skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content like that will exist, and have existed before. But large scale operations will not. Search engines, LLMs, social networks. They need a lot of money to run at scale. LLMs charge a subscription. Kagi is doing search engine which is paid (and not bad). If they all started charging pretty soon we'll be paying through the nose for everything. Ads offset that. I pay Spotify, Amazon, OpenAI, Netflix, Diskey, and I'm considering paying Kagi. But I can't pay every single content provider I use... it will never end. I accept the ads where I can and pay where I cannot. I have a choice sometimes and I exercise it. I. Not some content site that makes the choice for me. That is my only point here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231026153006/https://www.nytim...
I didn’t see any mention of cpu used on the article. I’m guessing that might be important.
There's a receiver that connects to the OBD2 port. Example: https://abstractocean.com/products/s3xy-buttons
Don't be flippant if you're out of your intellectual depth.

You are factually incorrect and should educate yourself on basic high school chemistry before you embarrass yourself further.
I don't understand, can't you feed it one page at a time and ask it "is there relevant information here?"
Sir, you 100% sound like you and your wife are suffering from Lyme disease.

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html#:~:text=Typical%20sympto....
My understanding is that lithium ion batteries don’t use metallic lithium, but salts, like lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.

Are sodium ion batteries somehow different? If so, how can they keep metallic sodium stable at all?
Horn is still on the airbag 'button' in all Tesla cars. They added the functionality back to the Model S ones that did not have it (apparently it needed some software update?).
There is an additional step here - electrolysis to separate sodium and chlorine.

The energy cost of that is not a solved problem.
> minimalism

More like minimalism in terms of cost. A tablet can be used in many cars as an interface, the only cost is the different software for each model. No need to make molds and manufacture physical buttons and a console.
> Turn signal & horn moving to touch buttons on the wheel.. which move when you spin, is insane ergonomics

Car's back in the day would have the shift up/down levers on the wheel like racing cars do today. Same issue but people still managed.
I recently read The Hidden Life of Trees which tackles this question. Very good book, to the point, I highly recommend it.

In it there is proof that trees communicate with each other through the roots, different species can talk to each other, they share nutrients and sugars between each other and talk with fungi. Eg. they can warn each other about insect attacks and react with bitter leaves.

My favourite trivia from the book is that there are three currently accepted answer for how trees circulate water: capillary action, transpiration and osmosis.

Capillary action is the same force which holds rain drops together - that should push the water up in the trunk fibers.

Transpiration is basically works like trees evaporates (exhale) water through its leaves and that creates suction.

Osmosis is that if sugar in one cell is higher than the neighboring cell, the water will flow towards the more sugary one until both have the same amount of water.

Now, capillary action cannot work for more than 1 meter height, and water flow is highest in the trees at spring before the leaves open up so that rules out transpiration. Osmosis can only happen in the roots and leaves because trunk contains long tubes for water and not cells.

Which leaves us... Yeah. We don't know :D
It reminds me of a related favicon issue with the Duck Duck Go Android app.

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/duckduckgo-ceo-clarifies-...
You have to split the salt molecule too.
Zuck builds a massive social network. Critics: he'll never monetize it, as soon as I see an ad, I'm out!

Zuck monetizes the social network and makes billions. Critics: he's managing the business quarter-to-quarter with no vision for the future. Pretty soon it'll be milked dry!

Zuck invests billions in potential future hit technology. Critics: he's lost his mind and should focus on the day-to-day!
Sure, look on aliexpress.com, for instance. [1]

I'll hold back from giving you a let-me-google-that-for-you link (:

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805680782897.html
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I'm getting ~60fps on my 4090 at 1440p. Haven't had any framerate issues. My GPU has been pinned at 100% and my temps are sky high, but the game is smooth. They definitely need to fix this, but it's not as dire for everyone as it's being made out to be.
Yes, and it therefore should not yield a page load.
> How is the 90s Internet (forums, IRC, Viagra spam and goatse) anything like the modern sterilized version full of dark patterns in the hands of a dozen megacorps?

The hinternet was the Viagra spam and goatse part. The modern, sterilized version is exactly that - continuous abuse and exploitation. Just with a fig leaf of legitimacy.

EDIT: perhaps a better distinction would be this: O'Brien's Internet was/is that which comes from focusing on benefit for the user (be it utility or entertainment). The hinternet is that which comes from focusing on making money. Now, focusing on utility does not preclude commerce - in fact, the most basic and honest way of making money is by exchange for something of value. Focus on value provided includes figuring out how to provide it sustainably. In contrast, focusing on making money does, in practice, detract from making things good, as fraud and abuse have much better ROI.
> I reject the concept of “just war” in general in all instances and think all war is mass murder

Okay, fair, there's a self-consistent point there we can work with. I also am extremely dubious of the idea of "just war".

