skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Solar and wind are already cheaper than coal so it is in China's economic interests

Solar and wind could be free and it wouldn't change the equation by much .. because .. solar and wind cannot serve as baseload.

Think about it this way, if solar and wind are cheaper, why is China building coal plants? Why was Germany signing multi-decade deals with Russia and building new pipelines (at least before the war) to ship Russia's natural gas? What do they know, that you don't know?

>I predict in 3-4 years China will start removing a lot of coal from its grid as cost of solar and batteries drop another 40-50%.

There is no grid-scale battery technology today, nor coming in the next few decades - so don't pin your hopes on that. It also doesn't matter how cheap Li-ion batteries become because Li-ion batteries are simply not the right technology for grid-scale battery storage.
I wasn't meaning to say OpenAI's was better, only that we can remove the complexity of comparing thr two companies and Nvidia valuation is still insane.
I think that’s coming fast as slumping sales will put the focus on making more money from services and probably soon selling data
> but when you want to cancel it is strange that you need your iPad

Come on, of course that's ridiculous.

Of course a reasonable person would expect to be able to cancel a subscription without needing the device it was created on when they used an account that you can log into from basically anywhere.

If I bought an iPad and subscribed to something, and then accidentality dropped it off a cliff, or out of a plane, or lost it in the sea, and I decided you know what, I don't want any more Apple stuff, you can be damn sure I'd expect to be able to cancel any subscriptions I had on that account (you know, the account you can log into from any computer or device), from somewhere other than on the device itself.

Suggesting anyone should expect otherwise is insanity.
Android's Unlikely Success with Chet Haase
There’s a long history of Twitter as well as X complying with government requests to censor information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter

As a website / company you have to choose between operating within the rules of a jurisdiction or face a complete ban.
I spent a lot of time in middle management. I simply got used to tirelessly repeating the same thing over and over. I don't do any of the work, just the reminding/nagging. Is it foolproof? No. But generally the major things are done right.

I just moved into a remodel that I checked daily for a year. The major stuff is done (mostly) right, but things inevitably went wrong. In particular when new staff or other crews were involved.

Stay the course. Even if it's your fault (which you can never admit as it will cost you), you need to correct him.
Could you please tell me what PSOs are? I am not sure I found the proper abbreviation.
> There's 1.5 billion iPhone users vs 100 million Mac users

It’s beyond hilarious, after years of seeing Apple users fight back against the idea that the Mac’s better security relative to windows Windows has anything to do with its smaller user base, to see Apple users insist that the Mac’s smaller user base relative to the iPhone is what makes it more secure.
A lot of people have been experimenting with soil regenerative practices such as no-till, no-spray, cover crops, and rotational grazing. Not only does it retain more water, but you stop needing to add fertilizer and thus not have runoff anyway.
The idea that an infinite universe means infinitely many advanced civilisations is appealing but I think your statement oversimplifies a complex issue.

Firstly, the universe's infinity is not a settled matter; current cosmology suggests it's vast but finite, but of course, there's no absolute answer to this (yet). I'd also look to the Drake Equation when considering this point, which illustrates the myriad factors and sheer number of uncertainties involved in the development of "advanced civilisations".

So, yeah: while advanced civilisations are certainly possible, they may not be as probable as you suggest, even in a universe brimming with stars and planets.
Those are activists that call themselves journalists.
Could you make it a bit more verbose? You really should provide some kind of feedback about what's going on. Am I waiting for something? Or is it broken? No information there.
Beowulf is not among "foundations of Western Civilization" that's a wild statement.
I'm not sure what the exact 'rule' is here, but you wouldn't use a contraction in this sentence.

It is, with ample RAM and the latest CPU.
The title is unnecessarily cropped from: "Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business".

Crikey.
Many do that, but discussion and readers are in Twitter.
Crossposting to nothing is cheap but yields nothing.

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You are right. However sometimes a change can be so bad, that there is no other option. For instance when Chrome changed the way zoom worked in their Android browser. I had to revert, otherwise it was unusable for me.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/143ynrk/text_scalin...
Ask HN: How do you handle tech debt in startups?
I often see tech debt as a common problem in early stage startups. Startups ship fast for good reason, with velocity as a higher priority than stability. This shows up later with frequent crashes, slower development speeds, frustrated senior engineers who join later, lower retention rates.

I also feel that the problem can be somewhat mitigated by some simple strategies and probably just one person as a focussed resource for this.

