skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Honest question: do you really see people touch the level of their ac during a drive?

Honest answer, not fudged for sake of making a point - Yes. Absolutely. I don't know if hyper-expensive luxury vehicles do better, but I can vouch that my wife has been frequently changing in our 2012 Kia Sportage, 2016 RAV4, and now 2019 Honda Odyssey. I've observed others do so frequently in Toyota Corolla, Honda Civiv, Subaru Crosstrek, VW Golf & Jetta. Like Kerning or Norman doors, or a low battery in screenshot, once you notice it you can't help notice it ever forth.

So those are my observed facts - people fiddle with their auto A/C a lot.

Why? I have my theories, but that is something I'm less confident about and none of them may be correct or sufficient (I've tried asking people, but as mentioned, most have no idea they're actually doing it and it doesn't seem to be on conscious level; which is reasonable - my own adjustment has always been "automatic" until I started paying conscious attention):

- Perhaps it's just psychological. If I'm feeling cold, I don't trust the system and I turn it up. If I'm feeling warm, I want it colder faster. If it's -10C outside, I'll turn it up to 24C even though it may not get me warmer than if I just left it at 21C. Then it gets 24C and I'm hot. This may be just a case of humans using good system badly.

- I think however, is that system ignores some of the reality. The AIR temperature may be a steady 21C. But if the air is 21C in cabin on a dark cold night when it's -10C outside when the very windshield seems to suck the warmth out of my body, I probably actually want it warmer. If it's 21C air but noon July sun is blazing on me, I probably actually want ambient temperature colder. If I start a July trip heading south and Sun is blasting on me, I need A/C cooler; then I turn North-West and sun is behind me, and all this A/C is now chilling me too much. I think it's an error to think ambient temperature is all that our body cares to be comfortable - I think what we're wearing, how we're feeling, what the radiative environment is, etc, are all factors.

- Finally, it's that unpredictability and chasing. Heavily influenced by above, sometimes you're just comfortable, but A/C changes what it's doing because what it measures and what your lived reality is don't match, so you end up chasing each other.

Maybe 2021 Mercedes S class etc don't have that problem; maybe people have changed it and you never noticed, or maybe they genuinely haven't because your systems are better or people are using it smarter or they just care less or whatever other reason; but I have personally seen very few people set Automatic HVAC to a specific temperature and never touch it again.

My 100 Croatian Lipa :)
Yes. Flashpoint. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
The Comfort of Ignorance – You can't know everything, but you can learn anything
12.5% is crazy. Refinance! Take a lower % loan to pay off all your current debt.
That was as a great read!

> So as a final step I fired up memtest86.

I held my breath as I vaguely remember something about memtest86 causing hardware issues back in the day but I am not sure if I am remembering it correctly.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering about GP - I have some multisensors hooked up to HomeAssistant so I can see what happens over time, and as long as the sun is out the sun can warm mine up like 3-5 degrees between sunrise and noon, even in the winter. It doesn't all dissipate until the middle of the night.
You can go one further - last year I tried to solve every problem in a different language!

I first heard of people doing this for codejam, and it works just as well for AoC

My 2c from the experience,

* I hated Go for this style of programming, but I could see it being good for some production-ready code

* Rust should be renamed to Rustcargo. Even for the most basic of tasks it seems like these two are welded together.

* I still really like Nim as a replacement for Python in my toolbox
> As soon as they start irradiating the heat all over the place, they are effectively giving everyone permission to use it.

Similarly, it's not theft to just take whatever is left on the curb the evening leading into grabage collection day.
1. There's really no main stack, there's just the current stack and the enclosing stack (and the stack enclosing that, etc). It seems to work well in practice, but there might be some subtleties that I've missed, which is a major part of why I'm backing up to formalize it in the next post.

2. Yes, they're statically known.

3. It should ultimately be possible to compile Dawn to concurrent nets and therefore to evaluate concurrent sections concurrently, but I've spent very little time thinking about that. I definitely want to support traditional explicit multithreading and something like async/await M:N threading, but the details are unclear. It should be no less ergonomic or safe than Rust.

4. In Dawn it will be a type error. In the untyped calculus it's a runtime error.
The built in Samsung media player has correctly played audio from a wide array of pirated video files. I don't know if it does the right thing with multichannel audio, I only use the built in stereo speakers.
A Brompton is a surprisingly good bike for a folding bike. I have one that I always have with me in the car and it has done quite a bit of mileage. Initially I was super skeptical about stability but once you get the hang of it it is actually pretty easy and remarkably quick for such small wheels.
Running CGI scripts.
Please don't fulminate or call names like this on HN, no matter how wrong or bad some article is or you feel it is. It doesn't help—it only makes things worse—and it's deeply against both the site rules and the intended spirit of the site.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking them more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one as well: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More to the point, we've also made no progress on supersizing existing unintelligent machines. In fact, machines have become dramatically smaller over the last several years.

