skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case of stating the obvious much?
If water tank holds water above 70C, it’s safety requirements make it significantly more expensive. Plus water close to the boiling temperature is rather corrosive. So I cannot rule out that even for small scale sand setup will be cheaper.
I would also add that human attention is inherently scarce. Advertising businesses like google and facebook leverage this fact.

Google provides unlimited searches to users without charge. On the other side, google provides human attention to advertisers, and charges for it due to the scarce nature of attention. Sort of like a marketplace business.
Favorite science factoid: the buzzing sensation is a fairly reliable 50Hz!

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.168...
Wages climbed 5%, a still-rapid pace as Fed awaits slowdown
No it's not. This is purely new high speed intercity services. If you include the WCML out of Euston ("legacy line" - can still do 125mph/200kmh - which will have increased regional services as space is freed up by moving the intercity ones to HS2), then you can at least double that number. Probably triple given it is a 4 track railway.
This is again a very uncharitable reading of my comment. I urge you to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html again.

To clarify:

1) There is a literally a "Contact" mailto: link at the bottom of this page, so I don't know why one has to be "self-important" to contact the moderator.

2) The phrase "at some length" was meant to imply something less than "at length". It was a serious conversation, but I don't recall it continuing particularly long. [EDIT: Searching my email archive, I found that the thread was only a few emails, so "at some length" may itself be a bit of an exaggeration.]

3) I appreciate that dang replied, but that doesn't mean we came to an agreement on the matter. Where did you get the idea that I had to agree with dang's opinions? In any case, I don't see how I "wasted" his time at all, when he voluntarily replied and talked with me about an ongoing HN issue. Dang is responsible for his own choices and for managing his own time.
> 2021: "Coronaviruses do not mutate" and "You won't catch it more than once"

> 2022: "Viruses become less deadly over time... so if we just bear with it a bit longer..."

I can't remember anyone saying that viruses don't mutate.

And nobody is currently saying "bear with it a bit longer". The media has just moved onto Ukraine as the next crisis fit for news saturation.

As long as healthcare systems are not being overwhelmed, there is no rationale for any further restrictions.

We just accept it as part of this risk of living, like using motorways, which are one of the biggest killers amongst younger cohorts.
Also: if you remember the parts that you haven't stopped thinking about, I'd love to hear what they were. I grabbed the book based on your recommendation :)
https://retractionwatch.com/2014/11/17/fake-citations-plague...

Faking Google Scholar citation counts is relevant here. Absolutely insane how easy it is to "game" this system.
At first I thought you were summoning the great lord of hacker news
How do you control for bias in the post-doc? What exactly is "sentiment"? Is it a qualitative description, or something more analytical? Why does a future researcher care about the sentiment instead of the content itself? Or is this to better help guide other research directions?
I had a similar issue, but it was a single RAID-5 array and wear of some other manufacture defect. They were the same brand, model, and batch. When the first failed and the array got in recovery mode I ordered 3 replacements and upped the backup frequency. It was good that I did that because the two remaining drives died shortly after.

The lesson I learned is that the three replacements went to different arrays and we never again let drives from the same batch be part of the same array.
I honestly do not understand this push to have 'inclusive energy policy'. WTF. The point is a net carbon reduction. If poor people need dirty energy while rich people subsidize the technology development WHO CARES.
Yes, chernobyl was fairly harmless, just like Fukushima. Wild life in both is thriving despite the fact that the mainstream media said the radiation was so bad nothing would be able to live there. Reality doesn’t back up any of those assertions at all. Villages near fukushima ignored the dire warnings and are just fine.

If this is surprising then you need to diversify your media news consumption.

Rooftop solar is more deadly than nuclear when you count people falling off of roofs during solar installation as “solar deaths”, otherwise it’s safer.

source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
May I ask - in the early stages, when a wandering ant encounters its first food pheromone trail, is there a logic that dictates which direction it chooses to then follow? It has two options - towards the source of the food, or away from. The latter resulting in a wasted journey home before a hoped-for bounce back.

- ed - it seems to me that they always go towards the food, is all.

- ed - ed : Great work, btw! SimAnt was a big favourite as a kid, so this is right up my street! :)
Are you sure it's not the OS X chroma issue on external displays? It has some bug with the EDID exchange, and doesn't use full chroma - making everything look blurry. There is a way to fix it [1], but it's pretty insane Apple still hasn't fixed this basic functionality.