Has anyone come across a tech consultant specialising in just startup SRE? Not suggesting that tech debt is an easy problem or can be completely solved. Wondering if there's a more generally available solution.
Don’t let facts get in the way of bias!
Yeah, IMO S2 had the right balance of comedy-to-drama, being a little more light-hearted Real Trek. A lifeline in times where we had no proper Trek.
This is textbook insider trading, regardless of the policy.
> Instead of graciously acknowledging that this is what’s best for users, Apple are throwing a tantrum.

I’m a user and a developer and I’m convinced this is not what’s best for users.
wait is it possible to see health data on a macbook? or it's just in the backups?
Sure this situation already exists on Mac OS but that is a much smaller user base and there are plenty of alternatives where you can go and install arbitrary software.

I deal with weird stuff my parents have installed on their Macs every time I visit… so far I haven’t had to do that with their phones. If I wanted them to use a Firefox browser engine on their phone I’d get them an Android.
Looking good as far as I can see. I have two suggestions:

- explain how the tool works and how it compares to similar tools in the readme

- add completions for commands and flags. This is a must for many reasons.

edit: I will second jraph's comment about the different commands being a nightmare, I just didn't wanna say it for an alpha release. Ideally wrm would work similar to rm where `wrm foo` moves foo to trash and operations on the trash are the ones behind an extra command.
I concede that past efforts at urban renewal have usually neglected to take into account the needs of all (or even most) stakeholders. It's an intractable problem, but not impossible. Perhaps the perfect storm of a housing crisis, climate change, and lower property tax revenue from a collapse in commercial RE might force rational heads to come together.
Maybe you should reconsider your priors. Is it possible that every article in a large publication cannot be mapped onto a simple liberal/conservative axis?
Whew! <- The sigh of relief after reading comments here and realizing that I'm not the only one preferring the standard style of writing Python instead of this "functional"(??) style...

I get that Optional return values can force the programmer to handle errors without resorting to exceptions, but I can't help but wonder whether the first example with all those `bind_optional` ... is just Objective-C's nil messaging in fancy disguise...

FWIW in Objective C this is exactly what one writes (even if those functions can return nil):

credit = user.get_balance().credit_amount()
if credit > 0:
discount_program = choose_discount(credit)

I'm not sure what's so "functional" about it though.
when traffic is sparse and/or mostly pedestrian those houses likely added more than they impeded, and then they stayed there vestigially until the incentive to remove them was strong enough

this happened in many other places as well as business and housing were strongly integrated into the 20th century, and to some extent right next to traffic is still prime location in most of the world that will perhaps leapfrog the era of strong segregation of business and residential
Older people: People who use the internet are getting older and like X as they've been on there for many years.

People who don't like Zuckerberg: It's an alternative social network to the Zucks

Network Effects as other have said, but it's a certain type of network now.
Probably an automated algorithm as they said back in the Dorsey days even when he refused to confirm why it didn't auto-populate a user's search box with Republicans as much as Democrats during his 2018 testimony. I didn't know squat about Navalny except for a blurb about him on some news show a while back. It didn't discuss his far-right extremist affiliations then, which he supposedly gave up many years ago, or his xenophobia with immigration views.
Forensic investigators can reconstruct the face from a skull, not only race/ethnicity/gender. It is probably just a question, how to measure improvement of AI, added to existing method. Let's say you find the skull of the alleged "new Saddam Hussein", the AI reconstructs the face, the face looks "similar", but are you willing to go along with the AI? Maybe the neural network just got good at drawing the face of the average Arab.
You are stuck on word commodity without understanding why it is important in valuation. What parent is saying some companies have no pricing power since there products can be replaced with close to 0 difference.

Nvidia is not valued as a commodity because now and in near future people expect them to keep their superiority that allows them to charge 30000+ for one card.
... Wait, _really_?

I'm endlessly fascinated with what peoples' final Twitter straw was (mine was in Nov 2022). You'd think that by now, anyone who gave a shit about anything would have left, but there does seem to be a steady stream of last straws with each new fuckup.
Oh come on. It definitely couldn't be that it's surveillance technology produced in a country known on a massive scale for stealing information via electronic means, especially against the US, right?

Your statement reflects little knowledge on US national defense matters, shows a lack of knowledge about the technology, ignores recent historical knowledge of China's hacking efforts against the US, and provides zero information to back up your claim.
Sorry, my bad. Now I read the article and realised that my properties are not ranking high on Google, because they told me so in their article.
I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine
Well there is enough reasons: giving back to developers, because it's the right thing to do, saving support costs, etc. Just in their DNA not to care about developers. However even from such a monopoly position it would benefit them in the long run.
you can absolutely use Kubernetes to implement a dead-simple three tier with minimal ops overhead, especially if you're using a managed cluster
I agree, at the core it was obviously his fault because he signed up for an online subscription-service and now expects it to be somehow maintained online /s
They just haven't realized yet that Twitter crashed and has been down as soon as and ever since Elon bought it and fired all the indispensable people. This has been confidently foretold by the multitudes of impartial fair and honest observers here on HN.

