skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outcomes: Part 1

Colony 8 was the first to die, which was not surprising, considering 8 was low aggression and their closest neighbor was Colony 1 which was high aggression, medium freedom and low energy. Shortly after, Colony 1 became the first colony to reach the cap of 500 ants. This was no doubt due to no longer having much conflict, and also obtaining their closest neighbor's resources.

The next to go was 6, which was an all-medium build pitted against 7, who I suspected at the start would be the winner, with max aggression, medium energy, and the most focus (lowest freedom). 6 put up a good fight, having killed just under 800 ants before succumbing to 7.

Colony 3, the other all-medium build, was the next colony to reach the population cap. I thought this juxtaposition was interesting, although not terribly surprising since their closest neighbor was 2, a low aggression and high-freedom build.

Colony 5, a medium-aggression build, struggled to stay afloat, which I thought was surprising, since their neighbor was Colony 4, the other medium-aggression build. The only difference between these two was that 4 has high energy, and 5 has high freedom. The major factor that seems to have given 4 the upper-hand is that they had a much heavier flow of ants to the store of 70-quality food placed behind their starting point. This was good news to me, since I placed those long skinny halls back there specifically to (hopefully) benefit high-energy (and possibly low-freedom) ants that could make the journey, and wasn't sure if I had made them long or difficult enough.

It took a while, but Colony 5's numbers dwindled at the same rate that 4's climbed. Colony 4 was the 3rd to reach population cap while 5 was the 3rd to fall very shortly thereafter.

At this point it was mostly 1 who was making a run for the center food store, Followed by colony 7. Both colonies kept trying to enter only from the left side, which led to some pretty intense conflict, seeing as these were the two max-aggressive colonies. Just like the conflict between colony 4 and 5 before them, the only difference between these colonies was that colony 1 had higher freedom, and colony 7 had higher energy.

From what you can see in the pathing made by each colony, it looks as though 1's high freedom caused a group of ants to start swarming down near 7's exit, where they patrolled around in circles like some sort of death squad, picking off the steady stream of 7's ants as they tried to either get to or from the center food store.

Meanwhile, 3 was slowly picking away at 2, slowly building up in the same manner that 4 and 5 did. 3 Had a strong flow to the high-value store down the hall, which 2 had yet to develop in any meaningful way. Although, I believe the upper hand was gained by 3 by means of having medium aggression over 2's low aggression, in addition to one thing threatening them both: They bad both lasted so long to this point that their food stores depleted to nothing, aside from the large store down the long hallway, which meant venturing out to the center food store where Colony 1 and 4 had already developed a decent flow.
Part 2

Colony 1's circling death squads shifted around the top of the center food store, intercepting 2 and 3's workers at their exit, resulting in a 3-way battle.

Finally, Colony 2 was the 4th colony to fall, which left 1 colony in each quadrant of the map. the 2 high-aggression builds, one of the all-medium builds, and one high energy build.

Colony 1 seemed to keep the pressure on 3 and 7, who stayed between 200 and 300 ants for the next good chunk of time. However, it was stretching itself too thin, as it dropped from a healthy 450-500 ants down to 300 or so and stayed there while it kept sending out death squads to the others.

Colony 4, on the other hand, maintained a healthy 500 ants as it focused most of it's workers toward the food store down the long hallway, only sending a relatively small amount out toward the center food store. Those that did go to the center were generally not attacked, since 7 and 3 were acting as meat-shields for them. Even if they did get attacked, their aggression was medium and they were able to fight back as needed. It seemed that 4 simply needed to hold out for the other 3s mutual destruction, and then pick off whatever remained.

1, 3, and 7 kept battling on. Their numbers dropping to ~250, ~200, and ~100, respectively. Colony 1 and 3 eventually got a semi-decent flow heading to the store down the long hallway, and most colonies moved away from the center food store aside from Colony 4, who was now running low on their own hallway store.

