skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia, meteorologists used to be deployed across the country to local offices and would receive computer-generated forecast models (and other raw data) whenever the supercomputer at headquarters had finished running a job. The local meteorologists would then be allowed to apply their local knowledge to adjust the computer-generated forecast.

This was (and still is) particularly important in situations such as:

* Fast moving weather systems of high volatility, such as fire weather systems coupled with severe thunderstorms.

* Rare meteorological conditions where a global model trained on historical data may not have enough observed data points to consider rare conditions with the necessary weighting.

* Accuracy of forecasts for "microclimates" such as alpine resorts at the top of a ultra-prominent peak. Global models tend to smooth over such as an anomaly in the landscape as if the landscape anomaly was never present.[1]

It'd perhaps be possible to build more local monitoring stations to collect training data and run many local climate models across a landscape and run more climate models of specific rare weather systems. But it is also possibly cheaper and adequate (or more accurate) to just hire a meteorologist with local knowledge instead?

[1] Zanchi, M., Zapperi, S. & La Porta, C.A.M. Harnessing deep learning to forecast local microclimate using global climate data. Sci Rep 13, 21062 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48028-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48028-1
I think this is fair. I think wordpress had every right to cut WPEngine off, but

1) the fact that subbing in his fork of their plugin killed already purchased "pro" user features without warning was an illegitimate attack on the "pro" customers themselves (who probably have a case against him personally),

2) the pretense that he was doing it for "security reasons" because there was an exploit (every single part of everything about wordpress has an exploit in a random month) shows that he thought he was doing something unjustifiable; he should have been clear and open about why he was forking, and not do anything that broke people's installs, and

3) the behind-the-scenes harassment was just over the top. He should have just made his demand, and when they turned it down, sent a follow up explaining how he was going to cut off access so they could coordinate doing it cleanly. Instead he was intentionally optimizing for chaos and saying this in private communications over and over again.

He could have done almost all of the same things, and just refused to update "pro" users to the fork and instead refer them to WPEngine's alternative setup. Instead he ranted and raved ominously behind the scenes, trying to make it as clear as possible that this was extortion when in essence it wasn't. It was all of the fake snarkiness in public and in private, attempts to poach employees, threats to destroy the company, and insinuations of security problems that made it extortion.

WPE is going to win this because Mullenweg seemingly has no ability to emotionally self-regulate. Real teenage swatter vibes. And I think he was in the right, and I think that without all of the crap, they'd probably have backed down and started contributing.

They'll probably end up getting a remedy where he has to help them set up and maintain their alternative plugin directory, he might have to pay them damages, and he might even end up having to allow everyone use of the mark freely. Then what does he have? He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Apparently they have been surprised at how few photons are required to see for these sensors. They are skipping the image computer vision step and going from photons to car control in as few layers as possible.
The parent post is talking about the Cruise vehicles made by the company this article is covering, a completely separate thing from the supercruise feature that consumers could actually buy. At one point many years ago, the Cruise vehicles cost >200k to manufacture.
If you like reading about this sort of stuff, the book "Command & Control" is a fascinating read on the US nuclear weapons history, close calls, etc. It's dense, but well worth the read for a view into nuclear weapons "incidents" (to include some weapons losses, I don't recall if this story is in that book or not) during the cold war.
Another plus for your landing page. It’s amazing how many landing pages vomit features the developer is excited about but never explain why I need their product.
I agree, and I think a policy shifts should include:

* NOT subsidizing private schools
* NOT determining school funding based on child count

Like so many things, schools are a public commons / good / investment in functioning society that a given goal should be determined, books kept, waste prosecuted (criminally), and services provided according to a defined standard. Then whatever that costs rolls into the next budget as the base tax rate for that year.

Which is entirely not how things are run right now. Government inefficiency frequently relates to 'yearly budgets' and places that look to continue to spend a given year's budget because otherwise it'll go somewhere else. Rather than just doing what's necessary when it's necessary irrespective of how much or little doing the most effective and efficient thing costs.
Stonks go up. No need to invest in the future since retirement is a few years away! (More holes in the life raft?)
BlueCruise is a legitimate incremental improvement over more limited driver assistance systems. It clearly has some value to some drivers. But an extra $2450 is tough to swallow on a mainstream brand when middle-class consumers are already struggling to afford a new car. In a few years Ford will probably just bundle it in with common option packages.
In my area charter schools game the system to not deal with special needs kids and make them leave the charters. Many basically avoid doing evaluations and IEPs entirely so they can force them to go back to public schools.

