skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that £10k for a mini split system? I'm not sure how many homes would need to spend that much. The UK is full of small flats and 2 up/down places that could rely on maybe one or two splits, Google shows that a decent setup would be about £2k plus installation (two splits each at £1k inc tax).

Given the hot summers and energy costs in the UK I think many homes would find that investment a net gain.

> There's also the consideration of additional costs due to lower running temperature which often necessitate larger radiators.

I don't know what that means. There are no radiators for mini splits or air source heat pumps, maybe you are talking about ground source hot-water systems? They are still stupidly expensive, for good reason, huge install consideration.

Today's low upfront cost of mini split heat pumps makes for a highly favourable option for new builds, and indeed even the average home.
JSON has no comments. That disqualifies it immediately.
The comparative method is how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method
Also most of todays Finland was under Swedish rule until 1809.
> Restricted functionality is a security benefit

This is a common trope I hear but I'm not sure it's true any longer.

One of the reasons Google login requires JavaScript to be enabled is to fix flaws in non-JS HTML that allow for hijacking passwords. It's why they took a much harder line on simple auth a few years back; too many instances of people being tricked into handing their Gmail account to scammers.
I understand how you can think of it as a keyhole view.

Instead, I think it's that I want "dense deposit" to mean something fixed, so we can look at a Roman gold extraction operation and say "yes, that is a dense deposit" or at a South African mine and say "no, that is not a dense deposit" independent of the technology in use.

Here's a thought experiment for that research student - which would cost more using current wages:

- extract 1 ton of gold from a deposit as rich as (say) the Dolaucothi Gold Mines when it used by the Romans, and using only Roman techniques.

- extract 1 ton of gold from a deposit equivalent to a South African mine in 1900, using cyanidation techniques of that era.

(I don't know if 1 ton is too low or too high to be reasonable.)

> nuggets are no longer laying about to be picked up

This isn't entirely true. People do still fund nuggets by happenstance. A news search finds things like https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/family-finds-24k-gold-nu... from a few years ago.

But yes, they aren't the types which kick of a new gold rush.

In any case, Roman gold extraction wasn't just from picking up nuggets either, so I'm not sure that's quite the right comparison.
I think you're right that FTX US was likely solvent. But had SBF not been forced to file bankruptcy you can bet he would have gambled all of FTX US to try and bail out FTX Int'l to avoid 100+ years in jail. I think he was just saving that bet for last as it was the most dangerous one.
You want to talk about professionals? Why not Shadowstat? The person who is doing the national calculation is not pro. They are bureaucrats subject to political adjustments. I have friends in six states everyone of them tallying their monthly expenses which increased more than 30%+ compared sametime last year. If yours didnt either you have significantly cut down your expense or oddly expensing very different to many others. The CPI is grossly not reflecting the reality.
I respectfully disagree with you on the whitespace/code style issue. In most teams, you are writing code first and foremost for the compiler. It has to work. Once that hurdle is cleared the next most important audience is people who will be working with the code in the future. You write it once but maintain it forever. You're job is to make that as easy as possible and following a style used by the entire group makes that easier. Insisting on doing things your way is selfish.
I have read books, of course. But brain drainage for sure were prior the dissolution. You can read for example about the Operation Osoaviakhim, where 2500 scientists (and their families) were forced to go the soviet union as war reparations. Or the book The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of the Persecution of One of the Great Scientists, were you can read how beautiful was science in the soviet union.
you are right, but in the writer's defense, he mentioned Mobile in the first paragraph so it's not totally out of context.
They are usually sipping power is my point. The high boosts being possible is a bonus if you need it but won’t hurt if you don’t. It’s the best of both worlds.

As far as energy use we’re it’s such a tiny amount of energy compared to any given appliance.
'But your honor, I should allowed to do this thing because I saw someone else do it!'
Actually there’s more. On Jan 1st several more states laws about animal welfare went into effect whereas before essentially only California had those requirements. The supply of eggs meeting those requirements had not been ramped up to meet the step in demand. I expect that disruption will be temporary.
Lately, my app says "Can't connect right now". "right now" can be described as months. So, the big button has been getting used a lot. The only thing about not using the app, is that was the only way I could be sure it got to the rooms I thought it did. The roomba is basically an idiot that just finds its way literally by bouncing off of things. There are times I've seen it clean the same area multiple times while never going to a different room at all in the same cleaning cycle. So by viewing the map, I can know if I need to pick it up and lock it in the room it missed.

