skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That document lists the COP for an electric heat pump with an external temperature between 35F and 40F at around 3.25. The definition from the article you linked defines COP as “ ratio of useful heating or cooling provided to work (energy) required”. So at that temperature range, it’s still heating more than it’s consuming energy. A natural gas space heater cannot exceed a coefficient of performance of 1 (it would violate energy conservation). You’re still not comparing the same types of efficiencies, they have different denominators.
I really enjoyed this podcast about all the “yous” you could have been, Ladder to the top of the wrong wall

https://m.soundcloud.com/uncomplication/the-ladder-to-the-to...
Is there code?
A color has a red, a blue, and a green, and also am alpha component. It can be converted to hue, saturation, ...
If the hue is the spectrum, then the saturation or the alpha could be the intensity of it. All the so called misconceptions could be interpreted that way.

But I suspect I'm taking the analogy too far
It’s absolutely not.
There are absolutely empirically people paying a 50% percent of their income in taxes in SF.

The highest federal income tax backet is at 37%. the highest california state income tax bracket is 12.7%. San francisco residents pay a .38 payroll tax.

This is going to get you pretty darn close to 50% effective tax rate right there but we haven't even started to look at property taxes or sales taxes. So yeah, there are definitely people paying 50% taxes in SF.
I use my wok with induction stovetops and it seems to work fine. I didn’t intentionally buy it for induction, so I was pleased to see it worked anyway.
Appliances do not last forever. The internet is telling me that a typical gas stove lasts about 15 years, and a gas furnace in the 15-30 range.

I'd expect that at some point in the next decade they will extend the ban to cover replacement appliances so as existing gas stoves and furnaces die they will be replaced with electric.
Biggest advantage is with modern managers like 1Password on Apple operating systems, at least, there is tight integration that makes their use very seamless.

I have just one ridiculous master password that I have memorized (1Password has a great blog post talking about how to use the diceware method to pick a truly random yet fairly easy to memorize master password). With just that one password there is now not a penalty to keep individual, random passwords on all my accounts.

Password managers like 1Password are also integrating google auth support for two factor authentication and again in iOS in particular it's a VERY seamless experience to authenticate with 2 factor. macOS Monterey brought some further integrations but it's still not as seamless as iOS.

And I think that's what's really key - it's not like we all don't know passwords are a pain in the ass. OS vendors need to keep stepping up and making integrations with things like password managers easier until we finally come up with something that can replace them.
This is the worst sort of generic, predictable ideological tangent that we're constantly asking users not to post to HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). It's completely against the site guidelines, as you'll see if you review them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The problem is not that it's wrong—it's that it's repetitive and tedious, and usually turns nasty. We don't need to go around the same boring merry-go-round for the millionth time here. Please don't post like this to HN.

Here are some additional explanations that may help:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No personally, but I think an expert could analyze a couple for pregnancy risks and other issues at least. From what I've read in the past the risk goes up a bit, but not terribly significantly, so it's best to make people at least aware of the risks. Certainly at least not to the extent to force stop people from having kids!

I think more than a third of ASD cases were estimated be linked to assortive mating in some studies, which is still a lot of cases that wouldn't happen if we changed out dating strategies! Intuitively this will only get worse with how everyone currently dates - dating until we finds the exact perfect match for our soul. The science is still very speculative but do we want time to tell?
"Breaking Ground" by Philip and Freya Mulvey.

A soil scientist's take on climate change which ties together some pretty compelling points.
I like induction more than gas — you still get the speed and responsiveness, but it’s easier to clean. And it pollutes your own air less, of course.

From an engineering perspective it’s also more efficient, you don’t lose as much energy in the transfer. Not sure if that makes it more cost efficient though.
Core Foundation (Apple’s C library) sort of uses this with its “array” type: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/array.html
It doesn't matter how "dumb a heist this would have been". This is Microsoft and their track record with respect to illicit and/or illegitimate behavior needs to be continually scrutinized. They put themselves in this position. They have made plenty of intentionally dishonest "mistakes" over the years.

Track records matter and Microsoft doesn't have a clean one. Scrutiny of companies of their size should be the norm. Maybe they would do more to improve "mistakes" if more people held them accountable in a continuous fashion.
Yay housing crisis. Add that to the list of NIMBY and zoning as things more important than homeless people and millennials having housing.
that seems one of the points of enzyme[1], which was mentioned in the article.

[1] - https://enzyme.mit.edu/

being able to do interprocedural cross language analysis seems awesome considering how much code is written in C++, but used in higher level languages.
Sounds like you just have a lot of interests. You might never find one you like more than the others. Nothing wrong with that.

