skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll have to excuse me if I don't take the word of the website "pewpewtactical" as gospel on this matter. Especially with lines like this: "Aside from the fact the ATF hates anything fun..."

There's nothing earnest or in good faith here, and you can't reasonably make me believe otherwise. The person was trying to skirt the law and got caught.

Or let me put it another way: if this keycard isn't a big deal, why do gun owners care?
I tried to make one of these systems at my first job, but my manager expressly forbade me after hearing about it.

Later that company would go on to lay off 15% of software engineers in a day. The support team created tickets in the public issue tracker to decommission employee accounts, so a lot of people found out that way before anyone reached out for a meeting.
This almost certainly gets reduced to a tiny amount. The jury awarded $1 in actual damages and $1m in punitive damages.

The Supreme Court has said punitive damages must bear a reasonable relationship to actual damages.

As a rule of thumb, 10:1 is usually unconstitutional. 1000000:1 is off the charts.
Ask HN: I'm autistic. Should I share this information when meeting new people?
While I've always been the introspective type, I've spent the last few years making more of an effort than ever to understand myself and use what I learn to my advantage, both professionally and socially.

This journey of self-discovery has included the realization that I am on the autism spectrum (later confirmed by a professional diagnosis), and I've slowly been learning how to apply this information in my life, with limited success.

Some recent changes in my life have involved meeting new people, and I'm currently gathering information on how to best go about this.

To be blunt, I don't want to mask or pretend to be neurotypical. I want to be authentic self. Unfortunately, this often leads to people thinking I dislike them or that I'd prefer to be left alone, even when I make an effort to be outgoing and enthusiastic, ask open-ended questions about them, and so on.

Would it be wise to just explain early on that I am on the spectrum? Perhaps this would cause people to view any hints of antisocial behavior from me in a less personal or negative way.

I'm open to advice from everyone, not just other neurodivergent folks. :)
I guess that's sort of the value proposition of Apple News+ if you're in their ecosystem, right?
The crash dumper only needs to write to disk or network. The other steps are just things the kexec process does to achieve that aim.
Seriously? I asked for 'filters', not find :-)
>(iv) What people, companies, organizations are driving the US open borders and how are they doing that? (v) What are the forces that have made acceptable, surgery on the genitals of minors and how did those forces do that?

> A summary of the MSM is that it is often traditional journalism where instead of the standards and techniques common in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields goes for emotionalism (over rationalism) borrowing from drama and fictional literature -- grab people by the heart, the gut, and below the belt and their eyeballs and ad revenue will be sure to follow.

You appear to have been thoroughly grabbed. Perhaps you should consider holding these claims to the same standards of evidence you demand for the others in your list.
Assuming there's text comprehension required there, how do you guarantee output veracity when there's stuff like unit conversions thrown in?
This is major theme of the movie The Interview: "honeypotting"
I'd suspect they're just trying to start over - Bard kinda got pegged as Google's dumb, not-as-good, late-to-the-party clone of ChatGPT. It got teased a lot. I'm not sure Gemini is much different (still more impressed with GPT 3.5 & 4) but I guess the name change gives them a bit of a reset.
> No concepts to learn

the concept is that events subvert React's own change detection. it's definitely more direct than stacking contexts on top of each other (... or Redux, shivers)

but probably more maintainable, after all you can just search for the event name.
In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman's Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record
The bar for a defamation lawsuit is higher for a public figure, but it still exists.

There's some precise way to say the same thing without falling afoul of it, even then.
Blew my mind in the best way. Thank you.

There's a line in there that feels like it could pop up in a permutation city sequel:

> ... running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of spacetime itself, trying to break through to whatever's underneath...

Does that idea come up anywhere else in your work? If so, I'd go read it.
Yeah if my heat were 100% electric I’d have to install a wood heating-stove to feel like I wasn’t being irresponsible. Or maybe get a couple portable kerosene heaters.
There are two different questions here:

1. Should the code be async-aware? That is, should it be able to yield to other tasks?

2. Should the code launch background tasks?

1 is a cross-cutting concern, in a cooperative multitasking environment, anything that is unable to yield is, well, preventing other tasks from running.