The fact that it needs an internet connection for that is maddening.
>The FAA handled this outage appropriately and in a timely manner

It's still not working as designed, right now. The workarounds in place are fine, but were made up on the fly. Certainly there's room for improvement.
Because reasons. lol
Insulation and air control are absolutely key to efficient heating and cooling, regardless of where you live. We built a stand alone guest house a few years ago. Insulated the entire envelope with closed cell foam to R25 in the walls and R60 in the ceiling. That means it loses or gains very little heat, but also means it exchanges very little air with the outside. It's heated with an 18,000 BTU air source heat pump, although for temps above 0C, just the heat of occupants does the job. To keep it dry and maintain fresh air, it has an outside air circulating system fitted with a heat exchanger. Highly efficient and comfortable down to -20C outdoor temps. Needs supplemental resistance heat when the temps are below that, but that's at most two to three weeks a year here in the upper Midwest. Solar panels make the whole thing carbon neutral in operation, averaged over the year.

Unfortunately, retrofitting existing housing that was not designed to be tight to this level of insulation and air infiltration is enormously expensive, if possible at all. We're getting there, one improvement at a time on our main house, but it takes a lot of check writing.
> Why should Google let Tamil ethno-nationalists like Thenmozhi hold a talk?

Can you elaborate on why she is a "Tamil ethno-nationalist", and why this should disqualify her from giving a talk about caste equality?
I think the parent comment was saying "how long was 400a sustained for".
Large enough miners don't have the right hardware. Mining requires a tiny cpu, very little ram and gpus with a max of 8gb, oh and 100mbit. There was never an incentive to buy hardware that could be reused for other purposes since mining itself was such a cash cow.

Company Beta likely started off with hardware for AI/ML and mined on the side when they didn't have enough customers.
Its not just a meme in this case btw :D
https://twitter.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/1605246688939364352
Peter Zeihan has been making a big deal about this decade being the beginning of demographic decline for Germany and many Boomber-dominated countries; their population curves have inverted pyramid shapes from the elderly down to children.

The Boomers are beginning to retire, switching from mainly producers to consumers, and there aren't enough in later generations to replace them.

Perhaps this helps explain the very welcoming immigration policy of Germany, and less so for France which has a more stable chimney shape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany
Picking standard open source starting places seems like a more than obvious move.

Saying you want to invest in ongoing intense data-driven store innovation, then building the whole thing atop a platform that you cannot rely on (may get discontinued, price may become huge, may become a barrier to technical innovation), that you dont control seems like an obviously bad move.

Finding smart people, rolling up your sleeves, & recognizing this as a core competency, an enabler, a driver of your business, & not outsourcing the problems, is the right move. If future teams do a better job building edge kubernetes, there should also be good portability.
You can get a ground source pump which doesn't care much about the air temperature as its "heatsink" is above freezing even in extremely cold days.
Thanks! If you want to look at our embarrassingly bad code it's all here: https://github.com/neocities/neocities

(I'm not saying it's better than Rails, just that it's better than Rails for me.)
Apparently, at Facebook
For context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...
I'm curious how Costco is weathering the storm better than others. Typically Aldi is the cheapest place for me to buy eggs, but they're almost $5 a dozen for basic eggs. I've seen even more at other grocery stores (Publix was several dollars more a dozen). The cage free eggs were $7/2 dozen ($3.50/dozen) earlier this week at Costco.

I'm in the Southeastern US in a suburb of a major city.
$3 million per year for a business of that size doesn't sound too obscene. DHH is forgetting that electricity, cooling, fault-tolerance are also expensive, the price of "insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell" is not the whole story.

Also, previously (October 2022) from DHH: https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
(Replying to this and other comments in unison)

A SQL standard never precluded a separate filesystem access standard and implementing databases on top of it.

But rejecting the Web SQL standard means that every SQL-using webapp will be tied to its own database - replicating the SQL incompatibility mess when we had a chance to finally enforce a little standardization based on current SQL standards - and require depending on WASM when WASM might have not been necessary.
This reminds me of a particular hardware system I'm familiar with whose design specified "dual power supplies". However late in the acceptance process it was discovered that the condition of one power supply up and one power supply down causes the system to lock up. (My guess would be a phantom current path between the powered and un-powered halves causing an unintended circuit state. Or perhaps just a software bug; maybe the one-supply-down notification code path was never tested.)

