and fitting in more jobs means making more money.

I really, really want to go see some "contractor installed" solar installs in my area, open up all the panels, see how it's done by the "pros."

Because multiple inspectors have now commented on multiple homeowner installs I've been connected with about "how neat and clean this all is compared to the usual contractor stuff." I assume they're not just buttering up homeowners for no reason (they certainly find things to correct when they're not perfect out of the gate), but... what I consider fairly standard, tidy electrical work gets comments from inspectors. So I have to wonder what sort of crap they're seeing elsewhere.
Can this work with a custom server, IE Express? Or do you have to use Next.js backend?
Good stuff. I use optipng and other things via https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimi... before I upload any image to anywhere where others might download them.
On one hand I agree, on another, I worry about the amount of waste that this creates. We are trading pollution from other centralized energy sources for millions of homes with N solar panels which will have to possibly be removed and replaced in 5-7 years. It’s the same as the waste that is created by purchasing appliances these days that basically are unrepairable and thrown away and replaced.

Given a 7 year life, you are effectively creating 4x the waste as a quality system. Multiply that by millions of homes and I don’t see how the trade off is worth it.
I have only a passing interest but Rust is based on ideas in the late '80s concerning linear logic and affine logic and their relationship to PLT. Monadic programming and its applications to for instance parser combinators is from the early '90s.
If you read the OP, the word "sprint" is used in its less formal definition of "working long hours for an extended period of time", not in the formal description of an AGILE time-boxed work period.
I like the format and colors in your book. Well done! I believe this would have been helpful to me at the beginning of my Japanese studies. I do have some questions, if you don't mind:

1. Does your book take into account the frequency with which words are used in Japanese? I've found frequency dictionaries are an excellent place to start learning languages because you begin by learning the most commonly used words first (maybe you address this on your website and I just missed it).

2. I've seen English study materials in Japan use the same strategy you're using when you embed kanji into English sentences. One problem I've noticed is that some Japanese people studying from those guides will inject Japanese particles into their English sentences. For example, "Me and my friends wa ate lunch together." Have you noticed this issue in reverse with your book's strategy?

3. Have you found including archaic kanji to be helpful or confusing for new learners?

I love the Japanese language. Thanks for your efforts it making it more accessible to people. Best of luck on the series. I hope you do well with it.
Similar to how warnings to "stop illegal action X" eliminates "I didn't know it was illegal" arguments (if they continue).
Not the person you're replying to, but just wanted to chime in and say I appreciated your anecdote. It's nice to hear about things on the other side of the ocean from time to time.
I buy books and sometimes only read a few chapters before never picking them up again. I usually still get value out of them and I believe I’d normally value that value at over the $20 it cost to get the book.

So, I have a lot of books lying around that are partially read.
All typescript is JavaScript, not all JavaScript is typescript.
Similar thing happened to me. Except they sold my domain of 8+ years to a porn service provider within 24 hrs. Explain that one to your customers. I no longer do business with Godaddy.
Because the same exact inspector shows up to inspect the electrical installation powered by oil?
And build one unit of transit next to them, it doesn't matter if the road or rail is connected.
> because covid unlike the flue will kill people that are other perfectly healthy

Not true. Every flu season there are stories of young people in great shape– often athletes or in the military, who die due to the flu.
Unfortunately it seems like it's this or Deno loses the race. It won't be useful if it dies.
My father-in-law was complaining about his Mac being incredibly slow, even after a reboot.

Turns out, he had a lot of programs running despite not having a document open, and that "reopen window" function was causing them to all reload on startup. Browser, word processor, tax software, whatever else. All on his aging Mac that I'm fairly sure only has 4 GB of RAM.
(Author) This is certainly the biggest barrier for most. That being said, Google, for instance, allows you to work part time and maintain health benefits. Also, as is the case for me, there's a large contingent of married folks who have a spouse who can maintain benefits working a W2 while the other goes part-time.
Right? When someone tries to arbitrarily revise their meaning after the fact, it strains credibility.

I like the phrase: "Mean what you say and say what you mean". It isn't perfect, nor fool proof, but it has a lot of value. It might not result in the boldest, wittiest, funniest, most sarcastic phrases, but I personally am not optimizing to keep myself in the spotlight, energize my base, or shock+offend non-supporters.*

* "Shock and awe-fend" perhaps?
N-API will be supported in future releases of Deno, we have a PR going that is close to completion.
> Those three world-famous accidents killed fewer than 80 people in total. Take away Chernobyl, and it's probably one.

That sounds oversimplified and biased, and makes a potentially good article unreliable to my eyes. It doesn’t count people who have died as a result of radiation exposure, doesn’t mention the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the radioactive cloud, all the health issues that it has caused, etc.
Donate to a political candidate or large non-profit. Those are where I see the most sharing of addresses. I have been doing the same sort of custom emails.
Delivering mail by jumping from a moving boat [video]
People haven’t forgotten, companies just don’t hire infra people.

“Fire all your ops people do the cloud” has made it so that organizations have forgotten how to run servers.

Working in infra but not at supermassive scale does really feel like the new COBOL programmer.
> But unless a person doing the vilifying actually purges all, say, petroleum products from their lives, they are just as much the participant as someone who works for BP.

Don't be this guy: https://thenib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mister-gotcha-...
Godaddy's also run by people. They even have the financial incentives and the legal leverage to lie. If you believe people lie "all the time", by your own logic, perhaps you should consider the possibility that the people in Godaddy lie "all the time."

It's obvious stupidity in multiple ways:

They failed to account for the customer's long and positive track record. They must be having a CRM. About time they started using it instead of acting like a script that wakes up and shuts down without any context.

Despite being web and mail hosting experts, their architects failed to design their systems for the scenario that their critical mails end up in spam.

Their UX people failed to title the mail in a way that would grab attention.

The post says that apart from this single email and its 2 hour deadline, there weren't any notifications in the past, something that other people here have assumed without checking.

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In all such posts, it becomes obvious again and again that tech businesses are failing to design their systems for corner cases. This is not that surprising given all the communication and decision-making complexities anybody who's worked in tech would have seen.

Victim blaming is the laziest and most useless approach because it just denies that the real world is more complex than the ideal use cases the designers assumed. And neither helps improve anything nor holds anybody accountable.
> They could include malware, even though those are really rare.

Yes, if the distro is shipping malware we're going to have trouble. How many times has that happened? For all time, in any distro, ever?
Reminds me of CenturyLink (Lumen) residential internet service. If you forget to update the expiration date of your credit card the first “notice” they send you is to just cut the connection and leave you to troubleshoot in the dark.
Some companies "block" a certain amount of money on your card, so they can make a deduction against it later. For example automated gas pumps can "block" more then they probably charge, so the card can not be drained while gasoline is put into the tank.

https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/164670/credit_c....

This might be a less notorius explanation then other which are offered here.
This guy: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky

A generation of people associate him with nuclear power.
Seems like old apps are vulnerable:

> This vulnerability will therefore be present for as long as there is backwards compatibility with older macOS applications!