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riboflavin123on Show HN: Self-Parking Car Evolution

Oh, amazing. Thanks!

riboflavin123on Show HN: Self-Parking Car Evolution

The page says:

> For better results, increase the population size to 500-1000 and wait for 50-100 generations

Do you have example output from that? I'd expect my computer to take months of running 24/7 to get there.

riboflavin123on House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week

Maybe from an employment perspective, but I'd expect Amazon's sales, distribution, and delivery systems to make boatloads of money selling cannabis online. Maybe not immediately, but 5 years after legalization, Prime Weed (tm) will be a huge moneymaker.

riboflavin123on America is substantially reducing poverty among children

I am aware that most of my knowledge about income distribution comes via news articles/videos. In the instances where they DO cite sources (which is rare), I have never personally investigated the data behind claims.

That is why I prefaced my comment about being "primed" by media.

riboflavin123on America is substantially reducing poverty among children

> depending on how it is measured, somewhere between one in six or one in five children counted as poor

This is an alarmingly high number. I've been primed by media to blame this on an inverse relationship between income and number-of-children (i.e. poor people have many babies, rich people have few babies).

Does anyone have an alternative explanation for the surprisingly high child poverty rate?

riboflavin123on Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel

The URL matches the submission title, at least. Perhaps the content changed?

riboflavin123on The world's worst Linux kernel module

I've never worked with the C/make pipeline. Can anyone explain why this commit is getting so many votes?

riboflavin123on Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing

Hydro is still vulnerable to downturns, though they need to be more prolonged to equal what's happening with the wind in this report. (California's 2021 drought is a good example of how hydro power can fall short.)

I mentally think of power generation reliability as: Uncontrollably variable from hour-to-hour: wind, solar, tidal motion Uncontrollably variable on month-to-year spans: hydro Pretty controllable: nuclear (and fossil fuels)

riboflavin123on Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado

https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about

> Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the salary range of their open positions.

riboflavin123on Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

Because 100% is not enough. We need to be carbon NEGATIVE to get back to the good place. (And, yes, we'll never be 100% non-emitting. We need to be NET negative.)

riboflavin123on Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds

Damn! Glad you're still with us!

Have you been able to continue hacking?

riboflavin123on Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds

You can't fold every individual into some sort of "average" case when the individualism isn't favorable. The universe doesn't work that way.

riboflavin123on Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds

It may rule them out. But many standard-of-care chemo drugs are quite cheap.

When I had leukemia, my first rounds of chemo used cheap drugs. (The drugs were far cheaper than the daily hospitalization costs, which was required due to drugs obliterating the immune system.) The insurance company didn't require any oversight into the process.

But once the chemo stopped working and a much more expensive treatment was needed, the insurance company became quite a pest. I'm fortunate have saved a lot of money, so I didn't delay treatment until insurance approved it. (The 2-3 weeks between treatment starting and the final approval from insurance may have actually made a difference between life-and-death when dealing with aggressive leukemia.)