skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only answer the phone now if I know the caller or if I’m expecting a call, and even then I would usually let it go to voicemail and call them back.
> Those figures are for the unit itself.

No.

> What matters is the SCOP for the system as a whole.

That's exactly what my numbers are.

They are the efficiencies for moving the heat-energy from the outside air into the inside air, assuming constant 20 degrees celcius indoor temperature and a specifically weighted outdoor temperature (there are multiple types of SCOPs, depending on the climate-zone and I was refering to the moderate one as it is present in most of middle Europe).

Whether you transfer the heat from the outside air (or some other medium) into the indoor air or into the indoor water does not matter - except that for the latter, you will need to consider that the water has to still transfer the heat to the indoor air, so you need to know how hot the water will have to be to calculate the SCOP correctly for your house.

> In a traditional Victorian house with a fireplace in every room, radiant heat will provide far greater efficiency than a forced air system, in which all of that warm air will literally go straight up the chimney.

What kind of "efficiency" are you even talking about? Can you please provide a definition and some example calculation? Otherwise it's meaningless to discuss.
Good for you. Still doesn't answer gp's question. Why do we have to create a central account?
You forgot one thing: data entry. It is far more convenient to type tabular data in a spreadsheet app than in a REPL. I use it for simple SQL data, too. As Python coder I use visidata. Provides also fast and convenient aggregations etc.

And, btw, if you search for "distraction free writing",you will find that even some non-coders use vim.
A collection of easy-to-use web tools for all your audio files
> chainsaw

yes… YES
> the context menu contains a loading spinner

How the fuck is that possible, permissible, tolerated?

Another example. I am looking for a different file browser because Dolphin waits while something happens when I select a bunch of files and right-click. I know that it is downloading something very slowly because I can see the network activity but I have no idea why.
That may be true (for now) for web apps, but what if you serve your app/game as a desktop app, for example with tauri?
I'm okay with robot voices, tbh. The neural voices need modern hardware, and there is latency even then, together with some artifacts. Especially when speeding through a known screens I prefer responsiveness over fidelity or other nicities.
this is a 200+ minute video--any guidanc?
It's likely because people enjoy the benefits AI brings in their current form. I honestly cannot imagine my life now without gpt4/claude as it saves me hours writing shell scripts and transforming vaguely structured data.

Edit: yes it does make mistakes, but it takes vastly shorter amount of time to find them rather than writing something from scratch.
>The law

I like how confidently you say that as if "the law" was something universal
I mean... Not doing illegal stuff is kinda by default?
true, my point being that "printf not working" is nothing to do with FreeRTOS.
The problem is, so many "soft skills" are things you can claim to have—and maybe even think you have—but can't actually be meaningfully tested in an interview setting.

Things like leadership, creativity, collaboration, ability (and drive) to learn new things quickly.

Basically the only ones you have a chance at demonstrating in an interview are communication (within limited parameters) and problem-solving (assuming the hiring team knows how to put together a problem that's well-calibrated for the type of candidate they actually want). And even those can easily be thrown off by the extremely high pressure of an interview.
Ask the Brits.
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
You've missed the plot.

People have always had to live where there is access to water.

It's that the water where people decided to live decades or even centuries ago is starting to disappear due to a variety of factors (population growth, overuse, natural cycles, and yes, climate change).

This then leads to a variety of short term instability and social issues like mass migrations and conflict because humans need water.
Custom-Width Integer Types
I used Eclim (https://github.com/emacs-eclim/emacs-eclim) for a bit, but I'm guessing, like the sibling comment said, that the current preferred solution would be to use LSP.
Could you explain the URL name?
They have machines that try every combination. (For example: https://blog.enbewe.de/2023/01/26/opening-a-safe-the-diy-way... )

If you know how many digits and the Left-Right pattern, wouldn’t this be the best way to do this, assuming you have a week to run it?
Resistance againt Linky was legit, and avoided important breaches to privacy.
I’m in Canada and get maybe a couple scam calls a month
Otherwise Apple risks their online properties getting blocked and iOS devices becoming useless because of how iOS assumes it can always access Apple servers.
Samsung launches 61.44TB SSD, talks about a 122.88TB model
the model running here is stable diffusion xl
The definition of irony.
Streamline your codebase with universal decorators
I created a python package that allows you to apply decorators or meta-classes universally. I found the idea interesting and could imagine that this can be useful to ensure guidelines throughout the codebase. I am wondering if people here find it useful too - and what applications come to your mind.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/once-and-for-all/
Reddit-Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1dvvxdg/question_ar...
I see. I don't have that many problems with apps anymore now that Google is trying to push the tablet market again.

