skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding was that some sort of warning system was mandatory, but that physical speed limitation is not. (Edit: it does clarify this in the article—not sure how I missed that)

In any case: I hate this. Having an intuitive understanding of the handling characteristics of your vehicle is critical to driving safely, and if you go to overtake someone or try to merge, only to discover that the car isn’t accelerating because it’s decided the speed limit is lower than it is, accidents will happen.

I have an older Civic which will read road signs but doesn’t do anything but display them on the dash—and thank god, because it’s constantly getting it wrong.

Modern cars have so many beeps and bongs and touch controls that I can’t help wonder if the extra distraction is a net negative. It’s also a bit of a trope that the various lane keep assist features on modern cars will repeatedly try to drive you into a hedge or oncoming traffic the second you take them on a twisty British country road.

It’s quite common for motoring enthusiasts to tune ECUs for performance; I suspect hacking the thing to make them remember that you’ve turned them off will be equally popular.
I think it is just another entry in the genre of "why I get to enjoy everything capitalism has to offer, but still am actually opposing it".
In my opinion its likely not naivety at all but a campaign following standard socialist ploys in subversion (cultural contagion).

They hit most of the common rhetoric talking points, and its common knowledge in some circles that these types promote narratives that attempt or build support for various stages of divide and conquer under communism.

Be it, demoralization, destabilization, crisis, or re-normalization (genocide).

The article promotes cancel culture, which is just another derivation of marxism. Reads like some of the more skilled propaganda pieces I've seen.

Knowing this, I wouldn't trust the author for anything that requires credibility.
Pioneer? Nearly every home in the US already uses heat-pumps: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/technology-adoption-by-ho...

In cold climates many people still use gas heating because its cheaper, making electricity cheaper would be the only realistic way to increase heat-pump usage in winter.
The clocked-down Turing computer you are proposing would have to have an infinite amount of tape to be truly "Turing complete" and capable of running any program we can imagine in principle.

To actually match the worm analogy, imagine a clocked-down Turing machine with a tape length of maybe 100k cells. Now you can definitely imagine programs that can't run on it.

The worm's limitation isn't that it's slow at thinking, it basically has only a handful of neurons compared to a person and there are problems/concepts that are just too large to fit in its brain and it would never be able to imagine even if it could live and think until the end of time.
It depends on where, like here in Finland those houses that do not have regular or ground thermal heat pumps start to be weird ones.
I don't think it's particularly hypocritical. I even think you can do both, and, I think it's fine to do so if you need to reconcile what it is you work on with your personal morals. I spent a decade in public digitalisation in Denmark and I did a lot of good for the welfare of our country through that work. That was part of why I did it for a much lower pay than what I now earn in the private sector. Right now I work in what is essentially an investment bank. We use investor money to build or renovate solar plants for a nice profit. Both of these areas would likely be seen as "evil" by some people. But to me, they align with my personal morals. In the public service I tried to make sure as much of the budget went to people who actually provide welfare. In the investment bank I'm not motivated by making the rich, even richer. It is a place I get to work on green energy, however, and that's something I care about. I guess I could do that in other places, but as much as green NGO's have a good impact on our business, by things like opening financial incentives when companies like Meta "buy climate indulgence" it's not necessarily building the stuff. We've build over 600 solar plants around the globe, however, and that wouldn't have happened without the investor money. Is that hypocritical? Maybe it is to you, but it sure isn't to me. It's just how the world works.

I think I would take a similar stance on defense tech. On one hand I think it's sort of natural to feel bad about building something which might kill people. On the other hand the world has always sort of functioned on a "might makes right" principle, no matter how much we don't like to admit it. If whatever culture you're part of doesn't maintain it's "might" then it will likely be subdued by those who do. Is that great? No, and maybe it would be better to work on something that related to changing the status quo, but it would also be sort of naive to turn the blind eye to how the world is going to be for the foreseeable future. So I can certainly see how people can reconcile working in the defense industry with their personal morals without being hypocritical.
There's a saying that I've been hearing since being a kid, that heat pump sucks because it's just instantaneous heat but as soon as you turn it off, the heat disappears in an instant.

Based on my experience, it's true. As for the other people. it must be true too, because the norm in my southern country is to have installed proper radiators all around the house. Family, friends, formal visits, I wouldn't be able to name even once in my life that I've been at someone's main place during winter without its proper radiator installation. And when it is turned off, the whole building is warm, not only the air in the living areas, so the place stays warm for a long time.

