skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if someone is struggling to survive, that will limit their ability to become a world-changing entrepreneur.

That said, the average westerner is not struggling to survive, and the average westerner does not end up founding 3 world changing companies and amassing a wealth of $200 billion. Not even the average birthright 1%er achieves that.
> a once in a lifetime opportunity

Presumably the lesson that governments will learn from this is not to introduce rules which apply only to a group that has access to large vehicles. If the rule only applied to hospitality workers, for example, society might have been able to ignore their objections.

Perhaps some countries seeing this will now pass laws requiring that large commercial vehicles only be allowed to travel on routes pre-registered with the government, and automatically enforced using the sort of GPS tracking systems that are becoming standard in cars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
Sciam is dealing with a lot of race and gender issues right now, so topics like this are on hold.
The only way to win is to not play.
Amd why are there still only 7 comments on this? Wasn't this one of the major unsolved problems of physics? If they had used a recurrent learning model to figure it out people would care...
I'd give priority to people who show up.. I worked in a fast food place where the manager used to tell me the doordash and uber guys can wait but we had to first finish with the people who were in front of us.
Everyone involved is dead or senile and the executive order authorizing it was signed before half the country was even born.

This will barely make the evening news and the Patriot Act will stand. Nothing will come of this.
> I understand how you could think we are since we seem to pay your military budgets for free.

I live in America.

> It's protectionism because your tech industry sucks.

I work for a FAANG, in America. "My" tech industry is doing fine, thank you very much. Nice try though.
The ISS was also the first of its kind, not built with cost effectiveness in mind even a little bit, and complicated by being built by so many different parties. A station or other space hab built by a highly vertically integrated company trying to keep costs down is almost certainly going to be much, much less expensive and more capable.
Back in the early 2000s (maybe 2006, 2007) I visited Montreal, and there was a pizza chain similar to Domino's that we ordered from one night. They had a single phone number for ordering (as opposed to having to look up your local pizza place), and the call experience was fantastic. The person was attentive, got the order right, was not worried about seven other things going on at the store, and could route the pizza to the closest chain (or even the second closest, if the closest was overloaded).

Even back then, it was clear that there was room for drastic improvement in the food ordering process. I worked in NYC during the Seamless web food delivery era, and while terrible, it was still ten times better than the alternative...
"Starting today, by the time your first nuclear plant comes online, you will have been forced to deploy an alternative making it redundant."

If only we had the ability to plan energy policy decades ahead, because we know how long each powerplant will last, and when it will need to be replaced! If only we had energy consumption and CO2 emissions predictions going forwards and backward almost a century!
> Shows how afraid people are to mess with the CIA. They shouldn’t even be allowed to operate in the United States let alone collect information on American citizens.

I think it's incredible that politicians haven't cracked down on three letter agencies ages ago. The threat to themselves seems like it should have been obvious. As long as they're sucking up data on US citizens (including presidents and congressmen) it would make it very very easy for those with that data to control anyone. When the NSA can lie to congress and face no consequences is it because the government if fine with that or because they are too afraid to do anything? It makes the highest offices of our government seem very weak and vulnerable. If they're terrified to do anything about them, what possible chance could the rest of us have?
I sold a vehicle to CarMax a few months ago for 8% over what I paid for it six months prior.

It took them two months and selling it for less than I paid to get it off the lot.

Same thing happened about 4 years ago though; they bought a car for what I paid for it and took a pretty solid loss.

In both cases they overvalued on a rare color that I liked but the market did not.
> your defense of racial prejudice is duly noted

I said I disagree with affirmative action. Nothing I have written suggests this. You're either a troll or you need to read my comment again.

> But progressives support the use of racial prejudice in many aspects of life.

Please list some and cite sources. The only one I know of is affirmative action.
Not in American English. That's spelled correctly.
The "funny" thing is how nobody goes to jail for breaking the law.
The Raptor 2 engine is just an absurd. The original specs were already kind of insane. But Raptor 2 is an monster. They really pushed already significantly into a second generation design before first flight. Raptor 2 is not just a slight upgrade, its a huge upgrade.

If it can actually launch multiple times a day without any refurbishment, it will simply totally break space travel as we have known it. This engine makes everything else possible.
I love how some folks are like "Elon isn't a real engineer!" and then he starts going on a tangent in the middle of a presser about how flanges are a PITA to seal once you exceed a few hundred bar (just over a few thousand PSI), and how welding improves the plumbing significantly.

Like, what!? That's not how C-suite bigwigs talk. That's primo enginerd banter.
Honestly, I think this is a big part of his brand, to the degree that I wouldn't be shocked to discover he does it intentionally.

His brand really is the super awkward nerd who's somewhere on the spectrum but technically brilliant. This is part of what creates such enamor for him in the engineering/tech community.

