skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know how to change the oil and do the breaks in my car.

I pay a mechanic to do them because I don't have a lift and disposing of used oil is a pain.

Kids these days are growing up into a world where breaks rarely need changing and oil is something you use in the kitchen, not a car.
i had to uninstall it because it had associated itself with every possible file extension. i couldn't open a file without cursor popping up. very horrifying for that to happen to my computer when working on important projects
An idea I've never been able to get out of my head is an observation about collision detection.

1. The more stuff there is in an area, the more expensive collision detection is for each of those things.

2. The faster two objects move relative to each other, the more expensive collision detection is between those objects.
Elon's IQ Shredder: Our immigration strategy accelerates Idiocracy
Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863) was a turning point in the American Civil War, marking the end of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. The Union's decisive victory halted Southern momentum and boosted morale in the North, setting the stage for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which redefined the war's purpose as a fight for freedom and equality.

Much like the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola, which unites people across boundaries, Gettysburg united the Union cause, rallying the North to continue the fight. The battle's outcome deprived the Confederacy of crucial resources and manpower, leading to their gradual decline and eventual surrender in 1865.
Great stories? Sure, I suppose. Not the kind that tend to be conducive to a productive work environment, though.
> stuck on models that worked in the past, like "both sides"ing issues sort of reflexively. That works great with a lot of things like "how much should we tax companies?", but not so much for some more fundamental questions like whether someone supports democracy.

As someone who worked for years as an investigative reporter, I feel like this comment fundamentally misunderstands what it is that journalistic organizations strive to do.

Generally speaking, the goal is to report the facts about newsworthy events. They are not trying to tell people what to think, or even what the reporter thinks. That is what opinion pieces and editorials are for.

Would you be more specific about what you think should be done differently? For example, in reporting about whether someone supports democracy?
Probably wouldn't be too much different from modern gpus. The main difference would probably just be that it'd have a hardware method for doing ray-Signed Voxel Octree intersections.
i needed the belly laugh, thanks...we have an office in canada. the last 4 years the canadians that work there are more anti-immigrant every time i visit.
Gosh that's just awful. "Hi ghshepard, welcome home! Before we unlock your door for you, please watch this 30 second ad! Oh my, once a day you'll need to fill out a survey - what did you think of the ad?"
"your commons room use is 5 minutes over the limit. you'll need to pay the $200 excess use charge, or you can upgrade to our UNLIMITED commons room plan, which lets you use the commons room for five hours a month"
Reminds me of an Onion Skit from 16 years ago; Youths don’t want to participate in office politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHm7-Z4spHw
It seems very common for people to think that if there’s something they’ve heard about from American pop culture (or the internet), but isn’t popular in the few countries they’re familiar with, it must be uniquely American.
> That is not the case in the US

Indeed, American abundance is legendary

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/27/30/53/6130392/6/960x0.webp
“Frayed” is an understatement though: Canada has swung clearly in the anti-immigration camp over the last 4 or so years, maybe longer? It is to the point that Trump might actually be popular in Canada now just because of anti immigration sentiment alone.
Oh your comment really takes me back! I forgot how seriously guilds used to take the applications and interviews thing, including my own. Some still do a facsimile of what it used to be, but mostly it's all centered around the applicant's performance on publicly available logs at www.warcraftlogs.com now. It's a simple process for raiding guilds to look up applicants, see how they've performed, and then decide whether or not they want them on their raid team.

Anyway, I didn't mean to suggest that all guilds used to have a weird bootless gnome-type raider back in vanilla. There were plenty of "hardcore" guilds around back then. What I meant was that there were a lot more of the bootless gnome-type players raiding back then, and they were tolerated by a lot more guilds and players in general because "that's just Jim, it's how he likes to play!"

As the documentary points out, the bootless gnome player has died out entirely outside of non-roleplay servers, because the playerbase as a whole decided that they want efficiency, speed and performance to be their #1 priority. That priority manifests itself everywhere in modern WoW.
That doesn't make any sense to me (as an Irish person). A hundred years ago, sure. But modern Ireland is one of the richest and most privileged places on earth. The problems we have in modern Ireland - wealth inequality, housing crisis etc. - are decidedly problems of our own causing, and do not in any way equate to or reflect the struggle for rights and recognition of indigenous peoples around the world.

We do have our own indigenous minority who are treated badly by society - Irish travellers. There's a lot of racism in Irish society towards them, and we could do with looking at how other countries treat minorities, indigenous or not, and recognize for all that we like to harp on about our own poor treatment in history, we are doing exactly the same here towards travellers.
Could be cool to get GTM from companies pitch deck - and show their success rate per market.
The earlier console versions had finite worldgen due to memory constraints, but the newer versions of Bedrock do have infinite worlds. The main limitation of Bedrock is that it's just not as moddable since it's native code rather than easily decompiled bytecode.
It's the classic thing where people are unhappy due to unrelated systemic problems and they lash out and blame the latest people to show up.

