skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the charitable interpretation is there are a whole class of web sites/applications (news sites, e-commerce, etc.) that haven't appreciably changed in the last 15 years. Yeah, there's been some incremental improvement, but the core experience is the same. However, the versions today are generally resource hogs. It's not rare for me to leave a browser tab open and find it grows to > 2GB RAM. I had one hit 28 GB and it would have kept going if I hadn't killed it. One thing I miss on the M1 is the fan kicking on so I know when a browser tab has run away.

I think the OP has a point. We've been building a massively complex ecosystem on a very shaky foundation. The web has indeed advanced, but most of the time it feels like duct taping something onto this monster of a creation. Between backwards compatibility and competing browser vendor concerns, it's hard to push meaningful change through. So many security (especially supply chain) and dependency issues in JS would go away if there were a reasonable standard library. But, there isn't, so we're doomed a large graph of inter-related dependencies that break regularly. The constant churn in frameworks is mostly related to novel ways to work around limitations in the web platform and bridging behavioral differences across browsers.

It's more than just churn in frameworks though. It's depressing how many person-years have been spent on build systems and bundlers or CJS vs ES6. Participating in the open source ecosystem means needing to be familiar with all of it, so it's not enough to pick one and run with it.

Prior to flexbox, people struggled to center content with CSS; it was bad for layout. There's a ton of old CSS out there, much of it accomplishing the same thing in different ways, often with vendor-specific options. You still run into this if you have to style HTML email. Given the difficulty in mapping CSS back to its usages, it's incredibly challenging to refactor. It requires familiarity with the entire product and a lot of guess work to intent since comments don't exist.

Moreover, there have been massive changes in "best practices". React and Tailwind violate the previous principles of unobstructive JS and semantic naming that were the prevailing practices not too long ago. My cynical take is a lot of that is driven by consultants looking to stand out as thought leaders. Regardless, it adds to the complexity of what you need to know if you do have to work with older (often other people's) code.

I'm fairly confident that if we had today's use cases in mind when designing the foundational web technologies we'd have a very different platform to work with. It almost certainly would be more efficient, less error-prone, and likely more secure. It'd be nice if we could take a step back and revisit things. A clean break would be painful, but could work. Developers are already building web apps that only work on Chrome, so much as it pains me to say, having to get all the vendors on board isn't entirely necessary.
The narrative they want push is the truth. Why would they go to the trouble of inventing a falsehood about something that happened in the past? Nobody reads academic history.

Hollywood's profit motive is exactly the problem. Who wants to pay to see an uncomfortable or boring truth? Do you really look to Hollywood for accuracy?
I agree that chat interfaces are not great, but we shouldn't reduce LLMs to implementations in chat interfaces. For example, the "autocompletion" I get with copilot is a very useful tool that I use daily, and I think that sort of UX could be built into plenty of other interfaces. Most applications where you input some form of text could benefit from LLM AI.
And yet E.muscae infects multiple host species - an empirical fact which falsifies your hypothesis, and is precisely the scenario which raises concerns.
The anti war group considers that a significant portion of debt repayment is due to defense spending too. I’m not sure their calculation of amount is fair but it does make me wonder how much of that to count.
I don’t understand why Google/Apple don’t use aggressive legal tactics to go after the purveyors of this software. Unless of course they tacitly condone it?
A comprehensive guide of generating AI art using Automatic1111 for Stable Diffusion
CLRS barely touches the intuition part and that makes it worst from a beginner's perspective.
His book(Sculpting in Time) is a great read btw!
Is disbarment about fairness? Is the primary goal of such proceedings to rehabilitate and apply a sort of justice?

Certainly, civil and criminal courts have those as their raison d'être. But I thought licensing boards had an entirely different purpose. If I surgeon was a good guy who genuinely wanted to help people and who didn't engage in any sort of malfeasance... but even so, he just kept slicing aortas open accidentally through incompetence, the board should say "aw shucks, he's had some bad luck but he really wants to heal people".

This is the same. The court system is replete with circumstances where a client does not get a second chance at pursuing justice. A lawyer that fucks that up, even if doing so in good faith, leaves them with zero remedies. This might have been a bullshit "Slippin' Jimmy" case this time, but the stakes could've easily been higher.

I don't think I want to live in a world where fairness plays any part in the decision by the bar on this matter.
Exploring the Various Retry APIs of Playwright for Robust Testing
This is informative and fortunate. I was real worried about the project's future after Louis Rossman's video.

Daniel accomplished a lot and I am thankful for it. I am also very happy about his decision to step down because it hopefully prevents splitting the community.

Absolutely the right call. Wishing him all the best.

