skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transoceanic flight wasn't cheaper when it was first introduced[0], it took economies of scale to bring the price down.

Additionally, the fact that Australia is a day away and Europe is half a day away is a major factor in why I have visited Europe a number of times and never been to Aus/NZ. I am almost certainly not the only person like this.

[0] https://airwaysmag.com/today-in-aviation/the-first-trans-atl... $375 flight vs $159 first class by boat https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/1930s-sailing-to-france-fr...
I can't wait to do JS-in-CSS-in-JS!
Starlink is super exciting from an emerging technologies perspective —— (relatively) cheap satellite production, commercialized laser links, commercialized phased-array tx/rs, among others. These open up very interesting possibilities down the road.

These posts always have a thread about people wanting to work for spacex, but because of my pseudo-anonymity, I don’t feel bad about starting it: Does anyone know if spacex does fall or spring embedded software internships?
Isn't that one of the big justifications for not bundling the standard library?

It seems to me like not shipping the std library with the runtime is potentially one of the biggest language innovations we've seen in awhile because it should allow the std library to evolve over time in a much more graceful way ... -- you'll actually be able to make breaking changes to the std library as folks who are unwilling to update their code can just use the older version (until the ossified code becomes irrelevant which eventually code that is never changed eventually will)
It would be better to call this list what it is:

A list of people who were declared persona non grata -- to a particular Country...

Which makes me wonder (as a philosopher-comedy-writer or perhaps comedy-philosopher)... what would be the most extreme version of this?

I mean, could someone be banned from Earth?

Not just one Country -- but the entire Earth -- itself?

I mean, there's 193 or so countries in the world (well, apparently 204 if non U.N. member countries are counted), but,

Would it be possible for someone to be banned from all of them -- at the same time?

?

...and all of the world's oceans -- and North Pole and South Pole too?

?

Also, someone wouldn't want to be banned by a large important Country -- but what if they were banned by a smaller, more insignificant one?

Like, what if they were banned from some small insignificant (well, as far as global trade goes!) micro island nation?

?

Or, what if someone was banned from regions that they really really (and I mean really!) -- didn't want to visit?

?

Like the Gobi or Sahara Desert?

Or the northernmost tundra region of Canada?

You know, as close as you can get to the North Pole -- while still remaining in Canada... That whole artic circle thing, where it's really really cold, and really really dark for most of the year...

You know, if someone gets banned from Twitter or some other social media site -- that's one thing -- but a Global persona non grata ban?

Well, that's something else entirely! <g>

(Disclaimer: The above was written for humor-writing (and perhaps thought-provoking!) purposes only! <g>)
If you somehow have access (on a vehicle? On the move, even?) to the _massive_ amount of energy required to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, just skip the hydrogen fuel cell and use the energy to move the vehicle.
> They might pretend that certain policies will help lower-income people when what they are doing is most beneficial to the ultra-rich.

Sure, like, for instance, they might pretend that reducing fiscal stimulus that both redistributes wealth downward and fuels inflation (but does the former more than the latter) helps the lower-income by reducing inflation when it really lowers their real post-transfer income while raising it for those in the higher income classes that benefit less or not at all from the transfer but are still effected by price levels.
Uses hydrogen (H2) not water (H2O), again H2 has to be split from O with energy somehow.
The article implies he was worth $20bn and lost all of it, which could easily be the case if he was leveraged 5:1 and had $100bn AUM in the fund.

The circumstances are quite surprising given that this was his family office. From previous stories it sounded like Archegos was a hedge fund that blew up and lost investor money - but reading this it seems he was gambling with swaps on his own money plus whatever investment banks would lend him.

It kind of sounds like he screwed up in losing his fortune, but rather than any kind of fraud the banks in question just screwed up worse by not doing proper diligence on their borrower (although obviously we don’t have insight into what was disclosed to the lenders, so who knows?).

