skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- "Meanwhile, government disaster experts say bunkers aren't necessary. A Federal Emergency Management Agency 100-page guide on responding to a nuclear detonation focuses on having the public get inside and stay inside, ideally in a basement and away from outside walls for at least a day. Those existing spaces can provide protection from radioactive fallout, says FEMA."

What an irresponsible and reckless misrepresentation on NPR's part. The fact FEMA recommends this doesn't mean that it's safe—most people who follow that advice will still die—it just means it's the minimal advice they can plausibly offer to limit aggregate deaths, to people who don't have the a budget for or interest in building fallout shelters.

Can you hide from wildfire smoke by merely closing your windows? Nuclear fallout is a finer particulate than that smoke.
I don’t know Rust, but I would think/hope you could wrap those control flow calls in some way, so those particular null pointer accesses do what you want, but other accidental ones are caught and safely handled (e.g. resetting the system to a safe state.)
That's because it's not actually intended to make the regulations better. It's intended to make it impossible for regulatory agencies to do their jobs effectively, without outright legislating them out of existence, because the people backing it believe that without effective regulation they and their allies will be more easily able to enrich themselves at the public's expense.
US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
One of the more interesting pieces of evidence in the Bible.

The Roman census that required every family go back to their hometown did not happen (why would it?). Romans kept very good records of censuses and such an event would be well covered.

So why does the Bible have this story? The best guess is that Jesus was well known to have come from Nazareth. Yet the older messianic texts say the Messiah would be from Bethlehem. The gospel author undoubtedly was trying to square that circle to make sure the prophecy was fulfilled. Something they'd not need to do if Jesus wasn't real. The author had to explain to people who had grandparents who knew him as being from Nazareth why that still jives with older prophecies.
> The market for U.S. bomb and fallout shelters is forecast to grow from $137 million last year to $175 million by 2030, according to a market research report from BlueWeave Consulting.

Meh.
> American startup culture is so weird.

But it works for the USA. Most, if not all the start ups that matter, originate in the US and a lot of them are the unicorns we all use daily like TSLA, GOOG, NFLX, MSFT, META, etc.

And the founders are natives and immigrants, so it is not a demographics issue. It is more of a process issue for the rest of the world.

> Not everything needs to be a hyper-scaler, not everything needs to be huge. Businesses should focus more on sustainability, and not shut down after 2–3 years after pivoting three times.

How do you get the moon, if you don't aim for the moon? Risk == Reward. When you don't risk, you end up with startups like in DE e.g. Auctionata, Moped, etc.
> is dangerously close to a polytheistic practice in its own right.

I don't really think so. We're supposed to pray with Mary to God and everyone recognizes that all of creation came through Christ, not Mary or any other saint.
Submitted report was published in 1994.

At the time I don't think Haskell had any of that, and not sure when monads were introduced in Haskell either (wasn't on day 1 I think). Which means that the language was simpler in some aspects.

But what I do think made the job simpler is that they had easy access to other people that knew Haskell. Whereas, today, unless you have a mentor you're going to need to handle any issues you're encountering via delayed responses on community forums... Or AI, most of the time.
Electric vehicles are very heavy, which means a lot of mechanical stress for the suspension. And any rate, if a particular EV model was what's affected, why not specify that?
They are not the only ones, I interview remote engineers all the time for jobs that they are way overqualified for because they are happy and most of the time, they were remote BEFORE the pandemic, its only this ridiculous meme of RTO that forces people to change who already had proven success.

It genuinely tells you that whoever makes these calls is running the business on ego instead of using their brains.
IIRC the branch predictor hint is useless on modern CPUs
> once British

All of its senior executive leadership is still British

https://www.jaguarlandrover.com/leadership
My 10th reunion was kind of poorly put together and poorly attended. I almost didn't go to my 25th based on that experience.

But it was the complete opposite. There was a committee of four students that planned it, they set up a tour of the building with the new principal in the morning, they rented out a venue that had an almost prom-like feel to it, there was a memorial to four students that had died (three of which I wasn't even aware of, one of which was my friend that shot and killed himself while we were still in high school, so it was nice to see him remembered).

Tons of people were there (like at least 60 people), and I talked to people I barely talked to in high school because I was so shy (and realized my reputation seemed to be a bit higher than I had anticipated, I just thought I was the quiet weird kid), and I was able to remember and reconnect to some friendships I had mostly forgotten about in the years since, and see how these people had changed since up close instead of just some random posts on Facebook.

