skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is that such weather is not survivable long term [1] without air conditioning

I seriously doubt it. I grew up in an area that frequently hit 35C with close to 100% humidity, and I didn't even have an electronic fan before 9 years old. And multiple cities with 10s of millions people had the similar condition too. It was not pleasant but let me assure you, more people died of cold than heat, orders of magnitude more. In a poor country, or an Asian country more than 100 years ago, 10s of thousands of people in a single city would die in a snowy winter. Not having air conditioner? Seriously, that's a first-world problem.
Facebook is an enemy of the people, therefore we should not ban TikTok? Is there any meaningful sense in which Facebook is an enemy of the people, but TikTok isn't? Didn't think so. Facebook may in fact be an enemy of the people, in the sense that it does damage to those who become addicted to social media. But TikTok is no better, and maybe worse.

And, "the enemy of the people"? That was what a communist dictatorship said when they wanted to charge somebody, but didn't have any actual laws to do it with. I find that phrase disturbing in the mouth of the man who aspires to head a democracy that is governed by the rule of law.
I'm not disagreeing, but this answer is ironic considering how Ilya Sutskever once used detective work as a way to describe the relationship between LLMs and "understanding":

"So, I’d like to take a small detour and to give an analogy that will hopefully clarify why more accurate prediction of the next word leads to more understanding, real understanding. Let’s consider an example. Say you read a detective novel. It’s like complicated plot, a storyline, different characters, lots of events, mysteries like clues, it’s unclear. Then, let’s say that at the last page of the book, the detective has gathered all the clues, gathered all the people and saying, “okay, I’m going to reveal the identity of whoever committed the crime and that person’s name is”. Predict that word. Predict that word, exactly. My goodness. Right? Yeah, right. Now, there are many different words. But predicting those words better and better and better, the understanding of the text keeps on increasing. GPT-4 predicts the next word better."
Does the book add significant new ideas or is it just more explicit about the consequences? I generally love scifi for the ideas much more so than for story and am torn between the book and the short story.
I always refuse to do everything except load and start dishwashers, if I filled it, take the trash out. I have 15 reviews, ALL positive.
A beginner's guide to managing Kubernetes resources in Python with kr8s
If you rent an apartment in my neck of the woods, then this is exactly what the law is. If your landlord charges a cleaning fee you can feel free to let them clean it up at the end of the rental period.
I amusingly reject a ton of the lead in. Though, my rejection starts with the idea that there is a conceivable total ordering of essays. Heck, for that matter, I question if there is even a stable ordering of essays in a topic. Seems that what helps make an essay good for today may not be what lets it be a good essay for tomorrow.

And that isn't even getting into things like "must tell you something you didn't know." By that, I can never find an essay that I've read before to be great? Or to learn from one I have already read before, but from a different perspective?

Will be fun to read more of what others hear in this essay. I suspect I should give more credence to the idea of the best essay for today. And each day can be another search for today's winning entry.
smells like snake oil. will probably end up becoming a cryptocurrency scam? or some other grift? time will tell.

>Extropic is also building semiconductor devices that operate at room temperature to extend our reach to a larger market.

funny stuff
There's 13 search engines in a dozen if you only want book title or author. What's lacking is a search index of the content of e-books. Something that will soon be incredibly important in the face of generative AI. Somebody here on HN told me it only takes a laptop to index the content of millions of books, while other people say the scope is almost impossible.

Is there any project working on this?
Most definitely not. If you're jailbroken, you can set an automation to delete the /var/ folder and soft brick your phone (until you re-flash it with iTunes).

You could also set up your passcode so it clears your phone after a few wrong attempts, then purposely enter the wrong passcode.

At best, physically crush your phone in a way that destroys the logic board.
Your recipe for investigative skills also sounds a lot like science. Even today, the various chat bots can formulate theories and test protocols. I don't see anything that puts any of that out of reach.
This is not an argument. This is essentially you saying "Why doesn't everyone agree with me, because I am self-evidently right?".

It's basically a store-brand argumentum ad verecundiam, casting yourself in the position of authority.

It should be obvious by now that there are many, many people who disagree with you without their arguments necessarily being "ridiculous".

I mean, I too would enjoy it if everyone agreed with all my opinions all the time, but I don't expect that to actually happen.
Out of the box solutions ftw
"Guys we need to protect our covert agents, fake the data"
They have also manipulated drug test results. Turns out the lab tech was snorting up all the "standards", which are used to calibrate the machines. Then the tech faked the calibration of the machines.
I get an itemized bill from the grocery store, but that doesn't make it a scam.
Vacation style rentals are generally crappy properties, whether on Airbnb or otherwise.

