skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just supply and demand. Many farmers effectively price their own labor below the market rate. They are essentially subsidizing their customers by continuing to farm out of habit or tradition or love even when when it doesn't make sense from a purely financial standpoint. The rest of us get artificially cheap food so we don't look too hard at the situation, but it probably isn't sustainable.
Magnesium is flammable. Does anyone know if a lithium battery fire could light up the enclosure?
As a European from an ESA member state. Shaking my head at how ESA and Arianespace operate is just so frequent that I risking whiplash. I can't get bothered by every single instance where they do a bad job on minor things like this.

I wouldn't even mind if they sucked at things like this if they would actually have the right strategy and do the large things correct. Sadly they are really bad at the large things and the small things.
People got too used to the Web - slowly loading stuff - and so began to tolerate native apps also loading slow.
Not sure who will spend days watching the same rocket takeoff and land :-).

Also at this rate, future generations will have to focus on surviving with much less fossil fuels (we're passed peak oil), in a world that basically wants to kill them due to global warming.

Chances are that days of video of the accomplishments of the generation that actively destroyed their world (while being fully aware of it) won't be their main concern.
It does require energy though, and China gets a lot of it from coal.

That being said panels still produce multiples of their embedded energy throughout their lifetime, so it's still worth it.

It's their construction industry which is incredibly wasteful and isn't a result of outsourcing.
Don’t forget the mandatory mention of evs.ee where you can buy standards way cheaper thanks to the Estonian government.
Here's the title I see: "Russia’s security service investigates Wagner chief for ‘armed mutiny’"
I'm no gamer, and "bloat" has been a term used in the industry from well before "gamers" (in the sense used today) existed. It's been a term of art for over 30 years.

It also describes a very real thing.

While there are a lot of things that everyone would agree counts as "bloat", there are also areas of disagreement in the form of "one person's bloat is another's essential feature".
personally i prefer this one https://github.com/Caldis/Mos
There's so much support for Louis out there for being right about a bunch of things. And it is true that he is right about a whole bunch of things.

That said, I can't stand his shtick anymore. Louis getting wronged by corporations is content fuel.

It's also high blood pressure content. It makes you mad at stuff. I've got enough of that in my life, I don't know about you.

(Another example: Not Just Bikes can be like this as well, despite me agreeing with the dude. The tone and script of the videos makes the problem of car dependency, which, again, is a legitimate problem, seem more devastating than it really is)
People have been pointing out the folly of not allowing regular burns for decades, no idea why it is only now getting traction with this weird take. It's not like the divide between those who wanted controlled burns and those who didn't was racial.
I don't remember what the price was a decade ago, but something like a 60W folding panel these days often goes on sale for really cheap, like, under $2 a watt.

The backpacks with built in panels are still expensive because I'm guessing it's hard to find customers who want to be in direct sunlight long enough to get significant charge, while carrying a backpack.
Teams’ editors aren’t even the same between chats (e.g. DMs and discussion on a meeting) and channels in a “Team”. Which seems so odd and unnecessary it makes me curious how they ended up needing such a confusing and seemingly redundant editor.

As far as slack goes I don’t usually need to futz with the format buttons. Back ticks start and close the monospaced strings and code blocks, underscore and asterisk start and stop emphasis and bold, > starts quotes and newline +backspace drops the formatting (same with ordered and unordered lists).
Thanks for the explanation. I've heard this before but think I get it now!
If you're not putting it into the grid you can do whatever ratio. Have 20KW (or whatever) of panels, a suitably sized charge controller, a bunch of batteries, and an inverter sized for whatever max AC current draw you need. Or if you can run everything you need DC, skip the inverter altogether.
> None of the Wright's contemporaries used the scientific method to develop a working airplane. AFAIK, nobody else had done a directed research and development program to create controlled, powered airplane.

There were certainly contemporaries of the Wrights attempting to use the scientific method to develop a working airplane.

By the time of the Wright's success at the end of 1903, The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was already 34 years old. They sponsored the first wind tunnel in 1870 designed by Francis Wenham, one of their members who had also given the inaugural lecture on flight, and the principle by which lift is generated by wings.

This was very much a scientific society, with regular reports and lectures and its members were scientists or engineers, not crazy people strapping sheets of metal to their arms and jumping off towers.

"The organization has never been a large one, and probably years will pass by before the importance of its twenty-nine years of work will be fully understood and appreciated. Even as the missal painters kept art alive during the Dark Ages, so has this band of men kept aeronautics alive during the years in which their branch of science has been by the many regarded almost as a pseudo-science." James Means, Aeronautical Annual Vol 1 (1895), a passage probably read by the Wright brothers, after receiving the journal from the Smithsonian.

