skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People living where the standard for middle class families is fewer than seven children usually find having seven children to be expensive, leading to dips in standards of living. They do not want to live at the standard of the average seven children Nigerien family. Certainly, if they were able to have seven children and still be comfortable, that might be an option, but then they would no longer be considered middle class.

> You can't provide a better life to one child, let alone seven, than someone in Niger?

We are not talking about having no children. We are talking about why people might have one or two children instead of more. The focus of this conversation is on costs of living, of which housing is the chief expense. More children means more space means more cost.
South America would be great as well
> I think this is just another opportunity to create new services.

So maybe cool for people with itches or startup aspirations, more hassle for everyone else.
>This is precisely the issue with UX-led processes

As opposed to engineer-led processes, which as we all know are infallible and always produce products that go to market 100% of the time :)

>I think it's very interesting that Apple went back and forth on the purpose of the project

This is the real reason it failed. The fact that nobody at Apple could say "this is what we're aiming to do" and then stick to that vision is more telling about Apple culture than it is about any UX processes.
well I grew up running around in the woods, your grandfather isn't wrong, but not everyone has access to them.
Unity is back. An enthusiast resurrected it and now it's an official Ubuntu flavour again: https://ubuntuunity.org/
> Many locations closed their pumps for the duration, though in-house solutions like Waitomo's app worked just fine, presumably because they are professionally coded to deal with February 29 appropriately.

Thanks god the other pumps weren't "professionally coded"
I completely agree with this. As someone who recently switched to Linux from too many years of Windows, the lack of hardware support is frustrating. As I've delved into this world for a few months now, I can clearly see the cases where Windows gets a hardware feature or related through a driver update, but this doesn't happen in Linux for a while because it needs to be integrated into the kernel.
Surprisingly good advice. In a similar vein, Joel's 12 steps to better software: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
I thought the ideas was a little played out, but I enjoyed the series.
I’m disappointed this wasn’t about a whole scene of artists making music from floppy drive noises.

https://youtu.be/RLXQpJgZklk
It's a single bash script
That's probably a pretty disingenuous way of framing it.

They have already spent money on the technology, they think there's a future for it, they want early adopters to help test.

Subsidies and tax credits helped electric cars get off the ground.
I don't know either if it's a joke.

The way I always thought of it is that the taskbar generally just can at best have a limited set of applications listed and takes up precious vertical monitor space, so its mostly limited to the overview/activities since that is the "I want to change apps" mode of the desktop and is just 1 click away (either super or top-left on the desktop).

Then again I am one of the (probably) few people that would probably even do away with the top bar currently still in GNOME and not have anything other than the app visible by default.

I use to be annoyed at the behavior as well when I started using GNOME, but at some point I actually started preferring it and now barely use the taskbar on Windows.
Whatever it was, they really screwed it up for all of us. Parenting is so much harder than it needs to be and children are so much less balanced as a result. They share a big blame for the birth rate decline.
getting called a pussy by your parents is a rite of passage in the US.

/hint: I'm lying.
That is great news.

Putin be damned.

And we gotta vote out the MAGA (Make America Garbage Again) crowd from senate and congress.

Can't believe Mike Johnson is solo holding out aid even though majority congress passed it.

Republican logic - The world is only worth saving if we are the ones in power.
I thought congestion charging was a bad idea, too, for all of the reasons we see rehearsed on these threads when it comes up. Then I lived in London at the time their congestion charge was put in place.

(And, to be clear, we were poor. Income-poor, at least: my partner was a student, and I was technically-speaking an illegal immigrant. We had a car - a gift from a family member - but had to budget down to the last penny: £5 "extra" expense was a matter for discussion, and in summer we'd use candles in the evening to economize on electricity - which, with a coin-fed meter, and incandescent bulbs, really did make a difference: I ran the numbers! I've never paid closer attention to money in my life.)

The congestion charge was wonderful! Even for us, as income-restricted as we were, it sometimes made time-vs-money sense to pay £8 to drive into the congestion zone, because the charge had turned what had the year before been a highly-variable 60-90 minute journey into a predicable 35-45 minute trip. The beweeping about effects on "the poor" might make sense somewhere that public transport (unlike London or Manhattan) isn't available, but where that exists I think that argument is overblown.

Maybe congestion pricing is a paradigm that has to be experienced to be appreciated, but having done so I'm a fan.
I didn't know they cancelled it. I guess I should read the books then.
Not 3%. The estimate is 17%.

https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/transit/2023/11/30/congestion-...
Exactly! With less exposure to driving, the learning could take wildly different paths. E.g., see this comedic example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6v6ZV4Ot1I&t=8s
I've also had the pleasure of maintaining an Elm codebase. It was filled to the brim with state update bugs. You could never trust what you saw in your browser. Nobody in the team understood how the codebase worked. I spent days implementing some extremely simple changes, which barely worked (to the same standard as the rest of the codebase). Never again.
>And you can buy a decent TH for ~$600k (that's "affordable" for DC metro).

