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To be clear, I'm not saying that Microsoft hasn't improved any UI since Windows 2000, just that overall, they've made more stuff worse than they've improved since then.
You should not be using those dependencies today. Looks like they have been unmaintained for a decade and can contain a ton of vulnerabilities.

Though I find it hard to believe that there are some useful dependencies that have not been ported and don't have better alternatives. Typically a "never ported" dependency is never ported because it is deprecated in favor of something better.
Take most of the sibling replies here with a grain of salt. In areas where there are large snowfall events (eg Tahoe) the story is very different; panels can and do cause ice dams, dangerous snow slides, and even the panels can get ripped right off the roof.
According to the folks on this YouTube channel that have an installation in a very snowy climate if you have two sided panels they melt any accumulating snow off much quicker.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ambitionstrikes

My issue with New England (I live there) is there that only 50 to 60% of the days are sunny - we get a lot of overcast skies. That, combined with the lack of available roof space on our Four Square style house, has kept me from thinking about installing panels.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Massachusetts/sunshin...
One side benefit of solar for me was reducing cooling requirements of the top floor, which I anticipated but didn't expect it to be this significant. Expectedly but interestingly, installing solar panels didn't make any difference, but starting energy production did. Physics is fascinating.
Do genetic algorithms create human intelligence directly, or do they create the capacity for a human brain to develop it?

I genuinely don't know if anyone knows the answer to that.

But I do know the perceptron is a toy model of an organic neuron, and that deep learning is a toy model of larger structures such as a cortical column.

And I do know some AI (not sure about GPT in particular) are trained via genetic algorithms.

You appear to be awfully confident we haven't implemented intelligence, even by the standard stated in your reply.
Show HN: Recursive Wikipedia
This extension loads the mobile version of links when hovered over, is usually faster than opening a new tab, and is recursive (10 frame deep limit).
Looks like a typo in the title: it should be blockchain
How is cannabis flower legal through a loophole? Someone here in TX said they have the real thing but I was skeptical, since some D8/CBD places are trying to sell smokable hemp.

That said, I must say Delta 8 and 11-Hydroxy-THC are two very different but enjoyable and legal substances in Texas. 6mg of D8 is just enough to take the edge off a day, and a full one will just totally chill you out for movies. Then THCjd, HHC or 11 Hydroxy THC will level you if that's what you want.
I don't agree that rental markets can be modeled as an annual multi-round game/sequential auction and would love a cite and how that proves collusion in these markets.
I was guessing either out there or one of the ones vineyards just outside Ashland :).

> The wink-wink nudge-nudge "hemp" growers knew this, and moved with incredible speed to farm as many acres as possible before the regulators caught up.

That's super fair. The ODA wasn't culturally equipped to tell whether a company was a cartel front or a legitimate business. Really nice folks, but way outside anything they had experienced. I don't think OLCC would have done any better though.

The regulatory response also made 0 sense to me: grandfather in existing hemp growers and block anyone new. That just locked in the people they were trying to get rid of

> it was mostly fine until it became clear that there would be a 1-3 year window for growers to extract maximum profits. At this point the whole valley got ground up in the mighty garbage disposal of capitalism.

Oof. That, sadly, hits the nail on the head. The folks who were in it for the long term or more than just the money got eaten alive, and then the bubble popped.
So how would you follow up in this situation when its you asking for help? Would you just say no and ask someone else, or try to figure the thing out by yourself?
Can somebody explain where the return on investment comes from in residential solar? It just strikes me that if there was easy money to be had on solar installations, we'd just get tons of utility scale solar installs (which would likely by more capital efficient) and my utility bill would over time converge on the expected total utility bill for a home with residential solar. Is it just because we're in that transitional period where utility scale solar _is_ being installed, but in the mean time residential solar install internalizes the savings to your own residence? Or is it because most of the testimonials are hiding the ball a bit (only net savings reported due to buyer's remorse, etc.)? Or is it because government subsidies for residential solar are distorting the true capital cost, and thus profitability, of solar at scale?
The alternative is spending all day coordinating with 10 different people's secretaries to schedule time on their calendars with them. It's much easier to cancel instances of a recurring meeting than to have to schedule each one each time.

Of course, if it's just a 5 minute status update you should just send a memo.
I would love to DIY but that website is a complete turn off for me.

