skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess, I just have this sense that things could've been much better if we intervened less, and that's in general. I think bias for action does harm in many instances.
This is a non story.

The consultation is on whether to allow weights and volumes of goods to be sold using imperial measures. There is no suggestion of switching engineering or construction to use imperial.
I don't imagine it was 9 straight hours but like a song an hour or every half an hour
Won’t have been the entire time. Just during critical points.

> at various times throughout the surgery
Wouldn't this be affected by the EU principle of paying energy at the highest cost of production? [0]

Unless the power plant would be able to flood the rest of the EU grid with cheap power to the point that the more expensive plants would be turned off, how would this prevent the price going up?

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[0] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/08/09/watch-heres-ho...
What is the difference between between conditional probability and probability?

The reason I asked you for proof was because the website you linked doesn't show that activists have taken over us news and are pushing an agends. Most of the points are about money, hedgefunds , and it also talks about how local papers are better to determine local corruption.

Where's the activist agenda information?
Guaranteeing the loans is what subsidizes it. If the institutions had their own skin in the game they might act differently.
> Many people like to lament about “accountability” culture and how those who find themselves in the eye of the storm have done something to deserve it—perhaps occasionally there’s even some truth to that.

Almost every "cancellation" I've seen has been accountability, this blog makes it sound like every cancellation is based on lies. Yes, there are definitely people being mobbed that either don't deserve it at all or are getting more than their 15 minutes share, but to say that people being "cancelled" only occasionally deserve it is hogwash.
The New York Post would like a word.
Sometimes complexity is conflated with lack of familiarity. Instead of using the term "complexity", we should state what the actual problem is.
LiDAR is finally cheap.

I repeat my comment on LiDAR that I gave a few days ago. The gist is that LiDAR is cheap and you will be able to buy a LiDAR with sufficient resolution for in the next 1-2 years because it will be integrated in normal passenger cars for L2/L3 assistants. These cars are coming out now or in the next year.

LiDAR is finally getting cheap. OEMs (like VW) are very price sensitive. It is estimated the sensors from Valeo cost about 500 dollars. The fact that you see more and more normal passenger cars with higher resolution LiDARs means that LiDARs are getting cheaper.

The Audi A8 used Valeo's (with Ibeo) first generation low resolution LiDAR Scala 1 from the automotive supplier Valeo. Mercedes new models will be using Valeo's second (or third) generation LiDAR. All these are used for L2/L3 assistants. Valeo is a traditional large automotive supplier.

Luminar, a public company from the US, cooperates with Volvo. Some models will come with a LiDAR in the base configuration. These are "new LiDARs" with high resolution.

Innoviz, a 'startup' from Isreal, will supplies LiDARs to VW. Its angular resolution is (in its focus area) about 0.1 (or 0.2) degrees, which is sufficient for higher levels of autonomy and surpasses/equals the resolution of the expensive Velodyne sensors of the past. They will probably be in the same price range. Due to the limited FOV due to the technology, you will need multiply LiDARs.

Many new models from Chinese car brands will also ve equipped with a LiDAR. Most of them with Chinese LiDAR manufacturers like RoboSense or Hesai. Some are equipped by European manufactures like Ibeo/ZF. For example, there is the automotive sensor AT128 by Hesai. It targets normals vehicles (see price range above) and claims a similar performance (except for FOV, so you need multiple) like the Velodyne Ultra Puck (~$50000).

So costs of LiDARs are a not the very expensive obstacle they were in the past. The only problem could be that the new LiDAR manufactures cannot scale up series production. For example, Ibeo just filed for insolvency because they could not close another round after aggressively increasing spending in the past years.
this exactly was I was thinking, I really wanna build this into something with which everyone, even everyday people can do advance level analysis, but it just is not possible by keeping it free of cost
It’s not flamewar. If we can’t reply to trolls, you are protecting trolls. For "free speech" I guess?

