skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, Veritasium posted a brilliant way for optimizing thumbnails and headlines to improve click-through rate on Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

I plead guilty and say that I've repeatedly posted the same link on HN but with different query parameters to understand its performance.

But I've come to understand that users will notice this behavior and start to generally downvote.

As a creator with a small audience, the only success with tapping into a high throughput feedback loop has been by painstakingly write articles and submit them one by one to HN.

I've gotten much better at it already and frankly I've also noticed that engagement and "likes" isn't everything either.

I've realized too that if you truly do what you believe in consistently, I've found that I suddenly start having "impact", which I think is different from engagement.

How I see it:

- Engagement: clicks, views, comments

- Impact: The world changes, there's consequences and substantial changes as a reaction

But I think you can't have one without the other. High engagement means you're a popstar. High impact means you're a politician. Ideally, I want to be able to pick my position on the gradient.
A lot of the time it's because they are stuck in the same point for the last 10 years - "no funding for finishing 95% done tech because non-existant future storage tech will make renewables reliable"
If its too late to build nuclear, it is far too late to continue burn fossil fuel. They need to shutdown now with the coal, oil and gas staying in the ground and the one that we have already gathered need to be put back into the earth where it shall remain.

Until we first agree to shut fossil fuels down, talk about fossil fuels alternatives being "too late" is advocacy to continue burning fossil fuel.
puts Stuff.new.map(&:to_s).join("\n")
He changed the target because he convinced Roosevelt that Kyoto was a city of historical importance, not merely because he went there on his honeymoon. That's a dishonest retelling of one of the most important moments in war diplomacy.
Here are my two cents:

Lots of international pressure was put on Finland due to malnutrition and poor treatment of prisoners in the fall of 1918 that led to mass pardons in October of 1918.

My ancestors who fought amongst the "reds" and were convicted to prison camps emmigrated a hundred kilometers north after the war after being pardoned, as things got quite heated where they were from. They seemed to have regretted their actions in the war and expressed gratitude for being welcomed to the their new surroundings. My grandfather remained a communist, and was actually killed by a "white" veteran in 1958 after a municipal government meeting (got hit with a big log).

A new Finnish identity was built in 1920s as a unifying narrative. Sports were an important part part of it. Finland had been under the rule of other countries before, but now it started to develop an identity if its own. Paavo Nurmi, the original Flying Finn won 9 olympic gold metals in 1920, 1924 and 1928. Ville Ritola won 6 medals in 1924 olympics. Hannes Kolehmainen won the olympic marathon in 1920. (He was treated as a class traitor by the left.)

In 1930 there were significant anti-communist / anti-socialist / far right movements in Finland. "Meetings held by leftist and labour groups were also interrupted, often violently. A common tactic was "muilutus", which started with kidnapping and beating. After that the subject was thrown into a car and driven to the border with the Soviet Union."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Movement

Politically the left and the right were united in 1937 in the selection of Kyösti Kallio as president. A coalition government was formed, largely based on the deep anger and resentment by the left against Stalin's empty promises.

The biggest unifiers in the end were the Winter War and the Continuation War against Russia in 1939. It forced ex-enemies to fight side by side against the Russians. Finland was at war from 1939 to 1944. Next, the nation united to take care of war reparations worth 5.52 billion in 2020 dollars. It took until 1952 to to pay off the debt, and I think Finland still claims to be the only country to have paid war reparations in full.
Has anyone seen an attack in the wild, though? Ever?
I’m unsure of the existence of simultaneous multithreading on Apple CPUs.
> For every 10,000 black people arrested for violent crime, 3 are killed

This is a weird way to frame the issue. Are black people arrested for violent crime more often? I don't know, but if they are, that changes the conclusion. This seems like an obvious thing I'd want to find out if I were posting that Twitter thread.

> I am showing that when you control for violent crime rate, the disparity vanishes.

No, arrest rate and crime rate are not the same. That's the whole point of the discussion about bias in policing.

If you ask a more straightforward question, like "how often are people killed when they interact with police?", the statistics look different. Here's a study that says:

> On average, there were large racial/ethnic inequities in the rates at which White and Black people were killed during police contact. Across all MSAs, Black people were 3.23 times more likely to be killed compared to White people (95% CI: 2.95, 3.54, p<0.001).

- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Indeed, and to your last point I propose a challenge: over the next 30 years, we build as much nuclear and solar+wind as we can and see which generates more kWh at the end. My money is on the latter, but either way we all win.
The tradeoff here is that you don't have to explicitly declare new variables (something like `var` in js). Most people who work with python on a daily basis know you need the `global` keyword to avoid shadowing.

