skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On-demand HWS can use heat-pump technology if required. Even tiny refrigerators use a heat pump. If they aren't widely used, it's because the savings are too small to warrant it.

Regarding solar HWS: The cost of heating panels, piping, and installation, has meant that they are fast disappearing from the market. It's better to add a few extra solar electric panels and use on-demand HWS, either with battery storage or via grid connect.

I've just been down this route with a new solar electric plant. I had originally assumed that Solar HWS would be included, but after doing the calcs, have abandoned the solar heating panels and instead opted for a few more solar electric panels plus extra Lithium batteries. It means I have a lot more storage that can used for many different purposes.
It doesn’t work like that. This isn’t like racism where differences are immediately superficially apparent. You need to have conversations bordering on light interrogations to determine who is what.
Everything about the last decade has been about undermining agreements or giving them the finger altogether, and disrupting conventional approaches to just about everything.

Robots are expensive and require a lot of technical expertise. Engineers can be poached or killed. We have doctor shortages and supply chain issues. Once we've tooled everything to make lithium batteries and war robots, blown them all up overseas, and an adversary leverages cyberattacks to cripple production of any more, someone's going to shell cities with mustard gas or deploy a bioweapon or something.

We won't be able to produce gas masks in time or treat victims; COVID response should be considered a failed test run on both fronts (where we couldn't even produce masks and latex gloves during peacetime). The Geneva Convention is due for disruption.
The SAW (squad automatic weapon) is a huge burden to a four-man team. Not just carrying the damn thing; carrying the ammo. Which is lead.

A robot dog to just carry the ammo boxes would be a huge mobility benefit in some environments, particularly urban.
Can Bus Monitor
Assume location is East Coast(NYC).
Which as described to me was interpreted as conflictual.
I love projects like these, since its typically a neophyte to embedded hardware design and programming a microcontroller.

But just once, I'd love to see a hobby project from somebody who already knows what they're doing, but is using this to try out some ridiculously inappropriate software technique.

Forget Arduino on an ESP32, I want to see somebody do this with FreeRTOS.

It's been on my todo list for a long time. Unfortunately, we have too many predators in our area to let the chickens roam free unsupervised (I lost 5 last year to the same coyote, and I can hear the bald eagles squeaking most clear days), so its a solution in search of a problem.
South Korea had decades of anti-natalist policies. It’s a bit odd complaining about a low fertility rate now.
Parks and Recreation drove me crazy because they used b-roll of the Pasadena City Hall exterior as a stand in for Pawnee City Hall, simply because it’s what everyone in the LA area pictures when they think “impressive city hall”
Huh, that is news to me. My TV does a stupid "tv will turn on if I power on a console, but won't automatically switch to that input."

I'll have to dig a little on it. Curious what is off on it.

That said, I should probably reframe my criticism. Most of this is me being surprised at how bad it was neglected back in 20002ish timeframe. Went many years with no TV to really see some advances. I'm getting a large "batteries got good without paying attention to them" vibe. :D
> economists can tell you exactly why it doesn't work

Can they now? It seems to me that the more "exact" an economist gets, the more they should be ignored. Economics is a fiendishly difficult discipline and anyone who claims exactitude should be setting off your B.S. meter.
If a company implements paypal then people who only have paypal might pay them money that they otherwise wouldn't. However, people who might have otherwise payed via another means may also now use paypal. If paypal has higher fees this could well result in less money in revenue.

Also, maintaining each payment gateway has an implementation and maintenance cost. Add it all up, and assuming that the number of potential customers like you that only have paypal is small, and it's easy to see why companies may choose not to implement it.
this isn't really the author's point - but woe on anyone who tries to sign up for the myriad of third party charging web sites to get charging to work. I am looking at you EVGo, Enel X Way, Electrify America, Charge point,etc. None of these just let you swipe a card and pay. None of the level 2 or level 3 chargers has the basic functionality you get at a gas pump: you can just pay with a card. No - you need to download the app, sign up, do f*ing email verification, enter your credit card, enter the station number in the app because the QR Scanning doesn't work. All to find out that the stupid charger refuses to talk to your car.

