skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like qcells are on the road to a ~28% solution with silicon-perovskite tandem cells. When I researched for my own home install, it seems most of the cost is actually install labor, markup, electricians rates for hookup, etc. The plain BOM is close to $1-1.50 per watt for cells plus inverters and mounting hardware, but people still charge $3+ for systems.
> incredible conversation starter for homeowners who might not have considered taking on a home solar project otherwise

Once you do the math in a Northern country (sans subsidies) it's not as compelling as you might think.
Clearly off-topic for HN.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://archive.is/eAYIL
That's because what you hear depends a lot on the political climate, and more specifically what the media want you to think.
> someone kills a prime minister in Europe

Sure. And the law here also says that if someone kills a politician, they can be charged with terrorism

But the law doesn’t say anything about CEOs or other private citizens

Sure, charge the guy with all the murder counts you want, but terrorism is a big stretch

However, “never let a good crisis go to waste”. So the terrorism concept is going to get milked here for sure
I was like "oooh fun a card game" then was like "oh shit I'm too dumb for this math"
I think the incentives are completely clear, it’s about maximising $$$, profit, returns.

People are not making mistakes, it’s a conscious effort to increase profit as much as possible. The only mistakes is allowing this to exist and not regulating it out of existence.
An article I read I’m having trouble finding again.
Well, I'm pretty certain by any reasonable (UN, AI, HRN, etc.) standard, it became genocide quite some time ago when Israel:

1. Used precision guided weapons in unguided-mode to take out entire buildings including schools and hospitals

2. Used precision guided weapons in guided-mode to take out cars and food supply trucks of the World Central Kitchen workers when the cars were clearly demarcated as UN

3. Blocked I18n (not just UN) food & water aid

4. Precisely demolished water, sewer, and electrical infrastructure

5. Denied PoWs fundamental rights under the UN charter
marginally relevant. space based dawn dusk LEO solar infra is the answer. vastly more power than we'll ever get on the surface of this rock and then onto Sol.
You are right that Kelly criterion deals with binary results. This won't work for poker. In poker, we use expected value because wins and losses are not binary because of the amount you win or lose. Once you figure out your approximate EV, you use a variance calculator in addition to that (example: https://www.primedope.com/poker-variance-calculator/) to see how likely and how much it is you will be winning over a certain number of hands in the long run.
No.

“The added sweetness did not change the amount of this caffeine water that the mice drank, so the effects could not be the result of just drinking more caffeine,” added Tahara. “It had to be the combination of caffeine and sweetener.”
The thing is, you have to implicitly understand the "types" of javascript objects anyway, otherwise you can't use them.

All the type system does is make that implicit knowledge explicit, and a long the way, stops you from doing things that are likely to cause issues.
It does indeed mention 3 inventions by slaves, and then a number of inventions by free men. For some perspective, here's an accounting of the number of patents by year:

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts.h...
Surely there's some space between risking to go bankrupt and risking of getting less than 9.08 return guaranteed by Kelly strategy.

If you are willing to take some risk in exchange for possibility of higher payout just bet a bit more then Kelly recommends. That's your "optimal" strategy for the amount of risk you are willing to take. I imagine it's expected return is the same as Kelly and calculating it's variance is left as the exercise for the reader.
Yeah. That I understand. What I would like to know is what this generator looks like. How does it work? How can springs power a generator? I would like to understand how they made a generator that small.
> I need to prepare for the end times,

In the post apocalyptic world, what information do you take with you? A copy of wikipedia and a LLM? You get a laptop computer, maybe a 2023 macbook Pro m3, and find an array of solar panels. However, you lost your charger running from the radioactive zombies so you have to MacGyver it with 6 hours of charge left. What did you bring with you and how do you solve this?
And that’s a big issue

The govt has shown that they can legally do pretty much whatever they want with someone they deem a terrorist, 0 accountability

Like all those peeps in Guantanamo

More recently, Snowden showed us what the consequences of something like the patriot act are

It’s a very slippery slope
Seconded. How about we don't write a blog trashing an implementation of something when our own design is missing some very basic accessibility and ux features.

Though I agree with the premise, Conda is an absolute pest when you start customising an environment with a number of packages. Dependency resolution hell.
> If tenants are still moving inspite of the high prices, then the price is probably right.

Housing is a necessity. Demand for which is inelastic. The price will be paid regardless, via rent or purchase. And purchase is out of reach or unmanageable for many. Leaving rent as their only option.

Also, in no particular order and not limited to:

- Single or multi-year contracts.

- Minimum space requirements for family size

- Local social ties, extended family and friends

- Dependency or ties to local services, groups, business

- “Keeping up with Joneses”

- Moving is a PITA

- Comfort, familiarity, nostalgia

- Work requirements and industry connections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
We have shady middlemen profiteering off of everything. Why is this a bridge too far?
That number shows up very often for the Principal SWE LCAT on contracts serving agencies at Ft. Meade.
Radon IDE for React Native
I chose happy for a reason :)

So the business is chasing profits. In the short term that means customers paying money - any will do (happy or unhappy).

