skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was paying to ICBC twice as much as I was paying to Progressive in US. And yes, that's with me brining my good driving record to Canada.

Insurance coverage in Canada was higher, but I couldn't go any lower.

I heard, that the province make the ICBC to spend money on road safety measures. I don't think US insurance companies has that expense.
Isn't that just reflecting that you have the exact amount of skill of someone who drives every 3 months? What OP is talking about is people who likely drove for an hour or more every day suddenly barely driving more than a couple times a week for a year or more, and are now back to driving daily. That's completely different from just not driving much all the time.
Great, you should be specific when you say things, as your parent post said nothing about that being the salary of public workers in some hamlet you care not to name in Los Angeles.
Really? IPD is the only feature you appreciate?

None of the other cutting edge tech is worthy of your appreciation?
> We produce 380M tons of plastic per year. IIUC, that's about the size of the entire lumber industry - of which cork is a very small insignificant percentage.

Any material looking to fulfill that demand will start from that position; why would anyone be producing the material if they didn't already have that market? Every new thing starts from zero; plastics were at zero too, at one time.
I do recommend his videos. He's got a very strong personality that may be to the disliking of some (including myself initially) but the more I watch the more I think it's genuine and have even come to enjoy it. But his work ethic and "just do it" attitude are really inspiring in a way. I was glad to see him called out in the article.
No there does not need to be such a comparison. The question is whether fluoride affects intellectual development.

The problem of what to do once we know how much fluoride affects intellectual development is a policy problem that is entirely separate from the original question.

Not to mention forcing people into drinking a neurotoxin (from the recommendation of dentists who are very very far from being neurologists too lol). It looks absolutely insane from the outside.
> hipster

Vinophiles are now considered 'hipsters'? Is there any less hipster crowd than uber-wealthy wine collectors, a hobby dating back generations, if not centuries?
The real security of Bitcoin is the choice of secp256k1. Basically unused before Bitcoin, but chosen specifically because he was more confident it wasn’t backdoored.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/83623
Show HN: I Invented a New Machine Learning Algorithm
corporations are bipartisan pretending to be partisan. I'm liberal and don't doubt liberal-facing companies can and do do this.
Para-methoxy-methamphetamine? Seems like a dangerous choice.
I'm running a Renogy inverter/charger 2000W with a single 12V 100Ah LiFePo battery that run 3 Odroid H2's (Proxmox cluster 1), 3 Beelink's (docker swarm cluster) and various switches and ISP device. There is also a dual gpu desktop that pulls 400-450 watts when running folding at home. It will carry that load for 6+ hours from an 80% charge which is were I keep it for long term battery health; though I do shutdown the dual gpu if the power is out for more than a few minutes.

The Renogy will pass 'shore power' directly through and switch (purportly) in <10ms although I'm not confident enough that it is quick enough (1/2 a cycle at 60hz) so I run the standard consumer ups downstream.

I'm using a pretty stock RV circuit layout. The one thing I did do is limit the max charging amps to 20 to ensure that the charging load plus the working load stayed well in the capacity of the 110V/15A line.

I did try a Bluetti 3BA but it never worked as expected; ie it would cut out at unexpected times and firmware updates are problematic.
AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge
A few years back, I had a condo on Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and a buddy of mine is a microwave engineer and we were hanging out one day out on my deck with our laptops and he mentioned how amazing it was that there were so many WiFi signals and he said he had a 4 foot dish from a 2ghz MW link in the junk pile at work that they had replaced with a newer 11Ghz link. He went and got it and we put a USB WiFi dongle on the feed horn on a tripod and it was amazing, we could point it across the lake and get all these WiFi hot spots some were open. It just shows, a big antenna on one end really helps with the link budget, of course, the beam width is super narrow so it's pretty finiky on the positioning. I am not sure the distance exactly there but it had to be a mile or two.
Right now it only supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust, but it's designed to be extended with any other language. Each language implementation is just some hundreds of lines of code, so it's "easy" to add new ones, I think C/C++ and Java/Kotlin are good candidates that would be very easy to implement.
Build yourself an iceberg home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJ0zZQb9x0
> and shipping

I want to mention that this would only be for heavier than air based airborne shipping. Liquid based shipping is unaffected by gravity. Archimedes' principle has the buoyancy force as the weight of the displaced liquid. The gravitational effects cancel out. Also, dirigibles would be possibly more useful here as, again, gravity cancels out.

Something neat I remembered, great comment all the same, thank you.
The big problem is balancing generation and demand. Demand is variable and it is very hard to spin generation up and down. Gas peaked plants have been a popular way to solve it. Electric cars are actually a brilliant way of flattening out the demand curve so that utilities have to do less ramping up and down.
There’s a significant amount of good they can do simply by consuming power at night.
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Kids these days with their walkmans and their headphones, no respect at all I tell ya
Agreed, I'm talking about democracies.
Yeah ideally, is just we never have enough time and resources to do this right because we're always pulled into firefighting previous insecurity decisions.

