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What is going on? Is there a global push to get everyone to switch to heat pumps. It seems that there is heat pump content everywhere. Clearly there is a push.

I understand that its for climate benefits but it feels very coordinated.

edit: didn't realize the attention I would get. Let me add someone answered my question -- a good product market fit and people talking is probably where the push came from. That said HVAC installers / heat pump manufacturers and governments are all pushing this hard right now. I believe in the benefit for most people and the climate benefits are great. I am always concerned on when there is large consensus on a hard push - worth looking at who the winners are and what the trade offs are.
Without the need for humans, it’ll just be “CUD”
Maybe I missed that - did they misreport anything? I know they royally fucked up, put they didn't really hide the fact that the (encrypted) vault data was stolen.
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Here's an old approach doing something similar, for reference: [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
It's usually forgotten that XML is intended as a markup language: text is the main content, text is contained in elements, and elements might have properties (i.e. attributes). Elements with no text children are a special case of mixed content, not the norm.
JSX is standard today ?
The article is woefully short on details, but the news[1] page of the actual project seems to have some more meat. Lots of photos and work in progress reports. Seems they're currently close to having an initial prototype up and running.

[1] https://balthazar.space/wiki/News
No. Another kind user @badcppdev posted links to these theories up in the thread. You will find these various similarities across cultures and races, and you will find differences within one family and village.
I don't know what you're programming, but it's pretty hard to not use more complex structures like Vecs and HashMaps without them being mutable.

Also, that is exactly what Rust's borrow-checker is there for. It doesn't allow you to mutably borrow the same data structure multiple times.
To be fair, the way he's moving around Ableton is very noobish. But maybe that's just because he's trying to show views.
“As a format” depends on what you use it for. No comments and simple syntax is great for an interchange format but a drawback for a configuration file format.
This hypothetical is fairly broad but it is certainly possible to have a branch per feature (i.e. a feature branch).
>> to treat online accounts as throwaway wherever possible

works for me everywhere except HN, because of the silly requirement of 500 karma to be able to downvote.
For many things (like floating-point), saving the computer time is not any kind of goal. It's not gonna complain if you ask it to try all the things.

Further, writing clever shotgun tests may actually take you longer than writing the simple loop. In which case it's wasting developer time too.

Be very sure you need to do anything but exhaustive testing, before expending the time money and effort on it. That's my advice.
Because people pay for it.

People don't pay for incorporating full functionality of "XML...Whatever else" they pay for ability to see cute kittens NOW not when dev will be done with reading and understanding ASN.1 well enough to use important parts.
the coreutil rust flavor is 16MB per its release build. after strip it cuts down to 10MB, that's the smallest size you can have.

Comparing to c version coreutils, which totals up to 5.8MB, rust does have a slight size "problem", its size is 70% larger even with the busybox-all-in-one style.

you're actually forced to do it the busybox style, otherwise each single small utility of coreutils will be about similar size, say, 6MB for each one, then it will just blow up really fast.

I commented somewhere else, the rust stdlib by default(AND by design) is statically linked, which is totally different from the shared stdlibs like C and C++ etc, that will leads to large size when you have a few of rust release binaries. I have never figured out why Rust can not do the shared-stdlib -just-like-c-c++ yet.
Will be downvoted to oblivion, but I can't imagine what it's like having the brains, skills and resources this guy clearly has and then deciding to spend my time making usb-c airpods that are going to be released at some point within the next 22 months anyway. Plus the hours spent making an accompanying YouTube video. Seems like a colossal waste of time.
That is an approach being tried for a cure. So far it has not worked. It is not clear exactly why.
Those things advanced average people’s reach. This is not doing that.
I'd take the devil over musk! At least he is not hopped up on drugs and running around making crazy bad decisions
Unsafe for obvious reasons, not remotely a practical solution.

As others have pointed out there are real infrastructure problems, and not really difficult in cases like the above to sort technically, but nobody seems to be doing it practically, it's clearly in the power of the government and suppliers to do en masse if the intent is to encourage wide scale adoption.
Lit also does fine without VDOM and has good performance characteristics.
I've observed some level premature optimization in the Rust community, surely coming from being performance oriented.

I received a review comment some time ago about changing a line of code in order to spare one allocation, for a call that was executed _once_ in the whole lifetime of a program. That was not the only time I've observed this attitude.

I think starting with being handy with profiling and only after measurement, thinking about solutions, rather than starting with the idea that certain patterns are harmful per se.
But why would stronger focus on performance happen? Is, e.g., Microsoft teams in danger of losing market share because of its horrible performance?

