skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pollution from Fukushima into the ocean was huge. It's not only about human death counts.

And yes the same reactors as in Chernobyl are still in operation today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK#List_of_RBMK_reactors . Including in Kursk where fighting between Russia and Ukraine is currently going on. This isn't an imaginary situation.

They were mitigated to avoid this particular issue but I wouldn't consider them 'safe' without a containment building etc.

And it's not graphene, it's graphite. Graphene is a nanomaterial that didn't exist for production during the envisioning of RBMK reactors. It was only theoretical and produced from 2004 onwards.
>On March 19, 2009, Cisco announced it had acquired Pure Digital Technologies for $590 million in stock. When the deal closed in May 2009, Kaplan became the head of Cisco’s consumer business division.

Looks like a successful exit to me.

Everyone who takes VC money wants to either get acquired or IPO. Getting acquired is a a win
Here is a mirror for anyone else getting blocked* by dreamwidth for not using a corporate browser: https://web.archive.org/web/20240822091216/https://mjg59.dre...

* No matter how many times I do the captcha.
I have come to think of "capitalism" as the private ownership of things and the primacy of markets and "socialism" as the collective ownership by the state and the primacy of a state command economy. From history is seems that societies swing too far in one direction, have serious problems, and then (over) corrects or dies.
That sounds like magic, I'm not going to lie. I have to understand how this is possible.
> If it doesn't stay optional, Firefox should be forked. It is not a wanted feature.

This is already something they insisted on leaving enabled by default because they knew no one would opt into it. They knew full well that this isn't something people want. Mozilla is an ad-tech company now. Instead of improving firefox they spent a ton of money buying an ad company created by facebook employees. They're going to claw back a return on that investment and they're taking it from Firefox users.

They simply do not care about the privacy of Firefox users. There is zero chance that this is as far as Firefox goes in violating your privacy. Expect more anti-features, expect things you disable in about:config to re-enable themselves after updates, expect more tracking that you can't disable, expect more invasive forms of tracking, and expect your ability to block ads on firefox to get increasingly limited until it becomes impossible. It's all downhill from here.
Ridiculous. Stop playing pointless language games.
I was thinking since it is the average not median of the group in question, somebody could try and game it by just reporting a reaaaaly large number. they wont be accurate but will be closest to the final answer. now if everyone thinks this...
Not sure about the other two, but it might be the ubiquitous swimming pools in AZ. The evaporation in an AZ pool during the summer is dramatic. You need to have a pool water leveler on 24/7 or leave the garden hose trickling constantly.
Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now
Anywhere with a hospital and medical care can have issues. Here’s a few high profile cases in the UK.

https://www.howellslegal.co.uk/news/post/The-5-Largest-Perso...
The number of everybody that takes computer science degrees continues to grow. It's maybe doubled in the last ten years?
no, that example shows a complete lack of understanding of an important phrase.. there are lots of examples of language in contracts that are verbose or purposefully confusing, but that is not one of them.. IANAL usa
A Raytheon like company.
Great. They also have other blog posts with product roadmap and research directions https://www.cursor.com/blog/problems-2024 you should look at, and an AI engineer conference talk which goes into their vision: https://youtu.be/6g28WpZbF1I?si=MkHgxMDMjxxOHtcZ
Also yes, but I'm not sure the legal system would ignore video evidence. What if for example someone plants doctored videos into a CCTV security system faking their presence at the same time but far away from a place where they've just committed a homicide?
> You're arguing that speech should earn a living

I'm saying it sucks that the majority of periodical writing has succumbed to race-to-the-bottom clickbait and adflooding.

Newspapers and magazines from three decades ago certainly weren't perfect, but on average they were a whole lot better than modern news sites, and I don't see how we can ever get back to that situation. I don't know what the solution is, but I can see a problem when it's punching me in the face.
IANAL, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use is a thing. Not sure if it applies in this case though.
"What really frightened me was the future of mediocrity they suggested: the inescapable screens, the app-facilitated antisocial behavior, the assumptions advanced as knowledge, and above all the collective delusion formulated in high offices and peddled to common people that all this made for an easier life."

The singularity is here, but it's actually the singularity of mediocrity. Which is ironic, because we have more technology prowess than ever.
> of your api is easy to clearly document its good

If it breaks a lot of conventions or norms, no it's probably not good.

But also the point here is *how much do you need to really explain?". If you have apis that require a lot of re-explanation to llms to force them to do the right thing "no getUsers doesn't exist use users(filter) where... YOU MUST USE users(filter)!" That's a sign your API might be going counter to a broad estimation of existing code.

> it seems like trying to facilitate bad things. make good things instead.

