skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My Google Nest Thermostat was part of the problem, and I needed to get rid of it to improve my home heating. The problem is that any central thermostat will shut down the boiler as soon as it reaches its target temperature, even if there are other areas in the house that still need to be heated.

I think this is important. The so-called smart thermostats have a very narrow optimization scope.
I don't use windows as much I used to anymore, but this is my experience as well. Mainly, been using linux for the past 4 years.

However, I say part of the problem is that windows updates are pushed out in a big blob instead the update being pushed in a more granular fashion. This ends up in with sometimes an update containing files or setting for something you removed.

There is no reason it has be like this, but that is how updates work on windows, and I don't think Microsoft is going to change that any time soon. I am imagine in theory it would be possible for a community to break down each update into smaller discrete chunks. However, the community would have to be a decent size and dedicated enough to keep up with the rate MS rolls out updates.

Also there some things like Edge and Cortana that current day windows is not very happy with if you nuke it from the system.
The frontend answer to complexity had to do with young/new devs fomo’ing into resume driven development and augmenting their growing identity/ego as a developer.

But this Java shit, that has to all come from enterprise solutions right? I can’t imagine there were tons of influencer-like blog posts that JavaScript had. What hell hole did those Java ideas even come from?

Blah. One way or another, people manage to fuck everything up. We just can’t have nice things.
I remember :)

The problem with Visual Studio was the sudden removal of color changed people's "muscle memory" on where certain items were on a complex toolbar or menu system. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea, but some design team decided they were going with it, and they did.

When everything suddenly went black and white, it was impossible to quickly distinguish one thing from the next.

They reverted the decision and suddenly all the colored icons came back and it was once again easier to quickly pick things out.

I mean, people freaked out when they changed just the VS Code icon:

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2017/10/v...
That doesn't mean that the tech stack/ecosystem is great compared to how good or bad it hypothetically could be while having the property you mention. It's like saying a programming language is great because it is Turing-complete, which, while certainly an important property, is not exactly an encompassing measure of quality.
TV's tough trajectory
>Chance of an asteroid hitting Mars is tens or even hundreds times greater than it hitting Earth. Not to mention that Mars has barely any atmosphere, so even a relatively small meteor (5-15 meters across) will be able to penetrate it and cause chaos

With no ocean and barely any atmosphere the damage would also be much more localized.

Most of the damage from the Chelyabinsk meteor was caused by the shock wave as it exploded high in the atmosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
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For LLMs, the closest thing that comes to mind is KoboldAI[1]. The community isn't as big as Stable Diffusion's, but the Discord server is pretty active. I'm an active member of the community who likes to inform others on it (you can see my previous Hacker News comment was about the same thing, haha).

Like Stable Diffusion, it's a web UI (vaguely reminiscent of NovelAI's) that uses a backend (in this case, Huggingface Transformers). You can use different model architectures, as early as GPT-2 to the newer ones like BigScience's BLOOM, Meta's OPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-Neo and Pythia models, just as long as it was implemented in Huggingface.

They have official support for Google Colab[2][3]; most of the models shown are finetunes on novels (Janeway), choose-your-own-adventures (Nerys / Skein / Adventure), or erotic literature (Erebus / Shinen). You can use the models listed or provide a Huggingface URL.

[1] - https://github.com/koboldai/koboldai-client (source code)

[2] - https://colab.research.google.com/github/koboldai/KoboldAI-C... (TPU colab; 13B and 20B models)

[3] - https://colab.research.google.com/github/koboldai/KoboldAI-C... (GPU colab; 6B models and lower)
Not surprisingly JPMorgan Chase is trying to dismiss the case:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/31/jp-morgan-d...
“all over the shop” is another way of saying “all over the place” in the UK

Sources:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20over%20the%...

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/all+over+the+shop
If only more of us were so “naive”. A brilliant journey.
Soap film on bubbles is cooler than the air around it
It's bizarre. I live in Chicago and don't have to deal with anything like this. The West coast has a really strange set of blinkers on about these problems.
>I recently had to coach a co-worker to do something more sane than store her passwords in a plain text file on her private Google Drive

Oh, so you showed her how to encrypt and decrypt plain text files with readily available tools? Because honestly that's the only thing wrong with her solution.
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That's unfortunate in Germany, I've had people cold email me with good information, I've even gotten a few jobs from that. Similarly, I've had good clients come from cold email as well.

