skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an earlier interstellar object in 2014, and it hit earth. They are planning an expedition to retrieve pieces of it. https://www.space.com/2014-meteor-first-interstellar-visitor...
I'd love to have a middle ground; I'd like to provide a diagram generator with a layout template and layouting hints, then have a tool generate a diagram conforming to that layout. I feel like that would be the best of both worlds. I could emphasize boundaries and structures visually, but I wouldn't have to keep everything updated by hand (as long as things don't drift too far).
Imo good software engineering === minimizing effort.

More specifically:

* Minimizing effort in both the short and the long term (biased towards the long term because it's... longer).

* Minimizing effort as long as product quality is the same/better.

If you make things easy to do well, all other desired qualities will follow automatically.
Why prefer a non-functional construct over a functional construct in a functional language?

The lisp loop macro simplifies the s-expression tree/heap traversal for benifit of coder/reader. The lisp loop macro is implilmented based on s-expression tree traversal.

Trees are used with closures. Heaps are used with objects. (lisp & non-lisp)

In lisp can debate what's an 'object', but multiple thunks are managed through a
heap structure.

Tree (or heap form of tree) order traversals are forms of binary backward branching.

Tree traversal can be structured so 'iteration variables' are not needed. Default lisp termination is 'NIL'

If only returning a single struc (with no memory management), then heap not required.

If returning multiple strucs in a list/tree (aka multiple s-expressions), then the s-expression 'thunks' will be managed via heap.
This is how I feel about bagels in NYC, but with pizza, and particularly slice shops (as opposed to restaurant style pizza) I do think the best slices in NYC are in a different class from any other American city

L’industrie really does live up to the hype
This isn't really the case. Rust code is almost as complex as C or C++ for any non-trivial application.
I haven't seen them before but trying them now. Thanks! Maybe I should try to do a write up these different options.
The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies
At last, free speech has been perfected!

When will Twitter move its headquarters there?
If you find yourself in the position of paying over say, $250,000/month for cloud computing, things like this can have monetary impact that your clocks ultimately don't care about.
The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician
I am a Millennial primary care physician. I began training before COVID hit, so I have perspective as someone who practiced medicine before, during, and after the pandemic. There are multiple, long-standing issues in medicine, many that have been unmasked by COVID but have been festering for a long time:

Doctors don’t run hospitals. Due to EMTALA, every single patient that shows up to your emergency department has to be treated. When insurance companies and private equity realized that you can’t say no to doing the work, then why should they pay you? Ultra lean staffing prior to covid led to the sh*tshow during the pandemic and, now that everyone is quitting, things are now in total collapse.

Go to any hospital in the country and, even if you have a serious problem like a heart attack, sepsis, a kidney stone blocking off your ureter while your kidney fills up with pus and you’re turning grey and shivering because you’re dying, well, chances are you’re going to be lying in a bed in the hallway.

Up in the ICU hopeless 95 year olds will sit on ventilators and other life support machines for weeks because doctors don’t have any discretion in stopping futile care. You can be a 30 year old pregnant woman, and you will die waiting for your ICU bed in the emergency room. There are 30 rooms in the ER, but 3 nurses overnight…what do you think happens if you have an accident and urinate or have a bowel movement in the bed? That’s exactly what happens. Good luck getting pain medicine for your kidney stone, there’s 10 other patients and they’re all sicker than you.
Amazon and Meta are at 0 risk of running out of money. They make billions in profits.

Smaller companies that are still not generating profits? Absolutely they need cuts to survive.

Both of these things are true at the same time. I’m continually surprised at how quickly people have bought the excuse trotted out by extremely profitable companies for mass layoffs. In that situation it is primarily an exercise in juicing up the stock price and keeping investors happy.
They’re one of the biggest job promoters here, so it will be odd not seeing their jobs show up for a while.

Flexport always seemed to be hiring.
A beta that we are all helping test
. Simply unbelievable that the NHTSA allows this to happen.

The Tesla safety report which the company boastfully released wouldn't have counted this incident since the Tesla itself wasn't harmed.
我认为是旧的 UTF-16。 64K 字符集。 大多数语言，但不是表情符号所在的星体层。

Old UTF-16, I think. 64K character set. Most languages, but not the astral planes where emoji live.
How is it describing it though? What does a white-looking immigrant Brazilian of European ancestry have in common with a Native American? How does labeling both as PoC address any inequality?
Yep - the things I've found it good at is stuff like "here is data, answer questions about it" (I've got dabblingings in writing a private Alexa skill that does a better weather report than the rules based one that is currently used) or zero shot classifications. For example with the zero shot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156626

And this is a "not everything goes to Wolfram" - the weather report that it has ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=chicago+weather ) doesn't provide quite the right data (though it is rather neat).