I think it was a good choice in the sense that it discourages mutable global state and makes the most common case more concise.
Important to note that the interest rate needs to be fixed. A variable rate could be increased and cancel out that erosion.
This seems weird until you understand the mechanisms.

The "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics" says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. It's probably part of our inherent "human nature" sense of ethics.

The SRO landlord is seen as exploiting poor people by taking their money in exchange for pretty terrible housing. So we ban the SROs, and now these people have to sleep in the streets.

But that actually feels OK, because NOW THERE IS NO ONE EXPLOITING THEM!

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
We know who they are. They're staffing Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Target, Costco, Kroger, etc. by the hundreds of thousands and have been throughout the entire pandemic. It's not their little trivial masks that have been protecting them from a daily bombardment of SARS2. It's pretty obvious where to look if we want to know more.
"The thing is, where are you picking up ridiculous 6 years amount? Because it sounds like very, very cherry-picked value."

That's directly from the linked article, except I rounded 5.7 years up to 6.
Are you referring to TABLUM.IO service? If so, they we do have connectors to popular databases just out-of-the-box (postgres, clickhouse, mysql).
for a software-focussed company like Microsoft to deny running Windows on the M1 seems very strange to me…

if MSFT is serious about (eventually) transitioning to ARM for the majority of consumer-oriented Windows machines, it surely makes sense for them to provide support for the most adopted ARM-based laptop and desktop platform out there… to bolster development of ARM-native applications for Windows on ARM, if nothing else.

i don’t own either machine — but i imagine the ARM-based Surface Pro X would make a miserable development experience, especially compared to a hypothetical Windows on M1(X) MacBooks.

we shall see i suppose, but i would be very surprised if we never see it happen.
Most organizations systems are ridiculously good in the beginning because we still have enough memory to know where things are and low information content that allows an easy organization. Any information organization system can only be judged after a few years of use in my experience.
And you would cause untold destruction to amazon rainforests, among other things.

No, you can't just pave desert with panels and magically solve power generation without ugly environmental consequences, that doesn't work even in computer games.
Mistyped, should have said "constrained".

In the planetary scale, paying a few $10bns or $100bns is nothing, especially against the backdrop of global warming damage. I don't think we should skimp on researching nuclear in this context, "because renewables are cooler".

I think we need a new "nuclear Trinity project" (only this time for energy generation!) or a SpaceX-type enterprise. Iterate, build a simple, single, safe design, and deploy it widely. Or fail, but not without trying.
My dad was a lawyer. I think it's because WordPerfect worked in DOS.
> In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.

"the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement" should be the working definition of "agile" development in almost every context. Would save a lot of confusion and pointless arguments about the true definition of agile, kanban, extreme programming, or what have you.
If you accept low efficiency, you can use thermal machines (max efficiency of roughly 35%), you can DIY such liquid battery : molten wax and a Stirling engine. Melt the wax to charge, and store in a thermos. You can use heat pumps to increase the efficiency by recovering wasted heat.

Plenty of things are technologically possible but as energy storage is commoditized so outside the lab we only care for the best ones where cost, efficiency, energy density, power density, energy leakage and battery life define the Pareto frontier.

There are flow batteries where you can switch the electrolytes when they are discharged.

You can also use standard lead-acid gel battery and switch them when they are discharged. (Use multiple small batteries and discharge them sequentially).

You can also switch solid-state Li-ion batteries.

There are also some molten metal and salts batteries : for example Ambri (https://ambri.com/technology/) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8751tkBU_Q) make some liquid metal battery ( where the discharged state is an alloy, and charging the battery separate back to its original components. Their batteries work at 500°C and are 80% efficient (vs lithium 95% efficient), and need to be immobile when used, but other can work at room temperature.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you so much for the advice.
Having used both professionally I love Ruby and I think python is an ok language. However, if there is one thing I do like about Python it is the white space syntax. It forces all coders including the not-so-technical people to write scripts using proper indentation and it makes inheriting Python scripts a little bit easier
Veritasium is fantastic, I can't think of many current or past TV shows that are of a similar quality to his videos. A while back he did a video of his own startup story, which was very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tFT4smd6E
> b) how to communicate to civilizations for the next 25000-50000 years what kind of waste that is.

People care about this way more than it actually matters. If going near a certain area kills you, people are going to learn that after the first few deaths. The casualties are never going to anywhere near the stakes of global warming.

