skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to get worse now because the fed govt has a rebate to install heat pumps, I'd expect the same treatment people get for solar to come to that now, lots of companies cold calling trying to sell more of a financial instrument than actual product. I was really looking into one, and it was impractical due to weather but also not many local contractors were trained and servicing them, I expect more grifter types to pick it up.
I was always very impressed how fast Apple would send my laptop back after service.

Not so much impressed how the FedEx driver would just toss the box in my front yard late in the evening. I'd find my laptop in the grass as I was going to work in the morning.
"It's simply hard for a manager to see those improvements as being worth it over the status quo"

That often is, because new solitions tend to come with their own problems.
"Fake web sites" have all of the same ranking and reputation problems as they did before.
Is anyone working on making transformers useful for these problems: routing the tracks in a PCB or IC layout, or drawing graphs nicely so that humans can understand them better?
If it needs to be serviced, you either vent the helium out (unlikely to happen due to cost of helium thesed days and the volume that will be needed if this becomes a common appliance in households) or move it to another container so you can repurify it at a plant if you are worried about contamination (unsure how much purity those devices need).

To refill after maintenance you may also just purge with helium (or another cheaper gas that doesn't impede behavior of the device) then pressurize with helium .

So mostly a non issue. And there is really little safety issues with this kind of constant pressure containers containing non toxic gases just a routine inspection should be enough as they can be made of high quality materials and shielded.
Where Is the Cure for Alzheimer’s?
makes sense given their employee to revenue ratio for Salesforce. They had 73,000 employees with just ~31B/year of revenue. That’s just 424k of revenue per employee.

Such a ratio only makes sense with high growth rates.
Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us
Don't think of it as creating 3kW of heat, think of it as using the electricity to transfer that much heat.
There are multiple lengthy writeups on the good and bad of Go that have made it to the HN front page multiple times over the past 5+ years. The little search bar at the bottom HN works pretty well, sometimes better than Google due to HN's habit of promoting interesting and well written blog posts, podcasts, and talks about technical subjects.
I've been working at FeatureBase for about 3 months and we've done a lot of work to make FeatureBase easier to run. Thought I would share this to let people get it running quickly to try out. If anyone has any questions about this, we also run a Discord server: https://discord.gg/featurefirstai
There's a slightly simpler solution if you don't care whether the odd ball is lighter or heavier:

It's:

X. AAAA vs BBBB

If X was balanced, XX: C1 vs C2, then XXX: C2 vs C3 (general way to distinguish 2 unknowns: weigh one unknown against one known)

If X was unbalanced, WLOG assume A was heavier.
XY: A1 A2 B1 vs A3 A4 B2

Then if XY balanced, use the general method to distinguish B3 or B4 as answer.

If XY unbalanced, WLOG assume A1 or A2 is heavy, or B2 is light, so XYY A1 vs A2 finds the heavy one or implies B2 is light.
I don’t use either, and also have an admittedly irrational dislike for Python. That said, the Python variant is more readable imo as well.
I forget which podcast I heard it on (so forgive me if my memory is sloppy), but after their latest quarterly report didn't CAC payback go from 24 months to something wild like 10 years? Meaning their new ARR add rapidly fell off so quickly, before they adjusted their Sales and Marketing salaries and spending, that it immediately put their unit economics way way way way underwater.

So I'd expect at least a big chunk would be S&M cuts, even through of course you still need salespeople.

10% of a 75k company is still 7k people. From the King of SaaS. Wild times.
That's exactly the point I'm making. African Americans support gun control because guns are such a problem in their community. The people who want the guns banned are not the same people using them, so there's no contradiction between the statement, "African Americans use guns more than anyone," and the statement, "African Americans support gun control more than anyone." A person who says "Utahans say they hate porn but really they love porn" is falling prey to the same logical fallacy as a person who says "Black people say they hate guns, but if you look at the stats, they really love guns." In both cases, the person taking a differentiated mass of people and collapsing them into a unified whole, then complaining that the monolith they've created in their heads has incoherent views.
Usually the argument pro-digital social networks is that it's just the same as before: the same happened to radio, TV, etc. But is it really the same? Did we ever had such an immediate, quantified, ubiquitous, and global feedback mechanism that kept us constantly aware (and self-conscious) of every single thing we say or do? Is it really natural to micro-manage your life based on the amount of likes you are going to get from people who are (more often than not) not even a part of your life? They say that a metric stops being useful when it becomes the goal, and I feel like we reached the ultimate instance of that problem.
I think they're referring to the length of the articles, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

The Dutch and German are a lot longer than the quite short English version. But ... that's just a matter of organisation: in the English the editors chose to make separate "Nord stream {1,2}" articles, in other languages they folded it in one article. On the German one in particular it's just two huge sections.