1: https://gist.github.com/ejdyksen/8302862
So, Machiavelli wrote that when a Prince takes over a new principality, there are a certain number of "atrocities" which he must commit to secure his hold over it, and also some popular actions which he can perform. The natural instinct is to do the popular actions first, in order to make yourself more popular, and space out the atrocities. The problem is, this means that those who are left never know if the atrocities are complete, or if you are coming for them next, while the popular actions are clearly at an end, so discontent builds and builds, and fear drives them to act against you before it is their turn to fall victim. Better, said Machiavelli, to perform your atrocities in a rush at the beginning, front-loaded, and space out your popular actions, so that your new subjects are at first in shock, and then relieved as it seems to the remaining ones that the danger to them is past.

Now, Machiavelli wasn't always correct, by any means, but he wasn't always incorrect, either. If Jenkins is front-loading her unpopular (with her new staff) actions, and spacing out her more popular ones over time, it might just work out for her. We'll see.
> If you rush and do what you are saying without finding an efficient way to store a surplus of energy then you will have blackouts come winter.

But this is only a problem while the economy is still in transition[1], once the transition has completed this will not be a problem.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
The thing I found about biology in my limited study of it is that if a physical effect can happen, it's almost certainly used somewhere as a functional effect.

I'm regular puzzled that people think that biology is tractable. It seems to me the best we can hope for towards a complete understanding is a computational generative model.
In the UK/Germany (and probably others) you can stand if you want to and it is sold out. This is obviously preferable (though not ideal) to having a wait a week for a seat, or get a very slow coach/bus instead.
That's your problem. You've actually done your research and actually listened to the man and watched how he has acted over a 10 year period, giving you much better insight than people who only read click-bait headlines. It's not even worth arguing with people who don't know what they're talking about.
> If this was true why is the US economy doing so well in the transition off carbon based fuels while being the most inclusive in history[1]?

Because we have not gotten to the point where storage, and particularly long term storage, would make sense to build. I mean, why synthesize a chemical fuel when we're still burning so much natural fuel?

Long term storage is a last 10-20% thing.
From 2021? Stick it into Google Scholar. 26 citations.

Abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.03079.pdf from Feb. 2022:

> Three recent articles have claimed that it is possible to, at least in theory,
either set up positive energy warp drives satisfying the weak energy condition (WEC), or
at the very least, to minimize the WEC violations. These claims are at best incomplete,
since the arguments as presented only assert but do not prove the existence of one
set of timelike observers, the co-moving Eulerian observers, who see relatively “nice”
physics. While these particular observers might arguably see a positive energy density,
the WEC requires all timelike observers to see positive energy density. Therefore, one
should carefully revisit this issue. A more careful analysis shows that the situation
is actually much grimmer than advertised — within the framework adopted by those
three papers all physically reasonable warp drives will certainly violate the WEC, and
both the strong and dominant energy conditions. Under plausible subsidiary conditions
the null energy condition is also violated. While warp drives are certainly interesting
examples of speculative physics, the violation of the energy conditions, at least within
the framework of standard general relativity, is unavoidable. Even in modified gravity,
physically reasonable warp drives will still violate the purely geometrical null convergence
condition and the timelike convergence condition which, in turn, will place very strong
constraints on any modified-gravity warp drive.

From https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.15950.pdf from May 2022:

> Specifically, this last year has seen multiple misguided claims [22–24, 28–33] as to the
asserted possible avoidance/amelioration of the known energy condition violations
in warp drive spacetimes; violations that were first firmly established over 20 years
ago.

This paper is in those "multiple misguided claims".
Canvas Liquid / Gooey Effect Using Matter.js and SVG Filters
I don't know you or your religious beliefs, but many people who believe that 'life begins at conception' arrive at that belief through their faith. I would ask that you examine your heart for empathy, and see if your beliefs are consistent with your values, especially when it comes to the power given to the state.

It also seems that you are willing to cut the power of the state very very fine - intentional killing of a fertilized egg is equivalent to killing an infant, but the state does not have a catalog or any way of knowing about all fertilized eggs, so how does it know when to investigate?

The state has no right to know about a woman's IUD, but does have a right to know if she has taken steps to stop that fertilized egg from developing further, if I understand your position correctly.

We get our belief system from our family and friends. We see their values and we see what works for them. We feel righteous when we defend those values. This is true for everyone. It's not "both sides" it's "all humans".

I personally view humankind as my cousins. I don't like all my cousins, I don't agree with everything they do. Some need help, some need to be stopped by force, some are greedy, some are kind. If we're all cousins, then we all have rights, and we have to decide how to balance those rights. A pregnant woman has rights, and an unborn child has rights, and those do need to be balanced. I am comfortable putting the balancing point at some measure of 'viability'. I am not a specialist in pregnancy, so I don't know exactly when that is, but it's definitely not at the moment of conception.
The nature of citations are often much more ambiguous, though, and assigning sentiment will often be unhelpful.

Background citations are often of the flavor of: "These guys did almost exactly the same thing as us, but due to the minor detail of wanting to get our own work published, we think their work is inferior."

