skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also just a guess: is the story with heating that your heat pump is sized based on your max heating load, and so losing up to 25% of its capacity on the coldest days means it would never be able to catch up?

The unit I have has a HSPF2 rating of 10.5. It's very efficient at the transfer of the heat available. Heat pumps can extract more energy than the consume. New heat pumps can operate over 300% efficiency. The best furnaces are generally in the mid-90 percentages.

I have a dual-fuel system and can set where the heat pump locks out. The system is rated to a COP of 1.75 at 5F. Meaning it's still over 100% efficient at that temperature. The unit will operate down to -22F but would be at, likely, less than 50% capacity of output. To save on wear and tear of the unit, however I have my setpoint lockout at 15.

It would have to be significantly below 0 for days on end to have a problem. But even then the furnace would be providing primary heat. There are people in my area that heat their entire home with ductless heat pumps [0]. My unit is rated at 48k BTU. The furnace at 100k BTU. I only really "need" the furnace for emergency. But we do have sub-zero highs rather often and during those days the heat pump would be running continuously.

I also have an 80 gallon hybrid heat pump water heater which has saved us thousands over the last few years. 98% of the year it only uses the heat pump.

[0] https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/can-a-heat-pump-work-in-...
I'd like to note here that NOYB seems to be doing great work, and is one of the very few institutions I donate to. I think they're worth a donation:

https://noyb.eu/en/donations-other-support-options
It's astonishing how the replier immediately revealed so clearly this phenomena.
Unfortunately, there's a good chance you have fungus gnats and not fruit flies. Do they live in houseplants? In my experience fruit flies go away if you rinse cans/bottles, and keep the sinks/drain clean, and use a lid for your compost.
Linux 6.5 Workqueues Add Automatic CPU-Intensive Detection and Monitoring
If they've accepted contributions from third parties they can't relicense those contributions, right?
The open source Mailchimp alternative
Heyo! I'm Afi, I have been working on Bespoke for the past 8 months. I have a good feeling about Bespoke and I think it can only reach it's true potential if it's only open source. My thoughts are below.

Bespok's ultimate goals are as follows:
-To engage in personalized marketing
-To be trusted, because we do personlization

When we mention personalization, it involves gathering extensive user data, such as their behavior, purchase history, and browsing preferences. We understand that handling such sensitive information might lead to concerns about intrusion into users' privacy.

To establish trust in our system and demonstrate our transparent data collection practices, we have no choice but to open-source our software. By adopting an open-source approach, we can gain a competitive advantage in terms of trustworthiness and reliability.

Another crucial aspect of our long-term goal is to become a platform that facilitates data collection for any software operating on the internet. We aim to challenge the narratives surrounding companies like Facebook, TikTok, Google, etc., which have been criticized for exploiting user data to benefit advertisers. We believe that our approach can bring about a positive change, providing advertisers with an alternative platform where everything is conducted openly, instilling greater trust in the system among users.

I think the path forward towards the stated goals above is to start with a Mailchimp alternative. And eventually become the open source personlization marketing platform.

Hope you guys self host it today or sign up to check it out! Don't forget to give us a star on github!

MIT Licenced!
Clash of the Islanders (2021)
No, it isn’t. Browser root programs have certificate transparency (SCT embedding) requirements which would immediately reveal to the world if an ISP started to use a trusted root to MITM its users.
Shameless plug: the Kitspace page helps you build one yourself.

https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/ottercast/ottercastau...
Thank you for your thoughts.

I would say that I know lots of people, for a long time - but that doesn't mean I know what they think/intend or do. I don't know that I can vouch for anyone else.

If someone joins a secret society, how do I know what that means to them? Being charitable towards these people (and there are valid reasons not to be) we can say that they may believe that it is perfectly acceptable to withhold information and mislead others, because there is a 'greater good' objective being met in doing so. Ie they think it is perfectly acceptable that I am kept in the dark (for my own good), with no ability to discern things for myself. People in elite positions, with say control of historical artifacts etc, are especially able/liable to take this position. And that is fine.

But it is also fine for me to refuse to accept their information, to refuse to trust whatever they are pushing. When I know they are 'bonesmen', I know that I am unable to discern the reality or truth of what they propose - there can be no trust. What oaths have they taken? Why would they join such a society? Its not just a bit of fun. When they admit they are members of a secret society - and skull and bones is deeply involved in the management of society, counting presidents as members - we can conclude that it is most likely that there are covert reasons for what is done.

