skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true that the design of ICE vehicles is not arbitrary, but depends on weight/power/size/speed tradeoffs. However, there's no reason that these tradeoffs should be the same for EVs.

Drivers in city traffic can't go fast, but they like to accelerate quickly. This means a big engine, which means a big car, which means more weight so the engine has to be even bigger to keep the car accelerating 0-30 quickly.

For EVs, the relationship between battery weight and acceleration isn't the same. A new tradeoff is now between batteries which store power for a lot of driving, versus batteries which release a lot of power quickly, to accelerate sharply. There's no reason there shouldn't be a new sweet spot of very light weird-looking cars which are only driven around cities, need to be charged a lot (but who cares if not making long journeys) but have good 'driving performance'.
Did you read the article? Gebru's firing isn't the focus of it.
Cigarettes for once, can expose you to way more rads than what is healthy [0].

[0] https://www.verywellmind.com/radioactive-chemicals-in-cigare...
The problem here is that densely populated cities generally aren't in need of heating: keeping them cooled is a bigger issue!

From a heating perspective, there is basically zero demand for the kind of year-round low-quality heating a data center can produce. From a computing perspective, rare and uncontrollable bursts of computing power aren't desirable either and is a waste of hardware.

The article should be considered an edge case. The author already had hardware lying around for free and required zero usable computation. An in-ground heat buffer wasn't an option. Longevity of the hardware was irrelevant. Heat demand was quite small.

Does it work for a single person? Sure, why not! Will it work on a city-wide scale? Highly unlikely.
Facebook to Lift Australia News Ban
For every HNer that "leaves" Reddit there's probably hundreds of thousands people that just found about this site, they probably come from non-US.

but I think they'd decline hard if they turned off old.reddit e.g now.
That is only a solution if you want to hardcore it to a specific OS.
In some instances, soy as a protein source in animal nutrition can be replaced by insects, like meal worms, soldier flys and the like. Especially in aquaculture.

I don't think insect protein will ever be a huge factor for direct Human consumption, because even though it can theoretically be raised on less resources (or with less impact) than other animal protein, it takes a lot of man power to process insects into something edible.
> It doesnt just take warm air from outside and blow it into your house, otherwsie they would be useless in winter.

For sure. I'm not talking about the air but the heat. If the heat is generated by resistive heaters (his GPUs are mostly that) the heat pump may not have to work as hard to get enough heat but the total efficiency (including the GPUs) is not as good.
What is SE
Technology and media entities join forces to create standards group aimed at
Africanized "killer" bees are a result of traditional crossbreeding techniques gone awry. Don't romanticize traditional agriculture; mashing up genes randomly is not an inherently safer process.
Any term can get vague at the borders. For example, you can imagine vehicles for which it's ambiguous whether the term "car" applies or not, but that doesn't mean the word "car" is useless. Similarly, clearly Christinity and Islam include some fairly direct reference to the same story of Abraham in a way that Norse mythology or ancient Greek mythology didn't. The term is useful despite not having a mathematically rigorous definition.
Title should read "Bloke walked around Australia - alone and with no assistance"
The implosion argument in this article is solely ~based~ triggered by Google's botched handling of AI Ethics researchers. To argue that this will implode the complete AI organization seems like wild stretch. On a normal day, all the arguments padding the article would fall on deaf ears.

So, the answer to the question is no. Instead, AI Ethics research will probably implode. AI research, probably no.

For AI research to implode, major AI research leadership need to be seen leaving. And I am not talking about the corporate leadership but the research thought leadership whose sole purpose is to shield the junior/senior researchers from corporate BS (and who are themselves well-known researchers).

Edit: It is perhaps be more appropriate to have said that the botched AI Ethics researchers handling solely triggered the article.
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Bitcoin tumbles 17% as doubts grow over valuations
They simply cannot handle business that require long term support, lower margins, and communication overhead.
As you said, given how effective Stats and Math have been for Search + Ads, they approach every problem with the same Hammer, which even Elon learnt the hard way, is not a great idea (Tesla's production issues with too much automation).

Reading Steve Yegge's posts (on Medium, IIRC), Android and Youtube are exceptions that the management leaves the teams to work indepedently instead of hosting the Google culture on top of them (he cites Android's API compatibility to this regard, which is in a way the opposite of how Google supports its products).
There's not enough grass-land in the world for everyone to eat grass-fed beef. That's the whole point of not feeding them grass in the first place.
> I don’t want to downplay the deep instutionalised sexism and racism that is at play in Gebru’s firing — that is there for all to see.

Really, where is that to see. You weaken your whole case with this kind of casual reference to "oh and she was also a black women" so racism and sexism apply.

Its a type of crying wolf that loses you more people in what is the potentially important issue at hand, her work at google.

