skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aluminium trays, like that: https://www.emballagefute.com/img/plat-a-four-alu-sertissabl.... Yes, it’s non-reusable, pick your poison :/.
Exactly! If hospital systems are selling this, who is buying it? Health insurance companies. Then they can judge if they should still cover you or raise your rates.
So much doom and gloom... I'll bet most Americans here who think that the US is on the "brink" of whatever man-made economic or cultural disaster you can think of have never lived elsewhere. Things are still remarkably stable here compared with pretty much everywhere else.

The US will always be a kind of a mess given our relatively (to other large countries) decentralized government and the enormous cultural diversity, but I believe this is what gives us resiliency in the long run.
I think the question I have (and i could probably find it on my own) is whether the usg data was on generic cloud servers or were fedramp-certified or otherwise under any of the wide cloud-first certifications the USG is setting up to protect cloud resident data from these sorts of pilferings.
That's a poor analogy. The feature is built in to the cards that consumers bought, but Nvidia is disabling it via software. That's why a hacked driver can enable it again. The resident in your analogy is just freeloading off the contractor's transformer.

Nvidia does this so that customers that need that feature are forced to buy more expensive systems instead of building a solution with the cheaper "consumer-grade" cards targeted at gamers and enthusiasts.
The H-1B system is voluntary indentured servitude.

It’s well paid, especially by the standards of the source country. Employers love it. Visa applicants still find the prospect appealing, even if their experience may not be great.

But the power dynamics of the situation are not that different from what a migrant lettuce picker in California has to navigate. The lettuce picker actually might have more freedom.
Just my (probably unpopular) opinion: True AI (what they are now calling AGI) may never exist. Even the AI models of today aren't far removed from the 'chatbots' of yesterday (more like an evolution rather than revolution)...

...for true AI to exist, it would need to be self aware. I don't see that happening in our lifetimes when we don't even know how our own brains work. (There is sooo much we don't know about the human brain.)

AI models today differ only in terms of technology compared to the 'chatbots' of yesterday. None are self aware, and none 'want' to learn because they have no 'wants' or 'needs' outside of their fixed programming. They are little more than glorified auto complete engines.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not insulting the tech. It will have it's place just like any other, but when this bubble pops it's going to ruin lives, and lots of them.

Shoot, maybe I'm wrong and AGI is around the corner, but I will continue to be pessimistic. I am old enough to have gone through numerous bubbles, and they never panned out the way people thought. They also nearly always end in some type of recession.
Amazing work! Simple yet very useful.
French is a mess with some competlely useless form like gender for things, feelings...
> most of the students who pay these high tutution fees are sons and daughters of corrupt.

While there's some of that, at least in regards to China, I don't think that's broadly true. Chinese families are prodigious savers and value education very highly. Middle class households can pay those high tuition fees for their only child.
I work in CX, you should listen to your customers. Your gut got you this far, but to be a profitable company you are going to need to consider the advice and concerns of your stakeholders. Based on your current description, you have two stakeholders (yourself + customers).

If the venture fails, you will ask yourself if you listened enough. Be proactive, address concerns, do not put yourself in a defensive position. Embrace change, be agile, and most importantly listen to your feedback.

Wish Kagi nothing but success, I would very much like a disruptor in this space. Best of luck to you and your team.
> I am surprised that nobody mentioned Kagi Maps so far. To me this is the largest waste of energy possible, building an Apple/Google Maps competitor

Kagi maps seems to just be Apple maps otherwise I don't see why they would put Apple maps logo in the bottom left corner.
Really? First off, are they the stimulant variety? Secondly, was the dosage pretty low? Honestly that is nuts to me; I can’t imagine getting no whiff of a high without taking such a low dose that the meds do nothing.
I had a friend that was at 12 and counting. He was a pretty talented technologist too.
They aren't exactly linux firewalls, even if they run linux as management OS.

AFAIK the forwarding engine is custom(ized), and on physical devices some of them offload to FPGA - or at least they used to when I administrated some 2014~2016.

The management UI was in PHP :P
From the article:

> All surveyors should carry pepper spray for emergencies, whether they involve human or non-human animals. India is not for beginners, as the meme goes.
Indeed! All art is based in the visceral. No matter how heady a thing you try to put out, when people pick it up, they’re using their dirty little hands.
Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144329

A two-part answer:

From the Mechanical Engineering/Thermodynamic angle:

> Ultimately, I proved to myself that a heat pump could work down to an outside air temp of about 18°F [which is slightly above our 99th percentile design temp] with flow temps of 135°F, so an air source heat pump could work with slightly reduced comfort on about 2% of days or could work all the time with supplementation with a 9kW [30K BTU/hr] electric boiler.