Or, "This cited work had a great idea, but due to rush to publish they left out a bunch of details and took a few short cuts on the implementation. We've fixed some of these holes, and called the original authors dolts to elevate the importance of our own incremental improvements."
No it doesn't. The sun shines 24/7/365.24.
Losing touch with reality in this sense means that they neither foresaw nor can adequately explain the huge geopolitical shifts that took place in the last decade.

Instead, they keep putting out the same neoliberal/globalist spiel, unwilling to even question some of its pillars. Reality may not conform to one's expectations and if that's the case, one better starts making radical changes to the models one uses to interface with reality. If that doesn't take place, one is in for a painful lesson.
I see that P.D.Q. Bach is still being ignored and treated as some kind of joke. The Wikipedia article doesn’t even mention him.
Strange how like, dunno, drop in tire shops, works without ticket systems.

I think there can easily be two queues. The formal ticket queue and the "lets just do it to save admin"-queue.

Like, big tasks can't block small fast tasks due to congestion.
Weinstein is the director of Thiel capital and holds a PhD. I do not think he is a crackpot. He is butthurt over being victimized in academia for various reasons, and he is not alone in having such experienced. He is using his voice to call them out at the same time Publishing his work.

Regarding the theory. It is is impossible to me to analyze his work, because it is impenetrable. What is a two-tensor, gauge theory, I for one have absolutely no idea. I think this is an Achilles heel of his approach, he needs to convey meaning better. Or maybe that's just how a theory of everything is articulated.
This kind of collusion between the state and a company is antithetical to capitalism.
I was talking specifically about naming the perpetrator, not that news coverage might create copycats:

> the [FBI] developed the “Don’t Name Them” campaign. The campaign aims to curb media-induced imitational mass shootings and suggests minimizing naming and describing the individuals involved in mass shootings, limiting sensationalism, and refusing to broadcast shooter statements or videos.

This sort of thing comes up every time there's a mass shooting, commenters attack the media for naming the person.

My point is that even if the media on non-specific about the names/motives those details will come out somewhere and people will find it if they want to. Trying to control specific information is a fools game.

The one actual study they reference is how imitation suicides increased with coverage (ie subway jumpers -> more suicides via subway jumpers).

https://sci-hub.st/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...

I do believe reducing the volume of coverage could certainly have an effect. Wall-to-wall coverage makes these acts notorious and puts the ideas into peoples minds.

If there is going to be reporting on it avoiding biographic details on the perp won't make much difference. Plus I really doubt the main motivation of most of these shooters is to be personally named, rather they want maximum impact for their crimes. They know the specific details will spread via other channels regardless, all it needs is the original seed in the media about the general crime.
And requires centralized exchanges subject to Know Your Customer regulations to get your money out as fiat.
That's what my speciation covers. At some point the search engine decided that page is a good result for that string, the content may have shifted since then as it currently isn't, or perhaps someone is back linking to it with "PL884-200" in the href? Either way it's something a dealer would add after market to a car and it has some connection to PL884-200.
Not the same molecules. In bitter melon it is mainly momordicine (an alkaloid) that seem to cause the bitterness.
Easy! Make another list of things, which are _excellent_ reads.
> The arguement seems to boil down to, everyone uses a master lock, some people can open master locks, please consider leaving your locker unlocked... why?

In fairness it should be more of "everyone uses a master lock, some people can open master locks, please consider not making master locks own 90% of the locks"
A better argument: People will always try to dupe, deceive, get rich and get their way. Capitalism is - so far - the best way to channel at least some of that energy into building something productive for society as a whole.
To the processor and other entities such as the credit card companies and banks that are involved with processing the transaction there isn't much difference between a refund and charge. Both use most of the same resources on the same infrastructure the same way in the same amount.

If you had a deal where you were directly exposed to all the fees involved, what I'd expect is that you net fee on a transaction would be composed of fees from three different categories.

1. Per transaction fees that apply to both charges and refunds.

2. Fees proportional to the charge amount that apply to both charges and refunds.

3. Fees proportional to the charge amount that only apply to charges.

On a charge you'd pay the fees from all three categories. On a refund you might get back the fees from category #3 you paid on the charge, but you'd again pay the fees from category #1 and #2.

For example if you sell an item for price P and the fees from the three categories are F1, F2, and F3, your net gain on that transaction is P - F1 - F2 - F3. A refund transaction has a net gain of -P - F1 - F2 + F3. That would bring your total net for the combined charge/refund to -2 F1 - 2 F2.

This we should expect some net fee for a charge followed by a refund. For small transactions that net fee could be up to almost twice what the fee was for the charge alone.

