skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, hobbyist here! This is a huge area where government meteorologists and "Big Weather" differ and you can help close that gap!

For context:

The governments of the world provides these big weather companies (weather.com (cough IBM), Accuweather (cough IBM cough), etc) a metric shit ton of their data completely for free (by law) including data transfer. These are things like radar, satellite, ground station data, forecasts, composite models, etc. These companies profit substantially on it, as in billions of dollars. You as citizens also can get this data completely for free as well! MADIS is a system the government is working on to make that data access easier by bringing together many of these systems together and removing the bureaucratic redundancy and abstracting out the aging infrastructure. This is literally terabytes of data per day you can grab with almost no questions asked. That data is then processed privately and resold and repackaged to the end user, and you probably interact with this privatized data the most.

The frustration I have much of the additional "value" these weather data brokers provide is by linking up with each other with data contracts. These private companies have a much much higher detail on the ground than the government by being able to partner with companies that make common internet-connected personal radar stations and reselling that data to each other. The government doesn't have that privilege to buy limitless data. NOAA/NWS, for example, is extremely underfunded so if they had to privilege to buy it they probably couldn't come to an agreement to buy it. As a result, they can't use that data to improve the accuracy of alerts/warnings/forcasts, the same exact tools that the big weather companies make all their money from. It's a shit cycle and totally unfair IMO.

So please contribute if you can!!

Sidebar: I'm a founder of a self-bootstrapped startup to build a better weather data broker that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. If that's something you are passionate about solving, feel free to reach out :)
Does it involve robots that need to drink beer to function?
71% of the US population is white.

34-40% of Harvard students are white.

26% of Stanford students are white.

Yeah, sounds like a really valid conspiracy you have there
That's the way I have been saying it in my head this whole time! Think you have enough weight with the team to get them to officially change their terminology?
Maybe work backwards from

Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) Information: http://www.wxqa.com/cwop_info.htm

If you're going digital, there are several suggested backbones, eg:

Legacy (oops): https://controlbyweb.com/legacy/x320m/

Current model ($450 US): https://controlbyweb.com/accessories/davis-suite-controller

which is a hub that uploads data from attached sensors, which in turn has details of compatable sensors:

Legacy manual: https://controlbyweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/X-320_um...

Current Integrated bunch of sensors on a stick ( $595 US ): https://controlbyweb.com/accessories/sensor-suite

The CWOP community likely has forums and users experienced in matching suggestions to new member questions.

Depends a lot on your skill | interest levels - the controlbyweb path is one option, and that's $450 pluse extra for sensors ( tempreture, wind speed | direction ), air pressure, etc.

All in ~ $1,100 (US) - controller + base sensors + shipping + some wiring and fitting at your site.

There are likely other products and various levels of kit build, solder your own, etc.

The Complete Tempest Weather System https://shop.tempest.earth/collections/featured/products/tem...

comes in at $339 (US) which is cheaper to get started and promises much - build quality, robustness, etc would have to be compared | asked about.
The other bus ending (buses always travel in packs, as any bus commuter knows) is fertility collapse. People are just not getting around to having children. That's a big yawn too. How do you make a drama out of nothing happening?
Apple has a licensing deal with ARM through 2040, but they might get tired of the license fees at some point.
They purposely tailor items to the country they're in, and even add entirely new items. For example, the fries in Country X might be cooked with different ingredients or in a different manner, in an attempt to satisfy consumers in that demographic. You'd better believe they could serve US-style fries wherever they wanted, if they wanted. The reason they don't is not because they can't but because they don't want to.
Discoverability sucks, for almost everyone, but especially for new authors. And that was before ai started flooding out “content.”

Even if you get a publisher, great authors sometimes sell only a handful of copies. You find amazing books on goodreads by award winning authors with only 5 reviews. And that’s people who can get their novels manuscript even looked at by an editor. Lots of self published authors end up with 0-1 reviews

How do you stand out in that swamp?
Multi-Camera Tracking Workflow
There's hardly anything new there.
I am not sure then why you draw a distinction between graphic and print design, when they are in your definitions essentially identical.

