skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google’s research says Rust is roughly as productive as any other language there, so far. That doesn’t mean it’s universally true, but it’s also some evidence it’s not universally false.

You shouldn't call this evidence but instead marketing. It was thoroughly debunked for the nonsense that it was in many places such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3ACXSesGo
Exactly what i need to be able to not depend on m0zilla
You should consider first learning the facts before you just make up stuff.

> SpaceX is a perfect storm of a benefactor with unbelievable wealth

This is nonsense. Musk is rich BECAUSE OF SPACEX (and Tesla). When SpaceX was created Musk 'only' had 100 million $ and all of that was invested in SpaceX. After that, Musk never again put money in the company.

If you look into the history of this, you will see many other people with that much money that failed to get anywhere.

SpaceX is successful because they successfully executed on contracts and found many costumers.

> hoard the best engineers money can buy.

This is another completely made up statement. SpaceX did not go after the best established engineers. In fact SpaceX became famous for giving incredibly amount of responsibility to underpaid junior engineers.

Are you just making up stuff because you don't like SpaceX?

> And now the advancements they've made are proprietary.

And how much money does NASA save by using non-proprietary technologies? If they cost 10-100x more, what's the benefit of NASA owning things?

> Ideally Boeing and SpaceX could just collaborate and not have fight each other and waste a load of time and money.

Why would SpaceX collaborate with Boeing? SpaceX doesn't need anything from Boeing.

If NASA would have wanted to save money, they could have only given the Crew contract to SpaceX. This was unlikely, more likely would have been giving the contract to only Boeing.

Many large cooperation working together has a long history of not working. Consider the cost of SLS for example. Or the Orion. What bases of data do you take into account here that suggest NASA would have saved money if they had forced SpaceX to work with Boeing?

But NASA considered that it was actually cheaper to give two fixed price contracts rather then a single cost plus contract. And it seems to have worked for NASA.

> If the point is an open, competitive field driving space exploration forward, it seems we don't have that.

And yet the US has the most competitive most active space flight industry in the world. China and Europe would kill to have even 1/10 the amount of success.

So what are you basing your statement on?
kotlin is extremely awful. don't even get me started on mandatory two spaces indenting...

it only even have users because java is mostly worse.

java with loombok is actually better than kotlin. not good still tho.
How to Read an Engineering Research Paper (2009)
What exactly are you disagreeing with? I'm postulating essentially infinite time (no upper bound on either time or distance) and finite battery. Which is more real world compared to infinite battery and is why I said when distances get long enough. If you want to flip the criteria to make your disagreement, sure.. My point is that there is actually no upper bound to distance (which implies more time than normal), and at a certain threshold the e-bike is no longer what you want because the battery runs out. If you want to say there is a hard upper bound for either time or distance, sure - but there isn't such an upper bound.

In practice, those that would go more than 70 miles round trip on a bike is a very limited number of people to begin with. Even given infinite battery and/or infinite time, it's just not a lot of people. Hence why I think the 'more than battery distance' aspect is not well appreciated. A car centric culture would just not even consider such distances as an option at all. Hence the perspective IMHO that going for more than 90 minutes is just a non option for everyone, even though it is.

My experience riding with e-bikes is how and why I come to say this. They simply can't do a century plus ride. For extreme distance rides (inter-state) - even more so. At those points, non motor is better. I've met just one person doing a tour on an e-bike (that is way less than 1% observed). While that is anecdata, it greatly contrasts with the ballpark 40% to 80% cyclists I observe commuting via e-bike vs non assist pedal bike.
Years ago, there used to be a huge population of raccoons here in Silicon Valley. I used to see raccoons the size of border collies walking down the sidewalk at night. I was starting to expect to see one carrying a briefcase.

One night I came home from work to find an army (maybe a dozen) of raccoons ripping up my lawn with their little hands. Just peeling up the turf. Turned out I had grubs.

Lately, I don't see them. I wonder if the city did something to limit the population. I still see some holes in my lawn where they're testing for grubs, so the population is not zero.
We all know that turning off and on a computer can "fix" it. It's not a no-operation in anything more complex than a calculator. The AI may get very "nervous"[1] about power circling.

[1] As in if the AI is inside a robot with weapons, it may decide to try to convince you not to do that in spite you may think it's not really "nervous", it's just firing bullets using a deterministic algorithm.
The Harbor Freight Tools store 2 exits from the plant has a sign saying that they are hiring cashiers at $22.50/hr. No exaggeration, sign is in the window, Edmonds WA location.
A Cosmopolitan Revelation: The Rick Steves Way of Travel
I get the feeling you haven't watched Jon Oliver. He does deep dives on relevant issues and does a ton of research. I was recently interviewed about his process and it's pretty enlightening. He complains about how activists often twists perfectly good data to make a point but under scrutiny it falls apart, even if the original data would have been good enough.