Is product speed really a differentiator that affect’s people’s buying decision?
Yeah, I'm sure that would've gone over well in Germany in the 30ies, NSDAP members and KPD members discussing their lives without touching political issues.
Has anyone looked at the sketchy figures? Talk about jumping to conclusions ...
Sure, but lawfully downloading MacOS costs nothing as far as I'm aware. Same goes for Linux, albeit with different licensing considerations.

I just found the wording of the article funny, since it seems to run contrary to their report.
They don't bother explaining that it is a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) which is essentially just a ledger built on a blockchain but fully centralized. So instead of using some independent bank's ledger which settles with other banks or gives out cash you have a single system with complete oversight. This is only useful if it eventually replaces the other options. My question is, if there are balance limits from the beginning causing overages to be "swept" out of the system and into a bank account, what happens when there's no longer an external bank account to sweep the funds into?
The fact that you can use it in two ways, one of which is bad, is not really a good thing.
That and gas stoves bad.
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition + install plugins you need. Done.
Expect they don’t pay all that well. Just ok ish
It's doubly ironic as IR35 is specifically designed to ignore limited companies etc and force people into "employee" status despite them...
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AI is too broad a term so as to be useful for such questions. What is artificial intelligence? Let's look at an app like Apple Maps. Knowing my search history and showing it to me is a form of intelligence. Knowing I have something in my clipboard and making it easy for me to paste is a kind of intelligence. Knowing my location and the time of day, and combining that with knowledge of where I work and live in order to offer me transit times, is a kind of intelligence. Apple products utilize a ton of artificial intelligence. AI is not limited to sophisticated chatbots which many seem to think of as the only form of AI.
All my choices are influenced by these microbes in my gut, they outnumber my cells, it's them not me typing this response now!
Version pinning and manual verification of correct implementation can work quite well here.
If a website or platform doesn't have sufficient measures, technological or otherwise, to deal with bots, spam, low effort posting, astroturfing, advertising, etc, it's the platform that shouldn't be trusted. If a platform could deal with bots entirely, or associate accounts with a real identity, it still doesn't mean that the platform or the user can be trusted, as identity and trust are not the same thing.

When millionaires, state actors, politicians, corporations, etc, switch from using bot farms to manipulate public opinion to paying influencers to do the same thing, people whose identity is inherently valued and trusted, you end up in the same position as we're currently in.
That's not true; The EU is also an association of French, BeNeLux business owners and royalty playing politics.
Yes! The Caucho Resin server https://caucho.com/ used / uses RelaxNG as its schema, and , amazingly flexibly, allowed for either attribute- or element-based configuration, the latter being much more pleasing to the eye in many cases. I don't think I've seen such flexibility anywhere else.
I recently started using my old android phones in place of a cheap VPS or raspberry Pi. Pi'z have gotten so expensive, and a phone with termux is pretty capable.
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-home/dg7gmgf0kr...

Says $139 for Windows 11 Home
SGML allowed you to minimize a closing tag. And HTML supported this in theory, although mainstream browsers never supported it.

XML went for a syntax with fewer options because the complexity of SGML was considered a hinderance to its adoption.
Higher likelihood that pandas are just cute
How often do you release? Is there any manual qa (as opposed to unit or integrating tests)? Does a bug in one feature block the release of others (because it means main has a bug)?
Gitflow merges everything to a linear 'master' branch, from which releases are tagged. That means you can't create new 1.x releases after 2.0 has been tagged.

In TBD you'd have most new development happening on trunk, but there's no reason you can't spin off a release/v1.x branch as well as a release/v2.x branch from the trunk. The point is just that these shouldn't merge back into trunk -- they're spun off forever.

You can cherry-pick patches onto release branches, but you need to figure out what that means on a case-by-case basis. There's no guarantee that the patch will apply cleanly, and there's no guarantee that it will make sense, even if it does apply cleanly. No branching strategy can fix this for you.
>If we all actually accepted this today, incarceration and policing reforms become an immediate moral imperative.

Nope, I have no free will with which to choose to stop imprisoning people in horrible conditions.
> Is there a global push to get everyone to switch to heat pumps.

I mean, yes. They're much more energy efficient than the alternatives and will play a key part of removing our dependence on fossil fuels.

> I understand that its for climate benefits but it feels very coordinated.

That seems like a good thing?
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No, I've also got a MacBook. And in my life, this supposed flaw in USB-C just doesn't exist. I have yet to experience a USB-C cable that doesn't do what I expect it to. But perhaps that is because I don't have unreasonable expectations, like the shape of the hole I plug a wire into making data transfer speeds faster
> If you import the component from outside the EU the law doesn't even apply, as you have formed a contract with a trader not bound by this law.

