skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thermal comfort is still the number one thing.

Thermal comfort isn't as simple as many people think.

Your wall thermometer may give you a reading, but that may only be perhaps half of what you feel in a room. Another large portion is radiant heat emanating from all the objects (furniture, walls, etc) around you:

* https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/understanding-and-measuri...

It's why in an office people can feel cold and complaint to the the facilities folks, but when they should up with a thermometer it reads the 'correct' room temperature (21C or whatever)—the thermometer isn't taking into account the giant glass office windows that are acting like 'anti-radiators' in the winter.

Further, if the temperature is correct, but the humidity is 'high' (>60%) then things will feel hotter:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics

* https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/bookstore/psychro...

If you live in an area where it can get humid, it's worth considering getting a whole home dehumidifier: if the temperature is 21C but it's humid, the AC will not kick in—you need an hygrometer (RH%) too.
W.H. Auden's 1941 Literature Syllabus
IANAL, but since "Serverless, Inc." chose a generic term for their trademark, usually this means only very specific instances of that mark are enforceable, e.g. "Serverless Framework", "serverless.com" and "Serverless, Inc." But if a company were to say "We make it really easy to use serverless technologies in the cloud!" (note lower case s), that shouldn't be infringing because it's just using serverless as a generic, descriptive term.

"ServerlessAI" and "serverlessai.dev" shouldn't be infringing because they incorporate the generic term in their mark, not the Serverless Framework-specific term. Of course, this means that ServerlessAI would have the same issues you point out - a less-defensible mark and poor Google results.

Also, in the US pretty much anyone can sue for anything, so even if you're in the right it can be an expensive headache to have to defend yourself.
Wonder who will coin said term. Before AI. Pure clean internet 1991-2022
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. It's hilarious, absurd, and surprisingly thought-provoking. There are many philosophical questions and lessons that are not really presented as such (though they aren't hidden, either).

I read it when I was young, it really shaped my sense of humor and got me thinking about some of life and the universe's big questions.
Some books are oranges. Some are apples. Some are kumquats and carrots and key-lime pie.

Some are soups made by your grandmother while you sat in a high-chair and your parents laughed and talked with your uncles in the living room.

Some are the smell of coffee and bacon and eggs and a little more smoke than usual in the air in the morning when your dad cooked breakfast.

It's okay to have a special and favorite book, just like it is okay to have a special and favorite food.
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130/
Here are some translation recommendations (I haven't read them, but would add War and Peace, which I have read, and which is freely available on gutenberg.org):

10 of the best novels in translation into English

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2024/10/06/best-books-...
Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.
Vision Pro's first scripted immersive film is coming this week
Well, Ruby (on Rails) is slow, single core, synchronous, database blocked and hard to scale. But certainly almost everyone realises that's not a feature of it being a monolith, but comes from it's language/stack/paradigms (AR, template, dynamic, JIT etc)?

I have, certainly, replaced some endpoints in Rails apps with lambda's, rust, or even standalone sinatra services for performance reasons.

For example an endpoint that generated "default stable avatar pngs" for new users: Ruby just isn't cut for image generation and manipulation. Rewriting that in a stack that performed x100 in this use-case (we picked rust) took a lot of heat off the cluster of servers.

Or moving the oauth and registration to a separate rails app that served these pages - the only endpoints that did HTML. Allowing the "main" Rails app to remain leaner by not loading all of the templating, and other HTML middleware in memory when it would never be used.

In that sense, I guess, monolyths can have a performance disadvantage: they require the entire app to load stuff for that one endpoint or feature even if 99% of the requests and users never use that.

Like the "PDF generation for reports" we once had, that was rarely used but still loaded in every running thread that would never handle anything related to reports or PDFs. Extracting that to a separate "PDF report generation worker" freed GBs of memory on almost all servers.
Probably the school moved all of their Wi-Fi access points with it? These are often used for indoor positioning, even without any device connecting to them.
You act like Google or Apple had a real choice in the matter. AFAICT, that was all court-ordered.
Just read the egg. Amazing! I had read Weir’s other works and somehow missed this. Thanks for sharing!
I've seen this analysis before, but I'm really not sure what it's supposed to mean beyond "modern populist movements want changes I don't consider to be material". There's no big mystery here - Denmark successfully defused their populist movement by delivering what populists say are their biggest priorities, stricter immigration policies and an increased focus on small towns (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/denmark-europea...).
This is correct.

It was always more of a team organization solution than a system architectural solution. Leaning into it too much on the latter created a lot of complications for the former.
I've read that some forms of protein (such as from animal sources) are more "bio available" than others, and thus result in a higher net result of protein absorbed.

