skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life expectancy is basically flat for people over 80.

Lots fewer babies are dying, a good amount of young adults are staying alive, some middle age people are living longer, and a handful of older folks are too.

But once you get to 80, 90, your life expectancy is within a few years of where it would have been 100 years ago.

There’s absolutely no evidence that medical technology has made any impact on the maximum age humans can live.

And any impact it’s had on the raw numbers making it past 100 are utterly dwarfed by the kind of factors affecting global population. Like tiny, tiny percents of the population are in this “ nouveau old”.
Can confirm NYT is appalling, and they should really be ashamed of themselves.
This may very well be the greatest British deception since the WWII carrot propaganda. But for malware. Nice!
kudos for being a good sport about it too :)
Amongst other things, the clocks need to be corrected for relativistic effects.

Due to the net effect of both kinetic and gravitational time dilation, clocks onboard a satellite advance more quickly than they would on Earth (when observed from Earth).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...
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That's why that comment was flagged. (To me personally, your comment was harsh enough to be worthy of downvoting, though I'm not sure I would have flagged it.)

Also from the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
You’re trying to avoid addressing my point. What can GPT do that’s interesting without a human in the loop doing the prompting?

Lol “very poor”. You’re attempting to argue that if there’s any output at all in response to an input prompt, then GPT is “trying” and showing signs of intelligence, no matter what the output is. By this logic, you contradicted yourself: the chess engine can play checkers, poorly. By this logic, asking the sky to play a game means the sky is trying because it changes, or asking a random number generator to play a game means it resembles an attempt to play because there is “very poor” output.

There are lots of games GPT can’t play, like hide-and-seek, tag, and tennis. Playing a game means playing by the rules of the game, giving coherent output, and trying to win. GPT can’t play games it hasn’t seen before, and no I don’t agree that “very poor” output counts. It doesn’t (currently) learn the rules from your prompts; you can’t teach it to play a new game by talking to it, and the “very poor” output from a game it wasn’t trained on will never improve. And, to my actual point, GPT will not play any games at all unless you ask it to.
ah, so I shall use scarecrow in my analysis machines since the malware will think I'm just pretending to examine it :)

If you start down this path you will end up in mindgame hell.
Why repurpose a military term from early 19th century, when you could simply call it execution risk?
Integrated circuits are similar to neurons in that way. They are not based on neurons.

Neural networks significantly diverge from actual brain mechanisms. But they are originally based on the original concept as you seem to know. And this person is, perhaps unjustifiably, claiming that they want to bring it closer.
Physically destroying one Starlink satellite is pointless as it wouldn't meaningfully disrupt service. Destroying enough Starlink satellites to disrupt service is infeasible. You would need to launch many hundreds if not thousands of interceptors. It would cost a fortune, probably a lot more than launching the constellation in the first place. It wouldn't deny access to space as you can simply launch through a debris cloud, spending only a few minutes in the danger zone which would give you a negligible collision risk compared to satellites that linger for years. You also couldn't intentionally create a debris cloud dense enough to disrupt communication or cause a chain reaction of collisions at Starlink's altitude. Space is too big.
Twitter is already a GPT hellscape
Tl;Dr: "Wave-particle duality" is not the notion that matter is "sometimes" a particle and "sometimes" a wave. It is, at all times, its own separate category of thing, for which "particle" and "wave" are just metaphors that approximate its behavior.

One metaphor usually comes closer than the other depending on what system you're looking at, but it's never changing back and forth between some "particle state" and "wave state".
Yes, that sounds a lot like the argument I remember hearing
Wow what a legend.
I’m at a lost as to why I should care? Everything comes down to force. Those animals can opine all they want, but humans have the means, motive and opportunity to make them into tasty food. Their conscious or lack there of has no impact.
They ought to flood something towards Denmark. Right now, in this moment, I pay roughly 0.49€ (3.66 DKK) per kWh.
Gemini also only charges for output tokens, not sure if that’s considered.

All in all this is something I was looking for or was roughly going to do to compare costs. Cool stuff.
No you don’t. AVs with 2-4 riders provide excellent passenger density and provide way higher quality service than traditional mass transit. Trip times are typically less than half of even a good mass transit system, and it’s a far more relaxed environment.

The biggest problem with mass transit is that it is slow, and while you can improve a system to make it faster, there are ultimate necessary limits because the passenger has to walk to a stop, wait for a vehicle, and then wait while the vehicle stops and passengers get on and off, and then walk to their destination. You cannot fix this, it’s inherent to the medium.
Reddit just this in the past year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/18zewqa/keep_g...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/15oq4pn/bookingcom_v...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1bblo8a/verification...

