skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, after a nearly $17,000 HVAC replacement, I was poking away at my new smart thermostat and trying to configure it for the two stage furnace and AC (the old one was single stage)...

Thermostat: your system isn't wired for two stage.

Me: ?!?

Look under thermostat, nope, previous wiring. Call installer company (one of the biggest in the area). "We'll come out and have a look tomorrow." They do, and give me a similar quote, maybe $500ish.

Uh, no. I paid for the installation of a two stage system. That installation should include the wiring to run the system as a two stage system.

Another call and it was no charge, but I shouldn't have had to make either call.

And then of course, being the "cynic" I am, I wonder how many people with this company that have brand new two stage systems happily running on single stage.

This is after I was told if I waited for the off-season, there was a 15% discount. But the AC died at the start of summer, so I said, I'll take it ASAP. I made a down payment, duly waited... and then was told - the night before the install - that they wouldn't be there, because they had no stock of the air conditioner (what, you just discovered that now?). No big deal, my furnace was working fine. I'll wait. Six-eight months. Which, fine, it got installed before next summer. But if I'd known that you had no supply, and were never going to be able to honor the installation window, I'd have opted for the "off-season" install.
A wholly reductionist comment that misstates my opinions. Believe it or not I think there’s an optimal space between the environmental conservatism I’m espousing and charging forward into an unregulated and environmentally destructive bliss that doesn’t result in being opposed to any form of new development ever.
Isn't what we're seeing with boomers just the natural progression? Heroes die before they become villains or whatever that saying is.

Millennials are already getting roasted for being kind of shitty, and they also wanted to change the world. That sort of thing?

(And yes leaving gen. X out was intentional - the ones that I know tend to complain about being a forgotten generation, so I thought it was funny)
Automattic is hurting financial. That is why they asked employees to take severance and why they are lashing out at their competition.
Well, I wish for a lot of things, doesn't mean I get them.
Based on what I know about 3D games, I can not imagine that being more efficient than current methods. Especially if you take the 3D world data into account.
I had a bad capacitor this past summer and ended up having to drive over an hour because the only place in town that would sell me a capacitor was Grainger on the opposite end of [moderately large town]. Everywhere else I called declined to sell me one for "safety reasons". Several did offer to send a tech out to do it for me...
Have you opened issues with suggested algo improvements? They might be open to them.

Even if restic isn't interested, maybe the rustic dev will be.
Are there studies of the long term consequences to children resulting from not giving them a smartphone or access to popular social media?
Hah, most places here charge a callout or quoting fee that they will refund when you order from them.
It's a shame that this video didn't get any traction, Chollet is one of the most reasonable voices in the AI space and here he discusses the limitations of current systems as well as potential solutions going forward.
That's why it is good in the long run, assuming the infrastructure can't get annihilated in a crash.
They're still having some significant burn through problems on the upper stage fins during reentry it looks like. Way better than last time but the top part of the fin was glowing far a while after the main reentry finished.
Head: meet sand

So what if it’s caused by changes in nutrition? That has no impact on the practical effects of the change.

Average height has increased significantly due to nutrition. Would you say that modern height increases are a total fallacy?

I’m not making any claims about chemicals or whatever people on the internet often ramble about.
That's actually a point against: Jewish financiers would have expected interest, surely. It's Catholic ones who had to loan without interest.
You can also talk to your kids candidly about social media. It's an amplifier of the issues they will have to face in middle school and growing up _anyway_, it's a conversation every parent should be having.
AES-256 is already post-quantum secure; what exactly are you suggesting?
Maybe. But if it is a worse design for tasks A, B and C and harder to build, why not go with the simpler and more specialized design for each separate task? Is the economy of scale really that much better with the general design? I’m not convinced.
The fact that Tiktok wholesale bought the user base for musical.ly, largely preteen children, and converted them to an entirely different app meant to addict them and harvest their data seems pretty unconscionable.
Do people use this only in the hot months? It's beginning to get cooler where I live and from now until around April we do the opposite and use a heated mattress pad. For me there's nothing better than getting into a warm bed in a cold room. I immediately turn off the heat after getting in though, otherwise I overheat and sweat.
Ilya Sutskever, among others, believe that better prediction is achieved through understanding, and that models can be learn to understand. As we have. We are not born understanding everything.
China stopped being real communist because they were tired of starving. They are the proof that a centralized managed economy only leads to stagnation at best and mass death more commonly. Today they are a very competent cartel that takes a big on all free market production. Deng was mainly a genius and saved the country from Maoism.

Slavery existed well before capitalism and is economic system independent. Slavery occurs across a wide spectrum of economic systems today. It will always exist. It’s up to governments not capitalists to outlaw it. Capitalists need rules to play by.

