skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this recently when replacing our failed central AC, it was an extra $500 over the AC. It’s tied into the existing natural gas furnace.

The main issue is your basic 14 SEER heat pump needs larger capacity to be able to be the sole heating source than it does for just AC, so in my case in the northeast US the heat pump can’t economically be run in Winter, just spring/fall & probably can’t keep up with the coldest winter days at all. But it does provide flexibility if gas prices spike in the future, and saves a very small amount of money per year (< $100)

If you’re the type to buy a high efficiency system going with a heat pump over central AC seems like it’s maybe more worth it from a return on investment standpoint
Nintendo Mario Ambassador – Official Update [video]
> I'm not "pro-censorship", whatever that means

Yeah you definitely are, that’s why you’re trying to insult me for disagreeing with you by referencing absurd issues and points I didn’t make.

Pro censorship means you’re in favor of censorship. Obviously you know what it means since it describes your position.
The operator of archive.today et al has certain philosophical ideas about SSL, EDNS subnets, and other topics which seem to be at odds with some providers of DNS, such as Cloudflare. A common theme of folks having issues with this recently seems to be DNS over https, commonly with Cloudflare. I think perhaps we can view the captcha loop as somewhat retaliatory.
Sadly, no, it's drug addiction. 90% of the homeless in Seattle are drug addicted, alcoholic, or have mental health problems. About 10% are homeless for economic reasons.
That's a cool idea and it could be a lot more useful with modern approaches, like true type systems and pattern matching. I don't really have time to work on that but I support the effort of bringing some of CoffeeScript back to the world.
I remember the day I jumped ship to Steam. it was such a cool Trainwreck. got the boxed upgrade thing for HL2 /TF2 or whatever and I could finally game without ISO cd images or a folder of cracks for nocd
Exactly. If the interviewer responds like that, they've told me the company culture, and I know to stay away.
Do you have any way to contact you? Would love to hear more about this. Also a C# developer and love EF. I think the standard library from Microsoft in general is the highest quality, most powerful and flexible library that’s out right now. I see so much potential to make a system that solves the 90% of use cases more simply, with enough flexibility to drop down lower when needed, and I think C# would be a great tool to build this.
> I'm 26 and I don't know anything about finance or stocks.

If you don't know much, then don't try to be smart. Invest in broad index bonds rather then individual stocks.

For my money, ARM is sinking in the water. RISC-V will eat its lunch far faster then anybody believes. ARM overall trajectory is down not up.
Well said. And lots of 'commenters' here popping up with the usual 'please give precise examples, also it would be lovely if you could dox yourself too?'

Like, we all watched it happen. It wasn't 1945, it was two years ago. And these things pop up in every comment section and try and make you seem insane.
9000 is not a lot, and your own first link states tech roles have net increased, not decreased.
Not really. There are over a hundred countries and most of them are not culturally close to the US. In terms of what is valued in their culture and how they express themselves, we have way more in common with them than most countries. US/Japan relations are actually shockingly strong considering our history, and there's a lot of cross pollination in our zeitgeist.

The point being trying to dismiss blatant corruption from big corporation influence as "the Japanese way" is ridiculous
Is this a supported feature by Google, or does it require client modifications/forks? If the latter, with Web Environment Integrity it's conceivable that this may not be possible with many sites in the future.
A respectful comparison: Remix vs. Next.js (2022)
> In the 1980s, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris attempted to shoot a documentary about the town, but after he received death threats and was beaten up by the Marine veteran son of a Nub Club member, he turned his movie into a slice of life documentary about the eccentric residents of the town entitled in a film called Vernon, Florida.

