skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outdoor units are pretty flexible in the sorts of places they can be mounted and the insulated refrigerant lines can be run to the interior of buildings fairly easily. Don't just assume a solution can't work until an expert says no.

And even if you can't hook into your existing radiators wall mounted mini splits don't require extensive interior changes to function (plus you get cooling as well)
Nice! 5:28
I'm sympathetic to the idea that training is fair use. I'm much less sympathetic to the "it's a bug" defense on regurgitation. Ultimately, if your system is reproducing copyrighted material, it seems like you're in violation. I'm not sure "we're trying our best to make it not do that" gets you out of that.
FDA Issues First Approval for Mass Drug Imports to States from Canada
Hey, Hacker News folks!

I'm Ilya, a founder from Ukraine. I started a micro-startup acquisition marketplace called Microns in 2021.

In two years, I grew the project to 6,000 newsletter subscribers, $40k revenue, and $180k GMV (sold startups)! No investments, completely bootstrapped.

Feel free to ask me anything.
Less desirable because vram has become more important.
with both you and GP, I would imagine the answer is that people tend to build models to the hardware that is available. If 12GB and 24GB are the hardware thresholds that people have, you'll get "open-source action" in the 12GB and 24GB models, because people want to build things that run on the hardware they own.

(Which is of course how CUDA built its success more generally, vs the "you have to buy the $5k workstation card to get started" strategy from ROCm.)

More generally you'd call this optimization and targeting the hardware that's available. No sense releasing crysis when everyone is running a commodore 64, after all.
This page was the first time I had heard of the Contact Picker API. I tried to select the text to google it and this page has somehow disabled select/copy/paste of text. This is an ironic way to show that the web is just as capable/incapable as native apps.
There isn't usually much point in upgrading one generation in most hardware products. Typically that's wasteful in all but edge-use cases.
Thank god. What they proposed to do was an obscene act of pure vandalism.
Depending on your definition of 'reasonable', that ship sailed a few years ago and ain't ever coming back
Is there a context where it is usual to call minus the dot-product a distance?
> why does this element even exist?

The deliberate explosion of the specs required to build a browser ensuring that Google has a permanent quasi-monopoly because the size of the specs outstrips all but a handful of company's ability to fund implementation.

Some HN poster shared a link that I can't find that counted the words of the browser specs. I seem to remember it being in the low hundreds of millions. Hundreds of millions of words of spec to implement a browser. It's a piece of software engineering comparable in effort to a full OS.

edit: my bad. 1,217 w3c specifications comprising 114 million words. https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.... So not plural, but outside of the scope of any company that can't afford to spend probably $10B on a product you can't charge for.
This is a pretty misguided argument.

There are some topics that are still being researched, and if people say anything other than ‘There’s not enough evidence either way and so until we know more sit tight.’ or something to that effect, they’re simply being misleading.

At the same time, these topics are being sensationalised by various people and so something should be said about them. You can use stronger words to discuss the sensationalisation itself, but when discussing the topic and the evidence itself rational, even handed language should be used as that is the language of science.

Unfortunately using (misleading) stronger language to stand out more against unscrupulous actors merely ruins your integrity and message. It’s better to be a source of good information for the people looking for it than to add to the pile of untrustworthy noise
What is the benefit of this over MSW (https://mswjs.io/)
author here:

i think the idea there is that these are just the stories i tell myself to push me through the difficult parts of my life. I tell myself that i can choose happiness, and that am choosing to be good instead of great.

these could be lies! maybe I'll never be great, and this is cope.

Maybe i could work hard forever and never get better. Maybe there is talent and I'm convincing myself i could be an olympian but choosing not to be.
What evidence has lead you to this belief?
But crazy carl saying his prize turnip was stolen by aliens ISN'T evidence that his prize turnip was stolen by aliens, it's evidence that crazy carl BELIEVES/SAYS his prize turnip was stolen by aliens.
I'm really interested in the Backend role, I applied even that I'm not living in the Netherlands, hope you people are open to remote candidates.
it sure would be nice to get the repository of mario maker 1 levels before nintendo burns the library down.
super cool, 5:51
People negatively affect by regulation complain about regulation. Say it ain't so!