If you look at the people who have the skills to make such machines larger, those who built bigger and better vacuum tubes and larger cathode displays with more oomph, they all appear to have disappeared, replaced by the misguided miniaturizers.

Your last point is already addressed in the paper, argument #3.
I just discovered this a few weeks ago. It is not too annoying where you hate it for shortcuts you don't care about, but just annoying enough where you'll learn some new shortcuts. However, it doesn't discover stuff like swapping between tabs.
If God didn't mean for us to eat people, then he wouldn't have made us of meat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw
My last 5 insurers had copays between $0 and $20. Same price whether it's a specialist or primary care.

If it's an HMO, often it's just free entirely. PPO plans tend to have a small fee -- it's never been enough that I've given it a second thought -- and have wide coverage with few limits.
The only thing I liked about my c2003 Toshiba laptop was the physical controls; a volume dial and a wifi switch. I also did like the Blackberry dial, scrolling through messages on my mobile isn't as convenient one handed as it was with the dial.
memtest86 doesn't cause issues but it sure finds them.

You can have a computer that is nominally "working fine" and memtest86 can still find issues.

And, to be fair, memtest86 was always right.
Read the book “How Not To Die”. It will tell you everything you need to know about staying healthy and functioning for as long as possible. 100% based on research not wishful thinking or myths.
You can just undo. And when you can't for some reason (you restarted the IDE or something), you can just look at the "Local history" and return back in time to any previous state.
Surely that's not true and the maintainers of Apache understand caching?
California Pizza Kitchen Serves Up Employee SSNs in Data Breach
So if they have unlimited data, and you only read websites not affecting their use, you say it’s ok??
Responsiveness has many facets. tactile feedback (like the solid click of a rocker ), visual distinction , feedback latency (how many milliseconds between input and taking action), tactile distinction (can you distinguish the control without looking at it), audible distinction .

soft buttons , soft logic controllers and touch UIs fail at all of the above

the result is a sluggish, frustrating and counterintuitive experience when engaging with the world around you .

we replaced our kitchen range with a new budget model. they replaced the analog oven settings with a keypad .

the old model could be activated in 1/2 second blindfolded by turning the knob. you could see the setting from across the room eg when heading out the door.

the new range requires 3 button presses and holding the temp control button for 45 seconds while the temp slowly seeks 5 degree increments.

what sadist designs these systems? they can’t possibly be using them in their own homes.
The Ship's Captain Died at Sea. 6 Mos Later, His Body Was Still in the Freezer
Too many click bait articles on hackernews now.
Scroll wheel click or Ctrl+b does this in pycharm.
So no data caps and it’s ok?
I'm fine with that outcome.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? Between
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29291748 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289512, you're in no position to complain about toxicity.

It isn't remotely fair to call HN "the most toxic corner of the internet". Like any large(ish) forum, it gets a wide distribution of comments. Inevitably some are toxic—that's how the pubic internet unfortunately works. But the overwhelming majority are not toxic, as anyone can see for themselves simply by scrolling through the public feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments.

Having worked hard for years to try to reduce toxicity on this site, I'm definitely open to getting better at it—I know how frustrating it is not to be able to have more of an effect. But it doesn't seem right to be complaining about toxicity in others while clearly adding it yourself.
They are paying for the light too.
If the mind over body thing doesn’t work, try very very gradually increasing intensity without regards to time. When I’m feeling really awful, I’ll slow jog/walk less than a mile on the treadmill first thing in the morning, then come back later to do a proper run. It’s like taking all day to warm up, and it usually works if I can muster the will.
Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961)
blogs (gemlogs) are fun to read and discover
Won’t all the fees associated with transfer and withdrawal eat a substantial amount of your salary the more often you are paid?
Sadly, Catalyst apps seem to use a different text system, which is not customizable.
Hey Fred, that's insane. Wow. How was the aftermath of that ride?
I wonder is this the first operational loss of an F35? Haven't heard of one before.
you want to me to prove what exactly?

that russian federal and municipal government isnt going after ransomware operators despite having capability to know who they are?

I’m trying to think of the best source for this?

The assumptions themselves seem to arbitrary for me to bother disproving, the assumptions being:

they’re anonymous

they’re trying to be anonymous

they’re using crypto to bolster their anonymity

they need to convert the crypto to cash as opposed to just accumulating crypto because they prefer it

This all relies on a complete misunderstanding of ransomware operations and why people in general like crypto that no single article will help. The best articles talk about negotiations with ransomware customer support, which simply show how brazen they are. Doesnt seem a satisfactory sourcr for anyone that has already created a negative assumption that needs to be disproven.

