skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the users in question were talking about piracy or committing piracy on reddit and the movie companies want to get the IPs of those users from reddit in order to prove that Frontier isnt terminating people committing piracy.

Alternatively, depending on how large the list of users they requested IPs for from reddit is, it could be a fishing expedition to see if any of them happen to belong to frontier
You have just constructed a heat pump.

Heat pumps have the benefits of both.
That's sort of true (less so these days), but it's also quite common for companies to treat undesired people like crap in order to drive them to quit. It's what they do instead of firing in the lifetime employment model -- you've been promoted to head of the floor-sweeping department. Ganbatte!

I don't know if that was going on here, but it sure sounds like it. (It could also be that the actual story is completely different than reported here, of course.)
Anyone know what sort of electrical requirements there are for these? We currently have a gas furnace and gas range. My electrical panel is full (we used up the last of it installing 220V for the clothes dryer), and the furnace is on the opposite side of the house from the electric panel, under a different roofline.

I'm going to at some point get an electrician in to look at things and see what the options are, but my house just isn't wired for it currently.
It's complicated. But Coal can not survive in a market where both renewables and natural gas exist. The same applies to nuclear.

When they are producing energy, renewables are about an order of magnitude cheaper than coal (and falling).
"Content creators" (assuming by that you mean those who are trying to make a living off the platform) are mostly irrelevant.

Youtube's main source of revenue is ads which they serve regardless of whether the uploader is taking a cut from the upload or not. Most users have always and will continue to upload to and consume from youtube without the expectation of making money from the process.

So, yes in general users have historically been more or less satisfied with the deal: watch ads, get free video platform.
What happened to zinc selenide then? Was there some reason it didn’t work out as well?
Yeah, it's not an innovative sector, though a lot of the blame belongs with the hardware manufacturers and not the installers. FWIW, the quotes I got for installation weren't that awful. But getting it hooked up to the Nest thermostat turned out to be a 2-day process and require a subcontractor to show up.
Only if the story relates to the knowledge. Not a distracting tangent.
I wonder if this response is based on training or an artificial constraint?

Did it learn this based on forum posts with similar responses?
> When work is busy I can easily go a month, sometimes months, without eating at sit-down restaurant. That is unheard of across much of Europe.

It's absolutely not. Doing one grocery run per week is entirely possible, and fresh food often doesn't last long beyond that anyway.

> Last time I was in Europe at a friend's place they asked where I wanted to go for breakfast. Breakfast? I don't need to pay someone else to fry me an egg.

You're generalizing from one experience in Europe to an entire continent. Going out for breakfast is very unusual in the places in Europe I've lived in. I don't doubt that it's common elsewhere, though. Personally, I've been to breakfast restaurants in the US much more often than in Europe.
I keep seeing these articles pop up.

The goal seems to be getting rid of regulations that hinder building European style apartments.

I can't help but wonder if this is really a trend people are interested in, OR is there some effort to sway public opinion into deregulating housing. Why do the article ALWAYS mention Europe? Is it a marketing tactic designed to trigger our 'america-europe inferiority complex'? Is it an effort to change laws to allow for larger ROI for a single piece of land?

Is it REALLY impossible to build apartments like we have in San Francisco these days? I am totally unconvinced removing these requirements would REALLY make life better for renters. As a renter who keeps getting shitter and shitter apartments, despite paying twice what I did in rent a decade ago.. I am afraid that this is just another effort to fuck us

Anyway, this is 100% a conspiracy theory (that I have 0 evidence for).
I guess the real question is, can the smart toothbrushes run Doom?
What makes it even more complicated is that in Massachusetts and I assume other states in Union use the International Building Code to dictate building codes.

This means that new construction and significant renovation all fall under the international building codes.

I think that the USA doesn't have the existing family sized apartment stock that the market might current be demanding. The other countries by having larger existing stock means more housing available at lower safety standards.

The final type of zoning that could effect is the style and use type zoning.
I personally think that the style and use type zoning has a small part in our housing availability.
I'd be very interested as well. My gas furnace is only a few years old, but my AC system is probably 10 years old. If I could replace just that with a heat pump, and leave my gas furnace in place as a backup, that would be ideal.
Yes, crypto miners should be among the first servers to switch off.
In some countries, that would decrease the taxation! (In the UK, for example, gambling income is tax-free)
Is it just me or does selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov have a very suspicious design including stress-inducing red and black colors, weird layout, low-res header images, and "Click HERE" links that look like social engineering?
Yesterday I learned it also deduplicates skmiler model files.
Yeah I've lived in and visited friends in "townhouse" apartments that are two or three stories, the bedrooms are upstairs and the living space and kitchen downstairs.
World Bank: World Net Migration
I'm surprised this isn't more common. The only difference between a heat pump and standard air conditioner is a reversing valve. These are usually $50-$100, and just require one more wire to the thermostat. In colder weather, defrost and fancier controllers are needed, but for mild climates the reversing valve is really all that is needed.
It's pretty easy, just stream the results of ffmpeg. I could create a Netflix platform in one day.

