skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't take the vaccine (I decided it didn't make sense for me) and have had covid twice. Once was likely Beta, the other likely Omicron.

The first time around sucked. It was basically a very bad flu for about five days. I caught it on a trip to southern Mississippi, and it didn't help that I had to drive >10 hours back home without stopping anywhere that I might spread it. I ordered medicine, food, and supplies for contactless delivery and drove it nonstop.

The second time I only knew it was covid because I was testing every time I had an inkling that I might have gotten it. I had a very mild fever and a runny nose for two days and nothing else. I isolated myself in my home office and managed to keep anyone else in my family from getting it, too.

Everything I've experienced, heard, or read strongly indicates that each round is significantly less bad than the last.
Old hat in new clothes

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50865211.amp
If this is U.S, then you are correct on the lack of knowledge part, not on the self taught part. The U.S. university system is such now that if you are not self taught, you will know nothing. The credits are made up, the cirriculum barren of experienced engineers, and the fed is handing out accredidation like candy at a parade for political purposes. The era where experienced engineers would be teaching at any of these schools is over - they're working private. This is a natural consequence of the racketeering federal student loans and grants have created.

It matters far more now what nationality, skin color, and how many studies you've published, quality or not. You can guess which political party decided to make it that way.
More serious and contact sports , no co-ed, just guys. Something like PSV used to be
I would ask this a different way--is there a single OSS project that handles collecting all of the OTEL metrics/logs/traces? Folks keep saying you can't do this in data store/format, Elastic seems to, and having to manage separate storage/infrastructure for all of these tools is intense.

Could Prometheus be augmented to store metrics, logs, and traces somehow? I don't really mind if it doesn't scale well on a single instance or is highly available, I'll just add more instances and aggregate them.
So, they used a trend from the last three years to forecast the population for the next 40...makes perfect sense.

Unless they can predict every economic boom and bust, every political shift, every new technology and other growth areas and much more, this report isn't worth the paper it is printed on. In 2019 the forecast would have been the exact opposite, and in another 3 years it can flip again.
My take is that the tools should be available and the product not locked down such that only 1 blessed supplier or repair place can service.
So long as competitors can arise in the repair space beyond the manufacturer, then there’s a sliver of hope that pressures against monopoly repair.

This only induces product design that is remotely repairable, vs always discard, at high enough price points that refurbished or secondary market can command value.

I struggle to see how lower priced items could have “be repairable” as some enforceable tenant absent a standards group which always trend toward incumbents and reduced innovation.
A sufficient mass of (uncoordinated) HN users responding to a post (by downvoting, flagging and lodging innumerable uncivil replies) until it is removed from the stream of discourse.
NICE work!
I can't tell you how many times I pipe in rev to put my text where I want it for cut (then rev it again).

Abbreviated example, getting the service names from a k8s cluster looks roughly like (actual command does a bit more processing):

kubectl get deployments -o wide | rev | cut -d'=' -f1 | rev

But if it's just gobbling whitespace, xargs without a command can be your friend.

$ echo "key: value" | cut -d: -f2 | xargs

value

My brain generally goes "rev sed head tail xargs cut tr ... screw it, I'll use python ... someday I shall learn awk." There's a young engineer on my team that knows awk, and I'm envious.
I'm not familiar enough with international diplomacy or central banking for that to be the most jarring part.

But, when the head of an international organization takes a week and a half to get to a meeting on the other side of the planet, and thinks that it's nicer to take a sequence of trains and sailing ships than it used to be to fly ... that seemed totally alien. When subsistence farmers were surprised by the large amount of money they were paid for getting more carbon into their soil, that seemed really implausible. When KSM glosses by how easy and quick it was to make giant wildlife corridors across North America, and talks about whole communities packing up and voluntarily abandoning towns to ceded those areas to nature ... that seemed wildly implausible.

There were a lot of these moments for me, and while I get the people that use these as a criticism against the realism of the book, I also think that gap is a criticism against all of us.
>Why do you think anybody would want to be a citizen of Ukraine?

I gather the occupiers are now refusing insulin to diabetics unless they take Russian citizenship. If they have to resort to such death threats then maybe some people do want to remain Ukrainian?
But does this even get published if the results are neutral?
Just because we can’t prove a negative doesn’t mean safety testing is pointless. Doing a couple animal studies to check for obvious problems is likely better than pure anarchism.
Migrated out in 2020. These were my reasons:

- Covid made me realize how important being close to family was.

- Three straight years of serious wildfires, along with the general unease of a predictable rainfall pattern put me at unease.

- At that point I'd been working remote for 8 years. It took that long for me to feel confident I could easily get fun, well-paying jobs outside of the Bay Area.

