skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like blaming the Fed, when the actual problem was that the bank's prediction of the future turned out to be incorrect. They placed a bet and it didn't pay out, that's all.
I'd just turn saturation and sharpening down on the TV using the cheap cable.
14 is generally the minimum. But there are restrictions, can't work night shifts during school, can't work in hazardous conditions, etc.
In the US, toddlers are toddlers, infants are infants. Both toddlers and infants are children.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/difference-between-baby-newbo...
As of yesterday the FDIC is officially backstopping 100% of deposits, even beyond the $250k limit. They decided that confidence in the banking system takes precedence over that limit. The $250k limit no longer exists, de facto at least, if not de jure. So it's actually unclear that a service like this is even useful anymore.
It's not designed to work in those houses. It's specifically designed for homes with ducts.

"The most common heating system in the US is a natural gas furnace connected to ductwork, with the hot air ultimately coming out of vents in each room. This heat pump is a great replacement for the furnace and air conditioner in these ducted systems."
not OP. My understanding is that situations like these really require installation of the (IMO, ugly) wall units ("mini-splits").

Current air-source heat pumps can't produce hot water at temperatures necessary to drive radiators.
Why is this article here (or even written for that matter).
no. but when you are calculating if the job is worth the risk, you would look at the $50k vs the jail time.
From their website homepage:

> An optional wall unit heats and cools homes without ducts. Replace your expensive baseboard heaters and radiators with an efficient, ductless unit that blends into your home.
Gotcha. If you own the house outright, I can see the appeal of selling and drawing on that principal to pay rent and buy the conveniences that come along with that
Federal Home Loan Banks to raise $64B in notes offering
I had no idea memcpy was lossy. Astonished.
This is totally ridiculous, but a lot of time there is a grain of truth behind some of these myths, that is just diluted by retelling from non technical people. I had a serious musician once tell me that if I rip a recording from a DAT tape to my disk it won't sound as good. It sounded about as stupid as this this claim, but the basis of it was conversion between 48khz and 44.1khz sample rates.

I also remember a friend of mine learning graphic design many years ago, who told me that their teacher told the class Photoshop on Mac produces higher quality images than on a PC. I don't remember what the basis of that was.
When all of the money is in one bank, the fees it would need to charge to insure the same deposits is much more.

There are many ways that banks might fail. Most of those are idiosyncratic and unique to the bank's operations.

When the money is spread across multiple institutions most of the risk the FDIC is taking is uncorrelated, therefore costing less to insure.
If the Vapor aspect works well then this might make air source heat pumps tenable in cold countries. The current crop here in the UK are costing home owners a fortune as the 3-4 kw multiplier drops to 1 below 0degC or so and hearing becomes horrifically expensive. I know a chap who was paying £1,200 a month to hear is home at the worst of this winters cold and the energy price jumps we have here.
> Some songs were harsh and sounded too airy.

Chances are you hear production mistakes/errors in these songs that you simply couldn't notice on the "worse" headphones. And if you produce music yourself, such "better" headphones might allow you to avoid making such mistakes/errors.
How is this different from an insured cash sweep that practically every other bank offers?
wonder if they're pricing is adjusted for local rates?
Canadian but also lived in the US. Have not lived in the EU.

For Canada, while geographically large population wise it’s very small compared to the US. The big Canadian banks are targeting a similar sized demographic to California.

I’m less familiar with Europe, but I’m guessing most nations still have prominent national retail banks, with some having an EU wide market? Those national retail banks would effectively be regional in the US.
The leaky null abstraction in java is orthogonal to "what does an Optional type express".
>I guess they think bits are bits.

I'm speechless. I wanted to write a witty comment but I just can't.
If you think you can reliably tell the financial soundness of companies, don't post here about it. Go trade their stocks. You'll either make a mint or you'll have a very valuable lesson.
Here's a GREAT IEEE article about the death of Zenith. Was on HN a while ago.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/zenith-tv

Delves deeper into the "lower cost of overseas manfuacturing" as cause of death for the US TV industry, with a focus on Zenith. Zenith saw this coming and tried to avoid it by investing in technology and R&D - and unfortunately chose to invest in technically superior but unpopular or uncommoditizable technologies like Betamax, digital signal transmission standards, and early analog HDTV. Heck, they paid to develop the standard for stereo TV broadcast audio, then gave it away royalty-free.
Is the share price itself a factor in actual solvency in any way?
I got called insane for saying politicians don't care about people and outright hate people yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35125683

Here's more evidence.
a Rust CLI tool to get help with CLI tools
Looks great. I am excited to play with it.

One nit, on your landing page it has a typo, missing "framework /that/ doesn't"
> Never get locked into a framework doesn't support your existing tech stack.