Percy Pilcher ('a pale serious fellow, with a great bent for invention, and a brain that was razor keen.') completed his powered triplane in 1899, based on his own research, correspondence with Lilienthal, his work with Hiram Maxim (who had legal battles with Edison over which of their companies invented the light bulb in the US) and correspondence with Octave Chanute (who advised the Wright brothers to choose the mid atlantic coast for their experiments and visited them) and his correspondence with Lawrence Hargrave. It is assumed that the triplane would likely have needed some modification to be practical but it was never tried, since he died in a glider accident before he got chance to try it.

This is just one example of a person at the time who did extensive research, communicated with many of the other key figures of the time, and built lots of prototypes to test approaches. There were lots of others too.

If your point is just that the Wrights succeeded first, then I agree, but to characterise all these characters as approaching the problem in an essentially stupid way is just not true, if anything, I'm struck by how much the early aviation pioneers seemed to be in touch with each other and understood some of the basic principles of aerofoil design and the science behind how lift works.
We need linux to add electron or an equivalent directly to the OS. Cut out the browser and the bullshit. Allow meme developers to write in meme languages but still get good performance.
I bet a beer they came up with this defense line with a help of gpt.
It's super debatable if they can reach US levels of GDP PPP per capita.

The US is at 80k, Germany is at 66k, Canada is at 60k, South Korea is at 56k, Romania is at 41k. China is at 23k.

If Germany or South Korea can't reach the US, China getting there seems incredibly hard.

Though if China reaches Romania's level (funny when presented this way :-) ), the nominal total GDP of China will probably be 1.5 - 2x the US one, just by virtue of them having 5x the number of people compared the US.
This is definitely different. The FSB is involved and Putin is speaking. Prigozhin has stepped over the line and is being brought to heel. Looks like he is going down swinging. Doesn't seem like a wise decision on his part as he doesn't seem to hold many cards.
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD: Licensing
Thinking and Talking about Data
I'd argue it's still unethical to put others at risk due to your own incompetence. I wouldn't offer to rewire someone's home because I'm not an electrician, and their house could burn down if I do it incorrectly.
The whole point of it is that there are consequences if you breach it, otherwise it is almost entirely pointless.
in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a boil, all the yuck comes out. Oddly this has parallels in emotional therapy too.

Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline response. Humans are complex!
as well they should be. the ocean is a deadly place, and tiny screw ups can and will kill people, doubly so in submersibles.

thing is, we know how to do it safely, too; "regulations are written in blood" etc etc.
Christ on a cracker, Axis' website is horrible! I saw one model that looked interesting, but can't find a price. You have to click on "How to Buy" to get redirected to another page where you then have to click on "Find a Reseller Near Me" which takes you to a form you have to fill out with a bunch of personal information and then send to them, and maybe someone will get back to you. How do these companies stay in business?
Leonard French does a pretty good breakdown too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YaGACnJpg
I wonder, if his ghost could talk to us now, I’d he would have done anything differently.

Maybe that seems like an absurd question to ask because... he’s dead. But his position seems to be: some things can never happen unless someone just risks it.

And that math doesn’t really change with the knowledge “he dies”. It’s possible there are some alternative timelines out there where “he risks it and survives” and maybe there are zero timelines where “he plays it safe and makes it to the Titanic” and if that’s the case then maybe he did it exactly as he intended.

There are many pursuits like this: mountaineering, car racing, etc, where the choices (at a certain level of aspiration anyway) are: A) risk death or B) don’t do it.

I’m certainly not risking death, but I don’t really judge people who do.

I do judge that dad who convinced his teenage son to risk his life. That was absolutely evil.
The newest generations of children can barely read and write let alone use a computer.

It’s going to be fascinating watching what happens when there’s nobody left capable of updating things like linux. It will be like a black box, people can maybe scrape together an electron app but they don’t go any deeper.
Trains are far more energy efficient than planes, so we’re going forwards. If we actually do get more better cheaper trains.
> Based on this proof, we provide an algorithm that, given a deep ReLU network, finds the explicit weights of the corresponding shallow network.

I’m out of date on the research, but I suspect the real value here is the algorithm. Sounds like some version of this could eventually help reduce inference time
Well, for one thing, Bluesky is in an invite-only pre-release state.
> People think they can convince several billion people to give up meat but replacing several thousand coal power plants is too hard…

No, energy and transport is easy.

Changing agriculture and diets/habits is hard. Unfortunately we have to do everything, not just this or that.

The science is clear.

And CO2 / warming is not our only problem. Biodiversity is equally important problem to be solved.

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-climate-crisis-biodiversity-ap...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Australians far less aware of biodiversity loss than climate crisis, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/20/australi...
Social media app linked to Roblox for kids – is it ok?
I came across a new app aimed at kids where they can video call and message their Roblox friends. Also it asks them their school name. I don't see any parental control or anything that protects kids from bad actors on this app. Many Roblox friends are just strangers. Is this allowed?
I said 10% valuation for companies with at least 1 female founder compared to no female founder. And in that list, I could see something like 5:1 for company with at least female founder to company with all female founder. That is how I arrived with all female:all male ratio of 2% if we ignore mixed gender founder companies.

Also I am not arguing whether female founders experience discrimination or not, I am just arguing YC's female ratio is not significantly higher than other VC's which pg hints at due to Jessica.
This wasn’t my experience back in ~2002 running my Windows NT variant of choice, Windows 2000.

Especially due to the mechanical disk, everything seemed to take 2 to 10 times longer than it does today the first time it had to be done after a reboot, and if physical memory was exhausted and the OS started swapping, forget it, you might be staring at an hour glass for multiple minutes to open a web browser or something of the sort.

I love SSDs and multicore machines of today.
Finally getting two's complement
China IS in a Great Depression. The government is making the numbers seem a little bit better, but with 21% official youth unemployment rate - definitely higher since netizens have found that only 20% of this year's graduate has secured jobs, and 50% - 70% reduction in real estate listing prices, when real estate is 30% of China's economy and how local governments mostly gets funded, we will see retroactively that China entered its Great Depression in 2022.
(Ditto for me, now. Previous title is still in the URL.)
Posts like these remind me about a lost track that I'm trying to find the name of. I even have a reward for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK8l0pkyiy0

Found online soo many years ago in a random website because it had a name similar to another track I was looking for.
> Hard disagree. Most niche hobbies, the discoverability for discord is impossible.

That's fair, and ironically Reddit is a better on-ramp for discovering Discord than anything Discord offers. But this position is _incredibly_ precarious, and could change overnight if Discord decides to prioritize SEO of their community servers.

But more importantly, Reddit doesn't really care about this sort of traffic. What they're chasing is low quality content aggregation traffic, and my point was that this is the exact kind of content that is easy to find elsewhere. For example, I used to sub to r/Justrolledintotheshop, but the "Just Rolled In" YouTube channel is a fine substitute for me.
This sounds sorta like one of my observations about someone I worked with: she'd go into an enterprise prospect/relationship meeting, and come out with better insights than the other people from our team. And the insights rang true.

(And it was unfortunate that she wasn't listened to more, because a higher-ranking person would more often miss cues about customer thinking, or would come out of a meeting seeming to feel a gist biased more towards what they wanted it to be.)

For that skill/quality and others, I later tried to recruit her as a startup CEO.
They might be referring to the fact that, eg, opening Microsoft Word today can take significantly longer than Word 2003 on Windows XP (or similar). See also Wirth's Law[1] and such.

EDIT: though they focus on the hardware-could-be-better side, rather than the software-could-be-less-awful side (:

There have been some good outspoken critics of how software bloat has canceled out (or more) modern hardware gains. Casey Muratori, Jonathan Blow, and Mike Acton come to mind — they have some good material on the subject [2][3][4]. Some of the issues you mention, w.r.t. the hardware being discombobulated, are addressed in that first blog/video. No big surprise these people come from a video games background; video game hardware is traditionally much more tightly-bound-together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

[2] https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

[4] https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?t=4211 (timestamp, but the whole talk is good)
No miracles, perhaps, but a string of improvements that have saved a substantial number of lives over time:

> A number of reported shifts in the survival rates since 1975 cast a spotlight on how more cancer patients are surviving longer. Consider the examples below.

> Lung cancer: 12 percent to 23 percent

> Female breast cancer: 75 percent to 91 percent

> Colorectal cancer: 50 percent to 65 percent

> Kidney cancer: 50 percent to 77 percent

> Leukemia: 34 percent to 66 percent

> Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: 47 percent to 74 percent[0]

The post also complains about immunotherapy not delivering gains and treatment not improving for advanced cancers, but immunotherapies have made great progress on metastatic melanoma:

> More recently, a cascade of new therapies has been game-changing in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, including first-generation and second-generation immunotherapies (anti-CTLA4 and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibition) and BRAF and MEK inhibitors. As a result, 3-year relative survival for distant-stage melanoma has doubled over the past decade, from 20.6% for patients diagnosed during 2004 through 2006 to 39.3% during 2016 through 2018 [1]

Unfortunately there are forms of cancer that haven't seen improvement, including uterine cancer:

> Unlike most common cancers, survival has not improved over the past 4 decades for women with uterine malignancies (Table 6), largely reflecting a lack of major treatment advances.87, 88 Uterine corpus cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, yet there is a dearth of research activity89 and it ranked 24th in NCI research funding in 2018.90 The lack of progress has disproportionately affected Black women, who are substantially less likely to be diagnosed with localized-stage disease (57% versus 72% of White women; Figure 5) and have lower survival for every stage (Figure 6). [1]

Perhaps I'm being unduly harsh when I agree media coverage needs to stop hailing miracles, but the author's warranted skepticism of the New York Times has shaded their analysis of the progress we've made on cancer.

[0] https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/01/cancer-s...
[1] https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322...
> Did you even take a second to look at Imgur before confidently saying something so incorrect? The homepage clearly references tags, with individual posts a la subreddits.

They have tags. Not subreddits. Tagging systems are completely different from how a subreddit works. In my experience a tagging system isn't that expensive to run. Comparing tags with sections seeems completely bonkers and very naive.

> Also, it's not like each subreddit is an individual database table or something. You're making it seem like aggregation is a substantial cost when it's just a different DB query.

In my experience, to make complex data like Reddit's highly available you need to do a whole bunch such as making subreddits separate buckets so to speak. The aggregation almost certainly has a substantial costs. This isn't some dinky MySQL database with few thousand posts. It seems absurd to compare a site with a single feed (Even if it has tags) vs a system that has a personalised feed.

I'm sure the team who build and maintain the feed mixer are happy to hear you could build it with just a database query. I'm sure they'll be reaching out so you can show them this database query.

It seems a lot of people want Imgur to be more expensive to operate therefore fair that it can be more expensive to use. While the reality seems to be the reverse.
Right, but from an emissions standpoint this is a bad idea too. You not going to create an emission-free iron mine/processing supply chain any time soon. This just moves the emissions up the chain and would take decades to build out. It might be just as bad as coal in terms of emissions at the end of the day, and marginally better at best.

Solar, Wind, more/better batteries and nuclear are our best paths forward if we want to take the immediate action we need to take. If crap like this gets traction we'll just have a greenwashed future where all the coal and natural gas plants will be gone, but global emissions will still be high and power will be many times more expensive. Maybe then people will start to do math.

Back when I was in college the Environmental Science majors were a joke because the chemistry classes they took senior year were the same classes the Chemical Engineers took freshman year. I thought my university just had a crappy environmental science program, but after reading a number of articles like this one I'm thinking it might be a more pervasive issue.
Ahh interesting so it’s not enabled by default?
After managing ZoneMinder for years I finally went with Reolink and I've been very happy with their cameras and NVR. Now it "just works" and I never think about it. I use their app sometimes to view the streams but via holes I punched in my network (you could also VPN) and I don't use any of their "cloud" features. If you wanted you could hook up your own client to the streams off the NVR, I have HomeAssistant grabbing those feeds and that's how I view my cameras 90% of the time.
i'm not in mediterranian, nor in italy, nor greece, nor any other part of europe or north africa. this situation is a tragedy, but outside of online virtue signaling my opinion is meaningless since i have no connection to those going through it and no ability to impact the greek or italian governments.
It’s hard to be sure, but to me, this indeed is a step up from what happened before.

The BBC also is fairly clear, saying (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66005256):

“Wagner mercenary boss says Russia bombed his troops”

“In a statement, the Russian defence ministry said that "all reports by Prigozhin spread on social media" of Russian strikes on Wagner camps were "not true and are an information provocation".

Russian state media also reports that the FSB, Russia's security services, have opened a criminal case against Prigozhin, accusing him of "calling for an armed rebellion".

The Wagner Group is a paramilitary organisation that has been fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. In recent months, Prigozhin has become increasingly vocal in his criticism of Russia's military leadership.

In an audio message posted to the social media platform Telegram, he said "the evil which the Russian military leadership carries must be stopped".
"Those who killed our lads, and tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers [in the war in Ukraine] will be punished," he said.

"I ask you not to resist. Anyone who does will be considered a threat and destroyed. That goes for any checkpoints and aviation on our way.
"Presidential power, the government, the police and Russian guard will work as usual.

"This is not a military coup, but a march of justice, our actions do not interfere with the troops in any way."”
Meh. You're underestimating how simple people are and how easy it is to read intonation and general presence of a person. Combined with questions that apply pressure it is very easy to read a person because the very basics of a human being are inherently simple.
I think your clues are too vague. I (and all the people I've sent this to) are stuck on Step #6. Go down? Down to the third level of what?
My biggest use of electricity is my laptop and monitor.

Any ideas on a portable solar panel that could power those during the summer?
Portable because I rent and can’t fix anything down, it doesn’t have to fit in a backpack or anything like that.
The evolution of honey bee brains