skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Conversely, by reflecting light — called incident radiation — onto nearby buildings, cool pavements can warm structures up, which can increase AC usage in the summer and lower heating demand in the winter.”

this is one of the reasons why i'm an advocate for street trees, and urban foliage in general (cuts down both incident and reflective radiation), and why i'm maddened when i see urban trees cut down or cut back (as been happening quite often in my urban neighborhood in LA). the tree trimmers i see doing this have no idea what they're doing, being low-paid laborers paid only to run a chainsaw/trimmer, not to contemplate consequences or consider other options. trees take decades to become effective shade, and minutes to butcher irreparably.

that's not to put down cool pavements, which are really cool (haha), but that trees can provide all the same benefits and more, which makes it the better first option, with cool pavements being reserved for where tree shading is difficult or impossible (like roadways and parking lots).
Rejecting vaccination endangers other so it should always be mandatory, except on health grounds.

Religion exemptions exist only because of the political power of religious groups. They should be abolished.
Micromanging is not necessary. They just set the tone and don't hire people who would write anything opposed to their policy [1] which they rarely need to explicitly convey, although they do at times of course. People write things that they really like get rewarded.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky explains how this work with a very large number of examples.

1. https://youtu.be/9RPKH6BVcoM

2. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...
Gosh, what an argument! We can make hay from that position!

It is certain that some people on the placebo course of many randomised drug trials improve against the stated condition, so we ought not to completely disregard placebos as a viable treatment for many illnesses! Are you saying that not a single placebo has ever impacted the outcome of a medical trial any way, even if just from the psychological benefit of imagining you are being treated? I’d like to see your proof.

Horoscopes, I’m certain some portion of them come true!

Certainly kernels of truth exist in the origins of the majority of world religions, and even many super hero origin stories; we ought not to dismiss the possibility all of those are (simultaneously, regardless of contradictions) legitimate!

I can’t fathom what logical high ground you thought you were taking with this comment, but you ought to spend some time reflecting on whether it lives up to any sensible values of critical thinking.

I suggest holding to the ideal that the burden is on those making extraordinary claims to provide extraordinary evidence. Otherwise we’ll all be worshipping our spaghetti.
Why change now when the damage is already done? People who know how bad this can turn probably already left or are figuring out how to leave Apple's ecosystem.
Absolutely! If you end up checking out WikiLens w/GitHub.dev, don’t hesitate to let me know any feedback you might have. I’ll be iterating on the experience based on my own usage, but I’m keen to ensure this works well for others as well!
All these types of heuristics, secretly push you, in a good way, both of them make you read more. It’s like hitting the gym and looking for the perfect routine, doesn’t matter which one is the optimal, working out is enough. That’s the hack
Handling lead isn't exactly 'eco friendly'

Given how long the tech has existed it's no surprise to see recycling has developed for it. Especially given the ruinous effect mining for it has had in some places. No doubt efforts will develop to handle more modern battery tech as time progresses.
If the builder of a DIY bike choses to adhere to that....
Do you actually think science isn't political?
Weird to think of Rust as an alternative to Go imo. C# and Java are more similar to Go (mostly due to GC), but with generics etc
Wow. So much energy put to gather misleading data.
Home Assistant does a pretty fine job tracking my location, phone battery life may suffer a bit but I don't think that's much of a problem these days.
many countries have regulations around fatigue driving, look them up and adapt them to your own driving schedule. Usually it's around a break every 3hrs of driving. Some countries have them longer possibly due to lobbying but often are justified also by their quality of road and landscape etc etc.
> And given their GDP growth, I'm not sure if "works" is really the right term either.

Japan's GDP growth is actually good for an advanced economy, when you index it to the size of the working-age population.[1]

Japan's working-age population has been shrinking for quite a while now.

(China's is peaking about now, so it can expect total growth to slow down. Hence the measures taken by the CCP to try to increase fertility: lifting the one-child policy to three children, introducing tax breaks, limiting for-profit tutoring, and most recently cracking down on alternatives to making babies: video games and on-line shopping and social media.)

1. Japan's working age population peaked in 1997: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTJPM647S
That would help. I’ll have to experiment to better understand if it all works well enough.

I’m thinking about Python unittest having setUp function for preparing every test without repeating myself. Maybe Rust has a similar way to define setup code for every test.
And you'd want to hide the eye choosing/scanning process so nobody could just watch an employee to figure out their preference.
The trail of evidence grows exponentially, but most cops are terrible art collecting the best evidence (partly because law/jurisprudence makes it difficult).

