skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They need to upgrade to the Irish version [1]. Presumably these are safer, and the flow rate and temperatures are probably better. Mine is rated at 9kW, so it can get a decent stream of piping hot water going in no time.

They are really popular here, and every house that I've been in has at least one shower with one of these installed.

Honestly not sure why though. I come from a country where hot water came from a tank and it's pressurized to ~3 bar, and showers are glorious. So I don't understand why they are so popular in some places. I have a hot water tank (called "immersion") in my apartment, yet it's not plumbed to my shower, it only goes to the bath and basins. And seemingly this type of arrangement is not very popular in Ireland. I guess the benefit is that teenagers taking their time in the shower can't drain the hot water tank, so there's always hot water on demand. Probably also more energy efficient in the long run.

1 - https://www.screwfix.ie/c/showers/cat820272?showerproducttyp...
I’ve tried but found it to be a distraction. Instead of focusing on the design and code now I have to focus on getting something out of a wiggling llm algorithm which I need to corner into producing what I need - and then troubleshoot the output.

It’s 10x easier and more direct to just do it myself, distilling my mental model into precise instructions.

Maybe it works better for languages with more boilerplate- I use Ruby which is quite terse.
This mostly depends on what you mean by "these AI companies".

If you're only referring to the big players creating foundation models, like OpenAI and Anthropic, it's mostly speculation of future improvements and revenue, because the amount of money they've raised pretty much requires massive returns. This is similar to how most venture capital works, e.g. Amazon was laughed at for being unprofitable for the first, what, 10 or 15 years of its life.

If you're referring to a broader set of AI companies, then most of the more "normal" AI companies have raised far less money, and are usually eyeing more clear use cases and are sometimes already generating real revenue. For them, I'd say it's not all speculation, a lot of it is productizing and monetizing this new technology that's come along, and is the obvious "low hanging fruit" that actually needs to get done.
> Now, gas showers are

No. Proper gas powered water heaters have oxygen sensors for quite some time, and ours kick-in before we feel anything about oxygen levels, and it doesn't reset until you get proper amount of fresh air in.

Moreover, newer models are completely sealed, breathing air from outside and directly dumping exhaust outside with a fan, via a coaxial pipe.
Tried it, seems to crash immediately:

$ strace ./true
execve("./true", ["./true"], 0x7ffc9993be20 /* 40 vars */) = 0
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

(hexedited copy of /bin/true; something different might happen with a specially crafted file which has no other data in it besides the name of the interpreter?)
It is utterly clear that the random wait is not intrinsic to the logic - it was only added for demonstration to simulate varying duration of requests.

You can simply comment out the println and just pick the first results[0]. Again, the repeated println for all results was only added for demonstrative clarity.

Frankly, the above satisfies all primary goals. The rest is just nitpicking - without a formal specification of the problem one can argue all day.
> forethought

Forethought is only possible if people tell you the requirements precisely correctly upfront. Real systems design is you get 90% built and someone drops a hard requirement that's also a layering violation on you.
All podcasts compete for peopled time and attention.
The protocol supports “upgrading” requests. If your service relies on sending large binary blobs (over this? Why?), then it doesn’t have to be done with JSON.

For example, the metadata of the blob could be returned via JSON, then the request is “upgraded” to a pure binary pipe and the results read as-is.
What does status mean in your pages case? I saw e.g. Fileforge go inactive, but their website looks pretty active. How do you determine the status?
Finally I can prove my girlfriend (who goes to another school, you won't know her) likes me
More often than not it is the wiring connecting the showerheads that is not well done. I got zapped at least once when I worked in Brazil so I took extra care handling the lever that selects the temperature.
> not enough feature tickets to exhaust capacity

This puts you at grave risk of redundancies.
John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
Nice. A blackmail generator
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
I don't think any current flow in the water is deliberate. The heating comes from the resistive heating of the coil. The issue (i think) is the coil being uninsulated, allowing some current to leak out through the water, hence the tingling sensation others have mentioned.
I'm building an inhouse ERP/CRM/warehouse mobile app/ecommerce platform/MOps for my small biz which I have with my wife (own brand of cosmetics, home fragrance, skin etc..) with the hope that it will allow us scale with the minimum employees, the maximum productivity and the lowest cost.

150+ postgres tables, a huge backend dashboard, an optimized storefront, Hasura, Go, React/Typescript/Next.js and a myriad of integrations.

Abandoned my professional career for this one to chase the dream and got sciatica while in the process :)
You're going to have to explain how fifth century Germanic settlers in Britain were colonised by the Romans who arrived in Britain four centuries earlier and were largely a spent force by the time the Germans rolled in ...
So, you want someone else to watch it for you first?
> 15. (Shea's Law) The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up.