Canadians are suffering due to decades on decades of poor housing policy and a continued reluctance to seriously engage in the problem. Suddenly immigrants are to blame.

Never mind the fact that long ago, before this government even touched immigration numbers, or were even elected, Toronto and Vancouver were already experiencing housing crises of high prices and severe shortage.
Our problem is that state governments have never reached their population growth based land release targets. And zoning laws are fairly ridiculous.

One study found that something like 70% of the cost of owning a home in Sydney comes from zoning and land release issues. That is, a bit of reform in zoning laws and a heap of land being released could see a 1 million dollar home being available for 300k.

That said, so much of australias economy is based on the false premise that housing is a stable long term investment. If you dropped housing on its face you would probably bankrupt the country for a generation. That said, better now than later.
I was using this algorithm to make a 3D Mario Kart for my calculator (which can usually barely handle 2D graphics sometimes) which was pretty fun but I never finished

This was one of the prototypes: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/953383695908216843/...
"Doesn't pass my sniff test" is not the purpose of the flag button. Furthermore, it passes my personal sniff test: hundreds of people upvoting it while the top comment is saying it's worthless. Usually the real alpha is in the comments under such things.
Umm no? There is (sadly) a significant anti-immigration backlash right now in canada. Its a core election issue and one of the main reasons trudeau is likely going to lose the next election.
My experience echoes yours. There’s something about writing longhand that is very difficult to reproduce digitally, and I have tried them all, including Obsidian and LogSeq.

The only digital exception I’ve found is OneNote. It’s 20 years old but nothing else comes as close as to reproducing the experience of pen and paper. In fact, I found it superior and I regretfully gave up my fountain pens and paper long ago. Recent research has shown that tablets with a digital are equivalent to pen and paper for comprehension, both of which beat typing:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8222525/

The advantages of OneNote over paper are practical: digital notebooks are more portable, can be automatically synced to other devices, converted to text if desired, searched, and has the superior feature of being able to easily insert images and screenshots.

My only regret with OneNote is that it is closed source and syncing requires a MS account. Using it on iOS also requires an account. It’s high time someone came up with an open source alternative that can be set up locally.
The big utility-scale solar plants tend to be on the ground in big fields. I think the preference for rooftop solar for individual houses comes mostly because it's convenient for suburban installations, as they don't usually want to give yard space and the panels would be in the shade anyways. Roofs aren't being used for anything useful, so that's where the panels go. In a rural setting there's less incentive to install on a roof, but you still might put them there anyways if that's where you get the best sun.

I suppose people might also be afraid of theft or vandalism if the panels are accessible to random passers-by without a ladder.
I have a close friend who does have what you describe here, being able to create a manipulatable model of underground formations from a seismic map, floating above his desk, AR like.

As this stuff is almost impossible to prove or disprove, what we are left with is either trusting someone when they self report OR assuming everyone uses our own way of thinking (from a self standpoint).

I think the later is quite egotistical in nature, and obviously incorrect when applied to physical attributes, so I'd rather go with the former personally.
> "A lot of the cost of the solar array is the people — installing the solar panels and all the wiring that goes into it. Inverters and the transformers and the switchgear. None of that changes"

Reminded me of Charge Robotics' mission: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/charge-robotics
I guess you missed Peter Thiel being gay as well.
> but they don't

Japan enacted new immigration policies last year to allow more migrants as well as improved parental leave.

South Korea has been in political turmoil for last year but lots of work is being done on immigration.
~28.2 million SW engineers in 2024

6,800 SW engineers in 1985

that's what I found - probably not called SW engineers in 1985 though
> write better code

Surely, performance optimisations are not the only thing that makes code "better".

Readability and simplicity are good. Performance optimisations are good only when the performance is not good enough...
I was using this algorithm to make a 3D Mario Kart for my calculator (which can usually barely handle 2D graphics sometimes) which was pretty fun but I never finished

This was one of the prototypes: https://youtu.be/9Z8Bm8ZmWKI
Most people want to live in a high trust society. Unfortunately the low trust society moves in.
I don't understand how this follows. I think your point is clear, and I agree with it, but I don't understand how this is related to what I posted. (Given the "Do you think..." opening)
Time to build a wall eh?
You spelled it this way so many times it reminded me of this scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hrjWC3YLIA
Yes! I wasn't sure how to express that without sounding like a dick, but I remember a comment a few weeks ago where someone was suggesting Amex was unheard of in Europe, where what they really meant was it isn't in Ireland, where they were.
What software do you use for generating those demos of how the software works? Or did you edit them yourself?
Online, hate appears far more amplified than it is in the outside world.

