skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is a bit of all or nothing and limits thinking. What about architects? They provide joy and housing, but also use natural land and benefit often investors. So, mixed. Car manufacturers? Move people from A to B at big cost for the environment. Police is usually helpful but not always. For all those necessary jobs, the how makes all the difference. Someone coding a website for a non profit is not the same as someone who codes a slotting machine.
Also, think about the state of the world if all code stopped working tomorrow. We'd be in a very fragile state, much less able to respond to tragedies and problems. Supply chains and power delivery would probably stop, as critical function like cars ABS.
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That's how I use random sites for which I can't/won't use my main browser - just set a random password and don't save it anywhere, then rely on email password resets to login.
It is my belief that there is no reason to believe that elementary particles are ever point-like objects with momentum and location.

They are fuzzy objects that always evolve in time according to wave equation. It's just that in case of very narrow, sharp waves they equation simplifies to Newtonian (or special relativity) equation of motion.

Measurement is just exchange of momentum and energy between that fuzzy objects that happens very quickly and in quantized amount and the equations governing it simplify for narrow, sharp waves to equations of two balls bouncing of each other.

Our intuitions developed for macroscopic objects which are a very peculiar form of matter, tightly bound by interactions, which make the constituent elementary particles very sharp and narrow all the time. They are just wrong for anything else. Newtonian mechanics is attractive because it's simple but it's equivalent of gas laws, that while very simple, only statistically capture the complexities of what actually happens in ideal gas and don't reflect nothing physically real.
That's already a thing: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5448
120 bits is secure enough.
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For many years I've wanted to build a digital clock out of fluid gates. The medium would be clear water; the 7-segment display would consist of transparent tubes, into which stained oil is pushed to activate a segment. I think a gate would probably be some kind of vortex. I've never tried to build it, because

- I don't know anything about fluid mechanics

- The 'exhaust' is water, so I could only really operate this thing in the bath
I wonder if there is some not release C64 or early PC game that could be released now... Just to get the record...
What kind of permits are required? Are AC installation also a problem for new buildings too?
When people talk about head pumps, they usually mean a different type of product than a cooling only AC though, so I'm not quite sure how it's relevant?

(Yes, there are two-way heat pumps, but those are surprisngly rare get and install across europe).
Today?, Curiosity landed 2012 in the Gale Crater on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mission_radioisotope_the...
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Self-consumption can be envisaged, particularly for buildings with air-conditioning systems. In this way, you pay for part of the air-conditioning consumption with solar energy when you use it most during summer.

But operating completely disconnected from the grid, especially in winter, is extremely difficult. Luminosity is much weaker, the sky more overcast and the number of hours of sunlight reduced.
Its a long studied management theory that most companies in the lead in trying to protect its current profitable product ie cash cow hesitate in innovating as it would destroy their current products market share. This results in competitors coming from behind and out innovating them and stealing market share. This is what is happening to Europe and it's manufacturing industries
Ctrl-F without match is often useful result in itself.

I've been burned by LLMs several times where it always came-up with some answer while it was either misleading or there should be no answer at all.
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That's an overstatement. Also, people routinely rebel against the introduction of change, but soon become accustomed to it. For quite over a year, heat pumps have made up over 50% of new installs [1]. I don't think it's useful to focus too much on short-term pains here.

[1] https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/entwicklung-b...
The recent trend of manipulating hackers into avoiding defense industry is interesting
I mean a ton of heat pumps are being installed. New houses tend to have heat pumps. The problem is with old houses who already have a heating system installed, it is crazy to overhaul to a heat pump as the cost is not even close to being sensible.
Was this supposed to be funny?
It's basically impossible to buy "cooling only" AC in the EU, everything is also a heat pump now (and it makes total sense, making AC heat instead of cool is just a matter of adding several cheap components to reverse evaporator/condenser roles).
Every Linux tool? Simply not true. Most tools keep it in a ~ subdir like ~/.config

MacOS creates a junk file/folder just by visiting any folder. It's not comparable.
As I say, as often as it is contextually appropriate to say, no one opposed to the US defense apparatus (and protected by it) would rather live under the counterfactual of an isolated, weak US. Other countries are not coming to liberate you, the world is not locked arm in arm singing kumbaya but for the US. You are going to be a shipbuilder for 100 hours a week under communism, not preaching theory on a soapbox in Dolores Park.
The article falls apart because its written for the communist heart.

The entire point of the article is promoting cancel culture in a roundabout way as if its justified, and suggesting inducements into frames of thinking that are not healthy (or rational), but still plausible. It has many structures commonly used in thought reform. Cancel culture is also just one more derivation of Marxism and other Critical Theory.

