skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN - Triplit is designed to make building collaborative and local-first web apps a lot simpler.

It works by running an instance of TriplitDB both in your client-side app and also on the server then efficiently syncs any queries you run on the client in real-time from the server over WebSockets. And because you have a complete database instant on the client, it works completely offline. Handling collaboration is a lot easier with Triplit because each entity you store gets split into its individual properties so conflicts that may occur when multiple users are editing concurrently are solved granularly on a per-attribute basis rather than the entire JSON document.

We're in the process of building out a Firebase-like service (in private beta currently) but in the meantime you run the entire Triplit stack locally with our CLI. Happy to answer any questions!
Concepts and excercises in sport don't change that frequently comparing to programming. Programming is very ad-hoc indeed, it has way more variables for the intermediate level so that the coach won't have enough time to digest the details.
I can't really put up a quality argument with my personal example, as it gives away too much personal information, more than I'm comfortable with.

But let's say, if the country of my current residence had the same program with the same threshold, I would most likely not qualify (or just barely) and I surely wouldn't have any means of proving it. However, my financial situation† allows for pretty comfortable living (for more than one person), at least by the local standards.

I think I qualify for the label in question. All my work is done digitally and remotely, and I'm out of my country of origin (although not 100% by choice).

†: Not including the savings.
My friend perfected seitan nuggets: https://bartlebysfood.com/
No, he definitely reached Central and South America. But even until his death he had insisted he had reached the East Indies.
That's nonsensical when they are part of the index driving that growth.
Sorry he just said too big to fail I threw that in there, the government will prop up their arms of propaganda if the nelib news sites and media convege the US isn't going to only save the news sites. I don't think the us will allow our propaganda to be lost unless they have a better way of dealing with it. He did mention them owning theme parks though, Florida can't get rid of them easily and if Disney went under now with their IP, real estate, theme parks, cruises, etc I think the US would bail them out or risk a lot of joblessness.
"LCOE of less than $30/MWhre for 40-60 years"

https://web.mit.edu/kshirvan/www/research/ANP193%20TR%20CANE...
Plenty of artists will need to find an alternative job, and the programmers aren't far away from getting the boot as well, when GenAI will product binaries ready to play.
> One of the articles in that same issue was the one that pushed me to finally become vegetarian.

Which article was it?
I don't think you'll find anything in the desktop segment cracking beyond 48 GB in the next 5 years. That said, the M3s with that much shared memory are really in the workstation segment, and priced like it. Macs are actually a great value for this use case all the way up through maxing them out. The inference performance itself is a bit lacking though, but at least you can do it.
The Butchering
I've had a handful of setups, a classic single monitor from 4:3, then 16:10, than 16:9 and now 21:9. I've added a second vertical monitor, two twin large vertical, main vertical, secondary horizontal... Well in the end I'm happy enough with a single 21:9 FLAT WQHD. Game devs might not like the aspect ratio, but with EXWM, Firefox with tab-center reborn, casual simple split view etc it's good enough.

I prefer avoid curved ones because they feel strange if we are not "at the right distance" and I like to be distant a bit and I use a standing desk with a magnetic treadmill for the standing part so my distance vary, but the real conclusion is: a good monitor is a LARGE one. Rotation does not matter much if the overall dimensions are large enough.
I always suspected that the famous 20% side project time in early Google was a trick to divert intellectuals from shitting into production code.
If there is one thing I'd love to change about humanity, it'd be that proponents of a given solution believe exclusively in that solution. It is counter productive, creates unnecessary strife among competing solutions (competition is a good thing), and creates pseudo enemies from friends attempting to accomplish the same goal.
No human has ever had an "original creative idea". That's the point. No art exists in a vacuum.
I know this comment was made in bad faith. "You're not living as an ermite so you're a hypocrite and you have no business suggesting that consumption should be reduced" is an obvious fallacy that gets old quick. But let me entertain you a little. My computer and internet access is essential to my job and to a large part of my personal life. But I do cut down my consumption there (reduce power usage through several different methods, e.g., no power-hungry video games, low resolution videos, low-powered laptop) and in other areas of my life (eating, travel, clothing, and so on).

Now, your turn: what are you doing to help avoid global ecological catastrophe, even a little bit?
You mean like this? https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwi...

"Don’t smoke or drink alcohol"
We're More Ghosts Than People
Aaah, the ethereum + swarm + whisper infographic, oh I have missed you so.

This criticism he levies at web3 here is the core reason I stopped believing in the vision. I was a big fan of it when ethereum launched mainnet. Mist browser, a reference interface for a truly decentralized internet. The vision: decentralized message transport, file storage and consensus/finality/incentivization for applications that need it. What a beautiful idea.

