skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sadly, I am unaware of Nest and/or Ecobee's support for this sort of a setup. Probably not cost effective for them. :\

I've got both of these. Nest has a setting for 'cool to dry', but my climate is usually not humid and hot at the same time. I don't see a similar feature on the Ecobee, but the Ecobee app is perhaps more confusing. It does send alerts when the detected humidity is above set points. Where I do have issues with humidity is in my basement; typically the basement stays around 5-10 F less than the first floor, and if the first floor is 50% relative humidity, moving the air into the basement results in a much higher relative humidity. If the a/c is running for the first floor, there's a good chance of significant condensation on the vents right after the air handler.
Inflammation seems to be a general enemy to health.

What is the evolutionary value of inflammation? It must have a reason for being such a prominent part of life…
No one understands or is willing to research these things anymore. Everyone (or at least everyone who is screaming and being heard) is mumbling points about interest, boom/bust, AI, etc...

The reality, in my opinion, the governments have made it so hard to start and maintain a business that the market is not liquid for employment anymore. It's not catastrophic, but rather dead (as not moving).

Here are the employment numbers: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-persons

2019: 159M Employed out of 326.8M Population
2024: 161M Employed out of 335.8M Population

1.25% vs 2.75%
A/C is interesting because it has something of a built-in capacity system. "Super" cool the building during times of the day when power is readily available, and that cooling then persists. You don't have to store the electrical power specifically.
Wait till you see the state of error messages today. Not far from this joke https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie
Ah yes, signalling on what we would have done.. Well, I'd totally have delivered panels if Convolt and Chinese companies were banned a few years ago. Make the market exclusive to me and I'll look into what the profit will be if I start producing them. I'll also be sure to prevent the domestic installer industry from taking advantage of low prices, only a small number of authorized ones will pay enough kick backs to have any availability. But its not all economic loss, the repair industry will need to be a lot better with my exclusive US panels.
An old cache of coins or jewelry is unlikely to be in a stream.
Better make sure that project doesn't ship on time
He is literally gone from Amazon. Jassy is next. He is hanging on perhaps because he is only poor centi millionaire and not billionaire yet.

LinkedIn influencers, podcasters and middle-management types keep buzzword bullshit of flywheel effect, today is Day 1, your margin is my opportunity, disagree then commit etc..etc going.

Customers are unsatisfied with ad-infested Amazon site but Bloomberg says Amazon revenue will rise by 30% due to bullish ads business. So Amazon is doing something right.
It really sucks right now, but recent grads and juniors are suffering the most right now, to my understanding. There's an over-production of CS grads, as the industry looked very lucrative, so a lot of people decided to go software engineering route.

It's hard to make a case for start ups to bet on inexperienced people. For mature companies, why pay for 2 juniors, when you can get a senior for 1.5 price, who might do the same work. In the previous years even C-level companies had internship-to-full-time pipelines, but now it looks more scarce. I kind of imagined these tech companies could convince investors about upcoming growth, where they can launch a new products/features, which would require new engineers and etc. With higher rates, investors seeking "what's hot right now", and uncertainties in the near future makes it a bit harder (I might be wrong on this note).

And all these companies have a massive advantage in terms of hiring, as there are quite a lot of talented people who got laid off in the last couple of years. Most of them are willing to take significant cuts as well. So, why choose an average, when you can shoot your shot and get the best out there?
This is gold thx :) (Hopefully it was Amazon the first party seller and there is no mixed inventory to other marketplace sellers).
I hope someone takes the idea from this video and compiles it into more solid and actionable data. I would like something where I can describe my window location and the type of window and it tells me how much cooling I would gain with an awning.
Hey, I just sent it again. Apparently some other user registered around the time you did and I sent the email to them.
User-agent isn't nearly reliable enough to do that with.
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Show HN: OpenMetadata – OSS platform for data discovery observability governance
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It's not a typo. The author alludes to these inflated salaries several times.

Examples:

"while other people who just picked a better company to work at 20 years ago and never left have been growing their wealth by a couple million dollars per year every year for almost their entire career"

"What is it like to join a company where all the co-workers your same age have made $10+ million over the past 4 years while you are joining with nothing?"

