skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...Haven't we more or less concluded that a million piecemeal rooftop installations of solar are about the worst way to do it?

The data shows that you are correct. Utility grid solar provides low cost power and consumer rooftop solar does not and will not. The rooftop solar price is usually hidden because no power source has been as subsidized as rooftop solar. Besides direct subsidies, wealthier home owners have often been paid the retail rate for the electricity they sell to the grid which causes higher electricity bills for those who can't afford to put panels on their roof - sort of a reverse Robinhood scheme.

As the statista.com report says:

>...Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings and nuclear power have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 117 and 282 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

Looks like that report is a year old, but I doubt the installation costs have really gone down much since then. (Panel prices come down, but labor costs, etc. don't.)
The events are not independent. Maybe the first time you leave your bike outside you learn that it will be stolen, and then you don't do that anymore, reducing your future risk.
The problem is that Python refuses to take responsibility for the whole ecosystem. One of the biggest success stories in programming language development has been Rust's realization that all of it matters: language, version management, package management, and build tools. To have a truly outstanding experience you need to take responsibility for the whole ecosystem. Python and many other older languages just focus on one part of the ecosystem, while letting others take care of different parts.

If Python leadership had true visionaries they would sit down, analyze every publicly available Python project and build a single set of tools that could gradually and seamlessly replace the existing clusterfuck.

Python developers will pretend the language is all about simplicity and then hand you over to the most deranged ecosystem imaginable. It sure is easy to pretend that you have a really simple ecosystem when you cover your eyes and focus on a small segment of the overall experience.
'shiny' gives pitch black, and 'obscure' gives blue sky color.
It certainly is now (HTML5 retroactively standardized a lot of quirks), but it wasn't always well-defined: https://scrappy-do.blogspot.com/2004/08/little-rant-about-mi...
so, those primitive people see a sign (made by gods?), and the ones who dare to disrespect the sign are misteriosly falling ill and dying. That bound to create a religion/cult and that would probably cause much greater harm to that society.
N Korea hackers stole $1.3B of crypto this year
I have a strong feeling that like many new things, poliamory is currently mostly/only getting get “positive marketing” narrative.

Basically: what’s being advertised is mostly the “happy path”. Everything goes well until it doesn’t, what then?

Relationships are hard. There are a number of ways things get messy (and/or toxic) with two individuals, somehow things should improve with more than two persons ?
Python packaging’s complexities are difficult to attribute to any single cause. But path dependency, extremely broad adoption, and social conventions with the Python community (which has historically preferred standards over picking single tools) are all contributing factors.

Most of these aspects have significantly improved over the last decade, at least for the standard packaging ecosystem. I don’t know about Conda, which has always been its own separate thing.
What did React do wrong? None of the custom props are rendered into the DOM. They had one quirk in the early days where they used HTML comments to keep track of things, but even that they removed.
It's way to late once you start to feel ill from radiation
If it's an ESP32-S3-BOX-3, there is audio out (assuming you mean being able to send arbitrary audio to it to play). Due to the framework used it's not available, but there's an alternative firmware available on GitHub that uses the newer framework and it exposes a media player entity you can send any audio to.
So what is jazz
Another option worth trying is pressing Ctrl-C. Unlike Ctrl-[, it’s not 100% equivalent to ESC (e.g. it prevents abbreviation expansion), but it does put you in normal mode without losing what you did in insert mode.
Some of the actual reports that the Human Interference Task Force produced are available online, and they're super interesting:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0400/ML040080812.pdf
It's only just re-opened to visitors after an extended closure that began in the COVID times!
There used to be a really nice website that allowed you to scroll and scale years worth of historical weather for any location. Also allowed you to prepare average annual graphs.

It fell into disrepair after Flash was killed off, and the maintainer wasn't able to commit time to porting it over to a new platform.

I figure that the commodification of weather data is the real reason why it hasn't been replaced with a viable alternative.
Also ELO ratings for chess (named after Dr. Arpad Elo).
It's popular enough that it causes pain for a lot of people.

Coming from C++, IMO, it is vastly better.
What would be an universal depiction of increasing entropy?
You may be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
> In reality all text outputs are generated the same way by the same statistical computer system and should be evaluated by the same criteria.

Yes, this explains why Sonnet 3.5's outputs are indistinguishable from GPT-2. Nothing ever happens. Technology will never improve. Humans are at the physically realizable limit of intelligence in the universe.
My current setup

Kagi for search 10 euro

Yandex for search by image

Chatgpt 3.5 API for general things a few euros every 6 months

Copilot for autocomplete

Claude Sonnet for debugging 20 euro
For those with past web stack exp 20-30+ yrs) 'without' modern web stack experience. How do you stand out for those job listings requiring modern stack? How do you tie those past experiences to remove such disconnect?

