skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, grid transmission losses are something like 5-10% - e.g. this page (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3) cites 5% in the US. Fine and nice, but seems incremental, not earth shattering, and I wonder about the logistics / ROI of manufacturing thousands of miles of LK-99 cables to achieve that. But maybe I'm missing something.
If you want kids to have laptops - which is really the questionable thing to begin with - then Chromebooks are safer and easier to secure against the typical kinds of threats a school cares about than Windows PCs and cheaper than Macs.

I think a bigger question is why kids need laptops at all..
Which plotting tool or tools are worth mastering?

Excel. Not command line of course. But a sound engineering choice nevertheless.
>I've seen ALL these prototypes already.

No, you haven't.
".masthead" is an example of high-level abstraction class you might find in complex CSS. This is the kind of thing where there's no guarantee your markup will match how the classes were "intended" to be used. How the classes fit the markup is the hidden part.

I didn't say Tailwind isn't an abstraction. It absolutely is, but it's a minimal one that is transparent. Every class does exactly what it says, nothing more, nothing less.
I worked in a small inner-city video rental shop during the dying days of video. It had a staff of 4-5 amazing characters - We ate popcorn, drank vodka, watched hundreds of random movies (black spine chosen at random from the back of course).

We would stay after hours, well into the night, with film nerds and random people with nowhere else to go. Our boss, the manager of the branch was a nuclear physicist turned asylum seeker - who had our backs, brought us take outs and was an all around gent.

This was during college for me. I had some great, interesting, jobs afterwards both in tech and other random things. But I think this will always be my favorite. Those I keep in touch with seem to agree.
Can you install it without connecting to Apple/iCloud first? Like from flash drive to obliterate macOS, or does a partition have to be kept around still?
$4k may not be mass market. $0.4k may not be mass market as well, but it’s closer :)
Honestly, no one really cares...people will just continue to consume their products as usual.

So long as Microsoft has something interesting to offer consumers and business, security will be the last thing people care about.

Microsoft has had absolutely terrible security since I've had a computer and it's been heavily criticized the whole time. None of this has stopped their meteoric rise to extreme profitability.
Wondering if they will let you uninstall Chrome now, I don't think so. Currently you can't even remove the Chrome icon from the task bar.
Hasn't microsoft been villainized for poor security since windows first launched?

I think this is because of their business model, which is to respond quickly to the market with features, not stability, security or polish.

That said, their intrusive data collection is a nightmare.
It's pretty much this way anyway, the largest shareholders of CC and Mc Donalds are also the largest shareholders of largest outsource catering providers.
Nitpick: The main job of the insurance company is to make money with the float, not to make money by denying claims. The float is premiums paid that they expect to have to pay out as claims in the future. Until the payout is made, they get to invest that money. Insurance is, in one way, a free loan to the insurance company. Insurance companies will occasionally pay out more in claims than they bring in through premiums just so they can hold the money.

For example: in Berkshire Hathaway's (they own Geico among other insurance business) 2022 activity they noted that they posted an underwriting loss of 90 million. They paid out 90 million more in claims than they collected through premiums. This is fine because their float is ~160 billion plus. When you view it this way, it means they paid 90 million for the opportunity to invest 160 billion. That is a super low interest rate.

Warren Buffet, founder of Berkshire Hathaway, has written extensively about how the insurance industry is really not profitable at all from collecting premiums, but from a high level view it is a great way to borrow massive amounts of money for almost free. The downside is that you don't know when a loan is going to get called in, and if your actuaries got the premiums right.

So really, the main job of insurance companies is to sell as many policies as possible, as close to cost as possible, and then hand the bag of money off to get reinvested. Granted, they are happy to make an underwriting profit, but the main goal is to make an investing profit off your premiums before the money is needed to pay a valid claim.
I find it interesting that Americans are so afraid of regulation that suggestions like these get thrown out in response to calls for regulation. Just effectively regulate via government and move on. Don’t make everything a private toll thing.
This is your brain on LLMs!!!
If you’re talking about some group of evildoers that deploy ai in a critical system to do evil… the issue is why do they have control to the critical system? Surely they could jump straight to their evil plot with the ai at all
> I believe that a successful GPL-licenced BSD is possible, and I'd take delight in knowing that big tech companies would be disincentivized to used it for some surveillance capitalism product i.e. Google's plans for Fuchsia.

I guess I understand that, although it doesn't match my philosophy; but as described where HEAD is BSD and release branches (or similar) are GPL, it just doesn't seem compelling. Release changes aren't nothing, but most of the stuff happens in HEAD, so...

If you really want BSD ancestors encumbered by GPL or whatever, you've got to do more of a hard fork and add something compelling after the fork.

