skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The toxic waste ponds left after creating your solar panels remain

Yes we're bad at cleaning things up AT SCALE. We do stupid and shitty things to make a buck AT SCALE. People are terrible...

>> Chernobyl, lessons were learned from Fukishima (which had fewer deaths than the earthquake events and fewer deaths than serious mining accidents).

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/11/...

Disasters at power plants are dangerous. There is a coal plant whose explosion killed about the same number of people who died on site at chernoble.

That toxic pond left over from solar. No one looks at it, no one gives a fuck about it, and though we know how to clean it up we dont. The clean up from Fukushima, from Chernobyl is at present close to 100 billon, and will continue for 1000's of years. The the melted down fuel on both sites will remain in place for a long time to come. ( https://apnews.com/article/japan-nuclear-fukushima-plant-dec... )

Thats 860 tons of nuclear waste at Fukushima that we dont know what to do with.

There is also the off site storage, that cotiains rubble removed from site, and the spent fuel from ponds on site.

All of this material remains a threat, it will have to remain tagged, tracked and under guard for the rest of its life. OR get dug up, buried and hidden away in so deep that we hope no one finds it.

> By how much though? Designs have changed since Chernobyl, lessons were learned from Fukishima ... There are risks everywhere - it's difficult for many to pragmatic assess and compare risk.

The risks from nuclear are so high that everything gets tagged, tracked, checked on by national and international agencies, and remains under guard. Nulcears toxic pond is going to last for 1000's of years, longer than any human civilization has. It's going to need to be tracked, tagged and guarded for that time or it will become an existential threat all over again (dirty bomb any one). All the toxic ponds are over and forgotten and nuclear is rearing its ugly head, is costing us still.

We know the risks for solar, we know the risks for nuclear. There is a reason no one is building more at scale. There is a reason we only built one (comerical) reactor in 40 years in the us. The economics of them dont make sense (no one wants 1000 years of liablity) . The one we did just build (new site, not adding to an existing one) is a whole story in and of itself, money the DOE and the DOD are all involved in that (and the potential for producing tritium in the us again).
Adobe Imageready , was capable of visually making image-maps (you added links to sections of an image) and also had tools to create Gif animations (later embedded into Photoshop proper).

A page I have for one community project still uses those Imageready generated maps :)
Another FAQ explains that enterprise support is coming. So I think they will go with the free/OS model to saturate the market, but they will charge for corporate licenses. That's something investors can understand. Hopefully they didn't pick the greedy ones.
I used the ESR version for a while because it was still deb packaged rather than a snap pack and the snap firewalling blocked a plugin I used that had to talk to another program. Unfortunately the ESR version has also moved to snap. So I am glad to here Mozilla team is moving to make a native deb package available.
There's a correlation that might imply causation: many rich people have "overly frugal" habits. I'm thinking of Warren Buffett, Nicolas Berggruen ("wears shirts until they fall apart"), the Albrecht brothers (founders of Aldi), and others that I'm too lazy to look up now.

I guess it's less common among people that became rich with software - I can't think of a case.
Can we get that sweet VC cash for it?
Very nice explanation of situation, but I think we could go even further.

You agree that "Skater's greatness – whatever that means – is hard to define", but I would say that the problem is then the idea of competition for this sport and not "how you judge" / "how you measure".

There is no inherent need of competition for every sport in my opinion. There can be prizes, juries, etc, but if people would accept that in the end it is subjective might make it easier than overly complex system to rate "fairly" something unclear (doubt anybody would want to put rules on how you rate a film for an Oscar - they just know it is "fuzzy").
oooh god please no photoshop splices. PTSD.
missed them all previous submits, probably due to their low point count
I am not sure what debug syntax tree mode does in Zed, but if it's about tree-sitter generated syntax tree, you can see that in Neovim or Emacs (assuming you have major-mode/grammar loaded):

1) In Neovim, do `:TSPlaygroundToggle`

2) In Emacs, do `M-x treesit-explore-mode`
For Reaper there is ReaLearn which supports a similar set of devices and is open source, so it could serve as an inspiration for the addition of additional devices.

https://github.com/helgoboss/realearn
Take a look on https://gifcities.org/ - I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for!
Take a ceiling rose light fitting for example; you have:

- twin core & Earth line
- twin core & Earth to next fitting (or back to cabinet to complete the ring)
- live to switch & switched live return
- flex live & neutral (+ Earth if not double insulated) to light fitting

those 2-3 Earths obviously need to be electrically connected, and that is not supposed to be done with a multipoint terminal block. They are supposed to be under a single screw in the light fitting say, or twisted together & sleeved.