Sorry to be crude, but whatever-it-is they they can stick it up their a**. Why trust evidence from people who are untrustworthy?
It should be more specific, they should not be allowed a smartphone in school at all. But a phone, yes definitely. In europe it's a lot more common to send your kids alone to school, so I definitely think they should have a simple phone.

But at the same time I want them to go to school without any smartphone, I want them to feel that freedom from social media at least during the school day. Not just that school locks them up, but that they eventually learn to not even bring it.
Lots of good ideas on this thread.
I'd like to second the idea of getting the legal affairs in order
ASAP.

This will help out a lot in the future.

And don't forget yourself during this time as it seems that you are some kind of primary caregiver so,I'm not trying to add additional burdens on you but,
It helped me to seek out some kind of " counseling" and psychiatric help just to make sure to myself I was making the correct decisions.

There is a long road ahead of you that you will need to navigate - and I'm sure you will do this well.

Stay strong right now+ no matter how bad it seems,
It could always be worse
( but it isn't)

You will find a way through this
Not really important to the rest of your comment, BUT — Sister-in-law means they have to be a “sister in the law”, a girlfriend has no legal basis in fact.

All that said, there are other analytics systems out there mixpanel, amplitude, roll your own, etc. they might not be quite as full-featured but 95% if the value comes from a few features everyone has
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. We're taught that for everything from investing to dating.
> I’m curious what you’re working with that is significantly different from one CSP to the next.

I work here:

https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/

There is a lot more to any of the cloud providers than just VMs and networking. I haven’t done anything hardly with a raw EC2 instance in 5 years except for one or two deployment pipelines. AWS alone has 130 services. True many of them are hosted versions of open source products

I work with call centers (Connect), Athena (Apache Presto), Step functions, and I have done some IOT work and of course Lambda and a lot more. I don’t do anything with traditional VMs. My specialty is “application modernization” meaning my work is a combination of DevOps and traditional application development using AWS services.

There are all kinds of specialties within any of the major cloud providers.
It would still be good if it was written in a different language. Probably even better because the developers would have more time to improve the software instead of reinventing wheels, writing boilerplate code and chasing down segfaults.
considering the amount of new games each day on steam, it doesn't surprise me
Its fidelity is considerably higher with a 4k+ MicroOLED panel for each eye, which eliminates screen door effect, aliasing, etc making use cases that involve reading a lot of text in it more feasible. Its passthrough is also extremely low latency at 12ms, and it’s built with a full M2 SoC which is a good deal beefier than anything integrated into other standalone headsets.
Evergreen Notes by Andy Matuschak
The ~150 line implementation[0] mentioned in the post looks great.

Anyone know of a similarly small implementation for transformers?

[0]: https://github.com/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV/blob/main/RWKV_in_150_li...
Apple II Desktop 1.3 Released
A Parisian Death Mask Became the Face of CPR Dolls Everywhere
Sadly it seems like there's no active development anymore and it isn't possible to purchase it directly. You can have it manufactured, but it still needs some manual assembly with SMT parts.
Didn't quite catch, is this just the first mapping, or are they able to 'execute it'.
Like the worm project a few years ago. Where they mapped worm "C. elegans" brain, and was able to put in a simulated environment and watch reactions, and eventually into a robot body.

This seems like next step up in complexity, so wondering how far they are along having the 'brain map' execute.
In France they do.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/08/30/the-mobil...
Which means a lot will be censored, if they don’t censor you end up with the same convo people want to talk about in the current times
National legislators should stay out of the classrooms. Let parents and the actual experts in teaching at each individual school organize themselves how they see fit. Politicians sadly love hands-on-management of issues instead of focusing on enabling and facilitating actual people controlling their own lives.
That's fair. I mostly work on servers and web FE which is also easy to redeploy.
A ferret from Gaylord, Minnesota.
I generally found much less accurate as something like Plausible, it seems Cloudflare default analytics are more like where requesting are coming from.
Maybe not! And?
The long tail of Steam (PC) games aren't really made for small screens and controllers. For a game to be "verified", it needs to fully support controllers, have readable text on a 8" 1280x800 screen and run well on Deck's hardware using Proton.

As more older Steam games went through the process, less % of games actually fulfill those conditions (main reason I'm personally seeing is either "small text" or a launcher that requires use of mouse to click "Play" before the game starts).
The eency weency ... got washed out.
I think what they meant was that it's easier than ever to be homeless.

