skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing is stopping anyone from building a new city center in the middle of Montana, such that it has plenty of buildable supply.

I don’t think it is that easy. The state has to approve a new town. I don’t think you can just create one at will. Nearby landowners are certainly going to have opinions.

> You seem to be pointing that existing cities should double down on their density.

Ideally, yes. But really I am saying they can’t because zoning laws prevent it. Existing home owners favor this constraint because it keeps prices up.
I'm just saying they're going to start seeing their salaries leveled and that's a good thing.
If you limit it to languages you know, you're adding 1 or 2 bits of entropy. If you expand it to languages you don't know, you're adding a couple more bits but making it much harder to remember.

If you stick to one language and add a fourth word, you're adding 10+ bits of entropy (depending on the size of the word list you're choosing randomly from).
This is completely wrong.

The known collision attacks for the MD-family and SHA-1 all in fact produce collisions with the exact same length. The method used necessarily does this.
In the “ What the numbers really showed” you use the lack of vaccinated sample size to justify something for the unvaccinated, but then immediately use that small number to your advantage to say “if 24 people had died then the vaccinated would have a higher death rate”. It’s disingenuous and doesn’t show anything.

Also if the vaccine prevents contraction then it should be counted as preventing death/hospitalization, but obviously those numbers aren’t obvious. Seems to me the vaccine IS preventing contraction so you would need to account for that wouldn’t you?
No, it said "70F above normal" in the article
One "hack" I discovered not too long ago, is if you get "Internet only", there's not a penny of taxes.

But if you get "Internet + TV" even for the same price, there's like 25% extra in taxes and fees applied to the whole amount.

So even when they offer "TV for free" it turns out it costs an extra $15/month of these taxes+fees.
30x500 Academy – “What if I launch a product that nobody wants to buy?”
> There is not a single comment pointing out any error or misinformation or lie or damned lie.

The article was posted 1 hr ago. Assuming some time to notice the article, then something like 30 minutes to read it and write a response, you'd not expect to see many comments pointing out the problems in the first hour.
> Right now AMZN is worth something because it is believed that it can be sold to the next person for more than was paid to the previous holder.

This is not the reason AMZN is worth something at all. The reason is because 1. assets > liabilities and 2. it's a business that generates a stream of net income.

And this is independent from what the stock market thinks AMZN is worth. For example, if the stock market thought AMZN was worth zero, you could buy the entire company for nothing and liquidate it for a profit, or keep it running and pocket the business profits, so it would still be worth something.
>This is a completely invalid argument. You have no choice but to pay rent.

I don't know what you think you are saying but you've just proven the argument. If you only make the minimum necessary transactions then your economy will be of minimum size.

>If there is an asset that goes up in value, you will want to store your wealth in it.

It's just a balance sheet. If the value of the asset goes up it just means the allocation of resources is biased to BTC earned in the past. You also cannot store wealth in Bitcoin. You have to give up real wealth to own Bitcoin.

>if you can directly pay with something that is also a good store of value, then for the individual that is simply the superior choice.

Sure, the individual wants his share of wealth to grow at the expense of everyone else. After all, who the hell would be against free shit that you don't have to work for?

>That is due to other factors, not deflation.
>Not many people accept payment, people are forced to hold dollars paid in dollars and there is friction when converting.

Literally nobody is forced to hold onto dollars. If anything central banks want people to stop holding dollars because of low inflation/the deflation problem.

> Bad money gets spent first (Gresham's law).

I don't know if you have noticed but bad money being spent first is snowwrestlers' argument. You've supported a supposedly completely invalid argument yourself...

