skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The climate in the UK may be too warm to see the real benefits. Heat pumps have been popular in the Finland for 15+ years. The calculations vary from situation to situation, but the rule of thumb is that the initial investment pays itself back in ~5 years, and you have to replace the heat pump after ~15 years.
I don't use Chase in the US, but I had issues with firefox and some financial websites.

My fix was to create an entirely new profile, with no customization, no cookies restrictions, no add-ons, and use it only for financial sites.

I then exit my current FF, and switch to it, and back again.

All my issues vanished after doing that.

You could also create a different user in Linux, and isolate that way.

Hope it helps.
Thanks for engaging with the argument!

Singapore does fine as a 'second Switzerland'. So I'm not sure where you get the notion that there can be only one Switzerland-like country? (Hong Kong was in a similar boat for quite a while, but it has decreased in importance lately. Not because the global economy didn't want finance any more, but mostly because of PRC mismanagement.)

If NYC or London were independent countries, they would be in similar situations. They even have similar population numbers as the financial centres mentioned above.

When has a financial centre ever imploded overnight? Especially where that was not due to internal mismanagement, but due to shifts in the outside economy? (Though even with plenty of mismanagement, Hong Kong is still around as an important financial centre. Just not as important as before, and the decline has been slow.)

Amsterdam was once a more important financial centre, but its relatively decline has also been slow.

> The idea is sound and good, it works nice and makes everyone more wealthy as long as the money creation is kept in line with the growth of the economy.

I agree that government should be kept out of the money creation business. Private note issuing banks tend to do better. See George Selgin's work for more.

> Countries start pumping in 'empty' money into the system to paper over structural problems, but then these issues come back with double force to bite in the ass.

I am not sure what you are talking about here. You mention countries, so I assume you are talking about a system with a central bank?

Well as long as the central bank makes sure inflation (or nominal GDP) stay on target, the problem you describe just doesn't exist.

> Regarding the financial services, I acknowledge that they are useful, my problem with them is that they disconnected from the real economy and instead of being a tool subservient to the needs of that economy they started to live on their own and even enslave big swaths of the actual economy.

I'm not sure how this enslaving is supposed to happen.
No. That would destroy the stock markets in an instant. The way it has always been is that with a classic stock, the only risk an investor has is the money they paid someone to acquire the stock.

There exist other classes with actual post-buy liabilities, e.g. stock options, as one particularly unlucky poor sod discovered at the start of the 2020 plaguefest [1], but normally these are (supposed to be) heavily gated for actually qualified investors for precisely that reason.

Personally, I'd keep it that way... and nationalize companies that can't pay their fees, without paying out the shareholders. That way, the shareholders get punished, the jobs created by the company aren't lost, and the government gains something of value.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-y...
Listed houses should get an exemption to install double glazed windows and other insulation upgrades. Or they should get a discount on energy costs.
This is all in hindsight. When you are looking forward, with that kind of money, you have to certainly think about risk and diversify. That said, Bill Gates was more or less left with no options but to sell some MS shares. Almost all founder CEOs do this, 1 to de-risk their wealth and 2 to also perhaps to reduce exposure to scrutiny.

Whoever is sitting on 10B is not trying to 100x that money. They are trying to ensure that 10B doesn't go to 1M or worse to zero. The amount of risk you can take dramatically decreases with the increase in the amount of money you manage, which is why Berkshire is sitting on nearly $150B in cash and so is Apple. There are not that many less risky options to deploy 10s of billions let alone 100s.
So it's just auth + files on top of a db, essentially providing auth'd CRUD with extras? So you write the business logic in the frontend?
We did, or rather received such calculations from the providers. Today and here, depending when you retire and what your plans after that are, you might think twice about getting a geothermal one. The air-water would fit as the 1:1 replacement for the oil heating we have, with the promise of barely breaking even. NB: when you replace/upgrade an existing pump, some costs won't come again.
Isn’t the share price getting decimated the punishment for shareholders?
I'm actually looking around for courses/textbooks at the moment. I'd say the things I'm looking for are:
- Speaking practice and a focus on getting OK pronunciation early. At least according to the German Discord, it's important to get pronunciation correct from the start. If you don't it becomes very difficult to break bad habits across many hundreds of words.

- Effectiveness over dogma: I would prefer a course that focuses on teaching effectively through multiple different methods rather than being hyperfocused on one of them. If your secret is really as good as you claim you might not need this, but I'm sceptical.

- Practical vocabulary. Duolingo etc have a reputation for teaching you absolutely useless words and phrases. Particularly at the start it would be useful to beeline for a target, be that "get by on holiday" or "have a conversation with another learner/a native simplifying their language".

- Spaced repetition. I'm using Anki, but the decks aren't very good. Spaced repetition is basically a cheat code to learning, and if you integrate a good algorithm it will absolutely differentiate a course.

