skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This does indeed require some fancy touchscreen super thermostat thing though, so that's probably the crux of this.

And that's where things start to, in a technical term, suck.

I added a forced air heat pump to my house two years ago. I already had a boiler and radiator heat, this added some duct work to the house that covers most of the rooms. The boiler has got to stay in for right now because it powers the water heater (indirect water heater). I'll probably replace that with a heat pump water heater next year once more of the rebates come online.

We got a reasonably high performance heat pump from Lennox. The price was fair - especially given the amount of work that needed to be done to add in duct work to my house. And, to be honest, it works great. At least on the mechanical front.

However, because it is a modulating heat pump it requires a communicating thermostat. I'm pretty sure this giant tablet thing mounted to my wall will die before the rest of the system. The software is buggy and laggy - sometimes not taking my finger presses and not saving changes to my schedule. It's ability to detect occupancy is hot garbage because it requires me to have the iComfort app installed and always give it access to my location.

And that's where stuff gets really awesome! The iOS app and the web site are such hot trash that every time I use it I feel like I need to write another negative review. There's actually two different versions of the devices that use two different apps - both called iComfort. I'm on the newer "fancier" one that can support multiple homes. But, about half the time the app never loads properly and when it does load it doesn't take setting changes most of the time. Meaning that you need to kill the app and try again.

Looking through the source code for the web page reveals why it might have these problems. The JavaScript has numerous syntax errors that browsers might just ignore, inconsistently named functions, no discernible style, and typos that make it obvious that it was outsourced to the lowest bidder.

Now, I thought I'd be okay because it has IFTTT integration. Nope. You can turn the thermostat off, but not on. You can change the temperature, but not activate a program. A worthless integration.

I'd love to find a way to just replace it with another Ecobee or a even better, something with a true local API.

tl;dr: Lennox S30, E30, M30 thermostats are not worth your money.
I don't think this is true in general. I think it's a lot closer to 50/50 for most. Obviously a lot of variability between channels, but YouTube ad revenue is not trivial.
The thing with iOS and iPhone is that it's the market that pays best. A typical iPhone user is more conditioned and used to pay for apps, and is more ready to pay for the cool factor. So, switching the target market to Android devices may be harder than one thinks.

> Qt, Java, etc.. are not updated for years.

Hmm. Have you really been paying attention? They very much are, and in exciting ways. They don't make old versions unserviceable though, and that's great.
when that happens, data in the ice will be the least of our worries
It's well-known where the Lolicon is (pawoo.net and mastodon.jp and some others) and all the mainstream instances have de-federated from those places.

Email is also full of disgusting stuff but nobody is going to abandon email because it's "full of child porn", although we all know perfectly well that there's lots of that stuff being emailed around.

Well-run Masto instances are actually pretty safe and pleasant spaces these days.
> there are fines for helping bypass the laws

The law doesn't seem to consider Canadian entities to be non-Canadian. Buying through a local entity thus isn't bypassing the law, but following it.
Syntax or semantics? Not a lot for syntax... maybe the "turbofish" syntax with generic types is a bit too much line noise: <Foo<_> as Bar<_>>::baz<_>()
Don't forget muskeg!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskeg
Yeah, that's it. Wheels are ] shaped, so if you flip one around you can bolt a pair together into a double wheel ][.
I read two of these last year and I'd recomend both, but I wanted to give my two cents on them.

The Phoenix Project: I really enjoyed reading this, but it's told as a story about fictional characters working at a fictional company, which I didn't expect. Because of the way it's written, some other people I know who read it found it a bit too fluffy. Also, from what I've heard, it's pretty much an IT focused version of The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The Phoenix Project focused more on IT than software development, but there's also a sequel called The Unicorn Project that is supposedly more focus software development and dev ops.

An Elegant Puzzle: There's a ton of good stuff in here, but it felt a bit like reading a textbook or a white paper. Larson's writing style is really dense and dry. I found myself reading a paragraph or two and then needing to take time to digest what I had just read, which made it a really slow read.
Would you be able to please expand on this and explicitly say what you want to say?

Wondering what you mean by "sprawly nations".
65 is only middle-aged if you plan to live to 130...
The polymer ones always look pristine, which is nice, and they're fairly difficult to tear.. however as soon as you do manage to get a nick in them, they tear right the way across almost immediately.

I suspect most notes end up being replaced mainly because they get tatty rather than being torn, though, and I would bet a high denomination that by that metric, polymer notes last far longer.
There are a lot of answers, but they all stem from one core answer: Because governments do not want to fix it, because those with wealth (largely) do not see it as a problem.