From the commercial angle:

> What killed the project is no heat pump installer was interested in doing the work (as reflected by outright declining to bid, while bidding a 4-hour gas boiler swap, or by bidding so high that they might as well not have bid, while also cheerfully bidding a 4-hour gas boiler swap). So my house still burns gas for heat.

On the engineering front: I think the answer is often going to "<hissing inhale> It's going to be close; we should probably test it..."
The school has a budget that comes from property taxes (in most cases) that people tend to be resistant to raise.

Let's double the teachers' wages, but first you need to double the budget, and for that, need to first double the local property taxes.

Put doubling the property taxes on the next ballot and see if that passes. If not, there is no money to raise the wages for teachers.

Where wages can go up is when teachers move from a cost center to a profit center ... such as with a private school, though that is still limited by the amount that people are willing to pay to go there.

A local private high school (midwest - median household income is $75,000) is $16,000 per year with enrollment of about 500 students. You have $8M to use. There are 100 people on staff (this includes grounds and maintenance). Let's apply a broad stroke and say that this is 75 teachers and 25 kitchen, maintenance, grounds, and secretarial jobs. Pretending that all other expenses are $0 and that the non teaching staff is $0 also... $8M into 75 is $106k. That places an upper bound on the amount that teachers make there ... unless we raise that $16,000 tuition or find other revenue sources.
Caffeine can really be something. It can also be... basically nothing for folks. I am very curious to know if there are larger studies that can quantify some of this. And I emphatically do not mean that some people have tolerances to it. Though, I do expect that a large enough dose will impact anyone.

I suspect it is a lot like catnip. I think most people that have had cats have had situations where one of the cats just does not care about the stuff. At all. Versus many cats that get quite an extreme reaction to it.
You have some points re trade war, that is definitely a thing that is going on.

However, the on-shoring of chip production is especially for military strategic purposes. Right now a majority of chip fabs are all in Taiwan, and within striking range of a country that likes to rattle its sabers. Losing Taiwan's fabs would be a problem wrt military supply.
It's the exciting part of 5g everyone talks about despite its somewhat narrow application. I guess busy subway stations are a good fit as they have large numbers of people in a tiny area. And in larger stations you can deploy multiple cells with minimal overlap to split the load.
Autarky, not autocracy. It’s an economic goal of having an economy that can continue to operate fairly well even if foreign trade is restricted. It’s associated (perhaps not exclusively) with fascist movements, which emphasized national independence from the broader world.

(I don’t agree that hedging against potential action by a single major strategic adversary is a strong move toward autarky, however—if, say, Canada had tons of fabs instead of the precariously-perched Taiwan, I bet we’d not be spending so much money on them)
Note: devenv.sh is a sane wrapper around nix.

It's fairly straightforward to use. Running `devenv init` and then looking at the devenv.nix file should be all you need to know what to do.

Package names can be found by `devenv search $name`.
Ask HN: What's the most useful technical skill you've learned recently?
Global Protect is up there with Citrix Netscaler and Fortigate SSLVPN in the list of "secure" remote access products that no organization should be using without considering the fact that another easy RCE is going to come out roughly every 12 months and possibly lead to a ransomware incident.
We live in a water supply area with water one order of magnitude harder than anywhere else in our county.

I'm putting an RO unit in our kitchen to serve drinking and dishwasher needs. Our dishwasher needs descaling after a couple of months of normal use. Other uses (shower, toilets) aren't impacted by our super-hard water, so no RO for the whole house, mainly because of the water waste you note.
Maybe stop doing leetcode interviews and start doing interviews that measure whether or not the candidate can actually do the job?
Even if you don't use a thermal camera, just the thermal thermometers work as well. Sure, you have to take more readings, but the result is the same. A lot of people probably have one of these now after Covid, and can at least test things out before going to the step of a full thermal camera.

I have a bedroom that has a shared wall with a water heater which causes this room to be hotter than the rest of the house. Using the thermometer showed the temps after I added a barrier to the inside of the utility closest dropped significantly.
The Muppet Show was actually shot in the UK at Elstree Studios, produced by Lew Grade at ATV. It was syndicated globally, including to the US, but it was not actually an American show.
If you define pverty as earning less than 15 % of the median country wage and then pay 90 % of people 2 dollars a day and 10 % of the people infinity dollars a day you have no poverty by definition. Some variation of that is how every other system of government/economy has beaten poverty. There is no point engaging these people unless you are a psychiatrist trying to help them with their mental illness.
Depends what your walls look like inside. If it’s balloon framed with no blocking, you’ll have a good convection current inside the wall.

