skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the article:

>However, dynamic range results stay below expectations – the Z 9 shows about 1.5 stops less dynamic range than its competitors from Sony and Panasonic.

That implies "its competitors" have a dynamic range of around 14.2 stops, which would put it above film cameras.

Moreover, I'm wary of comparing values like "stops" between various sources. In the two sources you provided, the Nikon Z9 has either 12.7 stops or 11.3 stops. That seems like a pretty big difference, especially if the original source says that the difference between film and digital is only 1. Are there any dynamic range measurements for film and digital cameras from the same source?
Antibiotics rock, and I think penicillin is rightly praised as being as closed to a Panacea as it gets. However, we shouldn't underestimate the positive effect of better hygiene, vaccination, and advances in surgery techniques.

I share the feeling that better nutrition is probably not as much of a significant factor in developed countries. For what it's worth, we are more obese than our ancestors.

Our World in Data has this nice chart of life expectance by age in England and Wales [1]. I have this pet hypothesis that a good chunk of the increase in the life expectancy of the younger people in that chart is due to vaccination and better hygiene. And, for older ages, the a good chunk of increase is due to advances in surgery.

The effect of antibiotics is probably more uniform across the ages. It is note-worthy that penicillin was discovered in 1928, so the increase in life expectancy before then can't be due to antibiotics.

I have no expertise in this area, so you should take all of this with a pinch of salt. The Our World in Data chart is really cool though. That steep fall and rebounce due to the Spanish flu, and the contrast with COVID-19 with respect to affect on different age-groups is also interesting. [2]

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy#it-is-not-only-ab...

[2]: I think comparing the naming of the diseases also tells us something about how society has changed.
Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15s of visual information
The root causes are scientists are experts in operating tools, just like many programmers can write code, it doesnt mean they understand the process.

The medical profession is largely still the snake oil industry it was hundreds of years ago, and Govt legislation enables their monopoly.

I have as little to do with the NHS as possible because these so called experts are experts in minutiae and not the big picture. They prescribe what they have been taught. The Govt/NHS also limits a GP's prescribing ability so private healthcare should be the gold standard not a communist era make work scheme like the NHS.

You try getting a doctor to explain their thinking, most will not, and when you challenge them they go all jihad on you, in a western country of all places!

This just demonstrates cognitive dissonance in what they have been taught, but any country or institution or individual who believes in sky faeries just shows humans can hold some diametrically opposed beliefs which are irrational and should be cause to be struck off any so called professional register!
I think we cannot avoid another Dark Ages and deurbanization without reputable authorities, information, and criticism of popular dis/misinformation.

Deplatforming creates martyrs and conspiracy theories, as does the lack of communication or the lack of reputable authorities.

I don't know how we can scale the limited time of subject-matter authorities except to direct their cannons at the biggest sources and individual instances of nonsense.
cbkeller, thank you so much for your answers!
Its rare I read such good answers on the grand scale implications of someone's research.

When you study plate tectonics, watch the Earth Story documentary [1], read Earth System History [2], Five Kingdoms by Margulis [3] or the books of Steven J. Gould [4] you get an overview of the history of planet Earth that geology, paleontology, biology and astronomy sciences pieced together in the last 150 years.
But then you never hear about the new breakthrough research that happens after these publications. But now I have learned about a new mayor piece of the puzzle by these comments of cbkeller [5], thank you very much!
If there is anything I could assist with, like writing complex (simulation) software in just a few thousand lines of code [6] for your research, you can reach me at morphle at ziggo dot nl.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Story and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcKEcyWhGQ

I'd be happy to point you to the other episodes

[2] http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A3B163282F9B5A62A585C230...

[3] http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=DD4B4B5E17D924EC237155BD...

[4] http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Stephen+Jay+Gould&column=aut...