- Cost. I'm a student doing this in my free time. I don't want to spend lots of money, particularly when there are lots of good resources already out there. Why buy this over just using the many available resources? You have to offer something.

- Realism. I'd prefer "Learn in one year, one hour a day" that is truthful and realistic to "Learn in 3 months 10 minutes a day!" because I just know that that's untrue.
- CEFR alignment. It just makes things easier.
- Corniness gets on my nerves. Some videos are alright but please don't try to act.

I would recommend going into language learning communities - reddit, discord, etc - to see what they're looking for. You'd also benefit a lot from sharing some more details about your course.
Reminds me of the skydiver who dropped his camera and you can watch it spin and eventually land in a pigpond where a pig investigates it. It’s on YouTube.
In German criminal procedure there are five types of evidence, this list is exhaustive:

Expert opinion, direct experience by judge, documents, testimony by witnesses, testimony by the accused.

So testimony is one type of evidence here.

In civil procedure it‘s the dame, just the terms differ slightly.
Wouldn't it take longer to pay off on a well-insulated home? That's the sort of home that doesn't use much gas to begin with.
Insulation and having outdoor space to put the thing without sacrificing half your garden.
But the claim being discussed here from the GP is whether something is "probably fair grounds for immediate dismissal". Being fired from a Chinese company operating in China will be dealt with under Chinese law, where criticizing the government may well be valid grounds for dismissal (I don't know if it is or not). Here, we are talking about a company operating in Ireland and therefore subject to Irish law, not Israeli law. In this case, your assertion that "Israel does not condone any deviation from the established dogma" isn't relevant.
What did you use to generate that lovely ERD-style diagram?
An electric boiler is never going to deliver more energy then the energy you put in to it (in the form of electricity). A heath pump can because it extracts heath from the air (or better said the water in the air).

Now if this were in France with a modern grid and nuclear power it might stand a chance. But the UK with it's aging grid and aging power plants? I doubt it.
... I’m trying to imagine how one’d handle interrupts in this setup, and it sounds kind of terrifying. Reprogram the LAPIC each time? Carefully code the interrupt entry to work as both 32- and 64-bit code to determine if it needs to switch back? Ouch.
Isn't ZEB just an evolution of storage heater? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater

They are several times less efficient than heat pumps.
> You could also make the argument that both “complicated-subsystem” and "platform" teams, are just another "stream-aligned" team whose primary clients are internal to the company.

That seems overly generic. There are clear, useful differences between teams that need to hit marketing goals or interview/support customers in production, than teams that run your internal GitLab instance.
I understand how public can misunderstand this phrase but scientifically it is clear and justified.

Sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven't found compelling evidence yet. Some people are desperate and want all the studies to be done immediately and evaluate the risk if the theory is real or not.

But for scientists the desire to reach certain outcome is actually counterproductive as it can introduce bias. Slower and less passionate process can lead to better results.

For example:

1) We had no evidence of covid being airborne and then we found this evidence.

2) We had no evidence that masks help and then we found no evidence.

Two different theories, two different outcomes. Covid is airborne and it changes our understanding (however, we gradually realized that it is impossible to limit the spread and all the measures ultimately were useless). And that masks most likely had very little effect.

The reporters could write better for lay public explaining that “no evidence” means that currently we don't have evidence but it could be found later or that “no evidence” is actually that we have a lot of evidence that is indicating in some other direction and the chance of new evidence that rejects those findings is smaller but still could happen.
> 5. 699$ - I'm gonna start to laugh hard / cry - not worth it, 43inch 4K screen cost 200$, wow effect not worth the money, not worth for working.

But you can't walk around with or carry that 43inch 4K screen in the plane.
Eight of the Best Spy Novels
We need the "hybrid car" of boilers right now I think.

Jumping from gas to ASHP is too big a hurdle for most as it involves many changes (upgrades in electricity, insulation systems, radiator upgrades and/or redoing the floor with underfloor heating).

I think an immediate, gradual, cheaper solution would be boilers being run on biofuel.
It's hard to imagine two objects in the vehicle-ground-interface conceptual space much farther away from one another than feet and wheels.
> voluntarily handicapping my ability to profit off something completely legal

You are saying this is as if there were no other alternatives for you to employ your excess capital. This is certainly not true.

> some misguided notion (...) I would be saving a society that is far beyond salvation. I am not the main character in the world at large, I am not a savior.

I'm starting to hear this recently, usually thrown at me with the accusation of having Savior Complex with it, and I truly don't understand it. To me, the point is less about saving "society" and more about being able to sleep at night with a clear conscience, knowing that for all the shit that is going around in the world, my work is not doing things worse.

