skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, if you look at the pie chart in the Wikipedia article solar and wind are bigger than biomass.
> flood defenses for every single major city in the world just like Amsterdam.

For your information sea levels won't go up everywhere around the world in the same way.
Excellent comment, thanks for saving it from the abyss.
>> I personally started playing guitar, and tennis, too late in life to become a professional.

I would argue that literally no one needs professional guitar and tennis players, those are at most the "nice to have". As humans we like to have nice things, even pretend that we have to have them otherwise our life is meaningless. Don't get me wrong I love music, but deep in my mind some intuition lingers, that its vanity to claim that it is necessary, when there are people in china working 996 culture to produce our unnecessary mostly plastic stuff.
The PTSD articles from people in Las Vegas driving drones in the Middle East seem to indicate otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd...
The sooner we fully adopt loitering munitions (like the switchblade), drones, and divest of easy targets for drones, missiles and loitering munitions (which are really suicide drones) the better.
I strongly agree. There's only one correct way to spell a word, but many different possible abbreviations. The hard part is remembering just WHICH letters to leave out, not typing the letters.
Let’s be honest: the primary problem with any of the FOSS options before and after Android is that they literally suck. A phone has to have good SMS and phone capabilities, decent performance, and some kind of non-anemic app ecosystem to really exist today. Some of the open source options for phones never managed to achieve any of these, and the ones that exist today still struggle at it, and yet may possibly still be sustainable.

Ultimately, I don’t buy the argument that developers opinions about J2ME vs Android had anything to do with it. The T-Mobile G1 is why Android broke through the market. I believe that is in part due to Google’s backing, which instantly made it newsworthy at least in enthusiast circles.

The closest thing we have now is the Pinephone, but it largely doesn’t work (though I still find it in much better shape than many of its FOSS phone peers, probably bested by Librem 5 but I don’t own one to know for sure.) To be sure, it doesn't look close to breaking through to the mainstream any time soon, but it’s also not really ready. It has no app ecosystem and no carriers shipping it, and core functionality is still mostly barely working.
The old "it's so new, you expect too much" argument that I have been hearing for years.

How about instead of lauding web3 as being so great for decentralization ... you wait until the ecosystem actually increases decentralization.

Cryoptocurrency advocates have a long, long history of making empty promises that are never filled.

Nobody expects every problem to be solved instantly, but it would be nice if atleast one was solved every once in a while.
How many libraries of congresses is that?
This is true-ish but the eleven US supercarriers and their accompanying carrier battle groups are vastly different from any other navy on the planet. Other nations do not have ships of a comparable size.

Two UK carriers come closest to the way the US Navy works, but are smaller. Russia's lone, damaged carrier is 25% smaller and may travel with a roughly comparable escort, if and when it becomes operational again.

Many other nations' carriers are one half to one fifth the size of a supercarrier. They exist to provide STOL/helicopter platforms.
Salesforce might not go anywhere but would certainly downsize. They are a behemoth and have been on an acquisition spree for the past 5 years.
Elon Musk lost $10B in net worth in a day after sexual misconduct claims
PhD --> Patience, humility, Drive
> extremely unprofessional

I disagree. It is extremely unprofessional to act like doing research while pocketing mostly public funds like that.

I am 100% behind the author.

They have apparently tried to resolve the issue internally and this serves as good warning for people considering science career in today's world.
I’m fond of the shit ton.

The Canadian metric equivalent is the metric crap tonne.
There are way more PhD's then there are research positions, so we are very far from the deficit you fear.
It was - for western standards. For Russian standards it was a flagship, and - as mentioned above - a critically important one.
It's also likely that, as a new student, the writer simply doesn't understand these "performative" aspects yet. The research group isn't succeeding by accident, put it that way.
This bookmarklet is one way to cut out the cruft:

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They own the politicians. Its our fault. Turnout in primaries are very low, people don't even know their representatives. Its hard enough with all the tactics used to suppress candidates/prevent voting but until this changes then policy won't change.
Agreed it is chicken and egg. I just think it is silly to say that it is a natural and sole fit.

Football was likely popular in it's origins due to not needing a lot of equipment, amusingly. Is the reason pickup games were so popular in local parks. If you have a local court, basketball is rather popular for similar reasons. If you are out in the court, you are there to play and the main equipment is the net.

And, at large, any sport or group activity is good. Remember back when schools would have large tug of war contests? Tons of fun that most anyone could join in on.

