skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like youre trying to love your job

are you trying to find a job that you love or trying to love something outside of work?

after youve answered that question, the next step is exploration. just try out different things and see if something sticks

the person who knows most about you is yourself and people close to you. and maybe ad targeting lmao
>That 50W port already supports up to 100W when it's the only port occupied, so from my understanding the hardware is already capable of it.

You can think of these charger as two charger combined into one. It has one side with two port of combined 120W Max and the other side with 20+20W max. So you cant allocate the low power port over to high power port. The 20+20 are there as baseline.

What you want is dynamic allocation of 120W between 4 port in an ultra intelligent manner, again a cost issue, UX issue and policy issue as mentioned by gummy's reply.
NYC has "extreme cold" and likely puts heat pumps into their very inefficient range many days of the year.
Heavily disagree. A pandemic is a legitimate emergency, and I don't live in absolute fear that "the government" ( as if it's some monolithic entity) is composed of power hungry people whose only goal is more power, because, it isn't ( speaking for where i live, maybe you live in a place so terrible).
Part of it comes down to an air conditioner just being a heat pump that works one way only, so there’s fairly easy opportunity to build in some efficient heating capacity going forward without much incremental cost by installing reversible systems.

The other thing is that a heat pump can be so efficient, that it’s net beneficial to burn nat gas at a power plant and use that electricity to run a heat pump.

But this all falls apart near and below freezing temperatures.

NYC will still want to have direct-burn natural gas heating for cold days because that’ll be more efficient than resorting to resistive heating.
It's very rare to have a gas hot water heater that requires electricity.

Similarly with gas ranges, you may need to manually light it, but the valves are usually manual (the oven is a different story).
> I am curious what you found to be lacking in their docs.

The current version of the product.
Heat pumps are actually exactly what the title says.
Using compressors they are able to extract heat even from relatively cold air and transfer the energy inside.

They can use 100 watts of electric energy to move 400 watts of heat from outside to inside.

The downside is that the colder it is outside the less efficient they get (since there is less heat outside) so it only works in relatively temperate climates.
These chips are everywhere in Shenzhen--usually playing loudly when a gate is opening. It was a bit strange the first time I heard it. Of course, they have no cultural connection to these tunes, so it works fairly well as a warning.
I haven’t used pandoc in years, do they allow markdown tables to be rendered as a PDF with the grid separator now? At the time, iirc, a pandoc dev took the very opinionated stance that you never needed the grid between fields, and if you did, you simply had poor typography and needed to adjust your use case.
We know for a fact that if both of your parents have African ancestry you have a higher risk of sickle-cell anemia, and if both your parents are Ashkenazi Jews you have a higher risk of Tay-Sachs. Should they also not be allowed to have children with each other? Frankly I find the notion shocking.
Using RealVNC for the desktop and they have iOS devices which they can usually get around pretty well themselves.

Also using a password manager (1Password) with sharing, but they don't use it properly. It does the job though.
Speaking from a country that was never part of Soviet Union, this is just https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization

It has been happening for decades, all over the world.
Most (all?) powered-vent systems will refuse to work without electricity to keep the gas valve open.

But the gas cooktop should work without problem if you light it with a match/lighter.
I was diagnosed 3.5 years ago, the week after I turned 37.

It's really interesting to see/hear/interpret the range of responses from people. Some people aren't surprised by it at all. Others completely disagree with the diagnosis and will say something. And others will obviously disagree and not say anything. And some even responded in ways that don't make much sense at all. (One of my best, long-term friends responded with "well, you've always been a great friend to me!" when I texted him the diagnosis). And others will just not say anything and will avoid the conversation.

I'll say that the myriad of responses is insanely confusing and, for me, definitely contributed to my confusion/isolation after the diagnosis. It took a long time for me to counter other people's completely-uninformed opinions, but what I've found to really help is to remind myself of the facts:

1 - I received this diagnosis from a trained professional. The process was long and thorough, and I believe I did an equally sufficient job of representing how I may fit on the spectrum as well as how I may not.

2 - The ADHD assessment I took (two years later and, again, with a trained professional) also identifies ASD and the results of the assessment skew in exactly the way it most commonly skews for those on the spectrum.

3 - The people who knew me before I really leared to mask are the ones who see my diagnosis as obvious. The ones who knew me after I started drinking (I quit drinking 8 years ago) and while/after I learned to mask are the ones who doubt it most.

4 - The ones who doubt it have absolutely zero training and have done zero research into what it actually means to be on the spectrum.

5 - Exes (and my girlfriend at the time of the diagnosis) who I have actually lived with, the ones I still talk to, are the least surprised by the diagnosis. One, who is a therapist, even suspected it.

