skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"com" => "con" doesn't do that for me, but I have all sorts of similar infuriatingly bad autocorrects happen. Eg. correcting common English words to made-up English looking words, for example, something like "Regular" to something like "Ruxuler".

I vaguely recall checking into this once and seeing some sort of LLM in iOS 17, so I chalk it up to LLM hallucinations.

These:

- Words are not something I've ever typed. I know, because iOS 17's AutoCorrect is so bad, I avoid typing on iOS as much as I can.

- Words are not under my replacement settings. Nobody is playing a gag on me.

- Don't change after deleting the local autocorrect caches in Settings.
Online news pioneer Salon.com is sold to Find.co
> This is a lot of cope and ex post facto justification.

First sentence of the original paper:

> Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. […]

* https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Roofing tile was the first thing I thought of as well. In Phoenix having a ceramic, heat tolerant, moldable, reflective material seems optimal for tiled roofs, or even as an addition to flat roofs.

I wonder if it can be used in spray applications like other ceramic coatings.
Do you have plans to look at whether higher fluctuations translate into higher failure rates? Not sure whether you have historical data on this, but I would be really interested in this aspect, even if you can only run the stats on a smaller number of drives or shorter time periods.

Maybe dividing the drives roughly in "higher than average variability" and "low variability" and then looking at the AFR for this subset can show some relation. Of course as the AFR for many drives is already quite low, the effect might be too small to distinguish from noise.

On the topic of temperatures: Have you run an analysis whether a drive increasing in temperature (or maybe even decreasing) compared to its base line and "neighbors" results in a higher chance of failure?
A large sensor isn't just for raw megapixels (which are arguably kinda useless in a video conference where most people are tiny parts of the gallery anyway), but the image quality and light sensitivity and such should all be a lot better. It's better that they use the large sensor and onboard signal processing to interpolate a denoise a good 1080p frame than the opposite -- most webcams cram too many pixels into a tiny sensor and give you a large but shitty video. Many good cell phone cameras do the same thing (start with an oversized 48MP sensor, but interpolate it to give you a high-quality 12MP one; only a few let you access the raw unprocessed 48MP stream).

200 Mbps should be more than enough to stream good quality video. YouTube suggests 40 Mbps for 4k@60Hz (compressed) https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en#
> Perhaps readers can propose some other examples of mathematical concepts being re-interpreted as some sort of economic transaction?

On a much more basic level, I plugged in e to formulae throughout my schooling to the age of 18, and only later realised that $e is equal to the amount of interest you'd have on a bank account of $1 if you applied 100% interest continuously compounded.
Plus if you wanted to, you could send up a slightly customized Starship to serve as the crew portion of the station and then send up a Starship-shaped “equipment pod” with redundant life support systems, fold-out solar panels, etc and dock it to the crew quarters. Just like that, you have a rough equivalent to the ISS in two launches.

That process could be repeated N times to quickly build a station that’d dwarf the ISS.
1. Unclaimed real estate.

The amount of money that a sizable and well funded group of people spend to get away from literally every other human on the planet and away from the government would easily fill a few rockets.

2. Martian Water.

Imagine all the disenfranchised homeopathics now have another woo-woo cure to turn to and will pay out the wazoo for. Make up a claim like "the purest water, untouched by human industry or nuclear tests, powered by billions of years of energy from sun, unfiltered by ozone and untouched by magnetism."

3. Tourism.

Vegas is basically a Martian tourist destination with an entire city built to support it. There's no other reason for Vegas to exist. If the accommodations were nicer, people would go to Antarctica as well. Rich people want to take their selfies with Olympus Mons in the background.

4. Low-G sports

Earth sports probably won't work the same, so entire new sports and leagues will form and provide entirely new season pass resell opportunities for streaming video providers. There's no way to simulate the low-gravity on Earth.

Also rich people sports like golf might take on an entire new ultra elite form when your par-4 hole 8 is 4500m long and you need a satellite to spot your ball.

