skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people are actively sweating while sitting at the office they are for sure not at 100% mental effort.

Lee Kuan Yew, first prime minister of Singapore, said this about air-conditioning[1][2]:

> Question: Anything else besides multicultural tolerance that enabled Singapore's success?

> Answer: Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.

Everywhere is getting hotter; Europe is seeing heatwaves that exceed temperatures seen even in the tropics. In summer Europe gets 15-16 hours of sunlight, and the fairly high humidity doesn't help. The tropics—especially those countries almost bang-smack on the Equator with Af Köppen–Geiger climate classification—are mostly uniformly warm and wet, with extremely hot (> 37 °C) air temperatures quite rare because of the uniform day-night cycle. And even then the very high humidity means the daytime heat is carried into the night, and the urban heat island effect necessitates air-conditioning indoors in highly built-up cities like the aforementioned Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and many parts of Indonesia.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01120.x

[2]: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
Why is this a contradiction. Modern heat pumps at least in Germany are using the normal water based radiators. It is true that they are more efficient if used with floor or wall integrated radiators. But they are already more efficient looking at the current energy mix (and the current load) here by just exchanging your gas or oil based central heating with a heat pump.
Damn. I used to order metal parts from them. It was nice quality and far cheaper than owning a metal printer
Here's an overview of the New Zealand suggested tax change: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/13-10-2021/why-the-new-glo...

Two quotes:

Given New Zealand’s relative size to other markets, we are going to get a pretty thin slice of that, I think. I suspect it will be in the tens of millions, not the hundreds of millions. It’s not going to be a huge source of additional tax revenue for NZ.

The government claims Google takes $800m from the NZ economy.

Also note NZ adds 15% GST (sales tax); however the rules for adding GST for consumer purchases are different than for businesses purchasing goods/services from foreign businesses.

We are a small country. Not sure how taxation could be done fairly for large multinationals... I assume there is a power law and NZ has little leverage.
I would nominally agree but plenty of people seem to use and appreciate this so who am I to judge.
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams - it's a book from the early 90s and Douglas Adams travels the world to see the world’s most endangered and exotic creatures. It's heart breaking and at the same time written with such a delight that it is fun to read. I cannot explain it better but highly recommended.
It shouldn't work like that. The heat doesn't "know" if it came from a radiator or a heat pump. That should not matter for how fast the same heat dissipates.
I didn't know that! So I was thinking on the typical air conditioner that on winter can be switched to output warm air instead of cold.
Though I can imagine over time, when an accident happens and you had your limiter off, that the burden of proof for who's at fault shifts.

Similar to how on much of the German Autobahn you can drive as fast as you want, but if you are significantly above 130km/h and an accident happens, the fast party is the one deemed guilty (unless clearly proven otherwise).
City management is idiotic for not covering the houses with tree canopies.

I live in a 2-floor building covered under trees (built in 1936) and even when it’s above 30 degrees it is pleasant in our house.

We pay a lot for the trees to be properly managed, but it’s for sure less than cooling the house with A/C would be.
Okay, sure.

How does this comment address any parts of my statement?

I'll even quote what might be the most important part for you:

> If your claim is that "Well, if you look at the codebase AS A WHOLE, there's absolutely no iteration and shitty prototypes, it's all designed right from the start."... well, I can't see any way that codebase came into existence without being built up by individual projects and changesets.
If we want to quantify every exception sure. We've moved away from mainframe devices but that doesn't mean none exist. We've moved away from Windows XP but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
While that's technically correct (the best kind of correct!), I doubt a lot of natgas heatpumps are being installed in homes at the moment.

I suppose the real economics are going to be better, as you probably need to make gas more expensive by carbon trade or something in order to decarbonise. And electrical power should be very cheap.
In my area, everyone goes about 10mph above the limit. Police don’t ticket.

Will this system limit exactly at the speed limit? Or will it have some buffer threshold?

This seems like pretty bad tech that I don’t want. And the way it’s written seems very gaslighty…
“ the speed limiter technology is simply there to prevent ‘momentary lapses of concentration’ that could result in speeding”

I don’t think my speeding is the result of momentary lapses of concentration, but calculated decisions about immediate road conditions or long term travel goals (eg, if I go 9 over the limit on a 10 hour trip, it reduces the trip by an hour).
They would have to run the same software, e.g. install Linux on both machines.
It is in Wiktionary as an archaic usage. It makes sense, I think, just an uncommon usage. Singular Vs plural.
You can turn it off, but you have to do it every time you start a drive, like the auto start/stop system does at the moment
It's funny to observe that this election is somehow a crushing defeat for the incumbent Tory party and also means absolutely nothing for political change. Since ousting Corbyn, Labour have become hard to differentiate from the Conservatives.

