skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would make it incredibly risky to be a non-management shareholder.
I had a bit more of a think. I overstated my position. I slightly prefer a number display when setting cruise control. It does take me conscious effort to set the cruise control at precisely the level I want without it.
I think they call that chemistry and it is indeed an important part.
Reminds me of a scenario that I was asked once in an assessment center (a military one): Ypu are defending a bridge, the last one across the river, the enmy is approaching, refugees are on tje bridge, the enemy crossing would mean the front collapses. What do you do, let the enemy cross or blow the bridge? My, partially smart ass answer: retreat, let tze enemy and refugees cross. Because I don't see a point in killong non-combatants to, maybe, save a situation that was screwed up months ago. Because why am I, without enough forces to hold the bridge, the last obstacle for the enemy before he breaks through? And even if I blew the bridge, I don't take out the enemies engineers, so they will just cross the river elsewhere.

Since I didn't fail the assessment, the answer at least wasn't completely wrong I think.
As usual, it depends on the use case. Enterprise vs hobbyist, for example.

I greatly admire the principles, but in practice, the Erlang platform underdelivers in a modern context, because applications are usually not deployed by hot-swapping, but by rollout on Kubernetes. High availability is achieved by load balancing over horizontal scale-out of pods. Distributed systems today use external systems for state, like databases, keyvalue/caching stores, message queues, etc.

Elixir is a convenient language, like Python, with lots of convenience tools.

But for a long list of reasons, I wouldn't use it for anything other than prototyping/hobby projects.
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> kind of flippant accusation

No. I rather meant to indicate that it might have been a good decision. There are some studies here from Germany that suggest that heat pump systems can lead to higher total CO2 emissions than using alternative systems. (I think it was compared to an infrared heating system with solar installed.) A high price of the hardware itself and the associated costs of installing and maintaining such as system might be a good indicator of why that is (higher complexity).

Just because a solution appears "green", it doesn't necessarily have to keep its promises. Especially when people do panic installations as has happened here in Germany, they might get sold on an idea rather than a reality. Hardly a benefit for the planet.
There is another source of really great discoveries: goal-driven research which fails to achieve its predefined goals, but discovers something completely unrelated which turns out to be useful.

Anyone who worked in research knows that this is the usual way of discovery. Few people complete a PhD on the topic they originally aimed for.
What is using seL4-based virtualized systems? I am very interested in trying that out of the prices aren't for enterprise only.
Our entire western society depends on the ability to own and run businesses without personal responsibility for what the business does as an organisation. Sometimes in the case of fraud, or similar individual crimes within an organisation can be placed as blame on individuals or even management found to wilfully ignore internal warnings and so on, but on the whole, it’s rare that we go after private persons for what the organisations where they work does.

Shareholders are even further detached from this process, often having very little knowledge of what happens within organisations. Often having no influence on what happens within organisations. You likely own stock yourself through your pension funds, and if you made these laws your pension would be fined for what the index fonds it invest in does.

I guess from some political points of views all of this would be a good thing based on our current inequality in society, but the way to solve this isn’t through collective punishment. It’s through taxation. Right now, the entire economy is very much geared in favour of increasing the inequality by transferring more and more wealth to those who already have it. It hasn’t always been like this, 50 years ago, before the age of new public management, the taxation on things like wealth, stock and so on were high and the wealthy in our society paid most 80% of their total (not income tax) wealth generation. Today it’s often less than 10-20% through various tax law loop holes, and that’s if you keep your wealth generation absolutely legal.

Af far as organisation fines go, the situation is sort of similar to the general economy, in that major organisations and wealth owners have “rigged” the system in ways where it’s very hard to punish major corporations on a global scale. In Denmark we might find Facebook or Google guilty of something and fine them up to 10% of their income, but its income in Denmark, which is frankly so small on the global scale that they often don’t even bother fighting it in our courts like they do with the larger EU rulings. This could change, but it’s hard to do so, as the US isn’t interested in forcing US non-token companies fines to foreign countries. Similarly it would seem that even within the US there is competition between the various states to be the most company friendly.
This looks like a fun project! You know what I need? A social energy monitor that tells me how much I have left. I’m always caught by surprise when it’s too late.

It would be like a radioactivity monitor, perhaps inferring exposure based on voices and location, and warn me when it’s time to seek decontamination and cover. ;)
> The thing is that "No Evidence" is just flat untrue.

No it isn't, it's a term of art and it tells you something very important: the second half of the phrase is still only a hypothesis and no one has tried or been able to prove it in a rigorous way. And if you understand that, it gives you a lot of context for how to interpret it.

Does it get misused by non-scientists to mean other things? Sure. But you get lied to every day with far more sophistication, so I guess I don't understand the huff about this particular bit of jargon.