So heat pumps exist but just as a "not very good" alternative, relegated for things like small secondary homes at the beach (where it doesn't get too cold anyway).

EDIT- I was thinking about the aircon that on winter can be switched to output warm air. But reading replies I'm now learning that heatpump doesn't necessarily always mean air, but radiators could also be used!
There was a lot of tactical voting which might sway things. I wanted Labour to win, but voted Lib Dem as my constituency is between them and the Tories.
I'm burnt out of calling every new piece of technology that starts to get wide adoption a hype or bubble. Yes, there will be the usual phase of over excitement before it all settles, that we all know is part of human nature, so what? In the Gartner hype cycle modell I'm already in the plateau of productivity with my use of GPTs for code generation, technical troubleshooting and everyday life questions.
Heatpumps can be powered by natgas as well. Heat pumps are just a compressor and a heating element for a defrost cycle. Gas powered compressors are relatively common, e.g. in camping trailer refrigerators.

Also, even with Germany's relatively expensive electricity, heat pumps are economical after 15-20 years, which is good enough.
The track record of the German people going to war over something is not great. They were probably on the wrong side (again) on this one.
A slight understatement - Labour won a crushing majority, relegating the Conservative Party to its lowest number of seats for decades.
Play around with temperature. Summarization is quite a defined task, so lower the temp a lot.
Strange. I think it should be illegal to build any public or commercial space without thorough air conditioning. Because of air quality, dust, allergy and stuff, and now after Covid, also a concern of viral particles, a proper ventilation system is definitely a necessity - and it costs too little to make a newly installed, good ventilation system into also an air conditioning system, to pass on that possibility.
>Maybe mention Effective Altruism?

The article was already bad enough, mentioning one of the worst outgrowths of "how we programmers will save the world", couldn't have done it any good.
> I was thinking more of "ntfs.sys encounters filesystem structure with names set for normally unnamed attributes".

From reading the source code of the Linux kernel NTFS driver (the ntfs3 one in the latest Linux kernel, not the older one it replaced), its (pretty reasonable) strategy is just to ignore things it doesn't expect. But I don't know what ntfs.sys does in such a scenario, I've never tried.
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> Matthew 4:1

I don't understand why that would have any effect?

"Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."
> but we’d be surprised if the rise of similar services in China

Can someone list those? As someone who has no space for 3D printer this would be interesting to check out.
Different people have different preferences.

There's still lots of high-quality expensive options available in many product categories.
might be a good idea to release this on mobile instead of GBA
Isn't this just a terrible investment? $22 million to save $0.5 million per year?

So the payback period is 44 years. The buildings they renovated are quite likely not to exist that long.
I am not up to speed with British politics. What are the biggest differences of opinion between the leaving Conservatives and the new Starmer Labour government? What's going to change?
> The assignment cannot take place until the assigned value is known.

Of course it can. It's retrieving the value out of the lvalue is what cannot be done and even then you can still stretch this delay further with the "as-if" rule. Haskell does something similar with its lazy evaluation IIRC.
I was sort-of talking about the cars driven by your typical sitcom dad who's always tinkering and repairing that damn thing. Perhaps 1960-1980s or so?
Depends on the culture and other circumstances. In certain cases, replying with "I need the money" would result in a few chuckles, but overall a very positive response.
How did China originally bootstrap a scaled-out secure computation infrastructure?

Did the West drop the ball, was System Management Mode insufficient? what era and what hypervisor technology was in use in that era?

Or does their current secure computation infrastructure stem from less and less widely deployed predecessors and did they bootstrap their own in parallel with the West?
PS. Only option would (perhaps) come if and when (mostly, when) display technology makes a breakthrough enabling very oh so ever extremely cheap manufacture to occur where you can put a screen on anything for the price of ... paper?

And, at that point, of course ...
Shantae Advance started development in 2002 and is set for release next year, so if that happens that'd take the record by a single year.
A perfect statement. Headlines from news organisations like AP are refreshingly free of hyperbole and the emoitions of the daily express headlines.

> Five things to do with your money after Labour win - and why you need to act NOW
Calling a propaganda piece might be a stretch. I read this article and briefly skimmed the latest article on their site (about AI). My conclusion is that this person just enjoy making nothing-burger.
It's quite clear if you approach these things logically that Chalmers doesn't do a lot of thinking before coming up with these arguments. All of his arguments boil down to "if we assume that consciousness is different from everything else, then it's different from everything else". He gets way, way too much attention for someone who is sub mediocre in his reasoning.

