skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50Hz is pretty damn fast for anything happening at rocket ship scale (i.e. gimbaling of engines). 10Hz seems fine for a more strategic roll-up of all subsystems wherein you would have to do more complex logic each round. The physics are pretty stable at any rate considering the masses involved. If we were talking about controlling a 10g nanodrone (hypothetically), 50hz would probably be cause for concern.

For a SpaceX mission, there isn't a lot that can go wrong in 2 hundredths of a second that you could have magically resolved if you saw it 1 hundredth of a second earlier (i.e. at a 100hz rate).
please take a look at the performance. having made a change or two I've let the page sit in chrome for ~30mins before noticing that it was keeping that CPU at ~95%.
We have them in Texas too. I’ve seen several in Austin and even one in Brownsville, a smaller city close to the Mexico border.
There are also applications which might reasonably have to process dates 16 years in the future right now. I suspect most of finance, for instance, is on 64-bit systems at this point, or we'd be hearing a little bit more about this.
maybe i am not reading it correctly, but from the abstract it says:

Our study provides evidence of protection against infection with the Omicron variant after completion of a primary vaccination series with the BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccines; in particular, we found a VE against the Omicron variant of 55.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 23.5 to 73.7%) and 36.7% (95% CI: -69.9 to 76.4%) for the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines, respectively, in the first month after primary vaccination. However, the VE is significantly lower than that against Delta infection and declines rapidly over just a few months. The VE is re-established upon revaccination with the BNT162b2 vaccine (54.6%, 95% CI: 30.4 to 70.4%).

and the other study:

This national investigation is one of the first to show that Omicron is less likely to result in COVID-19 hospitalisation than Delta. It finds the rate of possible reinfection for Omicron is 10 times that of Delta. It also finds that third/booster vaccine doses offer considerable additional protection against symptomatic disease when compared to ≥25 weeks post second vaccine dose with these benefits being seen with all available vaccines.

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i cant seem to find any evidence in those two papers about the vaccines making someone more susceptible... maybe i missed something?
I think the real point is less about the cost than about time and budget overruns when comparing nuclear vs. renewable projects.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a single solar or wind project that's run late or over budget, whereas I'd be even more hard pressed to come up with a nuclear build that has not run late and overbudget, and usually by large margins.
Yea, but low voltage pumps are pushing moving water through pipes (copper, or Pex) throughout your home when the boiler (modern condensing boiler) is on. You want a efficient release of heat.

So I agree with you that stone is a better material for holding heat, by how much--I don't know.

Having a stone fireplace might make sence heating one room, but I still have my doubts on energy saved, unless you have some kind of adobe house built around a huge stone fireplace.

It just seems more practical to have hydronic heating in your structure than a stove in each room. I have tried to heat a home with a Wolf Stove in a fireplace. A Wolf stove use just a metal stove with a fan in it. It's a fireplace insert. It only heats up the room it's in. It does heat up the bricks on the fireplace, but not enough to keep heat in when the fire is out.

If anyone decides to put in a hydronic heating system, you will like it. It's good for allergies too. I put one in a bay area home, and the install is pretty simple. The books make it much more complicated than needed.

Basically put down pex piping, or registers (radiators, baseboard) in each room. Soneyinrd you need both. Buy a boiler that has been around awhile. Condensing boilers are new, but efficient. Buy your primary pump, and your sector pumps. Know the difference between primary, and secondary piping. You will need an expansion tank. I used a mixture of copper, and pex. And a thermostat.

(In the Bay Area, we use natural gas. An electric heating here is very costly. Stay away from electric. Oh yea, for some reason hydronic heating was stopped in the 50's here. Contractors went to forced air, even though most homes don't have air conditioning. This means many hvac techs do not know how to work on hydronic, but act like they do. So double check their estimates.)
Yeah, agreed. They also had no self-awareness to admit partial fault for the ban. They just immediately put the blame on the algo (again, because dang was being so dang nice). Post is also 8 years old so who cares?
The paintbrush idea is brilliant.

Also, not a plug, but I've used Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/) before and it would be cool if there was some way to integrate how both you guys do linking. The difference being documents are linked together by basically a web hyperlink, whereas in kinopio the links can only happen at the card level, but the UI is much better.
Scandinavian society gives a lot of airtime to "radical" intellectuals talking bullshit about things outside their field of expertise.

Bjørn Lomborg was a hipster economist who denied man-made climate change and had an embarrassing amount of clout in Denmark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
tree sitter can definitely help with this problem, but so can regular AST parsers, the idea is the same: just add code or grammar that will parse the "invalid" grammar, mark it as invalid, and continue parsing valid code as soon as possible.

