skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you !

Most people never understand this aspect of statistics. Living in Houston, and having survived 3 out of 4 years with an above-100-year floods, I understand firsthand the clumping of events. But the "typical" guy on the street (oops, now I just violated my own rule!) has no clue what a distribution is.

Not sure how to solve this problem. Teaching statistics to everyone in not a solution (see the Monty Hall Problem [0] ).

[0] - https://statisticsbyjim.com/fun/monty-hall-problem/
> but mostly because they are minorities.

I don't think this is true for the majority of Americans anymore in regards to sports athletes. My finger on the rather sensitive topic is it has more to do with how different groups perceive one's culture (and potential ignorance thereof) than race. You'll be hard press to find, save the few rare 0.1% fringe racists or trolls, questions around Russell Wilson's intelligence, or Patrick Mahomes, or Kobe Bryant, or Richard Sherman. If you simply google "smartest athletes" you get a pretty diverse representation of African American athletes, White athletes, and everything in between.

Also working against famous athletes, is the fact that pop culture and celebrity is generally not associated with intelligence in America on a whole.
only better bus routes, preferential treatment for buses, and more routes, will alleviate the issue. light rail is a boondoggle for every city that has it with a combined near hundred billion dollar deferred maintenance tab across the US.

Light rail goes where it is politically beneficial and that rarely aligns where people need it. it the becomes such a money sink that other parts of the mass transit system are short changed to prop it up and in some cases bus routes are made worse in order to cajole people onto rail they don't want to use. then throw in the whole land cost and it just becomes silly, you could always raise the cost ten fold and go underground /s
Chrome appears to interpret the canvas as sRGB and to convert from that, but that means that images decoded that way are effectively limited to sRGB until the canvas API allows specifying other colorspaces.
>A whole food, conservative, omnivorous diet of your ancestors instead of becoming vegan or carnivore.

Not sure how that's low tech or ancestral. Veganism is quite sustainable and many peoples of the past have practiced it.
On the off-chance you're talking about Menlo Church, my impression is that it was both. The real estate issues were less divisive, and therefore easier to focus on. Many churches struggle with the SSM issue because they don't want to alienate members on either side.
I liked the article but scrolling was terrible for me. I'm on a Macbook with a trackpad and the page couldn't load the content fast enough.
I know exactly how it feels. And that often nobody around can truly relate with this experience.

It's like being thrown into a dark hole and being left there all by yourself, 24/7, for years.

If you haven't seen it, Numb (2007) has captured this state pretty well:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aa60FdWbdYY

Also, it seems, there was a related thread here a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018914

That's just a reminder, that you are not alone.
The "STEM" in Blaze and the Monster Wheels annoys me much more than Paw Patrol. The errors in explaining friction (pushing does not slow things down until enough force is applied), cancelling sound by shouting louder, a general lack of units, badly explained electricity, the list goes on.
I always liked the Scrub post by Sirlin, but I think it's too confrontational and likely to generate a negative reaction in the person you're mentioning it to. Nobody wants to be called a scrub.

I'm not into card or videogames, but I like tabletop miniatures wargames (like Warhammer et al) and if you're familiar with them, you'll know there is this stereotype of a gamer derisively called a "WAAC" -- a "Win At All Costs" competitive gamer who will crush you and play in an unsportsmanlike manner and laugh while you lose, because he only cares about winning while you tried to play "thematically" and with honor. If you exclude outright cheaters (which this WAAC thing confusingly includes, even though I think that's a different thing), I think this falls well within the Scrub phenomenon Sirlin mentioned. Non-cheating WAAC players are playing the actual game, "thematic" players are playing a different game under self-imposed limitations not prescribed by the actual rules, and this mismatch results in a lot of grief.

The few times I mentioned Sirlin.net to Warhammer players, it was not well received though. So don't try it...

As a final word, I don't think the Overwatch example fits this phenomenon. The Overwatch thing is players who don't know they are playing badly because they don't get feedback, not players willingly playing under self-imposed limitations and complaining about others playing the actual game ;)
I think you'd lose a bit of efficiency have to pump circulated seawater to the roof tops to not only provide water to desalinate, but also to flush out the accumulated brine overnight.
Because you're likely going to be able to collect more energy than you can immediately use. That makes it effective to do so you can run the desalination even when the sun is down.
Most employees provide much more value to the company than they are compensated for. That's how being an employee generally works.
Oh god, another person casting their political axe as some grand systemic critique.

We just had a speak of the house literally rip up the President's State of the Union, not the kind of thing that would happen in Italy in 1935.

If Bloomberg beats Trump in the general, and uses his money to advance good progressive causes, is this still evidence of the death of American democracy?

