skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> COVID-19 vaccination was estimated to prevent approximately 27 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 22 million to 34 million) infections, 1.6 million (95% UI, 1.4 million to 1.8 million) hospitalizations, and 235 000 (95% UI, 175 000–305 000) deaths in the US from December 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021, among vaccinated adults 18 years or older.

Substantial improvement, although some may debate it compared with economic and social costs.
On that front, thanks to anti-GPL folks, we are back into Shareware and Public Domain, although under different names.
Water heater failure is also easy to avoid by annual or seasonal flushing of any accumulated sediment and checking the anode. As long as the anode is replaced, the water heater should be fine.

I would expect a large condo association's maintenance staff to be able to handle this sort of thing very easily.
Aside from the fact that being able to generalise a model with very little training data is an important AI research problem to solve, language death is a serious concern and is being accelerated due to the fact that many languages are not supported at all by modern technology (leading to "prestige language" pressures that are a known cause of historical language death).

For instance, Icelandic is not supported by any modern smartphone platform which has lead to Icelandic natives communicating with each other in English and very little information is translated to Icelandic[1,2].

That being said, I am worried that having translations that are "too good" could also act to accelerate language death as the importance of keeping languages alive will seem less significant (to non-language-nerds) if we can translate works written in that language to any other language with very small datasets. Luckily I'm not convinced that AI models will be able to produce convincing and consistent translations for a long time -- languages are so different in so many ways that I can't see how adding more dimensions and parameters to a model would account for them.

[1]: https://youtu.be/qYlmFfsyLMo?t=141
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/europe/iceland-icel...
1199 USD to EUR = 1147 EUR
Germany has a 19% VAT so
1147*1.19=1397.06

Still a gap of slightly more than 100€.
I'm not sure - https://github.com/google/ml-compiler-opt#pretrained-models says the they sometimes get released on GitHub but I couldn't see anything obvious in that repo.
I tend to notice that model evaluation is lacking, perhaps because it’s not especially interesting.

But to me, most business applied ML falls under the optimization umbrella. For some reason it’s never portrayed this way, but perhaps if it were, junior practitioners would more commonly pay attention to learning to thoroughly examine how their trained models will perform.
Which is why image trimming tools did exist.
So if the district heating system operates on as a "quasi business" (and AFAIK most Stadtwerke do even though they are publically owned), wouldn't it make sense to price close or at the price it would cost to use other heating. That maximizes the profit.
For me I find the higher the bpm the easier it is to focus on what I'm doing. The ambient/relaxing stuff just never seems to work for me.

This Laidback Drum & Bass playlist[1] gets a regular run out.

1: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCLAK5uy_mhouxvxL06...
The ceramic lining of a water heater cracks due to thermal stress over time.

Pure stainless steel water tanks don't have this flaw, but they aren't they common.
It seems more regulated healthcare systems are also significantly less capable of developing innovative treatments (although this could be a misunderstanding of mine)
Right, and the fact that they are in this mess of tech debt in the first place is because they've cut corners and pinched pennies over many many decades. We shouldn't just nod our heads and be all like, "ah yeah, that's annoying, no way it could be helped". I'm so tired of companies continuing to be short-sighted about technical debt. Clearly it's been that way for more than 50 years, and we continue to validate this sort of behavior with understanding and extending deadlines.

Fine these people out of existence and let someone competent (if such a person exists) pick up the pieces and start anew.
Based on https://github.com/google/ml-compiler-opt#pretrained-models, it seems like the models are versioned, so I guess they'd update their models when updating LLVM or something like that.
This feedback is a bit harsh and not at all constructive towards their actual value proposition: a technical search engine for devs.

Dark mode is not a core value proposition.

(my guess is that) The logo and search bar take up a lot of space because they are mimicking the design of the Google.com landing page.

It seems like the bulk of their work has been on the search itself, so I would forgive them on logo and branding. It’s an early product so logo and branding can change.

For now, they just need constructive feedback on workflow and usability.
I listen to toe. It’s a very soothing Japanese rock band. Some minor vocals, they are hardly noticeable.
Assuming your pipes are between the tap and the water heater, and the pipes run indoors, the water temperature will be close to room temperature - nowhere near freezing.
Autechre, all day.
Ah, yes, smaller channels can certainly seem that way and the join leave logs are basically spam.