Existing code editors like VSCode do exactly this for better syntax highlighting of incomplete code.
I could only wish the US had something like that. Very few Congresspeople could even succinctly describe email to you, let alone express the need for a system like this. And even if they could introduce a bill, Big Tech lobbyists would instantly swoop in and proclaim the idea as a threat to national democracy, and instead try to steer the legislator to just hosting entire thing on their platform instead. I fucking hate our federal government.
https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE

Germany: 2x the French nuclear capacity in wind and solar + coal and gas (edited): 398gCO₂eq/kWh

France: nuclear + a bit of hydro and renewables: 46gCO₂eq/kWh
But it is a similar kind of BS. No scientific basis as well.
Something wrong that I’ve done in my own career was to become the principal expert in company/industry specific technical details. My philosophy in education was always to steer to general engineering and business because of its wide applicability and my desire to understand the complete operation, and work at an executive level. Now I find myself with career ambitions that are seen as a negative at my current employer. They would find it difficult to replace my technical skills, so they prefer to keep me in my current role - where I’m most valuable. The thing that isn’t discussed in the article is that the most valuable employees are usually those making the technical contributions and housing the knowledge, which is why managers don’t want to move them. Unfortunately in business these employees are not compensated for their fair value or promoted because the management layers have their own incentives to find the best contributors possible at the lowest possible cost. In my case by doing the natural thing and learning all the details of my position and producing high quality work, I’ve made management hesitant to change my role.
I may never understand the apparent interest by a subset of HN users for this reskin of Bing.
TikZ claims some support for automated graph layout generation in
chapter 26 of the manual [1]. It also lets you specify your own graph
layout algorithms in Lua. Results in my experience aren't as aesthetic
or intuitive as a custom layout but are comparable to graphviz.

[1] https://tikz.dev/gd-overview

edit: chapter 27 in the online version
The other way around. I work remotely so that I can live wherever I like.

I made the jump to remote work nearly 20 years ago, specifically so that I could have the freedom to live anywhere. First stop was the beach, in places like Thailand and central America where the climbing and surfing is good and living is cheap. Eventually to Fontainebleau, where they keep all the best bouldering.

That's the biggest perk of this gig: that you can do it remotely. Find the place you'd most like to live on the world, then find a bed and internet there. Sorted.

It's baffling, watching the entire world get handed this dream that took so much time and effort to arrange back then, and seeing people complain that they miss their commute.
Nice list! A bit micro on a few points, but nice things to highlight. On a zoomed out View, a PhD will teach you a lot about the life cycle of creative projects in general - idea inception, prototyping, feedback, iteration, presentation. It will also teach you perseverance - oh boy, will it teach you perseverance.

At the same time, it will not teach you some things you'd pick up in industry - team work in particular.
Good Catch :) I looked at it and I thought it was the new MacBook Pro, until notice the tag next to it.
If you have to use electricity to produce hydrogen it is more efficient to instead use that electricity directly for hot water and a heat pump for space heating. There is no need to 'rip it out and replace the whole system' to use a heat pump; an air to air heat pump as used in many Scandinavian homes can be fitted at much lower cost without disturbing the existing central heating at all.

I don't understand why heat pump solutions in the UK are so expensive. An air to air heat pump from Samsung can be had for a thousand pounds and installation for another five hundred here in Norway; see https://www.elkjop.no/product/hjem-og-husholdning/oppvarming... for instance.

This is rated for room areas up to 100 m2 so plenty enough for the average UK home. Buy two if you want the upstairs heated separately.
This is just the “religion might all be made up but it gives people comfort/morality so we shouldn’t look too closely” argument in another form. A useful lie eventual causes side effects (eg: in this case, causing managers to base career trajectories around bunk personality categories).
Point taken.

Let me refine by saying my neighborhood in SF is 90% white, Democrat voting, can’t-get-off-the-hedonistic-treadmill culture, love to talk about progressive ideals while voting for restrictive policies that hurt residents.

I lived in a swing state a long time ago and it was actually nice interacting with people from a lot of different backgrounds, none of which dominated the culture. You could go to a rave with some anarchist one weekend and go deer hunting with an evangelical Christian the next.
Cargo has its own interpretation of semver: first non-zero number is the major version, so v0.6 is like v6.0.0 and v0.7 is like v7.0.0. Then each major version is treated as a separate crate, as if it was cortex-m-v6 and cortex-m-v7.
Hubris: An open-source OS for microcontrollers, in 2000 lines of Rust
Mindfulness and meditation especially, /are/ supported by scientific findings. I don't know about yoga, but it's basically stretching and that's generally good for you.
Alaska Town Records 67 Degree Temperature, a December Record
I used to be the way you describe, and I found it left me without any convictions. I used to think that was okay, because I reasoned with myself that convictions are irrational if not backed by data.