In many places you can't be thrown in jail for being homeless anymore. Many cities have more housing and shelters and free kitchens than ever before. Some places even give you a smartphone and basic plan. Etc.
I share this sentiment. I use content blockers to avoid annoyances and trackers, but I'm ok with healthy ads and other local stats. The problem is not being able to distinguish them at scale.
You're not reading too much into it. That's the meaning of the word.
Great commitment. What about work tho, do you only work while sitting down in front of your workstation then?
Things like me-too happened primarily due to internet discourse. It may or may not have had an impact on society but it was partly due to social media.
Are you implying there haven't been any battery breakthroughs? What do you think the average capacity, density and cycle time of a battery in 2003 vs 2023 is.
Yes but you can't hear them because they are on yachts
A Deep Dive into Mutations with Absinthe
> a native file manager app (2017!)

What would you do with one on a device where every app is heavily sandboxed and there's no common file system?

> pressure-sensitive pens and screens (~ 4 years after Samsung)

When they did release this, no competition was even close to the precision and fidelity.

When Apple releases something later than competition it's usually (but not always) justified and results in a better execution
Technically yes. Practically, thanks to FB scraping, we have public phone numbers for around 20% of Czech citizens. Check your country, I think scraping and leaks was and will be everywhere.
I love it. We need more scammer/marketer/salesperson LLM tarpits.
It's not really about the size of the corpus but about its ownership.

Anyway, now consider an LLM that was trained on two corpuses(?) with two distinct undisputed owners.
Don't their hydrogen cars use fuel cells. Ie they use electric motors not ic engines
Is it safe to just read the title and be done with this?
These glimpses of powerful, future anti-aging treatments is why AGI research must not be slowed down under any circumstances. Immortality is in sight.

I have to say, it's annoying to have been born before radical life-extending technology becomes available, but late enough in the timeline to consider it an actual possibility.
Yes, "fumbling" --- this was your characterization of US policy, not the CCP.

not the same as being deliberately malevolent to any one else.

You conveniently forget that China experimented with crypto for years --- before ending the experiment with a total ban.

Just a few years ago, most crypto mining was taking place in China.

The largest crypto exchanges were started in China by Chinese nationals. They maintained operations in China for years despite being officially banned --- and deliberately hid this from the rest of the world --- with the CCP's complicity.

This sort of deception is not "deliberately malevolent" where you are from?

https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2023/binance-concealed...
Presuming you're using linux you can use one of the ottercast devices as a pulseaudio network sinc. It should just show up in your list of audio devices, although I admit I've never actually used a network pulseaudio sinc. If you wanted fancier multi-room audio you could install snapcast on your computer.
>I do still get them from android phones. Its weird, i have no idea why.

If you have an android phone yourself, maybe it's not actually SMS and it's actually RCS[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
and a thousand ways to build a library which are not compatible with the build system used by your app
Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
The story mentions volcanic ash. If the Roman recipe became popular again for marine use, I wonder how much ash is currently available without terrible mining operations.
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Smartphone is essential tool for normal life today. One can not even pay or use public transport without smartphone! Owning it should be basic human right, like wearing clothes!

Large number of students in Nederlands do not speak local language. Smartphone is essential for translation and communication with them. It also allows calling 911, and video/audio recording evidence, if there are any misunderstandings.

This rule feels like teachers are solving their problems at expense of students!
You can build procedures for fact checking quite easily. It is like asking gpt to write code and tests.
Even witcher 3 that's verified have small text. Not too bad but I prefer it to be slightly larger.
They all use Delta Chat. I self-hosted a non-federated Matrix server for ~3 years, but once I found Delta Chat (a little over a year ago) I asked everyone to transition over to using it to stay in contact with me. About 15 people in total, I haven't heard any complaints and it works great.
For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.
3. Avoiding government blocks/censorship/monitoring (if you trust your government less than the VPN provider). Not every country has open and free access.

4. Accessing your home country's internet while abroad, since many sites redirect you to a foreign market version

5. Checking if another geo has cheaper prices. Tom Scott mentioned he got cheaper prices on international rental cars by VPNing to the destination country than when going direct from a foreign country.
>only work while sitting down in front of your workstation

As you should no matter if you have a smart phone or not.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/20/att-pr...

It’s even explained on their site: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/what...

Justification: to keep you safe!1
Whatever the critiques of length, this is a good write up on 'bias', that is not about race or politics, and thus a good neutral example about how training sets can skew results in un-intended ways.

I didn't think it was that long, it might be that some are cherry picking the points they find interesting and think the rest could have been edited out.

I could have stood even more discussion on how this 'blind spot' in the AI model is very much akin to our own blind spots.
Planet of the apes beginnings
I installed and ran Sourcegraph on my laptop a year or so ago. It was cool, but I didn’t keep it around.