> It takes two to tango.

It really only takes one to start a war. You seem to be under the assumption that Ukraine had a choice about whether it went to war or not. It didn't have that choice. War was forced upon it. Indeed Ukraine is not fighting a "just war" by any stretch.

It sounds like you're saying: it's bad that Russia is invading Ukraine, but it's also bad that Ukraine is trying to defend itself? Obviously we'd all prefer the world where Russia does not invade Ukraine. Given that Russia did invade Ukraine, what is the next best world? For me, 2nd best is that Ukraine defends its sovereignty with as little unnecessary death as possible. For you, it sounds like (and please correct me if I'm wrong) 2nd best is that Ukraine rolls over and lets Russia completely annex its territories, commit genocide on its civilians, reduce its cities to rubble and ash, execute or permanently imprison its current government, and install a puppet government, so that it is better positioned to do the exact same thing to the rest of Eastern Europe. Is that right? I think we'd both like to minimize death and suffering, but my intuition is that your 2nd best scenario has a lot more death and suffering than mine.

And again: the idea that Ukraine defending its sovereignty is "just as bad" as Russia invading it is yet another common Russian propaganda line. It may be complete coincidence that your statements happen to exactly match Russian propaganda lines, but they do. If you talk about how you found some cheap viagra at some link you post, you may feel like you have a legit reason for doing so and that you're not a "true" spammer. But to everyone else, you're just another spammer.
I mean, that's fine, but only harvesting for a short portion of the year (during hard freeze after sap is out) severely limits the market and therefore increases cost.

That has to be part of the issue, right?
The internet generally believes that /u/violentacrez created /r/jailbait . That user's "irl" identity is known, and he is not a founder of reddit. See https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/1hzra9/doxg...
General question, can we just call object storage object storage? If there's going to be another provider after already remembering S3, B2, now R2, on top of the various aliases for products like virtual servers, shared hosting, VLANs, and other things people are presenting as new products with the most random of abbreviations, I'm really going to lose track.
Dotshare.it: a website to share your cool Unix config files
Are you forced to use zoom?

I know plenty of people who were staunchly against video calls as an alternative to meetings.
I think the CPU will play more of a part when there is a lot to simulate. But in the article they said this was on an empty map
I mean I just watched a bunch of documentaries about Challenger and Columbia...you're damn right they would rubber stamp it.
Isn't ldap in the browser just something like NTLM?
Thing is, Apple actually improved things by making phones (almost) all-touch. Touchscreen phones fucking rule, despite the challenges presented, because there are so many different applications you need to control on your phone that physical buttons would be pretty cumbersome and would always feel like a poor hack.

A car does not have the same functionality or purpose. Touchscreens are a distinct step backward when replacing radio and lighting controls. I'm not going to play Baldur's Gate 2 on a damn Tesla because I have to drive it, and if I didn't have to drive it in a world where self-driving was good, I'd just play it on my damn phone. (Actually I'd play it on my Steam Deck, because the physical controls are best-in-class.)
Congrats, you defined "better". The post can't be complete without the "objectively" part though.
Where's the peer review?
Hi Steve, bit of a tangent, I stumbled upon your blog from intro section and went down the rabbit hole. Wanted to ask if you have any recommendations on documentaries. TIA!
As an owner of a flipper this caused self deprecating chuckle. You’re a bit too close for comfort.

It’s probably a weird fringe trifle, but I had a lot of fun with it during a physical security review for a client. It’s super impressive to open their front door with the CEOs keycard cloned by standing next to him in the elevator.
That being said you can buy a dedicated badge cloner on Amazon for $14 and it doesn’t work for fancy ones like what goog uses.
To add context to the link, this isn't a repost, just related.

The post linked is about the Council (think US senate or Bundesrat) not having enough votes to pass the text (they're still looking for internal compromises)

This post is about the European Parliament's committee examining the draft (well, one of the 5, but LIBE is the lead one)
I’ve been a web developer since before “mobile first”, and since before mobile as a serious web target. Granted when it did become a serious target, we had different terms as well: adaptive and responsive design come to mind. “Mobile first” as a concept was not then—and never has been, for anyone who takes those other concepts seriously—“mobile at the expense of all else”.

What I mean is that quite a lot of these examples and others people frequently cite when complaining about “mobile first” are not inherent to “mobile first” per se. To my mind, they’re an incomplete application of the principle. And the principle became prominent when the inverse problem was more universal: designs (or simply their implementation) targeted desktop first, and added mobile affordances as an afterthought.

“Mobile first” shouldn’t mean that other web experiences aren’t just as important a consideration. Philosophically, it comes from the perspective that a broadly usable and accessible web experience accounts for the most stringent constraints and works out from there.