I have seen so many people make something that is obvious to them and so few others that "simply write good things from the start" is pointless advice.
Cursor: We Raised $60M
Wow that's huge in 2024 dollars!
Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video]
This isn't a simple as words (or ideas or situations) having connotations that are positive or negative. Euphemisms often have to do with trying to mask or reduce contempt or revulsion or scorn", which are directed at the person whose situation or attributes are euphemised. But it is possible to acknowledge that something, or someone's situation, is deeply, fundamentally negative without becoming contemptuous.

For instance, when someone snarls 'what, do you think I'm retarded?' or 'it's right there, are you fucking blind*?', they're conveying more than just that it sucks or would suck to be disabled. They're insinuating something like 'it is deeply shameful to be comparable to a disabled person in any way'. There are many, many people who are blind and would say they'd rather not be, or that being blind is mostly negative (a hardship, socially isolating, etc.), and would still take some offense or scoff or register some annoyance at a statement like that.

In defense of the euphemizers, to say that we should not display disdain and contempt for mentally handicapped people is not the same thing as to say we should each pretend we're indifferent to taking on brain damage. These things sometimes do run together in practice, but I'd argue that this is merely incidental and an error. The goal of euphemizing isn't the erasure of differences in outcome but the blunting of explicit, directed, personal negative judgment.
Arroost: Unblocking Creation with Friends
You basically do with the NH35 Movement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeikoMods/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeikoMods/comments/11w3c22/nh35_cus...
How do you raise $60M building a VS Code extension? I'm looking for the moat or value proposition but I'm not seeing it.
Building an "easy" web application
It doesn't matter because in virtue-politics like the OP post, consequences don't really matter . That's e.g. how germany found itself stuck in a pipeline-shaped hole. It may be that norwegians are not as moral as they are portrayed often (e.g. https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/is-norway-the-new-east-indi...). In any case, i used the Fund to make a hypothetical argument that doesn't need to match with reality.
https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/explore-hue/works-with/mat...

> Do I need a Philips Hue Bridge to connect my devices via Matter?

> Yes. A Philips Hue Bridge, the smart lighting hub for the Philips Hue system, enables Matter for all your Hue products

Aka: you need to buy a hub from us.

> With Bluetooth control, you’re limited to only being able to operate your smart lights within Bluetooth range – about 10 metres

Damn, ford fiesta keys have a longe range than that :)

It’s a shameless excuse to sell an extra product, which is why they haven’t added matter support to their bulbs natively like every other smart bulb maker, and I’m not sure why you’re so keen on this not being the case.
No idea - it's a good article. Maybe somebody on staff got upset that it's from the Jacobin.
About the IMGUI Paradigm
I mean, there are other nets you can use - you can create and own a .onion address, for example. The public internet being fully leased is a feature, not a bug.
Seems like the natural progression from end goal to breaking it down into the smaller and smaller pieces required to see the goal through, as people have always done.

Before LLMs you'd probably have to reach for learning Python or Javascript sooner, at least if StackOverflow didn't have the right code for you to copy/paste, but I expect anyone who sticks with it will get there eventually either way.
I think that's more of a popping out of a well than a raising

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
This is the silliest argument

I write API calls. I am a user of apis. If you want to be more pedantic than this I simply do not care and you should evaluate what benefit you are bringing to this conversation.
a couple of Gs, an I and N, and E and and R....

- from Prejudice by Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
Thanks, ironically this is one of those policies that has misaligned incentives everywhere. The doctor does not have any incentive other than to "play extra safe" and punt anyone they think is having a crisis into other hands - they're usually very busy, especially in the ER, which is typically full of mentally ill people. This has the opposite effect of actually helping people though - what happens to your friend if he actually is feeling suicidal in the future? 0 chance he seeks help, it's way too risky to even state outloud. And when people have no outlet for this kind of problem or thoughts, bad things happen.

Looking back with a more historical lens I think at the time this happened for me was shortly after columbine and everyone was freaked out about mentally ill people shooting up a place because that had at that time been a shocking incident.
This type of black hole is similar to dark matter, in that it warps local spacetime, but at the surface, the gravity is null, there's a weird spacetime topology to it, from what I can understand (I am not a physicist). It would be invisible, and any mass that went in would see an equivalent ejection of energy out, and the form of that energy would be fascinating. If you shot a planet into one of those at relativistic speeds it'd be a totally different, more catastrophically massive explosion than anything we've ever seen, and the volume of space around it would present opportunities to study extreme energy physics. One of the weird features is that because it cannot contain any more energy or mass, it has to immediately expel any additions, so the form of the energy coming out would be interesting to observe.
Good News, PC Games Are Starting to Ditch Annoying Launchers
But pip doesn’t and can’t solve that issue, right?
Show HN: Retrieval engine with SOTA performance on challenging RAG benchmarks
Moore's law only talks about transistors - in an IC they should double every 2 years.