- The Bay Area felt like a mono-culture despite it's marketing otherwise.

- The housing market was pretty silly. Got a lot more house for less money moving.

Things I miss:

- The produce is better in California.

- The restaurant variety in the Bay Area is superb.

- Harder to find certain type of nerd friends.

Surprises

- I don't actually miss the weather, and sort of prefer having seasons again.

- The schools are better where we moved. My wife is a teacher and was sort of floored by this. Both areas were "great" school districts, and I admit region to region can always have variance. Still, we didn't expect this.
Not sure what your point is? Ignore the child because Badpun was fine?

It honestly sounds like you're arguing against "Interact with your child, help them if you think they need it", which seems.. odd. You could perhaps be arguing that parents are wrong usually, and should go against their intuition on helping the child - but that's also a mixed bag.
IME, on basically all filesystems, just walking a directory tree of lots of files is expensive. Half a million files on modern systems should not be a terribly huge issue but once you get into the millions, just figuring out how to back them all up correctly and in a reasonable time frame starts to become a major admin headache.

Since git is essentially a filesystem with extensive version control features, it doesn't surprise me that it would have problems handing large amounts of files.
The active Fortran projects I have seen (hydrology) are mostly f90+. That said, they were rewritten over years of dedicated effort and could easily have languished in original form had the federal funding landscape looked different in recent decades.
Try coralogix.
> Germany's Weimar republic, where an elite class that knew how to manipulate the workers could take advantage of a predictable economic collapse and predictable hyper-inflation to gain power.

Not sure it was "predictable" or "an elite class"; the Nazi party were to a great extent outsider-populists, and they won the middle class by pitching themselves as the less drastic change than the Bolsheviks. Certain markers of the old elite got banned under Nazism. "Mensur" fencing. Especially insanely: banning the old German font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

The hyper-inflation was merely an incredibly stupid response to a forex crisis caused by the reparations. The country was legally obliged to hand over gold marks; it attempted to print Reichsmarks in unlimited quantities to buy goldmarks, which of course caused a forex collapse.

There is, of course, no US forex crisis or inflation crisis, just a rather nasty transient bump caused by the war disrupting global natural gas prices. The US is doing rather well. It's Europe where we need to watch out for far-right parties who think they can solve the problems with mass murder (usually of refugees).
Ignore all the pro/con noise. git clone its repo, compile it locally and play with it. Write some code. You’ll be pleasantly surprised (at least I was). Its progress is pretty good (few tests break now and then and once in a while the self-compile breaks and I have to run make). If you know Go, it is very easy to pick up but don’t expect it to be exactly like go and it has its own idioms.

Note: I’m interested in V but not involved in V development.
You are likely:

1. Trolling.

2. Don't live here.

3. (or) are clearly subsisting on a diet of misinformation.

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The areas where unrest was rampant were not known to be hotbeds of quality dining anyway and very few people here, aside from those who don't live in the metro area, are also on a diet of misinformation, or didn't go downtown often in the first place simply don't think that way.

Minneapolis is the 16th largest metro area and is in the 30s for violent crime rate.
> on the order of 50 lbs

A really large e-bike battery is 4kg. Nobody is riding an e-bike with 50 pounds of batteries. Even the battery pack on a Zero FX, an electric motorcycle, is only 42 pounds.
Manufacturing aluminum castings at scale efficiently (without using excessive amounts of metal) is a difficult problem to solve. This kind of stuff has plagued other car manufacturers too and with much smaller components. For example aluminum Ice engine heads and blocks. Certain vehicle years (for example 2005 Golf tdi) are known for "porous" and cracking castings.

There is a very good reason (other than "they" want cars to rust) for using steel. Just based on my hobbyist knowledge it's a metal that behaves a lot more predictably.
Just a starting point. Adhd is incredibly well treated with meds. Better than any other psychological disorder because it is a brains structure and chemistry issue.

Get diagnosed. Get medications. You might find that you're working with a completely different person when that is resolved.

Meanwhile you kinda need to create more accountability for the. Have them send you reports daily or twice a day on work accomplished. Even hourly if needed. You don't even have to read them. The goal is for him to feel accountable and use that as his external motivation tool. Have him write more documentation and agree ahead of time that you set the priority.

There's a lot. Much more than will fit in this post. But a lot of it is about scaffolding his work experience to force him into a focused mental state. Do not judge him yb lines of code, only by results and consistency. And absolutely call him out to remind him.

Also tell him all this. But remember adhd people have trouble connecting knowledge and action so you'll have to remind him that this convo happened all the time which will snap him back into understanding.

