skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the era before satellites, geologists would map earthquake faults by walking the lines of rupture. It was a laborious process that naturally also missed a lot of detail. Radar interferometry from space was developed in the 1990s, and in recent years it has become a particularly compelling tool.

> In part that is down to the quality of the sensors now in orbit, but it is also the result of more powerful computers and smarter algorithms.

> It is possible today to get a data product on to the computers of experts, ready for analysis, within hours of a satellite making an overhead pass. Comet, unfortunately, had to wait several days for Sentinel-1A to be in the right part of the sky to get an optimal view of Turkey. But this will improve as more and more radar satellites are launched.

> "By the end of the decade, we should be able to do this kind of analysis within a day of most damaging earthquakes, and then we would be more useful for the relief effort. As things stand, we are of course outside the 72-hour window for search and rescue," Prof Wright said.
FWIW most of the companies using Phoenix (Elixir) that I've talked with are sending HTML over the wire, either with LiveView or traditional Views.
Lived there until around 2021 and visited often before the hype. It is the same as the rest of Texas, but offers employability in the technology sector. People have this notion that there's a "different vibe", but really it feels like political posturing and wanting to feel hip.

There's nothing really wrong with Austin, and it has a cool lake. But that's really it.
Grasshopper can indeed drive NURBS surfaces in Rhino if I remember correctly, yes. But it suffers from the same problem I describe initially- you have to start with design from Grasshopper- it is a one-way-flow. There is no way to parametrically model something in Rhino and have it automatically generate a model graph that can then be reused.

This is the main difference between tools like Rhino and the aforementioned parametric modelers (Autodesk Fusion360 is another fully parametric solid modeler that supports a 'tree' build with parameters that can then be changed at will at any time, and the model will rebuild).
Not really. Clean metal is fine and so are food products. Clean metal can help form reefs and such, why the Navy sinks ships. Food waste, like apple cores and such, all biodegradable. But the trash has to go somewhere. So things that doesn't really hurt the ocean and break down, it goes in the ocean. Things that can actually hurt the ocean and won't break down get flow off the ship during resupply missions and get disposed of properly on land somewhere.
I remember telling crappy stories to my kids when they were little but they enjoyed it. I used to decide a topic like flying toy cycle or a magical ball and made some random story with the same ending where the kids have their meal and it's night and the go to bed. They knew it was the end when I came to the meal part of the story and there would be silence and they fell asleep. I used to struggle sometimes but for over 100s of nights, I managed to tell them a story each night. Glad there is an app now for that :)
any data to back this up or is this anecdotal? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... and https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... doesnt point to anything meteoric here.
The point is it's actually impossible to get good performance, even when I scale the nodes up to their highest the raw CPU is a lot lower, and that really matters. Also the cluster has nothing to do with it as this was testing reads and clusters should be basically the same as all they add is a load balance to any one node. Not to mention I tried every combo: just one server vs two or three. Nothing made a difference. The diff was huge at the time, something like 3x.
Just shy of $600K in 2022, based on data from IRS and BLS: https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-t...
Oh absolutely. I recently had to consider moving to the Bay as well and it was so incredibly underwhelming compared to the cost of living. This was looking at East Bay too. Impossible to get around, less-than-ideal access to entertainment. It is nice being close to nature but that's about it. Tech and nature. Not worth the CoL imo.

I say this as someone who is from Chicago and lived in NYC for a long time, so I'm completely biased.
> So the actual gotcha here is that there is no cohort for "feature flag B only", right?

Yep, exactly - by "that first set" I meant the 00-1A group, could have been clearer. Whatever the smallest rollout bucket is, that group is guaranteed to have every single feature.

This was quite a while ago, but I think the actual case we noticed this with was several features released to 50% of the userbase - so every single user either had all or none at once (unintentionally)
Why the emotionally charged title?

And yes I'm personally a tiny bit upset because I believe homogeneity in culture is bad. Geek dads and geek kids and geek wives are important.
Partly, but it especially means things like Phoenix LiveView[0] or htmx [1]. With these you can create SPA like experiences by sending partial html updates from the server and applying them by some light JS to the UI (which you don't have to write yourself).

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html
[1] https://htmx.org/
Did you just reinvent org mode?
This submission broke the site rules by drastically editorializing the title. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Also, if you want to make an Ask HN, those are supposed to be text posts.

Normally I'd bury this altogether but because this is a YC startup and we moderate less in such cases*, I'm going to moderate it less in this case. Please don't do this in the future though.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I live in Austin and know the author to boot. I haven't had the time to sit down and read this one yet, but knowing him I can pretty well guess his take. He is my pick for the best writer in the state.

