skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most egregious case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert

TL;DR: Red Bull heir kills a cop with speeding Ferrari and runs from scene. Heir mysteriously avoids all charges and summons with increasingly farcical excuses on both sides, until all charges are mysteriously dropped 10 years later.
To further clarify this comment: living like a millionaire (consuming more in general) increases your carbon footprint.
From a theoretical standpoint, you don't need to worry about that. You can conceive of metal hydrides or other forms of dense hydrogen storage. Even as LH₂, you're still looking at around 2700 Wh/L of energy. That's well beyond any known rechargeable battery.

And the "special alloys" really just mean certain types of steel alloy, and "nonmetal materials" really mean certain types of plastics. This is not a big challenge.

You still need very low temperatures and exotic materials for superconducting cables. Not to mention the power generation needed to sustain that level of power draw. This is a long-term problem that we're nowhere near solving.

As I said before, this is not a race and there is no finish line. There's nothing stopping fuel cell cars from displacing EVs at an arbitrary point in the future.
Yep. I learned to program on an Atari 400 using Antic and some other magazines. Gotta admit the amazement when I realized the power of changing a variable and it still working with new behavior.
Unfortunately it's also littering the sky with a shitload of eventual junk, and immediate astronomical blight.
The only positive claim I've made is that there's nontrivial biological causes, for which there's a substantial and growing body of evidence. I haven't moderated or changed my claim since we started this conversation.

You can see the evidence reflected in twin studies, in personality studies, in FMRI studies, and so on. I get that Social Science TM hasn't adopted it in their theories yet (which are always going to lag empirical reality), but I'm not exactly looking for this institutional mandate before I form my worldview, either. I've done academic research in the social sciences (albeit not in psych) myself and feel satisfied enough to come to the tentative conclusion I've come to given what I've read.

Am I 100 percent certain? No, but I'm certain enough (say,
95 percent) to operate as if it is true.

Regarding the gay conversion therapy thing - I was interpreting your comment to mean that people can change their political views/orientation after being given feedback etc. If that wasn't the intention/meaning of your comment, then I'm sorry for that.
Military subs have a lot high-tech stealth tech (much of it classified) to hide their electronic signals, engine noise, and so on.

How do these vessels routinely get through, and they have very little stealth tech? If the Spanish / NATO / US military ignores them or can't see them, doesn't that mean actual (enemy) Chinese / Iranian / Russian subs can get away with a lot by pretending to be simple drug smuggling boats?

Maybe the military lets drug smugglers operate, and even ignores foreign governments doing submarine subterfuge like bugging undersea cables or dropping spies / equipment onto shores at night? The purpose of turning a blind eye to be protecting information about anti-sub capabilities, if the drug kingpins or enemy spymasters don't know which of their missions successfully maintained secrecy? Maybe when the anti-sub network alerts successfully, they watch the spies and equipment that lands from a distance with high-tech drones / satellites (or heck, a simple patrol squad with night vision binoculars), follow them for a few months, then tip off the cops (if it's a mere drug cartel) or send counterintelligence to arrest them (in case of actual spies). So the enemy has to guess whether they got seen on the submarine landing, or were compromised by some other means.

That these boats can get through might be a catastrophic failure of anti-sub tech, or it might be part of the normal I-know-you-know game of international espionage. I suppose we civilians wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Perhaps the biggest clue is that drug subs have been a thing for many years, but there's a notable lack of public alarm from military / politicians over it. Given that, I'd put my money on the hypothesis that the military knows exactly what the smugglers are up to, but chooses to ignore it to keep anti-sub capabilities and weaknesses secret.
This is nothing and easily compensated by changing your diet even if you don’t go outside more often. There’s no valid results from genetics unless you remember diet and environment come after it. So if there’s a problem I’d say it’s because we’re not giving them supplements.
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"The court also noted that this case is an example of the arrogance and prevarication of a giant company against a modest consumer. In the end, the court ruled that the sum was to be paid to Luca, by way of compensating for the damage caused by aggravated procedural liability."

That sounds dangerously like common sense. I'm not familiar with Italian law but that judgment looks pretty decent and runs along fairness style grounds and it would have been made after consideration. If IT law is precedent based that may be quite a powerful result.
It sounds plausible to me. Real-world constraints aren't usually "you can use any amount of resources on the compressor, and any amount of compute on the decompressor for free, but the decompressor is hardcapped at exactly X MB of memory". So you might only have a theoretical improvement on existing methods, but that would still be very cool.

You can't beat existing methods by much - we're pretty close to the Shannon limit - but it's not a closed subject.
Why does it look like that site was built just for that one article?
Yes, the difference between having even one tank where no one was expecting it and 0 tank, is huge.
I think we're still in the Ford or Chevy phase of phones as well as big tech. Unfamiliarity and early innovation has narrowed the field. But as with cars today, the future holds little difference between the Mazdas and the Toyotas. And you can still get a Rolls.
Link should be https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wa...
This, so much this!