Then I got older and realized how easy it is to frame and manipulate data and “facts” to achieve any desired result on the part of the person disseminating the facts. I realized that having some base convictions was a way to defend against people using data in unscrupulous ways, to convince me of things I didn’t want to believe.

So now I do both. I have some points of view that I can’t defend with data and science and peer review studies. They are grounded in my own observations of the world and how they make me feel. I won’t let anyone tell me what my lying eyes see, that’s for me to determine. But for what I can’t see I try to follow data where I can.

Does this mean I may be living under some incorrect convictions? Sure! But it’s far better than floating like a leaf in the wind, blowing wherever someone spouting some “data” would want to take me.

Irrationality is okay because the world and humans are irrational. You can’t operate in a pure mentat/vulcan mode under such conditions.
While google generally gives me the best results for specific queries I have grown very very tired of the amount of ads I sometimes see. Recently I hit a search that gave me 5 ads at the top, 3-4 actual results and more ads on the bottom. It was both sad and amazing to see more ads than actual search results.
> Of course HN sees "no one in this enormous, old, well-studied field is certain" and immediately thinks, well I've thought about this for 8 seconds or so and here's my take.

It's fun! I'm enjoying reading other people's suggestions as a little bit of light entertainment before I start work. I'm not thinking it would be an improvement to replace the archaeology department at my local university with the HN comment section.
Exact same here. I joined a FAANG 6 months ago. Good luck with interviews!
Your intentional aversion to the full context doesn't help anyone understand the situation.

When people do not understand any context, they are lead to believe the situation is absurd and is occurring for no reason at all.

Full context allows the public to have a sense of things.

Here is an honest attempt building a storey via several separate but related facts:

(1) In the 1800s, Europe had essentially lost a tradewar with China. The Chinese economy was somewhat of a marvel of the 1700s-1800s, studied by US presidents and founding fathers like Ben Franklin even.

(2) The UK couldn't produce anything the Chinese wanted to buy (a goal to help the UK economy), but ultimately hatched a plan to smuggle a well-known deadly and addictive drug into Chinese ports: Opium, which has been known to grow well in the India colony / Afghanistan and is also related to heroine / morphine / opioids.

(3) The UK's drug smuggling cartel via the British East India Company and backed by their navy eventually causes huge problems for Chinese citizens and their every day life. People are dieing. The Chinese government then organizes special anti-drug smuggling operations to end the illegal drug cartel's drug smuggling.

(4) War starts. The Opium Wars. Plural. The UK navy steps in, the Chinese military was defeated, and this was all to force the Chinese to permit the UK drug cartels to continue operating. Part of the treaty ending one of these Opium wars allows Hong Kong to be leased to the UK for them to set up an offensive post on Chinese territory from which to continue poisoning the Chinese public.

(5) HKs economic miracle was propped up by drug smuggling and money laundering and tax haven status. It wasn't much of a miracle. Drug smuggling and tax dodging are universally condemned both in the West and China.

(6) The public in HK is losing features of Western civilization (like a free press and anti-beijing school programs) as they transition back to governance by the broader Chinese civilization.

(7) There IS a small degree of turmoil as HK society is re-organized, but it should be understood in context. Transition from Civ A to Civ B, who both have completely different systems of law.
Do you have experience with AVR assembly and calling conventions? There are only a handful of us looking at this issue, none of us have much bandwidth and we could definitely use your help!
They should read it's history. I think its audience is that of people who'd otherwise love astrology if it weren't so out of fashion.
It does not need to be fraudulent, it is enough that it states facts as scientific when they have not been proven.
Use ublock origin then
There is a few years before they get to that size, Siemens Gamesa have one of that size and that is not entering into serial production before 2024 [0]. That said the first one of those have just been set up this week, though not offshore but in Thy in Denmark [1] (Article in Danish) Siemens Gamesa and Vestas is in quite a competition about who can construct the largest windmill so it will be interesting to see where it gets us.

[0]: https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore...

[1]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/verdens-stoerst...
IMO the biggest issue with MBTI types is the lack of "unaligned" letters. Someone at 51% of the way between "P" and "J" probably doesn't meaningfully express their "J", but would still get "INTJ" the same as if they had scored 100% of the way to "J". Adding an "X" to the middle of each scale would probably help differentiate between people genuinely expressing one end or the other of the scale, and the middle who don't really. Of course then the test probably would have never gotten popular, because most people would have a few Xs in their score and it's a lot less catchy of an idea then.
That still seems like software under the “control” of the OS maintainers. But most apps running on an OS are never seen by the people maintaining the OS.

That’s why it’s such a tricky move to break compat with those apps X because you cant know what they are doing and how.
Well, someone like Taleb would say that human nature (if there is such a thing) has remained unchanged for at least as long as there has been writing. So we have writings thousands of years old on what people thought about how other people work. These have been subject to the best truth filter we know of: time. So you’ll learn more about how your fellow humans operate by reading the classics than whatever bullshit psych field is critically lauded in $currentyear.

