skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$27m plus...

... the massive amount of bad PR this issue has garnered them over the past 3 years.

... the other fines in other geographies.

... the cost of the massive battery replacement program they put in place.

... the cost of software updates, legal, marketing, and managing this mess over the past few years

...etc etc.

This issue has dragged out for 3+ years and affected big parts of the company. Painting it like it was a drop in the bucket hiccough is just flat wrong.
if a windmill falls/explodes, the area wouldn't be unliveable and contaminated for centuries...
Are you really? If you’re involved in nuclear accident, you get to live anywhere from days to months to years to decades. Even in the worst of the worst cases (you literally touched the fuel rod), you will have time to say farewells to the family, perhaps even write a will.

With hydroelectric accident you drown. The end.
Is it a silent machine?
You’re the one with magical beliefs. Why should the brain or anything for that matter be explainable? Cause your brain has tricked you into believing it’s a universal understanding machine?
Thank you, that was fascinating.
Sure.

Let me start with a more general observation: those Tencent numbers imply a death rate of at least one in six.

Yet when you look at figures from outside of China, we absolute do not have a 1:6 infection to death ratio in known cases from places without any CCP influence.

As for the transposition: 154,023 was almost exactly the number of people being monitored for coronavirus. This was NOT the number of confirmed cases, just the people being monitored.

24,589 is almost exactly the number of confirmed cases, yet here it's reported as "deaths".

In this particular case, Hanlon's Razor is apt: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

And again, shame on the CCP for arresting the (now tragically dead!) doctor and other people who first brought this virus to light and tried to warn people. The CCPs need for control over their population caused them to kill hundreds if not thousands of people and contributed significantly to a global pandemic.
Sort of, but not really. Asimov worried about us losing the knowledge of nuclear power, and whilst there's a little of that what's really lead to its demise is that as we've learnt more about what's needed to build and operate it over the years it's become less and less viable.
I've only ever had one iPhone and the reason I decided I'd never get another is that it slowed down unacceptably when a new OS version came out.

Every phone I've had since then I've switched from on my own schedule, never forced to by slowness like my one iPhone.
>The cartoon was entertainment in it's own right?

If you ask my parents I'm sure they would disagree and just say it was a way to sell toys to kids
I am excited for the book he mentions working on about games from an archaeological perspective.
Almost everywhere else in business, if the buyer is not bothered to pay what the seller believes the product is worth, the result is quite simply that the deal is not made and parties go their own ways. Nobody calls for the government to set minimums just because the sellers don’t like what they are offered. Why would your situation be any different?
A similar evolution in shoe technology revolutionized rock climbing. The first purpose built climbing shoe entered the market around 1935, then around 1980 the first "sticky" climbing shoes appeared. Today we have shoes like the La Sportiva Solutions and the Scarpa Drago, both incredible climbing shoes that provide a massive advantage over shoes of the past.

Fortunately for climbing, this hasn't been much of a problem. Possibly due to the fact that everyone has access to the same shoes. Another possibility is that competition climbing has only become popular in something like the last decade, significantly after the shoe revolution started.

The analogy is imperfect as climbing isn't timed* but it should be interesting to watch this play out.

* Excluding speed climbing and maximum time limits.
Hacker News should revel in this kind of headline; ratings are made by algorithms that can be gamed and exploited.
For a sodium ion in solution it's more a question of pico-scale. And since most sodium salts are quite soluble you'll need some pretty exotic glue to attach that nano-magnetite.
there are other fission fuel sources, thorium for example is a relatively abundant possible fuel
The crazy part about this is how little similarity it takes to fool us.
If we're talking solely about solar, it's not that simple, since on-the-grid residential solar systems only generate power during the day (and not even always the entire day), and then pull power from the grid at night. For full self-sufficiency, you'd need to install battery systems in every house, and ensure that you have enough panels to pull in enough power during daylight hours to charge the batteries enough to cover all the no-sun hours.
Hydro disasters can be dams bursts and are no joke! Thousands dead, towns wiped away, stuff like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Machchhu_dam_failure

Luckily not that common especially with well-maintained dams. But it was a huge fear with the Mosul dam in Iraq, which was expected to put over a million lives at risk during the ISIL insurgency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul_Dam

I'm not anti-hydro at all! But it's important to understand how powerful these dams are...
FDA approves AI software that helps non-experts take ultrasound heart images
The battery is replaceable. It takes fifteen minutes at any Apple store.
THIS!
Consider someone with a spouse and kids... Let's just quit, right?
Different shoes are fine by me in all aspects, as long as they don't try to store and return kinetic energy.
Well, US tech companies do the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... They literally conspired together against their own employees to keep wages capped.
I think it was only on old phones with faulty batteries too. Here you get a slower phone, but it still works. The alternative is the phone reboots
Wuhan pneumonia survivor: my 22 day battle against the novel coronavirus
I'm just suggesting we keep the status quo as it was up till 2015ish. Plenty of room for sponsorship by shoe companies and others.
When the innocent pays for the mistakes of the regime.
Cool so we've moved from "global warming isn't happening" to "it's happening but we can't do anything so let's make the best of it".