I'm not sure how advertising as a whole could be banned, there are many types, and it could be argued that even word of mouth (or merely even showing a brand image like logos) is a sort of advertising. Also, it would be very difficult for new entrants in an industry to start up, ironically cementing existing players in the market; Coca-Cola doesn't need more advertising since everyone knows about Coke, while a new soda brand would find it extremely hard to grow without any advertising whatsoever.
Even mechanical thermostats have heat anticipator settings. When the thermostat turns the furnace on, it also turns on a small heater in the thermostat. This simulates the heat that will continue to arrive (thermal momentum, as it were) after the furnace is turned off. Otherwise, the temperature will forever be overshooting the thermostat setting.

https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Heat_Anticipator_Adustment.ph...
There have been multiple attempts at making 240/4 globally useful. It pretty much just works on most gear today (except windows), but the resistance by the IPv6 crowd to opening up 1/16th of the ipv4 internet for general use, astounding. There have been multiple internet drafts that did not make it through the relevant committees. Example: https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240-03....
We had a place booked on Airbnb near the end of the summer. Had a deposit paid, and the overall price was a bit steep, but needed to stay in the city at that time. Three weeks out we get an email with the "house rules" including disclosing that the owner would actually be staying in the house and would need to go through the main bedroom to enter and exit the property.

We were contemplating what to do with this information as the listing is under "entire place" when a few days later we got an email from Airbnb saying that there was a price adjustment of +$395 for cleaning PER DAY. We had it booked for 5 days so we needed to pay an additional $~2000. That was more than double the original cost. Thankfully we were able to cancel and get our deposit back with just the automated cancellation, but we did get a nasty message from the host that we we reported back to Airbnb.
Sheeeeeit, I had grey in my beard before the Windows store even _existed_.
Biased toward older games too. Even on PC things are shifting toward more online based experiences, often without any sort of local server included.
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I spend 10 months locked up, because of infectious disease research. Is someone going to pay me $300 000 in damages?

You do not need activists, just users!
Because they have been dragging their feet and will go bankrupt and this is a last ditch effort to slow down the transition to EVs
I have the same issue. I mostly only drink out of habit.

This year I aim to get more active, and bought a fancy water bottle a while ago which will hopefully help with staying hydrated.

Regarding your 'lightly salted' water, if you can source it easily enough I'd suggest you try some Pocari Sweat [1] for a workout type drink - it's an electrolyte replenisher. I got into it when we lived in the middle east (found it in cans for cheap) and since then I sometimes buy it in powdered form [2]. I really like the taste - lightly sweet/salt.

I'll try adding a bit of salt to my drinking water and see how it goes, thanks!

[1] https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/products/pocariswe...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Otsuka-Pharmaceutical-Pocari-Sweat-Po...
I thought about pointing out that Bostrom doesn't actually consider the strongest arguments of the other side. But I decided it doesn't matter practically.

For example, we can't stop despots from investing in longevity research. This is probably better then them investing in more repression or a bigger army, so we won't stop it even if we could.
> Who is "we" and do you have statistics behind that "most?"

I love that you've called this out. So many people try and justify their coding preferences by referring to this mythical 'we' or the 'coding community' who have apparently all agreed to to some certain standard and everyone should just fall in line and get behind it without asking any questions. It's such a load of bullshit.
This is mine:

https://github.com/pe1rrr/packet-scriptlets/tree/main/games
Ah, ok, I thought the mud was an integral part of the idiom
Get to know your new colleagues. e.g. organise 30 minute one-on-ones with people you work with.

Start a chat group for alumni of your old company and invite a few people who still work there.
Is AI or humans better at generating SEO-optimized titles?
I've just launched this study to hear from SEO experts, about which title would rank better for a specific keyword. One title is generated by AI, and the other is part of an actual, published blog post.

I will be publishing the results in the next week - so stay tuned!

Here's the link to the study: https://www.enwrite.co/study
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I didn't understand the quoted critism from the article. Smart TRVs are supposed to be able to independently call for heat, isn't that the whole point of them.

