skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> contains contradictions

It definitely does not say that. Only that we cannot make a proof of consistency of them. It is possible, and believed, that the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms we use for set theory for example are consistent. But we cannot prove that because of Godel.
You'll get a variety of answers.

Besides safety concerns, the biggest impediment to nuclear is simple economics. These are massive, capital intensive projects, with very long timelines. I wish I could dig it up easily but in the nuclear thread the other day an engineer posted an interesting retrospective analysis of what sort of engineering projects were likely to go massively over time and budget. Guess what was at the top of the list.

While nuclear proponents would like to place blame solely on what they consider excessive regulation or by demonizing environmental activists, the reality is that investment dried up for nuclear because the bean counters saw the ROI and timeline was bad compared to alternatives.

When you ask this same faction how to fix that they'll say small modular reactors, etc. That would be great if it existed. It doesn't. People have been trying to make it work for decades, NuScale the latest. I was bullish on NuScale when they started; it really looked like they'd cracked the code. Now they're floundering too.

I would be ecstatic if someone creates these great SMR's that are economic, but I'm not holding my breath.

There's no doubt nuclear needs to be part of the future energy mix, but the idea that all we have to do is get aggressive with nuclear and our problems are solved is navie nonsense imo.
https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/microsoft-windows-11-pro

https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/microsoft-windows-10-pro

These are some good deals from a Microsoft Partner.
Not for AI friends but I’m starting to see ‘traffic jams’ at work - people using GPT to output a bunch of verbose text, and others then using GPT to summarise that text so they can understand it. It feels like the beginning of a weird arms race where everybody is insulated from everyone else by a layer of junk created by AI (and the workaround to that junk is more AI)
The former is an indicator of the latter
People have already got it to implement full games of Tic Tac Toe[0] and Snake[1], for what it's worth.

[0] https://twitter.com/multikev/status/1724925816381792661

[1] https://twitter.com/awwstn/status/1725250076560568668
California regulator allows PG&E 13% rate hike for wildfire mitigation
> A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

One simple way to tilt any romanticized sci-fi invention dystopian is simply to imagine the invention is required and the only option for nearly everyone. This works for everything from text-to-speech to robot companions to teleportation to AR headsets to cars.
The lesson you learned is that you chose the complete wrong demographic. "Her" should have been called "Him" - women are much, much higher users of these services.
I doubt it.

Also I don’t know how they’re doing that, but I’m more than willing to bet Apple will make sure it doesn’t work very long at all.
FB employees used to be able to help with these types of requests, but unfortunately some time ago they changed their policy and an employee may only help their relatives or close friends, and must personally vouch on their behalf (this was true a couple of years back, not sure if anything changed). Basically, that loophole is closed for all intents and purposes :(
> And their anguish was genuine - there are Replika users who truly consider themselves married to their AI companion.

That's what elevated the whole thing from just really creepy to utterly terrifying.
"It isn’t actually cheaper to cut the cord"

No idea what kind of poor purchasing decisions would lead to that. You can't get any form of cable package for less than $150 a month last time I checked. I don't pay anywhere near that for Internet + a couple of streaming services.

Oh, and the $30 a year or whatever for a VPN.
I’ve always found self-deception to be the true art of happiness.

Something like, strategic ignorance. Or strategic re-framing.
> That approach doesn't work well given Firefox's established track record of just imitating Chrome

Established track record? What?

> and then getting rid of the prior (and better) way of doing things.

Do you mean how they did the complete opposite by keeping Manifest v2 around for much longer than Google wanted to? Then by making their own Manifest v3 that didn't gimp ad blockers like google has been trying to for years?

> XUL extension developers are well aware of this problem, for example.

XUL was super useful... for it's time.

But it became a drag on performance as Firefox became more optimised for multi-core CPUs. And it became a drag for developers trying to support an older standard. Sure the new extension standard became more difficult to get started, but it did push the workers standards forwards which is ultimately what the web needed.

> We've seen it happen repeatedly with Firefox's UI, too.

Firefox's UI goes up and down in quality all the time. Thinking nothing is improving at all is an observational bias.
Is this significantly more heat than you would get from a tarmac delay in Phoenix?
I don't know about that.

There's a famous 2006 Google Research blog post titled "Nearly All Binary Searches (...) are Broken" [1] due to a commonly occurring bug when implementing binary search.

glibc still has that bug [2].

I just asked ChatGPT 4 to write an implementation of binary search in C and it wrote a bug-free version on the first try.

I mean, this is not conclusive evidence, but I find it conceivable that an AI which despite being trained with buggy code, can still incrementally learn what the different coding constructs actually do, would be able to write more bug-free code than what it was trained with...

