skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments like to control people and they never back down. Once the government commits to a position like censorship, it can be near impossible to force them back. Since the EU member countries have not pushed back very much on this, and those politicians in the countries that represent the people have not felt any pushback, the government will keep going.

I also think government bureaucrats saw how much they were able to push citizens during the pandemic, and force them to do things they vocally did not want to do, and so now they feel emboldened.
I'm apparently struggling to make the point that this is not necessarily true. Not every charity is built around achieving an objective with analytic efficiency.

I've seen countless efforts to "fight" climate change by very feel-good but ineffective methods, like... spending thousands of dollars on algae sculptures for an art museum. Effective altruism brings the effectiveness to the forefront as an explicit priority. Like, are there other things we could do for a thousand dollars that might have a million times bigger impact on CO2?

A lot of people really don't think about that, or at least don't treat it as a priority. And some charities are even happy to tread water forever while never engaging with solving a problem, just to maintain the status quo and the need for that charity.
Did the exact same thing :)
Preact requires a build step otherwise you don't get JSX and you have to build applications a la mithril.js mode:

> const app = h('h1', null, 'Hello World!');

With Web Components no build step is required and you're still able to intermix HTML with JS just like JSX. See the code below this section: https://github.com/kennyfrc/cami.js#key-concepts--api
> blatant corruption and power tripping

That about sums it up. Censorship is another way of saying control of information.
The second I saw it, I knew it too, and then I immediately started getting anxiety about parking.
GP here.

Article is BS, that money wasn't stolen. The decision making behind the purchase was transparant. Furthering the cause of EA itself was a goal of the specific fund from which they drew that money [1]. It gives them a place to have big nice conferences, which drives donations which will well exceed $16M.

Anyway, I didn't donate to that fund. I donated to the Global Dev fund [2]. If you donated to fund [1], then you knew your money would be spent on stuff like conferences.

[1] https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/ea-community

[2] https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/global-development
*Shameless self promotion warning*.

If you're looking for a middle-ground between React and Web Components, check out Joystick [1]. I designed it to take a React v1 approach to ergonomics but you write your components with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (no attribute hacks or new syntax to learn—if it's on MDN, it will work in Joystick).

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
Yes, the housing construction metrics are not exactly comparable over time because constructing the tiny 1k sq ft or less houses on postage stamp lots probably became illegal in most of the US many years ago.
I don't like web components because of the flash of undefined elements[1]. Hiding it with css tricks is clunky and ugly too. The sad thing is that web components seem like a great idea otherwise.

[1] https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/flash-of-undefined-cust...
The people from Algora have created a great homepage for the bounty: https://console.algora.io/challenges/prettier

Note: Guillermo Rauch and Wasmer also joined, adding $12,500 extra to the mix (total bounty is $22,500)
Interestingly "bump in speed" would be fine, but "speed bump", means the exact opposite.
3rd generation LA native here - my family has never called them anything except dingbats as far back as I can remember. Plenty of other people I've talked to who are from LA used that term as well (or were familiar with it), so I don't think it's a regional LA thing either.
Information compression is nothing new. Of course if you are trying to get an LLM to produce accurate data about geography, it would make sense that instead of trying to catalog every fact in a lookup table, there would be some sort of model that you can run queries through. The LLMs just happen to be a neat way of building those models automatically from data.

The problem is, this sentiment of path towards AGI assumes that everything (i.e our physical reality) can be compressed. Which is highly likely not true.

The future of AI is basically better and better compression with more data sources. You will be able to do things like ask how to build a flying car in your garage, and it will give you step by step instructions on what things you need to order from where, including CAD drawings to get custom made CNC parts, and how to put it all together (including software to run it).

As far as AGI goes, its possible that through AI assisted technology we will be able to measure synapses of a human brain in fine enough detail, or somehow mass surveil the entire population of earth and derive human brain models from that. And then, with optimizations on that, we can potentially arrive at the most efficient human brain in terms of some metric, and we will have very good robotic assistants, but nothing really beyond that.
Will the EU Give Companies Selling Spyware and Stalkerware a Free Pass?
> You have to live under constant threat of a whale, e.g. Blackrock, swooping in and offering marginally above (market + e), forcing you to sell

They can't force you to sell, you have the option of just updating the declared value to the new market price.

But I brought this up initially in the context of patents because I don't think this would actually be a practical or politically palatable way to handle property taxes on owner-occupied housing. But when we're talking about intangible corporate assets like patents most of these problems go away (IMO).
> Regarding CRT intensities, mind that a CRT set up for daylight viewing would give you headaches when viewed in the dark, which is hard to achieve with a modern display panel.

Are you suggesting CRT's were brighter than modern LCD screens?

