skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"PE firms across the country have been scooping up home services like HVAC—that is, heating, ventilation and air conditioning—as well as plumbing and electrical companies. They hope to profit by running larger, more profitable operations."

There are few things I like less than PE acquiring home services. Now instead of being served by qualified person for a reasonable price they send you an imbecile and charge few times as much. Spoken from a personal experience.

FUCK YOU PE.
Including in the (rather common!) context of developers who maintain sites hosted on WPE.
That straw man you’re arguing against might be convenient, but it does not represent the argument I made.

I merely said that Musk didn’t start from ‘nothing’ and complete poverty, as the OP’s post was claiming.
There's a big catch here: creating mods for Bedrock is difficult. And, Mojang is taking steps that make it difficult for modders to create stuff for Bedrock. [1]

There's no match for the modding capabilities that Java edition gives you.

[1]: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/2309...
Unions told Biden to ignore Tesla. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/how-elon-musk-broke-w...
A sad thing of that view is it takes a pessimistically biased view of history.

Life expectancy at birth is up from like 22 years to 80 or so because most kids used to die in unpleasant ways.

The percentage of people dying through warfare and violence rather than peacefully is way down, much more than 10x.

We have far more information, comfort, ability to travel and similar.

And most of it comes down to tech. But human nature, however good thing get is to find something that's shit and focus on how awful it is.

I mean I understand - Terminator 2 with killer robots is much more entertaining that something about everyone having a nice time, but it's not the likely reality.
Part of the “problem” is that much military pay is “hidden”. An e-6 at 12 years makes $55.6k. That is very low compared to the private sector.
However, basic allowance for housing (BAH) for an E6 with dependents is another $20-40k, so let’s call it $30k.
Finally there is retirement. Retirement is harder to calculate, but traditionally if you reach 20 years then you get half your pay for the rest of your life as soon as you leave the military. An E6 @20 would get almost $30k/year, which will automatically increase with inflation. If you retire at 39 (enlisted at 19) and live to 80 you get $1.2M in inflation adjusted payments. The net present value of that is not something I know how to rigorously calculate, but $1M seems in the ball park. That’s an additional $50k/year over a 20 year career if you make it.

That means if you are a 12 year E6 and plan to stay in to 20 your real total comp is closer to $130k/year, and that’s not including BAS, retention bonuses, and other compensation. And it excludes tricare and other VA benefits post retirement.

The total potential compensation for military personnel is far more comparable than it looks, but is heavily weighted to non-cash compensation.

* Apologies if I’m being too pedantic here to much, but I wanted to make sure people who aren’t familiar with the subject can understand what I’m getting at as well.
I think I wasn't clear about what comparison I was talking about.

I've made some Emacs extensions, the public ones of which are at: https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/

My point was that I see a lot of people now who aren't getting the advantage that I had, of seeing "here's some Emacs Lisp code that does X", right up in their face, from the start, and constantly.

So they have more friction, to even knowing what Emacs Lisp looks like, and knowing how close they are to extending Emacs themselves.
AppleSoft had the enigmatic and cosmopolitan "&" command!
I seem to recall Chrome has this feature too.

I use it with Falkon. Mostly because I'm an introvert weirdo so when an unknown number calls me and it's not identified, I search it through WhatsApp and Telegram - if none of those yield a result, 95% of the time is scam.

When I used to use DDG also used their bangs feature, but at that time some stuff was doing weird tricks - for example, searching with !ebay sent you to ebay in Italy. I'd suppose that was fixed, but was glad that after moving to brave search they have this feature too.
> But according to NASA, SpaceX has failed to adequately account for cryogenic boil-off in their plans, meaning that they expect it will take about twenty Starship launches per lunar mission.

According to one person at NASA. There's disagreement on the point.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/what-nasa-wants-to-see...

"[Lisa Watson-Morgan, who manages NASA's Human Landing System program] suggested the range in the number of Starship tanker flights for a single Artemis mission could be in the "high single digits to the low double digits." Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, has suggested the company is looking at expanding Starship's capacity with larger propellant tanks. This could help reduce the number of tanker flights."

There's a lot of unknowns. Falcon 9 versions saw significant performance boosts over the generations; we may see the same with Starship.
Aren't the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands among the unlicensed ISM bands?

So long as you're complying with the general rules for the ISM bands, I'd expect the FCC doesn't care about you following the details of a specific protocol.
Who knew oysters could find broken arrows.
At least for CSV, there's a divergence between usage in practice and the spec. The spec requires CRLF, but all of the commonly used tools I've encountered for reading and writing CSVs can read files with CR, LF, or CRLF line endings, and when writing CSVs they'll default to either LF or platform-specific line endings. (Even Excel for Mac doesn't default to CRLF!) I think this divergence is bad and should be fixed.