Loud disagreement, complex political theatrics playing themselves out in the legal system, and beneath it all, people speaking and voting with freedom.

Compare that to what's going on in Wuhan, and tell me American Democracy is dying.
Reminds me of some charts used by chemical engineers in the age of slide rules. Can anyone help me remember an example?
http://archive.is/E0Z1m
Yep, that's almost the only scenario it covers, along with commuting from east Austin to the Domain.

I was at a lecture recently about the things cities do right and wrong when planning public transit, and the speaker used Austin's rail system to illustrate what happens when cities route public transit around political opposition. The political opposition is typically strongest exactly where transit is most valuable, and Austin's Red Line is the perfect example: it barely sticks its nose into one side of downtown and then manages to dodge the capitol area, the university, and the dense residential neighborhoods of north Austin. Even the station that seems intended to serve the Domain is actually a ten minute walk from it, twenty minutes to most of the shops and restaurants.
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So the salt is just going back into the ocean. How is that different from other systems, they end up dumping the salt somewhere.
Show HN: Three new chrome extensions(system tools)
I made 3 new chrome extensions recently. They are simple and pure widgets without any permissions. There are detailed descriptions in the extension links.

1. System Monitor for CPU / Memory
A tool that display system CPU or Memory usage on the extension icon. Click the icon, you can set the display format, such as graphics or numbers...

Chrome Web Store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcofohckagnahikfankmacbepefilmof
Microsoft Edge Addons link: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/hhdchdonmjhnjgbiigkejigakhechefe

2. Battery Status
Display battery level, charging or discharging status.
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lncamcnihkpmnbpioiooedpmmpaaohnb

3. Keep Computer Awake (for a While)
Override current energy-saving settings of OS, keep your computer running or screen on, and (optional) return to default state by a timer...
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imbpigcghoambmanjekibelfjemnnool

Yes, there are other extensions that have similar functions. Just for fun to made them, and I think I did a little better than others :)
Okay, so we're all at the sausage factory one day making sausage. We notice that we're shoving an awful lot of rat shit into the sausages, but the boss says it's more profitable this way. We get together and tell the boss, look we're not gonna keep shoving rat shit into the sausage. To you, this is illegitimate, because we're paying our rent out of profits from the rat shit, after all. So fine, we decide to leave. Now the boss hires new employees, and the process continues.

Ultimately, I think hypocrisy is the wrong lens to look at this through. Activists are not seeking purity or moral perfection, we're seeking change. Change requires organizing, which has to start within the company. An individual employee does fuck-all if they leave by themselves.
It's obviously hard to tell by looking in windows, but there's plenty of poor and/or disabled people riding the bus and already dealing with the problems you think removing cars would give them.
Moto G8 Plus, better camera, bigger battery, better screen resolution, sd slot, under $400 these days.
If you run the numbers you'll see that this is not a viable option. It's too expensive to get enough payload in space, the earth can't afford it.

I mean if you're making mirrors, why do we need to put them in space at great cost? Just put them on earth. The cost of the actual mirrors is basically zero compared to to the cost of putting that mirror in orbit. The earth mirrors might be slightly less efficient but you can just make up for that with more mirrors.
More technical info here https://www.universetoday.com/144812/voyager-2-went-into-fau...

It must be awesome for the original designers and engineers to look back and know that their baby is still floating away and sending us valuable data.
By "shady government", does this not include the UK government itself at this point? And we don't yet know which other governments will be represented, but we can apparently expect around 60, as per the article. That's a lot of potential shadiness.
How to reduce 'attention residue'
Are you the author? If you add 'Show HN' to the title the submission will go to https://news.ycombinator.com/show requiring less upvotes for exposure. It helps to also add a first comment "I'm the author" with a little background and asking for feedback. I use geojson at work and will try it out.
I get that its immeasurably frustrating for a person to be distilled into performance metrics, but how else can we measure one's impact? Using a trust based method where a supervisor leans on their personal biases to determine an employee's value is fraught with issues as well. A large enough corporation is a machine and we can't base decisions off of how we "feel" the machine's parts are working. Hard numbers will win over time.
Who owned the car before the dealer bought it? Tesla.

Did Tesla sell a car with FSD to the dealer? No, Tesla sold the dealer a car without FSD, but the feature was incorrectly enabled in the car that was delivered. This tends to happen because features will only come off after the next software update is applied.

By the way, there's a similar issue with used cars that originally came with "Free Unlimited SuperCharging". This is another case where if Tesla buys the used car, or it's returned to them, they will resell it used without "Free Unlimited Supercharging".

The problem is when third-party dealers purchase off-lease Teslas which originally had "Free Unlimited SuperCharging" even though Tesla will always remove that feature when the lease is over, the used car dealer could lie to the new buyer that they are getting FUSC with the car, when in fact they will not.