6 - The "most autistic" things I do, I keep out of the view of others. So, of course their perception will be skewed.

7 - Alcohol can really dampen the social aspects of ASD. I used to be a frequent and heavy-ish drinker in social situations. Which led me to quit, years before my diagnosis. As soon as I quit drinking, my social life and friend circle tanked. Anecdotally, this seems very common with folks on the spectrum who also drink socially.

I don't know if that helps, but it helped me tremendously to lay all of that out in a way that reduces the impact on my psyche as a result of others' doubt. And it also took me _years_ to really see that objectively in a way that's only beginning to put up an emotional/psychological boundary between what my uninformed friends believe and what I know to be true.

On top of that, if anyone wants to doubt me again, I have a solid list of things I can present. And they can choose to believe them or not. But I am now far more clear on where I stand and can be far less swayed/affected by another person's doubts.

I hope you're able to find a similar steadiness in it. It can be really hard, but if you can work through the process, it might be pretty rewarding and validating.

* Edited for clarity.
How do you do that for furnace? I assume you have to bypass the thermostat somehow.
And I do want to take power from my rivals..
Why is topcommentguy on HN always shitting on the post subject
You're right in that they generally don't with electricity, but again if you have the know-how you can manually keep it open and light the pilot.

Again, definitely don't do this, but in a scenario where the alternative is that you freeze to death, it's possible to do so safely.

With modern combi boilers (tankless hot water + boiler) I believe your point stands.

edit: I mention this mainly because in Texas last winter some people froze to death during their electricity crisis.
Jeff's reply needs no addendum.

But as for some background: I am a PM for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK and from late last year to around May this year I made contributions to the gRPC_bench repo as a Microsoft employee for some experiments we have been working on, to evaluate and improve different ways of implementing gRPC exchange in Java. [1]

This fork was intended for newer experiments, one of them being about coding and running these benchmarks on GitHub Codespaces. For that, I needed the repo on an org where we, as employees, have Codespaces enabled.

The rest is HN history (back to Jeff's reply above [2]).

Merry Christmas all!

[1] https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/commits?author=br...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685628
> That seems like a pretty extreme position.

I think you're confusing some terms. "Free software" != "Open source software". (although MPL2 is a free software license, like GPL/LGPL).

Ever heard the saying "free as in freedom"? That's what "free software" is about. It has nothing to do with money or pricing. A license like Apache or MIT is not a free software license because it does not provide any freedom to end users.

Look at Android for example: there's something called AOSP on the internet, which contains some code that you can download. However, that code is not the same code that's powering the phone you have in your pocket. Since AOSP is licensed under Apache, Samsung is able to fork it, add/remove features, inject all the spyware they want etc, and then sell it to you as a binary blob without giving you the source code.

If Android were GPL, they'd be obligated to release the source code that's powering their devices. This would be a huge win for consumers, and a huge win for the entire tech industry at large, since everyone can benefit from the development efforts Samsung put in. If Samsung wants to keep that code secret, then they simply must avoid using free (as in freedom) software.

It worries me that devs today don't seem to get this. The tech industry would be 99.999% owned and operated by Microsoft today if not for the efforts of the FSF and Stallman.

More/better info: https://www.fsf.org/resources/what-is-fs
It depends on the furnace specifically, but yes, exactly. Again, don't do this, but it's possible.
I am somewhat surprised a single quote can render someone a terrible person. All of us are just one quote away from having our entire lives reduced to "good" or "bad"!
Not a direct/informed answer but a quick look suggests: 5k more than pre-April 2020 cancellations. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/20/21224080/coronavirus...
Apparently I love building a call center CRUD app, and the surrounding tooling and processes. The tech itself is boring, but it allows me to focus on the truly hard parts of software development.

I didn’t like my job a year ago, but now that I’ve been given a mandate to improve things both code and process wise I’m really happy.
TIL - I always thought that heat pump and air conditioning were just different ways of saying the same thing - here in NZ, I don't think I've ever seen a heat-only heat pump.
They also dealt with death from infection, commonplace wife beating, lack of running water, all sorts of other things that people these days don't just bend over and take without protest.

You can't just plop people down in a situation that's analogous to something in the past and say "just deal, your ancestors did". Well you can but they'll probable just deal with you.
Be honest with yourself. What do you really want? For me it was to be in control when I wanted to and let someone else drive the ship when I did not want to.

Essentially I wanted to pick my battles.

I started my own company. It was a shorter path than climbing the corporate ladder.

How do you know when you found it? In my case it was my wife saying you haven’t complained about work in a while. You must have found your stride.

