skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd expect that long term the brine would do bad things near the places it is released but would not have any noticeable long term consequences much farther away as long as we don't discharge it somewhere where it destroys something local that turns out to be a dependency of something far away.

That's because almost all the water that is taken out of the ocean will make its way back to the ocean. We just borrow it for a while.

If all the water used by humans were taken from the ocean, we'd take about 1/300000th of the ocean's water per year. Most of that will be back in the ocean within 200 years. That puts the cap on the amount of water that would be missing from the ocean of 1/1500th of its volume, which means that the steady state increase in salt concentration would be less than 0.1%, which is much less than the natural variation in ocean salt levels.
This is not entirely like the original signals, but using event emitters instead.

I found https://dev.to/ryansolid/building-a-reactive-library-from-sc... to be a much better ‘from scratch’ example. This is by the maker of SolidJS
Corporal punishment in prisons is not legal in the US[1][2][3].

Prolonged solitary confinement is being used for people who do not refuse to work as well, even for people who have not been convicted[1]. You may think it's inhumane, but it not slavery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_v._Pelzer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_v._McMillian

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_v._Gamble

[4] https://eu.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2021/07/19/capi...
Which browsers isolate websites to prevent them from sharing data to track you?
Good here MacOS and Safari
I don't, think that I have one, but don't miss it...
Introducing Clipboard History Plus: This extension saves your entire copy history, making it easy to reuse items later. Ideal for content writers, researchers, students, developers, office workers, and anyone who writes or manages content frequently.
> to shill products

You’re thinking too small. Swaying political sentiment is another option. Imagine thousands of accounts all repeating the same talking points and the same “facts” across all of Reddit. They can also be used to drown out certain contentious topics such as a political scandal.

> Of course, this sounds like a setup to a joke about what the average Redditor posts

Indeed, this isn’t new¹. And I don’t just mean the atrocious (lack of) quality of real Reddit comments, but companies have been using Reddit for covert promotion for a while. I remember someone showing me the types of posts. Someone would recount some crazy story and a product as key without saying what the brand was—e.g. “and if not for my boots, I would have died”—so other people would then ask for information and the commenter could then shill the product in a way that sounded natural.

People (including on HN) often claim they add “reddit” to every internet search they do, as if that’s some secret sauce unknown to companies, scammers, and other pursuers of profit. It isn’t.

¹ Though the scale permitted by LLMs is certainly worrying.
I thought it was a pretty cool project, thought it was self-funded. But I agree I have no idea why I should finance this with my European taxpayer money.
And at "Google scale" shaving off a few bytes on every request means saving real money.
It's not to help people train models. It's for end-users to use in an LLM context (like Claude projects or cursor) to help them use your tool better.
Show HN: I built a AWS S3 desktop client
> And what about my other point about coaxing google books to give you a full copy of a book via multiple snippets?

Sure, given enough time and effort maybe a person can. That's not really relevant to the lawsuit or its details though. Is your argument here they won the lawsuit which cleared the way for mass copying and redistribution?

> Can you provide an alternate source for this? I skimmed your link and it does not substantiate that claim.

If you want to hear it yourself:
https://youtu.be/_wuKZR0Pv-Q
How interesting!
Which was a feature, given historical reliance on coal fires inside homes for heating.
The term “unfair” is extremely vague, and now (as it probably should be, IMO), laws are interpreted by the judiciary. If Congress wants a specific practice banned, then they can make a law to do so, rather than allowing unelected career bureaucrats to interpret the law as they see fit.
I was on a ferry from Barcelona to Mallorca. They had a movies, magazines and newspapers on what looks like an intranet app. It probably works the same way an airplane's in-flight entertainment.

The US Navy could have their own version of that.
For those interested in running infrastructure like this but for more software, look at Pulp:
https://github.com/pulp
Somewhere around the gut area, if my reading of the literature is correct.
Automattic going strong 20 years later and founder still recruiting on HN, thats cool :)
Systems be systems, don’t they?
FYI reading this on Firefox for Android and no example except the very last one renders
Rust is the savior of Firefox.
One of Labour's more important policies is to repair the damage that the Tories did to the energy production system. The UK has a huge amount of potential wind energy just from off-shoring. Hopefully they'll start building onshore too and closing more of these ugly and polluting biomass plants.
> Does anyone here know why we have barely had any hurricanes or tropical storms this year despite the record heat?

