skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing that gets missed is this: With self-driving cars every single fatal accident will be investigated, and the result of that investigation will be used to improve the software on all cars in the network.

In this way the rate at which cars kill people will decline, similar to the systematic decline in airplane deaths over the years.

So maybe it's worth initially accepting a self-driving fatality rate that is slightly above the human-driving rate?
No it is not. Stop the straw man argument.
Hydrogen has been talked about 10 years ago and the technology is still in its beginnings compared to most solar components nowadays.
Hydrogen is also increasingly used by the fissile/carbon industry as a decoy to keep their gas on longer to make hydrogen.
> hiring a contractor to do anything in any growing metro area is unreasonably expensive.

So is hiring a contractor to build a website. Do you still feel that's "unreasonable" ?
According to EU guidelunes, the Pfizer vaccine can be stored for a month at normal refridgerator temperature.
That’s their risk to take.
Neural Networks see the world in such an odd way and it makes one wonder about what it means in regards to AI and how it will process the world. It puts pictures to questions and wondering many have had about how an artificial intelligence will view the world and makes why peole wonder about that perhaps more reachable to others as a lot of people need to see something.
> If I can feel pain by thinking, what does it mean that pain is "strictly physical"?

It may help to look at it from a cause and effect perspective.

injury -> pain

thinking -> pain

feeling -> pain

thinking -> feeling + pain

pain -> feeling + thinking

...etc
I have indeed been in a sunny climate without aircon. Sunny and humid in most summers.

That's why we installed the AC. When it's just hot it's fine. You just go outside and in the shade or dip in the pool.

When it's sunny and humid or it starts raining and you hope for a nice cooling downpour and then the rain just stops and it's even muggier than before you crawl inside and turn the AC up.

EDIT: and by turn up I don't mean freezer tenps. I hate that. We use it mainly to get rid of the humidity but that's how ACs cool anyway so temp goes down too.
I worked as a system administrator with about 25 local and 25 remote users. At first there was plenty to do, Windows 98 and hardware were buggy things back then. Every one in a while a machine would blue screen, it took months to track it down. (Turns out Microsoft's compiler optimized a bit too much, and unloaded floating point support, and the HP printer drivers still needed it)

Over time, I got things under control, and the hardware and software got more reliable, I had fewer fires to put out. I tried to get some projects going, revamping the hacked together database left by my predecessor, but the production department (not IT) wouldn't have anything to do with it.

Eventually, it got down to showing up, and waiting for things to break, for years. It crushed my soul.
Yes. We actually use Apple Maps for emergency vehicle routing. It is the default option for one of our call notification apps. A 911 call comes in, and we can map to it before dispatch even gives us the information.

At least in Northern California and where I worked in both Texas and Oklahoma, Apple has done a magical job of mapping.
Nice. I wanted to do this but I wasn’t able to do enough of the labor myself, and in my state DIY is looking like it may get deprioritized out of receiving renewable energy credits. In exchange for paying the markup on the panels I’m getting all the paperwork done right and paying a reasonable rate for the electrical and installation work. It’s a bummer, though, similar to when I conclude I have to pay for auto maintenance work instead of saving money.
They do have Cloudfront Functions now for real Edge compute: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cloudfront-func...
Boreout sounds amazing in a remote work situation.
It's fair to say we will have to replace this with something not developed yet. It's honest and if you are scared by it others will come up with that solution.

I' ll offer a guess at a solution.. the next generation of power sources will be organically based and breakdown into non-toxic material and solar will be a part of that.
It's all good until your powerwall batteries catch on fire.
It's about 14-15% of global coal consumption last I checked. That shifts around a bit as use in electrical generation and alternate steelmaking technologies vary. (Electric minimills processing scrap and not requiring coking are a significant source of steel.)
>My father is kind of scared of the COVID vaccine - understandable.

>But he gets his 'flu shot' (and a bunch of other things) by the doctor all the time.

