skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because the political process is all about getting people into groups where they can thus cooperate with each other as an economic bloc, a perfect lie is the optimal unifying concept in this model; something that pulls everybody together into the same single political structure.

If on the other hand all you care about is the truth, you're directly corrosive to the above. You're looking at all the edge cases where the lie breaks down, and worse yet you're spreading disintegration of the otherwise unified political bloc by infecting other agents with your same methods.

It's a matter of perspective which side is "right", because those resultant atomised and fractured political blocs that can no longer bring themselves to accept the beautiful lie that otherwise would have successfully united them are now competitive rather than cooperative, and the game gradually slips closer to zero sum with the bloc most closely pursuing the optimal strategy in the light of the cold hard cynical truth winning out at the direct expense of all the other groups, and the resulting accelerating wealth inequality that implies, having real concrete negative effects on the lives of all those people in the suboptimal factions that frankly they may never have even had a chance to join letalone have been made aware of the existence of any alternatives because of the nature of their worldviews. Is it "right" to pursue truth even if it makes the quality of life of billions much worse?

It's a frightening and enlightening thing to sit down with an ideologue and come to understand not just what they think, but how they got to think that way. The common thread I have found is that default worldviews are both extremely sticky and subject to almost no critical analysis by the people that hold them, and unifying the galaxy of irrational but widely held default worldviews that exist flatly requires extensive narrative manipulation and outright lying, and that lying and manipulation is what politics actually is.

Imho this is why widespread censorship has gone from intolerable anathema to the sine qua non for the existence of the dominant shared mass hallucination about the state of the world in just a few short decades. Like it or not, politics has won out soundly over truth past a certain social scale.

Disclaimer; acknowledging reality is not approving of it. Socrates was right and should have beeen feeding his prosecutors hemlock, not the other way around. Damn the consequences and embrace the truth, whatever the outcome has always been my view. I just also know that view is extremely unpopular today.
> ... Or murdering people. ...

Oh come on. Is HN suddenly r/antiwork?

I'm pretty sure conspiracy to commit murder is illegal in whatever your locale is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)
How exactly does that not work with browsers and local storage though? It seems like they're just caching stuff in the app and they definitely can do the same in browser storage.
Hugged to death? Seem to spin for quite a while. I'm using Edge on a PC.
I'd agree with that estimate. But sheesh, 50 years from now seems like forever.

Two final thoughts...

(1) Maybe within the next 50 years devs can instill into AI, some meaning of death. As it is, I find some comfort knowing my driver realizes the difference between a field and a 40-foot cliff along the coast of Big Sur, and our shared theory of mind regarding the consequence of swerving to avoid something in those situations.

(2) Regarding humans being more tolerant of human error. I think this might be because when a human gets in an accident, there is always the ability to reason that person is different than us: old, tired, drunk, distracted, etc. And both the situation and the cognition are unique to one person. Naturally, we would have done something different to avoid the accident, we reason. If an AI gets into an accident, and we know that same exact AI is driving 10 million cars, including our own, that freaks us out a little.
Two thoughts: how sure are you that the safety levels achieved by humans during bad vision would be considered acceptable for AVs? And secondly: humans have access to a reasonable (non-artificial) general intelligence.
If San Francisco repealed Prop 13 the city could afford to hire drivers for a fleet of small buses.

Then again if you want a reason to hate Feinstein she's the one that got rid of the gypsy cabs in San Francisco.
Lol.

Ensuring it never gets caught again maybe.
Both the old and new systems were using licensing based on processor cores, not VMs or instances.

If I remember correctly, my version had something like 8 + 8 cores in an active/passive configuration where the passive node is free. There was also a single dev/test server also with 8 cores, but that's free too.

The replacement used a few hundred cores shared by the various instances and environments. If I remember correctly, they had something like 10-20 databases per virtual machine, and then about 5 virtual machines per physical host. The cores in the physical host were licensed, not the logical layers on top. (I can't remember the exact ratios, but the approach is the point, not the numbers.)

The "modern" cloud approach of having dedicated VMs for a single thing is actually terribly inefficient, and that approach would have bloated out the above to thousands of VMs instead of "merely" a few hundred.

The correct architecture for something like this -- these days -- might be to use Kubernetes. This provides the required high availability and instancing, while efficiently bin-packing and deduplicating the storage.

Still, you can't Helm-chart your way out of an inefficient application codebase.

Again, for comparison, my version could run on a laptop and had about half a dozen components, not thousands.
Cool idea tbh, something a lot nicer on the eyes compared to BT.

https://gorillaterminal.com/pricing
By the way, slight spelling issue on the free 7 day trial one
> FPU's falsifies (afaict) the claim that it's unfeasible to do the same thing for integers.

was the argument that its unfeasible or that just not doing it is a net win?
> Root it yourself and do what you want.

