skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most trail bikes come from the factory with spark arrestors with the major exception being cheap Chinese branded bikes.

And I don't think the temperature of the exhaust stream would be enough to light a match 6" away from the tip of the muffler. You'd have to reef on the bike and park it in a pile of dry leaves up to the exhaust header for temperature alone to start a fire.

The problem is when you dump the bike. If you dump it on a tree or a rock you can fracture the gas tank (releasing fuel) or the crankcase (releasing oil). Or if you tip the bike completely over the fuel will eventually be released. Releasing these doesn't imply fire is inevitable. You still need ignition. If a fire starts you can try to smother it.

On an electric bike the same situation applies. If you dump the bike and fracture the battery (that is often attached to the downtube of the frame) then you will have a catastrophic chemical reaction. Thermal runaway is almost guaranteed. You can't even put it out by smothering it.

Furthermore, most lithium battery controllers in consumer devices are proprietary and most consumers have no idea what their true capabilities and thresholds are. Some batteries might be inherently safer than others due to simple firmware that they don't know exists and have no visibility into. There's really no hiding the capabilities of an analog machine.
Fission plants doesn't perform well in space because they require heat engines to do work upon a generator. The reason this is so is because the waste heat has to be dealt with in order to work. There is no air or water to dump this excess heat into so the only other alternative is to use radiation to radiate IR or incandescence away from the working fluid after it has been used to run a turbine or piston engine. The problem with that is, this way of dealing with heat removal isn't very fast at the temperatures that most boilers operate in. And the reason is because rte of the loss of energy from a blackbody depends on the fourth power of it's temperature. Thank you Hyper-physics site for explaining the pieces parts to me.

What if we had a heat engine that could? That is a tall order because even refractory solids weaken and soften with temperature. What about droplet cooling? Unless the vapor pressure is absolutely minimal, too much working fluid will be lost.
I sold so many copies of Dark Sky at Little League games. “Huh, it’s going to rain in 7 minutes.” “LOL, that’s awfully exact!” 6:45 later, it starts to sprinkle. “What was that called again?”

I hope Weather proves to be as reliable.
Dont mean to pile on (still better to write than not, glad it was linked, etc!) but I agree. It reads as language-fetishizing to me, too in love with little turns of phrase and eddies in the current. Noticed the same thing in Bo Burnham's Inside (lots of attention placed on aesthetic details), maybe it's a consequence of doing it all solo.

The older I get the more I admire people who are straightforward and cut through the gloss. If something is worth saying, it's worth saying simply.
Assessment of Genetic Spectrum of Uncombable Hair Syndrome in 107 Individuals
Everyone has to find some life balance at some point. You've spent a lot of years on first getting in trouble and then getting out of it.

Here's my thought, though: you've already become good at rising above the system and asserting some ambition. That is the actual trajectory of your career, not the job title you presently have.

So if you take a break, the worst that happens is that you have to start over in building a reputation. In nearly all careers, that is a matter of spotting an emerging industry trend, jumping onto it and converting it into the "first job" again. Trends are generational in nature: a fresh cohort is hired to start working on a problem, they become experts, over time they become entrenched, and then, depending on how fast-moving the industry is, they are forced to exit because conditions have changed. Or they retire at the top.

Since programming as a field continues to grow rapidly, the only major issues you'll face are general age discrimination and your own health. The first is unavoidable. But the sabbatical lets you invest in your health and fix any bad habits. It's probably the right time to take one.
This is horrifying. Insta should require government ID to view so if you stalk / kill someone the police can quickly narrow down the set of possible perpetrators and find you.
Its still pretty terrible from an optimal performance viewpoint. I can undervolt my 3070Ti by ~100mV, dropping performance by ~6% but dropping temperature by about 10C, or 13%, and dropping fan speed from PS3 to inaudible for anything <90% load.
Hell's Grannies terrorising the neighborhood and dealing drugs on their mobility scooters?
1. you are stating an opinion as fact, which is rude. Other people have facts that disagree with yours.

2. you are wildly unclear about your preconditions. I am pretty sure you are talking about the initial stages developing an MVP for a startup. Other comments are probably referring to the startup growth period following the MVP.[1]

3. You might be right in some circumstances. But your assumption elsewhere in comments that CI causes over-engineering is incorrect: any team that has an over-engineering problem will generally be in trouble, which is not caused by CI.

4. You are replying to many comments dismissively, almost attacking with your “facts”. If your argument is strong, others will answer for you. “ Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.” — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] I’m using this definition for startup http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html — personally I dislike PG’s definition of a startup (paraphrased: designed for fast growth). Should a business that is trying-but-failing-to-grow not be a startup? A business designed for slow growth but large market is not a startup? PG gives Google as an example of a startup, yet that contradicts his own essay: didn’t Google have a lot of luck, and it isn’t obvious to me that Google was designed for growth, more that the opportunity knocked and Google jumped on that opportunity, successfully. Some of PG’s definition feels tautological; 20/20 hindsight.

Edited: made politer.
Is this a normal amount of studying to be considered an expert in a language? Like not a world authority, but an expert as far as professional software development hiring.
Could someone summarize this article? This article is condescending and very poorly written, I can't stand to try to finish it.
I paint a fair bit. Artists all know how hard it is to innovate, and how difficult it is to faithfully physically represent ideas, images, and emotions that they experience internally. People don't respect works created by algorithms because people feel algorithms (1) do not have a rich internal state, that is (2) challenging to express, (3) will one day die, and (4) never occur again.

There's analogues in music. We have algorithms that can write jazz standards with all the same essential characteristics of Blue in Green, or So What, but no one cares. People just want to hear Miles Davis and Bill Evans do it.
Yes, it really is storing all those images inside it, as well as an evolved NN compression algorithm specific to that dataset.
How would it affect states like texas with large crypto mining industries powered by wind farms.
Is it offered first? We can just set PL1/PL2 unlimited for older Intel CPUs.
There are any factors that cause such an episode in someone with susceptibility. I'll repeat: [it is] complex and there is no one cause. THC can be a factor. This is also what the Google results I linked you to said
Well, I would argue that 38C and above are hostile temperatures to humans and people probably shouldn't go outside too much those days hahaha, but it also depends on humidity. I do think cycling is suitable even in those places, and I personally cycle under those circumstances, but there should be a temperature controlled public transport option available as well.
Self driving cars followed the same pattern - the demo is decent but the 99.9999% case necessary for real-world usage is perpetually out of reach
> And no, Apple is not interested in sharing its API's with anyone.

Funny how people will state ‘facts’ that match their internal perceptions, regardless of what’s been publicly stated over and over again.

Apple has released the WeatherKit API, which is privacy-first, and pretty much provides what Dark Sky did.
Nah, it would be fine, I see plenty of suited salary men cycling in Tokyo
Or it’s just a style that they write in, plainly inspired by the stuff they like to read.

We can have a discussion about whether it’s good delivery of that style, or whether the style itself is accessible, but I’m not sure what we gain by trying to analyze someone’s personality through it.
Is this the 16.1 beta, or the 16.0 release?
If Apple can give me an allergen outlook similar to Accuweather I’ll finally be able to swap. This update was quite nice, but the allergy watch has helped me proactively respond to seasonal allergies which is hard to pass up on. A more granular detail of air quality would be nice as well, but I don’t need it to switch
Not everyone on insta publishes where they took the photo or wants it to be known. But if someone with an AI watches every camera in the world, they could easily find lots of people.
Chill, nobody is getting fired for sweating and nobody is taking an hour to shower
> It's funny how this is posted two days after I finished my Weather web app which uses Dark Sky's free API

Err, dark sky announced this well over a year ago, and was acquired 2 years ago - this is not news.
Few things sound as out of touch and patronizing as pseudo-elites telling common folk that the brands and the stuff they like are all the same and therefore redundant.
I agree that we should also strip the Kardashians of their legal authority over the nation as a whole
Might be different for various lithium batteries but here is what Tesla's Emergency Response Guide recommends:

USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches
fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat or gases, use large amounts of
water to cool the battery. It can take between approximately 3,000-8,000 gallons
(11,356-30,283 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish
and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request additional water supply
early. If water is not immediately available, use CO2, dry chemicals, or another
typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.

NOTE: Tesla does not recommend the use of foam on electric vehicles.

Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct
access to the battery (see chapter 2). Water may be applied from a safe distance ONLY if a
natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not open the
battery for the purpose of cooling it.

Tesla does not recommend placing the vehicle in a large container full of water. The use
of a Thermal Imagery Camera or Infrared (TIC or IR) is recommended to monitor battery
temperatures during the cooling process. Continue to use water until the battery has reached
ambient temperatures or below, indicated by the thermal imagery camera. When utilizing a
thermal imaging camera, allow enough time, once the application of water has stopped, to allow
for heat within the battery to transfer to the battery enclosure.

https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders

Source (pg 25): https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Model_3_...
All of the crown's powers can be changed or removed by parliament, the recent Prorogation of Parliament [0] case saw the supreme court of the UK reaffirm the "sovereignty of Parliament". So the (valid) issues with consent you are raising should be taken up with your local MP, since the power of conset is based upon the power of the UK's democratically elected body. By the by, I daresay I'm not a royalist.

[0]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/decision-of-the-supreme...
Individual experiences aren't invalid.

A well-designed study may be more revealing, but the individual experiences are legitimate and should not be discarded solely because studies are possible.
The process involves sortition, as an alternative to direct-voting for candidates as is far more familiar in most Western democracies. There are institutions which share elements of this, such as grand juries, which can serve not only to hear criminal indictments but which may be empaneled for other civic purposes as well.

There's an absolutely excellent and illuminating Aeon essay from nearly a decade ago which covers this idea and its history (with references to several more detailed references), "How to Choose" --- When you can't choose wisely, choose randomly, by Michael Schulson, first published in 2014.

The citizen's assembly in Petlauma, and Healthy Democracy, seem to be adopting lessons illustrated in that piece.
It must be IO bound.
In all fairness, that's one example. There's probably some outdated stuff that still requires IE.
The secret is — when you’re a senior IC, if you think that it’s important to spend 2 days a week coding, you’re expected to tell people to fuck off so you can spend 2 days a week coding.
This new cable is the worst thing about starlink. Their bizarro choice to make it difficult / impossible to mount on existing poles is a close second.

(Sent via the dumb starlink cable, which I’ve routed through a window that can no longer close. We have existing cat 6 from the router to the dish, and will eventually splice things together with a sacrificial starlink cable. Grr.)
See but even what you are saying here doesn't make sense : n95 masks DO work to prevent you from inhaling the virus. That's what every medical professional wore around covid patients and they were quite effective. So the confusion continues.
Again, this is an insane argument. Just because you don't enjoy an activity doesn't mean everyone else is the same. Just because you've designed your life so your commute is miserable doesn't mean everyone else's is as well.
> If by some weird event I was earning 10x what I earn today, you can rest assured my tax rate in the US wouldn't go up from here, but instead it would be restructured into deferred capital gains (stock options), corporate ownership, investment in tax deferred or tax exempt accounts and so forth

What would you do to go from 200k to 2M without increasing your tax rate, if you're being paid in cash salary? Can you contribute millions to retirement accounts?
A proper hardware encoder will absolutely smoke CPU decoding. Switching from OpenGL software rendering to NVENC/VAAPI reduced power consumption considerably for me. Nvidia and Apple's hardware-based decoders are both top-notch, with Intel's also being fairly decent. Like the other commenter said, I've heard mixed things about the AMD decoders (not to insinuate that their GPUs/iGPUs are bad, though).

As for machine learning, most metrics right now suggest that conventional GPGPU calculations scale with power consumption. If you want high-performance ML without specialized hardware, your only choice is high-wattage hardware.
Yup, that's the previous thread :)
> Do you have an explanation for why, since solar/wind seems to not only pay for itself, but earns enough to 4x it's initial investment in 17 years, that it's not being done?

4x the energy nuclear would net you for the price not 4x the investment (merely the original invested money and some residual value of a system that will run at 70-90% of original capacity but has a limited remaining lifetime). If we use the normally touted 3% discount rate used to make nuclear look viable then financial payback for LSS is about 6-11% pa. (ie enough to pay back your loans and fund another system before the nuclear deploys, then fund a third system before the first wears out). You may need to model things at a steeper discount rate to reflect reality, but then nuclear is a complete non option.

And people are doing it. Solar capacity is growing yoy at 20-25% in spite of supply chain issues and the first module price increase in years.

I don't know why it isn't receiving even more investment. Probably because of some constraining resource, fear of destroying the trillions invested in fossil fuels before they can divest, limits in available markets due to time lag on storage being as viable or maybe uncertainty that emerging tech will crater the energy price even further.

It's not that solar is an incredible investment, it's more that nuclear is such a bad idea that doing something sensible looks like free money in comparison.
What is acceptable for image and content generation has almost no relation to what is acceptable for safety-critical systems.
> We have algorithms that can write jazz standards with all the same essential characteristics of Blue in Green, or So What, but no one cares.

That's definitely not true. In the areas that make money with some semblance of reliability for the artists (low budget film / game scores esp. asset flippers, shitty TV shows, music for ads, etc), people are going to be more than happy with a magic "make music" button without having to pay for a composer. Like, if you thing that anything in this video is out of reach for today's AIs... https://youtu.be/QgU9H9dECt8
I never understood the hype around diffusion models. Same thing for deep fakes. If you look closely, these models make horrendous mistakes such as hair growing out of ear, uneven eyes, etc., which shows that there is no sense of understanding the underlying concepts in these models. I find GPT-3 a great achievement, but when it comes to visual arts, you can't just call whatever SD/DE2 create "art". At best, these models just reflect the patterns and visual cues they've seen in the training data, but they have no idea as to "what" they are painting. It's actually funny that one of the first applications of these models is in arts where there's no real-world hard-rule to quantify just how terrible/great the results are, because at the end of the day, people will claim that art is all subjective.
During pregnancy I'd assume almost any exposure to anything that is not essential nutrients, pure air and pure water is bad to some measurable effect if we could measure it.

Even caffeine has negative measurable effects.
Nice straw man. I'm sure you can refute your own arguments if you gave it an honest try.
This sounds too good to be true to me (as a former tax lawyer). If you're being paid 500k in salary I can't think of how you take home this much. Maybe you put a ton into tax-deferred accounts, but that's not the same as netting 80% as take-home. It's kicking the can down the road (to a time when tax rates may be even higher).
> Do you not see a problem of Apple denuding other platforms all independent applications?

There are ~3.3 million apps on Android. So no, I do not see the possibility of Apple denuding Android of all independent apps as a realistic concern.

> How would you quantify your limit if not one?

I don’t think setting a limit on the number of companies that Apple can acquire is the correct way to frame the question. Instead I think you need to take a look at each acquisition independently and look at things like the percentage of market share they are acquiring, what alternatives exist in the market, etc. I’m fairly sure Dark Sky never had a dominant market share, and plenty of alternative weather apps exist, so I really don’t see this as an anti-trust issue.
There is a call out in the proposal to apply these rules to foreign-launched spacecraft as a requirement for access to US markets. I suppose it’s the best they can do.
An old woman cornered me and a friend outside a few years back and ranted about synergy. I remember her wrinkled face and the manic glint in her eyes. Never going to lose the association between her and that word.
I will never understand you AI optimists.
AI will never create remarkable or even widely popular music. Well, never say never. But 5 to 10 years? Not a snowballs chance in hell.
You can die from drinking too much water. Dosage makes the poison as the sibling comment said.
US passports are clear that only your face should be in the photograph. I can't think of any passport, drivers license, or even employee ID that didn't crop the photo at most below the collarbone.

A face tattoo, on the other hand...
But it very clearly is not. Quite the opposite is upheld by a court.

Of course, unless, by ‘principle’ you mean ‘only under certain conditions, sometimes, for some things to be said, by some people, to some specific set of people, YMMV’, in which case I fail to see the difference to the UK (or Saudi Arabia, for that matter). You also have that complete principle of freedom to praise the prince in SA.
Isn't it kind of impressive that GPT-3 has enough meta cognition to carry out the logic of the exploit?
> It really should not matter how the energy is produced the only thing that matters for clime change is how much CO₂ gets pumped into the atmosphere.

... which is an argument for building as much low emissions capacity as possible within a given budget over the next 5-10 years.

Which is 0 for nuclear
I would think that a head of state with substantial assets administered by the government and a massive public subsidy for the royal family would be in a position to lobby the government. The ruling party in the UK at the moment is pretty favorable to the monarchy so it isn't surprising they would provide the monarch with some ability to lobby the government.

I'm not a royalist or British but I would be more concerned about the financial subsidy and the ruling party's deference to the monarchy than the theoretical possibility of them witholding consent. It isn't much of a negotiation if one side can immediately win though right? The prime minister can just threaten to go public that he can't obtain consent and the monarch has to back down immediately.
There is no constitution. How can it be a constitutional monarchy? Before anyone points out that it is an unwritten constitution, please exchange my invisible benjies for some gold.
Folks here said the new Weather app has the same info. I upgraded to iOS 16 about a year before I normally would just to check this. And nope, it doesn't have the one feature I use Dark Sky for – the one feature no other weather app has: the ability to see what the weather was yesterday.

It's what Dark Sky calls "Time Machine". (Can't believe Apple let them use this name this long, now that I think of it.)

(I supported the original crowdfunding campaign for Dark Sky in 2011.)
This is pretty cool.

I wonder if there is a similar way to reverse engineer the original prompts of GPT-3 based SaaS providers.
iPhone 14 Pro Always-On Display Turns Off If You Leave the Room with Apple Watch
> because it crossed product boundaries

Sorry, but I still remember Google pinky swearing before Congress that it would never combine the data it had on it's users with the advertising profiles it acquired with DoubleClick.

>In today's Big Tech antitrust hearing in front of a Congressional subcommittee, representative Val Demings questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company's merger with DoubleClick.

Specifically, the way Google combined data from the advertising company -- bought in 2007 -- with Google's own data. Founder Sergey Brin had told Congress it would not combine the personal information, but the company quietly did so in 2016 anyway.

https://www.engadget.com/google-antitrust-hearing-doubleclic...

>Google’s privacy policies as of March 1, 2012 established that no combination between DoubleClick’s advertising data and Google’s personally-identifiable information would take place without the prior consent of its users, but an updated version of those policies subtly allowed the integration of both databases regardless of prior consent of its users

https://www.promarket.org/2020/08/21/why-we-should-be-carefu...

People suggest that Google is a boogeyman because they have repeatedly broken their promises.