skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tsunami will have huge effect on the coast but minimal effect on Portland and Seattle. Even Astoria, on Columbia mouth, and Victoria, on Strait of Juan de Fuca won’t be affected much.

Also, the quake wont be that bad in Portland and Seattle. The fault is pretty far off shore and it will feel more like a 7 in Portland. A 7 that goes on for minutes so liquefaction will be a problem. Most buildings will survive, only unreinforced masonry and liquifcation areas will collapse.

The big problem is that the infrastructure is old and will fail. Most bridges and all the utility crosssings. Which means no water and power for months. But infrastructure can be upgraded. It would be possible to make Portland and Seattle like Tokyo in 2011 quake which was very similar to Cascadia quake.
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its blindingly obvious that there is no somewhat immediate BIG problems, but who knows?

But as a thought experiment, what would realistically happen if irrefutable evidence came on the table that RF to the levels of what phonetowers, other peoples cellphones within say... 5 meters distance etc, had negative health effects.

Would people be able to demand all RF to that level be stopped? could they sue those who do it? (tv stations, phone towers, regular cellphone owners)

if those working as regulators saw the reports, and had a chance to suppress or recommend we cease all modern communication, what do we realistically expect them to do?

I think its beyond naive to think that anything would be changed before a solution/fix were to exist, and it also seems very naive to think that anyone who presents evidence of substantial negative effects would be allowed to publish anywhere of consequence.
bfloat16 is probably familiar only to ML practitioners; it's a reduced precision floating point format designed for ML models. I was surprised to learn that the "b" stands for "brain", as in the team at google that developed it along with many other advances in machine learning.
I asked you to quote something from the article that you disagree with. Given it’s apparently so bad, this should not be difficult.

Edit: Also maybe refrain from irrelevant nonsense like the following:

> Now if you think that doing annual exams is harmful and catching diseases early is harmful and everyone believes it OK, humanity believed earth is flat for a long time. Doctors believed covid is nothing, you can find videos of doctors saying that early etc. Skip doctor, go only when you have pain brother.
For straightforward analytics queries, 20gb is well within what is possible to process on a single well specced machine. I would recommend storing the data on disk in parquet format and taking a look at duckdb or polars for processing it.

Obs this advice depends a bit on exactly the type of data, but as generic advice it's probably the simplest place to start
Maybe I'm missing something, but is this basically saying treating disease doesn't improve outcomes?
Right but if you want simple why not "just" use markdown (with maybe HTML support cut off?). Why make something subtly-similar-but-incompatble ?

If you want protocol to be light and low on bandwidth, why would you not include at least the simplest of caching semantics ?

It is just bad design decision after bad design decision
What do you mean? Statistics and ML is used in astrophotography regularly. For example, the famous black hole “photo” [1].

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-i...
Is there a printed copy of this book that we can buy?
of course it does. pasteurization involves rapidly heating and cooling the milk to kill off bacteria and viruses. Thats going to denature a lot of enzymes as well as change the structure of a lot of proteins. To say that no vitamins or nutrition is affected is an incredulously false to make here
That's not a very honest way of phrasing whats happening there. Sure it "leaks" that you are retrieving this VideoID from this IP, but you make it sound like it's sending your youtube viewing history to some random website.

Either way, I'm fine with this type of "leak" of data, as it's fundamental to an open web and can't be easily solved without cryptographic/hashing hoops. What's next, you want anonymity from the server that you're requesting content from, really?
Don't let weird C syntax choices fool you, this is a while loop, not a for loop.

To clarify, when I said "for loop", I meant what is sometimes called a "counted for loop" (or simply "counted loop"): there is an (maximum, if you allow early exit) iteration count that is computed before executing the loop and can't increase later.

In C syntax, it is for (int i = 0, e = ...; i < e; ++i) { ... } and the body of the loop is not allowed to change the value of either i or e.

Edit: actually I may have been unclear. When I said "for loops are guaranteed to terminate", in the context of the discussion, I meant "if the only kind of loops you allow are (counted) for loops in a language where loop-free expressions are guaranteed to terminate, you get a language where all expressions are guarantee to terminate". So loops can contain other loops, as long as they are all of the "counted for loop" kind.
The perspective is determined by where you’re standing in relation to the subject.

If you’re talking about wide angle ‘distortion’, then on an iPhone (with the default settings) that’s just what a rectilinear projection looks like with a wide field of view. Zooming in digitally ‘corrects’ that just as much as using a longer focal length would.

You can easily confirm this by taking side by side comparisons. There are many of these you can find by googling, as this is a popular myth. E.g. https://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/shooting/perspective-and....
> About 10 to 15 octopuses live here, in mounds of shells that have been constructed over generations

Sounds more like a village than a city or even a town
The other thing with "[specific food/drink] is [good/bad] for you" is that it's nearly impossible to study at baseline with a million confounders so it's all hypothetical pseudoscience at best.

