skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, they had reproducible scientific tests to provide their theories didn’t they?

Not really. The heliocentric systems of Copernicus and Galileo didn't do much better at predicting heavenly motion than did the earlier geocentric systems such as the Ptolemaic system. They were still largely implicitly based on the assumption of an intelligent creator (God) who would make the universe follow laws that were aesthetically pleasing geometrically/mathematically. Any observations that didn't fit the pleasing laws of
a theorist's theory were dismissed as some kind of observational error or some kind of optical illusion or some such.

Galileo's trouble with the Church wasn't due to heliocentrism per se. The Church's position at the time was that if some empirical observation of the world (which God made) clearly contradicted their interpretation of something in the Bible it must be because they misinterpreted that part of the Bible.

Galileo's trouble was more due him being a genius who was also a major asshole with a big ego and a poor sense of politics.

His genius brought fame, which brought him to the attention of the rich and powerful. His ego fed on their attention, loving to play the roll of the celebrity. His ego also led him to be an asshole to people he considered lesser or his rivals. And his poor sense of politics made him clueless that some of those "lesser" people had a lot of political power and could make his life miserable if he kept being an asshole to them.
I don't trust myself to do car repairs without Googling the steps or watching YouTube videos. :)
More importantly, build and operate them for less than, say, 10x the best alternative.

Since any fusion plant would necessarily cost more than 10x fission, and fission is not competitive, that is well out of reach.
Just arguing that many (not all) people aren’t choosing not to work because the pay isn’t good enough but rather that because they can’t be evicted while also receiving an additional $1200/month on top of various stimulus checks.

So we should get rid of those things first before we make the argument wages need to be lifted to incentivize people to work.
Are you telling me that the worst version of the Black Death was 3-4 orders of magnitude more deadly than previous strains? Because that’s what would have to happen to this coronavirus for the scenario you are talking about. If this is even remotely possible, then I assume we should also be worried about the influenza virus, or really any other common household pathogen, because who knows what it could mutate into.

Or maybe you should keep your doomsday theories to yourself.
Not everything Amazon does is evil. And not everything Elastic did is good. I highly doubt a lot of people in this thread would sign off that Amazon generally is a good company; it's just that in this case, they're on the right side, in part just because Elastic made it easy to be.
It is a university press release. Literally anything can be called a big deal.
> A Prius' battery consists of 28 Panasonic nickel-metal hydride modules.

Tesla‘s 2021 Model 3’s are still using Panasonic cells. It’s a partnership where Panasonic brings the IP and expertise and the other party brings giant piles of money.
It's not shadow banned. They were explicitly banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25770512

If you think the comment is worth vouching, comment on its content.
It's really unfortunate. I am a kubernetes user today, but I LOVED swarm. K8S' main differentiator is that specific intentional "cross-cloud" features such as ingress and volume mapping that help the implementing cloud understand the deployment topology. It's basically the new PaaS but instead of working on one cloud it can work on any.

I don't know that if Swarm had those features if it would really catch on like Kubernetes did. They didn't have the same budget as Google on that side of things.
Slightly different to what is described here, but one of my pet peeves is the "nuclear button" features that devs put in their software - ie easy to activate features that add marginal utility to specific niche workflows but cause irreversible damage to everyone else.

Firefox deleting every single one of your pinned tabs on close if you have a second window open is an example of this, as is YouTube jumping to a different part of the video every time you bump one of the numerical keys on your keyboard.
"Hoyle and Wickramasinghe viewed the process of evolution in a manner at variance with the standard Darwinian model. They speculated that genetic material in the form of incoming pathogens from the cosmos provided the mechanism for driving the evolutionary engine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_from_Space
That also works well in San Francisco.
Canada aims to block Chelsea Manning from entering country
Citations? Or just idle theorizing?
I would emphasize that 8 inches is the point at which it becomes possible to see a 14th magnitude object. This requires a very dark sky, excellent weather, and possibly averted viewing.[1] Pluto is mag 14.4 right now and Celestron describes observing it as "the ultimate challenge". https://www.celestron.com/blogs/knowledgebase/the-ultimate-g... They recommend a telescope of 11 inches. (Though they do sell telescopes...)

Also note that the XT8 is a manual, non-motorized scope, so you'll need to find Pluto by hand, navigating from neighboring stars. This can be unexpectedly difficult. The sky is big!

