skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just a reflection of the fact of how necessary cars are to a reasonable life. The state is naturally going to be reluctant to screw people out of their means to get to their obligations because the state doesn't want to create more people who are dependent on it.
We didn't really learn (enough) - Fukushima made that very apparent. As an example, Angela Merkel, who used to be pro nuclear, changed position after the disaster.

The reason is that ever since Chernobyl there has been an active debate in Germany pro/contra nuclear (where in some parts there are still consumption limits on certain types of wild mushrooms and game due to contamination with caesium - 30 years later, 1000+ km away!). And the core argument pro was the same it is today: We learned from Chernobyl, nuclear reactors are way safer, Chernobyl will never happen again.

But if you followed Fukushima closely while it happened, the fact that Fukushima wasn't Chernobyl was sheer luck - had the wind blown southwards towards Tokyo (and not eastwards out to the sea like it did) Fukushima would have been worse.

I'm in no way saying that we have not advanced massively in science and technology - in fact, we have - I'm saying there are tricky biases at play here that make it very difficult to estimate whether we have learned enough.
My comment was in response to his assertion that "the primary reasons which caused Japan to become imperialist are directly tied to Western imperialism".
You can explain or justify the costs however you like. That's not the issue. I'm not making any claims as to the suitability of spending more or less into renewables, just pointing the obvious but often forgotten consequence, that every dollar spent here is a dollar you can't spend in another place.

Swapping to renewables at once would have an impact that can very easily overshadow any remediation costs. Even tiny cost increases now will produce vast difference 100 years forward due to compounding.

Just as a thought experiment, if the costs of switching to renewable energy are >0.72% of GDP, and the remedial costs are around 18T$ (in today's money) in 100 years, you're still better off not switching to renewables.
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But does it really matter? If you selected another number on that basis and then 1 2 3 4 5 6 won, you would still be kicking yourself as splitting the pot is better than no pot at all.
> My prediction is that there will be a useful "deep learning theory" in the future, but it will look a lot more like physics (such as Kaplan's scaling laws) than early 21st century machine learning mathematics/statistics.

I respectfully but completely disagree.

All the enabling technologies of deep learning come from machine learning and statistical learning theory. Stochastic gradient descent, regularization, dimension reduction, bootstrap, bagging, boosting: these techniques remain the fundamental tools in the deep learning toolbox, and a constant source of inspiration for the latest innovations.

Physics has done next to nothing for deep learning in comparison. It's as marginal as the kernel SVM stuff. Just fiddling around with the same old stat mech / network theory / power law stuff the Complex Systems types been doing for the last few decades.

Stat mech works great for materials because materials are relatively simple things and we have relatively simple questions about them. We want to know how they respond to electricity, magnetism, heat, pressure, etc. When you turn to elaborate gadgets for machine translation or image recognition, sure, you can ask similar questions, but the questions just aren't as interesting. You'll get plenty of plots and histograms and power laws out of it, but it's all going to be very superficial. It's not going to tell you how the gadget works.

All that said, there's no way to be sure where the big advances in deep learning theory are going to come from. Your guess might be as good as mine.
> Interestingly, the ship itself doesn't appear on any of the "vessel finder" type websites that I can locate,

Vessel finder & al rely on AIS signal sent by vessel. The AIS beacon probably stopped emitting.
Was just going to say how much I loved it, guess that’s art.
This is pure garbage:

"Ethereum nodes can in theory filter modifications to the smart contracts they execute, but in practice, node operators have no reason to inspect or reject these upgrades, because they have relatively little stake in the success of individual contracts or their ecosystems."
Well, growing up I remember my grandparents describing how they used to get milk, soda, beer and household chemicals in glass containers instead of plastic. I grew up long after that was common, but as a kid it was still profitable to collect the glass soda bottles I found and return them for the meager deposit fees to buy stuff. Now everything is in single use disposable plastic containers and there are microplastics in everything.

It was more common to repair rather than replace things like vacuum cleaners, TVs and small appliances in my youth, now everything is disposable and tossed in the landfill as soon as it breaks.

I remember reusing paper sacks when we went to the grocery store instead of single-use plastic bags, and even if they weren't reused they could be used to collect compostable
waste in the house and just tossed in the compost pile for the garden to break down with all the other organics if they weren't used in some other way - but even just tossing them away was arguably more sustainable than the plastic bags we used today.

