skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it’s true that saying the general trend over the last 15,000 years has been upward, it’s a poor strategy to define micro-behaviour of 5,10,40 years (short, medium, long term financial horizons of a human lifespan) against such an enormous time period. It’s just stupid.

It’s better to examine the immediate temporal surroundings and exploit advantages that are likely to materialise in your lifetime - which may include market crashes (there have been 3 large ones in my lifetime) so that one can profit and survive though changes at this appropriate time scale.

Just saying 15,000 years is up, therefore always up, is a poor strategy that misses the nuance of reality
what makes you think Ultimaker is aiming at the DIY market? have you seen their website?
Gold's value is other people's belief in it being worth something, so they will trade other things for it. Same with other rare metals. Property has something close to intrinsic value in that it provides shelter, but the value of property is only realizable if the social context allows it to be realized -- your claim to a house is only as good as the government's willingness to recognize that claim, and to protect it for you when it is challenged by others.

Point is, the devastating attacks people think they're lobbing at bitcoin when they say that it's not 'backed' by anything are neither devastating, nor unique to bitcoin: unless you're talking about a commodity that people are consuming directly, nothing is backed by anything other than socially held belief.

That's all money is, when you unwind it all the way. The important question is what is the relevant society, and what beliefs do they hold?
Isn’t there a surgery you can do for the sleep apnea?
That’s the same, just that the scoped definition is implicit.
My father only had a problem with the battery leaking in a bigger HP calculator that had these expansion modules. His 15c is also still working since the 80s.
Yes, the hack they used was for the exploration part: providing a state summary to explicitly decide if a state was new or not, and, in the initial Go-Explore, essentially letting the agent teleport to arbitrary states to begin exploring from there.

However, once the exploring was done, they could train an agent on the trajectories of the exploring agent to solve MR with no problem. That's why I say that MR is an exploration problem and training on demonstrations from a player which has already solved MR would obviously work - because it does. So it doesn't show anything interesting about Gato, because Gato would be solving the part of MR that everyone is agreed is basically trivially easy.
I met plenty of foreigners in software jobs all around Germany, aspiring to and usually achieving that sweet German middle class life; I have not noticed any aspirations from them of heading to Berlin.

I think the dream of finding ambitious and cool people in a hot location and succeed with a true startup, i.e. not something backed or done by people who are already successful or well connected is dead anyway even in Silicon Valley and never really existed anywhere else. Over there however you still have those mystical FAANG salaries...

Dublin and London might be different from Irish and English perspective, respectively.
Slate on the 20th

https://www.metafilter.com/119793/Slate-celebrates-the-20th-...
Your example wouldn't work for function param types, right? The following code compiles even though I'm not passing a valid flag ID:

type FlagID string

var Constants = struct {
FooBar FlagID
FizzBuzz FlagID
}{
"FooBar",
"FizzBuzz",
}

func p(flag FlagID) {
fmt.Println(flag)
}

func main() {
p("hi")
}
Chicago literally has a bunch of Michelin starred restaurants...
What is old is new again. IBM mainframes had a concept called a "channel controller". Everything connected to the mainframe basically was a computer itself that offloaded the main system. Every DASD (disk), communication link was its own system.

Random - the Commodore 1541 drive (all of their drives really) had their own 65xx CPU and some RAM (2K IIRC for the 1541). There was copy/backup software where you could hook up 2 devices, load the program and then disconnect the drives from the computer. You could put the master in the first drive, blank disk in the second and every time you swapped the backup it would make a new copy.
I can only speak for London, but:

* Salary

* Way more opportunities

* Big city life, especially attractive to me, since I grew up in a rural, isolated farming town

It's the same story as the last 200 years of industrialisation and urbanisation.
They are on this autoliner

https://youtu.be/ahdhk1rZZrU

Doesn't look to be an industry wide thing though.
Sneakers is one of the most fun and often under appreciated geek movies out there. Hackers got some points for including the Hacker Manifesto but was over the top to the point of comical. Sneakers captured the mindset, the vibe, and some of the mechanics.. a bunch of slightly odd guys driven by curiosity and skepticism.

The fact that they got Redford, Poitier, Aykroyd, and many other greats made it shine.

Edit: And from the article, just learned that the screenplay was written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes who also wrote War Games.
Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms (2020)
What would make it hard to return to Canada after twenty years?
The requirement for TPM 2.0 goes away, but Windows 11 still requires TPM 1.2 even with said registry key.

In short, there is no opting out barring an alternative OS.
This is original research.
It's the difference between being the censor, and being the censored. Both sides in the dispute want to be the censor, neither wants to be the censored.
Because there are scenarios where pattern matching (or instanceof) is the better and more ergonomic thing to use. One obvious example I can think of is event handling.

If anything, this is _not_ something JS devs are asking for, but rather devs using functional languages.
Generate Project Ideas Automatically
If you don’t know what you want to work on, this app will help you with tons of suggestions to start a project quickly. I like the idea and execution.
Why? I can't eat productivity.
Biden unveils pact with internet companies to reduce prices
Inflation is effectively a form of tax on savings.
Reasons the economy looks like it's crumbling – and what to do about it
I quit a FAANG job, purchased insurance, and it was pretty easy—just a couple clicks. Are you saying the government auto-enrolls you in Germany?
I dunno what you could do with it but the black hole laser bit blew my mind
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6550
And there it is! We only want ourselves to be comfy, but nobody cares what effect it has on anyone else. Just as long as everyone conforms to your way of thinking.

I really don't care if you want to live an limited life experience and assume it is the only possible way of life. But when you start telling other people that they must live like you want them to because they want to live in the same area you do is just too much to take. It doesn't truly affect you other than you have to accept something you don't agree.
1. UST hasn't existed for 5 years, the others have.

2. "Algostable" coins are experimental, and this one was propped up by ponzinomics on Anchor. It is not comparable to collateralized stablecoins, and claiming otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
I'm being serious. Soros only funds prosecutorial races, which is dangerous, but not as dangerous as lizardfolx.
> The quality of the content we do get is abysmal

You must have a very specific blessed hardware to actually get what you're paying for. Then you have to hope that the provider isn't automatically picking lower quality for your "viewing experience". The native Netflix Windows app allows you to watch 4K HDR video with Atmos, that's about it with a PC. The app hasn't been updated for four years, can't do optical surround audio and hardware decoding is broken with older Nvidia graphics cards. What a wondrous experience.

Pirates on the other hand can just wait for the content to download and watch it offline, with whatever OS, whenever, with any HDMI cable or screen. Disclaimer, Dolby Vision is still more nuanced because how closed it is, but it's still less restrictive.
Most of the energy is being lost to wind resistance and rolling resistance and parasitic friction. The fraction you can regain by recovering potential energy down hills, multiplied by the round-trip generator-motor efficiency, just isn’t relevant to the overall experience.
And does the mainstream crypto outside Monero help you to hide things? You are still dealing with some actors and surely they keep records if you don't solely do face to face activities. In which case why even bother and not just go with Euros or dollars...
https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/upi3zu/elon_musk_ex...

>New grid fins on the newest boosters which have chines on the sides which will make re-entry performance better and allow Starship to come in at a lower entry velocity. And get a higher precision coming in for the tower catch. Slightly less cross-sectional area, but more pressure at the base. These are 'very primitive chines', our 1st attempt. They should get wider at the bottom. Why grid fins? They're more consistent than flaps/wings. At subsonic, the center of pressure shifts significantly (from supersonic to subsonic). The actuator power needed to turn a grid fin is much less to turn a flap/wing. We can definitely get away with 2, not more than 3.

>>- When tiles get hot, they will expand and tighten the gap. The gaps you see here should get smaller as tiles heat up. You're not going to see a lot of heat going down through those gaps so shingling doesn't seem to be important. We want to minimize the peak heat load. This will determine if it will melt the tiles or not. You want to slow down as much as possible in the thin upper atmosphere to minimize peak heating. That's the goal.

>>- We think we've learned what we needed to learn with the suborbital flights. So best to focus on getting to orbit.

>>- The Starship orbital stack is going to come off the pad very fast. 1.5 thrust to weight. For a reusable vehicle you want a higher thrust to weight than an expendable vehicle. If it's below 1, it's not doing anything.

>>- Cost per ton to orbit is the primary optimization. Any given technology is irrelevant to the degree that it produces cost per ton to orbit.

>>- Right now the cost per useful landed ton to the surface of Mars is in excess of a billion dollars. This will have to improve to under $100k/ton in order to make life multi-planetary and have a self-sustaining city on Mars.

>>- Starship is intended to be 10,000 times better than the current state of the art. Lot of orders of magnitude. It is possible to do that.

>>- I think we need to move the forward flaps more toward the leeward side. Major internal debate. There's a massive amount of optimization that can be made with the forward flaps. They're the wrong size, in the wrong position, and wrong location. But they will work! I'm really not a fan of our forward flaps. Every time I look at them it drives me crazy because they're so sub-optimal. There's a potential scenario where we can delete the forward flaps entirely.

>>- Megabay is about 4x the usable space than then Highbay. Many more positions for manufacturing the booster and the ship. A lot wider/deeper. Need many stations for high production.

