skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The global economy is addict to fossil fuel. So fossil fuel like any powerful drugs that is in limited supply (limited resource), it is threatening the global economy, if we continue to use it OR if we stop to use it.

We need a withdraw plan. Where we shift usage from fossil fuel to other energies (hopefully less damaging for environment, and more sustainable).

People asking to cut the production without a plan are as dangerous than people who are asking to keep using fossil fuel.
`pnpm create vite` is one of the modern alternatives of `create-react-app`, which isn't maintained anymore.

It fills the exact same role as `rails new $app` does of scaffolding a project, which apparently is a hallmark of a framework. So where does "wrappers or tooling around them" start and end? Why shouldn't we count `create-react-app` (which was maintained by the React team), but count `rails new`?

All this just goes to show that the "you have to call the entrypoint" distinction you are trying to declare is just as fuzzy as most other library vs. framework definitions.

There is next to no difference in hand-writing an essentially fixed entrypoint of React.render vs. getting that file autogenerated vs. calling a "binary" (that is also just an interpreted script that contains the same entrypoint).
What happens when the wealth ends for the Middle East? That could go very very badly.

It’s going to happen though. Even if climate change and pollution and all other ill effects didn’t exist we’d run out at some point and be in the same place.
I've recently adopted htmx from a Smalltalk backend and feels lovely.

When coding to do that it felt like a library and not a framework and provides a lot of flexibility in design options.

And I agree that the backend should do as much HTML as possible but some times you still need to do things with js. Bu again the backend can send the html plus the bits of js specific for that UI screen or component and that's super flexible and efficient if you keep it properly factored and with nice separation of concerns.

Here is a talk where I've made the case for a particular stack and demoed it last November in the Smalltalks 2023 conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gmvN0pimI
Or the start of the project and completing the project. All those fun projects people start and never finish. All the fun stuff is done, it's the boilerplate that needs to be done to actually complete the project that is the "hard" part.
For a really cool video from the International Space Station about a phenomenon related to the spinning plate stuff, see here:

Dancing T-handle in zero-g, HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-HMSCDYtM
If it was only 1 isolated issue ok sure...

But there are now several serious safety issues. The 2 crashes killing hundreds in 2018. The quality issues with the manufacturing of the pressure bulkheads with "snowman" holes thst had to be fixed or the rudder bolts that thst hold the assembly to the fuselage that an employee noticed that weren't the same as the spec drawings?

There are probably more cases...

With the multiplication of these problems. It's obviously a systemic issue and a corporate culture that doesn't put as much importance on safety.

Ho and there's this one where Boeing is asking the FAA for a safety exemption so they can ship planes faster while they try and fix the problem...

https://fortune.com/2024/01/06/boeing-737-max-safety-exempti...
ISPs knowingly collect it and sell it. Proton (at least according to them) do not collect it. You must choose your VPN carefully.
Real-Time Wikipedia Monitoring Using RisingWave, Instaclustr and Apache Superset
National security or global security just means it’s necessary to maintain the status quo. If needed, in sure we could get off oil in a matter of a decade or less, but it’s just easier to use oil and not work so hard to get off of it. You don’t have to explain how we’re dependent on oil to me, anyways, dependencies being a national security threat is a failure of political leadership for decades and decades now. We should have been off oil in the 80s or 90s after the crisis in the 70s, but instead we just paid off powerful men in the Middle East with weapons and kicked the can.
OK, the layoffs suck, and the whole "failed to realize the pandemic growth wasn't permanent" thing is getting way overplayed.

However, these are some crazy exit packages. Five months of salary? Health insurance through the end of 2024? That's a heck of a buffer.
Pattern like that isn't repeatable, but idea of letting go of expectations to recover the joy of doing whatever you are doing is.
Web Components are how you can create user-land HTML elements.

But there is a widespread desire for better native HTML elements.

