skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just had a heat pump installed, cost £7430 with £7500 kindly donated by the government. House was built in the 1930's. No Cavity walls, used most of the old 1980's radiators, replaced 4 out of 18. Kept the hot water tank. Disconnected the mains gas.....
Guess what? Just had our first energy bill - £192 CHEAPER than the previous equivalent quarter last year when we were using our gas boiler. AND, the house is so much more warm. So warm, we now have the system thermostat on its lowest setting. Hot water supply is regular and heats in 30 mins after a couple of (very hot) baths.

So much nonsense and misinformation being spread these days about heat pumps. Gas is dead, don't listen to the politicians and vested interests. Get a reputable firm to install and enjoy a nice warm house.
Article is behind a paywall. I found another article

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/a-german-woman-said-she-was-...

> The court did find the two men guilty of wrongly making and distributing the sex video and fined them 1,350 euros ($1,500) each. But it reserved its gravest punishment for Lohfink, levying her a fine of 24,000 euros for falsely accusing the men.

If we're talking about the same story, it has nothing to do with "war on hate".
I tried one of their "distill" versions on HF Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Aratako/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qw.... It seems to suffer from the same old repetition and overthinking problems. Using the classic strawberry sniff test:

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Wait, did I count correctly? Let me recount. The word is S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. So positions 3, 8, and 9 are 'R's. That makes three 'R's in total. But I'm a bit confused because when I first wrote it out, I thought maybe only two. Let me double-check. Maybe I miscounted the letters.

Alternatively, perhaps the word doesn't have three 'R's. Let me write it again: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. So, after E, there are two R's before Y. So that would be two R's, right? Wait, no, in the breakdown, position 3 is R, then position 8 and 9 are R's. So that's three R's. But I'm not sure if that's correct because sometimes people might miscount.
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no need linking it, tho
I know people of the political party I tend to disagree with who are saints and dedicate the majority of their time to others.

I know people of the political party I tend to agree with who are insufferable selfish pricks and treat others terribly.

Works and words aren't always associations.
> They did nerf speed. But they did it for a reason.

That reason was to incentivize people to replace their old "slow" phones with faster new phones. If Apple actually cared about the problem of older phones having limited battery life they'd have made the batteries in their phones replaceable.
What laws do you think he broke? The IRS doesn't care where you live or work from as long as you file and pay taxes.

Working on a tourist visa or any visa without a work permit does violate the terms of the visa, but in practice no country I know of can enforce this, or bothers to hassle people with laptops sitting in coffee shops. You get into trouble if you compete for jobs with citizens. The article doesn't say what kind of visa the author had so we can't tell if he violated immigration or labor laws.

As for the companies contracting him, their rules don't equal laws. An employee working from overseas should disclose that, but a contractor by definition gets to choose where they work from. A contract my specify on-site, USA only, or in a specific range of timezones, but the customer/client can't control where a contractor works from other than not hiring them in the first place, or terminating the contract.

The article describes a typical "digital nomad," lots of people doing the same thing.
This is a disease that has infected the entire West. It's just become impossible to do anything that requires space. Even industrial giants like Germany are now de-industrializing because it's just too hard to get permits for building anything new. Sure, labor costs, energy costs, environmental regulations, etc. are all bothersome, but what really makes German industry emigrate is how hard it is to get permission to change anything. It's such a self-inflicted wound.
How would a toilet with no electronics require an internet connection?
Hmm...I think the comment about people getting dumber still stands.

If you're not dumb, then you would figure out how to use the knife after taking a look at it and seeing which side is the sharp one.

That's almost textbook intelligence; being able to resolve abstract problems based on limited information.
The Powerful AI Tool That Cops Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
> Our dependence on GNSS for timing almost dwarfs that for navigation.

Galileo satellites also now sign the timestamp (IIRC) via a Merkle tree so you know it isn't spoofed.
Because half of US are uneducated savages.
Sonnet's strength was always comprehending the problem and its context. It happened to also be pretty good at generating code, but what it actually made it its first really useful model was that it understood _what_ to code and how to communicate.
So sorry, brofus. My best to you and yours.