“If you owe the bank a thousand bucks you have a problem, if you owe the bank a million bucks they have a problem” comes to mind.
Alternatively, your brain is way more 'energetic' when you are younger. You feel things more strongly, can be over whelmed with all the competing signals and are inexperienced.

Maturity does reduce the sensitivity and improve the focus (e.g. pruning of the neocortex). But I also think experience helps too e.g. Knowing your body is feeling anger you are experienced enough to walk away or not send that email.
'Not giving a fuck' is also a strategy to avoid harmful repetition of negative memories.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN threads are conversations. Anecdotes are the life blood of conversation. This is just people being human, as they should be.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Systems like coq [0] allow you to directly convert your model (which is proven to have the properties you desire) into something executable which also has those properties, ideally eliminating some toil and a potential source of errors.

How well does that work? A formal spec of stable-sort looks nothing like an efficient stable-sort implementation, and a formal spec for malloc and free looks nothing like an efficient implementation of the heap. Does Coq really auto-generate the whole solution, or is it 'guided' by the programmer toward an efficient algorithm?
In Theravada Buddhism, you can eat (dark) chocolate while fasting because it's historically categorized as medicine.
What happened 12 years ago? 2008 happened, and resulted in a decade of incredibly low new-vehicle output. Add in the Cash for Clunkers program, and used inventory levels are about as low as they’ve ever been. This is the same as the housing market, the result of a decade of underbuilding.

Couple that with stimulus money making down payments easy, and low interest rates keeping monthly payments low, and you have a recipe for prices to take off like a rocket, from both ends of the supply-demand curve.
It's difficult to really judge how much of an impact money supply increases are having on the cost of goods since there are also massive supply issues.

For example, prices for housing materials have been skyrocketing for years; well before covid. Back then it was blamed on other unpopular political situations (trade war, mostly). Now it's blamed on covid relief.

Once production stabilizes, we'll have a better way to measure inflation due to money supply increases against inflation due to supply shortages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W79T2ibd5Y
I'd bet it is, though i don't have any insight - someone with the necessary knowledge and a jailbreak probably could take a look at the process list and know for sure...

Speaking of slowness - not sure if i'm the only one, however Spotlight-searches on my iPhone (8 plus) have become dog-slow since sometime iOS 12 or so - before, the results would be instant - now it takes something between 3 and 5 seconds to return a list of Apps for example :(
Yeah, this isn't investing. This is gambling.
Flutter for web I don't know where it will be in 5 years but flutter for desktop is going to eat electron apps for sure.
Wonder if it makes any difference that the notice is buried 1/4 down the README instead of prominently displayed at the top.
Yay! (≧◡≦) Let's see how long this lasts.
> The fact that Fedex/UPS haven't gone wholesale into electric is telling at this point

Both companies had a huge moat until Amazon came along blew their doors off. And Amazon has been investing heavily in electric delivery vehicles: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/amazon-begins-testing-rivian...
The Cult of Go Test (2016)
You just know that some-smart-guy(tm) has written software to predict age/race/gender etc. from LinkedIn accounts. Step 2 is to write a tool that filters for that.
I don't think the GP was talking about the app looking consistent with the rest of the platform, but the exact opposite: the app looking the same whatever the platform. Using Flutter allows them to have the app look the same on the browser as on mobile.

This means that at best it will look "Mac mode" for everyone, including Windows users; at worst it will look foreign to everyone.
Sounds like possible security and privacy nightmare for users
…to extend the usable life of those batteries.
I stopped watching twitch after Amazon took over. They changed it, it’s so aggressive and full of little dark patterns and micro rewards now to try and hook people
I edited and added some videos on HHO systems. It's a demonstration of splitting the H2O on the move rather than carrying a gigantic tank of liquid hydrogen.
Do you honestly believe they won’t implement copying a sentence.
AirTags run firmware that can be remotely upgraded.
Architectures and Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing
Free / libre solutions to address the shortage of ventilators – LibrePlanet 2021
No. I'm arguing that as long as we have a functioning society, blackmail-able situations are virtually unlimited.
I've been there and my first thought is just how idiotically stupid humans are for building a massive modern town UPHILL from those ruins.

