skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amendment failed after Senator Richard Shelby attempted to tack on $50 billion in military infrastructure spending to it.

Having no idea who this guy is and looking him up, he's apparently 87 years old, used to be a Democrat known for working with Reagan to get huge defense bills passed, decided he was now a Republican after Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution against Clinton, he's leaked classified information to Fox News when he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department decided to not prosecute so the Senate could police its own, but they did nothing, he once held up court appointments until Obama agreed to fund the Stratotanker, he has apparently paid himself and his wife fractional millions from his PAC and somehow hasn't been arrested for that, he once sponsored a bill that would have made it a crime punishable by 20 years in prison to boycott Israel.

He sounds like absolutely everything wrong with the US Senate.

Look. I honestly can't stand cryptocurrency. I think much of the scene is everything wrong with get rich quick technobabble hype hijacking of what should have been legitimately useful ideas. But this was a totally commonsense amendment that somehow got scuttled by a near 90 year-old who almost certainly has no idea what the bill is about and doesn't care, but he exists for the sole purpose of funneling defense money to Huntsville and needed his cut, and he probably should have been in prison decades ago but instead he's making laws. Makes it feel like our country is being run by the Mafia.
> And, again, all I am saying is the only way to reduce GHG is to globally reduce emissions and we are not doing that at all. You can claim that the US is somehow separate from China's emissions, but you can see a global dip in emissions in 2008. I can think of no better experiment on the interconnected nature of emissions than to see how a housing crisis in the US becomes a global economic down turn which sees the most promising drop in emissions we have ever seen.

The underlying phenomenon here is not economic activity. It's that a decrease in economic activity is a proxy for a decrease in things such as pleasure transport, heating/cooling, food consumption, and other things. Decoupling these activities from emissions is what this entire thread is talking about; for example, taking a train and walking for a vacation requires much fewer emissions than flying to your destination and renting a car. It may be in vogue in environmental circles to decry growth and capitalism as two factors behind emissions, but there's nothing that precludes growth or capitalism to transition into a new lower-power regime. The problem has nothing to do with the economic systems as much as it has to do with entrenched economic actors that continue to aggressively lobby governments to convince them _not_ to pass the regulations necessary to spur innovation to decrease emissions.

To leave with a pithy saying: There's two ways to quiet a crowded room, either ask everyone to speak quietly or ask everyone to leave. Halting growth is similar to the latter option, decreasing emissions is similar to the former.
"Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry."

Nobody is making the claim it came from an academic journal. It was supposedly in data released by an Israeli government agency. Now, I don't know if that's true or not; but it's wrong to suggest anything that doesn't come from a peer-reviewed paper is misinformation.
Academic environmentalists have a lot to answer for imo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/21/wildfire-pre...
You are correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display

The original MegaPixel Display was a monochrome 17" monitor displaying 4 brightness levels (black, dark gray, light gray and white) in a fixed resolution of 1120 x 832 at 92 DPI (just shy of a true Megapixel at 931,840 total pixels) at 68 Hz
I've got a specimen of one of these preserved in a photoalbum from a school project from 10 years ago or so. There was no idea at the time these were in any way carnivorous.

For all our knowledge, there really is so much about all the other life around us we just don't understand.
Yes, pumped storage does exist, but to provide a nation sized battery using pumped storage, you would need to use two of the Great Lakes and pump one of them up by 200 feet.

The power needs of the occasional cold wind still winter week are fairly large.
With reproducible builds, the difference between signing a binary and signing the source code from which it is built should be meaningless.

I agree that the threat model should include the threat of untrustworthy source code, because we want the countermeasures to work equally well against backdoors, "bugdoors", and genuine bugs.
Actually, Greenpeace is notoriously anti-nuclear: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/iss...

This has produced conspiracies that Greenpeace has been funded by the fossil fuel industry for that reason, but I haven't looked into those claims.
Ahh, interesting, I wasn't aware of that issue. Personally the problem with npm for me has never been "the node_modules directory is too big" or "npm is non-deterministic" but rather "the quality of other people's code is terrible" or "this library solves 99 other cases in addition to the one I care about".

I think if you're careful about what you pull in from npm it's totally fine.
I feel like you've begun sealioning.

> Just because, let's say, stats showed they mostly invest in people under 35, does it mean they discriminate people over 35?

It's about rates, not just raw numbers. If equal amounts of over 35 and under 35 applicants, and consistently YoY you're taking 90% under 35, very clearly you're discriminating against the over 35 category.

