skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politics and education are certainly factors, but I would argue that they are minor. The bigger issue is the natural incentive structures that academia has created. If you want to have a career, you get both attention and funding in return for headline-grabbing results. This creates two huge second-order effects: first, everyone's incentivized to look for big impressive new effects. Second, focusing on confirmatory work is a great way to tank your career. And those create a third order effect: people who cut corners thrive, and there's not much to keep that in check because people who cautiously vet their work and others' get stuck in adjunct professor hell until they finally give up and exit the field.

Politics just adds some spin onto that. Education, I just don't think that's even a possible solution. The math involved in some of these fancier statistical techniques can be devilishly hard to get right, and it's often simply asking too much to expect someone to be an expert at both that and molecular biology. You could argue that that means people should look for competent co-authors to cover that side of things. But, see above - current incentive structures don't really favor the researcher who says, "I know! Let's bring on some nerd whose only job is to find reasons why we shouldn't publish!"
Clearing snow, especially from roofs, is probably also one of the more energetic things that a lot of people do.
Automemcpy: Framework for Automatic Generation of Fundamental Memory Operations [pdf]
> The capacity of recognition memory for pictures is almost limitless

To my understanding this is the core mechanism memory champions use to memorize huge amounts of arbitrary information like digits of pi[1]: encode the data as a picture.

I got interested in improved memory techniques a few years ago as my grandmother was losing her memory. I used to struggle with simple things like remembering my airport gate and seat number (I'd neurotically pull out my phone or boarding pass to check dozens of times) or hotel room number (I had to keep looking at the number written on the key on my way up the elevator and down the hall and I'd often forget if I left the key sleeve in the room).

After practicing for a few weeks I was able to encode random information like my friend's passport number, phone numbers, and addresses into amusing visual stories without much trouble. I can still recall them years later.

Learning a few simple visual encoding systems like the mnemonic major system[2] has been a great investment in my life.

1. https://youtu.be/mI96Ph-yHcA
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system
Thanks for letting me know your interest! Will for sure post updates here as I do think that this will be something very useful for people.
The fact you even suggest that phasing out cars is possible, I cannot take your comment seriously.

Outside if big cities this is not even a remote possibility, most people there travel big distances in various weather conditions on a daily basis.

Even in big cities this seems unrealistic. Thinking for example of NYC, many folks travel fir work from the outer boroughs to Manhattan, from areas where public transit isn't readily available, and just taking the bike is not even realistic.
Isn't "the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization" a benefit?
There are plenty of primary sources linked from that page.

> slamming anyone down as ignorant is not constructive.

It is when they are reducing it to a he said/she said instead of, I don't know, providing evidence? Begging the question is a way to reduce the credibility of an argument with zero evidence. It's far less constructive than my reply to it, but yet people have taken more issue with my reply.
They don't even remember how vertical integrated they were before OS X came to be, how would they remember that?
Let me know when it crosses that line then.
Is this still a problem now that we have auto braking?
Try finding the weather in metric, though. Everything – temperature, windspeed (miles per hour, unless it's an offshore report, then it's knots), atmospheric pressure, wave heights, precipitation amounts and rate, and so on – is US customary.
WebAssembly....
On a 500kloc Qt codebase I had maybe 4/5 files which needed changes following Qt5 -> Qt6, plus a couple of bugs that cropped up in the early versions. Plus most of the issues were in private API uses which are outside of the stability contract anyways. Now I know that I'm safe from breaking changes for at least 3/4 years until Qt7 ... Wouldn't call that churn haha.
> But we had forms and POST and everything you need to make a CRUD application

The same is true for PDF, yet it’s still primarily a document format.
> A series is then 1, 1/2, 1/4, etc square meters, while B is 1, 1/2, 1/4, etc meters wide.

