skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've spent far more on solar than fusion. Why divert the nth dollar rather than diversify?

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2018/11/f57/Exami...
Actually, I think this one is better if it isn't perfectly secure. I make spreadsheets with passwords just so people won't go in there and accidentally delete something or make other silly mistakes. I'm not trying to hide anything or keep it safe from the outside worldor anything. Every once in a while I forget one of the passwords or set it up with a typo or something, and I have to crack it. I'm sure there's loads of people doing something similar. For me, the weak security on this particular password is a feature.
A full charge cycle is 0 to 100 and back. If you only do 20 to 80 as most owners do you get about ten times as many cycles. So a typical owner does well under 100 per year. 250,000 km is a reasonable expectation.
With the advances in machine learning, I wonder if you couldn't automate it. Write the most detailed level and have some ML model generate the ever more high-level summaries.
I recommend reading these instead:

Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828509

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

The amyloid hypothesis on trial https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618027

Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214

Why, at this point should we believe any one scientist writing in that forum wasn't already sunk far deep into amyloid research in their career?

Not to mention that after a quick glance on the comments section, I fail to see where you get the idea that "They all disagree with the notion that Lesné's papers have been important to the field". Apart from the very first comment from karen Ashe (who will obviously be defending her research) and a few other who's working on related topics, other commenters seems to be keeping their suspicion at amyloid hypothesis.
Totally insane that you can be prosecuted now for letting your kids play in a park. If this is truly the whole story, I hope she gets a nice fat settlement and the agency that did this gets gutted.

Unfortunately that's almost never how it works out in real life. The beaurocratic idiots that decided to ruin her life to boost their stats will get promoted and replaced by more idiots.
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more
Probably just fine. It will be supported on Linux longer than a new Mac will be supported on MacOS.
But sometimes deafness is the result of defects in the structure of the ear and sometimes it's the result of defects in the auditory nerve, or other structures in the brain.

In some instances we provide a prosthetic that overcomes the defects of the ear, like a traditional hearing aid, or surgery that corrects those defects, and in others we augment the person with a cochlear implant that bypasses the issue with the nerve. We don't yet have the ability to directly modify the brain with surgery or implants for deafness but I'm sure that we would if we could.

It's interesting that we're talking about deafness because there are many instances of deaf people with heredity causes for their deafness opposed to testing their children with new, effective treatments like cochlear implants because they view it as impinging on their deaf culture.

I think that there are many parallels between this and the developing trans culture which will result in trans people being resistant to more effective, less invasive treatments to cure them of their affliction.

Why do certain maladies develop strong identity politics while others don't? There isn't a diabetic identity, or a halitosis community, so why these ones?
The Psychology of Apple Packaging
Except according to wikipedia "populist" doesn't refer to "popular vote", it refers to the idea of "the people vs the elites".

>Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the people and often juxtapose this group against the elite.
> One thing I've been pondering lately is why we had such a spike in tourism.

A lot of it is likely a spike in tourism in general. There are plenty of affluent young people and air travel is cheaper than ever, so it isn't usual for people in my social circle to take 2 big trips and 4-8 smaller trips a year. To my Dad, the idea of travelling across a continent for a weekend is nuts (and he was also among the affluent young growing up). For me, that's a perfectly normal thing to casually do.

For him, the thing was road trips, so he was limited to a certain geographic area. With air travel, weekends are only limited to North America with a bit of the East off the table because of the messy connections required to get there from Western Canada.

He went camping to the local park and went to museums a few hours away. I visit museums thousands of Km away instead.
I would argue that horse drawn carriages were a 100% solution for something like 8000 years of human history. It’s been barely over a hundred years where there has been something that could efficiently replace them and the ‘self driving’ modern replacement have maybe 0.01% the smarts of a horse.

I mean, go get drunk and pass out on the back of your horse and the chances are real good it’s going to take you home without running into the back of a parked emergency vehicle sitting on the side of the road without giving it specific directions to do so.

Full disclosure: I’ve never passed out on a horse…
I can’t stand hot drinks of any sort except like hot chocolate in the winter. While iced coffee mostly hits the spot for a cold coffee, cold brew is a nice change every one in a while. So I’m glad the fad here even if the flavor isn’t as great as it could have been hot.
I saw some DALL-E output recently where it had reproduced the watermark from a stock photography site!

https://twitter.com/dalle2pics/status/1531721904121315328?s=...
AI automation pushing people out of jobs is a strong incentive for universal basic income, or a similar scheme.

If there is enough work doable by AI, why would humans still be needed? Some humans would cover the missing 10% of what AI can't do, as pointed out in other threads. But that leaves a lot of humans idle.

