skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polio pisses you off, but you're agitating against vaccination for no good reason?

You might want to make some basic connections here, figure out what you are really for, and whether you're willing to do basic responsible intelligent things like vaccination in order to achieve them.
To me this suggests there is some motivation to do research on the subject, compared to someone who has no interest in the topic. At least disclosure of potential bias was acknowledged up front.
It's called a conflict of interest, and being worried about such conflicts is not paranoia, it is perfectly reasonable care. It adds quite a bit of doubt when the "truth" uncovered is particularly advantageous to the cause of the conflict.
The early '90s only had GET in the HTTP protocol (0.9) so you couldn't actually build any CRUD applications. Quite far from it. POST came in 96 (1.0) and PUT, DELETE in 97 (1.1). REST was introduced in 2000 by Fielding and the idea that the web could used to build large scalable applications slowly gained momentum as CRUD was mapped to POST/GET/PUT/DELETE and the proposal gathered steam in '00s. In the meantime massive amount of engineering went into making JavaScript workable, performance wise (Chrome/V8). Everything came together only in the late 2000's. So, quite far from claiming web as a viable mechanism for building applications in the early '90s.
If you are running a machine at near 100% utilization (like supercomputers should), then your biggest cost will be power costs.

So power efficiency becomes king, and process node is the best way to minimize power consumption.
I take it you've missed out on Hacker News' meltdown du jour:

Blocking Kiwifarms[0] (approaching 2k comments)

Kiwifarms Response to Cloudflare[1] (approaching 500 comments)

Kiwifarms Is Down Across All Domains[2]

Kiwi Farms: Anti-trans stalkers chasing Keffals around the world[3]

Cloudflare Pressured to drop Kiwifarms after latest doxxing effort[4]

BSNES author Byuu bullied to suicide by Kiwifarms[5]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706292

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32557826

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610
Arguably Rust does better for this particular example because, for debug builds and optionally release builds, overflows trigger an error. If you explicitly want wrapping arithmetic in Rust you should use b.wrapping_add(c) in this case, otherwise you'll get a runtime error.

So for instance the following code generates an error (I add to add the function call indirection otherwise rustc would even refuse to compile the straightforward `200u8 + 100u8`):

fn main() {
println!("{}", add(200, 100));
}

fn add(a: u8, b: u8) -> u8 {
a + b
}

// thread 'main' panicked at 'attempt to add with overflow', test.rs:6:5
// note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

IMO that's a more robust and generic solution than hoping that `int` promotion will prevent the overflow. The drawback is that it incurs a performance hit and is therefore only enabled in debug builds by default.
There seems to be a choice between artificially holding back energy generation due to net zero concerns keeping more people in poverty for longer, or we could pursue fossil fuels and nuclear and lift more people out of poverty now (and presumably hope for a future fix/mitigation for climate impacts).

I wonder which would save most lives overall? I would also note that those living in poverty currently don't seem to have a vote on the approach to take.
Yeah, viral is just an adjective describing growth. Unfortunately it’s associated with both positive and negative impact.
The least bad way seems to be giving them plenty of opportunity to "notice the cyclist on their own". "Look how polite I am" vs "how dare they order me aside!"

My usual approach sequence is bell first (very early/far, only to soothe my nerves when the walker later starts that "should have used a bell!" tirade - sometimes a dog hears and understands that early bell and notifies its human) then generous freehub noise (first stage of "notice on their own"), then more bell and when I'm close, already effectively at walking speed, a short burst of blocking the rear brake. Unsurprisingly, people who appeared completely deaf to the bell right behind them a second earlier seem to hear even the tiniest scratch of a tire loud and clear...
Show HN: Atacama,peer4peer distributed anon twitterlike
hacking around to build a p2p twitterlike on flutter+dart. if you have an old android lying about, give this a try, should work on 8 yr old devices without problems.

going for 90's sensibility with software here, finding an app and trying it out. atacama has no accounts,registrations,ads,trackers,google bullshit so it's apk only. Go danger,post something fun, ask a question! =)

https://moderator.rocks/apk/atacama.apk
SEO, optimizing search engines, without GAFAM?
With several commercial and non-profit websites Id like to do SEO for, I just dislike being tied by gafam, so for new ones Im asking for advices, of how to do some SEO without those big companies?
My freshman year of undergrad I took a nanoscience course as an elective. Through that, i found out that the department was in the final stages of creating a Nanoscience major, and since the prerequisites lined up with my primary major (engineering) I decided to go for a double major.

If I could do it over, I would stay away. The subject matter was fascinating, but was also a discontinuous hodgepodge of nano-related topics from physics, chemistry, and biology.

Things may become more organized as the program matures, but looking back it felt more like a 4 year exploratory to prep for grad school than a Bachelor of Science degree.
Eh?

