skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this shit is colonialism, and instead of Americans staying and fixing their country they'll just go ruin somewhere else
What pop nonsense. An unpredictable software engineering team is itself a barrier limiting the creativity of the product team (and vice versa). If you don't want to be treated a crank to turn, you also need to bring some self-reflection, compromise, and willingness to communicate to the table.
Upper middle class as a household earning between 75k-127k is pretty surprising to me.

Here in Phoenix, $127k is about the household earning you need to afford a 4 bedroom home ~500k/~2500 mortgage). I wouldn’t consider that an upper middle class lifestyle.
That's a huge straw man there. The reality is closer to this:

One side: "We should acknowledge trans people and let them live their lives"

Other side: "Yeah, but it seems unfair to biological females to allow trans women to compete in competitive athletics"

First side: "You're denying the reality of trans people, and should be silenced."
Sure but that is already a risk in C++ at the moment.

void foo() {
if (true) {
Foo f;
stores_a_reference_to_foo(&f);
}
uses_stored_reference_to_foo();
}

I see that destructive moves would in theory introduce more opportunities for that, but I don't really see it making a big difference in practice - routines that take a pointer/reference and hold onto them (without taking ownership) already need a lot of care in C++.
This makes sense given that I just read dealerships now make more money from loans than from the car itself. This has driven the industry to make more loans to unqualified buyers and are now starting to see them default. This would partly explain the jump in avg selling price as consumers might not be scrutinizing the cost as closely. I can't find the link now, but basically the advice was to wait (until next year?) to purchase a used car as prices will drop.
we have peer review....but peer review is human, and some fields, it's a small world.

I'm not in that particular field of neuroscience (albeit Alzheimer's patients do come in to the clinic...because where else are they going to go?). But when I was in the research world, a big factor was who you knew, and who you could cozy up to, in terms of getting grants, papers published in top journals, etc. Who you ate lunch w/ in big conferences. That being said, fortunately, there was an element of recognition of skill/ability and good work, as well as a decent amount of (sometimes irrelevant) challenge/response and general peacock-ing in terms of the peer review...but it was a reminder that science is above all, a human endeavor and not immune to humanity's sins.
I'm German living on the US west coast for close to 15 years now. What you are describing sounds a lot like the problems we are having here. I do wonder if that's how it now is in most countries. I always thought of Germany as having lower pay but higher quality of life. Very disappointing that that's eroded. I'd be very curious to hear where you end up, since it sounds like we are sharing similar criteria.
I wonder what foodstuff will take place of truffles as the rare "it" ingredient once truffles are commodotized.
The car requires premium gasoline?

Is that a thing?

edit: Thanks for the info. Did not know that. I've always had piece of shit cars that could probably run on McDonald's french fry oil. :)
Mathpix Snip also supports PDF search, including for handwritten content, and including math symbols in equations.

Disclaimer: I’m the founder.
I recommend you start with the excerpted 1st chapter of "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic".
http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/excerpts/contents.html
It may be useful to read about the CORDIC algorithms. It just feels like there is an even simpler solution lurking here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
> Your IDE should update all your code automatically.

I don't usually like this when it's done without per-instance confirmation. Names are an important part of how information moves between parts of a program for those working on it, and making sure the names still make sense in all the contexts where they're used is an important part of that.
I cannot overstate how much harm this myth caused me. I first got sent to a doctor for depression when I was 12. They asked nothing about my life or my home, just gave me a test with a checklist of symptoms and then told me I had this chemical imbalance. If they had asked anything about my home, they would have discovered that my father was abusive. Then they could have told me that my father's behaviour was abuse and my depression was a natural reaction to abuse. By ignoring my life, the doctors implicitly communicated to me that the way my father treated me was normal and to be expected, and in fact his behaviour was so obviously normal that experts don't even bother asking about it.

I spent the next 20 years taking drug after drug after drug trying to find one that really and truly worked, while I was in a string of abusive relationships. Every one of the frequent trips to the doctor further cemented the idea that my relationships were normal and had nothing to do with my depression, and that this was so obvious it wasn't even worth looking into.

I finally figured it out 5 years ago. I turned instead to a domestic abuse counsellor who trained me in how to identify the difference between abusive and healthy relationships. I applied those principles and was finally depression-free.

If I had never been told this myth, then I would have reflected on what in my life might be causing the way I feel and I would have "cured" it decades earlier. The myth actively stopped me from ever doing that.
Upgrading probably the oldest running Linux install
Though I agree with the premise of this article, I simply can’t get past his burger example. Let me explain.

