skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Renewables are not a complete solution, you need a backup for when the wind down't blow and the sun don't shine.

You can't just switch off and oon a nuclear plant. It is not good as a backup solution.

> But turning off perfectly fine reactors that have already been paid for and are producing tons of CO2 free electricity in a so-called "climate emergency" is incompetence that's indistinguishable from malice.

Well, while this is by no means scientifically sound, between 2011 (the year Merkel decided to get rid of the nuclear power plants) and 1954 (the year the first such power plant got available for civilian production) there were two worst accidents and one half. Using this data there was a catastrophic accident every 22.8 years, luckily not in our neighbourhood.
Actually it is huge because the products are typically shipped are under regulation and controls. When you make a higher quality product it doesn't always mean it will last longer, but in comparison to the other product it does.

Now we are justifying the baseline by unregulated and uncontrolled goods as a standard for quality so people use weak USB cables from an unknown or non-FCC compliant manufacturer in China and their home burns. It isn't the consumers fault because the product was sold falsely and the general consumer can't keep everything straight.
I had an org in NYC offer me a Director of Product role ... for $90K.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682631
Growing up in the south it was all yes sir no sir yes ma'am no ma'am
My experience in the UK was as follows:

(1) In the final two years of secondary school (16/17 to 18) you choose a set of 3 or 4 subjects to study for A levels. This is usually done with a specific course at university in mind. For example, someone aiming for Chemistry might study Maths, Chemistry, and Physics. Some people also add Further Maths (if they're aiming for Maths at a top university, this adds things like group theory, differential equations) or a language (e.g. if you already know French, it's not all that difficult to do French A-level too).

(2) Before your final exams, you apply to universities and they have some process for giving you an offer. This process isn't standardised. Some universities have pre-interview exams (e.g. Oxford), some have extra exams you take alongside your A-level exams (e.g. to do Maths at Cambridge, you have to take STEP exams which are...super hard). My interview process for Maths at Oxford was pretty stressful, I had seven interviews, all very technical, at various colleges. Some I no doubt bombed, some I did okay in. I also had a phone interview with the college that ended up getting me.

(3) You get some offer, either conditional (get these grades and we'll let you in) or unconditional (you got in, grades don't matter). My offer was to just get all top grades so I really had to grind studying and was super stressed on results day.

(4) You pick two unis to go with. Usually one primary and one backup.

(5) You do your exams, then get results. If you met your offer, great! If not, you go into clearing where you can maybe go into a "leftover" place at some uni somewhere.

(6) You go to uni and study something. You got a place on a Maths course, you study Maths. I'm mentioning this because it works differently in the US.

There are pros and cons to this process. Specialising early means the baseline for a Maths course at uni is higher than in the US. But because you're asking 15 year olds to decide what they want to study for the next 5-6 years, lots of people probably pick the wrong thing. And if you're not good at Maths and don't study Maths at A-level, you're just locked out of anything STEM e.g. Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Computer Science, all require a Maths A-level. So you get a lot of kids making poor decisions they later regret and can't reverse.
In English, singular "America" normally refers to the United States of America, not the entire western hemisphere.
The issue with this is that we don’t know when the next recession is going to happen.

There could still be a recession in 2024 if the fed doesn’t get their “soft landing” while doing their planned 3 rate cuts.
I wish I could find a sample of a transparent (silicon of sapphire) chip to hang on the wall, maybe with a magnifying glass nearby.

I checked eBay, but did not see any.
"The comment above was for the 2012 Pi 1. In 2020, the Pi 400 average Livermore Loops, Linpack and Whetstone MFLOPS reached 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times faster than the Cray 1."

Apart from the Cray-1, that whole section is also worth reading for some interesting insights into relative speed differences between various modern CPUs as well. (Though I do wish it was presented in table rather than narrative form, it’d be a lot easier to follow that way; there are also more detailed tables further down the page.)
I don't honestly know what he does, but given that he's got both investors and employees loyal to him makes me think that he does a lot more than say "Here's a pile of money, I'm going to lock you smart people in a room and take credit for whatever you come up with"
Do cruise missiles have the ability to loiter very long before target acquisition? In my limited observation that has been one of the game changers in the war in Ukraine.

To me it looks like we’re rapidly nearing the point where we can target off of a shared coordinate system instead of painting targets or seeking RF/heat at which point the loitering munitions become much more useful even with small warheads.
You can read all of the medical school accreditation criteria which explains what students are expected to learn. The human body is several orders of magnitude more complex than a car.

https://accredmed.org/standards/
Are we still talking about the guys who think they that laws don't apply to them if they claim to be "traveling in a conveyance" rather than driving a car? Or is there some other meaning?
When was the last time you cited tcp/ip? Or bash? It's ludicrous to expect citation of tools.