For what it's worth, I've been active on three channels in the past few months — #openwrt on OFTC, #vim and #neovim on Libera. I've always got responses fairly quickly on #openwrt and #vim.
If a feature has paying customers it’s a startup. A feature is something you would open source.
The article forgot to mention: you can pet a dog, you can pet a cat, but you can’t Petaluma
> I have to respectfully disagree that those conditions are near the limits of human endurance. My own experience working outside in all kinds of weather causes me to see that temperature/humidity combination as fairly mild (normal summer temps for June/July) and easily survivable since I personally have known many people of all ages who manage to go about their business with no ill effects in conditions more extreme than that here in Texas. Current conditions here today were 103F (>39C) with heat index due to humidity making it feel like 106F (>41C). I worked outside all day and I am over 60 years old.

Humidity is a _large_ part of what makes it uncomfortable and dangerous, and you don't appear to be mentioning much about humidity here. Heat index is a function of both, but I don't know the formula (and +3 degrees F can't be very high humidity I don't think).

I live in Phoenix, and it gets to be near 120 quite a few summer days. It's basically just annoying, as long as the humidity is low. When it gets high, it's _way_ past just annoying, and high humidity I think is more like 50% during those times, typically.
Were they mostly new graduates, or did they have some years of experience already?
Curiously, searching the docs for "walrus" (https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=walrus) yields exactly the results you need, but searching for "assignment expression" yields the previous results mixed a lot of other results due to the word "expression".
Tanks don't fail unless the anode gets depleted.

You seriously need to tell your condo association to get their maintenance people to flush the water heaters regularly (seasonally or annually) and check/change the anodes. If they're gas-fired heaters, the burner and air intakes should be getting cleaned.

If this isn't being done, it's probably because your maintenance is being done by plumbers, who have convinced everyone that "they just fail, you know?"

Replacing a tankless water heater because the motor has failed is silly. You replace the motor. And tankless heaters don't fail very often unless, again, they don't see regular maintenance. As in: flush/descale annually and water/air filter cleanings.
Heat keeps leaking out. The amount of stored heat is proportional to the cube of the linear size, the leak rate is proportional to the surface area (square of the linear size). Hence, the bigger the storage, the higher the efficiency.

Same why a flea can jump >10x its height, and a human cannot (square growth of strength, cubic growth of weight).
One reason Denmark has very affordable district heating is that it is based on "waste heat" from power plants, and "waste heat" is exempt of energy taxes (because those are paid on the primary energy sale, i.e. the electricity).

This comes with some perverse incentives in an age of renewables:

1. If the power plants use surplus electricity to provide district heating it is no longer a "waste product" and consequently taxed. Since the power plant cannot run without generating electricity, this leads to periods of negative power prices.

2. Cooling water from e.g. data centers is too cold for district heating, but it would be energy efficient to use heat pumps to extract that energy. This is not done, because the product would be subject to full energy taxes as it is not a waste product.
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on our website (freelance platform))
Here's the link:
https://cisforce.com
As fuel for thought, consider that when python was being upgraded from 2 to 3, shipping lots and lots and lots of new features, and breaking several old ones, there were many libraries which supported both versions.

Some of them may have functioned by only programming in the mutually agreed upon the subset, but given that that subset did not really include strings, that was clearly the exception rather than the norm. Instead people must have found a way to use the new features if they were available, but fall back to old ways of doing things if they weren't.

Some of those mechanisms we're internal to the language, “from __future__ import with_statement”. So how can my JSON-over-HTTP API, within that JSON, tell you what else is possible with the data you fetched?
I removed my profile from LinkedIn 2 years ago because it was starting to get crazy; I got calls and emails from obvious scammers every day. The problem is that when I introduce myself, people always get suspicious of me not having a LinkedIn profile. Someone needs to reinvent a professional network.
I remember in a different way.

Gas related banks were not included in first SWIFT sanctions, other banks were.

They were only after Russia pretended to be paid in rubles. Of course that demand was driven by sanctions.

If fact that gas related banks were left out of first sanctions was quite controversial, many saw that as a weak european move as europe is still unable to live without russian gas.
Reality Bytes #14 – Biweekly news and updates from the 3D, AR, VR, Web ecosystem
I know some equity investors in this who would disagree strongly with how beneficial the end game turned out to be
I think I first heard about this form Adam Curtis’s 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&feature=youtu.b
From the post:

> The TensorFlow model is embedded with XLA AOT, which converts the model into executable code.

Taking the TF model to executable code should be deterministic.

Generating the TF model might not be (depends on implementation and hardware).

But it's unclear from this if this is a problem in practice - it's not uncommon for non-deterministic models to end up producing the same output because you perform thresholding/quantizing or some analogous process to convert it into a classification style output.

I.E. here, you are generating operations, which you can setup as a classification problem: Given this input and this history what is the next operation.

And of course you can always got back to your saved model and generate the code from that.

