skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I've never been that worried, my skin doesn't burn easily even though I'm very fair-skinned and live in Spain and often hike outdoors.

I just hate that SPF stuff on my skin. It makes it sticky and makes me feel dirty. Instead I just try to avoid burning. I do bring some for when it does start but it almost never does. What I do to avoid it works well enough.

What I tend to do is just take the shady side of the road wherever possible and for the rest of the time just not worry too much unless I really feel I start getting burned. I check that by scratching my skin with my nail, once it starts burning it feels sharper. Then I'd put on the lotion. And by the time I get home my skin will be slightly red but not seriously burned. Which is pretty rare because I tend to tan naturally. By the time spring starts I already have a light brown shade and it protects me during summer. Most of the time I don't even burn at all.

What I do think is bad is someone living in a dark nothern country going on holidays for 2 weeks and spending 2 weeks lying on the beach in the full mediterranean sun. Sunblock or not. My ex used to do that and she got totally burned on the first day even with the sunblock and then spent the rest of the weeks complaining :) I used to live in such a country and I was always more careful during holidays.
another perspective to the shared thinking is that if a lion is charging at you in the jungle, there very first thing isn't conceptual; it's just fear which will immediately coordinate any mammals in the group to run or prepare to fight.

I say this because I know some dogs are able to learn the ball thing too, oh and the fear thing is part of how i communicate with my dog.
According to this Jeff Bezos took a flight from Seattle to Genova, Italy.

I didn't know small private jets were capable of long haul flights like that without stopping.
For TLS, there’s https://bytebybyte.dev/ and https://tls13.xargs.org/
So everything that any company designs should go through a committee before it’s introduced and become parts of a standards body?
The developers are literally paid to do the least amount of work that could possibly do towards delivering some abstract MVP "this sprint".

Actually making something that is simple and maintainable is the 7th or 8th priority of business, if it is a priority at all.

Artificial "obstacles" to delivering the artifacts in time in fact, wanted, a sort of corporation Deus ex machina, externalities to explain why they did not meet delivery deadlines last time.

Incentives are not aligned. Things will remain broken until incentives are aligned.
The details of the article seem significantly less exciting and bombastic than the headline claims. If I understand correctly, H&R Block uses Google Analytics (and Meta's equivalent). That's about it?
You may have the skill, knowledge and wealth to pay for email, news and services, but a large part of the population doesn't and they will drag you down with them.

Edit: typo, 'to' instead of 'the'
> What over time causes a panel to fail?

During a thunderstorm this spring, the solar farm I'm talking about above suffered significant damage from hailstones, losing around 10% of the panels (the farm had only opened in summer 22). That's one anecdotal example.

> I think counting a nuclear plant specifically without also counting the uranium mine required to support it is not completely honest.

You're vastly underestimating the energy density of Uranium: France, which produces close to 80% of its energy with nuclear imports less than 10 000T of Uranium each year. That's one kilo for 44 MWh of nuclear energy. (And most of it, the U238 part, isn't actually being used, but instead stored until the advent of breeder reactors). A solar panel weights a few dozens of kilograms per MWh/year (let say 20kg/Mwh/year, conservatively, even though from a quick search it's likely more) so you'd need to have your solar panel for 44x20 = 880 years for the mass of the solar panel to be of the same order of magnitude as the same mass of Uranium.

> And also the storage facility for the waste should be counted as well.

As mentioned earlier, there will be hundreds of time more waste from Solar panels than from nuclear. Solar panel's waste are actually toxic wastes[1], full of heavy metals, BTW. (And unlike nuclear radioactive wastes, heavy metals have an infinite half-life: they don't live from hundred of years, they remain toxic forever)

> Uranium is typically huge open pit mines.

Only 12% of Uranium mining actually happen in open pits mines[2]. Also, do you think Silicon grows in trees?

France alone extracts 12 times more silicon that what we import of Uranium.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Mining_techniqu...
Yeah, we should vote for the other party to punish the--what? That's their platform? Oh.

Posts like this, which blame only the Democrats by name, are practically agitprop.
Yeah I think iOS has some level of granularity, like "time-sensitive" versus other notifications, but you can't disable marketing versus ride-related notifications in one predictable place (you have to hunt through the app's privacy settings, IIRC, to find at least some of them). I wish Apple would provide a per-app setting that controlled necessary versus unnecessary notifications.
What should he have done differently to improve his analysis?
> Simpler solutions, conveyed and implemented in human language, will be king in 2024.

I would love this to be the case, but it seems that complex and expensive systems are too lucrative to everyone involved: CTOs get to manage big budgets and bit teams, devops people get paid large salaries to justify the CTOs salary and large service budgets, etc.
Cars have fairly clean tailpipes these days. Older Diesel train engines still in service are disgusting. Construction vehicles are also pretty bad. The worst are large ocean going vessels burning bunker fuel in port which is illegal but very cheap.
>I mean having dozens of random projects on my computer, most having been built just once and which won't be touched for an indeterminate amount of time.

You don't have to persist all of the build time dependencies forever. It can redownload them if you need to rebuild one of them.
As with many things in medicine, it depends on specifics and context. With some viruses, this might work, and with others it could kill you. Vaccination itself is tricky partly for this very reason as far as I know (not a doctor or epidemiologist).

Variolation for example, the predecessor to the world's first practice of vaccination (against smallpox) involved taking tiny amounts of live smallpox from scabs or pustules and giving them to people intentionally for a much lighter infection course that made them immune without the usually killing or horrifically disfiguring blow of a full smallpox infection. (look up photos of smallpox scars in survivors, warning, it gets graphic. Even many famous figures like Stalin were completely pockmarked by the scars of the virus for the rest of their lives, as you can see in unedited photos of the dictator)

It usually worked, but sometimes the patients got really sick anyhow and died. By the standards of the time, when fully a third of the population could expect to die from some epidemic disease or another, this was considered wonderful. Today it wouldn't be and thus the complexities of carefully calibrating vaccines.
Because they'd operate at cost, which is wildly out of alignment with what the market will charge you for a CPU cycle.

I'd bet that <10% of what you pay for an EC2 instance is hardware acquisition and labor and electricity. The other 90 is in support of the never ending zero-sum game that is fighting over market share.

Compare it to municipal internet, in which you usually pay less to get more because you can fire the marketing department.
That's not necessarily correct.

It's more like this: they don't know how to force it to do something as binary, so they try talking to it after it's grown up "please do what I told you".

The same can be said for a person or animal, we don't program the DNA, we program the brain as it grows or after it has grown.

I am not speaking to whether LLMs are intelligent or not, I am saying though this does not prove or disprove that.
I think now is a salient time to remind people:

Don’t read the news. It’s bad for you and wants to make you angry or scared so you read more and share more.

Moreover, most news is fake, in the sense that your understanding of the world is worse after reading it. Most newsworthy things are rare so nearly everything you read about in the news is statistically overrepresented. This means if you read about something that ~never happens, and you implicitly conclude that it ~sometimes happens, your understanding of the world has not gotten better, but worse!
3 Nobel Prizes cover all of science – how research is done now poses challenges
Are you aware of just how unreliable eyewitness testimony is?
Maybe the disconnect here is a misunderstanding of how much wealth billionaires have. We could increase fuel tax by 1000x, increase landing fees by 1000x, and this would not even begin to give billionaires pause on waste and excess flying.

The average person will be priced out by taxes and increased fees far long before any mega wealthy person will even feel it as a stiff breeze against their accounts.
Residents of American suburbs should have to pay for their full costs (infrastructure and maintenance, environmental, healthcare, services, ...), and if many people can't afford it, we should do a universal cash subsidy to every resident at the federal level to make up the difference so the transition is not so damaging, then let people decide if they really want to spend that whole amount on paying the actual costs of their lifestyle or if they would prefer to move to a more efficient living arrangement and keep the cash to do something more productive with it.

The USA subsidizes the suburbs to an absurd degree, pushing most of the costs into the future and making city dwellers pay more than their share for the rest.

Living in a relatively large house in the suburbs should in principle cost several times more than living in a flat in the city, because it requires vastly more infrastructure and the amortized cost of services is much higher. But our broken economic system has flipped this around and made suburbs extremely artificially cheap, while making most of the building practices that make denser walkable neighborhoods possible illegal under building codes and local ordinances.
It's not like meat would be better - for capitalist reasons, a lot of traditional breeds of cows, pigs and poultry are nearing extinction because production has optimized to a very few select breeds that produce the "most" meat, at the cost of the animal's welfare (especially with chicken that have issues standing upright) and the taste.
What does this mean? This is such a low quality meme. Most businesses don't own their buildings. So what's the rationale?

1. Company leases expensive office

2. Realizes that no one has to work from the office anymore so they're wasting money on this office

3. Inconveniences everyone by making everyone return to the office

4. Profit?

The lease is a sunk cost. They can try to sublease it out or pay some penalty to get out of it. Even if they owned it, why would they force people to come into the office and not just sell it? If it's worthless to them, then again what they paid for it is a sunk cost and they may as well just sell it. And why wouldn't they try to greatly expand their application pool to non-local workers if WFH is just as good. It's insane.

I've never heard a reasonable explanation as to why managers are so invested in commercial real estate prices that they'll collectively organize and forsake their interests to keep up the mirage.

The more reasonable explanation is that a lot of people work bullshit jobs or can skate by doing very little. These people are harder to control and less visibility by WFH makes it very obvious and managers don't feel good about it.
It’s a Vans RV10. Easily capable of going cross country. It has a range of 1000 miles.
I wonder if we can see Mark Zuckerberg learning to fly here, or perhaps to skydive? A lot of recent flights that start in one city, fly to Tahoe, don't stop, but do a big turn around there, then go back home. Or which otherwise go way out of the way to do a short loop around Tahoe then land at a destination, and one a few months back that seemingly just circled there for a while.

Or... maybe he's taking aerial photography -- always watching! /s
Of course we can. This is just a function of public policy.

Once our cities are re-built around walk/bike/transit, nobody is going to drive because it will be slower and less convenient. Just like it is in many cities around the world.
For info on work culture in Japan see https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
I am already bogged down with a bunch of side projects/hustles, unfortunately :/

I think you should note, btw, it's not like good systems don't exist; Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever being (seemingly) the best. If a company is still using Workday or some other such legacy thing, it's because they want to or because the inertia is too powerful, and I'm not sure what could be built to convince them to switch.
What exactly is disastrous about his term?

He pushed for certain unorthodox policies, which may or may not have been economically prudent, but his boss decided not to go for them after all when pressured by the EU, at which point Varoufakis resigned because his political bit was over.
Normal glass blocks most of it. But pure SiO2 fused quartz does not. A bit more affordable is probably borosilicate glass and I would like to have my windows replaced with them, but it is not really sold as a common window. So you can probably get one, but it won't be cheap.
after creating the world's best/most power-efficient mobile DAC and DSPs, one of the world's most popular music streaming platforms, one of the most power-efficient lossy and lossless codecs and the best truly wireless earbuds, I think Apple deserves to let a small bug that affects almost no-one live in production :D
Hard for me to get worked up about this. If you're rich, you're going to spend the money on something. It barely matters if that's on a cross-country flight, a large house, multiple cars, or a boat. The environmental impact is very similar.
> If LLMs were actually intelligent, you would just tell them not to do X and that would be the end of it

By that logic, if humans were actually intelligent, social engineering wouldn't exist.
Sesquiterpene
Metaphors for human fertilization are evolving, study shows
Only a constant factor worse than optimal
The simple moral manipulation of these jailbreaks is hilarious.
"But always wear sunscreen!"

Sunscreen is full of pretty active chemicals, so I would not recommend using it, when you don't have to.
I love InfluxDB 1.x and the TICK stack. They abandoned a beautiful piece of software to chase shiny things with 2.x... sad to see them do it again.

Someone needs to pickup the original ideas of 1.x since they can't seem to stay focused, as their marketshare is ripe for grabbing.
The 24-96 is different master, some sound engineer just had a field day in the studio and produced a better mix. Repeat the test with a 16-44.1 version downsampled (use something like sox with the ultra high quality resmapler) from the 24-96 version and I guarantee you will not be able to spot any difference compared to the "true" 24-96 version.
That's in part why I didn't propose that we force manufacturers to specify their products, but simply make sure that if they don't, nobody would want to use their product. Who would buy a CPU they don't know the ISA of?

Forcing the separation between software and hardware companies may be more stringent, but it may be simpler to enforce, and likely even more effective at making sure the hardware is humanely specified than direct regulation would be.
> why would you even want to add primes, they were born to be multiplied?

I actually laughed out loud at this. For real! So great.
I have to nitpick Nate Silver on a tangential point here (emphasis mine)

> The more complications you introduce into an analysis, the more confounding variables that you attempt to control for, the more you expand researcher degrees of freedom — in other words, decision points by the analyst about how to run the numbers.

> I don’t think it’s quite right to say these decisions are arbitrary. Ideally they’ll reflect a statistician’s judgment, experience and familiarity with the subject matter.

But, according to the sentence immediately following the one I highlighted, it absolutely is quite right to say those decisions are arbitrary!

They are arbitrary inasmuch as they are arbitrated by the statistician's educated judgement and experience. That these decisions are arbitrary does not intrinsically strip away their value. Rather, it subordinates their value to the presumed ability of their arbiter — in this case the statistician, whom we presuppose is well trained and capable.

I feel that in common parlance the word "arbitrary" is undergoing the opposite process of the term "literally". Where one word is losing its meaning by arbitrarily narrowing it down too much, the other is literally losing its meaning by making it too broad. It figuratively grinds my gears.
Surgical masks defined as the ones that gape at the sides are comparatively ineffective at stopping aerosolized particles.

The idea that ballistic droplets are the primary means of infection is the old, old misunderstanding.

If we compare the objective of preventing transmission of pathogens from surgeon to patient to the objective of covering nudity, surgical masks are as effective as shorts.

Seeing as the objective is the objective, the ends should define the means. Therefore it is clear that any use of surgical masks is a fundamental and entrenched misunderstanding.
"You'll be fine" is a very low bar for a country in 2023.

The software salaries in Germany are just low.
A much more EU style directive would be to force all operating systems to ask on every boot: Do you consent for this OS to store files on your hard drive?
You make some interesting points. I'm just trying to say this conversation thread is starting to talk past one another.

The 'we' was referring to the full population of people and basically stated a significant subset of that 'we' are willing to entertain (what are currently non-viable) solutions.

In other words, a problem exists for 100 people, and about 15 of them are willing to change their behavior that would help resolve the problem confronting the whole population (of 100 people).

Thus, the tit-for-tat, the OP is not suggesting a simple majority or any kind of majority is required to change their behavior, but is lamenting that a significant minority would change their behavior if they could, if they were enabled.

It's another way of saying, "those of us who would bike, or walk, or would bus - would do so if there were the slightest investment in those modes of transport to make them more viable".
They've been around for a very long time as far as I know.
Also read the studies themselves.

And the criticism of the Cochrane-method review.

And the studies not cited.

As well as the studies on the mechanics of transmission.
Ear pieces and AI computing devices (your cell phone) already exist. Humane is entirely unnecessary to get to the experience you are describing. The company's entire selling point is that projection thing.
> I wanted to wait until it got as close to zero as possible before selling so that I could maximize my tax loss

That is... not how finance works.
Musepack! There are dozens of us! Dozens!!

Back in the early 2000's when I was getting into ripping my collection I didn't have enough space for FLAC so I surveyed the options and Musepack seemed like the obvious lossy codec winner. I still have that collection of .mpc's somewhere.
What drives me nuts is the number of places that expect you to have deep experience with whatever CI/CD solution they're using before they'll even consider you for a position. How have we gotten to the point where deploying an application is so fucking arcane of a process that you need to have 5 years of experience with whatever acronym soup some CTO bodged together or you are considered worthless?
Policies can't be divorced from reality, especially if you are a finance minister of a vulnerable, small, broke nation in hands of giants.
Look him up, he has readers.
Caltrain is diesel yes. They are replacing most with electric locomotives any year now
The richest 1% in the world is 80 million people, a god chunk of the Western population.

Private jets are a distraction from the real sources of emissions. But people start rioting when their power bills go up.
> The foaming was from the other side of the aisle, in a similar vein to your post.

That's a WILD thing to say. People are still going crazy over ivermectin, an senators are still posting conspiracy theories about it: https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1690009000857710592

> The largest metastudy in existence on the subject seems rather less sure than you about them[1]. Maybe that metastudy is flawed

From Cochrane themselves: https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...

> For example, in the most heavily-weighted trial of interventions to promote community mask wearing, 42.3% of people in the intervention arm wore masks compared to 13.3% of those in the control arm.

And the study still found that they work, just not the 50% reduction they considered statistically significant. Small wonder given the above.

> Joe Rogan is a left-leaning guy on almost every issue

hilarious
Extended range, external tanks
At its core, an MP3 says that for the next slice of time, play these frequencies at these volumes. If your waveforms are simple, an MP3 can encode them perfectly.
Vaccination generally uses an adjuvant to increase immune response to the target antigen in order to provoke a response strong enough to produce lasting immunogenic memory. Antigens alone in small numbers aren't enough.

Taking random adjuvants consistently after minimal exposure to environmental antigens is more likely to give you deleterious allergies or issues associated with chronic inflammation.
It always depends on aligned incentives, for some very specific lines of work and very specific people, they will totally intentionally upkeep known bad software without improving it too much because it's somewhat a guarantee of very profitable overtime pay.
Your kids are most likely interested in things you are not interested in. It's understandable that you want your kids to have a great experience growing up and develop fond memories of their childhood like you were able to do.

Rather than trying to find something that replicates your childhood memories for them, why let them find those themselves? I'm sure your parents brought a computer into the house, but was that so that you could have the same childhood experience growing up with computers like they had? For them that computer was probably just a tool, for you it end up becoming a world. Or maybe your parents brought that computer into house because they thought it might become important to be exposed to.

I would suggest that you expose your kids to things like science, art, technology and engineering (high level) and let them decide what they find interesting, what clicks with them. Then all you have to do is support them where you can.
Getting in an argument (vs disagreement) in real life is worthless. Getting into an argument on the Internet has even less value.

Personally I think this was an easy article for him to write because he already had the data and he wants more subscribers (please take this take as neutral opinion and not a dis to Silver)