skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This report, which is often quoted,

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...

gives a crazy low cost for a solar + battery plant that assumes storage for an hour and a half which is certainly too little. When I split out their generation and storage numbers and put in the assumption that 12 hours of storage gets you through the night the price is getting in the same range as gas turbine power plants.

There's the seasonal problem too, the answer to that is some combination of building more solar capacity or adding huge amounts of storage. I'd estimate that the daily insolation varies by a factor of 2 or so in NY

https://www.solarenergylocal.com/states/new-york/new-york/

so you could build maybe twice the solar capacity and have enough generation in the winter. Judged that way the system cost is creeping in the direction of what nuclear energy costs, though you've got a lot of "free" electricity in the summer although that could be "free as in puppy". Hypothetically you could do something like desalinate seawater and pump it uphill into reservoirs but operating any kind of industrial factory intermittently is going to be murder for capital and operating costs. There is this idea

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/

where you could smooth out diurnal variation in a "hydrogen economy" factory by overbuilding electrolyzers, but to take advantage of "free" summer electricity you might have to lay off all your workers half the year not to mention building surplus transmission infrastructure.

Of course it takes detailed modeling of supply and demand to get good cost estimates for renewable plus storage systems and one thing I find irksome about that EIA report is that it quotes one number for a solar energy plant which is just wrong because the exact same solar plant will product a lot more power in Nevada and it will in Wisconsin. Many people are quoting these numbers and not really aware that they are discrediting themselves and the renewable energy cause because quoting a number that doesn't depend on time and place just violates common sense.
If "hate speech and obscenity" aren't covered by free speech protections, what is?
Your website looks really neat, what JS stack did you choose to build?
Maybe it's not as good as social media at getting past your defenses (Congratulations! You think you are good at dealing with propaganda!)

But we're talking about societal problems, not your particular case. You've no shortage of neighbours whose brain turns off the moment the boob tube turns on to some talking head screaming about something or other.
Many insightful points, thank you. Any concrete suggestions on how it could be communicated?
I was asked to sign in to watch that video, since it has a content warning. Is that something that happens to other news broadcasts dealing with war footage?
I wish there were still a fork of it somewhere. I understand that he wants to honor Valve's request, but it was too cool of a project to just...disappear like that.
I love this component set. The maintainer, Cory, cares a ton about accessibility and quality and it shows.

They're built with Lit too :)
These guys are the punchline of the joke that is the 'Intuit lobbies the federal government to make taxes hard' narrative. Free for most people, super cheap for everyone else, and the process is a breeze. It is a direct improvement on all axes compared to mainstream tax software for like 95% of the population.
2024 Software Engineering Priorities and Challenges: What's Top of Mind
I've found local governments (city or district) to fill this niche nicely for me. They usually need a guy to help with all kinds of IT stuff, value any kind of automation work and are not as bloated as federal.

You help your community and the people who keep it running.

Only downside is, your pay will be significantly less than as a cog in an evil machine.
Not just that you're ripped off, but they heavily lobby to keep taxes as frustrating as possible so their existence isn't irrelevant. I hate hearing about late stage capitalism, but this is essentially that.
>There are very few situations in which I feel the need to be exclamation-free, and almost all of them involve a man who won’t take no for an answer.

Interesting. I would have thought the opposite. Save the exclamation for emphasis, especially for something like "No!".
Thanks! Changed from https://wiki.edunitas.com/IT/en/114-10/Maestro-I_20000_eduNi... now.
It took that position because it was what the first viable RDBMS used, pretty much. Similar to how JavaScript became the standard PL for browsers.

The simplest SQL queries map perfectly to relational algebra, so I'm still unclear as to what you had in mind. The two major deviations that SQL has over strict relational algebra are non-uniqueness of rows in a table, and NULL. The first one rarely comes up in practice, and any bag of non-unique rows can be trivially mapped to a bag of unique tuples simply by adding synthetic IDs to them. And SQL NULL semantics is widely considered to be a mess even by many users of SQL itself. With respect to performance, NULLs can be implemented very cheaply while optimizing their relational equivalent (1:0-or-1 relation) requires a little bit more effort on the DB side, but it's still such a simple pattern that I don't see a problem here.
I pay $16.55 per month for Netflix. I generally watch movies with my spouse. That cost is less than the cost for both of us to go to a movie theater. If Netflix has one item per month of roughly movie length or longer that we want to watch, the price seems worth it just for that.

In recent years, this has still not been a sure bet month to month, but over a year, 12 scores are pretty much guaranteed.
I mean, you're commenting on a post about a battery which can help to solve this problem (albeit this battery alone probably doesn't entirely solve it).
> (Which suggests CIA lawyers are more nuanced literary critics than half of Goodreads.)