But stipulating this definition, and getting back to my original point, I don’t believe there are really significant things that would limit those users in Affinity Photo either, particularly when combined with the tools from Designer and Publisher which you can switch to seamlessly. I have worked alongside designers for thirty years and understand some of what they do; I do not see Affinity lacking in fundamentals or clever features.

Aside, again, from needing to add in an asset management app.

Which would be easily affordable given how comically affordable the entire suite is. But I hope Affinity fix this next.
>> I know the usual advice then is to reduce ban time and just not have permabanning, but that seems to kind of defeat the purpose.

> The purpose is to make random password attempts even more impractical. With even fairly lax fail2ban rules, it'll take multiple lifetimes to find a password made up of just two common use english words.

True, but the other reason to use such a measure is layered security. For instance I systematically disable all password only access, which kind of makes fail2ban seem a little pointless, but if there were to be some obscure bug in PAM, or SSH, or more likely a misconfiguration, then there is another layer that makes it more difficult.
This is why you see these massive advances for known names. The only thing publishers seem to know is that authors who create their own publicity sell copies, and those that dont have an audience dont.
Couldn't find a single mention of the 325th.
Number of foreign-born people hits record in US, despite slow population growth
Docker is your friend

or pyenv at least
Nope. Alarm fatigue is a well documented problem in the medical field.

Like residents who are getting a few hours of sleep over days worth of high-stress / high-stakes work, poor hand-washing between patients, and not clearly printing one's handwriting on prescription forms - all things that kill patients - doctors and hospital administrators just don't care enough.

For a profession that is supposedly so pure morality-wise - do no harm, patient privacy, etc - doctors are remarkably careless.
> The burden on nuclear is the extremely long construction time and massive cost overruns.

Yes, and:

* Risk of catastrophic failure

* Long term waste which there is no technology capable of handling

* Decommissioning
My Websites Are Now Effectively Closed to Facebook (Meta) Users
What could be the reasons for this? Misread the altitude? Sudden wind?
> even though operating it is way cheaper than every other plant we have

No. It is not. More expensive than anything else we can imagine
> In my experience generally GraalVM is slower to start, but after a few iterations it can be as fast or faster

Probably having to do with the JVM being optimized for long-running server processes.

>the same results can be amplified if you use the JVM instead of AOT (i.e. it's even slower to start, but eventually it can be much faster.)

OpenJ9 has a caching JIT server that (theoretically) would work around this.
I’m confused. Does this math check out?

Circumference is 24,901 - so about 1000 mph at equator.

1000 mph / 3600 s / h = 0.27 mps

0.27 * (1/250) = 0.001 miles?

Doing this math on my phone but am I missing something here?
On NT-based Windows, PID 0 is "System Idle Process" and is quite similar in function to the Linux one. On DOS-based Windows, IIRC there is no such thing as PID 0 since PIDs there are actually kernel memory pointers and thus very high: http://www.thescarms.com/VBImages/RunningProcs.gif -- instead, the idle loop is inside VMM32.
I did indeed get to ride on it, and I thought it was really good. It did take approximately twice as long as an Uber due to avoiding the highways. I'm ok with that, it was nice to be in a car that didn't tailgate.
There are lots and lots of well-written, relatively obscure books. I don't think that has much to do with being "brand safe". It has to do with discoverability, network effects (people are more motivated to read books people they know have liked), and the vast number of books.
I vividly remember being in a pathology lab session in 1973 when the Prof pulled the organs out of a formalin jar of a patient who died from micronodular cirrhosis or Lanneac's disease -- he pointed out that the aorta and other major blood vessels were quite smooth and showed no or extremely minimal atherosclerotic plaques. This type of cirrhosis in generally caused by intemperate alcohol use. The Prof said in his experience in doing autopsies, and he had done thousands, persons who had been alcoholics seemed to have very smooth arteries, almost as if alcohol, somehow, protected against the development of atherosclerotic plaque and the sequelae of such deposits.