I see I can filter out specific sources, but it'd be cool if as part of the normalization, that it took this into account in some way.
When I Say No I Feel Guilty.

Never Split The Difference.

The Gift of Fear.

Those 3.
Here's my hypothesis: since we are still in the gold rush phase of AI, going to market early and pivoting quickly is imperative. Therefore, it is worthwhile to focus on your differentiating factor and outsource everything else. Plus we use the OpenAI API format, so there isn't vendor lock-in - though we hope we provide enough value for you to stay!

And you are right on the money that OpenAI may not be the best backend forever. That's why we also support Anthropic, Groq, and Mistral.
AR/VR is in a hype superposition, large companies have made large investments yet the tech is arguably in the "trough of disillusionment". Few people think it will break into mainstream use anytime soon.

So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here.

The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
Old Geek check: FIFO was mentioned in Doctor Who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leisure_Hive

well unless he said LIFO, but if memory serves it was FIFO because he was first in and last out ;P
Is it based on the poem or just named after it? I don’t remember anything particularly libertarian about the poem.
I made a somewhat similar prototype by mocking XHR instead of service workers, in https://stackblitz.com/edit/typescript-h3wfwx?file=index.ts

It was fun for a bit to quickly experiment with how htmx works, but I find it difficult to scale in terms of state.
Groving up: Papillon (Henri Charrière - 1969) & Samurai! (Saburo Sakai -1957)
Lately: Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir - 2021)
Obviously: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th anniversary edition (Steven Levy - 1984/2010)
also: I've read all the books from David Thorne, last one: Let’s Eat Grandma’s Pills (David Thorne - 2022)
And if you want to automatically get redirected to xcancel: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
Google is going to have to solve for this somehow if they want to remain relevant, right? If searching for an image and generating the image yield the same result, what's the point of image search any more?
The massive influx of money has empirically had a tendency to turn a substantial portion of your "high information votes" into "high _dis_information votes"
Show HN: macOS Realtime Subtitles with Local Whisper Turbo
I have hearing issues and I do not always understand what people are saying to me.

Launch of Whisper Large v3 Turbo helped me to create an app with realtime, reliable and local subtitles and translations for Mac. Whisper large v3 have support of 70+ languages, so it will work pretty much for everyone globally. Subtitles (or Translations) will be in Mac's Notch so on call you will always look into the camera.

+ Due to Apple's Silicon Chips it is possible to do it offline, so it is good for both privacy reasons and offline access.

App will be available on 21st of October. It will be free for first 20 minutes to prove value.
So, you will lie about your favourite book to socially engineer people? That would be the end of any friendship even if your favourite books are actually good reads. Why would I want to be friends with someone who will lie to qualify me? I don’t put up with that amongst mobile device salespeople and that’s a small investment.
There's public databases of SSID geolocation, e.g. https://wigle.net/
Show HN: Presidential polling with instant electoral results
Hi HN!

This is an experiment with low-friction, "fearless", Internet-based polling. There is no authentication, only a captcha and restriction to US IP addresses. Congressional district is detected automatically. Selections can be changed at any time until the poll closes, kind of like a presidential caucus. Just tap to select. Tap again to change.

I built this after pondering about how polling (or even voting) could be improved through technology. Yes, digital voting is a tough space with trust issues. Maybe there are practical, partial solutions.

This is my third post. Earlier submissions didn't perform well, probably because politics is a sensitive subject. However, this project is not political. It is about tech and process. I believe it's an appropriate submission for HN and it ought to be interesting no matter your political leaning. Hopefully with this better framing there can be better discussion.

Another way of looking at it: if the poll results bother you, think about how improving polling/voting generally might help your cause.

Here are some topics to guide constructive discussion:

* Internet-based polling. Can we make this a routine thing? Would it be worthwhile? Abuse prevention?

* Internet-based voting. About time or never gonna happen?

* Augmenting the voting experience. We don't have ranked choice voting, but maybe it could be simulated in advance of an election. Maybe an organization could act as a delivery agent for mail-in votes.

* The tech stack. This project uses a combination of boring (Django+Postgres) and shiny (Fastly edge pub/sub, captcha, etc). The database ought to be able to handle a few million participants. To get to a few hundred million I'd probably add more PG nodes and shard. Curious what others think about the database options for accurate+fast counting.

* Have fun with it! This isn't a real election. If you want to VPN to an empty state to claim a bunch of electoral votes, go for it. I hope with enough participants the results would be mostly representative, though.

The poll will run every Monday afternoon/evening until Election Day. It's designed to withstand a good bit of traffic so feel free to share it.

Earlier posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630976
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41555752
This was seriously proposed by some. E.g. "scaling services independently"

Scaling services independently is usually a recipe for outages where something is at the wrong scale. Sometimes you want to separate workloads that don't fit the request response model well because they take too long or use too much CPU or RAM, but you don't need micro services to get that benefit.