Side note: Maybe a community split would've led to builds for more devices, which I would like. While of course you can't guarantee perfect security, you can be pretty sure it'll be better than the alternatives. I'm also surprised that the Play Services sandboxing hasn't been ported to other mainstream Android distributions yet.
Extorting money from gaming companies?

Flexing the amount of traffic they are capable of in order to promote themselves to potential customers?
Pumped hydro capacities are all but fully occupied, and few and far between to begin with. Battery tech os nowhere close, nor is battery capacity, to make as much as a dent overall.
Excellent quote:

"When I came to Washington before World War II to head the electrical section of the Bureau of Ships, I found that one man was in charge of design, another of production, a third handled maintenance, while a fourth dealt with fiscal matters. The entire bureau operated that way. It didn’t make sense to me. Design problems showed up in production, production errors showed up in maintenance, and financial matters reached into all areas. I changed the system. I made one man responsible for his entire area of equipment—for design, production, maintenance, and contracting. If anything went wrong, I knew exactly at whom to point. I run my present organization on the same principle."
I Went with Geothermal for My Net Zero Home
The actual asshole employer would love that. If you have a few poor reviews you might find ways to improve or you just ignore it. Let them age.
I used to have a dedicated server there and what happened to me is that my uploads were fast, but my downloads were slow. Looking at an MTR route, it was clear that the route back to me was different (perhaps cheaper?). With google drive for example I could always max out my gbit connection. Same with rsync.net

Also I know that some cheaper Home ISPs also cheap out on peering.

Now, this was some time ago, so things might have changed, just as you suggested.
I don't know what level of incredulity is appropriate in my opinion (probably not as much as the parent comment), but isn't that another good reason to expect cache invalidation? Surely creating new posts would expectedly invalidate the list of posts cached, it has to now include at least one new one.
The propaganda devices in our pockets point every which way, they might have a great reach, but they don’t seem to be as good at producing a unified message as, say, a state-sponsored religion.
What are you using now and what does it cost?
I think Kubrick's movies are fantastic, deep, atmospheric, thought provoking. True art.

I have never made it all the way through one without falling asleep. 2001, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove.... Even movies loosely associated with Kubrick like A.I. cause me to nod off. I have to stop when I'm nodding off and come back later fresh in order to finish.

Maybe it would be different if I had seen them in theaters.
Unlike the article and other posters in this thread, I have an entirely biological viewpoint on the matter. I think there is ample reason for GI disturbances to exist from chronic chemical insult from tens of thousands of compounds present in our food for which our bodies did not evolve to tolerate. I think the experience of stress over the matter is a natural consequence of disturbances in normal organ functionality. The same stress happens when other organs have issues. What is the purpose of psychological stress if not to motivate the organism for change and a need for adaptation? With what I have learned in the past 10 years of medicine and biology I am almost thoroughly convinced that every single thing is physical and some day will have far better solutions that make people drastically more capable resilient and stable and so many practices and denominations that exist today will be archiac antiquity.
The problem is, of course, these systems are fundamentally incapable of human-level intelligence and cognition.

There will be a lot of wasted effort in pursuit of this unreachable goal (with LLM technology), an effort better spent elsewhere, like solving cancer or climate change, and stealing young and naive people’s minds away from these problems.
The challenge I think is rational analysis != emotional reality many (often most) times. And many times emotional reality is due to some physical element we’re just not noticing (didn’t eat lunch, or haven’t stretched in years, or whatever).

It’s easy to say ‘no, my value as a person is not due to if someone likes my work’, but emotionally we can still be in that place for many hard to address reasons.

And under stress (which we almost all are), balancing out all this to come up with ‘good enough’ and managing all the stakeholders understanding of ‘good enough’ to come to a successful outcome can be really hard and even more stressful.

So I guess what I’m saying is, if rationally someone understands, but they are still reacting that way, there is almost certainly a real reason, it just isn’t one they are able to see right now.

So maybe some yoga/excercise, or some meditation, or going outside for awhile and touching grass can help too.

Us engineer types tend to ignore emotional and physical health sometimes, especially when there is something scary or exciting going on. And we have a ton of that right now.
Better than harddubbed?
Latency has been the biggest challenge for me.

They cite "two to 15+ seconds" in this blog post for responses. Via the OpenAI API I've been seeing more like 45-60 seconds for responses (using GPT-3.5-turbo or GPT-4 in chat mode). Note, this is using ~3500 tokens total.

I've had to extensively adapt to that latency in the UI of our product. Maybe I should start showing funny messages while the user is waiting (like I've seen porkbun do when you pay for domain names).
'Natty or not' steroid discussions have become their own internet content genre
I really don't think it's feasible without some kind of AGI (or human) on the controls. There are so many environmental, technical, societal and regulatory issues to tackle. They make a lot of noise (although some are much quieter now), people could very easily jam their communication signals (or just shoot at them), birds, hardware failures, ... I worked on last-mile delivery project at a drone startup, we could do cool demos that impressed shareholders, but I could never see that working in the wild, people would get hurt.

