skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you are an insider, would you please shed some light on a personal question I've had for a while? Is the reason the IFC specification is so extremely complicated because they're trying to map nicely to an object model that's already in Autodesk products?

I read a proposal a while ago to simplify an open BIM spec down to meshes for solids and a generic dictionary for attaching property data. That struck me as very sane and very easy to implement. You could have a free product like Blender spit out BIM compliant deliverable at minimal cost. Apparently some high ups at Autodesk talked to the author and he came to understand the error of his ways.
>> without prompt attention <<

nope. there is no prompt attention in the current situation

as noted in the paper incidence of fat embolism approaches 30%

many undiagnosed incidence are discovered post mortem.

you are attempting to minimize a dangerous situation.

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>> EPIDEMIOLOGY

The incidence of FES ranges from < 1 to 29% in different studies. It varies considerably according to the cause. The actual incidence of FES is not known, as mild cases often go unnoticed.

Bulger et al.,[3] in their retrospective study, reported an incidence of < 1%, while Fabian et al. in their prospective study, reported an incidence of 11–29%.[4] Surprisingly, the incidence was 0.9% when only clinical criteria were used to diagnose FES, whereas with the aid of postmortem examination the incidence was as high as 20%.[2] <<

2. Georgopoulos D, Bouros D. Fat embolism syndrome clinical examination is still the preferable diagnostic method. Chest. 2003;123:982–3.

3. Bulger EM, Smith DG, Maier RV, Jurkovich GJ. Fat embolism syndrome: A 10 years review. Arch Surg. 1997;132:435–9.

4. Fabian TC, Hoots AV, Stanford DS, Patterson CR, Mangiante EC. Fat embolism syndrome, prospective evaluation in 92 fractured patients. Crit Care Med. 1990;18:42–6.
Ukraine no longer has nukes.
Mamy (most?) people would prefer to not have to job hop if the meager slary increases didn't make it almost mandatory. Even then, many people stay because they hate the idea of changing jobs so much.
‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists
You do not appreciate how far ahead Tesla is technologically. A look under the hood of a Toyota BEV, or a study of the negative profit margins of Ford and GM BEV’s would be worthwhile here.

And unlike Finder 4.3 and Finder 6, Tesla is no longer perceived as an upstart, but rather, an established leader.
At least you're in the car. I'm not, and I'm also at risk, and so is my family. Proximity to Tesla is fortunately higher for Tesla owners so they are probably at higher risk from FSD than the rest of us but you really should not give control of your car to anything that says 'beta' on the tin and that regulators haven't stepped in yet is a complete mystery to me. Given the amount of requirements a vehicle (and a driver!) has to go through to be allowed into traffic in the first place you'd expect that any kind of mission critical software would be required to be put through its paces in a very stringent test environment as well but that seems to be asking too much.

Besides the fact that the next OTA update may well give you a completely different batch of problems.
I agree. Ethics haven't stopped weapons manufacturers from making increasingly deadly weapons, so I doubt it'd stop when the tech for killer robots is possible.
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it has multiple owners from many different countries.
Right? I get trying beta ir even alpha versions of inconsequential software, but something that can easily kill me? What are these people thinking? It’s mind boggling.
Norway too. When you register a sole proprietorship in your name in Norway, you will soon get multiple other Norwegian companies contacting you.

Some of them purport to help you “start your business”. They will charge you money and provide about zero value. They are not trying to help anyone at all, they are just looking to exploit inexperienced people.

And the worst ones will use wording to make themselves seem like this is another required step in order to complete the creation of your company. All the while being very careful so that although the wording tricks other people they can still snake their way out of trouble by pointing to some part or the message they sent that somehow clears them of any way to get them fined or otherwise punished for actual fraud.

This was already a problem years ago when I registered my own sole proprietorship. I am sure that today with the ease of generating convincing garbage using LLMs the problem is probably even greater.
Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing
I guess that’s crucial when you invest in derivatives. ;)
I always vote the local issues. For the national bozos I can leave it blank, which is "none of the above".
It requires tech to move beyond the standard refrain that this is the manager’s fault. It’s hard to get somebody to accept liability when it can directly hit their pocket book.
Can't wait until Apple does this and markets this as a revolutionary feature.
How to Negotiate a Job Offer Deadline
I've been trading stocks for a long time, and I've noticed this type of "journalism" is knee-capping a lot of companies at a higher rate than ever.
Along the Banks of the Nile
That will saturate. Then you will have to decide whether to become a cat person.
It's a very British startup that clearly has some connection to the government and is trying to lobby their way into NHS etc.
written in Rust :)

https://github.com/nomad/cola - MIT licensed
You would expect the original comment to be downvoted as well if that were the case.
I can assure there is and it's a positive correlation. Single data point/anecdatum and all that but I dont see myself as stupid and my lolcat collection is appreciating nicely thank-you.
Oceanic waves represent fundamental challenges in nonlinear science
A union is more important when you’re working for the Federal government or even some state or local government as they make and enforce the rules.

