skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s tackle each of the issues you mentioned.

Food prices, rent - true they are high, but there is hope. Average hourly earnings are growing faster than inflation since early 2023.

Home prices - these will fall when interest rates fall, which can only happen when the Fed sees inflation fall a bit more. While employment is high and inflation moderate (like it is now), the Fed is reluctant to cut rates.

Incomes and inflation - didn’t keep pace in 2021 and 2022, but they did in 2023.

Economic inequality - reduced in the last few years, mainly because lower wage workers have seen bigger raises than high wage ones.

This means that we are discussing the right metrics (employment, growth, inflation), because the one you care about are downstream of these. And the right metrics have looked good for about a year.
Is aircraft-grade Hemp Composite lighter than fiberglass?

Aircraft-grade hemp composite appears to have a lower density than fiberglass, and greater tensility.

How does the greater tensility of [hemp-based] biocomposite wings and fuselages change the flight characteristics?

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I remember seeing a YouTube video about how there are newer ways of laying down a round fiberglass fuselage that are much more efficient than basically additive lathing?

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Speaking of aerospace-grade HEMP biocomposites instead of paint on fiberglass,

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39064549 :

> Would there be advantages to a tensile biocomposite with Starlite and/or Firepaste e.g. as a coating or blended?

> Can Starlite be used as heat shielding for [biocomposite] civilian rockets, and how would the reentry emissions differ?
Maybe you only have several pieces of wire which are all shorter than the distance you need to run it?
The same can be said about many other games. "It beats racing over the same track hundreds of times just to see your best lap time improve by 0.2s, allowing you to buy another car to try everything again (but in another car)".
Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
There is an interview with one of the Mr Universe guy, who lives in constant whole body pain. Great way to retire.
Mozilla slams Microsoft for dark patterns that push Windows users toward Edge
I remember reading about this case a few years ago (so I don't have a link). The article said the CSAM was the result of many of the employees in the CIA pranking each other. I am inclined to see this as a selective prosecution that benefits the CIA at the expense of the public interest.

The secrecy they operate under inherently shields them from accountability. We have allowed our constitutional system to be usurped, to have a watcher free from the oversight of an effective watcher (i.e., the public or even its representatives).
The first problem you describe (wanting to play both music and a video?) is just weird, and I’m glad the default pehavior doesn’t do that. Your second problem is jank intentionally introduced by YouTube.
You do realize some of us here actually have worked in those industries.
I wonder if it's because the active nature of gaming tricks people into thinking they would've spent that leisure time doing productive things, and not realizing it's actually leisure time?

So once they start getting bored of the leisure time, their first reaction is to just keep doing it more to try and get the feeling back - which winds up feeling like work.

Which is pretty much exactly what my 2 year old does when he's tired: he doesn't know he's tired (or bored, or hungry) so he just tries to play harder to solve the problem for himself.
>The lifetime of the satellites is about 5 years give or take. According to this page [1], a total of 355 satellites have deorbited over the past roughly 5 years.

Wow ... is it economical to replace the entire constellation every 5 years? How does the business side work? Or is it just a great money-burning party?
Sorry, my comment was pedantic and unhelpful.

Better comment:

I'd think that many people still commuting, doesn't erase the fact that cargo bikes (the thread topic) don't do well in those conditions.

And a critical factor is, hills. I live in a countryside that alternates between flatlands and all-hills. The towns are all around rivers (the pioneers needed water) and built close to them, and it's very hilly around rivers.

So here our experience is different from, say, the flattest country on earth.
"but punching trees and grabbing rocks are a sort of procedural, emergent fetch quest that takes relatively very little developer time"

I think you perfectly described why I hate most in-game crafting. It feels like cheap filler content to increase play time.

"Games of yore were all about checkpoints. A story on rails."

I love that. I hated AC Origins for its open world and I was relieved that AC Mirage was much more linear.
No, bullshit jobs are everywhere (gov, private industry, etc). I'm suggesting that the metrics we have currently to evaluate if a job is bullshit or not are insufficient to capture the true value of a job and its outcomes, leading to the inefficiencies of bullshit jobs.