Samsung used to support running real Linux instead of Dex but that project was cancelled unfortunately. I don't have many problems with modern Android Dex, though, at least not ones that I also have with Windows on laptops.
I'm sure benefitting energy companies is the real reason... but if everyone had a battery backup and they all started charging at the same time, I suppose it could make it harder to reboot the system after an outage.
That may be, but the fact remains that the Colorado is over-allocated by some ridiculous amount, and the states and Mexico are arguing over it. Some non-zero amount is spent making e.g. Las Vegas and Phoenix more water-efficient to help alleviate the issue.
A Reply To Francois Chollet On Intelligence Explosion (2017)
[2010]

And human male - it's not about avian bachelors impressing lady ornithologists.
Email is for the mods only. you'd have to add it to About.
Agree...

As an embedded developer for over 25 years, I would never use the provided hardware abstractions from one particular vendor.
Typically, you use your own abstraction layer over multiple vendors BSPs/OS/libraries.

One of the driving principles behind embedded software is minimalism because you pay real money for every byte and cycle. That leads you to creating minimal abstractions for your particular use case that still gives you the flexibility that is also often required (multiple sources for processors for example).
Rolling your own swapcontext() is not that hard on Cortex-M0 and Pico SDK let's you override couple macros to hook into its locking code.
In 1999 we bought a house. It had a locked safe embedded in a wall and the seller did not know the combination - the house had belonged to his parents who had passed away.
When we started remodeling the house we used a jackhammer to pry the safe from the wall, planning to discard it. But, in a moment of inspiration, I loaded the safe on a pickup truck and took it to a local locksmith to see if he could open it. The locksmith took a walk around the safe and reported "the combination is xxL,yyR,zzL." I was astonished. Until he showed me the secret: there was a piece of paper taped to the back of the safe.
Hitler has been influential too. And also Stalin, and many other bloody “influencers”.

Virtually Everything in Capital is an artificial made up nonsense, starting from the basic premise of class struggle being the root cause of economic dynamics.

I know that both from experience growing up in one of shitty socialist countries and from talking to professional economists with various backgrounds.
If you dump it into an evaporation pond, you can pick up all the minerals and metals left behind such as lithium.
Man I get vertigo reading this. Reminds me of trying to understand Java constructors and object initialisation.

It’s been a while now, and at least in my experience so far Go and Rusts choice of not having special constructors really simplifies a lot.

Is there anyone that’s had the experience of missing constructors once you swapped away from them?
Firefly Aerospace has entered an agreement to launch from northern Sweden
We know that tech adoption follows an s-curve that is only exponential in the lower parts. No-one is claiming truly unbounded exponentials for these techs.

The thing is that they have been exponential so far. clean energy forecasts based on linear trends, not on doubling of installations or on halving of prices have been consistently too pessimistic.

We can expect this to continue for a short while longer, until inflection points are reached.
Paul Meehl's Philosophical Psychology
I don't know what this is meant to prove or disprove, I can only assume the constant urge to compare human beings with LLMs has simply become a pathological drive at this point. Yes, humans are capable of reproducing copyrighted text verbatim, as are LLMs, and when they do, as with LLMs, it is copyright infringement and plagiarism.

An irreducible and unavoidable tendency towards committing copyright infringement and plagiarism are not features one generally wants in either a human author or a piece of software.
Heh, I was not being sarcastic, I just meant that the article seems to be at least as much about waiting for/predicting the right conditions as it is about the boat. Certainly before this article I understood the concept of not taking off for a sail in the middle of a storm, but it never occurred to me that setting a trans-Atlantic record required finding/predicting a weather system that would: 1. provide just the right conditions for maximum speed sailing 2. itself move across the Atlantic at a pace the boat could match, so as not to fall out of it.
So, because Assange is not dead, he must be a “proxy Russian foreign intelligence operation”?
*Scientific Reports article
Lost vials of smallpox found in a lab store room (2014)
I am sorry you are ignorant enough to not see how Michigan lake size solar panels field is fundamentally different from a parking lot of same size.

I don’t argue with stupid people, sorry.
A stationary car is not going to cause a crash. Inattention from drivers might be why the speed is too high, but ultimately it's the vehicle moving at a speed at which there is insufficient time to mitigate any problems that results in crashes.
> I've read somewhere that half of googles datacenter energy consumption is ai

I can't find that figure, or what's being included in it: major Google products like Search and Translate are AI (since at least ~2018, depending on your definition of AI) and have huge numbers of users - I think it'd be hard to deny their utility.

