skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric resistive baseboard is obviously extremely foolish as a primary heating source. It's not a real point of comparison, but closer to a straw man.

The point is exactly that electric heat pumps and gas are comparable. Which means that other things start to tip the scale like not having gas in the house (fire safety), having nicer air conditioning for the summer from the same unit, offsetting the grid electricity use with your own solar (lower generation in the winter, but it still helps), and envisioning grid scale sources moving towards renewables.
Where are you seeing this? Right there in the article, it says that a heat pump would be around the same price as gas!
Secure LLM output with reinforcement learning
There is not and wont be. MS will commoditize apps to bake as many features as possible as fast enough as possible using some bastardized Electron crap.
Maybe you can find something on this list, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic

I looked at a few books on this list, but not every book seems to really be about pre-apocalypse. Pre-Apocalyptic fictions sounds like literary edging :D
Though I think all/pretty much all menu items can be accessed by pressing space and then typing the name of it. (If you use the setting space for command search.) There will be an auto completion list and it remembers the last action. So that is even better than what many other GUI applications do, where you have to search for ages in deeply nested menus for the action that you know how it is named, but don't know where the hell it is hidden. Quite frankly every program should have that feature.
In olden days .net was Windows only. Mono was an independent effort to build a cross platform runtime. With .net core MS made it open source and cross platform. They also bought Mono but that is more or less abandoned I believe latest versions of .net run well on Linux and Mac and now also in browser. They have also dropped Core from the name and there is only one .net which is open source and cross platform.

Edit: seems some part of Mono still live.
It was recently announced that it breaks even.

I expect it will be profitable in the future as it scales up. But there is probably only about 2x more scaling at the current price point (launching new countries, selling to people who aren't yet aware of it).
Anyone know of any breakthroughs in treating peritoneal mesothelioma?
Shouldn't you be able to honk at one specific driver sometimes?

I've always laughed at the idea that you might call the number on a "How am I driving bumper sticker" and get connected to the driver.
As a long-term happy .NET user; you should use what makes you happy.
>I use self-checkouts whenever possible because most cashiers don't like the job and probably want to interact with as few people as possible

I don't know if that's really the case. When I worked retail I mostly really liked chatting with customers.
https://koinly.io/ is a popular recommendation here in Denmark. Denmark may have the worst possible taxation for crypto: every time you sell, use or convert your crypto, that's an event where you have to calculate your gains or losses. Gains are taxed like personal income (so up to 53% tax), but losses can only be deducted at 26% they do not offset the gains directly. A school teacher speculating in crypto ended up losing his investment and owing $400,000 in tax.
I have lived in both places (UK/US/EU).

I didn't realize how many problems could even exist before I went to the US! A trivial example: Forgetting your card in the ATM - in Europe you have to take your card before you get your cash, so you can't forget it. A very simple UX tweak that solves the problem, that is mandated across all ATMs. Yes a trivial problem, but emblematic of the two different approaches.
Office use is actually where you are highly likely to have a lot of applications open at once (lots of web tabs, mail client, document editor, excel and maybe some PDF views) but do not need a whole lot of performance either in single thread (for blocking UI change/computations) of multithread for parallel tasks.

You just need to be able to load all the apps at once in RAM and let them sit there as long as possible. The actual computation needed for those workflows is pretty low once the apps are loaded. It's all a trickle of mini task depending on the user interaction. Sometimes you need to export/convert something, and it takes longer but it is not very problematic.

In fact, RAM is a pretty big determining factor in your experience, especially if you use the office suite or google tools. Apples knows this, and it is exactly why they sell such a low amount of RAM at entry level. They want people to pay up or use their (inferior) tools.
Their entry level MacBook are a terrible choice for office, in fact you are unlikely to either need or use all the computer power they sell in the marketing, but you are highly likely to feel the pain of too little RAM with the relentless message asking to close some apps.

The fact they came out to justify their choice is just the hammer driving the nail. It is all expected behavior from the greediest corporation on earth...
I've been working with getting games from 1995+ working on modern systems over the past two years, and honestly the biggest incompatibilities I've seen have been in the registry. Combined with some redirected filesystem calls, I really think you could get 98% of games working in a portable fashion.

The problem I have with some of these GoG releases is they just patch out buttons for things like networking, when features like local IPX multiplayer can still work with shims.
Reaction I: Point...but no way it'll be <80% after a week!

Reaction II: OTOH, the article says zilch about the stuff being dirt-repelling, or trivial to clean. And considering just how bad the air often gets, in some of the world's largest cities...
> They hired a lot of admins because that’s how they make money?

That's nonsense.