And just to be really annoying, to address people who have never looked through a telescope before: an amateur telescope will give you the ability to see the comet, but it won't look like a photograph from Hubble. It'll just be a dim white dot. If you spend $500 and expect to see jaw dropping astronomical vistae, you will be disappointed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averted_vision
'domestic abuser' freed by bail fund charged with murder weeks after his release
Running, esp trail running to get out into. Buy a mountain bike and go out into the trails.
Along these same lines, buy a used, trailerable sailboat. You probably won't do as much sailing as you expect, but you can spend lots of afternoons doing little upgrades and repairs.
> Wasn’t this one of the things the “death panels” (as so expertly branded by Republicans) were supposed to help with? Helping people on Medicare decide on how they wanted to approach these kind of issues and what they wanted for advanced directives?

No. A death panel does not decide when someone is to die but when treatment is to be stopped due to mounting costs, regardless of the wishes of the patient.
I don’t think the implication was they shouldn’t pay a fee, but that the term itself is loaded. An honest accounting would indicate the very few of us pay our fair share of anything
If someone from Climeworks sees this thread, do you have a real time dashboard of energy consumption and total CO2 sequestered? Thank you!
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/ss/pdfs/ss6907a1-H.pdf

Although the numbers are a bit different here, maybe he’s referencing a newer data set. Still it’s shocking:

> non-Hispanic Black women had the highest abortion rate (21.2 abortions per 1,000 women) and ratio (335 abortions per 1,000 live births)
Is it really limitless if both generating and consuming energy produces heat? Or is that too small of an effect even despite the heat inefficiency of fusion?
Wow, when I arrived at CMU for my PhD in 1994 my officemate Erik Altmann was already working on Soar. That's longevity.
> I’m afraid of the world where we align with the villain on something only because it’s convenient for us.

We're not. We're aligning with them because they happened to do something legitimately good. Being a villain doesn't mean that literally everything you do is bad.
Typical news.com.au fear mongering. This article is about a single building in NSW, yet the article makes it appear that they are talking about the entire state.

This isn't to say that Australia doesn't have some strong lockdown laws at the moment, but this is a poor article to back up that claim.
Are you using “random” to mean “uniformly random” and not (e.g) “beta-distributed random”?
In their mind they are the law.
Sketching is an option anywhere if you carry a notebook and pencil.

I think an old school Kindle would be reasonable given it's decent to read on but miserable for doing anything else distracting.
This goes along with my thesis that if given the proper support, we would avoid the majority of them.
> kill themselves

Many would disagree with that characterization.
As someone who often cannot repair my own breadboard projects if they come unplugged I understand this all too well. It might have been unfixable as soon as it was out of the builder’s short term memory.
You can get shot for/while/after complying with police lawful orders. That’s not a good excuse to pretend like an inquiry is the same as a legal order or forced coercion. Better to know your legal rights so you can know what your options are.

Better to know and exercise your rights when the risk trade off works for your risk tolerance.

In the end, most officers will give more scrutiny if the civilian they are dealing with “fails the attitude test”. Remain calm and when you disagree / reject a request, do it politely and that will increase the odds that the officer won’t spend extra time to find a reason to cite/arrest you.
Edit: I had misread and the reality is in the opposite sense of the number I asked about below, like you'd expect, the bigger number is the unvaccinated.

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I'm on my phone so I couldn't read the site. Are you saying more of the hospitalized and dead are vaccinated, I.e. is the second number in the 13/87 and 30/70 the proportion that is vaccinated. I understand it's more complicated by the fact that older or sicker people are more likely to be vaccinated.

Edit: just thinking about it, I suppose most under 12s are not vaccinated and also mostly are ok if they get covid. Whereas e.g. over 70s are probably mostly vaccinated but still could have a bad time with it. So it really seems it's hard to get a clear interpretation. At minimum it would have to be broken down by age and vaccination to start to get a picture of what's happening
https://archive.ph/RVwib
Sorry, missed this good paragraph..

Over the last 28 days, unvaccinated residents face 4.1 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 5.9 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19 and 5.4 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people, according to the state health department.
>If your mental image of people who support the notion of death is people who are just apathetically suicidal, then you're missing the point.

It is indeed what I think of most people, what point have I missed?
I would've thought the most practical way, provided there's enough lead time, would be to attach something like an ion thruster and apply a tiny thrust over months if not years.
> This is patently false. You might mean, the highest reported death count.

Certainly possible that India has more deaths, but given that you've just described their death count as something which there is "no feasible way to count accurately", I'm not sure why you're so confident about the claim being patently false.

> You're clearly not in California - where the lunacy has gone off the rails.

Yes. California has had ~1,700 deaths per million people, a solid 723x more per capita than the state I live in (South Australia). So again, I don't really see how you could believe that the COVID response there is being driven by people preventing deaths at all costs. If it was, they wouldn't have such a horrific death count.

