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Solar Energy, as Explained by Dr. Seuss X ChatGPT
It's a sunny Friday, enjoy HN friends.

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Well, my friend, now let's take a glance,
At how we harness the power of the solar dance.
With panels that gleam in the bright light of day,
Come, let’s learn in the Seussian way!

In the land of sunshine, up in the sky,
Lies the secret of power, oh me, oh my!
Sunlight's a treat, oh yes it's neat,
And solar panels make this heat a useful feat.

A solar panel, you see, is a curious thing,
A power creator, with a zing and a zing!
It takes in the sunlight, so radiant and bright,
And turns it into electricity, with all its might.

It’s made up of many cells, you see,
Each a little factory, as busy as a bee.
They're crafted of silicon, a clever material,
That makes the whole process quite ethereal.

When sunlight hits these cells, so fine,
Electrons start to shake, and that's the sign.
They get so excited, they jump around,
And create a current, oh, what a sound!

This current, my friend, is a DC, so direct,
But for our homes, it’s not yet perfect.
So it goes through an inverter, swift and smart,
To turn it into AC, that’s the part!

AC power, alternating, don’t you know,
Is just the right kind for the ebb and flow.
It powers your toaster, your TV, your light,
All thanks to the sun, so blazing bright.

But wait! What if the day turns into night?
Or if the clouds are heavy, blocking light?
Well, here’s where batteries might just take the stage,
Storing energy for use, no matter the age.

And now, dear friend, you've learned the tale,
Of how sun turns to power, without fail.
It’s a dance of light and electrons, so spry,
All beneath the big, blue sky.

That’s solar energy, oh so grand,
A truly powerful, sunlit band.
With solar panels, we harness the heat,
Turning sunlight into something really neat!

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// ChatGPT in the style of Dr. Seuss
Okay, I think I get your complaint. JavaScript doesn’t have a metaobject protocol, but there were a variety of user-land approaches to OOP that added one. Although they’re still technically possible, the class syntax formalized a non-MOP approach to OOP, and those third-party tools have all fallen by the wayside.

It’s not so much that you can’t use a MOP in JS, so much that people don’t, and will look at you funny if you do.

As a lover of simple and straightforward code, I never used the MOPs—I hand-coded “class.prototype.method = function()” like God intended*—and I’m happy the standard uses that more traditional approach. But I can see how someone who did use a MOP would feel that the class syntax is a step backwards.

*that’s a joke.
Crime is a complex problem. Blaming prosecutorial policy is an odd, and likely deliberate choice. Talking about cities, Chicago has a crime rate in between Jacksonville FL and Oklahoma City OK, which are both very conservative cities. Among the highest crime states, conservative ones are very well represented.

To me, this sounds like the precursor for a planned political career wherever he's moving to. Chicago is the icon for terrible awful no-good very bad liberal crime policies in popular conservative politics and an Illinois prosecutor who's moving because they just can't take it anymore would be optimally positioned to capitalize on that. Ah, politics.
Kia could sell their cars with a giant button that says "BYPASS LOCK AND START IGNITION WITHOUT KEY" and it still wouldn't be their fault, at all.
seL4 is an order of magnitude faster at this "overhead" thing. We're talking nanoseconds vs microseconds difference.

The multiserver architecture does indeed imply an elevated use of IPC, but it does in no way outweigh the difference in IPC cost.

In this model, data sharing, and the implied locking, is minimized, which as a consequence helps SMP scaling.

Dragonfly, while not multiserver proper, took a different direction than Freebsd and Linux by optimizing IPC and not implementing fine-grained locks, and instead favoring concurrent lockless and lockfree servers.

As a consequence, Dragonfly scales much better than Freebsd, and in many benchmarks manages to outperform Linux.

This is despite the tiny development team, particularly so when considered relative to the amount of funding these two systems get.

I am sickened by the effort that's being wasted on a model that we know is bad and does not work. Linux will never be high assurance, secure or scale past a certain point.