3 years after the Apple M1, the M3 increased transistor count from 16 billion to 25 billion. Two years saw the 5950x with 8.3 billion transistors go to the 7950x with 13.1 billion transistors. That's quite not the predicted rate of scaling, but it is respectable.

2x the transistors doesn't mean 2x the performance though. We can make plenty of logic, but the DRAM to feed it remains high latency and the SRAM to hide the latency isn't scaling well either. PHYs are consuming proportionally more silicon too. One might say that Moore's Law isn't dead, but diminishing in relevance.
Honestly, when the internet was younger the costs to host content were basically zero. Anyone could run a web server on their own PC and run a website for zero costs. Many ISPs offered shell accounts and provided basic webhosting at no additional cost. These could be scaled up as needed, but everybody with a modem and an ISP had the opportunity to take part in sharing content on the internet.
The Science-Based Benefits of Writing
> And for the transition phase, there has to be interop for async ↔ async2

For those like me who weren't clear whether `async2` was expected to be a real keyword in the final language, it's not[0].

0 - https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94620#issuecomment-...
Yes, not long before that people were lugging around shoulder bags with camcorders, tapes, batteries, and other accessories. A video recorder that could fit in your pocket and actually worked well was a pretty amazing upgrade.
Improving Cody Autocomplete: Faster and Smarter
Ok well OS threads are already scheduled this way... The drawback is they're heavier because they make assumptions that the runtime doesn't need to make.

Furthermore, explicit Async/await provides a syntax for co-opoerative multithreading and that enables other patterns that implicit designs don't.
I mean specifically in the RFC2136 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2136) sense.

It does look like PowerDNS supports it: https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/dnsupdate.html
Radical Chic is available as a PDF from NY Magazine: https://nymag.com/docs/07/05/070529radical_chic.pdf

It's uncanny to read these in the context of the 2020s and see so many parallels.
the Japanese seem to have a culture that appreciates the pursuit of perfection, at least in some domains.
Apple added video recording to the iPhone 3GS.
Show HN: Free Figma plugin to transform designs into interactive demos instantly
I always take this as inspiration that the performance quest is rarely over. LLD was specifically designed to be fast, as was Gold which came before it. But Mold blew them both away.
London 2009. The first ever Automattic Team meetup and it was Support staff. Matt Mullenweg gave each of us a WP branded Flip camera. I still have mine, though I doubt it holds a charge. Cool toy at the time.
>people are unhinged about AI.

Well. We definitely agree on that.
Or, cynically speaking, that we're more comfortable overpaying for phones than we are overpaying for cars. If your phone asks for a $10/month subscription to listen to music, we pay it. If your car asks you to subscribe to a service, you won't give it a dime unless it stops you from driving it.

Then you have the ubiquity of third-party repair, a process Apple hates, dominating automotive industries. They can't design a proprietary fuel without getting sued, and they can't sell Applecare on it without losing money. Apple has zero showrooms for vehicles, their customers likely don't care, and their manufacturing strategy of relying on China makes the least-amount of sense for cars.

Apple Car just doesn't make sense. It's a design doc Kanye West accidentally dropped on his way out of Cupertino and must have gotten mixed up with the serious plans by executives that didn't know any different.
Librewolf does #1 and #2 already. But generally, there's no market for that.

Most of those who say "I would pay for that" would indeed never do it. Because those people want something very specific - something you can only have via extensions and personal modifications. What you want is very specific to what you personally want and it is different to what everyone else wants.

And no one can create a browser project for your personal preferences.

Just like you will probably say "Librewolf doesn't stay up to date the way I want them to... and they don't turn off all the stupid ideas the way I want them to."

Librewolf is everything one can ask from an open-source Firefox fork.

People always complained when Firefox moved to a more efficient extension system but practically no one cared about Waterfox keeping the old firefox extensions alive. That's because those people are the absolute minority and do not represent the common user.

And what they complain about is not actually the technical change - it is about the overall change in society and what a move away from the more technical approach that allows user modification symbolizes - the dumbing down of software in general. For example, RSS symbolizes the old internet, but the old internet is gone.
I'd bet He wont be beyond a month or so for appearance's sake. then it'll just be remote meeting and maybe a company leased house locally for a day or so to look 'in'. these type of stories do almost no followup.
And on the opposite side, Clojure was made with a full focus on getting professional developers with lots of experience to be able to use Lisp in places they normally couldn't (initially Java shops), with no compromises to make it easier for beginner programmers.

