skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps because it was always possible to do tiered lockdowns in a way that avoided these negative side effects but the only criticism I ever saw was "lockdown bad because covid is fake, don't get vaccinated." I'm not going to poke through your post history but on HN I never saw a good faith solutions-oriented criticism to lockdown measures.

That's conflating wildly different/disjoint beliefs into a single bucket. I have always thought lockdowns (of the type done by some European countries, UK, New Zealand, Australia, China) were a wildly disproportionate measure, and were doing more harm than good, but I also never thought COVID was "fake", and enthusiastically got vaccinated as soon as I could. An overall reduction of harm would have been achieved by simply not doing those lockdowns, in my opinion.

> From what I saw of the rest of the world COVID lockdown responses were really weird, though. In Taiwan we also had lockdowns but they seemed quite sensible (though parts were absurd). [...]

Similarly in southeast Asian countries I was in during the pandemic, most of the time outdoor activities were possible with sensible precautions. But it's also the case that people tend to have a more cohesive community, with extended family around, etc, which makes lockdowns more tolerable (as long as they're not the extreme kind of "do not leave your house for any reason" lockdown). That kind of local community cohesion is often not there in larger cities in Europe/US, so if your usual social activities (pub, cafe, organised events) are banned, you might not be left with much.
The mythical figure.
Where were there prolonged lockdowns?
This is civil law, it is defined in existing laws. If I can sue the content originator on their own then that has already been decided as harmful by the law. The constitution does not contain all laws.
It's probably better, but I'd just as soon take the money back as a shareholder.
> The government regularly uses taxpayer funds to bail out or support failing private corporations anyway,

IMHO this shouldn't happen. It's one of the most annoying ideological inconsistencies I find among the Republican party.

The political rhetoric centers on eliminating or reducing government regulations and privatization. Ok cool, it can be good in many sectors. There's a lot to be said about avoiding large bloated bureaucracies and undue government interference. However then as soon as the big banks or other big businesses get into trouble after engaging in risky behavior they're as eager as the Democrats to bail them out (well at least their favorites).

Personally I do believe in fiscal responsibility, and think it applies even more so at large corporate levels. You didn't plan and save enough in the boom times and spent record profits to do stock buybacks? Well perhaps your company should go into chapter 11 bankruptcy.

I think people don't realize that when a big business like say American Airlines goes into bankruptcy, it's rare that the airline and jobs will disappear. It often means the management of the company is booted with a chance for new ownership more competent management to take over. That's as it should be, IMHO. It's the weeding mechanism for free markets.

> so it's already our problem when private companies go into debt, why not force out the profit-seeking middle man?

That's generally not worked too well, unless it's fixed infrastructure like power, water, etc and those seem to work best at a state or county level. Then they're still structured as corporations, just ones that are publicly owned and locally managed.
Did you use a 3rd party for handling booking?
I don't doubt that it's difficult. I would hope that the people investing large sums into it know what they're doing. I guess we'll find out.
Just because the bad guys already has some power doesn’t mean we should be making things even easier for them.
Remember like three weeks ago when the twitter files showed US congress texting and calling back and forth with the heads of major corporations? About how congress was polling in response to those corporations' actions and what they were both gonna do about it?

Yeah no one else does either.
Oh, give me a break. They were pointing out the absurdity of the position I was responding to with my tongue-in-cheek comment: anyone can say they did some analysis and produce “data”, but it’s hogwash if they don’t release the data that analysis was done on. Especially if the entity doing the analysis is a freaking company with a huge incentive to fudge the data, and a track record of dishonesty and hype bordering on fraud. It’s completely preposterous to claim with a straight face that Tesla has released safety “data” in any meaningful sense here.
no problem just don't get me started on the 'side projects'
One large LNG carrier of class Q-Max carries 260000 m3 of liquefied gas. If we stitch to hydrogen, that contains 2.2 million gigajoules of energy, which is 614 GWh, or a bit more than 25 GWd. If we assume a conversion efficiency of 60%, then that's about 15 GWd of electricity after taking into account all the losses. If one carrier arrives every 15 days, then this can produce a sustained 1 GW of electricity, which is about the same as a full size nuclear reactor. The transit from Australia to Japan takes about 30 days, so it would take 4 carriers to arrange for 1 to reach Japan once every 15 days. Such a carrier costs about $200 MM, so you get to invest about $1 BN to get a sustained 1GW of electricity in Japan.

How does this compare to submarine power cables? [1] is an example of a 1200 km power cable that will cost about $1 BN for a capacity of 2 GW. This power cable will be across the Mediterranean Sea, much shallower than the Pacific, but let's ignore that. The distance between Australia and Japan is about 6800 km, so you'd need a cable 5 times longer than the one above. This would translate in about $2.5 BN of capital investment per 1 GW of electricity.