Incidentally I’ve also found this to be true for politics. You will get a much better understanding of politics by reading historical texts about the 20th century than by following the day-to-day oscillations of the political machine from any news source. Actually, the latter negatively impacts your understanding.
I think it is a bit of a stretch to call a desire for assertions to be backed by verifiable facts "arbitrary".

> How does anyone accomplish anything if every step they take has to be double blind studied before it even crosses their mind?

First, it doesn't have to be double-blinded before it can "cross your mind". There are lots of solid theories that are worth taking into consideration, however if you are writing a book promoting a theory which you claim has a scientific basis it is helpful to at least some evidence that it is true.

Nothing wrong with enjoying grandma's chicken noodle soup. I'm sure it's beneficial - but don't sell it as a cure for cancer.
I've been working on the engine control unit for trucks. I think the fastest control loops were 100Hz (but that was only a few), fixed time intervals. Then, of course, you have the fuel injection that is controlled by its own processor, independent of the ECU scheduling.

Nowadays I work with satellite SW. Most of the control loops are pretty slow. The fastest ones are those controlling gyros and reaction wheels that run in 5 or 10Hz
My bet is not on polygyny but widowing an re-marrying (if that was already a thing). Giving birth was a dangerous event back then as it is today for many women around the world, including large parts of the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_mortality_in_the_Unit...
> There are no known physical or chemical tests for depression.

The absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.

It is true that so far, we don't have physical or chemical tests for depression. This doesn't prove that the chemistry or the brains or neurotransmitters are functioning the same way in depressed and non-depressed people, it just says the science still can't tell.
I found the discussion around ambiguity and required group consolidation around a shared understanding pretty interesting. One could imagine that the amount of ambiguity present in a problem could then set the scale of how many people should be working on something: with large ambiguity it becomes hard for a big group to consolidate on a shared understanding, and they might never then align their efforts.

Presumably a leader of a large group should set very few and clear goals to align the group around. The tension then I would guess is that this might not best make use of the specific skills of the individuals present.
Any Reason?
The note about using diagrams as boundary objects is astute: systems are too complex to actually understand the whole thing.
> Younger technologists are constantly having their efforts defamed needlessly on this leading technology forum with nothing being added to the conversation.

Speaking of nothing being added to the conversation, it’s somewhat conspicuous that you are attacking the source rather than engaging with the argument. His criticisms are valid and shared by many technologists of all ages and skill levels, surely you can explain why they’re mistaken — for example, you could point to extensive use of Bitcoin in a legitimate non-speculative economy. You’ve been promoting it for many years, surely you must have examples?
In my experience dang is amazingly responsive to mails.

In my case I couldn't log in, because of a captcha, which I didn't even see.

He sent me a kind reply to my query about what's wrong and fixed it very quickly by whitelisting my account.

Absolutely amazing for a tech company.

I think a Thank you! to the mods in general is in order. They do an awesome job under sometimes very difficult circumstances.

And while we're at it.

Happy New Year to everybody!

E: Clarification
In an urban environment, where do the robots operate? They’re in the way of pedestrian traffic if they’re on the sidewalk and in the way of (possibly glacial) vehicle traffic if on the road. Pre-covid, downtown Toronto was pretty crowded and nyc is worse.
Something needs to provide for the good hypothesis making side so those kinds of things are always valuable even in the most strict science focused societies, as long as actual results are allowed to take their place in terms of function when they are investigated solidly.

But that's not really the crux of this particular issue, it was pseudoscience not "not science". I.e. it was masquerading as being more scientifically founded than it was instead of just a book of this guy's personal understandings.
The 'Un-Extinct' Fish
And polish press is covering this as "George Soros funded Citizen Lab, we should follow the money!"

https://www.tvp.info/57610595/pegasus-george-soros-sponsoruj...

full translation:

"""

Brejza's source of information is financed by George Soros

The Citizen Lab group, which is the source of the accusations for the alleged surveillance of Brejza - as well as prosecutor Ewa Brzosek and lawyer Roman G. - itself states on its website that it is financed, inter alia, by by George Soros' Open Society Foundation, as well as several entities indirectly related to this foundation and supporting left-wing organizations, incl. pro-abortion.

"""
I did something similar, and sold it for far more during the pandemic. I don’t think they’ve gotten cheap again, though I haven’t looked hard!
I don't think it's even a rewrite. It looks like algorithmically-generated blogspam. Look at the conspicuously capitalized "DuckDuckGo Mac Version Coming Soon" line, and the flipped header image.

I'm not sure if HN bans whole domains or not, but this seems like one to ban.