skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge range of "chili peppers", and the cultures where these are popular all refer to them by their individual names. see https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/chili-pepper-types/

It's not just varying levels of hot-ness that distinguishes them but a wide variety of flavor profiles and preparation techniques that enhance those flavors. Some peppers can absolutely be eaten raw and with seeds, others do well with drying and roasting prior to use, others are hot no matter how you prepare them and even if you remove the seeds.

I think the actual heat that folks react to is mostly just an acquired taste and NOT something that's been programmed in by evolution to keep humans from eating these things. You can get used to rather hot peppers, but even if you don't there's many which have a low-enough scoville number (in the 10000's), that the heat is controllable by using less and one can still enjoy the other aspects of pepper's flavor.
Where i got my thought from: Whats the purpose of transitioning when you aren't performing your gender in the first place? There isn't much left them.
> But there is a space for advertising that is gentler, honest and educational. Think of advertising as a way of companies to say "Hey! here's something we're proud of -- please have a look. By selling to you, the customer, we can make a profit and you can get the benefit from our product".

I cannot recall one single advertisement I ever saw in my life, other than some institutional/non-profit ads, which remotely fits that idyllic description. So it's really a moot point. "What if advertising were just calm factual information", well but it's not! It's definitely not! It's psychological warfare of moderate-to-high intensity. So what use is pretending it's something it's not? It's very disingenuous to pretend it can ever be "gentle, honest, and educational" (lol)

I also don't see how advertising is responsible for chip mass-production and Moore's law.
This particular Baroness, as her sayings suggest, obviously is unhealthily disturbed with the subject. Perhaps she could use a vacation without Internet and some time to outline her thoughts in a rational and extensive manner.
FoodNoms also scans the barcode, and the nutritional information label.
If he wants a picture of a dog with sunglasses in a boat, he can hire a dog, a handler, and a boat. He doesn't need this model for anything.

> The thing that makes stories real

Since when do the hordes care about stories being real? People get harassed over photoshopped images. People get killed over false rumors. These tools make it easier to trigger such reactions.
Epic straw man. Is your counter argument so poor that you must resort to defeating a comically false version of what OP said? Where in the world does shooting someone in the head come in based on what OP said?!?
>Heating is a separate cost, rarely electric.

Of course, geothermal pumps are still a better option than most.
Yeah I'm happy to throw out that baby with the advertising bathwater. Fuck it, I'll even break the news to the few friends in advertising that society has decided to evolve and that their services won't be needed any longer. But unfortunately, ads are how people prefer to pay online so we're stuck with it.
A small family fridge, with a F energy label (so pretty bad), will normally go for a total consumption of 270 kWh a year.
If you don't need shared vaults, Secrets [0] is superb, it's a lot like the last good version of 1Password before they started removing features and forcing people into cloud storage and subscriptions.

[0] https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/
Right now there is little demand for storage because we don't have sufficient renewable generation capacity. It is no surprise that storage technology hasn't been deployed at large scale and is still relatively expensive. But since we know how to build MW scale electrolyzers it's really just a matter of building more of them.
Some people have a family to feed, you know. Even paperclips can get pretty expensive, depending on what are they used.
I just started trying this out.

Really good job on the app, congrats!

I had a couple slightly off figures from the nutritional label OCR but otherwise this is top notch!
Large scale nuclear power with current tech isn't feasible, because of the lack of good uranium sources
Scientists Have Traced Earth’s Path Through Galaxy via Tiny Crystals Found In
Well, those stories exist, they just don’t necessarily mention the billionaires by name:

https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/local/ohio/hidden-role...
I mean, sort of?

I believe they have some sort of similar solution in place for free messaging on in-flight wifi. Having a look at how they've done that might give a better idea for what this will look like than speculation.

Still, it's a hard problem. They want to prioritise connectivity on an extremely low bit-rate channel that covers an extremely large geographic region. Messaging apps needs to be a part of that connectivity solution, but you can't have one user making the entire cell unusable by everybody else. I don't know if there is a 'net neutral' way to do that, but would love to hear your ideas.
>So now you're saying you actually meant just North America

I said "our society" isn't performing abortions on female fetuses - so clearly I must have meant China and India - the two societies that are?

And yes, I want to know why "our society" isn't.
Improving performance using WebAssembly SIMD Intrinsics
Everybody seems to focus on the RF free comment...

I was talking about towers and such.

But I really appreciate the comments.

If you have ever been in remote areas, and intrinsically 'felt' a disconnect from the tech world (meaning not near any major RF transducers) let me know...

because I have been super remote (arctic circle) etc a bunch and also remote jungle, and I feel a difference.

