skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I think of audiophiles, I imagine a couple of wealthy successful older men hanging out on a weekend. While the wives are elsewhere talking about the latest vacation or whatever, they need something to talk about.

Because they're the kind of men who love maximizing making numbers go up, it needs to have something to do with optimizing performance. Because they're wealthy and their success is a big part of their identity, it needs to be something expensive.

Then, because they're friends who want to feel useful to each other, it needs to be riddled with inscrutable lore. That way there's always some handy bit of research, some nuggets of wisdom that they can share with each other. That's what this is really about: feeling like they can bond by sharing expertise about some complex hard to optimize problem.

The actual problem is self is essentially arbitrary and subjective. In fact, it's better if it is arbitrary. Because any problem that can actually be solved means reaching an end to the ability to kibbitz and geek out. That's why bringing up objective metrics is such a faux pas in the audiophile world: it kills the game. And the whole point is to play the game together, forever.

See also:

* Car tuning

* JavaScript front-end frameworks

* Barbeque

* Linux distros

* Cycling

* Optimizing passenger flying experience
I don’t believe the fed typically marks its assets to market, though I’d be open to a correction on that point. Typically they just roll off the balance sheet by letting assets mature and not re purchasing.

They are indeed trying to shrink their balance sheet, but at the volumes they are working at, the entirety of SVBs assets amount to a few months of the fed’s current volumes.
This story is not about fake identity. Company knew they were minors and ignored it.

Excerpt from story: “Our investigation found Packers Sanitation Services’ systems flagged some young workers as minors, but the company ignored the flags.”
The same way as flat-earthers. Also, showing off. Also, self-suggestion. Also, monetary incentive for vendors to keep their buyers spending money on snake oil.
> 4.5% APY on their money market accounts

It's not on their money market accounts, but regular deposits. If they didn't pay that big of an interest, they won't have been in this position now. Maybe half as bad. But, depositors did profit for this.
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to choose an optimal memcpy.

Some implementations use lossless copying, while other methods are 'lossy'. The differences between GNU libc and Boost are subtle, but important. What this means is that for each year your audio sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have NVMe - it's about 15kbps on M.2, but only 7kbps on eSATA, due to linear velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001 (on Windows 98 using an ancient version of malloc and memcpy), and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. If you ever used uClibc, I hope you kept your original vinyls! Proper memcpy rips (or better yet, ripping directly to factory-fresh RAM) from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place.

Seriously, stick to audiophile-grade library functions: you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.
Thanks! We're using GH Projects for everything, we will update the board with a more long-term roadmap. Python support for wasm isn't where we need it yet, but we definitely want to integrate it when it's ready.
They had the same problem, until last night. Now they can use those long-duration bonds to get a free loan from the Fed for a year.
Love what you're trying to do. I recently moved most of the way off oil-based hydronic baseboard heating in my 1800's New England farmhouse through installing 3 ductless mini-splits with Mitsubishi Hyper Heat condensors. Just to help with your user research, my biggest decision points:

1. Cold weather operation. I get you're saying the units are good down to -15f, but there's nothing like the fact that I can talk to plenty of other people who have good experiences with Hyperheat at -15f to ensure that they'll actually work. Given I'm using these primarily for heat (the AC is a bonus), if they didn't heat well and efficiently at 0f then it was all pointless.
2. Repairability. Again, given I'm trying to use these as my primary heat, I need to know I'll have someone who will service the unit who can be here in a matter of hours. This is why I went away from the DIY route. Most installers around here (semi-rural New England) are super brand aligned and won't service the stuff they don't install.

Would be happy to help with user research if you're looking for folks to talk to.
Maybe people should have the option to save their money in a bank that doesn't loan out their savings at all? Does such a thing exist? I would be willing to pay a flat monthly fee to keep my money in a bank and use their services in lieu of receiving their paltry interest on my savings account, in exchange for the knowledge that they actually have my money. I know this system of massive loan-to-deposit ratios is conducive to economic growth, nevertheless I get the impression we're all being scammed on a fundamental level by the banking system at large- and any suggestion of meaningful change is always dismissed as if this house of cards is just the way things have to be, and always has been
They just want to blame the users
we who use these databases for real problems need LEFT OUTER JOIN and to use LEFT OUTER JOIN you need NULL.
Or the company could at least leave it easy to hack :)
How the Duck Hunt Gun Worked
Haha, you're all making the same misunderstanding as the post I was replying to. The context of the "bits are not bits" is in relation to memcpy, and his lack of understanding that it's not comparing bits to bits, but the method used to transfer said bits.

