skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not only EVER done, it's regularly done. Perhaps you should interrogate some of the reasons why.

Content in the app is reloaded, sure, but the actual layout and business logic? Code that generally changes almost never, regenerated on every page load?

I know of technologies that are basically web wrappers that allow for doing that to bypass app store review processes, but I'd be pissed if an alarm clock app decided to reload its layout from a server every time I loaded it up!

The SPA model of "here is an HTML skeleton, fill in the content spaces with stuff fetched from an API" makes a ton more sense.

The application model, that has been in use for even longer, of "here is an application, fetch whatever data you need from whatever sources you need" is, well, a fair bit simpler.

Everyone is stuck with this web mindset for dealing with applications and I get the feeling that a lot of developers now days have never written an actual phone or desktop application.

> But more to the point, if it's bad, SPAs seem to frequently manage to bring the worst of both worlds, a giant payload of application shell and THEN also screen-specific info, all for reasons like developer's unfortunately common inability to understand that both JSON and HTML are perfectly serviceable data exchange formats (let alone that the latter sometimes has advantages).

I've seen plenty of MPAs that consist of multiple large giant mini-apps duct taped together.

Shitty code is shitty code!
> Why did you hate them at first?

I walk my dogs twice a day and the cars are constantly driving by with their array of sensors. Made me feel like I was being constantly filmed and recorded... which as I understand them to work I certainly was/am. Outside of that, I resented being involuntarily part of a science experiment that is objectively pretty dangerous all things considered. For example, I would never cross the street when one was coming down the road. I didn't trust them.

> What about the experience of using the service changed your opinion?

The UX is really incredible. The car handled driving very, very well. Much better/safer than most Uber/Lyft's I've been in. Made me realize how freeing this technology will be for those that don't have the ability to drive. If you don't have a car / don't have the ability to drive in Phoenix, you're going to have a bad time. Walkability here is typically very poor.
It’s not really when you consider their burn rate. Say each of those trips gross 10$. That’s just 100k/week or $5.2 million/year. They’d need to likely 10,000x the ride volume to even be close to profitability.

Uber does 7.64 billion rides per year. And they are not profitable. The waymo cars sure ain’t cheap, and scale of operations will take a ton of cash. I wonder if waymo would ever be profitable.
Credit goes to Elon for being an amazing chief engineer, but also the rest of the entire SpaceX team.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
any data sources? or just wishful thinking?
I can't for the life of me figure out how to sign up for the waitlist in SF. The app just says "you'll receive updates about San Francisco." Anyone been successful with this?
This means that the "error messages" complaint does not apply to someone who is only using lex and not yacc. Thus, when someone complains about "lex and yacc" and error messages, they are complaining about yacc. I often use flex without using yacc. I am not using it in compiler construction. Thus, according to UncleMeat's comment the "error message" complaints do not apply to flex if used without yacc, i.e,, if used for purposes other than compiler construction..
Vehicles that can carry a large family could be significantly smaller if they didn't need to protect occupants from 60mph collisions.

A 30mph crash entails order(s) of magnitude less force. Could look like a tram. Smaller seats with less padding become practical.
The “EV” part seems to be carrying the weight there, not the self-driving. Self-driving might even make those problems worse by decreasing the cost of driving.

It’s like saying “self-driving cars and solving the nitrogen fixation problem would be a big win for preventing famine.”
Which jobs are you thinking? Bus drivers? Taxis? Car production? Which loss of freedom are you referring to?

I can’t help thinking that the potential upside will far out-way the cost.

London streets are littered with dormant vehicles. Most just sit there taking up room and dominating the city. It would be a whole other city if we could change that dynamic.
Wildfire Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems
Fully onchip photonic turnkey quantum source for entangled qubit/qudit state gen
This video covers EUV development in Japan and US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_OOta7Y6Ik

Yes it was developed by the US.
I feel like the increase in suburbanization due to self-driving cars is probably pretty small over person-driven cars. Given the low building density that human-driven cars create (read: parking lots) there's some hope that a large change in car parking behavior would lead to lots of infill development.
Great work! What paradigm are your models based on? If they're deep/llm, how did you shrink them?
The other half of that perspective is that US manufacturing is a critical, productive part of our economy.