Perhaps placebo mental conditioning, but just curious if anyone else felt the same effect??
Not sure where this number comes from.

Statistisches Bundesamt says it's 1,958 kwh.
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Enviro...

Interestingly, for 2 person households they state 3,196 kwh and for 3+ person households 4,919 kwh. Energy consumption scales worse than I expected. I assumed there would be more synergy in shared households.
I've been on HN since 2014 and I don't think this ranking is accurate.

Edit: Maybe can share the exact metrics you used? Did you take an average of the votes?

Large of number repeated submissions would result in a low average score.

Edit 2:

Here you can find some big recurring submissions via "by: dang previous news.ycombinator":

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

More recently "by: dang macroexpanded news.ycombinator":

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
do you write about your findings and ideas? i would be interested to read more.
I took a cruise last week where they wanted 25$ a day per device for internet. I took a little battery powered 4G dongle to leave on the balcony to give our room wifi which worked quite well even when land was barely in sight. Of course the land had to be on our side of the ship.
Good point, ads can be really useful. For me, the question is how much we are exposed to it, in which context, and the transparency about things being ads.

Examples:
- Obvious ads vs. sneaky product placements
- There should be spaces/times without ads allowed

Another thing that makes me wonder is big know companies (soda for example) constantly making ads. This is not the case of "Hey we made something new" as literally everybody knows the product for years. This constant cognitive exposure has some similarities to propaganda. We are not allowed to forget them.

> But there is a space for advertising that is gentler, honest and educational.

This pretty much sums it up really good.
The water level and resulting radiation attenuation has nothing at all to do with the steel being "low-background steel" (1)

it's just that's where you typically find untouched pre-1945 steel objects.

The contamination occurs during the manufacture of the steel.

1)

> Low-background steel is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
How do you submit new images and prompts?
> Well, infamously, German households tend to generate heat using gas, and not electricity.

This often only applies to heating the rooms. Boiling/heating water for cleaning dishes and bathing is often done via electricity in a boiler.
Where it always goes, waste heat. In the case of LEDs, about 50% to 60% of the power draw escapes as heat. Of course, incandescents are much worse.
Most if not all of my upper classes in school were open book. Even my beginning CS classes for Java was open book. There was no way you had enough time to finish the tests if you look up every answer. You would have to learn topics on the spot if you didn’t study, it was near impossible to do with the time constraints.

Most of my upper classes were heavily weighted towards group projects anyway.
Free flow of information is when big companies can wage psychological warfare on you without your consent.
It's certainly not normal in my country for schools to display the country's motto or flag, nor do children pledge allegiance to anything. We did sing some hymns though.
Very impressive! I have a question and I was wondering if you have any thoughts. In Artemis as well as in Jupyter and in 3D-oriented tools like Unity, it's common to see this pattern for defining inputs:

In the code:
x = 3
Elsewhere in the GUI:
(User sets x to 5)

I understand that this pattern has become popular but to me it always struck me as dangerous. It's scary that in the code I can't trust that x = 3 really means x = 3. Especially if I'm skimming the code quickly and not paying attention to the surrounding comments, I might make incorrect assumptions about flow control (if the value is a bool), or other dangerous incorrect assumptions about what the code is doing.

Do you have any ideas for a safer pattern that could be used instead? Maybe something like one of these?

x = 3 # !INPUT

x = GUIINPUT() # !DEFAULT=3

x = GUIINPUT(3) or equivalently x = GUIINPUT(default=3)

If you use the third option, GUIINPUT could be defined at the top of the file as something like this:

def GUIINPUT(default):
# pseudocode:
if interpreter == "artemis":
return artemis_magic(default)
else:
sys.stderr.write(f"Warning: Assumed input is {default}; this may not be correct, especially if you the user were not the author of the script!")
return default
I agree with the need for a standardized development setup (be it local or in the cloud) but violently disagree with eliminating development setup diversity.

Curious engineers with oddball configurations greatly contribute to the overall health of a codebase. Forcing these folks to use a standardized configuration is a missed opportunity at best, and disgruntling at worst.
The Japanese word comes from French, FWIW. It's also not specific to Anime. It's a term commonly used in the Japanese TV industry. It's kind of fascinating that "cours" is the more seasonal term (as it refers to a period of time matching seasons), and that none of the original terms (クール and 期) are literally related to seasons (as opposed to English where season is used for periods that nowadays have nothing to do with seasons).
So much to be said about that trope... Are there seriously people who still believe in TINA? What a bleak way to see the world.
I don‘t believe their goal is that a court would rule in their favor, though it would certainly be a great outcome for them. I believe that getting the governments lawyer to make up all sorts of justifications is what they’re aiming for, because that exposes how stupid this law is.
The whole 2900 thing is so strange. ELO is a relative scale. The number only makes sense in relation to the ratings of other. You could shift everyone or scale it differently and it wouldn’t change anything. What a poor goal.