In my opinion, a good DIY solar company site would have transparent pricing and ability to buy components. I understand there are variations in installations and pricing may be different, but they should have a pricing catalog.
Can I just enjoy my Catan game?
Ask HN: Advice for Learning a New Language?
Context: I am a beginner/intermediate speaker of Korean and I'd like to take things further this year. I have come up with a roadmap and basic study plan for daily study sessions. Are there are tips or routines you have found to help take a new language to the next level?
Who are you referring to? I live within a couple of kilometers from the Mediterranean and I don't remember the temperature ever reaching 40°C. I don't think summers are much hotter compared to when I was a kid, I still use the AC from early June to early September. Winters did get warmer, and I don't see how that's a bad thing.
> It's fine to have preferences but to expect your company and team to let you always do things your personal preferred way is pretty unrealistic.

Another way to say this is "if you work a remote coding job, it is expected that you hop on a video/voice call pretty much whenever one of your teammates/managers/co-workers wants you to whenever they have a question they don't feel like typing out" because it's basically just a socially accepted norm. The majority of people prefer you stop what you're doing, get into a socially uncomfortable/awkward situation, and you're "the victim" until the person on the other end will let you hang up.

Repeat that 4+ times a day on average 5 times a week and that $120k/yr comfortable soft 8am-5am "IT" job starts looking less attractive/more soul sucking/5-10 years in you're dreaming of buying a van and moving into a cabin in the woods.
I have a pretty ideally angled roof near Boston and was considering a solar setup. However as far as I can tell we won't get paid for excess generation in any given month, so since we don't really use much electricity it seems this is not a good investment. Are there any common updates possible to take advantage of the excess power? Before ETH switched to POS I thought about mining crypto... otherwise we could switch to electric heat but that is a huge outlay.
Was the article headline updated to include the “Police say”? Because it’s good to see that police statements aren’t just accepted as fact and also need to be verified
The probabilities in Germany are around 12.5% and around 40% in Switzerland itself [0].

To live anywhere where to quote OP "it [would be] unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year" would basically mean living in a skiable country itself, so I did do a lot of assuming there.

But then I don't ski. I wouldn't know if skiers take vacations around the world to see different snow.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fe_Weihnachten_(Wetter...
Assuming you can even get to the board without damaging the device. And then you lose warranty, and the resale value drops due to scratches.
> Over the last 8 quarters their average profit margin is a whopping 3.25%

This is the trade-off you take when you become a quasi-government company. You get a low, but nearly guaranteed profit. Executives still get their bonuses, employees get paid, etc.

If they want more variable rates of return then they can drop the public protections and go full private like any other regular company.
Another option is to split the fee into a 'connection fee', 'transmission fee' and a 'power fee'.

Have the power fee set realtime by a market. The price might go to zero if there is excess generation.

Have the transmission fee capped by a regulator - and charge it for any kilowatt hours that enter the power network.

Allow third parties to arbitrage and offer 'fixed rate' deals, so consumers aren't at the whims of an electricity market with occasional sky high prices.
If you gave the contract to someone (to burn) when the court order prohibited giving it to a non-party, yes, absolutely. No need to be obtuse about it and to fight the hypo. It isn't entirely unusual for a contract in a litigation to be marked as attorney's eyes only, or highly confidential, and for there to be a protective order limiting the distribution of such documents. Also would not be unusual for a party to produce such a document in the discovery process, to which a protective order would also apply.
They can be, and they're certainly more reliable than the variance of views, ad rev, and hoping your video doesn't get demonetized in some way.
Does that include all deferred maintenance they had to do after the massive wildfires?
If the savings is $2677 on year 8 (first year of profits after paying off the initial investment) and then increases 10% every year after that, the net return is $33675. This works out to an annual return of 7%, a considerable improvement! The same calculation with annual rate increases of 20% yields a net return of $53002 and an annual return of 9%.
And this is why I have avoided buying a smart TV for almost ten years now. A TV is a consumer product. I should not have to open it up and modify the fucking hardware just to make it work how I want.
I agree its a big assumption to assume that electricity prices will stay the same, my assumption is that electricity price increases will significantly outpace inflation.
Yes that software does exist and currently my go to method (convert pdf to word document, compare changes in word).

The ideal system would highlight (sets of) text that that's common between both documents and underline text that is original. Or vice versa.
>More than once, she put business cards in the lobby. Management removed them, she said, and told her she’d have to pay to put up a sign. Mema’s was never fully onboarded to Uber Eats and DoorDash within CloudKitchens’ ordering system. And when she fell behind on payments, the company turned off her system altogether.