They hired lots of admins, because they had lots of projects needing managing. They had lots of projects because they were building more buildings, bigger buildings, installing computer labs, high tech equipment, bootstrapping new schools, and a thousand other things. They had more groundskeepers, more janitors, new catering services (for all the other departments who were constantly doing things). On and on and on.

They were doing all these things to make the university look more attractive to students. Students who would choose another university, if theirs looked like the dumpy little hovel it was back in the early 1900s. Students who would take their tuition and fees with them to the other universities.

But in doing so, they were increasing the cost. But the students didn't care, someone else was paying for it, not the students themselves. Except then, the students were on the hook for it, because we slipped in student loans and took away the federal grants. (This, by the way, goes down in the history of the universe of the most evil grift ever... the students were paying for it, in the future that they were too short-sighted to see, with interest, and no bankruptcy protection.)

Yet it's still worse than this. Because those buildings and labs and fancy dorms that seem like resort hotels... those weren't paid for in cash. They were financed too. So the university is on the hook for decades to pay for this shit. And those buildings will require expensive maintenance for decades, so they're on the hook for the much-embiggened staff just to maintain them.

Not only did they bloat out the cost of education for each student that attends, they've done it in a way where they can't ever un-bloat it. For one, doing so means enrollment would drop (they're no longer the fanciest, glitziest university), but also that campus would literally fall apart and become unusable like some movie set for a post-apocalyptic thriller.

It was never greed. It was bad planning by people who think they're great at it.
One reason is that Mono supports a bunch of minor platforms [0] that .NET doesn't - yet (for example, FreeBSD support has an active Github issue [1]... although it's been active for _eight years_).

If you're running Windows, Mac, or Linux I'm not aware of major reasons to use Mono.

[0] https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platf...

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537
https://forums.puri.sm/t/estimate-your-librem-5-refund/16227...
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Yeah, we would be fairly in trouble if banks just depended on low rates indefinitely. But more expensive debt is worse for them in the short term - that's what banks sell. I'm talking about in principle. At the end of the day, a healthy dollar that doesn't inflate super hard is better for US banks.

Banks are such an odd thing to bring up as proof of a capitalism still working in a macroeconomic sense, because they don't "do" anything. Sure they provide financing, but they don't build roads or bridges or software, or medical equipment, or make movies or anything productive that is supposed to improve our quality of life. Meanwhile, 40% of Americans can't afford a 400 dollar emergency. How is that a sign of healthy finance? I think it is worth considering - how is there a system of life where banks are super profitable, and no one can afford any credit? Yanis puts forward a theory in Technofeudalism - that it is really technology enabling all of this, but there are stark economic consequences. Whether or not that theory is right or wrong, it is compelling to consider.

I'm fairly familiar with enterprise software deals at Well's Fargo, from the vendor side. That's all I'm going to say about that. Everyone wants to make a deal, but at the end of the day there are really only 2 cloud providers: AWS and Azure, Amazon and Microsoft. They set the pace, they set the price. Even on bigger deals than banks. At least from where I sit.
Still confusing if can't simply switch to the most recent version or have legacy software.

.NET Framework 4.8 will be longer supported than .Net 5, 6, 7 and maybe 8.
people renegotiate compensation too; knowledge transfer is measured in months to years of salary

Mythical Man Month lays it out crystal clear that you want the smallest team possible, levered up to the hilt and retained long term, because communication overhead between people and teams is the dominant cost factor in orgs of all sizes. The optimal team size is two, given sufficient leverage. SaaS is the leverage.
makes you wonder about this very thread then
It will kill startups working on AI Agents, it is already clear from the last updates that they compete with the APIs customers and that is bad for the creative startups. The world require better open source LLLm models. Akso the startups should lwarn to collaborate and not reinvent everything, but how to do it is an unsolved challenge in the current capitalist economic model...
Unless by 3x multiplier you mean, "tell them I charge X USD per hour and then when the time comes even though I only worked 13 hours in a given week I'll claim to have worked 39", in which case that's, you know, fraud.

Yes, that's literally what I said.

If you think you're entitled to a higher rate, charge a higher rate. Don't lie about the amount of work you did.
Nah. There's a cut. This has been going around for so long and isn't what it says.
Apparently .NET MAUI iOS target can run on NativeAOT[0] instead (with better performance and smaller binary size) but I'd expect it to be a bit unstable experience for now since it's very new.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-performance-i...
Did you tell them why?

If you want to stop kiosks, it's not enough for you to vote with your feet. They need to know why you voted with your feet. And the place you switch to also needs to know why.
It's a common story. If he had succeeded, because he had gotten somewhat further with the public infrastructure and avoiding bad luck like the rains, it would simply be some 'colorful anecdotes' in his biography. Success redeems all, while if you fail, everyone knew all along that it was 'obvious'.
.NET used to be Windows-only. Mono was a cross-platform implementation of .NET done by a third party and not by Microsoft.