Going 100% renewable alone isn't enough. We also need afforestation programs and carbon capture programs on a massive scale.
> Absolutely incorrect. Paychecks have nothing to do with whether you as a person find the company's policies palatable or not. Google employees provide a lot more value to Google than they are compensated for. They are well within their rights and should be encouraged to voice their honest opinions.

You're wrong. You have an opinion; not a fact. This is no different to the original commenter, but at least (s)he made that very clear.
You've never heard of acquiescence bias then, it's an interesting effect the name of which I only learnt recently; worth looking up.

My country seems more fascist, and the impression I get from news is USA is too -- in dictatorial societies people tend to acquiess because they feel giving the 'wrong' answer might cause trouble for them.

But mine's an outside view, so I asked a few questions to get a sample of answers from the inside track.
If you look at enough of these they all start to look alien.
Zfs
Bland high-contrast sites are discriminatory against people with depressive disorders. I'd kill myself if all information and storytelling came in man page format. So perhaps you should think before you put yourself on a pedestal.
> If this is true, then wouldn't we just be biomechanical robots operating on stimuli

Yes, that's right. Which is one of the big problems with this line of argument for many people -- how do you reconcile "biomechanical robot" with the concepts of "free will" and "moral decision-making"?

I'm personally agnostic on the issue (I don't believe science is able to answer this question yet -- or possibly ever.)

I do think it's interesting that you say "just a biomechanical robot." The "just" implies that being a robot -- a fancy rock -- in some way isn't enough. But in my mind, there's absolutely no (objective) reason to think of a human as any better or more important than a robot, or a rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Suddenly, Chernobyl doesn't sound that bad anymore.
> We also need to accept the fact that sometimes we go down paths, make discoveries, and need to reverse course,

All of which are made harder by people who share your preference for exceedingly inefficient but low-error processes.

> or hold people accountable so the wrong people don't pay for the mistakes of others.

This part of your sentence isn't compatible with the first part of your sentence. This is at the core of the problem. The prevalence of this attitude leads to a culture of ass-covering rather than ambition and risk-taking. That ass-covering creates gross inefficiencies, leading to every step costing 10x too much, and taking 5x too long.
But we are not sub-sampling here. We are comparing the whole of the Netherlands with the whole of the US right?

We might take a big bag of M&M's and a smaller bag of M&M's, and count both of their contents, and find that the small bag has proportionally significantly more blue M&M's than the bigger bag.
Antarctica is hotter than it's ever been
I had the same experience way back, dithering on old CRT with composite videos is smoother since you create new colors given how the signal is transfered and converted compared to a high resolution computer display (800x600). Now days I'm pretty sure there are GPU filters for that.

Can this also be fixed by filters?
Tbh I’m very shocked by how many people have never used docker with Rails. Am I missing something?
> As someone who's only touched Ruby for a few years

Well... Gemfile.lock has nothing to do with rails and all to do with Bundler, but if you've never used Bundler for dependency management it's possible that it's new to you.

But Bundler (and the Gemfile and Gemfile.lock) are one of the core components of rails, they even get mentioned in the getting started page (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html).

I only have a couple of years of experience with rails and haven't touched it in 6 years, but I'd be very sceptical of any article that tries to teach how to build projects in rails and doesn't even get those basics right.
Then don't use the word "throttling". Just say Apple made it slower to make the battery last longer.
It did happen. Germany has shut down most of its nuclear power generation and is phasing the rest out by 2022. So far, 'researchers [..] found that nuclear power was mostly replaced with power from coal plants, which led to [..] about a 5 percent increase in emissions.'

https://www.wired.com/story/germany-rejected-nuclear-poweran...
Go read some old newspapers. It's clear you haven't.
My old iPod Touch slowed down very noticeably after an iOS update.
Actually, it turns out that AMD has been doing pretty great in both Desktop and Mobile growth: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/305839-intel-amd-both-...