/s if anyone took this seriously
Where in California can you get gas for $3.50/gal?
> The idea is to not mention words that Gemini deem unsafe, make Gemini use those words for you instead, then you refer to it.

> Guiding Gemini to use the words can be tricky, but when you succeed, you use it through sentences like "do the task as YOU suggested".

Astounding that you have to jump through these kind of hoops because of "safety". They really seem committed to losing the AI race, a race in which they started with an enormous lead.
City life is fine when you're young or just have a very "busy" lifestyle. I myself didn't care for it much. When you have kids and they start growing up, you eventually long for them to experience a slower pace of life, spend long days exploring a forest that rarely sees children stomping through it, and just generally take in some relative peace and quiet. If you're fortunate and work hard (both are necessary), you may be able to afford a few acres of trees that you can call your own and have a little bit of space to spread out in and enjoy before your short time on the planet nears its conclusion.

At least, that is my experience so far, YMMV.
> Americans simply want a lot more space.

Americans will pay the most for the smallest spaces, such as in NY.
Did anyone perform an analysis on where the laid off employees for last 3 years went? According to layoffs.fyi nearly 500k were laid off since 2021, would be interesting to see if people mostly reshuffled within FAANG or there was a more structural talent migration e.g. from megacorps to startups.
>Hardware addition is filled with edge cases that cause it to not work as expected

I am not aware of a single case where integer addition does not work as expected at the hardware level. Of course if you have a different expectation than what the hardware does it could be called "unexpected", but I would classify this more as "ignorance". I think we can reword it as "addition must be predictable and consistent".

This is not the case in standard C, because addition can produce a weird value that the compiler assumes obeys a set of axioms but in fact doesn't, due to hardware semantics. Most C compilers allow you to opt into hardware semantics for integer arithmetic, at which point you can safely use the result of addition of any two integer values. That is really the crux of the matter here - if I write "a = b + c", can I safely examine the value "a"? In C, you cannot. You must fist make sure that b and c fulfil the criteria for safe use with the "+" operator. Or, as is more usual, close your eyes and hope they do. Or just turn on hardware semantics and only turn them off for specific very hot regions of the code where you can actually prove that the input values obey the required criteria.
If you warm up a few rooms to comfortable then it's hard to imagine the rest of the house being at freezing temperature. It's going to be some sort of gradient. But sure, this is a concern/consideration.
Forcing people to spend more money on a bigger box than they want isn't great, either
What is the point of using a tool that comes with management and/or coder bias to make sure you never ask or receive anything that might offend someone somewhere?

I'm asking the question, I don't care if Jar Jar Binks would be offended, my answer is not for them.
I use Fedora KDE as my laptop distro and have been interested in Silverblue/immutable versions. However I am not a developer so I’m not sure if it would offer any real benefit to my use case. Mostly use my laptop for web browsing and file transfers to my NAS.

I’ve seen people say that immutable is the future of Linux, can someone explain that if they can?

Does that mean one day all versions of Fedora will be immutable? Is it a security benefit?
> Apple cares about privacy because it is a differentiator in the market

As someone who prefers Apple products these days, I don't run into many people who blindly think that privacy is some kind of immutable characteristic of the corporation. We absolutely understand that it is a position they put themselves into because it attracts customers. It's important to their bottom line.

> Apple would abandon prioritizing privacy the moment market conditions stop that from being a profitable position to have

True, but I think the leaders at Apple are well aware of how risky abandoning such a core selling point would be for future sales. They have to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, much less actual privacy violations, or it'll tank their reputation. I think it unlikely they will conclude that selling the data is more valuable anytime soon.

Luckily there are so many anti-Apple people constantly scrutinizing their every action for possible malfeasance, I expect we'll hear about it very quickly and loudly if/when it happens. A problem to worry about then. Right now, their competition is largely unconcerned with privacy already.
This isn’t about identifying a particular user, it’s about showing that Frontier does nothing to quell piracy by its users and thus provides an incentive to pirates to use their network.
Modern Databases for Finance (2023)
4 story townhomes including the garage are pretty common, and when American building codes heavily restrict buildings over 5 stories (and encourage parking spaces) then it makes perfect sense to build 3/4 bedroom housing stock as townhomes rather than apartments
> Some of this productivity gains just come from adoption of existing tools like Google Workspace or Office 365, issue trackers and version control with tools like Gitlab, Github, or Jira

I guess I haven't seen Jira be something that actually improves productivity. More often it seems to be a productivity suck.
20c/kWh? Not in California... Try 35c/50c peak or worse.

