skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think GP's point is that immutable objects (which Clojure uses "by default") can be easily used in concurrent settings. Immutable objects can be shared without concern between threads, whereas mutable objects may need to be copied or have their operations synchronized somehow.
It’s still a tax hike, regardless of your rationalizing
Guiding and Learning Without Common Ground: A New Interactive Learning Paradigm
If doing something is going to make the situation worse, it is better to do nothing instead.
Smart or not he had a lot of domain knowledge and had the ambition to learn more. Its vastly disappointing that none of the authorities or adults in his life steered him towards work in the nuclear field
Deception, exploited workers, cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited test users
Then a focus on tax rates instead of total cost is entirely disingenuous.
So, what happened to $Luna recently?
Build a full stack app that makes money. The usual advice to "get your hands dirty" is highly effective because it cuts out the crud (pun intended). The additional constraint of making money forces you to learn the critical skills of prioritizing what actually matters, and building software infrastructure needed for Real Apps(TM). You'll most likely never make any money, but you'll get in the habit of not bike shedding, and be able to say you know how to set up things like email accounts and payments.

A good software engineer is good because they can make ends meet. Beginners often make the mistake of spinning their wheels learning the minutiae of some stack that won't be relevant in a decade. Learning how to make money with code is a more enduring and transferable skill, and impresses all but the most jaded hiring managers.
We from the balkans still remember nato plans flying above our heads bombing a country 400km away. The problem is that, when americans do something like that (dorne bomb a wedding), people treat that as "ok", and the bombers even get a Nobel peace prize.... if it turns out, that the people they kill are eg. Reuters journalists, they punish the leaker and the person who publishes that... there was sam public backlash for wikileaks, but practically zero sanctions from any country against americans killing civilians, even if it was cought on video.

Nato is currently not occupying any european country (unless we count kosovo US base as an occupation), but currently even ours (slovenian) soldiers are in quite a few countries as a part of nato, eg. Syria being one of them.

So yeah... why does Obama get a peace prize for bombing weddings and occupying sovereign countries, and we get expensive gas when putin is saving their minorities in ukraine (atleast this was the narrative when nato bombed serbia)?
User control has a big benefit here. I want certain devices to sacrifice battery power in exchange for fast wireless re-connections over bluetooth. My headphones for example - I don't want to wait, use the bluetooth antenna all you want.

But I don't want that 100% of the time. With a power switch, I get my ideal user experience (fast reconnects) and I have control when to apply that user experience (on/off switch).
> We rely on fighters to establish air superiority more than SAMs, while the Russians do the opposite. Worst case scenario, F-15s/16s/22s/35s can use cannons and pilots are more adaptable than radar systems. I also suspect that the F-35's sensors at least are far superior to whatever the Russians are relying on.

Or just, ya know, shoot the damn thing.

The specs are well within what you can expect to hit with with an "old enough they give them out like candy" AA gun.
You should hear what Pat Metheny had to say about Kenny G!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mjt1ypiF8
I don't understand. Preview is by far the slowest PDF viewer I've ever used. Scrolling through 100+page documents brings it to its knees.

Gthumb in my experience is far more performant. Scrolls like butter, regardless of PDF size. But unfortunately I don't think there's a macOS native UI port.
I also investigated SQLite and it's not clear how we can use it with multiple servers.

The WAL documentation [1] says "The wal-index greatly improves the performance of readers, but the use of shared memory means that all readers must exist on the same machine. This is why the write-ahead log implementation will not work on a network filesystem."

So it seems that we can't have 2 Node.js servers accessing the same SQLite file on a shared volume.

I'm not sure how to do zero downtime deployment (like starting server 2, checking it works, and shutting down server 1, seems risky since we'll have 2 servers accessing the same SQLite file temporarily)

[1] https://sqlite.org/wal.html
>The real question is whether employers will raise salaries enough to compensate for the additional taxes, once they're no longer providing insurance as a benefit.

I don't think that's even a question. The answer is no, they won't.
“UST fiasco is fishy”
Yeah, you see almost the exact same in new streets and new sections of existing cities. They aren't made with the idea of being organic or adding a little chaos to simulate it. They are made with the intent of putting down prefabs in the cheapest way possible while still hitting requirements and budgets.

Every new project around say, Utrecht, has the same "hypermodern" feel to it. Little contrast, straight lines, visible patterns, flat and rectangular. They try to add a little more chaos to it (probably to avoid being compared to Almere) and some more greenery, but it's a far cry from the old European city look.
> Further, the answer is probably not to tell people to simply move. That’s not a solution for the number of people at stake.

While I agree, we probably should start telling people to stop moving there. The places in the US that are getting the largest influx of people are the same places that are going to be impacted the most by climate change: the West and the South. Some of the fastest growing cities in the nation are in Utah and Arizona, the exact areas we are discussing here.

I used to live in Utah and now live in the Midwest. A lot of people I know feel strongly that they would rather live in the West over the Midwest for various reasons, some of which I agree with, but I can't imagine moving back out there and taking on a mortgage in the area where it seems like the water crisis is a ticking time bomb.

I'd love to be wrong, but if the worst case scenarios are realized, a lot of suffering will be happening to people who have put themselves in the situation well after the warning signs became widely recognized.
You really think people are going to flee NYC and the large cities in CA over this?
It's now possible to make a 6502 out of plastic?!? WOW

Yes, they are making transistors out of plastic[1]. ”We coat everything on that, then peel it off and reuse the glass a carriers which means we can use silicon equipment.”

That they manage to get this to work at all is amazing. I view this as a technology demonstrator more than anything else. It looks like there's a pent up demand for low end processing that this might fill.

Who knows, maybe Sam Zeloof can use this process in his garage. 8)

1 - https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/first-300mm-fab-for-the-uk/
If you're pushing the database up into the application layer, do you have to route all write operations through a single "master" application instance? If not, is there some multi-master scheme, and if so, is it cheaper to propagate state all the time than it is to have the application write to a master database instance over a network? Moreover, how does it affect the operations of your application? Are you still as comfortable bouncing an application instance as you would otherwise be?
The Salton Sea, but with radioactive fallout!
8051 has some really nice bit-level instructions. Everything interesting for 6502 is typically on bit 7 because it's so easy to test (BPL/BMI), or more rarely bit 6 which I think can be easily tested with BIT, and you don't have anything like JBC which jumps if a bit is set and clears it.
If you're a streamer large enough to be receiving hundreds of subs a day, and so many viewers you could lose thousands during a bathroom break, you're a multi millionaire. It's hard for me to be sympathetic about how stressful their job is when they could retire comfortably at any point.
In-built into this comment is the implicit entitlement of the globalist consumer: that we should have access to anything we want at any time of year. But that doesn't really need to be the case. Reducing food-miles by feeding people locally-first would drop food-miles drastically, possibly more than other proposals thus far.

Minimizing total energy is indeed the name of the game. To do that, we have to recognize that we may have over-extended a little bit as a civilization, and to pull back on some of the more hubristic enterprises like bananas in Maine or avocados in Sweden during winter in the Northern hemisphere. We can still have those things, but at a minimum the costs for the consumer should reflect the costs of transportation, including costs normally externalized (excluded) from supply chain analyses.
That assumes you get the cost saving. If my company stopped paying for my insurance benefit and instead gave that money to me directly, and then I bought the cheapest plan I could find on the insurance exchange ... I'd be paying more, not less. By a fair amount.
The Papyrus skit is funny, but am unclear is there an issue with using Papyrus? Is Papyrus not a good font?

I'm not getting it. In other words why was the skit made?
Another moat they have is the number of data center locations.
> There are definitely use cases for Litestream, but it's far from a replacement for your typical Node + PostgreSQL stack

If you're a language like Node.js then horizontal scaling makes a lot of sense, but I've been working with Rust a lot recently. And Rust is so efficient that you typically end up in a place where a single application server can easily saturate the database. At that point moving them both onto the same box can start to make sense.

This is especially true for a low-traffic apps. I could probably run most of my Rust apps on a VM with 128MB RAM (or even less) and not even a whole CPU core and still get excellent performance. In that context, sticking a SQLite database that backs up to object storage on the same box becomes very attractive from a cost perspective.
I am fairly excited about these techniques. I consider SDFs to be a very powerful representation of 2D scenes, and of course Inigo Quilez has been demonstrating the incredible power of SDFs in 3D. Of course, the big challenge is, what tools do you use to author content in SDF form? In Inigo's case, it's essentially a text editor, coming up with the math yourself, but that doesn't scale unless you're a genius like him.

So using machine learning and optimization techniques in general to solve inverse problems, so your input is something meaningful, is a way to unlock SDF rendering without requiring a reinvention of the whole tool universe.

If someone wants a modest-scope project, it would be applying these kinds of techniques to blurred rounded rectangle rendering[1]. There, I got the math pretty close, fiddling with it by hand, but I strongly suspect it would be possible to get even closer, using real optimization techniques.

[1] https://raphlinus.github.io/graphics/2020/04/21/blurred-roun...
Because it's in a manner that humans aren't used to. People lie, but they can't literally put lies directly in people's mouths. Just look at the election in the Phillipines, it's clear people aren't adapting. Or look at the last election in America-- the idea that people will adapt is not holding up
It's normal (and HN does something similar, working from in-process data) for systems that don't have to scale beyond one server. If you need multiple servers you have to do something, such as Litestream.
You seem to believe employees wouldn't be able to opt out of their own employer-based insurance. Why is that?
Settlement: Clearview AI Complies with Illinois Biometric Privacy Law
This implies that the SUSE situation is far worse than a refusal to say Happy Hanukkah - it's actual directed malice. As a long time SUSE user/customer I feel I need to start considering migration unless this is quickly dispelled.
there’s some stuff out there:

- https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
- https://github.com/chiselstrike/chiselstore
- https://dqlite.io/

I’m sure there’s more, those are just the ones I remember.
While MVC is certainly not perfect, I've had the opposite experience you describe: the days of the spaghetti abstraction really began with the Javascript centric approach. The emphasis changed from opinionated defaults, to completely DIY, everything's configurable, every application is a snowflake.

This doesn't seem any better to me than the Perl+CGI / PHP world that Rails replaced. And we've traded the risk of munging view and model, or breaking conventions, for no guardrails and no patterns and no conventions beyond the most popular library to show up in the last 6 months.

I've personally seen an old, terribly uncool dinosaur MVC decomposition turn into 50+ microservices, with 10+ front-end apps, each with their own toolchains, libraries, peculiarities and hidden dependencies. That doesn't seem to be a win either. It feels like we are all collectively missing a more integrated approach to development, and eventually the pendulum will swing back in the favor of more comprehensive frameworks.
Not really, there are people who get great health care for free from their employer, and others who get a greatly discounted rate. Their employers will not necessarily savings with their employees.

The result for these employees could be more taxes for the same or worse care they’re already receiving.

In aggregate I believe it’s the right move but let’s not act like everyone wins here.
Same reason I always felt extremely comfortable with concurrent programming in F#. The immutable first principle makes it easier to reason about what the program is doing during concurrent execution.

Of course all projects will benefit from Loom. I am merely positing that Clojure in particular could leverage this both most quickly and to very deep positive effect, due to the nature of the language itself putting immutability first, which if I recall correctly they built up a pattern of concurrent execution around already.

Kotlin too will be be able to optimize their concurrency story.

I simply wanted to posit an observation I hadn't seen elsewhere on the web about Project Loom yet.
They even try to imitate that (and fail) for instance, this area in Beverwijk:

http://overall-pictures.nl/portfolio-3/straat-fotografie/bev...
It would be great to disable it as it is really annoying but it does not seem to work. The file is readonly and it isn't recommended to change this: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/rnvgyc/how_to_di...
It may only appear to make things worse. Sometimes you have to take drastic measures, like amputating a limb, to make progress on saving people.
Most advice aimed at absolute beginners is bad, because the questions are bad. E.g. "what's the best programming language?"

You and I may know that the question is a bad one, but beginners don't know that. And when they ask, they aren't told to rephrase the question as "What would I like to build?" Someone will just say "well I know Javascript and...." and it goes from there.
I highly recommend the documentary "The Lost Leonardo" referenced in the article:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-lost-leonardo
California is the fifth largest economy in the world. New York State's GDP is roughly $1.5 trillion, 8 percent of the U.S. total. They are resourced at levels of entire OECD countries that offer universal healthcare.

If Congress can't get its shit together, states that can should.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/01/dan-gecker...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160107120644/https://www.who.i...
Progressive pricing is already a thing in other utility markets. Set tiers such that any single household can afford enough water to live and ramp up from there.
Only trouble with that particular implementation is that the Datomic Transactor is a single threaded single process that serializes every transaction going through it. As long as you don't need to scale writes it works like a charm. However, the workloads I somehow always end up working with are write heavy or at best 50/50 between read and write.
Can someone explain the downvotes here? If you think these are bad papers, maybe recommend some better ones? Or what is wrong with this post?
Massachusetts may try it as well: https://masscare.org/

It'll be a very interesting experiment, if it works, other states will copy it. If it fails wealthy people will leave those states for places with lower taxes, and poorer people will move in to gain free health care.

There's a reason the most populous states (CA, NY, MA) are the ones trying it first, and it's not because it's cheaper.
There is an SDCC backend as well.
Story is not very original, dull even, lots of clichés. True story, the person sitting next to me in the cinema fell asleep, well I almost did too. I really didn’t get all the hype around it. After re-watching it, some scenes are nonetheless great.

3D was ok, but if I remember correctly mostly a window into the world and not many scenes where the elements jump out of the screen into the our side of the room.

Released around the same time, A Christmas Carol was a great film in that regard - spectacular 3D experience.

Edit: The font looks great, really liked the article.
What if, due to ridiculous latency reductions, your business no longer requires more than 1 machine to function at scale?

I'm talking more about sqlite itself than any given product around it at this point, but I still think it's an interesting thought experiment in this context.
California has a framework of private water rights.

If residential people want more water beyond what they own the rights to, they have to buy it from someone who does.