The seller is advertising _and_ shipping his product to the EU, therefor he is bound by its laws. He even features specific advise to EU consumers.

This is interesting, and I think is similar to the GDPR. Do you think he could get extradited for not following EU law, assuming he is being compliant with the laws of his own country?

I would think that any punishment would be limited to if he enters the EU, or has assets there. Or perhaps blocking his website, or any shipments from him. Is there anyone around with actual experience in these kinds of laws?
The business and finance class is trying to wrestle back control of the spiraling wages of tech workers that threaten the existing power structure. Will be fascinating to watch this play out over the next 10 years.
I did some Prolog programming in school but I never really got the language coming from a Pascal/C background. Your first language(s) really do affect your future learning.
Good logic. I will investigate
Okay, but...what are they supposed to do?

Stores higher more employees for the holiday shopping season and then when the season is over, you reduce headcount back to normal.

Shouldn't tech companies have expanded to take advantage of the pandemic, and then downsize once that increase in demand goes away?

Maybe they overhired, but it's also quite possible that many of these positions were valuable for only a couple years, after which they should be eliminated. I don't want my employer to keep me on if I'm a waste of money to them.

We should provide adequate severance, and the unemployment system should be more robust, but "hire people when you need them and fire them when you don't" isn't evil or incompetent. It's correct behavior, and our systems should be built to account for that reality.
Who do you imagine is pushing, and why?

Don't you want to resist to turn to explanations like this, that require some invisible force to pull the strings? I think there are more realistic ways to imagine this happening.

If for example a pop star is getting a lot of attention, in multiple countries, what is the mechanism behind that? And is it orchestrated?
That channel is fascinating. They have created some incredibly interesting projects.
There are multiple factors. During the boom years San Francisco cranked up tax burdens and muddied the waters with lots of special cases. Clearing up that mess will almost certainly help. It won't address the problem directly, but it will remove a complication and assist with any other changes that are made.
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Does any current regulation stop a FTX situation? Bernie Madoff was able to run a Ponzi fine
Wait till we have Heat Pumps built with Rust!

But seriously i think it’s just that awareness hit a critical threshold so the hysteresis kicks in and articles proliferate. In both cases.
Heat pumps are the opposite of AC. AC industry is behind this for sure. It is like a paid PR campaign. It is not more economical then gas. So now gas is going to be punished for factors X,Y,Z.

It is coordinated. I wish there is more investigative research into who and why they are doing this.
I can not recall when did I ever need to do "if X=Y" without actually needing to account for tolerances.
Windows is pretty much shareware at this point. Unpaid-for copies will disable changing the background and show a nag screen, but will otherwise work fine.
>Should people in different living circumstances magically have the same beliefs, interests and desires?

Magically no, just practically. Which is often the case, because the ideologies concerned don't touch on rural vs urban "beliefs, interests and desires" but other divisions, like progressive vs conservative, environmental vs economic push, nationalist vs regionalist, and others. Sometimes the "beliefs, interests and desires" are even irrelevant, as dominant parties offer the same kind of programs, and it's just party loyalty that gets one to one or the other.

Germany has 5 parties in parliament (with sizable representation), the US has had two for a good while (with insignificant independent inroads). German party ideology is much more segreggated and divided among states than in Germany. Germany is much more homogeneous by population. And many other factors besides.
Notably, for that there are tiers depending on the number of users or revenue.
From one of the authors: "It's not a linear regression. This representation is a typical mistake when using mixed effect statistics. It is a "dyadic regression" which is a complex mixed effects procedure. We avoid such representation for ME but reviewers ask." (https://twitter.com/ulugeyik/status/1623654892639330304)

So there's more to the story but that graph is really easy to make fun of because it looks like a linear regression.
The reason is that suddenly everybody understood that Russia is an unreliable partner for their countries energy needs (at least in Europe).

For consumers it's also became clear that being slightly more independent from centralized heating and/or energy infrastructure is a good thing
My guess is yaml triggers exactly the same initial response as jquery; it's surface seems "small", "simple" and "intuitive", but once you need to actually do things and dig deeper on how it is implemented, you often wish you haven't used it.
It would not. Rust needs ASAN/UBSAN/TSAN/MSAN sanitizers for a reason.
The 'gas stoves bad' movement isn't a push, it's a pull.
They are not more energy efficient than burning gas.

Edit: since i am getting downvoted to oblivion, let me fight back here. I genuinely wished heat pumps would be more efficient and in theory they can be. I would love to not generate heat and just use the outside heat energy and compress it down into a smaller location.

