skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But does it have the beefy smell which will be very odd in baked goods that is not savory, like bread? I recently broke down a tenderloin and came away with nearly 3 pounds of clean beef fat: pure white, firm, no connective tissue. I thought of freezing it but couldn't come up with an application, and it would be one more half-ass attempt to up-cycle something that has no modern use, so I chucked it. It's supposed to be very good for fries, but I have reclaimed duck fat for fries already. There's also a lingering doubt in my mind whether or not animal fat, especially beef fat, in our diet contributes to arterial plaque and :waves hands: things like that.
> coastal bombardment (and air strikes) with cruise missiles

Submarine-launched missiles, in a diverse navy, can launch from underwater. That's great for stealth. It's terrible for budget. A submarine-only fleet would need to surface to economically attempt coastal bombardment and air defence.

That said, I'm not sure what fraction of e.g. the U.S. Navy's submarine missiles are capable of subsurface dispatchment.
Yup, this is the one thing that struck me wrong in the essay.

After spending multiple paragraphs about how they found that they had to dig much deeper into the background of every exec, getting 10+ references from reports, peers, and their managers, and developing specific lists of red flags . . .they end the section with: "Takeaway: Always trust your gut on people. "

Yes, for sure, if you 'gut' tells you something is off about someone, seriously consider and trust that also, but what was really effective was not gut-trusting, but gathering more hard data and observations to evaluate.

Just seems like the author didn't really think it through.
I know a certain govt web services that only operate during working hours (0800-1700). You can't even fill online form outside the hours.
Mastodon works okay for reading and writing 10–1000 word pieces, but it does start to work badly at 10_000 or 100_000 words, where you want more granular addressability, and where reading is better with an explicit choice of which piece to read. But I feel like most Medium pieces are closer to 1000 words than to 10_000. And there are Fediverse participants (like Write Freely, mentioned asidethread) that are focused more on those longer pieces.
A couple possibilities. It could be competition from other countries with a different mix (e.g., the price in the UK has to compete with other countries or it'd be exported to the degree possible)

Power is also sold (ok, not sure about the UK) at the market price. So the most expensive generation needed to meet demand determines the market price. So even if gas is a small portion of the generation it could still determine the price.
The voters in the 70s and 80s did, sure. But as this article explains, those voters were withheld crucial information that could have informed their voting choices.

2010 was the first election I was eligible to vote in, and in the past decade+ I (and many others) have not voted for pro-oil/coal/fracking/etc candidates. Yet we're the ones that are (and will continue to) live with the consequences of Big Oil's actions from decades ago.
Without defending their wording, I think the absolute best case for nationalizing a firm is one where the industry is based off of natural resources, vital to the public in the short term, and detrimental to the public in the long term.
Interesting that his balance sheet in this blog entry doesn’t include the $8 billion “poorly labeled fiat@ account” from the earlier sheet floating around in November: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-...
Just because it's in your best interest to fuck over the world doesn't mean it's morally justifiable. The fact is that the people profiting from Big Oil would have still been plenty rich enough if they did campaign against their own product, so their choice to withhold this information can only be attributed to plain greed.

We don't expect murderers to turn themselves in, we pay police forces to find them. But it's not hypocritical to call murderers evil, and it's not unreasonable to expect that people should not murder.
I'm begging you, just use a language that compiles to a single binary. It can self update in place, be easily installed on developer machines and CI pipelines without requiring a whole additional toolchain in every container. Google, Heroku, AWS, Shopify all do and it's an awful developer experience.
Knowingly cause millions or billions of deaths and destroy the planet, or not make as much money short-term and pivot the industry to something else.

Yeah, tough choice.
Psychologist Hired to Go Through Man's Personal History And Give Feedback
I get the idea but I'm not sure I agree on the example. To me, writing a legal document and translating from legalese seems like something an AI would be great at.

An example like a novel would be something I agree more with since I don't see that happening at the moment.
I think that anyone interested in HW<>SW product models should look to this amazing company as a case study that flies counter to current "wisdom:"

https://www.fractalaudio.com/

They make the highest end guitar audio processing unit and are constantly providing free SW updates that greatly enhance the unit. No subscription BS.
You want remote babysitting?
Benefits are part of worker compensation. It's things they don't have to pay for themselves, hence money in their pocket.
> A managers hire A people, B people hire C etc

If that is the case, how do the B people get jobs in the first place? Who hires them?
Most code does not last long.

I have found that someone that is adding complexity is usually showing off, board, does not understand the requirement, is missing something. I usually curb my own natural tendency to do this by saying 'what is the bare min to do this one thing'. Then write what would need to be done in the comments if we wanted it to do those other 'cool 5 things'. Also if you are using scrum or kanban it is a good place to add a story to say 'lets do those 5 things'. Then see if it ever gets any traction. You can write amazing cool code. But most of the time 3 people will ever us it and they will only use it for that one thing they wanted in the first place.

