skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely, and the best antidote is getting a little knowledge about how home solar works. Something that should be well-in-reach of most of the HN crowd.

A typical grid-tied home solar system has 3 big areas of component costs:

1. The actual solar panels.

2. The thing that mounts the solar panels in place (called racking)

3. The things that turn the solar panel's electricity into electricity that can be used in your home and by the grid. Typically inverters and wiring.

The good news is that you can price this all out yourself, to get an idea of what your system SHOULD actually cost. Then you could theoretically do it yourself, or be a more informed consumer when shopping around to have someone do it for you.

I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I've been planning, revising and tracking prices on a DIY install for the past couple years.

Here are some of the resources I like:

1: Unbound Solar is a good resource for ready-to-install DIY kits. Their kits are a good resource for "this just works" - and you can then price out individual components as-needed. - https://unboundsolar.com/shop/solar-kits?product-category=gr...

2: For buying actual panels, I like A1 solar. They seem to have the best selection/pricing I've found: https://a1solarstore.com/

3: OpenSolar is a free tool designed for solar installers, but available to DIY'ers. It lets you specify your panels, racking, inverters etc., and then lay them out no your roof or the ground. https://www.opensolar.com/ - It's very likely the tool that the contractors you're getting bids from are using.

The last bit of info I'll share is that in general, microinverters don't make sense from a cost/benefit standpoint. Panels have gotten really cheap, microinverters haven't. You're probably better off adding more panels with a traditional inverter system vs. paying for microinverters to get marginal efficiency gains from a smaller number of panels.
They didn't retroactively changed the TOS of their engine so that a game you made years ago means you now potentially receive monthly invoices from Unity (and what about ridiculous new fees they will think in the coming years).

If Unity would've said that now any games built using whatever the most recent version of their engine is subject to a new TOS that means a fees per installs it wouldn't have nearly generated the amount of backlash it has received (no one is going to use Unity for a future project regardless of the fact that the fees per install is for the most majority a much better deal than 5% revenue).
We're all on goodreads
CSS in Email Support Guide
You’re getting downvoted for this, but you’re not wrong.

Just keep moving forward unless the sky is falling is 100% the lesson to be learned here.
>It technically did do that… but only if the bike was upright.

Which is the expected and normal state of a motorcycle.
You... do regular GC, right?

I have 45G, and this computer is more than two years old
I love the idea of Tails. It is unfortunate that it only runs on Intel macOS.

I consider my personal setup to be pretty good, but not Tails grade privacy: 1. Avoid installing apps, use Safari with all possible privacy settings. 2. Run Lockdown mode iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. 3. Use duck duck go and ProtonMail. 4. Prefer to run in Safari private browsing tabs. 5. Become non-private when logging into Amazon to make a purchase, etc.

I would love it if people more knowledgeable than I could critique my setup, make suggestions. Thanks in advance.

I would like to mention Cory Doctorow’s excellent new book The Internet Con [1]. It carries on in the fine tradition of the books Surveillance Capitalism and Privacy is Power for the narrative that regular law abiding people also benefit from doubling down on privacy.

[1] https://craphound.com/internetcon/
Say what you will about Meta and their products, but I have mad respect for their production engineering team. Keeping things like Facebook and Instagram running is no easy task. You can't just cache your way out of it like most apps. People expect to see their friends' updates instantly.

I've been super impressed with the technology part of the Threads launch. I can't wait to read more about it in the future.
FreeCAD is great today IMO.

If you want to avoid the topological naming problem(something that can be avoided with a 10-20 minute youtube video on the topic), try RealThunder's fork.
I so wish grids could have come a decade sooner. I would never had had to deal with trying to turn a table into a grid layout tool!
Yes but market forces did not expect immigration to stop permanently. 2 years is a short time overall.
https://sre.google/sre-book/handling-overload/ has good information in the Client-Side-Throttling section.

The method they describe is basically probabilistic circuit breaking based on the measured success rate the client sees.
How many mass shootings of HOA boards and law offices do you think it would take to effect change?
That's a rule for "Show HN" posts, not posts in general. If this had been "Show HN: v0", the mods would strip the "Show HN" off when they noticed.
1. install pass otp

2. pass otp add whatever/otp/me

3. paste in "otpauth://totp/whatever?secret=whateveritis

4. pass git init; push to remote

Now you you have MFA on any device that has git and your gpg key.
It is in tension with the revenue model that is explicitly about driving people offsite.
I wonder if privacy conscious people will eventually start feeding their posts into locally-run LLMs or something, and posting the output.

Or better yet, replace social media with LLM’s, instead of reading individual posts you discuss topics with a sort of artificial gestalt average user. Maybe let people “join” a gestalt by tagging their discussions.

Then we can let the gestalts argue amongst themselves!
But Tree Sitter is an M+N tool.

