skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that "poverty line" is a stand-in for "can (or cannot) afford food and shelter".

Part of the problem is that there are two different statistics that need to be measured

- the percentage of the population that could not afford food and shelter before assistance
- the percentage of the population that still could not afford food and shelter even after assistance

Part of the problem is that "poverty line" is an arbitrary demarcation point. (This doesn't even get into the fact that the "poverty line" is a national statistic, but the demarcation point in NYC is very different from that in rural Kansas.)

You seem to be complaining that some percentage of recipients have moved past the arbitrary line, while ignoring that they still can't afford food and shelter.

How is this not a No True Scotsman argument?

The label you apply to a recipient (above/below an arbitrary line) is irrelevant. What matters is whether or not they can survive.
Last I used prolog was about 1990 (more than 30 years ago). I’m glad to see it still evolves!
You've lost the plot.

Your comments are irrational, cynical and conspiratorial and have no place here.
UpliftML: An uplift modeling library that handles web scale datasets
Many libraries have recently emerged that offer implementations of algorithms for heterogeneous treatment effect estimation (or, CATE estimation). The most well-known examples are Microsoft's EconML (https://github.com/microsoft/EconML) and Uber's CausalML (https://github.com/uber/causalml). Existing libraries require all data to fit in memory, which is often a limitation for industry applications on web scale datasets. Booking.com's new library offers similar functionality on top of Spark, enabling web scale uplift modeling.
You seem to think Tesla’s system is perfectly safe. I’ve seen nothing that indicates that—just the opposite, in fact.
I always liked the look of the new mini, and the electric one looks interesting, but then i seen the tail lights... Yea, British Heritage, whatever... IM IRISH... feck off... at least give the option of proper ones... BMW also own Rolls Royce... they dont do stupid things like this with them...
yes. we need more toddlers in the prime minister office. they know what do.

More toys for everyone, now.
The problem with level 2 "FSD" is that the better it gets, the more dangerous it is because the driver gets complacent. Autopilot is already being investigated because drivers don't monitor it enough and hit emergency vehicles, and all autopilot does is go in a straight line. FSD is making far more decisions, and gives the driver far less time to react to it behaving badly.

Tesla FSD has several situations where the car regularly performs maneuvers that, if the driver didn't intervene, it would likely kill the driver and other people on the road. It also has many types of routes where it can operate without any disengagements for a long period of time. I think that is a very dangerous combination.

If they really wanted to reduce deaths due to driving, they could use this FSD software to add better collision avoidance technology. Once you have that, introducing self-driving should be safer, even if it doesn't always make the right decisions it will be caught by the collision avoidance tech.
The Bekenstein Bound entails that people can be fully captured by a finite amount of information, and therefore a person is no more powerful than finite state automoton. Note that this is an upper bound, and refining our understanding of the the physics involved will only reduce the amount of information needed.

The only escape hatch is to assert that humans can't be described by physics.
I assume GP is talking the world in general, but it was indeed "unthinkable in the not so recent past" even for Iceland: for example, in 1975 (which I guess you'll agree as being "not-so-recent") there were only three women parliamentarians.
The difference isn't only in how fast/well tasks get done, but a very good engineer will make many such tasks unnecessary altogether with better design and implementations that forego their need. Without including this aspect, the metric is a low-level one and not indicative of overall impact.
I have strong opinions on their function, and have spent not-insignificant money to buy/install/modify various 'correct' functionality, eg, buying lamps and switches from Europe and modifying wiring to make the 'correct' functions work (amber turn signals, rear fog lights).

I'm pretty sure Blinkie is facetious.
Don't be afraid of just saying "please don't bother me with this, i don't care about that" as well as "fuck this shit, it's dumb, i'm going home".

If I look backwards and think of all the time wasted and all the crappy situations I could have got out of by just saying stuff like that, without bothering with politeness...

Being polite is good, being too polite is dumb.
Looking at the images from article
It's obvious.
They put the led's, into the lenses, on the wrong side. Someone had a great idea, with the arrows. But by the time it got into production, the insides were reversed. Maybe a drawing was mirror imaged, maybe the layout at the factory was upside down? D6one simple little thing.
I’m sorry, but it would be just as easy for a totalitarian government to shut down gas stations. Even still, if you were so worried, you could keep some off grid charging solution around. Can’t stop solar…
> I think this approach kind of has cause and effect backwards. Certainly an element of zoning laws will be driven by NIMBYism, but equally an element of zoning is needed to build functional cities.
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> You don’t want heavy industry to be co-located with residential areas, for no other reason than heavy industry occasionally have catastrophic accidents that destroy many square miles of buildings. You don’t want residential buildings in that blast radius.