You'd have to be very high in the org chart at a FAANG style company to make that kind of income.
Well history in IT repeats itself in cycles. look up #NoEstimates for good and thoughtful content about this topic, and various anecdotes for inspiration. then derive your own conclusions.
Are tariffs the right answer? That raises the cost of solar, and cheap solar is ultimately everyone's goal. Shouldn't we instead be subsidizing solar production, contingent on companies like Convolt meeting delivery and efficiency targets?

Which is to say: Convolt complained about a drop in prices of 50%. Are we really willing—as a country—to double the cost of solar because our domestic companies haven't scaled up? This seems like a recipe for killing momentum around renewables.

Moreover, can you put tariffs on panels made domestically by a Chinese company? The panels aren't imported or exported.

I suppose you could tariff foreign manufactured panels and components to fund subsidies to domestic companies such that the two equalize in cost.
> Or a bait-and-switch the market pulled on women.

I guess what I am trying to say is there is no bait and switch, or trick, or other insidious plot. Women are heavily benefiting from financial independence, and society feels some of the costs.

More work and effort equals the ability to have more purchasing power is a fundamental part of capitalism. If we are so concerned that single income families are being priced out of sufficient quality of life, then we should be mandating overtime after 20 hours per week of work, instead of having one partner in a relationship becoming forced to depend on the other.
What is hidden from all this is one of the greatest scams happening in the tech industry: recruiters.

I think there is not enough light shone on these group of people but basically they have hijacked the whole process and are not technically skilled to understand good developers.

UK tech companies for example have been decimated because of this.
The market is tough now, but warming up. I've been land positions through LI and job listings on company sites in the past, but this time (a couple months back) my network was the key. If you have experience at smaller startups were you can tap into your VCs I would highly recommend you do that. Some VCs have people that lead hiring for their portfolio companies, other don't but they are always trusted advisors and often the first to hear that the company has/is thinking about hiring. If you worked for larger companies you can still capitalize on their VCs - go to local events and get to know the relevant partners based on your function IRL and Linkedin.

Beyond that, I would recommend you scan your personal network for people that could refer you to companies you'd like to work for and have relevant job listings - being that most companies have referral fees there is not reason for your contacts not to refer you for a relevant position.

This might all be stuff you know, but I really want to emphasize that the networking is key in today's hiring market, which is flooded by talent.

I hope I helped. Stick in there, something will come around sooner than later.
> Of course learning is a kind of search, but discovering structures that are good at learning is the whole game

No, you missed the essential. I mentioned search in the context of discovery, or in other words expanding knowledge.

Training neural nets is also a search for the best parameters that fit the data, but it's secondary. Many architectures work, there have been a thousand variations for the transformer architectures and plenty of RNN-like approaches since 2017 when transformer was invented, and none of them is better than the current one or significantly worse.

Also, considering human population, the number of neurons in the brain, synapses and wiring are very different at micro level from person to person, yet we all learn. The difference between the top 5% and bottom 5% humans is small compared with other species, for example. What makes a big difference between people is education, in other words experiences, or training data.

To return to the original idea - AI that simply learns to imitate human text is capable only of remixing ideas. But an AI that actively explores can discover novel ideas, like AlphaZero and AlphaTensor. In both these cases search played a major role.

So I was generalizing the concept of "search" across many levels of optimization, from protein folding to DNA and human intelligence. Search is essential for progress across the stack. Even network architecture evolves by search - with human researchers.
I tend to find classic NLP metric more predictable and stable than "LLM as a judge" metrics so I'd try to see if you rely on them more.

We've written a couple of blog posts about some of them:
https://www.traceloop.com/blog
The Totem keyboard is high on my list of split 40% ergo keyboards to try.

Three great things about the Totem case design:

- The bottom plate has holes for switch sockets. This enables the keyboard to have a slightly lower profile by about 1-2 millimeters. This something I wish more low profile designers would do.

- The bottom place also has recessed holes for rubber case feet. This is lacking from most other designs. On other keyboards without those recessed holes, I've seen the rubber feet gradually slide away.

- The overall construction leaves no PCB exposed. With similar designs, your microcontroller is relatively exposed. This is quite rare in open source designs.

And of course I'm thrilled that both wired and wireless versions are open source. I wish I could say that about my first ZMK keyboard. Way too many offerings out there will copy open source designs but fail to give back to the community (whether they are required to or not is beside the point).

Only problem I have with the Totem is the Seeed XIAO BLE microcontrollers are relatively expensive compared to the competition.
Take it out of the abstract and give me one crystal clear example.

