skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This will be competing with other high speed ebikes (or speed pedelecs as they're called in Holland) like

https://www.stromerbike.com/en/configurator?bike=st10

https://klever-mobility.com/en/x-series/x-speed-original

Compared to the latter, the VANMOOF has a somewhat smaller battery (700 Wh instead of 850Wh), looks a lot sleeker, has rear suspension, and is 30% cheaper (EUR 3500 expected vs EUR 5000).
Oh I thought this was people like Mark Zuckerburger.
Not sure what it's supposed to be.
Yeah because the US parachuting into the Middle East to restore order has worked out so well the last several times we've tried it.
To be fair: The model does not appear to automate remediation. It just highlights problems.

Also: If all of this is done toward the goal of reducing vehicle-related pedestrian deaths, maybe the dictionary says that's technically a bias, but I have a hard time seeing the argument that its a reprehensible one. Pedestrians may bear some responsibility; the driver is not always at fault; at the end of the day, a pedestrian has never killed a driver. The point here isn't/shouldn't be about fault; its about underscoring a power imbalance.

Have you ever heard the old saying: If the team succeeds, its everyone's success; if the team fails, its the manager's failure? Same thing. In situations of power imbalance, it is Good to bias fault toward power. As they say: with great power, comes great responsibility. Most drivers on American roads have zero sense of responsibility.
It’s just simple arithmetic, however you want to subsidize or socialize the cost, the fact is that renewables have higher cost per MW.

Every dollar spent on higher energy costs is a dollar not spent in other things. This will impact growth.
>If the problem at hand is better solved using a black box (in terms of accuracy, precision, robustness, etc)

It's been a while since I read her work, but IIRC one of the positions she argues for, which I find plausible, is that interpretable models can be performance competitive. For example, it could be that the only reason black box methods outperform is because they've been more heavily researched, and if we were to put more research into interpretable methods, we could achieve parity. I also mentioned a few reasons why we might expect interpretable models to perform better a priori in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838321
>It doesn't have to be rational. Vaccines mandates are already common for school children, nurses, (and maybe teachers, but I'm not sure about that one)

Even this argument ignores nuance.

The vaccines in these schedules are mandated for 2 reasons

1. The diseases they treat directly impact their population in a major way in large numbers

2. Immunization not only prevents the negatives impacts of 1, but also prevent the spread.

As an exmaple for #2. Take Pertussis and TDAP. Even adults that have children will often get a booster. The reasoning is sound there, you reduce the chance of transmitting pertussis to an infant. This is especially true for premature babies that may not have had the chance to get the anitbodies from the mother, assuming she got a booster during pregnancy.

As of right now. COVID-19 has a pretty small impact on children directly ( hospitalization rates at their peak were like 1.9 per 100k for under 18 [2]) . And even nationally its much smaller than any of the diseases used to compare it to (like Measles which has pretty severe complications in like 30% of those that contracted it, regardless of age [1])

AND the vaccine isnt particularly proven to reduce spread [3]. To add insult to injury, CDC specifically stopped even recording breakthrough infection rates unless they were severe as of May 1, 2021.

So it would make sense to question a vaccination mandate for those under 18...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/meas.html
[2] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html
[3] https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do....
Um, I guess you have not run a search on Google in the past couple of decades?
The goal of public health officials is to reduce the overall amount of deaths / infections / disease spread. The goal is not to ensure maximum survivability for a specific individual.

The mask guidance made perfect sense in this light. For the overall benefit of the society, masks were prioritized for health care professionals rather than the general public, in the face of limited supply. But of course wearing a mask improves your individual survivability so you should wear one even if public health officials tell you not to.

The same thing is currently happening with booster (third) shots. For the pandemic to ease worldwide, it is deemed more important to send vaccines to poorer countries with low vaccination rates rather than using them as third shots in rich countries. But if you want to maximize your own chances, of course you should get a third shot.

Public health officials deal with the whole population. You deal with a population size of one. It's a net win for them if their health policy reduced disease by a large proportion in one half of a population but increased it slightly in a different half. It's game over for you if you happen to be on the wrong side.
Nuclear being staggeringly overregulated is the reason for the high costs. If we put the same price on lives lost to car accidents as we do to lives lost in nuclear accidents (which some basic back of envelope calculations using old reactor construction costs and lives lost in nuclear accidents reveals to be well over a billion dollars per life) none of us would drive.
I didn't know about this, or have any idea how it might work, so I looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting
That doesn't really explain how they relate to the OP
FWIW, Mozilla has worked with devs of some popular extensions to get them working on "new" mobile FF, including uBo.
> Solar and wind are cheapest now, by a multiple.