The moisture concerns when trying to add insulation to an old uninsulated house are real, in service of saving a few thousand dollars of heating costs you could literally destroy your house and your health with mold.
Apple M4 processor family tipped to deliver AI focus
The best approach is to treat it as a cache for reads. You do still need to have initialization logic to restore in-memory state from the KV store, but since that logic isn't run on the vast majority of requests, you can afford for that initialization logic to be more expensive.

There's also plenty of state (live cursor positions, for example) that you may want to have in-memory, but you don't want to be durable. The advantage of DOs is that you get to make that choice, instead of the platform insisting that any state passed on to the next invocation be stored durably outside the process.
I think they do have their own index but they are also heavily reliant on other search engines.
I think something like yoga or dance would qualify.

If you’re exclusively looking for things where you can put your hands on stuff then maybe a petting zoo?
“Struggle” at what? Struggle to have enough data to get smarter? Struggle to perform RAG and find legitimate sources?

I don’t think that we are going to get big improvements in LLMs without architecture improvements that need less data, and the current generation of models appears to be good enough at creating content from data/knowledge to train any future architectures we have with better synthetic datasets. Fortunately we have already seen examples of both of these “in the lab” and will probably see commercially sized models using some of the techniques in the coming months.
A big thing with ADHD is as society optimizes, there's less "unproductive" spaces for people to exist in.

I think of my own experience. I can focus long periods of time on something interesting that solves a problem, but when most work is simply business logic and reinventing the same uninteresting wheel at a desk for 40hrs a week, I feel like a caged animal and cannot focus whatsoever.

The behaviors associated with ADHD are quite literally anachronistic. The ability to take in a lot of stimuli and react on it would have been extremely useful during say, a hunter-gatherer time. Someone to try to figure out what those weird berries are useful for, fiddling with some sticks and ending up with a tool, etc.

We're really not meant to sit around all day being "productive".
Renovate isn't special with how it authenticates - you can run it as your own user ie https://github.com/jamietanna/oapi-codegen/pull/12 and Renovate runs against GitLab, Bitbucket and I believe other platforms too
So, you didn't read what I wrote, and defaulted to projection of your own lack of self-awareness and baseless insults. Actually, "subjectsigma" (really?), I think you'd be more at home on 4chan. Please stop lowering the quality of HN's comment section with the behavior I mentioned above.
The question is whether test scores as a measure of teacher quality is better than the next best alternative. The authors suggest that this would be seniority, but it could also be subjective measures like complaints from parents, likeability, and office politics.

I agree that there are problems with test-based evaluation, but overall I believe it's the least bad solution. It gives teachers a tangible incentive to figure out why what they're doing may not be working and try something different.
The article is paywalled, but isn't paying for videos the very opposite of "stealing" and "without compensating"?
For me the big advantage is that it integrates much easier with my development environment. For example if I have a language server for some programming language running in Docker, it’s not obvious to me how to make it talk to my editor on the host. I can expose a port but both the editor and the language server need access to the code base I’m working on. I can mount the code base as a volume but the language server gets confused about absolute paths that are not matching and stuff like this.
> This bacterium produces ethanol from sugar

you sound like it's bad, this is genius
I went to a State of the Map conference in Antwerp last year. For me it was fascinating, and not my normal type of crowd. A couple of things stuck out to me though.

It reminded me of the saying about libertarians: "Libertarians are like house cats. Completely dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate and fiercely confident of their own independence."

I love everything about openstreetmap, but it is completely dependent on the charity of Microsoft who donates the aerial/satellite images, which cost them millions. Without these images, there just would not be any openstreetmap at all. So while I appreciate the fiercely independent attitude of a lot of the OSM community, I also saw a lot of self-deception about how very dependent they are on these very large corporations, without whom they would have no source of data from which to make these maps.
also not repeatedly emailing when they've already asked you to stop might be worth considering maybe
I’m getting the impression that some people don’t know what they’re looking at. It says “Background: Two Micron All Sky Survey” which you can read about here [1]. This is not a live image. It’s just showing you where it’s pointing, which isn’t so meaningful for most of us. (It’s random-looking stars.)

You can read interesting details about the current observation at the top, though. Currently:

* A census of high-redshift kpc-scale dual quasars

* A 49 minute, 55 second observation.

There’s a link to the research proposal [2]

Apparently it’s a six-month survey of dual (possibly lensed) quasars. Gravitational lensing can cause magnification, distortion, and duplication of the image of whatever is behind it, so this is a way to learn more about very distant (early) quasars.

A quasar is a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, so this seems like a way to take lensed pictures of a lot of early galaxies?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MASS
[2] https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/program-informa...
The idea of Nix is great, implementation not so much. If everything you need is within their package/ecosystem then things will go fine. But God help you if you want to run some binary that isn't in their package manger, the amount of time in effort and struggle to get a simply binary to run is absolutely insane.
Great counter-example to what is absolutely the culprit: wealth inequality. However, the ruling class and those who accept their legitimacy will never accept this explanation.
This is not true. If you commit fraud you will be punished.

