skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the return on rooftop solar is way better than commercial solar.

Firstly, is saving a cost (which you would pay with after-tax money.) So as a saving, not income, the return is tax free.

Secondly homes buy electricity at retail rates (thus rooftop is effectively earning at retail rates) whereas commercial sells at wholesale rates, which is likely a small multiple. (And of course, being commercial, that income is taxed.)

Yes, in high-cost places (like the US) subsidies were necessary to foster the industry and get enough demand to get prices down. In other places the math makes sense without subsidies.

Incidentally it's a LOT easier to do 1000 rooftop installs than 1 solar farm. There's no planning, utility agreements, large scale financing etc. You just install and move on. A small team (4 people) can easily do 2 houses a week. With only one qualified electrician needed.
The scientific output from the Hubrecht institute is seriously underrated.

They only have like 20 or so researcher groups but the research quality and quantity rivals that of much larger departments.
The space in the middle is dominated by a big battery in any smartphone I've seen. I suspect it would be less efficient to break that up.
which is perfectly fine because not everyone wants to do everything on the command line
Canada works well as a buffer state between USA and Russia. Canada acts as the USA attack dog in foreign policy. Don't forget which countries won the war and still rule globally with nuclear powered aircraft carriers, strategic bombers, submarines, ICBMs and who prints the world reserve currency (hint: it isn't Europe or any of the countries therein).

Canada is effectively already the 51st state and has been so for 200+ years. It cannot be understated how greatly Canadians have benefited from this association and arrangement.

As far as immigration goes, it seems to be beneficial for the existing residents of a country to have controlled immigration at a certain rate. If the rate is too high, people complain, and if rates are too low, economies suffer.

Building houses works the same way, build them too fast and everyone suffers, build them too slow and everyone suffers. We aim for the slow, steady and sustainable increase.

As for this idea... barring a massive increase in spending by NATO members not including USA, Canada doesn't have the ability to become part of Europe. OTOH, they sure could/would get annexed by USA if that's the way the conversation is starting to go.
Where I live, the chief risk (aside from the usual risks of investments) are spending years and years fighting bureaucrats and NIMBYs to get the necessary permissions to put solar panels on land zoned for agriculture.
It's a fair point that some indigenous African bushmen, even today, spend time watching lions and pressuring them off of fresh kills in order to take home the leftovers, as they have done for centuries.

It's equally fair to observe that the offspring of those very same bushmen when transfered to a Scandinavian country may spend more time word processing or catching trains.
The release notes for the upcoming v10 are in the rc1 announcement

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0-rc1

nothing too crazy.
It is sad because the government knew and failed to act on 5x-ing the rate of housing production to keep up with new arrivals.

Failing to do so has screwed over so many people due to housing costs that went up due to mass migration. This was all predicted though if that makes anyone feel better.
I think I'd accidentally stick my thumb/finger in front of a central camera even more often than I already do with corner cameras!
WaPo has endorsed Democrats literally every single election dating back to 1988. So you now consider them “conservative” since they refused to endorse Harris? How on Earth did you make that jump?

They didn’t endorse because Bezos (and Polymarket) knew she was gonna lose and was trying to buy some political capital after he allowed his newspaper to unfairly and violently bash Trump for years. The lead editor quit over it in a hissy fit after Bezos temporarily put a lid on the absurdity going on inside there. Wouldn’t be surprised if the non-endorsal was a quid-pro-quo with Trump in exchange for Trump not axing or messing with Bezos’ many govt contracts.

The main problem here isn’t even the media, it’s people like you who are still refusing to acknowledge or understand the actual state of the propaganda machine MSM. How could you possibly reconcile this when you don’t even see issue because of your cognitive dissonance?
I live in org-roam nearly all day, every day, and the #1 feature on my wishlist is tagging. org-roam actually has a tagging feature, but it's very limited. org-supertag looks much better. Can't wait to try it. Great job, OP!
Mass Low skill immigration decreases productivity per capita and reduces wealth.
It would be a damn weird form of bias when every early case that could be accounted for was somehow tracked to only the market.

The location bias hypothesis would work if they looked at all patrons of the market, and checked if they got sick. That's not what they did, though, because they didn't have a list of all the patrons of the market. It doesn't have a guestbook.

