skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>False, and I still have no idea why you believe this.

OK, then I guess I'll have to take your word for it and dismiss what scientists say. /s

>All of those things can be electrified.

Nope not even closely, you're juste delluding yourself with copium, hopes and dreams. And plus, electrical machines don't magically appear out of the sky but you need to manufacture them (often in dirty ways and processes in 3rd world countries) using materials mined from the ground with polluting processes.

You want a clean planet with exclusively clean products? Then you need to assure not that your end product (the EV) is clean but also that your entire supply chain from the ore extraction to the recycling of the end-of-life product is clean, and we're incredibly far away from that with no signs that it's measurably improving.

>Also a good thing that the cheapest sources of energy now is renewables.

That's why India and China have been buying Russian fossil fuels like crazy since the war made them cheaper? Again, you're only talking form a privilege wealthy westerner perspective who has abundant access to renewable energy, but you clearly have no idea what kind of dirty energy powers the reest of the world.
With jquery, you'd have to put in a lot of work to do this. And I'm not a front end engineer, so I went from knowing enough jquery to be dangerous to doing React tutorials,
where I saw how the design of this system was enabling bad default behavior.

If my irrational hatred has a better target than the term "React" I would like to know it. I do despise the usability of nearly every SPA I have used. It is perhaps possible to program an SPA so that the deficiencies are not noticed, which is great, but that does not appear to be the norm nor is it made easy by SPA frameworks.
> Even my grandparents saw things like olive oil and real butter as luxury items.

That "real" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
And seL4.
I don't believe the Survey of Consumer Finance[1] includes questions that determine whether a family's wealth decreased over time. In particular, given the exhorbitant costs of college (elite or otherwise), even while chasing merit scholarships it feels that US families profiled as single-digit "millionaires" with college-aged children are the ones most likely to experience rapidly depleting wealth reserves (529, non-registered cash reserves, liquidation of stock portfolios, etc.), especially if they have multiple kids[2].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf_2019.htm

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2022/demo/families/cps-20...
the anger _at_ religion has itself become a religion
T-Mobile employee pulled nude photos from customers' phones
There is some interesting stuff happening in battery-electric aircraft as trainiers. You can only fly them about 45 minutes and within a local radius of the airport but they are good for people learning the stick-and-rudder basics of flying.
According to NFTStorage's Terms and Conditions:

> The Service is offered for the creation and storage of NFTs. Use of the Service to store other types of data is not permitted.

Do you have a special agreement with NFTStorage which overrules the general Terms and Conditions?
I thought diversity was our strength?
I get where you're coming from, but a few of these examples didn't grow in that sense. More so evolved and discovered how SQLite couldn't meet their needs efficiently (or at all). It became technical debt before they could properly get off the ground.

I fully agree that there are projects out there which don't need to grow, won't grow, or otherwise perfectly suit the use of SQLite. I've encountered a lot of cases where it was simply the wrong choice, though. Growth or no growth.

I think Kent likes doctrine and tends to encourage practices without addressing nuance sufficiently. The kinds of people he teaches aren't likely to understand where SQLite falls short, and it's also difficult to explain to people with less experience. The advice rubs me the wrong way as a result; in practice, I don't see people use SQLite properly more often than not.

I'd say the same thing about MongoDB. It gets abused like crazy. It has a great fit in some applications and I love using it when that's the case. Yet it was promoted as the easy and scalable database for ages, and I can't count how many projects I've encountered which were badly encumbered by the misuse of that database. Is it a bad database? No, it works well in the right place. In the wrong place, it's a remarkably poor database though. SQLite is much the same (though I'd argue a better piece of technology all around).
Yeah but in the course of doing so, you'd also have to a non-Google default search.

If the hypothesis that Google is not better or indistinguishable from other search engines is true, then you'll be fine (or perhaps even better). But if it's not, then your whole business will have a drag force from that arbitrary friction (perhaps overcomable if the other parts of the business are great).

If you rise up with Google as the default search and then threaten to switch away when you are big, then your threat won't have teeth because you risk too much inherently by potentially disrupting the experience of your customer base.
The Corporate and Cultural Fallout from the Israel-Hamas War
I think you got this backwards. Tesla made a few important inventions early on and then spent the rest of his life showing off big sparks and scamming investors. Edison's labs were far more influential.
And further, how would we take human beings and 'spread them' anywhere? They have freedom to move about the country, live wherever they can manage, right? Like anybody else.
What amuses, and irritates, me is that academics frequently project this insanity onto Business or The Profit Motive.

Having close connections in academia, that world is the worst of what can be imagined. A highly competitive start-up, or scale-up, environment has a level of Reason and Merit imposed by the market which rationalises most everything (even the insane VC fantasyland headline-driven stuff is intelligible).