Also, once you solve the last-mile problem, a new one arises: the last-foot problem...
> the secrets Snowden was releasing were revealing to our adversaries and international terrorist groups how to avoid or thwart our surveillance.

And yet, I don't see these international terrorist groups having been particularly successful since the Snowden leaks.

Of course Clapper is going to try to paint the leaks in a bad light; the leaks painted him in a bad light!
Why are South Asians dying of heart disease?
Personally, in a past relationship, I found this to be incongruent to a functioning relationship where every single feeling felt by my partner were valid and I was responsible for managing all her triggers. Example was yelling followed by "you held my hand too firmly, and it made me feel trapped like I were in my childhood". I believe there should be a degree of moderation and assignment of responsibility and repair that is not only designated to the other person.
Related question: does anyone listen to podcasts with synthesized speech that's from an originally written script?
You can get an overview of the electricity situation in the nordics here:

https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

The page is in Swedish, but i am guessing the important information is still comprehensible (Vatten = Hydro/Water, Kärnkraft = Nuclear).

As you can see (if you read this today), the electricity is at €0 in both Finland, mid/north Sweden and north Norway.

Finland just finished their long awaited nuclear power reactor OL3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Before the new reactor the normal situation for them would be to import some electricity from Sweden/Norway.

What happened today is that Finland's nuclear power is on full steam, while wind power in Sweden is producing a lot (more than nuclear in both Finland and Sweden a the moment, Sweden has a couple of reactors down for maintenance today).

Hydro in Sweden is producing very little today, guessing as little as is practically possible.
Ok, it’s also financial too, but mostly I want to be in my child life daily. The current situation is not too bad, we aren’t fighting but not an ideal match either and there are some scars. I learned to ignore the ideal, the ideal doesn’t exist. It’s the best calculation to my life’s eqution I could come up with for the time being. I could find what I am longing for through other parts of my life. I actually know this too well from my own parents, they too had a loveless marriage. I think a big part in what decides how couples work is their attachment styles the two have. It’s a theory that I feel explains my predicament quite well.
Happens with some frequency with building Gecko. You can see documented instances of it for the CLOBBER file. It allows the person building to optionally have the build system force a clean rebuild.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/CLOBBER
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/mo...
I don't have a problem as long as there is a "physical" menu as well. Owning a smartphone(makesyoudumbphone) shouldn't be a requirement for sociability.
If your doctor asked ChatGPT to tell him how to remove your appendix, followed the directions, and subsequently removed a kidney instead, would you want him to lose his medical license?
> The materials Manning had leaked were embarrassing; the secrets Snowden was releasing were revealing to our adversaries and international terrorist groups how to avoid or thwart our surveillance.

Dang, sounds like they should have cast a finer net or something eh?

> he had appointed himself as judge over what he had seen, and then, without conducting an investigation or calling out wrongdoers, was going to bring about justice in ways that multiple executive branch agencies, Congress, and federal courts - which were all aware of and conducted oversight of the very programs that concerned him - apparently were unable or unwilling to do.

And yet the American people, who ostensibly hold the reins here, weren't uniformly enthused about what they heard. This is an insider with immaculate insider mentality griping about a whistleblower whose complaints in the previous paragraph apparently went miles overhead. What an eye-roller.
It is used for pattern matching.

I don't know anything about the Scala compiler. A few years ago I needed a CNF Converter and I ripped their Logic Module.

(performant CNF Converter are harder to find than SAT Solver)
> On the energy markets in Europe, at least the one Germany is connected to, the prices per kWh are calculated basedbon generation costs. Meaning investments and fox costs are not considered.

Nope. Definitely not.

Prices are based on a) fixed-price contracts that are negotiated with energy-producers and b) an spot-price auctioning model that is based on supply/demand. As an energy reseller, what you cannot get with your long-term contracts you have to make up with spot priced. With some additional provisions: Renewables get fixed prices (determined by bid) by lay by their regional reseller. And the highest spot price is always paid out to all lower-priced energy producers.

But in all that, no energy producer will leave out the building and financing cost from their price calculation. Otherwise e.g. renewables would be free, because their generation cost is practically zero, no people or fuel to pay for, just building and financing.
Non-violent communication is orthogonal to addressing scar tissue. You can use non-violent communication and not address scar tissue and you can use “violent communication” to address scar tissue.
Serious question, why are the Snowden leaks so revered and not the reporting of James Risen several years earlier? Risen exposed operation Stellar Wind which was the grossest abuse of spying apparatus approved by the Bush admin over the express objections of their own DOJ. Risen also appeared in court for every summons about his activities and was dutifully defended by the NYT until he was ultimately exonerated.
Good news is seldom shared or amplified. It's also seldom relevant, but I'd argue the same is true of the negativity.