Also, your channel is fantastic. You’re a good teacher and your voice is excellent.
Were the Houthis actually concerned with the legal or ethical status of Israel's operations though? They do have "Curse be upon the Jews" on their slogan...

Even if their cause was noble, rewarding piracy seems like a bad precedent to set.
some incomplete notes on my recent o1 . i recommend minn at lighthousehq, tell her i said hi https://github.com/swyxio/swyxdotio/issues/477
It’s been a minute since I used my mlua integration. I recall more packaging difficulty, investigating LuaJIT and Luau for a while. I had to make more decisions around my API, whether it was OO or a package, what libraries to allow. When introducing my domain types, there were more ways to fail and more subtle documentation to read and grok.

Nothing was hard, but Rhai was easier.

If I were to write a system in my embedded trading strategy language, if I cared about extensibility and composition, maybe Lua’s complexity would begin to pay its way. But I’m not, I just want simple, hot-reloadable logic to drive some fast Rust code.
Playing Zork with AI-generated imagery [video] (youtube.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34300765

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCrBBj6AWE
The E-2 visa is usually a very good and pretty easy option as long as the investment is enough (typically at least $100k USD) and there's a good business plan. I can't comment on tax residency.
You could still print without an internet connection, even before Bambu’s backpedaling.
OMG, it's just a 'sheepsfoot' blade shape (as TFA mentions, but doesn't emphasize enough, IMO). That's the kind of thing you would have seen in hardware store knife displays, or scouting manuals, when I was a kid. It IS a good shape for cutting hand-held fruit. Or for cutting round-ish objects NEAR the EDGE of a hard surface (like a cutting board). But it is a bad shape for cutting meat or hard vegetables on a plate. You want a decently curved blade for that latter use. Both for ergonomics, and to keep your fingers & wrist ABOVE the surface of the plate or raised rim. This is not rocket surgery...

As mentioned in TFA:
"Beyond form, there is function: Both Rich and Blease say their French knives keep their edge longer than other table knives, meaning they require far less frequent sharpening. Rich says he has replaced a few sets of steak knives, while his Lannier knives have been in action since 2018."

That's it. It's a cost-saving play by the restaurant (sharpening is time-consuming if your staff does it manually; and increasingly expensive if you out-source it to a sharpening service).

The stuff about the 'form', and the artisanal knife production is mostly PR for the restaurant.

Though I've heard of that knife-maker; and positive things about them. And the Thiers region is historically a major area for edged tools.

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FWIW: I'm not a Chef; but I have a nephew who is; and I discuss restaurant knives and sharpening with him. But, more usefully, I'm a woodworker, and I have whole books just on sharpening, and tools from Thiers. Again, this is not rocket surgery, but hopefully one or two readers will be today's "lucky 10,000"!

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ETA: grammar fix.
Taiwan is a jewel that could quickly shatter into dust. There are persistent rumors that the ASML tooling (and other key fab machinery) is rigged for sabotage. If China were to mount a serious invasion attempt then Taiwanese security forces or TSMC employees would wreck the machinery beyond repair. This implicit threat acts as a deterrent against invasion.

Even if China could capture the ASML tooling intact it would only be useful for some reverse engineering. Actual production requires both skilled local employees and ongoing support from headquarters back in the Netherlands.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they haven't reasoned themselves into.

Politicians lie, constantly. All of them. Yes, even the ones you like. Saying Republicans lie and Democrats don't is practically self-propagandizing, convincing oneself of something they'd prefer to be true.

ALL politicians are equal-opportunity liars: if there's an opportunity, they will lie. Sometimes for power, sometimes for money, sometimes because they owe a favor. It's a big club, and we aren't in it.
My frame: I would say that embedding in rust is hard, unless you are already thinking in rust. Mostly ownership things, which I see distinct from safety.