Human Resources are the socialist/communist/leftist contribution to our economic system. They can’t actually contribute anything useful but they can deploy commissars to ensure the humans in the organization have right think. HR and all the associated schemes are simply leftist grift that infects everything.
It looks nice, but until they support FUSE mounting, I'll stick with restic.
> The evidence of Columbus's origins in Genoa is overwhelming: almost no other figure of his class or designation has left so clear a paper trail in the archives.
Another maintained fork
https://github.com/mailgun/groupcache
Even if we grant that US-based apps give similar access to the USG (I don't know, I just know it's a likely claim that I don't care to dispute), it's ludicrous to say that it's just as acceptable to give that access to the Chinese government. If you think those are equivalent you have not been paying attention.
Applying a smooth structure to a manifold to make it a smooth manifold is like a patching process that makes it look like a Eucliden space.

Most of calculus and undergraduate math, engineering, and physics takes place in Euclidean space R^n. So all the curves and surfaces directly embed into R^n, usually where n = 2 or n = 3. However, there are more abstract spaces that one would like to study and those are manifolds. To do calculus on them, they need to be smooth manifolds. A smooth structure is a collection of "patches" (normally called charts) such that each patch (chart) is homeomorphic (topologically equivalent) to an open set in R^n. Such a manifold is called an n-dimensional manifold. The smoothness criterion is a technicality such that the coordinates and transformation coordinates are smooth, i.e., infinitely differentiable. Smooth manifolds is basically the extension of calculus to more general and abstract dimensions.

For example, a circle is a 1-dimensional manifold since it locally looks like a line segment. A sphere (the shell of the sphere) is a 2-dimensional manifold because it locally looks like an open subset of R^2, i.e., it locally looks like a two dimensional plane. Take Earth for example. Locally, a Euclidean x-y coordinate system works well.
The booster actually does have heat shielding behind the engine bells, to protect against aerodynamic heating on the return. In some of today's footage you can see it glowing yellow.

However, Raptor 3 is supposed to obviate the need for this shielding.
> Believing you deserve it (over, say, a family with kids who truly do need the space and privacy)

k. So you're not against strawmanning.

> And it’s not like it was a barely tolerable existence — I wouldn’t trade my five years living in a glorified flophouse for anything

That's good for you, I guess. Are you acquainted with Rob K. Henderson and what he calls "luxury beliefs"? Or abfan1127[1]? It's easy to discount having "a quiet place to study"[2] if you've never been harmed by not having it and your response to your roommates' youthfully stupid hijinx involves grins and not grief.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25468799>

2. <https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/>
I don't think anything about our update could cause the issues he describes and we've had no other reports, this is the only claim on the internet, and doesn't include enough technical details to tell if it's an actual bug or not.

If it's a bug, our bad and we'll fix ASAP. If it's a bug, it's a very rare one. There have been 225k downloads of the SCF plugin in the past 24 hours, implying a lot of updates. I would estimate at least 60% of the sites with auto-upgrade on and using .org for updates have done so already. https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/advance...

That said, I'm happy to pay system2 whatever he thinks his time was "spent" on a Sunday is worth. Just let me know an amount and where to send. You can contact me here: https://ma.tt/contact/ .
- How do you even visualize an 11-dimensional space?

- oh that's easy - you just visualize an N-dimensional space and then set N equal to 11.
it’s true and very disturbing. start stocking up on cheap good food while you can.
The history of replication in PostgreSQL (2015)
I'm wondering if they'll be using the vertical equivalent of arresting gear on aircraft carriers[0]. See when fighter jets land on aircraft carriers? There's a cable that decelerates them. That, but for vertical landing.

The way these chopsticks are set forces the booster into a dangerous, snake like maneuver (a SnakeX maneuver) at the last second from a vertical setting, to get into the chopsticks. This maneuver is due to the fact chopsticks are short and the booster has to land on one point in space. No degrees of freedom.

Now, imagine if the chopsticks were long. The booster wouldn't have to land at one specific point, but it could now land on a line. One degree of freedom.

Now replace the long chopsticks with cables, and then add another pair of cables perpendicular to them. So you have a pair of parallel cables perpendicular to a second pair of parallel cables. Now the booster doesn't have to land on a line, but can land anywhere in the grid that's covered by the cables. Two degrees of freedom.

Pushing this thought leads to having a sort of iris diaphragm, like the ones in optics, but an iris diaphragm of cables. The diaphragm is open when the booster is about to land, then closes in quickly. Imagine this[1], but it's cables cinching in.

Now, it's a diaphragm of cables, not a diaphragm of rigid beams, so I imagine the deceleration to be even smoother as the cables elongate, and an additional system of springs and dampers to counter the weight of the booster.