Which is exactly my point with 0.1 + 0.2. Depending on the methods it will give different outcomes, some more precise than others. Guess it wasn't as obvious as I initially thought.

1s and 0s in the same order are the same, but some data may be lost in the transfer and I don't see why that has to be explained, here of all places. And that's where the Dunning-Kruger reference came from, he thinks it's the bits, when in-fact he would mention the transport had he had more domain knowledge.
Harvard CS50 – Full Computer Science University Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mAITcNt710&list=FLhecciO2y9...
I hate python package management - I really do. But I've never actually had a problem with virtual environments, and I think it's because I just use virtualenv directly (rather than conda or whatever else).

I have these aliases in my .bashrc, and I can't remember the last time I had a major issue.

alias venv='rm -rf ./venv && virtualenv venv && source ./venv/bin/activate'

alias vact='source ./venv/bin/activate'

alias pinstall='source ./venv/bin/activate && pip install . && pip install -r ./requirements.txt && pip install ./test_requirements.txt'

I don't have all the fancy features, like automatically activating the virtualenv when I cd into the directory, but I've always found those to be a bigger headache than they are worth. And if I ever run into some incompatibility or duplicate library or something, I blow away the old venv and start fresh. It's a good excuse to get up and make a cup of tea.
> My understanding is that the FED also announced they will loan money to banks that need to cover a shortfall due to haircuts to bond values caused by rate hikes, but that's just according to a tweet [1] from Thomas Massie an hour ago. I don't know the details of that arrangement.

This was covered by a statement yesterday I think, as I read it in the FT this morning (on GMT).
As someone who was forced to drop out of school and started illegally working 80 hour weeks at 15 it's all just predatory leverage from exploitive adults no matter how they dress it up as oppurtunity.

My parents used to justify it by bringing up historical farm kids, but ostensibly that work effort is then inherited as capital by those kids.

Working for your dads VC firm or your parents restaurant, on the family farm or mowing lawns in the summer. It's all still child exploitation to some extent but at least it's family time and in some sense you are holistically learning end to end business skills. It's questionable but has some educational return. I could see how it might be fine or beneficial, I get that in those situations there is nuance. Kids working in meatpacking plants aren't Michael Dell building PCs to sell in a garage, in fact such labor precludes them from personal autonomy & early, compounding investment in self development.

In our modern times turning an adolecent into a wage slave is evil, the negative impact continues to compound over the life of that child.

Don't get me started on "teen stars" forced to start music careers playing whatever they are told. Many teens in those situations who start out at malleable but willing children become instant victims of abuse the moment they begin to assert their own tastes.
Can someone smarter than me back-work these prices into an implied probability of an actual default?
Stanford Alpaca: An Instruction-following LLaMA model
they did it with ios.

my opinion of apple would change drastically if they let me run my own software on ios. Heck, I can't even access my full filesystem on ios.

(EDIT: without asking permission, let alone paying or renewing a cert)
It's something we'd definitely consider. Is the desire to have thermostat control via any third party?

edit - The current plan has been Matter/thread Homekit + Google Home integration. We can expose at least temperature control via this to everyone.
This is a recommended practice for scripting with Nim if you want a batteries-included language.
There used to be Monster audio cables that cost thousands. The Amazon reviews were hysterical. I can’t find it anymore, but this one has funny reviews for a $1500 HDMI adapter:

https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-6-56-Braided-Cable...

Q: If I plug this into my Flux Capacitor will I finally be able to time travel?

A: Yes because I am actually answering this question from 2035 and its best supported with the flux capacitor
I'd be careful catering to everyone asking for everything but the kitchen sink. Creating a non-cloud capable system is dumb.

If you have customers like commenter above maybe put in a clause in the contract that says they will receive a partial refund if/when there is an acquisition event during the warranty period and bump up their price by 20%.
Us? Boring!? [oinks internally]
Absolutely agree. Going to the office really isn't that bad, if you have some decent privacy. The benefits of face-to-face communication are really great. But an open office takes so much privacy away and so much ability to concentrate. It's not worth it.
The website lists 3 different sizes, but it doesn't say which one is recommended for a home of $SqFt. Do I need a small or medium if my house is ~1100 sqft?
SVB was literally insolvent though. Not only that, but they couldn't put together a rescue stock sale - it fell through. This was not a bank run caused by panic, but a run caused by an already failed, insolvent institution.
In Old Western films the hero would often wear a white cowboy hat, the villain a black one.
Companies expand from where they are founded to reach new labor markets, but that's not the only consideration for where they begin. Startups are founded in SV (and other tech hubs both in and out of the US) because it's an intersection of high quality talent, permissive laws that make it easy to do business (although that doesn't appear to be the case in SV anymore), capital that's willing and able to fund startups, and network effects of being next to loads of other tech companies. Europe is missing pretty much all of that outside talent, and many would argue that even that is questionable because of the typical European work ethic.
If you want to control air quality, you do this with a separate fresh air intake, not with a ducted furnace. Many older homes have furnaces taking air from sub-optimal spaces such as garages or crawl spaces.
To actually answer your question and not bow to the HN-is-reddit comment above: London draws on Kent/other surrounding areas temporarily... big cities (usually) feed into small ones. This (usually) is how it works. In the case of COVID we saw 999 response units being shipped all over the country, including call handlers (ie. England handling Scotland's calls) and response units. There are SO many plans in place for this/time-slip/major incident handling that it's mind boggling.