That's not the case at all. Average consumer CRT's were 100 nits, the super-bright ones in the 2000's around 200 nits. While your cheapest MacBook is 400 nits, and iPhones have been over 600 for a long time. (Current cheaper laptop brands can be lower around 200 today though.)
Many famous mathematicians have quotes along the lines of "it's not the result that mattered here, it's the new method/trick that is cool!" and essentially it's because solving math problems requires a bag of tricks and a new one can open new doors in every field it hasn't been applied to yet.
He has a new jacket!
Lucky that has nothing to do with how grid stability works then… We’re talking about frequency correction, reactive power control etc. here!
As someone who has actively avoided LinkedIn, I've decided to give it a chance after all.

First, I wanted to disable all email notifications. For each type of notification event, I had to click and disable it (while leaving in-app notifications on).

Then I wanted to install mobile app. There is "Get the app" link which is cool but when you click it, you get a prompt to enter the phone number with this message: "Note: Standard SMS fees may apply. Your phone number will not be saved."

Do I trust you that you will not save my number? I don't think so. Do I want you to give you my number? Definitely not (fully understanding that they probably already have it by accessing the contact list of all users that they gave the permission to). Why don't you email me the link to download the app, if not just giving me the link?

LinkedIn and me have not started on good terms.
Although I studied calculus in a pure math perspective, I knew enough physics to tie the two concepts together and it may have benefited me some. For the most part, though, all I needed to know was "integration = area under curve" and "differentiation is computing the slope at a point on a curve" and most of the first 3 semesters in calculus made sense from that perspective.

However, my concern with your approach is that those examples help only if you are interested in physics (or whatever field those examples come from). I worked at a math tutoring institute for a few years and often saw that physics examples in textbooks like Stewart's confused a lot of students who were not that interested in physics. Not only do they have to learn the math, they now have to learn physics concepts just to understand the examples! There were plenty of students who could do differentiation/integration, but struggled at the questions involving physics.

Likewise, the department had a separate calculus course for people in finance, economics, etc. That textbook had applications in finance. All the tutors struggled to help those students because we had to learn basic finance concepts to understand the problems. And on the flip side, the students ended up useless at solving calculus problems on their own - but they could do the ones involving finance concepts.
"I won't take his ideas seriously because of superficial reasons, and I don't have any actual arguments against his thesis, so I must throw mud and hope something sticks."
Maybe their.. issue.. is more related to yelling ‘fire’ in a theatre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...
Hahahahaha

The EU official in question clearly has no clue.

Elon wants the unique Twitter style of chaos… I’d argue he’s addicted to it if some of the anecdotes I’ve heard are true. Censorship only ruins that specific chaos…

You would have to make it hurt… be it financially or physically… I mean really hurt… before I would expect Elon would give a fraction of a furlong about giving up the chaos he clearly wants to be king of.
That is nuts. I wish the assessors in my state were that incompetent :)
I think it all comes down to priorities. "Adults" are the ones that seem to have the best balance of those (for the location/culture) with the most experience living out those values (aka they learned it from their parents). Having money that's 75%+ percentile helps too.

I've experienced this moving from more rural spots in the south to a NE suburban existence. Lawns and landscaping matters. There is etiquette around how/when to put out your trash cans and leaves. Etiquette for how the kids should play around in the neighborhood. I've had to figure those out on the fly, but the kids learn those rules without even realizing it.

I think the most important thing about being an adult is making sure your kids are happy, healthy, and have opportunities to do well and be proud. You can't let them jump on every culture phenomenon, but you also have to let them be a part of the culture they're in. Unless you're doing the exact same thing as your parents did, it's going to take some figuring out, and that's totally ok. It's adult to figure things out.
What do you suggest would be better? Command-line tools, parsing and parallelism are all things that Rust excels at.
You don't need that, the official report is good https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-se...
If this is one of the worst dark patterns you have seen on the web, count your blessings. You are one of the luckiest men online. Seriously.
These are not for consumers -- these are datacenter-grade systems.

If you want a consumer GPU, you can go for the RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM) or the A6000 Ada (48GB VRAM) if you are building a workstation.

If you really need to "experiment" on an A/H100, then you can rent it by the hour through a cloud provider like Runpod.
The sun is blinding us to potentially lethal asteroids
Faster or just cheaper web devs that won’t unionize?
That's exactly what React is though?

Rendering react on the server isn't some magical hip technology. It's just a different template framework. I'm not pretending this is anything special or fancy.
I've been wondering how well Electric's been working for people ever since I heard about it; good to hear that it's been useful for you.

Couple of questions:

- How big is the WASM blob that you need to ship for in-browser SQLite? Have you had any noticable issues from shipping a large payload to the browser?