The other thing I need to look at is the question are some of the other, simpler models acceptable for these classifications. The Curie model is 10x cheaper than the Davinci model. And Babbage and Ada are even cheaper.

The system is interesting... but even with some dabbling one can see that this isn't something to trust for knowledge, but rather work with for translating one "language" into another and then using that in conjunction with another layer that can use that translated "language".
Coming from Atlassian Confluence, "very fiddly and even buggy" made me laugh. It's really hard to maintain a diagram in that suite.

Personally I prefer excalidraw, though the embedded scene can easily be not exported or stripped, or people just don't realise you can continue to edit it if you import the PNG.

Furthermore most documentation systems (ahem confluence) don't have a sane coding API to keep the file upto date.
> A rebate generally implies a refund of prior payment, so I found your summary confusing.

Sorry, it is a “pre-bate”, intended to offset the first x dollars of tax that would be paid on “necessities”, determined by some poverty line/CPI related computation performed periodically. No means test or qualification except citizenship. Don’t recall if there was any effort to address non-citizens that were not dependents.

> In general I think high concentrations of wealth are bad on a systemic level, like too much sugar leading to diabetes.

I can’t quite dis-agree with you, but I’m not certain how to address it. Perhaps we should just have rules/criteria regarding breaking up concentrations of wealth/power or splitting up giant organizations. Meanwhile this happens under the current tax system, thus orthogonal WRT the objectives of FairTax.
Government is literally defined by a monopoly on violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Gotta work those h1b’s to the bone.
they are - there are lots of slices that you'll basically only find in this area because there's a market and expectation for them
Indeed. 2022 was the year we realized God doesn’t like authoritarians. All the talk of an American decline and yet in a single year all (except NK) of the major world authoritarian regimes have been facing real crisis. In the west our crisis seem to be overhyped both by the news and said authoritarian regimes.
The EU really focused on importing rather than conserving natural gas.

A huge solar/wind install which significantly reduced the need for natural gas turbines over the year doing as much to fill tanks as their new LNG terminal while providing more long term utility. Instead by focusing on being able to import and store vs conserve and store they further spiked prices.

I am not saying they wanted to maximize misery for political reasons or profits for the energy sector. However, I can’t help but feel they mismanaged this even though the worst predictions like rationing or 10x price increases never happened.

Perhaps I should give them more credit and say their plan actually worked reasonably well even if it’s benefitted from unusual weather. Winter is far from over and they are already in the clear.
sounds like somebody wag tweaked the entry to make it come out as the golden ratio.
The Categories were made for man, not man for the categories (2014)
There's a 18 part video series by Dan Gelbart I can recommend where he goes over how to prototype products using a laser cutter and a hydraulic press. If I was setting up a home shop, I'd start there. I have very good access to CNC milling and turning machines, but usually find it cost and time prohibitive to go that route, preferring to laser cut/3D print wherever possible.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Urban apartment, I'd stick to electronics, pcb, soldering, code.

You want meche career change, just go work in a local cnc machine shop that runs Fusion 360. Then you can have unlimited access to all the tools you could ever want. If you want to be a good designer, I'll sell you my book once it's written.
I’m sad to learn that Mary Chung’s is gone. There was little better than a double order of extra spicy suanla chaoshou with a can of coke on a cold day.
Do you realize what your comment sounds like in a post touting the success (with evidence) of this "group"?
had their white slice earlier today.

falco of roberta's fame consulted on their opening. i recommend checking out any restaurant he's helped open (all over the world now).
I would never want that though. It should change lanes and pass.
Touchscreen on a laptop is probably used more often than LIDAR on an iPhone.
Retirement explains the low unemployment % since they're no longer part of the workforce.

The jobs added are great, especially since we need ~140K additional jobs per month due to the growing US Population. (that number probably dropped due to reduced immigration)

Unfortunately I don't work in all sectors of America so even if the GDP goes up to a China-inflated 10% or higher but I'm unemployed, it'll suck.
I’m a big fan of diagrams as code but only when I’m doing them usually.

Mainly because I usually start out with an idea of what I want then try to recreate it. Usually that means I’ve had to read the entirety of the tool’s documentation end to end, and often I’m still bummed because the tool can’t recreate what I see in my head. But whatever, I’ll compromise.

But a lot of people go the other way. They make the diagram out of what they know how to use, and so generally their diagrams-as-code diagrams lack the detail you’d find if they had created it with a WYSIWYG tool.

But I hate WYSIWYG tools. Editing and versioning them is challenging.
What kind of solar install could have been finished by now?
VR is, IMHO, a fundamentally flawed concept. To immerse yourself, you need to block out your peripheral vision and everything else.

The average, casual user isn't going to do that on a regular basis. It's not something you can do with kids around if you need to keep an eye on them, unlike a book or a TV show or even a game on your phone or laptop.