Fortunately, no matter how long it'll take, the better technology will win; there's no "performance hack" that a bad system can pull to catch up with the better technology once it's there.

Just a matter of time.
It's still using a subset of the comment syntax, and will still be ignored as comments rather than hard-fail in earlier versions.

Unknown attributes are also ignored silently, which isn't really a good sign.
> it might be more efficient to work for happiness directly instead of trying to buy it with money made on a soul-sucking job

I stuck with a stressful job I didn't enjoy because the pay was too good to ignore, with my sights set on achieving financial independence. After all was said and done, the money wasn't worth it; all I got was a bitter taste in my mouth from years of grinding myself down.

A better plan would have been to spend time figuring out what sorts of jobs would be better aligned with my life goals.
The legal maximum is $9.1k for an individual and $18.2k for a family. At any half decent employer, it will be $5k/$10k at most.
I think being "explicitly approved" matters a lot in this context. Regular customers can't benefit from the same privileges you did.
Require that cash sales be registered through a state agency that monitors sellers for patterns of fraud. Add a “cooling off period” of 7-30 days where the seller can cancel the transaction without going to court. Streamline the process by which family members can raise claims of mental incompetence. Upon a sale being registered, provide the seller with a computer-generated piece of paper containing an estimate based on recent comparable sales (with a clear warning that this number may be inaccurate) so that they are aware of how much of a discount they may be taking. None of this stuff seems terrible onerous, and better: it would significantly reduce the load on the court system.
LLMs (at least the ones with read/write memory) can exactly simulate the execution of a universal Turing machine [1]. AFAIK running such models will therefore entails the same fundamental security risks as ordinary software.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04589.pdf
Surely it's a risk, I think with all things balance is critical. However, I've personally found the grind that can come and go with delivery dates and peculiar debugging are far more satisfying and easy to commit to when the medium is a personal passion/interest.
You seem to be acting deliberately ignorant. The police could in fact do that. But in reality a judge will write a warrant for either one individual or just a small group of individuals that a public prosecutor (I do not know the term in the EU) presents to the judge. The police will arrest only those people.

"arrest everyone" is some bizarre fantasy that the legal system is both ineffective and stupid.
How does Eva compare to MindsDB (https://mindsdb.com)?
You were downvoted but you are right. The podcast was released last week, but the game came with a day-1 patch to improve the performance on Switch which they would not have been able to try.

Obviously it will never compete with emulation on a PC, but it runs just fine on Switch. 99.9% of players are not going to think "wow, this would be much more enjoyable on a PC!" The gaming podcast crowd is not exactly representative.
I reached the level 7
the thing i most like in the film 2010 is that HAL gets put back together and saves Helen Mirren's human crew.
A privilege which was thoroughly abused here, becoming de-facto collusion.
I reached the level 7 and stuck there
Of course there's selection bias. And what was considered a "home" of that era was very wide ranging. A lot of people lived in what was little better than a shack. and yes, many of the pre-war homes that are still standing were for rich people back then and are today. But there are a lot of pre-war homes in areas that are considered undesirable or even slums in many midwestern and east coast cities. Many of them modified for multi-tenancy, yes but also many still standing in a state of dilapidation as old homes cost money to maintain and modernize.

Anyways, most people didn't live in single family homes before the 1950's. Tenements, apartments, and packing multiple families into a single space was very common across classes of people that weren't rich. Single family homes and land ownership that is attainable is a vert post-war idea. The Communists built huge towers with shared spaces (which we also did for our urban lower classes) and we built sprawling subdivisions of vernacular single family homes with private spaces.

