skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notice that it's not the loyalty scheme per se that is problematic —during active employment in Sweden you are required to adhere to these principals by default— but the unethical possibly illegal messaging. edit: The responsibilities doesn't extend after employment has ended unless otherwise agreed.

What I don't get is why Spotify didn't prepare this arrangement in their contracts with their people when they joined the company. Then all cards would be on the table, the contract would be referred to as “the standard type”, less drama.
Online Ads Are Serving Us Lousy, Overpriced Goods
Do either have a connection to sleep apnea?
From the front-page:

> The Kinvolk Update Service allows for defining instance groups, assigning update channels and controlling the frequency, time of day and rate of updates.

What is this? From a quick glance I don't see it mentioned elsewhere. A hosted service? Something with a different license?
Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
"Grown for centuries by indigenous farmers in rural Mexico, this incredibly rare corn can self-fertilise. In episode three of 'Planet Fix', we explore how this wonder crop could help tackle world hunger, and even end farming's toxic reliance on chemical fertilisers for good!"
I feel the article is talking about why they fix a strategy mistake by senior engineering leadership.

I guess money was easy enough to get in the last two years so company can afford this kind of expensive experiments..
The CEI system pushing brands to endorse celebs like Dylan Mulvaney
The US Political Class is made up of Gullible people unable to do their own research because that is what the system has incentivized electing

People with intelligence, principles, and convictions rarely last long in politics;

People lacking those skills but the ability to charismatically reiterate the talking points of politically connected charities, action groups or lobbiest are well sought after....
Ooops, yeah it probably needs some work. I _think_ it is the work of a student and
I found it surprisingly beautiful and well done. The actual grammar (which is how I stumbled upon this project) is here:

https://github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator/blob/master/src/lib/...
OP integrated LangChan and the ability to Google results (and a neat way to integrate more agents). That’s the main draw for me in their implementation.
Taxes increase inflation. You buy a steak at a restaurant. If they have to pay 50% extra for their employees in tax, and 50% extra for the meat then it will be more expensive for them to sell you the steak.
For reference, the human standard is <1 death in every 100 million miles driven.
When I was on vacation there earlier this year, I drove right into the middle of the old walled city in Avignon until I noticed people giving me wired looks and a confused cop asked me how I got in there.
According to the main page of the linked article, this RePalm project has been ongoing since at least Dec 30 2018. How often and how much the author works on this particular project at a time I don’t know. But from this I think it is safe to assume that it takes time, and perseverance above all is key. Probably.
I feel like San Francisco is NOT a good city to test autonomous vehicles. Flat, grid cities would make better test grounds, preferably without streetcars.
the boot firmware (tf-a, non-eufi) for arm cortex-a has a similar concept, but without shifting quite as much into the firmware.

tf-a boots a "trusted environment" (a secure OS, e.g. op-tee), which defers back to tf-a after initial setup. tf-a then boots the main OS (e.g. linux). apps can be loaded into the TE at runtime, the main OS can defer execution to the TE, and the main OS's scheduler can coordinate with the TE to allow pseudo-preemption. coupled with hardware modules (an SPU, TZC, and GIC) in the fabric, specific interrupts, memory regions, and hardware peripherals can be marked as "secure" (i.e. accessible only by the TE) or "non-secure" (i.e. accessible by the main OS).

what's unique (i think? i may be misunderstanding.) in this case is that the TE is an OS without its own scheduler. it depends on the main OS's scheduler to defer control whenever the main OS deems appropriate. each OS has directly registered their own interrupts, so the firmware is really only handling one interrupt: when the main OS defers to the TE.
Ordinal Arithmetic
> It should be read not as it's written, but rather as `return the value of a`

So values that are returned need not be primitive values like basic ints, floats, strings, etc? They can be complicated structure values also?

Got it, then!
The weather in Boston is considerably more challenging than SF though.
Nit: I think everywhere you write x^2-1 you actually meant x^2+1.
They're not even sure tokamaks can be run steady-state and not pulsed. That's hand-waved as an "engineering problem" like everything else tokamak-related. Stellarators at least look like they could, since you don't need to induce a current to generate the magnetic field via induction.
I would agree with you if that person would have mentioned research paper and not just some very weak anecdotal evidence.

I find it very weird that their heat pump leaked and the efficiency is only at 150%.

It's not clear at all if this is an crazy outlier or reality.

IF this is not just an outlier than the next proper step from him would be to get the ball rolling with the right people to investigate the status quiet and fixing it.
Okay, serious question: The author of this blog post sleeps with his partner, and then discovered he spent 20 seconds of each minute gasping for breath, 40 times per hour. (Something like ~this). How did his wife not notice and tell him? Now I'm paranoid that I have sleep apnea.

