skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The needs of the homeowner and the needs of the grid are at odds with one another here.

The electricity grid wants the highest possible efficiency on the coldest days, so that they can serve as many users as possible without building more infrastructure.

The homeowner wants the average efficiency to be as high as possible over the whole season, to reduce heating/cooling costs. They don't care if one or two really cold days have bad efficiency, as long as the system has sufficient output to keep the house comfortable.

Someone needs to use laws or incentives to align those two - because if every home owner used one of todays heat pump systems, then the electricity grid would fail on the coldest days of the year.
Not among voters, no. The majority of US right wing voters would happily shut down <pro-Communist, anti-Christian, etc.> sources using the government. The "I don't like what you say but will defend to the death..." principle is a luxury position most often held by educated centrist right-wingers.
Everytime I read these comments I feel like I work in another industry. Who cares about the gaps in your resume? Truly, have recruiters commented in anything but passing? Your interviewers?

I've hired candidates with large gaps in their resume and their reasoning for the most part was I wanted time off or I went traveling or N other things that have nothing to do with work. We. Did. Not. Care.

Pass the interview. This is the only thing we cared about at Big Tech Co.
https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/designing-a-new-old-home-...

Is highly opinionated but on-topic.
Related: https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_exp...

There's an experimental module and CLI command in the normal shell to use this logic to dump out a suggested list of indexes to create for a given SQL command to speed it up.
Sounds like something a tax accountant would have information about.
Early retirement (including back with your parents) is a real option. You've worked very hard, and you deserve to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
> Doesn't "1983" tell you something?

That it was finalized around the same time Turbo Pascal 1.0, which only ran on DOS and CP/M, was released.

> The starndard was late. By that time, it wasn't needed because the only Pascal that was widely used was Borland's.

The ISO standard closely followed the 1974 language description, which served largely the same purpose and had generally the same shortcomings on utility, so that the “interoperable but not useful because following a very limited common description, or useful but not interoperable because of proprietary extensions on top of the common description” predates the ISO standard; the lack of a common labguage spec was never as much of a problem as the focus of the spec.

And, no, by December 1983, Turbo Pascal (released the month before) was not the only Pascal that mattered. Nor would it be later in the 1980s, as Apple's Object Pascal (which influenced later versions of Turbo Pascal) became important.
Is difference in number of keystrokes (keychords) not fairly convincing evidence that, at the very least, vim results in less finger effort (and therefore lower risk of RSI) than other editors?

Even if you don't believe that there's a speed advantage (it's entirely plausible that the delay from cognitive processing necessary to navigate vim's more complex interface dwarfs the speed increase of pressing fewer keys), I find it hard to defend the idea that pressing significantly more keys is not ergonomically worse than pressing fewer (controlling for effort variables e.g. using the Carpalx model[0]).

[0] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort
> since the rest of the world is safe from prisoners while they're in jail.

Does this mean you would be in favor of judicial reform that prevented those convicted of non-violent crimes from going to prison? No reason to keep someone locked up on a petty possession charge if our concern is safety of others.
off-topic but I'm a fan of your user name. Potassium Permanganate will always remind me of the delight on Martin Poliakoff's face in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUyeCC-2Ko
Not OP, but the significant change I see is FAANG can't hire simply to keep talent away from their competitors anymore. Not sure what overall percentage of people working in those jobs were hired for that reason, but they'll likely never see that kind of salary again.
Sorry couldn't find an english link. Didn't think such a relic from the 19th century still exists.
> still no idea what the hell it was, but it has not come back.

Sounds like an ocular migraine
Similar thing happened at an amusement park:
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/increase-of-911-calls-t...
I have a usb-c iPad. I do prefer the lightning connector but usb-c is a close second and leaps and bounds better than the previous usb phone interfaces.
To literal an interpretation on ferreting out solutions?
> That said I would be a little suspicious as a mid/senior-level developer if I got hired at a place that didn't ask me to do any coding for them at all beforehand.

I'd be suspicious if they didn't ask me to do any coding, but I'd be just as suspicious if the coding they asked me to do was leetcode.
Most capitalists are not billionaires or even millionaires, the divide you are creating is outdated and frankly asinine.
Bingo. That's the point.

If people want to share with a third party, it's their business.

But for US to just access some database and lift them is ridiculous
> I would be thrilled with an affordable vehicle with a powerful and reliable electric drivetrain, top-of-class range, comfortable features and sensible UI, and flawless fit-and-finish.

But Tesla is not affordable, and doesn't have flawless fit-and-finish
Neurons that maintain body temperature at 37°C in mammals identified
When there is an article about Israeli researchers delving into the history of the land they have stolen, I pay attention because my family was ethnically cleansed from this land in 1948 because we were not Jewish. We were part of over 750,000 Natives exiled from their land, dispossessed and exiled. And not allowed to return.

