skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.aceee.org/sites/default/files/publications/resea...

> Our analysis finds that electric heat pumps generally use less energy in warm states and
have moderately positive economics in these states if a heat pump can replace both the
furnace and a central air conditioner.

> Based on our analysis, we find that electric heat pumps have higher equipment and
installation costs than gas furnaces and that electricity is generally more expensive per Btu
than natural gas. As a result, in all of the comparisons the gas furnace has a lower life cycle
cost for homes without central air-conditioning. However, if a central air conditioner can be
replaced with a heat pump, the high-efficiency heat pump has lower life cycle costs in
climates from Virginia southward as well as in the Northwest. This is shown by an analysis
that credits the avoided cost of a central air conditioner and also includes cooling-energy
savings from replacing a central air conditioner meeting federal minimum efficiency
standards—a seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER) of 13 in the North and a SEER of 14 in
the South—with a higher-efficiency heat pump

> As discussed above, our analysis is only for existing homes. The results may be more
positive toward heat pumps for new homes, as most new homes have air-conditioning and
the cost of supplying gas to the home can be avoided by installing heat pumps.

Note that this is a few years old (2016), and more efficient heat pumps improve the economics.
I wouldn't be surprised if pilot lights aren't illegal now. They're terribly inefficient, more so if your furnace rarely lights.
with robots they could.
> buy a copy of cracking the coding interview, make a leetcode.com account

In my opinion this is a pretty bad advice and I see a lot of entry level programmers struggling for a long time because of this. A basic algorithms and data struture book (something like Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, and Data Structures by Mark A Weiss) is a must before jumping into leetcode/cracking the coding interview. One needs to have a foundation before diving straight to interview problems.
In my younger, prettier days I used to work in West Los Angeles, took acting classes, etc. It is pretty clear to me that something like a majority of the people you see onscreen, both male and female, were required to perform acts on Harvey Weinsteinesque characters to get the roles they had. If you think you only have to do that once or twice, remember that you can audition every day for months or even years without getting a role. If you're a dude, remember that you are very likely going to be servicing another dude whether you're straight or not. Also, when you're young it can be hard to tell who actually has the power actually to get you a role or not.
I'm incredibly excited about this. I can't wait until I have it running on my Threadripper some day. Good memories there I treasure like crazy.
For a while I've been saying our stacks are outgrowing hierarchical file systems. Hierarchies force one trait to have more power than another, even though each may be very important at different times. There may still be inherent hierarchical patterns to the code, but that doesn't have to be our only view.

Further, during compilation a file hierarchy may still be needed, but the IDE doesn't necessarily have to force that view during the normal course of dev work. It's mostly to make the compiler happy, not the developer.

Related ideas:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/j6uivx/crud...

I'm glad to see experiments along that line. I doubt anybody will get it right the first time, but technology often requires experimentation to make it practical. I just know that hierarchies are too constraining for non-trivial code bases.

Typical CRUD stacks can be viewed as a big pile of event handlers. How all these events are listed, sorted, searched, filtered, etc. should be based on RDBMS or RDBMS-like tools to give as-needed views via queries and query-like interfaces, such as Query-By-Example.
Epic can't create an alternate store on iOS. At all.

The headline feature of apple devices for me is that unlike Google, Apple cares about my privacy and security. Apple doesn't offer a devil's bargain with every first party feature. "We can turn this great new thing on - but in exchange, we're going to track your physical movements everywhere. We can turn this other thing on, but we'll record, save and send audio recordings of your life."

Right now I have to decide between having control of my device but no control of my data (google). Or having control over my data but no control over my device (apple). That decision is crap.

> I, as an end user, want Apple to have complete control over its platform

Good for you. In comparison, I want to have more control over the devices I paid good money for. I don't want to live in a digital serfdom, where my only freedoms are those granted to me by the local lord of the cloud.

I don't want accidentally offending an algorithm to result in banishment (google). Or, in Apple's case, for the local lord to tax and morally judge every trade that takes place under their watch.

If you want to spend your life in Apple's walled garden, great! But I don't want owning the best phone to mean I'm trapped there with you. I demand to be able to enter into a voluntary financial agreement with Epic games if I like. I don't want my own phone to have the power to stop me or levy a tax, just so some Apple VP gets a bigger bonus.
General advice when subscribing to NYT is to do it through PayPal. Once you cut them loose from their funding from PayPal, they let you go without hesitation.
Dapr is an open source, language-independent, cross-platform, k8s-friendly, cross-cloud and locally hostable approach to building distributed applications.

