skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were 600 meters away from the blast walking peacefully in the popular Beirut street Mar Mikhael. The scale of the explosion was surreal [1]. I hugged my sister and thought it’s our last moment. We miraculously survived with only a few scratches. Ten days have passed and there’s not a single minute I don’t think of what happened and emulate different scenarios where I could’ve died.
I also work at the most affected hospital that became instantly non-operational and had to be evacuated with over 17 patients, staff, and visitors dead [2].

Please consider donating [3].

[1] https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA

[2] https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw

[3] https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-donation
There is a fantastic book by Leonard Susskind [0] that tackles this questions. His answer - rooted in string theory - is based on a "landscape of possibilities" and we happen to be in the place where all elementary particles (more specifically the Higgs) had the right energy configuration.

[0] The cosmic Landscape: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Landscape-String-Illusion-Inte...
No, I don't believe any piece of critical infrastructure works if privately owned. I'm glad the highways aren't privately owned. I'm glad USPS exists so it can deliver mail unprofitably to my rural community. I'm glad water isn't privatized.

The industries that exist privately in such crucial sectors must also undergo heavy regulation.

I have no misgivings that Amazon and Google at their highest levels, pretty much only work out of private interest. It's nice when they align with the public interest but as soon as they don't, I fear what will happen.

Energy companies have no problems with polluting the environment. Between the environmental, political, and military consequences, it seems destructive when a profit motive has leverage over the rest of the country.
When they say that the photodetector achieves 130% efficiency, red flags pop up for anyone trained in science. Is this device creating energy ex nihilo -- like a perpetual motion machine only more so?

It turns out what they mean is that each photon impinging on the device produces, on average, 1.3 electrons. So there is not an explicit claim from an energy perspective that the device is more than 100% efficient.

But it does raise the question: Could this technology be used to significantly boost the efficiency of solar cells? The article does not address that.
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This thing is not over, and the US per capita death rate is not good. In fact it is one of the worst, and you cannot ignore the fact that we still have a huge number of active cases whereas much of the rest of the industrialized world has reduced their case numbers significantly to manageable levels that allow contact tracing and fast turnarounds on testing. The US is still adding to our death rate and case numbers aggressively. Other countries are not. This is what makes the U.S. a disasterous outlier.

And don't ignore the long term impacts either. Just because you the U.S. has a low mortaility rate does not mean the disease will not have long term effects. People may die sooner, or suffer significant health effects later on that leave a lasting mark on the economy.

You suggestion that this is because the US is so interconnected is a foolish one. Europe is quite interconnected, has had similarly bad initial outbreaks, but has subsequently been able to address those outbreaks much better than the U.S.. What would you say about the politicization of preventative measures that we know work - wearing masks and social distancing?
The allegation is that reporting on the earnings for trades have focused on how much you can make as an underwater titanium welder, instead of basic steel welding which makes up the majority of the labor market.
Can you cite something about this? I can't find anything, except confirming that's not true [1].

Your profile says you work at AWS so I assume you have inside info on this. Perhaps you could also explain why this change would get made? I always considered it pretty smart to do - With consistent machines, wouldn't the lowered-lettered zones get significantly more traffic? Most of my deploys go to a+b or a+b+c (and I have various services running in 5 different regions, I think). I'm not sure I even have anything running in more than 3 AZs, and thus never use AZ d, for example. I'm positive I'm not alone in that style of setup.

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EDIT: Just comparing two accounts I have (which are linked, if that makes a difference), it does in fact look like most regions do have the same mappings. us-east-1 and us-west-2 are definitely different, but all the other ones I checked seem to be the same. They're not all consistent (a=1, b=2, etc) though, but for example, these are the same on both accounts:

AZ Name AZ ID
eu-central-1a euc1-az2
eu-central-1b euc1-az3
eu-central-1c euc1-az1
eu-west-3a euw3-az1
eu-west-3b euw3-az2
eu-west-3c euw3-az3
ap-south-1a aps1-az1
ap-south-1b aps1-az3
ap-south-1c aps1-az2

I still find this silly. Anyone following basic examples or deploying single-AZ is going to provision stuff in the "a" zone. That zone must be 10x bigger than "c" in any given region. It blows my mind.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/vpc-m...
Musk says many things
If the conclusion you reach is that welders should be scapegoated for blowing up Beirut, then you are either corrupt or cretinous.

The real question is, why were the explosives there?

But pursuing that question might make powerful people uncomfortable, or lead to less satisfying conclusions about institutions deliberately designed to disperse accountability.
It should be possible, there are other cores available:

https://gitlab.com/victor.trucco/zx-spectrum-next-cores/-/tr...
Mine?