Three generations of people (silent, boomers, and gen x) were told that real estate was the best investment they could make for their ENTIRE LIFE. Millennials also heard this growing up.

In the US we even took extra steps to make sure that homeownership was "the thing". We created non-market solutions (the 30yr mortgage via Fannie & Freddie) that made homeownership available to every American, and then kept going and essentially turned homeownership into the forced savings and retirement program.

Now, *decades* later, home values must go up. They must go up always and forever. The entire world economy revolves on the appreciation of homes in highly developed countries like the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. People with homes need those homes to go up in value or they can't borrow against them. They can't retire. Governments need the value of homes to go up for tax revenue.

The entire world monetary system, as least as it relates to the dollar, pound and euro needs homes to continue to appreciate and the easiest way to do that is by limiting the supply of homes.

If someone waved some magic wand tomorrow that removed all building restrictions and made it so people could easily build homes, and those homes would be sold at market rates, average home values would plummet and global markets would collapse.

The only "solution" that is ever going to actually happen is more government subsidization. Longer loans. More federal guarantees. More federal tax credits.

Home values must go up. Supply must be kept scarce. Our system is built on this.
This is about FTX/crypto. The title should probably reflect that
1100-1500/month is pretty brutal. It’s a bit of a middle finger pointed at lower income people
GPT-3 output vibes, but I do love reading technical or professional books regularly!
Was this comment generated by ChatGPT?
Are the rug-pulls on this chain only hypothetical as well?
Next thing you know, they’ll establish border controls.
I’m responding to a comment that wrote:

> 1 person - 1 property

Maybe it isn’t clear, but I don’t agree with the comment.
Really? I’m approaching 10 years in Germany and I have never seen a cheque in Europe. SEPA transfers are the standard, and this is in the land of the faxes.
Oh FFS. Vaccination greatly reduces the severity of illness, which is to say it greatly reduces how many cells get infected and how much the virus is replicated in the body. This necessarily reduces the opportunity for a mutation to occur.

So tired of idiotic vaccination disinformation. It is always so goddamned moronic.
I spent months learning d3js in my spare time, experimenting with plotly.js, hacking things together to try to make good looking interactive math demos for my crappy amateur React website -- and then just as I have things all mostly working you release this tool that has everything I wanted.

I'm furious. Beautiful work.
I had it worse, Mac at work was an unwavering reality (Intune has since come to Ubuntu LTS which, while utter shite, is still better than MacOS). Apart from taking all direction from the marketing department, at least Windows is functionally competent. It could be worse - trust me.
MLK also said this:

> I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
I could be wrong but I don't think YouTube TOS allows publicizing this kind of information. I would be afraid of my channel being de-monetized. I believe they have a similar policy for AdSense.
I don't think YouTube allows you to make videos showing your revenue, but I could be wrong
I’m not sure if you are using the qualifier “good” to exclude the nest, but it can work on a two wire system (it can siphon enough power to work without making the relay close)
> Most of the food I eat comes from hundreds of thousands of miles away.

And that's precisely the problem! Carbon footprint per capital is very high in Canada and for remote and colder locations it would be even higher!
i went down the rabbit hole a bit and there doesn't seem to be a homekit-enabled millivolt (not low voltage, which is 24V apparently) thermostat available. however, i did find this little project: https://zekesnider.com/using-an-ecobee-thermostat-with-a-mil... it seems you could patch any low-voltage thermostat to support millivolt in the same way (with a 24V transformer and a relay switch), but the ecobee3 lite has homekit support built-in.
> Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff?

Linus Tech Tips posted their youtube revenue just the other day[0]. For posterity, it's about 4.6 million, and only shows March-December. I can't find the original tweet that is the source of this information.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/100fmgx/linu...
Not in the same vein as the link, but I had an Iranian colleague tell me his wife was working occasionally as a babysitter, in technical violation of her visa... but he couldn't think of how to say this in English. He moved his finger back and forth under his nose and said in Iran he'd say she's working "under the mustache". I thought this was hilarious and told him how we'd say she's working "under the table".

I have never independently confirmed if this was an actual saying in Iran or not. (Google is not helpful.)
Except we know they can't and won't go up forever in those countries as they mostly have a declining birth rate, a long with many other countries. So going to be a fun crash?
The Franklin Ace 1000 was my first computer. I already used Apples at school, and it was just an Apple clone. Between that and the general "if all else fails, read the instructions" attitude that my Dad had already passed on to me, I don't recall recall looking at the manual very much.
Your sentence surmised it perfectly!
Heh, we had a Franklin Apple II clone in high school (in the Netherlands). It's what the pupils who had graduated from using the Newbrain class computers were allowed to use. Not that we got access to the manual, of course.

