skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well this is different. Palantir is a defense contractor, their biggest customer IS the government. So of course connections matter for Palantir. My question pertains more to start ups in general.
The anonymity allows me to be open and transparent about finances that I wouldn’t be able to if I identified myself. On my other accounts I mainly just post programming related stuff, nothing special.
We like being paid too much.

There is always another dev who likes being paid more than bring moral.
Yes, it's always been broken. You can search for an identifier that exists in code on the main branch and get zero results.
Does it do well with large elevation changes over long distances, or is the lidar mapping all relative to the current location of the phone?
‘Setting up’? There are so many scripts and tools etc to just run one command to have whatever you need. There are services that will do it for you if you enter the ip and key. Not sure how anyone would spend more than 1 minute on ‘setting up’. Yes, it’s worth it, because it takes no time flat and VPSs these days are reliable and very cheap compared to cloud offerings.
Oh wow. I didn't know it was powered by a different model. I assumed they were all powered by ChatGPT. That's good to know.
That really isn't the same product, as I understand this is an HRV combined with heat pump system where they are software integrated to PID controls that optimize the level of fresh air and weather aware energy utilization, with a system like this and a startup I'm sure optimizations like this https://youtu.be/0f9GpMWdvWI?t=432 should be possible - this is like Dropbox, can't expect people to roll their own - and you need a fully integrated system to really make this work well without comfort, even simpler if cooling/heating is more efficient via bringing in fresh air this system could choose to do that vs running the heat pump at all!
> DAOs already exist

They're also a pretty niche application. And I'm not convinced they're something that requires blockchain to accomplish anyway.

> Anything that gets mass adoption ends up 'sexy'

Not if it ends up being an invisible piece of machinery, which I think is the most likely result. Different bits of the more interesting tech will get incorporated into larger systems to support their goals. The larger systems may (or may not) be sexy, but the bits of crypto they incorporate will just be background players to that.

But then, the surest way to be wrong is to predict the future. Who knows what will really happen?
There’s a good reason we don’t build real buildings or machines out of legos
Honestly, ORM is an unnecessary layer most of the time.

You can have database schemas, and you can have software schemas, and they don't necessarily need to coincide as long as your database schema allows efficient queries. The rest of your relational-manager-logic can be embedded in the post-processing methods you apply to the query results.
The us has a large surplus of Asian carp. It’d be beneficial for the ecosystem if this invasive species became popular to eat to encourage more fishing of it.

Not all commercial fishing is bad.
I had a pachinko machine at home with an autolauncher, and yeah, if you twist it all the way, it goes over there, and you're adjusting and trying to get it to be more towards the right place.

But also, it's tremendously boring, at least IMHO. A lot of pinball skill shots also let you cheat --- most of the ones where you're trying to get it into a lit lane, you can change the lane with the flippers; you still need to get it to go through the lanes and not elsewhere, but you don't need to be quite so precise. Otoh, there's a lot of them where the target is always the same --- one particular hole in a ramp, etc. But either way, there's lots to do with the flippers, and just shooting more balls I can't control very much just doesn't entertain me for very long.
I think it was quite fair to think they could have sold 10 year treasuries at cost at least. An invert yield curve for this long is not normal. But yes maybe they should have laddered better.
The Building of Worlds (2012)
Ask HN: Is there any open source tool for testing load on website
I just wanted to ask that is there any open source or free tool exists which can help to do load testing like at what no. of users the server will crash, I just want to know that on how much load(no. of users) my server will crash so that I'll be prepare accordingly when I know the numbers of users might be coming on my website.
> There isn't enough money in the world to insure the bank deposits of every business.

And yet, that is exactly how it's been done for a very, very long time.

There is, of course, enough money to insure all of the deposits, for the same reason there's enough money to insure all the buildings, all the ships, and so forth.
I don’t want to pick on your post specifically, but I find this legislating and nitpicking over the exact wording of layoff announcements — that follows every single one of them — to be pretty pointless
Until it hangs at dependencies resolution step which happened to me recently on a fastapi/sqlachemy project. Had to add deps one by one not to overwhelm it (rollseyes).

Also doesn't play nice with publishing to custom pypi destinations (e.g. self-hosted Gitlab) in my experience. I could track down the issue but the code around was clearly a mess so that I gave up on that one.
> £6k from a book is a rounding error. It's play.

Or it's the beginning.
> Kingman, where a Saudi-backed company grows alfalfa for export back to the Middle East
I'll be honest, it hurts me to see people shit on something, likely because of the sentiment towards NFTs at the moment. It's definitely not the first time I've seen a lot of smart people on HN look at things in an off-way. There are bad actors, there are bad actors everywhere with any physical goods as well. I'm just trying to build something I enjoy and others will too. That something happens to use NFTs.
Someone has to say it.
Homeowners don't talk much in the mass media. But they're more savvy when it comes to regulations.
Please stop posting stuff related to this specific superconductor research team. Its not replicated, its from a team that's made an awkward retraction directly relevant to this research, and its under scrutiny. This just feels like spam.
People just don’t take care of their bodies nor have “good” senses to even tell, I mean half these comments are admitting to no taste, don’t be surprised when they mean that literally
How would that work?
When scores were good it definitely wasn’t immigrants but now it’s falling it definitely is?

For what it’s worth, here is a graph of immigrant population over time.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...
Meanwhile, ConocoPhillips just got permission to drill out an estimated 600 million barrels over the next 30 years in Alaska. It’s very hard to not feel hopeless and pessimistic about the future.
Yeah, about half of the people in the world live in oppressive dictatorships, at odds with freedom and liberalism of Europe. That's certainly a problem but not exactly Europe's problem.
boost::variant has been around forever.

Most modern C++ codebases do compile-time polymorphism via templates, though. std::variant is a niche use for things like serialization, when you need to make type choices at runtime.
> This is meant to be installed by a professional contractor, not the homeowner.

This quote was obviously to emphasize that HVAC contractors make money from margin on equipment sales and not labor, which (according to OP) means you end up targeting people who either can do it themselves or purchase this before finding out how hard it is to find a certified technician willing to basically waste their time on installing a HVAC system for little profit.

The only way I can see this working is if perhaps Electric Air pays a hefty commission to their HVAC techs as a way to ensure they still profit from their time, which is what I assume OP was trying to find out.
I do ~$15k/m in royalties from 3 nonfiction titles[1] which mostly sell via word of mouth (as opposed to hands-on marketing and/or author platform stuff). So it's definitely possible, if you approach it properly.

It's true, as another commenter mentioned, that the expected result of most nonfiction is zero. But in my opinion, that's largely because most nonfiction today is built like software in built like software in the 90s, without proper user-facing iteration and refinement. I wrote a whole thing about it[2].

Books created as a cynical cash-grab are already negative value in terms of time investment and opportunity cost. I think they're only worth getting into if you care enough about it (either the end result or the activity) to do it regardless of the money. And then, only once that's true, perhaps start looking for ways to optimize it as a process and product.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00J77JH5G/allbooks
[2] https://helpthisbook.com/robfitz/useful/
> Lawmakers cannot change if they so choose... They can modify it,

You know here all this time I thought that "modify" is a synonym of "change". So can lawmakers modify it or can they not modify it?
> What is the benefit of direct to consumers is you are going to charge more?

I'm going to guess there's a very specific target market for this, 'lazy' people with a lot of money who don't really do a lot of research before they buy stuff. They are aware of climate change and the need to reduce emissions and have heard of heat pumps as a solution. They've already installed solar panels through a similar service that made the process seamless. They don't want to spend hours calling contractors, getting estimates and selecting someone who is trustworthy. They've bought the same brand car from the same dealership for the last 40 years or so because it's familiar and has worked every time.

There's a massive group of people in the 50-70 age range who are like this. But there are also plenty young people who are like this. Heck, I almost paid quite a lot more for my bathroom than necessary, because of the convenience of the store also installing the bathroom. This meant no need to find a decent contractor (there are many awful ones over here).
I do not live or work in SV, but it's kind of interesting to me that this comment has no responses. Is that because what the parent states as being true is not actually the case, or is there some other reason why there are no responses to this comment? From my own experience with startups many moons ago (albeit on the East Coast, first Philadelphia and then New York) the parent comment rings true: it was my experience that startups totally helped each other out with (as examples) required documentation (e.g. regulatory stuff that's base-level, non-negotiable for specific spaces), tech-type things (e.g. you will probably encounter this question/problem, here's how we handled it) and other stuff too. Granted, this was in situations where the "helper" was not a direct competitor to the "helpee", but often they were at least in the same general market, otherwise the help being offered wouldn't even apply.

Edit: clarification
In the future we'll likely show the condenser more in context, a backyard or something similar.

I don't know that much about thermoacoustic heat pumps. I do suspect they're less efficient than a standard vapor compression heat pumps, otherwise that would be their main selling point in the commercialization project underway: https://www.blueheartenergy.com/ourtechnology.
> Ligatures typically change the appearance of a character, they do not change the meaning

Anyone can use a hyphen for all three purposes right now and people would understand the meaning, because the meaning is primarily derived from the context of surrounding glyphs. Only typesetters would complain that a subtly more appropriate glyph should be used for the purposes of refined optics and geometry etc.

Therefore an endash and emdash ligature could only change the meaning IF the context of each use case overlap. i.e if there is a valid glyph based context in which endash and emdash are both valid... which I don't think there is because that would be far too subtle.
You mean we didn’t accept enough smart immigrants bc covid and idiotic uscis roadblocks right?
Only those 250K and below depositors will get their money back pay by Fed. Amount greater than that subject to availability of asset fire sales AFTER more senior debts repaid. Depositors are considered "investors" by SCOTUS and hence has much lower pecking order than other secured debts. They are higher than unsecured debt and stockholders if that is the silver linings you looking for.
> how people are trying to tackle this

I don't think "people" actually tackle this. Ask a kid or non-professional to draw animal hands/feet without learning them first, e.g. crocodile hand, or feet of a seal. "People" ends up with uncanny drawings as well.

There are tons of face photo on the Internet, but few of them are with hands clear visible.
Fingers crossed someone buys them, I'm embarrassed that I'm so underwater in this stock, really regret buying it, one of my emotional purchases. :\
Or we can discuss whether IQ is relevant at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20555229
BLOOM is not open in the usual sense of the word as it has an ethical license (I wrote a longer comment about this way back [1]). I doubt that this is an issue for academic usage, but I am not sure how comfortable one should be basing a company on compliance with (what is so far) an untested license with vague and wide wording.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079558

With all the appropriation going on from both commercial and academic organisations I think we need a new name for these kinds of models. Currently I am leaning towards “restricted”, as they are neither open, nor proprietary.
Made the same comment earlier, copped the down vote but I agree, I absolutely cannot believe it. I also read they will need to artificially freeze the sea bed to make it possible, which will require a huge amount of energy and therefor emissions.

Really wild.
Perhaps the most comprehensive NCAA tournament Guide
Can you explain more exactly how the CCP's version achieves "total social control"? I have seen many examples of Chinese people acting in ways that are not congruent with the CCP's morality.
This is the wrong way to go about it. Instead of trying to force that informaiton into the model via training, you need to set it up such that it "thinks out loud" as it answers the question, generating intermediate queries against your data sources in the process.

Take a look at this chat log from Bing. Note that the user only sees the stuff that is marked #message and #suggestions.

https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/Prompts_Conve...

Then take a look at https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, specifically the Document Loaders and the Indexes sections to begin with.
But even that’s broken, as it may be true of one issue, but most people care about more than one thing and the US system doesn’t really allow for that. It’s a pretty crude democracy by current standards.
I read modifying it requires like super super majority like over 80% of approval from senate legislature, effectively it couldnt be done

So it is yes and no i guess, in theory yes, in practice better forget about it. This is state constitution, it isnt meant to be modified as someone pleases
Yeah, its a good question. I think 'direct to homeowners' has generated some confusion that this is a DIY product. After a purchase we have one of our contractor partners perform the install, they also bring the unit with them, we don't ship the unit to you and expect you to find your own installer or DIY.
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It's not just fish.

The sheer number of animals that are slaughtered to produce meat for human consumption is absolutely mind-boggling. In addition to the fish, humans killed 72 billion chickens, 3.3 billion ducks, 1.3 billion pigs, over a half-billion geese, turkeys, rabbits, sheep, and goats (each!), over 300 million cattle, and over 70 million rodents for food in 2019 alone [1].

Animal agriculture overall generates more CO2 emissions than every automobile, ship, and airplane on Earth - more carbon than the entire transportation sector. An overwhelming majority of arable land on this planet is used to feed those animals, fated to death from birth, rather than humans - in many developing countries, humans starve while livestock are plumped for slaughter and export. [2]. 75% of historic deforestation in the Amazon, 55% of erosion, 60% of nitrogen pollution, and 44% of anthropogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions (each) are a direct result of animal agriculture [3].

If you live in the US, like I do, it's not just the animals and the environment that suffer under animal agriculture. It's an open secret that undocumented children are exploited to work in slaughterhouses in this country [4] while politicians are actively rolling back protections for those exploited children [5] to ensure that boneless skinless chicken breasts stay cheap at WalMart.

There is no such thing as sustainable animal agriculture - it is a lie used to greenwash products, to make us feel righteous when we pay for corpses at the grocery store or restaurant. The only sane and ethical response to this devastation is to completely reject the economic exploitation of animals - to adopt a fully vegan philosophy. Of course, this does cause some difficulties in the modern context (especially in the US), but the trouble of learning to cook vegetables and seitan is nothing compared to the harm that animal agriculture causes to billions of humans and non-humans every year. (It also cured my high blood pressure and pre-diabetes in three months, but everyone knows vegetables are good for you :)

[1] https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL (https://web.archive.org/web/20211208184438/https://www.fao.o...)
[2] https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomf....
[3] https://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/food/animal-agricult...
[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-...
[5] https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2023/03/13/arkansas-...
Congratulations on your success! I actually own one of your books and recommend it regularly
What's your preferred thermostat?
> I simply don't believe in fetishizing "true" (and therefore "untrue") innovation.

