skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Majority here at HN seems to lack any intellectual curiosity on this topic though and are just rabidly opposed to anything crypto related. Ironic given how many tech start ups basically just operate as pump and dump schemes that create little to no real value either.

Agreed. It's doubly ironic as Coinbase probably wouldn't exist but for Y Combinator.
Cocktail shrimp sounds extravagant; that's not what we're talking about. GP is on point. We're talking about basic staples, the real food you find on the edges of the grocery store, not the highly processed items in the middle.
> By most metrics, RoR is pretty heavyweight, as their literal taglines are "Ruby on Rails scales from HELLO WORLD to IPO" and "A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern", so it needs to be pretty big to support those use cases.

Not sure what do you mean by "most metrics". Framework supporting features is not same as they being used all at once in every app.

PostgreSQL has more than 1.3M lines of code and it gets used by projects of all sizes, would you call it "heavyweight" too?
yeah, whatever happened to capsule networks?
"view from social media and thus see reality objectively."

It all seemed fair until this fragment. Nothing about social media is objectively true. The advantage of social media (hopefully) is that's you're exposed to people from a variety of cultures so that you can choose who's subjective truths to believe in. It's better than powerful single voices influencing the ignorant using mass media though.
Why's that? Given the original question people can simply reply "me", but I assume they're looking for more than that.
It's not that the heat pump fails when it's < 20C, it's just that you don't get any additional efficiency versus heating directly with electricity.
Arthropod would probably be the most specific classification that bees and spiders share.
get the money
Germany has one of the worst demographics that means people are mass retiring with plump pension plans but there are not enough younger workers to replace them reducing productivity and taxes. So either the retirees give up their pensions or the workers get shafted with higher taxes. US has this problem too, but in the European welfare state this is much more acute. In the middle of this, Germany has to re-build its decayed Armed forces given the war in Europe.

If you are economic immigrant to Germany make it transitionary, your ultimate destination should be preferably outside of Europe.
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> 1. There are things like “shrink-flation” not captured.

Poppycock. From StatCan, who do the CPI numbers in Canada:

> 7.10 Quantity adjustment entails accounting for changes in the quantity (e.g. package size, number of tissue ply, etc.) of observed POs. This is another implicit method of quality adjustment because it is assumed that the quality per standardized unit is the same over time.

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/62-553-x/62-553-x2019...

> 2. Fuel is only down because the US has used its strategic reserve to increase supply.

Fuel is down in Canada as well, which has no strategic reserve. Or it could be because geopolitical events have stabilized a bit and global oil prices are down:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCOILWTICO
Interesting responses!

I appreciate all of them!
Cisco:

Rare Caste Bias Case Advances, Raising Calls for Federal Action https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/rare-caste-...

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-lawsuit/california-...

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Google:

Google’s Caste-Bias Problem https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/googles-caste-bias-pr...

Big Tech’s big problem is also its ‘best-kept secret’: Caste discrimination https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...

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Cal State:

Cal State banned caste discrimination. Two Hindu professors sued. https://wapo.st/3CHYYSA
Yes! No more bash, sed, and awk, or Perl.
Exactly, so take the lawsuits with a grain of salt.
Five options I’d consider depending on which language I am most familiar with:
Php Laravel with live wire/alpinejs
Ruby rails with Hotwire
Elixir Phoenix with live view
Python Django with htmx/alpinejs
Javascript nextjs or nuxtjs or redwooodjs
> I still think it's the best format out there.

What do you think of https://toml.io ?
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+1 to this. I had a hpwh installed for my radiant system and after paying >7k to get it up and running, I learned that this model is entirely unsuited to that setup and Rheem refuses to accept a return.

If anyone wants a barely used 120 volt hpwh in the bay area, get in touch.
Perhaps you have not visited the border at arunachal pradesh, or aksai chin. Both are indian territories forcibly occupied by the Chinese.

We (at India) have fought wars in the past 50 years to protect our land from the Chinese invaders.

Furthermore, leaving India aside, let's think about Tibet, the uighur muslims for a moment.

The current Dalai Lama is in exile also.
Its fairly easy to do if you have VLANs or can put them on their own network.
Exactly. It’s a solution, not the solution.
I think the question was a joke.
Why not just use AWS?
Heat pumps are specified with significant margin and/or backup heat sources.

The numbers above are the 1:1 point, which doesn’t mean it stops working. It just means it’s similar efficiency to an electric heater at that point.

