skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there are any open source emulators out there which are compliant with a strict limit on cyclomatic complexity. Specifically given a common pattern is to use a large switch/case to map from instructions which usually compiles to a jump table which is performant, fairly clear/maps nicely to architecture docs but falls foul to normal cyclomatic complexity rules.

Edit: project concept: Enterprise Gameboy.
I get all the multi-modality stuff, but what is it about the word "Gemini" that invokes that, to you?
AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing
Yes, that must be why they abandon older hardware and don’t support it long term unlike Android based boxes and built in hardware…
He's one of the more cerebral / wordy writers like Tanner Greer that writes about US/PRC culture / how they foil each other. It's fine. Note this line in article:

>This article by N.S. Lyons was originally published on Palladium Magazine on October 11, 2021. It was featured in PALLADIUM 09: Political Outcomes.

The original article largely responsible for Huning wank in western PRC watching circles, IMO very over indexed now.
CNN Lite: https://lite.cnn.com/2024/02/09/tech/china-huawei-france-fin...
This is why open source models must continue to develop, because I guess google (et al) don't just want information to show and sell ads, now they want to be the sole arbiters of it. That is scary, thanks for the morning heart attack/realization. "No Dave, that information wouldn't be good for you. Here are some pandas playing bongos"
cost of living though
A big issue right now is the oversizing of heat pumps by HVAC contractors who are used to sizing gas furnaces using very simple btu/hr/sqft calculations.

A contractor should do some kind of heating need analysis, at the least by studying old utility bills, and ideally by doing a Manual J heat loss calculation for the house. But almost none of them do that.

There are some startups attempting to handle these design steps as a service, but the construction industry is slow to adopt new technology.
>>> It’s available in most of the countries in the world, in a...

You get that your post right here is a better pitch for Netflix engineering than their own engineering. Blog about some top those problems, the things that your doing that make your domain hard and interesting...
Just stop watching porn, it's not good for you.
Cutting edge heat pumps can now work down into the sub zero (F) temperatures. Manufacturers have really been pushing hard on this in recent years. But these units still are more expensive than your run of the mill ones.
The best mental model for a heat pump is that they can maintain a certain temperature differential, say 80F. If it gets to be 0F outside and you want it to be 70? You don’t need to switch to a fully separate heating system, you just need to warm up either the incoming or outgoing air an additional 10 degrees via a small resistance heater. The super wide range heat pump systems will do that automatically, and the principle really applies to any differential you could want.
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so far, there is no reason to mandate http/3. There is barely any infrastructure cost to running a dual HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/3 setup.

And the two are so similar to application developers that there is no reason to mandate anyone move over.

However... It only takes one killer feature not compatible with HTTP/1.1 (eg. realtime VR with a stream per eye, and it turns out HTTP/1.1 can't do realtime bidirectional streams), and suddenly everyone will start turning off HTTP/1.1 services and replacing it with a page saying "please upgrade your web browser".
I don't know the details but so long as its not some top secret IP, taking copies of various work you've personally done seems pretty reasonable. Good idea to do it periodically as you go along though.
I'm using a multi-modal LLM to extract floor sizes from property descriptions and floorplans. Working to expand this to other information such as the floor level, if the property has an open plan kitchen etc. (Working on flats.fyi)
What a clickbaity, poorly written and sensational article.
The only thing that's holding me back in electrifying more of my life is my jurisdiction's track record in long-term planning for grid and supply capacity. If I switch water heating, home heating and transportation to electricity, and they fuck up again, that'll affect me way more when rates start rising or shortages begin. I'd rather they work out the kinks without me and be a late adopter. For example, I will not be among the first 50% of drivers to switch to fully electric. Being a one-car household I believe we've already done more for the environment than 2 car EV households simply by taking one vehicle off the roads.
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Can confirm - I'm a huge fan of Greg Egan and specifically Permutation city, and also a huge fan of qntm's stories. Lena is probably the most famous, though not even the best ("I don't know Timmy" is better IMO).

Also, I finally read qntm's Antimemetics division and, while it is a bit lacking in the end, it is one of the most "oh wow this is a crazy good idea" stories I've read in years.
I believe heatpump technology has improved over time. Also, "less efficient but still functional" is an adequate option for really cold days.
Why is it so hard to believe that the Russians don't want what they consider hostile parties on their borders?

"Russians" who have an awareness of history (who are all the Russians I know personally) understand, implicitly, that these countries did not join NATO out of hostile intent - but from the need for some level of security to protect against a neighboring country which has done, as I'm sure you must know, some pretty awful things to them in the not so distant past.