Keep swinging for the fence.
I bought a new car this year when I graduated and got a new job. The main reason I didn't buy an EV is because of the cost, the dependability (I'm not gonna be a guinea pig wasting time getting repairs that not many people know how to resolve yet), and because I live in the Midwest where salted roads in winter just eat the hell out of everything. So I'm gonna need a new car in 5-10 years anyway.

Obviously EV is the future. But with this "Vehicles as a Service" model where a lot of stuff is not meant to be touched by you, it seems like cars are just getting absurdly more expensive for no reason at all. EV is a marketing term so that somehow causes the product to be worth an extra $5k right off the bat.

By driving less than 10-20 miles a week with a gas vehicle, I feel like I'm actually doing more to save the planet than the typical EV driver doing 100+ miles thinking their excessive driving is 100% eco-friendly. Consumption is never eco-friendly.
If you are tired of electron apps, try https://bangle.io . It’s a web app that allows you to edit locally saved markdown files.
I had an Audi E-tron drive by me the other day and it absolutely sounded like the future. I'd be totally fine if they standardized that as the go-to sound for EVs. Now of course until the batteries get way better there's no chance I buy an EV.
A solution for this was created at Columbia University. It’s called Gogoquincy.com and they’ve been helping adults 55+ with all of their digital and tech issues. I got it for my mom and it’s been great.
Meanwhile in California, the plumbing unions repeatedly oppose this.
This has been covered pretty extensively in several comment chains, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687522. But basically, even down to below freezing it's still way above 100% efficient.
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."

- Sylvia Plath
The boiling sulfuric acid was not as scary as it sounds. I put the chip in a test tube with a small amount of sulfuric acid and heated it with a hot air gun outside. (I wore protective gloves and eye protection, and didn't breathe the fumes of course.) It took a couple of minutes to dissolve the epoxy.
This your chance to step away from the Uber Scam. Take it.

The Uber Scam:

Uber is a way of soaking both the drivers and the investors and skimmimg off lots of lovely cash for the Uber Administration. The actual business model of Uber runs at a continual loss. It will never produce a commercially-viable profit. And it is destroying local-transport services in the meantime as a side-effect.

As long as Uber can convince the sucker investors to give them money, and as long as they can convince those poor-businessmen drivers that they are coming out in front of all their expenses with the poor returns from Uber, the Uber Administration will laughingly take their unearned bonuses and run.
I just took a look into it and I have to say that it was a pretty cool experience! I had to thank you for sharing it!
"7.1.1.3 Assertions .... It is part of a Node.js assertion API that is explained later in this book."
They aren't generally cheaper "enough" to operate to justify the increased equipment cost over gas. A lot of that has to do with natural gas subsidies in New York though, which I expect to change in the near future.
Last time I experienced a major power loss during a winter storm, our gas logs were able to heat half the house.

It’s the only thing I tell new homeowners to make sure they have.
So, since you brought human organs in a discussion about data, what are you comparing it to then, on its scale? A toenail? An eyelash? Some dead skin?

What is of such great importance and I can’t be allowed to exchange it at any price and I can’t be trusted to make this decision myself?
Because amazon has a fork of everything worth something. The list would probably max out HN's max comment size.
But < 5 mile local errands are much more polluting per mile than longer trips though as the engine doesn’t heat up to an efficient temperature so it uses something like 4 times as much fuel per mile.
BitTorrent and all the p2p stuff most 2000s kids grew up with.
Please stop calling them “electric”. You are almost certainly meaning resistive. Induction is also electric and is superior to both resistive and gas.
Business people go missing, women who speak our are silenced, climate change is of no concern, concentration camps are real.

We’ve seen enough already.
> NYC will still want to have direct-burn natural gas heating for cold days because that’ll be more efficient than resorting to resistive heating.

I agree.

With climate change and unpredictable weather I really wouldn't go all-in on heat pumps. Even with hyper-heat it only works efficiently down to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. NYC rarely gets colder than that, but I wouldn't be surprised if the extreme cold days are the same days where electricity has problems. Those two things together means people freezing to death.

I think buildings should have both, and default to heat pumps.
> Really makes you want to visit and see how this actually works for yourself. The more I read about China, the more unbelievably contradictive it gets.

It’s not really weird: most Chinese prefer the best choices possible, and if it isn’t blocked (and often even it is) they will use the service if t has more than a watered down local version. The government blocks internet global services via the great firewall because otherwise they would get used in China (and also makes jumping the wall annoying because otherwise more people would jump it).
I actually appreciate it. I'll often read the article then check the comments for the other viewpoint(s).
Show HN: A piano chord-switch practicing tool I made
meds don't really affect my memory too greatly... it's more like I take my Vyvanse at 7am, roll over and sleep a bit more or read the news on Reddit or something and after an hour...I start thinking about work and what I want to get done today... then I'm hyper focused until I'm forced to stop because of my wife or until I'm exhausted or until something or someone pisses me off... I'm pretty sure I'm asd too cause I can sometimes just lose it and have a two year old style meltdown... where I know it's not right to feel that way but can't snap out of it...

basically if I've planned my next 5 actions if something interrupts the plan I get to feeling like my entire world is set on fire or crashing down...

I also have entire conversations in my head and I talk way too long on subjects that really interest me.... to the point of boring other participants in the conversation...

but damn if I find someone as interested as me... we're besties and can discuss the thing for 6 hours or longer lol.

I'm 42 now, I think I just learned to cope in society because I'm usually more prone to outbursts when my guard is down... like I'm expecting a relaxing dinner at a holiday and the in-laws say something to trigger me.... I'm really good at chewing on things... everyone here is republican and love country music...

I can't send ether but I bite my tongue because I know I'll trigger them then one of us is gonna have a meltdown, usually me... and I lose favorability points...I guess in a way my silence is my preplanning to avoid a bad outcome... plus my precog conversation I have before opening my mouth usually helps me predict if it's worth it or not..... sometimes my mental conversation is pleasing enough or if it's like asking my wife something I'll assume we've already had the conversation because the mental model version went really well so I can skip the real version right?
This story was also entertainingly told on Episode 73 of the wonderful Half Arsed History podcast, https://halfarsedhistory.net/2019/11/17/episode-73-uss-willi...
What's the laundering angle?
I don’t think I would do anything different just based on all the happy things that came about doing them this way.

But you can still mourn all the things you didn’t do because of the choices you made.

Same way that I’m sad I cannot drink both the banana and apple shake at the same time.
I'll have to look into all of these. Here's what I really want: A note taking app that lets me insert code cells, a la Jupyter. I'm using colaboratory right now but I'd like to explore alternatives.

I've gotten to the point where I practically can't use an editor that doesn't let me run code, because that's become my second brain.
Streamlabs is owned by Logitech, and Logitech is now a Premier sponsor.
Web1 + Web2 = Web3, Let's think positive and move on!!
> I hope it is OK that I shared such a long boring story

Definitely okay. I found this story absolutely delightful. Thanks for sharing, and happy holidays!
The internet should also tell you that you can’t trivially replace gas with electric. You must run new electric lines to service the higher power requirements.

My fermi estimate is that every electrician in NYC would need to upgrade 1,750 apartments.
1431 bytes :-)
If you own the domain and self-host you can do this already.
For the doubters - I've completely converted my 1962 house to electric over the last few years. Gas furnace > Heat pump. Gas water heater > Heat pump water heater. Gas range > Electric Oven, Induction Cooktop. Even has a heat pump clothes dryer. We had the utility company come out and permanently disconnect our gas service.

AMA.

In addition to electrifying the house, both cars are electric, I've got 12kw of solar on the roof, and 26kwh of battery storage. My house is a case study in electrification and what we need all homes to look like in the next 20 years. It's not without it's challenges, and it requires some adjustments, but really not much. I contend everything being electric is awesome, not compromising.

The main problem I see is that these sorts of retrofits are expensive, and I don't see how most Americans (let alone the rest of the world) do it without incentives.
For example a document explaining how to implement the least privilege principle for what any customer wants to on their platform. Well, I know the answer, there is no way for a customer to achieve this, so you have to engage the support.
> At first I didn't really understand but then I realized this is America. Funding and maintaining infrastructure is not exactly a priority

As opposed to where? Asia?

The US typically spends between as much or slightly more of its GDP on funding infrastructure vs what either the EU or Eurozone do. European spending on infrastructure has been mediocre for decades.

2017 "Europe’s spending on infrastructure at ‘chronic’ low level ... Spending at 20-year low threatens region’s prosperity, EIB report warns"

https://www.ft.com/content/51524ab4-cf77-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd...

2017 "Germany’s low investment rate leaves its infrastructure creaking ... The country with Europe’s strongest economy faces potholed roads and crumbling schools"

https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/06/17/germanys-low-inv...

https://www.cpr-am.fr/institutionals/Local-content/Actualite...

2014 "EU Infrastructure Cutbacks Worry Economists"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-infrastructure-cutbacks-worr...
Thank you. And you too, enjoy the holiday :)
> to figure out if a candidate is any good

In a lot of organizations, the people responsible for identifying if a candidate is "good" and the people who are responsible for calibrating their offer, and where they enter a ladder in terms of seniority, are entirely different groups. Certifications are justifiable insofar as they're aimed entirely at the latter.