Fairs were neat in the sheer variety of offering. Shame we lost those in favor of organized game nights, to me.
CDMA and other spread-spectrum radio tech was developed to counter signal jamming. If your comms is split amongst a range of frequencies and extractible with pseudo-random codes or other trunking scheme then you've raised the cost of jamming significantly.
>Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers' club one night to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that the Germans had moved in. "What Lepage gun?" Colonel Korn inquired with curiosity. "The new three hundred and forty four millimeter Lepage glue gun," Yossarian answered. "It glues a whole formation of planes together in mid-air."

-Catch-22
> I felt less and less comfortable in a setting that apparently expected me to pick some low-hanging – let’s call it fruits – and call it a day.

I think the author's reasons for quitting are valid. But I would also say that "low-hanging fruit" is exactly what many PhDs are going for by design. Science can move forward in giant leaps (like Newton, Einstein). But mostly, science progresses by the accumulation of thousands of narrowly focused projects. Perhaps the author's work could have eventually been used by another to make progress. The scope of what any single person can accomplish against the accumulated body of all scientific knowledge is often quite small.
I’ve always considered taking a lecturer position as a sort of second career if I ever want something different from Big Tech. It’s kind of a shame the health insurance offering is mediocre, which probably rules this out, at Berkeley at least.
Sunscreen, as we know it, is barely 100 years old (see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33583116/) and we have a lot of information up to that point.

We can also deduce from many sources that humanity did not just "managed to reproduce before keeling over".
This post isn't about the advisors. No one reading this knows who the advisors are, they won't show up in Google. "Saying that your supervisor is superficial or your research group is performative art" is also hardly an accusation, it's an opinion. No names are named: how can there be an accusation without an accused?
Calculations resolve controversy about the sun's chemical composition
Thoughts on Yard Care and the Modern World
> What happens if there’s a targeted attack against Bitcoin and the network goes down or gets compromised?

What happens if we suddenly discovered massive deposits of gold under some seabed, and like shale oil boom, suddenly there is a glut of gold thus killing its price? There is not much inherent value to gold, and industrial usage definitely doesn't justify the current valuation.

Do you think gold prices are in a bubble as well because no one has answered this question satisfactorily before? If you think this is a far fetched scenario, same thing has happened to various other "stores of value" over our collective history - massive stone disks, sea shells, aluminum, ..
I'm sorry but genuinely don't get what you're trying to say here, is it an insult? A praise?
Is that an imperial ass or a metric ass?
I think the process might be helpful, but the way this one is presented is highly opinionated and is completely wrong for someone like me.

The first question alone is ridiculous. A normal, otherwise healthy person does not need to eat every 4 hours. Eating that often (especially e.g. if it's a high-sugar snack) will prevent your insulin levels from lowering, this is not good for your body. But this person claims that it's OK! It's fine, eat what you want! I think that is terrible advice, and the opposite of looking after yourself.
The media sure loves to cover stories about Teslas catching fire, don't they?
Not a big fan of a site that's basically an ad for one product. I mean, if the site is for the product sure, but that's not what this is.
> I feel that the Economist is resting on its historic good name but has become a simple liberal rag that people use as a virtue signal.

You mean liberal as in economically liberal or liberal as in woke liberal?
The magazine doesn't really publish a lot of the latter type of content, but I can definitely imagine people flexing the magazine out of snobbishness (kind of like the New Yorker). But that's a different kind of virtue signal
I interact very heavily with academics (though am thankfully no longer one myself) and one thing I can't stand is that all of them will complain endlessly about the horribly abusive and broken system that academia has become, then without hesitation turn around and flog the next person in line when it's their turn to continue the process from the abusing side.

As someone who once held the title of assistant professor, I have little patience for people who recognize that the system is in many ways repulsive, and yet refuse to even consider to stop playing the game because it's all that they know.

The amount of bullshit being produced and regurgitated in academia needs to be called out. Your definition of "unprofessional" is just "this makes us look bad"

Academics who defend a broken system are a major factor in why that system continues to decline.

I'm glad the OP wrote this article and find it expectedly discouraging that someone creeps out from the woodwork to try to shush it.
Podcastage on youtube has great comparisons, and there's a few specific videos he has about which mics are good for different uses/budgets.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6z93SqEO0 probably not a bad place to start
From what I hear, PTSD is pretty bad among stateside UAV operators. https://dronecenter.bard.edu/burdens-war-crews-drone-aircraf...
What is the point of this? The alternative mic listed is 250$, whereas a blue yeti can be had for 90$ at bestbuy right now. So if you spend more you get a better mic. I don't think anyone was convinced that the yeti was the best mic you could get, just the best one for the price.
> And as the sinking of the Moskva showed, the signature maritime weapon hasn’t been a ship but an anti-ship missile: the Neptune.

