skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. I'm not particularly familiar with the weight of the metal skins of cars, but it doesn't seem obvious that a solar panel is heavier than the metal it would be replacing.

A typical 1kW panel weighs about 40lbs, of which about 9lbs is the actual silicon producing the energy, and the rest is the protective glass, silicon backing, and structural material around the edges. It seems to me that if the panel is specially made to fit into a car roof as-manufacturered in place of a metal roof, a lot of that wouldn't be needed as it would be built into the roof anyway, and the added panel weight would be pretty negligible.

The DC produced by the panel can also be directly used to charge the battery, no need for inverters.
How do we know that knowledge overconfidence is not even more strongly associated with consensus views?
Mine (predictably):

1984

Stranger In A Strange Land

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Time Enough For Love

Friday

The Crying Of Lot 49

Seveneves

Neuromancer

I’ve read all of these at least 4 times, with reading-about-them in between.

I usually pick one up to re-read just a part of it, then I get sucked in and before I know it I’ve re-read the whole thing.
You're using "Slumdog Millionaire" in the same context that Indians here despise the movie for. Using it as a pretext for focusing on the poverty in India as almost a fetishized poking from the West (ironically by the British)
I love NixOS, use it on all my workstations (and Nix on my Mac) and could never go back to a normal Linux.

But I agree, they need to drop or reword that as an official goal. I suspect what they're thinking is that they want it to become so good and more broadly accessible to a wider range of developers that it gets natural usage and traction and becomes ubiquitous organically.

But they make it sound more like they're missionaries proselytizing a religion, ostensibly for the audience's benefit, but really more for the religion's benefit. Or salesmen selling something by telling you how good it is for you, when it's really better for the salesman. People pick up on that and reject it.

Of course, they should keep trying to make Nix ubiquitous by making it really good and broadly accessible and by engaging with the dev community for ideas on how to do that, as they outline in this post. Just don't make ubiquity an official goal. Let that happen organically.
Another method of visualizing birdsongs is interpreting pitch as direction:

https://github.com/soundshader/soundshader.github.io/tree/ma...

I suggest to call this field of science "birdographics" and its researchers "birdographers".
I would love to have a way to punish people for submitting knownlingly bad information to publicly editable databases like IMDB (note I don't care about Google, it is IMDB that should be protected)

Jail is too much, but it woukd be nice to have a fine of some sort, because "poisining the well" for everyone is really not cool.

(in practice any such system would be abused a lot, so we are probably better off with status quo.. but in the ideal world we'd punish those people)
I agree with the article, but it is complaining about brands with single digit or less market share.

The real problem is non-phones that are still using micro-usb and barrel plugs.

There is no excuse for any device needing less than 15W using anything but USB-C.

Above 15W, there is an added expense to add USB-PD circuitry, I would happily pay a little more for my devices to avoid harder to replace barrel plugs.
I occasionally suffer from bad sleep and wonky sleep schedule. I have tried melatonin and it has helped sometimes but I don't want to rely on something like that for achieving better sleep.

The best results I have achieved when seeking better sleep is good nutrition, not eating too close to bed, and exercise. Simple as that but thankfully I'm otherwise healthy person. On top of that, I every once in a while do yoga nidra if I happen to not be able to sleep with quite good results at least personally.
Most of the Scots who originally settled in Appalachia were from the lowlands on the English border, not the highlands. This is the same population that was used to colonize Northern Ireland, and similarly, most of the Irish immigrants to Appalachia were from this population of resettled lowland Scots.
Black out blinds, velcro ones not expensive.

Cold room, the book "why we sleep" recommends 17 to 17.5 degrees Celsius. Wear socks if feet get cold.

Stopped all caffeine intake.

Mediation in bed before sleep (though for some people they find it harder to sleep after meditation).

Out of all of these it's blackout blinds and cold room that helps me the most.
I think the point of BLM was to draw attention to the police violence against black people.
I am fairly certain that that has held true for a majority of people in the previous generation (and the ones before that), too.

Most people don’t read. This is not remotely new.
I can't be the only one wishing there was a video of it in action?!
I imagine how this is important for clinical immortality / human hibernation which would eventually revolutionize life as we know it.
> No one is desperate due to the circumstances created by the USA. They make the conscious choice to become a criminal.

Man, if any quote could be used to show how HN should not be taken seriously on any topic that strays outside of the strict definition of STEM-related, this could be a contender.

I don't even know where to begin, but consider the fact that people are born into situations far more horrible than you may ever truly comprehend, where criminal acts and lifestyles are as normal to them as anything you would find normal to yourself growing up.
How do you do it? I literally remove the flake from my nix profile and re-add it with a specific commit hash. I had troubles that just specifying master didn't update to the current master.
And now I’m trying to understand how devshells work in flakes and there’s pretty no doc
Traffic Engineering: Rumble Strips, the sweet sound of safety
The clip is from a longer 4 minute scene with no dialog set to the prelude to Verdi's La Traviata (had to look it up...). All body language. The full movie is on YouTube and the extended scene starts at 34:20:

https://youtu.be/Xo9uf8Q8Pc4?t=2060

(You could argue the scene starts even earlier, at 23 minutes in.)