He's about as far from a hot takes engine as you could get
Yes, VSCode with rust-analyzer does
have you tried taskwarrior?
Svelte 5 release approved and merged
The entire script could be rewritten to just adapt their chosen configuration files into a rsync invocation.
This is about mid range wireless charging [1] not Qi chargers. If something is charging your watch from across the room it's blasting your whole body.

The FCC limits RF exposure to 1.6 W/kg. [2] That's presumably the standard the authors argue is insufficient to prevent ~7MHz wireless chargers from inhibiting cell apoptosis.

[1] https://airfuel.org/

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-devices-and-he...
Which contemporary cultures are not "extremely stupid", in your opinion?
Is it possible to have offline access to a website app? My main use case is developing for tablets and phones for offline use. It would simplify my life greatly if I could just direct people to a webpage.
Svelte Summit Fall 2024 Live Stream [video]
10 years ago radiology residency spots were going unfilled in the usa. Now there aren’t enough radiologists. but if chatgpt can do radiology in 10 years, once again residency spots will go unfilled or worse.
Chemist pet peeve:

“The oil catcher consists of a series of tubes that start at the tip of KOBO’s rostrum and funnel down into a beaker.”

That’s an Erlenmeyer flask, not a beaker. The quote gets it right in the next sentence. Just sayin’ :)
At least here, social security (PRSI) is a tax. Rent isn’t subject to VAT, nor is a lot of food. Someone running a company wouldn’t normally pay themselves with dividends, becuase it’s not tax efficient; they’d take a salary from it instead (that’s a cost, and thus is not subject to corporation tax).

Someone earning 100k (assuming single, no kids, no private pension) pays about 33% effective tax (including social security) and some VAT on spending. 50-70%, again, is just kinda nonsense.
Or it's just alphabetical
We have a serious problem with corporate governance in this country. To be clear, it should NOT BE POSSIBLE to hollow out and destroy a company in this way and be rewarded for it by wall street. We keep blaming the bad actors, but the truth is, the regulators are at fault: It should be impossible to profit in this way. Changes to corporate governance rules would leave this still possible for private companies, but public companies would be judged differently and to a higher standard. Anyone here a public policy wonk who can explain how to change this?
Svelte 5 Released
Yeah.

This part of the login process _really_ irks me. It's just badly designed, and it's a magnet for all kinds of security vulnerabilities.

One way to fix it, is to standardize on a "shim" process. So the session manager can prepare all the required information within the root context: env vars, Kerberos/OIDC tokens, PGP key socket paths, and so on. Locally configured modules can augment that with their own data.

Then it should package this information into a self-contained packet via memfd, and launch a shim process within the target user's context. The shim can then do whatever it needs, and finally exec the login shell.

So at no point, the privileged context should poke the less-privileged context directly. The privilege transition should happen only once, and it can be done within a clean fully controlled environment.
You could provide every American with extremely robust healthcare for a trillion dollars a year. Probably less as you allocated resources based on need.

We choose to spend that on the military. Basically you can choose guns or butter, we choose guns and empire. Whether that is a “correct” decision is an exercise for the reader.
It's not hard to find the hall. Grad student offices now, I believe.
Why is it not fair to have a disagreement on terminology? There is not even a right or wrong answer here IMO, I think it's all subjective.

If you want to get technical, the dictionary definition of a phone is "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds"... which landlines, VoIP/WiFi and cellular all fit the bill.
Amusing how the response from Boaz Barak, which the article characterizes as having "refuted" the Apple paper, simply boils down to "they aren't trained to do logical reasoning".
The big problem with modern health “insurance” (as opposed to catastrophic major medical insurance, which is true insurance), is that it prevents the formation of of health care businesses that cater to different socioeconomic strata. I most other businesses, there are usually product offerings at different price points, eg Ford Fiesta vs Ford Raptor R, bespoke steakhouses vs Denny’s, Wal-Mart vs Nordstrom, etc.

There are some hard to discover offerings in healthcare but overall very little differentiation.

Why don’t we have multiple chains of monthly subscription diabetes centers, for instance? If it weren’t for insurance and over-regulation of every aspect of healthcare, we would see market flourishing in the US as there is an over abundance of chronic illness.

I sympathize with the PoV that we want someone else to pay because it’s expensive, but another way to solve that would be to remove all the regulatory capture and industry collusion and predatory middlemen (PBMs I’m talking to you) and let new delivery mechanisms evolve. Let supply adapt to demand.
I love your comment, because you are intentional about where your possessions should go after you are gone, and for sentimental reasons. Others should take note, these discussions and thoughts should take place before death. Otherwise, it'll all end up at Goodwill or similar, without any of the meaning passed down. "This mattered to me, and I hope it matters to you because X."