Israeli citizens are not aware of their shameful past (ethnic cleansing, massacres, looting, and rapes) that took place in 1947-1949.
Story, narrative structure, and themes were a lot more interesting than maybe any other Star Wars film. The remixed Empire elements were much better- and more-thoughtfully-used (and more-subtly-) than VII's retelling of IV's plot. Despite including those elements, it took a lot more inspiration from the kinds of sources that went into the original Star Wars movie than the other two in its trilogy do, rather than leaning mostly on other Star Wars films and mainly including a kind of filtered-through-previous-Star-Wars version of those influences.

IMO its biggest flaw is that the climax goes so entirely counter to what been foreshadowed hard the entire film, and cuts off any of several directions that alternative-version of it might have gone that would have been much better as far as storytelling possibilities in IX. I mean the part where Kylo offers to partner with Rey and she flatly rejects it. Almost any other way for that to have gone would have been more interesting and fit better with the way the film had been heading—Rey makes the offer to Kylo but he rejects it in favor of a face-turn; Rey accepts it; Rey rejects it, but because she doesn't trust him and wants to take over herself (to "do it right", of course)—anything like that would have been better. It's either a weird miss for the writer, or studio meddling, I reckon—and I'd bet on the latter, because damn does the rest of the script feel like it's going that way, to the point that I was kinda dumbfounded when it did the most boring possible thing instead.
It’s not that hard to get cotton/wool clothing, though wool is definitely pricier than spun plastic. I’ve had much more trouble with furniture, though, there’s a much larger price premium there for whatever reason.
Shockingly, sometimes Software Engineers are asked to write algorithms for their job.
What about a wood burning stove? That would be more reliable if you are truly off the grid.
This product is seriously late?

Surely you want this before Christmas so more-money-than-sense parents can buy it to help their failing kids pass computer class?

"It's 100% cause everyone else has a better GPU mom. And the professor hates me. No I can't play Fortnite on a Mac I need it to unwind."
Moral Panic [1] with a clickbait title.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQqOdfc7pw
Virtues of Rationality
I suspect what Anon means is: if you plan to tell people your side project was your job, you should start treating it as your job.

I play around with some side projects where I don’t give a shit about user counts or GitHub stars or commercial viability, doing perhaps 4 hours work per week. If I told people this was me at the height of my powers, I’d expect them to be unimpressed.
Were there any positive effects of the long isolation in the case of Japan?
It's someone exercising their right to put up a box on their own property. I see them all the time and it never occurred to me that this was "organized" by grifters in any way (and no, I don't have one).

Yes, I said "grifters." No one needs sponsorship for their LFL. No one needs to be "registered." If you want to contribute to society's literacy, there are lots of organizations that do that.

And by the way, public libraries are already free, and they're pretty popular, too.
The Age of Empires II remake doesn't work well for me unfortunately: it runs, but when trying multiplayer, you can play for 1 minute, then it gives sync error

Multiplayer is the sad part for Linux these days, except for the more cooperative type of games like Terraria, Factorio and Satisfactory where it works well.
It's about suppressing votes of marginalized citizens who have limited access to government bureaucratic procedures due to time, location, language, or other constraints, many of which have been constructed deliberately or with knowing negligence.
For sure. So utterly penetrating, incisive, soulful and relatable. There can be no suspicion that the author relied on ChatGPT for this piece!
This reminds me of a friend who stated that when you call 911, you should ask for police/fire/ambulance, give your name and address and then put the phone down. I thought he was overly paranoid but I guess not.
Faking those things is a totally different state of affairs to safe operation. I've been out of automotive for 20 years but never met anyone who would compromise normal operational safety. Let's face it most people who work on cars love to drive cars. They would be putting their own and families lives at risk.
> There is a reason biology tugs on ropes and lets reaction surfaces slide around instead.

And that reason is that it's very difficult to have a rolling joint or muscle because you can't get blood into it. It's largely fundamentally inaccessible to an organism that must grow itself. There are massive advantages that are unexplored by evolution.

Even further, gears are inherently asymmetric, meaning they are even harder to evolve. Nevertheless nature DOES use gears[1] when it can.

> You can shape the surfaces the way you want for the movement you need.

You can actually do the same with gears and screws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100is1XpXcE

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-insect-ha...
What attracted me to geothermal was the year round availability of 50F water - easier to extract winter heat at that temperature, and you could create a simple fan / radiator ducted air cooling system for the summer. The latter would actually store summer heat in the ground, and could be powered purely by solar.
It's just what it is, the society that we live in shapes even the adult us - so you better be very careful where you raise your children. (As young adults they will be always able to find themselves and pick a different path, but it's better if they don't start with an handicap in that society.)

