skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if it's not fake...what if there's a slight...like...difference in timings or something? That nevertheless affects the ways signals are eventually rendered in the output? Or what if...literally...there is something more going on...among the movement of electrons (some other layer of information conveyance) than EE would consider...and these folks are picking up on that?
this is why food is cheap people. I used to drive corn and pea combines in high school, and in the farming community it's not uncommon to have kids driving tractors as well (granted this is usually a family run farm). It's likely that the people working in the factories there knew the kids or families and made an exception to allow them to start early (still technically illegal I know). it's not child slave labor, its kids trying to make money.
That's the way with so many things, huh? I got a one of the nicer sets of Logitech computer speakers, and while it's not amazing, it's fine, and definitely better than the junky speakers that use to come with desktop systems. I can tell the difference between $.99 coffee and $3 coffee, but $50 coffee is lost on me. A $10 wine is likely to be better than Three Buck Chuck, but I don't know if I could tell the difference between $10 and $100.

For almost everything, unless you're really, really into that thing, there's a segment of the price curve where more money == more better, but afterward you're just shoveling cash into a black hole.
Really? They have been saying 'this year marked the first decline in China's population' for 30 years? Because that is what China stated this year. Also that they had over reported their population by 100 million. For 30 years you say... huh, I must of missed that.
What is the counter argument to this? If banks cannot actually fail, and can profit wildly regardless of their performance and risk aversion, aren’t they already nationalized in the worst of times? Seems only fair that the taxpayers also share the gains in the best of times.
This is interesting but many systems like it fall at the first hurdle in countries like Britain where forced air is not the norm. How are products like this supposed to work in a house that is currently optimised for radiators and combi-boilers and with no existing air ducts?
As much as I hate macs or any other Apple products, I admit that the MBP 14 or any mac with the Apple Silicon is simply irreplaceable.

I searched to the end of the earth for a comparable Linux or Windows laptop with no vain. If it's Windows (+WSL), then I have to deal with Windows as a platform that I find awful. Adding to that, the poorer battery life and screen, keyboard, touchpad and speaker quality compared to Macbooks. Coming to Linux, brands like Framework haven't seemed like they've fully gotten over the reliability issues as of yet, and the battery life is a huge problem.

I took the eventual jump into an M1 Pro MBP 14", and I like every bit of time I spend with it. It's a stellar all-in-one device. The OSX platform is clean, versatile and removes a lot of headaches and manual overhead I would have to deal with if using a Linux desktop from time to time. And the battery? Lasts the entire day.
New kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones
If you want to talk cities, Toronto has a 2x - 3x higher per capita murder rate than my city in the US, so like GP said, it depends where you are. Sure you can generalize over a whole country, but ultimately what will matter is a city by city comparison where you actually are. And I'm safer here than Toronto.
Rivian's vans make so much more sense than Tesla semi - smaller vehicle, travel predictable routes, can be changed with existing infrastructure, and reduced cost of fuel leads to savings. So does reduced maintenance.

The best economics for electric vehciles were always going to be light and medium vehicles with high utilisation. Not personal cars. Not heavy vehicles sensitive to weight and power.

PS: I am wondering why Tesla is offering nothing in Vans, Minibusses, Busses, and even their pickup is nowhere to be found - instead are spending huge amound of engineering effort to build a heavy truck and associated infra.
They also dramatically and unilaterally devalued their rewards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121124 as well as had a big layoff round: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/fintech-brex-layoffs-restr.... Be wary, manage your risk, don't overconcentrate, diversify.
I wonder if it is acceptable now because this is bound to be pretty dynamic across viewport sizes and resolutions. So perhaps they are allowing browsers to pick an algorithm they find best suited. Changing the algorithm afterwards will probably not break anything that wouldn’t be broken by a user shrinking their window.
Smallest ball game, scientists throw and catch single atoms using light
> Claiming that bits are not bits is on a flat earth level stupid

Not necessarily, just a statement from the starting end of Dunning-Kruger. Try 0.1 + 0.2 with enough decimals and you'll see what he's trying to say. It's not that stupid of a thought if you think about it.

Something else that might seem equally stupid the first time you hear about is the fact that 1s have weight compared to 0s. Don't believe me? Look it up.

You comparing him to a flat-earther despite domain knowledge is worse than him having enough outside-the-box thinking to entertain the thought.
There is a lot of diminishing returns for audiophile products.

You should be able to hear the difference between a $100 speaker system and a $1,000 speaker system.

But there are other things like room acoustics and stuff that can cause issues. If you put a really good system in a bad room I could imagine it would be harder to tell a difference.

$1,000 to $10,000 might be a lot harder to tell the difference assuming you sourced a good performing setup at each price point.