“Freeze to death” is an extreme exaggeration.
Some blockchain projects attempted to tackle this. Check out Akash.
"Offline/local first" sounds easy but it's the distributed problem. How is data be consistent?
Liabilities aren’t negative in financial accounting, they’re leverage for the business that carry obligations, exactly like code.
In theory in here are a lot: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Koerner%2C...
Using SQLite in the browser is great until you have users that open your app in more then one browser tab.
I am not sure if you ever dealt with a very entrenched system that has been in place longer than you have been alive, but it is not easy. It is also not easy to hire to deal with these things. Especially at government rates which are lower than the private sector.

If you were the FAA and started up an internal startup to find only the best to replace systems that have been running forever you would face a lot of problems.

1. Nobody would give you the funding until something like what happened yesterday did

2. Your developers getting paid more than the FAA directors will get lots of political attention

3. Even a great internal engineering team would most likely take ages to do something like this. This isn't move fast and break stuff with a greenfield, it is painful deconstruction and analysis of a very complicated system.

4. Many people won't want to work on this no matter how much you are paying.

It is also out of the wheel house of an agency tasked with flight safety. So expensive contractors arise. Do they do a poor job often? Yes. But these are jobs that are really hard to scope and execute. If it is really a case of overpaid contractors coming in and not doing the work, people here should start a startup and hire a SEAL team six of 1970's computer system rip and replacers and make a lot of money.
One of the things missing in this article is that the reservation system by design results in quota students typically being less prepared/qualified. These students then enroll in, say, IIT, and many of them perform poorly due to, well, lack of merit. And this poor performance contributes heavily to the lack of continuity on to further, and higher studies.

Who is responsible to fix this? If institutions were stricter on reservations, they would simply exacerbate the problem. If institutions were mandated to provide above-and-beyond resourcing to help poorly prepared students they were forced to accept, that's a pretty onerous burden.

The solution isn't finger-pointing at higher education/academic institutions or doubling down on reservations -- it's to kill reservations entirely and double down on earlier education subsidies for historically disadvantaged groups.
Worked for a govt contractor years ago and I would imagine the payout from the govt contract was at least 2-3x. There were usually 2-3 layers of people getting paid and I don't think any of them were hurting. Of course no employee was getting a massive payout compared to private.

Govt > contractor > sub-contractor > employee was pretty common. I never knew of anyone being a direct contractor to the agency since the contracts were so large and involved a lot of employees.
I wonder if this is the start of other companies spinning up their own Mastodon instances. I think it makes a lot of sense for Medium to do so, specifically for communication to the writers that's not attached to a specific post.

Archive.org has their own instance @ https://mastodon.archive.org
Been a few years since I tried Rails (I don't do much web development), but seriously considering giving it another try. I do wonder if a "Lite" version of Rails could happen somehow - DHH was talking about JSON APIs in his latest blog post, and indeed they are more no-ops than an SQL database.

I have tried Ruby CGI but very barebones - no MVC.

I haven't tried Sinatra, but someone at a Ruby web development company told me Sinatra works for APIs but difficult for websites, but it isn't battle-tested like Rails.
I've noticed a lot of this in other contexts as well. Things just keep getting worse...
Thank you for your article and I would be grateful for a deep dive series on how a terminal works would be great.
Two thirds of adults in the US are overweight or obese. You don't want to eat the average basket of goods they're eating.
I know what s-expressions are, vaguely. Vaguely in terms of "I couldn't write a grammar for them off the top of my head.", that is, not "what are they".

Is there a single agreed-upon defined grammar that everyone can use? Preferably one simple enough that like JSON's it is at least capable of being used as a graphic on the home page for the format? https://www.json.org/json-en.html

This is an honest question, because there may well be and I don't know it.

However, I will put this marker down in advance: If multiple people jump up to say "oh, yes, of course, it's right here", and their answers are not 100% compatible with each other, then the answer is no.

The other marker I'll put down is "just use common lisp", I want verification that it really is 100% standardized, no question what any construct means, ever, and I still bet we get people who would rather see Scheme or Clojure, and I bet there's some sort of difference.

Neither of these objections is fatal to the idea. JSON is technically not just "javascript objects", so if someone carved out a defined format from s-expressions, then held it up as a standard, that would be as valid as what Crockford did. But at least as of right now, I'm not aware of anyone having done that standardization work. Replies welcome.
Here we ofter have summer temps around +30C and winter -20C, in both I am very happy to have our heat pump. Our unit is operational down to -25C but for the handful of weeks where it does get that low we do run the gas furnace a little just to top up.

We installed three mini splits in total for a ~2k sq ft 1800s draughty home. Before we had them our central air gas furnace, which is ~20 years old, would burn through upwards of $600 a month of gas in winter. With heat pumps we pay $180 a month equalized and we run heat or cool all year except for maybe a month in spring and fall where it's perfect 22c outside.

