skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still get those things from your 60s house, it will simply cost more (adjusted for inflation).

But I do not see how quality of life are any worse with LVT flooring instead of wood, or PEX plumbing instead of copper, or wiring in a hard conduit instead of not wiring in a hard conduit. I would even say quality of life is better. Why would I want to wax wood, and have a more difficult to repair floor. An LVT piece gets damaged, I just pop it out and put a new one in.

Effectively, advances in materials technology has made a home cheaper, and better in my opinion. I would buy a random 2022 house over a random 1960s house anyday.
Neither form of that kind of sweeping generalization is ok on HN with piles of moderator commentary about it.
The article and Wikipedia seem to agree in saying Brain Candy was a disappointment (even to the troupe).

But I differ: I love that movie. It's hilarious. Sketches and phrases from it are forever stuck in my head.
My anecdata is that it seems tech is where the bubble has bursted, other sectors are still looking for people. It is late state valuation where the squeeze has happened and this has impacted in turn how VCs raise their funds, we could see contagion in other part of the economy but i hear almost nothing in the regular press about this problem (except for inflation/stagflation warnings). Maybe it is wishful thinking on my part but I for one welcome the return of "rationality" to this marked. Everyone was playing fast and loose, AI generated NFT and other BS like that, but as a slow and tight player I prefer it this way.
Tesla has been massively overvalued for a long time. Elon himself said it was too high. The exceptionalism of Tesla was the cult of personality around Musk himself. The stock is strongly tied to public perception of one person.

This has been in Tesla's favour when they were tiny and struggling but may be to it's detriment now it's found its feet and is doing well.

It's an interesting shift happening now where the perceived relative value of man vs his company is changing. Is Tesla now being dragged down?
The Dyson bagless/root cyclonic vacuum design completely took over.

"Hoovering" really became dysoning.
.. we are.
Snap Stock Plunges by 40% as Company Slows Hiring
Depressing is something of an understatement. It's a fundamental unfairness of this world. We have all these nice technologies that never reach critical mass while far worse projects enjoy the support and investment of the whole world. Such is life for all Right Things.
So, does strong cherry-flavoured squash have large particles, metals, or chemicals like chlorine in it?

If so, how did the OP measure the particles, metals, and chemicals in the post-filtered cherry-flavoured squash? Visually?
I don't know if hypnosis works or not, but quitting smoking is good whether or not you hypnotize yourself to do it, and so is avoiding multi-tenant Docker. The broad kernel attack surface is much too scary to expose directly to multi-tenant workloads, and there have been fairly recent kernel LPEs that would have avoided any sane system call filter you could come up with.

It's a moot point, because this is a solved problem. Use containers for single-tenant workloads; use micro-VMs, whichever flavor you like best, for multi-tenant.
Honestly the change is pretty small.

Up until at least the mid 90s everywhere took checks. Honestly today interacting with the cash register at CVS takes longer than writing a check.

Sure, a 30 second check writing reduced to a 10 second tap to pay can be a little bit of an improvement (except when it doesn't work), but really it's not that much better.
I have interacted with this site and its ownership a fair amount online. My guess would be they're trying to gauge true interest in topics so they can refine their editorial perspective.

And $100/mo might not seem so much if it can make debunking interest-spoofing attempts more trivial, especially if there is ever any kind of bonus to the visualization authors for having a big hit.
The Government Finally Figured Out What Hackers Are the Good Guys
I love tilt. Curious how fast Docker tries to monetize it (make it part of docker desktop)
The 2000 recession sucked and lasted a while. I remember Intel was hiring web programmers for $12/hour and were getting swarmed with applicants.

In those kinds of environments, contractors do a little better. Employers are all freaked out, they want to get work done but they don't want to make long-term commitments. It's not until they start making noise about contractors being expensive and wanting to convert you to full-time that you know the recession is over.
She thought a dark past event was forgotten, then she scanned her face online
If you want to be recession-proof, get a job at a non-software company (or in academia, state/city government, etc).

In theory, "programmer" is the same job whether you work for a startup or the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation, but in practice they feel like completely different industries. In one, you can make fantastic money but the interviews are famously difficult, the culture can be borderline abusive, and layoffs are a way of life. In the other, the money is only pretty good but you leave at 5, the toughest interview question you'll get is "Please name three design patterns," and your job is mostly immune to macro trends.
With zero financial investment, I assume that also means no capital assets of any kind. That excludes land, commodities, resources, labor contracts, securities, etc.

I will assume subsistence is available.

With that said, you only have labor and ingenuity. The ingenuity is required to identify something valuable (scarce, in high demand, etc.) from an economic standpoint.