They looked for people who got sick, and asked them where they went before they fell sick. And all of them turned out to have gone to the market - and not on the same day.
Everything else aside, and this is kind of unrelated to the points 'idlewords is making, but: in modern political theory the big problem with the executive doing this stuff vs. the executive branch is that the regulatory process in the executive branch is driven almost entirely by a combination of unelected appointees and unelected career staffers, usually guided by a bureaucratic public comment hearing process that provides just a faint approximation of representation.

That's why you'd want Congress to do this and not the FCC, because Congress is directly representative, and decisions inside the FCC are overwhelmingly made by people nobody elected; the best you can say is that some of the highest-ranking of those people are traceable to appointments by an elected official.

The flip side of this, of course, is that Congress is gridlocked and is unlikely to pass sweeping new regulations of any sort. That's a fair point! But I think I side with the court on the notion that you gotta fix that problem, rather than have the FCC pretend it can step in for Congress when Congress isn't moving fast enough.
“Best practices” is a bad term partly because it has some kind of gravitational pull that attracts junk, partly because you almost always need some clearer term (it’s vague), partly because it describes something that isn’t relevant.

Alternative terms for your practices docs: just call it “development practices” or something. This makes it a little more clear that it’s not a dumping ground for every practice people think is good / best, but only for what people actually care about, which is the development practices that your team has adopted. You can say something like, “Best practices according to research is X, but our team is adopting Y because we believe Y is promising.”
Even though saying "small nitpick" is redundant in terms of its literal meaning (denotation), communication is about more than simple denotation. It's also about emphasis, tone, and emotions, and saying "small nitpick" can be a good way to soften criticism and add a little humility and politeness.
I think that releasing is the run git tag, writing a ChangeLog from the previous version, and pushing to GitHub, but I don't think that this act has much meaning.

I think binary files that can be executed by just clicking on them are valuable, but they can be done independently of releases.
It's very difficult to make them work on a machine other than your own using sbcl, so I haven't been able to do it continuously.
sorry for the late response. I think this is a good example of a digital garden, because this is simply a corner the internet where the creators have control over their content. i agree some are weird but that's what makes it special.

A-lot more of these exist but i don't know about them yet or i forget about them after sometime of not visiting them.
Was just reading about this because I am writing a chess engine. I am using somebody else's move generator, I am not sure how it works but it is not front of mind because it is spending most time evaluating and managing transposition tables according to the profiler, I can at least 5x those and maybe I will worry about another microoptimisation then. But really move ordering can make a 10x change and I am going to iterative deepening, pv, killer heuristic and such.
China is the manufacturing superpower
Install Foxconn nets?
> What will boomers, the richest generation, ever do?

A wad of cash isn't going to help you of bed. Yeah they are going to die, but if you're not careful it's going to be a lot quicker and a lot more painful than you had hoped.
Tell me more. What's this about stealing ideas?

Also, the game was huge success long before it was sold to MS.
O_o, well that was a short lived app.
Yes, I am going to add the ability to search soon! Thanks for checking out.
> you might be better off just offloading a synchronous op to a worker thread to not block the UI.

I believe it should be the answer. If your computations are tolerably fast, then you could do it without async, but if they are not, then it is better to use preemptive multitasking for them. The overhead on the kernel scheduler will be small, because you don't start 10k of threads concurrently eating CPU time. Probably the overhead of starting a thread doesn't matter either with long tasks. As a bonus you could also do blocking i/o operations without thinking about blocking.
i do miss these sites. A bit nostalgic to them times where visiting a site had the information you are looking for and only the information you're looking for
I really wanted to click on the features as they slid by to learn more about them. I was disappointed when I couldn't.
Her other cartoons are similar:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ann-telnaes/

Inane bland partisan slop.
The moat is, it was built by a single dev with capital efficiency. This is what millions of other video editing apps backed by VCs lack.

On top of that the app has organic views as it ended up on top of hacker news that lot of these apps haven't.
But when I think back on it, the act of releasing also shows that the software is still alive, so I want to release it
I'm the maintainer of swc4j. I had been using Antlr for many years, but was deeply disappointed by Antlr. So I created swc4j.

Why Antlr is not the one? Hope the following blog I wrote may explain.

https://blog.caoccao.com/hello-swc4j-goodbye-antlr-f9a63e45a...
Yeah yeah, meanwhile, he's counting the pile of money he made by creating and selling a video game and enjoying life, while you're on HN sulking
Great article — it clearly explains “The devil is in the details” :) Would love to see another one for LSM-Tree, and the comparison between B-Trees and LSM-Trees.
Found the middle manager. The current system must not be criticized because no perfect replacement has been found. C’mon.

