skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd you combine a heat pump with solar it makes even more sense. I've been building a house in Northern Europe (-25C / -15F in winter) and in 2019 calculated how much it would be to heat with a) natural gas, b) air source heat pump or c) air source heat pump and solar PV.

The (b) heat pump option is more expensive up front, but over the course of 10 years (minimum expected life of the heat pump) worked out the same as (a) natural gas, and has the added benefit of being able to cool the house in the summer.

Once you take into account solar (which was calculated to pay itself off after 6 years) it makes no financial sense to choose natural gas. I made these calculations in 2019 and used a rather optimistic 2.5% inflation rate for energy prices, so if you do that again today it's even more in favour of the heat pump and solar.

(I am aware that there are gas absorption heat pumps, but there are very few manufacturers right now, and the ones I found available here were 2-3x the price of an electric unit)
Windows 10 LTSE was under $20 on ebay, unsure of the legality of this.
>Maybe making the Men's division more the "Open"/"all gender" division would help

That is actually how it works, at least in pro sports. There are no gender restrictions in men sports. Women or trans-people are free to compete with men. For obvious biological reasons, they don't.
I imagine the bigger problem is that you have to have hard user research to back colossal changes like this one up, especially if the change would do something like invalidate a possibly three-digit large engineering team's years of work. The only thing that saves this is Microsoft's continued commitment to win32 apps, which will probably continue for eternity at least until MS recreates the _entire_ os from the ground up.
For about ten years now I've only used Windows for rare tasks I can't do on Linux.

Slowly I've just stopped doing those things until eventually, now, we're talking like, a dual boot I use a couple of times a year for things like running exam software or whatever.

Why would they change a winning recipe? Millions (billions) are perfectly happy with their shit sandwiches.
Top-secret internal tools like jadx, apktool, the Android SDK, and a text editor? This is all I used to build my patched version of Instagram.
Most people have none of these things.

The core argument of a reactionary anti-inflation position always pretends that money doesn’t matter in real terms. “Your debt is worth less, but…”

So when a few years of 7% inflation doesn’t trigger hyperinflation, but does reduce the real value of my debt by 40%, that’s good for the debtor, bad for the creditor.

We’ve seen the results of decades of monetary policy that ignored factors like unemployment and soley focused on inflation. That is, a plutocracy where almost a third of GDP is medical care, transportation, and military spending. Time for something else.
AI Model that can generate realistic synthetic data to train another model
since the announcement that windows 11 will require a microsoft account to install, I've decided that windows 10 is the last version of windows I will use for my personal computers. Your description of microsoft's opinion of their customers ('nobody at microsoft...actually cares') is apt.
You are correct, Omicron can infect people regardless of how many shots of current vaccines we have.

Still vaccination reduces, in aggregate, the severity and duration of Omicron illnesses.

So the statement that vaccines prevent infection, can be interpreted both ways.

It's also true that vaccines can also cause illnesses, and again it's nuanced.
Apple Should Make Home Wi-Fi Routers Again as Part of Mac Reboot
I don't have my copy of Homage to hand, but I seem to remember Orwell being in the POUM militia was more or less an accident of how he arrived in Spain and nothing to do with it being 'beloved'.

As an aside, I once met a Spanish Civil War veteran from South Wales. I got the impression that he went to fight the fascists because it was the right thing to do ('If you tolerate this then your children will be next' was a famous slogan that made it into a song), not because of ideological indoctrination. He was a socialist in the British sense, but that should not suggest the slightest parallel with Stalinism
IMO, when a project starts based on flawed assumptions, it is sure to be short-lived.
See, I have nothing against mesh networks or location-based services. I've personally done some things using decawave chips, and I think it's amazing.
The point here is that "location doesn't matter" when we're talking about networking.
Let's say we have a football team. you have three teammates near the goal, two of the defense guys are right next to the goal, closer to you. And there is the third, an excellent striker, who is a little further from the goal. Who do you kick the ball to?
And let's say it's not a good day for your best player and he's tired because he's been partying for three days, would you rather shoot straight for the goal?
The point is that all this QOS confusion exists for a good reason, because good routers and network devices have become bad for the most different reasons, and the network must ADAPT to that, and location is a STATIC value, so it doesn't matter. BGP was invented so we could not worry about location. The message gets there, no matter the condition.
If you're not connecting to the closest device in the mesh, you already have a problem. This means that despite the power, your mesh router is probably overloaded by some other device, does not like its packets, has been partying for three days, or it's just bugged, so either way it will find the next possible glimpse of the network connection to deliver its message.
That made the INTERNET resilient.
> After the TV show with its absolutely cartoonish depiction of the risks of nuclear energy