What do you think? I’m completely fine with being at an impasse here, take it up with the ransomware SaaS providers they might even have an address listed at this point
> they invented the iPhone, and then the iPod

Did you mean the iPad? Because the iPod came years before the iPhone.
I recently bought a new car. The old one had HVAC as you described. I don't use the new one any differently though. When it's really cold, I turn the heat all the way up until I'm comfortable. Then I turn it down and keep it there. This is exactly what I did in my old car too. In the new one I just don't use the "auto" feature, and haven't even tried because my established behavior still applies.

Then only difference is that in the old car I knew that when it was really cold and I reached a comfortable level, I turned the knob to about two notches left of center, in the red area. In every older car I ever had it was slightly different and I learned quickly where my preference was. That's just like the new car where, once my comfort level is reached, I set things back down to 74F and leave it there.

Do some cars not allow users to disable auto? Mine has a dedicated button to enabling/disabling it. Otherwise, I agree that red/blue seemed to be a little clearer, but it only took me a few days of cold weather to find the sweet spot, same as any car I've ever driven

HVAC aside, I agree on other issues. Touch screen audio controls are awful and much more distracting to adjust while driving. I have to be very care to pick my moment. I think if I was so inclined, I could set things up so that I could argue with Google Assistant to do some of this stuff.

That frustration is offset a bit by the fact that-- and this will amaze you-- a button will roll my windows up or down. Not some crank I have to turn. And another button on the "key" will unlock the door from like 30 feet away! But I have problems leaving my keys in the car because I no longer have to actually hold, turn, and remove a physical key to get out of my car.

Trade offs! Hopefully UX design will gently nudge use back to a better middle ground.
In the same report Kia Niro EV is the second most reliable car in the ranking:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

I think high reliability should be easier for EVs. Electric motors have fewer moving parts, and can be sealed. They don't need to withstand literally thousands of explosions per minute, or be open to outside air.

It seems that Tesla is just an outlier with their panel gaps and over-engineered falcon wing doors.
Minecraft Classic 0.30 that works in a web browser, with optional enhancements
Practical Web dev tutorial: see changes and update code in the browser
Dunno. Referencing a US telephone keypad, it spells NERDY.
- Big loans will be transacted in cryptocurrency due to concerns about inflation. This will become more commonplace.

- Large scale ransoms and hacks will continue. Driving fear to take cybersecurity more seriously.

- Distrust in mainstream media outlets will push users to siloed echo chamber platforms. Lower barriers to entry to develop the tech behind the platforms will allow them to grow rapidly.

- The metaverse will not get adoption but the signs of being the future of entertainment will be there.

- A significant breakthrough for brain computer interfaces will be released for gaming. (See Gabe Newell interview) Every big company starts racing to research BCI tech.

- EV startups productionizing for the first time will experience reliability and scalability issues. Tesla’s lead in industry will be apparent but competitors will start closing the gap.
To be fair, it's probably quicker to download and install chrome/ff/brave than to fix the absolutely user hostile default settings on edge.
I prefer Apache because of the development model, the stability of configuration, familiarity, dedication to backwards-compatibility.
Considering it still runs a large percentage of the WWW, I would say it is a bit unexpected.
The Serverless Application Stack
I'm hoping one day I can use wsl2 and virtualbox at the same time without suffering from cripplingly bad performance in vbox.
> The copyright owner can be either an individual, for example the person who wrote the code originally; or a company, for example a company that employed the person who wrote the code.

Here, there be dragonnes...

I can easily see an IC agreeing to a relicensing, thinking they had full rights, but their employer, at the time, had a "shower clause," and trying to (and maybe succeeding in) getting that section of license nullified. At least, costing the LLVM a bunch of money and time.

This was one reason that I made sure that my employer did not have a "shower clause," before starting to develop a lot of open-source software.

Knowing them, I'll bet that people hired after me had to sign that away, but I was never made to sign anything like that; even retroactively.

This is a mammoth effort, and I wish them well. I suspect they have already wargamed a lot of the possible issues.
Id say it is lisp, with a slight syntax difference
I'd posit intelligence isn't what people make it out to be, and that we already have AI. People just aren't impressed by it when they learn the magic behind it, and hence disagree on that we have it.

I mean, people seem to hold human intelligence as something extraordinary, despite having no idea what precisely makes us intelligent. Isn't that kind of pulling the cart before the horse? For all we know, humans might just be biomechanical robots operating on the "stimuli" inputted to us, behaving in completely predictable ways, no different than how computers operate on the "data" inputted to them.
No idea if this is any good or not, but some things don't add up:

quote from the article: "Neither the Malaysian nor the Indonesian Military have published any radar data"

wikipedia: "Data from Malaysian military radar showing Flight 370 (green) crossing the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea to where it was last detected by radar."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...
It's worth noting that cinema bitrates are a very different beast, because they store every frame as a separate jpeg2000.
Here's a more pressing and actual problem for many US states and cities. In multi-unit condo buildings, the pipes and systems were designed at a time when water was so cheap and abundant that it's not individually metered. You pay through your HOA/condo fees as a group. You just live with the fact that a family of 4 likely uses much more than a single person because it's "pennies" difference if you billed it properly. (Admittedly there is both the cost of the water, and the natural gas to heat it, but same principle)

But in the more recent climate of water scarcity/energy waste awareness (and costs of energy rising), it would be a kind of holy grail to find a way to install meters for individual units at a cost-effective price of the hardware and labor needed to do such a thing. It would lead to much conservation I think.

