skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even well-maintained streets can get potholes, especially after huge weather swings. I once hit a pothole while biking and somersaulted over the handlebars. I landed on my back, but a slightly smaller rotation would have me in the hospital, or worse.
what's the most expensive SaaS that other SaaS use out there? The first one to go? I'm thinking distributed tracing companies are going to get pwn'd
> Coal and other carbon sources would have been able to dive much more sharply if the nuclear capacity had remained online or been replaced appropriately.

While this is true, the claim that carbon emissions could have decreased even more than they actually decreased is very different from a claim that they increased (as opposed to decreased).

> More important to the discussion, note the sharp rise in coal when there is a renewable availability dip

Annual fluctuations are to be expected. They don't change the long-term trend. In fact you can see on the charts that the fluctuation was comparable to one year of recent trend. Additionally, this rise happened together with the abatement of the pandemic recession effect which impacts consumption of electricity. Without the anomalous electricity consumption dip in 2020 (which you can see clearly in the third chart), the rise in coal in 2021 vs. 2020 would have been about halved.
Name made me expect a towering flat non-reflective black column.
Agreed! But that's not really the point the article is trying to make. Once you know DALL-E, it is pretty easy to see which are DALL-E and which are not. Just like you get to know an artist. But in 10 years, if we have 100 DALL-E like networks and you compare them to 100 artists, can we tell the difference then?
Seconded. I have a protectli vault 4 port and it can handle 1Gb/s traffic fine.

If you want to use OpenBSD beware that you might not be able to push 1Gb/s with protectli devices. I had issues with OpenBSD pushing full gigabit, most likely due to all of the security mitigations.
I think there's been quite a lot of speculation in RE, actually. With rates so stupidly low, people have been purchasing rental properties as the only other investment besides stocks that made any sense in the last 2 years.
The first wrongful death lawsuit over this is going to be a real wake-up call.
Example
https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivi...

True, it depends on sectors but that is always the case with productivity, it never improves across the board, any automation or other changes will positively affect some sectors and negatively others. It's the macro net effect I think that could change things. I just think there has been some real fundamental changes due to the lock down that may have a lasting impact and make it difficult to use past patterns to make predictions.
What are you using to codegen the types?
Personally I locked in 30 years at 3.125% in May 2020 and I will be shocked if I ever have the opportunity to refinance lower again.
So why didn't the US impose sanctions on the Saudis after they nationalized US oil companies in Saudi Arabia? Or (checks notes [1]) Sri Lanka, Turkey, Bolivia, Bahrain, etc.?

The problem with this theory is that it doesn't account for all of the nationalizations that the US didn't respond to with sanctions or invasions. Which is, I believe, larger in number than the reverse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nationalizations_by_co...
Blind allegiance to data is a grave mistake. Numbers are meaningless without context. But if you misunderstand the context that is producing the numbers, you end up being much worse informed than without the data at all. I fear that people take data and whatever default interpretation as gospel and are loathe to go against it. Faux objectivity is an acute danger that we must all be on guard against.
Standing in the way of corporate or city-state primacy is the hyper-efficiency of the modern global economy.

Bearing the cost of ones own defense and foreign policy, instead of outsourcing it to your host government, is incredibly inefficient and leaves you open to price competition from your government-sheltered peers.

That's the entire reason the global economy of politcal-economic alliances and trade policies was created: to benefit from global, lower-cost manufacturing while still retaining the benefit of government protection.

It seems more likely we'll revert to a multi-polar late-Cold War state of affairs, with global supply chains much more influenced by current military alliances.
> Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose ... the theory seems to require that we all be sacrificed in the monster's maw, in order to increase total utility

Billionaires, who have more than they could ever possibly spend.
I'd prefer if they wrapped https://mikro-orm.io/ instead of inventing their own.
Wrong. CRC is just polynomial division, which is simple to do in a divide and conquer fashion. It's pretty easy to derive CRC(A concat B) from CRC(A) and CRC(B). It needs a multiplication and a XOR.
> My brain hurts from how it goes against all programming principles about DNRY, modularity, and composability.

This is really interesting point, and I understand how you feel like that, however I completely disagree.

I have both a software/programming and industrial/product design background with extensive experience of professional CAD tools such as SolidWorks and Creo(Pro/E).

Parametric CAD, in my view, is a perfect example of "visual programming", you have variables, iteration/patterning reducing repetition, composability of objects/sketches again reducing repetition, modularity of design though a hierarchy of assemblies. The alignment between programming principles and CAD modelling principles, while not immediately obvious, are very much there. An elegantly designed CAD model is just as beautiful (in its construction) as elegantly written code.

Also just as in software where there are "methodologies" and techniques such as TDD, with cad there are methodologies to constructing a model, such as "top down", "bottom up" and "skeleton modelling". All about ensuring your design intent is captured, the models are maintainable and will update successfully with parametric changes.