>He was told, for instance, that his first two months would be free, but was billed within 30 days.

>“The first month, we weren’t even really on the delivery apps,” he said.

They were promised services that they did not receive. The restaurant industry is hard enough when you're not dealing with new, never-seen-before avenues of rent-seeking.
> Maybe that's what they mean by "or other functional equivalents"

Yeah, but I think that js can be considered as a "functional equivalent" to HTML only when Browser APIs are used
> You hate half of humanity

This reeks of all-or-nothing thinking, which itself reeks of deep insecurity (a very likely root condition of being disagreeable).

It's one thing to have differing thoughts and opinions. It's another thing to be "disagreeable", which is the personality trait of being difficult to work with, often for the sake of being contrarian or having an ego trip (i.e, proving that you are right to showcase your power and value relative to others).

As others have stated, disagreeing is orthogonal to being disagreeable. One can disagree via constructive dialogue and open communication; however, taking disagreeableness as an identifying personality trait (and moreover, holding it as valuable in-and-of-itself) is a slippery slope to the creation of toxic working relationships.
What we need is a nationalism of the electricity grid and power plants. A federally owned and operated electric grid solves this issue.
I don’t use GitHub because it provides me with just Git. I use it because it’s provides hosted storage, free CI, issue management, code search across millions of repos, releases/downloads.
> people out there are not qualified to make a medical assessment for themselves about the severity of synthetic substances

You'll be pleased to hear then that the law we're discussing requires trained supervision: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/27/oregon-trains-psilocy...
Please, read the paper.

Again, your view is unimaginative.

On the contrary, science fiction is an excellent resource for policy, as it imagines futures where certain policies are carried out to their final conclusions.
TFA explicitly says they're on the Pro plan, ie they're not a free customer. And good job spamming the same incorrect comment in the thread multiple times.
This post would have much more credibility if the use-case that triggered the ban was described:

"all my subdomains that operate as image proxies are banned"

That sounds anywhere from perfectly reasonable to completely shady. Writing a post like this and not providing any additional detail on what you were actually doing to trigger the ToS boot leads me (for one) to believe elaboration on your use case would harm your argument, any sympathizing, etc.

From what I've seen before in many cases Cloudflare uses the "non-html content is disproportionate to html content" ToS clause as a catch-all to boot customers they don't like for one reason or another, are wildly "expensive" from a bandwidth standpoint, etc. As many have pointed out here on HN it doesn't even really fundamentally make sense and most websites, by nature, are going to consume more bandwidth with JS/SVG/PNG/etc vs HTML.
The reason is that residential customers pay higher rates than average: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Are these done via NER or old school heuristics?
> I can't remember the last time I came across a public WiFi network without a captive portal that would block their attempt to phone home.

Better yet, how many open WiFi networks are there around your house? For me, the answer is currently 0. People don't leave their WiFi open today like they did 15-20 years ago. Even the wireless hotspot feature on your phone makes you use WPA.
In Idaho at least, you do have to pay a monthly infrastructure fee even if you are using net metering.
That'll never happen. Honest explanations don't help anyone pump & dump.
In maine, CMP charges $11 a month for a "connection" to the grid and your first monthly 50kwh. Is that not the case in california or other net metering markets?
In the future we will have surveillance cameras and surveillance dna sniffers.
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Engineering marketing concentrating on government proposal requests. That involves contracts, described scopes of work, etc.
> Of course it is decidable, the programming language has very strict rules to determine it.

No, it's not. The programming language grammar can reject things, but it cannot determine certain class of mistakes which explicit terminators ("}" and so on) can, which is why programs like `indent` existed for decades for other languages, but have yet to exist for Python which is already 30 years old.