> I am just getting by life trying to do what I can that my wife and child are happy.

Honest question: have you ever talked with your wife about what how much material wealth do you need to be happy?
My understanding (and I'd love to be wrong here because it annoys me that I can't take advantage of high efficiency systems) is that:

1. Existing UK homes use radiators that would need to be replaced with larger radiators with an air-to-water heat pump, due to the water not being as hot as a traditional radiator system. Some of this is cost (replacing radiators), some of this is simply not having the space - many radiators are installed below windows so there isn't much scope to increase their size

2. Replacing radiators with an air-to-air system in each room is too expensive (especially since older homes often use solid brick/concrete for internal walls), as well as a large number of terraced houses with limited space for external piping/units.

3. Our mild climate (as well as housing stock age -- and, I'm betting, good historical access to local fossil fuels) means UK homes are very poorly insulated, and with our humid climate can have humidity + mould issues if retrofitted with insulation that reduces drafts.
Read the first line of the article, it specifically references an air source heat pump.
That would be but the miniscule fines don't have any effect on the share price ?
What a great find, thanks a lot for posting this. I never saw a better example for the radius of blame.
Tesla Breaks Ground on Lithium Processing Center in Texas

American electric carmaker Tesla has broken ground on a new lithium processing center it says will support the production of up to 1 million vehicles by 2025.

...

Albemarle plans to build a lithium processing center in South Carolina that will aim to refine 100,000 tons of the substance each year. Building on that project is expected to begin next year.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/tesla-breaks-ground-on...
5 years look for me highly unexpected. Can you please detail the pump type and whether you get subventions for it?
Indeed, money is a condensate of time.
This might be helpful:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
I absolutely love the “Becker Bottle”. It gives you the ability to truly visualize this concept. Super fun to play with and a great learning aid for chemistry classes.

https://www.flinnsci.com/becker-bottle-one-in-a-million/ap45...
Same with “common sense.”
I'm glad we know the cause of the accident now. If the FAA had just explained how severe the consequences would be if someone used a phone on a flight, I think we all would have been more compliant.
Is that not just also harming (again) their customers?
Sir, mother in laws should be spoken of with more respect.
Why is it so expensive to set up? Air conditioning seems to be everywhere in Asia and insulation is basically nonexistent
Yeah, I had the same thought. I’m actually usually levelheaded about this stuff, sometimes bad things happen.

This post just set me off and I dunno why. The post itself felt really sanctimonious and self unaware, then the reactions were from bizarro world. Every one was congratulatory, with next to no consideration about the people that just got the unceremonious boot.
They should add 10/30/catastrophic decompression/fall from altitude.
They do indeed, same with heat pump style water heaters used in America.
Thermal storage bricks are a lot cheaper than batteries and chargers. The bad part is that it's resistance heating, which throws away a lot of exergy.
> For example, instead of having one team responsible for kakfa, now 3 teams all owned slices of it, but in a way that we each had to become experts in order to satisfy our oncall obligations (I'm oversimplifying, but hopefully you get the point). Multiply that by 3-5 serious backend systems for each team, and you can hopefully appreciate the high cognitive load we were under.

I don't understand how you'd get this from Team Topologies, though. Not even slightly. I don't think this is an easy misinterpretation; there's literally a team type describing the way you used to do it.
That's what I want to read -- How do giant populations deal with mega changes [1]? Can we get to a place where the mega change would wipe out civilization as we know it and what would that look like? What could we do to prevent it and how likely is it to happen?

If it's not climate change it would just be something else (though -- most of the falling civilizations in my link do fall at least partly to climate change. The sea peoples wrecking the bronze age was very likely due to that and mass migration)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations
As a citizen I don’t want government taking away my ability to communicate with family because my government wants some access controls.

I’m all for punishing companies. An easier solution is to combine fines with criminal penalties on citizens who break the laws. Ie if you work for a company and spy on someone, you go to jail as if you didn’t work for the company.
hi, email you provided does not seem to work.
Or get subventions for insulation upgrades?
Most boilers sit in peoples homes. An ASHP sits outside and you will need at least 5sq meters of space with excellent ventilation. That excludes many people (including me).

But even then during winter the average ASHP makes too much noise. Planning regulations are starting to recognise the fact that they can be a nuisance in semi-rural areas, and your neighbours will hate you.

This ignores all the problems around having to retro-fit larger radiators in older homes due to lower flow temperatures.
American Policy Won't Get Us to Mass EV Adoption. Chinese Cars Will
> We did, or rather received such calculations from the providers.

Well, the calculations from the providers are highly likely to be "optimized". I would suggest the first point one might check is if the given COP is realistic. Usually it isn't.
> The fines should be measured in units of time, not % of revenue

Why not just increase the percentage so it's no longer profitable to break laws?