Also, from 1930 to about 1947 we built almost nothing due to the depression and then the war. Most of the tenements and apartments and shard living spaces were becoming old and broken down and this combined with the better living conditions a suburban home and a car could provide fueled the great migration out of the cities. Of course, the lower classes were left with the last-gen homes and unable to repair the through thrift or wealth.
I got the same, I put "scammer". Also thought it was unrelated, even though a scammer convinces a mark they're an investor. Tried "cryptocurrency", still unrelated, though a cryptocurrency investor is a mark!
the onus is on them in the sense that people will stop buying them. I do not think it is the government's responsibility to micromanage, no.

the scenario you proposed is already possible with face unlock and identical twins and look-alikes. should we sue Apple?
Easily detect and test race conditions in JavaScript
Seems like it wouldn't be Turing complete if you couldn't make an infinite loop
Won’t it actually harm big companies that own the majority of IP currently? It will empower individuals to benefit from creative works more cheaply.
This is a hint that long prompts are not necessary.
I don’t know. If we’re strictly speaking of nostalgia, I can still feel a very strong sense of nostalgia from things I’ve experienced as an adult, even experiences from just a few years ago — or even the previous year!

This can apply to a trip we went on, or a TV series we watched, or music I listened to, or a video game I played (e.g. I really experience this when playing Factorio again after it’s been a while).

So maybe YMMV, but I can still have things that (at least almost) live up to “feels” I had from childhood.
There should be a warning before a Web page captures keyboard input and prevents browser hot keys from working.
5 million people happily live in Cook county. His feelings are misguided and his opinions largely irrelevant.
Why? I'm perfectly happy with the idea that some US tech monopolies think twice about doing their stuff here. That's the law working as intended.

And hopefully, that'll give some breathing room for EU companies grow and provide services that respect my rights.
There's another set of large players who have sucked all of the air out of what could have otherwise been thriving, competitive categories with many players. Google with search, Amazon with eCommerce, Facebook with social. Yes there are maybe 1-2 counterpoints in each of these spaces, but they've largely been successful at leaving a lot of would be entrepreneurs avoiding these huge spaces because they know they can't compete.
to this day I believe reiser could have gotten away with it if he hadn't been so clearly socially awkward/autistic. there wasn't much solid evidence at all.

there's something to be said about people instinctively distrusting the socially inept: just look at all these modern "catch a pedophile" outfits, where losers are baited by impossible situations into ruining their life.
> I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account.

Because then you can't use your personal AirPods with your work computer. Plus, AirPods work with non-Apple devices anyway. How does Apple know what iCloud account belongs to my car's stereo?

> I feel like Apple could “just” give you the option to disable pairing and discourage people from stealing them, but I don’t know why they haven’t

Something like that would be neat, provided that 1) it's optional; and 2) the user can authorize a small number of "guest" iCloud accounts.
This. It seems lost just how much enforcement relies on the smallest/weakest amongst us to fight back. That’s probably priced out of those same peoples possibilities. It shouldn’t be like this. It creates a lawless atmosphere tinged with legalese as needed to coherence the victim.
An easily repairable safe is not an insecure safe. The security of the safe shouldn't be able to be easily compromised from the outside of the safe. Just because I can repair and replace parts doesn't make it insecure.
Also, this would be completely legal to sell. There’s no law requiring keys, or an immobilizer, or really any anti-theft technology.

If you don’t like that, and I don’t, change the law. Don’t sue for something completely legal because it makes life inconvenient for a city. There is a long list of things cities find inconvenient, like bicycles without a built-in GPS, or even things as dumb as American flags in an upscale neighborhood.
A lot of conflating of "hitting on/asking out for a date or coffee" with ogling and stalking and not taking no for an answer. Also:

> I asked in a general thread once, “Okay, when is a good time for me to approach you to try to sell you my Cutco knives? ‘A special deal just for you! Spend $79.95 on our knife starter kit and get a free paring knife!’ Do you want me to approach you in the grocery store? At a gym? At a bar? No, anywhere would be hella annoying, so please leave you alone? You just want to live your life without strangers harassing you? There you go, there’s your answer on where you should be cold-approaching women.”

Basically never approach or talk to women, resign yourself to dying alone.
Free returns is kind of necessary when you're buying things sight unseen. Clothes may not fit; electronics may not be compatible; parts may not be appropriate.