In Go, 1 is always true, and implemented by the runtime itself. In Rust, this means using async I/O, like preferring tokio over std.

2 is what the advice is about. The Rust equivalent here would be tokio::spawn.

Writing async-independent Rust code requires you to tackle 1, maybe by writing a trait for all the I/O actions that you require from your executor, which could return blocking futures if you select to run synchronously.

That said, blocking also prevents you from using async for structured concurrency in the library implementation, which may or may not be a big deal for your use-case.
Is that true? At least based on the verdict, it seems like the factually incorrect claim that his work was "fraudulent" was punished more harshly than the child molester comparison.
Yeah, you very well might be.

If your truck gets traced back to you, expect a government audit. If you sold it to a denied party due to lack of due diligence, you will be held liable.

(A truck is probably an extreme example. I'm not sure we're spending time tracing vehicles, but you better believe we are for our state-of-the-art radio tech.)

Source: I with export controls for the semiconductor industry.
You can read it on Ars: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/these-states-are...
Funny enough in the short term I've lived in my house, I already had a winter where the furnace quit.

It's a high-efficiency one with a control board (Nobody can convince me FCS isn't Fire Control System) and a separate draft motor.

One of the vacuum sensors went out and the furnace couldn't prove it was safe to run, so it would turn on the draft motor, suspect a clog, and then shut it back off.

An easy fix but not as simple as lighting a Bunsen burner. And I haven't seen the electrical cord for it, I'm not sure how I would hook it to a generator if I lost power. The water heater oddly enough is battery-powered, so I guess I could just fill the tub with hot water.
> lest HR sees some activity on your profile and buckets you into a "actively job-searching" risk group

well.... yes? HR considering you "at risk" is a pretty good thing :)
But a different representation in IEEE 754 floating point. If you were building a JS interpreter it would be important to catch that 0 and -0 are different numbers in memory and to hardware operations.
Bay Area, just beginning a remodel+expansion of our home. We've never had air conditioning, and our gas furnace is well over 20 years old. We'd likely need to upsize the furnace anyway, and for resale reasons if nothing else, adding A/C (and the attendant larger ducts or whatever else) is a no-brainer while we have the house apart.

A heat pump is absolutely a no-brainer in our case. I like being able to get away from natural gas, although I must say, moving all electric means we'll be held hostage more and more to PG&E. (We have solar, but it'll be well below our needs once we had square footage and the heat pump, and don't want to get screwed by NEM 3.0).
Riding across North America in a covered wagon might not be the best way to do it, but if you're in 1800s and you're planning to wait on jet airplanes before you try, you're going to have bad time.
Yes my first thoughts too.

"Oh, it's convection."

"Hey, I wonder what the best in-between angle is, balancing both temperature and cosine loss."
What do you generally look for in the Methods section?
I hope you like this blog post illustrating how Generative AI can be integrated into streaming data environments using just 45 lines of code, leveraging DataSQRL and Redpanda Data.

DataSQRL is a tool that simplifies building data applications on streaming data. What's remarkable is how it enables handling complex streaming data processes in a surprisingly concise manner - the entire implementation showcased in the blog is only 45 lines of code!

Additionally, it explores Redpanda Data, a streaming data platform that serves as an efficient alternative to Apache Kafka.

The post talks about the technical implementation but hints at broader applications in predictive analytics and real-time decision-making across various industries.

For those who are into AI, data streaming, or just love efficient coding, this might be a compelling read. If anyone here has streaming data and AI, please let me know your thoughts.

Originally posted on RedPanda's website

https://redpanda.com/blog/real-time-clickstream-gen-ai-aws-d...
Yeah it has a heat pump[1], but physics is physics. SO wants a balmy 22C inside, regardless of outside temperature.