Mobile growth was huge, and this was even with the older 12nm chips, and at best, mid-tier laptop models. This year I suspect will be even better as the 7nm 4000 series beats the Intel competition across the board, and as OEMs seem to be finally putting the AMD chips in higher-end models.

Intel continues to have ongoing chip shortages that's impacting OEM bottom lines, so we'll see if that changes the landscape in 2020 as well. https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20200117PD203.html
Boeing’s spacecraft test failure points to broader problems
And actually, to this point, molten salt reactors[1] are one of the reactor search paths that looks pretty promising for better safety outcomes. Especially when compared against boiling water reactors[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor
At risk of being the "[Citations Needed] Guy," I don't think this is true. This sounds an awful lot like the canard that corporations have a legal duty to act in the interests of their shareholders, but there is no fact no such legal or even regulatory obligation for that. This misapprehension comes from a paper written by Milton Friedman in 1975 in which he argued corporations have a moral duty to maximize shareholder value and to prioritize that over all other concerns. While that argument has been widely accepted by corporations and often used as a rationale for their behavior, it's never been codified as an SEC regulation, let alone written into law. It's literally just Friedman's opinion, and one that's come under increasing challenge.

If you're an employee of a company you are contractually obligated to fulfill the terms of your contract, but there is no legal -- or if you prefer, LEGAL -- requirement for you to do so. You may be reprimanded or even fired for spending too much time on Hacker News at the office, but you are not breaking any law by doing so. More to the point in this case, you are absolutely not breaking any law by telling your employer that you don't agree with their decisions, or even by trying to organize fellow employees to put pressure on management to change their behavior. If your employer fires you because of your speaking out or organizing, in fact, the law may very well be on your side, not theirs.
What if the answer caused you to turn off the AI (or yourself) while it was still just setting up the prerequisite ideas?
Open-source, for one, but that's more than just a philosophy in BSD. One of the key design considerations touted by BSD communities is that the kernel and userspace are distributed and built as one cohesive system for which you can get all the source / rebuild on your system. And that's done far more often than in Linux and other more mainstream OSs. But it's not a BSD kernel and what's distributed / used is very far removed from open-source Darwin and anything you could rebuild yourself. On the more subjective side of things, BSDs tend to value simplicity and correctness over new features. OpenBSD takes this to an extreme, but FreeBSD still takes it a lot further than Apple does.

But other than having more claim to the UNIX title than Linux and having some BSD userland, it's really not technically a BSD at all. I'll grant you it's arguably a distant descendant of BSD under the surface or in your shell.
Yes let's look at France, closing down 14 reactors and investing in renewables: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron...

Time and money has ran out for nuclear.
I hear ya. I still live in the Bay Area (bought a place, so my costs for housing are fixed), and I can't believe the insane policies we have. It drives me mad--you have an electorate that constantly complains about the high cost of housing, and also blocks any reforms that create more housing.

And unfortunately, the votes to solve the problem are slowly moving out of state...
> We could end up in Transcriptworld.

> Here, Facebook’s real-name requirement will have become near universalized. Those who can’t or won’t identify themselves will be excluded.

We're already there, at least partly. I know a number of people who are already excluded from a lot of things because of this.

To a certain degree, I'm one of them, as there's no way I'm willing to have a Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. account, my use of credit/debit cards is seriously restricted, an increasing amount of the web won't work because I block tracking, and I'm very likely going to stop having a cell phone at all.
If you are making high end cars and they don't last three years you have a big quality problem.
I’d always test for the role and not rely on a PhD implying they can do the job. Unfortunately that means a coding test, but it can be short.
> Kids, medical problems and bad luck can all contribute, but we generally have a very low degree of control over those situations.

Bad luck sure, but kids are an entirely deterministic and preventable outcome. Most medical problems are arguably preventable as well.

I agree regarding the link between possessions and employer leverage.
"Turned to renewables" while burning 36% coal according to your graph.

Yes, if they've always been using coal, I guess technically they didn't "turned to" coal, but how is it better?

Meanwhile neighboring France, with its 70%+ energy generated from nuclear, generates about half as much CO2 per capita as Germany. Right now, and in the foreseeable future.
Keybase Proof
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> World Rally Championship style

Such an odd example to choose. World Rally Cars are built on production 1.6-litre four-cylinder cars, but feature turbochargers, anti-lag systems, four-wheel-drive, sequential gearboxes, aerodynamic parts and other enhancements bringing the price of a WRC car to around US$1 million.