I guess some people are never happy. /s
> some of our demand is likely fulfilled by foreign coal burning

Actually very little. Most is French nuclear power. The electricity that the UK imports has a lower carbon footprint than the UK's domestic electricity.
How do all these people immigrate to the US? Is it all family-based? I work in technological field with many more opportunities in the US and have researched how to move there but it seems almost impossible. I know an American who applied for jobs in my country, got an offer and was over within a few months but that doesn't work the other way round.
I feel like this happens a lot with seminal works: the concepts get remixed (or simply regurgitated) by others down the decades to the point where the original often doesn't feel original to a modern viewer/reader.
Assuming I run this on a vps, what would be the bandwidth cost?
It's a (possibly machine-generated) translation of a Chinese article linked to at the bottom, which contains a number of diagrams that the translation lacks (even though it refers to a diagram at least once).
Same on Firefox GNU/Linux.
There are lots of useful things you can do with electricity.
Open problem in quantum entanglement theory solved after nearly 25 years
Probably WebGL
Ironically enough the parts that flood the most in the Netherlands are the parts which are not below sea level. Just this week Doetinchem experienced some high water due to heavy rainfall [1]. In the south-east and east they sometimes also have problems with the amount of water the rivers over there have to process. In both cases the problem is the river can't process the water fast enough.

The parts below sea-level are mostly all in the delta area. Meaning there is little risk of rivers overflowing since they are at their widest in the delta. And as for rainfall; That just means pump water harder out of the "tub" then normal. As for the threat of sea-water in these areas, that's were the Delta Werken[2] are for.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2535587-noodweer-leidt-tot-overlast-w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
Nah to be fair it's fine for a lot of games which are also played on old gen consoles with terrible gamepad to TV latency. Sure twitchy multiplayers are definitely not some of them. I'm not big on competitive multiplayer, only Rocket League and I can't do this over local streaming. Pretty much anything else I play is ok though.
new keyword is out of fashion? Why?
That works. So perhaps it is a security thing, that is not done properly.
Sadly the motor used to make this is unobtanium now, so its very hard to make one
The brine levels can be greatly reduced by pumping more water to dilute the brine. RO desal projects tend to optimize for an energy efficient local optima that targets minimum energy subject to maintenance constraints. But if energy is nearly free you can instead pump a lot of extra water to solve the issue by moving more volume over more area further from shore.
I wonder if the salt extracted during desalination could be dumped on top of underwater salt domes? Salt domes are one of the sources of the salt in the ocean [1].

The idea is that our salt would cover part of the salt dome, preventing that part of the salt dome from providing salt to the water. Instead, the salt that would have come from that part of the dome comes from our salt.

[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html
> DNS would route requests to the nearest proxy based on the caller’s location

Anycast is the proper way to do this. No geolocation required, just dynamic routing protocols optimizing for shortest path.
Might be too much effort if the original is 100 kilolines.
as someone who dabbles in active and passive insomnia from time to time - i hear AM radio coming from somewhere in the room - those are the voices i can't control. But i can hear voices in my head and make, you know, friends, family, morgan freeman talk and say pretty much anything. It's weird to describe this because i'm mentally fit, i just have symptoms of being awake too long when i'm awake too long.

But the point is, it's a completely different experience to hallucinate a voice, for me, than to just hear the internal jibber jabber in my head.
It's a crying shame that we didn't build out nuclear in the 1980s as we would have been in an excellent position had we done that. Instead we have the Chinese taking 30 years to build our new reactor.
Yeah except the Lenna image is from a porno magazine, a photograph of a model styled and posed specifically to create an erotic image. How can you not see a difference here?
Seems worth it as a teaching method.
I'd rather they spend it on projects like these, where at least some people get joy playing videogames for work. Alternative is they get together and cook up some of the worst bureaucratic dogshit wrapped in catshit they call quality legislation.
the main problem that i'm solving is that a standard notation mostly obscures structure. it's good for sight reading because people use it (like QWERTY or Chinese characters), but it's a suboptimal way to make underlining structural laws, patterns and symmetries of Western music visible

i ranted about it here: https://x.com/vitalypavlenko/status/1771820942680830417
The conservative party of 2010 was very different to that of today

Back then it had hardliners like John Redwood and Bill Cash, but also pragmatic moderates such as William Hague, Ken Clarke and Rory Stewart.

Brexit destroyed the party from within. Over time as it became more and more difficult to defend in any non-ideological way and the party leadership became more and more autocratic in ever more desperate attempts to force it to a conclusion, they all either left politics, switched allegiance or were expelled from the party. What was left were the hardliners, the truly crazy and those willing to say anything at all in return for power.
The critical field in high temp superconductors is also much lower, which limits the current you can put through it.
It causes huge problems for the freshwater fish. Even regular use of the Ijmuiden sluices lets enough salt water leak into the North Sea canal that it causes problems for which technical mitigations are being developed.
Doesn't that make them quite mediocre books when viewed holistically?

Imagine if movies were like that: a huge slog for 1h15, and then a twist at 1h50 at which point it actually gets interesting/entertaining.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good slow burn read/watch, but "slog" is not that.
Looks good, but how is it better than https://yarkons3.com ? Which has a free version. I generally prefer to use TUI or opensource/selfhosted solutions for something like that.
I think you meant all. All moves when disaster comes.