Also LSP was never going to completely eliminate the need for language-specific plugins. But it does significantly reduce the amount of work needed to build each one, providing a consistent baseline.
That's probably your VPN, try it without next time.
It’s simple, links are deprioritized in the main home feed, which suggests the home feed is where things go viral now. It’s where Elon gets control, but you should be able to know from the open source algorithm how it is deprioritized
How do Tails and Qubes relate, any reuse of functionality?

(Tried Qubes as written up in [1] but eventually gave up as it won't allow me to create virtualbox images, and some other caveats, as well as being pretty resource hungry)

[1] https://bionics.it/posts/installing-qubes-os
They didn’t use React Native, but wrote separate iOS and Android apps.

Does this mean that React Native has lost support and investment from Meta?
Release artworks : https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Artwork#16_.282023-09-14.29
I use X remoting every day. Being told that I do not need it and it would not work anyway, is what makes me angry. Then I hate that decades of protocol compatibility are broken, which i think is sad and stupid. Finally, I saw people had issues with Wayland (screen sharing etc). Then - after 15 years of development - being somewhat usable also does not convince me that it is so much simpler because of an superior design. Regarding design, I think the monolithic design is inferior. Finally, I never found the technical arguments terrible convincing (such as that an unused old line drawing API in X somehow holds modern clients back - obviously this is BS.).
They have an architectural license (for Arm v8/9) because they are a huge customer with deep pockets not because of a shareholding they sold a decade before that architecture was announced!
I agree, unfortunately their decision to only provide two years of software updates is a deal breaker for me.
New generations are behind a waitlist, but you can see what the service does on the explore page (and bottom of homepage linked above) https://v0.dev/explore
My favorite part is this absolute sociopath towards the end:

> Bauman says since [the new law's] passage, HOAs have had to spend more on certified mail, postage and legal counsel associated with the notification process.

Imagine the entitlement that this person thinks postage stamps are an issue worth whining about when foreclosing on a home and removing the occupants.
What I would like to know is why ARM - or its owners - needs the cash. Are there any major projects they are undertaking that justifies this flotation?
> Last year, he apologised after labelling developers that don't prioritise monetisation in the creative process as "some of the biggest fucking idiots".

> "My word choice was crude. I am sorry. I am listening and I will do better," he later said.

I see he's taking his own advice, and doing better!
XFWM themes support different thicknesses for the window with focus vs those without. In my custom theme, the focus window get a thick accent-colored border all around, and non-focus get a 3 pixel black/white/black border that guarantees a visible separation without drawing much attention.
> Regardless, the amount of renewables and batteries coming online (at least in the US) can't be overstated [3].

> [3] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/images/figure_6_01_c...

The "Other" generating unit type on that map is all over CA and TX. Looking at the source data for the map [1], it's mostly batteries. I'm surprised they didn't break those out as their own category.

1. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/
I can't confidently say, but the article suggests it's post-Elon.
It is literally impossible to desalinate enough water to grow staple row crops and fodder in an economically viable manner. However, there is plenty of room for efficiency improvement. US agribusiness wastes a huge amount of water. They could save a lot with a modest investment in irrigation improvements (some of which were developed in Israel).
A nice side benefit: if you have a large chair in a small room, being able to raise the desk high enough to push the chair entirely underneath the desk can free up a lot of space. eg, make room to do some yoga, room to set up an art easel, whatever. It can help turn an office space into a multi-use room.
Rain alerts in a TypeScript cron
This isn't a valid reason to flag a post. A good reason not to upvote it! But it being a waitlist doesn't make it off-topic for the site. It doesn't matter that much, but if you habitually flag posts for the wrong reasons, your flags will stop doing anything on the site.
There was plenty of "long form content" being produced for hundreds of years before the invention of social media. We called them books.

I think long form content will be fine.
Genuine question, what stops executives from scheduling stock-tanking announcements to align with their stock-selling schedule?
Eh, anyone can get away with one major crime, it's trying to do more than one which gets you.
You can use the prompt library (https://v0.dev/explore) and copy/paste any of those examples. We're going to be rolling out access to folks on the waitlist, but for right now it's still in private alpha.
Services with network effects go clique by clique. You don’t know anyone on it. For others, their entire social circle uses it.
Meth is now insanely cheap because it’s manufactured in industrial size Mexican labs with precursors from China and smuggled into the US, there’s no real incentive to manufacture it yourself when high purity meth is available for dirt cheap prices.
Property taxes break everyone's brain. Owners will support any alternative no matter how ridiculous.
Thanks, I should take a look. I've also been meaning to try DivestOS.