Does make a lot of sense to me. Because not all vaccines are the same. Infact their contents can be vastly different (It has to be, given that they protect against different diseases, you know).

So Just because you are Ok with one vaccine, does not mean that you should be Ok with all vaccines.

Sounds like common sense to me. Don't you agree?
It’s such an incredible, but also well balanced, very down to earth story.

The rescuer is so diligent in putting things into perspective, especially regarding the future repercussions on cave diving or why they had to do it.

Personally I was only remembering Elon Musk’s jerkiness from the whole story, and am so glad to be reminded there are so many more positive takeaways, incredibly brave and supportive people working together and putting in all they have to make it work despite the odds.

Also RIP the diver who lost his life a few days before while preparing for the rescue.
Would love to be in a situation like this. How do you find a job that lets you do nothing? I’d be happy to work on personal projects, learning new things, working a second job, etc
This site asks for 1.5 Go of ram https://ubuntugnome.org/, Ubuntu 20.04 asks for 4 Go of ram. Compared to the 30 Mo for IceWM in the article (apple to oranges, I know, but still 3 orders of magnitude), or the 300 Mo for KDE. The author also notes that since XFCE switched to GTK3 they use more resources. That seems to be plenty of basis in reality. Perhaps you mean something else by "resource intensive"?
I loved the humidity in Dubai... Some days.
Preferences differ.
Why not have a talk with management after the golden handcuffs? It may be that they've got some projects in mind, but haven't surfaced them yet.
A good recap on the Musk aspect:

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17576302/elon-musk-thai-cave-r...
Absolutely true that and fortunately that situation appears to be in the level of risk as tankless water heaters lighting your house on fire. But only time will tell.

On the plus side, you can put them in a subterranean vault if you have space on the property for the set back limits.
https://archive.is/F9nwI
Do what I do, and screencap every time the smallest bit of Japan-based trivial junk makes it to the front page of HN.

Your screenshots folder will be filled within a few weeks. ;P
Reply for dillondoyle:

If you flag this, it's you admitting I'm right and you can't handle the truth and objective reality.

>Federal marijuana prohibition and the War on Drugs (yes including laws) is rooted in racial bias.

Somewhat of a myth, and at the end, the law is not biased or racist.

The Democratic party and gun control laws are also "rooted in racial bias". Is continuing gun control laws racist? Is the Democratic party racist?

>There are a HUGE amount of sources and you aren't acting in good faith so this is pointless. Some links below.

None of those links point to specific laws being racist whatsoever. One of you links literally agrees with me: "Athough there is no indication from case law and legislative history that Congress harbored a discriminatory intent when enacting the Anti-Drug Abuse Act"

>You might argue that the context around why these laws, for instance why there are specifically sentencing disparities written into law, doesn't matter because the plain text doesn't say black people shall have a 2x longer sentence. That's ignorant IMHO.

That's not ignorant, that's reality. They're not racist, your own source agreed with me. Meth also has 2x longer sentencing, is that a racist law targeting whites?

>Even so, racist laws were specifically written in plain text IN OUR CONSTITUTION spelling out black worth as only 3/5ths of white.

Are those laws still active? Oh, they're not? Cool, thanks for agreeing with me.

>Nixon's advisor has a 'great' quote plainly laying out the motivation and showing why context and the actual affects of these laws are racist.

These laws predate Nixon by decades. Stop moving goalposts and straw maning.

>you're being purposefully being flippant with a throwaway account so I'm not going to continue responding but go ahead and downvote again.

Translation: "I wasn't able to prove suburbs are racist, so I attempted to strawman and goalpost, but that failed, so I'm just going to take the leftists' exit and call you racist and leave."
Amazon have multiple own-brands besides the Basics range though.
Wow, super interesting history here!
>You might be able to buy off the FDA, but it's a lot more work to buy off all the regulatory authorities of the world, at short notice.

