skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With over 15,000 packages at CRAN, R has evolved from a wonderful language for statistics to a wonderful general-purpose language. I came in contact with R by accident because a colleague of mine took a day off and the client approached me instead, and it's a love affair with R that has lasted since. I haven't been excited about a programming language since I was last learning the MC68000 family's assembler. I just cannot sing R enough praises. R of course has packages for connecting to a PostgreSQL database, and Vertica is a PostgreSQL database with R as the scripting language. Such a wonderful combination. I'd gladly use and administer Vertica again without a second thought, given the opportunity,
The scaling and net energy argument is that it's relatively easy to have a surge when the overall share of renewables is relatively tiny. Much harder if you'd have to run all the extraction, manufacturing, transport etc that goes into the creation of renewable energy infrastructure on nothing but renewables. You might still run a profit (in terms of EROEI, or energy return on energy invested), but would likely end up with a much smaller surplus compared to a society that runs on fossil fuels, ie a less affluent society overall.

Greer's view is that a managed downscaling or decline to this kind of low-energy, sustainable society should've happened decades ago. And that at this point there's no way to avoid some sort of uncontrolled, disruptive collapse to a lower-energy level.
"promises only bind those who believe them" - JL Gassee
Ah, sorry, thank you, I was fully aware of that. The point I was making was that "the best" is not just subjective, but actually distorted. As I said, I had no idea that Parmesan outside Europe is often not genuine so my search was in good faith and had I not done some research I would not have known. So that is one inadvertent source of distortion for me. The other is commercial as you say. And don't get me started on personal reviews ...
Ten Whistlegraphs: A Feral File Exhibition
I just realized that Voyager 1 took 45 years to get to less than one light-day from Earth. Which is still a huge distance, but it just puts into perspective how daunting the task of covering several light-years with a spacecraft really is...
"What Gets Measured Gets Done."

I guess I learned this already ~30 years ago in high school, changing line height, increasing fonts size, turn of hyphenation, all up to the point that it wouldn't seem weird or different, just to get to that X pages mark.

I guess teachers quickly learned to ask for "X words" instead of pages, so, I'm hoping for the youth out there that there will be some Neural Net someday that can take your assay and make it use more (and longer) words, more sentences etc without altering the gist. Or better yet, make the whole gist of it better as well. This font is a great addition to the arsenal though.
>Centuries ago almost no one lived long enough to die from heart disease, cancer, or dementia. Now those are common, diseases of old age, imposing tremendous costs. I don’t propose going back to 35 year lifespans

This is false. The life expectancy one you reached puberty was very similar to the current one. The 35 years lifespans were due to insane infant mortality. Modern medicine has been able to avoid the death of children but it hasn't being able to extend the duration of your healthy life other than from the statistical point of view.
> Start with the User Experience and work backwards to the technology you need.

> The best software is built by engineers who have empathy for their users.

I’m not sure where all the criticism here comes from but those alone are some of the most valuable insights any developer can obtain.

The fact that Google, in my opinion, is as far from those insights as a company can possibly come is in my eyes unrelated to the lessons that the author has learned working for Google. I think there is way too much anger in this thread, and I’m surprised to see it here on HN. I’ve personally moved all my services away from Google, including the paid ones like gsuite, but this article doesn’t seem to warrant any of the harsh criticism here based on its content.
I imagine (and hope) those 5k where mostly crypto bros who knew what they were getting into. Who else expects 15% returns from a "safe" investment?
It's back on netsplit's top 100 list at #7: https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php

I'm idling in the top 10 channels, it's semi-active in that people pop in and say stuff, but there's no interaction. Most connections are from old bots, or from community pages that haven't been updated.
I was illustrating the point that customers are often unreasonable about billing, and there's no magical solution that fixes the problems. The answer is really to try to make sure you're not overly reliant on a single customer. That's hard as a startup though especially if you're in B2B.
> We're working on

Just quickly clicking around makes it look like you are not working on it. It's explained, but it would be better to change some things around so it doesn't look completely dead. E.g.

> You can follow our daily progress / We share our progress daily and share everything, from code to finances.

> This is today's entry (Apr 28 '22).

It also gives false hope one could see the product in two weeks (which was a week ago).
I let Libreoffice know yesterday that their non-English pages were still pointing to Freenode, this was fixed.
YC invested in what was clearly an outright fraud? Or did they pivot do hard that nobody noticed?
For the use of the cheese as collateral, a video showing the "cheese vault" of a bank[0] and a bank known to use cheese as collateral[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzBPdU_iVcI

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credito_Emiliano
Ask HN: Good sources of open/free datasets?
Memgraph is a streaming graph application platform that helps you wrangle your streaming data, build sophisticated models that you can query in real-time.[1] We have dozens of datasets that we have are showcasing on our site or in our app [2], [3], and [4].