Liquid Hydrogen doesn’t seem a good choice for first stage rockets. Similar delays to the Space Shuttle launches that must be hugely expensive to have a whole team to have to standby for a few days.

Methane as used more now can be chilled more than the boiling to store the fuel when it is more dense, and is handy for reusable engines since it doesn’t produce nearly so much soot.
Why would anyone care about "almost whole imperial values"?
Yep, still 128-bit.
> My opinion is that we should reconsider the ethics around researching nutrition, because it's been an overall failure

That just isn’t true. Advances in nutritional science have had a major impact. Vitamin C made transatlantic shipping empires far more viable. The discovery of folate eliminated a whole class of birth defects. Fluoride improved the oral health of nations. The whole reason that nutritional science has any credulity today is that it had an unequivocal positive effect on mankind’s quality of life at barely any cost.
If you flip your windows AC unit around, then you get the exact amount of heat energy removed by the AC in the form of hot air going into your room. This is called a heat exchanger. It was just cheaper to use gas furnace heater when most home was built and it is still true in many places.
Ask HN: Pitfalls in jumping ship to a client company?
For the past few years I have been spending about 10% of my time at my current employer working on a project for a very large west coast tech company. This essentially involves support for a piece of software which they license, weekly meetings with their team, implementing new feature requests etc. I recently saw a job posting for a role within that team which I would be absolutely ideal for, and I intend applying as it would be a great move career-wise.

My question is, what are the things I need to consider before doing so?

A few which come to mind:
My current employment contract does not have a no-compete clause (and I don't believe they are even enforceable in California), but could there be HR rules at this company saying that they can't recruit from supplier teams? I would be working on the same software which might be problematic/awkward as I may need to interact with people at my previous employer. I have a lot of specialist knowledge, so concerns around IP might be raised. The business relationship between the companies will also be quite strained as my departure will be hard felt at my current employer.

I would appreciate any insights or advice from those who have dealt with similar situations and how best to navigate any pitfalls.
If they were already there, they'd have ResNet 50 benchmarks to share.

And the other tidbit is that it has to be better than the off the shelf NVidia chip (A100 today, and GH100 in a few months).

I think Dojo might be faster than A100, but GH100 will be 1.5 nodes ahead, that's a big process advantage...

-------

If GH100 is faster in practice, then all the work has been somewhat wasted.
If you also want to invest money in apps like free fire game, pubg mobile, pubg lite, Sharechat, YoYo etc. But even if you do not have money to buy Google Play Store Redeem Code, you do not have to worry at all.
I, like Rognlie, can make the lines say what I want to dissuade change to status quo.

He’s still just one man. There’s no need to listen to him.

I’d rather listen to the majority who are being fleeced by thought ending men like Rognlie. “Oh but don’t think to change things; see look here is other math!”

Humans don’t exist in a vacuum of externalities; Rognlies advice makes it seem so. Fidgeting with the numbers doing nothing real for the people in need is no different than “thoughts and prayers”.

Story mode still rules, as we keep setting aside work of value to people for the story of how some people earned their status. I don’t care what Rognlies credentials are; he’s one of seven billion.

I applied my masters in elastic structures to design power distribution equipment for people. Rognlie sits and pontificates. Screw him.
You also need to install all this equipment somewhere protected from theft.

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rwanda-today/news/power...
VentureStar
It was one of those sci-fi movies that was just too different for mainstream audiences and critics. It also didn't help that the marketing of it sucked for likely the same reason.
Mangroves on a Landfill
Yes, and I suspect this is informed by Apple historically having APIs that were much more open and prone to what we would know call abuse by developers — but was then just cleverly taking advantage of the environment — during the Apple II/early Mac era.
The recruits believe it's a treatment for a lung condition where you cough up blood during training.

From the NYTimes article: "Many men were coughing up bloody fluid from a condition called swimming-induced pulmonary edema — a potentially life-threatening ailment that is so common among men training in the frigid water at BUD/S that SEALs refer to it casually by the acronym SIPE.

"[...] Seaman Mullen showed up for his second attempt at BUD/S in January with fresh determination and a used car. But by the end of the second week, he was spitting up bloody fluid and struggling to breathe.

"“I said, go to the hospital right away,” his mother recalled. “He said, ‘No, ma, if you want to go to the hospital, they will make you quit first. Besides, it’s just SIPE.’”

"Ms. Mullen said her son, on the advice of other SEAL candidates, started secretly taking the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, which was against Navy rules but used by SEALs as a potential treatment for SIPE. He recovered enough to keep training.""
Bingo.

Freedom of Expression, and to a larger extent, social media, allows icky people to identify themselves for you.

