skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I hire you to figure out how to cool my space? It's only 625 sqft, and it's all one room except the bathroom, which accounts for the middle third of one side of the house (kitchen is on one side of it and bed area on the other, but they're not separated from the other half of the house by anything.

The problem I have is that all my windows are narrow casement (crank out) windows, so the only AC I can use is a floor unit, with a plexi plug covering the rest of the window. They're too narrow for real window ACs. It's 14,000 BTU, ostensibly, and has a dual hose to avoid creating negative air pressure inside the house, but it can only really keep it 10-15° cooler inside than outside. That's fine until it's over 90°, which thankfully doesn't happen all that often. The AC has to be in the southeast corner, and there can only be one, because all the outlets near the windows are on the same circuit, and it's not able to power two. Oh, and the whole east wall is a giant double sliding glass door, which has a gorgeous view of the river, but gets hot first thing in the morning.

I'm mostly kidding, but man, any suggestions for how to improve this would be great!
This is an interesting work. Which model do you use? Have you used the chain of thought method to allow the agent to solve some problems? It seems that the AI agent can recognize problems and find solutions.

> Assistant: I apologize for the confusion. It seems that the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet is not the correct one for your network. Let's try to determine your network configuration. We can do this by checking your IP address and subnet mask:

<bash>
ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1
</bash>
inet 192.168.1.152 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
Assistant: Thank you for that information. It appears that your computer is indeed on the 192.168.1.0/24 network, but we're having trouble reaching other devices. Let's try to ping your router, which is typically at 192.168.1.1:

<bash>
ping -c 4 192.168.1.1
Maybe, but when selling a SAAS here, big clients will always ask what cloud provider you use. Using an European one is always a plus, if it isn't simply required.
Still waiting on anything to be done about rent to own businesses. The businesses that rely solely on exploiting the people in a bad position bother me so much, they should at least have some kind of limits on their usury.
Do you have a link that describes the equipment, for those of us who don't yet understand what a long wire antenna is?

Having been in the WNC hurricane area, I have a newfound interest in this stuff.
> WSJ, Reuters and everyone else regularly report rumours that sound credible.

Huh? You live in a different reality than I do. These are reputable sources and I need to move onto something more productive.
This wouldn't survive the courts so approximately one company would get away with it for a time.
What's wrong with virtual bezels? Seems to me to be the best of both worlds. People who can't handle an ipad without bezels can just configure whatever they want.
I hope the EU are liable for software that they make defective by their own security legislation.
Yeah modeless software is one honking great idea. (RIP Larry Tesler)
Love this! Love how you start with the BLUF (Apply now up top). Lots of great thinking here.

I think since you are starting this from scratch you can do something pretty revolutionary with your application (and far simpler, long term!). I demonstrate in the user test below.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/4BH8DRXw...
Sue the companies that design or use these anti-user cookie pop-ups.
If you hate Windows, you should really consider Linux instead. Gnome is quite enjoyable and can be relatively easily made to behave similarly to the macos DE. Fedora works pretty well OOTB on most hardware. If you buy as Frame.work[1] laptop, Fedora will install and run very well.

[1] Dislaimer: I'm a community investor in Framework but have three of them because I like them a lot.
Semrush Acquires Search Engine Land
> and visually has a great deal of Polish

It's great that they translated the UI in that language!

Jokes aside, I use a mix of Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Mint (have had a few DEB and RPM distros on the desktop too) and macOS. I have to say, that all of them are serviceable.

Windows is sometimes quite annoying to deal with, but has a lot of software for it (the likes of PowerToys, MobaXTerm, WinSCP, System Informer, Handbrake, 7-Zip, HWiNFO64, MiniTool Partition Wizard, MPC-HC, Rufus, ShareX, XSplit VCam, VSeeFace and others). You can do most of the same things in alternative software in other OSes, but there's a huge variety to be found, same as with running most of the games out there natively. The UI feels hit or miss and worse in Windows 11 than in 10 in some regards (no vertical taskbar, for example, need fixes for the context menu etc.), but the OS feels usable.

Linux Mint and other Linux distros are pretty much ideal for software development, hands down. Most tools work, the resource usage is great, there's a huge knowledgebase on how to do things out there, it's quite customizable and can be used on servers, desktop computers or even an old low spec laptop alike. I personally settled on Cinnamon, but XFCE was very usable and someone might prefer GNOME or KDE (there were even attempts at reviving the old Unity desktop from Ubuntu, that one might have gotten hate when it was the main option, but actually had its nice bits too). Gaming is hit or miss with Proton (many games will run but definitely not all, also forget about playing anything with invasive anti-cheat solutions), sometimes you also won't be able to get some productivity software running, if it's developed only with Windows in mind, Wine isn't a silver bullet but it's nice that it exists.