The highest achieving charters have also been able to get mediocre non IEP kids to transfer back by setting them up to have trouble keeping up and not supporting them when they struggle.

Edit: And on the lower-performing side, you have schools focused on religion and/or patriotism, which tend to be less concerned about getting low performers out, but which aren't based as much around effective academics so much as ideology, and which do not meet the civic bar for education. Though I've also seen some that are just there to basically act like the charter equivalent of for-profit colleges: give parents in low SES areas a message of hope and then just minimize costs in the classroom.
Exactly. Easy solution.
https://www.mathschool.com/programs
That's a future hypothetical and we're discussing specific data about a nationwide trend that has already occurred.
^^ Metallica!
Would we potentially expect lower rates of Alzheimer's among Muslims then?
> In some countries if you don't give care to someone who is in danger of dying you are yourself responsible for murder.

Certainly not murder, involuntary manslaughter maybe. In any case, what is the basis for this obligation? You would concede that, as a consequence of imposing involuntary obligations on their citizens, these countries are less free? And you would also concede that reasonable people can disagree about the priorities of their values, and that valuing personal autonomy over collective well-being is a reasonable position?

> Murder by inaction and calling it anything else is playing in their hands.

What about doctors and nurses who refuse to work for free? Should we also shoot them? What about pharmaceutical companies that refuse to invest billions into drug development, or hospitals that refuse to purchase expensive facilities and equipment, without without a reasonable expectation of a return on their investment? Are they murderers too?

This worldview of holding people accountable for failing to intervene is simply not tenable. People are responsible for their direct actions. If you injure someone, you are responsible for your actions and the outcome they produced. If you simply come across an injured (or sick) person, you are in no way more obligated to them than you are to such a person on the other side of the world.

You also seem to be operating from the presumption that insurance companies do not add any value to the system, and that careful scrutiny of claims is motivated only by greed. I beg to differ. I want to be insured alongside other people with a similar risk profile to myself (eg. no drinking/drugs/smoking, daily exercise, good sleep, healthy body composition) to the exclusion of others. I want my insurance company to carefully scrutinize its applicants and claimants, on my behalf, to ensure that my interests are being well-represented. Insurance does not mean absolution from personal responsibility.
I've been convinced of this theory for about 10 years. I don't know why people can't wrap their heads around a 3D version of the Holographic Principle (as opposed to the standard 2D version of it, per Susskind, etc.), or indeed an N-dimensional-manifold version of it.

This guy did tho... (he gets into the good part right at about halfway thru)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8bBhkhZtd8
Is the only answer subsidized nepotism to the tune of nearly 7 figures annually? Seems like the wrong cloud of regulations.
Unlikely. How about cell phones making kids unable to concentrate more than 5 secs?
“You often see meteorite dials; they are not uncommon on watches,” Toledano told CNN via Zoom from New York, where he is based. “But an entire meteorite case, dial, lugs — all that stuff — is very unusual.”

The design is oriented around the meterorite's iron: Widmanstätten patterns, also known as Thomson structures, are figures of long phases of nickel–iron, found in the octahedrite shapes of iron meteorite crystals and some pallasites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widmanst%C3%A4tten_pattern
> Our platform takes a holistic approach to investors’ private equity portfolios and is designed to offer strategies and solutions that align with client objectives and deliver persistent outperformance.

I get your point, but again, they are doing this on behalf of clients. And 49b is less than a percent of their holdings. So I would still think of them as a brokerage.

This would be like calling Uber a restaurant company just because they launched UberEats.
I've been a redis / elasticsearch user since the early days. Seeing these companies grow has been sources of inspiration for me.

I'm glad you're back and look forward to redis's future. There is still a lot of work to be done.

In terms of licensing there is no right answer, large companies evidently abuse opensource, at the same time community is required to make projects like redis / elasticsearch grow.

This is a good move and I think the future is long with redis. So much to explore and so much more that can be done.
> The post doesn't claim that it is the only possible design choice.

Not explicitly. But it's set up to mislead you into thinking that, by pretending to be a deep dive into the causes of something, while spending great effort on some of the (minor) causes and quickly skating over other, more significant causes that reflect more negatively on the author's industry.

> The post doesn't even claim that the banking system was never weaponized for political reasons; it makes clear that has in fact happened. What it is at pains to point out is that the complaints of crypto-magnates about the system being recently weaponized against them are dubious, because their complaints center around longstanding properties of our system that other businesses routinely trip over.

The post is at pains to make it all sound normal and inevitable and unintentional. Of course when the bank sends a letter saying that its decision is final this is a bald-faced lie, everyone in the banking system knows that sending bald-faced lies to your customers is normal and expected, how deceptive it is of the crypto folks to pretend to believe that the letter they were sent meant what it said. Of course people should be cut off from the financial system and told vague lies and evasions about why, that happens to everyone, why would anyone complain about that?

The post acknowledges that the financial system is set up to secretly cut people off without review or recourse, that this ability is weaponised for political reasons, and then glosses over and misdirects around the fact that this is a deliberate setup that serves that financial system's interests. It may not be malicious targeting of crypto folks in a narrow sense, but it's indistinguishable from it, by design. "Look, it really doesn't matter that our system silently cuts off people who work with our competitors and lies about the reasons, because that's just our system behaving as normal and it does exactly the same thing to bodega owners" is not, once you strip away the flourishes, a compelling defense.
It doesn't mean if it's text it must have comments. Simpler format means more people use it. Also parser reliability and speed.

CSV has no comments and is probably more popular than json.
Yeah, you're quite literally in a bubble.
Thanks - yeah, I should have mentioned that. I just added a note directly above this heading https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/#honorable...
I strongly doubt it. A cow goes through many years of meals in order for you to go through 1.

Eating meat is a personal choice but pretending it's somehow more morally virtuous than a salad is probably delusional
GDP is a pointless metric, if we all get cancer GDP is going to go way up.
This was my initial thought.

Is the month of Ramadan enough have an effect on Alzheimer's or is more frequent fasting required?
Sounds about right, except Pachelbel's Canon actually is the best song ever for non-musicians.

It showcases harmony and contrasting lines in the simplest, punchiest, most pleasing way. It's fundamentally "the good stuff", and untrained ears slurp it up like babies w pats of butter.
GP talked about charter schools as being non-secular. Where I live, charter schools are secular. Is that not the case where you live?

Charter schools where I live are required to educate every child. Admissions is via lottery. Is that not the case where you live? (Of course, this doesn't apply to private schools, which definitely cherry pick students, but we're talking about charter schools.)

Re: "public schools don't have a profit motive", this is technically true, but there are plenty of people working for public school districts who contribute little yet draw large salaries and lifetime pensions. A charter school that doesn't make ends meet is forced to shut down. A government-run school district that doesn't make ends meet gets given more money. (This is true in San Francisco at least. I realize that teacher and admin compensation varies widely across the US.)

BTW in most places (even places like Arizona which are relative pro school choice), the per-pupil funding of charter schools is much much less than the per-pupil funding of government-run school districts.

Because charter schools (at least here in California) have to accept any student, just like any other public school, they don't contribute to the cycle you describe. (Obviously private schools do, but I don't think you're advocating outlawing privately-funded schools.)
Patience. I understand the frustration. I hope this transient login problem gets fixed soon.
The massacre took place over about 6 weeks, so the latter.
> A very small number of people decide where investments go, what tech to design, and what to buy.

Baked into this is a certain kind of economic unrealism that you frequently see online. Rich people aren't endless fountains of capital. They fund things that work, ie, things that sell, ie, things the public likes. Rich people who have some other investment strategy than this go broke.

> Fifty percent of the people in the US have so little money as to make their votes nearly meaningless in such a scenario.

I think if you look up the median wealth and income of the US, and the purchasing power of the US middle class in aggregate, you'll be very surprised by how much sway these people have. Its true that the upper-middle class and the rich are even better customers, but many fortunes have been made catering to the whims of the median American. The US consumer rules the world.

And all this is just academic. Countless poor and middle class families buy cars every day because it's a way better option than living in an urban zone and taking a bus.
There’s no evidence that this is even going to be a viable business model, commercially or technically. There’s no “moat” around it or obvious first mover advantage. It seems very early to worry about competition.
Biological aging is a fuzzy concept that we define relative to various social constructs and other objective markers compared to the general population.

I don't see much issue with its usage in this context.
No? What makes you think that lean is the optimal body state for all individuals?
I'm very much aware of how Drive Pilot doesn't handle most cases: in my comment I described it as "super limited" and linked to where Mercedes describes the details.

But within the range of cases where the Mercedes system is applicable (which recently went up to 59mph in Germany [1]) it's solidly better than the Tesla system because Mercedes did the engineering to make it reliable enough that you don't have to supervise the car's driving. If I had a highway commute in stop-and go traffic I'd be comfortable reading in a Mercedes, but not in a Tesla.

[1] https://media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4c04b46a-05e3-4a20-9...
Show HN: Butler - A todo app for recurring tasks
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Thanks!
I think maybe the original Boltzmann brain may have been about pre-existing matter particles having the ability to just "jump" to a new location (similar to how they can tunnel thru a barrier), and so you can have them all just "jump" into the shape of a perfect square, perfect crystal, or even perfectly formed cat.