I don't think anyone was claiming it would lower latency for typical requests except maybe indirectly through materializing views in event-driven architecture.

I think the steel man has been about scaling teams, but the discourse was not limited to that.
I can confirm this! Initially tried shortcuts with unwrap, but once the structure is solid, it's on par with TS/Python frameworks.
" A lawsuit launched in Delaware by a group of more than 100 creditors to recover $533mn of the $1.2bn syndicated loan to Byju’s secured in November 2021 has revealed disorganisation at the edtech company.

Earlier this year, Raveendran’s brother Riju struggled to explain to a US judge that he did not know the whereabouts of $533mn of the loan. Riju, who was the sole director of US-based Byju’s Alpha, a company created to receive loans, said in May: “I really don’t know where the money is.”

Riju, who lives with Raveendran and his wife Divya Gokulnath, the company’s husband-and-wife co-founders, in Dubai’s affluent Emirates Hills community, said he had sent emails asking them where the money was."
I am a backend/ML engineer and tried using HTMX to create a website with:

* Search box

* Typeahead

* Instantly updating search results

It was super instructive. In the end, I realized HTMX was probably not the best tool for that job, but it really helped me bridge the gap between "I get in theory why we use JS on the FE" and "Ah, I can see why client side JS is the obvious choice for this".
It's so hard to do this because the better you make it, the more valuable it is for someone to a) scrape it all b) try to insert fake content
DHH mentioned 10TB of cache and only 0.5ms increase in latency difference between Redis and SQLite. I wish other could test it out and have some other figures to point to. But if the stated case were true then I think sacrifice 0.5ms for 10 to 20x more cached resources sounds like a very good deal to me.
Yeah some deprecated C API stuff just got removed, so it might take me, a package maintainer, to catch up.
Many modern, developed democracies do exactly that, and are quite more democratic than 2 parties running the state. As well as not making elections a show might help democracy instead of the best showman.

I will be waiting for the American exceptionalism arguments on why a thing that well functioning democracies/countries do wouldn't work in the USA.
Ruby has evolved slowly language-wise compared to C++, or even Python.

Most changes have been in libraries and interpreter / VM implementation.

Updating your knowledge from Ruby 1.8 (mid 2000s) to 3.x (current) takes little effort.

But yes, sparse API documents were always a problem because a big chunk of the community was Japanese.
If you kick someone out, you lose them as a customer, and they'll tell all their friends about the free play trick out of spite, so you'll have to patch the machine anyway.
Well, if one rephrases the question to "where is all the reporting on the things that nation-state level resources are spent on hiding?", it perhaps becomes more clear what the problem is.

One of the places the scientific mindset, as useful as it is, breaks down badly is in trying to determine the truth about things that are being deliberately, intelligently hidden. All I can tell you is all the incentives are lined up for manipulation of all kinds, of which even merely "bots" are just a subset. It's obviously easy, practical, profitable, strategically important for any number of entities of all levels of ethics, and so forth. But precisely because they're hidden, they're, well, hidden. I can't prove it in general, prove any specific entity is doing it, or prove that any specific piece of content is primarily intended as manipulation in general. Sometimes in specific cases you can get lucky on that last one, but you can't in general.

Again, while I can't prove it, you're probably asking entities beholden to the biggest manipulators, if not outright tools of those manipulators, to expose the manipulation. Guess what's not going to happen? I can't prove it, I can just observe the staggeringly large incentives to capture the loudest media voices and find the idea that nobody has ever succeeded exceedingly implausible.
Filmmaking is being disrupted! We created a directory for the best Gen AI video and directors.

I used to work on TV commercial that cost $500k and took 6 months to produce. Now a team of 3 can do a Dior ad in 2 weeks spending $2k. This is wild!!!

https://freshbread.ai/best-gen-ai-videos/

https://freshbread.ai/best-gen-ai-directors/
One of the replies mentions this uBlock Origin AI blocklist (haven't tried it myself): https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
It is Ocaml in all the ways that matter, but with .NET's async story/runtime/memory management, and tooling.
That has a lot more L-theanine, but even then seems very variable so could be the same or way off.

For example, in one study "the final dose of 1 gram of Matcha green tea was taken
on the testing day and contained only 12.4 mg of L-
theanine." Source: https://www.ffhdj.com/index.php/DietarySupplementsNutraceuti...

