skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, due to the physics of their operating mechanism, heat pumps can only provide heat down to a certain temperature. Some can operate at temperatures as low as 0°F (albeit inefficiently) but even for those models, the efficient minimum temperature is still around 25°F. So if you live in a place that gets colder than that, and you insist on electric heat, you would likely need to go for resistive heating (like wall heaters). But resistive heating is not great, in part because it dries out the air so much.

In terms of cost, I happen to have both a high efficiency gas furnace and a high efficiency electric heat pump in a home with great insulation, and have been able to experiment with how they compare for heating the home. We don't get winters that go below 25°F, but gas heating is FAR cheaper (I estimate less than half the cost). We personally feel the air quality is better with gas heating as well, although this might be subjective.
Well, speaking of Indiana, I worked at a church in IN that used the type of geothermal you describe. Kept the church warm all of the two or three winters I was there. IIRC (and I probably don't from 25 years ago), the ground temp was around 54F at the depth it was pulling from.
Dangerous precedent no matter what the technology. If every country starts to selectively kill people in other countries perceived to be hostile where do we stop or draw the line? Do it just because you can? If China or Russia did it in other countries sure as hell the US or Israel would be "up in arms" about it. And draw the line where? Someone is employed by agency that develops new technology that could be harmful....let's kill her/him? Or just because s/he said something critical on TV? Back to the stone age everyone - with high tech of course.
https://archive.is/R1JB1
GOG is sadly not at all linux friendly. Not a surprise, given the owner.

You can look into lutris or GameHub and get the games to work via that.
The same talent will be hired, they'll just be paid far less if they aren't in a HCOL area because they can be. Businesses don't want to pay more money than they have to and are ultimately in a much, much better position to play hardball than individual ICs, "rockstar" or no.

The fact that some folks think so highly of themselves that they don't believe this to be true in their case is just hubris.
Based on my experiences, angular may be nr 2, but nr 1 React covers 90% of the market.
To me, 'supremacy' sounds scary -- not positive at all. Too much misuse of all kinds of perceived supremacy.
Agreed. I find myself using a pretty small subset of the language which definitely doesn't include the class keyword. Doubt I'll ever find it useful.
My last boss had a problem with this. Guy literally told me to just accept any change suggested to ease the review process and it's not worth debating any comments. We had very different opinions.

He always claimed he was "not nit-picky", but then he let reviews turn into exactly what you said, while loops versus for loops and what-not, and allowed the rest of the team to comment on low-value things like style rather than answering the important questions.

Why pushback at using a built-in function that does the same thing as some little helper your team wrote 8 years ago, when your helper function doesn't even handle special cases? There's literally no point other than someone has NIH syndrome. Why are the source files all 5,000 lines long and not broken into a logical project structure? Why is the back-end data-gathering and transforming code inter-mangled with the front-end templates (Django) so far as to be written as template filters and template functions?

It did not take me long to realize the development culture there was not aligned with my values. The lead developers came up in a different world and refused to see the positives and benefits of any modern development workflow involving a separate back-end API and front-end application.
Yeah I looked into home prices rent/buy. True that you can find something _cheaper_ but not cheap/good enough to justify the lower salary and less tech opportunities. I came to the conclusion that Boston is just as expensive as SF but with less opportunities.
It might be the future, but it isn't the present while it doesn't have basic Slack features like threads.
Age and expectations for higher tax rates may have convinced him and his advisors that the time was right.
Thus, a widely used, useful, solutions to the problem exists.

Its not like any game developer seriously worries that X is installed.
With wuftpd? P(x)=1
Note that the Russian version of the site has more information than the English version, you can translate the page into English to read it (or just learn Russian)
Art to me is basically history in picture form. I think that is why it continues to have intrinsic value year after year. Art on its own can be really boring, but in context it can be quite interesting.
I think it comes into play because LANoT doesn't roll off the tongue the way IoT does.
I think people in this thread have expressed well that the concern is when you want to change jobs. It's just a lot easier to do when you're in the area.
> white people own 80% of small businesses

But white people are 73% of the US population. Obviously it'd be nice if everything was proportional, but all things considered (how recently black people got fully equal rights, for example), I think 7% over-representation is pretty damn good, not "real bad", and the trend is heading in the right direction. Seems like a gap that is very doable to close with purely "encourage everyone to start a business" policies, and egalitarian policies like those should be the preference when possible. With respect to men vs. women, I think a similar argument should be made. Women were < 30% of the workforce ~70 years ago, and still haven't even made it to 50%. Given the importance and biological realities around childbirth, I'm not sure women ever will be 50% (until we grow babies ex-vivo, that is). But as long as trends are positive, it is better not to use regulation as an attempt to overcompensate for perceived inequalities, as that can (and does) frequently backfire. Even if the number of women-led businesses is not going up, you can't just assume this is because women are actively being prevented/discouraged from doing so, you need to demonstrate that. Because an alternate explanation is that women (for whatever reason, maybe they like healthy work/life balances?) are choosing, very much of their own free will and without undue pressure from society, to not start businesses at a higher rate than men.