I've seen three of Wertmüller's films. Mimi, Swept Away, and Seven Beauties. Of those, I enjoyed Mimi the most, but they were all worth seeing.
I really hope that he can leverage any success in getting American Gods a final season. It deserved a ending
Show HN: Unblob – accurate and fast extraction suite for 30+ formats
"Stand up" is jargon for creating an instance of a service and bringing it online.

Among "stand"'s many meanings, it can be a transitive verb meaning to put something in a standing or upright position. For example, my electric toothbrush has a flat bottom, so I can lay it down on its side or stand it up on its end. So, basically "stand up" is a lot like "erect" as in "erect a fence along the property line".
Well, a major difference here is that 2 months ago this edition was not available. Today it is and people can go online and purchase it and read it (I'm already through chapter 3 of it). Without this post, I, for one, would not have known that I could go online now to read it and would have been waiting for my preorder. And since it's a rainy Sunday this is a great time for me to get some reading in since yard work is out.
https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication/

I’ve re-read it literally six times since I posted it.

You are mistaken, and have taken your own assumptions about what I was intending to communicate or perhaps implying (such as the idea that I was referring to interstate or international travel) as literal fact about what I did actually say.

This is objectively an error.

I did not advocate nor instruct anyone to do anything.
The best grade on a book essay I got in High School was for a book that didn't even exist. We were supposed to read a book of our choosing and write about it. I couldn't be bothered (ok, ok, I wasn't the best student), so I just made one up and the teacher commented that it was the best essay in the class.

As an adult, I've now read a lot of the classics I was supposed to have read in High School, and wish I could go back and tell my knucklehead past self to just read them, as they are actually very good.
imo his concerns about the japanese justice system arent all wrong. so not that simple. if i was in his position i'd probably do the same.
Those two are sort of inseperable. We don't optimize for some theoretical patent free GM crop world.
> Sources say Goyer was also adamant that “The Sandman” not be “dumbed-down” and that it be “kept weird,” and any attempts to make it “formulaic” were rejected by Goyer and Gaiman.

That's funny since I found it formulaic to the extreme, which is a shame. Being a fan of the comics, I was saddened by the potential that was squandered in this adaptation. Regardless of what Gaiman says, I can't see this series as anything else than yet another cookie-cutter commoditized dumbed-down corporate-approved offering designed for mass-consumption.

It's more of the same mind-numbingly "safe" and soulless material that Netflix is so good at.

At least Alan Moore had the courage to tell Hollywood where to go.
That is another phrasing issue, because it would be reasonable to take the question as a practical one meant to refer to the things that actually exist, but it would also be reasonable to take it as a theoretical one like you're suggesting.
Actually, I think it's important to not just hand-wave but understand the overall psychology of it.

I've known very informed cranks (some of whom are on the edge of being useful contributors to the field by proposing alternative mechanisms and rigorous tests) and poorly informed cranks.

But it is an interesting, if not entirely unexpected finding, that people with anti-consensus views have much lower scores of knowledge in related but not directly connected scientific fields, but are willing to bet higher amounts on their test scores.
Yeah it’s dangerous going in there if you want to leave with any money in your pocket
And what's completely stupid is, the public's opinion doesn't matter at all on this. Does he think the judge is going to take a public opinion poll to decide the case? Sheesh...
>An environment that is conducive to your subconscious performing well really helps.

Can you describe what you've found are key traits of that type of environment?
Well this is a pretty big deal if it works. Ischemic injury being the thing that actually kills alot of trauma patients.
plenty of "real life" places also fail this test though. most work/school relationships don't "go anywhere" outside of that bubble. what fraction of people you hung out with in school or ate lunch with at previous jobs do you still actually talk to? how much of the code you wrote still runs in production?
After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Same thing as when Warner Bros and Universal Studios (via its parent Comcast) bought RottenTomatoes. Now everything brags about it's RT rating when it's coming from 2 movie studios...
Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages
it depends on what you're looking for psychologically. chain restaurants are the most popular, but that's because they're "safe". other folks want adventure, to wander off the beaten path. sometimes that brings great reward and other times it doesn't. it does, however, provide the adventurer satisfaction in the adventure itself. similarly, the mainstreamer gets comfort from the safety of their choice, apart from the enjoyment of the food.

