skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's an inflection thing. You unnaturally emphasize the word, pause a bit, and try to fight back conveying incredulousness with your facial expression.
FAST is Free Ad-Supported Television.

Sale through a single ecosystem probably means buy individuals things when they’re on sale through iTunes or physically or something.
That confused me, too. They appear to know the person who accidentally discovered the issue, not the hacker.
Try supporting a family on $66k in or within reach of a major US city. You certainly can't afford to buy an apartment, let alone a house.

Purchasing power is what matters. Much less purchasing power today than people did in the 1950s (when a working class man could support a wife and children on his salary alone) and even boomers.

$66k certainly isn't poverty, even in a place like NYC or SF, but it is not rich.
For me, the Google Pixel 2 is just not a good device. I recently bought one to replace an Amazfit GTR 4. So many wrong things in the Pixel, I went back to the GTR 4. Doesn't track heart rate or 02 during non-sleep periods, for example, and impossible to see individual readings on the phone. Doesn't show enough text of the alerts. ECG readings are awkward and not automatic (though the GTR 4 does not have them, they are so awkward on the Pixel, they might as well not be there - it insisted I switch the device to the other wrist to get a reading).
> Solar and wind + storage, in the long run, is currently not cost competitive in most markets.

That's not even close to being true. Uruguay is 100% wind + storage. 90% - 98% from wind, with 2% - 10% from hydro.

The US has two advantages that Uruguay doesn't: a continental sized energy grid and a mix of wind & solar. Plus the advantage of building it out in the 2020s rather than the 2010s when both solar and batteries are an order of magnitude cheaper than they were when Uruguay was building out.

California has solar + storage projects that are supplying power for 4c/kWh. That's cost competitive.
At the scale of a FAANG, even 1% is still a lot of money.
> A 15 year construction and 40 year payback time and we are in the 1960s

Don’t do that. China built its first AP1000s in 9 years, including waiting approximately half that time for a coolant pump. We take about that long to NEPA a transmission line. The problem is very obviously permitting.

> can extend the amortization for renewables power plants with similar effects

No, you can’t, because they aren’t being built to actually last that long. Nukes are.

> what we expect to have available in 20 years are so much better that the economic efficiency gains are worth it

You’re confusing technological progress with the time value of money. The former is unpredictable, particularly between two technologies progressing at different frontiers.
Some locals probably also make money by renting out the airbnbs, hotels etc. It's how the tourist trade works.
The microsecond manifest v3 is forced upon me, I will switch. And I'll be bringing my entire family tree and friends along with me!

What does everyone think about LibreWolf vs mainline FF? It reminds me of Waterfox: https://librewolf.net
I competed in the World Tin Bath Championships[0] last year, put on by the Castletown Ale Drinkers Society (the CADS).

[0] https://www.facebook.com/WorldTinBathsChampionships
5 years?! You think the enterprise hardware hype will last that long? When it slows companies will look at other less valuable markets.

Unless something fundamentally changes with the capabilities of produced tech I think demand will be saturated before 5 years.
~Gentoo is probably the most installed "Desktop"-Linux in the world -> ChromeBooks

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ChromeOS
NPC and world simulations would become far more dynamic. Imagine what The Sims 2025 could be like using that kind of hardware. I could imagine that gamedev AIs will be able to add weather and seasonal effects without much work from the game developers.
They recently updated the Firefox extension with very good UX improvements!
>welcome foreigners

Kind of, it depends on your ethnicity. Koreans tend to treat white people pretty well. There’s a lot of anti Chinese sentiment, and some anti Japanese. If you have African ancestry they won’t mistreat you but they have very strange stereotypes. There’s currently a “crisis” regarding South East Asian illegal immigrants plus drug smuggling, so if your ethnically from that region keep that in mind.

Korea is not as open to foreigners as for instance Thailand. It’s similar to Japan, being more easy to make friendships but having less State services that are foreigner friendly. Most documents are available in English, and most freeway signs are in both Hangeul and English.
No need to limit to 100 cols - VT100 with AVO (Advanced Video Option) or VT102 could do 132 columns!

Would have been cool to pair up a terminal like this with a BBC micro or other similar vintage computer for code editing, although the terminal would have been more expensive than the computer.
Can this be used to provide a tldr on a long, detailed or rambling post?
Not OP, but I use Parallels on M2 and gaming is a bit hit-or-miss. I'd say maybe 80% of games work flawlessly, and 20% have some sort of issue ranging from the annoying to the unplayable.

