skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One House Democrat called Biden's verbal slip-ups "awful," and wondered why the president's staff allowed him to hold a press conference — then field reporters' shouted questions — "that late at night after a full day," instead of Friday morning, when he'd be "fresh."

No one wonders why. It's obviously a transitional move to replace him for `24. Otherwise, even the idiot will question the outcome of the election.
Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
I have mixed feelings about our heat pump system.

Yes, it's efficient. But it breaks about once every other year. Last winter the compressor circuit board malfunctioned and cost $5k to fix. Two years ago it was another issue entirely.

All of our savings have been lost to service calls. I'm not super price sensitive, but it's still a pain when the heat goes out in the middle of winter and all the service techs are booked up.

This is a Daikin system, which I thought was a pretty standard, respected brand. But like a lot of things built today, it just wasn't built to last.

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.

I had a heat pump water heater at our previous home, and the compressor also broke after a few years. We just operated it as an old-fashioned electric water heater after that because it would cost more to fix than it would to replace. And both sounded like a pain.
> And TBH you can't really extrapolate your residence in one place to conditions in all of Europe, it is quite different.

I'm guessing parent also lives in Lisbon or Oporto, which doesn't exactly extrapolate cleanly to rest of Portugal even.
I did the same in Vancouver, BC. We took advantage of incentives to improve our insulation and to make the switch. E.g. we just fixed our crawl space.

The heat pump did struggle a little during the more extreme cold weather we saw a few weeks back (going down to -15C) but we've kept our natural gas fireplace as backup and "assist".

I'm pretty sure it's a little more expensive to run with a heat pump, so you need to be willing to pay more for reducing your carbon footprint. The incentives do help though. Similar to switching to an EV which we also did for similar reasons. I think if you're purely looking at $$$ then it's not necessarily the optimal decision.
I think there can be harm done when a re-implementation, especially a heavily divergent one, takes the name of an existing program. There's a reason OpenBSD introduced "doas" instead of calling their new thing "sudo".

Reminds me of when PowerShell decided to have "wget" and "curl" cmdlets that didn't have any of the advanced features of the originals. Naively it sounds helpful. But it introduces confusion.
It's not a fixed amount of condensation because the air around the AC only has so much humidity. It quickly condenses just a little bit of water and then shuts off before the humidity in the rest of the house can redistribute to replace the now dry air. By running for longer it allows the water in the rest of the house to actually make it to the compressor.
Questions for Silverblue / Atomic Users:

I tried Silverblue a couple years ago and found myself rpm-ostree layering some basic tools like Fish shell and Mosh. Is layering still the preferred method for installing these types of tools or do you have "generic" container (made with toolbox/distrobox) that you jump into for generic shell work in like ssh'ing around and file management?

Also, how do you handle things like custom services? For example, Nebula overlay network doesn't really have an installer. Its just a single binary. I manually put that in /usr/local/bin, put the configs in /etc/nebula, chmod those configs to hide them, update selinux, and create a service file for it. How would I do that in an immutable system?
8 degrees is not normal+/- 1 C is what I experience.
Ground source heat pumps are available that go down significantly lower than 30F. They are more expensive. Though running the electric wires is also very expensive due to their inefficiency. Typical heat pumps are often better suited for warmer climates because of this

It also appears that the tech for the more typical air source heat pumps has improved significantly in recent years which makes it more viable for colder climates
> "Non-regrettable" attrition means either that the person was fired or laid off. Since the post says Automattic didn't do layoffs, that means all of that attrition took the form of being fired because of performance problems.

> If 7% of the company exited the company in a year because they were fired -- which seems quite high to me -- then even if you don't call it a layoff, it has many of the same characteristics as a layoff.

In my experience, this will have a way worse effect on morale than layoffs and will trigger regrettable attrition, as the smarter people in the room realize that you're always one reorg away from having a 'performance problem'. Sad.
Nothing will drive this point home more than living on an island with a single ferry and no grocery store. You have to stock everything because everything you forget costs you $20 or $40 or more to go pick up.
Largely because that's the list of places where housing is super expensive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_home_price

#2 California $554K
#3 Massachusetts $422K
#5 Colorado. $397K
#6 Oregon $361K
#8 New Jersey $335K
#9 New York $322K
#10 Maryland $308K
#13 Rhode Island $300K
#25 Maine $242K

And where income is highest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_income

#1 Maryland $90K
#2 Massachusetts $89K
#3 New Jersey $89K
#5 California $85K
#9 Colorado $82K
#14 New York $74K
#15 Rhode Island $74K
#18 Oregon $71K
#32 Maine $64K

People are moving out because it's desirable to live there and hence there's a lot of competition for housing. If you're not one of the top earners in the state, you can increase your relative standard of living by moving somewhere where it's cheaper.
> 'Family' and 'Apartment' are words that don't go very well together.