And that's OK, not every language needs to cater to everyone :)
It's its own editor (albeit forked from VS Code), it's not a VS Code extension. They've built a great product.
Yeah I'd say it's almost certainly veiled in irony given the context. Something derived from reefer madness stylization. I do it as well, quite literally using that phrase. Tinges of unguided parentalism and the vogue surrounding it - otherwise ignorance.
> It's a game changer. I asked the one neighbor, who'd said previously "the only snowblower I'd buy is a Honda" [1]

My brother in law's family business is small engine sales and maintenance. This is his position as well (and now mine, after having a Honda snowblower for a few years).
Can you give any examples of her promoting "quackery"? I don't know how you can admit you are weak in physics but nevertheless sense she is phony.

My biggest criticism of hers is that she is cynical and spends too much time tearing down other ideas rather than promoting anything.

But overall she does great things with showcasing the more ridiculous side of academia. She is adept at taking published research and showing that it is quackery. She shows how they manipulate data and mislead the media, often for more research money. I also applaud her counterpoint in particle physics regarding the waste involved in building yet another gigantic particle accelerator. It's a POV I wouldn't have considered, but I agree that the money could be better spent in other areas.
But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government", or even at the grocery store as you live your nondescript life, is you implicitly supporting "your government" in doing those bad things.

Therefore dropping you as a customer with almost zero notice is warranted (you monster).

If you don't like it, then email our team and plead with us and justify yourself. Tell us you're one of the good ones. We might deign to give you a bit more time to pack your bags.

(To sarcastically paraphrase the Namecheap CEO's statements here on HN.)
It's literally using the Open Source VS Code monaco editor. Half of the "features" they're bragging about ship in Code by-default.

Why would you buy this?
300%. It's not a fallacy to understand the biases of the information you are consuming. If someone looks bad because of their past that's important reader context.

It's a fallacy to use personage as a sole reason to disagree. But it's damned good to have context. This whole social media thing is such a quagmire imo in large part because every tweet comes across naked, that no matter how low your character or how much you've distorted and manipulated in the past, each tweet is a totally fresh chance to do to again with no one the wiser. We seriously need systems for establishing context, and it's a public service to earn each other about patterns of distortion & ultra-bias.
The quote is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722, from this memorable thread:

Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851 - June 2016 (893 comments)
with vulkan I do actually have some hope of this happening.
> Partly this broad range of uses for the heavy presses came from expanding the range of materials used in them. Originally the presses were designed to make parts from aluminum and magnesium, but by the 1960s they were not only pressing aluminum and magnesium but steel, titanium, nickel, copper, columbium, beryllium, and a variety of other metals.

Columbium is apparently an old name for niobium, and one perhaps still in use by American metallurgists.

There's no way anyone was making huge niobium forgings, though. Or nickel? Surely this is a reference to the use of those elements in superalloys.
I meant:

- I'm only using a long password

- but it would be optimal to require PCR values and password

Note that in any case where you use PCR values you always should setup a secondary way to unlock the partition. Or else you will lose your data if some of your hardware measured into a PCR breaks.

Requiring both is optimal as it 1. doesn't rely on TPM/PCRs but 2. prevent certain attack vectors possible with password only but not possible with PCRs. Through you now also have to manage a backup unlock method. Which is annoying. And the security benefits are negligible/irrelevant for most people. Which is why I don't use it.
Of course this makes perfect sense. Why should people be responsible for actions of a dictator? I can't believe this comment is downvoted
Better IX network quality monitoring
Nor quality, unfortunately.
>People choose to purchase unhealthy food

Yeah, sort of. I’m immediately reminded of reports of health problems of people in countries that traditionally grow quinoa. The global demand for this amazingly nutritious food has priced it so high that many of the poorer in the regions that grow it have switched to cheaper, less nutritious foods.

I am also reminded that if I want to buy “peasant food”, I have to pay a huge premium over much cheaper, crappier, less nutritious processed food. That is to say, foods that were commonly cheap and readily available many centuries ago, are no longer cheap.

I find it slightly disengenuous to simply say that people choose to purchase unhealthy food without acknowledging that individuals are presented choices that are often suboptimal. I cannot reasonably buy bread without added sugar. That is not a choice I have made, that is the landcape I live in. I choose to buy less bread as a result. But I alone cannot change the economic landscape, even though you are absolutely correct that there are food which are cheaper and more nutritious than alternatives.

I would also be really cautious about “enforcing healthy standards”. I don’t know how old you are, but I’m old enough to have seen some pretty shitty “healthy standards” pushed en mass, and then codified through major lobbying by interested parties.
That is an impressive achievement. Kudos, my friend! There is still hope for me then? :)