While the exact scores for the next operation might be non-deterministic you always end up with the highest scoring one being the same.
Just a water tank moisture detector, e.g. https://a.co/0ujkOuD
‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires
It is fixed now, thank you whomever for fixing it (or undoing it if that was you, not cool though).
Looks like the submitter needed to save space
I once visited a geothermal plant about 20km outside Reykjavik that supplies hot water for heating the city. Even in the depths of Icelandic winter, the temperature only drops 1 deg C between the plant and the city. A lot of Rockwool around the pipe IIRC.
If anything, the only thing homework achieves is to make children used to being forced to do something for the sake of doing it.

People learn what they want to learn, children that aren't interested in the material can finish homework assignments but not retain anything.
If you’re distracted and handicapped it might not be the best time to be driving at all. If you’re going to be irresponsible anyway, being irresponsible with FSD on is probably safer than with it off.
Again I think you're overstating their importance. Less people are using satellite TV everyday thanks to streaming. Satellite internet is such a miniscule percentage of internet use it might as well be a rounding error. I don't doubt that will change but it will always be a fraction of the market.

As far as military goes, the US armed forces are insanely overpowered. None of that has to do with satellites. There could be a solar flare that knocks out every electronic device and we would still be on top.

It is also highly unlikely the US will ever officially be at war again. Congress would get eaten alive by their constituents. The military exists purely as a show of force, and a means of siphoning away taxpayer money forever.
I think it is a misunderstanding. The two places in the world where everyone agrees it is easiest to get medtech devices developed are Australia and Mexico.

(Source: was doing medtech development for a while in the early 2010s).
I know I am late to comment, but I just want to point out that the money isn't necessarily solely for Ukraine's defense... it is also in our own self-interest to invest in stabilizing Europe and the global economy by hindering Russia's imperial ambition (and frightening China as to the consequences of any imperial ambition of their own).

If Russia had had a cakewalk in Ukraine, the future would look very grim. Instead, because of our dollars and guns, it looks less grim, for Europe, for us, for Ukraine, for Taiwan, we may have prevented a tsunami of blood and violence in the coming decades simply by spending some money sooner rather than all of the money later.

The question isn't whether we should protect Ukraine, per se, it is whether we will be worse off if we don't, isn't it?
Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites).

Some I'd recommend:

* Ambient 1: Music for Airports

* Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror

* The Pearl

* Thursday Afternoon

* Discreet Music

If you like any of those, there's lots more to explore. I don't care for all Eno's ambient works, but I really enjoy some of it.
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I mean, I can see why reimplementing could be scary even with org churn.
I tried it for a typical query for firebase. The issue I have is Google would get me to the firebase docs just fine (well I’d hope so!) and once there, I want to be in those
docs to get the code and the context of that code. Having bits of code on the search results page isn’t that useful.

What would be useful is if you could present information from different docs sites in the same format and combine them.

Maybe that is a different startup idea completely but it would be cool to have MDN, React and Firebase docs in one place, brutalist style where I can quickly get to what I want.
Despite all the problems with the law and with compliance, I'm optimistic about this. I think various orgs are going to ravenously pick apart this data, normalize it, make it easy to use for regular people, etc. Gaps are gaps, but messy formats and inconsistent codes and such are the smallest of speedbumps, in my mind.

Journalists, nonprofits, and startups are going to extract every bit of juicy truth there is to find in this stuff. They're going to get to the bottom of every cryptic string by hand if they have to, because there's so much value in this for nearly our entire society. And hopefully, the fines will mean the true gaps get smaller and smaller.
What does it do? I looked a bit on their site but don't see a description of its features.
That sounds awful. I've only ever driven Toyota lane assist vehicles (3 different ones), and they all had a button on the steering wheel to turn off lane assist and the annoying beeping it does.
In the context of fighting a war, Kessler Syndrome is a meme. It reduces the expected lifespan of a satellite, but that only becomes strategically relevant if the new lifespan of your satellites is shorter than the war is expected to last and satellites are being destroyed faster than they can be replenished. America is rapidly developing the ability to launch a ton of new satellites very quickly.

Of course the post-war aftermath would be deeply regrettable. But it always is.
Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal
It is bit weird, but then looking at numbers it makes somewhat more sense. 5,2km^"2 old town and 15k+ daily visitors... It is not exactly great combination. Specially for place that wasn't designed for masses of tourist.
Ask HN: What is the scope of a staff+ engineer role for you?
I’ve been mulling over this one for months now so I thought I’d try and tap into the HN hive-mind.

I’m a senior backend SWE at Wolt (so not FAANG-size but sizeable, I think our product team consists of about 600 peeps though the figure increased dramatically since I joined 14mos ago) and I’m slowly moving to a staff-engineer role cause after 8yrs in the industry it felt like it was time to transition to a more abstract role and new set of challenges.