E.g., a date range input.
Yep, I recommend that and his other book.
You have to be careful with "renewables" because in many cases this includes things like ethanol and wood pellets.

I've been following things fairly closely both from a broad range of sources (fossil fuels, green energy, nuclear power, climate science), and it isn't at all clear to me that solar and wind are sustainably manufactured -- a lot of coal being used to manufacture solar panels with a finite lifespan. At worst these panels will end up in a landfill in 30 years.

The amount of mining to get the batteries is a real problem too. Right now, there is about a 20 year lead time to get a new mine approved, built, and online right now. Instead of expanding production, we have things like First Quantum's Cobre mine in Panama being shut down (which could be as much as 2% of global copper production.) In a short term it's a win for reducing fossil fuel use - the only "clean" method of powering these massive mining projects requires nuclear reactors on site, which no one is doing.

Forget what that does to increasing the cost of a clean energy project, we can't do any more than the resources exist to do. For software developers used to thinking in infinitely scaling AWS clusters and copy and paste code, this is a very different paradigm.

The really wealthy countries, especially the smaller European ones, or city states like Singapore, could probably go 100% "clean" in terms of electricity and transportation, excluding air travel and ocean transport. The amount of resources it will take somewhere like India, and maintain their standard of living, doesn't seem possible.

I don't think the debates people are having right now are productive or realistic. No matter what, we will eventually run out of non-renewable resources and certainly the climate will change substantially. There are good arguments to be made that we are already past the turn back point. Yet, the lack of realistic discussion about how existing supply chains work and how they are going to scale past the wealthiest countries makes me think the odds of any real solution in the next few decades is nearly non-existent.
I’m just pointing out reality. Sorry I know it’s not “kind” or whatever. Just true though.

If someone makes a Faustian bargain, it will have consequences.

You make a deal with the devil (biggest capitalist empires on the planet - I don’t think they’re evil btw I’m just making analogy) and the devil will come for you.

For them, it’s just business. That’s their whole point of existence, to run their business and grow even at their stage. I don’t work for these companies but I do hold positions in them through my 401k.
It's only a pity that most policies fall under either one or the other extreme. You suggest keeping fossils and further develop renewals until they can safely take over? Well this exact position will get most hate from both sides, thus being also the least likely to be implemented - regardless how logic and realistic it might be.
"All you need" is all you need, apparently, to get an AI paper in HN.
Yeah you’re right. The study I was thinking of got debunked.
Sounds great. Will that plan also have access to the Search API which is currently restricted to Teams plans?
Which is a fairly okay reason
I wonder if the new IRS section 174 rules are intensifying these tech lay offs. As far as I understand it, software engineering salaries are no longer fully tax deductible in the year they are paid, instead they can only be depreciated at 20%.
Leveraging Big Data to Understand Women's Mobility in Buenos Aires
Anywhere I can read thia withiut paywall?
I was severely burned out two years ago after I left the last startup I cofounded. I had a good bit of cash saved up, so I traveled around the world to get better at rock climbing. I could barely write more than a few lines of code before closing my laptop. I would rather sit on the beach and stare at the waves than do anything productive back then.

When I got home from my trip around the world, I struggled to build anything meaningful - I'd get intensely bored after starting a new project, and move on to something else. The first project that I took to completion was reprogramming my Lifx smart bulbs. There was a noticeable delay between turning a light on/off in the iOS app, and the light actually changing its state. Sometimes the app and lightbulb would get their states out of sync, and I didn't like the idea of some light bulb company knowing my schedule. Even for first-world problems though, it was hardly worth solving.

I discovered there is a binary protocol to control the lights directly over the local network, so I developed an extensive TypeScript library to control the lights and build custom web interfaces to serve as light switches. I found a guy on the Lifx forums who built his own crude solution with Python scripts, and he became my first consulting client. That client's referral led me to a variety of interesting work opportunities over the past year. Noticing similarities across a variety of these projects led me to start a new company a few months ago to build a product to address them.