I mean hello this place got obliterated, evidence is right in front of you, it's probably not a great place to build stuff ...

Oh and even in California I see these lava flows around Mt. Shasta and railways cut into them ... hello, have you thought about going around the lava flows instead of cutting into them? What do you think is going to happen next time lava comes flowing down?
As for rebates: my point was there was a time and likely will be another where the sticker price drops significantly.

As for maintenance: after having owned and worked on multiple ICE cars and now a model 3, the maintenance is night and day.. way less frequent with a model 3, and way fewer consumable parts.

As for fuel cost: I didn’t realize you were pitching a hybrid Camry, my discussion was comparing to pure ICE vehicles, haven’t looked at hybrid costs. I spend about 1/3rd in fuel costs and drive often so it added up very quickly.

As for depreciation: that appears to be a generic calculator, and you entered something above $40k for a model 3 which is just under $40k rn without rebates, which obviously exist and shouldn’t be ignored. Look around online, it is widely known that certain vehicles hold their value over time better than others, typically Jeep Wranglers, some trucks, popular mod platforms, all teslas that don’t have a salvage title. This is speaking from experience shopping for the aforementioned vehicles and being a car guy. Generic depreciation calculators are useful for tax purposes, not projecting consumer resale value.

Anyways, this doesn’t even take into effect that the m3 is awesome compared to a Prius / Camry. there’s a middle ground between our opinions, but the model 3 is more affordable than people think.
It's because it has the same feel as Bodoni. I hate Bodoni.

Too much stretched vertical emphasis, feels unbalanced and depressing to me.
I wouldn't consider that a decision criteria since it's also true for battery tech.

(Most Teslas are powered by fossil fuels today via the grid, not renewables. 80% of US energy is still non-renewable and non-nuclear.)
I could see all of the above happening with different mixes of needs of routes, infrastructure, and investment.
Amplitude Acquires Iterative.ly
> I didn't expect the first move towards canvas-only rendering to be traditional wordprocessors.

Google Maps moved to Canvas/WebGL years ago. It's not the first move.
How is it on resource-usage though?

Another example: Google Docs seems ok on responsiveness, but not on efficiency (especially memory).
Well put and my thoughts exactly. Hacker News is a great place for all kinds of information and great discussions too.

Let's try and keep it that way.
Interesting. I've always been a vim person (well since I discovered it when using an Ubuntu laptop back in 2011 after being a notepad person, before that an edit.com person). I've always regarded emacs users with a sort half-fearful half-snobbish "wtf". I'm a little scared I can't be both a vim person and an emacs person. Like I'd be betrayin' something or somebody or other ;p ;) xx
Just pointing out that Hamburg is a free city republican state within the federal republic of Germany. So I don't think it carries any water.
On 20 Years of Drupal – An Interview with Emma Jane Hogbin – Tag1 TeamTalk
1. Organize specialty travel tours
Make a specialized travel tour company to cater to individual lifestyle preferences. A tour startup made for solo travelers, a food-based tour geared towards certain diet preferences, or even an age-based tour company could gain traction across various demographics.

2. Create an airport-centric app
Creating an all-in-one app that allows travelers to navigate unfamiliar airports with real-time information is a relatively untapped startup idea. Though various travel applications exist, an app that shows amenities, TSA line wait times, ground transportation options, and airport maps could be useful to passengers.

3. Become a destination wedding planner
Take the stress out of wedding planning for couples and travel to exciting places around the globe. If you love exploring, are great under pressure, and don’t mind working long hours, this could be the startup idea for you.

4. Start a SaaS company.

I think this is a very profitable type of business, I want to start something like https://audext.com/
The article ends with this nugget about C++ shared memory state management, but I don't have the background to know exactly what they're referring to. Does anyone recognize this pattern and feel able to explain it to mere mortals?