That's not affordable, not even for DC metro. Houses in Greenbelt (one of the nation's original walkable planned communities) can be had for less than $400k. $600k is "large colonial" money, or "walk to UMD's campus" money. Even those numbers are not necessarily comfortable swings for the median worker.
> "The plan" look like a plan that needed to be actively managed by the uniquely special people involved - the same people, because they travel through time actively managing it - rather than an actual inevitable projection of history.

It was a rather important, though not initially revealed, point in the original trilogy that the plan was a plan that needed to be actively managed, by uniquely special people (including, but not exclusively, the strongest telepaths that could be found and gathered.)

Revealing this before the Mule is a radical change to the structure of the story, sure, moreso than changing the nature of the specialness of the guardians.
The company where that article is hosted sells the CT scanners used to create that scan. Starting at $75,000/year (industrial CT is much less expensive than medical)
I mean, I could be hit by a bus tomorrow. A memoir type of story-telling is one thing, but I'm more interested in having some sort of application that can parse a Q&A that I made with myself (perhaps based on thousands of questions), while also giving responses that sound like me, have a voice like me, and maybe even an avatar that looks like me. But, locally. Not with a 3rd party service that may shut down in a few years.
It's totally worth the exercise (it's not terribly hard) to "rent to yourself" on paper, just to get a feel for everything involved.

And like you see, it is much more than you'd expect at first, because so many things only "pop up" every 10/20/30 years. A $20k roof replacement done every 30 years is $60 a month or so, and how many of those kind of things are hiding in a house? Hint: the depreciation tables from the IRS are not a gift ...
Out of curiosity, what did you try to do that you hit that issue right away? I've been writing Elm apps as side projects for years, and never even come close to the kernel thing being a problem. My apps are mostly graphically undemanding games and helper tools. What are the types of applications where this becomes an issue right away?
Sure. The main thing is getting into college. In recent years, it has become incredibly competitive. Kids with SATs above say 1525 with above 4.0GPA and plenty of APs are ending up in their 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th choice schools. There is very low margin for error and the actual costs can be quite significant when you take into account the slip in position.
I've heard Edge of all browsers has this now.

Disclaimer: I haven't looked myself.
I agree that specialised DBs outperform a general-purpose OLAP database. The question is - what does outperform mean. In this area queries should not be actually ultra-fast, they should be reasonably fast to be comfortable. And so missing indexes for some attributes would be likely okay.
Looking at https://clickhouse.com/blog/storing-log-data-in-clickhouse-f..., they added just bloom filters for columns. Which makes sense, but this is not a full-blown index, and likely it will yield reasonable results.
But this all is theoretical, I haven't built such a solution by self (we're working on it now for in-house observability), so likely miss something that can only be discovered on practice.

Btw we use Victoria Metrics now at work. It works good, queries are fast. But we're forced to always think about cardinality, otherwise either performance or cost get hurt. This is okay for the predefined set of metrics & labels and works well, but it doesn't allow having deep explorations.
I believe this is the report referenced.

ABUSE OF POWER, WASTE OF RESOURCES, AND FEAR: WHAT INTERNAL DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONY FROM CAREER EMPLOYEES SHOW ABOUT THE FTC UNDER CHAIR LINA KHAN

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j.....
And first of all, Fortran.
so it's using ChimeraX to turn a PDB file (protein or DNA structure) into an isosurface and then triangulating the surface into a mesh which is then rendered in unreal.
No, there are a large number of Chinese companies that have active L4 efforts. Xpeng, Baidu, weride, pony.ai, etc. They tend to also have partial autonomy (L2-L3) efforts because that's what the Chinese OEMs want to invest in.
Co-author of Emmy here, happy to answer any questions!

Point well taken from tonyarkles that on-boarding and docs need work. My big goals for this project were:

1. finish a 100% port of Gerald Sussman's scmutils algebra system into the browser via ClojureScript (I'm at ~98% or so?)

2. attach a 2D and 3D visualization system, and use the very-high-level physics abstractions to generate fast, interactive animations

3. make this all editable in the browser

4. write a ton of physics lessons and essays using the system

1-3 are all done, 4 is going to happen, but job + young twins are slowing me down now.

The easiest way to play with 1-3 is via the demos I shared at Strange Loop this past year, all of which run in the browser.

The first two live in Maria.cloud, which has all of Emmy available on any page. So fork these, play and share:

- First-Class Visualizations: https://2.maria.cloud/gist/30dbb25a2d2eb7324e0aad1097c459ae

- MathBox + Emmy at Strange Loop: https://2.maria.cloud/gist/0405c3427c88326a181b307371f939bc

These live in an editable version of a Clerk notebook with a less-polished UI:

- Taylor Series: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/t...