That and never having weekends because we can't go one week without yet another CVE

Yeah I'm just frustrated I'm not anywhere near the ideal as I want to be
i really hate it when you are crafting something and get the same thing as another thing in your side bar but it has one CAPITAL LETTER!!! like what that dosnt change anything you fuggly rat
I am too much of a layman to understand what technique the article is proposing to detect it. Could someone help me break it down?

I heard from somewhere that in blood doping, the athletes, blood is taken out and put in a freezer. Then close to the day of the competition the blood is simply put back (without any external chemicals).

I heard that this works because it improves your red blood cell count. And if your to combine it with fitness & workouts "you could do some damage".

How do the detect transfusion of your won blood? When it doesn't have any external chemicals?
In the Rockies you see loads of vehicles with light bars. Never see them lit up on the road. Maybe it comes down to local policing? Cops around here aren’t likely to appreciate non-locals driving with lights on. Could just be culture though.
Yeah, that's an option, it's not a perfect fit with the philosophy of the project, but definitely possible. But ideally it would just work between files in a package.
It's not that hard for relatively easy work... I've written a few basic web services, as an example, using a few of the more popular web frameworks for Rust, it hasn't been much harder than say C# or Node.

Now some of the more complex things, have been far more complex to do by hand.. Shared data, channels, Arc, etc. Those have been a bit more cumbersome and still not sure I've done the right thing at times.
Your self reflection to go deeper and then resurface to the level you are comfortable expanding your expertise in parallels some of mine. Hailing from a university in my country which didn’t go deep enough in any of the subjects, I was left with this insatiable desire to do something about it. It led me to my Master’s in US where I got (or at least I thought I did) once in a lifetime opportunity to take one of the hardest and most fulfilling classes: Operating Systems. It opened my eyes to the magic I couldn’t understand and gave me the confidence of “I can do anything if I put my mind to it” by building a kernel. I learned enough to realise that it is not something I can do as a day job but still venture into should I need to while working on something. To this day, I thank my past self for making this decision of taking on a task that I felt so insurmountable. Whenever I come across a hard problem now which seems insurmountable, the confidence from that experience is what keeps me going.
how about 1password ?
I've tried it and didn't like it at all. It's a memory hog, start-up times are horrendous, I've had lots of glitches on MacOS and I detest XAML. Overall it really feels like yet another alpha state product.

Besides, I'm not really keen on using Microsoft products. Right now I have big hopes for Iced on Rust.
The GitHub repo for this project was posted two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498688
What are these "magic numbers"? How'd you find them? Why is that detail so vague...
I would like to think so but i saw the same crap driving through the middle of a Denver on I70 recently. I almost had to pull over it was so bright I couldn’t see but no one did anything as I have become accustomed to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Douglas_C-54D_disappearan...
DBMSs do not bypass filesystem. If this was the case, the table names would not be case-insensitive under Windows and case-sensitive under Linux (in MySQL). What they do is to allocate large space on the file system (by the way, the data is still visible as a file / set of files in the underlying operating system) and manage internal data structure. This lower the fragmentation and the overall overhead. In a similar way cache systems works - Varnish allocates entire memory it needs with a single call to operating system, then maintains internal data structure.

>Unless your web app is designed this way (it isn't), you cannot achieve anything close to the throughput of a modern database engine.

Your saying if I write to a section of memory on the heap or stack 4000 times with some different random byte every time it will be slower than doing the same thing to a db? Let's be real.

>Performance is a product of software architecture. Being stateless does not make your software fast in any absolute sense, many stateless in-memory systems have mediocre performance. A disk-backed design with superior architecture can out-perform an in-memory design, both in theory and practice.

Uh fundamental performance of software is absolutely limited by hardware. Stateless removes some fundamental limits. Sure architecture can change things but not not absolutely. Given the best architecture for all cases the best possible performance is in the end determined by which one is stateless. The absolute speed in the end is determined by hardware. SW architecture is changeable and thus NOT absolute.

I would know I work in HPC. We don't have any databases in any of our processing pipelines for obvious reasons.
I haven't done a whole lot of research, but this [0] says

> matrix headlights, consist of numerous small LED elements and mirrors that can control a light beam in complex ways. This allows the lights to be more precisely aimed, illuminating what the driver needs to see without blinding other motorists, pedestrians, or cyclists.

