skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in that case U.S. Engineers should cheer for a weaker dollar, since it would bring the U.S. salaries more in line with the salaries in the rest of the world without affecting local dynamics as much (and still allowing people to afford their mortgages) :)
Regarding point 3 the major point of reducing the civil service is that the service they're providing is not required or can be done far more efficiently with the private sector.

You can say this claim will be wrong but it's odd at the very least to ignore it.
It definitely appeals VSC users like VSC appealed to Sublime Text.

There was really no reason for ST users to switch to VSC other than better tool integration.

Winning people over from VSC means having a free and fast editor with great features and lots of useful plugins. Still a long way to go.
Would love to see how DeepSeek R1 compares to O1 here.
Looks like a huge difference to me. The first function throws an error. The second function may not even return an error.
So as a reader one can assume that either a) I forgot about the wings (I guess I must be an idiot) or b) I am using a broader set of reference objects than simply "current passenger transportation modes". There are many man made objects much bigger than airplane wings. Fitting an aircraft carrier, or a container ship, or a skyscraper, moving under a city, would be much, much harder than fitting an airplane. Not to mention that if we strongly applied this engineering constraint, it's not beyond the realm of imagination that we could produce airliners with removable or foldable wings, or where the passenger compartment slides out, or tunnels with deep grooves for the wings, etc.
catb.org, jargon file, etc.
> I wonder if someone could make a decent cross-platform GUI toolkit to save us from the horribly slow Electron-hell we've carved out for ourselves.

https://github.com/slint-ui/slint
Absolutely and that’s probably one of the reasons a 911 is 4th on the Cars With the Most Frequent Occupant Fatalities list.

But Porsche doesn’t claim to be The Safest Car Brand Ever and doesn’t claim to be making cars that can be put into a mode where it Full Self Drives?
Dark Money Groups Want the Government to Bet Big on Crypto
There's a benchmark tool here: https://chevrotain.io/performance/

Ohm appears to be much slower.
100%. Hacking is fundamentally anti-authoritarian, and starting your own business and becoming an entrepreneur instead of a wage slave is also fundamentally anti-authoritarian.

However, I wouldn't go so far to disparage messing with the political system as "cracking". Hackers often try to break systems that are stagnant, and get those systems changed so that they come out stronger on the other side. And there's nothing more stagnant than modern politics. Ultimately it's a question of whether the people "hacking" the political system are "black hat" or "white hat".

I know what color hat Musk has chosen to represent himself, though.
electricity isn't the only resource to consider, however
YC X25: Ubo Factory Demo [video]
I know it is cheesy but I need to make this analogy. My eventual goal is offer an experience similar to Replit but focused on system programming and hardware integrations/development hence “Replit for hardware development and systems integrations”.

In its current form, it offers a set of tools (development toolkit) for embedded system application developers to perform deep hardware integrations with ease. The hardware system is designed with fine-grain modularity and powerful UX which can be easily customized for enterprise clients with minimal to no tooling fees.

In the near future, we’d be opening up ai-assisted workflows and agents to help developers build systems much faster. We are building an agentic system that chats with developers starting with product description and works with them to derive requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios/cases down to test code and application code that runs on hardware for validation.

The current hardware manifestation of the first-iteration concept, is a hardware pod that developers can use to build in the following application spaces:

- Smart home automation
- Personal data storage and hosting
- Edge AI & ML applications
- IoT sensing & monitoring
- Self-hosted task runners
- Voice assistant applications
- Networking applications (hotspot, remote gateways, etc.)

The product is constantly evolving and it will be introduced into the market in steps, initially starting with the Ubo Pod dev kit and later the Ubo factory AI-assisted development tools that can be used to create infinite variations of the base concept. You can think of Ubo Pod as the chassis/framework for building embedded systems.
> made me appreciate truly liberal democratic governance, for all its many flaws. Things could get so much worse, and often do, under autocrats

always see sayings like this from westerners, or americans, to be specific

everytime when something shit happened in the US:

- what are we becoming? DPRK/africa/china?