Any regulation of this type has a pointy end poking into someones back, regardless of the overall goal or intent of the regulation. Doesn't mean the regulation is bad, simply that it impacts someone.

While climate change is certainly having an impact on the crab fisheries in Alaska, none of the population changes have been attributed to over fishing. While, like everyone, the fleet contributes to systemic climate change, it's certainly not "their fault". They're just another microcosm showing impact of the climate dynamic. The Alaska fisheries are some of the best managed fisheries in the world, and the fishermen comply and work with the regulations.

The change to a quota system over the free-for-all derby system impacted a lot of fishermen. No doubt those whose livelihood were disrupted probably have a low opinion of it. The survivors probably enjoy it more, as its a more deterministic and safer system without the racing aspects of derby fishing, and the fishery is better managed because of it.

Arguably an overall win. But not for those who dropped off the bottom, they were forced to find something else.
Wikipedia has all of its sources at the bottom of the article itself.

If you could actually proof your claim, people would write an article about you.
Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.'S Nefarious Future
The 3090 is 21% faster than a 4070, so with the 4070 SUPER having 20% more cuda cores than a 4070 then that's plausible.

But it's really more a reflection on how shitty the 4070 was than anything else tbh
I get that this feels un-pure, but what is the actual damage of validating against cached intermediate certs? The only concrete thing the author cites is harder debugging, but that's a pretty weak objection.
But I did give them my phone number. I'm pretty sure they already had it from Facebook anyway, I've had a FB account for 15 years.

They just were unable to send the code to it, so I could not proceed with whatever appeal process they have in place. That said, if the next step was asking for my face, I'd have probably stopped right there like a poster said. They do have photos of me (Facebook) but it would just be too much.
My 2024 AI Predictions
Is there expectations/comparisons for how capable these NPUs will be?
https://archive.ph/5sDiA
Elysium Space – space burial company
I entered an incorrect number and it won't let me change it??
CQ and Laine are directors. ZDB and Async have existed for a while, nothing really new here. I guess they need to claim something on PSC.
We've also not had the best luck with keyboard emulation scanners, but unless you want to add a native wrapper, there aren't a ton of good options.
Cloudflare Overall Ranking for Threads: https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2023/12/pasted-im...

(source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2023-year-in-review-intern...)
Rather than looking for better ways to think, realize the limitation of thinking itself and observe for yourself how thoughts about your self-worth, what should or shouldn't be, and our obsession with constantly measuring and classifying others and our ourselves leads to so much wasted energy and misery in our lives.

Also notice that searching out "better" and "worse" ways of thinking are more of the same pattern. Thinking has its place, but it's more important to be aware of what's going on in our mind, rather than trying to use one fragment of thought to control other fragments.

In other words, don't feel the need to have a system of concepts about yourself. You are so much more than what can be expressed in language, no matter how sophisticated. Spend that energy becoming more aware of when you get trapped by thoughts of what should be vs. what is, and laugh when you realize how futile it is to try to think your way out of the problems that were created by thought in the first place.
> And what makes you think Safari R&D is solely funded by the search provider deal they have with google?

Google paying them 20 billion per year is more than enough to fund several browsers and still make a profit, that being Safari's direct revenue stream. You don't need any more than that.

You're also making too many assumptions about Apple's motives and marketing, but can't get around the fact that money talks. In the future, things may change, but right now, Google funds Safari.
I thought it was weird that they would release new GPUs now, but I'm not complaining. The more GPUs the better.
I'd vote for accuracy over extended width.