For example: https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/free-unlimited-superch...
> isn’t all of the West structured like that?

No, at least not all of it, not all of the time, and not as markedly, as you see in the UK.

The fact that you can not conceive this is possible, is telling in itself.
The 8 memory channels of the EPYC against the 4 of the Threadripper that the article mentions is not just about how much memory you can install, but memory bandwidth. An L3 cache miss should be roughly twice as expensive on the desktop platform than on the server one.
Sorry, I meant to say that the enthalpy of water vaporization is about 630 KWh per cubic meter for context to compare to the energy use of this method and reverse osmosis. I guess I forgot to actually include the number!
Highly likely but are you certain of that?

Are you certain a crime has not taken place?

A death has happened. PR strategy would be the furthest thing from my mind - but I'm a human, not a corporate entity.
Maybe we should build our people up as a society, as a country rather than depending on draining the "highly motivated" people from their own countries, presumably where they are needed much more. It makes me very sad that as a whole we have lost so much faith in each other.
It entirely depends on what progressive steps you define / where you stop loading.
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40 miles is a pretty long commute. A modern city shouldn't be optimized to make that experience the norm. Most trips are much shorter.
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An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing a crime. They are not criminals until they have been found guilty of committing a crime by a court of law. England enjoys due process and a robust judiciary.

Either the police had probable case to make an arrest or the arrestees can sue for false arrest. In general the police do not arrest people without a reason in England.
You can't start with the strike though. One person striking is called a sick day. You have to start with organizing, which necessarily means that you're going to be working at a place whose practices you disagree with.
Here's one article providing ideas but note the page date!
https://backintelligence.com/proper-sitting-posture-at-a-des...

BTW it's important to regularly get out of your chair too.
The solution isn't bankrupting fossil fuel companies.

The solution is finding viable replacements for these companies, whether it's solar, wind, nuclear, or something else, and then scaling them so they can serve everyone.

Finding viable replacements that people _want_ to use, along with carbon taxes, subsidies, etc should be sufficient to force some oil and gas companies to pivot to clean energy and make the rest die out or become substantially smaller.

And, this way, we would avoid a massive decrease in our quality of life, it would actually be practical, and consumers would benefit.
In fact, this is the premise of the film "You've Got Mail".
However long it takes for the hole at the big toe to get too big.
> The only thing you can possibly gain from a WiFi-enabled fridge (it has no voice commands, no screen, etc) is just being monitored and/or hacked. There is literally no benefit to the consumer from having WiFi on that device.

Does it at least have cameras inside the main cavity so you can see what you're short-of on your phone when you're at the supermarket?
This is a real problem, and hard to raise without coming off (or being accused) as an insensitive clod.

The number of handicapped and mentally ill / incapacitated users who take public transport is a really big problem when combined with a system's stated need to serve everyone equally.

They take up stopping time, slow the bus down, antagonize other riders, which leads to people not wanting to take the bus, making it seen more and more a transport mode of the dysfunctional. Then depriving it of funding, and into a spiral of decline. On a train or bus, you can't allow 1 person to delay 50 or 200 by multiple minutes during every ride.

People who take public transport (the poor, those with no alternative) are the very people whose time is precious and wasting it with delays is really irresponsible.

There needs to be a way to handle the outlier cases who slow the system down, to maintain confidence and reliability of the system for the bulk majority of passengers.
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The blame lies largely with the experienced players for failing to give sufficient handicap. If you're teaching somebody how to play Go, start with a 9x9 board and give them 5 stones. If you're teaching Arimaa, give them something like four rabbits, one horse, the camel, and the elephant. Dial back the handicap whenever they win a game, which at those starting handicaps should be from the very beginning.
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To make twice as much water you may need to either install a set of batteries to run at night, or install twice as much RO hardware to run during the day. Whichever's cheaper.
Your analysis isn't entirely incorrect, but you're kind of missing the point. Oil and gas companies one day were necessary and provided more value than destruction (as far as we knew). At this point though, it's clear that oil and gas will one day be a thing of the past, and these massive industries are desperately trying to cling on in the face of this.

Evidence of this is present in the lobbying efforts funded to the tune of billions of dollars a year (by these industries) to ensure regulations don't get passed, subsidies don't reach green technology, and information is suppressed. This is evil.

No one is contesting the fact that we needed oil and gas to reach where we are today. We're just contesting the fact that we still need to be expanding these industries, which lobbyists are trying to do every single day.

> Maybe let’s come up with solutions that don’t require pushing millions of people into poverty because they can no longer heat their homes or grow their food.

