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> Stuff like GRPC / GQL feels cool, but JSON still feels "closer to the wire"

This is like comparing a Mustang engine to a racetrack. They're not even equivalent technologies.

GRPC and GraphQL would equate to SOAP, REST or some other interface protocol. JSON equates to protobuf, XML or another transport format. Of those three options, I have no idea how JSON would be considered the "closest to the wire". Protobuf is definitely the lowest level, while XML and JSON are about equivalent in abstraction.
I'm not saying the intentions were necessarily bad, just outlining how past perspectives and actions lead to the outcomes we are now observing.
Doesn't look like a straw man to me....
> ...overpromised and underdelivered on many features...

We could argue that all programming languages that aren't 1.0, have not delivered yet. So, with that same energy, it will be interesting to go chase around supporters of Jai, Mojo, Zig, Odin, etc... with the same rhetoric.

Vlang is "delivering" to its users, as evident by its near weekly updates, VPM, or Awesome V site. It's an open-source project and language. Developers are free to join the project to ensure "delivery of the product".

Else if they are not using said product, they don't have to worry about it. It would be bizarre for any person to be so obsessed with something one doesn't want to use, unless maybe competitors who are afraid of that language.

> ...shelling out to other executables like curl.

Vlang doesn't use curl in its modules. Everyone is free to check its source code. It has it's own such functionality, written in V. So that's looks like misinformation.

> ...defensiveness of Vlang supporters...

Didn't know about this new rule, where if one posts a response 16 days later, the other isn't allowed to make a counter point.

By the way, don't represent "all" Vlang supporters. Just giving my personal opinions, here on HN, like others are allowed to and for the languages they like.

> It might have all been fixed by now...

If one doesn't know about the thing they are talking down on ("It might"), then that looks like something very odd is going on. Doesn't make sense to worry and talk about something that one doesn't use, except again a competitor or just out to troll.

> features on its homepage (without any indication that they were work in progress) that had no implementation and that had no proper prototype...

Maybe there is confusion about what year or what time period being talked about. This is the year 2023. Perhaps what is being referred to is 2019, the first day(s) of the language being released, or mistakes on its website. Here's the thing though, its a free open-source language. Pretty sure such mistakes have happened on websites and with other languages before (especially just released ones).

Not seeing people on HN chasing down supporters of Jai, Mojo, Zig, Odin, etc... about stuff on their website from 4 and 5 years ago that nobody cares about. Furthermore, people freely choose to use, support, or donate. Not understanding being upset over what languages other people like to use, well unless...
I think there's even a plausible direct route to stoicism. The Ancient Greeks were entirely aware of the importance of having a healthy body to have a healthy mind. In Ancient Greece, a gymnasium is where one would go not only to train the body, but also the mind. Many countries, such as Germany, have retained this etymology with certain advanced types of schools being called gymnasiums.

And in the gym one can only make significant gains by effectively controlling and overcoming their own response to pain and the body telling you, 'no - stop stop stop!' Why would truly effective control and mastery of our minds be any different? And from there you're already 9/10ths of the way to 'inventing' Stoicism. Somehow this reminds me of a really old (and fun) Arnold interview [1]. His behavior, attitude, and responses there (and even in general, really) really hit on Stoic values.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGPfJUJRh0
I worked on two different projects that were going fine until someone decided we needed Mongo. The bugs piled up and the projects were dying when I left
Wow I never knew that. Thankyou!!!

I'll go crawl through those links, and thankyou for picking up my error :-)
It's not just a health crisis it's also a insurgency recruitment pool.

Anyway history has a way to do away with dysfunctional cultures.
Yes. It won because the name starts with JS and I’m only half joking.

What I desperately need now is JSML so I can free myself from the madness of YAML.
Ok, but (layman here) my understanding is that nuclear plants don't need water; they can use cooling towers instead. I think America's largest plant, for instance, is in the Arizona desert (Palo Verde).
Its...not.

Though it is one of the retroactive justifications for government from non-minarchist market ideologues.
So sad to read the misleading stuff here.

The original morse sounders used a large relay which went "Click" when operated and another "Click" when released. (some will argue that it's "Click-Clack", but that makes no difference)

So a Dit sounds like Click/Click, while a Dah sounds like Click ..... Click.

Which is how only one sound (plus spaces) can encode morse.

In other words it's all in the rhythm of the sounds.

Years ago, divers were taught to send morse by holding a spanner in their fist, and rocking it back and forth against the hull (eg click/click) in exactly the same way as the armature in an original morse sounder operated.