But remember, these specimens were collected from dead persons, people who had died from something, usually something caused by alcohol. So even if alcohol consumption somehow protects one against atherosclerotic plaque, there are many other manifestations of alcohol use that can kill you, and leave your friendly neighborhood pathologist musing about your wonderfully clean arteries, while your organs lie, dead and removed from your rotting corpse, on the demonstration table.

This is so depressing, I'm going to have a drink,
To replace a touchscreen, you need knobs, sliders, and switches. They don't need to directly connect to things; they can just talk CANbus like everything else in a car. You just need low-cost, rugged, standard modules for knobs, lights, sliders, and switches. Make them all the same depth and mount them staked into a PC board. Provide the board with a stiffening rail so the thing feels solid if someone pushes hard. The board has one CANbus output that connects to the dashboard bus. No hand-wiring. Only one thing to install during vehicle assembly.

Such controls are used in tractors, heavy trucks, and heavy machinery.[1] They just need to be engineered as a volume product. Probably in Shenzhen.

[1] https://www.carlingtech.com/digital-switching
What is OtterTune?
Sorry, we all have to stick to what we’re good at.
I've yet to hear an animal so loud that the walls of my house shake. My neighbors car can do it no problem.
"Step one: hype the human, step two: publish their books" reminds me of being a senior in college and seeing and despairing at job postings saying

"MUST have 5 years experience in [tech that came out 9 months ago]"
This. I walked into the computer room with my mom when I was a little kid. There was a dude printing out a pinup and taking pictures of it as the lines fed. My first exposure to porn.
Novel timing attacks like that are pretty unlikely, basically someone with a 0-day, because otherwise they quickly get patched. If the adversary is someone with access to 0-day vulnerabilities, you're pretty screwed in general and it isn't worth a lot of inconvenience to try to prevent something inevitable.

And there is no guarantee you can use another network connection. Hotspots only work if there's coverage.

Plus, "just use a hotspot or a VPN" assumes you were expecting the problem. This change is going to catch a lot of people out because the first time they realize it exists is during the emergency when they try to remote in.
On Zombo.com, the only limit is yourself.
ah, sorry, I read that wrong
Apple was a co-founder of Arm [0]. "Arm was officially founded as a company in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, which was a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and VLSI Technology (now NXP Semiconductors N.V)."

I'm not sure of their exact licensing terms, but I'm sure as a co-founder they're favourable.

[0] - https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-official-history
You’re living the dream. Why quit ?
That is the first next generation EPR reactor, the second one of its kind in Europe and first in France. This is just reinforcing my point the first one is hard to predict the cost and timeline for.

France built 20 P4/P'4 reactors, most were built on time and at reasonable costs.

The last gen N4 had only 4 units, even then the second batch at CIVAUX costed only $4B.1[2] i.e. $1,349/ kWe overnight costs

Vogtle(GA) 3/4 is expected to cost ~ $8,000 /kWe [3] [4] and the EPR is at Flamanville 3(France) is expected to come in at $6,500 kWe [5].

France projects to achieve 40% cost reduction and faster commisioning for EPR designs over next few being built to achieve $ 3800 /kWe overnight costs [5]. The report details on how they this is achieved and gains already seen at Taishan(China) ( partly owned by EDF)

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency reports in the modern era the overnight costs to be between $2,157 kWe [South Korea] to $6,900 kWe [Slovakia] [6]

Reduction in time and cost is normal to expect in any repeated project development. The first one is path finder, next few should benefit from them, however if we do just built only a few then costs or timeline shouldn't be an objective to compare.

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[2] https://www.power-technology.com/projects/civaux/?cf-view

[3] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/AP1000-remains-attra....