Same for MP3 vs Lossless, you could probably hear the difference between 320Kbps on specific songs if you know what to listen for but I doubt you can hear it on everything and you would have to concentrate pretty hard rather than enjoying the music.
I would prefer if you spoke clearly instead of using insinuation and false equivalence. "The people on here absolutely will not, for any reason, consider both sides of the situation". So why not in your own words describe the side of the situation you feel is underrepresented here?
You don't have to explain Poe's Law on HN lol
I thought this same thing. Then Covid happened & I was trying to get a PPP loan from my bank. Nope, nothing.

A nice smaller bank not only took me out for drinks but also got my PPP loan approved in a very short period of time.

That service was significantly better than all the combined service of the larger bank over the prior years.

Something, something trade-offs.... Always trade-offs.
Looked into it further, they didn't really do anything shady, but they did fail to hedge their interest rate risk with swaps, which is dumb.
But remember that the $2k / month you pay to the landlord covers: property taxes, hoa fees, interest costs, and investment losses due to not being able to invest the money in stocks. Property tax alone is quite significant in my area, and that's something you are ALWAYS going to pay.

I actually have a spreadsheet that compares the total cost of ownership when buying and renting over a 10 year period. Believe me, it's really not as cut and dry as you and others are making it out to be. Quite honestly, for me a ton of it hinges on how much the house appreciates in value (since you're making a levered bet via a mortgage).
Breakfast represents something like 10-30% of of a person's caloric intake, it is much more important than regulatory compliance in the financial system. We could adjust to poor compliance relatively easily (we did without formal compliance regimes for centuries). You seem to be underestimating breakfast.

This is part of why I like the analogy; something being important is different from whether it is a legal necessity. Making it a legal necessity is what brings in the complaints about costs, not the cost of doing the thing itself. The cost is in proving compliance under all possible conditions. The complying act, as the thread ancestor I first replied to noted, is often cheap and generally already done as good practice.
When I brought a second workstation online I had one drive deleting files on my old machine to “sync” the two. Microsoft really is hot garbage
So if I rob a bank for $2MM, but spend $1.95MM on contractors to do the job, I should only be fined $50k?
An additional reason for the location could be that vcs/founders are located there.

I have seen a similar pattern, where a company has an office in an unusual place because one of the founders lives there, and does not want to relocate.
This is a failure of the UI.

I believe you clicked on "A Document Store like Mongo" and saw "Create a 'brand' table" which then goes on to explain why a document store does not adequately solve the problem

The hope is that we are conveying a good enough reason to give us money. Thanks for you feedback
> good ears

Most audiophiles seem to be men in their 50s+, which makes their claims of exceptional hearing extremely dubious. Degradation of hearing with age is a virtual certainty.

If audiophiles tended to be teenagers I'd be more inclined to believe them. But old guys? Old guys with a long habit of listening to loud music? Their ears are not golden.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169831

Most people at the time were complaining that they could fall out of their ears, which turned out to be pretty correct. (I own airpods and no longer use them.)
This reminds me of

https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Milford_School

> Children should be neither seen nor heard.

Surely, kids can be seen in movies, tv shows, news articles about kids competitions or events, etc?
[January 27, 2021]
Apple became the company with the highest market cap in the year Steve Jobs died. They haven't screwed it up yet, but they haven't really been tested yet. GE was the darling in the 90s and their fall (excluding market-wide events) didn't really come until two decades later in ~2017. The question for Apple is what happens when they're on the back foot.

Suppose Intel regains a process advantage over TSMC, so PCs have a major performance advantage over Apple Silicon.

Suppose TSMC remains dominant, so AMD stays ahead of Intel, and releases something successful in the phone market. Something open, unlike Qualcomm. Now you can get a high end phone that runs the latest stock Android for unlimited years. Qualcomm gets pushed down market so their current high end becomes available at lower prices. Each of these hack away at Apple's market share.

Microsoft has a competent hardware division. Suppose they get over themselves and release an Android handset. Quality hardware and no OEM crapware other than Microsoft services integration. A Windows tablet that can directly run Android apps. Apple then has another major competitor in their biggest markets and it's the company that nearly put them out of business the first time around.

The test is what happens when they face competent competition. Qualcomm sucks and Google only cares to the extent that they want to control the device to keep people on their services. That's been true since the end of the Jobs era but it isn't necessarily permanent.
Nice domain name! It'd be cool to leverage archive.md as well to help bypass pay walls. I tried it on a First Things link and it was only able to grab the first two paragraphs.
Once again money is the root of all evil. What would be the downside if all videos that had any children in them were demonetized? In addition, buttons for sharing such videos would be automatically disabled. That means a parent could post the video and send links to family, but it would make it less likely for the video to go viral.