Source: worked for the NHS, still alive despite there being 48 hour cat 1 waits and no ambulances in the entire country.
I bought a house with two air heat pumps. I live in France.

One day it stopped working. I tried to find a contractor to repair it. It was hard. Too long to wait in the winter. I immediately bought electric heaters to replace the heat pump as wiring was already in place (the heat pumps were already v2 of the house heating).

I finally got one contractor to come for the heat pump. It happened that he came to my home the only day the last 3 years that temperature was below -5 °C. The issue was apparently a gas leak, but because of the low temperature he couldn't do anything. Despites my calls, he never came back. And I haven't been able to get someone else to fix the thing. The only other contractor I found was only asking 250 EUR to decommission the thing.

So I still have a non working air heat pump in my living room.
You might be interested in the writings of "Better Without AI", your comment immediately makes me think of this: https://betterwithout.ai/gradient-dissent#backpropaganda
why should I prefer Pynecone over NiceGUI?
Check your WAF before an attacker does
My main problem with mini-splits is that they are just ugly. I can't get past it. Neither can my wife nor others I've talked to. My engineer brain loves the idea, but I just don't want them on my walls nor do I want five different remotes laying around. I suspect thats a problem for many others too.
Yeah, this has been a source of hurt feelings for my parents, my wife's parents, and the parents of many of our peers... Facebook-addicted Boomers literally crying, "But everyone else gets to put up pictures of their grandchildren!"
No. That is called crony capitalism. True capitalism would let these banks burn and allow those who saved or have capital buy them up. No gov intervention allowed.
I know in a certain infamous forum, it was something like $10 to make an account. If you got banned, you could just fork out another $10 on a new account. Which certainly limited some behaviors, or at least made them expensive.

Depending on the implementation of a pay-to-comment scenario, it could still be profitable for the scammers to pay. They would definitely be tracking CTR or whatever their equivalent is on scam campaigns.

In this case, the scammers are all using similar profile photos, so that part of the whack-a-mole seems like easy pickins. At least at creation time, they could fuzzy compare the profile photos of the commenter and the channel. And compare among other commenters.

The scammers would definitely move on to something else, but it seems like the scammers are scoring a lot of really easy wins right now.

I hate scammers and I love ruining their day, but this is one of many areas where I can't give more attention to it than the platform can.
I'm also here wondering exactly the same thing!
Ask HN: How to learn more about professional energy management?
The heat pump post on the front page made me curious how professionals optimize the energy usage in commercial buildings and facilities.
Instead of repeating myself I just refer to my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35139162
In addition to the software concerns above, I would have severe reservations about the ongoing maintenance of the system.

How would maintenance be handled? There are a large number of contractors in my area that can service the major brands. Would maintenance come from the company itself, or via third party partners? If third parties, what if they prove unreliable? Will there be enough diversity in providers to give me choice?

More importantly, what happens if the startup is acquired or shuts down? This is an expensive kit that, depending on system sizing, costs as much as a car. I need this type of system to work for years, with high availability of parts and labor, and replacement as-required.

Going with a new company in this space seems deeply risky. And yeah, the existing manufacturers don't play super nicely with smarthomes and cloud-based control and whatnot, but it's far from enough of a pain to offset the risk IMO.
So the Canadian parliament isn't directly elected by the people, like the British one? That's what everyone says is the difference. Seems to make the parliament members more "hype men" than lawmakers.
That dynamic, known as cash sorting, had already been going on for several months, and appeared to be stabilizing.

If anything, I think the events of the last few days could reduce it somewhat. Better to have your funds safe earning little in a Big 4 bank than somewhere else with higher rates but now perceived to be risky.
It's not designed for those areas. The world is plenty large, they don't need to accommodate every single address in the country to have a viable or useful product.
I also would appreciate a local-only user experience.