Generation discrimination is NOT racism.
It's a little off-topic, but I definitely like the throwback to Microsoft FrontPage. I don't know if this page was laid out in it, or it's just the theme, but I haven't seen it in decades. Nice little trip down memory lane.
Liquid tin battery stores electrical energy as heat
>It's worth noting that Korea and Taiwan are right behind China in illegal fishing (#3 and #6, respectively).

You should really include a citation when you claim countries are "on a list". For all I know they are #3 and #6 on "vkou's list of least favorite countries".

Korea doesn't appear on the NOAA's list at all for 2023. Taiwan's impact is a tiny fraction of China's. While that's still not OK, we're comparing apples and atomic bombs.

>Angola, Grenada, Mexico, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan,
The Gambia, and Vanuatu were identified for reported or alleged IUU fishing
that occurred between 2020 and 2022. PRC and Taiwan’s identifications
include information related to seafood-related goods produced through forced
labor.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2023-08/2023.ReportSummary...

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2023-08/2023RTC-ImprovingI...
If there's a con here it's being pulled by whoever stole Carl's turnip and framed the Aliens. We all know Carl has a screw loose, but raiding his garden is still a crime.
Or: why did we invent X so early, far earlier in history than seems logical given the "tech tree" view we get from sim games?

The fax machine and the electric car come to mind.
Do you have a source for this? Or is it just speculation? To be honest it sounds kind of xenophobic to just randomly blame the Chinese.
It's not weird at all. Those cards aren't meant as next buy for owners of non-Super 40xx cards. Cards are compared with cards that potential buyers currently have.
author here: Not early! I didn't even get stock... i lost most of my money when sfix fell rip
To your point, in Jeff Bezos' 2004 letter to shareholders(1) he writes about how free cash flow and GAAP profit are not the same. It's easy to assume that profit would be the same as how much more is left in the bank at the end of the year vs. the beginning of the year, but it's not. And understanding these things illuminated how Amazon was operating.

I joined Amazon shortly after this letter, and internally the strategy was to minimize profit as the IRS would calculate it in order to pay no taxes while maximizing free cash flow. And it was built as a conceptual "dial" that Bezos could turn at any time to start making a profit. Wall Street did not understand this about Amazon for close to a decade after the dot com crash (or half a decade after he broadcast it in this letter).

As a result, Amazon's stock was hammered because investors thought Amazon couldn't find a way to make money. All the while, they were plowing tons of excess money back into long term bets like massive distribution centers, optimizing shipping logistics, AWS (be the internet equivalent of utility companies), and Kindle (don't let anybody else cannibalize the paper book business). These were all being done with an eye toward massive future scale (e.g., at the time, many thought AWS was designed to use Amazon retail's excess server capacity, but it was the opposite... Amazon retail should fit in AWS' excess capacity).

Nobody expected all this from a "glorified book store" who "couldn't figure out how to turn a profit". But they were looking past the growing free cash flow and massive R&D investments in the financial statement, all unburdened by taxes.

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(1) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312505...
We should ship over a few large containers of "Old Bay", perhaps that will help fix that problem over there. Blue crab are, indeed, "Good eats".
Jaw dropping pay is inextricable from the jaw dropping Bay Area housing market. Standard white-collar pay for Bay Area-only roles is a pretty bad deal, and most tech workers would be better off learning something else. But standard white-collar pay with the geographic distribution of other white-collar work (i.e. any mid-sized and up metro is fine) would be a perfectly good equilibrium.
Yes! And the visuals are horrific too, just look at that tabbar. If anything, it’s a showcase of just how hard it’s gonna be to build a good app this way.
@dang title should probably be something like, “OpenAI responds to NYTimes lawsuit”
Show HN: Simple and consistent banner design for Twitter/X and LinkedIn
I saw this and immediately looked to see if someone had finally posted instructions on making a GrumbleGear 3000 scanner (Robin Sloan's "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore").
I won't pretend to understand what you wish to do.

fwiw "part of the runtime can be changed at run time"

pdf 2023 "Removing the Barriers between Applications and Virtual Machines"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.16973v1.pdf

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904180
Yeah I'm doing totally fine with an i7-9700K, although having 32gb sure helps.

