skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, nobody is the winner in this debate, regardless of who won.

I hate both buildings, enough that I’m having negative feelings about both architects.

They are both so godawfully ugly that I would probably walk a different route rather than get angry again every time I walk past. Gross.
> Some covid infections, just like the cold or the flu, cause symptoms longer than the 5-7 days

That's arguably also terrifying if even common viruses are known to cause long term conditions. Also consider the evidence pointing to a link between viral infection and dementia:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-500000-medical-recor...
The employees at Microsoft, sure. Microsoft-the-company, i.e. the board and management? Nope. Or otherwise, explain to me where the myriads of nagscreens, the push for locked, hardwired bootloaders, the embrace/extend/extinguish stance and the general anticompetitive behaviour comes from. (Not even starting with all the tracking).
My wife and I own a single family home, a gas-powered car (Toyota Rav4), and an electric car (a standard range Tesla model 3). The electric car is much more convenient for us for city driving and the gas-powered car is much more convenient for road trips.

Refuelling the Rav4 is an errand that takes time, planning, and mental energy. For my wife it's also a low-level danger: women find gas stations spooky, apparently.

Refuelling the Tesla is automatic and effortless. After you park at home, if the charge is <40% then plug it in. The next time you need to drive somewhere it will be full. It took me an afternoon hanging out with my electrician cousin and about $400 in parts from Amazon to build our own at-home electric refuelling station.

Road trips with the Tesla, however, are currently impractical: we end up adding another ~30% to the drive time. With only a ~220 mile range the Tesla needs to stop about every 150 miles for 40 minutes which is brutal. Range anxiety also becomes a much bigger factor driving through more rural areas and your route choices weigh supercharger locations above everything else.

We've got used to the self driving convenience of the Tesla but the Comma[1] on our Rav4 is just about as good for highway driving.

1. https://comma.ai/
This thing is literally cheaper than the 2 bedroom 400ft apartment I'm renting...

I mean, I'm living in the more expensive part of Hong Kong, but still.
Besides: no doubt being in a ruler's private army had its perks. A stable job, status, coins etc.

Iirc not rarely a ruler met its demise after failing to pay their mercenaries.
Well yeah, number plates?
This is nuanced, but I try for tests that ensure the business rules (or product features) of the code are being exercised without enforcing specific implementation or style. Sometimes that does mean being highly specific, like when you are conforming to standards or specifications or providing a contract like an API used by third parties, but other times you don’t care how the sausage is made you just need to ensure sausage is getting made.

I don’t actually know how the article approached this but again in my own experience, when code is written without testing in mind from the beginning and you just go wild adding them later you instead get tests that enforce very specific coding styles, tests that enforce that the dependency graph is immutable, that internal data formats must never change, etc. If you can add tests without intimately understanding the business reason the code exists you’re more likely writing tests that just lock in implementation. This type of testing also means that every imaginable change will break dozens of tests and puts people in the mindset of just updating the test to pass instead of considering it a real problem because the tests stop giving meaningful information when they fail because literally everything you do will cause a slew of failures. That’s helpful in knowing the blast radius of your change but it multiplies the cost of change instead of reducing it.
“For many” outside of California that is :)
I used to love ultra modern white-box architecture, but recently I gained a new appreciation for the buildings of my home city in Europe that were built in the late 19th and early 20th century. These buildings are very ornate and I find them beautiful to look at. For example [1] is our old post office. When I look at that I can't help but think, are modern architects even trying?

Ultra modern architecture is still interesting but I like it when it goes beyond a white box and does something unique and striking.

[1] https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/valenciasecreta.com/wp-cont...
My personal "founder fantasy" (not a founder type at all) for the last ten years or so has been a renderer/plugin for architecture visualisation that simulates weathering. For exactly the reasons you state. If you want a building to still look good after the honeymoon phase is over, you have to consider how it will look after a few years of realistic maintenance. If an architect talks about sustainability (and they all seem to do, these days), unless they can show evidence of having considered aesthetics after two decades of minimum maintenance it's all just babble.
Forgive my ignorance but how does liquid Nitrogen (which has a boiling temperature of ~190Celsius) translate to the -23C you mention ?
UK is no longer part of the EU and is looking to neuter GDPR: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
Let's suppose this is true. If it were true, I'd expect there to be at least some architects producing renderings of the sort of architecture they would like to build, if even just for design exploration. However, when I do see these sorts of experimental architecture designs online (granted, I'm not really 'in on' the right spaces), they typically are all the same style of 'modern bland'. Where're the architects showing us what they would like to build that's actually interesting, and pretty? I've seen a few architects reviving classical styles, but they seem to be the minority. And interestingly enough, those architects seem to be finding some success getting projects funded.

So I guess, can you point me to some examples of modern architects showcasing the sorts of things they'd rather build?
The newer ones only get about 20 miles or range.

I have looked at them, but my wife is short and so she cannot reach the pedals. We have an older minivan with adjustable pedals that works well.
Give Budibase a whirl - it's open source and sits between Airtable and Airplane from a UX perspective.
Impacts for half of the mining areas are undocumented
To be frank, providing free treatment for limb fractures is quite demanding in terms of standards
Alright, I see what you’re saying there, and agree with the premise. I think the right way to fix it is to tell people what science means, rather than re-write all science publications.
I don't like it. Now I need to parse much more before I get to the interesting part.

It seems that ChatGPT learned from Recipes webpages. Include a story on how the author's parents had sex on a beach in Maui which sparked the author's desire for Mango Passion Fruit Cakes.

In fact, just like I have a limited amount of keystrokes in my lifetime (which incidentally I'm spending on this post) I have a limited amount of time to go through text.

Soon I'll start skipping the longer ones.
Honestly these are the best pens that I have ever used: "uni-ball Roller Rollerball Pens Fine Point Micro Tip, 0.5mm" in either black or blue.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/149765/uni-ball-Rolle...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IE8P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Never see them on any of these top lists though =(
I mean...a Tesla can use a CCS adapter just fine. Then you get way more than either. That is the advantage.
Whenever I found myself having to engage with administrative arms of the Massachusetts government, I found myself in Boston's government district with its distinctive brutalist architecture: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nbq2z7LV5VM/Sw71CQ9s1dI/AAAAAAAAB...

Which only added to my depression, as I felt like I was on Vogsphere. And then imagine a New England winter wind whipping through those rectilinear slabs. By all means, ornament your buildings. Make your structure an aesthetic.
There are actually four buckets:

1. Research and Development. Special tax treatment and tax credits usually apply to R&D.

2. Sales/Marketing - Pre-sale sales engineers, sometimes implementations

3. Maintenance. Developers that fix bugs and perform non-R&D work on code that usually isn’t eligible for special tax treatment or credits.

4. In hosted services/PaaS/SaaS, operations usually carry some level of swe salaries.

Understanding the tax implications of which budget and what work is being done is really important, and gets much more complex as you grow.
Here's how smooth scrolling looked on a real terminal: https://i.imgur.com/S44JaCh.mp4

This is the Falco 5220e terminal emulated by MAME. It's running the vttest tool.
Depending on the government agency, there may be a required level of ongoing identity and need verification that can't be automated. For personal PKI in the US DoD, for instance, you have to go in-person to an ID office on a military installation to get your common access card renewed. For server certs, there is obviously no way to make a server go somewhere physically, but you need a qualified sponsor to sign off on the request to the DoD PKI office, and who that person is will likely change over any multi-year span, as military command positions tend not to last more than a year and even the civilian offices still see fairly frequent turnover at the higher levels. Plus those people need to sign requests with their common access card, which requires them to periodically go to an ID office in-person.
As more and more people buy EVs, it's not uncommon that the charging infrastructure is not expanding at the same rate. Many EV owners I know, have all experienced to wait in a line for 15 min charge on a trip. Those that have had a Tesla for 7-8 years all agree that it is a relatively new thing.

The infrastructure will improve and will expand to keep up, but it is one of the teething issues that is slowing mass adoption.
Budget fountain pens fill a niche of “spend a little more for something nice, but not so much I’ll worry about losing or wrecking it.”

Fountain pens that work well without fuss, like Lamy Safari, or Pilot Metropolitan, really are nicer to use than ballpoint or gel pens, and the slight extra effort to using ink in cartridges or from a bottle adds familiarity and comfort to it. It’s not a pen, it’s your pen, and the longer you have it, the more attached you are to it. The more attached you are to it, the better the act of using it feels. It makes your world feel less disposable.
I want a building with the pretty overhang. A dishwasher is $600 on Amazon. A pretty overhang on an existing building is priceless... you can't add it after-market. It always looks strange

My 1920s house has no dishwasher, but is pretty. I added a dishwasher for a few hundred dollars. When I redid the molding in our house (took it all off, repainted, repaired, and put it back on), I took my mouldings to the wood store just for fun to see how much it would cost. The dishwasher was cheaper. Not even because it's that great moulding, but because they just don't make it like that anymore.
Never let the facts get in the way of theory.

The fact is, they are doing it. You're right, there might be some good explanation, but just dismissing the fact is never a good look.
Raw material cost of a car is under 50 percent. An ICE drivetrain isn't really a huge part of that. Interiors, paint, suspension, electronics, HVAC are all still costs in an EV. So even if motors, batteries, motor controllers, cooling were all free, EV costs won't decimate ICE costs.
Interesting that Venus has a near-habitable zone around 50km altitude [1] (air pressure and temperature similar to earth, albeit without oxygen). Venus gravity is very similar to earth (91% of earth's). Makes me curious about Venus terraforming

We've all heard that surface pressure is 80 atmospheres with temperatures that can melt lead (due to high carbon dioxide and powerful greenhouse effect), but I never thought about the temperature and pressure gradient with altitude. Great project to raise awareness of space, and cool judo move against all the interest in Mars

From [1]:

> According to measurements by the Magellan and Venus Express probes, the altitude from 52.5 to 54 km has a temperature between 293 K (20 °C) and 310 K (37 °C), and the altitude at 49.5 km above the surface is where the pressure becomes the same as Earth at sea level

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus
> There's really no Constitutional or statutory argument against requiring ADS-B.

You could argue it's not a very good one, but it does exist:

"This rulemaking provides an exception to ADS–B requirements, removing the transmission requirement for sensitive operations conducted by Federal, State and local government entities in matters of national defense, homeland security, intelligence and law enforcement."

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-07-18/pdf/2019-1...
>>it all boils down to this:does more time make people offend less? does simply adding more time reduce recidivism rates? no, it does not.

No that is not what is boils down to, i dont even agree that prison should be viewed as a punishment at all

Prison should be for separating a person that is a danger to others until such time they are no longer a danger to others. Judges often have a bad record at picking who will be a danger and who will not thus by default for public safety the public demands people convicted of crimes be sent away for a long time to maximize the possible safety of the public at the expense of the individuals that get caught up in the system
> “show us your linkedin”

Easy. Do they spot a blank in your employment record? Tell them that you took time off to take care of a sick relative (mother is the best really). I have used it so many times. The Rosey and Richard Noseys shut right the fuck up every single time. If you really want to play with their emotions, tell them something awful about the end of life process. "Don't ask questions where you don't want to know the answers!"
This is a really useful guide, but it's still not enough... every time I read something like this I get to a bit like this:

"Create a role on AWS, add trust policy specifying which github org+repo are allowed to access this AWS role. Create an identity provider for github actions."

I think need a full video of clicking around in the AWS console here, because the idea of having to figure out how to do that myself is horrifying to me.
You want a Chevy Bolt.
Ask HN: Using AR/VR Smart Glasses for Productivity/Work?
With Laptops like the MacBook Pro with M3 Max being as powerful as a Desktop, portability with compute and battery power seems to have been solved. The limiting factor now is the Screen size. Instead of using external monitors, has anybody gotten AR/VR glasses from companies like XReal/Viture/Rokid/RayNeo and used it for professional work (Programming/Reading/etc.)? I think this would be a killer combination for productivity.

Any experiences/advice/suggestions from folks who have such a setup? Pros and Cons?
100% second this, thank you

it is hard to say almost 99% product is not engineering but what it enables
company to do. In a sense this division is psychological: either company cares about engineering and makes it a priority or it doesn't.

I think good proxy would be tooling which company uses, niche languages like Clojure/Erlang, open source activity, well known people in decision making positions
rather than specific business type.
Are you saying SpaceX isn't innovating? This has nothing to do with musk by the way, one can say that SpaceX is impressive and innovative while also disliking musk.
They dig in too much for my tastes.
OM4 fiber is rated at 10GB up to 500m or ~1800ft, and the amount of current that 12AWG copper could carry at that distance with acceptable voltage drop is pretty low, so you'd probably still need to be stepping the voltage up and down on each end. I looked into this recently daydreaming about building a small office in the woods.
Yup definitely a challenge! That's what makes it fun

We're utilizing AI Agents on two fronts. One is to generate actual games, which is how the user-created game you're playing there was made. And our next step is to enable creators to leverage those agents inside the game itself. When we arrive at that point the scenario you're showing above will be much more dynamic.
IMO the lack of fumes/exhaust is my favorite part of owning an EV. Sure there are some downsides with EVs (more expensive to buy, less range, lack of public charging infrastructure) but those don’t impact me and I’d gladly take the negatives for a car that doesn’t smell every time I park it in my garage.
i was afraid this might happen some day. like how ipfs links (hashes) on gateways are often blocked.
> with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP.

Seeding over Tor should work though. So although it's technically a public IP, it's also just a cut-out (from the uploaders perspective).
This is article is terribly useless, it's just a link to a video.
I’m in that first group too and I bought a new car in 2023. I went ICE ultimately because I didn’t see many electric options I would want. Cars are part fashion so I wanted to “like it”. But I also mostly car about reliability and longevity as I usually buy new but keep for 10-12 years and don’t want the inconvenience of maintenance beyond the routine stuff. In the past, this put me in a Honda/Toyota but this time I was open and even wanted something more luxurious/expensive.

Most EVs are just unproven in my opinion. Just because it says Mercedes, nice test drive I don’t want to be their EV Guinea pig in terms of long term ownership. Companies like Rivian, cool but way too new for me to even blink an eye at. This basically left me with Tesla as an only option. If you do any research at all you’ll hear/see how hit and miss their build quality is. Seems worse on certain models, but ultimately I also know too much about Musk’s management style and it does the opposite of instilling confidence in the product. I also happen to just not “like” the interior/dash setup. So, I just felt like I was sacrificing /risking too much with EV. The other issue in some cases, the EV has been announced with a release date and accepting deposits but I couldn’t actually purchase one like I needed/wanted too; Too much friction in 2023.

I ended up in a Lexus. Basically the luxury Toyota. So i essentially kept my purchasing behavior unchanged due to not finding any compelling EV, but i kicked some EV tires.
Just ask them if you can plugin. They're family.
I did. Ended up working at a startup that got bought out by big tech.
AFAIK, gene links have only been found for persistent cough and shortness of breath, but not other long covid symptoms.

Protection from vaccines has ranged (IIRC) from none to about 50% reduction in probability
I use a cheap-ish fountain pen regularly, and I think in some ways the fact that nobody "needs" a fountain pen (or any pen) much anymore is actually a contributing factor to this, for a few reasons.

1. Status symbols are frequently every-day objects elevated in some way. Montblanc pens were good status symbols to have on your desk when everyone used pens all the time, now they're anachronistic. So the upper end of the market shrinks as the item becomes less necessary.

2. Pens becoming less necessary for daily life makes them more of a hobby, and while people pretty much by definition are spending disposable income on a hobby they probably still have a budget in mind. Also, a lot of hobbies get kind of fuzzy between the hobby itself and collecting-as-a-hobby (is the hobby writing or is the hobby collecting pens?). A lot of people would rather own a small collection of affordable "pretty good" fountain pens with some differences between them instead of one really excellent pen.

3. The usual march of progress means a very good fountain pen can be manufactured for a lot less money than it could a few decades ago. That means businesses can serve that hobbyist market, and satisfy the craving for variety.

Same process that happens with lots of goods. Watches of any description used to be a luxury good, then cheap quartz movements were invented: the luxury market for Rolexes never went away, but a lot more people bought Timexes, and nobody really needs a watch anymore because we have cell phones, but there's still a hobbyist market. Nobody needs a turntable to play LPs anymore, but vinyl is a big hobby for probably a lot of the same nostalgia/"physical is good" reasons pens are a hobby, and you can get a very good sounding turntable today for a lot less money than you could 40 years ago.
Perplexity raises $73.6M in Series B
"Goa'uld found under icecap"
I think TFA's title is wrong; it doesn't (seem to) dispute the age of the first photosynthesizing cyanobacteria. Apparently they have pushed back the age of the earliest "thylakoid membranes", which (on my reading - I didn't find it clear) are required for a cell to incorporate a cyanobacterium.

So perhaps (if I read it correctly) the title should be "Fossil evidence of photosynthetic cells gets a billion years older". But even that is a stronger claim than TFA makes; the presence of thylakoid membranes doesn't mean that the cyanobateria manifesting them were incorporated in photosynthetic cells.
Probably Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+C was already taken, so all that's left was adding a new key to keyboard.
I'm still waiting for an easy way to make tower defense games.

Having a mode/constraint/template/whatever of a grid and I can define the tower types via chat would be cool - especially for a kid:

"Make a tower that shoots spaghetti and slows the critters down"

Basically a tower that can be the imagination of the child?

(or the child in an adult "Now make an enemy thats a shark with a fricken laser on its head")

I love this project - Get it into the hands of as many middle-school kids as possible.

Maybe an educational game series? Or school game challenges?
Yes, sorry, I'm so used to this sort of thing with the work I've been doing lately I forgot to lay it out like that. Thank you for filling it in for me.
True. Will try to add a loom video to this article
For this particular mission, probably not; rule of cool probably played a factor. (They also have a much-upgraded 1950s B-57 for similar purposes; https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft/WB-57_-_JSC) For other missions, though, being able to get up to Mach 1.8 is probably helpful when you might be intercepting a Space Shuttle on the tail end of re-entry. Manoeuvrability is also a factor; being nimble helps get around a test aircraft. Or chasing one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst
This is interesting but you might want to prevent people from sending in a chat message before the ai’s last message has been sent. It’s very easy to spam click the “send” button and watch the game try to send dozens of responses at once.
I guess we are interpreting the third bullet point differently. I interpreted "Is your company selling something else that has a software component" as something like a car that has software built into it. And, I interpreted "or that software enables" as something like a board game that requires the use of a mobile app (like The Search for Planet X). In other words, the products are not useable without the software. Whereas, a t-shirt doesn't have a software component and isn't enabled by software (though, I could imagine a t-shirt with a QR code that is enabled by software, but that isn't the norm).