What's the cheapest wearable or device that can probably tell you if you have apnea?
> You would have a greater impact for the environment by not using your car, not using AC in the summer, midly heating your home in the winter

I agree with some of this. But not having cooling or heating will make the civilization existence in many parts of the world nearly impossible. India(and probably other Asian countries) is a prime example.
It's a controlnet model trained on SAM segmentation maps. The final model takes a prompt and a segmentation map as input and generates an image conditioned on them.
Thanks for the suggestion. Btw, which compiler class are you talking about?
It came from Print Shop, an enormously popular Apple II program (esp. among kids).
Another question:

I wear a $15 Casio - so why am I reviewing smartwatches?
"Ah, the result of w̵a̵r̵ ̵o̵n̵ drugs"

FTFY

I grew up in the 80s in the San Fernando valley. I was in the center of DARE, in the middle of the Crips and the Bloods and their narco-fueled civil war. The biggest drug bust in history (to that point) occured 7 blocks from my house. I rolled my eyes ever since...

And then...

I lost college friends to drug overdoses. I saw some of the best and brightest of my university program permanently addle their brains, I saw friends in their 40s, with amazing baby children, commit suicide after years of fighting opiates (the completely legal ones). I saw the CEO in waiting of a fortune 500 company destroy his life with heroin. Now the very first of my children's schoolmates and friends are dying to Fentanyl.

Drugs are more and more powerful. The bar to them is less and less. Some people (including myself) have issues with addictive behavior. True enough. But thoose don't melt the skin off your body.

Stop normalizing drug use.
Sounds like a good idea. Some recent Stable Diffusion toolkits like ComfyUI are modular so in theory you'd be able to build a pipeline like this inside the application instead of being constrained to one workflow.
That's not at all what the parent post is suggesting.
I've never heard of a U.S. based consultancy taking 80%. In my experience we'd be happy with an 18-20% margin, but more often it was half that.
How is this a propaganda piece? It seems quite neutral, including both perspectives of the debate, and The Guardian itself is biased to the left! The article doesn't seem to include anything beyond factual reporting.
Admittedly, it varies, but I tend to look back for responses to older discussions if it was an interesting engagement to me. I agree with you that long form discussion suffers from current format, but I think it is part of the deal. It is hacker news and not hacker discussions.

TBH, I am not sure if there is a good non-invite-only forum that facilitates that.
Ask HN: Anyone else not a greybeard but has grey hair?
I started seeing grey hairs at 30, and I think there's a lot of grey on my temples 10 years later. But my beard is not grey at all. I thought you're supposed to become a greybeard first. Anyone else have this?
Heat Pump efficiency is inversely linked to outside air temp, the colder it is outside the less efficient the heat pump is as there is less heat energy to extract from the outside to "pump" into the inside...

Fixing is called physics... I am not sure magic words on a page (regulation) will "fix" physics....
Wow, super frustrating that this article, instead of actually listing options for non-smart TVs, just brushes them off with saying that they'll be "missing features" you would want, then lists features plenty of people don't need.

Thanks for essentially nothing instead of actually answering the question, Wirecutter.
there's often a lot of misunderstandings about the Apple II

Apple II nostalgia is not due to modern Apple's success. The people keeping it alive actually are often hostile to modern Apple, never forgiving them for killing off the Apple II in lieu of the macintosh. (See "Apple II forever" or attend a Kansasfest sometime)

a lot of key early gaming milestones happened on the Apple II, for a variety of reasons. One was the extremely clever floppy drive controller made by Woz. You could have actual decent sized games that would load in seconds. I know there's a lot of weird nostalgia for waiting large fractions of an hour for screeching bits to load off of tape, but that wasn't great for complex games.

Don't overlook the education market, a large set of Gen-X used apple IIs at school, and there was an immense educational software market

Business was big too, especially Visi-calc. It was used in much more serious ways than later 8-bit machines. To the point if you look closely at the original IBM PC you can see its design closely matches the Apple II in many ways, as that's what IBM was worried about. The c64 didn't even exist yet when that was happening.

Expansion, having a machine with a case with room for 8 expansion boards of fully documented slots is so much fun for hacking compared to trying to shoe-horn things into a mass of wires and loose-connector cartridges hanging out the back of your machine.

Finally cost, the II has a reputation of a rich-kid machine. Which is true, but everyone gets all excited about DOS gaming and during the DOS/PC age most PCs were really expensive as well.
I was wondering what the overall efficiency would be if you still used gas, but had that gas power a combustion engine to drive the heat pump compressor, while also reclaiming the heat from the engine and exhaust? Would that be more efficient than burning gas at a peaker plant to convert to electricity to run the heat pump?
In some countries it requires medical prescription so maybe for the author it's not really worth the hassle?
I’m inclined to think so but wasn’t America full of hundred of millions of bison at one point.
I used it to write a python script to convert a large json file full of a corpus of japanese business phrases and their english translations into anki card format.
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I wonder if we will ever see them switch to R-1234YF refrigerant. "While R-134a has a Global Warming Potential of 1300, R-1234yf’s GWP is less than 1." The only issue is the higher pressures and the fact that it's somewhat flammable might be why.