>The deflation problem that you imagine doesn't exist. There are other more worthwhile arguments against deflation but you didn't use them

They boil down to the same thing. Deflation doesn't increase real wealth it only responds to real wealth increases by allocating the real wealth to people who held onto more currency. It is equivalent to an income tax that is then redistributed via a UBI that pays out proportional to how much BTC you own.
If you know that you will get more wealth extorting other people you will refuse to spend your Bitcoin because it increases your ability to extort people in the future.
Except this doesn’t scan the contents on your laptop. It scans what you upload to iCloud.
So one has to go to Twitter to see an actual graph. Which has a massive spike in ice gain for the season 2020-2021 too.

But maybe that is not that interesting.
Hora 0.1.1, maybe the fastest AI similarity search algorithm library
Hora is an approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm (wiki) library. We implement all code in Rust for reliability, high level abstraction and high speeds comparable to C++.

Hora, 「ほら」in Japanese, sounds like [hōlə], and means Wow, You see! or Look at that!. The name is inspired by a famous Japanese song 「小さな恋のうた」.

github: https://github.com/hora-search/hora

homepage: https://horasearch.com/

Python library: https://github.com/hora-search/horapy

Javascript library: https://github.com/hora-search/hora-wasm
> The author uses "evidence of infection" as the definition of infection,

So the author makes the implicit assumption that a successful vaccination doesn't prevent evidence of infection, and uses it to argue that vaccines are dangerous… then accuses everyone else of providing numbers without sufficient context?

Edit: no, actually.

> The reason, hidden in plain sight, is that a large number people who were never going to die, are no longer getting infected.

So the author does know… they were just getting spectacle in before explaining. And I do agree with the author's (eventual) point:

> Without careful control and understanding, one might erroneously conclude the Delta variant is is more lethal if you’ve been vaccinated, the vaccine is losing its efficacy, the vaccination is making people weaker, or some combination. While any of those are possible outcomes in this environment, by not being aware of the infection death rate issue from the start, because one is busy spreading misinformation about extra levels of protection that the data do not support, one misses how to properly control for these effects and analyze new data as it comes in.

But I really don't like the article. The author is the only one making those erroneous conclusions in the first place!
One difference is that many potential participants in this experiment will have been living a somewhat restricted life for the past 15 months and will be less willing than usual to continue that experience
I don't believe that's true. Natural has produces about half the CO2 for the same amount of energy when compared to coal.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11
> If your timestamp isn't freshly generated, I don't know why you'd embed it in a UUID with these formats.

Ingesting past/archival data. As to why use these formats: to still benefit from their sorting properties. As to why use UUID at all: because it's a format understood by a wide variety of software.

> It's arguably not a good practice to extract the timestamp from the UUID at all.

Ya, I'd do it only if I trust the source (i.e., a closed system).
The digital revolution made the difference, in my estimation, upon reflection of your comment. Apollo rockets took off with a computer so powerless it is hard for us to fathom in comparison to the machines we're using to type these comments. The ubiquity of powerful computers I think was a prerequisite for your list: automation, solar panel, and reusable rocket technology. So to answer the implicit question: why now and not 1969? You can buy an M1 MacBook Pro for $1,000 instead of a $1T.
> You can be against this kind of thing from Apple, but as a result more CSAM will be undetected.

You cannot claim to be making "the real reasonable analysis" and write this. So much for "you're all geeks stuck on technical details". Quite the contrary: I'm sick of bogus software pretending to solve problems for me, while the quality of tech has exponential degraded over the last 20 years (often due to trying to solve some unsolvable problem in a bad way that backfires).

Now imagine you have a 16 year old girlfriend. She sends you a nude photo. Your phone calls the cops on you (it doesn't matter if the phone doesn't quite do this now, it will in the future. They will use their ML crap to detect the age of subjects in photos and explicitness of the photo). You normally wouldn't go to jail for this since 16 is legal in 99% of the civilized world, but thanks to America with their super duper "non-technical" innovations that only big boy white collars can understand, you can go to jail for having a photo of your legal girlfriend.
The models were wrong. Everything is much worse. Humanity sees its doom and responds with angry, self-righteous narcissism, denial, and sarcasm.

