skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I've thought about a control for air conditioning, that's based on a combination of temperature and humidity, rather than temperature alone.

I'm a northerner, and when I moved to Texas, I was prepared for the heat. What they didn't tell me about was the air conditioning. During the summer, people bring a sweater or jacket to restaurants because the AC is so cold.

Today we live in Wisconsin, so we rarely use AC, usually only if we have elderly guests, or maybe the 1 or 2 most oppressive days of the year. We just have to manage the hours in the early evening, when the outside temperature has fallen but there's no breeze. So we have some window fans for that condition.

But I've noticed, that I can turn on the AC and it will run for a long time without the temperature changing, because it's using all of its available power to remove water. But it gets more comfortable. But of course if you're going to cool the air in order to dehumidify it, you might as well enjoy the cooler air.
In fact, this is a wonderful program. If you adjust all the thermostats 1 or 2K above for a relatively short period of time you can have massive savings at scale while not fundamentally change the quality of life of the people[0]. 26°C for a short period of time is not something terrible either (if dry), this is what I have right now.

Basically, the inverse of the tragedy of the commons.

[0]: and they can even un-enroll... so the company is really doing it the right way.
It will if the air conditioning isn't running because someone remotely turned up the thermostat, and it's humid outside. Summer relative humidity in the Houston area routinely gets up around 90%.
Why are offsite write only continuously incremental snapshots from a full start not backups?
There is a space of sorts with the phone, but it did take awhile to develop. My understanding of the early history of the telephone is that people conceived of it as like talking to someone in the other room. You can hear them, but not see them—but they’re there with you.

Now we do have very distinct telephone habits, a telephone style of speaking, etc. Try using phone inflection in person sometime; it’s very jarring. “Hey. Yeah. It’s Matthew. I’m sorry, one sec, I need to…”

In an abstractly similar way, a lot of HN comments share some qualities, even from different people (including this one).
An amusing oddity is that due to the same childhood experience, the noise of a fan helps me go to sleep.
No, the ones who come out alright get whooped just once.
Lethal for career. Think 100 Times before you join Amazon
Locking up kids and controlling them surely can be bettered?
That sounds exactly like what you would send to a mail list management system. Since you’ve likely never used them, think of it like a black box you feed a template that has a bunch of vars you can reference like

“Dear {firstname},

Check out our new movie: Batman Undresses.

Thanks for being a subscriber for {accountlife}.

{termsfooter}
{unsubscribefooter}
{alternatelanguagesfooter}
“

The whole point of a template is so you send to an entire distribution list with a single API call and the mail system handles rendering templates to per user emails, setting up the unsubscribe link, tracking pixels, etc.

> Except they also sent emails to people who are not subscribers

That has exactly zero relation ship to your name being in their mail distribution system.
The correct order is:

1) Start a pioneering car company in the 21st century with many incumbent car manufacturers, dealerships and regulations

2) Give business advice on (1)
Worth noting the original text in Genesis (Adam and Eve) doesn't specify an 'apple' but rather fruit from a tree
Do you know of any publicly available resources that walk through some intuitions in using forecasting systems in retail sales? Basically a dummy's guide that helps non-tech retail leaders better understand how this works, how accurate it can be, and when is appropriate to use it (and when it isn't).
His initial comment was “take your cancel culture and shove it up your ass”. The mods removed it for fairly obvious reasons.

If that’s not enough for you, this gem seemed particularly objectionable to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o2ly6f/comment/h2...
That's a fun image!

I'm not the parent commentator but I understood them to do it before they let the cat out.
I'm pretty sure that's pretty normal for training behavior, until you step up the training and stop letting the cat out unless it meows correctly
I like the global bar and also its underrated, consistent command search function. I think it was probably abandoned by gnome because every application also has a top row of icons in each window now.

My perfect OS would have a global menu bar and enforce that all commands can be issued by searching and all ribbons/icon bars can be turned off.
https://elan.school/ is a deep and artistic comic from a survivor of the infamous Elan School. It really gives you an impression of what these places are actually like.
Yeah I realized after typing my comment that I should've specified that I was thinking of whole house dehumidifiers but even then you are right, AC are basically dehumidifiers that also lower temperatures. But looking at the very high humidity levels in Houston, I'd think either people use normal sized AC units have no way to cope with so much humidity and lower it to a comfortable level or that Texans use very huge AC's which is not good for the grid. If it's option 1, I guess just adding more AC capacity would still be a better option than adding a whole house dehumidier?

I guess I just expect there to be a more efficient way to cool a 78°F house to a degree where it's comfortable without having to use AC 24/7 but I guess the thermodynamics behind cooling homes disagree with me :').
If that was the case, it's on the article / journalist to actually uncover and present that information.