There's nothing very smart about simply reporting they are too cold - is that really all Nest can do!?! I was under the impression that Tado, Drayton Wiser, etc handled this properly and would have solved the problem (albeit for lots more money).
Nukes can also serve as propellant!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

Which could also help with the second issue - say an alien elephant invasion. ;-)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall)
Backend development?
Have you seen what SRE/DevOps people have to deal with?

People literally use hundreds of different tools for no reason at all.
I doubt that the there is any way in which a higher potassium intake could reduce the sodium concentration in the blood.

All the living cells in the body pump inside them all the potassium that exists in their environment.

When more potassium is ingested, there is more potassium inside the cells. That draws more water inside the cells, to restore the intracellular concentrations, i.e. the equilibrium between the intracellular and extracellular osmotic pressures.

This leaves less extracellular water, but the same amount of sodium, so the sodium concentration in the blood increases, which causes thirst. After drinking water, both the extracellular sodium concentration and the intracellular potassium concentration are back to normal.

It does not matter whether one eats more sodium or more potassium. The final effect is the same, more water retained in the body, after initially having both a higher extracellular sodium concentration and a higher intracellular potassium concentration.

The difference between sodium and potassium is that when eating more potassium there is more water inside the cells and less outside, while when eating more sodium the reverse relation is true (but the deviations from normal will be corrected when sodium and potassium will be excreted).
Yes, and not exact.

While every mosfet transistor have mode could considered genuine quantum (tunnel effect), it is not used in computers, it used in microwave generators/detectors.

What used in computers, are just switch mode (electric field creating/moving/changing conducting zone), which is mostly classic physics and created as fruit of garage engineering, without understanding of quantum mechanics.

And yes, this is very abstract border, as I know, 100% quantum effects considered when working with single atom or single electron (something <= 1nm), but for example, 100nm transistors, usually considered as classic physics.

BTW it is very interest, what will show image sensor with ~1nm sized cells. Now their cells are much larger than wavelength, but already created superlenses, could focus on nm-sized things.
My favorite mistranslation came from the first time the Olympics were in China. One of the food vendors hung up a banner "401 Not Found".
From this comparison (https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/mypy-com...) it looks like Pyright fixes a load of issues that MyPy has. It also seems much closer to how TypeScript works (I have worked significantly more with TypeScript than typed Python and really like it)

Is there a reason not to go with Pyright and stick with MyPy?
Note that unlike almost all of its successors, WorldWideWeb supported not just browsing but also WYSIWYG editing.

PS. unsuited Vint: http://jodenda.free.fr/images/divers/TimVint.png
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these are two different things - wasmer runs WASM code inside postgres (as an extension), whereas our implementation runs an entire Postgres server as WASM (eg, you can run it in a browser: wasm.supabase.com)

We weren't the first to do this though - CrunchyData was. Theirs wasn't open source, so we worked with Snaplet to build an open source version and added networking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33067962
What the grid can't handle is if everybody all at once needed a full 300 mile charge in 8 hours, while they are showering, running ac, and factories are producing. This is partly resolved by sun heating, cold sleep patterns, factory shifts, smart charging, and that 95% of consumers do not make 300 mile daily commutes.

Substation and individual point of charge capacity may not be there for areas without ac, or high density apartments - but that's where distributed charging stations come into play (aka charging stations) (very low volume of gasoline is distributed to home parking, currently). In the worst cases this is readily reduced with storage (liquid or power wall) at distribution centers.
IME if ActiveRecord is not sufficient, you go directly to SQL.

find_by_sql gives you enough freedom to get everything out of the db into a ActiveModel object.
Not the point of my argument

"Some shoplifting shouldn't be a crime" != "You don't have to pay for things at a store"
> SpaceX doesn't seem to have done any work on actually living day to day on Mars

Agreed. Most of the serious work on establishing visits is at NASA. But getting there and back sustainably is a big part of the problem. To borrow another comment’s analogy, we’re not going to establish a permanent presence (whether with a rotating cast of astronauts or permanent population) with the astrophysical equivalent of triremes.
Probably, allowing polygamist marriage would have a similar effect.

