skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York here, heating via heat pump is about 5x as expensive compared to natural gas. Paid around 100 bucks in gas for 1700sq ft place with 18foot ceilings, where as our power bills are north of 400-500 for 1400 sq ft heat pump set up.

We have a new Daikin inverter heat pump set up in the 1400sq ft place and are actually retrofitting a nat gas solution - when it was 20F it took a full 24 hours to get our place from 55F to 70F because the pump stops for 15mins at a time to defrost.

Greenwash aside, I would not recommend the heat pump solution anywhere north of Atlanta unless you're doing underground coil + nat gas backup.

Also heat pumps are evidently terrible at humidity control - even in the "dry" mode our place would shoot up to like 70%+ RH, ended up getting whole house dehumidifier to handle this.
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On Linux you can auth using the hash instead of the password. Other OSs probably have something similar.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40/use-wpa-supplica...
Curly brace languages are more popular again.
Not for WPA-PSK. The PSK is used to derive the PMK from (simplified) something like PMK = Hash(PSK, SSID). This key is static and never changes for the lifetime of a particular SSID, and is also shared across all devices in WPA-PSK.

From the PMK, all other per-connection keys are then derived at association time, but everybody that captures that conversation can derive all further keys since that exchange uses only symmetric functions with all secret inputs derived from the PMK, not something like Diffie-Hellman.

It's unfortunately not easy to do anything more resistant against compromised clients without storage on the APs (or at least a stable encryption key available to all access points of an SSID), so WPA-PSK doesn't – for anything more robust than that, you need WPA-EAP. (Some networks support a per-station/MAC address PSK as a proprietary feature, but that's only possible because they do have some management plane that allows the APs to share the required state.)
What a terrible 1-sided view of a much larger, complex issue. I believe Italy is right to "pump the brakes" at this moment, just as many other professionals are urging, especially in light of their data leak concerns.

Instead of assuming they will be "far behind in 2 years" when it comes to AI literacy (as if that's some grand goal everyone shares) why not believe Italy could be "far ahead in 2 years" when it comes to the mental health and general well being and happiness of their people?

It's fun jumping to conclusions, isn't it?
> There is a key on the keyboard for e. Whatever you have to do for a unicode set symbol, it's going to be harder than hitting the e key.

Seems https://fluxkeyboard.com/ might be a great fit for programming in APL and similar.
After WW2 people were convicted of war crimes and either executed or imprisoned. And people have been convicted continuously up until the present day, for example in Germany.

Yes obviously the reason nobody in the US was punished is because the US won the war. That doesn’t stop it from being regrettable that the people involved in blowing up two cities (the second one apparently by mistake), and we therefore have to hear from sanctimonious Americans claiming that the whole thing was no big deal!
Even if so, they may be forced to do so for the right to market the vehicle as self driving.

I would favour this.
Whoever has an Alexa on their network doesn't have anything to hide (doesn't care about privacy). Exposing the wifi password on top of that doesn't seem to be a big deal, when full access has already been granted to an evil device.
I remember really liking lifehacker when it was basically a blog.

I think the issue is that these sites don’t generate enough income for whole teams of editors and to be bought by media companies like ZiffDavis.

Maybe they are better now, that’s nice.

But I think what works is a single person or maybe 3 finding life hacks and writing about them.

I’m not even sure what lifehacker is supposed to write about now. But I think until they get back to someone’s passion project, they won’t be very good.
What Is an MCR or Multiplexer Combined Ranks DIMM
> There is massive resentment from people on the right who think the Twitter rules unfairly elevated some political opinions as good/correct/acceptable while treating others as unacceptable.

Would it surprise you to find out that this resentment is in fact, conveniently manufactured, politically useful outrage? Because it's simply not true on its face, and the only thing we need to know to understand this is to see that it took Trump launching a coup to be banned on the platform. He violated the TOS every day, and he was allowed to spread his message to his millions of followers by Twitter. You want to talk about unfairly elevating political opinions? Trump used the platform to violate citizens' first amendment rights, and we had to take him to court to get those rights back. Twitter didn't do shit to protect us from him.

But it's not just Trump. It's right wing political opinions writ large. Far and away from sinking right wing conservative voices, Twitter research found they actually amplify right wing voices in every one of their top 6 countries except Germany [1]. Yes, that includes the US.

Is your mind blown? Have you heard of this once? I bet all you've heard from Musk and right wing politicians is that Twitter is going hard on conservatives and deplatforming them. Blocking their messages. Being unfair to conservatives and right wing opinions.