My M1 MacBook as an overall computer feels like it has great build quality despite the overpriced hardware. I'm mentioning that, because it's very well integrated with the hardware and I haven't had any weirdness due to that yet, like the touchpad on a laptop stopping working after a fresh Fedora install, or needing to compile Wi-Fi drivers from a GitHub repo for it to work at all, or Windows looking at the RAM available in a laptop and deciding that it wants most of it for itself and to slow everything down to a crawl. In macOS, the desktop also feels polished, is reasonably customizable, though sometimes is a bit jarring compared to both Windows and Linux distros, as are the things surrounding it (everything from the keyboard layout, to how managing open programs works, also connecting to an external 1080p monitor is a miserable experience because it doesn't fit within their own hardware ecosystem either). Development is doable, unless you go for the 8 GB version because you need the OS for a project and can't afford anything more, gaming feels way more limited than on Linux distros, but nothing feels particularly broken either.

Neither is ideal, neither is horrible. They're all somewhere in the middle, doing more or less well when it comes to particular aspects.
The youth are drinking less, and great non-alcoholic substitutes are becoming available for a wide variety of beverages. I hope these trends make a difference long term.

I’ve had to make very few compromises to still enjoy life while staying alcohol free - I can even have a decent bottle of wine, or a rum and Coke should I be in the mood for one.

https://theconversation.com/youth-drinking-is-declining-myth...
I would definitely consider myself pro-market, and "market > government" has proven itself a pretty good default time and time again. That doesn't mean nothing should ever be regulated.
That guy in Nebraska from the XKCD comic is probably safe.

I'm not convinced that my one-man company is, since I derive most of my income from FOSS software.

But that seems quite fair to me.
Oh god this is such a nightmare. It takes much longer to build something that works not the first try, because then I have to force-simulate a mistake to make sure things were actually correct in the first place.

Test Driven Development had a fix for this, which I used to do back in day when I was evangelical about the one true way the write software. You wrote a test that failed, and added or wrote code only to make that test pass. Never add any code except to make a failing test pass.

It didn't guarantee 100% correct software, of course, but it prevented you from gaslighting yourself for being too awesome.
If someone were just attempting to maintain a "pro-business grift", wouldn't this be exactly the argument they'd make? That the FTC is, effectively, legally toothless?
Ironic that this site, attempting to raise awareness about online privacy issues, has a cookie banner...
> If you're choosing "reboot" rather than "shut down", presumably you intend to continue using the machine, so it's reasonably safe to keep credentials around.

This is the last thing I would expect. Quite the contrary, when I reboot (rather than log out or sleep), I expect the machine to clear it's memory completely.
Inside Trading allegations against Honey Science Corporation investors
It's the politicians, that's why vote them in and out every few years.
"I think every website should understand how and by who their website is used"

1. You don't need cookies or profiling for that - use Simple Analytics et. al.

2. You can ask for my consent, but you can't profile me against my will

3. A brick and mortar store does not profile me without my consent.
> You would presumably notify the company about the cancellation, wouldn't you

No, also not a legal method to terminate a contract.

Government shouldn't enforce contract law, got it. Sounds like utopia.
Honestly, it's about time. I've paid for so many things that fail because of defective software, and had limited or no recourse.

As a result, software companies are incentivized to make software full of hardly-used features with limited testing; because there are no consequences when software doesn't do what the claim is.
how the hell could i misread like that ... my bad, must've been a long day
That's the entire point of EU directives: The differences should be so small that it will not matter to anybody.
If you ignore massive wealth inequality.

The point about less diverse is that’s it’s easier to operate health programs which match the values of the population.

Not that small ethnic group = healthy.
The trouble is, without some overriding authority defining what it means to "have a plane ticket", what counts as "included"? Because anything that doesn't can then be considered an "add-on".

Carry-on luggage. Meal/snack and beverage service. A pillow and blanket. A seat that's not a middle seat. Even the ability to choose your seat at all.

Airlines that want to tighten the screws on their passengers can, in theory, start charging for all of those, and calling them "paid add-ons", even under a "no junk fees" law, if we don't clearly define what passengers should be able to expect to be included in their ticket.
I've also been waiting for remote page turning.

Connecting a Bluetooth remote to the Paperwhite or using the Scribe's pen to turn pages remotely would be fantastic.

I can't understand why remote page-turning capabilities are not being included.

There are multiple listings on Amazon for the clip on remotes that have 10,000 reviews. The use-case is common.
Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been developing Simple Lister, a platform built to support indie product creators and give them a fair shot. If you’ve launched on Product Hunt recently, you might have noticed that only featured products get the spotlight, while others struggle for visibility.

Why Simple Lister?

Simple Lister aims to fix this by offering a more transparent and fair approach for product launches. Here’s how we do it:

• No favoritism: Every product gets an equal chance, and we don’t play favorites.

• Daily Underdog Feature: Each day, we highlight one underdog product to give them extra visibility and support.

• No hidden fees: There are no surprise costs. We have a simple submission fee, and that’s it—no pay-to-play or hidden charges.

Also we have a long to do list to do better.

Why does this matter?

After launching on Product Hunt ourselves, we realized how tough it is for smaller creators to get any attention unless they’re featured. Simple Lister is here to champion those indie products that deserve to be seen by a wider audience.

The platform is new and evolving, and I’m constantly working to make it better. If you’ve got feedback or questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Thanks for your support, and I’d be happy if you submit your products!
Show HN: Gem – Quickly Save and Search Your Social Media Finds
I built Gem to help you save and organize discoveries made through social media content like Instagram and TikTok. Whether it’s a new restaurant to try, a recipe to cook, or a movie to watch, Gem captures the essence of what you find and saves it in a clean, actionable format, so it’s easy to access when you’re ready to take action.

The way content is presented in the discovery phase is different from the action phase. When you’re scrolling through TikTok or Instagram, short-form videos are perfect for exploring new ideas quickly. However, when it’s time to actually use that information—like planning a night out or cooking dinner—scrolling through videos again is frustrating and time-consuming. You need quick access to the details without the distraction of video playback.

That’s where Gem comes in. Instead of simply bookmarking the original video, Gem works quietly in the background. All you have to do is share the post directly from TikTok or Instagram, and Gem will automatically extract key information—like addresses, ingredients, or recommendations—and save it in a format that’s easy to read and act on when the time comes. Whether you’re planning a night out, cooking a meal, or picking a movie, Gem, makes it simple to find what you need, without having to scroll through your video feed again.

Currently, Gem works with TikTok and Instagram for content related to places, recipes, movies, or TV shows. We’re working to add support for more platforms and categories, and we’re adding new features and functionality every day.

Give Gem a try to see how easy it is to share a post from TikTok or Instagram—no interruptions to your browsing, just smarter saving.
Doesn't the word "Commercial" in "Commercial Linux distro" answers that?
Current peer review is more adversarial.
I agree. I don't want ARM to win, but I don't want x86 to keep winning either. As functional systems, they're fine. But I principally dislike both. Locked down, un-free, with spyware backdoors especially in x86's case. RISC-V really needs to gain some traction. Once that has most software compiled for it, and it's efficient enough, I'm gonna start using it.
Baseload is a a requirement of real electricity demand, it tends to be about 50-60% of total demand.

Since intermittent renewables cannot do baseload, and get asymptotically more expensive trying, fans of intermittent renewables are trying to paint baseload as an obsolete concept by making intermittency primary.

That is silly. Baseload is real and a major component of demand. Intermittent renewables can be a good addition, as their supply curves can actually match the variable part of the demand fairly closely (thought obviously not perfectly).

It is not true that Hydro can be ramped arbitrarily. For example, just last year Finland had a huge problem with their plentiful hydro plants overloading the grid. Fortunately they also have significant nuclear that they were able to ramp down to compensate.

With ~60% baseload, there is no need to ramp nuclear plants down to 0 rapidly. That's only necessary if you screw up your grid by having too much intermittent renewables and giving them priority. Don't do that.

Alas, overloading their grid with renewables is exactly what some countries are doing, Germany for example. This is a really bad idea for a number of reasons. One is that due to even the average capacity factors being so low, you have to dramatically over provision in order to even achieve fully supply on average. However, that massive overprovisioning means that when weather is favorable, those massively over provisioned massively cannibalize each other (and other producers, if those still exist).

The more you overprovision, the worse this gets.

Reasonably ramping nuclear up or down is no problem. France for example has been using nuclear reactors almost exclusively for some time. Lower capacity factors for the nuclear plants than you'd really want, but otherwise not a problem. Their investment in renewables (aim seems to be around 30-40%) will likely increase the capacity factors of their nuclear plants. Good for them!
Dropping Balls to Tell Time (2016)
Certainly some parents are proponents of the estate tax. I did not say that all parents are opposed to it.
Not sure why you're downvoted they have multiple beg screens
and manipulative language. There might be worse overall like NYT making you contact support but Amazon is for sure "worst in class" in the category of services that can be cancelled online.
Gyms are notorious shysters who made it difficult to cancel your membership, even when you have the right. Don't blame the consumers for this bullshit. Do as many chargebacks as you can.
> Finally, sadly, the most obvious point .... a longer form helps sort the wheat from the chaff. Both in terms of cutting down the volume of applications some poor soul has to trawl over, but also helping keep the quality of applications high.