- at least we are not like Russia

this makes me wonder, were there similar sayings in 1940 german? "at least we are not in communism" "the worst fascism is still better than communism"
Incredibly interesting - thanks for posting.
holler back when these below (and other ACTUAL government waste) is being worked on vs. enjoying current TV show by a celebrity reality TV host for easily-entertained masses doing nothing but parading themselves on TV while enriching themselves while you stare at the screen… :)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musks-us-department-de...
Both probably higher than taking the subway to work.
Mount Evans was local to the US, and was not a contested international name. This is the first time the US has been on Google's "Sensitive Country" list.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/google-reclassifies-us-a...

There's a big difference between those two situations.
Is the US going to indefinitely house and feed 30k gang members in Cuba?
I found all my friends under "Internet Weirdos" but I'm wondering why so few of us (myself included) are included.
Turbomolecular pumps are basically turbines except they’ve got more blades in a different configuration, they’re driven by a motor instead of extracting energy, they have no method for convective cooling, and can’t use any lubricants or cooling fluid because they would vaporize and contaminate the vacuum.

I’ve got more experience with turbojet engines than turbines so I’m not sure how that changes the calculus on the last two points. Turbomolecular pumps use active electromagnetic bearings and require very precise manufacturing to match blade radius with the chassis and balance the blades. The material science for the blades is mostly the same.

I’m sure they’d could get plenty of useful data at mach 14 but sadly I doubt the USAF wind tunnel machinery would work in a vacuum environment without melting immediately, and it’s probably way bigger than even the biggest vacuum chambers NASA has. I’ve never heard of the tesla turbine before so I don’t know how the angular momentum translates to the molecules.
Well for one thing it's stupid to change the name. Per your example, I still call it Mount Evans and so does everyone else. This sort of thing is just a pissing contest where the government figures they can up and change the name, but that doesn't mean anyone is obligated to go along with it.
What about examples where [technical] management actively makes it harder for engineers to do their job by enforcing nonsensical design decisions (when explicitly warned against it)? :)

No AI can solve that one.
That is not how the US system is set up. If that is performed, then the word coup applies.
AI-Climate Institute
Because often it is the case that third party cables are of higher quality than stock cables, if you purchase from reputable vendors
Many researchers consider death bed visioning (when the dying sees a loved one in their waning moments) as not a hallucination, definitionally speaking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/magazine/deathbed-visions...

Doesn't mean they're necessarily saying it's real (or not real for that matter), just that it doesn't fall under the strict definition of a hallucination.
> By that logic we should restrict the number of children being born.

I disagree with this assertion. Controlling immigration is reasonable and proper when a nation state has boundaries, citizens vs non citizens, and an economic system to balance. Forcing people who want children to not have children is neither reasonable nor proper. With that said, we are in luck: the fertility rate is rapidly declining in almost every country [1], so this is not a problem we face. The future faces a worker shortage as the world ages rapidly, but we still must solve for today.

> But the growth of our country from a population of 50 million to 300 million did not result in a job loss of 250 million jobs.

To look at "jobs" in a vacuum is myopic. Are they good jobs? Do people need two or three jobs to survive? If not, we do not have enough good jobs, just jobs. We should be measuring someone's resulting quality of life from their economic activity, not the job(s). As I mentioned previously, if you cannot find domestic labor to perform a job at a market rate living wage, then perhaps immigration should be considered. We are at full employment and workers are still struggling to make ends meet. This does not call for more immigration; this calls for mechanisms to more rapidly push wages up.

Take construction jobs for example. At any time, there are about ~300k-400k construction jobs that are going unfilled due to lack of labor. Would those jobs be filled if domestic workers were trained and wages pushed up? Or would builders prefer to hire immigrants to do the work at wages on offer [2] [3]? The evidence shows the latter. There is a market clearing price for every job to be filled.