Yet what has actually happened? Twitter was actually deferential to conservative voices! It boosted conservatives and right wing voices at the expense of liberals. How did this happen? This is conservative messaging 101: complain about bias loudly enough and the other side will go so far out of their way to seem unbiased, they will be biased in the other direction. Conservatives managed to complain so loud about Twitter being biased against them that you not only believe it, but reality is actually completely the opposite.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
I'm sure it's easier with Java, and I apologize for not being clearer. I have recent, unpleasant experience with Clojure, not java. That said, I would still be (pleasantly!) surprised to hear of someone using a sqlite java library and having it work without a hitch on native-image.
TIL: Suspension harnesses can cause serious trauma
F**k Teams
Scientists call for global push to eliminate space debris
I wonder how far we are away from AI real-time user defined filters? Enhance the lighting, dialog, reduce shouting, and especially a shot stabilizer to remove the 'blair witch' camera jitter? that every single movie / TV show seems to use in the last 10? years.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the existential career threat of AI?
I'm 26 years old and started my first Software Engineer position last fall at a successful startup after completing a Master's degree in CS.

Recently, I have become obsessed by chatGPT and GPT-4, in an unhealthy way. Seeing it's coding and problem solving abilities triggers a visceral response of dread and despair in me. I am afraid that after all the work I put in, the skills I acquired over the past years will become increasingly commoditise and meaninglessd. Even if not, I think there's a good chance that the added productivity will significantly affect the supply/demand calculus behind this career (and thereby, drive down compensation), which leaves me bitter and unmotivated.

Do you feel similarly? How are you handling these emotions?
Fair.

I try to avoid both, when I can. :)
I think you’re focusing too much on the letter, rather than the idea.
That would be a misdemeanor, not a felony.
Do they advertise unlimited storage? When I looked, the top plan was 30tb. To hit the file cap, you have to have 30tb of files averaging no more than 6mb.
every year pi is added on 03/14 and deleted on 04/01
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Yes, but I suppose GPs question was "is that enough to authenticate?" – and given that as you say Linux and iOS/macOS (for Wi-Fi "password" sharing with nearby devices) do support that, and my other comment, the answer is "yes".
How is that better than just limiting their account until they delete the files?
>Thus the old saw about how "80% of success is just showing up."

I'm old and I saw that when I was young.

>actually doing anything at all can be a differentiator.

The other 20% is taking action like so many do not do.
Imagine the scene: deep faked irises making bot armies that crypto nerds refuse to acknowledge aren't people.

In fairness, identity is hard, and the idea put forward is ambitious, but the scheme is unlikely to achieve what it purports to. Identity is a social, not biological construct.

In the prison system, for instance, prisoners are often present under assumed names. In some circumstances it is hard for courts to prove who someone is, even if it is nailed on what they did. Some markers (tattoos, scars, etc) help but approaches to identity often miss the innately situational nature of the thing.
...though, at the time?
After several years of war, across the globe, I can understand a messy end.
I can only commend the decision, from afar, as I am pretty sure the Japanese may not have surrendered so soon. And that's an awful lot of atrocities avoided, as well further military and civilian casualties.

//off topic: plus plus to the current Japanese government, and their support for Ukraine.
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There could have been a UN intervention. Instead, NATO intervened, forever tarnishing it's reputation as a defensive alliance. It could have stopped there, but instead they set up a system that allowed the destruction of Christianity in Kosovo[1] and unilateral declaration of independence despite the fact that UN peace resolution[2] reaffirmed the "sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Serbia. That was later used by Russia to steal Crimea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_unrest_in_Kosovo
How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake
I’ve been using drive since it came out and I’m yet to run in to a single problem with it. It’s been the most reliable storage system I’ve ever had.
I so wish that to be true, but if Ukraine proved anything, it is exactly that might is right is alive is well ( for example, Germany only buckled after nordstream blew up or India just saying no to US restrictions on gas purchases ).
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Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals
Isn’t that just tar?
What if Microsoft changes their mind and you wake up one day with your cloud backup being nuked due to the account expiring or due to your use being non-development-related?
Show HN: Modern media captions parsing and rendering library (vtt/srt/ssa)
AI Chatbots Can Diagnose Medical Conditions at Home. How Good Are They?
Different time zones maybe, or weekday vs. weekend.
Also, https://www.mathwashing.com/ as I just found out after reading socialcooling.com
A couple of issues with this:

- The title should properly be that of the linked article, so "Add π to the math module", a GitHub issue.

- It's obviously your issue (60 seconds between issue creation and HN submission), so now you've linked your GH account-name, JosephSBoyle, and your HN username. I don't know if you care about that, if not, why not use something close to your real name for your HN user id?

- It's a really silly idea and won't be adopted, think about the breakage this would cause
Alternatively said, "fain" is a mostly archaic way of saying "gladly". Whereas "feign" is more common and means "to give a false impression". More details: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/10/fain-feign.html
Would you also say that unit 731 [1] is a stain on the soul of the Japanese nation?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
In the US it doesn’t have a license anymore mainly to avoid FDIC requirements but it is licensed in every state https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/licenses
The start of the article is hilariously contradictory:

> They may be filling your house with deafening clicks...