Absolutely! I’m only suggesting nuclear as a backup for low wind nighttime demand. It’s completely pointless to use nuclear as the main power source precisely because of the cost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

But to deal with the low-wind nighttime demand, you have the option of storage (hydro and batteries aren’t the only options); you can do demand management (it helps people use less when they sleep); you can do intercontinental HVDC (in principle, but think in terms of a square metre of cross section for 100% of EU demand, so it will take a while to build); and you can do other power types — nuclear (expensive), geothermal (geographically specific in ways I don’t understand), tidal (surprisingly expensive), natural gas (sill better than coal).

I’m in favour of all of the above except natural gas. I’m expecting near 100% wind & PV supported by existing nuclear plants and existing and new storage (and a few 10s of GW intercontinental HVDC) by early 2030s… but my expectations are based on hoping grid storage battery prices get a lot cheaper with less evidence than I’d like to be comfortable, which means I want to support all the solutions rather than just my favourite.
The reason nuclear regulation in the US is stricter these days is because companies used to do things like routing all their supposedly-redundant control and monitoring wiring through the same shared duct, stuffing it full of flammable foam, and then testing that for air leaks using a bare candle whilst the plant is operating. This is not a hypothetical problem - it was apparently standard practice in the era you're talking about and nearly caused a major catastrophe, and the fire regulations that stop practices like this are cited as a major cost making it hard to build nuclear power plants by companies in the business.
There's certainly a crowd where "I don't have to own a car or drive" is a benefit of a dense city.

But does anyone ever think "I don't want to have access to a car at all"?

Rich people in dense cities, even ones that don't want to drive themselves, travel by car all the time - they might not be driving themselves, though. Sometimes they travel by helicopter, which has even more externalities.

You have to look at what the wealthy do in terms of understanding what people want - if someone doesn't ever have or take a car because they can't afford it, that doesn't mean they wouldn't want to.
Typescript has a fairly official way to do sum types (less poncily known as tagged unions):

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/unions-and-inte...

Might make the example a bit clearer.
The parent was pointing out that the economics are also a fundamental limit of the technology/physics.

If you can do a lot of work with expensive machines to get 20MW from that plant, but you can also do less work and spend less money getting an extra 20MW by burning some cheap primary fuel (with higher quality heat/aka a bigger delta), then they’re just going to burn more primary fuel. It’s a bit silly to do it any other way (barring legislation or market pressures or whatever) if you care about the amount of energy you are getting for the money you are paying.

And that is a fundamental issue, as reclaiming energy from secondary heat is always going to be less ‘nice’ than from the primary fuel.

If you can do it easily enough that it doesn’t add a lot of extra cost, then chances are the primary turbine/power system could be built efficiently enough to not throw that waste heat out the back in the first place. They do so because the math doesn’t check out generally.
> That is mostly a nonsense statement, public health professionals and the state recommend the same things. Not all health professionals but it isn't like a vaccine would get rolled out without any health professionals recommending it.

She particularly mentioned Fauci, until 2020 he was respected and known to not being political and served all presidents since Reagan.

> I don't see how her statement can be taken as anything but "Republicans are also pro vaccine now, so we need to sow divisiveness in another way!". If she truly cared about peoples health she would have taken the opportunity to unite the people and the politicians over the vaccination issue here.

I don't at that point we didn't even know if WH wasn't planning to purchase vaccines from Russia (they had them available before Pfizer, I think July 2020).

Once vaccines were available to people, they were approved in other western countries as well, which boosted confidence in them.
In that context think of this this way, if cost of converting methane into heat is 1 currency unit per joule of heat produced, fusion is hundred times as expensive but produces a million times more heat so the cost per joule is one ten thousandth of the cost from methane.
I was just at the Microcenter this weekend and they had a few RTX 30x0s on the shelves and several of AMD RX6ks. Plus, tons (a dozne or so)of older models. Granted, you had to be willing to pay for them, because they only stock the Zotac brand RTX cards.

They also had plenty of gaming laptops. In fact, the gaming laptops were basically all they had in stock.

That demonstrates that market adjustments work to keep inventory in stock. Some people are willing to wait all morning in line to snag a $700 RTX 3070, but balk at the idea of paying $1100 for a Zotac RTX 3070. Which allows Joe Consumer to walk right into a store and get what they want.
Nitpicky, but shouldn’t this pattern be called “supply-response” (as in, appliances programmed to respond to a supply glut) “Demand-response” sounds like it should be used for power sources that only spin up when demand exceeds the production rate.
"Neighborhoods in Vancouver were decided long ago and they mostly developed around racist an exclusionary ideology, "

Completely false. It's worse than false.

" Despite conservative efforts to eliminate growth,"

More complete rubbish.

