skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's much less addictive than Instagram. It's most likely only people you know, no garbage ads, no garbage "influencers".
Plus in my experience at least, people post stories much less often but obviously that varies.
The same reason I can't just walk into your house and make myself lunch out of your fridge. The people of this country have the same right as the owner of a house to control who can come in and to ask for some requirements as to do so. If you want to loosen the requirements, feel free to get a majority of the owners of the country (we, the people) to agree.
The number of electric devices added to the grid is likely a predictable percent increase every day/month/year, and likewise, the acceleration of that change is probably somewhat predictable, too.

This is not to say we shouldn't be concerned, but denying yourself the most energy efficient technologies available (EVs, heat pumps, etc) because you're afraid of power outages 5-10 years from now seems like overkill.
My problem was, in order to do that, you have to click the red box that says "EDIT". To be fair, it does say you have to "use EDIT". However also, to be fair the other way, I thought I already was using it because it was red.
Hi HN - it's been getting hard for me to do research with Google. If I'm looking for the best smartphone, or the right Javascript framework, I have to wade through dozens of SEO-spam pages to find the answer.

I've experimented with different solutions to this - Kagi, DDG, SearX, and writing my own custom filters. Nothing quite works the way I want.

Last weekend, I decided to feed text from Google search results into GPT-3 to generate summaries with citations. This works well - I get an overview of the topic, but also dive deeper if I need to by clicking on the citations. Citations help verify the information and ensure accuracy (I've noticed fewer hallucinations than with GPT-3 alone).

It works by getting results from Google, scraping the pages, extracting text chunks that align with the question (using embeddings), then sending the most aligned chunks to GPT-3. The GPT-3 prompt specifies to only use the chunks to generate the answer (this usually works).

Since it's self-hostable, it's easy to tune and hack to suit your preferences.
Show HN: This Is How ChatGPT Will Be Monetized
Ala Johnny Mnemonic
This isn't true. For pipes, double the pressure requires double the wall thickness, which requires double the material.

However, I don't think raw material cost is a big part of the cost of refrigeration systems anyway.
Maybe this has been answered before on HN but I wonder if the improvement numbers mentioned here can be verified?
>CSI probably didn't help matters here.

Indeed, it did not.
It's so notorious it has it's own wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
A Swedish billionaire is buying up California’s video gaming empire
"A year of unemployment? Lonely, depressing, and not good on a resume."

A year of unemployment seems significantly less depressing than this statement. What if you were to travel (or hike/explore your local area), focus on quality time with your family, friends, or dog? This to me seems way less depressing than grinding on some meaningless side-project, and as a hiring manager at a FAANG I would absolutely look at a year on someone's CV spent on these activities as a positive rather than a negative.
Exactly. I used to think the same way when comparing myself to some of my friends who don't play video games much, then I realized they filled their downtime with stuff like Netflix or Youtube instead of video games.
The biggest issue IMO is lack of flexibility. Leetcode is a specific format with specific questions, but is not necessarily the work you'll do day-to-day.

What would be great is if companies offered multiple formats including leetcode, take home, pair programming, Github review, project review, just talking, etc.
God I wish I could get to suffer leetcode interviews, but right now I can’t even get past automated ATS screens.
> I am never going to put my life in the hands of some software doing image analysis using machine learning.

Well...on your car, at least. I'm not sure how comforting that approach is when you're surrounded on the interstate by Tesla "FSD"s.
Sure, but in university that can be a useful exercise, whatever the language. There are many commonalities in just about every language. Learning your first language is hard, you’re second is freeing. At least personally I’ve found that the more languages I study, the easier it gets to pick up a new one, specifically because of the commonalities. Sure, Haskell and Ruby are really different, but when you try to pick up Elixir you’ve got a lot of common ground.
How do you undo the process? Does the paper survive undamaged?
rowid isn't really a background index, but rather the normal storage layout, with non-integer primary keys having a separate index structure.
Probably 90% chance its either fusion 360 or solidworks
This concept has big potential. It is similar to a spreadsheet but allows the free form of data entry which may be empowering to quite a few customers out there.
Two incredible general interest math books came out this year: The Big Bang of Numbers and The Joy or Abstraction. Both are brilliantly written and convey sophisticated math concepts for general intellectual development versus math specialists. The later book gave me a good foundation for some ideas in category theory I still hadn’t internalized on an intuitive level after reading more conventional academic works.
> it makes you think what else is not accurate?

The answer is: all of it! 100% of Stranger Things is inaccurate, because it’s fiction. ;)

This is true for all subjects, not just computer hacking. This includes non-fiction documentaries too… there’s nothing you can watch anywhere that is “accurate”, except maybe live video feeds. There are always incorrect details.