There's also posts on twitter and here on hackernews.

But at its core numbers don't matter, the fact that they ignore twofactor and let everyone login by clicking on the request e-mail is a complete failure of security.

Non tech savvy people will absolutely get compromised by this at some point given enough requests, and they don't post to Reddit about it.
This was very surprising and positive. I had expected pain for the electricity market in France since EDF "lost" the uranium mines in Niger and replaced it by shipping uranium from canada/australia.

So it looks like solar and wind have more than compensated for the nuclear power shortages.

The olympic games will put this news to test and I guess we will find out soon if this news is indeed true.
Training on data in a particular field will not prevent hallucinations, because the generation algorithm itself works on hallucinations. Anything below the resolution of “looks like the source” is indistinguishable.
My understanding is that what we consider as particles can be described as waves of smaller particles.

For example, atoms are fluctuating electrons, neutrons and protons, all of which are fluctuating subatomic particles and so on. And what we describe as particles are essentially the maxima of these fluctuations.
Code Droid achieves 19.27% on SWE-bench Full and 31.67% on SWE-bench Lite
How often do you see farm fields, for example?

We could easily find many many large expanses of land, and given the margins on farming, many in my local area are renting / selling / building solar farms on the corners or harder-to-reach areas of their fields. Since those areas tend to have trees around anyway .... But none of that is really a viewshed problem unless you've modelled trees.

Now in hillier areas or mountainous regions this gets more compliated.
How did you prove to them their USB cable fried your computer? Did they ask for the devices for investigation?
Sounds great thanks
If anyone sees great examples that haven't been added to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights yet, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We love getting those suggestions!

I still need to make an "I feel lucky"-style random sample version of that page.
Sounds like they're under active attack due to some poor initial practices & having a hard time getting in front of it.

I suggest changing your email with booking.com to something the attackers wouldn't know.

Using the Gmail option of extending your normal username with '+' something – eg use ACCOUNT+unguessable-string@gmail.com in place of ACCOUNT@gmail.com – might be enough. With luck (if the site hasn't been too dumb), then when they hit the site with your old/plain address, no email will be generated.
Ask HN: Accurate Weather (Precipitation) Forecasts?
Which app has the most accurate weather forecasts these days?

I remember when Dark Sky was awesome! If it said it was going to start raining in 7 minutes, then you could set a timer and in 7 minutes there was a 99% chance it would start raining! But then Apple bought it and Apple Weather, well, let's just say it could be pouring down rain and Apple Weather would be like there's a 0% chance that it's raining. It gets temperatures right enough but it's highly unusable for precipitation.

So, which app has the best precipitation forecasts?
Roughly, a typical tank car used for crude oil transportation can hold between 20,000 to 70,000 barrels of oil, with some cars capable of carrying up to 100,000 barrels.

Roughly, a unit train carrying 50 barrel cars of crude and assuming a value of $80 per barrel, transportation charge is roughly 12.50 (although it varies). The total gross return, being transported each freight would be:

50 cars x 75,000 barrels x $12 per barrel x 6 day = 270 mil $

So the fine is the cost of doing business, for 40 billion dollar rail. Day after day, year after year for over a decade. Granted, this is part of what keeps gas prices down. North Dakota's shale, tracked into the west coast.

Good for the tribe, but I really wish the fine was higher as a real deterrent.
I tried to login to booking.com, but it claimed that I hadn't registered yet. So I registered again, with the same email. It didn't verify my email, and after login out and in again, with the new password, all my old bookings were still available. So yeah... I was effectively able to change the password without any form of verification.

This was 20 days ago.
That's the point. /s
We do something very similar. All pay goes into a joint account and all the bills and joint expenses come out of that one.

We pay ourselves each an allowance that covers our personal spending. That's basically everything I spend money on by myself, so lunch out, treats, games whatever.

I think its a really good way if avoiding any worry about "wasteful" spending. What we each value is different. If we need to tighten our belts we just reduce the allowance, we don't need to fight over what specific spending is or isn't acceptable.
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Germany already buys electricity from France. The cost mentioned above are the subsidized charges by the EDF to the french government.

Germans would get the full cost which is much higher than the quoted price here. Besides nuclear power is not flexible enough to amp it up and down according to demand (unlike coal or petrocarbon industries).
I closed my account just to end the madness. I haven't used booking in a while anyway.
The anatomy of an AI coding assistant
I agree that's likely. Then I guess it would matter what recourse the EU citizen would have. They would have to file suit in the US I would think.
Realistically, I'm looking for artists that are good first. And 98% of them use Photoshop. Not going to restrict myself to non-Photoshop artists.
Hey! Genuinely, thank you for the feedback!
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Seems like you have every combination of responses here!