Chemistry doesn’t care about liberty.
“The answer is nuclear” is repeated often but often is an innumerate answer. Kilopower for most uses in the inner solar system performs considerably worse than solar. The power to weight ratio of Kilopower is about 6-7W/kg, no better than old time RTGs. UltraFlex solar panels do about 150W/kg near 1AU.

Nuclear in the lunar case may be useful for base power due to the long lunar night which makes storage pretty heavy, but nuclear is actually usually WORSE performance than solar, producing much less power for the same mass. It’s only in the outer solar system around Jupiter or in niche cases like lunar night where nuclear has a solid lead on solar. Otherwise it’s similar or worse, besides being a lot more expensive. ~$100 million for 10kWe Kilopower.
It's way to early to speculate about this, as we don't really have information from either side.

The fact that only Qatar Airways seem to have such problems (for now) is also interesting.

The reason could be anything from manufacturing errors with a specific batch of them which happened to have been bought by Qatar Airways to wrong maintenance by Qatar Airways or the planes having been to often exposed to to extreme weather conditions as they are not that unusual in Qatar. And even this "wide range" speculation is not really usable given the facts we (don't) have.
Thanks for commenting and for the link -- it seems like a fantastic resource.

The HN comment (I wish I had saved it!) surprised me because I'e searched online as to whether this was even a real problem and what solutions existed, but most of the posts I came across were vague and unhelpful.
> So much so that the liquid released could cover the entire state of Florida with 2 inches of water.

Let’s call it 50mm.

From Wikipedia
> Spanning over 65,750 square miles, Florida ranks 22nd in size among the 50 states

That’s 170,291 square kilometres.

Seawater covers approximately 361,000,000 km2

I’m no rocker surgeon so correct me if my calculations are wrong.

0.023586011080332mm sea level rise from this event?

We should do something about AGW, but that isn’t the number that’ll motivate anyone who needs motivating.
More demand just mean higher incentive to increase supply…which will reduce prices.
It’s required for a few job families (mainly in the sciences). There is also a bias towards PhDs in senior leadership roles.

There is a bit of dependency on the org, business, and existing staff.
Tobacco is harder to grow and cure than good cannabis.

The tobacco industry consolidation bent the market to the point that "tobacco" as sold is the result of a large industrial process that happens to use nicotina plant matter as an input.

I think the cannabis industry is flying hellbent to that point just to have an excuse for spending all the investor money. As well as a literal distaste for burning plants as a social thing.
>Not nearly as important as food; the only thing as important as the food supply is our supply of drinking water. Nothing else is comparably important, so you're wasting your time trying to find analogies.

Guess what modern agriculture (tractors, fertilizers, pesticides) runs off of?

Furthermore, if food security really is important, why is only dairy and egg supply managed? Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain? If all the milk cows and egg laying chickens vanished, people would have to change their eating habits. Some people (working in adjacent industries) might lose their jobs, but that'd be it. On the other hand, if all the wheat/soybean/corn/rice/potato crops vanished there would be a massive famine.
> So should he just shut up, then? It's scary if most people feel that way.

If his goal was to complete his studies at the Chinese university or maintain a relationship with his doctoral advisor who has ties to China, or to not make life for his girlfriend and her family difficult, yes.

I don’t agree with the methods of the CCP to silence dissent, but that’s reality. Nothing will change on account of this guy.
Why does it need to be windowless? You could have windows looking out at arid landscapes of Mars. You'd see sunsets, sunrises, highnoon, etc. You could even see the local "weather".
Brilliant answer
I think carbon border adjustment taxes by the EU and US would probably be enough to get started.
Lost 52 Project
If we took your suggestion and let everyone get natural immunity, in the US alone this would cause 2.5 million deaths (not considering new mutations). This is unacceptable to any sane person, and does not require a massive global conspiracy propaganda campaign to convince people of.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/verify...
> 36 of 84611 in the unvaccinated versus 0 in 1066 in the vaccinated group. 36 in 84611 is roughly 1 in 2350, but we only had 1066 infected in the vaccinated group. There is not enough information to claim the death rate per infection is higher or lower, and that uncertainty is indicated in the graph above. That is worlds away from the relative immortality communicated by the efficacy number 100%.