It is very much true that you need zoning, but the most egregious elements of american zoning are the outcome of NIMBYism and racism, and yet american zoning will allow schools within the blast radius of chemical plants. Horrifyingly, I was thinking of the 2013 West Fertiliser plant and checking whether my recollection that there had been a school nearby was correct (it was) when I discovered that in 2019 a TPC plant blowing up also damaged a nearby school.

> After that I think people should be allowed to build where they want. If they want a house in the middle of a commercial district, that’s their choice. Just don’t complain about the noise.

IIRC, japanese zoning works in terms of "nuisance levels" (noise, pollution, traffic, …). You could have a house in the middle of a mid-level nuisance commercial district, but not a noisy business in the middle of a (low nuisance) residential district; however low-nuisance businesses would be allowed just fine.
All I had to do was google “Are roads fully funded by the gas tax” to find a contracticting source:

> Nearly as much of the cost of building and maintaining highways now comes from general taxes such as income
and sales taxes (plus additional federal debt) as comes from gasoline taxes or other “user fees” on drivers. General taxes accounted for $69 billion of highway spending in 2012.

[pdf] https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20for...
Ask HN: What was your first job and salary?
Yeah this sounds to me like a tax that will fall on some of the poorest workers in the city core. If we had the public transportation infrastructure first this would be fine. Just extracting money from people doesn't seem to work as a forcing function though in this country for improvement, it just seems to be a regressive flat tax.
What part of my comment was condescending?

> That’s not theorizing, that’s the whole industry’s collective wisdom.

There's no wisdom there. The industry is too young to have any meaningful wisdom to speak of. It's mostly fashion driven.

> An OS is a dependency. A GUI library is a dependency. A database is a dependency.

Well, I did make a distinction in my original post about stable dependencies, and I included the OS as a stable dependency.

I also never said you should have "zero" dependencies. My point is about minimizing dependencies as much as you can.
Alcohol itself lowers blood pressure. Alcohol in various types of drinks comes along with other compounds that are variously healthy and unhealthy. There's been a fair amount of research published showing moderate alcohol intake is healthy, and unhealthy. It's likely some kind of local optimum and there are better choices to be made regarding health, health span, and longevity.
Article is probably generally correct; I believe that a good (if definitely fallible) heuristic is that "stuff people have been consuming for thousands of years" + "my long living relatives ate it," is a significantly more reliable indicator of how healthy a food is than any study or article younger than e.g. 50 years old.
If you own a bakery, the ingredients you use need to be transported to your bakery. Once there, they have to be processed by some form of equipment. Your employees and customers need to physically go to your bakery...

Every activity in that bakery, in one way or another, depends on energy. That is also true for any other economic activity.

By selling energy you effectively have a share of everyone's business.

Also, if you control the fuel supply, you can control entire economies.
Ziggle Tech
The electric Mini (Mini Cooper SE) is very much a worse but cheaper BMW i3 too.
They didn't promise you being able to watch TV and sleep, but there are countless videos of long trips. Go watch one.
So the Full in full self driving is like the Full in full speed USB? Actually it means not full, but mostly empty?
So you want "there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change", and you also want updates for it?
Obviously you use your vendor's "app store".
Meanwhile they accidentally leak the exact data to institutions that help with election fraud. Profile generation of individuals. So who is going to consider their “genuine” reasoning. And they’re always and always lying.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28575855#28576302 (last week)

[autoliteInline] The amount of cruft on the web just blows me away, whether it's a weather or real estate or recipe site. We're living in a world of shit.