Obviously that's not everything. It may not even be most things. But it's way easier and more attractive to just say "order it first, then return what doesn't work". It works as long as most people aren't assholes about it.

(It didn't help that there were assholes on the seller side, too. Yet another reason to return stuff was fakes, and Amazon decided it was easier to accept returns without complaint than to guarantee that you got what you ordered. Especially since many customers wouldn't notice.)
How to Understand Abstract Art
In this post I try to explain abstract art - those kind of paintings that are just some shapes and squiggles that don't represent anything, and they look like a kid drew them or that they can be done by anyone in Paint.

My approach is to explain one of Piet Mondrian's paintings, but first I explain what abstraction is. I do that by taking a short text (any Monkey Island fans out there?), that is full of descriptions, and abstract it over and over again, until there is barely anything left of the original. Then I explain how that same process works for graphical arts, and what it all means.
An alternate timeline where 68k was the dominant OS architecture?
Man what a fun thought experiment. Reminds me of Palm OS and their OS5 68k emulator on top of arm.
There doesn’t seem to be evidence that copyright increases innovation. Indeed in some areas with no IP protection we actually see more innovation (example: fashion)
I don’t think we should need to codify every possible problem as a rule. It is enough that Kia knows, or should know, the consequences of their actions, but chose to let somebody else (the owners, the police) deal with the consequences.

Basically, I think mens rea is a much more sound basis for law than rules prescribing specific behavior, in general. Like, if you are an engineer and you design a bridge, and it turns out that the bridge fails and you should have known that it would fail, you bear the liability. This basic doctrine can be augmented with specific rules (like, cars must have back-up cameras and airbags, houses must have three-prong outlets with proper grounds and GFCI in bathrooms & kitchens), but the law should not have to make rules for everything before it happens—as long as you have mens rea (you knew the risks or should have known the risks), you bear some responsibility for your actions.
Julia's zines[0] are great. Got mine this week and it's a delight to read.

0 - https://wizardzines.com
All I hear is "I earn a 1% income and want to live a 1% lifestyle". Yes, if that is what you do with your income of course it's "not that much".

Nice house in London/SF = $$$

Kids = $$$

"good education" (I.e. nice schools) = $$$

No student debt for your kids = $$$

Retire early = $$$

This seems like a classic "3 options, pick 2" kind of scenario. You can never have it all at the max level (Except maybe if you're a billionaire).
I think ChatGPT is impressive, but it's revealed just how insular and vapid the thoughts of some HNers are. Hearing people's "endgame" for ChatGPT has been very depressing
This person sounds a bit unhinged. They create this story of pursuit when they and their partner lost their devices, nobody stole them. The whole story vilifies various people who found or claimed lost gadgets(probably staff or kids). Most adults would just buy a new pair if they lost theirs.
does the youtuber design bomber planes ?

does the youtuber self-certify for safety and compliance ?
The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Wall Street, Warren Buffett
> Are we really talking about disk space in 2023? Seriously?

Well, it adds up, if you're doing multiple projects.

Doing a quick scan of my work desktop, I find 43,237 filenames matching ".js.map". The biggest is at ~10,000 KB, the smallest at 1KB. If we assume the average is just 200KB, in total they represent ~8.6 gigabytes (200 kilobytes 43237). That's not nothing.

> And bandwidth? Like we don't have several cache systems - including npm's - that can help?

Being conservative with bandwidth is a good thing for most. Not only will everything download faster because less is needed, but it'll probably be cheaper for you to run your application as serving less bandwidth either gives you a small bill if you use cloud, or requires less hardware if you're going the dedicated route.

Not to mention not everyone sits with the latest maxxed out Apple hardware for working, especially outside the SV bubble. These people deserve to be able to have a good development environment as well.

Overall, everything gets faster and cheaper if you save bandwidth.

> Ok, is there someone who can explain in details how would that help?