They don't love NATO by any means. But they fully get why these countries sought membership. And don't for a minute believe the hogwash put out by the current Tsar, that it was somehow "necessary" to start bombing an shooting everywhere with oblivion, and letting the bodies pile up with such an awful stink -- just to make a "point".

(I put "Russians" in quotes because only about 70 percent of the country is what one would call ethnically Russian).

We would do the exact same thing.

You're right - "we" (by which you mean the US) did in fact do a basically very similar thing, in regard to numerous countries in Latin America from about 1961-1985. To the point of establishing or supporting dictatorships that killed and tortured probably upwards of 200,000 people, on top of putting multiple generations of social development in these countries effectively on hold.

And for which we have been rightly and thoroughly condemned, by folks with a good conscience, and an awareness of basic history everywhere.
... yet. Isn't the internet yet. Wait until their only interface is through their AI model. Some of my friends call me cynical but I prefer skeptical because I have a lot of proof and experience behind me that somehow, in almost every case without regulation, these "innovations" wind up mostly benefitting the elite 0.1%
>“It’s a really strong signal from states that they’re committed to accelerating this transition to zero-emissions residential buildings,”

Heat pumps are zero-emissions now. Shipping them and replacing your gas furnace also emits no carbon.
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This is an urban legend
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277283
Because private messages carry an expectation of privacy.

They're different parts of speech from the same root word, after all.
I have a pair of heat pumps in a dual zone setup, each of them has a backup electric furnace as part of its indoor air handler. Newer ones can keep running without that even into quite cold areas.

The thermostat just sees the resistive heaters as another phase, so I have three phases, and if it doesn't see a temp rise within a certain time of calling for phase 1/2, then it goes to phase 3. Mine also has support for an external temperature probe, that can skip 1/2 if it is already too cold.

I also have other ways to make heat if I have a prolonged electrical outage, but outside of maintenance, I've not used that.
Oh, I’ve not see that kind, only the sort where the “e heat” feature on the thermostat is tied to a separate furnace.
What's really cold? There are heat pumps that are advertised as working at -15F. On the days when it gets that cold, your heat pump will need to switch to electric heat. So on those days, your heat pump is no better than an electric furnace. On all other days that the heater is running, the heat pump is a far more efficient option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277283
See also Cognitive Complexity: https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/cognitive-complexity/
Many of those random userspace C programs (i.e. stuff in the (1) manpage section) could have been rewritten in e.g. OCaml just fine ages ago, if only people were paying attention and not in the curly brace mind prison.
You seem to be arguing with somebody else. I didn't say anything that disagrees with your statement.
Concerning Chromium: [1]

> Around 70% of our high severity security bugs are memory unsafety problems (that is, mistakes with C/C++ pointers). Half of those are use-after-free bugs.

Rust isn't just about cyber security.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
Well. All animal studies on captivity show negative health effects. All human studies show that stress has negative health effects, and that exercise and time spent outdoors have positive health effects. To the extent that being sedentary and stressed contributed to obesity and/or high blood pressure, there is certainly a plausible causal mechanism worth further study. Additionally, there is evidence of increases in reckless driving — see https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/new-data-reveal-reck... — and domestic violence — see https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/shadow-pandem... .

Whether they were the right policy call or not, it's clear that drastic environment changes had drastic behavioral effects, and that the behavioral effects either provably did have, or, based on all available scientific data, probably could have had a regrettable impact on excess deaths.

As societies across the globe engage in introspection on COVID response, it's worth further research and factoring the results into their conclusions.
But, but, what do I do with the EnumerateAll@injectables plugin that I bought for Jetbrains? Do I have to not write all these @s??? What is that key in the keyboard if not for @singleton@injectable@module@component??
Heat pumps look great and definitely planning on getting one (or many) when my hvac system needs replacing, as well as a heat pump water heater. In NorCal I think they are a no-brainer since it doesn't get that cold to begin with, though I am unsure of what options exist to replace a central AC/furnace system, or if it is better to get several smaller ones throughout your house. Though I have to laugh since it was only a few years ago there were news articles decrying air conditioning as a climate disaster are now claiming heat pumps are a climate savior...
Does this effect blind people?
> I'm not saying there is a different way forward on a planet with 8 billion people.

So, you are saying that the solution is make small habitats outside of Earth :-) ? I would vote for that solution, but it’s so damn unpopular.
That sounds awesome. I actually went to Barcelona once (where Picasso studied art at one point). Some cool pieces there to see.