[wizzwizz4] Treat the crappy site as an API and make a better interface. Like the SimpleWeb project: [https://simple-web.org/]

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Copied from the page, which features several projects in the "reclamation" category:

• SimplyTranslate:
A frontend for Google- and LibreTranslate (and in the future, potentially other Translation Engines as well)

• SimpleerTube:
A frontend for SepiaSearch and PeerTube

• SimplyNews: (No known Instances)
A frontend for numerous news websites

• FreeBay: (Inactive)
A frontend for eBay

• PornInvidious: NSFW!
A frontend for xvideos.com
We could also introduce safety features that use the FSD hardware and software, but only to avoid accidents rather than drive the car. Once you have a system that you know does a better job than humans at avoiding accidents, it is safe to introduce a system that actually drives the car.
As someone who has never even tasted alcohol, I am here to say I hope you are correct.
Did they account for abstinence due to previous alcoholism? I’m asking because isn’t it possible that alcohol abuse at a younger age could be a contributing factor to dementia in later years?
> It might be the processing (pasteurization destroys enzymes), try raw

If you keep on drinking unpasteurized milk, you might end up with something far worse than psoriasis. Listeria infection is very nasty and dangerous.
Is rebuilding the U.S. of 2021 to a totally different modal split really simpler than self driving cars?

Even California's high speed rail seems to be languishing in limbo.
There is a difference between "parliament should always be 50/50" and "parliament has always (until today) skewed in one direction, that suggests a problem".
> there is no rational basis for believing it to be true.

Denying that humans and their blue little planet are in any way special is such a rational basis.
Not rude, but I think a little naive. Because it's not just DNA.

Egyptians (and our Egyptologists) think we are related to Ancient Egyptians, despite that over the years, African, North African, European, and Asian DNA has mixed in. Some Western scholars disagree.

But that's not the point.

I grew up in an apartment where on a clear day, you could look West and see the step pyramid at Saqqara. I drove in a street parallel to the aqueduct on my way to my grandmother's house each week. I passed Saladin's citadel regularly driving through the city. My high school graduation picture was on the first step of the Great Pyramid.

So I could give f_uck all whether I'm related by DNA to the people who built those. It's part of my heritage.
I read that book, more than once.

I didn't enjoy that much as a teaching device, but I had the chance to greatly appreciate its timeless writing style.

It's as good today as a book about the C language as it was when it was first published.
If a new language/framework comes which can generate factorues and test cases, that may be game changing.

That will basically introduce a decent coding practices for even a junior developer, something like Rails convention over Configuration.

Major difference is quality of work I see is the amount of test coverage, because a good test coverage helps you to change code much mode confidently.
It's a joy reading about how a great craftsman does this kind of work. I'm surprised nobody seems to be manufacturing a chair like this.
Abstract doesn’t indicate any correction for age or mortality during the observation period.
Perhaps someone can build a Tesla-detector, so when it sees one the owner can brace for impact ...

Sadly, only half-joking here.
A stat like that would be referring to particulate emissions, not CO2 emissions
It's only because you never did that "useful mining" project.
Thanks for the tip!

Dr. Lynne Kelly also has a related book "The Memory Code".

Reading that currently.
An unpaid intern at a hot tech startup with a great free lunch menu
So are lots of things. Alcohol is way more likely to kill you (either from you drunk driving or from others drunk driving, leave alone diseases from alcoholism) before you get to the age of getting dementia so best to avoid it altogether
I wish I could get by with just Ubuntu repos, but.. increasingly less so.
Are you trying to say we can’t have energy and care about human rights and decency?

The United States has plenty of domestic energy reserves and the capability to build a lot of renewable energy and nuclear energy. There’s zero reason to be catering to Middle East despots, other than corruption and cronyism.
Ya I was thinking java is closer to the mark as well, even coming from someone who has never programmed in java... But I have long thought that it would be nice if there was some sort of universal standard for pseudo code that could be compiled into other languages.
Torts?
At night both tail lamps are lit.
Back to school for Labour's big idea
At face value, it seems pretty likely that people with dementia are actively discouraged from drinking by those around them, so an association seems very likely to me, though causation would be in the opposite direction. Didn't read enough of the study to see if they attempted to control for this in any way.
It’s something that Trump did so the media has to spin it negatively
This is, to a certain extent, a post advocating for regulation. Take the aviation example. It was certainly dangerous for early adopters when it was a nascent technology. But one of the reasons why the current level of aviation is relatively safe (they are one of the very few examples of five sigma quality) is because they are heavily regulated. Everything from maintenance to licensure to duty cycles are regulated.