If you are thinking in rust already, why would you go to an FFI c solution?

(Source: have been prototyping DSLs in rust with most of my life force for about a year)
What did you use for the collaborative music voting - or did you make something yourself? For different use cases, I've seen everything used from collaborative Spotify playlists to Google forms, to those "pay a dollar to bump your song request" kiosks in bars! The parallels to ranked-choice voting in politics are relevant too - as well as how you give people a feeling of agency, even if you as the DJ inevitably have veto powers.

I'm not surprised that startups haven't tackled this, as you inevitably run headfirst into licensing issues - but I'm curious what exists in the open-source world for this!
That depends on the wording of the EO but they could take effect immediately.
Lies once again. AIPAC is funded by American Jews.

Nice try hiding your hatred.
I've been out of the loop on MP3 players for a while, but when I was in the scene I really liked FiiO's products, e.g.:

https://www.fiio.com/m11s

iPods are still a really awesome device for pure music listening in my opinion. There are a lot of mod options to bring high-capacity modern storage to them, even Bluetooth and haptics. Lots of good info in the sub:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ipod/
> Identity politics. Race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, etc

This is an interesting list that 100% reflects what Republicans in my state ran on and Democrats only mentioned them when on defense (except immigration, which they clearly took point on before trump torpedoed the bipartisan effort to work on it)

> EV tax credits

These were absolutely needed to kickstart the EV market, just like oil subsidies were needed to keep the American economy moving so people and goods could get from place to place.
Superabundance Is Coming – But Only If Humanity Commits to Protecting the Planet
Superabundance is within reach. But ironically, the precondition to getting it is by giving it up. It sounds paradoxical, but this is actually the key to the next great leap in human evolution. I set this out with a rigorous scientific framework in my new paper on the Planetary Phase Shift.
I find these types of ideas to be more of a coping mechanism than any sort of deep insight on the human condition. Once everything is stripped away and you are spending your days making artisanal gooseberry preserves you may find that life is still not possessed of anything meaningful.
An export db with title, artist, album and rough BPM could be useful to interoperate with the native browse and search menus on a CDJ.

Without beat grids have to best match by ear but that’s par for the course for many DJ scenarios.
> This is just a small country getting strong-armed by the US

No, it's not.

It's ASML looking out for its largest customer. It's Amsterdam looking out for its shipping lanes, as well as for its Nine Eyes partner. Washington absolutely strong arms Europe, but it's strategically aligned with the Netherlands.

Like, just think about the guy coming into the White House. What about him screams quiet, behind-the-scenes diplomatic win taker?
4o is more expensive than DeepSeek-R1, so…? Even if we took your premise as true and we say they are as good as DeepSeek, this would just mean that OpenAI is wildly overcharging its users.
It’s pretty easy to live a simple life if you don’t expect cutting edge healthcare, the best education for one’s kids’, and living in colder/flatter places.

If you expect a better than average quality of life, then you will have to compete for it. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to be bequeathed a sufficiently large portfolio.
Related, Windsurf editor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127882
Because AIPAC is an American organization made up of American citizens funded by American citizens.
TFA doesn't say that "frustration tolerant" people tolerate problems, but that they tolerate frustration as they fix those problems "without succumbing to negative emotions or counterproductive behaviors".

I was far more frustration intolerant earlier in my career, part of which I can now attribute to undiagnosed AuDHD. Although I can't say that I've mastered frustration tolerance, I've learned to moderate it to the point that I'm far more effective now.
this is so dope omg
Does this qualify as a "rug pull" or is it a "pump and dump"? Curious potential investors want to know.
It is clear we are talking about modern digital ads. Ads in magazines aren't as bad, but manipulating public opinion to sell the ads were/are. That's what Google/FB do at an absurd large scale right now.
"no biggie, it's just like learning to navigate a busy city"

Such insidious reframing with absolutely no mention of burnout possibility. Yuck.
Thank you very much for your time Peter!
If a US very early-stage startup hires a Canadian and grants them restricted common stock (similar to what founders get), what are the implications for them (1) from a Canadian tax perspective* and (2) if they move to the US later on*?