But IMO the right resolution is to update the spec so that (1) readers MUST accept any of (CR, LF, CRLF), (2) writers MUST use one of (CR, LF, CRLF), and (3) writers SHOULD use LF. Removing compatibility from existing applications to break legacy code would be asinine.
Bumpers that left the car drivable (i.e. lights still worked and stuff) after an X mph impact were required in the US in the 80s.

People complained a ton about those and how they made cars look ugly.
Not from their stock value, necessarily, but based on their bribes and political connections, quite possibly
> nothing can compete with Google's business + review data

I've been using Kagi quite successfully to recommend restaurants in an area. (Quick Answer.) Sometimes it's just summarising a Tripadvisor. But often it's pulling in recommendations from Reddit and personal blogs, which greatly improves the reliability.

Can definitely see them having issues in Europe, though, particularly when it comes to crossing languages.
lol. 24/7 heat and electricity are not life and death situations. There are billions of people who live without either everyday
Yes if there are trucks the road maintenance is A LOT more expensive.
As someone who has used zero social media in 10 years, this is incredibly trivial.

No one complains about being hopelessly addicted to listening to audio books or doing anki flashcards.

I suspect it isn't just social media but the cultivation of an online presence that is hopelessly addicting to many.

It is kind of like saying how do we get people to stop being addicted to smoking crack pipes. The crack is the problem, not the pipe.
If the west wasn't so dependent on China, it could offer something in return for improving the treatment of Tibetans.

The Tibetan issue used to be felt very strongly, even in America, I believe.

It probably largely still is, but it's much less on the forefront, and probably seen as too hard to solve.

And maybe the younger generations don't know it well.

Anyway, if it became more feasible to improve the situation, I think there would be a lot of support and pressure to do it.

Sure, probably not to the point of entering into a war with a nuclear country, but that wouldn't be needed.

The support for Tibet was due to the fascination for the culture, the people and the places, I imagine.

People so peaceful, places so beautiful, and a culture so fascinating, violated in this way. It's just outrageous, and very hard to comprehend.

Of course anyhow, a reshoring anytime soon is extremely unlikely.

I'm not sure what you meant with the racial animus in the Middle East, by the way
3000% agree. I have been bitten endlessly by autocrlf. It is absolutely insane to me that anyone ever considered your having your SOURCE CONTROL tool get/set different content than what's in the repo
He does not want your code anyway, sqlite is public domain. this has several implications. One of which is the author wants nothing from you. Note that public domain is fundamentally different than the usual method of releasing code, which is to issue a license to distribute a copyright protected work. Putting a thing into the public domain is to renounce any ownership over the thing.

I think that the proper spirit of the thing is that if you have patches to sqlite is to just maintain them yourself. if you are especially benevolent you will put the patches in the public domain as well. and if they are any good perhaps the original author will want them.

In fact the public domain is so weird, some countries have no legal understanding of it. originally the concept was just the stance of the US federal government that because the works of the government were for the people, these works were not protected by copyright, and could be thought of as collectively owned by the people, or in the public domain. Some countries don't recognize this. everything has to be owned by someone. and sqlite was legally unable to be distributed in these countries, it would default to copyright with no license.
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No problem I was mean first. And you are right, I don't have enough competency to judge skill in this particular field.

However, I was just relating what was happening on my computer, my experience.
Out of the 30 or so tabs that were open at this moment, your site was the only one to cause problem, so I don't think it has anything to do with the particularities of my install (I do have many extensions, they just don't cause trouble on any of the many sites I browse).

Right now, I can't reproduce the issue so I can't say more nor investigate a bit with the dev tools (not that I care enough to, sorry).

I will close by saying that I do not need to be a 3-star chef to judge the quality of an expensive multi-course meal.
You may want to argue that it is not the same thing or attack me personally but realistically it is much better to realize that your standards may be different and that for some people, your stuff isn't up to snuff.

I don't think your stuff is exceptionally bad but it's a relatively simple page, that loads a gazillion js/css and uses more memory than a YouTube page with buffered/playing video with fully loaded comments and sidebar.
You may very well have some specific benchmark that tells you that it's fast but if it feels slow in use that's clearly a problem. Maybe you are not focusing on the right thing.

I don't think your approach is very valuable for useful products but I guess that's just my opinion, good luck for the future regardless!
But the timeline for Mars is slipping already. This very article says Starship is capable of doing the Mars mission as Musk described which is using the next 10 launch windows to deliver 1 million tons to Mars.

That would have involved launching 1,000 Starships last year. They have not done *1* launch with 100 tons of payload, the capacity of this rocket on paper.

They will absolutely with this design get to Mars. But the realistic timeline is within the next 20 years, and only a few hundred tons. It will be a monumental achievement that will be immortalized for the rest of humanity. But that scenario is 1/1000th of what Musk describes.