TLDR Maximize economic success for citizen workers, and then turn the knob on immigration accordingly.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://limos.engin.umich.edu/deitabase/2024/05/28/undocumen...

[3] https://eyeonhousing.org/2024/03/states-and-construction-tra...
> I'd live too, but I'd curse the prior generations that left it this way. But we're not far evolved from chimpanzees and we will grow until we collapse.

That's not really what the UN predicts [1]. It looks like it'll peak at a bit shy of 11 billion.

Population growth rates have been going down for awhile.

https://www.un.org/en/UN-projects-world-population-to-peak-w...
But this makes no sense. You're proving the "counterintuitive answer" with the probability theory but when confronted with the fact that your proof is not mathematically correct you say "this is a simple brain teaser". I don't see how it changes anything. If you rely on the probability theory then you have to do it correctly, there's no special brain teaser version of math.

It's like going around saying that "counterintuitive answer to equation x/x=1 is 17" and then "prove it" by dividing 17 by 17 . When confronted with the fact that in math to solve an equation is to find ALL solutions and not just one, you say "It's not at all about rules lawyering the premise of the puzzle". Well avoid dealing with the math then because the math in fact is all about the rules.
Newburgh Letter - King of United States
Perhaps we've lost the plot of both vehicles and computers.

When I was a child, computers were office-based machines, and it seemed, at least, that computers ("bicycles for the mind", "paperless office", "You Will... AT&T") were going to make life simpler, efficient, and leisurely as they took over our menial labor.

But computers came into homes, and just tended to be a plaything where games and pointless activities could be concentrated into your Residential Swiss Army Knife. It seemed promising for awhile, when word processing and spreadsheets and databases could be had. But they really just needed to upskill the everyman--->

If you're productive at this point, it's in spite of these computers, with the complexity and crossed purposes and support difficulties. I could probably just do 16 hour days reading Privacy Policies and paying an attorney to translate them.

I think one end-goal of ubiquitous computing was to offload all those secretarial, clerking, office assistant functions onto the consumer. It's mind-blowing to this guy that ordinary folks could get anything done with paper, a copper pair, and snail mail???

My father would joke at the store: "if they ask people at checkout whether they found everything ok, say yes, because otherwise they'll rearrange the store!" and it rings true with app development and obsolescence, because the drive to innovate and "improve" gives people job security, and produces patents, and press releases to pump your stock. And when the whole chain of tools/components is working this way, nobody can fight anymore. The App Stores seem to gloat when they've updated 23 apps to ratchet up the "let me relearn this from scratch as I simultaneously need a critical-path task to get finished on time"

So what are critical paths on a vehicle? It seems like so many "cushy first class" add-ons that increase the value-add and profit propositions. Perhaps it just maintains dopamine levels enough to cope with a car-based urban wasteland where you only park where you sleep.

I've used so many OS. So many apps. But leveraged tiny fractions of them because the learning curves are insurmountable. What's the average Joe do with malfunctioning computers: consult a 12-year-old STEM student or go to Geek Squad. Eventually high school will just mandate the MCSE/Apple tracks because, computer literacy not being optional anymore, it's not clear how far an 18-year-old can get initiated into the mystery cults and obscure arcana as a Cyberspace Sorceror.

So these in-vehicle computers are maximizing complexity and recapitulating Emacs->Operating System->Reads Mail->MMORPG in meatspace. When I can summon a robot to drive me around. But the edu-info-tainment systems in ordinary cars is nearly getting in our face to make the commute like another 4 hours in the office. Wow!
I mentioned in another comment about growing a Carolina Reaper last summer and trying it with my dad and 13 year old son. My dad and I instantly knew how bad the next half hour or so of our life was about to be. My son also found it hot but no more then 5 minutes later comes out of his room (after we all chewed a pepper and spat it out he went to his room with a slurpee) he casually walks out and says dad is it okay for me to have a shower. He didn't have his slurpee and really did not seemed bothered by the experience at all. Me on the other hand was in insanity pain. Could not stop running water over my tongue or suck on ice and suffered for at least a half hour. I just couldn't believe he took it so well. My only thought was he must not be so sensitive or lacks something like the receptors that detect it.