We went with totally separate. I owned a house so no rent or mortgage, so I just paid the bills and she bought the food. I got paid more so it worked fine.

Mind you, I don't really care about money other than having enough to do stuff so it might depend on your attitude.

We did split but it had nothing to do with money.
French reactors are built to load follow [1]. It is harder on the valves, but they do it ("maneuvering capabilities"). Regardless, it would be better if they could run flat out to push out fossil generation in adjacent grids (Germany, the UK, and Northern Italy) with sufficient interconnector capacity. France also still has a bit of coal and fossil gas generation to retire [2] [3].

TLDR More interconnector capacity, battery storage, and renewables needed (my analysis).

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR?wind=false&solar=fal...

[3] https://www.euractiv.com/section/coal/news/france-extends-li...
It's pretty amazing what's slowly but surely becoming possible. This company, for example, has successfully made chip-scale "fiber" ring gyros with incredible performance that would have been very large heavy units 5-10 years ago: https://www.anellophotonics.com/products/x3
Neat! I had forgotten about that. Not entirely text-based, then.

I went looking for what primitive drawing commands it was built on, and it’s barely mentioned:

> The details of how primitive painters are implemented depend on the particular characteristics of the graphics system and the type of image to be drawn. For instance, suppose we have a procedure draw-line that draws a line on the screen between two specified points. Then we can create painters for line drawings.

That’s a pretty typical avoidance of I/O. (Also, generating static pictures is rather different than reacting to input.)
Not quite that accurate. Apparently it’s more like 3 seconds per million years for a rubidium atomic clock, and 1 second per 3 million years for a hydrogen maser. (Caesium atomic clocks are somewhere in between)

ESA use both types onboard Galileo satellites:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/How_th...
Maybe, I don't know enough about magnetic fields to say much. In my head they're directional so you'd know how it's aligned and can measure how strong it is, and that might function similar to a gravity map, especially if you know where you're coming from: there may be two places on earth with the same amount of gravity, or in this case, the same magnetic field strength, but if those places aren't next to each other that may still be tolerable depending on the system requirements.
The team I was teaching struggled with the concept of streams and reactivity. It's kind of like programming backwards, especially if you're used to an imperative mindset. They just had a hard time with the concept of a stream.

They also had a tough time remembering all the operators in the library.
Remove background is also built in to Preview on MacOS.
I see the top comment in your top link makes the same recommendation I made in another comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720789).

If it works, you should definitely solve the problem for yourself even before booking.com eventually suffers enough to address the problem more generally.
I think they're useful if and only if the audience expects box plots -- if it's just the convention of their field, for instance.

To me, the biggest problem most data visualizations run into is that they're trying to convey way too much information all at once.

I learned in my consulting career to communicate one idea at a time. When I need to communicate a few ideas about data, I'll usually assign each idea exactly one visualization.

And for that reason, box plots just aren't that useful. For me, it's not that they're intrinsically confusing -- although to some audiences they are -- but instead that they'll invariably leave too much work to the audience.

If you want to communicate that medians in group A are higher than groups B-G, then you should probably just plot the medians on a vanilla bar chart. Maybe the box plot can sit in an appendix for unusually curious readers.
Depends on where you are! Jutland and Fyn can share via the Central European grid whereas Sjaelland is on the Nordic grid with Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

(There are several HVDC links between those grids, but as I understand it that adds capacitance for the purpose of pricing.)
> Uncompressed stereo is 100 kilobytes per second.

How much of that is cognitively useful for learning English? On top of the textual content, audio gives you emphasis and mood. Not a lot of information in that -- a few bits per sentence.
Reminds me a bit of the 3DS Electroplankton game. Wasn't quite so addictive though. Would be great to have a bit more control to generate repetitive patterns.
I just talked about this with a friend of mine who related a story about a teacher friend of his in a low-income school. Lots of gang violence, standard rough neighborhood. A kid asked the usual "why do I need to learn algebra?" question. The teacher replied "If you want to stay poor, you don't have to." The kid got the message.

There you go, an anecdote to match yours!
This article seems to get it backwards?

> This doesn’t mean that the atoms themselves are smeared out like waves; rather, what spreads is the probability distribution of them being found subsequently in a given location

No, it really does mean they're smeared out like waves. Prior to the measurement they are in superposition, relative to you. When your experiment images the atoms, that's a measurement that entangles you with the atoms.