2060Super GPU is starting to feel dated though!
essentially, Apollo 13
Really, that's the risk you're telling yourself you're preventing by bossing other people around?
But this it looks like even at low speeds of pedestrian is out of luck.
Where would you put it instead of something started by pid 1? It needs to boot the kernel and unlike macOS they have to run on a ton of different architectures so they can’t count on the firmware.
What makes you say that? Please have something more creative than "dissociative identities can't be aware of each other".
Most of those roles you list require strong interpersonal skills. That's usually not something an autistic person is strong at. Not a big market for many of those either (dev rel, tech writer).
Do you publicly, and with much pomp and fanfare, take millions of dollars to spread celebrity ashes in places sacred to the Navajo? (If you do, you may indeed be the proverbial ass!)

They may claim that a river is sacred to them, they don't claim that all rivers are sacred to them.
I was in a similar situation. A year into a job with a large company, I realized the company had issues and that I didn't like most of the people I worked with.

I stayed for ~1 year after I realized I needed to get out: At the time I was getting paid very well, had very low expenses, and was saving to quit my job and start my own company.

My original plan was to stay a few months longer to build up some more savings, but "things happened" inside the company. I was re-assigned to a horrible manager; I hunted around for another assignment (on the advice of my boss's boss,) but that was going to be Flex-based. (And I bet correctly that Flex was going to fail in the marketplace.) I decided that I was better off quitting and self-teaching myself HTML + Javascript instead of getting paid to learn Flex. However, I could have stayed for a 2-3 more years, worked in Flex, made a boatload of money, and selectively applied for jobs elsewhere.

> One year into it you knew the company was going to fail yet you stayed on for 3 more years?

There's a lot of risk in changing jobs: If you "have a good thing going," it's best to bide your time until a better thing comes along. Interviewing is quite time consuming too, so don't assume that someone can just casually make a few phone calls and walk away with a "better" job. (This is especially the case if you have kids, a house, a mortgage, and a significant other who has their own career.)
Chinese please.
And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'
So, nowhere.

> Which is pretty clearly deliberately trying to get it to reproduce a copyright article.

Not reproduce. Recall.
Other people have mentioned a lot of advantages but I'll go for another one: TSV is eminently more readable and parsable just off the bat. Empty space is always more readable than `,`, and `,` appears a lot in strings, tab appears a lot less.
Best Buy Will Soon Stop Selling Blu-Rays and DVDs
Need a source on this, please. It sounds real at first look, but I cant find any links and it's very similar to the boston molasses flood of 1918 story, especially that last bit -

"The event entered local folklore and residents reported for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Ask HN: Airdrop alternative that works on all platforms?
I've been looking for a convenient AirDrop alternative for a while for Android - iOS - MacOS and Linux.

My only requirement is that I should be able to easily share files like AirDrop's share menu option from Android to MacOS or MacOS to Android (or Linux/iOS).

I've tried LocalSend but it's a bit of a hassle and doesn't have any share shortcut on MacOS or Linux. I've tried PairDrop but it's a webapp and is extremely slow compared to LocalSend for some reason.

The best one I've used is NearDrop but it can only send files, not receive them.

Aren't there any good alternatives that simply just use Wi-Fi to send and receive files without too much of a hassle. I don't really need a full-blown GUI like LocalSend, it's slow and adds extra steps in file sharing.
People use batching on servers to optimize throughput for the complete server, not for a single session.

See “throughput (tokens/s) versus concurrency” graph in that article: https://www.predera.com/blog/mistral-7b-performance-analysis...

