skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see that you hold a passionately held position on this. I do not.

I live within range of Russia's Iskander missiles and see reports from the war each day. Russia is the local bully that everyone's afraid of. Our military basically exists for one reason, to stop a Russian invasion.

> We went hard as hell after them and used all manner of financial sanctions and threats of sanctions on other countries to decimate their trade. So, we helped a little in its breakdown, right? And that was the real point of NATO.

Speaking of being all over the place, is this in any way relevant to the current war? Russia has been given lots of chances of integrating their economy with the rest of the world since the fall of Soviet, they're not acting out of economic necessity.

> From Ukraine's perspective, yes! From Russia's perspective, no!

Then what were their column on their way to Kiev doing? They can call it whatever they want, nobody makes it illegal to call it a war if they don't actually think it's a war.

> Were those not already in place?

No, only a small part of the current sanctions were in place before the full scale invasion, and plenty of western companies has since withdrawn from the Russian market. As for the security guarantees, I'm not aware of any except the Budapest memorandum, which didn't really work out that well.

> The US blew up entire fucking cities of people and we celebrate it! In your mind has the Ukraine only ever used precision strikes to take out military targets and people?

I've never seen anyone celebrate the destruction of entire cities in a modern war where precision weapons where available. I'm sure Ukraine has made all kinds of strikes, but I don't consider them the same since they're the ones defending themselves. They've made a few excursions into Russia with helicopters and drones, I don't think I've seen any reports of a single civilian casualty from those. Meanwhile there were bodies of executed civilians lying on the streets and buried in shallow mass graves after Russian troops left certain places.

> But I am curious if you can identify a war where this did not happen

That's just proving my point IMO. Wars are horrible, and Russia are the ones that started this one. Russia can end it whenever they want, but they don't want to, so they're responsible for all the misery happening in both their neighboring country and their own right now. And the rest of us don't want war to succeed. Russia understands one thing, and that is power. They look down on what they consider to be weakness, and consider themselves to be better than others. Russian propaganda calls this a culture war against western ideas, Putin actually mentioned trans people in one of his speeches about this war that supposedly is about NATO.

“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw” ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Do you have strengths in being able to pick up a concept/idea and be able to implement it at least to a functional prototype level?

If so, maybe you need to find someone who needs solutions built for them. Or to collaborate with them leading your progressions into a longer form solution!

Most importantly, don't measure your success against anyone but yourself, yesterday.
Highlights from Git 2.40
Does anyone know the impact on battery compared to alacritty and kitty?
Looks like the researchers developed a revealing electrochemical technique, and the bacteria have one of their own.
Insert Donald Rumsfeld quote about un/known un/knowns.
Pipenv has never once worked just fine personally. The dependency resolution is a joke and the slowest of any project in this space, they have tons of bugs and the project is languishing

I prefer to use a combination of pip-tools and pyenv for my projects
Well, 1) we have no idea how long it took to develop SimAirport. I'd be curious to know!

And 2) Rollercoaster Tycoon IS an aberration, since it was written in Assembly by one person!
Statistical Rethinking Course for Jan-Mar 2023
> ...what happens when things go wrong?

The same that happens when things go wrong with AWS (just cheaper).

One can of course engineer for any level of redundancy the business needs, whether on colo or cloud. Or not, as in most cases. We had four multi-hour outages due to AWS being down last year.
Mercury isn't really a bank. They are a nice, new UI that uses real banks behind the scenes. The main bank they use is Evolve bank and trust and has been around since 1987. But as of last year, they just had around $1B in assets under management.
>It takes up the same space as the old furnace

Is that a size similar to a gas boiler?
_Nothing_ can save a company from sufficiently incompetent future management, ultimately.
I didn’t read everything you posted, but I’ve always also wanted “central humidity”… is that possible/feasible/does it already exist?

I would like a fully electric central HVAC(H) system that keeps my house at 72F AND 50% humidity.
You have to pay Apple for the developer program membership but after that you can write your own code and run it on the iPhone.
Very cool. room correction actually has seen lots of improvement in the past decade luckily. A lot more AV receivers come with a mic and calibration process now. I'm not sure what the story for all the sonos/whatever stuff is like, but I imagine there's something. Thats not a cure-all, but its something.

15 years ago that was only for the nerdiest of the audiophile nerds, and its available to any moderately enthusiastic consumer now.
Thanks for the support! Vapor injection is cool - if that's interesting look at some other novel architectures like cascade cycles, hot gas bypass, and internal heat exchangers.
To me, it depends on the refactoring involved.

If your coworker is refactoring code and making it buggy and also making it harder for the rest of the team to understand, that might be a bit of a problem. When working in a team, you follow common conventions you agree on for a reason.