Also, strongly consider not waiting until death to pass along heirlooms. Give them when you can still enjoy someone else enjoying them, it keeps the memories alive through time. Possessions are fleeting, but we remember how something (or someone) made us feel.
I wonder, how are you "driving"? Are you sitting behind the wheel doing nothing except watch really good everything the car does so you can take over when needed? Isn't that a stressful experience? Wouldn't it be more comfortable to just do everything yourself so you know nothing weird can happen?

Also, if the car does something crazy, how much time do you have to react? I can imagine in some situations you might have too little time to prevent the accident the car is creating.
I have yet to see big consultant company to improve things on technical levels. They are great at talking to upper levels of management and avoiding accountability for results.

They don't improve how things run.
Ask HN: How much would you charge to build a Hacker News clone?
You are tasked with building a Hacker news clone with certain other distinct features. How much would you personally charge?
To be fair, writing a paper is not developing a technology.
And someone from the town I live discovered oxygen. No oxygen, no mRNA.

"Nothing is purely German or American nowadays."

I know that, not everyone seems to though:

"I've heard it quipped that Americans are subsidizing the discovery of new medical techniques for the rest of the world."

And not even nowadays. Like with the Wright Brothers, who used data from Otto Lilienthal.

But the Wikipedia article could not stop trying to minimize his impact,

"Lilienthal's research was well known to the Wright brothers, and they credited him as a major inspiration for their decision to pursue manned flight."

where someone felt the need to add

"They abandoned his aeronautical data after two seasons of gliding and began using their own wind tunnel data."

and make it all about the Wright Brothers. In an article about "Otto Lilienthal" not the Wright Brothers.
Yuck. They carry raccoon roundworm aka baylisascaris procyonis. Read the bio-terrorism notes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris_procyonis#Bioter...

> this parasite's eggs are easy to acquire, able to live for years, extremely resistant to many disinfectants, and cause serious infections in humans with poor treatment options

We have about 4-5 raccoons that visit my yard once a week or so (more in the summer). They like to defecate at the base of our trees. I usually boil a large pot of water and pour it over the poops to kill off any of the parasite eggs.
Are there any other services out there like getdot.ai that help do analysis?
Unified Intent Mediator Protocol
I don't think the people behind the opioid crisis should be trusted to be speaking in good faith.
There are primality proving certificates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_certificate

These are sometimes infeasible for stupidly big numbers, but the Mersenne Primes have a specific structure that allows for simplification of the process.
A Versatile Platform for Bacterial Ligand Sensing with Programmable Performances
It's a little surprising to hear, from what I've seen here there's not much besides the usual whiff of academical loftiness, but nothing that I'd qualify as aggression.

What caught my interest:

* Separate operations and data

* Partial repos = no big repo issues, no need for shallow clones and such

* Proper and easy merging with no shuffled lines

* Patch-based model is much more intuitive (e.g. rebase and merge are the same operation)

* Conflict resolutions are stored and can be reapplied!
>If it cannot phone the local police station, the local pharmacy or the local clinic, it's not really a phone.

It can if you have a SIP provider. The only limitation depending on your provider might be emergency numbers.

What it is not is a mobile phone. But it is totally a SIP phone.
I remember this. I had enough funds with them at the time (and I am also in tech so I insisted on a technical explanation) that I was able to speak with their security team about the reason for the limit and when it would be fixed. It has been fixed and they require 2FA now (however they require a very specific app for it). Overall my experience with them over the last 10 years has been good.

TLDR; limit on older mainframe system, however password were properly hashed & they plan to remove the limit in the next year, which they did.
As soon as I read South Africa I knew this was headed towards baboons. I had very similar experiences with them in the mountains around Cape Town when I was there...it's definitely some sort of uncanny valley watching them operate. They understand when tourists mock them, taunting is taken almost as an insult, and as you said -- their criminal enterprises are very sophisticated.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm
Of course data matters but the routing engine is also very important, with the calibration of the weights on the edges of the graph.
For cycling it feels like Organic Maps is so much better than Google Maps and Apple Maps, consistently offering safer routes which are also faster in practice because you don’t have to slow down for dangers. Google Maps is notoriously bad in rural/mountain areas, except if you are looking for mountain bikes routes…
Article title jumps the gun. Union members still need to vote on whether to accept the deal Wednesday.

> The union announced the deal Saturday morning, saying, “it warrants presenting to the members and is worthy of your consideration.”