The booster is vertical and stays vertical. Granted, an unstable equilibrium, but it beats doing the SnakeX maneuver to get to the chopsticks, and that's another story.

Now, imagine the iris cable diaphragm can move up and down like equipment handling containers, and now you have three degrees of freedom. That's less control to worry about on the booster's side at the worst possible moment, landing, where you can't make adjustments anymore.

This not only means being more forgiving on mistakes related to position, but also on speed and angle. The diaphragm catches the booster at any angle, and given that it cinches way above the center of gravity, the booster goes back to a more stable vertical position.

For the fire, maybe you just need a big hole down there.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arresting_gear

- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iris_Diaphragm.gif
> Yet, there are tons of people much richer than Musk was (before Tesla and SpaceX) who have achieved nothing of note with their billions.

Bill Gates eradicated polio. Sam Walton re-invented shopping at scale. Jeff Bezos re-invented shipping logistics.

I know you reeeeealy want to defend Musk, but think about your argument before posting it next time.
Automattic needing more money explains all of Matt M's moves.
Hard to stay apolitical when the government excludes you from an EV summit and calls your competition the market leader, a bold face lie.
Absolutely, There's huge potential, especially in a market like Mauritania, Pakistan, US, India. I’m definitely focused on making sure everything is done right to maximize that opportunity
Hispania constituted several Roman provinces. I'm not sure what you mean by "unified". Unified legally under the Roman empire, sure, but not as a nation or even culturally. (By that token, we could say "Spain" was unified under the Arabs, too.) It is not until the marriage of the Catholic monarchs that historians put the start of Spain as a unified nation. So "reconquista" doesn't add up to reality; "unification" or "birth" would be a better term.

I think your other points are fine, thanks for adding.

> Spain wasn't, but for some savages, empty land for the muslim armies to take.

It was fairly a walk in the park for them; took only a decade to get the peninsula under control and venture into France, until they lost their first battle there. That, and the Basque country; nobody can conquer the Basque country, which is why they speak a non-romance language to this day, among other things.
The fact that he was Italian and Catholic is beyond dispute.

The possibility that he might have had some Jewish blood, doesn't really change anything except for the most tribal-inclined people (who typically make for terrible historians anyway). Hell, the Mediterranean had been a big melting pot for almost 2000 years at that point, practically anyone would have had some Jewish blood, some Greek blood, some Italian blood, some Spanish blood, some North-African blood...
unless it can be refueled from a truck and reused without inspection.
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Right, OLTP vs OLAP are very different workloads (using the car analogy, that would be like using a ferrari to tow a trailer, and an F250 to... oh wait, an F250 can do anything!).

But seriously though, even if you use postgres, as a former DBA (DB2 and Oracle) I would have tuned the OLTP database very differently to the OLAP database, and I don't mean just indexes, but even during ETL from OLTP->OLAP you might decide to de-normalize columns on the OLAP side simply to speed up queries (OLAP databases are the sort of database you were warned about, where indexes can be 10x the data size)
Static typing, lexical scope, good performance on huge files out of the box, extension sandboxing
That's a property of some kinds of social media. Not a definition or negation of.

The most amusing thing is that discussions on reddit, tumblr, x, etc include the very same kind of denials that gp comment is eliciting regarding those sites being social media.

Social media includes content sharing, discussions, and echo chambers, all of which are present here in abundance. Certain content gets promoted over others, and each site assumes see itself above others.
not "an H200", "In the table above, tensor parallelism is compared to pipeline parallelism with each across eight GPUs"
Don't forget Microsoft Frontpage
Isn't this what I said?

>the lever would do LF, and pushing on it further would do CR (tensioning the carriage spring).

In any case, carriage return is just as important function of the lever as line feed:

- you can also directly do line feed by turning the roller

- line feed, by itself, doesn't need a large lever

- carriage return, by itself, doesn't need a large lever either - you can simply push the carriage

- however, having a large lever is an ergonomic feature which allows you to:

1) return the carriage without moving your hands too far from the keyboard

2) do CRLF in one motion without it feeling like two things

3) If needs be, do a line feed by itself, since the force required for that is much smaller compared to the one to move the carriage (lever advantage!).

The long lever makes it so that line feed happens before carriage return. If the lever were short, you'd be able to move the carriage until it stops, and only then would the paper move up.

So I wondered why the control codes are doing the operations in the opposite order from the typewriter.

Turns out, the reasons are mechanical[1]:

>The separation of newline into two functions concealed the fact that the print head could not return from the far right to the beginning of the next line in time to print the next character. Any character printed after a CR would often print as a smudge in the middle of the page while the print head was still moving the carriage back to the first position. "The solution was to make the newline two characters: CR to move the carriage to column one, and LF to move the paper up.