But yea, I'm definitely interested in art. Aside from my day job as a digital artist, I love painting on canvas. Nothing that would win an award, but it's fun: https://i.imgur.com/L4kMhg9.jpeg
The wide range ones are basically two heat pumps back to back using different working fluids. They should only be used in applications where they are really required as there are obviously impacts to the COP.
TCP also supports allowing people you've never met to connect to your IP without you getting the permission of a third party first and regularly. QUIC requires continued permission being allowed by some third party corporation. Baking the requirement for CA TLS into the protocol is fine for corporate uses but the internet is far more than just corporate uses.

Sure QUIC may be faster, but only as long as you keep getting permission from your TLS CA. Once that stops it's very, very, slow. QUIC is fragile and like other CA TLS things: anything built with it will have a lifetime of only a few years without being updated.

Do we really want to base our web protocol (and other things) on a system that will only allow machines updated in the last $fewyears to participate?

Additionally, the claims of the use rate for the various HTTP versions is flawed in that it is not going per webserver or domain, but instead just counting traffic and of course the megacorp flows it knows about will dominate (they're not checking every webserver). Looking where the light is fallacy.
IIRC The Prime Video guys were processing videos using AWS step functions - which probably makes sense if you are processing a few videos every so often. If you are processing videos continuously then it’s much more cost effective to just have some big boxes running 24x7 crunching through a queue of jobs.
Better link to read (same story, not the first draft): https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
From my limited experience, I'd say yes - you still need a furnace.

I converted my garage into my office by adding a mini split AC/heat pump. The garage walls, door, and attic are insulated - but it's still a garage, which means that it's not nearly as well insulated as a regular room in a house.

The unit is 18k BTUs, which is quite oversized for the size of the garage. I made this choice because the heat pump BTUs are significantly less than cooling BTUs. This is definitely obvious, experientally - the unit can make my garage uncomfortably cold even in the peak of summer.

But even though this unit is supposedly rated for operation in temps down to about -20F, when winter gets really cold, it struggles to keep the space warm. Once the temps are below about 20F or so, I usually add a space heater to the mix, which, combined with warm clothes, makes working out here at least tolerable.
No one reads Greg Egan for the character building or any of that other literary bullshit.

This is the novel that introduces the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it. Hell, it's the only novel that has that idea. There is more insight here than we could extract from a thousand other authors, philosophers, and thinkers. But who cares, the characters were sort of cardboard and he has the whole r/menwritingwomen thing going on.
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> If not ... Why would I care?

What if they're someone you're working with on and off. Or if you're waiting on some tasks from them?
I inherited a small collection of them and have no idea what to do with them. I have no interest in keeping them but throwing them away seems wrong.
I live in Maryland and the first townhouse I owned, in the late 80s to early 90s, had a heat pump. It included an auxiliary electric heater for days that it got really cold. I don't remember it coming on all that often. (There was a light on the thermostat to indicate when it was on.) My current townhouse has a gas furnace. I plan to move soon into a single level home, more appropriate for an old greybeard, and I'll have to evaluate then if I want to switch to a heat pump, if the house doesn't have one already.
You are both right. Originally you could not email, and like the OP I kind of liked the ceremony of entrusting someone with a message to send from beyond the grave. But someone contributed the code to make the email work, likely after the OP's time.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, solar already makes a lot of sense and is good for the environment.
Buuuut.... If you're running a big web-app (eg. tiktok) you have a business incentive to not be fair.

If your servers can push more data down the users slow internet connection, your service will get better load times, while competitors services sharing the same network link (ie. your brother in the next door bedroom on youtube) will stutter and lose users.
I'll have to disagree on this one. I'm a big Phillip K. Dick fan, and have read many of his works (though it's been a while), but I found Ubik to be a slog and didn't really enjoy it.

To anyone reading this - I'm not saying don't read it - it's a beloved book! I'm just saying, if you read it and don't enjoy it, keep in mind that you might be like me and enjoy his other stuff more.
> Boltzmann brains still fascinate me.

It's ok. You fascinate them too.
I live in the edge of a row of townhouses and have a huge wall doing nothing but cooling the house. I’ve been thinking about having vertical panels on the wall and my fear is exactly what you described, that all RoI calculations are based on producing a lot of power during the summer half of the year and I that I will not recoup the money but the problem is that when it’s sunny outside everybody is producing electricity and the prices are low so I think the RoI don’t really take this in to account. My wall is on the sout side and gets sunlight all day, is much larger than my roof, doesn’t get covered with snow. The prices electricity are usually 10-20x higher during the winter and our consumption is also 10x higher. I don’t know it just seems to make more sense to put them on the wall.
And maybe the moon is made of cheese :)

That aside, if you would stop spreading the myth, that would be better for everybody.
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How do people who typically do well under pressure do when not under pressure?
Blue LEDs that are on to let you know something has power is abominable, but that isn't the fault of the blue LED. What is abominable is the use of the "cooler" blueish white light being used at night indoors. That should be considered a crime against humanity.
That seems like it would be a much larger constraint than you're making it out to be.
Saying 2005 like it was a bad thing to own the stuff you had. I would much rather have it "the old way" instead of having my series be delisted from the streaming service mid season.