Multi-tasking has exponentially greater impact on performance the greater the complexity of the task. Most people just don’t find themselves doing these kinds of complex tasks on a daily basis. This is why coming up with a simple example that lay-people can understand is so hard. Simple examples don’t pass their sniff-test. It is obvious to anyone thinking about it that I can make two burgers simultaneously and it only adds a fraction to the overall time. This is because the complexity of the task is extremely simple. In reality it would add seconds, not minutes.

However, once you ramp up the complexity of the task this penalty does approach 1 to 1, or greater. It is obvious to anyone that having to do a heart transplant while also doing your taxes at the same time would require longer than either task individually. An example like that is also easily dismissed because it is so far-fetched.

I find that to really impress on people the penalty involved requires an example that is personal to them. If you can find some complex tasks that they do even rarely and have them envision doing them simultaneously, then they are more likely to buy into the idea. Let’s be honest, most people don’t find themselves in this situation like programmers do because of the deep thinking that programming requires, but if you search hard enough you can usually come up with some personal examples for people. If the person you are trying to impress is important enough in your life (spouse, boss, etc), then it is worth the effort to find some individual examples.
It's amazing how you so rapidly made my point. You display no interest in the subject at all, you're just trying to win what you think is a rhetorical argument. Nature doesn't care about arguments.
This seems to be a very hard idea to convey to people. Zig is on the opposite extreme-- the mantra being "There must only be one way to do something". Ergonomics and simplicity seem to be overlooked aspects of programming language design
> I wonder if there is any requirement for researchers to at least publish their data set for statistical analysis and further research.

Not generally, though the tide is slowly turning in the right direction. Unfortunately many laws/policies pushing for openness and transparency in research are sidestepped with the classic "data available upon request," a.k.a. "I promise I'll share the Excel files if you email me" (they will not).
Whether the social stability that came with people putting up with or excusing more abuse and general toxicity was worth more than the dynamism that comes from more people feeling free to build supportive circles is something society is likely to wrestle with over the coming decades.

Anecdotally, every person I know who's cut off people who were harmful to them has found more fulfillment even if things are harder for them. Like chosen family, chosen struggle seems to be easier to live with than a struggle that thrives on disempowerment.

The threshold was high because people didn't believe they had a choice before.
I'm in Portugal which has a completely different 'personal economic structure' from the US, so this might not apply:

Transaction values and the luxury segment both keep rising here as well. Loking around me it feels like people disregard savings so much AND are take such large loans to buy homes that spending 50k on a new car feels sensible, possible and not a big deal. This in a country where take-home salaries are routinely under 20k/year (net of taxes and health expenses).

Money's been so cheap and credit so easy that we seem desensitized to total amounts. Who cares what anything costs as long as you can pay the balance at the end of the month?
Used cars are so expensive that it makes sense to spend a bit more and buy new.
If you try to apply the "write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend" principle, your code will be less messy.
Sometimes I wonder if 'monopoly' in the US has become a no true Scotsman fallacy. The threshold of direct consumer harm is either so high or evidence requirements so onerous it's as if there is no more Sherman Antitrust Act. The monopolizing doesn't even have to be in a computer or layers of shell companies anymore.
Show HN: Lurk – A pretty (simple) alternative to strace written in Rust
Hey fellow procrastinators :-). I just released lurk, a simple and pretty alternative to strace which I’ve been working on as a side project. Lurk implements an opinionated subset of strace. Compared to strace, lurk is optimized for readability.

I'd be happy to receive some feedback : )
Me: This software makes a box. It has nothing to do with human rights, human sexuality, or governance. I will not adopt a "Code of Conduct" as a condition for distributing it to others. Therefore, I do not distribute it any longer.

My stance on trans people is not what you characterize; but it is not relevant to this discussion. There are many places where one's stance on $(political_issue) is not relevant, and that does not automatically imply that someone is taking the side opposite yours.
I don’t see Python having a lot to offer in terms of technical merit really. Python’s strength is language ergonomics and fun factor. I hope they keep it that way.
I couldn't believe that first image. You could clearly see the gravitational lensing causing the light to form arcs. Even for someone who knows nothing about astronomy it was super exciting.
Automate the boring parts of your job
> Especially, any enforcement agency has a incentive laziness (heck everyone has one). If a worker can effortlessly produce cases against random schmucks, they have less incentive to work hard to find the people systematically evading them.

I fail to see how cases against random schmucks require significantly less effort than "real" cases. A case worker getting the tips doesn't know a priori whether the tip is credible and they still need to go out and take a look at the same things either way. If anything, an open-and-shut case where there are clear signs of abuse should be quicker than a wild goose chase. Sure there are some monsters out there that are really good at covering their tracks, and it would take a lot of effort in those cases to find the evidence of abuse, but how do you tell the difference between someone who is fantastic at covering their tracks and someone who never made tracks to begin with?