Beyond that, the article says they got an alert when it happened and later decided to un-enroll from the program, so I really don't see any grounds to assume bad-faith on the part of the people running it.
Is this more or less accurate than the birds and the bees?
You know what?

I think HN passes the threshold of being a community capable of self sustaining, and now is gradually moving into more like a reddit.

In the sense, that HN now noticeably cannot accept non-conforming or non-positive statements.

I am thinking about creating a HN copy that dont hide any comments at all. The only rule is that everyone has to share his real name and basic social identity (where you work, age etc.). I think people would be more mindful if they risk their actual reputation.

Who knows, maybe I'll build it...
Sure it has. Here's one brand that's used "smart" for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_%26_Paykel
Sounds like something a man with too much money and back pain issues would say to me.
Coke loses $4B value in stock when bottle moved during interview
wtf, you can't be that stupid.

They were and are fixing salaries. They were explicitly turning away people in addition to failing to go after people they should have.

Executive salaries are going up, particularly in exits, IC salaries aren't.

It wasn't and isn't the outlier, it is openly talked about.

Corporations have no natural rights, those are for individuals.
isn't that just plain strategy?
Revising My Views on the Impact of Teachers
The US is just a ridiculous stupid country with ridiculous norms and believes.
My cat gives very clear signals. Tail starts moving angrily, cat heats up, purring stop.
I came looking for this comment too. A nice chair helps but the actual fix is to do deadlifts. And squats too. Even just getting up to being able to do 100% of body weight will help a ton.
Most people aren't reading terms and conditions. There is an expectation that when you buy a thermostat and install it, you will get to control it without outside interference. People shouldn't have to read fine print in order for the things they buy to meet the most basic of expectations. I wouldn't call it nefarious, but I would say this kind of thing is a dark pattern, meant to take advantage of end users' ignorance.

Maybe if this kind of thing happens a few more times people will start to realize there are some major downsides to smart devices, including losing control of your own belongings.
I've run mail servers on EC2 before. You'll need to raise a request to remove the SMTP 25 restriction (both inbound and outbound), and also apply for a DNS reverse ptr update for that IP for it to work.
Don't you accomplish nearly the same thing with memoized functions?

This seems to just provide a wrapper that obfuscates things
Wow. History hasn't been kind. As is often the case around limited-mindset thinking.

From TFA:
"civil authorities said that “Dr Warren’s instrument has little immediate direct use in civil aircraft.” The Royal Australian Air Force likewise decided that “such a device is not required—the recorder would yield more expletives than explanations.”

Well. No. Multiple air crashes across the world relied on recordings as a key part of their investigation. Especially when a plane lands in the Hudson, just to name one example.

This is very telling:

"Most damning was the Federation of Air Pilots, which declared that the device would be like “a spy flying alongside—no plane would take off in Australia with Big Brother listening.”

History wasn't kind here either. Just try and take off in a jet from a commercial airliner without the various safety equipment installed. The insurance companies alone will try to eat you alive, let alone every other agency.

There's definitely a repeating theme around safety equipment and authority/authority figures. The ridicule at the start is definitely a common starting point. Seat belts and air bags were both ridiculous inventions. Then they weren't. Then they became required.

Quote from elsewhere and not necessarily about flight recorders:
"It has been said that any new idea must pass through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is subject to argument: third, it is accepted. The safety idea has reached the final stage. It is accepted." -- Earl B. Morgan, journal of Safety Engineering, 1917
I think OP's comment feels pretty valid, especially in an in-person event like burning man. There is a divide between participant and passive viewer. As a participant you give, and as a passive viewer you take, which can feel like an unfair arrangement, and there is a big difference between "being present" and "being fully present" which is a level of commitment burning man wants for the festival-goers.

While there's nothing wrong with lurking (I think we all mostly lurk in low commitment subjects and are active in a much smaller amount of things that really interest us), it presents a fairness of effort and commitment to require participation from everyone.
Does the universe exist? If so, then the atoms that comprise your body also exist, and defining your body as a distinct object within the universe is categorical.
It's good that he noted that this scheme is insecure against quantum computers. Anyway, homomorphic cryptography is a fascinating field with many cool applications. I'm sure the ideas will remain useful even in the quantum era.
Slow transportation in the early-mid 20th century. They were durable and could survive long journeys and extended storage. Then they became the "default" apple and it took a long time for people to realize what they were suffering with. I remember the sad state of affairs as late as the 90s, when our choices were Red Delicious, Macintosh, and Granny Smith. Sad times.
I am an investor in the companies I work for. Everyone in the union is an investor. The voting model and incentives have gotten increasingly more abusive and fucked up. Shit like the loans against equity, debt rounds, and so many other things are there to fuck over the people actually doing the work, to benefit the people laundering money. I've yet to see a private company fulfill even their basic stockholder duties to their shareholders who are also employees.

