skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this book! I wrote Adrian after reading it and asked for permission to build a game inspired by it and received his blessing (https://i.imgur.com/JWwNMR4.png) :)

(slight spoilers, FYI)

https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants It's my first game, so it's going pretty slowly, but the goal is to have the player fill the role of the Eliza/Kern hybrid. You send commands to your pet ant colony once-per-day when orbiting the planet gives you line-of-sight. The act of caring for the pet gives you a renewed sense of purpose and a reason to care for yourself and is a mechanism for helping undue the insanity and create personal growth.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the game mechanics will look like (if you have suggestions, I'm all ears!), but I took a stab at some creative writing to build up the plot a bit. It feels very Children of Time-y and some might enjoy reading bits of it:

Half-Assed Technical Document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ACH1XLCn7hkKz2dhuL1c_nx...

Freeform Creative Writing of Scripted Game Intro:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wET9mWaYae_GMqbm8n37UoNF...

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Regarding the interview, I would love to know more about his process for deciding which aspects of an animal's ecology/behavior to represent in his fiction.

Tynan Sylvester (creator of RimWorld, a popular video game) wrote this article called The Simulation Dream, https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-simulation-dream, and I think about it a lottt. One concept Tynan stresses for creating a rich and engaging simulation is to "Choose the minimum representation that supports the kinds of stories you want to generate."

I would love to know why Adrian chose to give ants/spiders/(octopi..) the behaviors they have throughout his series and, if he considered other behaviors that he ultimately omitted, what his thought process was for ruling those other behaviors out.
Nope, its what I do.

Same with kubernets/microservices/insert-buzz-word - if I see a lot of evangelists praising it - then I know for sure to stay away. :)

Yes, I am aware that .NET is popular, but there are always exceptions.
I've found that marketing material takes significant liberties with their claims, with the understanding that the audience isn't actually interested in the gory details, just the general question of "should I buy option A or option B?" I've been asked to critique statements that were flat-out wrong, only to be told yeah, thanks, nobody cares about that.
This also sounds like someone in the New Boeing management chain. A lot of these culture problems were already evident during the 787 program, which is when MD’s mismanagement started to fester. And when the hardon for union busting first came to my attention.
We’ve been helping some folks with that but async (kind of a smarter “Loom for devs”)
Laravel - it’s awesome.
> Of course that discounts intelligence where in we as humans could probably roundly poison them into extinction if we wanted.

What is that, irony?!
This would be nice. It's not the end of the world to convert them myself but given the large readership base that uses Freedom I'd like to see these with both. It's much easier for them to add our units than it is for us to adopt metric here anytime soon.
> you didn't really answer my question

Fair remark, I brushed it off.

> when did this start?

It started when science and technology changed from something we do,
into something we believe in.

I don't think that actually happened any time around the Enlightenment
of even the Industrial Revolution, but we're definitely deep in it
now. I'll leave you to put the pin in the map.

Also, the cause and effect are not so simple. It's not as if we
changed our culture and beliefs, and then embarked on a century of
planet-destroying madness. Rather, like the sunk-cost bias of an
addict, we realised we are on a bad road, labelled that as
"inevitable", surrendered before the forces of "technological
determinism" and found we had no choice but to believe.

But that was a false choice.
I had heat pumps installed in my house last year, to replace oil-based heat from baseboards. We have no drainage lines on the the front of the house, and only one bundle on the back. It follows the roof line, and then down a corner of the side of the house. So, yes, you will need drainage lines, but no, they shouldn't have to be all of the exterior. They should be able to be placed in an acceptable way. (Similar to, say, gutters.)