So it must all just be a fever dream. Who could possibly ignore the red flags you personally don't like, completely inexplicable.
ALL problems are human problems. Don't try and write this off with that one.

I can go all day on these. Second one ... corp Android phone. App update ships own browser engine to display about box. Flaw in about box implementation allows user to hit Google. End user uses about box to exfiltrate data from device.

Not possible on iOS. Same browser engine and controls.

As mentioned I'm an Android user, just a better human than most when it comes to using the devices.
Please look at these number with the following grain of salt, when optimizing programs. They are trumped by cache usage patterns [1]:

Loading (fig IV)

Location Energy (pJ = pico Joules)
L1 64 pJ/Byte
L2 121 pJ/Byte
L3 254 pJ/Byte
RAM 1250 pJ/Byte

Adding integers with SIMD (fig VI)
428 pJ/op, for 8 Byte/op; this means:
53 pJ/byte

So it takes actually 20 times to fetch data from RAM than to add it to something! And most often this is also the source of latency. Generally energy is linear to the distance signal has to travel, and that's the same for latency.

That's why successful data structures are sized a tiny bit under L1/L2 sizes! (BTree chunks, ring buffers).

If you've been following hardware, it's all about putting RAM closer to compute at the moment with chiplets at the moment.

[1] https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/abges...
I bet 60% of computer e-waste is 64-bit machines by now.
I don't mean to be snarky, and I may misunderstand some nuance of "the best" and "no one". But I don't think C fell out of favour because of security. I think it was because of productivity. (Of course, the two are linked, but not all that firmly as WordPress can attest to.)
My point is just that the words this guy is using have commonly-accepted meanings and he’s using them wrong.
It depends. I think an LLM will succeed at that some of the time but not all of the time because it is just faking it.

The old A.I. may be better for this, see

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

or tools like

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/z3-3/

I’ve seen cases where somebody used Z3 to pick a few assembly instructions to implement the body of a loop. Note the last two systems write a correct program every time, the LLM just makes a best effort. Some hybrid of an LLM that “understands” natural language and that other technology that can understand some code might be the winner.
I feel like the reason most users don't care if they lose access to PWAs is because they haven't had much expose to them. Apple would prefer people continue to use stuff from their app store instead of PWAs and so they're squashing our opportunity to get to know and like them. It's yet another attempt to lock us into their app store
By Safari, I meant the engine, not the app.

Are there any people who actually prefer no PWAs at all over Safari-engine PWAs?
As far as local games, if you're into retro gaming the G-Cloud is also powerful enough to play PSP games at 2x or 3x resolution (as well as anything else you can find emulators for up to and including the PS1 and N64 generation of consoles). I got a G-Cloud around when it first released and still use it quite a bit for both emulation and streaming, though I use Steam Link to play games running on my desktop instead of GeForce Now.
No. A PWA has exactly the same storage access, code etc as a normal web page. A PWA is set apart by having a manifest, which defines how it should act as an app. It has certain extra capabilities like accepting shares and so on, but it is not radically different from a web page.
No. The user base for Apple Music on Windows is huge. Apple devices are secondary. Using the AM app is primary, once you've been successfully sucked into the Apple ecosystem, Borg-like.
The government relies on the existence of the policy to leverage the governments own civil and criminal statutes
I guess not https://twitter.com/yulia_navalnaya
> Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries

Assumes or tries very hard to make the alternative as difficult as possible? From a company that prides itself in improving and simplifying UX the dark patterns aren't mistakes.
Why do you assume electric batteries have to be used?

We've had things like reservoir lakes for hydro plants for a long time. Energy can be stored in more ways than electrical.
They often have a couple of servers with no setup.
"X social media platform restores account of Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, after brief suspension" - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/x-suspends-account-of-navaln...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502392 340 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621799 180 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22462628 117 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204007 314 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31739794 135 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068305 89 comments

that's some 1000+ comments for light background reading about fork(). I think you can make some aggregate sentiment analysis from that and conclude that fork() is not great.
technical details are the only thing important when the government is involved
Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
Signs of impending financial crisis?
That story sounds rather fishy. So your father has found the hidden option to enable developer mode which allows APKs to be sideloaded, and then went to some website to download and install an APK?

By the way: According to Kasparsky [1] last year there have been 600 Million downloads of malware that was installed from Google play store, without any sideloading or alternative App stores involved.

And of course the Apple App store also is full of malware and shady stuff, think of all the chinese IoT apps that are phoning home etc.