ROFL: You can tell where my ADHD lies. I got about 50% of the way through thinking you were complaining about a co-founder looking for advice.

I am going to leave my reply up rather than deleting. And just to note, my ONLY productivity tool that has ever been effective is a piece of paper in front of me right by my keyboard that I can't not look at containing my notes / checklist of things I am currently working on, ordered by priority.

Definitely re-title it to "Show HN:"
Its great to see commissioner Mark T Uyeda also dissenting, because for some time it was only Hester Pierce that would take these views on digital assets, and for her views to be elevated to head commissioner it requires a Republican President to make that nomination, as she is Republican.

There are many people that are not Republican that would aim to get her appointed and do whatever it takes. Which means casting a vote for a Republican Presidential candidate no matter who that is, simply because the power is imbued within that person.

Mark T Uyeda's existence as a Democrat makes this a lot simpler, for people that would find the above to be awkward, as Democrat leadership could also nominate him for head commissioner.

Bipartisan dissent is great.

It really isn't enough to just not like digital assets or the industry, to establish jurisdiction over them for enforcement.

Oh no people lost money.... because they couldn't resale a consumer product?

> We do not routinely bring enforcement actions against people that sell watches, paintings, or collectibles along with vague promises to build the brand and thus increase the resale value of those tangible items.

exactly, its either go after all of them until Congress rescinds the agency's charter completely with this outstanding application of Howey, or show the exact distinction that crypto asset creators can follow to act solely as a consumer product.
It's not like the "hackers" are going to be able to do much with the IP address.
I clicked into this to see if MFTF was mentioned. Powerful opening scene.

Other commenters criticizing the book for the ending and the positivity turn it takes are missing the point of why the book is valuable, I think.

Like for you maybe, it was the first book that got me serious about climate. The value isn’t in the ending, but in the first half with unpleasantly accurate the early “oh sh*t” disasters were and same for the totally inept societal responses.

Made me realize we were likely procrastinating our way into an emergency, and any magical way out we find IRL will be at a high cost of suffering. We will probably get disasters, we will get climate terrorism, and it will get much worse before we get saved (by magic blockchain carbon fediverse haha?).
Grafana seems to be an option? Handles metrics, logs and traces. I don't know what storage costs look like though if you are self hosting.. https://grafana.com/
Their argument isn't "neo-luddist".

> these chemicals can of course be broken down

The parent comment didn't claim they couldn't be broken down, but that they "never [break] down". The (obvious) intended meaning is that the chemicals will not break down with regular use or normal exposure to common environments.

> It is impossible to prove a negative, so you are arguing we should stop inventing new things.

This is such a disingenuous line of reasoning that I almost wondered if you were intending to be comedic.

The parent comment was clearly advocating for policies that require companies to actually put forth effort to demonstrate safety over time. The longer a compound is expected to remain intact under regular conditions, the greater the guarantee of safety demanded. What you are advocating for is essentially what we already have: companies should not need to go to great efforts to demonstrate long-term safety because "innovation" and "progress", though of course when the companies say this they really mean "profit".

It is unclear what stake you have in advocating for such a position, but a good argument it is not.
A genuine question from a life long Californian: do other states not have problems? It seems like there’s an entire cottage industry dedicated to negative news about California.

Obviously we have some challenges, but my feeling is that we are at least taking baby steps in the right direction w.r.t. the kinds of policy solutions we need (even if the execution is not always perfect and things don’t happen fast enough).
> One of them said he would take what he wanted. He demanded the very best flashlights that money could buy

This is such a bizarre encounter that it's hard to take it as representative of anything other than one weirdo.
I've flown hydrogen balloons before (just because it was cheaper than helium--although you do need different fittings for the tank). I've also lit them on fire just to see what happend.

I don't think they're as dangerous as people think. If they ignite they go up in a whoosh, not a bang. The only debris is your payload, now falling. So as as your payload is not also made out of flammable material (as was the case with the Hindenburg) then I don't think it's any more of a fire threat than having power lines near trees is in the first place. Up is conveniently the right direction for a ball of flame.

Of course all of this goes out the window if you let it become entangled in a tree...
Your typical, old school airplane autopilot will happily crash into a mountain, not unlike how basic cruise control will happily crash into a wall.
The new competitive advantage for states is going to be low rent. A "healthy economy" for people who make their money owning real estate drives away people who do things for a living. This includes people whose retirement plans rest mostly on the value of their house going up.
This book came up recently, and I learned that “White” is E.B. White. Author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart little. I particularly enjoyed the image of Charlotte teaching grammar…
>Not in America.