This was a good line
cover both bases due to this ambiguity =)

deleted IS NULL OR LOWER(deleted) = 'null'
If there's any policy which people are calling for but which the government doesn't currently support - for example, passing a law that blanket overturns all of these convictions - it tends to get portrayed as an obvious win with no downsides by much of the British press. If there's something which is currently government policy or effectively so, like leaving this to the courts, we hear about only the downsides of that policy. The BBC does this too, but not quite to the same extent, and they get a lot of flack for it as in this case.

Actually, the government has just announced that they are going to pass such a law, and this helps further demonstrate what I mean. After they announced this, the Guardian ran an analysis piece pointing out all the same reasons why this is potentially a bad idea that the BBC talked about before: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/no-precedent... Their top headline article is also about this announcement and leads by pointing out the same problems: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/rishi-sunak-... The way in which the BBC is more pro-Tory than publications like the Guardian is that they're less likely to ignore these problems when talking about activists calling for this prior to it becoming government policy. That is, in order for a British media publication to be adequately anti-Tory in the eyes of the press, whether they treat a proposal as bad or good has to depend on whether it's coming from the Tories.
Does Cash App sell your data?
Computers are learning to read minds.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/01/ai-makes-...
A great company. I've used them for years for my self employment taxes. My kids all use them.

FreeTax is the Kagi of tax prep.
Until you find a new position and they want to match it. Then you hate the paperwork within the day.
Interesting perspective.

Through the author's lens, I would have to agree — if growth is the chief measure of a company's health and the main driver of decision-making, and if you're there for stock options, then yes, it's time to leave when that growth stops.

A lack of "growth" might not signal time to leave for all companies, though.

Other questions to ask might be, is the customer the customer, or is the investor the customer? Are we working toward sustainable relationships with high-value clientele, or are we working toward a profitable exit strategy for the founders? Are we looking for ways to attract and retain good talent over the long term, or are we managing staffing levels according to quarterly goals?

Assuming you aren't an owner and the exit strategy doesn't mean a huge windfall payout for you, then jumping ship might always mean more money for a while, but eventually you will take your last job — the one from which you will retire.

That might look more like a company that spends less than it takes in, cultivates stable sources of revenue, and prioritizes investing in itself — rather than one that chases relentless "growth" and doesn't think twice about "pruning" non-owners for the sake of preserving margins for owners.

But I'm also not a gambler by nature, so I might not count as one who "gets it" in this context.
It's not that UX design is uninteresting, but that the OP was very basic and thus not creative, expert or insightful (IMHO).

> What satisfies your intellectual curiosity may not be the same for someone else.

I pretty clearly said the same in GP.
The Chance Discovery That Revolutionized Neuroscience
I just happened by.

It's a bit of an illusion because one is more likely to notice fast responses than slow ones. Is that recency bias? I guess not.
populations are governed the S-curve, which approximates an exponential in boom times. for humans, the exponent is biologically limited by the speed of raising children into reproductive adults, which is ~20-25 years.

financial and technological advances free us from traditional constraints, increasing productivity (wealth 1st derivative) faster than raw biology allows. the dark price is faster, larger boom / boost cycles. see eg the speed of adoption of technology, or the average lifespan of an S&P500 company.

the more removed an industry is from atoms, the higher the exponent, thus the perceived instability. alas, industries close to atoms don't pay that much. it's a tradeoff: low growth and stability + boring work and low pay, or high growth and instability + interesting work and high pay. the places you speak of are indeed havens, good luck finding one!
Not really. All it is saying is "We found a better way to spend our money". Also, no matter what Amazon says, people are going to attack them because they are laying off (firing) people. No one likes layoffs.
https://archive.ph/OWbI3
For those searching for it, they've rebranded to Empower. I've been using them for years and they've done an excellent job.

Only downside is that there is a slight nagware aspect (only when you're inside the app though) and they do cold calls to get you on an investment plan. Then again, it's free and they have to make money somehow...
Fascism is literally being empowered today by unrestricted free speech in Western societies - something Western "liberal" politicians are constantly shouting from the rooftops. Nazism took root in the Weimar Republic essentially unmolested. The Germans censor Holocaust denial today. And you're telling me the lesson learned from all this is the virtue of free speech?
https://youtu.be/ubCQZtLTAug?t=1164
You need less area than you might think for Solar. Especially somewhere that is sunny like Hawaii.
One of the cited benefits/features of the battery system is grid stabilization, replacing the inertia of the spinning generators to maintain a stable 60Hz. I wonder if they'll use that to make the line frequency more stable [1]? And, might this make it difficult/impossible to date recordings by their line hum [2]?

[1]: http://leapsecond.com/pages/mains/
[2]: http://hummingbirdclock.info/about
Weird, it wasn't working in Safari a few days ago - or chrome. Had to login via Firefox.

Now it's working in Safari again.

Seems performant and usable, can't really say TurboTax did much more except be flashy. And now that they closed the sharing loophole, I guess it's time to try a switch.

I might even file state with these guys, usually I would print and mail.
The Andersen's Pea Soup in Buellton is closing after 100 years
This 100%. I promise you that I’m not secretly very interested in Dragon Rider episodes without my kids present. They have their own accounts, but it is hard to share family movies or when they just use the wrong account.

I also think half of my viewing is with my spouse. We are pretty aligned in some shows but we are different enough where “My List” really means when I’m alone, and we are missing an “Our List” for when we are together.
Their password reset form didn’t have the restriction, so you could reset your password to 21 chars, and then never log in again
Used FreeTaxUSA for the first time last year and the 1099-B related stuff was even easier than TurboTax. I saved about $120 as well. So glad to be done with TurboTax
Can't justify money for snacks but can justify executive bonuses is why we need unions.
If you believe in an all-powerful God, it follows that he/she/it also created the conditions which allows cancer to exist and chose to do nothing to prevent it (because the opposite contradicts its/his/her all-powerfulness).
> simply because I do not. I just see the manipulation of regulation, which includes, but is certainly not limited to, removing regulation, from all politicians.

You are entitled to your own opinion, of course, but not to your own facts. If you don't know the facts - and if you are interested in regulation, especially those facts - then that's your mistake and will lead to other mistakes.
A similar, software based debt-recovery occurred in Australia from 2016-2020 [1]. The government of the day in 2015 figured they could recover ~$1.5B by automating some of the processes, since there were not enough people to investigate all the possible instances. The main issue was that the software scheme used averaging, which in some cases was not accurate.

As in this story, despite people immediately claiming issue with some of the methods, it was pursued for years. And again, in several cases it tragically resulted in suicides.

In the end, after ~$1.8B of repayments and a royal commission, a couple of people resigned but there was - at least in my view - no significant repercussions for the decision makers and responsible parties at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
Not an optics expert but I consult for a company that makes lasers. Afaik not currently possible. The beam divergence is only one of many limiting factors
This is extremely concerning and hints at a potential intentional organized suppression of information that is calling out the horrors that are being committed in Gaza.
Does anyone know of other attacks of undocumented APIs or commands?
You don't know how it works. The fact that it is a "novel" scientific paper is completely irrelevant. Try it on a new paper just released today, that is definitely not in the training set.
Something that wasn't addressed: when is the configuration read? Does this happen on every command-line git command execution? (I'm guessing "yes", but...)
How did you get started in R&D? I've always wanted to get into "exploratory" software development.
I don't understand your question. We can list many things that are protected, but you know that. You also know that sometimes we don't execute perfectly, including on free speech. So I'm a bit lost ...
I think that's an overstatement, though of course I understand how such a feeling could arise in the current moment.
The article very clearly makes the point that this battery deployment does not replace energy generation.
Another doomsayer boomer article that completely fails to understand the topic and instead bashes it with a scary sounding name.

“Sludge” videos most often are primarily audio content mixed with easy to digest visual content. Half the frame is a podcast, interview, etc where the audio matters but the video doesn’t. The other half is easy fun visual content with no audio.

Clearly very different but think about listening to music while doing any task/chore/driving. Music is audio only, the other is visual.

It’s not some evil ploy for engagement, it’s modifying audio content to fit into a visual medium.
After writing my comment I looked it up and it’s the financial equivalent of a couple of post-docs for a year or two so I’m a lot less negative.

Post-docs need to write papers. Let them write some about an impossible thought experiment.

If they go past that though…
> Our Engineering team has observed recovery of all services.

Awww. I was enjoying the reduced spam and fewer malware hamming on my firewalls.
Not that I would ever buy a BTC ETF since it precisely negates what I believe Bitcoin to be useful for

Yeah I know what you mean, although one competitive advantage of the fund is it can be invested in a tax-free savings accounts not subject to capital gains tax (I haven't seen a practical way to do the same with the raw commodity).
> sitting on the floor

What the fuck?!
Source for HN being DDOS'ed?
I'm not happy with any of the solutions to prevent a flash of undefined components. Has anyone given up on web components for that reason? Or is there a best practice for this?
End users won't use the header. Email clients will use the header when you hit the report spam or unsubscribe buttons they will display.
don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well what was meant. We are talking about free speech _absolutism_, an extremist viewpoint with the most traction in the United States.
Using Bitcoin network to move small amounts of money is akin to using a jumbo jet to go grocery shopping. There are better blockchains out there for small money transfers.
Ethereum has a perpetual buy back mechanism via burning and staking currently gives about 2.7% a year without MEV
How is killing 30,000 civilians defensive? How is continuing to take hostages in both the West Bank and Gaza defensive? How is targeting journalists reporting on the conflict defensive? On a prima facia basis, it's laughable to call it "defensive."

Hamas's rockets in Gaza are high school science fair-level munitions. It's not like they're getting billions in US taxpayer money.

Israel is just using this as an excuse to "liquidate" the Gaza Strip.
The decay doesn’t stop when the circuit is open
A year is too much for Ukraine. Russia has already bought 1M shells from North Korea that are on their way to the frontline. NK has promised to deliver another 10M in total. Let's just hope they're shit quality and that the promises are typical DPRK propaganda.

Also F16s for Ukraine is a questionable choice. Other than not being available, they need a good runway and are higher maintainance than the MiGs and Sukhois that the Ukrainians are used to. Also replacement parts need to be shipped (from the US?). The Saab Gripen is a more sensible choice for them: it can be housed in a barn and use a road to take off. No idea how many can Sweeden deliver and there are also political issues as well like Sweeden not being part of NATO yet.
Been using them for 3 years now with moderately complex taxes (1099 of many kinds, rental property, pass-through LLC) and I’ve been pretty happy.
Solving My (Lack of) Network Problem
Genslers DOB password got cracked again or is this actually legit news? LOL
I routinely ssh into my experiment at the south pole during satellite windows. I just use tmux on the other end...
It doesn't look up or use existing explanations of papers like some kind of internet or database search. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how it all works.
That isn't evidence that Canada barely considers free speach "good in and of itself."

Different countries have different rules and restrictions on free speech and every country has some. If you setup a framework for comparison, you can rank them, but this doesn't always end up with the USA on top and often it's not even in the top 10. Canada often ranks over the USA.

Your assertion is thus pretty clearly not true by the best objective measures we have.
It wouldn't work where I'm working because we have less seats assigned to us in the building than there are people in the team...
You can also configure multiple ssh keys through Github subdomains in your ssh conf file. While github ignores the subdomain your ssh-client will pick the corresponding ssh key bas d on the used subdomain in your repo url.
> I would suggest that relying on one power source is painting yourself into a corner and then drinking the paint.

You’re aware that that is exactly what the GP poster was arguing against, right?
The idea that "only HEPA-rated filters are acceptable" is bonkers and also internally inconsistent.

Two of their "also great" recommendations are Blueair purifiers, which do not have HEPA-rated filters.
> Unfortunately this means that valve is no longer a corp headed by game devs. It's corporate exec, HR and lawyer types

That's a very interesting statement to say after the release of the steam deck considering how open it is as a platform. They could just be in the process of making a TF2 port to the new source 2 engine
My old coworker would say "consuming anime". Drove me nuts.
Unless these are special a "useful life" rating of 5000 cycles mean that after 5000 cycles your battery will be down to about 80% capacity compared to their original MWh rating.

But full cycle is probably not the complete picture when it comes to grid scale storage since they have some control over the charge/discharge rate and they can optimize their usage, a bit like how electric cars allow you to stay in the 20-80% range instead of going all the way up to 100%.
That's what calibration meetings are for. To determine who is worthy of promotion.
Nothing exists in a vacuum. Times have been fairly good for companies since the peak of the millennial generation graduated undergrad. As a result it's like you say, easy to get jobs, lots of fast moving work to come by.

This is concurrent with the worst housing market and biggest asset bubble anyone alive has ever seen. Even if you're pulling 90th percentile incomes, in most metro areas where those jobs are, you aren't gonna be buying a house ever. Housing is starting to take up the majority of everyone's take home pay and the rat race as it stands for the younger demographics here is building net worth, without a hyper leveraged guaranteed-line-go-up real estate asset, fast enough to outrun enough of the population so the next big disaster doesn't smash them to a paste.

Easy money means assets aren't. Regardless of how economics works, you still need food and shelter.
I've been using them for a while now. Federal return is free and state return is like 20 bucks or something.
Mostly no, a ton of these videos have graphic content, but do not have the critical aspects of Chris Hayes' video: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel