skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Erlang sidesteps the problem by avoiding mutable shared state

Erlang is maximal shared mutable state!

Processes are mutable state and they’re shared between other processes.
Sure, if the pressurant gas dissolves into the liquid propellant.

But mostly chosen pressurant which is not dissolves, or used some type of separating membrane (or piston), for example, in Soviet space stations used
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_bellows
I started working on porting an internal viz tool in the company I work at from JS to Rust/wasm 2 weeks ago. Thanks for writing this post mortem up, has made me think twice whether its worth the work.
Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown
From February:

- I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss (twitter.com/xenadu02)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419618
I learnt it from my parents, they didn't explicitly teach me anything but I just learnt them by sitting next to them when they were working with the accounts and monthly budgets and things like that, looking at what they are doing and ask questions.

I was surprised when in my middle school classmates didn't know how banks worked and they were astonished that banks lent out your money that you deposited to other people :/
Congestion pricing (can) increase inequality, favoring the people able/willing to pay: without it, everyone 'pays' in time delays. This is related to recent discussion on HN on scaling fines based on income or wealth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31176458
The active suspension for kneeling is actually also used in EV buses to compensate for the high center of gravity. See this video about the Mercedes eCitaro[1] for some visuals and technical information.

[1] https://youtu.be/Om3uVW4lskE?t=327
I never said anything is illegal. All I have done is point out why he has a legal right to return it, as not fit for purpose. Apparently we agree, since you said "he can return it, or he can consent".

> Your indignation and lack of familiarity does not change that this is well accepted in international law

There is absolutely nothing whatsoever in international law that is even remotely related to these issues. Consumer rights and sales contracts are national (and in many countries even sub-national, e.g. state) issues.

If you're going to make strong assertions and tell people they're "missing the point" it might be a good idea to a) properly read & comprehend the comments you're replying to, and b) actually know what you are talking about.
This article is pretty ideology heavy and information free for an article that claims to be ideology free and just focusing on understanding.
>Won't it all be in one long line?

Depends on whether editors start a newline for \u001E. Notepad++ doesn't. Than is definately going affect readability. Hmmm.

>Doesn't seem negligible when the editability issues with CSV were also minor.

The issue with CSV, as far as I am concerned, is the escaping. And that isn't minor from either a readability or parsing point of view.

>Wanting those characters specifically is rare, but wanting to safely store an arbitrary unicode string - maybe a filename - is very common. Parsers might invent their own escaping to handle this.

Are \u001F or \u001E even legal filename characters on any OS? These codes could turn up by chance in a blob of binary data. But it isn't intended for binary data.
TX Lawmaker Says Elon Musk Should ‘Absolutely’ Consider Moving Twitter to Texas
Kansas tornado inflicts heavy damage and leaves thousands without power
Text formats are so much easier to work with (but not appropriate for all types of data).
I don't believe it is available anywhere, because it is entangled legally, as apparently the author of another literary work with the premise of finding lost bible books documenting a continued life of Jesus with a family and kids sued the author of this script. I've not followed the situation, simply because I don't care about such things.
There are a lot of other areas of physics, some even involving the use of colliders, that are in better position and value to make discoveries that either advance our understanding and/or have applied/commercial application.

One example is the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven. The money spent nationally and globally on these types of facilities are a fraction of what goes to LHC or, not long ago, the Tevatron at Fermilab.
Musk criticized her male colleagues such as the CEO in the same manner. Look at what you’re saying:

That it’s “misogyny” to post a meme [1] critical of someone’s work when they’re in a powerful position paid millions of dollars a year!

That’s absolutely ridiculous.

The meme mocked her conversation on Joe Rogan, which was ridiculously partisan. She’s not exempt from having her poor performance as an executive criticized because she’s a woman.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ayiouz/it_do_be_l...
...which, jokes aside, is safer than Rust.
Bases in Coventry and Oxford to offer flying car lessons
This isn't a view, I'm stating facts / describing reality.

I personally disagree with this state of affairs.

Edit: from Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_theft

> In most jurisdictions, sperm theft is not illegal and usually has little bearing on issues like child support.
it’s going to be interesting to see personal rockets one day complete with regulations and all the ins and outs of that industry becoming mainstream
Yep, that’s credit card processing fees. Standard across the industry.

See https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/merchants-guid... for further info.
Back when programming was an art and a programmer needed to know the underlying hardware that the software was running on intimately. Nowadays the nearest you get to that is with embedded programming. Makes you wonder why computers need to get faster so that we can run the latest code.
Typical credit card transactions fees range from 1.5-3.5 percent so the 2 percent is not a terrible deal and businesses usually just eat it in retail and work it into the prices.

