skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who has end stage kidney disease practically by definition has a shitload of other problems--any of which can kill the patient.

This is similar to AIDS. AIDS almost never kills directly. Some other disease like cancer or pneumonia does the actual killing.
1. Social media's objective function is engagement. Outrage and like buttons are highly engaging.

2. Tribalism + scale + time = two "us vs them" groups. Politically, FPTP voting mathematically implies spoilage; the Ron Paul example doesn't extol some virtue.

3. People are furious due to these (utterly preventable) things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E
Well yes, but also not really - I mean by no means are they as libertarian as the US eqivalent.
People seem to have a huge need to defend their preferences and world views, as if something could be taken away from them, should they fail to defended it any turn. If you instead comment that you prefer one thing, but can see the usefulness of another, moderate your own opinion and leave room for the alternatives, then your comment/post/video/tweet the your engagement drops to almost zero. That's no good in an engagement driven economy.
I don’t know enough to make absolute statements here, but deep learning models can beat out human experts at discerning between signal and noise. Using that to guess at data and then hand it off to humans gives you the worst of both worlds. Two error probabilities multiplied together. But to simply render a verdict on whether a condition exists I’d trust a proven algorithm.
Anyone know of an estimate of the cost of hardening the US grid so that there wouldn't be an enormous death count, and likely societal collapse? The danger seems to be very real. See the paper discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40322870
How does the recent CME compare to that of the Carrington Event?
In no way would I claim that the person does not have severe autism - but it is someone who consented to marriage.

What I mean is a person where this would never ever happen.
https://archive.ph/wip/Tq8fd
Conscription in Germany is technically there, but was "paused" in 2011. It could be re-activated, or "un-paused" with less red tape than introducing it from scratch.

If re-introduced, there would likely be the same procedure in place for conscientious objectors that existed in the past (I am one, and declined military service in Germany at the time, opting for 15 months of community service instead of then 12 months of miltary service), namely stating your objection in writing when you are called to report for your conscription related health check.

EDIT: typo fixed.
Pay might be motivation for some, but it's not the only source. People also join for reasons such patriotism, sense of duty, or family history of service. Boosting pay could certainly help, but I think its effect would be limited if it's facing cultural headwinds.
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It seems to me that we are not as good at recognizing tradeoffs as we used to be. We used to have discussions where we would point out that more X is good but it would have the downside of less Y, but now we just yell "More X!" at one another.
I would imagine that the alien civilisations would also make that kind of studies, and pre-emptively prevent the extinction scenario from happening.
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Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
Becoming an Amateur Polyglot
You apparently believe most humans are whiny and entitled.
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What do you mean? They’re both important advancements which could help housing supply.
No please. It's a security nightmare.
We need to wait for LMSYS Chatbot Arena to actually see the performance of the model.
Conscription was suspended (in 2011, iirc).

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/von-optimierungen-bis-hi...

^According to that article, they want to consider extending conscription to other essential services, like fire departments.
It isn't working for the US.

https://www.ausa.org/news/paper-recruiting-crisis-national-s...
> My thesis has been that America is characterized by low levels of violence but also low social trust.

Low levels of violence? Compared to whom? US ranks high in number of incarcerated citizens per 100k[^1]. There is no other "western" country in that list, for example.

[^1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-th...
No, absolutely not. Libertarians are way way more extreme than the liberals here.
https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/downloads/unfit-to-serv...
lol no idea, I wanted to type “classical liberals”.
But no, they are not at all libertarians. They are pro-western, pro-EU, no Russia-simping and no brain-deadness.
That's correct. I thought we were talking specifically about refcount traffic, not about broader issues.
I did mention batteries above, but that's a lot of battery. Hydro is great but not available everywhere. Gas turbines have substantial carbon emissions. Curtailment is fine but doesn't help on windless nights; what we need is power on demand, not just power available sometimes that we have the option to switch off.

How dispatchable nuclear is depends on the specific design, which is important given our context of small reactors with new designs.

According to the DOE, "Certain designs, like DOE-supported NuScale Power, LLC, can vary their energy output over days, hours and even minutes."[1]

According to NuScale, "The NuScale Power Module is capable of a ramp rate of 40% per hour in reactor power change, which aligns with specifications set by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). For even quicker responses to electricity demand, the NuScale SMR can rapidly lower its electric power output up to 10% per minute and return to full output at the same rate utilizing turbine bypass. This is significantly faster than conventional nuclear power."[2]

More advanced designs may be even better.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/department-energy-report-...

