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> Yes that might happen. But it'll happen at a number much greater than 50X.

It's difficult to say. We are not running out of land, that's for sure. But we are running out of cheap land. Or rather land where it is economical to build solar. Sahara has plenty of empty land, and it is plenty sunny all year long, but there are civil wars more often than not, various militias, corrupt governments, etc. The US has lots of deserts, but also lots of groups with various agendas that find ways to delay projects, and delays can transform good projects into bad projects.

As a concrete example, take California. California is very proud to be a leader in environmental issues. You can find on the state website the installed capacity per year. For the last 5 years it has been [1], in GW: 1.2 (in 2020), 1.5, 2.0, 2.3, 0.9 (in 2024, so far). The year over year growth rates were 26%, 35%, 10% and for this year -60%. This year is not over, and it's possible the numbers are not up to date, but it's quite unlikely we'll get to match last year's numbers, let alone see a double digit growth.

Or take Texas. Wikipedia has their annual numbers between 2007 and 2023 [2]. I did the math, and between 2007 and 2017 they experienced a 90% annual growth. Nice Moore's law at work there. For the next 4 years the average annual growth was 60%. And for the last 2 years, it was 28%. Nothing to sneeze at, but the trend is clear. Why, if the cost of the panels went down?

> Thousands of flights per year

Elon is not talking about thousands of flights per year. Thousands of flights per day. Millions per year. A million launches of 5 kT CO2e each equal 5 GT CO2 each. That's about 10% of the current worldwide emissions. Or about 30% of the current emissions that come from power generation. If we are to use synthetic fuel instead of fossil fuel, and you have a 30% efficiency of making synfuel (which is what a quick google search indicates), then you have a 2x increase in electricity needs.

[1] https://www.californiadgstats.ca.gov/charts/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Texas
> How about integrity? Do you find that relevant?

I feel a very strong ethical obligation to our children. I often worry about whether I've met that ethical obligation to them.

But when I'm thinking about that, I'm thinking about our kids, and what I have done and failed to do – I'm not thinking about "self worth". I feel guilty about some things – whether I should or I shouldn't – but my mind doesn't associate those feelings with the phrase "self worth".
Does anyone have any knowledge/understanding on how this is (or isn't?) fundamentally different from Intel's Xeon Phi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi
Yes, but the left hand low was the largest and (in my opinion) the most noticeable. That being said the trim on the right makes the two right-most figures feel ‘wrong’ and the cropped bottom moves the central figure’s feet way too close to the edge.

The structure of the painting is very common: a central figure surrounded by a semi-circle of figures. For an early and clear example look at The Tribute Money by Masaccio. The crop on the left plays hell with this structure. It also moves the central figure maddeningly close to the middle. Rembrandt would never have voluntarily placed a figure in the middle of a multi-figure composition.
Locking the phone to a carrier is not an anti-theft mechanism. They're available in abundance on the used market with no special protections of any kind from the carriers, the only difference is that they sell for a fraction of the cost because you're locked in to the single carrier.

Maybe you're thinking of the locking mechanisms built in to Android and iOS?
You can ask Gemini to summarize a YouTube video for you! Also if you have YouTube Premium on Android, you can ask questions about the current video.

Here's Gemini's summary of GP's video: https://g.co/gemini/share/8c0417024a3f
Initiation in the playground of this "interzone" requires communication, through language which is ultimately predicated on the structures of grammar. There are some, like Chomsky, who believe that this capacity is innate to hueman beings, that grammatical paradigms are inborn. That this architectural state of the soul is recollected upon liberation from our ineffable state of dotage.
Luckily recent openwrt releases, mainline Linux don’t use the proprietary driver that powers this daemon nor the vulnerable daemon. Since 2023 except for xiaomi routers they shouldn’t be affected I want to add
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I’m under the impression that most of those kinds of actions are involuntary. If anything I’m pretty sure people are wildly aware of the fact that their ticks make people uncomfortable, having lived with them their whole lives.
The problem is not execution, is "justice", not just failing, but also without consequences for doing so, even in the cases of repeating offenders.

Putting a few individual injustices up front doesn't show how the system may not be at its best, to say the least. And a relatively fast and painless execution may be better than a full lifetime in prison being innocent, of which the few stories of people being released after decades being innocent may hide the fact that may be orders more than never were or will.
I've been following that saga for a long time. Seems mostly like vapourware sadly.
In the README.txt distributed with the release it says:

> Licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0.