*(1) e.g. is there anything like the 83(b) election or similar.

*(2) how do 83(b)s work for folks that might move to the US later, especially given "might" ?
Why don't you see it as giving a concession to your ally?
No. It’s actually pretty simple. You are making the inference.
My brother, who graduated 2024 in MechE is aware of the term “feeds & speeds”.

Mechanical engineering is a pretty broad discipline covering everything from micro fluidics to structural requirements of sky scrapers. It’s a good skill to have but I’m not sure that awareness of operating a milling machine is critical for success after graduation.
It's surprising to many people what backgrounds/jobs can qualify for O-1 classification so it's not inconceivable that your creation of the food truck business could be a platform to get you an O-1. This would require an O-1 analysis of your qualifications and this business.
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Author lives in NYC (a little city?) and seems to be rediscovering early '00s hipsterdom ("authenticity"), JOMO, and realizing her surrogate activities are just that. Her instagram is a sea of beige and rouge that represents what I hate about IG: an unattainably fashionable and curated portrayal. Oddly, this is what I loved about tiktok. On tiktok I watched a 60 year old man talk about his early mornings working at costco. I watched a middle aged woman prepare breakfast at a rural gas station. I can't imagine these types of real, ordinary, and representative lives on IG versus OP's yuppie elite ideal. For god's sake, does she ever sit down and eat a big mac? She is dripping in pretense not authenticity, especially with the tumblr-era lack of upper case.
It appears that ASML alone knows the correct rituals to keep the Machine Spirit cooperative.
Remember that productivity increase that happened due to work-from-home? Expect it to vanish with return-to-office. On top of having alienated your employees who control everything inside your company.
Oh did you order it somewhere? I only saw US options on their site.
> The credible threat I'm talking about is over the International Criminal Court potentially prosecuting American service members

The ICC doesn't execute its arrest warrants. Even if it were stupid enough to issue one for an American's arrest, there would be plenty of time for de-escalation between its issuance and execution.
You can't just take "important" esim out of your phone when travelling. If you lose your device or if it's stolen recovering eSIM from many countries is PITA.
This is actually one of the great uses of transformer models. Pick your favorite A.I. and you can ask it to capitalize the text.
It's interesting to me that there's no screenshot on the front page (they're buried on other pages). Not only is there no screenshot, the main image on the front page is an image of code.

Not a complaint, just an observation. I'd expect a DJ software site to show DJs the interface as the very first thing.

As examples, all of these have an image of their UI as centerpiece

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/traktor/dj-so...

https://rekordbox.com/en/

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/
As it turns out my frustration tolerance is very low...I decided to check out of this rotten system and go my own way a few months ago. My stress levels plummeted since.
is anyone else here addicted to melatonin? I feel like my circadian rhythms refuse to work in a way that conveniently fits with the 9-5
Just apply for any job at Tesla lol
> These are not hard and fast rules, more of a system

This is key. You’re trying to build a base of good behaviors but it’s flexible because the world is full of complexity and having overly strict rules is impossible.
> Have you seriously thought about how to stop this in any way in the past few months? Your questions are so shallow it's making me think you only have talking points to share. After an election loss like that (not a landslide, but still an obvious loss), there is no coup potential or other kind of way for the Democrats to even try to hold onto power.

Not quite sure what talking points you think I have to share here, I thought I was laying out a logical flow that doesn't make sense to me.

Circling the wagons at the state level is a good short term approach, though if successful I don't see how it doesn't first run into the unfortunate need for violence.