If no one has cracked that particular nut for 30 years, you can't with a straight face claim that it is obviously possible. It looks more impossible with each passing year.
I have an LG C2 OLED that I have never connected to the internet. It's not cheap, but it's got a killer UI and works incredibly well. I dig that the remote is kinda like a wii controller in that you can physically move it around to use it like a pointer device. I stayed at an Airbnb this last week which had a similar LG model that was connected to the internet and while it was great to have all the streaming services online and available, it was kinda irritating to see all kinds of alerts and popups once in a while. Modern TV's are good as long as you keep them in the dark, at least I can say that for LG.
Can you share why? I would definitely understand for a manual transmission, but I don't understand the reason for it on an automatic.
If the grid is smaller, then it is good for the grid because it reduces capacity and complexity requirements. Also if the net human experience is better, the grids can as bad as what enables that.
Their readership skews older. I’ve seen 99.5+% of comments being anti-remote work when I was a subscriber.
Or maybe he is blind to or unaffected by such biases either due to luck or wealth or other outliers. Especially as a Jewish person in Israel. There are always plenty of people in minority groups that feel (either correctly or incorrectly) that bias doesn't affect them. Take Clarence Thomas for example, or Candace Owens. Simply being a member of a minority group does not make your opinion correct. Thomas even said in recent oral arguments that there wasn't much diversity in his university when he attended and so he doesn't really see how a diverse student body is beneficial to one's education.
> So why all the pearl clutching?

Because it's part of a trend of our possessions turning hostile to us. It's hardware that you pay for and supposedly own, that betrays you, spies on you and acts against your interest, covertly or at least discreetly.

That you are for now able to prevent it is besides the point. An implementation detail, that will change as soon as our corporate masters want it to.
There are pretty clearly a bunch of middle managers at Stripe making decisions around policies (gutting the ability of workers to actually get work done without excessive oversight) and staffing (running right to the bone for most of the year) which are not sufficient to handle Q4 processing.

And they're probably making a nearly conscious decision that a HN thread like this every now and then is acceptable amounts of bad PR. They'll probably do this to someone else again next year.

It would be nice if "doing a good job" was a core competency of what management culture in the US strived for, but that just isn't the actual game. It is all about maximizing profit for this quarter/year.
This seems targeted at the low end of the market, where the alternative is simply to not read a ToS, EULA, etc.
The shade from the panels does make a big difference in summer, according to a friend of mine in Colorado who has had panels for many years now.
Thing is, in my experience I have been able to learn to tolerate someone after spending enough time with them.

It's possible I might learn to tolerate this potential cofounder as well, if I spend more time with him.

It's certainly not my first choice but he and I have nearly identical interests in terms of the startup we want to build, as well as perfectly complementing skillsets.
Found it! [1]

https://write.sonnet.io/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183244
Sure. And as a result, the EU country with most nuclear plants had the most expensive energy production during last year.
> What do you mean blown out of proportion?

It is on the HN front page :)
Same thing is happening in East Orlando. Lots of big developers are buying up land in popular urban areas and building mixed use commercial real estate properties. Only thing is the roads can’t handle it and there is no public transit.
I have to ask: Are you a nice guy who’s struggling to get ahead?

You seem to be suffering from the symptoms described in the sibling comment

> All of our own flaws are minor, while other people's flaws are major.

And of course it’s jealousy, and not just for the elite either. Most people hate to see anybody succeed.
> but I don't see how monoliths can keep up with developer velocity when an organization reaches thousands of developers.

You're likely right.

I think what most detractors of microservices are pointing to is that most companies don't reach thousands of devs in size. Or even hundreds.
Just be prepared to spend a lot more money on a worse display.
What TVs exactly?
> These traits are unavoidable if you're looking for a higher quality screen.

That is not true. For TVs is an inverse relationship between quality and how aggressive the "smart" parts are.

The open WiFi thing was some low end Samsung, and it's been a long while since I've seen an open WiFi network that doesn't have a captive portal that would block the connection.

And I've never seen a TV that would refuse to work without an internet connection, and I can't imagine anything but the most bottom end no-name TV trying to pull that.
You're saying this like any and every meeting is a waste of time, it's nonsense.

I don't like meetings, I constantly try to remove meetings from my team's process, but that doesn't mean that I think the ones we have are not useful and a waste of time.
and TBL is still sort of working on this with Solid. https://solidproject.org/
Is there any guesses as to why it’s blocked?

What’s Microsoft’s reaction?
"rent has shot up around 30-40%"
"Covid"

That's two reasons why people are having trouble paying rent, and it sounds like those folks you know are responsible for one of them.
I've also been thinking about future data representations; in particular, some blend of LSM and fractal trees combined with a blend of a generalized hierarchical prefix encoding and delta encoding. I'd be interested to see what you've got.

> I built some proof of concept storage using row representations with a novel compression scheme designed to compete with compressed columnar format. ... I didn't compare with a compressed columnar representation, but in theory .. it should take same or less space .. as well as using less I/O.

Some of your statements felt a bit discordant when placed together.