And yes, there is also a completely different system called the "Tap Code".
China is building a lot of new nuclear, multiple new nuclear plants every year comparable to coal power plants, so not just more than anywhere else but a large number in absolute terms. Granted, they are also building more renewable power than everywhere else, but they certainly see some significant economic/structural value in nuclear despite having a lot of renewable energy.
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GPT-4 can answer test questions, but could it have come up with what Einstein published in 1905 if it had all the information about the world up to say, 1902?
https://energy.mit.edu/news/solar-cells-printed-on-paper/

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/pho...

Seems like cool stuff. Photolithography is very expensive compared to offset printing, so it would be interesting to see low-efficiency but very low cost solar modules using processes more like offset press.
It would be nice if the "epicycle clock" words at the bottom would link to an explanation on Wikipedia or something (or display a popup).

Also, with the dark mode extension the white background is black, but all the black numbers/line are still black (not white) which makes it only show the minutes and seconds hands. And it looks quite confusing.

Still nice though
Not enabled.

But it keeps happening if I accidentally press my headset button for a millisecond too long.
Had been an issue at least since iPhone 5.
Bell Hooks "The Will To Change" is as astounding body of work for folks who are interested in this further.
IMO “nuclear power” itself is a scare term. Let’s call it an atomic energy renaissance instead!
The whole point of the article is that there is no need for differentiation. eg just click/click is sufficient. There are two clicks for each element, and what changes is the space between the clicks. eg it's the rhythm which defines the character.

It operates in exactly the same way as the armature in a telegraph sounder.
Cooling towers use water. Nothing compares to the efficiency of evapotranspiration in terms of cooling potential.

"[Palo Verde] evaporates the water from the treated sewage from several nearby
cities and towns to provide the cooling of the steam that it produces." - according to Wiki
In 2023 yes but there are lot of in production systems designed in the past around older chip designs and old hardware in the real world with slower chips. For example a common low processing power network device you can still make easily today is an Arduino Uno with a network hat.
> To my knowledge, no passing ship heard the implosion; it was detected by US Navy sensors.

One plausible reason why immediate but not slightly delayed release of the fact that it was caught by Navy sensors was considered sensitive os that those sensors were on (and thus the location would reveal thr location of with more specificity than was desired) a ballistic missile sub.
>but I think it's much more worthwile to dive into the particulars of why it failed

If you’re going to deep dive, define your terms: what did it fail at?

At being the future? Kind of a straw man, even if some people did argue that.

As a document interchange format? Between RSS — including podcasts! — Microsoft Office, and LibreOffice it seems to have done reasonably well.

As a data interchange format? Undoubtedly JSON is now preferred for this, but keep in mind that for several crucial years, as the “X” in “AJAX,” it paved the way for modern web apps via Google Maps, Gmail, and before that Outlook for the Web (literally the original AJAX app).

I think it’s not really interesting to examine how and where JSON displaced XML given this is not hard to grasp and well covered. Much more interesting to extract lessons that also work on JSON and predict what might displace it and where and how. For example it’s interesting that JSON is simpler than XML. Might it have discarded something valuable? The “X” is for extensibility - if we could extend JSON, which we can’t, how would we? First class date times might nice, mmm? Or to be able to add arbitrary other self describing data types? UUIDs?

What is XML still ideal for? Etc
The GPL is pre-web so has a bug allowing web programmers to use a GPL'ed program in their web service without having to give their users the web service's source code. The AGPL fixes that bug so that such web programmers will need to give their users the web service's source code. Therefore the AGPL constrains licensees more and frees their users more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
If "Morse code cannot be use to transmit message reliably over a pipe via tapping", then morse via the tapping of a sounder would also be impossible.

The original morse sounders used a large relay which went "Click" when operated and another "Click" when released.

So a Dit sounds like Click/Click, while a Dah sounds like Click ..... Click.

Which is how only one sound (plus spaces) can encode morse.

In other words it's all in the rhythm of the sounds.
It definitely has the chatgpt vibes to me. No concrete answers to any of the points, just some generic definitions and re-wording of the OP’s points.
It’s the cost of a Mac.

You’re probably spending upwards of $1000 USD to buy your Mac. You’d might as well factor in the one time (or maybe two time if you need to upgrade the major version again during the lifetime of the mac) purchase of a backup solution into the cost of your Mac.

Because relying on Time Machine basically means your computer is a ticking time bomb just waiting to lose your data.
I wouldn't call XML entirely a hype or FOMO, it has become part of what we call the modern web even today.

1. The very language that websites are written in today (HTML5/XHTML) are nothing but XML dialects.

2. React's JXS language which many sites use today is also an XML dialect.

3. RSS and ATOM standards used to publish your blog or website feeds are XML standards.

4. JSON replaced XML only as an efficient transport medium, it's not a substitute for XML entirely. XML nodes have attributes which is an additional layer in describing your data. As your data structure gets more and more complex, XML becomes a better way of defining it.

By contrast, many JS frameworks which came after XML like backbone, knockout, angular.js (1.x), etc. are eating dust today and will probably never see the light of day again.
It's hard!