[1] https://blog.research.google/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-ab...

[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2753
That all takes time. With cloud, you can have a system up and running in literal seconds, which is very nice when you find out that you severely underestimated how much traffic you web app will get.

But yeah, in the long run, colocation becomes significantly cheaper than cloud. You use AWS, and you'll find yourself paying $200/month for hardware you could buy once for $2,000.

Sometimes I think people forgot colocation is an option that exists.
Tsunamis are chaotic in nature, you can't really know ahead of time what kind of Tsunami's are possible just like we don't really have upper limits on what ocean waves can be like. All we have is evidence from those events that we've observed. The ocean is an incredibly destructive environment, hard to appreciate from a land based perspective. Ships are basically in continuous maintenance to keep them working and anything that isn't made of a rust proof material is in for a very rough time.

Reactors on various vessels have entirely different working parameters from those on shore and there the consumer is right next to the reactor. But in the case that you sketch you'd have a floating reactor tied to a stationary power grid that somehow is resilient to the worst that the ocean can throw at it. I just can't see that working, even in the short term, let alone over the service life of a typical nuclear reactor.

Ship-borne nuclear reactors have been used for emergency power, but that's not a structural solution and it is also a very expensive one (compared to land based generation that power is quite expensive). So as soon as possible the emergency use is discontinued and it's back to land based solutions.

Off-shore windpower shows the complexity of ocean based power generation quite well and they have a much simpler safety situation, maintenance schedule, degree of complexity and so on. And even there the challenges are far more serious than the land based equivalent.

Some work has been done on floating wind farms:

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

But the economics are not comparable to those of anchored turbines (either off-shore on on-shore). Likely something similar would hold for nuclear power, that off-shore nuclear power would by default be far more expensive than on-shore nuclear power and that is already economically not feasible without massive subsidies.
RCS is still standardized and maintained by the GSMA

Yeah. And that version of RCS is prone to wild incompatibilities and still lacks E2EE. The only way carriers have figured out how to interoperate with each other is to adopt Google's server and client.

https://www.engadget.com/att-starts-using-googles-jibe-platf...
Looking forward to trying this
>Required information for verifying a personal developer account

When account verification is available in Play Console, you'll need to provide:

Legal name (shown on Google Play)
Legal address (country shown on Google Play)
Contact email address (verified using one-time password)
Preferred locale for email communications
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how much you think china is investing in industrial espionage for this.
Super Commuting Is on the Rise, Thanks to Flexibility of Hybrid Work
It's an ego thing and a focus thing. They put so much effort into studying the biological details, that they resent people exteacting value without going to that effort, and feel offended at the implication that what they are studying is simple.

Ultimately it's largely down to misapprehension of the difference between emulating a neuton and simulating a neuron, and defensiveness about an approximate model.
It’s interesting that this also correlates with magicians being less likely to get laid than other artists.
Is prod not 99% of your logs?
> Now you are maintaining generators, UPSs and multiple HVAC systems in addition to your 'few racks of servers'.

I don't mean to call you out specifically, but I believe your comment is a perfect example of how the majority of developers have no clue what being on bare metal actually involves. You literally need to do none of these things. Cloud vendors make it sound overly complex and the myth just kinda self perpetuates because nobody knows better.

If anyone in the Bay Area is considering the move out of the cloud and wants to see in person what is really involved, I might consider putting together a group tour of one of my rack locations.
Nope. Pearl Jam basically proved that TicketMaster is a monopoly.

TicketMaster is a textbook example of a consumer-harming monopoly, and yet they have gone unprosecuted for decades. No excuse.
Can someone explain how:

* Damage to the left leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer was noted as well. Investigators found acrylic in the puncture, consistent with a window pane.

And:

* The aircraft remained properly pressurized throughout the flight.

Are not mutually incompatible? (i.e. a window pane hit the tail in flight and somehow the aircraft remained pressurized?)
> I volunteer helping to report and disrupt networks of sexual assault and hatred against women on social media.

Are you part of an organization?
You'll note the Navy does not run nuclear for ordinary surface vessels, just carriers and subs. You should think about that more before suggesting we nuclearize freakin' container ships.
I don’t know, that seems overly complicated and I don’t think Apple would want to do that.

I think they’re quite happy with “iMessage“ and “everything else“.

RCS will stay in the second bucket with the same green color.
Try this complaint generator, online and continuously updated since 1994!

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I'd like to know more.
I appreciate what you're saying, but I think you missed my point.

In your example, you just moved the question of "why are there conservation laws" to "why are there symmetries?" The answer is still that we don't know. Though as you point out, understanding the relationship between the two is useful!