> Its not just about one query [...]

To be clear, I didn't calculate that "one query" was equivalent to a cup of coffee - it was a year's worth of someone's LLM usage.

> Also, there's that pesky training that is hugely expensive on electricity.

I don't believe the coffee comparison took into consideration the one-off costs either, like manufacturing of your coffee machine, but let's consider the amortized emissions of training anyway:

500 tons of CO2[0] over 200,000,000 users[1] means 0.0025kg of CO2 per user, barely shifting from the figure of inference alone. Again, rough calculation - would be lower per-user if taking into account API/3rd-party users, but then higher taking into account more model versions.

Realistically, I don't think someone's CO2 emissions on the order of 0.4kg, whether that's coffee, video streaming/rendering, LLM usage, or so on, should take so much of the focus while we have, for instance, celebrities emitting 8,000,000kg a year[2] from private jets.

[0]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ai-internet-carbon-fo...

[1]: https://a16z.com/how-are-consumers-using-generative-ai/

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/EP0Gbtk.jpeg
Thank you for your thoughtful reply @Darmani. Best of luck with your current and future endeavors!
After almost 20 years of experience with C++, there are still some gnarly details I wouldn't have imagined. What a God awful language!

Kudos to that author for the great, eye catching title and the in depth detail!
> Spreadsheets have a much wider acceptance

I know. Most people don't know how to code, thus they are forced to use spreadsheets as I already mentioned.

> spreadsheets have a lower threshold to pure data

I'm not sure what you mean here. That it is easier for the average human to work with data using a spreadsheet compared to code?

Sure, as already mentioned. Most people don't know how to code.

But what I'm getting at is that a spreadsheet is the poor mans code.

And if you audience is coders (not the whole world), then why go for the worse option?
Maybe you need to branch out to using https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/ instead of this?
Overconfidence as an Interpersonal Strategy [pdf]
In full HD description there is a typo: change 30 to 60 fps as it is shown in points under.
Exactly, you can't "bypass" poorly mastered audio.

Nor can anyone hear the difference between a 16bit and a 24bit file, all else being equal.
Simply not true for the UAE with numerous dams and they are also refilling aquifers to store water.
> hypothesis that unable

this should read "hypothesis was unable". we regret the error. those responsible have been sacked
there are some big assumptions here.

that you own a garage, that your electric bill is in your name, that your driving distance makes this worth it, that your other electric consumption is small and so on. It works for you, that's great but something you didn't mention is the higher on-peak rate.

If you have electric heating or need to charge your EV during the day, the increased rate there can easily offset your overnight rate savings.
I don't know why ThreadX isn't mentioned more frequently in these lists. It's relatively simple to use and understand.
The key point is that an insulated house acts as a heat/cold storage device, so it's like buying booze and pouring it into a (slightly leaky) bucket during happy hour, to drink later. Even if you loose a bit to the leaks, you're still saving money overall by buying the booze when it's cheap.
That's wrong in more than one way IMO.

While vi might be a code editor first and foremost, not all vi users are coders. There are copy writers, academic and literature, having a need for fast and focussed touch typing (George R. R. Martin comes to mind as prominent WordStar user). The entire point of SGML/XML/HTML markup is to be able to create rich text documents without binary formats and special editors; this is also the case with Wiki syntaxes like markdown, which have been around since long before John Gruber's original Markdown.PL and are directly supported as a shortref customisation in SGML, from 1986, BTW.

Conversely, even if you are a coder, classic spreadsheets are extremely useful for any type of ad-hoc reproducible calculation (such as for taxes or other personal or business finance stuff). You really should check out spreadsheets if you haven't already; the point is that you can cross-reference cell values and copy/paste with relative cell positions to create large calculation tables/matrices, then update base values and perform "what-if" analyses, etc. etc. Using cell formulas is more like a logical programming language environment. I've used it for all kinds of reports apart from financials (benchmarks, construction/project planning, even a Tic Tac Toe game in school out of boredom).
This is what we need.

"Processed foods are bad", which doesn't distinguish between different kinds of processing, food, additives, etc. is no use to anyone. Explaining which processes make food bad is actually actionable.
The post isn't merely opinion, as a reply to that post says:

> FYI, the parent post appears to have been posted by Mike Paquette, who designed/wrote a good part of Quartz. His post is more than "+5 Informative", it should be "+10 Reference".

> See a previous post of mine[0] for references to Usenet posts from Mr. Paquette.