The US dollar is backed by a complex of factors, including our willingness to invade or otherwise bring to heel countries that threaten the US dollar. Trying to do math on the "efficiency" of bitcoin versus the US dollar is a category error.
I don't see any legal implications at all, this looks to be fair use.
I'm a webdev and put out websites 1:1 to the designers creations, but my private projects have little to nonexistent css, just plain text everywhere, no hidden objects. Sometimes when working on designs I have brainfog events like when you watch a movie and the cutting is well done, you don't notice the cut. I imagine it is similar with designs, a good design hypnotises the user, even though objectively it is unpractical.
They literally had 10+ millions to spend on research with no prototype and only a vague idea of how to produce a profitable product by saying they will create an AGI and "ask it how to make money." for several years
Very much not the case for me, with a (fairly good) US electric kettle and a natural gas range. They're comparable, speed-wise, for smaller quantities, and if I need to boil more than a liter or so, the stovetop is a lot faster.

Elsewhere in the thread voltage difference are brought up—that's probably what does it, typical US wall service is far lower-voltage than in Europe. That, and I've definitely had electric ranges in the US that were incredibly slow to boil water, so that might be a factor. Gas, though? At least as fast, depending on the quantity. (I hear induction electric is even faster, but have only used those a very little bit at a couple AirBnBs, so don't really know, first-hand)
The downward trend was probably already underway when they dropped it.
Hi just chiming in from lovely Boston Massachusetts to let you know you're wrong. Source: my own two eyes.
Not while we allow gangsters to rule the world.
New Features in the Orion Browser
Why not? Even ignoring any kind of streamlining automation, someone who plays MTG 8+ hours a day 5+ times a week is bound to eventually become a successful and adaptable player. They may not end up at the very top, but close to it, and more than enough to make positive profits for their employer, in countries with low labor costs and standards of living.
The odds definitely aren't that straightforward.

Experiments and development in the 1950s. First commercial plant in 58.

Further growth in 60s and 70s. Including deadly accidents like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 in 1961 - protests grew in 60s and 70s too.

Three Mile Island 1979.

Chernobyl 1986.

Fukushima 2011.

That 25-year gap between Chernobyl and Fukushima - and the extraordinary circumstances causing Fukushima vs the previous incidents - suggests that safety improved A LOT over the 60-odd years between 1958 and now.
...he quit because the product was a failure. Which was my point. But sure, here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash

And if you don't think one of the richest companies in the world can afford to hire whoever they want, then you're just being intentionally obtuse.
> So many JS projects are switching to TS, but AFAIK the same isn't happening within Ruby

The sheer propagation of JS might have something to do with the big push to have some kind of typing. From my own experience, if I see ruby I know I can either re-write it or find an alternative in TS/JS.

The ubiquity of JS makes it more accessible, but I'm still trying to find reasons why one would choose Ruby.. I'm always a 'right tool for the job' but I don't know what the niche is.

Edit : My pedant in me :

> compile step the way typescript doe

Typescript transpiles to JS. I don't 'believe' there is a compilation step.
While I tend to agree I think even those in the know were in shock about the amount of damage to the pad. And subsequent disclosure by musk that control was lost at ~30s is also rather shocking compared expectations of an issue occurring later at stage separation or reentry.
Hotwire is appropriate (I imagine you're not using actual Turbolinks which has been deprecated) with RoR or whatever stack you want, I agree it's great developer experience (despite Ruby and Rails being painfully slow haha).

I wonder which full-stack JS framework you used that you thought made life harder? One of the things that gets me mad is the idea of putting it all in one single box, as React is indeed very (needlessly) complex and so can be other libraries, but that doesn't mean the paradigm of JavaScript front-to-back is fundamentally flawed.

edit: Something else I should've added to my comment is that the HTMX approach is terrible if you ever need more than just the web-client (i.e. a mobile app, native or otherwise) since you will now have to implement an API anyway, which you could've done in the first place by taking the usual approach to development.
> For it to really grow though it needs to be able to be more domain-specific, like being able to generate 2D and 3D animations, spritesheets and isometric sprites, 3D models, normal maps and textures and being able to maintain a consistent style as a context (like ChatGPT).

Heavily agreed. Just like how the smartphone revolution ended up in tons of businesses that create things around that ecosystem (from apps for many specific domains to tooling to whatever else), the current "AI" revolution will kick off creation of viable companies that apply the models in functionally practical ways to specific domains (including things you've mentioned like 3D models, textures, and tons more).

At least that's my hypothesis. The only caveat that I can think of is that the currently available "AI" would need to be actually functionally viable for those subdomains. But that's a split responsibility between the state of "AI" itself and the companies making tools for all those specific domains beijg able to actually make a good use of the models.
The core problem is that they demo super well.

There are a handful of tricks that help sell a design for a client, and one of them is hamburger menus.

Along with background video, scroll jacking, over the top parallax, and (cliche) large logos, they make up a quiet set of ways to get a dev out from under the thumb of an irritating client…at the expense of an actually great website.