Online content is overwhelmingly negative. Bad things happen, but in reality the proportionality is much smaller than you encounter online. But negativity is what gets amplified, since that drives engagement. The smallest grievances become threads that take up disproportional space in the attention feed and crowd out the rest.

I guess I'm wondering if this isn't just the algorithm, but also an amplification of certain subpopulations over others. The ones that tend to be angry.

> ...is your solution to have those sharing their pain and suffering made to stop?

I want a mute button. Or a threshold that caps it past a certain point.

Or, if this is just some people contributing to most of the problem, maybe just a way to opt out of their noisiest signals.

People can say all they want, but it doesn't mean they deserve a place in my limited attention and emotional energy feed.

Emotion is contagious.

I want my media use to drop to only the most salient bits. And I want it to be more positive.
> the secrets Snowden was releasing were revealing to our adversaries and international terrorist groups how to avoid or thwart our surveillance.

Good, maybe this will incentivize intelligence agencies to not abuse their power knowing people will whistle-blow and reveal secrets. When you remove all other methods of accountability, this is what happens. Intelligence agencies did this to themselves.
I didn't mean to imping on the reputation of any particular source. I'm unfamiliar with Handelsblatt and they're probably a great and honest publication.

I put news in quotes because lots of media outlets in the United States have moved squarely towards a more sensationalized entertainment style presentation of events that seems in contrast with my expectations of news sources to be primarily informational.

Now any time I see a headline on any site I've learned to click through the article and look for the source then be skeptical if I don't find them.
TLDR more batteries (to firm renewables), renewables (to overproduce), and streamline ISO interconnect processes

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-interconnection-queue-...

> The total capacity of energy projects in U.S. interconnection queues grew 40% year-over-year in 2022, with more than 1,350 GW of generation and 680 GW of storage waiting for approval to connect, according to a new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/queued_up_2022_04-06...

https://electrek.co/2023/04/19/tesla-reports-massive-increas...
Contrary to this report, I've seen multiple predictions[0] that due to a generous amount of hydro generation available after the winter storms, California should have adequate supply this summer.

[0]https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/eia-forecasts...

"An abundance of hydro also means grid operators can be a bit less reliant on electricity from out-of-state sources. "[1]

[1]https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-18/california...
California High Speed Rail Presentation (Ushsr 2023 Conference) [video]
Parent is referring to the same James Clapper who lied (to Congress under oath, to the public) for a living.

ref: https://reason.com/2018/01/17/time-is-running-out-for-prosec...
I see a lot of pushback to your comment so wanted to chime and offer support to your perspective. See my previous comment for an expansion of my limited personal experience echoing your thought
Solar + battery wall is looking better and better.
WebGPU/GL can't replace HTML on the web, even in webapps, because it has zero accessibility or semantics
> More than 400 machines with various instruction set architectures have been part of the Dark Frost botnet by February, with the botnet's latest version observed to have Mirai, QBot, and Gafgyt malware source code, according to an Akamai report.

> Reverse-engineering the botnet revealed its capability to launch UDP flood attacks at nearly 629.28 Gbps.

That’s a crazy amount of traffic though, isn’t it?

My home connection has about 300 Mbps download speed.

Which means you’d need about 2000 home connections like mine. But actually even that is a surprisingly low number of home connections.

I guess it’s just a fact that home connections are really really fast today, and my brain has not adjusted to what that really means.
It's unfortunate this is legal. It's contrary to the whole notion of anti-federalism that experiments gone wrong in one location can receive investments to continue from the federal government. I'm sure someone will rebut this by saying that the federal government bails out everyone everywhere but that is missing my point. Not every city is suffering a budget shortfall.
>There's a huge difference in CoL between the mentioned metro areas.

Then good thing the title is honest and explicitly says "salary benchmarks" and not CoL benchmarks. CoL varies from person and lifestyle.
They closed their nuclear power stations which made them even more dependent on natural gas which was in short supply, leading to an increase in the use of coal (which is supposed to be "bad for the climate" due to the higher CO₂/TWh coefficient) and an increase in electricity import dependency which in turn drove up prices in the rest of Europe. German industry is both dependent on electricity as well as natural gas, the decision to close those - perfectly functional - nuclear power plants reduced the amount of natural gas available to industry even more since it was now also needed more for electricity production. I already mentioned the higher electricity prices.

In short the "traffic light coalition" chose ideology over logic as well as ideology over the will of the German people [1] to the detriment of all - even the ideologues even though they will be hit less hard since they have well-remunerated positions and state pensions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665122