I distinctly recall solving problems like those discussed in the article well over a decade ago. It was a lot of work. It requires a lot of care and attention to detail. That doesn’t excuse skipping any of it! And it really should be more achievable as the standards have evolved. But it does require dedication to addressing a large matrix of users’ needs and usage conditions.
> The US remains moderately accessible, most of its peers are the exact opposite.

I agree completely. But that's good and practically necessary for the US, since it is highly reliant on immigrants at all levels of skill for their labor.

Immigration even underpins the basic functioning of the healthcare system, and not just for doctors and nurses. Cleaning hospitals is a critical job for the healthcare system, and janitorial workers are 20% Latino.

However, that doesn't mean there isn't plenty that can be learned from the administration of healthcare systems elsewhere.

Germany, like the US, has a market based health insurance system organized through employers, but unlike the US, carrying insurance is required by law [1].

Furthermore, Germany has universal public coverage for medically necessary care, and controls the price of prescription drugs [2].

That doesn't make Germany's system perfect by a long shot, but it manages to achieve a much lower healthcare spend as a percentage of GDP while maintaining universal coverage for basic healthcare and even offering patients longer average hospital stays than the US does.

1. https://sites.gsu.edu/gsuglobalhealth/2021/02/15/competition...

2. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
> Oxide seems to have written their own ...

> when any of that breaks, good luck!

The premise is that you don't need luck, you can call Oxide. As you said, they wrote all of it, so they own all the interaction so they can diagnose all of it.

When I call Dell with a problem between my OS filesystem and the bus and the hardware RAID, there's at least three vendors involved there so Dell doesn't actually employ anyone that knows all of it so they can't fix it.

Sure, Oxide now needs to deliver on that support promise but at least they are uniquely positioned to be able to do it.
Controversial Opinion: I think the tablet controls hidden behind extra menu buttons is just a stopgap until a GPT takeover of those controls.

I should just be able to talk to the car to do what I need it to do. That would be truly minimalist.
We are selling racks of computers, and you can buy them, yes.
It sounds like you're mad that you voluntarily took someone else's money and are expected to repay it? Of course, if you take a loan, you'll have to make future financial plans to budget less for frivolous expenditures
I don't think the screens are even "automotive grade" - not meeting temp and vibration standards that it will definitely experience in a moving vehicle exposed to the elements. This is how Tesla was able to use such a large screen for so long while other manufacturers have yet to catch up.
I'm running 4K, 30fps on a 4080 on medium settings (with a decent size city). It's not good performance, but it's plenty for a city builder.
Again with the goalpost moving here. We're talking about people, not Monkeys. Unless you mean to express that you decide who has valuable speech based on who they are. There are numerous traps along that path. If those so-called "valuable" voices are afraid of those who you deem unworthy challenging their speech, then it is the "valuable" voices that need scrutiny. The "more speech" solution in that case is transparency.
I guess time will tell VXBlock just looks like amalgamation of SKUs Dell has. Oxide was built as "clean slate" from firmware to every minute detail to offer a compelling product for companies that want to have a hyperscaler style systems for their on-prem workloads.
> Tesla thought they would be further along with FSD than they are

That's because they have either been lying or willfully ignorant of how insanely hard FSD is. Their engineers know what the physical challenges are, but I don't know about leadership.
20 fps, 60 fps, whatever

When was the last time you could enjoy a 4x or city builder on a laptop, with integrated graphics, on battery?
This seems to me to be attributing a lot of complex things to consciousness that needn’t be.

To my view, although all things exist in all states all at once at some level (time being just a 4th feature of space, and all possible permutations of all dimensions being fundamentally extant, a fully populated vector mapping, by analogy)

By extension, time as we perceive it is strictly illusory.

Perception is only possible in subdomains of the universe where the presence of the observer is permissible (right circumstances and compatible laws of physics)

Perception in humans requires an entropic process of electrochemical activity. Entropic processes imply a time vector. That is why we can only perceive reality in the context of a vector through space time, with time being relative but essentially linear. Any other vector type would preclude entropy and by extension, observation.

In this way we are able to perceive all universes in which our existence is permissible and self consistent with our existence on the reverse track (universe states which can entropically evolve from a previous state where we also existed as an observer or a prototype observer)

When we observe things closely we can understand that they a are mostly “right here” but also a little to the left and right, and a tiny bit everywhere. The locus of a thing is where it exists, on average, within the entire spectrum of universes which support our past and present existence on the entropic vector. We see this in Casimir force, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and other well documented features of our reality.

In fact, the less probable that something will interact with our existence (distance in time or space) the less focused its position and motion becomes… because it is less limiting to the bandwidth of universes we can exist in while observing it.