I will say, my heat pump dryer, while it has removed some buttons from shirts, has exceeded my expectations on energy usage. It's night and day compared to my toaster I had before.

And possibly this senator got a bad heat pump setup. Sample size of one although the leaking being common is not good.
Anytime you have a technology that is marketed ubiquitously as if it's a silver bullet solution, you are going to have disappointed users and implementations that under deliver.

Of course it's extremely important to switch people to electrified heating systems, regardless of their efficiency. However it's a little disingenuous to pretend there is nothing but upside here. The upside is for humanity as a whole; for individuals there may be very little noticable changes or improvements, and the systems may be worse than what they are used to.
That's super-hard mode!
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana...

These findings are consistent with the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug." However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances. Also, cross-sensitization is not unique to marijuana. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs51 and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances.

It is important to note that other factors besides biological mechanisms, such as a person’s social environment, are also critical in a person’s risk for drug use. An alternative to the gateway-drug hypothesis is that people who are more vulnerable to drug-taking are simply more likely to start with readily available substances such as marijuana, tobacco, or alcohol, and their subsequent social interactions with others who use drugs increases their chances of trying other drugs. Further research is needed to explore this question.
Increased property taxes on non-resident owners.
Yea, I'm nearing 25 and my hair is slowly turning grey / white while my beard is pitch black.
Rents and speculation or any activity that allows someone to siphon off the productive gains of society that they had no hand in producing.

For example, a company in nowhere-ville develops Mr. Fusion (home edition) and needs to expand rapidly. Rents and land prices double overnight which results in the cost of labor rising which slows expansion.

There are many opportunities for rent extraction in capitalistic systems and some degree of rent and speculation are necessary to establish a market but when society allows for excessive rent taking and speculation it becomes dead weight on productive investment.

For example the “billion dollar industry” for sand that makes computer chips (https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pu...) is an example of companies with little or no investment in the technology around chips who were able to extract large sums of money simply by controlling a sand pile.
Oh that's a thing of beauty. Bookmarked!
As a slight diversion from the carbon focus, the proportion of animals that is cows has increased drastically, as well. Look up the animal biomass proportions. It's shocking (sickening, even) to learn what proportion of the mammal biomass is cows and humans, and what proportion of the animal biomass is cows, chickens, and humans.
> or my compassionate and frequently anxious wife, would rouse me with the words, "WAKE UP, YOU'RE NOT BREATHING!"

She did notice. The people I have known with sleep apnea were originally alerted by their partners walking them to tell them they’re not breathing.

The article mentions the Withings Sleep Analyzer. Is about US$130.
I'm saying they are 5x more expensive than they need to be. So most of the money that goes to the agencies is de facto corruption, even if it goes to the workers who are working, but ouputting not much.
> I do not fault the particular pump that we bought or our installers who were careful and professional. Apparently, however, we lack good rules of thumb to predict how a pump will perform in a particular installation.

A 278% estimation turning out as 150% real world performance, certainly was not done very carefully.
https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&interval=30m

OpenNEM puts it at 12% imported and states 67.9% from renewables.

Why would SA want to produce multiple times their requirements in renewable energy? Today during the sunny period more than 100% was fulfilled by solar.
Blood panel was done
fraud on the part of the manufacturer is a distinct possibility with that kind of discrepancy also
Thanks for the pointer to the Leitner system (my last name coincides…) But why would you want to use that simplified Leitner system if Anki can track each card individually?

Disclaimer: I don’t know if Anki supports a simplified system that applies spacing to a whole group of cards instead of each card individually, but why you would want that?
You can invent as many impossible systems as you want, but unless you can do something useful or interesting, no one will pay any attention.
Seems like this exists for non single family home applications. https://www.yanmar.com/global/energy/ghp/vrf/merits.html
Not a doctor but an audio recording of a night of sleep could help while you wait for a different device.
The second paragraph has his concerned wife waking him?
It doesn't seem like you're including classic and obvious externalities. What about causing traffic that prevents vital organs or rescue personnel from reaching those in need in time?

Disruption of economic activity (qua output) can be significant in places where traffic is substantial and solvable yet unsolved.

