skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if someone said "I've used Python and Scala and Python is way easier since I don't have to deal with a type system". That's where people are coming from.

The borrow checker isn't a hindrance, it's an aid. Rust gives me syntax to describe lifetimes and a tool to check that syntax.
The whole generics drama.

The const/type declaration dance to this day, to declare enumerations, even Algol could do better.

Error handling based on comparing strings, to find out the real cause.
> All current observations are also consistent with quark stars. We don't know what the quark degeneracy pressure is, so there's no current way to differentiate.

This is not correct. There is a maximum mass limit for any object supported by quark degeneracy pressure, regardless of the equation of state. That is a fundamental fact about relativistic degeneracy that has the same general consequence for any kind of degeneracy pressure (it was originally discovered by Chandrasekhar when he discovered the maximum mass limit for white dwarfs that is now named after him). What the exact limit is depends on how stiff the equation of state is, but even the stiffest equation of state leads to a mass limit of about 3 solar masses. We know of plenty of compact objects that are far more massive than that.
Yeah he said "theoretical window". So founders take the risk.
Ignored or rejected is a technicality that does not matter in this case. Assuming that investors did not take into account the forecasted demand is stupid.

For the last 10 years, coal consumption has been roughly the same. Within last couple of years relationship between China and Australia reached low points, at least on surface, as low as vague of threats of military force. Yet, China still buys coal from Australia. Even if it peaks in couple of years, there is still a long way to go and this mine can remain profitable for a while. I don’t know if you read your own links, but right at the top ot says:

Demand for thermal coal is set to decline after peaking in 2024 as coal-fueled power is increasingly replaced with renewables in Europe and the U.S.

However, transitioning away from coal is complex and slow for countries like China and India, which account for 70% of global coal demand and are facing a steep rise in power demand, with a fairly new coal fleet ensuring affordable power.

The success of meeting net zero goals for countries like China, India, and Indonesia hinges significantly on the future economic and technical feasibility of carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) technology.

So yeah, basically the link you posted says that China is gonna be one of the biggest consumers of coal and it won’t change dramatically, unless some fundamental advances in energy tech.
How do you persist SQLite on heroku? Isn’t all storage ephemeral?
I don't think it does either. The article even mentions this:

Drivers became more brazen during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, which cleared normally clogged streets and freeways of traffic. Suddenly, many streets were empty and drivers believed they had a newfound freedom to speed, either for takeovers or street racing.

Actually this is a nation wide phenomenon and not just in LA. Road deaths/accidents and road rage incidents are increasing since 2020. I believe The article mentions the takeovers in Arizona also.

I personally think that quote is exactly correct. The empty streets in 2020 caused people to start going faster and taking advantage of the roads and they haven't changed their mindset.

Although in fairness to the police, pulling over a person for a traffic ticket can lead to a gun fight so it's possible police have decided it has a high risk and low reward as far as their time goes.
Artisanal products are so expensive because we make them so.

By default if you buy something in a store, add 5% to the value by improving it and want to sell it on eBay, they'll charge sales tax on the full sale price even though you already paid sales tax on 95% of that. To avoid the double taxation you have to file paperwork, which most people don't know how to do, and pay filing fees, which eat into your already-meager profits.

If you want to sell things over the internet yourself, or accept digital payments in person, how do you avoid paying a fraction of the sale price that may exceed your margin to some payment intermediary that may capriciously choose to cut you off at any time with no recourse?

If you want to incorporate, your annual fee is the same one paid by Apple, but e.g. $500 is a lot more to you than it is to them.

Keep adding things like that up and individual-scale operations are no longer viable without charging thick margins and thereby having only the affluent as customers, which is what happened.
The land owners in this case are even actually arguing that so much as waving your arm over their line violates their air space, so even a helecopter is no good. Which makes me wonder why I don't immediately go buy a $5000 plot somewhere and sue all the airlines for millions.

edit - ok actually a helecopter is good, see several other comments
Yes, with knex.js for a graphql server. Works well, no real surprises.
My tip is to develop social skill ,and spend time talking to close one , instead of infinite scrolling in tech forums
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This is quite possibly dumbest thing I have ever seen written on this site. You are grossly underestimating the DOD, its purpose and its necessity at a time when it is more important than it has been in decades.

Obviously, there is waste, failed projects, and pockets of dysfunction. That happens in all large organizations.

Despite all its flaws, the DOD is putting on a clinic on superior training, logistics, discipline, technology and power projection. I shudder to think what the world would look like right now and in several years without the DOD. Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there.
Yes and?