Most processors though don't directly expose you to all the fees. That's because there are a bazillion different possible fees with each different subsets applicable to any particular transaction. So most processors expose a simplified structure based on averages over a large number of transactions across similar merchants. Most merchants prefer that.

When doing such a simplified fee structure, they could set charge fees based on the average for F1 + F2 + F3 and refund fees based on the average F1 + F2 - F3. But refunds should be much less frequent than charges, so it seems find to me when doing a simplified fee structure to just average the refunds in too, and just deal with fees on the charge side of things.
And, it's not safer.

It's roughly as safe as renewables, and they're both much safer than fossil fuels, particularly coal, but you have to use obviously out of date stats to suggest anything else regarding renewables vs nuclear and the trend is clearly in renewables favor, even if it wasn't continuing to get cheaper, which it is, which gives you more safety-per-buck too.
I think birtherism spread mostly in places other than Facebook and Twitter. Its heyday was before those groups were on social media. Facebook's audience in 2010 was much younger than its audience in 2016, and Twitter adoption at that point was pretty minor.
It only rules out local hidden variable theories that assume statistical independence.

Of course many scientists don’t like violating locality or statistical independence but there’s no philosophical reason to a priori discard them.
You would definitely have trouble on an 8-bit micro, but I wouldn’t expect to browse a “personal website” with one of those, which is what the article seems to focus on. Maybe a “personal HTTP API” at best.
You may want to rethink the name as you may be violating trademarks. Stripe is usually pretty cool from what I have seen in encouraging 3rd party apps built on top of stripe but I am not sure if they would be ok with this name. Sounds like it is from stripe directly which is not the case.
> I don't think it is possible for an individual to track a high ranking former official like that without being noticed so personally

In this case Shinzo Abe was doing some campaigning for his party, so obviously his destination must be communicated beforehand on the news so that people know to show up.
We’re really in trouble when gpt can do stand ups.
Yes but without a strong state to prevent this, the incentives do push the companies to collude
The COMTiles design has a very neat idea for batching requests directly on the client due to its ordered layout; this should also be possible in PMTiles spec v3 which introduces an optional Hilbert ordering on disk, as well as index compression and optimizations for run-length-encoding of repetitive tiles. I'm hoping to have this ready and implemented in clients by the FOSS4G conference (late August)
Really feels like there’s a massive amount of corruption in European politics these days. Especially in the EU.
no, but I did notice the uptick of "Japan must open itself to immigration or it will not survive" kind of articles from the very same outlets who chastise us for the carbon sin and promote having fewer or no children as one of the ways to atone for it. same in NA and Europe
Just to add some additional detail: the control plane (Omicron[0] -- named before the COVID variant!), the user-level portion of the hypervisor (Propolis[1]) and the storage subsystem (Crucible[2]) are all open source. And while our focus has been building them for our own product, we know that they are at least usable outside of Oxide![3][4]

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible

[3] https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm...

[4] https://artemis.sh/2022/06/14/oxide-crucible.html
I'm glad you see it that way. My response was so flippant because I do think people often see China as personally run, in its entirety, by Xi. Any news coming out of China, from as grave as genocide to as minor as Olympics festivals, is seen as part of a single plan. The actions of the Chinese gov't and press can be just as much bottom-up as top-down, even if the top takes credit.
Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
FWIW this is about the company's founding DNA: "The leak spans a five-year period when Uber was run by its co-founder Travis Kalanick".
Wow, the authors of this paper now have the ability to start the most successful VC firm in history and make trillions /s
I just can’t see it that way. I imagine that simply funding unemployment would have let companies right size in the moment and then rehire as they got their footing again. Meanwhile folks that were unemployed could just take care of themselves and family instead of just doing busywork.
> Why can't we just

Every time I see someone say why don't we "just" do X to fix climate change, the thing they suggest we just do is either drastically inadequate, really hard, or too slow.

We're way behind at this point. Climate scientists used to say 400 ppm was the highest level that might be safe, but we're at 420ppm and still adding 36 billion tons of CO2 every year, plus a lot of methane.

We're at serious risk of positive feedback effects taking things out of our hands entirely. Higher temperatures bring things like melting ice caps and methane release from permafrost melt, which heat up the planet more. Solar radiation management is a chance to head those things off, and buy time for the changes you're talking about.

And none of the proposed SRM solutions are irreversible. Some of them reverse automatically, shortly after you stop maintaining them.
Miniaturization is always more expensive than full-sized components, not to mention the premium charged for many "flagship" devices.
Thank you! This was exactly the level of explanation I was looking for.
The Uber Files
I was just thinking about how nice this would be while working on a Typescript codebase in VSCode recently. I wonder if there’s an extension for that!

Yup: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MatthewN...
Calculus is beautiful