It uses the resistive heater when preheating from charger though, I can hear the heat pump kick in when I disconnect the charger while it's preheating.

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/538616/renault-megane-electric-ba...
Healthcare would be one place where a very large number of workers died.
his mastodon presence is full of such things

https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF
Link to Michael Mann's team's statement:

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelemann.bsky.social/post/3kkws...
Are little custom-ordered wooden sticks really "matchsticks"? I'm wondering if the other enthusiasts in this category all shaved off the ignitable parts of the matches to build their creations (which is what this man said he got tired of doing and ended up just ordering plain sticks)
emigrants probably have above average motivation
> It is funded by Peter Thiel.

Underrated comment. Always follow the money. If Thiel is funding it, it's to further his feudalism agenda. Not that it isn't worth a read, but with truck load of salt.
Rant warning: I'm really sick of looking at everything through the lens or race or gender. Can we just go back to not seeing those things?

I wasn't racist before, but I am a little now. I think all this focus on race and gender may have the opposite effect that people want.
As they work at Microsoft, they all have aka.ms and can generate any short link they like.

But it won't work if another user talks about issue 1234, and you only have the short links in your head.
Juniper support portal exposed customer device info
Big Side Projects
Have you ever tried running a gas furnace off of a solar panel?

"Accelerating a transition" != "this has been 100% accomplished"
https://archive.vn/Zs5Xy
(You need blank lines between your list lines -- I wish this weren't true on HN but it is)

I think there's value in Mozilla using its (admittedly dwindling) mindshare to push services that make browsing the web more private and more secure. Maybe you disagree, but it doesn't change the fact that they're products. And arguably, the "focus on Firefox" crowd should be pleased by this: it means Mozilla didn't "waste" resources on making their own VPN service, etc.

N.B. Firefox Focus is an Android/iOS mobile app that wraps the browsers on those platforms and essentially just blocks trackers. There's some other stuff but that's the gist.
Fedora Atomic Desktops
Is the 1st amendment relevant here? I thought that was only about the state limiting your speech through law etc.
You can't carry cool pockets knifes with fast open mechanisms/methods, which doesn't make much sense to me outside of panic other than maybe gives people 0.2 seconds to run. I remember being sorely disapoitned that Jack Bauer's Microtech Halo III was illegal in my country.
If you can handle the science changing since publication in the 1930s(!!!) Olaf Stapledon is simply remarkable.
"Last and first men" is one of my favorite books for just how unique it is, but "star maker" has some interesting parallels
The simplest devices are on or off. If they are grossly oversized they cycle a lot and make homes less comfortable by pushing a huge volume of hot or cold air briefly.

Variable speed compressors are better, but blowers may not also be variable speed. So you'll get better efficiency but may still suffer a feeling of draftiness.

A properly sized variable speed unit will operate within some optimal band of efficiency and constantly output nearly the minimum necessary air volume to achieve the target temperature.
Thank you for CNN Lite! That's fantastic.
I have Plex with transcoded dvds locally that I can access anywhere with tailscale.

Streaming service just need a relay bastion to punch through NAT for the initial handshake. You just need a server running some kind of client in your own infrastructure.
Yeah I'm waiting for a carbon tax to pass somewhere. I'm an environmentalist but why spend extra money being good when there are still assholes driving lifted pickups with loud exhausts and widened axles they don't need?

My next car will be a plug-in Prius though. My old boss had one and almost never had to put gas in it. All-electric commute with a range extender / emergency heater
I think it's totally fine for libraries to spin up goroutines internally. My interpretation is that the library's public interface should appear to be synchronous. As a contrived example:

package main

import (
"context"

"example.com/spider"
)

func main() {
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
defer cancel()

_, _ = spider.Crawl(ctx, "https://en.wikipedia.org")
}

In this case `Crawl` is a blocking call and, under the hood, it may well spin up a pool of goroutines to crawl a site. It's also really nice that context is available to tie the lifetimes of the main program (goroutine) to child goroutines without coloring functions (like with async-await).