> If most of founders they invest in are white, does it mean they discriminate against asians, blacks etc.?

Again, if 30% of applicants are not-white and you accept 2% of them, when generalized success rate is 10%, yes it would again be pretty clear you're discriminating against the non-white category.

> Once again, what proves discrimination?

More sealioning. When a group of people intentionally select for or against a certain group, as is evidenced by patterns of behavior over long periods of time.
Most active learning frameworks just use model predictions to find the images where the model has the lowest confidence and ignore the image diversity aspect. E.g. the model struggles with bicycles at night. The problem with this approach is that you might end up adding many new images to your labeling pipeline that are very similar to each other.

However, with Lightly you can additionally make sure you only select images that are visually different from each other. And you always get visual feedback on the selected data in our web platform. The additional control and feedback mechanism allow you to have a more focused workflow.
The problem with swiping and gestures is precisely that it has no affordances.
I don't need cofounders. Anyone who is married knows just how tough that can be.

The primary reason for which cofounders are useful with a young team is because entrepreneurship is horribly difficult and 20-somethings are not necessarily equipped to deal with this reality. In this context, having more people on the boat makes it less likely that one person absolutely imploding will implode the startup.

I don't have this problem. I have taken stress in business that would cause most people to jump off a bridge or in front of a train.

It's a lot easier for me to hire the help I might need rather than get into a situation where you open yourself up for cofounder strife that can damage the business. Like I said, had it been not for the 2009 economic implosion I would have had a pretty sizable exit for a business I self-funded started and ran from my garage for a couple of years. I did all of the electrical, mechanical, software and optical engineering on the first product. And, when it was done, I packed it all up and flew to Europe to sell it (it just so happened that the first industry conference that year was in Europe). I then built an international sales network consisting of a dozen resellers and got sales going. I did not hire another engineer to help me until I was out of the garage, about two years after launch. I eventually hired assistants, web designer and assembly people as we transitioned from a garage-based outsourced business to manufacturing in house. I setup and ran my own surface mount assembly line as well as CNC shop.

I think it is important to understand why cofounders are important for the younger demographic. I don't see this as a negative, BTW, it is definitely a good idea for YC to favor multi-founder teams given their younger demographic. It is impossible for a 20-something to have the depth and breath of experience as well as the business chops and thick skin someone like me can develop over decades.
3D kirigami building blocks to make dynamic metamaterials
It gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear, but electricity is only a minority of the energy we use, so France still gets most of its energy from fossil fuels:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels-share-energy...
"Hold your horses" and "put down the pitchforks" count as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines use that term, because they are swipes that don't reply to the actual argument. Ultimately they're just putdowns. Please omit those from your posts to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know what it is but I find pressure cooking brings out the good flavour in beans, and less of the flavour people describe as "beany" - like a raw bean from the pod would taste.

They also have a smoother texture than cooking in a pot. It's my favourite way to cook them too.
Maybe this can help you: https://davidcalhoun.me/writing/using-yarn-on-elastic-beanst...
not OP, but I'd recommend Black Diamond or Petzl. I use the Black Diamond Spot 350. Three AAA batteries, 3oz, and it has a button lockout so it doesn't get activated when packed or stored away.
One downside of rail is that new routes seem to always be decade long, multi-billion dollar projects.
> One commonality between mouse+keyboard and smartphone is that small movements mostly in fingers and wrists are all that's needed for input

How about pairing the glasses with a smart watch? And the input comes from eye movement and touching the screen on the watch?

Voice can also act as "low effort input"
It is, however, disgusting.
Last time I tried, yarn 2 was totally unusable. Apparently, it would work in a future world where all packages in the registry were perfect. Has that future arrived?
Ah, got it - thanks.
Not necessarily slower than cargo ships, and possibly significantly faster. This paper claims that by using the jet streams a hydrogen blimp could circumnavigate the globe in about 14-16 days [1]. Google gives about 77 days to do the same on cargo ship. Of course there would be lots of details to consider on the exact route taken, but from first principles it seems plausible.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259017451...
2: https://arimotravels.com/how-long-does-it-take-a-cargo-ship-...
Currently power storage is tiny, even largest hydropower projects would be insufficient to provide backup power in most places.

And just 2x renewables overbuilt would regularly run below demands - sadly solar/wind is not acting on demand. And during drought also hydropower may be unable to work.

And in most places hydropower, geothermal is unable to provide enough power.

