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by tuckerman | 2025-10-24 20:52:54+00:00
The beef isn't with systemd upstream which already has a very simple/boring workaround for this, it's with the debian package maintainer (some people here are wearing multiple hats).

Really the whole raison d'etre of debian is move at this pace to prioritize stability/compatibility. If you don't like that philosophy there are other distros but a package maintainer's primary job is to repackage software for that distro (which presumably users have chosen for a reason), not comply with upstream.
by MerrimanInd | 2025-10-24 20:53:10+00:00
After over a decade of occasionally updating that one ancient .docx file, I recently rebuilt my CV/resume using typst and it's been a really fun project! My resume is now a private repo with my personal, career, and styling data stored in TOML files. Then I can pull any interesting typst resume templates, populate the information from the TOML files by looping over arrays of jobs/projects, and populate it into the doc template. It's absolutely overkill but it was a fun project and I really enjoyed working with typst. Didn't even do a tutorial, just threw myself into the language and assumed it would be intuitive enough with some examples and it absolutely is.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-24 20:53:41+00:00
It's funny that this exact question is mentioned in marcan's "I'm leaving Asahi Linux" blogpost, haha.

> And, of course, “When is M3/M4 support coming?”

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

It's just amusing to me that Linux users since the beginning of time have been working hard on ensuring the maintainers of their software get upset at them and quit working on their software.

Over decades of seeing this, it is entertaining that people never change. There will be a great beauty to the vim v emacs wars in 5723 CE between the people of Gliese 251b and Gliese 251c.
by sandworm101 | 2025-10-24 20:54:24+00:00
And calgary is southern alberta, closer to the US border than it is to northern canada. Fort McMurray and areas north regularly get -40 weeks and still have loads of bugs come summer.

(Being so far from any coast, the northern canadian praries often trade turns with inner siberia for the coldest place on earth during winter. The north pole is kept "warm" by the sea.)
by nikcub | 2025-10-24 20:55:15+00:00
Wealthy people aren't dumb - they don't join games where the odds are tilted against them. In these high-stake private games they can usually demand and set the rules like shallow stacks (100BB), enforced straddles, raising stakes after a loss, button games etc. that remove the GTO / poker element and make the game more gambly.

Boring pros who play these games straight up and don't "give action" don't get invited back.

This is how you can have some of the best poker players like Tom Dwan get absolutely wiped out while playing against whales in Macau

If you want to see a more recent example of this - the amateur whale Monarch recently took on one of the best cash game heads up players Bjorn Lee. I won't spoil the result because it's highly entertaining and demonstrates how the game works at these stakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCd7giB9s5U
by SigmundA | 2025-10-24 20:55:38+00:00
Not exactly true, one of the main issues with heat pumps in cold weather is the outside coil freezing up with ice blocking airflow due to them being below the freezing point of water.

This is actually why older heat pumps became less effective around 40F because the coils would start to hit 32F since they are attempting to pull heat from the warmer outside air and are therefore colder than the outside air.

There are various solutions to this problem, the standard way is to run it in reverse as a air conditioner for a short period if it detects the situation to defrost the coils and if the system has resistive heat strips it uses those to warm the air that is being cooled. This obviously reduces the efficiency of the system the more it has to defrost and may not be very comfortable to the users.

Cold weather heat pumps work better in drier climates due to this as well because the lower the outside humidity the slower frost will form on the outside coils.

Some cool weather heat pumps will have two compressor units and fans and alternate between them with one defrosting the other, there are many other tricks they are using to prevent frost buildup and continue working above COP 1 far below freezing.
by emptysongglass | 2025-10-24 20:55:43+00:00
No, the burden of proof is on you to deliver. You are the claimant, you provide the proof. You made a drive-by assertion with no evidence or even arguments.

I also do not accept your assertion, at all. Humans largely function on the basis of desire-fulfilment, be that eating, fucking, seeking safety, gaining power, or any of the other myriad human activities. Our brains, and the brains of all the animals before us, have evolved for that purpose. For evidence, start with Skinner or the millions of behavioral analysis studies done in that field.