Starship is an incredible program but it is still rocket science not rocket fantasy. Please don’t think being realistic about getting 1,000 Starships to Mars in the next two years means I think Starship is a failure.
Show your work.

Plenty of transportation is already done by rail. Even halving road delivery without degrading service is nigh impossible.
It's not that they don't benefit from collaborating, it's that they don't benefit as much as they could by demanding a royalty or licensing fee. Why shouldn't they? Everyone expects to be paid for their services. They're leaving money on the table for the benefit of the public at large.

Most of the "open" standards from other industries that I'm familiar with require a license, and certainly aren't open to participation by anyone and everyone. Let alone allowing you to modify and redistribute them.

But in software we've created a culture with different expectations. And I don't think we should take that for granted.
Why is ii better than i???

I may understand that instead of x,y it may be better to use px,py for positions and vx,vy for speed. Perhaps xx,xy for position. But I'd never use yy.
No, it hasn't. I'm a founder. I have investors. Nobody serious is asking these questions, for reasons that make perfect sense when you're familiar with the mechanics of venture investing and corporate governance.

I won't say nobody is asking questions at all, because "investor" is a loosey-goosey term and there are plenty of people writing small checks who call themselves investors. But those people never had leverage anyway. Investors get preferred shares with no voting rights (or even information rights!). The only ones who have any power are round leads, whose board seats are enshrined in the company's articles of incorporation.

If -- and again, it's a big if -- Matt, after raising a billion dollars across many funding rounds, still controls a majority of the voting shares and board seats, it's because Automattic was already so successful that he's been able to dictate terms every step of the way. This is stupendously rare. It's not a situation that applies to other startups, or that investors are measurably worried about.
But what's bare-0ah-tolerant? Accepting _or_ ignoring bare 0ah's means you need to ensure all your moving parts agree, or you end up in the "one bit thinks this is two headers, others think it's one header".

The only situation where you don't need to know two policies match is when one of the policies rejects one of the combinations outright. Probably. Maybe.

EDIT: maybe it's better phrased as "all parts need to be bare-0ah-strict". But then it's fine if it's bare-0ah-reject; they just need to all be strict, one way or the other.
I would agree with that if it weren't the case that the collection of engineers and other leaders working under Elon consistently outperform their competition in multiple domains.
We use the wp-cli with cron jobs such as indexing when we post with API or database-related things. Even with wp-cli we must login to SSH individually. And this doesn't give us the wp-cli option since it is 3rd party zip file. We possibly can get the file, extract, and delete the old plugin with cli, and then enable the last updated plugin with with cli again with a script. Either way, we must create a script or suck it up, go into each wp individually, and take care of it from the backend...
In one of the stories of Sherlock Holmes he asks Dr. Watson how many steps there are in the stairs leading up to their door.
Watson replies he doesn't know and Sherlock gives the exact number and says "You see but you do not observe".

Sherlock Holmes seems to have read this article as well :-)
One of the more popular DOS-based BBS software platforms of the early 90s was VBBS. It was interoperable with WWIVnet, which is part of why it was popular.

Its author/developer/maintainer was blind. You can imagine how well it worked with screen readers and other accessible technology (which was primitive at the time, and yet somehow better than it is today).

Text on a terminal is much better suited to accessibility technologies, whether readers or braille terminals. BBSes were all about text on terminals, and it was a place where folks who used accessibility tools could choose whether to identify themselves as someone who needed it... and most of the time if they chose not to make it known, none of the other users had any idea.

"You are your own words" is a BBS-ism. For people who are in the deaf community or who used tools because of their sight, being able to be known primarily by their words and not by the way that they used them was absolutely incredible.

(edit: typo)
AI might fix that. We could have an open source one with some be nice rules to run things rather than corrupt humans. You'd still want to be able to vote it out and swap in a replacement if need be. I think even chatgpt 4 might do better than our present politicians.
The pay tabs at the links have 90th percentile pay. For example, for HVAC techs, it is $84,250. For software it is $208,620.
I can’t believe someone wrote about the WPAFB museum and didn’t mention the Avrocar.

There is a true moment of history in that museum though. You can stand on the exact spot where LBJ was sworn in as President after the JFK assassination, on JFK’s Air Force 1.
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Yeah if the engines didn’t light and it hit the launch facility that whole place would be a crater. The whole thing was shocking to me but how fast it was coming down was extra shocking haha. I wonder what deceleration forces were at play because when the engines lit the booster slowed down very fast.
Ask HN: Did you know what average developer salaries are in India?
Fresh grads $5k / year

3-5 years experience: $10k/ year

>5 years experience: $20k

Is it coding LLM’s making this possible ? Or are these numbers wrong ?
Whatever they did, it didn't work. Maybe we are over-custimizing it but it is not unheard of to use ACF with multiple other plugins such as WP Code and custom scripts.
Food for thought:

Maybe 'the Jetsons' and 'the Flintstones' aren't as far apart as we think, us being people who like to think we are witnessing 'the Jetsons' now. Maybe that is just a relevant distinction.

Maybe those two descriptors are much closer than they would appear to some outside observers. Maybe it's really just 'Flintstones part 1;' and 'Flintstones part 2', right now.

Or...

Our 'Flintstones' was already 'Jetsons' compared to everything else in this observable universe, which winds up mostly being just peat bogs on Dagobah, comparatively, and we're just inching out the icing on the cake at this point.

Who knows.
> To me it looks a lot like antisemitism - the smaller conflict matters only because it involves Jews

Jerusalem has a long-standing theological significance in Islam: it was originally the target of Muslim prayer (the qibla), until Mecca replaced it; Quran 17:1 mentions Muhammad’s supernatural “Night Journey” to the “Farthest Mosque”, which Islamic tradition identifies with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Sunni eschatological traditions also mention Jerusalem as having a role to play in the “end times”.

Aside from theology, Jerusalem also has a great historical significance, in that its reconquest from the Crusaders was considered an important turning point in global Islamic history. Given its position in-between Egypt and Syria, control of Jerusalem has been contested between competing Islamic empires many times over the centuries

By contrast, Xinjiang has no established theological significance in Islam, and its history is a footnote in the overall history of Islam
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"When Musk first proposed this, I thought he was crazy."

"Is there a word for that - something out of fiction becoming mundane?"

Musking?
I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.
>That's pretty obviously not going to be viable with any existing technology.

Counterpoint, new technology needs a bleeding edge product necessitating and thus incentivizing its birth and existence.

When you need to create a chicken from nothing so you can get eggs which turn into chickens for more eggs, it's oftentimes expensive as fuck and more likely than not going to fail. But someone needs to do it if you want those eggs and the chickens.
Same here; I've been fascinated by Lisp machines for the past decade, but they are very difficult to get a hold of, and when they do show up for sale, they are prohibitively expensive. When I went to the now-defunct Living Computer Museum in Seattle back in 2019, I saw that there were no Lisp machines available, though I did get to see and use other rare machines such as the Xerox Alto, the Apple Lisa, and the original NeXT cube (I'm glad I finally got to add one to my collection a few years ago). MIT CADR has been made open source for quite some time (https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/), and I'm glad that Xerox Interlisp-D is now open source (https://interlisp.org/). However, the holy grail of Lisp machine environments, Symbolics Genera, is still not available as FOSS. Funnily enough, this is fitting since Richard Stallman's frustrations with Symbolics was one of the catalysts behind his starting the GNU Project.

One of the interesting "what could have been" moments of computing history is Apple's exploration of Lisp in the late 1980s and during the first half of the 1990s. Such projects include:

- Apple's original plans for the Newton, which included an OS written in Lisp.

- The Dylan programming language, which I've heard can be thought of as Scheme with the Common Lisp Object System. Dylan was originally designed to be the official language used to develop Newton apps. Originally Dylan had an S-expression syntax, but this was changed to a more Algol-like syntax due to the prevailing opinion among many that an Algol-like syntax would be easier for C/Pascal/C++ programmers to adopt. However, the Newton ended up using a C++-based operating system, and NewtonScript, which wasn't based on a Lisp, was created as the language for developing Newton apps.

- SK8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8_(programming_language) ), which was dubbed "HyperCard on steroids," was written in Common Lisp.

In an alternate timeline, we could've been using Apple devices built on a Lisp foundation. This is probably the closest we've gotten to Lisp machines on the desktop, as opposed to specialized AI workstations that cost five figures in 1980s dollars.

Then again, things worked out well for Apple after the NeXT purchase. The OpenStep API (which became Cocoa) and Objective-C was (and still is) solid infrastructure than can be thought of as a "pragmatic Smalltalk" desktop, though in recent years I feel Apple has been moving on from NeXT influences and is doing its own thing now with Swift.
I’m tired of Apple devices being basically expensive, powerful, but ultimately worthless devices.

Without a doubt the next Apple Vision product will be more of the same. As Apple is increasingly interested in adding friction to macOS for professionals, I’m more and more interested in using Linux-based devices and operating systems moving forward, and for games, devices that were meant for gaming.

Apple’s vision for Apple Vision will be spending $2,000 to watch Apple TV+, and for web browsing using extensions that they approved of, maybe, if other professionals even care to port their extensions over. As we’ve seen with other Apple devices where there is so little interest, apps were pulled.
Thanks, I've updated that word.