It is really that simple.
Hiring as an Early Stage Startup
I would like to discuss hiring strategies for finding quality engineering talent as an early stage startup. What worked for you, what didn't?

I was pondering this and thought of some: Joining engineering discords, exploring open source commits, and tech twitter.

Thoughts?
Of the top of my head, kitchen and construction are the only universally available jobs that will take you without any educational or criminal record requirements.
Depends what "IT" is. If you give me one or a few examples what you want to solve I am happy to give more concrete feedback.
Maybe good question to ask is what makes it more expensive? Is it bloated administration and insurance system? Or is there some fundamental other difference?
That plant is years late and had recent setback with an unfavorable staff report from the costal review (which can be overridden in the commission meeting next week)

Even if that plant goes live it is only 50 million gallons a day or just 2.5% of the needs of Orange county.

You would need 40 more plants like that .
it will be interesting to watch NY (and/or CA) put something like this in place and observe from afar. i strongly feel that states should be much more aggressive running policy experiments if their constituents desire them, and at the national level we all get some benefit of seeing how things turn out in real time.

all that said, assuming there is some tangible tax increase, NYC high earners are going to be knocking on the door of 60% combined rates (city, state, federal). tax avoidance and/or relocation services are going to be booming if so.
I mean the last president won much of his fame not from political experience, but from media exposure largely in TV shows and news. Whether you like him or not, he's an argument that television opened a new dimension to the presidential race
That seems readily fixable; make it a legal requirement that companies that provide employer-provided healthcare pay the premium to the employee if they opt out.
These files have carefully constructed format though. To read and write the patented format goes beyond patenting math. I think cmrdporcupine was getting at something.
Ask HN: Places worth paying for resume/interview help
As has been discussed ad nauseam here and on other forums, nowadays if you want a well-paying FAANG SWE job, or equivalent, or even a tier down, it is usually necessary to grind Leetcode and the like.

Has anyone paid for resume help, or mock interviews or the like? I know someone who got a Leetcode subscription and then got a good offer after interviewing.

I have worked in IT a while (in the US), and have programmed for a few years, and am paid well, but I know people who have jumped to $200k+ TC - a lot of them (and a lot of people here) said it took a few weeks or months of prep. Since I could boost my TC by tens of thousands of dollars each year, it would be worth hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars for me to get professionally prepped for interviews at FAANG or the equivalent.

I bought Cracking the Coding Interview, and am on the Leetcode free tier. I am wondering what people's experience with paid resume and interview preparation services are. Free services and resources I am interested in hearing about, but I never hear much in way of reviews of paid resume/interview services to help people land $200k+ SWE jobs in FAANG or equivalent (or a tier below them). I'm wondering if people used them, and what their experiences are. A lot of them have pitches like "We have lots of ex-Google recruiters on staff!"

Of course there might be a ridiculous aspect to all of this, but I prepped for the SAT, and even paid for SAT prep books and courses, so why not this?
ha lol, one sponsor, in committee

yeah I don't consider this kind of thing news, but it did open a conversation that I wanted to have
SDFs do not dictate how you approximate the rendering equation beyond the fact that they are a useful way to describe surfaces. (So, for example, they are mismatched with volumetric rendering.) The characteristics you cite are generally satisfied through the BSSRDF or other material models in conjunction with surface intersection tests, not by raymarching through scattering material. NeRFs solve the entire problem differently by creating a radiance sampling oracle in the form of a neural network. So in other words, yes, you can certainly use SDFs to render those physical effects you mention. Claiming these are comparable to NeRF is pretty misleading, anyway, because NeRF is modeling a scene in a fundamentally different way than surface + material representations, with (other) distinct tradeoffs between the two methods.
It's better to do that in reverse:

"Forget about crypto. Set a reminder to buy some in 12-18 months. When the reminder goes off, buy it. Hold for another 2 years or until all your friends tell you to buy."

If you buy now, when it's in the popular imagination, you're almost guaranteed to buy at a top. You want to buy when everyone has forgotten about crypto and moved onto the next thing.
This is the opposite of what my manager does :(
What about pacemakers? If that is the exception, then not everything with a battery needs an off switch.
> the hard part on the server is solving for multiple processes/vms/containers writing to one sqlite db.

I feel like if you have multiple apps writing to the database then you shouldn't be using SQLite. That's where Postgres etc completely earn their place in the stack. Where litestream is really valuable is when you have a single writer, but you want point-in-time backups like you can get with postgres.
Why would you want it nation wide?

Even if you “support it”, I’d much rather watch the implications from the various experiments across states. Then we can select the best option.

Personally, I’d like to see some states ban healthcare outright. Others have full coverage and everything in between. Then wait 10 years and we can see the results. I strongly suspect there would be states willing to do this.