For example, if you work for a state labor department… Public sector worker safety is regulated by… the state labor department. There’s an organizational bias to not rock the boat.

Any Federal or quasi-federal agency is a dictatorship. Some rural mail carrier in Montana or New York is 50 layers away from someone who has the power to affect change. You need the union to represent your interests and short circuit the org. Outside of the federal space, if a company fucked up payroll, the state labor department would unleash significant pain on the company. USPS is tasked with policing USPS!

If the union is failing some constituents, that’s going to drive a desire to get more effective representation. The benefit of focused representation may outweigh a smaller bargaining unit. (In general, it’s better to have 500,000 members than 50,000 members)
There's also RSS-Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

"The RSS feed for websites missing it"
Those authoritarian local governments are "democracies"

Tyranny of the majority is tyranny nonetheless

Blocking cultural change and progress.
Do you normally find questions to be attacks?
So? At least they have a driving license. That's not something we can say about this pile of crap. It cost me 2 years of my life, a small fortune at the time and a lot of hassle from the authorities before being allowed to pass so I could join in on this thing called 'traffic' with a vehicle. And I thought that was just fine. Now we get this stuff that is absolutely unverified and that is known to have issues released into traffic as though it is perfectly normal.
Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS.

https://reactos.org/

It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back.
Störerhaftung (DE)
EU Digital Services Act – Killing free WiFi!
Why shouldn’t the contractor and junior IC also lose their jobs for this level of fuck up? This is literally someone’s kids’ food on their table. Why does anyone in the chain get a pass?

Fire them all. For cause.
> “Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset.” -Elon Musk, 2019

https://electrek.co/2019/04/12/tesla-vehicles-appreciating-a...

He did preface the statement with ‘I believe..’ which is probably why there’s no SEC investigation, but I’m no securities lawyer.
The only one of those which is actually baseload is hydro, which is already installed in most of the areas with suitable geography. You can't use wind without storage for electric heat or people will freeze to death.

Batteries are a storage technology, but we're going to be putting the bulk of battery production capacity into electrifying transportation for the foreseeable future.
I’m with you on nuclear, I’m just pessimistic it’s possible today politically. I wish we all pulled a France back in the 60s, but it seems like the window on that has closed.
Revisiting Hy in 2023
Problem for that region isn’t that wages aren’t growing. The issue is that they are very low to begin with. France for instance pays senior engineers much better. Poland pays better when adjusting for cost of living. Germany is on average not competitive even within its own region.
Cat decides you.
New title: “Two cars murder a pedestrian”
> I want government run on empirical data with justice and equality at its heart.

You're asking for technocracy, and this is what is lined up already - you might wonder whether you are being engineered. All those cameras, smart phones, smart meters, legislation, facial recognition, etc - this is to allow micro-management at the most granular level. It's all quite far from freedom indeed, which is where this conversation started. The global governance structure is already fascistic (corporation and the state work together). I'm not a fan of the forced tyranny that's in store for us - once we've got it, I suspect you'll change your mind too.
Have you seen The Biggest Little Farm?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8969332/

Maybe biodiversity is the solution.
Just think of Tesla as Apple. The legacy automakers have soured the auto investment space. But Tesla is a general, diversified technology company.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941968/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/well/live/robotic-surgery...
What explains massive shifts in the climate? Why do we have ice ages? Why do they end?

The climate is millions of years old. We have at best 200 years of data.

If we are wrong about this Putin wins big time as Russia is sticking to its fossil fuel revenue sources and keeping the majority of the developing world on fossils.

Russia is turning Africa as we speak. Do you have any idea of what the implications are of Russia achieving global dominance, in alliance with China?
And, instead, the US opted to stir up opposition despite the multiple warnings (and, quite obvious indications) that Russia would be prompted to act.

Anything like that would require giving Russia a perpetual lease on Sevastopol, as well as assured access to the base. When Ukrainian politicians started floating the idea of not renewing the lease past 2015, there was very little Russia could do but to take what they needed by force, and create an unsustainable situation within Ukraine.

This whole thing could have been solved by an e-mail in 2014.
Tl;dr: To trick people into eating less meat, withhold the information about whether their meal options contain meat.
The biggest advantage to owning your business is that you can optimize it solely for what's best for you. If growth is all you care about, go nuts, but if you've got it humming along making decent money with just the right amount of work, there's zero pressure to change it.