I used to work with the Go pubsub client (https://pkg.go.dev/cloud.google.com/go/pubsub) a lot and that has a whole bunch of scheduling and batching functionality handled in goroutines and on the outside you're calling `topic.Publish(ctx, &pubsub.Message{Data: []byte("payload")})`.
Meh. I live in Wisconsin. It's fine.

> Our modeling finds that even if Focus incentivizes 800,000 heat pumps with electric resistance backup (10 times the number of heat pumps as it did furnaces in the past four years), the state will still be able to meet its electricity demand with currently operating power plants, even on the coldest days. Depending on the efficiency of the heat pump, in-state winter generation capacity would still exceed peak demand by 1,400–4,300 MW on the coldest day.

https://rmi.org/three-questions-wisconsinites-are-asking-abo...
That's not natural.
What do other people genuinely get from this data? Besides "here are more gender and race stats to quibble over and divide you while the political class robs you blind" ?
archive.ph will help in cases like that :)
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277283
The Taito Taitan arcade cabinet
Generic cabinets from the Golden Age of arcade gaming tended to be functional workhorses...That said, there were occasions when some manufacturers toyed with design ideas to attract players to these generic cabinets.

In 1981, Japanese manufacturer Taito designed a universal cabinet, known as The Taitan that could accommodate any one of twelve of its most popular games.
You can’t compare Australia to the U.S. on many levels.

Australia is less than 10% the population of the U.S. Its easy to get to the majority of 20 million people to agree to something. It’s impossible when you have over 300 million. And the U.S. has a wide history of different states with different attitudes.

Also gun laws are codified in the constitution in the U.S. that’s not the same way in every other country in the world. I wish I could remember who said it, but to paraphrase, Constitutional rights are God-given rights as viewed by Americans. Every other country has government-given rights which can be taken away whenever the government wants. That’s not the case in the U.S. and why it’s so much more entrenched and impossible to get rid of.
I'm still (poorly) maintaining it!
Is there a website that does this for all grocery stores?
I skipped the part of the article that says that the heat pumps will always be accompanied by solar panels.
inkl has pretty good variety of news sources for a reasonable subscription fee, i subbed for years then started using apple news. Unfortunately i cannot recommend inkl because you have to email support to cancel your subscription, they offer a 50% discount if you try to cancel but that business practice of sign up with one click, email support to cancel i cannot condone.
How much do you spend on LLM backed tech, like ChatGPT, Copilot, image generators, etc? For business or personal use?
Depends on the heat pump, and the quality of your house. Hopefully houses in northern US states are of better quality than houses in California or West Virginia/South Ohio, so a furnface might not be needed.

Because for the scandinavians reading the thread and with the "It works in my country", US house build quality, in my experience, is even worse than UK houses build quality (and that's a pretty low bar).
Except of course, you don't need to go to the coffee shop at all.
Is Netflix offering their services as a platform now?
FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins
Fortunately, they have county-by-county data (and hourly data if you so desire) that spells out the design criteria for heating systems;

https://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/bldrs_lenders_raters/...

Though heat pumps are unique in that they produce less heat as the colder it gets - A few hours of -15º every few years shouldn't be the primary consideration in spec'ing a system that still produces 75% of its heat in that worse case.

I live in that blue area and ran through all of the math and considerations recently - I pulled the hourly temperature data for 6 years. Of the 94,000 data points in that period, a total of 26 hours were below -5º: https://imgur.com/a/P7A3kan
The war is pretty much terrible for humanity as a whole, as are most wars. Perhaps it wasn't clear from what I wrote before.
Unfortunately because I wish there were no guns at all. But I’m a pragmatist. I know gun ownership will never go away in the U.S. so I own guns as well.
You can, and you won't get arrested. But if you are intentionally trying to cause harm by what you say, that's defamation.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
> Less efficient but still functional means my home was 50 degree inside instead of 67 when it was -1 for two weeks here.