I really wish there would be repurcusions for this kind of casual libel, as it can be thrown in today's climate without a second thought.
Cool, but horse riding is legal, regulated as a sport, whereas cannibalism is, you know, illegal.

Like someone else said downthread, guilt-tripping people into veganism doesn't work. All it achieves is making you look like an ass.

Also, if you use Google Chrome, you're literally a murderer.
One was certainly more than enough. Unfortunately, many have tried to pluralize.
It appears to me that Cowen has set out (his own right-wing understanding of) assumptions underlying macroeconomics, in line with the editorial position of Bloomberg.

The assumptions are set in stone before you can begin to do macroeconomics, given to you when you take Macro 101, to lay the foundation of your future work, rather than examined and challenged.

I don't think this is exactly malicious, but it bothers me that the field largely operates on, and draws research conclusions from, unchallenged assumptions.
Mechanical Engineer to build advanced bio-automation at Volta (YC W19)
That's only true if the work is profitable for you and not something lie for folding@home
What is supposedly missing from his rig so that you repute it fit for a walk?

The light load is a great sign he knew what is important during endurance adventures.

Funnily enough I had the same sort of "doubting people" while I walked across Spain and Portugal with a 20 liter day pack.
Brand India – How a country used myth and mystique to tempt global investors
> I want to be given a definition and analyze it deeply.

Well that's anti-social and not welcome here. Please check the guidelines for the site for how to communicate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says

> don't cross-examine
Meanwhile, the US/Canada/UK "reeducated" a few million Iraqi/Syrian/Afghan civilians with bullets and bombs...

People that said hypocrisy and amnesia are US superpowers are repeatedly vindicated.
Operating in notch 6 runs the generator at 647 RPM. Since the AR10 is a 10 pole machine, that gives 64.7 Hz power.

This part doesn't quite make sense though, because it mixes RPM (per-minute) with Hz (per-second) without scaling.

647 RPM is 10.8 Hz, and more poles should increase the frequency not decrease it - 10 poles means you'd multiply it by 5, so would give you 54 Hz.
> Economists are in broad agreement because they're paid to be. This is well-documented historically.

This is *complete* nonsense. No one pays me to think or say anything. No one pays anyone in my department anything to take a particular position.

For a simple example of what nonsense your claim is: the economist’s definition of rationality is that preferences are (1.) complete and (2.) transitive. That’s it. (See any microeconomics textbook for proof. Sometimes (3.) reflexivity is included, sometimes smaller sets of axioms which imply the others are used instead.)

How “political” is that definition?? Did someone rich guy pay Paul Samuelson or Gerard Debreu or Kenneth Arrow to use that definition 80 years ago? Obviously not - moreover Arrow and Samuelson at least were on the political left! (And I simply don’t know Debreu’s politics. He could have been on the left too.)

Your comment is *entirely uninformed* and *totally unfair* to an entire profession.
I am the author. I think it is interesting with this "axe to grind" response (there was another above). I am an independent researcher, a professor at a University. And I have absolutely no reason to be disappointed with Google. My knowledge of this subject goes considerably deeper than I write in the article, but it is important to get the points across in an easy to follow manner. Thus I use certain literary devices. But I think it isn't fair to describe my opinion as a "axe to grind". I might (of course) be wrong, but there is agenda.
Fastforward 20 years viagra ads will claim morning boners are thanks to them.
Wait, why heat pumps are not viable in an urban setting?
a) I don't use Firefox. I use a particular browser with accessibility accommodations which Firefox does not offer.

b) I doubt that the extension you reference solves most of the issues I mentioned, in particular the broken features.

c) I think beginning your advice with the word "Just" makes it sound condescending and dismissive.

Please consider reading this article: http://archive.is/J2ODQ
I was curious why a "null MX" is even needed. If there are no MX rrs it would mean that this domain doesn't handle mail, right? It's actually because of the "implicit MX" rule defined in rfc5321[0]. If there are no MX rrs, the SMTP client will still try to use the A or AAAA records to see if there are any SMTP listeners. Adding a null MX "0 ." will cause the delivery to fail immediately.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5
The linked paper says the opposite.