For non-gaming, Parallels is extremely solid. I use Visual Studio and various productivity apps and they all work perfectly -- although Parallels is enshittified scumware that pops up ads at every available opportunity, so if that kind of thing bothers you, it's worth considering it before buying.
I use Firefox because it's the least bad option remaining, certainly not because I believe it's the last remaining ethical web browser. I have no confidence in Mozilla's ethics or mission, and no longer contribute directly or financially for that reason.
Silly-but-true answer: When I'm reading stuff like that aloud and wish to both be silly and make a point, I just read it as "registeredtrademark", very fast.

Serious answer: You don't. You just leave it out in speech.
It'll be Pepsi, but yeah.
Only if you rely on artificial scarcity to get paid; there are other choices that are less harmful. Copyright is not just an incentive, but also a restriction on everybody else. And of course, some people are welcome to not harm others, but the harm that comes from copyright owners restricting others still remains.
From the government's perspective it may be a wash. If rents go up, home values go up, and homes are also usually owned by natives, so from that perspective it's a transfer from one group of natives to another. And if home values go up it means the government collects more revenue from property taxes and home value appreciation taxes.
Vegetarians could eat bark.
Maybe if they don’t align with Google agenda so much, I’ll switch.

What’s the ethical of switching if Mozilla is just the non-profit arm of Google?
IIRC the cow has been there forever (apparently since 2004) - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Larry_the_cow

I always thought it's head kind of looked like the stylized G logo.
WSL2 is also a virtual machine isn't it? It virtualizes x86 linux on x86 windows, kinda seamlessly, but still that's all it is.
Oh, and the GTR 4 battery lasts about 10 days for me. The Pixel never lasted more than two.
Ask HN: How are you preparing for the effects of AI, from a career perspective?
I went on this YouTube rabbit hole, on AI. Watching (then reading) about the things that people have already built using OpenAI and other tools. I learned that there are YouTube channels with hundreds of videos making tens of thousands of dollars a month, nearly completely done with tools like Invideo AI. I saw a newsletter that is fully written by ChatGPT (they mention it) and has tons of subscribers.

It looks like a lot of people are going to feel the pain - starting with all kinds of content producers.

From here on, these tools are only going to get exponentially better, and fast.

My question is - what can we do to still earn a living, with dignity (other than learning these tools)?
Except when the "higher budget" is really just paying for an A-list actor with mediocre at best content.
There is so much of this in recent years and I think Netflix may be the biggest offender.
I'm hoping Japan creates a similar program. Making the move would be much easier if I can do so gradually by living there first.
Ads for other shows you have already seen or decided never to watch are annoying at best. I wonder what the question was when this was suggested as a solution?
Intel would be fucking crazy to give up on GPUs again, given the rise of AI processing workloads. I know a lot of companies cut their own throats chasing quarterly results but apparently Intel have a real engineer leading the ship right now.
The overwhelming majority of people who are dubious about copyright produce work that is protected in some other way.

The rise of web apps was hugely driven, perhaps primarily driven, by the fact you can’t just copy them.

iPhone apps? Same thing.

All enterprise contract work? The concept is irrelevant.

Actually any contract work, any production of custom physical items … irrelevant.

Copyright is the one where society has to “buy in” for the creator to get paid. This is an artifact of technology, and nothing to do with inherent moral or commercialization claims.
> point-source capture is immensely cheaper because ...

But then, why stop there? Why not make hydrogen from CH4 at the point of extraction and pump the CO2 back into the ground right there? Then sent the hydrogen via the pipe system as a drop-in replacement for the CH4.

> synfuels are clearly not economical in current market conditions. they are currently too expensive to compete with fossil fuels, because there isn't yet enough pv installed to meet energy demand

There's a big assumption there, that the energy cost for synfuels dominate the capital costs. I doubt that. I recently did a back of the envelope for the Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego. It turns out that the capital cost is at least twice higher than the cost of the electricity, so even if you can purchase electricity for free, you reduce the total cost of desalination by less than 30%.

I'd venture to say that capital costs for synfuel plans are significantly higher than the capital cost of a desalination plant, although the electricity input is also higher. But even if it turns out the capital and operation costs are, let's say half the cost of the electricity, it's still not going to work. I googled recently and found that Porsche invested in a synfuel plant in Chile. It appears to be a PR stunt, they call their synfuel e-fuel, and are scared to death of a ban on ICE cars starting in 2035 in Europe. So, they are trying to push the narrative that "e-fuels" can become a viable alternative to EV vehicles. And for now the cost of their e-fuel is about $40 per gallon. For comparison today's average gasoline price in the US is $3.12, and that includes distribution and taxes.

Porsche thinks they can bring the cost of e-fuel down to some reasonable level. But here's the thing: 90% of Porsche buyers are not sensitive to the price of gasoline. They would probably be ok with a $20/gallon price, in a world where non-e-fuels are banned, if they get to keep their beloved 911.