Employees, at least a lot of them, ask for bonus systems. They seem to love bonus systems and shun/dislike companies that have a proper bonus system: none.

Bonuses (and other shenanigans) only kills team work and team spirit and make it an everyone against everyone game. And don't tell me that you get too many slackers without a bonus system. Slackers are actually usually pretty good at playing the bonus game, i.e. doing exactly what is required to get the right numbers to get a bonus. Whether that's helping the company or the team in the long run is none of their concern.
A bit tangentially off topic. Today I encountered this book titled "False Alarm". It is supposed to be the book that is quite balanced in perspective in terms of environmental crisis. I'm going to get it. But first I'm curious of HN readers who have read the book, what do you think of it?
I don't know how much attention you've been paying to Gundam series, but they're pretty much all trending towards being direct-to-video now and sales are in significant decline.

The Build shows buck this trend and are a huge success. And model kits are selling more than ever.

The apetite for those stories just isn't there anymore.
That's a great question!
A little background: before we started Queenly, our users would often send payments and dresses to each other within large Facebook groups. As you might expect, very often it's hard to ensure security when you're shipping your wedding gown to a complete stranger across the country, or vice versa for a buyer sending money through Paypal. Queenly provides designer brand verification, shipping logistics, and quality checks, as well as our payment integration options (Stripe, Paypal, Quadpay installment payments) to take the burden out of that.
Alongside this challenge is the user needs of searching for a dress. Many online platforms don't handle the NLP search needs of needing to find a "size 6 off the shoulder lace wedding gown". In fact, if you search this dress size or category on Macy's, eBay, or Poshmark, you'll get inaccurate results. What we're doing at Queenly is putting those search needs as our top priority in our data pipeline, (shown in one example here: https://queenly.com/search?q=size%206%20lace%20wedding%20gow...)
I might be overexplaining but it's a joke because lossy compression of a gzip would end up with you losing data that could render the entire file unreadable.
That's much lower than hydrogen. So what was the argument here?

You can buy a fuel cell car today too. I've notice that many of you guys are stuck in 2010 or so. Fuel cells cars are far beyond your outdated viewpoints.
>you can't have 8 billion needy, constantly consuming humans for 60/70 years and somehow have a sustainable, vibrant and healthy ecosystem.

It is worth noting that the collapse had nothing to do with over harvest of sea life.
Large turbine farms are an eyesore, IMO, that dominate entire landscapes. Visually destroying the countryside is probably better than emitting 30 billion tons of CO2 each year, though. But yeah, I think a nuclear plant (as I have seen them) would be preferable, visually, to the enormous turbine farm needed to produce an equivalent amount of power. How much would that be? Avg nuclear plant generates 1GW in the US. Average turbine generates 1.67 MW. So about 600 turbines at about an acre a piece. So a square mile of turbines.
Wow I knew they settled and to me that's "successful".

I didn't realize the settlement was thrown out...or that a settlement can even be thrown out!
I'd be curious why University recordings weren't subject to GDPR myself. Consent could be had and managed but I could see this as enough trouble to just not do recordings as a result, especially since it can be withdrawn later.
What about Gibraltar?
Yes, because it continues to spread widely and access to treatment, let alone PReP, is extremely uneven across the world.

Both PReP and antivirals are also not easy. You don't just get a shot and not worry about HIV for a few years, you have to take a pill every day as long as you're sexually active, and then treatment antivirals are expensive and need to be used consistently as well. One person slipping up can mean a lot of people catch it. Even assuming you know you have it to begin with, which is often not obvious until you've been a carrier for a while.

Never mind religious groups going around vilifying condoms doesn't help.

It's getting better, but yes it is still considered a global pandemic.

I mean, it's not the same thing as COVID but like COVID it carries with it its own unique challenges and at no point has the world dumped billions of dollars into single-use vaccines for it like we've done with COVID. Its stigma has migrated (or compounded) from a "gay disease" to an "african disease".

Honestly, I really hope that one silver lining out of all this is that an mRNA vaccine for HIV might get some development now. There was some work that way before everything got diverted to COVID and now that tech has proven itself so...
Bent-piping to a GFW ground station makes a lot of sense
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Cool. Very well explain how to install for newbie like me
To be fair, there were some pretty drastic reduction in emissions from transportation in the last year. That was due to a global pandemic rather than environmental activism, but still it's progress. It may have at least caused some permanent changes in behavior regarding driving to the office every day.

