skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery Data Genome, a central data hub for battery innovation
I was at a talk featuring Richard Thaler a few years ago, and someone in the audience asked a question in a vein that runs through the comments here -- 'is it better to teach high school students stats or calc'?

Thaler's response: I don't think it matters as people will forget either. For example, by show of hands, who here remembers anything of substance from their highschool chemistry class?

I was mortified that only I and ~5 others raised their hands out of a very large group. (I picked up the ideal gas law and dimensional analysis from said chemistry class and have found the latter to be quite useful.)
It doesn't matter what the rules say-- these companies have legal departments better funded than those of states. They can just tie you up in expensive litigation for the rest of their life. They're largely immune to oversight by the courts as a result, which is presumably a part of why they behave this way.
Rates of suicide are higher in places without guns.
The future of the web could also be back to the browser. Python can run in the browser with SQLite. I have had ideas of taking Django or fastapi and then either using the browser or put it in an app which runs it in WebKit or blink and syncing to the servers if that is even needed for the app.
Being forced to put something in your body is more than an inconvenience. It's a delicate subject and there was a lot of fear, misinformation, and absolutism around covid.
I feel like this was just a misunderstanding about the words that were removed instead of re-written. I thought “marriage blackout nights” was some cultural thing. Turns out the author was talking about the trend of a married couple who often got blackout drunk. But, I completely missed that meaning on my first read.
maybe he had genetic predisposition to heart attacks or cardiovascular disease. Maybe the stress on his heart went unchecked for years. Maybe it was a sudden embolism.

Whatever the reason was, we should all be having regular heart health checkups or preventative care that is readily available and to help. I mean, by now we should be having watches or devices that can monitor and read our heart health and vitals 24/7. It's 2022, ridiculous.
As a person who currently has stage IV NSCLC, I can add some context to this:

YMMV.

One thing to remember is that "Lung Cancer" is not just one thing. There are mutations of different genes, there are overexpressions of different genes. Each one has its own new medicines. Also, some peoples' cancers are more aggressive than others, and while for many they can find the right drug, for some nothing works.

Keytruda works wonders for some. It did not for me. I had 4 treatments of the CPP (carboplatin, pemetrexed, and pembrolizumab) triad, which had some success. They then put you on "maintenance," which is the PP without the carboplatin (which is the really old school platinum-based chemo). Maintenance did nothing for me. My main tumor grew more than 50% in 2 months.

Last summer I started 9 months on a chemo/immuno that was geared towards my specific mutation. It actually did wonders. It resulted in a 98% shrinkage of my main tumor before I ended up with pneumonitis from it and had to stop. But I've been able to be off treatment for the entire summer. I know there are others who have tried this, and it didn't work.

So yeah, I'm really, really glad your relative was able to get some relief from the Keytruda. But I also wish it were the wonder cure for everyone that it was for them.
Yes I discussed with those people while this was happening and it is exactly true.
Your notion of the word doesn't match the definition :

NOUN
buyback (noun)
the buying back of goods by the original seller.
the buying back by a company of its own shares.
a form of borrowing in which shares or bonds are sold with an agreement to repurchase them at a later date:
"a share buy-back"
synonyms:
retrieve · regain · recover · get back · reclaim · repossess
I think you misread the comment you're replying to. Calculating a total score is simply summing the scores assigned to a candidate from each voter, so there's no way to "lower candidate B's score artificially". There's no averaging going on here.
Almost all developers I know are pretty big on privacy and critical of the negative implications of users sharing too much. If you work at Google or Facebook they will plant different ideas into your brain.

I wish I could share a similar sentiment. But my impression is that privacy is low down the priority of many developers. Even this thread has 300+ comments and yet has not one single comment raising the privacy implications a cloud OS/desktop.
Get more out of your Investors and Advisors
The problem is not understanding how to rate a candidate but understanding what the ratings will accomplish and what voting strategy should be used to get your intended outcome.
Me too, I got into him in 2019, and bought 1 sketchbook last year, and the 22 this year. I had the luxury of meeting him last week in Paris.
I want to make sure I understand this:

You made a VCALENDAR generator with a web-accessible endpoint. It fills in the VCALENDAR with info passed in via URL parameters. And rather than returning a webpage, it just returns the VCALENDAR file.

So you send your friends the link, they click it, rather then returning text/html content, it returns a downloadable response consisting of a pre-filled VCALENDAR file with the correct MIME type, and .ics extension.

Do I have that right?
That looks really cool. I've wanted to build a thing like that for a while, so glad I don't have to. Great job, nice doc, code looks well thought out.
That's not really what's happening here. Meta can't just steal that info; it goes to Meta's lawyers, who will review it and decide what to do based on it. Meta itself won't get to see it, necessarily, unless the court lets them.

You might say "well, you can't trust lawyers" - but most attorneys actually take the security of processes like these extremely seriously, because they'll lose their jobs (and law licenses) if they don't.

But anyway, the right thing to do if SimulaVR doesn't want to reveal this info is to oppose the subpoena and try to get it quashed. Not write angry blog posts.
“I'm back at Intercom as CEO”
Jack Dorsey plans to build 'Web5' based on Bitcoin
The irony is that the platforms are still flooded with crypto scams, I know on twitter and youtube at least they don't even respond to reports on them 99% of the time-- even when it's the same obvious scam messaged reposed twenty times in a short interval--, but then they'll capriciously ban legitimate material because it mentioned bitcoin.

It's not hard to imagine that a lot of these companies are now using outsourced 'moderation' where the moderators themselves are the scammers, intentionally permitting scams and intentionally flagging legit stuff. But sadly the truth is probably more boring, indifference instead of intrigue.
People that have the means to dump six figures into bonds will not spend the proceeds on consumption or investment, which stimulate the economy. They will simply recycle it back into more bonds (a form of saving).
Not only trans; many gay children and generally gender-nonconforming minors go through this.
Seems like a lot of work. This is why I created a new way to import Json data into relational tables that can map multiple values to each row key to create a '3-dimensional table'. It lets you query such a table much faster than other RDBMS systems without needing to generate separate indexes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHwBspzBDbs
What, why? This is normal legal process. I hate Meta plenty, check my comment history, but this isn't an unusual or corrupt thing.
Apparently water isnt wet. It took me awhile to get over the wtf reaction. Basically because wetness is the ability of a liquid to coat, or soak into, a solid. and being wet is the state of being covered in a liquid. We're left with the surprising conclusion that unless we think of water as being water coated, or soaked in, more water its not wet.
I'm open to having my mind changed on this as I find it a bit ridiculous and will continue to think of liquids as being wet
If somebody stuck one of those garbage guns in your face and demanded your wallet, you'd be wise to comply. It doesn't even need to actually work to be effective at the sort of crime most handguns are used for.
Thanks for your feedback!

> search by airport code

It actually will do that but the autocomplete is a little buggy so you might need to press space and backspace once or twice lol

ah if you mean the "From City" filter after results are loaded, yes, I agree that is annoying

> just the city I asked for

The main use case is people with flexible itineraries who want to save a couple hundred bucks over 3+ flights. If you just wanna get ideas for places to travel from SFO you could google "SFO flight schedule" or a strict schedule "SFO to Richmond VA".

You are right that, if people choose to go to DCA to save $20 they would be wasting a lot of time and money, which may or may not be desired depending how much they like riding trains and wasting time. But if their goal was to see different cities on the east coast then it is helpful to know which nearby airport is cheaper to get to.

It doesn't really make sense to know multiple departure locations unless one is planning multiple stops because people currently can only be in one location at any given time.

But you are right for multiple large airports the results are a bit tedious. Maybe I should add another filter for "To City"
Judging by elite college representation

Elite college representation is a poor metric because of legacy admissions, influence of donors, and the reported efforts to limit Asian admissions.

Look at schools with more merit-based admissions (MIT, Caltech, etc.). Asians are overrepresented to a much higher degree.
People expect the compile step to be trustworthy.
> Maybe it's just me but I don't understand what this sentence means. I've never heard of a "marriage blackout night" and can't parse what it means.

The author explains a few lines after:

> In my version, that writer is also in his underwear, and the reader is informed that the couple is having some sad, drunken nights (« marriage blackout nights » doesn’t sound right and would have needed editing anyway, but bear with me). These are two expressions of, well, vulnerability.
It's almost as if the button is mutually beneficial and that only a greedy moron would threaten to break it unless paid yet more money.
From my experience with psilocybin-containing mushrooms, I didn't hallucinate. Rather, my senses grew incredibly sharper and everything was super-vivid. I could see why they would be great for hunting in a prehistoric setting and would give one an unfair advantage. Shrooms are even known to increase visual acuity. It was like watching 4K video for the first time after watching standard definition your whole life.

As for my mind, I had what people call a 'mystical experience' but I was so young (20s) that I didn't have the necessary words to describe it or put it into words. It's only when I read up about Gnosticism and went down various conspiracy theory rabbit-holes on Youtube that I could piece it all together, and have the right words to describe it (escaping the Matrix etc).

I would never try them again though. Too risky. I value my mental health too much. If I want shroom-like hallucinations though, I use the Lumenate app which everyone should try...

https://lumenategrowth.com/
Not sure where he first had chest pains, but the message says on the way to the airport. Whether they reached the airport, or in the car, but don't think on the plane.
Hard disagree. One of my earliest memories is my parents having breakfast that consisted of coffee and a cloud of smoke. If by puritanical we understand the mores inherited by Americans from Puritans then this absolutely qualifies.

Unless the goal is to make the sentence palatable to Americans only, it could be understood as editing to make sure the author's point is preserved, but otherwise it is merely hiding what some believe life "should" look like.
https://aresluna.org/keyboard-secrets/typing-delay/
Agree, the writing seems off as an American, and it seems there are some comma splices. A good editor will tighten up the writing.
With what we've known about 2nd hand smoke for decades now, I think we can universally say smoking in front of your kids is bad parenting. So it's a really interesting example, what it says about the author that they don't think they are portraying bad parenting.

And is it just an American thing? I haven't noticed that English, Irish, or Scottish people smoke all that much. But visiting Germany and seeing the blase attitude towards public smoking was definitely a culture shock.
there are people who would believe that 20K would set them up for life.

some people are incredibly indigant, eating handmedown food, feeling elated that the days work ends in exchange of 20$ worth of beer cans.
I don't think we are on the same page:

There have to be some uncountably infinitely many statistical tests can apply to six numbers, and given any list of 6 numbers it will have to fail, be very "suspicious", according to some of the tests.

So, in this example, they took six numbers and found a test that it failed. Of course. Can always do that -- given 6 numbers, knowing the numbers, can always find a test that it fails.

There is an old remark that some probability theory guys "didn't believe in statistics". Hmm
I work up at the north of Hudson's Bay in Québec, where we're all eagerly awaiting the arrival of the fibre connection. For those curious, all cables in grey seem to incomplete projects. For instance, the Kattittuq Nunavut cable only just got funding.
Carl Allamby worked as an auto mechanic for 20 years before going back to attend medical school. It's a difficult path but someone who wants it badly enough can make it happen.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/auto-mechanic-becomes-a-doct...
Well he explains both what he meant by "marriage blackout nights" and he also says he knew it was an awkward translation that needed editing. So I submit that you may not have read this carefully enough.
Kasparov created a version called 'Advanced Chess' that was a human & computer team. I don't think it ever took off though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess
It is always fascinating to me how different sex in literature, cinema, etc. is treated in the USA compared to Europe.

My favorite example is the movie "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain" (which btw is awesome). It has an "FSK 6" rating in Germany, which means it is free to watch for children six years or older. In the US it is R rated, which means children unter 17 have to be accompanied by an adult to watch the movie. The reason for the R rating is that one of the characters, Nino, is working in a sex shop, and in one scene Amelie enters the shop and you can see Nino applying price stickers on adult toys, which in the US seems to be dangerous to the soul of teenagers, while Europeans would not even think about this for a moment.
Yep. All I have is have anecdotal data.

I believe desktops are on their way out. The trend has been happening for ~30 years. Even Android is working on virtual phone OS.

The only applications I've encountered that need a workstation are: Audio Engineering, Video Editing, and 3D mock-up (prior to sending to render farms). All arts.

What are some other examples? Everything I know about science and engineering (academic and commercial) uses a cloud/farm/distributed.
> The road only leads to diluted standards

This is not the only possibility. So much of the way we used to view education was top-down and memorization of facts. I don't think that a medical school education is that different from something like CS than the old guard would like you to believe. Can a Dr self-teach just like a CS engineer? Maybe not, but the ability to memorize organic chemistry facts is likely a much smaller part of being a doctor than ever before.

We know the university system is a mess, we know the medical system is a mess, and yet we say any attempt to change it must be a lowering of standards. Something has to give.

> Professional education isn't feel-happy. It sets you up to face real challenges

This is horrifically untrue. I think people are really bad at understanding how to "impose productive stress" or whatever you want to call it on people. Nothing I've faced in my professional environment, talking to angry customers, Hours long product wide outages, coordinating 30 teams, troubleshooting complex systems was as artificially stressful as education. Maybe because in the real world for the most part your peers and bosses are on your side.
Isn't that exactly what rerere is for?
My gut feeling is that a lot of issues in this class are because the allocator for STL containers are built into the container, rather than passed-in. So, rather than:

vector v;
v.push_back(Bob{ });

It should be:

vector v;
v.push_back(BobAlloc, Bob{ });

But the ergonomics would be severely lacking.
"America's oldest continuously published daily piece of bullshit"
Let's say the user is in FRA, the database in SF. If the "server" is on the edge, you'll end up with 100-200ms between server and database, while the user has less than 10ms latency to the "edge". If the server does multiple round-trips to the database, it can take seconds until the first byte. If the server and database are both in SF, TTFB will probably be less than one second, as round trips between database and server are almost zero. One thing to mention is that it would be beneficial of the TLS handshake could be made on the edge, as it's a multi roundtrip transaction. Ideally, we could combine a server close to the DB with a stateless edge service.

So, the future of the web might not be on the edge. It's rather: The future if the web will leverage the edge.
this does not translate well to an industry like wind energy where there are multiple moving parts, literally and metaphorically.

the solar industry is literally zero moving parts. Panels and inverters are off-the-shelf commodities that are in a race to the bottom for price. this is further helped by the fact that they are largely interchangeable.

Wind turbines do not function like this and they are complicated, dynamic systems requiring continuous monitoring and regular maintenance.

The reality here is that the wind energy industry is and will continue to see a boom and order books are often full years into the future. Despite the headlines, onshore wind isn't going anywhere because there are many regions around the world where offshore wind does not work well.

Offshore wind is being hyped up by Europe - coincidentally, a region with relatively shallow seas and limited land area. Despite the boom, there are not that many manufacturers of wind turbines precisely because it is a capital intensive industry. This is not good news.
I run a ACME server with smallstep, but yeah, that means I had to install my CA on all devices. At least it's limited to my internal domain.

DNS is handled by piHole, which forward internal requests to the opnsense. DHCP clients are on their own subdomain.

The opnsense ACME clients doesn't refresh the cert properly (I have a low life time), but other than that it works nice.
All services force HTTPS, except Mealie and the "homepage" (for guest access).
This reminds me of Thomas Sowell’s take on writing and editors specifically
https://www.tsowell.com/About_Writing.html

The section on editing is about 2/3 of the way through, although the whole thing is a great read.

TLDR: writers don’t like being edited (particularly by bad writers acting as editors)
Hundreds of thousands of phones that are past their last security updates run fine. I don't install random apps or from third party websites. This phone along with last year's phone as well as the year before is rootable. If you care about security that much, you can install an updated vanilla android OS. If you're that scared about security, uninstall all third party apps. You still receive project mainline security updates.

About 75% of the current android version market share is Android 11.0 and lower. Android 11 came out in 2021. What's wasteful is thinking you have to throw away a phone because it won't receive security updates. You absolutely should not scrap phones like this.
I absolutely agree that non-experienced users should start off with low doses, no more than 100μg. I am very experienced with psychedelics and knew what I was getting into when I took higher amounts. My point was simply that low doses may not result in "life changing experiences", for some to experience that (such as myself) higher doses may be required.
A common claim but utterly wrong. Population grew by 6.3% since 2011 years:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

NHS budget grew in the same period 53%

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...

Even if you ignore the massive injection for COVID it grew 39%. The NHS has far more money per pop than ever before in its history yet it cannot meet even the most basic expectations that a third world country would have, like people actually being seen by a doctor in a timely manner if they collapse on the street and an ambulance is called out. Let alone less urgent stuff.

That's why the idea Palantir or any company would ever want to "steal the NHS" is delusional. The NHS is a bottomless bonfire of money, it's the USSR in healthcare form and works just as well. The more money it gets the more dysfunctional and broken it becomes. Nobody in their right mind would want to steal such a worthless thing.
I lived in California for 30 years and the only time I remember any serious issues with power was back in 2000-2001 during the famous electricity crisis. But for some reason this idea endures that California has problems with their grid. Do they really? Because other than that one acute crisis I didn't have a problem with blackouts (that I can remember) for 20 freaking years. That's a pretty good record. It's a big state, so maybe the Bay Area has just fared better than other regions?
He printed auto sears. Those can't take more than 15 mins apiece. $21k of "machine guns" fit in a quart ziploc bag. Also 10 years in federal prison if you're caught in possession of one.
Personally I’ve been successfully working with my cofounder on various businesses for 10+ years. Like any relationship in life, it has its ups and downs.

If you’re dealing with anything remotely resembling “deception” you need to run for the hills - ethics should never be a concern. Everything I’ve ever done has been (initially) over a handshake.

How do you find someone like this? I’m not sure. Having overlapping fundamental values goes a long way. Looking inward before blaming others is just as important.
Every other suicide method has a higher chance of rendering an individual comatose, disabled, or permanently disfigured. The side effects of a failed first attempt would be an incentive for the pursuit of a successful second.

> Seems like a buyback could reduce the opportunity for deaths and injuries due to suicide attempts.

Attempting to reduce deaths will only increase permanent injuries. That will certainly be a burden on the medical system which comes as an added expense on the willfully living. If people want to kill themselves in the least painful and most effective way they can afford, they shouldn't be prevented. It's tortuous to deny a person the right to dispose of his own life as he sees fit by means of his own property.
Ah okay. IMHO the editors suggestion is way better. It's more impactful and to the point instead of diverging for a sentence about sad drunken nights:

>We used to do it without video, but last March we started feeling the need to be visible to one another. The need to be seen and acknowledged by people you respect.

>We used to do it without video, but last March we started feeling the need to be visible to one another. There were mornings following marriage blackout nights where you only wanted to be seen and acknowledged by people you respect.