skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone done any math on any of the different suggestions?

If every American did these, for example, how many days would that buy us?

Perhaps a more data driven approach to addressing the problem.

I came up with this 2 years ago to address all these little suggestions

https://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-...

“Much of global CO2 emissions comes from the generation of electricity and transportation. Coal, in particular, is one of the worst offenders in climate change. It is used to generate 40% of global electricity.

However, for some reason, people while away their days discussing ideas to reduce emissions by a few percentage points.“
iCloud storage, Spotify, Netflix, 1Password, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Nintendo Online. I like to keep this list as short as possible.
I don't think it was dogmatism -- it was the need to have money. The cost of living rose such that families needed two incomes.
Yes, I was thinking mobile when I wrote that. :)
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I agree with your conclusion. Childcare is a societal issue that needs to be addressed at the societal level. Women who stay at home is a poppycock solution.

At a cynical minimum it wastes tremendous resources. I want smart, competent, engaged women to have children. I also want them to choose how to direct their considerable energies as they see fit.
OpenRouteService uses GraphHopper as library which uses exact routing algorithms: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper (note: I'm one of the co-founders of GraphHopper)

And then this A to B routing gives you the distance matrix which is necessary as input for vehicle routing algorithms (usually heuristics), see https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2017/09/18/route-optimizati... for more details.
This is a great way to make your citizens entitled and lazy.
As mentioned in the article Sweden is part of EUROMOMO that tracks excess mortality which doesn't measure if someone died from covid or from negative effects of a lockdown but simply that they died.

Even though it's downplayed in the article Sweden had significant excess mortality in the spring of 2020 and at the turn of 2020-2021 compared to other countries like Norway and Finland that are used as benchmarks in the article.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
The purpose of my interest is doing research into possible auto that I will purchase in the future. Because some vehicles are more expensive to repair than others. I want to find out what kind of bill I will get hit and when. So I can anticipate my auto repair and maintenance costs in advance.

So, now today there are so many sensors. What if one breaks down how will it affect the car? will it be "bricked" will it be drive-able?

There's variables relating to the quality of the repair and diagnostic service I realize now. That's a valid point to consider.

Overall my purpose was to figure buying an car maybe 3k-6k price but older with low miles. 2000-2010? Or buying newer 2015ish for 15k which would be more expensive in the long run? How long do the cars run without getting problems.

I have a car 1997, I do fixes on it more often now but it's in the range of 400-800 each fix.

On my next purchase. I want to anticipate the price range of each fix I will have. It depends on how well you want to maintain your auto I realize that and that also varies person to person. Some people will just not fix a broken part if it still is running. Others will run to a shop and pay whatever to get it fixed.

In the whole picture it's hard to exactly know I agree. However, it should do able to find out a range of price that I can expect to pay for a breakdown. Water pumps break, tires go bad, rotors wear down and you don't replace on time. Common problems that happen. Will I get hit 1000-1500 dollars? 1500-2000 dollars? 3000? Newer cars can run without maintenance other than oil change and simple things to maintain, tires, wipers, fluids.

One way, compare part costs on each auto is one way to look at it. Comparing labor needed to fix something is another way.

I was looking for common fixes that happen on a car and of course it varies for each auto. That is my question. A list of auto repair issues. Then I can look up the costs on each. I can look online a breakdown and get a estimate. Problem I do not know on newer cars what kind of breakdowns are common and when they occur.

Suppose an 2015 Mazda cx-5 for example is fully loaded with sensors. What if one broke. What is the part to fix it. Is it common for breakage to happen? How much if something went bad and I have to fix it? Can I live without the sensor? How do I do research? I need to know what to repair. The name of the repair issue.

Give you an better idea of what I am trying to do?
We’ve reinvented religion.
In the UK, consumption of high fructose corn syrup is negligible (0.38kg per person per year), whereas in the US it’s 65 times higher (24.78kg per person per year). Yet we still have an obesity problem.
How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959)
Reinforcement learning – Fatboy Slim edition
How do you benchmark this ? Do you use real-life traffic, or have a fleet of TLS clients ? If you have a custom testsuite, are the clients homogeneous ? How many machines do you need ? Do the clients use KTLS ?
I think GP is saying that dependency injection is like currying, not that it's like inheritance.
What a bunch of bullshit. I love that the title of this is "overcoming bias", but then the bias in this article is so blatantly transparent:

> Their highest hopes tend to be of gaining positions in, getting promoted in, or creating, such organizations. When they have dreams for the world, they dream of new versions with higher mandates and bigger budgets. (Think socialism.)