Who wants to turn that off...and why?
Scorched Earth was well known in my group of friends; Capture the Flag was not known at all.
The world heavily incentivizes and rewards overconfidence.
This is my favourite Sudbury landmark. It’s grander than the big nickel. It’s visible from any point of the city. Even though it’s not in use any more I’ll be very sad to see it go.
My proposal would be: If there was a clear, proven, intention of cheating and not just an error (we all commit stupid errors sometimes), the letter or communication of the people disclosing it will receive the same citation rank that the fake article had accumulated until that date. Good for the journals, good for the research.
The article has a fair dose of paternalistic exceptionalism regarding countries in Africa. Rwanda is not what people think it is, there is much to learn from how things are being done in Rwanda, however, they don't think they need their colonial masters to rule them any more. Hence, unless you seek out first hand accounts or visit the place, you would never know how wonderful the place is.

Nigeria still has the colonial yoke and problems of corruption, corruption and more corruption. Which is necessary for resource extraction, which serves to keep the country in poverty.

The World Bank/IMF and other big organisations have had the best part of a century to lift afflicted African nations out of poverty but they saddled them with debt instead.

The only people serious about alleviating poverty are the Chinese. They believe in peace and prosperity and we call them Communist. China has taken hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty. We have got the numbers and those numbers are a good basis for how much energy the world needs.

Personally I think this topic is best understood with a petri dish and a bloom of mould. We are that mould and when the energy supply is exhausted our presence on the petri dish diminishes.
Machine Learning Can Surpass Human Understanding of Amplifiers
If you also want to invest money in apps like free fire game, pubg mobile, pubg lite, Sharechat, YoYo etc. But even if you do not have money to buy Google Play Store Redeem Code, you do not have to worry at all.
https://htlmadras.com/free-fire-redeem-code/
For someone self-employed, the numbers are tax-deductible. If you're employed, but still have insurance and expenses that aren't covered, those expenses need to be more than ... 7% of your adjusted income to be deductible (but only the amount over 7%). The 7% might not still be the correct number, but it's something like that.

So... you have a job, but there's no employer-provided health insurance. You make $60k/year. Your adjusted income (after some deductions) might be, say, $45k. You decide to buy your own health insurance, and it costs you $500/month. That's $6k/year. 7% of $45k is $3150. So... $6000-$3150 = $2850 which would be the amount that you could avoid paying taxes on.

Confusing much?

> If so, how is the US still so well known for startups?

Because there's metric-ass-loads* of money here looking for places to be invested, and we idolize the unicorn homeruns so much so that we have entire industries catering to their ecosystem.

* Note, this is one of the few times we use the metric system in the US. 2 liters of coke/pepsi, and metric-ass-loads of <fill-in-the-blank>.
I agree, my comment was sarcasm because this principle is not universally applied.
The research on the topic is wanting, I guess because there's not much money in arguing about it and it's a pretty low-risk intervention. There was a spate of "flossing is useless!" articles a while ago but my takeaway was that it's more that it can't be shown definitively to be useful, which is a different thing. As I recall, some studies showed that home flossing didn't seem to have much of an effect, but other studies showed that professionals flossing did improve dental health, so it seems just as possible that we could chalk it up to selection factors or poor technique. If you want a strong study that definitively shows that flossing is effective, though, you won't find it, really.
The Shockley–Queisser ceiling describes the limit of energy per unit area. It says nothing about the efficiency in terms of energy per unit money.
You'd be surprised to know that there are some other stuff holding proteins that's not meat. Like fish or chickpeas, or lentils, or beans, or seeds, or buts, or broccoli...
1. It depends. If you itemize deductions and those combined are more than the standard deduction you can otherwise it doesn’t really make sense to. This does a decent job of explaining: https://www.investopedia.com/are-health-insurance-premiums-t...

2. I believe it does and I can’t answer the other question with any confidence. Insurance was a big reason my mother kept her job which covered us as a family when my dad started his own business even though she was basically working two jobs because she was also helping with the new business after work.
Limiting torque is as simple as running the motor in current-control mode
The difference is heat usually kills the weak and elderly, so no one cares
Could Prometheus with custom exporters work ? (https://prometheus.io/)
Most of the infrastructure in the US was built after WWII, including the entire interstate Highway system and almost all of suburbia.
Werner Herzog's 24 rules for filmmaking
I'm curious on the relative performance of traction control?

Isn't the goal of traction control to limit the power to the wheel?

Reading on how TCS works [1], it seems it applies the brake and may limit power from the engine?

[1] https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/what-is-a-traction-con...
It was stated:

>In her initial correspondence with The Lancet, Stanton declared that she was a part-time employee of Devenish Nutrition, an agricultural-technology and animal-feed company in which she also holds shares.

>One of the co-authors of the open letter, Christopher Elliott, of Queen’s, declared grants to his research institute from Devenish.
more diet silliness.

look, this is the ultimate diet:

- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Mostly unprocessed.