I've seen the documentary, and it's fine - I enjoyed it. But, to imagine what it could have been if it was about what was really going on there.
A cool concept, but probably decades away from breaking ground, if ever - not exactly scalable. Perhaps trying to solve traffic deaths by building a bunch of new cities is not a practical solution?
They have stated a valuation of 54 Billion Dollars, are aiming to raise under 5 Billion, and their IPO has likely been over subscribed six times.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/softbanks-arm-ipo-curr...
Starfield’s missing Nvidia DLSS support has been added by a free mod
You want fpm for non hobby projects
I'm really baffled as an Australian. I admit, our climate is mild but we do have 4 degree C nights and 44 degree C days sometimes. I spent AUD$10k (US$6k I think?) on split system aircon for my entire house and they work totally fine. In fact I must have slightly oversized because they have easily performed in the most extreme conditions. Installation took all morning.

It's not about the technology. It's about how electricity is priced very highly compared to gas in the UK. Our electricity in Western Australia is only double the cost per kWh compared to gas, but one kWh of electricity generated three kWh of heat in a reverse cycle air con so it's a no brainer.
Cant wait for Elon to come spread some democracy to US!
There is an open source effort to do carbon removal: https://openaircollective.cc/
Not mutually exclusive, and the plummeting cost of solar makes it increasingly competitive anyway.
You're attributing nervousness to me when it does not exist. I'm pretty sure we both have as much desire to be right as the other. The difference is, I'm not telling you not to get vaccinated. You do what you want, I do what I want, and neither of us rubs it in the face of the other if we turn out to get the short end of the stick. That's the moral basis I've been operating on throughout this whole ordeal, and so far it's worked fine.
As a drunk, we for sure care.
You should understand that there is a lot of astroturfing going on now with comments starting that EVs and batteries are terribly toxic and will be an huge environmental disaster. Those people never seem to acknowledge the counter arguments. Batteries use only a small amount of lithium (8-16kg per vehicle). There is some toxicity to lithium mining but it is not a particularly toxic element and the effects are localized. Once produced, the lithium in batteries can be recycled efficiently. We are not going to need millions of lithium mines.

The amount needed is a couple of orders of magnitude less than the amount of drilling sites needed for the toxic oil that we are current extracting and burning and that cannot be recycled in any meaningful way.

We are concerned for the environment and need to make trade offs to get the best outcome for the environment. So far, the small amount of lithium mines seems like a good trade off against large numbers of oil drills.
> Goldman Sach uses Erlang in its hedge-fund trading platform for its low-latency (microseconds) event-driven order-submission engine.

if it's good enough for a hedge fund HFT platform, it's good enough for anyone aiming for low latency

https://medium.com/hybrid-cloud-engineering/beam-otp-on-ocp-...
"helper" files. is that the accepted term now instead of the master?
"It was, as she sees it, a collective meltdown in a country previously known for stability."

Actually I'd argue repression not stability, I've come to view the UK having lived here all my life as one of the most scientifically advanced repressive nations on the planet, just look at the work of Dominic Cummings, or the police or the military! I know the Germans are often portrayed as being very rigid, but I honestly think that title should go to the UK.

And you have to thank the BBC for the nations love of the Arthur Daley character from the TV series Only Fools and Horses, which Nigel Farage emulated so eloquently.

Surely the BBC et al should take a bow for the part its played in enabling Brexit in a Little Britain Vicky Pollard kind of way?

I mean I've never seen so much of the British Press from all political corners seemingly united in their direct and indirect promotion of Brexit with their Johnny Foreigner bashing that gave rise to UKIP.

Anyway nothing appears to have changed for over 50 years when reading this [1].

The UK ruling elite have a stubbornness and pig headedness that rival the Taliban in Afghanistan!

So I'm sure nothing will have changed in the next 50 or 100 years time.

[1] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstud...
These people are less likely to go out in public, which makes the percentage of non-maskers seem even higher
> The man got caught and sent to jail and the insurance paid out, since it technically wasn't a suicide, as the man went to jail.

Typically, life insurance pays out in the case of suicide, especially if the policy has been unchanged for a couple years or so (some have an exclusion period at the start).
Related:

Web Design Mistakes of 1999 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37128279 - Aug 2023 (1 comment)

The Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978394 - May 2018 (4 comments)

Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835566 - June 2014 (73 comments)
> The average annual energy bill is £1,923 so even if that insulation was so effective it dropped the energy bill to zero, it'd still be a pretty bad investment.