>>- Ground systems, especially inclusive of the tower, are as complicated as stage 1 and 2
China’s robot-built 3D-printed dam ready in 2 years
Show HN: I created a stencil-sharing platform for UX designers using Linux
I wish they had better examples, so here is one. Suppose you are making a scene graph, and you want to have a visitor and run code based on the type of the nodes in the graph. Well, consider two approaches. The first approach is to use a bunch of ifs and instanceof, but this isn't clean and it is fragile. The second approach is to make an interface that has all the types listed under a handler (void handle(Type1 t), void handle(Type2 t), ...) and then write some boiler plate code to do the dispatch.

This feature aims at the conciseness of first model (instanceof) with the safety of the second approach (i.e. all types are handled).

I would love this feature for my project! ( https://www.adama-platform.com ) since I use Java to implement a programming language.
Now you're thinking with portals.
100% agree. This is the reference, for those who are interested -- watch for a few minutes starting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=1280s
I also think of API ergonomics. Unspecified input with the same single endpoint, while under the hood will be absolute spaghetti, from a developer adoption standpoint can be make or break.

And if you're strongly typing your system rather than relying on strings, extra so.
Speaking as someone with 7.5 years daily driving a Nissan LEAF, it is rare that I drive more than 50 miles in a day, but driving 50 miles requires a car with more than 50 miles of range. Right now, I’d take a 50 mile drive in my car (without swapping to my spouse’s ICE car), but I’m not sure I’d do the same for a 60 and definitely not a 70 mile drive. Fully charged, my car guesses it has around 75 miles of range, but that quickly is proven wrong in operation and I can only count on 55 or so. This from a car with a published range of 84 miles on a new battery.

A non-hybrid with an electric range of 50 miles when new would likely be a market flop. I love my LEAF, but I’d not buy a car with that little range again.
I've found some small towns have great culture, but most actually have a very similar culture to one another that tends to be relatively blend.

If you think of culture as art, food, tradition, dancing, music, games, etc. I feel many small town simply don't have a lot of it. Its not just about diversity, there's just not a lot of culture to experience, they don't always have their own music, or art scene, they don't always have their own unique foods, or games or way of dancing. And their tradition are often just standard Christian traditions.

I don't think this is anything bad about the people of any small town, in my opinion this is more inherent to the fact that the town is small in itself. That religious organizations tend to have a bigger stronghold on small town making them more conservative culturally, which seems to hold back the culture from growing more unique. And that small towns often don't have as much financial means.

Sometimes it's also that you won't be able to participate or experience the culture of a small town if you're not in it already. While going to a big city it'll be in your face and there'll be festivals, and restaurants, and other places you can go and experience it first hand. In small towns sometimes it's all happening at people's homes and backyards, so you have to be in it already.

This isn't always true though, some small towns have great culture, but seems there's less of those. It tends to be towns that have retained traditional historical pagan cultural heritage, playing folk music, festivals, foods and traditions of yore.

Overall a lot of small town are very charming and can still have a lively and interesting culture. Suburbs on the other hand are just soulless in my experience. Even their architecture and design are copy/pasted and manufactured blocks.
well thanks, you probably didn't see that what I posted was in response to the question "Are there people telling you that you’re incorrect or even mentally ill because you identify as a recovering alcoholic?"
It's interesting to note that the effect of some good being free holds its power if we know that the good is not usually free.

It would be interesting if the article had more research on what the emotions of users when they come across a paywall. For example, I get irrationally upset when I see a paywall, even though I logically know that content writers deserve to be paid.

The fact that less than 20% of Americans will pay for news almost certainly makes the subscriptions more expensive for the percentage of users who will actually pay. Does the price affect how upset someone gets? I know for me, I don't even look at the price, I never intended on paying since I've been conditioned to expect articles to be free.
I Quit Google (2018)
The developer time isn't higher than if it was server side rendered. And for some applications, like the ones I'm building, it would be impossible to do the work on the server.
How is that possible? It's not just passing pointers?
The question was whether education is a good investment, which poses the idea of some kind of return on an initial cost. The investment question was posed in the form of personal cost and personal return. In that sense, productivity is not a measure of the personal return of an education. I mean a few people might see it that way, and it could be associated indirectly with success, but by and large productivity on it’s own is not a benefit.

Productivity could be seen as the social return for a social (tax based) investment in education, and indeed we do measure things like GDP and compare nations on a global scale. In that sense, education appears to be a good investment socially. Countries that have high rates of education also have high GDP.