My hope for lasting consequences out of this election is that the Conservatives will continue to shrink into irrelevance.
> plumbers with experience installing gas boilers

> without a basic understanding of thermodynamic principles.

that when you have them come quote say “heat pumps don’t work” or “heat pumps are expensive to run”
You're operating fast moving heavy machinery in a public space, an activity that kills thousands each year. If you want freedom then do it elsewhere.
> Are those results?

No. And I'm judging them on that.
The radiators act as a heat reservoir that lasts for a while. If your heat pump blows air ac style it can never stop.

Ofc you can hook the pump to a water circuit with traditional radiators…
What if perplexity decides to switch to another LLM backbone in the future?
Practically every house in the world has more one (or more) ... a refrigerator.
Is MLS required by law/EU or something like that? I wonder if this will be the type of thing that will only be implemented by "mandatory" phone messaging apps, and never adopted by the big players like Whatsapp and Messenger.
This doesn't make any sense at all. Standard heat pump installations include a buffer tank (usually at least a couple 100 liters but possibly much more depending on the details of the installation). The heat pump does not heat the house directly, but the buffer tank. The buffer tank in turn sends warm water to the radiators and warm water faucets, etc.

This is the same principle as in traditional gas and oil boilers. The only difference is that in newer, well insulated buildings, radiators need much lower temperatures so they may feel colder to the touch (i.e. you don't burn yourself on a radiator anymore).

But modern heat pumps also can provide relatively high temperatures in case of installation in older buildings with legacy radiators (70°C are not really an issue anymore).

"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)."

In Germany, famously not a very warm country, heat pumps are used in well over 50% of all building projects requiring a permit (this includes renovations). Heat pumps are the definite standard, not an "alternative".
Logs are not just for monitoring and troubleshooting code. They’re actually great for data analytics. I use canonical logs to act like the bridge between metrics and log traces. This is a blog I wrote on how to implement canonical logs for visual data analytics. Tell me what you think about it!
> Price increases: As VC funding dries up and companies face pressure to turn a profit, we'll likely see sharp increases in the cost of AI services.

I disagree. Yes, the VC funding will dry up, but hardware and algorithmic advances will decrease running costs by equal amounts.

Lack of a moat will prevent companies recouping past expenses, since any who try will be outcompeted by new market entrants who don't have those past expenses.
Gas burners use little enough electricity that you can get an UPS for them though.
glad you like it! we put in a lot of work to try make it really fast- it uses jwts so it never touches a database.
Yeah, and hopefully geography lovers like me as well
Around here those are the only ones not subsidised because they are less efficient and usually only a single room solution.

If you have a heat pump driven water boiler for your hot water supply you even get the bonus of allowing it to cool the room in the summer (if properly installed with a switchable duct for winter usage).
Could be very unsafe if this kicks in unexpectedly during an overtaking manoeuvre on a single carriageway. Less speed during the overtake is less margin to oncoming traffic (more time spent in the oncoming lane), and a small speed difference can have a big effect.

Edit: another comment mentioned merging- this too can be huge. If your car isn't keeping up with the flow of traffic, or unable to move faster, that could also directly cause accidents if there's a space in front but no space behind.
What do people want with multimodal agents?
I don't get what kind of applications you can have with vision (not audio since it's barely here yet). If you had a framework that would help you build multimodal-based applications, what would you do? Where would it be most useful??
> Just tell me an attack on the bus of an airplane which couldn't have just as easily been performed outside of the bus.

Timed attacks on multiple aircrafts. Don't underestimate people with evil intentions...
Overall limiting cars to a maximum of 160 km/h seems like a good idea. Apart from some stretches of the Autobahn - there's not much reason cars should go that fast.
The speed limiter is enough, I'm sure that insurance companies will soon offer discounts if you submit those speed logs in case of accidents or in general with live-speed-tracking.

The problem though remains: Too much horse power and it's particularly sad with young men not being in full control of those cars causing accidents of all sort. Here's a recent interview with a public prosecutor in Germany: https://archive.is/20240703123415/https://www.sueddeutsche.d...
"Zephyr is easy to use"

That has not been my experience.

From where I sit, Zephyr has very pretty marketing material.