note that these aren't mutually exclusive groups of people, but typically phases of our own selves. for example, i rarely want chain food, but every once in a while i do. and sometimes i go and enjoy it because the people i'm with want it and enjoy it.
Maybe you got confused (like I did every time until I stopped doing anything non-flakey) about when `nixpkgs` is called `nixpkgs` and when it's called `pkgs`? In the flakes world it's considerably easier because everything is explicitly named, so you take an actual decision about what to call it.
Very curious about how much equipment and expertise is necessary for this. If it could be deployed in an ambulance it would be a game changer. Having a pause button on treatment after the heat has stopped would buy precious time for transportation or for the necessary personnel to get there.
I thought it was a pretty good adaptation! What didn't you like about it?
Could the solution be "don't actually tie it to the journal"? Have the journal treat itself more as an implementation detail than as an end in itself; you didn't publish a paper in the Journal of Lasers, you just published a paper about lasers.

This is still a mental shift for academics to get over, but I wonder if it's a more feasible one.
While the distinction might be really important from the perspective of long-term policy making (or research, investment, etc), it is also practically unimportant from the perspective of people using heuristics to make decisions in the here-and-now (i.e. most people, most of the time).
very funny (neighbors from hell)in Don't panic!.
it’s really not that clear cut, though
The keypoint here is that nix requires a larger up front investment. But once done it will save you 1000 hrs of engineering in the long run. It's absolutely faster to start a project without nix and just start coding. But once you have many deps, multiple developers, ci, multiple environments nix becomes a no brainer.
The people who debunked these theories were quite familiar with these existing models and how to build rigorous tests to differentiate these cases from new ideas.

The study tells us that most detractors are not people like this, but instead people with below-average understanding of the field and related fields-- and who are willing to bet more on their performance of objective tests of those fields than the non-detractors.
The risk of bias in this research seems rather high. Of the form of "our believes are correct and everybody who disagrees is underinformed".
I'd be happy to push a "micro" SaaS doing 100k a month built by a small team as an alternative to BigTech/VC for projects I may be involved with, not so much a 500$ month PoC
I am in a similar boat. Thought it could be interesting to code in VR but the clunkiness of the whole setup (keyboard pass-through is limited) and the text resolution have held me back from trying and real work on my quest 2.
Why should we feed the troll? The poster has not provided evidence of ill intent and government is not obligated to break down data in every possible way. The link is for violent crime stats in general, not hate crime in particular, maybe there is just not a lot of crime in Asian communities to break that out separately?
So you think it’s obviously true, but also obviously the result of biased research?
I would love to see a "guided tour of nixpkgs," using real-world packages as examples and building up in complexity as you go.

I feel like so many of the problem I encounter as a new nix user have been neatly solved already and there are probably tons of great examples in nixpkgs, but I have no clue where to look, or even what to grep for.

It would be super helpful if there were a resource with examples of common problems and how they're solved in the real world. For example, say you're packaging something whose unit tests hit the network. There could be a link to a package definition in nixpkgs that overrides the check phase to disable the problematic test.
I totally feel you on the bundling.

One way I think about it: Marvin Minsky long ago wrote a book called Society of Mind, looking at human cognition as a series of semi-independent non-conscious agents. If I feel bad long enough, there's a collection of feel-better-in-the-short-term agents that work well together: mindless snacking, doomscrolling, playing video games, binge watching, overeating etc. Basically anything that helps me avoid being present in feeling bad. Even if in the long term they make me feel worse.

But there's a competing set of agents, the ones that mean regular exercise and eating healthily and good sleep and low stress levels. That set not only works well when I'm feeling good, but they're what helps keep me feeling good in the long term.

Either set can achieve a stable equilibrium, but the two sets aren't really compatible.

Not sure if that makes any sense, but that's one way I think about it.
I agree, though I think it's fair play to try and do things that the Google algorithm likes...but are not directly related to quality.

Say somewhere in the bowels of their ML pipelines, features that get scored include things like "has a favicon.ico and it's unique and not seen elsewhere". Well, then doing that isn't really fraud to me. It's just adding "proxies for quality" so you aren't dinged for not having them.
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I believe you’re a little confused.

> But [nuclear] takes the most time, cost hilarious amounts of money

Depending exactly what you mean, this is either very true, or dead wrong. It is true that a single nuke plant costs gigantic amounts of time, money, and resources. But it also deliver significant power, typically 1GW (sometimes a bit less, generally more). Windmills are vastly cheaper, but typical ratings are around 1MW, and that’s a maximum, not an average, and if you need to control energy output you’ll need a buffer (batteries, flywheels, dams…).

To replace a single nuke plant, you’ll probably need something like 2000 windmills, and energy storage to match. Or less if you’re okay with temporary power shortages (a harsh but valid political choice).

Now which is cheaper? One nuke plant? Or 1-2K windmills? All those windmills will need a lot of concrete, for which we’re destroying quite a few beaches (desert sand does not work unfortunately). You’ll also need quite a bit more rare earth materials to get that thousand dynamos to work. And eventually you’ll need to transport all that in a world without oil (one reason renewable energy is cheap is because transport is still cheap, thanks to oil).