They'd use a local hazardous waste disposal company and bill the ship owners the cost of the disposal.
No it really wasn't. Nobody except tech geeks care about Servo. What Mozilla needs to do is to provide a privacy aware browser that doesn't inform Google (and everyone else) about everything we do online. They can easily go the path Microsoft took and use Chromium as engine. Had they focused on that, I think they would be in a much better position than they are now (wasting millions on projects like Servo and Rust). Don't get me wrong... I love Servo and Rust, but from a business perspective it's suicide.
I have too. It's very rare but really disconcerting when it does happen. Human memory is pretty faulty.
Seriously, send your application in now. I sent it in a while ago and it took a solid week longer than it has taken in years past.
I don’t think the Republican Party even try and disguise this fact

President Trump talking about proposed electoral reforms:

“They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republ...
I really don't know how someone could come to any other conclusion.
I noted the maintenance connection in a CNN article about a week ago on HN [1]. This “report” seems to skip the fire stage and the reports that fire fighters were on site and noted the oddity of the fire.

> Maintenance was conducted on the warehouse door just hours before the blast on Tuesday, he added.

This looks like a key piece of evidence. Warehouse door maintenance could have caused the fire seen at the start of the videos of the incident.

Until more evidence is revealed I think “warehouse with 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire” is a good hypothesis.

Coulda, shoulda, and speculating about motivations can come later.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069640
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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
> think the fundamental problem is that the web has no clear organizational structure.

think the fundamental problem is that the Universe has no clear organizational structure.

We have to make it up as we go a long. Even a national government was simply made up by some people and enforced by the use of force, the only law of nature.
The unfortunate reality is that this issue goes all the way back to the founding of the country, it’s by no means a new political battleground. From slavery, to women’s suffrage, to Jim Crow, to today, there are chapters of voter suppression and movements around voting rights throughout our history.

It’s easy to take my right to vote and ability to vote relatively easily for granted, and that’s a major lesson we’re learning in 2020.
Holla. Awesome project. I am now #920 in queue. Where can I see the result once its finished?

Greetings
Are you allowed to sell a Tesla for parts?
Eh, Steam Early Release program has this effect with a _lot_ of games that, otherwise, would never see the light of day.

You can play an ER game, get bored, stop playing for 6 months, and then come back and tons of new content is available now. This keeps the player base around too.

Usually though, once a game calls itself "1.0" or whatever, the new free features tend to stop shortly thereafter.

(which is more than fair, it's a "completed" product now)

Where will this game be in another 4 years, after little or no new content? All games have a shelf life.

The developer could stick to their principles and ride it out, and shutter the game once enough people have lost interest. Or... they could have a Steam Sale and extend the life for years at a time. We'll have to see...
Assuming a single data point is representative could add a lot of bias, the cost per trip estimate is probably low given that newer nicer cleaner cars are required, that assumes drivers are able to drive 100% of the time, it assumes all times of day are equally viable so that there are enough total hours to turn that into a liveable wage, and it's probably a generous representation of tips and a naive view of fees and incentives outside of when a driver first starts.

Your numbers might work out, but studies indicate less income in practice, and there are plenty of potential sources of error in your methodology, so I'd be inclined to believe there's something wrong with that ballpark estimate.
Great article, I had hoped it would also cover locally anti-entropic processes. We do see liquids turn into regular solids after all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caGX6PoVneU
Looks awesome! Nowadays real time collaboration and single source of truth has become the singel most important feature when I'm looking for some tool to use. E.g I prefer Google Slides over Keynote whenever working with someone else (even though I love Keynote for solo stuff). I think this have huge potential!

One thing I never thought I would ask: What about an ≈Electron desktop app? As you've written in some replies here, there are inherent limitations on what JS running in the browser can do. I think there are a lot of potential in stuff like only recording part of the screen (a specific window), or "upsampling" webpages for recording by rendering them at higher DPI in your custom browser view etc
Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch
Researchers found a way to clean N95 masks for reuse
The cast is only the interiour frame. If that gets damaged, the car is a write-off anyway. The outer bodywork can be repaired of course.
"When I said I couldn’t work as the sole developer of Sigil people went overboard and acted like the sky was falling. Kovid Goyal from calibre stepped in to create Sigil’s Spiritual Successor which is an EPUB editor as part of calibre."

https://sigil-ebook.com/about/
If say, the front is damaged, a front end from a donor car can be welded on
Well played.