Do I see a path from $40/gallon to $4/gallon? I wish you good luck, but even with free electricity, I can't see that happening in a few decades.
Are they still receiving funds from Google?
Camille Fournier: the manager's path

Eye-opener (worst take away / for me - you can't be friends with devs-under-you anymore. Or with anyone techie it seems. Probably depends on company-founders' culture - if small and new - or politics - if older and/or bigger)

some more of hers here:
https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-sen...

Also.. you can't be everything. Choose your poison (or if it has been pre-chosen, find out what it is sooner than later), hire other people for other stuff:

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/the_different_c...

more on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20642423

And... think/assess very-very well - all-the-time - How much trust you have got.. and for what. YMMV. Sometimes "CTO" is only a parrotizing label for investors to flock on. Sometimes it's for real.

have fun
Methane is also a very potent greenhouse gas.
How do they know it wasn't the NSA then?
Yet if you make that argument to the business itself, they'll say "but we're making record profits and customer satisfaction is up!", confusing the quality and longevity of the product for their ability to market said product and craft customer surveys.
I understood "seeding AI development on their cards" as in "making sure AI development in the future will happen on their cards". "ceding" sounds like the opposite of that (i.e. giving up).
1. You can implement supervisor trees in rust or python, but neither of them have a runtime that supports that out of the box and an exception handling system that works harmoniously with that runtime, so you'd have to implement that all yourself, and it turns out to be a non-trivial task.

2. erlang has a variety of type checks at a number of conceptual levels, so strongly recommend you go plow through something like https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ in order to improve your understanding here.
You have an incredulous tone, but you can host Sentry (it's open source) and it's very common to host databases in the cloud.
Maybe if we lived in a world that never had copyright law to begin with, but we don't. We live in a world where trillion dollar entities like Microsoft & Disney exist. Even if you abolished the concept of Copyright, Patents and all the rest of it now at this very moment, these companies would still have trillions in their coffers with which they could do plenty of harm to smaller entities. You think Microsoft, who already have a habit of harvesting as many things as they can en-masse, isn't gonna be able to do anything to harm the smaller players? You think Disney isn't just gonna go out and straight up hoover up every single byte of music & video in existence that they can get their hands on and start reselling it?

> ...then there would be nothing for them to monetize...

... other than the works of every single person they could possibly get their hands on, as is happening with the AI companies.
Is that a technical or a contractual limitation?

edit: I fucked around and found out:

The number of virtual machines exceeds the limit. The maximum supported number of active virtual machines has been reached.
> China built its first AP1000s in 9 years, including waiting approximately half that time for a coolant pump. We take about that long to NEPA a transmission line. The problem is very obviously permitting.

Maybe it's safety, democracy (locals and others get a say in having a local nuclear plant) or lots of other things we could speculate. What does the evidence say? And even if permitting is involved, that could just be the mechanism of safety, democracy, etc.

Words like 'obviously' and 'bunk' (in a prior comment) aren't persuasive, just provocative - they signal to me that you won't listen to anyone else (maybe you don't mean it that way).
Nintendo Game Boy Hackers Are Building a Better Retro Console
I picked up sewing recently to put on the scout badges for my kids. After doing a couple by hand the machine is a real treat to work with! It’s also quite fun, highly recommended if you’re into making things.
France was on the renewables train until last year. They've since changed course and are reinvesting massively into nuclear.

Macron calls for nuclear 'renaissance' to end the France's reliance on fossil fuels

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/11/macron-calls-for-n...

This is not just talk

France's Assemblée Nationale adopts 'nuclear acceleration' bill on first reading

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/03/21/france-s...

402 votes in favor, 130 against. 75% approval. So broad consensus.

p.s.: Doesn't mean they are stopping renewables entirely. Still doing some off-shore wind that can be brought online relatively quickly.
Under construction

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PHWR_under_Construct...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India?wprov=s...
> Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data

This is true for Google, etc, but definitely not for Apple. Not saying Apple is perfect in every way, but they actually have a track record for privacy protection.
These things are not mutually exclusive under current copyright law.

If it wasn't expensive time wise a musician can happily give you a no-redistribution license verbally, you may want it in writing to prove they gave it to you but that is about how loose these things are.

If you ask me "hey can I use this in my video for free" and you respond "yeah sure no problem" that's all it takes, if its in a text even better.

Granted most musicians don't currently have redistribution rights to their own music but that is between them and their lack of hiring a good contract lawyer, and this would fall under contract law not copyright.

Understand you are paying a lawyer to make intent clear in the first place since how do you define "use", we I might define it differently and the court may as well unless it is made explicit what "use" means.

There is a reason that even the licensing agreement you didn't read for most software is so verbose and licensing for any creative work is about as obtuse.

