skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an increasing tendency to interpret these things in false dichotomies, I've found. If you criticise libertarians you must be a socialist and vice versa. I had a similarly frustrating encounter the other day, where my critique of the interaction between capitalism and democracy in the US was constantly construed as some sort of glorification of socialism, even when I never mentioned it. My patience for this type of thinking is worn pretty thin these days.

My view is simply this: there are numerous different consensus methods in our society. Democracy, academia, courts, markets, bureaucracy, technocracy, and hierarchical command structures. They all have strengths and weaknesses for different problems on which a consensus must be reached. But democracy sits above all these and plays the important role of slowly figuring out where these should be applied and how they should be weighted. This is a very hard problem, no ideology has a self-contained solution. Democracy must be an evolutionary process. The ideas that work stick around after a change of power, and the ones that don't go away, ideally.

Based on this it's crucial for democracy and therefore the government to have some measure of regulatory power over all of these. This is where libertarianism really breaks down. It's far too corrosive to the usefulness of democracy, which is the only thing keeping everything together in the end.
Definitely hearing the feedback that we need better communication on pricing and sizing! A 24kbtu at 5F heat pump is much bigger than a 24kbtu heat pump at 47F so its not an apples to apples comparison. You're right about ductless offering more opportunity for zoning, but I think most homeowners with ducts would like a drop-in replacement for their furnace, not a bunch of extra hardware in each room.
Yes. Software-based ICs.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/03/software-ics-binary-comp...
I just made the transition in the other direction. I did a Masters in computer vision, then worked at a startup doing computer vision and machine learning work for 2 years. I recently transitioned into app dev.

There are 2 levels to ML/AI, being a researcher and being an engineer. The researcher actually creates new models, architectures, etc. You're going to need to be talented at math, as well as pursue a PhD to have enough time to absorb some subset of the material to have a good understanding. (A masters was good but not enough time for me personally).

Then there is engineering which is leveraging the creations of the very smart PhDs. At least in my experience, the shallow level is basically fine-tuning models to your use case, which does require an understanding of some things like loss functions, train/validation/test sets, but it's not too complicated.

Everyone that asks me how to learn machine learning, I advise them to read Hands on Machine Learning by Aurélien Géron cover to cover. When I first started my masters I did this and it helped immensely because it was easy to understand, was broad, and was interested usually from an application perspective.

From there, I would suggest learning PyTorch (starting w/ Keras is ok too, but don't stay there too long, and avoid Tensorflow), as it's much easier to develop with. I always learn best with a personal project, so maybe see if there is a real life "problem" you'd be interested in solving, like classifying different pets from each other or something like that.

It'll take a while to build up your skills, so going to school is of course an option, but with dedication I think you can also accomplish this solely with side projects and learning on your own. Best of luck!
> the ORM, the ORM's weird edge case features that actually support the SQL I want, the undocumented ORM internals that prevent the good query from actually being generated

ORMs are much less bad than SQL at that, IME. If the ORM generated a particular query there is usually documentation for why, often an option you can change. If the SQL engine decided not to use the right index for this query... tough, there's literally nothing you can do.
> True innovation from the government's perspective is increasing its control of citizens and the efficiency of their labor by any means necessary.

I'd be curious how you justify this when the U.S. (largely agreed-upon to be the most corporate-friendly first-world country over the past 50 years or so) has the largest police-state, prison population, military, etc etc etc. Other economies where the government isn't essentially an arm of the corporate world are much freer. It's almost as if when governments are actually democratically elected (rather than representatives being filtered through the money primary), governments tend to represent the interests of the people.
Let's suppose that you want to switch over, say, Chicago, to be fully electric heat pump driven. Let's further suppose you want to do this over 25 years.

There are just over 1M households in Chicago. If we assume (wrongly) that nobody has heat pumps today, that conversion needs to take place in 123 households every day of every year for the next 25 years. If the contractors don't work weekends, it's 153 households a day.

And all this while the same thing has to take place in Houston, NYC, LA and cities and towns of every size at the same time.

That's a huge task even spread out over 25 years. It seems very unlikely we will meet that goal, so your hand wringing over heat-pump induced blackouts seems misplaced.
I’m not sure I understand the consistency argument… Do you have an example, even if it’s just a silly one?
The negligence exception is hard to understand. I guess the over the top good faith interpretation is that it is meant to transfer liability to the school? But there's no reason to shield the employer from civil liability in the case of negligence.

The rest of the changes to the Iowa law don't seem particularly egregious:

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF167&ga=...

It's hard to read, but it seems like the change related to meat packing allows 14 and 15 years to package meat in a cooler, where before they would have to do it in a room that wasn't a cooler? Like there's a provision in the under 18 section about no work in slaughter, meat packing and rendering, but an exception for assembly.

