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You don't have to be obscene rich to afford box diets that are catered directly to your home, that has counted amount of calories for you. But still being able to afford that one is quite rich I'd say.

Software dev, middle management job can easily afford box diet, you don't have to be Taylor swift.

Other thing is if you go to the shop and you are rich you can afford all the chocolate bars that are there and there is no money that can buy you willpower to stop you from doing that and then eating them all at once - this kind of thing I agree. But that is also a caricature of being obese.
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You can't even discuss pop music or sports without it being deemed as political by a loud segment of the internet. Who gets to decide what is and what is not "political"?
> All this together - goodbye entry level cybersecurity jobs in a few years I think

If nobody is entry level how would anyone be able to penetrate the job market? Nobody graduates into a mid-senior level job, right?
> I think no matter how you look at it, you can't make this system more efficient than just using the furnace to generate heat without the engine.

I don't think that's right: look at micro-CHP (Combined Heat and Power) systems: they run an engine to generate electricity, and then capture the heat for heating. I don't think you can get them for residential in the US though.
Why do people and animals need to breathe?
That interesting. I've noticed that Amazon always takes longer to load and spend more time at a poor bitrate, while Netflix just works.
Unreal levels of shitposting. This whole model is high art.
Because that's obviously a fake choice. Customers should be able to choose their preferred product AND choose where to have it serviced. Otherwise it's not really a meaningful choice.
Large drilling costs from where I am in the south due to ground being mostly (lime?)stone: makes it cost-infeasbile. Other areas might have it easier though.
I agree. We ran into sev by changing the top level config object before. You DO NOT want to modify it. The wasted man hour is not worth. You will never know where or how it get used. If you make changes it's better to derive from it instead.

Update:
What's funny was, in our design the config object was kinda immutable. You have to use the WARNING_DO_NOT_USE api to make modification. We did mutate the object and we caused a sev
That's not what my team of gofers decided. Apparently zero is better than nil. I know how to write code but Go is its own thing. I mean the idea of returning multiple values is totally goofy in itself.
If few people use net metering it's kind of fair. Your solar installation generates electricity, any excess gets delivered to your neighbors. The electricity is providing the infrastructure for that without making any money on that specific transaction (it gets deducted from your meter and added to your neighbors' meter), but that's easy enough to account for in base fees.

The issues start if too many people do net metering. Imagine everyone has a solar roof and reaches net-zero electricity. You can still maintain the infrastructure with base fees, but the electricity company still has to run power plants in the morning and evening when demand outstrips solar supply, and for baseload in the night. And during the day there's now an oversupply of electricity that they somehow have to sell.

In commercial electricity generation many countries have a kind of spot market for electricity, where prices are determined by demand (down to the minute) and available supply. Prices can go close to zero if lots of solar and wind capacity is available, or far above the price charged to consumer for capacity to cover the evening peak. If we changed consumer prices to more accurately reflected this "true" market price (plus markup for the grid operator), with prices changing by the minute, net metering would be pretty fair. But so far there's little desire to dump all that complexity on regular consumers.
And because (a) blue light causes your eyes to become bright-adapted, ruining your night vision, (b) blue light is incredibly distracting in your peripheral vision causing massively more glare than "warmer" light sources, (c) blue light screws up circadian rhythms for people and wildlife.
HTTP/1.1 going away is less likely than IPv4 going away.
Yes, thank you for distinguishing between profitability and growth.
I came across https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop that seems promising, but it's GPT-4 based. It uses Qdrant as vector DB for RAG.
I don't want Sam controlling the industry. His ego would get in the way.
There are all kinds of complications - commercial solar isn't dispatchable so it does tend to get lower rates than most other sources. In my jurisdiction residential (net metering) customers are only allowed to install a certain numbers of panels - corresponding with household energy consumption and assumed production levels (i.e. your monthly bill will never be negative - at lowest you'll be paying distribution charges and 0 for consumption). With low levels of residential solar installation, locally installed panels can help balance the grid as it is consumed on distribution lines and doesnt need transmission lines (conversely, high levels can unbalance the grid).

> if net metering lets residential solar owners get paid more for the energy they produce than solar farms would be paid, I don't see how that's anything but a subsidy.

Paying them nothing would be even more unfair (and that's the only option available where I am at least - net metering or no household generation)
No there is not IF the heat pump is variable speed/flow. Many modern ones are, but most old ones are not, and it is really hard to tell if a new one is. In fact you want one oversized as if it is the correct size for cooling it cannot make enough heat when it is cold (it can make heat, just not enough)

If you get a normal single speed heat pump see the other reply - there are significant downsides.
I'm moving from Portland to McMinnville in a couple of months. Price of kwh goes from $.1945/kwh to about $.0720. I've noticed that McMinnville Water & Light doesn't help pay for EV connections, etc. compared to Portland General Electric but at almost 1/3rd the cost, they probably don't need to.