[5] https://brenhinkeller.github.io

[6] Alan Kay lecture "Is it really complex or did we make it complicated?" https://vimeo.com/82301919
I am pretty convinced that Microsoft is about to acquire Twitter. Dorsey leaving Twitter is basically setting it up to be run by big tech. Would add 3-4B$ instant ad revenue to Microsoft's business. Without a mobile OS, Microsoft needs to own significant mobile properties in the consumer mindshare and Twitter is one they can easily grow to be much bigger than it is today. They can build an Xbox gaming social service on top of Twitter spaces (add video streaming to spaces). It just seems to make sense given they've been at the table to talk with Pinterest, Discord and Tiktok. Twitter seems like a deal they can get done and it's not unlike a Linkedin. In fact there are probably synergies there too. The stock dropping is also a sign that something could happen. Usually it gives extra room for a premium bump on an acquisition offer. If it's not Microsoft, someone is coming in soon.
How to talk about open source security
26" is still a thing in the market towards the lower end of the price range for something like a hardtail XC bike under $1200, that has some real capability.

But I do get what you're saying about things that are more like bicycle-shaped-objects sold at Walmart.
We always make sure we say things like “oh wow. I’m really glad you asked me that. Thanks!”
Very cool.

I'm about to start work on adding eBPF probes to the open source project I maintain for automated Kubernetes troubleshooting (robusta.dev).

Does anyone have good examples of specific data they collected with eBPF probes that would be good to see whenever problems of a certain type occur?
I use this. I set up Fava served over my home network so my wife can look at the budget. There is an android app called Cone that lets you add entries. I sync between phone and PC with Syncthing. It all works really well.
Gotta keep the users on their toes. Helps with the engagement metrics.
Isn't it because they're using reddit on their phone and there's no easy way to transfer images from a computer to a phone?
I appreciate you sending the source. I guess I still have the same argument. A LOT less effective does not equal ineffective. Or maybe I just see certain words like "ineffective" as binary words, either it works or it doesn't, and have a reaction to that. It may be a lot less effective to have facial hair while wearing an n95 compared to no facial hair and a properly fit n95, but is that still much much more effective than not wearing any face mask?
Seems appropriate to me as “Abus” is French for “abuse”.
I’m not going to defend any of the design choices, but you know what’s dangerous? Operating a 2000kg machine at high velocity without having RTFM.

Edit: I'm also not exclusively blaming the author, I think when controls change Tesla should have a responsibility for retraining the vehicle operator. Obviously a painful user experience, but at least it would be a disincentive to move buttons around for no reason.
I hate this modern trend of pretending that advanced software users no longer exist. "Options are bad user experience" only for novice users and for those who do not care about software -- and even then there are ways around it (such as "show advanced option" checkbox). Every time I go grocery shopping, I have to choose from dozens types of cereal, cheeses, etc... -- why do you think software options would be harder?

The "options are costly" argument is of course valid, but even then it does not need to be as complex as the article describes. As long as it is clear when an option is "advanced" one, they can be pretty low effort. Look at firefox's about:config for example -- no localization, no help, some options might be no-op, break browsing experience, or not implemented.. and yet those options were extremely helpful occasionally.
just curious as a non-user, is alexa being down for hours a big disruption to users?
> Owning an NFT just means you are the verified owner of something

This doesn't seem quite true unless the thing is on the blockchain and also the thing has a license that grants the owner exclusive rights to the item.

Otherwise it means you own a pointer to something
@dang It would be nice if, like the "(2018)" or whatever put after older entries, we could put "(GPLv2)", "(MIT)", etc. after links to github.com (they have an API to get license information).

Thanks.
Don’t underestimate middle aged men in lycra with too much money to burn. They’ll spend hours obsessing about individual components and won’t bat an eye when it comes to spending $15k or more (Canadian, a bit closer to $10k USD/EUR) on a brand new bike every couple years, $3-5k on the newest dimpled wheels from the big Z manufacturer, tires, and so forth, all in the name of besting their mates in the Saturday morning world classic coffee ride.