When modelling with parametric CAD you are not only designing the object, you are designing a cad model that represents the design intent in an elegant and maintainable way.

> So far my experience with both SolveSpace and FreeCAD have been: Even if you can reuse a part of your design multiple times (and even this is a nontrivial problem), you surely can't do that with different parameters!

True SolveSpace and FreeCAD can't do this, however all professional CAD packages can and it's an important feature of them. In SolidWorks they are called "configurations" and can be driven by an excel spreadsheet, you can literally create thousands of variations from a single model.
Not a bad idea. Found one:

Mac: https://github.com/soffes/countdown

It's available via `homebrew`.
I like plaintext as I have the option to make edits with various editors in addition to the main application.

This can lead to easier search and manipulation.

I use Logseq and Noteplan, both store data in plaintext.

As a secondary editor to both I use Sublime Text for very fast search and replace, or diagnosing why Logseq might be having issues.

I’ve had issues before in other note taking / task apps and when I run into problems it is much harder to search and manipulate a database file. That’s even if the app has a sensible database format.

Of course depending on how you use and might need edit data you might find databases are better for you. I’ve always found it easier to work with plaintext for note taking/ task apps.
The phrasing is imprecise but I can see how it's different than say using electro-chemical batteries that have a limit on number of charges. "Storing energy renewably" seems better.
This has all happened before.

In 1998 Greenspan cut rates due to the Asian financial crisis and worries over Y2K which blew up the dot com bubble. Then they slashed rates down to nearly ZIRP and held them low which blew up the housing and finance bubbles that deflated in 2008.

None of this started in 2008.

What is different this time is the wage inflation and the unionization drives that we're seeing. The Fed is likely to hike rates much more aggressively in order to stop that from taking off.

When you talk about inflation, though, asset prices and commodities don't matter anywhere near as much as wage inflation. And wage inflation is high due to the low number of job seekers, likely a result of other factors like death and disability due to the pandemic removing workers from the workforce and boomers retiring. As a result the rate hikes are likely to be more severe and the downturn is likely to more severe.

I would be worried that this downturn looks more like a depression than a recession. Of course it may just unwind as before and as the economy pops they slash rates and do ZIRP and the rich people buy up even more of the economy and the cycle continues.

I think there's a good chance the average Millennial gets pretty decimated by the next downturn and crypto should get tested and there's a pretty good chance that the Ponzi all unwinds and goes to zero (which will destroy all the Millennials using crypto as a 401k). I'm still not sure that crypto has gone up enough so that a few billionaires couldn't rescue it and keep the game running though.

I still think we're going to see a relief rally short term though and that the downturn won't really take off until 2023/2024 when the yield curve inverts. We're not quite there yet.

We've also had prices being out of whack with fundamentals for decades, that is also nothing new. Also don't go predicting hyperinflation or raising long rates. That has been predicted for decades as well, and it never happens. The Fed raising rates is designed to cause a recession and disinflation. Long rates won't rise and long-term inflation will remain contained. We're not in the 70s and we're not going back to the 70s.

The thing to be MOST worried about is political. Since the 2008 crisis there's been a rise of people who just seem to want the system burn and where they won't bailout the system in the event of a financial crisis. That increases the chances that the economy could really lock up and institutions could fail. There are a lot more crazies in power.

At some point the cyclical game that we're in with engineered recessions, low rates, low risk premiums, cheap money, insane valuations, asset bubbles, etc has to break. I think its way too soon to call it as broken though. The commodities inflation that we're having right now is not that unprecedented (and a lot of it is ultimately transient and due to bullwhip effects) and the Fed is showing that they're going to take action to stop it. That means that we're likely to just have another recession then another long period of ZIRP and asset bubbles and crazy valuations continuing again.
Well for one, it's a nation, which is a legal fiction. Haiti and Haitians are not the same thing. That is to say all the previous action of said nation, including the accrual of debts, hadn't ought to be a real liability to the Haitian people. It's precisely inheriting your parent's debt on a magnitude that is baffling. Moreover if one examines the rate of interest it's quite probable that the sum total of principal has been paid. Finally, they had ought to be allowed to default. Risk is one of the reasons given to justify interest, if the lender isn't actually accepting risk, the interest should be close to nothing. If anything such debts had ought to be forgiven simply as a product of the moral imperative of noblesse oblige.

What it really is, is a smokescreen for imperialism to keep the capital gradient in check and forward the Western agenda.
Sometime in the late 1990's, some programmer in some forum was bragging about the speed of some program of his that was working with a 50,000 record database. I don't remember all the exact details. I replied something along the lines that I regularly load text files having more lines than that into a text editor, that it's almost instant on today's hardware.
It is not faster to use SIMD by hand - it is faster to use the vector unit alongside the integer unit, using both paths at the same time.
Exactly. Inventory is high because companies looked at the supply chain shutdown and thought "I'll load on up extra inventory, to hedge in case this happens again."