Just make a paid local tier, cheaper, but you need to load it and transcode it locally. Give the user a choice.
Note: this is only true for air-source heat pumps. Ground source-heat pumps aren't affected by ambient air temperature, but they're also much more expensive and require suitable ground. Also, I hear air-source heat pumps have made significant advances lately in how well they handle sub -15 °C temperatures.
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What really gets me is that they still quote twitter users in articles like this.

> Uses on X were quick to support Atkinson with one stating: “If Rowan Atkinson is responsible then give him a knighthood.”

> Another users says: “Rowan Atkinson with a degree and masters in Engineering. Knows more than those pushing electric cars.”

You can find people saying anything about anything on twitter. It is completely meaningless.
I'm a big fan of Egan, having read a few of his books and a bunch of short stories. Personally, Zendegi was the weakest of his books by quite a bit. (Still good, just... not great.)
Most businesses that use Windows and/or Microsoft products do no go through all of that. The main benefit of using Microsoft is all of the integration between development products and DevOps. Most of the solutions for security are not provided by Microsoft, and often are looking to check off boxes to make auditors feel better, without actually enhancing anything. I've had to create some bizarre workarounds just to get past auditors, and in the end the solution was no more secure than doing nothing at all.
> Uh, you still need a furnace (though it could be electric) if you live somewhere that ever really gets cold, right?

For now - and only in part of the country. Most of the newest models can output 100% of their rating down to something like -5ºF -- they're easy enough to oversize as well, so if your 99% heating load is e.g. 48,000BTU, a 60,000BTU heat pump that's only outputting 80% of rated BTUs due to the extreme cold can still cover the full design load.

Here's the spec sheet for the newer Mitsubishi hyper heat models - 87º output at -4ºF and 76% output at -13ºF -- very few places in the states ever get that cold: https://static.appliancesconnection.com/attachments/D5bf5709...
I agree that “fast, lightweight, web standards” isn’t much of a description but not too far down https://github.com/honojs/hono I did find this:

> Hono … is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
I am taking the SAT soon, and I am going to try out your flashcards. Thanks!
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Maybe in some cases, though overall cost of living in Australia is slightly higher than the US while still spending about half what we do on medical costs.
Sorry, should’ve probably added a text description.

Hono is a JavaScript framework designed to run on (but not just) Edge runtimes. It’s nice due to it being very “lightweight”. It was mainly for server side functionality but this release adds more front end functionality, which I find quite welcome.

Personally I have found this works well if you’re targeting those platforms. For example, I use it on Cloudflare Pages with Page Functions and it works a dream.

I haven’t found it to be a write once target anywhere platform (for example, serving static files differs between platforms), but it makes it significantly less effort to migrate to a new platform if necessary, which is always nice.
No, it depends on the significant digits of the input number. And more often than not there are very few of those, even though it may look like there are a lot. And your average calculator has no idea about how to deal with this properly. A typical measurement (say, temperature) has two significant digits at best, three if you're very precise and have a calibrated thermometer operating in the sweet spot of its scale. A measurement of time is hard to achieve to better than 10/th of a second without special preparation and as the interval you are measuring gets longer so will the error (because they tend to accumulate). A measurement of weight is so tricky that even three or four successive measurements are going to give you different results. Modern personal weight scales fake this by freezing the digital output at some arbitrary value and if you get off the scale and back on again it doesn't do another measurement but it simply displays the stored value to give you the illusion of precision where there really isn't any, another measurement might be off by a few hundred grams.

So for most problems that do not involve money but real world data the number of significant digits is very low. Two, three, maybe. Four in very rare cases. And when you start combining them you're quickly into 'order of magnitude' territory rather than anything precise.
Anecdata incoming. This was when I was working in "Big Tech".

When I was in web dev, my experience was that there was actually no good separation, and collaboration with microservices was in fact more difficult. Every single feature I worked on required changes across several microservices, and having Team A run service A and Team B run service B etc. just meant that I had to get buy in from every team. My team was easy enough to work with, but then for the work needed on service B I would have to learn and start using their processes, attend their standups and meetings in addition to mine, and so on.

Frankly it was a nightmare. But in a monolith, the same work is usually just a few quick arguments during code reviews. Maybe inviting a few extra people to design reviews.

In my experience, microservices just make teams more territorial.