My point being, sometimes you just have to sit down and play.
These numbers are much higher than I thought:

> for every $1 billion in sales, the average retailer incurs $145 million in merchandise returns. Online sales do see a higher return rate, with 17.6%.
I don't think regulation will achieve what they want. Nothing short of a war-on-drugs style blanket prohibition would work. And you can look there to see how ineffective that's been at keeping drugs off the streets.
> I would have to be on the DevOps team that's told to move a complicated and data-heavy application, and they only had 60 days to do so. Also the bulk of the data movement is, in my experience, one of the first steps of migration - not the last.

Couldn't you wait to tell Google until you've more or less figured out the logistics, then tell Google that you're leaving, fees for egress gets disabled and you initiate the move. Then you have 60 days to complete the move.

But yeah, if the move takes 30 days because you have a ton of data, and you figure out after the move is complete, that you missed 10%, you only have 30 days to figure out how to get that out too.
Wow. Let me try to take that apart a little:

1. _The Marshall Islands_ fall under U.S.A. jurisdiction because they use U.S.A. financial services

2. The U.S.A. therefore "confiscated" the ship and oil for breaching their own sanctions and then ...

3. The U.S.A. sold the fucking oil that was in breach of their sanctions?!

That's some dystopian empire level shit right there. Or am I misunderstanding something?
I heavily agree. I got in to security and programming by doing fund video game hacking stuff. Then I got paid to do it, lost the joy and got fired, then started to do it recreationally again and the dopamine rush/addiction is back.
Fossil fuels are effectively infinite, because we'll hit the temperature cap and end the game before they're depleted.

Then we can start the next game, but it's less fun and has fewer players.
Have you ever held a modern power tool?..

Because I very much appreciate the fact that some of my tools will not break my wrist, like the old dumb high power tools like to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326177 is a previous discussion on this that mentions a database. I'd love a copy of such a quote DB but the site mentioned now requires a login/password
New PS5 controller with 12-hour battery life leaked by retailer
I love having our energy grid being reliant on a geopolitical rival. I'm sure this won't end in disaster

>China makes 80% of global solar panels

>controls 95% of overall supply chain for solar

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/energy/china-to-dominate...
And here we see the problem with a global community of "volunteers". If some large group has a sufficient interest in manipulating things they can have enough "volunteers".

And while things are supposed to remain neutral that still leaves cherry picking to cause readers to draw incorrect conclusions. Didn't take me long to learn that--admittedly it was a controversial page but all I did was add what I thought was a missing link, exactly like the links behind the rest of the list in the sentence. Removed--and the only thing that makes sense is that it's a link one side would prefer you not actually check what it says.
Wind has a less aggressive experience curve than solar, so it's probably headed for secondary status in a renewable world. Places like India are probably going to get by with very little wind.

This is bad news for high latitude energy-intensive industries.
Personally, I’ve found that if I get super interested in a programming project at home that I’ll get too distracted and unfocused at work, which feels pretty miserable. For that reason, I’ve mostly given up on programming at home in favor of reading and other hobbies.

I do think this is a good approach at work though. There’s always something I can investigate that I’m interested in at work that I can find enjoyment from. Even if it isn’t exactly what I’m ideally supposed to be working on, I’m able to help people and provide valuable insights that are beneficial for my team and company.

This is a much more satisfying situation than either spinning my wheels because I’m not interested in what I’m working on am too distracted by projects at home.
1. I would guess that many of the commenters in this subthread work for Silicon Valley big tech, including some apparent (ex-)Googlers who are openly skeptical of their company’s interview process.

2. By reputation, most big Silicon Valley companies, including those that operate “high scale” apps don’t put as much stock into leetcode-style interviews as Google.