If the observable value takes values in (A,B) then when you get entangled you end up in a state (A, measured A) + (B, measured B), each of which perceives a definite value of the measurement. The whole system would still be (to an outside, non-entangled observer, if you could pull such a thing off) in a superposition which could continue to interfere with itself, but the observer who's inside the superposition will never be able to tell.

Afaik this is the standard interpretation nowadays. Particles are waves (well, in the sense that what we call a particle is usually a momentum eigenstate that evolves in space like a wave), but the measurement process that entangles us to the causes them to come in quantized packets which we call particles.

Maybe I'm missing the point of the article somehow though...
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One of the reasons they're not as common anymore is because of the dangers associated with them, not only in earthquake country, but also fires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_story_building
You can go to youtube and login with any random email address and get the full name of the person and profile photo, assuming they've ever logged into Google. All you need is their email address.
In demographics the units of time are generations. It takes several of them for the effects of shock to be fully felt because generations overlap, about a century.

Japan's TFR fell below replacement around 1973, iirc. So we should wait at least till 2070 before making assertions about the severity or otherwise of the issue. In the mean time, it sure looks serious.

Japan has been propping up its economy with debt. It has the highest public debt to GDP ratio in the world. Is that sustainable if interest rates climb? I don't know.
This article is spot-on. It is different for everyone, but this arc was remarkably similar to losing my mother just over 20 years ago, also too early and to a short-ish final bout with cancer. Although one of the sharp shards hadn't turned up for quite a while now, ouch! there's another one, right here and now; they almost always keep showing up where I least expect them.

Joshua Thomas is definitely onto a better description of the process here. Thx jyunwai for posting it; it increases understanding.
I kinda glossed over the list of suggestions on addressing friction until I got to the games and checklists items. I think that’s really the only way to deal with the moving target that is developing software: regular checkins to make sure things work the way you think they will. The other points are all susceptible to the element of surprise when something inevitably goes wrong. You have to have practiced and internalized the most important parts of your process (shipping and root cause analysis) in order to adapt and respond.
I have no doubt you could find some metrics to show a recent decline in, but (on the whole) is the average human not better off in the year 2024 than they were in 1954? 1924? 1824?

I do have a feeling we're not talking about the same thing here, so could you clarify how it's "obviously not true" that things have been/are improving?
The command line is an absolutely amazing standard where a lot of hard things are just solved by the underlining layers in a way that is both very simple to use and very flexible.

As the article said, some times a complicated problem has a simple genial solution.
I don't think fire and therefore cooked food was THE change, though I think it definitely helped, but

>If most animals are operating on a calorie deficit and fixing this can lead to larger brains then why haven’t domesticated animals evolved towards our level of intelligence?

Because farm animals do not evolve, they are bred. We have directed their evolutionary paths for centuries, away from what it would do on it's own, towards creatures that produce more milk, more meat, or fattier meat.
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Maybe this will unconfuse: It doesn't matter as long as you can scale with your operation both in capacity and financially. That means that if you decide to use AWS, Google cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud (hihi) or bare metal on Hetzner, you need to start small to handle the initial capacity and then some. But you also need to make sure that you can scale up or sideways, and that you plan and know how this will work and how much it will cost. Then your infra growth is tied in to your revenue. More users == more money == more infra.

And because you asked, I've used AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud (hihi) and Bare Metal (but not on Hetzner). All for different projects, different requirements etc. And all followed that rule - Grow with your actual growth/revenue.
I made this user script that does the same. Uses localstorage, when you come back and refresh, if there were new stories, it adds `(NEW)` in green before the title.

Also added a comment count change in there recently.

https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38...
A Berkeley landmark is now embroiled in Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto drama
Twitter has been dominated by bots for years. I'm sure >90% of all tweets have been removed after being flagged as coming from bots at this point, and there are still lots of visible bots after all that filtering is done.

The difference now is that it's becoming almost impossible to detect the bots using NLP.
A Dev kit for what? What has anyone dev'd with it?

I haven't seen or heard of a single demo.
> You're saying the publicly available problem set isn't indicative of the distribution of the test set?

Yes. From https://arcprize.org/guide:

Please note that the public training set consists of simpler tasks whereas the public evaluation set is roughly the same level of difficulty as the private test set.
The public training set is significantly easier than the others (public evaluation and private evaluation set) since it contains many "curriculum" type tasks intended to demonstrate Core Knowledge systems. It's like a tutorial level.
5 over 1 doesn’t necessarily imply a Soft story building. In many cases the bottom floor is much stronger than what’s above it.
Prediction: The tribe will not see a dime and the Supreme Court is going to reverse this 6-3. Exxon waited 30 years to avoid their fine, BNSF can do it in 2.
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