Those prices are going to come down to entice the consumers scared off by inflation.
> Problem with shopping once a week is I would have to decide for 7 breakfasts, 7 meals and at least 6 dinners. That is a lot of planning and live very little room for improvisation unless you are wiling to waste things or have a giant refrigerator which I have no room for in my european kitchen.

I think that is an overestimate because you can have leftovers and also breakfast is generally pretty easy, but I agree that there is greater planning overhead.

My partner and I compile a list of all the meals we want to make for the next two weeks before shopping, if you get in the habit it doesn't take too too long.
They aren't wrong, and neither are you. Population growth was large in the cities due to immigration. And if you had many children on a farm, you couldn't divide the land for the next generation and still be profitable, so they had to move to cities. What happened from the 50s-80s were small farms being given up because they weren't economical.

The machinery during the 50s-60s eliminated a lot of agricultural jobs, and drive down prices. Not just for farmers, but also in processing agricultural products.
Unless the recession is large enough to end the concept of commerce, advertising is not going anywhere.

People will continue to buy things, it’s just that what those things are may shift.
> Those kinds of folk need representation the most.

An understandable sentiment. How much are you willing to pay for it? If you have a $1.5 million mortgage and that loon shows up next door and paints their house purple, your house might lose $300,000 in value. Same with the other neighbors, who also pay mortgages but aren’t as compassionate as you.

What happens when your spouse gets a sudden offer to relocate and you can’t make your money back on the house?
OpenSCAD lacks a constraint solver so cannot, IMO, be called "very powerful".

It is great if your design consists of boolean operations of several independent components. But many designs require complex interdependent relationships between the component geometries. Your OpenSCAD file will begin to contain a lot of trigonometry, projections, linear solves, etc. Eventually you will need a nonlinear solver...

I really enjoyed writing OpenSCAD code when it was suitable, though. Now I want to learn if there are any code-based constraint-based CAD packages.
Ha, at that time I ran a website in Germany where I published my own Perl scripts for web forums, guestbooks, counters etc. (all based on flat files) and I helped other people getting started with web programming and "hacking" as well. I know there were a few such sites at the time but mine was quite popular in Germany. We had a really nice community at the time, I still fondly remember all the discussions and the general "small world" feeling the Internet had back then. I guess if you tried to build an online community like that today it would get overrun by trolls and spambots in no time. Those were the good old days.
At racetracks, they're usually mandatory. It's all a matter of risk vs. inconvenience.
As someone with simple 2D drafting needs, who wanted a reason to throw QCAD out a 10th story window, thank you OP.
Ask HN: How can I stop my inbox/wishlist/bookmarks/tabs/todos from growing?
I have thousands of online accounts, hundreds of thousands of saved items (likes, bookmarks, papers, books, movies, videos, photos, files, open tabs, tasks), hundreds of inbox and feeds, and they just can't seem to stop growing.

Inbox zero is now a rare occurrence, only made possible by abusing Gmail's snooze function. My phone, laptop, and clouds are full.

Using personal finance analogies, should I:

- Reduce my spending (unsubscribe, stop consuming feeds)?

- Pay back my debt (consume the saved items)? Perhaps using the debt-snowball method?

- Get more credit (file storage) so that I can spend (save items) more?

- Declare bankruptcy (delete everything)?
Not really. If you can keep your capital from fleeing but do away with them then good for you. Cuba and Russia have both made a good stab at that. Saudi too. But again, it's very difficult.
> For me it's about proprietary vs. readable - unless it's obviously necessary for performance I think I'd still prefer 'flat file' to sqlite, but basically I just want something that isn't an incomprehensible blob, that I can use with other tools etc.

That is not exactly what proprietary means. Though I feel the same - plain text can be versioned and managed by various tools and that is great!
This is true, but if you think in terms of evolution and natural selection we should be biologically inclined to have certain desires that motivate us to have children above other desires. "Meaning" is more of a creative term, but in actuality much of how we behave is dictated by biology.
> Voting is just one of the brass taxes of democracy. A democracy is not less capable of making rights, constitutions, etc. than for example a bunch of so-called founding fathers. Or whatever/whoever else.

You did though, with "the interests of most people are exercised." This is just voting. Their interests would not be exercised with limiting measures. That's the point.
This repository seems to be a clone of the actual repository: https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world

dang, maybe we can update the link?
> In a scenario where passive funds are the best investment vehicle when looking at long term returns, what’s the role of buying and/or trading individual stocks?