This was a weak article, basically. Leave the scientists their jargon, if you don't like how it's being used, argue about the specifics of the point.
No offense but I'm not quite sure this post really belongs to HN in the current form:

- it's not really a Ask HN

- it's not really a Show HN as there's not much to see

- it's not a regular post

It's relatable and appealing to the curious but it does not actually satisfy curiosity. It looks like an ad that takes care of not mentioning the product name :-)

I believe we might be many who are a bit disappointed after reading this.
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It is a bit misleading. Insulation is the main cause of lower energy bills. Then, once your losses are at a minimum you just need a bit of a kick to keep the warmth.

Any system will do once your energy losses are miniscule, e.g. think of the passive homes.
> it's just that the databases are disjoint and thus even more error prone because they're run individually by states.

That is a huge advantadge if the federal governments ever gets taken over by totalitarians. Surely at least some states will refuse to authenticate their ID cards when requested by the feds, some may even issue fake IDs to resistance members. If the feds have a centralized database with updated information on residences etc, they can quietly disappear people.
Or, alternative explanation, the fines aren't meant to deter behavior but serve as a way of rent seeking, signaling by politicians and bureaucrats and capturing ever more regulatory authority by various groups
That's what news articles and the companies installing heat pumps have been saying since ~2005. Had those estimates been substantially wrong, we'd know it by now.

The only subsidy is the deduction for hiring household help. If you hire outside help for any purpose, you get a tax deduction based on the wages you pay.
Ah, yeah they are AirPods… makes sense and good to know - thank you!
what is an automatic watch?
My thought here is that if someone is clearly expressing that their brain processes stuff differently to what you feel is normal then it's best to avoid using phrases like, "Your brain is".

I think you've started off great with your comment about respect but rewording some of the sentences after that to clarify that you're talking about neurotypical brains might be better.
Show HN: A lightweight AI gateway to 100+ models, in TS
We are Rohit & Ayush, we created Portkey this year March to help tackle some challenges we had seen while building apps based on GPT3, 3.5, 4, and the DevOps principles we brought to the scene to help tackle them.

We believe, a solid, performant, and reliable gateway lays the foundation to help build the next level of LLM apps. It decreases excessive reliance on any one company and takes the focus back to building instead of spending time fixing the nitty gritties of different providers and making them work together.

Features:

Blazing fast (9.9x faster) with a tiny footprint (~45kb installed)
Load balance across multiple models, providers, and keys
Fallbacks make sure your app stays resilient
Automatic Retries with exponential fallbacks come by default
Plug-in middleware as needed
Battle tested over 100B tokens and millions of requests

For the folks serious about gateway, separation of concerns, TS developers.. I'd love to hear your thoughts and we're hungry for feedback!

Reach out to us at hello@portkey.ai or explore the project: https://github.com/portkey-ai/gateway
With age, I've realized that new shiny things don't do much for me. The opposite has become apparent, in fact.

The value I derive from using something increases over time as it ages. This works better with some things than others. For example, a house or older audio equipment which doesn't tend to degrade quickly over time.

As a result, I find myself spending more time enjoying those things which age better over time than new technology which does not.
Keep in mind that folks who are not downsizing will probably not comment here, so if you are actually looking for numbers, this may bot be the best way to do it.

Personally, I don't buy new devices every single year, but I'm not downsizing my phone or computer any time soon. I still keep my smartphone with me at all times, I'm not getting rid of my desktop, and I'm totally happy with how things are.
And an MFC demo application.
Never mind, I’m blind, please ignore.
Slightly off topic questions:
- You are running Debian 12 on an Android tablet?
- Can you specify the tablet specs and what sort of battery life you get out of it?
are you using a quantized version of the model and if so which one?
As a matter of principle, you should always redact names, at least down to initials; as a matter of practice, I am not sure the name is any more identifying than eg "Mike Johnson". If you had Mike Johnson and the last four digits of a credit card, you might be able to identifying him from a database of leaked PII, although there may be enough of them to get a collision on that.

On the third hand, including the name doesn't really add anything to the story/image.
$1.2B Metaverse Horrified by Report IT Only Had 38 Active Users
I think you're overthinking this one. Unless those photos are being used commercially somewhere or you have a famous family I doubt you have to worry about anything.
I use a Thinkpad T460s (Linux), 4 year old Android phone and an old Garmin running watch I bought off ebay.