I think Airbnb has become worse as these types of properties have become common on the platform. The best experiences on Airbnb are, and have always been, people's personally owned homes.
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> Younger people are talking about the pro-palestine / anti-zionist views promoted in the app as a reason that lawmakers are so motivated this time.

There are a lot of pro-zionists views promoted on the app as well. But in tiktok's defense, zuckerburg's properties, alphabet properties, reddit, etc lean heavily in favor of pro-zionist content because those companies are officially in bed with public and private zionist organizations.

> Wild speculation, of course.

Think it has more to do with anti-china views more than anything. But zionist influence definitely plays some role here.
> One thing I learned as amateur EE is to always use just one hand to probe the device under test

I was taught to use the back of my hand to avoid gripping the damn thing and never letting go.
does that have any off device capability? I see sending to url, etc, wondering if there is a preferred server app that makes office device backing up/displaying/etc automatic and easy.
Yes, we use an API layer on top of PrinceXML with additional polyfills to support modern features. This is a meh solution but it allowed us to iterate quickly and get to work with customers without building a full blown PDF engine firsthand. However building this engine ourselves is the key to reduced latency and overall better feature support. But we need to engage with our users first and see exactly where we should head first :)
> do we think that getting people to convert from ICE to EVs will only view fast charging as a convenience? or will they view it as a necessity?

As an example, if I were to buy an EV, fast charging would absolutely be a necessity. I couldn't charge at home, so I'd have to use commercial charging stations. Carving out a large block of time to devote to charging would be a nonstarter, and it's something I'd have to do without fast charging. I don't spend enough time parked doing shopping and the like to make it possible to rely on those times to do my charging.
That only works if the water pipelines are underground and all the above-ground plumbing is shaded. If the water heats up on its way to the faucet it's useless.
In the example the user has to create the schema and manually open the SQLite connection, can't you abstract that away?
Hmm, taking this in the opposite direction, what if you stop relying on water for evaporative cooling?

What if I cover myself in alcohol or gasoline some other easily-vaporized substance? Would that still evaporate at a satisfactory rate when the wet bulb temperature is high?
Anything Chinese in the news gets pulled into the current zeitgeist of anti-China fear.

If that's also useful for undercutting competition or scoring some other political/economic points, you can pretty much count on it.
This was definitely easier to follow.

Since they're building a special-purpose accelerator for a certain class of models, what I'd like to see is some evidence that those models can achieve competitive performance (once the hardware is mature). Namely, simulate these models on conventional hardware to determine how effective they are, then estimate what the cost would be to run the same model on Extropic's future hardware.
If it just needs a sweep, or if some party animal trashed it?
I feel like a grumpy old guy every time I read about AirbedAndBreakfast, because that is how it was initially pitched on this site. If people would just keep thinking of it as a way to get an airbed and sleep on someone’s floor, they would have appropriate expectations.

I’ve never used the service, because I prefer real beds cleaned as required by the local health department.
> Do you believe that the economic progress of the last century wasn't worth a 1-2 degrees in temperature rise?

Unfair as it is, the last two degrees were less impactful than the next two will be. In the short term, the positives will still outweigh the costs. But in the long run, it’s not clear—particularly for tropical countries—that the gains will be worth the cost.
Value creation and value capture are often misaligned for founders. In a nutshell, stories like these are why we're building out TXF - a fund for founders to invest with their equity. Structured as a fund with a diligence process to ensure quality. Hoping to make venture capital a little fairer for founders.

If anyone's interested...https://docsend.com/view/dtrtu8y7eczki9dz
Lawyers.

I think AI can possibly replace lawyers, but the powerful people in society will do all they can to prevent it.
Cleaning fees exist to charge a fixed fee for a reservation, regardless of the number of days. There's more overhead for a reservation beyond just "cleaning".

The most consumer friendly thing would be for AirBnB to just explicitly have a fixed "stay" fee and a per-day fee.

That said, AirBnB's site shows the total cost for a stay when browsing, so I don't really see this as particularly deceptive. I don't care how the host itemizes the bill as long as I know what I'm paying when selecting a place.
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It's a scam when the cleaning fee is as much as the advertised nightly rate, and they require me to clean everything still.
Yeah I've often forgotten and left my ipad on cellular or my phone non-aircraft-moded. No one has ever said anything so it's unlikely they have automatic detection.
"TPUs" are a Google-only product, available* only on GCP.

* Notwithstanding the Choral boards
People not turning on the airplane mode on their devices while in a plane. Sometimes they check (never happened to me though, but I avoid flying).
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The heavy hand of God: Europe's brutalist churches – in pictures
But they have the tech to collect the data and make extra cash by selling it and making you an Amazon driver in your own car. So if they can, they will. Unless there’s something to stop them. Which in the absence of their goodwill would be legislation.