After writing all that I did a search about people with low TRPV1 receptors and found an interesting study done on a couple people lacking functional TRPV1 channels. They were insensitive to the application of capsaicin to the mouth and skin. Furthermore they had an elevated heat pain threshold as well as an elevated cold pain threshold. Why I found this interesting is because my same son who barely reacted to this insanely hot pepper I can never get to wear a jacket to school. He does not mind the cold at all. He will if we were up a mountain or something but he always complains the car is too hot when I am cold. Anyways not sure he lacks function TRPV1 receptors but still interesting to think about. Article linked below.

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/153558
This is a pretty good summary of my experience and a small set of steps to understand to see why it's different – the idea that features of git are workflows/patterns in JJ is a nice one.

> it's kind of hard to convey how a few, smaller, more orthogonal primitives let you do everything you can do in git, but easier

Some of this didn't really click for me until I experienced it (and I'm still very much learning). The one that sticks out is how you're always in a commit. Where in git you work in "modes" – editing in the index, rebasing, committing, etc. In jj you're always "stable" and can do anything from that point.

The way this is sold is things like "mutable commits" or "first class conflicts", but for me the real power was just realising that I can always move to another commit/change without having to pre-plan how to do that, always being able to edit my commit message right now without having to finish up something else first. Now going back to git feels like the tool is slowing me down and not keeping up with the pace and style I want to work in. I was surprised that this was the thing I most enjoy, because it's a little hard to motivate.
Virtually everything is easier. How much easier is up for debate.

Part of the issue is that everything is interlocking. Small gains in multiple places end up feeling so, so much nicer, even if they may not seem like it. So for example, the index in git is a workflow pattern in jj, not a built in feature. This means that you don't have `git reset` with `--soft` vs `--hard` vs `--mixed`: You just have `jj edit`. This decision also means `jj rebase` can be entirely in memory, which means it's fast. But that wouldn't matter if conflicts weren't a first-class concept in jj, so things like rebase always succeed and immediately. Which doesn't sound like a big deal but you find yourself being able to rebase way more often and way more easily...

It's not that git is bad. And it's not that it's bad at a specific thing. It's just that taking some of the other sides of some of the tradeoffs means that you get something that's smaller but also more powerful. And that's cool.

I think the "mega merge" plus `jj absorb` might be one of the more flashy things: https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/advanced/sim...

but I don't even do that. The basics are still just nicer.
Thank you, appreciate the compliment. I actually just edited it/got a bit self conscious about the tone and added some references, in part because I think truly grokking the core of what I’m saying (which fits perfectly with what you’re saying/is a conclusion I’ve also come to) is both really profound and really easy for engineering minded people like most of this audience to dismiss if you don’t ground it properly. Was worried I was getting overly fluffy and people would then assume the evidence and strength of the argument was less grounded than it is, and pared it down before seeing your reply. Hopefully I kept enough to retain what resonated.

There’s something about acknowledging the extent of the unknown that’s extremely humbling, awe inspiring, and difficult to adequately articulate, and it’s something I think is important to spend extra effort communicating.
Recently Howtown talked about some of the theories:

https://youtu.be/dutpBSKj8JY?t=196

It looks at a couple non-competing (iirc) theories
Is Ops a Bullshit Job?
Look up – The Story of how I Lost and Found my Laptop
Excuses. No-one else in the world uses that name, and the U.S. doesn't control the majority of those waters.