For context, I'm CTO of a gaming startup that uses a Kubernetes cluster to host online multiplayer videogames, and when I read your github and product landing page, I still have no idea who or what this is for. Seems like its targetted for enterprise cloud architects or something. Someone who works on clusters more advanced than ours. Thats fine, but my feedback is simply that I'm no beginner and your landing page basically goes right over my head.

Also, to make people _switch_ from one solution to another, you have to be more than a little bit better, you have to be WAY better. Especially for enterprise clients. To make a enterprise client change their cloud architecture is probably a hard sell, because of the risk involved. Why should anyone attach their professional credibility to your project? I think basically what I'm saying is, you gotta do more to sell this thing.

It sounds technically advanced, but I think you gotta take off your engineer hat and put on your sales hat and make me want it. Or if not me, than make _someone_ want it.
from timetravel import Delorean

d = Delorean(color="SILVER")
if d.power_gw >= 1.21:
d.flux_compensator.charge()
print("Great Scott!")
>Sadly, I am unaware of Nest and/or Ecobee's support for this sort of a setup. Probably not cost effective for them.

Ecobee has a setting to enable this: https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/How-to-use-AC-Overcool...

They also have a setting to adjust the temperature for humidity: https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/Adjust-the-Temperature...
> manage yourself and manage your peers, but you also have an engineering manager and a project manager and the CEO is your skip-level manager and the CEO’s brother is also your skip-level manager too

This is hilarious and I’m sad I’ve seen versions of this more than once.

Overall I enjoyed most of this article but disagree about the objection to behavioral interviews. I think they’re an important part of the modern hiring process but I will agree that the approach is sometimes done wrong by companies and individual interviewers.

its a test of EQ, if a simple question about past conflicts makes you this defensive then its exactly the type of thing it was meant to screen for. I’d encourage OP to put some thought into this part for their own sake. You don’t need to make everyone feel better but if you show up with the attitude that you’re never wrong, then nobody will want to work with you. I know I don’t.
The bimodal distribution of student entrance performance correlating to stratified fiscal castes has been observed for sometime:

"Outliers: The Story of Success" ( Malcolm Gladwell, 2011 )

i.e. the curriculum lesson plans naturally evolve to exclude individuals that don't need introductory lessons, because they are on average 3 years ahead of their peers by the time they enter undergraduate programs.

The kids that need to "catch-up" in introductory Math/English material are no longer failed/held-back a year in some municipalities, but rather given a remedial curriculum over the summer. If those kids parents can afford to put them through an early tutorial program, than excluding the "poor kids" from a seat at the more lucrative faculties is rather guaranteed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E

Mind you explaining to privileged kids why they _get_to_ attend additional instruction can be difficult. As social media normalizes lack of impulse control, and rewards group-think biases. Our little ingrates think they can con/hack their way through life, as some fool on the web is telling them to take the easy path.

Some university kids that rely on student visa programs to access the US immigration process, will get desperate and try to outright cheat their way through a Bachelor of science degree. The real scandal is some folks get 50% of the final problems from $18.74 USD gray market course manuals out of HK, as many institutions must structure their exams this way for credit-transfer compatibility. The myth of natural talent deteriorates further with some fraternities also gaming the system to out-compete the rest of the student body when possible. Indeed, some people do hack/cheat their way to a better life using underhanded tactics, and are rarely held accountable. Some places are even removing the barrier where one needs to be fluent in English.

You are probably still thinking this can't be right, and seats for becoming a physician/pharmacist/lawyer are open to anyone. Yet I can assure you that while the faculties will take your money, the probability of getting into a Masters/Doctorate level program quickly drops while you worked hard to catch up... Note your GPA took the hits along the way.

People need to recognize there is a subtle yet important difference between intelligence and academic performance. No one ever claimed life was fair, but the hypocrisy of many meritocrats can be intolerable at times.

Stealing Einsteins chalk does not make one Einstein... but does silence talent.

Have a great day, =3
> I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from...

With recent trends - have any of them applied to armaments manufacturers or munitions plants?
If you can't be assed to actually write something out, then why should anybody else think your reaction worthy of their time? If it wasn't worth anything to you, then it isn't worth anything to me.
Same here, I think I only got a used-as-new item once or twice (I remember a scratched up cheap $5 timer), even something like damaged in transit is pretty rare, and I get dozens of consumables a month through Subscribe and Save.
+1 for halloy. Very snappy but it does seem to bog when there is a huge buffer to scroll.
I think this is one of those situations where we don't maintain a coherent/consistent thing that we want, and so we always have something to complain about.