After a long-fought battle, Colony 7 finally fell to 1's death squads, and 3 was shortly behind.

Just as they fell, Colony 4 finally finished off their hallway food store. This caused the majority of the workers to fracture into 3 groups: Most were smart enough to venture into their neighbor's untouched hallway food store. They have maximum energy and could easily make the trip past where the old colony stood, into their hallway, and back. Another smaller group shifted toward the middle, into danger, but to the closer and more valuable food store, while the rest were stragglers that kept going down their own hallway to a food store that was no longer there.

It's important at this point to note that, at this time, Colony 4 was comprised entirely of workers, 500 of them. Colony 1 was comprised almost entirely of soldiers. Of the 260 ants, 222 of them were soldiers with only 38 workers.

Other metrics to note at this moment:

--Colony 1--
Killed: 3741
Starved: 0
Kills: 10367
Food stored: 10

--Colony 4--
Killed: 4066
Starved: 0
Kills: 1930
Food stored: 24014
> Most of my coworkers ended up here on H1-B visas from top schools in their home countries, but no network or strong family wealth here in the US.

That's an interesting matter on its own. Americans are jumping through 12 stage interviews at a chance for a job and getting ghosted while somehow people from other countries are quickly filling up corporations.

It's also weird that so many people with no local connections and no reason to stay in the country get important roles in tech companies, return home, and data is consistently being leaked or "hacked" through various vulnerabilities obvious to employees.
I think we mostly agree, though likely Australia. It takes a lot of gravel and sand to build stuff. Due to the weight and bulk, this mining is kept close to home.
getting a blank value
> Does art cease being art because the artist created plates and created 100 prints before it wears out? Is that less art than a painting?

Of course not. It's just as much an art.

But those prints shouldn't be priced with the same premium that a single original often has.
You may be interested in the book The Keystone Approach by Rebecca Fett. It goes over research into the connection between pediatric strep throat and psoriasis. IIRC(from the book), if you are diagnosed with psoriasis before the age of 40, there is a 90% chance that it happened shortly after a... bad case of strep throat? Tonsillectomy? I forget which. Pretty eye opening book with some good diet-based advice on reducing symptoms of psoriasis, if you are looking for relief.
I've always thought much of the problems with Uber would be resolved by allowing the customer to bid higher for the trip.
My doctor informed me of the side effects when she gave me the prescription.
Yes, Costcos, Sam's Clubs. Ikea. Carrefour. Walmart. Apple. Oppo stores.

Probably not around at the time that the article's author's parents emigrated.

There are people doing more of the outdoor thing in China now. Probably none going about 20 years back. Last time I was there, there were recreational bicyclists (ie. taking them off the back of their car) in the cities, as opposed to my first visits where many more bicycles for their comute than cars.
I'm encouraged by the comments on this article. It shows that finally, it's ok to dedicate some critical analysis to the downsides of Covid restrictions.
Hmm would be great if it was mobile friendly, the keyboard did not show up at all.
I read this as “everyone is bad, so it is not fair to say China is a danger to the world.”
Has that helped your crohns? Or other stomach or autoimmune issues?
Seems like great advance but a lot of questions still. Like how efficient vs silicon panels at the start?

If it makes manufacturing cheaper and see through panel potential is neat.

We have had solar a number of years now. With the arrival of an electric car our seeming decent sized array isn’t enough. Im not sure the current market is going well, our panel manufacturer (LG) stopped making them..
Here's how to check the power on hours on a Mac:

I didn't have `smartctl` installed on my Mac, so here's how to install it via `brew`:

brew install smartmontools

My SSD is `disk0` (check `Disk Utility.app`).

