skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The web was designed to publish documents, it was never intended to build applications.

I find that repeated a lot, but to me, it's somewhere between an overstatement and a misconception.

Sure, the early web wasn't anywhere near the versatility of what we have today, and interactivity was extremely limited (and as you say, is still more complex than it ought to be). But the semantics of HTTP+HTML, from the early days, allowed for application development. If all we had had were <p>, <h1>, <aside> and GET, sure, documents it is. But we had forms and POST and everything you need to make a CRUD application from the early 90s. It was pretty basic, but so was support for documents (tell Desktop Publishing people that HTML in the 90s was good for documents, and they're not likely to agree much).

Just as one example, what is this, of not an application: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/pizzanet/
They are saying that quantum computing is at the stage that classical computing was at when it still relied on vacuum tubes.

Not that quantum computing is at the same stage as the vacuum tube industry was at at some unspecified time.
Where AI is headed in the next 5 years
The counter argument is that European vehicles are vastly using manual gear, despite the fact that except for a small minority, no one cares about the potential difference in torque.

There is just a lot of people that are used the a certain solution and are resistant to change.
Personally this is one of the reasons I chose to go into software instead of statistics when I was a young math major. The idea that you could make a small mistake that invalidates all your work and you might not even know it until much later or even never always made me uncomfortable. With software I can write tests till my neuroticism has been placated
Branch coverage is a tiny fraction of total program state coverage.
So tell me how I can build an infinite scroll panel that supports (a) jumping to any point without a single dropped frame, (b) smooth sub-pixel scrolling on browsers that support it, e.g. edge or firefox, (c) full accessibility support

Pretty standard on any other platform, but on the web, no one gets it right.
As someone who shares this perception, for me it's not nearly as analytical. I can physically see how much is left; I don't think in terms of the numbers. It's sort of like judging the distance between your workplace and the coffee shop down the street, in which if asked you'd make some heuristics to estimate how long it takes you to get there, but by default you just 'know' it is where it is, even if you don't think of the distance in meters.

So it's more like "I have <image of clock> left" because I intuitively know what the clock will look like when the time is up.
While a lot of comments here are focused on failure of the system, ultimately the death of the young girl is due to multiple negligent and incompetent doctors each failing individually to perform the work for which they have been trained and paid.

I wish the author had included names and pictures of the doctors and consultants that failed in their duties. Their future patients (not that they should have any) and their colleagues deserve to know.

Edit: I'll also add that if you are ever in a hospital ER or similar situation I recommend stopping everyone that comes in to the room to see the patient (your family member) before they start talking and get their name and position at the hospital before they continue. Then repeat what they said back to them and if it sounds fucked up ask them to elaborate.
I guess the world will know that I like cooking videos, home renovations, and ladies in bikinis.
Out of curiosity, how would viagra help anyone pass hell week?
Just taking a second to appreciate you and your work. I have one of the first ever Theme System Journals. While I've grown older and now no longer watch your videos as religiously as before, I do still follow along Cortex.

I was a patron for Hello Internet. Though I doubt it will, I hope you guys can one day bring it back. So many fond memories :)

Thank you for your hard work and almost-always insightful remarks!
Sure, Biden, but Trump is plenty menacing himself.
Or imagine if you're a kid and it's physically impossible for you to see around an SUV parked adjacently to the crosswalk without actually sticking your head out into the street.

That said, the "cars make noise go vroom" argument hasn't really worked for decades now. Modern mufflers mean most unmodified cars aren't loud enough to be clearly heard over background noise in an area with lots of cars. Pedestrian safety is absolutely a problem that's worsening, but I don't think that "make cars noisier" is the solution.

Barring the ideal (to me) solution of fewer cars in the first place, what seems most promising to me is making the infrastructure itself more pedestrian-friendly. I was impressed to see what Amsterdam's city center did with encouraging cars out onto the thoroughfares and out of the places where people are walking. They didn't seem to have the same "Waze addicts blowing through stop signs on residential streets" problem that we have in North America. Nor did they have the same problem with stroads and their obnoxious traffic patterns that set everyone who uses the on edge. It seemed to make transportation both safer and more pleasant for everyone involved.
Updated my original comment, I thought it was 2 and 3 weeks, not 3 and 4 weeks.
But next time it is a real threat to our infrastructure for once. Not accounting satellite operators of course, although I haven't heard about severe damage either. There is the occasional fault by space weather though.
You are being very cagey with where you actually live. "My family owns a house in the US" doesnt make you a resident. Do you pay US taxes?
The Futurist Manifesto (1909)
> YC only accepted them after they basically made it

Everytime I watch dragons den I get the same feeling. You have $1m in orders this year, which should be a profit of 200k, sure I will give you 100k for 20% of your company.
You could make the same argument about a study that says that meat is good.
I think you might get better reception once there is some actual content, because I think this is a fantastic idea.
But right now it’s nothing more than a nice graphic and email collection form. Hope to see it again here soon.
It kinda happened, South Park even made an episode about it!
Try the 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' plugin. It's working for me.
You might be pleased to learn that the Malthusians have a nearly 200 year record of being wrong.
> How is the “current topic” only about power delivery.

