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New comment by nether in "I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)"

nether — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:02:02 +0000

Get a lid: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0746MLFB7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...

New comment by nether in "Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room"

nether — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:59:42 +0000

Fun fact: Nintendo of America and MSFT are both headquartered in Redmond.

New comment by nether in "Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world"

nether — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:13:32 +0000

It's much easier to repackage data from Reddit/Wikipedia in a nicer format than to generate your own.

New comment by nether in "Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble"

nether — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:13:48 +0000

The downside is that these filters sell out in places where there are fires. So the time to buy them is now.

New comment by nether in "The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death"

nether — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:20:29 +0000

Most forms of municipal power generation are much lower emission than a piston engine. Hydro, wind, and nuclear especially. Just having the generation take place with a near-constant RPM steam turbine is vastly more efficient than a stop-n-go motor.

New comment by nether in "Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county"

nether — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:16:30 +0000

> 86% of our victims in these untested kits are people of color. You're not going to find too many blond-haired, blue eyed white women ... Because their kits are treated differently, their cases are solved. That's just the way it is in this country. If you're a person of color, if you're a different economic class, then your case across the board, across the board, not just sexual assault — they're treated differently. And that's just the truth. People may not want to admit it, but I've seen it throughout my career and I know it's true

Wow.

New comment by nether in "Algorithm can find a neighborhood’s political leanings by its cars"

nether — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:11:22 +0000

Those are edge cases. Nothing says that this will be accurate for every individual block 100% of the time, but for most neighborhoods, the correlation between car type and political leaning appears strong.

New comment by nether in "Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago"

nether — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:28:56 +0000

Sunblock I bet. Rubbing that cream into your skin multiple times per day can't be good. In the hiking community, many hikers are moving to sun blocking clothing. There are even sun gloves now.

New comment by nether in "What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015)"

nether — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:23:24 +0000

It's possible with job hopping, or program hopping within the same company. You just won't be working on that aircraft start to finish. I worked on 7 aircraft from 2005-2015.

New comment by nether in "Boston Dynamics: the New SpotMini [video]"

nether — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:09:34 +0000

Science has gone too far.

New comment by nether in "Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Three horror stories"

nether — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:56:03 +0000

Maybe it does? When I was learning Russian, it just helped to hear everything slowed down by 2x.

New comment by nether in "Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (2013)"

nether — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:11:56 +0000

5 cups/day isn't exactly breaking the bank, as long you're not drinking hipster sour watery stuff at $4.50/cup. I just drank instant coffee throughout college. At my high school, you could drop $10 into a jar for the "coffee club" and have unlimited coffee throughout the year (drip brew, pretty weak stuff).

New comment by nether in "Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World"

nether — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:15:28 +0000

No, flapping wing aircraft simply are less efficent for size scales that can carry a person. That's why the larger a bird's wingspan, the less frequently they flap, such that condors, storks etc. are basically fixed wing gliders.

We in the artificial world do have our own local optima with quad copter drones. Flapping here would be more efficient. Consider seagulls that dive and change direction instantly, and can respond to gusts without missing a beat. We have nothing approaching that maneuverability. This is an active area of research.

New comment by nether in "Non-Consensual Intimate Image Pilot"

nether — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:26:31 +0000

Fuck Facebook

New comment by nether in "Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data"

nether — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:42:45 +0000

> The planetWRF model is no longer available for downloading.

Welp.

New comment by nether in "Quantopian hedge fund has lost about 3% since beginning of trading in June"

nether — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:12:05 +0000

This is a ridiculously tiny amount of time to judge performance.

New comment by nether in "Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments"

nether — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:22:54 +0000

Sigh. HN has always done this to reduce editorializing in headlines. You're an oldtimer; how are you unaware of this?

Remember your priors.

New comment by nether in "Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data"

nether — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:18:35 +0000

You have real-time NEXRAD data, where the reflectivity is basically cloud cover. NEXRAD of course only covers the US.

New comment by nether in "If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol"

nether — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 02:26:11 +0000

My upgrade went smoothly and everything works fine. iPhone SE here.

New comment by nether in "AI and ML to Revolutionize U.S. Intelligence Community, Pentagon Official Says"

nether — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:18:00 +0000

I've heard that most federal agencies are just starting to fix basic problems in their data management. Like vast troves of inconsistent spreadsheets being ETL'd into actual databases now. ML wasn't feasible because everything was such a mess.