[1] https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/malware-in-google-play-2023/4...
From the article:

There is no native app for The Session, but you can install it on your phone nonetheless. Lots of people have done that. After a while they forget that they didn’t install it from an app store: it behaves just like any other app on their homescreen.

Maybe you don't believe this but it was addressed.
So who's going to tell us that the Domino's Pizza Tracker is just a timer?

I don't eat there often, but when I have, the Pizza sits in QA for about 10 minutes, then is "out for delivery for about 15, despite the fact I could literally walk to the place in 15 minutes, and they sure as heck and walking my pizza to me.

Then there's the fact that they outright lie by saying it has been delivered, then turning up about 10 minutes later.

Between the fact it's not the best pizza and this dodgy behaviour, they pretty much make sure I don't eat from there more often than about quarterly.
Fake news, the account is not suspended.

https://twitter.com/yulia_navalnaya
lol... This made my morning...
I have a gym nearby that’s very expensive and focused on lifting. I am always so impressed by how the weights are always where they should be. The culture is amazing. In addition to people having respect for this, the weights there are colored which helps spot it visually. So the 45lb is blue, 55lb is orange, 35lb is yellow, 25lb is green. In my very anecdotal opinion this and well labeled racks go a long way here.

Compare another gym I use when I’m working from home: weights everywhere, no weight where it should be, and the weights themselves are inconsistently sized even at the same weight. It frustrates me to no end to have to pick through weights to find the ones I need for a lift.
I think the main issue is attribution. Especially when a lot of stuff breaks even on web, when you change the browser.

Imagine I have some PWA at home screen now, working with Safari engine. I changed my browser to Chrome, let's say it stopped working. 90% of the users will blame Apple software update instead of the Chrome choice.
> I’m reminded of when Musk had the Ukrainian sea drones disabled in the middle of an attack because they were using Starlink terminals.

The Russian ambassador had contacted him and had told him an attack on Crimea “could lead to a nuclear response,” according to a biography of Mr. Musk by the historian and journalist Walter Isaacson.

Please note that the Ukrainian military heavily relies on starlink for communications, and that Musk thus has an outsize influence on the war. So far as is made public, he doesn't generate any profit doing that, and he's been the target of slam pieces at the slightest hickups in service.

Musk is far from spotless, but your one-sided viewpoint here is in dire need of nuance.
“it is expected that traders generally have access to the same material information”

This is absolutely incorrect. Whole industries exist to generate information advantages for trading. It’s perfect legal and encouraged for price discovery and market efficiency reasons.

It becomes illegal when I have an obligation to the other counterparties in the trade.
I guess morals are subjective, but I think insider trading is definitely immoral. It's theft.
Good, hopefully even less people will buy apple shit.
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A huge portion of legit journos have sworn off Twitter

They may have sworn off posting to Twitter, but I bet you most of them are on Twitter every single day looking for 'stories'
I wonder how the EU will respond when high-ranking politicians fall victim to third-party app store scams or experience significant data leaks exploited through other browsers. Given that they're not particularly tech-savvy, it raises questions about their preparedness for such situations, and who they will blame for it.
Fasting-like diet lowers risk factors for disease, reduces biological age: study
Think people forget how much Founding Fathers and American Revolution were 'liberal' and had pre-cursors of socialism.

on Thomas Paine:

""
Paine is an important precursor to liberal socialism because he embraced the importance of individual flourishing and rights, while becoming increasingly sceptical that this could be achieved without a major redistribution of wealth and privilege. In the pamphlet ‘Agrarian Justice’ (1797), he rejects the methodological individualism of classical liberal approaches to property rights, and insists that property is an eminently social phenomenon:

Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally. Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property.

He goes on to suggest that, since many wealthy people monopolise productive land and capital without giving anything back, they owe a major debt to the poor as a matter of right. In the second part of the Rights of Man and in ‘Agrarian Justice’, Paine develops these arguments into a call for redistribution, sketching out an early scheme for the welfare state. This includes providing money for education, guaranteed employment for those who want it, a stipend for every child born, and a prototype of an old-age pension.
Fuchsia exists.
One thing I think should be fairly clear is Google will actually try to compete in this space (vs quitting if it isn't an immediate success as they usually do). Traditional web search will be fairly uncommon in the long run I think.
Ban on advertising VPN services to take effect on March 1 – media watchdog
Starlink wasn't allowed to be enabled in that area due to US military dictates.
She went from 0 to 100k followers in a day, after going public about the murder of her husband.

100% chance her account was mass reported by Russian-backed users/bot/loyalist accounts. But the account has been restored, so you are right that this was likely just some automated process that every new user is exposed to.