skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swizzling uses the Objective-C runtime, which in turns handles the message passing mechanism. Unless you inherit from an NSObject, you can’t swizzle in Swift.
Hmm, I don’t recognise this characterisation. I have been a web front-end specialist for quite some time, and have also developed large-scale native UIs for both macOS and iOS. My perspective would be that there is no clear winner. The Apple environment is absolutely _miles_ ahead of the web platform in several respects; the web offers greater flexibility that comes with a corresponding cost.

I’d agree at least that platform-specific developers can often keep themselves far too isolated. They really should be making an effort to work cross-platform as much as possible, because learning about the different patterns and techniques used in different environments is an incredible force multiplier.
This is entirely consistent with the great filter.

> 1. it extremely unlikely for any species, however curious, to ever make it out of their local gravity well

ie. it is more likely that they would go extinct before making it out of their local gravity well, which means the discovery of other life local to us would make it substantially more likely that filter preventing us from attaining interstellar travel is ahead of us.
I, too, would have appreciated slightly more documentation. Here are two questions I had, and what I figured out.

Many RSS readers are stand-alone GUI applications. I would have appreciated an up-front notice that this is a hosted solution. (Which is what I am looking for. I'd like the same view of what's read and unread on my different devices, thank you)

Different RSS readers use different storage backends. I dug through your code, and it seems to use SQLite, which is exactly what I hoped for. It's a huge difference in deployment and system administration headaches whether it uses an embedded or a hosted database.

Looks interesting! I'd also appreciate a prebuilt binary for Linux, but I understand that it's still early days. Paying attention :)
Vacuum doesn’t necessarily mean pressure-vacuum. It roughly means extreme concentration gradient, which is as you’ve described universal.
I always found the acronym LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) funny for similar reasons.

The definition of the difference between gas and vapour is that a gas cannot be liquefied by pressure (so water vapour heated over ~374°C becomes a gas)
I love this idea. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, there was a software called "Reason". It was only mentioned a few times, but I always keep thinking back to it whenever we're in a planning meeting.

>Reason allows users to specify in advance the decision they want it to reach, and only then to input all the facts. The program's task was to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion. The only copy was sold to the US Government for an undisclosed fee.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/dirkgently/gordon_way.shtml

There was another software I forget the name of, but the guy had modeled his sofa and staircase on it to try and figure out how the sofa got impossibly stuck halfway up stairs, and it kept trying different angles in order to come up with a way to get it unstuck.
They're going to get away with it. Now that the stock has short interest, the RobinHood kids will gather and create a short squeeze and Trevor Milton is practically guaranteed to become a billionaire.
The UK is not in a position of strength at the moment.

Brexit might give us back 'control' from Brussels but does not exactly give us the upper hand in commercial negotiations with the US.

Now, I'm sure that Nvidia will want the deal to close smoothly and will thus be willing to give similar guarantees. Of course the trick is that these guarantees usually (and sensibly) come with a time limit, which also suits governments, so don't mean that much in fine.
> Fusion is bullshit.

Especially because the Tritium fuel problem is not solved, and nobody has the faintest idea how to solve it. The materials needed to breed Tritium in something different from the Sun (or thermonuclear weapons) just do not exist for now.
You trivially can't see the damage it's done at all—some measure of success does not imply peak success.
I like this hypothesis.

This is exactly why I switched from C++ to Java, and from Python to Go, and why I’m using JavaScript in the browser.

But it doesn’t fully explain why I switched from Java to Python: that was partly for the runtime, but in that case the language itself played a big part.
To add to this comment(might be biased as I live and work in the UK): salaries here are just not on the USA level, while costs of items are the same, if not higher(check Apple products price difference on the official website, clothing etc). For many of high demand engineers the choice is London/Manchester or move to the USA
If Kotlin can set up adequate tooling and performance in native and JavaScript backends, its approach of building libraries for multiple platforms could be a new wrinkle, and fulfill the "write once, run anywhere" better than Java ever did.

As it stands, it's _not_ easy to use the multiple platform setup. You really need to be both an expert in Kotlin, Gradle (and their plugins are _barely_ documented), and the target platform.

But if the build process becomes easy, and, they can build a rich ecosystem that basically can create abstraction layers on top of the target platforms, I see it going far. It's still not there yet, but it's moving quickly.

I'm still in a "wait and see" place with Kotlin. I've enjoyed working with it on the JVM, where the tooling is fantastic. But the JS and native toolchains are still not up to my standards. Just being another JVM language isn't good enough for me.
A proof of never having used SQL Developer, pgadmin is quite basic in capabilities, and now being a Web based UI even less appealing.
oh this is good haha, hope others get this reference
I assume that the author, like many people, has an allergy to parentheses or something like that.