It's hard to read past any of that complete misinformation, but here's some help:

Any historical issues regarding segregation 1) have little to do with growth and 2) there's nothing even residual regarding housing today.

The population of Vancouver at the turn of the last century was only 26 000 people. It has nothing to do with what Vancouver in 2021.

Vancouver's growth has been very consistent since it's inception, which disputes your made up claims about 'conservatives wanting to stop growth'.

Vancouver is a city with almost a 50% foreign born population. Demand to live there among 7 Billion on earthy who might want to live there is almost infinite.

If Vancouver wants to turn into Pacific New York, that's fine.

If they want to keep it mostly homes, that's also fine, it's entirely up to them, not ideologues on the internet.
Which is sad because it really is an excellent plot, but ye gods is it a miserable read. There seems to be a correlation with how good an author is at world-building and plot-weaving and how much actually reading the work is a chore. Watts isn't the only one either. Peter F Hamilton's worlds are utterly enchanting but will make you want to hit him with his own books.
They missed the boat on this, there were rumors Microsoft offered as much as $4bn back in ~2016. Whether that's true or not, if there was an exit to be had that was around the time it would have been viable.
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Lots of people have Costco, it was near impossible to secure one last year from them. The site would just crash
> A nice one is Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

I searched and found multiple playlists on YouTube. Which one do you recommend?

Or should it be the most recent one?
What about Firefox Focus? It's private by default and VERY unbloated. The ephemeral nature of sessions also forces me to not leave a hundred tabs open.
> If you stoke rage about mask wearing (and vaccines) you can position yourself as also being a valiant anti-mask/anti-vax candidate and win elections on this issue.

I'm trying to stoke awareness of how oxygen is known to be toxic, how ventilation is known to be harmful, and how patients' oxygen levels can be improved by using the antidote to oxygen toxicity that has been mostly forgotten by Science™ [0]. Sometimes patients benefit from a little extra oxygen, but it's a very fine line between helpful and too much.

Would I win an election? Maybe an anti-mask/anti-vax candidate will just adopt my term, and point out the harm being done: Medical Hyperventilation causes the deterioration supposedly being treated.

[0] https://www.taxiwars.org/2021/06/folly-medical-hyperventilat...
This is the concept of "economic rent"

It was really difficult to understand the concept in my mind, and the myriad places it applies, but it has helped me understand a lot of stuff.

Also an interesting fact: When Adam Smith said "free markets" what he meant was "free of economic rent". That is maybe as radical an idea now in our era of health insurance and credit based finance as it was in Smith's day of the "place men" of Britain.
The thing about outer space is that it's impressively empty. Any objects obscuring a visible star are most likely in its system. So, even for something this far away in a crowded system, we should be able to tell in a couple decades.
Yeah, but those 0.2M are spread out over almost as large an area as the 1.5; the Greater Helsinki area has a population density of 283 people per square kilometer, vs Uusimaa/Nyland without the Greater Helsinki area at 56. (according to https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyland , https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingfors_ekonomiska_region and LibreOffice Calc.)

[EDIT:] So, sure, most of those cars must be owned by inhabitants of the Greater Helsinki area. Heck, I live in Helsinki proper, and I have a car. But... Up until last year, when I still worked at the office in the more central parts of town, my daily commute there was by bus and metro (and will possibly be again sometime soon). And AFAIk I was(/am/will be) far from alone in this combo. [/EDIT]
Water cooler talk is not friendship. It's too easy to feel "connected" at work, and then not invest outside of it...and then once you leave, you find people don't have time for you.

By all means, if you find shared interests at work, seek to build on them, but a relationship of convenience through work will likely end once the convenience ends. That is both an obstacle to leaving (and is often what "culture" really translates to), and a major downside if you value real friendships since it's not any sort of emotional connection, nor even a shared activity you both can continue to enjoy.

As others have mentioned, if you just desire peoplecolocated with you that you can talk to throughout the day, that's also achievable from any major city, regardless of where your job is. And, a real benefit is since they aren't working on the same thing, or reporting in the same hierarchy, you can be completely honest and transparent with them (albeit with a mind toward not breaching corporate secrets), which is more conducive to building real friendships as well.
I kinda like what Valve did with Steam Deck. One per customer(or account) and small pre-payment with limit of the age of account on initial launch. Ofc, the mad rush and low supplies still weren't great. But at least there is some chance that they end up in hands of real customers.

Not that there isn't plenty of people with multiple accounts that possibly look decent in most metrics. (Myself included)
There are degrees of intention (Fonseca, 2020). Most people are quite deliberate about the speed they choose to drive, or the level of care they put into the act of operating a vehicle.