it was not perfect but it was a good show... aren't all movies cartoonish in some way?
by inventing complete nonsensical dangers. From claiming that the meltdown would result in a "4 megaton explosion" (that's off by about a million as this is the yield of a thermonuclear weapon, a plant isn't a bomb), claiming that the plant would render Europe uninhabitable (no such thing is possible), to portrayals of radiation sickness in Pripyat (the residents received about 3 x-rays worth of radiation), portrayal of radiation sickness as weirdly contagious (which it is not), and so on.
Yes if you look at the general population with incorrect mask fitting, long time frame. I would doubt that claim for an individual that wears properly fitted N95.
It celebrates Russian military prowess, as does the Slavonic March. They haven't cancelled the Rachmaninov performance.
I can vouch for personal experience with macros and Linux, since I made my return to it this month. It's not ideal yet, but it's workable, and there's a generational transition taking place while moving from x11 to Wayland, since the two have different notions of input, so you have to wander through some compatibility stuff to find your way.

This is annoying, but already much better than the Windows story, because you can customize things right down to the kernel level and generally get the result you're looking for in a pretty direct fashion. I now have it set up so that it detects the model of keyboard I plugged in and redirects specific models to specific macro layers - a seemingly obvious two-keyboards use case that can be a serious hassle on Windows without resorting to a hardware solution.
Personal responsibility is a good thing. People need to fail, this is one of the few ways to see critical feedback that fosters growth.
No, look I’m as happy as the next guy all the mandates are going away but I would be extremely opposed to the social status thing.

Just because someone is willing to wear a mask or get vaccinated during a pandemic does not mean they would be fine with a massive surveillance state. That’s a _crazy_ leap
"the talent pool is full of piss"

This suggests 'teacher certification' isn't effective at distinguishing between good and bad teachers.

"Suspend teacher certification"

If 'teacher certification' isn't useful for distinguishing good/bad teachers, then removing the requirement may be a good idea.

"In Alabama"

It's hard to fire bad teachers in Alabama. If you're a principal in an Alabama public school, you can't just give a poorly performing teachers 2-4 weeks' notice, freeing up the money to hire someone new. Look up 'Alabama teacher tenure'.
The irony here is that this is a ChromeOS-specific issue, not really related to typical desktop Linux.

Of course, it can and hopefully will be improved by improvements to desktop Linux. I haven't kept up, but ChromeOS will probably be able to adopt newer open source desktop technologies like Wayland and Pipewire/XDG portals in order to get a better Linux multimedia experience, if they care to.
You said the key word already: trust. Trust is earned over time, whether between humans or between cats and humans.

Growing up, I had a lot of cats around the house and now with a family of my own we have a pair of kitties. In many years of living with cats this has never been a problem. Our kitties have learned that they can trust us humans to be respectful, to treat them well, and to take care of them, and in return we trust that they won't randomly attack us.

Also, despite being solitary hunters, cats are actually social animals. They will learn to give and take social cues. At worst when I've annoyed a cat, they'll typically express it first by a light swat with sheathed claws; that's signal enough for me that they want to be left alone till they get over it.

(In practice, though, my biggest problem with cats on the bed is overheating; I woke up this morning with my feet sandwiched between our two cats.)
No; why I drive a 30 y/o van is none of your business. You’re just going to have to get over it. Sorry, dude!
> If I move away or yell at an animal, that means NO and do NOT follow me. Almost all other animals including cats usually understand CONSENT and what "NO" means very well.

Are you seriously…expecting “packs of wild dogs without owners” to understand “consent” and “no”? I mean I get in your experience your not going to be trustworthy of the animals, but if you are encountering wild dogs, they by definition are not domesticated and likely not to be all that familiar with commands and human behaviors. They know 3 things…eat, procreate, and protect the pack. If you are barking at wild dogs and asserting your dominance in their territory, you are a threat…and it’s no wonder they would act aggressively.
> How are both of these true? If a job pays poorly, doesn't that suggest there are many people willing and able to do those jobs, relative to the need for the job to be done?

Or it suggests that labor doesn't flow through the system as easily as the theory assumes it does, or that the theory assumes incorrect things about the world, or that it's just wrong on the face of it in a whole lot of actual real world cases. As the biologists say, it's usually not the lab mouse who's wrong.
It's interesting to compare this to newspapers which bundled many things together and then got in trouble when people could access them separately.
I still think about COVID-19 in relation to other common diseases, like STDs. We fear many STDs and readily take protections against them. But most STDs are quite benign and easily treatable compared to COVID-19.

In this article, the long-COVID symptoms include:

- loss of taste and smell, anxiety, depression, insomnia, cognitive dysfunction (brain damage), palpitation, shortness of breath (damage to lungs), loss of appetite, bowel symptoms, permanent acute kidney injury, blood clots, hair loss, rashes, sick euthyroid syndrome
The end game is to recover the Baltic States, avoiding a nuclear war with NATO.