You eating biased media diet doesn't invalid the statistical reality that PRC, relative to her signifcant trade volume and relationships is objectively one of the better adherents at WTO relative to countries that whine about PRC unfairness. From TWO DSS database:

- PRC 65 disputes, 21 as complainant, 44 as respondant

- USA 279 disputes, 124 as complainant, 155 as respondant

- SKR 39 disputes, 21 as complainant, 18 as respondant

- JP 42 disputes, 26 as complainant, 16 as respondant

- AU 25 disputes, 9 as complainant, 16 as respondent

- EU 190 disputes, 104 as complainant, 86 as respondent

Another apt comparison: India 56 disputes, 24 as complainant, 32 as defendant, while 1/5th smaller than PRC.

Normalize for trade volume and accession time (PRC has been WTO member for 21/27 years, with again, more onerous accession requirement than typical) PRC is better than all USA, SKR, AU. In fact substantially better than other major powers. And as US has demonstrated, historically, it's completely normal to jetison trade rules for national security / foreign policy.
> It is not quite clear to me how the gravitational waves of two merging bodies would be different between a merger of normal stellar objects and black holes.

No "normal stellar object" can be more compact than 9/8 of the Schwarzschild radius for its mass. (This is a result known as Buchdahl's Theorem, first discovered in the 1930s.) Gravitational wave emission when objects of that size or larger merge is much less energetic compared to the total mass involved than the merger of black holes, which merge at the Schwarzschild radius; also the predicted waveforms are different, because there is actual matter (nonzero stress-energy) present when normal stellar objects merge, whereas black holes are vacuum (zero stress-energy).
You could say that about literally any place, anywhere. Shut it down and meet your best friends there and make the happiest memories of your life.

You could meet in a Walmart parking lot. You could meet in a field. You could meet at a race track.
I have a fairly high level IC / lead engineer role with two other team members (1 junior and 1 medior). I need to keep an eye on their work. Provide direction on how things can be implemented. I'm not their official manager. We have chapter managers for that. But chapter managers are more HR type roles. They aren't managing the day to day work. I guess my role is more close to someone managing the daily work of the team?
Retrofiting proper accounting controls into an existing (extremely) large organization that was built without them is difficult work.

That the audits are run consistently each year now is a big step. In past years, it's sounded like a lot of progress was being made, but this year's press releases are not as bubbly about progress, although it seems the wheels of progress are still turning.

AFAIK, there's been no allegations of fraud or wrongdoing in these failed audits, just that there are insufficient controls to validate the numbers.

You could tie future funding to passing audits in order to have repercussions, but there's a question of if you'd rather have an unfunded military or an unaudited military.
I've done this before within the country and ultimately just found it extremely stressful. I could never get comfortable in the AirBNB, I constantly felt like I'd just shown up and invaded someone's apartment.

I absolutely hate traveling, I just want to live somewhere and for it to become home.

You're probably right about the cutting off legs part, though I've simply lost sight of an exit from my current situation. I own a house, I have responsibilities, and I'm burnt out from work. I actually had a plan in place to move before I burnt out, but that fucked up everything.
$2.1 trillion dollars unaccounted for. This is clearly by design.

American taxpayers have a serious problem with the government. That's nothing new.
I like how strong a causal link you have that people have taken anything away from the gov't paying off some of their debt. I think large banks are much more likely to take that message away than individual borrowers...
> General relativity concerns itself with mass, and gravitational waves are function of mass.

This is way too simplistic. Gravitational waves are waves of propagating spacetime curvature. They can certainly be produced by "mass", i.e., by objects with nonzero stress-energy, as long as those objects (or mergers of such objects) have time-varying quadrupole moments. But they can also be produced by objects like black holes (or mergers of such objects), which have zero stress-energy and are made purely of spacetime curvature.

> a black hole would make things more complicated because of the infinite time dilation

There is no such thing. The effect you are talking about is an artifact of a particular choice of coordinates and has no physical meaning. It certainly does not prevent black hole mergers from emitting gravitational waves.
I couldn't find a simple demo of ci/cd pipeline: git commit -> github actions -> build image -> deploy on EKS. So I ruined my Saturday and made one!
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Yeah, Monday's are the worst days already so the Monday after Thanksgiving week haha.
I doubt CISA believes that technical and cybersecurity experience is irrelevant. This is their way to say "put someone in charge of it."

Two reasons for this:

1. The failure mode for most SMB operational risks is "no one was behind the wheel. No one thought it was their responsibility." If someone is clearly identified as responsible, they can set the basic guidelines that most people already know should be done.