As far as I'm aware, there is no way to measure whether a language is "objectively bad" except if that language does not allow you to do what you want to do (or, maybe, if the language makes doing what you want to do unreasonably difficult). Emacs Lisp has been successful for decades and by all appearances is going to continue being successful, which in my mind makes it objectively good by any empirical measure.

(By this measure, we could consider languages like the assembly languages, ALGOL, etc as "bad", so long as the context for analysis is "writing modern high-level software." They are mostly no longer used except when necessary, which seems to me the only measure worth considering until we develop a theory of language usability analysis.)

I wish the author had not been so vague in this dismissal. While their article is certainly allowed/encouraged to be full of opinionated conjecture (as they defend in the opening), I think such a strong position is deserving of at least a little more justification.
> Filter isn't the existence of other civilizations, but over the probability mass they'll cross paths with another and each can mutually grok the other exists

The idea is that "probability mass they'll cross paths with another and each can mutually grok the other exists" is a monotonically increasing function of the number of other civilizations, which bridges the problem you've identified.
I'd love to learn more. What technologies outside iOS have you used and what do they do better than SwiftUI?
They're not more relevant, but they are equally relevant.

This is adding the ocean as a new layer in the overall heat dissipation stack for datacenter computing; it's impacting a whole new ecosystem that it wasn't before. Thus, we need to be asking these kinds of questions about how this will impact oceanic ecosystems.
Other than the issues others have raised about mailing list vs. PRs from Git{Hub,Lab}, here is the information you need to send to the FSF in order to contribute >15LOC:

- [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes? Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]

- [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own your changes? Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]

- [For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]

- [What year were you born?]

- [Please write your email address here.]

- [Please write your postal address here.]

I have several bugfixes and enhancements to various org-babel languages that I maintain for my local code, but I have no interest in jumping through copyright assignment hoops or sharing my age & mailing address to push them upstream.
For any given individual, you want two things:

1) Minimize their suffering (satisfying basic needs).

2) Make sure they can develop their potential at their fullest (also quite close to a basic need).

So I'd say that politics should be about trying to coordinate society to satisfy those as much as possible for everyone.
That website was really pleasant to read on. It's a simple, straightforward design.

However, the article doesn't tackle the main difficulty I have with being helpful: laziness.

I really struggle to help people when typing their question in Google verbatim would lead to an excellent answer, especially so when I am the author of that answer.

Another common one is questions that should be answered with a quick call to customer service.
It's interesting to me that they didn't use CGI. Maybe they were afraid people would notice? But tons of car ads are totally CGI.

Back when I was at Dev Bootcamp, before that shut down, some car company came to shoot a car commercial in front of the building. People were expecting to see some cool cars and action on the scene, but I rightly predicted that there would be filming of backdrops, some green screens here or there, all done in a few hours, and no actual cars.

Having looked at the video, I see no reason why they needed a real truck, even if they actually have a prototype. Are they just cheap as f*?
> And what might that "effective action" entail?

Well exactly.

We need to figure this out before we deliberately induce mass panic, which would only be destructive without any idea of what action you want to achieve.
From the press releases today, the clouds of Venus are upwards of 80% sulfuric acid, and on earth the highest concentration of acid we've observed things living in is 5%.

All of the expert testimony I heard described Venus as far to acidic for any life on Earth [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_Olo
They should move HQ to Ireland to maintain easy access to the European talent pool.
So I guess they subscribe to the 'fake it till you make it' philosophy of start ups?
And if the same charges had been made on a Visa card, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Because all of the fake-native apps absolutely suck and personally I am (genuinely) way the heck more likely to pay for your product or service if you offer me a real application.
Hmm, glass half empty you mean? I mean yes, it sounds absolutely horrible. On the other hand, he recovered, married, has a child and is living "the dream" (independent consultant doing web/etc). He's also probably _really_ good at meditation. :)
It was such a good deal for GM that it didn't matter. They got 11% of Nikola, which they can start selling off after a year. And that was just to allow Nikola access to their IP, which GM wanted to develop and test anyways. I imagine they got such great terms because Nikola has absolutely nothing working in-house.
I once read a statistic that the Saturn V rocket had a higher instantaneous power than the whole of the UK electrical grid. I did a bit of googling to discover if that was true and I was surprised to discover that the UK used about 3-4 times more electricity in the 1970's than it does now. Presumably it's because there is hardly any industries like steel milling or metal forming and processing now. Most manufacturing is assembly of parts imported from the EU and the far east.
Florida Latinos swamped by wild conspiracy theories on WhatsApp, Facebook, radio
> "It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else."