On the savings side: I think we're about even compared to oil. But I'm okay with that: we didn't have any air conditioning at all in the house, so we had no duct work. (We bought the house at the end of 2022 like this.) Since we were already doing significant work to install the duct work and get a new air conditioning system, I wanted to make them heat pumps to get off of oil. I think in the long run, we'll save money. I eventually plan on installing solar panels. And even if it's a wash in terms of money, I'm care about climate change, and I want to do what I can to electrify my house.

edit: After looking at other comments, I should clarify what we have. We have two condensers outside, and three air handlers inside. It acts like "central air", for the most part. We do have one mini-split, for the main bedroom, as we could not get ducts to it. My point here is that "heat pumps" do not necessarily mean "mini splits." My house is almost entirely centrally heated and cooled through duct work.
the next words are "[as] they do", so I naturally read it as 'those same heat pumps'.
My wife and I had been eyeing a hybrid CR-V prior to the pandemic. We went to test drive it last summer and were roundly disappointed; stuff like non-standard car play, limited availability, and a weaker engine compared to its peers had made our top car from a few years ago slip down. We ended up getting a Hyundai Tucson PHEV and love it, we liked the Kia Sportage PHEV slightly better but its essentially the same car and we got a better deal on the Tucson.
One of our clients handles non-trivial usage with a setup that is not much more complicated.

They use hosted db (like AWS RDS or MongoDB Atlas), an external service for some user data (sorta like Firebase to handle user accounts, paid/free entitelments, etc) and I believe also a server image on AWS to quickly be able to recreate a clean server if something goes wrong.

Deployment is done with a webhook on git push and a local script that does some folder swapping.

For the rest the application (500k+ active users) is a single machine with apache+php for prod and clones of it for testing.

Thanks to php request-response model there is little to no server-side state out of the db so if load where to become excessive they could slap a load balancer and manually spin up a second server.

If your business model is different from "must get a ton of views" or "let's monopolize this market" this should be quite enough.
> Keeping people on red alert, all the time, about everything - does not seem like a recipe for human flourishing overall.

It would help if we had some sort of mechanism to turn these "alerts" into action, which seems to be a sticking point for a globe dominated by society obsessed with corporate liberties to do nothing or double down on the problematic behavior.
If you want to get nitpicky: Cycle losses aren't the only source of inefficiency and in fact the end-to-end efficiency curves of most domestic heat pumps tend to be pretty flat through their useful range. Basic thermodynamics, provided a refrigerant that is well matched to the cycle (which is what the article is actually about), isn't really the core design point.
It seems like that could be an option like:

Hard limit: [$1000]/mth or [$500]/24hr period

Notify me if traffic exceeds thresholds: [$800+]/mth or [$400]/24 hr period

Notify me if the traffic forecast for the month looks like it will exceed my hard limit before the end of the month.
Web dev? I’ve met many 3-5 dev companies even who have a mix of OS’s but mainly if they do client and backend dev too, I can see a small web dev team being Mac only.
I'm not judging you for this, btw. I find it extremely difficult to meaningfully measure in a dollar amount someone's contribution to a FOSS project, once monetized. The whole thing is messy. Honestly in general I find it quite difficult to measure labor value at all, which is why I guess basically every corporation on earth just lets "the market" decide, but that feels too arbitrary to me, and "the market" doesn't seem real when it gets to arbitrarily pay someone differently based on whether their passport says "India" or "USA."

I've been experimenting with just throwing my hands up and doing flat profit share, but we haven't really had an opportunity to really try this at scale (for a bunch of boring reasons), but I'm curious how it'll look. I don't think we'll have the crazy huge ratios you do on your FOSS though so I can see why that wouldn't be feasible for someone in your position.
My father has a heat pump that works fine in alpine climate (half of the winter snow outside) for more than a decade now. Not sure about the precise english terminology here, but his hear pump works using the deep ground water next to our house. The temperature of that water slightly dips in winter, but it is no more than a degree.

It is a very old house that before had a oil heating system and I think the replacement worked quite well.
How does it compare to SyncTerm?
The second-last chart (titled Success Latency in fig7) is a wonderful bit of data viz. What’s that kind of chart called?

This was a great article overall, though. Well written in addition to the visual aids.
LLM integration: Special report 2024
I'm not sure I understand how your point relates to getting paid for side work as somebody who doesn't do that regularly.

