skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Annoying sure, but necessary right?

No, not necessary. The key insight here is that the transitions are the hard part. One way to solve this is to write your transitions as a series of asynchronous steps that feed into each other. The end result is an asynchronous chain of operations.

E.g. if you have a video app, playing a video might look like:

1) Read the user metadata from disk.

2) Use the user metadata to make a network request for the video metadata.

3) Deserialize the video metadata on a background thread.

4) Present the video player with the video metadata on the main thread.

You compose each step into a chain of operations. Each step in the chain contains async work as well as logic that “cleans up” the work. So when you want to play a video, your code says “start the complicated video chain.” When you want to stop the video, your code says “stop the video chain.” The chains are a generic sequence of steps, so they can be stopped in the middle. Each step contains its own cleanup logic, so the cleanup of any pending work can happen automatically upon stopping the chain.

tldr: “state” the user is in at any given time is so complex that it’s impossible model with a state machine. It’s easier to think of cascading asynchronous steps instead. A good library for writing this kind of code is called Rx.
I've lost interest in podcasts recently because it feels like the same people are just round-robining from host to host. It's all the same people.. Huberman feels like a lab manufactured podcast meme machine, even the high profile podcasters like Tim Ferris seem to have the same guests as everyone else.
There are a handful of studies showing an association between longer commutes and negative health outcomes, I think down mostly to the lack of exercise in sitting in a car for extended amounts of time. Hard to say if people working from home as a group are getting more or less exercise than baseline (doesn't help if you roll out of bed and then slouch on the couch).
Very convenient way to reduce the number by 66% so your argument has an opportunity to survive.

If you NEED 1 MW, you also NEED 1 MW for backup from a different source. It can be solar or wind 300 miles away, where, perhaps, the weather is different. Yet, you still need 100% backup.

You are all so focused on having a verbally violent argument that you cannot help but deflect with tangential issues and fail any attempt to try to understand and be understood.

There, I just gave you the perfect refutation to my suggestion of using nuclear for backup. Use solar or wind from a few hundred miles away. Perfectly doable? In principle, yes. It requires analysis but it does sound plausible.

I'll give you another refutation to challenge a claim that nuclear power is the solution: While the technology has gotten better and we can build better reactors, hell will freeze over before we build a few more reactors in the US, much less hundreds. A case of "Yeah, that's great. You just can't build them. Ever".

There, that's how you try to have a conversation with someone if you care to actually have one from a basis of respect and the potential of mutual edification. I am so sick of people who use online conversations as free-for-all confrontational battlegrounds. Nobody learns anything other than who might be the biggest jerk or who subscribes to the same mob.

This "conversation" is over.
EVs for land vehicles is a solved problem and is practical for all of them. Hydrogen makes sense for aircraft (though I'd argue artificial jet fuel production from algae makes more sense). Hydrogen has very narrow use cases that make it beat using batteries.
Apple perhaps tried to do this three years ago. Because it's nowhere near on consumer market.
And yet they’re doing it.

This idea that modular code matters is bullshit.

Enterprise fizz buzz or spaghetti nightmare.

Learning things isn’t the point, talent is.

Speaking as someone who used to think this stuff mattered, then realized they’d just been wasting their life, instead of isomorphically rearranging thinking patterns on the deck of the trendtanic.
Been chipping away at this as a side project for many years - Visual Project Planning and Scheduling. Draw on a whiteboard and it makes a levelled schedule for you. It has resources, equipment, and much easier to understand than MS Project.

I have had a blast building it and it is hard to market - but the people that do stumble across and use it, the visual way of planning really resonates with them.

https://www.gameplan.global/
>We have no reason to believe they aren’t lying now about this technology’s feasibility

It'd be a pretty big lie for them to pull off. It's one thing to spend a few million funding some climate change denying think tanks. It's a whole other level of deception to spend hundreds of millions on a technology in the hopes that others will fall for it.

>the carbon emissions in their production process

This seems like the weakest possible argument. Either the chemical reaction they're proposing generates carbon or it doesn't. It's very easy to validate. Are you expecting them to build an entire "green" hydrogen plant that claims to use a process that doesn't produce co2, but is secretly burning oil? That seems extremely risky to pull off and very easy to discover.

>or that any profits wouldn’t be used in part to fund their political lobbying to prevent action or dodge the consequences of their actions.

So you would rather shoot ourselves in the feet (metaphorically) when it comes to the green energy transition, because you can't stand the thought of the bad guys making money in the process? Do you also think that we should drag out the pandemic a bit longer because a bad guy[1] might be making money in process?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer#Legal_issues
Where did that huberman guy come from. Literally on every feed everywhere, ranting about getting good sleep and exercise.

All these podcasters know each other. It may as well be network television
The link to the paper wasn't loading for me. But I would love to see the reasons for extrapolating present-day biology back 250k years?
There was literally an article in the news today about all the problems they are having building a cable from Australia to Singapore

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-23/sun-cable-demise-show...

From the article "Crucially, he argued the subsea cable was likely to be its steepest hurdle, pointing out that it was more than five times longer than the world's biggest, the 767-kilometre Viking link between the UK and Denmark currently under construction"
With all of these layoffs and freezes, how easy is it to be hired in tech?
The Lost finale was definitely disappointing, but at some point it was expected. At some point it became clear that the mystery was just a huge MacGuffin, and the writers had painted themselves into a corner.

I think that taught newer generations of Showrunners to not make the same mistake. Modern shows like Breaking Bad and Dark managed to finish right on time with perfect endings.

(GoT however...)
Is it important for podcasts to have guests? Are podcasts that provide insight or discussion or deep dives into ideas without guests not as valuable as ones with guests? Do you primarily seek out podcasts that have guests?
> But we can transfer most of them to EVs, including nearly the entire light duty vehicle fleet and short haul trucking.

No we can’t. We don’t have the industrial manufacturing capability. Not even by a long shot. And even if we did, we don’t have enough minded minerals to supply the manufactures, and even if we did, we don’t have enough electrical infrastructure to charge all the electric cars.

Note this also applies to hydrogen, and even if we had both, each technology relieving the stress on the manufacturing capability of the other, then we’d still need the infrastructure capable of supplying to both.

The best path forward for immediate success is public transit, using whichever technology is available (hydrogen, battery, overhead wires, diesel, whatever).
Depends on the game. The answer for me is I'm not really interested in flavour of the month online shooter games so it's never been an issue but I know plenty of people who are and just continue to modify their VM until it's not detected - it's always gonna be something you can do to hide from the AC
I'm excited about it's ability to translate natural language into instructions that applications understand. There are many complicated user experiences that could be simplified.
I haven’t seem the words NoCD crack/patch in a loooong time
> provide a valuable service and that value must also be factored in during the decision making process.

100% agree on the value prop of AI. The next decade -- even year -- of AI development is going to be astonishing in terms of what it delivers. I don't think we even understand or appreciate the full scope of what's about to happen.

But there will also be entire categories of old human behaviors and businesses that can now be jammed and made less fun. Social media is just one of them.
This is not the way of original Buddhism
From those tables, 39 of 52 adverse effects for Pfizer and 63 of 87 for Moderna come from this list:

Acute kidney injury

Acute liver injury

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Coagulation disorder

Myocarditis/pericarditis

Other forms of acute cardiac injury

- - - - -

I don’t believe I misrepresented or conflated anything — but if you prefer, that list above is an injury rate of 1/1000 doses. Again, about the excess deaths we mysteriously started seeing in 2021.

In fact, I find you suggesting that a side effect like diarrhea (1 in 52 and 2 in 87) is better representative to be verging on misinformation. The most common was “Other forms of acute cardiac injury” (16 of 52; 26 of 87).
Sweden's death totals per capita are still somewhere around 2x to 3x their neighbors.

Is that a success? Certainly not unequivocally.
Amazing. And your pricing appears not to be recurring. There's a lot of demand for this
> an extremely weak study

Then it is surprising that a reasonably robust journal like Cell Reports Medicine published it (presumably after peer review), and so many Stanford postdocs and associate professors put their name on it
I think this is the right way to look at it. How many cumulative tons of batteries has Toyota shipped to end customers and for how many years have those cars been on the road? This is proportional to the amount of fossil fuel burning foregone. That's a benefit.

Toyota has shipped 20 million hybrids over 25 years. Tesla has shipped 3 million EVs, mostly in the past few years. Which strategy has cumulatively avoided more GHG emissions?
The new models that take depth estimation into account will probably solve this.
What happened to the polar bears
What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?
When AI spits out verbatim the works of an author which it is trained on, that is not transformational, that is plagiarism. Whether it is done by an AI or a human is immaterial. Now we can argue over hundreds of hypothetical situations where AI does produce transformational work that isn’t a derivative, and we would agree that AI can and often does produce transformational work, but that is not what we are arguing over today. We are talking about the cases where AI isn’t transformational and where it is producing derivative works. To claim that AIs never produce derivative works or that all output from an AI is only transformative is foolish when we have countless counter examples popping up every other day.
I assume most blender purchases on Amazon are for "will it blend?" YouTube channels. ;D
https://unherd.com/thepost/study-into-mrna/
Somewhat grim, but this has to be disregarding the humans who never reach the reproductive age or the ones who cannot keep their offspring alive. So there is some survivorship bias baked into the methodology.
Amusingly, I will push back that your take is equally strange. The point is clearly on a pattern of programming. Yes, programming is often creating tools that will have states. That is somewhat banal and doesn't help.

Now, I fully grant that there can easily be an explosion of states. I still find it odd to see so much pushback to trying to force a limit on the number of states that we want to support on a UI. We seem to want to allow any number of inner states to transition on a page at any time, and then we wonder at the complexity of the interfaces that we have built up.
> The vast, vast majority of real numbers cannot be named, not even in principle. Their definitions would have to be infinitely long.

So what? That doesn't stop them from being named.
Yup that is correct. I know what you are talking about. Japanese govt(MITI) is very much involved in Totyota’s future goals.
My 16-year-old remembers a pediatrician's office she hasn't seen since she was 18 months old (we moved across the country). She described it well enough that her dad and I were both convinced. I was shocked.
FBI warns of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest power grid spike
Maybe not served by botnets/malware/adware?
Isn’t that like, an extremely narrow subset of podcasts you’re talking about? Like basically just the longevity+psychedelics+stand-up comedy podcast circle? I don’t see any of those guests on my movie and TV podcasts, for instance.
In fancy areas, Publix is like Wegmans. In less fancy areas, it’s less Wegman-y.

Wegmans is the same way in their hometown. The new ones are in very targeted demographic areas and like a circa 2001 Whole Foods before Amazon made them dumb.
Press the arrow and there are other options like Translate.
thank you, this is interesting.
Yeah, in the article they call a town with between 5,000 and 10,000 a "mid sized city". Completely ridiculous, IMO.

People read misleading statistics that XX% of the population is urban, but that doesn't reflect reality.
How else would you overcome the basic risk of doing anything?
Downside is that your cellphones would also stop working indoors.
This isn’t new, there are open source “artificial pancreases” out there that have been around since at least 2017[1]. It’s good to see more focus and study on this though.

[1] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-source-artificial-pancre...
A decade ago, I had calculated that a startup would need at least $1B (but more likely $4B) of capex to match Google if trying to use conventional crawl/index tech. With conventional tech, quality upper bound is more or less fixed so you are forced to match breadth to compete which is super expensive. With model-based index, you need less than $100M capex to turn on the proverbial flywheel because you can now sacrifice breadth for very different notion of quality. This is a game changer because we will soon see dozen or so strong startups which will chip away the search share, each trying to leverage, cost optimize and improve this tech.
I haven't had interest in podcasts beyond the few occasions I've tried, because I consistently got the sense that a podcast was made in the interest of the creator (as something "low effort"), instead of me as a listener.

It feels like an obligatory side income stream for every "creator" out there, one that only requires them to turn up in front of a microphone and banter once a week. The signal to noise ratio is way off. I don't want to start of with 15 minutes about how the creator's week was.

Nowadays I realise that there are podcasts that are actual "productions" (educational or otherwise), which I would enjoy a lot more. I'm probably missing out on a whole medium. But I haven't come across that many yet.
You conflated adverse events of serious interest with major injury and then conflated major injury with a mortality rate.

I didn't try to pick representative examples of the adverse events, I pointed out blatant discrepancies with your characterization.
There was definitely a fad over the pandemic of people hosting their own podcasts. Multiple people I know started doing it. Super nice people, but they didn’t offer particularly insightful opinions or have great guests. It seemed like a fun thing for a group of friends to do, but I’m not surprised that podcast creation is slowing down.
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They have a long way to go to catch up to the Twitter rightsizing. How many employees does Google need for search and ads? 10K?
Oh there was, and they did keep lots of people on staff. I am on a contract with an airline now and I talked to some gate staff who said they would go to the airport and stand around for 8 hours, but they kept getting paid.

What happened, though, was the Great Resignation. Folks with many years either retired or just left. Many of the folks who worked with passengers quickly got burned out because of all the anti-maskers and generally entitled people ran rampant during the pandemic. Many of them peaced out for less stressful jobs. I've personally met people now working in the HQ who said they would rather quit than go back to airport guest work.

A lot of institutional memory and tacit knowledge walked out the door, taking with it cumulative decades of understanding how to run an airline. Even if the airlines can attract replacements, they'll never recover the knowledge. And the airlines are not making much money, they are scrambling for revenue, hurting with the rising costs of fuel and the consequences of climate change, and can't afford to hire enough people.

Personally, I wonder if the age of wide-spread passenger air travel is over, and if we're going back to the way things were before deregulation, when air travel was for business and the well-off.
Playing devils advocate, what was a worse public health catastrophe in the last 100 years?
Instead of capping company headcount, cap team headcount.
We call many things Buddhism now as a fuzzy shorthand for a plethora of culture and practices that share a heritage and resemble each other. The reason the passage in [1] exists in the canon is because at Buddha's time both extreme indulgence and asceticism were in vogue. As the article makes clear they've continued past his time as well. (Gautama's not yet succeeded in persuading everyone on the wisdom of the middle way.)

I'm reasonably certain you're quite well aware of this. I just wanted to ensure a between the lines meaning was made explicit in the thread. To remind that Buddhism is nested inside a larger contingent, and that this story lies more in that outer part than in.
I remember when all reports were crystal reports which you don't see as much anymore? Excel is on the way out.
Usually I would consider your comment to be a tad too rude for these parts but, perhaps like me, you've encountered this particular person before and hence, I think your comment and any slight, intended or otherwise, is spot on and fully deserved.
>This. The educational system, willingly or just incompetently manages to instill a sense that human intelligence somehow grows monotonically with historical time.

Several remarks here. It is growing with time. Average IQ grows every year such that they have to re-normalize it all the time. This is on a very short timescale though.

Second, there is logic behind an actual theory that prehistoric humans were actually SMARTER then modern day humans. A human back in the day had much more to deal with in order to survive. Nowadays you can get away with working at menial and repetitive jobs. This implies that there is less recent evolutionary pressure for maintaining high intelligence indicating at the possibility of humans becoming stupider in modern times.
I find many of my “work from home” days worryingly sedentary. If I’m slammed with work at home I barely leave the chair. If I’m slammed at work in the office I’m usually running between meetings and going to talk to people at their desk.
If podcasts are like blogs, they will need a crazy amount of time and energy to get off the ground and that’s why we don’t see so many blogs any more. Discoverability is too hard for most individuals to even try for now
Apple Maps leverages yelp for reviews which is a better dataset than google reviews.

And just like above said, google is optimizing for ad revenue not user experience. This opens the door for a competitor to swoop in and offer better results.
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I don't even know who that is, and I listen to plenty of podcasts.
For as much as I love their work, I can’t believe it has never crossed my mind to look and see if these musicians have an online presence.

I’m so glad you’ve shared this and all the other links in this thread. You’ve definitely caused some fanmail to be generated today.
Re my comment in this thread, I realise maybe this is the distinction I should make to find good podcasts. I should look for ones without guests.
I think browsing with JS enabled on HN is against the TOC
A fundamental tenet of much modern science (and, especially, punditry) is that humans have completed the evolutionary process.
A personal story about podcasts is that I usually listen to them during my commute. That means my podcast consumption went way down when the pandemic happened and I started mainly working remotely. I just don't have a defined suitable time for them anymore.

A few weeks ago I was sick and I put on some podcasts as I was resting. Made me realize how much I miss the content.

I wonder how much the radio/podcast industry is reliant on car radios and such.
You didn’t point out any discrepancies:

The data in the table is over 80% major injuries, with heart damage being the primary one — and heart problems like myocarditis have extremely high fatality rates.

I pointed out that the rate of excess death not attributed to COVID is coincidentally about the rate of serious vaccine injuries — which is factually true. Whether we use 1/800 or the 1/1000 from just that subset, listed above.
You get COVID-19 every couple of months - with or without prior illness or vaccination! This is not the case with measles, which has a proven vaccine with few and minor side effects!
> remote keystroke detection

Wait what..? Is it that good? That's even more terrifying
I think they didn't start calling it Mac OS until 7.5 or so. Before that it was "system 7", "system 6", etc.
First small modular reactor gets certification from Nuclear Reg Commission