Also, your Gallery has highly responsive SPAs, but for some reason the counter here[1] is very slow on a cold load

[1] https://pynecone.io/docs/getting-started/introduction
Chris, one of my biggest worries is that your startup will get acquired or go out of business and then the firmware will leave me with a $14,000 brick.

What if I want to keep using the cloud-based thermostat when your servers get shut off or moved to another system, or if something like Google Nest closing down their API happens after you've exited?

This is an expensive system with an expected long life, and I'd want some guarantees that I can control it entirely myself.
These people would rather bring back child labor and The Jungle than offer a wage for work that is even barely high enough for an adult to accept.
Any idea what the pricing will be like?
If the correct data only comes in too late after you were meant to hear it.
I'm extremely bearish on AR. It's failed to find a footing in any niche. I thought phone-based AR had a better chance of taking hold than headsets, but we haven't really seen much of anything since Pokemon Go. AR Core and ARKit have not attracted many developers since being released nearly 5 years ago.

I'll throw one counterpoint in which is the new Mario Kart ride at Universal Studios. It's dark ride featuring a spinning cart, big sets and projections and interactive gaming via an AR visor. It's absolutely incredible. They skirt a lot of issues by keeping the lights off so the overlayed image stays sharp and also the visor is tethered to the car, so most of the horsepower is not melting your head.
obvious ! meatplants working kids are poor kids. Online kids are rich kids.
I saw a POV documentary on PBS about kids from undocumented families and some of them are US citizens since the kids were born here.

But there were many instances where these kids work nights, then try to go to school during the day. It's the life they have to live to try and help support their family.

It's a terrible situation, but almost always better than what they faced in their home country.
You can either move the air (via ductwork) or the coolant with a small insulated pipe.

The question is where do you have the exchange. The central / forced air tends to be a furnace in the basement. But its also viable to have a ductless mini-split heat pump ( https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/ductless-mini-split-heat-... ) that just moves the heat carrying fluid to a room and then have that room with an exchange.

> Ductless, mini-split-system heat pumps (mini-splits) make good retrofit add-ons to houses with "non-ducted" heating systems, such as hydronic (hot water heat), radiant panels, and space heaters (wood, kerosene, propane). They can also be a good choice for room additions where extending or installing distribution ductwork is not feasible, and for very efficient new homes that require only a small space conditioning system. Be sure to choose an ENERGY STAR® compliant unit and hire an installer familiar with the product and its installation.

> Like standard air-source heat pumps, mini-splits have two main components -- an outdoor compressor/condenser and an indoor air-handling unit. A conduit, which houses the power cable, refrigerant tubing, suction tubing, and a condensate drain, links the outdoor and indoor units.

> The main advantages of mini-splits are their small size and flexibility for zoning or heating and cooling individual rooms. Many models can have as many as four indoor air-handling units (for four zones or rooms) connected to one outdoor unit. The number depends on how much heating or cooling is required for the building or each zone. This can be affected by how well the building is insulated and air sealed). Each of the zones has its own thermostat, so you only need to condition occupied spaces, which can save energy and money.
I think the same thing when I see fad diets and crypto currencies around here.
Zsh is the shell which is a mini language and environment, so you can run that in many different terminals. OhMyZsh is a set of configuration scripts and plugins to configure Zsh. A terminal is the thing that renders text, handles input and all the escaping complexities. So it's usually the UI/colors around the text that the shell provides. Old terminals were even physical devices with ports that allowed connecting to headless computers.
We do this too for our kids. Now that they are a bit older they are very happy with our decision.
Keep in mind, wezterm is a statically linked binary, while builtin and distro-provided packages will use dynamic linking. Depending on how it's built, it may also have embedded debuginfo and lack LTO.
This was just added to the top of Bloomberg's article:

Some potentially soothing comments here from Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial Network.

"This situation is something to keep an eye on, but it is not the start of the next financial crisis. Unlike in 2008, the government has stepped in early and stepped in hard. While we can certainly expect market turbulence — and we are seeing it this morning — the systemic effects will be limited. We are not set for a rerun of the Great Financial Crisis. This is not the end of the world."

Right this second, the S&P 500 is actually up by a very small amount.
I think this is exactly it. More and more this arrangement is starting to sound like the baseless justification used for US healthcare: a bunch of middle men milking value for little actual benefit.