Instead we got metamask and http websites selling us erc20 tokens.

I think I probably agree that a big part of it is transaction fees. I think though that the Ethereum project abandoning the idea of a reference client left people to develop with the tools they had. There's no money in building a new browser for a different kind of web. There is money in selling DAO tokens to supposedly fund a lock that can be locked and unlocked by sending a cryptographically signed transaction executed on every node on a network and paid for for no good reason to be kept on record forever by everyone on the network. Don't have the decentralized tools to build it? Eh, fuck it, just build a website with pretty animations and flat monochrome icons that fade in and out as you scroll. As long as they can send us ETH we are happy, we will decentralize the rest later when someone else does the heavy lifting.

We needed mist to make this happen. The reason web3 failed is because the only part of it that ever actually worked was ethereum, and that's all that's needed to get people to give you their money. If we had bootstrapped with swarm and whisper them there would've been no excuse from dapp builders why all they have is a regular website, and scams wouldn't have become so prolific because we would have a baseline standard: the whole thing has to be decentralized or you're not getting a dime.
How Robust Are LLMs to In-Context Majority Label Bias?
> But hey, that’s not optimized for my CPU!

> Tough luck. You can still compile packages yourself just as before!
Nat, ATM, decentralized search – and other outrageous opinions from the 1990s
I use Starlink as my travel internet for almost a few years now. I would keep it as the last option. It is great when it works. But there are a lot of congestions, and outages. I primary use the mobile plan, so maybe residential plans are way better.

But with Starlink I definitely see on Friday night how we all are fighting for a traffic, and even streaming a movie becomes a challenge.
I don't think it'll quite play out the way you envision. I think it would go like this, instead:

Disney doesn't make a second season, they make an entirely new show that uses the brand and appeal of the character. They frame it as being "the foundation" or "the original."

My first question would be, why would they even bother with publishing a show? Why not just release the Goatman merchandise and profit directly without spending the cost of making their own show.

Because the amount of resources available to Disney is orders of magnitude larger than random John Doe, and thus the potential revenue and audience is larger.

Why not just release the Goatman merchandise and profit directly without spending the cost of making their own show.

Again, because Disney marketing a show is orders of magnitude more effective than random guy's Kickstarter.

But even if they do publish a "Disney's Goatman", why would anyone who liked "John Doe's Goatman" watch it, given that what they liked is John Doe's writing and creativity?

When it comes to big brands, the average person doesn't care about the author. People go watch Disney or Pixar movies because the brand is well-known and the product is widely marketed. No one cares who the creators are.

And if "Disney's Goatman" was actually really good and popular, who was actually harmed by that? Do you think people will like "John Doe's Goatman" any less? There would be less money going to the 3rd season Kickstarter for "John Doe's Goatman"?

You, John Doe, are, as there is now considerable confusion in the marketplace and you will be less able to capitalize on your creation and expand it into a media franchise.

Furthermore, in our current world, what really is stopping Disney from releasing their own original kids cartoon about Mangoat, a lovable half-man half-goat who has charming woodland adventures full of wit and wonder?

There are still issues with blatantly copying works in a way that is confusing to the consumer. It seems pretty likely that a multinational corporation with marketing budget measured in billions will out compete a small time creator.

Let's use a real-world example to illustrate the point better. Imagine that we have no copyright laws. J.K. Rowling writes the first Harry Potter book and it sells well. She only received 2500 pounds as an advance for the work. The publisher (or Disney, or whatever other company) realizes they have a winning franchise on their hands, commissions more books, movies, theme park rides, on and on. It eventually earns billions of dollars.

That all happened in real life, except we do have some copyright laws and Rowling earns a percentage of whatever profits come from the use of her creation. She is now a billionaire. In a world without those laws, she gets what, a few hundred thousand dollars in sales from the first book, maybe? The rest goes to some corporation.
In my experience, while these kinds of visas address personal tax liability, many US-based companies are still unlikely to allow W2 employees to participate due to (very real) tax, jurisdiction, and legal concerns (if a W2 employee is working in France, for example, are they required to comply with laws preventing employers from contacting employees on weekends? Maybe not, but even “fully remote” companies are unlikely to want to spend time figuring it out for one employee).

I think countries who want these programs to take off for employees who aren’t contractors need to invest in messaging and legal support for employers as well.
It is not targeted at the US.
I'm not saying they believe that Microsoft stole Halo. Their premise is that Halo would have been a success launching on Apple. That Bungie, with Halo, single handedly caused the success of the XBox. And that it alone could have caused Mac OS to become a gaming juggernaut. When in reality, Bungie desperately needed help and Microsoft recognized the value of launching Halo on the XBox. That symbiosis was needed for the success of both things.