Unfortunately legislation representing anything other than big money interests is difficult and rare to pass.
Some forms of art will be more protected than others. Think of somebody who builds unique artwork by hand 100% from random wood and other material found in the nature. Good luck having AI robots pick those from the wilderness, put them together, or 3D print a fake one that looks exactly like a real thing.
Really went downhill when I spun off.
Yes, our focus is on programmatic interactions with PDFs, form filling is on our roadmap, alongside programmatic digital signature and many more.
Funny name! The reason I find it funny is I know some people who made Doconce: https://github.com/doconce/doconce :D
> it remains a symbol of a modern approach to architecture and design.

As if that's a good thing. I see someone else has already referenced "From Bauhaus to Our House."

The bottom line is just this: Bauhaus is ugly. It does not uplift people's spirits and it does not make us happy. The authors inadvertently give the best argument against it:

> Many also believed that only dedicated craftsman, with their hands-on approach, could produce the highest quality work. They argued that machine production inevitably led to a decline in aesthetic quality. Furthermore, they contended that individuals surrounded by such unattractive surroundings lacked an appreciation for beauty.
> It could pretty easily be rolled into the advertised nightly rate.

No it can't because the hosts are trying to charge a fixed fee per reservation.
I've been working on a Python client library for Kubernetes for a while now called kr8s that I'm hoping folks will find much simpler than other libraries out there. It's designed to feel more like using kubectl in Python rather than prodding the Kubernetes API directly.

I wrote up a getting started tutorial to try and show off the user experience. Happy to answer any questions!
Was expecting better battery life with 5nm->3nm, but it doesn't appear to be the case sadly. Logic board in the lid & more room in bottom case for battery could boost to 24hrs hopefully in the future.
If you’re right and no such evidence exists, seems the original article is an entirely false accusation?

On your new topic, I doubt Microsoft would risk their multi-billion/year cloud business complying with illegal requests from the US government.

And there’s a relevant execution order signed by President Biden in 2022: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I can report that the science is pretty solid.

35° at 70% (your peak today) is wet-bulb 29.8°.

45° at 20% (desert) is wet-bulb 24.3°.

32° at 100% is wet-bulb 31.8°.

At 100% sweating is useless. You can't lose heat through evaporation.

https://www.mit.edu/~eltahirgroup/calTW.html
NVIDIA's profit margin is almost 92% on an H100. I'm surprised more chip companies haven't jumped on a "ML accelerator" bandwagon by now.
Why would customers even put up with this type of abuse? I don't get it. Just stay somewhere else. If I'm staying with a friend or relative for free then I'm happy to pitch in with household chores, but if I'm paying then screw that. I honestly can't understand why anyone would use AirBnB when there are so many better options available.
Think capitalism is terrible? This economist says it's already dead
You can store SQL queries in views that you can version in Git. In "enterprise" databases like Postgres, Oracle and MSSQL, you can also store statements in procedures/functions that you can also store in Git. We also do Git based migration scripts that create new / update existing views, tables, procedures, data, etc. This happens automatically on test servers and can be rolled out to production.

It is somewhat tricky to build such an infrastructure and differs from "traditional" backend software, but it is what it is with Databases that heavily rely on state. The benefit is that you save a lot of bandwidth when you process the data on the machine where they live, and the architecture of the IT landscape is way simpler.
I don't know about the AI aspect, but this sounds perhaps related to probabilistic finance simulations (Black-Scholes, Heston, etc). I've heard rumors that these types of simulations account for an obscene amount of compute at AWS
> If you want live collaboration on a document,

I have never wanted that ever. There are wikis with markdown for that.

> Integration with AI

AI still creeps me out to this day. Why would I want Microsoft to ingest my documents to train their next gen AI blackbox on it? Besides, the only thing AI can do is take the information the document has, and say it with more words.

> if you want your employees not to have Word installed

Got it, package management is still busted, and MS is disincentivised from fixing it.
We're using Gotenberg[1] to convert a rendered web page (with Elixir/Phoenix, in our case) to PDF. Works like a charm and we can use our existing frontend code/styling (including SVG graph generators) which is a huge bonus.

1: https://gotenberg.dev/
> if it's not codified in law it doesn't exist and therefore cannot be a part of people's vernacular

Within the context of lawmaking, for social constructs like ownership, absolutely. It’s sort of like starting with legality when writing drug regulations; outside the lawmaking context, that makes sense, within it, it’s nonsense.

I’m not saying never use the word ownership in common parlance. But when discussing a new law, yes, it pays to be precise. Because starting from ownership will result in a law that is ineffective or misdirected.
I'm all for growth for the tropics. Developed countries have to all chip in so that they grow with green electricity grids and no fossil fuels.
Took them 15 years to replace cashiers with a touch screens in McDonald's.