Academia is the worst combination of every imaginable macro force.
If that's the only angle you care about, then consider that a population free of lead-induced brain damage provides a stronger economy in the long run as more of them are able to enter the workforce rather than prison [1] or a grave [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
I didn’t mean to imply that glibc’s API isn’t stable. Just that the stable API boundary for the kernel on Linux is the syscall ABI, not libc.
> I apologize, upon reflection I do not feel comfortable summarizing or interpreting passages in this manner.

You're censoring the Bible now? Lol.
For language runtimes that don't normally have to deal with C baggage having to drag libc into your address space and going through libc code for syscalls makes this a less secure platform.
Elizabeth Lopatto’s coverage has been the best. I’ve been trying to ignore the trial, but she keeps sucking me back in.
> some SQLite-replication thing

This feels like an uncharitable interpretation of the maturity of projects like LiteFS/rqlite/dqlite.
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> but after the Macondo disaster

This is interesting. I've only ever seen it referred to as the "Deepwater Horizon" spill/disaster. It's the differentiation between the rig and the location/prospect. I wonder if that was also tied to a deliberate communications choice.
it doesn't work even as sarcasm. that fact can only say they are competent professionally, nothing about their personality, ethics or morals.
A big part is bespoke authentication on top of OAuth, rather than correctly implementing an actual standard to do such (OpenID Connect). OAuth is not an authentication protocol, it only gives guidance for delegated authorization.

OpenID Connect gives a mandated list of steps for verification.

Facebook Connect really only is supported via usage by an official SDK. If you are using an implementation that reverse engineered support for Facebook Connect rather than using the official SDK, you are on your own.
if they're willing to sell illegally harvested wood, then I don't think they have the scruples to care about being inaccurate in their sales pitch
How many actual production websites are actually too much for SQLite? 1%?

Most production websites are not multi million dollar businesses.
Can someone link to some relevant passages?
People absolutely expect the photos in a recipe to show the thing actually being made, and therefore an additional source of information. Adorning a recipe with photos of something similar but not quite like the described thing is, IMO, a form of gaslighting.
I really like Kagi for a lot of search results and used it for a month, but when looking for local results, I always had to revert to Google.

For example, looking for local stores and businesses: usually, they just don't come up at all. I had forgotten how I used to have to tack the city I am in on to each query back in the day with Google.

Even then though, the lack of reviews, mapping, etc. makes it almost useless for what I really need.

I'd love to see Kagi improve in this area, and I'd happily pay again.
The main problem with ERCOT's grid stability isn't that they are using a lot of renewables so much as it is that ERCOT isn't interconnected with other big power systems in Texas's efforts to avoid federal oversight, as that Washington Post article indicates. They can't benefit much at all from buying power in other markets to make up for generation shortfalls lest they risk the feds making them do things they don't want to do. (On the flip side, they also can't sell their cheap renewable power into other markets as easily when they have excess generation capacity!)

There's an awful lot of schadenfreude that happens within the renewable energy and power production communities during serious power system events in ERCOT because they willingly suffer problems other power systems don't have to.
No, Windows has stable API and ABI named Win32 API. This comes from times of 16bit Windows and works also in x64 / ARM / ARM64, previously it worked in Alpha / MIPS / IA64. This API is implemented in kernel.dll user.dll gdi.dll advapi.dll and similar, it does some stuff, but mostly forwards to the NT API. Beware, kernel.dll is user space component despite its name (historical reasons). NT API is undocumented and not meant to be used by user programs, it is not stable, it lives in ntdll.dll, it does syscalls to the kernel: ntoskrnl.exe. Windows doesn't have a libc (for user programs, it has private one for its own programs), Visual Studio has a libc. Each version of Visual Studio (roughly) has its own libc named msvcrt.dll msvrt100.dll msvcrt140.dll and similar, it hosts the C and C++ libc, it could be linked statically for various benefits and drawbacks.
Sure, but building a business isn't the only reason for people to select a hosting solution.

Personal side projects are the most obvious example.

I do a lot of work in journalism. Newsrooms don't have a budget for maintaining interactive apps they built for a story that ran ten years ago, so they often made the sensible (at the time) decision to deploy them as a free, scale-to-zero Heroku instance.

Those apps are all gone now, thanks to Heroku bait-and-switching.

Many of those same newsrooms were paying customers of Heroku for other purposes!
> It's Israel destroying crucial civilian infrastructure.

You can get fired for stating that kind of a thing in the US [1]

[1] https://www.thecut.com/article/israel-hamas-war-corporate-cu...
> unable to secure a teaching position *prior* to publishing 3 nobel prize worthy papers in 1 year
How much does it cost to run a GenAI query? There's lots of investment money flowing into this right now, and companies seem to be using the classic "lose money until you gain market dominance" approach, but I wonder whether it's really sustainable in the long-term.
I don't understand this. By that logic you could go from HTTP to a new but buggy and flawed HTTPS (when that was in its infancy) and rather than that being considered a vulnerability, you could say "Well, everyone else is just using HTTP so they deserve a CVE too..."
No, they are spending 60% less on cloud and doing the same work locally for an unspecified cost.