Social workers are not paid much, it takes substantial effort to become one, and the work is extremely emotionally taxing. If someone wanted an easy job, there are a lot of better options out there. While I'm sure there are some people who have lost faith in the system and are just working till retirement, the overwhelming majority legitimately want to help kids escape abuse. If it's the same amount of effort either way, why not go for the more fulfilling option?

The simple fact is that innocent people should not be treated like criminals, but abuse can and does happen anywhere. Either you dismiss more tips and make it easier for abusers to cover their tracks, or you follow up more bs tips which leads to more innocent people being harassed. At the end of the day there is always going to be somebody unhappy.
Depends on what you are comparing to - if a dedicated whole house system, then possibly (depends on ducting and such). Any portable systems are likely to be less efficient when compared on throughput.

The major win for me is that it all just works. The units already have drains and they balance everything as they cool. No separate system to worry about or maintain.
Portland metro still has very nice houses for much less that 1.5MM
The current car market is unsustainable. 96 month loans are becoming common place. It is just a matter of time until people who purchased their cars during chip shortage are massively underwater on their cars. If they have long loans and the cars start having major problems they won't be able to roll negative equity into their next car loan.

People are extremely irresponsible with money and cars with high, long time loans are a great wealth destroying 'vehicle'.

I think the social media helped fuel the 'I want NOW!' culture. This gave life to scalpers and $10k mark up on cars. I'm interested how all this is going to unfold.
The lasers they use are extremely specialized, since they have to deliver outrageous amounts of power for a very short period of time. Advancements in normal lasers may not be of much use here

Edit: Wow, looks like they have improved considerably
The Global Cost of Corrosion
Lessons from a Startup Pivot
> or are these pictures a sort of representative of what we could see with our eyes

Webb can do "imaging spectroscopy", where it can take an image, but it will take a spectrum and every pixel of the image as well. In imaging spectroscopy, there is information on the spectrum of wavelengths present in each tiny piece of the image. This can help clue scientists in as to what elements or chemicals might have created that spectrum.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-imag...
@patrakov I can't reply to you directly.

If the only thing a web server could do is differentiate tunnel from direct IP connection with or without firewall/NAT, which are ubiquitous, it's an interesting effort, but a tour de force with little gain IMO.
Tennessee man uses AirTag to find his stolen SUV
Yeah, seems low to me. The multimillion dollar houses I think about when I think successful high-paying career for upper middle class seem to be out of reach for that income bracket.
This might start a fire here but I think dependencies are actually the problem, and see it happening in real time with all the latest gRPC offshoots for inter-service communication (Seems like there is a new one every day).

The libraries attempt to "dumb down" TCP, HTTP, etc and treat them as an abstraction that you don't need to know the details of. But it ends up biting people in the a$$ because networking isn't a perfect world where every request succeeds, terminates cleanly, or goes to the destination you expect. Whisking away all the complexity makes developers dumber as they eschew solving low-level problems with over-engineered high-level solutions that paper over the underlying issue, e.g. using mTLS to get around the fact that you're using DHCP to assign address space to nodes incorrectly, or making every API request a POST because the designer didn't understand HTTP caching, and so on. You get these endless problems that were solved decades ago because people keep trying to reinvent the wheel.
That’s what I was thinking. I was riding around a few days ago thinking, “what is considered the middle class?” And I definitely would consider this range around it.

Maybe I’m just out of touch with the situation but 75k for a household seems like borderline poverty.
Carbon uses LLVM as a backend, so I imagine they just call into Clang for such things.
I'm just saying that RCA didn't produce 0.1" DIP while Fairchild produced 2mm DIP, and then make people decide which overall format they're going to work with before buying breadboards and the like.
I don't know, modern cars have longer and longer lifespans.
Yup, some engine's are designed for it. Usually for performance reasons if the engine is boosted or high compression.
These are all great for the chill, exotic, beach going part, but considering OP has a 6 month son - things like kindergarten and schools are, let's say, subpar in all of these places.

I'd go with Australia or New Zealand that I think gets you the best of both worlds.
How else are they going to enable pedant conversations about how "the language name is carbon not carbon-lang"?
Environmentally focused people will complain about a goat herder living in a yurt in the Himalayas. (The goat will kill vegetation, increasing erosion as well as depleting finite salt lick supply) There’s a con to all things and people passionate and communicative about any issue.

You got to try to zoom out and understand the pro/con of different options.