There are a lot of fascinating implications of this conjecture, but so far they all seem to be consistent with observable phenomenon.
In this video we continue to review all the code that was written and fill in any missing functions to make sure that nothing is left out or forgotten.
I guess there are zero practical reasons to go to Mars that would justify the massive cost required to do so. The only thing that comes close on Earth (from the practicality perspective) is the exploration of Antarctica and the Artic and that was done on a shoe-string budget.
I feel like this is not only a massive technical mess-up but also belies a deep misunderstanding of their customers. Most C:S fans were more excited for a more realistic traffic AI and mixed use zoning. Yet this experience was made unplayable by an attempt to make it look prettier.
I think they're assuming or taking the case of mobile first design with desktop as an afterthought.
We had a roundabout like that with stop lights in the middle for the crosswalks, although I think the crosswalks were later removed and rerouted foot traffic elsehwere. I felt like everyone was complaining people didn't know how to use it but it seemed obvious to me the designers didn't understand the concept either. The crosswalks seemed to exist so the center green could be used a part. I'm not sure how many people enjoy sitting in a part literally surrounded by exhaust fumes and road noise.

The same roundabout has double lanes for only half of the circle so if you are not familiar with it you may find yourself forced to exit suddenly at a turn you didn't want because the lane stops existing. My understand was the point of a roundabout was that traffic always kept moving inside them and you shouldn't stress if you miss the turn because you can just go around the circle to try again.
You see egress with extra steps, I see billing for work relevant to my business and my customers
No, SQL is not outdated. It is still one of the most popular and widely used database languages in the world. SQL is used by a wide range of companies and organizations, from small businesses to large enterprises, to manage their data.

SQL has a number of advantages over other database languages, including:

It is a mature and well-supported language.
It is easy to learn and use.
It is flexible and scalable.
It is supported by a wide range of database vendors.
While there are other database languages and technologies that have emerged in recent years, such as NoSQL and cloud-based databases, SQL remains an essential tool for data management.
State rooftop solar crackdowns cloud the industry's future
I enjoy Sonic Youth a fair bit, but in the majority of cases find Thurston Moore completely uncompelling as a singer.
There are CPU/GPU meters on the screenshots. Highest CPU load I saw is 78% on one core and lower on other cores, but GPU is always 100% or close to it.
Every single one of the companies you listed started off with unverified hardware, some that failed in the field and continues to today. Why wouldn't you try something else, considering the status quo? This is a nothing-to-lose situation as long as you don't put all your chips into the bet. Every single datacenter has capacity and a need to diversify. It's not even a heroic feat of risk taking.
I'm not discounting your own experience, but in your anecdote you acknowledge that got you act together 2 years before anyone in this program would get the money. An example of a 16-19 year old being immature is not a good argument that 21-23 year olds aren't mature.
Hopefully such hostile practices from apple and other companies will end. Everybody agrees it's bad. They have absolutely no reason to be allowed to continue doing part pairing and making components unavailable. It's evil for consumers and for nature as well.
The UK supported business payrolls directly rather than giving money to the general populace but we still have a problem with inflation.
After this started no one would ever have me pitch (though I did before)! This is just throwing it as a fielder, and basically always first base (or the vestigial catcher position in slowpitch softball) to hide the heinous throws that I would come up with from any other position.

But it has gotten better recently. I've been able to distract myself by thinking about anything but throwing and the ball has been coming out in a normal way. No real zip but maybe we'll get there next season.
Well, pick up a history book, and you'll see lots of people escaped religious persecution in Europe.

They wanted to practice their religion / lack thereof, thus were freedom-seeking.

They were willing to brave an Atlantic crossing in small wooden ships and build brand-new lives rather than put up with curtailed freedoms; hence "maximalists".

And when you mix church and state, or when the state kowtows to the church by persecuting its enemies, you have at least a partial theocracy.
It’s still harder, and you’ll only get a single price point at a time, which also might change three months later.
> Do you have any examples of said "bad practices" and non-standard dialects?

There's an inexhaustible list. But here are some:

- `require`, `module.exports`, and `.mjs`

- `Buffer`

- Abusing arrow functions and generally going out of one's way to reimplement `this`, poorly

- Closures everywhere (and near zero regard for runtime consequences, i.e. perf incl. memory usage, or legibility of code)

- Abusing `===` (i.e. using it everywhere and yelling at you if you don't—even going so far as to write codestyle bots and other tooling that forces you to change occurrences of `==` to `===` e.g. to get the build to succeed); lines where `===` is used instead of `==` should ideally make up something like less than one half of 1% of your code (generous), if it ever occurs at all

- A whole slew of "My First Experience with Polymorphism and Types™" antipatterns that are unwisely encouraged like `function foo(x) { if (typeof(x) == "string") /* ... */ }` and naive use (i.e. misuse) of `instanceof`, plus a bunch of packages like is-uint8array and/or basically the entirety of the (non-standard) utils.types namespace
I forget, is this the persona responsible for that "voices from the hellmouth" series? the one that, retrospectively, coincides with my /. usage starting to slope negative.