Thanks, but I have more important things to do.

> I've always considered the whole "but the security!!!1" to be another form of planned-obolescence propaganda.

Planned obsolesce? Of course. But why propaganda?
> Why do people think they can "play with new technologies" at work, which is wasting not only company money, but other people's time as well.

Because that is where new ideas, new approaches, innovation and knowledge creation happen? In software, like many other knowledge-work professions, you can't just put in a few years at university and then stay on top of your game by simply showing up every day for 40 years. The daily challenges are too diverse and change too quickly. Continuing education is a significant part of staying in the game, mixed with daily application of this knowledge.

Think about it this way - if you're a high-value developer, you've already put in thousands of hours of R&D and practiced with numerous technologies. Much of it on your own time, much on a previous employer's time. This knowledge is the basis of your current skillset. It's why companies pay you a salary. It's how you adapt to novel challenges in daily work for which you, by definition, require a larger body of knowledge to draw from. You know best how to build that body of knowledge.

Some companies are apparently more than willing to reap the benefits of R&D that was done on someone else's watch. But when it comes time to allow R&D on their time, suddenly it's "wasted" and derided as "play". The only thing that's wasted here is the developer's talent. When the "adults in the workplace" behave like this, making arbitrary engineering decisions about what is legitimate work vs play time - despite lacking the engineering context or credentials to make such a bold determination - that reeks of unprofessional behavior.

It would be like me micromanaging a lawyer's document list in preparation for their case. Or me telling a doctor which medical journals they should/should not be keeping up with. I'm not qualified! So I shut up and let them work, and put my trust in their deep knowledge and hard-gained experience. That's professional.
I don’t think so. Electron is only useful because it is basically a browser plus some local features, so your gui code stays mostly isomorphic. If you step away from it, you lose this benefit. Many existing desktop gui libraries are already memory-friendly and in abundance, no effort required.

In theory, one could use a special protocol to support some gui library in it “natively” rather than at html-like level. If interested, take a look at gtk-server for example (not as a library example, it doesn’t fit here, but as an idea/inspiration).
On the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo
Link to the talk mentioned if you were looking for it as I was: https://youtu.be/3GObi93tjZI
It's a game from a Penn & Teller collection of games..
>Many of his contemporaries hated his guts and ultimately they condemned him to death

And they are forgotten where he is remembered thousands of years later.
The misuse of the term engineer has been creeping in tech for a while now. Sales Engineer immediately comes to mind as a title that should be renamed. I think that there should either be separations between job title and professional designations, or requirements to hold a job title that includes a designation. A good example is the technologist role. From what I can tell, those roles require a technologist designation in the specific field. The argument could be made that if Apple started calling their Genius Bar staff technologists, it would devalue the designation.
I don’t mean this to be facetious, but they pointed out that this is whataboutism, and you, in more or less words, disagreed and said ‘what about this other e-waste that should be dealt with?’

besides this, how many people do you know that don’t have a phone? how often on average do you think people replace their phones?

compare those answers to other tech/machinery that you may be thinking of starting with.

also, finally, the top-level comment here takes a really shallow view of how the world economy works. yes if there was a shortage of these materials, there would be an economic incentive to recycle them properly, but that doesn’t mean that the obtaining of these materials doesn’t have a huge human or environmental cost. just because you can get a material cheaply doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with doing it
A good example of what happens when older people in charge of organizations defer to the young and naive instead of using their role to socialize young people into institutional values: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-i...
Publications like the Wall Street Journal have stricter ethical rules than apply in a lot of other situations. Accepting a "yacht ride" would be OK under some circumstances but possibly not in this case--and at least suggesting an openness to business deals could well cross the line as well.
Doesn't it require like half a ton of material to produce one modern phone? (Including all the mining and manufacturing to get one from the earth to ones hand.)

If so then 2.5 billion tons is worth some attention, in addition to other ecological challenges.
Would be interesting to have a breakdown of why the AirPods cost so much. I suspect a large chunk of it is research and development. As well as the wages of the top talent in the world required to develop and manufacture them.

A jar is a mostly once off cost, you build the jar making machine and it works until it breaks. While AirPods are under constant innovation. So the initial cost has to be repaid fast.
Thanks! Smart way to go about it.
Lego Oblique Swivel Joint Robot Arm
I think you're specifically referring to plastic waste in the ocean. This number is not at all accurate in terms of total plastic waste (including landfills, etc.).
They’re not though.

