skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Artemis program was setup at a time when the private space companies were still very new.

This is completely orthogonal. If it weren’t, the lander would be in a better shape, but it’s as much of a clusterfuck as the rest of the mission.

SpaceX has never been outside of LEO, and I’m very unconvinced Starship can do it’s part on Artemis, much less do all the mission by themselves.
i'll add to general discussion about syntaxes and infix notation, i'm not sure where to attach this point to existing threads. genera had infix mode, that was enabled on a reader macro. you could write something like

(defun bresenham (a x0 y0 x1 y1 &aux dx dy d y)
#◇dx:x1-x0,
dy:y1-y0,
d:2*dy-dx,
y=y0◇
(loop for x from x0 to x1
do #◇a[x,y]:1,
if d>0 then
(y:y+1,
d:d-2*dx),
d:d+2*dy◇))

you can make the code above fully operational in common lisp using dispatch macro on a unicode character, so i've been experimenting with such infix mode in my private code. i'll leave the judgement over whether or not this increases readibility.
I work for a Fortune 100 in one of the 20 biggest metros in the US, $75k is a standard salary for juniors/associates getting an offer right out of college. Some may get a little more, some get less, I haven't met any who got $100k or more right out of school. None of them I've talked to came from a top-tier CS school.
I had one on my heel for the longest time. I tried duct tape, freezing, all sorts of OTC tricks. Eventually a podiatrist tried this beetle acid stuff "cantharidin" and that knocked it out in 3-4 treatments. Hasn't come back since.
No way am I going to collect poison oak leaves and mash them up into a paste. You'd likely get some airborne aerosols doing that which wouldn't be pleasant.
What are TOPs exactly? Are we using INT? Float? Just trying to grasp the comparison to a TFLOP for instance
You haven’t named a single reason to stay.

If you aren’t raising funding, don’t need to hire talent, aren’t benefiting from the cons/talks, and no longer like the vibe, you have already made your decision.

Note: the locals in SF would very much like you to contribute to lower rent demand in SF, and the people where you move are likely to be frustrated by the increased rent demand you bring.
Only difference is when the container is OOMKilled people die!
I need a React Native UI libary
Hey! I need a nice looking React Native UI library. And I don't mean the big players like React Native Paper, UI kitten etc. I mean indie projects.

If you know some, it would be nice if you let me know :)
lmao…To the 12 year old boy who stole the phone of the person I’m replying to, would you please give it back to the original owner?

Stay classy
If we did want to become a spacefaring, world-hopping, intergalactic, etc., species in the long term, we wouldn't be sending humans into space right now, because robots are easier to keep alive and do more science with. That was the overall point I got from this and why not mars, which seems true for now.

But, even though putting humans on the rockets makes them cost more, it also garners more funding. I don't know, maybe we could convince all American schoolchildren to aspire to be robot programmers rather than astronauts. But typing this out, it seems like:

a) you could ask congress to fund robotic exploration, which maybe citizens care about and support, but if they don't then...

b) you could instead set up a giant human space program that wastes tens of billions of dollars to do nothing, then quietly siphon off a few billion here or there for JPL or SpaceX to do valuable unmanned research.

Maybe the former is possible, and you're fighting the good fight, but most voters don't read long blog posts comparing manned vs unmanned space exploration, and really when it comes to space are only excited by people standing on the moon. I do hope you convince more people, but fortunately whatever monstrosity we have now is at least a nice jobs program.
Yes, you are exaggerating. Your argument is that we should not make any improvements unless we can achieve utopia.

Imagine a world where bank fraud was only possible in that rare scenario you described, and then only for a limited amount of time since you can be required to report loss of identity documents, and then only for transactions that cannot be reverted in time, and even then financial liability might be pushed on to the bank(/'s insurance). That'd solve practically all of the current day bank fraud, without in any way solving your hypothetical.
Mozilla has it ready to go, and other companies were ready to use it before apple.

Chrome is the blocker.
You use R^3 in your example of why coordinates don't matter. R^3 can be covered by one chart. Maybe your argument would be more convincing if you pick a different manifold. I have no idea what your complaint is otherwise.
To summarize: Google no longer cares about search users as customers, but rather treats them as a tool for extracting money from their ad business customers.
I have no clue. I read it in an old book that I read maybe 40 years ago. And for the life of me, can't remember what book it was... it wasn't the Foxfire series, but it was something old Appalachian home remedy related.

Not a lot of references that I have found.

https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/eggplant-banished-w...
Oh so a trust. We need a new Teddy Roosevelt or Taft.
In the competitive field of “never forgetting” this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370078

Etc
> medieval people didn't have to understand microbiology to know that beer was safer to drink

what did they need to understand? At various points in history people thought it was a good idea to drink mercury or use dung to cure toothache.
In the past a few Snapdragon 8 Gen x chip dev kits have had Linux support if I recall correctly. I'd love to have built a device out of them but they seem quite expensive unfortunately for consumers ($800-1000, often from grey market sources). It's nonetheless good to see Linux support.
I like how a highly invasive on-device survelliance is marketed as a "personalized historian".
How can you tell which plastics have been fluorinated for your benefit? They are a bit off colour and have a different a bit greasy feel. Or did you mean how can you tell if the factory that packaged what you are eating right now use synthetic fluorinated oils as lubricants? (They all do)
Yeah, agreed. I've got a load of what Americans would call "liberal arts" under my belt and do tech for non-profits.

If you like cars, study automotive design and go work there. Ditto anything really.

Domain knowledge is a real differentiator.
Unless you're Larry Niven, in which case you can hang huge portions of your plot from superconducting piano wire which can transmit unlimited amounts of heat and current
The first iteration of Windows ARM didn't have any x86 emulation layer, so that one was doomed from the start. The second iteration did, but it initially couldn't run 64bit apps and the performance was poor. They do have 64bit support now and it sounds like the emulation performance has come a long way.
Ok, so what several largest employers are you talking about? If this is pubic knowledge as you allege then there is no need to be obtuse. And again, that list of employers that publicly brag about continued administering of IQ tests would be rather helpful to your case and would allow me to substantively check your assertion. I don't understand why in good faith you would not want to share this information.

You cannot use the absence of lawsuits for a list of companies that you are keeping secret as evidence of absence of legal liability.
Libel is tricky, especially with public companies. A libel suit opens you up to discovery, which is pretty much never good in the court of public opinion. There's also a (relatively) high bar, even when the author is an SME (Trevor seems like an SME).

The only thing that rubs me the wrong way about Trevor's post is only giving 48 hours to respond. I've had serious nonfactual information published about me because I didn't respond to an email in a timely fashion, and then when I asked for corrections (kindly), was met with a hostile reporter.

In my mind, if Lumina was in the right (and had good lawyers), they would have not responded to Trevor, mic-dropped his claims, and moved on with their lives. Trying to wrestle with something like this is not generally a good idea, and the CEO's approach seems unwise at best.
"Police officers in SF and Austin circumvent city bans on use of facial recognition."
And Microsoft sends all that info to their servers for better telemetry right?
If anything they care about keeping it inside their wall. Just think, if Swift apps were a button click away from running on Android. Suddenly the best iOS apps become multi platform at no additional effort, dependence on Apple becomes a little less.
Yes, and if you can get modification access to the TXT records for the sender's domain, you can compromise both DKIM and SPF. That's my point. Edit: More specifically, that it doesn't make sense to force both of them to pass when they both share a single point of failure.
> Can be configured with up to 32GB of memory

From my experience running 'AI' locally I would have expected 32GB to be the minimum spec machine. Assuming memory unification if they try to compete with Apple.
I did something similar, but after 18 months I ended up getting a job in the Bay Area.