Without this magical tech we'd be broke or cold in the winter and uncomfortable all summer.
The minimum wage is 2080 euro / month in Germany, so anybody offering you less than that is not following labor laws.

The unemployment rate is ~3.0%, so the shortage is not due to salary.

The population is growing old, there is a huge influx of high-skilled people, and the young have access to good education: this means that there are a lot of new job created by high earners, but there aren't enough people to work them all.
tl;dr - "it's the economy, stupid"
yet another comment about Sinatra, I've been using it for 10 years, first on heroku now on fly.io. It's such a great and stable framework, most people probably don't even need RoR.
the average wage in Germany is 3000 EUR without taxes .
No fun for you, but nationwide piped gas went up 3%, not 100%.

Your cost per unit (not overall gas bill) doubled in december? What gas provider do you have?
In spite of all the various potential high-tech solutions -- i.e., Google Lens -- I would strongly advise just contacting an antiques brooch specialist. They will know where to look, or may even know the crest from taking an immediate look.

I love the power of technology to make knowledge accessible, but sometimes I feel that we forget that deep expertise exists in people too. There will be someone -- if not a couple of people -- have have likely spent their full life /only/ learning about Bavarian brooches.
I think the surprising aspect is how completely the separation must have been maintained for such a long time.
The "cut a small plug into each stud bay" works very poorly when the wall material is 9" thick structural brick and there are not studs, but rather lath and plaster (and often wallpaper) on furring strips.
If you're looking at country-level data it may be too broad and so harder to identify, only one order away from pointlessly looking for the same effect in "the whole world". You need granularity, where the effects are seen.

For example, small UK villages presently having emotion-filled community meetings unable to cope with the negative effect of sudden influxes of 1000's of allotted refugees radically changing every aspect of their home.

But why require evidence, when the basic math has it:

You have x number of people with y number of resources. What will happen if you increase x without also increasing y?
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The thing is though, right after liberation, the Russians started shitting the bed by sending incompetent fools (did Tsarist Russia even have anything else?) to Bulgaria to rule. Then they sponsored multiple coups against the first Prince of Bulgaria who they thought was a German puppet based on his origins, without even bothering to ask him. Then they sabotaged Bulgaria's unification and defence against Serbia efforts by abandoning the army. Then after a successful (in ousting the prince, but not in anything else because again, the people running it were as incompetent as it could be) coup, he was asked to return but he thought the only way he could would be with Russia's acceptance, which the Russia didn't give. Then Russia, for some weird reason only their incompetence can explain, refused to recognise the regency council looking for a new head of state (which first went to them expecting them to nominate a Russian prince).

I could go on, but basically Russia's goodwill was spent in the first few decades of them incompetently and arrogantly bumbling around and making it extremely hard for the young optimistic nation which was really looking towards Russia as the big helpful brother and desperately needed help to survive.

Today you can also add 50 years of imposed socialism, which had its ups and downs (massive industrial, education, sport advancements) but was imposed and kept with tanks, and Russia's aggressive and imperialist foreign policy which directly results in tens of thousands of deaths. Why the fuck would anyone still think Russia is the good guys? This can only come out of blatant misunderstanding of history.
> Humans will always $hit where they eat

So does every other living thing, in fact. It's not like every animal and plant is a nature conservationist and humans are the mindless exploiters - it's actually the other way around. We talk about restraining ourselves because, unlike the rest of the nature, we can choose to be selfless, or at least thing longer-term and at ecosystem scale.

Also, you're absolutely correct. Earth is a gem. Everything else in space we know of is just rocks and deserts and clumps of gases. And there's so much of it that we aren't going to make a dent even if we rode the exponential growth for a while longer.
You've misread my comment. The cocktail shrimp example is why "nuh uh, my personal number is higher" is not a valuable data point. Maybe you go to an expensive store, maybe you buy the fancier lettuce, maybe your basket includes some things you consider staples that aren't all that common nationally.

It's why we have a nation-wide check on the prices of a well-researched selection of staples in the average proportions they make up in an average person's budget, rather than polling random people on the Internet for anecdotes. That number is far more useful.
In the past, languages arose because of a lack of communication between different populations. These days every large population can easily communicate with itself, which destroys this avenue for new language creation. However, new dialects of existing languages still arise, and will continue to arise, usually driven by young people seeking to create a distinct culture from their uncool elders. For example, see any Twitch-aware teen and try to decipher half of what they're saying; is "monkaS" in your vocabulary?
This is extremely common in the industry, although it’s common practice to still allow one to be contacted if needed, however no system or building access beyond possibly being able to check emails.
They did? Aw, man....