Professionally, I've worked on efforts to automate warehouse work and the business continuity strategy is always "they can use the manual process from before" except that within a less than a year many don't remember the manual process, no new staff was trained on the manual process and even if someone was still on staff that knew the manual process chances are it's no longer even possible due to other system changes. Then something happens that takes out the automation for a day or two. You even see echos of that in the current Just in Time supply chain issues many companies are experiencing. The automation is good because it enables improved pick rates but the skills to work without the automation are lost quickly, my point to the business has always been you need to practice without the automation though unless you want to accept shutting down all warehouse activity when systems go down.
3D organ printing appears to be advancing rapidly and zero-g is thought to make things significantly easier but no, I don't think we're there yet. I was just responding to the previous comment, which claimed it would only be economic in mass production due to launch costs. I think that's incorrect due to the massive expenses incurred by dialysis patients. The cost of a kidney can be quite high and still save money compared to dialysis.

I used the cost of dialysis but it's not even just the dialysis itself, it's also dealing with the complications that come with it.
Easier said than done...
> Passing strings from program to program is a pain

The internet has been pretty successful and many popular protocols (http, smtp, etc) are exactly "passing strings from program to program"
This seems a bit reaching; especially considering breeding reactors; and the amount of fuel contained in a small volume;

Lithium is not in great supply comparatively; Photovoltaics depend on p/n junctions and silicon. Wind turbines depend on rare earth magnets.
I think it's best to look at the options through a risk matrix. Is it possible that an earthquake is generated by fracking that is big enough to geologically connect a hydrocarbon formation with a surface aquifer thousands of feet above it? I suppose, but I think it is very unlikely. I don't think there are any cases of that on record, and wells have been fracked in the US for many decades (although not as frequently as recently). What is the consequence of that happening? A community (likely a rural community) loses potable drinking water. I would say that is a low probability of a medium impact event.

The calculation is going to change if there is a higher probability of drinking water contamination for whatever reason, or if more people live in the area and would be impacted by an event, just as the risk matrix is different building a nuclear power plant in France compared to building one on the Japanese coastline. Of course every jurisdiction makes its own decisions, as is their right, but the consequence of always taking the least risky option can leave a country in a tough situation when those options don't cover their energy needs, like in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) right now.
> just

As if everything else is the same. It is a completely independent code base.
I don't see the analogy. "I hit you with a wrench" by and large implies intent. A pedestrian being hit by a car is very rarely an intentional event.

Further, you tend to have control over the wrench in this scenario (and if I was hit by a wrench because you e.g. dropped it unintentionally, "the wrench hit me" is reasonable), whereas insufficient control over the car is usually the problem in a crash.
She remembers you.

I also graduated in the early 90's and my children recently graduated from my alma mater. When I went with them to teacher conferences some of the same teachers were still there. Teachers that I didn't even have classes with remember me.
MHonarc: A mail to HTML converter. 90s style
Using the school computer's webcam to test his exploit at night was genius. Very clean.
IDK about data sciences but facebook keep blocking guys that have surname Khokhlov, which is coincidental to slightly offensive naming of Ukranians.
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Then traditional systems better start attempting to compete.While Western Union charges fees to cover network operating costs for remittances, companies like Strike are leveraging Bitcoin to bring those fees to zero.
I don't think this is accurate. Microsoft acquired Nokia in 2014, but then spun off the brand to HMD Global (a new Finnish company) in 2017. HMD and Foxconn have a partnership in which both companies co-design the Nokia phones that are then manufactured by Foxconn in Taiwan.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10879/hmd-closes-nokia-brand-...
As long as it's not web-based, I still have an interest. I completely lost all desire to touch any "web code"

But if we're talking locally running python or controlling hardware via microcontrollers, or things like that- I'm not well-versed in any of it, but it still grabs my interest, and the little I have done, even just small learning projects, has been fulfilling.

If it requires anything web-based, then it drains me of all happiness.
Most reactors in France are 1st gen whereas the new one being built is 3rd gen and the first of its kind in France. The increased safety has made construction more complicated than previous reactors but a lot of those issues are being worked out so future reactors would probably be built more quickly and cost efficiently.
A bit late, but their new flow requires ID verification for SMS 2FA resets [0].