Nutrition science has come up with so many contradictory conclusions in the past decades.
Almost seems like the worst thing we can do is compromise the durability of our energy grid…
This is not a good take. Look at Iraq or Venezuela. No lack of energy, but plenty of poverty nonetheless.
What it’s saying is that in both cases the unvaccinated group had less risk from not taking the vaccine than taking it.

The placebo isn’t relevant, just the fact they didn’t take the vaccine. Since it’s randomized, it’s unsurprising that both groups of unvaccinated people had diff risk outcomes. What IS surprising is that the vaccine performed worse than both random groups of unvaccinated people.
> Nobody should get to be rich because of who their daddy was.

Why? It is non-obvious to me that we should have a collective say in why the rich become rich.
Agreed, thank you! I appreciate corrections for my non-native english speakerness :)
It's not hard to find out - check healthcare.gov and also check your university has some sort of alumni plans - probably on eEhealth.

Expect to pay ~$300/mo for a catastrophic plan that covers essentially nothing until you meet an $8K deductible, and ~500/mo for plans that cover more.

Terrible system.
Everyone on the planet, basically without exception (pedants: I'm not counting people in vegetative states, babies, etc.), makes poor health choices. You'd be like The Good Place's Doug Forcett, otherwise.
How do you see them as diverged? I've spent a lot of time thinking about AS, ES4, and working with modern ES, and if anything I see them as having converged. The largest feature of ES4 that ES3 did not have was classes, which were added in ES6. The second largest feature was optional static typing. Optional static typing is nearly a defacto part of the language (from a community/ecosystem point of view) with the popularity of Microsoft's TypeScript superset.
Yes but we need you to make those points substantively, neutrally, interestingly—without swipes or putdowns: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you just post grumpy one-liners we're going to get a flamewar, and the primary fault for that lies with the comment that starts it.

I know from many past comments that you have a ton of knowledge to share—it would be way better if you would explain some of that to the rest of us, rather than holding it back and just giving us a shallow version of your final conclusion, with a pointed end.
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I get your point in principle, but a startup doing whatever tf they want with their profits is a completely different kettle of fish from a charity doing whatever tf they want with donations.

Especially when said donations were donated under the impression they'd be used specifically towards the charity's cause, rather than inflating a c-suite executive's bonus for the umptieth time.
> but I can't help think this is just a terrible way to invest

Picking a company to invest in only half the job, choosing how much to invest is the other half.

It's a terrible way to invest if you put all your money into it. QC "changing the world" is a tail-end event. You allocate according to the risk.
It's hard to clearly go from "a link between certain cancers and the consumption of red meat" to a causal statement.

Like, it's plausible that the red meat is causing these cancers. It's also plausible to have a different cause - e.g. if people's lifestyles lead to a correlation between consumption of red meat and smoking (for the sake of argument - I have no idea if there actually is one) then we would observe a link between lung cancer and the consumption of red meat without there being any causal relation.

It's also quite plausible that certain ways of preparing food is causing these cancers (e.g. nitrates in bacon, and known carcinogens from high temperature frying on pan or open flame), and we're seeing the effect because we're currently often preparing red meat in this way, but replacing the red meat with fish or vegetarian equivalent in the same fried dish would still have the same carcinogens, and thus the intervention would not get the expected results.

So, a correlation between certain cancers and the consumption of red meat is a good probable cause for an investigation of the causal relationships, but I'd be wary of using it to argue for major dietary changes - the last decades had far too many counterproductive dietary recommendations (e.g. regarding cholesterol) because of non-causal evidence leading into wrong assumptions.
I don’t see the point for EVs, but I actually somewhat regularly use the “gear down” paddle on my Honda Jazz (AKA Fit in other countries) CVT, but not for a “warm fizzy feeling”.

It actually “locks” the gears to a particular ratio which allows me to use the engine to keep the car from exceeding a particular speed when coasting down a hill. When I start using the accelerator after, it very quickly switches itself back to automatic as soon as the “locked in” gear ratio is clearly non-optimal.

I’ve never bothered using them for any other scenario though, I don’t see the point as the CVT (at least on my car) very intuitively adjusts gear ratio based on how far I’ve pushed in the accelerator, it’s such a pleasure to drive.
What may have been, there seemed to be some amazingly promising technology.

It faltered as I understand it because the carbon fibre tank took longer to develop than given.

Whilst it was developed to provide greater launch capability for the ‘Star Wars’ programme (or should that be ‘A New Hope’) I would have thought it would have been picked up again.
Please be aware that in these trials the placebo is not an inert known safe substance like water but rather another closely related vaccine. The goal is to ensure that any reactions you get are similar to the primary vaccine. So, people experiencing side effects from placebos is not really proof that they're self-created or 'expected', just that whatever vaccine was used as the placebo could also cause side effects.
Lord of the Rings, House on the Borderland, Pilgrims Progress, Gulliver's Travels and the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft
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