In the real world, yes there are places teeming with immigrants and international students, but you drive a block and turn a corner, and "it's Canada again". You lose that nuance in the online world where all you see is 10 seconds of a 120 degree window into some parking lot somewhere where immigrants happened to have gathered.

If you watch a video of the Embarcadero in SF on a Sunday, you're gonna think no one actually lives in SF, there's only tourists.
RailsConf 2025 will be the last gathering of its kind
Meh. My 16 year old writes shaders for her own games, writes for her VR headset, programs her graphing calculator, etc etc. The next generation will have plenty of self-taught SWEs, just like ours. Most kids couldn’t use computers in the 80s or now, and it wasn’t a disaster either time.
I would have expected a higher percentage
"US" - other parts of the world are doing okay with social dancing.
Niche viewpoint amongst whom? IP lawyers?
In Florida there's this growing trend of kava bars filling a similar niche. Alcohol-free spaces open late serving up kava, kratom, and other teas!
> Would you be more specific about what you think should be done differently? For example, in reporting about whether someone supports democracy?

No, because I'm not a news person myself. I can see there's a problem, but I don't know how to fix it; I don't know the job or the business behind it well enough.

I'd look to people like Jay Rosen and Margaret Sullivan for good critiques and perhaps some suggestions of what should be done differently.

But it's tricky! Because not only is the reporting part of it struggling right now, the whole business aspect is in trouble as well, which compounds problems - like I mentioned with local news. And once again, I have no idea how anyone fixes that. Perhaps some enterprising person on Hacker News will figure out something that works, although I suspect it's more of a people problem than a technology one.
Not to make a point in the overall healthcare funding discussion but cancer mortality is lower in the US.

https://www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-compar...
Software dev thinking that tax code is determined by software lobbyists, is like medieval peasants thinking that thunder is determined by a god that is angry at them.
Wow. Comparing colonization with 20/21st century labor migration is peak far right playing victims. I guess the people of Hawai'i and the Maori were also asked and decided in a democratic process if they want their colonizers to come in and help rebuild their economy and do the jobs no one else wants to do.

> Similarly, I don't see how Germans wanting non-Germans to leave is racist.

Wanting non-Germans to leave when they are not refugees and do not participate in society is not the problem. The problem is the definition of non-German.

It would be inhuman to not give someone either citizenship or a permanent permit residency if they worked for a long time in a country. Do people really expect guest workers to come (alone?) into a foreign country, work the shittiest jobs for 15 years and then return to their home country to start a family with 35+ years?

Also, it would not work. Germany still attracts foreign workers in some fields (e.g. nurses). If you tell them, they get to work for 15 years and then have to return, no one would come. If the indigenous people of Germania advocating for no labor migration are ok with dying in their own excrement, because there are no nurses, I guess that would be one way to solve the problem.
Yeah, they know better than to eat their own dogsh*t.
Never seen it in Africa, other than transit hubs with westerners.
Oh I meant in like private industry
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I remember when CETA was ratified, and there was talk about labor mobility which got me excited. Having more options on which countries to work is always better than fewer, but I ended up in the U.S. and turns out that worked out much better for me. Others may have different views.

I was once young and had romantic notions of living in Europe, but I realized that I cultivated those notions as a student, tourist and urbanist. The realities of living in Europe are more complicated. I can still deal with the downsides (would still love to live in London), but as I've moved around and lived in more places, I realized it's not incontrovertibly true that the European lifestyle is better than in North America. Just depends what you're optimizing for.

Europe is still a good destination for the well-heeled (and with a job lined up -- but that's true for almost any developed country), but if one isn't in that situation, Europe not the paradise many young people in Canada think it is. Sure you have walkable cities, universal healthcare, social safety net, train travel to tons of interesting destinations. But you also have to deal with a lot more bureaucracy, inefficiencies, and ultimately being a foreigner in a land that is not an immigrant nation like Canada is. The cuisines in European cities are nowhere near as diverse as the cuisines available in Toronto. You can't take risks and do new things as easily. The downside of the good life is comfort -- and a lack of dynamism.

p.s. looking back on CETA after 7 years (it's still not fully in effect), it looks like the effects were largely negligible to Canadians except in niche areas because of other effects that canceled out the advantages.
X is expensive, but you can get a chinese knockoff for cheaper, is true in so many domains.