How about everyone in all the linux kernel changelogs from 1994 to now? They all did valuable work that you used to produce whatever you've produced.

The tools themselves carry their own citation already.

A list of definitions of the word free (from whatever source) is meaningless and irrelevant.

Citing the brand of your pencil and paper is product placement.
I think Seattle is a bit different because we don’t have any
I think it was a little ahead of its time.
I don't dispute the headline but this article is a total mess. First referring to the US health system but then citing anecdotes from the english health system. It then mingles US healthcare and dentistry. The US health system is as different from the UK health system as different can be and in the US dentistry is a fundamentally separate industry and education tract that has absolutely no connection to healthcare whatsoever.

In the US I can speak first hand as a former hospital executive that a lot more can be done to improve treatment paths for people with a wide variety of mental health diseases. Medical school can play a role but residency programs are a much more important element, at least in terms of how US doctors are trained. From history the best way to do this is to create a specific health system focused on treating those patients and to lead by example. I am not aware of such an effort but there may be one.
Agree. Children death cannot be used like this - even in sarcasm. Apologies.
> It is not like they have part of a semester that that is just waiting to be filled. It is already stuffed to the gills.

Oh, how I wish this were true.

I'm married to an MD. Went through the med school/residency journey with her. Soooooooooo much waste and BS in the process.

In direct response to your question, 4th year of med school is essentially a joke. During the first half of the year, everyone is distracted by residency interviews and applications. During the second half of the year, no one really cares because they're ready to peace out. My wife's entire 4th year could have been dropped and she would have lost absolutely nothing.

The reality is medical schools primary metric is percentage of students placed into residency. More prestigious schools care about more prestigious placements, but placement is a must. The primary, almost exclusive, means of ranking resident candidates is test scores.

For most med schools, that means they don't actually care about providing their students with any practical skills. They only care about succeeding on a handful of standardized exams.

In fact, I've seen schools kick students out with exams failures so they can artificially keep residency match rates high.
64% net income.

I totally appreciate the frustration the author has in various fees needing to be paid.

But zooming out, having a business with 64% net income on sales is insanely good.

We should never take for granted the margins in tech. Where almost all other industries have margins around 10%.
Indeed, if you wanted to refer to MEX, CAN + USA as one entity you would use “North America”. But America is colloquially understood to mean USA
It would make sense for North America to harmonize more standards to create an bigger economic community between CA, MX and USA.

For example I came across a situation recently where someone want to export a few year old Mercedes vehicle from Canada to USA, and it was impossible as the standards were not harmonized, and the manufacturer would not certify the vehicle as meeting the USA standards.
There’s a similar debate about how to fix the industrial complex, when shown to be lethargic at 155mm artillery and small missiles.

Eg, this.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-...
I used to, and almost got some this year until I saw a bundle not much bigger than my fist was $15.99 at the grocery store...
Very true, combined with the fact that deep understanding of D1 turns out, centuries later, to be of practical use in building some sort of physical machinery.
Is that certain? It's not a good solution, but it's also not a good solution to say that nurses just have to deal with agitated and combative patients for however long it takes to find or rule out non-pharmaceutical solutions. I'd question whether long-term use of forcible physical restraint is even better for the patient.
Define "wants to do business in the EU". If a US-based and targeted site gets one single visitor from the EU, are they now "doing business" there? Your reply is eactly the sort of vague handwaving about.
I agree with some if what you said.

I am not qualified to judge the rest.

It is very odd that I do not disagree with anything you said.
The RPi, unlike the Cray-1, does not offer ample sitting space.
It isn't hard. Find a spot on BLM lands that has agates and isn't inside a non-allowed territory (National Monuments, Wilderness Preserves, someone else's claim area, etc.) Get your claim marker boundaries established, file a claim notice with the BLM (make sure to acquire township/range/section/subsection for the area you're trying to make a claim in otherwise you're going to have a hard time) pay your fees and wait for approval. I'd suggest filing a placer claim (surface finds no deeper than 18" below ground) as lode claims tend to need more remediation plans and obviously lots and lots of digging/hard rock mining (I have one lode claim and I'm going to let it expire, too much work.)
Monterrey is a very impressive city. San Pedro feels basically indistinguishable from California at a quick glance.
North American Alliance has a ring to it like the European Union.
Indeed! This is such an important part of my computing environment that I have the following in my ".*shrc":

# Attach to an existing tmux or a launch new tmux.
[ -n "$STY$TMUX$INSIDE_EMACS" ] || tmux at || tmux

Source: https://github.com/susam/dotfiles/blob/main/shrc#L381
Just train more doctors. For some reason the Western hemisphere is extremely resistant to large scale training of healthcare workers. Train doctors like engineers and you won't have a shortage of good ones.
The USMCA has been very good for Mexico. It’s one of those facts that’s off narrative so virtually nobody knows it’s so.
There's a line in the Jurassic Park book where a character is made suspicious by an offhand assertion (by Nedry) that he is using a multi XMP system.