Addressing risk can be more efficient and we can make the system far more efficient by cutting out all of this overhead and red tape. As long as the banks are properly disincentivized in other ways from being over-leveraged and taking too much risk, this arrangement would just be much better overall.
Anecdote from this morning: I was taking notes on a technical book in a field I have only a little experience with, and came across a lot of words that I wanted the definition of. At first I opened wiktionary in my browser, but then I thought it'd be nice to have everything in Emacs, after which I used `M-x eww`, `!wikt <term>`. Then on a whim I tried `M-x dictionary`, and lo and behold Emacs has a built in dictionary, which you can even install new dictionaries in and search across. The default dictionary wasn't perfect, with a few terms not existing, but it's hard to beat the convenience for the 95% case. As a bonus, it defaults to searching the word under your cursor.

The point here is less "hey, Emacs has a dictionary!" (I'm sure many/most editors do!), more "hey, Emacs has a lot of use cases built in and they're easily discoverable." It's a great platform with a lot of care put into it over the years by different people, and if you come to it with the perspective of "it's just an editor" you'll be missing out.
All the better for Vice to take advantage of it
You mean to tell me that a media player doing audio playback is thrashing memcpy so hard that it's spinning up the fan? And that there is enough low-hanging fruit in standard memcpy implementations to actually make a difference?

The more likely explanation is that these people are simply delusional.
The useful thing about mathematics is that it gives you tools to prove that your solution will work for all problems of a certain class. Hacked together code usually doesn't have that property, and if it does then it just is mathematics, whether you want to call it that or not.
Existing established companies offer centrally ducted heat pumps. You can purchase them direct, and are even sold by your big box home improvement stores. (search for "ducted heat pump)

They are generally contractor only as homeowners generally can't DIY the 240v electrical and lineset hookup. What exactly is being improved upon by your startup?
I see. But still after the initial TLS handshake. So clients can still connect over and over and force your server to do TLS handshakes all day long.
If you want to understand whether there are systemic forces at play which serve to reinforce an undesirable behavior, you should compare the fine to the expected profit not to the expected revenue.
The green ones are being attracted to the US already.
I don't think there was some grand concerted effort to self-promote by the WDT guy, it's just a legitimately helpful and (at the time) novel technique for getting decently even flow when using cheap(er) home coffee grinders. It requires like 5 seconds of time and something like a toothpick or cake tester. This is not the same as the audiophile magic cables or whatever, the results are measurable and replicable by anyone with a toothpick and a home espresso setup.
Being an audiophile when you have lots of money isn't much different than buying NFTs--it's merely a status you hold by owning whatever the kooky consensus of 'best' is and being involved in making that determination.
Who are you partnering with to design/manufacture your air handler and condenser units?
There is a pricing section on the website.
> lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more

> ...

> I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be overjoyed.

The comments here don't feel that out of line that you need to be this defensive / thin skinned. It's an interesting idea, and worth expanding on, even if it's been languishing.
The children yearn for the mines.
Is that still true? I think a group of tech influencers existed in the past but I don't see any evidence that continues to be the case. I guess they could all exist in discords I don't have site into. Previously you could see trends migrate through tech communities and out into the world. I don't really see that now.
We will have standard home integrations (Google Home, Apple Homekit, likely implemented via Matter standard). Using those you can set temperature easily, however to have deeper insight into system state, energy use, air quality, you'd have to use the app. We could also set up the thermostat so it can be used standalone - no app integration.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012981

There was a discussion of that research here
Every community has a fringe of crazies. I remember back when I first got into audio in high school, when I bought my first pair of >$10 headphones and suddenly I could hear details in music that weren't there before, and wondering how deep the rabbit hole went. I started reading audio forums and saw that most postings came from a small number of extremely active posters that made absurd, hyperbolic claims. There's a product review that has since become a meme, about some ridiculous $1000 RCA cables, how they sounded "smoky" and "danceable". I read that when it was first posted and felt disgusted. Then the moderators of the forum I read most often announced that any discussion of double-blind testing was banned and anyone who discussed it would immediately be banned. I deleted my account on that forum. What a disappointment. But the fact that fringe crazies exist doesn't mean the subject is all a joke. Car tuning is a legitimate hobby, even though I have idiot cousins who will physically assault anyone who questions the purpose of their undercarriage neon lights. And there is a difference between junk audio equipment and good audio equipment, even though there is also plenty of snake oil under the label "audiophile".
Rewarding Chatbots for Real-World Engagement with Millions of Users
The story opens with a story about Central Florida. This is more widespread than “a handful of metros” right now.

And sure, when people say “struggle to buy” we’re talking about securing rough parity in their lifestyle as renters. Yes, they can likely go and start gentrifying a grossly unfamiliar neighborhood that needs housing for its own community, or maybe find a rough home that has a low list price and unknown high maintenance costs, but they can currently provide much better for themselves and their families by renting.

The market doesn’t always look like this. It has sometimes, it does now, and when it does it effects people. That’s the story. And that’s why its news.