Rebuilding something for the sake of making it say 5% cleaner is often a bad business decision. No matter how well you think you're testing something, any non-trivial system is going to have some edge cases and crazy things that messing around with is going to cause you headaches.

But if a system is a complete fustercluck and long-term progress is harmed with how convoluted it is, then spending a lot of time refactoring it seems wise.

A good engineer has the judgement to know when tinkering with existing code is the smart thing to do.
Forgive me for repeating an old joke, but it does say so much about audiophile culture:

Q: What's the difference between an audiophile and a musicologist?

A: A musicologist uses a stereo to listen to music, but an audiophile uses music to listen to a stereo.
Tool built on top of ChatGPT to generate code that runs
Ever asked ChatGPT for a snippet of code,
Only to find out that code doesn't run ?
We make sure the code generated compiles/runs
> Helping out on the family farm is in its own category, in my opinion.

Also in the DOL's opinion
But that is where you are wrong.

VCs can be wildly successful making 999 losing bets, as long as one bet is a 100 bagger. VCs are running off imperfect information, they don't know which horse will be a winner, so they spread their bets. The more bets the better.

Short hedge funds are betting that they know more than Mr Market, one of the most efficient pricing mechanism known to man. A long fund can be no smarter than a monkey throwing darts, and it still does well. A short fund needs to be the smartest person in the room. They go deep, to find an edge that no one else but them has spotted. So they are highly concentrated, because you just can't go that deep on more than a handful of companies.

To say a short sellers insight is not worth anything because they just got lucky once is incredibly... short sighted?
part of me wants to give him the benefit of the doubt; he's talking about latency and I know from experience there's an undesirable "clicking" artifact produced when the sample buffer is empty (ie, the application isn't producing samples fast enough); this is caused by the frequency abruptly dropping to 0Hz. It could arguably be described as a "hard edge". So maybe he's in a situation where libc's memcpy was a bottleneck and was preventing new samples from being sent to the audio hardware fast enough.

But the part where he says that the c++ new[] operator sounds better than malloc is just ridiculous. I'm not good enough at mental gymnastics to make that one seem remotely plausible.
This happens to a lot of Youtube channels. Zack from JerryRigEverything did a video on the same topic a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROF9Dd7FXA
if dst and src in memcpy overlap, the result is UB. so there's your window of opportunity.

well, you asked...
I’ve built a few projects at this point that are full stack. Usually those projects would really be web scrapers using requests + beautifulsoup4 tied with flask and a basic front end, almost always built with vanilla js + bootstrap because UI is definitely not my strong suit. Though I’ve branched out recently to using vite + svelte, (stayed with bootstrap though for UI ) for front end stuff just because I love how flexible and simple the framework is.

But you’re right about the theoretical aspect of it I do need to work on that, but functionally speaking yeah I can make full stack apps and have deployed a couple of them to digital ocean using both droplets and their Apps platform. I actually have one running right now although it was only intended for personal use.

I’ll try to apply for jobs and see how it goes, thank you.
I don't know of anybody that actually _likes_ SQL's syntax, it's just that the value of it being mostly universal exceeds the syntactic downsides.
me too...kitty got me out of iterm2, it feels more responsive, faster to close and open new windows/tags
Get a better vendor? They should at least have separate categories for marketing vs "important" account information, vs actually important account information (that last category can't be unsubscribed from).
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‘Fine Hypertext Products’, with Jason Kottke: The Talk Show
I haven't used VR much but a few friends discuss the unsettling post-VR experience of depersonalization/unreality after you take the headset off. One guy isn't too "sensitive" to anything in general so it was surprising to hear him say he just can't enjoy VR because he knows he will feel weird after.
Exactly, not just "objectively better", but "objectively better in a way only other bagophiles can tell, which makes no sense to anyone else". I could see different pants designs/materials making walking better, but this would be more like "these pants are more comfortable because the cotton was spun clockwise to match your DNA".
But it's giving up correctly*! :)
It's not just the hardware—it's the software. Apple gives more shits about power efficiency (and general respectfulness toward system resources & maintaining responsiveness) in software than anyone else building major consumer software platforms/ecosystems/operating-systems does. Apple Silicon is indeed near-magical, but iOS and macOS/OSX devices have been beating the competition on UI responsiveness and battery life often while having smaller batteries for years and years, including in the Intel Mac days. I became a convert in part because I was issued an Intel Macbook for work around 2011 and it was the first time I'd ever felt like I didn't need to carry my power brick everywhere.
I thought we were talking about companies that you choose to work for?
Those who can - do, those who can’t - teach.
HA user here as well, having a non-locked down API at minimum (i.e. not actively trying to stop folks using it), through to an open and documented api (would be great), through to open firmware (would be best) and or releasing your own integration for HA would likely get you those kinda customers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35139687