He's the king of nerds, and to a community of nerds who are sick and tired of being led by wellkempt MBAs who don't have any deep understanding of the technology they make leadership decisions for, he's a breadth of fresh air.

I'm not making a judgement on whether this brand is actually accurate of who he really is, but that's true of any brand.
But that also remains true for the website themselves, since there is proof that the website illegally sends data of any EU citizen to the US. This really is pretty wild regulation.
I'm not sure what the parameters look like, but the deck needs to exhibit a combination of sturdiness and resilience underfoot to make for a comfortable running surface. Basically it should be springy but not too springy, and only in the normal direction. The frame needs to be solid and massive, again so that the whole thing doesn't move in unwanted directions while using it. The motor should be strong enough to operate smoothly at speeds up to at least 10 to 12 MPH, preferably more to allow for headroom.

Feature-wise, a good treadmill supports inclination of several degrees in the 'up' direction and at least a couple of degrees downward. Obviously the controls need to be responsive and easy to work with while running. And the whole thing needs to be designed without forehead-slapping engineering errors like the ability (much less the tendency) to pull objects beneath the deck. If the belt is exposed at the rear without a cover or guard of some kind, as was notoriously done by Peloton, that would be an example of how not to do it.

Basically, any treadmill that doesn't suck is going to end up weighing a few hundred pounds and costing several thousand dollars. It will be designed with gym use in mind, rather than primarily for home users.

I had a Precor C964 for several years, but sold it when I moved. I eventually replaced it with a similar model from the same company (TRM 425), and I'd say those two models are examples of very good commercial-grade treadmills that will last more or less forever in a home environment. Frankly I liked the older model a bit better, as it had simpler controls with less lag.
How do you know that's why you're waiting?
The incentive is ever-increasing CO2 charges, and also high prices per kWh on those off days. The CO2 price is already up to 100 euros/tonne of CO2 on the European CO2 market.

Renewables will go further with some combination of short and long term storage, dispatchable demand of other kinds, and outright curtailment.
It was supposed to be illegal for the CIA to operate within the US.
Ikonas Graphics Systems – The First Gpgpu
What does nuclear power have to do with single use disposable packaging?
And a line is a set of points. Your point?

That is, yes, to an extent you can expand your vocabulary to include more shapes and find ways to compose them. Or you could peel back and literally write point values. Both have uses. And both are used.

Consider, we aren't forcing all art assets to be created and described using elementary shapes. For many of those, we are closer to literally writing the canvas by hand. And then retroactively glueing to program.

It is a shame we often force a single paradigm with our code bases.
Yeah, to me it also sounded like another graph plugin for a popular RDBMS. I also didn't find the examples convincing. Not having a driver for #Net/Java?

To me the problems with existing DBMS are still the same (as 15 years ago) complexities in setup/clustering/backups/rollbacks/schema updates, even setting up db clients are PITAs in many environments.

SQL is not really a feature to focus on (imho), it is simple enough even for non-tech people). We tried to get out of SQL long time ago anyways (ORM).

Anyways wishing luck, the team seems awesome!
And yet still no update about sharing an airtag with my family...
I hope original comments see this. Advising investment vehicles for money, without proper disclaimers and a licence is a very bad idea.
> Bringing a new power plant online in 15 years is irrelevant to just about everybody.

I mean, it's very relevant to the population of France, who are currently relying on a huge number of aging nuclear plants that will be retired in the coming few decades. I for one am hugely relieved to hear this news and hope it works out.
This is awesome. Mini games are easy fun and very quick, and a great way to start chess!
2012 was 10 years ago.

Ten years later they are a $73 billion market cap publicly traded company.

I would call that the opposite of a "fail"
Well put.

I've never seen someone use the phrase "exception that proves the rule" non-ironically. Why is it more than just a class of exceptions? How does it prove anything?
Symbol Tax - cryptocurrency capital gains calculator

https://symbol.tax

I made it for myself to make my life easier come tax season. Current solutions just didn’t meet my needs. I made it a desktop application with a perpetual license because I just didn’t see the value in a cloud service subscription for something I only need to do once a year. Hope to one day make it useful for others looking for alternatives, but operational cost is nothing, just a static website - so not really concerned if it doesn’t go anywhere.

Disclaimer - I’m not a tax expert/CPA, use at your own risk.
Poland is one of the worst places in the world for renewables.

Which is sad if you want Poland to have an industrial future. Having Poland's industry be powered by expensive nuclear energy when solar is $0.013/kWh in sunny parts of the world will not bring happy experiences.
> Strategically, it was useful for Russian politics to have something as risky as the Chernobyl nuke power station in the Ukraine during the soviet union era, ie different country if anything went wrong nothing to do with us sort of thing.