The problem with anything derived from these dubious origins is that it has no basis in reality, and doesn't follow rational thought. They lie more than they tell the truth; and who would bother wasting time on people that do that.

To them, its all about power dynamics, manipulative emotional ploys, dissembling opinions, and other deceits such as associative priming (relating unrelated things so you can't even carry a conversation without thinking the other thing) or the foregone conclusion (another fallacy), that and a formulaic mix of truth with fiction in about a 49-51% split.

This is clearly soft propaganda meant to entice those uneducated, and of weak heart and mind into supporting communism only without calling it that.

Its fairly obvious for anyone who has developed any significant measure of discernment. It hits all the common rhetoric talking points.
Yeah but there is heavy resistance.

My mother won't install a heat pump because she claims she doesn't want to be dependent on electricity. She likes the idea that if it goes down, she can still heat her home.

It is irrational because her gas burner needs electricity to run anyway, and if electricity shuts down, she lights a wood fire, which she could have as an alternative to the heat pump.

Humans have religion-like behavior in every aspect of their life, not just God-related things.

If you haven't heard about the French pushback against the linky, a smart electricity meter, google it. You will have a good overview of what can go wrong if we force the issue on people.
| it's to playful - agreed
Good point, the sensor count exponentiates and the optics get a lot more complicated if you want a fully integrated system. Nothing on the market I know of but with where we are on the scaling curves now might be the time to try something like it - you could put together a basic proof of concept with a load of commercial sensor elements and wide angle lenses on a sphere. Eventually you can consolidate the central sensors and lenses into concentric hemispheres. You can reduce the data volume by narrowing the camera angles eventually too

Not sure there’s a market but maybe with VR stereo 360 becomes more valuable, who knows. Technologically doable though
Not all PRNGs are created equal; eg linear congruent ones take many steps until values of initial seeds that are close to each other become decorrelated.

Eg try java’s random prng library, and generate a few booleans with two seeds very close to each other.

Then try apache common’s merseine twister prng.
I could read several QIC-02 tapes after ~15 years (~'90 to '05). I tried again after 20 years and the tapes jammed. I guess the tensioning system lost it's elasticity.

HDDs I had from ~1997 started to accumulate bad sectors after ~10 years. HDDs from 2010 are still good today, but just to be safe I'm using RAID5 with different batches of drives and 2 offline backups.

I saw a 5.25" 360K floppy that was used daily to boot a 8086 until 1997 (I have no ideea how old it was, but it really was a 360K, not a 1.2MB, re-formatted low density). I have early 1990s 3.5" 1.44MB FDs that still work. Late floppy disks were mostly singe-use bad.

The biggest problem with tapes was the ISA-based controller. No such troubles with HDDs. PCIe to PATA or USB3 to PATA are still available today. I wonder how long QLC SSDs will hold data? Is it turning into a "buy new - copy old data - keep 1 year - repeat" ?
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It's similar in Germany. I understand that historically AC was absolutely not needed and that there were only a couple of weeks where it was uncomfortably hot.

But now it can be multiple months where everyone's productivity clearly drops because it's too hot at the office. And suggesting to improve the conditions by installing an AC or heat pump will invariably result in getting looks like you are a crazy person.

I'm not sure why a majority of people insist in gaslighting that it's not a big deal. If people are actively sweating while sitting at the office they are for sure not at 100% mental effort. Besides, if it really is only a limited time per year when it's needed, you can just not use it the rest of the time, right?
Actually I am trying to get to install a two-way heat pump. As I said, AC is very rare here, but two-way heats pumps are definitely in the collective mind of the few people who care about ACs and heat pumps in Austria. All the AC companies offer them, it's just that you can rarely get a permit to install them.
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Sort of missed the point. It’s about writing the optimal amount and standard of software.
>Mercenary programmers - which describes most of us - are boring.

No, mercenaries like me get to have fun, I don't have to constantly evaluate whether my actions violate a niche doctrinal tenant of some political ideology.
It is one of the few professions where at least in theory you can create something that gets used by millions, with relatively few resources required. Few other professions are like this (being a celebrity, politician, power broker) and those require a lot more luck/work to get there.
(It would look like kind of like a dragonfly eye)
Snowden was just a contractor but his moral standard definitely affected the decision he made.