The labor is initially focused on earning enough capital to acquire the necessary tools. Then, that will enable the labor required to make something of value that can be sold for more capital.

The question of time is unanswerable, because it depends on too many factors.
I've never heard of teaching other things with yoga. I really love your idea. I could see it extending to teaching things like programming.
When we're talking about something that's supposed to support a whole community, being "accountable" to the whims of one individual is not a meaningful level of accountability. Changing government policy requires broad consensus from many people, which is exactly as it should be.
If you want to learn programming and not a specific framework, of which there are a virtually unlimited number to choose from, I’d recommend implementing it using good ol’ basic HTML and JavaScript.

If you want to publish it for the world to see, you can get free web hosting all over the place. I see Neocities come up a lot on HN.

If not, you can literally just edit a single file - mysite.html or whatever you want to call it - using Notepad - on your computer and open it in a browser.
"this one trick will help you..."

Precisely. People can and will disagree with others. They just will. So many who are young, are certain they have attained great wisdom and must somehow, by hook or by crook, sway others to their view of what is wise and correct, never stopping to consider that they might just be a naive pup that is simply overfull with the preening pride of presumed intellect. As Mark Twain wrote (I paraphrase from memory) "When I was 14 I couldn't believe how ignorant my old man was. And when I was 21, I couldn't believe how much he'd learned in just seven short years." Maybe just chill and accept that not everyone shares the same perception of reality, or of the causes of the effects thereof.

That said, there are plenty of times when a thing simply must be sorted out to move forward.

Consider carefully whether you want to attempt to change the views of someone on matters that may not matter. My cousin just retired from a major firm in the aircraft industry. He designed components for sophisticated aircraft that most of you would instantly recognize. That he was deeply religious and did not accept the theory of evolution, seemed to have zero effect on his status or effectiveness as a senior engineer with that firm.

My father was fond of saying, "A man convinced against his will, Is a man of the same opinion still." --source unknown
The article does not mention any details about this "ancient forest". In what way is it unique or spectacular? Are there species of trees that are found nowhere else? Enquiring minds would like to know :-)
Aurora Serverless v2 doesn't scale to zero, though. Minimum capacity costs $43/month.
What treatment regiment are you using, out of curiosity?

Personally, I found Dexedrine to be a cheap and effective treatment for me. I think a lot of people, myself included, are turned off by stimulants. But when I finally got around to trying a small dosage, I found it vastly improved my life.

Although you may have already tried those sort of first-line treatments.
Because the broad kernel attack surface is huge, and the shield has to reliably protect all of it, or all you've done is create a jungle gym for vulnerability researchers. The win with virtualization is that it drastically scopes down the amount of kernel code exposed to untrusted code.
What I wonder is, how to handle cross-domain security in browsers when you have IPFS? Is there any standard for this yet?
shrug

I've never bought an e-book I've read on my Kindle from Amazon. Guess it's only getting more and more attractive to jailbreak.
https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
Their support has always been best in class. Extremely responsive and always helpful. It's one of the reasons we decided to stick with them after the security incidents. The support was good enough to outweigh those concerns.
My email volume doesn't seem to have dropped much at all, but perhaps they're trying to take advantage of the uptick in layoffs..
Connector? This is about wireless charging.

If you're worried about the wire to the charger itself, I'm sure they've thought of that if the charger is submersible. (Do any of those exist? I'm only finding a splash-resistant one.) And if the charger isn't submersible it'll be outside the bucket and the cable will be fine.

I do see some wireless charging waterproof battery banks. No cable needed for that.
Did I make my piano conscious?
I have lived in "luxury" apartments lately and they're all filled with the cheapest possible materials. More "advanced" in that as much as possible things are build of engineered materials which end up being a sort of wood and glue foam which are definitely not meant to last.
And if you leave out a paren, the resulting auto-indented structure will look obviously wrong, signalling that you made an error.

It's not so obvious in Python when you make an indentation error in a complicated if/elif/else structure.
The family scrap yard is hiring able bodied young men and training them to drive heavy equipment (which they then presumably slap on their resumes). I know they get free lunch and (used/questionable) fuel oil/diesel because I've discussed it with an employee (last July/August or thereabouts). Based on the demeanor of everyone there it seems like a great place to work if you don't mind working outside and a fair amount of physical labor. I don't know what they're paid but all things considered it's probably crap. They wouldn't be hiring highschoolers if the pay was good. Considering how permanent some of their employees have been over the years despite being at an age where one is typically "leveling up" quickly.

I feel very comfortable saying they're not exploited.

I don't have the same visibility into the "corporate" yard because I only go there when I have to (they are only closed Sundays and federal holidays) and they have organized their workflow to keep their customers at arms length.
Not quite. Clusters of monkeypox have been studied, where the number of exposed people was known and they were traced, therefore clinical presentation was not a significant confounding factor: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC120683/

Of course the sample size is limited, but they seemed consistent with other mortality data.