I think a lot of people forget that and think that they need to push to be more "successful" - kudos to you for doing in the right way for you.
Juniors by definition need closer supervision. I would say the same for contractors too.
Even better, the model itself should be GPL licenced, since it's clearly a derivative work.
The majority of Americans are too overweight and unhealthy to travel any meaningful distance by bike.
https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/Chin...

https://i.insider.com/53aa95306bb3f7412391ee34?width=1000&fo...
Michael, my simple point was that copyright, like trade secrets, requires no validation in some jurisdictions by default. For some reason you view this as a distraction, instead, it was merely illustrative.

In terms of validation, I have no idea why you think one cannot invalidate someone claiming to have a trade secret. You can literally invalidate anything, someone is trying to assert as valid.

A bottle blonde could claim that is their original hair colour, and one could invalidate that claim too.

You seem stuck on an internal definition of 'validate'. Your internal definition seems wrong.
It is standart exept in the software world.
Klaus Schwab a Marxist?

ROTFL
The Story behind Chef the Configuration Management Tool
Adam Gordon Bell interviews Adam Jacob - the original developer of the Configuration Management Tool "Chef" - and his journey of leading the company.
I’ve unfortunately done studio/agency work my entire career and they’ve all been pretty small (around four devs) until my last employer, which was closer to 70 people and exactly what you described. It’s like you were describing them specifically. I left that job because it ran the capable people ragged and also generally felt dishonest to our clients despite financial transparency being one of the biggest public selling points
A rather more serious review that actually bothers to consider the argument properly: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2023.2...
Ask HN: Am I being oversensitive about my SSH keys?
I want to centralise my ssh private keys and config file but it feels wrong to put them on Gitlab or Github. Am I being oversensitive?
I mean, Musk said that years ago on a podcast (and has maintained that position since): "I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset." (1)

It is obviously false, but his case was that all Teslas would be working as robotaxis for their owners. "Insane lie or megalomania?" is the defense, as ever.

1: https://electrek.co/2019/04/12/tesla-vehicles-appreciating-a...
You're missing two things:

1. You're in a tech bubble. For a counter anecdote, the only Macs I encounter are those provided by my US employers in the technology sector. The US is particularly high in Mac market share, California more so, and the bay area may be the one Mac OS majority desktop/laptop share region on the planet.

2. Windows laptops don't get replaced that often. I know it's hard to believe from a tech/heavy user perspective, where it may feel like a 4 year old Windows laptop is so outdated and you need to replace it, especially if it was not one of the models that rival the Mac in price, but for the average user a Windows machine reached the point of being good enough for their uses in the Windows 7 era. This is because their uses (a) are not that strenuous (typing up office documents, posting on social media) and (b) unexciting, so they don't feel the need to upgrade the way they might with their smartphones. Notably, these users are also _not_ going to computing conferences to be spotted by you, or bringing their laptops to coffee shops (they have smartphones for that), etc.

Note that despite that, Windows still has the majority of new sales in the US, steady for the last 3 years at 55% to Mac's 30%, and the decline in the years prior to that were mostly driven by iPads and Chromebooks, not Macs - the big jump in Mac market share in 2019 seems to be iPads being merged into the mac category, as iOS's share in this space disappears at the same time: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272667/market-share-held...
The page conveniently/willfully

- misinterprets statements like "we have X years to do Y or we will have set something in motion that later causes Z" as if that means "Z will happen on January 1st CurrentYear+X";

- misinterprets the words "may" and "could", which typically indicate an extreme but possible scenario, since that's what the media wants to quote, not what they actually expect to happen;

- does not take into account when a behavioral change lead to it not coming true (see ozone layer); and

- exclusively shows unlikely claims, at least since the greenhouse gas emission problem became known in the ~90s, rather than looking at a legit prediction from any scientific paper in the last decades for example.

Page footer:

> A project of the #LearnToCode Initiative.

I suppose that settles the debate of whether we should teach everyone to code. Or maybe we didn't teach them enough, as CurrentYear+X != Z is too hard to understand still
exactly yes - because in a large bureaucracy, "stall and blame" are the daily routine, and your skill at competitively doing this in a crowd, is how you got your promotion.. not everyone has seen this in action, but once you see it .. and it often takes years to see it.. you will know the truth of it..