There are deep flaws with how hierarchical organizations are run and how incompetent people are put in the positions with most capacity to do damage. Those ideas most definitely need to be discussed, even if there is no clear winner in terms of how to definitively improve things.
So, what's the story? Was it hijacked? Did the do a wrongthink? Or just some disgrunted user went on a shopping spree in the bad-review-market?
It does not require that you do that. It only requires you to open source any modifications you've made to ffmpeg.
Every time I feel the urge to post or comment I remember that they’re all AIs and then navigate away instead.
Have you used ChatGPT with "internet" access enabled (the globe icon)? It can and does cite its sources and is surprisingly accurate and useful.
In the San Francisco Bay Area that niche has been partly filled with dessert cafes and boba places.

The dessert cafes are fantastic. I always tell visitors to the city they they should try one while they're here.
"Healthcare should be a right at this point in our society's development"

A 'right' shouldn't depend on someone else's labor.

"it's a stain on our country that we still carry on with a system that works for nobody except health insurance CEOs"

I do agree that we need to get rid of the middleman. Replacing it with another one (the government) is a mistake and leads to the same inefficiencies.

Common procedures should be charge directly to the patient. These prices will be forced to go down as there will be actual competition. This won't work in cases where the surgery is rare, and insurance will work here. This will cut most of the bloat out of of health care and reduce the costs for everyone.

Lasik eye surgery is a good example of this. It's not covered by insurance. A decade ago, it was $10,000. My parents just got it a year ago and paid less than $1,000 out of pocket.
First off, your numbers are wildly off. Median Price in 2000 for both new homes and existing homes was well over $150,000 nominal (some data has existing close to 200).

That whole premise significantly misleading though. The median size of a single family home in 2000 was over 300(!)sqft smaller than the median size of a sfh in 2023. In the same period relative property tax outlays (pegged to constant valuation) have decreased. The housing market is in undeniably a bad spot, but median price vs median wage is such a misleading metric given how little of the picture it really provides.

Every 20 something parrots the "myth" that their parents could buy a house for say $70,000 or something vs $400,000 now. That myth is just false and lazy. In 1984 the median home price was approximately $90,000 nominal (rising to over $230,000 in 08, a similar increase as '00-'24) and the average interest rate was 13.88%. In 2024 those numbers were $400,000~ and 6.8%.

On an equivlent 30-y bill that works out to the following

- 2024 ($400,000/6.8%): $2405 (Nominal), $2405 (Real)

- 1984 ($90,000/13.8%): $1072 (Nominal), *$3246 (Real)*

Shockingly real prices of homeownership are cheaper in 2024 than in 1984. Tax & insurance rates have risen notably in that time so that full all-in difference is more marginal than the $841 here, but its still a remarkably counter-intuative fact. Only difference is in 2024 much more of our money goes into equity, while in the 80s and 90s it went to the bank.
I think in this context the idea of open borders between the USA and Canada in a similar fashion to the EU would be an interesting thought experiment to study.

Presumably a bunch of Canadians would leave Canada in favor of higher US salaries, or cheaper housing. The idea that Toronto real estate pricing is so geographically close to Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh is interesting.

Then again, presumably a bunch of people looking for affordable healthcare would be moving up to Canada.

Or perhaps not all that many people would go anywhere permanently and they would just have an easier time going on vacation in either direction.
Here in Tasmania we can get between 0.08935 to 0.10 antipodean dineros per kWh for residential rooftop solar, with peak usage at around 0.35 and off-peak around the 0.17 antipodean diners per kWh. Max 10kW feed-in for residential, but you can have more installed to cover your own usage.

As far as I’m aware, commercial / industrial installations, and solar farms, get paid less per kWh.

Quick edit to fix a brain-fart, I doubt anyone read this prior anyways.
Do I understand that this person envies Elon Musk on physical appearance?

The world is full of beautiful people and they arguably command way too much attention.

Better looking than Elon Musk? Most people I know are better looking than Elon Musk.