That is kind of naive. Because you don't buy off FDA, you keep it on your payroll.

If you don't already have it on your pay roll, then you make deals with someone who already have it on their payroll.

Is that so hard to see?
Slashdot has moderation, and metamoderation. The rating system isn't the best, though.
Thinking about it, one of the marketing received wisdom things is that you often want to associate your product with sex. What is probably the easiest way in the world to associate your product with sex?
I had the exact same experience, but a fairly clear flow into my career. My own tinkering led to a job at a local computer store fixing computers when I was about 15, and then a job as a build engineer at 18. This was in the 90s so there weren’t a ton of college students with computer experience to compete with, and I think there was more openness to non-traditional candidates.

My last job was product director for a major CI/CD platform, so there’s a pretty clear breadcrumb trail all the way back to tinkering with Linux on old hardware to now.

The Linux command line and scripting was part of it, but the real deeper lesson was that computers are understandable and if you are persistent you can fix or improve nearly anything, or assemble something new and useful by building on what’s available to you.
No, or at least not without more steps and automation. WAY back before refrigeration, cooling was done with blocks of ice harvested in winter and stored for the year. Expensive is a word for it.

What's being talked about here is thermal energy storage. Ice is created overnight (ok, like a refrigerator), but then during the daytime used to supplement or replace the refrigeration cycle of the compressor to reduce electric load while still providing cooling. I can't quickly find an article (edit: found a 2016 paper, see comments about Boothbay on page page 3-4: https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2016/data/papers/3_2...), but it's memorable to me that an island in Maine installed these systems instead of spending more on replacing the distribution line to the island the handle the peak daytime cooling load.
when has there ever in the history of mankind been a meritocracy
Dubai was weird. I don't remember humidity being an issue there to be honest. Was only there for 3 days or so though.

I vividly remember freezing on the bus though. Being outside was better.

What I also vividly remember was the beach. Totally different beach experience than anything else I've had before or after. It was really weird when I walked into the ocean and the water wasn't actually feeling colder than air around me. It was just suddenly wet around you but not cold ;)
> the oceans own water pressure, pushes water through the membrane and up into the tank on the beach

Unfortunately, that's not how pressure works. There's a 100m column of water above the salt side of the membrane, but there's also a 100m column of water in the pipe on the fresh side. Those columns generate an enormous pressure, but it's pushing from both sides, which doesn't help you get water through the membrane.
Your numbers are off, and you omitted emigration numbers.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/ says

> The United States population on January 1, 2019 was: 329,474,910

> The United States population on December 31, 2019 was: 331,163,242

Difference = 1,688,332

(Your given population numbers correspond to roughly October 4, 2017 and May 4, 2018.)

Your 1.03M appears correct - https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/tab... . It's the 3rd smallest number of the most recent 15 years. Smaller also than 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913 and 1914.

However, people do move away from the US. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/12/net-internati... comments "Net international migration added 595,000 to the U.S. population between 2018 and 2019, the lowest level this decade."

Thus, it does not appear true that "The American population increase is entirely driven by immigration".
Instagram ads are the only ads I like and I am insanely anti-ad. They're currently showing me ads for furniture and house stuff. What I find frustrating is there is no way to view my recently seen ads. They'll cut off early in stories and I'll not be able to get them back.
So GPs opinion isn’t valid because I switched to the Mac, got it
Video volume is very low
I agree Instagram ads are usually good and certainly the only ones I've ever seen properly targeted to me - I've even used it 2-3 times for high value things - but I'm still annoyed that it keeps trying to sell me startup Viagra for millenials. ("hims" and "Roman")
If this continues it will turn into South Africa where only the wealthy get justice (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_security_industry_in...).