Absolutely incorrect analysis. The signature marine weapon is the Poseidon P8. This is a heavily modified Boeing 737 NG configured for maritime intelligence and attack. This is what sank the Moskva.

If you read the analysis from intelligence reports, the Neptune is a rather unremarkable anti-surface missile with underwhelming capabilities. The Poseidon hovered hundreds of miles away and relayed the combat information to Ukraine commanders when the Moskva was weakened; and more than likely, when its short range defenses were down (likely due to Russian Incompetence). No doubt the Poseidon has watched every Russian Naval asset to figure out they were taking down defense radars and they devised a plan to sneak a relatively crappy Neptune missile in.

I think the defining age is intelligence, but then again, hasn't it always been? It's just taking on new forms. One of the most important and urgent projects the Air Force will undertaken is AWACs replacement with another 737 variant that has PESA, AESA, ELINT, AEW capabilities to this platform and provide the same level of battlefield intelligence on solid ground as we have that the P8 provides for maritime.
Anti-platform weapons have met their match with countermeasures like the Israeli Trophy system against ATGMs which brought tanks back into warfare in full force.
Anti drone weapons are everywhere.
Aircraft have stealth and DIRCMs.

The problem with Moskva was tactical - it was a sitting duck without adequate protection. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Would "contemporary" work better for you? There certainly is a cluster of languages that have developed and gained (more or less) traction in the last 10-15 years. I've even heard it referred to as a "generation" -- specifically I think it's the fifth. Rust, Go, Nim, Clojure, Swift, Elixir; to a lesser extent, Zig. I'm probably forgetting a few. (We might also include Crystal or Pony though I'm not sure they are widely used at all. And Hare is an open question.)
>that would have far exceeded the capacity of an Amiga disk

Simple bitmaps for game-mechanics/level design goes back to the 8-bit era.

Bitmaps with colour bytes that indicate level/enemy/goal hit points tend to compress rather well, since a lot of the bit-space is 00's, and .. anyway .. Amiga is legitimately viewed as one of the birthplaces of interesting compression for these kinds of reasons ..
>Grades are just a bad IQ test and most things you learn in high school don't matter.

Well, speak for yourself. It may be a very unpopular opinion here on HN but I learned a lot at school, be it elementary, middle, high or university. But I went to school in Italy, and it was a good school.

>But I think that for most people many things that are taught in high school are useless while more important things (understanding how social media affects you, how to declare taxes, how credit cards work) are not covered (at least here in Germany, I suspect its no different in the US).

This are thing that you can easily google. Why would I want to waste time teaching such trivial things while there are subjects much more interesting and intellectually engaging. Talk about inefficiency.

If someone does not want to study academic subjects it is not obliged to finish school, they can simply abandon once they reach the appropriate age (in Italy, 16 y/o): I know someone who did it and went the trade route and was very happy, but please, please, let us, academically inclined people have our own habitat.
> No piece of autonomous weapons delivery hardware in the modern world exists with a price tag less than 100x that amount. Drones are simply too cheap.

I recently found a video at https://twitter.com/FortemTech/status/1526925732122968067 (source: https://twitter.com/TomReiner4/status/1528214932461846528) which shows an anti-drone drone. Unfortunately, I couldn't find its price tag, but looking at the images in the manufacturer's site, it doesn't look like it would be much more expensive to manufacture than an equivalent-sized DJI drone.
Yes.

What's often ignored is that inter-CPU communication mutexes rely on is a limited resource in itself. So heavy use of mutexes can slow down other unrelated processes as well.
Definitely thought this was going to be about the coolers, not the microphones.
This is a false ethical concern: it's harder in person because the other guy can shoot back.
Congrats on making a decision sooner rather than later. I also dropped out of graduate school and remembered having some similar thoughts as you.