Behind all that snazz, Zephyr is outrageously bloated, extremely slow to compile and wildly difficult to get up and running.
it sounds to me like people don't like/are sceptical about generative AI, not that they're so expert in the area that they can give a valid opinion on whether this is possible or useful.

part of the technique that diffusion models use is literally to take a vague image of something and then use training data to build it into something more clear. this whole comment chain is so confidently wrong it's unbelievable
If you examine all of his arguments, they all end up in the same place. He assumes that consciousness is not necessary for human-like or even animal-like intelligence, and he works from there back to the same conclusion.
Not every house can have floor heating without prohibitively high costs.
Yes, going from the ground to the sky. Maybe because it was on a volcanic island ? There were some in the Ocean as well.
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>I don't think it's particularly hypocritical.

Feeling the need to write such an article already shows that there is an unresolved difference between action and beliefs.

I am not saying that someone's personal beliefs and occupation can't coincide. But the author, who views even Amazon as an obvious evil, is at total odds with basically all capitalist production.
> 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.

Tell me, what is the average SCOP of heat pumps in the UK and what is the ratio between the price of electricity and gas?
Less reason for them to accelerate like they do. 0-100 km/h in 5 seconds will kill people in a city if you do it by accident, which already happens.
Here is where I’d point out the other central point of the article which is that systemic problems need systemic change, not heroes - if it were possible to be an individual hero, you’d see a lot more change because there’s tons of good people who would absolutely take such opportunities.
We say the chippie in the UK too.

We also use sparkie for electrician.
That trend is not recent, does make love not war ring a bell?

There is a clear effort within an ideological extreme in the "west" to push for unilateral disarmament since at least the beginning of the cold war.
> And consider the "maker movement," which, in my most frustrated moments, I call "arts and crafts, but for boys." The "movement" has been careful to highlight its technical skills to position itself apart from similarly technical fields, like sewing.

I call bullshit on this. Sewing is making. Simple as that. The "maker movement" is not distinct from sewing but encompasses it. At our hack space we have people doing woodworking, people doing machining, people doing 3d printing, and people doing various fiber-arts (sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery). Very often they are the same people, because it is all just making.
> The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has said the move will reduce collisions by 30%.

At least they have given an almost measurable outcome. If only they would choose some measurable metric that had a clear cause and effect and link the legislation to scientific outcomes.

Unlike the other bullshit statement "The European Commission has said the speed limiters could prevent 140,000 serious road traffic injuries"...

Dangerous drivers speed. Reducing top speeds should prevent some serious crashes, but I am curious whether it would be as effective as hoped. And sure as shit it is nobodies job to check reality against hopes.
I’d argue that we should be limiting acceleration as well.

I see no reason why a 2 tonne car should accelerate to 100km in less than 5 seconds, but here we are.
Some info about the EU mandate and Meta working on it here: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess...
The EU requires only interoperability. E2E encryption is not asked for and even against some members of the EU who want chat monitoring capabilities. However, FB and Google might implement it to reassure people that their private data is not used for ads purposes.
The article mentions it is not a limiter, but rather a speed limit warning. So none of your hypothetical scenarios apply, other than drivers might learn not to overtake if breaking the speed limit is necessary because the warning is annoying.
I hope there is some kind of emergency override, like applying full accelerator input, to get out of danger spots. (Edit: article says it would indeed have this)
Haha. Well if these ai robots are smarter than humans they don’t want to work for some sweatshop either.
Why not get a swamp cooler?
The parent commenter handled the ABI question for me, but I want to respond to :

> In any case it is not a standardization issue, but purely a QoI.

This is an enormous problem in the C++ ecosystem - playing hot-potato with whose fault it is, instead of trying to actually fix it. Span is a decent example, the standards committee get to say it's a vendor issue, and the vendors get to say that their hands are tied by the ABI. The result is that people spend time arguing about who should fix it rather than actually fixing it.
We don't use gas much for heating in northern Europe. At least not in Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland (Maybe Denmark is a small exception). Norway is also Europe's biggest gas exporter.
I don't think gas heating is noticeably cheaper than heat pumps, but smaller upfront costs.
This presumes that the SOTA models won't keep growing to fill any efficiency gains made. The models of today will get cheaper to run, sure, but surely the expectation is that AI will do a lot more than it does today in order to justify the staggering investments going into it?
I think you'll find the market for GBA cartridges is alive and well - those handhelds are indestructible, and small release games like this will sell out and be traded by collectors.

And for those who aren't sure about buying a 2nd-hand gaming device from checks notes 23 years ago, you can get yourself something more modern to play it on: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
Cars these days can accelerate to 100 in < 2 seconds. Imho acceleration should also be limited. There’s absolutely no reason for that in cities.
It’s to say we stress so much about avoiding actions to try to push for a society what we actually want, we don’t actually end up making any nudges towards that society.

