skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* waking up on a sunny spring morning at the weekend, with no particular plans, and successfully putting all worries and concerns about both my own life and the wider world out of my mind. I make a coffee, I watch the birds in the trees outside the kitchen window. I quietly play the acoustic guitar for a bit. Most mornings are not like this, for one reason or another.

* noticing that after much practice I've gotten a tiny bit better at something (guitar, windsurfing, bouldering, anything really), and successfully putting all concerns about comparing myself to other people out of my mind.

* spending much of the day running/cycling/hiking/mountain climbing/windsurfing, getting back exhausted, and opening a cold beer

* sitting in a bar on holiday some place, with a small group of friends

Things that on balance do not bring me contentment or bliss, despite being popular answers here:

* conversations with intelligent, thoughtful, moderately attractive women. A brief period of contentment is followed later in the day by the slightly crushing knowledge that they are inevitably at least one of a) taken b) out of my league, and usually both.

* software development. I try to find enjoyment in the problem solving aspect, but all the scrum meetings, JIRA tickets, code review pettiness, and corporate hierarchy make me want to go and live in a cabin in the woods. Outside of work I no longer wish to have anything to do with computers.
Fair enough. Currently each America-class ship [1] uses 2 GE LM2500 turbines [2]. This type of engine has been produced in huge quantities, more than 2000 to date. The unit cost is about $11 MM [3], so it's negligible compared to a naval nuclear reactor.

Where a nuclear reactor comes ahead is the fuel cost. Which is zero (it's included in the construction cost, and there's no refueling for the lifetime of the ship). A conventional turbine burns fuel, and over the lifetime of a ship it can add up to quite a lot. It can certainly get above $1BN.

In fact, the CBO analysis shows that the total cost for 5 such ships would be $14.2 BN using conventional engines, and $14.8 BN using nukes ([4] page 6 top table). That was when the oil price was $86/barrel. Now it's $110, so just because of that the calculus can switch to favor the nukes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assau...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM2500

[3] http://www.fi-powerweb.com/Engine/Industrial/GE-LM2500.html

[4] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-...
Cycling in a vacuum is safe-ish and not a particularly risky affair. Cycling on a shared road with automobiles going eight times your speed and weighing some 250 times your bipedal vehicle’s weight is not so safe.
A PHEV isn’t as complicated as ICE and BEV together nor is it as heavy or as expensive.

If anything once we can make carbon neutral synthetic fuel out of renewables what would be the purpose of BEV environmentally?
The current returns is at 9.6%
Index fund managers aren't idiots. Their trading systems still have a degree of sanity checking and human oversight, so they won't attempt to track the index exactly if things get weird. But for large-cap indexes like S&P 500, the "diamond-hands hodlers" lack the capital reserves necessary to really manipulate the market. At some point many of the underlying companies would also take advantage of excessive stock prices by issuing secondary offerings, thus increasing the supply.
Ah, I miss those days! Writing a guestbook in PHP was how many got started back then!
The engine on my 33 year old truck is finally going in for a rebuild. Not because it wore out, but because it developed so many gasket leaks (water and oil) it became a nuisance.

The secret to having the machinery last on a car is (as you said) oil changes, and I'll add suspension lube, too.
As a general rule US public policy is enormously biased towards being pro automobile. Putting drivers in jail (ie for less than extreme recklessness) impedes that goal. It was very eye opening when I lived abroad and the law was actually biased against the “stronger” party in a traffic accident (ie truck > car > motorbike > bicycle > pedestrian ). It makes sense to me to essentially require more responsibility in proportion to the damage you are able to cause.
Show HN: A composition tool for CSS animations
Really? It was obviously not true back then and is obviously true now. Housing starts hit nearly an all-time record high in the U.S. in January 2006. But then housing starts almost hit zero in 2009, and have never recovered.
Yeah, in regard to bike lanes between the road and the sidewalk, some note that passengers are even less likely than the drivers to look in the mirrors or just back out the window when getting out, since they expect mostly walking people on that side. Thankfully, some lanes are separated from the parked cars, usually with some flowebeds or just bollards in that space: e.g. https://i2.wp.com/www.theurbanist.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

