skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK gas central heating and hot water is extremely common but I've never heard of anyone using a gas dryer. Looking them up, it seems that they were always niche and are now off the market entirely. We were all-in on gas (partly as a result of discovering gas fields under the North Sea in the mid-20th Century) and gas stoves are still popular. (Edit: though it's increasingly uncommon for new houses to be connected to mains gas at all, and I think the government is intending to formalise that at some point).

I find it fascinating how different preferences arise and end up dominating in different countries. I wonder what it is about gas dryers that make them popular in the US. Anyone got one and can enlighten me?
I'm not sure what any of that means.

Do you mean that we need to work towards "One True Linux"? Because that, quite frankly, sounds stupid.
My point is more that google of today undeniably has the resources to be that detailed, but they are actively choosing to dumb things down and use AI to figure out what I meant to search instead of just searching for what I tell it to, and they are actively choosing to drop things from the index when they could afford to index literally everything.
There is mooooore than enough spare grid capacity to deliver the electricity to electrify homes.

We size the grid for peak capacity, not for average capacity, which means that there's a very low overall usage amount. And the big drivers of additional electricity, heating and transportation, are easily shiftable to non-peak times.

And as we have smarter devices, and more time of use billing, load shifting will be easy.

That said, having lots more battery storage inside buildings may be a great way to help shift peaks, and be far cheaper than upgrading lots of connections everywhere.
Is burglary domestic extremism now?
The Untold History of the United States (2012): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494191/

10 episodes, ~1 hour each

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
By what measure did it work? I am curious if you are going by share price, or ROI or Revenue per employee? or uptime?
Services to the US are at 240V though they just utilize a center tap transformer to allow two different 120v legs. So that 200 amp service is 200 amps at 240V so approximately 48kW. Largely US homes have bigger feeds in because the US has significantly larger homes on average and the prevalence of AC and other higher power usage devices in US homes.
In most countries, I don't think you're required to update your home every time the electrical code gets a change. However, many electricians will try to sell you on this unnecessary work.
"before" :)
The key is to return to it multiple times. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
Sorry I missed the marketing - I love that it's different, but who's the target user and what's the pitch for them to use Haiku? The author warned about backlash, but having a tight pitch is a key ingredient in continuing the warm vibes and avoiding backlash.

IMHO not-Linux isn't so scary anymore, plenty of people have fought with MacOS to get the better hardware, slicker desktop, etc.

Does it run Docker? If so, I'd love to see a solid integration where I can have bug-compatible linux environment for development, but Haiku for simplicity, speed & UI
I've always struggled with electronics texts.

Mostly because, rightly I'm sure, they discuss the individual components, or subsystems common to electronics: what's a capacitor, what's a resistor, what's an oscillator, what's an amplifier.

But where they break down, for me, is they don't put it all together. It's like having your introduction to computers being nothing more than a book on data structures and algorithms.

All important, fundamental concepts, but how do you get from an algorithm and data structure book to writing your own Rogue game, which uses all of those things.

I've never found a book or other treatise that puts it all together, at least for me. Mind, I've never had any formal training. I took an electronics class in 9th grade which basically studied Ohms law and other fundamentals, and at the end I assembled an AM radio transmitter, but I had no idea how that transmitter worked, what choices were made and why, etc. It was just a kit, and more a testament of soldering and assembly skills than anything else. Same with all of those old Radio Shack kits that they used to sell.

I need a "design your own radio" course or something that works from the top down "here's a radio, here's the structure, here's how we work on each part of that, stitch them together, why use this transistor vs that one".
Considering that you've been engaging in strawman arguments this whole thread, I bow out of this discussion.
Note that the original post is not up to date with the C23 developments on the subject, wherein the standards people appear to have noticed that nobody has ever cared about overbroad reservations like str*, is*, to*, and E*, and introduced a notion of “potentially reserved identifier” that I have so far been unable to understand. The relevant paper, “What we think we reserve”[1], has been folded into the draft standard.

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n2625.pdf (I hope that’s the right version)
Related: https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
So the AST is transferred over the wire? How is it serialized?
> but it's important to keep in mind the voltage differences and that effect on total power:

> UK: 100 A x 230 V = 23,00 W

> US: 200 A x 120 V = 24,00 W

That's incorrect. The service drop in the US is 220V. It gets stepped down at the main load center to 120V for most of the regular circuits. So it's more like 48000W service in US houses.
There's a big metal tank where the spare wheel goes, so you lose a bit of space. Availability can be a problem occasionally, particularly where I moved to, but filling is just as easy as filling a petrol tank.