My read of Austin:

- I was born here in 1995. Except for a few years, I've seen double-digit growth in most measurables every year of my life. Growth is the only thing I have ever known so I am comfortable with it, and I can also see why previous generations (I.e. my parents) are not.

- Change is painful. Especially at this clip and for this long. But man, it is beautiful.

- The City Council here is undoubtedly the worst part of the problem. They consistently buckle to NIMBYs, and allocate money in just unreasonably idiotic ways. ("No one riding the train that cost $1.1 billion? Easy fix! Spend $7 billion more!") They are making the change much more painful.

- Natives were largely fine with the first wave of California refugees in 2008. This COVID wave is different though. The new movers kept their jobs and are working remote from Austin – meaning that they still have their Cali / NY inflated paychecks. It feels like a money fight, and we keep losing.
Unfortunately not. At least not without a little intervention. See this blog post for more details about what I mean. They inspect the iceberg table's catalogue to list the related parquet files and then load them into duckdb.

https://www.arecadata.com/getting-started-with-iceberg-using...

You would still need to interact with some kind of catalogue to understand which .db files you need to fetch.

And honestly I don't really know or understand the performance implications of the attach command.

I'm excited to see if the duckdb team will be able to integrate with external tables directly one day. (not that data files would be .db files)

Imagine this:

1) you have an external managed external table (iceberg, delta, etc... managed by Glue, databricks, etc)

2) register this table in duckdb

CREATE OR REPLACE EXTERNAL TABLE my_table ... TYPE = 'ICEBERG' CATALOG = 's3://...' CREDENTIALS = '...' etc

3) simply interact with table in duckdb as you would any other table
yeah, i thought github was moving away from html over the wire; rails to react.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33576722
Live briefing on Alaska aerial object shoot-down [video]
Google has something to loose now: their reputation. OpenAI can be maverick, any mistakes are "move fast and break things".

Same reason why Mercedes or Audi did not bring automated driving on the road, even though they were technologically more advanced than Tesla. History proved them right.
My observations working in a large financial institution who have in the last couple of years adopted SaFE and therefore hired product owners and scrum masters is that the majority of scrum masters including the lead scrum masters come from project management backgrounds.

What they preach and what they practice don't always align (in major ways), and I'm constantly going back to the agile manifesto where I am like 'this ain't right'.

It reminds me of certain organised religions!

Could you replace them with chatgpt?

I'm sure it's possible!

Could you replace the minister of a church with chatgpt? Well I'm sure that's possible too!
Electricity can be delivered over thousands of miles with the right wires in place, so there's no need to spread reactors everywhere, especially considering we need relatively few nuclear power plants to meet everyone's energy needs.
> I can't install any apps from the "App Store" but it still does what I want most.

Apple has made this such a hassle... if you actually install an app on your new iPhone 10... you can go over to your "Purchased" on your iPhone 5 and install the version that runs on it (if it exists). However if you go on the iPhone 5 to the app store, they just say "so sorry, not supported" and it is the biggest slap you can give someone to remind them the product they paid for is not owned by them.
Pineapple Litepaper: mortgage banking on a blockchain
I think it's referring to partial server-side renders. SSR is usually used to refer to statically rendering pages, while the "new" thing is to dynamically update pages with chunks of SSR-created HTML.
Pledge and unveil. Also, some sysctl keys to lock up settings and security.
Substack has no paywalls, and Medium does. Makes sense why they took over.
removing some layers of management is not the same as removing all managers. this google writeup discusses removing all managers
I'm quite sure op meant 5x higher than certain renewables not fossil.

Nobody is talking about fossil anymore. It's on the way out just like nuclear.
Tech like LiveView (Phoenix) and LiveWire (Laravel) are great examples of this.
Thanks. That sounds like it rules out the Norwegian P-8 claim.
It’s a good heuristic.
Imagine if this is how first contact is made.
If you use a lot of wired devices I guess I can see that being a headache.
I use wireless peripherals and make sure they're all usb-c, so when I travel I only need to remember one cable, maybe another as backup. These problems also improve as USB-C becomes more mass-manufactured. Case in point: now there's a 5 meter USB-IF certified usb-c power/ data cable at the top of the Amazon results for $19.
> I've personally solved it by striving to care less about what other people think.

Google Glasses was lunched before Google was widely known as a creepy spyware company too. I don't even think computer geeks would be impressed anymore.
The dangers of -fno-exceptions (2011)
You're forgetting transformative use. Think about search engines.
I believe another approach is to edit the default registry settings in /usr/share/wine/wine.inf so that new prefixes have the desired setting. Of course, then when updating the package it has to be reconciled. But it does have the advantage of being able to allow e.g. the settings that would only produce launcher icons and not file associations. There's another method using environment variables too, though I think that one basically works the same as removing the package entirely and can't be used to customize the behavior.

I kind of agree with you that the defaults are not great, or at least if things haven't changed. We could always see if maybe they'll accept patches to filter out more stuff by default.
Definitely not true for my very common use case of Postgres + Hasura + Node API. Especially the DB is way faster based on compute. You're talking ~300+ms gains in perf just in the DB layer, with the graph and node layers also getting significant bumps. I was seeing a single dedicated host in Virginia be way, way faster (like 80% faster reply times) than the top of the line cluster that was in Phoenix (at the time very close to me).

If you are serving a page that needs to do a few joins across a non-trivial dataset that's all it requires to immediately tilt the equation completely back to raw CPU being the dramatic deciding factor in speed.
Are you talking about LTNs? They were initially turning some residential roads into cul-de-sacs to limit through traffic, but a minority of motorists feigned concern about emergency service access so many were replaced with no entry signs and cameras, now the same minority are feigning concern about a surveillance state?

It's definitely non-locals using small resident roads as short cuts who are now slightly inconvenienced performing mental gymnastics.
> with MacOS you pay for the software when you buy the hardware

By that logic the normal people are still in the clear, as most OEMs bundle a Windows license with the prebuilts they sell.
US developed method to track China’s spy balloon fleet within last year
James Cameron would be proud as they're even in 3D
Yup, same issue with e-waste. It can be a pain to properly dispose of your broken 10 year old laptop. So many people don't do it. It just does in the trash can with everything else. Make it easy, people do it, minus a few edge case shitheads. But I'd rather 75 out of 100 people do it right and have 25 shit heads than 75 shit heads and 25 people doing it right.
For older architectures, you really want to use the BX instruction unless you can guarantee you're not switching execution mode.

as a bit of pointless trivia, MOV PC, PC does not cause an infinite loop - it skips the instruction immediately following.
There were plenty of opportunities to lose money during that period.

Doubling your money is fucjing fantastic no matter how you slice it.

Let the guy have his win lmao
I'm also a Vim user; in my Vim wisdom and experience I made it follow the damn XDG spec; if hidden files are a feature, I want it to be a feature for my use-cases, not program clutter.
How do you know it will be possible by 2050 to go full renewable?
They didn't let this one hang for a few days to finish its torrent seeding?
Fresh does this, but I don't know who's using it in production, other than possibly the Deno people.

https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/introduction
Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design
I actually paid a lot of attention and research was all over the place. Some of it right, some of it wrong, but we only know that in hindsight. I tried hard making sense of all of it, but the only thing that prevailed was a big fat "we don't know".

We knew older people were more at risk, it is one of the few thing that we were confident about since the beginning, and no one argued against it, and policymakers took that into account. But it doesn't mean others can't die or transmit the disease. We also didn't know how it would evolve.
I've had this same experience. Every time I go to my local specialty beer shops, it's nothing but 4-packs that _start_ at $16. I've never even heard of most of them, and a large portion are just the really over-done trendy IPAs that every brand new brewery seems eager to produce. Maybe 20% or less of their offerings are what I'd call a solid mid-range 6-pack of beer.
That's funny: "I have started a private service called sr.ht, which I aim to use to fix the problem by only letting my friends and I use it." :-)
The city doesn't plow the sidewalks and bike trails, at least not until the roads are passable. First priority is emergency services and highway connections to the outside world, not shovelling out bike trails through the woods. Even then, we drive on compact snow for 1/3 the year.
I like the UI stuff like the knobs, very cool.
> if much higher rates of mutation were doing the virus a favor overall, then it would already be mutating at those rates.

This sounds reasonable, but is it actually true?

Edit: Long tail events are hard to reason about, and successful mutations are very definitely many sigmas out on the curve. And optimisation cost function is hard to think about: short-term survival has different parameters than long-term chance of becoming the dominant variant. “Punctuated” mutation rates might be the ideal nursery, versus a constant mutation rate?
If you don't give feedback to bad ideas, you're treating them as if they're unable to improve. Maybe "idiot" isn't the exact word, but it's close.