I suspect that a side-effect of the popularity of electric scooters will be that passengers will habituate a bit to seeing faster things on the sidewalks.
I understand better your point and agree with it. I have been concentrating in my remarks in the tail end of U.S. control of the Zone. It was beneficial to Panama to get the Canal as a result of the treaty.
Why limit it to batteries? Why not mandate that literally everything produced include up-front disposal/re-use taxes? Manufacturers have been externalizing the true cost of goods since prehistoric times.

I don't think it'll happen, nor am I even sure it's a good idea, but there's nothing special about this one product.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB

Although we've had gains from Q4 2019 to Q4 2021, I am not sure they are significantly higher than baseline in other periods. I would be skeptical of a productivity increase due to WFH simply because of the supply crunch that in many ways hindered the ability of people to output at maximum levels.

Maybe if we are talking some specific sectors.
I think I have a prototype you might be interested in, but I´d like to manage expectations first :)

- It isn´t finished
- The code is a mess (and not available online)
- The UX clearly needs work
- etc. etc. :)

...but I started a thing with basically exactly the same gripes as you two. The only difference: Actually, I don't think collapsing JSON is nearly enough. I want pretty printers (like in GDB) I can rewrite on the fly.

So, if you're willing to plunge head-first into cold water without proper documentation, have a look at:
https://run.pickaroon.app

Keep in mind that I wrote this to scratch my own itch and will change it further as time allows. On the upside, I've been using it for my own dives through logs quite successfully already.

I also started a manual-ish readme that also isn´t public yet. It's written in markdown, so I'll have to look into how easy I can throw it onto my server or not. I might just make a separate GitHub repo for the time being.

Edit: I went with the GitHub route. You can find the current iteration of the readme here: https://pickaroon.github.io/readme/
Is a flat file usually considered text, or can it be a binary format as well? Different websites give different answers.
Operators of heavier vehicles have a duty of care toward smaller vehicle rider.

Compare this with New York City where if you negligently kill someone with your car, the police won't even issue a ticket unless you're drunk. Then comes the civil lawsuit in which the surviving family will probably settle for your car insurance policy limits (e.g. $100,000, far lower than German limits that are in the millions of Euros).
Why does the teenager have that job, and would the teenager be happier without a job?

Besides teenagers, grocery stores often hire mentally impaired people for bagging and cart wrangling. They seem to enjoy the work more than the teenagers.
Someone hanging out on an engineering board, even a software engineering board, that believes that 2* is too much wiggle room is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile. That's not a dis, it's an engineer joke :P
Do you freeze your vegetables?

Fruit, vegetables and bread will spoil in a few days.
Cool idea but not something I’d find functional in my environment.

I personally find this messy and not at all stylish. I would also be constantly fighting tumbleweeds of golden retriever hair clogging everything up.

I wish them the best of luck.
It doesn’t take an expert to tell DALL-E 2 from a human artist. I attained a mere GCSE[0] grade C or D in art (can’t remember, it was 22 years ago), and yet I scored 27/30 on this exact question this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31467045

[0] UK exam taken at age 16, which was the age when UK mandatory education ended at the time I took it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Seconda...
Yet the government keep spending like debt isn't high ($40B to Ukraine aid) and ignoring causes of inflation for political gain (Biden tweeted: it's time to for corporations to pay their share to bring down inflation)
Why I, even after finally owning a Beamspring, still went back to a Model M
> Was Poland not justified in entering a non-aggression pact with Germany?

Did they also devise secret protocols dividing the world into spheres of influence, which were subsequently expanded with clauses that had "friendship" in their titles?

> we're judging decisions made at the time with the hindsight of decades after the war

This is exactly what allows us to see objectively what was happening.

It's always easy to say "we didn't mean it, we were playing 3D chess" (like Trump apologists) right afterwards.

However, we can judge based on the actions, which were:

1) sign a non-agression pact with Nazi Germany

2) almost immediately after, jointly with Nazi Germany invade and divide a country

3) extend the pact with a further "friendship" treaty, dividing Europe*

4) further discuss joining Axis**

Where do you think things were really headed?

> I don't think it was clear to anyone who would've joined the war, which sides would've won, and the likelihood of such events.

> Every country, depending on the circumstances, was probably trying to do what's best for them

You're quick to rob all countries and their leaders of moral baselines. There was documented massive surprise (including Western communists) and outrage worldwide when USSR signed the pact. I think the pact at the time was somewhat of a blow to general morale, a sign that another major player takes the world as a zero-sum dog eat dog arena that you allude to.

It seems feasible Stalin/Molotov would've joined Axis if it's "better" for USSR. And furthermore what was going on in USSR under Stalin (ethical cleanses, mass murder) is not too different from what Hitler did, USSR and Nazi Germany are fairly similar in many regards.

But I don't think this is somehow just an instance of how every normal country disregards ethics in the name of own profit. For one, USSR was geopolitically differently situated compared to small countries within immediate vicinity of Germany. It had immense territory. It was actively forging agreements and trade with Germany at the time.

I'm happy USSR ultimately didn't get to win the initial war and divide the world alongside Axis.

> It's not as much to enable other countries' war, but rather to delay one's own involvement in one war.

USSR invaded Poland as soon as Germany did. You're right, this is not enabling other countries' war. This is actually joining the war, and not on the side of the good guys.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Soviet_Boundary_and_Fri...

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Soviet_Axis_talks#Molot...
Thanks! This makes a lot of sense~
I just found out about pandas-profiling a couple days ago and the examples blew my mind, it looks amazing (I’ve yet to actually try it out though).
2x range if you have gas backup is more than enough, why wouldn’t it be?
Solves the NIMBY problem :)
It's been a while I haven't felt goosebumps, I used to feel them a lot when discovering new aesthetic songs.
I guess ASMR can still give me some but it would be nice if there was an online recommender system/community for songs that especially are prone to give goosepumps, beside this specific playlist. ideally one would look for goosebumps inducing zick constrained within a specific genre.
I love to see if people get goosebumps with a high probability at the same time in a song.
So much this, both in the tested code and in the test code itself. I only started unit testing in Python once I discovered pytest; the built-in unit test framework was such a cognitive mismatch for my usual coding style.
Seems like this paper refutes other refutations about previous studies producing helmet disparaging data. Who to believe? I guess I'll just believe these conclusions until the next refutation comes along.

On a more serious note, I assume that conclusions about helmet safety predicated on motorist passing behavior (which I already pretty much just intuitively reject) could not be safely extrapolated to include much larger and more visible multi-person passenger bearing bikes. They are very different visually and culturally and motorists almost certainly behave differently around them, so I'm gonna require new data that takes these different psychological effects into account.
It probably isn’t in the way you mean “truth”. A good democracy is one where the interests of most people are exercised. And in that world there might be a different “truth” than what we see today in the New York Times and in the Washington Post.

Of course you don’t want regular people to rule on behalf of the ruling class: the ruling class does that best. They know their own truth best.
I had a cycling accident when out training on a road bike coming down a hill doing about 50km/h and a delivery van turned in front of me into a parking lot. I hit the side of the van put a big dent in it and fractured my clavicle and t6 and had several cuts in my face. The helmet I was wearing was completely disintegrated on the side I hit the car with. Fortunately I was visiting Australia were cycling helmets were mandatory, back in Europe were i was living normally i would not have worn one.