In theory the engine makes a bit less power flat out, but I never drive flat out. It's quieter, runs cooler and cleaner, and has a bit more low end torque because propane burns with a bigger slower bang.
When I got the exterior siding of my home replaced, we also wanted to have our electrical meter box replaced because it was falling off the side of the house.

The work we originally thought was needed was just a new meter box. Turned out we needed a new wire run from the meter all the way to our water line, a new pipe for the underground wiring, two additional grounding wires.

The utility said it wasnt their problem as the meter itself is their property but the housing, the way it attaches to the house, and the connection to the transformer was our responsibility to pay for.

Nearly $2000 to get a simple meter box replacement. Edit: Because this work was to be done in tandem with the siding replacement to avoid expensive rework, we didn't have much of an option in shopping around as most electricians did not want to deal with coordination with the utility around disconnect and inspection.
Services to the US are at 240V they just utilize a center tap transformer to allow two different 120v legs. So that 200 amp service is 200 amps at 240V so approximately 48kW.
> How much longer can an average person expect to live if we ban gas stoves?

34 minutes, on average. Not sure of my math, but since the "ban gas stoves" movement was just started by lobbyists, I can make things up too :)
Required to sheath ground in green? What on earth for? That makes ground less effective since you want any incidental contact with ground to ground the object touching it.
If you're trying to advance within the company, it sucks and you'll take no time because you're trying to prove yourself. I'm not recommending this attitude, I realize it's flawed, but it's easy to fall for it.

If you're content to coast at your current position, it's great because you'll take advantage of it to the extent that you can.
This sounds interesting, how do you mean? To me it seems like context is perhaps the key element that we should concern ourselves with to further the engineering or scientific aspect of programming.

Let's say we're deciding between floating point arithmetics, fixed decimal numbers, or rational numbers. All three of which are very well-established and useful solutions to the problem of subdividing integers. We have some context already here, and we'll need to provide a bit more context to know which solution to choose. Would you agree with that?
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Your willingness to repeatedly follow a process without deviation puts you into a much smaller group than the general population.

Yes, the average person can do it, but many won't. And it will be innocent bystanders or firefighters or whatever that pay the ultimate price, not the sloppy guy or gal that saved a few dollars by doing it themselves.

I wish that our building codes and permitting system had provisions for "competent amateurs", but how on earth would you do that?
he suggested generating plantuml diagrams from it, so you would use the image for onboarding. you'd only see the code if you were going to update the architecture
Seems more like a move to limit accounting liabilities in aggregate than to actually provide a never ending vacation. When time would accrue, it functionally provides more reason to take PTO as far as the business perspective goes. Curious to see the discussion otherwise tho
Actively being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337158 (132 comments)
I think the key point in the article is the conclusion: try building things more as modules that can be easily split off into separately running server applications as needed later.

So in practice that could look like the interface to your "module" should use parameter objects [1] for function calls, and build in the assumption that most information retrieval or processing requests are async. Then when the time comes swap out the local version of the module of the client stub version.

To avoid manually writing the serialization, those parameter objects should have been code generated already. Although the goals of something like tRPC [2] are admirable, having to manually check inputs with typeof [3] honestly shouldn't be necessary. And allowing non-nullable fields may make field deprecation extremely difficult or impossible. Guess what? If you have any native mobile clients they may not upgrade for years! OpenAPI also exists, but seems a bit too verbose to read, or author manually.

So what would I suggest? Just use proto3/gRPC [4]. It defines the JSON encoding if you haven't clients that can't talk native Protobuf, or don't want to have bikeshedding over what type-casing to use for JSON serialization. If your cloud provider doesn't do it for you already, just drop an Envoy with the gRPC-JSON transcoder in front [5]. If you can't prove you'd have an actual performance problem due to gRPC/Protobuf, then it probably isn't worth the effort to use a less battle-tested messaging library.

So back to the main topic... it doesn't have to be hard to do microservices when the time comes, just make sure your codebase is easier to convert.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?ParameterObject

[2] https://trpc.io/

[3] https://trpc.io/docs/quickstart#add-a-mutation-procedure

[4] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#j...

[5] https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/ht...
I think the article does a disservice to its thesis by focusing on California. Half the country lives in places where subzero temperatures are an issue. Not to mention, the rest of the country doesn't have the sunlight hours to make solar as viable, let alone the disposable wealth to upgrade their homes. Electric cars are still a long way from viability in most places, though it may not seem that way in California.
I don’t know zig, but I’d like to know if the syntax idiosyncrasies are warranted, or are they are designed just to be different from other languages? IMO using well established syntax makes life easy for a lot of new folks who want to learn this language.
I'll take the unpopular opinion and say I don't think the occasional team/company shakeup is always bad.

