skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, it’s all just chance and luck, but when the advice ends up being relevant (or becomes self fulfilling in its relevance) and actually helps the receiver, why not?

It's like homeopathy: still a mixture between fraud, pseudoscience and sometimes outright dangerous advice, the ratio depending on the provider. And people can and do lose entire life savings to that shit. Just because someone's cold "went away" after downing a ton of sugar pills, it doesn't mean the homeopathy caused that - it was the person's own body all along.

The worst thing about all pseudoscience stuff is that accepting it as a society means that non-scientific opinions are accepted as an equal in democratic discourse - and that is the foundation on which quackery, vaccine denialism, MMS and a whole lot of conspiracy myths grow.

Besides: there's a reason why therapists (at least in Europe) generally have to be licensed similar to doctors... bad advice can literally kill people.

We, as a society, should push for equitable and accessible actual mental health care for everyone, provided by trained and continuously educated professionals - not for quackery.
A baseline AWS account with MFA will not be taken over. That would require a credential leak or an IAM misconfiguration permitting access from some other account.

Suggesting it is an extraordinary claim, and would suggest an extraordinary threat to all AWS accounts. This seems very unlikely.
> I am often surprised how people in our field don't run the numbers, so they are not talking nonsense when these hard numbers are so easy to generate.

Agreed. Unfortunately the tech industry is driven largely by fashion instead of objective engineering as we'd like to think. Trying to diverge from the fashion du jour (here, cloud.all.the.things) is difficult no matter how solid the numbers are.

At my last couple startups I've run a recurring review of all the cloud costs so at least there is good awareness of how fast the expenses are rising (faster than revenue in every case).
The first argument is the input file and the second one the output:

./script.sh original.pdf scanned.pdf
My thoughts too. Local heating/cooling should not be tied to the cloud period. If it doesn't use the normal wiring people already have it's a hard pass from me.
A couple of highlights:

> KIELER, WI – One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.

> Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law.

Child labor is one issue to deal with but I am getting pissed off at the non-enforcement/selective enforcement of laws we are seeing in society, it doesn't matter what laws we have if they aren't enforced and routinely ignored.
Firezone (YC W22) is hiring a Rust engineer to build open-source remote access
I think it depends on the sampling/decoding method. Also, perhaps you could elaborate more on what you mean by top_p
Ehh, maybe. I bought an M1 MacBook because it supported other OSs, reverted back to a reasonable keyboard, had reasonable ports, and soft feel. The problem with successful artists like Ives is sometimes they become a cult of personality within an org, domineering and protective of their vision. I feel like Ives wanted you to cut yourself on the edge of your laptop and carry 20 dongles. I feel like they dialed back the ridiculousness.
Have you tried using an audio player written in hand-rolled assembly?
I doubt that it matters if you decode audio files if you consider the amount data that needs to be processed and the speed of modern CPU.
For anyone that didn't RTFA:

> There is no clear indication why GitHub blocked Amelkin but may have to do with him being based out of Moscow, Russia as his repositories do not appear otherwise controversial.
Unless the ruling changes and one won't be able to install fossil fuel based heating, like in EU soon.
Those are beautiful looking units. It's a cool idea to focus on giving something very pedestrian and utilitarian a nice cosmetic overhaul.

I just replaced radiators with a heat pump install. I had a few questions about your units: What are "backup heating strips?" They're mentioned in passing when talking about cold weather, but I imagine there is some meat here. Also, even though many heat pumps work in cold weather, their efficiency drops. Where is the break even point? Also, what is the sound level of the condenser unit? It looks like you only list sound levels for the air handler.
The implication of your take is that we should exploit children as much as possible because it might pay off big, as long as we don't cross the line into "worst childhood of all time".
https://mercury.com/about looks like an affluent Bay Area lifestyle company for 20 year-olds?

Does this resonate with their target customer, as what they're looking for, to hold their money and provide misc. banking services?

(Personally, I love their decor and lifestyle aesthetic, but... I'd prefer to entrust my money to a place that seemed interested in providing good customer service for rock-solid banking services to small-fry me, yet was also a time-tested battleship of a trusted institution, where the head of it could get POTUS on the phone if ever needed.)
What are some tips and advice for launching a successful indie project?
Hello everyone,

I'm planning to launch a small indie project soon, and I'm looking for some tips and advice on how to make it a success. This will be my first time launching a project of my own, and I want to make sure that I do it right.

I have a clear idea of what my project is, but I'm not sure what steps I should take to launch it successfully.
- What are some best practices that I should follow?
- Are there any specific platforms or tools that I should use?
- How can I build a community around my project and get people excited about it?
- Do I need a business account on stripe from day one?