Also, unlike in COVID, asymptomatic infection has never been demonstrated.
I don't think anyone's asserting everything is fine. To me it read that TFA is saying the rise is numbers is a consequence of changes in diagnostics.

You asserted criminality originally because numbers are rising (not in contention) and credible causes have been identified - are you saying rises in numbers are purely due to trend of later-age in parents, or are there additional?

Do those explanations cover younger parent cohorts that also see a rise in diagnosed cases?
>You'll still be able to make purchases on the Amazon website and send them to your Kindle, and likewise, your existing e-book library will still be accessible on the device, so it's not like this hardware is being made completely obsolete.

So, they aren't becoming bricks. Whew!
If there is another stablecoin you trust, you can do it via defi:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495496
The rich aren't numerous enough in number for it to matter, but more importantly, the linked highlights global disparity. Everyone in the West has a higher carbon footprint than poor countries just by living here. The resources consumed by the rich aren't ridiculously greater than the middle class.

This is all a moot point in the face of stagnant population growth. It would be no less sustainable for the West to consume more by virtue that the demand isn't infinite and technological innovation increases efficiency all the time.
> It seems unlikely that these bacteria would have the ability to break down 3 completely different types of ‘plastic’.

FTA: "The research scanned more than 200 million genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types of plastic."
wasnt this pain the premise of the infamous "burning platform" memo [1] and the eventual switch to Windows Phone as an OS?

[1] https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/memo-nokia-ceo-stephen-elops...
Any company with huge R&D in AI is a tech company. Tesla's also an auto company. It's possible to be both.
Completely untreated wood stored in a dry environment will last many years (hundreds? tens at least) without degrading. Look at woodworkers hoarding wood in basements, beams in old buildings, etc

Staining/waxing/varnishing is used to protect the surface from wear and tear or change aesthetics. A varnished table that has been worn through in areas can be sanded back and look like new. The wood under worn spots won't be noticeably different.
The thinking process of a partially blind builder
Logitech is a moribund company dribbling out sadly degraded products. For example, their once-respectable wireless mice are now nearly unusable because 2/3 of scroll-wheel movements are ignored.

You know a peripheral company is dead when, as of last year or so, they still didn't have peripherals with USB-C connectors.

I suspect that "use it 'til it dies" is going to be a lot shorter than you expect, with the new Logitech.
What happens in times like this and people's issues with wage discrimination for example?
Are there people left at the company still making $50 an hour for a similar role to someone new hired making $20? Do all these salaries get readjusted eventually?
I don’t think we really disagree. I was originally reaponding to the claim by DANK_YACHT stating that a (statically typed) language can be successful without having generics as long as it has other sufficiently innovative features. As a “counterexample” I hypothesized a version of Rust without generics but with the borrow checker (arguably the innovative feature most decisive for Rust’s success) and argued that I would doubt that this version would have been very successful, exactly because its lack of generics (which I believe aligns with what you are arguing). I’m not sure if you’re arguing that this hypothetical scenario isn’t a valid counterargument to the original claim I was responding to.
How the Submarine USS Connecticut Crashed
Why not have a step between #1 and #2? "Tether immediately sells the BTC for $10"

There's still some risk if the price is rapidly moving and they can only get $9.99 for the BTC you sent them, but that could be mitigated by ordering the transactions to keep the peg: you send $10 of BTC, they sell it (and "only" get $9.99), they give you 9.99 USDT and say, "tough, what you thought was $10/BTC was really $9.99/BTC"
I wanted to like Vultr, but had reliability issues from day one, even while running nothing but a basic Nginx instance. And instead of the support staff acknowledging the issues or offering any solutions (or even reading my emails, frankly), they rather aggressively told me they don't see an issue, and even if there is an issue that I would need to fix it myself -- completely disregarding the visible evidence that it was at the networking layer.

It was one of the most infuriating exchanges I've had with support staff from any company. If there was any redeeming factor, it's that the COO sent a long email apologizing for the CSR's behavior. But when all was said and done, the VPS was still inaccessible a dozen or more times per day, and an apology from an executive doesn't change that.
The use of the term "childless" implies more is better. If one does not subscribe to cornucopian infinite growth, "childfree" would be preferred.
It's the libraries that make Python acceptable. There's just too much technological wealth built on top of it.
Containers are still more lightweight (tho not by a lot these days) but they are hella insecure for untrusted workloads. Plus people like and depend on docker workflows hence taking docker container (basically just a tarball+json manifest) and making a VM out of it
I would love to hear any reflections or comments on this topic! I found it fascinating as to how the person was able to assemble furniture despite being blind, utalising technology and various other strategies.
“Luxury” is simply a marketing term and has no importance.