> This results in PoWs whose completion does not waste energy but instead is useful for the
solution of computational problems of practical interest.
You do realise that Epic has been at the forefront of reducing percentage shares by publishers, right? From UE4 being made free and the initial $1 million being without fees, to EGS taking only a 12% cut (that includes the 5% fee if using UE4) which put massive pressure on Steam to drop their percentage cut too.
Yeah but Ruby is a dynamically typed language. There's not much benefit to codegen since nothing is checked at compile time anyway.
> All of us are replaceable

That's a management illusion. Try to replace e.g. someone like Fabrice Bellard, Mike Pall or Claude Shannon. Of course such things happen in big companies, but mostly because management is too limited to properly assess the true value of certain individuals. But the article is actually about a different topic.
It does not include people who got vaccinated natural way: being infected with real virus!
Please read the article. I address some of the issues raised. My point is that Gebru's firing is symptomatic of some deep problems Google are experiencing. Thank you.
or is the soy oil a way to make more money off of animal feed?
That GPT-3 excerpt is just hilarious.
> you can't really automate this because object files might have external dependencies and the linker needs to know what these dependencies are

If it can be done at runtime of the program, I guess it can be done at runtime of the linker, doesn't it?
Yes, I stopped reading when it mentioned the last good paper was from 2017. This is simply not true. I don't have time to go through all of their papers right now, but as someone else mentioned the protein folding one was a real breakthrough. They also have lots of great stuff in the NLP space (something similar to gpt-3 like 2 years earlier). Also tons of stuff on the actual training architecture/methods.

Edit: I want to add that saying the title has nothing to do with the article is not helping the case. I finished reading the article in case I was being unfair, but I still stand with my original comment.
Circumvention of technical measures is part of law in many countries. See this example from the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technological-pro...

> Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) (also known as copy protection measures or DRM) are often used to protect copyright works, for example, through encryption on DVDs. TPMs can have a important role in enabling copyright owners (rightsholders) to offer content to consumers in different ways, as well as protecting against unlawful copying (piracy). UK law protects the right of copyright owners to use TPMs to protect their works, and circumvention of such technology is illegal.
I don't think you can make the argument that a cow is exponentially more intelligent than a chicken.

I'd actually make the argument that most dairy cattle have a much better life than any but the most "organic" chicken. Speaking for the situation here in Germany, where I studied veterinary medicine.

Mammal vs Fish is a very different question.
At least on iOS the Apollo app is a true alternative to the reddit site/etc
Correct me if I'm wrong but being overweight or obese is an endocrine disruptor. Such conditions exist in what ~50%+ of USA adults. Worse there are children growing up who are effectively unhealthy from age 5 forward.

Add in other disruptors (e.g., chemicals) and naturally there are going to be problems; problems despite the narrative, are not due to the healthcare system.
Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing
> I think it's actually a great idea. It uses native things you use anyway, avoids an unnecessary third party ( a package repository like pypi), and adds in extra security ( remember those hijacked pypi credentials and pypi-only malicious packages that weren't in source control, so hard to verify?).

Not really. You may be using Git internally, but if you want to consume a module that is developed in Perforce or Subversion, you must now also install P4 and/or Subversion and configure them so that they have access to the remote repo.

It doesn't avoid a third party, it actually makes you reliant on numerous third parties, the source hosting sites for every module you use (Github is a 3rd party between me and the developers of the Go language bindings for protobuf, for example).

Also, that is false extra security, as nothing prevents the code itself from being malicious or embedding malicious files, and this can be arranged to be served only when request through Go mod (based on headers, on the HTTPS requests that only Go mod makes etc.). Especially given that go supports shell execution in source files (//go:generate rm -rf ~/).

> How so? You can justs use different folders and packages.

If you have multiple modules in the same repo, you have to tag every "release" with multiple tags, one for each module (e.g. mod1/v1.0.123, mod2/v1.0.131) and you'll quickly run into problems (if you don't sync releases, you'll have absurd combinations of module versions whenever you sync your repo, so you won't be able to rely on `replace` clauses for example).

> > requires your source control system to know Go

> Not really.

It does, if you have a dependency like "github.com/user/proj", go mod will first make an HTTPS request to this URL and expect some specific responses telling it how to get the code.

> That's always the case - regardless of your package repository, if you change it, you have to update the new references everywhere.

If I publish my modules to Maven, I can switch from Perforce to Git without any change whatsoever for anyone consuming the Maven package. I can split or merge my repos internally in any way, but as long as I produce the same Maven package, my consumers don't need to care.

Replace directives and goproxy are bandaids for a silly problem to have.
>Should Hacker News have to pay money to link to SMH?

Why ask this? Nobody's asking them to and nobody will.
> people are not allowed to even ask genuine questions

There was no genuine question, it was begging the answer and leading to a conclusion.

The actual genuine idea OP presented and the one you really vouched form but are trying to put this under a veil of legitimacy is that:

> there is no real justification for the vaccine

A statement that was not only never proven correct but it was actively disproved repeatedly. Is it just me or does this idea still float around only because it's powered by an endless stream of people who are either ignorant, uneducated, or have a hidden interest? Let me know how beguine you feel this question is.

