skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extraordinary claims should be well supported. Please provide reliable sources for your claim.

At least the last TGB was due to unusually cold weather, bad preparation for frozen gas pipes etc. If the "renewables" contributed anything, from what I remember, it would be perhaps a rounding error.

Solar and wind is not as reliable as a coal fired plant but you also don't have to continuously supply coal and it is not that bad as you would imagine either. Yes, it demands more planing, sensors detecting the conditions a good grid, perhaps some short term storage and longer term demand/ production adjustments. The great thing is, you can shut of a solar or wind power plant in probably minutes and it costs you nearly nothing (besides lost opportunity). Try that with a coal fired plant or nuclear power plant. You can also build solar and wind in places, where you wouldn't want a coal fired or nuclear power plant.

From what I can see, solar and wind seems to be the more economical way overall. It isn't perfect now and we have to have other sources in the mix but longer term I don't really see a reason, why most of the planet couldn't use solar, wind, water dams, geothermal etc. with some sort of smart energy storage or better demand/ production shaping for most of our energy needs, especially if we end up paying less for the same service level.
It's not people aspiring to have some vain dream. It's people looking for work and thats where they end up employed. I've read recently that since the recession, LA has added 5 jobs for every new unit of housing built. That is a recipe for tenement conditions and we are seeing that play out with how the working poor are currently living in these cities.
I’ve never heard of ticks anywhere in western Oregon or Washington. I’m sure there are other places without ticks also.
Agreed- the psychological and physical health benefits attributed by several studies to regular exposure to wooded and rural outdoor spaces is almost certainly worth the risk.
Low carb is recommended for diabetics and even some epilepsy cases. Then there is diets, people who do low carb and never really do full time ketogenic diet, or fluctuate between the two, which is my case.

I'd like to see a study for healthy people on low carb and the benefits.
I agree, though I think there's an obvious path towards that higher order understanding of the road that humans have.

Suppose they eventually have this current system dialed in and they get really good, accurate bounding boxes around all interesting objects on the road.

So now, in addition to their 10 second samples of video data they're collecting, they start collecting 10 second samples of scene representations.

These samples of scene representations are time series of how various objects in the scene are moving and behaving over time. Many examples of just what you describe: cars with older drivers having slower reaction times; cars with distracted drivers driving recklessly; etc.

Now you train a model on all that data, asking it to make predictions through time. It's going to quickly pick up on the same or similar cues that humans do. It sees an older person in a car and says that slower, cautious paths through the scene are more likely for that vehicle. They see a large, lifted truck and assume a 90% probability of a "cut off every car possible" path through the scene. Etc.

So I see what Karpathy is building now as a foundation upon which they can build the higher order stuff.
Every time I've considered how to really do nutrition research, it essentially amounts to a prison, even if voluntary. You would need to be able to lock different populations away from any source of food than what you provide, and control their daily activities, etc, for at least 2 years, though you could likely get some results after only 6 months.
It does make sense if you need a car with extra-long range. Locomotives are diesel/electric hybrids not specifically because of range but because they need the torque that only electric motors can provide. If it was only about range, trains would just run directly on diesel engines.

Until recently batteries with the energy density needed for trains didn't exist, so the diesel generator was a necessary part of the equation. That is changing however, and battery/electric trains are now being tested.

https://www.bnsf.com/news-media/news-releases/newsrelease.pa...
Cool - fuck the whales so we can test our war machine. This is stupid.
OK, you're right, it'd probably be trademark, not copyright claim, though the difference in effect is minimal. And they did try to trademark Dia de Los Muertos and did trademark words "Hakuna Matata", so it wouldn't be out of character for them. As for whether they initiated it, given that things with Loki on it start disappearing right when Disney premiers it's new series called Loki... I'd call it a bit too much of a coincidence.

> and it doesn't mean the rights holder filed anything.

The article says: "The rights holder, in this case, is indicated to be Disney Enterprises, Inc.". So apparently the rights holder did something, otherwise how would Redbubble know who holds the rights?
No idea about the knives, but a huge non-US innovation is a drying rack. Wash the dishes, let them dry, put them away when you have time. If I had to dry them with a rag, I think my opinion would be different.
The problem of looking at supposedly representative (but not actually) proxies for actual information is widespread in society, whether it be in hiring or medicine.

Here they just replicated all the same issues the current model of diagnosis faced.
I guess that would depend on how much effort they put into the camera. Could be yes, could be no.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I honestly don't see what any of that has to do with "capitalism." Would you mind connecting those dots?

I understand the existence of social ills: depression, despair, anxiety. I understand the amplifying effect caused by the democratization of content. But how do those things tie back to economics?

