skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I went from a job where being oncall meant a LOT of pages but the oncall rota was a follow the sun model and so the oncall shifts just ended up being normal work days where you were just 100% interrupted constantly. I thought this was hell but now that I work at a company with 72 hour long oncall shifts, even though the after-hours page rate is very low (once a month or so), the "always on" feeling is even worse.

I am constantly thinking about how abusive this practice is
I think it's overwhelmingly obvious that the US, or US-aligned forces, were responsible. It's not clear to me who else even has a motive to do this. US has capable forces in the region at the time, a clear motive (remove the temptation for Germany to use the pipeline). The other possibilities are Russia, they could just turn off the pipeline rather than blow it up, Germany, they could just turn off their end of the pipeline without blowing it up, or... Ukraine, Poland, etc I count as "US-aligned" forces.

Then, when you add in that Biden explicitly threatened unilaterally stopping the pipeline, and that threat was subsequently reiterated by the head of the State Department... I have to wonder what evidence would convince people that the US was probably behind the action.
People protest nuclear power because they do not trust the for-profit energy industry to handle waste properly. They expect the power companies to cut costs and process the waste in a slipshod measure that risks exposure to the environment and public.

It's not about green goo leaking into the environment. It's about human failures and flaws in the system we set up.

Solar and wind are cheap. Focus on a renewables-only solution.
I'm not seeing a contradiction. The original claim was that you can't measure robustness without testing live, because you can't reproduce edge cases in a lab. But that's not true; you can reproduce edge cases that are known in a lab. This isn't 100% effective, granted, but it's effective enough that you certainly can test robustness to a reasonable degree. It's like saying that you don't know how safe a car is until you've drive it 100,000 miles on the real roads; Real Life™ will find things you missed in testing, but you can still run enough crashes to get a decent idea of how safe the car is.
It actually seems to be a case study that empirically proves the opposite. Hundreds of thousands dead in the Russian invasion of Ukraine so far, untold injuries. Incredible amounts of destruction of cities and civilian infrastructure. But yet none from an exploding nuclear power plant. Why? Because its not really possible and it serves very little point. If the goal is to terrorize people and inflict damage there are much better ways as has been demonstrated.

> power plant workers fleeing

That is an argument for no power plants with workers anywhere.

In WW2 dams were attacked causing lots of damage. I haven't seen anyone using that as an argument that we should demolish all hydro dams lest they become targets in a future war. Strangely this kind of thinking only applies to nuclear power.

You may find this bit of history interesting: https://www.rferl.org/a/european-remembrance-day-ukraine-lit...
To point out the perhaps obvious, there's nothing in your post that addresses anything presented in the article on the fact or argument level.

"I don't like her and someone she works with" isn't persuasive. On a controversial topic, everyone with a view is going to be disliked by someone - it carries to significance.

I suppose your user name checks out...
ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown options
Even F# uses |> for pipes and Rlang uses <- for assignments. This is not a Elixir only thingy.
I think prices have spiked. Two years ago I installed a new heat pump to replace an old failing 5-ton air conditioner (which was paired with a high efficiency natural gas furnace; I kept the furnace as backup instead of relying on electric strips). It was $6K altogether. Was just going to replace the A/C with a new one, but the differential was $1500 and so I figured why not.

OTOH, a few months ago my stepmother installed minisplits after getting quoted $22K to install a whole-home forced air heat pump (going from no forced air at all, so part of that cost was ducting, though it's a single story ranch house so not terribly difficult).

Somewhere between those two points, prices went insane.
In WWI, Germany attacked France, it's largest trading partner.
Some of the most prolific bull-shitters on the planet are people who claim to have been part of some secret military operation and have inside knowledge in great detail, hinting that they played a major role in the planning and execution. Anyone who served in the military knows this because these elaborate confabulations are the jam of a certain kind of military person. Seymour Hersh is older than my father (85). My father doesn't suffer from any brain diseases but he has definitely declined in mental acuity. Has Mr. Hersh considered retiring? Or can he back up his claims?

I say this as someone who wouldn't be surprised if America was involved
I mean, most ticket systems let you filter by date created or updated... seems like you can ignore stuff that's older than x months.
Russia dismisses the accusations, claiming they are not going to invade Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/540121-russia-denies-plans-invade-...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

“We have repeatedly said that the movement of our armed forces on our own territory should be of no concern to anyone. Russia poses no threat to anyone.”
What do you mean? The phones can dial 911. That's just a fact. Curious young kids have been dialing 911 just to see what happens since before cell phones existed.
I've lived in Seattle for ~10 years and haven't owned a car the entire time. I use public transit, walk, or a Lyft to get around. I live in Belltown (5th and Vine) and in general all the places I need to get to are within walking distance. Even the international district is only ~20-30 minutes walk for me, or I can take the light rail.
Seymour Hersh's sources for My Lai gave their names and went on the record. The soldiers who revealed it went on TV and testified before Congress. I'm pretty sure that he had additional anonymous sources, but to get it published he had to be able to back it up.

Abu Ghraib was uncovered by Amnesty International and the international Red Cross and they had tons of photos.
Can you point me to any significant primarily rust codebase that runs sanitizers? I've never heard of that. Unless you mean miri.
Rust needs an interpreter mode for fast-turnaround of brain dump
Love that post. Sadly, every major tech platform is going thru "enshittification".
But in contrast, the QFC on Broadway in Capital Hill for instance, has no above-ground parking lot. And is very walkable.
I'm not a fan of the set-seed solution. In the past, when I've tested PRNG implementations (Erlang used to not have the ability to have multiple, independently seeded RNGs), my approach was to decide on an acceptable rate of false negatives, and design my test around that. I figured I'd run the test suite no more than 10,000 times, and I wanted a 1/1,000,000 chance of ever seeing a false negative.

I can't remember the exact math I used at the time (I had to crack open a stats textbook), but ultimately it boiled down to generating a bunch of (seed, number of values previously pulled based on that seed, value) tuples, running a linear regression against them, and defining a maximum acceptable R^2 value based on my 10^-30 acceptable probability of a false fail.

When the RNG is not the thing being tested, mocking the RNG to do a sampled sweep through the RNG's output range is typically the correct move.
You'll know the economy is really bad when people brew their own. I make most of my own alcohol and it saves a lot of money.
The problem is that while shadowbanning is a real thing, there are lots of bugs that also appear to be shadowbans and might just be a momentary glitch or an unintended interaction between systems. In Twitter's case, there are multiple different penalties that can apply to account and people refer to them all interchangeably as a "shadowban". And some people claim to be shadowbanned when as far as anyone can tell there's no function in Twitter's system to do it, there's just something weird happening in the infrastructure or algorithms (or it's all imaginary, who can say)
For what it's worth, the Washington Post at least doubts it was Russia (december 2022): https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/21/...
This is why I turn down promotions. A promotion (especially to a management position) means another step toward the sort of work I don't enjoy and don't want to do.
Agree. It's quite possibly, and I say this in full awareness of the scope, one of the biggest own goals in the history of Earth.
Exactly. Companies file and retain patents that aren't defensible or questionable for defensive purposes. Perhaps the patents won't hold up in court but given enough of them you can bankrupt someone before they can prove them all invalid.
Gas heat probably should be tuned up for clean burning every year or two. A heat pump is generally good for years until something breaks. Both systems need filter changes and coil cleaning, which most homeowners can do themselves.

Couple "fun" things about a heat pump; You will smell burning the first time the electric strips are used every year moving into the heating season, it's just dust burning off. Once you start moving into colder weather you might notice the system changing into defrost mode so it can melt ice off of the outside coils. There's a variety of sounds that accompany this and you might even see a bunch of steam coming off of the outside unit. It isn't smoke and it's normal. Every year there's a flood of 911 calls about this.
https://archive.ph/iFCaI
What am I missing here? Unless all the devs were really bad at maths (unlikely if they're game devs) then this seems like a really easy bug to find all things considered?

I thought maybe it was going to be some weird DB glitch or something far upstream from the algorithm selecting which player to attack, but it was literally the logic of the very algorithm you would first look at if you were aware of such an issue.

This was a fun read though. Finding and fixing bugs like this is some of the most satisfying work we do imo, and no one outside of tech understands =)
I love that you're building free educational resources, especially about something like this! If you need help/advice to help build your website, email me (see my profile), I'll be delighted to help pro bono. :)
No, there's not. Virtually all scientists with any knowledge of the relevant science concede that global warming is occurring, largely due to human activity.
Cui prodest? That's the only question that matters, the one people writing articles like this want you to ignore.
Better for the rich, worse for the rest of us.
> 16 million users

Which in shareholders' terms would be practically nothing.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02723

The strong performance of vision transformers on image classification and other vision tasks is often attributed to the design of their multi-head attention layers. However, the extent to which attention is responsible for this strong performance remains unclear.

In this short report, we ask: is the attention layer even necessary?

Specifically, we replace the attention layer in a vision transformer with a feed-forward layer applied over the patch dimension. The resulting architecture is simply a series of feed-forward layers applied over the patch and feature dimensions in an alternating fashion. In experiments on ImageNet, this architecture performs surprisingly well: a ViT/DeiT-base-sized model obtains 74.9\% top-1 accuracy, compared to 77.9\% and 79.9\% for ViT and DeiT respectively.

These results indicate that aspects of vision transformers other than attention, such as the patch embedding, may be more responsible for their strong performance than previously thought. We hope these results prompt the community to spend more time trying to understand why our current models are as effective as they are.
I look forward to the day when we all drive semi trucks to work so that we can journey cross country to stock up on goods and not have to deal with the corrupt long-haul trucking industry.
Minuscule tritium emissions are detected around nuclear power plants all the time, far below the level at which anybody should be concerned.

There was even a case where alarms were sounded when a power plant worker was found to be radioactive due to radon in his home, which triggered detectors at work. The general chemical industry doesn't operate with anything even remotely close to this degree of care.
This technology one can imagine will be used in the future in books about a digital dictatorship , where the author has computers monitor the workers brains in society who are operating airport scanners and other security/important control jobs .... who might be tempted to not follow the dictatorships increasingly crazy rules or for example allow someone/something through in a critical situation that could lead to an attack by the societies people in the name of freedom.

"The culmination of all the above projects. We will consolidate our findings to ultimately reconstruct images from brain activations in real-time (i.e., reconstruct a seen image in a few seconds following perception, while the patient is still being scanned)."
I recently decided to grow hops and was disappointed to learn that most of the varieties I’ve come to prefer are patented and simply unavailable.

I’d love to see breweries become more conscientious about this and make a point of promoting only “open” varieties.
> culling people with higher salaries who are not graded as extraordinary contributors.

This seems like a better way to reduce costs though.

If I got laid off “because we thought you’d quit soon anyways” and I hadn’t given notice already then I’d be quite upset.
Can you share the details about renewables being cost competitive with oil?
And he got exactly the same reaction when he published the Abu Ghraib story. The Pentagon called it nonsense.
Maybe that is more appropriate but it is not the reality of today.
> A government can provide services without expecting them to be profitable

Governments are just collections of people organized by incentives, just like corporations.

In corporations, the profit incentive pushes the organization to minimize the cost of production. At the same time, competition puts a ceiling in prices. Poorly organized, staffed and managed businesses go bankrupt.

In a government, there is no incentive to minimize costs. Next years budget is contingent on isi h all of this years. Leadership positions are politically appointed, not based on competency. Employees are not rewarded with huge bonuses or promotions for competing projects on time or ahead of schedule. Budgets can just be sink holes, as long as they are politically expedient and have the proper messaging. Better ideas are routinely stifled by political agendas, and investment is singular; one department gets all the funding and there is no competition.

Look at Venezuela as an example. When the government nationalized the oil industry, it completely fell apart. Production dropped off hugely.
>then they’ve paid enormous dividends to their shareholders.

Who are themselves.

(Just thought the story would make more sense if I filled in that last part. :-))
Alternatively Krav Maga, which is a modern martial art created by the Israeli Defense Force by mixing together various martial arts (mostly Japanese in origin) into a coherent system that is applicable to modern day battlefield and police usage.
I have seen repeated claims of heat pump CoPs improving over decades. Can anyone summarize or provide links to what improvements are being made? Compressor technology? refrigerants? Fans to move heat? all of the above? Where is the path from here?
No, if you invest you are an investor.

The amount you invest is a quantitative attribute, whether you are an "investor", or not is qualitative.

You could say that a "Professional Investor" is someone whose main income comes from investing. A "Day Trader" for instance.
You wouldn't have thought that unless you thought France had capacity to power Germany just lying around.
Until someone else takes credit for it, I'll take President Joe Biden's threat as evidence. Video link: https://youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM?feature=share
That's good, but if the FAA had been more permissive in allowing automotive-derived engines with electronic fuel injection and ethanol fuel mixes, we could have phased out 100LL back in the 90s.
That matches my experience. All of our older houses around here with oil heat are forced air. Radiators are uncommon. But 'older' in this case is only 100-120 years.
Are cooling blankets a thing? Like, a not-a-scam thing?
I'm so triggered
The source is wrong on very basic details. And the big picture of the story is nonsensical:
1) this is a very very very secret operation that Congress shouldn't be informed about, but a shitton of services - including foreign countries - were involved
2) they laid the mines during... A very public and documented military exercise. They certainly couldn't do it from a nondescript modified fishing vessel, no, they had to make it obvious it was them. But very very very secret operation indeed.

This is just an idiot's idea of a secret military operation.
I'm not sure that prisoners dilemma is the right framing of this problem.

First, there's value in decreasing the viral load of ALL patients regardless of risk, as viral load is likely proportionate to risk of onward transmission. If it decreases onward transmission, then the math would likely favor its use in all cases, since exponential spread gets costly fast.

Second, we continue to focus on hospitalizations and deaths with increasingly poor data and with no focus on disability. Treatment may decrease risk of long covid in non-"high risk" patients, which itself may be beneficial.

Third, while we should expect paxlovid-resistant variants to pop up, the fact that we prescribe it about 4x the rate of molnupiravir and don't see nearly that level mutation should be somewhat comforting. It seems equally plausible that a new "long branch" lineage would pop up with resistance irrespective of evolutionary pressure from paxlovid prescriptions. If that's the case, it'd be a shame to ration its use to only have it go bad anyway (this is basically what we saw happen with all of our monoclonal antibodies).

Fourth, this entire conversation should be less focused on who we deem worthy of one of our last remaining treatments, and more focused on how we're allowing a very quickly mutating virus to spread virtually unchecked and with basically no investment in any further treatment or prevention. None of us need to be prisoners here if we were continuing to invest in new treatments, better vaccines, improved air filtration and ventilation, and paid sick leave.
To replace government controlled currencies, same as always.
It seems to have become a meme because a handful of notable conservatives made a big stink about moving from traditional media to sub stack, and liberal Twitter followed on by attempting to paint substack as the gab of publishing or something.

I agree with you, it’s far from a conservative platform. It’s more so a challenge to traditional media, which I think is threatening to the prominent news types on Twitter.
Apple also contributed to the design of USB-C and were one of the first major adopters.

It’s not all cut and dry unfortunately.
For a (feels like) more balanced view: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-nuclear-power-g...
> I also learned that batteries cannot be recycled.

That's straight up misinformation
A destroyed dam is temporary damage. There are going to be eventually gravely ill Russian soldiers last year because they ignored the warnings in the Chernobyl exclusion area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/ukraine-cher...

> In a particularly ill-advised action, a Russian soldier from a chemical, biological and nuclear protection unit picked up a source of cobalt-60 at one waste storage site with his bare hands, exposing himself to so much radiation in a few seconds that it went off the scales of a Geiger counter, Mr. Simyonov said. It was not clear what happened to the man, he said.

> But in invisible hot spots, some covering an acre or two, some just a few square yards, radiation can soar to thousands of times normal ambient levels.

> A soldier in such a spot would be exposed every hour to what experts consider a safe limit for an entire year, said Mr. Chareyron, the nuclear expert. The most dangerous isotopes in the soil are Cesium 137, Strontium 90 and various isotopes of plutonium. Days or weeks spent in these areas bring a high risk of causing cancer, he said.
Do you really expect anyone involved in this to be unaffiliated with some kind of group?

This is just an ad hominem attack that does nothing to rebut the arguments.
How about we stop this ridiculous nuclear vs. renewables culture war, while fossil fuels are laughing all the way to the bank? Yes, we should build more solar (and even as a 'nuke bro', seeing solar prices drop at the rate they have is one of the genuinely positive news in the otherwise pretty dystopic climate change discourse), we should build more nuclear, we should build wind, we should build more hydro (though not that much potential left), we should build transmission, we should build storage.
I people tend to have a bit of rose tinted glasses on about Apple's software quality of yore. There have always been big stability issues with new features and apps. And they've simply never been good at the UX for anything that involves a network connection or has to sync across multiple systems (besides Safari). The big difference is that more and more computing requires syncing and networking, which is their traditional weak point.
I know you're being sarcastic, but this is a real problem - I haven't seen a new Sherlock Holmes story from Arthur Conan Doyle in at least 5 years, and this is surely. because the anemic copyright protection his early stories received. :D
The RNG was supposed to generate a random number in [0, sum of weights] not [0, num_players].

It's also possible to write a test for this where the behavior in the test accurately tests the wrong behavior. The error is pretty subtle. There was even a “bug” in your summary of the bug ;)
The Open Closed Principle and Planned Extension Points
This is not as true as you think, but it does depend on the specific company. When I've been part of the hiring process at various companies, I've never seen anyone penalized for having been laid off.
I decided to look into the community college claim. Turns out you're right. Sort of. You left out critical information to make it sound bad at face value.

https://edsource.org/updates/newsom-signs-bill-to-ban-most-r....

For starters, remedial courses don't transfer to 4 year universities. Which - coupled with the dead end nature of them - seemed to be a serious impediment for students. Here are some other interesting tidbits:

>AB 1705 builds off a 2017 law, Assembly Bill 705, that said colleges can’t place students in remedial classes unless they are deemed highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework. That bill was brought forward amid research showing that students who took remedial math and English classes often got stuck in those classes and were less likely to finish their degrees.

>The latest bill goes further by limiting colleges to enrolling only certain populations of students in remedial classes, such as English learners and students in some career and technical education programs. It also leaves room for colleges to enroll other students in remedial classes if the colleges can prove, based on a student’s high school grades, that the student is more likely to earn a degree or certificate by starting in the pre-transfer classes.

Sounds like we should be applauding an attempted overhaul of community colleges in california to me.