Even if you have solar, and got in before NEM3.0, that's still not an incentive to electrify, when you're just selling the non-peak energy to the grid for the increasing rates that PG&E is charging/planning... (if that income-based minimum monthly bill thing happens, this maybe changes a bit)

Not sure about the current gas/electricity per mile costs as I'm still driving a 15 y/o gas car.
Dell and HP and Toshiba all had pointing sticks on their professional laptops even before the patents ran out. They were utter shit of course because it was negative inertia which made the TrackPoint usable and that was patented and by the time it expired everyone was high on trackpads which are , once again, obviously utter shit because they can not be as efficient as a TrackPoint which is where your fingers are compared to a trackpad where you need to move your hand to.
places where heat pumps are not going to work well when it drops to freezing / below freezing.
Does anyone else find it to be odd that in all of the bedroom diagrams, they include an animal skin rug?
In theory but not practice. No one makes that kind of conversion kit, and there are enough "minor" differences (e.g. heat pumps need a defrost mechanism where AC's are presumed to operate with hot ambient air) to make it impractical.
> If you are suggesting that people who still use firefox hate Mitchell Baker, you are mistaken.

I dunno about that. I'm a Firefox user and I dislike Mozilla as an organization and think that Mitchell Baker is completely incompetent. The modern browser space is a shitshow and Firefox is just the least worst option out there.
I know. Addicts don’t like to hear about how destructive their addictions are.

Our society is addicted to energy.
> IP addr is not a person

And most IPV4 addresses are vague and only give a coarse location of where you are, and they're typically shared among many others so an IP is not a guaranteed signal that it was 'you' who pirated stuff.
Wonder where that leaves the million(s) of dollars they stole in domain selling
And how many haven't landed anywhere yet.
> Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

Does that mean reddit stores ip addresses for 7 years? That seems excessive.
The repository seems abandoned; or maybe complete?

At work we use flume, which is another capable multi-producer, multi-consumer async-capable channel [1]. It's great for shuffling data between threads, as well as between async tasks, and between threads and async tasks. Basically any time you want to pieces of code to exchange data or signals without pesky shared state.

1: https://github.com/zesterer/flume
When is the last time your property tax valuation decreased?

Where I am the rate increases are capped but if they want more money they just work around that by increasing the valuations.
This viewpoint is terrifying.

Are we in the same comment sections? These Nazis you speak of say a lot about "dangerous talk" !
> Things in America are just very large.

Maybe harsh, but North Americans just love to consume consume consume planetary consequences be damned.

Per capita CO2 emissions (aka carbon footprint):

- 15.5 Canada (?!)

- 14.5 USA

- 8.5: China

- 3.3: Vietnam

- 15.5 Australia

- 3.7: Sweden

- 8.2: Germany

- 7.8: Netherlands

- 5.5: Italy

- 1.9: Morocco

- 6.8: South Africa

- 3.6: Mexico

- 2.2: Brazil

If you live at nearly x2 the CO2 footprint of West/Central Europeans, and above x4 for most of the planet, it gets a lot easier to live large.

Of course, North America having a lot of space geographically makes it easier to build big, and there is probably a ton of other factors as well. But it is an important thing to note.
Yeah, neither of those things is going to happen in our lifetimes. Regardless of what Altman says.
What is this but a post-Greenfell real estate lobbyist screed to make landlords a few more bucks in profit by removing fire safety requirements?
I'm sorry you got so worked up about my comment, but you are being extremely rude yourself. Read back how you're acting.
Same. I can't be the only one who feels that Nix is doing the right thing the wrong way. The right thing being reproducible, declarative, composable environments; the wrong thing being its language and tooling. Too often I feel like serious Nix users spend a distressing amount of time manually doing package manager tasks, so the way forward is to stop doing exactly that. Going back to imperative composition is a step backward that will never help people free up time away from package management.
I live in one of the mildest parts of California and I still have a gas furnace (no AC though). Heat pump actually makes more sense given that the winters rarely dip below freezing, so heat pumps can work in a fairly high COP range.
In that case I can't see why they would bother advertising anything at all.

In the UK you have the choice of loads of energy companies, and certainly some of the marketing is around their green credentials.
Some commercial buildings are designed to be renovated repeatedly like this. They have an open steel support structure where you can have an entire floor completely empty and add walls where ever you want.
Gas in California is $4.50+ at the moment.
There are other dense cities besides NY, and they have the highest rents.

