skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general problem is that it's not that fewer people need them, it's that most people need them on fewer occasions, but they're not going to buy, register and insure separate vehicles for different uses. So they get one that does everything and use it for everything, and then they're driving an SUV even when they're traveling alone with no cargo.

To get away from this you'd have to completely redesign US cities to have people living in them instead of significant numbers commuting in from the suburbs. To begin with you'd need a massive amount of new higher density housing, the construction of which is currently inhibited by building codes where not outright prohibited by zoning. Trying to solve the rest of it before you do that is going to face massive opposition, because you'll be trying to make it harder to have a car to people who still can't realistically avoid having a car.
Because of science. There is zero evidence that viruses like H5N1 survive through cooking. So if the vaccine is using a dead virus, there is almost zero chance it will have any affect on cooked food.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/health/food-safety/highly-...
Interesting speculation. It is possible.
A Zelensky, Trump and Putin is really 2 wolves and a lamb meeting to decide what's for lunch. Or a better analogy may be a lamb, a wolf and its bitch.
The culture is not libertarian. Anarcho socialism is the closest thing, but post scarcity, so not really applicable to anything in the present
The wild is where these diseases tend to originate. But the distribution of populations over thousands of square miles ensures some groups will avoid even the most virulent strains.

The risk and impact to domesticated flocks is increased due to the sheer density of modern poultry operations.
Disclaimer: I have only extremely limited exposure to this topic (I worked in sports analytics, attached to a team, quite awhile ago), so take it all as heavy speculation:

1) It seems like there’s a natural resistance to change driven by loss aversion; you see a similar pattern in the NFL with decisions like punting vs. going for it on fourth down. Even if the expected value is positive, the failures are given far more weight than the successes.

2) In general, there's a lot of skepticism toward analytics until they reach a tipping point where they’re impossible to ignore, at which point they take over completely and introduce shifts like the ones shown here.

Moneyball, for example, has plenty of anecdotes about front office staff and coaches dismissing analytics in favor of “gut instincts”—and that was in 2002! In baseball, a sport which adopted advanced analytics far faster than others (obviously in no small part due to teams like that As roster).

Even today, plenty of NBA personalities push back against analytics—Reggie Miller, for example, has been pretty vocal about his distaste for them. He's obviously increasingly alone in that opinion, but it can be really hard to break old habits.
"Microplastics found in X" has become a pretty weird sport.

The phenomenon is worth studying, but it's not hugely surprising given how ubiquitous they are (another thing you find in every human, probably in higher quantities, is sand). But despite tons of scrutiny, there are no studies showing that it's actually hurting us.

We've done some really sketchy things in the early days of industry (leaded gasoline, etc), and have gotten into this overdrive where we're jumping the gun on a lot of substances that are probably not bad. Every year, you have several headlines in the mold of "X is everywhere and might be killing us"... but never really followed by that "oh yeah, it was really killing us" part.
It's because of all the plastic in there.
It seems like a very brief and abrupt article. I can understand the part about strategy of three pointers. But how does all the technology and analytics actually change the game, besides "improving form"? Has it allowed better calculation shots with the best odds for a given player? Has it discovered other team's weaknesses to exploit? Etc
I'm pretty sure if you run a compute benchmark like Streams or hpgmg, the Epyc server will eat your mini pcs for breakfast.
Another bonus: at least for bamboo, it has antimicrobial properties compared to plastic, which tends to have all sorts of difficult-to-clean grooves for bacteria to hide in.
The Voron Trident is also great I think and maybe even a better entry point as it's a little easier to build than the 2.4.
A lot of folks often conflate two separate concepts:

- tracking

- ability grouping

But they're fundamentally different.

Tracking is putting students into fixed academic paths early on. Once they're in one track, they can't switch to a different track.

Ability grouping is different. It's about meeting students where they are in each subject, with regular reassessment and movement between groups as appropriate. Math is a perfect example: it makes little sense to group purely by age when students naturally progress at different rates.

A flexible system that lets students move up or down based on their current level and learning pace isn't tracking.

Putting people on a single fixed track, with their position determined solely by their age, is stupid. We need a derogatory name for it.

Maybe:

- cohort prison

- grade lockdown

- calendar caging

?
So Moneyball has come to basketball. Optimize the team, not star power.
It's also the case that meanings curdle. A positive association to some term can be turned negative relatively easily. The reverse seems very difficult.
Sad Aeropress noises... I really hope someone builds a metal or glass Aeropress, because I love everything about it but the fact I'm boiling plastic every morning...
> makes me think that more of the future of our field belongs to people who figure out how to use this weird bags of model weights than any of us are comfortable with.

Until you find a way to improve self guided training, no, this will never happen. New things get invented and need to be implemented before your "bag of weights" has any idea how to approach it, which is, of course, by simply stealing something that already existed.