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-elon-mu...
If it's even true. Seems more likely that his twitter account was compromised than his bitcoins.
Stripe was also a place where driven, talented people treated each other kindly. Certain people had trouble with that last bit, however.
FITTE is playable.
> Benefits (Non-US employees): a massive hourly rate that will make you weep.

For our non-native english speakers out there. I presume they mean "weep for joy" which means to cry because you're so overwhelmingly happy. Not just "weep" xD
really? You need to recalibrate your aesthetics.

Here's GEM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)#/med...

Windows 2:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Aldus_Pagemak...

Risc OS:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/AcornArthur11...

Amiga: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Amiga_Workben...

NextStep:
http://toastytech.com/guis/ns08dock.png

You could say that's the ugliest in the same way you can have whatever opinion you want ... I don't think you'd have a lot of people agreeing with you though.

As a disclaimer I think the modern Apple interfaces feel like a blaring pop music video when you have a headache ... so take it as you will.
Why Modeling Finds Bugs (Without Model-Checking)
Every time I tried to learn poweshell I am always put off by the capitalization and verbosity of commands. Not sure if I'd be feeling this way had I used poweshell first before being exposed to bash and windows cmd.
I don't think moricons.dll is actively used by Window itself anywhere? It's a resource DLL you can reference to use icons from in your own program shortcuts and similar. It doesn't provide an API as such. It's more like a collection of known graphics files being shipped as part of Windows.
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It's a little bit different. The keyword is dominated. Are the 2nd and 3rd most trafficked websites on the internet devoted to sharing CSAM or "loli" content as some users disturbingly call it?
The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It
Sorry, I didn't know that the user "whoishiring" was setting rules. Why wouldn't it be Dang setting the rules?

No wonder everything is turning cloudy.

If Dang is setting the rules as stated below by dang himself, why isn't it listed in the official rules? (sorry again HN doesn't allow me to reply).
BE is simultaneously easier than ever and harder than ever. The "new" complexity in the BE is stuff that has always been there. However, in the past, the infrastructure required so much manual work that it was handled completely independently from the BE.

Now, I can write a BE, configure a Dockerfile, and deploy to a server nearly anywhere in the world without leaving my chair.
> yet so many people are ok ignoring the numerically worse problem (wage theft).

I think this is a false argument as I don’t think people are ok ignoring wage theft. Others have pointed out as these aren’t exclusive options but, specifically, I’ve never heard anyone espouse that wage theft is ok.

It seems to me that in a conversation concerning sexual harassment, someone points out that everyone is ok with human trafficking because it is worse, yet HR departments aren’t working to stop human trafficking.
I'm old enough to remember when Flash and Java were hailed as the future of application development because they were "cross platform."

Your "browser made for apps" isn't the dream you're imagining - today's SPAs are miles better, whether they run in-browser or are packaged up as Electron apps.
> Interesting that you use the word "dreaming"

Intentionally. Hackers dream. I have a background in aerospace engineering. That doesn’t mean I know how to solve the problems of permanent habitation. But it gives me a sense of where the edges are, and while some problems are super difficult (toxicity) others are wildly exaggerated (radiation) and none are blocking. Moreover, many of the processes we’ll need to develop have obvious counterparts on Earth, most interestingly, energy and fuel generation.

The author of the article wants an annual JWST or Cassini. I’d love that. But we aren’t getting it. De-funding Mars means going back to a post-Apollo NASA budget.
It was certainly an ... interesting experience. But it would have been much, much more unpleasant if we had to write new code 90s-style, too.

OTOH if we tried to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, we wouldn't ship a new feature for many years - only new bugs.
I mostly had positive experiences with Airbnb until I didn't.

I stayed at a horrible place offered by a so-called "superhost". It had super thin walls and a bathroom where the shower flowed into the main room. It was hot with no real window and no way for the air to flow (it was built out of an old garage).

I left a critical review saying all those things.

The host was able to get it removed because the review contained comments about "things the owner couldn't change". This is apparently a well-known trick that hosts share on dedicated forums.

I have learned from that experience that Airbnb reviews can't be trusted and that the "superhost" badge doesn't mean anything (other than the fact that said host is an expert at navigating Airbnb's bureaucracy).