Often times, the resulting team can be stronger than it was before. Particularly if the organization just went through an extremely ultra-fast hiring spree where it's likely low quality candidates were hired.

The "cut 10% of my pay to save my coworkers" works well if you have a high performing team/company. If you don't, the high performers may become resentful if they start to feel like they're subsidizing the salary of low performers.
My own anecdotal experience is that in America, very few homes have hoods that vent to outside the building. I have lived in one LEED certified apartment building that had one, and even that had issues with the exhaust backing up because they needed to clean the exterior grille (it vented next to the dryer vent). In single family homes I have generally seen them in high end subdivisions or custom builds. I believe the code in some areas is getting stricter and they are starting to become more common, but they seem rare in existing housing stock.

I see a lot of recirculating range hoods, but they do nothing for combustion products. They only trap some of the aerosolized grease from frying and sautéing.
I don't think it's unreasonable to update to code when other changes are made.
I feel the same, but how do you change the golden handcuffs? If I leave the industry I’ll never afford a home. If I look at jobs online I’ve seen commissioned officers in the army get paid less than me. I feel trapped, the more I progressed in the industry the more I’ve grown to hate technology.
Maybe we can retrain the vast number of auto mechanics and gas station people we will no longer need?
A bust would be dropping below the start of the boom, which is not happening at all here. Nothing goes straight up, and these layoffs so far have been what I could consider normal growth.
I think it will push to upstream ASAP.
> Many of those jobs simply never came back

What happened to the people? Did new jobs get created?
All my personal projects are using WSGI because I haven't had time ro sit down and read about ASGI yet. What are the biggest differences?
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission considering gas stove ban
It was probably sheathed in black or some other color originally.
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Aren't NaN-based operations computationally risky? Per Anger Fog's instruction latency guides, several microarchitectures seem to process NaNs and denormals through a slow, microcoded path rather than the fast FPU/vector path. Saving a few instructions on boxing/unboxing might be a false economy if it comes at the cost of a hundred cycles in microcode latency.
C orignally had `entry` as a reserved work (from Fortran 77, where a function could have multiple entry points).
You are normally required to update anything an electrician touches or could impact.

So if you are having a new socket added in your kitchen, then all the other sockets in the kitchen on the same circuit will need updating, and the breaker for the kitchen.

But you probably won't have to have your living room rewired.
IMO there are two simple reasons:

1) Companies really, really don't want to be doing layoffs. It signals they are in a weak position. But when bunch of other companies do this it becomes a much more available option as there is something to blame ("Recession!")

2) Companies compete fiercely and up until recently they tried to hire as much people as they could. But now they are finding they onboarded a lot of people and possibly a lot of people they do not want to have and became less efficient in the process. Normally, it is pretty difficult to fire people and it takes a long time and resources to get them on PIP and then push them out. But, hey, there is a faster solution -- just blame recession!

I am looking closely at this recession as I am trying to navigate it financially and professionally and I came to conclusion that it is to a large extent fiction. It is mostly just a bunch of companies jumping on a bandwagon because it is convenient for them for one reason or another. There is no real underlying reason for all this. And if you are not convinced, other than couple tech companies that were just mismanaged and other than valuations, companies seem to be in a better shape overall than ever.
> I know there's the "we can do both!" argument, and the "this will get us ready for when the grid finally switches to renewables" argument

The problem with "do both" arguments is that it doesn't consider the costs and inconvenience of all those little changes on public support. That's particularly true banning gas stoves, because how people cook is deeply intertwined with culture and tradition. My Bangladeshi immigrant relatives think banning gas stoves is preposterous. You're telling them they need to get a high-end induction range to be able to brown meat as well as the cheap propane stoves they learned to cook on back home. (And somehow get their landlord to install a 240v line in the kitchen of their crappy Queens apartment.) They need to unlearn how their mom taught them to cook, and learn new techniques that don't involve lifting the pan off the induction range, new ways of using pressure cookers, etc. You're telling Mexicans they can't directly heat tortillas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybeV8uWCQI) or char peppers on the flame. You're telling Asians they can't use woks the way they're used to.

