skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy 2x extra panels. Honeslty the gains you might get by optimising panel placement (beyond matching to your hemisphere and latitude) will be outweighed by the additional cost. Domestic applications is not big enough to really give you significant gains in this department.

Make sure they face the right way (south for Northern hemisphere), and match the angle with your latitude. If you have a pitched roof thats +-10 deg in the correct angle, just lay them flat on the roof.

Edit: forgot to add, a while back there was an article here about a company that proved it was viable to lay the panels flat on the ground for massive solar farm installations. The savings from less installation labour and materials went to installing more panels. And they still came out ahead. Solar is getting cheap enough that the math gets weird. Your answer is almost always "just add more panels" unless you are seriously space constrained.
Real Estate is a weird thing, because literally every lot is different. If you pick two lots of the same square footage and compare them, even in the same neighborhood or even with adjacent lot lines, things like soil conditions and presence or absence of subsurface water can dramatically change the cost of construction or make your lot totally unbuildable.

Buildings are living things that are constantly being changed by their owners too. After 10 years of their being lived in no two cookie-cutter houses will be the same either.

The reason what you want doesn't exist is because it's impossible to scale using technology without rendering these differences moot. The construction industry is doing the best it can by clearcutting every lot and bulldozing the surface features into a set of flat terraced lots and then building houses on that infill. The only thing SV could contribute is capital.
I think it's fine for libraries to provide a toplevel `Crawl()` method which manages the goroutines as a convenience, but these libraries should expose the more parameterized methods as well so callers can have more fine-grained control.
I don't see how the GDP has anything to do with this.

What percent of the population those states make up might be somewhat interesting at least.

But even then, 90% of new installations requires us to know what percent of installations those states make up, and population isn't necessarily (but could be) a good corollary for that.
It’s surprising how rare houses with >= 4 bedrooms are too. They definitely exist and are more common in outer suburbs, but in most central city areas built up through the 80s houses are almost all 3 bedroom or smaller.

There are a lot of things like this that consciously or subconsciously push people to have smaller families.
All ow the calls through. When a human starts talking don't hang up, but don't speak to them either.
Allow them to hang up.

You'll soon get taken off the lists.
Sure. Let the squatters have it if it's worthless it doesn't matter. And while you're at it ban foreign ownership on property.
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
Yeah, the fees in this society are getting out of control, it's exhausting.
I'm wondering if many of the failures in electronically controlled equipment are due to power surges etc. It may be worth having a whole-home (or equipment specific) surge protective device installed, which will protect the power electronics (which have very minimal surge protection built in) from anything else happening on the line (particularly if there are storms where you live often)
Stains need to be subtler/fainter, waterier, with grain specks
As a thought experiment, I just gonna make up some numbers then.

A380 has X flight hours, with N landings, with no crashes

737 Max has X * 10000 flight hours, with N * 10000 landings, with two crashes

No matter how you calculate it, 737 Max been through more crashes than A380, unless you ignore the previous two crashes, obviously.
Yeah, I've always been impressed at AirBnB's open source stuff, even if I don't use their actual product.
That Electric Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Fake
> How is supporting the military of your adversary not treason?

For a given meaning of adversary it is, for others it isn't, clearly the line in the sand at least for the US is when they are at war, arguably when a trade ban happens if we want to be a bit more relaxed with definitions. If you do disagree and believe the line in the sand encompasses china the real worry should not be a "measly" 3 billion from random VCs but the 1 trillion dollars of the US national debt china holds.

> You don’t ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs to a country you are friends with.

You ship them to where people are buying them, unless you're saying it's a government operation and not a case of lax export regulations, which I'd be very surprised if it was the case, at least directly.
You could just put a staircase in the middle of the apartment and have two or three levels, no? That's how lots of homes are built, is there some reason reason why some apartments couldn't be like that as well.
> I'd think that a fixed amount of air compressed in the compressor means a fixed amount of condensation runoff from the unit

It's not compressing air (like in a car tire). It's compressing a refrigerant. That refrigerant goes through phase changes (liquid to gas).

One major issue is that for most ACs, the compressor is cycled on and off according to the target temperature (via a thermostat, usually at a single location), not humidity. That means humidity can rise without the AC kicking on to bring it down. Remember in most typical houses, temperature and humidity are not very uniformly distributed.

Furthermore, if the humidity rises high enough before the AC kicks on, and then the AC kicks on at high power, you can get sudden localized cooling and then condensation of humidity to liquid water inside the building, which leads to other problems, especially if it happens behind the walls.
>while hiring a volunteer force

Nonsense. If you’re talking about specials then they have been kicking about since the late 1800s.
It's pretty common in the Pacific Northwest. Heat pumps are unreasonably expensive here in the US so they're still fairly uncommon and the PNW has abundant, relatively cheap hydro power.
It's Google's prefix (`2001:4860:4860`) with `8888` and `8844` on the end.