MW&L is community-owned, PGE is traded on the NYSE. They both buy a ton of hydro from the Bonneville Power Administration.

https://findenergy.com/providers/mcminnville-water-and-light... gives an average. Actual per kwh rate is cheaper but there's a $16.10 customer charge to have an account. https://www.mc-power.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/pdf/ra...

https://portlandgeneral.com/about/info/pricing-plans
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation [2022]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w.pdf [PDF]
The "3 more lines" problem can be solved by LLMs.
lol, parent: "Microsoft is too dysfunctional to make a good product, be glad anyway"

me: "Why should we be glad that Microsoft is not functional enough to make a decent product...?"

HN: flag!
I’m in Northern california, I just got a heat pump installed by these guys: https://www.heliosclimate.io/ - a YC company btw, for those who think they just fund consumer apps :)

Overall it was a great experience, there were some minor issues immediately after installation that got dealt with quickly and efficiently. I think the list price was similar to what you were quoted, but in northern california (menlo park, peninsula clean energy) there were around $5000 of grants/tax incentives, and an interest free loan from pce for the rest, over 5 years meaning our monthly repayment should be about equal to the reduction in our gas bill.

We already had solar and batteries, otherwise I would NOT want to put myself at the mercy of PGE and their crazy electricity rates. But as they reduce the payment rates for solar electricity, the heat pump becomes a better deal.
Note that's for the whole home $10K rebate only. For the per-ton rebate, you can leave the existing fossil fueled appliance installed and connected. (It's also new for 2024; the 2023 rules allowed you to leave the appliance in to be used for supplemental heat during extreme cold or during an equipment outage. https://www.masssave.com/-/media/Files/PDFs/Save/Residential... )
To clarify, by ‘breakfast’ I mean ‘coffee’.
He won the 2015 Draper Prize when there was still an annual lecture. Got to attend it. Amazing stuff.
On the contrary, due to devices like phones and the internet, I have a smaller number of interruptive people in my immediate vicinity than I probably would have decades or centuries ago. Friends and loved ones feel more comfortable moving away, it's become more of a norm, bc it's easier than ever to keep in touch over long distances, and so they don't knock on my door, because they don't even live in my city. And on the flip side, I find myself surrounded by lots of strangers who don't know me, and so don't knock on my door or stop me on the street either.

I'm trying to change this, however, and make a lot more local friends. Despite the higher potential for being interrupted.
Consider the old-school alternatives, though.

Before we had computers, we had electronic word processors. They were a step up from typewriters, but computers made creating and editing documents so much easier and streamlined. No need to retype from scratch if there are errors that require too much correction fluid/tape, or if you need to add or remove or rearrange paragraphs. And then pushing that further, putting the documents online in a way that allows for easier collaboration, means no more sending .doc files through email and keeping track of who has made what changes, and merging everything into a final document, manually.

As much as we all despise the stereotypical PowerPoint presentation, these sorts of apps let you create presentation material without expending too much effort. Otherwise you're creating poster boards by hand, or typing something up and photocopying it, or creating some kind of overhead projection thing. Collaboration is again so much easier.
> Very refreshing when contrasted with western mentality, where people can't wait to get promoted fast enough.

The guy arm-wrestled the laws of physics to create something everyone including his own bosses said was impossible, and for his labors he got raised to $60k/yr (yeah I know it’s more now, but not like 10x more). I’d say this is more of a cautionary tale for ambitious inventors to demand their worth from their employers, as opposed to a fable about good things happening to people who keep their heads down and just work.
That's right.

It's common to distinguish the two.

E.g. a sales rep is underperforming and decided to leave. The decision at time of termination was technically the employee's (not fired, not laid off), but the company would not seek to retain or rehire.

In companies with good communication and clear incentive structures, this is a somewhat common occurrence, as employees realize there is not a good opportunity for them.
Rich people get benefits from being rich. It doesn't matter what color they are. Being rich is not inherently evil either. Focus on specific problems and don't make sweeping generalizations...
Since Eternal September it hasn't been a closed system.
That's the third time you've missed. Your rage is blinding your thinking process, which is becoming quite entertaining.

As I said, I no longer mine anything and haven't since ETH went to PoS. Which, by the way, consumes very little power now.
This is derivation, which is different from using momentum to define force. That definition actually has many benefits in Hamiltonian mechanics. The key challenge is to intuitively understand why such definition makes intuitive sense.
Coincidentally I believe all birds with blue features don't get them from pigment per se but from the way their unique keratin structure only reflects blue light.