To add insult to injury -there are failure points everyway through this process. Not enough bandwidth to download the bloated app, the email verification doesn't work. Have you tried calling the support number on a charger? That's really an exercise in self torture.

So yes, EV Chargers should be a lot dumber. Take my money, give my electrons, and screw off about everything else.
I think the EFF is just giving us all whiplash
.... I looked back to the very root comment for any mention of Musk. Why did you mention him? What relevance does he have? What point are you trying to make?
You don't need to search SEO spam for that stuff; ChatGPT knows it. I think Vite and React would be a good place to branch out to.
Was it ever considered such a great joy or just another of life's many tasks?
UBC Study: Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness
I'll have to try a newer device, then. Pleasantly surprised to hear that my view is just outdated. :D
Point Cloud Utils – A Python library for 3D point clouds and meshes
For what it's worth, there are many sites that are just about posting people's PII. Sites like doxbin, which seem to be up with impunity. I'm surprised KF got got, while DB sticks around - DB seems overall worse to me considering that it _is_ a site that is expressly created for harassment
This is a weird one though. They're defending the freedom of criminals to commit crimes while simultaneously calling for the criminals to be prosecuted.
How does GFI work with the British current-loop system? I'm not sure it's a thing.
> Eric Hartford: fine-tuning uncensored LLMs

Makes me very happy that this is being undertaken.

LLMs will be a very valuable tool. Having censorship built into these tools makes me very nervous. Imagine if Word refused to allow you to type any “bad word” in the name of safety and ethics.
Linux 6.6 Adds Support for Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
No True Scrummist
California is about to pass a caste discrimination ban [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-moves-closer-his...
Sounds like the "Dark" TV show on Netflix.
That is in contrast to the article, which says:

> Typically, one's surname (last name) is a giveaway and most Indians can reasonably identify someone's caste based on the last name
I figured HN would want the study link. There's a press release from the university summarizing some of the results here, too:

https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/29/how-homeless-people-spend-the...
>EVs don't use gas; so, a gas tax won't apply.

Why should we tax them, again?

Because whatever the reason, we should have taxed gas cars to death yesterday. For a start, any mitigation effort against the impact of ICE's emissions on climate will make all countries bankrupt pretty quick.
If you tell Linux to replace the EDID firmware with a custom binary, without telling it which output to override, I'm not surprised Linux acts the way it does. I can confirm on my machine that overriding EDID for a specific connector works as expected. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_mode_setting#Forcing... says that you can do it for multiple connectors using commas to separate values, though I have not tried. Though one gotcha is that on my RX 570, `ls -ld /sys/class/drm/*/edid` prints HDMI-A-1 and -2, which is also the name of the display outputs on Wayland, but on X11 xrandr identifies these outputs as HDMI-1 and HDMI-2. (I think you have to use HDMI-A-1 in the kernel command line, but I have not tried.)
> . People in Porches yelling at other people to get spots.

Are you in Cali? In the midwest, Tesla chargers are still empty (like, in 45,000 miles of driving my tesla I have waited 1 time for ~5 minutes on a roadtrip). Even the non-Tesla chargers are cricket land still.

Obviously EV adoption is higher out west, but also I think more apartment living that need to public charge all the time. Out here - you would only ever charge on a roadtrip as 90% of charging is at home.
The subcutaneous part is not really solvable, but even if it were, "real" insulin is much faster than even the fastest insulins (lispros) that we currently have. So there is a delay between delivery and action. There is also a delay on the sensing side; the pancreas always knows what's up, but even cutting edge CGM technology has significant delays, mostly related to that subcutaneous issue from my understanding.
I’m interested in using privacy.com, but I’m concerned that providing THEM access access to my accounts creates even more vulnerability.