I believe that this USPS situation is a degeneration of internal fights that are lasting more than a decade now.. it is about money and authority, indeed
Investing in the technology leader blunts the speculative aspect. And the volatility is caused by panicky, inexperienced investors jumping in and out at the margins.
Elon Musk follows Longtermism. His position is that few deaths here and there today don't matter if it brings about full self driving cars.
I see plenty of people enthusiastically volunteering for the TSA facial recognition roll-out. People seem to love easy access government surveillance.
Then we get into the whole Tesla-doesn't-advertise thing and whether or not Elon's comments are under oath/contract/etc or opinion or intentionally-misleading-because-he-said-it-at-a-heavily-advertised-event. Who knows.
https://archive.is/HEmGe
You can very much be sued for working on a proprietary project and then trying to reproduce it somewhere else. That's why clean-room reimplementations have to make sure that no contributor has seen the original code.
Indeed, 'it can't happen here' is definitely answered in the negative. It can happen here, and it probably will happen here where 'here' is anywhere that considered itself to be on the 'good' side during WWII (that is: anywhere other than Japan, Italy and Germany). Italy is already almost there, the United States is flirting with it and may well succeed, the UK is up for grabs for whoever promises the electorate the biggest tax cuts and Russia is currently re-enacting the whole thing to see if they are able to determine if maybe Hitler was on to something.

It is absolutely incredible, the amount of lack of knowledge about history on display. And we can't seem to get the message across either. If Trump should - god forbid - come to power I predict all out war in Europe within the next 6 years.
That likely depends on whether they had registered trademarks in Italy beforehand.
Yenish people
The whole article was stupid, but it led to a lively discussion. Of course a car isn’t an appreciating asset. It accumulates your farts.
"Charcoal" literally means "coal made by charring [implicitly: wood]". I assume you (and probably rootusrootus) mean "No regular brand of charcoal contains [fossil] coal." (eg, lignite, bitumite, or anthracite).

(I don't know what they're on about either; presumably for sufficiently historical values of "conventional" barbecue coal was supplied from the same mines as train / steam engine / home heating coal, but that isn't much of a thing anymore.)
No tabs? Weird

If these GUI editors can't offer better than VIM + tmux, then something is wrong
Did the Cruise robotaxi have a mechanical malfunction? If not, can you try harder to come up with a more relevant whataboutism?
I find the smell of kerosene seems to only happen between opening the kerosene container and lighting it. As soon as it's lit, kerosene smoke at fire-pit scale seems to be odorless.
Honestly I believe that Hollywood and film industry needs to change. The sooner the better.

And I also don't really care about those people - most of them seem to lost any connection with outside world and passion for the craft. The only motivation for most of them is feeding their overgrown egos.
Worse than a more typical 80% stock/15% bonds/5% cash.

Having half your assets in cash and gold is very not smart.
If they had contact less, then they wouldn't be able to gather the data from their mobile device...
Even the stupidest meat sack is orders of magnitudes better at driving when the constraint system they are working within is violated.
First of all those 3 companies aren't the same, and just throwing them into the same bucket makes no sense.

In terms of profit Tesla is already better or very close to Ford/GM. And Tesla is far more global and invest in many things GM/Ford don't.

Tesla very much can still in pursuit of GM/Ford range, in terms of sales. Also GM/Ford are mostly shrinking at the same time. I don't see why Tesla couldn't reach that range. Tesla currently is in a very small part of the market and have shown to be able to go into existing markets and attack them. That is what will be happening with Cybertruck, it will likely also have better margins then Model Y.

> It's looking like that's not going to happen (no surprise, here)

Their margin were unrealistically high for sure. However, that doesn't mean they will turn into Kia anytime soon. Tesla aggressively cut prices to where it was a very serious problem for a lot of competitors, and still had very good margin.

Its also just not very smart to compare Tesla margin to other margins because Tesla is EV only. If you measured just EV margin, then Tesla margins are utterly amazing. Because basically all the other OEMs barley make any money or more likely lose a gigantic amount of money on EVs. For how long will the be able to invest that much at a loss?

Ford breaking out their EV business has shown this quite well. Ford even their predictions don't reach EV margin Tesla has now 5 years from now, not even close. And I think Fords predictions are widely optimistic. Just like GMs were a few years ago when according to them, Ultium platform would have huge sales and like 20 models by 2023.

Others might be slightly better then Ford, but the overall picture in the industry is very much that companies are losing gigantic amounts of money on EVs. Some company have barley even started at this process, Honda, Toyota and co.

Tesla is very growth oriented and aggressive and still have quite good margin, and for EV only their margins are very good.

> and its margins will end up looking more like a legacy carmaker's

That transition to EV will take another 10 years. You are talking about a situation where all legacy has mostly transition to EV and many of them will simply not exist anymore (mostly threw mergers). And some companies for China will be huge.

By that time a lot of things will be different and I think Tesla with its relentless investment into other areas, energy, infrastructure, batteries, refining, mining, robotics, AI hardware and AI software is far better positioned then most other car companies for that world.
There are also a bunch of similar projects in the comments of my Show HN [1] where I shared a similar project.

[1] Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739568
Low-latitude oceans have become greener in the past 20 years: study
In the end it's a gamble, that worked out well for some people so far. It's been a pretty common scheme in Germany to buy a Tesla with subsidies and sell it to the second hand market after 6 months (usually going to Scandinavia, where there are tax incentives instead).