> “We also have different tools so that any state that is persisted through the application is managed in a very particular place in memory. This lets us know it is being properly shared between the computers. What you don’t want is a situation where one of the computers takes a radiation hit, a bit flips, and it’s not in a shared memory with the other computers, and it can kind of run off on its own.”
> Starlink is fundamentally not about providing broadband to anyone.

This reply brought to you over a robust, fast, low latency and reliable Starlink connection.
I'd recommend getting in touch with the Psychedelic Salon[1] and the Aware Project[2].

They have deep contacts with the psychedelic community, and have themselves interviewed many of the early pioneers.

[1] - https://psychedelicsalon.com/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oErWkP157InE47YAuhzPg/vid...
Anecdotally I just moved from California to North Carolina and Charter (Spectrum now I guess) is actually doing all new builds with fiber, RFoG, out in this area. Seems to be leaps and bounds more reliable.

So their reliability might depend on the locale.
You're right, there seems to be only JS code running in this example... and it performs very well for me, actually.

Everything people were complaining about seems to work just fine, including text selection and Ctrl+F!
That DOES look better. I'll do that. Thanks
The Fed's job is hitting 2% inflation because that is basically what a healthy economy needs over the long term. The Fed has no obligation to help the US government shrink its debts.

Inflation is caused by demand exceeding supply. 2% inflation means demand is exceeding supply by exactly 2% and that is a good thing because it means there is wiggle room for people to find jobs, there is wiggle room to let the economy shift from one industry to another, it means there is demand for technology that increases productivity.
I haven't looked into doing that quite yet, but that's a great idea. I'll look more into what that would look like. Thanks
What was that bit from The Breakfast Club? "When you grow up, your heart dies."

I believe several factors are in play.

First, instinctual self-regulation of cycles. It seems that babies need to figure out how to sleep on a regular basis, but eventually they "settle down." Similarly, I suspect that the outbursts of childhood self-regulate, without reflection.

I also consider conscious self-reflection. In the American remake of La Femme Nikita, one character adopts another's line, "I never did mind the little things" as a response to provocation. Mine has been "Well, this is hardly the worst thing that has happened to me."

Which leads into the third factor -- the more we experience, the greater breadth of experience we have and so we have greater highs and lower lows against which to compare our current experiences.

Fourth, declining energy levels. We get tired as we grow older. It becomes easier to deprioritize simply because we must spend our limited reserves on other things.

All of this sounds reasonable, but I do wonder, in the pallor of middle age, about the idea that your heart dies. Just a little.
Fuel cell technology used in cars is inferior to battery technology cars. But it's not comparable here. A light, intermittently used vehicle, with fast startup and frequent shutoff, and with no long range requirements, does not have the same set of constraints that class 8 trucks do. Holy Father Elon's criticism of fuel cells in passenger vehicles do not apply here at all.

800hp fuel cell: 500-600lbs, 3 cubic feet. 60% efficiency baseline, easily augmented to 75% with heat recovery. https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LEW-TOPS-120

Runs on any hydrogen-based fuel: pure hydrogen, methane, butane, propane, gasoline, avgas, diesel, ammonia, whatever. In fact, you can mix fuels in the same tank, and the SOFC will consume them regardless. Use any infrastructure that you want. Use any fuel system that you want. You can start out running standard low-sulfur diesel, or use natural gas or propane with standard modifications that are already used for diesel conversions all over the third world. If hydrogen storage works out for your use case, then use it. If it doesn't, then just use diesel and wait for synthetic fuels to drop in price.

There will never be a battery-powered truck that can compete with that value proposition for long haul trucking.
Another anecdote: my 2015 Infiniti just a few months ago was estimated at $15k, last weekend KBB showed $17.5k.
Can confirm- hw trying to move to software. Sw is easier/convenient to tinker and debug, no restrictions on lab and hw access and sadly also pays better :(
WeWork CEO Says Workers WHO Want Back into the Office Are the Most Engaged
Looks pretty interesting. I do wonder if it can be integrated with IDEs.