As a country we have spent the better part of a century moving a large portion of powers to the federal level. States can't just ignore that and do what they want without repercussions. Maybe more importantly, I don't see how a stage could continue to run democratically as part of the union if democracy is destroyed at the federal level, there would just be too much conflict there.
https://coinmarketcap.com/community/post/349954824/

> This wallet sold over $32 Million worth of TRUMP$TRUMP in 30 minutes without ever buying any tokens. #TRUMP #MELANIA
Heh, whoops. Definitely a typo, but in all seriousness the printer is actually usable by wife now, so that is a huge plus. She could use it before, but hadn’t learned how to adjust Live Z and thus didn’t like changing the sheet. If you do it wrong you can drive the nozzle into the sheet.
Now that is a heck of a story :)

Don't stand in the way of history. Tell us!
I think the issue is not being disappointed, it's being scared.
Because PG yields influence.
OP describes the mechanism by which PGs words can create a dangerous world for them, personally.
Yes they are disappointed, but mainly afraid.

The very powerful just affirmed a reversal of "wokeness" this may become performative just as much as their acceptance of the "other" became performative by their admirers and corporate copycats. This will result in tangible harm to people. I think OP did a great job in explaining this.
It's 89 minutes minimum from Derby to London. The fastest trains stop once, in Leicester.

It's also £135 off-peak return, so a night out in Birmingham might be more appealing.
> shaking people down for protection money

This is false though. No one pays US money for defense. The 2% spending is on their own industry. The analogy breaks down.

If anything, the US pays to support other countries/allies.
I’ve wrestled with this idea since reading My Side of The Mountain when I was quite young. Our society and culture constantly reinforces the perceived need to make enough money to retire one day, assuming that there is a necessary amount of money one needs to continue living and that one should stop working at some point. The fear of exorbitant medical costs in our privatized healthcare system scare me into thinking I need a fortune to feel safe and be able to live a long health life. My rampant consumption and desire to live a “full” life, like those that I see posted on social media, also stoke this financial insecurity mindset—“I must have more so that I can do more so that people will know that I am fulfilled and then I will feel happy and fulfilled.”
What do you think will change for folks who are paroled under Uniting for Ukraine (https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine)?
The moat might be tiny at the frontier level. But the mainstream still only knows about ChatGpt. OpenAI won consumer before others even started.
enums and namespaces were two mistakes in the early days of typescript.
I've been setting up a few radio stations with playlists for azuracast for home use. The auto DJ with auto cue is amazing. Next stop is create a radio with a raspberry pi maybe with an amp hat as well.
Is there no chinese knock-off SIM yet that let you change IDs and efficiently backup eSIM keys? That one would be actually a cool product.
What do you mean, have evolved their morality. They threw 7000 rockets in resident housing for 6 months, kidnapped civilians with babies 9 months old, and you support their right to create a state with an army, and last time they had a state, they voted 51% Hamas.

Sounds awfully like a crime against humanity, and supporting this is probably illegal.
The same can be said almost anywhere. The big issue is that businesses often offshore work to save on labor costs rather than to improve the quality of their products.

This problem is significant, and here’s why: consider yourself of average intelligence. Now think about how many people are below that level. Then consider those above your level of intelligence and start dividing them further by demographics, age, profession, interests, and so on. What you’re left with is an alarming realization—only about 0.1–0.2% of the global population may truly excel in your skilled profession. Education helps, but it doesn’t define one’s ability.

Unfortunately, this also means that many people end up in professions they are not suited for, including CEOs who shouldn’t be in those roles. It’s a sobering thought, and when you really consider it, it’s a bit crazy to think about.

Sometimes that talent pools in different part of the world too.
If someone limits your options to only two, or even one source of resources, are you better off?

This discussion thread emerged from the suggestion of "maybe that's a good thing." Is it?

It's a question of trust, competition, and whether there's so much destruction of honest competition that only the destructive and twisted competition remains, keeping people afraid to venture into the unknown, willing to perpetuate the cycle of destroying competitors and endangering civilization itself.
yes o3 is better, but I would argue it is not yet clear for which cases it is absolutely crucial to use o3 instead of o1.