You’re not obliged to care about it, but if you’re just going to dismiss it without bothering to understand it, you can just skip along and read other things.
My pet conspiracy theory is that flat-earthers are actually a false flag operation by some 3letteragency to make actual conspiracy theorists look bad. ;)
It wasn't a joke. They created a deceptive social media campaign claiming that you could vote via SMS.
The cost of doing something and being wrong is minimal.

The cost of doing nothing and being wrong is high.
> they aren't that relevant to today's situation

They're definitely relevant in that they (plus a few others such as Red Hat, Salesforce, LinkedIn, etc etc etc) are the highest canopies in the US tech forest, meaning it's harder to grow as tall as them without being acquired by one of them. Possibly OpenAI could be one if it keeps doing well, and isn't swallowed by Microsoft.
I happened to check what my citibank savings account pays these days...0.12% interest. Not that I keep any significant amount of money there, anyway. I would if they would pay remotely close to competitive interest rates, but I guess they're banking on most people being too dumb to realize that they can get 4-5% more on their money if they take 5 min to open an account elsewhere.
No, that is not the claim.
The entire point of FDIC and similar insurances is to make insured funds available within days.

If depositors could/had to wait years, there wouldn‘t be a need for insurance anymore in this case.
So the difference in cost between natural gas and ElectricAir is ~ 400/yr. And it costs $14,000 to install the ElectricAir system. It will take a very long time to break even.
It will be very difficult to convince people with current working natural gas system to switch over.
I'm developing a racing game as a hobby. But I generally don't discuss my game with other developers since they are not the target audience for my game. I prefer to talk with players and get 360° feedback.
I don't get the benefit of sharing the game to fellow developers.
> Half of the public is below average, in fact.

I like to say that, too, but it's not technically true. It's confusing median with mean.
Of course, there is a lot of funny "audiophile" stuff.

Including very funny ones who use these unfortunates to show own intelligence or even (save us, Lord) wisdom.

For the most part, funny audiophiles are completely harmless old people (see photos from any audience of audiophiles), such children who are constantly waiting for Santa with new beautiful toys.

Of course, the music player will sound better if you're not a programmer but managed to build some hell of a source code in a dubious version of Visual Studio :) This is an old story about expectations. If something subjective is expected, it can always be achieved.

Yes, I know vinyl doesn't sound better. I have much better sound sources. But I like my turntable and I like the process of getting ready to listen to vinyl. It gives me pleasure, and I like turntables as very beautiful engineering structures, and no psychopathic fighter with Santa Claus will deprive me of this pleasure :)
Hästens beds anyone?
Democrats want the cheap labor as well, as illustrated famously: "Who's going to clean your toilets Donald Trump?"[0]

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8INEYLFWwc
Didn't they say the same thing to Australia when they tabled their version of this bill? And then did not Facebook cave? How is this statement at all credible in light of this?
> This is not the end of the world.

Someone hasn't been following @Jason's Tweet fest this weekend.
Yea, linus did a roast of one of those that was just rebadged COTS switch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQ3YvR3Eo
I think people are still only dimly aware of the function of reinforcement learning for ChatGPT and the reality it that kind of chatbot could be trained to behave very differently with a different training regime.
I see an “App” section, but it’s pretty light on details.

Is the plan for it to be cloud driven (both app and thermostat connect to a remote server) or will there be a local network API? Zigbee/Thread?

I can see some real value in a system that is fully accessible to a home automation platform.
Really cool and interesting. I definitely think the market is there for this.

I'm betting that your biggest hurdle will be post-purchase. If I remember correctly, Tony Fadell talks about how hard it was to disrupt the contractor model when building Nest. People often just bought whatever thermostat their contractor recommended, and those contractors were incentivized to push them towards specific brands. They beat this by just making the product super easy to install by the consumer and cutting out the contractor all together (something I doubt is feasible with a heat pump).

Maybe that won't be a problem with the DTC model considering the contractor is only brought in post-purchase, but I wonder if this really takes hold if competitors start trying to corner local installers. Good luck!
I think that fundamentally, everyone agrees that there are diminishing returns with audio products, people just have different tolerances for bad audio, different amounts of fucks to give about it, and different levels of ability to configure their setups. I don't know what the distribution of people looks like along those axes, but you sound "normal" to me in regards to taste, and by virtue of being on this forum are probably above average in regards to technical ability to configure things. Lots of people would probably find it a bit too much trouble to worry about and configure the external audio receiver and freestanding floor speakers (which incidentally describes my setup as well), but I don't think that's equivalent to them not recognizing the improvement. Sound bars seem to be deliberately intended to fill the market segment for people who want and can afford better sound, but can't manage the configuration.