Fundamentally, immersion is a selling point to a very specific audience, and a major drawback to everyone else.
https://media.giphy.com/media/qgri3D9sTwCUGMcT8L/giphy.gif
the popular one now is bianco dinapoli from CA. you can find them everywhere including canada.
Interesting. It's not the vast size of the universe that matters. It's the concentration (or not) of particular elements that's (likely) the metric that matters.

Good to know. Thx.
I’m not deeply familiar with swift, objective-C or the next-step APIs, but it seems like they’re describing the difference between a (virtual?) function call (ie: swift to swift) vs a “message passing operation” in objective C. If that assessment is correct, then it’s really an exercise in small costs adding up quickly. If you call through the function pointer you have way lower latency, and if you call through the same operation hundreds of times to render a single screen (the calendar) inside of the render loop where latency matters- that’s measurably better. Especially on a device that tries to throttle CPU frequency to save battery power.

This is somewhat analogous to the same arguments that can be had about JIT compiled languages having the the opportunity to exceed performance of AoT compiled ones because of inlining opportunities- except in this case I don’t know if the call has any chance of being actually inlined so much as at least bypassing the message passing machinery overhead.
How can we consider those statistics if we don’t know how common alien civilizations, or their sending of rocks, is?
I imagine the lead time on even a 3x increase in solar panel production would be well over a year.

They had 6-8 months to solve this problem.

Enough natural gas exists in the world outside of Russia to power Europe. Is that true of solar panels?
Don’t you just tap the brake to disengage adaptive cruise?
There is quite a few incoherent things about it.

You cannot "define what a woman is", but you can "identify as a woman" (what do you identify as?).

You cannot really say why being trans-gender is okay, but being "trans-abled" (so called amputee identity disorder) is not. Nor is being "trans-racial" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_transracialism_controv...). Even though we have long believed that race is more socially constructed than gender.

The whole concept of "gender studies" as it is now is one of the least scientifically sound academic fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair). The field is full of people openly questioning the very idea of trying to be an impartial researcher in search of "truth" and instead treat it as an activist project (https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/generos/articl... - an example of a paper that in plain text advocates for using male students of feminist studies as "viruses" spreading the good news).

Most of the theories are unfalsifiable anyway - and are no more scientific that angelology or hamartiology.
Yeah, I don't see Shadow DOM often, but there are couple sites I use that employ it - most notably Gerrit. Since I use it almost every work day, I wanted to fix a bunch of UX annoyances it has. Those fixes would've normally been trivial, but Gerrit UI has everything wrapped in multiple levels of Shadow DOM, making those fixes near-impossible instead to do in Stylus alone.
Nitpicking: Instead of Li, you probably mean He. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...

> Hydrogen and helium are estimated to make up roughly 74% and 24% of all baryonic matter in the universe respectively. Despite comprising only a very small fraction of the universe, the remaining "heavy elements" can greatly influence astronomical phenomena. Only about 2% (by mass) of the Milky Way galaxy's disk is composed of heavy elements.
when you order, it's called "a slice".
Today it's more like you're bonding the plumbing to ground than assuming it is ground. That way, if something shorts to a pipe, you trip a breaker rather than energizing the water system.
And lower immigration levels.
My problem with homemade pizza was how much it costs. As someone who likes lots of toppings (pepperoni, sausage, olives, you name it), a pizza was costing me over $20 to make at home. At which point I guess I'd fail to see the point since it's now costing more and taking a lot of time.
Even if they could somehow magically install gigawatts of solar power, all those furnaces in people's homes still run on natural gas.
Node-red?
I think there is a big difference between Indian tech/medical workers and the nearly billion people living in India. Indians will most likely deal with what America deals with, but with even greater contrast between the haves and have nots.

The proverbial luxury condo building adjacent to a slum in the third world. It’s funny, I’m not sure if I can claim the last sentence as an analogy because that’s exactly what you see in India.

It is what it is.
There are a number of foods that are supposedly only being amazing within a certain geographic location, but the best ones I've had were far outside if that location.

The best shrimp poboy I had was in Tampa; nothing I could find in New Orleans even came close. There was a New York style pizza place in Shanghai which people that went back to America would talk about missing (better than any pizza I've had in NYC). An Italian person I knew visited D.C. and when they got back to Rome they kept talking about how much they missed the pizza place in Washington.

For bagels, best I've ever had is probably a split between New Jersey (not _far_ from NYC) and Montreal.
I signed up for Parker to see what was happening there. It's far from my politics. It was funny to see how their email list sent me lots of ads for hair loss replacement and similar demographics. I would venture to say there were more ads than outrage in those emails.
Solid modelling software is very hard to build, and FreeCAD, SolveSpace and OpenSCAD feel like they are built by hobbyists who had heard of CAD but not actually used it talked to anyone who had.