Must be nice to live in such a cartoon-view of the world.

That said, I didn't have access to the full linked research article in the story but the actual scientific research, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278151684_Testing_T..., sounds interesting.
I went to the pride parade in Seattle in ¿2012? and was disgusted by the public sexual acts that I saw. I don't know why some people weren't arrested for indecent exposure or other sex offenses.
Why was this comment flagged in the other thread? Public sexual displays are not alright no matter the context
I think you could have preserved the good points if you had removed what I perceive as sexism. Instead of saying the problem is having put women to work, the issue is that costs (due to larger houses, desire for luxuries, and generally keeping up with the Joneses) have increased. They have also increased because incomes have increased, and the ways in which to spend your money have also increased.

It has nothing to do with genders - it has to do with the carrying cost of a household nowadays is tied to dual incomes (+ housing and health care costs have eaten up a lot of surplus income)
Which current (or recently released) things have a mandate from the top at Google at the moment ?
Does rather seem like a filter for non-numeracy.

This could contribute to outliers and looking at the raw data there is too much scatter for me to recognize a very definitive comparison.

Plus with a common y-axis but different x-axes terms, the slopes can not be as meaningful relatively as I would like to see.

More helpful normalization might be possible with a much larger data set.

However it can be seen that only two participants had learning rate scores 1.6 or above, so those must be the same two points on each applicable graph. Notice they were at the high end of all three tested characteristics.
You can do reasonable 1080p at 3Mbit with h.264, if these were live streams you could fit around 130k sessions on the machine. But this workload is prerecorded bulk data, I imagine the traffic is considerably spikier than in the live streaming case, perhaps reducing the max sessions (without performance loss) by 2-3x.
Dupe from the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583258
I'm not really sure it's fair to consider the article as making its point at all. At the outset the author seems to rail against "The Science" but then goes on to show data that kind of disputes their own point.

As just one example, they make the point that Sweden's recently mortality rate is pretty close to Finland and Norway, and show a graph of rate of excess deaths per 100k people, showing Sweden at 0.06 and Finland and Norway at 0.04.

That's 2000 additional excess deaths in Sweden per 100k people than their neighbours. This equates to an additional 208k+ people that would die if the full country was infected, based on the presented mortality rate data.

If we want to be scientific about this point, we'd have to ask several questions to actually understand whether those numbers are meaningful in the way the author suggests:

- Is it typical for Sweden's all-cause mortality rate to be 50% higher than its neighbours?
- If not, what is the typical difference?
- Could there be other unaccounted-for confounding factors?

That these questions and answers were omitted I think demonstrates pretty clearly the author hasn't fully considered the point they are attempting to make, or suggests that these questions were not answered because by answering them it may undermine the point they set out to make.
Well that's not the problem. The problem is natural sources are too big. The distance difference between you and the top of the sun and the middle is like 100x the length of the equator. Neutrino sources in the sun have very irregular shapes, so that too changes the distance. And you have zero control over it all. All you'd ever see is the equivalent of a soft shadow, you'd never get a point source.

The second thing you might want to do: "filter" neutrinos ... well that just doesn't work at all. Nothing stops (a decent amount of) neutrinos. So you can't filter them and create a known point with, say, only electron neutrinos like you can with light. There are also no known astronomical objects that filter neutrinos. They fly right through a star, so that's no good either.

Third you could filter observations. But again you hit the filter problem. You can focus neutrinos measurements (even if you can't focus the neutrinos themselves), but that lowers the amount of neutrinos you measure further. And you're only measuring like maybe 50 per cubic meter of water, so you don't have much to work with.

I guess you could wait for things to get especially good for your measurement but you'll be waiting a long time.
Walking around NYC most of the clothes the women wear would be right at home on a pride float. But when men dress the way women dress it feels wrong to most of us.
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It may disappoint but the servers are big because it's cheaper than buying racks of servers not because it was the only way to get enough servers into a PoP. Their public IX table should give an idea that most are just a couple https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/peering/ (note they have bulk storage servers too for the less popular content not just 1 big box serving every file).

I've seen their boxes walking through Equinix facilities Dallas in Dallas and Chicago and it is a bit jarring how small some of the largest infrastructure can be.