The vendor simply changed the procedures to say the user must use a two-fingers procedure to simultaneously flip both power supply switches on or both off at once. It bothers me that we still don't know WHY the original problem happened. How do we know there isn't electrical damage occurring during the brief period between the two switch contacts (since no human can do that perfectly)? If it's a software problem, what is the most time one power supply can be up and one down before the bug is triggered? That's not been characterized, to my knowledge.

But in the context of this thread, what's relevant is to avoid addressing the problem the vendor changed the meaning of "dual power supplies" from an OR condition to an AND condition! They met the letter of the spec while completely violating the spirit of the requirement.
oh? That seems to be the answer. They wont actually have to care what the compute costs if they can print money back stage.
You mean by isolating the cameras into a network that doesn't have internet?

That might work, but might also be circumvented at some point.
I.e Amazon security cameras can use the neighbors cameras network to phone home.
Fight who's fire? The Wayland developers are former X11 developers, so you're accusing them of "shilling" against their own project?
Isn’t the logical conclusion of this view the end of web browsers, replacing them with executable software distribution?
Yes, now every single site using SQLite has to do that.
Was your Rails experience quite a while ago? Stuff like the method_missing matching a regex stuff that was common years ago has basically disappeared from common use, at least in my circle.

Rails 7 has been my favorite version since 3. Version 3 was probably the peak of metaprogramming and when basically anything you tried worked which was fun but really cowboy.
Brilliant! I actually thought 3 or 4 day work weeks might be the answer after working a job like that - far better work to life balance, just better overall.

Sadly, I don't think a shorter work week will become the standard. I think automation will be the standard with a maximum of 10% of the current workforce still employed in some fashion.

This is the issue of our time and nobody is remotely addressing it - we better at least line up a handout while we are still needed.

I'd love social mobility but that will require ingenuity and effort, so I've decided to just preach the "just sit down" strategy - I really think it would work, that easy.
Even more, several aviation reports use both. METARs use feet for cloud altitude and meters for visibility.
I think it is a tough sell that there would actually be real value out of changing a bunch of road signage and recipe books to metric, and being a stickler about telling people to weigh themselves in kgs instead of lbs for their weight loss programs, etc. It's basically purely aesthetics. I don't think it is politically conservative to say that there's no actual productivity or social gain from expending time and energy 'moving' to these things in everyday contexts.

In scenarios where metric is actually needed or appropriate nobody has any trouble using metric. Every kid has learned it in school for decades.
I appreciate that explanation. I had no idea that some countries handle vacation like you describe in France. The US system of vacation days seems to be very similar to the UK - only counting from M-F and the bank/national holidays that occur on weekends are "observed" on either a Monday or a Friday.
This would only really be implied if the price increase was just because the current egg producers have increased their price to take more profit. If the price increase come because producer's costs have risen, there's no reason to believe a new entrant would be more profitable.

Of course you know the joke about two economists walking through a busy train station. One points out a $20 bill on the ground, the other says it's obviously fake, because if it wasn't someone would have picked it up already
Traditionally, people don't just get one thing from AWS. If their ML compute doesn't make money, S3 Object Storage will. My bigger point is that AWS and Azure have much greater control over their margins than a business like the one OP was describing.
It's the tech version of the US phenomenon of people believing they're 'temporarily broke'.

If these issues are regulated now, what happens when it's their turn to be the millionaire startup CEO?
> Most companies have customer facing WhatsApp numbers too.

That's intended use of Whatsapp. Article is about usage for critical infra.
This kind of nitpicky debate gets so tiresome. Look, upthread comment implied pretty clearly that a particular heat pump as installed would "work" until zero net energy flow at "-20C". And I thought that was misleading, because that's not the threshold you use to size a heat pump as is doesn't reflect a steady state (at that temperature your home will be inexorably losing heat). And as I happen to have had personal experience in the recent past with measuring exactly this threshold on a newly installed heat pump, I thought people might be interested.

I'm deeply sorry if this offended you for some reason, but I still don't see how you're disagreeing with anything I wrote.
I think there is something wrongheaded about the "tiny float" approach, but it seems better than the alternatives.

If you are working with the log of numbers then you don't get negative numbers, which most neural networks want. I guess you could use logs and still have a sign bit.