(please correct me if I am wrong! But last time I checked nearly no place can run on renewables without relying on importing fossil-based power, and places that succeed have ideal places for hydropower/geothermal)
that seems ... really really risky
Well the ‘tech people’ line is an ad-hominem. I don’t see anyone doing a great job of knowing the right move in terms of communicating about complex issue to the public. Aren’t you a tech person too?

Who do you see as ‘the people who make the decisions’ in this case? I.e. who do you imagine will lump these together? I could see the FBI saying ‘you did CSAM detection, so surely you can do ‘child predator detection via facial recognition’. Is that what you mean?

As for getting people to sign off on stuff - I think it’s not so obvious what we do and don’t want people to sign off on. Not implementing something like this now could easily mean they are forced to scan in the cloud, and that really would be a slippery slope.

It seems like you are saying even though this thing isn’t bad, we should persuade people into not signing off on it because we want to make sure they don’t later sign off on some facial recognition thing that actually is bad. Is that an accurate enough paraphrase?
> Truly secure entity just wouldn't have private keys on a server at all.

They don't. They have your encrypted private key, but there's no need to keep that secret. (The decryption key is derived from your password, so the password needs to be strong and secret.)

> Such agency can force PM to modify login process to derive password from submitted form, or to just switch private keys for non-encrypred ones, because the user won't even notice it.

Yes, definitely. It's hard to trust self-updating software (like JavaScript in the browser), particularly if you're concerned about targeted attacks. But creating your own private keys and then entering them in the browser wouldn't help you at all against that sort of attack. You would instead need a different type of client that could be trusted somehow not to leak your private key.

It's not uncommon for services like this to offer a downloadable version of the web client so you can pin a version and audit the code as needed. I think maybe https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient is that for ProtonMail? If so, you should be able to verify that code and then use that. The fact that an encrypted copy of your private key will live on ProtonMail's servers shouldn't bother you.
> Even with a package lockfile, npm couldn't do that.

NPM now has npm ci (which I think should be the default) for that.
"Spun" is a little harsh. It's not easy to say concisely and the shorter version wouldn't capture significantly more audience that the longer version (IMO).

"New carnivorous attribute of known plant discovered in Pacific Northwest", perhaps?
These are called honeypots.
I'd personally say the symbols and their manipulation are a good representation of what's going on in math, but math is overall more general. (By the way, arithmetic is about numbers, maybe you meant algebraic.)

Sometimes manipulating symbols towards an answer is great, but sometimes taking a step back, and looking at a problem through a different lens (e.g. at what you are trying to do intuitively) is vastly superior, and the symbol-manipulating, rigorous formalization (and verification) part comes afterwards.

A few examples (out of very many):

* In signal processing (both digital and analog) it can often be much more insightful to play with visualizations of time domain, spectra, and convolution and multiplication thereof.

* Related but more general: Thinking about the complex exponential as spinning in a circle, or tracing out a corkscrew in 3 dimensions, is a way easier method to grasp it than to look at the equations, which for someone getting into it will look like abstract nonsense[1].

* Topology is about "shape" and "deformation" of objects.

* Discrete Structures is about trees, graphs, and so on.

In all of those, you can hit paths where an intuitive understanding may stay out of reach, and symbolic manipulation through e.g. algebra might remain the only way to work with it, but that is often not generally true for the whole field.

[1] Funnily, that's an actual term used by mathematicians, but usually in another field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
I'm fuzzing the math a bit, but assume you have a Saturn V style rocket that can get 100 tons into orbit. And that consists of 50 tons of spaceship and 50 tons of fuel. Then you get something like V_e * ln((50+50)/50) = .69 * V_e of delta-v. But if you had two more rockets that launched an additional 2 * 100 tons of fuel into orbit, you get V_e * ln((250+50)/50) = 1.79 * V_e. This gives you 2.5x the delta-v. Decrease the propellant mass fraction and this value goes up.

The numbers are completely made up and based on my time playing KSP (https://xkcd.com/1356/) rather than real rockets so change the numbers as you see fit. But my core point is that orbital refueling greatly extends the usable delta-v of a rocket once it's prepared in orbit since it's easier to build 3x of a normal rocket than a rocket with 3x the payload.
On the wikipedia page for the Collatz conjecture, there is a statement of the Collatz conjecture "in reverse" by growing a graph where R(n) = {2n, (n-1)/3} for n ≡ 4 mod 6, and R(n) = 2n for n ≡ 0,1,2,3,5 mod 6.