Can't believe I missed that opportunity for so much pun. ;)
Is college for 'betterment' or 'your interest', about getting a job. I'm not against the first two, but as a member of society I'm only interested in the last one, and I don't think I should be asked to subsidize your hobbies. If you can't get a better job because of education then I want nothing to do with it.

(I'm also interested in improving science)
And schoen means shoe in Dutch and Middle English!
Looks like a great article... however I have to be honest: the unnoticed, broken HTML on the main page of that link does not inspire too much confidence.
If you can beat AMP load times, you will likely rank higher than AMP pages from the speed factor.

This is how you do agnostic search results, and it is not putting the thumb on the scale as you're implying.
i think its because apple isnt trying to mitm your web browsing with some amp-style service (yet)
The three words you stripped out before that part of the quote address this: “access to the street”. With those, you are just echoing the poster's point that we use taxes to pay for common goods.
A normal fender-bender shouldn't affect the frame, especially if it as rigid as this cast one. If it does, the car is a write-off anyway.
I feel that is addressed two sentences further into the post (unless it was a later edit), and as such contributes to the main point - who pays for it when and how much.
Well, go back even just 30 years (though increasingly less common by then) and you had several generations of slide rule users in the engineering and science fields. People knew how to use logarithm tables (even I was taught them in the mid-90s in high school, but outside a single no-calculator math course, I never used them after).

I think some of the math topics (mental arithmetic) will remain valuable, but as you press into different intermediate and higher skill levels you'll see some things disappearing (like the aforementioned slide rules). The act of differentiating will remain useful, but more useful is understanding how to establish the model for your system which includes differentiation and integration. So we may see a decline in the mechanical skill, but an increase in understanding/applying it.

I mean, look at a lot of contemporary machine learning approaches. Most of the practitioners probably don't understand a lot of the mechanics of the math inside the models, but do understand the applications. That's not bad, it's just different. A few people need to master the internals to make progress on them or implement them, but most can get by and make useful (hopefully) applications without that level of understanding.
Test Finds McDonald’s Touchscreens Are Covered in Fecal Bacteria
You routinely seem to allow (as in it not even warranting a comment) straight up dehumanizing language from many participants in here.

I realize this kind of behaviour has been normalized by the president over the last four years, but I thought HN was better than this.
The bit of this that I think is easy to overlook is that if this is the status quo indefinitely I assume this is a very long term problem.

Amazon is a baby, it's a new-ish company in the grand scheme of things. It's a huge, huge baby, it has accumulated power incredibly quickly. Where is it gonna be in 200 years? Will the federal government still be more powerful?

No one is saying nationalize Amazon tomorrow. But we haven't even managed to give our citizens good internet service yet, we're way behind here, and we do not appear to be catching up.
Trainee barristers forced to urinate in bottles, buckets during 3hr online exam
Surely less than $100 a month, which is how high some existing internet can be anyway
https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-aluminum-alloys-die-cas...
I dont think the main concern here is that the new part would be welded in.

When the car is in design process, each weld is carefully calculated to provide the exact binding force at the precise location. In case of accident, the car is modeled to crumble just right to absorb maximum energy without compromising cabin space, thus protecting occupants. The process of cutting out and welding in parts almost always means altering the stiffness of such bonds (and/or moving the bonds to different locations), which can be very dangerous in the event of accident
The scenario you describe makes sounds plausible, but it isn’t “I saved $2.2M over my 8 year career”. “Save” ≠ invest in the stock market. The commenter made this seem like the low-risk alternative to taking VC funding, so relying on stock market returns is antithetical to that.
Depends entirely on where you live.

In Denmark, private meeting has never been banned, and public meeting was limited to 10 at the strictest point.
This is short sighted. Browsers live and die on their performance benchmarks and security track records. Like it or don’t, “nobody but tech geeks” actually care about privacy.
They must be in sulfuric acid? So we’re not building houses out of this any time soon.
Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)
The same with Train Sim. Waiting 5 minutes for a red sign is very realistic but there is no fun in it.
> In fact, this whole subthread seems to be a deliberate attempt to sidetrack discussion of important ecological policy with a pointless war about linguistics.

The fight for marriage equality was a "pointless war about linguistics" in those jurisdictions where the same-sex couples already had the same substantial rights? The choice of signs is important; in particular some carry more respectability than others.