Not in Europe as well. You can't afford to uproot your family just because your new employer is on the other side of the city, and yet you're expected to if you want the job. A lot of my friends in Germany commute by car to work just because they don't liver within sensible cycling/public transport distance.
Funny how the view is so different

I always marvel at it and think: "wow so git goes through its history, pulls out many small files and chunks and patches, updates the whole file tree and all of this after hitting enter and being done like immediately."
> we need fiction that confronts the climate crisis and shows people taking positive action to change the world for the better.

Like Termination Shock?

https://www.amazon.com/Termination-Shock-Novel-Neal-Stephens...
Yeah, but you have the same problem when using Prometheus and the native histograms? So far I know it is not supported by the text / openmetrics format only in their protobuf-basaed format version
The idea in the book was this was a new event that never occurred previously that finally did and was able to demonstrate that climate change is doing some new and not survivable.

In the book, people galvanized around it kind of like 9/11 as it was clearly climate change, as opposed to other things that already existed and may or may not be due to climate change (more hurricanes, etc).
The article doesn't really match the title. The SEC press release is much more informative: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-163

What this article is linked to is a dissent from two of the commissioners.
I Wrote Minecraft for a Calculator [video]
And how many bath tubs there are per-capita. Many newer homes are built with only showers.

You also have to worry about power when it comes to having access to sufficient water to cool a person in the first place.
Still proving my point. 35K deaths per year.

We will normalize climate related deaths the way we have normalized traffic related deaths.
I’m very hopeful that in five years time, Tesla has been so thoroughly lapped by the rest of the car industry that they have to start closing some of their gigafactories.

I’d bet good money on that.
That's precisely what is so deceptive. Compared to a lead acid battery of equivalent capacity the dangers are far higher (though to be splashed with acid can ruin your life quite effectively as well).

What will happen - usually - is this: one cell will go bad, into thermal runaway. Maybe it had a bad interconnect which vibration fixed and now the rest of the cells in parallel will dump a few hundred amps into it or maybe the pack was subject to a fall, who knows. But let's assume that one cell only got damaged. This cell is in close proximity to the rest of the cells in the pack but typically they'll have between two and six closely spaced neighbors. Those in turn will start to go up after which there is a geometric expansion until the whole pack is gassing out and possibly already burning.

Elapsed time from first symptoms to violent explosion/fire is on the order of 10 to 20 seconds at best. And once it gets going your best chance of stopping it is to immerse the whole thing in a very large volume of water or to bury it in a large amount of sand. The vapors are not going to be pleasant to deal with, anything combustible that it can come into contact with will likely burn.

Some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlQumRetMf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKn8MLG9slA
Exactly our first inspections are in remote areas so it should be less of a problem. But, even with those small leaks it's not that much of a problem because the airship itself does not empty that fast!

Concerning your question on range:
We will easily fly an entire day without refueling (and more), basically an entire day means 200 miles.
Yes, in a previous life I did some soul-sucking call center work for a large national mobile company and they specifically had a written policy at the root level of their knowledgeable system about call recording. Their instructions were that if anyone was recording the call you were to read a certain script and immediately disconnect, no questions asked. If they tried to do the 'this call may be recorded' thing you were supposed to seek clarification about whether the call is being recorded and if the answer was anything other than no, you were to read the same script and immediately disconnect.

These companies know that worker bee call center drones say things all the time that the company doesn't want preserved in a court of law later- mainly promises that the company doesn't want to have to uphold if they were outside policy. They take it very seriously. I suspect any major company with something to lose has a similar policy.
Aren't there some laws that require a car manufacturer to buy back a faulty car like this?
If ARMD, that can be a serious condition.

Removing physical barriers is the one that requires the most effort, and should be done as early as possible. Replacing stairs with ramps, moving or removing furniture that's hard to navigate around, adding hand supports and guides, removing any flooring transitions or lips that a person could stumble on. Those should be top priority as they have an adjustment period which is much faster while still visible. She will have a mental model of her home prior to loss of sight, makes it much easier to continue living and functioning in the same space after losing eyesight.
> I often imagine an alternate future where we have 1000s of small single core chips with their own memory rather than current SMP model.

it's not individual chips but that's basically what GPUs or systolic processor arrays (adapteva epiphany) are like, in net effect. every core gets some memory/scratchpad to work, and there is a giant shared memory.
You sighted a problem and cited zero anything else.

Pandemic response was effective at avoiding healthcare system collapse and churning out a vaccine. It’s as good a plan as we can get with 30% of 300 million intentionally indifferent, centrists too absorbed in low effort consumerism, and anyone espousing concern being called a tree hugging pussy.

What else do you want? Too many seem to think the MCU should hop on saving them from themselves.

Say something useful yourself or get over it. You were never going to make it out of this life alive anyway.