While I don’t strictly identify as above (I’ve more sense than to spend $1000/watt, or so I like to claim anyway), I do my fair share of purchasing the extra few watts. I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time obsessing about what the optimal tire choice is for my next Cat 3 CX race. At least I’m realistic enough to know the hoards of 16-20 year olds with more handling skills and less fear will destroy my every day of the week. Joke is on them because they’ve real life coming to crush them :p

In all seriousness, I know fully well the 5-10W gain is marginal for me at best and will only get me so far. Genes, age and hours in saddle cannot be purchased. Being a late comer to the sport and not being blessed with the requisite body type, I can’t have any one of those three, but I can however throw more money at the hobby, unlike the younger ones can. And why not enjoy myself while doing so and ride around in style.

As for diminishing returns, don’t talk to bike enthusiasts about those. They’ll only be outdone by audiophiles
I'm not disagreeing that reproducibility is a problem. Of course it is.

I'm asking how to fix it. How do we incentivise reproducibility?
I’d say probably low non-FAANG US salaries from pre-pandemic times is pretty accurate from what I’ve seen at the moment, depending on experience
Patreon has structured this in a way that it's still pretty clearly the creator using Vimeo, not Patreon. I.e. you need to sign up for a paid Vimeo account, then link that to Patreon, then you can upload through Patreon UI to Vimeo and then include vimeo embeds in your posts (just like you could put YT embeds or whatever). Of course one would hope Patreon is trying to push Vimeo in the right direction there, but they've taken themselves nicely out of the equation and are not really on the hook except that annoyed users isn't good for them.
What today is as cumbersome and joyful as was the making of Prince of Persia I?
In a competitive market, if your customers don't think your products do them good, they won't pay for them, so you won't be profitable. If they don't think they do them much good, they won't pay much for them, so you'll be less profitable.

Of course this isn't perfect --- they might be wrong about whether you're doing them good, like Lucky Strikes, and you might have stolen your products or dumped toxic waste or something. And there are lots of principal-agent problems, where the person making the buying decision has no incentive to care whether it turns out to be a good one. And the wealthy get a disproportionate vote. But it's probably a better criterion for whether you're doing good than anything else we can evaluate in real time in practice.

Although getting bank loans is pretty important, and getting wealthy angel investors is essential for some businesses, you can totally get rich by bootstrapping and selling to poor people. No already wealthy folks need be involved --- except where those wealthy folks are politically powerful, but that's a question external to capitalism.

Procter & Gamble sold soap and candles. Walmart sells to almost nobody but poor people. ExxonMobil started out, roughly speaking, as Standard Oil, whose main product was originally kerosene used for lighting and heating people's homes, and now is gasoline, used by everyday people to drive their cars around. (Rockefeller was no exemplar of capitalism, of course; he spent most of his life trying to destroy it because it wasn't profitable enough.) Berkshire Hathaway is generally considered to be the paragon of modern capitalism; it started out as a cotton textiles company, and nowadays its businesses are mostly things like GEICO (car insurance), Dairy Queen (fast food), Fruit of the Loom (cheap underwear), Acme Building Brands (bricks), Shaw Industries (cheap carpet), and Flying J (truck stops). If all wealthy people stopped buying from all of these businesses at once, they'd hardly notice.

It's certainly true, though, that the possibility of buying shares in new businesses reduces the opposition to upstarts. But public ownership is by no means fundamental to capitalism!
Second-mover advantage is underrated and often confused with first-mover advantage.
Reading this comment makes me glad I use a different (but still nerdy) pin :)
> Don’t underestimate middle aged men in lycra with too much money to burn.

I think without middle aged men in lyrca spending $10k on bikes, most of the performance/road oriented bike shops in major metro areas would go bankrupt, because the profit margin on some of that stuff has to be insane. Particularly the accessories. Yes, I totally need a $95 carbon fiber bottle cage... Hook me up!
Always a favorite engineering disaster to read about.