Aside from that, unfortunately, it’s extremely difficult to measure “productivity”. You might want to take a stab at trying to define what that even means for people in various careers. It’s easy to measure the productivity of factory workers, but insanely hard to measure productivity for doctors or writers or advertisers or nearly any white collar job. Is productivity measured by how much output there is, regardless of quality? Is productivity measured by how much money exchanges hands? These things could be even worse than valuing education, no?
My Canadian startup was acquired by a silicon valley company. They definitely did not pay US rates. They referred to our office as Bangalore of the North.
I mean what would be an example of art that would (naturally or contrived) express a Canadian point of view? What does an aesthetic shorthand for it look like?
Hello HN,

Lots of people are willing to share there visual components for others to use and remix. This is great! There are thousands of stencils and component libraries out there. There is a problem though. You share your work in a closed ecosystem, the ecosystem of the design software you use. Sketch, Figma, one of the many Adobe's, OmniGraffle, you name it.

To address this problem I started the SVG Stencils Project. SVG Stencils is a community driven project with the ambition to be an ecosystem for every designer, no mather what software or platform you use. As long as you can drag an SVG-file from your browser into your canvas you're good to go.

The core part of SVG Stencils is the webapp hosted on GitHub. The SVG-components listed here can be dragged directly from your browser into your canvas.

In a nutshell:

- SVG Stencils are free for personal and commercial use

- SVG Stencils and all its content will stay forever free and open source

- Everyone can contribute by creating and submitting new stencils

- Inkscape Extension for creating and publishing stencils

- Good documentation

- No advertising

Hope you like it and I'm very excited to hear what you think off SVG Stencils
Some migrations are non-trivial and might take hours or days (e.g. they could involve hitting external services, or might require manual work). Sure you can default these, but `null` is probably semantically correct in most cases
you sound like a Cobol developer I once knew.. RIP
Those first couple paragraphs offer a good explanation for why I feel disgust every time someone refers to some part of the internet as a place. People stating that they feel unsafe on Twitter makes about as much sense to me as saying they feel unsafe holding a newspaper.
What's most interesting to me is how emo so many of the messages are. There's nothing overt in the website instructions prompting people to be angsty. gostsamo says the website was popular at the start of the pandemic which I guess could explain the angst. But I wonder if there's something deeper going on here. Because doesn't this feel like the sentiment of the earlier web? Is there something in the website design and the anonymity that prompts people to be more angsty? Or is the world just overwhelmingly angsty and we never have an outlet for those emotions?
In New York at least, drivers are almost never prosecuted for hitting cyclists or pedestrians, even if the driver is at fault.
It's not necessarily the culture that is inferior, but the monoculture with a requirement of conformism being inferior.

I have not travelled all over USA to have a taste of every possible small town, but the ones I did visit that had monoculture often also had a very 'conform to us or leave' type of vibe.
Can’t you just go back if things go wrong? I don’t understand why your downside isn’t limited.
I would argue that someone preparing for life in Portugal by learning French is actually perpetuating the stereotype of Americans that you allude to.
When compared to most western cultures other than Saxons and Scandinavians, I would say yes, very much so.
The laws in the US are a patchwork of state and local regulations – but the rules are "fuck you, I'm drivin' here", and "yeah I'm parked in the bike lane, whaddaya gonna do about it?"
The sealed interface, final implementation case is an interesting one to inspect. Now you can, for example, write a parser with a fixed set of tokens and write switches that exhaustively handle every token. You now get compile time guarantees.
Article says "keep it simple" and then immediately features a professional illustration.
not some new Apple-invented category of app

This is bad why exactly?

and hamstrung browsers that are all basically Safari

Content blockers work in original Safari. Which part don’t you like? Content blockers as an app, safari itself, or inability to load third party js into every page you visit?

I wish PC browsers had something like that, because while I trust uBlock Origin (and others, e.g. Bitwarden), there’s always a chance someone hacks into their repo. Modular integration - separate Bitwarden and Adguard apps - is objectively better for these use cases than just pouring some javascripts into every website.
Property isn't always good investment. How well Detroit and other communities where manufacturing went away are doing?
White hat is actually grey.
Secret Sauce Pattern: unexporting default initializers in go using generics
Thinking about how this would play out in the hilly and curvy rural roads near me.

Perhaps not so well.
Not to mention the selection effect: if you took the cohort that would finish four year degrees and didn't send them to college, they would still be making more money.
If there was sufficient profit for it, I'd quit my job and take an iq test and score awfully low on it because I always do poorly on something the first time I try it (SAT test, tech interviews, etc.). Then, I'd study for iq tests, take ~1,000 practice ones, and score in the top 10%. The iq advocates would be flabbergasted! I managed to increase my iq by several standard deviations: what a revolutionary, miraculous result!

Then, I would probably create a startup that would offer the same service to the children of wealthy families who wanted their child to be intellectually gifted. With an annual tuition of $10,000 over 10 years, their child could be catapulted for life into the top levels of life outcomes and live as part of the elite class in America. Enrolling a mere 1,000 students (200 in East bay, 200 south bay, 200 SF, 400 in Northeast) would net a revenue of 100 million dollars.

Wait a second, maybe I'm onto something here...