skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the individual victim certainly has some interest in the punishment outcomes, but the state also has a proper interest. Neither holds a monopoly

The state holds a monopoly. All the victim gets, is the right to be consulted by the prosecution, but the prosecution is free to ignore the victim's opinion, as they have done repeatedly in this case.

Geimer asked the courts to drop the case, because she was sick of the whole thing and wants it to go away. The court refused, because it isn't about her, she's just the victim: https://apnews.com/article/683568177ab04a7081dad4e3664b13aa

> (In particular, was she his only victim? That seems unlikely.)

The case in question is only about what Roman Polanski did to Samantha Geimer, not about what Roman Polanski did to other people. Indeed, other women have said that Polanski abused them (Valentine Monnier, Charlotte Lewis, Renate Langer, Marianne Barnard). But, this prosecution is only about what Polanski did to Geimer, which I think means Geimer's wishes ought to be respected by the prosecution. If Polanski were to be prosecuted for what he did to one of his other victims, Geimer would have no say in that, and she wouldn't claim she is entitled to any.
Off-topic: It irritates me that I pay for the Criterion Channel yet several of the films in the collection you linked to and purchased are not included.
> sins of taking a different path to the rest of the industry

s/taking a different path.*/creating a serfdom.

s/taking a different path.*/behaving like John Deere.

s/taking a different path.*/making Richard Stallman cry.

s/taking a different path.*/taxation without representation.

s/taking a different path.*/handicapping every platform (web, flash, etc) but theirs, capturing 50% of Americans, making iPhone their only computer, then forcing every single other company to wear a chicken suit.
Or, you know, maybe nature played a role in those deaths too. It’s not like there’s just electricity lying around on the ground, free for anyone, and the evil energy companies are hoarding it all. Might be more helpful to temper the righteous indignation for now.
Why not force Apple to behave ethically, on top of it? Give the people even more choice! Clearly there are strong arguments for the iphone if people are willing to give up software freedom to own one. As an Android user I'd love to hop over and find out what the buzz is about. But of course, I can't justify buying a computer that I can't even install software of my choice on.

This is a great place for regulatory intervention to act for the good of the people. I don't really care about the good of Apple. It is the world's most highly valued company, right? It'll be fine.
I'm just advocating for (or, attempting to) improved policy and planning around energy consumption and infrastructure. Penny wise pound foolish is getting old.
Patents are broken.

They reward deep pockets, those who have enough money to fight a long, expensive, court battle.

They do not reward innovation. I know startups who have failed to get a patent because their invention was not "specific enough", and some who have failed to protect their invention because their patent was too specific to defend.

They maintain the status quo, which is entirely antithetical to their purpose.

They maybe work in biotech, and other industries where the capital investment is colossal and needs protecting. In most other industries, especially web tech, they're a net negative and need to be abolished.
Title should say 1994, not 1964.
I think an obvious first-pass at a threshold would be a global pandemic with a clearly established non-trivial mortality rate and in which it is clear to epidemiologists that -- unless a vaccine is developed -- essentially everyone is going to get the virus at some point.

It's much more murky territory for more containable viruses such as ebola. But a deadly pandemic that spreads across the globe in weeks? Seems like it would be hard to argue against challenge trials with informed consent.

I think the strongest argument against it is that setting any such bar only makes it possible to lower the bar in the future.
Is Rush Limbaugh Alive?
Exactly. It works better.
I'm willing to pay for news that treats me as a relatively intelligent person who needs well-sourced information to make decisions, not as an unprincipled sucker who should be convinced of what the author thinks is true by any rhetoric possible.

The two I'm looking at paying for in the near future are https://thebrowser.com/ and https://www.slow-journalism.com/, but I'd pay a lot more than that for some kind of Realpolitik executive summary which gave overviews of the most important trends, including the most common mainstream opinions and an analysis of any available evidence.
A modern gas furnace is very efficient, 95% or so. Really efficient gas power plants are only about 60% efficient. If you use the electricity to run an electrical resistance heater, it's more efficient to burn the gas directly for heat.

If you use a heat pump, you might get a COP of 3 or 4, which is effectively 300-400% efficiency. It's able to do this because it makes the outside colder while it makes the inside warmer.

Overall, the electric/heat pump system can be more efficient, but it has a lot more complex and expensive machinery, both in the home and in the power plant, and it's only been in the past 20 years or so that this has been practical. Many new homes are being built without gas hookups and use heat pumps instead.
Almost no companies are regulated in this manner.
Like autonomous electric buses every 2-3 minutes in dedicated lanes that are demarcated by paint?

Autonomous because labor costs (and shift considerations) are a major factor limiting the frequency of service you can provide. Electric because they will cost less in maintenance.