>The resultant sinkhole swallowed the drilling platform, eleven barges holding supplies for the drilling operation, a tugboat, many trees, and 65 acres of the surrounding terrain.

>...the flow of the Delcambre Canal ...reversed, causing salt water from the Gulf of Mexico to flow into what was now a dry lakebed. This backflow created for a few days the tallest waterfall ever in the state of Louisiana, at 164 ft (50 m), as the lake refilled...
That's literally dehumanizing. You're reducing human beings to game animals, and you're analogizing giving them a lot of money to shooting them dead and butchering them. From whose perspective is that a sensible analogy? Only someone who thinks the employees are, or should be, their chattels.
Thank you for sharing your reply.
Source? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm legitimately interested in seeing some substance to backup these charges, which are pretty serious.
Just don't use a CLI. There are multiple apps out there that would take your HTML and generate pages.
Right, this hits at the more fundamental issue which is that the purpose of stuff like "misinformation" filters is not to affect what people believe, but the second order effect - how they act.

Loads of people are well aware that wearing a mask would result in less coronavirus particles being emitted from my face if they were infected.

But they don't act on that for various other reasons unrelated to the virus.

The same is true of climate change. You can think that it's real and still drive your car for precisely the same reason that you can think that cirrhosis is real and still drink a few beers.
I never asked permission to do it. I consider refactoring to be part of my job. Small refactorings I do right away when implementing a new feature. Large ones I split into many small steps and work on for months in-between working on new features. Never underestimate the power of making a small improvement every day. I make sure that the long term refactorings never breaks the system or introduce new bugs. I have solid tests in place making sure changes doesn’t change behaviour.
2–3 seconds for 75 pages is not at all fast. My own Zola-powered site with unusually complex templates and emitting a bunch of large feeds takes under 200ms for that many pages; and Zola is not really architected to be fast (it’s more just incidentally comparatively fast because of Rust)—a static site generator actually designed for performance could certainly handle a site like that in well under fifty milliseconds with no loss of ergonomics, and I think five milliseconds with potential slight loss of ergonomics is feasible.

(Amusing note: Hexo and Zola both have a heading on their home pages “blazing fast”. I think they’re both wrong.)
> it would still be infused with the politics of said backers

Of course it would. Whoever pays the piper always calls the tune.

It's no surprise that NPR and PBS advocate for the government point of view.
I see an article saying BC is investigating having Covid positive health care workers return to work in a limited capacity.
Your claim was that “Canada” is already allowing Covid positive doctors to “immediately” work directly with patients.

Am I missing something?
This argument pretends that diet is the only cause of death.
> To expose it directly here would likely have little effect generally, but would have an outsized effect personally (damaging trust). If it did have an impact it would likely expose those involved (many careers). I am not in the command chain, I have seen the evidence and it's overwhelming. But I'm not in a position to enact the requisite change.

Sorry, I don’t mean to pick at you but… what?

If you were to anonymously post the name of an academic fraud, you personally would necessarily be found out, and it would ruin multiple careers?

The powers that be know who you are, know of the fraud and its nature and those involved? You’ve been privy to this big juicy secret that’s shared by many, but if its content were to be revealed, you would certainly be the one pointed out?

Are you the only person that could reasonably know about and publicly object to this fraud? If so, is it a necessary function of your social or professional life to cover up this fraud? If so, I’ll go back to “why did you post?” (“Sharing anecdotes” isn’t really an answer to “Why did you share this anecdote?”)
Yeah, I completely agree with all of that.

But again, this is an economic problem. In a perfect world, we'd have an infinite fund for doing science and you couldn't publish a paper until your results were reproduced.