It could be that you will never love technology, but you might love art, music, science, trade work, teaching. Maybe try to make a list of the things in your life that bring you the most joy and motivation and see how they fit in a Venn diagram.
>Here's a reason article about several attempts

If you read the article carefully,

-- This is about leases. Leases come with conditions. You're not buying the land.

-- The first example is about someone who lied and made a bid that he had no intention or ability to pay. Turns out that's actually a crime. That's not "power structure opposed to these sort of actions" in a nontrivial sense.

-- There's a very good reason for much of this: Grazing, hunting, and even logging are part of maintaining the land. The owner of the land (the government) doesn't want you to stop maintaining the land and so makes sure the lease requires that you maintain it. And resource extraction comes with paying royalties to the owner, who doesn't want you cheaping out by not extracting any resources and not paying anything.
For me it's all about the reassuring inevitability of the techno kick drum, always thudding on, comfortingly constant. I love psytrance but techno is life.
Russ Olsen’s “Functional Programming in 40 minutes”
Somr hybrids do, they're called "series hybrids" as opposed to "parallel hybrids" or may be referred to as Extended Range Electric Vehicles (or some other ordering of those words.)
Commercial woks put out 5-10x the heat of a home range. Commercial induction exists too, but needs a lot more power than a home setup
You won't be able to change the font because it's being rendered in webgl. In fact, the page is one big canvas tag. I'm painfully aware of the downsides, but it gives me a lot of control when rendering ANSI art, and will allow me to make a killer desktop GUI app later on (a very fast/efficient opengl program, no electron nonsense).

Before anyone asks about accessibility...i should point out i am still injecting a text-only version into the DOM behind the canvas tag for the sake of screenreaders.

The reason firefox looks so much worse is that it has a smaller webgl size limit than chrome (specifically MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE). When rendering at full resolution, it was not large enough to hold the content sometimes. I only check that webgl value so this will resolve itself if/when firefox increases it.
Another alternative often missed is LyX. It is a WYSWYM editor with LaTeX in the core. As with other WYSWYM or hybrid systems, it lacks the precise formatting
You can JOIN USING in Postgres. It’s healthy to make it explicitly though, and queries should not be being written all the time anyway.
Exactly - it's not just convenience. Without a password manager how the hell can you actually keep unique passwords that are completely unrelated on all your sites? You can't.

For me password manager is all about practicality.
From an API perspective it could be "put this code in an <iframe> every X tweets" for basic web-based clients, and/or promoted tweets could be tweets with extra data for tracking. Enforcement can be done with a banhammer — big profitable apps won't risk getting booted over non-compliance, and non-profitable apps are non-profitable and not worth chasing over this.
Plug-in hybrids can be as simple as normal hybrids with bigger motors and batteries.

On power-split device hybrids, the hybrid system outright replaces the automatic transmission which is the true "insanely complex" component.
Sometimes just terrible timing. My son decided to climb on a chair and fall head first on a ceramic floor last year lol. Didn't expect to spend a handful of hours at the ER on Christmas night in the middle of a pandemic, but there I was.
What does the Sun-Earth-Moon system look like from the Sun-Earth L-2 point?
How many Electron Markdown editors does it take to change a lightbulb?
How is gas better for cooking than induction? Induction seems flatly better to me. Just as fast and flexible, but no indoor air pollution, greater efficiency, easier to clean.
Should be useful enough for a text file.
People are going to be very disappointed by their heating bills. Electric heating is expensive as hell, and gas is usually included in rent.

My small studio a few years back was +200$ in winter months with crummy electric heat.
USA has 340 million people and borders between states are porous. Yes..it’s indeed arguable.
Any contact I've had with AWS support has been excellent, but we also pay for premium/enterprise/whatever. Had a bug with a recently released API and got attention from the engineering team to fix it.
Anecdotally, people remark it was Windows Millennium Edition to deserve the barrel's bottom. It was buggy unstable & with lots of BSODs. I liked the Windows 2000 styled UI
Dumb question, What is the significance of this?
You didn't misinterpret and nailed it spot on. I didn't say anything specifically about open source. While that is a significant part and I personally think Microsoft is doing well, I find that Microsoft are the only ones even mildly open about their communication, documentation, and processes and actually seem to respond to negative feedback, at least more than zero like the other companies. Apple is opaque by design, Google is opaque in a sort of emergent way, and Facebook is opaque in a deceptive way, all three on purpose and working as intended. Microsoft is not perfect by any means, but people get riled up at them all the time for the simplest things and often the exact same things that Apple does, for example.