[4] https://ifp.org/nuclear-power-plant-construction-costs/

[5] https://www.sfen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EN-The-cost-...

[6] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
You need the percent of the US population that is of age to likely attend undergraduate school at Stanford.

This website has ages 12 to 17 at 50%.

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/8446-child-populatio...
You probably see them all the time, but don't recognize them as dualies with a flat bed on.

Most people who do serious hauling pull the bed off.
> Why are they so quick to discard a technological origin?

For the same reason that they haven't presented God as a serious option. It's not falsifiable, it being true would require a truly enormous amount of preconditions that are utterly unknown, and it's much more likely that something about our current understanding isn't correct.

If you say "aliens!" every time you see something that doesn't make sense, you'll be saying it a lot, but you will find it will actually be normal physics hiding behind a curtain.
Once you have ridden a rocket, everything else seems slow:

https://xkcd.com/1701/
> maybe it’s falling into a black hole and thus heavily time dilated

If it were doing that it would have redshifted into undetectability and disappeared from view on a time scale much shorter than 8 months, which is how long it has been observed.
At least it's easy to turn sunlight into heat, so that may help somewhat. Absorb sun during the day and release it during the night.

The coldest nights tend to be clear (clouds reflect IR back to the earth).
I got the same answer
I’m reminded of the “I am rich” App that did nothing except cost the maximum App Store price ($999.99 IIRC), or the Egg Salad kick-starter that raised some absurd amount of money. There are occasionally internet memes that generate funds as part of the zeitgeist. They’re often imitated in the moment.

I wonder if this is unique enough and with enough distance from the last one to engage people to part with their money.
> Unlike your friends, the editor is not your friend.

It is true. I would like to qualify it by saying "At the beginning, the editor is not your friend." A friendship, even very strong one, can be developed along the time, based on mutual respect and appreciation, temperament match, etc. Even then, a good editor will still be professional and be honest when they edit the writer's draft.

A good book may not be a "successful" book, especially in literary fiction, since the post talks about novels. The reverse can be true as well. It happens often that the editor tells the author it is a good book, and the publisher allocates resources to marketing it, schedules book tours, etc. while at the same time both the writer's agent and the editor/publisher expect the book may sell only ~2,000 copies. The target audience are expected to be other writers, a subset of avid literature readers, etc. They don't expect it will earn back the advance paid to the author. The publishers have portfolios and long term visions. Of course, this doesn't apply to small publishers, most of which cannot afford it.
I did not see information on the ancestry of the 9-10 ASD toddlers or on the even fewer neurotypical controls. May have missed this.

As for large putative effect sizes this is often due to subtle batch processing differences between cases and controls. Where they all processed by the same tech in an interleaved way? All stored in the same way over this very long duration study? Authors do discuss batch controls but with single digit sample sizes I regard statistics as fundamentally unreliable.

I am also not convinced by the claim of any over-proliferation of neurons in autism during development. It is certainly a highly controversial result. See notes above by “subiculum…” and the Li et al paper he cites.
Since it doesn’t work on android it’s effectively an anti competitive lock in feature? We really need new antitrust laws and aggressive EU style enforcement
> equipping it with bitcoin miners that can be turned on and off algorithmically to deal with the fluctuations in demand.

Turning excess energy straight into heat is NOT doing something useful.

Install a boatload more storage. Set up desalinization plants. Get manufacturing to move to 3rd shift.

Anything other than Shitcoin.
> How do you get people to only charge their cars when it's windy?

My electrical provider gave me a good discount on my fixed rate plan by letting them micromanage the charging times of my car. I tell them I need it X% charged by some time in the morning, and they'll make sure it's at that charge by that time.

If I really need to charge it right away I can still just do that, but the vast majority of the time I don't need to think about it. My car sits in the garage for many hours, there's plenty of time to optimize the charge timings.