I wonder how many attempted proofs attempt to solve through this bottom up approach rather than top-down.
Isn't space exploration then a bit like playing with fire? Like, we could mess up some delicate balance by attempting too many fly-bys
Let's take Voyager as an example. It weighs under 1000kg. 1 million Voyagers then weighs 1x10*9 kg.

A 1km radius rock asteroid, which is nowhere close to the maximum, weighs an order of magnitude more than this.
But wasn't the German nuclear situation a mess to begin with ? Looking at the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Germ...

It's a whole bunch of dissimilar designs - maintaining all that must have been nightmare.

In comparison here in Czech Republic & in Slovakia we have a bunch of upgraded VVERs and that's it, providing a good chunk of our electricity with reasonable commonality.

But hey, it could be worse than in Germany! You can build a complete nuclear power plant with all the expense it entails and then newer run it! ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
I don't know if you're imagining things but you might be overinterpreting the normal fluctuation of the site. People have been saying similar things about HN for 10+ years. Keep in mind that randomness always involves long sequences that feel anything but random. From my perspective, there's a more-or-less random mix of mainstream and obscure sources here.
Yes, I specifically asked the optometrist for this. I measured the distance to my computer screen and they were able to give me a custom prescription. My near-sightedness is not even that bad. But switching from my regular glasses to my computer glasses feels refreshing. Do it!
Just think about a world full of EOL toxic waste ash ponds left by coal power plants, each of them vastly more toxic and teratogenic than any nuclear plant, let alone a decommissioned one.

In fact, you don’t need to imagine it, you are living the dream.
> But in general, defense always has the advantage. They get to choose where to fight, they can prepare their positions, they don't need to expose themselves.

I'm curious about the "they get to choose where to fight" question, actually.

I can see where this would apply on a tactical scale, like if I'm preparing an ambush. But on an operational scale, doesn't the attacker choose where and when to fight?
The video chat or video clip easily leads to age discrimination. This is widespread in the tech industry. I had a team of three, aged 50+, lined up to apply for a grant for a crypto project. When I saw requirement for video recording of team, I knew it was not worth any more effort. It was not a video Q&A, it was a recorded video statement for the application.
Of course it is racist eerrrr age-ist
Yup. I fixed the units.
While == vs .equals() is a Java-specific issue, other languages suffer similar (and often more hidden) equality problems.

In C, you can have value equality or pointer equality. Then, you have the whole "either write your own character-by-character comparison or learn which libraries to include to compare strings". There's also the detail of remembering what strcmp() returns.

I might be wrong since Python is not my daily driver, but "a is b" and "a in b" and "a == b" and "a == b and type(a) == type(b)" are all distinct from one another.

Javascript has strict equality and equality.
“Plant discovered to be carnivorous”

I don’t understand why not just say it — it sounds pretty exciting to me.
> doesn't seem very difficult to do.

What makes you think this? You just had area experts tell you otherwise. Do you think that mathematicians are lying to you?
Weren't the months of unrest and civil disorder last summer cited as a reason to elect Biden?

Elect Biden and the street violence would end. Reelect Trump and it would intensify.

Biden was declared the winner. Big business and labour ordered the "sometimes destructive" protestors to stand down. And they, for the most part, did exactly that.

>The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

>There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Thanks, I was imagining the smaller stuff as being part of the forest but I suppose maybe the plants that arise first don’t necessarily stick around for the entirety of the forest lifecycle?
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The conjectures where the condition is very simple (Collatz, Goldbach, Fermat) but the proof is very elusive are not as common as you think.
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It is truly a shame that yarn is "the other package manager" in node as npm is an utter load of c*ap and the only reason it succeeded is because of nepotism favoring its "creator", Isaac Schlueter.

Wish you the best with this and hope the tide turns on your favor eventually :)
as opposed to other rational markets
Of course you have to dance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036487
Mathematicians don't really claim that creating Collatz-like conjectures is difficult... they claim that proving Collatz is hard.
more importantly why is it so much easier to get to geostationary orbit from the lunar surface, than it is from earth's surface ?

and does this have major implications for the race to control the moon, as whoever controls the moon, may have a much easier time launching anything to geostationary orbit, including firing directed energy weapons to that orbit, which, despite long distance attenuation of the energy, still faces no interference by an atmosphere as it would if directed from earth's surface.

the military probably has that questions answered but you'd need a security clearance to retrieve it.
if this isn't gpg based it can be easily ignored.