I view the whole thing more as a criticism of the sorry state of FIDE and the world championship that an actual serious goal.
We are using 1000 kWh per year as a couple including hot water. With that we are very low in Germany, but even that is really without much optimization (though we lack some energy-intensive devices like a clothes dryer).

Newer devices sold in the EU are relatively energy efficient. A typical fridge-freezer combo uses 150kWh.
As household made of 4 persons, with me permanently in Home-Office, have a consumption of roughly ~2300kWh/year, including heating, in Germany.

Waschmaschine and Dryer are almost on a daily basis used (the dryer is used less during hot season)

If you tend to buy energetic-efficient devices, your power bill is lower, in front of higher costs for the equipment.
This does not solve the problem of filling city centers with huge company logos, adverts, signs for casinos or night clubs.
You can call it geothermal, when it comes from underground pipes ;) District level heating still exists in some areas, also quite often there’s a single oil or gas boiler for a multi-apartment building.
> Sometimes I'll play someone with a similar ranking to myself and beat them and
> will earn 3 or 4 points. Then we'll have a re-match which I lose and they'll
> gain 12 or 15 points.

It's probably a sign that they have a new account.
If a player has played very few games, then his rating is only approximate.
It's likely his true rating is far from his current rating.
The rating added or subtracted due to a win/loss is on purpose made large,
so he quickly can get to his true rating. When he gets to his true rating,
he will presumably win and lose the same amount of games and stay at the rating.

Lichess and Chess.com both use (variants of) Glicko (instead of ELO).
The first step is to calculate the rating deviance.
A high deviance means that the player hasn't settled on a given rating.
This factors into the calculation of the new rating.

The sites have chosen this system so that higher (or lower) rated players that make a new account quickly get close to their "true" rating.
This is wrong. The FIDE rating system calculates in tenths of a rating point, but rounds to the nearest 1 every month.
I am having genuine trouble understanding your comment.

So, what my comment did ( or tried to do ) was provide example of large groups of people being morally ok with murder, theft, etc.

At least in the case of the Bill Clinton / metoo example, you seem to present a large group of people that, broadly speaking, are again sexual impropriety.

But, this goes to prove my point no? It’s a variation of this:

> If you ask a lefty zoomer what rape is they’ll tell you something really different from what a middle aged men in a conservative area

A large group of people saw the metoo movement as a legitimate protest against sexual abuse while another large group saw it as attention seeking and complaints against normal or not particularly bad behaviour.

This is the sort of thing I mean when I saw the west no longer has a unified sense of morality. Large segment of the population look at the same thing and reach vastly different conclusions.

Think of machine learning. To me it seems there’s two ( or maybe more ) version of a classifier running, producing different labels for the same input. Not all of the time obviously but sufficiently to be a problem. If there was a website where you could upload an image and the server replied with what it sees in the image, but the answer would be different depending on what machine in the cluster the image detection takes place on, would you call that a functional system?

> I don't really care how politics defines morality. Morality is not decided by politics in the end, you eventually cash out your chips in the faithful rules, no matter your politics.
Your description is of somebody getting their morality from politics. It's not gonna end well, cause politics not the start or the end of morality, it's just commentary in the middle somewhere.

I really didn’t understand this part but I agree morally and politics are different.
> The Greens have not been in government for the last sixteen years.

While this is true, they have always been in favour of shutting down nuclear power plants and now they would have the opportunity to reverse this course, but they don't.

The Greens have been founded as an anti-nuclear party. In the 80s, they even demanded to replace nuclear power with coal (https://twitter.com/MoormannRainer/status/143529774448733801...). Shutting down nuclear power plants is obviously more important to them than the climate.

> and just look at France just how catastrophic nuclear power actually is.

What's so catastrophic about France? Despite all the troubles they currently have, their CO2 emissions per kW are still a fraction of Germany's.
This is nothing compared to China-level internet censorship, but barring Americans from interacting with a decentralized protocol that a contract address on the SDN list resolves to, is censorship.

And the restrictions will have to massively escalate, possibly to CCP-levels (with restrictions on end-user access strong encryption) to effectively enforce such prohibitions, as cryptocurrency becomes more ubiquitous.
I googled it. Your source is much better. But it's in the same ballpark, anyway.
An Army of Armchair Epidemiologists
So they could not get any other advertiser blurb on those panels? Difficult to believe.
I don't remember any flags or mottos from my time at school in Scotland - mind you was a while ago.
These two papers give a much better answer than this blog: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138904172... (why do humans increase their chili consumption) and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042654/ (antibacterial + disease-alleviating properties of capsaicin).

