skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how well this would work to provide both AC/cooling during the summer and heating during the winter in climates that experience both, like the midwest US.

If there is a difference in the temperature, then the heat can be moved around. However, that doesn't mean you can run the entirety of the heating for the house in the winter off of the heat battery.

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Wells/Geothermal.html

> Geothermal works on the principal of using the earth's natural underground temperature and a geothermal heat pump unit to provide heating in the late fall, winter and early spring and cooling in the late spring, summer and early fall. In Wisconsin, the average underground temperatures range from about 52 degrees in the south to 42 degrees in the north. Below about 20 feet in depth, the influence of surface temperature variations begins to dissipate rapidly and becomes the average of all surface temperature values.

Note the heating in the late fall and early spring and cooling in late spring to early fall. The Canadian one is stuffing more heat into the battery which gets it above where it is efficient for cooling in the summer.

Aside - the wikipedia article for the Canadian one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

> On October 5, 2012 the DLSC set a new world record by covering 97% of space heating needs with solar thermal energy. In the 2015-2016 heating season, 100% of space heating needs were met with solar energy.

The location is just a bit south of Calgary ( https://www.google.com/maps/place/Drake+Landing,+Okotoks,+AB... )

For 2020, Calgary had 4835 heating degree days based on 18°C and 72 cooling degree days (2021 has had 174 cooling degree days)

https://calgary.weatherstats.ca/charts/cdd-yearly.html and https://calgary.weatherstats.ca/charts/hdd-yearly.html or https://portfoliomanager.energystar.gov/pm/degreeDaysCalcula...

Using that last one It's provided in °F too. hdd: 8780 °F and cdd: 117 °F

Going back to Wisconsin for the midwest datapoint... https://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/clim-history/7cities/madison.h... - though this data is in °F. The ten year average for heating degree days is 7200 in °F. The ten year average for cooling degree days is 620 in °F.

So... Calgary compared to Madison:

* 8780 vs 7200 hdd (65 °F)

* 117 vs 620 cdd (65 °F)

Based on this, and that there is still a lot more hdd than cdd - it would probably be more worthwhile to try to offset the heating costs on the heating degree days than the air conditioning costs on cooling degree days.

And just for comparison, Houston, TX is has 1000 hdd 65°F and 3444 cdd 65°F. San Francisco is hdd 2467 °F and 190 °F for cdd.

As another note that heating and cooling costs don't scale linearly with heating or cooling degree days.
Fantastic work! How did you learn to make the Homers? I would love to create something like this.
Yeah, IIRC it's triple damages if you knowingly infringe.
No. The majority of Americans now have antibodies one way or another. In significant excess of the 60 to 70 percent Fauci and other public servants were rooting for this entire year. Some 80 to 85 percent of the population by now has antibodies.

More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

And as reported on by Bloomberg and other media, the antibodies from past infection confer protection equal to or greater than Pfizer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

"Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot"

And those are slated to last for decades. Source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

"Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"

On the exact terms given to us by Fauci and other public servants, there is no more reason for these covid mandates to exist. Not from a scientific point of view based on these links.
Because it's an sorta ironic, off-topic attempt to generate a "vi versus emacs" level argument. Sorry you lack the ability to spot it.
>The non-crazy, non-simple faction of vaccine resistance argues about the likelihood of ADE, which is where the vaccine primes the immune system to have a larger reaction against some types of future infection. The typical dwell time before effect is something like 12-18 months.

Didn't tens of thousands of trial participants get covid vaccines back during July to September last year? They're still monitored I think. If what you said is true then they should be dropping like flies which they are not.
Just curious where you heard Kevin Fu speak about this? I heard about the PowerGuard a while ago but never heard what became of it. If he has talks about the failures they encountered I'd love to hear them, because it's a really cool concept.
It’s not a weird dynamic. There is a threshold where if your partner isn’t making some meaningful amount of money relative to you, it’s better for them to just not work at all than spend 40 hours a week toiling away for a pittance of a paycheck. What is there to gain from having a wife work as a cashier when you make 10x as much as her?

You either want to be a power couple or just get the best partner you can and offer them a comfortable life. The relationships that are an exception to this are usually ones where both people started off equally and then one of them suddenly became massively successful but they still remain in love.
> ~$45,000 in student loan debt. And this is on the LOWER end of debt

$45,000 is well above the average student loan debt even as of 2021, which is variously reported as $35-40k (but see $30k, below). The median debt amount is substantially lower (~1/2), but it doesn't fit the narrative so it's rarely reported.