Alternatively it seems you could scale your numbers appropriately so that you can just use fixed point everywhere. I find it hard to believe that a particular activation level is going to have a meaningful transition between 5×10⁻⁴ and 6×10⁻⁴ and also a meaningful transition between 3x10⁷ and 4x10⁷... And if it does there is something bad going on. (It's a "bad smell" in linear models that you are seeing large-magnitude positive and negative coefficients, these days people would say it is a sign of "overfitting" and one way to fight it is to set a cost for large coefficients in the model... I can't imagine it's really that different in neural models)

One of the great things you learn at the graduate level in physics is that a complex calculation (say Chandrasekhar's calculations about how stars work) should be partitioned into a set of scaling factors on the outside and an internal complex calculation which is in dimensionless units which never get as large or small as the lifetime of the universe or the mass of a proton but rather you tend to get ratios that aren't so huge in magnitude, and from that viewpoint you don't need such a crazy range of exponents in the interior calculation... Adding to my feeling that floating point is as much a problem as a solution.
Assuming you don’t treat it as an emergency 11 months isn’t that long.

But, look at how quickly and how many COVID vaccines where created and entered mass production. Or how quickly Germany got their new LNG terminal online from scratch. We normally take forever to build a bridge, but 15 days after a hurricane Florida got large temporary bridge ready for traffic. https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/12/15/how-this-bridg... That’s the kind of response that gets stings done.

So, 11 months is a long time when people actually decide acting right now is important.
It’s mind-boggling to think that the founder expected to get away with this. Even if real emails had been used for the accounts, an atrociously low open rate still would have exposed the scam.
USDA regulations caused bird flu?

Also, Unregulated eggs are not a solution.

What is the takeaway from your comment, it’s unclear.

Edit: OP replied to this comment as an edit to their original, that makes it very awkward to actually respond to their reply. The reply also didn’t address the points because it amounted to saying “the take away is that I replied to someone”.

That comment appears to be an “all regulations are by definition bad!” viewpoint. Please explain What usda regulation caused the shortage? Was it new? If not, why did it not cause the shortage previously. Those clarifying details should be easy to provide presuming it wasn’t a knee jerk comment.
Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
My favorite sub in BMT though.
CPUs with high power and high performance gets binned into mobile and iot sku.

But those i9 ks sku can achieve a couple hundred extra MHz. But have a much higher base clock speed.
I see nobody here saying that robot vacuum cleaners should not exist. The argument is that they don't need cameras and always-open Internet connections.
I haven't needed extra heating in a decade in the area where the heat pump is - I should have been more accurate. In other posts I added that I do have (ordinary) electric heating elsewhere, the main place these days is my home office (without that there wouldn't be much extra heating). Most of the other rooms are unheated or nearly so (100W-130W w/thermostat is way more than enough), they stay warm enough due to good insulation and some air flow in the house. Bedrooms don't need to be particularly warm, unheated is ok, and the basement (hall, storage rooms, etc) is fine at around 11-13C which it normally stays at even at the coldest time of winter (and fortunately not much more in the summer either - that part of the house is partly below ground and is an excellent stable cool environment).
In my mind the only thing that can work to mitigate climate change (any way we cannot reverse it) and stop damaging our ecosystem, the planet earth, is to practice sobriety, reduce our economic activity voluntarily, and thus reduce the burning of fossil fuels and emissions in general. This is the hard truth, but how many of us are ready to do this? How many of the people reading this are ready to make a material sacrifice in order to ensure the future of their offspring?
"Rare-earths" are essential neither for electric vehicle batteries nor wind turbines. (Nor solar panels, either.)

Though it's a popular lie.
After having kids when young and spending my twenties as a parent watching my peers and siblings have so much freedom it's kind of obvious that the desire to have kids is a community/cultural phenomenon. When your friends start having kids you will start getting ready to have kids yourself even if the connection between your friends' situation and yours never enters your conscious mind. We're communal beings fundamentally.

Couple this with the trend to get married and have kids later in life when you have less biological time it kind of seems obvious why the birthrate is low. What this means (and I've seen this in many people) - the number of kids they want is always >> than the number of kids they end up having by the time their time runs out in their 40's.

Conclusion? Life. is. short. It's ok to wait somewhat but every year you postpone the plunge is a year you don't have on the other side.
It's not a browser for "most users", and with your logic there are just two "computers" Apple and Windows.

I also have a File-browser on my system and it has nothing todo with html or google.

>they're equating "browser" to "web browser"

Yes they also also say Cloud = Google-Drive, do you really want to go that route?