Having played a bit with it I'm really enjoying it.
The marketing/sales talk like, “Am I to understand you’d like to cancel even though our product could be saving you $xx in time and money?” repulses me to no end. I understand they’re trying to keep a customer. I just hate the leading questions. I hate that I feel like they’re trying to outwit me, or trick me into realizing I’m so silly for wanting to cancel something.

Even though I might cancel products, the cancellation isn’t always forever. I’ll gladly go back to companies that treated me well. However, companies that pressure me to stay I typically write off as scummy and won’t go back if the need arises.
The spec says 4096 colours, but I think there is plenty of potential already. Given a high enough resolution, adjacent pixels could just perceptually blend together. With the right algorithm, one can simulate many more levels of colours.
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At that many trillion parameters every utterance can be a special case....
Its incredibly socially awkward to float the idea that you could judge someone’s intelligence by their physical features and claim some objective validity. This is quite unfortunate because in my opinion IQ is pseudoscience and intelligence is socially constructed, so its not going to be possible to substantiate that view. But since we can’t even propose such an idea for purposes of argument without the danger of social sanction, those ideas are never properly debunked.
Glad he's dead, he was a mean dick
Interesting. Aren't these just the pains of a growing startup?
But were you able to keep partying? And for how long and how hard?
I’d probably choose to be an engineer. I am a business generalist and it’s an insanely hard market as companies prefer to go for hyper specialized talent rather than general acumen. Some days I wish I could just be a decent engineer and compatible with thousands of job postings versus dozens
An alternative view is that Apple has created literally TRILLIONS of dollars in value for the global economy with its ecosystem.

Apple and its users owe you nothing. Nada. Zilch. Feel free to fuck off if that fact makes you uncomfortable.
No they didn't. Google isn't being forced to operate there; there's simply an additional cost of doing business being imposed. Clearly it's not in excess of income from Australia if they're continuing to choose to do business in the country.
I agree with all of that. I had the exact same issue.
I liken it to the old star quarterback coming out of retirement for one more big game and then twisting his ankle on the first play.
But even that's subjective. If home ownership were considered essential, we'd say there's high inflation. The only unquestionably high inflation is Weimar-style. Everything in the middle is justifiable in either direction, and gray matters seem subject to whichever ways the political winds blow. If it's convenient for rates to stay low, they will.
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Lets say it led to no increased profits and the savings were entirely passed on to the customer (perhaps through careful regulation like you mention). Then wouldn't the costs be better for Texas overall?
Tax revenue, not profits, is a potential solution
Nobody is forced to implement or adhere to HTML5.

It is completely voluntary.
I believe you can also however add on to Atom/RSS. Many feed readers now also support the WebSub [1] standard which allows them to receive instant push notifications of new articles. It kinda speeds up getting things as you don't have to rely on exclusively the pulling model. Sites like WordPress, Blogger, FeedBurner, Mastodon, and Friendica I believe are all examples of sites that support it.

It basically extends Atom/RSS to have another feature. Clients that don't support it can still pull like normal. Wikipedia summarizes the technology a bit nicer than the first link [2]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
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If there's proof beyond a reasonable doubt (the criminal trial standard of proof) that he committed these crimes, society has an interest in seeing him punished, if for no other reason than as actual prevention [it would be quite hard for him to molest more girls while incarcerated].

If there's credible evidence (as reviewed by a grand jury, resulting in an indictment), society has an interest in seeing him tried for the reason above at least. If Geimer doesn't wish to cooperate in that trial, she should not be compelled to testify for the prosecution, but she should not hold the sole power to stop the trial from proceeding. (all in my opinion)

I don't think this is solely, and maybe not even primarily about the state seeking power, but rather properly exercising power granted it by the people.
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This is Fred Wilsons blog, he is a very accomplished VC, founder of Union Square Ventures. He is basically the biggest tech investor in NYC. His blog reaches the front page every time he posts because his is notable
The politicians responsible aren't frozen, they are patting themselves on the back in their 72-degree homes for having an independent energy grid free from federal oversight - or from cross-state assistance.
Everything is political. Someone's "politics" is just shorthand for "This is how I think other people should be treated".
Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
If they are a poor replacement, why does anyone use them?
Wanna know what keeps me sain? this does. no cap
Haha no one blows through $400k of cocaine in a month and survives. It's only $100 a bag (gram)! That would be 13 bags a day of coke.
Is there anything wrong with using markets to store value? Must we also have government bonds to store value? If you're in a diversified US index fund, it's basically a bet that the US will continue to do well. If it doesn't, you have bigger problems than the financial.
Oh come on, I thought this site was about interesting technical discussion, but it appears people are cashing in on a disaster to attack their political opponents. If anyone's working political angles it is people writing and sharing hollow articles like this one.
https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/134441625641848422...