In the USA it seems, everywhere else lots of families live in apartments, houses are expensive and/or far away from jobs.

> Children/large families can be noisy.

Yes, they can. You can also get a single neighbor blasting music at ungodly hours.

> they benefit from safe outdoor space to play.

There is this invention called parks, you know about them? It's open space which can be used by anyone.

> For the childless WFH-er trying to concentrate, it's not much fun when kids noisily use the communal areas of apartment buildings as a playground.

Complaint to your hoa or something.
That kind of content would be far-right. However Wired and others seem to include sites that questions anything about the current transgender movement as harassing transgender people.

The article does give details that the site is full of scam companies and other such, so it possibly does host QAnon sites and other unsavory sites.

I’ve just lost trust in objectiveness of Wired or even sites like Scientific American that’d I would’ve not considered being political and somewhat technical in previous years. I reckon it’s more fallout of the polarization of American politics. I’ve seen the same with folks on the “right” as well.
Life cycle of the parasitic middleman.
That would be absurd. Why introduce a completely new protocol with 0 hardware or software support? Who would possibly adopt this over IPv6?
The variable speed inverter ones tend to be much quieter than the old single-stage ones that most people have, fwiw.
Did you took a good look at the globe? Especially centered on the Russian capital and tilted 30 CW.
In my city (Eastern Europe) children (5+) play safely with other children without much adult supervision (none once they start going to school) in the abundant neighborhood playgrounds, surrounded by tall apartment buildings where they live. To me it is a very backward place where this is not deemed safe.
Why would anyone need a heat pump in California, given the climate there? I can understand north-eastern states, but not this. Is it a case of mindlessly jumping on "progressive" bandwagon?

EDIT: I actually spent one winter in San Diego, and apartments there don't even have any heating installed (except occasional fireplace in the living room). I know that more to the north it might get worse, but by how much?
> Just everything in Europe is tiny. T i n y. And frankly, it's not that much cheaper over here either

The real kicker is that price of houses / assets is not attached to physical reality any more.

Financialization drives up the price of real estate. When the financial markets trade real estate, no-one gives a rat's ass if it's a mansion or a shed - the only thing that matters is that number goes up. As was demonstrated in 2008, no-one even knew anything about underlying value of the asset and nobody cared.

In every country in EU number of houses per person has been increasing, and at the same time, prices of houses have been increasing. You cannot build your way out of this.

Real solution to the housing crisis is to reign in financial markets, it's not anything to do with building.
This will change. Actually, it's changing as we speak.

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine basically slammed the door on Western investment/business in Russia. Sure, some companies have yet to divest, but the obvious ways to make money (and thus influence Russia through market forces) are now mostly gone.

Russia has since become more and more of a vassal state of China and India. The country's vast natural resource wealth must be sold somewhere, and a large part of the market will not buy at any price. Europeans and North Americans were fairly lenient on just what they wanted of Russia in order to buy their output. Basically, don't launch an invasion of Ukraine. Since Putin couldn't hop over that bar, he now gets to hop over the bar set by China and India, which means selling things at a bargain-basement price purely on the customer's terms. If China doesn't like something the Russians are doing, they get to say "it'd be a real shame if Rosneft couldn't sell that oil and natural gas this quarter".
I'm not sure what you mean. If you're talking about video delivery, TikTok is using HLS, so the client is initiating the download. Are you saying that the server will attempt to multiplex across QUIC streams and overwhelm the client?
Ask HN: Is amdgpu Linux driver already stable for Ryzen 8700G?
Personally having an issue like this one:

[ 6488.577727] [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] ERROR ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=1715593, emitted seq=1715595

[ 6488.577881] [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] ERROR Process information: process firefox pid 756 thread firefox:cs0 pid 831

[ 6488.578005] amdgpu 0000:0d:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!

And wondering - is it linux driver or is it firefox? Anyone have any experience/insights?
Most people in America can drive for 5 minutes for more beer. If you can't legally drive because of how drunk you are, then most stores won't sell you more beer. People might drive 30 minutes for beer, but that is about either price or selection, not availability. Though many cities have weird laws so some places you can't get beer at all in town, and that would push you to the 30 minute drive. But where I live many people have a separate beer fridge despite being 5 minutes from a store where they can get more.
I got a TOSOT. So far so good.
which is quite ironic, all those "new tech" people hate new tech in their own areas
I understand the policeman’s motivations, but the idea that the answer to abusive scammers is that we should reduce our level of trust in society generally is severely damaging.
I grew up in Soviet style housing and every apt building had a playground for kids right outside of it. Traffic really wasn’t an issue, the main roads were in front of the building and the playgrounds behind them.

