skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but if the heat pump is designed to operate in very cold weather the minimum efficiency is 100% (backup resistance heating), so you will always at least break even versus pure resistance heating. Discounting equipment costs of course :)

Also, I've never seen a building (in the U.S.) that relies on electric heating if temps in the area will get much below 10°F (-12°C). At that point, it's always natgas/propane/fuel oil/wood.
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That’s awesome and in no way do I argue that shouldn’t be allowed. I’m arguing for the sane moderate position that regulation can be tightened instead of eliminating private internet. That doesn’t mean local government can’t build their own infrastructure.
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Glad it helped! It was a bit crushing at the time (and TBH I am still working through residual shame here and there), but it was kind of like washing out of Navy SEAL training. There's no shame in not hitting the very top of the mountain. Hardly anyone does.
Spam. That's why usenet failed and email is an unusable mess. Ignore spam and you'll end up the same. Web based forums dealt with spam but there is nothing inherently centralized about spam prevention.
This is good software. I've been using it for about a month and I've IDed several local birds I've never been able to see. Merlin is from Cornell as well.
You are confidently incorrect.
Related:

The Vale Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25160202 - Nov 2020 (171 comments)

The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865674 - July 2020 (38 comments)
Hundreds of developers, modelers, artists, and the like spent months working on NFT games, “digital land” and other projects that are sure to either get canceled or be commercial failures.

Ironic how similar the crypto and traditional world is.
I gathered that was your opinion given that you actually implemented the model but one of my mantra's is basically "Calculus good actually" when it comes to programming so I thought I'd take the opportunity to propitiate.
Usually canceling means getting someone fired, guess it's all projection from these people.
http://web.archive.org/web/20201201175920/https://vale.dev/b...
I think this maybe a use-case for "Homomorphic" encryption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
The consequence is we're allowed to talk about it and judge the man accordingly for being a hypocrite.
> > Gladstone does make a starkly racist declaration that ancient colour systems are ‘less mature’ than contemporary English.

That's particularly eyeroll-inducing since most contemporary English terminology and culture is to some degree descended from the ancient Greeks (either directly or via the Romans), so whatever the alleged merits of "maturity", the English stuff clearly has about two extra millennia of it.
Notably, mrustc is a Rust compiler in the sense that it is able to compile valid Rust code. It does not provide a guarantee that it will reject invalid input. The user is on the hook to work out themselves through some other mechanism that their code is valid before calling mrustc.

This is fine for a project with the goal of providing an alternative bootstrapping path for rustc. The rustc codebase is known to be valid Rust, more or less by definition, since rustc is self-hosting and Rust is defined by rustc’s implementation rather than by a specification.
So we're down to only a 50% energy density compared to a fuel cell.

But the fuel cell uses hydrogen, which leaks inevitably (it slowly diffuses through all materials), and is an extremely potent greenhouse effect gas.
The Yes No Unset enum seems intriguing to me -- in Rust term it is an Option<bool>. Usually this mean I have to unwrap_or but depending on the context it can be true or false
To your last point: I think I disagree, because your analog computer (like all analog computers) addresses one fixed-size instance of a problem, not the scalable family of problems. You can not make a computational complexity big-O statement about your analog computer, but you can do that about boson sampling and random circuit sampling. This is a crucial milestone in the creation of a physical realization of a computational device.

In your first paragraph, while I am sympathetic with your annoyance (pardon my imprecise choice of words), I disagree there too. Mostly because I can imagine the same argument used against Babbage, Lovelace, and Turing, who did their theory (and failed experiment) work decades to a century before a scalable classical computer existed.
Or mayhap I know what difference lay, between it and they?
Related:

Identify the birds you see or hear with Merlin Bird ID - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31361300 - May 2022 (2 comments)

All about Birds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289706 - Feb 2020 (49 comments)

See also:

Show HN: Learn to identify the birds at any location - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28059763 - Aug 2021 (5 comments)

BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929150 - July 2021 (155 comments)
No, but the Fed did have the ability to extend credit beyond the reserve of gold.
No and you stop asking that in every thread
Ah that's what happens when I don't have my cup of coffee in the morning. I went from 1 to 11 million in a typo and didn't even reason. So yeah, it was 12,7 days, not 127. Guess I'll double check having my coffee next time I'm doing back-of-the-napkin math /facepalm
Nah, it's exceedingly common to use "they" as the indefinite gender singular. I remember seeing this in the 90s.