I have been writing code for 25+ years now. My exp is similar to yours. Very little code survives. One proj I worked on if you still wanted to write on it you would need to know watcom SQL (sybase), MFC 4.0, win98s version of win32, and the quirks of those 3 systems. NO one is going to want to work on that sort of project unless there are many zeros on the per hour cost. That was not a small project either with well over 500 modules and hundreds of screens. I have watched project after project either killed or re-written. Code in most cases does not last that long. Of course there are some exceptions. But that is rare, the common path is most code does not last long.
Good luck! I've found any cli with any kind of runtime dependency other than maybe sh eventually becomes difficult to run. I think they all tend to end up getting packaged with an isolated copy (node/ruby/python) of whatever runtime they need.
Souyz isn't intended to land in Russia.
What about WhatsApp…?
If you look past your snide remarks, breathtaking was a quote from Geoffrey Supran who is a Research Fellow in the History of Science at Harvard and has a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering.

So i think that says more about your biases than anything about the reporters who have liberal arts degrees.
Until 1993, French headlights had to be "selective yellow" (practically orange). They're still around.

Very jarring to see in person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow
PSA: The singleton context configuration is probably the most disgusting thing I've seen in Ruby culture. Please do not bring this practice to node -- I've already witnessed this crime in shopify SDKs and stripe.
It's literally a quote in the article hence the quotation marks.
The price of electricity in the UK is linked to the most costly supply in the entire mix. So if gas is the most expensive then we pay all other power-producing suppliers, regardless of means of generating, the wholesale price we'd pay for gas. It's a strange system.
Just a reminder that journalists typically don't write their own headlines. You can blame copy editors for the "breathtaking" liberties they often take with the source material.
Tobacco is a good one actually. A legendary statistician, IIRC Fisher(?), came up with a bunch of reasons why the statistics might not show causality. As in, how do we know it isn't just people who were at higher risk of dying that smoked? He had a whole bunch of these statistical critical thinking type objections that are all very valid from an epistemological point of view.

Climate change actually has the same. There's a bunch of stats and a bunch of "yeah but what if" things that have been dealt with over the years.
CarSherpas Launches Series A Funding Round to Accelerate Growth
HOUSTON - Jan. 12, 2023 -- CarSherpas, the Innovative Marketing and Lead Generation Platform for Car Dealerships, Announces Series A Funding Round

Houston,TX – CarSherpas, the leading marketing and lead generation platform for car dealerships, announced today that it is seeking to raise a series A round of funding. The funds will be used to accelerate the company's growth and to further develop its proprietary technology.

CarSherpas, which was founded in 2019, helps car dealerships increase their sales and reach more potential buyers, while keeping advertising and lead generation costs down. Its platform uses a three-step process: Locate, Engage, and Convert, to connect with active buyers and showcase car dealerships' full inventory. Additionally, its advanced predictive algorithms are designed to present potential customers with a selection of cars from a dealership's inventory that they would be interested in, even if they weren't actively searching for a car yet.

"We are excited to announce our series A funding round," said Nick Collado, founder of CarSherpas. "Car dealerships are facing a highly competitive market, and our platform provides them with the tools and expertise they need to succeed. With this funding, we will be able to accelerate our growth and develop new features that will help our clients stay ahead of the competition."

The company plans to use the funds to scale its sales and marketing efforts, as well as to hire key personnel to support its growth. In addition, CarSherpas will use the funds to further develop its proprietary technology, including its predictive algorithms, which are designed to present potential customers with a selection of cars from a dealership's inventory that they would be interested in.

CarSherpas has already received interest from a number of venture capital firms and is currently in talks with several potential investors.

About CarSherpas
CarSherpas is a marketing and lead generation platform for car dealerships. Its platform uses a three-step process: Locate, Engage, and Convert, to connect with active buyers and showcase car dealexrships' full inventory. Additionally, its advanced predictive algorithms are designed to present potential customers with a selection of cars from a dealership's inventory that they would be interested in, even if they weren't actively searching for a car yet.

www.CarSherpas.Com
1-800-674-9521
Nick@CarSherpas.Com
They could have pivoted to more climate-friendly energy production
Is Primer good? I only watched it twice, I don't know the story.
Who *really* is the mainstream media?
Some related links (specifically that they perform "high school" algebra on types):

- Seven trees in one [0], a paper showing a bijection between binary trees and seven-tuples of binary trees.

- The algebra of algebraic data types [1] discusses Taylor expansions of data types.

- Differentiation of higher-order types [2] is commenting on OP's paper.

I used to be really interested in type theory, but haven't had as much time to explore it, but over the years I've saved these links (and the one posted).

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9405205.pdf

[1]: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/algebra-and-calcu...

[2]: http://conal.net/blog/posts/differentiation-of-higher-order-...
if carnot diagram is drawn, it will show nothing cheap.
try to recall thermal dynamics taught many years ago.
heat pump works well when the exterior temp differ not much from interior temp.
Namely for places like Cal and Tex, still the winters need heating.
if it is freezing temperature, much energy will be spent on the mechanical part. Literally an electric heater but maybe less efficient than an interior heater by your knee. Not very logically coherent. Recall the professor's words.

thermal dynamics is a very chilling subject, basically demysterifying fundamnetally and establish a solid view of engineering. Its experiments were repeated by millions of engineering students, the rules derived still hold firmly on earth so far.
Niron Magnetics – powerful, rare earth-free permanent magnets
Oh there will be plenty of beers consumed to balance out all the sport.
This is a great exercise because it gets into the practicalities of engineering being a /team sport/ not a /solo sport/.

Many otherwise strong engineers who have developed strong muscles for solo engineering get into trouble when those "big muscles" aren't trained to the same degree the "stabilizer muscles" are. And so when they need to optimize for flexibility or applied "mental strength" they can do things that hurt themselves or those around them.

It's important to give them the tools to understand the additional constraints on the problems they are trying to solve, and moreover, to empower them to take responsibility for the struggles of the team, and not just their own struggles. That way, it's not a "me vs them" dynamic. Additionally and more critically, if they struggle with this exercise, it will make it very clear where they need more mentorship.

For what it's worth, having these strong "stabilizer" muscles alongside "big" muscles instead of just "big" muscles in and of themselves is, in my book, what separates a strong mid level engineer from a strong senior engineer and beyond.
It is unproven that it can be done profitably at scale.
> For Big Oil to start campaigning against their own product?

I know people who prioritize ethics & morality tend not to get promoted too high, but that doesn't mean we should blanket forgive decision makers at oil companies for sweeping such a huge problem under the rug for as long as possible. The positive example of what to do instead would be to communicate the issue as soon as possible, not cover it up, and then pivot into the work of moving away from fossil fuel dependence.
The requirement to detect something fake is quite easy, and we knew it for a long time: publish all data code and everything to make the expriments reproducible.

Even if everything is fake, the code has value for further research.

It would be nice to have that as a minimun standard at this point, as I would prefer to see much less publications that can be trusted more than the current situation.
that's not even remotely the issue. Money may buy you access but it doesn't magically buy you votes. People could easily kick every oil lobbyist out.

The genuine reason is that citizens are not willing to internalize the costs of their pollution and change their habits. Cheap gas, big cars, big houses, cheap Big Macs, cheap plane tickets is what the people vote for. Big Oil just supplies the juice.
Discovered via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34356851. See also https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne...
The maintenance funding being gutted by 40% seems like the bigger contributing factor here
Yeah, I read a lot of these "cloud is expensive" posts and I wonder: did you ever run a real on-prem data center with 24/7 staffing for both the hardware and the software? When you compute the fully loaded costs (and the opportunity value of being able to scale) cloud is really not obscenely expensive, although (as many others report) premier services definitely are priced to make a fat profit for amazon.

I spend in cloud to ensure we're not the bottleneck in the org- we pay our scientists, engineers, and labs far more money than we spend on cloud.
The goal of therapy should be to get you to a point where you can quit. The therapist's goal may or may not be (I prefer the "may not be") to get you to a point where you can quit. I am not saying that it is in the interest of therapists to keep someone in therapy, and thus pay them, for as long as possible, but at the same time there seems to be, especially for some therapists, an almost endless reservoir of people who have been led to believe that talk therapy is much more useful than it is empirically. I don't think that the majority of therapists are worried about losing a paying customer due to a significant improvement in their mental condition.

The therapist provides a service with some practice that hopefully leads to some goal, but without excessive professional and emotional investment in the outcome of therapy. After the 50th minute of the session, however, you are on your own.
Nit: For those saying the US uses Imperial units. It doesn't.

The US uses something called US Customary Units:

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

Both US Customary & Imperial derived from British units but they have always had large differences. There was an effort to reconcile the two but it was an abandoned when Europe decided to adopt the metric system.

Still differences remain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
>When will those responsible be held accountable

You have sown the revolving door and now you reap its harvest.

Nobody will be held to account so long as the institutions that would be doing the holding have a massive overlap in relevant skills, subject matter and therefore, personnel (especially at the management levels where these sorts of decisions get made).
Thanks! Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359383
Before going for the snark, you could have noticed that ‶breathtakingly″ is in quotes, because it is part of a citation of the expert mentioned in the article.

The only choice here has been to put it in the title.
> For Big Oil to start campaigning against their own product?

Yes!

Surely we all have a responsibility to our own _species_. If you're making something that you discover harms the species then you should change course. This company would have massive head start and could own the inevitable future of green energy if they took action then

Laws are like the immune system for humanity, this is exactly the scenario it makes sense for laws to prevent
Ham, bread, etc.. have all gone up 30%. Which means at least half of the 60% increase in the price of eggs can be attributed to inflation. That is significant.
I don’t understand. Doesn’t the author list give that away ;-) ?

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36549229/)
> Or did Sapiens do well in the ~HN/Silicon Valley community because of some other underlying reason?

The knowledge gained from the study of historical linguistics, and from there the structure of natural language itself, was foundational to the creation of formal language theory, and from there the creation of the programming languages that we use today, which would not exist if not for the creation of generative grammars.

In that sense, there is a very direct link (down to specific people like Noam Chomsky who researched both natural language and computation) between natural linguistics and computer science.
Could you explain why being South Indian Brahmin is significant here?
> When will those responsible be held accountable for helping to advance the destruction of climate and the immense loss of life and property that climate change has brought?

When it is no longer profitable to destroy the climate.
The behavior is archaic though. I've mentioned this in comments before, but the design really only makes sense if you look back at how macOS used to work. Only one application would be running at a time. To get to another application (including Finder), you had to quit the running application. In that context, it's a bit more reasonable to have an application running without any windows.
Show HN: Hoshi, a little fun Star battle puzzle with daily challenges
Hoshi is a little puzzle app I created in my spare time. The underlying game principle is called "Star Battle" or "Two not Touch". In a normal 2 star game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars, but stars are not allowed to touch (even not diagonally).

One of the biggest challenges in the development was the algorithm for generating the puzzles. In complexity theory it is one of the NP-Hard problems. Simulated Annealing with Z3 was the approach that worked out for me.
The % of the US population that dies every year from cancer has dramatically reduced. The % the US population that is detected to have cancer is up dramatically.

The rate of people getting cancer in the US is a different question, but presumably it’s been increasing due to the aging population independent of other causes. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...
Is Tesla luxury? I was surprised the first time I sat in a Model 3 how "normal" it was. OK, it had a massive screen, but the materials were no where near as nice as my 2019 Lexus and some were downright tacky.
But that presupposes we can actually supply enough electricity to where it's needed. We already hitting the limits, thus the curtailment and burning gas. Adding more capacity unless it's in the right place doesn't solve the issue.
Yes, it is absolutely very popular, that's not what we're talking about here.

The problem is that given a random person off the street, how can you figure out which messenger apps you have in common? And assuming everyone outside the US uses WhatsApp like the grandparent poster I replied to did, doesn't work.
You need more money than barely surviving... Again, you greatly overestimate how much Starbucks pays workers.
> I'm begging you, just use a language that compiles to a single binary. It can self update in place

Is there a library that does self updating in place for binaries? Go is the langage that comes to mind when talking about single binary, so maybe a go library?
Congress says the Army can’t spend $400M buying Microsoft HoloLens headsets
Isn't that the reason we have trusted scientific peer review journals? I mean, why trust a paper that hasn't been vetted by a trusted source? The same is true in news media - I don't give any stock to news content that isn't published by a well-trusted source (and I do pay for subscriptions, e.g. AAAS, Financial Times, etc., for that very reason). I guess I don't understand the concern - the world has always been filled with junk information and we have tried and true systems in place already to deal with it.
Preachin' to the choir buddy. Suggestion was for the grandparent post who wanted a better shell for windows.
>We have legislative bodies that we literally elect and pay to do this job.

>Let’s stop the hypocrisy and look ourselves in the mirror.

[Modern electoral] Democracy doesn't really work that way. About 2/3 of people vote in the general election. Around 1/5 vote in the primaries. Maybe 1% actually sign petitions to put candidates in the primaries.

"We the people" only directly influence the last step of the process, in so doing contributing about one bit of information per candidate in a two-party system. Public perception and conversation is a key mediator between the public and everything else about the candidates who ultimately run for office. This kind of "outrage" is not contrary to the democratic process; it is an essential part of the process.
Author of the article here

Electricity prices in the UK (and most other places) are set by the marginal unit, which is the most expensive unit that needs to be turned on to meet demand. All other generation for that time period gets paid the same price. The marginal unit in the UK is usually gas, hence the sensitivity to gas prices