There's just something different about blue in nature too it seems.
Normally when you mention the story number in the commit message or PR, like [MYPROJ-273], Jira will make a link back to that commit. Then you can just click on it and see the info. You can probably also query that commit by API and populate a field in Jira if you want.

Is that what you're asking...?
It is very good. USB-C as well. Here's some English marketing https://www.velocifiretech.com/products/dumang-dk6-ergo-v2

The magnets are not weak and do not dislodge easily. I do not care about any keyboards unless it's better than this one. If anyone knows a better one let me know! I think they said they're working on a mouse or something like other input options a while ago, but I haven't heard of anything new but I haven't checked either.
Subway made us police custom uploaded background images on gift cards. This was a decade ago. They don't give you any rules to go by, just a sense that "if something isn't kosher don't let a private user upload it to use as the background image to a subway gift card that they are purchasing with their own money for their own usage". Brand "rules" are the reason why we will replace any profanity you put in the delivery message. Brand "rules" are why you can't buy a Subway (or Chipotle) gift card with "Bitch I know guac is extra" for example.

This is absolutely "brand safety" stuff.
At least your bias is clear now.
> What new code being written today is violating that pattern?

You are putting the burden of proof on me now? How unfair, You didn't bring any. Go to CNCF and pick anything written in Go.

> Let's be real, Kubernetes is a Java project

Let's be real, Rob Pike is the flat earther of PLT. Sum types are Rob Pike's Foucault pendulum.
This isn't breaking, it's just testing the bounds. Still interesting, but not groundbreaking.
My question is more why they couldn't add this functionality into runas, rather than making a new tool that doesn't even do what its name says it does :)
Crazy that actually using your type system leads to better code. Stop passing everything around as `string`. Parse them, and type them.
> A typical app today is built on Electron JS

Not enough folks seem to realize but you can use each platforms native web control rather than bundling electron. If you do that your distributed app can be in the kilobytes. This approach also gives you the freedom to use whatever backend programming language / tech stack you want so long as it can communicate with the web view.
Isn't that like asking for a camera that doesn't record? I mean, it seems like you'll have a long wait.
Somewhat off-topic but does anyone have a bookmarklet that would remove annoying scrolling behavior on sites like Quanta? I.e. pressing space bar should immediately scroll down a page, not do it slowly with awkward mechanics.

In exchange I'm happy to share a bookmarklet that "unsticks" sticky elements of the page (e.g. an ever-visible header like on WaPo, though they are not the worst offender): https://pastebin.com/Vh594168
California resident here. Both of my last two places with gas furnaces combust unconditioned air.
Are you sure about the unemployment? Given that it is usually administered by the state (at least in the US) I am surprised that any non-criminal involuntarily termination would be rejected for the unemployment benefits. But IANAL and personally never needed one, so anything is possible.
Many millennia, actually. A million years at least, quite likely more.

Co-evolving to be comfortable with a certain quality of light, is a good argument for maintaining that quality of light, and for not using light with a quality which triggers subconscious (or conscious) discomfort.
Ask HN: On idealism vs. pragmatism in software engineering leadership
How do you navigate the challenges of fostering understanding and collaboration between engineering leaders (with perhaps different engineering skills) in the context of perceiving anticipation as idealism or dogmatism and rushing as pragmatism?

From experience, the “idealistic” approach ends up taking the same time and being more maintainable/scalable, even when time is limited (which is pragmatic in essence). Of course you need to strike a balance, but I found that anticipating, thinking about the end vision and cutting in that vision to shape a strong but reasonable proposal is often quickly categorised as idealistic.

I would love to hear your thoughts.
I'm in the same boat of spam calls. The majority are looking for the previous owner of the number (debt collectors). The thing is I've had this number for well over any sort statute of limitations on debt. In the past I considered getting a new number but that would also be a giant pain. There also wouldn't be any guarantee that the new number wasn't in the same boat
SignalWire?
If the goal is just to have harder boundaries, it seems like entirely the wrong tool for the job and comes with a ton of unnecessary baggage. Something like java's module system seems like a much better way to try to enforce API boundaries. Of course, there are languages that lack an equivalent but which can be used to write microservices.
What we’re talking about here isn’t your everyday money laundering; it’s civilization-scale laundering facilitated by central banks. This isn’t some small-time operation; it’s legalized crime on a global scale. Banks pack their balance sheets with worthless securities, then cry for bailouts when the jig is up. It’s a classic con, and it’s happened worldwide numerous time, from small to large countries, and always propped up by the fiat system. Without fiat’s flexibility to, let’s say, ‘creatively manage’ economics, this kind of scheme becomes a whole lot harder, if not impossible.