[1] https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/power-cable/a-1-208km-e...
Wouldn’t be hard to make a combinator with function pointers in C.

I do it regularly. They compose well (and you can pass them state for context).
At this point, the idea that fossil fuel companies are actually interested in trying to help save the planet in any way more than is mandated by law and public opinion is not supported by evidence. They have shown, time and again, that they will lie about science, falsify documents, and try to get laws changed to allow them to pollute without limits. They have lost all benefit of the doubt.

Anyone trying to argue that they have any genuine interest in helping to save the planet is making an extraordinary claim, and needs to back it up with extraordinary evidence.
Why? Are most grocery stores not already operating on razor thin margins?

What basis are you extending to the government an abuse of it's power? Are there not still already numerous other options existing in the same location, sometimes even being directly across the street from each other?

I don't understand why so many want to be under the boot of city/state/federal, and everything in between. It's mind boggling.

I think people need to be more honest, is the success of the US in spite of the government, or is it because of the government that we are who we are today, and further the future. I will concede all my politics from that point if we can give a direct answer. And not the bullshit weasel answer where it is 'both', it can't be, one operates and limits the other overwhelmingly by force, that is not cooperation, that is coercion.
Japan together with South Korea was a leader in NiMH and Lithium based battery chemistry during this period. So that wasn't the reason.
To begin with, it's going to be hard to extract the impact of lockdowns on elective health care from the impact of overflowing hospitals on elective health care.
Been playing with chatgpt for awhile, it does a good job at making small bash/perl linux programs and turning howto's into bulletpoint lists.

I've seen it wrong on book details like characters and motivations, even when wikipedia and goodreads shows its wrong. Actually calling me out as clearly wrong until I pasted the wikipedia article. No idea if it reads the wiki articles or just said Sorry.

Its really bad in some areas, programmed to avoid details about communism like motivation, genocide and death totals. Think its avoids placing blame in its design. So history appears to be a weakness.

Asked it write stories, and it cant think outside the box much, its really limited to the input of what you tell it.

Even including stable diffusion, I think artists and writers wont have any major competition.

Document writers will be the first to be replaced. I suspect it can scan code and write documents and git comments well enough. Anything document parsing related will be the best area for instant use.
It’s been several years since I began but it’s been an amazing experience given I’ve always wanted to do something entrepreneurial. I feel a lot happier knowing that I can help clients advise them on technology and bring solutions to their problems. Happy to have a chat anytime.
Hire to fire is fairly common.

If a layoff is inevitable, It is common in many set ups for managers to hire people new people whom they would want to let go instead of their top dogs who've been rocking their projects for years.
A rare inverted confidentally incorrect, when someone claims (incorrectly and with great confidence) that someone else is confidently incorrect.
Whoops fixed thanks!!
> Because I bet that their idea of 'egalitarian' only includes castes like priests and kings, but not men & women

According to the book, some included both.
> Also, if your game is running at 60FPS

in 2000 i had a CRT that could do 75fps, my current screens are 144 and 240 respectively.. 60 is a little bit passé
Related:

The 88x31 GIF Collection - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500624 - June 2021 (124 comments)
Determinism from inputs was basically a part of QuakeWorld, and how the "VCR" system in id Tech 1 worked. You could replay sessions because the inputs were what were networked, not other state. They're selling 24-year-old tech. :)
There was little crypto fraud this year, other than the usual hacks. All the big stories were good old regular fraud by centralized companies that you also see in the fintech space. None of this was enabled by crypto. The problem is that most people don't understand the difference. It was just fraud, not crypto fraud. It's like saying that Theranos is "blood test fraud" and thus we should ban all blood testing. The fact that some founder scammed customers and investors has nothing to do with the market.
I’d argue the best way to do that is to write stateless code and let the compiler figure out how to make it fast
Type 2 diabetes is curable with an 8 week change in diet. Not everything needs to be another app or machine or about generating revenue by making you a lifelong patient.

Sometimes just looking after yourself properly is all you need.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/12/type-2-...

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/type-2-rever...
> I feel like just a couple of years ago people were saying that Tesla was a decade ahead of "legacy" automakers.

I saw a fair amount of that but it seemed to be more a reflection of Musk’s success at building an online fan club than sober analysis. The car people I know were bearish, noting that electric cars are relatively easy to build. The outlier was FSD, which would have been much harder to match if it hadn’t been at least a decade premature.
My userstyle to make Amazon less shitty has gotten huge, you might want to borrow some of it: https://pastebin.com/ERMijJgc

(this is only partial!)
Factually, the majority of excess death is no longer COVID-attributed. We’re either missing another modality by which COVID kills — or there’s another cause.

That’s according to the OECD mortality figures.

https://zmichaelgehlke.com/images/covid-mortality.png

We know from re-analysis of the mRNA trials that their major injury rate is at least 1 in 800.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYR1wz-Cf_M

And just coincidentally, 1/800 times the 500M doses in the US is very close to what a 10% increase in mortality (blue line) would be for two years — about 300,000 deaths a year. But I’m sure that it’s a coincidence that our non-COVID-attributed excess death matches the serious injury rate of mRNA vaccines and begins around the same period (purple line going below black line in 21Q2).
The Census definitions of “urban” and “rural” are pretty amusing. They count “urban clusters” above 2,500 people as urban and not rural. So Sibley Iowa, where my wife went to high school, doesn’t count as “rural” because it has 2,860 people. Even though colloquially almost everyone would consider all of northwest Iowa to be “rural as fuck” and the nearest real city, Sioux Falls South Dakota, is 70 miles away.
Bhattacharya is also a vaccine skeptic (or, at least, an mRNA vaccine skeptic), so if you're taking him seriously on public policy, flip a coin.
"Tesla has failed to produce a battery EV semi truck" is not strong evidence that it is impossible to produce one. Tesla has been having quite a bit of trouble in recent years, as its not-a-founder-but-wants-you-to-think-he-is makes promises reality can't deliver.

Now, it may be that you're right—that battery-powered semi trucks are unfeasible to build.

But a) this doesn't mean we should go all-in on hydrogen, either, and b) maybe what this really means is that we need to eliminate the semi truck as a common feature of our roads, and do most of our cross-country shipping by rail, which is massively more efficient no matter what means you use to power it. (Yes, that requires more investment in our rail infrastructure, but that would also be a very good thing on several levels.)
There is a double standard here because any back of the envelope calculation for migrating the entire fleet of any sizeable country with battery electric cars will also turn out to be an impossible task with current technology and industrial manufacturing capabilities.

If your standard of passing as a technology is that it has to replace the current one in its entirety, you’ll always find it lacking, even with battery electric cars.

No, to stop fossil fuel pollution we need many technologies to come together, a lot of infrastructure and some societal change to happen gradually while not to slowly.

Indeed all the current battery electric cars (even adding every one that will be produced this year) are only providing a tiny relief for the climate disaster relatively speaking (if any). I bet that you don’t have to add together many bus and metro lines in Mexico and Brazil to sum up to all the electric cars in terms of climate relief.
Get ready to drive to Auburn or Bellevue for groceries not from Kroger!

The closing of Red Apple Market in the Central District, HT Oak Tree on Aurora, Viet Wah on MLK, Safeway in Greenwood, and QFC pulling out of the construction of the location on Stone Way has added up. Losing money in this industry is really easy, stocking a grocery store aisle can cost $100k to $300k.

New Seasons pulled out of Ballard (too far from their distribution network), and the Target in Ballard blows chunks (paid parking, angry staff, everything is locked, self checkouts that have damaged hardware).

The smaller players (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, PCC, Metropolitan Market) are often reliant on wholesalers operated by Safeway or Kroger, as major brands like Nabisco don't want to negotiate with each retailer and handle fulfillment, and the cost of dealing with wholesalers from other regions can kill a business (just look at the death of Island Pacific in the old Viet Wah space as an example).
Interesting... Do you have refs for that?
Hey, thanks for letting me know, I'm looking into it
It's 39$ for 110 photos.
Most shareholders would be happy if they could average a 14% return.
One thing opposition to any chemical electricity storage (hydrogen and other fuels) doesn't answer is: _how to transfer electricity across distances?_

HVDC are typically presented as the solution, but even if technically possible, they do not seem to actually materialize. Constant cooperation and reliance between countries for their energy seems like a bad idea in 2023. There are numerous solar project plans stuck because of lack of such transmission lines.

We did not start our current energy infrastructure with expensive pipelines. We started with batched shipments (tankers), and when supply and demand were stable enough we built a gas pipeline. Not sure why electricity requires the optimal solution or nothing.
Hydrogen will be the only thing that will work for long-haul aviation and large scale container shipping, in the form of ammonia (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/nilsrokke/2021/10/05/ammonia-a-... ). that isn't synthetic fuel which is ridiculously inefficient to produce from electricity, even more so than hydrogen. Japan being an island, this might be important to them. Zero Avia (http://www.zeroavia.com) is the leader in the hydrogen aviation space currently.

The other thing about hydrogen is that you can refuel quickly. Otherwise, you're going to need a ridiculous number of charging stations to have the same amount of transportation just to deal with charging time alone. Can you imagine how long it would take to refuel a long-haul container ship and/or what kind of electricity infrastructure would be needed for that?
Just had a quick look at Luigi Auriemma's website[1] to see if he had any CVEs listed - he found a ton of interesting bugs in video games - I used to follow his work closely when I was running game servers as they often could end up impacting us & figured if anyone had some it'd be him, but surprisingly don't see any listed!

1. https://aluigi.altervista.org/index.htm
To see if ECC is working try overclocking the RAM if possible and looking for EDAC errors (they'll show up in dmesg) or from running edac-util. Eventually you should see something reported.
I think you lowballed that by a factor of 10
A fundamental problem with this approach is it is managing the end points of the insulin system while ignoring the start points. And you intake sugars your body will digest them and absorb through the gut into the bloodstream. As the level raises your body needs to burn or store the glucose to keep the blood level within safe ranges. One option is to store the glucose as glycogen primarily in muscle tissue and insulin is a part of the signal for this process. Another option is to convert the sugar to fat for storage, again using insulin as a signal. In the first case you have a fairly low limit (about 500g in muscle, another 100g in the liver, for an adult male of average size) and once this is full you can't use this pathway to store any more glucose. You then have to shunt all the remaining glucose into your fat cells by converting it into fats.

So if you have someone who has a chronically high intake of sugars, complex or simple, they will eventually fill their muscle reserves and be storing further sugar as fat. This will always require insulin to activate the glucose storage pathways and this will escalate over time if the level is high enough. Adding more insulin is a solution in the very acute timeframe, but chronically it is just escalating the problem.

The better solution is to reduce the intake of sugars. This means that you need less insulin to manage it, you don't increase resistance to insulin over time, and you don't progress diabetes. You can add fats in place of the sugar for energy and they burn and store without using huge amounts of insulin, so you keep the overall insulin load low and reduce the need for supplemental insulin.

Someone who is a type 2 diabetic may be able to reduce to zero supplemental insulin with a low enough sugar diet. They may also over time reduce their insulin resistance to the point where there is no diagnostic marker of diabetes at all, such as hba1c, fasting insulin/glucose, etc. Along with the markers much of the secondary harm is able to halt or reverse depending on the damage. You won't undo blindness but joint pain, neuropathy, excessive urination, fatigue, muscle wastage, and so on are all modifiable by ongoing diet. Making their insulin level higher to compensate for the diet is a temporary solution but if you don't deal with the diet it is just putting off the solution to the problem.
I don't disagree, but I don't think it's fair to lump AWS in with the rest of Amazon's side projects.

If we're comparing Amazon and Google you almost have to compare AWS to Google search since AWS is driving a huge part of their profits.
I would recommend David Schmitz's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWgRw5jiYy0

While I don't agree with many of his points (riffs on Erlang/Elixir are silly), there is still some good hints in the talk.

Hope it helps =)
Your intuitive understanding is an illusion.
Lithium is not a rare earth metal (neither is cobalt). There is actually quite a lot of it, but it's evenly distributed so needs a lot of demand to be worth extracting from seawater. On the other hand, if we got a lot of cheap lithium we could use it to improve everyone's mental health like those fluoride conspiracy theories.

Notably people think Tesla gets lithium from Bolivia because Elon made a joke about it once, but I think it actually comes from Australia.
Ordinarily there's no reason why you would "attack" the game, so things only get found if a significant community arises for the game which would benefit, e.g. speed running Mario 64 is a thing, so figuring out weird details of the engine is crucial to the best possible times in categories which allow you to break the game to win.

For a Remote Code Execution bug like this it only makes sense if it's a popular multiplayer game, so that there are enough targets to be worth attacking, for long enough after release that you can identify a bug and figure out how to abuse it.

GTA V is like a decade old at this point, there a very few games with that sort of longevity, we're talking Minecraft, WoW, big hits rather than the average video game.
Ask HN: Was there another event like 2007 “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0”?
This [1], for me, was - by far - the most interesting event of such a scale and with such an extraordinary purpose, which I was able to watch completely, bringing so many extraordinary people together. Right after this - from among the speakers - I derived a list of scientists I decided to follow, then got and keep getting their books and monitoring their published studies, as personal interest (outside my unrelated professional career).

[1] http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-enlightenment-2-0
I wasn't able to find the bacteria species used in the mice from the original paper, because the original paper is behind a paywall. Sci-Hub did not have the full paper as of yet.
Once more popular,there is a method called "programmed learning" where, based upon your answers to intermittent test questions, you might repeat a lesson or move ahead. Or, private tutors who would handle multiple subjects were once(?) more of a thing. Seems to me there is a brakthrough level of potential here, so ... yes.

Will the potential be realized, be cost-effective for the masses, etc? Not so sure.
The EV semi is in testing with real loads and works fine.
For long term energy storage (seasonal) hydrogen is vastly cheaper than batteries.