I remembered feeling a bit lonely, too. There's no one to talk to about your work since no one understands it. It's a bit obvious in hindsight. Research topics are at the fuzzy fringe of human knowledge. They exist just outside of others' research topics. Your job is to find something that makes the field even more complex. Or, even better, connect the dots that show it may not be so complex after all. In either case, no one knows what the hell you're doing. If they're in your little tiny field, they may have some vague idea about how it may relate to their own little universe of research. But most likely, when you come home and a loved one asks what you did today, you won't be able to have an answer and that can be frustrating. To compound the issue, everyone is familiar with what a PhD is, but few know how academia works. And there's some not-great aspects of it.

I've continued my research on my own time because it interests me. I no longer have looming deadlines and I don't have to check my bank account in the Wendy's drive-through line to see if my stipend will cover a chicken sandwich. I still value academia, though, and I know that my hobby-research will come nowhere close to matching the quality of research done with the resources provided by academic institutions.
> I'm struggling to find the purpose of this reply.

Not the OP, but I think the pushback is against the implication that instructor training means nothing in the context of a large classroom. It's unclear if this was an assertion you were making.
>You know I think our main difference here is that I took the liberty to call something that "people can choose to believe or not believe in" a "belief system". That may be a loaded word insofar as it is commonly only awarded to non-scientific areas

Oh yeah, fair. It is loaded with me and that is due to my poor luck avoiding anti-science types these lasn few years. If I came across somehow judging you or some other negative / crappy thing, I apologize and that was not my intent at all.

I also had some education in my early life, through mentors with crazy good skills, who really wanted the young people in their circles to understand science and what knowing and believing really are.

No worries.

Agreed on differences in crypto. Oversimplifying things relate crypto is. chronic right now.

The whole thing makes me think of the laser. Once we command of that tech, it was an killer solution looking for problems to solve. For a while there lasers were basically a curio! A big step forward, needing other steps to be taken before we were able to realize benefit.

Cheers, and have a great week!
How many ugly people do you remember that excelled at your school? Awkward people? Anyone that didn't have the support of being otherwise successful?

Edit: if you click the timestamp on a post, you can reply to it. :) Having an activity vacuum up all the money from any alternative sidelines folks. Did you have a thriving chess club? Go? Math or spelling bee?
My mistake, definitely my opinion that.
Teslas do have an emergency door release, though, and it's exactly where you'd expect it to be (to the point that most first-time passengers think it's how you're supposed to open the door all the time).
another good thing about a PhD is that people who have advanced degrees earn on average 50% more than (1.5x) people without advanced degrees

This is bad statistics 101.

The confounding variable in a lot of these cases is wealth (or social class). Someone who grew up upper class and got their PhD is of course going to earn more than someone who grew up in a trailer park never graduated high school.

The reality is that for a lot of people getting advanced degrees leads to nothing but wasted time and a lifetime of debt that they can't discharge.
I have the t.bone SC 420 from Thomann. For 59€ I don't think you can beat that price
If you are on wordpress, there's ton of "minimal" themes to choose from, here's a HN discussion of one minimal theme (susty wp):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513447
That's it's considered acceptable for kids to be born into situations like this. This is "broken" because it reliably leads to failure and undesirable outcomes.
> presenting their perspective of what took place.

I know this is the age of oversharing, but just because something is from a perspective doesn't mean that people should be interested in it, or that is wise or fair to share. Making it specific and detailed is a way to make it fairer and more productive.

edit: also, to appeal to self-interest, people respond to detailed argument with attacks on the supports of that argument. People respond to vague accusations with ad hominem (which may be very specific) because there's no argument to attack. Vague accusations are almost always eventually more damaging to the accuser than to the accused.
> Deploying 5GW of solar and storage, or 3-4GW of wind, is far easier, faster, and cheaper than trying to build a new reactor,

Source? The largest grid scale batteries to date don't come close to the numbers you are talking about. The largest operational deployment gives a paltry 0.4 GW and can only sustain that for a few hours[1].

People love to hand wave away storage, but it is a monumental and unsolved problem.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_storage_power_statio...
> G W Bush looking into Putin's eyes and getting a "sense of his soul"

That wasn't a mistake. That was Bush being a lying politician.

A better example is when police guess whether a suspect is guilty.
As someone who has bought a lot of this equipment and tested it in various (subjective) ways, I can recommend the Rode Podmic as a good alternative that's half the price of the MV7. I broke my Shure SM7B (trying to "fix" it) and didn't want to spend the money again but the Podmic sounds surprisingly almost as good to me.
You did well. Quantum computing will never exist and you seem like a reasonable person who does not want to waste their life on horseshit.
I wonder about a future of warfare that condenses to strictly targeted assassinations.