That would be what, like 7% return on investment? We just had a period of ~0% interest rates and <2% mortgage rates.

It is not realistic to expect ROI of only a few years for upgrades to buildings or infrastructure. Lifespan of these things is like half a century or more.

Coming from eastern Europe, the age and condition of housing here was a bit shocking.

There used to be a grant in UK for insulating housing, and it was cut by conservative government. Our rate of insulating homes dropped form 2 million houses a year to basically zero. Without favourable credit, maybe zero interest credit, avaliable, of course individual homeowners will find it difficult to afford.
I don’t understand what that 220k mortgage actually bought… a broom closet? A parking space? A tiny house in a countryside town far from anywhere?
I like UCC black coffee enough that I ordered it off of Amazon when I moved to California for a while.
The lede: "ESPN doesn’t actually produce anything of value, it just rents the games from the leagues."
I have read of the practice of mutilating children so they can make money begging.

Having unintentionally lost a fingertip, the misery can be lifelong as any touch to the end can be extremely painful (allodynia). Prosthetics help enormously.
> As early as 2011, a Google engineer revealed he had been working on a tool to Google someone’s face and bring up other online photos of them. Months later, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, said in an onstage interview that Google “built that technology, and we withheld it.”
“As far as I know, it’s the only technology that Google built and, after looking at it, we decided to stop,” Mr. Schmidt
I used to have a mavic mini, that is, up until it disconnected 500 ft from me, never to return again. I tried chasing it down to where I believed it was, but I was never able to reconnect. There is a return to home feature, where the drone is supposed to fly back to its launch spot, in case something like this happens, but that never happened.

Well I contacted DJI to see if they would replace it, due to clearly a software error on their side, and they basically told me to pound sand. I sent them a video recording of the drone’s final moments (it synced to my phone), and they wanted me to pay for their “free data analysis” because the drone was out of warranty; even though I had only flown it a handful of times. (This is data I know they can see, along with the rest of the flight data).

They ended up offering me a 40% coupon, which is just a joke, and I told them I will keep publicly shaming them unless they can offer a replacement. (So here I am). They also randomly called me at 11am on a workday, twice in a row, and didn’t leave a message; about a week after my emails with cs. Just a really weird experience. Highly don’t recommend DJI.
Bottle was decent before Flask. Couldn't we use that instead ?
Batteries can be recycled at high rates of recovery, but most non-EV lithium batteries aren’t being recycled (basically because they aren’t sent to battery recycling centers given their small sizes). The anti-EV crowd then uses that statistic to deride EVS.
I use Safari all the time on my M1 Air but it’s definitely less capable than Firefox for adblocking. Firefox is the only browser that can run uBlock Origin or uMatrix.
>There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect.

Reminds me of serials.ws . It was pretty good at the time.
If you ever want to have fun with setting up your own k8s, I recommend to start small. The author is already knowledgeable, so they probably knew from the start what they want, but a lot of this complexity is not essential.