What's unclear to me is whether these numbers are for all outstanding debt, or for debts at graduation. This site says the 2021 average debt at graduation is $36k, https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt-by-year ($30k at https://thecollegeinvestor.com/33643/average-student-loan-mo...).
But this site says the median outstanding debt amount for all people with student loans is $20-25k, https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2021-economic-we... That's very confusing, especially considering that [1] and [2] give $17k and $19k, respectively, for the median. I can't square these numbers unless, perhaps, it's the case that people even at the lower end aren't paying down principal and are accumulating interest debt. (EDIT: The "all outstanding" median Fed figure makes more sense when you realize that it excludes those who managed to pay off their loans entirely, and so it will have a long tail of very high debt students, the very same students inflating the average to begin with, and the ones most likely to be stuck in a debt trap.)

[1] https://thecollegeinvestor.com/33643/average-student-loan-mo...
[2] https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-student-loan-debt
The use of the brand names came with government approvals.
You can mitigate most of this if you're wealthy already.

Basically, one of many things you can do - in any jurisdiction - is move all your assets to your private foundation and simply not pay yourself for the duration of the marriage, including what you personally make while in the marriage if anything. Non-profits can invest indiscriminately in anything so the money can keep growing and supporting almost anything you want.

During divorce proceedings you have pretty much nothing, except the history of earnings if any which indeed can be used to compute your alimony payments. But all your accumulation and assets are not in your name, so the alimony won't be consequential compared to the horror stories we've heard of ex-spouses having to check themselves into jail when they ran out of money to pay. Back to this plan, don't forget to load up on debt as a general lifestyle choice, way before the marriage has issues. Personally you should never have positive net worth, and there should also be a line of creditors such that anyone else has to get in line or fuck off.

Afterwards you can direct your foundation to pay you a hefty salary.

The purpose isn't to screw your spouse over, its to be judgement proof from all kinds of creditors (and maintain your standing in society as a philanthropist). That will include mitigating the folly of silly unlimited liability contracts such as marriage contracts. Simply put, the clauses could be better. Love, finances, much like a lawyer I don't really care about what emotional reasons people associate with marriage and those are always available whether you do 5 minutes of estate planning or not. In my perspective, removing the downsides allows for both spouses to focus on love or whatever they want to do together. Something more commonly associated with marriage, by at least one spouse.

"I donated everything to non-profits!"

You get to win through many life events here. A state judge will not be able to undermine the federal status of the non-profit. They do have discretion over the pre-nup agreement though. So if you have the money to make a ridiculously unsexy pre-nup agreement, you have the money to make a ridiculously sexy private foundation which gets to exist in subtlety.

If you are saving up for a downpayment on a house while your life is slipping away year after year and the whole goal is to leverage up with a spouse on a mortgage before you are an ineligible bachelor/ette, then this game has no applicability to you. There is nothing attractive about that game to me, at any earning level. Discussions about the top 10% or top 5% make no difference to me, because the circumstances are the same: wage workers that barely match the cost of living wherever they earn, slow accumulation, risks (health, employment, life events) that undercut growth simply because it takes too long. Better to just have, there is no profound message applicable because the message is that simple. There are almost too many advantages to just having.
Yikes! I think this is really positioned for side projects and microservices. There is a clear path to migrating to a full instance or Postgres cluster over certain usage levels, but for many cases being able to scale to zero is still economically and operationally valuable.

40Tb is a ton-o-data! Snowflake sounds like a good fit.
Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries
How games were made on the Nintendo DS – MVG
Agree with @gregjor, negotiate for it after the fact. Most startups are advertising either full-remote or in-office, but many are open to hybrid

If you're looking for promising startups, here's a database of recently funded ones: https://topstartups.io/
I haven't either (beyond anime / animals, which is widely explored ala https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/) -- if you do see anything let me know.

Tangentially related, one more of my favourite parts of this work an artist that made illustrations of some of the fucked homers: https://twitter.com/turtlesoupy/status/1349541080719478784
Yeah the US markets are far from any pessimism

thats prob closer to euphoria.

But Alibaba got really hammered down ( the stock ). No position for me but I follow the Company
Isn't that the right mindset?
They should really label their packages accordingly so I can differentiate between cagefree packaging and free range worker conditions. I don't mind paying a little more for free range if that's what it takes.
I think it's less a matter of someone being dumb enough to try to eat the stuff than that it will never pass anyone's lips before other far more interesting things begin occurring.
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BRK.A:NYSE shows a volume of 1 single share at that time.
Lots of sport memoribilia is dumb and ritualistic when you think about it.

An autographed football is cool because it means the athlete themselves signed it.

But I can laser the exact same looking autograph onto another football. They look identical. One is worth way more though...
If you're using GraphQL with SQL -- postgres specifically -- I would say use Hasura, but support between Hasura & CockroachDB seems to have stalled due to missing triggers [0] [1]. CRDB supports a feature called "changefeeds" [2] which is claimed might cover some of Hasura's use-cases, but that's a proprietary extension not present in base PostgreSQL.