I think one of the risks of the current paradigm is the inability of US government to effectively introduce new regulation legislature. The new method seems to be to put the onus on the industry to regulate themselves in lieu of having to create actual legislation, which can lead to perverse incentives. In the instances where this isn’t the case, we have to deal with regulatory capture or the revolving door of industry/government which creates its own skewed incentives.
I suppose the upside could be that you _could_ imagine (if, of course, the whole thing was efficient enough) a process where you use low-carbon electricity (nuclear or poorly-timed renewables) to power CO2 capture from air, and then turn the CO2 into starch, and then maybe turn the starch into something edible ? (I don't have enough grain of salts to take my own words here...)

It's a huge stretch to image that being competitive with conventional agriculture. Still, just imagining a situation where we could use electricity to turn CO2 into food...
drug detox clinic. Or make equivalent yourself or in your family :) Only you can make it happen! We others are powerless about your life, you know. Good luck.
Because the government wants a piece of your action
This reads like something that youtuber durrianrider would write.
"Maybe we should just create a utopian society" isn't a real discussion to have.
> $NewThing is one of the worst techs to be developed in recent years. It essentially monetized the practice of $DoingBadStuff. This in turn gave new incentives to malware writers, scammers, and generally just greedy opportunistic people to $DoBadStuff whenever possible and as sneakily as possible...

I'm sure people said the same thing about the Internet when it became popular. In fact, I know people still say this about the Internet to this day.

But enough off-topic, what does this have to do with this particular Docker image?
> "However, IMO morality has a deeper source than organized religion."

Toxicity on social and other online media, the prevalence of scams in online marketplaces, the willingness of people (even on HN) to be employed by businesses that cause environmental and social ills as an externality, etc. all point there being a very limited radius of innate human morality, even among modern civilization. While that isn't to say that religion is a good solution, it's hard to argue that some powerful mechanism to reinforce feelings of human fellowship and community at from the individual level to the societal level wouldn't be beneficial.
A friend of my dad's had a new car delivered from the dealership.

The ride was a lot harder than in the test drive, so they got it back to the dealership for inspection. They didn't immediately find anything, so the friend kept pushing them to investigate for a few months (!).

Turns out that they had completely forgotten to take the suspension blocks off the car after transport. I.e. the suspension was basically completely disabled.

You bet that dealership got to hear a few choice words.
"Self driving cars" are just a subset of "autonomous vehicles". Public transport would benefit greatly from driverless buses.

Bus drivers are a scarce resource. Where I live, there is a shortage of people willing to rise at 4 a.m., take responsibility for 40-50 lives at a time and, at the same time, have unpleasant interactions with members of the public (meeting a few asshole passengers everyday belongs to the job, unfortunately).
This kind of thing is not science, but digging through data to look for “associations”. There are associations in any big dataset. There is no reason to infer from this that there is any cause-and-effect relationship whatsoever. But it can be an amusing exercise to think up confounders. Are patients with incipient dementia advised by their doctors to abstain from alcohol? Probably.
I’m just an idiot but could there be an overlap between abstinence and non-sociability? Are the ones drinking alcohol drinking it with friends?

To test this association, Is dementia more common amongst devout Muslims over devout Christians?
The data is observational, which generally means you should ignore it. It is too noisy.

There were those studies that showed moderate alcohol use improved health and only heavy drinkers saw detrimental health effects. The problem was that "no drinking" group included people that weren't drinking because of poor health. Later studies compared drinking vs. a "no drinking" sample of people that drank around two glasses of wine per year. The improved health effects completely disappeared. The more you drink, the worse it is for your health.

So this study is like that in using a potentially unhealthy comparison group. They try to offset that a little by also throwing in people that quit drinking. But it is likely that some people quit drinking because of health problems. So I'd guess that this study has the same problem with an unhealthy comparison group. The study probably can't tell you what the actual relationship between alcohol use and dementia with any authority.
If origin of life is uncommon, then any place it does arise will necessarily be special. You are simply asserting, as an axiom, that life cannot be uncommon. The core of your erroneous thinking is that you have not taken into account observer selection bias.

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele...

Your sort of reasoning also led people to think in the 1700s that all the other planets in our solar system had intelligent life on them.
Discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628615

Is there anything new in the last 3 days we should be aware of?
> Yes, to a certain degree it's impossible to design software that does not exist as a part of an ecosystem, which is why I put it in quotes.

I’m doing a big embedded project and all the code is self contained! The only inputs are physical user inputs.