If I woke up and saw Elon Musk in the mirror I’d yearn for the badly aging nerd I saw yesterday.
Europe doesn't allow American Joe to migrate to it.
If Notch loves making games, I'm all for it. If it gave his life meaning and he is good at it and he loves it...bro can do whatever. Being rich, being famous or being the minecraft dude...none of that should matter. He is just a guy and everyone should treat him like any other guy. Life is life, do what you love and enjoy the short time we all have. Notch gave me lots of joy, why would I ever want anything less for him.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221612
Edward Jay Epstein wrote on this in 1982, the de Beers cartel has been propping up natural diamond prices for decades. It's deep in Veblen goods territory.

The Argyle mine stopped digging up pink diamonds, I am pretty sure it's to maintain value of the stocks in circulation and held by the company.
This makes me want to hook up my email to AI to reply to all spammers and waste their time in super long email chains. If enough AI fakes were replying to these spams, it would be almost impossible for spam to work, right?
I've not been following since around 1985 when I realized there's no such thing as semantics. Is this mainstream now?
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Why only this time? It didn't turn your stomach when corporates donated to Biden's inauguration?
Looks cool. What ages is the plaintext content suitable for?
I was vaguely aware of this and I don't know if I want to say I was just being careless or if that was the point because the original comment was kind of a mess and I was defending it in jest.
Congratulations!

The app and the site looks really cool. A very very small issue on website. In the FAQ section it says "Every files gets processed on your device only" I think "files" should be "file" there. Nothing really important, just my perfectionism :)

Keep up the good work!
As I said, there is no direct evidence of any kind that the highest level of the German government (in Hitler's person) had anything to do with the Holocaust, so why would you expect to find anything where the USSR's leaders explicitly stated their intentions?

As for indirect evidence, there's plenty for the Holodomor too: a) Stalin and other top-ranking officials were aware of the food shortages in Ukraine, b) they knew that their policies were going to make things worse, c) they still adopted those policies, and d) they expressed satisfaction with the outcome. They deliberately allowed millions of people to die of starvation to suppress Ukrainian national identity and punish them for perceived disloyalty.

If someone came to your city, confiscated all food, harshly punished any attempts to store even a minimal amount for basic survival, caused a horrific starvation that killed many people, drove survivors to such insanity that mothers ate the flesh off their living children, and still blocked all foreign aid and prevented people from leaving, then how would you call it if not deliberate mass murder?
Most peoples in Europe do not have their own nation state. In fact, pretending that those peoples with their distinct languages (often called “dialects” despite lack of mutual intelligibility) and cultures do not exist is a key part of the establishment of nation states in the 19th century. In most of Europe, the nation state project was so successful that this hardly matters today (but of course there are exceptions).

Still comparison to First Nations seems off. Maybe it's about this: Disadvantaged ethnic groups such as Romani or Jews (particularly post-Soviet Jews in recent times) are often denied a connection to the nation state or (what you might call) the shared European cultural heritage. In contrast, I don't think anyone argues that First Nations aren't true Canadians.
My kingdom for a middle manager that was usefully connected to the organization like that and who could make information flow. I would love for the feeling of information coming to me through someone like that. Alas, that has -never- been my experience in organizations huge and tiny. It’s always through side channels. Always always always.

Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s my bad luck, maybe lots of things, but the only thing a middle manager has been there for was to push paper up to the equally clueless layer above them and actively interfere in good work getting done.
Sounds like a country that shouldn't be part of a multicultural European Union then
They are literally paying tribute.

If you ask me they're the same thing, or close to the same thing. And both suck. Legally they're quite distinct though and I can see why an editor would push back.

I guess it also depends on what the "killing" of the cartoon was like. Request for a rework? A "don't touch this topic, don't cartoon Bezos?" I dunno.
watch this is you are still unaware of the totalitarian machine.

https://youtu.be/ye8MOfxD5nU
Some do, perhaps they were older panels this farmer had on his land.
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Val town has been a huge inspiration for the tscircuit site which is basically a typescript playground for electronic design. We extensively use codemirror-ts which was created by Val town and enables typescript autocomplete inside a codemirror editor. I didn’t know about codemirror-codeium but ill definitely look at integrating that as well!

It’s absolutely true that we are in a race for online editors, I feel fatigued competing for ai features instead of building core product features, but since my framework is new, it’s not known by any major LLM providers, so our users can’t get ai assistance unless we build something ourselves.

@stevekrouse huge shout out for your team’s open source work, hoping to help contribute upstream at some point!!
thanks for the good memory! i'd almost completely forgotten about that