And they (and DHH) apparently think accounting for that cost (even in a vague and prelimary manner) is not important when describing their achievements.
Why isn't that a great solution to a problem?

It's likely that self-driving cars will eventually be better drivers than real people. Obviously, it's not like that at this point, but AI gets quite a bit better every year.

Think about the number of man-hours people spend behind the wheel. Taxi drivers are automated, and people who own cars and do something else while in their cars besides operate the car. It's a huge stress and efficiency boost for society.
Thankfully I'm not in US.
Probably the same kind of oversight that just allowed me to compile hundreds of books in a catalog each as "book.pdf"

It was on exactly the second download where I realized how restrictive my choice of namespace was
Where exactly do you think your airline pilots come from? You know, the ones there is a giant shortage of right now… Do you think they grow on trees? They learn to fly in those small piston planes.
I recently had a 6 month stint using hello fresh, and now cancelled. I find it's really useful to get out of a rut, and teach you some small tricks. This recent one has me:

* Using much more citrus, juice & zest
* Chickpeas + spice mix + touch of liquid in a pan is an easy go-to (we're veggie)
* Broth / onions in rice.
* Template of flatbread + stuff on top, which they had 3 or 4 in their rotation. Easy to riff on w/ whatever you have in the fridge.

None of these are earth-shattering revelations, but the repeated practice has ingrained some of these much more, and got me cooking a little differently.

We do this every few years, it seems worth it for a while, but I can't stick with it because I hate the waste, and the recipes get pretty repetitive after a bit, doubly so w/ vegetarian meals which have fewer options.
Thank you -- that's very helpful context!
Elon Musk gets a nod as a space pioneer from 'Star Trek: Discovery' (2017)
This is amazing, great work! I love that it does everything in-browser.

A handful of questions:

Your currently uploading to a gateway and are considering moving to your own gateway backed by filecoin. Have you considered ditching the gateway and using the libp2p WebRTC and/or WebSocket transports to upload directly to the network via the browser tab?

Where are you hosting this and how are you protecting against "supply chain attacks" where your hosting provider (either maliciously or through their service being compromised) injects additional JS that exfiltrates secrets? Have you explored managed/trusted upgrades to the existing user's apps through browser storage and a service worker? I don't know of any surefire ways to protect against the first delivered page being compromised, or a compromised browser environment, but could you lock down the upgrade path for the app for returning users by moving it outside of the page load path? (Not just a question for OP, I've been wondering about this for a bit now, it's kinda critical path for delivering P2P experiences to a browser tab - you need a way to minimize trust of the server hosting the HTML/JS files otherwise it can trivially exfiltrate your secrets)

What is the migration path off of this? If I have this metadata file, how do I use it locally to fetch my encrypted files directly from the IPFS pinning server without having to return to your site?

How does multi-user access work?

What do you think the path to beating Google Drive on UI/UX is with P2P software?

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We are working on a very similar problem to this right now, using the guts of IPFS and some stuff borrowed from Secure Scuttlebutt et. al. to manage encrypted files, identities, and capabilities. We also have a way to encrypt a file once and share individual per-user encryption keys on-demand bound to the user's private key. This lets the decryption keys be mirrored by nodes (i.e. put it on IPFS!), without the corresponding private key the decryption key is worthless. Next we are exploring UCAN for managing capabilities and granting access. And an overlay network to power it all. I'd love to compare notes with you.

Do you want a job? There is an open spot on my team working on exactly this stuff. Our goal is to make an SDK for building these exact types of apps.

Salary bands max out at $250k. Fully remote team, nomad friendly, 4 day work weeks. Time is spent roughly 50/50 implementing stuff and reading research papers (like Filecoin, IPFS, Scuttlebutt, etc.).

We have an open interview challenge for the team that gives some good insight into what the role is and what a "day in the life" will be like: https://gitlab.com/webai-open/network/interview-challenge
Good. Why socialize the cost of these platforms and privatize the profits?

Understandably it is expensive. But the profits will similarly be great.

They ought to build their own mini cities to test on as part of their own Manhattan Project.
I apologize, upon reflection I do not feel comfortable summarizing or interpreting passages in this manner.

It's censored. Looks like you need to build your own LLM unless you want some developer's thinly veiled opinion.
Same has happened on HN. Organic submissions don’t necessarily get the attention they did 10 years ago, based on just content.

Also keep in mind that the more informative the submission, the longer people spend on the site, the less upvotes it gets because by the time they return it would have likely scrolled off the screen. Short, punchy things dominate
How long before it actually saves?
The people who seek professorships aren't motivated by money, they're motivated by prestige and tenure. If they wanted money, they'd have gone directly into the private sector.