It’s folded in alternating direction so it doesn’t go down as fast. It’s 1m wide, then 1m long, then 50cm wide, 50cm long, etc.
That was released more than two months ago, though. This point release is much smaller.
~$900 because my wife is pregnant.
The immigrants may not be stupid; but they don't, as a rule, come to school knowing finnish. I'd be curious to know how the scores break down based on ancestry of the students.
http://archive.today/tBPaM
Got it, thanks @tremon.
Hijacks the browser back button. No thanks.

Meetings often feel like a waste of time. Adding fluff just makes it worse.
Skip to the full report https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118763119
Google's spam filters aren't very good these days. I still get spam in my gmail account and my non-gmail accounts sometimes get spam from gmail addresses.
Sorry for getting the terminology wrong. I don't use iPhones.

I meant coupling the "Find My network" feature for iPhones and AirTags.
Reduce rent seeking, promote local agriculture university outreach programs, gently trim back on waste, promote competition in stagnated fields.

There’s not a radical solution where something bold needs to be done. There’s a lot of mundane progress that needs to be done, but before it’s done it needs to be identified and prioritized.
does musk contribute to society, or does he just have a lot of money?
Nanotechnology was actually envisioned by Richard Feynmann in his famed 1959 lecture "there's plenty of room at the bottom".

I don't presume anyone would call out Feynmann for not knowing his physics. He even won a nobel prize for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_th...
Electric engines are capable of insane torque, but prolonged operation in such a mode is far from efficient, cool and preferable from a reliability standpoint. Two seconds at the green light - yes, plowing your field with a Tesla - no.

So I can see it making sense for vehicles that have have two modes of operation, for example a tractor or all-terain vehicle that also need to work on public roads at relatively high speeds. A manual gear box is ideal in such a setting, because you seldom need to use it and it's very simple, cost effective and reliable. In any case, only useful for an extreme niche of applications.
Kind of interesting to note that 'work' (as in physical energy) and 'labour' use the same word in German.
The Toronto region contains about 25% of the Canadian population, which is sufficient for my point.

Your attempt at nit picking, if it were valid, would actually makes it much worse: a temperature increase sufficient to turn "-22c" into "we don't need to worry about cold batteries" requires close to double the difference between today and the highest estimated average global temperature ever in the biological history of the planet, and that temperature happened before trees had evolved.

For example, naïvely adding 22 C (22.5 says Wiki) to the average so that the coldest was no longer below freezing, your Fort McMurray would have a new July average high of 46.2 C, which is above the current average of Death Valley 10 months of the year and pretty close the other two.
Join us in Alabama, where the 1901 constitution makes it impossible to raise local taxes without going through Congress in Montgomery. The industrialists and cattle barons put that there because they are wealthy enough to secure good infrastructure for themselves, but the rest of the state is left behind. Good luck with Alabama public schools, and many local roads are on a 70-year repaving schedule.
Apologies if I'm explaining where I needn't, but it's not the code, it's the copy around the code that I'm seeing capitalised.
^ Precisely.

To add to your point: In order for something to be unequal, it had to be obtained via unethical means. This is because the sum of morality of small transactions is transitive. Breaking it down in simple terms: If you voluntarily give your free-earned money to Jeff Bezos, it's an ethical transaction. If millions of people do it, they're all ethical transactions. If Jeff Bezos becomes a go-zillionaire, it's moral and ethical.

Meaning: If you don't want billionaires in this world, you're free to stop giving them your money at any time.
$230 medical, $13 dental. Med has a stupid-high OOP max. I have that set aside in an HSA but knock on wood I never get into a major medical emergency in the fall potentially being responsible for 2x that. Good luck, OP.
Maybe you should consider moving to Europe and benefit from a proper public healthcare system?

But I must admit, the energy bills lately are no fun here… So maybe wait until all that mess is over.
Retaliation by the government. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with private citizens censoring each other.