For example, here in France, there's no such thing as "freelance". As an individual, you can't just invoice somebody. You need to set up some form of "enterprise". Sure, there are some forms which are supposed to be easier to set up, but you still have to go out of your way and do it. You can't just declare the income on your tax return. And now that you've created a company, you need to file tax returns every year, even if you don't do anything. It's also not free, an actual accountant has to sign them off (this may not be the case for the smallest forms of companies). Sending your taxes to the fiscal administration is also not free (fun fact: VAT is levied on that fee).
> /*
> * Determines the GitHub tag for the given project.
> * @param project the project for which to determine the GitHub tag
> * @return the GitHub tag for the project
> */
> private String determineGitHubTag(Project project) {

Here's a sample of the crap you get, for 3000+ files, multiple comments per file, all this inane, that anyone with two brain cells could figure out just by reading the name of the function. If the project didn't already have these sort of comments, then adding them now is a choice that the maintainer of standards would have to make, not some random contributor.
Appreciate the insight. Something like this is something I have been debating and hearing this is great.
Maybe they just wanted 3,158 Hacktoberfest T-shirts.
Many small aircraft are still required, by law, to use leaded gasoline. Meanwhile, leaded gas has been outlawed for use in cars for decades.
I guess this depends on where you locate the heat pump. On mine, the insulated pipe and mains connection are within two feet of the building.
No, they specifically say "air source" heat pumps. And geothermal isn't new.
No, they're talking about air source ones (which is what's popular these days):

> At about 4 °C, most air-source heat pumps currently on the market start operating at less than their full capacity, and at some point (usually around -15 °C), they can no longer do the job at all. At that point, an auxiliary heat source kicks on, which is less efficient.

> But advancements in compressor technology over the last five years have addressed that issue. By controlling the compressor motor’s speed, and improving the timing of when vapor is injected into the compressor, engineers have made heat pumps efficient in colder temperatures.
Major Shareholders Planning to Force Apple to Reveal Use of AI
Lack of vitamin C. I'm surprised this isn't better known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
The average engineer at Boeing makes $120k/year. That's about $50k less than what a new grad with no experience will get from big tech.

Boeing doesn't have a culture problem, they have an idiot problem. The idea that you can hire competent engineers offering salaries like that is absurd.

They need to adopt a pay for performance mentality and bring in managers who are not afraid to fire underperformers.
How am I supposed to keep track of things like this? Between all the chemicals, boycotts, etc etc etc I don't know how I'm supposed to use any modern product again. (Or primitive product, for that matter.) It's honestly driven me to apathy. I just don't have the bandwidth to worry about it.
You're on the money there, phew.
Most people have always been passive consumers of any form of artwork.
this feels pedantic. They are clearly not talking about the theoretical bounds, but instead in practice.

The claim can be literally true.

It may be they are at x% efficiency in both cases, where x is optimal for bitter cold but not for mild winter.
SatBird – Dataset for Bird Species Distribution Modeling
Every sane organization implements this. Failure to do so leads to fear of reporting mistakes, and you get Boeing. This isn't news.
IMO this is not a problem worth solving. If I hold a gun to someone's head I can get them to say just about anything. If a user jailbreaks an LLM they are responsible for its output. If we need to make laws that codify that, then lets do that rather than waste innumerable GPU cycles on evaluating, re-evaluating, cross evaluating, and back-evaluating text in an effort to stop jerks being jerks.
> Is there a way to get your house (currently with hydronic gas heat) retrofitted for heat pumps that doesn’t result in either a ton of demo or ugly lines all over the exterior?

It's literally the same physical design as an air conditioner. So... yes, unless you hate seeing AC units too, I guess.
> reviewing old entries provides a feeling of history that makes life feel soooo long and so rich.

I don't disagree. But I think the flavor of the richness depends on the quality of the days. It is my experience that decades can also be built from days that ought not be preserved.

