skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well depending on your state it may never be reported properly if at all. A recent horrific crash in New Hampshire[1] that killed seven motorcyclist was caused by a driver who never should be on road but records were either not shared with other states, taken in from other states, or even left the bin they got filed in [2] simply because they just sat unprocessed.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/22/735027835/pickup-truck-in-new...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nearly-900-drivers-suspend...
I suspect it's a typo for "wind energy"
The jerkoff-level lovefest for the S-400 on Reddit and HN is pretty hilarious. Ya, Russia is the straight arrow. USA is the crooked bitch. Keep those mental gymnastics up, bruh.
"E-cigarettes produce a number of dangerous chemicals including acetaldehyde" - just like alcohol and hangover, this is metabolite of alcohol. 20% of becomes acetaldehyde. for some reason I don't get hangover from vaping, though I did have pretty horrible feeling smoking. Probably worse than occasional hangover.
Maybe the regulators can say to Google or Facebook that they can't collect those user data, or they limit the collection somehow. I can't imagine how else you can stop this duopoly. The problem with the whole ecosystem is that every system they have feed the other one, ie. Chrome gathers the search data to be used for Ads etc.
They're not saying it all came from Amazon. Much of it seems to have been shoplifted from local stores.
Notice that the doctor didn't disagree with that being a course of treatment for this disease. Their response was that the patient was too ill for that surgery - a detail that wasn't known to the PBM.

Either the issue is:

1) Kidney removal shouldn't be a course of treatment (unknown based on the details provided). Keep in mind, the same insurer would be paying for this, and it isn't cheap, so it's not as ridiculous as it sounds.

2) Patient status with regards to surgery wasn't communicated to the payor, but should be a part of that process. Or it was a part of the process, but it was omitted.

3) Kidney removal should be a course of treatment, but the doctors didn't want to go through with it anyway, and made up some reason after-the-fact to continue to support their beliefs.
I would like someone good at Julia to tighten up those programs. benchmark game still takes submission right?
Thanks, added some comments on the utility scale usage
Sounds about right for anything AMZL related.
As it turns out, “irrationally defensive” is the overwhelmingly dominant response in humans faced with analyzing their own behavior in any situation.
Because reckless driving is a weak signal. It covers a huge spectrum of behavior. It should really be called "driving on the aggressive end of reasonable in the presence of a cop" because that describes more of the behavior it's written for than "reckless". Where I'm from it's what you get when they actually have no good reason to pull you over but did it anyway on a hunch that you look like you have drugs or something or if you're dumb enough to talk back at the cop. Sure, a few people are actually "reckless" but there are fancier charges with bigger fines that they actually get and that's what the insurance flags people on.
I'm sorry but what's the point of a 1MB patch of beautiful code? Did this programmer actually develivered a business value for the customer or not? I'm not saying that you should not maintain your code nice, decoupled and what note, but having as a major KPI the code being beautiful to me it's non sense.
Can't hydrogen be used as a mean of energy storage? If nuclear power is used, wouldn't that make hydrogen much cheaper and viable?

It's true that it's inefficient, but I'm curious as of how much inefficient it really it, because nuclear energy can be made abundant and cheap if you use electrolysis close to a nuclear plant.
That's exactly why we need a CO2 tax now and why the current "right" (who have largely been captured by the fossil-fuel industries) are fighting it tooth and nail.
There's been a trend lately of low-quality academic-lite blogposts being upvoted on HN. This, unfortunately, continues the pattern. I blame Wikipedia (and reddit-style intellectual superficiality); it's a double-edged sword that makes everyone think they're an expert. The Tragedy of the Commons is extensively studied in Game Theory (we spent half a semester on these types of problems) and has been at the heart of many social experiments over the past century (Ostrom was already cited a few times in the thread). Anyone that's done more than skim the Wikpedia article knows that group size is a primary element, but it's not the whole story.

To say that the blog post brings nothing new to the table is an understatement. I really wish OP just gave a newbie-friendly introduction to the problem (which would seem more appropriate given their exposure), as opposed to proposing a "solution" -- the hubris is palpable.

I mean, take a look at this quote: "Interestingly enough, the optimum solution is always present when N=1" -- it's wrong on just about every level. First, that's not a solution (and saying optimum is incredibly telling; the term of art is equilibrium, anyway), and second, common property (even if you're the only actor) is still not your property (think about a park in a city of population 1; there's a difference between that park and your back-yard). That's the whole point of the thought experiment.
And what would it end like, bringing back the guillotines?!
Most graduates think they are programmers. Then they fail misserably. Just get over it: its very rare to become a good proframmer when you start coding at 20yo. Unfoetunately only nerds survive and only nerds drive the real technology.
There's a huge tendency for smart people like computer scientists to think that, because they're smart, they can come up with "the solution" to systemic problem X without reading into the deep academic literature around it. I knew when I saw the title of the article on the front page that I (or someone) was going to need to preach the gospel of Ostrom in the comments.
I'd imagine that would depend on the analogue
If you redefine "agile" as common sense and what currently works for you, and "waterfall" as failure, then obviously every good thing will be "agile", and wrong stuff will be "waterfall".