When I deployed my first kubernetes "cluster", I just spinned a single-node "cluster" using kubeadm (today k3s is an option too) and started deploying services (with no distributed storage - everything stored using hostPath). You only need to know kubernetes basics to do this. Then you probably want to configure CNI (I recommend flannel when starting, later cilium), spin an ingress controller (I recommend nginx or traefik), deploy cert-manager (this was hard for me when I started) and you can go a long way. With time I scaled up, decided to use GitOps, and deployed many more services (including my own registry - I started with docker's own, then migrated to Gitea. Harbor is too heavy for me). And of course over time you add monitoring, alerting etc - the fun never ends (but it's all optional, you should to decide when is the right time).
When I was 15 I thought I was hot shit even though I wasn’t doing anything interesting. It would have been good if someone had told me that, so I had pushed harder and not been satisfied with what I was doing.
everyone uses ffmpeg whether they admit to it or not. the internal prores codec(s), i believe there is more than one, is not Apple certified, so there are some potential pitfalls if you're not aware of that. so depending on your intended purpose of the file, it might be good enough. if you are planning on sending the output to Apple iTunes, then nope.
"recommended max working set size" is a property of the Mac the model is being run on, not the model itself. The model is smaller than that, otherwise it wouldn't be running on GPU.
Erlang, which Elixir compiles to, is literally built for low latency. It prioritizes latency while almost every other language prioritizes throughput.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KaezG
The expertise China has built up is only around 20 years old, so it’s not like we couldn’t develop it in 20 years. Doing so in a free market way that isn’t undercut by Chinese suppliers, however, would be tricky (so some non free market mechanism is needed).
> Tadao had somewhat of a reputation as a frugal man. He hated seeing things go to waste. And he couldn’t shake off the frustration of the coffee. “If only there was a way I could buy and carry my coffee with me…” he reasoned.¶ Fate couldn’t have chosen a better person for this encounter.¶ Tadao Ueshima was the CEO of UCC Coffee

Does this still exist? It seems like most people I know who break into even slightly high earnings and attain some level of affluence are in it primarily for the appearances associated with affluence—signalling that they're above thinking about stuff like this.
Here is the thing. Its not about what can happen in 20+ years. Of course the US can do whatever it want's in 20 years with enough money. In 20 years lot of things will be very different.

But again, there was already plenty of lithium in the US, this discovery changes nothing. The US already has competent lithium companies.

The US already has good relationship with South America and Australia where the resources are coming from. But currently 90%+ of refining is in China.

Controlling the 'raw' resources is mostly uninteresting in this case.
It is better that they now live under the bridge and randomly murder people and smear feces all over town.

Clearly this is the better outcome.
shudder, uncompressed. i have nightmares of v210
The format is really weird for chat models. In your code post message is `
\n 
` which is wrong. Instead the overall format is `
 
\n{system}\n
\n\n{instruction} 
`

So both the system message and first instruction are in same 
 block.
It's an AMD sponsored game, so it's unlikely to get DLSS support. Digital Foundry's editor said he spoke to devs of 3 other games where AMD made them remove support for DLSS. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5H1OrKWYAANDPJ?format=png&name=...
There is a free frame generation version on nexus. And a free dlss 2 version there as well.
Two years ago, I transitioned to a minimalist tiling window manager (WM) despite my initial reservations about them. This change was prompted by my desire to experiment with high-end hardware and a 4K multi-monitor setup in a tiled environment. Surprisingly, the switch turned out to be a game-changer, boosting my productivity significantly, with around 90% of my tasks now occurring in the terminal. Traditional criticisms of terminals, such as memorization challenges and lack of guidance, no longer apply, thanks to modern features like auto-completion, interactive history, suggestions, and plugins like Git integration. Unfortunately, the reluctance to embrace this minimalist, terminal-centric approach may hinder power users from unlocking its full potential due to long-standing biases and a fear of change.
How is the most notable example of this not the Dixie Flatline in Neuromancer?
Getting hot coffee and tea out of a vending machine when it’s cold out is one of the best experiences of visiting Japan. Particularly since the machines are everywhere.
I found these Coolermaster straps that enabled you to carry your CRT and tower with a handle. SO SO SO useful for lan parties.
We used to connect our hard drives to a "golden" PC to grab all the files and then reconnect them to our locals. Back in the IDE/SATA era this was pretty easy to do as some of us had controllers that could hot swap. About half of the time something would go wrong with this and we'd wind up teaching someone how to reinstall windows.
The movie that was in many ways its sequel, 2046, was also a masterpiece.
If you get bone aches from taking vit D3 sups or even sunshine exposure, taking some zinc above RDA's amounts can get rid of them.
They left out any mention of looking for high temperature super conductors ;-)
It's interesting because on of the reasons YIMBY-ism "annoys a lot of people" is because while it's meant to be the opposite of NIMBY, it's really not. It ends up being in practice Yes-In-Your-Back-Yard, which is arguably a less pronounceable acronym (YIYBY). Not as much fun.
Ask HN: Newsletter and mass mailing SaaS, Y/N?
Hey HN,
I'm looking for candid feedback. I'm toying with the idea of a newsletter and mass mailing SaaS tool.