The entities operating this AI would still need to operate i.e. in a country. So the country's government will have to enact some sort of legislation to regulate the AI's impact.

It doesn't necessarily mean everybody will be out of a job and miserable. Probably work would be optional and shelter, food and the likes would be provided by the government.
> Many weak characters break that way. The trick is to make them choose their own deadline and fail.

I think I missed the title, main topic or perhaps even what you were replying to when you wrote this. Maybe there is a context. In its absence, this reads like a HowTo for getting someone you already don't like, to quit.

Clear communication is a very important managerial skill, by the way.
you need eclipse. Even the earliest version of android studio only supported higher versions. And you need the sdks, java and maybe an old adb version.
Seems to me that for a personal tool like this, sqlite3 is non-problematic.

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

"Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite. The 100K hits/day figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound. SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that amount of traffic."
The average age of a public company has been declining for decades: 61 years in 1958, and currently 18 years. No company is immune to the practice. Google isn't going anywhere, but we should be expecting companies to come-and-go more frequently than the past. What's unusual today, and more Google-specific, is that it's one of a few companies absolutely dominating the S&P: just 6 stocks make up over one-quarter of the total capitalization.

https://austinwealthmgmt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SP-5...
No I don't hold any stock in Taurx. I've taken quite a bit of methylene blue over the years though.
Sure but in the context of saving the company money to prevent layoffs they're identical. Companies don't cut salary because they have a found a better way to cut comp costs without upsetting workers as much.
When I was growing up, it was self evident that there was no distinction between the Apple and the keyboard. Same with the Commodore and the Atari.
decrease volume of calories

By, say, replacing 24 cans of “regular” soda (24 * ~100cal) with 24 cans of diet soda (24 * ~0cal).

I calculate about 2400cal savings, and if CICO is legit, I think that would get them there.
My company handles this by allowing them to study on the dime. I just ask how much time they want and ask them to do it, and if they need some material or help devising a study plan.

Curiously the two that needed it didn't really want to study at all, and we eventually let them go (they were interns).
"Couldn’t this bias also happen in the other direction?" The general notion is that positive results ("we tried nudging and succeeded in getting people to behave more in X way") are more publishable than negative results ("we tried nudging, and nothing much happened"). It is a common and well-attested problem in many areas of science, but probably particularly in behavioral sciences; I have not heard of cases where publication of negative results is more likely than publication of positive results, although there are obviously heated debates over some results.

Whether publication bias is the explanation in this example, I don't pretend to know.
Does beamed power also work for return trips?
Named or described.
This is terrible. And to think there are people out there who want to get the government involved in more things, hah.
I think that was sarcasm. Or at least I hope so.
What's the status quo, exactly? You seem to be pitching a whole lot of negative assumptions for someone who knows nothing about me.
> But as far as I can tell, we don’t seem to have any mechanism for “observing” our consciousness. That is the missing freewill component, which may have only existed in our first run.

Do you think the "first run" version of yourself would have made your HN comment?
The fact that you are aware of what was censored shows how little impact individual companies censoring information has.

Also how do you know those posts didn't have content that violated those companies rules?
Marginally related: HyperScope by bootstrap.org (Doug Engelbart Institute). This is somewhat similar by providing hierarchical views into complex documents and referencing sections by ID, but is more realistic by doing this by a linear drilldown only.

[1] https://hyperscope.org

[2] https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/154/86/

[3] https://github.com/BradNeuberg/hyperscope

Note regarding realism: In my naivety, I once expected option-based content organization and composition, much like in StretchText, to become an inevitable feature of multi-platform presentation, when mobile clients arrived. Surely, there was no way to present content in a manner that would suit needs both for mobile presentation and traditional desktop presentations at once (regarding length, level of detail and feature richness), posing a serious economic challenge for any content production. Well, then we got mobile first. ;-)
The Risky Anti-Aging Pill Men Are Taking Now – Rapamycin
> First of all of there are others with regrets they are most likely also found there. Second to warn others. Thirdly to vent.

I don't find that the least bit credible. The proposition forum administrators would tolerate someone "warning others" against the core uniting aspect of their community is not realistic. Generally anyone who questions orthodoxy in such niche communities face vitriol and get banned quickly. Apostates do not hang around religious conversion forums talking about deconversion, gender transition desisters are not welcome on transgender support forums etc.
Android Studio didn’t exist back then.
Look for “Android Developement Tools”, IIRC they were an Eclipse Plugin back in the day.
I don't think you're getting it.