The problem however is that Congress refuses to fund USCIS.

For example, until a few years ago, USCIS was incapable of taking digital payments because Congress refused to fund any digitization efforts for over 2 decades.

They’ve still only allowed this only at the margins, so applications are not digitized. They exist in massive boxes of documents in basements. So they don’t even know who’s applied and how many times they’ve applied.
In my experience most folks either use their parents' savings or take bank loans. Sample size in the dozens. Stop generalizing this unsubstantiated crap.
Yeah, I agree

I tried doing leetcode for a while but basically just get bored of it

My brain is wired to solve problems and puzzles, but not in isolation. Removed of context I just can't convince myself there's any value in it and I bounce off just as you describe
And those 2% interest rates?
You don't hold it all cash. You stick most of it in investments and let long-term market trends smooth out day-to-day volatility. It's easy enough to cash out non-retirement investments in case you have need for a big expense like a home purchase or riding out longer-duration job loss.

For the bit of cash you do hold onto, that's a buffer against random short-term life events: home and car repairs, medical expenses, etc.

If you spend all your money down, your life becomes brittle to everyday shocks. Money buys security: you can actually make plans and stick to plans if you have a financial cushion. It's the opposite of precarity.
Tomorrow's FBI Mixer
The Middle East has been a festering conflict zone since before even most boomers were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arab%E2%80%93Is...
I feel like those last two rules would make the puzzle impossible to solve for most sets of inputs. E.g. in [3, 2, 1] all possible splits are illegal.
Read the GP comment...
the "right" "AI" UX will, in all likelihood, be something like a BCI.
Anyone make/is it feasible to make: a window unit heat pump?
> What would I get using a web client like Phanpy?

You can use it in a browser.
Listmonk: Newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard
"Kagi does no paid advertising"

I remember Daniel King's PowerPlayChess channel recently started promoting Kagi, doesn't this count as paid advertising or is this deal something else?
Apple Signal of AI Intent Unleashes $112B Stock Surge
I never read up on the details of the case. It may well be that she had some complication, that prevented the process from moving forward.

I knew a guy that had a Korean wife, legally in the US, but had been, many, many years earlier, swept up in a human trafficking thing.

That made getting citizenship difficult. Twice victimized.
Brexit - a key member left. Ukraine and energy crisis - EU's biggest member(s) depended on Russia for their energy in spite of warnings.

Rise of far right in Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Italy, France, ..

Which is itself in response to the bungled handling of the Syrian refugee crisis.
octopus energy seems to be the best for energy i have seen so far in the uk alongside their smart tariffs https://share.octopus.energy/umber-squid-619
IMO it makes no sense to arrest someone and send them to jail for walking in the street not the sidewalk. Give them a ticket, make them pay a fine, sure, but force them to live in a cage with no access to communications, entertainment, or livelihood? Insane.

Taxes may be necessary, though I can't help but feel that there must be a better way that we have not been smart enough to find yet. Conscription... is a fact of war, where many evil things must be done in the name of survival.

Regardless of our views on the ethical validity or societal value of these laws, I think their very existence shows that the government believes it "owns" us in the sense that it can unilaterally deprive us of life, liberty, and property without our consent. I don't see how this is really different in kind from depriving us of the right to make and own certain kinds of hardware. They regulated crypto products as munitions (at least for export) back in the 90s. Perhaps they will do the same for AI products in the future. "Common sense" computer control.
Pieter Hintjens who started ZeroMQ, advocated for 'optimistic merging' as a strategy to encourage community & project building [1] (prev discussed in [2]). For all of the benefits listed it does open it up to lower quality or malicious merges.

[1] http://hintjens.com/blog:106
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39880972
Ran into this as well: I did [8, 1, 4] -> [5, 3, 1, 4] -> [5, 3, 5].
A friend of mine in Brazil had a whole home filtration system (not RO) that even had a UV sterilizer at the end!
This is not even close to reality.

The reality is that the cap was set in the early 90s at a time where it far exceeded the need and hasn’t been touched since then.

And domestic needs have increased while Congress refuses to pass any reform and certainly not increase the cap.

A lottery is the only legal way USCIS can act to distribute the number of visas set in the early 90s to the obviously much greater need in the 2020s.
Any idea of DDP perf?
I sometimes recommend Faul, "The Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans"
"Dynamic programming" is jargon from competitive programming. It sounds a lot more sophisticated than it is.

In reality, it is nothing more than memoization of function calls into an array.
I wonder if there’s a middle ground between interrupting constantly whenever you have a problem and wasting days searching for a solution?