Like fine, there isn't really that much need to do a nuanced read of how involved a 14 year old should be in packing meat, but the change to the law there doesn't seem very big, essentially updating it to allow for modern practices (with the caveat that I read it in a reasonably correct way, I'm not gonna argue very hard that I did...).
It's great to see more heat pump options being developed, free from the assumptions of traditional manufacturers.

Combining air quality and ventilation with the same appliance is great (most houses lack systems for either of those). I don't see it addressed whether or not their fresh air systems will do heat-recovery. This is also a big energy saver when fresh air is being introduced, and would eliminate the need for a separate HRV/ERV system. So it's better to think of this as 3 systems in one: Heating, Ventilation and A/C (hence HVAC). Most houses have at best H and AC.

It will be very interesting to see how their heat pump sizing tools work. Right now, there is an epidemic of HVAC contractors installing massively over-sized heat pumps in a house by naively using the same rules of thumb they use for gas furnaces.

This often results in short cycling, higher-than-necessary electricity use, and ultimately discomfort. This is even worse when the heat pump air handlers and duct-work are installed in unconditioned spaces (common in temperate climates). In places with high energy prices (i.e. California) this results in huge energy bills.

The elephant in the room is of course the poor quality and leaky building envelopes that are commonplace across the country. This equipment can't solve that problem.
The URL usually lives on arweave, which is a binary blockchain.

metaplex defaults to arweave for uploads.
They would exist, they just wouldn't be as small/power efficient.

Also, "necessity is the mother of invention".
I thought stability AI was a private company
That's quite generous to estimate that 2% of the population knows what is an API !

My first guess would be more like 99.98% don't know about APIs

But yes, that 2% or whatever is an important set of leaders
Background: C++ since around 1998, added in Python around 2008, Rust around 2016

While I agree with everything in the article, some times I wish I could have it both ways with:

> First of all, generics without duck typing are greatly appreciated. Traits clearly indicate the contract struct or function expects from the type, which is great. This also helps compiler to generate helpful error messages. Instead of “invalid reference to method clone() on line Y” you get “type X does not implement Clone” - clean and informative.

I will say that there are times when I wish I could sneak in some duck typed traits, particularly `Debug`. Sometimes you are working in generic or dynamic dispatch code and just want to use `dbg!` but can't because (1) you didn't think ahead or were too lazy to annotate things with `Debug`, (2) you are a bit paranoid about excluding a type that doesn't support `Debug`, or (3) You are doing dynamic dispatch and `FooTrait + Debug` only works for generics.

`Debug` is also just one example. Overall, I love the explicitness but at times I do wish I could fudge things a little.
this is why I went with LG ceiling mounted cassettes. IMO it's even better than floor vents (they stay cleaner, floors are easier to clean) or ducted ceiling vents (each cassette can target the air movement direction actively toward humans).

and all the electronic bits are in the attic so the noise is a little better.
Yea, these emails are maddening. The subject (“..it's time to check in on your credit”) and body (“It's a good idea to sign in regularly to make sure your credit report and FICO® Score* are accurate.”) don’t even contain anything useful. They arrive once a month for me seemingly on a timer.

You can write filter rules but then they go and change the subject on you.

I wish emails could have an accurate topic ID or something to more easily target filter rules but that would require a cooperative relationship with the sender, so…
At my company we operate something similar to that with 2 system engineers and 2 network engineers. 2 main offices and 2 separate physical COLO datacenters + lots of satellite offices and remote workers. Everything is HA and we have a DR site that is mostly unused. Everything is backed up securely (push only) and can be easily restored (database aware) extremely quickly if needed. In an absolutely worst case shit hits the fan scenariou there are automated tape backups stored offsite.

Hardware is easier, cheaper, and more reliable than ever and I rarely (system engineer) have to go out somewhere. Harddrives still occasionally fail but with a strong RAID and multiple hot spares your system will not even think about failure until you have a lot of failed drives (and even then you have a whole separate redundtant storage array to HA over to). I would estimate someone has to drive out there every 6 months on average - often less. Rarely a piece of RAM will fail. By the time I drive to the COLO the replacement drive or part is already there (the system automatically calls home and orders a replacement part from the vendor).

All of these systems are daisy chained together with multiple 40 or 100gig ethernet links so that even if a core switch goes down + multiple servers everything will keep running.