I love tuning into AM 1610 when driving through National Parks to get park information. AM is great for low-power local broadcast for recorded tourist information on repeat.
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As usual. Sigh. Just Zpopcnt would go a long way.
Will all these servers be their own (semi) walled garden or is there a way to public to multiple servers? If so, if someone replies do I see it on other server feeds?
Data locality is an issue with large models even when using supercomputers with very high bandwidth fabric.
Yeah, there are of course also water-air, water-water pumps (although I've never heard of the open-circuit ones, but yeah, why not). But you have to have access to a large enough body of water that doesn't freeze and has enough capacity.

The main issue for me with air-X heat pumps is that over time it can start to make a lot of noise if not well maintained.

But the closed-circuit under-ground (or under-water) ones essentially don't need maintenance and are incredibly efficient, as the source never goes very cold.
I may have been unlucky but the only slice I've had in NYC was mediocre mush compared to places around the Hudson Valley.
I heard this interesting theory: the startup world is so male-centric that many women entrepreneur resort to all sort of schemes to get on par with their privileged male counterparts, including fraud if necessary.

The other interesting theory is that media and society like to single-out fraud cases involving female entrepreneurs way more often than they do with men.
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I'm sure it's against "the rules", but I don't mind unlimited pto when your manager doesn't care if you track sick days or half day appointments, etc. When it's only planned vacation (and company is not a sweatshop) it works out fine.
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You got it backwards. There may be small pockets where caste won’t matter, but it mostly does in insidious and invisible ways all the time.
At what point does a Roomba need to identify and report potentially problematic household items to the authorities?

I honestly couldn't imagine letting something like this roam around my house collecting a database of everything that's in it. This level of object recognition seems completely inappropriate for a vacuum.
Having read through the forward-forward paper, it feels like it's Oja's rule adapted for supervised learning but I can't really articulate why...
Is there a reason why people are so stressed over high power consumption in new CPUs? The majority of the time it wont use anywhere near that and I just accept it as a “stock OC”.
The Web SQL standard was deprecated (by Mozilla) on the grounds of a single implementation.

The result today: A single SQL implementation with no standard (beyond SQLite) and therefore no easy way for anyone to create a compatible alternate implementation.
First 6GHz (off the shelf) CPU.
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You can't call it an internet browser if it doesn't work properly on 99.99% percent of existing pages. It's like calling telnet a browser, when it only accurately displays text/plain.
Maybe not clear from my comment, but I'd say that many of the new generations are also disappointed by the post-communist governments, so you can't blame it all on the retirees.
Dude, reading comprehension much?

I literally started 'by that logic' to underline how broken the whole initial comment was!

Do only smart people use fiat? Like... it's not even worth dissecting your reply.
It eschews back-propagation but not gradient calculation. You still have to nudge the activations' weights upward for positive examples and downward for negative ones. Positive examples should give a long vector and negative ones a small vector.
Inviting indoor-facing cameras is a disaster waiting to happen. There is a reason why Zuckerberg tapes over his laptop and why the Pelosi family only have exterior security cameras
> The fact that a young founder in an industry known for shaky metrics and a “fake it ’til you make it” ethos managed to dupe JPMorgan calls into question how stringent the bank’s due diligence process is.

Yes, it certainly does. Obviously fraud is bad, but this is an astounding failure. I suppose the JPM shareholder lawsuits will be filed soon.
I'm generally most interested in performance at peak, and consumption at idle, since my usage typically bounces between those two extremes and spends little time in-between.
Well I was replying to your comment about general appeal of bitcoin to the masses. Your last question relates as to why certain countries are adopting first. I think that's an important distinction, might not be the same underlying reasons.

I don't have answers, but I can throw out potential answers that come to mind.

- I agree there's utility to the unbanked. Having a bitcoin is better than having nothing. Could be better than national currency depending on the country you're living in. I still suggest that those people would rather get their hands on $$$ if they could.

- A lot of crypto is used for crime. 419 scams come to mind (yes I know a lot are in $$$). The point is that some of the adoption in these poor countries could just be explained by criminal utility.

I appreciate your perspective. My point being I don't think it's that cut-and-dried. My gut says bitcoin is better than nothing, but $$$ are better still for most.

Lastly, and it's an important point I keep forgetting to make. Almost everyone into bitcoin are into it because of the $$$ they can later get out of it. That's a huge litmus test for me, telling me that it's not about the bitcoin to them. They want $$$ at the end of the day.