5. Low-G food products

For similar reasons as the Martian water. Insert any combination of differences in nutrition/taste/look and it'll find it's way onto the plates of a three star Michelin restaurant or as supplements sold at a health store or something.

That's off the top of my head and could easily be a multiple billions of dollars per year of sustained economic output from Mars, mostly built on simple vices, novelty, entertainment, and pure human gullibility.
Would recommend you a book Mr G. Saad wrote, but I’m not sure you are open to it tbh.
I never put sugar in my coffee either.
I use w3m in terminal, better pair with emacs via emacs-w3m so you can copy from web page and paste to emacs buffer when do codings
Above, you claimed that they don't work when the temps hit 0C. Now you tell us a story about them not working at -14C. That's a fairly big difference. Our pumps (mitsubishi hyperheats) struggle a little at 5F (-15C) but they do not stop working, and that's in an old house with terrible insulation.

> Finland loves their steam/hydronic heat, which I will guarantee isn't being run off of heat pumps.

In my case, the steam is being generated by the 240V electric steam generator that takes power from my 7kW ground mount solar array.
I'll be macabre because it is what happens when you mix markets and human morbidity and mortality. What is the market value of your parent's life? Your children? Your spouse? Care to put an exact dollar amount beyond which you would not pay for care for them?
And they haven't... but if they wanted to bomb them to create plausible deniability they have had plenty of opportunity.

There are so many little factoids about this thing that it is very hard to make sense of it, for instance this little tidbit:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/russian-navy-v...
Gosh. Is the Linux experience terrible?

Moved from Windows 10 to 11, and still use Windows 10 at work. Windows 11 is not better in anyway.
Thank you for writing Ardour. Lovely piece of software
My first computer was a Tandy 486sx from RadioShack. One day I brought home the book "Becoming A Computer Animator". It came with a disc containing a copy of TrueSpace. But I couldn't run it because it required a math coprocessor.

My dad was not a computer person, so he was not very thrilled about us opening up this mysterious box. But, he agreed, and together we installed the chip. And the software worked!

One thing that was amazing back then was the step-function of upgrading your computer. At that point in Moore's Law, big updates weren't at such a ridiculous pace as they became over time, so if you had a 486, you had a 486 for a while. But add a SoundBlaster card (or the AdLib card for us lower-middle class folks), and suddenly your computer came to life in a way you didn't realize was possible.
Isn’t he just trying to explain it for a wide audience? He‘s just translating units here.
This is an amazing demonstration of low-technology. Is this documented anywhere with diagrams?
There is no such thing as .NET Core 7, “Core” was a temporary distinction when the Windows-only . NET Framework was still being actively developed, retired with the consolidation to a single .NET with .NET 5.

If you got .NET Core 7 somewhere, I’m sure it is monetized: that's often the point of a scam.
I think the visual and web design is fairly great, felt very appealing to me. It's completely smooth and immersive on my 2020 MB Air (but I can see why it might suffer on other devices and screens sizes).

The product is obviously somewhere in the niceties bucket; no one needs this, but I am happy it exists. It gives me the warm and fuzzy feeling only something thoughtfully designed does.
Rust in Linux: Where we are and where we're going next
This is the next pearl clutching headline that people will be reading over and over for any models that generate images.

"Oh no, the model can generate porn!"
"Oh no, it can generate realistic photos of people!"
"Oh no, it can generate violent or racist images!"

I'm so sick of people arguing that we should just shut down AI research or commercialization because it could be used maliciously. Think of how many grocery store products could be used maliciously if someone wanted to. Should we not allow people to buy bleach? Should we not allow knives to be sold?

People need to get over their misgivings from this new technology and start taking accountability for that fact that models can be abused like any other tool. That doesn't mean we should just not give anyone access to them.
> The good news is that since we have started investing in and incentivizing heat pump technology

Yes, good tax news for those who own their house and can afford discretionary purchases. Also good news for those who peddle increased govt debt.