We would like to build our models, datasets, and apps around real life examples and data.

Do you know and good sources like the one from Jure Leskovac [5]?

[1] https://memgraph.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395478

[3] https://memgraph.com/blog/gas-pipelines-in-europe

[4] https://playground.memgraph.com/

[5] https://snap.stanford.edu/data/
The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked
>And if you are proposing the construction of new power plants to burn trash, your justification also has to explain why that would be preferable to building wind/solar instead

An easy to grasp reason is that we still can't viably store energy for long enough periods for wind and solar alone to work. Also solar and wind might not work so well everywhere.
Sufficiently cheap solar could replace all primary energy sources (e.g. through storage and fuel synthesis), and total global energy consumption may also increase dramatically if the price is right. So a solar manufacturer that continues to find ways to cut costs could remain a good investment for a long time to come.
It's all cloud/subscription-based now https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/
I mean, the company name alone should tell you all you need to know.
That's too subtle. It wants to be a big red/green (with blue for rg colorblind) outline on the screen so it's very obvious if your mic is hot.
YCombinator's board?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains
That's a brilliant idea - must try it out with the 10-year old here (and get beaten as per usual) :)

Duck to Queen's Bishop 3!
This article doesn’t say whether the people were in contact with pet prairie dogs, but I think that’s how people usually catch monkey pox. We have a case in Massachusetts too right now and prairie dogs were banned as pets here because of an outbreak 20 or so years ago.
Also buildings were used differently from back then. Now we expect indoor toilets, bathrooms and so on. In even relatively recent past these really weren't standard. And they place entirely new restrictions and needs for structures that really weren't experienced to work so. Specially with moisture causing mold.
Make a disposable plastic container cost an extra dollar paid at time of manufacture. Double the cost every year. We will be 100% migrated by the end of 2023.
Ask HN: What do you think about Quay.io?
I noticed it's used by more and more open source projects and those projects are now publishing exclusively on quay.io

Personally I think this is creating unecessary fragmentation of the docker image repositories.

Also since 3 months there is this warning on quay.io website (all pages): We are currently facing technical issues with support@quay.io email. In order to contact Quay.io customer support, please use the email support@coreos.com until further notice.

Really a tech company not being able to fix an email address for several months is quite concerning.

Why do people consider using Quay.io?
You can preserve the Earth's livability with open source
RL is generally considered as a type of ML.

Eg Wikipedia:
"Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of machine learning "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
> Apparently the volcanic winter of 536 lowered global temperatures by around 2.5C, which puts global warming in a worrying light, though.

It's not obvious to me so I'll ask: why does the volcanic winter of 536 lowering global temps by 2.5C put global warming in a worrying light?
I am extremely sceptical of this claim. I have had a heat pump installed in November (UK), and my estimates from over the winter is that it cost me less to run than my (admittedly old and inefficient) gas boiler. As it was probably past time to replace the boiler, it would not have been a bad move even without government incentives. The incentives made it a no-brainer. My house is reasonably well insulated as the previous owner did do that upgrade, and that might be a necessary first step before switching to a heat pump. Even on gas, though, you will save a lot by upgrading the insulation.
Must be from the school that believes that a "Tabula Rasa" is sufficient as the basics.
Maybe the UCI Machine Learning Repository[1]?

[1]: https://archive-beta.ics.uci.edu/
Appeal to modernity fallacy (I just invented it).

But you’re wrong to argue the “court hasn’t done it”, because the court has been doing it all along. It’s called precedence.
A lot of the subsea fiber is laid down by and funded by private organizations. I’ve worked with a couple that intentionally avoid any public dollars to avoid the hassle and delays that come attached to that money.
>it just puts into perspective how daunting the task of covering several light-years with a spacecraft really is...

And then you have multipliers like million/billion. I kinda just lose perspective over there.
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Christ, half the teachers in the world were students themselves when sneakily changing margins slightly and upping line spacing a little and using 12.5 don't sizes was thought of (and I'm sure the handwriting generations had their own tricks). Haven't they learned yet to make their students just put the word count? It's not like that's hard: it right there in a word processor.

Also, minimum word counts are pointless. Anyone can write 5 pages, you just keep waffling. The real challenge is to do it in a limit. All university long-form assignments I can think of had a strict word limit and you'd either lose a percentage for every 100 words over the limit or even have the assignment rejected. At least half the effort was shaving off 2000 words out of a 7000 word report without losing any of the useful detail. Much as I might have complained at the time, the results were always tighter and to-the-point. Which was better for my long-term education and better for the poor sap reading 30 of them.