And besides that, the whole worry only applies in the narrow range of futures where humanity neither drives itself extinct nor retains advanced technology. It occurs to me that in that kind of future, society might actually be helped overall by the scientific advancement driven by having access to radioactive sources.
I'd have thought that a desktop machine was more likely to run untrusted code than a server.
The NYTimes, which is a left-leaning institution to begin with, released an infamous paper on race-based police killings itself in 2015 by a black researcher and author, and found that "this data does not prove that biased police officers are more likely to shoot blacks in any given encounter." [0] People were angry that taking a look into the data did not say what they wanted to here.

And as another poster said [1], even if there were bias, that does not equate to likely, in absolute terms. The idea that you're essentially sending a black person to death, or rolling the dice on their life, by calling the cops on them for nonviolent crime, is ridiculous.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/police-killings-of...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200539
Emerging markets outperformed US markets in the periods between 1988-1994, 2003-2007, and 2009-2011
I'd argue that it's both. Not that the lobbyists need to do much more than slight nudging with a sprinkle of fear mongering.

Regarding the comparison with other power production methods, you are most certainly right about fossil fuels causes more harm than nuclear. Facing climate disaster it's hard to argue otherwise.

Unfortunately nuclear hazards in the form of accidents are much more ominous. Invisible, immediate and easily measured. It's just a scary technology.
I listen to the alpha trader podcast. Their latest interviewee suggested equities that made it through the last two big busts would probably be safe havens now. I think he said cyclicals-stuff out of the limelight. It’s a good listen.
Well edge is now Chromium based so it won’t make a difference in that case.
What concerns me is just how few people know this and how many have completely wrong ideas about what nuclear is and the threats it poses.
When I say footprint, I'm alluding to installations like the Taihang Solar Farm in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n731JjYSySY And, by footprint I mean the amount of space these panels occupy on the landscape.

Putting solar farms in a desert is an attractive idea and way less impactful than covering hillsides in green and temperate areas. My understanding, though, is that the transmission of all that energy is the real issue. You can build a giant solar farm in the Mojave desert but distributing it to farther parts of the U.S. is a problem.
Golang and Context – An Explanation
Other reactive frameworks like MobX will react when you only mutate objects. APIs like the useState hook at least make it obvious that you need to replace the whole object. Svelte on the other hand presents this "it's cool man, just change your plain JS state like normal!" paradigm, and it would be very reasonable without being told otherwise to assume that this applies to mutating objects as well. But then it doesn't.

If re-assignment of the whole object is what I have to do anyway, I'd much rather just be given an API that's slightly clunkier but makes that fact obvious. Otherwise the behavior will be surprising and error-prone to those not closely familiar with it yet.
There is a lot of political diversity on the planet. But even the economically ambitious authoritarian places are not storing or reprocessing fuel as a service for the supposedly timid places.
Tens of thousands of false QR codes in circulation after large-scale fraud in NL
Microsoft corruption of ISO to buy its own standard for OOXML:

https://noooxml.wikidot.com/
http://noooxml.wdfiles.com/local--files/banners/ISO-Discredi...
If inflation is followed with interest rates rising, and house prices are a product of mortgage affordability (and so interest rates), will inflation (and so interest rates rising) reduce house prices?

Has anyone modelled this? If inflation is at 6% what is a "sensible" interest rate? What percentage reduction in total borrowing would the average person have in that scenario?
Pronouns and BLM in his Twitter profile.... No wonder he's delusional and freaking out over the Rittenhouse case.
No, in this workflow, Amazon generates a replacement package and sends that out for the recipient. The recipient is entitled to one item that they paid for—and that would be the replacement item. The original item is still owned by Amazon, who is free to declare it abandoned, and so property of whoever finds it.

Remember, these parcels aren't being sent through the postal system (where you legally release ownership of mail to the Postmaster General by sticking something in a mail slot, which is how it can be a federal offense to tamper with their mail—undelivered mail is the government's legal property!)

Instead, these are parcels going through Amazon's own logistics carriers. Amazon never released ownership of these items—they don't do that until the item hits the recipient's door. These items are legally Amazon warehouse stock, that happen to have shipping labels printed on them.
That's the part where reality hits theory, as usual reality wins. Because before Amazon can ship in bulk, they have to repack all the single returns. They have to store them until they get enough volumes to justify bulk shipments, and usually those shipments aren't article pure. All that costs, a lot more it does for a factory producing this stuff in the first place. Logistics-wise returns and consumer last-mile deliveries are among the worst things to handle.
Bitcoin also tends to lose value as inflation rises, so it's just a more convoluted way of advocating for BTC over traditional stocks.
I love Veritasium. Derek has done a number of videos that are awesome like this. The videos are great and educational, but he also manages to subtly weave in an almost spiritual subtext to them as well. For example, in this one, you learn about imaginary numbers in some cool ways, history, how awesome e^ix is, etc, but also this yen-yang balance between embracing not only what is real but taking a chance on what is imaginary.