City planners and engineers are intentional about what they choose to build or not build.

This is a shaky foundation of an argument IMO.

https://laist.com/news/car-crash-accident-traffic-violence-l...
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is a happy medium (no pun intended) & I'll give it a go in my bookmark toolbar
There are yet more differences.

For example, Swarm supports `configs`, while Compose does not - and I use `configs`, and would much rather not have to have separate service definitions for dev and prod to work around such insufficiencies.
Not just denying the existence of climate change (which I doubt very many people dispute) but the causes of it, which is significantly more controversial, "scientific consensus" or not.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11221321?hl=en

> prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change
What is a HA RDS?
Thank you for this; I think I will look-up some Japanese history tomorrow (so far, I've been pulling factoids out of my fundamental orifice, a practice that HNers will reliably pull me up on).
I live in Ireland, used to live in the US, and had to take the Irish driver training and test as an adult, experienced driver. (Who had been driving approx as long as my instructor had been alive).

The test was difficult, picky, and the things that they were looking for were not necessarily correlated with safe, strictly legal driving. (e.g., target speed in a 50KPH zone (urban area) was 53, not 49, and to not approach that with conviction made you a too timid driver.)

And despite the intensive tests -- drivers here are crap. On the dog walk tonight, there were 3 cases of drivers failing to yield at crosswalks.
My argument doesn’t care who’s pocket is funding the renewables.

As a society, every extra dollar spent on pricier energy is an extra dollar that can’t go to social programs, or to new start up, or anywhere.
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As stated, "If you're trying to default deny new outbound connections and build an allow-list for MS resources, you'll have your work cut out for you".

If you're trying to secure your consumption of their product by explicitly allowing communication with only pre-authorized domains, they are still finite in number. The quantity is more than 1, but less than infinity. You can build such a list if you want to, which would exclude office366.ru. I'm not sure I understand the problem - that you must authorize thirty domains instead of one? Or are we arguing a principle here that one domain should be all that the entire Microsoft product catalogue ever uses?

I confess, I may fail to see how one domain vs two vs twenty-two known domains is going to matter, but I am curious to learn more. What are you attempting to do on that domain front?
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There's still a major disconnect in this blog post. The problem statement was making all web-enabled devices performant with Canvas, not just desktops and mobiles running Chrome. If Off Screen Canvas is only available for a recent version of one browser engine, it's not going to solve that problem is it?
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Your characterization is even more misleading than theirs. Do you seriously think Trump created the vaccine himself and it didn't go through the FDA and scientists or anything else?

The mere existence of the vaccine should be enough for her but no if Trump said something she won't take it.
When I was younger (like three decades ago), the number I was taught was something like two million years (if I remember it correctly; I might still be able to find that book if I'm lucky).
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you don't seem to have a background in mathematics. A huge(and growing) body of work exists for every example you gave. Obviously mathematicians are interested in nonlinear systems
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I'm quite confident you could sell your waste to Russia, to store in the vast empty tundra, for a couple rubles.
This is an interesting tool! It would be cool if you could take say 20 articles from Gothamist, Streetsblog, NYT, NY Post, Pix11, etc. and see how they all ranked in this system. That could be a really interesting blog post.
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Which tools are you using for these NLP judgments? Are you using SpaCy at all? Are there any models you've built here, or is this all rules on top of an NLP model? I'm working on NLP models for education, and we use SpaCy a ton. I'm peter@quill.org if you want to learn more about how we're using this.
> Many in the office have caught it multiple times in the that timeframe.

If thats the case, and those are confirmed with PCR test, then we are catastrafucked. In the UK double infections are pretty rare. Given the routine level of testing (~1million tests a day) I'd expect to see some sort of indication or worry from the statisticians.

> a couple of which I know are fully vaccinated.

Again, I'd expect this to see some level of data to support double infections in vaccinated people with "normal" immune systems. I'd expect to see that data in the UK or Israel, possibly south korea as well.

I'm sure it happens, but at a scale that we would see in a normal office, suggests something really quite common. But I can't find evidence to support that (I have a lot of doctor friends, who'd i'd expect to get re-infected, especially as they have been more lax with the little PPE they have. )
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This report found that ICF could reach LCOE as low as $25/MWh "with optimistic but not obviously unrealistic inputs."[0] This does require hohlraums cost about $2 each and are fired every 20 seconds. With mass production and process optimization it may not be ridiculous to reduce hohlaum cost to this amount. However, the yield is about 5 gigajoules which is equivalent to about 1 ton of TNT.

Making equipment that can handle 1 ton of TNT exploding every 20 seconds is an interesting engineering challenge.

[0]https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.005...
This will be highly profitable, just crazy expensive for a service that provides no other value