In the particular case of this post, I just can't imagine an Apple employee posting the exact link (on Christmas!) to a bug that they were responsible for to an issue that was posted on a forum. If someone would have simply made an issue on the GitHub repo instead of posting on Hacker News, it probably would have been fixed without fanfare.
I really hope Streamlabs paid a ton of money for this "cooperation", but from the wording, I doubt they did (since otherwise they'd be listed as a sponsor, etc, etc).

Which... I'm not sure why the OBS team would do this. Streamlabs has been acting in bad faith for years. They've done very little work that's applicable to OBS at all, unless OBS wants to rewrite their front end using Chromium. What good does this do the OBS project? Streamlabs gets to look "good", and OBS gets... absolutely nothing?
You are still hosting it fine. They just decide that you or your messages are suspect.

Also one thing - if people actually want your email they will contact you if they don't get an expected email. If they don't want your messages it is spam.
Oh I agree with you, I’m talking long term really, once battery technology is much better than it is now.

But for now redundancy can be achieved with generators. That will allow us to keep some fossil fuels as reserves, without needing to build new fossil fuel infrastructure that will exist for decades to come.
Because infrastructure is extraordinarily expensive because of how large America is.

Go to any small/wealthy town and you’ll see them invest tons into their infrastructure.
This is speculation but after you use it for a while it has a very distinct look that I've never seen elsewhere. I mean if you use the stock template items.
Usually I just take a quick glance at, and/or try of the main features of a language in some REPL or toy program, _then_ will jump straight to developing something to it and Google/DDG my way through. I do agree that just Googling your way through without having a basic grasp of the general philosophy and main tools a language puts at your disposal can be counterproductive.
I’ve never paid for one, get your company to pay the fees
The people around you can keep on increasing the social pressure / punishment incentive and make the adrenaline levels high more or less permanently. It ends when you burn out and/or do a mass shooting.
great job! the results on the images i tried were impressive. i feel like i have tried similar tools in the past and don't recall the results being as good.
Consumption [0]
» Residential 1,139 trillion Btu 5.4% 2019
» Commercial 1,122 trillion Btu 6.2% 2019
» Industrial 384 trillion Btu 1.2% 2019
» Transportation 1,211 trillion Btu 4.2% 2019

I wouldn't go to vegas if I were you.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/state/print.php?sid=NY
If you're referring to Xinjiang, China's ahead of the USA, not behind it. China emptied out Xinjiang in the eighteenth century; the people there today are not indigenous.

Of course, the government at the time was not Chinese, and the Emperor pursued this course over the objections of his Chinese advisors...
Yes, I've mentioned space stations - which were the next frontier after the Moon race for manned spaceflight.

USA had a tremendous success with space probes - starting with Hubble. Actually, Voyager - still chugging along - and even Vikings - started massive Mars science - but I'd consider the wave of many space projects - Pathfinder, Galileo, Cassini, many space telescopes etc. - started roughly with Hubble launch.

In manned space USA was arguably tied with Shuttle, which eventually stopped flying in 2011, and had to send astronauts with Soyuzes; only when SpaceX completed the Crew Dragon, USA resumed sending people to orbit again; but these are better known recent events. Similarly USA recently got much stronger in commercial space sectors, including regarding manned space - launches, suborbital space; here modern Russia so far offers the same tourist flights as 20 years ago, while having troubles in modernizing, or even maintaining, the launcher fleet. But that's Russia, not USSR.

So if we stop the clock at the moment USSR dissolves, the relative space capabilities are different than now. In space USSR had - up until the end - enough of achievements to be considered world class.
The difference is that in the USA the media is allowed, and does cover this. In China, there is absolute suppression of free speech/media/religion, and the active internment of people who dissent.

You can't even compare the USA and China; China is objectively less free and more repressive.
Be careful with this one. If you could transport yourself back in time to each of the key decisions you made as a younger you, you would likely realize that in most cases, you made the best decision you could with the information and resources you had at the time.

Learn from it, and then apply what you can for the benefit of older you. Regret is pernicious.
Well no, they don’t have zero impact. They have enough of an impact that they will improve things a bit, but not cause a sudden change that would cause people such as you to leave.

That’s the entire idea behind phasing this in, and by your own admission it seems to be well designed.
"Advice: Can you work on something that you actually believe in?"

You absolutely can. I fell into a great gig by accident. But it's a bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket. Companies get bought, cultures change, priorities shift and if you can't detach yourself from work or find another outlet you'll be frustrated. Balance is key and I'd say a fulfilling personal life is healthier thing to aspire towards.
Where do you get heated gear?
Turns out snark is not the clearest way to communicate.
A Tiny Digital Camera Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials (2017)
I am very aware how natural gas energy plants work. However, your oversimplification of the process misses a crucial point. Many power plants improve their efficiency for example by providing district heating, etc.

