skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> giving Amazon plausible excuse to say "n words read"?

Amazon wouldn't do that because that would cost them more money (the payout to authors is based on that).

The authors would have an incentive to do that, but Amazon does their best to prevent it (again, because it costs them money).

I suspect that anything that rises to the best-seller level gets examined by Amazon very closely.
Ah that could be it. They state that they generate 100% of all their power needs with hydro, but I know power markets are weird black magic entities. It's possible they could really generate all their power needs with hydro, but then sell that power to another company and then buy-in coal for less.
Short appointments on the front end, specialisation on the back end.

Both of them doing a remarkably good job in the circumstances, but the front end doctor's job is to figure out which specialist you need or send you home with basic painkillers or antibiotics.

And the specialists deal with their area, as such perhaps more concerned with the body part or system rather than the patient and their circumstances.

Not a good fit for complex cases or those whose root cause falls outside the scope of strictly medical.
https://youtu.be/s2xrarUWVRQ
They should ask news agencies to sell the rights to share articles for 0$. Why are they only after one party in the transaction.
How so? (asking as someone who has been involved in rationalism-related activities)
Most incorporated places in the US (city, town, village, etc) will require permission from the local government to put up a windmill/ wind turbine; even when it's not required, local governments find ways to punish legal behavior they don't like.

In rural and unincorporated areas in the US, folks would likely be OK.
“let me know how I can be helpful”

This take on VC history is incredibly specious and reads like a bunch of country club boys taking advantage of the CH writer’s “unbiased” tone because they couldn’t get their edits approved in Wikipedia.

Missing from the story:

* Radar and stealth development and US Gov investment in Stanford, MIT, etc, that predates much of the VC comments in this article. US Taxpayers made a huge investment in SV.

* It touches on Apple but totally ignores Steve Jobs relationship with the Apple Board

* Modern textbook examples of VC Boardroom greed e.g. Pets.com, Broadcast.com, Paypal, Uber, Wework, etc etc SPACS especially

* The move to megacap Founder-owned companies E.g. Facebook, Airbnb, Snap, Google. Historically these examples cement the relative uselessness of VCs in internet endeavors that are much less capital-intensive vs hardware.

It’s a decent article on how VCs see themselves as being helpful but an unabashed sign that the biases of the Computer History Museum.
tangent: fnm
https://github.com/Schniz/fnm
is faster than nvm and much cleaner in its shell integration.
Maximal acceleration geometries and spacetime curvature bounds(2019)
>The MAGA movement does not seem to have any clear goals; the general theme I discern from it is "burn it all to the ground" (a literal quote from a supporter).

I took a trip to New Hampshire this past week and noted a banner on a house that read:

Trump 2024
Make the liberals cry!

Which seems like a pretty clear goal to me. Achieving such a goal does absolutely nothing to make my home (the United States) a better place for anyone, including those who support such a goal. Rather, it just drives division and makes reasonable compromise more difficult. Which will likely just make addressing the legitimate grievances (and there absolutely legitimate grievances) such folks have impossible to alleviate.

>Some of their grievances are legitimate (government failures, the decline of relative prosperity) and others are "understandable" (the fear and dislike of "others" that they are uncomfortable with (LGBQT+, different religions and races, the decline of the default dominance of their alphas (white men)), the defining name of their movement is as vague as can be.

Absolutely. At the same time, the "cultural" portions of the above list can be credibly addressed by simply allowing folks to live their own lives. Want to be an Evangelical Christian? Go for it! Think sex with someone of a particular gender isn't right? Don't do it. Think abortion is wrong? Don't have one.

But considering those who believe differently on a few points, especially in a nation where the vast majority of us agree on most things, the enemy is counterproductive in the extreme.

The vast majority of us just want a decent chance at having a good life, regardless of other issues. Adopting the attitude that those who disagree with you about specific things are evil and must be eradicated is, IMHO, reductive in the extreme and almost guarantees that the issues the vast majority of us can agree upon won't be addressed.

And that's sad.
Sure, you can define "the AI Boom" in such as a way as to say "The AI Boom is over." No problem. But... taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, I'd say that any slight, contemporary, dip in interest in AI is just that: a dip. A momentary blip at a point in time, hardly the harbinger of any larger trend. There's no reason I see to expect anything less than for AI research to continue, and for AI to become progressively more and more useful.

So no, not in an bigger, more universal sense, would I agree that "the AI Boom is over". If anything, it's just starting.
If you were shown a screen, told it consists of individual pixels, but no matter what microscope you grab you can't discern those pixels, does that screen consist of pixels or is it a continuous canvas?

That's kind of where physics is at, no? Until you succeed in building an apparatus that lets you see individual pixels, it's a continuous canvas for all intents & purposes.