Or at least not without strong curation and editorial treatments.
Yeah because the QC of the Carolina plant has been sooooo great.

Airlines are trying to get ahold of the planes built in Everett because the SC plant planes have quality control issues still, ten years in.

Pull the other one.
Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
> Also, they're advertised as a generic "feel better" thing, while most people won't be deficient in 90% of what those pills include. So what's the point them?

That seems like more of a problem with advertising than the actual multivitamin.

> So what's the point them?

Presumably to overcome nutritional deficiencies!
Early 90's, but later you had WPE and XWPE.
Here's a NYT article with some good photos, gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/climate/tiny-forests-clim...

Here's a photo of what it looks like when it's first planted: https://voice.somervillema.gov/miyawaki-micro-forest
ClimateSet – A Large-Scale Climate Model Dataset for Machine Learning
It’s not just “some” people. Given a choice, to the first approximation, no one is leaving the Google Play store in favor of PWAs even though theoretically PWAs are so great on Android and that developers could avoid creating apps for the web and Android and avoid the “Google tax”.

Apple is not going to lose revenue even if did have perfect PWA support since most of its money from the App Store comes from pay to win games that wouldn’t monetize nearly as well.

Apple doesn’t care enough about PWAs because users don’t care.
OpenForest – A catalogue of open access forest datasets
Which version of C++ ?

Love the comment.
Long form has been expirementation to see what works the last year or so. Shorts is how we grew a lot, long form still needs work but getting there!
Tinder for tugboat captains confirmed!
“Hack”

> by using deceptive prompts
A quick Kagi search revealed that this checks if the user is a simulated user in for stress tests:

https://developer.android.com/studio/test/other-testing-tool...

My guess is that the name shares its etymology with other Monkey references in tech, like Chaos Monkey. Where a being that has no understanding of the purpose of anything in the environment is given access to the environment and allowed to wreak havoc as a form of resilience testing.

This monkey appears to generate system events and user input events in a pseudo-random (deterministic) way to help with fuzzy-like testing of an app.
I've never seen a CoP curve that was not downward sloping with decreasing outside temperature.

Do a google image search for "heat pump cop curve" and glance at the results. All of them are significantly downward sloping because the underlying thermodynamic cycle effect is very strong (agree not the only) limit.
This, I've found that people most comfortable with algorithmic feeds regularly prune what they don't want and cultivate what they do. Even tiktok is subject to this, albeit with an exceptional high bar for skipping skills.
Extremely unethical behavior by the New York Times if true
Netflix confirms it's cutting off Apple billing for legacy subscribers
I doubt it. That wouldn't provide any legal protection or cover to social media companies. Their main concern is with maintaining a positive brand image which keeps regular users and advertisers onboard. So, they don't want to host legal but offensive content that would decrease user engagement or drive advertisers away.

Forcing users to certify and authenticate themselves would drive a lot of users away and thus devastate advertising revenue. And many users will happily post offensive content using their real identities.
LockBit Dubbed "Cyber Crime Unicorn" After Reports Estimate $1B+ in Stolen Funds
> The ones to blame isn’t the worker, the union or the state. It’s your business that has key deficiencies in implementing safety.

I don't think you're charitably reading parent.

Sometimes, the employee is the problem. And sometimes, union contracts preclude changing processes (or make change unnecessarily burdensome) to improve outcomes.

Introducing another party into agreements doesn't come free.

I'm as pro-union as anyone around here... but it is another level of bureaucracy. And sometimes, protecting "our people" can include not letting go people who should be let go (e.g. decreasing headcount in assembly to hire more professional QA people).

That said, solutions do need to come from all levels, and I think unions do provide a necessary counter-pressure to management deciding only employees need to bear the brunt of change.
I wonder if being code maintainer is going to suck with all the generated PRs.
I think the wording is clumsy, but this is analogous no-blame processes. The wording is just accounting for the possibility of wontonly malicious or recklessly negligent work quality. Think someone either sabotaging the product, or showing up to work very high or drunk.
The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (2021) [pdf]
Japan's new H3 rocket proved it works, but will it catch on anywhere else?
Imagine if you time-travelled back to 2002, before Reddit and Facebook, when the internet had thousands of unconnected phpBB forums.