Meanwhile where there is food there is no need to move.
Let's be honest, though, for pro-business rulings #3 is the main reason. Businesses know that filing in that District is guaranteed to get them a judge that almost always sides with them.
wait until you see the Horizon Europe project
I actually found this list as an effort to find these limiting dictionaries, and I only found this one. And it's told to me by Will Anderson (a champion who also makes a great YouTube channel) himself.
Passively cramming information will not retain a lesson more than 3 months. Additionally, only 1/17 students have the discipline to succeed with self-directed studies.

I remain skeptical the current well-formatted LLM nonsense will help students, and have concerns it may cause hindrance with long-term information recall.

We shall soon see I guess... Best of luck, =3
> I don't understand how AI is any different than going to Fiverr. I can specify what I want in the style I want, and have a human do it versus a computer.

I mean, if you ignore all the massive differences in paying a human to do something versus paying an LLM service to do it, sure. But you're effectively throwing at least ethics and care for the environment out the window in one case.

> Once I say "1960's Archie comic", why doesn't the work instantly become derivative whether a human does it versus a computer?

It does. Just because you can commission art from someone doesn't mean you won't get sued if you start trying to use it as the logo for your business. If you put Foghorn Leghorn on the logo of your chicken business, you'll be sued. Having an artist simply make you a logo like that on commission, if not transformative, could get them sued, though by doing it on commission the terms likely mean the requestor is the one who's liable

Earlier I noted clean room implementations. The software industry went to incredible lengths to be able to interoperate with competitors without violating copyright.
Are there that many biomass plants? Or is it just Drax? Which is something of an asterisk in the "no coal" story, in that the UK's largest coal burner is still running, just on imported wood pellets. Supposedly from sawmill waste in the US and Canada. I'm not sure how "green" that really is.

I once did a back of the envelope calculation that if you tried to run Drax on domestic timber only you would consume every tree in the country within a year.
Samsung is pushing more phones to Google Messages
As others note it is the same for years, even before LLMs.

They just scan the older posts, take the upvoted comments and when they see the most appropriate surrounding - they just post them verbatim.

More so, half of the posts you see on the frontpage are the reposts from the years ago. Made by bots, commented by bots. And every couple of years they repost the reposts. Circle of botlife.

If Reddit's search weren't so shitty you could've easily checked it, but as anyone understands Reddit owners are not in the position to actually improve the search in any way, it doesn't worth it for them.

> never noticed any of them actually shill a product yet

Well, you won't notice it till they actually respond to you.

But there is a product what is shilled to you all the time and you probably don't even notice. It's in r/worldnews, a couple of subs topical for the current geopolitical situation and whatever the hot topics what hit the frontpage.
I wish to see Arc browser there, will probably check all the boxes there as well.
people are capitalizing on the fact that google ranks reddit so highly, but are also bringing the quality down as a result.
For all we know that court case could have never even happened! If it did just as you reported, then that would be bad, but please understand the following:

It's a tall order to ask random strangers on the internet to trust your second (third?) hand account of what happened when, by your own admission, there's a jury (and professional judge!) who disagree.

You've been told something by a dissenting element of that jury, and you may trust their word, but random strangers on the internet have really no reason to trust you or your friend over the conclusion of a court.

To sway any opinions, you'll have to present a more convincing case than "trust me it happened and trust me all the others are morons". To me you're just as reliable - less, given that you're presenting hearsay - as the dozen people who chose not to convict.
Reddit, like twitter, realiz3 they benefit from the bots cresting engagement.
Crosswords are one of those interesting things where there is a quite a bit of trans-atlantic difference which is worth taking a brief look at if you aren't familar. To quote Wikipedia:

> Crossword grids such as those appearing in most North American newspapers and magazines consist mainly of solid regions of uninterrupted white squares, separated more sparsely by shaded squares. Every letter is "checked" (i.e. is part of both an "across" word and a "down" word) and usually each answer must contain at least three letters. In such puzzles shaded squares are typically limited to about one-sixth of the total. Crossword grids elsewhere, ... have a lattice-like structure, with a higher percentage of shaded squares (around 25%), leaving about half the letters in an answer unchecked.
> Not just the Netherlands, most of Europe counts floors like this: ground, first, second, etc.

I think it wildly differs all around Europe.

In Spain for example, if someone says "1st floor" it can be two or three floors above the actual ground floor, if there is a "Entresuelo" or "Principal", and you start counting after those. Actual ground floor is "bajo".

On the other hand you have the "atico" (attic) which is the top level floor, unless there is a "sobre atico" ("above the attic"), so just because you live in the attic doesn't mean you live on the top floor.