In short, it's fishy in the same way that bread tastes like fish: not at all.
Yeah I agree with you on this one, a radio as a safety device on a hike is secondary at best unless mayyyyybe if you're carrying a QRP HF rig like an IC705 that can actually reach quite a ways or you leave a portable repeater at camp. In my original comment I actually meant just for talking to people, especially if you are hiking with other hams and can do stuff like GPS beaconing to each other. IMO an HT is still a better experience than a phone for communicating back and forth short-ish range on the move. Getting weather beacons from APRS and NOAA is also nice though of course there are other ways to do that.
The page mentions Tadoma rarely is used now. What is the current preferred/common method?
Interesting! I'm actually tempted to put x32 Debian on a low-end netbook I have. I wonder if it's possible with multiarch and try with a few apps first.
I am more than happy to stand corrected, if a correction is warranted. What is the gcc 12.2.0 -march= value to make gcc 12.2.0 emit the compressed 64-bit code? The gcc 12.2.0 rejects all the -march RISC-V values the gcc documentation cites, e.g. rv64i is not accepted, and it is documented. I had presumed it was -march=rv64Zc[…], with […] being a combination of a/b/c/d/f/cmp/cmt, and neither of those was accepted.

Also, according to https://wiki.riscv.org/display/HOME/Specification+Status, code size extensions are in a review state slated for a ratification in Q1 2023, with «ABI issues being worked» mentioned in the notes. My interpretation is that the compressed instructions extension is still work in progress, and is a moot point to discuss at this very moment.
Yes they are. College football gets big ratings every year with replaced players.
Minor correction: It's for all persons (including immigrants) and entities in the United States, not just the Citizens. :)
And even if they somehow didn't already know about the reliability problems, the butterfly keyboard just felt so..bad.
Mine was a grand $3.52. A far sight less than the $125 that was reported a few years ago. I still wonder where that number went.

As far as class action based on actual damage and aggregations thereof. I believe that may be a strategy, unfortunately most of those end up going to government entities. So the very people who will not legislate statute to protect you will be in the same organization as the Attorney's General that will sue the firms and receive the damages...
A Miata will smoke a Neon in the corners and is just more pleasant to drive. Miatas are the number one hobby motorsport (racing) vehicles of choice for a reason.

Which is actually a great analogy for Ruby vs Python!
I haven’t seen a mention so far, but 30 bar pressure isn’t that big. Scuba diving uses helium (wellC helium and oxygen) at up to 250 bar (in small cylinders, 10-12liters) with no issue whatsoever. The cylinders aren’t even that big or heavy (for a heat pump).
Google's platform created a vibrant ecosystem of businesses worth probably as much, or more than Google's market cap.

How many big businesses has Facebook or Twitter or Instagram's ecosystems produced?
COP vs. efficiency. In the case of a heat pump, it takes 1 kW to “move” 3 kW of heat, rather than turning 1 kW into 3 kW.
I think that “talk” with ChatGPT without any real reason, is something like leave on/powered the engine when waiting at a traffic light, without use the S&S. If you can avoid it, do it.

Everything has a carbon footprint, if you can save a small amount, without lose anything, why not do it?
This is one of the few times where it makes sense to talk to a manager or higher.
Stupid stuff like https://twitter.com/rounakdatta12/status/1527719027925168128 would be fixed!
You can always start with a clean slate and get the current PageRanked results of course.
If the history of the world has taught us anything, it's that any philosophical argument that justifies taking action to "improve" people is inherently dangerous. Eventually such ideas take political form.

I can't think of a single example from history where such philosophies weren't eventually used to justify horrible actions.

Transhumanism is great if your transhuman. Nazism was great for the Nazis. I don't see much of a difference between the two for the rest of us.
It's a super good question. I would say two things here.

First, defining the ideal aesthetics is a really hard problem. When you start listing the various properties of curves (basically chapter 2 of my thesis), you find that there are relentless tradeoffs. Case in point: Cem Yuksel's C2 spline (cited elsethread) lists off a bunch of desirable properties, including local support, but then fails to be closed under subdivision. Turns out you can't have both. For the application it was designed for (taking a sequence of points from a hair simulation and defining geometry that can be rendered, preserving the continuity of the specular highlights), it's great, but I wouldn't want to design a font in it.

Another set of tradeoffs: the conclusion of my thesis is that the Euler spiral is the ideal interpolating spline for making smooth curves. So why isn't it more widely used? Two problems: first, you don't always want optimum smoothness, sometimes you want curves with high tension. Second, when you "push" the curve too far, the math doesn't converge to a unique solution, and the curve jumps around, which is really not a great user experience.