Bitcoin fiat? That’s way off base. No serious analyst would lump Bitcoin in with fiat currencies. Why? Because fiat currencies are backed by government decree, used for tax payments, and can be issued ad infinitum by central authorities. Bitcoin ticks none of those boxes. It’s decentralized, with no central authority to pump out new units or demand its use for official transactions. Bitcoin is as far from fiat as you can get.

Regarding the Bank of England’s founding in 1694—let’s get our facts straight. It wasn’t about credit; it was about waging a war without the cash to back it up. This move marked a turning point, expanding the empire and cementing the British Pound as a reserve currency. This kind of dynamic isn’t ancient history; it’s alive and well, fueling today’s massive military expenditures. These are bankrolled by the fiat system’s ability to inflate currency and issue debt. And when fiat currencies collapse? It’s usually the losers of these conflicts who feel the burn. So, yeah, Bitcoin offers a real alternative to this endless cycle of warfare and financial manipulation.
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The Flying Car Is Dead
> No one has made a vehicle capable of driving and flying with equal ability.
There are a lot of posts claiming that advances in technology over the past decade or two have been leading to "productivity gains". But the economic data simply doesn't support these claims. Productivity growth has stalled in most of the developed world.

I like the way tech companies operate. I like slack. We don't use P2 but it looks interesting. I just don't really believe it'll turbo charge productivity at my company, much less at a more traditional company.

I'm going to avoid saying anything one way or the other about AI because that would be a separate argument.
Because it isn't sudo. It's a marketing effort stealing the name of sudo for a completely different technology that is only tangentially related to sudo.
Ideally, anything that advocates sectarianism a priori should automatically be suspect, if not rejected out of hand. Creating internal conflict was probably the first job of the first spy in human history, and today it's a lower-risk gambit than ever before. No matter what your nutty uncle on Facebook says, no matter how "traditional" or "woke" you think you are, you have infinitely more in common with a BLM protester than you do with anyone from Eastern Europe or China. We're Americans first, and someone who insists otherwise should be super sus.

Complication: there's so many bad faith communicators that it's increasingly hard to justify giving everyone an open channel. Thus we ignore some voices before they open their mouths, violating the above paragraph. I suppose you could rely on some meta to see if the individual voice has history of bad faith communications, make a sliding scale based on that. Somewhat humorously, the NL-generating so-called "AI" systems are more or less perfect machines for generating bad faith communications, and you can burn each ID with every message.

I wish I had a solution for this, but I don't, I don't even see a way out of it.

Perhaps platforms similar to Ground are trying to address this, so that consumers can see the history of the person who is communicating. But that won't help you on X/Twitter/Facebook/UnclePulltab/AuntPurplehair. Maybe the best advice for a literate citizenry is the age-old internet advice: "Don't read the comments". That's kinda funny given the venue I am writing in right now.
Most US solar farms have a power purchase agreement that’s independent of real time market prices. Solar farms agree because being paid 2c/kWh or whatever for the first X years guarantees they can repay all loans. Utilities agree because it’s guaranteed to save them money.

Those power purchase agreements then makes it really easy to get loans.
Do be careful, though. Some other folks here are saying, correctly, that this glosses over the "direct" or "indirect" nature of a semiconductor. I only very slightly alluded to this when mentioning the relationship between energy and momentum.

Trying to make a long story short, it can be the case that in order to transition to another energy level, an electron also has to exchange momentum with something, usually the lattice in the form of quantized vibrations. Photons carry energy but almost no momentum, so an indirect semiconductor (one that requires both energy and momentum exchange for a transition to the conduction band) is usually an abysmal choice for optoelectronics.
How do you figure this is the beginning of the end? Haven’t these platforms been making editorial decisions to shape their coherent speech product more or less since Stratton Oakmont?
> Paying them nothing would be even more unfair (and that's the only option available where I am at least - net metering or no household generation)

I wasn't suggesting this. The phased rollback of net metering in California (the state mentioned in my original parent comment as "attacking" solar installation) means that solar owners will still get paid, just not as much as before. I'm sorry that you live somewhere that this middle option isn't available — the two extremes are indeed less fair!
I liked this one, which included an offhand reference to SMB share incompatibility:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-g...
Until it cracks after an accidental fall. Apple's repair prices are so high, that often it's cheaper to buy the same model used rather than have it repaired. This ensures that people throw phones away rather than repair them, which increases demand for new phones.