I posted an Ask HN to organize a GDC × HN meetup. Depending on interest level, it could just be a quick meet and greet between sessions, or it could be a bring your own lunch and hang outside Metreon on the grass.
I'm interested to join, but I'm not doing it fulltime (I went back to uni to get a master degree).
As a side project I'm developing a factory game (conveyor belts/factories/insertors..) with some Spaceflight Simulation game mechanics [1]

I'm planning on releasing the full game this December, but the game is already not doing so well (only 4K wishlists. 12K is recommended for a successful launch)

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219580/Spaceflight_Facto...
Oh. What's red hat then?

Seriously though, if learning the meaning of two (three if you throw in grey hat) terms is too difficult, never mind the rest of the requisite knowledge to meaningfully participate, you may want to consider an alternate area of study.
How to profit off of this?
Have you considered doing double-vapor injection?

Ie. have a 2nd injection port on the compressor, and another valve and heat exchanger after the first?

Software could then decide to use none, one, or two, depending on the desired heat output vs efficiency.
> The Fed screwed up by raising interest rates too quickly.

Surely the screw-up was reducing interest to 0% in the first place?

Once you do that, going back to any positive interest rate is an increase of infinity%.
Few understand this.
> This is an order of magnitude more expensive than the pennies they saved by looking the other way.

That depends on how long they expect to get away with it.

If you can pay a minor $25k/yr to do a job that would otherwise cost you $35k/yr, as long as you expect to get "caught" less frequently than every 18 months you're coming out ahead financially.

Realistically... I don't know what the actual cost savings are here, nor how frequently people get caught. Based on how often I see these reports in the press versus how often I'm personally aware of it happening, it seems like the chances of having to pay the fine at all are very, very low.

Two of the locations mentioned in the article are near enough to me that I know people who work at the facilities in question. They're rife with people working under false documentation. They get "raided" fairly often, but... well, these are small communities, and let's just say that it's amazing how often some people get sick and can't make it to work on the same day that law enforcement makes a "surprise" visit.
In the process of building out a tool that allows you to do just that on the website. You need some basic info about the home + a recent energy bill to do this. You can also go more bottoms up where you have all the geometric/thermal + air leakage properties of the home and the local weather, this is more involved.
Reverse proxy with dynamic back end selection with Caddy
You’re giving many congressmen too much credit. Many believe the scam they perpetuate.
Benchmark structure is one thing I hope more languages copy from Go - hard-coding iterations is pretty silly, doomed to need repeated changes or become problematically imprecise as hardware and runtime changes occur.
It really depends on you define "most people". Most people have an IQ of less than 100.
Am I the only one wondering why they're allowed to circumvent the $250K cap like this?

Presumably there's a cap for a reason, and presumably it's to protect ordinary Americans who rarely have $250K in assets, and not rich people who can literally afford to lose that much and still be rich.
The software is certainly a concern, but I would also heavily emphasize the ability to get spare parts and service quickly. If your heat goes out in the middle of winter you don't want to wait weeks for spare parts, or be unable to get them at all if the company goes out of business.
Had a philips cassette player. stopped working exactly 1 day after the guarantee expired.
The underlying root cause of the SVB failure is mismatch of investment horizons for a bank's assets relative to its liabilities.

The groupthink at the moment is phew, the Fed, FDIC and treasury swooped in to save the day (and the depositors).

But, the root cause lurks.

How many other financial institutions are sitting on leveraged assets similar to SVB and might fail a slightly tougher stress test?
> An avatar comparability check at the scale of YouTube would be immense.

I don't think it has to be. For each user you should already have the hash data computed (using something like imagehash this works out to a hash of 8 bytes per image, though you can obviously tune this up depending on storage/performance requirements).

Each time a comment is posted, you would do a distance measure between the commenter's avatar hash and the channel avatar hash. Mixed in with the network latency and DB I/O operations, I think this additional read/write that only needs to occur when a comment is posted could be done with a pretty minimal additional compute overhead.

That said, if Google doesn't have the compute overhead to do it, I gave an alternative. Simply don't display avatars from commenters other than the channel author.
Nobody will build a heat-pump system with an on/off control system like that because the performance will be awful. Certainly not an air-to-water system.
There were over 8 million Google+ Communities formed. Roughly 10,000 of those had > 10k members, based on my own analysis of a data extract of these:

<https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Migrating_Google%...>

The absolute obliteration of online groups was inexcusable, most especially as there were not provisions made for exporting or supporting contact, and in fact active obstruction of attempts to the same.
Is your claim that USA is the most capitalistic country? Can you define what that means, and do you have any sources proving it?
They were comparing FLAC with raw uncompressed PCM wave files. Some swear they can hear the difference.
I built my own audiophile stereo set based on Nelson Pass' Directly Coupled B1 pre amp design, Pavel Dudek's PA03 power amp, a pair of DIY loudspeaker kits from lautsprecherbau.de, and an audiophile Rasperry Pi DAC board which I sponsored on Kickstarter running Volumio player distribution. I went even as far as using discrete OpAmps because they sounded better to me.

Was totally worth it!

Here's some pictures of my amps: https://www.bursonaudio.com/pa03-gainclone-power-amp-by-pave...
Thanks. It would be nice if the dashboard reflected that instead of showing the ACH payment as scheduled for tonight, but of course I understand we're all working with little time or information. Also maybe you could update your FAQ to explain that Gusto will not attempt to process any ACH payments from SVB, despite them operating normally from the SVB side. At the moment the document only implies this and you need to read between the lines to understand why a wire is necessary.

I also agree with the other commenter downthread that this is adding an unnecessary layer of complexity, but I understand why you might be doing it to avoid overdrawing an account that has been emptied. Still, I'm not sure this default opt-out is the best solution - maybe it would be better to ask those who did move money out of SVB to cancel their ACH schedule, rather than unilaterally ceasing ACH processing and asking those who didn't move money out of SVB to change their method of payment.
Lower that by an order of magnitude. Genelecs are some of the most common studio monitors and they are way less than that. A pair of JBL 308ps for $700 is the point of diminishing returns for accurate reproduction.

Only reason to spend more is aesthetics, features, and SPL (fair enough).

Most of the budget in high end production facilities goes into room design and acoustics.
Interesting! I actually started my legal career in LA (went to UCLAW and interned there), but didn't bump into any SLS grads during my time in the area. I didn't realize that LA is that conservative — I thought LA was pretty liberal, but OC was more conservative. I'm going to have to look into this further, now that you've piqued my curiosity!
At this point you're arguing with someone who has literally just said that all children raised by (e.g.) adoptive parents are victims of child abuse. At least, I do not see how else to interpret "everything else is child abuse".

The poster also has a recent history of pointlessly stirring the pot with regard to LGBT issues, as for example in the following post, where they (by some chain of logic I can't entirely follow) link the collapse of SVB (of all things!) to the fact that some of the people who worked there vocally supported LGBT rights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35106648 This sort of thing is about, say, two steps removed from blaming gay people for floods and earthquakes.

I share your annoyance at seeing this kind of stuff on HN (a depressingly frequent occurrence), but the comment you're replying to makes such outrageous claims that it is probably better to just leave it here.
Huh? My Lennox basic middle America furnace already does this if I am understanding your comment correctly.
Are you working as a professional software engineer?

What do you really want to do?
Windchill doesn't effect, and you can handle small dips below -15 F (like for a couple hours at night) because the house has some thermal mass. However, Duluth, MN is right at the edge of being too cold for this heat pump (99th percentile cold temperature in the coldest month is -15.16 F). If I was in Duluth and was considering a heat pump, I'd want to make sure I had an electric furnace or some space heaters as a backup. However, it would still be worth it to get the heat pump because you'd be able to heat your home much more efficiently/cheaply >99% of the time.
> watching it jank around while some build spams 50k lines of output

Add tmux to the equation and have some output like that simultaneously occuring in multiple visible windows within a single pane, and Terminal.app will also struggle, in my experience. To get a smooth experience on Mac, I had to use iTerm2 and enable the then-experimental GPU acceleration in the alpha version.

I like to have my 'window management' for terminal stuff happen inside the terminal, so that my keybindings can live in my dotfiles and apply portably across operating systems. It's a great setup for me in terms of usability and efficiency, but it's also one that relies on great terminal performance. I was surprised to discover how much I'd taken terminal performance for granted!
Have you considered assessing your home's insulation?
Excuse my ignorance, but aren’t Virtual Environments something you setup once per project? Why would that be a dealbreaker? How is it any more difficult than putting everything in a docker container like all the cool kids are doing these days?
I was also using iCloud shared photo album which was great until my mother switched to an android phone (in addition, lost true Facetime support which was also a bummer)

Ironically she switched to an android phone because she had too many photos I think and was always running out of storage. Of course the new phone had no photos, and her old phone would have been just fine if she was happy to start over too.
How do you envision the installation working in the direct-to-consumer sales model?
> David Salsburg reports that a colleague of Fisher, H. Fairfield Smith, revealed that in the actual experiment the lady succeeded in identifying all eight cups correctly.[6][7]

interestingly.
Not for me. It's still the primary way that I stay up to date on the web.