3. Silicon Valley, obviously, does not have the monopoly on high scale applications.
Give a programmer a non-Turing complete language and they will use a Turing complete language to compile down to it. When a program is only configurable in YAML, someone will use jinja2 to generate it so they can have loops. SASS exists because CSS isn't expressive enough. Etc. etc. etc. I just really don't subscribe to purposely limiting expressive power via non-Turing completeness. I've never wanted to do this in my own software and it's only ever been a roadblock for me to route around as a user. Spent a lot of time in DevOps where this sort of thing is rampant.
I agree with your definition, and I also believe it's an important distinction and a _better definition_ than the article author's. However I'm not sure I agree with your self-assessment of htmx being a library.

HTML is not the host programming language: that'd be JavaScript. Arguably, in this case, it's also whatever is on the other side of the HTTP requests htmx is making; which is almost certainly _not_ HTML.

htmx is maintaining its own event-loop (to react to DOM changes, read attributes, auto-wire itself, etc.), it's _calling into_ the user's code, either via the _declaratively configured_ HTTP endpoints when reacting to DOM events, or via callbacks provided by your event subscribers. These reactions were not explicitly programmed by a library-user in JavaScript, the host language. They were configured in markup and your framework altered its internal state and event-processing accordingly based on that configuration.

It is very much magic, and very much behaves like a framework. (I say this with the utmost respect, I don't think "framework" is a dirty word or anything. htmx is great conceptually, you've done a fantastic job implementing it, and it's a blast to use. I don't think it being a "framework", per this definition, detracts from what it is. I think it can also compete with other frameworks _just fine_ without needing to twist semantics.)

htmx's model is no different to me, conceptually, than Phoenix, Rails, et al. "magically" knowing which controller & action to invoke because I declared a route somewhere in a DSL, which they in-turn invoke to respond to an event. (I definitely don't consider either of those to be libraries.) What sets htmx apart is that it's a small, focused, _easily understood_ framework.

I do understand the need to differentiate htmx from the contemporary burdensomely-complex JS frameworks, but I don't think framework v. library is the right way to frame it.
The X is a bit meaningless though. Xtended? It could have leaned into the hypermedia angle and been Hyper-HTML, or H2ML.
Google's TPUs could end up costing it $1B+, thanks to this patent challenge
Maybe they're supporting TLAs abilities to crack Microsoft users when 'necessary'?
O'ahu just had rolling blackouts last week because 2/6 steam generators at the Waiau oil plant went down for less than a day. All it takes is one cloudy day and one system failure to cause rolling blackouts across the entire island. If the coal plant was still online, HECO could've avoided rolling blackouts. Some people were out for hours, much longer than the 30 minutes HECO indicated on their social media.

I think HECO keeping their entire fossil fuel portfolio around until they have enough batteries installed across the whole island would have been the smart play, but even with those batteries, one cloudy day is all it takes. We needed that 185MW instantaneous power on the grid ready to go for situations like last week. HECO's total fixed generation on O'ahu is 1600MW. I still fail to see how removing 1/7 of the island's total fixed generation is a smart move.

Given our remote location, you'd think HECO would keep the fossil fuel generation around for a few more years, but utility monopolies don't usually have the public's best interest in mind.
How exactly did OpenAI become evil?

It was silly to think that with Microsoft's investment that they wouldn't benefit directly from ChatGPT. What I find interesting is that Microsoft, with Copilot, has made by far the most accessible iteration of LLMs and have yes incorporated it into their products but without a paywall - no account necessary, just use Bing for example. Given that the vast majority of people still use a Microsoft platform for actual computing I'm thrilled with the way they've adopted this tech, as it will truly bring AI to the masses in a way that really only Microsoft can. Integration with Microsoft Word for example - that just changes things. I have generated images in MS Paint, so far for no cost - that's huge. Regular people, with no expertise can do that - that is the entire point of this revolution.

Additionally, this NYT lawsuit was always going to happen - we kinda need a Microsoft behind a huge, publicly accessible, LLM to combat any attempts to shut this down.