Fo they have any security protections that prevent them from draining my accounts (either accidentally or via hacker)?
> i had 2 developers telling to vp of engineering that they not going to implement some functionality because they don't see the need in it

Sounds like the VP of engineering needed to get his head out of his ass and listen to the people who actually knew a god damn thing about what was going on.
The issue is OBC (Other Backwards Castes) was invented as a populist measure in 1992.

After Independence, Affirmative Action/Reservation was created so Dalits and Nomadic Tribes who were traditionally outcastes in South Asian society could be integrated into society.

Yet, in the 1980s-90s, Agrarian and Feudal Caste politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav (Yadav), Lalu Prasad Yadav (Yadav), Chaudhary Charan Singh (Jatt), Bal Thackarey (Maratha), YRS Reddy (Reddy), etc began pushing to expand Affirmative Action to include those castes that are traditionally Feudal Lords/Zamindars and oppressed Dalits and Nomads.

When this expansion began in 1992, every single non-Dalit caste saw that if they could lobby hard enough, they could also be give guarunteed Affirmative Action for college admissions, government jobs, welfare, etc.

This is why even some Brahmin majority castes like Paharis were given Affimative Action by being treated as an OBC or Scheduled Tribe.
vast.ai can help you offer this and has bunch of docs on how you can start hosting: https://vast.ai/docs/hosting/hosting

You won't be able to limit it to a particular set of clients who want to use it, but you're basically supporting the "GPU Poor" by doing this, as I think it's mostly smaller companies, individuals and researchers using vast.ai, rather than huge companies.
imo this sounds like the right move, relying on a single company to produce all the gpus results in massive competition to get them, and a large barrier to entry to buy them

by skipping it you can play a little slower but probably a lot cheaper
If you thing scrum is bad, try adopting scaled agile. It's so bad that our new CEO who introduced it less than a year ago tried to pull the Steve Jobs reality distortion trick to convince everyone in a recent all hands that "we're not Scaled Agile, we never have been. We used little parts of it to make something better that's all our own".

What you need to recognize with all these processes that go beyond the direct dev team is that they are not there for the devs. They're for senior leadership and non-technical executives to pretend they can have their cake (agile with responsive and constant delivery) and eat it too (waterfall with scheduled "final" delivery). It still sucks but this understanding does help you survive.
Are you saying maybe fossil fuels are good
(or less bad) and cows are bad (or less good)? And we ought to tax cattle farms so that we can burn more fossil fuels? That's what it sounds like when you really look at it.
Incredibly loud means illegally modified. Even the staccato sound of the engine brake (compression release aka jake brake) is very subdued in a properly muffled vehicle. This is how they come from factory as it is mandated. Plus the DPF+SCR cats added to the muffling ability and are sometimes all in one.
I've often thought that overnight charging at hotels would be simpler without that. Just a simple keycard to open, similar to other hotel amenities and a fixed cost to use it would be sufficient.

At an RV park, maybe charge a small premium if that is even needed.
1. Nobody does gets those in Eastern Europe
2. This is a GDPR violation
3. If you have to hide something from your government then you should probably use something better than a commercial VPN.
4. Corporate internet usage is tied to your corporate account and the use of a non-sanctioned VPN is a massive red flag.
The limit is basically gone now so at least that is a non issue.
My daily vehicle is one of the only "city car" options ever sold in the US, it was originally made for the European market, and I love it. Most of my sports cars are only larger in length than the typical Euro econobox, but aren't considered particularly large. I see plenty of VW, Skoda, BMW, Mercedes, Renault, etc hatchbacks and sedans in Europe and have driven a few myself. I don't think "city car" has to be the only option in Europe, and I don't really see any evidence that there's an attempt to make it so. In some parts of Europe the fastest selling car is the Tesla Model 3. None of these are large vehicles by European standards, and definitely not by US standards.
Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder? (2009)
Everything you don't understand seems like it could be dumber.