[It turns out that these two issues are related: I believe, but haven't yet firmly established, that by increasing the tension when deviation goes up, you can get a unique solution that's also continuous with respect to the input parameters. My prototype is promising but the solver is not 100% robust when pushed hard. It's a difficult problem.]

The second half of this is that Béziers occupy a really sweet spot in this tradeoff space: they're not as smooth as Euler spirals for making interpolating splines, but they're not that far off either. And they can represent high tension, inflection points, and it's easy to draw approximate superellipses, which is an extremely important family of shapes for font design and other tasks. The fact that the math is simple means you can do all the other computational geometry that's needed.

I am on that quest to define a better curve family, but it's pretty far from the top of my priority list right now, so I expect progress to be slow. It's more of a life goal than something I'm actively working on now. The reason this popping up now is that I used a few days during my vacation to revisit it.
Youtube has these.
who cares what its written in, it's a tool.
> hopeful that seo and blog spam become dramatically less effective at revenue generation and die out.

Won't reducing clicks to publishers producing good content also cause the good content to die?
And those with power will blame the Other for society’s problems and convince enough of them through media propaganda to vote against their own self interest.
There's also the distance between the eyes not matching that of the cameras. And the fact that the 3d scene that isn't from the cameras does not have your eyes in the same position.
That is true, but think about domains like Advertisements. Ads are currently far from perfect. A 5% click rate is a huge success. If 30% of the ads generated are low quality but 10% do really well it will be a huge benefit
I don't think it's an insult. I don't know how to run a database; I want a managed service.
Suck it up for 3-4 months buttercup
Oh, I didn't realize until now that Guido worked there.

So we got at least two major contributions from the CWI. One is Python and the other one is the game of Hack. :)
I agree with last point, and you can see some effects of that now where they are no longer building underground gas lines and such for full new constructions and developments in some places. However, aging and unreliable infrastructure which will never be replaced until it's completely destroyed will mean that nat gas will stick around for a long time.
> And it happened under a Democratic administration.

It was a Republican Congress though who tied Clintons hands and forced him to sign on to a balanced budget after the absolute drubbing the Democrats took in 1994 midterms, losing 50 seats in the House and control of both chambers of Congress. In the end, they found a way to work together and we benefited greatly from that era until 9/11 snapped the government back into constant growth mode.
> But in fact, Windows 95 and even earlier were already entirely themeable, system-wide

All the way back to version 1: https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c2b371c2-afc3-871d-c3ab-11...
Ask ChatGPT.
It suggests greater profitability due to lower ongoing headcount costs? Or decisive changes towards increased profitability?

Also, sometimes I suspect that the market moves on news -- not because the news actually affects some prospects so much -- but because some other people can make money on the movement, and the news is just an excuse/tool.
It doesn't matter to the person using the software.
I had ribbon cable break on my 2017 MacBook Pro w/ TouchBar. They replaced the entire top shell of the computer and also fixed the keyboard at the same time.

This was about 4 years ago. Keyboard started going bad again this last year, cmd key falling off, ‘O’ key always has multiple inputs for a single keystroke.
> Many prison systems ban reading materials because of their formats: No hardbacks! No pop-ups!

The kinds of people in prison would use them as weapons, to huff the binding glue, or would hollow out the cover and shove drugs in it.
Safe for what and against whom?

If an attacker can make unlimited login requests to a service, then longer passwords are always safer than shorter but more complex passwords.

If an attacker has a copy of a service's hashed passwords, the same is also true.

If an attacker is physically looking over your shoulder, a passphrase may be easier to remember than random letters, digits, and symbols.

If an attacker is a nation-state with a quantum computer and an unlimited budget - they'll probably find a different route into your account.

I would say that passwords are rarely "cracked". People tend to either use one of the top 10,000 common passwords, or reuse the same "secure" password on multiple sites. If you are outside of that low-hanging-fruit, why would someone expend resources on you?
We already do, we talk into the void on social media (like this post), the oportunity cost is already high. In the future, we'll get the bots talking back from the digital abyss.
What games do you have in mind?
Had to look it up… no, that’s not “meh”, but honestly that is a damn ugly vehicle.
Thank you for pointing me in this direction! I had a browser extension to show new comments that stopped working several years ago and never found anything that I liked until this one. Being able to see new comments makes HN so much more user friendly.
Well, they (and the others) should be getting even less. States or cities subsidizing stadiums isn't as beneficial as originally thought. Those making obscene amounts of money from a public resource should probably contribute more to the infrastructure required to make that money.
I’m finding more and more that the information density isn’t there because the video content is actually just an infomercial for a “course”.
The PiS regime allegedly spied on more than just senator Krzysztof Brejza with Pegasus. Pasting from my first ever HN comment:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/more-polish-op...