Looking at the example of culture even before the internet, kids who participate in entertainment from a young age end up often messed up. For example see the Jacksons (Michael being only the most prominent example in his family) as well as a multitude of child stars (Shirley Temple being the exception that proves the rule).

I bet once you removed the financial incentive a lot of this over sharing of kids’ lives would mostly stop.
So, not even 1yr salary for each one?

That's not even a slap on the wrist.
Maybe. But if a smartass comes in to where I work and tells me how wrong I am based on their shallow understanding of the domain I am likely to become frustrated.

Jesperwe said they confronted this salesperson about the cables. They then lectured the salesperson on theory. There’s no indication a question was asked with an honest desire for the answer.

When a conversation becomes a confrontation nuance is the first casualty. Jesperwe and the salesperson may have been participating in completely different conversations from their perspectives. Without more information I can’t draw a further conclusion beyond jesperwe participating in (or instigating!) a confrontation with a retail salesperson.
> Should we forbid children to go to the pool because sexual creeps might go there ?

I don’t suggest that, but I think it’s pretty bad to post lots of swimsuit pics to social media. And it’s absolutely horrible to accept money in exchange for 1:1 videos or commissioned photos for internet strangers. There’s no legitimate purposes for adults to ask little kids to pose on swimsuits for them. I’m not sure if it should be illegal, but certainly scorned and people who practice to have appropriate levels of opprobrium.
I see only two outcomes at this point. LLMs evolve into AGI or they evolve into something perceptually indistinguishable from AGI. Either way the result is the same and we’re just arguing semantics.
AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't know those specifics about Israel.
The holistic approach is nice to see.

There are obviously already several major players in the industry (notably, Mitsubishi, but also more "DIY"-focused brands like "Mr. Cool") offering heat pump systems with air handlers, such as this.

But this approach seems to be much more integrated in ways that actually might make a difference.
My co-founder isn't scaling our business
I have a problem that is very much in my own making. Please be blunt in your advice.

We are a three-year-old company, and I am the technical co-founder. My co-founder is the sales co-founder. We share absolutely equal titles (co-founder) as well as equal equity. There are only 2 co-founders, and we have 10 employees.

We have taken on some investment through the years, and all of this funding came through my co-founder's personal network.

Our product is a data product/service that some companies use on a monthly basis, and others quarterly or yearly.

We do have product market fit, as much of our work comes by way of repeat business. However, we are not really growing, and it appears to be in my co-founder's inability to unplug himself and scale the business. Our customers rave about our work.

Nearly 100% of the marketing we're doing is still via linkedin. We do some paid marketing elsewhere, but mainly it works off linkedin advertising and personal reach-outs.

Our sales are holding us back from growing, and when I ask what the strategy is, I am accused of not trusting the process and making personal attacks on him. I will admit to reacting poorly in the past when we would fail to meet sales targets months in a row. I have added to the issue by being callous in my requests as to what is going on. To date, I still have not seen the strategy because it is in his head.

We have employees openly questioning if my cofounder is up to the task. In addition to this problem of not scaling, my co-founder also has a going concern where is a consultant. So while we have our incomes limited by his performance, he is able to bring in the money he likes through his other venture. This is creating alot of angst among our employees and I will admit being upset about it also.

A few weeks ago I had lunch with one of our investors and he asked me how many hours my co-founder is working in the business. I was not totally honest because I felt an obligation to protect my co-founder - but I also wanted to be straight with my investor, so I said I "I don't know. but I am sure it is alot". They have now stipulated our next tranche will include directives on hiring a sales leader for our company.

Our employees have openly asked me to take the lead and not have the dueling leadership. I quell these comments quickly as I am worried it will create a rift in the company. When I suggested this to my co-founder he admitted he does need help but was not willing to give up his authority (title) and the command that goes along with it.

When we suggest other ways to market or other things to do he says he loves our ideas and then he does not act upon them. When we try to put together our ideas for marketing and implement them he accuses us of ruining the strategy he's assembling.

All the while I am watching a company I co-founded barely scrape by.

I would love your thoughts on what I should do, if anything.
Can someone install and use it without the app?
Culling vampire bats failed to beat rabies – and made the problem worse
this is not what language models typically output as logits though. perhaps the term now is being misused and it’s causing a lot of confusion
If you go that route, I also recommend using something like Ansible. Unfortunately, it’s more things to learn and more to set up, but it’s worth it long term.

The problem is that you will set up your first VPS by spending hours installing packages and tweaking configs by hand. But eventually you will need to upgrade the OS, or switch to bigger hardware, or change VPS providers. And then it’ll be a nightmare to recreate all that snowflake config elsewhere without forgetting some detail.