In my personal experience (I've spent significant time in the neighborhoods around Nvidia's headquarters) approximately 3 cars fewer get through any given stoplight if an autonomous vehicle is in that lane. I can imagine how in a place like SF this could cause real, measurable negative impacts.
> The morale of the story, you need to sometimes tackle your own health and take matters into your own hands

The frustrating thing for me is that doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself. It's not anti-science to take your health into your own hands. It's anti-outdated-underfunded-medical-systems.
No, it works exactly like solar does. The companies say one thing, but reality doesn't match up. It doesn't matter how careful an installation is.
Modern Monetary Theory disagrees with you. Increasing taxes reduces spending & money supply, thus reducing inflation.
I'll probably be downvoted, but city infrastructure needs to be a partner in this. I've always thought driverless vehicles are a losing proposition unless road infrastructure engineering and transit is upgraded along with it. If SF is just ignoring it until it causes problems, well they're part of the problem.
I don't really see how it's bad. Just use bitcoin-rs. That's clear that it's Rust-based, but doesn't look like an official, sanctioned project.
The date of the last person executed by guillotine in France is surprisingly recent.
The article says there was 83 minutes of disruption caused by autonomous vehicles.

I wonder what amount of disruption was caused by homeless and mentally ill people during the same period.
Ah so the federal government allowed the provincial gov to pass that exemption? Or was it unilaterally decriminalized by BC, while still being federally illegal like it is in some US states?
While I agree that adulteration of street drugs contributes significantly to them being unsafe, it is proven beyond doubt that illicit narcotics cause addiction with negative health and social outcomes:

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22225671/

2. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-scie...

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26816013/

4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20148788/

5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17485608/

Even sustained use of quality-controlled narcotics is detrimental and harmful to health and social cohesion. And you do not need to read these studies that prove it, you can simply ask drug users to speak on the topic.

A more sustainable solution to the drug epidemic is Portugal-style legalization and rehabilitation of users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal.

It is very sad to see that we in the West are stuck with so much confusion when a working model for this problem exists.
80 million before 1850 according to Wikipedia. Now we're at about 1 billion cows worldwide, so it would depend on the number of cows/bison in the rest of the world at that time.
Reasoning from first principles (physics), there is zero CO2 impact of food, including beef (especially discounting methane).

Animals are part of the CO2 cycle. They breathe out CO2, you eat meat and breath out CO2, grass consumes CO2 to grow, cow eats grass - loop complete.

Of course, there are other inputs - e.g. transportation and fertilizer production (fun fact: 50% of the protein of your body is artificially produced, organic nitrogen bound via Haber-Bosch process).

But those are energy inputs, not CO2 inputs. If we used nuclear/solar, farming would be CO2-neutral.

All long-term climate change impact is coming from fossil fuels, not meat/farming. (Methane has only short-term impact.)
If subjects aren't passing tests, the solution is to make the tests easier?

(Remember this the next time someone says "teachers are the reason our kids are dumb".)
The Apple II also had an open design years before the PC.
So what did happen?
Loki': Who, What, and When Is the Time Variance Authority?
you might think about do the training in the cloud and then your back to needing standard hardware for the bot.

Also, another thought might be to generate embeddings for each paragraph of the manual and then index those using Faiss then you generate an embedding of the question and use Faiss to return the most relevant paragraphs feed those into the model with a prompt like "given the following: {paragraphs} \n\n {questions}"

I'm sure there are better prompts but you get the idea.
In any other locality, the compensation would be a bunch of highly paid tech jobs, paying fat stacks of tax and pulling money from all over the world into the local economy - both from the jobs directly working on the cars' software, and by bootstrapping a technology hub.

Of course, in the case of SF you could argue they have far more highly paid tech jobs than the city can support already, and no need to bootstrap a technology hub....
<< I don't understand this blog post.

Well, the article is something of an ad. The author discusses current ranking and effectively proves that it could be gamed to an extent ( author links his non-SEO search engine, which obviously you cannot do unless you are deep into SEO stuff, which includes HN ranking algorithm ). The complaint is mildly self-serving, but only mildly so. FWIW, it worked on me.

Still, I will echo what others said. Despite my grievances with HN at times, don't change what ain't broken.
Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
> There seems to be a group of people that abuse the flag button…until one was made that didn't mention his cause of death

I’m not sure that I’d characterize this as abuse. HN stays interesting by avoiding flame bait topics and part of the realization of the community guidelines happens via this flag feature.

One way to reframe #1 is that the community’s self-moderation features are working as designed, and that any post about Bob Lee’s death that somehow editorializes it or positions it in a way that is likely to lead to political debates is against the site guidelines and thus were removed appropriately.

Regarding #2, this has happened to me more than once, and while frustrating, it made me think more about posts I encounter before commenting. When a post fits the criteria for “potential flame war” or “clearly outside of site guidelines”, I flag it instead of commenting, even if I know that at the core, the topic could be an interesting one. Most things get posted more than once, and usually at least one of the posts is within guidelines.

When I do lose a comment to a flagged post, I’ll reuse it in a more level headed discussion about the topic.