Go dig up uber's sheets, or look into what happened at zynga, or hundreds of other places.
This is actually more of a Schopenhauerian idea. It’s why he considers music the highest art form, because it is not replicating a Form from the tangible world, but is closer to the Will itself.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics/#...

Also just as a side note, be skeptical when reading about Nietzsche’s Will to Power idea. While he did mention it in his actual published works, much of the idea comes from his posthumous Will to Power collection of notebooks which was put together and published by somewhat nefarious actors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Power_(manuscrip...
I sometimes wonder what would happen if you built a site like HN or reddit where, as a condition of membership, you sometimes are asked to really probe the depths of a comment you make. Why you selected specific words, who you expected to read your comment, how you expected the content and the style to be received, how you felt about its evident reception. Maybe haul other commenters or up/downvoters into the conversation, how the comment influenced their perception of the individuals in the thread, how they would view future comments from these individuals, etc.

I’m guessing there have been studies of a similar nature, but not in a way that’s public or where you may get to know some of the participants before/after these little exposes.

For my part i stopped reading the comment you replied to after the first sentence. People that don’t have enough self control in the instant to moderate their speech to a basic level of civility aren’t likely to follow it with nuanced perspective.
The worst offender is network settings. After years of at least weekly needing to change some setting for a virtual adapter, VPN etc, I find myself stumbling trying to get to the right screen.
> I don't know much about how A/C works, whether the dehumidifier mechanism can be decoupled from the cooling mechanism.

It can't. When you cool air down to 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) or so (which is a typical outlet air temperature for a home A/C unit), it simply can't hold much water vapor, and the excess condenses out. That effectively dehumidifies the air--it lowers the dew point to whatever the outlet air temperature is.

> shouldn't the thermostat be coupled to a hygrostat so that that A/C runs when it is humid enough despite being cool in terms of temperature?

In principle it probably should, but in practice there is a close enough correlation between the two that it's not considered necessary.

If energy savings is the goal, the real fix would be to use variable compressors in home A/C systems: that way, instead of the A/C running full on for a while, lowering the temperature (and dehumidifying), then shutting completely off for a while (so humidity can build up again), the A/C could just be running all the time, and changing the thermostat setting would simply change how much cooling and dehumidifying the A/C was doing--what the actual outlet air temperature/dewpoint was. "Full on" would still be, say, 50 degrees F outlet air/dewpoint, but most of the time you wouldn't need that; "energy saving mode" could be, say, 68 degrees F outlet air/dewpoint, which would still be reasonable in terms of comfort but would use a lot less energy, so it could be kept on continuously. (There are already systems like this in cars.)
What does 5.11 mean in 5.11 Tactical?
Racing the Beam Explained – Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television
I lurk 99% of the time on HN. I no longer have any social media. Participation is not required for enjoyment.
>but are the M1 laptops 20% less expensive than the Intel counterparts?

Yes. I agree. From an BOM cost perspective. Yes they are less expensive. And It was clear Apple priced their MBA not too cheap to causes too much damage to their Intel lineup.
"Drivers shocked to find that device monitoring their driving behavior increased their premiums."
If any program tweaks a dialog, say by floating a title-barless window with a new control on top of some empty space (possibly after slightly resizing the window or a control in the window to make space), you can’t resize any window control, can’t change tab order, can’t add controls, can’t change background color, etc.

Detecting whether that is being done is challenging. Typical workaround is that, if any callback is registered with a dialoog, to keep things ‘as is’.
Sounds like you might want to look into MacOS. Or at least might've wanted before Big Sur, dunno about now.
No, it requires a parent way more invested into outsourcing the whole job of parenting than a typical lazy parent just letting the TV et al. handle things as much as possible. The lazy parent would just continue letting the TV handle things even when things aren't going so well, and hey on average it's probably an improvement over the parent who sends/has kidnapped their kids off to these places, since the TV can't physically abuse anyone.
Specially Android game development becomes easier once you can target Vulkan only and you are running third party rendering system (since many Open GL ES 2.0 and 3.0 drivers are quite buggy). With iOS Metal only has been possible for years.
Like you I am also continually frustrated at how Windows apps are always trying to demand my attention. In Windows 10 I have the Notification Center set to “alarms only” which helps with a lot of the spam, but not all. There are still plenty of programs that bypass this and pop their own kinds of balloons and notifications.

Then there’s programs that flash the taskbar when they want attention. Teams in particular is super aggressive about flashing the taskbar when it wants something - even when Do Not Disturb is turned on - and I have essentially all notification features turned off.