I’m totally fine with police making as much as a software developer as long as they are competent and reasonably non-corrupt. Here is their starting wages, starting 70k without a college degree: https://www.joinlapd.com/salary should probably be a bit more if you want them to be able to afford houses in LA though.
breaking news person sells building.........
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying or what the point of your bashing is. GNOME and KDE and XFCE and whatnot are not political parties and are not opposed to each other. They're not really even close to being that, they're open source projects that collaborate on a sizable amount of things. If you believe there is a better way to do something then just contribute to another desktop. The existence of GNOME doesn't prevent you from doing that and isn't detrimental to it, especially when you consider that the cost of switching to another open source desktop is a big fat $0. Please don't unnecessarily politicize things, one of the benefits here is that you explicitly don't have to do that.

To put it another way: maybe some specific mode of "Linux gaining ground on desktops" with "configurability and techniness" is your goal, but people working on any given desktop (including GNOME) may not share that goal in the same way you do, and it doesn't make any sense to expect them to.
I struggle with the notation, where functions are defined, and if things should be lifts/pullbacks/pushforwards.

X is a real random variable. So it is a map from some space of measurements, M , X : M -> R. Z is supposed to be a random variable in this case (why lower case?). f is a function from R->R, and you mean the pullback to Omega?

Clearly all these spaces at least you can have some sensible notion of differential forms, differentials, so I imagine a space \Omega_M/R, so there are derivations, generalised stokes theorem etc.

Then even though this is all some analytic kind of world, well we can get the algebraic structure right at least. If things are supposed to for example, Borel or whatever quantifier, I feel like that is just extra data and constraints.

Stats overall seems kind of sloppy.
> ..., no work to do,

Generally the case is that there is still way to much to do, so you can't do your own thing: but your assigned tasks are meaningless. Think of being paid to dig a hole and fill it in again, and you will be fired if you don't spend your time doing that, even though the net effect would be the same if you just did nothing.

The result is the double whammy of being burnt out by an avalanche of meaningless tasks.
>Here, one individual component of the FDA was compromised, but other checks-and-balances are coming to bear..

The damning thing is the point it got up to, before the "checks and balances" came into play that we have to consider this as an exception rather than the rule.

IMHO The scientific advisory resigning is itself the point where the failure of the process became apparent. Because, I am pretty sure "if you disagree then you should resign", is NOT part of the approval process. I mean, it is not within the framework that you are trying to portray as being robust.
https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/science-101/the-benefits...

B3 is a precursor to NAD+ but you also need some amino acids to make it.

Taking NMN directly also had some health issues that were discovered recently. More importantly it can speed up cancer if you are predisposed to it or if you already have undiagnosed cancer.

as far as I can remember, one of the treatments of cancer is removing nmn from body.
If you stood outside hq scanning them with radar they'd be cool with it right?
Silicon tetrachloride being a “highly toxic” “byproduct of producing crystalline silicon” is a new astroturfing mantra I’ve seen repeated lately. Too bad it’s recycled as part of the process (and is useful on its own for making high purity optical fibers) or solar enemies might have a point!

It is an intermediate product, not a waste product.
Also the feeling of radiation. I remember experiencing 123F in death valley and the feeling of my skin just feeling weird
Liberty Mutual. Same here. Will never buy from them.
The Google Maps app will let you explicitly download quite large areas for use offline.
Right, it just depends on the numbers. Taxes and credits have a lot to do with it. For example, a $10k (after credits) system might save at averaged $1200/year accounting for production lost, increasing a bit over time due to utility hikes. After 20 years, assuming the system is now worthless, that will compare similarly to an 8% stock market return plus initial capital after capital gains taxes. The solar system would return in a narrower range of performance than the stock market return.
Im the same. In 30 years of using the internet ive only saw an ad,clicked through and bought twice. Both times were clothing from Instagram.
USA brand tax cattle must crawl into a cage when the blue terrorist gangs command.
We got a significant discount over comps so even if we pay full price to pay them off we still did well, so I was okay with it. It’s still very annoying though having to deal with Tesla. I can’t believe they are still in business with their business practices. My friend has a solar roof contract that Tesla is trying to double the price on, it’s insane.
There are some EXTREMELY hard bullet hell games out there. The only one I can think of is TouHou, but I know there are much harder ones out there.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (a rogue-like.) You could play this for months and not beat the game.