They are also an important part of a possible solution for helping lower density suburban areas that suffer from housing shortages. It's worth listening to this whole talk by Peter Calthorpe, the planner who developed the now-well-known concept of transit oriented development: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/01/07/talking-headways-podc...
I can do the same at the zoom level where Sydney has 137,000 base stations. Nowhere in Europe has 0 at that level.
A bit like people
Lovely story!
Would GDPR or other regulation apply to the data that these model is trained with? Is it not a risk that the model will record some private information in someone's email?
Good good. I'm all for making fb a barren content free wasteland. It was a mistake for public sector to build engagement on a platform where they were tenants without rights. They could have put the rights in with legislation first, but were always at mercy of the algorithm and having to pay for placement.
There are monthly official post for people that is hiring and people that wants to be hired. Take a look at the last posts and remember to post next month in the correct one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Are you sure they want you to read their article? Cryptic titles get shared on HN and get clicked. Enough people read them, so do they really care if you read it?
I believe that's why some EV model only available on EU , or very small amount is sold. (I saw Honda e sold out very fast in Japan)
Yucca Mountain would've been a ten-millennia can kick. Would there be a radioactive problem then if we did absolutely nothing? Absolutely so.

But in less than a century Miami could be under water. We missed a huge opportunity to buy time.
> Why not just make these things offshoot startups with a little seed money and a lot of shares for said seed mone

IMO, this is a great idea. Both SAP and IBM do this with acquisitions that didn't take or internal projects that don't line up with the strategic plan, and it works alright for them: see Qualtrics and Acoustic.co

The only theory I have for why Google hasn't done this is because they're run by engineers and not finance guys, and they think managing a reorg like that would hurt their momentum. but that's just a guess.

> At this point, everyone is sliently praying Gmail survives whatever internal war Google has when it comes to axing products.

I don't think we need to worry too much about this, since Google has monetized GMail through GSuite for businesses, universities, etc.
ERCOT's current output page[0] shows 3643 MW of Total Wind Output, but total installed capacity is over 25000 MW [1]. Current wind output is less than 7% of installed capacity. ERCOT was previously able to generate 17541 MW of wind power[2] in February 2018, when it had only 21190 MW of wind capacity.

PVGR Output (solar) is currently 0 MW, with over 3000 MW of installed capacity. That's 0%.

Nuclear is apparently doing best, outputting 75% capacity (with a capacity of around 5000 MW). I'm not sure on the exact numbers for coal, gas, etc., but they are clearly supplying the bulk of the 49089 MW demand.

> Wind actually outperformed what it was projected to

If you read the full quote from the article, this is so heavily qualified that it seems designed to be quoted out-of-context. As in, they couldn't say that wind generation performed well in any meaningful sense without outright lying, so they came up with this quotable take instead, knowing that the extremely heavy qualification would not make it into the quotations. If I project wind power to generate 5% of its capacity, and it actually generates 10%, I can say that wind power "exceeded expectations" in exactly the way the fact "checkers" mean it. But this ignores the fact that most of the wind capacity failed to produce anything, which is what people actually care about.

If the projections had been made a month ahead of time, then "exceeding projections" might have some useful meaning. But the projections referred to are only made 24 hours in advance, meaning that the expectations being exceeded were incredibly low and easy to "exceed". I'm sure ERCOT does projections more than 24 hours in advance as well. Why doesn't PolitiFact reference those, or compare this February's output to previous Februarys, or do anything other than cherry-pick a single set of numbers that just so happens to support their political agenda?

> But this isn't about wind vs. coal vs. gas, it was about weatherized vs. not weatherized.

This seems to be spot on. Many of the issues could have been avoided if the systems had been built to sustain cold weather.

[0] http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi...
[1] http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/219848/Capacity_Chang...
[2] http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/144926/ERCOT_Quick_Fa...
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Good. If Crouton is still easy to install and configure, then Chrome OS would be a great stepping stone into *nix
The warnings about objects on road etc. were probably good for safety. The routes are bad and dangerous - it's given me left turns across multiple lanes that never, ever stop before.
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I think technology differences play a factor.

CDMA gets longer range than 3/4G, so it's useable in a sparse network so long as it's not trying to service too many people at the same time. I'm guessing the US launched lots of CDMA infrastructure back when it wasn't considered obsolete by most of the world, and hasn't upgraded it's rural cellular networks.

Australia set down all it's "legacy" CDMA stuff over a decade ago, which makes the large dark patches that cover lots of the continent very under-served.
Bitwarden is awesome. I use the free version and it covers all that I need. All the clients and the server are open-source, you can self-host it for free, and there are even alternative server implementations like https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
I don’t think I’ve met many genuinely toxic people. They exist but usually you’d hear all about them before your first week is over.

The second kind of people you mention are, well, human. Such small transgressions exist in family and among friends as well.
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Oh God, the same stupid arguments once again. Always the comparisons to Microsoft and/or the Mafia.

I don’t care that you think you need Apple users to get your startup off the ground. Apple and its users owe you nothing. You do not have some divine right to distribute whatever software you want to these users.

> Would you be happy with the Windows Store, Microsoft's 30% fee, Microsoft's design guidelines, etc?

Yes.

Because alternatives, including more open ones, exist. And they have a higher (almost dominant) market presence. Frankly, this should be the end of this discussion, but you guys are on a religious crusade.
Some online services are already engaging in price discrimination, though physical retail has greater limitations in communicating prices to individual customers. I think that removing price tags entirely would be necessary for full price discrimination in brick and mortar retail (or some similarly revolutionary step, like AR vision placing price tags on items). That's not to say it's infeasible, but other changes may be necessary first. For example, in an Amazon Go location, you don't need to check out the items at the end. Customers would still definitely want to know prices of items, but I could imagine them caring less about seeing price tags if they aren't checking out immediately after. I think another system that could help would be a partial or full subscription model, where the subscription price could be an opportunity for price discrimination.
> This is particularly true about testing things like storage appliances, routers, switches, and such.

Yep, QA is a must for complex systems.

I write for an OS that runs on a service provider router and can assure you that no dev team can come close to understanding how to approach testing the entire product. So QA becomes invaluable when it’s time to run system-level (integration) tests that tie multiple features together.

Of course, there is always a lot of stuff you can automate at the system level. I think the QA and test teams do a good job of identifying these areas, though.
It seems such a broad interpretation that they block satire of events too (Betoota, Chaser), but strangely not dis/mis information crackpots like Friendly J##dies, even though he claims to be independent media.

I would check if you can 'like us on Facebook' but I can't find any buttons! What happened, they used to be everywhere?
One key idea here is to use a very large number of parameters (model weights), but only use some subset of the parameters on each example. The parameters are divided up into blocks called "experts", and then some subset of experts are used on any given input. Which subset is used is chosen by the model itself in a data-dependent manner. This can be thought of as letting the model specialize different experts to handle different situations.

The advantage, as they show, is that the model can train to a given level of performance much faster with a fixed amount of computing power compared to an architecture that uses all parameters on every step. This might be because it allows you to have a very large number of parameters that can store a lot more specialized information without incurring as much of a computational cost. Of course the downside is that you end up with a very large model that literally won't fit in a lot of environments.
What's wrong with small caps?
I actually enjoyed the clarification. Thanks for posting.
Yes, they do need need electricity. Source: I live in Ontario, Canada, and am currently being kept warm by one.

Most (gas) furnaces are forced air, and how exactly would the fan run without electricity? How do you think the thermostat runs its thermistor (and probably LCD display) without a power?

The Technology Connections YT channel has a recent good overview, "Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVvnDfW2Xo

As for efficiency, you can get units that are 99% efficient (AFUE):

* https://www.lennox.com/products/heating-cooling/furnaces/slp...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_fuel_utilization_effici...
> - Virtue signaling is a critical component to personal and social moral growth. Showing where you stand and putting your money where you mouth is necessary to decentralize authority and improve the standards that are "baked" into society. Otherwise you're just appealing to whoever has the biggest stick.

I was under the impression the virtue signalling specifically requires insincerity.

For example, if you inject yourself into a conversation to lecture everyone about what a great ally you are (and you don't even really mean it), that is virtue signaling.

If you try to make it all about yourself, and assert completely risk free opinions that challenge nothing, that is virtue signalling.

Simply sharing and asserting your values doesn't have to be virtue signalling.

> - That people misapply a legitimate action or are overzealous in its application doesn't mean the underlying idea is wrong. The Internet is still quite young and its inviting a global confrontation of how to deal with deeply-seated social problems. Expecting this new-found power to be wielded without making mistakes is unrealistic.

Nobody objects to the underlying idea of witch hunting. If there were actual witches that were using magic powers to poison the town, of course we should have an inquisitor to hunt them down.

This has only ever been a discussion about tactics.
That opening truly does demonstrate how many incredible films were coming out at that period in time. I'm not a huge subscriber of the idea that modern film is truly diminished beyond repair, but the 60's and 70's were a special time. Indeed it baffles me a little that we're not experiencing a renaissance in films, what with cameras and lights being cheaper than ever. Heck, Truffaut famously argued in the Cahiers du Cinema that you could make a film for a lot less and that was in the 50's. Why not now?