> drive up teen suicide rates

Have you got any source for this? Similar claims were made in my country last year during a lockdown (that successfully eradicated the virus), and then when the national mental health organisation released their annual reports it turned out that suicide rates actually went down drastically during lockdown.
Is it possible to setup a mount from within a cloud init?
Early CoreOS employee and involved in all of the launch conversations around this...I can confirm there was absolutely no talk of travel plans or catching them at a bad time or anything of the sort. It simply had to get shipped before the conference started so we could talk about it.
The image of a leisure-class aristocrat with a family fortune is kind of a misdirect for what's actually happening. In the 1% and the top marginal tax rates you're mostly going to find FAANG drones. Maybe a few other species of college-educated workers whose wages pay their mortgages on ordinary homes in coastal cities.

I think the "aristocrat" characterization is actively harmful. For one thing, it makes the FAANG drones fail to realize that if "the rich" is anyone, it's them. And for another, it makes the top seem much more distant than it really is. If a Wisconsinite in the 55th percentile spent a few days inhabiting the home and the routine of a Californian or New Yorker in the 98th percentile, I think he would primarily notice how small and shabby the house is, and how unpleasant the commute. I'm not sure he would even elect to keep it. Many of us that do get from here to there, end up turning back.

While you may as well tax inheritances, that's not really how advantages get passed down. It's things like vocabularies and school districts.
The cynical part of me doesn't buy that this is anything other than a "2 steps forward, 1 step back" approach to just keep people in line and hopeful that things are changing just around the corner.

After telling people that all they had to do was get fully vaccinated, now they're hinting that people will probably just need 1 booster. Once people internally bargain with themselves and buy into that, then the goalposts will get shifted again.

"Just 15 days to slow the spread" morphed into whatever this dystopia is, so we'll see.

I hope with every fiber of my being that I am laughably wrong.
Last two decades were a “war-based society”? Have you read any of the history of the first half of the 20th century?
potato potatoe -- it's ending a life.
Well, how far is Amazon going to take OpenSearch? Elastic is all in on innovating and building their flagship product forever with significant dedication. AWS just needs something good enough as an offering to go with the rest of their OK cloud services.
The federal government is screwing many things up, but I don't get the impression they're pushing through an agenda that takes advantage of COVID. They've been taking advantage of every other opportunity already.

Northern Territory has recently had minor lockdowns. There is not much of a current lockdown in WA, SA, NT or Tasmania. Probably a limited one in Queensland if at all.
Maybe a majority of HN users is in that 8%?
While I would absolutely love to have that job, I’m afraid I’ll never get to do it. Language cross-compilers seem to keep getting better. It may be that case that one day, you will run a legacy program through a babelfish and get something understandable to you back out.

Of course, the complexity might explode from there…or you might just not really notice it all that often. Anybody familiar with LLVM or WASM or heck even a language that can transpile to JavaScript can probably relate to this possibility.

The thing that’s harder to fathom is going from low-level to high-level. High-level -> intermediary low-level -> high-level is fathomable though.
AGPLv3. Off the top of my head, Grafana and RStudio already do that and seem to have had the desired result. I’m sure there are others.
Study itself: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... (open-access article). Sci-Hub for posterity: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1371/journal.pone.0098246
Sorry, I phrased my comment poorly.

AWS makes it clear when buckets are publicly visible. This is a good thing, and I am grateful
All the more reason to keep draconian covid measures in place in perpetuity. Covid passports, lockdowns, masks, forced vax.

Sometimes I picture our anti-covid measures as piling sandbags in front of a tsunami. Might hold back the water for a little while, but won't do much in the long term.
> If your phone began analyzing your local photos for child porn, you'd probably be upset, no?

Yep. "local" here is the key word, though. If a service I uploaded photos to began doing that, I would not be upset. And indeed, just about every image-hosting website in existence already does this, because they're legally required to.

Gmail is markedly not a local service.

> True, but google is CURRENTLY abusing it by selling ads to me based on it.

This makes it seem like your concern is with the advertisement funding model, not with privacy.
Even if the cancer has a very high survival rate following chemo, if the only way to save my life involves losing my hair I will refuse treatment and let myself die.
I believe SPARC is a magnet demo, so it won't have tritium breeding blankets like ITER. It also has a shorter pulse time, 10 seconds vs 1000.

(That's right. ITER, which will cost more than $65 billion and take decades to build, can't run continuously!)
As an American consumer of BBC shows and web news, I've got mixed feelings about this.

I really like shows like 'Dr. Who'. I find the news interesting, but am puzzled by the focus on American politics (and always from the left side. I feel they truly don't understand the conservative half of America.)