Our thoughts lend themselves to those activities. They arise from desire. Transformers have nothing to do with human cognition because they do not contain the basic chemical building blocks that precede and give rise to human cognition. They are, in fact, stochastic parrots, that can fool others, like yourself, into believing they are somehow thinking.

[1] Libet, B., Gleason, C. A., Wright, E. W., & Pearl, D. K. (1983). Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). Brain, 106(3), 623-642.

[2] Soon, C. S., Brass, M., Heinze, H. J., & Haynes, J. D. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 11(5), 543-545.

[3] Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E. (2003). Parsing reward. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(9), 507-513. (This paper reviews the "wanting" vs. "liking" distinction, where unconscious "wanting" or desire is driven by dopamine).

[4] Kavanagh, D. J., Andrade, J., & May, J. (2005). Elaborated Intrusion theory of desire: a multi-component cognitive model of craving. British Journal of Health Psychology, 10(4), 515-532. (This model proposes that desires begin as unconscious "intrusions" that precede conscious thought and elaboration).
by thegrimmest | 2025-10-24 20:55:53+00:00
I’m not sure I agree that consent should be a requirement for photographing people in public. You have a right to observe people in public. You have a right to take notes about these people and publish them. You have a right to hire a person to sit in a public place and record their observations, and to publish these to your heart’s content.

Technologically augmenting these rights does not change them. A pen and paper to record observations is a technological augmentation to memory and recall. A newspaper is an augmentation to a gossip corner. A camera is just the same. A person should be able to record and retransmit any information they come across in public, regardless of technology, since ownership of an observation is fundamentally the observer’s.
by mithr | 2025-10-24 20:55:55+00:00
Electricity costs are a big factor in this, imo.

Rates for my northeast town increased by ~25% in 2024 and are going up by another ~10% this year. It's a hard sell to spend a large amount of up-front money (even after rebates, which decreased this year) to convert to a system that will cost you more than you pay today, and may not work as well in cold weather (every heat pump company I talked to suggested keeping my existing gas heating in place and automatically switching to it when it gets cold enough).

I was also told that the electrical grid in my area is having difficulty keeping up with the push towards heat pumps, which increase load exactly on the coldest nights of the year, when you need heating most.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-24 20:56:16+00:00
I have flipped every imaginable switch and even set up a work profile, and I have not yet been able to turn off desktop notifications on my new work Mac. Every time I log in there's a persistent notification about... something stuck in the corner. The notification does not explain itself, clicking it just drops me into a system menu. Usually there's three or four such notifications queued up.

So it just lives there permanently on the desktop and I avoid using the thing as much as possible. I do all of my work functions through SSH and leave the Mac in a corner of my desk with the screen closed.

I swear, MacOS actively tries to be as annoying and intrusive as possible. Every time I touch the damn thing some new behavior reveals itself. Like there are two sets of hotkeys for copy/paste and which one you need to use appears to be entirely random per-window.

Thankfully work lets me use linux on my main machine and I almost never have to deal with goddamn MacOS. I would rather daily drive Windows 11 with copilot and cortana and piles of bossware than plain MacOS.
by l9o | 2025-10-24 20:56:27+00:00
Yeah, from discussing this with friends in academia it seems like this is the biggest hurdle at the moment. Someone on Reddit reached out to arXiv [0] and their response was very negative towards it, which seems unfortunate:

> At this point, we’re more likely to add support for .docx than a markdown language.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/typst/comments/1ddlgvg/arxiv_just_a...
by RealityVoid | 2025-10-24 20:56:59+00:00
That is true only for air heat source. And even those work in below freezing (the one I have works down to -20degC) but as you say... with diminishing returns. Still, checking the technical spec, it says that at -15 degC it heats up a tad under 3x as much energy it uses. Pretty good I would say!
by mcv | 2025-10-24 20:57:03+00:00
It absolutely depends on the child. I phrased it too generally. I like the idea of Montessori a lot, but it depends a lot on executive skills: being able to plan, start project, finish projects, etc. My kids both sucked at that, and I'm not great at it either. My oldest son, despite his stellar IQ, completely drowned in projects. No idea what to do, when to start, how to start, how to finish it, and even when he finished it, he forgot to turn it in. He simply needs more guidance.