The relevant question is how do the cheapest materials today compares to the cheapest materials in the 1980s?
Opposite of the robustness principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

It's funny, I spent some time developing tools for CPU architects. Both the concept in the OP's anecdote, and the above principle don't really apply because logic doesn't break in the same way source code breaks. You don't run a program in HDL, you synthesize a logic flow. One could concievably test all possible combinations of that logic for errors, but it becomes 2^N combinations where N is the number of inputs and the number of state elements. Since this cannot be tested because the space is huge (excluding hierarchical designs and emulation), you generate targeted test patterns (and many many mutexes) to pare down the space, and perhaps randomize some of the targeted tests to verify you don't execute out of bounds. And even "out of bounds" is defined by however smart the microarchitect was when they wrote the spec, and that can be wrong too.

The only way to find and fix these bugs is to run trillions of test vectors (called "coverage") and hope you've passed all the known bugs, and not found any new ones.

There are four decades of papers written on hardware validation, so I'm barely scratching the surface, but I think it's a very different perspective compared to how programmers approach the world. I think a lot of the bugs that OP is talking about fall into the hardware logic domain. There isn't really a fallback "throw" or "return status" that you can even check for. Just fault handlers (for the most part).
I agree, I loved that movie, and I also have sketches forever stuck in my head.

Interestingly, whenever I'm in too much of a rush while visiting my dad (because of work, or having to take the kids to a birthday party, that sort of thing) the "happiest moment scene" of the grandma character pops into my brain and I automatically extend my stay a bit more at the cost of arriving late at some less important place. That was just pure genius!
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2025: The One With The Ground Planes.
Same here - and particularly one that could serve multiple hobby projects, while using both dev and prod envs (so minimal cost could already be 2-3x).
Curious how productivity is measured. Tried skimming the associated government PDF from the article, but it is lost on me:

"Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased 7.5 percent in the first quarter of 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, as output decreased 2.4 percent and hours worked increased 5.5 percent"

How is this "output" measured, and what does it include? Has it kept up with the times? If I produce more Furbies for cheaper, does this productivity number go up? What if I create an ad-supported iPhone game as a solo developer that reaches millions of people? Does that factor into "output" somehow? Is the accounting different if I sell the game on the App Store, without ads instead? Did an educational company that recorded VHS tapes of science lectures for schools count into productivity before, but now that there is high-quality "free" (ad-supported) content on the internet, that no longer is a producing segment of our economy?
The hardwood floors sound nice, but as far as I’m aware plastic plumbing is much more preferable over copper.

Need to fix a leak in a copper pipe? Get ready to weld and bend pipes. Need to fix a plastic pipe? Unscrew that section, and screw in a new one. No drama.
> So you either aren't that adventurous, or you haven't explored very widely yet.

I've explored CA, NV, UT, and CO very thoroughly, and WA, OR, WY, and AZ but not to the same extent. I've had many rigs throughout the years (Tacos, 4Runners, ADV bikes, vans, campers, roof tents, I've tried it all), currently building out an E350 (retired ambulance). I've done week long moto-camping trips through-out CA and OR (week is my limit for moto). I've been at it for about 15 years now and have camped many hundreds of nights, mostly outside of developed campgrounds. My Google maps is filled with hundreds of markers for great boondocking spots that I've found over the years. You're not talking to someone that goes out to Moab once a year and stays in a yurt.

> While I agree that most people won't need starlink on 24/7, it simply isn't true to say that you can count on some sort of cell service in the vast majority of places you can reach with a car.

It is factually correct since just Verizon's cell coverage is something like 70% of the US land area. But of course, I can get in my 4Runner right now and find a place within a 30-mile radius that doesn't have cell coverage.
> AI detecting race from X-rays

Anthropologists have been doing that from skeletons for centuries.
I think this is an interesting project, it does seem to present the information in a rather biased way. I’m not trying to dispute whether things are warmer, but I would like to better understand what the underlying data consists of. I know they have 148 years of data, so I’m curious how that data was collected even 50 to 70 years ago let alone 100 years ago. There has to be a change in the quality of the data collection over time. It would be challenging to fairly compare data from the last 10 or so years to a similar timeframe 100 years ago. I would imagine data doesn’t even exist in some of the cities.

Maybe people who have more expertise in the field or the data collection can chime in.
You might as well argue that (speculative) devirtualization negates the overhead of virtual functions in C++.

>Now tell me I need generics for this to get optimized.

Generics are explicit and reliably optimized. Implicit function pointer optimization is non-obvious and optimized unreliably.