> The union plans to vote on the deal on Wednesday. Nearly 95% of workers voted to reject the last tentative deal, which the union’s leaders recommended.
I guess there exists both set of readers.

First who are clear with their destinations, and simply want the best journey towards it.

Second who want to know different journeys to finalize their destinations.

Majority falls in first set, but the article is written for second.
"our highest paid most valuable people spend 20-30% of their time on a flavor of administrative junk..."

By choice. Medical coders are a dime a dozen. Front office/back office/in office. You hire and train other people or you whine and complain, and be unproductive. Hopefully you will get one of the smart ones who understand this.
https://archive.ph/UCanr
A SIP phone is a phone. You don't need special software on either end. You just need a sip provider subscription.
https://github.com/timvisee/send-docker-compose
Ask HN: Why is React + Next.js so popular?
I'm about to start a side project that requires a frontend. First things first, I did some research on which framework to use. The obvious ones are React, Angular and Vue. After doing some research using Google (Blogs, Trends, NPM Stats etc.) and my favorite AI companion, I developed a sympathy towards Vue. I'm not exactly sure why. While researching I installed a browser extension to view the technologies used on a website. Whenever I visited a website that I liked (anthropic, openai, linear, notion), I checked what they were using. And this is what brings me to this question: most use React and Next.js. For a side project it's probably not important whether I use Vue or React and I should go with whatever I feel comfortable with but I was wondering why so many (popular) companies choose React + Next. Is it mostly about the ecosystem and community or is there more to it that I'm missing that makes React the obvious choice?
Raccoons and opossums have a good sense of smell. If you see holes in your yard you have (or had) grubs.
The Metric of the Universe (2019)
I’m pretty sure my average multiple is 6x
Ah ok, first it is possible within 2 years, and now it is humanity's hardest problem? If it's really that hard I think we better put our resources into something more useful, like new energy solutions, seems we have an energy crisis.
Talem.org: for students to find highschool resources – built by a highschooler
Julia Evans recommends writing a "brag document" https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

I created this template https://gitlab.com/cratermoon/bragdoc/-/blob/master/brag-doc...
It’s true in the IT analyst business too. While there are people in 1-10 person firms who earn a living, they’re mostly not getting rich and this is a long term trend line with a lot of consolidation of medium sized firms over time. To be reasonably successful you probably need a real focus and be good at selling.

Had a conversation with an ex-Gartner analyst—now at a product company—and his comment is that even at the big analyst firms, comp isn’t great at least below senior management.
Oh, I think I see the strategy: just declare a problem trivial and then don't follow up in any way whatsoever. Genius!
First, define the "basic quality of life" and what are you going to do when demand will exceed supply. Because we might as well just start the money printing machine and expect everyone to become a billionere.
Raccoon hooliganism is pretty frequent here in Connecticut. They usually aren't dangerous around my house (as human contact is unfortunately common), but I'd be more weary of a solo racoon during the day with regards to rabies than a gang at night. Of course, I wouldn't touch one regardless.

Usually during the day, they'll just scurry as fast as possible to stuff their fat bodies into the nearest curbside sewer drain. If they don't, I'd get away.
??? John Oliver has always does a great job of understanding and communicating an issue in depth. He is exactly the opposite of everything you are accusing him of.
Without knowing more $200/hour.
When you scroll away you can jump back by hitting anything on your keyboard. Also you can stay where you are, by clicking anywhere. It is a useful feature, that enables you to scroll to your heart's content.
I mean we’re not allowed to say anything either way
The biggest problem with modern health "insurance" is that it's not insurance - it's a health care plan that presents a giant principal agent problem throughout the entire medical system starting with the patient and cascading from there.

I'm old enough to remember a time you could break an arm, show up to your primary doctor's office that day without a pre-scheduled appointment, and walk out with a cast on plus pain meds all for less than a week's take-home pay for a blue collar employee. This was largely due in part for the reason you were the one paying the bill and there was almost no overhead. Plus the doctors who charged absurd fees simply lost patients to the competition down the street.

Principal agent problems are rife in modern society, starting with medical care. They basically remove almost all pricing competition from the equation.
NBWM is absolutely fantastic. They have Clifford Ashley's (wrote Ashley Book of Knots) rope and knot collection, and some of his paintings too (he lived on the other side of the harbour). They also have the world's largest scrimshaw collection, and the Lagoda, the world's largest model wooden ship (1:2 scale IIRC), which you can walk around on and check out the ropework. Seamen's Bethel from Moby Dick is literally a block away. Easily the coolest museum I've been to.

Interesting bit of trivia, New Bedford used to be the richest city in the planet because of the whaling industry.
GetTickCount() still exists and still returns a DWORD.