I'm certainly not holding my breath on more GrapheneOS support, as so few people care. I'm not entirely sure it'd be the right fit for me anyway. I'm currently using a microg setup with lsposed so I can patch out some junk in modern apps (like Outlook trying to be device admin), and this kind of hooking is not something GrapheneOS is interested in (a feature request I opened a while back: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/284).
> All adversarial stylometry shares the core idea of faithfully paraphrasing the source text so that the meaning is unchanged but the stylistic signals are obscured

Having an LLM rewrite a comment would do this entirely, no?

Are you just interested from an academic perspective how one might build something more surgical, that only changes some words in a comment?
Yeah that too. My initial take is clearly wrong to link the two of them. Shame Apple is partnering with Unity when Unreal seems to be the more popular/better looking engine.
Same, it was non negotiable for me when home buying.
"It is unfortunate that it only runs on Intel macOS."

Tails runs on most computers. It doesn't have to be a "macOS" (you mean Apple?). macOS is an OS, tails replaces the OS.
That the internet never forgets is a myth. It forgets surprisingly quickly and I think will only accelerate. Sure, someone may have a copy of something somewhere, but discovering it via any search engine is impossible.

Personally I put a lot of PHP and VB code out ~20 years ago that I could find easily until I couldn't. There's Myspace profiles I've tried to pull up, images posted by friends 15 years ago in random places. Early video. All gone.
> It's free until you make a million bucks USD, and only after that is it 5% gross, and only in quarters where you made more than $10,000 USD. So most folks never end up paying anything. There are no subscription fees or anything. To clarify, if you make a million bucks, and then one dollar, you only owe them five cents.

It sounds very fair to me, what are the general thoughts here?
One of those filters I want to apply to Mastodon is “images with text”, that is, it is frequently a screenshot of an X (yuck!) or some inflammatory message that I won’t repeat. People do click on them though which is what makes them so annoying.
MIPS wasn't opened up until they were already dead, and then almost immediately threw in the towel and joined up with RISC-V.

PowerPC basically the same, not opened until after it was irrelevant. OpenPOWER is in the same enterprise market as SPARC and IBM is not far from Oracle on the "do not engage litigious bureaucracy" chart.
This is great, thank you. I've been using another site to do this, but it requires upload to the cloud.

I use it for removing background music from movie clips so I can remix them and add alternate background.
Is there a collection of Linux virtual machine images I could use to run old browsers (say from 1994)? There's https://infinitemac.org/ for MacOS and Windows 3/95/98 VMs, but I've had a hard time getting Linux binaries from the early 90s working.
I'm mixed on the shorts. I like it when they do a "you fix this by pushing this button here" in 15 seconds instead of it being 8+ minutes so they can get mid roll ads.
The reason people like them, I've heard, is they help keep the value of your property high. I prefer doing what I want with my property, so I won't buy a property in a HOA.

>Americans

That's quite a large and diverse demographic to make generalizations with.

>Then you invent HOAs to remove those same freedoms, levy fees instead of taxes, provide services that really should be handled by the city, and are more oppressive? I just don't understand.

I can live in that same city without an HOA. I can't live in that same city without the high taxation and oppressive government. It's about options, I suspect.
I disagree, because most of the frontend work I’ve been involved with over the past 10 years or so isn’t just blindly implementing mockups. Actual UI engineering work usually involves making the feature a logical reality. Product and UX have a great ideas, but they’re not engineers and it usually takes a lot of work to make these ideas match the reality of the domain, making things consistent with UI patterns, existing components, web standards, etc.

I’m honestly not worried about AI being the programmer for UX people, that’s for sure. I think creating mockups are a bigger target for AI.

Also, this work is usually the best starting point for a meaningful domain API, and helps drive the backend as well.
But how will we capture the delightful metaphors involving parenting or war? (To say nothing of references to whaling -- or to defunct computer companies.)
You also have fine-tuned models for specific tasks that may see very similar inputs for a variety of outputs. Think an LLM trained on pulling out specific types of information, no matter where it was stored within the file. E.g. "find the date of the shipment for product# 5432" and then you pass in 10k json documents with a similar shape.
They can use glass reinforced plastic instead, and powdered metal or nylon gears like the mid range $150 consumer drills...
Counter point: reddit

They literally send you away to read the article, but with the hope you come back to add comments.

In the case of the new twitter, it makes sense to prevent people from leaving the platform, since Musk wants his platform to replace everything, blogs (hence new unlimited size tweets), YouTube (unlimited length video) and he even talked about a currency.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-eve...
It was like that back in 2003 too.

I'd be more generous though...it's not Mordor. It's where Mordor residents go on vacation. The beach in Death Stranding was cleaner, but a beach is a beach even if it's full of jagged rocks, hot sand and dead organic matter. I walked it barefoot and came down with blisters and a bacterial infection so nasty I couldn't walk for a month.