- Dual Number Visualization: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/d...

- (p, q) torus knot: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/p...

- Phase Portrait of the Pendulum: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/p...

- Geodesics of a Torus: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/t...

- Geodesics Klein bottles: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/k...

- Animated Particle on an Ellipsoid: https://sritchie.github.io/strange-loop-2023/notebooks/stl/e...
Oh boy, were you stuck with NMCI devices? At NSWCCD we at least had an RDT&E network we could use...
I knew a few people who worked for one the traditional car manufacturers back when Apple made the first big car announcement and apparently 'everybody' there sent in their CVs to Apple. The only people who heard back were the people from either design departments or who worked with electronics or software. People who actually work with engineering and building the actual cars, as in chassis, suspension, engines and other stuff made out of metal heard nothing. That was when it became clear to me that Apple had no real interest in ever actually building a car.
Yeah the way tuples work in PS is kinda painful, but there are some affordances for tuple-like pattern matching that smooth over some of that pain.

On the other hand, I feel like PureScript's records that utilize row polymorphism are such a game changer that it's hard for me not to get frustrated with Haskell records when I go back. And while I love where Haskell is going with WASM and JS support, I think it'll be a little while before that is viable for real-world projects.
If you want to try TEA, but not Elm I reccomend Scala.js with Tyrian[1]. Scala.js is a wonderful, mature project and Tyrian gives you the elm architecture in a very pragmatic way.

[1]: https://tyrian.indigoengine.io/
IME, this only works if you can get regular help from them. A one-off won't help much at all.
My apologies for missing this!

Eglot is a package that works with LSP (Language Servers). There is another one called lsp-mode.

Eglot is integrated within Emacs over lsp-mode because it was specifically made to use existing hooks that Emacs has.

What this means is that you'd use the base Emacs command for finding a reference, and Eglot will populate the source for that command.

Whereas with lsp-mode, it has it's own command you'd run for finding reference. I do think you could also write code to have lsp-mode populate Emacs commands.

That being said, my impression is that Eglot has better integration with Emacs - which is why it became part of Emacs core.

(It's been a while since I've reviewed the Eglot vs lsp-mode discussions, so anyone feel free to correct me).

Use-package is a package for setting up your Emacs configurations. It allows you to place settings for individual packages in nice little sections. It's mainly used for organization but you also gain a plethora of options as well, like deferring to load a package until you open a file that requires it.

You also don't technically need to configure Emacs by hand by writing code lines. You could always do M-x customize and change settings that way. Emacs will auto-generate code from that and place it at the end of your configuration file.

That being said, this becomes quite messy to look at - so people prefer to use M-x customize to find the setting they want, and then they write it by hand in their config.

A big usage of use-package that I love is that you could specify specific settings that tell Emacs to enable it through M-x customize. If you don't know what I mean by that - that is totally ok. You'll learn about this more if you ever dive into Emacs and want to configure your own settings.
Can you explain what’s so much better about Wayland support?
I suppose most homeowners that want to rent sell and become renters, so we can deduce that 20-24% of renters actually want to rent, and some percentage of the remainder might go back to renting if they had a bad ownership experience.

Though some percentage of those renters are in highly favorable situations, like rent-controlled units that would be insanely more expensive on the open market.
Pretty much. We sought out a balance and by and large our kids are happier than their peers. However, they also paid the price when it came to school choice, scholarships, and the downstream opportunities that flow from the relentless pursuit of top honors. It is insane.
Hey Taylor, thanks for posting these!! I'm still working on the airplane... it's a Vans RV-10, and now out at the hangar and maybe 98% complete, one more full-time month of work that I need to carve out so I can fly it by this summer.
They‘ve stated clearly that you pay the same. Its just calculating stuff differently that you can now remove a dedicated machine mid-month and get the remaining time‘s money back. Which wasnt the case until now.
Unfortunately, you cannot build an existing plant. You have to build a new one.
Surgery could certainly be improved. It's taken me literally years to get scheduled for a half-hour procedure (cataract surgery). Scheduling appointments is of course the hangup. First an optometrist has to decide they can't do anything for you (at which point you're under time pressure, driving license etc. are on a clock) and refer you.

Then you get an appointment, months away, for an ophthalmologist. They do a screening, which is actually mostly measuring your eyeball for a well-fitting replacement lense. They actually mostly trust the optometrist findings! So that saves half an hour.

Then you get an appointment, months away, for the first surgery! Which I've finally achieved (the appointment). Then the second surgery, two weeks after that if all goes well else maybe months more should somebody come down with a cold etc. Fingers crossed.

All for a procedure that could have, well, been done in their office immediately? I don't know, haven't been through it, but pretty routine as far as I know.