The other poster isn't being condescending, they're calling you condescending.
>If we paint the Earth with reactors

No need. About 5,300 1GW reactors would be enough to supply all electric needs world wide. With renewables added in, the number is even smaller.

Electricity can be sent over wires, too, so there's no need to put reactors everywhere, we can keep them in secure locations if needed.
Sounds even worse for Copilot

(1)the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2)the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3)the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4)the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

It's commercial, they use all of the code to built the model and the original code loses its value because you can get through Copilot. 3 of 4, depending on the original license it's 4 of 4 against fair use
Sorry if I'm missing something important as I have experience with C++ but not rust, but is async/await the right abstraction in Rust vs. the underlying generators which I assume is lower level and closer to C++20 Co-routines in terms of performance ? [1]

In other words, it seems Rust co-routines at the level of Tokio are not as performant as C++ native Co-routines [2] and further down the thread, it's mentioned that once generators are stabilized, it might help build lower cost and performant stackless coroutines in Rust.[3]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43122#issuecomment-...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43122#issuecomment-...

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43122#issuecomment-...
The individual playfields aren't very complicated compared to typical pinball. But all of the elements together makes for a lot of logic, channels, and code.
Cofounder here, happy to answer questions
This has references newer than 2008: https://www.alzdiscovery.org/uploads/cognitive_vitality_medi...

At the top, it talks about "long term use", so it may be okay under acute circumstances.
The internet broke down the barriers to content distribution. AI will break down the barriers to content creation.

The future will not be "look I made an AI song that millions of people are listening to!" but will be "AI create and play me a song of my favorite rapper overlaid onto of my favorite techno genre" and you'll just listen to it yourself.
More generally, stabilizing the ABI can prevent future optimization.

Also, including lifetime information in the ABI is a hard problem thay hasn't been solved yet, and you can't have generics in an exposed ABI.
I agree about being pragmatic and doing what the business needs are at the moment!

But that's also why I argue for having less process up front and creating it as needed. The master branch exists solely for the aesthetic reason of having a linear history from version to version. This is obviously incompatible with a non-linear version history.

Simplify the initial process by getting rid of master and tagging directly on the release branch.

In fact, the merge from release branch to master is a bit suspicious. I'd expect the contents of the merge to be precisely the contents of the release branch, regardless of what was on master previously. If not, what am I releasing?
Is that really true in Germany? Chernobyl was such a big deal to the German public, making nuclear very unpopular.
I think the mooney bravo had a porsche engine at some point? But otherwise you are correct. It wouldn't make any sense to use engines in both cars and planes because they are such massively different requirements: One needs extreme reliability at basically one RPM and power output and has things like double spark plugs for robustness, the other wants to keep costs down and reach higher RPMs
So ... Germany declared war on Russia knowing it would involve fighting France then. Not sure how this changes things unless the alliance was a secret
> The fossil fuel industry is not funding pro-nuclear arguments because they want to see 50% of their business lost to nuclear.

In Germany it's the same companies running fossil and nuclear btw.

They also expand into renewables now.
It just has nothing to do with what we're talking about. The notion that Monsanto is suing farmers for seeds just blowing onto their fields false, and thus can't have anything to do with whether seeds should be patentable.
What's more concerning, a corrupt or incompetent government mishandling one ton of nuclear fuel, or the same corrupt/incompetent government mishandling the one million tons of coal that would be needed to replace it? (which by the way, would have approximately the same amount of radioactive potential due to the natural radioactive contaminants that will get concentrated as you use it)
I don't but I've seen many people on the app say as much.

I've seen many more people appending reddit to Google searches.

google should be more worried about reddit getting their search together
> These people usually are useless and owe their entire salaries to propagating the Scrum/Agile ideas, so they do it with lots of conviction.

I like to give the benefit of the doubt but it's still hard for me to say this is overly cynical.

> running a 15-minute Daily Standup that typically goes 30 minutes

Imagine if your most marketable skill is knowledge of a certain process and you don't even get that right. It's not hard to believe someone would insist overmuch on their One True Way.
The intention behind GPL is great, but it's a technologist response to a social issue.

If we want a software commons we have to say that upfront, not try to imply it via legalese, and then get offended when fractions emerge.
Hey. I'm glad that this is what you are looking for. At the moment there isn't constraint based modeling. However given that you have a programming language at your disposal you can model your constraints yourself.
The pellets are homogeneous. The reprocessing of fuel involves melting or dissolving them and chemically separating out the waste products, with the remaining unused fuel going back into new pellets.

The waste products are spread throughout the fuel pellets evenly, so the pellets have to be deconstructed to remove them.