Example: "If a person wishes to avoid jail, they would be wise not to commit crimes."

No other word except the gross "he/she" construction makes grammatical sense in lieu of "they".
Let me guess, you think certain demographics are only entitled to certain viewpoints? /s
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> tell me where you can buy one to own as property

Just buy a judge or two.

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The fact that there is a minimum wage, and that efforts to increase it are met with resistance is proof that there are many jobs for which the minimum wage is also the maximum.
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+1 right on

Coding for fun is enough, it is not necessary to create another Common Lisp implementation or a new ecosystem like Clojure.

Nice project!
The SQL on Rails demo:

https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg
I changed the title because people were misparsing the original and complaining about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782159.

I don't see how the changed title carries the implication you're objecting to, so have left it for now.
It will be interesting to observe, I'm sure that TV and radio before it had a measurable impact too. I mean some people attribute the loss of the Cornish language to the railway making Cornwall less isolated
Couldn’t even watch this video - I had to skip to the end. Way too stressful! The frank admissions of fear at the outset really set the tone and it just gets more intense from there. Insane.
Von Mises is generally a laughing stock in academia. Only the internet thinks he's worth dusting off.

Von Mises has been missing from proper economic discussions in academia for half a century. He predates when economics was a science, and was expected to produce things that matched the data.

Absolutely nobody with any actual training would take his name seriously in practice. Naming him in a non-critical is like mentioning Ivermectin - a red flag that everything you know about the topic comes from social media. You might as well bring up Dr Sebi.
Being pro immigration doesn't mean you think all the global poor should move 'here' immediately (wherever 'here' is). leftists are more that people who have moved here should be treated as human, not subhuman.

It's normal to think your life is more important than other people's. It's weird to live in Texas and think people born 50 miles away in Mexico are inferior but people born 1,000 miles away in New York are the same, and people born 1,100 miles away in Canada are inferior. In some sense thinking "I just happened to be born here and this doesn't give me any special status over people who weren't" is one way of living life as if it's no more valuable than anyone elses.

> "their own country"

Why nationalism though? Why should someone born in a "shithole country" be obliged to try and make it better instead of moving away? What should compel them to care about the lines on a map? What should compel me in the UK to feel more connected to someone in Norther Ireland (part of the UK) than someone in the Republic of Ireland a few miles away (part of Europe)? Or less connected to people in Spain, but more connected to people in Gibraltar (part of the UK, on the far side of Spain), or people in the Falkland Islands (part of the UK, South Argentina)?
Reading through the implementation(s) it seems like they are halfway to implementing a garbage collector already.

Interestingly, the mention MTE. Could that be used in GC as well? To in place mark the generation of an object without having to copy it maybe?

> MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) is a new extension on the ARM v8.5A architecture that helps with detecting errors in software memory use.
Room and board is not cheap and working to pay for it makes sense IMO. If that’s slavery, then so be it. But that doesn’t excuse other detailed injustices in the system, such as not having medical care or basic necessities.
I’m glad you were able to recover. What prompted you to try chia seeds, in particular?
This is a very nice toy model, perhaps the only surprise came while reading "profits are distributed equally as dividends to everyone". I was wondering if this turns the simulation into a combination of capitalism and communism? Not sure how to find a simple alternative, any ideas anyone? Thanks!
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Good summary!

Generational references were less than half the overhead of RC as of last benchmark. [0]

Re inline data: A piece of inline data will (most often) share the generation of its containing object. A generational reference can include an offset to the parent's generation, which we can use for generation checks.

Inline data should make it even faster, because then we can control our objects' layouts and use the cache more efficiently, and not be chasing pointers all the time. I think that's the biggest advantage of generational references over RC and GC.

We're also building regions into the type system, which can be used to statically temporarily freeze areas of memory (similar to the Rust borrow checker) to eliminate generation checks. [1]

Another very experimental aspect we're prototyping is "hybrid generational memory" which can temporarily lock an object (similar to a RefCell) to elide a lot more generation checks [2] but it's too early to promise it will work.

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-refs-regions

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory
> Using American political terms, I'd put the NYT as having a centrist Democrat bias,

The New York Times is owned by NewsCorp / Fox News / Rupert Murdoch

You may want to reconsider how well you know this topic
We still let people write off losses on crypto.
C can sometimes be an easier target since you don't have to learn LLVM's API.
C is also more portable than llvm since there is a greater variety of C compilers for a greater variety of architectures than llvm targets.
I'm doing online shopping once a week. At some point they added a 3 second animation of "boost" in points to some products. I see it once a week and I hate it with passion. It slows down what I'm trying to do, even if I achieve something I maybe even could care about... but I hate the interference so much I refuse to check what the "boosting" is even about.

The point is - it doesn't matter how infrequent it is. If you don't allow disabling it, it's going to piss someone off.
what do they need marketing for? there are only a few exchanges anyway. i cannot imagine CAC being much for the same reason. what is BAU?
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> The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
Submitters: Please post follow-up links to the main thread, rather than making separate discussions out of them.

In this case the project has a major ongoing thread:

Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785199 - June 2022 (104 comments)

We can't have two discussions about the same project on the front page at the same time, so I've had to downweight this one.
Ask HN: What do you think of a Reddit style RSS feed?
Every user has an RSS feed and a page for a personal feed. Front page of site is a list ranked by most followed feeds, time, etc.
Each RSS item has comments, with no karma system to discourage echo chambers. Flag system with light guidelines to avoid 4chan bigotry effect, but loose enough to let users post as freely as Reddit. Every user can see each other’s feed list and obviously add to their own.

I’m wondering if people would find this interesting and useful
It does, currently in the form of IFunction1<R, P>, IFunction2<R, P1, P2>, etc.

We also just introduced variadic generics in version 0.2, which is the first step towards a unified IFunction<R, ...> interface.

Long term, we'll have syntactic sugar for it: func(...)R
Everything this guy writes and does is a pitch for his automata theory of the universe or his software program.
When other people's livelihoods depend on the thing you created, you lose the moral right to wantonly destroy it. When what you built stops being wholly yours, you lose the moral right to wantonly destroy it.

Those are just two examples. There are more.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786979 about follow-up links.

Related ongoing thread:

Laddering a Chimney [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31784637 - June 2022 (28 comments)
Yes, as long as the B stands for Big Business.
yeah, my thought too. how is it possible to graduate a CS program without knowing what a binary tree is?
“Everyone’s freaking out — like, ‘I lost my life savings,’” said Mr. Collins, who founded Tether with Mr. Pierce and now runs a crypto venture called BLOCKv. “That’s a tragedy, but it’s just as much of a tragedy when someone says, ‘I went to a casino and lost my life savings.’ But that doesn’t mean let’s regulate casinos out of existence.”

Do people in the crypto game generally acknowledge that they’re gambling? I always thought they considered it “investments”
I find people down the rabbit hole can’t see out very far.

Some folks are shocked to hear that anti-vax isn’t necessarily aligned with one political point of view.
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Tried to stay around 3.5% inflation but furiously fought deflation and used the sliders a lot to pendulum around especially in crises
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Aren’t federated services just a way for you to … pick your walled garden?
Conversely the fact that it was such a late change means it was poorly engineered. engineering as a discipline means understanding your problem space and creating a well formed solution to it, if you have last minute changes that means you did not understand your problem space well enough.

Perfectly understandable in this case, that construction technique was really cutting edge, and the change has been born out by the real acid test of engineering, it has stood for this long.
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> German economy is famous for being based on small and mid-sized companies

Companies under 500 people are responsible for half of the jobs in the US.

Companies under 20 workers are ~15% of the employment market.

https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0414...
They're elected for their political platforms and ideology, not their ability to manage budgets, evidenced by alarming deficit spending. Overwhelmingly across the world, governments have a proven track record of wastefulness, inefficiency and bloat.

In the last few years, elected officials (in the USA) spent over $10 billion on a wall. The previous admin's COVID relief bill included billions towards missiles, warships and other military spending. The current admin's $1T+ infrastructure bill allocates less than half of that amount towards roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, etc.

It includes billions in corporate subsidies and items like over $500M to Alaska including $100M for an airport when no other airport in the country even received $10M (AL senator Shelby is the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee). Middleburg VA gets $2M for a new town hall, and Palo Alto CA gets $3M for their history museum. Giving these people _more_ money is madness.

The question remains open.
Best to forget about that interview and focus on future ones. Frontend engineering doesn't mean you can ignore performance issues in your programs. Binary trees are a very useful data structure to know in general. Ordered collections in many languages' standard libraries are internally implemented as balanced binary trees. It's good to have at least a high level understanding of this data structure.
> Honest question: How are we supposed to maintain our civilization without some government spending?

You speak as if there is currently no government spending, which is bizarre.