Nor that a conventional conflict can't happen, but probably isn't a desirable outcome in their strategies and plans.
Have been thinking a lot about this.

There are more ways to make an impact, such as earning a good salary and re-investing / donating to build trees, renewables or serve any of the UNDP goals that are helping society.

In fact that is probably more impactful that personally picking fruit in the garden.

I guess it just depends on the place itself not being generally net negative to society compared to the impact you can make with it.

Here is a good primer: https://80000hours.org/
My niece was in that situation -- she always had the latest iPhone, drove a nice (leased) car, went out to nice bars with friends, had nice clothes (but worked in a mall, so at least the clothes were inexpensive).

Turns out she was racking up 10's of thousands of dollars of credit card debt and skimping on necessities -- literally eating Ramen noodles at home and food she scavenged from friends at the mall, she wasn't paying her gas bill and got cut off after she accumulated over $3000 of unpaid bills (in the winter she heated only the bedroom of her apartment with a space heater), etc. It all started falling apart when she got pneumonia and was off work for a few weeks and couldn't pay any of her bills.

She had some of the accoutrements of a high standard of living, but was still very much living in poverty. She's living with her mom now and working on paying down the debt.
Yeah only got a few risks off by more than 5 orders of magnitude.

Too bad they can't make something that scary about air pollution.
It’s a brand for a YouTube channel, like the name for TV programs.

Judge the content for yourself.
Had a cold a month or so back (tested twice for Covid, negative). Just some random crap my son brought home from school. Have had a persistent cough ever since. Just get through it like I have been for the last 35 years.

When I worked in grocery store had crap all the time. Then after having kids went through random sickness every 2 to 3 months. In fact I have 2 doctor visits I can point to pre covid. One in 2016 and one in 2018 when I literally went and was like I've been sick for 2 months. Doctors were like, yea you had some random virus, could take a while to shake it. Just took forever to get over it.

Why is this all the sudden a thing? I know Covid can potentially cause (maybe?) more damage than the Flu/or random colds but did people literally not get sick before Covid? Because it really seems like it.

Also are there studies on people who are hysterical about Covid getting more "Long Covid". I'm not saying there aren't physical symptoms. Definitely lost of taste or distorted taste is a big symptom, but could some symptons be mental too?
Unreliable for use as medical sensors, at least that's what the study says. About your general sentiment: I am sorry that you feel you don't have reliable humans in your life.
There's Box86 and Box64 which run x86/ARM64 binaries on ARM64 fairly well. People have gotten games like Portal 2 running on a PinePhone Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPr0Aw3xZrA
In the extreme case, though, a library author can run their own build toolchain and create an executable npm module with zero declared dependencies, then version that as many times as they desire as long as their test cases guarantee that the new build still passes and dependencies have been thoroughly checked.

By publishing the source code to git, those who desire to use a specific version could alternately embed the git URL in their dependencies instead of the pre-built npm package.

Yarn Pack command can be used to run a build command[1] and Yarn Publish[2] in turn calls Yarn Pack, if I understand this correctly.

1: https://yarnpkg.com/advanced/lifecycle-scripts

2: https://yarnpkg.com/cli/npm/publish/#gatsby-focus-wrapper

That said… I agree that further work might be necessary here. I remember the first time I built an npm package and was confused when my lockfile in the package was completely ignored for dependency resolution. I don’t think this problem has gotten much attention, but the solution above might substantially solve the problem, if your dependencies are small enough to embed easily. It’s not ideal though, and I’d welcome other perspectives.
Today I learned some people actually like xCode. I despise it and typically do swift in VS Code and do everything I can to avoid launching xCode.
It might be possible sooner rather than later given Chrome OS Flex is a thing now.

As soon as linux can run on M1s stably, I think Flex would follow suit as well.
They deliberately gray out and disable the button that works for every other application if I recall correctly.
> College prepares people to be adults in every way, not to be a resource for corporations.

Have you ever met someone fresh out of college? Let's be real, if they didn't do something before or during that wasn't college, they are arguably less qualified to do anything than an average person who didn't. Wew, they've memorized how to traverse a graph, or something something roman emperors
I have worked at three universities. This is pretty insanely accurate.

You left out one item though. The main role US institutions are trying to fill right now is: hire new faculty, have faculty pull in 5+ Million dollar grants in order to get tenure. After tenure, pull in multi-million dollar grants each year.

Teaching? Never heard of it. OH! That thing the actual customers are paying us for... yes, have graduate students or temporary emergency hires do it since all of our "real" faculty are bringing in research dollars.
Maybe Chrome OS Flex will eventually support ARM Macs [0]? That would be cool for sure. I installed CloudReady for someone last year and it saved him from buying a new computer, and saved me from worrying about ongoing OS updates.