Your stove is not only heating your pan, it also distributes a lot of heat into your room. And during summer you probably use quite a bit of energy to cool down your again. An induction cooktop is the most efficient type with somewhere around 80% iirc. Also, your electric cooktop can easily be supplied with carbon free electricity, while your gas stove will never be carbon neutral. Not to mention the possible health implications of an open flame burning natural gas while cooking.
I suspect that is because those “ramps” were a combination of high population growth rates and the coincidental technological advances to sustain them.

We were in the middle part of the S curve, and have reached the top due to reduction in population growth rates and other natural constraints, hence the reduction in “ramps”.
Why was that done? I specifically responded to a comment.
I started following the crazy penny stock craze in 2020 and this story is a common sight.

Some reddit, Stocktwits, or other stock analysis site have people monitoring obscure tickers looking for anomalous volume spikes. You’re lucky if the company has more than a low quality logo as the entire website. Sometimes there’s minimal contact info, which people use to connect the company to potential real people on LinkedIn. Maybe you’ll even find the company registered in Delaware and keep digging through financial documents.

The companies are almost always random, profitless entities owned by one person acting as a a custodian for the billions of shares in the float. They promise to clean up the finances and submit paperwork so the ticker can move up through the various OTC exchange hoping to appear more credible.

The stock analysis websites are really sad because you’ll see people hoping to get rich believe anything they read. Some “shill” will say they heard from a little birdie that the company is going to merge with another stock soon, or financial documents are about to be released, or the CEO is planning to retire millions of shares (out of several billion, mind you). Of course, nothing happens and people are left bag holding for years until the next pump, or until the stock effectively goes to zero.
It’s tempting to think you can price GPL software at some “sweet spot” where customers think it’s worth it and you recoup your development costs. But then someone who hasn’t incurred your development costs can undercut you, even while offering the same or better service.
There are also induction cooktops specifically designed for the shape of woks. Which makes sense, seeing as how China is currently the largest adopter of induction cooktops.
Well, there are two questions:

1. Can you make a travel trailer that can’t be towed, with higher quality, for $5000?

2. Can a travel trailer solve rough sleeping?

On my opinion, the second question has much more uncertainty than the first one.
I agree that regulation was a bad example. I think a more accurate example is that consumers want high quality content, but dont want to pay and don't want advertising either.

Consumers saying come up with a business plan that gives me want for free in return for nothing are in for disappointment
How would you go about treatment for illnesses that have no known cause?

There are illnesses where we have a known set of symptoms, a known progression, and known treatment options, but have yet to discover the underlying set of causes. You may be able to reliably diagnose, and treat, without understanding the mechanisms at play.

You're not going to be able to work with the bureaucratic side of the healthcare system without being able to say what they're being treated for. Those treatment options can be approved for one illness and not another, even when they share symptoms, because of known efficacies.

Having a name to call something helps, even when you have no idea about the mechanism at play.
> Electric heating is expensive

Air heat pumps are cheaper to heat with than gas in most situations. It takes rather extreme cold and cheap gas to out compete the 400%+ efficiency of heat pumps.

Technology is pretty awesome.
First off, the point was the GDP was stead in 2018, post-Brexit, pre-pandemic.

The reason you can't use 2021 GDP numbers directly is because we shut down economies due to covid.

Second, you linked two articles with the same "prediction", they did not have any facts linking Brexit to anything.

Feel free to get angry and give up, but do note that nothing you have linked proves Brexit caused the dip in GDP at all.

I'm not claiming anything, I can't prove a negative. You have the burden of proof if you are trying to say X caused Y.
That’s a valid point. I’ll admit I am concerned about the survival of competent journalism, and as far as paywalls go, I can’t consider them unreasonable or offensive.

Ads/trackers are a different beast entirely. Sure, they also provide funding, but it’s a model that’s rooted in obnoxiousness, invasiveness, and disrespect. That approach needs to be punished, and I think loss of revenue is entirely justifiable; even beneficial, if it incentivizes more reasonable and respectful monetization strategies.
I know plenty of tech-adjacent people whose interests stop at Wired articles, but it's really impressive you've actually dived (doven?) into the command line and Emacs, even to the point of building stuff!

You'll definitely be great at software engineering, as the intuition to dive deep into the bowels of these archaic ways of using a computer seems to come naturally! (especially compared to my attorney friends, who basically just use the browser, Outlook, and Word, and probably think a "command line" is some sort of military jargon)