Did it actually make a difference to the grand scheme? Was it even worth it? Well I don't know.
This is exactly why we're working on the GraphRAG-SDK to ease the process.
You might want to check out https://github.com/FalkorDB/GraphRAG-SDK/ and we would love to hear your feedback
Next step: have a speed tracker on the car that will report speeding straight to the cops, no need for them to see you with a radar or anything like that.

In general there's lots of politicians and "administrators" who salivate at tech like this that constrain people and make them manageable. I find these attempts very undignified and totalitarian.
Yeah, but I don't buy hardware for what I can do today with technology from years ago, rather for something that lasts 5 to 10 years.
> Looking at NTFS from on-disk structure side, it always seemed quite obvious to me that a lot of accolades given to BeFS applied to NTFS - it's the lack of actually using the abilities

Microsoft had some very grand plans in this area... Cairo, OFS, WinFS... but they just kept on getting delayed, cancelled, pulled from the beta for too many issues. I think contemporary Microsoft has lost interest in this (it was something Bill Gates was big on) and moved on to other ideas.
> It feels more likely to me that they're criticizing training LLMs on content without compensating the original creators,

No, the phrase they have written specifically talks about the RLHF workers and they do evaluate the pay of these people and somehow bring this issue into the discussion of how LLMs are useful to browsers.

And because I'm being downvoted for asking a simple logical question whether this has anything to do with LLM features in browser, I logically conclude that there are some things in current American culture that I literally (literally!) don't understand.
I had hoped for such much more, given the title. (And yet, fewer words, maybe).

Like, how do we find industries where can actually do good?

Maybe mention Effective Altruism?

I guess I'll have to write my own, eventually...
And now, the leader of the opposition is attending heat pump PR events, after vehemently opposing the governments plans to promote heat pumps, claiming they were uneconomical.

However, the damage is done.
Heat pumps prices here keep going UP, not down. The very same machine cost more after few years. There is no chance to keep up such conversion at these rates.

I'm one of the few who have built a new home, all electric main car included, and yes even friends and parents told me it's a mistake, it will cost much more heating and cooling or it's even impossible to heat and so on. There is much resistance but the real point are prices. Similarly to BEVs.

In other places prices drop, that's why sales goes up, here they do the opposite and that's why sales goes down.
This is really cool, but I don't think this is very useful.

In my opinion: if you can use vim, you can probably code, or at least figure it out without too much trouble. If you can code, then you don't need a spreadsheet. You can just write a program to crunch the numbers, or produce a report etc.

Excel is so popular, because it is a way for non-coders to crunch a bunch of numbers in a relatively easy way. And the best way to get the answers that they are getting out of the spreadsheet is to write code. But because they can't code, they have to use a spreadsheet.

If there is a use case for spreadsheets that is not better served by some real code, I'm interested to hear what it is.

You could also make the "speed" argument (just a quick calculation) for spreadsheets, but in that case, I find something like a python REPL just as quick, and still better anyway.
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The NexDock came with an HDMI (output) to mini-HDMI (input) cable, and a USB-B to USB-C cable (for mouse/keyboard), which is all you need to connect to anything modern. I bought an $8 VGA to HDMI adapter for use with my older enterprise equipment without HDMI. I just keep all of them next to my rack, and connect the HDMI and USB as needed. The NexDock has a basic OSD that let's you switch between USB-C or HDMI video inputs.

I already owned a NexDock so this is just what I've stuck with. These days I'd probably recommend a PiKVM with a networked KVM switch, if you have like 4+ physical servers it can be cheaper + give networked access. With added complexity and failure points.
Generally this is a correct argument - to compare hardware one needs to use the same OS/software stack. But the argument works the other way around also, if there is no identical software stack possible does it really matter how raw hardware compares? The end user running a game or an application would experience hardware+OS rather than just hardware.
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In fact it's even more of a problem for new buildings. For old buildings you can complain that the building is unsafe to live in without AC, but new buildings are required to be livable (<26C) without air conditioning, so it's very easy to get a blanket rejection for this very reason alone.

Of course even though new buildings should be livable without AC, this is not true in practice. I live in a new building and right now I have 33C indoors inside my apartment. But some bureaucrat signed that it's 26C certified so who am I to complain!
Thank you for actually answering my question :)
For those who don't know, and don't want to have to go off and search to understand the cryptic comment... He's talking about Java. Which in an earlier iteration was known as Oak.
It isn't "the tech scene". It is particularly programmers who suffer from that complex.

To be honest it is very peculiar and not something you find even in closely related areas, such as engineering.
Yet Amazon mentions AI not even once in the sales pitch https://justwalkout.com/ .