Now about quality, usually it's much worse.
said every generation ever. and yet...
That’s not what iTerm2 does.

I want an actual-full-screen, with menu-bar and Dock invisible, with no window chrome - not merely “fill the maximum allowable space by the OS, as if dragging the windows corner with mouse”.

BUT I don’t want to use the native affordance for that, since that makes it its own “Desktop”, and I can no longer switch to it using my Snow Leopard-era muscle memory of using ^-<number> to switch between them.

I am fully aware that this is incredibly niche requirement, but it is a dealbreaker for me :)

I saw that Ghostty kinda supports this; but then disables tab support if this is enabled, which, also an obvious dealbreaker.
In Australia up to 70% of the cost of a home is dictated by zoning and land release issues.

70%. Thats not "Something else" thats "The majority of the issue"

Immigration is already controlled here so that its roughly just backfill for population growth targets. State governments are supposed to release enough land to meet population growth targets. They have never met these land release targets.

So "Immigration" is already meant to be factored in as one of many factors, but isn't, and that immigration is a tiny % of the overall problem.

To focus on immigration as the entire issue, as happens quite a bit here, is fundamentally racist. And quite obviously so.

I honestly couldn't give 2 shits about enclaves. I live in a region where the australian government has dumped every refugee population since the 70s and uses it as a baseline for targeted welfare studies. This worst part of living here is the halal pepperoni.
Exactly. Immigration is largely a symptom of declining birth rates. If the birth rate is above replacement, guess what, no immigrants needed!
idk in Romania you have decaf almost everywhere but I've heard we have a lot of (specialty) coffee shops so maybe we're the outlier
I'm not that familiar with Canadian economics, but doesn't Canada have a below replacement birth rate like most of the developed world?

How did they even manage to end up in a housing crisis?
> the housing shortage is so acute that service workers cannot find places to live.

You can trace all kinds of seemingly unrelated problems back to the "housing theory of everything".
I want the power of the techno gods for free, but I also don't want ads.

Is that so hard to get?
The most shocking thing to me is the heavy involvement of McKinsey consulting in all this[1]. Feels anti-democratic to let a foreign consulting firm set immigration targets.

[1] https://thewalrus.ca/shadow-government/
People with self-esteem issues who want to fill a deep-seated insecurity about social status find the org-chart as an adequate way to fill up their needs.

The other is MBA grads/project managers who paid big bucks to be able to get a high paying job producing nothing but need a place in the company.
Thanks for sharing! I like the look of this a lot. I'm always looking for personal knowledge base and note taking style tools.

Will you provide source code anywhere?
I provided arguments: a lot of the regulations came in response to new failure rates discovered when operating nuclear reactors, many times via an accident like Fukushima.

But since you are asking, here's a typical statement from the linked article:

> Nuclear grade components don’t necessarily have higher performance requirements than conventional components - the cost instead mostly comes from the documentation and testing to ensure they’ll meet their performance requirements.

This seems like an example of "bad regulation". But it's not, it's actually good regulation. If you have 2 components with the same level of performance, and one has more strict documentation and testing, it does not mean they are interchangeable. The one with more testing is much less likely to fail, and this is quite important for a nuclear reactor. Would you dispose with this regulation?

Now consider this: the NRC approved the NuScale reactor design [1]. Yet, NuScale never built a demonstration reactor, the entire approval was based on computer models. A regulatory body hell-bent to stymie new reactors would not have done that. This approval, in my mind, shows that the NRC is quite reasonable.

And by the way, I did spend some time going over some of the approval documents. I remember a dissension paper that I found, where one NRC inspector expressed dissatisfaction with some corner case concerning borated water. I can't find it now, but I found some paragraphs in one of the final documents, where the NRC describes the situation ([2] page 48):

> The applicant also analyzed postulated scenarios involving extended DHRS operation with the secondary side water level in the steam generator tubes above the primary side water level in the reactor vessel downcomer, hereafter referred to as the boiling/condensing heat transfer mode. In this scenario, the boiling of borated primary coolant in the reactor core generates steam, which subsequently condenses on the section of the steam generator tubes that is filled with secondary coolant and above the downcomer water level. The resulting formation of condensate, if left unmitigated, would tend to dilute the boron concentration of the coolant in the downcomer.

The document then goes on to show that NuScale performed some analysis that eventually satisfied the NRC.

NuScale spent a lot of money and man-hours (if I remember correctly $0.5 BN and 1.5 million man-hours) in order to secure the approval. But reading the approval documents on the NRC website, you get the idea that all the work was actually needed. Reactors are just very complex machines with many failure modes.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/smr/licensing-acti...

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2020/ML20205L408.pdf