0. (1990s) More trade ties will foster growth, and make conflict too expensive for all parties.

1. "We need to move towards green energy production! PV, wind etc need to be cheaper!"

2. "Oh no, China is producing solar panels too cheaply for the US to compete! We need to produce these critical components in the US -- lets set up tariffs."

3. "Oh no, factories on our soil using our labor are succeeding in producing solar panels, but for Chinese owners! We must ensure that PV is cheap, that American labor is producing them, and that American investors receive the profits!"

How did we go from wanting green energy to wanting the right rich people to get richer?
Education, as opposed by the will to deny inconvenient evidence, have been contesting this issue for the last 40-some years.

From the current scorecard: Voter polls predict the next POTUS will be a man who has told us that "Climate change is a hoax."
> The question has therefore been which subsets of the elite would break Republican. In tech, this is now clear: where Obama’s allies in the industry were social media platform moguls, Trump’s are crypto, AI, and biotech investors eager to accelerate America into a new Golden Age of innovation.

Robber barons without failure will always want to see themselves as bastions of intellectual progress and innovation. I think an objective approach to answer whether such personalities really bring forth what they promise is to look at the overall results of their labor. A very superficial example is that no country with an appreciable influence of such people has ever been voted high in the happiness index: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Perhaps, an interesting experiment would be for such robber barrons to try to utilize their great influence and intellect to teach those poor mongrels in high happiness countries all about innovation and technological progress.
I actually enjoyed reading it. There are lot of tech bro folklore in it.

- company in California with a motto of “never hire Americans because 16 year old outsourced Croatian interns know everything already

- it would take a couple million united states freedom bucks to build working prototypes
...

There is enough lines to spin off Silicon Valley successor from it, or at least have a good conversation with the author at local bar.
Neat. How does it compare to https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/ ?
That is all branding. They greenwash themselves publicly but still to this day show PowerPoint presentations to investors about how they are working to undermine renewables and electric transportation in order to fatten their wallets. (Source: climate town youtube channel.)
Yeah different people have different roads. And if someone just doesn't have the inner motivation to crack Math problems, then feeding Math to them, especially in a traditional textbook-homework way, is just going to produce resentment.

My father actually wanted to teach me programming too. But similar to teaching Math, he wanted me to go competitive programming, which I absolutely hated and still hate. If he tried teaching me game programming then it was going to be a completely different story. I eventually taught myself programming decades later. My first language was C++ and my first project was a 2d game engine.

IMO, all those teaching he tried to feed me, not only did not increase my motivation or learning techniques, but decreased them. Throughout my childhood (starting from maybe 9), I absolutely hated summer and winter vacations. While my friends were enjoying, I had to go through TONs of extra-curriculums. I used to practice piano 4+ hours a day (as long as I don't have school), and some other hours for extra homeworks. I absolutely hated that, to the point that I hated playing piano and completely dropped it after actually achieving a lot. My father simply doesn't understand why would a normal human-being hate piano, music and Math, when he couldn't even get them when he was young. I didn't bother to explain.

You were probably not that tough to your children though, so I guess they fared much better.
Show HN: I Created a K8s Course to Help Engineers Gain Mechanical Sympathy
Hi HN,

I wanted to share a personal journey that began in 2017 when Kubernetes was still a new and somewhat intimidating tool. Back then, I was working as a fullstack engineer, and most of my company's systems ran on Kubernetes. I knew nothing about it until a coworker conducted a hands-on session during lunch, explaining the basics and how to use it for deploying applications.

This session was a turning point for me. It helped me develop what I like to call "mechanical sympathy" – understanding the tools we use and how they operate best. This concept has been incredibly valuable throughout my career, enabling me to work more effectively and smoothly across various projects.

Since then, I've worked on numerous projects involving Kubernetes, even bootstrapping clusters from scratch. The knowledge I gained from that initial session has been a foundation for my growth as an engineer.

Recognizing the impact of that experience, I've decided to create a practical, hands-on course to help others gain a similar understanding of Kubernetes. My goal is to demystify Kubernetes and provide a solid foundation for engineers who want to develop mechanical sympathy for the systems they work on.

If you're interested in learning more, you can check out the course at ZenKubernetes.com. I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences with Kubernetes as well.

Cheers,
Gunnar