Described differently, heat pump and ElectrifyTodayCorp lobbyists had Congress write tax incentives for their businesses which are funded by taxes on working class that are renters or can't afford to replace their existing functional furnace.
100% true, it doesn't mean 10% have lead in their pipes. The question is much better phrased, are your lead pipes safe or not, and for how long? So if you're in that 10%, that seems like a pretty reasonable precaution to seek out alternative sources of drinking water.
I always think it's pretty impressive when there is a military fighter jet flyover at e.g. a sport event and they hit the timing within a few seconds to coincide with the last few bars of the national anthem. I don't know if they plan the exact flyover time in advance or if they are just circling a few miles away and coordinating by radio with someone in the venue.
There are a lot of comments skeptical of space exploration, future colonization goals and such. A podcast you might appreciate is Econtalk’s “Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars.”

Loss of taste for most foods, vision problems, loss of muscle mass and bone density. In light of these and the many unpleasant our outright dangerous effects of space travel on human physiology, science writer and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith wonders: When it comes to the dream of space expansion, what exactly do we hope to gain? Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss his new book (co-authored with Kelly Weinersmith) A City on Mars, which offers a hard-nosed yet humorous look at the sobering and lesser-discussed challenges involved in building space settlements. Topics include the particular problems posed by the moon and Mars's atmospheres; the potential difficulty of reproducing in zero gravity; and the dangerous tendency to overlook a key factor in whether space settlement is a good idea: the fact that people are people, wherever they may be.

https://www.econtalk.org/zach-weinersmith-on-space-settlemen...
For the benefit of the American viewers, who might not immediately know what 15km are.
DeepMind recently merged with the Brain team from Google Research to form `Google DeepMind`. It seems this was done to have Google DeepMind focused primarily (only?) on AI research, leaving Google Research to work on other things in more than 20 research areas. Still, some AI research involves both orgs, including MetNet in weather forecasting.

In any case, GraphCast is a 10-day global model, whereas MetNet is a 24-hour regional model, among other differences.
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping Apple CarPlay is a mistake
The 2017 MBP is indeed horrible hardware. You’ll find many testimonies of 2012-2015 MacBooks being incredibly resilient.

The new 2019-2023 models are too recent to judge, but seem to be back on track resiliency wise.
You can definitely search back more than a month. However the search is genuinely atrocious. I've been using tutanota for a few years now but every time I need to search my emails I think about switching to something else. It is just not acceptable for the service to need to slowly iterate through emails, downloading them one by one the first time you decide to go back that far, just to find something important.
You wouldn't launch sands to LEO, but the equipment used for bootstrapping a mining operation on the moon or asteroid.
Nord Stream 2 was ended long before it blew up. February 2022 saw it decertified; March 2022 saw its employees fired and the company filing for bankruptcy. Sanctions and diplomatic pressure successfully prevented it from "moving forward" and "brought an end" to the pipeline's existence as a going concern.

If you believe "bring an end to it" can only encompass explosive options, Trump's call to "put an end to" the Republican primary debates must be quite confusing. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4227533-trump-campaign...
The other side of this coin is that many people take forever at the digital kiosk. If there aren’t enough kiosks and the location is a busy one, I’ll actively avoid that place.

I might as well figure out how to use their website/app at that point.

But all of this leads us further down the path of abstracting/hiding the reality of the purchasing decisions we make. I can’t help but feel this all chips away at our collective humanity.
No love for AWS huh? I've been impressed by how well their Lambdas work with NativeAOT (they make first-party effort to support it) for low cold-start latency. They have even sponsored further development of Dapper AOT recently.

It's crucial for other major players on the market to participate in .NET if we want to ensure its longevity.
Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content
Have they not done the same with ML/AI and have very little to show for it. What makes you think the result would be different in search?
> except the highs of 2021

Au contraire!