I'd also be concerned about dealing with "cannot find server" alerts popping up every time I use it.
That's just giving up.
The API seems pretty similar to Streamlit, another library to create data apps with Python Given thar it’s more popular compared to Pynecone based on Github, how do you plan to differentiate?
I would love to hear about the way that you compile to NextJS because that’s a challenge with Streamlit. I have looked into your docs for custom components but I wonder if it’s possible to use compiled NextJS and bring my custom components there instead of bringing my components to Python?
Hmm for some reason I always thought it was a shortening of "motorised pedestrian" haha.

On the other hand, I have seen models with holes next to the transmission that can accept a pair of removable pedals stowed under the seat. Completely worthless for locomotion, but sufficient to be classified as a bicycle for legal reasons.
Except no one thinks that a designer handbag is objectively better at carrying things or that designer jeans objectively makes walking easier and more fun. Audiophiles keep arguing that the things they do and buy are better for objective reasons.

Had they said "I bought these expensive network cables because I like the way they look and they match my furniture" that would be an entirely different thing.
I have a checking account that pays 0.1% APY. Savings account is at 3.6% APY. You are getting screwed.
Years and years ago I wrote chrome and firefox history commands [1]. Not proud of it, but it is more useful than I thought they would be, because well, they all want you to use google, so local search sucks. Easy to integrate with rofi, emacs etc.

Sometimes on another computer I would think "what was that URL again..?" and just SSH into that computer and execute the command.

[1]: https://github.com/bergheim/dotfiles/blob/a525b216c7404a4332...
Adenosine Receptors [pdf]
It's hard pass for you because you know what a cloud is. Many don't and you don't know what many know.
From what I tried last year, the old VPS days are over. Anti-fraud has ruined it. Having valid payment and email is not enough, and even with that it will take days to provision one. I tried digitalocean, OVH and several big names and wasted a ton of money for a VPS I needed right away.

Just get a gcp,azure or aws compute instance. Hassle is all you'll get with VPS these days.

I can't believe it is so hard to pay someone to provision a VM. They need my phone, i have to go through approvals and so much other bs. 4-5 years ago I was able to get a VPS and a domain with some bitcoin within a few hours. Now some places have the audacity to ask for ID verification.
Wonder why this took so long. This was done by an influencer so no way it was under their radar for long?
>rely instead on oral examinations, or hand-written examinations that take place in a controlled environment

So, basically, the same methods the education system has been using for hundreds of years?

People have been cheating at written exams a lot in my country. Usually used some minuscule wireless earphone shoved deep in the ear canal. We'd basically need to use radio jammers or EMPs to stop modern high tech cheating solutions.

Most systems that have a set of variables known in advanced end up getting gamed into oblivion to achieve the desired results.
Colon is the correct separator there. Semicolon separates different instructions, a group of values that is a single instruction is colon separated. For example \e[38:5:196;1m specifies red and bold.

Using ";" is popular, and some parsers even require it, but it makes little sense. A terminal that doesn't know about 38 (anything old) will interpret that 5 as blink if you use ";", which is not what anyone wants.
I can’t find any independent US city with crime rates that low. If by city you mean some wealthier part of a larger metropolitan area then compare it to a similar portion of Toronto.
You can by using “narrow” tables (key value and key key).
Download the slide notes from this presentation of how Relational.ai is doing it:
https://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/developer-intro-deckpo...
I try to do this for myself, & often request that nobody take photos of me if possible, but definitely to not to post images of me online without my explicit permission. Even amongst my close friends & family, it frequently causes friction & outright anger.
> 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

“Let’s see if we can host all the world’s video content and all its commentary only using automated tools!”

That was the idea behind the social media boom and it was a foolhardy one. The moderation problems that social media platforms are having now are 100% of their own invitation. They just managed to hold them off for a while.
Sizing heat pumps by the sq. ft. is hairy reasoning. Load calculations take into account climate zone, insulation, building materials, orientation, ceiling height, etc. Any recommendation based on 2D area is sketchy. For replacement of existing professionally installed systems, going by the capacity of the installed unit is a better shortcut.
Sadly, no licensing information to be found
I wonder where the line between improving the product and "I don't like this abstraction so I'm going to rework it to something else that I like" is...
> How can audiophiles continue to exist with knowledge being so easily available? And how can someone be clever enough to be a software engineer and not clever enough to figure out crystals in bags taped to cables do not affect music quality.

You don't have to be clever to be a software engineer. It's not that difficult.