[0]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/678

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296

[2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.1/stream-data-out-of-...
I always see people mentioning better employment benefits and more flexibility to increase fertility in working women. Unfortunately, I think this misses a fundamental problem with working and motherhood: opportunity cost. The more driven, promising, smart and successful a woman is, the higher her opportunity cost of having children. You also have to take into account that young people are not just working for current earnings but also investing in their skills for future earnings. It would then be reasonable for young women to simply take advantage of the more relaxed work environment for further career advancement. It’s likely what explains Europe’s low birthrates despite more generous welfare policies. Eventually as people get older their career progression stabilizes and the opportunity cost falls to the point where they can afford to have children. Notice that opportunity cost is not money per say. For example poorer working class people tend to have more children, I suspect, because their opportunity cost is lower. So, in a sense, the poorer you are the more affordable children become.
Several of the examples shown in that article have a conspicuous round shiny blob on them. What is that? How does it get there?
Two things can be true at once. Youtube is a platform that needs to make money to exist, and it can also help support creators at the same time. No one claimed it was a charity for creators.

They are perfectly justified in making money off of any video on their platform. It's honestly astonishing to me that you think it's acceptable for a creator to be able to rake in thousands from their video, hosted entirely for free, while also blocking Youtube from making a single penny from the video to pay for the cost of operation.
It was 4 shares: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/brk.a/after-ho...

Likely one person that placed a market order
Legalities come later. If a valid complaint is made, a platform must take action on the infringing content.

Valid complaint does not mean honest or accurate complaint. Only that all information legally required to file a complaint is supplied.
LittleJS – The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can
Yikes, my worries were understated. I suppose there's a bunch of special components that they don't even manufacture anymore. Tbf, $30 is a bit too low. If I was serious about archiving or accessing old documents and wanted a reliable floppy drive, it's something I'd pay ~$300 for.. depending on the value of what was being recovered, someone might even pay $3000 for a specialist to recover it.
Once you’re in that crowd you continue to run with that crowd- there is no hurry to get hitched at that age, the opportunities to find a match after you’re established professionally will still be there.
Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean?
I always sleep better by the ocean. My RHR drops 5-10 beats, and I wake up feeling much more relaxed. Am I alone?

What causes this effect? Is it negative ions? Clean air? Ocean sound? I’ve tried with the windows closed, and the effect holds. I’ve tried it on and off vacation, and the effect holds. So I’m really at a loss for what it could be.
China has about a quarter of the world, and a rapidly growing middle class. For a Chinese manufacturer, selling to China means targeting 1 language and 1 regulatory landscape, and yet still covering a huge number of people.

Exporting just explodes the complexity dramatically, so its no wonder they have the focus they have.
You mean like owning Tesla stock and buying a Tesla?

What about owning McDonalds stock and buying dinner?

Obviously fraud is not easy to label.
I’ve probably written a million lines of code in my career, possibly several.

For better or worse most of it was JS, so I have a deeper grasp of what “.prototype” means than the average hacker.

I’m not dissing web devs. I’m calling out all hackers, myself included, who looked the other way.
I find the profession prior art search firms; global, CPA, Cardinal, Nordic, etc. are pretty garbage. I always use one for my cases, but I, the attorney actually writing the IPR/invalidity contentions, have generally found the best art. The search firms get hung up on superficial similarities. So I wouldn't prevent your attorneys from doing some digging on their own.

But I wholeheartedly agree that you shouldn't start down the IPR road before you find the killer art (for all potential claims). I've seen to many instances of people rushing to file an IPR and then later finding better art.
In early/mid 60's California the Alpine/Nordic fad occurred and suddenly fondue, Swedish meatballs and Skiing became popular, some restaurants adapted a ski lodge look with low lighting, lots of large exposed wooden beams, black and brown decor and exposed black slate or dark rock planters filled with nice plants.

And topping it off, a large hanging fireplace with "sunken" bench seating around the fireplace to chat while waiting to be seated.

A few years later some steakhouses and higher end restaurants also added large, open on three sides fireplaces minus the conversation pits, essentially for atmosphere, but it still made for very cozy dining in low the light and subdued environment, which encouraged patrons to be quieter than in "regular" restaurants as well.

By the mid 70's Sizzler added fireplaces in some locations and went a bit "higher class" with pecky cedar and lots more wood and brass decor, plants, lower light levels), it was a nice place to dine, not as fast food like, or brash and institutional.

Then they abandoned that formula and moved on to something else more commercial.
I would assume the main point is that it’s actual PostgreSQL, not a new query language.
What an insufferable tool you are. There's plenty of interesting stuff out there, it's you who are boring.
I don’t understand why the states just won’t adopt electric scooters.