Because that's what the law covers. All phone *chargers* must be USB-C compatible. And they must all interoperate. You must be able to buy a phone without the charger, so you can re-use your old one.

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/electrica...
It's cause of the finally added outer join?
If I remember correctly the split was practically zero in 2016 (Trump vs. Hillary Clinton), and about 75% for Trump / 25% against Trump in 2020 (Trump vs. Biden).

Trump's role in the January 6th insurrection, Trump's claims that the election was stolen, and his pressure on voting officials to "find the votes"[1] have caused about half of Republicans to turn against him and other Republicans that support him.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/in-rec...

Edit: Republican support for Trump in 2020 was stronger than I remembered:

"Ideological divisions within the parties were also apparent in the vote, with both Trump and Biden doing better among the ideological core of their parties. Trump received the votes of 97% of conservative Republicans and leaners but a smaller majority (79%) of Republicans who describe themselves as moderate or liberal. Biden took 98% of the vote among liberal Democrats and leaners and 91% among those who are moderate or conservative."

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-biden...
> The [bitcoin] protocol itself has not been hacked. Ethereum has been hacked in the past

Citation needed for Ethereum protocol (not contract) hack.
Ask HN: Can you give your honest opinion about my startup?
Hello,

My startup is a cryptocurrency trading application. Yeah, crypto again :). I was working on it for about a year and a half. At some point the application became too big for me to work on it alone and I didn't have funds to hire additional devs. I decided to suspend the development. Not sure what should I do with it now and if there is a sense to continue. Can you please give me your suggestions?

https://bitquail.com/

Thanks,
Vlad
No. I think he means that people just lie about earning that distinction. Flat out lie. I don't think that the people actually do any of the hard stuff that makes the distinction worthy of esteem. They just want to brag.
I assumed they were just going to ignore renewables, since the kind of person who writes these things generally does.

But instead they weirdly skipped over it and started fantasizing about some new technology that doesn't exist yet.

What happened to energy poverty being important? "The current cheapest, cleanest, safest sources of energy in history aren't green enough for me" was not an ending I expected.

Is this intentional pro-fossil fuels propaganda, written with full self-knowledge of that fact, or are they just so wrapped up in lies that they think this weird rant somehow reflects reality and is helpful to society?

I genuinely don't get it.

Is it possible to write that many words on a topic and intentionally get "primary energy" wrong and believe that it reflects the actual useful economic work done? They mention nuclear a couple of times, so surely they're aware that nuclear can generate both heat and electricity and it's the electricity that's most helpful?

Quick summary from the boring stodgy IEA

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/7ebafc81-74ed-412b-...

> In the net zero pathway, global energy demand in 2050 is around 8% smaller than today,
but it serves an economy more than twice as big and a population with 2 billion more
people. More efficient use of energy, resource efficiency and behavioural changes combine
to offset increases in demand for energy services as the world economy grows and access
to energy is extended to all.

> Instead of fossil fuels, the energy sector is based largely on renewable energy. Two-thirds
of total energy supply in 2050 is from wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal and hydro energy.
Solar becomes the largest source, accounting for one-fifth of energy supplies. Solar PV
capacity increases 20-fold between now and 2050, and wind power 11-fold.

> Net zero means a huge decline in the use of fossil fuels. They fall from almost four-fifths of
total energy supply today to slightly over one-fifth by 2050. Fossil fuels that remain in 2050
are used in goods where the carbon is embodied in the product such as plastics, in facilities
fitted with CCUS, and in sectors where low-emissions technology options are scarce.

> Electricity accounts for almost 50% of total energy consumption in 2050. It plays a key
role across all sectors – from transport and buildings to industry – and is essential to produce
low-emissions fuels such as hydrogen. To achieve this, total electricity generation increases
over two-and-a-half-times between today and 2050. At the same time, no additional new final
investment decisions should be taken for new unabated coal plants, the least efficient coal
plants are phased out by 2030, and the remaining coal plants still in use by 2040 are retrofitted.

> By 2050, almost 90% of electricity generation comes from renewable sources, with wind and
solar PV together accounting for nearly 70%. Most of the remainder comes from nuclear.
That wasn't the comment though. The comment was "That's [do it] been the case for vaccinations for quite a few decades" I'm saying that there has been an exemption process for vaccinations.
I'm sure you're right - its hard to see any significant upside for the original publisher. I'm not a gamer myself and it was just an idle thought.
I guess they are referring to how inches for example are commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc.
Apple’s turning on Find My Phone by default arguably did more to normalize tracking than anything else. Tile (and other niche products) were largely seen as nerdy and an extravagance at best, but AirTags were seen by the public as a logical extension of Find My Phone.
Yeah, M2 doesn't. But I think there are some phones using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that have SVE2.
I’ve long suspected that currencies are really just units of measurement convertible to the joule (or calorie).
Show HN: Ice break your next retro meeting with some bingo
Mini warm up game. The objective is to loosen up the group and make them feel more comfortable with each other before the retrospective meeting. It’s a low-risk, low-pressure way to get to know your teammates.
Sure. You only have to design a chip, design an assembly language, design a compiler, design the kernels, design a parallelization framework, design a server system to load-balance tasks, and then rework the pytorch/tensorflow code to use your new faster custom primitives that no one else has.

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Except step 1: "design a chip", is already something on the order of hundreds-of-megabucks of investment
> Why exactly the USA has such a huge infrastructure problem is debatable.

I thought it's because we didn't build it nearly from scratch about 70 yers ago.
I wonder if anyone compared the effectiveness of postscreen vs greylisting. Can't find any

Both rely on filtering out non compliant senders, but postscreen's filtering might be less disruptive. Are there spammers out there who cannot pass a graylist but can pass postscreen ?
Am I correct that neither of those support SIEVE filters and ManageSieve protocol?

IE something like: https://blog.tinned-software.net/setup-sieve-mail-filter-wit...

Ed: Does anyone have experience with https://modoboa.org/ ?
https://www.insider.com/navy-seals-use-viagra-prevent-fluid-...
Unfortunately, I don’t think this is an astronaut “astrovan”, mainly because of the desk. But so what. Just look at that meatball!
I am. But services providing just email usually are about the same price.
AirTags are actively tracked by every iPhone. That’s a pretty big difference!
I don't think the author suggests to set up an oil-burning power plant, that number is just for visualization. And I guess you could even go without a battery at night by converting the energy from the daylight directly into cold.
You don't. If you fold it in half you can fit it into a C5 envelope.
Thank you, I'm flattered.

Initially I thought that this prompt couldn't really go anywhere, at least not without getting stuck in some clichéd trope, but having come back to it, I think there is scope to make an interesting story along these lines.

So, spoiler alert: It turns out that in a parallel universe, the atomic bomb never got developed during WW2 (or later), but instead the Nazis managed to find some pagan/alien technology in the Arctic[0] which ultimately derived from a UFO that crashed there thousands of years ago. In this parallel universe, the military college was trying to create a portal to our dimension (since they detected the signatures of our nuclear weapon detonations), while also working on radical life extension/invulnerability, since they knew that the crashed aliens had managed to live for a 1000 years, along with some of their human followers/slaves.

Simultaneously, a group of underground scientists in this parallel universe had been working on quantum messaging and wanted to stop these parallel Nazis from succeeding. Long story short, a portal gets opened and millions of zombie Nazis swarm out with alien rayguns, but the brave NSA cryptographers manage to crack the code just in time to create some sort of quantum bomb that destroys just the Nazis and closes the portal, while also destroying parallel Berlin.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a23692/my...
>> Just get the vaccine.

These days that means getting boosters. We are not at the point we were last year in terms of risk vs benefit, particularly for young healthy people.

https://youtu.be/iJ2W-1cKEtk?t=583
I didn't see it as rage. It simply pointed out that the web as it exists is a document format that had self modification, and then full apps bolted on. It is a hacky mess and I don't understand how anyone just using js wouldn't find that readily apparent? There exists great tooling to hide that fact, but even then I have to agree with the gp that we still aren't to a place that is as cohesive or easy to use, or as predictable a UX for the end user as those 90s tools he mentions. There is no hate there, just hope. I am hoping that wasm and webgl can bypass html css and js for people who just want to make a webapp. Direct calls into the dom with no js wrapper should be here any minute, and webgl hopefully will follow? Once that is all sorted you'll see some development environments like delphi pop up I suspect.
Honest question: why do you archive things you don’t have to archive?
Do the anti-stalking features of AirTags also apply to iPhones? E.g., will your iPhone alert you if an unknown iPhone is following you like it will if an unknown AirTag is following you?
Take what you've learned there and move on.