People who think this way blow my mind. Is it that you don't actually like your day job and dream about having a machine do it for you while, somehow, still earning the salary you currently command?

Laughable.
you need to add adapter to power line network through pairing process. there is some kind of key exchange/encryption.
> Catching these clumps early while still in minute quantities can enable effective intervention

I wonder what interventions they mean here. Drugs, lifestyle changes?
Oh no the VCs did not revolutionize thermodynamics?
I tried a video 1:42 hours long and it told me it was too long. Increase the limit?
This would be a really good read if anything like it exists somewhere. Do you have notes, more to say, a direct link to relevant work, anything?
While there is obvious winning strategy, rule changes around salary caps have already limited any one team's ability to dominate like GSW did for a couple years.

They mention Boston Celtics, but they are only a single time champion, and we can see plenty other teams with good chances to beat them.

And I'd argue we are moving further away from specialization: now centers are required to shoot 3 pointers at a high clip and high percentage, they have high number of assists (it's not just Jokic, look at Iannis, Sabonis...).

And centers need to defend smaller, faster players when switching, just like smaller players need to defend centers.
how many us cities have public transport that is run by a private entity?
You mean, a free throw is a chance shot that when missed awards the defense?

Seems like that would have a huge impact on end of game strategy.

It would change the “in the paint” strategy—maybe defense would foul earlier to avoid the 2+1? Hoping instead to split the 2, 1-1 with a miss. Of course, the centers and forwards, who typically aren’t great free throw shooters, are gonna get the ball less. Where does the play go? 3pt land, where it’s way more risky to foul.

I still like the idea.
I don't know if it's generational or a matter of background. For me, as the sort of person who knows exactly where to find the SCE power switch, it would be impossible to conceive of this font as ugly. So much ingenuity has been expressed, so much craftsmanship given material form, so many feats of industry and exploration and mundane utility accomplished through those shapes that I find them definitively beautiful.

If some community teaches Rules of Beauty which these characters contravene and are thereby deemed ugly, that says more about the merit of such Rules than anything else.

That ampersand, though... okay. You can have that one.
Precisely. Shooting lots of threes with good/decent efficiency also made two pointers more likely as more players would be defending the perimeter. Again, seemingly nobody thought of this for decades.
Texas resident here. Texas has a few advantages with wind and solar:

1) most years (with notable exceptions), peak electricity happens when the sun is shining
2) west Texas is very windy

One of the reasons that TX was caught flat-footed a few years ago in a cold snap, was that in a decade we went from oil-and-coal power generation to mostly natgas (which froze up), wind (which froze up, albeit not as much as the natgas), and solar (not working at night). It was the first very hard freeze under the new power mix. Not so long ago TX was talking about "clean coal"; now it is natgas, wind, and solar.
Rubber still wears off tires though so that may be worse or not for heavier vehicles
Fine, let me enter the dimensions manually
The commission that regulates this (the Texas railroad commission) is fully republican as is most of their legislature/govenrment. The republicans are in charge of all this
Donating plasma may filter micro-plastics from blood. A study showed it to be effective for removing PFAS:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/

AFAIK there hasn't been a study focused on plastics, but it seems plausible.
> That’s presumably not how they meant it.

Hah, I have made a misunderstanding again! I guess the philosophy of language _is_ on topic for this thread :P
> locally run LLM

You mean like Ollama + llamacpp ?
Specifically, I've seen that a common failure mode of the distilled Deepseek models is that they don't know when they're going in circles. Deepseek incentivizes the distilled LLM to interrupt itself with "Wait." which incentivizes a certain degree of reasoning, but it's far less powerful than the reasoning of the full model, and can get into cycles of saying "Wait." ad infinitum, effectively second-guessing itself on conclusions it's already made rather than finding new nuance.
Bambu Labs is usually the recommended one but if the various Youtubers are correct then there are better alternatives today.

I'm hesitant to recommend any because I've only used the VORON Trident but if you search around you're bound to find alternatives.
Isn’t the aeropress premium aluminum?
> It was a technical issue. The lead prevented valve seat wear.

no, that has been debunked.

see https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lea...
There's a similar idea to gasify old oil and gas wells. This sounds more feasible than doing it with coal though I suppose you could have a blowout. It should be cheaper too since it uses already drilled wells.

https://protonh2.com/protonh2-advances-project-apollo-with-s...
Not significantly. Otherwise they’d get hot and work less well. Pads ride very closely to the disc so that road stuff can’t get wedged between the surfaces, and so that you don’t waste break pedal travel just getting the pads close to the surface. Well adjusted drum brakes should be arranged almost exactly the same way.