It would not be hard to design an enclosed communal area visible to all of the units. Lots of early suburbs had a communal design where the play area faced into the kitchens of the houses.

You can easily have a family in an apartment if it has 2-3 bedrooms in it. That’s a very common design in Eastern Europe and other parts. It’s only in NA do people believe that you can only have a family in a SFH
> I dunno what grand strategy is supposed to compete with that.

Agree 100%.

In its current state I find Firefox simply _better_ than Chrome - mostly due to how well integrated Multi-Account Containers are. Like you I am puzzled by exactly what is Firefox missing that it is a deal breaker for people. Is it just the occasional hiccup when using a Google/MS service? Some people mention 4K videos not playing properly - that sounds like an acceptable reason. But surely that still isn't a good reason for not being able to have Firefox as one's daily driver.

I have the same suspicion as you, Chrome's marketshare is simply because Google services are so popular and they direct you to Chrome, and that the most popular mobile OS (Android) runs Chrome by default.
Russia is mostly contained and I don’t really see how EU would consider them a threat. They aren’t stupid enough to attack an actual NATO member country.

Trade being cut off with Russia is more of a threat to Europeans than their military.
> well past the point I would just get a new phone number

Agreed, but 2FA makes this a non-starter. I don't want to find out a year from now that I can't access ___ service because they have my old number on file and won't let me change it.

As it is I can't get into my bank account to pay my phone bill if it's past due and service gets suspended. It's infuriating.
I think you run into challenges there with minimum square footage & window/egress requirements per bedroom.

The bigger issue would be plumbing for bathrooms & kitchens.
I spend a lot of time talking to PMs and I believe people throw this word around like some sort of MBA gang sign. Whenever I hear it, I know I will be interacting with a bullshit artist.

But to your point, I believe the definition for this context is:

> lev·er·age: use (something) to maximum advantage.
This is something I noticed in China. I lived in a 3-bed, 1450 sqft apartment in Xicheng, Beijing that had a great layout. It went up six stories and had a single staircase, four apartments per story.

Having light on both sides of an apartment makes the whole apartment brighter and improves air circulation. Almost every apartment I visited had a similar layout—totally unlike apartments I've seen in the U.S. A townhome is probably the closest thing we have here, though they only go 2-3 stories and don't share staircases.
Biodegradable sensor monitors levels of pesticides
Google's Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of future AI
I wonder if they'll still do this once Reddit IPOs
If you cut the wires on the type of radio tower, it will come down on its own.
First, when was reading NOT sexy?

Second, another generation is shaming millennials? Want a participation trophy or something...?
I've had similar experiences, learning many hours later that an elderly relative had taken a field trip to the ER, or in a few cases even had round-trip transport back to the care home before I knew what was going on.

But I've also had the absurd opposite, where I think the hospital IT system must be triggering some workflow events and it causes a thundering herd problem.

One example: Visiting my in-patient relative, I was called into a hallway by a nurse, as the doctor would be coming to discuss something. Before we could even start, I got an incoming call from the same hospital system which turned out to be a care coordinator trying to discuss the same patient. While I was trying to triage that call and not waste the doctor's time too much, I heard the call waiting beep. That turned out to be an affiliated social worker spawned onto the same case. I let her go to voicemail. Within 5 minutes, I got another call from a durable equipment vendor who was processing an order just put in for the patient.

This became a repeating pattern. Along with all the other stress of handling my family member's illness, this pushed me too far. For the first time in my life, I started to flinch or startle at incoming calls and notifications. It got worse with frequent and randomized calls from the relative, who suffers from dementia. I started to form a new understanding of the stories I'd heard of younger generations having phone-based anxieties.
Real estate is insane. Land I was scouting in anticipation of buying to build a retirement home have become unaffordable. I'm talking increases of 300% in value between 2020 to today. The spike in value came out of nowhere, I honestly cannot explain it.
Yes, they found large amounts of that nasty stuff with his body as well!
postgres.js sanitizes inputs, but also provides a backdoor, so

sql`select ${"hello"}, ${sql`world`}`

becomes

select $1, world

[1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres
goody-2 is on the nightmare blunt rotation
People said exactly this after the first two crashes.