If this site is now a portal for Russian trolls, then please, ban me. We’ll see what HN stand for.
What's frustrating about the internet-libertarian set is how much time they spend talking effusively about "being cancelled", given how thoroughly suppressed they seem to think they are.

I know a little about Brodsky. She's everywhere! Google her name, you'll find her twitter, her essays, her bylines, her substack. Yet here we have a whole essay dedicated to her experience with... cancellation? What got canceled?

I actually dug around trying to find out what she's talking about. And... I couldn't. I can't find anyone complaining about her, any links to her tweets that went viral in angry circles. No "Brodsky is a Pedo" nonsense. There's just nothing I can find that says that anyone dislikes her at all.

But boy, howdy does she write a lot about Cancel Culture.

Basically: I call shenanigans here. She wasn't cancelled, at all. Someone was mean to her on the internet, and that surely sucks. But it's not the kind of endemic social problem she claims it is.
Jews or Jewish can refer to people that practice Judaism. If you're saying that people that aren't descendents from the region can't be Jews then that is racist.

BTW it isn't just circumcision but spreading herpes to newborns after sucking on the circumcised penises.
Financial Times is also very refreshing to read. Usually the comments section adds as much value as the articles themselves.
Yea, are we going to see a link to Wikipedia's page for Calculus next?

HN is for new information, not wikipedia pages that happen to be interesting but are already common knowledge. Although I guess it does technically fit the guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Arendt was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and wrote extensively on Nazism.
I think both can be true, question of balance.

Concerning kids exposed to those pathogens in the developing world, we have to consider that malnutrition is a major contributor.
ada is an absolute nightmare
Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House
I think you're reading them far too strictly. I don't think they literally meant they were using nothing beyond JUST the SQL Server and then somehow getting HTML out of that, with 100 lines of JS on top. Unless I misread, I don't see anything that implies they weren't using something like PHP or ASP, for example.
I've tried to drum up my own interest in Gemini, but it feels very NIH.

Given that you can serve plaintext (or barebones HTML) over the Web and that every browser will still happily speak HTTP/1.0 or even HTTP/0.9, I don't understand the draw (other than the nostalgic aesthetic).
I honestly can't think of any time where "build your own database" is a good solution, unless you're a database company or maybe Google.
Or, said another way - it was harder to survive being raised in those 'rough' conditions, but if you did, you were tougher. Survival of the fittest.
> producing temperatures of up to 180 degrees celcius

That's a bit short of the 1000°C that Rondo's system promises, so these approaches are useful for very different applications.
> it's clear that nuclear is extremely safe.

It's clear that solar is extremely safe. And doesn't have a history in the US of evacuating over 150,000 people. Which nuclear does.

> Plus it has the added benefit of, actually, you know, working (and by "working" I mean "producing energy in quantities sufficient to run a modern industrial society", not "works in someone's pipe dream"

Modern solar works and continues to be installed at a rapid rate all over the world. Even France is phasing out nuclear.
Westinghouse Electric went bankrupt over the Vogtle nuclear plant in discussion. The U.S. government has given $8.3 billion of loan guarantees to help finance construction of the Vogtle reactor. It's not viable anymore compared to very quick and simple to maintain solar plants. The future is sunny. Which is after all just nuclear energy at a safe distance.
Normally, this kind of issue is dealt with by a “change of control” provision in the contract. Don’t know what the situation is here, if there is such a provision then Qualcomm should be held to comply. Maybe it’s not as explicit and Arm is trying to use some catch-all provision. If so, Arm had bad lawyers draft the contract.
FYI, pretty sure the parent of the comment you’re responding to is the one that’s actually calling them idiots.
You don’t have to buy the whole thing. You can buy 1 guy, and then have a trophy "look even The economist agrees Russia us too strong to be stopped and we should just surrender already".
I'm not sure. People don't always answer truthfully.
I'm sorry, I'm assuming its a german company, for now the focus is on companies that are listed in the USA and ADRs that are traded in US exchanges
But isn't keeping your money providing information to the economy? And conversely, forcing it to be spent as investment generating malinvestment, investment in frivolous activity? I'm just thinking out loud...
Something not as obvious is the relationship between service time, utilisation, and response time. Even rough estimations of that can be very helpful, but most people I speak to don't even know there is a useful relationship -- some even think service time and response time are the same.

Come to think of it, the obvious general principles of queueing theory have several consequences that aren't immediately intuitive to people:

- A system where concurrency is limited (practically all systems) often bottlenecks on its slowest component, meaning almost any upgrade will do nothing to improve its performance.

- The average time a task is stuck waiting is longer than the average waiting time, once there's significant variation (greater than Poisson) in arrivals.

- Based on only local measurements in an auxiliary, asynchronous component you can determine global throughput for the whole system.
HN is so much higher in quality compared to most places. Yes, there's a lot of 'programmer porn' links, but there are also tons of in-depth discussions.
Void here.

Have faith, no one will be completely able to troubleshoot in the event of a catastrophe.
It's not that heat pumps aren't capable of making a 1000K temperature difference, but with an ambient temperature of around 300K even the theoretical advantage of using a heat pump instead of straight up heating is just ~40%.

It's not nothing, but getting close to the theoretical limit tends to be incredibly annoying when it comes to thermodynamics. Typically it requires doing stuff extremely slowly (so you're always close to thermal equilibrium), which means it's nowhere near fast enough or you need almost perfect insulation etc.
It’s not that hard. There’s plenty of press releases and quotes spokespersons quoted in the NYT. go for it
There is an entire category of fallacies of distraction. People, especially those of the political persuasion, use them when they don't have valid or just arguments to support their position.

Personally, I prefer goat brains, monkey testicles, and the shrunken heads of vanquished enemies.
Ask HN: Email Service for Account Recovery?
With everything being linked to our email (most account recovery..), I’m on a hunt for new email service that I could use for account recovery, separate from my primary email.

While thinking about it, these points sound relevant to me:
- Decent security and privacy

- Should not be Apple or Gmail (in case I get locked out of their platform for some unexpected reason)

- Should not auto-close due to inactivity (I don’t expect to log in unless I need to recover an account)

- Ability to log in without a physical 2FA, SMS or “app on another device” (in case of catastrophic events)

- Affordable. Free is cool but I am ok with a small monthly/yearly fee

- Service that is not likely to “shift focus”, “change policies” or “simplify offerings” (by eliminating affordable tiers)

- Should I 3rd party service to host own domain?

So far the best I could come up with Proton Mail. Their current EULA says that the service will close after a year of inactivity unless you are or ever have been a paying user.
Photography, quadcopters, dual citizenship, and possession of Linux.

Is he guilty of any crimes that half of HN isn't also guilty of?
is there a trial so i can compare against an actual bloomberg? might be nice since it doesn't come with the retarded machine lock-in/b-unit BS. also what's the policy on scraping/retaining data for internal use? is there a python API? and where do you source data? quote delay policy?

p.s. for professionalism you might wanna crop the chrome bar and grammarly icon out of the sc on the front page.

edit: just saw the demo policy, thanks man! is there any way i can go look at a company's debt offerings, converts etc?
Oddly enough all the automotive fasteners and bolts switched to metric some time ago here in the USA. Which makes the (relative) lack of available metric bolts/screws doubly frustrating.
yep it's social media for the street. where everyone keeps in touch on anything finance-related. hella network effects.

(also they do have a ton of data and it's better than almost anyone else)
The point of her work isn't to explain why the Nazis are bad. It's a discussion about the political mechanics of the new 20th century political systems, and how they differ from tyranny.

It's a fairly nuanced and insightful discussion. She holds Stalinism as the most complete example of totalitarianism, in front of the Nazis, and especially the Italian fascists who she merely considers has totalitarian tendencies.
I think it was Steven Pinker who claimed that we were best evolved for life on the savanah, bucolic pastoral type settings with wide open fields. Settings that are easy on the eyes and provide a good line of sight while also providing corners to duck for cover. A setting which has mostly been replicated by the suburbs. True that we have adapted to live in cities fairly well, but even a few thousand years I would think would be too short for evolution.
Whole genome sequencing is commercially available for $299.

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
I knew UK activists who operated on the assumption their landlines were monitored in the 90s go ahead and do activist stuff under their real names on Facebook in the 2000s.
For some types of software its the code development and testing process is highly regulated, for example aircraft avionics. In this case it doesn't really matter the qualifications of the person who wrote it provided the resulting code met all the process and testing requirements.
1 stone = 14lbs. Learned this "whilst" (another chiefly British word) at study abroad in England. Ever after thought of the Bush album "Sixteen Stone" in a different light.
to paraphrase the post for others: institutional positions like "director of the CDC" or "the website that always shows up first when searching for medical stuff" are subject to systemic (largely cultural) pressures that influence them to publish information that is not just straightforward truth.

Thought provoking and certainly true in it's central conceit as a piece - I do wish more people spent the time to think in terms of systems dynamics. It's such an incredibly bright flashlight in the dark closet that is the complexity of the current information landscape.

I would like to add what I feel is a missing part of the analysis, though - the problem of centralization. One of the primary factors compounding the social effects that article describes.

It's like we've forgotten what the early Internet was and what made it great - it was a patchwork of lovely, golden inefficiency that meant that no matter how wrong you were, only so many people would be exposed to that wrong so it really didn't matter so much. Like we take for granted that there's "the one search engine", "the one social media platform", "the one medical site" et al.

I extend this thinking to our pre-Internet institutions as well - the larger and more centralized and older an institution gets, the more rot it's subject to. Efficiency doesn't just accelerate the good stuff - it accelerates every outcome of the process.

Banks 'too big to fail' broadcast economic crises to every corner. Highly liquid markets and scalable financial products accelerate recursive processes towards that failure.

Monolithic news networks and social platforms bind information signals together so that the loudest (not necessarily the most true) have the furthest reach, which recurses to a fever pitch. This process is accelerated by the efficiency of information gathering that is googling.

It feels like what's needed is a refragmenting of our systems in general - a dissolution of large, tightly bound systems into disparate, inefficient clusters that slow the churn and isolate components from toxic vectors.. but that leaves a bad taste in many people's mouths.
> But it only works if X is fearful

Yeah, that's power. It doesn't matter that you call them "authorities". If they cower in fear, it's because someone else has the power.

> all they can do is whine some more on Twitter.

And all Putin does is sign decrees and drop a few hints. Perhaps press a button.
I feel like you're making this up. No one here uses Fahrenheit.
I was responding to this:

> misguided as not taking pain medicine when you have a broken leg until it has properly set first.

I'm arguing that pain killers are a calculated risk, and can lead to further trauma, even in situations of broken limbs. It's not misguided to forgo them entirely, if you can.

More broadly to the greater discussion: treating mental illness as a chemical imbalance risks further trauma because it risks masking the symptoms without treating the cause. It can be appropriate, but should not be taken in isolation as a potential cure or sole treatment.
Is that the law that states if you're not willing to learn from the Nazis mistakes you're doomed to repeat them?

Something else?
What I gather and maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds like this is a third party component and not something that is shipped with Windows by default. The post was full of so much BS I had to click off it quickly
Oh, that makes sense. Cool that we can "dry run" explore with electric pulses! Thanks for explaining :)
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

I'd rather have 640x420 with better gameplays than yet-another 4K shit
But do be careful of domedtic fecal matter.
M/M/s queues have nice properties, but require that arrival and service times are exponentially distributed. Once you deviate from this assumption, closed-form solutions become difficult to obtain and numerical approximations are quite messy.

I've therefore always wondered whether there is software that uses theoretical results from queueing theory to improve control or to optimize parameters of complex systems. Any references?
Everyone is different but it’s generally accepted in the gaming community that the jump from 60 to 144hz is hugely noticeable (and I agree with that, I wouldn't go back to 60hz even though you do adjust to lower refresh rates) but trails off after that except for competitive/pro scenarios. Beyond gaming, things like animations in Windows are noticeably far smoother as well.
To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 we will need to sequester additional 1859 million tons of CO2.(SOURCE: edf.org).

Whales can sequester carbon in 2 ways. First, they store carbon in their bodies. When they die and sink, they take all this carbon with them. One blue whale can directly store 12 tons of CO2, a humpback can store 5.5 tons, a fin whale can store 6.7 tons, etc. In terms of populations, we are nowhere near pre-whaling, stable population numbers. We had 303500 blue whales (now 5400), 307000 humpback ( now 66000), 246000 sei whales (now 49100). Increasing number of whales directly will increase annual carbon capture. Second, whales help to sequester carbon because they are the only organisms on this planet that can fertilize phytoplankton. Only whale transport can bring iron to the surface where the phytoplankton blooms, and in addition to iron, whales also bring a number of other crucial nutrients that are in short supply where phytoplankton lives. Thus by increasing the number of whales (and not losing existing whales via strandings) we can contribute to phytoplankton growth, leading to more carbon capture and sequestration. Right now phytoplankton alone captures 37 billion tons of CO3 yearly. So if we even increase phytoplankton numbers slightly, it could result in large absolute contribution in terms of capturing carbon. Some estimations show that for example just 12000 sperm whales in the Southern Ocean are responsible for the export of 400000 tons of carbon yearly via their direct impact on phytoplankton.

All of the above means we cannot afford to lose whales, have to preserve current populations and increase their numbers. According to our estimates we now lose around 200 great whales and 1000 small delphiniids yearly via live stranding and many of them can be saved with proper interventions , response and adequate resources.

Please note, apart from carbon capture, whales also have additional value in terms what they do for fisheries and ecotourism.

Some data from Chami et al. 2022 was used in this comment.
The people who need the P.Eng. qualification get it and the ones who don't need it tend not (why do all that extra effort if its not required). So that just means more civil engineering positions require it than mech eng positions.
LOL, they're having a larf.

Of course it's a ridiculous proposal, and so an obvious smokescreen to keep the plebs discussing irrelevancies.

But on top of that, the particular proposal, to revert to an olde-worlde measurement system, is surely a troll at all the olde people who were conned into voting for this ridiculous mess.
I’m self-taught but I feel the same way after a decade of working for various startups. What’s disheartening is that all the code I wrote over the years is likely no longer running or cordoned off in some “legacy” codebase, slated for eventual removal. All those agonizing decisions that I had to make over performance, code style, and library choices were ultimately for nothing (other than a paycheck). I suppose many professional jobs are like this though.
It's pining for the fjords or maybe it's just stunned.
I thought the universal practice for getting good performance for relational databases, RDF, other graph, etc. data stores is to be able to hold indices in memory.
This happens all the time and they always say it is fine according to the HN rules. I agree it is a bit stupid. It's clearly not news.
> We need more people and companies like this, who are willing to go beyond "oh it fails randomly sometimes" and track down the underlying issues.

I absolutely disagree. Most capable engineers I know have this urge to go down rabbit holes and fix any issue, this is nothing special.

Everyone wants to be the hero that found a bug deep in the stack, make a glorious pull request, and be celebrated in the community.

I much more value people who have enough self-control to pick meaningful battles, and follow the right priorities.
I'd be less surprised to see that as an exclusion on income insurance policies.
Prime-ministers are seleceted by the party in power, and they are selected by a minority of that party when required (Boris losing power - out, Liz losing power - soon out), so they will make as many 180° turns - and returns - as is required by the party that was voted into power so that same party remains in power.

Yes Minister -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLm2X6sFa48