skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because US wealth usually grows at the top and doesn't really trickle down.

Data from 2020, but it's probably not changed much: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

2023 graph: https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/202... (from https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/202...)

With the massive increases in inflation and housing costs, the middle class and below can't really keep up. A 5% increase in earning power for them is like a few thousand dollars a year (that they have to immediately spend on housing and services), vs millions or billions for capitalists that can then reinvest in growth sectors (AI and whatnot).
Added to my podcast player - Thanks!

In a similar vein, Embedded.fm is a great podcast for embedded SW. Though I bet Oxide's take on embedded rust is a lot different than the hosts of that show!
This is exactly what I would expect a European to say about people whose culture is a mixture of indigenous traditions, Spanish colonialism, and its intersection with all the other parts of Southern California. Yes, we’re not upholding honorable Hispanic traditions, nor do we want to. We’ve arrived at something more tolerant, and it’s certainly not representative of the wider “Anglosphere”. Half the people in the US hate California for its cultural differences. You think Brits are going to feel right at home in East LA? Give me a break.
It does look pretty cool.
> Voluntary Marxism doesn't work, either

There's no such thing as “Voluntary Marxism”.

> See the 20,000 American communes, which all failed, and the Israel kibbutzen, which cannot survive without generous subsidy from the government.

Its false to say all American communes have failed (in fact, recent counts have many more with a much larger total population than when they were getting lots of attention, they just aren't an interesting novelty anymore), but there is nothing in Marxist theory that involves small voluntary communities doing their own thing separate from the state they are embedded in. Some communes may have been started by people who were personally Marxist in ideology, but communes in the sense that you are referring to have little to do with Marxism (I suppose that some Marxist might adopt a praxis in which they are seen as a means
to advance a broader revolution which is Marxist, but that's still doesn't make their success or failure relevant to Marxism as a system.)
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AFAIK there's not the same phenomena in Helsinki. Is it so much less springy across the gulf ?
Glad about this.

But I have to ask why it has taken so long for someone to finally do this?
Anyone not naive knows that this is a coordinated plan to stop the full bill from passing, they want to control as much of the narrative as possible.
"My experience is that people really do become proud of the systems that they build and that deleting them is something they avoid."

Who is still in the same position or team 10, or even 2 years, or even 6 months later, especially in any faang?
Nice project! Thanks for sharing
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/279/transcript
A lot of the US supposed growth is over the death of European economy. Just look at how many German companies are moving to the US and how much the Europeans are paying for US natural gas. The US won't ever say no to Saudi Arabia even as it commits war crimes in Yemen, but Europe is supposed to say no to Russia's raw materials.
> In particular there are no oil deposits in Mars,

We really lucked out with all of that ancient unmetabolized biomass.

Without that, we might not have had our fancy computers by this point.
It’s disheartening to read all the comments agreeing with this post.

I actually worked on GCP for several years and we always made sure our customer facing API changes were backwards compatible.

The decision to deprecate or “sunset” a feature was not taken lightly and needed to be announced O(years) ahead of time.

Apparently, my team was an exception rather than the norm.
> And since all current XR technologies require a fully vision blocking headset, they have a fundamental problem that building a better vision blocking headset can't really solve.

That's not necessarily true. There are several optical passthrough AR glasses today - they're not as light as one would like, they require external compute, and they need quite a lot of UX work - but they exist today. The most recent example is the Xreal Air 2 [0].

> And adding cameras to project the lost vision is not good enough.

I think that's fine as a solution, if

> And adding cameras to project the lost vision is not good enough. Having something strapped over your eyes for a long period of time (say, an hour) is just fundamentally unpleasant. Even normal glasses are uncomfortable and people avoid them as much as they can.

we can resolve this. The headsets are getting smaller, and the AR glasses are getting more powerful. Meta are working this from both angles with the headsets and their glasses. The glasses seem to be doing alright (more time required) [1], and lighter headsets are possible [2].

My suspicion is that people are willing to tolerate some degree of discomfort - discomfort that will get smaller over time - if it's a sufficient value-add to their life. We're at the very start of that; check back in a year from now when developers have had plenty of time with the Quest 3 and the Vision Pro demonstrating Apple's vision for UX and software.

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xreal-air-2

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/23922425/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses...

[2]: https://www.bigscreenvr.com/
Its' not that they haven't understood it's simply that they don't have to put up with the consequences of their actions.

It always amazes me to the see the bleeding hearts politicians on TV welcoming anyone and everyone and telling you that if you have a problem with that, then you are a bigot, a racist, a populist.

But they don't live in those neighborhoods where the main language spoken is not the language of the country, where the unemployment rate is 50% and the streets are unsafe because of gang activity and where women are scared to walk alone at night.