Most cops still use fax as the primary method of requesting evidence from companies that are geographically distant. Collecting video camera evidence is slow and tedious so long as the department doesn’t have a volunteer database where residents can publish their location and other metadata. Filing requests digitally is still infrequent and usually done on portals specifically designed by tech companies to automate the tech company’s side.

The moment there is a single portal which links lots of data which automated the police side of the legwork for all systems which support automation, that is when police start to actually collect a significant portion of the exponential data being collected.
For true life safety emergencies you don't even need the SIM/subscription as 911 will still work.

For sub-life safety personal emergencies, I can usually just wait until wi-fi.
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
Race is a socially-constructed attribute, not a biological one. To purport to be able to base medical diagnoses on race is already an issue, and already causes much suffering. Specifically, diagnoses are missed when doctors believe that people of certain races are unable to develop certain diseases. Moving from individuals, who can learn about the history of racism in medicine and make positive changes to their outlook, to AI models, which can only produce output based on past (biased) data, is a nightmare scenario.
It is a log chart! Look at the y axis. It's hard to see anything sensible on a linear chart.
The original EUV research was done in US government labs.
You've fallen for the internet. Please restart and try again.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19-pcr-test-i...
>The Democrats seem to be out of touch with the lower class. Especially the rural lower class.

One of the things that made the last two elections (more so 2016 than 2020 to be honest) interesting is that they were the first elections in some decades that addressed the working classes to any signifigant degree.

Even though Trump was clearly lying and playing to people's worst impulses(ie promising to pay people's legal fees who beat up protestors at his rallies) he was at least talking to the lower class.

Now that the DNC has routed the DSA I expect we'll see less and less notice or attention given to the working class, which is both sad and inevitable. (edited to clarify what I mean is sad lest anyone think I was saying it's sad no one's urging violence)
In the US, at minimum you’re lying to a federal agent. Never a good idea.
> In the lawsuit against Trump for blocking people on Twitter, the court ruled that Twitter was a public square for the express reason that government policy was discussed and promoted there. Therefore, Trump (as a government figure) could not block people.

No it didn't. It ruled that trumps account was acting as an official government account, and so trumps account fell under stricter regulations that govern how the government can communicate. Twitter was still able to ban his account though, because Twitter isn't the government!

> Further, the current Press Secretary Psaki has described how they're directing Facebook to monitor and remove both people and content which was otherwise legal but simply unacceptable to the Administration.

No, Facebook used the government as a source of official information. They then chose to remove other information. The government wasn't telling Facebook to remove stuff. The choice to make the CDC authoritative was Facebooks choice. They aren't acting as an arm of the government.
Do these machines not need semiconductors to function?
Taiwan had only a few weeks of full lockdown last year, and then a few months of softer lockdown during the second outbreak this year. During the recent outbreak it was WFH and takeout from restaurants with certain businesses closed. About 100 days later most things are open again.

They resisted a full lockdown and doubled down on contact tracing. Went from 500+ cases a day to just a few now.
Very interesting. I would love to see a video where someone does it from start to finish.

I would also like to make my own battery for the bike. I made a cheap DIY spot-welder from a microwave transformer and spot-welded my first 12V 20 Ah battery last week for a 3d printed robot lawn-mower project.
It's interesting that the effects are so complex and nuanced. I also wonder - they didn't specify - just how reflective these surfaces need to be, and how "bright" they are to look at. I could see glare being a potential safety hazard if the surface is reflective enough, but I'm assuming that any surface rough enough to make good pavement won't be _too_ bad to look at.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255798
I don’t follow. Your examples are of data formats standardized in the 80’s while Unix was developed in the 60’s and 70’s. JSON even existed before 2013, but the fact that it became a standard in addition to being popular is the point I was making.
Hey downvoters, come and discuss instead. That makes for more intellectually curious discussions!
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It was fixed, thanks ;)
> Is Sweden activally investing resources to improve their perceived image?

Yes. Look at the About page on that site you found:

https://si.se/en/about-si/our-mission/

The Swedish Institute is a public agency that promotes interest and trust in Sweden around the world.
I’ve already left. They doubled down on it straight away. Then wheeled out Craig to tell us lies. They’re not on my side. I don’t have to be their customer.

The dangerous part is they have advertised this capability. Now regimes may make that a prerequisite for allowing them to do business.

Cat’s out of bag. Ain’t going back in now. We have to reevaluate any data that we do not control ourselves or control access to now.

Ironically this isn’t the world I want for my kids.
Without language constructs for avoiding the pyramid of doom (e.g. Haskell do-notation) I think this will end badly!
Can we ban discussion of covid restrictions on HN ? At that point nobody is going to change his position.

Pro lockdown people will not change their opinion even if there are proof that masks mandate and lockdowns dont work

Anti lockdown people will not change their opinion even if there are proof that masks mandate and lockdowns works.

There is no point keep talking about it, unless you want to loose your time arguing with someone who will never agree with you.

There was a post on HN a few days ago "Why it is so hard to be rational ?" [1], it perfectly describes the current situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28197482
The funny thing is that the people glorifying Sweden's COVID-19 response historically reject comparisons with the country in other areas like human rights, penal policy, economic model, taxation policy etc. etc.
I think Twitter is awful. I just use it to get up to date opinions and memes on TV shows or sports I am watching.
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'
It's worth noting that the Fairness Doctrine was applied to things like radio where you had to have a license, and which were more limited. It was not (at least after a couple court decisions) applied to other media like newspapers, which could operate without a license.

Google, Facebook, and others do not require a license to operate. Anyone can establish their own website to counter points made on those platforms. The Fairness Doctrine would seem (even if it still existed) to be non-applicable to the various web platforms.

A more updated version of it might be more expansive, but would probably run into issues with compelled speech. Since the internet is pretty wide open, again anyone can make a website if they want, it's hard to justify compelling a platform to host content.
> You’re ignoring that the global market for cars is rapidly growing.

"For a given volume of cars" still holds. If the world is buying more cars, the manufacturer of piston rings is losing the opportunity to expand their business instead of shutting it down, and is inclined to resist.

> What they may lose in cam shaft sales, they may gain in EV part sales anyway.

The whole point is that EVs have significantly fewer parts, and especially fewer moving parts that wear out.

> Battery sales.

The local supplier of bespoke transmission linkages for specific models of Toyota then has to enter into a global commodity market in competition with multi-billion dollar international companies like LG and Tesla and other commodity suppliers in China, South Korea, Germany or Texas.

> This would be a good place to mention that even Tesla has long partnered with Panasonic to help with their supply of batteries.

They did this when they were a tiny upstart with no internal production capacity. They're now constructing their own battery factories on three continents. Anyone converting their whole lineup to electric is likely to do the same because it's the single most expensive part of the car.
Please state exactly what any of the truths are.

There has been plenty of debunking of the specific claims. If you have some specific claims that you don't think have been debunked, I'd like to hear them.

There are indeed examples where calling something a lie (or conspiracy theory) is a bigger lie. If this is one of those, you should have no trouble finding specific supporting claims that aren't also lies and haven't been expressly debunked.
This is true in general. In this case, however, there are no efforts I am aware of in the industry that can catch them. Their technological lead is so great, in so many subsystem and science areas, it's likely they will be defacto monopoly in this space for 20 years.
No. Apple didn't scrap this.
> it would be absurd to account for extra income to say they make what you're saying.

It's not what I say they make, it's what the public records say they make. You can go look yourself.

For example, from my first link, Sergeant Stuart Eugene Barnes made $125,380.76 in salary and $172,330.17 in overtime. I think it fair to say that's compensation from their job as a police officer.
He got tired because of the insane complexity of the language, and in the video I linked he supports his complaint with extensive and damning examples.
That already exists. I.e. I know for sure in the UK some Toyotas have it (even pretty cheap ones).
Very random seeing Porlock on here. I grew up in the Village, although haven’t been back in many years
Why on earth would it? The government is the engine of social cooperation. Losing faith in it puts you on the road away from civilization, not towards.
Why would you expect dialects with vastly fewer training examples to be on par with the most widely spoken languages? It's a simple matter of available data, and the state of the art architectures operate on a paradigm that scales quality of the model to quantity of training data.

If you want better speech recognition for Swiss-German, then record and transcribe hundreds of thousands of hours or whatever level of parity you want to achieve with recognition.

It's not "astonishing" at all. Models won't generalize well unless they have sufficient data, so to achieve multi accent functionality, we need lots more high quality data. Or we need better architectures, so identifying where models fail and engineering a better architecture could be a breakthrough. The shortcomings are not surprising or mysterious at all, it's simply a function of the nature of these algorithms.
Hey, New Startup Founders: You Need a Good Answer to This Question
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Japan does not allow dual citizenship ... rather your children are young enough that they have not had to declare their ultimate citizenship?

My wife and I are naturalized US citizens. My country of origin allows me to retain dual citizenship, as does the US, but my wife was obliged to renounce her Japanese citizenship when she became a US citizen. It's annoying and unfortunate that she had to do so.
But that is not an issue with e-bikes as a whole (it is also illegal and fineable in places where restrictions apply).
Is it open-source and cross-platform, like Obsidian?
I also like urban trees but remember they cost a fortune to maintain! For example, urban trees have to be expertly managed for disease along transit lines.
Are you truly annoyed by them? If so, that’s a you problem. Only person that can fix that is you.

Or are you just bored by them? If so, I can see how it can be annoying to take part in their boring culture. Younger people are always going to be in that pretentious/vain phase of their life, so what. It’s boring to deal with if you’ve already dealt with it. They have every right to go through that phase like everyone else.

But hey, that’s life, especially at work. A never-ending mixing of people you have nothing in common with other than work. That’s why it’s called a job, you get paid to deal with it.

Also, 30 is not a boomer. It’s somewhat the tail-end of being a millennial (the original pretentious douche bags). You have also self-labeled yourself into a group you don’t belong in, I don’t know, I guess that makes you cool or something.

Just get some avocado toast and chill out.
You don’t want to be forced to do anything. I get that.

Pandemic response is not coded into us, it’s something we have to consciously do- and it’s draining to fight an invisible enemy.

I have issues with authority, so I understand the desire to fight against being told what to do.

But you’re denying science, this is not helpful.
Check Blind
I wouldn’t want to go faster. 15 mph is probably faster than I’ve ever gone.
> Portlanders organize groups to tear down the ivy in parks, often trampling the native ferns in their zeal

Sounds typical of Portlanders. Zealous about tearing things down with no regard for the consequences.
I ask the following as someone who builds and tests models and also annotates data as a domain expert. Is labeling really undervalued by society? Or just by VCs?

I mean, if society depends more on the labeler (e.g. radiologists) why should society reward people for trying to replace the radiologists, regardless of the data quality?

From a societal perspective where human factors scientists tell us that we need people to actually be employed to achieve a sense of self-worth and happiness, shouldn’t we punish labelers who might otherwise only enrich the capitalists and undermine the health of the nation’s workforces, and thus the wellbeing of the nation as a whole? Did we learn nothing from the underemployed, disaffected, demoralized, suicidally depressed Trump electorate?

The Trump presidency may be a hot mess from which the country may never recover, but are these not the lessons that we ostensibly learned, that were the topic of millions of gallons of ink between 2016 and 2018?
There is a difference between 2.4987665678 as 2.5 and undefined as ±infinity especially because 1.0/+0.0 is +infinity and 1/0 is just an exception in Java.
Shouldn't it be the same result?
No, companies can be rich and still have a culture of cutting corners and rushing stuff to market.
Exactly.

Internet commenters love to think their enemy's minions are stupid.

In reality they're just as smart as you are and don't need to be specifically told what the people in charge do and don't want published and/or what tone they should take.
Science is a process of measuring cause and effect. What you decide to study using the scientific method might be political, but to call science political seems like a lazy use of language.
The solution for transport is electric trains and very lightweight electric vehicles, like electric bikes and other 4 wheel things lighter than 400kg. All powered by nuclear energy.

I even foresee a network of narrow rail tracks for cities, supplied by a collection of warehouses for freight for the last kilometer to supermarkets and shops. Such rail is much easier to build on existing infrastructure.
Thanks, that’s a good perspective
It amazes me how many naysayers are always on these threads about electric vehicles.

It seems to me that the transition is inevitable. Slowly but surely electric cars are becoming cheaper and more capable. It is really hard to imagine that they will not soon be cheaper than ICE cars.

But they just seem so much more convenient and nicer to be around that diesel and petrol cars. No more breathing in exhaust fumes! No more petrol stations! Less servicing!

For a site that supposedly caters to forward thinking technologists, there sure are a lot of people refusing to see the obvious conclusion to the current trend.
> and that there's nothing left to challenge.

Also, I would add that history is not linear, it’s not the progressive challenging of old prejudices.

Sometimes, in our efforts to strive for better morals, we make terrible mistakes. Phrenology come to mind, but there could be many other examples.
Totally agree with kowlo.

FWIW, I see nothing particularly "boomer" in your description of yourself.

> daily alcohol or drug consumption

I don't think you know what some Boomers were like when they were young?

A young Boomer would have been used to a heavy drinking and smoking culture. Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-martini_lunch . Watch the old TV shows and see how much office drinking there was.

Other popular drugs for young Boomers included methaqualone (Quaalude), methamphetamine, and of course LSD and marijuana.

Steve Jobs, for example, used both LSD and marijuana. ("Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.")

Apple was full of young Boomers. And many drug users. Bill Atkinson in https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... writes: "Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media."

At the same time, there were people who didn't fit into that Boomer culture, like the story at https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... . (Though the interviewee may have been 'Greatest Generation.)

(Of course, Jack Kerouac was also a 'Greatest Generation' member, and just take a look at "On the Road" to get a sense that broad generational characterizations like I just made are too simplistic.)