Which is the only text that puts it under the GPL at all. There is no later version mentioned.

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/README.TXT

Regardless, you can't change the license on code you don't own, even if the code is distributed under a flexible license.
The textbook example of course being Sovaldi [1] the cure for Hepatitis C that was invented and then sold for ~84 K$ when introduced which massively undercut the prevailing treatments which cost ~40 K$ per year for a lifetime (40+ years of treatment on average).

Turns out, the shareholders really preferred getting a pile of money over other people who are not themselves getting a even bigger pile of money. Bunch of moneygrubbers ruining a good gig.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir
Thanks for the input! I will definitely check on the support for ebook format. I think Gemma2 models read books pretty well now!
if you buy a broadly diversified index, if the market goes up, you are better off than you were; there is no justification in not participating in that.

your investment going down means the whole economy went down: you are no worse off than the aggregate, and you still own your piece of the economy.

if the whole economy goes down a lot, the widespread largescale unemployment means you are a lot better off than a lot of people, and you still own your segment of the economy.

it's more of an opportunity cost type thing: you can't afford not to be fully invested. In general, the economy grows, you want to grow with it.

nobody can predict downturns; anybody who can is busily correcting the market to make money from it; in any case, that's not us, so we do what we can do.
Ibuprofen reduces pain. It is also not a solution, especially when that pain has a solvable underlying cause.

What worries me is that many people are becoming lonely because we’re losing the habits and skill sets needed to form and maintain meaningful relationships.

Given everything we know about the importance of social connection to many facets of human well-being, unless something like this is used explicitly to rebuild those skills and to subsequently form real connections, tools like this seem likely to worsen the problem in the long run.
What do we do when reality is a distant second to digital simulation?

We're just seeing sparks of AI starting and it's already beating out people for tasks which were thought to be innately unautomatable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4
Asianometry also has a video on the history of the Japanese PC market,

https://youtu.be/CEtgzO-Im8w
>enabling our modern way of life

That's kind of their point, though? They're suggesting our "way of life" is backwards in some ways, which I think is a fair assessment.

We find ourselves supporting financially things like what's happening in Israel or Gaza or happened in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sudan or Armenia or Haiti or insert the rest of the list of countries we've coup'ed here. While we fight over whether poor people deserve healthcare, or if school kids deserve not to starve. Over if public education is good or not. Or if women deserve medical autonomy...

None of that is particularly democratic. Globalization happened because rich people wanted cheaper labor in the 'global south' not because of military bases.
I don't know that it's obvious military is what's "produced globalization" and "highly democratic" societies. That seems a fairly large keep of faith.
> However, the telemetry of VSCode is non-personal metrics,

We know from the body of work in deobfuscation that there's no such thing as "strictly anonymous metrics".
Huh, what this whole article actually led me to find is that the winner of Curiosity never actually got any price. The price they were supposed to get was never even developed. I guess that’s some way to get out of your contractual agreements. Wonder how that would have gone for them if the winner wasn’t a clueless 18 year old.
This is wrong:

>While the license included in the original doesn't bind the recipients to v2, recipients can't restrict successive recipients to a later version only. They have the option of v2.

The program was licensed under GPL version 2.0 only. So no choice to use later versions.
Ah, I guess you’re right.

To me, “artisanal” means one / very few experts carefully crafted a custom product to their own exacting standards, driven by their internal need for perfection rather than guided by a spec sheet / quality level specified externally.

There are definitely hackers who do this.
Isn’t this what trademarks are for?
Maybe I'm in the group that tends to be harmed by newspapers, paperback romance and adventure novels, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock music, television, video games and pornography unless they have the knowledge needed to have a healthy relationship with them (knowledge which is not exactly routinely taught in high school) and your in the group that tends not to be harmed by them.
Show HN: I built FeedbackThing.Pro to simplify bug reporting and feedback
Hey HN,

I got tired of asking users for screenshots and manually building feedback forms for each app I worked on. So, I built FeedbackThing.Pro to streamline this process.

Now, I can just create a project, drop in a simple <script> tag, and users can submit feedback and bug reports without any extra effort. It lets users take screenshots, send comments, and ratings, and organize everything in one place.

Tech Stack: T3 stack (nextjs14, drizzle orm, and uploadthing)

No more custom forms, no more chasing users for details. It’s built for developers like me who want to focus on building features, not gathering feedback.
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Pouch cells are normally under compression as force is required to keep the plates together. A firm press isn't going to hurt them. If you're applying enough force to actually crush and short the cell, you are far too ham-fisted to do work like this. In fact using a tool to apply pressure is more likely to cause damage.
> I don't think being an engineering discipline limits software in any way related to what can be achieved with it.