On philosophy re MINIX etc. If I'm writing software and releasing it to the world, I want people to use it. If I think I've got the best OS, why wouldn't I want people to be able to use it in their products? I want the world to have better products, and that means embedded computers running embedded operating systems should run my OS.
It is not that they are throwing s** at it, but rather that none of you have actually explained why this is actually "huge," as you have been saying multiple times but without actually providing any concrete examples. "It is huge, trust me bro," isn't it.
Is industrial meat a key cause of global warming? Animals emit carbon, but they get the carbon by eating plants, which absorb it from the air. So it's never been obvious to me why they aren't carbon neutral.
Whatever happened to Reality Labs acquisition of CTRL labs? I was really excited with their prototype wrist keyboard but haven't seen much mention of it.

Went as far as researching developing my own but it such a different field. I hope they didn't throw away that work/knowledge
Lit uses standard languages, doesn't require a compiler, is faster, and is smaller as you amortize the library size over a collection of elements. Those are real differences.
I used to love tiling window managers. But I found out that UI heavy applications (those with a lot of extra things around the data itself, eg an IDE with toolbars and stuff around the actual editor) don’t seem to fit well into half a screen, so I prefer to use a predictable arrangement where for instance the left and bottom bit of my terminal is visible even though part of it is obstructed by the web browser. (Then I can click the web app and see if the log message I was waiting for appears in the terminal.)

I use Hammerspoon for this and I have keyboard shortcuts that will move the window and resize it to a predefined position. And I have shortcuts to select certain apps quickly.

Hammerspoon is scripted in lua so I don’t feel very constrained in what I can do.

There is also Phoenix, it uses JS.
> They require javascript and have no fallback or graceful degradation in functionality at all

This is false. Use <template> and <slot>. First-class progressive enhancement.
A fair amount of compiler optimizations already work like this; I'm thinking in particular of LLVM IR passes.
This is a half truth. Their are big problems with this approach, as I think a lot of folks are finding out the hard way, namely:

- You cede rendering control from your framework to the web component, if it does anything like conditional children etc. meaning it can be hard to optimize or you get stuck using refs, which is suboptimal and in some frameworks makes optimizations hard to achieve

- it’s de facto CSS in JS and to boot your styles are also locked to shadow dom. Yes I know this isn’t true in an absolute sense but in practice all the web component implementations leverage this. This makes styling harder, can have performance impacts etc. also means you can’t leverage CDN caching and distribution for your styles

- FOUC is a real problem with web components as it exists today.

- Interop varies and can have gotchas, especially with custom events that may be emitted by components

- You can’t get fine grained optimizations in some frameworks using them because web components in practice often contain some kind of logic one way or another.

- to use slot you must use shadow dom, and that means your app needs to be rendering against a shadow root of some sort, which can be real clunky
On the other hand, in a terminal, I can use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V/etc for their intended (in-terminal) purposes and Cmd-C/Cmd-V/etc for their intended (macOS-wide) purposes...
I can’t imagine choosing Azure and the Microsoft stack for building systems. It’s incomprehensible to me.
Not sure what countries you have been to. But a lot of non-US countries rely heavily on your own vehicle. India is the best example, where public transportation is even worse than the US.
A slight quibble:

> They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon's monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.

While it's true that your purchases are tied to your Amazon account, they are not tied to your audible subscription (if you have one). That's a nice touch.

Even better, the DRM is trivially easy to remove. Audible already allows you to download the files you bought and ffmpeg has the `-activation_bytes` flag which will pop the DRM right off. There are sites like https://github.com/audible-tools/audible-tools.github.io to help you find your account's bytes (which you only need to do once; they don't change). Not ideal, but not as bad as it seems.

All that said, support alternative audiobook sources when you can, like https://libro.fm and your local library!
You didnt. I was making an additional contribution which related to yours and the parent post.

Both are extremely privileged and ignorant positions.

That nobody would work 70 hour weeks, and that going into an office is a comparable struggle.
mm...

Web components aren't 'an' api, it's a specific way of using a set of apis, and specifically requires you to use a set of templates in a way that frameworks (which looovvvveeee DSLs) won't accept.

The other bits? shadow dom? Custom elements? eh. Those are things a framework will wrap happily enough if they see value in it. Maybe some already do? As you say, you'd never know...

...but those html templates will never fly. They're just crazy bad ergonomics and framework authors will never accept them.

That's really the core of the issue; invoking components in your layout requires you to use some kind of layout template, and every framework does it differently.

That's why cross framework css solutions (eg. tailwind) are massively successful, because they can be called easily by anyone regardless of the templating; the same is not... and, frankly, seems like it never will, be true of web components.
it's not going to stop, and those who complain about it without curiosity about why it's such a valued language feature are doomed to suffer until the end of their careers.

at the same time, I'm somewhat interested to hear a further defense of this idea that newlines and spaces are "invisible". Is this invisible in the sense of neutrinos, or in the sense of wind blowing in the trees, or in the sense of the vacuum of space, or what?