He also doesn't understand what computation is, even though he often makes confident statements about it. He thinks computation is a subjective process, that something only counts as a computation if someone interprets it as such, which is simply wrong, not a debatable topic. And this is the core of one of his other arguments about why consciousness can't be a computational process.
I don’t think that’s true for modern isolated (passive) houses built in EU standard. And heat pumps don’t need to be air based, a lot of them transfer heat with water radiators inside the floor.
100% agree. I find the "passive" heating options like radiators or floor heating much more comfortable than being blasted by hot air from above.
It doesn't make sense, though. You need the same amount of energy to heat up a room, regardless of how you produce the aforementioned heat. If the energy immediately dissipates, it means the building has very poor insulation.

In order to heat up a radiator you need very hot water (>60C), that takes a while to heat up and then sits in the radiator slowly cooling off. Simply keep the air pump on for longer at 20C and you'll get the same temperature for _way_ less energy consumption. With a radiator you simply consume more energy upfront, you don't save money (on the contrary, you spend way more if the electricity doesn't come from fossil fuels because burning things is not efficient by any metric).
> [W]e hate being charged what something is worth to us.

I'll rephrase this in a way that's more straightforward and clear:

> We hate being charged every penny we could conceivably pay for a given thing.

In part because many ordinary folks believe that a fair deal is for businesses to cover the cost of R&D for the thing and the cost of getting it to us, as well as a reasonable profit to cover both expected future support and future R&D for improvements and/or new products.

And also in part because most folks can figure out what's likely to happen when every company out there demands that we pay them not just enough to cover the above, but every penny we could conceivably pay for the thing. (To spell it out: One suddenly has to make very hard choices about what one does without... likely for an uncomfortably long time. [0])

[0] If you think that this wouldn't happen, or that if it did it would be over in a matter of weeks (rather than years) remember the aphorism "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.".
Then make it an independent email+password thing, so in case of a leak, something as critical and personal as a phone number doesn't get involved in the stolen data.

(I know the irony of this in particular being Authy, but nevertheless phone numbers should NOT be risked to be exposed anyhow)
That sounds like really bad insulation. Energy, in form of a hot or cold air shouldn't simply disappear from a properly insulated dwelling
Ask HN: Any great ML code reviewer tools?
I’ve tried a few open source options, and they are nice but lack polish.

It seems like a huge productivity opportunity compared to coding assistants (copilot, etc). However I'm not seeing equivalent investments/tools from companies.

Are there any great tools for ML code-reviews that integrate into Github?

I think this should be as big or bigger than coding assistants, and could (once well tuned) be more helpful. Lots of good reasons:

- UX: Github/Gitlab already have great CR tools. There’s no need to invent a new UX paradigms; just use existing ones with existing APIs.

- Long context LLMs: can more of the codebase into the context, even all of it for smaller projects.

- Efficiency: LLMs with large project-size context take a lot of memory. Unlike coding assistants which run for long periods, CRs can run as a job and use lots of very large contexts but only momentarily.

- Value: finding bugs before they happen, and saving my team members time for first-pass code reviews.

Of course this doesn't replace humans (yet). However code reviewing is tedious and slow. Finding issues like typos and using ">" when I needed ">=" are all good tasks for ML, and make a good first pass before bringing humans in the loop.
Someone else reposted this but it was flag killed. 0

The 50 volts part was good as well as the truth about Apple Certification for repair.

Found similar issues trying to replace a screen. Need to replace the whole “front” or use a not great quality non-oem screen. Touch response was bad and good enough to pass whatever necessary for a trade in.

MacBook battery repair: huge disassembly required. Not much balance there either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879679
17 points and a couple comments.
You can have floor heating with heat pumps, too. Just heat up the water to a lower temperature (~40C) for longer. It's still way more efficient than burning gas.
I also have the tobacco industry on my list. (they also own the nicotine addiction vaping industry).
The answer is simple: just don't turn the heat pump off. Problem solved.

Now, the misconception is that people are thinking in terms of "if it's on, it costs a lot of energy, if you turn it off, you save that enegry". But for heatpumps, that's not true. Running them 2 hours with 50% eletrical power costs less energy than running them 1 hour with 100% eletrical power.