It's worth noting that they have many smaller boxes at ISP colo locations as well not just the big regional DCs like Equinix.
If my memory serves right, Erik was MIT's youngest professor at ~20 y.o.
Your home has a wealth tax, also known as property tax. These increase as the home appreciates.
I didn't read the article, but I agree with the headline.

After I spent a couple of years minimizing my "upkeep", and my spending had already gone down to almost nothing, I started thinking about the "sum expenditure" which goes into new items which I was still buying.

Even something as simple as a bag of lentils is composed of farming, transportation, packaging, transportation for the packaging, transporting of the packaged lentils, and the packaging for the packaging.

If I can get something already manufactured, like this very nice 2008 iMac I'm using to write this, I'd much rather use that than be complicit in "undersigning" all that goes into a new one.
It would be interesting to know with whom is being compromised and in what direction the watering down happens. Now that is the force we fail to illuminate but I believe has tremendous power in our society.
If we want to ask the question what Sweden actually did, the answer is a bit more traditional in terms of science and a bit less interesting for anyone including the media.

Covid infections are not evenly spread. The most vulnerable people are not evenly spread, as is high risk areas.

Sweden did shut down and restrict a lot of those things. The elder care was compared to prison, with people doing "prison breaks" through open windows. Sports, bath houses, concerts, and similar places were closed down. People were strongly discouraged from using mass transit. Infection were still located mostly in hot zones around the large cities, in general where the large concentration of elderly care is located, and those working there had the full setup with mask and face protection and gloves and so on.

To me it seems like the different strategy can be classified as either targeted or generalized. Sweden went with a mostly targeted approach, although not as effective as it could have been since it was initially a bit delayed.

One other major decision that the Swedish government did was to remove the so called "karensdag". Before the pandemic people who got sick had to go without pay for the first day of the sickness, a measure that was likely there to discourage people from falsely calling in sick. By removing it they made it very clear to people to stay at home if they feel sick, with only 20% reduction in pay if you call in sick.
How did this article from a blatant covid misinformation site (posted by an hours-old account) make it to the front page of HN?

The entire substance of this article is taking a single graph from Twitter and establishing that masks do nothing to stem the spread of covid. That’s it. That’s the whole post.

Do the regular rank and file posters on this website believe that covid was a massive global conspiracy? Entertaining this sort of clearly biased propaganda (the name of the blog is literally “Unmasked” and all the articles seem to start from the same premise of “covid precautions are unnecessary and harmful”) certainly makes this site look as if that’s the case.

I understand that this forum is generally very pro-business. Considering that this piece of propaganda serves a specific purpose of advocating for a reduction of covid measures, are the people here genuinely so invested in making money that they’ll believe and advocate for doing nothing to stop the spread of a deadly virus?

It looks like you do. I’m not saying that I personally think that you, the reader, is happy to allow a pandemic to spread unchecked in order to maximize your portfolio returns but I AM saying that the very fact that this made it to the front page reflects on this community.

From an outsider’s perspective, either HN has such a strong individualism bent that the community is willing to gamify mass death for profit, OR that it’s incredibly easy to artificially boost harmful propaganda on a well-funded, fully staffed website made by tech people for tech people.

It’s embarrassing either way.
Ah, this reminds me of YesterCode, a tool that lets you scrub through code changes like a timeline.

Relevant HN thread: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/yestercode.html
Cloud. GCP must compete on the same level as AWS and Azure. You can reverse engineer this by looking at the knobs "the top" has to make something happen. Staffing, money, acquisitions, etc.
It was a good selling point, only now it seems that vaccinations don’t prevent the spread as much as previously thought, especially the variants such as Delta variant. So it seem there won’t be any herd immunity anytime soon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
Ugh my team at work is obsessed with DDD for a service with two endpoints. Absolutely overkill and the levels of OO abstraction are terrible. If this were more complicated I’d understand, maybe I’m wrong in general. But writing a small Nodejs service in such a way is terrible IMO.
Yeah, right. Let’s compare Sweden with 10M people and a very low population density with Germany with 83M people and 10 times the population density instead of Norway that has comparable population and density and 10 times less deaths just because it helps your narrative.
Such comments spreading misinformation should not be allowed at all here in my opinion.
The binge-watching masses are easy to satisfy. All it takes for the stream to work is average speed of a few megabits per second, but there's so much caching at client end that high latency and few seconds of total blackout every now and then don't really matter.
I'm glad my home country that's a neighbor of Sweden got only 6% of the death count Sweden had.