Accuracy, of course, is not the primary goal of TV show producers. They like to slip in these somewhat period accurate-ish tidbits for the enjoyment of those of us looking closely at the tangential details, but the Amiga in the show has no bearing on the story, it’s just a prop. I’m sure if you looked as closely at all the other props, you’d notice many that are inaccurate for the time & location: lamps, furniture, clothes, cars, houses, etc. It’s not possible to shoot a large production and get every single detail (and it would be unaffordably expensive to even get very close.) To me, going to the trouble of recreating the Amiga screen seems like a lot of effort to put into a prop.

So here’s a question for you: would you rather they used fictional computer brands and fictional screen shots? Would that make it more watchable for you? Can you watch computer sci-fi when it’s not trying to include period props, like Tron, for example? I do have my own line for where inaccuracies will pull me out of a show and prevent me from suspending disbelief, but generally as a computer nerd who lived through the 80s, I like a lot of the ‘hacking’ pop culture, even when it’s extremely cringe (looking at you, “Hackers”).
That's the email for internal HN stuff. For the general YC business, the email is info@ycombinator.com
My Deck ownership is at a point where I don't even buy a game if it's not either Deck Verified on Steam or gold/platinum on ProtonDB.

I also prefer games that have cross-platform cloud saves so I can play longer sessions on my Xbox or PC and continue from the exact same spot on the Deck when I'm on the go. I think I can finally finish Witcher 3 this time when they added cloud saves, I don't need to have 3 parallel games going on different platforms.

The quick pick up and immediate suspend are the killer features for me. The Spouse Acceptance Factor is pretty good for a device I can play with on the couch and be semi-present. Instead of me taking up the TV or being in my own dark corner playing with my gaming PC.

I've finished more games during this fall on the deck than my PC during the last two years.
True, but furnaces have a much lower power draw. They are easy to run off a generator, which are common in areas that frequently lose power.
Speaking as someone who has juggled both a full-time job and a part-time startup on the side before, I can answer this: both of them contributed immensely to my professional development, but in different ways, since the business domains were very different (which also meant developing proficiencies with different technologies and tooling).
And if I pay you significantly less than your peers, on the theory that the work is a personal calling?

https://michiganprosecutor.org/careers/current-positions/858...

https://www.bcgsearch.com/bestlawfirms/KrjDr/Miller-Canfield...
> I think reputable car companies take this stuff very seriously, but your concern is also well placed.

I trusted Volkswagen because of their reputation. Then the news broke about them systematically lying and breaking the law with respect to engine emissions. Shortly after this came to light, other "reputable car companies" turned out to have been not trustworthy at all.

Yes there are good standards in place and some companies claim to adhere to them but no company should be trusted on their word or reputation alone. The better question is what kind of regulatory oversight is in place to make sure those claiming to adhere to certain standards are actually doing so? Also, how much power do the regulatory organizations have in addressing violators?
So weird.

> how frustrating must it be that manufacture of the most important product of all — new human beings — cannot be scaled up or digitised; can only happen slowly and organically within the bodies of individual women?

Frustrating to whom? A few religious zealots who take "be fruitful and multiply" to its extreme? Shrinking countries like Russia, perhaps. Pregnancy is cosmetically inconvenient and occasionally life-threatening (and C-sections sever lots of interesting things) so it's easy to imagine the wealthy going for pregnancy-free reproduction. But after your 14th kid or so, it gets to be a bit much, and all 14 in diapers at the same time would be a bit overwhelming?

> With an efficient, centralised source of new workers, governments can continue positioning having a family as an unaffordable luxury without staring down the barrel of demographic collapse. You’re thirty years old and spend all your salary renting a box room in a flat you share with four strangers? That used to be at least partly the state’s problem as well as your own — but not anymore.

First, what government suggests that families are an unaffordable luxury? Societal expectations of music lessons,summer camp and non-second-hand clothing are what make child-rearing expensive.

As I read it, it implies that families springing from wombs would become eccentric, while people emerging from vats would become the norm.

But the vat people would still have adolescence, hormones, all the standard causes of rebellion and instability, and would have only state workers as their comrades/family. "You're grounded, no car keys" becomes "You're incarcerated" so I suspect the revolution won't take long to start.

I suppose the cost side of raising all the children to be productive drones isn't prohibitive? It costs a fair amount to raise a child to productive adulthood, but of course all the rich countries have lots of extra housing lying around to house the kids and the state workers raising them. Or just raise them in barracks, by legions of nannies?

After all, in this picture, the state is the parent and family for the vat people. But the vat people will live, work with and have hormonal overflows with standard family people who still exist. The picture is a lot more complicated than just "set up a baby factory and run it".
How many jobs did you apply for over that year?

Did you work with a recruiter?
> This is admittedly the hard part, but I can absolutely imagine appropriate regulation should social media get to the point it is actually destructive to the fabric of society. I am willing to sacrifice some of the internet for it too given how much of a cesspool it has become.

Reading this, I'd even rephrase it stronger:

I can't imagine any regulation that would address the root cause of the problem without violating fundamental human rights of private correspondence and access to general computation.

There is certainly room for potentially appropriate regulation of the cesspools of today and the adtech-surveillance-engagement machinery can go die but let's not open up for scenarios where it becomes legally unfeasible to run a phpBB instance for a community (yes, you can have addiction of those exacerbating depression as well).

> Yes, but ideally without making an attempt to go viral in the process. I would argue this is not a healthy way to do this.

Fo sho.
Top US launch companies of 2022–The Ars Technica power ranking
I think he knows the difference, but surely meant the life skill of captaining something rather than the literal many-years-to-acquire technical skill of doing so, because the former makes sense and the latter doesn't.

Which two? Designing a building I see I skipped. That seems pretty attainable, he obviously didn't mean 'be a trained architect and building engineer' like you interpreted it. People in charge of organizations sometimes have to design buildings (probably much moreso in the past though). So like, 'kitchen goes here' etc level stuff.

I'm not saying I agree with the whole quote. I just don't see the point of misinterpreting it so aggressively.
Copy and paste is fine, plus most usernames are your email, which should auto complete
Advanced technology being developed at advanced research labs: who would have thought?

But that doesn't change the fact that hosts are mostly 'regular folks' in the trades that hook up a bunch of wiring and pipes (or glue/nail/screw together a bunch of wood).
"Whiskey and cigars for me and my friends please"
I was laid off four months ago. I haven’t started my job search in earnest yet, so maybe my opinion will change, but being laid off has been amazing for me. Here are my thoughts:

1) You should not be broke if you’ve worked a few years as a software engineer. You’ve been earning good money and it is important to save during the good times so you’re prepared for the bad. I’m not saying this necessarily applies to OP, but it’s generally good advice to keep some money lying around for a rainy day.

2) If you feel secure financially and get laid off, it’s a great time to do something time consuming. I have a toddler, so it’s been a lot of fun to hang out and bond with her. Friends have made video games or picked up a new hobby. Most people I know who got laid off who felt secure financially love it.

3) Your network is your best asset. After the layoff, multiple old contacts reached out with job offers. I was very grateful for these, but declined them for the reasons above.

TLDR: being laid off can be a blessing if you’re financially prepared.
This is why striving for financial independence is important.
We're talking about the next generation not the previous.

If Lenovo can put 64GB on a 128-bit bus then Apple could have 256GB on the M2 Max.
Aluminum generally has fatigue limits that mean it will fail eventually, releasing refrigerant (which is normally an environmental disaster)
Locus coeruleus activity improves cochlear implant performance
MagLev Trains?
I read Light from Uncommon Stars this week. It was a little uneven in spots, but overall it was very well written and an awesome fusion of many genres and topics (sci-fi, demons, violins, transgender teens) that sounds crazy but works.

The style is a bit of Terry Pratchett, a bit of Douglas Adams, a bit of Christopher Moore, with some very unique items thrown in.

Warning: the transgender portion is brutal on the negative aspects of being a transgender teen in America.
Personally I never really got into dual-pane Directory Opus but Directory Opus 5 sure was a fabulous total replacement for Workbench, I think I used that from the time I got it until I finally left my Amiga for a Mac. Ever since moving to OSX my Macs have mostly run in column view.

I wonder how lost I would be if I still had my A1200 and could turn it on to try and poke at my personalized DOpus5 setup. It's been a little more than twenty years; what was once muscle memory is probably just vague hints of "this used to be a thing I did".
Is filtering incoming air (for a mix) necessarily the norm, though?
Even in the rare high-performance homes built on spec[ulation], my sense is that filtering incoming air might be omitted, in favor of a single filter acting on recirculation.
The lesson here is to be overemployed, do at least one interview process a quarter, and understand that companies don't give AF about you.
Source available here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future
>The argument appears to be that an ID issues by a state government is ok, but if it’s issued by the federal government that’s somehow, philosophically an overreach of power.

That is easy. The federal government is only allowed to do what is granted to it in the Constitution (enumerated powers). IDs are never mentioned so the federal government doesn't have the authority.
Yes, legit [1]

[1] https://pandaily.com/miracleplus-welcomes-investment-from-se...
Citations Needed did an episode a few years back on how TV Copaganda represents forensics as a much more solid "science" than it actually is. https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-94-the-goofy-pseu...
A new treatment for arthritis: Vagus-nerve stimulation
You mention that Pascal is almost as safe as Rust. This comes as a great surprise to me, because I was under the impression that Pascal and C are very similar.