At first, computer lessons were, of course, given by the maths teachers, but they got bored with the things, and then Dutch language teachers took over, with rather more success.

(I ended up writing a school results tracking database for the Franklin computer, and after that, the computer was moved into the office, and I never saw it again.)
your LinkedIn link doesn't seem to be working
The first video I watched on this channel was the Lego submarine. Quite a cool channel. The format of minimal talking and to-the-point and normal thumbnails is refreshing. Cool that one can make this much on their hobbies.
One of my two kids was interested. I gave him my Apple IIci when he was around five (early nineties). Now he’s making the big bucks doing awesome stuff at Apple.

I recommend finding one of those. When you turned it on, the only thing you could type was Basic. As he got older, I just gave him my old computers.

Don’t overthink. If your kid is going to like computers basically the only thing you need to do is get out of the way. If you approve too energetically, she will start to hate on her thirteenth birthday on principle… unless she likes it then it matters very little what you do.
There was a previous discussion about nomograms here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28690298

http://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introdu...
I heartily agree about preferring anonymous conversations.

Though for the first point, personally, I view being “attached” to a particular idea as more of an external problem than internal. An alias lets me consider other ideas or play devil’s advocate or perhaps more importantly, write with less revision than I might require of my public persona, which can be the difference between making a post or deleting another imperfect draft.

I can understand the appeal for a forum operator to lock functionality behind reputation-based systems which dissuade temporary aliases to reduce spam, but I think it is vitally important to have anonymous spaces for conversation.
ClickBench is still ok to compare non-OLAP databases on OLAP workloads - filter away the column-oriented DBMS, and you will be left with the comparison of non-OLAP databases.

I think it makes sense to add NeonDB for the sake of completeness.
> It is extremely arguable whether the EU is necessary for that though.

We were talking about the very real pros and cons of the EU.

You provided a single "pro" EU datum about chargers that is a) real and b) IMO trivializing at best wrt the benefits of EU-membership as the EU currently exists.

I gave you what I considered to be a more representative example: the convenience of shipping times/costs intra-EU. Brexit gives us plenty of data to compare pre vs. post on this issue.

Now you're waxing philosophical about whether the EU is necessary to achieve the "pro" that I gave you.

It's as if I just slid down the flagpole in Super Mario Bros., but now the game wants me to go backwards and consider how to build other routes for this same level.
$90/hour is real nice money, but for some reason i assumed a channel with that many subs would make more money. For every million plus channel, there’s probably a million+ channels with no subs.

Basically have a day job before you go all in as a content creator.
Just a few projects that could perhaps interest you in terms of design of your own solution and I think that validates your idea:

Upspin: https://upspin.io/

Perkeep:https://perkeep.org/
> I realised I didn’t have a good argument for why it was wrong. Every axiom and intermediate proposition were ideas that I agreed with. And it wasn’t so simple as the conclusion being flat out mistaken

So... its pretty clear that time is poorly understood in the axioms presented, and the author comes to that conclusion at the halfway mark. And frankly so is risk. But nobody--myself included-- wants to read an accurate axiomatic representation of probability distributions and discount rates.

But in so doing I expect that the bit about "skin in the game" would be hard to ground. The argument is that if you have 100 percent of your wealth tied up in one enterprise you are going to be very careful. Very risk averse. But what is the optimal level of risk taking? Zero? It's not a hypothetical. Especially in tech startups, projects can have wide error bars on completion time. Short runways mean you can really only pick from among the shortest options in the solution space, and longer implementation plans are discounted.

Maybe thats good. But it seems like a huge shortcut to say "the shortest path is optimal."
Being overweight has risks, drugs have risks, choose your risk. Being overweight is quite a risk, so it's not impossible for a pill to be the better choice. Significant weightloss is not a vain thing.
I'm working on two projects this year.

First is a routine/task management app designed for people with inattentive ADHD. The goal is develop automated strategies that catch and counter the tendency for such tools to spontaneously turn "invisible" to the audience, whereupon they lose progress and time until they find a new strategy or reconnect.