I believe it's thought that it reduces the chance of failure - one connection to check vs. a terminal block of three 'connections' where it's easy with solid core to think that they're secure when actually the middle one isn't, it's just roughly prevented from slipping out by the stiffness of the others, and potentially isn't a good electrical connection.
Yeah, however that is how those that weren't there to live through it get the false idea how things actually played out.

Windows hegemony should have been used instead.
The place I was at in 2014 started replacing code with flex around 2014 and it was welcomed!
I might just ask them to bury me with a Commodore 64 now that you gave me the idea.

It would be a shame to waste a working one, but maybe I can build a replica?
Most might disagree but I actually think you have a point. I run most of my services off a raspberry pi and old MacBook and only use a VPS for WireGuard + port forwarding these days
Note that Kagi includes LLM tools in their highest tier.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
What leaked in this context ?
> I was surprised to see how technical it had all become, how routine, there's no "artistry" left. It didn't use to be like this.

That’s happening to, like, all of life, across the world. Beancounters have conquered the planet
I take no offense with you watching/recording your property. But I guess we can agree that lots of door cameras are actually pointed directly at the street in front of the house. So they are recording public property if you so will.

And that should not be allowed, if we want to continue to live in a free society, where freedom includes not being digitally trackable at any time.
> The botched firing of Sam Altman proves that fancy governance structures are little more than paper shields against the market.

The things I saw didn't make any sense, so I can't say that it proves anything other than the existence of hidden information.

The board fired him, and they chose a replacement. The replacement sided with Altman. This repeated several times. The board was (reportedly) OK with closing down the entire business on the grounds of their charter.

Why didn't the board do that? And why did their chosen replacements, not individually but all of them in sequence, side with the person they fired?

My only guess is the board was blackmailed. It's just a guess — it's the only thing I can think of that fits the facts, and I'm well aware that this may be a failure of imagination on my part, and want to emphasise that this shouldn't be construed as anything more than a low-confidence guess by someone who has only seen the same news as everyone else.
This is people climbing into the cargo cars of incredibly slow moving trains and rummaging through some packages, not putting dynamite on a bridge and blowing it up to force the thing to stop.
I find it really interesting how many times this distinction has been made (from each side to the other and vice versa) in just this thread.
I love Ollama's simplicity to download and consume different models with its REST API. I've never used it in a "production" environment, anyone knows how Ollama performs? or is it better to move to something like Vllm for that?
"User hostile experience" is complete hyperbole and disrespectful to the efforts of the maintainers of this excellent library.
Hmm.

If we pretend that there are no vulnerabilities today, then the mind turns to what will change in the future.

I tolerate js in the Bitwarden extension because it's necessary, funded, supported and necessary. But Retriever sounds to me like a project that would do better to minimise surface area.
Warren Buffett and the others didn't get rich by wearing tshirts till they fall apart wtf. I also do that and I didn't become rich.

Can we please drop this BS propaganda that Warren Buffett snips coupons and that the IKEA billionaire drives a 30 year old Volvo, propaganda made so that they can seem relatable to the average peasant, when the IKEA billionaire runs a multinational tax dodging scheme to not pay Swedish levels of taxation. That's how you get rich.
If an application has lots of client-side state, for example, that means you have a whole additional lifecycle of your code to reason about.

not really, because you no longer need to track that state in the backend. the backend can be reduced to data storage and business logic calculations. the cases where you need track some state in both frontend and backend should be rare. from my experience all the UI code is moved from the backend to the frontend. it's not being duplicated.

duplication of code can happen during a transition, but it should be temporary
The core app itself is 100% Rust, but it supports integration via Microsoft's Language Server Protocol[0][1]. In practice, this means you will be running daemons locally for each language, which may be written in any language. Often these daemons are written in NodeJS since the reference implementation[2] is in NodeJS.

[0] https://zed.dev/docs/adding-new-languages#lsp

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node
The UK electric code is wild.

A ceiling rose light fixture in Finland has three wires:
- Earth
- Neutral
- Live
Netscape was the only game in town at one point. From memory, the three big transitions have been Mosaic > Navigator > IE > Chrome.

Here's hoping for another one, just to keep them on their toes.
https://imgur.com/a/i99Nisn

1.4 seconds for 100 packages, half of which are on probation? My (and soon `HYPER//MODERN`'s) package set is under heavy construction, I'll be sad if I don't get it under 300ms including loading and rendering a logo at 6k from a cold disk which that was.

Rust is a perfectly good language for writing tight code, but those `emacs` inner loops have been tuned by hard-ass pros for 30+ years in straight C, which is plenty fast too. Even the best Rust code doesn't have that kind of tuning in.

`emacs` is fucking fast.
Maybe use a small rebar wire twister with the hook replaced by pliers. Something similar to this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExFB-mbvt9k

These things need to be fast because it's usually done by piece workers.