So it's not necessarily about the "from pure empty space" version of it. This is all just a thought experiment and not intended to be taken literally.
He had four days to come up with a way to get rid of a few pieces of plastic.

Now I'm not a valedictorian, but I'd like to think I could achieve that.
The idea is innovative and quite interesting, but once I'm interacting with the demos and imagining I'm interacting with text this way, I find it quite distracting and hard to navigate between text content, since almost every piece of text is constantly changing while I'm switching focus.
Automakers started out with direct sales. Anti-trust issues quickly arose with that business model and that’s where we got dealership laws, as imperfect as they may be.

The document is rather one-sided and slanted, but I think it’s interesting to see how a dealership association explains their perspective:

https://www.nada.org/media/3267/download?inline

Of particular interest is warranty issues. Tesla has an extra-strong interest in hiding recall-worthy issues and preventing warranty service from occurring since their service department is owned by the manufacturer.

A car dealership has the opposite incentive: every dealer-performed warranty service is a payment from the manufacturer to the dealer.

Finally, even if GM is lobbying to do direct sales, dealerships employ more Americans than the carmakers and parts manufacturers. Their lobbying group is larger and more local.
had usecase of keeping visa appointments slots and instantly blocked by cloudflare :sad:
In modern threat models, this is a malicious insider and hardly some exotic circumstance. If you're running a data center in an authoritarian country, you probably care.
The EU is not one country. It is certainly not one healthcare system.

But yes, I 100% agree with you. If the US wants to implement public healthcare, it should follow the EU's lead and implement it at the state level with very limited (if at all) top-down interference from the Federal government. Imo, the only thing that it makes sense to do at a nationwide level is negotiating drug prices.

To answer your (flawed) question though, humans have demonstrated time and time again that they struggle to top-down manage large economical undertakings at scale. It seems that at a small scale, we have the capacity to do all sorts of things with all sorts of means of management. But past a certain point we start to get in our own way with internal strife, graft, poor abstractions and assumptions, etc. Some people think AI will help us figure this out, but I'm skeptical. So far the only consistent tool that helps us work against this is the invisible hand of a free market, which does enough to align incentives that the problems become tractable.
> I do feel a lot of ordinary kids would miss out ...

Or maybe simply miss out on being properly educated so that science and engineering isn't magic passed down by the authority of the ordained clever people wearing the robes but instead something that can be understood.

It's actually quite difficult (impossible?) to have an informed opinion on any government policy if you don't understand some stats and probability. Yet the newspapers are dominated by people writing who completely lack this understanding.
Had to click through and look, he looks great IMO. There are people who look odd at a sub 15% bf at any age but he isn’t one, to my eye. He does have a bit of the TRT look but not extreme.

Edit after actually reading: the article is a compelling analysis & critique. While I think he looks good physique-wise, even bodybuilders would say it’s grueling & suboptimal for health & performance to stay very lean all the time. I thought he looked lean but not to that point where the body rebels; the markers seem to say otherwise
Diabetes and cancer aren’t comparable diseases. I thought it would go without saying that we’re talking about _infectious_ diseases.
> The historical record is important, but sometimes inaccuracies are useful in conveying symbolic power and threats. Some translation and interpretation is always necessary if you want to produce a coherent narrative.

Translation and interpretation is something I have no problem with, as these are not flaws of the work. However, I'm of the view that valuing a work of art requires being able to scrutinize it, while still being able enjoy it. It doesn't do one any favors to accept false facts. There are several works that establish "truths" compelling enough to be credible for someone without the background knowledge. To those who fail to question if something is true, art becomes artifice and fiction becomes indistinguishable from reality.

> Realistically, with history-as-entertainment, if you can capture some things well you're doing far better than many even try to.

> I love Ridley Scott but his depictions of history are far more of a discussion about how the west views itself today rather than even trying to translate something from the time to today.

That you're able to appreciate the ideas being conveyed and the motives behind doing so is precisely the reason a sense of scrutiny is necessary. Kingdom of Heaven is definitely an example of a movie that provides a retrospective/revisionist examination of the Crusades rather than an historical one. Such an insight can't obtained from mindlessly watching it as a "realistic Lord of the Rings".

While these things might be discussed in interviews, behind-the-scenes featurettes, or in the audio commentary, public exposition of these aspects of storytelling is rarely afforded to anime or manga.
Driving is 100% cheaper, and there are a bunch of horror stories of people crashing their vehicles into highway barriers. We’re not starting at zero here.