[2] https://www.nuscalepower.com/-/media/nuscale/pdf/publication...
Ultimately the Prussian education system did a pretty poor job at that, considering that the Prussian/German army lost two world wars.
The US is struggling to maintain numbers. It does not pay that well in most circumstances.
"Up u" should be "You", I don't know why my phone autocorrected this way. Too late to edit now!
The actual numbers are surprising though.
1. Most of the decrease in the middle class was driven by MC people moving to the upper class
So
2. The ratio of lower class to upper class is actually lower than in the 70s.
For that to happen, you must have implemented what that SO answer says in your code. In contrast, CL allows you to modify the current running code and apply fixes.
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Correct. The primary beneficiaries of conscription are the working class.
Why dont the symbols just have names instead of stuff like ||\x.

I assume it gets easy to read once you practiced it a bunch but I feel like its such a hindrance to readability/popularity for the sake of appearing simple (look we can reverse a list with a single character!)
We have more than enough wealth here in the US (and most first world societies) to eliminate most child poverty in our nations, and we even demonstrated this ability during the pandemic era. But for some reason we choose not to do this. Yes you can sit back and cherrypick the most innumerate beliefs that 23-year-olds hold, but we’re adults and we need to accept responsibility for the flaws in the society we’re handing them. If we can’t do that, our criticism is hollow and embarrassing.
Is it the same bad license?
When I was 17 I was conscripted.

Obviously my anecdotal experience isn't data, but I would (somewhat) push back on the notion we were whiny or entitled.

Ok, granted, some were whiny. But there are plenty of toilet blocks to clean, so that problem tends to become minor.

On the other hand I wouldn't have described us as "entitled"? (Entitled to what?) We were the opposite of entitled. Naturally we were also the lowest ranks, so frankly got all the undesirable jobs.

Were we "effective"? Well, I guess so. But that's a function of training (and equipment).

There was a clear social distinction between regular (permanent) members and conscripts. Somewhat delineated by rank (permanent members got stripes within a couple years, conscripts typically didn't.)

Now, personally, I'm against conscription.(I'm also against volunteer recruitment, that tends to have the side effect of sending mostly poor people to fight.) So I concur that it's a horrible idea (but then again, Germany may have no choice given the neighborhood). Sometimes horrible ideas become necessary.

Perhaps if the sons and daughters of the privileged have to go and fight, perhaps those in charge would be less keen to start wars. Or maybe not.
Ask HN: Am I being too picky?
I have worked as a software engineer for over a decade. I would describe myself as someone who cares but not all the time. For example, I can provide a high quality solution for a task that requires it… but I cannot do it for every single task in our board.

I used to work in places in which I was giving myself 100%, let’s say, one sprint (2 week’s duration) every 3. It worked great. The other 2 sprints I was doing a good enough job.

I now work for a so-called “high performing” team, and I hate it. Everything must be done with a high quality standard and it must be done “on time” (there are no deadlines, but the moment your task is taking more time than it was estimated, you need to provide evidence of why that’s the case).

Not sure if that’s how things should be, or perhaps I am too picky or if simply I don’t fit the company culture. I like to do great things, but I cannot be a “high-performant” engineer all the time.
What I find interesting in modern techowars, especially one with a declining demographics situation as Germany is ... draft older people!

From a policy standpoint, it means less "lost productive years".

I get that historically grabbing dumb and easily inspired disposable males was the way because there was almost always disposable males in the old demographics for the last 10,000 years.

But modern urbanized society isn't like that. Children are precious, old retired people are disposable.

The West is being far to passive on Ukraine. There should be large amounts of European forces in Ukraine right now. I'm talking 100,000 minimum.

Russia has openly stated its goals to attack NATO if/when it gets Ukraine. Putin views Europe as a fat pig ripe for conquest, full of weak and cowardly leaders.

Total population mobilization has to be planned now. The Polish and Balkans, the most willing fighters in NATO in the next line of countries, should likely be actively mobilized for total conventional war.
Here's an idea: disconnect from online and reconnect with nature: go outside and proceed for the longest distance comfortable to a park, a tree, a weed by the sidewalk, lichen on a rock; anything growing and not human. [1]

[1] Sophie L. Kjærvik, Brad J. Bushman, A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage?, Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 109, 2024,102414,ISSN 0272-7358,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102414.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273582...
Soft deletion is not an anti-pattern. In real software you need to have possibility to delete items but they still need to be exist in historical items because of analytics, historical data integrity etc.

Soft delete is the only way to make this possible without horrible kludges.
But we also seem hardwired to want to feel superior and special.
ASRock / ASRock Rack for motherboards.

GPUs depend on the make and model, but mainly, you look at board design, warranty, and RMA turnaround.
When I'm bored, unfocused, unengaged, I'll comment on a bunch of stuff, stuff that I really shouldn't. On better days in reminded by this quote:

“Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything.

1) Does this need to be said

2) Does this need to be said by me?

3) Does this need to be said by me now?”

That stops most comments.
> kind of a fringe take (PS: I just finished watching the movie Her and am in a weird place)

I thought we are closer to robot soldiers, Geoffrey Hinton said US army wants to have 50% robots by 2030, seems strange to invest in human soldiers when they are gonna have T-800 fairly soon. Is there some populist reason for conscription, or perhaps a weird twist to get into UBI?

Reminded me of this episode of Yes, Prime Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks

are you worried about the raising crime amongst teenagers, do you think there is a lack of discipline in schools, do you think our young people lack authority and leadership in their lives, would you be in favor of introducing national service?

are you worried about the danger of war, are you worried about the growth of armaments, do you think there is danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill, do you think its wrong to force people to take up arms against their will? would you oppose the reintroduction of national service?
Most people don’t like to be forced into the military, so I would not judge from their everyday behaviour to how they would behave when forced to be in the military.
I mean wikipedia is free but yes this is how it is defined:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language

https://www.britannica.com/topic/language

I’ve never seen a definition of language in a scientific context that frames it in any other context other than something humans do. Please feel free to show me otherwise. Whether or not you are convinced isn’t really my concern - this is a well known scientific thing.
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There are a couple of things I wonder about RTK that maybe you or somebody else in this thread can help me with?

1. Where does the kinematics in the name come from? The base station is stationary, and kinematics is about the movement of objects.

2. How does the correction signals work? Is it as simple as "now the position is 3.56 m to the left of the true position, correct your position accordingly", or is it more advanced with detailed timing corrections for each satellite's signal or similar?
It's hard to find clothing made from natural fibers like organic cotton nowadays
I have to admit I wasn't familiar with IoC for appdev.
I only knew of that initialism as "Indicators of Compromise" from infosec.
"Mercenaries" in pre-modern times were people whose career was soldiering. They were available to any principality that would pay them. Not the same as volunteer military now who only fight for their own country.

Russia is a different case altogether.
I've never heard of this podcast, despite listening to a fair number of podcasts. Are these download numbers (500k+) that impressive for a podcast that only releases episodes monthly? (I also wonder how many people actually listen to such a long podcast; I would imagine the listen percentage is lower for longer podcasts in general.)
Modern chainfalls use one loop of chain to drive a gear reduction which drives a separate load chain. Differential chain hoists with an upper and lower pulley and no gear reduction are found in museums.
This is wonderful. Democracies should use mercenary armies sparingly. Conscription should be broad and blind. Remember a small fraction of the military is actually in combat. Most of the military is logistics at scale.
Poll HN: Which Front end Framework would you choose for a Greenfield Project?
Options are the analyzed popularity from here: https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d2314e190
There either is or there isn't a strike. The reason is even included in the article and pretty easy to validate.
Neither of us know anything about how the other lives. It's entirely plausible that either of us could be in total denial of our surroundings (which is a recurring personality in the VC/entrepreneurial sphere).
You could say it like this: "GOOD scientists are very curious."

In fact, the best try to remain child-like in attitude, i.e. being able to be in awe about nature, which adults tend to "unlearn".
Those were parallel developments, but after Google standardized Unicode emoji for use with Gmail and Apple implemented emoji on iOS for Japanese market support, Apple continued to expand emoji set with bunch of smileys and human upper torsos, thereby consuming those emoticons into emojis.

I'm not well versed in those part of cultures, but IIUC, yellow smileys and semirealistic humans weren't focus of Japanese emoji implementations, whereas it is in Apple iOS emoji set.
While article doesn't say the cause of death, the patient did suffer from congestive heart failure, as a prior condition. Further congestive heart failure can cause all sorts of complications, meaning that the patient was pretty sick at baseline. According to the article, patient had an earlier human kidney transplant in 2018 that failed in 2023 leading to the congestive heart failure, and thus made patient a candidate for the xeno-kidney transplant. Patient was a pioneer- rest in peace.
Thailand, the 'Detroit of Asia,' could be key future China hedge for automakers
I think the bigger inequality we experience is less about individual income, and more an inequality that giant corporations run so much of the world and the people have so little representation & agency.

Watching your epi-pens go from $35 to $700 is a stark & present reminder that the very wealthy corporations are predatory as fuck, and that you are prey. And that nothing will save you. (Short of Linda Khan & the FTC starting actual anti-trust activities again.)
If you heat water I'd say solar thermal collectors are more efficient?
I’d start with none, and first try to work out what problem you’re trying to solve?
I got a 7/10 I guess I am up to something LOL
i like people, but being somewhat meek and amicable i can only deal with people who are somewhat like myself in terms of affinity
money is important, but i would hate to work 50 hours versus 40 to "make up" for what i lose in pay
what's most important to me is personal/professional satisfaction in terms of delivering value to customers though
finding the unity/trinity in which everything meshes well is tricky..
Another functional language that can be concisely implemented [1] in Python is Binary Lambda Calculus, with a large part of the code dealing with BLC's pure I/O model. Instead of using an association list for variable lookup, it uses de-Bruijn indices to index the environment array. The same page shows implementations in 9 other languages, with BLC's self interpreter being the most concise at 232 bits (29 bytes), which includes a parser and tokenizer.

[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Universal_Lambda_Machine#Python
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This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/
Sounds like that's more about using a cryocooler to minimize the helium used-- but presumably that requires keeping the coils in a particularly hard vacuum to adequately insulate them.

There is some research towards operating at liquid hydrogen temperatures -- but hydrogen has its own logistical challenges.
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I don't agree that this is magic. It's only "magic" because the language doesn't do it today (thus requiring the compiler extension.) If this were in the language itself, it would probably be pretty popular.

The argument against it feels like "because we've always done it this way."
Same here. But it's important to remember that age is just one aspect of life, and everyone's journey is unique.
I completely disagree. Military service should be voluntary considering the risks and long term mental health effects.

If my country ever implements conscription, the first thing I’m doing is getting another country’s citizenship at all cost, maybe the “enemy”’s out of spite.
thats a great analogy.
Wait... Isn't this just an implementation of lisp in python?

It's not a homoiconic version of python as the title sugests, right?

Or am I missing something?
Self illuminating pixels are ideal instead of a backlight illuminating the entire display
Back of the envelope (and of couse there are exceptions and subtleties to all these)...

- scale, as in they think about it. Franchising your brand === entrepreneur. Buying a franchise - despite Entrepreneur mag's narrative - does not.

- exit, as in they don't lose sight of it

- hit by a bus (similar to exit). An entrepreneur's brand continues without them.

- innovation and/ uniqueness in product. Opening another cookie cutter lemonade stand don't cut it

- risk, their lens is not about risk, it's about opportunity. That is, where other see risk, the true entrepreneur sees opportunity.

I might have one or two others but that's the basic filter.

<edit>

One to add.

- upsetting - I don't like the word disruption. It's over used and it's the wrong goal. The goal is to identify a market and find fit. Disruption in and of itself is silly. That said, if you're not pissing some one(s) off then you're likely not an entrepreneur. Again, another lemonade stand isn't grounds enough to be considered an entrepreneur.
If you want just something pretty and useful without toolchain hell:

Check out Bulma. (https://bulma.io/)
> Just wait until eating any pizza makes you feel gross, cause aging.

I hope that my relationships with food will never change
I'd read somewhere a hypothesis that Germany would've done better to have just kept the peace and (at least by pre-1914 growth paths) outcompeted the British economy. I guess (a) people at that time thought growth wasn't possible without colonies, and (b) people in all times seem to lose any commitment they might have had to free trade once a serious economic competitor emerges?
Quantum effects allow for randomness which is nice since it gives some sense of not being a machine entirely on rails.

That alone alone doesn't give determinism though. For that we
still need to have some influence on the outcomes of quantum events. If there's a mechanism by which we can will for some quantum outcomes to be more likely than others that'd be nice. It'd fit with intuition that we aren't just observers of a series of events but actual participants that determine the outcome.
Also, I'm guessing it's not actually the hospital's job to post the more detailed info which may be important related to learning from the transplant. I'm way out of my element here, but wouldn't the hospital just be the location and any important info sharing would be handled by someone else?
Can't reap it if you don't sow it.
We can look at what's happening in Ukraine right now to see how well that's working. The truth of it is that no matter how much technology is deployed land can only be held with infantry.

Being infantry is still physically demanding and cannot be usefully replaced by technology. Maybe they aren't marching hundreds of kilometres on foot anymore, but they still need to endure the weather, minor injuries, and move through forests carrying heavy packs.

Physically, being infantry is beyond most people in their sixties.
Hidden in plain sight is the fact is that structured exception handling in 32-bit Windows (the linked-list-on-the-stack version[1,2], not saying anything about the gigantic-tables “zero-cost” version) is a resumable exception system a la Common Lisp conditions—inevitably, seeing as it subsumes SIGSEGV coredumps!

[1] http://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_crash_course_depths...

[2] http://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_vectored_exception_...
Cotton production uses immense amounts of water. It may not contain plastic micro-beads, but it is a eco-disaster.