Interestingly, even if you had started purchasing at the *all time high* (~US$69,000) on 8 Nov 2021, if you consistently purchased daily, weekly, or monthly, you would still be up something insane like 37%, outperforming basically all other market sectors.

You can check this yourself at a variety of DCA calculators (NB I noticed at least one [https://dcabtc.com/] was broken and didn't have any price data for the last 6 months)
Prequel (YC W21) is hiring a senior engineer to build B2B data sharing
My third grade teacher made me sign a written contract that I would only answer one out of every 5 questions.

I "wasn't giving other kids a chance to learn".
This is for CEO<->VC calls only. Where you use your seed fund to buy this and then go for series A.
just pulled typical split-system listing in my country:

Gree Lomo Arctic R32 Inverter 2022 , about €740 (this is one of the top makers)

energy used while cooling: 0.7kW

energy used while heating: 0.7kW

cooling power: 2.7kW

heating power: 3kW

4x efficiency, yay! that's what heat pumps do

outside temperature from +43C to -25C.
i've seen -30C and +48C in some models

Also, installation for split units is cheap around here
As if coders needed more people around them talking. We already get too much of that from nearby non-coders.
"which I believe is due to bloated administration."

In my state's public university system, the amount of funding provided by the state to that system per full-time equivalent student has dropped to its lowest level (in 2017 according to the source I checked) since 1995. So the state commitment to funding is lower on a per-student basis. Universities have responded by raising tuition and other costs. All of those facts mean that the real, out-of-pocket cost to students has gone up.

Looking at what information I can find on staff counts, the flagship state university data report in 1999/2000 shows a "grand total" of 10,000ish employees and a quick web search shows 13,000ish in 2023. I think we would have to slice and dice those numbers much better to see what the actual cost differences were for those two time periods.

The number of students seems to have grown to about 128% of 1999/2000 total enrollment numbers to today's total.

There is a deeper discussion to be had about the policy of funding state universities. Polls like the article show all segments of the public surveyed have declining confidence in higher education. That suggests to me that in general, people will be less inclined to have tax dollars invested into the public university system because they may see it as wasteful or not efficient.

There is some much to unpack around universities and cost . . . and, of course, private university tuition costs have exploded. Although at those types of institutions, I think many non-name-brand (or non-ivy-ish) schools have a very high "sticker" cost that maybe no students actually pay . . .
I use TPUs on Colab all the time and I'm freaking happy. Maybe there's a way to use H100's do the same thing, but my code is already written to host utterly massive files on gcs buckets as tfrecord files and load them up on TPUs during the training process. First started with the free ones and now I rent the newer ones because it's not that expensive. I recommend beginners try it out. I find the other architectures more expensive, at least for my use case.
You're thinking of https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
This is garbage when you couple it with collective racial or even class identity.

Not all whites or blacks are the same. Hating someone you know nothing about due to race is racist, full stop.

The rule of averages don't apply to individuals. You can't beat a poor X child and call it punching up, because they are part of Y race.
Maybe. Avoided it. Went to Mývatn instead. Turned out that it means midge-lake. Spent 2 days eating flies. They didn't bite but weren't tasty. I've never driven the fuck out of somewhere so quickly.
Guess the Moon landing then was just a stunt for putting the damn flag there.

Mission accomplished boys, let's pretend that Moon doesn't exist for 50+ years. /s

For the record, I do want Artemis to succeed.
That's so evil. How do you put up with that? Why don't Danes change their obviously evil tax code regarding deducting losses?
This money laundering approach also has an additional potential (almost certainly illegal) tax upside.

The sockpuppet that buys from you can sell it downstream at a greatly reduced price to another sockpuppet (or back to you) and report it as a loss offsetting other reported income while the cycle repeats. Obviously anyone involved in this can loop and repeat this any number of ways for a variety of preferred outcomes. Awww shucks, I just made a bad investment and got "unlucky" this time...