The incompatibility is that the author clearly doesn't understand why the Halo succeeded. Microsoft has historically bolstered game and hardware developers in a way Apple has never been willing to. Their purchase of Bungie is only one example of that.

Apple would not have provided any of the support in the partnership that Bungie needed to complete the game. Their alternate universe is flawed because without the purchase of Bungie there is no Halo.
It's a relatively simple argument first made by Economist Paul Samuelson a century ago.

> A businessman could not build it for a profit, since he cannot claim a price from each user. This certainly is the kind of activity that governments would naturally undertake. Even if the operators were able—say, by radar reconnaissance—to claim a toll from every nearby user, that fact would not necessarily make it socially optimal for this service to be provided like a private good at a market-determined individual price. Why not? Because it costs society zero extra cost to let one extra ship use the service; hence any ships discouraged from those waters by the requirement to pay a positive price will represent a social economic loss—even if the price charged to all is no more than enough to pay the long-run expenses of the lighthouse.

> https://truthonthemarket.com/2021/06/22/the-virtues-and-pitf...

If one is to pay any amount of money more than the marginal cost, and decides not to that is an example of dead-weight loss.

I think the major issue here is that those that wish to abolish copyright and patents aren't then actively promoting another idea, as you say. Let's look at spaces where it is currently illegal to copyright or patent something, say, Maths formulas. Do we have no one working on new maths? No. We have plenty of Mathematicians. They either work for companies creating trade secrets, or they work for Universities releasing their work in journals for all to use.

So let's re-imagine a system where copyrights and patents are abolished. As Samuelson argues, as this is non-excludable and has zero marginal costs, it is a perfect fit for the government to take charge. Given that the current system produces dead-weight loss bringing down the production of the entire country, if we remove this dead-weight loss than the country will have much higher productivity. That higher productivity will drive higher taxes, and those higher taxes will allow the government to expand tenure track positions in public universities. Those tenure track positions can then go on and create new works and patents. The demand that those works create will then bring students to study and allow the works to proliferate.

Would you prefer a system where copyrights and patents were abolished but there were 100x more tenure track positions? Where 10% of the population held such a role?
Hollywood is not in the source language for most of the world. Netflix brand new English content is also not in the source language for most of the world.
Damn. Welp, that’s corruption
Well it's not popular (even though it ought to be), but Edsger Dijkstra's A Discipline of Programming is an approachable and informal (by the author's standards) look at solving non-trivial problems in a provably correct way. In fact the entire EWD archive[1] can be arranged into a course pretty readily, although you'll definitely want to skim or skip large chunks of it. Also some of the papers are just acerbic observations on life, which some people like and some don't.

And there's it's big brother Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics by Dijkstra and Scholten that more rigorously formalizes the same approach.

Dafny[2] is one approach out of Microsoft Research that attempts to provide automated tooling around some of those concepts.

All of the above are excellent places to start if you're interested in learning how to write better code with the imperative languages that you're actually going to use professionally.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

[2] https://dafny.org/
Postel's law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle) would seem relevant here:

"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
Does the LG display appear as 1 or 2 monitors in the OS?

I'm intrigued by it, potentially as a replacement for a vertical screen, but I'm unsure if it would work well with my Mac-based work environment.
Not really. That’s an orthorexic view of food.
Agreed. Tofu is just another food. Being only for vegetarians is just bad marketing. :)

I have some stuff in boxes that live in the panty next to the rest of my beans and just use it whenever.
The repository's purpose isn't immediately apparent from its title. It serves as an intensive tutorial on crafting demos, specifically within the demoscene culture. The concept, of course, is that Demoscene projects demonstrate the creators' technical prowess, artistic flair, and the hardware's capabilities.
You wrote:

> And they also saved money by building some plants near rivers without cooling towers

I consider this a positive vote. But fine. If you didn't agree with the decision, it doesn't make a difference to the discussion. And when I was speaking about cooling problems, it was specifically about the French reactors. No where I implied that this is a fundamental problem to nuclear power. It is, however a problem of many current nuclear reactors. Never mention that of course cooling towers also require a lot of water that needs to be provide. Which might face the same problems as the river-based cooling.

With respect to the fish: basic biology. The normal limit for water temperature is like 25 degrees which is quite a lot for european rivers. Fish are very sensitive to the water temperature as high temperature reduces the oxygene content of water. Which is why there are often mass death of fishes in the summer in some places quite naturally. You cannot raise the water temperature much or you will do huge harm to those ecological systems. That is, why those limits exist. Note: the plants probably are not happy about too high temperatures either, but they won't quickly die from lack of oxygene.
Yes. Cars are turning into pieces of shit that need a subscription because techbros made them too complicated for an average person to understand. Appliances, same story. Techbros are turning goddamn printers into a subscription service.
For anything that doesn't need a UI, you're FAR better off having some remote server than trying to emulate, it's far to slow for ARM64<>x86-64 in both directions..