[0] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=74909&cid=6713070
A language shouldn't be this complicated. This is dangerous and impossible for teams full of juniors and busy people with deadlines. We're only human.
> I really wish we had an interoperability protocol that allowed me to combine the data sets locked in each app

There already are some established ones, e.g., https://www.ogc.org/standard/wfs/

It's widely used in the GIS field, but unfortunately not adopted by the most popular consumer apps.
Constructors and evil initializers in C++ (2021)
Well it is a japanese startup company working for JR-West.
Upvote for the title.
Thank you. I thought i was dumb
You're maybe thinking of cognitive dissonance rather than hypocrisy? The latter is pretending to be better than you are or acting differently to how you say you will. If you acknowledge that you're doing something that goes against your principles you are not pretending to anything or acting differently to how you say you will then the charge of hypocrisy doesn't fit.
Which TV manufacturer is shipping out buggy TVs that require updates?
New Businesses Cannot Trust Stripe
You cannot know whether a customer exists for your product until you make it and publish it.

Proton has been doing this for a while, and they still exist. This means they have validated that some users exist for their product.
I have never shared my phone number with any online service aside from my bank and I don't get any spam on my phone.

I still don't recommend to do that and just toss those that demand your phone number away. Get a business phone if your work demands it.
"Secure" is relative.

I have a system I use where you enter your email and get a one-time code.

The goal in that system is not to securely authenticate you, merely to identify you. "Good enough" for the use case.
Stop setting your thermostat at 72
That's a good point about the data entry.

I've never really had a problem entering data into CSV file or database, but I will concede that it is even easier to enter the data via a spreadsheet.

However, I still think custom software (with proper UI for input if necessary) is the better way of dealing with the actual solution that a spreadsheet is ultimately trying to solve.
Very interesting, I did something similar but in reverse, looking at who wants to be hired.

I only used OpenAI to determine location and then some (failed) analysis of candidate’s HN comments. The rest of the tools I wrote didn’t need LLMs (just string matching).
I've been using Hetzner personally, I'm sure there's others that are equally good but the pricing is great and I've never had a problem with them.
If I had to bet, I would say it's because they don't beat Apple.

If they had a benchmark result that showed a big win over Apple's design, it would be at the top row of the chart.
And what be done about bone density? I guess exercise would help but not with the bones in the head?
One project I worked on was to track indoor temperature and AC settings (via a Nest thermostat) and outdoor temperature (via weather report). I found that in the evenings I was often still running the AC even though outdoor temperature had dropped below my target. This alerted me that I should instead open my windows. I didn't have a way to track energy usage changes, but I was really happy to get so much more fresh air.

It stopped working when Google bought Nest and then changed their API authentication method. I had a newborn and just couldn't find the time to support the new API. Maybe I'll revive it this summer.
Now add in the fine grain resolution of water consumption and internet, and you will know more about them that themselves.
Both 200 tokens per query and 10 queries per day seem far too low.
Confido (YC S21) Is Hiring
Looks very similar to Toptal gitignore.io[1][2]

[1]: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/

[2]: https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io
Ask HN: Best way to deploy an LLM for 100s of user
If you have any experience of deploying an LLM what resources/tools did you use?

do you have a link to your project?

Anything will help.
Instantly bookmarked! Great landing page, will definitely check this out. Keep up the great work :)
I believe those teams just use constructors; this is a corner case, not SOP.
Like elections?
There is a trade-off between cache size and latency.
Just tried it and Visidata is awesome. Just loading SQLite dbs is a killer feature with the TUI.
> the issue is turning everything into a literal battlefield as opposed to market competition with transnational regulatory bodies to align rules.

The problem with autocratic regimes is that they don't seem to care that much about rules, or some rights and duties that a valued by Western societies.

You can claim that Western countries at times didn't follow rules either, they're far from perfect.

But one thing is to haven't followed the rules on some occasions, the other thing is to do it consistently as a part of your strategy, because there are no consequences to it.

Let's pick for example Russia: their regime loves to use the Iraq war and now even the Israel war to make parallels between what they are doing and want to achieve in Ukraine, and what the US did and what Israel is doing. Here we have a country trying to annex another country, and using Genocide as a tool to achieve this goal, and you have Brazil, India, China, and South Africa supporting this.

Or China making it difficult for foreign companies to tap into the value of the Chinese internal market, and the amount of IP theft that happened for decades.

That's not market competition, and regulators can't enforce anything when you have big players captured by a small elite not playing by the rules. What are you going to do about it?