For your next business project do customer development and product market research before working on any "MVP".
Nice! I would easily use your tool for the next 2 years (my research deadline). I have a question tho. How would you bypass the fact that you need to be under some university vpn or special login to download some articles?
> What is the public benefit here for open data?

We believe that everyone benefits from knowing more about how, where, and by whom electricity is generated. My personal opinion is that there's a lot of BS in the electricity industry and making the actual data available is the best way to clear the stink.

> Where is your code/pipeline published?

Our code/pipeline isn't published anywhere. https://findenergy.com/data/ gives a general idea of where all of the data is coming from (spoiler, it's all from the US government). I'm currently working on an internal tool that'll help us map data from source to where/how it's used on our site, but it's a pretty big undertaking and might take a while. In the mean time, we answer any and all specific questions that are submitted through the website (https://findenergy.com/contact/).

> What is being done with this data?

Currently it's just being shown on the website. We also have reporters, students, and companies reaching out to us asking to use the data for articles, research, and reports respectively.

> Who is benefiting and/or paying for this "research" on critical USA infrastructure?

We're hoping consumers are benefiting. No one is paying us for this work. We're just a couple of guys that are passionate about this data, think it should be available to consumers, and are trying to figure out how to make carrying out that service sustainable financially.

> edit it seems that 3 months ago, we both commented on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31555938

Yup! Your comment on marketed rates vs actual rates is very true. We calculate our rates by dividing the company's revenues by kWhs sold, so it should technically be closer to the actual rate.
>Response rates for 1,865 fictitious applications sent to unique firms reveal positive discrimination in favor of female applicants.

Don't tell the feminists who think they are constantly being discriminated against everywhere, for everything especially IT related fields
My dad used to self-host email for his company. It worked fine for a long time -- until MS started silently discarding his emails.

A lot of his clients (very large companies) use MS for email, and his emails to them got silently discarded (not rejected as spam, not showing up in spam folder, simply discarded while responding that the email had been accepted). Notably, the invoices he was sending didn't reach the intended inbox, so he eventually had to move on to use another provider for email.

I've heard this story dozens (if not hundreds) of times over the last couple of decades. It gets worse and worse, since huge corporations only whitelist other huge corporations, and can choose to blacklist the rest. The oligopoly has won.
You do not need to fill missing values or treat categorical with LightGBM.

You can pass the name of the columns that are categoricals when constructing the Booster or Data, and LightGBM will work with them under the hood treating them as a 1 hot encoded.

LightGBM also has a way of automatically treat missing values as either zeros, their own category, or the sample average (I might be mistaken on the last one)

All in all, you still need to do feature engineering and the like, but LightGBM removes a lot of the hassle from Xgboost.
> Although low-energy Bluetooth and LC3 codec don’t promise lossless Bluetooth, they will surely improve sound quality by a lot.

Now the only question left (beside the price increase): how many dBs is a lot ?
SLIME is, but there is Slimv which is a SWANK client for vim:

https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv

(Never used it myself so can't comment on it beyond noting its existence.)
It's a good question why our users prefer Mito+Python over something like PowerQuery+M! One might similarly ask what's wrong with Excel+VBA - although I'll note I haven't heard anyone champion VBA recently... :)

In practice, most of our users are have started with Python by the time they use Mito. For now, we're not positioning ourselves as an alternative to PowerQuery, but rather a tool for someone who is coming from spreadsheets, has chosen Python, and is struggling to write code.

The next obvious question is why our users are choosing Python in the first place -- what I'll say here is that like any programming language, there are a huge number of reasons: some of our users prefer Python because that's what their colleagues work; some choose Python because they think it's trendy/cool; others choose python because that's where the libraries they want to use are; others are starting down the path of getting into ML (which is primarily in Python); others want to integrate with existing Python infrastructure within their company. We've also seen massive enterprises with top down edicts to move to Python "within the next 5 years", as well.

In practice, Python is the most popular general purpose programming language for data science - and so we're doing our best to meet our users where they are: writing Python code, in Jupyter Notebooks!
The Making of Rogue Legacy 2
Solr’s Dense Vector Search for indexing and searching dense numerical vectors
Yeah, that seems super problematic.
Is there any meaningful way to compare two Time Travel Debugging positions?
Technology increases productivity. Not all energy destroys the earth, see nuclear energy. More technology has enabled us to feed the earth with less people devoted to food production. Etc.
I agree but for different reasons... namely, our ancestors have lived off red meat for hundreds of thousands of years. We can still eat red meat our entire lives with minimal, or at the very least, hard to link direct consequences to our health. It can literally sustain a human for their entire lifespan - so asserting it is unhealthy should be an extremely high bar.