In mainland China, electric scooters are a dime a dozen. For the cheapest, you have basic lead-acid batteries to power them. Slightly more expensive gets you better batteries and longer range.

They’re all chargeable via a basic electrical plugin.

They’re cheaper than those “cheap” American models.

Range is shit, maybe 100km at the most, but almost everyone uses them to go to work, run errands, etc.
Does somebody on the west coast “need” an earthquake survival kit or is that just something they “might need”?
Is the Stumble Upon extension still a thing?
> remember just 10 years ago when people were talking about the environmental advantages of a mass die-off of humans

No. I recommend finding better friends, or choosing different online reading material. We live in an age of information abundance as well as opinion abundance. Your attention is valuable, and there are better communities and reading options out there.
you just dont like harleys
It just removes the price out of the equation. There will be any number of other factors pushing a customer to choose a store or another.

On a personal level, delivery network was a big one, and Amazon wasn't the best on this as you can't choose in most cases (delivery guys randomly calling on my phone because they got lost in another town...). But everyone will have their pet peeve, some people will just chose on how warm they feel about the company.
I love when you get shockingly accurate definitions

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/%F0%9F%A4%96/eyJ3Ijog...
americans don't get to have cheap stuff...that is reserved for citizens of real democracies
Well, no free shipping anymore ...
Australia here. It is an old classic. Emphasis on old. Up to about 2000 seemingly every house had a copy and possibly more than one copy as the various StarWars etc variations came out.

But our house doesn't have it and I'd be fine if my kid never saw it.

The world of modern boardgaming is so much more varied and fun.

Monopoly lost to the competition. :-)
> Not to mention the negative political externalities rural populations produce (maybe a modern US-only phenomenon).

So you'd be happy with them if they agreed with you politically....

I do appreciate the honesty.
The coupling trends that seem interesting to me would be hard to study.

In the gay community it used to be really common for white collar and blue collar guys to get together and that really helped form a power couple as one could handle the rough stuff and repairs and the other could handle the money and the paperwork. Nowadays that still happens, but it is rare because there is so much social conflict that the blue collar gays are more likely to just marry women and have men on the side because that is so much easier and the white collar gays stick to themselves.

Among straight people in the San Francisco Bay Area I have noticed a trend of wealthy techies, mostly but not exclusively men, getting hitched to ordinary folks like teachers and mechanics. It seems to mostly work out well as a way of dealing with the housing crisis, but at a basic level it seems like a deeply unbalanced and unhealthy situation.

Just some potentially related anecdata. Mileage will vary.
sweet, dot complaint, reasonably priced. 2.3kwh battery isnt that big for a 12kw 70 mph bike though, range is probably isnt good, especially on highway, not that i'd want to drive it on one.

my favorite mini moto is the sur-ron. $4200, 50 mph, 110 lbs, 5kw motor, 2kwh, ~30 mile range (60 with aftermarket battery), well built, tons of aftermarket mods. some people slap pedals on it to make it an "ebike" but its 80% dirt bike 20% downhill mountain bike. the best part is its quiet so you can get away with riding it places where you shouldn't ride a dirt bike, though not saying you should. so fun.

https://lunacycle.com/sur-ron-x-bike-black-edition/
Why does it worry you? Cars have removable batteries.
Can this CRDB Serverless offering handle the burst connections of a serverless function based app? Are pooling or query queueing features built in?

Or would users face connection limits at some upper bound until the old function connections get spun down?
Weight is roughly 10x as important on bikes. My bike is 400lb and its not a heavy bike. The ratio of gas weight to total weight. 5 gal tank, what 8lb a gallon? So a very small part of the total weight of the bike. They're physically harder to handle at larger sizes.
This will be somebody else's problem? Ehm, no it's not.

- When the bridge collapses I'll be managing someone else.

- When they find out this airplane has critical design flaws I'll be managing someone else.

- When this software I'm working on is hacked I'll be managing someone else.
Ive been riding a zero around a central coast city for a while now and I can say youre spot on. I could have spent less than a quarter the price and got a motor assisted cargo bike. Its going to be years before electric motorcycles catch up but I look forward to when it does.
Seriously? I've hit "real" programming and bounced off but I spent a few months as a PLC tech and ladder logic was very easy.
Yeah, "... but see how incompetent they are?!!1! Why give them more money?!!1!"

Not to say that throwing money at government solves problems either. A competent administration is needed also to instil confidence in voters that they are actually committed to solving problems. Not sure what the situation is like in NJ
I also question the quality and flexibility of the supply chain Tesla has. During the start of COVID, Tesla GM and Ford said they'll manufacturer ventilators. 2 out of 3 reconfigured their assembly lines to mass produce ventillators. One bought CPAP machines from China that hospitals had no use for.