Does this take awhile inititally to setup? Yes it does. Does it take a lot of work to maintain and upgrade? Not at all.
It's a tricky judgment call and not everybody will receive it the same. But I like learning little tidbits! Crucially, I don't think poster did a "pedantic correction" for the sake of unfairly dismissing the point ; they did it to educate and that always gets credit in my book :)
The union part is just an (obvious) optimization. An implementation detail. Sum types are not required to use a union; they can be implemented without using a union.
We’ve tried to make it and followed a bunch of recipes but it always gets “stringy” or “slimy”. Have you had that problem?
We've heard similar arguments in post-soviet countries regarding farming land - private land owners will take better care of the land, will protect the wildlife, won't poison their own land, etc.

Privatization didn't help ... small owners rent their land to the big ag, wildlife is still being decimated, land degradation accelerated, and now there are new deserts in central Europe (last week there was a sand storm in Hungary and Slovakia).
If we have strict liability for truck drivers nobody will sign up to drive hazardous cargo.
> OpenAI's terms of use prohibit developing models that compete with OpenAI.

People shouldn't collaborate with Ope(ratio)nAI's attempt to poison the English language with its name.

Government shouldn't allow lies to be trademarked brand names. It's fraud.
Interesting. What makes ACH special?
> the crypto tech cycle was one of the stupidest things

Same was said for the user-generated content that lived in the community forums on the fringes of the web back in 2000s. Big sites and 6-figure columnists even suggested that these were 'littering' the Internet.

15 years later, content is user-generated, and now there is even something that is called the 'creator economy'. And even those 6-figure, out-of-touch elite columnists who derided it are jumping on the bandwagon.

...

Crypto is a technology. It does things. We observe that it is able to do things and it works. Its just missing a widescale use-case. The moment someone finds that use-case, it will explode like how the actual web exploded back then. Solely the DAO concept is revolutionary by itself, enabling large-scale, democratic economic organization for the masses, which was not possible or difficult and totally non-transparent before. That a few people here and there used it for dumb reasons or failed in accomplishing various objectives like buying the constitution etc does not change what potential DAOs provide.

Of course, there is also the problem of crypto space and all the features and applications within them being WAY too out of the average user's league in terms of user friendliness. Just like how it required knowing what a 'forum' was, knowing how to 'register', and then even knowing the right people who could refer you to the forum so that the administration would approve your membership back in early 2000s.
A union in C++ is the same thing as a struct, except all of its fields live at the same offset. So you can define any method you want on it, including special stuff like constructors and destructors. No base classes are allowed, though.
> Learning straight SQL is far more transferable across databases than learning an ORM.

Not my experience. For example a recursive/tree query usually has one way to do it in an ORM, but three or four different ways to express it in SQL depending on the database, some of which seem like they're wilfully screwing you over (one popular database requires you to only write "WITH" and won't recognise "WITH RECURSIVE"; another requires you to write "WITH RECURSIVE", even though the error message it gives you when you only write "WITH" tells you that it knew exactly what you meant).
Yeah, there are truths that most of us don't understand until we have experienced them. I was told to enjoy being young, sucks getting old, you won't be able to eat like that forever... yeah yeah. We all know we die from an early age, but most of us don't fully comprehend what that means until we are older and our youth is gone.
US banks sitting on unrealized losses of $620B
I am not a target customer for the product. Just came here to congratulate you on launching. And good luck!
Why is that your number one recommendation?
> If you decide to like the stuff anyway you might as well make it at home

Posted elsewhere as well but we used cold water and very short bursts for blending with our vitamix, and still get sliminess. Any ideas?
On the contrary, I'm glad to see the death of yet another scam targeting artists. People might have been trying to convince artists it could provide revenue, but I don't believe many of those people were themselves artists. It felt very much like "here you go, use this technology, we know best", because from the very start of the scam I saw artists unambiguously asserting they wanted no part in it, but lots of art being wrapped up in NFTs without permission.
Nice, good to know, thanks!
Ask HN: Who is looking for code contributors?
The objective of this post is to have a list of your open source projects so that individuals who are interested in contributing or offering feedback can give you a hand or two.
I remember trying to use cocoapods back in 2015/2016, right around the time that Swift was technically available but not ready for production. I literally gave up trying to import packages, it was a shitshow.
But… that’s a bank…
On Being an Unreliable Source of Information for Yourself
How did you settle on the Chefwave among the competitors?
I grew up in a town very similar to this in the 90s.

It’s nostalgic for me. Showing the conditions people live in isn’t necessarily exploiting them. Some of these people look very happy—take joy in their joy being captured and seen by hundreds of thousands of people decades later.
I gather you've never seen the print edition of

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

or suffered through endless advertisements for Shen Yun.

Edit: according to above, they've pivoted somewhat in terms of their political stance and direction since 2016.