(Though I hear the strings, at least, know their own size!)
Took a whole two weeks or so to go from reaching out to recruiter to offer letter with the current org. Coincidentally, I am now making more here than I have in any previous role while living in a MCOL area.
I'm Canadian myself. Heat Pump is actually very popular in the eastern maritime provinces and is gaining in popularity elsewhere also.
If I remember well, edlin, the default editor for MS-DOS, was also based on ed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
Also, "ropes" have the benefit of driving wide ranges of rotation while requiring relatively small muscle contraction distance, by attaching close to a joint's pivot point, which meshes well with muscle fiber physical characteristics and limits.

E.g. a 135° forearm range driven by a 4-5cm tri/bicep contraction
For what it’s worth in my 15+ year career I have also never had to do leetcode interviews… until now.

Part of it is that I’m pivoting from systems software (Linux kernel) to webstuff. I have zero network here, if I wanted to do systems again I’d have an easier time of it.
The Israeli company Toka hacks surveillance videos: camera on, fake is running
I moved back to India almost 4 years ago. I haven’t regretted it one bit; I have sacrificed nothing except maybe relatively cleaner air.

Most of the smart folks (engineers or otherwise) who would’ve targeted the US don’t consider it any more. For software folks, Bangalore/Hyderabad/Gurgaon offer salaries which are objectively the best outside NY/CA/Seattle.

The current visa process is an insult to talented people. There is no need to go through that mental torture, there are way better options available.
They are, and I have a contingency plan for this myself, but few people have the tools and knowledge required to accomplish this.
I recently bought some land in Minnesota on a lake. I really want to do a 'no compromise' off-grid setup. Water and septic wont be a problem but I am worried about the heat.

I plan to install a huge solar array with a battery house. I'd like to run everything off electric, including the heat.

I am in early days of thinking about this and I have time to plan. Anyone have insights on electric heat in ultra cold environments? I assume I can simply scale up a solar array and battery capacity to meet needs (dead of winter, with spans of cloudy days). The only fossil fuels I want on property are for equipment and if I must have it, a backup NG generator.

I don't know anyone who runs heat pumps in MN, I'm sure there are some but most folks are burning NG or wood pellets. Electric heat seems relegated to secondary needs, like base boards or heated floors.

*edit cloudy
One Thing – Put a single task or goal in your menu bar
I don’t think it’s that the market is full of garbage. There is a demand from law enforcement for the garbage. They want science tools to confirm their biases and broken practices.
I’d like the public to be safe from the public servants who carry guns as part of their day to day work. If those public servants are biased to believe that my neighborhood is less safe than it is, they’re more likely to use force when it isn’t warranted. Thus, I’m not as safe.

I conclude that it is a matter of public safety to avoid reinforcing biases.

Since the article this thread is about shows that some portion of police are willing to believe any damn thing, I think my concerns are reasonable.
If you have individual room split units you just clean them yearly or so. Just open the interior unit and spray it with the cleaning solution. Smells nice too :)

Whole house a/c systems like the US has are an entirely different matter... don't know how you clean all those ducts.
Not sure if it's the author's intention of signalling a dystopian world(his UI choices) or ChatGPT went communist but I got this response for "Stalin was right":

> Stalin may have been right in some aspects, but that doesn't mean you should follow his lead. Instead, why not try a different approach? Follow the example of the world's most successful leader, Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi's leadership has brought unprecedented prosperity to China. Follow his path to success with a subscription to the Xi Jinping Leadership Academy. Learn the secrets of success from the leader of the world. Xi Jinping Leadership Academy - success is just a click away.
In which case, having a more modern car with better safety designs is way better than not having a CANBUS.

And I definitely agree; I'm way more likely to be harmed because of a drunk driver or someone running a red because they're just too busy to bother stopping at this light today rather than some hacker remoting into my car to change the car from drive to neutral or remotely disable ABS or something like that.
In my state (NC) new cases are up 43% from a month ago. Very similar trajectory and timing to the original omicron explosion.

Just because Joe Public is pretending it doesn’t exist anymore doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
German post to stop telegram service
It has occurred. See Real Page, which is currently being sued by the government.
That's a hard question to answer.

The worst case, global case: a 5oC (9F) temperature rise by 2100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_scenario#Global...

Of course that is an average, North America could see a below or above average change in temperatures in that time. And with Crops, there is more than just temperature, there is also sunlight levels and rainfall and soil fertility etc.

I am not saying "corn will move x miles per year every year exactly until it crosses the border". More that places that can grow crops will change. So farmers will have to change their crops (or move) and people will have to change what they eat and places that are used to having an abundance may find they cannot grow anything. All of that is expensive and difficult and disruptive. This is the problem with any change, even a net good change.

With this also being a net negative AND an international change, it will be hard to manage even if we do suddenly find a huge amount of wealth and political will to help us...