I wish them luck. I wish they'd present a more balanced view of America, but I wish them well.
Cooking and baking can be pretty rewarding. If you're into BBQ that's a great activity that takes a lot of time and attention.
Most of the population is in lockdown
Versatile but Problem-Plagued, the Last 1990s-Era C2 BART Car Is Gone
All ratios are formatted as vax/unvax. More unvax people are in the hospital and dying, in spite of more people being vaxed in the population. It's bad. Get vaxed.
Get a road bike. Start small rides and watch the addiction grow.
Point of order: if the space shuttle were grabbing satellites out of the air, something has gone terribly wrong with both launching the satellite and the shuttle.
More people need to know about this. Every time I ask some software dev if he knows the term Poka Yoke the answer is always no. Same goes for many operations engineers.

And when explained what it is, people assume it is the same as "idiot proof". No, it is not. Is a microwave door that turns the thing off when opened made for idiots? No, just regular people who want to use the microwave without frying their brain in the process.
I think plos one is forever open access, they’re the good guys
Eh, spurious reasoning. The 0.10% case is not the underpinning for the right to abortion in the United States. In our jurisprudence the right to abortion is guaranteed by the constitutional right to privacy. So, your argument starts from a false premise, and the facts that happen to be true don't redeem it.
I think what happened with Docker is that it was just too good at what it was originally intended to do and too easy to use for that.

Programmers hate things that are easy to use (by the way I am a programmer, and no I don't feel that way) because if they admit they use them then they might be accused of being users. And of course no programmer will admit this. They don't realize it because it's actually a subconscious psychological issue.

And so what programmers started to do was immediately make it much more complicated and at the same time, take it completely for granted. It was so useful it was like a floor to walk on. And so people started giving it the same level of respect they give a floor.

So for those reasons, Docker became very uncool. But at the same time it was incredibly useful. Solution: make something just like Docker but not Docker, which hip people will be allowed to use without any shame. Make it a bit more complicated and only run on the cool expensive hardware.
I doubt Amazon cares about that suit. If anything, it's elastic that hugely benefited from calling their product after countless Amazon products that have the word elastic in them.

Amazon can show that EC2 predates the company by half a decade atleast
I wonder what hardware are these running on. Are they just emulating the original architecture? Surely maintaining a mainframe from half a century ago would be at least as arcane a skillset as writing Cobol.
This is the best synopsis I’ve ever seen about it, but the skepticism comes from the lack of results

A whole generation heard about it in school decades ago. Multiple generations by now, even. Its right up there with battery/energy-storage technologies. Headline after headline, enrapturing a newer and newer idealist set of people to quickly become disillusioned. People just get tired of it.

But I’m glad to understand whats going on behind the scenes now. I’ll pay attention. Looks like a real sleeper.
I’m curious though, did Elastic’s license change impact you in anyway? Were you planning on offering Elasticsearch as a managed cloud offering? What exactly is the legitimate good Amazon did here?
> The 0.10% case of either saving a woman's life or in cases of rape and incest as turned into the justification

...for nothing. The right to abortion isn't premised on any of those, in general. The only one that is particularly relevant as a justification is protecting the life of the mother, and that mostly has to do with abortions later in pregnancy, Cobstitutionally.

Otherwise, the justification of abortion is bodily autonomy.
Ok, I don't get what exactly does this offer.

Initially I thought that this is another API aggregator, with "AI" twist. You create a website that uses "Light Auth" to log in (so like Auth0), stores data in "Light Table" (so like Firebase), and uses AirTable integration to send it out.

But then I saw the pricing -- $0.50 per request, 100 requests/month -- and I am not sure anymore. Obviously no one is going to pay $0.50 to handle user login, or to do a database query, or to post some data to Airtable. So this startup is not a service provider... but then what is it?

And then I noticed there are "Light Code" to generate code, and "Light Backspace" to fix syntax errors... and "Light Table" mentions "Generates tables and queries"...
So maybe Light AI thing generates the code, like a Github CoPilot -- and then you are paying $0.50 for each database query that their service writes for you? In this case it is pretty expensive, but at least somewhat makes sense... but then where is the list of supported technologies? Does generated code support Firebase? Postgres? DynamoDB? Something else?

And then I've noticed there are no actual docs of that API, and the list of "500 integration" is hosted on by Notion and contains only 6 website names. And numerous spelling errors.

I am going to guess the company actually has no working product and has no finished designs for the product either -- just a vague idea of "AWS for low-code with AI". Not sure why they would do the launch in this state, they just come off unprofessional and uninteresting.
Hacker News is US-centric. The US is Christian-centric (religiously and culturally). And there has been a truly bizarre push almost entirely among evangelicals recently to just accept mortality where its absolutely not needed (e.g., during the pandemic).
Same, but “Poober”.