If you're going to step into a hornet's nest like that, the pay off had better be huge! Otherwise you're just setting the environmental movement's political capital on fire for little payoff.
> I'm not saying it wasn't a hack, but I have a hard time when people, especially on HN, still believe the government / large groups of people can do successful, massive cover-ups after Snowden's revelations.

That's a fairly naive take. There are hundreds of thousands people (more?) working on classified programs to spy on citizens. The fact that leaks are so extremely rare that a Snowden is a once-in-a-generation type of event is plenty of evidence that very large groups of people do very successfully maintain massive cover-ups nearly 100% of the time.
I just want to plus one this anecdote. I had a traumatic experience that led to my getting stuck in a very bad mental state. It became a cycle, where I didn't have the energy or willpower to do the things that could possibly have pulled me out of the pit.

Antidepressants gave me the mental space to break the cycle and get things back on track. Placebo or not, my mental health steadily improved once I started taking them, and soon I found myself able to get back to exercising, eating healthy, and doing the other things that led me back to a healthy life.

Edit to add: I am glad they were available when I needed the help, but I hope to God I am never in that bad of a mental state where I feel like I need them again.
>The pans are specially designed to contain a heating coil in them which implicitly is closer to your food.

Just to note, you don’t need special pans to use an inductive stove. Any magnetic cookware will do, which includes cast iron and most stainless steel. As an intuitive rule of thumb, if a magnet will stick to the bottom, then it’s compatible.
> But the fed has said unemployment is too high and their goal it to raise it by 1 percent.

I think you mean that employment is too high.
Most well known names that are still around have moved either into Azure or DevDiv (which I think now is under Azure as well).

Which is probably the root cause of the GUI civil war happening between all desktop frameworks.
I don't get what frozen pipes has to do with electrifying the home?
Yes we will need more electrical generation. I have zero interst in solar panels on my house. I don't live in an area where they would be particularly useful; moreover, I don't want to own them, or to be responsible for maintaining them; I don't want large batteries in my house, or to be responsible for maintaining those. I don't want transfer switches or the responsibility of maintaining those. I want to pay the electric utility to deliver electricity to my house. Everything about generating it, transmitting it, storing it, I want to be their responsibility.
Which compiler did you use?

Did you generate an executable machine code image with it?

How are you drawing graphics with Lisp (SDL, DirectX, OpenGL, something else)?
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The service drop in EU/UK is 380V. The point stands.
nah.

I eventually found out that only the shittiest websites force you to have powerful computer and I could browse many of the most interesting ones using lagrange through a web to gemini proxy. Feels like having all the web in reader mode. Same can be done using a browser for the terminal such as w3m or links. Both support images nowadays.

A web browser is unnecessary to check emails anyway. Your example is probably the most easily solved.

Video streaming is another thing.
It's interesting that I've found the people who are comfortable with plumbing are very wary of electrical, and vice-versa.

Look for a "smart heat pump" water heater and you can probably get away without actually upgrading service unless you want to - 100 amp service can support a stove and water heater especially if the water heater is "smart" enough to not run when the stove is running.

You can also find a friendly electrician to "check off" on your wiring after you do most of the grunt work, this works well for areas that require permits even for homeowner-done work.
Not at all. Grid is not ready for this it need significant capital upgrades.

Yes its designed for peak load but the load profile is changing significantly. And no you absolutely cant just load shift away heating and transportation of residential homes. That isn't cost free and we don't even have the projects in place to manage that yet.
The discussion of Microservices vs. Monolith feels a lot like NoSQL vs. Relational one. That is to say, Microservices are a bad idea right up to the point where monoliths won't work.

Most services can be successfully implemented with monoliths (and relational DBs for that matter). Only when that solution doesn't scale anymore, that's when microservices come in handy. Particularly when a large service has core functionality that must always run and secondary functionality that can tolerate higher rates of failure.
That's fascinating, thanks!
The panel and the breakers in it are different things. If you get the right size breakers, that's fine, and even a good idea (breakers go bad over time from what I know. Maybe due to number of trips?).

Putting in a new panel can get you more space, or just update to a currently maintained standard for breakers so you can find and put new ones in.
The question I would have in this case is who made that decision for Ferris' character? Was that scripted? Something the director added, something Broderick did?

As was mentioned elsewhere, everything seen on film is (mostly) intentional. It was either decided to be put there, or decided to be left in (even those goofs where the camera is seen, someone probably saw it in post and decided "not worth fixing").

Sometime actors and have some autonomy with their characters, similarly directors can have great flexibility in the rendering of the story. So, anyway, when you seem moments like that, always curios where they come from.
> I wrote an article on this.

Link or it didn't happen :)