Second is publishing a fiction serial via a self-hosted Ghost instance using a custom theme. The v0.1 of this is about to launch. I've been pottering towards this since lockdown. The goals for this project are two fold - try and build a web-based reading experience that is low friction and enjoyable (probably on top of epub.js), and test my theory that the internet is big enough such that there is an audience that will support any creative work as long as they can find it.
We have been since at least the 19th century. Why we don't is apparently a sociological problem that we have not been able to tackle since...
How is gRPC-Web not an RPC approach?
As a freelancer who has had multiple contacts (and occasionally work) from HN monthly posts, I can say it is not that rare. The people looking for freelancers rarely post, they do apparently look over it to find people to contact, though.
Based off this https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/, it looks like it haha
The elephant in the room is downvoted because it's politically incorrect.
I don't know what racks he uses but one meter of rack doesn't cost very much on Aliexpress.
I think the weight of flags varies by account. I'm not sure if it's just karma that affects it, or some other information that's not visible to us.
Depends on the province, but in Ontario, only a lawyer can convey property in the land registry. It might be difficult for a foreigner to buy in that case.
The biggest con to thinking in public is that your words will be there for anyone to see. Some of the people who see it will have very little context about who you are and what you are talking about, and will inevitably misinterpret (possibly intentionally) what you say, and get upset with you for it.

You may not care about this. Certainly, worrying about what random strangers think about you is a waste of time. But unfortunately, things you say online can affect your real life in surprising, unexpected ways sometimes.

Something today that you think is completely innocuous might be a hot-button issue tomorrow.

I mostly stopped participating in social media years ago, but I still comment in a few places like HN. Sometimes I do worry that something I say will come back to haunt me later. This is never an issue if you think in private.

Now, because you asked for pros, a potentially big benefit of thinking in public is that you can get feedback from a wide variety of people, especially those who have different upbringings, experiences, and values, and their perspective can be valuable, depending on what you're thinking/talking about. Does that outweigh the con I mentioned? Up to each individual to decide for themselves.
Good presentation and use case oriented explanations.
While the author seems to be an expert in production or web scale databases, I feel like this was a big year for SQLite also! Many people including myself are looking at it for server side use cases.
For the start of 2023, I will be continuing my ongoing work on Exhibitor - a React component workshop. The aim is "think Storybook but leaner, faster, simpler, and with sane defaults". Been one month so far (in-between my existing goings-on) and it's been a very promising and exciting time so far. It's still early days, but it's turning into a really delightful tool to use.

Latest update over on my blog: https://samhuk.substack.com/p/exhibitor-update-3-v200
Susteynable | ML Lead | Remote or Beijing | [https://www.stey.com](https://www.stey.com/) | 95-130k USD + generous founding equity

Susteynable is an internally incubated project at Stey. Our mission is to reduce end-user electricity consumption through IoT data visualization, gamification and loyalty.

Concretely: We are building a low-cost custom high-sample rate electricity meter that can be retrofitted to all residential and commercial electric boxes. We would use Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring(NILM), load disaggregation and general time-series techniques to provide users with breakdowns of their electric consumption by device/category, along with providing real-time energy data.

We are looking to hire a machine learning lead to architect solutions using SOTA methods commonly applied to NLP or time series data. You will also be responsible for building out the ML team going forwards.

JD: https://stey.notion.site/ML-Lead-JD-26d81b4e1cc2431da66a51db...

Email me @ jonathan.zhang@stey.com
That's obvious. You're missing the point.
Does your account not have vouch? It has enough karma that I would expect it to.
> Rust is harder than any other mainstream language to do that in.

I’d argue C and C++ are both harder. It’s hard to even get these to build once you move past trivia examples (including libraries etc).

> I find the denial of Rust's difficulty (and not even centred on the borrow checker - it's the use of just about every commmon library) just very very strange

Some of us just didn’t find it that hard. Like, I get that its hard for people in theory, because I’ve seen enough people express this that I believe it must be a common experience. But my personal experience was a couple of weeks of slow progress and lots of puzzling, and then everything became much easier, coupled with a joy that most of the language is so much better designed than the previous generation of languages I was used to using (e.g. it actually has sum types, and everything is an expression - why on earth doesn’t every language work like this)
what have you not liked about grpc-web?
Well, you need one level of readiness for life and death apps and a whole other level for entertainment apps and then there’s everything in between.

One can debate just how much of the market falls into the safer range of the spectrum, but the key question may be how far we are in time from much more reliable performance and not how far the current performance falls below some reliability cutoff.

For the sake of this discussion, I think how far we are in time is the more compelling question. And, I don’t know that we are nearly so “remote” in this sense as suggested by the phrase “isn’t even remotely ready.”

Unless there is specific reason to believe otherwise, I’d expect such improvements could appear in very short order given the recent pace of model improvements in other ways.