Then every region can have their own convention, or even difference in neighborhoods in the same city.
Well, obviously "Do Androids dream of electric sheep" simply because the movie left out a little bit too much, which you can catch up on when reading the book. Keyword "Mood Organ".

I also liked "Second variety" which has also been rendered as a audio play IIRC.

And, for the non-sci-fi part, A Scanner Darkly is pretty weird. Has also been rendered as a movie...
Properly implemented signals are more complex than the observer pattern, since they have to prevent duplicating updates if more than one dependency changes. They also fundamentally change the way you use them compared to observers, thanks to automatically subscribing to updates to their dependencies and propagating the updates to the dependents. Effects resembles observers, but you would generally avoid them when using signals unless necessary.
A more efficient image format helps everyone on the web. We’re looking at 30-50% fewer bits sent over the wire for the same image quality. Massive bandwith savings for everyone. JPEG-XL is basically a better version of what Google was already trying to do with WebP, and a suitable long-term replacement for all image formats currently in use.
Does this mean the UK is basically completely reliant on import of power for a base load or does the nuclear reactors and whatever hydro there is cover the need to offset the intermittency of renewables?
> the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust

There's already a JPEG-XL decoder written in Rust: https://crates.io/crates/jxl-oxide

It would be nice to hear why it's not good enough.
and Australia...
Russia Buying Sensitive Electronics from India
Does bandwidth actually cost Google anything?
what terrible thing did reuters do?
I just revamped the UI, please provide feedback on landing page for waitlisting and getting beta users.
> IMHO what made hard problems difficult to solve is actually the 'intneral structure' of the problems.

20 years ago I wrote a master’s thesis in computer vision. The stereo matching algorithm I developed could be expressed as a big integer linear program. But after pondering it for some time I realized it could also be expressed as a dynamic programming problem, with tiny integer linear programs as subproblems. Reduced the runtime by like a factor of 1000x, or more.
France built out a huge number of Nuclear reactors in the 80s. Some 70% of it's electricity comes from Nuclear. Nuclear has a very low marginal cost so when it's up and running you want to run it at full power as much as possible. At times of low demand in France this means exporting as much of it as they can at whatever rate they can get for it. It's not that they have a huge surplus overall, it's just the economics make it better for them to export rather than load following.
People need operations staff, people don't like operations staff and keep trying to treat them like developers.

But, operations staff do and have always developed software, just internal software for glue or orchestration, and they work differently to regular software developers in that their customers are usually themselves to meet an internal objective of reliability, stability or ease-of-use for developers.

It's interesting to me, because I'm a bit longer lived it seems and have been tied to industry for a long time, and I see the treadmill grinding along continuously;

Sysadmins (different from system operators) were usually among the most senior developers who ended up knowing how operating systems and compute worked fundamentally. Over time this eroded and eventually you had helpdesk people being labelled as sysadmins.

Then "DevOps" emerged as a job title, which meant a dozen things to a dozen people, and the same issue happened, it was the same operational needs and the same operational solutions, just with better tools as the passage of time allowed better tools to exist.

Then SRE, which ironically was devised before DevOps was, which did exactly the same thing of trying to turn operations problems into the easier to reason about software development space.

But still, it's operations folks, people who are more responsible about an outcome and a continuance than they are about delivering a feature.

But Managers genuinely can't reason about anything other than features, so a cost center it becomes and eradication is desired, and the treadmill begins again.

So, SRE's, who embody essentially the same characteristics as early sysadmins (but with large budgets and better tools) will eventually become system operators, who will eventually become helpdesk and eventually replaced by some new title that insists that "SREs never wrote code, and this next generation will!".

The author is experiencing the exact same thing I did over a decade ago when "sysadmin" became unfashionable and everyone told me that "sysadmins can't code", despite working in teams of sysadmins who wrote precursors to kubernetes/nomad, on bare-metal, in perl on Solaris.

Will be interesting to see what the next iteration will be called, the author will just need to alter her vernacular.
Physicist MV Ramana on why nuclear power is not a clean energy panacea
Australia will export solar via undersea cables to close neighbours and via hydrogen to more distant locations
Maintaining a phone number is not security through obscurity.
Not in the style of Neal Stephenson, but if you like hard sci-fi Vernor Vinge and if you like trippy cyberpunk Rudy Rucker.
It is not nonsense. I had my laptop turning on from sleep mode inside my bag and getting really hot, because of idiotic Windows 7 settings back then, which turned the device on, when networks changed. It is just ridiculous. Probably still in there that default. Since that day, I always shutdown my device completely.

Don't conclude from your own carelessness to others. Even just one person shutting down their laptop will instantly disprove your claim, that "nobody does XYZ". So you will basically almost always be wrong with such a statement/claim.