Then again, the obsession with forcing kids to write pages of crap is probably very good training for the world of SEO and also the world of pointless business reports that no one needs but someone still has to write them so they can be ignored.
what is an unbiased result in context of a search engine? Google has to decide what to put on page number 1 and what on number 10. This necessarily requires making judgements based on criteria any of which will be considered biased by someone. (which they are, because judging what is most relevant is the point of a search engine to begin with).
I didn't invest because it was only 15% gains. Sad, but true. I actually read them their material & saw it was based on Anchor Protocol. When I saw that it was based on UST, and I couldn't figure how UST was backed by anything I understood, I opted out. One of the few times in crypto where I felt "do you won research" paid off for me.
> Prefer Zoom to most alternatives

I consider this irresponsible in the face of the Zoom CEO saying to moneteize the knowledge they have about you. Very different from face-to-face in my opinion.

Face-to-face is not only about interaction of people present, it's about eavesdropping as well.

Praise for the rest and for caring about the other participants.
From the article,

> Starting from scratch, we managed to gain around 50 000 users in just a month and a half, a number which has been mostly steady since.

Seems pretty impressive when they put it that way!
Yeah I just don't feel it scales that well when there are so many links.
Ask HN: Has anyone had their Mac Studio trip the electrics?
(Particularly with 230v)

I occasionally move my Mac Studio around, and it has a habbit of tripping the RCD when I plug it back in.

Particularly, when the power cable is already energized and I connect the C5 ("Mickey Mouse") connector, I'll get a loud pop and I'll be plunged into darkness (well, figuratively as my sockets are on a different circuit).

I can avoid this by plugging the cable into the Mac first and then into the wall (or switching off the socket at the wall)

My electrics have been certified in the past year, and I've tried it in a few circuits now: both at home and at the office with the same result.

It seems to me that the high inrush current causes a small arc flash inside the socket inlet (hence the particularly loud pop) that creates a brief short to ground, which the RCD trips as designed.

I've never had this behaviour with any electronic devices before, I've been used to connecting and disconnecting the appliance inlet without issues - other than the occasional electrical crackle.

So can anyone verify if I've just got an odd/faulty unit and it's not some design flaw? Leave it unplugged for long enough to discharge its capacitors then plug a powered cable into the back.
At least in the UK, electricity prices are (very roughly) 4x that of gas, but heat pumps are about 4x as efficient, so the two roughly balance out and you end up with similar heating costs. At least this is how it's worked out in practice for my air-to-air installation.
Hearthstone Access 23.2.0 Update
A poor decision does not equal fraud.
Four EU Countries Set Joint Target of 150 GW of Offshore Wind by 2050
Would a metacircular interpreter help, or does that not work? What if the entire document is replaced, is that possible? (Replacing the entire document might be necessary to fix some other things too, although I read the documentation for WebRequest, and it seems that security details cannot be modified, and that might make some things difficult, although adding a proxy with your own certificate might do.) Alternatively you could use developer edition if you want to write your own extensions, I think.

Still, it is too bad that you will need all of this mess just to get the computer to work.
Is that right? I haven't done any testing.
I agree, this paper smells strongly of someone who has not actually spent the time required to read and understand the current state of the art on QFT, and is just reading papers from 50 years ago to find things they didn't understand correctly then.

And he is completely missing one of the biggest drivers in modern physics: you have basically an army of researchers trying desperately to find something, anything that is provably wrong with QFT. Because we know it's not the final theory, something is missing, and finding concrete errors might very well show us the way to a better theory.

If, as the author claims, some original Feynmann diagram calculations are "kept secret" and actually wrong, all it takes is one postdoc somewhere to actually redo the calculations and show the error for all the world. That's a career defining paper right there, something that would make you famous in the community. If people thought there was even a 0.01% chance that was the case, they would be chasing it hard.
This is optimistic - what actually happens is the plastic is shipped to Asia for sorting, where they may put the low quality stuff in landfill, or may just throw it in the nearest river.

Ironically, putting most plastic waste in the landfill bucket is probably more environmentally sound than “recycling” it.
Promising a guaranteed 15% return is fraud. There is no place in reality where you can * guarantee * that kind of return.
They were skimming yield(in return of a nice UI) on a risky yield asset with poor disclaimers and extremely reckless risk management systems
We need to standardize sarcasm punctuation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Crypto bros would forgo the middleman and get the 20% yield instead.
One thing that wasn’t clear to me from this post: the certificate in question had an AIA url, and chrome will download intermediates from that. Why didn’t that work in this case?
For decades plastic was sent to East Asia to be "recycled" but recently even those countries have refused to import it. Since then we've seen western governments freaking about about plastic waste.
yes, I agree there paper is nonsense.

the author sends obsessed with the fact sooner people didn't shows their work, meaning everything collapses -- but people since then have got the same result but different calculations.