Living a life of generally avoiding processed foods and sugar as well as emphasizing lean meats/protein and vegetables is probably the best thing any of us can do for ourselves whatever that combination may look like for an individual.

Anyone who makes a claim that anything specific is beneficial is almost certainly talking out of their ass or selling a product.

Recall the food pyramid, the greatest corporate pseudoscience scam ever pulled. There was also a generation that was told "butter is bad for your health".

"- hormones from the cows and their supplements is in the milk and impacts our hormone system in negative ways

- antibiotics used excessively in cows are in the milk and have negative affects on an individual level and might also contribute to the bacteria antibiotic arms race

- saturated fats are generally bad and should be minimized in the human diet. Milk is full of them and they are direct causes of heart disease and other top killer health issues for people"

None of this is supported by evidence, picking the last argument as an example:

> Multiple reviews of the evidence have demonstrated that a recommendation to limit consumption of saturated fats to no more than 10% of total calories is not supported by rigorous scientific studies. Importantly, neither this guideline, nor that for replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, considers the central issue of the health effects of differing food sources of these fats. The 2020 DGAC review that recommends continuing these recommendations has, in our view, not met the standard of “the preponderance of the evidence” for this decision."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8541481/
Not trying to argue; just chipping in:

I regularly sit outside with my shirt off in ~20F weather and don't get cold enough to have to go inside.

Direct sunlight makes all the difference. With the sun, sub freezing air temperatures can actually leave you feeling quite warm.
This is the first time I've heard of Creole (I've been authoring in Markdown since 2004).
Previous recent generations also had most nations sending large groups of their men off to kill other nations' men for insufficient reasons.

As a result of the current geopolitics, we don't have the self-awareness to realize that minor conflicts are minor conflicts and that the absolute best place to be and thing to be doing is spending time at home with your loved ones.

We certainly shouldn't be carrying out PR strategy wars against our colleagues like is happening here...
There is a lot of shadowbanning on Youtube!
You’re not wrong, but lots of breeds are bred for just such a purpose, particularly thoroughbreds. They’re very expensive animals. Losing those competitions would come with consequences.
Pray tell, who do you think are non-technical people in https://www.rust-lang.org/governance
Good engineers and funding ?
Have you remarked how few software projects, even big and visible, handle privacy well, especially if you consider things like stalking? And then what happens to the people that come talk about it in these groups?

The people are pushed out because "their concerns are not something this project is about". Which is consensus and focused on getting results right?
I doubt if “encyclopedia Britannica” would be a reliable source in this matter..
> In due course, the team found that the Sun workstations that they attached to the supercomputer could run their software just as quickly as the Cray itself.
"could trigger gigantic deadly" is screaming "I'm desperate for attention, read me!" Every time pop-journalism uses these screaming titles from yellow press, the public creates one more association between climate change and yellow press.
Did you read the Children of Time trilogy? []

In the second or third book, amongst other things, a planet is seeded with octopuses and an "uplift virus" that dramatically boosts their sentience. It's a brilliant trilogy in its own right, but the sentient squids were my favorite species by far. Each having 8 independent minds to gather data and execute, plus a central vague philosophically minded intellect that holds their volition and long term planning.

[] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)
Not on that machine. That would only be true on a 128-thread system, but this one has 96 threads.
They would have to not die so quickly to do so.

And also get out of the water given it's pretty hard to make chemistry in there.
I’m going to give the technical management the benefit of the doubt here, and assume the $15M Cray wasn’t primarily for chip design, but rather architectural simulation.

This was intended to be a parallel system across several layers, while wrapping in a number of novel architectural ideas. It would not have been ridiculous to assume having a massively parallel supercomputer to experiment with those ideas more quickly would be worth the expense.
One thing that definitely makes sense is yearly eye checkups, including eye pressure. I had undiagnosed glaucoma for a year or two until my eyesight got bad enough to go to the Dr. No headaches or anything. Fortunately I still have enough vision left to read most normal sized text, but it was close. Get your eyes checked out, you can get glaucoma at any age.
This is a hard "No".

Yes, I am irked when people don't proofread an email, even one sent from their mobile device, by re-reading it back to themselves. This is _indeed_ acceptable when someone is already on the team (reference any Executive), in fact, you'd be a sure arseh0l3 if you called this out all the time or judged someone based on this alone _after they are on-boarded_.

A document (CV / resumé) you spent serious time on (hopefully!) to try and represent your professional-self in the best possible way (marketing), AND English is not a second language for you? Immediate deletion if you choose the wrong their/there/they're or any other horrible, horrible facet of the English language.

Sure, English is a joke language that should drive anyone towards indignation, in the long run, no one cares, etc.

Exceptions exist, for sure (and I've made them!), but this isn't something to advocate for? You can't expect a human to be 100% all the time (unless you are some sort of sociopath serial CEO), it isn't that. It absolutely isn't about criminalizing mistakes, that's the path toward stagnation and a culture of fear.

It _IS_ about "this person took the time to proofread, elect assistance perhaps, though ultimately, put great thought and care into their election to try and join my team". It isn't about studying l33tc0d3 (or however the kids spell it), knowing all the latest and most prominent stacks, etc.

It _IS_ about seeing the problem statement or challenge (interested in joining, or seeing if they are a fit for me) and putting _care_ into that effort.
Any reason this is trending now?
Pretty certain any widespread dev language has communities…
No, Murphy says that despite having a vanishingly small probability, somebody will toss an undecidable problem into your non-halting oracle.
The f/1.5 is an actual rating. It's the ratio between the focal length and the diameter of the pupil. It's important for shutter speeds, and relative performance in low light (before all the computational duckery). I can compare roughly a phone camera that's at f/1.5 vs a phone camera that's at f/2. Making a low f/number lens is more difficult than a high f/number lens, regardless of actual focal length.

And I've got a non-35mm mirrorless camera. All the lens I've got are marked with the true focal length and true f/number, not some "equivalent". My iPhone camera photos' metadata show the focal length, both true and "35mm equivalent".
Think about it like this, there are infinitely many Turing machine state classes that are easily decidable. For example, a simple infinite loop or its equivalent. Most of these classes are also very trivial to construct, and require only a few "instructions".

So if you make a random TM, it's almost guaranteed that it'll get eventually "trapped" in one of these easily decidable infinite loops.
Bears are not as carnivorous as some people might think: https://storyteller.travel/what-do-bears-eat/
I might've been a bit overzealous in keeping my own opinion out of it. I didn't meant to paint a bad picture of JeanHeyd. In fact, I specifically tried to highlight how he tried to avoid drama.

Ultimately, I don't even think the shady behind the scenes stuff is the part we should focus on.They invited him to give the keynote, he advised them that it might be a problem, they specifically told him it was fine, and then dropped the keynote for precisely the reasons he said it might be a problem. That is extremely disrespectful and unprofessional by any reasonable standard.
I'm on my phone so I haven't tried to work through the math to see where the error is, but the author's conclusion is wrong and the counterexample is simple.

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Let y_1, ... y_n be iid from a Uniform(0,theta) distribution, with some nice prior on theta (e.g. Exponential(1)). Then the posterior for theta, and hence the predictive density for a new y_i, depends only on max(y_1, ..., y_n). So for all but one of the n observations the author's strict inequality does not hold.
A few years ago I read a great sci-fi book, "Children of Ruin", by Adrian Tchaikovsky[1].

The book features, among other things, an octopus civilization.

It's the second book in the series; the first features a spider civilization.

I highly recommend both; they explore concepts of what civilizations would look like with intelligences very different from our own.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Children-Ruin-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky...
In this case it seems pretty easy to contribute a patch? Mature projects have unit and screendiff test suites that need to be updated and extended to verify the new case, so it might not be THAT easy even for a trivial change.
outrage?
What if... Markdown was its own MIME type and browsers rendered it with a default stylesheet? :thinking_emoji:
I really love how the author shares their thoughts as the flow through the problems in the post. Great read.
for general users who simply want clearer photos, what are some cheaper phones for recommendation?
Life Is About to Come with Subtitles
I am frequently talking to people outside the tech bubble. Could you give me an example? And maybe a hint how this would relate to my argument about intention and understanding? I have a hard time following your argument.
Strictly speaking, sure. But calling every data-extrapolated result a "guess" wrongly, IMO, lumps it in with guesses based on no evidence.
I do think this is kind of naive. If you consider something like a sexual assault, or even the more severe forms of harassment, that tends to happen among people who know each other, and people often don't talk about it after being victimized. So you not knowing those stories out of your tight knit community doesn't mean much -- if those stories exist you might need to have the parties involved trust you a lot to confide it, or you might need to really probe people about it.
If you're just running a random linux server that isn't an otherwise "interesting" target the only times I've seen those get compromised is by some ludicrously dumb configuration mistakes, such as running databases with a default admin password and no firewall, etc.
see Coat of Many Colors
I've found it beneficial to take breaks from listening to things on my earbuds during my walks. At first you feel weird (I'd call myself a self-professed spoken word addict), but then your own thought process takes the driver's seat and it's magnificent.

Another funny side effect from listening to audiobooks on my walks is that when I visit the same places again, the things I've listened to while walking there spring to mind with a very good recall. And vice versa, listening to an audiobook brings very vivid memories of places walked when listening prior to that.

I'd say listening while walking is very productive.
Yes, but the software situation with most alternative SBCs is terrible, which is why the Pi hasn't been superseded yet.
I wrote a short piece on this almost 3 years ago shortly after GPT-3 came out, I share a lot of your intuitions here: https://www.markfayngersh.com/posts/the-thinking-placebo
Fair enough :) Although skimming the paper you linked, they say they don't check termination of loops, which surprises me.
Hear, hear.

Another term for downvotes is: casual meanness.

If HN isn't willing to get rid of them, then they should at least cost you something: 10 karma points, maybe.
>> the exercise routine was walking on a treadmill with adjustable gradient

That's unfortunate as the best part of a walk is getting out and seeing the neighborhood.
The second smartest species on the planet right now has been driven to near extinction (in relative terms) by the top one.
Yeah, this seems like a classic case of "random mundane thing" + "namedrop China" = "srs bsns" + someone getting promoted
Depending on your needs, there are a lot of alternatives now. Orange pi or rock boards are fairly similar but much more powerful than the rpi. However they don't compete in the pi zero class, they compete with the higher spec pi boards (4b). If you want a pi zero competitor, I'd suggest the esp32-s3 based boards such as the lilygo t display s3. There are a lot of other options, these are just some that I've used.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding here and a lot of optically correct comments are being down voted.

50mm is a focal length. If what you like about 50mm is indeed the perspective (as opposed to other subtle things that may creep like aperture/bokeh or aberration or vignetting of the specific lens) then zooming something to 50mm effective field of view is exactly what will accomplish the goal.
Yes, but the computational pipeline is designed and implemented by the end user to achieve a scientific result. Here, it’s a black box where the resulting image cannot be treated as raw data.
Indeed. Every "could" headline is also a "could not" headline.

Monkeys could fly out of my ass. Who knows.

It falls firmly into the realm of Michael Crichton's HN-famous "Why speculate?" talk.
I worked through this years ago and was rather disappointed, I felt the hand holding/explanations were not well balanced; it walks you through everything like you have no programming experience but explains things like you do have programming experience. The exercises were ok but not great. It left me with far more questions than answers and only slightly better at C than I was before.

But I am a hack in everyway, so it could just be me.
Vitamin D needs UV, not just light.

You _can_ install UV diodes, but then you have a whole another can of worms. A point source of UV can damage eyes much more easily, and if you forget to turn it off, you can expect a nasty sunburn.
In the real world every person performs acts they believe to be justified. If the ends justify the means, then all manner of evil acts can be accommodated. If we can’t turn and point at the destruction of entire cities with a weapon of unimaginable devastation and say “that is bad”, something is wrong.

No ethical system, including Kantian, says it’s better to pick a million dead over 250k. Kant says “you can’t kill 250000 people to save a million, and call yourself righteous”. A man can sell his soul to save his family but the price must be paid.
Crossword Solving with GPT
This is why, even though as a programmer I’m congenitally unfit for it, I go outside sometimes. Sunlight also gives you vitamin D, and has all sorts of other benefits. As I don’t go outside often I’m not particularly concerned about skin cancer and am generally skeptical of the idea that terrestrial life is maladapted to the Sun. I buy over exposure has bad long term effects, but the current view seems to be you need to wear sunblock for any level of exposure. That just seems wildly unlikely and the fact the body needs sunlight to produce essential stuff like vitamin D further reinforces my belief that we are over correcting into unhealthy zones.
>> What does it add that markdown does not have ?

>"a satisfactory rendering can be achieved with a single pass of a document, processing each line independently" - from what I understand of Markdown parsing, it's a lot more complex than this because of the spec.

If your device don't have enough memory to parse the markdown document it can just display it. That's not an useful feature of a format. Hell, if it is really a problem use subset of it instead of using half, then inventing own, worse way, to add URLs into the text.

>> There appears to not even be a support for a basic table

>Given the number of Markdown table attempts I've seen over the years, I don't blame them for wanting to avoid that plague pit. Plus then rendering tables is another hellscape of torment.

If you don't we're back in ugly land of mono font manually setting it up, that's why I think that should be included in bare minimum of any markup format. But that's kinda beside the point as originally MD didn't had it either.
From the wiki article on this book:

> Reviewing the book in The Sunday Times, Max Hastings wrote:

To put the matter brutally, millions of Indians were allowed to starve so that available shipping—including vessels normally based in India—could be used to further British purposes elsewhere. When Churchill's nation was engaged in a desperate struggle, perhaps this reflected strategic logic.
Not sure. Maybe because of 10 years Snowden or the revealing of the inner workings of the Predator Android malware. Similarly, Stuxnet used multiple (windows) 0days to assure its deployment. It was vehemently denied by USA and Israel that it was their co-fabrication to hit Iran, while it was crystal clear from the very beginning it was them.
If the intruder as gotten far enough to be in a position to run a compiler, he'll just upload it if it isn't there.