My experience with CLion were rather unimpressive.

While the debugger worked, the strings were near impossible to parse (I'd get a memory reference and not a displayed string).
I spent a good year trying to develop a website to answer this question and collect responses from people who'd done just this to try to aggregate their qualitative and quantitative experiences, before ultimately realizing this is something where you can sort of point out some of the obvious trade-offs but the value system and preferences of the individuals vary so much that unfortunately the only way to really determine it is for the person in question to go live there. And so I stopped working on the site and just got a one way ticket and spent a year remote working.

Before realizing that for me at that stage in my life the best place for me ironically was the country where I started, just in a bigger city with a good metro system.

If you wanna determine this you'd be best off constructing a matrix of priority systems (weather, cost of living, language, broad cultural region a la northern european, southern european/latin, east asian, latin american, etc), nature in the area, etc) and make a tool for an individual to rank their priorities in terms of categories/factors, then rank the options _within_ each of those categories/factors, and then try to score the results for them. But even then, people often don't know what they want or care about until they've experienced a variety of places.
In the words of Steve Eisman, “They mistook leverage for genius.”

Any big, overleveraged bet is going to go bad eventually, no matter how well researched.
To be fair, you can buy the vest outright for $400. But I still think it's extremely dangerous for safety devices to use subscription models like this. Not to mention the sketchiness of giving something as mundane as an airbag the ability to phone home with whatever information the manufacturer decides is worthwhile.
Whether or not it’s a trend will come down only to the commonality of skills in the marketplace for a given rate of pay.
I agree with others that "abuse" is a bit over the top, but I had people tell me that a few times, when I was in high school (never before or since).

I don't know WTF was wrong with the rest of those people's lives, but, as someone approaching 40, ages ~12-18 were the worst part of my life and it's not even a close call. Everything before and after was much better. Working mediocre low-paying jobs was much better. College was like a vacation. Adult life is way better. Being a younger kid was way better. And I had a really normal HS experience, stable home life, et c., so it's not like I was being badly bullied or my parents were going through a divorce or something. Those years are just awful (school's about 70% of the problem with it, I'd say, and the other 30% is hormones)

When the odd suicidal ideation popped into my head, or if I was just way down in the dumps (both are pretty common for teenagers) the (absofuckinglutely wrong!) suggestion that things would only get worse was... not helpful.
That's the entire point. DOM is meant for structured web pages, not web apps. If you want to build complex web apps it is better to use your own renderer..which is exactly what Google is doing with Docs.
The problem is if finance is very relevant then pretty much we should be able to see a whole range of financial topics here. I still consider HN to be more tech related, but again this is just my POV. And if the community thinks finance is at least equally relevant then I'm fine.

I mean I don't "hate" this post, I'm just curious how relevant it is to HN community. And I could be on the wrong end.
If you are interested in learning the intuition & theory behind diffusion and score-based models, I highly recommend this talk by Stefano Ermon from Stanford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TcNXi3A5DI
>you can’t be blackmailed for doing weed if nobody cares you did weed

This is imo the most feasible/pragmatic approach for privacy issue.

Instead fixing it by hiding the information, we should fix the actual issue that cause misery when the information is public.
Honestly my main take here is just how much better the foliage can look. Grass/trees in real time graphics just aren't even close.
It's a cynical perspective, but the downvotes are unwarranted. It's worth comparing to McDonalds, where a large proportion of the corporation's worth is in the real estate they hold.
Google sheets is the specific example that I hate. In my experience, it's often laggy and clunky. You can't even scroll smoothly: the window MUST snap to row/column lines. When I realized that google sheets has such a laughable shortcoming, I knew I needed to get out of google office eventually.
One step up, two step down.

Progress
That was the home mortgage crisis.