But compressing and decompressing is not an energy efficient task. It takes a lot of work. Mechanical inefficiencies are a huge energy consumption. Gas is simply burning fuel. Yes, we should save gas for rainy days. But I hate to say that it is more efficient and cheap. There is no comparison.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/steam-deck-2-0-could-...
I dropped them an email and they increased the cap to 6TB. I enabled 2TB on my pod and it estimates $20/month.
> the new net wage is $23 an hour.

> At that higher wage, more people will apply for the job. The increased supply of labor will allow the boss to pay less than $10 an hour; it might suffice to pay only $7.

How is the boss taking advantage of the increased supply of labor that is conditional on increased pay, if that boss is short changing on pay vs the market?

If all other restaurants have increased net wages, this boss will run short on waiters.
There are many issues one could review. The particular action that I appreciate was confronting the education commission with their own idiocy and getting new representatives appointed who actually know and care about education instead of politically correct school names.
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Well it will suck out a lot of potential jobs from the C++ market, at least in the longer time horizon. And many people invested almost their whole lives into doing C++.
> If so is there any way relying on these can break data race freedom (which as I understand Rust guarantees)?

It’s not clear what your question is.

You can use unsafe to write unsound code which suffers from data races.

If you use safe Rust, then you should not suffer from data races (and fences only add constraints, so they can’t add data races, they’re tools to avoid those), although bugs are always possible and sometimes purportedly safe stdlib APIs are found to be unsound (that’s one of the few things for which the rust project allows breaking backwards compatibility, though even that depends on the blast radius e.g. std::mem::uninitialized is still there, just deprecated, even though there’s almost no way to use it soundly).
The MacOS license only allows running it on apple hardware. You can download all you want, but legally using it requires a mac.
There's a neat overhang calculator that I used to size my window and door overhangs on the south side:

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I’ve heard the issue in the US historically has been tax related. Some freelancers didn’t pay their taxes and the government went after the hiring company. Also business insurance is another line item that certain freelancers never invested in and companies seem to want to have that from all their vendors. Get a LLC / S-Corp if you’re serious about wanting to freelance
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DE and US are pretty open to just hiring people directly as consultants. Must be an UK thing.
The STD ads tell us otherwise
It would change nothing. We incarcerate to deter crime, and deterrents are a factor in decisions regardless of if you believe free will is a meaningful concept.
> it might be a case for societies where is a stronger group identification (e.g. identification for the nation)

Did you mean nation as in ethnicity? Because otherwise I think the US's identification with the nation is pretty strong across both camps.

> And again, American political system is rather unique in the Western world.

It is? Even with multiple small parties, you'll still largely get ideological camps. It's rare that you have parties that pick their ideas from all over the place.
> as recent as 2018

> did something change since then?

GDPR, LGDP and equivalent laws plus the tangibility of emails (instead of the relatively-nebulous web history which Google could simply blame on "we only know what website we're serving from, we don't track you"). I don't know if US residents still get targeted ads using mail data though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFj8exxCj_M
Once again that is because you can only lawfully run MacOS on Apple Hardware. Read the EULA. Therefore if you have the hardware it is assumed you or someone paid Apple for it so the software was also indirectly bought with it.
I would be weary of using this, I have been using Windows since Windows 95 and seen enough things go wrong that I wouldn't want to be locked out of my online accounts. For example one thing I noticed is that by simply updating my BIOS in Windows 11 causes havoc and everything gets signed out. A cross-platform hardware token sounds more appealing to me. I could see Hello being something to secure corporate laptops/accounts in an enterprise environment though.
> you don't necessarily need to charge AT HOME. If you drive yourself to work and sit there for 8 hours

This make sense but I think it's a deal breaker for many. It would be for me, anyway.

I don't want to depend on my employer to keep my car running. Just the idea is depressing; it'd feel like an admission that I'm "living to work".

Not to mention the fact that it would limit my options for switching jobs.
There is no way that many or even most of them are getting anywhere near $250k per annum. Even living in the bay area -- which many of them might not be. GOOG has offices in Austin, Calgary, and Nashville, for example.
https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/

I use this if I want to play around with XSLT.
It's a tacit admittance that work culture sucks. It sucks so much they know they can use the threat of it to get you to do what they want just to avoid it.
Yes. A way to prop up the price by locking in coins
More importantly - if you don't pay for HN, you are the product.
After their initial announcement, they updated the same post after months as they had since discovered it was worse. And in some cases it turns out the vault data was not as encrypted as they had ever said. Here's one of the better write-ups I've seen: https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastp...
A more plausible explanation is that the we HN-ers are a bunch of nerds and heatpumps are excellent nerd-bait
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712640 from 1 day ago (457 points, 336 comments)

(Techspot.com article referencing the same YouTube source video.)
what a cheapskate...