But we live in a capitalist society where incentives are profit-driven (mostly). That's a reality regardless of whether you think it's good or bad.
> the difference in life expectancy is mostly antibiotics

Life expectancy made huge gains throughout the century before antibiotics.
Lots of Linux distros are moving towards automatic upgrades by default, since otherwise users won't bother to apply security updates. Of course you can definitely disable that and upgrade manually.
My cross bike will take up to a 38mm 700c tire but I can size up to 45mm 650b with no changes! Small miracle of dropping rim brakes.
Oh, agreed! And you can't read the story of the dude kicking the moneychangers out of the temple without feeling that he wasn't super enthusiastic about commerce.
> get attention from the RGBs

What is RGB in this context?
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Do you have any evidence at all that Amazon workers have any reduction in lifespan, let alone 30 years?

Amazon has been around 25 years now. If their workers had their life expectancy cut in half, the vanguard would be dropping like flies today.
They mention java is passing. Does anyone know the status/timeline?
We fundamentally can’t for most of our knowledge given the complexities of the modern world. Which is why the whole “do your own research” suggestion is BS. There simply isn’t enough time in the day to become an expert in everything in order to be able to accurately judge the validity of most research. That is why stopping the spread of misinformation has value because most people do not have the expertise to identify all misinformation.
Living spaces is pretty solid.
Gonna be honest, I've never heard of Korean rhythm arcade games. I thought Koreans were mostly just into PC (and mobile) games. I would've thought I'd heard of this considering I read about Korean gaming culture, but apparently not enough.
Sharing source code for a HEP experiment is not that easy or possible at sometimes. A lot of stuff is done by different group and whole framework used and overall a lot of raw data collected and reconstructed involved. To analyze those even if available you willl need a lot of people with a lot of resources. So even it made available (which would be a lot of efforts itself) it wouldn't make much sense for replication purpose.
When any kind of censorship, including self-censorship, total or partial, goes into a publication or its silencing, it will transform a piece of knowledge in ammunition of technical-propaganda instead of science.
PS: same happens with true art.
No, it doesn't. It acknowledges that a diet for hunter-gatherers that rarely lived to 50 might not be best diet for a people who expend less energy and live far longer.
Are the rain sensors inaccurate or something? (I've never seen a Tesla, let alone driven one)
In my opinion there are other things that are probably more important besides speed for medium size sites, like SEO optimization, ADA compliance or multilingual support.
I'm ridiculously noob with all this. Trying to teach myself. I don't even know what a "command line"is. It's a wonder that I keep up with anything at all on here!(though I'm trying).
Maybe we could explore this thought together. It could lead to new research.
I suppose that over time, science changed from a hobby for the wealthy to a source of wealth for companies.
So, yes it’s just 2 taps vs 1, but that can’t be that bad right?

1 tap is too many. These need to be physical knobs or buttons that stay in the same place so you can develop muscle memory.
Weird thing that many don't know... did you know Sega was created by Americans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega

Founders
* Martin Bromley
* Richard Stewart
Please try to find the original (in this case, it's from Manu Cornet's webseries Bonkers World: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts)
I'm talking more about people who like rules, regulations, organization and order as part of their nature. People who keep their ducks in a row.
Update for your blender 3.5: swapped the location of the blade and the button to start it
It is for this reason that I also keep my bash history in git. I know other folks that do this too. There have also been solutions on HN in recent months for keeping your shell history in an sqlite database.
That is something I'm trying to do. But, teaching myself simultaneously. So, it can get confusing. :(
Yes, UK only sadly
> Hardy either knew of Ramanujan’s work on this problem or noticed himself that 1729 had a special property. He wanted to cheer up his dear friend Ramanujan, who was lying deathly ill in the hospital. So he played the fool by walking in and saying that 1729 was “rather dull”.

If this is the case, it really increases my respect for Hardy. Anybody can brag, but to willingly seem to be the fool, in order to help someone else (and notice how even in his retelling of the story, he still plays the fool for others as foil to Ramanujan) takes a really big person.