Some of my other favorites:

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k

I think he’s going to lose the $10,000 bet on the car though.
There is only a Dutch source. Will try to post a translation.

"
Due to large-scale fraud at the GGD location in Schiphol, tens of thousands of false QR codes are in circulation. Two women and a man have been arrested on suspicion of creating fake QR codes, which were then traded.

This is apparent from research by RTL Nieuws. The Public Prosecution Service confirms that three people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud with QR codes. The three employees, who were hired by the GGD through an employment agency, had access to the system to generate QR codes.

One of the suspects is suspected of having provided her password that allowed her to log into the system she was working with, which allowed others to create QR codes. The three suspects, who worked at the GGD location in the arrival hall of Schiphol, are currently in custody.

Some of the false QR codes will be blocked this evening, the ministry confirms after questions from RTL Nieuws.
Hundreds of euros per QR code

The fake QR codes were offered and traded through various channels for prices from hundreds of euros to sometimes as much as a thousand euros. The QR codes are in the name of your choice and can be used to gain access to, among other things, catering and events, even if someone has not been vaccinated or has not taken a test.

In total, tens of thousands of fake QR codes were created by the employees. That is a multiple of the 297 fraudulent QR codes currently blocked by the ministry. These codes were shared in chat groups and misused to gain access, according to an investigation by the NOS.
"
Except it is not practical to colocate all of the worlds solar power in a single location, and wind farms are even less space efficient by orders of magnitude when compared to energy density of nuclear per area.
I am interested in riding a bus. I flip off the bus driver on the side of the road. The bus blows right by me spraying water and throwing garbage. I hop on and and take the wheel. The bus driver pulls out a tire iron and knocks my teeth out. I walk on the bus, sit down, and shut up, wait, and then leave. I rode a bus.

If this is a problem, standards are not for you. ISO policies and industrial standards are terse. "Create standard work procedures and a framework for enforcement" or "Weld is to be continuous and free of splatter". It's a mistake to think their objective is to be business friendly. Often it's the opposite, and born out of the time when the entire Pacific ocean was a battle zone. Captured markets do not pleasantly become standard utilities. You're dealing with resources on a national scale that are working fine. Mess up, everyone dies. It's supposed to be inaccessible and closed off and insular. Work the job they give you if you want to do this. $26 trillion a year economy. There's a place there for you there if you want it.
If efficient, safe and low cost fast breeders become available, you don't need thorium or sea extraction. Just transmute the vast quantities of U238 that have been stockpiled as depleted uranium into fissionable Plutonium 239 and run reactors on that for decades.

Large nations have about one milion tons of depleted Uranium, in oxide or hexaflouride form, that's about 1 trillion megawatt-days, enough for 150 years of current energy consumption, or decades of geometric increases of energy use. Only then we need to go after existing proven mineral reserves, and only after that, maybe at the turn of the 22nd century, we would need to ponder sea water extraction.
I was into direct mail at the time; $0.10 per deliverable address was the going rate for "random" lists. They weren't after that, though; they wanted not just computer owners but modem owners at first and that kind of filtering was hard to find and expensive. I had ~3,500 true gold known modem owner addresses, my dude gave me several hundred dollars of trade value for it.

They were very eager to buy lists at less than the going rate that were better than random. Later they got less selective, modems could be assumed. Then about the time Win 3.1 happened they got truly spammy.
Wikipedia indicates that some test reactors are currently operational, and there are construction projects underway for commercial reactors. The article notes that in 1999 there were 0 operating thorium reactors anywhere on earth, but that no longer seems to be true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
I agree.

I'm not the biggest Python fan myself and would not recommend it for large projects, but I use it a lot both at work and personally for scripting/small stuff. It feels dumb, but I like dumb for those use cases.
Be as it may, a thorium reactor is in no way particularly special compared to a uranium reactor [1]. As humankind is able to make uranium reactors work, we can make thorium reactors work. Just like with seawater extraction of uranium, there's no particular hurry to commercialize the technology since uranium so far is plentiful and cheap.

[1] There is the issue that thorium by itself is not fissile, so it's a breeding fuel cycle similar to the U-Pu breeding cycle with reprocessing etc. Which, again, hasn't been developed as quickly as hoped many decades ago, as the simple once-through uranium cycle has been cheaper and good enough.