If you're in ByteDance's shoes, this sounds like a perfect counteroffer to the US government position. If you believe the US concern might be more politics than governance, you offer a solution that gives a political win with minimal operational impact.
Apart from that person being an asshole this would actually be the right thing to do. Buy the land and give it to the nature. Deep Ecology foundation used to do just that.
I really think that false statements made by commercial entities should be prosecuted as fraud. It's one thing to engage in vague sales talk like 'the new SuperTech Blinkenlights will turbocharge your actuarial skydiving research!!', but when you're making claims of having actually existing technology (which you may not be ready or willing to patent, but do want to raise money with), the public has an interest in protecting itself from fraud.

Perhaps there should be some requirement to pay for independent professional witnesses, sort of like observers who validate Guinness world records as having met some (negotiable) standard of existing in the real world while being bound not to comment on the specifics of how it was achieved.
> What matters is characteristics of the runtime

I'd say what matters is who is your sponsor.

C/C++ had Unix/AT&T and Microsoft as sponsors.

Basic and C# had Microsoft.

Javascript had all browsers' makers.

Java had Sun and Google.

Fortran and Cobol had IBM.

Python, Go and Kotlyn have Google.

Objective-C had Apple. When Apple was in the ropes Objective-C wasn't popular. Then Apple got big and Objective-C got big, also.

Turbo Pascal/Delphi had Borland when Borland was Borland. Now Borland is Embarcadero and the language is fading.

Smalltalk, Lisp and Lua had great runtimes but never had great sponsors.

Ok, there were exceptions: Perl, Ruby, DBase... but some of these are falling behind already.
I can't speak for others, but I'm driven away from contributing to projects that use mailing lists because there's a high barrier to entry, and here's a source of other people having the same issue[1] to corroborate my anecdote a little.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/
There's a simple explanation for that though: the government has more money, and socialises the profits.

At one point the US government was spending 4% of GDP on NASA. Not everything NASA did was possible to commercialise, but entire industries from satellite communications and air purifiers to baby formula and memory foam were created based on solving difficult problems for spacemen. All of these now mass market industries pay tax on their US operations.

Even if a corporation could spend that sort of money on a space program it couldn't hope to collect a return from every industry that grew up out of that space program.
Salicin occurs naturally in willow, not aspirin. It's a prodrug of salicylic acid, which has some anti-inflammatory effects.

Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. It's also a prodrug of salicylic acid, but it has additional anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic effects, because unlike salicylic acid itself, it can irreversibly inactivate COX enzymes (enzymes that synthesize compounds needed for inflammation and blood clotting) by acetylating them. It's also less irritating to the digestive system.
Why Nvidia's ARM Acquisition May Start AI Winter
From a total energy gain/loss it doesn't change anything. Heat generated on planet diffuses into the ocean (the largest heat sink) and radiates into space at a (relatively[1]) fixed rate.

Given the mechanics, the overall ratio of heat in the atmosphere vs heat in the oceans is fixed by the Rtheta of the atmosphere/ocean boundary. If the atmosphere gets warmer, more heat is transferred. If the atmosphere is colder less heat is transferred.

The other question (which Jacques alluded too) is what about the local conditions. And here to the thermal mechanics give our underwater data center an advantage. Given the thermal conductivity of water, and seawater in particular, heat dumped into any spot rapidly diffuses to the rest of the ocean. That is not the case with air, which has a much lower thermal conductivity. Dumping lots of heat into unconstrained air locally can cause a localized "hot spot" which creates an interesting thermal plume and localized winds as cooler air around it comes rushing in.

To get a good understanding of just how effective the ocean is at diffusing heat, consider any of the hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific. Prodigious amounts of heat dumped into the ocean creating a local hot spot (and a lot of steam!) and an undetectable change in overall ocean temperature. Kilauea volcano, same effect.

The ocean has a lot of thermal mass, without something like an asteroid from space, its hard to move the needle on its temperature overall.

[1] There are some pretty interesting thoughts around using harmonic resonators to convert ambient heat into IR radiation at a wavelength that can more easily pass through the atmosphere but those are just lab experiments at the moment AFAIK.
It is adding... the question is how much compared to natural systems that add heat to the oceans already (in addition to sunlight, thermal vents, oceanic fissures, underwater volcanoes, etc.) is it significant or is it insignificant?
These allegations apply to virtually every social media SaaS.

You're fooling yourself if you think this TikTok debacle is anything but an desperate assault on a foreign company by sinophobes and competitors. And Trump's capitulation confirms that!
The thing is, when it comes to climate change, those predictions are often a best case scenario given the evidence. They assume that we will take the necessary measures, which we have been falling way short of doing for decades. We now only have a narrow window within which to take extreme measures to keep to those best case scenarios, if we are lucky.

