skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paywall free link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210708014033/https://www.chemi...

First off this seems like a really important addition to solar in general. My impression is that hydrogen is easy to make, can be a closed water cycle (uses the same water it generates to when release the energy), and the only downside is the inefficacies of compressing it to store it among the other steps.

Does anyone know if this would be a practical source of heat say at night, considering what I understood to be Hydrogens lower energy density?

For example, I was wondering roughly how big of a tank of (I am assuming) liquid hydrogen would be required to match say 50 a gallon tank of diesel.

Or am I missing something here?
Building Monocle, a universal personal search engine for life
Can someone qualified give an accurate upper bound to the potential of this innovation?
Possibly the coolest data structure to visualize was invented to visualize complex data: zig-zag from the great Ted Nelson.
Ugh, I can't deal with Systems Engineering. It's a whole lot of gobbledygook before getting to the crux of the problem. A software engineering analogue would be FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Well, if everybody did that, they wouldn't have bollards. Or breakaway hoses.
A lot of these points aren't actually contradictions. Examples:

> “SARS-CoV-2 is not that dangerous” and “SARS-COV-2 is so good at making humans sick that it was clearly engineered.”

It's perfectly possible for a disease to have low lethality but high transmissibility.

> “A ~1% death rate from COVID is not a big deal” and “an extremely rare (<0.001%) nonfatal side effect from a vaccine is a very big deal.”

This incorrectly assumes that you'll definitely get COVID if you don't get the vaccine. Also, deaths from COVID are concentrated in demographics different from where deaths from vaccine side effects are.

> “An observational study of ~30 people is enough to justify giving hydroxychloroquine for COVID” and “A randomized, blinded placebo-controlled trial of ~30,000 people is not large enough to justify giving the vaccine.”

There should be a higher standard for drugs given to the entire world population than for ones only given to those who have a severe case of a disease.

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And a lot of the other ones, while they are indeed contradictory, are basically straw men. Examples:

> “If a 75-year-old with pre-existing conditions gets COVID and dies from pneumonia 4 days later, COVID was not the true cause” and “if a 75-year-old with pre-existing conditions gets the vaccine and dies from pneumonia 4 days later, the vaccine was definitely the true cause.”

The complaint I've heard is that the former is counted as a COVID death, but the latter is not counted as a vaccine death. "You can't have it both ways" itself goes both ways.

> “Most COVID cases are false positives” and “the case fatality rate is overestimated.” (If there were, in fact, fewer true COVID cases due to false positives, that would make the case fatality rate much higher.)

While I've repeatedly heard the claim that most COVID deaths weren't actually caused by COVID, I've never heard the claim that most COVID diagnoses are false positives. In fact, what usually gets claimed is that there's way more cases than diagnoses.
With JFS we can use S3 as a cheap backend of HDFS.
We don't even have a definition of consciousness or a way to measure it, or even a way to define 'general intelligence', or a meaningful way to measure 'super intelligence'.

And yet we're talking about banning stuff right now which is little more than slightly better statistical regressions?
I’ve never used it so I don’t know. But it seems like they had a lot more than just that as well. Forgive my ignorance.
This is pretty shallow thinking. Facebook doesn't charge Facebook users for the service. Are they "losing money" because of that? Clearly not. Is there a way for them to make money out of Bulletin without explicitly charging writers? Let me think....

Lots of companies run negative cashflows for years before positive. The oil and gas industry get's to categorize drilling expenses "capital expenditure" and run it through their financial statements over many years. Intel builds a factory and does the same thing. If you could (and it's a reasonable position) run direct sales expenses for recurring revenue, and all R&D, through your financials as capital expenditures depreciated over 10-15 years... poof.. many so called Silicon Valley money losers are running positive net income.
For restoring a backup to a Linux filesystem, libimobiledevice requires the iOS device to be present, so you will probably want ideviceunback instead, which doesn't have this issue:

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/...
https://github.com/inflex/ideviceunback
"Brad, we can't deploy your conspiracy theory classifier because it would reduce the number of high value viewer engagements by 2.7%. Let's just stick with the version that depends on accumulating reports. It's not a big deal because we can always intervene if something embarrassing slips through."
And border control.
There are actually hypothesis about that [1]

[1] Informed consent and reproductive toxicity of vaccines (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxuNvVgxlU
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ideviceunback – unpack libimobiledevice idevicebackup2 backups
They're not just the biggest whales, but possibly the only whales that matter.

I mean, $9T is a lot. For comparison, the world's largest and most popular index fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, with a gigantic number of investors, holds "only" $0.4T in investments.

Put another way, $9T works out to ~$1100 of liquidity injected into the financial system for every man, woman and child alive!

It's hard to reason about the impact of such incomprehensibly large injections of liquidity on the behavior of financial markets.
If the two metrics used are loss of life vs cost of pandemic, the cost of a life needs to be included in the final score I think.