> Maybe it's 5x, maybe even 10x, but not 270x

This doesn't seem to be a particularly rational stance. If you don't have a good reason behind why it should be one multiple and not another, I don't think its your place to decide that multiple. This sounds a lot like the oft-repeated "nobody should be a billionaire". Um, why not? A billion dollars is an arbitrary amount of value. For example, a billion Zimbabwean dollars in 2008 wouldn't buy a coke[1]. Obviously in the case of USD right now, $1B is a lot of value. But if I make some useful piece of software (entirely on my own) that I sell to 100,000,000 people for $10 each, why should I not be a billionaire? Again, if you don't have a rational (rather than emotional) underlying argument for why X amount of value is "too much", it is not your place to decide that number.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
> Simply wrapping the 1980s-era code in a "skin" of Rust syntax brings little value.

That's right for TeX, but XeTeX was first released in 2004.
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Eh, I'd love to leave but I think, as an aging engineer(45) my prospects are better if I stay. Sure, if I was a top technical contributor I'd leave in a second, but I'm not. I need to be close to HQ for now until I receive a strong signal from management indicating otherwise.

I did recently evaluate moving to our Redmond office so that I can better care for my aging mother in my old hometown. Then I saw that houses nearby are even more expensive than the bay area. Nuts. Finding a rental house that can accomodate my mom and family in the south bay will not be easy though.

Slightly unrelated, I'm excited to see if satellite internet will open up even more remote areas of the country to remote developers. It would be nice to setup a coding cabin in the backwoods somewhere far from the city, where I can go part-time to escape the din.
I haven't been able to get any game that requires Origin or UPlay to work.

I can't even get either of those to install via steam. I can install them via, e.g., Lutris or PlayOnLinux, but then steam doesn't see the clients.

Otherwise, yeah, I used to run a GPU passthrough to a Win guest for a few games. Now I don't even do that. Gaming on Linux is quite good. Mostly good enough, anyway.
to be fair. anything after 'use strict' can be consider 'modern'. However with the rate ES7 - 10 is going. Yeah this wouldn't be modern.
> Most people who have to work for a living will not shell out 20k+ or (50-60k if there are siblings involved) simply because they are classist: they see clear advantages in private schools.

Just because they see it doesn't mean it's actually there. Private schools attract the students that would do better in any environment (because of both socioeconomic class factors and involved parents making non-default choices), and measures of student performance reflect this. There's very little evidence that they do anything to actually improve outcomes, but what most people see (aside from marketing, which private schools put plenty of money into as well) is statistics that show correlation without controlling for other variables, from which it is easy to make incorrect inferences about causation.
That's true. And honestly, I don't personally like Go. I included it out of respect. :)

But the whole static duck typing thing is really nice and much less awkward than Java-style interfaces, IMO.
The contract probably gives him a non-exclusive right to perform his own material.
Funnily enough, one of my most played games on Linux is Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, a Microsoft game. No rendering/frame issues and got the multiplayer working (manual steps needed [0]). Less and less reasons to boot on Windows!

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3189#issuecom...
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> $2m has been put into an investment account whose realized gains are tax free. You can bet people withdraw with the 10% penalty all the time to spend that money on whatever they want, not college.

The gains are tax-free iff spent on qualified expenses.

Non-qualified distributions from a 529 pay ordinary income taxes on the realized gains on top of the 10% penalty. As a tax avoidance scheme, this one is pretty terrible.
I worked in finance for awhile and we almost never saw 529s being withdrawn for non-education expenses. When it happened it was for financial emergencies, which presumably these people wouldn’t have.

The rest of the dispute aside, 529s really are used for education.
To be 100% clear: we are not going to shelve the Gitter codebase until Element (or other Matrix clients) have total parity with it. And once we do, we'll replace the current Gitter codebase with a Gitter-branded version of Element, and make sure it's configured so all the Gittery stuff works as you'd expect... while also benefiting from all the work we're pouring into Matrix and Element. So, I'd see it more like Gitter sprouting E2EE, VoIP, widgets, reactions, video conferencing, open standard API, etc, rather than "gitter being shelved" :D
^^^ It will only work where no one else is reviewing your code
Can confirm it can run crysis, though the video files are laggy.