For years I’ve looked for some sort of OS setting like a magic registry value to turn taskbar flashing off completely but have come up empty. (There’s a few reg hacks out there that purport to reduce the frequency but none that turn it off entirely. And not all applications honor those registry settings … like blasted Teams.)
You can’t compete with large ISPs on price. They can easily undercut your price for a few years until you’re gone. And a lot of people don’t really chose their provider for ‘good customer service’, they chose fast and cheap.

If you’ve set up in an area that a big ISP suddenly sees as profit potential you’re toast.
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That brand is seemingly trying to use "Smart[X]" or "[X]Smart" as trademarked jargon terms referring to specific features its products have.

This is different in kind from generic common-language use of the word "smart" by consumers as an adjective attached to product categories ("smart fridge", "smart home", etc.), which is what I was referring to.

Even in the 80s, the X10 "smart home" automation technology was all about networking the devices in your home together to put them under control of a central hub; not about any active "intelligence" per se.

A thermostat has always been an example of "device intelligence", but has never been called "smart" technology... until recently, as there are now "smart" thermostats (like Nest.) But these are another Internet-of-Shit product, and that — not any clever behavior — is what makes it a "smart" device.
Small, fairly predictable amounts of inflation don't matter too much in the long term because long-term savings is typically not saved as cash, but in a productive asset. That's a feature, not a bug. Why should we reward people if they don't invest their money in something useful?

And this is why it would be better to figure out how not to reward people for buying cryptocurrency. It's not a productive investment, it's just holding.
Costco $99 office chair is just fine. This is after getting physical therapy for back problems though.
Apparently a lot of people lived there, and prospered, in a way.

To build a huge monument that persists for millennia, a huge concentration of normally distributed resources is needed. This requires a central power that controls a significant territory and extracts these resources from the inhabitants, and directs them to work on the monument, instead of pursuing their local interests. Such a central power is likely to arise only when it is an improvement over the peer-to-peer tribe-based societies that the East Coast native Americans apparently had.

The things you list are exactly the reasons why an advanced technological civilization did not arise in the region. There was no need for it, people were unlikely to die from hunger if they relied just on hunting, gathering, fishing, and some mild animal husbandry and lightweight farming.

Eurasian Middle East, the cradle of Western civilization, was not so idyllic. For sustainable farming on its arid land, it required a system of canals, and a system of control that made a lot of people maintain them, even if it helped their neighbors more than themselves. Uneven crops and periodic crop failures required centralized storage and rationing to avoid famine. Those who were in control of this life machinery became kings of ever-increasing power. Tribes that refused irrigation and centralized agriculture either died eventually of drought and famine, or turned into nomadic shepherds. In either case, they were quickly outnumbered by the people who practiced centralized agriculture, were subjects to a (brutal) king, and all passed some resources to that king. Now the king could command to build an expensive, impractical, but majestic monument which we eventually got to see. Or, more practically, such a culture could build a city around the grain storage and king's seat, following the power structure. A city, with its concentration, gives rise to deeper specialization of trades, faster exchange of goods, faster exchange and accumulation of knowledge, etc.
I define observability as the tools I use to check on the behavior of my system in ad-how ways in production. This is quite different from tests, which are designed to exercise specific behavior in a fixed environment. Both are used towards the goal of software quality, but they’re different.
These Demand Response programs have been around at least since 2013.

I used to work for a company called Opower, since acq. by Oracle, that worked on setting these temperatures with options/configurations on the user end. OhmConnect, Tendril, Simple Energy, were/are all in this same DR space.

Now granted, residential thermostats usually doesn’t have humidity detection, but any company doing DR probably has other sources of data already to figure out an optimal temp/humidity setting to drive better DR adoption. At the time, Opower had housing and demographic data to predict and calculate how long to pre-cool/heat a home.

Glad Texas is catching up, but the marketing and user education part seems to be lacking. Need to change behavior & hearts and minds or this type of backfire happens. If no one participated in DR, outages and brown outs could kill more people than cause an inconvenience of being too warm.
iAds were App Ads, not placement Ads. The same type of Ads there is appearing on top of my App when I play a free game. Compare to the Apps appeared on top of search engine are targeted placement ads. They are different type of ads and serve different purpose.
Dementia/alzheimers/etc is one of the scariest things i can imagine. I'm not sure i would want to live if i had the later stages of that, or if you can even call that living.

Body of a 90 year old mind of a 30 year old is something i would take, though.
> (RAID5) parity patches got rejected many, many years ago

Ooooh. (Booo!)

I wouldn't mind a citation/mailinglist reference for this, if you have one. (I honestly have no idea what I'd Google.)
Because the cliff keeps them from quitting during the first year. If there was no cliff and vesting started immediately, the exercise window wouldn’t help much, since there would hardly be any options to exercise. But after the cliff, since 25% have vested, suddenly the exercise window becomes a reason not to quit.