As of today I can’t buy a production car with Cruise. You don’t get points for building something that’s theoretically superior but not an actual product. It’s the same story with companies like Apple that wipe the floor of wannabe hardware companies with theoretically better specs. Like Apple, Tesla actually ships.
Europe has many poor countries and even developed ones (UK) are having quality of life decreases due mostly to a lack of private sector success - the government eventually runs out of money without private business to fill its coffers.

Happy to be in the US especially with the global economic recession incoming
I get Zeek (Bro) but what on earth is Microsoft Windows?
Why cant the waste phones be put into a massive cluster to work on protein folding or hard problems?
there are enough people in the world to deal with both. it’s whataboutism pure and simple
> the worlds most extraordinary teenager

She gets to say what billions are already thinking. What is extraordinary about that?
They are a target given the nature of their service. How much more expensive is their defense due to this? Is it offset by their ability to marker as a proven secure satellite network?

IDK.

But charging 4,500 per terminal for "service" all of a sudden and airing this all over Twitter is now a good look.

I hate to be this cynical but it may all just be publicity. Maybe musk didn't feel SpaceX was getting enough hero cred so he plays the victim so he can turn around and play the hero again but this time everyone is talking about it.
>I've always considered the whole "but the security!!!1" to be another form of planned-obolescence propaganda.

So you would feel safe doing your online browsing (including banking) on windows xp?
The programming model is totally different when working with HTMX. The server returns HTML instead of a JSON API which is the usual solution when building apps with React/Preact and similar.
Having root on a machine doesn't remove the vulnerabilities in the kernel (which is so far away from mainstream it can't reasonably be patched).
I’m aware of denite/fzf/telescope/clap. They don’t come close to what’s possible in emacs.
why do we even need straws in the first place? just stop bothering with them at all
Usually I don’t like this argument because it shifts the discussion from something you can control to something you can’t which justifies doing nothing.

But in this case, talking about the difference between multiple consumer goods makes sense because you are in control of all of them.

Simply not buying an oversized car does more than a lifetime of using phones for longer.
Because their app is and isn’t Apollo. They bought out a prior app which was okay, crippled it, and made it ugly and invasive.
Also because we’ll pay that much :)
> Then on to Mad Men, a show whose thru-line over 7 seasons was the pathology of the deferential culture this article is talking about

I agree it was a mistake for Henderson to rely on a work created by the cultural arsonists in Hollywood.
me: "why is wasmorgy a problem

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"Datasette: an open source data warehouse you can run on your laptop.", or "like Snowflake, but for chubby data."

(I'll see myself out)
I think the typical response to that question would be something like ‘The Davos crowd sees current consumption rates as unsustainable and want a lower population. Bill gates has videos talking about the imperative to reduce global population by coercing a lower birth rate.’

https://youtu.be/obRG-2jurz0

Note. I do think the above davos thing is true. I personally do not think Covid was intentionally introduced. But the quip on gdp growth is a good question as it highlights the asker does not understand the basic framework of the other side. And understanding the other side is the realistic goal of these discussions as a prerequisite to arriving at synthesis.
So do you have the code for this? Where do you run it?
>From my understanding, they can and will dd your whole phone image to some national security database while holding you for 'enhanced screening.'

this is not true, maybe at customs but not when traveling domestically. i had a dog sit down while walking through security and TSA had to swab everything i was traveling with. my phone was swabbed but nothing was ever connected to it.
Straws exist for car users convenience mostly. The other main case is thick drinks like smoothies and thick shakes. Which ironically are the only drinks that paper straws don’t work for.
I’m not sold that there’s a smart home device that is absolutely vital, much less requires a “standard” protocol.
a third in Europe, not a third of the total
[[citation needed]]

If you feel so strongly about phone waste feel free to go live in the third world as a e-waste recycler.
Regardless of whether or not you use them, their article on how they do NAT traversal is pretty good:

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
The lucky half would be the ones who got cooked due to facing the burst. The unlucky survivors would get to take a journey with a planet on its way to being inhospitable due to just having half of its atmosphere burned away and half of the surface completely sanitized of life.
For those similarly interested in what "Goanna-based" meant, it's a hard fork from the old XUL mozilla engine: https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml#Firefox_Differences

They say it's based on ESR 52 of FF: https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP#unified-x... and there are a ton of ifdefs in their license https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/src/branc...

If I was a more adventurous person, I'd dig up the CVEs from FF 52 until now and see if they were backported
Wind power is stronger in the winter
There is a massive amount of fraud surrounding unofficial batteries so I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to just reprogram the battery cycle count. It isn’t terribly hard to do.
How was it worse than the current state of affairs of complexity with React? Bowser, npm, typescript, obfuscation, compressors, build pipelines.. it’s a lot. Life at the front-end today is so discombobulated, creating a bunch of backend APIs which will generally only be used and consumed by a single browser front-end.