2. Once the term "responsible for X" is on the table, it will tend to push the business towards hiring skilled personnel. Precisely because no one wants to take that on. Recommend that a business hire a skilled IT security headcount at market rates, and all the stakeholders will vote no. Ask a business "who is responsible for IT security? Who will handle an incident or breach?" And they will hire an IT security person after no one steps forward.
Stopping consumer IP cameras being used as a mass surveillance operation on US citizens by a hostile foreign government does not seem like an overreach.
> Gravitational waves are a prediction of GR but not of quark stars

I don't know where you're getting that from. Gravitational waves can be emitted by any system with a time-varying quadrupole moment. Mergers of quark stars would certainly qualify. Even a single quark star that was wobbly enough would.
The article uses Turing machines as an example of computer science so the author clearly has a definition of science that includes deductive mathematics.
These things are not incompatible. And you'd be incorrect to think that I doubt the value delivered by the DoD.

My point is a very simple one: the DoD is as large as it is because the US has a cultural aversion to accepting welfare. We can't make it obvious that we want to build a large, well-educated, and financially stable middle class by dumping money onto it, so we build it up by dumping money into the DoD instead and ensuring that just about every (genuinely innovative!) facet of American industry gets a piece of the pie.

When the DoD is built into the lifeblood of your middle class like this, it is culturally impossible to audit it, because auditing it would reveal the truth so many Americans find embarrassing or politically repugnant: that their livelihoods come from government-driven funding intended to give them decent lives, not the invisible hand of the market.
It's a good thing people are choosing to be alone instead of in unmerited relationships and dates that don't get anywhere. I have already spent too much time on dating websites and awkward social events trying to get to know people and none of them worked out. Society has changed and old norms don't apply anymore. People are more career-focused and would rather spend time with themselves than with someone with who they don't have anything in common.

The ratio of women compared to men on dating websites says a lot. Hence, women are choosing to be picky and men have no option but to be accepting of everything. This didn't work out in the long run and we are seeing its effects.

Welcome to reality.
It's a doable and fun project. I did it a few years ago, designing a small set of instruments in Fusion 360, 3d printing them, using stepper motors and an arduino to handle movement, and using Mobiflight[1] and FSUIPC[2] to handle the firmware and communication with MS Flight Simulator.

DCS-BIOS[3] is a similar project for interacting with DCS.

There's something really, really neat about seeing real physical instruments spinning around in response to a computer game. And they're actually often a lot easier to use than the instruments in-game, too.

[1] https://www.mobiflight.com/en/index.html

[2] http://www.fsuipc.com/

[3] https://dcs-bios.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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Oddly, doesn't directly argue there's no cure for loneliness, just outlines the sad extent of loneliness today. I certainly hope there is something that can be done for the situation today.
In what sense does American culture punish/suppress/relegate people who have private hobbies that Japanese culture doesn't?
In short, equity. In longer form, a lot of people don't have the chance to leave their towns and that is in part due to opportunity, another way of looking at it is that extracting people out of their communities and consolidating them in cities isn't very equitable. Historically we've relied on colleges to give people a ticket out of where they come from. In the long term that does real damage to those communities. Instead of building them up, using that newly found prosperity, that wealth gets consolidated in cities. If we let people stay near their families, or wherever they prefer to stay, it gives people choice and creates a much more sustainable economic environment.
Thats the same S&P that are also famous for their role in the 2007/8 sub-prime mortgage and global financial crisis right?
She's got someone doing good PR for her. I've been a subscriber for years and never seen her on HN except for the last few months.

I'm probably an order of magnitude less intelligent than her, but her arguments seem extremely reasonable to me. She seem to me to be a bridge from the PBS, pop-science mentality to more serious considerations.

Also, she's a fox. :-)
Side note: I love websites that break the mold with alternative layouts like this one, even though it's still simple and beautiful.
Many of the projects mentioned there are open source and have been known publicly for a while, and talks about them have been presented over the years in many conferences.
Subaltern groups are celebrated by society as a (less-than-ideal) compensation mechanism for their persecution.

So: black people: cool, get holidays. White people uncool, no holidays. Ditto for women and men.
Being alone can be bad even if it doesn't cause stress. Being around friends and building relationships is it's own goal and reward.

Switching from a career you've invested years into isn't a great solution. Working in a people facing job won't solve the need for long term relationships and I'd say most coworkers are often not interested (if they are even in remotely the same age/interest group at all).
His name is Schwarzenegger, please
> Ignored or rejected is a technicality that does not matter in this case.

Nonsense.

Ignored is "did not address at all, behaved as if unaware of, etc."

Rejected is "was aware of, investigated, addressed, used documented reasoning".

You're commenting in English so do please take this onboard - there is a difference and it matters.

I'm aware of the link I posted, it shows that the major global mining companies expect a decline in thermal coal demand during the lifetime of this coal project.