For my part, I seem to have no trouble "seeing" line breaks, spaces between words, etc.
Web components are extremely useful even without customized built-ins. And Apple is open to alternatives.
> If the Japanese had simply been given the option to retain their figurehead Emperor, they'd have certainly surrendered rather than accept the occupation of northern Japan by Russian forces in a replay of East Germany.

Do you have a source for a historian arguing this point? If so, I'd be curious to read it. My own (albeit, purely hobbyist level) understanding on this is that this would almost certainly not have been the case.
I’d say the COVID vaccines are an example showing what’s still possible. Not to discount the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in the UK of course.

Public acceptance of those vaccines is another story, of course…
op asked for a tablet
Exactly. You can still find a few devices that did it (often out of Japan, especially minidisk players, for example), but most had no permanent memory or only a few bytes for radio stations, and of course you can't write to a CD.

Many car CD-players handled it just fine.
At least plastic is inert.. even then, it's still better than making batteries.
This is what everyone in userland clamors for as a baseline. Decade plus old arguments about this.
I have little hope this will happen
Where does she live?
But wait - modern electric motors, for example, are something like 80-95% efficient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor#Efficiency), which implies there's not a ton of room to grow. Do superconductors somehow enable 10x more torque output for the same watt of electricity? Or is it that you could have a small motor in the palm of your hand that can consume huge amounts of electricity and produce enough torque to crack a diamond?
No, eating is.
A handgun kills cancer in vivo, too... but the risk to the host is intolerably great.
Bluntly, we tried drug decriminalization in the theory that decriminalization meant people could seek help. Instead of more people getting help, fewer did because the stick had been removed. [0]

We should ask, well, does sex trafficking happen more or less in areas where prostitution is legal? That'll give us a good indicator of the effects of decriminalization.

We have a great study on this [1]. Decriminalization makes sex trafficking WORSE - full stop. Prostitution means more sex trafficking happens, and crackdowns on prostitution successfully reduce sex trafficking too.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-...

[1]: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...
I wouldn't call that pre-release by the standard definition.

The product is complete and it's just about ramping up production and sending stock to retail stores.
It's safer that you don't know. Because of all the alien tech they brought back.
Nah, punishing capital is always the best outcome. You want to privatize gains, take your fucking lumps and/or die as a corporate entity.
Top 3 at least
Only racists and trolls with an agenda refused to comprehend that Black Lives Matter didn't mean "Only Black Lives Matter." And continued to refuse to comprehend no matter how many times it was explained to them.

There's nothing the left can do about intentional bad faith representation of their messaging, that's just par for the course.
It's helpful to have a cell phone number from an area code across the country, then it's usually easy to tell likely spam calls (in my case usually 775 or 702) from legit calls (which for me usually are 312 or 773). There are also spam calls from random area codes but I usually don't answer those...
Or just call the hospital's financial office. I've got a stay from a several years ago I'm still paying off. They offered me $50/mo. at 0% interest without me even asking, and why not? Free money, $50 5 years from now certainly being worth less than $50 today.
Shipping features and bug fixes without a headache
> isn't investing into a company with a bad ESG sub-component(s) a good idea?

Yes, that is the paradox of the ESG finance trend.

Using a quantitative approach, you can use the CAPM to show that at equal risk/return, increasing the cost of capital of some companies (by limiting their access to funding because of low ESG score) actually make these companies a comparatively more profitable investment (for those that disregard ESG).

If you like these kind of paradoxes based on investor ethics, have fun discovering the world of Islamic finance and how to get interests when you cannot get interests.
So you can show the passage of time in one image.
This is tempered by the fact that they have to compete with each other on pricing of premiums.

And if they had such amazing power to unilaterally increase healthcare costs, there would not be many people complaining about healthcare not being covered.
A bunch of things like pension funds have to invest in AAA, so that was likely automatic sell-off.
offset your cheating (emmissions) by buying adultery (carbon) credits
Exactly. When I work, I work for myself; for money and mental stability. A company-wide identity feels like something I can't accept calling myself. It's too broad, vague, and the identity itself is defined/controlled by the company/HR, with little input from those labelled as such (at least in the orgs of size I've been at). It removes a lot of individuality from my own thoughts/mind, as I would have to consider "how I reflect on the organization" (as I was taught in Catholic school) to the detriment of my own expression.
I think it's rather due to the fact that like most other disciplines, the economic sciences have been further fleshed out since 1858. We no longer re-use unwashed surgical instruments, and we no longer subscribe to marxist ideology. No one likes Lincoln for his economic opinions.
The funny thing is that the Environmental metric is the only objective one while the Social and Governance ones can be bullshitted and manipulated. Those three things should have never been coupled. It’s all a scam.
It makes sense on an individual level. No one gets fired for buying Microsoft. Maybe they should be, but they won't.
What would you like to regulate that is better than letting people set inbound fees?
Are there any lessons you can share?
>a corporation specialized in advertising and data harvesting