[0] https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1135084_us-finally-allow...
Thanks for sharing. Now I really want one despite knowing all the limitations and problems. It always looked so dystopian to me but for some reason I just want to play with it.
Documentary (2022)

https://www.redtrilliumfilms.com/skymasterdownhomepage
Eco probably means ecosystem, which I assume it means lack of UI Controls like Maps view, Graph/Charts for visualizing data, Date pickers and other stuff they you can get from vibrant UI ecosystem.
But I think some of this stuff is already handled in Avalonia ecosystem like https://github.com/Mapsui/Mapsui, https://github.com/beto-rodriguez/LiveCharts2 and few others...
I've noticed truck drivers in particular have gotten much worse. They used to be overall very good. For the last 5 years or so, noticeably worse.

Everyone else was already bad.
I’ve only toyed with friends’ VR devices a bit. The productivity applications of the AVP are obviously not aimed at a single full screen terminal user like me. I stare out my office window often as I consider code. Clearly I’m not the target market for the AVP’s ability to run Keynote or whatever.

However truly native VR applications do excite me a lot, and I think that’s what the author is getting at too. When you take advantage of VR’s immersive capabilities in unique ways it gets a lot more exciting than just a virtual floating monitor.

The resolution comment and bugs do make me realize just how early this tech still is. VR seems as hard as the moon landing and we’re on like Apollo 10… maybe?
> once they left the gravity well of their planet getting to other planets with nuclear rockets was comparatively trivial?

We are actually on that planet. Spacecraft have what is called delta-v, which is basically a measure of what orbit changes they can perform given the amount of fuel they have onboard. For example getting from the ground to LEO has one measure, and getting from LEO to moon orbit has another.

It varies somewhat by the specific rocket to get into space (due to drag and effects of higher gravity), but once you are there it's basically the same for all spaceships.

It takes around 9.6km/s (no relation to gravity, just a coincidence) of delta-v to get into LEO, however once you are there it's fairly cheap to get around the solar system. To get from Earth LEO to a captured orbit around Mars needs a delta-v of around 5km/s - yes, less than to get into Earth orbit. To get out further to Neptune would need around 12km/s of delta-v.
There's a pretty good YouTube video I saw pulling all the types of strings in rust.

I find it confusing still... Been wanting to do a few things that would mean dealing with it streams that could be cp437 or utt8, generally and haven't been quite sure how I want to deal with it.
I've been on StackOverflow for almost 15 years now, with 100k reputation (mostly from old answers). I can tell you that I routinely run into examples of what GP described while searching for answers - it happens quite often that search engine produces link to an SO question that is about the same exact thing I'm investigating, and it's a well-written question covering the details and various explored avenues... and it's closed as "duplicate" of something that isn't actually relevant.
This article reminds me of 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/39/

Such a sad yet interesting story.
Huh. Apple seemed to have finally completed their conversion to USB-C. And then they came up with yet another proprietary connector for the battery pack? That's frustrating.
I hear my US friends bitching about Prime service degradation. Meanwhile it's still ~35 USD/YR in Canada and next day delivery has been increasingly reliable. I haven't compared cataglue on prime videos, maybe we have access to less content. But still hard deal to beat.
haha... the lines and dots never bothered me actually... i was scrolling throught this saw the thing about the lines and had to open the tab back up to see the lines... i never noticed they were there
I go to bed late which results in incomplete sleep and then affects things further.
There’s more of a difference than just smart/not-smart, though. US tends to have those giant two-door fridges, we usually have single-door, stacked, fridge-freezer combinations.
The rational side of me totally agrees with everything you've said.

But the part of me that witnessed glioblastoma - I think when someone is facing that, it should be a VIP pass straight to the "whatever has even a remote chance of actually working" lobby. Which is basically what the article describes, so I'm optimistic for the doctor and his team.

Of course, not everyone is as risk tolerant as I am. My dad wanted to believe he'd be one of the rare "survivors" (I don't think it happens) using traditional radiation and chemo, and was still weighing pros and cons of other potential treatments. But I have the benefit of hindsight, and a lot more education now, and I think it's unethical to not immediately consider trial programs. The most common way to treat glioblastoma today (targeted radiation and chemo) one that only promises to give you more months of life, not years, is also the only treatment option covered by Medicare, the health insurance provider for most retirees in the United States. The uber-aggressive glioblastoma that my dad developed is what most people over retirement age get when they develop glioblastoma as well. Average lifespan from diagnosis to death: 6 months. That's if you surgically remove the tumors, a procedure not without its own risks. Risks that are usually worth it, since without surgically removing the tumors, lifespan drops to weeks.

What I'm saying is there's no path to trial programs for most of the people who'd benefit from those trials the most. It's not even on the map for them.
Learning that the ADA's recommendation has led to decades of mass poisoning of the population into intellectual impairment will absolutely damage the reputation of the ADA.
> 1Mbps over 3km doesn't sound exactly impressive by itself. People have been doing multikilometer wifi links for ages now.