- https://democratic-europe.eu/2022/01/18/citizen-lab-there-is...
This resonates with me. We have all worked with someone who is a superb bullshitter, 100% confident in their responses, yet they are completely wrong. Only now, we have codified that person into chatGPT.
I also explored why Ruby is so hard to learn for people like me on my blog [1]. I totally agree with you. I had to use Ruby at work and I really struggled to grok it. I've picked up many programming languages in my career but Ruby was one of the hardest to really understand.

[1] https://wbk.one/article/a463c360/the-ruby-tutorial-i-wish-i-...
> For example, adoptees of Korean descent in Sweden have significantly higher IQs than non-Korean adoptees and even non-adopted children

It's one thing to find measurable differentials somewhere, another to pretend that such differences are enough to explain even a worthwhile fraction of the achievement gap. The average kid of Korean descent would have significantly higher achievement in Sweden or South Korea than North Korea, and that for entirely non-racial reasons. And most lowest-developed countries are, sadly, more similar to North Korea than Sweden.
Is HN just tabloid now? I've been noticing lots of this gossip-type "news" on HN lately.
I use Python every day and I like it. However, functional semantics are not elegant at all IMO. Using list() and map() all over the place is not cool, and like many others say, list comprehensions, though concise, are not always that readable (and I say this as someone who reads and writes plenty of them). Lambdas are not great, either.

In Django in particular, async feels like an afterthought, compared to other frameworks where it's first class.
I'm from Morocco, even though I have been a permanent EU resident for many years now. But I guess that doesn't change anything in terms of US VISA.
I am not a fan of Saussure. Structuralism is such a thoroughly discredited movement that even post-structuralism is thoroughly discredited. People who think Derrida is a morally corrupt bad actor (I'd say that is half true) or that anglophone "humanists" have built an fortress of obscurity around postwar French philosophy should renounce and denounce the structuralists. (For that matter, structuralism has a cargo-cult orientation to the almost-a-science of linguistics that LLMs particularly problematize... Linguistics looks like a science because it is possible to set up and solve problems the way that Kuhn describes as "Normal Science" but it fails persistently when people try to use linguistics to teach computers to understand language, improve language instruction, improve the way people communicate, etc.)

Particularly, the defense against AI of using today's quirky and vernacular language will be completely ineffective because LLMs will parrot back anything they are exposed to. If they can see your discourse they can mimic it, and one thing that is sure is that current LLMs are terribly inefficient, I'm fairly certain that people will get the resource requirements down by a factor of ten, it's possible it will be a lot more than that. Particularly if it gets easy to "fine tune" models they will have no problem tracking your up to the minute discourse unless you can keep it a secret.
I find that one of the hardest parts of doing research is knowing when to give up on a problem
I went through an EU consumer law claim. I documented the process here: https://charlieegan3.com/posts/2019-11-02-refunding-another-.... I understand this is largely unchanged after Brexit.
Sadly I never got repairs done because the wait was longer than I could afford to wait. I ended up having to replace the laptops with different laptops.
How much money can a good hacker make per year doing this sort of testing?
What scares me is that there's very little in terms of user rights, and where entire businesses depend on it, things might get very bad very quickly.

It's not just Stripe by the way: I had my own issue with PayPal (luckily, not very serious as I only had $8 in the account): https://puntofisso.medium.com/paypal-closed-my-account-with-.... And, famously here in the UK, Richard Davey had the same with a high street bank, HSBC: https://medium.com/@photonstorm/hsbc-is-killing-my-business-....

Most of these incidents are caused by entirely misplaced anti-fraud regulation, which is based on assumptions that come from a different era in which transaction were mostly national, mostly predictable, mostly referring to a set of easy-to-understand products and services.

I wonder if what we need is to advocate for new policies and regulations with our respective national legislators.
And I wondered whether he had a brain dump on an external hard disk before he died.
The Cold War never resumed, so it wasn't a "one-time" windfall. It was Bush Jr.'s foolhardiness to cut taxes AND wage two wars simultaneously that eliminated the surplus and sent the deficit soaring.
Aha moments while building a deep tech startup
Modified Gravity as an Explanation for Dark Matter
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There's also the movement towards doing away with paper books altogether and charging prisoners, by the minute, to rent e-books.

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prison...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/13/u...
There is a chain of authentication between fake-sokoloff and the credit agency. Maybe fake-sokoloff has tricked the bank due to the bank's weak security. Now the bank asks the credit agency for information about sokoloff by providing whatever weak metrics it has obtained. Both the bank and the credit agency have failed due to accepting weak metrics.