[0]: https://help.coinbase.com/en/pro/managing-my-account/account...
No, federation alone doesn't solve the problem. This is addressed in the third paragraph of the paper; the TLDR is that federated processing might still leak personal information:

> The adoption of FA in the medical sector, despite its potential, has been slower than expected. This is in large part due to the unresolved privacy issues of FA, related to the sharing of model updates or partial data aggregates in cleartext. Indeed, despite patient-level data not being transferred between the institutions engaging in FA, it has been shown that the model updates (or partial aggregates) themselves can, under certain circumstances, leak sensitive personal information about the underlying individuals, thus leading to re-identification, membership inference, and feature reconstruction. Our work focuses on overcoming this key limitation of existing FA approaches.
People on HN always act like what they were doing was almost noble. You weren't. If you had been picking locks or even rummaging around unlocked desk drawers you'd get the same treatment and deserve it.
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It’s the best data we have on this. The CDC officially denies any causal link between the vaccine and death [1]:

”A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines”

I can find 10 credible news reports of healthy individuals that died within 48 hours of receiving the vaccine in a minute of searching, so we know that the number 0 is complete nonsense.

Since the CDC numbers are comically wrong, we have to go to the next best source. The CDC itself is creating vaccine hesitancy by lying and misrepresenting statistics, which leads people to wonder what else they are lying about. Just the idea that they report adverse reaction rates based on number of doses administered, and not the number of vaccinated people, intentionally cuts the effective incident rate per person in half since two doses are required. That calls into question everything else they do. Nobody cares if it’s the first or second dose that kills or injures them. So the next best source is VAERS.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
>Why can't the US navy deal with this?

They likely don't have a great deal of confidence they can manage it, and all the potential results are kinda shitty for them.

In the past week, one of our subs crashed into something. We're like a year removed from one of the Navy's own ships randomly blowing up in similar circumstances. I imagine the Navy's would estimate something like an 80% success rate at best.

Then look at if they succeed. Most of the world will be unaware of what they've done, a significant portion will be pissed at them for intervening in a war to steal $80 million in oil, and in the future countries will try to pawn off their potential disasters to the Navy.

Or if they fail, they will end up getting the bulk of the blame for the failure and the resulting catastrophe, the Houthis will get a huge amount of sympathy, and the Navy will have another red mark that likely includes US personnel casualties. And from the sounds of it, one remote controlled firework could make them seem responsible too.
I'd say they should do one of these for police shootings, except the whole system would probably overload and melt down.
Fun story! Such incredible attention to detail and thoughtfulness, all the way up to automatically sending a pen test report to the district's technical supervisors, and sharing a presentation after graduation. This kid was one step ahead all along.

Great work, Minh.
Got it, so more a more exclusive control of capitalism is the big distinction unshackling Japan from colonialist structures. Groundbreaking.
Oh please. This is the kind of comical rhetoric that gets road safety advocates ridiculed.

In practice speeding or at least the instance that resulted in getting ticketed is usually inconsequential.

Between highways signed well under the normal traffic speeds, revenue enforcement and fishing stops the overwhelming majority of speeding tickets are trivial. People engaging in the kind of speeding most people can agree is excessive are a tiny minority. If they weren't people wouldn't use a speeding ticket as the epitome of a trivial infraction.

Of course speed is a factor in death and destruction. That's tautologically true thanks to how the equations in Newtonian physics are written but you don't see anyone (who isn't getting laughed at) advocating for the return of the national speed limit for obvious reasons.
Generating energy from the difference between extremely hot and slightly hot is cheap and efficient using turbines.

Going from slightly hot to cold, as in the case of geothermal and capturing residual heat in the stack of a natural gas plant, is thermodynamically inefficient and quite expensive.

Since fusion energy is extremely hot, it is efficient. Other sources of "extremely hot" include: combustion (typically from fossil fuels) and solar thermal.
The great thing about falsifying information is that it can come from anywhere.

The idea that it's fine for a bunch of snot-nosed purple haired leftist activists (sorry, I meant wise and scholarly even-handed moderators) to censor the de-facto public knowledge search infrastructure is ridiculous.

I love finding out that my hypothesis is falsified -- no matter where the data comes from. It means I'm about to learn something that I didn't expect. The best moments of my day.

Maybe that comes from being a programmer for 40 years. After being surprisingly wrong tens of times a day, you start to look forward to it.

Perhaps the self-proclaimed overlords of society's collective knowledge need to ... learn to learn, before putting the brakes on all that unruly and uncomfortable data?
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If you have a 35 hour work week and I have a 40 hour work week, where neither of us have work obligations off the clock, then you have more time off work then I do, yes?

I don't know what you mean by "should be treated as a paid vacation".