And yeah, it can be hard to strike the right balance - do these family members spend some effort to teach Romanian to their kids ?
I've taken most of a year out to travel the world while doing nothing work-related whatsoever and nobody seems to care.
I'm ok with doing a bit of defensive driving against Teslas or bad drivers in general.
Even if the story is true, taking this attitude to the extremes is what leads companies like Amazon to time warehouse workers down to the last second and set increasingly aggressive targets every year. It is easy to deal with people when they are just a bunch of numbers in a excel sheet.
No wonder they are going to run out of workers to hire in the US by 2024, as their own memo said.
Talking about it in terms of greenhouse gases and carbon deliberately confuses a measure with the goal, with the effect of elevating and centralizing managers and their propagandists.

I was going to withdraw the comment because it had snark, and there are huge environmental issues with human causes - but there are concrete national policy solutions to them. What I object to is the use of climate change as a distraction for an unrelated agenda whose most basic principle is the imaginary idea of a zero sum understanding of nature and the world - and that every prescription for it stems from trying to be the authority who redistributes resources based on that zero-sum belief.

Even accepting the-scientific-consensus, I'd challenge any activist to show they are not merely using it as a so-called anti-capitalist straw man and a pretext for imposing management on people, instead of designing technology and principles that adapt to the feedback effect that we, like all other organisms, create by our very existence.

All organisms have an impact on their ecosystems. Humans have the ability to somewhat manage our impact on ours, but only at a limited scale. There is no crisis that justifies forfeiting self determination to a small cadre of technocrats setting global policy, as they are not equipped to fix it. So far, they have demonstrated they don't give a crap about the natural environment, but they do care a lot about imposing governance without accountability, and demolishing regional autonomy. Their propaganda is really tear jerking, but it's as cynical as the most rapacious capitalists in human history imposing ESG.

My argument is that people who affect the most concern about climate change are disingenuous opportunists exploiting fear and sentiment, and the ones who are indeed sincere are exploited by these forces of cynicism and mendacity who have greenwashed their own will to power. There's a clear line. There are those of us who see problems as opportunities for innovation, optimization, and adaptation, and those who see problems as a pretext to decieve and steal from others. When I see propagandistic displays, I'm pretty sure which side of that dichotomy they are on.
> Isn't that already the case?

In spirit, perhaps. In fact, no. If you opt for court-provided representation, your defense attorney will typically have less than an hour to prep for your case -- barely long enough to get "your side of the story" and certainly not long enough to discover nuances relevant to the law. And you might even still have to pay; in Texas, for example, you're not entitled to court-appointed representation if your income is above some unspecified amount.
> Most capitalists are not billionaires or even millionaires,

Yes, they are, if one is referring to the capitalist class (the haut bourgeoisie), those who relate to the economy primarily through capital to which other’s rented labor is applied, not “everyone with some, however incidental, capital”. Heck, even most of the middle class (petit bourgeoisie, who either apply their own labor to their own capital or who otherwise are supported significantly by both labor and capital) are at least millionaires. The working class, who obligatorily depend on renting out their labor to capitalists may have some incidental capital and not be millionaires, but they very much are not capitalists.
The “soft” copper tubing they use in refrigerant lines is not only very cheap (it’s not 100% copper) but is very much over built for pressure it is likely going to be subject to. It’s way cheaper, in this instance, to simply sell a line set that works with 99% of systems instead of having dedicated factory lines and consumer confusion from having different grades of registrant tubing.
There’s some truth to what you’re saying, but it can be taken too far.

If you have the posture of “I’ll take anything I can get” I think that actually puts you at a disadvantage in an interviewing situation.

In my experience employers can tell who is actually trying to evaluate fit themselves, and who is just saying what they think needs to be said.

I find it’s easier for both parties to make an offer, if they know the counterparty has done their due diligence.

For me when accepting an offer I’m also doing the same, evaluating whether I think the company has actually vetted me properly and has reason to think I will be a good fit.

There is so much mystery in the hiring process, I really need the other party to be doing their half of the work. And that means saying no to opportunities that don’t feel right.

That doesn’t mean I walk away from anything that’s not perfect. It just means I am looking out for reasons to say no, in addition to the reasons to say yes. I think interviewers pick up on that and it helps me get offers.
Living in the Netherlands, I haven't had to show ID to any government agent when flying to another country in the Schengen area in at least ten years (and I fly quite often). If I don't check in online then I am sometime asked to show it at check-in. And sometimes I have to show it at the gate, but the people there are only eyeballing it to make sure the name matches the boarding pass.

Note that I do often have to show ID on the return flight. Each country (and probably airport) has its own procedures.
Thank you for the kind words!

I missed blogging too, so I set a New Year’s resolution in January to write at least two blog posts this year. It had been over seven years since my last!

I still hadn’t written one by November, but now I’ve got three for the year.