But in the long term, happy is the key. Happy customers are the single biggest marketing tool you have. Happy customers promote and recommend you. Unhappy customers do the opposite (and are more effective at doing so.)

So, if the metric stops at Customers then you are greatly missing the long-term value. Since a good business is planning for the long term, not just right now, Happy customers I the correct metric.

Remember, you ultimately get what you measure (no more).
History shows us that free men produce far more innovations than unfree ones.
When unions get to be that size is when they get captured by organized crime and other interests, because then they're acting as a de facto government and susceptible to the same corrupting influences but without the (by no means perfect but far better than nothing) safeguards we put on governments in modern democracies.

This is also why corporate monopolies are a fiasco and need to be prevented as well.

The general rule is "prevent any one group from consolidating too much power". If someone's solution is "let our group consolidate a huge amount of power" they're admitting they're the villains.
I mean I live in a city now (denser than any city in the Bay) and I left my truck unlocked for 3 months before I sold it.

Btw, in case this is relevant: if you have a 1st gen Tacoma, never sell that thing. Still miss that truck.
That’s essentially what we are being told, yes
The quote from the article is incorrect, though. We have a C# backend and a TS front end, with the shared types generated for TS using nswag. I'm sure there are many other variations on this, too.
Tell me I'm rude and that I don't understand what autism is without...
Given the average lifespan is ~80yrs then the average chance you've had something stolen over over say 40 years is much higher than 2%. It's 2% per year so ~45% for 30yrs and 55% for 40yrs?
Really? Change the conflict to a different one and it doesn't seem all that unusual or off topic by hn standards

>And they have bullied/co-opted the rest of the world into silence or indifference.
And there you have it. Never let a good crisis go to waste
They could stop persecuting and murdering Palestinians, stop occupying Palestine, and agree to either a one state or two state solution that recognizes Palestinians as human beings with a right to live.
Wow, all this goes to show that distributed power storage systems will absolutely destroy contemporary power utility companies
As someone with admittedly no formal CS education, I've been using conda for all of my grad school and never managed to break it.

I create a virtual environment for every project. I install almost all packages with pip, except for any binaries or CUDA related things from conda. I always exported the conda yaml file and managed to reproduce the code/environment including the Python version. I've seen a lot of posts over time praising poetry and other tools and complaining about conda but I could never relate to any of them.

Am i doing something wrong? Or something right?
Cave explorers commonly get rabies prophylaxis as you can apparently catch it from the air without even being touched by a bat or their saliva.
Good utilization of the type system really makes a difference. I wrote a similar blog post a while back: https://www.svix.com/blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on/
Colonization would, I think, not require economic justification. Using transportation and communication barriers to facilitate isolation or at least localization may be important to some people.

With vast discretionary spending, people would be able to sacrifice some pleasures for pleasures related to achieving a long-term impractical goal. Space travel does not have to be the most efficient means of enjoying life to be a human choice.

A colony in Antarctica would be much more practical than one on the Moon, but a Lunar colony is more romantic.

If material trade is not worthwhile, conquest may be somewhat discouraged. (Some people might wish to rule all of humanity or convert/exterminate all heretics, so no distance would be perfectly safe, but a perceived threat in Antarctica would be easier to eliminate than a perceived threat on the Moon or in the Large Magellanic Cloud.)
With battery systems getting so cheap maybe community batteries will become a thing where a neighborhood exports it's solar too and is it's own small grid.
This exactly the case when a battery would make an immense difference.

(9 USD / kWh sounds terrifying. Not only an electric kettle begins to cost you; probably playing computer games at high quality / resolution comes with a noticeable price tag in electricity that the GPU would eat.)
There's no shortage of material in print calling for the destruction of Gaza, the non personhood of
Palestinians, etc. from Israel ministers and commentators from before the October attacks by Hamas.

You can, for example, look to the Journal of Genocide Research at articles that draw parallels between Holocaust scholar Eugene's Finkel's declaration of Ukraine as a genocidal event and his point by point justification and similar parallels with Israel and Gaza.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2...
Ironically, I think the closest historical context is the British military in east Africa (roughly what is now Kenya) to the Kikuyu in the late 1880s.
How did these people get the tech to do all this?
That is a nice game and writeup.
> This treatment of music as nothing but background sounds—as interchangeable tracks of generic, vibe-tagged playlist fodder—is at the heart of how music has been devalued in the streaming era.

Sorry musicians, but approximately 50% of the time, this is exactly what I want. I'm not actually listening to the music, it's just aural wallpaper.