Just to be clear, there are two interpretations (possibly more) of “best” in your question:

* an index fund is “best” if its returns are greater than picking individual investments yourself.

* an index fund is “best” if it is the quickest/cheapest way to balance risk and reward over the long term.

I would guess that the majority of investors in index funds are looking for the quickest/cheapest approach.

If your appetite for risk is greater and you have some time available time to manage things yourself, you can certainly manage your own portfolio.
The name is inspired from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_monolith
Yeah if you have overnight available, life is good! We lived exclusively with only one 110 outlet in reach, with two high-range EVs, and never had an issue keeping both of them charged. Granted our commute was similar to yours, but the point is, a lot of people don't realize that 110 will do the trick in many cases, if you are charging overnight.
Marketing mainly to suburbanites who don't haul. It's a junk company.
> It is a lot of fun until people start becoming homeless and consider ending their life.

It's still fun. People make bad decisions all over the world all the time. The fact you read and dwell on the consequences some people suffer over it is not a problem, for other people, to solve.
It was supposed to be a juvenile snark at the comment I replied to, which also used xD for no good reason.

It deserved the downvotes :-)
> WG21 seems to dearly wish this wasn't so, offering Concepts which pretend to semantics they don't have, such as std::totally_ordered and I'm glad to see your "CanBlah" concept doesn't do this, to be sure all things which match this requirement can, indeed blah() although we've no idea what that can or should do.

I don't understand how random assumptions on what WG21 may or may not think counts as an example (or anything to be honest)

> If something satisfies a Concept, but does not model the Concept then the C++ program is not well formed and no diagnostic is required.

uh... no ?

I think that you are referring to this blog post: https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/semantic-requireme... for which I entirely disagree with the whole premise - the only, only thing that matters is what the compiler understands. The standard can reserve itself the right to make some cases UB, such as when trying to sort un-sortable things just like it can state that adding to numbers can cause UB and that's fine: it's the language's prerogative and is all to be treated as unfortunate special-cases ; for the 99.99999% remaining user code, only the code matters and it makes no sense to ascribe a deeper semantic meaning to what the code does.

> In which case it's your responsibility to ensure you can log this, which of course CanBlah didn't express.

A metric ton of side concerns should not be part of the spec, such as logging, exceptions, etc - everyone saw how terrible and counter-productive checked exceptions were in java for instance. Specifying logging explicitly here would be a -2 in code review as it's purely noise: the default assumption should be that everything can log.

> The only place Rust has subtyping is lifetimes, so that &'static Foo can substitute for any &'a Foo and I don't think that's what you're getting at.

I meant polymorphism, my bad
I mean that real estate prices get hit hard. The consequences of that may vary depending on where you are, what you've borrowed, and what you own.
In fact there is a magic wand. Germany should just drastically reduce meat consumption or at least stop growing pigs. Animal agriculture is huge energy sink. I cannot find exact numbers, but CO2 emissions from animal agriculture in Europe is bigger than emissions from all cars. And very little of it comes from animals breathing, it is energy usage that is responsible for most of it.

Pigs are especially bad since they eat basically what humans can eat. So stopping producing pigs will solve both energy and food crisis.

And if Denmark managed to stop pigs production in 1917 almost instantly when facing a war crisis [1], then surely modern Germany can do the same.

[1] - https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2012nl/jul/hindhede.pdf
I would've agreed with you until about 5 years ago. The reason I disagree with you now is because technology and methods of war-fighting have changed.

Emerging defense technologies like drones, lasers, robots, micro-scale manufacturing, and self-driving vehicles - along with the latest generation of existing weaponry like MANPADS and anti-tank missiles - all preference the defender. They allow a group of relatively untrained and loosely organized defenders who know the terrain well to deploy extremely effective resistance against an attacker, as long as it's at short range. A drone swarm can quite literally destroy all hostile forces within an area without risking a single person, but it can't do this beyond say 100 miles out. These technologies are all for defense, not power-projection.

This has a similar effect as the development of the musket in the 1500s. The musket allowed relatively untrained militias to enjoy superior firepower over the knights and longbowmen that had trained professionally their whole lives. As a result, smaller city-states and colonies could defend themselves against the large standing armies that kings and emperors could wield, and so the feudal system collapsed. This reversed with rifles (their greater accuracy benefitted from more professional training) and modern armor & explosives (which required an industrial base and supply chain greater than any city could muster), ushering in the era of nation-states. Military technology is changing again, and that's why I believe the nation-state system is again going to revert to smaller decentralized units.
Bangladeshis seem perfectly happy with a “Pakistan invested nothing in us from 1947-71” narrative while buying air defense systems from them well into 21st century.
Synthetic longs.
I use hook all the time. Don’t know what’s up with the website.
yes, however people would just find ways to avoid the filer