"AI" still can't drive a car.
Insomnium is a fork without all the signup requirement bs
If you're a starving artist, AI poses absolutely no threat to your position.
It also never happened to me, but I heard of stories, where the stewardess walked around with one.

But they might have gotten less paranoid about it(since nothing ever happened?). Chances of bad interference are probably very low.
Amazing, is there anywhere I can follow along to find out when form filling will be available?
Prostitution.

Pornography is doomed, but we're a long way from realistic physical sex robots, AI powered or otherwise.
There are properties with openly visible cameras in the interior, which are typically pointed at reasonable locations to watch (like the front door), but being inside, they could potentially be listening to conversations that they don't really need to be. Those cameras should really be on the exterior of the property. This fixes that.
> This is the same mistake college Marxists and libertarians make. You can't imagine some kind of idealized society, cherry pick principles and ideas from it, plop them into the real world, and then expect it to magically turn out the way you imagine. The result is almost never what you think.

Keeping everything as it is, never even imagining change, is just as bad though - because eventually change will come and then it will just steamroll over everything.

The current best example of such an outside change is AI technology - no matter its dubious origins (=widespread scraping of content), it is hugely disrupting already. And prior to that, we had Covid and the resultant drop in office rents that led to urban planners and CRE investors being in a really massive clusterfuck.
Not the author, but I imagine most projects already have a way of managing their SQLite schema (e.g. a migration system like go-migrate or goose) that they'd integrate the new table(s) into.
That may be the case for some art, but self-expression is not something I strive for in my own art. Just to list one example.
Do you think everyone already has basements?
Keynote by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at 2024 Siepr Economic Summit
One important caveat to all these methods is that the central limit theorem must hold for the sample means and this is an empirical condition, not something you can know statistically.

Another important caveat: many things we want to measure are not well-distributed to allow the CLT to hold. If it doesnt, the bulk of statistical methods don't work and the results are bunk.

Many quantities follow power-law distributions which would require trillions+ data points for the CLT to do its magic, ie., for the sample means of set A to be statistically-significantly different from set B would require 10^BIG if the property measured in A/B is powerlaw distributed.

Now, even worse: many areas of "science" study phenomena which is almost certainly power-law distributed, and use these methods to do so.
We actually provide helpers to do that in our React library https://react.onedoclabs.com/components/shell#pagebreak

CSS actually implements the break-before property to control this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-befor... which is also supported by the Print to PDF dialog in modern browsers.
I made something extremely similar, but lighter weight awhile ago: https://github.com/chiefnoah/goalpost

It uses bbolt/bolt instead of sqlite. It was for use on shared servers that had questionable uptime.

I haven't touched it in a long time, but it served its purpose well
> I hope we can find a path to a post-scarity, Star Trek world, where people can pursue passions without worrying about marketability and whether "AI" whatever will replace you.

*Shakes AI Magic 8 Ball* “Outlook not so good”.

The people with money are more concerned with dreaming about bunkers managed robots than solving any real actionable problems.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60165391

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJQEAI_KE0

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
We have a cleaner come in for a 1900 SQ ft place in SF and it costs $250.
You absolutely can ask information if it wants to be free. It is a fundamental fact of our universe that classical information is perfectly copyable and un-scarce. Information doesn't just "want" to be free, information MUST be free, and changing that reality takes EXTRA effort and work and artificial constraints.
I think this is a solid point. Google Analytics is a killer tool for website admins, and using _some_ kind of enhanced logging/parsing tool like this saves a ton of time over building your own solution or manually reviewing logs.

That said, I am still quite opposed to js that tracks users across the internet for advertisement purposes. I do use ad blockers despite the fact they block a lot of less-harmful tracking by default, which I don't love, but it's too much work to differentiate between. (At least adblock users are the minority of internet users in general, so hopefully Analytics users still get enough data to be helpful for their purposes.)
> there's enough control that 3rd party entities are dictating with 100% success what an owner can do with the vehicle

Your key term here is control. When discussing a new rule, that is what you focus on. Use the word ownership when selling the rule, sure. My point is rules drafted starting from ownership tend to be trivial to circumvent. Because they presume ownership is a natural state when it is a social construct.
One hack you can do is tell the host you have a disability and will not be able to carry out those tasks.
How does a robot have real emotions? Aren't they fake by definition?

By charisma I mean in the sense of higher-level sociopolitical organization, like being a manager at a company or giving a public speech – useful skills in the job market that will continue to be useful. Not serving french fries. A smiling robot isn't going to inspire or convince a human being of anything.

Regardless, the idea that a robot smiling is somehow "more charismatic" than a human being is absurd. People read too much sci-fi.