I’m optimistic I can keep it up now.
I couldn't find any public statements from the brewery as to why they closed shop. A bit of snooping landed me on Raul's LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raul-cano-00a4b6) where it doesn't seem to have the brewing company listed under his experience, so perhaps there was some falling out?
Nintendo does release older software from time to time, at least 1st party titles. Especially on their virtual consoles.
"Safety" and "Security" are considered separate topics in the automotive world, even though there's some overlap between them. There are usually completely separate teams with different skillsets responsible for each at any given manufacturer. ASRG is pretty focused on the security side rather than the safety side.
Last time my job was threatened, I spent a few weeks brushing up on my algorithms, going through coding challenges, reimplementing the basics (in my case, a concurrent consumer-producer queue, an IPC mechanism, etc.)

I'm an experienced systems developer with a pretty good resume, I didn't want to look stoopid if I was asked any such question in an interview.

Worked pretty well. I wasn't laid off but I ended up changing job for something more fun than my then position.
I used Google Translate on this article. Just a regular one. Imagine someone got this news from a Telegram channel. Might freak him/her out a bit.
The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal
Another option for meeting people is volunteering.

And almost any sport, appreciate you may not play any, but a group of the same people go to the same thing week in week out. You can even pick something where you can get lessons first then join a club.

Sometimes there are more social sports clubs that aren't really competitive. Here in the UK for example there are social badminton clubs and competitive badminton clubs. You will get a real mix of skill levels at the social clubs, and these might have regular meetups outside of the badminton. The one I'm part of do meals, theatre, outdoor events, etc. together. It depends on the people running it.
FWIW, the Steam Deck is literally the device I've been waiting for my entire life since I first played a computer game.

I mostly don't use it as a handheld. More as the "living room console for the kids" and as the "portable friends/family" device, in that way that e.g. the Switch advertises (but supports stuff like the Jackbox games)

We should have had "gaming device that is also an actual general purpose computer" a long time ago, but I"m glad it's here now.
I'm sure it started that way, but they've been tweaking their drivers for 15+ years at this point.

That's time enough for them to skew their userbase's behavior if they could. And given the amount of money they've thrown at staff, I wouldn't bet against them having shifted it in their favor.
We are nobody's vassals and the EU has no realistic military opponents on its borders.

You're ridiculous and watch Fox news too much.
I'm excited for this tool. I don't use Docker so something like this is going to make my life much easier. I like the idea of being able to hop between projects and start all the processes I need for that project with one command.
If my power goes out (due to ice storms or hurricanes) and I need to rely on a local power supply (battery, solar panels, gas generator), I would like my AC to be as efficient as possible.
> This is terrible, possibly toxic advice.

There are two sides to every coin. Possibly toxic advice for some, but why should anyone give up platforms or avenues that make them standout from the crowd? OP's suggestion is a perfectly valid piece of advice for anyone who has the energy, time, resources, ability, will, and integrity to keep chopping at a meaningful side project. It is not easy, sure. But I don't think we can say it is toxic, either.

> The open source contribution/project would have to have a sufficiently high bar for it to be even considered.

We'd do well to not write this advice off by subjecting it to the most extreme possible treatment?
OpenAI playground. What is the current temp today in each US capital city
What is the current temperature today, 20221228, in the capital city of each US state. Use 2 sources for each city. Output the source and result from each source. The output must include all 50 capital cities in the USA.

Alabama (Montgomery):
Source 1: Weather.com – Temperature: 52°F
Source 2: AccuWeather – Temperature: 53°F

Alaska (Juneau):
Source 1: Weather.com – Temperature: 38°F
Source 2: AccuWeather – Temperature: 39°F

Arizona (Phoenix):
Source 1: Weather.com – Temperature: 58°F
Source 2: AccuWeather – Temperature: 59°F

Arkansas (Little Rock):
Source 1: Weather.com – Temperature: 51°F
Source 2: AccuWeather – Temperature: 52°F

California (Sacramento):
Source 1: Weather.com – Temperature: 59°F
Source 2: AccuWeather – Temperature: 60°F

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> A modern heat pump can give 3-5 kWh of heat using 1 kWh of electricity.

At lower temperatures the modern heat pumps cannot attain this COP, which is why they are working on heat pumps that work at lower temperatures.
Scroll compressors have come down in cost a bunch in the last few years. There's really very few reasons not to get a heat pump, now, for new construction.
Hell kill it I've they're looking for people with 20year experience.

But most jobs are looking for 2-10 years.

At 20+ years if you're not headhunted you're kind of screwed.
Then I should be subject to increased oversight and scrutiny in case I start taking kickbacks to make up the difference or botch jobs out of spite.
China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts
Thank you for posting this. I really dislike how not wanting to work for companies that are actively harming the world is often portrayed as some sort of selfish luxury.