I’m genuinely curious, because I never used JSF except for a single school exercise
Do we have data? It's just a few days and everyone is already gone?
That's the kind my state grows. So I'm not going to eat it as I know what it tastes like. What kind of dent corn is grown in your state?
A lot of this info seems freely available on the net anyway, it just takes 2 or 3 clicks instead of one. Do you offer bond information and pricing? That's one of the the real benefits of a bloomberg terminal, and it's actually quite difficult to find information on specific corporate bonds on the internet.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benkamin Franklin

Liberty includes the ability to offer convincing arguments to anyone who may listen.
Because old compute hardware is close to useless. After a few years, the power cost exceeds the cost of recycling and producing new hardware.
While this seems reasonable, surely there’s a caveat here:

If you have a successful popular product (firebase) and a not particularly successful or well loved product (GCP), does mixing A into B make sense?

It might make technical sense to have the robust engineering capabilities of B to support A.

…but if it’s driving customers away from A, because it’s starting to look like what they don’t like from B…

All I can say is that there seems to be a lot of pressure for GCP to succeed, and I’m pretty skeptical that the changes to firebase are being made for the sake of making that product better.

Betty had a bit of butter, but the butter was bitter, so she mixed the bitter butter with the better butter to make the bitter butter better but it made the better butter bitter…
I would argue that 1-2 seconds is not impressive either.

It's like seeing people breaking rocks with hand tools being impressed with a bigger mallet.

I used to aim for 15 millisecond cold load times, which is apparently unheard of these days even for front pages with entirely static content.
I have no idea.

There's always a risk with any medication you put in your body. Do we know with 100% certainty that the vaccine provides enough benefit to a 6 month old to justify the risk? I don't know.

I will at least give CDC.gov credit because now they are listing four possible "serious adverse events" (plus death is mentioned as well) here:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa...

But you have to go out of your way to find that. And nobody knows the long term risks but that's not mentioned.

Then listen to the news at 6, or the latest Fauci interview, and you'll only hear that "COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective".
I need straws for many cases, but honestly I agree. I rarely see people do what I do which is take the lid off and just drink it like you’re at a restaurant. There’s something about it that makes most beverages nicer.
Tailscale?

They don’t want to, because it’s Hard and if (when?) some part of it fucks up you get blamed. They’ll let you use your own but only if you pay them enough.
I think that if you’re building tools and you want to do anything nice like optimistic rendering it’s not possible in HTMX, so I always wonder what kind of user experience is actually delivered on an HTMX app
If you had fingers small enough, you could bring together two nuclei at room temperature and they would fuse.
Ordinarily I would agree with you, but if https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/signal-foundation is to be believed, it's hard to see the "promotion track" in a 10 person foundation
> Hinduism started with "a great war". Buddhism started with a war.

This is an interesting take on Hinduism and Buddhism. I am assuming you are referring to Great Wars of Ramayana and Mahabharata. Everyone participating in those was were the followers of Sanatan Dharma which is known as Hinduism today. Both wars weren't fought of religious ground. Buddhism started with Siddhartha noticing dukkha (pain) of life and leaving home to find solution.

What are your sources?
Wuh… what? 37 million view!!!
A lot of those problems can be traced back to the failure of the older generation to teach the next generation to preserve the customs and institutions that served them well. E.g. college has replaced several traditional institutions not just for training workers, but in social functions. People go to college to socialize and find marriage partners the way they used to rely on churches. The difference is that college costs a lot more money.
This is a really beautiful approach IF you don't need mobile. If you do need mobile, then you may be better served (pointlessly) running React on web and re-using all of the logic/fetchers, etc for React-Native on mobile IMO.

Your other option would be to do something like 37 Signals and render web with htmx (or in their case Hotwire) and server-render mobile too, but wrap the web views with a thin native mobile navigation layer to make it feel more native.

Very jealous if your project is web-only - this can work wonderfully and be incredibly efficient! I've been thinking about this a lot recently and also just blogged about it (https://nikodunk.com/2022-05-10-the-tech-stack-for-maximum-e...).
I think the term was used simply to attract talent and give prestige to the role. I saw a video recently where Chamath Palihapitima claimed to have invented the job title Data Scientist to convince a candidate who held a Ph.D to join Facebook.

I’ve also found that people external to the tech org love to refer to everyone in the tech org as engineers, regardless of their role, again to likely add prestige or clout to their role. “Our engineers are working on it”, “I’ll review with engineering”, etc.
Definitely not opposed to open sourcing it.