skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the desire to inflate results comes from the intense competition, not incompetence, then more money would fix it. The fact that the top universities are suffering big fake research scandals would bolster this. Personally I've known many competent scientists who left for greener pastures not because they couldn't cut it but because they wanted higher pay and less stress.
A myriad of things: Octane, ethanol, and also additives used in the winter vs the summer.
The changed the title, including the subtitle.

Before: https://archive.ph/cZNYh

Now: https://archive.ph/oYWK7
> is slowly being replaced with GenAI

How so exactly?
> Half of the US population has blood lead levels above the CDC 'safe' level.

That's a bogus statistic. I went to look up what you could be talking about, and it appears to be pretty shoddy alarmism, not on your part but poorly or shadily written reports. (disclaimer/reassurance: Lead is bad for us, and heavy metal exposures are cumulative over a lifetime, so the lower the better, and we should keep lowering.) But what you quoted implies that we are not succeeding quickly enough, and from things I looked at, that is not a conclusion that can be drawn.

I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but just from a few headlines and an abstract, it's clear that the lead levels under consideration have been lowered recently (and for what I'm about to say, undoubtedly previously lowered other times), and are not toxicity levels but more like "hey, there's lead in this neighborhood". And the lead exposures they are talking about are "retroactively" encompassing the elderly who were exposed as children before the new levels (and unleaded gas) were a thing.

So, they're saying "Among the entire population, half of people have previously received during childhood lead exposures when we didn't have current standards that we would now consider to be, not even unsafe, but where geographically we should focus our attention looking at the sources."

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sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/news/cdc-updates-blood-lead-re...

2021, CDC updated the blood lead reference value (BLRV) from 5.0 μg/dL to 3.5 μg/dL. A BLRV is intended to identify children with higher levels of lead in their blood compared with levels in most children... It is not a health-based standard or a toxicity threshold... should be used as a guide to 1) help determine whether medical or environmental follow-up are recommended and 2) prioritize communities with the most need for primary prevention of exposure. .. BLRV is a population-based measurement that now indicates that 2.5% of U.S. children aged 1–5 years have BLLs at or above 3.5 μg/dL.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/

Considerable effort is expended to protect today's children from lead exposure, but there is little evidence on the harms past lead exposures continue to hold for yesterday's children, who are victims of what we term legacy lead exposures. We estimate that over 170 million Americans alive today were exposed to high-lead levels in early childhood, several million of whom were exposed to five-plus times the current reference level [which is not a health or toxicity level]. Our estimates allow future work to plan for the health needs of these Americans and to inform estimation of the true contributions of lead exposure to population health. We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015.

...and you can't add IQ points like that, most especially if you are part of the substantial segment of the population that says that IQ is a bogus measurement, a segment that heavily overlaps with environmentalism.
The real question has a real simple answer: Ivy leagues and equivalents are how the ruling class grooms its next generation. We put them on a pedestal because being part of the ruling class comes with benefits.
Will the world be a better place if Google is banned from paying for default-privilege?

Most users will probably switch to Google anyway, at least in the short term. Google will probably lose some market share. This means less revenue. However, the "cost of revenue" is lower as well. So it may just be a wash. When tobacco companies were banned from advertising, their big expense of advertising went down as well - and so profit rose. Google's long-term outlook looks murkier. It really is possible for new entrants to come in and steal market-share if they didn't have to pay for default-privilege. Platforms could encourage specialized search engines as well - pick one for shopping, another for maps, another for reviews - maybe we'll get a Cambrian explosion?

But the fact that no ad-support search engine has been able to beat Google all these years, even Microsoft-supported Bing - means that internet search is fundamentally a hard problem to solve. It's also relatively capital intensive - all the hardware to crawl and index the web, human SERP raters and content moderators.

As the internet becomes more and more hyper-commercialized, the value of a general purpose search-engine may decline. Why search when there's mostly garbage out there. Try going to any news website.
If you're happy putting your OS on your data drives, sure.

Otherwise I can get a good quality SSD for $20. A hard drive for the OS is more money for worse performance.
As an aside, now I really want sherry glacé'd radishes.
> I wish to point out that those who fly private airplanes (including those using leaded avgas) are the most likely to demand I stop driving my 23 year old pickup.

Citation needed. Did you actually experience this, or is this a hypothetical?

I do not know why pilots would be giving you a hard time with a truck given that most general aviation aircraft in operation are older than your truck.

What I have seen is people driving brand new trucks calling all GA aircraft a 'rich person's toy' even when they cost much less than their shiny trucks.

> banning all civilian air travel

If we calculate fuel economy per mile, planes do pretty good for long trips. Planes are (obviously) very aerodynamic and light. Getting up to altitude takes a lot of fuel but, once there, they sip fuel. Mind you that there are general aviation planes running with standard gasoline that are most likely more efficient than a 23 year old trucks and, most likely, even more efficient than new trucks, once you consider the speed they travel at and how light and aerodynamic they are compared to a truck.

And, since you said All civilian air travel, that includes airliners. Now we are talking efficiency per set per mile. The numbers are actually pretty good; you can look them up.

All that said, can we, collectively, stop antagonizing people that live a different lifestyle than we do, for no reason?
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This the opposite of censorship, right? "do not change the words that have been agreed on" .. only emit the words that are printed because, they have been agreed on..
TiDB is an HTAP whose OLAP component (TiFlash) was based on Clickhouse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23584022

If you have analyzed the competition, what are your selling points? Benchmarks welcome. Thank you!
I think you're overgenealising a bit here. There are significant incentives on the pharam company to get it right, but they didnt. In a sense, life happens -- it seems this is an accident.

Whereas the issue here is that against any reasonable objective of publicly research, academia has institutionalised a series of dysfunctional incentives.

ie., the "Accident" is the norm
Probably, you have to load the weights from disk at some point.
you set the session lenght before you start in the tooltip
I looked up some SDS sheets, and it looks like there are multiple formulations with completely different ingredients.
I must be on a different planet, lots of the pilots I know are the kind of people who love old warbirds and old pickups.
I quite alcohol for a year. 10 months in. It is possible, new years resolutions can happen.
Way more than I would have guessed.
Yes, for historical reasons it bunches syscalls (section 2) and C library functions (section 3) into a single binary.
This is incredible.

All that remains is a network for rigging (and maybe retopology)

Indie gamedev would be revolutionized
There is no improvement. There are a lot of negatives though.
For starters:

* transmissivity of an LCD panel is pretty bad (10%-25% transmissivity?). So this is always going to be extremely dim, unless you stick a really bright lamp right up close to it. Thus, this isn't "matching" ambient light in any way.

* Brightness uniformity is going to be terrible unless you use a photography softbox lamp.

* Color accuracy is going to be terrible. Monitors use LEDs that are extremely cold / blue (~6500K if I remember) to get good color reproduction over the entire range of possible colors. Unless you want your house to look like an operating room you probably won't use a lamp that comes close to reproducing that.

This is a solved problem in cellphones. Put a $0.25 ALS in the front bezel, enable DDC/CI, and call it a day.

Here's a product idea that actually solves the issue: make a little USB dongle that has an ALS in it, make it in a formfactor that allows you to clip it to the top of any monitor, and use that to control the brightness. For DDC/CI monitors, you can directly control the backlight, and for other monitors you can just fake it by reducing the brightness of the image.
No - I have a life outside of work/study and choose to maximize my productivity so I can focus on what really matters in life. I don't have time to sift through docs and heaps of stuff that isn't relevant to what I'm doing, when a solution to that exists.
Big fan of this app because it lets you write plaintext (.md or .txt) on your iphone
The gist of their rebuttal is that people choose them because they are superior. If that's the case then why the $26.3B to be the default? IANAL but I don't think they've sufficiently answered this question.
That doesn't sound super friendly for local development env/prototyping when swathes of webdevs literally don't even know what Docker is, today.
Beautiful. The main sticking point was the (possible) need to re-certify existing planes. This is peanuts in comparison; probably why it took so long for such a fuel to get developed and approved.
Cool project!

I have one question though, how do you intercept TLS. Let’s say i would connect my phone to your proxy, and try to search something on the web. Wouldn't the connection not be trusted?
Read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars [1] and the "how did we get here" will become immediately clear.

[1] https://ia800100.us.archive.org/5/items/SilentWeaponsForQuie...
It's hardly unlimited though. I can't even upload a 1.82kB image file to test it. Probably because whatever service it uses to access IPFS is saturated. So that wouldn't be unlimited in my book.

I love selfhosted stuff like IPFS, but keep expectations realistic or people will just leave with a bad impression of them.
Discussion seemed most opposed to Vercel-ification and churn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38018217
I usually run all my screens at or below the 25% mark. I see some of my colleagues with theirs cranked up and I don't get it. maybe for doing some UI work due to colors, but man that just hurts my eyes.
DHH is on a crusade to tank the cloud.
Electron-rich metals make ceramics tough to crack
No not buying new, just using what was bought years ago. It still works, it does the job. Is it the best performance per watt, clearly no but the budget for electricity and the budget for new capital expenses are two different things.
Impressive. It actually gave useful results and summary for annihilationism.

Was this trained on any particular commentary?
You should submit your benchmarks to ClickBench.
> What the bean-counter class can't seem to understand is that researchers are motivated to make big discoveries, so you can actually trust them to be judicious in their use of resources.

What you don't seem to understand is there are some who are not motivated by that.

Note that I make no claims as to how many are honest/dishonest. This is a valid thing that "bean counters" often miss.
I can say, in my case, it's lazyness. When you finish your DB and Admin bootstrapping it's easy to look at a long list of features your end users want and think "all of this stuff can be done by the admin I already built". The issue is that, actually it can't, you are just overwhelmed trying to get do the bootstrap step.

I found one great middle step is a `simple_form.html` template and using Django Forms to quickly and easy generate a lot of CRUD views. You can also use a `simple_delete.html` confirmation template to handle that. These templates can be used on any number of pages.

Then, as your app matures, you can add more custom templates and maybe eventually switch to Django Rest Framework and an SPA, if it fits.
I’ve found the opposite to be the case myself. When I was only posting substantive Tweets with new info, they wouldn’t be seen 99% of the time. But every so often a Tweet would get seen, gain some traction, be retweeted, people would say it was amazing. And I’d get zero new followers. Like I said, I did find ways to get new followers - but it was through gaming the system.

And this is something I see a lot. There are a ton of accounts that have less than 100 followers that only do substantive Tweets. And the people who keep rehashing the same clickbait have huge followings. Even most of the relatively substantive large accounts spend a ton of time rephrasing Tweets they’ve made before. A high volume mediocre account that games the system somewhat is going to be a lot bigger than an account that only Tweets/comments when they have something substantive to say, at least in my experience.
That's part of it. Ethanol is incompatible with materials commonly found in airplane fuel systems.

Another aspect is that many piston airplane engines need high octane because they have relatively high compression ratios: WWII era engines need 130 octane to develop full horsepower (they can be operated at reduced manifold pressure on currently available 100 low-lead gas), and even many post-war civilian engines require 100 octane.

Still another aspect is that the FAA is relatively conservative and doesn't want to approve something that might lead to, for example, vapor lock or fuel freezing issues.
Mmm... cadmium
Can you even find Ford trucks for $60k anymore?

Ford just raised prices _again_ on top of their dealers already adding insane markups without the brand curtailing that behavior. Plus everything they deliver to dealers seems to be optioned out the ass to the point where everything is $80-120k.

My truck-shopping friends (that being most people here in the southeast) are all swearing off Ford and buying used from other brands for way cheaper.

heck, Scotty Kilmer JUST did a video on this...
You have summarised the incentives. You've yet to defend them.

Presumably the point of research is that it's not commercially viable at this stage; were it, the market would already address this need.

Why bother with a university research system which 'lives or dies' just as start ups do? We already have those.

It is widely recognised that there needs to be a long (perhaps millenia-long) pipeline of 'unprofitable' research into commerical outlets. Who thought playing around with wires and magents would lead anywhere?
> Why are display servers handling copy paste in the first place? That is not where it belongs.

It is fairly obvious that since your clipboard can hold very valuable info or be used to get you to do something that compromises your security that something privileged needs to intermediate between Application A wants to put something into a shared mailbox and Application B wants to take it out.

Maximum security implies ensuring either action is done only by deliberate user interaction eg watching for real keystrokes or mouse usage.

It also needs to be done in a standardized way that individual apps including apps you can't modify or update can work with so that an extremely basic OS function doesn't break.

Can you explain why this doesn't belong in the display server and where indeed ti does belong?
In a way, this explains why many international Ph.Ds go back to their home countries these days to join local universities. It is good for these countries.
Well the fact is that she remained at Penn for 30+ years, so clearly it couldn't be that horrible. And there she made some groundbreaking discoveries that contributed to the COVID vaccine and she got a Nobel Prize, so she probably did get some people behind her.

University politics are terrible, but in this very case, whatever happened, it turned out pretty good for both her and the University.
It doesn't, but I took the "liberty" part to include "free speech", and I'm arguing that by using critical speech as a means to deny a visa, that's effectively the government taking away a right.

I'm not a lawyer or a political philosopher or an ethicist, I'm just a mediocre software engineer, so I will acknowledge that I'm speaking out of my ass on this; I'm just a guy who has read a few books and has a frustrating adherence to my principles.
I don't disagree with your statement, but I'll note that as it pertains to engines in the GA world, there's not a lot of options that weren't designed in the 40s.
Great point to bring up! I learned of this a while ago and saught out sellers who said they tested their products for contaminants like that and found only 2! Hopefully this is not against guidelines to list but the sellers are Starwest Botanicals and Mountain Rose Herbs. Starwest seems to be a little more strict/upfront about testing than mountain rose but products from either should be significantly safer than what you find in the grocery store (which I now avoid like the plague).
Hard not to be sarcastic about it. What makes this specific to this particular book or can this be used for any book?
My understanding is this was done by one system, which then made the architecture's life hard because now they lost half their opcode encoding space due to it being used as pseudo-syscalls by their largest customer.
I made something similar at https://drivl.app. I should have known someone else had already done it
Gliders are even better for learning flight basics, do a better job of teaching you to anticipate and work with turbulence, and have a variable time limit.
I'd love for the plane I fly to use G100UL, which is unleaded aviation gas, but it's just not feasible. Unleaded aviation gas is truly wonderful – it extends engine lifespan and reduces the frequency of oil changes. Sadly, after talking to GAMI at Oshkosh, they said I can't run it due to the high compression ratio.

Also old pickup trucks rock. =)
Sorry I did get it backwards.
Oh man, if only it were just the diagrams that were missing. It's shocking how a lot of orgs have to get crazy large before they land on any kind of reasonably formal design-process.
Dang the comments are crazy. So i cant post about the insane triggerhappy police force? What about the outrageous offence budget? The amount of homeless (absolutely towering over the amount that my shithole 3rd world homecountry has) especially in contrast to the offence budget? The opioid crisis? Housing becoming not affordable for so many? Etc etc so many other things? Do I have to allign with the status quo completely?

This may have been what happened to me as I didnt get an H1B 3 years in a row so I had to leave and the company i worked for had to get me an L1 visa. Im not an avid social media poster or anyrhing either, but I have been critical of the US online.

Not getting H1B as someone with an MS diploma felt like it was personal (and not a "lottery" that the visa is claimed to be)

Inb4, then why come? Well, before I came I never knew any of this stuff, as i was a foreigner in high school. Came over for college, stayed for a position at a FAANG corp. "The american dream"
I'm not trying to justify this, but "pay for positioning" is everywhere, even your grocery store.

I don't know that it's a good solution to legislate every little thing including positioning in a UI, but I do think we need to be much, much more aggressive than we are now at stopping monopolies and breaking up these megacorps.
This seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place of "browser" would have made that sentence more accessible to the "rest of the population" you're describing.
Like what Diamond did with the Austro engine, which is basically a modified Mercedes engine?
Pardon me - can I ask analogy to better understand your point of view?

What kind of tires come on your Ford truck?

If Ford chooses the "default" tires you get on your F-150... is that anti-competitive, for all other tire manufacturers?

Must Ford give you the option which tires you want on your new F-150? Must they do it in a way that doesn't start with a "default"?

Or is the problem not that Ford picks a tire manufacturer, but that the tire manufacturer cannot in your mind share the profits back with Ford?
> For instance, they wrote “cocoa plant” but there’s no such. There’s a cacao tree...

Cacao and cocoa are more interchangeable than you think:

> Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) [1]

The usage shifts according to country and industry. Where you live/work I have no doubt it's called cacao, but in another region it will be the opposite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao
Agreed. I've also been using Kagi for the last month and love it, but local results are just not as good. They provide some Yelp locations but usually not as well as Google does. I wouldn't be surprised if this is improved over time. It seems like Kagi is a small team with the founder replying to me emails/bug ticket directly! Very effective people over there.

On a side note, Yelp is an awful platform. They show recommended/similar locations down your throat so hard on mobile that it's hard to learn about the actual location you're looking at.
Rooting for Blue Origin to succeed here, even if New Glenn doesn't pan out.

If I were in Bezos' shoes, I'd focus the company on deep space craft and use SpaceX to escape the gravity well. Specialize in delivering cargo to rocky planets and asteroids, proving out mining, landing rovers for space agencies, etc.
Did you notice that the domain is mathstadon.xyz so it's probably a pretty small user base.
Can't play a DVD on a phone/tablet though. Unless you want to rip it, and that's way more difficult/time consuming than a torrent.
> That smaller but better product will have a much harder time growing if by default it is never exposed to the user.

my opinion is that if the product is vastly superior it would gain market share no matter what (we have countless examples for this). but if the new product is just a minor improvement or a minor change over the default choice, then yes, defaults would matter in that case.
Oh but companies have 100000 repos!
How did you come to the idea that processed foods are part of a healthy diet
> What Apple are ahead on is doing this on a fanless laptop that doesn't hit internal temperatures of triple digits.

I think you could pull this off on a Asus G14 in an ultra power saver mode, with the fans off or running inaudibly. The cooling is so beefy they will actually work fanless if you throttle everything down and mostly keep the GPU asleep.

The M chips could certainly sustain image generation better without a fan.
I do really like diagramming tools that have a mode that kinda-sorta looks like a human sketch, though. I feel like it lets me not worry about the thing being pixel perfect.

The fewer right angles, the better: I can just draw shapes and put them in roughly the right spots and it'll look fine.
Mac shortcuts are exactly the use case for this. Menu bar, ask for a prompt, run script. I was always wary of shortcuts, but they're quite powerful and nicely integrated with the OS in the latest versions