- What are you using to persist the SQLite database on clients? Have you been using the Origin Private File System?
There is more than one way to look at something,

People can viewed both as people and as resources, simultaneously.

It is trivial to observe that a community consisting solely of octogenarians and nonagenarians does not have the “resources” to sustain itself.
You're correct about the square footage, but it would be incorrect to assume that because we were able to build X million units of size Y that we could have built 2X million units of size Y/2.

It is cheaper per square foot to build a larger house and many people like to live in big houses, so new construction has grown in footprint.

Many people value efficiency only when doing so is necessary for them to afford energy and maintenance costs.
The Future of Money Is Terrifying – Aaron Bastani Meets Brett Scott – Downstream [video]
Many people around the world are already living in a cashless society. With the dominion of Visa and Mastercard showing no sign of shrinking, it's vital to scrutinise exactly what this shift means.

Brett Scott is an author and former banker, who is deeply committed to evaluating the grave dangers surrounding the removal of cash as a payment system. He sat down with Aaron to talk about bitcoin, gold and the central paradox at the heart of modern libertarianism.

You can find Brett's book here:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/439997/cloudmoney-by-scott-b...
How many, exactly? Also wasn't it this decade when MPEG-LA was supposed to be triggering some royalty collection clauses in their licensing of the H.264 codec? Is it happening?
This plus the fact that legislation in the EU happens via one or more proxies, so the potential for a citizen of a member country to have a say in these matters is close to zero
> Those same walls meant that sound didn't travel when your PM was on yet another call.

In about 20 years of cubicle work, that was never my experience. It might be better than open plan for that (never had to suffer through that outside of exceedingly small offices, up to ~5 total people in a bullpen), but sound from calls in a cubicle environment (especially one shared with non-technical-IC staff) can be pretty bad.
Couldn't the Baltic states switch synchronous zones by disconnecting from the Russian grid, blacking out and then bootstrapping using the European grid? That would break continuity of service and require a black start (far from ideal), but that's a contingency they must've thought of in case they suddenly got cut off from Russia and Belarus for some reason.
> then arguably some form of webcomponents might be theoretically better optimizable by browsers than DOM-element soups.

Arguably they might be less optimisable than regular web frameworks, as they make it difficult to coordinate between different components on the page.
> Yes, and they have those systems (fixed cameras, shotspotter, and drones) now that they maintain. We're just talking about using them together.

In a sort of magical way where there is a drone that can easily be dispatched from within it's range that has the intelligence to not only navigate to the scene through a complex city environment but also find and gather evidence. I bet any current drone deployment is likely to be slower than dispatching people patrolling and there will be far fewer of them than regular cops. It's basically fantasy when the Shot Spotter stuff doesn't even seem to work.
That lack of trust is reasonable though - what’s in your head and what’s in my head may be completely different, why ‘trust’ that we’re on the same page when we can literally ensure it by writing it down and looking at it.

You wouldn’t verbally describe a structure to a builder, and then accuse them of not trusting you when they ask to see a blueprint.
At first they used "measures of hotness", but ran out a few generations in. Coincidentally, degrees of warmth are all named after scientists. So they continued with scientists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitectur... -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_(microarchitecture)
Patrick Bet-David: Reverse Market Crash: The Worst Possible Economic Outcome [video]
I think we agree. It would be interesting to see a system like this applied to specific domains like IP and patents.
The patent troll problem can be solved industry-wide with the formation of a patent-troll legal defense fund. A bunch of companies put money into a fund. If any company (not just the contributors) is sued by a troll, they can apply to the fund to pay for legal assistance (applicable controls can include approval, fund limits, etc).

If trolls see that companies are more likely to stand and fight, the cost of trolling goes up and the rewards become much less predictable. Hence, trolls will lose their ability to raise funding to purchase patents and have less troll-surface-area to act upon. This will lead to a vicious (virtuous?) cycle for the troll industry.
One issue with prop 13 has been a major shift in (property) tax burden from large commercial to residential owners.

Also, a big shift in overall revenue from property tax to income tax. This is less stable source and tends to benefit the investor class over W2 earners.
I can’t say for sure that this is the cause, but after WWII the US created the German constitution (originally intended to be temporary). The priority was “keep people from becoming Nazis” and not “freedom of expression”.
Hot tub acoustics are wild. When my family is using ours and I'm not, I can hear every single word from... inside the house! At least our neighborhood is getting entertained!
Because this thesis is stupid

This framing is silly. He says we're Cloud Serfs because we do unpaid work whenever we use our phones... You're not a Serf for using social media or watching videos online, regardless of how much value is extracted by these companies.