There’re other interesting graphs there, they also measured the latency. They found a very strong dependency between batch size and latency, both for first token i.e. pre-fill, and time between subsequent tokens. Note how batch size = 40 delivers best throughput in tokens/second for the server, however the first output token takes almost 4 seconds to generate, probably too slow for an interactive chat.

BTW, I used development tools in the browser to measure latency for the free ChatGPT 3.5, and got about 900 milliseconds till the first token. OpenAI probably balanced throughput versus latency very carefully because their user base is large, and that balance directly affects their costs.
Searching for a short elaboration regarding "Yellow Springs" (地獄 - dìyù) [0] I ended up digging way too deep:

>In this variation of Chinese mythology, there are 12,800 hells located under the earth – eight dark hells, eight cold hells and 84,000 miscellaneous hells located at the edge of the universe. All will go to Diyu after death but the period of time one spends in Diyu is not forever – it depends on the severity of the sins one committed. After receiving due punishment, one will eventually be sent for reincarnation. Diyu is divided into ten courts, each overseen by a Yanwang. Souls pass from stage to stage at the decision of a different judge

Indeed very much useless!

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyu
Sounds great!
All the best to the team.
Tokyo also fits you into apartments like sardines. You don't really have a "home" so much as a bathroom and bedroom you rent out long term to crash after 12 hour work days. And Tokyo still isn't cheap to live in despite that. Way cheaper than LA/SF but not by much.

I think people are so steadfast in the discussion of walkable cities that they forget why suburbs developed. Post WW2 America had a huge economic boom and a lot of soldiers to compensate. The US has tons of land to give out so the Silent Generation was handed swaths of land to to build a home with and raise a family in, and the boomers popped up as a result of such. They then made such rules and regulations to upkeep such a lifestyle.

It's not so much efficiency for a town as it was convinence for the individual. Great way to build up nationalism when you own more land than you know what to do with. Sure it backfired 70 years later, but you can understand why this move to "walkable cities" would feel like trying to take away some goodwill for those who benefitted back then.
It's never a good time to pick up a 3060. Can you stretch a bit to a 3070?
This doesn't work for me. (Android 11, Motorola phone.)

If I add a PWA or shortcut to my Home Screen, it will quite quickly disappear silently. Especially if I use Chrome to do it. The Support community is at a loss to explain this and they're starting to send me nonsensical instructions, showing they are desperate to get rid of my embarrassing question.
Show HN: Atlassian Tweaks – QoL Improvements for Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence
Atlassian Tweaks is a collection of userscripts and userstyles, developed by myself and my colleagues, which tweak some things and reduce friction in our Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence workflows at our $DAYJOB. These scripts and styles were originally written for the self-hosted versions of the Atlassian services. However, most of scripts and styles support the Cloud versions as well.

Screenshots, descriptions, and links to install are in the README on GitHub: https://github.com/rybak/atlassian-tweaks#atlassian-tweaks

A neat list of all scripts without screenshots is available on Greasy Fork: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?language=all&set=585074&so...

Trying out some of the scripts is tricky, partly because of Manifest V3 restrictions, but mostly because the URLs for these services are different from instance to instance, from company to company. The tricky part is setting up URL matching. For example, userscript "Jira copy summary" needs a user match rule "https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/\*" to work on the Jira of OpenJDK project. Full instructions are at the bottom of the README. Scripts and styles which work on https://bitbucket.org can be tried out without additional configuration.

The main difficulties during development so far are async loading of pages and mangled CSS class names in the Cloud versions, which change regularly.
> On top of all that, high volume customers would move directly to these consolidators.

This is pretty key to understanding Twilio's prospects as a business. In my experience, they are fantastically easy to integrate at first.

But they come with a cost that blows up your financial model if your product is any kind of high-volume use case, or if SMS is factored in as a direct cost and you're talking to investors about unit economics. At some point you have to get off of them and onto a cheaper-per-SMS solution, even if it costs more dev hours to maintain.
Yes, that's what economic equality means.