But there are so many problems in trying to do this. Even starting with the design of buildings being unsuited to do this -- for example tall apartment buildings, your pipes tend to be run as "stacks" so that the bathroom located in the same position on each floor can have piping run vertically. It's not like each apartment is self contained and has a single inlet/outlet for water to place a meter.

Sometimes I think about whether you could, if clever enough, derive the usage of a single unit by measuring at the row/column of each floor/stack like addressing pixels...

It's a problem, when things were designed for a time when it was much cheaper.
Hammerhead Rhythm Station (1997)
What goes on in the minds of people who never learned a language? Like a deaf and blind child who still hasn't been taught communication methods yet. Surely their mind can still form concepts.
In the existing prototypes, only expression stacks are nested, not value stacks. The value multistack is flat and is modeled by a map from stack name to value stack.

Eventually, when compiling to C (and potentially to machine code), values on the different stacks will effectively be assigned to slots on the C stack, which seems similar to what you're describing.
A++++ loved it. I wrote a pair of blog posts about it.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/learning-rust-via-adven...
https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/solving-advent-of-code-...

To be clear, I don’t compete for the leaderboard or code golf. But I do try to write elegant code that’s performant.

AoC is a great way to learn a new language. I try to solve the puzzles entirely on my own. Then I check the Reddit solutions thread and Ctrl-F my language. It’s a great way to learn new tricks, libraries, or just idiomatic language style.

And using Rust for AoC turned me into a certified fan. Rust iterators are really great compared to C++. They’re like C# linq but better. The itertools crate is super helpful.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/mobile/highest-paying.htm
> Which for me is the same as hearing "Why not chocolate cake?" after saying "I like strawberry tarts".

Desserts don't have network effects. The global hypertext network that we call the World Wide Web is a great achievement. Yes, commercialization has led to some awful excesses. But the Web still lets us all create the kinds of spaces we want, without needing to create separate networks that only a relatively few techies can access. That's why I think Gemini is misguided.
Making Lego Car Cross Gaps
> Rust should be renamed to Rustcargo

I much prefer RustCargo to C++BringYourOwnShittyBuildSystem! Cargo definitely one of the bright spots in Rust imho.
So computers are a bad plan?
I think they accidentally showed that humans will expand (individually) to be the size of the universe.
Right. Strategy 1 was "offer retirement plans and default on them," strategy 2 is "let them buy assets, dilute them with printed money."

I also agree that when the middle class erodes to the point that asset ownership falls below 50% is when things get, uhh, interesting.
Wonder if Adobe has any regrets.
Try HashBackup sometime (I'm the author). :-) I backup a couple of machines from home on a 20Mbps down/1.2Mbps up connection to B2 and have never had any trouble with it.

The dev server I backup is around 80GB, has a few VMs I use to build HashBackup on different platforms, and takes around 45 minutes to backup, with most of that time waiting for my slow-ass Internet connection. My last retain/prune took 20 minutes, including repacking 22 remote files.

The other nice thing about B2 is they give you a daily 1GB egress allowance, and HashBackup uses that to recover wasted space from deleted files. They bill me $0.53 every couple of months: 25 cents/mo for storage and 2 cents/mo for egress. Can't beat it!
The mother of all booms.
95% of people used to work in agriculture, now 5% do. This scarcity is our own creation.
What public service can I connect to with a GraphQL client (do they even exist?) without coding

GitHub? https://docs.github.com/en/graphql
Flamewar comments like this are not ok on HN and will get you banned if you do it repeatedly. Please make your substantive points without swipes.

Also, please keep tedious programming language flamewar like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288298 off HN. We're trying for something more interesting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is totally unacceptable, and we ban accounts that carry on like that. I don't want to ban you, so please don't post like this again. In fact, please just stop posting about this topic and stick to things that genuinely gratify your intellectual curiosity. Conducting a putdown campaign against what other people like is an abuse of this site.
it also overwrites \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI, which is annoying if you were using that to boot linux.
Do we really need more VC parasitic puff pieces? Less of this drivel please, it doesn't contribute anything to HN.
This writeup is excellent. I wish I could work my hot air gun... I'll need to watch some videos, I think.