skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heatpumps work as heat only in climates where temps never hit 0c for a prolonged period of time.

You go below 0c for a month, enjoy your baseboard-levels of efficiency.

Some anecdata: Neighbor is on heatpumps and has a comparable house (in terms of size) to mine. My house is significantly older than his, worse in terms of insulation, I have a number of old leaky windows, all of his are brand new, etc. I primarily heat with wood, with a oil furnace backup that runs a forced hot air system.
His bill for four straight months last winter for electricity was 800 dollars a month (3200). My total for oil+wood was 2400 total and I still had firewood left over.

He also got to deal with the fun of heatpumps just not working in the dead of winter because it was too cold outside.
Yes. Young earth creationists employ the same tactics.
I’ve been saying that college is doomed, for a while. I say this as a man with 2 graduate degrees so I am obviously not anti education.

Let’s think first principles. A hundred or even 50 years ago, going to college was a real signifier. You were someone who invested in scholarship, survived the rigor, etc. In the absence of other signifiers, that meant something about you. And obviously also you learned something.

Today “everyone” goes to college but it’s also trivial to graduate college with no useful skills or mind expansion because it has become more accessible and the bar is lower. So your degree no longer signifies much about you. It’s kinda sad to see college educated adults working in Starbucks but yeah it’s trivial to be half a million dollars in debt and not come out with much.

So the signifier value is gone. Meanwhile your opportunities to learn and prove yourself outside of a college degree are more present than ever. Online education options, easy testing, online portfolios etc being some examples of that.

So college gives you less, charges you a lot, and competition is rising. That’s not a tenable situation.

And the pill about decreased confidence resonates. In the prior generation maybe you can make some argument about college educated people being smarter (and worth listening to) in contrast to others. But now, it’s kinda obvious that electricians, plumbers etc are pulling in 300k a year are smarter and wiser than a liberal arts grad pulling 45k at Starbucks and yeah it’s becoming hard to justify giving more weight to the later in anything.

I find this a bit sad - I got a lot out of my education and if that was available to my son and daughter in 17 years that would be great but I suspect it will be so watered down if it exists at all that it would be a hard to justify option.
plastic bottle and their transportation generate a lot of pollution, compared to local mecanisms (purification, desalinisation, etc..)
I think the question he is asking is why download something sitting on the local disk.
>small elite liberal arts colleges

If they are elite, they should pay for themselves. They are not actually elite. Everyone wants to feel elite, so everyone pretends to have some prestige even if the school is mid/low.

Most of the issue is that unrestricted credit line.
That's their decision - to sacrifice their work/life balance to do another job, as opposed to it being a single company's/manager's decision.
This is definitely a problem. But we still need higher education as a society. I think there must be some third way between just throwing money into the pockets of university presidents and defunding it and creating an anti-intellectual society at a crisis point for America.
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Lead-tainted fruit pouches poison 22 toddlers; blood lead levels 8X threshold
> This feels like a feedback loop where political parties defund public colleges, it becomes worse, they say "look how bad it is" to justify more cuts. It becomes worse...

What cuts? Spending on public college is up and spending on private colleges is way up.

The problems aren’t related to funding deficits.
Other than "lying by omission", which depends on how you define your disclosure obligations to a client or employer -- this has not been my experience at all.
moon or moscow

planets or peking

that was unnecessary. always the need for war.
> What exactly is anti-democracy?

He promotes and supports the US politicians who architected and supported the January 6th attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and who are continuing that work today to end democracy in the US.
> Beg for random people to install your beta app?

I wouldn't call it "begging", but essentially, yes, this is what I've always done.
Property management company forbids any such installations. It's my flat, but we're not allowed to drill any holes in bricks or ceiling.

I moved out from that flat, now live in a house that has a geothermal heat pump. 4 times bigger house, 3x lower bill...
> The average age of the retired drives was just over eight years

Didn't realize they can last so long.
This article was Sponsored by WhatTheFrack Drilling Company.

Where did you see that? I don’t see the reference anywhere.

Edit: feel free to downvote. I’m not defending the content, I just thought it was interesting. Maybe we should tax fuel oil or something. I just don’t see this report as being some shadowy conspiracy with an oil company.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to build AI "superintelligence"
> Given there are many hard walled / paywalled articles posted to HN

I've never seen a hardwalled article on the frontpage, without any workaround whatsoever, in the last month at least. If you can link to a few recent examples this would be more credible.
Never say never, but I do agree a gap year working with a bit of travel can help people get a much more realistic perspective on what they are embarking upon before going to college.
Teens with "digital bazookas" are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments
The other side of the wager is rarely considered (AKA Homer’s Wager):

What if the Udon Noodle Monster exist and he intensely hates people who worship someone else instead of him but is neutral on people who don’t worship at all.
A user who doesn't particularly care for it can easily end up with a mess of paradigms too: terminal, qt, x, libadwaita, borderless IDEs, PWAs...
Why would it be limited to a few people? If the impacts are as far reaching as people expect an open source AGI will be inevitable. Useful algorithms are very hard to keep secret.