If say Meta was found to violate users privacy and illegally gained a 5% extra net revenue because of it, fine them 10x of what they gained, so 50% of the revenue.

I'm fairly sure they'd start moving fast without breaking things if that was the case.
Guided access should give you some help there.
> Team topologies are somewhat orthogonal to power topologies

This is a great summary.
"Statistically significant" is another misleading one for most people I think. People not familiar with the phrase are going to understand it as "important" or "large effect". Something like "high confidence" would be better, along with reporting the effect size.

A lot of the time the effect size is low (and will probably disappear with better controls) so leaving this out and leaning on the term "significant" is good for clickbait.
I used to use Syncthing for that. it worked really great. Especially with family members that are not so tech-savvy.

Off topic but related: I completely ditched my Linux setup in favor of macOS (+ my family went also full macOS). iCloud really does the job there.
> GPS based speed limiters are cheap, effective [...]

While this is technically true (the devices themselves are cheap and effective), the data required for them to work well doesn't exist. If the data exists at all, it is usually horribly out of date. So in practice there will be many cases where these devices limit you to the 30mph from last year's big construction project. Then you get rear-ended because nobody expects you to slow down 50mph for no reason at all.
https://archive.ph/l1S6p
The whole premise for the original parent comment was talking about Northern regions. So yes, this whole thread is regionally specific.

Talking about the south is silly because in most of the southern US it is near unlivable with humidity to go without A/C.
Sure, let's assume 100B

What's the value provided to citizens by spending 67B on health in the USA in terms of value provided? 10B in a country where prices are not the result of insurance companies colluding with the government?
But dropping from 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz down to 900Mhz does significantly improve the penetration from varying forms of obstructions and makes tropospheric ducting more likely to occur.
Sign of the times? Or sign of controlling resources prior to collapse. The growing deficits globally indicates an unsustainable cost for nearly all parties. Does anything come easy without a cost?
> > So it must be defined as illegal in the law to be considered discrimination?

> No, I'm saying it's confusing to use terminology that's also separately legal teminology to describe something.

Well, you seem to argue that one should not use the term "discrimination" if it is not legally defined to be such, because that would be confusing.

Let's assume a hypothetical situation in which the law did not state that you cannot discriminate based on sex/gender and the minimum wage law stated that woman have a lower minimum wage than men. Would you consider this to be gender discrimination?

If yes, what are the fundamental differences between this hypothetical situation and the real world situation of lower minimum wages for younger people? Why would you consider one to be discriminatory and the other to not be?

If no, then I have no further questions. We seem to have a very different understanding of what discrimination is.

I for one would definitely consider this hypothetical example to be discrimination and obviously apply the same logic to the actual situation as well.
I'm not disputing the fact Johnson can draw crowds to overseas media companies or that theyre big enough to afford to pay him, I'm disputing the insinuation of the exact opposite (i.e there's no reason to pay him the big bucks except bribery). From the point of view of there being no UK policy decisions the Hindustan Times' Indian media empire could feasibly have been trying to buy an ex-PM for, it's absolutely "some foreign newspaper". Its not that politicians are incorruptible, it's that people are absolutely willing to spend that much on them for non-corrupt reasons.

Some random backbencher isn't getting Johnson or Clinton sized speaking fees.
"Van Sabben, a civil engineer by profession, died in a motorbike crash near his home in Dubai two years later."

Now that's... unfortunate...
Does it? I have had a caseless iPhone for years, I drop it on hard surfaces a few times a week, and it’s fine except for a few scratches on the edges.
I like that, in this age, science tries to keep statements factual. "No evidence" is an objective statement of fact to counter the millions of examples of baseless conspiracy BS getting algorithmically hyped into people's news diet. It's a good thing. As new evidence appears that fact is corrected, and people can act accordingly. Without positive claims of truth, science can try to stay objective.
Show HN: I made a dead simple logo maker
Hey HN, I'm the maker of LogoFast — a free & simple icon maker.

I launched it on Product Hunt and it got:

- #1 Product of the day
- #1 Product of the week
- #2 Product of the month

Would love to get raw HN feedback.

— Marc
Another risk is that your platform teams need to be super good at identifying each stream team’s roadmap. If the way aren’t and your product team doesn’t naturally identify overlapping features as areas for technical communication, the platform team needs to fill that gap. And you need 1 platform team that will identify each gap, so a platform team that can’t identify when two web apps can share componentry likely implies the need for a platform team who can. There will be a lot on their plates!
Agreed! I just said battery to cover any type of energy storage mechanism.
Downvoting comments and replies gets unlocked at karma 501

Submissions can never be downvoted.

Both submissions and comments/replies can be flagged, though I'm not sure if there's a karma limit on that facility.
Is this shopify for restaurants? Is there a hosted version available?