everyone in the field knows QED is full of weird Martha's, and isn't the " answer to everything", but no one has a better answer, and it does produce results which line up with reality.
Depends where you are. In Australia it's pretty cheap - I had 6.6kW installed for about US$4000 and it should pay off in about seven years. Would have been five or six but the feed in tariff went down - although with the massive increase in the price of coal and gas, the tariff should increase again, given the wholesale electricity cost is jumping up.
Quality standards have not gone up in the UK. Have you seen the quality of new builds? They are extremely poor
This is exactly how the great Pacific garbage patch was formed, since the rivers will eventually empty into the oceans.
Currently getting 404 File Not Found. Guess there are no insights to be found.
Dear lord, it's been a year already? It feels like it was only yesterday when Freenode was trying to take over every other channel on their network.
Glad to see Libera doing alright
I think Freenode helped serve as a lesson to rasengan on a few things:

1. Technical prowess doesn't supersede the value of interpersonal/social abilities

2. Money doesn't let you control the narrative in a free system

3. Elon Musk isn't Elon Musk because he's rich, he's Elon Musk because he's good at marketing

4. Reputation is everything

It's a shame that the cost of these lessons was the destruction of Freenode and further fragmentation of IRC, and hopefully the recovery continues. It was great to see everyone united for a brief moment though, regardless of your views against Freenode or any particular channel it was widely accepted that it was a horrible move and everyone resisted the hostile takeover.
https://kore.io/
New York made 11M bottles of hand sanitizer that it can't get rid of
Europeans do not consider AC a must. I live in an attic conversion on a very well to do street in Germany, and there is not a single AC unit in sight. It's not common at all, we do not care about it. We would rather get extremely hot and sweaty for a few days a year than make the investment for AC
Thanks, I will read, but generally beside e.g. the gravity problem, with increased accuracy there appear inaccuracies all over the standard model, so maybe it is worth revisiting QED? Are you saying the g-factor inaccuracies are not a problem?

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-standard-particle-physics-brok...
The poster probably meant: Reinforcement Learning is not restricted to Neural Networks.
:) It is the way.
It's interesting the contrast your experience is to my own. I have dealt with anxiety my whole life but didn't really want to acknowledge it until recently. My lack of awareness helped me push through a lot but at the cost of authenticity -- which in turn affects my mental and emotional health and my relationships. So good on you for being honest with yourself about anxiety -- that's something I really suck at still.

But, as the other comments have said, breaking things down into smaller doable things have really helped me at all stages. I.E. focus on getting through one assignment or one problem in the assignment. Break things down as much as possible.

Good luck on your journey and I hope you find success.
I'd put those in the bin with "Stuff that just goes on around what programs do but doesn't actually relate to what they do".
The overwhelming majority of storage will not be batteries, ever.

Why not? Lithium iron phosphate batteries work fine, don't cost too much, don't have a thermal runaway problem, are good for 10,000 cycles, require little maintenance,
have good energy density per unit volume, and you can buy them right now. They're heavier than lithium ion batteries, but in stationary installations, that doesn't matter. Something better may come along, but they're good enough to deploy now.
Am I missing the price? How much does it cost?
They explain the risks on their website: https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687751...
Strangely I was just checking the news on DR TV and this was the lead story.

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and Holland (surely they meant Netherlands).

10,000 turbines to be positioned in the North Sea from Esbjerg; will they ever run ferries to Harwich again?

Strange my memory of Esbjerg was the huge piles of coal for the power station, then later on all the wind turbines to be set up at sea, and the amazing ships to do it.

I imagine if the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry were to run again it would pass so many off shore wind farms. (And I’d be able to track it with GPS).

Does OpenStreetMap extend to Off shore wind farms?
The cases are different by circumstance and factors.

That is why we have the judicial system, which is meant to evaluate details and determine circumstances.

If outcomes are not fair for one case or another, which happens all the time, it should be traced back to accountability of involved parties on an individual basis.

Trying to create an inaccurate equivalence between two completely different instances of mass shooting events as a meter or proof of racial inequity does nothing useful and means nothing productive as a discussion. You'd need a lot more data than that. It's also not the key point to what I was posting about.

Johnny Depp and Amber Herd doesn't even register to me right now, there are far more serious issues affecting all of us, and they're wealthy and grown adults that don't need us or even the media involved in their personal issues in my opinion.
Heat pumps are so much more efficient in many climates (and the tech is improving quickly for cold temperature air-source - newer model are reportedly much better than was available even five years ago) that it's better to go for electrification. That's even before the massive efficiency loss of producing gas from electricity.

Burning gas also produces NOx emissions, which is something that would be much better to avoid, especially in and around houses. The air quality improvements to electrification are potentially massive for public health.