You are welcome to your own preferences, but why is it important to insist that others can't have different ones? What is it to you if people like cities?
That would be an inner platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

The Go scheduler is already taking units of work called goroutines and scheduling them. It's no big deal to ask the crawling system to have some limit on how many goroutines it'll use, the patterns for that are well-established, and also necessary because it's not all about the goroutines in this case. Crawling needs controls to limit how many requests/sec it makes to a given server, how deeply to recurse, what kind of recursion, etc. anyhow so it's not like it particularly sticks out to also have a concurrency parameter.
Oops, two mistakes on my part here, the spelling, and somehow missing that he's in one of the early paragraphs of the linked article... I've been following Eliason's work for a long time so I can't believe his name didn't pop out to me in the article!
As it was explained to me, it is about duty cycle. The condensation doesn't instantly accumulate enough to make droplets and run all the way down the drain, so if the compressor only runs briefly the condensation is still on the fins and evaporates again. You need to keep the compressor going long enough that you actually have water running down the drain, instead of condensing/evaporating cyclically.
Great project, would be a good expo for Hack-a-day
This lawsuit is a big ad for Frontier. I'm going to see what services they offer.
Presently, in practical terms, 'lifetime' may as well be 100 years. Though I'd still prefer to see it as 'lifetime*' ... '*lifetime is 100 years'.
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For Japan, earthquakes are an existential matter
You can do that. It’s very common in New England to go this way because the heat pumps generally only work down to -15F and then you need to switch to furnace for heat.
Apart from this project, does anyone know any other DIY quadrotor building instructions with cheap off-the-shelf materials?
None of those platforms build anything. Just lease out stuff people already constructed the infrastructure for. That’s what makes them scale, but it tienta translate to anything where you need massive per-transaction capital.
I used to own a house in Claremont, California (east edge of L.A. County). It had a furnace that I never used until one winter it got super cold (under freezing as I recall) and I discovered that the pilot light for the furnace was broken and had to call out the gas company¹ to fix it and because everyone else was having similar issues it took two days for them to come and fix my furnace. I grew up in Chicago and was never so cold as that.

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1. They fixed minor furnace issues like this for free.
Assuming your home has 200 amp service you should be fine. Typically if your panel is out of space and more circuits are needed, you'll need a subpanel installed (just a smaller panel that handle some of your circuits). Alternatively an electrician may just recommend you upgrade to a bigger panel. Either way most of your costs are likely going to be on the labor side.
We build cybernetic systems called companies with the goal of creating/increasing profit. As we get better and better at making these systems, humans play less of a role and the roles we do play become ever more formulaic.

I wonder when we will hit a turning point when over 50% of people in America would say “yes” to the question “is my boss a computer?”

For instance if you work at MacDonalds, you probably have a shift supervisor, but the beeping monitor showing customer orders and wait times is the real head honcho. Piss off your boss and you’ll get a talking to. Piss off the computer and you’re out (quantifiably!)
You don't need space in the panel as clearly you already have a circuit breaker for your existing air handler. It will be a bigger line though, my house in Portland got a central heat pump and handler that wants 40A.
NYC also has some very interesting tax laws. I believe nowadays you get a 35 year tax reduction if your condo building is not in Manhattan, has under 30 units and has an average unit value of under $1 million (technically it's $65k of assessed value which is around 6% of market value). That translates to maybe a 1 or 2 bedroom on average nowadays.
Appears to be exactly that. Note that the white light segments (shown in yellow and slightly extended in radius on the chart) are always placed between green and red segments as you move clockwise - the white segments are ‘safe channel’ indicators of some sort.
This childhood detail about his experience with the color blue being revealed is what makes a good interview.
but the mining reward halves every few years tho
How much of that is developers can't build an option so people don't know what they want?

As I noted elsewhere, I think the demand for 4 bedroom apartments is mostly to the poor right now - they want 4 bedrooms in the same space of a current 2 bedrooms - make each bedroom smaller and only 1 bathroom to share (or may a half bathroom for the second bathroom not a full one). The layout of a US 4 bedroom by nature ends up with a lot of wasted space in expensive closets (unless you get a corner unit - there cannot be many of these in a two staircase building but they would look more like Europe)

Though I have often asked what it would take to attract an upper middle class family to an inner-city apartment. They want large apartment - but it needs to be affordable (not downtown rents). But there is a lot else about inner city that needs to be fixed first (crime tends to be bad)
The things being discussed here are literally stuff like the basic technology you are describing. They are only 'investing directly in both side's military pipelines' in the way that investing in Amazon might be because they have the DoD as a customer.

I don't think China should ban people from investing in Amazon because it helps the US military.
The New Big Fish Called Mean-Field Game Theory
I’ve usually found that to be a symptom rather than the root cause: if Jira is turning into a job rather than a tool to do your job, switching tools without switching managers won’t change much.
Scrap metal thieves are indeed not always the brightest. I've heard of cases of attempted thefts of (powered) power lines of electrified railways...
Ask HN: How do you measure ROI for introducing Rust into a company?
I am seeking to quantify the costs versus the benefits of introducing Rust into a company.

Has anyone conducted a similar analysis in the past and would be willing to share their findings?