It's easy, the lesser moving parts your application has in the abstraction ladder, the safer and easier it gets to change things in the future.

Transpiling from one language to another to get a benefit you can also get by not transpiling a language from one to another, seems like a no-brainer to me in most cases.
2030: Privacy's Dead. What happens next? by Tom Scott
I've seen some longer load times on PS5, but mostly with PS4 games. Not sure why.
ABC Alphabet Letter Tracing is a fun and educational app designed to help young children learn how to write the letters of the alphabet. With this app, kids can practice their handwriting skills by tracing the letters of the alphabet, with helpful audio cues and visual aids to guide them along the way.
a safe that could be repaired from in and out of the safe would be even more reparable than one that could only be repaired from inside. thus, the most reparable safe would be also one that could be compromised. there inherently is a tradeoff between security and modifiability by end users.
Here’s a better analogy - imagine the atm manufacturer wanted to save money so they built a machine with a lock that could be pried off with a screwdriver instead of integrating security features inside the machine. This ATM would be about as trivially easy to break into as stealing a Kia/Hyundai is. Would the bank be right to pursue legal damages against the atm manufacturer for negligence?
does adding a caveat to a wish for national destruction that it should be a natural disaster rather than a human group so as to avoid personal retribution for the comment seem like a Christian thing to do?

Keep in mind that you're not wishing for less suffering during the calamity. You're not wishing for those that are innocent to be spared. You're not wishing for mercy.

You're wishing for a cataclysm to destroy your enemies on a national level, and you don't want any guff for the opinion.

None of these things strike me as something Jesus Christ would do.
> Massachusetts would be one of the safest states in the country for him to move to if he’s concerned about gun violence, but we also tend to elect progressive reform minded prosecutors that he thinks are the problem.

Utah looks better [0]. Higher gun ownership %, but lower gun death rate than Massachusetts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
ahah yeah, it's decentralized, everyone can, not obligated but can contribute.
either they sue everyone (as i think it's more of economic damage) or people contribute anonymously.
> It is time to solve these problems like Europe does, and one step is incarceration going down to three times the rate of China, as opposed to over four times.

But correlation does not imply causation, right? I don't understand how it follows from noting our incarceration rate being higher than another place with less crime, and then reaching the seeming conclusion that the answer, therefore, is to stop putting people in jail.
Right, but that shifts treatment of the disease from being mostly focused on elimination to a mixture of elimination (you're right that the article makes it clear that these researchers are not advocating abandoning elimination altogether) and building tolerance. That's inevitably going to shift focus away from trying to rid the patient of the virus when building tolerance is a more productive approach.

Which 100% sounds like the right approach to take and I don't consider this immoral or wrong or anything, just unfortunate.
What would you say is different?

When shooting in the hybrid mode, you get the OVF with frame lines and the centre phase shift overlay.

Imho that’s basically the same experience as any Leica rangefinder I’ve used.

Maybe the rest of the experience is different (interchangeable lens, body) but I think the rangefinder experience is very well replicated.
How far does that line of reasoning go? Suppose that every car they sold used the same key. "We just said that the car has locks. We didn't say that those locks have unique keys."

Clearly there has to be some degree to which a customer can assume that a product they buy meets the standard functionality associated with that product.
the US has more of a culture of self sufficiency. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It also has higher incomes that allow for such types of frivolous spending
Because you know...liar, liar, pants on fire...and he did not want to risk it. :-)
But that is exactly where this line of reasoning will take you.

If you don't take "reasonable precautions" then you are liable.

I will also note that I often see comments here talking about living in SF and how they leave their car unlocked or windows down to limit the damage from thieves smashing the windows to get inside.

So with this "reasonable precautions" line, everyone who does this should be liable for promoting theft.
Ask and Adjust: The future of productivity interfaces
Google search is now completely broken on mobile. This is absolutely terrible. You have to scroll the top bar all the way to the right and choose 'results only' when it starts spewing a ton of nonsense image blocks