There are smaller versions used to tie up sacks also.
Thanks! Did not know they added FEC, that makes more sense :)
Squeak is basically a port of the original Xerox PARC Smalltalk-80 image into a more portable implementation from Xerox folks themselves, Pharo was originally a Squeak fork.

Eclipe was born as a rewrite from Visual Age for Smalltalk into Java.

See the difference?
The iOS device that it's sideloaded onto could (and does already, IIRC) contact apple's revocation server after install. They could get numbers about the install base from that.
Yeah, it turns out vertical align works differently in tables, so you can just make a one cell table and vertical center all day.

I think there was a Chrome developers blog post about it recently.
Hope you had a Nokia 7110 to go with it. I know I did.

Living 15 minutes into the future. shhhhh-clunk.
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Best to just try it :)

The tl:dr is it helps you to r

The summaries with references to parts of the page are useful now - and the "text zoom" tool a glimpse of where we can go

Works with local Ollama and the usual suspects: Mistral/OpenAI/Gemini

Obviously could be better - and hopefully will be :)
You can't know what India would be like if British rule continued to this day. Any comparison is effectively meaningless. The parent comment was arguing against nostalgia for the British Raj, and it's no less justifiable.
That’s a common western view and wishful thinking but life is about power, not happiness. They can be all dissatisfied they want but a few crackdowns always put them in line, and in the end this is what matters.

I know it reads harsh but there’s little to no morality in this, they are “unhappy” because the expectations of having a good job, money, a big house and general prosperity forever is not materializing. In the past when China was really growing at 10% a year, there were also no freedom and horrible things were happening to many people, yet people where “very happy”, again no morality just a matter of power/money.

“Meaningful change” will happen if they align with who has the power at that time and there is no indication “young people” will relinquish their power when they finally have it.

Current old powerful people were also young at some point.
> Tables were also used to make divs and buttons with rounded corners, but that was true into the 2000s as well. The agony of designing and splicing them in Photoshop and putting them in table cells...

Wasn't an image with a click <map> easier? I wasn't old enough to write very complicated html pages so my experience is lacking here.
Photoshop itself did have a "slice tool" which allowed you to draw slices. There was a special export mode which exported all these slices for you, and IIRC, could even generate a tabletastic HTML for you. Maybe this is what you remember?
There are lots of apps sold outside the macOS App Store. I’m unaware whether their vendors have paid a commission on those sales. Are they now affected by that move or is it only limited to iOS? Otherwise it would look like you know sacrificing your knight to capture the rook in chess-speak.
> The experiment doesn’t really prove that spiders can’t count

There is very easy to prove spiders can count. They can tell bigger object from smaller, so they have some concept of measure and comparison. They can tell 10 is bigger than 2 and so on.

The rest is only how precisely they can count.
HEPA filter is not a high tech device, it’s a mass produced commodity, like coffee.

Sure, quality varies, but they should all function well enough for domestic function of capturing dust and pollen.

I say this as someone who has terrible allergy, I know when they work and when they don’t, no lab equipment necessary.

The the main thing that matters in air purifier is size, for delivering volume of cleaned air.

The problem is we keep putting them into strange shapes like cylinders and every purifier has an incompatible cartridge. And also we made a filter and a fan into a strange luxury product that costs hundreds of dollars.

I will be switching to IKEA purifiers because they are flat, simple, and filters are cheap.
That's the puppy! Thanks!
Any ML[0] derived language really, not only OCaml.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
Every time I see articles like this, in the "apple plans to break law" format, I hope that they get prosecuted for it quickly so they stop. I assume the DMA works like the GDPR, in that it would have to be Ireland to bring the case against them.
Silly goose! Do you think a Country's development is mere numbers game? Don't trivialize complex subjects.
There are "smaller" models, for example tinyllama 1.1B (tiny seems like an exaggeration). PHI2 is 2.7B parameters. I can't name a 500M parameter model but there is probably one.

The problem is they are all still broadly trained and so they end up being Jack of all trades master of none. You'd have to fine tune them if you want them good at some narrow task and other than code completion I don't know that anyone has done that.

If you want to generate json or other structured output, there is Outlines https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines that constrains the output to match a regex so it guarantees e.g. the model will generate a valid API call, although it could still be nonsense if the model doesn't understand, it will just match the regex. There are other similar tools around. I believe llama.cpp also has something built in that will constrain the output to some grammar.
Good for you, then your message makes no sense because drivers in the US are much more respectful than in these 2 example countries.
That's iframes. There is an older, even more archaic spell that lets you do iframes, but not inline. Those are, as we all know, superior.
People are really good at being wrong about things, especially as evidenced by how many people do run over theirs and other peoples kids
> We need to revise our criminal code to apply harsher penalties to this kind of behavior.