There is a lot of competing technology now, from GitHub’s improved search to new open source LangChain and LlamaIndex support for better document chunking of source code in several languages.
"Sightreading", i.e. playing a piece you've never seen before on the spot, is something that musicians are commonly asked to do in auditions.
It's also repetitive.
How do you know the LoC number? Have you worked on it?
Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?
really liking it myself. I used to not have much time to boot my PC to game anymore and the Steam Deck made it easier to get back into gaming with short sessions - the sleep mode is perfect to leave a game paused and start again whenever you are ready.
Could you tell us about the job where difficulties with discerning the lies that the boss currently wants to hear, or in telling him those lies, is not discriminated against?
I would not miss a single one.

"...in a single year, São Paulo removed 15,000 billboards, many of which were replaced by street art."

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...
Which profile do you want to see? Do you have the address of the profile in it's network? Or a profile name?
Growth, or bubble? I don't forsee a world where Apple paves their way to 5 trillion dollar valuation. Both of their highest-margin products (iPhone and App Store) are under threat and require immediate re-arranging. They're an easy bet because "big company strong", but have so many mounting issues to deal with on the global stage. It's extremely unlikely this period of growth lasts into the future.

Nvidia is, as you said, a spike. One driven by AI but will probably be irrelevant in a few years. They're still great at engineering and CUDA will almost certainly continue to dominate, but the AI boom won't last forever. Once ASICs hit the scene it will be game over for GPGPU vendors, like it was with crypto in 2021. They'll still have gaming and industry markets to cater to, but their spiking days are numbered.
There is one more and that is unreliable or filtered connections.

Having wireguard style VPN on a network that is unreliable can keep connections alive that might otherwise be killed.

This usually isn't due to any error correction, just bypassing the stateful nat deciding your connection is not valid anymore.
And it shows.

Source: https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-duolingo-bird-memes/

Another source: https://www.quora.com/How-common-are-errors-in-Duolingo?shar...
I've tried Mullvad but services like Firebase and Cloudflare randomly don't work with the Mullvad servers I use. There's no benefit to a VPN that makes you spend 20 minutes debugging your dev environment, only to remember you need to turn off your VPN before doing a `firebase deploy`.
My theories: (1) Steam got a lot of new games. (2) Compatibility issues found deep inside games. (3) No compat issues, but issues with Steam Deck specifically.
Could you be more precise with what envision by "correctly"?
If you use a shared salt for all or a significant portion of rows, then it's a realistic matter of bruteforcing to cover your entire table, given that the attacker has been able to recover the salt.

Even without any cracking at all, shared salt would mean that rows can be correlated if the attacker can identify a single row and correlate that to the target.

Let's say you use up the game and use per-row salts, like here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4159827/another-question...

Given an attacker wanting to pull out information about a specific user, and they have on their hands your salted dataset, the salts, and a handful of IP addresses that the target is known to be associated with from other datasets, it's still trivial to brute-force.

Even increasing it to a set of a few thousand IP addresses (say, a handful of /24s) it should be perfectly realistic, assuming you don't use enough rounds that your infrastructure is spending a majority of its CPU-time only performing psuedoanonymizing hashing.

Oh, and if you use per-row salts, is any of that data still usable in the first place?

The above is besides the point of the IPv4 address space being small enough to exhaust and shows why this is an issue for IPv6 addresses as well.
I wouldn't have minded getting some equity before the purchase, though!
Billboards ARE banned in some states, e.g., Vermont.

It is immediately noticeably nicer to drive there vs neighboring states.

It also generates a few fun stories, such as the grandfathered-still-existing tall sign north of Brattleboro that said "Steak $5.99" for years after the steak house had changed. Eventually, while it was being leased to an Asian restaurant, people protested that it was false advertising (as steak had not been available for years and certainly not at that price). The landlord still wanting to keep the sign, but not allowed to change it, removed the "S", "K", and "$5.99", so the sign read "TEA" for many more years, and AFAIK, still does.
I remember having used a Red Hat (?) tool back in 2002 for understanding the source code of the Brazilian voting machine so we could more easily port it to Windows CE (the 2002 model ran on it initially, then on Linux from 2004-ish). It had a very Motif-like interface. Does anyone else remember its name?
We need to counterbalance that with a chance of extinction. /s
Does an LLM need to “know” what a fact is? I think what you’re asserting is mostly philosophical, and it doesn’t affect the end result which is that you demonstrably can provide certain LLMs with incorrect information and have that information corrected.
Here's Arjen Lubach, the Dutch Jon Stewart, about phones in classrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEuSxFd_M

Note: The autogenerated (english) subtitles are a pretty decent.