HN is much more happy with the status quo because they on measure earn enough money to be comfortable at a much higher rate than the rest of society.
Nice :) I couldn't find this before. Thanks
Wouldn't Docker (or other container tools) be a good candidate? Instead of installing the toolchains locally, do the build on a container based on an image with the exact toolchain you need.
After living for 15 years in the Middle East and frequently traveling to other countries around the world, including the US, Egypt, Thailand, and more, I trust European traffic and car regulators and their policies 100%. Landing back in my home country in Europe makes me marvel at how fast, yet safe and organized, the traffic is.

So, I am pretty sure this system will be effective in the long run. Right now, it just seems like a trial, which may require fine-tuning, but fast forward a few years, and everyone will be completely accustomed to it.
That's really neat, I've been looking exactly for a spreadsheet TUI to browse and edit SQLite dbs. Cheers!
We get a lot of power cuts. I have a UPS on the pump for my kerosene fired heating. We also have an aga which uses no power, just kerosene.

I’m putting in underfloor heating powered with an air source heat pump, but leaving the boiler and radiators in place for midwinter and power cuts.
> The current landscape bears a striking resemblance to the early days of cloud computing. Fifteen years ago, it was commonplace for individuals and businesses to pay less than $10 a month for shared hosting or a VPS. This pricing model seemed set in stone, with costs expected to continue declining.

A Digital Ocean VPS starts at $4 a month. It's not so much that we've lost the cheap part of the cloud, it's that the big cloud providers figured out how to do enterprise sales and capture the part of the market that was already overpriced and wasn't sophisticated enough to optimize itself.
Most countries have some collective delusions, but the german ones are so obviously odd.
It's not just that. Following instructions, text generation, etc. all seem to be worse with the api version. At least, when it comes to 3.5 - 4o is much better. Ironically, 4o had problems with correct json output where 3.5 hadn't. It produced ```json {...}``` instead of just the json object.
I like the idea of the snippets popping out along the way. I would clearly use it for my website (https://trekstories.c100k.eu).

Another good use case I see, is for race organizers to showcase the route on their website. That would look more modern compared to the usual low-res screenshot. Something like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5GjuRS9sVA
Not everyone has a Game Boy Advance though. They actually released a digital version that you can use with an emulator, so all is well :)
Not really. When the structures and elements are observable and present, it is fair to call something exactly what it is so long as it is from a rational basis.

Also, these types don't tell the truth often, and regularly seek to dissemble, mislead, and muddy the water. Noise is harmful to signals and communication systems in general.

There's only one way to deal with liars. You accept they have no credibility and stop paying attention, and you hold them to full account when they inevitably cross the line from free speech into traitorous action that is actually punishable.

There is no goodfaith presumption warranted in defense of destructive false ideologies.
In addition to Intelligent Speed Assistance the same regulation mandates automakers to equip cars with "black boxes" akin to those in planes.
On the other hand, I could not find anything in there saying that manufacturers will have only four options to inform the driver about speeding, this must come from somewhere else (hard to say from the article almost without references).
It does limit engine power but I see further down there's an emergency override (by pressing hard on the accelerator) which would get around these issues.
5 seconds is still too quick in my eyes, the current VW Golf can do this, the Mark 1 took 9 seconds. Why would you need this as a default? If it's an option that you have to toggle and it comes with a visible sign and the data tracker kicking in, that'd be okay.
Article on this phenomenon, sometimes called the "spark gap":

https://www.lowcarbonhub.org/p/spark-gap/

The UK is worst in Europe and has been as high as 4.7x recently, more than the average Heat Pump can overcome.
>Lack of a moat will prevent companies recouping past expenses

I think we'll see a lot of vendor lock in by introducing service complexity. We are already at a point where the hassle of switching from one big API provider to another is not always worth the hassle for a small reduction in price or a tiny improvement on some benchmarks. AI will go the same route as all SaaS products until we have GAI-level stuff running locally on affordable consumer hardware. And there's a lot of money to be made until then.
> Some kind of principle of social stability has kicked in.

Same goes in finance. For example, SIFI (Systemically important financial institution) are exempt from regulation and even bankruptcy. It is human nature to mange/avoid risk, and the system will always want to maintain itself. It is kind pointless point finger to say oh this company/nation/regime censor this. Everyone does it in their own ways.
minhash is probabilistic.
Not sure, I get them in france at the very least twice a week. Other people I know complain about the same thing.

I settled on never answering my phone if not in my contact list, if the caller is not a spammer they leave a voicemail.
I'm hoping backstreet reprogrammers will be able to patch the ECUs to ignore this tosh. I'm the person best placed to decide how fast I drive.
I think AI services will be generally free because there is too much juicy data that can be mined and a risk someone might just make it easy to make your own AI "server" so to speak.