I don't either. I think programming can be art, etc.

My issue here is that I don't think favoring artisanal methods are part of the appeal of software. We are much more interested in what software does.

For instance, it might be useful to know x86_64 vector assembly. It might make your program run faster. It might even be necessary for you to know it for your program to work correctly. What I am saying is -- if a higher level construct exists, like C, C++, or Rust, which can produce an equivalent program, but you choose to write your entire program in x86_64 assembly, because that is/was the artisanal way, that's mostly unimportant/irrelevant to the user, except as an oddity.
Shipping fast might be confused for shipping smaller complete updates.

The more flexibility that's maintained in the start, the more things the code can try to solve.

This is also easier with less code written in general.
No need for a dark web, Twitter and GitHub have both leaked user passwords stored in plain text on their own platforms right here on the corporate web.

Twitter who struggled to turn a profit (but not to pay its investors who became wildly rich off it) hired artists who chose technology like Ruby on Rails. They should have hired capitalists who breathed jQuery and ate pieces of sh*t like Active Record for breakfast
Then it’s basically porn. A short term “better” solution that undermines longer term satisfaction. Porn, junk food, etc

The thing about people is they’re people. They’re different. It can be hard. They’re selfish. But there can be joy in our differences, and real meaning when someone actually cares. Vs a chatbot who is centered around you. It might feel good but it’s not a real relationship of give and take.
I don’t know if that’s what people are saying, tho maybe part of convincing the public to fund such efforts involves strongly suggesting that could be the case. But what else can we do but poke them harder? It’s been working so far.
The lack of care from the product managers filters down through engineering. Product managers only care if a feature is shipped, not it it is polished. More shit shipping means more personal gain.
Two points, no comments, nothing.

Stop it.
> You cannot go to a AT&T store to buy a phone and then use it on tmobile’s network.

Why not? You're paying them for the device. Why should they have a right to stop you using it how you want? Imagine if buying a car also came with a requirement to only use the dealership's petrol stations for the first year.
Wrong. A substantial number of advertisers dropped X.com because it isn't brand safe (for example their ads are located next to racist or Nazi or pornographic content). A substantial number of the staff let go were involved in keeping the site brand safe.
For a lot of people, such options are not possible, e.g., elderly, sick, bed-ridden, socially challenged or so on. You underestimate the need and impact of such technology.
Hey, I’m Sree, and I built this because I found it to be a pain in the bum to collect bug reports and feedback from users of my saas products. I had to create new forms, DB schemas, and also s3 buckets to store screenshots from users, which was annoying. So, I decided to build something that makes it easier for developers like me to gather feedback and bug reports without the headache.

PS: I'm a Theo T3 fanboy. That's why the name is "feedbackthing" and the use of t3 stack + uploadthing
This article contains a very neat description of what is energy, momentum and spin and why they there. Energy is just a quantity that's preserved when shifting through time, momentum is a quantity preserved by shifting through space. And spin is a quantity preserved by rotation in space-time.

General relativity treats energy and momentum jointly so I guess basically energy-momentum is a quantity preserved in space-time translations and spin is a quantity preserved in space-time rotations. (in flat space-time, I think?)

I guess that's why those Poincare symmetries are rarely mentioned when talking about particles. They seem to come more from sheer geometry of space-time than anything else. Particle physicists are mainly interested in all other symmetries (because they were harder to figure out). It also must be bad feeling that while you are trying pull gravity into your framework, more than half of the symmetries that the objects you spent your career observing obey, come from general relativity not from your framework.
do you have a write-up how you did it? I'm interested, thanks.
> What do we do when reality is a distant second to digital simulation?
We don't do anything. People already have phones in their faces and screens as their main source of light all day.

We go outside. Hang out with people. Form meaningful relationships. Biking. Hiking. Have fun. Enjoyment. Fulfillment.

Loneliness and stress are killers. Digital simulation aint no solution.
He thinks he needs a shell script to do automatic dependency management with Make. Obviously he's not presenting himself as a Make expert, but that's hardly rocket science.
Funny you should mention porn: ai generated porn is now better than the real thing for images and >5s clips. At current rates for Moore's Law we're going to have 5 minute clips of anything you desire within the next decade on the equivalent of a 4090.