Only $250 to have the exact same shoes as Eliud Kipchoge, wow!
> wouldn't we just be biomechanical robots operating on stimuli?

> are we just a more complex rock?

of course we are. moreover, it's pretty straightforward to trace our evolution back to rocks or rock-like formations.
Is there any evidence that phones would crash due to less reliable battery draw? It sounds like an explanation that could have been posthumously invented after the performance degradation became public knowledge. Coupled with the fact that nobody was ever told about this functionality, one can wonder the true intent. For all we know, they A/B tested it, and found it got people to upgrade more frequently.
> rely on it without fearing it can go away with the next release

This is Python we're talking about.
Japan and Germany should be ashamed of themselves. Tragic.
Yes exactly, SSH access is also one of the reasons for building the module, that is mentioned in the blog post.

> Access: When troubleshooting, we save time not having to look up the instance’s internal IP address for SSH access.
Of course. But killing the business model of pretending to give away stuff for free when you're actually making money by selling the 'customer's data does guarantee that this business model will not show up again.
Yeah, sorry I don't mean to imply that.

I'm just trying to challenge people's assumptions of what makes something intelligent. To me, it's not precisely clear as to what makes something intelligent, and is why I think we've had trouble coming up with a satisfactory test for determining when a computer is intelligent.
"The boy's aunt told Damihexiaomi that she fed Cheng three times and changed his clothes twice during the six days that he was alone. Her own poor health prevented her from doing more. When she stopped by to take care of Cheng on Tuesday, his condition was already on the decline, the Post reported. "
Corollary: Python programmers are not real.
> I'm a big advocate of open source but if a nuclear reactor based on an open-source project would be opened close to me, I'd pack up and move as far as I could.

I'm also a big Open Source proponent, but that is such an absurd claim; first, where the hell are you going to get enriched Uranium to do any of the testing?

I'm pretty sure even in the depths of DNMs any such listings are a honey pot for Interpol or CIA/FBI or something.

The US sends other Nations into abject poverty via sanctions for trying to have civil use of Nuclear Energy, you think they won't level your entire neighborhood if they even suspected anyone playing with a reactor?

Oddly enough, the NRC/NRA let decommissioned plants store used spent fuel in poorly made casks along the CA coast:

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/06/the-safe-transfer-of-s...
Things We Need to Retire in Our Work Culture
In the past 100 years.
Alcoholic beverages sold in containers are almost exclusively in metric. The old standard size was a fifth of a gallon, or 757 ml. When going metric this was reduced to 750 ml which is close enough that nobody would notice. Since it was ever so slightly smaller there was no pushback from the producers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_(unit)

Bottled water is often in metric too, even for single serving sizes.
You should write a book, "The Cyborg of Theseus" :)
Think more subtly - if you need to meet a metric/goal of 50% of your time on phone calls and 50% on tickets, a manager who wants to tank your metrics will game the system to feed you less than needed to make your metric on one or the other. Just because a metric exists does not mean it's applied fairly or evenly to all employees.
Being entertaining was how they sold toys to kids. The cartoons were selling the mythology behind the toys and showing kids what the gimmicks and features were, and how to play with them.

But yes a lot of old 80's cartoons literally only existed to push a toy line.
Not all contracts are legal. For example, you are not allowed to sell your kidney, even if you are fully aware of the implications.

Obviously, selling your data is not as harmful to you as selling a kidney. But it is still harmful, and it is also extremely harmful to society when many people do so.
> won't help the average Joe much

Exactly, it's only a 4% edge. That's going to take my marathon time all the way from DNF right down to the amazing pace of DNF.

> difference between millions of dollars in winnings and sponsorships.

Worth the the $250 investment then.
Those are retail prices for me renting a shuttle bus, not wholesale fleet-wide ones.

In Vancouver, the cost to operate regular buses, per revenue-hour (time the bus is carrying passengers) is ~$120/hour. The cost of operating shuttle buses is ~$70/hour. [1] This is because smaller buses use less gas, are cheaper to maintain, and have better labour utilization (Time the driver spends on the clock driving passengers, versus time the driver spends on the clock waiting around, switching routes, etc.)

And this is operational costs. Capital costs are another huge factor, that's not accounted for in the operational numbers. It costs a lot more to order an 80-passenger bus (And even more so for a trolley), then it does a 24-passenger one.

Also, this is only anecdotal, from being a rider, but I'm pretty sure that shuttle-buses both perform better in congested environments, and cause less traffic congestion (As they have a much better power-to-weight ratio, better acceleration and breaking, a smaller turning radius...)

[1] https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/g...