No, these people live in nice comfortable neighborhoods where the cops actually patrol 24/7, where the average income is in the top 5% of the country and you can come at any time day and night without fearing for your life.

That's the problem. Unchecked migration for thee not for me. In France we call these people Bourgeois boheme. They pretend to understand the plight of Joe Blow, are very far left but very high income so they can avoid the worst consequences of their political choices.
The ISS design is ultimately constrained by cost and fairing size (how big a thing you can fit on your rocket), limits that are far more stringent for the surface of Mars (where the limiting size is set by the descent stage). The fact that it's in vacuum doesn't affect its size at all.

The average surface pressure on Mars is a few millibars; from an engineering perspective it's the same as building pressurized structures in vacuum. If anything, it's more difficult, since your design will have to deal with wind loads and airborne dust.
In my experience rich "nervousness" is like yuppie "busy-ness" — it's kind of a glorified exaggeration that serves as some kind of coping mechanism.

What specifically are the rich nervous about? Outside of complete economic collapse they've got far less to worry about than everyone else. If they're worried about economic collapse they're essentially worried about becoming like the rest of us... not anything worth advocating for here.
Omg yes!

It has finally been told! I was crying and talking about making the return of information rich websites, but people were just following trends blindly :(
"I'm not Ivy league or MIT, but I'm great at taking abuse and grinding away thanklessly"

This describes me, and they hired me.
I have a noob-to-CLIP question. When I've tried to use it to auto-caption photos or things the result has been like 4-5 words that may really vaguely describe the image but honestly it's usually like "A woman holding a pencil" and sometimes "A woman woman holding a pencil" or just "A woman"

Do different models do better or worse at this? Is this just untuned outputs? Like are there parameters I should be tweaking? Sorry I'm not able to give too much more detail. I'm mostly using it within A1111's "Interrogate CLIP" option but I've tried using a model I found on replicate as well as installing locally. Same results every time.

It seems vaguely useful but like it misses the mark a lot of the time. I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong.
I don't care if I took out a full page ad in the NYT; it's still not the government's job to keep an index of what I've said that's pro or anti government. This isn't North Korea.
New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
The principal difference from Mars is that you don't need a rocket to send bulk goods from the Moon, you can literally hurl it into an Earth-bound orbit using an electromagnetic catapult. Sunlight is also more plentiful on the Moon, so powering the catapult does not require operating a large nuclear reactor.

When some if the new 3He-based fusion reactors with huge magnets actually breaks even, this maybe become potentially practical. You don't need so much 3He for generation if you produce it from Li in the blanket.
The "Bowser’s Fury" portion of "Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury" is also a delight.
Mostly yes. In Mandarin, tone can be a bit different depending on context but overall pronunciation doesn't differ that much.

But a major caveat is that pronunciation can be wildly different when spoken with other dialects. Mandarin and Cantonese reading of the same text, even with same meaning, sound entirely different.
Chrome only has hardware decoding. Has done for a year.

Firefox is the only browser that won't play HEVC. Now AV1 is here, I guess we'll all move everything to that.
Really all you need to be the best is slightly better than everyone else.
It's not the Tories alone but the mainstream media that they are in bed with, which has an overwhelmingly right wing/neoliberal bias. The stories of Rupert Murdoch's influence on our politics are not exaggerated.

The last time Labour secured an election victory on the back of a Tory government was when Tony Blair got into bed with the media and played hard ball with PR and spin, all the way back in 1997.

I've no idea what Starmer's strategy is but it seems to be successfully keeping the media's attention on the current government's incompetence.
Core Inflation is down but that doesn’t account for food or energy, which are the two biggest complaints people have. Id like to see your proof that housing prices are going down, that’s news to me.

> I’m assuming you’re going to just start saying “the numbers aren’t real man”.

Nice way to prove you are arguing in partisan favor and not discussing anything in good faith.
> The US isn't just productive. It is productive beyond the wildest imagination of the rest of world.

Productivity has a specific meaning in economics, i.e. labor productivity (GDP per hours worked). What I think you are referring to here is output, i.e. GDP.

You can learn more about this here and see the latest country data: https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
That's not what socialism means.

Socialism is state-controlled means of production, IIRC.
It is worth noting there are good options out there to get both compile time type safety and runtime validation using TypeScript.

Personally I’m a fan of ts-rest: https://ts-rest.com/

Write a specification of your endpoints in TypeScript, and from that one spec you get:

- Server side validation of requests/responses

- A TypeScript API client

- Specialized clients, if you like, for example a react-query client if you like using react-query

- Auto-generated docs (OAS)

- TypeScript types for requests and responses to use in your code

IMO a lot more maintainable than a jsdoc based approach. For example, you can define a type for a Person, and then re-use that type in the responses of all Person-related endpoints, and even in POST/PUT/PATCH bodies (saying things like “the POST body is a person Person, but omit the id field”). With jsdoc you’re repeating that definition a tonne, AND you’re lacking compile time type safety.
Fair enough, my rocket nomenclature is not very good. "The one Starship piece that flew, bellyflopped, and landed followed by catching fire." :-). SN-15 in May 2021. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eoubnO-pE&ab_channel=Space...
> In addition, many of the likely Roman forts we have documented in this study have already been destroyed by recent urban or agricultural development, and countless others are under extreme threat

How many of them are now destroyed due to US bombing?
> considering you would still need to boot the VMs then, once the Oxide system is up, I’m not sure if this is such a big win.

To be honoust, I'm using containers most of the time these days but even the full blown windows VMs I'm orchestrating boot in less than 20s, assuming the hypervisor is operational. I think that's about on par with public cloud, no?

> [...] vMotion [...] ESXi.

Is VMware still a thing? Started with virsh, kvm/qemu a decade ago and never looked back.

> And, economics of elasticity - you’d still have to buy the Oxide server, even if it’s idle.

That's a big part of the equation indeed. This is where hyperscalers have an advantage that Oxide at some point in the future might enjoy as well. Interesting to see how much of that they will be willing to share with their customers...
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For the next half an hour in the UK I use weather radar.

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

Not sure if it works anywhere else. If you can see the rain coming it makes more sense.
I was in Prof. Marvin Mudrick's Troilus and Criseyde course at UCSB in the '70s.
Things I learned: it is high literature (whereas one could argue the Cantebury Tales are in a more popular genre), and it is long. I'm sure I never finished it.

A good portion of the class time was spent listening to Mudrick's phenomenal reading of the text. I knew at the time he should have been recorded for posterity and I'm sure today no such recordings exist and he liked it that way. There are plenty of audio recordings of Mudrick from his writing seminars.

The really big thing Mudrick maintained about this work is it contains a chapter that is the single greatest description of love-making in all of world literature. (And Mudrick should know, he was a great scholar.) Every other work attempting this reduces to mere pornography in comparison. (My words, not his, so you know I agree.)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/mr-mudrick-is-100/
It may be a limited market. You need to be large enough for a private cloud to make sense, but above a certain size it also should be a no-brainer to have a competent ops team making you less dependent on a singular infrastructure provider.
Can you explain more about your view that it should not be the norm to provide equal compensation for equal work?
> ... code is also EXTREMELY high quality. If you're an embedded developer go take a look at Hubris and Humility.

So, Humility is like MC/DC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...
> but I'm not sure you can really make a knob that works accurately for both 30 seconds and 30 minutes.

Not terribly difficult. An encoder and software to handle "acceleration". Move the knob slowly, and it steps by a small amount (say, 30s). Move the knob quickly, and it jumps by more per degree of change. My main camera lens's focus works like this, and it's great. This does require care in implementation, getting the acceleration curve right is hard.
You seem to agree with Keynes. Assuming you’re in the lower 99%, are you wealthier in proportion to increases costs over the past quarter?

I personally don’t buy it. When other country’s start divesting from US treasury ties, the party will be over. Already prices are rising faster than income. What did Germany, Zimbabwe, and Argentina, Venezuela, etc. do wrong, that the US is doing right?
You have been given an example exactly in the comment to which you are answering. If you ignored it, it speaks only for the interest you have in carrying a real discussion. In case it was a mistake instead, here's the argument: there are plenty of jobs in the "monochromatic" neighborhood just like in any neighborhood: construction sites, shops, clerks, schools, and I can go on. It seems you simply cannot imagine that an immigrant would do those jobs - when many (most?) of them came exactly for that, to have a stable life.
' any natural born US citizens don't know what makes America so special. ' Can you clearify what makes more special than e.g. Germany where I live now.
Oh. I get what this is. It's a "cloud" mainframe. They're trying to be the Apple of mainframes.

Reinvent OpenStack, slap it on some 8Us and storage arrays, shove it in a rack, and ship it to a colo with a professional installer. So basically one of the larger server vendors but with integrated "cloud" software, minus the 2-hour service turnaround and spare parts.

The fact that they're writing the software from scratch is going to add years of lead time until they reach parity with other solutions. My guess is they're hoping they can get sticker price or TCO low enough that it outweighs the lack of functionality and uncertainty of a brand new everything. If you just need some VMs in a lab in the office closet, might work.

They only have $44M to build that company? I hope the next funding round is better :/
It's also that the U.S. is a developed country. Most countries are either developed or have good geography, demography and access to natural resources. U.S. has all or it.
> I personally can’t justify paying 40% increase taking into account the lack of good content.