Very telling that you find more value in the hate speech than in the value of the victims ability to protect themselves. Especially when both are equally as much free speech.
I get a lot of false positive in my spam folder when using Microsoft's email service.
Freelancer requested: Chromium: Limit the number N of tabs opened in total
27€/Month.
Nissan does this with their CVTs as well. Apparently they found that people didn't really like the "all one gear" feel, so they programmed in "gear changes" where the CVT changes ratio like an automatic. You still get the CVT advantage when going up a hill or stomping on the accelerator, though.

They've been phasing out their CVTs in favor of traditional automatics, though.
Ok, dumb question but how much taller does it need to be to use for geo-engineering? Releasing sulfur into the atmosphere is supposed to deflect sunlight or something right?
This looks un-intentional, maybe file a bug with them? Why post this here?
In order to build systems to extract and use energy requires an educated society - that is the root deficiency. And it’s a lot more than just dropping books from airplanes.
Or how about all three + Java: https://clojure.org/reference/lisps
Yeah, Ubisoft Game Launcher (as it was then, later uplay and now ubisoft connect) barely worked in those days and I remember my disc based copy of Anno 2070 and my steam copy of AC2: Revelations installed conflicting versions which could only launch one or the other so I had to keep swapping the folder in AppData
> auto braking, high beam assist

Many of those bells and whistles you don’t want are designed to protect other road users as much or more than yourself.

Not wanting the bells and whistles that only effect the driver and not others is fine, but it’s a bit selfish to discard the others.

And yeah Some people will be like “I am responsible and don’t need those” but 50% of those will be the ones that need them most and it’s hard to tell who is who.
We had a story on the 3.39.0 release at the time, with 20 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31876604
We do have the energy right now, though.

And we'd have more, cheaper energy if we deployed new renewables.

But the author seems to lose his interest in helping the poor if it didn't involve fossil fuels being used inefficiently.
Seems kind of limited and you have to use the “Bose app” for complete functionality. Are there apps for the Apple Watch? My AppleTV? And I still have to pair them to each device and they only switch between the “two most recent devices”.
I follow https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ but it's biased and focusses on all the negative aspects of web3. Good glossary and she has written long-form essays as well https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/
a real attempt to reduce rent seeking would probably lead to civil war.
I understand what you're feeling. I agree that this year is probably just a step on the steady climb up to a warmer, drier climate for this region. I think in the long-term that we will see wide-spread desertification across large parts of north and northwest Texas. Conservation efforts are lagging changes we already see in climatic conditions, and water usage in the region is still not low enough to be sustainable. Land use practices need to be reevaluated to slow the process.

The long term temperature trend is not favorable for this region. We are lucky though that this year is the third La Nina year (warmer and drier overall in this region) and since it is unusual to see that many consecutive La Ninas, we are due for a reversal to El Nino which tends to be milder and wetter. My only task is to keep as many things healthy as possible so that they can benefit from the more favorable growing conditions.

My own records here show the cyclic variability and demonstrate that the average rainfall should be plenty to support the native plants that I am trying to maintain. In the 20 years that I have been keeping detailed records annual rainfall has varied across a wide range from 19.21" (488 mm) to 68.33" (1736 mm). The average total is 34.37" (873 mm). We are 2/3 of the way through the year and I have accumulated roughly 2/3 of volume from our lowest ever year (2005). It will be interesting to see whether autumn rains push me past that low number.

I'm a geoscientist by training so there is already the knowledge that change is inevitable, but that it usually happens on much longer time scales. I'm fighting a delaying action here. It can work but things will need help so I capture rainwater for dry times since my only water out here comes from rain and from our water well and I don't want to use well water to water lawns or trees. That is why I focus on native plants and trees that are adapted to regional climatic variability.