Since then I always were a helmet when out training. However I don't wear a helmet when dropping off the kids with my cargo bike. It's true that drivers are more aggressive towards helmet wearers, moreover I can't think of an accident where a helmet would help when I'm on the cargo bike.
I know you're just elaborating the parent comment's point, so this isn't really directed at you, but the only study I've ever heard of which said anything like that was one academic riding a bike with and without a helmet, and measuring how close cars came to him. IIRC the difference was a matter of one or two centimetres and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the p-value was just under 0.05. That study was regularly thrown around by friends who were looking for a rationale for their dislike of wearing helmets.

We really need some high-quality studies with a much better experimental design that look at overall risk. Perhaps riders are marginally more likely to get into accidents if they wear a helmet, but I know from personal experience that when you do get into an accident you really want to be wearing a helmet - if I wasn't wearing one when I had a big accident about ten years ago, I'm pretty certain I'd have serious neurological problems now.
Thx! Is there a specific reason for the lack of that feature or was this just not implemented yet?
And that's the true danger.

> it's a huge danger once a populace learns it can vote itself money. Charles Munger [1]

(This follows him saying that "inflation is how democracies die" and is followed by several historical examples)

I know several committed voters of the previous administration and an almost universal complaint of the current administration is how their _personal_ wealth is being affected. We don't [yet] have a positive sum economy: in order for someone to win, someone has to lose. In the case of the previous administration, it's future generations.

[1]: https://youtu.be/GNTczyGLdhc 3:26
I don't eat bread fast enough for a full loaf (heck, even a half) that spoils in a few days to be worth paying money for.

Heidelberg bread is pretty reliably decent quality, nearly always stays good for the amount of time it takes me to eat a full loaf, and is made with good ingredients.
Good in theory but companies go out of business all the time, leaving no one responsible for the disposal. It could be better to have a disposal fee added to the purchase price and put into a fund that then is used for disposal costs. The unfortunate problem is that anytime there's a pool of money like that just sitting around, someone is going to find a way to access it for other purposes, often political. So another idea that's theoretically good but suffers from being implemented by humans that often have alternate agendas.
Keyboard-focused text editors. Reaching for the mouse pointer is super annoying, unless I'm using an undocked macbook (which itself is an ergonomics nightmare). Emacs and Vim are fine enough, but both are old software with plenty of baggage. I don't find Vim's mnemonics comfy or intuitive, and Emacs' performance is abysmal by text editor standards. I believe more competition in the space, especially from big players, would yield significantly better software. But right now, it seems that the big players have settled for command pallettes that get them 90% of the way there, which for me just made the remaining 10% stand out more. I hope Zed[0] changes this.

[0] https://zed.dev/
Insider Buy Trading
It works at Aldi in the US. The incentive is not so much that I can’t afford throwing away 25 cents, but it’s that, the next time I shop at Aldi, I need a quarter to get a cart.
Previously purchased bonds will decline in relative value. E.g. say you bought a 10 year corporate bond a couple years ago, say at 2% interest. Newer bonds will be issued at a much higher yield to be attractive in a higher fed rate/inflation environment, making all these old bonds lose value in comparison.
Reading things like that really makes me think that we'll literally do _anything_ rather than tackle the root cause.

Soon enough people will work on de orbiting earth further away from the sun rather than stopping living unsustainable
The last time I did jury duty the judge and staff made sure everyone knew how to use the free parking. A jury of motorists isn't going to judge a fellow motorist harshly.
Government is doing everything it can to prop up the assets of voters. MBS bailouts haven't stopped, Biden housing plan is all about subsidizing buyers, mortgage forbearance is as much as ever.

Will it work idk but if there's one thing the state is scared of it's voting boomer homeowners.
I suspect that if a subterranea home were built so poorly that radon gas is infiltrating the walls then so would water. Both would have to be factored into the design. Modern bunkers are designed to keep radon gas out and are equipped with high flow ventilation systems. High pressure shotcrete or some similar material should more than suffice to keep gasses and water out.

Radon is a problem in traditional brick and mortar basements as those walls are typically just one layer of brick and mortar. Water and radon can easily penetrate through micro-cracks that develop over the years in traditional basements.
Cuba does treat their people in horrible ways, oppressing anyone who resists. But yes, we support plenty of countries that do that - like Turkey! Cuba comes into the 'legacy countries we hated in the past', communism division.
as infrastructure/tech not wealth
It's technically black, but the font weight is ultra ultra light.
RE is highly leveraged (people borrow money to buy it), meaning that it gets hit hard by rising interest rates.
Making shareholders liable for company debts in the event of bankruptcy would be a start.
Genuinely curious : Russia’s GDP is < 10% that of the US or China. What’s up with this fascination with Russia (economically speaking — the humanitarian tragedy they are creating is a different topic)? The only question is if they align with the west or with china —-they’ve already lost as a super power, and their best strategic choice is to become a prized and expensive proxy between the west and china. The thing is, china and the west _trade_, so the calculus for russia is losing on all fronts. they can inflict a decade worth of pain to europe energetically, and then what?
Seems likely given the BCPL implementation was based on a VM.
The issue is that the owners of a device should have the choice whether they want an OEM quality repair or just "good enough", not Apple. It's just not their position to make this decision for you.

The argument will be made that the "App Store" is there to protect you because security/privacy. And the DRM'd components are there to protect you from cheap chinese knockoffs. I think that's fine as long as it's opt-in.

But no, it's not for your protection - it's to control the market and drive the cost of repair higher so you will forced to buy a new phone more often. This is a blatant case of "OK you demanded right-to-repair, so let's show you how to make it as difficult as possible". It's not grudging - it's willful and spiteful.
A lot of places have an invisible perimeter for shopping carts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QKcprQD0zc
Well, sure.

People generally go to Costco about twice a month. Costco is a bulk goods store, and you pay for the ability to shop there. It'd be sort of stupid and wasteful to go to Costco to pick up one item unless you're just really into rotisserie chickens.
It's still incredibly wasteful. I remember studying in the LA area not so long ago and I had to bring a sweater to class even though it was 30c+ outside
I had about 8500 pages.
I spent weeks on it, optimizing it, upgrading to v12 (which actually was slower), trying everything from every forum and support source I could find and going back and forth with what was the most embarrassing and frustrating support I've ever encountered. It made me seriously look for Vercel alternatives. I found out I needed to pay $1000/month for competent support (annual up front of course). I was running a business and I couldn't update my site for weeks because of these issues, so who knows how many customers I lost because I couldn't fix bugs or copy that really needed fixing (I did get a lot of emails about the issues to which I had no satisfying response). I was on the Pro plan and I had no option go to from $20 a month to something for actual non-enterprise business users. I was ready to drop $300-$500/month if it would help me actually get support and run my business, but they said "Nope, maybe in a year or two".

So looking back at my emails (this was in January) according to the Vercel build logs I could see on their page my actual build only took 11-13 minutes, but after that it wouldn't show any new logs for 16 minutes, at which point it would finally say "uploading build outputs", 5.5 minutes later it would say something about deploying and then I would hit the 45 minute timeout. So it was super frustrating because I could see my stuff building in an ok time, but it seemed like everything Vercel was doing was going slow or stalled and I had no control over what their system was doing and why it was going so slow. Support would give me no answers or even look at it.

Eventually I realized I could just change my static paths to not include any user content (which admittedly will hardly ever be checked again after creation), and I was able to build way faster and make it through the entire build and deploy in 10 minutes. Of course I'm only using <300 static pages now and those thousands of pages are the kind that once statically built, never need to be changed again, which was also a missing solution I fought with. Why am I rebuilding thousands of pages that don't need to be rebuilt every time I make a little tweak that doesn't affect them?

I haven't gone back since to try and figure it out again.