I wonder if we will start having people demand we go back to real human porn like in the good old days because it's just not natural to jack it to photo realistic catgirl dominatrices.
It's meant to be a Sufi vatican city. The monks are pacifists.
This is encouraging news for people who, unlike most of those normals or near-normals implicitly referred to here in the comments, suffer from horrific disfigurement or debilitating psychological issues that make engaging with the 'real world' next to impossible.
I think once we fully understand consciousness (and physics in general) at a deeper level, then not all, but a very large amount of stuff that was previously labeled as "magical thinking", "ghosts", "telepathy", etc will turn out to have been not only real but perfectly explainable by science.

Of course I'll now be slammed for "woo woo" unscientific thinking as is always the case on HN, when someone who "knows all" encounters someone who doesn't.
This attention to detail is what separates the mediocre frontend devs from the rest. How the heck do I improve our hiring process so we get more of you!!!
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Opening this page lights my phone on fire.

It’s absurd that opening a news website is more intense than running a game with a million baloons on-screen at the same time (without any slowdown).
>> It's not a "minor inconvenience" at all.

> What's your solution? This kind of satellite system is going to get built and improved over time regardless of what you think of it.

So you've reversed your " opinion " and tacitly admitted it's more than a a minor inconvenience then?

As I outlined above the solution proposed was that the Ver 2.0 sats be better shielded and set to turn off over Radio Quiet Zones such as the Murchison as discussed and agreed to when this was raised some years back.

>> It's more due to Musk lying and not delivering.

> No, it's not.

Yes. It is. At least so far as the radio telescope community and this Starlink issue is concerned. He made promises and didn't keep them.

> Biden and a bunch of EU politicians ...

Has nothing to do with Starlink noise.

> Let's look at Elon's accomplishments objectively.

Sure. He promised to fix Starlink noise. He did not. He delivered a Ver 2.0 that's noisier than the the first.

He promised Full Self Driving cars "next year" for a decade. Still hasn't happened.
If the elderly, sick and bedridden can talk to a computer they can also talk to real people through the computer. For the socially challenged I get where you're coming from, but the question is whether it would help them to develop their social skills or whether they would just become dependent on the chatbot and withdraw even further from the real world.
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Fun facts, Broadcom changed its base from Singapore to US just so it can buy Qualcomm but failed nonetheless.

[1] Broadcom completes move to U.S. from Singapore:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/broadcom-completes-...
Kind of like how 99.99% of Alien Encounters were not aliens, but .01% were, tho amirite? :)
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Yep it's just pure jank. Even Apple (especially post-Jobs) can produce jank.
> IMO the Starlink interference problem is being overblown to spite Elon for political reasons.

That's your opinion. It's wrong.

There is a list of papers as long as an arm going back to the start of Starlink that measure the noise spectrum and point out exactly why it's a real problem for pre existing programs that have had billions invested in new science programs.

There are proposed work arounds which have been ignored.
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I’m not a security researcher, so it’s really not about me. You seem to be confused about what we’re even arguing about, this discussion started because someone said they wouldn’t use this browser because the low bug bounty amount represents that the company isn’t taking security seriously. My posts simply defend why this is a perfectly reasonable stance to take. They are not me demanding an increase in bug bounties so that I will work on them. A good trick if you’re ever confused about a discussion is to simply scroll up and read the posts, I’ll make it even easier for you, this is where it starts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606272

Secondly, in a true demonstration of confusion, if you read my posts they demand nothing. They simply state what are likely outcomes of certain choices. I’m not sure how to possibly make the stance of “if you pay smaller bug bounties in a market that has other offerings, you will get less research focused on your product” any simpler. It seems fairly straightforward… and the existence of one bug report does not somehow “disprove” this. Why not make the bug bounty $1 otherwise? Oh, is that a ridiculous suggestion? Because that might not be a worthwhile enough incentive perhaps? But who are you to dictate what is and isn’t a worthwhile incentive. “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works…”

> “either a researcher out there will spend some time on it […] or they won’t.”

Yes, I agree with this truism that they either will spend time on it or they won’t. Interestingly, this is true in all scenarios. My point is how to optimize researchers spending time on your product (which in theory you are inclined to do if your are offering a bounty), and I then separately even make suggestions for how to possibly require less attention by making safer choices and being able to “ride” on another project’s bug bounties.

But again, the simplest point here is that the position of “we offer low bug bounties because that is what we can afford” is fine, it’s just also absolutely defensible to be completely turned off by it as a potential user of that product, for the likely security implications of that position.