The main value prop is that it'd be way more affordable than the incumbents, but less feature rich (or simpler to use, depnding on the framing).

I'm thinking of exploring potentially a different sort of market (like MEA which is starved in these kind of tools) if the 'mainstream' markets are too crowded.

Worth a shot or should spend my time on something more worthwile?
I mean files that are called officially Servicing turnovers
https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
The problem is a complete trust breakdown.

If browsers had a "provide us some preferences to customize advertising" flow in their onboarding, users would feel in control, and the data might be of high quality. Ideally, you'd have some compartmentalization options (don't show community X my interest in product Y). That's completely infeasible now: there's such a hostility and adversarial relationship with customers, that any data provided through a voluntary, opt-in process would be seen as suspect from day 1. Not without reason-- users would be prone to select garbage in the attempt to reduce ad load or cause undue cost to advertisers. Even if the users played along, would also likely be hijacked by self-serving technology players-- would there be an interoperable way to probe customer preferences, or would they be aggregated by, and only available on, specific platforms?

Since the industry has already destroyed any trust and quality relationship between users and advertisers, AdTech has to resort to continuing to poison the ecosystem through constant surveilance to retrieve "more reliable" data than asking customers what ads they might care about.

There's a potential to claim some subtext in user activity that would reveal preferences the customers won't manually disclose, but that's also the exact that the surveilance practices cross from useful to creepy.
you just described pretty much every single modern day video capture. pretty much all of the dslr/mirrorless cameras are capturing a higher bitrate h.264 as source.
It’s interesting you mention this. The way I use my desktop I always have my applications maximized and I just alt-tab to switch contexts. I also am in the terminal a lot and use Yaquake but not in maximized mode because I don’t want to focus in the bottom left corner of my screen. I also put the task bar left vertical because I don’t care about the horizontal space.

Doing all of this still felt cumbersome and then it dawned on me about a year ago, because I don’t game or watch full screen video, I think I’d much prefer the old 4x3 screens for my workflow.
Minimal desktops are productivity boosters. On top of that ones that can be controlled by keyboard input are super important.

99% of the time you just want information. Text. The chrome does not matter. Yet modern desktops and web pages make humans hunt and pick through poorly designed interfaces to get the info we need.

I use EXWM. It’s a time saver. I have no desktop because I am either using the full screen for a single application or flip flopping between a few apps that share the entire screen. This means every pixel of the screen is used and not wasted on useless images of empty fields.

In top of that I am able to designate windows and frames for specific jobs or functions, always able to recall the last terminal or most relevance.

We fucked up with movable windows. They are inefficient complicated and bring little value over a simple list of activities to switch between.
This was THE prank we played at Uni in the computer labs. This was late 90s, when girls from the social sciences schools would go into the computer labs to check their email and shit.

So you turned their screen upside down, opened their tray and whatnot , then you would go their place and pretend to fix it (while your friend that was in charge of the lab actually fixed it).

It gave us nerds our 5 mins of "fame" with the ladies.
I disagree, based on people in my life who weren't disadvantaged by society. Drugs rot people, similar to alcohol.
The NYT, in this article, admits to seeing a video that proves that Cruise did not block that ambulance.

This is a garbage headline meant to garner clicks. The city has been complaining about these cars for a while. They've never had any data and now are trying to complain about "x incidents where an AV interfered with emergency vehicles." They're banking on the headlines, and then they'll bring up whatever number they could passably claim in the next letter/meeting they have with the DMV.