You contributed nothing to the dialogue surrounding the topic that you are supposedly defending from mud throwing.
I'm just going to re-post this amazing statistic I saw the other day:

In the first nine months of 2023, China built 215 TWh (adjusted for capacity factor!) of solar and wind energy. This exceeds the 206TWh from the entire fleet of 26 nuclear power plants that China has under construction today, and those have completion dates years in the future. It is likely that China will exceed these amounts again in the near future.

It goes without saying that there are still major issues to be solved here around baseload and storage. Maybe nuclear will end up having some role. But the idea that nuclear is going to be more than a small fraction of future global energy generation just seems completely obsolete in the face of this manufacturing wave. And articles that argue for building nuclear because "renewables are manufactured overseas" just highlight how desperately we need to get realistic here -- it's like arguing we should keep using sail-power and whale oil rather than industrializing, because we made the decision not to build steam engines domestically.
True. The problem is, eventually those devs will want to be promoted and yet haven't exhibited any business acumen or any skills outside their technology focus.

When new / jr devs ask me what they should learn, I say: business, marketing, etc, and improve your comms skills ( speaking, writing, and listening). That's not the answer they get typically.
I haven't read the book but in this pull quote from a related article linked in the comments

>Traditional capitalists, he proposes, have become “vassal capitalists”. They are subordinate and dependent on a new breed of “lords” – the Big Tech companies – who generate enormous wealth via new digital platforms. A new form of algorithmic capital has evolved – what Varoufakis calls “cloud capital” – and it has displaced “capitalism’s two pillars: markets and profits”.

How is it that creating a new type of capital paradoxically brings about the end of capital? Also, in this definition, why are the "lords" able to "generate enormous wealth" just like capitalists? In feudalism, lords were lords over their vassals due to violent power, literally the threat of the sword, and did not create wealth the way a capitalist does by directing the application of capital to generate more wealth, but instead used the threat of violence to take a portion of what their vassals would otherwise generate anyway, in exchange for using that violence against foreign enemies as well.

So.. is Facebook forcing me to hand over some of my wealth by using violence, with the agreement that they will also use their monopoly on violence to protect me from Snapchat, if I sign up to Facebook?

If not, this seems like someone wanted a book about "technofeudalism" and "capitalism" because they are words that will sell books, and worked backwards to make whatever claims they wanted to make without any real interest in what feudalism or capitalism even actually are.
Something is not working.
Tried Danish-Dutch names. Most suggestions are not Danish at all.

Some of those e.g., Coen, Derk, Gerbrand
in the "Usage of X in different languages / cultures" only has a checkmark for Dutch.
With something called Rich-CRDTs - they were invented by Electric's CTO. They have a section in the docs and some blog posts dedicated to it: https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/consistency#rich-crd...
In my mind something this new and different deserves a unique name. A bit like google came to define something significant. A name that search engines can recognise without too much ambiguity.

Having said that grok is quite an appealing name too.
Show HN: Generate user stories from UI designs
At the Intersection of LLMs and Kernels – Research Roundup
Somewhat conceptually related from almost the same era, the Vancouver Special:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Special

Take a long, thin lot in a rapidly redeveloping inner city area, put a conventional home sideways onto the lot with scarce room to spare, change the entrance ways to suit, and bob's your uncle. Unlike the L.A. Dingbats, the Vancouver Specials usually had the parking overhang at the back, if at all.
ENTSOE-E exists because of the 2009/72/EC directive. It's an EU entity. As with many such, they also allow / work with entities outside of the EU but that doesn't change the fact this is an association existing under and because of the EU legal framework.
> Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia would be better off eliminating those dependencies entirely by focusing on expanding their domestic renewable energy production infrastructure.

Perhaps, but the time scale for that is much longer than this, and they're very eager to switch ASAP.
You could use OpenPubkey [0] to bind your identity key to your say Google or Okta account. With an MFA Cosigner, a malicious Google wouldn't be able to impersonate you.

IF you really wanted to go full cipherpunk, you could use the stuff risc.zero [1] is building to could keep your identity secret via ZKPs on your ID Token.

[0]: OpenPubkey: Augmenting OpenID Connect with User held Signing Keys,
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/296
Code: https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey

[1]: "Under the hood is JWT and OIDC verification on top of the RISC Zero zkVM" https://www.risczero.com/news/bonsai-pay
Well, in my country the citizens managed to push back on broad logging of all internet traffic. It went to court and the logging was deemed illegal. Appealed to supreme court - deemed illegal again. Entered EU court, deemed illegal again.

That was 3 years ago I believe. The logging never stopped and continues to this day. The courts are a lie. Democracy is a lie. Pushing back doesn't matter. The only solution is some sort of technology similar to encryption, Tor, freenet etc.