It's _omnidirectional_. You don't need to point it.
<10 minutes? If I think the conversation is going to take more than 30 seconds I am taking that thing off.
Care to imagine how much extra cost this gimmick adds to the device? A high definition second screen just so you can make "eye contact" with someone while simultaneously not paying full attention to them anyway.
How do you imagine the auto insurance industry is driving this change in customer behavior and outcomes? I cannot imagine any way in which it's the fault of the insurers, but I know that this is merely a failure of my imagination.

Bear in mind that the auto insurance industry is quite distinct from the auto manufacturing industry.
I think it depends on your spend.

If you have an Amazon Prime Visa credit card, you get 5% cashback on purchases if you have Amazon Prime, and 3% cashback if you don't.

If you regularly buy a few high-ticket items a year on amazon, that 2% difference will cover the price of prime.
I wouldn't write off cork as insulation so easily -- fluffy insulation (fiberglass and cellulose) doesn't cover every scenario.

For example, Washington State's energy code now requires continuous exterior insulation. Putting a continuous layer of rigid insulation on the outside of the building reduces heat loss due to thermal bridging (conduction through the studs).

The most common material for this purpose, in the US anyway, is foam (polystyrene or polyisocyanurate). Other options are mineral wool, fiberboard, and cork. Mineral wool and fiberboard are pretty expensive compared to foam and I imagine that cork would be similar or even more expensive. But a cool thing about cork is that it can double as both insulation and cladding. I don't know if that makes it an economical choice, but someone's marketing cork for this purpose right here in Washington [1].

[1] https://www.smallplanetsupply.com/thermacork

Edit: fixed a typo
> and anything of somewhat reasonable length can only be a legitimate technical explanation, no matter how unlikely.

thanks, that will help improve the output.
I’m not that invested in this

Tiny obscure public sectors pay better than large public sectors
Being expensive is not so much an issue as it is buying a car that will depreciate faster than it can be paid for, because that's how people get in over their heads.

It's not just expensive cars, people are putting tiny down payments on cheap new cars financed for long terms and they're under water for years.
This is a great review. I love the cuts between what he is seeing in the vision pro vs reality. I can't get over how delusional the wearer looks using it in public. That moment on the staircase when he is sending a text, for instance, looks uncanny in a way that texting doesn't. It'll be interesting to see how the vision pro will be used by the general public.
I'll never understand why Apple feel the need to act as a patent troll. Their brand is so powerful they could take any electronic device, slap their logo on it and sell it to a huge amount of people at much more profit margin than most companies that make functional things can get away with.

Maybe this is just to Apple's patent lawyers what pointless UI redesigns is to frontend devs. Gotta do something.
That url (http://nsa.gov/serve-from-netstorage/) works via Tor, so maybe try that? ;)
You touched on a couple of things, but I think that the main thing you're describing here is attenuation. 5GHz transmission is much more readily-attenuated by things like walls and trees than 2.4Ghz is, and that helps allow it to actually-work in denser environments.

But it isn't so much an issue of power, I don't think: If we erased all of the existing 2.4GHz devices from the world and replaced them with devices that only transmitted 1/10th of the previous power (a 10dB reduction), then: We'd still have to contend with our neighbor's neighbors' 2.4GHz background noise.

Like in a room where everyone is shouting all at once: You can't understand what the guy across the room is shouting because of all of the noise.

But we still have the same problem in a room where everyone is carefully talking quietly all at once: You still can't understand the guy across the room because of all of the noise. The problem hasn't changed. (Sure, the noise is reduced, but the desired signal is also reduced by the same magnitude)

Signal-to-noise ratio doesn't necessarily scale with overall amplitude.
Given that HN has a public API to export all the conversations nobody needs to wait for that day to make it into a training set. In fact, I would be extremely surprised if it hasn't already been trained on.
Thrust to weight of a nuclear engine is fairly poor, so they are best suited for upper stage or in-space work. A heavy-planet rocket might use chemical propulsion in a lower stage just like we do and a high-energy nuclear upper stage (or two) where the really high Isp would be quite useful.
it's not a secret that mega companies use huge amount of funds on lobbying to influence politics

e.g. amazon in 2023, 19.8m USD https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders

it's not like america is alone in this, they just have gigantic dollar figures. australia is a country which really struggles to move away from fossil fuels, and it also has gigantic coal-mining companies paying huge amounts to keep it that way

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16797862

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/apple-ramped-up-lobbying-spe...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/09/big-meat...
Depends on what you're trying to do. The same can be said of Rust. You can write massive web services serializing days from RDBMS databases quite a bit easier in Rust than with C++ as an example.
> Does the left column ever wrap?

Yes, the left column wraps on mobile.
I've never really understood this, why is it easier for a plane to reach that speed than a rocket? Is it sort of just another rocket stage?
For new cars you can sometimes get really low loan rates that are lower than inflation. IMO it's basically free money to take out the loan.