Maybe let's come up with a solution that prevents inevitable mass migrations, famine, and wars. (This statement is just as fallacious as yours -- see, I can do it too.)
10+ years ago this was true but CRuby's basic operations like += (bytecode is opt_plus followed by setlocal) don't do method lookup unless you redefine them and even if you do then it uses inline caches in the bytecode so there's only one hash lookup.

TruffleRuby has been constant folding trivial code like this since 2014. AOT is also an option.
What would you prefer it to be called? We can change the words around to suit our social sensibilities but at the end of the day, we're still talking about convincing people to spend some money. Nobody bats an eye if you ask for more money from your boss, but many people are under a lot of pressure not to try to be compensated fairly for consumer-facing work.

Making good content consistently is hard work, I personally have no moral qualms about a creator trying to make a living doing it.
What are y'all using instead of k8s?
Tell that to Pulse Audio.
Anaesthetics.

No one can explain why chloroform and other anaesthetic gases work the way they do, but they're used millions of times every day.
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This is excellent. Thank you for sharing.
Other common terms for this are sanitization or redaction
> It sure is fun to see the entire top half of htop being taken up by individual CPU bars,

You should have seen it with the Xeon Phi - the Phi could do 4 threads per core and the big ones had 72 of them, for a mind-blowing 288 threads. It was, however, much less forgiving than either of these beasts - L2 cache was Atom-sized and cache misses were not cheap.
I live in Culver City and go to work to Santa Monica using the expo line, and its perfect. But I do understand the routes do not cover important areas. There's still a big gap around West Hollywood for ex.
I really don't see how this would be a good idea.

First of all it suggests that wealth is the be-all and end-all of human progress. It also implies that wealth creation is equivalent wherever it happens - that somehow if a place is more efficient at creating wealth than it should be privileged.

Finally, of course, this means that poorer countries that produce less wealth will almost certainly be less efficient by this metric, and hence should be penalized (of course, we shouldn't mention that a lot of their production actually ends up being consumed by the rich-world which can this way claim to be highly CO2 efficient).
Assume there is no collective action in the next century. What next?

I actually only think things will be done once insurance companies start accounting for costs here.
My route (704 along santa monica blvd on the west side) has a mix of shaded or uncovered stops. That bus is pretty reliably tracked by google maps and other transit apps. I get delayed less than once a month. They're actually about to merge the express and local lines into more frequent, slightly farther spaced routes, so it's supposed to change to every 10 minutes or so.

My timing is usually flexible, so I can absorb one delay a month, but when I'm in a hurry (like today), I'll just string together two buses (1 to 4) if the 704 doesn't show. I've taken ubers in a pinch before, but way less than once a month.
Anyone read the Tesla Digital Rights Management small print on this? If I buy a car with extra options (leather, premium stereo etc) I would subsequently sell it with those options. It appears Tesla are removing the digital rights options the PO would have paid for, reverting the car to a base model with option buy new subscriptions - is that correct or do I misunderstand?
Thank goodness they have $1T to help Norway through this period of climate change from all of the oil they pumped that is causing the climate change.

A lot of smaller island nations won't have that luxury.
A Tesla doesn't seem 10x better from getting to Point A to B. In fact, my only experience in an electric vehicle (driving along the California coast) was having to stop, get lunch, as vehicle charged for ~30 minutes. I didn't mind the stop, but it certainly isn't 10x better than a combustion engine commuter vehicle.
I think the difference is that most computers don't come with a fully-licensed copy of Photoshop when they're originally purchased
I am glad you wrote it! ;)
A refreshing transparent privacy policy, I like it a lot.

I recommend adding 'Show HN' to the title so the submission goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/show
That's why we have things like Rust - so we can write multi-threaded apps without shooting ourselves on the foot.
I've recently been thinking about really improving my home office lighting setup. For example, most of my meetings are with Zoom and on video, and proper studio lighting can go a long way to making a good impression. We all want to look good, right?
20 years is a long time to work some stuff out though.

I think it’s a bill gates quote (badly paraphrased probably) - “people overestimate what can be achieved in a year and underestimate why can be done in a decade.”

So 2 decades ought to be something well outside our current expectations.

I hope it will be at least!
The era of the movie is 2500 AD. To add nearly 3 oceans worth of water in that time frame by cometary bombardment would boil the existing ocean.

The only hard sci-fi explanation is that someone towed Europa to Earth and slowly lowered it down via a cable or pipe. Terraforming by an alien aquatic species. Hyperintelligent space whales.
I would assume render farms would rely much more on GPUs than on CPUs.
> In the last four years they have included countries whose human rights records have been criticised such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Oman, Qatar and Hong Kong.

A perfect party to sell stuff for those whose other hand is operating a bone saw
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