With covid, many followed the suggested measures, so we avoided extreme results where the appropriate precautions were taken. The fact that scientists predicted doom and gloom and many people actually did what scientists recommended to avoid it shows that we should be following their recommendations for the climate too. In the case of covid, it was in the interest of short term political/corporate outcomes that we did something. Climate acts on longer timescales so we continue to see inaction...
The only thing I've really found that works for me has been ilograph[1] that allows you to draw your diagram and then create different "views" into it depending on what the focus of the diagram is. Here's a wonderful demo of what it would look like converting some AWS architecture diagrams into ilograph ones[2].

I'm not affiliated with this project at all - I just really love it.

[1] https://www.ilograph.com/
[2] https://blog.ilograph.com/posts/fixing-aws-architecture-diag...
It might actually make sense for GM. GM is building the vehicles using their own tech/plants (presumably not at a loss) and for doing so, is getting Nikola stock.

If Nikola is an unexpected success, then they have a significant stake in it, and if they fail, then hopefully they don't have too many vehicles that Nikola hasn't paid for.
Yes, nuclear isn’t hard, they’re so strictly regulated because there aren’t other dual use technology that are more controllable, destructive and easily repurposed by sufficiently advanced nations.

My personal opinion is that if we discover a more devastating weapon of some sort, such as kinetic bombardment using bunches of O'Neill space colonies as projectiles, nuclear becomes comparatively benign and that kinds of event can lead to more de-regulation.
If we make more of them, it's because there's a need for it.

There isn't an "increased demand in datacenters" just because datacenters are more efficient. There's still the same demand, but it can now be met more efficiently.

If the process was not as efficient, you would still attempt to meet the demand, except that you're producing more waste (waste heat especially in this case), over a longer period of time.

Waste is waste, reducing it is never a negative.
Glacier Display
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463423
iOS is very restrictive and Apple has actively been working to thwart fingerprinting techniques, so you'd have a hard time going about getting something reliably unique.

If you are targeting older builds, there is stuff like this which is pretty neat [1].

[1] https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf
We're not capable of comprehending the true scale/emptiness of space, sure - but it seems like many commentators are having difficulty comprehending the length of time the universe has been around for.

If a single civilization in our galaxy made a machine capable of replicating itself and going to other star systems less than a billion years ago, we should have seen that.

> it doesn't occur to us that the chances of any arbitrary path along the universe intersecting with a star would be effectively zero

I fail to see how this is a strong critique of Von Neumann probes, maybe you can clarify.
This is a benefit to our (UK) sockets, as laid out in BS 1363 and used in some other countries.

The cable exits the bottom, not the front, so it doesn't matter how thick or heavy it is, and pulling it out of the socket by the cable is very difficult.

Further, our earth pin is at the top by default, and our line and neutral pins are insulated to the extent that if the plug is far enough out of the socket to expose the uninsulated portion of the pins, it is no longer far enough into the socket to be receiving any voltage.

https://media.rs-online.com/t_large/F3236252-01.jpg
It's not a binary switch.
> but if you use renewables to power your things, it doesn't really matter how much heat you generate.

Thermodynamics should really be emphasized in schools. You are getting some amazing responses that are completely ignoring the fact that our renewable energy solutions are not increasing the overall heat in our planet. They are just moving energy around.

The only thing that really matters is how are the emissions going to look like when we are manufacturing renewable energy equipment (either new capacity or replacing faulty ones).
Pretty much fine with https://datatables.net/
> Samsung makes (excellent) screens for iPhones, which are huge competitors to Samsung's own flagship phones, but Samsung still seems happy to take the profits from the screen sales.

What markup does Apple pay for Samsung OLED displays compared to Samsung’s other OLED customers? I think this is highly relevant if you want to use it as an example. Because if the markup for Apple is 5x that of other buyers of Samsung OLED displays then you certainly can’t say Samsung is “happy” to sell them to Apple.

Same for nVidia-owned-ARM: if they’re happy to sell ARM licenses at 5x the previous price, then that will surely increase sales for nVidia’s own chips. I guess my overall point is: a sufficiently high asking price is equivalent to a refusal to sell.
> It would indicate that, but it's also somewhat expected if we're around to make that observation, which tempers how much information we can take away from it.

Life could have arisen on Earth much later than it did and we could still have been around to see it (or if not us, something like us) so the anthropic principle doesn't apply here. The fact that it arose so early is meaningful.
I clicked the upvote on your comment but wanted to put a sad emoji...