I imagine a future with few jobs, where everyone is largely self sufficient. Would that really be so bad?
Yeah if it's more like "you work for me; I pay you as long as the results are good but will fire you at will" it's much easier to pull this off while maintaining a clear conscience.
Code folding is still not supported. It's a dealbreaker for me https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/749
As a hobbyist digital painter and 3D artist who has used both Blender and Krita, I strongly disagree with this. Krita is simply best-in-class at digital painting on a PC. Both are exceptional pieces of software.

It did take me a week or two to adjust to Krita’s hotkeys coming from a lifetime of Photoshop, but the software in the end is leagues better for painting.
Before everyone starts hyperventilating, based on the data Pews provided, the biggest reason for this drop was because trust in higher education from individuals with no college education dropped from 54% in 2015 to 29% in 2023, and primarily Republicans from 59% in 2015 to 19% in 2023.

It looks like a feedback loop caused by culture wars and anti-elitism.
People do though.

Making art for most people is like exercise. It's good for them and once they get into it they like it, but there is an initial cost and your initial attempts aren't going to be very fulfilling and all that.

Almost everybody feels that surge of excitement in front of the potter's wheel. But, pots collapse, finding a teacher to mentor you is expensive, the people who want to start it have to start by researching clay and how you work it and can I use my oven as a kiln or do I need to buy a dedicated one and do I need glazing materials...

And then the same thing that killed exercise has killed the “artism” that we feel. People stopped going on daily constitutionals because of the TV, we made the TV more addictive and put it in your pocket and called it TikTok
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/perspectives/2023/1...
Search "who owns Denver Gazette":

"Clarity Media, which is the parent company of the Denver Gazette and is owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, purchased the assets and rights."

Now read his wikipedia page.
The speed with which this response was made is telling. On a comment and thread many hours old. Your initial comment was at 1am Central Time. Within minutes of this comment, at 9am Central time you responded. These are clear indications of a monitored account.

In many other of “your” comments it’s been pointed out that your statements are incorrect, and provably false. At that point it goes from opinion to misinformation, and propaganda.

One cannot pretend that China is not a totalitarian system built, with clear and consistent human rights violations. Where those who oppose the party line disappear. Contrast that with the US, where a former president is in a very public and contentious court case, with open coverage.

Totalitarian regimes such as China and Russia view democracy and freedom of speech as a weakness to be exploited. What they fail to realize is that truth wins out. You can only lie for so long before you run smack into the truth of matters.

Until and if China ever embraces the UN declaration of human rights, including the ratification of the ICCPR, its intentions are clear. China specifically believes that maintaining the party stranglehold on the country trumps the notion of universal human rights.

And please don’t reply trying to obfuscate the issues, throw other propaganda, or whatabout’isms around.

The support of a government clearly in direct opposition to freedom of speech, human rights, and democratic institutions cannot be supported in any society that values freedom and democracy.
There's no official RC1 build for download either, and hasn't been from the first of Nov (when it was supposed to be available).

I've been looking every few days from the 1st of Nov, and the Release Candidate date on the projects page was pushed back to the 8th, but not updated since then.

The official Projects page still lists the Blender 4.0 goal as only "92% Completed":

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/milestone/7

There's nothing on the Blender Blog about an RC1 being available for testing:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231114142752/https://code.blend...

Nor is there any mention in yesterday's weekly Devtalk:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/13-november-2023/31960

If there really is a 4.0 release that's available now, then they've seriously gone wrong with the communication parts of their release process. :( :( :(
"Does anyone know what the "traditional" response to these sorts of ground movements was?"

The very old tradition was to increase the amounts of sacrifices to the gods, because clearly they were angry.
> They visited at least two unique pages.

The user has visited A and B on day 1, and A on day 2.
So the total page hits is (A, B, A). Remove duplicates and you have (A, B) which makes the sentence true.

Imagine he said:

> They bought at least two unique products

What would you expect the requirements to be?
They buried the lede - about half way down it points out that heat pumps cost about the same even in Denver's climate.

Using electric furnaces like it's 1995 is yes, inefficient.
All it takes is someone convincing you to take a travel vacation around Christmas so that you are too busy to be competitive. (And maybe you don’t bother to play if you can’t be competitive at it.) Nothing LIVES CHANGE sized has to be the case...
Eliminating bottled water completely won't provide any water to the people that don't have it. It's an appeal to emotion.
Wow, this is probably the most brazen misuse of the DMCA process I've seen in a while. Actively advertising on YouTube how merchants can file fake DMCA claims with Google to improve their business is insane.
I think I might be witnessing something deeper: we prefer not to talk to each other anymore.

I'm happy to smalltalk with strangers, but I use the machines as I hate ambiguity. I often had orders misheard or misunderstood and prefer to explicitly select and see what I want in an unambiguous way, if I can.

Even with something as a single drink this can become a problem.. a venti soy mocha frappuccino with vegan whipped cream or whatever, let alone when you might have several people's orders to make at once and not mess up.

Talking to strangers is great fun, and the ambiguity there can make it more so! Relaying and verifying precise information to a stranger? Not fun.
A new life awaits us in the Off-World colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
I find the following useful for my own sanity, some might say it's a little overkill, but whatever ig

news.ycombinator.com##td.title:nth-of-type(3):has-text("AI")
You've been out of university 20 years. Is it possible your impression of today's university experience is biased by "the media", i.e. whatever makes for the most clickbait headlines?
I wonder if they have special hardware recycling arrangements with their vendors for decommissioned drives to reduce their footprint. How many magnets are laying around the office? :)
labor cost, plus likelihood of errors, theft, getting shot in a holdup, etc.

ATMs just have lower overhead and less chance of being blackmailed into a heist
Here's some context: https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/state-fundin...
You can install nearly-perfect gutter guards.

I've also personally just stopped raking leaves entirely. Where I want some grass in my front yard I'll mulch with my mower which is good for the grass, but otherwise I just leave the leaves alone and it results in a soft, typically non-muddy ground like a forest floor.

I'm not proselytizing this course of action, do as you please. But I think it's nice and something most don't consider.
does this also account for the next time a petrostate dictator decides to stage an invasion of one of it's neighbours and cause the price of gas to rise 77%?
after a while, my brain reorganized and i think of the map() first, before thinking about the content of the map, basically to avoid the keystrokes required to go to beginning of line, then back to where I was typing.
Everyone that has > 5KWp solar and a heatpump is laughing right now.
It’s true that updating these systems will be a challenge.
Like the other commenter hinted on, it depends on the ambient temperature. While for certain temperate ranges (above 0C) heat pumps are in their high efficiency range and depending on local electricity prices might be cheaper, it can change quickly once temepratures go below freezing. So there is a break even point where heating with gas is cheaper below that temperature and above heating with electricity through the heat pump is cheaper. Where that temperature is, depends on gas and electricity prices as well as your heat pump
Of course not. "Too hard"
Reminds me of nearly every time there is an aircraft incident with, say a 737 but the media show a stock photo of a completely different plane that has 4 engines.
I think bloat like that just happens in successful organizations due to internal empire building. They aren't going to return that money to the investors, and aren't going to lower their prices, so that money is just there for the taking. Someone justifies it with whatever project they think helps them politically and voila.
I think it is much more likely that Musk is going to cause a kepler syndrome collapse with starlink well before spacex is actually going to consider creating a moon base.
Typical whataboutism. See my other comment that this account is clearly Chinese state run.
The article doesn't make any mention of the massive government subsidies and other economic incentives that have kept fossil fuel prices artificially low for decades. I'm sure the green energy industry is lobbying itself up a little government pork of its own, but nobody compares to the corruption engine of the fossil fuel sector.
IMHO if Microsoft wanted this it is clearly them to blame. It is a bit like going back to the MS-DOS era where applications should behave as there was no memory protection.

The simple/partial solution is: if the system is in S0ix (modern standby) state then under no circumstances it is allowed to get warmer than some reasonable temperature (i.e. 36°C / 97°F) - a fan should absolutely never spin up.

That is clearly on Microsoft and Intel to omit such an obvious limitation.
It definitely has its warts. I've been making a game using it and I've been annoyed how difficult certain things have been. 3D and cross-platform support in general isn't great (it's technically there, but any platform outside of Windows has a lot of hoops to jump through, at least in my experience).

But it's also one of the more lightweight and code-centric game development frameworks out there currently, and I do prefer that to working with a heavy bloated editor like Unity (which I've used professionally in the past). And as long as my game takes the warts into consideration, 95% or more of my time is just spent coding, not figuring things out the quirks of the framework or engine.

Like I had some issues getting some animations to import properly from Blender the other day (there's some video with like 100 views of someone who got something a bit different sort of kind of working, but I didn't feel like figuring out how to decode what they're doing and transpile that over to my needs), and just decided "Okay, I guess I'm not going to bother with making animations in Blender and only use static models instead. What I wanted it for isn't really that necessary anyway." And I'm only targeting Windows for now. I'll try to get other platforms working later, if ever (got it working on Steamdeck, at least).