Opposite effect, actually. Longer forms get you a lot of the top 10%, but you miss out on the top 0.0001% who don't want to waste their time with people who aren't smart enough to design a brief form.
High-potency cannabis use leaves a distinct mark on DNA
> the patient does not pay for insurance their employer does

Not really true, as the employer could otherwise pay that money to the employee who would then shop for his own insurance. So the employee pays, but doesn't have a choice.
Pat Gelsinger and Lisa Su interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y32wpDhIGM
Got to love the CAN-SPAM act. It seems rare such acts would pass these days without making substantial compromises for advertisers. Which if it were up to them, we would still be looking for a tiny unsubscribe link at the very bottom in a font color that matches the background.
without Node, with JS/TS?
> There are times when a feature is used in a way which was not intended by the developers. Now do the developers have to publish their test scenarios?

I think the vendor will need to be a lot more clear about what the supported use case is; and what use cases aren't supported.
Countries don't always behave logically, see Russia & the self defeating war in Ukraine.
For the record, Decker uses a 4-bit palette configured from a 24-bit gamut: http://beyondloom.com/decker/color.html

Reflowing UIs to suit varying aspect ratios is a challenging puzzle that Decker presently doesn't touch, though I do have some ideas for the future. If decks were embedded as inline "applets" of interactive content within a fluid document container (markdown, gemtext, etc) I think reflow would be considerably less important.
edit: https://www.bloommerwede.nl/ in case anyone is looking.
No, you were right, baseload is fine.

Baseload is load, so demand side.

Firm power is generation, so supply side.
So might not be legal?
If you look at page 51 it says:

2.
[…]an economic operator shall not be exempted from liability where the defectiveness of a product is due to any of the following, provided that it is within the manufacturer’s control:
(a)a related service;
(b)software, including software updates or upgrades;
(c)a lack of software updates or upgrades necessary to maintain safety;
(d)a substantial modification of the product.

Not sure if (a) or (d) would be more applicable, but I think it would be covered ?
To save you a click, USD 399 for the keyboard, 249 for the trackpad.

For comparison, the Apple keyboard is 199 and trackpad 149.
The open future of networking hardware for AI
Yeah, it would be interesting to see the Solvespace solver ported to Inkscape as it was to Blender as CADsketcher.
I believe Brian wrote that in letters 30 feet tall before he was crucified
then why aren't they doing so now? it's a zoo in the red sea...
> before taxes

Now they just need to fix that part.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_in_T...

Sometimes useful to see how cpu architectures grow and then get crowded out by the next processor family -- at least among supercomputers.
This is especially amusing to me because back in the day when iOS developers would shit on Android, they almost all said (verbatim) "fragmentation" as the reason why iOS was great and Android sucked. "On Android you have a bunch of different screen sizes to deal with so it's hard to make a nice app. On iOS it's all standardized and simple. That is the Apple Way and the whole ecosystem is consistent like that which makes it a joy to develop for and use."
I think there's supposed to be an escrow account where you say like "I'm going to handle X amount of petrol / nuclear material, here's a big pile of cash set aside for cleanup if I dissolve"

One could do the same for pii. Of course it's cheaper not to, so I'm not sure if anyone actually does this kind of insurance policy
As a British person this is always so alien when traveling in the US. You could go one step further and suggest that perhaps tips which are practically mandatory should be included in the headline price but that might be a step too far.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-15/qualcomm-...
The EU has two primary types of legislation, regulations and directives. There are other things such as recommendations etc, but those are usually pretty clear from their name, so I'll exclude those from the explanation. A simple way to think about a regulation is essentially an EU-wide law, it applies the way it was written in Brussels across all of EU. Directives, that's the one in the article, are more like interfaces. They're a guideline of goals to achieve, and every country must implement their own version of the directive.

Why do directives even exist? Because the legal landscape can be widely different between EU countries. Directives give every country flexibility in implementing them in a way that is consistent with the way their laws work, existing precedents, etc. The downside is obviously that the implementations will somewhat differ from country from country.

This means that unless the implementations between countries are fairly consistent, the definition of what working as intended means will vary from country to country.
Every boomer trying to preserve their home values and easy parking is doing it on the backs of younger generations.
"Trust" in the security sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system

You can trust a system by accepting that if it is owned, you are owned. If you don't trust it you instead protect it with a system that you do trust. For example, if you don't trust any x86 system you would not make them face the Internet. You would put them behind a trusted firewall.

But you have to decide whether you trust a system or not. If you trust it then you have to believe it when it reports a certain feature is disabled. If you don't trust it to begin with then it doesn't matter if it's disabled or not. Your security shouldn't be relying on it anyway.
> you have [to] send [books] through [Amazon's] servers.

No, you can sideload books using USB mass storage. It's pretty easy. Kindle Paperwhite is still a great experience even without using the Amazon book ecosystem.