I don’t think there’s a hard obvious line, but if I invent a machine that can take $1 from every other American’s wallet and put it into mine I am quite comfortable calling that “untrue” innovation.

When thousands of companies have opaque versions of this business model, you notice it on a macro level
I appreciate that the whole tracking script fits on my smartphone screen.
Based on your comment I assumed it was published in something like Nature Scientific Reports, but it seems like it's actually published in Nature Nature?

More context on the retraction: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/40
"Panic" and "exception" is literally the same thing.

Sorry you were misled, but programming is, indeed, hard, and no, you can't go shopping instead.
"blew up" can be positive or negative depending on context. Generally when talking about a physical object it's negative, when talking about a personal endeavor it's generally positive.

"My server blew up" is likely negative.

"My youtube channel blew up" is likely positive, it means it went viral.

If a business blew up, it's almost certainly positive.
No, we should not ban farming or forgive student debt.
I hear your sentiment. As a backend / ML guy who tried to ship projects as a solo dev: I do understand JS/HTML. I understand the programming model of web and still build things the conventional way: templating on server which returns HTML. But lot of time still goes in CSS, to get things exactly working the way we want.

The catch is trying to keep up with Javascript complexity. Javascript/react world is entirely different beast. Spent some time understanding class based React. But then things moved to hooks. I sort of started grokking hooks. But now there is new clamour (not yet mainstream) about something new like server side components or signals or hydration or what not. Same is the case with Svelte. I tried the basic tutorials, understood it. But Svelte kit started talking about 100 different ideas about server pre-rendering components etc. I thought why bother? Jinja2 templating and bit of inline JS looked a better option.

Python devs want to stick to Python because it is still second best language to get something out there, quickly. Except for UI. Currently I'm looking into using HTMX as much as possible. If this thing solves for UI side of it then I'll definitely give it a try.
> Without going too deep: If you need 100% backup for solar, why use solar

This is where you started. Now you're doubling down on the gaslighting,

You were very explicit and batteries or a resilient VRE system with other renewables were notnl what you were talking about.

And you are consistently disrespectful, arrogant and condescending. The only person stupid enough to think the cry bully act will work is you. Thinking that your snide condescention is subtle is not the same as it not being blindingly obvious.
https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/index.html

My personal favorite is Svelte
Only if they have a good salary
As a former midwesterner I cannot understand why catfish shows up on coastal menus. For the lulz?

Outside of New Orleans, the only other useful preparation of catfish is pet food.
> If you don't like Experian then don't do business with people that use Experian.

Yeah… that’s not how that works. Generally:

1. You have no idea in advance what credit reporting agencies the lender or employer will use.

2. Even if you know, you’re now fighting two kafkaesque bureaucracies at once instead of just one. Enjoy that.

3. The consequences are life-altering.

4. For mortgages it’s often required to query all three credit reporting agencies.

5. If you make known your issue, most lenders take it as a sign you aren’t credit-worthy

6. All three agencies are huge sacks of shit. There’s no ethical reason to object to Experian but not to the others. They’re all utterly horrid in effectively every aspect.

7. It is literally impossible to opt out of your information being stored and disseminated by the credit reporting agencies, and their business is legally protected.
The fallout1-ce and fallout2-ce repos got archives fairly recently as well. Looking at the owner's name made me concerned that exactly this was happening.
strange this is downvoted. Serious denial among the wannabes here. Everyone in the know, knows this is true.
I mean, the USSR’s state-run actions completely drained and destroyed one of the largest inland seas in the world. Public isn’t always the answer either.

What really works for ocean policy is putting informed experts in charge of global regulations and everyone adhering to the rules under strict observation and penalties. It’s just really hard to get those institutions setup.

There’s an opportunity to use the existing UNCLOS framework to establish rules around commercial fishing operations, but they’ve been stalled for years. Likely because China is the worst offender and currently disputes a lot of the rules around sea/ocean territory given their interests in their immediate maritime spaces.
The anti-healthcare governments that have been recently elected at the state level have managed to outright criminalize reproductive healthcare, making health plan coverage moot. So this would be seemingly less of its own concern than it was say five years ago.
Odd post admitting that the publisher does little to market the book and then not mentioning it either...
Our historical enemies continue to hate us. What a surprise.