I'll continue working to keep my place vibrant with native plants and grasses so that maybe in the long term it can be an oasis in the desert for wildlife moving through the area instead of just a great spot for another convenience store for all the people that are leaving the big city and heading out this way.
In the Alpha Centauri game setting, energy is literally money ("energy credits").
You would be able to use the alternatives though. The Ayn Rand idea of the entrepreneur or the investor as as the only true value creator is complete and utter BS. By value created, Linus Torvalds and RMS should be the world's largest billionaires (or Norman Borlaug, or any other example that comes to mind). But they aren't, because actually, we don't live in a meritocracy. Power exists, broken incentives exist, corruption exist because less than 200 years ago we had a whole society running on dynastic wealth and oppression, and acting like that just went away is the ahistorical naivety that the work of Thomas Piketty and other historians and economists are contributing to dismantling.

Elon Musk impulse bought Twitter and has been bullshitting the public for years on the Teslas, bought himself the "founder" title and has become the main marketing tool of Tesla. Going by merit and wise business decisions, I do not think he should have the billions, I think Gwinneth shotwell should.
Wide-integer: C++ template for uint128_t, uint256_t, uint512_t, uint1024_t, etc.
That's a pretty huge amount of processing power hidden away! Are these experimentally confirmed performance numbers?

So this is 16x16 single precision fused multiply-adds at 3.2GHz with a throughput of one per clock, right? (16 x 16 x 2 x 3.2e9 = 1.6384e12) And does using fp16 quadruple throughput again? That would put AMX well above the GPU for fp16 matrix multiplication! (2.6 TFLOPs fp16/fp32 for 8-core GPU, 128 multiply-add per core at 1.278GHz)

How does it compare in terms of power, can it sustain 3.2GHz indefinitely or does it hit power/thermal limits fairly quickly?
Any reasonable person would consider being told "take the vaccine or be fired/expelled" as being forced to take it, and that absolutely happened.
If you have a mail account in a company, it is normal to receive company-wide communication
If we had energy cheap enough for every human to live at the highest current levels of consumption, wouldn’t we have to do something with the waste heat? Radiator fins on space elevators? Or can we send it out into space from the ground?
For easier searching and sometimes nostalgic reasons.

When I was in my early 20s, I used to save ticket stubs, boarding passes, train tickets, etc when I was traveling, I really liked keeping them. But when I saw myself becoming a borderline hoarder, I took photos of them and threw all of them away. Even today, I have the habit of taking a document image of ticket stubs and other new things, specially when I'm in a new city or a country.

There is no practical use for them, just that they help me to not stack up physical papers.

The other real documents I archive are mostly documents related to dividend notices, water/electricity bills that unfortunately come in snail mail, etc. I'd be fine if I don't keep them, but I have them in the very unlikely scenario that I just might need to make a paper trail.
> so much money floating around from environmental and animal rights activists

Forgive me if I fell for deadpan sarcasm... but you're joking, right?

Commercial organizations who make money from the sale of environment (natural resources, such as petrolium, animals, crops) have orders of magnitude more money to spend to fund research than organizations which seek to protect those resources.
$455/month

keep in mind that PPOs for independents aren’t the same as PPOs for companies even though the appear to be.

let’s say you have blue cross blue shield PPO with your current employer it’s not the same even on the platinum level blue cross blue shield PPO.

fewer doctors in network. lots of mini surprises await you if you actually use it.

that’s such bs.

in a way i was personally better of prior to ACA since i could get insurance for $150/month. yes it’s nice that i can’t be disqualified due to pre existing conditions but it isn’t the meca it’s claimed to be.
It is the amount of inequality that matters. We will essentially never get rid of an exponential distribution of resources, what matters is the exponent, for simplicity’s sake, something the the ratio of wealth of the 20th percentile vs the 80th.
Just you? What’s your age? Any chronic health conditions? How risk tolerant are you?
Resistive heating using a battery offends my sensibilities. It takes beautiful low entropy energy and irreversibly converts it high entropy heat.
Wet sloppy snow is known as "heartattack snow" around these parts.
Heat waves do cause massive infrastructure damage, it’s simply less focused. You can model how much faster say a single streetlight fails when the temperature reaches 105f vs 95f, but it’s all abstract without the visceral impact of obviously broken stuff.