Can we do anything with that though?
Ninja’s Debut on Mixer Is a Success, Exceeding the Average of Twitch
Yes, like how i want to destroy Ebola
The thing which is not.

In most mathematical logic systems "false" or "⊥" has the nice property that anything can be derived from it (⊥ -> p, for any sentence p). I find it funny that the undefined behavior of null dereferencing works the same way in C - literally anything can happen to the program, so the compiler is free to assume (derive about the current state of execution) anything it wants.
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> likewise AMP is a response to them not respecting people's time.

I really don't think this is the reason Google had spent millions on making this.

A more realistic explanation is tvis situation gave someone the idea and management accepted it as it would give them yet another way to corner the market.
Julia Language: Multiple Dispatch vs. Function Overloading [video excerpt]
Came here for this, was not disappointed.
There's other tragedies too. SCSU lets you reasonably compactly represent strings, but Java doesn't use it so...
I've quit smoking and drinking, work out 5 times a week and run once or twice a day. Vape has allowed me to loose 12kg and quit drinking and smoking. If you're gonna say that it might just irritate my lungs a little more than walking about the street at the o'smog hour on hottest summer day then be it.
Are you using your phone? I see them all the time (and its pretty easy to notice with the hiding of the address bar).
The scooters have very poor durability. They're lasting on the order of 100-200 miles in rental fleets. The study actually underestimates this effect and assumes that they last about 5x longer than they empirically do. Bird and the scooter manufacturers are trying to address this by making beefier scooters that don't fold with bigger batteries, but the abuse they take in a dockless rental fleet and from having such small wheels make durability a big challenge.

A moped typically lasts 10,000-100,000 miles, so even though it's much heavier, the energy and cost are amortized over a far longer period.
That's great. If a group of people comes together to collectively manage a commons, that sounds like regulation to me. It's all semantics though.
I got that charge for "shifting gears" which was "unusual behavior". I won in court, because I drive a manual. But you arent joking. It all needs more perspective.
This reasoning seems pretty strange to me. Why not quit entirely?
Amen. One underinvestigated aspect of streaming is "people" (and I'm talking about my kids here) don't know what they are listening to, it's super easy for them to skip/change, and lots of what was "relation to artist/album" is lost.

On the upside, streaming is sup for discovering new music.
There are benefits and costs to diversity.

We invented jazz music and snowboarding. And the Internet.

They get social cohesion and political buy-in for (relatively) progressive transportation and health initiatives.

I, like the author, have urban envy when I visit Copenhagen (and Zurich and Tokyo). But if I had to choose, I'd choose inventing jazz.
Those are paths people walked on. Since there’s a lot of foot traffic they’re wider than regular forests.

But yeah, it’a city forest. Not the same as wild, but more forest-ty than the discussion implied I think. Most visitors only see the south park of central park.
I regularly need two types of "null" and both JSON and XML among others provide it:

1. Unknown value, the user whatever could not provide a value so it was left blank, or it had a value and was purposely removed (as in an update), but it was set by the other side specifically to null.

2. The value was not not provided, that is it was not set by the other side, missing property or element (undefined). This usually means do not modify the value if doing an update, distinct from setting it too null.
Funny you mention power as it was on my mind recently. The box hits 60w at full use so it is not a major concern.

I would be more concerned leaving a laptop power supply on 24/7. I’m not sure if my concern is unfounded, what do you think?
Digiday are a trade pub for the online advertising and “sponsored content” industry. You bet they want you to be upset about ad blocking.
What you're saying is correct, however, my point is that, intended or not, one part of government is giving power to another part of government.
You seem to have gone off on a tangent, with regards to emulating the 'sound' via plugins and distortion filters for music production, without actually having to invest in the physical medium. Whereas, I was commenting on the banality of resuscitating a flawed format based upon nostalgia.
How much of the data transmitted or stored on any given system is actually text, as opposed to images, audio, video, machine code, application specific random stuff? Of the little bit of text, how much is HTML, CSS, JSON, any programming language; all of which would be pretty much all ASCII? And if you can find a niche application where most of your data is CJK text, is it really so much that it fits on a USB pen drive if encoded in BIG-5 but not if encoded in UTF-8?

My rough guesses at answers are 0.1%, 90%, and no. Besides, UTF-32 plus gzip isn't a bad solution, and completely ends all discussion about transfer formats... at the cost of requiring a compressor.
“That 22-year-old communications major has had to make way for data scientists, mathematicians, and computer programmers who, behind the scenes, use statistics, calculus, and linear algebra to optimize advertising campaigns, by micro-targeting users and constantly tweaking algorithms.”