If your car got repaired this way, you'd lose your job and your house before that muffler got replaced.
Part of the charm of the Smallville series was Clark using his powers to do chores on the family farm. At one point, his Dad says he's able to do the work of four farmhands.
Yep, this was sad. Amarok used to rock
The giant black book of computer viruses [pdf]
I experience some random visual bugs occasionally with Wayland, but yes generally it's decent. But I could understand if someone would want a more stable experience.

Yes, I don't like that about GNOME either.
Fair enough, some organizations might have devs with limited access, but you're right I can see a lot of situations where the dev laptop has strictly larger blast area.
What life is that exactly? What is it that you suppose I am escaping from?
I develop a lot UI apps (mostly Angular) and these days I just use a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation. The myriad of layout options in pure CSS is overwhelming and mind boggling, especially when it comes to responsive design. I have tried using pure CSS but find myself writing lots of boilerplate code and coming up with amounts to a mini framework. Unless you’re designing a custom bespoke designer web site, I don’t personally see the need for constantly reinventing the wheel.
> Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program.

Happiness is clicking on a folder with lots of files, hitting forward slash, typing a search term, and instantly finding your file.
Muyuan Chen is one of (maybe the?) primary developer of the sub-tomogram averaging portion of the EMAN2 software package (linked below in another comment). Typically what you do is take a 3D tomogram (think like a scan) using a microscope, but it's extremely noisy. Then you go through and extract all the particles that are identical, but in different orientations, in the tomogram. So if the same protein is there multiple times, you can align them to each other, and average them together to increase the signal. Then you clone back in the higher signal averaged volume at the position and orientation that you found them in originally.

The one-line command to go from EMAN2 coordinates to Unreal Engine 5 is kind of crazy.

As usual on these (rare) threads, I'm happy to answer any questions about structural biology or cryo-EM.
> Esperanto is Modern and Scientific and Regular

I don't know. There are irregularities indeed, but they are so few that it's easy to simply memorize them.

> Really? Do you have any evidence for this?

Unfortunately I have no URL to share here. This has been discussed a few times in some of the meetings I attended in the local Esperanto club -- and it makes sense, given the language's propedeutic properties. The geopolitical context has probably played a role (even here, in Brazil, part of our youth refused to learn English for some decades after the US sponsored a coup and a dictatorship in the country, and Esperanto was presented as an alternative pursued by a few of us).

Also, the Chinese government supports Esperanto. There's esperanto.cri.cn and maybe others, although I'm not informed about the nature of the contracts involved.
If anybody has migrated from AWS to Hetzner what was your experience? What kind of cost savings did you see?

I know it's not a like-for-like comparison, I am particularly curious about the price differentials though, AWS is often a premium.
This might be a local thing for you. The only store around me that has bulk coffee is the very bougie food co-op. Even nice stores like whole foods, wegmans, trader joes don't have that.
Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development
This 3 to 4 was 15 years ago, time to forget about it already. The developers have learned from it.
If the Biden administration wanted to expand housing (lower housing cost) they would offer low interest loans to home builders and attach zoning-change strings to federal dollars given to states/municipalities.

But it's likely they don't really want to shake things up. High housing cost is primarily a problem in Blue districts, and Democrats hate losing asset value as much as anyone else.
Why would you assume that? It is routine to issue warrants to multiple companies, and issuing a warrant to companies like Apple, Google, or Verizon is nothing like the others. They have entire divisions whose only job is to validate them service LEO requests. Ive heard the cell providers have APIs for them.

I can see this being hard and time consuming the first time around, but I’m sure now it’s just routine.
Do bottles shed microplastics?

Manufacturer > store > pantry > garbage can > dump.

Isn’t the majority of this buried in the ground in dumps that are sealed off from groundwater?

I suspect our clothes, cars/tires, houses, and other things that live outside contribute more to microplastics than food containers.
On the other hand, an FTC that was afraid to bring forward any cases that weren’t an automatic slam dunk wasn’t good either. Maybe changing the direction of the agency ruffled the feathers of those who prefer it operate in the same way it always had. Maybe LK is bad at running the agency, but the career politicians of Congress like Jim Jordan also have motivation to tear down anyone who actually threatens the power of the big corporations who legally bribe them each election cycle.

Different agency, but lots of people thought the DOJ’s case against the JetBlue/Spirit merger was too aggressive and would fail. Turns out a Reagan-appointed judge agreed the merger was anticompetitive. I’d like to see the government try and sometimes succeed rather than never try.
What does this have to do with Claro?
You're confusing disruption with ordinary competition.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

IE, if business A looses out to business B because it's "more nimble," that's not disruption.

IE, if/when electric cars take off, gas stations will be "disrupted." Not because the competitors were more nimble, but because the fundamental rules of how people charge cars are different than how people buy gas. (Most charging happens at home or at a destination, therefore a gas station that simply swaps out pumps for chargers won't see the same kind of business.)