> These noises are at about the volume of a normal human conversation...
They are better. SLC is improving as much as MLC. The ratio of speed, durability, and capacity is the same between SLC/MLC/TLC, but modern MLC is faster and more durable than 5-year-old SLC.
After a decade in the auto industry, I can confidently say that the difference (in quality) between FCA and others is not marginal. There is a severe lack of sound engineering during development and process control in manufacturing. All OEMs screw up, but FCA just manages to do it consistently.
Time lapse videos are created from photos taken over a period of time. If you create a 30fps 10 minute video, that's already 18000 photos.

It's quite a pain in the ass to import, color grade, deflicker etc. So one would usually wait till there are a few projects are taken, and process them all at once. If this is your hobby, you can easily hit 5000000 photos in a couple of years. Especially if you're doing something like an ultra long time lapse of say, the construction of a building using two cameras.

If the question is "why don't you delete the photos after creating the time lapse video?" It's called photo hoarding haha.

Anyway that's irrelevant, because if I paid for a certain storage size to backup my hoarding habits, I expect to be able to use the capacity, and not have some random ass limits.
If the ban was done at a Eu level I'd agree that it's possible that it would spur some growth, but I don't think Italy alone could do it. There is not enough internal demand for automation
Without parameters, wc prints `newlines`, `words` and `bytes`.
I've seen at least Chromecasts, Apple TVs etc. in quite a few corporate offices, so it's not completely unrealistic. Maybe somebody wants to use the Echo as a cheap speaker with the microphone disabled, or it's in a non-sensitive location.

That said, in a corporate network, admins would hopefully put these in a pretty isolated subnet (by SSID+PSK, since they presumably don't support WPA-EAP where you could VLAN/subnet them based on their credentials).
Lazarus Heist: The intercontinental ATM theft that netted $14M in two hours
lobste.rs is pretty good, in terms of higher tech discussion signal to noise, I think, though it still does have a bit of a political bent. Email me if you want an invite.
> I think Java’s startup time is often overblown, a hello world literally finishes in less than 0.1s

The problem isn't hello world, it's the start-up time of big jars. My experience tells me that JVM start-up time on actual large software projects is a real issue in practice. But I haven't used Bazel in particular; I'd be more interested in numbers for that than numbers for hello world.

> As for ZFS, what do you mean? [...] It’s just Linus’s overprotective stance against mixing two open-source licenses that makes it unmergable into the kernel

Haha, that's not right. The problem is that ZFS's license, the CDDL, is (intentionally) incompatible with the GPL, so you can't link CDDL code against GPL code. It's not just an issue with making it part of the main Linux tree either, it's probably not even legal for distros to even ship a ZFS kernel module, since that has to link against Linux's GPL code (according to common interpretations of the licenses; Canonical notably disagrees).

And let me repeat that this mess was intentional on the part of Sun when they made the CDDL (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...), and it remains intentional on the part of Oracle as they choose to keep ZFS under the CDDL.

The mechanism which prevents Linus from merging ZFS into the kernel, and the mechanism which prevents distros from shipping ZFS out of the box, is the exact same mechanism which prevents Linus from merging any other GPL-incompatible code or distros from shipping any other GPL-incompatible kernel modules.

Nothing is stopping any individual from grabbing the OpenZFS source code and linking it against their Linux kernel; that's legal. Oracle is just doing its best to prevent people from combining OpenZFS and Linux into one package and distributing the result.
Using Tailscale without using Tailscale
I think it’s basically the attitude “customer support is expensive and annoying, and since we’re Google and can do whatever we want, let’s skip it.” This kind of made sense when they had a massive tech advantage such that their products also needed less support.

Now they seem to have lost that edge and are just another competitor offering products that come with poor support.
Presumption of guilt.
I always thought this aspect of Wifi password security was a weird annoyance. It just makes thing inconvenient without providing any real security - and it's leaked into Android and taken to new extremes. For instance you can get and share Wifi with goofy QR codes - but syncing the whole wifi password list between devices? Impossible without rooting your device

They then up the goofyness in that it doesn't provide any mechanism in the UI to actually see the password, but you can screenshot the "share QR" code, read the QR in an app, and finally extract the password phrase that way (at least in all the Android versions I've tried). I have to do this dance regularly b/c scanning a QR code from a laptop is a pain

Loosing all my wifi passwords when I get a new phone always kinda sucks...
they definitely didn't coexist 15-20 years ago, which was maybe the reason I read LH back in the days, Reddit was founded less than 18 years ago and even in those first few years had hardly any users, started using it maybe 11 years ago and even then it was quite empty

stopped reading LH already before starting with Reddit
I'll probably send a thank you note rather than ghosting them outright, but this has become the plan as of yesterday.
Neuromancer was published in 1984 and I think we are finally on the verge of creating constructs.