Disclosure: I work at Google and am speaking only for myself. I do not work on anything related to Chrome OS.

[0] https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/
Every question you asked was answered in the article.
Funniest part is that the tagline and theme of the show was “what is the cost of lies?” despite itself taking ridiculous liberties with the truth. Just off the top of my head there was:

* the “bridge of death” scene that never happened

* irradiated firefighters portrayed as themselves being radioactive

* military dude threatening to throw a member of the academy of the sciences out of a helicopter for trivial/arbitrary reasons

I remember there being other notable ones when briefly looking into it after watching it a couple years back.
Jeez, what's with the hate? Why do you have such a problem with somebody else caring about an animal as if it were family?
I comment on technical threads that I'm interested in as well.
A: Getting stuff approved requires VC or drug patent level revenues to study, and nobody will fund rigorous study of the capability of dogs and the protocols needed to utilize them appropriately.
Isn't this why AMD is going with chiplets design? No reason they can't manufacture even larger processor then, right?
https://twitter.com/planetscaledata/status/15041173614184202...
I assume one of the others was ordering a drone strike on a US citizen with none of the usual due process in finding someone guilty.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-justificati...

This is still shocking to me. And no matter how dangerous this guy was, opening the door on killing your own citizens seems far more dangerous.
Consumption taxes can give rebates just like carbon taxes. A somewhat popular national sales tax proposal a few years back would have done it that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
I hate that the 787's electrically dimmable windows can be centrally controlled! Yeah it makes sense that they are "locked open" during takeoffs and landings, but horrific when you want to look outside to see the stars and the coffee-cart pushers have locked them for the night.
http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=8...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...

Both links talk about SK regulations, the latter more directly:

> This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks

It could be a miscommunication but you’re being a little unclear with your language. If you’re saying that the $/TB is $0 then you’re not strictly true everywhere. Additionally, even if peering is 0-rated between large cloud providers, it isn’t necessarily true for Vimeo if they’re a customer. It depends on the agreements they’re able to strike with their providers, or the terms they’re able to get for their own peering agreements (even if large cloud providers 0-rate each other’s traffic, they may not do so for smaller customers).

If you’re saying that costs are variable based on how many TB you transfer I can’t say, but practically I doubt it would matter. But the contract can state that peering is charged $x/TB above the Y TB included in your annual minimum spend of Z hundreds of dollars.

Of course amortized over Vimeo’s volume this (wildly speculating on my part) probably amounts to several dollars per month or even per year and most of their customers are unlikely to be in SK or Australia where this issue is most prevalent. So in practice most businesses do often see 0-rated transit costs.

Disclaimer: this all my secondary hand information and I’m not particularly knowledgeable in this space. I would defer to anyone who actually strikes these peering deals regularly.
> College prepares people to be adults in every way, not to be a resource for corporations.

Ironically, college starts preparing people to be adults at age 18, where in most jurisdictions in the US, you are already an adult.
Of course! That's the exact problem we're talking about here. Résumés screens don't work very well - they provide much less information about whether or not someone can actually solve problems with code than almost anyone would expect. That's the entire reason that a simple programming task like 'fizzbuzz' has value. It's the reason people want candidates to do something in addition to providing their résumé.
OS X has been great for the past decade. I won't say the same for MacBooks, where there have been some pretty horrible decisions (butterfly keyboard, touch bar), but OS X has kept humming along, very usable, very productive. A few issues with Spotlight and some easily removed nags to use crap like iCloud is the worst I can say.
Pedant's note: the phrase is "du jour", French for "of the day".
Depends on wear you live, some banking websites are just straight up neglected, while they focus on app development, strange world.
Do you see a future where cross-platform could essentially be a set of tools/frameworks to build high performance native experiences targeting the browser as the primary runtime?
> It doesn't say 'mild compared to a cold' though.

"Mild compared to a cold" is not what I wrote either. I said it's "like a mild cold" for vaccinated people. "Mild cold" being, you know, what people get all the time: some sore throat/cough/congestion. No high fevers, not bedridden, etc.

If you read the news beyond that one link I pasted above, you'll see what I said is pretty consistent with what has been reported. Here's [1] another one:

> For many people, especially those who are vaccinated and otherwise healthy, Omicron does appear to have relatively mild symptoms, including upper respiratory or cold like symptoms like a runny nose congestion, sneezing, and sore throat—which is relatively common—and headaches. Fever is less common than we’ve seen with other variants, especially in vaccinated people.

[1] https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-prevention/omicro...
Don't just vaguely hint at things, state them explicitly and source your claims.
Yes, definitely, there might be an alternate explanation that's closer to reality, than what I proposed.

Any ideas?