It was also pretty disheartening to see almost zero development on Monogame over the past year (judging by its Github activity).

I have been considering giving Godot or Defold a try for my next game (Godot I was highly considering since it has XR support, and I've really wanted to make a VR-compatible game for a while now), but I'm hoping I can at some point jump back into Monogame once this Foundation gets into gear.
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I understand! Perhaps I should include more tools and tutorials on marketing as well?
Good point, I'd never noticed that before - menus seem fine once you get them open, but I can't find a way to open any menu without clicking, and ex. the preferences pane does seem completely impossible to navigate via keyboard. So yes, I agree that that appears a downside to their own toolkit.
There seems to be some trend, to outsource plugins into their separate processes, so you can write them in your preferred language. So APIs are already being established here and there. All we probably need is someone carving out a standard from them, with room for editor-specific enhancement, and then convince the projects to support this.

Maybe the neovim-people could get together with other projects, start some group, project, whatever to discuss this further? Of maybe something like this already exists?
Two answers

General answer: Because it's needless complexity (relying on a company's service rather than... reading from a local disk) that masks what is actually happening behind the scenes. It will always be less reliable.

Answer in that specific situation: They were files in a OneDrive that no longer existed after a tenant migration (they hired a consulting company that seemed to bungle things).
You mean like Cpp2? https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
“If money doesn’t solve the problem, you aren’t using enough” seems to be the watchword. I wonder if there is some upper limit of spending where proponents of public schools, transit, police, universities, or healthcare will say “okay, you’re right. Spending didn’t help”.
That's great, but no, it's the final minute of the Miracle on Ice that's the most theatrical (sports) thing on live TV[^1] ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYscemhnf88&t=71s

[^1]: technically broadcast on tape delay, but for Al Michaels, it was live[^2].

[^2]: https://nypost.com/2020/01/08/the-story-behind-al-michaels-i...
> MonoGame has essentially replicated XNA 4 wart for wart.

This was intentional and beneficial in some aspects. So games could be ported easily. And existing team expertise could be leveraged.
ya electric baseboard are expensive to tun

heatpumps are really cheap to run
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Super-spoiler: This is absolutely, completely incorrect.

1) Teaching quality doesn't correlate much with quality (if anything, the inverse), so an Ivy is likely to have similar or worse teaching than a community college.

2) There is a HUGE difference in a community college bachelor degree and a proper university. Look at the curriculum. Much of what's covered in community college, Ivy students will have done in high school, and a community college will have (quite literally) NO advanced courses, equivalent to what university juniors and seniors might take.

If you want identical, you can compare elite schools to large state universities (University of Texas, University of California, ASU, etc.). At that point, classes are more-or-less identical to elite schools. Major remaining difference is brand stamp and network (which, coming from an elite school, I can say matter a lot).

However, community colleges serve a different purpose, and do not try to accomplish the same thing. They give a leg up into basic professional work. If you work at McD's or the local supermarket, and want a living income as a nurse, IT technician, AV work, or similar, community colleges will do a very good job for not a lot of money and with experience about being practical for people with the kinds of real-world constraints that come with e.g. minimum wage labor.

You will NOT be on a path to a job as a doctor, engineer, or similar. However, a community college education can allow you the basic standard of living to provide that kind of socioeconomic mobility to your kids.
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It’s absolutely not. The balance of power has shifted toward the students in recent years (for better or worse). If a professor is able to “punish” “contrarian views,” it is only to the extent that the rest of the students get behind it.

But I also think the punished views are at most socially punished in all but outlier cases. Having worked in higher ed for a bit and then transitioned into tech, I can say that students are over quick (on both left and right) to chalk up a bad score (read: “b” when I thought I deserved an “a”) to a biased attitude toward content rather than a substantive objection to the quality of argument. One thing that is true of humans in general: we will more easily find the holes in the arguments we disagree with, and what’s more, most students have similar ish ideas (especially the “contrarian” ones), so after two years of teaching a class on (say) the history of the civil war or gender in 18th century literature, the arguments are going to be familiar enough that you can just pattern match on them.
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A strong case can be made, i think, for people who are struggling with the cost of education, to consider trades, now more than ever. especially in electrical. Trades people are aging pretty significantly as a group, and there is going to be a surge in electrical that will need lots of people. This is true in general, but especially electrical. I went to college when it was cheap and so there really wasn't much of a concern. If i were a young person now, i doubt i could afford it, and trades would likely be a big win for me. Many a day, even now, i wake up and wish i had taken that path.