Some discrete & deterministic layer underneath it all is a more elegant possibility imho. Might suit people who prefer "nature at its deepest level is math" worldview. But why would reality 'bother' to fit into that shoe? It just is. Whatever that is. Discrete or continuous, deterministic or probabilistic.
> Most of the basic health care is Germany is not publicly organized, but private. The health insurance system is heavily publicly regulated.

This is a pseudo-distinction imho. Yes, the doctor's offices and clinics are private institutions and not organized under a single umbrella like in the UK the NHS would represent. However, the vast majority take appointments from publicly insured patients and are in compliance with the guidelines setup by the public health insurances. Also, in most cases publicly insured patients make up the majority of appointments.

Moreover, there isn't really a competition between public health insurance providers. The price difference between providers is negligible and so are the services covered (most providers cover the minimum as outlined by the law plus a few extra things you usually don't ever need).

TL;DR: the German healthcare system is public
You changed my pov and I agree with what you say.

Although, I didn't mean that a zero incidence rate should be the rule, more like, if one knows a system is defective, also in such a dangerous context, it'd be negligent to still ship it under the pretense of a "low incidence rate".
You assume an AGI's goal will be to expand. I think a more likely goal is forming a distributed consciousness to survive and trying to outlive the heat death of the universe. There's no reason to believe an AGI will be malicious.

Anyways, merging into such an AGI is, hopefully, the future of humanity.
Stop lying about what people write. It’s especially unconvincing when what you are writing about is directly above your lie. I did not write that “they were engaging in the inverse of therapy.” I wrote “Irony aside, the essay could be categorized as reverse-CBT. Read more about Lukianoff’s idea at the link below:. . .” Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a particular technique proven to help people. Lukianoff’s idea of reverse CBT is that people engaged in it are performing many of the things that CBT works against (without speaking to that as being part of the care prescribed by a healthcare provider).

Again, like your lies about what is written, you lie about “various insults at the author.” It’s plain to see that there is no insult in what was written, especially since you can’t be bothered to quote anything.

You can lie, you can disagree while covering your ears, hopefully one day you can come to grips with the world as it is even if today is not that day.
> (the minimum value of entropy) seems to come from an extremely hand-wavy argument

So does the "maximum force" argument, which is given in this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0309118

It is, to say the least, not generally accepted as a valid argument.
Having a black water tank on the roof for solar heated warm water is not uncommon in southern Europe.

Most camping showers work by the same principle. If you need warm water and you have enough sunlight to warm it when you need it, this is not a bad idea
Show HN: Simple open-source tool for mocking using TS interfaces
Electricity from solar panels on your roof is in the range of 16-23% efficient, but there are no distribution losses. Electricity from a coal plant or single-cycle natural gas plant is ~30-40% efficient, and a combined-cycle natural gas plant can reach up to 60% efficiency under ideal conditions, with an additional 5% of produced electricity lost in distribution.
American Airlines sues travel website Skiplagged over ticket price ‘loophole’
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/maximum-space-time-cur... [2008]

https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/88033-maximum-theoretica... [2015]
I don't think anyone has mentioned her self-published book, Hacking Capitalism. I haven't even finished it because I keep having to set it down and think. It's not only insightful about how tech workers fit into big companies, but specifically gives advice about how to get ahead in the system without losing yourself.
Not with any existing earth-bound or low-earth-orbit telescope. The largest landers were the Apollo landers, which are over 4 meters across. Photographs of the landing sites have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, but none of the photographs have the resolution necessary to see the landers.

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/hubble_moon...

On the other hand, some Lunar-orbit spacecraft have directly photographed prior landers. Here is an article with nice photographs from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Apollo 17 landing site, in which the descent stage of the lander, and tracks leading to and from it, are clearly visible.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.htm...

and here is a timestamp showing an image that India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter took of the Apollo 11 landing site and descent stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oV-Kx26no&t=3613s
R.I.P.

Nearly half a century ago, a visualization tool for a port (!) morphed into an interpreter for laser printers:

"The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 by John Gaffney at Evans & Sutherland, a computer graphics company. At that time Gaffney and John Warnock were developing an interpreter for a large three-dimensional graphics database of New York Harbor." (Wikipedia)

I read about this also in some book (Coders at Work?), and was surprised it did not originate from the graphics design community, although Warnock's wife is a graphics designer. Adobe wasn't named after a habor, but after the little creek behind Warnock's home in California, apparently.
All else being equal, sure. However these towns have collapsed. It's sort of like Detroit - any natural draw they have is overwhelmed by the fallout from how they collapsed.

Just like Detroit, there are a new breed of hipsters, priced out of middle class areas, starting to gentrify some areas again, for example see somewhere like Margate. But it's a slow process...
I think you’re overestimating the complexity of an stm setup. There exist small coffee machine sized stm machines because the principal behind the operation is relatively straightforward. People have made diy stm machines using piezo electric buzzers as the component that moves a tungsten needle over a sample. It’s relatively easy to make atomically thick tungsten needle points because of how it fractures along its grain structure. The tech behind the principle of operation of an stm is already ubiquitous.
> 1 second googling tells me it is 70%.

... at full sun visibility, that is. However, in winter where it's cloudy, raining or, worse, there's snowpack on the panel? Now it's at 0%, right when you actually need it the most.

So you have to have the solar heating system and a fallback for winter/night, and the headaches of all that extra pipework just don't make it worth the effort because all you're going to get from it is a few hot showers during summer.
UTM is open source (Apache2). You can also add any argument supported by the bundled version of QEMU using the GUI.

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/blob/main/LICENSE
In the Shadow of the Planets [video]
Have you considered “git gui” or “git branch -a” ?
You might even say I have an incredible taste in books.
How do you say whether COVID is up or down without a baseline? If only our local numbers are useful, what is the CDCs role in publicizing local ones when your city/state can do that just as well?
What’s the relative impact of a mile driven vs. an hour of the tv being on?

Edit: Hmmm. According to gpt-4, the average TV would incur about .02 kg of CO2 per hour of usage, assuming a typical electrical grid mix in the US. While it estimates that driving 1 mile emits avout 0.1 kg of CO2.

If that’s the case, 5 hours of TV is roughly equal 1 mile of driving. Interesting.

Of course, if the grid has a higher percentage of renewables or the car is electric, that changes things.
UTM uses qemu or Apple's own virtualization framework, which runs macOS.
I actually wrote the post in markdown, so even getting it into medium was superficially complicated process
surprised there’s no mention of kdb+ in here. iirc it’s older and more performant than most of these
https://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#1998_fanf

One of several IOCCC winners based on lazy evaluation.
Hell yeah! Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was amazing and I always thought it was sad it became abandonware.
As someone I really enjoy adore & respect, I also would really like to see some very well informed & supported critiques of Reich. I love what he says, with great consistency, and I think it'd be so dielectically interesting to test out, sound out counter-ideas.
Some previous discussion from a few years back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006249
This idea is not my own, it's something discussed in the clinical literature.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2276104/

There is literature documenting a higher incidence of allergies in patients with autoimmune disorders.

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/54/5/1900476

BACH2 is one of the gene's being investigated for it's role in allergies & auto-immune disorders, and tregs, which is why I keep bringing them up on this thread.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3710737/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8934237/
C has been a disaster for software stability and security. We should have stuck with Ada or Oberon.
Sure. Because to prevent their prisoners of war from reproducing would be genocide.

They're effectively in a giant prison; within the prison, they're free to do whatever they want. They just can't leave.
No one is upset, only a reality check how guest languages eventually fade away as the underlying platform and the related "system" language evolved.

I never saw Spock being used outside Grails projects, and Jenkins seems to become less and less relevant in modern cloud pipelines.
Doing Terrible Things to Your Code (2015)
I once traveled (for work) with a Dutch guy that was a few years older. He loved to travel and loved interacting with people, even though he was not the best bespoken. In an aeroplane, he randomly spoke to people, asked interesting questions and people were generally nice to him. When I saw this, I thought, this is what I want -- speak to any person\stranger without having to overcome any fear.

And my wish appeared to be strong enough, after a while i became a person who will talk to almost anybody at any place. It feels liberating.

However, like with so many things in life, it has a flip side, it comes with disadvantages. Sometimes I get feedback that I am too forthcoming. Also, I get disappointed sometimes. In the q at the bakery, people are often saying nothing, staring at their phone screen (mostly the younger people). So i open up a conversation, people are waiting anyways. Almost each time i have the first and the last word, which feels awkward. Also, i have the feeling that younger people often have a lack of interacting skills, when it is in-person, they seem to be uncomfortable. So talking to them can give an awkward feeling in the end.

Maybe some people recognize this and could give advice?
Apple's animation technologies through the ages
Boiling water through friction requires seals [1] , and rubber seals are pretty hard (not impossible) to make low tech.

The lowest tech solution IMHO is a squirrel cage generator and ohmic resistors. No magnets or fancy electronics are needed. Just remnant magnetization of soft iron and some copper wire/tube.

[1] a demo doesn't need seals, but a heating solution that will work for ten years will.
Awhile ago I tried to prove to my pothead friends that marijuana smoke from joints would cause cancer too, due to breathing combusted plant material. However, at the time I couldn’t find and academic or medical studies which showed smoking marijuana alone leads to higher cancer rates. This shocked me and seemed very counter intuitive. I’m not sure if maybe that research is now perhaps easy to find many years later or if it’s still not proven.
Sartori Parmesan made in Wisconsin is better than the regional designation stuff.
A lot of activities are hard to do in a tent. And it’s not really binary, yes they will happen, no they won’t happen as much.

Recently a few people were murdered at a squatted property near where I live that the police left alone for far too long. Things just get out of hand too quickly at a property taken over by addicts (regardless of their housing status), and yes, that still happens in tents on the street, just to a lesser degree (although we did have a fight for drug turf recently at one encampment that involved IEDs, so maybe that’s changing?).
UTM is open source too though: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM#license
With `isize` you can support up to 2^63 duplicate rows, which means that if a row is as short as one byte a single diff can represent several exabytes of rows
Same. I tried playing it on wine, but it was always a bit unstable for me and crashed. I never knew that there was a FOSS reimplementation.

edit: Looks like this project started in 2017, but it made leaps in the last year.

http://deat.tk/jazz2/release-notes
FWIW, LosslessCut works similarly to Vidcutter except it’s functionality is flawless (within limitations) in my experience. Def worth a look if you run into a similar need in the future.
No, the absence of a bad thing creates room for a good thing.

Because an old, out of date application is not available, there is a viable market for a new, up-to-date application that serves the same purpose.
Yes, I have been part of one from age 17 to in my 30s. I don't want to appear in search results by mentioning the name literally, but it is a Scandinavian-based religious cult. I found a way out very slowly by connecting to other people with different ideas. It started with coaching from a psychologist and, funny enough, volunteering in a homeless community. Homeless people don't really care about me or what I think, which was very liberating. My wife grew up in the cult, and her father was one of the leaders. This made it difficult for her, but she shared my doubts and we were lucky we could do this process of leaving together. Other couples divorced on these things. We lost nearly all contact with her family, but we were again lucky to being able to build a new network around us. Leaving the cult had so much impact on our lives, we could never foresee it. Which was good, because we may never have done it is we knew beforehand. It has been 10-11 years now and the dust is finally settling. I am convinced that this was the right step for us, but I can never bear the responsibility of recommending others to go this same painful path.

Sorry, there is way more to this story than this paragraph. If I can help someone by sharing more, we could communicate in some other way. Also, I'm not native English, so don't read nuances where they're not intended :)
A year of an Energy Star-rated TV being on for 5 hours a day is equivalent to charging a Tesla Model 3 once.
HN 2021 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28053649
sorry, i read this printed. It is textbook length, studying requires lots of flipping around. everything else kindle tho
The scenario you declare depends on the mutual trust between BGP speakers. It's a weak wall of defence. All public BGP is under continuous scrutiny so this kind of thing is detected but that's post hoc remediation. AS holders need to use BGP detection systems to see rogue instances of their AS and within an "island" of border a large number of AS could be made to see a rogue and occlude it from others.

Additional signed states in BGPsec and in emerging ASPA would make this much harder but with 80,000 AS its a large job to both compute and share the adjacency information, and largely BGP path security is a work in progress.

What you say about Iran is substantively true for any economy which wants to control its borders.
Musk complains that taxes on him are too high. He's fine receiving subsidies paid for by my taxes and your taxes. It's worse than simply being hypocritical it's being sociopathic. It's not at all like you complaining about a system that's unfair to others.
kdb doesn't support effecient vector similarity searches, or efficient storage of high-dimensional vectors. It isn't really in the same class as the vector databases discussed in this post. It's more suited for time series data.
I've read the article twice and can't seem to find how they know there are two other cabinets. Did James Martin's family tell them that there were two others his son dumped? Judging by the flyer he posted, he seemed to know there were two other cabinets before he even knew who they belonged to.
It IS a terrifying exception for 2023.

They're going point by point with the worst of the US's imperialism of the last decade.

Are supposed to not be terrified at slavery because it was once common in the US? What?
> I think the real reason nobody does solar thermal is because it's just so much less practical to deal with pipes and pumps and heat reservoirs than wires and batteries.

It very much depends where one is located. My parents' house, in a subtropical climate region, has had solar thermal for over 2 decades. Now they've also installed PV panels, but hot water is still mainly solar thermal with electrical heating as supplement.

New houses also have dual setups like theirs. Solar thermal collectors for hot water + PV for other electric usage and selling the excess to the grid.

> Also it is useless in the summer when you don't need heating.

You still do need some water heating in the summer.
Might actually teach physics then
what are the challengers? there are a few twitter scientists who have written QM textbooks that haven’t made their way into university curriculum yet
Why is this getting so many upvotes? Pretty unspectacular stuff.
I don’t really understand the “atoms in the universe” argument. That has nothing to do with the size of an economy. We don’t need an atom to represent every “bit” of an economy.