In Australia, it appears some early models predicted between 50k to 150k lives lost assuming no response. A statistical life is valued at over $4m, meaning a cost of $200bn to $600bn. Also, with 60% of the population infected, that would mean over 12 million people infected - we still don't have a good idea what the long-term issues will be - but one study in Australia found ~5% of people experiencing "long covid" symptoms, which would mean at least 600,000 people with long-term complications - which in our hypothetical Harkonnen society we'd likely just shove them into a hole somewhere and forget about them, otherwise we'd have to deal with their social welfare (yuck!) and strain on the health system.

No doubt the cost, responses, short and long term impacts, etc, will be something economists and sociologists will debate for decades to come.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/thousands-of-predict...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/long-covid-nsw-resear...

Edit: On thinking about it, I think the value of life is based on insurance / compensation purposes, perhaps the value of a life in terms of total GDP contribution would be different? Anyway, a subject more for the actuaries and economists I think. Interesting to consider nonetheless, which I think may be the overall point of this game.
You're focusing on the first sentence; the reply was, I think, focusing on the second.

"The delta-V for such an orbit change is exceedingly small compared to the cost of a launch."

In that context, I think it seems appropriate to point out that it's not true as a categorical statement.
I think you're misunderstanding something. The Google offer hasn't changed at all[1], in terms of overall dollars provided. The distribution of the same dollars has changed.

I'll illustrate with a relatively concrete example. A recent graduate joins Google on December 31[1] of this year, and gets a 100K initial grant ('22-'25). They then follow an above-average performance trajectory over the next few years, getting refresh grants of 40K ('23-'26), 60K ('24-'27), 80K ('25-'28) and 100K ('26-39').

So in 2022, they'll vest 25K. In 2023, they'll vest 25+10=35K, in 2024 they'll vest 25 + 10 + 15 = 50K. In 2025 they'll vest 25+10+15+20=70K. In 2026 they'll vest...also 70K. And that's assuming a feasible but above-average performance trajectory[2]. If performance is lower, even modeled stock compensation will actually take a dip in year 5.

If you instead take the same total numbers, but frontload the initial vest, you get something like

33, 43, 47, 57, 70 vs the original 25, 35, 50, 70, 70. Its 250K in stock over 5 years either way, but in the second case you don't ever feel like your compensation has flatlined.

[1]: Ok this isn't precisely true, it's gone down, but it went down a few years ago when Google removed the cliff, not when they changed the vesting schedule. For this example, I'll use the trick of assuming they join in December 31, because this ignores the decrease in comp that came as a result of not getting first-year equity refreshes.

[2]: Also note that take-home pay will be lower in 2026 than in 2025, because the 2025 shares are plurality from 2021's vest, with 4 years of growth, while the 2026 shares are plurality from 2026's vest, so less growth.
Kubernetes is not the answer to every infrastructure question.
0. Get at least two offers. You might get a 20% raise with just one offer, but 20-100% from two.
Also, part of this is I think there's a need for a new word that is not a negative one, not anti-school, but pro-learning and pro-education. Homeschooling, unschooling deschooling and most of the terms I hear don't really define this innovative group of pioneers. I think words are important and the word should not be in opposition to something but proactive. If there's another word you think could work, I'd love to hear it.
What amazon did to diapers.com is a very good example of burning money to kill a rival. Especially because they launched their campaign while trying to buy them.
> You can’t as a user easily block a channel (just report it, or dislike, and hope the recommendation engine notices)

You absolutely can! Go on the three dot menu next to a video title in the recommendations and click on "do not recommend videos from this channel"
Then those still work
> change their culture in a large scale way that affects your daily life because these "wrong" people might be all around you.

and the last time that happened in the USA, it lead to the civil war.
Find and Create Microschools
Find and Create microschools. The More the students in the class the less each parent pays and the more the teacher makes!
Aren't all aircraft a specific class of aircraft?
Hiring is one of the most time sucking activity, and the whole notion of stocks/RSUs is to make people stay.
Fred has neglected his duty to know what he is recommending, in the same way that YouTube has neglected their duty. The key part I was trying to get across with the analogy wasn't just that Fred didn't know what he was recommending, but that he didn't do his due diligence before giving a recommendation.
He says Zillow "overpays" for properties, then quickly flips them for a 20% profit. I'd say they're underpaying if that's actually the situation. Zillow is taking on a decent amount of risk by purchasing a property, so I don't have a problem with them making money off the process...especially if it's making the selling/buying process easier for all parties.

I don't understand how commission based realtors exist nowadays. They primarily provided value in the past by being the sole network between sellers/buyers. That monopoly doesn't exist anymore, so it doesn't make sense for them to demand a huge commission. I personally look forward to companies like Zillow disrupting this archaic system.