As staff+ roles (borrowing terminology from the StaffEng book [0]) are generally ill-defined in our industry and heavily dependent on the org, part of the process requires that I compose a list of what I perceive or would want my responsibilities to be in this new role as a preliminary setting of expectations.

I’ve read the book [0] and listened to the podcast [1] and been ruminating about this topic for a few months now but I worry that any definition I compile will be heavily biased by my experience thus far and not account for the nuances and changes that come with the transition.

So this is a question to the SWE peeps in the crowd that have already made or are in the process of making the transition to technical leadership. What do you see your responsibilities as a staff+ engineer being? What do you consider the right ratios between coding, mentoring/coaching/sponsoring, establishing best-practices, liaising between teams, translating strategy to engineering initiatives, etc, to be? What do you wish you had considered/known before making the transition?

[0]: https://staffeng.com/book
[1]: https://podcast.staffeng.com/
Interesting. Could you share a bit more, without revealing stuff that you don't want to share in public?
>A lot of famous people talk about it, almost like they're bragging or something.

yeah if you're famous and super successful in your field and you talk about having imposter syndrome it does feel a bit of a humblebrag.
I've been working on it professionally for over two and I still abhor it. I think it's much worse than it's ever been.
Yeah, at first I thought "ah, it's a bit on the lyrical side" but a few paragraphs down I just dropped out, it's too close to unreadable for comfort.
I recognize this kind of long-winded, superfluous style from my own way of writing, it becomes too much like some conversational monologue that devolves into incomprehensibility, not out of a want for sounding smart but rather the lack of the talent that is brevity. English is not my first language, and I suspect that plays a part too, it may be the same for the author of that article.

Now, on imposter syndrome, I've often thought of myself as having this, but, the comfort that thought gives me makes me wonder if I'm not just seeking validation and trying to put myself up there with those brilliant people who supposedly had it too..
I was the same way to be honest. I ended up taking the parts I liked from spacemacs/lunarvim and adding them. I also started doing all my configs in lua, because it's great
I think about this kind of thing with relation to airbnb in expensive cities, what is the ultimate free market end state? Anywhere where humans create unique culture and beauty will be hollowed out and given over to global tourists with money. That forces the locals far away from the interesting center core. Thinking about it over decades I envision it as almost like a Game of Life pattern where those pushed out eventually create a new interesting core while the old hollowed out core deteriorates into disney-fied caricature of itself. The cycle then repeats as the global tourist money chases the new hotness. Could it really be a cycle? I'm not sure. The tourist hotspots look mostly like negative-sum culture destruction to me.
A large proportion of House music has lyrics and/or speaking, so I'm not surprised.
Why stay in SWIFT when it's been demonstrated that they can be cut off from global supply on the whims of the US administration? That one decision did more for the death of the American empire than any other.
> I don't care about others opinions, in my own opinion I can't accept myself as just OK

"I'm not better than everyone else but I think I should be" is not impostor syndrome. You don't see yourself as an impostor, wanting to push yourself hard to achieve more is not impostor syndrome.

If you ran a very popular blog and still felt you couldn't write blog posts then that would be impostor syndrome. If you had published a lot of papers and still felt you couldn't make something noteworthy then that would be impostor syndrome. But feeling bad over not being able to do those things when you haven't done them then that isn't impostor syndrome at all.
I’ve spend four years in IL and consider them among the happiest in my life

The US right now is a fucking shitshow. It’s one bad election away from being yet another gunslinging theocracy hating women and gay people. They’d probably switch sides and bomb Ukraine, without necessarily looking at a map.
Every elevator in Korea works this way. Pressing once selects, pressing again deselects.
I did a search.

Clicked on the result.

Then a blank empty page was shown.
Yeah, some days I also have this problem. Not sure what causes it but techno cures it.
France plans full nationalisation of power utility EDF
For doing well on exams but not the homework? If so that's very lenient of them, but understandable. I prefer professors just make homework extra credit and make exams a large part of the grade.
Boost-Phase Missile Defense: Interrogating the Assumptions
> Delta 18 and the brand-new National Space Intelligence Center were officially commissioned late last month at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. It will be staffed by nearly 350 civilian and military personnel.

Meh. This looks more like a government re-org than a substantive change to me [1]. The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) has been around for decades at Wright Patterson AFB. The earliest form of it goes back to 1951 [2].

In 1993, the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) added space to the list of things they cared about, forming NASIC. It looks like now space is being split off into its own group, so there will be NSIC, and presumably NASIC will go back to being NAIC.

[1] I've been through a few DoD re-orgs. This is what they usually look like.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Intelli...
Microsoft, AWS, awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services