It was really great for the most part. Only downer was seeing how many people had kids and how old those children were (a few people were nearly empty nesters already), since I still don't have children yet.
Shoddy commentaries – quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers–on the rise
Cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition
https://archive.ph/gkBOb
'Weirdness' is, as this conversation confirms, in the eye if the beholder. I _find_ ruby weird and non-intuitive.
Is that even feasible? You can affect LLMs output by asking them to form response as some specific person with specific style.

Apart some hidden secret sauce by the LLM provider, detection is always going to be an arms race.
Volvo has their own safety center.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wOJrhNCsPL4
Reading the reddit thread it reeks of fresh out of school MEs making the wrong assumptions and implicit value judgments when weighing tradeoffs because it's what they're familiar with and school does a really great job indoctrinating them to pursue performance on first order metrics (e.g. weight) the detriment of secondary or "not even mentioned but implied" metrics (failure mode, serviceability, tooling costs, etc) and a lack of senior people like the whistleblower to call them on it.

While I sympathize with the complaints about budget and time that kind of further reinforces my point. In the face of those constraints experienced engineers would have designed something conservative with room for improvement. It's new engineers who more frequently tend to over-optimize design something right up to within an inch of its life when faced with tight constraints.
There are essentially two completely different movements claiming the name of "Messianic Judaism." The first are people who are Jewish- culturally, ethnically, and even religiously, who have converted to Christianity and believe that all other Jews should do the same. There is a small pocket of Messianic Jews of this definition in my hometown, so this is the version I was most familiar with.

It wasn't until later that I learned that there is a second, much more popular movement under the name of Messianic Judaism which are people who are not ethnically or culturally Jewish who have determined that Christianity should return to its Jewish roots. These people have no historical connections to Judaism and usually grew up within a Christian cultural context. There is a lot of overlap with the "Hebrew Roots" movement that you mentioned, and in my opinion there isn't a real distinction between the two.

Myself I feel kind of biased but I view the first kind as more "legitimate" since Judaism, isn't merely a religion, it's a living, breathing culture and it is super weird for someone to just roll up and claim it without having any connection to anyone who was doing it before. It's like if I decided I was going to be Indian and started wearing stereotypical Indian traditional dress and eating only curry because I think that's what Indians eat, without having any actual Indians in my movement.
Yeah, liberated. Algeria is no longer an explicit French colony, just an effective one (they now skip the middle man and exploit it directly through trade agreements). It turns out its quite difficult to magically create a prosperous liberal democracy post-revolution when isolated from both international trade and the political sphere of the hegemon, and when the militarized state structure that was necessitated by the war effort can quite easily be co-opted by certain elements in the state savvy enough to purge any opposition that would prevent them from re-establishing trade relations with the same international business interests and neo-colonial enterprises as before, that would happily provide support and funding in exchange for unequal trade agreements and repressive domestic policies that benefit the oligarchs and their foreign partners at the expense of popular support and the goals of the revolution.

>It’s not like they turned it into a democracy or even tried to

How familiar are you with the cold war, and especially the third world movement? Do you know what happened to the democracies?

>more atrocities targeting civilians or former Algerian soldiers serving in the French army

Did you expect them to grant amnesty to a domestic reactionary fifth column, who in the case of both cuba and essentially every other third world country during that century, immediately began programs of terrorism and destabilization with foreign support? I'm not talking about the civilians who should've been securely repatriated, but a lot of those informants and French soldiers where not peaceful bystanders. The french state would not have been able to carry out their programs of torture and terrorism against the civilian population without their help.

I'm not exactly condoning or celebrating reprisals or violence but once again, all of these things become inevitable when a country is colonized and repressed, so I'm not sure why you place the moral condemnation on people that will inevitably resist an occupation rather than the instigator.

In any case, what's your ideal scenario? That a brutal struggle for national sovereignty somehow manages to secure their freedom with limited violence or guerilla tactics against an infinitely more funded and lubricated colonial machine, and immediately institute a parliamentary democracy that will avoid being subject to a purge or military coup (as was the case in Algeria) or outright foreign intervention (in the case of Allende, Sukarno, Park Chung Hee, Goulart, and literally too many others to list).... somehow? Or instead should they have just rolled over and assist the French in violently pacifying the population, or in the case of Cuba help maintain Bautista's dictatorship solely to prevent civil instability at all costs, since national sovereignty clearly cannot be attained in a manner you deem proper.
Microsoft's Sarah Bird: Core pieces are still missing from AGI
isn't that because they get booted out of the profession, not because the profession had magical cognitive benefits from using that part of the brain?
Show HN: I spent 4 years bootstrapping a financial planning tool to 30k MAUs
Hey everyone! I'm back with an update on this post [0].