Hiring manager's looking for React in next role. Would you prefer to someone with lots of experience (old ways) or someone expert in React with few years.

Looking for context.
For a professional musician you are oddly singer/violin focused. Any instrument which can physically detune while playing has their musicians do this. On wind instruments it's via the mouthpiece, any string instrument beyond violin has some flexibility etc. It's only the piano that doesn't, essentially everybody else does.

But in practise, for many music styles, it doesn't really matter. Music is so much more than whether some chord is pitch perfect in tune.

Source: Jazz musician on 6 instrument types part time professional for 25 years (other part is software engineer).
this episode also ended up in video[1] form in partnership with Vox

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
I'm guessing it wasn't.
I'd love to see some imagination on that page beyond some star shapes.
This is deeply confused nihilism. Humans are very bad at philosophy and moral inquiry, in an absolute sense, but neither are fields that are fundamentally impossible to make progress in.
Probably capitalized by the HN's title auto-mangler.
Where do you live that has no crime?
It's frustrating the lack of simple tooling out there for static site generation. I have had to write bespoke static site generator build scripts just to get things working.

Everything is React and SSR these days - like people please - it's not that complicated. TypeScript is an acceptable amount of overhead. Use React only if you absolutely need it and even then, use it super carefully because it has no seatbelts.

Petite-vue is a nice middle ground for 99% of websites and I am sad that this approach (templating) to build dynamic content doesn't have more investment.
> As of lunchtime today, nearly 50% of all electrical generation on the national grid was rooftop solar

Wow, this is incredible. Can you share your source? I would like to learn more!
The documentation was a pretty interesting read until "AGPLv3".
>There's nothing about sodomizing children in your JPost article. There is however mention of sodomizing a Hamas member, which going by your assertion would mean that Hamas is recruiting and using children?

Perhaps I misremembered, because you're right that the article doesn't support my claim. Either way, sodomizing adults is not really justice, is it?

Either way the population of Palestine was 43+% children before Oct 7th so Israel has surely killed multiple thousands of children. Death must surely be as bad as rape?

https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=4732#:~:tex....
Eh, 99.99 is less than an hour downtime a year. I know of almost nothing of any size that actually achieved that save certain areas of the power grid.
Two connected boxes, one with tightly packed dots in it. In the next two panels, a door is shown opening. Dots progress in a few panels to equilibrium, spread out more. Make the dynamics pretty accurate for a gas, but make sure all the details are big enough to survive the thousands of years.

You could make a stylized arrow in addition to that, made of dots. The base of the arrow would be smaller with tighter packed dots, and as you progress along to the tip they'd be more spread out. The tip end would be larger than the base.

Then you'd use that stylized arrow for everything in the message. Make sure it's used the same way in all the comics, including the entropy one.
The gazans are oppressed because they can’t form strong institutions?

1) victim blaming
2) why can’t they form strong institutions? (I’m sure it’s nothing to do with putting them in a ghetto where nobody can enter or leave without Israel’s say-so, controlling their air and sea, and water supply and electricity, right?)

Your “national socialists” analogy is tortured. a better analogy is the US and their genocide of the native americans.
I'm genuinely surprised that Apple product has a replaceable battery at all.
People undergo radiation therapy as a cancer treatment and they feel nausea but it's not a lethal dose. ChatGPT seems to think that:

Recovery from Mild Symptoms

At a dose of 0.5–1 Sv, symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, and possibly mild skin reddening may appear within a few hours to a day after exposure.

Recovery is likely within days to weeks as long as there is no further radiation exposure and the total dose does not exceed the body's capacity to repair cellular damage.

----

But then it's just a machine so obviously one should consult a nuclear physicist before actually implementing this in a multi-millenia nuclear waste containment site
It is actually a rather hard question. There is a web page somewhere where the author asks it, lists possible answers and get amazed by some of the definitions, such as "declarative is parallelizable". Cannot find it now, unfortunately.

I would say that imperative is the one that does computation in steps so that one can at each step decide what to do next. Declarative normally lacks this step-like quality. There are non-languages that consist solely of steps (e.g. macros in some tools that allow to record a sequence of steps), but while this is indeed imperative, this is not programming.
It is a level thing, even when I was working for Microsoft china, we could get lower level talent for cheap in India and China. But as the level rose, the costs became similar, and eventually the pay scale would flip (you could get a top level engineer in India, but they started costing the same or more than similar engineers in the Bay Area). So a $100k equiv engineer was cheaper, a $1 million equiv engineer was often more expensive. It really is a world market for talent at the high end, and the Bay Area has more of the top.
> people basically judge java based on what you learn in AP CS which is basically (a dumbed down version of) java 6 (released 2006).

I don't think people realize Java8 was until very recently the dominant java version in production software, and currently close to 90% of all java projects still run on java11 and earlier.

Edit: after checking New Relic's 2024 report on the java ecosystem, it sounds like java11 and earlier is now at slightly over 60%, with java17 being used in around 35% of the projects.
While customer satisfaction is a better (albeit murky) metric, value generated / profit is a better one ultimately. Of course, measuring developer productivity is a means to that end; how much did or will it cost to reach this value generated?

Anyway there's this adage that once a metric (like productivity) becomes a target it ceases to be a useful metric. But this doesn't seem to apply for value / revenue much, so I suppose it's good to keep an eye on this vague productivity metric.
The problem is that it will go off every single time you watch Star Trek.
It is actually pretty stupid to try to recover things.

I knew a guy that tried to stop someone from stealing his neighbor's car stereo.

He was extremely fit, young, and a fighter.

That didn't stop him from getting stabbed to death by the thief.

You can decide your life is worth a $100 car stereo, but I know mine is worth more than that.
Can you recommend any good article / comparison of uv vs poetry vs conda?

We've used different combinations of pipx+lockfiles or poetry, which has been so far OK'ish. But recently discovered uv and are wondering about existing experience so far across the industry.
Yes, I wish I finished my degree having learned literally any of that.
It's in the repo; landing pages are usually for generating interest.

https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...
You don't have to imagine, just go read what the payment processing services publish and promote.

ISO 8583 is a massive liability, just an insane amount of technical debt and nasty workarounds that harms interoperability, i.e. profits. This is why both banks and the payment sector communicate so aggressively on this issue.
Yeah we refer to this as the heat loss form factor of the building, which is determined largely by the surface area to volume ratio (so you have a square-cube relationship at work) as well as the the number of floors in conjunction with the roof area. With more floors, the heat transfer through the roof (which can be substantial, as mentioned by a sibling comment) is less significant for the same roof area (after normalizing for the gross floor area).

Same goes for the slab/foundations (which can also have substantial thermal transfer in many contexts).
Do you mean “user-replaceable”? You can get new batteries for most Apple products (I think). Exception is AirPods (Pro).
We do need to talk about it. There is a broad conversation about China that is desperately needed at every country who views them as an adversary. Asymmetric warfare, cyberattacks, espionage, intellectual theft, etc shouldn’t be tolerated. The problem is politicians in countries like America are plainly unqualified. They got into their position due to campaigning not “real” skills. They don’t really care about geopolitical threats, let alone comprehend something as technically complicated as this. The response so far isn’t spineless as much as just a non response due to ignorance. And that’s very unsettling.
It’s not just the beeping. The potential thief’s iPhone will also notify them they’re being tracked.
> 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.)

And yet, there's some irrational counter examples; there's video games that has huge detractors while having huge financial success. Negative reviews on Steam, "4000 hours played". The metrics say they aren't happy with the product... but they still play it, talk about it, may have pulled in friends to play it, and spend money on it.

People can be unhappy about a product but still pay and promote it, counter-intuitively. Of course, the unhappiness is what they say, their behaviour says otherwise so for the sake of the metrics they would be considered happy I suppose?
I adore Rust. My point isn’t that you can’t have both, but that the two types of programmers have different default approaches to problem solving. One prefers to model the boundaries of domain as best they can (define what it should look like before implementing how it works), one prefers to do things procedurally (implement how it works and let “what it looks like” emerge as a natural result).

Neither is strongly wrong or right, better or worse. They have different strengths in different problem areas, though I do think we’ve swung far too hard toward the procedural approach in the last decade.
So what?

* Bad instructions that the computer can't execute are still instructions for the computer to execute, they're just bad ones.

* And if they're only printed in a textbook and never actually entered into a code editor, they exist only on the printed page.

So what you said doesn't invalidate the GP in the slightest.
Agree to some context. Maybe every generation we have 'why is this thing so hard', so html/css was hard. I think in early 90's, one might say so hard with styling issue due to lack of standardization (page layouts and hacks needed to ensure working on all major browsers). Then there was Flash, jQuery. Now plethora of modern stack __how__ we do this and with magnitude more features.
Not saying there are real issues about psychological addiction around weed, but r/leaves is an echo chamber that where people blame every single thing wrong with their life on weed, that's nothing representative at all.

Plus, keeping it illegal does nothing to curb use.
Potentially, but probably not. The benefit of a parallel-enabled interpreter would be two CPU cores executing bytecode instructions at the same time in the same interpreter. So, you could have one python thread working on one set of data, and another python thread working on another set of data, and the two threads would not interfere with each other much or at all. Today, with the global interpreter lock, only one of those threads can be executing bytecode at a time.
Yeah both RAM and storage aren’t comparing apples to apples (heh) when compared as people often do. If you double the storage on your MacBook, Apple doubles the number of storage chips, with dedicated pcie lanes to each. Since it internally operates with something like RAID0, you also get double the speed.
Works fine on iOS. It basically adds a white scribbly outline to the text which makes it easy to read the black text regardless of the background color.

It actually looks fantastic for such a low effort effect.
Cowdung was/is used untreated as manure in India, also as flooring and medicine. IIRC it was/is low in the list of health concerns.
I think the obscurity is more due to the fact that reaching it with sufficient signal strength requires a big, big dish with a big, big amplifier.
As for the drone sightings that are referenced later in this article: one interesting theory I saw is that these are drones launched by Chinese nationals under direction from the Chinese government. They are launched from farmland that is owned by companies or individuals affiliated with the Chinese government. The farmland happens to be near sensitive properties, such as military installations. And while it could be spying, it may also just be a test or just a way to create chaos. I’m not sure if this claim is true. But I did find other sources and evidence for the claim that there’s lots of suspicious Chinese owned farmland spread around the United States near sensitive properties.
There is also little evidence that the strain has any effect on the pharmacological effects of cannabis, beyond the amount of THC per gram of flower (potency). Although it can greatly influence the smell/taste, which is meaningful.

However, if you’ve tried the “same” strain from multiple growers you’ve likely found that the smell can vary significantly, and (as a consumer) there’s really no way to know what the flower’s aroma (and appearance) will be without direct observation. This is aligned with your hypothesis.
If you are advanced enough to do that, you’re advanced enough to clean up Earth and make it a paradise.
Postel or Hyrum?
Oh I’m totally with you! There is a long and storied history of passive design strategies, and exterior shading is one of the oldest ones out there!

But what I stated is plainly true, and many people simply don’t want exterior shades (or just don’t think about it).

The point I was trying to make was just that there are thermal implications to the orientation, and you should think those through (using thermal simulations can help detect these issues) and come up with appropriate strategies (thermal simulations can help validate them). Maybe you don’t want shades, but you would be okay with emissivity coatings for your windows. Or maybe you just want to position windows on both sides of the home with continuous air volumes connecting them to promote natural ventilation. Maybe you can take advantage of thermal mass. The list goes on…
Being of Use to Someone
This tends to be true of mamy of the artists that chart, but less so for indie bands. I see Major Parkinson's Blackbox and Magna Carta Cartel's The Dying Option as two of the best albums of the century so far, for example.
> What? I have never heard of a school teaching the importance of static typing esp when it comes to engineering practices

The blogger is not a really talking about static typing. The blogger is waxing lyrical over designing a domain model and then writing an application around it. You know, what others call basic software architecture.

Wait until the blogger learns of the existence of Domain-Driven design.
The author is OP, and it looks like the author got other people to upvote this too.
We have all grown up with fake images and videos, in movies and on TV, and then on social media. “AI” generated video makes the tools cheap and available, but doesn’t represent a novel way to deceive. I expect more of it. The fake images will push the good ones out, we will suspect everything as “fake news.” People who commit fraud and benefit from lying will take advantage.
I tried being self employed for 3 years but didn't make enough money to live on. Now I'm full time employed. I don't forge that much, lots more time doing cutting, welding, grinding. I love it.
https://thehkhub.com/historic-kowloon-walled-city-recreated-...

Was very neat.
The concepts of gas and entropy are pretty young, I am not sure we can rely on humans knowing about those in 5000 years or so. The other uncertainty is the correct interpretation of your depiction. Do future civilisations map the same concepts to "our" visualisations?
US used to maintain bat houses so they kill insects and drop guano. Wars were fought for guano caves. Then synthetic nitrates (Haber process) happened and the bottleneck keeping population below 1 billion went away.
Dude with 3 eyes screws a girl with 1 eye and births someone with 2 eyes
> A country often resorts to IMF loans when they're pressured to do so (...)

Pressured by what, pray tell?

There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity.
Salesforce drops Agentforce 2.0, brings reasoning AI to enterprise
Thanks for writing this. I found it useful and trivial to setup.
I guess the difference here is that HA has a huge community already. I believe the estimate was around 250k installations running actively. I suspect a huge chunk of the HA users venn diagram slice fits within the voice users slice.
Sorry, I've got a long way to go before they're sellable! I'm just setting up a forge at a friend's farm to do more forging at weekends. There are a few people who want to learn and I've got a list of techniques from Forged In Fire that I want to try out.