Usually there is language in the contract with the processor agreement that prevents businesses from charging different prices for credit card vs non credit card buyers.
> no matter what you do, you get a decrease in cases anyway. But if you mean something else, please show me in detail.

Not entirely, for example US tended to have waves during the summer that Europe didn't have (more AC and less outdoor activity perhaps?). But yeah it seems to be mostly seasonal and definitely it comes and goes in waves of roughly 2 months.

> why cases didn't "explode" in Switzerland when they dropped their measures 16th of Feb 2022,

Obviously the rate of vaccination had a role in the lack of "explosion" (transmission remains but is lower, and there are more mild and asymptomatic cases that aren't traced). However cases did start to grow around 25th of February, inverting the previous trend[1], and the simplest explanation is that measures had some effect.

In fact the share of positive tests in Switzerland is so ridiculously high (50% around mid March) that the cases probably did explode, but were mostly mild or asymptomatic thanks to the vaccine. So again you cannot compare effects of suspending restrictions in 2022 on what would have happened without lockdowns in 2020.

Furthermore, while deaths among 40-60 year olds are pretty low, that's less true for hospitalizations. The impact of uncontrolled spreading before vaccinations would have been worse than a CFR measured in "ideal" conditions where everybody had access to healthcare.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Remote Work Might Be Causing Increased Database Leaks with 300k Reported in 2021
“In 1977, NASA followed this up with the famous Golden Record attached to the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

These spacecraft – as well as their twins, Pioneer 11 and Voyager 2 – have now all left the solar system”

That’s slightly misleading. Voyager 2 also has a copy of that record, and it was launched before Voyager 1 (16 days earlier). The numbers are reversed because Voyager 1 arrived at the outer planets before Voyager 2 did.
> Now if you have a 'priority meeting' once a week (at most, once a month might really be better) in which tasks are decided on and workloads are passed out, then people will be able to concentrate on those tasks.

That all sounds nice and good in theory, but I think everyone who has worked at a startup knows how difficult that can be in practice, primarily because you have lots of unexpected issues and challenges come up on a day-to-day basis, and at a startup (as opposed to a large, established company) there is rarely spare capacity to deal with those emergent issues.

Every startup I've ever worked at certainly had weekly or biweekly sprint plannings, and monthly status checks, and quarterly planning. That didn't really make it any easier to solve the constant prioritization struggle of the strategic vs. the day-to-day.
Russia Will Quit International Space Station over Sanctions
Why is it even a “problem”? There are more than enough people in the world as it is. Our economies are built as pyramid schemes, our overall consumption levels ever-growing. Better to have fewer people from choice earlier than from tragic options later.
What is the value of the p-value?
Try to solve your own problems instead of finding (or inventing) other people's problems
> Also: operator overloading is the spawn of Satan.

It's necessary for "powerful" generic programming. In fact, the entire reason user-defined data types can be easily used in C++ libraries like CGAL, Eigen, fmt, Kokkos, ranges-v3, etc, is because of operator overloading.
If by "equally likely" you mean "much, much less likely, but also more than 0 probability" than yes.

> so shouldn’t we see the occasional Earth-sized badger through the Hubble?

Take another look at the time-frame on the GP's comment and remember that the Universe is ~10^13 years old.
Cool idea. I want to be able to semantically search the contents of files on my computer and an archive of my bookmarks
It is comparable to CSV for space effiency (but much better than XML or JSON).

The main difference is the lack of escaping, which is what makes CSV slow to parse and error prone. With escaping you have to parse from the start of the file, which makes multi-threading hard, which limits how fast you can parse it.
This part also stand out to me. It is unfortunate that a science communicator would express her research preference in such a way. It is true there were no breakthrough in ages in the particle physics (standard model works extremely well), it is true "paper production" has disproportionate influence on funding (applicable to academia in general), personally I'm excited about the recent deployment of Webb space telescope (new instruments are often good for scientific progress), and quantum computing is gobbledygook (theoretically there were some exciting algorithms, in practice I expect at best modest but nonetheless important [cryptography] applications--that we could duplicate in less elegant way in a classical way)

but for people unfamiliar with science it may sound like "defund LHC" (that would be unfortunate)
Thanks to the ULEZ (ultra-low emission zone) in London, this is very much already happening — anecdotally (because I can't find any easy numbers right now, everything I can find is from 2020) a huge number of the private and public taxis in London are now hybrid or full electric.

Apparently there are already 5k TX electric taxis out there, which is a good start:

https://levc.com/levc-celebrates-sale-of-5000th-tx-electric-...

https://levc.com/tx-taxi/overview/
Who Benefits from Student-Loan Forgiveness?
Fire in the woods where the nearest tree is a 20 year walk away.
If you're able to just decide not to do the thing, then you're in a much better place. Some of us can get stuck in a loop where we can't decide not to do the thing, but also can't get started on it.
Nongu had this reputation in India 20 years ago. Probably the same statement. There was also a lot of “hot foods” / “cold foods” (not relating to temperature, I think milk was always a “cold food”) or something like that. At least I heard that from multiple people in Chennai / Madras.
There’s no evidence that points to the contrary and your comment about CEOs is the “summit fallacy”.

It’s possible for men to both earn more at the extreme end and for them to face systemic sexism in other ways. Further, CEOs are a snapshot of the labor market 20-30 years ago and not as it exists for most people today.

You’re also ignoring clear evidence of male floundering, such as the abysmal college graduation rates.
It's been the opposite for me actually. I've had migraines for over 12 years now, and they appear mostly during relaxing, quiet phases a couple of days after stressful events (or prolonged phases of stress).

For example, my wife and I worked overtime and through the weekends for three weeks before our anniversary, because we wanted everything done by then. We went to a resort for our anniversary, and sure enough, on the second day of relaxation I've had an episode.
Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase
Preventing Cancer? Scientists Try Combining Three Strategies
I highly recommend this book. I’m about half way through and it is one of the best on languages that I have read.
Neurosymbolic AI is a research topic.
A giant marshmallow is way more likely. Not all arrangements of atoms have the same probability.
I don't agree with that use of 'logical'. That would, if anything, be 'efficient'. But languages aren't efficient; in fact, there's actually some evidence to the opposite - that languages have built in redundancy to make it easier to pick back up a conversation if part of a sentence is missed. This has been proposed as part of the origin from noun classes.

But I was more going on to the fact that 'base 10' is somehow more logical than any other base as a chosen one for natural languages. I see no reason why that is so.
IC = Individual Contributor. It's a bit of a nebulous term, tbh.
If you are procrastinating you are probably fine and will not starve. You do not have to hustle. Of course you can, but if it‘s not your thing, just don’t do it. Most of us are not hunter/gatherers.
Distributing content. I hate the idea, but I can see blockchains being used with apps like Spotify to force someone to buy music before listening to it. Would also sidestep some of the practical issues of DRM. Heard snoop doggs label is going all in on smth like this.
Why I Use Div
No One Knows What a Slushie Is
Remember to ask your friends again in 10-15 years. People change their mind.
I do not think it is an accurate description of facts or legal reality. Telling people who might just believe you stuff like that can be needlessly inflammatory.
For some reason I thought AA would be a great MLM recruitment area. Do they discourage recruitment for jobs and religion?
Overhead wires take a lot of maintenance - point of reference, Vancouver BC's transit authority reported maintenance costs per km were actually higher for their electric trolleys than both their diesel and CNG buses. And having lived with them, being effectively restricted to being 'on rails' leads to challenges in traffic or road closures where traditional buses would re-route down a different street.

I think battery-buses are the future - the ability to roll and change routes without capital infrastructure set up will be king

https://www.translink.ca/-/media/translink/documents/about-t... (page 77, PDF page 90)
Large lithium ion batteries are new, however.
Fort Worth is the first city in the U.S. to mine Bitcoin, and will run rigs
Most bus builders make what cities will buy and have diesel, natural gas and electric projects.
The willingness attributed to the notes is really about the expectations we have as listeners. For reasons that are some combination of acoustics, our auditory system, and cultural norms, we perceive some sequences of notes as creating tension, and others as resolving that tension.

When you hear a musical line that resolves, it sounds finished. When you hear one that doesn't resolve, it sounds like there's another note that needs to be played to finish it.

Different people emphasize different ones of these factors in their theory of how this works, but one thing we can mostly agree on is that different arrangements of notes played together or in sequence convey different moods or emotions in a way that is fairly predictable, at least within a given cultural context. So composers can intentionally write happy or sad or suspenseful songs or whatever using music theory.

The musical modes can be thought of as a single pattern of note intervals across an octave, but starting on different notes in the sequence. The standard way to lay out the modes is to start with a scale that is called the Ionian mode, the diatonic scale, or the Major scale.

These names all refer to the same pattern of intervals. Counting semitones, this pattern is 2-2-1-2-2-2-1.

(The "2" means two keys on a piano, or two frets on a guitar, for example.)

If you play that pattern, you will hear the familiar major scale in the key that is named by the first note you play. If you start on C, it's C Major.

The other modes are the same pattern, but starting on different notes. If we continue to use the notes of the C Major scale, leaving the pattern where it is, then starting on D instead of C gives us the Dorian mode (in the key of D). Its pattern is 2-1-2-2-2-1-2 -- in other words, exactly the same set of intervals as the Ionian mode, but shifted by one.

If you keep moving the starting note up by one, you get each of the other modes: Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.

Each mode has its own mood or emotional character. The Aeolian mode, for example, is the same sequence of intervals as the Natural Minor scale, and tends to sound melancholy or wistful.

A simple trick for hearing what a mode sounds like is to sit down at a piano, find the first note of the mode you're interested in, and play the first note against each of the other notes in sequence up and down the scale. It's easiest to do if you start with the Ionian mode in C, because it's simply all the white keys on the piano, starting with C and going up to the right. So, to hear what the Ionian sounds like, play C, then C and the white note immediately to the right of it at the same time, then the next white note, then the next, all the way up to the next C (and,optionally, back down again).

If you repeat this exercise, but start on D instead of C, you'll hear that the scale has a different character. Keep going, and you get a nice sense of what each mode sounds like. Dorian's cheerful; Aeolian's melancholy; Phrygian's a little exotic; Locrian is just weird and never seems to resolve.
Electric buses are not a new hip thing, we have had electric buses since forever. It's called a trolleybus. At the moment its in every way superior to batteries.
They certainly are interesting to "watch", but honestly, the first time I've had a scotoma, I was scared I was going blind. I remember thinking whether I'd carelessly looked into a laser at work or something, even though I was sitting at my desk reading Wikipedia when the aura came.

And almost without exception, the visual auras are followed by immense headaches, so I personally would not say I like then very much :D
Radiative cooling materials that use the sky as a renewable resource for cooling
All I could imagine is ad companies looking at these and envisioning their Clockwork Orange dream of eyes with the lids held open.
> AWS Lambda is the backbone of every serverless architecture.

What a weirdly bold and provably untrue claim.
Shameless plug for JPLs tool that has a similar role re exploring space missions and Planets.

https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps

esp

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/orrery/#/home

You should apply to work on these tools here at JPL as often as you can. the application queue is occasionally flushed but new jobs are posted all the time.

https://JPL.jobs
Show HN: Bluetooth Arduino car with Android controller app
Russia will quit International Space Station over sanctions
Integza is one of my favorite channels of all time, his videos are always really informative and fun to watch. The only problem is he’s completely careless about safety—mainly by not wearing any protective gear for the exhaust fumes which include burned plastic.
I think it was used in the "yak system design" article on the FP
Terminal Tricks: Directory Bookmarks
Contrary to OP, I'm having trouble imagining tech and the arts thriving in NYC, if this keeps up. Will it become one of those cities where lots of the properties are really being used as investments, not homes or commercial spaces? And the edges of what we consider the metro area get pushed further and further out? Even more so than pre-pandemic? Someone explain the possible futures here to me if you can
Android is a write off from a privacy perspective, it's already an inferior good. The only viable near term privacy product I could see for it would be a virtual machine platform for phones that lets you run multiple OS instances with identities on the bare metal. I think there is still opportunity to create premium privacy experiences on existing platforms and apps, but only because those platforms are established and privacy becomes an extra power, and I don't think there is as much growth in a replacement platform for "privacy centric twitter/FB/goog."

One startup idea I briefly pursued some years ago was developing privacy focused work-alikes for common utility apps, and what I sensed from it was after "flashlight," "calendar" and "QR code reader" apps are their own contained brand experiences. There is no messenger workalike, each game is itself the experience, and playing a clone is less satisfying, and there's a quality to apps that is as intrinsic and unique as a story that you can't just replicate.

The business model was to charge for privacy focused work-alikes of popular free utility apps as an effective luxury privacy brand for apps, but even this misunderstood luxury products (an area I had some experience with, in addition to security and privacy). Luxury goods represent stories of aspiration and belonging, where privacy is a reactionary value that needs a foundation of something valuable beneath or behind it to protect. It's a quality and a feature, but to succeed, it can't be the reason.

To be valuable, privacy needs to socially elevate the user, similar to how the whole apple brand experience does, and distinct from the way someone using Tor/Tails all the time would relate to the world. Privacy as a concept has acquired the vibe of an inferior good, something you want when you don't have power, and so it's not something used for elite signalling the way exclusivity was just 20 years ago.

In this sense, privacy must be attractive, which is a real magic sauce. To do that, what people mean when they say something is cool or sexy is that it is powerful. Together, it means that for a privacy centric tech to succeed, it must first be powerful. Blockchains and cryptocurrencies were technically powerful, but their bar to entry meant they were adopted by unpowerful people first, and are still percieved as an economic "inferior good." Power over things is just leverage, where desirable power is necessarily status over other people. There's a lot of opportunity to refine this still.
> It would not make sense if a bookmark could randomly change.

Ah, my preference is the opposite — if I have to constantly babysit bookmarks for 301 redirects, that's technically correct but fails the "job to be done" of it.