From https://mechanicswizard.com/how-close-should-brake-pads-be-t...:

> Typically, the optimal gap between brake pads and rotors is between 0.5 and 1.5 mm (0.020 to 0.060 inches).
You have my curiosity. Like what and how did you find it?
fping is most commonly seen as the backend tool under the classic (24 years old now, and still maintained) smokeping

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=smokeping...
I'd be careful with that - in the past there were no "mega-chicken-factories" that you'd find nowadays. So you can't quite compare spread of viruses in chicken today with the last "thousands of years" without very large asterisks

Edit: stetrain phrased it better :)
TX resident here: valid concern, but there are big moneyholders in TX investing in wind and solar here, and that has a tendency to override political orthodoxy. Lots of rich people who want their solar and wind investments to pay off, and they have pull in TX GOP.
Designing the Future of Entertainment [pdf]
I don't think it's true that plastic is cheap as a function of capitalism, private land ownership, or the general way the world is organized right now. It's cheap because it can be produced quickly and at scale from widely available raw materials. Abolishing capitalism wouldn't change the physics and engineering of natural gas wells, nor of the lumber mills and mining required to make paper and wood.

You mention asbestos, but I'm pretty confident we would not have banned asbestos if we didn't have other comparably effective building insulation materials. (Indeed, it's still used in many poorer countries where people are unable to afford the alternatives.)
Because we'll get used to it.
Or rather, those capable of handling it better will have a slight advantage and guide the hand of civilization.
E sports actually gave me a lot of insight into regular sports which decreased my interest. The real power is with the league, not the players. And they steer the sport to promote business engagement. If the sport is hyper optimized and boring they will change the rules. If teams from smaller markets keep winning they will do what they need to, to help other teams win.

Playing sports is a fun activity to get exercise, it’s not worth getting emotionally invested in teams or leagues.
Become the first person to X+1, or the first person to X in record time, or the oldest person to X, or the first person to X while Y, etc.
Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet?

F these curl|sh installs.
Still, neither duopoly nor even monopoly really amount to "tyranny". When was the last time some duopolist threw you into a GULAG, or their death squads slaughtered people willy-nilly in the streets?

Stop misusing words like that. It debases them.
Pandemics became a thing among humans when we moved into cities because the increase in population density meant the disease could spread faster than the population’s immunity could build. Chickens in the wild (insofar as “wild chicken” is a meaningful concept) indeed may not succumb to a pandemic, chickens in a factory farm spread disease rapidly amongst themselves.
Yeah, that's not how caprocks on geological formations work. It's not a matter of pore pressure (what porous media people call hydrophobicity). It's a matter of caprocks having zero intrisic permeability.
I am appalled by any organization that resists consensus-driven scientific method proven facts. Falsehoods based on pseudoscience should not have a place in our society.

>> Although many influenza researchers contend that vaccination can help control spread of the deadly virus, the U.S. government has long resisted allowing its use because of politics and trade concerns that many contend are unscientific.
As someone who doesn't follow the sport, what's the problem with corner 3's specifically?
Waves from Caribbean M7.6 earthquake roll across seismic stations
We would do the carbon capture after nearly all of the fossil fuels have been replaced. Like putting carbon capture on power plant doesn't make sense, running carbon capture with fossil fuels doesn't make sense. Which means we have a few decades before need to do it, but it is worth researching now.

It will take thousands of years for the elevated CO2 to return to normal. Once we stop producing CO2, the temperature will keep rising for decades. We need to do carbon capture to keep it stable. The projections for 2C include carbon capture.
unfortunately, the only way this is relevant is if we actually price carbon emissions at the rate it costs to capture them. as long as you can emit for free, then switching to renewables is more expensive.
I don’t have the stats in front of me, but I’d guess more 3s are made with more backboard visible. Need to be way more accurate from the corners.

(Not that people bank off the backboard, but hit the rim, backboard, in, type accidents)
No. You missed the rest of the statement: "there is no genetic basis for race, and there is more genetic variation within a race than between them."
(This is what I learned in school, for common-law-ish jurisdictions.)

What you said is true, if there's negligence or malicious intent you're generally liable. In tort. (Edit: also criminally liable as well but that's far off topic)

However, whether you sold it or gave it out for free does matter, because for sales of goods, there's also contract law involved, there's usually additional implied warranties about the product being "merchantable" (you see this word in OSS disclaimers as well), and generally you can't disclaim your liability if you sold the product for money.

If there's no money and no other considerations involved when you give away the apple, then there's no contract, so only the tort part applies.

Generally the idea of holding the seller of a product liable for harms caused by the product is that the law (or society at large) don't like businesses profiting from selling stuff yet shifting risks to the consumer at the same time.

Again, IANAL and not legal advice.
Apart from all the chicken that did go extinct...