Click the source link, and it’s an article about how companies are wasting money on data scientists when they only need data analysts, contradictory to the point made by primary article. This was an intriguing article, but I could not continue reading after noticing this.
It’s has been awhile, but IIRC we saw the net process for ARP being called and getting stuck.
Out of curiosity, where do you sit? I think I am mostly 3.
Is it really that silly? Considering there's been many films that use artificial film grain as well as a resurgence of older graphical techniques such as dithering for video games as an art style.

The resurgence of Vinyl, Cassettes etc are all tied to the same core principle I think. It's incredibly easy nowadays to have a perfect or flawless copy of something stored digitally, that people are looking for and celebrating imperfections in the analogue counterparts.

After all, it's only a few clicks away to Spotify/Bandcamp etc to receive a digital copy. It's more effort to get a physical copy, let alone one on an older medium.
If it's anything like where I live then enforcement doesn't have enough resources to actively do anything so probably nothing unless/until they annoy off someone with the right connections to ask the enforcement people for a favor.
Bloody hell, that is awesome and I don't often say that.
Like all things this is not as black and white as you'd think. AMP as a web-components toolkit is actually fairly nice and I totally get the flip side of why people think it's dangerous.
works if you have a shower and a change of clothes at work and soap and towel etc. its a logistical nightmare. i have both but bicycle is mostly a recreational vehicle
Bingo. I was on the kind of career trajectory for a million dollar salary. The most famous school, name brand employers, etc. But when we had a kid I fell in love and I wanted to spend tons of time with him. It’s my wife who had to be OK with moving out of the Bay Area, cutting our expenses, while I transitioned to a job where I basically work 5 hours a day and make less than $200K. Most wives would have said no fucking way. We are going to have more kids and I may even go full stay at home dad.
Unionization is a bad example. If all union members were unable to defect, the employer would still reject their demands for above market wages, because he could replace them wholesale with workers from the larger labor pool, at market rates.

If all workers in the world were forcibly enrolled in a global union and prevented from defecting, and this union demanded a doubling of wages, this would just lead to 1. some companies shutting down, and 2. other companies seeing profit margins decline to below the rate that the supply of labor versus the supply of capital determines as optimal for economic development, resulting in more unemployed workers, and a one time boost in wages for employed workers, as labor's share of income increases, at the expense of lower recurring increases in wages, as the rate of economic growth declines.

Anyway, smart contracts could indeed be a solution to defection. They are a potentially massively scalable coordination tool, allowing huge numbers of people to enter any given agreement at minimal cost.
They could modify and fork it, but they would also have to release the source code of their full project. That makes it a no-go for regular commercial projects.

At least, that's my interpretation: it's always a struggle to apply software oriented licenses to hardware.
What ever happened to c2.com ?

It used to be one of the best sites on the internet. Now I cannot even read it with and ad blocker.
Because it's really difficult to do so. That might not be a valid "why" in some people's eyes, but it's the reason smokers switch to vaping. They've tried to quit entirely, and have failed to do so many times.

Then this new nicotine delivery method comes along, smokers try it, and find it an acceptable substitute.

The "they" above is me. I switched a couple years ago and have had nothing but improvement in my health. My stamina is better, my chronic cough went away, and I don't hear that faint whistle when I breath in.

I'm sure if and when I give up nicotine completely, I'll feel better still. But right now I'm taking this partial win.
Can contact lenses do cylinder correction nowadays; is there a "this side up"-sort of orientation to them?
It seems to me that the problem with the Libertarian approach is finding a just way to actually privatize the commons. Since they are by definition common property, the rich have no greater claim on them than the poor. In future generations it wouldn't be just that some people had access to the former commons and some people don't due to the actions of their ancestors.

The only solution that I can see would be for those who own the commons to pay the profit that they gain from that ownership to those who do not own the commons. Which I guess is effectively Georgism.
It used to be that when you visited someone’s place, you’d see their collection of books, or music, or movies, or games sitting on a shelf and it was a low-friction way to find something in common to talk about. Now that everyone’s collections are digital, it’s all “out of sight, out of mind” and nothing has really replaced that function.
Dude... I literally in the 3rd line said this:

"I might be wrong but would love some feedback. It’s an exceedingly complicated topic which has been researched for hundreds of years so it might be that this observation has been made before."

... so there's to be NO discussion on the Internet of complicated topics. Got it!
Not to be confused with a computing cluster, this is a reference to analytical methods.

In medicine and medical jargon, the verb “to cluster” and noun “cluster” have a specialized definition. It’s a loaded term, intended to signal that observations of coincidental medical conditions found close together and at around the same time are presumed to be strongly related in an as yet unknown way.

It’s usually stated in a public health context, when an alert or warning is announced.