Central planning is likely the wrong phrase, I just don't have something better cooked up at the moment to describe, "Should this job really exist? Is it creating value in some way? Or is it just existing for some other suboptimal purpose?" Clearly, the market itself is not allocating efficiently if bullshit jobs exist in such great number. What is the solution? I don't know.
I'd talk about what you can see behind them. In the virtual world many are curating the wall behind them like they used to curate the knick-knacks on their desk. What they show is the things that are what they identify as a core part of themselves. Now, this won't work if the backdrop is kitchen cabinets, because that means they don't have a dedicated space in their home for their desk. But if there is a few funkos, a model car, a LEGO set, etc. might as well use that as a jumping off point.
Everyone I know that is an economic doomer is much more worried about inflation than they are about unemployment.
Gerrymandering is a political process; it can't be "solved" with math. If there were a technical solution to the 'gerrymandering problem' we'd've used any of the standard tools for drawing such maps.

The major sociopolitical issue is that gerrymandering can be used for both good (minority-majority districts) and "bad" (supermajority plural houses when there's only a bare majority; or, worse).

The root of the issue is that map-drawing is unfair and we'd like a fair system. I think for most of the interested parties, you can find middle ground on fair electoral mechanisms. For parties just trying to keep power you can make this argument: gerrymandering moves the election to the primary; the turnout for primaries is abysmal, and the result is that our government is weaker for having gerrymandering.

In my state, Texas, there are some districts where the outcome of the election was decided by as little as 2% of the voters, i.e., only 3.5% of the voters showed up to the primary.
Nobody said you HAVE to be. But it's fairly obvious to anyone with more than one full hour of life experience around people that aggressive pushy people go farther simply because most people instinctively make way.
>The Fed is even considering cutting interest rates

What does this even mean, practically speaking? Their entire purpose is to always be considering lowering, maintaining or raising rates.
This is too reductive.

The 'we analyzed the issue and decided it won't be fix'
Is NOT the same as 'we don't cate about this, go talk to some other team and maybe they'll fix it'.

Deciding something is not a bug is not the same as just ignoring the bug and not fixing it
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Nope, it's just a normal thing that happens when an (especially western) mind continues to wonder about further ways to satisfy the desires that gaming fulfills.
In every other industry business of all sizes, even people selling stuff on the street, have to obey regulations, with exceptions where obeying regulations comes with certain flexibility.

Open source is no different from anythig else performed by street artists, food trucks.
Is there any reason for why you’re not considering AsciiDoc?
Ask HN: What developer newsletters do you read?
There's a big discussion going on on whether this was good or bad, or whatever, but the point remains that he represents a company, he made a public statement that puts himself in a bad light, which in turn makes the customers of said customer lose trust and respect, which in turn causes the company harm. A lot of harm. And you can't have a CEO that causes the company harm through his public behaviour.
I wish there were more games like Advance Wars that are turn based and have a character like chess. For one thing you can play a game like this on a portable while walking or riding the bus or spinning at the gym because you can always step away from it. It is all about how a small set of elements recombine in carefully designed levels.

I like the Fire Emblem series but they come across as less legitimate as the elements of RPG grinding, character attributes and equipment management are introduced. Fire Emblem tries to introduce a "weapons triangle" with a rock-scissors-paper element but it's not very meaningful because it gets overwhelmed by the scaling of high level characters.
Average Wages have been growing faster than inflation. [0]

You don't feel it in SF/NYC/Boston/Seattle but that's also due to industry skew, and you absolutely feel the economic change in cities like ATL, Phoenix, Columbus, etc

In the tier 1 cities I mentioned, wages are growing much slower than the cost of living, but that isn't true for the rest of the country anymore.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
> The "that's another internal team" reply was presumably more about bounty than vulnerability itself.

Yeah, that's my read. Basically the first line of support said "parental controls and screen pinning don't count as security boundaries", and the author is upset not because of an abstract argument about impact but because they want to get paid.

Should they be security boundaries? Honestly I'm mixed on this. First because the threat mode is totally different when the attacker is your teenager (i.e. who exactly is the harmed victim? The parent?).

But mostly because the whole idea behind bug bounties is to encourage disclosure of vulnerabilities that would otherwise be sold and deployed against the public at large. That is, the bugs have "value", and we're all better off if the purchase price is borne by the software developer than the criminal. There's no market for parental controls bypasses in that sense.
That is not completely true. The opamps for sure, but the 12V rail is also used for external devices, eg harddisk, cd drive, expansion cards, etc.

Too low current on the -12V rail can cause crackling sound. I use my A1200 machines mostly for this, although more using AHI than before.
This assumes the people doing gerrymandering want a solution

They don’t

The practice of gerrymandering is self acknowledged adversarial social engineering intended to create an unfair split to consolidate power. Is intentional and domination based

The singular and only possible way to execute equitable democracy is enthusiastic engagement by the population in the running of the system.

Until you can create a society that gives individuals the time, space, and resources they need to make fully informed decisions on the complexities and externalities of human action, societies will continue to be run by a small handful of high energy narcissists.

I am unaware of any large scale (>1000 people) human communities that have demonstrated long term peaceful self organized society, spanning the lifetime of a citizen (~100 years) without a major destabilizing event in their community.
Potentially in some form, but we haven't investigated it. The utility functions for each party would be very different. Instead of trying to maximize the seats that they win, parties would also need to think about the coalitions that could form if no party won a majority of the seats.
Sure, but there's always a 'business requirement' of some kind. Else why write the code? We can call it 'government requirement' or 'game requirement' if we need to.
Hard to imagine that what's basically $2 trillion in annual stimulus has no effect on the economy.
You are welcome, I'm glad it was useful to you :)
Part of the problem is the so-called "two-party system" that we effectively had. George Washington had the right idea - political parties will divide and ultimately destroy the nation. We see this happening right now, today, as the Democrats and Republicans argue over high-profile "moral" issues while colluding in the background to benefit the large corporations and disadvantage the individual citizen.

Abolish political parties now, before it's too late. It may already be too late.
Be real. Even the poster business is gang controlled in Melbourne. The territory is divided up between two companies, strictly enforced, by force, by bikies.
I think the “vibes” being off is a factor of lower perceived upward social mobility, and simultaneously higher perceived downward mobility (in the future).

And it could be due to how easy it is to see and experience people who are better off than you, and “knowing” you will likely never get there, or that the rising tide will lift their boat higher than yours.

And it could also be due to changing demographics, which are obviously drastic, especially due to lower fertility rates. Everyone knows changes must be coming, but exactly what changes and in what capacity are unknown.
Is this a generalized version of sharing a cake?

- I get to cut the cake in half

- you get to choose which slice to eat
OpenAI famously used to hire strong generalists over specialists (save for research positions). They don't do that so much anymore but I'm convinced it was instrumental in building such a good team there, strong generalists can generally fit to a new problem space much quicker than specialist, which probably helped them ramp up their tech quickly. As a generalist, it was refreshing to see this, you could just be who you were rather than going undercover.
It’s $5. Can you imagine it remaining supported in 5 years?
There are too many damn honeypots
Spreadsheet fanatic builds a CPU within Microsoft Excel
Public perception matches people's experiences. That may or not match the measures that economists and rich people care about, like GDP or stock market gains.

Down on main street, people are cutting back because they can no longer afford the lifestyle they used to afford.

Edit: This has been discussed many times here, so I can only assume the downvoters don't care how "the other half" lives.

Homes [for sale] “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708109

Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128859

US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112604

But sure, there's another perspective that sees "the Best U.S. Economy Since the 1990s".
I miss story based single player FPS games so much. Especially the WW2 ones.
Archived link: http://archive.today/AFpvA
Some of you old-timers may remember when the LayerVault team launched Designer News here back in 2013—almost exactly 11 years ago. Sadly, yesterday it went offline. Thought I'd share for any of the designers or UI engineers here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091763
Let's talk specifics. What resolution, what codec, what CPU, what usage.

You're pretty vague so far, so it could be that you're watching a software decoded 360p h.264 video on a Threadripper, in that case I agree.

It will be a very different situation when you try to watch 4K h.265 / AV1 video on a couple of years old laptop dual-core CPU.
From my point of view, it's a booming economy for the top 10%-20%. The middle are mostly holding ground, but the bottom 10%-20% are in, or close to, a depression. Homelessness and food bank utilization are at a record high by some measures.
What snet0 suggested might be your best bet. You can use pandoc markdown but then slip into LaTex if you need to do something more complicated.
I followed you on X, (I never use twitter) - but I cant DM you because neither of us are blue?
I'm glad we're seemingly out of the "good news is bad news" territory, where over-performing employment numbers kept driving investors to worry that the fed would further raise rates.

I wouldn't say we're in "good news is good news" territory--SPY is basically flat for the moment--but it's much better than when a great jobs report would start a panic of SELL SELL SELL!
Why do people need to return to the office? I have Teams, Zoom, email, Slack, and a cellphone. I also don't have an hour commute each way. I've gotten more done "at work" at home than I ever did in the office. Meetings are now as long as they need to be, not the full 1-2 hours scheduled whether we need it or not. While the opportunities for chit-chat and out-of-band conversations are not as spontaneous, using all the tools we have for communications can be just as impactful for one's mental health.
Is there a similar term for people that go 6 years without upgrading their os? Especially when it's been declared unsupported?