Do other capitalist states have the same problems? Does Canada? Does Sweden? Are things better in non-capitalist countries such as Laos or Nambia?

Is this a reference to the Easterlin paradox? Is is more accurate to frame the problem as being unhappy with success and wealth, vs "capitalism?"
As Swiss friend once told me that Switzerland have super cheap electrical power by buying surplus power from the french nuclear power plants in summer and pumping into reservoirs high in the mountains.

Never verified the story, but geography checks out.
Does anyone have any insight into Google's internal politics or processes that lead to this mess, and why is chat so much more fragmented at Google than other services?
I started working as a VB dev in 1993 while studying for a cs degree. I can’t really remember any specific thoughts about the future tech, we were too busy literally inventing it. All I remember is this amazement at how most people still don’t realize computers would completely tranform the entire society, how easily solvable many problems are with some simple code. But also reading the Sprawl Trilogy (which has materialized in an uncanny fashion) and understanding the dangers. Our entire society (Estonia) was transforming and people generally were very hopeful for the future while working hard to get there.
> Are you sure?

Yes.

It's pretty confusing, I did the same thing and came up with the same answer as you. Then I typed a sentence about "even on fully independent multi-link rear suspensions" before going off into the weeds. If the suspension were rigid, it seems like it should do the opposite, climbing upwards, but there is more going on in the car than the assumptions we typically make with a model.

A rear suspension is of course not rigid. It is, in short, a vertical damped spring mounted on a lever attached to the frame in front of it's axis. The axle/wheel hub is attached to the bottom of this damped spring at the end of the lever.

During braking, the rear will deflect rearwards and also be drawn towards the centerline of the vehicle following the arc of a circle drawn on the ground. The suspension will control the forces through the trailing arm, directing them towards the rear along a second arc drawn on the side of the vehicle, centered on the rotational vertex where the trailing arm is bolted to the car in front of its axle. The sway bar will control both sides to the same level which will be the apogee of the circle, closest to the rear bumper.

You can test this by pulling your parking brake below 5mph. If this doesn't work, call your mechanic :)

>You can't easily compare because the rear wheel easily skids with a fraction of the braking force the front wheel can take.

That is because braking the front bike wheel causes the lever to apply an upward force on the rear axle, pulling the front wheel rearwards, causing absurd instability and poor handling. This also happens to the rear wheel, it wants to hop upwards in response to the brake forces. That's why the proportional brakes exist in highway vehicles, to stabilize the braking forces into the most efficient braking scenario. If the front wheel were mounted in a reverse mounted trailing arm suspension (This doesn't exist, so I don't know what else to call it.) it would drop the front of the bike as happens to a car instead of flipping you off the bike. The side effects of this are atrocious understeer and a nonsensical center of gravity.

The reason the wheels move like this is to control for a characteristic called caster. Bikes have negative caster, if you let go of the handlebars at low speed, they will flop to one side or another at random, causing you to crash. Cars have positive caster which is the most stable configuration for the steering to operate. This is also why your steering wheel returns to center when you let go of the wheel while moving forward, and it is why the braking forces can be stabilized in this manner.
Shows like that were made by people who were born post-WW2, grew up during counter culture, and raised kids during the cold war. It impacted their approach to problems, but it was just another iteration of human history.

A common theme I've seen repeated online is when younger people complain how things are worse today than before, and the older generation says the younger ones have no idea how easy they have it.

I suspect, however, that political trolling has always been twice as popular as positivity within a standard deviation. People wanting to make positive shows like you're remembering are just as numerous today as before, but there's no longer only 20 channels to pitch your show to.

Imagine the beauty of watching a herd of animals move in response to danger. Now imagine if every animal on the edge of the herd had a way to share the dangers they see to the entire herd as they see them, and could see the herd response in return.

Consider that, and then consider if you would like to continue participating in those platforms.
The counter argument is that Black Mirror is an insanely popular TV show that shows exactly what technology innovation could bring - but again, from a dystopian perspective.
This is so authoritative. Did people vote on this? They throw money at everything while they make millions of dollars for themslves. Just redistribute the peasant's money, and experiment with the market.
Would be nice if title said Apache Spark instead of just Spark, since there are other programs like Spark/Ada also called Spark.
I think when you’re doing things on an aircraft-carrier scale the budget is usually, “yes.”
After seeing how those places handled the pandemic and knowing how poor the health care is, no thanks :)
Even after you control for all the things you propose controlling for, you still have a huge confounding factor in genetic makeup. So then you need prisons with thousands of identical twins, each pair living out the same life in all ways but diet (which is meticulously recorded).

You're just not going to get an experiment like you can lay out in physics.