Good or bad, we have the society we have. I need to drive my kids to school. To do so safely, I need a large car. Would it be better to live in NYC and take the subway? Or have denser walkable communities? Sure. But in the meantime, the kids need to go to school.
Alternatively its roughly 3 days of work to drill, blast & dig out a basement excavation, but explosives are scary so such work is often blocked outright.
Agreed. I'm cautiously optimistic that new science gets done soon, but so far, no existing science theories/data has been "reshaped".

I'm also hopeful that it doesn't get hit with any more micrometeoroids, because that risk is larger than expected and it will bring the party to a close much earlier than expected.
I don't know, finding the oldest known galaxy ever is a pretty big one in my book. GLASS-z13 at the sprightly 13.4 billion light-years away.
We had the opposite- we had to buy a cheaper trim level than we'd wanted, but even after visiting several dealerships, we ended the day at one that had exactly two new cars available on the lot.

There was no point in buying used, because retail prices on used cars was approaching MSRP on a new car.
Shipping an 80% solution is ok... it leaves a bad taste, but its "ok".

The problem becomes more-so when the next 80% solution is shipped on top of the previous 80% solution. And that just gets demoralizing after a time when one looks at the stack of 80% solutions on top of 80% solutions that needs to get fixed up (but "we don't have time to do that").
I went to every Toyota dealer near me a few months ago. They only had one or two of each model of car in stock. They had random colors and expensive packages (the extra extra ones like random trunk hardware, not just the tech package for sensors) and then after all this up specced with no color choice, they wanted 10-15k USD on top just cause “someone else is ready to buy it if you aren’t”
It would be helpful to see the median price and how that has grown as well.

When we got our Subaru repaired recently the dealer said he had 20-30 new Subarus on the lot and normally it is closer to 200.
The best way to deal with fleeting notes is a pen and paper.

The next best solution is Tap [0] (disclaimer: I am the founder).

I had a few revelations related to these kinds of notes:

In order for them to get collected, they need to be collectable from anywhere (if not pen and paper: email, sms, browser, whatever).

The note system should accommodate many different types of information: links, tasks, events, transactional information, formulas, etc. Plain-text doesn't work because over time you'll develop more and more sophisticated systems. Without a standard notation system you will lose the ability to process and analyze your notes and the information they contain.

[0]. https://www.tatatap.com
This does make sense! Now I just have to find those kinds of places! There is one board I like (the one named after a crustacean) that has a very old school HN-esque quality to it, but now I’d love to find a similar place to actually discuss the operational aspects of tech companies and startups.
Neopets breach allegedly compromises 69m accounts
Some engines require higher octane gasoline, yes. You can use lower octane in it, but you're going to hurt the engine.
Effectively, it's the same reason why the death penalty does not deter crime from happening.

The threat of career-ending shame & humiliation is remote and unlikely. As another poster said much further up-thread, there is more fraud going on that doesn't get detected.

Criminal penalties in this realm are a bit draconian. More punishment & punity is not the answer.
Can you quickly give your definitions for different classes. Salary bands and lifestyles?
>UBI literally lets people receive free money even if they sit at home all day.

So it's no different from a business investment then.
It’s going to end up with defaults, repossessions, and negative credit repercussions for a large subprime cohort.

https://archive.ph/2022.05.19-151713/https://www.wsj.com/art...
> Why is their seemingly no mainstream discussion that perhaps these correlations are simply the markers of an underlying biological function that has become disregulated and leads to the presence of higher amyloid

That's a discussion point pretty much every time the amyloid hypothesis is mentioned in the scientific literature.

I'm not sure where you're going to get information about the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, but it doesn't really strike me as a "mainstream" topic where they're going to discuss the finer details or debates.
Without a borrow checker, you won't be able to eliminate dangling reference issues. But that's an orthogonal issue to move safety.
There have also not yet been any significant new findings.

The article is pure fluff.
Here's my edgy take - I think this sentiment comes from increased usage of HN. If you browse the start of high-voted threads from the front page, you'll usually find a pretty good and calm discussion. If you scroll down to the lower end of a 500 comment discussion page on the Corona virus, you'll obviously find worse discussions and strongly held opinions.

I personally don't think there's a decline in quality on HN and to me, the politics end of things seems pretty calm for a large discussion forum on the internet. It's obviously not perfect, but it's as close as a public forum can get.
As someone who's in the market for a new car but has been put off by "market adjustments" at dealerships, I wish there was better information out there about what sort of price spikes are likely to be transient vs. permanent. Although it seems like the estimates of how transient these price shocks will be have been too optimistic...

I did appreciate that the article at least highlighted the segments of the market where there's less inflation.
> In vast majority of cases it's the massive content industry corporations that are doing the cost recouping here, not the artists themselves.

If Sony/Tri-Star hasn't re-couped the cost of making Terminator 2 by now…

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_film

Or:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_music

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1991_books