Before the pandemic I didn't work from home at all. Now after working from home 100% for a year I'm looking forward to being able to see my coworkers in person again when things open up, but I'll probably work from home a few days a week. Not a huge change, but every little bit helps, especially when hundreds of millions or billions of other people start working from home a few days a week who wouldn't before.
Doesn't sound ridiculous. Those little plastic packs with enough sauce for just a few chips are ridiculous! Anywhere that does that shouldn't be allowed to call themselves a restaurant. I guess the idea is people will never ask for enough packs, so they save sauce. Uses a lot of plastic though, not to mentioning ignoring what the customer wants.
Would they have that valuation if they were non-custodial?
How does the grid work in Australia? Is Victoria on a separate grid, like Texas is in the US?
How is an NFT in any way better than a signed proof-of-purchase?
The world doesn't think it's worse... the world thinks its hypocrisy to ban for one and not the other.

I'm against both... you defend one.
That depends on how you measure land use; are you counting the amount of space that becomes otherwise unusable, i.e. the relatively small area occupied by the towers, or the entire area of the fields in which the wind turbines are placed? (which can still be used for other things like agriculture).

Personally I think wind turbines look quite majestic, and I like to see them when I go for a drive in the countryside.

This isn't directly related to the original question of living next to a nuclear power plant vs a wind farm, but as you mentioned, nuclear power stations require large mining operations to supply them with uranium (you have to mine a lot of land for a small amount of uranium), whereas wind turbines do not.
And finally, wind turbines can be erected in the sea where they don't displace any land at all.
Einstein did not "explain" action at a distance. He merely refined the model. The hard problem of explaining what it is still remains (as Chomsky has eloquently explained)
If the taxes are high enough to fund the development & operation of military-like boats, I think the problem isn't the smuggling but a greedy government. They can destroy this market overnight by just making the taxes more reasonable, and maybe even end up ahead if it means they no longer have to spend money on enforcement.
Everyone seems to hate on NFTs. Do we really think that digital unique isn't part of the future, or is it that this version isn't it?
"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."
"she", not "he". The author is a woman.
This and GP: I do totally remember. Was a major pain but at the same time it felt like complete magic once you see the program running (even if, even for back then, it was often really bad). I didn't know how to program anything else than some BASIC yet, so it was a bit frustrating that these lines of data were just looking like random numbers, impossible for my 11 years old self to understand.

Now because I was a bit evil, when on summer camp (without my Atari 600 XL) I'd create small BASIC programs and mail them (snail mail, obviously) to my mom with accompanying instructions and SHE had to enter my program. Then I'd phone her and ask her what the program did : )
Does literally everything that uses it need to expand the acronym? Even if it confuses people or gives them the false impression of what it actually does? "This product uses eBPF, or extended Berkeley Packet Filter. But forget all of that because it has no relation with Berkeley, and it doesn't filter packets."

In a sense eBPF as just some letters being a name is a better name than "extended Berkeley Packet Filter", just like DPRK is a better name than "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", since 75% of the words in the expanded acronym aren't even relevant or true.
I think you put a strong word on something very common. Invalidating existence is not always call to murder :D

If you say gun owners dont deserve to live or that the world would be better without white people, there are way to let it be said and discuss it without heavy moderation.

People are just mad at mad people. That s why it s a frigging jungle online. But if you stay patient with mad people or ignore them if you re not sure, then moderation stays on important things like doxxing
it's possible to do NLP at scale much better than they do. they just don't care
The use case describes was for a raiding party prior to the main landing, in which case ~hours are needed until the main force arrives. Tanks can operate without resupply for this long, and in the case of a surprise raid a single MBT to support an small unit infantry support seems like it could multiply their effectiveness at attacking unprepared soft targets like logistics nodes and edges.
Submarines are inherently quite stealthy.

Military submarines need all that tech to be able to hide from active surveillance - I assume no one is staging ASW operations against Narco submarines.

And yes, Chinese/Russian subs can get away with a ton as long as they don't get detected.
Ponyo is still the best film about this theme by a nautical mile. Much more subversive and deep.
Mathias Rust landed on Red Square.

The military are concerned with somewhat different threats than a rusty barrel or cocaine.

I wonder if any drug people ever thought of small unmanned solar-powered boats - these could be even stealthier.
The proposal is to place the file at /.well-known/security.txt.

And even if it wasn't, there is plenty of namespace room to put every file someone argues for in a 2-page RFC at root. After all, there are only 1024 low-numbered TCP ports and we haven't run out of those yet.
Not sustainably though, only if you take a relatively short term view. Yes we can support a higher population right now, but we can’t continue our current rate of resource utilisation, or environmental contamination indefinitely. We will need to transition to a long term sustainable civilisation, or by definition our civilisation will not be sustained in the long term. Deutch was not arguing against that.
What makes us so sure waste heat is something that is absolutely unavoidable. It’s possible heat maybe be disposable through some quantum means we have not uncovered yet. Ultimately everything in existence has heat potential so theoretically heat is able to covert back to everything else . Using no heat as proof the room is empty is equivalent of a person who cannot avoid making a mess when they enter a house concluding that no one else has been there because there is no mess (except the one they made) all they can conclude is that no one who makes a mess has been there.
I'm not saying FASA is in the right here, but it's HG that sued FASA and continues to do so (harebrained, piranha...) post settlement. In fact, HG claims rights to designs that aren't from anything they licensed, including original FASA designs.