> The country's 1% currently own 70% of the wealth

This wealth does not exist as specie unproductively hoarded in vaults or banknotes hidden by misers so as to deprive the rest of us of food and shelter. It is lent and invested in the hope of generating value. The wealthy could spend their wealth on caviar, yachts, hookers, and blow, but instead, they make it available to those who promise to do something useful with it. Even the government itself can raise money borrowing from the wealthy. You may have heard of government bonds, or perhaps even the federal deficit.

Who will build the EVs? Who will build the houses for the homeless? Who will care for the aging and disabled? It's not just a matter of money, or printing it and giving to the poor, the gasoline-burning, the aging, the disabled would not drive up prices.

Someone has to be paid to provide these things, and housing, vehicles, medical care already account for most of our economy. Everyone with the skill and desire to care for the aging and the disabled are already doing it. Everyone with the skill and desire to build houses and cars are already doing it. We have full employment. Inflation is rampant because too many dollars chase too few resources, both people and material. If the new round of COVID stimulus had passed or BBB had passed, there would be more dollars and less investment, but not more resources.

In order to build more EVs, which EV factories should be disassembled and auctioned off for tax revenue? In order to care for more elderly, what elderly care facilities should be closed and sold to land developers? To fund more solar panels, how much do we need to tax solar panels?
Speaking for myself, I left out macros to make sure I'd make the base language good enough in regular use without them. It's a Lisp, macros are easy to add later. (That's what happened in the original Lisp.)
Yes, as a former paperboy I can say newspapers (obviously!) don’t have some bespoke assembling process for each customer that would allow for this level of individualization.
He never implied to have studied CS
> And the "allsides" chart with Jacobin lumped in with the NYT and MSNBC is hilariously bad.

Yeah I can understand using a left/right scale more relative to American political parties, but that's like meme a tier placing. Left and right are already broad terms and shit like these makes it even more binary.
The embarrassment of it all is this: a study of global prison systems and their efficacy tells us what our governments should be doing. If we want to improve recidivism rates, we can look around at this world and do something better. If we want to inflict more punishment, there’s no end to the examples of inhumane torture. If we want to turn it into a profitable big-business slavery farm and factory system, we can find free-market exemplars. We, our government, need to temper the amoral economic system if we wish to avoid having slavery-adjacent for-profit businesses running amuck on our land.
Suppressing rates via QE multiplies the spending power of a dollar, which has a very similar effect as creating more currency
Steve Jobs NeXT development demos were out before 1991.
Dialing it back in the future! Thanks Dang
Apparently getting into manga is really difficult in Japan. Most start out doing hentai. To make money until they get a break and their manga becomes popular.

(I don’t know how true this is, something I read many years ago cos I’ve been watching anime for 25 years)
>be very comfortable doing less than 40 hours a week, never working weekends, never doing crunch time, never being forced to work overtime, taking 6 weeks of vacation every year, sometimes more, and half of that is legally mandated

This is pretty normal in the US too. Sure, its not "mandated" but everything besides 6 weeks of vacation is pretty common for SDE.
An 800 pound rent seeking gorilla is disrupting my rent seeking. Cry me a river.
>It is built for the joy of building something. It s built for fun, both in its coding and in coding with it. It is not the fastest language with the hottest features. It is not the most stable thing or the best tool for every or even any job. It likely will never be those things. If you use it and you get utility out of it I am happy about that: that is amazing and excites me! I genuinely believe slope to be a useful and fun language to use and I enjoy working on and in the language.

This applies to FORTH. Cool name tho.
Yup, great idea and I absolutely agree.

But that's not part of the agenda for people pushing the abolition of domestic oil. Which makes the conspiracy theorist in me wonder how much of the north American anti-oil environmentalist movement is actually Saudi propaganda
If you view the sellers rather than the buyers as customers, then you’ll see that it is the case.
I don't see how that article suggests it's different in Europe.
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Pretty sure the Federal Reserve was setting reserve requirements from day one, which has a direct effect on the money supply.
I won't be making that argument because I gave two examples of things that I disagree with, not one that I support.

I don't think violence is ever warranted against another non-violent person whom you have ideological differences with.

I don't think it is moral to act as an individual judge against any non-violent person and Carry Out violence.

Punching someone because you think they are a Nazi or communist is not okay
They are marine mammals, though. Your link says that their numbers are projected to decline by 30% by 2050.

They're very good swimmers, but they still need a place to sleep. They're smart and adaptable, but they are also ambush predators with bright white fur who need a lot of calories and mostly eat seafood.