He's now finally getting better at it, at 16, which is about time, because at the university, you have to be able to do all of this. I sucked at it in university, so maybe it's actually good that he ran into these problems earlier than that, but for him to actually finish school, it was not a good fit.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-24 20:57:13+00:00
This depends entirely on how well the thing you're using bothered to support multiple platforms.

Browsers are pretty much the gold standard here, ironically. You might have to care if it's Firefox or Chrome but it's very rare for you to have to care if it's Firefox on Windows or Mac or Linux. It's exactly why React is simultaneously horrible and everywhere.

So it can be done, it's just a question of whether that framework has done it well, ideally while also doing other things well (unlike React).
by watersb | 2025-10-24 20:58:06+00:00
# VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong In Some Places

The trouble started when the Chief User went to visit his computer and its VAXherd.

He came away visibly disturbed and immediately complained to the ELFI's Director of Data Processing that, "There are some _very strange_ people in there with the computers."

Now since this user person was the Comptroller of this Extremely Large Financial Institution, their VAX had been promptly hustled over to the IBM data center which the Comptroller said, "was a more suitable place." The people there wore shirts and ties and didn't wear head bands or cowboy hats.

Oh my. It's 2025 and I'm just reading this for the first time.

In 1998, we were getting some large consumer brands on the World Wide Web for the first time. One of our customers had a Director of Security who didn't trust us. When he came out to see our data center, our web services, he trusted us even less. The guys wore ties that day, but the long hair didn't help.

It was really too bad; the Security Director was not wrong about many aspects of the whole idea and he was able to get executives in our parent company to realize that security best practices would require some structural changes on our part; we couldn't just buy a net appliance to take care of it. Having that client on board with that Security Director's input could have been a productive experience. But he didn't like what he saw, and that particular project was canceled.

Given the rather percussive events in this tale of The Little VAX and the DataCenter, perhaps that was all for the best.
by visarga | 2025-10-24 20:58:25+00:00
LLMs can generate slop if used without good feedback or trying to minimize human contribution. But the same LLMs can filter out the dark patterns. They can use search and compare against dozens or hundreds of web pages, which is like the deep research mode outputs. These reports can still contain mistakes, but we can iterate - generate multiple deep reports from different models with different web search tools, and then do comparative analysis once more. There is no reason we should consume raw web full of "spam, scams, propaganda, and astroturfing" today.
by blahedo | 2025-10-24 20:58:36+00:00
People are reluctant to install them because they don't work as well as the good old boilers we'd be replacing. I'm not saying they can't, and I'm not saying that there are zero models out there that work. But in practice, a lot of us that have interacted with heat pumps have the specific experience that they get anemic as the temperature goes down and eventually become unable to do much of anything.

I live in the mid-Atlantic (US) climate zone, where it's certainly not as cold as the north but definitely goes well below freezing regularly for several months of the year. The place I've lived for 15 years had a heat pump and a (oil) boiler with radiators, and when it was below 40°F (~5°C) I had to switch to the radiators. It's because it's old, everybody told me, modern heat pumps are better! So last year when both systems needed repairs at the same time, I not-entirely-willingly switched to a brand-new 2024-model heat pump. It absolutely could not keep up when the temperature was freezing until they came back and installed resistive heat strips for low temperature---these seem to be a fancy version of the heating elements in a space heater or a toaster. They do not seem to be particularly efficient. And to the extent that my "heat pump system" does now more or less keep the house adequately warm, if not as comfortable as the radiators always could, it's not solely due to the heat pump, but the other stuff they had to put in because the heat pump couldn't keep up.

My experience is far from unique. Maybe it's that they only install the good ones in farther-north locations! Maybe it's that the good ones are just way more expensive! I'm perfectly prepared to believe the factual statements about the physics and the tech. But if we're talking about perception and "why aren't more people looking to install heat pumps", it's because lots of people have experiences like the above, and that is what the industry needs to work on.
by Glyptodon | 2025-10-24 20:58:39+00:00
I live in a heat pump only house and the only thing I don't really love are mid summer electric bills, but I think that'd basically be the same with a dedicated AC. In my climate heat is more nice than complete necessity and usually only spikes bills if there are true hard freezes.

I will say, they seem to have gotten more expensive. It took about $10k to replace ours (it was over 20 years old and replacing coolant+fixing was quoted at nearly half that). Even though research suggested it could be more like a $6.5 to $7.5k cost, it was hard to even get people quoting in a timely manner, let alone getting any kind of a deal.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-24 20:58:40+00:00
The card-shuffling machine is an obvious vulnerability.

But I'm provisionally calling BS on the "X-ray table." Based on (admittedly limited) experience with X-ray imaging, I don't believe that X-rays can read ink on playing cards. It would have to be a backscatter machine, which is even less discriminatory than a transmissive machine. Would need to see some evidence that this is possible.

If nothing else, the sheer size and bulk of such a machine renders the concept incredible. If I could build something like that, I wouldn't use it to cheat at cards, I'd sell it to the TSA!
by Blackarea | 2025-10-24 20:58:51+00:00
> Code like a surgeon ... As a UI prototyper

XD yes sure. I'd most definitely put those on the same level. Maybe even favor an UI prototyper if it comes down to the real deal. Who needs an open heart surgery when you can have a magnificent css-hover animation that really seals the deal on some 90%-AI-generated slob that only caters to delusional top-management completely out-of-touch with reality.

Irony off: Let's try it with a bit of humbleness next time, ey?
by underbluewaters | 2025-10-24 20:58:52+00:00
This was a major barrier for me. I had to replace an existing natural, tanked gas water heater. Ultimately I just bought a $750 replacement because I could easily swap it out myself. Installing a heat pump would have involved an electrician to install a new circuit, and possibly other changes. While there were some 120v models available locally, they all had pretty bad reviews. So I would have paid a couple thousand dollars more. Maybe I could break even over 10 years paying less for gas but that seemed like a poor use of funds.
by prlambert | 2025-10-24 20:58:52+00:00
Cool to see a Heat Pump article near the top of HN! I'm the founder/CEO of Quilt (https://www.quilt.com/), which is mentioned in the article, and a decade+ daily reader of this fine site. At Quilt we've run the Nest playbook for ductless heat pumps as our first product. The plan is to do what Tesla did for automotive to the built environment infrastructure category (HVAC, plumbing, etc) and create the first major American manufacturer in a ~century.

The article has bullet #1 in problems to solve as "Contractors who default to what they know." This was one of my founding hypotheses to and it turns out I was wrong, this was the hardest won learning yet at Quilt. We originally were fully vertically integrated and had our own installation force because of this reason – we wanted to solve all the big problems, thought contractors were one of them, and so had to become a contractor. But we quickly saw we were getting in the way of our own mission to accelerate the energy transition (because we had far far more demand than we could scale operations to reach it). So in March we (initially cautiously) switched partnering with existing contractors and I have been delighted by the industry reception. There are so so many existing contractors who want modern tech and see working with us as a breath of fresh air. I definitely sold them short and in retrospect it was naive and even a little elitist.

Happy to answer anything more. Also I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that we're growing super fast and just posted an Embedded Software Engineer role: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quilt/jobs/4952684007 :)
by mosura | 2025-10-24 20:59:27+00:00
I hope they actually stick with this. Swift embedded, for example, is a sort of proof of concept more than viable platform, and you end up battling that more than the problem you are trying to solve.

It is a shame because aesthetically Swift is easily the nicest of the modern safe languages, but there have been really odd noises in the community about project leadership that sour things.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-24 21:00:01+00:00
Chicago days under -15°F since 2015:

Jan 18, 2016 -21°F Coldest day of that winter Dec 19, 2016 -21°F Early-season Arctic outbreak Dec 27, 2017 -19°F Part of a prolonged late-December cold wave Jan 2, 2018 -23°F Deep freeze to start the year Jan 30, 2019 -30°F Coldest Chicago temp since 1985; “Polar Vortex” event Feb 14, 2020 -18°F Valentine’s Day Arctic blast Feb 7, 2021 -21°F Mid-winter cold snap Dec 23, 2022 -23°F Pre-Christmas Arctic front Feb 3, 2023 -17°F Last occurrence to date

So basically every year.

edit: downvoted for noticing that it is cold.
by tveyben | 2025-10-24 21:00:18+00:00
I just noticed a meaningless feature of iOS: The cursor moves (since iOS 15?) in steps of one pixel.

Probably just to make it slick looking (fluent)…

- BUT that’s completely non-effective as it allows for the cursor to be positioned on top of a single letter in >10 different positions.

So when you’re editing you are having a much more difficult time placing the cursor just between the two letters you want.

I noticed it when using some app the had disabled this stupid feature and it was just so much more effective to do mybediting as the cursor jumped to the position BETWEEN the letters in stead of FLOATING ALL OVER.

It’s nice on slides when presenting a new fancy feature, but completely useless for s ‘professional’ (focused) user.

PS yes I recall those old Apple adds - saw them when they were brand new and Apple was a better details oriented company (I miss those days….)
by ortusdux | 2025-10-24 21:00:48+00:00
I ended up self-installing my HP-WH. Professionals either tried to talk me out of it like you described, or charged a premium for the upgrade. My county has a rebate that allows for self-installs. It was rather straight forward and ended up being ~$700 in the end. The old unit I tore out took an extra $350/year in electricity, so I've already broken even.
by p_l | 2025-10-24 21:01:02+00:00
But profitable to IBM, and counts as OpEx not CapEx for accounting. A bit like cloud. But if you want they will ship it to you, or just setup a VPN or even a more dedicated connection (say, MPLS) to one of their datacenters. Or even sell it to you cloud style, running on LPAR/zVM.

They also tend to send you a more filled out mainframe (more CPU, more memory) so you can be flexible with utilization or "pay on demand" for more occassionally.
by move-on-by | 2025-10-24 21:01:12+00:00
I haven't seen my successful method mentioned yet, so I’ll share.

I had a ground nest, but it was built into a rock wall for a raised flower bed. They had several exit points. Despite emptying multiple of those spray cans, it was a healthy hive. Feeling discouraged, I dumped a bunch of fire ant powder all over the rocks. I did it at night, hoping they were all in there. I checked on them the next day and they were gone. I have no idea if it killed them or they decided it wasn’t a good home location anymore and left. Either way, no more yellow jackets.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-10-24 21:01:36+00:00
A heat pump just makes no sense whatsoever for me in my northeast town. The electric bill alone would outpace the old propane bill, not to mention installation.

And it won't even work during some of the coldest winter weeks when you _really_ need it to work.

Maybe I would consider it if I was in, like, Nevada or somewhere.
by simoncion | 2025-10-24 21:01:44+00:00
Gentoo Linux has quite a different approach than Debian [0] but after the first month or two (once my new-to-Linux ass figured out what it was doing) I've never had to reinstall any Gentoo system. [1]

If you want what Debian provides, it's a poor choice for you... but -IME- it doesn't break on upgrade, unlike some Debian-derived distros I've tried in the past.

[0] Something along the lines of "Always try to package exactly what's provided by upstream, try hard to get distro patches upstreamed, and try to have the latest available upstream release in the 'testing channel'.".

[1] Well, I do have a machine that (aside from "side-loading" kernel updates from time to time) hasn't been updated in four years. While I'll try to update that one in the normal way, I'm probably going to need to reinstall.