And I'll put an actual genuine question that I hope you'll "vouch" for. What were the odds you'd stumble today across a post that barely made it to the front page yesterday as a blip with barely 40 upvotes and it on #502 as we speak, comment repeatedly as direct or indirect replies in support of user vfclists's comments, and all my replies get downvoted including the one I posted just now, day later? An unlikely set of circumstances for a "legitimate" interest.
More like they are using a hammer to put screw in the wall. But close enough :-)
No, heat pumps don't have over 100% efficiency the same way hot water pumps that pump from municipal source don't have >100% efficiency in heating home (it uses hot water available from somewhere else).

Heat pumps engage some other source of energy so if you want to measure efficiency you now need to include that other source into account.

Since you are engaging natural source of energy you can measure how effective (not efficient in thermodynamical terms) your heat pump system is, by calculating how much energy it can transfer for energy put into the pump. But this has nothing to do with efficiency, which in case of devices used to convert one type of energy into another or moving energy from place to place is typically meant in its strict thermodynamical sense.
I am less skeptical about an EEG-based device like the Dreem than I am about a wristband.

Most wristbands have a heart rate monitor and an accelerometer. Is there a pattern in the heart rate that shows REM sleep versus deep or light sleep? Or do they use the accelerometer to detect twitches you make during REM sleep? How do they discriminate that from my cat jumping onto the bed?

Compare that to EEG-based devices : I think it is well known that sleep phases can be read in an EEG. The Dreem has fewer channels than a medical EEG, and maybe a little less accuracy, but that is beside the point : it is measuring the relevant signals for sleep phase detection.
Yeah, the lack of certainty of a conclusion is why the word "probably" is in that sentence. It's a qualifier. It indicates I don't actually know for certain and this is guess work. (The guess work preceded the googling up of hand-wavy numbers. It's an internet discussion, not a defense of a PhD dissertation.)
> This was discussed before on HN.

You say that like the conversation is resolved?
I read the article and I don't get what's the focus of it. It seems a disconnected rambling about vague deep learning issues with Gebru's name interspersed several time in the text as to suggest her relevance.
Cattle is also disastrous for the water supply. Unfortunately, mass production of meat is just very expensive for the health of the planet.
> So, the filesystem's performance to allocate new disk blocks seems to limit the performance of my linker.

If you know the total size ahead of time, you might try using fallocate(2).
I think the reason JSON caught on outside the Javascript community is because it caught on so massively inside the Javascript community, at a time when there was a lot more crossover between people working on the javascript layer of web apps and people working on the server side (back then, almost always in a different language).

I was doing mostly Perl and Javascript when it caught on, and to this day I have very mixed feelings: it's wasteful of space but still doesn't allow comments; its type system is basically a technical-debt generator; and for all that people still get it wrong pretty often. On the other hand, it's more or less human readable for simple data structures and it's more or less everywhere.

My hunch is that for a new format to take off it wouldn't so much need to not fall between YAML and JSON: it would need to be the default format of something with such super exponential growth that even us oldies would have to use it.
Am I the only person who is a bit disappointed that Facebook get to carry on as usual?
I was thinking that, that ~2000km between port Augusta and the Kalgoorlie is pretty dry.
In fact, you can always decrease necessities by a little... Humans do not live out of necessity but out of convenience.
Ha ha *no agenda, I mean. ..... Maybe my subconscious has an agenda I don't know about :-)
You should also consider which animal parts you buy. The most expensive parts are usually those that drive the quantity of animals slaughtered, whereas the rest is sold off at whatever price the markets offers.

Also, not carcasses from the same herd going to the slaughter house are the same quality. By paying for the highest quality, you may actually drive up numbers.
I've been a Sync user for years but I have a feeling that Reddit's API is going to be pulled in the not-too-distant future.

Having an ad-free, clean, sensible UI isn't aligned with their current vision.
And minus the Bitcoin.
>restaurants started offering takeaway meals only, and... lo and behold, the prices are the same

I really don't know what you were expecting. They're still preparing the entire meal for you.
I read the article. Doesn't change the fact that your chosen title is clickbaity. Even if you disclaim it in the article itself.
> don't think this is exactly malicious, but it bothers me that the field largely operates on unchallenged assumptions

What do you know about the research done by contemporary macroeconomists? Anything? Do you know how it is taught in graduate programs?

If you did, you would know that all macroeconomists have opinions about where their assumptions (basic and otherwise) limit their models and spend their careers trying to extend them and make them more realistic and take them to the data.

I am not a macroeconomist but I will defend how my colleagues approach the subject. You don’t know how difficult it is until you’ve tried to formulate a model that you can actually solve and made an attempt to take it to the data.

The field absolutely does not operate on “unchallenged assumptions.”
Thanks. Based on this source, it looks like the main driver of deforestation may be charcoal in Africa and soy in Brazil. There was no need to dismiss soy as one of the contributing factors.