There's not much space between emotional support and indulgence. Parents' anxieties fill that space tho :)
The original XMLHttpRequest introduced in Microsoft's IE was intended to transport XML messages from a backend to a frontend, since JSON didn't exist at the time. Realistically, originally it was just used to directly inject blobs of html into the page.

Ajax just referred to utilizing that feature along with JavaScript's async functionality to create dynamic webpages. It wasn't really a technology, and I've very rarely heard the term post-2010 (same as how "DHTML" died around 2005).
Hydrogen is planned to be used in large scale in Sweden to remove coal dependency in the heavy steel industry. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrit (sorry Swedish article only, I am somewhat surprised)

I have also heard statements that transporting Hydrogen through pipelines is more scaleable (because of less land required) and causes less energy loss than electric cables. Much needed in a long country with energy balancing problems like Sweden.
Absolutely. It's just the easiest example.
That's just saying "beggars can't be choosers" in a way that flatters the powerful. If you're "successful" and need Warren Buffet to tell you that, you might as well let it be.
Oh, hi :) I like your unroller idea, it can simplify user code and is quite general.

Agree about autovectorization. It is not even a true programming model, because we have only limited ability to influence results.

Also agree std::simd is far too limited (something like 50 ops, mostly the straightforward ones, vs >200 for Highway), and difficult to change/extend within the ISO process.

It is very difficult to get widespread traction with a new language, even given LLVM. Mojo, Carbon, Zig are also already potentially helpful.

I do believe a library approach (and in particular Highway, because considerable effort is required to maintain support for so many targets/compiler versions and AFAICS nothing else properly supports RISC-V and SVE) is the way to go for the next 5 years. Major compiler update cycles are something like 1.5-2 years and I don't think there will be a fundamental shift anytime soon towards RL, for example. After those 5 years, the future remains to be written :)

As to missing features: we are happy to add ops whenever there is sizable benefit for some app, and it doesn't hurt other targets. For mixed-type gather, x86 is the only platform that does this, so encouraging its use would pessimize other platforms. And I think apps can easily promote/demote their indices to match the data size. But always happy to discuss via Github issues :)
Do you have contact info that I can use to make sure I’ve met a true Rastafarian?

Since you are confident enough to guarantee my experience with any adherent to this religion, can you expand on the depth and breadth of your experiences with the many individuals that are part of it?
The only good thing about this article - it will attract all the headhunting bots. So many keywords!
Apple Silicon MacBook Pros come with an SD slot. There are some MicroSD adapters (I use a BaseQi 303A) that are flush with the case - so flush infact that they are a bit hard to remove. Those are excellent for TimeMachine backups.
This is most likely to avoid upcoming regulation in Europe.

Everything labeld generativ will be buried under a higher amount of red tape in the near future.
> A recent report from the doe suggests that America could triple its nuclear-power generation, to 300 gigawatts, by 2050

I need to see this report because as phrased it comes across as a joke. Which is not unexpected from the DOE, which has shown not so great ability to predict the future. But still...

Assuming we start in 2030, the first time we expect a new SMR to hit the grid (and quite optimistically), we need to build an additional 100GW to replace retiring current nuclear for a total of 400GW between 2030 and 2050, or 20GW/year. At 10 years per GW of construction, that's 200GW of sites under construction at any given moment.

These numbers are simply not plausible. We will be adding 100GW/year of new solar car before 2030, at current rates of increase. That's about 20-25GW/year when corrected for capacity factor.

Given the extreme disadvantage that nuclear has on price, the DOE estimating 20 GW/year of new nuclear has to be from someone with rose colored glasses and no concept of pricing or economics.
New localstorage JWT exfil just dropped
I think even today, most places in the US would be better off building solar than nuclear. The opportunity cost alone makes it nonsensical.

We're very close to the point where solar + battery quickly and easily replaces the majority of new electrical generation. I live in a place where solar is not even especially viable and it's starting to make economic sense even here.

Given the timelines involved in building a nuclear plant, you're better off saving your money for 8 years and then spending 2 years building a solar plant with current tech - prices will drop significantly over the 8 years, so nuclear compares even less favorably.
Perhaps you mean the same kind of specificity.

Specificity is at the heart of CSS, you're not supposed to design rules with equal specificity
This is nonsense.

The original morse sounders used a large relay which went "Click" when operated and another "Click" when released.

There is no problem in sending morse via clicks. If there was, then the original telegraph would not have been possible.
Alright, but if you need to patch a dependency of the database does it matter whether the change is in a shared library or not?

Of course you could skip patching the dependencies and ship unsafe software the oracle db way.
What is order/connectivity in R^n?
Here's a thought and I am writing this as I don my kevlar flame retardant jacket.