Microsoft eventually created .NET Core, their own cross-platform implementation of .NET, which eventually became .NET 5, 6, 7, and now 8.

Mono should not be used for new projects. .NET 8 is vastly superior. Mono is only still used for things like Unity who have decided to not or slowly migrate off of Mono.
Avalonia + FuncUI (for a MVU design) seems to have a lot of fans.
The answer is complicated, that's why.
In a good way kinda - you can build IL bytecode exes that are portable across all platforms and you can also build fully native platform specific binaries too (though there can be gotchas around library support).
As always, I'm going to assume it was done by the US until proven otherwise. Given their past underhanded treatment of allies, presumption of innocence is not something they deserve.

In this case they were also one of the countries most strongly lobbying against the pipeline. I don't think it should exist either, so even though I "blame" the US for having blown it up, I think it's a good thing it happened.

A democratic or diplomatic solution would have been nicer. So... thanks but not thanks?
I think the problem is that they didn't rebuke these groups and tell them that the people don't want to approve stazi tactics in order make it easier for police surveillance for their pet "concern". We all know the primary reason is to slowly sneak in surveillance everywhere, not necessarily for evil purposes, but a system which once set becomes extremely easy to expand upon for surveillance all the time, for any reason because a democratic society just accepted it.
The "widespread censorship" is not widespread. The number of "attempted disinvitations" (not even actual disinvitations) is not even visible on a chart of invited speakers at college campuses across time.
That's an easy one: USA. But there is also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/11/... In case you weren't aware of it yet.

It's a huge mess and with Putin, the US and the Ukraine all in play there are a whole slew of possible scenarios. Nothing short of a massive investigative effort will clear this up.
The assumption (from the comment I was replying to, and which I'm taking for granted here) is that software will be drastically easier to make. When things become easier they become cheaper. When things become cheaper we end up with more of them.

Also, things that are currently too complex to be worth bothering with currently will become viable because taming that complexity becomes easier. Together these things mean that a greater percentage of our problems will be solved by software.

So what kinds of problems does software solve anyway? Well, it's things that we already know how to do but would prefer not to spend time doing: Drudgery.

Our concept of value is coupled to scarcity. Even if two people have vastly different perspectives, they can both trade a scarce thing for progress towards their goals. We used to use gold as that scarce thing. Now, the scarce thing is intervals of time where a human is willing to tolerate drudgery.

So in a world where the scope of software is maximized, the existence of drudgery is minimized. That breaks our scarcity based economic system, so unless you have an idea for some third thing--not gold, not willingness to endure drudgery, but something else whose pursuit can be used to underpin "value", the conclusion is that we'll have to come up with something else to do. Something other than blindly chasing value without a thought about whose agenda were furthering by doing so.

It can't happen soon enough, because our scarcity based system is currently causing us to do a lot of really dumb things.
This is probably indicative that videos featuring someone who is black being racist drives more views and engagement than a white person. So it's the ones the algo shows to her. This is why algos are dangerous.
While I do enjoy the digital kiosk for efficiency; they are limited in what they can do.

Example from moments ago: my phone carrier is offering extra data - but when I tried to add it to my account online it said it was for new customers only.

I called customer service, asked politely and the agent was more than happy to oblige.

Sometimes, especially in edge cases, having a human work around the system on your behalf yields the most benefits.
I'm not a fanatic, just a long time user. The tooling and the documentation are superb. Plus the really long term support of everything. You can still compile and run applications that were build 20 years ago, even more.
Use a car buying service. Car dealerships are mental self abuse.
> How many years before the heat pump pays for itself?

In most cases very few, given European electricity prices.

The real problem is that it's usually not possible to just switch to a heat pump in an apartment building, and that's assuming you own and don't rent (and ownership is also much less common in many parts of Europe, although I think it's a bit higher in the UK).
They link to "Announcing C# 12", but not a single mention of F# and "Announcing F# 8"[1], huh? (Edit: At least there's a link now.)

It actually addresses several warts (finally span pinning!), brings some new shortands, makes the syntax more uniform and comes with some performance improvements as well.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-fsharp-8/
Personality Depends on Which U.S. State You Live In
I don't even think we've lost the engineering. We've lost the risk tolerance. Apollo was a risky program, people dying was considered acceptable. The US just doesn't work like that any more.
> I originally created this image in early 2020 to impress and woo my now-girlfriend, who I adore.

Dating gurus hate him for this one weird trick.
So is mine, supposedly, but overall we have a long way to go in switching the grid to renewables. The states that have the lowest dependence on fossil fuels for generation all have a significant amount of hydro power, which is probably not going to expand, and which can have its own environmental issues.
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I am Matthew Sag, I think this is very weird and quite funny. I was told this is due to a "copyright block". I am a law professor who writes a lot about copyright, but still ...
If the code is open sourced, there doesn't need to be a dedicated company behind supporting it. Assuming a compatible license, any party that wants to use can fork it and pay people to maintain it for their own needs without advertising that they "support" the code.
I'm skeptical of that. Mars may indeed have some small advantages over Earth in certain niches of mining or manufacturing, but it's hard to imagine how those advantages wouldn't be greatly outweighed by the added difficulty of doing... just about anything on an uninhabitable planet, and expense of shipping the final product back to earth.
I 3d print busts to paint and give to friends and family. If I put a few coats of black 3.0 on it gets very hot in the sun to the point it can melt the glue that holds the parts together (the plastic isnt thermoplastic so that's fine). I think it would work great for this purpose.
I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages.

These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with.

I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.
The financials of electric utilities don't make sense to me. Most of them (like PG&E) have been massively cash flow negative over the past 10-20 years. They issues shares and debt to, literally and figuratively, keep the lights on. For PG&E, they emerged from bankruptcy with even more debt and outstanding shares than they entered in with. Margins exist on paper but it isn't clear what that really means.

From an infrastructure standpoint the US is clearly we are a very long way (many trillions of dollars) from a grid that will support a fleet of passenger EVs.
You literally just valued your time at $13 per day.
Now that'd be an interesting comparison; Propane vs electricity + solar + batteries. I'd guess we're near the point electric could win there.
Tell them, tell them now!
Should cars transition to silent horns that only other drivers can hear?

No. The horn is not just for other vehicles. It is also for animals in the road, getting a friend to come out of their house for the ride they requested and to signal one is in the mood per request of the bumper sticker.

Many laws would have to be changed [1] as well. In my own personal opinion horns should be both audible and physical as in the usage of Rumblers [2] for the hearing impaired.

[1] - https://hornblasters.com/pages/state-laws

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wsYT1PRjIg [video][3 mins]
The release page is now live at https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-0/.
As my partner is an animal welfare lobbyist, I am qualified to say that not all lobbyists are corrupt or pedaling corruption.
But on 90's hardware, you still have no compositing or back buffers, so if you want to 'move' previous bits of line, you must redraw the background, which is the expensive bit.
- It is a mature platform with yearly updates.

- New stuffs integrate nicely with existing features.

- C# and F# gets yearly updates.

- Somehow they manage to get the platform faster every year.

- Microsoft Orleans.
Why would that be your first idea? Why not something simpler like building a moon orbiter with an aluminium and liquid oxygen hybrid engine? The goal is to find the hydrogen on the moon, which is far more valuable than some asteroid.
I always found it hilarious when they were sponsoring the datahoarder subreddit. I’d like to meet that marketer and shake his or her hand.
There is a separate post on HN :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265390
I'll ask my landlord to install one right away.

Probably have to be an earth-exchange system to deal with temperatures lower than 40°F, given that heating my house in winter is the use case.
Without taking sides on the content, your response to him sounds like what one would say after they ran out of actual argument.
The universal credit line was created a few decades ago when Congress decided to make student loan debt very hard to discharge (you basically can only get out of it by dying, becoming so disabled you cannot hold a job, or leaving the country). This encouraged lenders to put money into what is effectively a risk free investment.

Suddenly, everyone had infinite money, and there was no pressure to keep university costs low (as most states don't have the political will to cap their public education costs in a meaningful way). Colleges started investing more into attractions for their students - fancy gyms, rec halls, new dorms, etc. Both combined to "require" that schools raise the price.

And on the other side, now that everyone could afford college, public schools started to heavily encourage everyone to go to college - degree holders make more on average after all. Which is how people go into college for degrees they have no practical use for (picking on philosophy, it is great and gives a very valuable set of critical thinking skills, but do you really need those skills if you're not going to be an author, professor, lawyer, etc?). It also led to lots of folks going into college as "undecided" majors, paying tens of thousands per semester without any plan.
Imagine a Pepsi-sponsored replacement of the Kardashev scale: how big is the biggest Pepsi logo? Size of a person / building / city /continent / planet / galaxy / universe. Has consumerism truly run its course until a Pepsi logo has been carved into the CMBR?
>F#

Barely exists in training data.

Might as well ask it to code some microcontroller specifically assembly, watch it fail and claim victory.