Also, the high prices for real estate make sense right now. Millennials are well past settling-down age in combination with a flight from inner cities that are becoming crime-ridden ratholes. (Just look up how many shootings occurred in Chicago this past weekend if you don't believe me.) I wouldn't be surprised if this guy had a "10 Reasons Real-Estate is a Terrible Investment" video a few years ago when prices were cheap.
Watching "Social Dilemma" on Netflix (a movie made by Netflix) was quite an irony. Most people "waste" more time on Netflix than all other social platforms combined.

Yet, "Social Dilemma" covered/blamed every company except Netflix :)
I have never been called a coin head before. It feels interesting, because on one hand I see what people are trying to accomplish with crypto, but generally I am against the current solutions because of the massive climate impact of proof of work algorithms.

Judge me how you will, however, I do think I see your point that crypto might be contributing to this new form of extorsion. I was only trying to get more detail. Which has now been provided.
GP is correct in that some companies (Stripe, MS, others) convert the dollars to shares at vest time, while others do so at grant time.

The first way makes employees lose out on an average of 2 years of stock growth.
Is it a myth? Here’s why we still use above the fold in landing pages
Thanks so much for the great feedback. There are lots of ways for children educated by their parents to get positive social experiences. In terms of data, there have not been that many extensive studies on opting out of school in particular. And it would be hard to use that to judge the experience because there are so many different ways parents do it and reasons parent do it. What you might want to look at is research around parent participation in learning, which has been shown to be a deciding factor in student success regardless of school or teacher quality. Here are some resources and data around that. I'm also happy to talk further if you'd like insights on how to support your child making friend and learning teaching strategies as a parent. My email is manisha@modulo.app https://www.modulo.app/learning/parent-engagement
> Yea it worked out really well

It did, actually. Microsoft was not able to engage in as many unfair anti-competitive practices in the browser space, and partially because of that, there was a increase in browser competition.

Preventing microsoft from locking the world in to its browser, with illegal and anti-competitive practices, caused lots of better browsers to be developed.
I've had both monthly and quarterly vesting at both startups and big companies. No rhyme or reason for why either one since the companies were in different sectors/segments. Probably just an accounting quirk.
And what the ROI is. Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dead people and stalling the taliban for a little bit versus unlocking mysteries into the origins of the universe
> they have told us they dislike!

if they feel passionate enough about it to watch, then dislike it, the video would trigger other people for more engagements.

The opposite of like is not hate - it's apathy. You want to be apathetic towards clickbait. You want to be apathetic towards those sorts of videos.
> Very few European countries are innocent when it comes to taking land that wasn’t theirs.

Very few any countries are.

That wasn't the important part of the response to your post though, the important part is that it wasn't stolen or conquered.
> You're unlikely to use the same CAD software they did anyway.

Why?

But either way, it is much easier to convert from one CAD format to another then to convert PDF to CAD.
i wish there was a build of newpipe that works on a computer rather than mobile device.
I would think they would go to the one that accepts a form of payment they have would be a priority.
I agree. Sorry for the misdirection - the panic is something I observed when I was experimenting with it, and I misinterpreted it.
What city are you in? There are usually local groups on Facebook. Also, try positing on SEA homeschoolers and looking for others in your area. https://facebook.com/groups/seahomeschoolers
Also these:
llinois H.O.U.S.E

“Illinois HOUSE is a statewide network of support groups for people involved in homeschooling. We provide email and phone support about issues related to Illinois homeschooling. Common questions include how to withdraw a child from public school, what the school district needs from homeschooling families and how to deal with officials who ask for more than they’re entitled to receive. We have member groups throughout the Chicago suburban area and more spread across the state.”

Metro-East Secular Homeschoolers

“This is a group to make like-minded connections with other homeschoolers (or those considering homeschool!) in the Metro-East area.”

Pekin/Peoria Area (Illinois) Secular Homeschool Families

“Any PARENT/GUARDIAN of a child 5-18 that is homeschooling in the Pekin/Peoria area is welcome to join this group. Our purpose is to connect and support other secular homeschool families in the area.”

QCA Secular Homeschool Group

“QCA Secular Homeschoolers is primarily geared toward families who are homeschooling for reasons other than religion and who are looking for an alternative to religious homeschool groups.”

Secular Homeschoolers of Bloomington-Normal

“We are an inclusive homeschool group that respects and values diverse perspectives. Our purpose is to connect and support Bloomington-Normal area homeschooling families in a non-faith based group for field trips, shared lessons, book clubs, and online discussions.”

Westside H.O.U.S.E.