The same type of reactor as Chernobyl is still in operation at the Leningrad NPP
I have a Hammerspoon plugin that adds Vim motions/operators to every input in macOS. I like slowly working on it, and it's really just for my own fun! https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
I agree with getting some benchmarks up there. Until that's done, I can share what some preliminary tests revealed. Just to give you more of feel for where this tool might fit.

We imported the complete Clinical Trials dataset (380k docs ~ 200 attributes each) into SFSQL, Mongo and a Postgres JSON column.

Import speed with raw documents: Mongo and Postgres win hands down.
Why? Very little processing to be done on their parts, while SFSQL unravels the structures and stores everything with indexes already in place.
Excluded use cases for SFSQL? high-volume logging, data-sinks, etc.

Query speed against raw document elements: Mongo and Postgres very fast, SFSQL respectable.
Why? Mongo is optimized for querying raw documents, Postgres obviously did their work as well.
Excluded use cases for SFSQL? storage of raw, unprocessed json documents.

Then we extracted all unique instances of a particular attribute from that data and put them into their own collection in mongo and it's own table in Postgres.
The number of distinct objects extracted to external collection/table was just 11.
Then we modified the queries so that they JOINed to the external collection/table.
Result: SFSQL still respectable (nothing changed internally or speed wise). Postgres and mongo displayed a huge slowdown (and this was just a single join).
Included use cases for SFSQL? complex relational/referential data.
Austrian economics is all anti-empirical say-so internally-consistent models that aren't tested against reality. Traditional economics is stuff that claims to be more empirical but fails to do so and focuses almost entirely on official stats and on its own versions of models that aren't tested against reality.

The whole field of economics is overall messed up. It's insular, arrogant, and extremely resistant to outside criticism. And it's dangerous as economics claims are used to justify so much.

Random amazing example:

In https://www.npr.org/transcripts/980841456 and from "My question is, what is the M1 money supply, and the M2 money supply, for that matter?" last third of it, insanely clear and amazing. In short:

Q: more money! does that mean inflation? check with this econ textbook author

Author: oh, that's embarrassing, that chapter shouldn't be there

Q: so what causes inflation?

Author: people buying stuff more, demand going up (unless it's insane money supply like Venezuela or Zimbabwe level insane)

Q: so why is the chapter in your textbook?

Author: um, publisher said that if we don't say that more money means inflation then econ professors won't use our textbook. They learned that idea in their original studies, so they will only use a textbook that lets them teach it. But it's wrong, and we shouldn't have put it in the book.
Saw the title, thought "This is probably Wyden," clicked the link... Yup. Say what you will about the guy he's remarkably consistent on this sort of thing. I think that's admirable.
As some said, the greatest trick christianity ever pulled...
Oh, but they are. The average westerner (in the US, at least) is a $400 unexpected bill away from bankruptcy.

Also, Musk was not a founder of Tesla.
As a zkSNARK cryptographer, efficient cryptographic proofs are incredibly complex pieces of technology that still have a ways to go before they can match the speed of native execution. Both approaches have pros and cons.
I’ve always found that the Wordle solution word is very common. So agora and pupal would be surprising in that regard.
Exactly. Maybe it was intentional in an attempt to get the US to claw back the CLOUD act, which is the point of contention here. Until that happens, US websites (see: big businesses with a legal department) are likely going to block storing any EU citizen data, which might (but probably not measurably) help prop up local EU services.
Which one of these personalities is he, when making statements about Tesla FSD?

Edit: The answer to this question will be highly relevant during the lawsuits that will follow, the first time the Beta FSD kills somebody.
So, I think it's worth it for people to go to Mars for exploration, and to build a base somewhere up in space or the moon.

I think we should figure out how to exploit resources in space: asteroid mining, space-based solar power, etc. Even if it's all woefully unprofitable and inefficient at first.

And I think we should figure out how to eventually get another self-sufficient lump of humanity off this rock, but that seems like it could be 150+ years out.

But there's no reason, other than the exploration of Mars itself, to go down the gravity well to Mars.

> I would love to see all the energy put into space exploration to simply be put in rehabilitating existing land.