> Placing an arbitrary barrier on the questions that can be asked is called dogma.

I did not mean to place a barrier. It is fine to ask the question. But it is also fine (and honest) to answer it with "we don't know."

Edit: of course, please do not interpret "we don't know" as "we shouldn't try to find out" (:
I use Streaks to maintain a list of my top 10 habits. When something's become a habit and I feel no longer need to track, then I archive it.
And then they subpoena OpenAI to get info about who produced that text using ChatGPT :p
You should have some text explaining what is going and how they are running locally on the GPU - otherwise everyone sharing the link will need to write an explanation of why they're sharing it. Otherwise, fine work.
Where I work (hint: very large satellite radio company) this is very much a thing.
Someone hasn't heard of Gob Bluth
Smells like an instance of https://xkcd.com/882/
> then another 5-10 before you move to profitability

Why does it have to be run at a profit? Surely it could be just like healthcare or the defence forces - never designed or intended to run a profit.
BCG World Atlas
uBlock Origin 1.53.5rc11: Differential filter list updates to cut bandwidth use
Curious to see how this plays out. Large property owners in the US are the primordial lobby. Law exists for the purpose of defending private property. Private property exists for the purpose of making money. The government exists to operate the law and defend these purposes. These dynamics are the origin story of the revolution. How far DoJ is allowed to go in biting the hand that allowed it to be created will be interesting. Of course this sort of collusive behavior long predates software, it is called "the invisible hand" of the market. So precisely what guardrails around this behavior will be established?
They don't have any global monopoly.
None of those things should be regulated by the government. Families/communities should be capable of that.
Oof this should be higher up things didn't quite add up before and now it's even more fishy
These weren't boomers but yeah, they weren't embarrassed. Honestly, I felt judged suggesting it.
Overall less energy but locally much more due to the fact that it is focused. By comparison: a lighter doesn't have a whole lot of energy, but it outputs that energy in a tiny volume resulting in combustion. The lights they used are not quite lighters but they can cause fires if you concentrate their output in a small enough area. A tarmac radiating heat is an enormous amount of output but on a W/sqm basis for delivered power it is a fraction of what those lights can do.
At my university library, there are a bunch of books from the early 2000s already with titles like "Web Content Mining with Java" (Tony Loton, 2002) and "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (2001, Han Kamber (and 2006 and 2012)), as well as a whole lot of others. (Though most of these books are more about introductory statistics and using databases).

The seeds of the current world were already being sown some 20 years ago.
I don't think this paper completely refutes the commentor you responded to, since it does not include nuclear power (current or projected future capacity) in its analysis.

It is unclear if nuclear would fill the gap they calculated.
You know the meme about drawing the owl?

The burden is on you to describe exactly how they will be made safe.
AI girlfriend products are destined to fail if its built on the backs of censored llms like clause and gpt4.
Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva
Now you've got to muck up your app with logic to detect spot-market termination, pausing, and recovery. It's turtles all the way down.
VxWorks is what's used on Mars and it's a monolithic kernel, so there's more than one way to do it. :-)
It's hard to get the same effect with LED though due to spectral differences.
Michael: "So this is the magic trick, huh?"

G.O.B."Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money..."
Its actually crazy that they released this app. Did they even try and use it?
I suspect “work alongside“ is in that sentence to make it clear they are not replacing iMessage.

I agree with you that they’re likely to have green bubbles. Green equals not iMessage, blue equals iMessage. It seems unlikely they would introduce a third color and it would never be blue because it doesn’t support all the same features.
Google had the opportunity to own this space a decade ago when they made Hangouts the default SMS client on Android. It's exactly what Apple did with iMessage, but Hangouts was cross-platform.

It's absolutely bizarre to me they didn't iterate on that. I'm kind of glad they didn't.
Yes, feel free to read the source code as well.
Magicians are necessarily inoculated against believing their own bullshit.
> ...with AWS all roads lead to Cloudwatch, and everything is so much better.

Most of my clients are not in the product-market fit for AWS CloudWatch, because most of their developers don't have the development, testing and operational maturity/discipline to use CloudWatch cost-effectively (this is at root an organization problem, but let's not go off onto that giant tangent). So the only realistic tracing strategy we converged upon to recommend for them is "grab everything, and retain it up to the point in time we won't be blamed for not knowing root cause" (which in some specific cases can be up to years!), while we undertake the long journey with them to upskill their teams.

This would make using CloudWatch everywhere rapidly climb up into the top three largest line item in the AWS bill, easily justifying spinning that tracing functionality in-house. So we wind up opting into self-managed tooling like Elastic Observability or Honeycomb where the pricing is friendlier to teams in unfortunate situations that need to start with everything for CYA, much as I would like to stay within CloudWatch.