Whether correct or incorrect it's an informed opinion based on data by those with skin (artual billions) in the game.
Maybe they should, but I'd ask a different question. Did your company not give them the ADRs? ADRs are supposed to be high level decisions, like the decision to use REST or gRPC across an enterprise as a public or private API standard. If an application was built to a spec by your company, I'd assume they'd be making decisions like that.
"indoctrinated". You say that like people who say this are selling rotten fruit as new.

You can verify this for yourself. Go to an old folks home. Ask them about their lives. See how many don't bring up their children. Or mention them with regret. Look into their eyes as they speak of them.

In my experience everyone wears their children like badges of honor and any regrets are about not doing enough for them or having their priorities not family oriented enough.

This is the perspective of the oldest among us with the longest time here to contemplate what they find most important.

Yes, we preach it, have preached it. This doesn't make it any less true, because it is true. Your being given the keys to life and your appear to want to question.

Today's poor people are richer than rich people way back when those old folks were raising children.

I've been quite poor and with children. I'm intimately familiar with the pain of being poor. Speaking from my experience, in 20 years your poorness won't matter, but your children, if any, will.

Waiting for perfection before having children is like never shipping because there are flaws in the code. Sure, you try not to ship crap but it still must go out as best as you can manage.
It's only enforceable if accompanied by speech. If I commit a crime with no evidence, my confession is the only thing that can convict me. I don't think it would be fair to say I'd be forbidden from confessing.

I think there's a stronger case that your purchase choice is covered as free expression or that the government can't compel you to do business with a private entity.
I think a better analogy for my view is: "the world has frostbite on its toes. If we make rash policy changes we can stop the frostbite now, but we need to cut our legs off. If we relax the constraint of stopping the frostbite immediately, it will continue to get worse in the short term but we will only lose a foot."
This ignores the fact that we cannot stop climate change immediately even if we had perfect global coordination.

It's not about redefining the bar, it's about avoiding rash policies like biofuel subsisies which cause large harm for minimal gain.
Casinos how exactly? Bitcoin crypto is meant to be self custodied. This is THE most trustworthy solution. You are just replacing one counter party risk with another.
Personally I agree that this endless back-door privacy leakage is unwelcome.

That said, the idea that we have self-described "rights" waters down the concept of actual "rights".

Things like Miranda rights, 2nd ammendment rights and so on are codified trade-offs between public good and personal good. Often these rights are local, and differ from country to country. Some travel, some don't. Most people in the UK presume they have free-speech rights (they don't) but pretty-much no-one in the UK believes they "have the right to bear arms."

I don't negate your point. I too have a desire not to leak data to corporations from my devices. Equally I choose which browser I use, which sites I visit, which OS I run, and so on.

I guess I'm saying that I understand that companies don't exist for my benefit, but for theirs, and I balance their desires with my desires when making my choices.
"Despite all its flaws, the DOD is putting on a clinic on superior training, logistics, discipline, technology and power projection. I shudder to think what the world would look like right now and in several years without the DOD. Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there."

For every bit of good the DOD does it kills, destroys and spreads enough suffering to AT LEAST nullify it if not vastly put it in the negative. That is without considering how all the money the DOD wastes on killing people and overthrowing other governments could be used to massively reduce suffering if it was put towards something more useful like infrastructure or healthcare.
You’re making a lot of interesting assumptions based on nothing I can see.

It would be fascinating to hear more about where you get these ideas from.
How do you know the object is compact? The idea is that quark degeneracy pressure is enough to keep the object from ever becoming dense enough to form a black hole.

No one knows the actual quark degeneracy pressure, so no one knows if stars collapse to black holes or if they get stopped.
They don't, the judgement only considers harms to human rights from the project going ahead, it ignores any downside from cancelling it.
I work for a call centre observability startup (operata.com) and my take is — call centres aren’t going away anytime soon.

In fact Zoom, Microsoft, and Salesforce have all recently announced they are entering the Call Center as a Service space (AWS already have their own call centre PaaS).

In the consumer space we’re seeing further consolidation and homogenisation of products/services. It’s now so easy for me to churn my energy retailer, my insurance broker, my phone provider, etc.

Outside of price, the only other competitive differentiator will in-part be the customer experience.

Websites, chat and BOTs are great for standard workflows. For reasonably complex customer queries (either sales or support) nothing yet beats voice or video with a human.
This is one of those things I would think would have been tried earlier, but that they have some success is really intriguing. In particular the idea that you can "custom print" arbitrary shapes in wood has a real elf vibe to it.

A lot of hand waving around "wood like properties" which I suspect will be a bigger issue going into commercialization, however if they could produce decent pulp replacement then the paper market would be disrupted right away.
> Twitter has only gotten better.

Says who?
What an unbelievable and incredible coordinated tribute. I only managed to get through 35 of over 100 tribute comics but the magnitude the coordination is absolutely stunning.