The details prop up only when you delve into it or start experiencing issues.

There is a relevant quote from Einstein here : "Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Are there any highly developed cultures with a high birth rate?
US Mormons and US Christians maybe?
They also moved part of the article to another post and made it paywalled. Is that really necessary for someone who's already been a professor, has a famous book, and works at a (supposedly highly invested) AI company?
Not sure on the details but T-Mobile is excellent internationally as well.
I think the bigger takeaway from this is that the US really fumbled our level 2 charging protocol by requiring the cable to be integrated into the charger.

In the UK the level 2 charger is just a plug and the user supplies their own cable. It cuts cost, cuts down on vandalism, and makes the car side port no longer as important.

Using NEMA plugs instead of smarter level 2 chargers has the big limitation that you need a ton of adapters to support every possible plug type. Tesla sells as set of 8 adapters and it still doesn't include two of the most common RV park plugs: https://shop.tesla.com/product/gen-2-nema-adapters
Yes, you can iterate on the code being written by asking for changes— very much like ChatGPT. If it starts writing code you don't want, you can hit CTRL-C to stop generating, and give it your feedback right away.

And yes, `$: interpreter` runs in confirmation mode by default. You'll need to approve every block of code before it's run (bypass this with the `-y` flag).
I think the reason he's getting upvotes is that a lot of people have had similar experiences. It should be obvious that adopting Scrum won't fix a dysfunctional organization[1]; nothing in the previous post, nor this one argues more than that.

I'm more interested in some of the comments I have seen here of people observing the adoption of Scrum as significantly reducing the velocity at what was previously observed to be well run. Maybe adopting the more formal process revealed an underlying organizational dysfunction that could remain hidden in the previous laissez-faire culture, maybe there's something wrong with how Scrum gets implemented at those places, and maybe there's actually something wrong with Scrum itself.

My only interaction with things explicitly described as "agile" (Scrum, or otherwise) appeared to be very large organizations mostly just renaming roles and processes that already existed, with a few minor changes that did not appear to have any effect (other than being able to claim that they were now "agile"), so I don't have any personal experience to answer any of these questions.

1: Though in defense of the ranters, you'll be able to find many Scrum consultants that will argue it can.
If he was force to use Scrum, they were GOD DAMM NOT DOING THEIR JOB!
Ok, we've updated the title (submitted title was "Show HN: Query your database using plain English on premise") and I'll fix the text too.
What about this:

- Universal suffrage
- Proportional representation
- Voting for women
- Minimum wage
- Eight-hour workday
...

Not too terrible right? It's copied straight up from the Fascist Manifesto.
A lot of the "people here" are from Kiwifarms because this thread got linked to from their site. So a lot of untrue claims are being made about the facts of the situation.
Fixed now. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326998.
Why do you think it is "harmful to their search/ad business"?

I see as enhancement. It will not be long before Word and Google Docs is using AI to help people write copy, correct, and translate documents. Those are just the ones I can think of and I'm not that smart. Do you really think either Google or M$ will allow a 3rd party to control something that is integrated into their products? Only companies that are out of business do things like that.
Not forget to have a look inside: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/copro.pd...
China now has a 3 kid cap.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57303592

Their birthrate is 1. The cap is not a barrier anymore.
Pretty much exclusively Mullvad at the moment, I used to also use controld(.com)
Did the enforcement of state transitions actually make a difference to the underlying work there?

In my experience, if there's a problem with the engineers then all of the process in the world won't fix it.
Inconclusive or no research on the X is harmful topic doesn't imply X is not harmful
One place I worked at had two week sprints.

Week 1: One whole day for demo, retro, planning, commitment. But because the scrum master had to "build" a sprint and couldn't do that without knowing the size of tickets, there were two morning meetings every week to "analyse" tickets. So two mornings for "analysis" to produce point estimates for tickets.