If you can't remember that, the problem's not the protocol.
So if we extrapolate from that, his ancestors when immigrating to America probably had to put a "last name" on the immigration form, maybe being from the Dutch town Monster or even from the now German city Münster. So maybe they put "van der Monster" as their last name = "from Monster". Which later became just "Monster".
As I press Cmd-+ in Safari, the text of this article increases in size, but images with the floor plans remain the same. Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to break zoom?!
> One thing to keep in mind is that in the US there are often things like setback restrictions and distance separation requirements such, so a small increase in square footage can be the difference between a building fitting on a lot, and not.

Any country with urban planning and building codes imposes this sort of restrictions.
I’m not familiar with Ring, but if it’s anything like their Blink cameras I wouldn’t count on it. The Blink cameras advertise a local only mode, but the functionality is reduced to make it unusable. You lose thumbnails for videos and they take away the ability to bulk delete (IIRC). Have fun navigating into every video, waiting for it to start playing, and then deleting it.

The other catch is if “the cloud” is needed to generate thumbnails, it’s not a local only mode.
Have you looked on a map? The plant is right next to the largest power line between the USA and Canada, right between Ottawa and Montreal. A (presumably) new-ish wind farm is on the New York state side.

Have you read their website? "With 435MW of transformer capacity at its Massena complex" — that is the amount they can draw from the grid, not the generating capacity of any nearby power plant.

The plant is here: https://openinframap.org/#15.08/44.98237/-74.74862 (checked with several sources, e.g. https://www.gem.wiki/Massena_Complex).
How can it works? The moon is already huge and when it’s eclipsing the sun it’s only shading a small spot.

One would need to block a significant fraction of the solid angle between the sun and earth. The smallest side is on earth side, and that would require an object the size of the planet.

Looks like we’re hanging on anything to procrastinate the mandatory society shift.
Why are apartments in the city so much more expensive then? Your opinion is contradicted by reality.
"You can't regulate it away"

"Of course, you can regulate it away."
That is fund performance, not Asset Managament fees.

> It looks like they have severely underperformed the SP500 for the last 3, 5, 10 years.

Yep! That was why Sequoia Fund (the US operation and brand owner) had India+SEA and China funds created in the 2010s and why they began restructuring in 2020-23 [0]

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2021/10/26/sequoia-capital-fund-ventur...
> If we ever have to replace it, we're going to have to rip open half of the house to remove the heating lines. It'll be a nightmare.

Why? Assuming you have a split unit, the lines are just copper pipes and will work with any other heatpump.
This is why the suburbs are the way they are now. It’s really sad! So many people living in safe neighborhoods, convinced that untold danger lurks outside and that they have to turn their homes into 24/7-surveillance fortresses and never answer the door or something unspeakable will happen.
There are many reasons behind this. It isn't just a fashion for bigger things. I chalk much of it up to differences in work culture. My European friends often talk about pickup up food on the way home from work, dropping in at a store to buy ingredients for dinner. I don't have time to shop like that. My food run is once a week. That means more food in a bigger fridge. They also go out to eat far more than we in North America. When work is busy I can easily go a month, sometimes months, without eating at sit-down restaurant. That is unheard of across much of Europe.

Last time I was in Europe at a friend's place they asked where I wanted to go for breakfast. Breakfast? I don't need to pay someone else to fry me an egg.
> Sam Altman when he says there may someday be a billion-dollar
company run by one person who is able to highly leverage future AI
agents to automate most traditional roles at a company.

Altman is nearly right, but Warren Bennis had it better;

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.

It's not that companies will "leverage AI" but that AI will leverage
humans. Companies are already "AIs", but that will become more and
more apparent as time goes by.
Your assessment of the problem is accurate but persuasion so far has proven intractable.

I live in Portland. I’ve been cornered for my opinion on urbanization, so I’ll give it.

But at least here, many people have black and white opinions. Either you don’t care about the environment or you don‘t care about displacement.

This is why we needed the Green New Deal or Build Back Better. Urbanize, but increase social safety nets, provide rent control…

I don’t claim to know which levers to pull, but we definitely need to pull more than one at once to meet the goals of increasing density without driving people out of their own neighborhoods.

But doesn’t it seem strange that increasing density would increase displacement?

The US has a lot of political barriers to things like the Green New Deal. So when areas are urbanized, those against urbanization can point to the flawed execution and they certainly have a point.