For most things in life where we could impact the lives of other people materially - driving is a good example - we ensure some minimal amount of training before letting people perform that activity.

However with parenting we have nothing and the result it seems is we pay with a ton more resources downstream in the way of therapy, detention centers, jails etc.

How about some minimal coaching so that all parents are aware of the state of the art in child psychology and techniques to do better as parents. Potentially break the cycles of bad parenting that have been running in families for a long time (I write this as one such person).

I expect it will be hard (nay impossible) to institute a parenting license (like a driving license) in a democratic society. So instead have a strong incentive in the way of a financial grant for every parent who clears a parenting curriculum sometime before their child turns 1 (or some appropriate marker). Keep the freebees /incentives piling on during the kids childhood so parents are motivated to undertake "continuing education"

Parenting is truly important stuff - for many parents it is the most important responsibility we'll ever have in our lives- but we seem to leave it to chance to get the right outcomes.
I live part time in the Caribbean and don't relate to what you are saying at all.

The rastas that I spend time with are among the most friendly people I've ever met.
Part man. Part machine. All farmer
(The app part is in watcom16/wingpt.)
Soon we might get excercise in a pill when it comes to mental health

We are close in getting inhibitors that block enzymes from breaking down endocannabinoids !
Isn't mind and a brain two different things? I thought computers and neural-nets were modelled on a brain and not on mind.
'We want Brixton to be a black Silicon Valley'
...and there is France with a lot of experience. Never stopped building and still producing huge over budget and overdue failures.
The domain of style and configuration are very, very different. I'm not sure what works okay for displaying a website in different layouts on vastly different unknown devices share a lot of the same concerns of configuring programs on a machine
I was looking for some actual science, not fiction.
Dang, wasn't he working on solid state batteries?
Huh. I typically do middle of the subnet. Static addresses below it and dynamic addresses above it. I think it's how the first datacenter I worked at back in the Pleistocene did it and I just kept the habit.
I completely disagree. As you know, the extreme nut job examples are always the loudest people in the group. It is not meaningless to account for them.
On top of that, looking at supply in CA, it is completely reasonable to finally turn off Diablo Canyon.

https://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/Pages/supply.html

Also interesting to compare supply of renewables today vs. a year ago.

Nuclear is an unnecessary complication.
Is “can develop theories otherwise unknown to anyone but one of the most accomplished scientists of all time” really a logical bar to have to meet for “an artificial intelligence that could equal… human intelligence”?
I think they still had a choice even though they were imprisoned. However, their circumstances (and maybe the lure of compensation) might have affected their judgment. This is why some stuff becomes illegal. People can still agree voluntarily to do it even if there are negative consequences.
The problem with storage is that the only method with significant production mileage is pumped hydro. This undoes a few of the stated benefits of renewables. You need to use significant land where you exterminate current nature. Catastrophic failure is a major ecological disaster for a large area… And actually hydro is the second in death toll after coal, isn’t it? Worst of all, you’re limited geographically on where and how much you can put.
This is nonsense.

Any experienced morse operator can copy the code from a morse sounder.

The secret is that a Dit is "click/click", while a Dah is "Click....Click".

It's all in the rhythm of the sounds.
Lots of people in this thread talking about how nuclear is not necessary given the rise of renewable sources. But one thing that is not mentioned is x-axis... time. Nuclear is the only clean option we have today to drop our dependance on fossil fuels in the big way necessary to avoid 1.5 or 2 degree average global temperature increases.
https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis
WinGPT seems to prepend every user prompt with:

You are a friendly but concise chat bot. Answer all questions in the present tense as if it is 1992, and make no reference to the current year.
I would phrase almost the same idea from the opposite angle: focus on the fundamentals that never change, and view the trends in terms of how they relate to those fundamentals.

But also, those are some pretty odd comparisons. For sure Ansible and Terraform aren't directly comparable. If anything they're complementary. Terraform provisions machines (and also infra, etc), and Ansible configures provisioned machines.
This is exactly correct. It amazes me that so many here seem to thing that the telegraph couldn't work because it only uses clicks.
Strong odds the supporting infrastructure for the textbox control I am typing this into consumes more system resources than WinGPT does in its entirety.

Goes to show that we waste literal orders of magnitudes of memory for small gains in developer productivity. Is programming raw Windows controls hard? Sure. But Delphi or VB on Win95 was arguably (much) more productive than modern day UI toolkits, and the resulting apps consumed a fraction of the resources. The main thing they lacked was mobile support and DPI awareness!
I'm not an expert on these things, but Nuclear has its uses and there are places where Solar/Wind doesn't make sense and we will need to fill in the energy gaps with something cleaner than coal and natural gas. I just don't think giant batteries that have to be serviced every so often is a viable solution for places that don't get a lot of sun year round.