Running `smartctl` for my `disk0`:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/disk0 | grep -e "Power On Hours"
Power On Hours: 6,334

So I have only ~15% of those 40k hours used (6,334/40,000).
Though it's worth keeping in mind that they also have a lot of items with unique model numbers/SKUs that are actually entirely identical otherwise, to make it less obvious that the version at Costco is $X cheaper than the one available everywhere else.
As is typical with Autism related research, there’s an ironic total lack of empathy for Autistic people and unwillingness to even try understanding us. Behaviourists, I swear. Anything that references or relies on the output of the abhorrent Simon Baron-Cohen is just not worth the paper (or pixels) it’s printed on. I’m glad some of his output is being regarded as contentious even though it’s decades too late.

I’m so very tired of this rubbish.
Stanford publicly releases first-ever entire course on Transformer AI Models
> the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality and at an affordable price

I bought into the hype and got a Costco membership a few years back. One of the first things I went looking for was whole bean coffee (Peet's xmas roast). The local Costco had a bunch of coffee from Starbucks and Peets (meh quality to start) but only the painfully dark roasts and all of it was ground. Pre-ground coffee in bulk has a pretty limited use case (and relatively short shelf life).

Fast forward to last week and I went looking for a new fridge at Costco dot com. They prominently featured LG (ugh) and Samsung refrigerators. While some LG models seem to review pretty well I've never seen anyone say anything positive about Samsung, their service, or the serviceability of their appliances. I'm in the middle of dealing with a defective LG fridge and that's about the nicest thing I can say about LG's warranty and customer support.

Costco may have a permissive return policy and decent customer support but I would never blindly buy something without doing a bit of research just because it's at Costco. Especially with a big ticket item like a fridge I'd rather use my Amex anyhow.
I got a solid chuckle from this...
"Nobody cares where you graduate from school in engineering."

Oh yes they do. It definitely opens doors. After that, depending on the role, it can have subtle effects. For mid-level management, right in the grinder, probably no as you say. For externally facing things, yes. They also might have more opportunities for lateral moves, into BD/Sales etc..
If you're angry about this, I can't imagine how angry you'll be when you find out our government sent 40 billion to pay Ukranian pensions from another illegal proxy war they helped start and have funded for the past eight years.

The US government doesn't care about its citizenry and the two political parties play off one another to further enable their own agendas and further divide the citizenry. They are no different and neither has our best intentions in mind. They do whatever they can to retain and hold onto power, and once in positions of power they abdicate their duties and do whatever they want or fulfill the agenda of whomever they are bought by. The sooner people start realizing this, the better off everyone in this country, and the world will be. It's not like the US is the only country where corrupt and morally bankrupt leaders are running the show.
I've been affiliated with MIT in one way or another for more than a quarter-century. What's been astounding is the change in faculty.

Historically, MIT faculty were nerds into neat tech problems.

New MIT faculty are slick politicians with an increasing sleazy Enron-style vibe. That's true of MIT leadership as well.
Not really. Materials and manufacturing costs for perovskite probably already beat silicon if anyone scaled up. It's efficiency and durability we're waiting on.

If you look at pricing a large solar farm you'll be surprised that the cost of modules is probably only a third of the total cost but when you reflect on land, cabling, inverters, grid connection, and installation then it's not really surprising. Given these costs, you've got an obvious incentive to buy higher efficiency modules for a small premium for savings on installation, mounting, and land use and a disincentive to buy cheap and not yet high efficiency perovskites.

This is why companies like OxfordPV are targeting tandem perovskite-silicon cells with efficiencies at 30%. Even if this costs 1.5 times as much as a 20% efficient silicon cell, it'd still bring down the price of your solar farm.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32051364

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32046559
I'm still waiting for my payout from the hack in 2017 [1] (not that I expect to ever see anything from it).

