skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By maxing out supply amid unending demand, they have a terrific product/market fit.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_unc_dcu_nus_m.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Here’s a map of the places that create diesel from crude oil. Note the north & south east where these shortages are occurring, and limited to.

https://atlas.eia.gov/datasets/6547eda91ef84cc386e23397cf834...

It has been 45 years since a >200,000 barrel per day refinery was built in the US.

1998-2015 saw 0 upgrades to existing capacity or new builds. Since 2015, a handful of <50,000 barrel per day refineries have been built, but every single one is in Texas.
Doesn't sound like they controlled for it or even considered it. While they did have a control group that excluded non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, that was solely to control for bias at the extreme ends, and not to control for sober alcoholics or health problems that preclude drinking.

> Our analyses comprise models that include two different sets of control variables. The standard set includes standardized age, standardized age squared standardized height, handedness (right/left/ambidextrous; dummy-coded), sex (female:0, male:1), current smoker status, former light smoker, former heavy smoker, and standardized Townsend index of social deprivation measured at the zip code level62. To control for genetic population structure, the models also include the first 40 genetic principal components63 and county of residence (dummy-coded)62. A second set of extended control variables includes all standard control variables and in addition standardized BMI, standardized educational attainment64, and standardized weight. To determine whether observations at the extreme ends of the drinking distribution bias the estimates of the relationship between alcohol intake and IDPs, we also estimate a model that excludes abstainers and a model that excludes heavy drinkers (i.e., women who reported consuming more than 18 units/week and men who consumed more than 24 units/week), both with standard controls.

Here they talk about the different groupings:

> we bin participants in the following six categories based on average alcohol intake: (1) abstainers, (2) individuals who drank less than one unit/day, (3) individuals who drank between one (included) and two (excluded) units/day (recommended maximal alcohol consumption based on the UK Chief Medical Officers “low-risk” guidelines32), (4) individuals who drank between two (included) and three (excluded) units/day, (5) individuals who drank between three (included) and four (excluded) units/day, and (6) individuals who drank at least four units/day.

Again no mention of sober alcoholics or health problems.

This study: https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/large-study-c... found that while moderate drinkers had better cardiovascular health than non-drinkers, this was due to other lifestyle factors associated with moderate drinking, not the drinking itself.
There is another possibility, he doesn’t actually own those properties. He invested in an LLC that owns those properties. Many passive real estate investors claim they own the property.

I have a few friends who are into passive real estate investing, they claim they own an apartment complex. What they did is they gave money to a group of guys who pooled money got a loan and then bought an apartment complex under an LLC. My friends owns 0.001 percent of the LLC with no operational control of the apartment complex. My understanding they are called real-estate syndicates. It is a scam if you ask me. I don’t think most investors will get good returns on their investment.
The idea of a client or customer list being public information is profoundly ludicrous. It’s the canonical example, as another commenter put it.
> NPM isn't a language.

Fair point! I should have said "Are there any other package managers that focus on reproducible builds?" (Or maybe "ecosystem" would be a better term?)

> you can make your builds reproducible by committing your source code to Git.

That doesn't help when, for example, a TypeScript NPM module is compiled and "released" with only the JavaScript code + `*.d.ts` files. Or, worse, sometimes the release is entirely minified. (I feel like Deno might be tackling this problem, but I'm not sure.)

I agree that checking in the dependencies helps (we do that via Yarn PnP, which has it's own pain points too). It's still not the "end game" solution though like what Nix is targeting.
As much as it's a waste of duplicate effort, it's likely good for humanity and geopolitics to have multiple nation-states each trying their own approaches.

Avoids path lock-in by exploring alternate solutions lines, and ensures that if one country decides to slow down (because politics) then the world doesn't lose its only leading-edge space program.

Healthy competition for the betterment of all!
Yeah, Thats how I get them from Oyez Project.

What I find is that when it comes to the oral arguments, both sides usually have good points that they make, and the cases are usually decided on ideas much grater than the matter at hand. It also becomes clear that almost every case could be resolved with congressional clarification of the laws that they have passed.

The Gell-mann Amnesia is very real. Most SCOTUS reporting is grossly misleading if not factually wrong.

What do you think of the newer justices in oral? Their questions are obviously a different matter than their writing and decisions.

I have been impressed by Gorsuch. Kavanaugh seems to simply grandstand or throw softballs to whatever side he prefers. I haven't heard enough from Barret or Jackson to really form an opinion, although the latter seems prone to grandstanding as well.
So normalise the data first? Your comment literally makes no sense at all.
The claims about Russia cooperating on a space station refer to some hypothetical second station as Tiangong is not at an inclination where Soyuz would be able to reach from where it normally launches.

IIRC there was some speculation that they might work with ESA to launch crewed Soyuz from other locations, but that's obviously going to be completely off the table for a while now. So the only other option they'd have is launching from China, which doesn't really make much sense.

Besides that, recently (mainly after the last guy who ran Roscosmos was 'promoted' to some position related to the Ukraine war) Russia has pulled back on its "we don't need the ISS" rhetoric. Now they claim to be interested in sticking with the station beyond 2024 until their own station is ready, similar to NASA's plan of trying to have the ISS hold out until the 2-3 private space stations in various stages of development/construction are operational.

The issue of course being that it's highly unlikely that Russia will ever finish a replacement space station as their space industry has spent decades in decay struggling to get any non-military projects to make significant progress. Thus it's pretty likely that they won't have a station ready and will effectively lose their crewed spaceflight capability from not having any place to go to with it.
It sounds nice in theory. In practice, what has already happened is that users get bullied by political extremists into blocking instances said extremists don't like, under threat of themselves being defederated. Most instances yield, because getting cut off from the main network defeats the point of running an instance in the first place.

In the end, Mastodon gives users freedom to pool and block content they find disagreeable... as long as they disagree with the same content the activists disagree with. Otherwise, you get branded as undesirable by association, in an "if you're not with us, you're against us" fashion.
I dn, all the pictures of my friends and family and dog look pretty close to reality. I'm not sure I care if a cloud is slightly different, to be honest.
Switching over slowly and let the market adjust. Why must everyone make this argument as some sudden disruptive change?
The author of the original post (Andy Baio) found exactly where the line was. He released a (great) chip tune version of the jazz classic Kind of Blue (named Kind of Bloop), fully handled the music copyrights, and was promptly sued by the cover artist for Kind of Blue who believed that the pixel art cover of Kind of Bloop was not adequately transformative.

https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
he's also quoting himself, which is a little odd
> That's not what a common carrier is. Section 230 doesn't define common carriers or hold common carriers not liable for their users' posts. It has nothing to do with common carriers.

sigh That is literally what they are. Section 230 was enacted specifically to allow internet-adjacent services to avoid being treated as publishers for purposes of user-contributed content despite also engaging in some manner of curation (particularly with respect to removing obscene materials pursuant to the Communications Decency Act). You don't get to pretend they're not operating as a common carrier just because you grepped 47 U.S.C. § 230 and didn't find the
words "Common Carrier" in it.

> Please educate yourself.

This is unnecessarily rude. HN is not Reddit. Please don't condescend like that.

> The law actually recognizes that internet platforms aren't like old media and accommodates their unique constraints.

Except, of course, that they are. You're either some specie of Common Carrier (in which case you aren't liable for what flows through your service), or you're a Publisher. If you want some manner of media via between the two then there needs to be some qualification of what you need to do in order to get the best of both worlds, and right now Section 230 simply doesn't provide that. It allows them to pretend to be a Common Carrier when someone says something outrageous and they want to escape liability for it, and pretend to be a Publisher when someone says something they don't like.

> So do you wanna give Zuck a copy of your passport? Or wait 20 hours until your food pictures are posted? If neither of those sound appealing to you, Section 230 is a good thing.

...or we could just write a new law that allows you to be treated as a Common Carrier but only subject to certain express conditions... which oddly enough is exactly what everyone and their brother has been saying for years now. I for one would be perfectly happy attaching a simple requirement that they not engage in viewpoint discrimination ('editorializing'), but merely remove posts that are off-topic, uncivil, or otherwise of low-quality according to clear, specific, and objectively verifiable standards. Is there some reason we shouldn't want that?
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not terribly; not only is it a hard path to hit (you need the malicious certificate to be issued by a trusted CA) and you have to figure out how to turn a very constrained 4 byte stack buffer overflow into something more powerful. Compiler engineers have been well aware of stack buffer overflows for a long time and so a lot of modern compilers do cheeky things to mitigate these sorts of overflows, ranging from placing these buffers at the bottom of the frame (so a linear overflow doesn't hit anything) to stuff like stack cookies protecting the return address from linear, blind overflows. This isn't to say it's impossible to exploit (as the linked post shows) given some lucky compiler decisions on where other things are placed, but as it stands it's unlikely to be useable as is.
They still are a strength, if you search for a public person by name the blue checkmark still works very well. But if it's commodity where scammers can buy them then the strength is gone.
I stopped twitter during my long covid, and now I do not miss it. I just enter to post updates and keep some followers. I lost sense of why more could be needed!
This is how reporting works. I know Business Insider and believe it is pretty above board. Business Insider is basically citing CNBC, which is pretty above board. These are two of the shrinking list of organizations that actually practice journalism. CNBC, meanwhile, is citing multiple employees who feared to put their names on record for fear of retaliation. CNBC, on top of that, says in the article that they were able to review internal communications.

If that kind of reporting is below the bar for evidence, then a lot of abuses will never see the light of day.
I think strong general AI is coming soon (repost)
Elon's Twitter and Open Source Algorithm
The fundamental knowledge they gained by looking at thousands upon thousands of previous bits of information; and, after today, that collection of insights is going to include auto-generated artwork, as well.
checkmarks ALSO mean you are who you say you are. making them a feature of Twitter Blue (note: one feature of Twitter Blue) eliminates any status that might have been conferred in the past, yes, but it also goes a long way to sorting legitimate from fake users.
I'd just like to mention that if you are considering joining mastodon that you should join an instance with a specific topic and not one of the large generally known ones. You will find a community instead of just a platform, and this is where mastodon shines. There is a tool called joinmastodon which will help.
Association between weight gain and knee osteoarthritis: Review&Meta-Analysis
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I'm not quite sure, does burning it make it less harmful?
You have to admit the same argument in other contexts is a little funny. Like if you were exposed to an industrial pollutant that was shown to reduce your brain mass by 1% I don't think many people would be saying 'do I really need that brain material?' Obviously this is more than a little influenced by enjoying the effects of a drug.
Apple run their ecosystem like the British Empire ran it's trade, it rarely goes outside of it.
That part of the thread pretty much proved that he hasn't thought out this whole scheme at all. He's spitballing in public on twitter
I absolutely loathe those setups in some tiny restaurants where they line up 2 person tables in a row with 6-12" between tables so you can hear the stranger next to you talking more clearly than your partner across the table. Nothing else triggers my unbearable social anxiety like it. I've gotten seated at those when there's, like, an entire half of the restaurant empty.
The old mantra of people only use X% of their brain has been found to be hogwash. We use all of our brain, so I’d be very worried about a poison that even takes 1%.

> The notion that a person uses only 10 percent of their brain is a myth. fMRI scans show that even simple activities require almost all of the brain to be active.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#takeaway
Pleyel too.
He is bluffing.
> Might as well be trying to sell snake oil.

Look at LV 'hyperloop' [0], and people who paid upfront for FSD [1] and are issuing a class action lawsuit and re-think what you just said about 'might.' I think this isn't about Tesla or SpaceX or any specific company he is CEO of as they are all amazing feats of tech/engineering, it's about Elon's horrible PT Barnum type marketing that worked for a bit but has lost all of it's luster at this point.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htJcPEXn040
1: jhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htJcPEXn040
I agree. As of now, the extra dimensions are redundant.

However they are still somewhat useful. By using distance functions I localize sound sources in space but I also turn them into symbols. This helps me keep track of them and I plan on building a set of rules (grammar) for how these symbols can interact.

Now, building the semantically relevant 'spatial symbols' from data is where the real challenge is, and the first step is to actually gather such data. Unfortunately I don't have access to a photogrammetry setup so all I can do is wait for companies/research institutes to make appropriate data accessible.
The alternative is to generate the data synthetically, but you hit a procedural audio generation wall.

>lifting with a kernel

I am not familiar enough with the lifting trick to know whether or not it is relevant to this context, which is that of 'embodying' sounds, and not of classifying them. I think it would be silly to think the 3d space would be sufficient to perform sound source separation and/or music transcription. If I were to add those features I would definitely use existing models(neural nets), which properly leverage much higher dimensional spaces.
I’d argue this isn’t true in sports journalism. A news tweet from Woj, Schefter, Rappoport, or Shams has far more reach than the same content in a random ESPN article or sportscenter segment. Without twitter, a whole world of addicted sports fans would have no idea who those guys are.
>Imagine if youtube creators had to pay instead of be paid.

Isn't that essentially what demonetization is, just without the predictability of a regular monthly bill?

Granted, it's not a perfect 1:1, I just wanted to find an excuse to snipe at YouTube.
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this is such a cynical take
Anyone with a keypair can issue verifiable credentials, and we work on making this simple[0], starting with developers. However, the ultimate challenge will be to be able to associate that keypair to the entity (or abstracted entity) who is making those statements, which is what Web of Trust tried to do, and there are some adjacent efforts to revitalize SPKI-style[1] trust models that are being discussed at RWoT[2].

[0] https://www.spruceid.dev/quickstart

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_public-key_infrastructu...

[2] https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague
Estimated is fantastic. That's almost all I need before deciding who to buy practically identical SaaS from.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it!
Actually better yet, take an immersive design approach, look into enrolling into a short degree by research, and as the uni resources you up on ‘how to do academic research’, polish your tool and pitch it to students and academics from the inside.

I didn’t know this before but if you have an undergrad, you can add a one year honours in research even at a different institution or a two year masters by research.

We’ll that’s how it works in Australia anyways.
Yes, burning methane converts it to CO2, which is much less harmful of a greenhouse gas
> The only way to convince these nations to "go green" is to make green energy cheaper than the alternatives.

Or make greenhouse gas emissions more expensive.

So you set the tariffs proportionnal to the assessed level of greenhouse gas emissions. Set them at a level where governments are incentivised to act to reduce the tariffs.
That's a bit silly in this context. It's not like the person's intentions aren't fairly clear when they decided between buying an iPhone or buying a $3000 DSLR setup. Is it really so evil that Apple "decided" the person who bought the iPhone probably wanted the pictures to be heavily post processed instead of raw data from the sensor?
Income from those that post, from those than read, and from adverts? This is a scam, comparable or superior than academic editorials. I predict it will last less than 5 years.
Where do you get $100-1000 in cost for a major publication? The artists I know easily charge in that range, and that's for private commissions that they retain the rights over.

I could not imagine the custom work done that helps sell publications, *especially MTG or similar* only net $1000 per piece. Certainly they have some sort of royalties contract, at the very least.