skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the proof that Rust can achieve the productivity and design flexibility needed at browser scale?
Just because it’s hard to make a competitor doesn’t mean that it’s good that there isn’t one.
That might be because Jamie Zawinski's website, which that link links to, does something ... special ... when it sees HN in the "Referer" field, so anyone actually following that link from here would (unless they take special measures) get IIRC a famous obscene image rather than the actual post you were hoping to link to.

(JWZ is not a fan of Hacker News and its community.)
Ah, counting! One of the hardest problems, that's why I suck at probability and stats. Knuths Volume 4
What you need is a software developer, not someone who chaotically tries shit until it kinda sorta works. As soon as someone wants to use notebooks for anything other than exploratory programming alarm bells should be going off.
There's a difference between privacy and stealth. Modern browsers need to do things like captive portal sensing, ocsp checks, etc. If you want to disable all requests, you'll need to spend time cutting legitimate features. Or run it in an external sandbox which removes all networking access?
Interesting - I'm not aware of every YC startup, so cool to hear that that's in the mix (though I feel like fusion is still little more than fantasy, sadly).

I will say that one of the more interesting energy startups that I'm aware of (don't think it's YC though) is Terraform Industries which plans to make hydrocarbon fuels out of captured carbon powered via massive solar installations. I hope that that works out because they really do have a good mission and a plausible economic model to achieve it.
You can start a software business from your bedroom with no external funding, no qualifications, and build things that people want enough to pay for.

But if you try that with radioactive power sources, the Department of Energy will shut you down.
How much of this is attributable to the iOS lock-in though?
Solar panels essentially give you DC output from light hitting them. You can't make a sink out of it in any way. You cannot connect power to solar panel and make it generate light or otherwise consume it (other than maybe melting it ;))

Wind turbines however provide rotational energy that has to be turned into electricity. Modern turbines use somewhat complex alternators, often with multiply of 3 phases, which is normally used to provide delicately adjusted power output in sync with the grid. Fine adjustments of phase skew are usually used to control power provided to the grid and to keep generated power in phase with the grid.

However, such alternator can be driven in a way where the electricity provides braking power. You can think of it as similar to how many electric engines are both generators and sinks. It's however way more fine tuned than toy examples.
It's not an app yet but I made this last night (after being spurred by getting modded into oblivion when I said I was doing this 2 weeks ago on HN, lol). Even cooler, 3.5 Sonnet took what I had and pulled me over the finish line. What a weird time to be a programmer.
Thanks, I was thinking LLMs
Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
People considering buying a Tesla isn’t the same as people actually buying a Tesla.

13% of owners found the experience so bad they are completely unwilling to consider the brand. People who dislike the cars or company but want a sub 45k EV with ~300 miles of range still don’t have a lot of options. Thus most current owners would at least consider buying another Tesla.
> writing applications that will almost certainly execute or process hostile content in languages that don't maintain strict memory safe contract?

That point is 50% FUD. A language which "maintains strict memory safe contracts" but has an `unsafe` keyword; or has a "native code interface", or uses libraries implemented in a different language, doesn't really strictly maintain its guarantees. And on the other hand, a language in which you can, in principle, load and execute arbitrary code from a string you got from the user, can be hardened very well by statically-checkable constraints.

So, it's a matter of degrees rather than absolutes. If you then add considerations such as programming paradigm flexibility and performance, C++ is very much a valid choice even for the use case of a browser.
Energy consumption has been surprisingly stable in "the west" over the past decades. See the US for example:

2002: 2,256 MTOE

2012: 2,152 MTOE

2022: 2,182 MTOE

(MTOE = Tonne of oil equivalent)

Source: https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption...
The cost of building the perfect wave
We're in the current situation because Google could spend enough money on promoting Chrome. That's it. A different, or even better browser won't change that. Google can put a chrome ad everywhere again for a few months.
While this will help, it still does not answer the baseloads. Batteries are not there yet.
I was curious whether you were using "API" as shorthand for something like "HTTP API" or something like that. It seeemed odd for you to say "Granted, if SQL were directly an API, then GraphQL wouldn't hold too much value" when you actually can use SQL directly in this sense. The reasons that people generally don't are interesting in their own right.

(If I recall - one of the criticisms of GraphQL is that it's a bit too close to actually just exposing your database in this way)
Do tell me if I'm completely wrong but isn't part of the problem there that you're simply expecting too much from MOND?

I mean a theory that is a modification of classical dynamics is not going to work well in a relativistic regime. That just means that somehow the classical limit ends up being slightly different from what we thought it was for reasons we don't know yet. I've always viewed MOND as more of an empirical law that we don't have a good explanation for yet. To me at least it seems obvious it will be deficient when you extrapolate too far and it can't replace more fundamental models.