Okay. But immediately after…

> In fact, if there had been 24 deaths in the vaccinated group the efficacy reported would have been 3%! Because it was looking at rates over time, 24 deaths would have been the death rate over time similar to 36 in the unvaccinated group. But clearly, among those infected, 36 in 84611 is a far lower death rate than 24 in 1066!

If? Now we’re onto hypotheticals. Here is an idea, you have so few because they were vaccinated!

Also the mental gymnastics of saying: “it’s better to not be vaccinated in case you get covid because you are less likely to die” is worthy of a mental gymnastics olympics gold medal.

I understand that the CDC guy may have worded things differently but directionally he is right.

But, again, one cannot just ignore the hypotheticals of Dr. Gator when it provides validation for your anti-vaxx stupid attitude.
That poll says 74% of canadians either don't want supply management changed during nafta renegotiations, or it could be changed but only as a last resort? That sounds like pretty high support.

edit: The later questions are misleading - they ask if people would rather buy supply managed dairy at 2.25/L or no-supply-managed dairy at 1.50/L. Meanwhile I go to the grocery store and buy supply managed dairy at 1.23/L every week. Pointing out that people would buy a cheaper product isn't really groundbreaking research...
To clarify what you're concluding:

It's a given that you do not want to contract COVID-19. Vaccination and wearing a mask will help.

You also do not want to give COVID-19 to others. Again, vaccination and wearing a mask will help.

So this article is just pedantry over a statistical quirk.
Store of value and medium of exchange are complete opposites of each other.

A perfect medium of exchange never stops circulating. Saving money takes money out of circulation.
> Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency,

There aren't many contexts where "crypto" means cryptography anymore.

gcc -lcrypto

Military grade crypto

Anything else?
You can have videos of somebody actually getting killed and it's not a crime. Reddit killed the /r/watchpeopledie subreddit, but it wasn't illegal to go on.

Until people are actively encouraging people dying for people getting killed by paying for gladiator matches, I agree with you it's not the same thing, but I don't think the person you're answering to is talking about action movies.
> I care if getting the vaccine makes me less likely to get sick and die, which it does, because if you look at all the tables and charts that's exactly what it shows.

The author is actually in the range of an interesting point, even if the article is mostly foolish. If I had a hypothetical vaccine that was in fact composed of neurotoxin and killed the injectee instantly ... it would show 100% effectiveness in the cited tables, because the corpses would be unable to contract COVID. So you can't actually tell if the vaccine reduces your odds of getting sick and dying - we know the current crop are a bit rough and kill people in rare cases.

Covid deaths are so low in the 16-44 category that may be comparable to the vaccine. Although I think the hospitalisation numbers are still quite persuasive in favour of the vaccine.
Compare with the US: a system of laws, checks and balances can prevent the most determined tyrants from seizing power. So far.
It's even worse than that. Aside from deviations, this is a main point in the article:

> The death rate if infected was always going to be higher in the vaccinated groups if most of the vaccinated were those likely to die in the first place.

IOW: Those most likely to die were most likely to get vaccinated. Obviously true, but not interesting - a correlation we need to account for. When you do control for prior risk, the results are as expected, i.e., vaccines make you much safer.

The quoted tweet ("100x") was inaccurate and exaggerated. That's worth briefly correcting. But the lengthy article's points are only minor and pedantic, and do not change what we know, which is that our vaccines are very effective.
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.
Agreed.

Still coding with no plans to stop.
Maybe, but if it does, it's only because of corruption. Coal is really economically uncompetitive nearly everywhere. The only reason that it's still on the grid at all is usually some really bad long-term deals made in the past, or corrupt utility execs.