Ask me how I know.
Oops, sorry... got lost in the thread :)
That’s a bad read. Wanting tips is a sign that they want more money, not that they’re not being paid enough.

I knew a tattoo artist that owned his own shop and made well over six digits in a town where the average income is barely 30k and he would bitch all the time about “getting stiffed” on tips whenever he did tattoos.
Are you saying a standing army doesn't have a huge energy expenditure? Besides, labeling energy expenditure as violence seems quite the stretch...
You're thinking about it the wrong way. Since you know how to make e-commerce systems, you shouldn't sell those to people, you should make those e-commerce sites yourself and insert your company between sellers and customers.

Businesses who don't already have a good sales experience are not interested in paying you for a good sales experience. But customers are interested in having a good sales experience.
I've been sewing my own clothes now for about a decade, and it is the one of the most rewarding hobbies I have ever had. Go for it!
Why stop there? Why not regard online forums that speak about it as terrorism too, and round up everyone who's participated in any discussion about crypto online, on the basis of having aided proliferation of terror, and throw them in the slammer?
Also, who reviews the peer reviewers?
I use htmx on my personal site and I love it so much. Thank you!
There is no reason other than poorly thought out convenience to make the webbrowser/webserver interface the location of the frontend/backend interface. You can have a backend service that the web server and mobile apps all get their data from.
> Don't know where the heat is being lost

On gas? Around the sides of the vessel, bound for the ceiling.
IIRC, they came about because of smartphones having limited screen space which made normal menus problematic.

In that view, I understand them even though they're terrible. I just wish they'd stay on smartphones and not appear elsewhere.
> To put this into perspective US manufacturing used 4.69e12 Kwh where crypto mining used 0.05e12 Kwh.

The perspective being that crypto is so small because it's 1/100th of manufacturing? Or the perspective being that crypto is so big because it's 1/100th of manufacturing?

The way I see it is that US manufacturing produces a massive amount of highly complicated and sophisticated goods which make a complete nontrivial difference in the quality of life for a massive amount of people.

Whereas (as I see it) crypto does nothing but provide a way for a small number of people to be scammed out of money by a smaller number of people.
There's nothing really wrong with a preprint making it to the top - there can be genuinely good work that stays in preprint for quite some time.
I believe the original ELMo work that spurred the Sesame street gang is still in preprint despite its importance in NLP (:shocked Pikachu face: not a transformer?!).

But yes, you're correct in this instance that it's not necessarily 'huge news' since it is highly similar to a long list of the Reformer (LSH-based), Performer (FAVOR**), FNet (Fourier-based), Routing Transformer, Sparse Transformer, Longformer (task specific sparse), blockbert, XLNet/xfmr-xl (slide + relative PE), BP-Transformer (binary partition), BigBird (global and rand attn), RWKV which is..., etc.

** FAVOR actually is innovative and different in this space, but towards similar ends anyway
Niklaus Wirth had a very readable and concise text about parsing Pascal family languages (originally Pascal style, eventually evolving to an Oberon dialect): https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/Compil...
> Kindly explain how, misguided as they might have been, proceeding through the legal system is somehow more pernicious to democracy than paying lip service to riots and participating in a campaign where the outcome of an election is flat-out denied and retroactively justified by "foreign interference"?

I think you're using too many SAT words, and not enough sentence structuring.

I believe the responder is saying "the 2016 election was less 'pernicious' to democracy than the 2020 election." But to be honest, it's impossible for me to tell which election you think had which results from this sentence.

EDIT: Please note that working within the constraints of the system will always be less pernicious to the system than working outside of the constraints of the system.
Is the RF/EMF hypothesis disproven? I haven't looked too deep into it, but to me the biggest objection I have to it is "I don't want it to be true"
There was no outrage then because in 2000 there was actually evidence. That's why the court cases actually were heard by the courts instead of being quickly dismissed. Compare to 2020 when all the cases were quickly dismissed because no one could find any actual evidence.
You never just work on something until it's being ready to be shared, and then share it once? It has to be shared before it's even a little bit usable, with just some vague words about what it might be?
Fuel Cost for Google Maps
Yes, but the actual evidence isn't there... this article would be easy to fake for clicks/youtube views, and much cheaper, safer, and easier than actually doing the stunt described. Maybe the article would be enough to get a warrant to collect the data, but I'll bet they destroyed all of the data/evidence before uploading the article, and (as another poster mentioned) waited until after the statute of limitations to post it.

It seems to me that there is really a lot of media out there bragging about committing past crimes, and profiting from it. I don't think it's a good thing, but for whatever reason clearly people are able to do that without repercussions.