If you think about it, veterinarians are a evolutionary adaptation as well!
It could have been combined with calorie counting and exercise/steps efforts too
The way it's implemented is clever. Players gradually wear down challenging terrain, incentivizing you to take those easy paths. But the mechanic subtly solves a problem with open world settings, bringing order to infinite choice: you can go this way.

You also get notified when other players follow paths you've made, which feels great.
It’s not insightful to say your team is more effective when you have the real threat of scoring 3s. That’s not a new idea.

Comparing probability of shot A vs shot B is just not a sufficient model. Its not simple math to model basketball.
Poultry doesn’t usually vote
Because FOX and Newsmax is not covering it. No one cares about real science and facts in the US these days.
> That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.

That seems like an arms race, how do you know there aren't more productive ways to enjoy your time? Can something less productive be more enjoyable?
Factory farms have been around for almost a century and that hasn't happened. Nothing's changed now, there's absolutely no empirical evidence that such a thing is happening.
> Except, many of the books I want to read are self-published by small authors, and are only available on Amazon, probably because of how easy it is to self-publish there.

I have that issue too. A lot of the books I read are on Kindle Unlimited, which requires exclusivity.
> the concept of marketing/selling something before it exists is wild

Literally restaurants. Or any service, for that matter.
So far I have not seen any of the operators proposing what seems to me to be the obvious solution: sell this data set in a machine readable format for cheap to the biggest scrapers.
It's a good story but I think you oversell it. Carbolic Smoke Ball was heard in 1892, peppercorn rents (literal and figurative) predate that case by hundreds of years.
True, and you can do engine breaking and do milder acceleration curves in ICE car and that will significantly reduce the pad/tire wear. But if you drive like, I would speculate, most people do, Tesla will go through tires like a track car (half joking)
But they sure make me stay.
This is classic innovators dilemma.

Coaches and owners are not rewarded for innovation. Fans strongly discourage taking bets that could fail.

And then there’s preparing for the strategy change. Training, practice, and coaching time is extremely limited. How much do you re-allocate to this new approach? You don’t just tell players to take more 3s, it’s more complicated than that.

So in traditional innovators dilemma fashion, it’s much easier to follow when you see that the new way works. It’s easier to convince everyone (fans, coaches, players, owners) to get on board when you can point to Steph Curry doing it right.
That seems plausible to me. Tires are made from rubber. If friction forces exceed how strong the rubber particles stick to each other, they get pulled loose. And road surfaces aren’t perfectly smooth, so when you’re accelerating, some rubber particles will experience more force than others.

It seems believable that hard braking, even without leaving skid marks, could pull more rubber off a tire than gradual braking.
Had to lookup a video of his performance. The fastest speakers somehow enunciate all phonemes when played back slowly, but Lee just at 25% is running notes into another. It doesn't help that he keeps winking at the camera instead of fully concentrating like high-performers do.

It's as if Steve Woodmore started slurring words and claimed an even faster Guiness record. The difference is most of us have great hearing for words, but not so great for music.
We don't ban cars or motorbikes because they're unsafe. We require a license and insurance then ban those who repeatedly break the rules of the road.

We need to find a sensible way to regulate these bikes, which may involve some sort of license, insurance, and mandatory helmets. But it needs to be less costly/more convenient than getting a petrol motorbike (or car) if we want people choosing the more eco-friendly option.

Cycling enthusiasts don't tend to consider those who are far less fit/healthy/young when they push the pure-human-powered option.
If one had to pick a single demo that propelled Trump in ‘24, it was young men [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
No even worse, it sends the actual file content to the server.

Linked in the post:

https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4...
Without the speedstacks stackmat, (invented by this guys dad for sport stacking), I doubt speed cubing would be a thing.
they promote the site, so they help drive sells. you wouldn't even know what bookshop.org was if it weren't for the booksellers.
Immediate consequences versus long-term consequences. Leaded gasoline is still being studied on how impactful it was.

https://dupri.duke.edu/news-events/news/20th-century-lead-ex...
Yeah. It's quite interesting watching it develop in London. Basically all the Deliveroo guys use ebikes, often converted mountain bikes. A fair number of commuters use the Lime bikes, though far less than who use the tube. We are also starting to see some ebike delievery van hybrids like the DPD ones here https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/advice/features/alternativ...

that could be a win for the environment and I guess they replace normal vans. And I just saw a two seater ebike taxi with a roof.
We already know cancer rates are going up for young people. What's changed, apart from all the extra chemicals floating in our blood?
> k8s allows developers to actually tailor containers/pods/deployments themselves

Yes, complex tools tend to be powerful.

But when I say “devs who care about knowing how their code works” I’m also referring to their tools.

K8s isn’t incomprehensible, but it is very complex, especially if you haven’t worked in devops before.

“Devs who care…” I would, assume, would opt for simpler tools.

I know I would.