Utilities continue to use coal even when it loses them money:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/joseph-daniel/new-ucs-research-utili...

Utilities also tend to use long out-of-date costs when doing they planning, and the planning modes are often not available for inspection to regulators or the rate payers.
Would you mind sharing a link to the plot?
Governments continue to be able to seize assets, I don't know where you get the impression that they no longer are.
It couldn’t be worse than what we have now with kids going into dead end degrees and coming out loaded with debt that they can’t unload.
100 people, unvaccinated, all contract covid, 10 die. That's 10%. 100 people, vaccinated, 10 contract covid, 1 die, That's 10% based on the number whom contracted covid. Not based on the number of vaccinated vs unvaccinated.
> let me offer my reading between the lines

But the rest is entirely fabricated and ignores the clear statements of the advisor themself, which is that they didn't want to offend China and would for that reason terminate the relationship.

> the advisor had a convenient out and took it

How is it a convenient out? 'CCP pressure' doesn't sound like a convenient reason. The advisor could have pulled the 'you're no long enrolled' trick at any time.
“Please somebody do something”
This is what was described about this simulation
Misleading title. Article clarifies (a little) that the surge is relative to record lows in May of 2020.

For comparison, the oil price actually went negative during that time period. Starting at the price of zero, any non-zero price reflects an infinite percentage increase. Not sure how to calculate from a negative base.
The parent comment and the article it is referring to are specifically discussing master's degree programs. No 17-year old would be applying to these programs. Most applicants would be in their late 20s or early 30s.
> Achieving a beam that narrow (1/2000000 rad) from the Earth would require a phased array spaced out over a much larger area, at least 200 km at 5 Ghz (6cm).

I doubt they'd want a very large band but in microwave work I dunno what counts as "large".

and i'm a little afraid to go look deeper into this because i'll wind up tearing up junkyard microwave ovens and building something i shouldn't.
What if the answer includes a way for the anonymous to be accountable for their actions? What if some mechanism could enforce this?
Did track and field at my high school, but we didn’t have the javelin. After a meet where other schools were competing in that event we started pestering the coach.

Apparently some years prior someone managed to pin a spectator to the ground.

So no more javelin at our school.
> At my company, we use “perceptual hashes” to find copies of an image where each copy has been slightly altered.

Kind of off topic, does anyone happen to know of some good software for doing this on a local collection of images? A common sequence of events at my company:

1. We're designing a website for some client. They send us a collection of a zillion photos to pull from. For the page about elephants, we select the perfect elephant photo, which we crop, lightly recolor, compress, and upload.

2. Ten years later, this client sends us a screenshot of the elephant page, and asks if we still have a copy of the original photo.

Obviously, absolutely no one at this point remembers the name of the original photo, and we need to either spend hours searching for it or (depending on our current relationship) nicely explain that we can't help. It would be really great if we could do something like a reverse Google image search, but for a local collection. I know it's possible to license e.g. TinEye, but it's not practical for us as a tiny company. What I really want is an open source solution I can set up myself.

We used Digicam for a while, and there were a couple of times it was useful. However, for whatever reason it seemed to be extremely crash-prone, and it frequently couldn't find things it really should have been able to find.
> a journalist trying to get clicks

Now you've also fabricated something about the journalist, their motive and character. Do you have any factual basis for that? What do you know about the journalist?
Also using a 43" 16:9 4k monitor. I find that it's larger than I ever actually need, and something a bit larger than 28" 4k would be ideal. In particular the additional height is useful. I can get the monitor to do PinP or PbyP but tend to use a specific resolution/refresh rate that uses the middle area with a huge matte around it--I like how that eliminates visual distractions from view when working.
Jeff is currently too occupied sueing NASA for not giving him money to use a space craft he hasn't built yet. Then again, maybe NASA should select him as he can't be doing too much suing if he's sequestered for a year.