Also runs vrchat, this is on a 960M mobile chip on ubuntu 18.04.

I couldn't get ubuntu 20 to have proper vsync for the main desktop so I downgraded to 18. The nvidia drivers were causing problems, such as the main desktop not having vsync and not enabling vsync settings even if set manually, until an ubuntu system update automatically pushed update 455 to me and fixed everything. A number of nvidia tutorials or suggestions online are entirely out of date.
depends entirely on the team culture.
One of the differences between Windows developers and Linux developers is that Windows developers generally do worry about what dependencies the user has installed. They specifically do not want to make dependencies the user's problem. Linux developers historically make dependencies someone else's problem.
Fun fact: "An example of countercurrent heat exchange occurs in the feet of penguins, in which heat from blood in the arteries supplying the feet is transferred to blood returning to the body's core in veins that lie close to these arteries."
> Saying web apps are superior to native apps is like saying a bicycle with a 2-stroke is superior to a motorcycle.

Nope, it's not like saying that at all.

Your entire argument rests on denying that Electron is a browser too. That's incorrect. Electron is just another browser, one that the web app developer happens to have more control over than they do Chrome. Every Electron app is a web app. Browsers have always handled the native bits for the web app and that's exactly what Electron does. (On the mobile side of things, React Native via something like Expo would be the equivalent of Electron on the desktop.)

Together, the browser and the web app form a native app because a browser is basically a scriptable native app. So, your argument is that "native apps > scriptable native apps" which makes no sense.

> Maybe for your use case it's better...

Web tech is absolutely better for every user-facing (GUI) use case. Even with 3D games which are streaming via browsers right now - performance might not be the greatest right away but since browsers have all the capabilities that any other native apps has (because they're native apps themselves) - it wouldn't be inconceivable that 3D web games could perform on par with native 3D games.

Personally, I develop all of my CLI/server apps with web tech as well (that'd be JavaScript running under Node.js). There's really nothing better - and that's why JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world by far.

> A web app is the Visual Basic of applications (but not really since VB is so much more useful!)

Having started my career with VBA I couldn't disagree more. But even so, is VB (VB5/6/VBA/VB.NET?) your go-to native development environment? Any of those choices are laughable IMO, but okay - I guess enjoy developing all of your apps in VB then :)
I've been a front end developer for 18 years now and I've been tired of JS framework hype for almost half of those years. I saw the note from the creators that this was designed for a specific use case. That's great! It would also be great if the rest of the JS dev community would stop trying to find the Next New React. Please make it stop.
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Bootstrap 5 Beta Released
This is a real game changer.

Bootstrap 5 beta has just been released and finally it brings support for RTL (and many other new changes)
So if people don't care what managers think why would the owners bother having them? It seems shortsighted to think that management won't have a say, explicitly or implicitly, in guiding these orgs back to an office based workspace.
You're crazy if you don't understand why a large portion of the population doesn't look at the bay area and say "the last people I want are the people who created that situation".

I think it's a lot more nuanced than that but the sentiment is at the very least understandable.
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Quality is usually how fast they can complete features with least bugs for a faster release while navigating feature changes they go. That’s where rubber hits the road.
You obviously don't live in California, don't make enough money to pay taxes, or are just being cussed. The US top end tax rate is 37%, plus California is .... what? 13? You're already up to giving away half of what you make in California. Meanwhile you have to pay taxes on physical property like your house, and your house is valued at 7 figures if you live in the Bay Area. Finally, there was a VAT the last time I lived there. Meaning pretty much everything you buy with your money is also taxed. So yeah. France. Except the wine and everything else is shittier and costs more in California. France also has a functioning social welfare and medical system, and somehow manages to keep the electricity on and the air breathable. Pretty sure the murder rate in France, terrorism and everything, is significantly lower as well.

Oh yeah: completely ridiculous criminal things like this basically don't happen as often in France:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/13342450627...
> The purpose of copyright is to encourage authors to create more works.

Is this true? I know in many cases copyright does the complete opposite as it hinders artists from creating derivative work. Then there is a whole genre of art—folk art; which is arguably the most popular genre—where artists continue to do art where the copyright is hardly ever perused, enforced, or if present almost always ignored.