> We need technology which is cheap, deployable before it is too late to reduce our emissions and accessible for every country on this planet.

Agreed.

> if you really care about the environment and are not merely one of those people who blindly recite Michael Shellenbergers

Here’s my main source: https://jancovici.com/

One thing to note: the guy doesn’t even pretend nuclear power will replace what we have now. He’s just saying that no matter what we do, our energy consumption will inexorably go down, and that will start soon, if it hasn’t already. Since energy is a physical measure of how much we can transform our world, that means we’ll be able to transform it less and less, a.k.a. the economy will shrink, a.k.a. big ass long term recession. And that’s before we make it even worse in the name of staving off global warming.

His thesis is that nuclear power will not be enough to stop the fall. But it might significantly soften it, and we can only hope that it will be enough.
Cessna 172
The past as you see it here doesn't exist, by my own perception. There were a lot more extremeist groups in the shadows, but that contained them and isolated those that sought to join them. With so much of this extremeism out in the open, people are now seeing social reinforcement where before they would have seen chastisement, and I think this is a bad thing. We were much better as a country as the great melting pot, than we are now as the salad bowl.

I think its wonderful that so many oppressed groups are given opportunities at the podium, but the problem is that many of these oppressed groups are oppressed for good reason (like white supremacists), and there needs to be some sort of filter that keeps them sidelined. Unfortunately I don't see how to achieve that without some sort of orthodoxy, and right now the people that are trying to write that are fucking crazy.
Does it matter?

The average citizen has no control over policy other than blunt instruments — in this case, rejecting purchasing of GM crops entirely, and advocating for others to do the same.

The nuance between “GM crops are safe” and “the politics and commercial incentives around GM crops introduce significant ancillary harm” is necessarily abandoned.
> all the businesses have bad service now because of this "movement" that penalizes innocent customers instead of pushing for proper unionization and labor laws.

The movement does not penalize customers in a vacuum. The “movement”, and I do not really know if it is one, is just a size-able portion of the population waking up to the fact that they should not expect to own land, find a life partner, healthcare, have children, grandchildren, etc.

In my opinion, it does not entirely justify one to half ass work, but I can see being demotivate by the odds facing them.
Is anyone actually making those? A Google search doesn’t come up with anything you can buy…
There's already a peer-reviewed video-oriented journal: the Journal of Visualized Experiments http://jove.com/
The downside is of course it's not open-access by default, and it can be expensive even if you don't pay for open-access since they'll send a freelance videographer if you don't have equipment/time/confidence to make the video yourself.
Yes, but only for prolonged and planned exposure (more than 3 hours). My primary goal is to avoid burns, but not UV in general, given how much recent studies show we need it.
> living paycheck to paycheck by choice

Hmmmmmmm

> From my experience the best minds tend to work on important problems

My experience is that you're incorrect.
I don't read a ton of fiction, but I absolutely love everything I've read by Gaiman. I haven't read "The Sandman" yet, but I'm pretty optimistic about the show based on everything else I've read.
> Isn’t this tautologically true when consensus views are assumed correct?

I worried that this study might be circular reasoning in that way. Instead they quizzed knowledge on related fields but not directly connected to the disputed idea.

The people involved bet higher amounts on their ability to score well on objective measures of related sciences, but scored worse.
Idk, anecdotally I don’t think I’m right about my heterodox nutrition views because I’m more educated, I just observe the consensus view of eating 12 servings of grain per day is wrong because I feel worse listening to their advice than eating what I naturally prefer.

I don’t think education comes into play at all?
As a very open-minded, progressive, pro gender revolution, LGBTQ individual, I just can’t wrap my head around the fat pride movements. News like this reinforce my opinion that they are plainly dangerous to public health.
One thing is to be accepting of a non-standard body, even including some degrees of extra weight, but justifying obesity is very different.
By Jove, Watson, I think you've cracked the case!
It’s part of a broader effort to manipulate Asians’ perceptions about facts relevant to their self interest. Asians are half as likely to be shot by police than whites, and a third less likely to be incarcerated. The cost-benefit curves for Asians when it comes to policing and criminal justice are markedly different than for other voter groups. And that’s a problem for maintaining the Biden coalition.

So what happened when attacks on Asians in progressive cities went up in 2020? Purported “asian” activists put solidarity with white progressives ahead of representing the people they claim to represent: https://www.slowboring.com/p/yang-gang

That makes sense when you think about it. People in Chinatowns don’t identify as “AAPI” and have never heard of these organizations. They exist to raise money from white progressives and put Asian faces on their politics: https://asamnews.com/2021/06/17/mackenzie-scott-donates-2-7-...