I would appreciate any advice or suggestions that you may have. Thank you in advance!
They're not. Instead you can use air-to-water heat pumps to swap out those systems.
I totally get the upgrade angle for non-technical people...but you need to convince them that they want it...and that it is worth Framework's frankly large premium.

Then you get to the fact that this machine is incredibly poorly sold if that is your market. The pre-configured options are almost insane. $1050 for a machine with 8GB ram..or $400 more to get 16GB because they paired it with CPU and Storage upgrades? Of course you can go DIY but keep in mind this is for lightly-technical users. Then a user needs to pick their port loadout.

It is overload and a lot of money for anyone who isn't technical...but if you ARE technical...this thing is basically a bad ultrabook in use. You can get a like-spec (1240p, 8gb, 256) Asus Zenbook 14 OLED...for $500 dollars less!

That's my gripe. I love the repair angle. The expansion cards are downright silly for most users. The money is basically nuts for prebuilt. And, ultimately they made a non-touch Surface Book 3..rather than a Macbook Pro.

> Isn't that how you piss away your niche market?

Well yeah. It's also how you continue to exist outside a niche. Some companies manage to do both. I would argue that the current top-end Macbook Pro is a downright niche product compared to the rest of their lineup. See also: The Mazda Miata. Niche, well loved, technical, co-existing.
Yeah you would either get an air-to-water heat pump, or better yet a minisplit system where a single condenser has multiple runs of small tubes carrying refrigerant to heat exchangers in different rooms.
The fines for doing this should not depend on company revenue or profit.

It should be that every single exec in charge of that company is never allowed to have any decision making power again in any industry. After a substantial jail time.

Every exec involved here should be personally liable too, and be forced to have their assets sold to cover a huge pay out to these kids. These kids should never have to work again a day in their lives. And if the assets aren't enough, then we should have tax payer money go and make things right for these kids.
What the Fed isn't doing is assure the greater market that the fundamentals of why the banks failed will be fixed. The Fed screwed up by raising interest rates too quickly. Don't just assuring depositors that their money is safe, assure everyone that the money in their 401ks (which invest in banks) is also safe. Publicly come out and pause interest rates. Admit that there is a strong possibility of lowering interest rates in the short to medium term future. There are massive ripple effects of moving cash, and retirement accounts. The Fed MUST get off their high horse, admit they made mistakes, and be transparent about getting help from industry experts. Without eating humble pie, the Fed will capsize the economy.
Libraries are the main driver for standardization — end-logic doesn’t move between systems very often anyways, and especially with databases where you typically don’t ship SQL to random environments and hope it works (they are largely designed as centralized systems after all).

But the language has no real extension system defined, so everything new gets defined as new language keywords instead of eg a new library/function, which arbitrarily get added as RDBMS’s try to differentiate their feature set. What extension systems do exist typically hook directly into the engine itself, are unique to the DB and have little to no hope of being “shareable”

So the standardization inevitably is less a standard and more of a vague guideline.
The west, particularly the USA, sacrificed so many industries on the alter of globalization. We gutted our workforce and told ourselves we were keeping the best jobs for ourselves. The loss of all those jobs and economic activity has contributed significantly to the wealth gap IMO. I don’t think that having lots of cheap trinkets available on Amazon has been worth it, to be honest.
Yes. The bank is now a bridge bank: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23019.html

This is a mostly fully functional bank designed to help smooth the transition for depositors away from SVB to their new permanent homes.
Maybe I'm a callous bastard, but I genuinely don't get how he feels personally responsible here. It's a YouTube problem, not a M:tG problem or a him problem.

He sounds genuinely distressed, and I feel for him, but I don't get why it causes him pain in this specific way. It's not your fault!

And for what it's worth, it's not really YouTube's "fault" either. Remember, they're victims here too. They didn't invite this, they didn't ask for this, and they're asking for ideas because they don't know themselves what to do.

Computers are sometimes likened to "magic" where we just cast a spell by writing code, and something technically beautiful happens, but where magic can interpret intent and act according to the caster's desire, computers can't, and there's no way to "Wrath of God" the spammers.

I hope this guy can find a way to live with this kind of thing, as I really don't see scammers getting wiped out in any conclusive sense, on YouTube or any platform. It sucks, it's unfair, but it's not realistically possible to deal with conclusively.
You are correct there is a "schema" behind behind the scenes. Managing complex relationships between data and evolving those relationships can be a daunting task. SFSQL was created for that purpose.
What I've observed is that getting a heat pump turns into a real science fair project for homeowners, and forget trying to integrate air quality in a good way. The proprietary communicating thermostats that come with heat pumps are really bad, and you can force an Ecobee or Nest to work with the heat pumps, but it hurts system efficiency by turning your variable speed equipment into less efficient fixed stage equipment. Lots of integration problems to be solved!
The number may as well be zero. It's pure marketing crap.

Relatedly, no US Marines have ever defeated a lava monster with a magic sword.
Climate change falls in this category as well
This is the size of the binary or RAM usage? If the size the binary, does it matter in most cases? If the size of RAM, yeah, I can see how that seems a lot for a terminal.
Have whisper listen to the question, feed it into chatgpt and read out the solution. The pipeline is already here
I'll clarify:

I created a small community where everyone knows everyone's face/name. I am really restrictive with the number of people in the server not because I want exclusivity per se, but rather that I dont want to lose the deeper connections you develop with people in a small community. There's about 10 of us total right now.

It also helps that everyone is on the same page (serious about releasing their game) so we have a common goal to work towards together (and separately). It's great, I've been running the server for almost a year now. Everyone has said it's been really motivating.

So please, email me if anyone here wants that. Otherwise, the other discord links posted here are probably a better fit for you!
$42 BILLION withdrawn in 10 hours.

Imagine if that happened at multiple banks.

We really need to re-visit "too big to fail".
An open source project to empower OSPOs everywhere
If your ethernet switch needs snake oil on your home network to sound good, I have bad news about your ISP, your cable modem, your ISP's transit provider, and your audio streaming app's data center connection.
If you’re getting a 5% discount on $1 million per month you’d need to host using a team of 1.5 people at SF salaries and benefits to break even.
Sure it is. The Federal labor laws only apply to businesses engaged in interstate commerce (individual state laws apply locally). But even then exemptions are listed on page 5 of this non-copypastable PDF: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/chil...

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/youthrules/young-workers

If you are under the age of 14, you are only allowed to do the following jobs:

- Deliver newspapers to customers

- Babysit on a casual basis

- Work as an actor or performer in movies, TV, radio, or theater

- Work as a homeworker gathering evergreens and making evergreen wreaths; and

- Work for a business owned entirely by your parents as long as you are not employed in mining, manufacturing, or any of the 17 hazardous occupations.
We could just get rid of comments on videos altogether. The benefit of squelching the mechanism scammers and trolls have available to them seems to greatly outweigh whatever is lost by just getting rid of comments.
> Because they chose to live somewhere stupid that doesn't have one of life's necessities, food, nearby?

Wow, so judgmental. I live a ~20 minute bike ride from the grocery store but for a family it's not always feasible to get everything to fit on bikes. It's totally reasonable to drive somewhere once every two weeks for that. It's actually funny, you don't know anything about me or where I live. It's actually very close to what I would consider the perfect balance between having grocery stores in walking or biking distance when we quickly need something and a 5 or so minute drive to the grocery store for bigger shops. Yet I don't have to live in an urban hellhole.
Even if starts as joke, it can end as serious.
Plot twist - the developer then runs the code in qemu for rapid iteration and ease of debugging... ;)
I wasn't really trying to imply the typo, but used it as a comedic device to make an iPhone VR unfunny
The digital to analog conversion in the tape recording process is going to introduce noticeable smoothing and artifacting.

You really need an all-analog process to bring through more of the original punch of the compilers and avoid making the resulting program woolly and harsh.
The Silicon Valley Bank Bailout Didn’t Need to Happen
Frankly, you lost my interest at LCM, MOF & DSC.
FYI, air-to-air heat pumps are very popular in Norway. There are models that have >2 COP in -15 C, for instance Toshiba Daiseikai 9S at 2.35 at -15C, and >5 at +7C.
> You have to pay interest on the deposits.

Eh, how much does BofA or Chase pay on deposits? Interest rates have gone up, so they might hit 0.05% now?
I suppose I use Nano for these use cases. Although those instances are rare.
>The demonization of tarot in my mind mostly stems from internalised misogyny and a desire on the societal level to paint anything which appeals mostly to women

Yes, absolutely. The patriarchy likes to dunk on magic future telling cards.
The dream of "Legos for code" has been around practically as long as code itself. It's such a ubiquitous meme that back in the Nineties Douglas Coupland wrote a popular novel about it, Microserfs (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2748). History is littered with the carcasses of startups that took up the challenge. That same siren song has now called up a new generation of "no code" platforms. Time will tell if any succeed.
"AWS Well-Architected Framework" aka overengineer your service for optimal cash burn (hint: optimal for AWS).
> This is such an easy problem to solve

Is it though? I'm absolutely an advocate for eliminating all visa/green card restrictions, but I would by no means say it's an easy problem to solve. There are a lot of downstream implications for unions, housing markets, education, Medicaid, etc. I think these are worthy problems to get to, but I absolutely understand why politicians would rather play dumb.
> Suppose Intel regains a process advantage over TSMC, so PCs have a major performance advantage over Apple Silicon.

That would be great to see, but doesn't seem to be happening.

Apple's big competitive advantages are here: 1) they control the OS and the app tools, so they can make switching more seamless and painless and 2) where it is painful, people are for some reason willing to take the pain from Apple where they wouldn't from others.
Cycling is similar. No need to use traffic lights for cycle-only crossings.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jgacSmLBSIQ
> No more child actors

it'd make movies better, anyway
I would love to join a community like this, as I am a part-time hobby game dev. Unfortunately, Discord is a bit of a deal breaker for me, especially with their updated TOS. If something was setup on another platform I would be happy to join.
web0- Zero ads, Zero trackers & Zero Clutter. Awesome.

I think this is a good tool to share articles with not tech savy parents who cant distinguish between ads and real content.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people wealthy enough to buy games on a whim, try them out for an hour or two, and then never launch them again (and don't refund). So, maybe that helps the situation somewhat? Otherwise, I agree - no one I know is a serial gamer. We all have our favourites which we've been playing for 10+ years. The best game studios can make in such situation is make a game with in-app purchases, or sell a newer, better version every so often.
That doesn't sound right. They should be above 1 for much lower temperatures.
Why didn't they catch it in this case?
I'm pretty sure you can load a query result into an [1] in memory table and query that including generated indexes.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/memory-storage-engin...
For me the killer feature was the way emails were (automatically) contextually organized. Instead of your inbox being chronological, it would create "bundles" of emails that were related based on sender, or subject line, or content. You'd have a bundle for each of: your JIRA emails, github emails, bank emails, cron messages, threads with your boss or coworkers, travel emails, receipts, etc. Bundles were created automatically and accurately. Labeling like in gmail would let you create custom bundles if needed. You could archive/label/refile/mark-read an entire bundle of emails at once. It was extremely efficient.

IMO there's too much context switching when your email is sorted chronologically. Much easier to deal with all emails of a certain type at once. You can (manually) organize your email with labels or folders, and go through each one, but it's just not the same.

EDIT: there were other neat features like pinning and snoozing that have since made their way into gmail and other apps, but IMO they worked better with the bundle system than they do without
If other big or small banks were also holding long-term, illiquid assets that have rapidly declined in value along with the increase in Fed rate increases, then they have the same problem.

SBV bought 10-year term mortgage backed securities to earn yield on their cash holdings. When the risk-free interest rate started to exceed the yield on these assets, the MBS value declined. As a result SBV became insolvent.

Either it was an isolated, stupid move by a big bank who expected that interest rates would not rise, or they didn't care because of moral hazard.
They made a bet that people wouldn't need their money back right now. It's the constant risk in fractional reserve banking.

SVB should have purchased more swaps or swaptions, but this is me Monday morning quarterbacking. If depositors had left their money like It's a Wonderful Life things would have been fine.
Agreeing with this, and likewise I wanna suggest for some coffee drinkers who are skeptical on "coffee nerds" to try a coffee cupping (basically a form of coffee tasting, like wine tasting, where different beans are prepared identically in a particular method good for producing a very strong and flavour-filled coffee).

When you have different beans, especially from different climates, regions, and preparation methods, and taste them side-by-side. You'll notice characteristics that you would not otherwise notice drinking from day-to-day; and the ability to taste and emphasize those characteristics is why coffee nerds use different techniques and forms of equipment.

It's easy enough to make a quality coffee that is tasty (a sub-$10 of supermarket ground coffee, a sub-$10 french press, and a pot of boiling water can produce a good coffee). But to emphasize things like fruity and floral notes requires extracting coffee in particular ways to bring them to the forefront; like ensuring that coffee is constantly exposed to fresh unsaturated water, for particular amount of time, with a certain surface-area, within a narrow temperature range.
I want to like helix and have tried to daily-drive it

it just seems missing so much still

a quick example - in emacs, I can do "comment-region" and I will get to comment out a selection with the right comment sequence - afaik even something as simple as that doesn't work in helix

so many other things

minor modes are important...in emacs I can have spell checking as a "minor mode" when editing markdown...how do I do this in helix?

easy support for lsp is fine but that means helix is useless if you don't have lsp for a file format you are working on...like .txt! emacs is still a great TEXT editor

maybe one day helix will be an option, not today
No. Their prices are not adjusted for local market rates because their reasons only make sense when paying their employees.
"the West" does not officially mean anything, other than vaguely refer to Cold war sides. This is why it is not a very useful model (like left and right in politics).

Poland is definitely Western aligned, as Japan or Australia, which shows the absurdity of this model.
I think attributing any sort of emotion to them is out of place.

I'd argue that there's complete antipathy at the politician and elite level. And that turns "illegal child labor" into a cost of doing business. And from the looks of it, a quite lucrative form of doing business.

I think you're misjudging the emotions (I'd argue they have none). I don't think you're insane.