But: there just aren't enough professorships to support the amount of PhDs we mint every year.

This is causes people to go off and postdoc for years hoping somewhere will accept them. Through a combination of luck and skill, some get a job as a prof and go through the tenure gauntlet.

But for most, eventually they have to give up on their dream and do something else - except post-docs are underpaid, so they start off in a worse financial position than they otherwise would.

This has a domino effect, because those post-docs compete for jobs with fresh PhDs who never wanted to stay in academia anyway.

The effect is compounded by universities increasingly relying on adjuncts as a way to cut costs (adjunct professors are heavily exploited, and they take the abuse because they feel like they need to boost their resume to get a tenured position). So, there are even fewer tenure track positions to go around

The only way to fix it is to either reduce the number of PhDs awarded every year (not going to happen) or incentive an increase in the number of professorships at universities.
> OpenBSD treating libc as the interface with the kernel instead of syscalls being the interface with the kernel

Which is a reasonable thing, given that the libc interface is defined by a widely used IEEE standard while the kernel interface is not.
Being currently in the middle of belatedly reading The Black Swan, I can't help but see this as a classic case. Penn has a formula that's supposed to predict "success," and it's a linear formula: more papers & funding leads linearly to more success. y = mx + b which is totally how the world works, right? Not if you've read Nassim Taleb or even Paul Graham's essays about mining unfashionable/disreputable/heretical ground for ideas nobody else has thought of or is willing to consider. Just like startups, somebody is going to discover something huge in there. Even if you were willing to say a university isn't a place of ideas for their own sake, and is instead nothing more than a venture capital firm like their bureaucrats seem to be asserting - in short even with the profit/greed motive intact, it still seems like a dumb strategy to model the world as linear and boring.
For convenience, here's the primary source at the end of the chain of links (at depth=5):

"Expert Investigation Related to Cocoa and Chocolate Products: Final Report"

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59a706d4f5e2319b70240... (pdf, 381pp)
That list doesn't include cities where the local train (subway or street rail) system connects to the airport, which seems odd. In my experience it's way easier getting to the into the city using local rail compared to dealing with parking, rental cars, traffic etc.

The only downside is almost none of these systems are in operation 24/7, with the exceptions being NYC and Chicago. If you have a very early or late arrival / departure, you just can't use them at all without waiting several hours at the airport. I wish more cities could add reduced frequency night service, something like maybe 1 train every hour or hour and a half.

As a somewhat cherry-picked example, if someone in the southern part of my city wants to take a train into the city center, the last good route with only one transfer leaves at 10 pm. At 10:40pm Google maps suggests a route with 3 transfers that takes almost twice as long (and includes the commuter rail which is a separate, more expensive ticket). The last possible option is at 11:40 and takes 3 times as long as the normal route. If we want people to use trains and subways, the service hours have to be greatly improved.
Did you ask it whether God created pregnancy by rpw and inquest?

Did God create "the products of inqest will suffer for their parents' sins"? Is God then Just or Benevolent?

Did God create a world of suffering after creating heaven?

Did God will that we would all be products of the inquest of Adam and Eve? Why did Cain harm Abel, and why was the third child fine?

Did God create Heaven? Did God create Hell? Did God create "taking babies from their crying mothers actually levels them up out of the world of suffering"; did God create death and suffering?

How could we give due process to the accused 2000+ years ago, and why don't religious text specify equal due process (or even hand-washing before delivering babies)?
My naive initial assumption (just due to my own bias) was that nesting would work the same way as in Markdown – i.e., that the number of `#`’s indicates the heading level.

Maybe worth for you to consider? It’s a well known convention, it should be fairly self-explanatory, and it would work independent of the notion of paragraphs.

# animals
elephant
## felines
cats
# plants
apple tree
## flowers
lily
This is interesting, do you have an example repository with that setup? My team currently uses Swagger for documentation which provides decent documentation for us, so what sort of documentation at the repository level could I gain by using this setup instead or in combination? Also, how would one detect that the documentation has been correctly updated aside from manual inference?
Harvard is at 19,000 employees for 23,000 students - but I'd be surprised if most of the employees are administrators, as this includes the plumbers, the janitors, the gardeners, the campus cops, the cooks, etc, etc.

My, uh, no-name school somehow managed to educate ~37,000 students with a 'mere' 7,200 employees (half of them part-time).
female version of the napoleon complex
Google had 274 million unique visitors in the US as of February 2023 [1].

So it would cost closer to "only" $13.7bn/year for every American using Google to switch to Kagi.

And Google generated $76 billion in US ad revenue from those users in 2023 [2], just goes to show how "cheap" Kagi really is compared to being monetized by ads.

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/469821/google-annual-ad-...