Last year, I quit my corporate job and went full-time on ProjectionLab, the long-term financial planning app I've been building for the past 4 years, which some of you may recognize. The decision to go all-in felt like a huge leap. But it was the right call, and it's been a good year.

And without the HN community, it would not have happened. As I mentioned last time [0], the feedback on my original Show HN is THE reason I'm still here working on this. I'm really grateful for that. And I hope the way I’ve grown PL -- staying bootstrapped and focused on users -- resonates with the early supporters who helped to shape it.

For now I'm still the only engineer, burning the candle at both ends, but luckily I'm not feeling burnt out myself!

It's been a fun and memorable year:

- 6,139 commits, 221,484 insertions, 116,255 deletions

- Shared my story on the ChooseFI podcast [1] (one of the original sources of inspiration for this project)

- Started building a team (2 team members for customer success, 1 leading growth & marketing)

- Doubled our customer base

- Took no external funding, keeping our interests as aligned with users as possible

Okay, but what did I actually do since last time? [2]

Here's a quick cross-section:

- Compare mode upgrades to explore what-if scenarios overlaid on the same chart with visual deltas/diffs

- Launched ProjectionLab for Employers [3]: offer PL as a benefit, or get your employer to pick up the tab

- Major tech stack migrations: Vue 2 -> Vue 3, Vue CLI -> Vite, Vuetify 2 -> Vuetify 3, Vuex -> Pinia, Jest -> Vitest, Firebase Namespaced API -> Modular API, Vike + SSG for marketing site

- Advanced visualization features (1-click-plot any metric, interactive event icons in charts, etc)

- Improved tax estimation & tax analytics

- Simultaneous editing on multiple devices

- MFA support

- Rebuilt the help center, added more educational content and YouTube tutorial videos

- Made it possible to book a 1-on-1 session for educational/training purposes

- Converted ~65% of the codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript

- And more! [2]

I never saw myself as an entrepreneur/founder type. But apparently I've now spent 4 years turning a side project into a real business.

I couldn't have done it without the initial support from this community, and I'd love to hear what you think of the updates and where you'd like to see things go from here.

--Kyle

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849502

[1] https://choosefi.com/podcast-episode/projectionlab-kyle-nola...

[2] https://projectionlab.com/changelog

[3] https://projectionlab.com/employers
This I don't mind. They offer cloud GPUs, why not call it what buyers want to see?
There’s some degree of risk-shifting, too, right? Since insurance is a precondition for a mortgage and therefore for homeownership (the way Americans like to do it, anyway), states are wont to arrange an “insurer of last resort” that supports the excessive risk through industrywide levies and is ultimately backed by the public purse. So in effect a chunk of that risk is being socialized.

For that matter while some people are rich and flinging money at “expensive waterfront homes,” it seems like most of the people who are being nonrenewed here would have made their decisions before the risk environment shifted in these ways that their insurers are now moving to price in.

Forcing people out of their homes is always going to be painful and ugly; and it’s always going to be politically popular to “keep insurance rates down,” further blunting the raw, market-based risk signal in ways both blunt and subtle.

From a market-level view, that looks impure and improper. From a human, family-level point of view, it’s hard not to sympathize with people who feel like they did everything right, only to have their biggest asset, the totem of generational security that they worked their entire lives for, suddenly turn toxic.

Just as this Times article demonstrates, a lot of these folks don’t have a whole lot of attractive alternatives available to them by the time they’re in this situation. And this market, more than most, seems to come down to deeply human stories, and to images of sympathetic families paying the price for developers’ profligacy.
Laughs in freelancer

You guys have an office?
The first lawsuit against ultra-processed foods
This article is weird. It flip flops between "bunkers are useless, you can hide in your basement" and "bunkers are useless, it won't protect you from a nuke". Which one is it? It doesn't even try to explain why bunkers "won't provide protection". The closest it gets is "I think the aftermath [of a nuclear exchange] will be uglier than many people think", but that instantly falls apart if the goal of the bunker isn't to stay 100% unscathed from a nuclear blast, but rather to increase the chances of survival.
Value creation isn't a zero sum game. Increased productivity benefits everyone. Whether it hyperscales or not, genuinely profitable businesses add value to the economy. This in turn creates more opportunities for everyone willing to participate.
It is true that high reps/low weight will build more muscle endurance, but less strength.

However, it is a myth that it results in more "tonality".

Muscle definition is only a result of muscle size and body fat percentage. So you can achieve just as much muscle definition doing high weight low rep exercises, all else being equal.
FWIW the title of this article is a play on the title of Milan Kundera's famous book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
> I just find it very difficult to imagine a C++ programmer I'd trust as much as the rust compiler.