No, really, who is the person that demands to be able to use 2024 software on an unsupported eol distro from 6 years ago?
Thank you for sharing, that’s a helpful article.
This was probably my longest HN post, when the requestor only asked for a link to a blog/article. So I did create one with the above content not buried in a thread:
https://medium.com/@gregwdata/treating-sql-like-code-1030328...
The problem is that "normal" powder produces a lot of residue, which does not have any easy way out so it will remain somewhere in your gun until it interferes with any subsequent firing.

A musket would need to be thoroughly cleaned after every hunt (or battle), so obviously after a few shots were fired.
Really? Specific security requirements for iot devices “have always” been in existence? I’d really like to know the source for that. I sound snarky because I work in security and am unfamiliar with what you describe. I could also not be very good at my job.
>Home prices - these will fall when interest rates fall, which can only happen when the Fed sees inflation fall a bit more.

Please explain the mechanism by which lower payments on bigger loans will reduce home prices.
IME, most of the tedium comes from the "inventory management with a crappy UI and arbitrary limitations" minigame (really "maxigame"). It is also related to the treadmill aspect of progression being a simple repetition - craft X stuff so you can craft the better Y stuff. It bores me quickly, but I know there are people who get off on this aspect.

Conversely, the RPG treadmill of kill X mobs to get stuff that will allow you to kill Y mobs can keep my interest for a long time and I get enough enjoyment to suffer through the obnoxious RPG inventory management pain.
if by comfortable you mean owning 4 rental properties then yes.
Can't you just draw the N districts that you want, then break out N new districts from those by extracting a "ring" from each. Then you have N districts each fully surrounded by another district. The only way to merge pairs of adjacent districts is to restore the original layout.

Seems like a pretty trivial way to break the algorithm. But I probably misunderstood something.
I would not recommend this approach to anyone, for these reasons:

- If your data is small enough that Postgres works as an analytics warehouse, then the cost of running a warehouse like BigQuery are going to be small too, and without the complexity of managing the infra yourself. The company here specializes in Postgres, so it makes sense for them to do this, but for everyone else it makes much more sense to use a warehouse so you can focus on building your product and not worry about scaling your analytics infra.

- Because Postgres doesn't scale for analytics, they only keep 30 days of metrics. I don't think this would be acceptable for most businesses. BigQuery costs 2 cents per GiB per month, so storage is generally a minimal expense until you get to pretty large scale.

- Tools like Fivetran and Airbyte are much simpler for maintaining these pipelines than setting up FDWs, and each support a huge number of data sources. If you're worried about cost, you can self-host Airbyte or use Stitch (which is kind of a budget player in the space). It's true that Fivetran can get very expensive as you scale, but there is enough competition now that you have options to reduce cost.

Disclaimer: I run a data consulting company that specializes in zero to one data projects for startups, including setting up analytics warehouses.
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Specifically the last section: "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
You seem to respond to many of my posts, why are you so bitter and angry?
My understanding is that LLMs are basically approximations of Markov chains where the state and probability distribution is thousands of words long. If you could directly compute and use that matrix, you'd get the same result. But that would be insane.
Not gestures, but pulling on scroll bars was certainly a thing. Gestures were definitely an improvement, but pretty much not something you want to try on a bad quality small resistive screen unless you want the user to throw their device at the wall in frustration.

The funny thing is with number of those kinds of early devices I had for use or testing, they all seemed awesome at the time, but I know I probably shouldn't ever pick any of them up again, because I know logically that the experience would be awful given what I know about the tech and compared to current iterations of the same tech... It's funny how memory works.

I still wish for the reality where having a pure-unadulterated Linux installation on a tablet that early remained a thing, though - the current locked-down tablet ecosystems in many ways (but not the hardware!) still feels like a big step back in many respects.
The grandparent post is centered around the idea that it wasn't free speech, which is what I was responding to, not the idea that there can't be social consequences.

> And a judge won't be very amenable to a possible consequent assault case if the victim was goaded.

This is incorrect and fairly disturbing. The idea of "fighting words" (which are not protected speech) is extremely circumscribed; it applies basically only to the case of someone standing in front of you and saying something with the intent to provoke an "immediate instinctive reaction." (Ginsburg's words.) It absolutely does not justify punching someone you see in the street for a Tweet they made yesterday and you will go to jail for this. You will not get sympathy from a judge. Unfortunately, this is one of the very sorts of ideas that disintegrates free societies - "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" is true, but it doesn't justify violence legally or morally, and saying so undermines free and fair societies.
The Nano-X window system