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
Would you mind sharing which extension works for you, to help consider a switch to vs-codium?
Ok? I don't see how that is relavant to the question at hand (to be fair, I did assume the parent meant "will this cause any problems since firefox relies on dbus?").

Anything that add new features (early boot IPC in this case) is going to require "more code, more bloat, more complexity, and more attack surface area" unless you rip other features out at the same time.
Well... Not gonna lie, the few times ive been cycled by HV I was very awake afterwards... And then really sleepy...
Vilash
How is it sickening? Tell it to roast you if you think it's a problem.
Thank you, Nic.
Exactly what I wrote recently: "The "AI effect" is behind some of the current confusion. As John McCarthy, AI pioneer who coined the term "artificial intelligence," once said: "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore." This is why we often hear that AI is "far from existing." This led to the formulation of the Tesler's Theorem: "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet.""
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/there-are-indeed-artificial-intell...
I'm building a video API suite [0] in my free time, from transcode to package to player. The full shebang!

[0]: https://github.com/matvp91/mixwave
I remember some tourists in Thailand being killed by one of these:

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/4436799
I just installed a new onde and upgraded to a 220/240V since I can use a smaller section wire gauge. No neutral, just 2x120V live wires.

But since I'm not a suicidal person, and I'm following the NBR5410 standards, I also installed a decent ground wire and a differential residual interruption device. Any current above 30mA in excess and the circuit is off.
How does a regular program deal with “state management” and “data flow”?

We all just programmed things for decades when web guys pop out with this “state management” pseudo-problem and started to invent thousands of pseudo-solutions for it.

And why do we need “optimization”? It’s a user interface, not an accounting software core. A user types a character, you update few divs content or way under a thousand of divs’ visibility. Which optimization does that need?
It’s the automatic https that gets you in.
Stocks are ownership in a company, they provide you info disclosed to shareholders, possibly voting rights, and dividends. It's not like the rover provides a passive income.
Yet another AppImage – based upon proot
very good site - DKB ATM is minimum 50 too I think.
Naming the system would be useful context to add to this point.
I'm no biologist but the samples seem to survive being shipped by standard mail so it doesn't look like they would need very strict storage requirements. If for any reason they do, since they take very little space it shouldn't be too expensive per-sample. What am I missing?
Do those showers you have linked to actually do the heating as well?
Just like real debt. Want a new building now to get work done, not in 15 years when you have the capital? Take out debt, baby!

It's a tool, but a powerful and dangerous tool, and if you don't acknowledge you're using it and respect it, it'll hurt you. Or it'll hurt someone who accepts the grenade from you. Just like real debt.
Currently building a very simple migration tool for SQLite with the Stack Overflow forward only approach, mostly for my projects based on Bun: https://github.com/i9or/migralite

Planning to make it single binary to remove the dependency on Bun from target projects.
FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs
LLMs are basically becoming commodities: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-large-language-models-are-a-co...
Clickhouse is a database. It has cloud offering.
More analysis (including calculations) from another YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ_AAkkgIg
UI looks great, and it's something I would be interested to try. Why PayPal though?
https://archive.is/20240930023217/https://eieio.games/nonsen...
After a tip from hispanophone colleagues in California, I started going to their hairdresser: it was Monday only, $5 or $10 instead of $30, and that was because the girls only took 5 or 10 minutes instead of 45. That was when I learned that the traditional barbershop package consisted of, say $10 worth of haircutting and $20 worth of rag chewing.

> barbers tend to go into that business because they like talking to people.

There's someone on staff at my local grocery who once told me she likes working the register because of the human contact, so whenever she's there and there isn't already a line I head for the register instead of the self-checks.
> let’s be real here this is really expensive to develop and both us and our employees have bills to pay just like anyone else

Couldn't put it better. FOSS advocates want everything for free and source code released every time, all the time. Who's paying the bills? The rent? The mortgage?

To be precise, the system sucks, but we have to work within it, and that means profit-driven companies which pay employees liveable salaries so said employees can buy the food and shelter they need to experience a decent life.

I'll bet that 95% of FOSS developers either contribute as part their full-time job, or already have full-time jobs with the salary and flexibility that allows them to also contribute to FOSS projects in their free time. Not everyone has this luxury.
Blitzkrieg.... Hoes?

I've spent a few more minutes than I should have trying to work this out. The only way I can figure this is it's related to the head movement? Still not sure. I sure do have very little love for this generation though
Shapley Value Explainer and Calculator
A Shapley Value calculator, that breaks down and simplifies the process, with cats.
Apple kit is awful for that, same applies with phones too.
It's true!

Americans would rather see food thrown away than taken by somebody they feel doesn't 'deserve' it.
> A 100 digit number cannot be encoded losslessly in D-Bus btw

I think the concern is that large numbers can in fact be encoded in JSON, but there is no guarantee that they will be decoded correctly by a receiver as the format is underspecified. So you have to cater for the ill defined common denominator.
I got rid of a fine but just being nice, acknowledging my mistake to the officer and apologizing without the intention of getting away without my well deserved fine.
9kW, as in, a 40A current in 220V? If you consider 127V in some regions, it's a 70A current, so wires at least 3mm thick for 40A, or 5mm for 70A. These seem much scarier (and prone to fire risks if not respected) than the shower itself. Without taking into account the likelihood of a breaker box tripping at such high loads.

It seems that the standard rated power of Brazilian showers is 5.5 kW. But then again, Irish weather seems harsher than Brazilian weather.
> Zero?

Wrong answer. Try again

2022. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-709046
Reminds me of how I once wanted to implement a doubly linked list in idiomatic Rust but then people started telling me that I shouldn't want to write that.
I am actually working on my first-ever product hunt launch. And since I am handling the content part, September was all about writing copies, emails, landing pages, and new blogs around the product. It was a bit overwhelming but I can totally see how thrilling it is too. In fact, I landed here due to SocialiQ 2.0 launch. We are yet to launch it in October but coming soon page is ready.
No one listens to an hour of actual vomit just because a friend sent it to them, you should value your time more if you do at minimum.
Real estate search for homes in Ireland where you can travel by bike, train, and walking. Most Irish (and other) property websites just give you a road map, this starts off with a public transport and biking map, and has color-coded rail commute times, etc.

It was something I built for myself years and years ago and then ignored, but when I put it online so my wife could use it, other people started to as well. I lost my job a few months ago and decided to overhaul it. It's how we got a house on a few acres a 15 minute bike ride from the train an hour from Dublin with gigabit fibre under €100,000 in 2019.

www.gaffologist.com. Let me know you saw me on HN!
Good effort if that's what it is (I confess, I haven't looped back to check).

Sharing for people to check is useful to bed something in, I'm not fond of the "privacy violation" but I grew up in small communities .. if you said anything within earshot in a public area it went around town faster than 10 gigabit fibre, and that was before WWW, before even TCP or the IP it sat on.

Accessible storage and replay forever is a whole level up, but these are the days in which face recognition is being rolled out to giant billboards that can display different images to different positions and track several moving pedtrasians with targeted ads based on their preferences.
X is a private company. Elon bought is as a megaphone.

Elon is so wealthy that even if Twitter goes under, it doesn’t mean much that to him. He’ll probably be a bit more butt hurt that he lost audience.

There is enough Elmo bros and right wing fanatics on Twitter now that it’s a solid echo chamber.
> It’s amazing to get a short, clear answer to work from, instead of sifting through barely relevant, spammy search results.

I like this premise but don’t like the fact that the answer could be completely false - fabricated and presented with equal confidence as the algorithm has zero understanding, just stats.
I mean this in the kindest way, but what on earth even is this?

It's described as

> No generative AI.

> No cloud.

> No distractions.

> Just your thoughts.

But that doesn't even vaguely tell me what the concept is and how it's different to just a regular machine without additional services.

The faq goes into detail about what chips might be used, and says they don't like current computers.

There must be a middle ground here explaining just briefly what this is?
> That changed this year and they're now building some very large battery farms and i invasive their coal builds will drop.

This is an under-considered point: just because energy sources like coal or solar, etc. are being installed NOW doesn't mean they will be there forever. Here in the UK, there is often a lot of opposition to solar and wind farms. But I would expect those eventually to be phased out in the same way as coal once better/cheaper forms of generation come along.
Gorhill to Stop Supporting uBlock Origin Lite Addon for Firefox
"The Firefox version of uBO Lite will cease to exist, I am dropping support because of the added burden of dealing with AMO nonsensical and hostile review process. [...]"
The SMBC from a couple of days ago, sort of spoke to that: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/arthur
There is no new law
> Most books published today have the affect of a book, but the author doesn't really have anything to say

This has been the case as far back as I began reading books which is about 30 years.
That is a very bad law. People and especially corporations in favor of it should be under scrutiny for trying to corner a market for themselves.
nice one.. few 'tests':
- probably menu with save/export is still under development

- in FF when typing quickly - latest 'char' is not displayed, although 'sometimes' is there (and visible when hit <enter> ) ; in Safari behaves correctly; TorBrowser last 'char' not visible/nor there even after <enter>

- when speaking about <enter>ing data - I am used to moving by 'arrows' keys to right/down..

- when speaking about 'jumps' over the blocks - I didn't figure it out at all eg(Ctrl+arrow)

- why repetitive '€' formatting is not doing also unformatting?

- 123 menu is still 'active' after choosing some format (should disappear)

Well well.. classic DEVs - 'I am doing QA for myself..' or even worse: 'There is Jon' - another DEV who's checking after me..
Find proper QA - it's worth - ALWAYS.
> In the long-term, the funding touted should, at minimum, allow Arch Linux to improve the security of its distribution and provide more structured releases compared to its current near-continuous update cycle.

This is a weird point, and concerning if it is true, because it seems to assume Arch's rolling release model is a bad model that the Arch team are forced into due to lack of funds, whereas for most of us it is in fact one of the main reasons to use Arch. As another commenter mentioned, the rolling release model is one of the reasons why Valve chose Arch, so hopefully this comment in the article is just misinformed. But there is a concern IMO that once Arch starts to look how Valve want it to look, they will try and influence the project to move to a more Debian-like release model (so that they have to worry less about breaking changes). Of course whether they can successfully influence the project in that way is another thing.
My bad... the video features a design with a coil. There are others which use a grid and the waters conductivity.
For 20-30% of people it is a lack of an affordable home.

If building more homes solves 30% of the problem and this drug solves another 10%, that is 40% of homeless taken care of.

That would be a huge victory that would save hundreds of thousands of lives.
I am not sure we will be able to build something smarter than ourselves, but I sure hope for it. It is becoming increasingly obvious that we as civilization are not that smart, and there are strict limits of what we can achieve with our biology, and it would be great if at least our creations could surpass these limits.
This really doesn't seem like something on-topic for HN?
Web components are not OK. They are shit. I wouldn't touch them, just as I wouldn't touch shit.

If you find React hooks hard to understand, then I really don't need to hear your opinion about anything, including about how web components and HTMX are so great.
Just learn programming.
Second. Had to get a spam blocker because I was getting like 5-10 calls/day from “debt consolidation” companies which is a significant distraction

The spam blocker is pretty powerful though, you aren’t getting past it unless you are in my contacts or have a # flagged as affiliated with a reputable business
Yep I do. Metal casing gives me the tingling.
do you have a hygrometer available? below 50% relative humidity, I get zapped every time I touch my mid-2012 mac book air. I've taken to drying clothes in my living room when the relative humidity goes under 50%.
When you're doing street photography, or any photography with a DSLR/Mirrorless, you don't look at the controls at any given moment.

You see a potential subject, you "arm" the camera via its power switch instinctively.

Your finger goes to front/back dial and you set your parameters depending on the mode, sometimes only paying attention to numbers on the screen or top LCD or viewfinder.

You're tracking your subject now. If you need, you select the AF point blindly via the touchscreen (which is off and is a touchpad if you're looking via viewfinder), and fine tune it via the joystick if you need one.

Looks good, half-press, AF Locks. You release the shutter and camera clicks. It's done.

You turn off your camera blindly and continue walking.
> MacBook

Do you mean the American Electric "Suicide" Computer?

Yes I've been zapped by it numerous times.

Zapped by shower heads? Don't know anyone.

Almost died from a gas heated shower because of a leak? I know one person.

Yes, this is anecdata.
Affirmator.app - Given a list of affirmations, wisdom & goals (sourced from life-success programs like Earl Nightingale's Strangest Secret, and books like Think and Grow Rich), use text-to-speech to generate voice audio files, leave spaces for you to vocalize the phrases, and then automatically play 20-phrase playlists every morning & day. The phrases can range from high-level "I feel strong and confident" to specific to personal goals "I can confidently play and sing 3 songs on the piano.", "I do 25 push-ups every morning"

The idea is that mindset is important in the morning, and that we all want to do these healthy habits - meditation and yoga - and yet when life get's stressful, it's easy to fall out of a healthy rhythm.

I've been doing deep study about affirmations, our sub-conscious mind, and how to use repetition to change yourself - absolutely fascinating and effective. This Affirmatpr tool can help reduce the effects of depression & anxiety, help you set & internalize goals and habits for your dream life.

If anyone is interested in trying it out - I've got a prototype which can create customized affirmation sessions, and layer it on top of a calm music backing track)

Tech stack: Python / Django (soon) / Text to speech: ElevenLabs & Piper TTS. The automation currently runs with 'cron' on MacOS and Shortcuts.app/Music.app on iPhone.

Everything is open-source (Codeberg) and can run locally instead of cloud hosted, so maximum people can benefit (and so you can set private goals/affirmations that perhaps you don't want everyone to hear about).

I would love to meet others who would be interested in contributing / collaborating, as there is huge potential here. My contact is in my profile.
Yeah, and chromeos is more than just the chromeos used on chromebooks, it's also the Container-Runtime Optimised OS (CROS) and used for some other things too, it's "the google Linux".

I'd be speculating but I think inside google there's two Linux's, one which is the immutable OS built via blaze, more like an appliance, and the other is the "dynamic" user environment stuff based on Debian, that is intended largely to be throwaway in most circumstances.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs
The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction
From Zuckerberg's Anxiety to the Birth of Orion