Not saying it's not worth saving, only that it's not worth advertising as a recreational venue. It's gross. It's literally a sump tank.
I don't disagree, Somewhat recently a Federal Judge ordered that the Navajo Nation wasn't entitled to the Colorado River that they had been using for thousands of years. This is what happens when the government steps in to redistribute a resource to who they "think" deserves it rather than to those who were historically entitled to it. Legalized theft, plain and simple.
I like the idea of exposing the database and pushing more business into the database.. but it's terrifying.

Row level security and exposing postgres to the world sounds cool, but I can't see myself doing it.

It's like... encryption is awesome in theory and protects your data, but would you push your password-store to a public github repo? In theory you could...

edit:

A quick Google-fu and it looks like some people do push their password-store to Github... balls of steel.

https://github.com/jysperm/passwords
The "automatic insurance" thing is called section 75 protection. Legally it's more limited than you might think - it only applies to purchases over £100 and under £30000 for example and I think there's a lack of clarity if eg PayPal purchases are covered or not even within those limits.

However, the debit card industry (as do some other oddities like Amex charge cards) largely voluntarily offer very similar protection to section 75 on debit card purchases and the credit card industry largely voluntarily offer the same protection on purchases under £100.
I expected traceroute to play a bigger part in this. If you know the route to an IP address and the location of routers, perhaps even from a few different servers, then you should be able to locate it fairly well.
> I know that's not fully rational because they're mostly unrelated, but certainly the optimism because of AI has to be good for them. Curious to see if this "signal" plays out - investors tend to be pretty savvy about timing.

The "investors" are SoftBank; they've been pretty much the stupidest money in the world for years.

While it's possible that they're being more savvy about the timing of this sale than about their investment decisions, I don't know that it should be the default assumption.
Nah, that sort of regulation hurts innovation. /ˢ
Depends on the job. My first job out of university was mostly older people (mid 30s+) and there was no socializing. It sucked for me, in a new city with few friends, I would have been happy to go out for beers or whatever.
A later job, many of us were single, new in the city, and had lots of after work social time. Now personally I'd still be happy to go for beers after work but I have a family so it's not really possible and I've become the lame older person. Anyway, all that to say, it's good to work with some people at a similar life stage so then you can be social or not without worry.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of something like this. I learned some disturbing things about HOAs while living in one. Some people think I’m strange or dramatic, but I refuse to ever live in one again. I realize not everyone has that luxury - the article mentioned the “sun belt” states, but it was exceedingly difficult to find a home outside of an HOA in the Midwest, too.

If you don’t pay my taxes or my mortgage, you get no say on what color I can paint my shudders. And the only ones who can kick me out are the bank (until I’m done paying) or Uncle Sam, not the bored authoritarian neighbor down the road who doesn’t like that I don’t have an immaculate yard or doesn’t approve of my mailbox.

So many of us Americans pretend to care about property and liberty until suddenly it possibly puts a small dent in own your property’s value.
so lame
It sounds like a build-to-flip startup idea is to create a dating service geared towards creating LTRs and growing it to the point where you get on Match's radar.
> over the mountains

I thought the water cycle causes almost all of the precipitation to happen before going over the mountains? It's why the west side of the Sierras are wet and the east side dry.
PHP and C# .NET Core.
You used to be able to just leave that field empty, not sure if that's true anymore.
X is trying to move content from outside to inside, hence deprioritized link posts, increasing the word limit 100x and sharing revenue. The sharing revenue is 2 fold, one is to give X content creators higher priority and 2 to incentivize content to be created on X.
Technically there is UnrealCLR, so if you made a game with mostly Unity-agnostics code it's possible to keep a bunch of it.

One of my game is multiplayer, the whole gameplay code is completely Unity-agnostics to run server-side without any Unity code.
You don't. It's stored energy. If your hot water is already heated, you save on the energy required to heat it in the evening.
I used to sit on the board of the HOA in my previous condo building. Liens are Plan A generally.

Something is fishy with this HOA. I suspect they may have something against this guy specifically and want him gone from the neighborhood. That reason could be good (running a brothel out of his house or something crazy), or very bad (they don't want Latinos in the neighborhood).

Oh look, there's something later in the article about it:

> Patterson, who is now working with residents to reclaim their homes, says that most of the Green Valley Ranchers he’s met who have been foreclosed upon recently are working-class homeowners of color, many of whom speak English as a second language.
Neat video, but let's not forget two important things about the Great Salt Lake.

It's enormous. 950+ square miles.

It's a salt lake. Far saltier than the ocean. No carps are going to be eating solids. The algea or other biological methods described in the video will not work to reset a lake of salt that is nearly the size of Rhode Island.

Revitalizing an area of that size would likely be a far larger undertaking than solving the problem of reduced flow into the lake due to agricultural overuse.

I'm all for clever solutions, but they can also lead people into thinking that it's a problem solved, and that addressing the root cause of the problem isn't needed. It allows people to be complacent and allow abuse to continue. When it all implodes, those who caused it get sit back and see how the rest of us deal with it.