Many things are just so much easier with a remote server/workstation somewhere than trying to deal with VM shenanigans.

ARM64 visualised on the otherhand (Linux works great, macos seems good(?), haven't tried Windows) with UTM is pretty great.
> but I find that my visual focus is easily lost when I read my own work

I have the same experience on your linked post.

For me, running Safari on MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 at 100% on a MacBook Air 15:

The font isn't optimal to my eyes. The strokes are too thick for the size and the space between the letters is too close (kerning). This makes the letters and words run together unless I pay close attention. That's tiring, especially when the window is the width of the full screen, so I lose focus.

To compare this, split your screen vertically with your test post on one side and a site you like on the other.

One thing that leaps out to me is that, at half-screen width, it's easier to read your site. The letters are still too close together and the font strokes too thick, but the shorter line length makes it less tiring to read each individual line.

Hope that helps some. A quick way to play with this is to pull the text into Word / LibreOffice / etc, where it's easier to play with fonts, kerning, line spacing, etc.
Further evidence for quark matter cores in neutron stars
Great, this supports my point.

You can count income in many ways and the data here is probably fresher than what I could find in a half-minute search. USA is just right after the Luxembourg and the number is still just 62% of the 66k mentioned above.
I'm not a lawyer, and I'm confused.

Do they lose their trademark if it gets used generically, or if they don't try to prevent that? Because common sense would imply the former, but then this video would just be a big admission that they already lost, no?

"Everywhere you go, you see this scratchy, hairy fastener and you say 'Hey, that's velcro!'"
I was trying to get it to write some Elixir code to handle Erlang B calculations and it just couldn't figure it out, but it was pretty confident with the wrong things it was printing out.
I paused my prime membership after reading this comment. Was already considering it after the email announcing ads.
Law is weird, but in real life people use google as a verb meaning "search on the internet" every single time. When a public figure says something like "look it up on Google" instead of "google it" (and you an almost hear the © in the former), that almost always means they've been in long talks with Google representatives about an ad campaign and they urged the speaker to not use the brand as a verb.
When they "cancel your account", what will happen to your money?
> you need a freaking spreadsheet to keep track.

Still in luck, you are not yet in Hadoop domain :-)
In Ren & Stimpy comics, Powdered Toast Man always referred to the product for which he was named as Powdered Toast® or Powdered Toast™. I always took that as a hint that he pronounced the marks somehow.
When every ounce of power mattered, fine-tuning your OS made sense

I used to believe that and was a huge Gentoo user for years back when it was initially released. Then one day I benchmarked Gentoo and a default RedHat install on every work load I cared about, and everything was within the margin of error.
David Beazley teaches weeklong intensive courses on Raft and interpreters and SICP. Good use of a corporate education budget.

I have no affiliation with it I just love the idea and hope to see more like this.

https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html
Just because rent is involved doesn't make it what is normally referred to as "rent seeking", and I don't think your example would qualify by the traditional definition. From Google:

> Rent seeking is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. An example of rent seeking is when a company lobbies the government for grants, subsidies, or tariff protection.
If we didn't have at least 3 major services, ultimately said services would have made contracts that would have taken most of the value of the deal: That's basically what Netflix was doing when they were the only game in town. We have too many streaming services now, but a monopolist with sensible prices was never the way it was going to end.
High mitochondrial temperature is maintained in cells subjected to stress
Well, even if everyone did have heat pumps, let's think about it a bit. I upgrade my system about once a week. I reckon on average it's about 1 hour of compiling per week but let's say 2 to be safe. That's no more than 1 kWh per week. A fridge-freezer will use that in a day. An electric oven will use that in 15 minutes. An electric car will use that travelling 3-4 miles. Most households use something like 30 kWh per day to heat. Even if a heat pump made that like 10 kWh it's still a drop in the ocean. And don't forget the resulting binaries run slightly more efficiently because they are compiled specifically for my CPU, plus I enjoy it.
I teach an MBA class on a similar subject.

The students like a book called "Adventures of an IT leader". It's a fun read that students with work experience can relate to. And students without work experience can learn a lot from.
Some people won't accept Pepsi if they ask for a cola.

I'm only going to accept vegan cheese as a full substitute for real cheese when it ticks enough boxes, and one of those boxes is the nutritional values (the others include flavour and how it behaves when cooked, including melting vs. browning).

That's why I specifically noted that I'm interested by the prospect of melty tofu, as tofu is the closest substitute I have right now on the nutritional value.