I see this as two separate markets:

- there's music I actively want to listen to, even sing along to, maybe even dance to, that needs to be full of emotional resonance and relatable lyrics. Stuff I'll talk to my friends about, or ponder the meaning of at length, and dig into.

- then there's the background stuff that should be (in the words of the article) "as milquetoast as possible". It's just there to cover up incidental sounds and aid my concentration on some other task (usually coding). If it makes me feel anything or it snags my attention at all then it's failing.

So it's not a devaluation of music in the streaming era, it's just a different, possibly new, way of listening (or not) to music.

I really don't see the harm in Spotify sourcing this background stuff cheaply and providing it in bulk. As the article says, this is not "artistic output" from a musician expressing their soul.

It's the difference between an oil painting and wallpaper - both are pictures put on the wall, but they serve very different purposes and have very different business models. We don't object to wallpaper being provided cheaply in bulk, without crediting the artist. But we would consider treating an oil painting in the same way as borderline immoral.
A better (and more recent) conflict would be US war on terror, with a death count around 400 thousands to 6 millions. The numbers varies extremely. The US military claims that only a total of 20 civilians has died to drone strikes. At the other extreme, others has estimated that 10 civilians has died per killed military which would represent a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 10:1.

In iraq, the Iraq Body Count project estimate a civilian casualty rate of 77%, which is quite similar to the 68% and 83% estimated given by B'Tselem and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

It should be mentioned that genocide is not defined by number of deaths or civilian casualty rate, but instead about the intention. US killing people with drones, even if the wast majority is civilians and committed for poor reasons, are not considered genocide. If that is fair or not is up to debate.
Well, given that the intent is to communicate, using GWh is probably ideal. 10.7 million GWh is probably the easiest to understand and compare, given that GWh is probably the most commonly used unit for this purpose.
Also Mandatory Access Control.
I think you're underselling it a bit, it's a decree of confidence rather than a mere vote.
I'm sure you could get that data from public permitting filings. And failing that, train an AI model on scraped Google Maps imagery. I would be surprised if people aren't doing it already.
The interface is very beautiful. I hope it can support more templates.
At which point even metric-users who think in km are confused.

Certain things are measured in certain units, prefix included.

This would be like writing interstellar distances in km instead of light years or parsecs.
First time hearing about this and it's very memorizing. Lofi music in the background and you are set.
Raw is not an acronym.

CinemaDNG is not a compressed format. It is a directory with DNG files. DNG is an open raw photo format. Both DNG and CinemaDNG predate REDCODE.

My camera records 4K 12-bit CinemaDNG with no compression and is in the same price segment.

If BM, given options they had (which also include things like “pay RED” or “recall products”), chose to silently remove the support for CinemaDNG in cameras that they sold advertising CinemaDNG support, I doubt blaming RED is anything but a PR tactic.
Looks like president-elect Musk is busy at work.
Sadly, there's a reason the "Gaza tourniquet" had to be invented. https://glia.org/pages/the-glia-tourniquet-project
This kind of joke is great, as a beginner programmer you get your app and I get to learn to view the ISS telemetry data.

For those like me not on iOS, you can view the web page of info at https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ and find the Urine Tank level under "NODE3000005 Urine Tank [%]" which is currently at a value of 31.
Is the lesson: choose to be born to wealthy parents?
Toronto & NYC
This is just a layout library, it doesn't do any rendering at all.
We're not talking about working for a charity though. Just a rather ordinary company.

For the broader analysis, the people that can easily get huge salaries should prioritize donation, and the people that can't should prioritize actually working at a charity.
This whole thing wouldn't be an issue if Automattic could survive without the open source community. Matt wants his brownie points for contributing to open source but refuses to gracefully deal with the consequences. As a result, he himself could be the sole contributor to the project and it would still be a pathetic meltdown. He knew the conditions of the license when he used it, what the hell are we supposed to get mad for?
> That is not true at all.

You can make up your own definitions, but the free market requires a government to protect rights. Defrauding people is stealing, not free market. You cannot have a free market when people are allowed to say "either your signature goes on the contract or your brains."

Buyer beware is because the government cannot always protect people against fraud, no matter how much regulation and enforcement there is. Buyer beware also means people should read contracts before signing them. That's not fraud.

A lot of people like to believe free market means no government, but that's simply not true.

For another example, if someone sells you a jar marked "grape jelly" and you open it later and it's just water, you've been defrauded. This is a crime, not the fault of the buyer, and not free market.
No it was not any kind of private ip (10.x/172.x/192.x/169.x etc). I swear it was eastern europe, probably mikrotik

I've since wiped the firmware/license keys so no idea.
Your answer is unrealistic, but I didn’t provide a long enough question. I’m not justifying genocide obviously. The initial response to Oct7 was justified but not complete destruction of Gaza.