At this point design should be scrapped. No amount of review can fix a broken concept executed by an incompetent manufacturer.
Right, you don't know what's in it, but you know you need to forward it if you start a goroutine.
I do not think stuffing everyone in ever smaller boxes is a good policy.
Yeah but that scale is fantasy/sci-fi. Baked within it is a kind of assumption that it is a scale we should be moving up through, which is not a given.

So I guess it is reasonable if you think the destiny of life on earth is to “conquer” the “full power” of the sun.
> It's now more expensive to fuel a vehicle with electricity than gas

How is that possible? Even at 20c/kWh it's still a good 4x cost difference I though
Vulkan compute tool for testing video memory stability
> If you’re somewhat rural the contractors just don’t have the experience to do it so they try to quote you out of the decision.

Or they're so busy they can pick and choose their jobs. I had a quote to replace a 12 foot section of pipe come in at $700, not even two hours worth of work.
"just add an extra router".

I think when conceiving of potential issues with this, or thinking about the possible problems of trying to merge two overlapping networks together, your imagination is coming up a little short.

It's never that simple.
>> it’s an anti-pattern for libraries to start their own goroutines

The specific argument here is that by writing sync functions, the library is more abstract because the caller can decide whether to run the function sync or async. I agree with this, but there are lots of areas where we could issue guidance to make libraries more abstract.

For example, instead of a library function which returns a pointer to allocated memory (e.g., `NewFoo() Foo`) we should write functions which take pointers to memory and the caller can figure out whether to allocate them on the stack or the heap (e.g., `NewFoo(out Foo)`). I'm not advocating for this as a general rule of thumb because writing that kind of code in Go would not be very ergonomic, but there's a lot of performance-sensitive code even in the standard library that is written that way.

Another example would be 'inversion of control', wherein functions take interface parameters and callers decide what implementation to pass in.
As soon as I saw the title, I was reminded of these comments that I sometimes see in Ruby code:

# rubocop:disable Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity

Presumably because nobody on the team is brave enough to open a PR that disables it in the config.
Bencher v0.4.2 Released
It seems like Google from all the people who responded in this thread :)
Ah, right! I actually have a variable stage regular AC unit, so that's not a benefit unique to heat pumps, that's something you can get by replacing your AC unit in general.
When I graduated, my first project was to make a UK LED based wait indicator. The problem was, the standard specified "white" light. At the time while LED's where made using UV LED's and phosphors was used to make it white. This meant that for 100 LED's, the coat would be about £100 just for the LED's. In the end we got the specification changed to include a yellow, (we showed that a tungsten light bulb running at 45vac is very yellow anyway, so it was more a correction in the spec than a change)
We can only experimentally test for very specific artifacts from specific types of simulation. If we don’t see them we can conclude that we’re not in that specific type of simulation, but that is all we can conclude, anything more is speculation.

I understand the point that you are trying to make, and the quote makes it clearly, but it does not apply in the situations I am talking about, where you can actually make and test a prediction. That’s why these specific testable hypotheses are written up by physicists and appear in arXiv or physics journals, and are not considered theology.

Indeed the general idea that we are in some type of simulation is mostly not falsifiable. At best, we could falsify only that we are not in a few specific types of resource constrained simulations that have predictable artifacts.
i blame it on culture
Indoor air is going to be at some concentration above ambient. Raise the ambient concentration and you raise the indoor concentration. There's already many of indoor concentrations that are problematic.
They likely didn’t know that the hiker would have cell reception on the mountain. That’s the sort of thing that SAR would know, but the average person’s assumption is that you’re not going to have reception on the trail.
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This is why you build a business like META, NVIDIA, or AMZN that produces lots of free cash flow to actually build things. See, because when you build a business, that is profitable, you don't NEED to go out and raise oceans of cash. Because your mega business is PRODUCING the oceans of money. Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, don't need to constantly beg people for money all the time because they build products, that generate insane amounts of cash. They can then use this cash to build their next generation ideas.
I did the same this past thing, the best part about it is the reduction in cost for heating from 300+/mo to ~25/mo, The downside is that it was terribly expensive to install, it ran me 40k to install the new heat pump and air handler.
If you run PV/battery systems you pretty soon notice that in extreme cold events the controller can shut down charging because panel output becomes so high that the batteries will be overcharged.
> It’s not treason because words have meanings

There's an argument for it, which is sufficient to leave alone unless you want to argue the merits (not quibble about a specific definition).
This sound eerie and exotic to me. In what world when server is down people wait for the next standup to announce it? Why not just create a shared channel (slack, teams, mattermost, irc, whatever the company standardized on) and use it to communicate asynchronously and resolve problems like that immediately?
It's covered in the article...