That MOND can't handle relativity is not a direct reason to dismiss it. It would be a problem if relativity can't handle MOND (i.e. relativity cannot result in a MOND like theory) but I can't tell if that is the case. We could also dismiss MOND if it didn't explain anything, but as you said that's not quite the case either.

So yeah, dark matter seems more reasonable, but it's hard to completely ignore a theory seems to have more predictive power (even if we know it is flawed).
The problem with adding capacity is that the licensing and construction of baseload GW-scale generation takes around a decade in most of the US. Several hyperscalers have talked directly about this problem, you can throw an extra $B at NVIDIA and get yourself moved up the list for some new GPU but no amount of money will make an environmental impact assessment go any faster.

Power availability is, by far, the greatest limiting factor in modern datacenter site selection.
>They didn't have no gofmt back then.

Didn't need gofmt as plenty of IDEs and editors had automatic indentation and syntax colouring already implemented.

1993 wasn't the dark ages you know.
The Opaque Industry Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs
Regular backpacker here. I don't want or need this.

Literally we all use eSIMs and just have downtime occasionally, which is partially the point of it.
The dude on that blog is trying way too hard to look like Sam Altman which is fucking weird.
> How is this different from a Google search?

Of course, everything can be found if you Google search enough. My goal is to gather (valuable) resources in one place so it is easy for the target audience to use.

> Why not at least add a short description and why you picked them?

It's on my todo list to add descriptions/additional info on resources.

Thanks for recommending some more things. I will look through them.
Heh, if you think that's bad, we're going to hit peak oil extraction ability next year. After that, it will get gradually more and more expensive every year to extract a gallon of oil. The implications of this are huge, and the most likely result (unless we can all cooperate) is energy cannibalization.

AI couldn't happen at a worse time in history.
> The problem with targeting a subset is there's a ratchet effect with web APIs

What about starting a new web then only for the supported subset?

Based on my current browsing experience, this may be a plus in the long run.
Exactly. As you say, the use of the word "addiction" in this context has nothing to do with scientific or medical reality. It's just an ignorant meme of misclassification; like people saying "the internet isn't working" just because their monitor is unplugged. Imagine legislation to "protect the internet" and require by law that all monitors remain plugged in at all times. That is how stupid this reads. The internet working may just mean "monitor displays browser" in common usage, but it doesn't actually mean that and making law based on popular usage is very, very bad.
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Nobody thinks of the idea "chat with computer" as a novel idea. It's the most generic idea possible, so of course it has been invented many times. ChatGPT broke out because of its execution, not the idea itself.
The Market for Lemons is legendary only as an example of economists ignoring reality to pursue their pet theories. Reality is closer to that explained in Mediations on Moloch.

The theory that the removal of lemon laws would result in a more informed consumer base has no basis in reality--economists need to spend less time theorizing about how economies work and start looking at actual economies to figure out how they work. We had decades of consumers not becoming informed enough to differentiate between a peach and a lemon before lemon laws existed. That's decades of proof that The Market for Lemons is wrong. That should have been caught in peer review, and that should have prevented the paper from being published. The fact that this absurd paper won a Nobel Prize should call into question the validity of the prevailing ideas of the entire field of economics, at least at that time.

The market for cars of uncertain quality will always have a floor on the price because people don't have a choice except to take a risk on buying a car of uncertain quality in an economy where the car industry has successfully dismantled public transportation infrastructure. Given this inelastic demand, dealers can leverage consumer ignorance to sell lemons as if they were peaches, and the consumer suffers. Hoping consumers will educate themselves is a solution that doesn't scale; it is unrealistic to expect consumers to become experts on cars, computers, phones, medical devices, and every other complex product just so they can avoid being sold inferior, broken products. It is clear that the only solution that works is for experts on products, i.e. the sellers, be held accountable when they knowingly sell low quality products as if they were high quality.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
As a foreigner a lot more useful to learn russian. Everybody speaks it in Ukraine. And other countries as well. Even at our university in Ukraine, russian was the main language amongst foreign students. Its sensible right now true.
In early days React, which was also the time where SPAs were popular, Redux was popular, as with an SPA you usually have to manage a lot of local state, which is benefits a lot by having a central managed state.

With SPAs becoming less popular, more state moving to the server again (trying to keep local state in sync with remote DB state for a long lived session is a PITA), and React hooks making medium-size state management more accessible, bigger frameworks such as Redux became less popular.