“We are an inclusive, non-sectarian network of homeschool families who meet to enjoy activities together, share experiences and lend support to one another. Our chapter serves families throughout Greater Chicago and the Western Suburbs.”
I thought the OP meant that since most of the time startups want you to sell you on taking less in salary in lieu of options it makes sense to start vesting those options immediately. I didn't take it to mean that they didn't intend to stay for at least a year. Looking at it that way I think it does make sense. The lower salary take place immediately.
So in other words FLOC makes the browser spyware. Clearly the browser history is useful for the user. That is why it is there. The browser company has no right to take that history and turn it into an ad profile. It is just plain wrong.
That's because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore

The rpi has hardware video acceleration even just a little bit, and the Celeron 1.4ghz laptop I had did not have any hardware acceleration of any kind. That was the difference really between my Phenom II X4 and the Ryzen 5 1400. Aside from obvious architecture differences, if my Phenom II had the video codecs built in, it'd have been plenty fast.

There's more to CPU's than clock speed and basic architecture. Features matter.
This is the strength of NASA. They can do crazy one offs rather than having to build financially feasible platforms all the time
That's a good point. It's mostly an opinion piece, but I think it would be helpful to provide more real-world examples and data.
Biochemist here. Interesting concept, but extremely misleading.

This game has an unrealistic rate of decay when measures are taken. You can take every possible action (full lockdown, throw all the money at the problem) to the max from day 1, and you'll spend the whole game at 10 new cases per day, even after the vaccine rollout. That's just not how things play out.
Companies sure don't act that way given that people generally need to leave for a raise.
Wow that doesn't open at all in my copy of Firefox. I wonder where the breakage is.
Every treatment of this topic I see makes the same really fundamental mistake, rendering everything after it pointless.

Is there a danger? Yes. Is it because the AI might escape control? No. Is it too late? Yes.

In cheap SF, somebody always says, "we can always pull the plug." But we too often can't pull the plug. Consider the simplest robot we all obey without thought: the traffic light. What would it mean to pull its plug? What would have to happen for its plug to be pulled?

If the traffic light served no one's interest, somebody would pull it. But few things serve no one's interest. The worse a system is, the more integrated it is into someone's interest. Any AI we would like to unplug is almost certainly protected by law, and by numerous layers of physical protection. Lives may even have come to depend on it, daily.

Any AI will be designed to to serve somebody, and will most likely continue to appear to serve them. Just, not necessarily you. But maybe even you, too, much of the time.

We already have numerous AIs controlling myriad details of modern life. We call them corporations, institutions, agencies. Their parts are made of job descriptions and papers, offices and spreadsheets. They are very inefficient. But they are, nonetheless, terrifyingly effective. At times they consume people by the million, seemingly almost autonomously. Ask Uyghurs whose organs are about to be harvested how much it matters that, in principle, a person could turn off the machine that has ensnared them. Ask everyone hoping for a transplant how many would turn it off.

A strong AI would be, simply, an institution that is not so dependent on fallible organic components. It would be more efficient than what it replaces. But the institutions we have are entirely efficient enough to cause all the unpleasantness we can devise.

We are well into an era where the institutions we built to serve us, or anyway to serve somebody, do not. Who can have much effect on the choices of even such a minor institution as the New York Police Department? Who would be able to cancel the F-35 program? The Chinese Communist Party and Shell Oil have both outlived their creators, and are well equipped to eject any human components that do not serve their implicit charters.
Wonderful, sparse, essential simulation. The stark choices and the resulting reminders of what really happened (and how the player matches up) is a great eye-opener for the general public. The fact that it forces you to make decisions in realtime and feel the lag behind them is really brilliant as a thing to put in front of decision-makers in parliament. One of the most difficult things with covid was the inability to see a few weeks into the future, because our minds are not equipped to think in terms of exponentially multiplying consequences. This gives a really elegant, intuitive form to a very conceptually difficult set of variables.

The beauty of the concept is its simplicity, as well. It's a bit like an IFR training panel, or early text-based video games. You can't see where the plane is or where it's going, you only see the instrument readouts after you adjust something. Since we have all been flying blind, this is a great experience to put in front of people, simply of what it's like to adjust and wait.

Five stars, sending it to all the devs I know, also as a way to make a very engaging sim on a complex topic for people with no prior art =D
People Powered is an excellent book on this subject. Much better and deeper than this article.
Part of me has wished I'd started earlier too, but at the same time I think I appreciated my partner for a good few years, and I would have missed that time alone with them.

I guess having children changes so much, especially for the first few years, that there's no easy way to predict how anything will turn out. I've changed in the past few years, for sure. Though part of that is just natural growth, and a consequence of changing country, etc, too.
These days it would be a virtual visit. Anything more you would have to go to a major center.
Does anyone know something equivalent in Australia (preferably Sydney)?

I'm not sure if I'm constitutionally built for running a startup but given that I've worked at a few and have lived through the craziness without much of the upside, perhaps I am.
I think every now and then there is a film that I enjoy watching. The quality is still there but it's not as abundant.