Intent is important though, if I intendef for you to use it to listen to at home but you instead played it tp a crowd of 20000 people and earned a fat paycheck there is a big difference there morally and under current law legally.

Most musicians want their music listened to, they just want a little money back for that... Same with other art forms.
Sure, but it’s an alternative way a large SaaS provider might attempt to defend whatever competitive advantage its code provides. I’m not saying it’s equivalent or even as good, just that a company with good data controls could probably grow large absent IP laws.

We’d probably also see rapid advances in homomorphic encryption to enable deployed software.
The "knitting" revelation is what made it stick for me as well, long ago. I don't remember the name of the person who took the the time to explain it to me, but he did so with kelp.
The Expanding Chinese-Intelligence Threat
It seems South Koreans in aren't comfortable with having kids in general. It's much better to dedicate your life to making shareholders of Samsung, or some other soulless megacorporation richer. That's how you get one of the world's lowest birth rates.
VisualStudio (not code) has a decent git interface. The "view git changes" window is similar to magit-status.

Although magit is superior for staging custom chunks from a selection. Most other tools seem to think a single line is the atomic unit of code and cannot comprehend 2 changes 1 on line can be chunked apart.
If you keep feeding the Google monster you soon won't be able to browse the internet without a 3rd party attesting that your computer is worth browsing that site.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...
This is undoubtedly why e.g. Isaac Newton so carefully avoided schools.
I think that if Velcro's effort were explicitly comparable to The Onion, it wouldn't really help their case.

That being said, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote some funny opinions, but he was a literal Supreme Court Justice and could do as he pleased.
If you are ever in the Seattle area, you can tour one of the destroyers that was involved in that incident, the USS Turner Joy, which is docked right next to the ferry terminal in Bremerton.
Around 86% of Firefox’s income is from Google, yes.
I cannot see that page, it just takes me to the homepage. But that sounds a bit high. I wonder how that number looks if you exclude San Francisco/Bay area which probably drives up that number by a lot.
There's a couple of oversights in your argument.

1. I can bet an average household in the US is > 2 people (google says 3.13). The threshold in question is for personal income.

2. The context of the whole discussion is global, so comparisons made from a perspective of a citizen of one of the richest countries in the world don't really fly.
> why is one example from the other side more convincing

Because it’s a Gen III+ design.

> the last sentence seems to agree that the evidence is weak

It’s a new design.

> people who just care about getting the best outcome, aren't on a team that has drawn a predetermined conclusion, and are working with the data

Very few people who have done this conclude we should go all in on a single solution. Nuclear, natural gas, solar and wind look like a solid mix.
Considering how much of a premium you pay for the iPhones, that upper limit is stingy like hell.

And Apple's marketing ain't great either. They push your photos to iCloud by default, which fills the free space instantly, then when you try to turn that off they give you a vague and threatening message that your photos will be lost.

Marketing by threats will make me to at best give money to the competition.
Why re v3?
Can we start with corporate welfare of fossil fuel companies? Fossil fuel companies take in welfare of trillions of dollars per year and cause 10 million deaths/year from air pollution. Deaths per TWH is negligible from nuclear or renewables, compared to fossil fuels.[1-5]

And then ethanol subsidies. 40m acres are subsidies to grow corn for ethanol, which is a net energy loss. [6,7]

1) https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

2) Last year, fuels that drive climate change and pollute the air were underpriced to the tune of $7 trillion. It’s hard to think of a more misguided policy: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

4) Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

5) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

6) Ethanol is a net energy-loser. According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs6per gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-stupidest-fe...

7) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/acre-corn-grown-ethanol-vs-so...
I think it still makes sense to do R&D on nuclear, for example new reactor types, just as insurance. There's a low bar to justify R&D.
We all switched to Firefox back in the day because it was better.

Better than IE, there was no chrome and safari was a joke.

Entreaties and ‘trying to make Fetch (firefox) happen’ won’t work, evidently.

How do we make Firefox obviously better?

I’m core market for Firefox and just use Safari. Better battery life. And it’s just as good for privacy.

At least that’s my impression. Is it wrong?

If I don’t use it there’s very little chance people will change the defaults.

Defaults are powerful.
What platform do you use to hire code mentors? I would be grateful if you shared any past experiences with them.
> We don't have a choice, we don't have serious replacements to fossil energy.

Not sure of that. I think we actually have, we are just not serious enough about deploying them. At this point we should be already deploying new solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear reactors at crazy rates (~10% per year). The Apollo project of our era. Yet we don't.

Anyway, a good treatment on the potential for collapse is "Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth", by Ugo Bardi. I recommend the reading, despite being left in a doom mood after finishing: https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/coll.pdf
Just let it die. We need something new or at least a CEO with a vision that is not steered by the tides of LinkedIn hype