Solidworks for makers was kind of hard to find but free until recently. Now it's $99 per year. Of course, you can't use it for commercial work past a certain point. It kind of seems like it's dying as well, they are going all in on cloud but their cloud product is terrible.

I'm a Mech E (well, originally anyway), do hobby stuff and sometimes I do side jobs. I now use and recommend Solid Edge even though it's not as nice to use as Solidworks. It's free for hobby use, and something like $90/month when you want to use it commercially. You can pay for the license one month at a time.

Solidworks is about $4000 to buy and then $2000 to maintain the license. You can keep using the version you bought, but eventually you have to upgrade in order to work on files with someone else, or to fix a breaking bug, like when 1-2 year old versions were unusable with HiDPI displays. Previous versions get no updates, period. When this happens and you need to upgrade, you have to backpay all of maintenance license fees you didn't pay, or start over again with a new $4000 license.
"It's not Objective-C" is pretty much the only advantage it has. You're not missing anything, it's basically a superfluous language that only exists in its current form because Objective C needed replacing and Apple would never adopt a language they didn't have effective control over. Language-wise, I see zero benefit over Rust, possibly Go (I'm not familiar enough to comment) or even JVM-less Kotlin.

But hey, we're stuck with it now so no use complaining.
I see it that way to. I'm sure what people describe is true in some cases but I'm also sure that there's tons of more positive examples. Especially when the employee is, as you said, productive and reasonable.

If you get fired for taking 8 weeks vacation then something has gone wrong waaay before that and something about the manager/employee relationship is off.
It really depends. I used PImpl today but it’s the rare exception. Between small inlinable classes and abstract base classes, there are lots of ways work. But that’s the beauty of C++: there are lots of ways to solve problems!
The problem isn't that disengaging the system is difficult. The problem is that deciding whether to disengage is difficult. If you're catching up to a slower car, maybe you should disengage the cruise control. Or maybe you shouldn't. You can't tell.

This means that cruise control goes from being something that relieves stress on you to something that causes additional stress.
Cars fail and need to pull over regularly. It's hard to understand why this particular incident is all that notable.
I felt the same way. When I was in my early 20's, little caesers had $5 pizzas, so of course Dominos did $4 pizzas. One topping, large. Believe it or not, both were decent. No, nothing compared to NY slices or what have you, but good enough.

I tried Dominos after the 'realignment' and found it much worse than I remembered. But, it could be I hadn't eaten there in a few years prior...maybe it went from good, to bad, to ok in that timespan?
Note: I'm not saying that hedge funds are bad or anything; I've just singled out one aspect of them that will cause problems in a world without a capital gains tax.

It helps to stop thinking of money as "property" and more as "the power to take from the national pool of resources". One is something you own, the other is a grant by the polity to take from the nation's resources. Regardless of the amount of money we have, at the end of the day there is a limit to how much can be bought with it, because we as a country only have so much stuff to divide among the populace. Money and the market are just efficient means to decide who can take how much.

Money lending structures such as hedge funds absolutely do serve the useful purpose of financing promising ventures that could bring real material wealth. But if the money supply is allowed to become too lopsided (i.e. too much inequality), your efficiency, competitiveness, and effectiveness as a country diminishes astonishingly fast. This phenomena has been understood for at least 4000 years, with one of the main correction methods being a debt jubilee to (among other things) correct runaway inequality and keep money from being too idle. The IMF has many pointers to this issue here: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2011/09/14/why-inequal...

There was actually a study done a few years back that isolated an "optimal inequality" range; too much or too little and your efficiency goes down. I wish I could find it again...

But regardless, an income tax (as well as others such as wealth tax, inheritance tax etx) will take a larger share of money out of the hands of the rich (who can't really do anything with it except lend it, making it less efficient). A straight consumption tax, even with rebates, will still cause a disproportionate amount to be paid by those who actually produce things, while rewarding those who let money go idle. And that's bad for everyone.

Also one more note: The current tax system in America is by no means efficient. The richest can basically pay no tax at all under the current rules, and that of course is bad for the same reasons I outlined above. Many other countries have laws that prevent this sort of thing, so it's not insurmountable, but one must be careful to understand the implications of changes to a tax scheme, and I believe that those promoting the Fair Tax have not considered everything.
Discussed yesterday, 190 and 60ish comments per:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34333883
Not the Fed. The rest of the government, yes.
> with intent to maim (hang?)

This is the gallows that the mob erected: https://assets.culanth.org/content/_t1528/ruddy-roye-trump22...

Seen from this angle, it's obvious that it can't actually be used to hang anyone. It is little more than a stupid protest sign.
It’s the iOS codebase.
Seems to me that the cars behind the Tesla are the omas at fault?