The simple fact for me is that all of these types of devices are thoroughly comoditised now, and almost perfected, so even old tech runs well, for my needs at least. I don't experience any issues not being "up to date" and it feels satisfying to not have blown thousands trying to keep up.
Where do you think the money comes from? The organization has some money they can either use for stock buybacks or fines. Money that goes to fines necessarily does not go to buybacks or dividends
Dang this is why I keep coming back to HN. Nice one.
And what if one of those companies has $200 billion in debt to service at a high interest rate and the other has close to no debt? How does that impact your calculations? I would love to see your valuation model.
But they're mostly not self-inflicted: the cause of all these things is asinine banking regulations (under the guise of combating terrorism) that are enacted by governments all across the world.
And in Japan, band 39, "sXGP" LTE replaces the old unlicensed Personal Handyphone System in the 1.9GHz space for an unlicensed LTE system.
I haven't bought anything for years, all my income is scoped to go to retirement and financial freedom, anything that I buy must be extremely needed, I actively avoid people that buy gadgets or tech, because I also feel consumerism is for boring people with little arguments, but that's anecdata and is personal

EDIT: I flag every post about gadgets I see here on HN, my contribution to a better society
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Why? "Source code last change: 31mar2023"
It’s a watch with an automatic movement: clockwork that is wound by movement of the wrist, as opposed to a battery or a winder.
Statistically (at least as a frequentist), it is more correct to say "we do not find significant evidence of a difference between group A and B" than "we find evidence that groups A and B are the same". I would even pick " no evidence of a difference" over claiming a null result is evidence for the null (without additional work).
No, that isn't accurate. Air to water heat pump systems can be incredibly efficient and effective, even if the insulation isn't great. Flow temperatures are usually lower than gas boilers, so sometimes radiators need to be upgraded to larger ones but with a good quality heat pump and proper setup (weather compensation being a big one) there actually are few problems.

There is a huge education gap unfortunately, since there are grants to install them so you get dodgy installers doing crap jobs. Even with a high quality heat pump, if it's not set up correctly you can get COPs as low as 2.5 or so and pay more than having gas. There are some good channels on YouTube of people with the proper training making fairly minor changes to these systems and acheiving SCOPs around 4 which is cheaper than gas.
Revenue isn't profits
I think the standard of “you’ve known, or should have known” ought to apply here.

It’s not the content creators problem that the DMCA takedown is automated and false-flags: It’s Disney and Google’s.
Unless you're a comedian...
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so is it safe to beleive that AD is multi-point approval system, almost for all applications, and tickets can be raised using it? So that means making another platform is rather obsolete, isn't?
Also I have never used AD but reading its docs i came to know that, for using sso the company has to use the domain provided by the AD, like yourcompanyname@microsoft.com, what company will want its users to sign in using this kind of a domain?
We've sadly really lost a core aspect of web design.
I didn't know companies can just ensure they have no profit on paper. Why don't they do that now and not pay corporate taxes? Why is it dependent on fines?
The radiator upsizing makes sense, but there also exists high temperature heat pumps (~70C) that work with "old" radiators
Yeah I'd love to know. Although a part of me is glad that I wasn't able to follow the path of least resistance here. It was frustrating and dissapointing to be rejected with barely any explanation, but ultimately I've learned more by having to sell these by myself (and I get to keep a much bigger cut of the sales than I would have on Etsy!)
Hmm, could we apply a fine to share. Either as fixed amount or percentage at time it is transacted on next time. Basically make them partially non-fungible...

So fine is applied at end of some day. Now all shares are marked. And when they are sold next time this fine is paid.
> The concept of a corporation is fundamentally unjust.

No it is not.

The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. The quality of life enjoyed by the average person even in developing countries would have been unimaginable by many measures to people living just a few centuries ago.

All the little first world boys whining on social media are perfectly happy to have clean water to drink, electricity on demand, video games to play, food to magically show up in their local grocery, roads to travel on—all these things that require the coordinated work of billions are just happen and are assumed to happen, there is never a complaint that their garbage is collected on schedule or that fresh fruits have been cultivated and harvested and shipped from the other side of the world for their enjoyment.

It is only when:

- they are asked to contribute something back to this system

or especially when

- someone else has more than them

That they decide a grave injustice is being committed.
What do you do for excitement instead ?
Maybe you love it and don't want to admit it to your exterior, rational persona, hence your "hate".
An automatic watch is “self-winding” but fully mechanical.
His chocolate is pretty low-quality compared to others at the price point. at least the marketing is eye catching..
1) Good insulation means you can use a smaller (cheaper) heat pump. Or it doesn't need to work hard most of the time & is therefore likely to last longer.

2) Having that heat pump removes the need for a natural gas hookup - and fixed-rate monthly cost that comes with it regardless how much gas is used.
I need a smartphone, but I am the master (not apple/google/etc)
The repo does not appear to have had substantial changes for ~8-9 years https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor

Yahoo announced development was stopped in 2014: https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-annou...