Week 2: Also two mornings for "analysis".

So 3 days out of the 10 day sprint, so 30% time spent on Scrum.

Plus standups, they were at 10am so 9am-10am nobody did anything (as judged by the number of PRs and comments and Slack activity) so that's an hour plus the time for standup every single day, so I guess the work day started 10:30am on those days which weren't scrum days or scrum mornings.

Plus the scrum "analysis" meetings were in the morning as it was generally accepted everyone was too tired in the afternoon to to those meetings. So what that actually meant imho was that programming was a low-importance activity that could be done when tired, after the actual work of Scrum had been completed.

Maybe that's insanity, I mean I certainly thought so, but these things do happen.
> and lots of people are using Substack as their blogging platform these days.

they shouldn't. It's Medium all over again...
Download – MonoDevelop
Agreed, but IMO it's their job to do stuff like this (and prob unrealistic to expect a world where it doesn't exist). I'd rather see a higher percentage of marketing for things that have more real value vs. less
Orange Charging offers a low cost "dumb" solution that still manages to bill for the power. It'd be a great fit for a lot of apartment complexes, IMO.
I normally hate web-based desktop apps with a passion, but VS Code on Mac made me switch from Emacs after 25 years of continous usage. (Hat tip to 'Awesome Emacs Keymap - VSCode emacs keybinding with multi cursor support' - https://github.com/whitphx/vscode-emacs-mcx.)

I can see how they want to focus on that.

Can't wait for Microsoft to ruin it, like they always do with all great apps eventually. Presumably as the awesome people who created them moved on, instead of doing 'maintenance'. And then that pressure for increased monetization.

I have a feeling Emacs will always be there if they do, though.
I don't think it is that giant. It is basically the downtown of a small town.
There are two modes of renting in Korea, one of them involves you paying Full market value to renter as a deposit! In theory you will get all of your money back at the end of lease. Renter invests this money into something, hopefully not another rental property seeing as they just had a mini real-estate crash. https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/why-south-koreas-housing...
I see it being more about risk than anything.

Couples take on all sorts of challenging hobbies and endeavors on a regular basis, some requiring years to build up and master. The difference is that with most of those things, they're not walking a tightrope and putting the wellbeing of another person in the balance by doing so. Many couples would be putting themselves at much higher risk of financial ruin by having kids and making sure they're properly cared for.
What was the replacement process?
Exactly. There are some places in the world that only rich people able to purchase multi million dollar houses should be allowed to be. We'll allow a few proles in to work for us and put them in subsided housing away from us so they know their place.

The only problem is these pesky single digit millionaires thinking they can somehow come here to our neighborhood for a month. I paid good money to live here so I wouldn't have to be around those upjumped peasants, but now airbnb rentals are letting them in by the thousands and ruining it. If you can't pay $1000 a night for a hotel, you're not the sort that belongs here. We'll call it "overtourism" to make it seem like they're the problem and not our own insufferable snobbery.
I don't disagree. If a corporation has civil rights, they're akin to being a person/entity in which those rights are guaranteed aka citizenship. Some might argue that America is a "corporatocracy" for this very reason.
It’s still there. The limit is currently four (with exceptions).

I’m pretty sure the mere existence of a limit sends a message.
This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties.

Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing.

Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.
Founder of GummySearch here - thanks for checking it out. LMK if you have any questions or feedback to improve the product!
I just tried out Nivida's alternative - Geforce Now - this weekend and I am quite impressed. There is a free version where you que up, otherwise its $10/mo or $20/mo if you want 4k and a dedicated 4080. The main selling point to me is that you can sync Steam, Gog, Epic, Ubisoft, or EA accounts and play any of your purchased games that are compatible. You can play in the browser, via a dedicated program, or with one of their Shield TV boxes. The latter would run ~$150 + controllers or mouse/keyboard, so that is part of the way to a PS4.