You could be describing Microsoft in 2023, e.g. Chromium-based Edge, Windows 11 start menu ads, Xbox Live background services being integral to Windows even on government/corporate computers, the unholy marriage of Bing & OpenAI, Windows Live ID, outlook.com, every corporation being cool with putting their data into Azure/Office 365, etc.
Yeah, on point observation. I worked at both companies. I left Apple to work at Facebook because I wanted to be able to participate in open source projects and talk about my work with my coworkers openly.
I replied to your comment that was talking about transportation... i.e. not using it right away.

H2 has a daily boil off 5 times greater than LNG.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277265682...

Not only that, liquid H2 has worse energy density than LNG. So again, you're spending more units of energy to comparatively more less units of energy.
I think the repurposing of commercial city heart buildings to residential is a good, laudible goal but I've read elsewhere it has a 20% success rate, viewed by industry insiders: It's really harder than it looks.

I don't want to white-ant anything a government does to try and fix the housing crisis and out of control rent/price upward spirals. Even at 20% I think this is worth doing.

I live in a different economy, and we're stuck in housing hell with a federal government $10b investment fund aimed at delivery of an annual $500m floor of revenue to help build public housing. It won't fix the problem because demand outpaces supply by so many orders of magnitude, this level of investment can't keep pace. It's also stuck in senate with no majority to the labor government.

The problem really vests down the food chain with State governments and Councils but they're fixated on longterm supply side, and "don't rock the boat" policies rather than the kind of structural reform we need (rent controls, long tenancies, and changes to the tax basis of investor property: really, this domain should be in superannuation funds and public housing not individual private investors)

Changing use of corporate/office space has been done here but mainly targetting the super rich downsizers who want to live in the inner city. Doing it for low cost housing would be good, because otherwise we're doing donut city stuff: workers have to commute in from the edge, priced out of the heart.
There was already horror among the civilians, with the firebombing of Tokyo alone causing 100K casualties.
> The test apparatus they used can't actually measure 0 resistance.

Can you explain how you would make that measurement? It seems like your testing equipment would need to be made of superconductors as well, right?
Did a stint at mcdonalds for a couple of months when I was in school. Honestly theres a lot you can learn there if you keep your eyes open, it definitely made an impression on me. The standardisation of every process down to minute detail, equipment, ingredients, logistics, and people - from junior to management and those guys they fly around to fix things. Its a machine.

Obviously pretty dystopian and my experience there were close to zero ethics. They used to try and bribe the smartest young kids by offering company cars if they quit school and trained as managers. The owner even tried removing the small change from the tills as most people don't complain if they are short a tiny amount so he could squeeze that little extra (not a viable strategy btw as a tiny minority will freak out publicly).
reminds me of Pantheon:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/
Web components are doing really well: they're used on > 18% of Chrome page views, huge apps like Photoshop, parts of Chrome, Chrome OS, and Firefox, more and more of Reddit, and tons of design systems are built with them, and Lit has far more weekly npm downloads than Svelte or Solid.
I don't disagree about the first part, but it is nevertheless the reason I'm not using them, since I have a very general use case (c.f. https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/131).

As for representing Apple's state of mind w.r.t. alternatives; they've had the better part of a decade to shit or get off the pot, so I don't hold a shred of vendor sympathy. In that context, "open to alternatives" just sounds like product manager code for "we have no ideas of our own" and "let's kick the can down the road as much as we possibly can". If anything riles me up, it's the disinterest in developing a substitute capability, and if Apple weren't a steward of the standard it'd matter far less. I'll compare & contrast Cisco's running battles over their own PoE vs the IEEE802.3 standards that they'd had a hand in developing; at least the vendor offered a concrete alternative.
Younger (20) dev here. FF is the only browser I use (on all of my Mac, Windows and Linux machines), only exception being Safari on iOS.
In the end all that matters is power. Words on a treaty mean nothing when it comes down to it, only their enforcement does.
Oh man, you are in for a treat! This was a terrific read even though I probably only understood 1/3rd of it.

Ignition! By John D. Clark

https://www.amazon.com/Ignition-audiobook/dp/B07CTW1M9D/ref=...

Or, maybe you’ve already read it, in which case: great job. Maybe someone else will see this comment and enjoy it.

I don’t want to spoil if for you, but I loved the last paragraph. I believe a new heroic age for the field is dawning.
The ingredients and tools aren't exotic, but chemistry is still a pain in the ass.