Aha! Makes sense.

In a way, this was creating a de-facto protocol by usage, in a similar spirit the the author is suggesting to get rid of it.

As in: the existing standard wasn't really supported, but letting the commands go through nevertheless and allowing things to break incentivized people to collectively stick to the way of doing things that didn't result in misprints.

____
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
although I criticize the same people, I think your viewpoint is too dismissive

without prior knowledge of what psychonauts say, I also experienced increased empathy or ability to relate to more people and animals. body language, cues, things that maybe come with mental development or maturity but seemed more refined and accelerated. on the empathy and EQ, it seems to wear off. so noticing that is a shared experience is fascinating to me, I wish it could be controlled for specifically to refine that aspect of the substance or trigger in our minds instead of jumping into the debate about legalizing that specific substance, and I understand the limitations in testing it, both from a legal and regulatory standpoint and from a control group and study standpoint

this leaves us at square one, where I can appreciate others experiencing it but I cant quite recommend either due to how varied the experience is
Kind of? By "relational" there I meant "traditional relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL that are optimized for transactions and aren't designed for large scale analytics".
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> I also don't understand why people get a boner with Columbus. It is since the Greeks that people knew the world was not flat, and the vikings (presumably Leif Erikson) landed in Canada much earlier after a quick hop from Greeland. The only questions left at that point were: how big is that land over there, and can you get to India traveling West? It's all good and stuff, but not mind-blowing to me.

Columbus was also famously a big idiot that just got lucky. He believed for some reason that the earth was much smaller than it actually was (contrary to established belief at the time) and that he could easily find a way to India by travelling over the Atlantic. If the Americas didn't exist, he and his crew would have died at sea. He remained convinced that the territory he discovered was part of India until his death.
I think it's great that the Chinese government, known for welding people inside their house, forcing citizens to continue paying into unfinished apartment building, taking passports away from teachers, transferring organs from young bodies into CCP leaders, amongst other things, have a massive tool to brainwash Americans.
Why pay for a search engine
> The other issue was in most jurisdictions homeowners get exceptions on licensure requirements for small jobs done in their own home, a pro has to cover this cost.

In my state, a plumbing license from the state costs $139 and lasts three years. That's not exactly onerous.

> Also I’m guessing you didn’t need to pull a permit for the low voltage line, very possible one was not required but not necessarily.

I'm yet to meet a contractor who doesn't pass permitting costs on to the customer.
I don't get how we got to the point where phones were allowed at school in the first place. Cell phones (though not smart phones) were around when I was a teenager and were universally banned in class and even in the hallways, except for emergencies. Even a non-smart phone is a huge distraction because of texting. Why were they unbanned?
Probably the one that got mad at clients being dropped over an issue "not serious enough to triage".
“realizes”

Your heartbeat is a constant 24/7 but you rarely notice it outside of moments of quiet contemplation. Same deal here, we’re really good at ignoring most things because we would be unable to function without blocking just about everything else out. Arguably a great deal of our economy is based around people actively trying to avoid actually contemplating anything deeply.
Stop all JS, CSS, and any other processing for any tabs that are not currently active where the site has not been placed on an allow list allowing it to continue to run in a background tab.

Also stop JS, CSS, etc., for any active tabs where the Firefox window does not have current focus unless on the allow list, above. Firefox currently assumes any active tab, even for an iconified window, shaded window, window on non-current virtual desktop, or otherwise not currently visible window, should be allowed to burn through CPU/battery while doing nothing of value. Using window focus would allow for stopping all non-active/non-visible windows.

This would improve battery life, and leave CPU capacity for other tasks that aren't just wasting the CPU.
Join buildclub.ai and announce there. You may find a cofounder there.

What you have built is really excellent. That wasn't just a demo, it felt like a mature product already.

I imagine a good use case will be farmers. Check on weather, operations ... hell it could be an automated sheep dog!

Having this in ubran areas would suck unless it could be quiet and guaranteed not to injured.

Also you are clearly a sales and tech two-for-one unicorn.

Good luck!
Most are electrolytic for practical reasons including cost and available capacity+voltage rating. Electrolytes in the capacitors dry out in the hot weather as well as other things like other components going bad and drawing too much current, both of which cause further overheating. Overheating makes the electrolyte dry even faster (making the capacitance plummet and resistance increase, i.e. stop capacitoring) and generate gasses (=>swell/pop).

Tldr hot weather is hard on them. They have a finite lifetime and suffer most when you need the AC the most.
IIRC what Columbus didn't know was Eratosthones calculation of the circumference of the Earth that was <1% off, but believed Ptolemy's ~30% short estimation and figured there was no land in between Europe and the East Indies.