Besides the fact that capsaicin has antibacterial effects and exerts indirect disease-alleviating effects during bacterial infections (something our ancestors had to deal with a lot), eating chili triggers an endorphin high, but regularly eating chili makes you less sensitive and hence you have to eat more chili to get your little high. Taken together, these two properties of chili most likely have been the main drivers of it being adopted as a staple food in many cultures.
> The prevalence of the condition increases significantly with age, occurring in 40% of the population after the age of 40.

Yikes! I love chilis and peppers. Couldnt imagine having this condition although my wife and kids may appreciate less spicy food.
On plan9/9front, I'd love to port Nethack/Slashem with NPE:

https://git.sr.ht/~ft/npe/tree/master/item/include/npe

But not with a TTY UI. With libdraw:

http://wiki.9front.org/programming-gui
This is a game-changer. We can use this to offer an alternate GUI to our cli scripts.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Vim.html
In the current Supreme Court situation, I am not sure if they’d strike down this law, assuming a case against it reaches SC in the first place.

Even if this law is challenged in court and is struck down, it is still a win for GOP. They riled up their base over a manufactured issue, diverted their base’s attention from actual issues. This is GOP politics 101 these days.
"DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta Now Open to All except Safari users" would be even better.
The amount of electricity generated over the course of a year is irrelevant without storage. We could generate 1000% of our energy needs and still not have enough, if we generate 2000% in summer and 0% in winter.

We need to generate 100% of our energy needs every single hour. Renewables are practically incapable of doing this on their own. They can reduce the use of fossil fuelds (or nuclear power), but not replace them.
> SMS makes it very hard to be anonymous. Not a good option IMO.

How is that even related ?

Silence is the equivalent of Signal over SMS instead of the usual Mobile Data: There is nothing by design in Signal to stay anonymous.

E2E encryption are mainly there to prevent eyes dropping, not to provide anonymity.
Too bad the link in the article is offline: http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/ and http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/OCP/Downloads takes forever to load somehow.
> on May 29th in Chicago, the address with the highest number of arrests by far was at Trump tower, against peaceful protesters.

I am not surprised that the one place in town which has a strong connection to a sitting US president who is considered racist by protesters is a protest, and thus an arrest hotspot. I see no proof that the arrest was made against peaceful protesters.

Other sources, by the way, speak of 108 arrests, mostly related to property damage and violence [1]

> If you're looking to build a better understanding of what happened, you might want to reconsider using wikipedia as your source and try to find local news that takes a critical look at policing.

I prefer a source that at least tries to be unbiased to a source that makes it very clear it doesn't care about unbiased at all.

The source you quote makes claims, but does not show data to back them up. Their analysis - and they admit that themselves - is based on incomplete data.

[1] https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/30/21275417/loop-protest...
The culture of rejection in computer science publications
There have been a few attempts to aggregate "HN Classics" over the years, each a little bit different:

- https://posobin.com/hn_classics (this post) which uses inflation-adjusted scores

- https://jsomers.net/hn with only posts from before 2019

- https://hn.lindylearn.io (built by me) with live-updating data ranked by the number of reposts per URL
Public lighting is still another topic, I thought. Because many things are done by private companies (most?) but still those are mandated to provide a certain quality of service.
totally, but that's the result of the american dream and national policies.
The country enables people to become extremely successful in a very short time (This doesn't easily happen somewhere else) and to do this, sacrifices completely people that don't follow that dream.
If you don't want to strive to become the next billionaire you are "useless" to the government so the government doesn't care about investing in you.
This is a completely wrong approach and, in my opinion, the root cause behind most of national issues (not being "able" to deal with mental health, drugs addiction, depression etcetc).
In the end you have a country with a lot of foreigners that don't feel integrated (you have no idea how many uber drivers i have met that come from a country at war or extremely poor and told me they want to go back but only stay in the us for the money), a lot of nationals that feel abandoned or left alone by the government and hugely divided on a national level, a false sense of community that isolates more than integrating, a culture of never having a discussion around a conflictual topics, zero introspection and self critique.
The worst part though is the glorification of "self-made-people" that achieved to become extremely rich, and the vilification of those who don't.

The crazy thing is that some of the most brilliant and bright people live in the US and i really don't know how you end up in this situation.
I don't think I've ever seen "In God We Trust" on anything but US currency. I have heard of merchants putting up signs saying "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", but have never seen such a sign. And I did attend schools that had the pledge of allegiance.
To be fair, we could build breeder reactors.
I find that hard to believe, since most advertising is done by bigger brands.