The efficiency of heatpumps is non-linear, whereas it is linear for radiators which is unfamiliar to people.
I have a heat pump, it heats the water in my radiators. That's the typical installation here in the UK.
Another issue with heat pump rollout, at least in the UK is a severe lack of qualified heating engineers with a basic understanding of thermodynamic principles.

Thus you get plumbers with experience installing gas boilers, resulting in poorly specified and installed systems that provide nowhere near the efficiency that they should reach.

This then leads people to say “heat pumps don’t work” or “heat pumps are expensive to run”, which only feeds into the whole anti net-zero rhetoric.
I actually thought floor heating was standard for heat pumps (maybe it's a european thing tho)
US intervened in Congo mine sale to Chinese arms group
looks like there's a digital version for sale on the same site as the physical version
https://incube8games.com/collections/vendors?q=AgeOfGames
If it's so sad, why not fix it? Why is it someone else's problem?
This is a cop out, there are many devices that have replaceable batteries and are used in harsher environments.

Apple is a multibillion dollar company they can afford to take some minor hits here and there to their profit margins to make this work.
Near as I can tell, you literally never even read my comment.

So seriously, WTF?

You’re doing on this weird rant, when I literally just said average people shouldn’t be assembling their own multi-kWh lithium battery packs unless they want to burn their houses down.

Which is, indeed, good advice. And pertinent to the discussion.

Where this bizarre tangent you keep going off on is not.
Nope, it's very simple. Just don't try to heat up water to heat the house. Use an aircon. In fact, their efficiency is even better. 4+ is already standard, 5+ is good and there are even models that go beyond 6.

Only problem can be if you have a lot of tiny rooms - in that case it's expensive to install everything.
I've never heard that hearing. I've been living in multiple houses heated primarily with a heat pump in the winter during average temperature of minus 10 Celsius, ranging from 0 to -30.

My current garage has radiators installed but I've never used them as the heat pump is just fine.

I guess they must build the houses or heat pumps differently where you live!
> Kien’s new publisher, Incube8, specialises in producing games for classic consoles

It's not an accident that it got released for the Game Boy Advance.
Lysenkoism killed approximately 30-40 million Chinese via completely avoidable starvation during the ‘Great Leap Forward’. Far more than Hitler killed (intentionally) through extermination.

And anyone with half a brain saw it was insanity - which is why those who spoke up got shot or sent to the Gulag. Because the ideology was fundamentally one that no one was able to question safely.

So they’re both mass murdering genocidal ideologies.
The entire purpose is to remind, not prevent.
exactly, our neighbour has a oil heating system which is a size of a room in her cellar. simply uninstalling and removing it is beyond anything she, a pensioner, can pay. unless the government picks up the replacement costs, she will keep burning oil.
vexillologists would definitely love this
Star Trek TNG was shot on film, not tape, and they made a remaster that's available online. So you can see Captain Picard on their shoddy sets in very high resolution now.
Also it should be trivial to build using the GNU Arm Embedded toolchain if the author did not want to install the Zephyr SDK, not sure why this did not work for them.
Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued
> There's a part of the world that makes a distinction between "technical" and "creative" which bothers me even more.

Depends on context of course. In game dev someone who is "technical" can be asked to make the FPS higher during the boss fight, but can't be expected to re-sculpt the boss to make them look more muscular. Someone who is "creative" goes the other way around.

Someone who is "creative" uses blender/maya/z-brush/photoshop to solve problems, someone who is "technical" uses a text editor/compiler/debugger/profiler. It is a very different role. Some can do both, which is great of course, but pretending that everyone is a unicorn will not make happy outcomes.

> Putting yourself or someone else in a bucket of "technical" or "non-technical" creates a subconscious barrier to expanding your skills beyond your label while also giving you an excuse, and others the same low expectations.

Or describing someone's skills accurately they can figure out what they could be improving on.
Just want to second this entire post. It feels like I wrote it myself.
Long half life also means low energy output.
> In a shocking turn of events, South Korea’s Gumi City Council is investigating the apparent suicide of a robot administrative officer. The robot, which had been in service since August 2023, was found defunct after reportedly plunging itself down a staircase.

PS. My bet is someone pushed it. Or "nudged" it. Or it was the janitor with the pipe in the library ...
But it's not logically possible if consciousness is a material process, a consequence of computation in the human brain (and potentially other places). So you can't prove that consciousness is not materialistic by assuming it's not materialistic.
That's very interesting! And of course, it'd be very unintuitive for most people. Maybe more education is needed to help people understand how to optimize their energy bill with heat pumps.