Out of all of the streaming services, I have found Apple’s originals to be the ones I like the most. They may have the least shows available, but I’ve liked everything I’ve watched from them and I only have limited time to watch anyways.

That said, all streaming services are getting to the top of their price/value for me, Apple included.
Both sides have to prove they have the PSK/password before the connection is established. This is of course done without sending the password in plain text.
Nintendo doesn't get enough credit for making games that are actually enjoyable to play. Most modern AAA games look great, but feel like a distraction (at best), and more often just like a chore.
I don't have an opinion about this particular project, but this just JSDoc, as mentioned in the readme: "Simply write a JSDoc-compliant comment block for a function that represents your API endpoint".

Yes, it's verbose, but its advantages over Typescript is that it work without any compilation step, while being standard enough to give helpful type-hint on any good enough IDE.

Of course, if your project uses Typescript already, you should use Typescript instead, but if you just want to do a simple web page without any compilation step/package.json shenanigan, it's sometime nice to reach for JSDoc.

EDIT: to answer your question, in JSDoc you can typedef your own custom objects[0], so you thankfully don't have to repeat your types everywhere.

[0] https://devhints.io/jsdoc
Apple could theoretically use search as a way to compel people to buy Apple devices, or to become iCloud subscribers, or whatever. It doesn't have to be an advertising business. That is a manoeuvre they are quite familiar with.

In reality, I'm not sure Apple could actually create a search engine that is compelling enough against the competition to see people drawn into the Apple ecosystem, but in theory...
There are a few, and they aren't something that I can't live with, of course. A great example of the sorts of things I'm talking about are Rust's insistence on camel case and snake case.
PREACH

opposite way in: 2013 article about high density on the japanese web being (in part) a legacy of their pre smartphone era
If there was a new continent somehow popped up we wouldn't be fine just sending some drones there or taking pictures of it with satellites.

We have had the capability to develop ourselves to send a colony to mars in 10 years if we really wanted to, for 50 years, so yes we're late. But I for one am very happy we've got some real vision and development towards it now.
Government spending contributed to 0.8pp of the growth. Pretty significant. But the main driver is consumer spending, especially on durable goods.

These are the good times that the government should use pay to pay off debt by taxing more and spending less.

I don't put much stock in your feelings about the economy. My feeling is, I see people shopping at the mall, I see them filling the bars, and I see them buying new cars. The problem some people may be having is that they over-extended themselves and now owe too much. For example, while their real wages have actually gone up, they may have underestimated how much inflation would erode the real value of their nominal wage increases (I did this, in fact). So they took out loans they thought would be easy to pay, at interest rates that were higher than they were used to, and found that they had made the wrong bet. The disatisfaction, imo, is all about disappointed expectations, not the actual living conditions people have. I got a 20k raise, but now it feels more like a 12k raise, and meanwhile I took out a loan for a kitchen remodel.
China might be the only place that could build one due to the central planning required.

Would be damn cool if they do, guess we'll just have to wait and find out.
Asciiflow
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I’ve already done all this stuff around physical appearance. It hasn’t helped.

I’m facially ugly, short, and mixed race. These are all factors that single women utterly despise in our dating market.

I’ve talked to a lot of women btw. My talking points are from a lot of experience. I think many men here have not spent much time on the dating market in any recent time.
Extreme research and development. You can look through their blog [0] to get an idea of it. They're working on technology that can't be productionised for years, potentially decades, as part of their long-term bet.

[0]: https://tech.facebook.com/reality-labs/
Huh! TIL. That said, I've heated a lot of soup - without using the "Soup" button, mind - and not experienced the problem you describe.

IANAMS (I Am Not a Microwave Scientist), but observationally it seems to me that bowl material has most to do with microwave results. I have a few bowls (and mugs) I never use in the microwave, because they seem always to get hotter than their contents. Later, I'll try one of them on "Soup" to see if it makes a difference.
>If a bunch of people think the economy's not doing well, that seems like a pretty strong indication that it in-fact is not

People radically misreport this stuff for political reasons. "The economy is doing well" numbers will change radically in a week when a different party takes the White House, typically in a purely partisan fashion [1]. The economy didn't get better in that week, it's just that people "feel" differently about things when their preferred (resp. disfavored) candidate takes office.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1609/consumer-views-economy.asp...
Ask HN: What caused sites to start recommending passkeys, and are they better?
I've noticed that a few websites that I use have started telling me to use a passkey, as well as some password managers.

What made these services push this?

Are passkeys superior?

Is there a drawback?
At what age do people experience depression for the first time? (2022)
Fair amount of past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=asciiflow.com