I'm glad I can say with a good heart that my country took care of the old, including my own parents and grandparents. It's a real test of the country's values.
Why was anyone talking about Sweden in the first place?

Because it was the only example of a developed nation whose health officials came out and said "given our circumstances, we think our country will be ok without anti-covid measures."

People who wanted (for a variety of reasons) to denounce anti-covid measures took those statements, stripped out the "given our circumstances" and said "see, Sweden thinks everyone will be ok without anti-covid measures."

The anti-covid groups, recognizing that nuance is doomed, did not respond by saying "Sweden might be ok, but we won't" and instead said "Sweden is wrong."

So why did people stop talking about it? Because the policy decisions have already been made. The political tool that is "Sweden says otherwise" isn't useful anymore.

Now obviously the academics and public policy experts have not stopped talking about Sweden (and the verdict is not even close to rendered), but since they are doing so out of the public eye it doesn't so much count.

So why should we have more public discussion about Sweden? It looks to me like this author believes it is evidence for the assertion "if the experts are struggling, the amateurs must be right." It is not. This kind of reasoning is virtually always the kind of justification someone comes up with when they need an explanation for why someone should trust a fringe conspiratorial theory of events over a mainstream expert-endorsed one.
I have been pretty heavily involved with couchsurfing for years to the extent that I barely spend time with anybody who I did not directly or indirectly meet through couchsurfing. The well-traveled curious misfit persona I associate with the network works great for me. I have met the most curious personalities, forged strong relationships with people in other parts of the world, and I think I have experienced more good-will and generosity than most people ever will.

It really seemed couchsurfing.com became a victim of it's on success beyond whatever happened behind the stage. Over the years the number of popular articles that "advertised" it as a way to either have sex or just a free place to crash has brought attention that was detrimental to the experience. The number of stupid "hey bro, me and my buddy need a place to crash" requests went up significantly. This is what happens with any community.

But the important thing is that couchsurfing.com is just a website, it does not even matter so much. There are millions of people out there who are adventurous and out to meet people and those have not gone away. Couchsurfing meetups still happen. Couchcrashes (big long get-togethers in random cities of the world explcitly affiliated with couchsurfing.com) still happen. Airbnb is easier, but couchsurfing to a large extent was not about a place to stay - it is about connecting with the place you went to and people who lived there. (A good example of what doors couchsurfing might open seems to be "Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World", but it's still on my to-read list) Back in the day you could always break that connect-with-people contract to a certain extent and it was not unwelcome, but as more people flooded the platform it became a much rarer paradigm.

Whatever happens I hope the word couchsurfing gets decoupled from the the website. I still travel and hop hostels and the target audience of couchsurfing has never ceased to exist. With more remote work it has perhaps grown? What has happened to couchsurfing.com happens to any online community. Growth entails erosion of value. Partly, why I am actually not apposed to light gate-keeping of a paywall. In any case, I welcome the next stage. And I am glad the article ends on a list of lesser-known alternatives (contributors to some of which commented in this thread!). Couchsurfing is not couchsurfing.com and it is not dead it is just looking for new forms.
FWIW, I think your argument would earn a lot more consideration if you used a gender neutral term like "partner/spouse/parent" rather than "women", because it distracts from what I charitably assume is the seed of your point.

Certainly, my wife and I have ~semi-annual conversations on whether our lifestyle still makes sense (2 parents working, 2 kids under 5 in daycare:). There's definitely room to discuss that on societal level too. But there's no immediate assumption that my wife would necessarily be the one to quit work and spend extra time with kids - we're both engaged parents, both have our strengths and weaknesses, and once breastfeeding stage was complete both equally capable of parenting; and at the same time have both been career oriented and hold very successful positions.

in short:

"Are we as society on average supporting the model of two parents working" - a reasonable even crucial discussion to have.

"Should women be working" - hopefully settled a long time ago and anybody still questioning this will seem regressive at least, misogynistic more likely :-/
Nevertheless the titular question deserves to be raised. We heard no end of derision for Sweden's outlier approach when they were having a rough time of it, but now things are better - radio silence. Why? What is behind this?

Similarly, the fact that yet again in a thread on this topic, perfectly reasonable comments are being downvoted to oblivion, should give everyone serious cause for concern about the way things are going.