I happen to think the Porsche Cayenne is an ugly midlife-crisis-mobile driven by assholes. Should the Porsche Owners Club phpBB forum be permitted to censor my speech, when I want to share my opinion that Cayenne owners can suck a fat one?

In 2002 the answer would be obvious - it's no problem if they censor me, there's like 1000 other forums I can go to.

Are things really so different these days?
Well, there is an existence proof by the lack of PWA adoption on Android and that companies aren’t forgoing the expense of creating native Android apps, that PWAs aren’t a “reasonable alternative” today on either platform.
AT&T will give $5 credit to customers hit by network outage
Make all your own food. Even then, the crops are all loaded with Roundup and who knows what all else.
https://developer.android.com/studio/test/other-testing-tool...
If I’m reading the complaint correctly, the “hack” is what amounts to…prompt injection? Are we seriously considering that a hack these days? Genuine question.
If you are not paying for it, you are not the customer; you're the product being sold.
I just got one installed last month in middle of winter at my home in New England.

The air from heat pump feels more comfortable than the dry air from the furnace.
I got installed with a the furnace back-up option, that way if the heat-pump can't generate the heat, it switches to propane (it becomes very cold here in New England in Winters). From my experience, the heat pump is working well in 30F and above weather (-1.C)

Heat pumps burn a lot of electricity, luckily I have solar to off-set that cost, although Solar generation is low in Winter, it adds up well over the year.

Heat Pumps + Solar is the way to go.
I think you're right - this reminds me of security by obscurity; it's not safe unless it's totally safe.
Building a Cybersecurity Work Culture
Glad someone brought up this reference :) This is what I thought of too.

(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dhSdnDb3tk&t=1m14s)
AWS budgets are good for the first part, but they have no interest in a hard cap for obvious reasons.
I don't know if my website is eligible.

My homepage is a small introduction and a table of projects with links to those projects, which are also github repositories with a blog underneath.

This community standardisation I really like /about /now /ideas, I would like people to create github repositories with this format:

"wants" -> things that this person wants

"perspectives" -> technical perspectives on different subjects

"work" -> work that someone thinks need doing

"collaboration" -> what someone would be willing to work with others on

"commissions" -> what you'll pay someone for

"ideas" -> ideas

"blog" -> if your blog is hosted on github

"dotfiles" -> if you have them
Watch Elon call it something like Airship and have it be fit for tens to hundreds of people per launch with no need for a pilot (though one may be present). It'd take twenty years to get to market, sure, but hey that's progress.
That's the clearest mission statement anyone could have made. Obviously places them as the enemy but you have to admire the clarity.
Sounds like pure moral hair-splitting. If they didn't want money, cool. But if they were expecting money but needed it to be via a donation for some moral reason, then I'd wager they read too much "itsfoss"
Not knowing anything other than what you wrote, it sounds like your organization has leadership problems. People don't know why their job exists, they don't know what your organization is actually trying to accomplish, how any individual person fits into it, why the day-to-day things someone does helps, etc.

Nothing anyone does with software will help.
Natural gas is dirt cheap in most of the U.S., so it does make it hard for heat pumps to compete, especially if electricity is expensive. Just checked my most recent gas bill and I only paid $1.09/therm (plus 7% sales tax and $10 fixed fee).

OTOH if you’re heating with propane or fuel oil, heat pumps are probably a good alternative.
Not a great example. Any plane would have crashed with the pilots doing what they did. Most planes don't do well when you try to climb them out of a stall. (Climb out, not power out.)
Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media
Yes on rereading it definitely appears phrased the way you interpreted. But as you said that's nonsensical so my brain must have dumped the nonsensical interpretation. :)