That said, I’d love to see the Green New Deal return.
Idk, this feels like a tough argument to defend. People still had all those things before Facebook found ways to monetize them. You would have to argue that the interface and its convenience itself of Facebook is more positive than its countless externalities. Not to mention the fact we can imagine, ceteris paribus, another kind of Facebook with a less predatory model that would have let people make the same amount of art, express themselves the same, etc.
Are there any documents laying out the specific issues found in the papers? It sounds like there's a lot wrong with them but I'm curious how much worse than your median paper they actually are. There are a lot of politically motivated studies that could be argued to have unsupported assumptions and present data in a misleading way that have not been retracted.

Here's the retraction itself: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23333928231216699
You still need heat in California, one way or another, especially further north. What would you suggest as a method of heating in CA?
It's not the same. Apart from twitter it's much easier to get far right content banned than far left.

The far right builds independent Websites because of censorship, otherwise normal social media would suffice. When LGBT used to be a bad word on the corporate world sites like Susan's Place did the same.

Far left places like leftypol are pretty abandoned.
for the low price of 7 trillion dollars you too can order from Grubhub and have it delivered to your door without the need for a single human! /s
I think this whole thing goes a bit deeper into the habits we have all developed over the years.

Just this morning I ignored an early morning call from someone that was trying to make an appointment for something I was loosely engaged in. I ignored the call because I thought it was a spammer and lamented spammers are calling so early. Randomly later it occurred to me that maybe it was the person trying to make an appointment. Thankfully they left a voicemail.

I think we expect emails or texts now.

Also, I see office workers ignore calls now because of digital phones showing the number or caller ID. Old desk phones didn’t really show who was calling, so everyone picked up the phone because it was a business call. Now you can’t get anyone to pick up the phone.
New to heat pumps. Can I replace sub-components of an existing AC system with a heat pump for benefits of both?
Because it was already considered a solved problem. You can use standard containers for that sort of thing, so why reinvent that wheel.
I'll put in another "not normal". I have a heat pump and the temperature stability seems better than the furnace. It takes longer to change but once it gets there it's very stable. With every AC system it can be a challenge to get different regions to be perfect but that shouldn't be worse with an air pump.
Doesn't look like he is dying on any hills to me. I agree with him, it's a funny small lie that is really common and people rarely notice.
Violent crime rates are lower than ever before. Just because you saw a news article about something, likely published by a company that's competing with social media for revenue, doesn't mean that something is actually common. Don't base your opinions about something on what its competitors say about it.
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It is quite expensive to be a full member of RIPE though. Most people with smaller requirements can go through a sponsoring LIR to get PI space (like a /48).
I believe they run a heat conductive fluid through heat exchange coils in the ground. This allows you to pump heat into the ground during winter and extract said heat (not sure how accurate this is) during the winter.
Or, skip the trouble of building such a pool and rubber-hose those who control the existing pools into doing what you want.
> These states really need to get their electric rates down if they want to accelerate adoption of electrification technologies.

I wish. Instead they'll just do what they're doing in my home city, Seattle: ban gas furnaces and other forms of heating entirely while raising electric rates even further. The masses will cry that you have to be rich to live here, and they'll respond to that by raising taxes and spending the raised funds on consultants and bureaucrats studying electric utility inequities. I wish I was making this up.
I wonder if blurring the edges of the shapes within the stain might help make it look more organic
Pick up the phone, keep silent for 5 seconds. A human on the other end would say something or you would hear background noise. If you don't hear anything, hang up. This works because the auto-dialers that call centers use listen for you to say something before starting the robo-dialogue or patching you into a meat-talker.
I am an executive and I’m pushing back hard against AI. I don’t need a robotic progressive machine telling us what is acceptable or that they are deeply offended.
There is something there - but currently it feels worse all the time and the wow factor is already gone.

Why aren’t we using all this computing power to say, model how many emissions China needs to cut and exactly where, using new pollution satellite data, to force them to save the planet?

Why are we instead wasting all this computing power on politically correct robots ?

There is an article about Bitcoin “wasting” 2.3% of US electrical grid power. Why aren’t we examining how much all these GPUs are wasting?