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-...
My comment was not popular, but it's hardly unreasonable. Even the FT writes:

> While US political risk in global comparisons is still relatively low (it ranks 85 out of the 127 countries tracked by Rosenberg), it is now by far the highest of any developed market. Only countries such as Turkey, Colombia, Mexico and Israel look anything like the US within the OECD nations. Even more worrisome is the fact that the change and volatility of key metrics, including the risks of social and government instability, political violence and even the risk to democracy, make the US look much more like a developing nation than a developed one — let alone the supposed leader of the free world.

https://www.ft.com/content/7b40420e-c678-4400-a4bd-ccdbbc445...
So early on in London there were problems with drivers not having proper insurance to carry passengers, for one, so if anything went wrong there would be no cover (and the driver was technically driving illegally as insurance is required). In some places (again like London) there were also requirements for background checks and registration before someone could be a driver, which uber worked around or just ignored when they entered the market.

These are just two examples from one market.
That goes along with "almost never" which is a synonym for "sometimes" and "maintenance-free" which is a synonym for "throw it out and buy a new one when it breaks".
You are largely right, though one can apply the canons of construction to understanding a law's text, which sometimes can sometimes lead to inferences.

https://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/adjunct/dstevenson/2018Spring...
Minor anecdotal evidence, but I live in a small semi-rural/semi-suburban town in NJ, and Costco appears to have a full cross-section of people. It does seem slightly more economically-diverse than the regular grocery and retail stores, in that you'll see a lot more rich people (by virtue of driving Porsches and Mercedes) at Costco than you will at Walmart.
Invent drafts. Auto save drafts.

To me, it's just barely short of a moral principle that software should never accidentally lose user content. "Crash-protect" is only adequate with a very broad idea of a "crash". On mobile or in a browser tab, the app might get killed at any time to save memory. Am I going to go to Wikipedia on my phone to get some info for what I'm writing in your app, and come back to find a blank text box again? Or if I get distracted in the middle of it and then have to reboot my computer fit an update? These might look like orderly shutdowns, not "crashes".
You may want to look up the history of European colonization of most of the world.
Yes I think you can do it in preview too.
Two things that might help. First is acknowledging that the benefit of a joke isn't just the humor, it's making yourself look funny. If you notice and factor out the part of you that wants to seem funny, fewer jokes will cross the threshold of being worth saying. (Maybe 10% fewer. :) The second is the understanding that jokes disrupt a conversation. A conversation is a collective effort that creates a certain mood, and unless entertainment is the main goal of the conversation, then jokes have a cost. They hinder people from what they're trying to do.
Parents also provide pretty bad advice if they don’t have experience in your path. My parents aren’t really uneducated, but they didn’t go to 4 year schools, and so I was pretty much on my own from high school on in figuring out how to go about getting into university and such. I got lucky, but I always feel like I could have done better with some better advice.
> Encouraging the trades might make sense in a country with a strong safety net, free health care, better labor laws, stronger unions.

This is just my own observation, but the tradesmen I've seen do OK in the US are those that own and run their own business -- even those that have just 1 tradesperson working. Think "Inland Plumbing LLC" run by a guy and his wife out of their house. Yes, many trades are back-breaking work. I have a relative who was a home inspector for years (crawling around in attics, crawl spaces, and roofs all day is exhausting), and he did struggle at times to pay to raise several kids.

Owner-operator electricians and plumbers in particular (and especially those rated for commercial work) can do very well.
I dont blog but this makes me want to start!
Going into academia is usually not the best way to maximize your financial earning potential.
So usually people who go into academia value pursuit of knowledge over money.

Academics tend to raise children with those values.
The GP wasn't asserting that drugs are a commodity. They were arguing against the blanket implication that the federal government can't get efficient price discovery because it's the whale in the market. The GP is pointing out somewhat similar markets where the US is doing very efficient buying, even for single-source commodities (with parallels to single-supplier drugs), despite presumably also being the whale in the market.
They probably put a descriptive title and then had a mod edit it to use the non-descriptive page title instead, as per HN's usual policy and practice.
> eat at the food court

That changed a couple years back.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Costco-food-court-me...
Since elite classes are probably inevitable without significantly reengineering the human condition, we at least want elite social structures that...