Yes Amazon have a few blog posts mentioning it, but nothing that can fairly be called AI washing.
Partially because of articles from a certain German newspaper which admitted they don't understand how heat pumps work.
Are heat pumps economical heating sources in Germany? Power there seems very expensive and natgas cheap. No wonder if there's pushback if you have to do expensive renovation and you don't even end up with lower operational expenses.
Wow, ridiculous. In Croatia almost every condo built in the last 20 years has AC already pre-installed (or at least conduits and installation location prepared).
It’s important for a technical manager to be able to effectively advocate for their programmers. Otherwise you just get constantly railroaded by the high priests of sysadmin or devops into technical decisions that make no sense.

My manager is not technical. The work environment is shit. Just a constant stream of brotherhood decisions that don’t work you are supposed to deliver systems into. The whole thing is bloody stupid but if our manager had a clue it wouldn’t happen. Before you ask, yes we try but the stupid bugger can’t stick to a script despite how easy we make it because the other managers constantly pull him into the suck of what suits everybody else rather than what works.

I hate the bastard.
Is there an ed-like spreadsheet? I don't quite like looking at the data I am working with, it's a bit distracting, you see (pun intended).
This. The cost of installing and upgrading a big old drafty Victorian house to a COP 4+ efficiency where the running costs actually beat oil/gas would have a break even point way past the end of my lifetime.
DC spends 40 years liquidating our middle class, sending our entire industrial base oversees at the behest of their corporate masters then has shocked pikachu face when we have no supply chain control.
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I just had to try it out now to make sure I'm correct on this and I believe I am. Here's what I found:

Multi-entity is enabled by default when creating an account. Enrolling a second device is possible via an OTP code received via a text message. This makes the phone number (in my mind at least) the default single-factor needed to access an Authy account.

As far as I can tell, the user has to either enroll either a second device, or manually disable multi-device support to make Authy SIM swapping resistant. I have not been an active Authy user for many years now so I might be mistaken here, but I strongly suspect a majority of Authys non-technical users have not done either. Meaning they would be susceptible to SIM Swapping attacks.

My old Authy account definitely was, at least.
It is like software, the hardest part is to learn all the related skills you need.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Original title: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) 1552, Bartolomé de las Casas.

The genocide by the Spanish of directly and indirectly ~110M indigenous peoples and African slaves in the Americas needs a "Holocaust"-type unique name.
> if it were lighter, thinner and cheaper than the laptop, and it isn't.

This. I am afraid it comes down to price point and physical specs ...

(And beyond some point they economically cannot get any better, for, as a manufacturer, you'd be almost rebuilding a notebook (as far as parts anyway) with a (decent) screen, keyboard, (some) electronics, etc.).-
The sales pitch doesn't say no humans. https://justwalkout.com/
And yet, like all the issues the conservatives rally against, once the law actually came into force, everyone stopped caring about it and now heatpumps are standard.
That seems more likely than my initial interpretation, in which case the moral and ethical implications just so you can have a "Summarize with AI" button or other such features in your web browser are obviously much worse.
This tool was posted on HN within the last few days.
If a battery could flatten demand on a household basis, then why not just implement it on a grid basis?
We leave that for Half Life 1.
I've just about stopped bothering about news sites like NYT that go to inordinate lengths to stop access to casual viewers, they're simply just not worth the effort.

If the story is important and or it's breaking news then it's almost inevitably available from multiple outlets, or it is in short order. Otherwise it's opined or editorial material that's the view of the news outlet. I can do without such editorializing, there's just so much other stuff on the web that's competing for my attention which is much more accessible.

Another reason to avoid such sites is the huge amount of bloat which is usually much, much larger than the story content (as here), JavaScript junk, ads and links to dozens of data gathering sites make them pathetically slow—so slow one almost cries out of frustration. More to the point, readers are paying for network time to download this junk.

Given your comment, here's what this 'blank' page consisted of:

Size of download: 973,384 bytes

index.html = 733,826 bytes (Almost unbelievable, I dare you all to just take a look at this junk!)

Given what slowmovintarget said about its limited content, and that plaintext is about 2kB/page, the evidence speaks for itself.

NYT, haven't you yet figured out you are just doing yourselves a disservice with these antics?
In a way calling it heat pumps work as a mind trick for people with their head still stuck in the 60s? 50s? 40s?
It is set by .. . The driver???
Having a consistent, well-defined, coherent, human readable format for applications to interact with LLM's is quite critical. Having a way to specifiy data sources would be useful - RAG sources, S3 raw data files?. What about an evals section?