We'd have to be careful about that since research shows that past a certain point harsher penalties do not act as a deterrent. It might be that being a little bit harsher improves the situation, but the tendency is the US is to go way overboard to the point that the US locks up more of its citizens than any other nation on Earth, and even an arrest is enough to cause someone to lose their job while a conviction can cause someone to because virtually unemployable for the rest of their lives.

It might be better to focus on making it more likely that people are caught at all for stealing packages than increasing punishments for the ones that do get caught.
Ah, yes, 90s web development. Somewhere, in a dark and hidden corner of archive.org lives my first website. Updated in 1996 to be "enhanced" for Netscape Navigator 2.0.

It had a lot of what this article spoke about - including a page counter, guestbook and my first attempt at this new browser language called "JavaScript".

https://imgur.com/a/4bgnCLt
If you count artillery units or tank units Russia and China are not small.
One Russian tank costs the same as 20 German ones. In a real war price is what counts. That's one reason why Europe and the US cannot win the Ukraine war. Everything is just too damn expensive. It's not a military show or a bunch of sandal terrorists anymore. It's real.
While Michel Foucault sometimes gets a bad rep, he does actually talk about this in length in his book "Discipline and Punish (1975)" [0], in which the prison ends up becoming the Blueprint for other spaces such as the school, the barracks, the hospital and the factory/workplace. While dense, I would still recommend the text.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Experiments done on corpus callosotomy patients [0] give us some very interesting insights on how consciousness works. IMO, these experiments strongly point towards consciousness being mostly, if not entirely, an illusion created by the brain.

[0]: https://youtu.be/ZMLzP1VCANo
You joke, but I am pretty sure, that in some heads that idea is already spinning. When can they hire fewer people and make those fewer people simply use ChatGPT or some other model. We might see an even further decline in web quality as a result, as we get even more copy&paste devs.
> predict

This the right term to use here.

> Something something

If human brains have a model, then is language the transport layer on top of that? Is trying to get to intelligence via language no better than trying to get to "google" by modeling its TCP/IP traffic?
Why do you cringe?

The titles of today, such as Site Reliability Engineer, are way more cringey...
And if you mess up the domain detection, it just navigates perpetually between the two.
> Ministers are also looking at allowing “digital IDs”, using an app to prove a person’s age, rather than traditional proofs such as a driving licence or passport.

Is there a reason this should be digital? For in-person verification you could issue a physical card with photo and birthday (or maybe just birth year, for us older than the standard checks 18/21/25). A trusted vendor could create these using a gov-ID as the source.
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Fascism is not an ideology, strictly speaking it was just Mussolini's political movement.

Other authoritarian movements or regimes that came after it either called themselves or were called fascist.

Largely speaking it's often used to refer to any authoritarian/totalitarian regime or political movement, especially right-wing ones.
Maybe your consciousness does sometimes occupy other bodies. Of course you don't remember it, because memory and working memory are tied to brains. When consciousness is in another body, it feels that it is another person with his memories and context and none of yours.

Another way of saying this is that there's no need to postulate separate consciousness for separate people, one is enough.
Both this and parent comments are so...strange. If you had any significant experience working with post-"Framework" .NET, you would know that the features that got deprecated were unsound, carried significant performance and complexity cost hindering the efforts towards further platform evolution. And most actually important use cases saw appropriate dev work to provide polyfills and shim packages to provide the path for migration.

.NET Standard existed and still exists as a bridge for .NET Framework and "odd" platforms like UWP (effectively dead), Unity and maybe a couple of others - you never know! Fortunately it slowly but surely fades into obscurity as all the actively developed platforms are converging around pure 'net6+'-based TFMs.

Special note regarding "being stuck with .NET Framework" - this may be true for some enterprise scenarios but I have grown to adopt a mental model of considering opinions like these as nonsensical or deeply out of touch with reality as much more useful way of dealing with audience that still lives in this camp. It is not worth entertaining, nor it is reasonable to respond to "move fast and break things" criticism after all these years - some people just have a bone to pick, for the pace is "moderate" and there are no changes made like in the early days of .NET Core 1.x and 2.x when the platform's fate was uncertain.
GraalVM and OpenJ9 are the answer to that, before one would need to shell out to commercial AOT compilers like Excelsior JET.

If you want to see Java going into where Go and Rust hardly matter, see real time Java used in embedded deployments by US and French militar, in battleship weapons control systems, and missile tracking systems.
> I blame the consumer

Has any problem ever, from food safety to the plague, ever been solved by blaming the consumer?
I remember my source was from book, not article. Also I remember it was grouped with rant about female journalist, who was much better candidate (amateur pilot I think), but her boss went instead.

Flight was around 1993, it was declassified a few years latter, perhaps 1997.
Just before Chrome, Firefox was quite popular, at least among the terminally online. But it wasn't enough to take the crown iirc.