This reminds me of the California law banning the use of rap lyrics as evidence in crimes. Much of popular rap music is directly bragging about committing specific crimes and getting away with it, yet those people remain free, and make a lot of money off of it.
> For myself, I'm fine with the typing being in a separate .rbs file

We type[0] by having one separate .rbs file per .rb file. Works really well with an editor's vertical splits: type outline on one side, code on the other. That, or use something like vim-projectionist[1].

We have a static typing guide for contributors[2], and I'm also accreting common errors and issues behind the scenes to produce a 'rbs+steep by example' to ease folks in.

[0]: (WIP: there's a huge codebase to type, but we're progressively getting there) https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/tree/master/sig

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-projectionist

[2]: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/blob/master/docs/Stat...
I think the consensus on HN is generally pro-nuclear.

Building nuclear plants because of pointlessly induced demand, however, is ridiculous: we should build nuclear capacity to replace existing capacities that we'd like to phase out. In addition to pointlessly raising the US's energy profile, Bitcoin has also made that aspect of the US's long-term power profile worse than it needs to be[1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
Apparently I was ignorant of a lot of Vice's history, not just ignorant about things in past 5 years. Learned a lot from this discussion, thank you.
>tax irregularities

Tax evasion*

Taxes are already progressive. You don't get to decide what you pay or don't pay, it's already incredibly little.
OP suggested that the solution should be to regulate in favor of cars like the one in the link. This is totally unrealistic and wrongheaded idea, because there are real use cases and needs that drive the decision to purchase larger, faster vehicles. Outside the functional reasons, there are also highly intractable cultural and emotional forces driving car trends in the opposite direction today.

The viable solutions are 100% to encourage the kind of alternatives you listed to give people meaningful tools to decrease overall single family car use of any kind.
Zipcar in fishtoaster's example includes gas in the price. The rental car comes with a debit card to pay for gas. There's a surcharge if you drive more than an 180 miles per day (averaged).
After a very quick read, that's my understanding too: It's just KNN search with some bells and whistles. So I agree on points 1-3.

When something works well, I don't care much about point 4.

Personally, I've had only mixed success with KNN search on long sequences. Maybe I haven't done it right? I don't know. In my experience, nothing seems to work quite as well as explicit token-token interactions by some form of attention, which as we all know is too costly for long sequences (O(n²)). Lately I've been playing with https://github.com/hazyresearch/safari , which uses a lot less compute and seems promising, though it reminds me of things like FNet. Otherwise, for long sequences I've yet to find something better than https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention for n×n interactions and https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing for n×m interactions. If anyone has other suggestions, I'd love to hear about them.
Well the Metaverse as a standalone product then is even more of a failure by every reasonable metric. Could it pop off tomorrow? Sure. Is it? Probably not.
> I could see copy-cat services being more of an issue in the late stage of a product though? When everyone knows lots about how to stand it up and use it?

The concern isn't random small companies. The concern is the big cloud providers like AWS, Azure and Google. And you are right, they aren't going build out a hosted version of your product until there is enough traction. But at that point, customers might indeed trust them more than you to run your own software! Redis and Elastic ran into this problem for example.

The most likely scenario though - is never getting traction - so anything to improve traction such as permissive licensing is probably a better tradeoff.
> embarked on a project to try to find the best ... socks

I've tried all kinds of socks.

long journey got me: Darn Tough socks style 1403

https://amazon.com/dp/B000XG34G8

Cushioned, no blisters, no bunching. You get warm, dry feet on hot and cold days. They last a long time.
- The cars are very safe, very conservative drivers

- The interiors are nice, well air conditioned and don't smell

- You don't have to talk to a person, which I don't always hate but have had some bad experiences. This just removes the roll of the dice from the equation entirely.

- They are currently at par or cheaper with Uber/Lyft prices and typically it's faster for the car to arrive

- You get to play your own music
a lot of tricks have subtle bits around foot placement, how and when the board is flicked, etc. even the same trick can be done in different styles.

someone learning from this is paying attention to detail on body and foot positioning that someone who doesn’t skate wouldn’t see.
He saw the writing on the wall.
I think the idea of MANDARORY liability insurance against regulatory fines is very interesting.

The insurer is motivated to incentivise effective risk-reduction behaviour - the government only has to define the penalties.
> The federation architecture allows anyone to host a BGS, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers.

The blog post seems kind of hand-wavy. One question is, how do they make the few large BGS censorship-resistant?

(I know I'm violating the HN guidelines, but I hate how they've hidden the scrollbar on that blog post.)
Energy consumption generates heat, let's avoid unnecessary heating.