Apparently Doctor Strange 2 ran afoul of censors for neglecting to scrub out an Epoch Times newspaper box that appeared briefly in a scene shot on location in New York.
Looks similar to Nitro https://nitro.h2o.ai/ and Wave https://wave.h2o.ai/ - both open source. Nitro already works with WebAssembly via Pyodide. (Author here)
Don't agree. Americans recieve an absurd amount of end of life care. In many, many case outcomes would be improved by putting people in hospice instead of invasive surgery that increase their lifespan by maybe a year. Our medical system discourages preventative care which is much more cost effective, but in the end we need to say no to many more end of life procedures.
> The problem (I guess) is that aerial/satellite/orthorectified are not equivalent.

Yep I agree - I would call it orthorectified georeferenced imagery but unless you're in the GIS/OSM space you probably don't know what that means. I agree that "birds-eye" would have been a good alternative.

Satellite imagery is technically incorrect whether it's from a iPhone or a plane but that's what most people call it and know it by. (I love this thread on how "satellite" almost became known as "bird mode": https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1099370126678253569)

I chose aerial imagery as an in-between - understandable to everyone, still not correct but less incorrect than satellite imagery.
Anyone can create any signed document with any contents.

What they cannot do is forge your signature.

This is how asymmetric crypto works.
My point is that they're stupid for the exact same reason.

You buy "something". That "something" doesn't represent any legal right for you. If you buy a NFT of an image, you won't be the copyright owner of that image. You can't stop other people from using it either. Maybe there are some exceptions, but generally you just don't get anything legally. Similarly, buying a star doesn't give you legal right on that star.

Why does doing this programatically make it different? Plus, buying a star is not inherently non-programmable. You can launch a star registry with an API. You can laucnh an NFT for stars. What makes buying a star stupid is that it doesn't represent any legal right, not that it's doesn't scale.
The really interesting part of this is what else is tied to that CA. If it’s just Puppet, it’s bad enough; internal PKIs have a habit of metastasizing into lots of other places, though, precisely because everything internal trusts them. Worst-case here is that some piece of the internals of the Twitter app relies on things from that CA—-for instance, it relies on packages to do app config changes or updates and the packages have to be signed from that chain or served from something with a cert from it. In that case they’d be hosed: you’d have to replace every copy of the Twitter app. Fairly unlikely, but wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen it happen.

Beyond that, though: Internal build systems? Data encryption? User client auth to critical services? Internal app mTLS for data exchanges? The list of possibilities goes on and on…
If you want to know why wealth tends to concentrate over time, followed by a collapse, this is it.

The Habsburgs had the gold and silver wealth of the New World pouring into their treasury, and the sympathetic catholic Fugger's loaning them money at what were then considered Christian rates, and they still collapsed within a century.
Hey congrats! Quick question if you don't mind, I'm learning about game engines. With your experience across so many engines, what made you choose Unreal Engine (UE) and stick with it? I'm liking UE as well but haven't dabbled in other engines prior to UE, so just want to make sure I'm not missing anything before jumping into UE.
This is exactly where things are headed. Think reddit reposts of external social media posts with usernames scrubbed.
There are plenty of good technical boards out there, but there are few good startup communities. I'd rather have the startup discussions over everything else.
Almonds use a lot of water but they are also quite valuable. Maybe we get there eventually, but to start we just need to make enough of a price signal come through that the really low value + high water usage stuff stops.
Your comment seems as good a place as any to drop the requisite Yegge compiler evangelism piece: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
100%. If you can find a quality rip of the vinyl I'll take that for convenience (I have ~1000 vinyl records so I have my fill of that magic) but especially something from long ago transferred to CD in the 80's I'm going to be very skeptical of.

Another huge factor that affects the sound is the damned stylus. It's like switching speakers. Each one has its own signature. Then there's the phono preamp/RIAA filter too! I prefer our modern times where only the choice of speakers matters that much. Think of all the permutations of stylus, preamp, and speakers you had to consider in the early HiFi days.
GitHub is not just hosted Git. It is a platform.
In the US, you are required to discard bycatch under penalty of law. As a professional fisherman you aren't even allowed to eat it. They don't want to discard it, they are required to.

The regulation nominally exists to disincentivize bycatch but anecdotally it seems to just ensure that bycatch becomes waste.
Thanks for your support! What do you use for heating and cooling today?
That has never worked for me. I thought it was deprecated.
Here in Sweden we have major issues with hydroelectric power preventing salmons from reaching their spawning areas. Some rivers have limited or event stopped fishing because there just aren't enough that survive the trip past the power stations (that assuming there is a path past them for the fish to use).

Is there similar issues in California?
If you could convert the Uranium into a hydrocarbon first. Otherwise you would be an alchemist.

You could have a Uranium powered greenhouse, light and heat. Might be better to use it as an energy source for converting oil into food.
You can also use more than one COLO or have your DR stuff located in the cloud provider of your choice :-)