Another study: "According to Kaneko et al., the content of l-theanine in matcha tea infusions amounts to 6.1 mg/L [50], while Unno et al. [9] found as much as 44.65 mg/g of that compound in matcha tea samples." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7796401/

I'm not sure, but I guess one would use around 4 grams of matcha in a cup? So then at the upper bound you would come close to 200mg. But matcha has a lot of caffeine so probably not suitable to improve sleep.
Interesting, must have learned it so long ago… Pascal? that I conflated it with math class. Still ~1958 is rather venerable.

The plot thickens, apparently ++ is used for erlang. So I still find it a poor choice.
So I’m building something with HTMX - combining it with alpine has been pretty nice for interactivity managed by client side state
> I'm trying to imagine how it can actually take up time. There are so many tools for getting media, watching media, and organizing media that it is basically all automated away at this point.

Thinking that various tools existing means no time or attention is paid to organization anymore seems like a very optimistic view towards those tools. To your point with the Media Hoarder thread, relying solely on a single tool to organize your stuff isn't a common practice, anyway.

I have a NAS with 42TB of capacity at the moment. I'm running about ten web services to present or organize certain types of media. It still takes time to add new media to the appropriate service, and there's still a ton of data that doesn't fit into any of those services and must be organized manually on the filesystem (if it's organized at all).

When I think of "data hoarding," I'm not just talking about scraping torrents for commonly available TV shows into your Plex instance. I'm thinking of any possible data on the internet-- that includes one-off videos from not only YouTube but lots of smaller websites (Vimeo, Dailymotion, Yahoo! Screen, etc), software of various types (OSes, games, miscellaneous apps), images that may or may not be grouped together and may or may not include textual accompaniment, documents that might be in one of half a dozen different formats, etc. And then of course, you also have original content that you create in the course of living, whether that's photo albums from your phone, receipts you scan, or whatever else, which you probably don't want mixed in with other peoples' stuff that you downloaded.
Back then we still called things image classifiers or machine learning, and when you said AI most people probably had an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cortana flash in their mind.
The explosion of Chernobyl released a few thousand PBq of activity. Coal contains a few tens to a few hundreds of Bq/kg. You would have to burn something like 50 times the world coal reserves (and make sure not to use any exhaust filters) in order to match the radiation release of Chernobyl.
Are you sure there is no such regulation? We are talking about type approval, not individual registration, and the EU Reg 2019/2144 says:

Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (9) sets out requirements for the protection of pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users in the form of compliance tests and limit values for the type-approval of vehicles with regard to their front structure and for the type-approval of frontal protection systems (for example, bull-bars). Since the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 78/2009, technical requirements and test procedures for vehicles have developed further at UN level to take account of technical progress. UN Regulation No 127 laying down uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles with regard to their pedestrian safety performance (‘UN Regulation No 127’) currently also applies in the Union in respect to type-approval of motor vehicles.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2144/oj
You're generalizing way too much. There are still tons of teams out there running and creating new microservices.
I think you just proved his point. This response is clearly quite aggressive and over the top and thus falls in the camp of being unlikely friends vs. someone who takes a more cordial approach.
Show HN: Newsboat-Digest, Summarize unread articles in newsboat with Gemini
AI will use a lot of energy. That's good for the climate
It seems like it makes easy things easy and hard things hard, which seems like a pretty poor value proposition - at least relative to some of the hype around it.
May as well complete the set: Is Worse Really Better? https://dreamsongs.com/Files/IsWorseReallyBetter.pdf

Also: Nickieben Bourbaki might be an anagram of something, but it is definitely not an anagram of Richard Gabriel, with or without the P. There's no G, there's no h, there's an N and a k, it isn't even particularly close.

That claim is my best interpretation of this sentence:

> Same author (name is an anagram).

Although perhaps it was not your intention to connect the clauses in that way.
Thanks! I was inspired by levelsio's meme about having MVPs in a single index.php file. Traditionally, I've organized codebases into folders, but I started questioning its necessity.

Folders often just add an extra layer to search through. It's basically a search param. With Neovim and strict naming conventions, I've found managing everything in one file works quite well. Keyboard navigation can make folders feel like a hassle in the vi context. This setup has been effective so far, though potential downsides might appear later on.
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut - I re-read it about once a year. It hits a nerve for me and helps me focus on whats important.

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
I don’t know if the article describes the best use of HTMX, but when I wanted to experiment with building an interactive physics application on the web that used Julia on the backend, it was a perfect fit. I could design the whole page without any javascript (almost):

https://lee-phillips.org/pluckit/
When and where you heard that initcwnd is typically 40 for most CDNs?

I was curious but the most recent data I could find was from 2017 when there was a mix of CDNs at initcwnd=10 and initcwnd>10:

https://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/initcwnd-settings-major-cdn-p...

Currently Linux still follows RFC6928 and defaults to initcwnd=10:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.11/include/net/tcp...
No.

Crypto = Crypto