In your case, if you aren't going to fundraise, then you should run your business where it makes sense to run your business. Do you need to be in the Bay Area because you often have face-to-face meetings with customers or other colleagues? Is there an area that would facilitate that?

For me, I left the Bay Area in 2014. It was nice to be able to afford a house that was on par with a Palo Alto mansion, for the cost of my Redwood City 1-bedroom apartment. I still live in a high cost of living area, but not absurd like the Bay Area. I also still miss CA, especially the job market and the way I could immerse myself into tech, but I've gotten over it.
Giardiasis is often referred to as the "beaver fever" because the organism completes part of its lifecycle in mammals and beavers crap wherever they eat, which is in the water.
Everything Microsoft does to Windows these days just makes me want Apple hardware.
This needs a column & sort option for Benchmark/currency to help search for highest bang/buck card. While it can be done manually through export - users will definitely appreciate having the convenience.
100% yes -- I say this having moved to only a slightly lower CoL place, another wealthy suburban area in California. But I was still able to trade an SF 1-bedroom bachelor pad for a 4 bedroom house (not fancy brand new construction or anything though) with enough left over to buy a new midsize car with cash. This was 6 years ago.

But anyway your calculus is different not owning a home, but just as favorable. I'd check out the Las Vegas or Phoenix metros, where you could live so much more cheaply. Rural can also be an amazing deal, but you'll have to consider your willingness to possible have a different way of life, as well as availability of good broadband, which shouldn't be underemphasized. Overally you'll save a tremendous amount of money which means more runway for you, or hopefully just doesn't get burned as runway and goes into a house down payment or something a few years from now when mortgage rates may be low.

Best of luck!
From the site guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Larger than that: HN is for curious, thoughtful discussion. This topic is not going to give rise to a curious, thoughtful conversation. So, no matter how much you want to discuss it, this isn't the place.
As if the west is so much better with its "gunboat diplomacy". You know, the "diplomacy" where they bring ships to your coast to let you know they can just shell you with complete impunity if you do not submit to them.
One thing you might consider is being close to customers and other entrepreneurs. Lower burn and better taxes are great. If you stay near a large enough market to meet some customers in person and other founders, that is a big bonus. Seattle or Vegas may be good to be close to (driveable) if you are looking at WA or NV.
Teams, Teams and Skype.
Do these qcom powered ARM systems have better battery life for laptops versus intel?
I am bootstrapped founder who built a B2B product that lives in the bay area.

I think your intuition is spot on, that living in SF is probably not the best way to save $$. That said, a few thoughts.

1) I'd recommend going somewhere where you can get coffee with your customers, so if you are picking a new location, being able to in person meet up with folks who are using your product and love it ... especially in the early days ... can make a difference between giving up on your dream and keeping going.

2) You can live cheaply in the bay area, but it's kinda of crazy. We did it with about ~30-50K - ignoring opportunity cost - 4 cofounders, no car, and more or less shopping at CostCo until we made enough $$ to pay ourselves anything. Rents have gone up, but I think it's likely still possible to get something off the ground while keeping cost of living low -- probably not living in SF though -- perhaps a suburb, or San Jose.

3) If you do plan on selling to startups, I doubt there are too many places where you'd be able to do as much door-to-door sales as you could in SF.

In short, I'd recommend picking location based on your target customers as #1 priority if your goal is to build a successful business.

If your #1 goal is to not work in tech again, and focus on your own stuff -- there are a lot of other places to live that are far cheaper, think -- a small college town somewhere rural -- you might have a 10-20 year runway if you have 2-5 in the bay area.
Wife and I played Obduction last year and really enjoyed it. She may have known, but I had no idea it was a Cyan game. Or I'm getting old and forgetting that I did know.

Just heard about Firmament, I guess we have another game to add the the "Winter Doldrums" playlist.
The subsidized day care program in Quebec is calculated to have paid for itself. The increased tax revenue from the increase in the number of working women more than paid for the outlays to the day care subsidies.

: P. Fortin, L. Godbout and S. St-Cerny, Papers in Political Economy, No. 47, 2013
Well that's the thing right? First hand accounts alone are not worth much in my mind, especially since there are so many other first hand accounts of different religions. Who am I to believe?

Generally, I follow the "don't trust, verify" approach for first hand accounts. I don't believe something is true, even if 1000 people tell me the same thing. I think this is a reasonable approach, especially in today's age of misinformation. 1000 people can repeat the same false rumor as long as the rumor seems reasonable.
> that completely formed my worldview.

How?
I think this is probably a proxy for some linear combination of IQ and industriousness.
My 32GB machine is remarkably not all that useful for testing and using AI models. It can use some good models, but I’m frequently disappointed by how many I can’t even come close to running.
That's a problem if all your users are mobile, yeah.

I'm thinking of the situation where most of the users are using home connections and have power cables always in or in reach.
I was just thinking the other day about writing exactly this post. I've been many times on the hiring side as the interviewer, and now also am on the employee side. On both sides, the process looks extremely broken and extremely frustrating. People in the system sometimes help to get it from "screaming eldritch horror" level to "root canal every day for a month" level but I'd still easily nominate this as the worst problem in the industry, without even a shred of a solution surfacing so far.

We are wasting an enormous amounts of money and effort. I know that employers spend month to look for a suitable candidate, and I know there are thousands of qualified candidates - myself included - spending months in doing process dances that frequently lead nowhere despite there being thousands of jobs matching them and being unfulfilled. And this is not a temporary phenomenon - this is going on for years and decades, without any shred of a solution.

In fact, it's probably getting worse - with the industry growing, the amount of jobs you have to sort through to get some prospects is humongous. You have to reduce the amount of effort you spend to each position. Which in turn prompts the employer to erect more filters because they are afraid of low-effort submissions. And the high-effort submissions are lost in those filters so often that it becomes useless to do anything but low-effort. I mean, how many thoughtful, detailed, well-researched, specific to a position, cover letters can you write in a day? Now many you are willing to, when you know probably nobody would even read it because cheap AI would just scan it for keywords anyway? So, the cost and the length of the process is rising. I really hope somebody somewhere has some ideas on how to fix it...
Actually, I am surprised that both sides got indicted...
If you have a product with good metrics and customers, investors no longer care where you're based. They've come to terms with fully-remote companies.

If you do need/want to raise, move to SF for 3-4 months to take meetings and then head elsewhere after the $$ is in the bank.
M$ giving Apple a run for its money.
This should include the Intel Arc A310 as it's a cheap, powerful and sought-after card for video transcoding jobs.

Think Plex Media Server and DaVinci video editing.
Nvidia and AMD at one point (still?) exclusively use TSMC.

The bidding war is one of the highest value in the world.
Remember when VCs spent years telling us you have to be in Silicon Valley, then they up and moved to Miami during COVID over the course of 6 months and told us it's even better than Silicon Valley?

Having to be there was always untrue.
Did plate tectonic changes lead to the emergence of hominid bipedalism?
> But 'A'ā isn’t the right kind of correct either?

That preserves a bunch of information that can't exist in English regardless of how you write it.

"Aa" does the opposite, erasing information that is critical to the pronunciation of the word. There is no way to read "aa" as being more than one syllable long.
Agreed. I love the Old Testament too, as it is so raw and real. Murder, betrayal, sex, prostitution, and war. Interwoven with the hope of a new start with Christ coming to earth, and a new beginning when he returns.
There is also Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot for Sales and I'm sure several more.
Copilot is really great branding, and also really confusing
It might crawl it, but without tons of "SEO" it will never show it on any results page. "Google can't find it" is shorthand for "Google is useless for finding it".
Thanks for sharing. Pretty cool that you already have 45 stars (and the actual genkit repo is at 123 stars atm ;)
If both customers are shopping at the same store, and one pays in card and one pays in cash, the card holder pays less due to cashback. I agree the prices will be higher than at a store that does not accept credit cards due to not having to pay the fees.

