skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a classic example of the press surreptitiously highlighting a problem with NHS employees because technology used by the NHS is still working properly, constantly being updated for health care providers around the world to buy if they so wish.

There might be a problem with the NHS estate, ie buildings, but take that up with the builders and building managers.

It was the Royal Devon and General Hospital (Wonford) that was the first major structure in the UK that had concrete cancer.

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_organisations/rde.php#:~....

No mention of how keyhole surgery, an updated method of surgery has reduced the need for beds, hernia operations in the 70's used to be a week long stay in hospital but today is a half day out patient procedure; better diagnostic testing and drug development has reduced the need for surgery; there are many improvements in medicine and healthcare and its being seen globally.

All this article highlights is that medicine has changed, the UK boomer population hump is now of that age where they need the NHS more than most and for decades have not held repeated govt's to account, perhaps indirectly highlighting that democracy doesn't really work.

But the need for health care has changed, gone are the days for needing massive hospitals with huge numbers of staff and beds, the trend for care in the community has been around since the 80's. Thatcher pioneered care in the community to prop up your house prices, so are we witnessing a generation of people or group of people who want to stay in hospital for as long as possible, like a previously undiagnosed form of Munchausen disease?
I can't tow a boat with that...so please. Also, yes, vehicles are identity expressions in America. No way around that...just is what it is.
Everything is biased. Everyone, every single human being, is aligned.

Of course but as discussed many times here before, Wikipedia leans left - presumably reflecting the statistical properties of the demographic of the people drawn to edit and moderate it - as implied by the comment you are replying to - and that can be a significant issue for topics (e.g cultural, historical, social, political etc) where that bias filters what might be assumed by the user to be objective answers.

This isn't a left vs right thing either; there are plenty of publications, demographics and institutions that lean right. The problem is the transparency, awareness and communication of that bias when using them as sources for tools like this.

In the underlying study, there is no mention of the word "bias".

Here's a sample quote which is also concerning:

For recent topics, we look at the most edited
Wikipedia articles 1
in the first four months of 2023.
The number of edits is also a good proxy for how
much interest there is around a certain topic.

True - and it may also be an indication of a topic that is heavily contested. If the two (or more) views on the "truth" of the article are imbalanced, the chatbot will reflect that imbalance, and can therefore in no way be said to “outperform all baselines on factual accuracy".

To be fair to the researchers, they do address related concerns and talk about avoiding some areas of discussion, but the headline here is extremely misleading.
Better yet, your documented "failure" may be an unknown path to "success" in someone else's research context.

This would basically be the same as caching the results of a brute-force attack; except instead of trying to break the entropy of encryption, we are trying to unravel the entropy of chemistry and physics.
“I don’t consume stuff”, says paragon of austerity.
The Flint water crisis was caused by failing to perform corrosion control:

In April 2014, because of annual rate increases from the DWSD, the Flint City Council voted to join the Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA), which would be developing a raw water supply pipeline from Lake Huron. The water supply contract with DWSD was subsequently terminated, and the Flint water treatment plant began treating water from the Flint River on a full-time basis and distributing the treated water to residents and other customers. When the plant went into full-time operation, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) did not implement corrosion control, as mandated by the LCR. Instead, the Flint water treatment plant was allowed to complete two six-month monitoring periods without corrosion control and then the MDEQ would decide if corrosion control treatment was necessary.

https://www.materialsperformance.com/articles/material-selec...
Seems like the literature has a pretty good empirical understanding of the divergence of these two words.

I wouldn't say "no" possibility, but it seems like an interesting lay theory can be true a startling fraction of the time, but to prove its truth probably involves wading through decades of established research from centuries ago.

For example, if it's just a corruption, you should expect the two words to rarely occur with different meanings within a corpus. I don't know about the 8th century corpus, but if it happens there, that would be strong evidence against the corruption theory. Also the article mentions in German the two are still separate.
Density and diversity are opposing forces. Since diversity is now the absolute highest value in western culture, density can never be anything other than dysfunctional or a lament.
> I hope this is not as bad in medicine and health related research.

I have friends and family working with medicine and health related research, and I don't think it is bad. In fact I'm a bit amazed at how good the Medicine academia is at science, and as comparison how bad computer-science (CSc) is at science.

With very few exceptions, CSc papers don't have any actual science, they don't have a hypothesis and a method to test it, instead most papers in CSc can be summarized as "I did this new thing and I find it cool", the peers simply don't expect you to do actual science. In comparison, in Medicine papers you are expected to follow the scientific method to a T, they have a hypothesis and test it (often heavily relying on statistics), and yes some Medicine papers are bad (with bad methodology, bad sampling, or bad statistics like p-hacking) but even the bad ones try (and fail) to follow the scientific method (or at least pretend to try in case of malicious papers), because the standard is that high.
Well, it's not worth it to bring this optimization to the attention of the CEO. But it definitely exceeds the engineer's weekly cost by a lot, so if it only takes a week, it's potentially worth it (modulo opportunity costs for other things to work on).

Spin it around: is it worth it for a sales person who makes $200k per year to spend a week to land a $50,000 per year contract? I think it potentially is, for the same reason, even if the organization as whole makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
I've been following this series. It seems like the journalists are trying to make a scandal where there really isn't one. I don't see how buried cables if left undisturbed are really an issue at all. The ones in the water maybe, but even there how much lead can a single cable really leach into water such that it rises to an unhealthy level? Maybe the ones strung on poles are an issue, but even then--how much is lead really going to flake off an intact cable? Remember that in many parts of the country we still have lead water pipes and tons of lead-painted surfaces. What's the relative risk of these cables compared to, say, houses that kids live in that have accessible lead paint surfaces?

It does seem reasonable to ask that if a lead cable is overhead on poles and not in use anymore it should be pulled down. In general we shouldn't leave a ton of abandoned infrastructure up in the air on poles.

I can believe there are health issues for telco workers who historically worked with lead cables, and the telcos absolutely need to protect their current workforce from lead if they are regularly working around and disturbing this old infrastructure.
> Currently, long term Japan life is best enjoyed by introverts (generally).

And long may it continue.
I would be ok with it if we started seeing "works best with firefox" instead of chrome/edge.
Helmets are still advantageous and will continue to abate TBIs in that tool regimen. In addition, helmets can be used in a backwards compatible way to increase safety in older cars (which make up a very large fraction of vehicles on the street).
The mathematics of black holes and quantum mechanics would be incomprehensible to a mind before written language because you'd be missing a lot of levels of abstraction and imagination.

To assume that things must look significantly similar to how they've looked before, ignores that we can be in the dark about what constitutes life in the same way we've been in the past.

> This is incoherent. I don't even know how to parse it.

I can parse what he said easily. People used to look at the sun and think it was actual fire, because they only had fire on earth to compare it to. You might see something on another planet that looks like a plant so you assume it has the same biological characteristics as a plant, but that's just an assumption.
Redpoint's list of the most important cloud infrastructure companies (private)
> The US stopped tactical nuclear weapons because it thought they were not useful, not because of the protests in Europe.

This didn't happen... most of America's tactical nuclear weapons were withdrawn when the Cold War ended, but America still has several hundred of them and has continued to upgrade them with new guidance systems.

See the B61, specifically the Mod 3, 4, 10 and 12 varients. These are tactical nuclear weapons with 'dial-a-yield' down to 0.3 kilotons. The mod 12 was developed during the 2010s and is in production now.
I don't have numbers either, but it's a combination of extreme focus on the boot path and virtio drivers, and traditional containers now being quite heavyweight to start (especially when run via Kubernetes).

The big problem with Katacontainers is not whether or not they are slightly faster or slower than containers, but the fixed memory allocation which means you must first know and then allocate the maximum amount of memory they might ever need up front. This can practically limit the number of Katacontainers you can run to something much smaller than is possible with ordinary containers, since RAM is the constrained resource on most servers.

Nevertheless, with confidential computing coming along, it's likely that at some point in the future many containers will really be VMs, since current CPUs implement confidential computing on top of existing VM primitives (and that's basically necessary due to the way the guest RAM is encrypted). It's likely that any workload that touches PII, finance, health, etc will be required to use confidential computing.
The coldest star yet that emits radio waves
Are they bad, or are they bad because they don't torture the text to fit modern day sensibilities and npc iq?
Is the end of the article behind a paywall? The only two arguments I read are 1) skyscrapers are growing quicker than 3 other cities, and 2) it happens to contain the author's favorite cocoa shop. Surely I'm missing the bottom of it.
3227 days, running RHEL 5, took a screenshot first, then powered it off a couple of months ago. Amazing what can lurk in big corp networks.
Riding around in a sedan is so undignified. Please point me to the $50k trucks...I need a deal.
Energy industry uses whale activists to aid anti-wind farm strategy
it is probably not trivial to assess the local hydrology and the extent to which children’s play areas might be exposed to such water.

Especially since there are thousands and thousands of schools in America that get their water from wells.

It doesn't seem overly-cautious to wonder about lead placed under a water course 50 years to a century ago finding its way into the groundwater supply a half-mile away.
>Unwitting whale advocates and rightwing thinktanks create the impression that offshore wind energy projects endanger cetaceans
Truth.

>The [International Booker Prize] celebrates the vital work of translators, with the £50,000 prize money divided equally between the author and the translator.

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-international-booker-prize
OK, now this hits all the marks for me.

Thanks for sharing.

I wish there was more info about this front end, and some way to ensure that it persists.
> It still blows my mind that you can plug in a USB stick containing every C64 game ever written.

This reminds me of a friend who had every Atari 2600 game ever written on a 3.5" floppy...
I don't hate right-wing bloggers, in fact I follow many and respect their opinions. However I think the debate around housing often lacks nuance, and a pure free market approach feels like it comes more from dogmatism than practical policy making.

It's possible that the bloggers I follow fit in my filter bubble, which is based around the California/London regions so there's likely selection bias.
My opinion is that any ancient writings are best read in a bilingual edition (like those of the Loeb collection), even when you do not know well or at all the original language.

When you also have the original text, whenever there is a more interesting or obscure paragraph you can look to see what was really said, possibly with the help of a dictionary.

Even when the translation is good, the translator cannot stop at each sentence and explain why certain English words have been chosen, which may be the closest to what was said, or they may be not, but the translator has thought that the chosen translation is easier to understand for an average reader.

The older translations (and perhaps the future translations, taking into account the current trends) also avoided to translate whatever words were considered offensive when the translation was done.
I had it in the title originally, but it got changed to match the title of the article. I assumed it was Daniel that changed it.
Another fundamental question not addressed:

> Rows of these sharp metal pins have become a common feature of the urban environment, installed on rooftops and ledges to discourage birds from perching or nesting on buildings.

Who installs these things and why? Maybe I'm not urban enough, but I don't understand why you'd even install these things. What's wrong with birds perching on a building?
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Funny you mention Rad, they seem to be another golden-boy eBike company that grew too quickly and is struggling. I have a Rover 6+ and am concerned about being able to get parts quickly in the future...
Considering you make a very bold claim would you mind expanding on how you think your viewpoint is actually better?
Good point, we should never hold public companies accountable for anything because it will hurt grandpa’s pension. Think of all those poor retirees! We’re not monsters.
Eh, I think variety is the spice of life. Communities need to have the freedom to plan what works best for them.
Tokyo is a nice city but this is a weird article. Is it cut-off by a paywall?
I'd be curious to see.

Not your wife, but the banner.
>Russia has always been an imperialistic, genocidal and brutal country, incapable of creating anything of lasting value.

Wow dude, that is quite deranged.

>Unless Estonia was in NATO, Russian armors might very well be now in Tallinn.

Russia borders 14 countries, and I don't think it fought with any except over the issue of NATO membership.
In Dutch (which is in some ways "in between" German and English, but usually closer to German), "vechten met" can indicate either opposition or parallelness.
Why it was designed an executed does nothing to refute my point.
I think what you say makes complete sense at module-level (as in, for a standalone lib for instance) but I never bother segregating things internally within a lib/module/exe and rely on good documentation and coding practices to avoid having member mutations all over the place.

If I code in Rust or C++ I can use namespacing and public/private to give every single object in the codebase a clean interface, but in C doing that is just frustrating, not to mention potentially inefficient.
I have been using Firefox ever since Opera bit the dust, but I have been trying, so hard, to use Vivaldi the last 3-6 months, mostly because it offers a portable version out of the box that discovers profiles just by looking at folders, i.e. super sweet for syncing.

But it's such a dog. Even after turning off mail and feeds which just sit there eating CPU like candy, I just can't make it fast, and returning to and cleaning up my Firefox made it so snappy, I'd rather stick to my 3 profiles (normal,dev, media) and do the rest via Bookmarks. And for all the sweet UI options and configurability Vivaldi has, with Tree Style Tabs and some addons for it, and hacking the UI CSS, I am sheepishly making Firefox my primary again, pretending none of that happened.

I wish it cached compiled WebGL shaders though. That is the only thing where Chrome beats it to a pulp sadly. Maybe there are config tweaks, I haven't looked into it, but out of the box reloading a page with a lot of shaders is basically instant in Chrome, even on mobile, and can take ages on FF, depending on the shaders.
As someone who has spent a majority of his career in Telecom, I think the risk is wildly overstated.

First - only 20-60% of the cable in the wild is lead (depending on the locality, and age of construction), from the mid to late 60's on, PIC (or other similar plastic covered cable) was installed. Also, as capacity was added in between 1980 and 2000, lead cable was removed from service over time.

Second - Yes, You're gonna get exposed to lead working in the field on wired telecom, I have some measure of exposure, lead is not good - but its a risk to employees who work on the legacy wired plant.

"Shalini Ramachandran: I talked to a number of women who worked in AT&T central offices doing lead soldering work, connecting lead sheathed cables from the outside with the internal central office machinery. They actually showed gloves with the fingertips cut off because they had to do sort of small, intricate work to melt the solder with a soldering iron. So, they describe breathing in those fumes. They're not being sort of fans or exhaust around and feeling headaches often every day coming home from work and gastrointestinal issues, nausea, constipation, infertility issues, miscarriages. One woman had developed kidney cancer and had to have a kidney removed."

Though I see one glaring issue with the way the mention things here - by the time a cable reached the main frame of a CO, they were stripped from their sheath - yes they wore fingerless gloves because you needed to be able to wrap the fine copper wire around the lug on the frame, and then solder it with an iron who's tip is roughly the size of a human thumb. That wire though is copper, and the wire from the field was on the back side of the frame, not the front side where the regular work was done to run jumpers. That said, the solder users was lead based.

I have no doubt AT&T studied blood lead levels among employees (AT&T had a how-to document on sweeping), they had a document for every purpose, and studied every aspect of their operations. Those studies were done just before we understood how harmful lead is, it was known to be not good, but not how bad even safe levels of lead could be for humans.

Third - while there is a risk to the general public, its generally infinitesimally small - meaning there is probably more lead in the soil from cars going by for 40-50 years with leaded gasoline, than there is from the buried lead cable underground, or the areal lead cable overhead on the poles.

Fourth - Most of this plant is either going to be abandoned or replaced within 20ish years. Copper last mile is a declining business, even AT&T (nee SBC) is moving to a FTTP from a FTTN architecture. Meaning outside of some remediation costs, removing it from the ground and/or poles will be enough to solve this.
I disagree. They had a lot of great ideas for the prevention of tyranny. They weren't perfect, and some parts of the Constitution as originally ratified were simply a product of reaching a compromise that both Northern and Southern states would both be on board with.

The beauty of the Constitution is that it can be changed via amendments, but it is intentionally resistant to change to ensure proper debate and compromise so that it benefits the country as a whole.
FWIW, I emailed him at the same time I posted the comment :)
If you set your VPN location to Norway now, is this likely to force your ads to not be based on behavioral advertising?
Yeah that’s the current situation is better for small businesses is a bit of a weird take, considering how consolidated the world has gotten in the last 20 years.

While there might be anecdotes to support such a claim, the numbers tell a different story. Any reduction in friction is bound to benefit the businesses with the largest footprint, as they can leverage economies of scale and recursive synergies.
My hope is that people growing up in this new world are going to be better trained to cope with misinformation.
The boutique, high quality agency isn't threatened by this.

The agencies that churned out cheap websites based on templates are the ones that will be impacted.
facepalm, thanks for the correction
reactor plant noises?

Would like to hear more about this! Assuming the reaction itself is silent (?) what kinds of sounds is the reactor making and what are the challenges in quieting them?
I'm in the middle of trying to organize work for a new software product where there were varying levels of things done, not done, performance optimized, UX refined or not, etc. This is literally the framework I've used when trying to prioritize work and set some milestones to track progress. Make it work, make it work well, and then make it work fast.
Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing...

I guess you haven't read a newspaper in the last 70 years.
I’m not sure I agree that the current argument is about whether the company did something so harmful they should no longer exist, but I agree that whatever it is, it is not the same as TBTF.
Ah yes, notable right wing blogger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

https://www.curbed.com/2022/01/aoc-2022-pledge-pro-housing-y...
The headline says vertical but this describes short takeoff on a well prepared surface.

I wonder if the F35B’s thrust would rip up a highway like SpaceX’s first starship launch.

https://news.usni.org/2014/01/15/sna-2014-heat-f-35-mv-22-co...
Immediate need for a dedicated forum for cloud ai accelerator "finetuning" for me as well. Not specific to H100. Or cloud vendor. Even the leads at NVidia would appreciated a backchannel ;)
3. It’s fun to fly around the world with friends!
https://archive.ph/vgiNk
EGenesis plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year
They are also the ones judging what is truth and neutrality.

This is equivalent to saying:

"A bot trained on the articles that we have written gives the answers that the writers of the articles expected"
> since it was quite a good program.

I bailed on it a couple of years ago because I found it an unpleasant user experience. Had it improved since then?
They did. See: https://github.com/bazingagin/npc_gzip/issues/3
> catastrophically mismanaged the way we provide parking in this country
> it’s not properly priced

It is was interesting how complex the parking situation can be. So many factors come into play when planning a trip to raise my anxiety levels. Factors include: likelihood of availability given your timing, safely of vehicle, price (anywhere from free to $60 a day), time limits, proximity to desired location.

I think I would like some sort of reservation system, but I am sure that would come with other unforeseen issues, like rick people reserving everything at all times.