Nowadays you have usually have a lot of individual sections of components with hooks-based state, rather than having everything connected to a central Redux store. You usually still have some form of global state management though, in the form of e.g. a shared react-query cache (used for data fetching). Besides that libraries like react-hook-form that handle state management for specific use cases have also become more popular.
If I'm reading it right, that's a over a minute for only 4 candies.The "boxes" there isn't a per-customer shipping box, but the virtual boxes representing candies.
Amazon is getting rid of plastic air pillows in North America
Electricity demand has been flat or growing very slowly for the last 20 years, in spite of population growth, because efficiency increased over the same period. It's only recently that things like electric vehicles and AI have restarted a growth trend in electricity demand.

As a result regulators, utilities and power companies may all have gotten a bit rusty when it comes to rapid growth. But yes, they will relearn.
> AI couldn't happen at a worse time in history.

Shh... Murphy might hear.
Well when the need is this valid, it's hard not to argue for growth. We need AI so we can hire fewer workers, and the workers who remain can deal with another layer of abstraction. We also need AI so that we can drive more engagement on social media platforms, which at least currently seem to be struggling a bit. Nothing will reinvigorate them more than a stream of fantastical content which ultimately carries no meaning. We could use AI to segment people even further: an individual meme could be microtargeted and modified at the individual level. Everyone could get their own jokes, opinions, and ideas, nigh-individualized and wholly unrelatable!

The idea that mere power generation is holding up this clear advance in technology is baffling. We've got to build whatever it takes, just so long as this AI revolution isn't allowed to flounder.
Sounds like a solvable problem. Are you complaining or working on a solution?
Shut down the stupid blockchain miners that are taxing the grid for no good reason beyond transferring wealth upward.
The claim is that a significant portion of the expense is due to poorly crafted and outdated regulations.

With regulatory reform, nuke power would be more economically reasonable.
Wishing you good luck on your project!
From McCormick's opinion:

“Put simply, neither the Compensation Committee nor the Board acted in the best interests of the Company when negotiating Musk’s compensation plan. In fact, there is barely any evidence of negotiations at all. Rather than negotiate against Musk with the mindset of a third party, the Compensation Committee worked alongside him, almost as an advisory body.”

“The Board never asked the $55.8 billion question: Was the plan even necessary for Tesla to retain Musk and achieve its goals?”

“The incredible size of the biggest compensation plan ever—an unfathomable sum—seems to have been calibrated to help Musk achieve what he believed would make “a good future for humanity” [related to Musk’s goal of colonizing Mars]. [T]hat had no relation to Tesla’s goals with the compensation plan.”

> As you yourself noted, the precedent in Delaware is that judges stay away from second guessing boards or shareholders and this seems like an activist ruling, not something based on past Delaware rulings.

Revisiting and potentially invalidating decisions regarding compensation is like an entire standalone unit in business associations/corporate law classes. There are flow charts with forks named after precedential cases.
Only bots around us
Are the AI models monitoring the health of the marine life? Or are they modelling the marine life?
What are you talking about? Mozilla repeatedly stands up to Google on big ticket items. Flock being probably the biggest in recent history, but you can throw Manifest v2 on the pile as well and about half a dozen others.
Batteries are very much there and are being rolled out on a large scale globally since the price per kwh has been plummeting for years.
Technically nothing; the problem lies entirely in the Mozilla Foundation which takes about $500B each year from Google. Officially the motivation is to keep Google as preferred search engine, but seriously the Firefox user base is so small that I don't even think Google would be interested for much less if there weren't strings attached that very likely create a huge conflict of interest if Mozilla become dependent on that money for their own survival.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
> GPL == freedom for the user. It's always been this way. This is nothing new. You cannot, with a straight face and at this point in the conversation, claim that you didn't know the goal of the GPL

Your words. My words indicate that I see both licenses and being pro-everyone.

> As far as the pro-corporate aspect of BSD, that's pretty clear to me, because of how extensively corporations were able to mine BSD code for shareholder benefit.

Mining is an ecologically destructive activity which bears no resemblance to using software under the terms which it was licensed.
What needs to happen for NATO to consider itself being “under attack”?
I suggest using kind or minikube to simplify the setup but make sure you supply --nuclear option to create Nukernetes cluster. Also setup scheduled batch of jobs to dump nuclear waste, we wouldn't want to have that overflowing in our laptops, do we?
I feel like most of this complaint is about OOP, not java.
Can you give some examples of the vertical integration? Perhaps some of the good and bad aspects of it?
You mostly seem to be complaining about people who aren’t on PrEP. So you should be happy that there may now be an easier option for these people. It’s because you instead choose to complain about (literally!) people who have fun and don’t feel bad about it that you come across as a sourpuss. If you actually have some kind of concrete alternative proposal to making PrEP more widely available then I’m all ears, but you seem just to want to complain about people who have more than some arbitrarily-determined quantity of sex.
No. Read the simple form of my response, the first part.