The comparison is for yearly income made by someone who is a teacher (which requires a bachelor degree), vs. yearly income for the median someone who has a bachelor degree pro-rated to ~10 months on the assumption that that person has no work obligations for 2 months. Call that "paid vacation" or call it "seasonal unemployment" - it doesn't affect my argument.

I do not believe there is any real meaning in comparing those two incomes in order to establish if the teacher is over- or under-paid.

> teacher acquaintances are able to find some work when schools are closed by

Yes, one of the other issues I have with the comparison (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826659 ) is that I couldn't tell if the $62,870/year for a HS teacher included that additional income, which would make the presumptive time-off-for-summer comparison even less relevant.

> Performing to the required standard

A.K.A. work-to-rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule even lists teachers as an example.

Ha! Here's a guide for teachers on what to do/not do in a work-to-rule action! https://taaaconline.org/pdf/wtr-kit/WORK%20TO%20RULE.pdf

I have no problems viewing this as a valid labor action against a bad work environment. I object to willcipriano's analysis arguing that teachers are being paid roughly market rates for their jobs.
And don't get me started on the Romans.

After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants.

This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
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Well, the suburbs too for sure. I probably meant outer centre, for the thrill of the ride as you mention :).
"Stop complaining it's broken and use the undocumented workarounds"
Wait, shouldn't you measure the information in output data (information about classes of samples) to evaluate overparameterization, not all the information in various features?

I.e. total overfitting can be achieved by ignoring most of the input values and using just as many pixels from the top left corner as you need to uniquely identify the source image (which is far less than the total number of pixels) and map it to an arbitrary class, and for a million images that should be theoretically possible with million-ish parameters; i.e. no matter how many pixels there were in each image, 138 million parameters for classification of a million images is overparameterized from the classic perspective of what overparameterization is (some generalization forced simply because it's theoretically impossible to fit each sample individually).
Which is why all browsers render the same thing exactly the same way and there's no need at all to test more than one. Yep.
I realize this may have been a joke taken too far, but your comment breaks several of the HN guidelines and the Show HN guidelines egregiously. Please make your substantive points without personal attacks in the future!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Data science, and probably software engineering in general, needs something like the Iron Ring [0], where you make a pledge to not build bad things.

While I understand the author of this Medium post wanted to do something good, and maybe even managed to mitigate something worse... ultimately, the project is a failure. People have died because of Facebook [1].

The analogy I want to draw is of a civil engineer, responsible for adding additional support to a bridge. The bridge partially collapses, killing people. Maybe the work lead to less of a collapse, but the moral thing to do is to loudly object to the bridge being used at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
There's only so many dirty underclothes people can be expected to sort through before they snap.

"Who did you think wanted half a jar of olives?!?"
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If you consider the possible extend of a major accident - whole southern Germany could become contaminated and tens of million of people could loose their homestead - a certain emphasis on safety is welcome.
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Why you got downvoted is the same reason EU doesn't have startups.
I agree, that feels wrong to me...

When I was younger (~15) I also did some "fun" (aka stupid) stuff with the school computer network and in the end they got me and I received a "formal warning" (it was in France).

In the end I'm glad for it because that scared me off and I never tried again on stuff that I don't own.

But putting a kid in jail/having a criminal record seems way to excessive to me. Kids are dumb. And by punishing them that hard they won't become a better person. hell, they won't be able to have a job !
When I was in High School in 2003 I discovered you could pretty easily get around the tool that blocked running installers by launching them by entering the full path to the installer in the address bar of Internet Explorer. This was before Windows and IE were decoupled. I installed VNC server on a couple friends computers and used it for some light hearted pranks, but didn't do anything else with it.

One of my friends who I did this to went crazy with it and used it to mess with his teachers computers. Ended up in huge trouble, cops knocking on his door, and I believe probation. This was the year after I graduated.

On the one hand, I kind of feel responsible for showing him, on the other hand, it's his fault he had to go off and be an idiot with something I just thought was fun.
The problem is that a good chunk of society views science as it should be infallible and its a failure if its not. And scientists tend to default to "50-50" kinds of language when they're dealing with uncertainty, and tend to overly emphasize uncertainty.

I'd kind of like to see science communicators start talking in the language of sports betting when it comes to uncertainty instead.
#latexforlife
You could also just be doing real-time sentiment analysis of the readers of hackernews right? I wonder how you'd prove or disprove this. I know I get a similar feeling lately about Reddit, that some topics seem to be machine generated due to pretty surprising typos (not the existence of them, but the kinds, and not the kinds you get used to from ESL students).