How many models would survive an NYT lawsuit?
"Millennium Camera" to take a 1k-year long-exposure photo
Also, there is this video I watched just yesterday that explains some of the quality issues with their main supplier thst used to be Boeing's prpperty in the past. This just adds to the finance over safety narrative and kind of confirms what this article is saying.

https://youtu.be/wyJFnPWe-gs?si=DS_3Ea0wMTor14EO
Exactly. In the 1990s there was a lot of grumbling by older artists used to pen and paper about how Photoshop and Illustrator and the like were evil and were only capable of creating cookie-cutter art with no "soul" (and going back even farther I remember reading articles by old journalists who decried the advent of the word processor and claimed that the limitations of typewriters made them better writers because they had to think what they wanted to write before typing it rather than endlessly edit what they wrote afterwards).
Agreed. Bizarre felt tips are included in the set.
Like I said above, the best option is to not use technology at all. If you want to use it, you play the odds and attempt to limit nefarious activity against you.
Yeah. I love looking at good illustrations that are made thoughtfully and observe the little details (thankfully plenty of them still do). AI work puts me off and there's just no wonder.
Not sure it would help, but it may: adopt a rescue animal, if you're a pet oriented person, and don't already have one, and it may jar your perspectives in multiple dimensions as to what is fun, what is entertaining, what is meaningful.

That worked for me when i felt like you describe.
The most unfortunate thing about oil in the US will be that these companies will eventually go bankrupt and tax payers will be left to clean up the environmental mess the leave behind at the wells.
Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers new way of living for forest communities
People have been doing that on public transport in London for 100 years

https://web.archive.org/web/20110615070709/http://entertainm...
Seems like a fairly easy thing to do though, just never to go to the U.S.A.?
Very inspiring passage. I had this feeling of playing around with stuff (Programming in my case) in the beginning of my studies, but it faded away over time because of work. Even though I work in a wonderful project, I feel burned out a lot nowadays. Might lookout for that initial feeling again now, I probably won't achieve as much as Feynman, but I hope that removing the pressure and enjoying what I'm doing might be good for mental health
Wow they held out for decades. We used to go to a nontech vegan families meetup. One of their coders was in the group so we got the scoop that they did their own capital raise and really resisted selling out. I guess a mix of dramatic slowdown in their business and the founders and investors wanting an exit.
Sites today don't have blogrolls. Back in the '00s it was sacrilege not to have one on the sidebar of your site. That massively improved discoverability. Today you have to go to another service like Twitter to see this kind of cross-pollination.
Investment Giant Vanguard Blocks Clients from Buying Bitcoin ETFs
Proof of Post Malone is his covid concert in his house where he and the band played all Nirvana covers. he and his band are 100% legit rock players. I wonder why thay make so much shallow pop usually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7eaGcIyhPU
You can't take the power you generate in the summer and use it to heat your house in the winter though.
What is wrong with <input type="date">?
It's also more genuine too.

I have ex-coworker friends I've gotten regular drinks/meals with for close to 20 years now. Our average tenure at any shop meanwhile is 5 years. Who cares what company name is on the door.

You wouldn't catch me dead at any sort of company sponsored drinks/social thing.

I would also observe that some of the people most slavishly "living the brand", reposting stuff on LinkedIn, joining all the work social groups, etc.. were some of the first to get whacked in the last few rounds of layoffs at the old shop.

Which way does the causality go is a good question, but their time would probably have been better spent on having an organic network of people in the industry they genuinely enjoy the company of.
Blockchain and Linux: Interview with Hyperledger's Daniela Barbosa
i don't really get why this law was invented, what was it supposed to prevent?
gotta cover the midjourney cdn bill somehow
If you're consuming RT you are choosing to believe that you are too smart to believe propaganda. Maybe so. More likely, you are the sucker in this transaction. Also, Wikipedia may have biases but it is weird to call it oligarch-controlled.