HG seems to operate like they own "Mecha" outside of Japan.
It's almost like a pandemic could be natures way of enacting that, yet it seems now we've conquered its capability to do widespread damage in terms of human lives lost. This must be one of the least fatal pandemics in history
Correct, but as I mentioned above, one should use the original acronym form when referring to an old version that was specifically named that way.
>If you ran your entire grid on just solar and wind, no nuclear, or coal or natural gas peaker plants, you'll find that wind and solar is no longer cheap, and is much less resilient to exceptional circumstances.
>That kind of is my point: countries are doing this and without blackouts and it's actually fine.

A system that can meet the demand with an increasingly higher percentage of non dispatchable wind and solar needs some plan B for when it is night time and there is no wind. Or it is cloudy and not windy for days. It can be batteries but there is a cost to that too.
Any place with a high share of non dispatchable generation tends to either have good interconnections to their neighbors who have firm power supplies, or they have their own natural gas or diesel generation, but there is a cost to having that sitting around too.

I’m fine with cost for nuclear, for batteries, for over building wind and solar, and for nat gas used as a backup for that weather system that moves in once a year that would otherwise result In a blackout. cost is just a number in a ledger somewhere.

The energy supply should come from diverse sources and nuclear is a good part of that solution.
Ask HN: How do you drive impact and create value in your role?
I recently started a new role at a high-growth startup on the business side. The mandate of my team is to drive structure, insights and solutions on the most impactful issues the business is facing at any given time. I'm a mid-level manager with <10 years of experience.

I'm great at processing and fulfilling tasks. Give me a defined project or ask me a question and I'll go answer it quickly and effectively. This skill set helps me fulfill the base responsibilities of my role, but there's a big leap from this approach to being able to create value for the business that wasn't there before. This is what I'm struggling with.

I'm not sure if it's my personality, my mindset, or something else. I guess I just don't naturally think in terms of driving impact. I'd love insight or examples from the community on this topic.

Example questions:

- What do you do day-to-day to ensure you're always positioned to drive impact for your team?

- Are there tricks or mental cues that help you stay focused on what matters most?

- What is your process for ideating and surfacing new, impactful ideas?

- How do you juggle reactive work and making time to surface new, impactful ideas?

- Are there things you prioritize less or almost "drop the ball" on to focus on what matters?

Thanks!
There was one worse: the one that came with the BASIC on the Atari 2600. And this was actually my first "computer" on which I wrote BASIC programs: an ATARI 2600 console.

The BASIC cartridge was coming with some kind of keyboard controller that you'd plug in the 2600's joystick ports.

It was horrible but it allowed to do simple programs and even draw colored lines etc. IIRC.
If he problem you are trying to solve is the precariousness of existence, there are other avenues to explore other than $MAKE_MONEY_FAST, and most any solution you find may lend itself to being monetized.

Sometimes, the problem (at the margin, anyway) isn't lack of money or expenses that are too large per-se but irregularity of income and-or irregularity of expenses. There may be solutions you can devise to smooth things out.

There may be money-saving solutions you can devise that could be marketed to a wider audience.

There may be income generating solutions (eg. marketing, adtech, and similar) that you can sell to businesses.

Anyway, try to dig a little deeper into what motivates you, and see if there is a problem there that you can make into a passion.
You really don't want to travel thousands of miles in open ocean in one of these things.
Of course, but I don't understand the issue here. Everyone involved knows that, and buyers don't care. What's the problem?
I think it stretches the metaphor outside its charted range.

OTOH using explosives is outright violence, and would likely be illegal by US federal laws.
Not sure where you got this number from. The US had 13,500 firearm homicides in 2018.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/what-you-can-do/facts.html

If you include the number of persons shot but not killed directly you are looking at about 20x that number.

And that doesn’t include firearms used in other crimes of violence.
Homebrew the painless way to install anything on Mac, installation,UPX and CASK
This is such a sick mindset.

"Sure, we can run the world down for a bit -- all we have to do is sacrifice the opportunity of future generations to experience the world"
Well if you give the address of the teenage daughter of you noisy neighbour doing parties all the time with a pic that say "come and take me", maybe you crossed a line that should stimulate moderation?
In Europe salaried employees are expected to work 8 hours a day. Anything above that is overtime, and not only it is paid overtime, it actually pays 150% of your normal hourly rate. or 200%, or more, depending on the country.