Has anyone found a better solution to these use cases where the development maturity level is more prosaic, or is this really the best local maxima at the industry's current SOTA?
The problem with developers is that we are often isolated from whole sections of the world. The people on the Android team, probably working in SF, have perhaps never been into the hood. Out here there are guys on every street corner stood next to the drug dealers (often it's the same guy) trying to get you to take a free smartphone or a tablet. They get paid some sort of kickback if they can get you to take it -- it comes from this free federal plan:

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...

The problem is that the phones generally only come with 15GB of data a month, and an average web page can easily run to 200MB now, so usually by the third day of the month they are all out of data.

There is a better federal plan for poor people called ACP which allows you to get your own phone and plan, but it isn't as well-known.
I'm using the web version now, installing PWA version.
Right -- regrettable. And also a very rare anecdote.
It's named after the android character from Westworld, who was created to suffer whatever the guests wanted to do to her.
Ok - but there was a why question, and now there's another one. Those are questions that we can and do answer. Therefore your initial statement is simply false.
My favorite Daniel Dennett quote: “People don’t build ships, the ocean builds ships.”
Until it gets really complex when something at one end fails. I'll stick to using keys, thanks.
I check GitHub's Trending page for Python projects every day or so. I was a little confused why this repo was trending today, particularly because the note at the top indicates that a lot of the services patched the exploit long ago.

It's interesting to see that this being posted here on Hacker News is presumably enough to push the GitHub repo to the trending page for Python.
Would you mind specifying which school this was? I'm curious because of your description (presumably that is English Tudor Mansion) of the architecture.
I'm a big fan of UUIDv7 if you need them. I maintain most places could just use an auto-incrementing int, and rewrite the API to not expose it, but barring that UUIDv7s are great.
Ah. That’s a great idea.
> Yeah, sure, you can build a secondary index over the data. But you're still having to decode the blob and index it. There's no version where you can index the data without using the library to expose the underlying model state (like you could if you weren't using a CRDT).

How's that different from any other datastructure? You're never indexing the raw underlying bytes and you wouldn't want to. Like, sure, if you're using a datastore where indexing is built in then you need to make sure that your datastore understands the datastructures you're using, but that's always a problem that you have. Most of the CRDT infrastructure I've seen has been designed around having a datastore that understands the CRDT and building on top of that.

> On locking, yes, it's hard. But it's not the same kind of locking that you'd expect in other parts of a system. You're locking the UI, not the actual data, so it's a tiny bit more forgiving. In general the locks aren't trying to force consistency, instead they are trying to prompt the humans to reduce the chance of conflict happening in the first place.

I don't think that actually improves matters, it just means more edge cases? Either you have a locking system that's 100% consistent and people can lock each other out and deadlock, or you don't and you end up with lost updates that will be even more infuriating because the user checked whether anyone else was editing and it looked like they weren't.
Aircraft windows have multiple, separate panes. Presumably only the outer pane dislodged and the inner ones remained in place.
Studies by scientists are typically within the framework of modern western society. And moreover, if you actually look at some studies done by psychologists, you will find a large body of literature showing that it is mostly detrimental.
Every adblocker that contains the letters: "ad" has.

Ublock Origin has been the best for almost a decade running and is most powerful when running on Firefox.

Raymond "Gorhill" Hill is the BDFL of Ublock Origin and has never accepted any money from ad companies and has never added/removed any feature that weakens the adblocking.
Looks like they moved to Scaleway bare metal
how do you not lose context? sometimes when I come back to my desk I have no clue what I was working on or what the problem is.
the cabins of airplanes are actively pressurized by pumping air in, and constantly removing some air so carbon dioxide doesn't build up. The pumping that feeds the replacement air could be higher capacity than the flow through a missing window.

pressurization of aircraft is not required till 12,500 ft (3810m) so the air pressure differential at 15000 is not likely to be that great.
They probably are looking for one legitimately. It appears they now use Scaleway dedicated bare metal servers
Inconsistent UI. Sketchy surprise bill increases. Lackadaisical account management.
The "beauty" of the plausible deniability in these systems is the hidden reward mechanisms that are in place: you can get a whole country to kick themselves in the groin if the algorithm rewards it and people think they can monetize the attention.
UK supermarket chain ditches self-service check-outs
There are three window panes on a commercial plane. The outside pane maintains pressure, while the middle one is a failsafe in the event the outside pane fails (the inner pane is cosmetic and to prevent people from messing with the important panes).

Without reading the report, the outside pane could have failed and hit the stabilizer while the middle pane continued to hold pressure as expected, therefore no contradiction in the two statements.