You could just as easily make the case that in the art genre where copyright is the most loose, the amount of art created is the greatest.
It's easy to rewrite that sentence to make that separation clear, and he doesn't. Gruber goes into detail about the author's history of being wrong and misleading in the past regarding Apple's processors, so in that context I think it's fair to take that part of the review in bad faith.
The original post is talking about new homes being built. Presumably these new homes will have air conditioning, given that this is California. So instead of just installing an A/C unit, it will be a heat pump instead.

For cooking, induction stovetops are far superior to gas burners.

The only thing that may require resistive heating is the hot water heater, but that's a fairly small portion of overall energy usage.
What about great weather and food
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This project is really great cause AI and robotics are the most beautiful disciplines :)
Isn’t step 1 of “modern JavaScript” to install TypeScript? :)
So your comment can basically be boiled down to "old man yells at cloud"

And no none of the problems that are being solved can be done in notepad
Trying to play anything through that requires the Origin client fails for me at trying to install OriginThinClient or something. Lutris install of Origin was fine though.

Mostly everything else works pretty easily.
All Valve titles are linux native except Half-Life Alyx, including GoldSrc titles (Counterstrike, Half Life etc).

VR support is still being worked on.
I did not state one way or the other in my comment about whether it was right or wrong, and frankly my opinion on that topic is not of importance to my point here.

I stated that it seems clear that these people are moving way from temporary restrictions (by relocating to places that do not have the same restrictions), and that there is no guarantee that any of these will be 'permanent' moves after those restrictions are no longer applicable.
I think GP is defending your initial statement, not arguing against it. They're responding to the person who disagreed with you about the game being mostly PvE.
This is interesting.. is the M1 chip's GPU a tile-based chip similar to other mobile/ARM SoCs? If so, that could be a problem for truly higher end graphics work as certain operations such as real time shadows, fullscreen shaders, etc are less efficient when applied on such a GPU
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You have 300k deaths of COVID so far in your country, and you talk about not wearing a piece of cloth on your face as if you're a strong warrior resisting Auschwitz.

Fucking unbelievable. Only in america, can people talk about their human rights being infringed by the mildest inconvenience.

Nobody "wishes they had your courage", because the people who think like you can muster that same immeasurable strength not to wear the mask, as it turns out pretty easily. The rest of the world just thinks you're a selfish cretin.

By the way, I'm not in lockdown here. We had some temporary rule tightening, and it's getting relaxed again because thankfully all in all, the people here who think like you are just noise and there aren't many for it to make a big impact on the stats.
Upvoted and then retracted due to the PC bullshit at the end. You had great points, you shouldn't ruin it with your bitterness about having to be professional.
Yes, and if you wrote such a review, and many have I'm sure, you wouldn't say that the electric drivetrain itself "has warts".
Well right now it's personal safety as another comment mentioned. Long term it's because I don't want my kids to grow up around the same people I did.

Intolerable is an ironic word because my personal choices cut right to the paradox of tolerance.
There's a ton of crappy teflon&aluminum cookware out there. It's not that you need a special pan, but nor can you use just any old pan. FWIW, I've been cooking electric my whole life, and using induction or gas is annoying to me (though I've lived a couple years in apartments with either)
Creating Websites with 'prefers-reduced-data'
So I just added a feature last night as this was blowing up on Reddit that lets you paste text into a form. It’s a little less convenient at the moment. But I’d like to improve the process of sending it arbitrary text.
You said it youself: political mismanagement. Make it illegal to build apartment buildings, make it impossible to build good public transit. Ban plastic straws. Refuse to prosecute criminals. Close the safe outdoor parks. Force public servants to pay into a bloated pension system. That's how you reduce the quality of life.
I know Stephen Wolfram is a bit of a contentious figure, but his write-ups are always absolutely incredible. And if you're wondering why combinators are important (particularly S and K), SKI is a universal formal system[1]. Which is kind of crazy to think about: just two axioms and modus ponens can compute anything (I is just SKK).

[1] http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/Teacher/Lectures/For...
I tried to learn Swiss German, but gave up quite fast, it's just not my style. Also even people who came from Germany said that it's hard for them, and Swiss people never really take them in their social circle, that took away all my motivation. I could do everything in English though except the tax returns, it just didn't feel like home to me, so like many others I came away.

Good luck fitting in for you when you get there!
The SF-based company I work for has already announced wage adjustments for employees who relocate out of the region. They haven't happened yet, but the company has given everyone a "heads up; it's on the table."