ROM hacks like Kaizo Mario and Super Metroid Impossible.

Playing normal games blindfolded: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOd82Q6-oU
what is "hydrogen based kerosene?" I understand normal kerosene is almsot 100% hydrogen and carbon. How does hydrogen basing kerosene remove or reduce the carbon while still yielding an energy dense liquid at STP?
I didn't realize that the number of people without power in Ethiopia was quite so high, my impression was that it was more developed. I also have 0% belief that Kenya, Uganda, and Djibouti would take military action against Ethiopia. They all have their own internal problems and I doubt they would want to get mixed up in a war in which they have little to benefit from (what would the Egyptians give them?).

Random question since you're from the country - what are the feelings in Ethiopia with the elections, Tigray, etc.? I'm headed there in 1.5 weeks for my first time.
>will inevitably lead to trampling the user's freedoms

People keep saying this but it happened 20 years ago. This reminds me of shit like the postal service requiring photo ID to receive a package and people complaining about NSA hundreds of years later. Now you need a phone to play a game and some of the most popular need literal photo ID checks. Imagine, sending your photo ID which if stolen people can steal your money, to a bunch of newgrads running a game studio. This is what people (kids and manchildren) accept to address the overstated problem of game cheating. I played thousands of hours of games for 20 years and the number of cheaters I ran into is around 10 or 20. Most players of games (including the ones who complain about "cheaters") do not even have a clue what a game cheat is. They think some guy has some cheat that only works in this weird scenario that happens 1/100 games. Yeah, can you guys stop making me need photo ID for to play some stupid game? This is no different than every obnoxious statist concern that gets addressed by some charlatan who purports to be saving the world by ruining everyone's day (almost any time I install or configure a game my day is ruined, imagine a typical dependency hell but 10x worse). And no, I haven't ran into little cheaters because of "sophisticated anticheat" (stuff like punkbuster is extremely incompetent), it's because public hacks simply get blacklisted once they become big enough to matter.
Have a look at https://shop.elephantrobotics.com/products/mycobot-pi-worlds.... If you really need better repeatability, they have a more expensive Pro model.
That's hilarious. Just... Why? Either set realistic targets or test them properly, this isn't Formula 1 for emissions.
I think the world will be a better place when people have access to fundamental things like clean water, power, and adequate nourishment. Let the major polluters of the world figure out carbon capture before forcing these standards on developing countries that have almost no responsibility for historic emissions.
I set-up an aquaponic system on my front porch a few years ago. My wife was skeptical but I grew some of the finest basil around. Just used a tote filled with goldfish, some PVC piping, and a pump. Unfortunately one evening the raccoons figured out how to pop the lid off the tote - it was a massacre!
There was a highly publicized story in 2008 about Chinese silicon companies dumping it illegally. Ever since it's been repeatedly invoked as anti-solar ammunition. It's like constantly warning about melamine poisoning from milk because an unscrupulous company did that before too.
that sounds really exciting. I've been having #LearningVIM in my #Todo list since forever now. I tried using VSCode like sorts of vim (though its no replacement for vim) but don't you have the requirement for having the notes on the cloud? to be able to update it any time from any device? Thanks in advance.
f is a function from Rⁿ→R

X is a multidimensional random variable, z is unidimensional, so that's why the difference in casing
Yet California claims to "follow the science" and that it's "not going against CDC recommendations."

there is zero reason to put masks on kids in schools. this is absolutely ridiculous at this point.
Girl Talk, Fair Use, and Three Hundred Twenty-Two Samples (2009)
I recently had the chance to chat with the former ambassador (US) to Ethiopia as I'm doing some research in the region and we talked briefly about this. He thought it was very unlikely there would be military action.