I think there is an analysis somewhere that more-or-less proves this is exactly what Lindsay Lohan did via NFTs.

Not new to NFTs or crypto at all but it is much easier and far more nebulous when ugly JPGs of Apes were "trading" in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Ask HN: What is one thing that has improved your energy the most?
> Belief in the privacy offered by these types of services amounts to a mental illness.

Do you seriously think this line made sense?
Compound growth has been the most realistic historically.
That helps, thanks! Not a good look for Sotomayor there either.
by definition, it's a ballistic missile. its trajectory is to hit the earth. It doesn't have enough velocity to stay in orbit. A missle hit on it isn't going to impart enough delta-v to it to keep any piece of it in orbit.
I don't know Go that much, but the part about .Net is so untrue. First, C# was published in 2001, while Go was released in 2009. So there's 8 years of "more stuff".

Also (see in comments too), upgrading .Net is very easy. There are man not-to-small codebases can be "easily" upgraded from .Net Core 3 to 8 without any hassle. Backwards comptability was always baked into Microsofts thinking.

.Net 7 and 8 did also (IMHO) not contain that many groundbreaking features, just some "smaller" stuff.
It's definitely good advice to be mindful of one's needs. I have my own personal anecdotes about getting burnt by underestimating my actual needs when attempting projects like daily driving an older laptop.

At the same time, keep in mind that the biggest tradeoff tends to be convenience. For example, a YouTube script plus local video player, such as MPV, works a treat on these older machines. Even if some video formats don't work great, you a) actually have an option for converting [0], and b) you are dropping all of the cycles spent on the non-video-watching parts of a YouTube video page.

Yes, that tends to make watching a 10 minute video kind of annoying when you spend a minute or two just on the overhead of downloading/opening/deleting it. Personally, I've sometimes found that to be a subtle push to read more text-based content instead of watching a bunch of videos. Similarly, it pushes me to favor longer-form videos that might involve more information and/or subtleties that the shorter videos might skip over (perhaps largely for SEO reasons).

All of that might or might not be a net-positive or even a possibility depending on needs, of course.

I've found a lot of personal motivation and fulfillment by looking for those sorts of alternate ways of doing things. Sometimes, slowing down (in more ways than just FLOPS) can lead you down rabbit holes that are not only fulfilling and interesting, but educational. [1]

Your point that it's bad advice to "just buy an [old] used laptop" definitely stands, but I'll just amend it with the caveat of "... depending on your needs/uses". To each their own.

[0]: There are also in-browser tricks/plugins for making the YouTube site itself lighter, but personally, I find throwing more instructions into the browser to be somewhat counterproductive. A bit like calculating how much extra fuel you need in order to carry the additional fuel, etc. The tradeoff is convenience, of course.

[1]: I'm also lucky to no longer have to deal with things like customers breathing down my neck with deadlines. So if I spend an extra 5 minutes doing something that used to take me 2 minutes, that's fine.
When it comes to personal data, we're on a highway to hell
OP made a plea, not a demand:

> Please don't use Medium, post to Medium, or share Medium links.

There was no implication people don't have a choice to keep using terrible software.
When was the last time you used bank reserves to purchase anything? Even the stuffiest traditional finance systems have layers.
Am I just really old, or is this web design atrocious...?

I know HN skews traditionalist anyway, but even here, a site this bad stands out.

I feel like normally we argue about user-invisible stuff like JS frameworks and analytics and tracking, but in this case it's a very in-your-face design meant to subvert all the common UX best practices in favor of something chic.

Does anyone like this? (Who is supposed to?) I can't tell anymore if I'm just old-fashioned and grumpy, and totally out of touch with modern preferences, or if this is just... universally bad.
It's not that Unity doesn't want to move away from Mono, it's just that Mono is tightly integrated into the Unity engine making migration difficult. They have announced that they are working on it, but it will likely take years until there is anything usable publicly available.