skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in curtailment. It's a fraught shell game.

I think it's a great idea, but the system needs better controls. Many companies sign up for curtailment for e.g. heat related reasons who have heat based energy needs. When they get the call, they eat the fine and still benefit because the fine is less than the benefit for enrolling in the program.
Why in the world does it track location on iPhone? That is a dealbreaker for me.
If you're so smart, why aren't you someone in an economics model?
I would agree, but right now that square is more akin to being owned by several private companies, each with their own policy which can (and will) throw you out and bar you for any reason they deemed fit.
This is great progress.

Important to note this is not an average effect across all cancers. Some cancers still have terrible outcomes eg pancreatic cancer, GBM, small cell lung cancer, stomach and esophageal cancer, certain types of breast cancer. Advanced colorectal cancer also not great.

The other aspect of this is that death can often be replaced with multiple years of a highly medicalised and sallow existence while receiving cancer therapy.

Point being, we don’t want to lose site of the ultimate goal, which is preventing cancer as much as possible.
I know it was just titles, but I was having a good day on "arxiv vs snarxiv" if I did better than random chance. And that was just a Markov text generator, no fancier AI needed.
Of course, there's more than one way to build a good product.

Personally speaking, I'd say that adding another layer of abstraction onto your stack shouldn't be a dogmatic thing that you just reflexively do without considering the actual needs of a particular project. TypeScript offers some benefits for certain types of complex projects, but also some costs and problems that might not be worth dealing with for certain projects.

It's a little bit like GraphQL in a sense. That's a phenomenal idea...for a product like Facebook...but probably not actually needed for every single project.
Short term complexity can also be long term simplicity. One can make an educated guess of what new requirements might emerge in next half a year and implement a more generic design that accommodates them from get go. If people are really smart, they may anticipate future needs not obvious to others, or they can of course overthink just because they can.
As seamless language translation becomes ever more integrated into our communications, it will matter less and less what languages, much less measurement system people use.
Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers
A very interesting and well-written article.

I'd love to subscribe and see what else the author has, but oddly their blog has no RSS feed. Oh well!
I watched the hit-driven business die from the inside at an entertainment company that produced films and games, and I think the author misdiagnoses the cause as the rise of subscription. Subscription is another symptom. Hits-driven business is dying because you can’t produce hits on a schedule, and if you miss more than a couple times then you’re done.

Even before subscription came around, executives spoke of the need for “more singles and doubles than home runs.” Productions are slated years in advance and creatives are rarely insulated from date-driven delivery. Date driven delivery means something ships on a schedule regardless of quality. Low quality means appeal isn’t as broad. In the scheme of things, subscription revenue doesn’t quite make up for hits when they hit (look at entertainment earnings this last decade) but it’s more predictable and that can be more valuable to publicly traded entertainment companies.

From where I sit in the entertainment industry for the last 20 years, the hits model still exists, but the bets are smaller. You see it among independent, privately owned studios. It’s easier than ever to be independent, but it puts creatives in a spot where they have to put their money where their mouth is. The author wants to work on hits while also pulling a predictable salary. Can’t have it both ways.
In fact, I had my annual checkup earlier this week. Things are looking good.

Heart Rate: 56

Cholesterol: 190

HDL: 70

LDL: 110

Triglycerides: 51

Note that very low cholesterol is associated with increased all-cause mortality -- see Nina Teicholz's book The Big Fat Surprise to learn more about this.
Yep, I made a comment a while back about the difference between a true 10xer and a “cowboy coder” 10xer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18462325
Nintendo 64 Java
Open rates have actually gone up for some privacy-oriented people because Apple’s “Mail Privacy” reports an open for every person using it, regardless of what they do.
Without oil things would be pretty bad around here, to say the least.
Avoiding cancer in the first place matters too. Lung cancer is a lot less common, now that nobody smokes any more. The rate of lung cancer deaths for men has halved since 1991, which itself accounts for half of the overall decline.
The only technology in my home is a printer, and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it starts to make weird noises.
Cool to see that one of the authors of the most cited paper in machine learning also got their start hacking on TI calculators. What a great learning environment that was!
I see an emerging theme of "exercise and spend time with my kids" which is funny because I currently work 32 hours a week and I spend the "extra" time on that. I don't have to work. I do because my project pursues a worthy goal and has its own fulfillment, smart coworkers. If something more worthy came along, that I could actually be good at, I suppose I'd do that instead, whether it made money or not. I'm mostly concerned that I am the problem if I become too cynical, jaded, or depressed to see an opportunity to make the world a better place and go for it. Cutting out social media and reading the book of John, looking at Jesus helps inspire me and keep me focused on what really matters.
All those years of racing, including being in multiple collisions, taught me that it is surprisingly difficult to sink a boat. As long as you can maintain hull and deck integrity, you need a LOT of water inflow in a very short amount of time to eliminate buoyancy.

We were never a good team, but I came away from it with far more confidence being on the water than I started :)
I think VR is cool! Really enjoyed playing a zombie game when I tried it. The cricket thing sounds fun. I can readily conceive more people will use it for niche experiences and use cases will grow.

But you still didn’t address OP’s point. Immersive VR is like being out of the house. You can’t keep an eye on things.

Most people living regular lives have a limited “out of the house” time budget, and would like to spend a good chunk of it on in person experiences or errands or work.

Actually this analysis suggests work has the highest potential to bring in VR, as most people already budget 8-10 hours of “out of house” time for work, so VR isn’t competing with anything except the office environment.
What bothers me is that there's no M2 Mac Mini. 16GB is a bit constraining for me and a 24GB M2 desktop would serve me for hopefully about the same time my current mini (late 2014) did. The current one is still quite snappy, but it's clear it is time for it to retire as my main personal Mac.
what's this white powder residue i've found?
Squabble stalls Australia-to-Asia undersea cable for solar electricity
We could use this to test the peer-review system.
A bad apple here, a bad apple there, pretty soon you are talking about a serious case of bad appleitis [0] (a "disease" when you find anything funny for no reason and cant stop laughing)

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smile%20appl...
In the open ocean these are terrifying and why you must always be vigilant. But it is close to land where they are deadly

The bottom may be exposed by the trough

They may crest breaking over your boat smashing it

In confined waters maintaining heading may not be possible, which is critical
Understanding the threat model isn't an "in-depth security analysis", though. It's just a matter of understanding why you care about secure apps - who you want to be secure from. If you don't know that, then these are just toys, and you're just playing.
The problem is that there was no wind in the coldest days of December when we needed electricity the most. Building more of something that goes to zero when you need it doesn't help. With huge storage capacity, maybe, but even the author of the article doesn't seem to think storage is particularly practical.
Love these! Also check out Didder
https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/didder
https://vladh.net/dithering
I just had my annual checkup earlier this week.

Heart Rate: 56

Cholesterol: 190

HDL: 70

LDL: 110

Triglycerides: 51

Note that very low cholesterol is associated with increased all-cause mortality -- see Nina Teicholz's book The Big Fat Surprise to learn more about this.
That's not an entire summary, I think. The lack of local (or nodal, as it's often called in the US) pricing means that there's comparatively little incentive to build new transmission. The UK is not a large country, and we routinely build much larger transmission lines (if I'm not mistaken, the UK is the geographic size of Texas, where the exact same problem is being solved effectively).
My point is that the medical industry prioritizes treatment of expedient consequences over treatment of root causes, and then they bitch that they're so overworked and overwhelmed.

If they were truly interested in un-clogging their hospitals and clearing their dockets, they'd be actively engaged in treating root causes. Sure, maybe alongside the pharmaceutical interventions, but the focus ought to be on the cause.

To your points:

- Most moderately overweight people do not, in fact, know they are. Humans operate on the basis of visual comparison, not medically significant measurements like BMI or visceral fat measurements. If you look approximately like your other overweight coworkers, friends, etc, then you'll assume you're fine (in the genpop case, HN denizens and other data-driven folks likely excluded).

- Many of those who are morbidly obese to the point it's obvious they're much larger than their peers, are likely blind to the actual health consequences of their behavior. The general population is vaguely aware that being fat is not super healthy, but they have no idea of HOW devastatingly unhealthy the actual medical literature indicates. On top of this, you have HAES/fat-acceptance nutcases convincing huge swathes of the obese population that they are perfectly healthy.
Hmmmm, between Jan 2022 and Jan 2023, Rust has made the largest index jump within the Top 20, from 26 to 18 (8 notches), with all other languages making only single- or double-notch movements. Wonder if it means anything, considering the Change of only +0.11% with 0.61% Ratings.
ChatGPT can produce code too. Therefore I think this may call for something more extreme — at risk of demonstrating my own naïveté about modern science, perhaps only allowing publication after replication, rather than after peer-review?
The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC
If the pull into VR is sold as "<insert social-media-app> but now in VR!" or "shopping cart in VR!" its just not going to catch on.

The phone can be looked away from pretty easily. If they can accomplish that with VR headsets/eyeglasses somehow that could be a tipping point.
This is exactly how I feel right now. In 2 hours I’m going to announce my 1 month notice to my boss. I have no next job lined up, but I do have about 1.5 years of expenses saved up. I am awful at my job, the writing is on the wall, and for months I haven’t found the motivation to care to do better. It’s demoralizing, especially since I consider myself a capable person.
> Even if everything is fake, the code has value for further research.

I'd call that human-computer science partnership. If it checks out, it's not fake. Nonhuman scientists are still scientists.
A Quiet NFT Rally
Thanks for the comment. I definitely feel your concerns.

To clarify, all cloud-oriented features are fully opt-in. For example, you have to explicitly share a block for us to store it in the cloud.

You can also opt-out of telemetry (which we use to determine feature usage and plan our roadmap FWIW). We even have a network log so you can see every network call we make. More details here: https://www.warp.dev/blog/telemetry-now-optional-in-warp
Someone should try to take off 52 weeks.
What do you think of Wickr?
When I hear calls for accountability like this, I wonder if anyone else hears a patronizing subtext: “we are the only ones who act, others are merely acted upon”
Well, have you ever tried to whip with a book as thick as a typical thesaurus?
That seems like a good way to spur early development. I wonder, though — if consumers could actually see the cost benefit of the wind power, might gas have been just priced out of the system by now? (Or relegated to some backup status). (Supposing the transmission infrastructure were upgraded to allow for the higher flow, or England changed its laws to be more in line with economic realities).
You don't even need that: https://github.com/vercel/pkg.

I think there are equivalents in the Python ecosystem.
Ok. Could we get the plans and make a new one, for fun?
That sounds nice. What tablet is that? It's pretty sad that tablets seem to be elongating like phones did. Most of them are 16:10 these days.
This is so true! But we should keep trying :)
They have no idea and are making up numbers
That seems pretty short-sighted of him - atomic shelters come in useful if you're trying to survive your neighbors fighting without getting involved!
It's important to note that often, these taxes aren't imposed on consumers directly, but on distributors. Distributors and retailers just choose to price gouge rather than make a fraction of a cent less per ounce sold.

Even with that in mind, it's easy to say "why do we let megacorps do it"? Well, we don't, not necessarily. They just have the financial and legal resources to impose their will. A pigouvian tax is probably the easiest tool most levels of the US government has to restrict successful vices. Look at that link again. See how much money Coke, Pepsi, etc. were spending in Philadelphia and San Francisco to fight taxes that have solid legal standing. Localities taking action need to make sure they're bulletproof legally, or else the action will be reversed.
Some of the people profiting from oil usage are you and me. We get (relatively) cheap transportation, cheap heating, cheap power, a huge variety of foods without regard to season, cheap vacations, etc, etc.

IMO, it's less "all those other bad people are enjoying running fossil fuel companies" than it is "all of us people are enjoying the benefits of fossil fuel burning".

(I daily an EV; I don't pretend that makes me any better than the average American, which is to say I am substantially worse than the average Earthling.)
Oh, closed source is so much better for autocrats.
They can develop their technology without you knowing what's going on.
With Open Source they have to relate to an open process to get patches and stay current. Otherwise they will fall back and have security issues that only their own staffing can explore.
Let's not forget why closed source is losing.
Sure, I’m talking about the consent though. People are constantly recorded without explicit consent.
I think it can be simultaneously true that things like this should be tested with toy models we wouldn't expect to do great on CIFAR and also that we shouldn't expect exceptional results just because this person is already famous.
Would it have provided any benefit? CRTs have continuously variable brightness. The bottleneck was having large enough video RAM to even store the higher pixel depth, the processing power to draw it, and the bandwidth to do the output.

Circuitry to convert a multi-bit value to a voltage doesn't seem to have been cost prohibitive. Even cheap devices (the predate the Mac) like the Atari 2600 could do that.

I'm actually not sure why they went 1-bit with the Mac. Maybe they felt having more pixels was so important that going monochrome was a reasonable trade-off.

The original NeXT had 2-bit greyscale (black, white, 2 shades of gray), and that looked pretty nice. It also had lots of pixels and was way more expensive.
Getting through peer review is the ultimate Turing test.
I think it has an important difference for ChatGPT - it likes to generate numbers that make absolutely no sense. A human that lies will try to generate sufficiently correct data to convince. ChatGPT often won't even make an attempt to produce values that fit.
It's not even outright scammers. Fast just completely collapsed within months because apparently no one was watching the burnrate.
I just find working with Node to be gross.

Look at this:

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/package.json

but wait...this too:

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/app/packag...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/cli-hydrog...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/cli/packag...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/create-app...

etc, etc, etc

VS

https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/blob/main/Gemfile

What am i missing? Why do you have to rely on all that junk to run a CLI? It feels like people choose Node because creating a Rube Goldberg machine creates job security.
I've been on-and-off curiosity stream(+nebula) and dropout tv, the former for several science/tech/logistics related youtubers' longform content, and the latter for comedy.
While I wouldn't call those categories especially niche, but I've grown to enjoyed their content more than current offerings from netflix and amazon prime to be frankly honest, and I'm all for it.

It seems vimeo found their niche(?) of a market providing white-lable OTT service, which I'd assume makes spinning up a streaming provider for a niche market even simpilier.
> but many eg. game developers use a game engine like Unity or Unreal and never touch the raw API

3D APIs have a lot more uses than game development. Even though I'm also coming out of the game dev world and can understand the reasons, it is a real shame that game engine rendering engineers had so much influence in the design of modern 3D APIs, because it's hard to find a community that's more imprisoned in ivory towers of their own design ;)
You're also guaranteeing that people will be able to try new things where the giant once stood.

The real challenge is how to regulate the death rate.
Since it's relevant to the topic, I'd like to share an open source communication tool I started working on last year: https://chitchatter.im/

Chitchatter does ephemeral P2P messaging, audio and video chat, and file sharing in a serverless manner.
Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment (2013)
Okay, I'll bite. What are the valid and good uses of it?

What's the advantage in burning the entire power consumption of Zaire for a month, just to pay for a tin of beans?
I bought one less than a year ago. I took the budget for a macbook and spent it maxing out a system 76 laptop. Double the memory, over double the storage, ample USB ports, not really sure what's subpar about what I'm using. Best laptop I've ever had by far. Regarding looks, I don't know or care.
I've used ruby/sinatra/passenger/nginx for a few projects -- html/preact/javascript front-end calling into the ruby backend. Sometimes python/flask instead of ruby/sinatra.
are you in US? Thanks.
Were the Canadian banks using US insurance?
I love seeing Cypher growing.

IMO, the best database query language I've used (various SQL's, document DBs, graph DBs).
They sure do like to start over, huh? What's funny is that Slate was canned while still in beta: https://github.com/Shopify/slate#-slate---end-of-support-jan...
I enjoyed the little animation when I tapped on formulas in the hero text.

I think your home page could use some use-case examples. It’s clear how it works, but as an excel veteran an idea for using it didn’t leap out at me.
Do you think they’ll tell you everything they need in one go? Hah :)
> Web site administrators arbitrarily voted positively or negatively (or not at all) as the first comment on more than 100,000 posts. False positive entries led to inflated subsequent scores, whereas false negative initial votes had small long-term effects.

This seems very relevant to HN.

I found a reference to the linked article in the book "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment" by Kahneman, Sibony & Sunstein https://readnoise.com/
I started down the path to be a materials scientist and wound up in embedded hardware, so take my opinions with a big grain of salt.

For self-learning, I don't know if anyone would work through the problems in a statics textbook. Shigley looks good. Thanks for that recommendation.

For heat transfer, I eventually wound up on the bibliography from Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks by Tony Kordyban, which is more focused on cooling electronics. I have Holman's Heat Transfer on my shelf as a result and I can recommend it for self-learning. One big advantage to Holman: he shows how to set up common thermal problems in Excel in an appendix. I would consider recommending a good continuum mechanics book in the place of a fluid mechanics book - I liked Yuan-Cheng Fung's First Course in Continuum Mechanics but I haven't looked at it or anything else in its domain for a while.

Ogata is a good controls text. I don't know if any of them are good for self-learning. I tried and had to take a class to wrap my head around feedback control. Tongue looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
Show HN: HandCalc – A modern tool for building engineering calcs
Motivated by the need to streamline the process of first principle engineering hand calculations and evaluations, we developed HandCalc, a figma and stack-overflow inspired tool. With HandCalc, users can easily create, visualize and share calculations in a single source of truth. The team's first proof-of-concept build is now available for users to try out.

We have found that calculators built in spreadsheets and scripting languages often go unmaintained and eventually are lost, leading to repeated development efforts.

Building these calculators can oftentimes be clunky either hiding the formula (excel), or writing it in a programming language, that while works, does not compare to how it would be visualized on pen and paper, a pain point felt by every engineer and scientist.

Some Feature Highlights:
Build, manage, and share calculators
Compose calculators (gear calcs applied in gearbox design)
Units! (goal to implement unit checking)
Export to Excel, Python, or Onshape parameters
From US to India. DHL charged me that much in past.
Interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about the downvotes to my comment. I think some of yall may be more disturbed than the fellow who I originally replied to.
HPV isn't correlative, it's causative. Additional co-transformation factors may be required, but it is well understood that E6 and E7 proteins directly lead to tumorigenesis. EBV pathogenic mechanisms are more autocrine and therefore a muddier picture, hence correlative.
California is facing a similar issue dealing with its solar duck curve[1], where prices essentially go negative during periods of peak solar generation.

As far as I know residential PG&E customers can't buy energy in spot market prices, or else there could be some innovative arbitrage opportunities, like only running bitcoin miners when power is cheap.

1. https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...
My Asus 1215B (from 2009) also seems to have reached its end, even with XFCE it requires quite some patience and being quite spartan in open windows.
Ask HN: What do you think about stickers on laptops?
It's not just an American thing. Just about everyone who doesn't have kids needs a bigger place when they have kids, whether that's a bigger apartment, palace or mud hut.
Just use a monorepo