I think the point of the author mentioning major limitations in the paper is to acknowledge that this is sadly the best we've got to work with
I wonder if renters will know their back-rent was made whole, or if shady landlords could attempt to "double dip".
Same as this truck..

This Huge Electric Dump Truck Never Needs to Plug In

https://www.wired.com/story/this-huge-electric-dump-truck-ne...
Aircraft carrier size baffles. That’s crazy!
Oh my bad! The dude who made it (sentdex) has replied a ton in this thread, I just assumed he was the op as well.
My wife had this from late 2007 until mid 2009 and nearly died from it. She was one of the early, benchmark cases. We went to Mayo clinic in Rochester in the summer of 2008 and they had no luck identifying her symptoms.

An exceptional allergy doctor near our home in Arkansas did endless research and mostly figured out what was going on.

After my wife came off of beef in mid 2009 her symptoms completely disappeared.

Prior to that, she was extremely ill, on 24 hour O2.

In fact she had picked out the location on our property where she wanted to be buried.

I'm going to bed but I'll be happy to answer any questions in the morning.
I loved that show! It, along with modern marvels, 321 contact, and a few others had a big part in me becoming an engineer.
>Using Sesame Street, Khan Academy and YouTube... Even if it has been watching episodes of I Love Lucy that have been leaking out into space since that show was first broadcast, it may still not understand them.

Humorist Dave Barry wrote a column about this years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041026225948if_/http://www.ano...
Not sure how modern you are referring too, but I have 2009-era hard drives which are very sluggish.
As someone who's experimented with varying degrees of carbohydrates in my diet: I've had issues with high-carb diets (bloating). I've had issues with low-carb diets (emergency runs to the bathroom, to put it mildly). My next attempt: a medium carb diet (or, more precisely, low medium, ~50-80g/day). My body seems to function well with some, but too much is no good either. Like most things, moderation.
So much of this article is just wrong or flies in the face of actual data I am surprised to see it on HN. America has problems, but this article is really off point.
Yes it's a hog.
Trolling existed before the internet. It is just satire.

And the reason this issue exists is, as I think you imply, is why trolling is effective and why satire still exists as a form of comedy: people are usually totally unconscious of their own biases, particularly when they are examining the bias of others (particularly today, admitting that you are biased is a form of self-hate when so much energy is devoted to finding biases in others...note that people equate struggle sessions with greater equality, it is all about other people).

I will also say, and this is unappreciated: people who talk a lot about trolling often do not get satire at a fundamental level, they lack any ability to introspect or find humour in their own irrationality or that of others, everything is just black and white (and I will venture: afaik, this forum is also the largest congregation of such people anywhere on the internet...yc is the white whale for trolls), and there is really nothing you can do about this. Again, it is why trolling exists.

Satire is one of the most important forms of comedy. There is no other form of comedy that is more closely associated with political discussion. The internet has been a wellspring for this kind of humour, it is wonderful (it is no surprise that the same people who complain about trolling are also vaguely intolerant of anyone with opposing political views to their own, anyone who opposes them is a troll and must be removed from the internet...again, this thinking predates social media by a number of years, the only change is people thinking that social media has changed anything).
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fossil scm has some good ideas, but things that are obviously missing in my mind that would improve / advance the state of the art in source control:

- AST based storage / diff / etc., kill the tabs vs spaces war permanently
- the actual command line interface inconsistencies (mostly these just take practice, but it would be better not having them there)
Note that vegans don’t necessarily eat low-carb diets. Not all vegetable sources are low-carb.
Can Engineers Ever Truly Be Happy with Their Work?
Rootless Sniffing
Meanwhile, I refer to Git Flight Rules (https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules) on a weekly basis. Especially the branches section - somehow I'm checking in or pulling from the wrong branch, or branching from the wrong parent, and cleaning up is so tedious/annoying.
I'm gonna check out this "git undo" command in the article.
Going to need a citation for this if you have one
>The plumbing is great. The porcelain is cracked and mildewy.

You might enjoy using Magit.
It’s worth noting that a vegan low carb diet is expensive and time consuming. Is it associated with a lower mortality rate, or is it your financial position that gives you a better quality of life? An animal based keto diet is way easier to sustain thanks to fast food adoption.
We should also get a simulator for self driving car manufacturers, that way you can evaluate them on accidents that happen & see how each one would react, also comparing to the average driver in the same situation for baselines
That's not the only definition being misused. It really seems the "divide" is creating new vernaculars or jargon, that could eventually lead to different subsets of English. This is what happens when people can't hold a conversation without having strong feelings.
I would guess that the content of your low-carb diet was the cause of your bathroom problems, not the lack of carbs itself.