Is this still relevant?
I'm saying that we don't know and should withhold our belief one way or the other until there is sufficient evidence to help us tell the difference.
Selective reproduction is evolutionary pressure; survival is mere prerequisite.
There’s LTE-U and LAA but they are more about extending normal LTE at the cost of public bands.

The basic problem is that LTE base stations assign time slots to devices when to access the spectrum - that doesn’t work well when by regulation you need to play nice with other technology on the same band.
Sure, email me (my email is in my about)
I have a simple and very fair solution to that problem: make each consecutive fine for a repeated offense grow exponentially. If you make an honest mistake (or even are just testing the waters to see what you can get away with), the fine should be bearable. But being able to treat fines as just cost of doing business will indeed lead to a world where nothing is ever wrong or immoral, as long as you keep making money.
How do you know if something is extremely needed if you don't see other people using it?
For the context, YUI compressor is really, really, old. Like from the era Douglas Crockford was the only person advocating Javascript. Today better compression tools and methods may exist.

YUI the library is from 2005

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUI_Library#:~:text=It%20is%...!
That has little to nothing to do with heat pumps does it?
I remember at the start of the pandemic a tweet by a famous biologist and philosopher about masks and the spread of the disease. He stated confidently that "there is no evidence" that masks slow down the transmission of the virus (he most probably changed his mind). I had some respect for this guy, but it's all shaken know. In fact, it's all shaken for most intellectuals.
The first two of these three are only specified on 2.4 GHz, though (similarly to Bluetooth LE's "extended range" mode).
Is this still being worked on and updated? Looking at the GitHub repo, it's not: https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor

I'm not sure why you'd want to use this over anything else? I used it back in the day when it was more or less the only option, but that's a long time ago.
Ask HN: How to Count Content Views?
Say I have a website that has articles, video and audio content.

How should I determine how to count a content view?

For text, is it a mere visit? What about multimedia, should there be some threshold of watched/listened length before a view is counted?

How about repeated visits? Should they count the same or should there be a window where multiple views are counted as one?

What if user keeps refreshing the page to increase view count?

Should one user be counted always as just one view?

etc... any tips on this topic?
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> you will need at least 5sq meters of space with excellent ventilation

I don't see where you read that, but at least for Daikin ones, the front must be clear, but usage can be shared (eg. a driveway)
Ok that makes sense then. Most people here will compare against an existing gas or oil heating installation I guess...
In fact as I said I haven't bought anything for years :D
From a sibling submission in front page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

"Micromort" is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death, […] used to measure the riskiness of various day-to-day activities.
Asia's business heirs look beyond profits, hoping to escape parents' shadow
This is a really poor argument because virtually everyone can be presented an argument where they would act counter to this way of thinking, at which points it’s only “the end does not justify the means but only when I say so”
They were reducing the speed limit in part of the UK from 30 to 20mph. Some people believed it would save 4 or 5 lives a year. I worked out that it would cost an extra 50 lifetimes a year sitting in traffic.

I never posted this as the value of a life didn't feel proportional to the value of a lifetime, though i never really objectively understood why. Feels like a similar paradox to the repugnant conclusion.
Seems like these decisions should have been up to the new CEO, not the one leaving who won't have to deal with the aftermath.
Maybe as a POS system but are many people really moving away from it in terms of delivery? Seems like the pivot has been the delivery services offer white label experience. For example the same day walmart deliveries are done with one of the major delivery apps but you as the customer never see that. I don't think most local business want to get into or back into delivering themselves.
Pretty excited to announce this! While there are some popular and awesome AI gateways out there, like litellm, bricksai - none are written in TS, and for the TS ecosystem. Looking forward to the community's feedback
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Yes. For example Daikin Altherma, but I'm sure that every brand has a compatible system
I don't, though. I don't laugh at the jokes, and it has this weird, offputting vibe, but there's something about it that makes me like watching it.
What do you mean, "that's *probably* impossible" to make 6 babies from the same mother in a single year? Takes about 9 months to output a human, you know?
No clue on your specific question.

However it is a known practice. Most Hollywood studios do it. That's why actors which claimed a percentage of profits of the movie would get $0.
Not sure how the things are related? How should buying something excite me? .-.
I watch stuff with friends, go out with friends, organise dinners at home, bbqs, etc.

Should be noted that I am italian so maybe there could be a cultural difference to explain myself
A bureaucracy's growth is unbounded, and therefore the % of professors in the university workforce trends to 0%.

Eventually there aren't enough professors to teach, but the system still needs students to eat so you end up with this situation.
The moment people fail to differentiate between revenue and profit, one can safely ignore the rest of the article.
She also happens to be entirely correct.