The only way I see the extra 3% for cardholders is because they are "forced" to shop in card-accepting establishments which will have higher costs to cover fees while the cash user can choose the cheaper cash vendor.
In my view that is not how logic works, I think we've passed the point of productive discussion and I will leave you to your beliefs.
An actual answer aside, why are you focusing (it seems) on either WA or NV? I'm sure you have your reasons, but if it's a state-tax-rate based reason, it would be a poor choice to optimize for this based on the fact that you will, as a core premise to your decision, have no income.

There are a lot of cheaper places in california you could move to if you just wanted to get away from the COL of SF.
Have you used it? If yes, could you elaborate? Or if you haven't, can you point to any recent source on what it's like to be using HoTT in 2024?
This is another example of MS branding that is clear as mud. Skype vs. Skype for Business, Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code vs. Visual Studio for Mac, OneNote vs. OneNote for Windows 10...

To my knowledge, each one of the products in this list is a completely different beast despite naming similarities.
The writing by Trevor didn't make me shy away from Lumina's product, I was still quite excited. It would have been good to see scientific debate which could hopefully improve or clarify processes and safety.

Lumina's court threats, however, would definitely make me shy away. I imagine for myself (and many others) that this would be the case.
Sometimes I'm tired and don't realize it, so doing nothing until I'm bored sometimes pays off better than forcing myself to do "something"
I'll let you in on my cynical take. Warning: it's both cynical and a bit condescending.

The truth is that programmers are just as susceptible to fads, cargo cults, and appeals to authority as anyone else. Around the same time that everyone decided that checked exceptions were horrible, programmers were also deciding that they didn't like static typing at all and a great many were jumping to Python and JavaScript for everything.

Now, the pendulum has swung the other way, and everyone likes static typing, and they'll even go so far as to proclaim their love for Rust's Result type, which is the same damn thing as checked exceptions in practice (with extremely similar pros and cons and ergonomics). But, they haven't yet gotten around to questioning their belief that checked exceptions are axiomatically bad, so you'll see people point out every minute, trivial, difference between Java's checked exceptions and Rust's Result type in an attempt to rationalize why they like one and not the other. Some will also claim that Rust doesn't have unchecked exceptions, just because you can set a compile-time option to abort on what Rust calls "panics".
I'm not talking about charts of R^3; I'm talking about the different isomorphic constructions of products like ((a, b), c) and (a, (b, c)) as being a sort of 'choice of coordinate system' on the isomorphic class of objects.
Interesting, what makes you say that?
Yeah, even "normal" fonts have ligatures (a couple common ones in many fonts are fl and ti though they don't appear to be used in the font being used to render this comment), so this is definitely no technical obstacle if one really wants a font. Obviously a bunch of work to create, but pretty cool to have!
Unless you were involved with negotiating the deals, what happens in face to face meetings (i.e. no email and paper trail) during contract negotiations is a not-so-subtle battle of wills based on perceived leverage -- of which a trillion dollar company has a lot of.

I have been on the software side of things for most of my career, but over the last handful of years I have been deeply involved in the bizdev stuff. To say the wool has been pulled back from my naive eyes is an understatement.
> If The Browser Company could afford it, while developing the browser, Google and Microsoft can afford it as well.

If The Browser Company could afford it, 3 trillion USD market cap Apple can afford it as well.
> As an exceptionally slow reader, I mentally murmur every word on the page ...

That's one myth debunked for me... I thought that people who review books professionally are speedreaders. Makes me feel better about myself for not learning speedreading when it was the "in" thing to do.
Imposter syndrome affects people at all levels
Article title: Simple Postgres to ClickHouse replication featuring MinIO (submitted 18 days ago with 12 points, but no comments[0])

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40240414