Google is kotowing to authoritarian nonsense. There's no reason they need to follow the executive branch's naming scheme. We're not a fascist state (yet). They can use whatever name they want, they can use the name that's internationally agreed upon.
Usually Intellij products are slow and fleet does not seem to be slow, so it is feels likely a lot of code was rewritten to make it fast.
It's the implication that the current government is authoritarian which is political
I came back to this reply after a little bit of research and investigation into our own stack. Admittedly, I ended up in this role after hopping around the startup scene a little bit but after doing a little digging... honestly I am a little embarrassed as an MLOps person that I have only barely heard of this name and never really looked into this more. We have lots of in-house tooling that is trying to imitate what Airflow does, but we spend a lot of time maintaining ourselves and it might make a lot of sense if this just works for our cloud environment, and it would lift a huge burden off of the rest of our engineering team to go work on other stuff.

Thanks again. I am a big fan of stable, mature, software that just does it's job and this looks exactly like that.
We aren't discussing Israel and Netanyahu in this thread, nor Biden's relatively poor attempt to thread the needle. Whataboutism isn't helpful.

This said, Trump wants to bulldoze Gaza, in case you missed his recent statements, for Israel. Dispossessing a people is a definition for genocide.

So, much worse than the hyperbolic claims that Biden was bombing Palestinians.
Once the cars are fully self-driving, this is exactly what will happen... just wait and see..
A Pail of Air (1953)
Depends on what you mean by juice. Is it worth the money? Yes
Most of the young crowd is very biased towards vs code irrespective of the top notch features which intellij is providing, so to win the game against vs code fleet becomes critical.
OMG I hated DCOM so thoroughly.
Because previous generation graphics didn't include ray/path tracing or DLSS technologies. They had baked in lighting and shaders that required much less compute to generate. Now that it does it requires more computing power that (we assume) Nvidia hasn't been able to solve with improved higher efficient computing power but simply by pushing more power through the card.

It's what Intel has been grappling with, their CPU's are drawing more and more wattage at the top end.
I mean… it’s quite clearly not the only way to resist…

Never once have I heard that WW2 was won by vocally and vociferously insisting on the rule of law
That may be! It's a bit handwavey, but plausible. However, I think it poses the strongest challenge to the argument of the article, and I don't think it can be trivially dismissed.
That's a hazard of apocalyptic rhetoric.

If you're constantly comparing people to some group, you can't talk about that group without being suspected of dogwhistles. Which forecloses discussions that otherwise could have been interesting.
The maker movement is so dead in the US that it's been forgotten.

I had a TechShop membership for years, and a TheShop membership after that, right up to the bankruptcy. The gym business model doesn't fit. Gyms work because people only show up a few hours per week, max. A gym can have 10x to 30x its capacity in members. For a maker space, people show up more, and it's only 2x - 3x.

I went to the wake for maker spaces, a small meeting in Silicon Valley. Some guy from TechShop made excuses. The guy who bought Heathkit went on about their retro kits.
Then we all went home.

There are still some maker spaces, but they're mostly 3D printers, sewing machines, and paper-folding, not lathes and mills. They're much more kid-oriented, with kids doing prescribed projects.
> Call it would you will, you have to do things and not all will be pleasant.

Couldn't agree more... all this work/labor hairsplitting makes no sense.
Yes. The explanation of "it's just something the brain drums up to make death more comforting" has always seemed like something people will laugh at 100 years from now.
I feel similarly about IntelliJ IDEs as someone primarily coming from Xcode.

Xcode has its own share of weaknesses, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that I’m irritated more frequently by quirks of IntelliJ IDEs like how the sidebar palettes work in a way that they’re constantly at battle with each other and how super simple considerations like per-editor-pane back/forward/history are missing. They sometimes feel like they trip over the basics in pursuit of fancy gizmos.
How could resisting a political system ever have not been political? I'm endlessly confused by how people use the term "political" these days. Is there some new definition I'm not familiar with?
What is authoritarianism but politics?