Im asking why “not continuing to fight” (a ceasefire) is even a viable option for Israel’s politicians per the article’s demands. I am a realist not an optimist. Give a viable alternative. The cycle continues
The solution to that is as much distributed storage as possible and cryptocurrency mining (or LLMs) for monetizing excess energy.
Ages ago when I tried calling the police...

"We cannot answer legal questions, please seek a lawyer for advise."

I don't do anything terribly interesting, so this was almost certainly not an issue actually worth paying $200 for a lawyer to answer.
You mean, like, using a search engine? I don't think anyone here is in any special position to be able to answer that question.
>> When a measure becomes the objective, it ceases to be a good measure.

Yes and no in this case. Yes, you can naked customers happier with more value, more overhead (ie more support staff and do on.)

Yes, in the short term this might reduce profit. If you go too far down this road you might go bankrupt. No measure works if you dont use the "can we afford it" metric.

But nothing turbo-charges profits (in the short, and more importantly, long term) than happy customers. Ultimately they pay more, theny pay more often, they encourage others to pay.

If you optimize for happy customers, and stay solvent, you have the foundation for a solid long-term business.

I will add that starting with Happy Users (who get stuff for free) and turning them into Happy Customers later is really really hard. Simply giving the thing away (or charging so little it amounts to the same thing) is not what I'm suggesting. You can start with a lower price, yes, but regular price hikes are part of yhe process until uou find your natural price level.
How does this differ to Max/MSP or PureData
You could also say those stats show there is no market. How many owners are even MAU anymore? Most VR headsets collect dust after the initial wow phase passes and you run out of content.

How much are you spending on marketing to reach those users?
The only animal shit I wouldn't worry about is cow shit, probably because it is so well digested and not having nearly any sugars as a grass to start with that there isn't much bacteria left that would find a human a good host. Everything else generally contains some not great bacteria that you don't want to catch.
No. The police will offer you the option to come to the police station and fill out a report so you can get a police report number for your insurance claim. Nothing else will happen.

Police don’t usually investigate petty crimes.
Isn't this just like how supermarkets have their "house brands" that compete with name brands? If your consumption of music amounts to "whatever Spotify tells me to listen to" then chances are you were the type of person who used to just have the radio on for background noise anyway.

EDIT: If you think about this "scandal" in reverse, that is that Spotify was started as a background, inert restaurant playlist app that paid session musicians to record 50 songs a day for lo-fi chill ambient jazz playlists, and later tried to expand their reach by allowing musicians to upload their songs, it wouldn't be a scandal at all.
I used to use search engines with the "site:reddit.com" keyword to get more genuine reviews about products and services. Now it more than not leads to posts where the top comment is some gpt'ed text with a clear referral link and far more up votes than an obscure subreddit on some niche object would warrant.
They appear to be trying to end the cycle once and for all. And they have bullied/co-opted the rest of the world into silence or indifference.
Great game. Only issue, phone freezes now when I try to open it. Blank screen. I am kind of far, have all the money/coins, still missing some big picture stuff though. Here are the errors.
mobilePhone.js:5698 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'toFixed')
at Object.assign [as onRender] (mobilePhone.js:5698:101)
at ReactStyleComponent.render ($.js:216:12)
at ReactStyleComponent.connectedCallback ($.js:221:12)
at createComponent ($.js:230:18)
at mobilePhone.js:489:1
Object.assign @ mobilePhone.js:5698
render @ $.js:216
connectedCallback @ $.js:221
createComponent @ $.js:230
(anonymous) @ mobilePhone.js:489Understand this errorAI
6mobilePhone.js:5698 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'toFixed')
at Object.assign [as onRender] (mobilePhone.js:5698:101)
at ReactStyleComponent.render ($.js:216:12)
at ReactStyleComponent.connectedCallback ($.js:221:12)
at Object.assign [as onRender] (smartTV.js:489:25)
at ReactStyleComponent.render ($.js:216:12)
at ReactStyleComponent.connectedCallback ($.js:221:12)
at createComponent ($.js:230:18)
at smartTV.js:33:1
Ask HN: How should we handle AI-generated videos that look 100% real?
I just watched a clip supposedly generated by Google’s Veo, and I honestly couldn’t tell it was fake until a friend mentioned it. With OpenAI’s Sora and others pushing the limits, it’s going to get even harder to know what’s real. How do we as hackers and builders help society deal with this?
Different local politicians won’t change the legal fact that the police have no obligation whatsoever to investigate or prevent crime. It’s simply not in the job description.
That's a pretty timely release considering Alexa and the Google assistant devices seem to have plateaued or are on the decline.
>>Remove regexes from perl, what’s left?

qw, qr, references, multiline regexes, a far advanced OO ecosystem, Data::Dumper, map, grep, pack/unpack, DBM, ``, top class unicode handling, given/when, functional programming etc etc.

In fact I've barely scratched the surface.

You must grok Perl more.