Rpi4s are nice, in a sense, because you can only rarely honestly claim that the speed of the system is holding you back. Most times, presumably, it's the efficiency of the operations you are telling it to execute.
BASIC opened the door to computing for a great many people. It usually gets bashed by (a) academics or (b) CS students who have not yet had any productive, real-world, development experience. I know many folks who started with BASIC and went on to become excellent programmers/developers.

At the end of the day, what matters is the end-product. Your users don’t care what programming language or tech you used to solve their problem.
> making things personal on this scale seems not very smart argument

I think it is very illuminating. Imagine you created a thing. It is successful enough that hundreds of hospitals bought it. They use it day after day for healing people. And after 22 long years ago one of the many many decisions encapsulated in that product is a mistake in hindsight. You worry it might cause harm in rare cases. But, luckily you can send around a service technician who checks things, maybe takes corrective action and it further lowers the already low chance of anyone getting hurt.

Would you feel like a failure? I would be over the moon that I made something so successful and helped heal so many people. Would be slightly embarrassed that I have missed something, but glad that nobody got hurt and we can fix the issue.

If this is how I personally would feel why should we act as if the company as a whole is a complete failure?

> Maybe if they do too many things that need to be recalled they should cut somewhere

You don't understand me. It is not that they do too many things and that is why they have recalls. Every human endeavour has the chance of things going slightly wrong. If an entity, a company in this case, has many projects it is more likely that you will hear about some of them being occasionally going a little bit wrong.

What I'm saying is that you should look at the number of recalls as a proportion of their reach and volume. And if you do that you will realise that they are neither exceptional nor should they feel ashamed of themselves.

It sounds like you demand perfection and that is not a realistic goal to attain.
It feels sad to read the comments about people reaching 30 years of age and these ones realize they are giving their time to someone else when they’re so well paid and when there are so many people in the world that have s*t work and will never get out of it. I hate this world, and how it delivers another year of pain, misery and greed. Just blow up and take us all with it please.
Underrated comment. This is one of the most inportant parts of FM, imo. Each integer ratio of carrier to modulator has a specific flavor. The "simpler" the ratio the less complex and flavorful the sound.

Therefore, fading from irrational to rational ratios can make a crazy, inharmonic sound "stabilize."

After working for years with FM, i have found a somewhat narrow range of sounds and the layering becomes more inportant than the algorithm. So getting to know of the ratios is important, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, etc.
Healthiest demographics of any major nation on earth. Mexico will be fundamental to North American security, stability, and prosperity through the 21st century.
It's a lot of hard work and a lot of adventuring. Most of my time is spent just researching and using a ton of GIS data to figure out where I wish to go, and adventuring around the area and looking for stuff to acquire. Very little actual time is spent digging, and what digging I do is almost entirely bare-handed or with small hand tools (not even a full-length shovel is in my loadout, my largest tool is a wrecking bar.)

It is not uncommon to see me walking out with some 150+ pounds of rock in my hands and on my back, though, as once I get an area picked, it is usually highly-productive and I'm going for my body weight in material every single change I can get.
It also means the entire _Continent_ your take is pretty US-centric
There’s a video[1] of Karpathy recounting an email correspondence he had with with Bahdanau. The email explains that the word “Attention” comes from Bengio who, in one of his final reviews of the paper, determined it to be preferable to Bahdanau’s original idea of calling it “RNNSearch”.

[1] https://youtu.be/XfpMkf4rD6E?t=18m23s
Thank you for this resource. Bookmarked and will hopefully prove useful for debugging crash or interviews.
Aliens of NY – Christmas Eve
Texas produces the most wind power and the second most solar power of any American state. The most recent power shortage in September was caused by low evening winds; the US DoE responded by allowing Texas to temporarily exceed emissions limits from their gas plants: https://www.ercot.com/about/legal/doe202c
Niche chat with PDF app and a couple of niche dating apps.
Ok, do Pi 5 now
aa.com.tr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadolu_Agency

"is a state-run[1][2] news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.[3]"

The original source might be better?

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
Somebody made a Cray-themed Pi Zero cluster which perhaps fits the bill (if you’re a mouse, that is): https://www.clustered-pi.com/blog/clustered-pi-zero.html
I think they mean that the verb conjugations for the plural third person (ellos/ellas) and the formal plural second person (ustedes) are the same.
I'd define enshittification as anything that makes the platform worse long-term in order to bring in short-term profit. Revenue sharing might do that in some cases while being beneficial in others.
I learned recently that Phish puts on world-class light shows, with some pretty sophisticated hardware, and one on-stage performer dedicated to controlling it.

I wonder what they'll do with the sphere interior?
It is more a security nightmare than an environmental one.

I have no idea what MS will do when 20% of online computers no longer recieve security patches, but most people won't throw out unsupported machines.

What is also interesting is that somehow this is a giant outrage (6-7-8 years of support, a few more if you consider that for a new 11 install the reqs are not as strict), but Apple has been doing this for basically the last 10 years for Macs more or less.
That is completely unrealistic. There is no magic "diagnostic" which can gather all of the necessary data. And in most cases the diagnosis isn't even the hard part. The hard parts are coming up with a workable treatment plan that the patient will comply with, and in many cases directly performing procedures on the patient's body. Primary care physicians are cheaper than specialists and so in order to hold down costs and waiting times we should use specialists only when necessary. And for routine cases the trend is to have physician assistants or nurse practitioners handle those.
> No one uses LaTeX directly because it has a horrific syntax

I’ve interacted with quite a few mathematicians who readily mix raw LaTex into their emails! I have to squint but it seems to be a somewhat normal practice.
English has a second person pronoun ye which is unrelated to the orthographic transformation of definite article the into ye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_(pronoun)
I’m more impressed that the cray was that fast such a long time ago tbh
If they would include the drug dealers money probably it would be up a few more spots.
I'm referring to the same page, under the "Background Activities" heading
> It's my go-to solution for sharing build artifacts between rust projects

Could you expand a bit please? As somebody who is too cheap to get more than the 256gb MacBook, those heavy ~1gb random target/ directories add up over time. Didn't know there was an easy/cheap way around this?
This isn't a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
For a couple years I've wanted to write a subtractive synth from scratch in software. But I _cannot_ find any source that explains how to write a low-pass filter, in code, without assuming tons of knowledge about calculus and these odd things like Z-transforms?

Like, I understand FFTs and DCTs. But the explanation for how to construct filters in software is pathetic.

I looked at the code for VCVRack but could not understand it. It's already optimized for SIMD, processing 4 signals at once, which didn't help readability. (I'm sure it's very fast though)
For an attempt to rectify intellectual attributions (in the ML space rather than CA) see:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2212/2212.11279.pdf
You mean a system like Audiobookshelf[0]?
I can highly recommend this, by the way. Works more reliably than any paid service I've ever tried.

[0] https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
>if you already have a target sound, why are you trying to come up with a program to match it

Because then you have it (or something close) in your own synthesizer, as opposed to whatever other synth or natural source you sampled it from, and you can enhance it, adjust it, use filters and others on it, and so on using all its native cabilities.
But won’t you have more bad ones? We need better mechanisms to properly deal with incompetent/careless med workers.
> It also means the entire _Continent
No, it doesn't.

"North America" is the continent the USA is on, and South America is a neighboring continent. There is no continent called "America" alone.
It’s not naive at all. Corporate dynamics are widely different in China. In China there is no strong separation between corporations and government.
Equation group was the one I was trying to remember thnx (didnt know unit 8200, just seen them in an old homey trap a while ago trying SQL injections from some Israeli government IP addresses)
> likely, literally, the most intelligent person currently alive.

Why do people always seem to say this about Tao? What makes him different from, say, other recent Fields medalists?

I feel like it has something to do with having been a child prodigy more than anything else (and because he’s somehow known to laypeople worldwide when other names aren’t). I’m not even sure what the most intelligent person is supposed to mean, especially when the domain of expertise is so narrow.

I have no particular opinion on the man; it’s a genuine question.
Not really: it is noteworthy in the historical context.
Where I am in Europe, a lot of supermarkets have a bin that can take light bulbs, batteries and small electronics (no bigger than a toaster). I believe this is based on an EU regulation that the seller has to accept electronic goods for recycling at end of life.
Edit: What a surprise that this story got flagged to death too. Surely that's not indicative of a problem either.

I wonder if Paul Biggar, who called this kind of thing out a short while ago, was another victim of that group.

Some recent discussions related to his case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645523 I Can't Sleep [flagged] - 144 point, 83 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741160 Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board [flagged] - 63 points, 16 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645523
Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board for pro-Palestine blog post [flagged] - 77 points, 19 comments
Loved ones and basic needs met. Every day is a gift. Sorry for your loss, be present and mindful of time; this too shall pass.
Losing dealers can also mean lower overhead costs. If those dealers were costing more than they were making I see how it can be spun as (at least a temporary) benefit
What would it mean to use the scientific method on each individual patient? You can't run a valid RCT or even an observational study with an n=1 sample size.