Example: A sudden spike in food poisoning at restaurants is noticed by way of shared reporting between hospitals. If there are 10,000 incidents within 48 hours in the entire state of Texas, statistical “clustering” helps shake out the unrelated noise of the usual incidental food poisoning, to locate the unexpected events according to shared qualities. Same restaurant chain, correlated ingredients across chains (all lettuce), associated factories or farms, suppliers, freight shipping company, style of prep work, common equipment (all had same blender or mixer brand), and so on.

It’s a way of problem solving during fluid events as they unfold, in an attempt to get out in front of a problem, as it happens.
I updated the Julia n body problem to use simd. It's actually really easy to read and I'm pretty confident it's very performant, but the problem is that for the number of iterations done, the VM boot time dominates.
If you were doing a problem IRL, you would expect run times in the hours, and a 5 second vm load and program compile penalty would be peanuts.
Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen is not a primary energy, so that article starts very poorly.
Straight guy here. Anyone who doesn’t wash their ass is fucking disgusting.
That's a valid point - charging EV's in multi-family buildings is an issue although there are many public charge stations now and with the range of new EV's a bi-weekly charge or so might be enough for most people.
There aren't any that mimic cannabis closely enough to have it's self-limiting affinity for endocannabinoid synapses.
Town halls resort to spy tactics - https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/town-halls-resort-to-s...

Civil servants attacked for using anti-terror laws to spy on public - https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/feb/28/surveillance-gove...

Terror law used for Iceland deposits - https://www.ft.com/content/abf583de-9546-11dd-aedd-000077b07...

The Further Democratization of Stingray - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/the_further_d...

WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/29/wikileaks_docs_show...

Airbus wants answers from Germany over U.S. spying claims - https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/news/airbus-germany-nsa-spy...

Green Party: The police’s secret surveillance of elected politicians with no criminal record is scandalous - https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/06/16/police%E2%80%9...

Police continued spying on Labour activists after their election as MPs - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/25/police-spied...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PCCF1bX-a4

(For those who can't listen to this right now, it's a short Mitchell and Webb radio sketch that humorously illustrates that it's quite difficult to stop an addiction simply because you know it'd be good for you.)
I can tell HN has no sense of humor by the unreadability of the comment.
As much as I love the Python language, it is shameful how it has become a sort of "schtrumpf"-like addition to any computer-related stuff. Such introductory tutorials are great (but this one, specifically, would benefit much by having the code that generates each figure next to it). However, it is really not necessary to specify that your particular thing is "with Python" as if it really meant anything fundamental.

What kind of shitty reasoning leads to this? "Oh, let's introduce this elementary mathematics to the illiterate masses by writing it as a Python script. Now everyone will understand it!" This is a lack of respect for the agency of the readers.
The concentration of metals found in that study were below the legal limits for inhalational medicines. The type of vaping device studied was something called a "cartomizer" of a design which is now broadly obsolete; these cartomizers feature heating elements with solder joints which remain immersed in the e-liquid solution, whereas more modern devices generally use a heating element comprising a single piece of stainless steel.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> which is why you can get a prescription for the one

And you can't buy either at a corner store. Methdone > heroin and vaping > cigarettes but we still should not encourage vaping. It is dangerous and we should treat it as such.
Natural cannabinoids only have a limited affinity for the endocannabinoid synapse.

>Studies have found that these compounds tend to activate the CB1 receptor to a greater degree than does THC, suggesting that synthetic marijuana compounds have the ability to induce far more intense effects than marijuana, according to the review.

https://www.livescience.com/57747-synthetic-marijuana-risks....

>Much of our understanding of cannabinoid tolerance, dependence and withdrawal has been based on studies involving Δ9-THC, a relatively weak partial agonist at CB1 and CB2 receptors. However, the SCBs commonly found in quasi-legal commercial products such as K2 and Spice are typically full cannabinoid receptor agonists. Importantly, a drug's efficacy determines how “powerful” its maximal effects may be in biological systems. A low efficacy cannabinoid like Δ9-THC will have a less pronounced maximal effect than a higher efficacy cannabinoid, such as the SCBs present in commercial products, and this difference in maximal effects cannot be overcome simply by increasing the dose of Δ9-THC. In other words, no amount of Δ9-THC can stimulate cannabinoid receptors to the same degree as the SCBs currently emerging as drugs of abuse. This has left researchers working with these high efficacy SCBs in the unusual position of having to determine whether their effects are related to the unprecedented degree of cannabinoid receptor stimulation elicited by these compounds, or whether they are produced by interactions with other, non-cannabinoid receptor systems.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582439/
Ask HN: What are you reading this week?
With which book are you making your week meaningful?
So you're the guy who actually managed to "download more RAM". Congrats!

On a more serious note, gonna add that trick to my book - still plenty of rust spinnin' round