What you said was an example of one factor as to why it's more complex than the simple form for people who really want to dig down deep but on its own it's not an answer
Very few places banned crypto mining from wasting energy when it was the "bubble of the moment", so I doubt that anything will happen for AIs (that are — at least — not as worthless).
I'm a sysadmin at a multi-megawatt datacenter. We work with authorities for finding solutions, plus we also provide computational support for calculating generation schedules across the country.

Plus we aid people to do their research.

So, I'm not complaining, at least.
That's actually a pretty good idea—turning subreddits into useful, deep-featured apps. I recently heard to a MFM podcast in which someone turned a game subreddit into a multi million dollar app in weeks.

I guess the main challenge is to get people to interact and submit actually good ideas (right now they're not that good, probably first time founders).
The Five Stages of AI Grief
OpenJDK's Project Leyden EA Build is now available
We literally have a huge fusion reactor in the solar system that we can use right now for clean energy.

Don't get me wrong, I support research and development into nuclear fusion and it would be amazing if it worked but baking the future of the planet on technology that may or may not work seems crazy to me.
I mean, sure? Pointing at magic as also bad does not shield you from criticism.
Could it be a property of the transformative nature of those non-GenAI models? Using the data to create self driving systems or enhance existing works is adding value to the pool of work. It takes the copy written data and creates something new. GenAI, by comparison, seems to devalue existing works. It takes the same data and creates competing works at best, straight up copies at worst.
When this question arises, I always think of Korzibsky in my foggy recollection of him. Linguistics do program us, more than, I think, we admit. Unfortunately, individuals have limited authority in how language is applied, but in theory, a language could be constructed to program us in strictly beneficial ways. One aspect of such a hypothetical language might be the alteration of nouns to verbs, ie describing things as functions rather than things. Many are critical of this concept, but it seems to me of some potential. Language does affect perception and while it may not do so entirely, its effect is formidable.

Beercrashion: the tendency of some specific wooden structures to serve a peripheral function to some creatures as a comfortable buffer between them and the surface beneath them often called ground.
> Microsoft says it will be able to “more agilely develop and optimize” the Copilot experience as a result of these changes

Can't help but see this as anything other than "The team working on it doesn't know how to code native applications on our OS"
Top tier software from a functionality standpoint, but not from a usability standpoint.

In my experience, oracle stuff barely works too, unless you pay for extra support that is.
AI is more than worthless -- it is actively destructive.
They are monitoring the marine life for trends, abnormalities and such. Plus these models are used for better prediction of future events/cycles with greater accuracy with simpler measurements.
For what it's worth I'm now working on a proof assistant so yeah, that's the game plan. I think the straight line case for the solver is probably OK but there's a huge range of optimisations out there and it's far too easy to introduce errors there.
>literally

The oceans will not reach 100C°
At what point will it make sense to Microsoft to build their own nuclear plant?
Even with the disasters, nuclear is damn safe. Methods like coal don't fail catastrophically, but they gradually poison the air and kill via pollution. Nuclear doesn't do that, nuclear kills all in one go, but averaged out, nuclear still kills far less. It's just sudden failure makes for better headlines.
The real sky. Go and look out tonight after dusk and you'll see satellite after satellite.
The @ directives are ugly - also the beauty of kotlinx.html is it's just code, so you get everything that the IDE provides for free. You shouldn't need a different type of file for this.
Or start using power to gas and go nuts with solar? Yes, there is a lot of loss in the process but the space available for solar is still untapped. Turn it to gas and fuck it, store it under the ocean if need.
And given how important all of the above is, we need to add more carbon to the atmosphere to accomplish it.
preaching to the choir.
Circassian genocide was especially nasty, but ancient history (and somewhat inline with America's genocidal colonial conquests West). And not that it justifies the genocide, the Circassians were big slavers of Slavs (especially young girls). Also some of the biggest bastards on the Russian side were actually ethnic German.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zass

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_slave_trade#Circassi...
The thing is that Parent 2 already uses both languages on a daily basis, for work and for life. So in a worst case scenario the two just get mixed for the kid.

Avoiding one or the other isn’t really doable.
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Move to Texas, specifically the ERCOT grid. Texans love power suckers like bitcoin miners, so AI should fit right in.
> Have you ever considered how the balance of male and female nudity works in Hollywood?

Using balance and Hollywood in the same sentence looks strange to me.

I find most of Hollywood movies unbalanced.
Yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR Parser Animations
Thanks, that’s reassuring. I definitely agree the range of viewpoints is limited.