The future of GPT could be like a construct, or an AI embryo. Something you can purchase that will consume every piece of data you have ever produced - every text, comment, journal or blog. Then it will consume every piece of data you have consumed - every book, movie, song or headline. An AI that can be taught to respond as if it believes what you believe and loves what you love. Something that can be a convincing copy of you to represent you to the outside world.

People who only interacted with you online might never know the difference.
15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite (2021)
>what's your take on the dynamic range in over-exposing film vs under-exposing digital?

You should actually overexpose digital (without blowing any highlights) to maximize dynamic range.

Our eyes perceive brightness logarithmically — given something emitting P photons perceived as brightness B, something emitting 2P photons will be perceived as brightness B+1, while something emitting 0.5P photons will be perceived as brightness B-1.

Image sensors are linear and discrete. So going from R,G,B=1,1,1 to 2,2,2 represents a doubling of photons captured, and thus be perceived by the eye as going from B to B+1. But 2,2,2->4,4,4 will go to B+2, 4,4,4->8,8,8 to B+3, etc.

Thus, there is only one bit of dynamic range going from B to B+1, 2 bits of dynamic range from B+1 to B+2, 3 bits from B+2 to B+3, and 2^N bits from B+N-1 to B+N. That’s why you want as much brightness information as possible close to saturating the sensor, since that’s where the most bits of dynamic range are.

This is called “exposing to the right” [0].

[0] https://digital-photography-school.com/exposing-to-the-right...
A very inspiring thing about this article was the bio: "Hi there! I am Daniel, a 14 year old developer whose interests include cybersecurity and hardware hacking, low level hardware, web design, and linux."

I look forward to seeing what you do 10 years from now. Keep it up!
Pretty unhealthy... check. Easy to overeat and long term screw up your body without intention, especially with kids who have no defenses... check. Pales dramatically in taste when compared with real food (TM), aka cheap junkfood category... check. Yes, confirming stereotypes.
I imagine that can contribute. But then other videos don't have the problem. Old movies don't have the problem. Just this new shabby stuff. Does my sound setup know somehow?
I run Product Chart which has a camera chart that lets you select two cameras and compare them:

https://www.productchart.com/cameras

Select "highlight" on the first camera you want to compare and then when you hover over the second, select "Compare to ..."

Does that work for you?

We have manually researched the product data for over 45,000 products. At the moment we only show currently popular cameras on the chart. But if there is demand, I could add a search for older cameras so those can be compared as well.
Funny, I thought the exact same thing. I still think of SSD's as "fancy" like it's still 2008 or something.
Customers? Them thinking of us as peasants, or even cattle, might better explain these attitudes.
Just wondering, are there some things Wine can do that Windows can't? (Besides run on Linux)
If you don't have surround sound in your home theater, do you even deserve to watch a movie?
Gather all job offers worthy of your application. List them on a document with: company name, short description, link to the offer, a link to an archived copy (sorted by interestingness, they go at the top: published 15 weeks ago)

Put a table under each where each row represents your steps though their process, columns are mostly time stamps, offer published, time elapsed since previous step, time since publication. When you've added it to the document, when you've applied, when they responded, when the interview was (if any) Final row (if any) should describe why you rejected the offer.

If you just didn't get hired the entry may be removed.

Put a version number on the document and a pass-worded link to the most recent version.

IOW a detailed survey of the landscape.
The post glosses over the most important part of Erlang's GC: it collects process heaps separately. This transforms a hard problem (collecting a global heap with low latency despite concurrent mutators) to a _much_ simpler problem, at the price of more copying. Compare Java's G1 with Erlang's GC; the former hurts my head.

For those problems that are amenable to Erlang's model, this is a fine solution. The only real improvement here would be making collection incremental.
Which is exactly why I'm starting my own company. Thanks for the advice.
I think that is something YouTube rolled out a year or two ago to isolate adult YouTube from kids. You know sometimes a video gets marked with a YT kids banner and comments are disabled and recommendations on the side bar replaced with generic videos.
Non-tech perspective: How Rappers gonna (sic) be gonna be with this new AI tech
If I silence calls from unknown numbers I would get most deliveries since the couriers often ask for help finding the house or just won't bother coming unless they verify somebody is at home
I was a developer at Groupon in that early era and remember IPO day. I am literally wearing the IPO shirt as a pajama top right now and stumbled on this. It was such an interesting and exciting place to be at the time. I still miss those days when the Chicago developer scene was so active and fun.
They don't have to, because he effectively can't be muted. People tweet quote him with an image, and it's not blocked even though I have him blocked as an account. This behavior is pervasive enough that you can still see his tweets all the time.