It is a big hot mess currently
Ah, glad to hear it's working well! I recall layering issues but I'm going to look into switching over. Thanks :)
Maybe C# got me spoiled with CancellationToken which seems like a nicer API. And, perhaps, synchronization context as well if you are writing a GUI application and need a render thread, to make sure you yield to the right one. Though if that's not the preferred pattern, publishing a message to a channel on one end and then reading them from another is always an option.
Reminds me of when I'm trying to use ChatGPT to fix up my grandad's war stories - the first few pages of each story come through nicely edited, but when it gets to the meat and potatoes of the war, well all of a sudden it says 'this might violate...'. It's a story my grandfather wrote, I'm trying to edit it because though he was a decent writer, he wasn't great. But if I mention any of the slang in the story, or sometimes the subject or actions, well, that's a bridge too far.
1450-sqft is more 2BR size in NYC for sure.
Layout is underappreciated as well in terms of apartments versus freestanding homes.
I've had North facing apartments that never got much light, and South facing apartments that got baked by the sun (75F indoors when it's 45F out on a sunny day). You can't really ventilate that 75F apartment when all the windows are on the same side. Both suck. Having 2-3 exposures in an apartment layout is a rare luxury. So we get no circulation and need to run central air more.
Nice keeb
It's not considered polished enough to make the default. Some functionality isn't reimplemented yet. It's difficult to transition backwards once you've switched.
> 'Family' and 'Apartment' are words that don't go very well together.

This is a very Anglo-spheric perspective, and it's because you guys can't build nice apartments

I grew up in a nice apartment in Eastern Europe, the building had an enclosed courtyard and was a safe place for dozens of kids to play and socialise. You would let out kids without supervision, there are always adults around and they all know each-other. If something serious was going down, they would intervene and call relevant parents.

There are always old grandmas sitting on the bench, gossiping and eating sunflower seeds, they were the biological CCTV system. You could also always look out the window and see what your kid is doing.

Courtyard here is "don't step on grass', 'don't make noise', 'don't play games', so what the hell is it for?

Quite frankly English and Americans just don't get how to build nice cities at all, that's why they always want to move to the suburbs or some village.
Why even cut the cables? Wouldn't they just back out the tensors at the anchors and do it all under control?
Just looking at my street, which is not old infrastructure, they would have to replace all the electric lines, all the transformers, and all the panels in all of the houses if everyone here decided to have EVs. If everyone went to 100% electric heat, it would be even worse.

We have dual fuel heating (heat pump, oil burner). It's prohibitively expensive to run the heat pump below 32F (0C), but the oil works great then, and is way cheaper. Just like the heat pump is cheaper at warmer temps. The heat pump won't work at all at 0F (-18C), so it's a non-starter to only use air based heat pumps for all of our needs. We've tried to get quotes for geothermal, but we'll just have to wait for the next big recession to do that.

As an engineer, I just have to shake my head at the unrealistic timelines being pushed by politicians. All that does is increase cost and drama.
I'm going through this process currently (getting estimates from local HVAC contractors, SF Bay Area), and their general guidance so far is to get a Hybrid electric + gas heat pump config.

The electric heat pump alone isn't sufficient compared with gas, and the "add-on" you get to add more heat to the heating output is like a space heater, thus very expensive month to month.
Because they're less serious... A cyber attack isn't equivalent to bombing a city or invading with boots on the ground. And governments have done far worse than hacking some infrastructure without it sparking a war (eg: blowing up passenger jets, hijacking or destroying shipping vessels, assassinating officials - things where people die)

War only happens when one government thinks it is the appropriate political tool for the job and they have the means to wage it.
Several reasons this doesn’t pan out in practice.

1) Retries. When one replica of a microservice is down, the calling service can retry, get service from an up replica, and the outage is routed around

2) Queues. Microservices lend themselves to queue and worker patterns where downtime on individual services has less effect on overall service availability

4) Outages have narrower impact. One microservice losing access to its database breaks the functionality that relies on that microservice; other functionality runs fine.

5) Changes have smaller blast radius. Most outages are caused by changes; changes in monoliths that cause outages are more likely to take the whole system offline (eg stack overflows and infinite loops crash processes). Changes that cause outages in microservices can’t knock other services offline.
China has more population than us, of course they will overtake us in overall GDP eventually.

Saying that our goal is to need to keep the average citizen of China much, much poorer than us is basically saying you want a conflict.

Everything is 'investing in strategic initiatives designed to have China overtake the world' if you squint hard enough.
Yes. In some very humid climates like the Southeast US, a central dehumidifier might be necessary (although they are not yet common in those climates). But in northern climates which tend to be drier, a right-sized AC or heat pump is all you need.
Is 2.9% and 6.8% acceptable or even 'good' levels, even for the tech industry? I'm not quite sure. A 6.8% performance-related quit/termination seems pretty high from my limited anecdotal experience.

Edit: now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think I worked at a tech company where people were fired/asked to resign more than 2.5x than those that resigned on their own.