No, that's just not functional. "Less efficient" means consuming more joules of electricity but still providing the required function.

> Heat pumps are great, but they absolutely need some kind of emergency heat back up.

They include it. You were sold an inadequate pump for your situation.
It is technically the correct climate; but unfortunately the incorrect place for them, given the electricity costs and propensity for large power outages during storms (read: times when you actually need heating).

If you are in one of the cities with public utilities where electricity is cheap, then go for it, great choice. But on PG&E, the monetary proposition is awful compared to a gas heater, modern wood stove, or masonry / rocket mass heater.

Given the extreme excess of wood in the region (that otherwise ends up in huge forest fires), it makes a lot of sense to be running an efficient wood stove / masonry / mass heater.

The big loss is of course automation, so it pays to have some automated backup source of heat for when you are out of town, but that could just be whatever heating method you are using already.

If you are already heating using electric baseboards though, yes, definitely move over to a heat pump. It will save you a lot of money. Not as much as natural gas or the others, but savings are savings.

Also, there are plenty of ducted air source heat pumps that work as drop in replacements for gas furnaces. Use one of them if you already have a ducted system that works well and do a heat pump replacement.
I would be interested in that community. I'm sure I'm not the only one here.
They're embedded in the masonry. When you buy a CMU, you get one unit. Yes, this has better thermal properties, and this also makes them more durable and theft/vandal resistant.
Link is invalid.
Electricity decarbonization is the single most impactful thing anyone can do right now. But a large margin.

Transportation decarbonization is the second most impactful thing. And anything else comes far behind those two.

That said, just because some action isn't on the top 2, it isn't reason to stop doing it. And besides, yes, we will need to reduce the atmospheric CO2 at the second half of the century, and this is probably what will yield results fastest. It's all the better if we just start right now.
Yes, I thought they would feed the LLM's FAQ to the LLM. As I said above, OpenAI did this with ChatGPT. They even fed data about how ChatGPT was created to ChatGPT.
Specific details about how the data collection and processing was done. For example in my field there were a lot of fussy details that if they were not handled correctly (and most people did not handle them correctly) would lead to false positives/false negatives.

If something is outside my area of expertise, then I have limited ability to judge a paper based on its methods.
This is my understanding - I guess I shouldn't have said "100%". It's just that it seems like there are vanishingly rare real-world scenarios in which one could engineer this situation that don't involve gaining access to the actual key, at which point you could simply take it, so the choice to use the Flipper instead would be moot for the topic of vulnerability.
Arguably, Trump had “a well documented history of lying, misleading, bullshitting, etc.”, and yet he was making a killing during his 2016 election run both for social media and the traditional media (cnn, nyt, etc.) companies. You couldn’t sneeze without seeing something about him somewhere.

Why? Because people actually tuned into this and wanted to see it, and the media companies are in the business of making money exactly off of that. Doesn’t matter if it is about lies or misleading statements or whatever. It is noteworthy enough and is of interest to people, so they will watch.

I don’t see how listing out all the ways in which both Carlson and Putin suck is somehow supposed to prove that this is all just bots and cannot be organic interest at all.
*by default
The cited "digital twin" software[0] doesn't model convection (it just uses wind speed and an empirical factor), which is why it gives a higher predicted temperature than the physical model.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...
What features though? Oh maybe a sleep timer for the kids section so it turns off after 1 or 2 episodes? No, that would be actually useful but wouldn’t warrant a blog post.
Now imagine how annoyed non-white people with them systematically having problems with joining certain professions.

>I think all this focus on race and gender may have the opposite effect that people want.

That's a common critique from reactionaries, never seen much proof from it.
Well at least they got over blockchain, so there’s that..:
Does OpenAI do any non-LLM AI? Let's call API plugins non-AI.
Fortinet Warns of New FortiOS Zero-Day