skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the info. Like another commenter, I worry about a fire that starts when my EV is charging, which would burn my house down. I have never worried about a turned-off ICE vehicle burning down my house.

Are the odds of an in-garage, turned-off fire greater for ICE vehicles also, or is that risk mostly on the EV side? I realize it is not a huge risk either way, but I have actually considered parking our EV in our driveway to eliminate small, but non-zero risk of house-burning catastrophe.
"ready for the level of risk in the COVID response as a routine thing"

Are patients ready for that level of risk? Are children ready for that level of risk? Outside of emergencies, does anything justify that level of risk?

"We see the strategies that work in Asia and maybe eventually in Africa - if you let capitalism happen it has powerful enough results"

So Asia is capitalist? But other countries are not capitalist? This sentence seems to imply that America is not capitalist but Asia is capitalist. I've seen this kind of writing before. Without a rigorous definition of "capitalism" then this kind of thing quickly becomes "capitalism is all the stuff that I agree with and socialism is all the stuff that I disagree with."

"if you let capitalism happen it has powerful enough results at a such speed vs. central planning that it can be rightly called a miracle"

This suggests that capitalism is the opposite of central planning, but we could clearly design a highly decentralized version of Communism:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-pragmatic-co...
> I am saying yes, Trump was less popular than Romney in 2012.

Huh?

> I don’t know what you’re getting at for the rest.

Obviously.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan got 54,455,075 votes. In 2020, Trump got 74,223,975 votes, 20 million more than Reagan (and 13 million more than Mitt Romney). By a measure of raw votes, Trump is much more popular than Reagan.

But of course that's highly misleading, because the US population was smaller in 1984, and the voter turnout was smaller. Reagan won a landslide reelection of 49 states (except Minnesota, home state of his opponent Walter Mondale) and 59% of the vote, whereas Trump got only 47% of the vote and lost.

So when you say "Biden won the most votes of any American in history", that's not meaningful by itself, because the US population is larger now than ever, and the 2020 election turnout was unusually high. Biden only got 51% of the vote, which was much smaller than Reagan and also smaller than Obama in 2008, not to mention smaller that George Bush in 1988.

Most votes in history is not a meaningful measure of popularity. How many votes did George Washington get? FDR? You can't compare raw vote totals when the population itself changes.
British cars stereotypically have electric issues, but I didn’t think that still happened.
In-person schooling and youth suicide: Evidence from calendars, school closures
You can work with embeddings.
Speaking of Pinboard.
I don’t think this is always true. I enjoyed reading before school forced me to, and while I mildly resented being forced to read something I didn’t particularly want to read, it never made me enjoy reading less.

I also read a few books I otherwise would’ve never picked up that ended up very interesting.
https://archive.ph/itpRl
Maybe AI will result in technology that will allow us to make that shit dehydrator for $100,000 instead of a billion.

That's what I mean when I say as technology increases, resources required decreases.
I think you’re misreading what I said. I’m not talking about predicting what they’re about to say, I’m talking about correcting priors that you know are wrong.

If someone starts with “here’s what we can do in 3 days” and you know only 1 day is available, that’s the perfect moment to spend 10 seconds correcting an assumption. No incorrect predictions necessary.
Okay, we can disagree on whether the feature is better or worse, but I think we agree they didn't make windows less sticky.
Sustaining 20k people in Antarctica isn’t a problem people can’t solve, it just isn’t at all useful. Sustaining a colony on mars would be useful to mitigate planetary scale natural disasters. The problem is humans as we exist bow are not likely to either spend the resources necessary or take the risks necessary to colonize mars for a long term and uncertain risk mitigation.

We can’t even get a large % of humans to stop buying SUVs with vastly excess horsepower to avoid ruining our planet in a relatively short time frame.

The societal/political problems seem larger to me than the engineering ones, which are just a matter of effort.
> So the idea that "humans does not need blah" is not correct, because you don't know what humans need.

Thing is, we do know what humans need. We need better battery technology, improved drugs and mental health, better power generation (such as nuclear fusion), and much more. Why spend so much time developing technology that may be useful but probably not, instead of developing something that is desperately needed right now?
I _plan_ on doing this as well. What resources will you use (besides the Ableton tutorial)?
> most people would absolutely be against anything that would ruin it

Until there's a dollar to be made exploiting it.
> Mars is disconnected from Earth's biosphere. To most people, we wouldn't be ruining anything ecologically important or otherwise sacred by colonising it and bending it to our needs.

I'm sure colons back in the day thought something similar about "the new world". There are so many questions we need to answer first.

How are we going to terraform Mars? What kind of technology are we going to use to change the thermo-chemical properties of an entire planet? What impact is it going to have with its magnetic fields, its gravity, and its orbit? How are humans going to evolve to live there? Slight endocrine disruptors are making people infertile, what would living in another planet cause?

The solar system is an ecological system, just like Earth. Introducing massive changes like that is bound to come back to bite us. This kind of mindset in the past caused tremendous damages to our current ecosystem. Are we really ready to play god with the solar system?
The point is to not kill everything there. So that, one, it gets to live to become whatever it's going to be, and two, it's still there for us to visit if we can ever figure out how to do so without killing it.
I agree with the central thesis of the article (I didn't watch the video...), that PLG is basically inevitable for developer tools, particularly given the way that devs push for adoption of tools that they personally like from within an organization. Cloudflare has done a particularly good job of this, and as upstarts, I'm really optimstic about stuff like Tailscale and Fly.io

But I also think that startups and VCs alike are going to have be a LOT more reasonable when it comes to valuations. You can build very sustainable, profitable businesses with PLG, but it does usually require burning a lot of money up front, and won't likely end in a Cloudflare scale home run. And I've seen firsthand how just getting a _little_ bit wrong with your free vs. premium tiers can result in some significant and unforeseen infra charges.
You learn first how to responsibly visit.
5. Make sure you didn't forget the pin to your Ledger wallet and you still have your magic words printed somewhere or in the Keepass file you haven't unlocked -- all in several years.

Coinbase is lower risk here. There are more things that can go wrong in process or memory than the above than Coinbase going belly up or getting fully hacked.
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It'd be cool if we stopped building weapons that could kill 3 billion people within a couple hours.
It was edited https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1609746341760217088?s=46&...
More specifically: interrupting to advance or clarify what a speaker is saying is very, very different from interrupting to redirect a conversation (especially interrupting to change topic to the interrupter's preference).

Interrupts from an active, engaged listener are usually received positively.
I use software to help build the lists quickly. They're still hand-picked, though, because an automated solution tends to come up with a lot of duds (e.g. threads with no interesting commments).
Depends on what would kill everyone on earth. More importantly, if everyone on earth dies having a 100,000 people living on Mars isn’t enough they also all die.
retractionwatch.com and .org monitor retracted papers, and they publish plugins for Zotero and similar tools.
"Some of the reasons for exploring space, when there are numerous social problems on earth, were described recently by Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Associate Director of Science at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville. His beliefs were expressed in his reply to a letter from Sister Mary Jucunda, O.P., a nun who works among starving natives of Zambia, Africa."

Source: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730015241/downloads/19...

HTML: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/

"Space flight, without any doubt, is playing exactly this role. The voyage to Mars will certainly not be a direct source of food for the hungry. However, it will lead to so many new technologies and capabilities that the spinoffs from this project alone will be worth many times the cost of its implementation."
I don't want to risk being identifiable. It's not incoming data, but data that's pre-filled by users.

For our purposes it means having to manually merge a text file containing the longer data with a copy and past of the shorter cell-based data. Doing a mass find-replace to tidy the data. Uploading the new file to an analysis tool. And ultimately looking at a data analysis. The drawback of the workaround is that the longer data lines are no longer organized by user ID and sub-organized alphanumerically. But for our purposes that's just a minor annoyance.

We have split the analysis between multiple cells before, but this leads to another form of annoyance when manually viewing the analysis.
Advancing technology for space exploration purposes has shown to overlap significantly with "practical" applications.
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I have written anything because it's hard to describe. I'm sort of working on it. As for books, I didn't think I had any but just realized I went through a phase where I read nothing but Arctic and Antarctic exploration books. I related to the extremes we find ourselves in and the fear we feel when we realize there is no hope of rescue should something go wrong and it seems highly likely something will go wrong.

This one is my favorite:

The Worst Journey in the World

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

But I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention Shackleton's amazing expeditions
Do you have an EV?

I’ve had one for a year and I’m at the point where I don’t think 2 minute fill-ups matter at all.

As long as you have reasonable range (~200mi) most people will never drive it in a day. All you have to do is charge it while you’re sleeping* and you’re golden.

That leaves road trips. A 45 minute charge gets kind of annoying. But vehicles/chargers are getting better. I’m pretty sure there are 20 minute or less vehicles. That’s a fine number, but every bit helps.

Unless you’re driving a long distance every day without stopping much home charging is 98% of your “fill-ups”. And as long as you have a Level 2 charger speed doesn’t matter too much.

* Can’t charge at home? Don’t buy an EV. Until we have apartment/street charging worked out so everyone can charge overnight EVs won’t be ready for everyone.
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Interesting story on Lake Tahoe. I've lived in Reno for quite a few years now and my wife and I never go to Lake Tahoe anymore, even though it is a 30-45 minute drive, and is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth. There are just too many people - it is amazing how crowded the entire area has become.
How's it for edgy libertarians? (asking for someone I know)
It's not a zero sum game. Working on space tech does not preclude working on earth tech. I mean how many smart engineers in tech right now are working on improving advertising? And you're upset about a relative handful of engineers working on space tech?
To preserve environments as they exist without (further) human interventions. There are plenty of examples of that right here on Earth, let alone outer space.

Personally, part of me hopes humanity never figures out how to get away from Earth and spread to other planets. An untouched rest of the universe seems far more valuable than one tainted with humans, at least to this particular jaded homo sapien.
Budgets are always going to be finite, and eventually you will have to choose. Until we run out of space to explore with robots, we don't really need to send out humans.
Do you have ANY substantiation for Twitter being a coorporate failure or are you just parotting the biggest Twitter competitors (newspapers)?
I'm not sure about that. America similarly diverted billions of dollars to land men on the Moon. It barely made a dent in the balance of the Cold War.
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It allows me to turn the volume down on things. So many things actually matter very little. Also, it allowed me to see things a bit more clearly. For example, all forms of categorization and measurement are somewhat arbitrary (no matter how useful). Another one I got from this is that meaning is assigned and not found as it exists only in the mind. Or, another favorite of mine, concepts don’t really exist. Like meaning or measurement, they are useful but not real.
If a single mission to mars cost $100b, then I would agree with the article that it would probably not be worth it.

SpaceX is focused on reducing the cost, and no matter what you think of Elon, you have to agree that spacex focus on reusability in the falcon 9 has reduced their cost of access to space

The problem is that reducing spacex’s cost doesn’t reduce the customer’s cost… until there are competitors that can push the price down.

The focus on starship ultimately will reduce costs an order of magnitude again, and will permit vast payloads to mars.

Why does this matter? Because much of the cost of engineering of space missions is in custom making things to be light, power efficient and reliable.

If you can take more mass into space for less cost, you can add more solar panels into your design, make things more rugged, use off-the-shelf materials and you can double or triple the quantity for redundancy. Not only the launch costs go down, but all the associated engineering.
My expectation was that "stay at home" increased isolation and loneliness, which in turn increased suicide. Their data says that my expectation is wrong - it didn't increase suicide.

The abstract hints that bullying is the issue, and bullying is a lot harder when everyone's staying at home. Was the isolation not that bad? Or is it just that the bullying was worse?

Their data says that suicides rise in August, when everyone returns to school. Over and over here we've seen claims that school is really unhealthy; these people have data that confirms it.
He value truth more that the jobs of the former employees at Twitter.

The Twitter files tell us about the level of corruption going on with real implication on the live of way more people that the select few that worked at Twitter.
And yet every single discussion about space exploration (including this one) is full of people espousing the hypothetical “we, humanity” as though it were a singular entity capable of making decisions. This kind of fanciful thinking is a reliable tell that a person belongs to the “religion” mentioned in TFA.
Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project at substantial risk of failure
I was surprised by this inaccuracy too. But was impressed when I learnt that there is no analog wristwatch that can match this accuracy - they are all far far worse. (Isn't it shocking that all those super-expensive Rolexes and whatnot are all going off by minutes per month!) Get one of the Casio watches that syncs to atomic clock radio signals every night - it will be second-accurate all the time.
$500B over 25 years is $20B per year. This represents 0.05% of the G7 economy - basically noise. Let's get on with it.
This is so alien to me.

I've got linux on half a dozen machines around the house, and all I do to install is decide whether to use ubuntu or debian, then run the install and get a working system spat out in little time.

Hackintoshes require a lot of thought and preparation and things like (for example) nvidia graphics cannot work, and intel wifi is problematic (I see there is an alpha driver now).

What "basic OS functionality" are you talking about that needs terminal commands, tutorials and config files?
There’s no great point to having 20k in Antarctica. Becoming a multiplanet species does have a great long term point, but it’s more of a thousand year vision than a five year vision. Many of Mars’ shortcomings can be improved upon but they’re slow and take a lot of scale. Open bodies of water and a breathable atmosphere are entirely possible and more of an challenge of developing the scale than solving a scientific obstacle.

If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it, but don’t stand in the way of people who want to try.
Was just going to say, just have both?
The article gets the numbers right but the human part absolutely wrong. I'd love it if humans were the kind of creatures that could make big advances by taking them one small boring step at a time with no unachievably ambitious end goal driving them forward, but that's absolutely not how it works.

The first advances in science were made by people trying to get rich turning worthless metals into gold. A lot of computer science grunt-work in decades past was done by or funded by people who thought they could build C-3PO.

Reasonable people who avoid likely financial ruin, who don't dream of building impossible machines or visiting other planets, simply don't take the risks needed to make actual technological leaps. Reasonable scientific goals that can't make headlines don't get billions from Congress.

We're not capable of building Mars colonies any time soon, that's true, but who knows what we'll invent as we blunder our way in that direction nonetheless?
There are also many very good publicly funded radio stations out there. Shout out to WNRN in central Virginia.
There is no "need" with exploring. Just do both. We'll learn more about living on other planets if we actually do it.
I like concept of using virtual dress for real fashion. Challenge will be getting it accepted among masses.

Custom fit is OK, there are various other players in this market what is your USP ?
> the CCTV footage was eventually recovered and showed nobody entering the cell.

Source? I haven't heard or seen this.
Would be useless if the snow is actually deep ?
Are you sure?

"'I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned..."

This is not a wholesale dismissal of the entire domain. That so many people interpret it that way is a psychological phenomenon in itself.
You can also cater for Mens fashion, i think demand would be there for custom fit tee's , shirts etc
Would you be OK with Hillary as president? If yes, give approval; if not, don't. Order of preference simply doesn't matter in approval voting. The only reason it seems complicated is because we are too used to strategic voting in the First Past the Post system.

I recently had the occasion to really game out what happens in ranked choice voting. It is similar to approval voting (you should only rank people to approve of), but in practice you elect whoever gets past the 50% threshold first, which may not be whoever had the most raw approval. The first person past 50% is effectively random, especially in a large field with complicated voter preferences. So, you get an illusion of choice: everyone lists their preference, but the actual winner is a somewhat random choice amongst the candidates with >50% approval. Thus, I advocate removing the illusion, and simply picking the candidate with the greatest approval. Easy.
> We use next js but is in the process of migrating the backend code to a node service

Would you mind sharing why? I'm curious because I'm building a Next.js-powered Slack app currently.
Well, why waste money on probes? Why do basic research science that hasn't produced notable products? W

That's the slippery slope.

I do agree:

1) government funding won't produce the end result.

2) real space stationd or lunar stations make more sense

I think we should let the economics of the starship rocket play out before planning anything. The starship rocket, if it achieves it's goals, changes the equation of staging equipment in low orbit.

That will eventually filter through the industry.
“Experimental psychology” might be a bigger field than you imagine.

It includes tons of work characterizing sensory perception. These studies tend to replicate pretty well and they have a pretty broad range of real-world applications: psychoacoustic models for audio compression, principles like pop-out and serial/parallel search that inform user interfaces, color reproduction. In fact, psychophysical experiments pinned down the properties of cone cells over a hundred years before they were directly measured.

Psychometrics, the study of test/assessment design, also shows up all over the place: education, obviously, but also marketing and other forms of evaluation.
We can conserve it, study it, and make replicas for misbehaving tourists. See Lascaux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux
>Welcome to reality. You'll laugh now, but if you want to hold something of lasting value, that's kinda how it works.

Yeah, when I own a bunch of equity, real estate and other intangible rights, I do my best to fit them all into my back pocket too.

Sure sucks trying to fit a few hundred acres of well placed development ready subdivisions in my jeans, though.
> why aren't people doing this already on the Balleny Islands?

How would you make these islands habitable, including having a good atmosphere, without affecting the rest of Earth's ecosystem in undesirable ways?

That's one major difference. A goal of terraforming mars might actually be easier than terraforming remote islands on earth because:

A. It's an isolated system

B. We can afford to fail
I appreciate your comment. While I think my snow tires have helped on ice, I'm hesitant to make a broad claim about them without quantitative evidence to back me up. And I certainly take all precautions if there might be ice, ranging from slowing down a lot, to staying home.

Now, I love my carbide studded bicycle tires. Those definitely do work on ice. But once again, staying upright on ice involves a combination of those tires and other precautions such as slowing down.
https://archive.ph/Q6Gty
Birth rates in general have declined in that same timeframe... no conclusion can be drawn.

Props on the expert level propaganda that went into that article though.

You can't go a few lines without seeing some of the more subtle psychological blindspots being employed, flawed argumentation, or false assumption being made and pushed as truth.

Innocuous but a work of real evil if you are aware enough to see it.
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