The upside is that it’s cheap and fast, especially compared to anything “serverless” that chargers per request.
Because they want depositors to spread their deposits around and not concentrate them at any one institution.
> it's not child slave labor, its kids trying to make money.

It's price dumping by abusing children who're happy to have a couple dollars to spend on Fortnite characters or whatever the rage is these days.

Pay your workers fairly.
Yes, specific conditions. For example, here in Ontario, Canada you can employ children as young as 14 but their hours cannot conflict with school hours (including no overnight schedules). And certain jobs are simply 18+, such as working in factories. Abattoirs are one of the more dangerous and stressful (physically and mentally) jobs out there, and would likely fall in that category of hazardous work unsuited to children.
I inadvertently built something similar:

https://www.pycob.com

We should talk. If your open source roadmap includes getting rid of your npm dependency then we might just migrate to Pynecone for our front-end.
Read more - the reason is the "ample reserves" regime, where, as I showed, reserves are vastly higher than usual. This is because the Fed has transitioned to a better method to handle what used to be called the reserve requirement. The new (and as the above data demonstrated) is higher actual reserves. This is done via changes in mechanisms, described in the FAQ.

It's not like banks suddenly loan out all the money. The Fed page has a FAQ and you can look up related papers.

From the FAQ:
"For many years, reserve requirements played a central role in the implementation of monetary policy by creating a stable demand for reserves. In January 2019, the FOMC announced its intention to implement monetary policy in an ample reserves regime. Reserve requirements do not play a significant role in this operating framework."

People see the change, which is a good move for good reasons, and flip out, just like goldbug times or when CPI get adjusted and so on. A simple way to look at it for a long time there has been a idea battle between what's called endogenous and exogenous money creation (somewhat overview of the debate [1]), and over the past 50 years, most central banking systems have evolved as market needs evolved, to allow banks to lend beyond reserve requirements as long as they soon replenish, which was done via overnight lending windows through central banks. The practical effect is there has not been a "reserve requirement" except in name only for decades. Banks can lend whatever they want, and only have to borrow back to the old requirement which is simply an inefficiency.

This is summed up in one sentence on the Wikipedia article on reserve requirements as "Under this view, reserves therefore impose no constraints, as the deposit multiplier is simply, in the words of Kydland and Prescott (1990), a myth" [2]

Under the new system, the Fed changed other rates to account for this bookkeeping trick, with the same net effect on the banking system, but under simpler and more transparent accounting. They're not idiots.

So, since this was the reality of banking, the FED changed how things are tallied. Just like when CPI changed some terms to handle changes in reality, changes that were well documented, for good reason, people not reading carefully got upset and were sure they got cheated somehow.

So setting the old rate to zero and adopting the new methods for monetary control are the same pattern: terms change, in practice things are actually better off, but people used to the old term are upset and mischaracterize it as some a sign of financial calamity or underhandedness.

It's not. When people dig this out during an unrelated bank issue as some smoking gun it's worth stopping the nonsense in it's tracks in the same vein as COVID or climate or goldbug nonsense.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109094431...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement
More importantly, assuming that children are born owing their parents anything leads to deeply unhealthy societal outcomes:

- This enables abusive parenting styles and forces adult children to need to unlearn this lie in order to come to terms with their abuse;

- This enables parents having an outsized influence on adult children, such as controlling their sexuality, interests, physical location, etc;

Frankly: the parents have an obligation to care for their children because they generally chose to have children or chose to keep them once they were had. The child did not choose to be born and does not have a choice on the quality of their parentage. It's unacceptable to then place the burden on the child for choices they didn't make and have no control over.
That's a great point. Our initial market will be North America where this makes the most sense. For people with radiators, you could also do an install with our wall unit. If you have a radiator + boiler system there are also a lot of air-to-water heat pump options for you today. It's an area worth exploring for future Electric Air products.
Not only a great shot but consistent shots, that's even harder. I really don't understand the gripe OP has against WDT because it is really about eliminating those minute variables so that the process is reproducible.
It was definitely sarcasm, I didn't think the /s was required in this case.
Why wait for something to get given back when you can take it back right now? Dealing with insurance is always a bitch, especially if they have to pay. They'll drag it out years.
I would love to upgrade once my existing unit dies, especially if you can get a test unit reviewed by https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/search?query=...
How can it be audible on TCP when TLS doesn’t break on the same network equipment? Or when you can read documents without typos or parsing errors.

UDP is another story and it’s normal to hear things.
"This is such an easy problem to solve" How? If someone uses a fully faked/stolen identity, with a valid SSN / passport # / etc (which every single company is required to check), how do you propose we catch them?