SF: where you can vandalize police cars for 3 years, get booked 3 times, and keep doing it. Waymo cars are an easy target: you know they won't drive off or run you over.
A lot of the problems you bring up have already been solved. You should take a look at sharia-compliant finance.
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Very relevant on a day where people are parroting the “respect the dead” false truism when people criticize Rush Limbaugh in death.
No. So it's fine to raped and not doing any about it? That's appeasement, and we saw where that led us last time.

Did you actually comprehend the extent of want I said? That's the real problem no one believes what's actually happening and when it does then no one notices it. That incident in Washington wouldn't have happened if Google and Facebook didn't exist.

So if you want to sit on the fence and wash your hands of the matter like Pontius Pilate that's fine but it's not fine with many of us. Unfortunately, the biggest problem with democracy is that too many sit by and do nothing whilst living in ethical zombie land. If that weren't so, the problems I'm discussing wouldn't exist either, as Google and Facebook et al would have been straightjacketed by legislation years ago.

The fact is that others and I want our old phone system back that we had 20 years ago. If you're too young to know what that was then it's simple. I could phone anyone anywhere and be sure that my calls were private. Now if I telephone anyone who has a smartphone then Google automatically that I'm a contact of the person I phoned - even if I have a Google-phone.

Do you really understand the true implications of what's happened? Unfortunately, I don't think so, nor many do - especially if they are not old enough to have gone through the change - from the time of sacrosanct inviolable communications run by a government utility to 'ownership' by Google and Facebook. Right, that's what's actually happened because governments were lobbied and also they were asleep at the wheel. Why? Because democracy failed to stop it—again because half the population were in a state somnolence and couldn't care less.
I both love and hate this, because virtually everyone is going to blame Microsoft when things like this happen, when it is likely a driver sample or some example code from somewhere that a vendor copied and adjusted to make a working driver.

Microsoft ALWAYS catches flak for things like this. People immediately blame Microsoft. I really don't know or understand how a complete culture has emerged that blames Microsoft for every little thing.

After reading the answer, yep it was a sample driver.

Now to be clear, yes some things are the fault of Microsoft and, yes, some of those things are severe and unjustifiable and so on. My questions are about why people a) by default assume Microsoft is at fault, and b) by default don't verify their assumptions are correct.
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Maybe the specific article I pointed to was not using the correct metric, but the fact still remains that most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

I really don't see how the article you linked disagrees with this basic conclusion. See the graph: https://static.politifact.com/politifact/photos/Kamala_scree...

People would need to go into debt in order to pay it (only 19% said they could pay for it by "selling something", which might be selling equities, but probably includes pawning personal possessions). IRAs or 401ks are not liquid. And neither is home equity, for that matter. So I would say that half of Americans not having the savings to pay a $500 expense is accurate, even though calling it a "complete upheaval" was not.

Even if you include non-liquid assets, the average person isn't doing so great. For example age 35-44, median net worth is $91,300, and the bottom quintile is net worth negative. I think it's easy to imagine how someone growing up in such a household would have a different experience than someone in the top quintile, who will have a net worth of >$300,000.
It's less depressing if you think of it as that everything is tradeoffs. There is a cost to everything: a cost to vendor lock-in, and a cost to using a system not properly designed to fit your needs. People are making rational decisions, they are just choosing the path that fits their needs. Note however they are choosing among the available paths. There are always opportunities for new paths (OSes) to come along.
It all comes down to ads. Twitter can't show ads so easily via API's. I think I even remember Twitter considering sticking ads in batches of tweets pulled from the API. Can't recall if they did it or not or if I'm misremembering.
> Or on the bumbling rollout of vaccines.

The article picks on this amongst other items, but I want to know: who HAS had a successful rollout of vaccines? The US, the UK, and the EU have all failed. Is there a model state, province, or nation that has been doing 'great' at rolling out of vaccines?
Historically game dev has definitely had a big boys club problem. It's better post gamergate, and the trend is heading the right way, but still, it's a bad problem.

What I saw personally, working on an ill fated unreal licensed property around 1999, wasn't sexual extortion. But it was a boys club that loved trading porn in the official irc channels for unreal engine support. CliffyB was particularly fond of posting pictures of his then girlfriend, as well as essentially rick rolling people with this picture involving a cactus and what appears to be a very uncomfortable sexual act.

It may not have been straight up extortion of sexual interactions, but I am sure that if you pushed back on that, you'd have found yourself fenced out of the very small community of people who have huge influence over whether your game ships. It certainly was not a welcoming environment to anyone other than immature young men, which is a label I'd apply to myself at that time for sure.

Again though, I want to emphasize I also see a positive trend in gaming in general. There's a long walk ahead, but the industry is actually walking the right direction, just slowly.
It's possible more people could have died from, for example, medical delays due to smaller hospitals from increased electricity costs over a period of decades due to unnecessary risk aversion
This is an excellent article and spot on. One of the things we have yet to achieve in "the west," as it were, is to create a viable feedback mechanism that improves the functioning or efficiency of a bureaucracy rather than optimizing for tenure.

I ran into it early on when I was trying to pry costs out of the San Jose light rail agency. It is so frustrating.
Absolutely! There was an community of moderators that came by the storage room every day to review the latest intake. There was much discussion. Lunch was served.
Google Cloud Storage. The files could be dumped as tfrecord in a bucket with "requester pays". So anybody could reproduce it using the open source code, by paying for the costs incurred to move the data from GCS to the training nodes.
Hahahah, the most important question! I was a fairly prolific partier until about 2014, right when I started building Gingr. I actually started building the app while on partying-related probation. The inability to party hard was what drove me to code after-hours. Today, I’m pretty lame at least according to my wife and son. Thanks for asking ;).
Feel like in America the game has become "how can I make the organization work for me" rather the other way around; we're a long way off from Kennedy's speech. Just fundamental misalignment of interests everywhere: PMs gaming JIRA, so-called "senior engineers" squashing anything that exposes their mediocrity and the fact that they're just punching JIRA tickets one paycheck to the next instead of modeling the problem, even engineers and consultants padding their resume in one org building keyword architectures as a launchpad for working somewhere else with a better salary. Everyone knows it, but its impolite/immature to point out the bullshit explicitly. Shut up, shit down, and listen to yet another round of empty hand wringing about values and culture at the all-hands meeting when the truth is there aren't any; delude ourselves we're doing something at all.

These infrastructure 'managers' don't strike me as any different. It's a blight on American culture and its only getting worse the bigger the inequality gap. Everyone's trying to find the parachute to jump out of the burning plane that's in freefall diving to the ground.

The (ultimately false) class antagonism narrative of /r/WSB that the game really is rigged is a fitting end to a decade that at the outset told everyone they could be a unicorn (or enjoy part of the spoils) if they could deliver a cash cow to elite investors if they only pulled up their sleeves and grinded through.

The Governor of Texas just got on Hannity to bad mouth a New Green Deal as people died in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold.
Everything is not political and the only people that say things like that want to forcibly inject their political ideology into unwilling peoples lives.
This is why I like this site. Some sites I want to keep up to date on don't have an RSS feed, but they have a newsletter. I'm happy this site was shared and I am definitely going to make use of it!
There are a few blockchain based solutions to this problem.

- Handshake

- ENS

- Namecoin

My favorite so far is Handshake - a fork of the bitcoin protocol with added support for covenants, which is how arbitrary names can be registered and associated with some 512 bytes of data. Example: https://hnsnetwork.com/names/proofofconcept which shows TXT and other records. ENS was previously my favorite, but the root protocol is secured by only a 7 person multisig. Namecoin is old and poorly designed in my opinion.
Arguably there are two issues here. The first is viewing sex as sacred or not. But if you consider it not sacred, if you think of giving someone sex as roughly equivalent to giving them money, then that brings us to the next issue: Bribery. If the claims are true, then essentially you're expected to bribe people (with sex) who act as industry gatekeepers, or else find it much more difficult to progress in your career. That would be called "corruption"—and to not want to be part of that is indeed a manifestation of "integrity".

Now, one could come up with alternate motivations. "So, let's see just how dedicated you are to your career" ... Oh lord, I can't finish that with a straight face. I mean, if someone does think sex is at least mildly sacred, then being willing to do it for career purposes would show dedication (or desperation), but there are probably lots of other ways to measure that, not to mention that you might end up selecting less for dedication and more for sexual blaséness.
I have two gas fireplaces, neither use power (nor have any available). Valves and safety is handled via millivolt thermopiles in the pilot light and main flame. Heating happens via convection through ducts that run from below to around/behind the fireplace itself, then out over the top. It passively moves a fair amount of air and can make the room uncomfortably warm if left on too long.

I have no idea if this is common or not, but I know of at least two counterexamples to your statement here in Michigan.
Management has little to do with these types of issues. The Governor appoints the heads of the various state agencies and these people then hire their own cronies into key management roles. As a group, they protect and enable whoever it is that's is funding the Governor's campaign and hiring his or her relatives and cronies. Whether it's purchasing or maintenance contracts, there's a reason those managers are doing what they are doing and it's not stupidity.
Berlin is not that far from the port of Antwerp, one of the biggest shipping centers in the EU (and world) -- apparently you can get tons of cheap cocaine there that is really high quality.