Further preparing for heat waves is also quite expensive, as you need more power generation capacity that sits unused 99% of the time etc.
> just a handful or two of provider could impose it in practice.

Nah, they really couldn't. Email is simply so much bigger than only Google or Microsoft.
> as well as the study of violinists

That's an off-shoot of Ericsson's "deliberate practice" work. More specifically, I think it was four hours of "deliberate practice" per day was the max.

But work is more than "deliberate practice".

As to the physics work, note that it cites Van Zelst and Kerr in the 1950s. Why no more recent research? Has it been reproduced?

> and in von Neummann's case sleeping/dreaming

And shaving. https://www.representations.org/thoughts-while-shaving/

> my former boss as an example

Remember that Darwin had no boss.

> my former boss would sleep less than 5 hours a day, and he was proud of this fact.

Oh, that reminds me of another example - Edison. Quoting https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/thomas-ed... "He reportedly slept a mere three to four hours at night, “regarding sleep as a waste of time, ‘a heritage from our cave days,'” as James Maas tells us in his 1997 productivity bestseller Power Sleep (public library)"'

(See more from that Atlantic piece for Edison's views on sleep.)

> Looking at the study of research scientists mentioned in the article, it would seem that they are the majority

.... how many research scientists do you think there are?

How many do you think were mentioned in the article?
$1,800/month for two of us. Both 63 years old. In the US. Vision and dental extra.
It's hard to tell from the link, but this seems to be comparing the US' electricity consumption to the UK's electricity consumption. Most of the UK's energy use is from burning fuel for heat. Using energy and electricity as interchangeable is very confusing. That said, I would assume if you included all energy usage the US would still be a lot more because we drive so much more.
Blend is your friend.

The only reason I went back to cloud and Web development, is that pre-covid it was the best way to get 100% remote jobs, so I put up with it.

By the way, most of those iOS/Android users are using apps and not Websites.
HN is really up on SQLite at the moment.

If an AI were trained to write hit HN posts, "Writing Rust Extensions For SQLite" would probably be in the top results.
Not really.

A lot of poverty is societal poverty (of order, collaboration, help, education, distribution, and so on) and is worse, even all other things (like relative cost of energy to average salary) being equal.

You can be a slum-living destitute poor in a country even though you have financial access personally to several times the energy expenditure of someone in another country (or area of same country) with a different lifestyle.
I find it hard to imagine it would take significantly more than 15 minutes for most people to ‘learn’ how to drive an automatic car even if they only drove a manual before.
Interestingly, https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2015/01/outlook-com-is-sile... posted on HN today indicates that Outlook is discarding mail from low reputation senders after accepting them. Perhaps that's happening to you?
Well in Australia for examples that's when fire control measures are done, during the wetter and cooler months there are controlled burns to reduce the amount of flammable material on the ground.

e.g.
https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/hazard-information/bushfire/plann...
The acquisition of a patent by a major corporation is not much evidence that it will ever be implemented; it amounts to a relatively cheap option on being able to do so.

Personally, this one seems about as appealing as bringing back the manual ignition advance on gas-engined cars.
80 €/Month. It covers all kinds of doctor's visits, both general and specialists, hospital stays up to two weeks and, generally, grave illness until one million euro in cost/year. It also covers part of dental care but I still pay about 30 euros per session. It's in addition to my state health insurance which covers everything but requires going through more hoops.
inequality matters because people who can't afford to contribute to society eventually grab pitchforks.

see also charlie munger's famous quote - 'inflation is how democracies die' - and inflation is something that makes poor poorer and rich richer.
Community licenses are available, I don't need to pay anything.
My dosbox installation respectfully disagrees.
Which country?
I (38) am at 113€/month in NL
(€500 excess, although I thought I maxed that out as well. Edit: 385+500=max )