Did you try other low-carb foods or just give up? There are many options and if it can figure out which ones are problematic for you, eliminate those and eat others.
Tons of Bitcoin Mining Rigs Will Reportedly Relocate from Guangzhou to Maryland
What a coincidence.

I was bitten by a lone star tick last week. I didn't notice it until several days later when I found it fully engorged. I did check myself entirely after I was in tall grass, but I think it was stuck to my clothes and bit me later on.

I sent it in to the PA tick research lab[0] and it came back negative for the presence of Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, tularemia and RMSF. It seems as though they can't test for Alpha-Gal presence. Pretty cool service though and it's largely free for PA residents (only ~$50 for the basic panel for any other state). I overnighted it and they had it tested within ~36 hours of receiving it[1]. I mostly sent the tick in for "science", and because I was generally curious.

From my reading, it takes ~30 days for the allergy to begin showing itself. I'm not panicking, but I'd be remiss not to ask – is there anything I can do ahead of time to prevent the allergy's development? I couldn't find much documentation on if there are any preventative measures after finding the tick. I discovered this last week while searching and went down a bit of an internet rabbit hole. It's pretty fascinating and information on it is thin.

Avoiding red meat would be annoying, but I think the real trouble comes from the cross contamination factor[2], i.e. you eat something that was prepared in the same environment as red meat. And since the allergy has a delayed reaction you may not realize it until 6 hours later, when it's no longer on your mind and may be asleep. Some people can't even eat fatty dairy products like ice cream.

[0] https://www.ticklab.org

[1] For those curious what a result looks like: https://i.imgur.com/kFoyasw.png and https://i.imgur.com/gMsuhXZ.png

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/alphagal/comments/gule7q/how_much_d...
Isn't Inbox just an email client?

> chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024.

I doubt it. Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype.
Thanks for the explanation. Clever stuff, LMDB is taking advantage of not having to support multiple writers here.
Investors close to stores that sell jackpot-winning tickets buy more shares
I tried so hard to integrate into the Google ecosystem. I had a Gmail account and Google Talk to start. Eventually an Android phone, on Project Fi, with Hangouts and SMS (so I could send SMS over the internet). I upgraded from Gmail to Inbox. Then when they ditched that for Allo and Duo I tried to switch to those. Then I lost SMS on my computer because it got removed from Hangouts. Then I tried to switch to Google voice after they redid that, but you couldn't have Google voice with Fi...I also uploaded all my music to Google music. All my RSS in Google reader. I had a Google+ account. Multiple Google pixels.

I really thought Google was going to be the answer for a completely integrated, non-Apple online life.

Anyways, long story short, after endless frustration trying to get everything to work seamlessly, I ditched Google entirely.

My email is now IMAP. I have multiple accounts in one app. My calendar and contacts are now WebDAV. Every other app I use on PC and mobile can integrate with them. My messaging is now Element/Matrix with bridges to whatever other services I need. My search is DuckDuckGo, browser is Firefox, etc.

Currently, everything is as integrated, or more integrated, than it was with Google, and worlds more stable. Somehow, despite being huge and having all the data and basically a monopoly, they still can't integrate to save their lives.
That's the way the world generally works with literally everything else, so yes. Physical crimes like theft are punished after the fact and for the most part that works. It's definitely much less common than the recently-created version of theft whereby a device is falsely "sold" while still retaining control over it.

But sure, go ahead and design a different system where say the device's current key can be used to replace itself with a new key - the important part is that there are no permanent privileged keys that cannot be changed by the owner. But then you have to mandate that this procedure is carried out when a device is sold, otherwise it's not really a sale.

Such schemes seem likely to have pitfalls for losing or corrupting the key though, and I'm personally more comfortable with falling back on physical reality which we've learned how to deal with over thousands of years rather than ending up with perfectly good devices that cannot be used.
But that's just wiggling around. There is no assembly line to be discovered when it comes to insurance.
I once posted a nascent open-source project to reddit and it got shredded, but someone pointed me to some prior art. I studied the suggested materials, and thanks to that feedback my project was eventually successful. Now even CERN uses it in some LHCb software.

ShowHN needs comments like Paul's. Tact and expertise never come equally in the same package. We should appreciate this and grow some thicker skin in the meantime.
4 Days but 18 hours work each day to "Keep productivity"

Obviously being facetious but the Japanese work ethic expectations are terrifying
> There is too much revenue to be made in not fixing the problem

This is always the excuse, but it's really not true. Once you put ethical constrains on business, new soutions arise and then people start to see the difference. This is what's happening with renewable energy. Social media needs to start innovating in this area.
In the spirit of science (and as revitalized by the Covid Pandemic):

What experimental studies prove that work from home is superior to work in the office (or vice versa)?