It's not in any way your right to tell some people living in a community that they need to build more (or anything else).

It's incredibly selfish and petty, and oddly people are trying to couch this in some kine of 'liberation' language?

'The government' isn't really restricting, so much as community members.

Parts of SF (or wherever) don't want to build skyscrapers - it's their choice - and none of your business, unless you're a resident.

There's tons of land in the US, and a lot of it is very inexpensive.
When google search was introduced it was a revelation. Search results were eerily accurate compared with the then-state-of-the-art. The key was using computers to interpret and leverage human-made webs of knowledge.

20+ years later, search sucks because it’s mostly robots (or humans acting like robots) writing SEO centric copy to capture valuable queries.

Most of these strikingly capable “AI” tools today like DALL-E and Codex are fundamentally built by applying more leverage in new ways to a corpus of human work: art/code/etc.

What happens if these systems take over and 99% of the humans stop writing code or making art and successive systems are trained on mostly regurgitated AI output?

The same effect is apparent in equities: index funds now make up the bulk of investment, but they merely follow other money flows in lock step, many of them driven by computers. As a result the decisions of a relatively small number of actual humans have incredibly outsized impact on markets.

We will have a system of infinitely recursive navel-gazing that is devoid of utility once the actual intelligence that was the key driver of the system has dried up because it’s economic value was captured by greedy hill-climbing algorithms.

Pieces like this are naive because they extrapolate what they see as trends without recognizing that the world is a dynamic system. Predictions are never this simple when the subject is so dependent on the state of the world which it will dramatically change.
OpenAI thinks their code transformer can already do 37% of all coding “tasks”?

Buzz off.
That's funny because I always start at the database level and work up. If I start in the frontend it ends up getting rewritten too often.
I think that we are neglecting the possiblity that AI advancement and growth may proceed at an exponential pace as the author mentioned. The more people join AI industry, the faster AI advances, the more money invested in AI and causing more people to join the AI industry. Many people may join AI industry out of fear of losing their current jobs to AI. This may lead to a sudden avalanche of AI advances(domino effect) and also overnight collapse of economy.

Once we reached AGI, there is no way to back out of it and say we don't want it, because now other countries will also have AGI. And there won't be overnight solution to deal with the overnight crisis AGI created.
The LFP batteries in the article have an expected life of 6000 cycles, which in real world usage corresponds to about 750,000 kilometers. (6000 is worst case cycle, which never happens in a car with a proper BMS).

You're asking for a battery with an expected life span of 12.5 million kilometers.
"Pay cuts" via stock going down for the base company are pay cuts that do nothing to improve the company's financial position. Google-the-employer, even looking at them only as an employer, is no better off if employees have less total comp through stock losses than it is if they had stock gains. It does nothing to improve their bottom line -- and in fact, with the way that tech companies grant equity comp (by targeting a dollar amount at the time of the grant and then granting enough shares to hit that dollar amount), it actually worsens their position every time they give a grant (they have to give more shares to hit the same dollar amount).

In contrast, inflation or explicit wage cuts are things that, ceteris paribus, every employer would like to do, and does improve their bottom line. (But explicit wage cuts are such a morale killer that they're de facto impossible right now.)
Supermarkets in the U.S. will frequently have a bakery, but they tend to sell other baked goods, such as cakes, pastries, etc. Whatever bread they do sell is generally more "specialty", like baguettes or sourdough. If you're looking for "standard" loaved bread, that's generally relegated to the shelf stable type, of which there is a substantial selection.

Some of the shelf stable stuff is better than others WRT ingredients, and it's possible to make relatively decent selections. The cheaper stuff tends to be more awash in garbage ingredients.

OTOH, it's also not necessarily the case that the in-store bakery stuff is free of garbage ingredients, to include artificial flavors, etc.
None of my teachers were Walter Gadsden and noine claimed to be the boy depicted in the statue.

The fact that you took the story of a photo and extrapolated it out to mean that anyone who said they were attacked by dogs is a fraud and are perpetuating a myth says a lot about you.

Also next time link a transcript to the episode than the actual episode when you want to use audio to prove you don't know what you're talking about.
In my experience, real-world fellatrices are either naturally good at it, or aren't. I don't think porn presents a good demonstration of competent technique or how to adapt one's style to changing circumstances.
For a start, you now have to sign up to several services to get all the content.

And stuff just disappears.

This space is going to be broken, just like messaging. Some things call for an enforced interoperability standard.
Scrambles are not 40 moves, they're generally around 25 because they're somewhat optimized scrambles to reach a randomly generated state. Simply using a sufficiently long sequence of moves still provides some bias to certain cube states, which is why they don't do that.
The short answer is that they're only showing meshes that are deforming. Teeth are rigid and would be put back in based off the jaw and skull position. If memory serves, eyeball position tracking isn't great with this approach, it's not all that hard to add back in, and they often want to cheat eyelines anyway.
What exactly makes you convinced that it works? To be specific: why wouldn’t there be bias in the A/B testing results, too?

There are literally people who give astrological analyses for a living.
It is possible to get lucky with the original scramble. There are a couple ways to think about it. First, some pieces you care about in the early solve may be in place already (e.g., for a CFOP solve, some cross pieces may be in place), or nearly so. This will save you a move or two.

Secondly, sometimes the combination of the scramble and your early path through the solve creates future opportunities. Sometimes you’re lucky that a later step in the solve can be skipped. With a 10-second inspection time, no one can look this far ahead. With a world record hovering around 3 second, skipping one step that requires a 5-10 moves is a big deal.

The world record for the 2x2 is currently an eye-watering 0.49 seconds. 2x2 solvers use inspection time to plan the entire solve, something not possible with 3x3 and above. So that record 2x2 scramble was solvable in under a dozen moves; that’s good luck.
I was banned from twitter for pointing out that a 95% efficacy in a 6 week clinical trial does not mean a 95% efficacy a year out in the real world.

Somehow that was anti-vaxx.
It's simple. Being bisexual or homosexual doesn't intrinsically cause any physical or mental anguish for people in that state.

People with BIID and Gender dysphoria will kill themselves if they don't receive treatment, and will otherwise ha e poor life outcomes due to the adjacent side effects like depression and self harm that comes.

The only negatives that being bisexual and homosexual have come from external sources as you state.

In other words bisexual and homsexuao people are in a state of homeostasis while people with BIID and Gender dysphoria are not.
Ask HN: ML models trained on decentralized computing?
Could models such as Dalle2 (huge amount of parameters), be trained on distributed/decentralized network of volunteer/paid computers in the style of LHC at home [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC@home
Ask HN: How to do a Computer Science PhD part time?
I have a masters degree in CS and I am working in the industry (let’s say one of the FAANG). I have always wanted to PhD, but couldn’t because I had things to take care of.
Now that I have settled in the industry for last few years, I want to do more research. So I have been wondering if there are legit places that provide part time PhD, and if there is any chance that those PhDs can eventually lead to a career in academia (as a professor)?
There's a lot of confusion here about what this article is talking about.

Nudges aren't just defaults. We've known for over a century that people are influenced by defaults. Nudges also aren't anchoring, where choices influence one another. Kahneman & Tversky won a Nobel prize for that and other behavioral economics ideas a decade before the idea of nudges.

Nudges are a bigger idea that many small changes lead to huge behavioral changes. Like providing a social reference point (see the average electricity use of your neighbors), surfacing hidden information (a red light to remind you to change your A/C filter), change the financial effort involved in something (deposit your drinking money into an account that you lose when you drink again; health plans that pay to stay healthy), change the physical effort of making bad choices (a motorcycle license for people who don't want to wear helmets that is much harder to get), change the consequences of options (pay a teenager $1/day to not get pregnant), provide reminders (check if an email is rude and have someone confirm they want to send it), public commitments (say you are doing X makes you more likely to do X), etc.

There are various examples of each of these working to some extent in specific circumstances.

But we have a lot of other tools for changing people's behavior. We have education campaigns. We have fines. We have taxes. We have tax breaks. The idea behind nudges is that they're an easy replacement for many of these other tools.

But the meta-analysis shows that nudges aren't a general-purpose tool that leads to significant changes in people's behavior. The behavioral changes are small, the same as we get from a fine, a tax, or an education campaign.

Aside from specific circumstances, nudges don't work better (and may be much worse) compared to our usual tools for getting people to behave.
By far the hardest part of that transition (at least for me!) is going from being able to create measurable impact on the order of days to most things taking months or years to create real change.

As a coder, I could get a bug report, build a fix, test it, get it deployed within an hour if it was urgent and simple.

Now I do a lot of listening, a little bit of talking, a bunch of thinking and discussing with the rest of the executive team, and mostly make small corrections which might show meaningful results in 6 months' time. Every so often there's still something really amazing and valuable, but it's much rarer and less predictable when that's going to be.

And yeah tons of new learning to do. Being a good programmer doesn't automatically translate to being good at running a company (though understanding tech and having been there certainly helps both for understanding what your staff are going through, and having their respect)
The bureaucratic machine always comes up with more laws in order to justify its own existence.