The answer, of course, is distribution. Theaters are beholden to the big budget franchises and streaming deals are hard to come by unless you're playing at one of the big film festivals. Even if you taking a streaming deal, your film can slip under the radar unless someone decides to invest in a marketing budget. A Sun comes to mind: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/consider-this-a-sun-oscar-...
> Most other competitors to eInk (e.g. Qualcomm/Mirasol, Gyricon, etc.) had viable products and have completely failed in the market.

I wasn't aware Mirasol ever made it out of handmade demo units. Maybe they did manage to produce some production level small displays like 4" but I heard from a fab guy in Longtan that they just couldn't get the process to work reliably.

> consumer disinterest in the technology outside of these extremely niche markets?

Consumers would be interested if they could be cheap and fast like LCD. But E-Ink is probably never going to get fast because you can't bypass physics unless they find a different way to get pigment particles to move. It won't get cheap either because you need huge volumes to get there. So unless someone with Applesque bank account makes that order, E-Ink will always be more expensive than LCDs.
Believe primary sources that you can read and understand yourself. That’s it. Sad that we’ve come to this, but I had to adopt that policy last year for obvious reasons.
> Genetic component of poverty?!

Could you imagine, hypothetically, that people who suffer from diseases spend more money on medical bills than healthy people, which in case of the same income leaves them with less money at the end of the day? (Actually, the more sick they are, the more difficult it probably is to get the same income as healthy people.)

Would you agree that some diseases are hereditary to some degree?

If you answered "yes" and "yes", well then you already kinda agree that there is a genetic component of poverty.
Another example of Google giving much data away is 50 trillion digits of pi [1], which contains about 42 TB of data (decimal and hexadecimal combined).

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/pi50t/index.html
iOS does sometimes swap, but only suspended processes, so you won't notice from inside the app.
Utter nonsense.

This is the religious programming in all its glory. Brought to you by the same people that call Apple users sheep.
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I think its actually driven by marketing wanting to control messaging over their channel. Having little more than tiny little text and picture boxes to try and sell you stuff probably drives them nuts
What is the number of frames per second (fps) someone should expect from this?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a ton and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for something a bit different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You would be surprised at how quickly tolerance builds up once someone gets ahold of the good stuff. Considering that this guy is in Berlin, it's probably not as cheap as it is close to the source. Even so, at $300 an eight ball, that's roughly 44 eight balls a day, or roughly 2-4 an hour depending on how hard he's partying. It certainly is on the heavier side of usage profiles I've heard of.
>Apple doesn’t control the market. They don’t have anything like a monopoly.

This part is entirely irrelevant in the EU
To be fair, most places where you would discover or read these articles show more context than just the title. HN is fairly unique in showing only titles, and having a general policy of not changing the title.
Trustpilot removed 2.2M bogus reviews in 2020
Great! Then use that ffs, and stop imposing your values on people who make different choices.
Sleeping with a professor for academic advantage is definitely not a common trope, so this makes sense. /s
wouldn't this encourage people to buy fewer items?

But customers are so used to confusing pricing labels you could just make the old (cheaper) price say: "Discount: $x".

Also if you hook up the change to motion detectors where you know no one is in the aisle, then you can skip it altogether.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/16/natural-gas-n..., which isn't working. Thanks!
I could have been working in hip hop in the 90s however the label didn't just want production help they also wanted help selling heroin, the industry in the 90s was very unprofessional to say the least, coming from being a fan of Fugazi and other "straight edge" music I was horrified by the prospect of being expected to sell heroin to get into production for the industry.
> fails to generate useful information about how it is detected

Patients don’t care how cancer is detected. Patients care if the diagnosis is correct.
Not just in Kpop.

"LITTLE MIX claim record bosses ordered them to flirt with men to get ahead in the music industy.
The accusations from the quartet come after Simon Cowell confirmed the group have switched to RCA Records.
Now the women have alleged they were advised how to behave to carve out chart success following their victory on The X Factor in 2011.
Jade Thirlwall claimed: ‘We went to a radio event in America, full of VIPs. Someone from the label said, “Go and flirt with all those important men.” I was like, “F** off. Why have I got to go in and flirt to get my song on the radio?”’
The 25-year-old also alleged the singers were given no input into their own songs because they are women.
‘In the beginning, we were told we shouldn’t be involved in our music videos,’ she said. ‘One producer told us we shouldn’t be writing, we should just be given songs."
I am very happy with Bitwarden. Fully open-source (including the server), free tier has everything I need (and the premium is just $10 a year), self-hostable (and there are even alternative server implementations). The UI isn't "sleek" but you'll get used to it very quickly. And it has a nice import wizard that will walk you through the process of exporting your passwords from other password managers.