It's not like these are really the same resources.
Fastest will be recruiters.
As a Canadian, this is an offensive comment that appears to assume we don't have any concerns of our own. Canada has some of the harshest (and most ridiculous) covid measures in the world, and a bimbo prime minister that has no interest in civil discourse about what measures the federal government should be able to impose on people and is only interested in securing his own power. Canadians are fed up and are protesting. We are definitely divided, like the US, and work-from-home elites (government is a massive employer, especially in Ottawa where the protests are happening) want to keep their heads in the sand and give away their freedoms in exchange for not having to go to work. Real people don't have that choice, and they are pushing back. Maybe this is aligned with some US interests, I dont know or care, but it's ignorant beyond comprehension to pretend that Canadians don't have an issue with the authoritarian policies of our government and it must be some "american anti-vaxxers" that are driving our rejection of government policy. Are they also responsible for the global rejection of covid hysteria?
I'm not surprised. I'm only surprised that it took this long for the activity to be uncovered.
And then what? What's the use case?
Note that since it wasn't immediately apparent to me what or when the data was collected, this is about bulk collection of financial data in order to combat ISIL. Given the timeline of the report, https://www.cia.gov/static/63f697addbbd30a4d64432ff28bbc6d6/..., it makes it sound like they looked into activities in the 2014 timeframe.
The kind that raises capital, probably
There's actually quite a few game studios with a 4 day work week now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1onJ-45L8_Lo_DalvQMjI...

It seems like they are pioneering the movement

I've been slowly adding them to https://4dayweek.io/
It took me longer than I care to admit to put 2+2 together to realize that VSCode probably had a strong set of extension based tooling usable in place of the az cli.

I hate myself.
The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived
Engineers can never be wrong about anything. Any engineer making any statement that is wrong must be fundamentally evil.
You're not going to force people to take endless boosters and discriminate against them if they don't. At least not without violence. Which if you use, you will lose even more people.

The resistance has just begun. Extortion works both ways it turns out.
> You cannot make both criticisms and remain internally consistent

Sure I can. The inconsistency you think you see is in the straw man version of my argument that you have concocted in your head, not in my actual argument.
Can you? I was away with work for a week and left all my keys (with AirTags) at home. Got home and they were all in the fridge.
I guess you can listen to the presentation yourself.
Good idea. Pay attention to your Meta.
this is very bad article and make a lot of baseless conclusion.

In summary they say kid that went to preschool had a head start until after third grade, they were they started doing worse.

Is it safe to assume they have been bored for 3 years because they where learning nothing and after that they just kept the bad habit of not listening in class :-)

What if the children where kept in a distinct group from the kid that didn’t go to preschool. And where allowed to skip move through the curriculum faster?
I've been building a platform upon which people can host webrings. Unfortunately it's not public just yet. I know this won't succeed in any shape or form, however I like the idea of doing my little bit to help the resurgence of the small-web.
> Guarantee the Patriot Act, for example, does not get repealed.

The Patriot Act expired in 2020
I agree, it doesn't seem to be working as well as you'd hope. I wonder how much of that is due to people not taking advantage of the opportunity for cheap money, either because they don't know about it, or have no ideas how to use it.
I have no opinion to express on Elon but I will say that I’ve heard non-technical managers lap up stuff like that in meetings with the engineers and then regurgitate it elsewhere.

If I had to guess his technical competence is somewhere in the middle of the distribution of opinions on the matter. I’m sure he’s fine.
thanks for the comment! super glad to hear about awesomeness :)
Those are construction start dates, and construction duration in that era took 5-10 years in that era according to that paper. Construction of that cluster overlapped considerably with the later more expensive plants (some even finishing after 1979).
Zillow’s Shuttered Home-Flipping Business Lost $881M in 2021
Manhattan Apartment Rents Creep Closer to the Highest on Record
The immorality is whether the product/service is any good.

Perversely, the more expensive a product the more perceived quality a product has, its perhaps why German cars are so popular. People like to show off their wealth which is what makes designer brands popular.

There is little point advertising monopoly products like fuel though, any advert is just going to be brand awareness maintenance in those situations, which also helps to keep the media/newspapers onboard for PR reasons to keep the bad press at bay!
https://siftrss.com/

I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch.

Originally it wasn't going to be public but I thought, "eh what the heck, it's only a bit more effort to put a simple interface on it." Since then more than 100k feeds have been created and donations have paid for the minimal hosting costs.

I do get feature requests from time to time,and I would like to fulfill them eventually, but for the most part I rarely work on it. I'd love to have richer, more powerful filters with boolean logic along with feed combining, rewriting of tags, proxies, all sorts of things... but I've been a software engineer long enough to know that the greater complexity would mean more people emailing me their demands and blaming me for their (mis)use of the tool. It just wouldn't be fun anymore. It'd be another chore.

I've thought about trying to monetize it but 1) it seems unlikely that it'd ever amount to anything substantial, 2) probably wouldn't be worth the effort, and 3) kind of feels against the spirit of RSS.

I guess in some sense it has succeeded, but in reality it succeeded on day one when I was able to use it myself.
Notably they hint at one of the problems but don’t discuss fixing it at all: it’s bizarre that AirTags can’t be shared with a family account. It’s irritating that if I grab my wife’s copy of the car key I get alerts about being tracked, and, conversely, it’s frustrating that she can’t locate my copy of the key when that’s the one that’s closest.