The word choice does matter if what you're doing is taking a concept that the public already supports, and tack on additional meanings to advance your agenda. If all that mattered in a discussion

> Even taking all that, I don't see how we're breaking with the spirit of the word anyway. If you have a fishery that preserves the population of one target species, but is steadily depleting that of another (the bycatch)

The article doesn't make that argument.
Same. We can talk about security all day, but nobody should just be against (either openly or with thinly veiled excuses) getting everyone who wants to vote the easy ability to vote.

Personally I think that the US should go the route of a national voting holiday.
Salvage mechanics operating on salvage title cars do.
Check the teardown video of the Model Y by Sandy Munroe. It clearly shows the cast parts, which now get replaced by a single large part. One can assume, that they will make similar changes to the Model 3 as soon as the cast machine exceeds the Model Y numbers, as it saves a lot of money in production.
https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-aluminum-alloys-die-cas...

Tesla and SpaceX share a few employees in this space actually.
"Days of Wine and Roses" influenced my life completely. I saw it when I was a teenager and never took a drink of alcohol because of it and the book "I'll Cry Tomorrow" about Lillian Roth that I read at almost the same time. Anyone can become an alcoholic and it starts with taking one drink. I never took that drink because of the movie and the book.
Why not? However, anything related to the battery/charging swapped out on the recipient Tesla may disable Supercharging.
instantly more intuitive

For me, a photo editor is a tool I am likely to use for years...and indeed, I've been using Darktable continuously and frequently for almost five years. I'm still learning how to better use and discovering new things it can do.

This is not in any way saying it is better than RawTherapee...though it has proven to be better for me when I have used RawTherapee over the past five years to see what it offers.

Mainly, for me it is Darktable gave me a workflow that let me work through a few hundred just taken images in a few hours the first time I sat down to work through a few hundred just taken images in a few hours and allowed me to constantly improve that workflow over the years to shave hours off of the few hours to fewer hours.

One of the big differentiators for me was Darktable's support of GPU hardware acceleration via OpenCL. Googling suggests RawTherapee has not added it and LightRoom only got support in the last two or three years...at least for operations in the pixel-pipeline.

Darktable doesn't really mirror Lightroom because as commercial software, Lightroom exposes less of the underlying mechanisms to appeal to a wider segment of the market. Darktable's UI is much more "mathy", e.g. the tab showing the order of applied modules in the pixel pipeline (and the use of "pixel pipeline" as an explanatory term and fundamental concept).

I don't find Darktable's interface intuitive, but it's very familiar at this point and that's good enough or maybe even better.
Unicode is weird...this prints out backwards (including the comma and space) in the python3 repl:

>>> [chr(0x07c0+i) for i in range(10)]
['߀', '߁', '߂', '߃', '߄', '߅', '߆', '߇', '߈', '߉']

0..9 in the N'Ko script BTW...
Game retailer cut: mostly 30% except Epic Games Store, Humble Store, and Itch.io
I would never ever EVER want to do a deploy with migrations that can't be rolled back. That sounds like professional malpractice TBH.

Two way migrations are both possible and SHOULD be done for any real data.
And legal obligations to conform to their mission or lose their non-profit status. That keeps most in line.
Can anyone point me to data on the dangers of mask reuse? Masks block droplets from entering, but it's unclear whether those droplets attach to the mask or "bounce off". And if they attach, then it seems like those droplets would eventually be displaced by others. It seems like whatever concentration of particles is in the outside air would also become the concentration of particles on your mask, and thus no more dangerous.
I think the storage was one of convenience. Ship was at the docks, so store it at the docks. Who would have thought it would have taken 6 years? The next problem is this 2750 tons of material. You're talking around 70 semi loads to carry it all off. This has to be funded by someone, who?
Not sure if the replier was only specifically talking to you. I don’t like Linux [on the desktop]. Most responses in geekier online communities do seem to be smug and/or assume you don’t know things.

That was happening in this thread too outside of you.

For reference, I too have spent a decent amount of time with Lubuntu. I doubt I’ll switch from Mac for foreseeable future.
The government has “proven” a lot of facts in court which later turned out to be false. It’s not a perfect system.
San Francisco. Some outdoors activities are permitted if you wear a mask and maintain distance from other groups, but within your group it's only supposed to be members of your own household.

Obviously no one is going to check whether a couple is actually cohabitating or whether a group of friends are actually roommates. Compliance is low. But that's why this mess is dragging on forever.
Congratulations, you have the privilege of living in a functional society. Many people do not.
What mechanics do and what insurers pay for are orthogonal.

It's not unusual for mechanics to buy newly totaled cars at their salvage value as a convenient exit to the owner, and either rebuild the vehicle or part it out as a side hustle. A repaired salvage vehicle is eligible for a rebuilt title in some states.