Chances are they even pick up a lot of time where spot prices go negative, so they're making money selling it to me and buying it from the grid.
i disagree, it's free
rotation:

360/86,400=0.0041667deg/sec

0.0041667 * 0.004sec = 000016667degR

circumference:

2pi * 6371km = 40,030km

land covered by rotation:

40,030 / 360 = 111.194km/deg

0.000016667deg × 111.194 km/degree = 0.001854 km

km to m:

0.001854km × 1,000 meters/km = 1.854 meters

more like 0.001 miles. ... oh, woops. I see your answer is in kms.

it was something like 0.46km/s.
Sadly it's not up for any of us to decide, but instead the free market which will reward whichever venture it deems most successful. Usually that means we get manmade horrors that defy comprehension.

Axiomatically, I agree with you. But humanity has already reached the "robot dogs with guns" part, we've only got so much longer before we're the ones being told to sit and stay.
Do you have a source for sites like weather.com and AccuWeather being part of a billions of dollars industry? That is surprising to me.
YouTube Processed a Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in Six Months
I've been building a collection of tools upon various standards, like WinterCG Web API and JSON/OpenAPI Schema, called Webroute.

The aim is to foster a more interoperable web ecosystem, by decoupling code from frameworks and bespoke APIs wherever feasible.

On top of Web standardisation, modern apps are also increasingly less reliant on things like a central router instance, opting instead for filesystem routers, for example. So, instead of being a monolithic framework, Webroute consists of several independent packages which can be picked and used where needed, even to create another web framework atop.

A brief summary of some of these packages:

Route: Declare and implement "routes", comprised of schema validation, middleware, dep. injection, path, methods and request handlers, with full type-safety (incl. middleware).

Schema: Convert validation schema to other schema, including JSON Schema.

Client: Type-safe client helper for any REST API

OpenAPI: Decorate schema with OpenAPI metadata. Create OpenAPI specs from this metadata.
> He took the Earthrise photo, which Nature photographer Galen Rowell described as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

Heh. I'd never read/heard that quote before. But no one's photos have touched me more than Galen Rowell's, so it bears an incredible amount of weight to read.

Thank you for sharing it.
You can do that today.
It is a tool with many uses. Sailors and early pioneers who couldn't carry water for long distances used ale to to stay hydrated. The same sailors were given a daily tot of rum to maintain morale.

Many medicinal compounds and molecules are only soluble in ethanol, and so many early medicines resemble amaro decoctions that people still drink recreationally today. These medical uses convergently evolved across cultures and geographies.

Doing business or politics over wine or shochu was useful because alcohol removes social inhibitions that would otherwise hide things in negotiations.

It's also just an important way to preserve calories of harvested fruits and grains that would otherwise spoil, which is why in some places it was used as currency in place of gold.
No-fee PO Boxes also cover situations in which USPS doesn't deliver to a house in a rural area (no carrier service, as noted in your source [2]). It's very common in many small towns.
Literally name one good alternative for Adobe Animate, After Effects, and Photoshop please
no penalize, just forward the tty to a honeypot and waste the attacker's time. Any login would pass, but you have to figure out if the shell is real.
What about Google asking you to use chrome each time you click on a link in gmail, or not letting you copy an address without being taken to maps when you search on your phone?
docker compose, I accidentially commited the port mappings I set up during local development.
I have always wanted to build a cheap ESP based weather station I can give to a friend, have them set up their WiFi and it would transmit data to the central server and I do not want to submit data to AccuWeather or wunderground or someone else.

Is there a Foss server around that I can set up on my own ?
Can and do third parties use Secure Enclave? Any HN users that know?
There is no way for your selfhosted xmpp server to deliver notifications to an iPhone unless you are the publisher of the xmpp client app you use (which requires doxing yourself to Apple and paying $99/year if you don’t want to sign new binaries every week).

The server support is irrelevant; this is an iOS/APNS issue.
Is there any reason we can't repurpose these lines for HVDC?

It seems like we could get quite a bit of extra juice by changing to DC transmission.