1. Do not stifle the well-being of lower classes

2. Allow upwards mobility into the elite class from lower classes

Today's elite caste fails both criteria: the current elites have architected the US, if not the world, to the detriment of the working class. Upwards mobility is very low - which drives resentment and distrust. The elite tends to select for its children moreso than any hypothetical notion of "merit", which gives the feeling that they are less "the best our country has to offer" and more "space aliens that happen to run everything".
Higher education was only made affordable after WW2 in the western world, and has been rising ever since then (at least in the USA). Before WW2, it was something mostly rich kids did.
Indian government's Janaushadhi scheme is for generic push. It is highly successful and one could save 50-70% on genetics. http://janaushadhi.gov.in/
I was a member for 2 years, although outside of the US.

The store is mostly US/UK/Australian imports of questionable quality, prices far higher than local goods (which is to be expected when shipped long distance for one specific chain), and questionable desirability (e.g. sauces not used much in local cuisine, of far lower quality than local brands, in containers far larger while also more expensive per gram). Products Americans would want from home are also almost non-existent. So it caters to nobody.

I think it had a lot of novelty at first since it's a very "American" thing and kind of a fun trip, but I'm not sure of the longterm viability. There's only so much you can do with a store that sells oversized budget-brand ketchup at luxury prices and stale jars of nuts.

Never visited while I was living in the US, but I doubt it could beat Winco. Bulk, low prices, often local, and no BS membership fees.
The claim wasn’t that there was an increase in control beyond that which you acknowledge (improved granularity) - it was about how that new power will be used.

It could be used to avoid unnecessarily inconveniencing customers, as you suggest, or it could be used to improve the strength of utility companies’ positions in disputes. Perhaps both?
Is it any worse than paying $650 literally every month (avg car loan payment now afaict)?

The problem is that people can't save. It'd be prudent to buy the car for $2k and save the remaining $3k somewhere to cover repairs instead of the 5k down payment.

Also, to be fair, what used to be a $2k Toyota was probably more like $5+k lately.
Agreed, the Bach clan has to be one of the top families to have left off! Maybe the other Bachs are only well known to classical music lovers though.
> when it comes to a $4,000 gazebo or some $2,000 appliance I have really come to trust Costco's vetting.

How does that jive with selling Samsung (and LG) appliances? Samsung is easily the worst appliance manufacturer in North America across pretty much any appliance. LG's not too much better but supposedly their dryers and front load washers are decent.
The Case Against Logging
Even negative comments are just the competition's campaign
The dishonesty stems from the intent and tactics - not from a specific statement. Asking a lot of questions is really not a valid form of debate - it's moreso a form of argument.

I do not believe that lab animals should exist, period. You are in search for a replacement solution to drug development. I am not. There lies our dispute. I feel that it is okay to not be able to solve this "problem" because our current solution is exploitative and wrong.

I agree that often in human trials, the people who volunteer are poor or desperate, and this is a different issue which goes to the root of capitalism -- since work itself is a coerced form of volunteerism with the societal threat of homelessness.

Pretty much all of capitalism is coerced, just on different degrees or levels. The same applies to most of what is considered voluntary or consenting.

For example, joining the military. One can argue that most who join are lost, confused or poor. And they'd be right.

Or prostitution. Or working a minimum wage job. Etc.

The problem with fake consent in capitalism is much larger than drug trials.
Do you use an English version of the browser or the OS? Maybe even on a phone because they could merge together all the inferred i18n preferences.
Sounds like “too big to fail” and a 2-tier justice system. Employ
enough people, get immunity.
Millennials who entered college in 2010-2015 -- prior to the deep learning era -- are more subject to placing less value on education. Attention was turned to business, not education.
> having an active account at Experian may be the only way you find out when crooks have assumed your identity. Because at least then you should receive an email from Experian saying they gave your identity to someone else

How does this keep happening... It's pretty remarkable the gallery of blunders a simple HN search gets you for "experian":

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=experian