It's even more difficult to imagine a javascript programmer I'd trust more than any C++ compiler.
True. Nor does any other manufacturer of cars nor toys nor paint nor cosmetics nor AI software nor canned foods....

Consumers and victims care about safety. Regulation is the only reason safety exists.
I agree. We shouldn't be forced to use the terminology of the aggressors whenever we are attacked like this.
I'm not sure about that, my electric vehicle weighs about a ton less than a Mustang.
A bit is the fundamental unit of information theory, and has nothing to do with digital logic in this context. No one is saying "ok use one bit to encode male or female". No one is saying "ok 101 means serotonin, and 110 is dopamine". What they are saying is that the information content produced by a human being can be compressed down to about 10 bits per second, but this is a statistical description.
I am not qualified to judge whether you're right or wrong but I love that concept!
The craters appear more distinct because the low angle of sunlight casts long shadows. Where sunlight hits more from above, shadows are minimal, making the craters less pronounced.
> Why can we only think about one thing at a time?

This sort of reasoning seems to be a symptom of inadequate communication/jargon/diction describing mental faculties. Many times during serious thought there's no discrete "number of thoughts" occuring at all: there's just a hazy mental process that resolves to some result and often many results. This reminds me of the "80% of people have no inner monologue!!!" bullshit that went around recently.
It's certainly been a longer journey than I'd anticipated to get to a "V1", but the current snapshot of the spec does have good penetration, allowing us to see what works and what doesn't in the wild.

The main areas that need work for us to publish a "V1" are:
- colors (it's almost there, we almost entirely reworked this part of the spec in depth over the past 2 years)
- "modes" and "themes": the Tokens Studio team proposed the "resolvers" module, based on their user research and empiric evidence that it solves theming needs. We're editing it right now. Once it's in the spec, Figma will be in a position to support the spec natively.
I'm less mad about those since it's basically just price discrimination. If you are price sensitive enough that you're willing to clip the coupon then you get the cheaper price.
There’s also this notion of normalcy bias: even if I accept the risk in the abstract, I genuinely believe it won’t happen to me personally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
Well you could distill most "modern" methods to one subtitle of The Mythical Man-Month book: Plan the system for change.

TDD, DDD, extreme programming etc come from the same observation: the client does not know their needs. Even if they do, those could change. So you want to build systems which are easy to change. And we still get thousands of pages published in the form of books or blog post for something written and explained in a book almost 50 years ago.
I don't know anyone who works 5 days a week... Sure wages aren't as high as in the States but folks live comfortably enough (evidenced by the fact you can find Dutch tourists from Cambodja to Canada).
> The problem is that the state mandates they use certain maps to assess risk, so the insurance company can't really use their own data to produce maps with higher resolution.

Are there particular reason(s) why this is being mandated? Can you point to particular examples of these mandates?
Compare with Cue, Jsonnet, etc. Systems for sharing configuration settings can get pretty elaborate when it’s done at scale.
The photos are not representative of the kind of homeowner who does all the prescribed mitigation yet still doesn’t gain on premiums or coverage.

In Colorado, the maps are fairly transparent, yet I get the feeling that mitigation work is ineffective within predictions based on newer data.

https://archive.ph/O8j2m
My theory is it's just a soft layoff.

Same thing happened to a coworker of mine. They closed the branch for his office, mandated in office attendance, but they didn't fire him, just told him "well you'll have to come into office every weekday, nearest office is 500mi away".
Well to be honest, you could be earning that much money somewhere else with a lot less stress and insecurity.
What bothers me more is that those giant Figma files don't have anything special about the design anymore. Very often they're just using some uncanny-valley version of Material Design. Companies spend a lot of time reinventing almost the exact same wheel for almost no benefit at all. So much wasted potential.
Why? WFH has been a thing for a long time before the pandemic. I've been a fully remote worker for over a decade now. No plans to change that either.
I press ESC twice instead of once every time I want to get out of insert mode.

And the real problem is I have a binding to do ESC with 'jk' instead, but I always forget to use that one.
Discussing this with some friends last night there was some consensus that sometimes this may be to force a significant cut in the workforce that is cheaper to do by firing due for cause, as compared to making roles redundant and dealing with redundancy packages. Probably not true in all cases, but maybe in some.
TBF a lot of their staff probably have AT&T connections at home.
This seems on brand for an old tech company like AT&T. But Amazon is a puzzle to me. it’s been a decade since people started talking about how terrible it is to work there, and how all of the squeeze they put on employees is for short term gain, but they have clearly had immense growth since then, and (while every company has failures) considerable innovation. How are they “getting away with it“? Shouldn’t all of the high performers have left by now?
Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents