skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhere between 2-3x the electricity consumed right now (which is way down from the peak several years ago as efficiency increases, e.g. LEDs instead of light bulbs etc.). It would be crazy expensive to build nuclear reactors to produce so much electricity, with renewables it is still quite a task, but a much more manageable one.
Reading this as an Australian, it interprets differently. Yes, depending on your negotiation skills you can get a root with only a cigarette lighter.
The original post I replied to made an explicit claim with zero evidentiary support, so your demands for rigor are a bit lopsided. But more to the point, I'm really not saying anything about which metric is better or whatnot. What does it even mean to be a "better metric" when we have no consensus on what criteria we're using for comparison?

In effect, replies here effect to provide some criteria, but each is slightly different and somewhat begs the question, since said criteria can be easily chosen to support whatever conclusion you want.

When the object level discussion (i.e. in this case, the comparison of code size metrics) is ill-defined, the only natural thing we can reach for are cached ideas, heuristics, memetic trends, etc. That is, the discussion essentially becomes an implicit sharing of which cultural ideas we consider salient and important.

That is why I keep going on about culture and values in my previous replies. I'm not saying anything about ASTs vs. token count or whatever. I'm trying to say, "Hey, fellow devs. You know all the obvious ways that K and APL violate our sense of what good and proper code should look like? You know how they feel wrong? Well, actual experience by APL and K devs provides us evidence that we're potentially wrong and should give these languages more open-minded attention."
Russia is using FPVs to kill civilians on their bicycles or buying fruit, and posting the videos on telegram to laugh about it. This happens every day, it is not a few isolated incidents. It is not boredom, but a chosen tactic.
It's always worth remembering that a soldier who costs a million dollars to train can be killed by a 20 cent bullet. But soldiers still exist.

Everything in a war will involve losses that appear asymmetric if you consider losses in isolation. War is a horrible affair.

Helicopters won't disappear because they can be shot down, but if UAV, communications, plus artillery can replace them. Communication is the most likely weak link due to countermeasures.

All IMO of course.
The Israel's "Iron Dome" is supposed to include lasers, and they did use lasers to shoot down incoming rockets. In a stationary setting, like a factory or a bridge, lasers can be hard to overload, with their fast targeting, straight-line shooting, and the cost of a shot measured in single dollars. Small / cheap / slow drones with 1-2 kg payload would be an easy target.

Tanks / APCs / IMVs / other armored devices that go close to the front line seem like having much more of an existential crisis.
No

https://dle.rae.es/estadounidense

https://dem.colmex.mx/Ver/estadounidense
Just buy a smart tv but don't connect to wifi?
Hey, we should invent a Protocol for it!
Anna Quindlen - A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Given that Edge is chromium based, that is not ironic, it is expected: Chromium launching the feature is exactly what OP is about.
The Epic v Google and Epic v Apple cases are a great showcase about how the law actually works in practice.

Epic v Google was a jury trial, and also there was plenty of evidence in discovery to Epic’s favour[1], and also there was evidence that “Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court”[2].

There was a fair amount of coverage and analysis among legal commentators about why Google lost. It’s worth reading for people interested in trial law.

(Especially read [2] about how Google sought to hide conversations from discovery. It’s cringeworthy.)

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/12/tim-sweeney-why-epic-did-bet...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-goog...
yeah. If I want to watch a show, I pay the $10-12, immediately not renew, and watch the show and maybe a few other things. And repeat if anything interesting comes on.

I don't need everything all in one place. Piracy was always the cheapest option if you wanted to spend time fiddling, but the current official means is much more convenient than the cable contract lock-in days.
Whether the number for France is correct, is debatable. While I like the electricitymaps app, they are quite optimistic about nuclear power. But that isn't the point. The point is: Germany is strongly reducing the usage of coal. Yes, historically we have burned far too much coal, but that cannot be changed retroactively. What can and is being done is to replace coal as quickly as possible and that is happening.

Ironically there was a spike in coal usage in 2022, that was caused both by the war Russia started against Ukraine and even more so by France having to shut down too many nuclear reactors for repairs - German coal had to fill part of that gap.
It could. Google won't do that for chrome.

Had they not taken away onBeforeRequest with manifest V3, plugins could implement it themselves. Which is the thing you're suggesting...before the request goes.
Mega Millions tickets will climb to $5, but officials promise better odds
Various "bests" based purely on feelings
- They're Going to Love You
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Roadside Picnic
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Catch 22
- Blindness
- No Country for Old Men (various McCarthy books could rotate into this slot)
The problem with shotguns is that you either have a small number of pellets (12ga) or a small amount of mass to do damage (bird shot). So with 12ga specifically, while it's more effective than a rifle round -- the pellets spread quickly enough that it's only a huge advantage when the drone is in the terminal phase. This is why in WW2, they would put timed fuses inside the AA shells so that they didn't have to hit the aircraft directly with the shell but the round didn't spread so far that it was useless.
They are mostly relegated to a jar that you take to the coin exchange once every X years. I honestly don’t remember the last time I actually carried coins and paid for something with them (aside from receiving them as change and dumping in said jar) but it was over a decade ago that I used to actually carry change in my pocket for use. Could have probably been two decades ago almost.

Probably the most actionable use I have for coins in todays era is having a quarter for the deposits for the carts at the Aldi lot.
> I've never run into any of the anticompetitive problems people claim are so damaging

That sounds like you either haven’t heard all of the indie developers complaining or are inclined to find reasons to say problems with “your side” have some other explanation. For example, this was just a couple weeks ago where Google’s “open platform” blocked a popular app from doing what their mutual customers wanted:

https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite
The most interesting bit for me was "I won’t discuss the Apple case more than this brief outline since I’m ethically bound." This included a link to: https://www.theverge.com/authors/sean-hollister/archives/38

Did his wife sign an Apple NDA that applies to family members? Or does he not want to anger Apple out of fear of retaliation towards his wife? Either way, I don't see how the word "ethics" applies to either situation.
Wow(!) I expected a Musk meme, not an unravelling of his entire history.
A few weeks ago, I tried to compile Clang to WebAssembly, but got several different errors, and tried fixing a lot of them, but some of them seemed kind of impossible to fix, so I thought I would try again at a later date. However it seems I will not need to try again. I feel angry that someone made a convenient solution before I did, but also happy, because this probably implies that they made a consistent process to compile Clang for WASM.
Apparently they are a thing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/05/09/shotgu...

If attack drones can move like racing drones, that’s going to be a hard shot to pull off though
Discussion (584 points, 5 days ago, 200 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722159
Katie Porter is a progressive House newcomer who punched above her weight in earned media with a series of populist House floor stunts that got her a lot of attention in Northern Virginia and Boston, but probably didn't do as much as you'd think to raise her profile in the suburban communities in California that turn out in primary races.

Schiff is an undefeated 12-term House Democratic mainstay with a reputation as one of the savvier players in the party.

Cryptocurrency lobbyists didn't tank Porter's primary campaign. Schiff beat her 2:1, as observers expected. Just compare the endorsements. California has a jungle primary, so you can end up with two Democratic candidates after a primary, but Garvey beat her 2:1 as well, and you don't swing from a Republican MLB first baseman to Katie Porter based on an independent ad campaign.
>it doesn't matter how good or bad that platform is, I need a subscription.

cool. and Netflix's binge culture works against them for subscribers who only want one show. A new season hits and I can spend $10-20 to watch it and leave.

It will depend on your perspective. If you watch a bunch of TV and movies everyday then you got a worse deal. But it also makes sense you'd pay more than me, who's last venture was 1 month of Paramount for the Knuckles Show (and I didn't even pay. I went to a friend's place).

>We correctly recognized that the studios should not have a monopoly on where and how their content is distributed. Unfortunately I believe that law has expired or been repealed recently. We're going in the wrong direction.

I mean, it's not like the current endgame of AMC or Cinemark has turned out better. I paid $14 for the saddest hot dog I had ever eaten earlier in the year. someone will always try to fleece you if they have the chance.
I believe this is neither. I believe this is purely a form of control - not to make money later or lose less money - rather, I believe many are very afraid of how people would use an un-nerfed LLM.

However, it's inevitable.
I just replaced an electric stove top unit because the old one had a burner that wouldn’t turn off. I still haven’t figured out what to do with the old unit; a local e-waste recycling group doesn’t want it, I don’t know anyone that wants a partially functioning stovetop, I don’t want to fix it myself… but I guess I can pay to bring it to the local landfill.

Anyone claiming that “right to repair” fixes any of this is missing the part where people don’t want to spend their lives repairing everything they have. Also, the new stovetop is far more energy efficient than the old one with is yet another balancing aspect of replacing old tech.
Your argument would be valid if nuclear power would be the only option to prevent climate change. But there are other options: the various renewables, most importantly solar and wind. So it is not nuclear vs. climate change, but nuclear vs. solar/wind.
I did! I don't know how I managed to reply to the wrong comment.
my god, $4-$8/hr who is paying for these VMs?
Presumably C's `switch` is also a problem.
The joke is that Sol is a gravitationally confined thermonuclear reactor.
That only works in areas like Europe and the Middle East where targets are relatively close. For drones to be relevant in the Pacific fight they'll have to be much larger, faster, and smarter; and thus more expensive.
The author spends half the article saying it isn’t about sex; but then has this gem:

> Hell, who are you to define what constitutes “weird sex stuff”?

In other words, “It isn’t sex, I swear! But even if it is, it wouldn’t be a problem!” Not a very convincing argument. It’s also ridiculous because every society has a line for when “weird sex stuff” goes too far - do I need to show my credentials to condemn consensual incest?

How soon at this rate of moral turpitude do we have the leather suits in public…
How is CST ambiguous? Are you thinking of all those counties in Indiana that don't observe daylight savings? In theory at least, a specific instant in CST maps to a single specific instant in UTC, GMT, CUT or Zulu Time, whichever you set your watch to.

And it does seem like people sometimes forget that CST is not the same thing as CDT. Several months ago (after the 2024 PST -> PDT crossover) I had someone across town tell me they wanted to set up a meeting at something like 9AM. But when the invite came, the time zone was set for 9AM PST instead of 9AM PDT. I assumed it was PDT since we were in the same locality. But I did make sure my schedule was clear for the hour before on the off chance they had some weird software bug that picked time zones at random.

If your point is something similar, then I heartily agree. In theory, converting between time-zones and daylight and standard times is easy, but in practice there are several situations where it's made more difficult than it should be.
Although Epic appealed to SCOTUS, and SCOTUS rejected their appeal, which makes it seem like SCOTUS is unlikely to rule that app stores have to be open.

In general the judicial system's bizarre treatment of Apple baffles and somewhat infuriates me. If Google has to allow alternative app stores on Android due to monopoly power, and has to allow alternate billing options due to monopoly power, and yet is the smaller of the two in the U.S., how on Earth does the legal system continue to give a free pass to Apple doing the same thing while having more market power in the U.S. than Google? It's obscene and makes me deeply question the integrity of the judicial system in the U.S. as a whole.

Personally I think both Google and Apple should have to open up their app store system and billing systems more broadly, but it's pretty despicable for the judicial system to simply pick winners and losers like this.
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I'm not trying to be provocative or a downvote magnet here but does anyone actually have a concrete response to the concerns Frederighi raised about sideloading and privacy / phishing protections three years ago?[1]

Isn't it like very, very obvious that while you and I and everyone else on HN appreciate the power of sideloading, average users are more easily tricked into bypassing the protections of well-run app stores?

[1] https://youtu.be/f0Gum8UkyoI
OK but it's mostly a sex thing, and calling it art doesn't change that. A lot of e.g. BDSM practice has significant artistic value, but doing it around nonconsenting members of the general public is stil something to be avoided.

> we only relegate a group of people into an outsider identity when it’s easy to do so; when they are outwardly different, literally wearing a costume that sets them apart, we pin more badges of eccentricity onto them.

Isn't that entirely reasonable? People who act normal in public get treated normally in public, people who go out of their way to look weird in public get treated as weird in public. Surely that's fair and correct.
Note that you're one of a minority of people here who aren't using a pseudonym.

I don't use my real name here precisely so that I don't have to worry about what other people will think about me when reading my comments.
users wants are company wants. one X is how you end up with a monopoly and an endgame where they enshittify the platform to cost as much as Cable back in the day.

I'm a bit surprised a community as tech savvy as this has frustrations over the idea of using multiple platforms. decentralization by its nature means you'll have fragmentation of content. But it protects against the worse ending of Youtube price hiking mulitple times a year and doubling down on adblock users.
Yea exactly, it's like "I just met you, and this is crazy, here let me shit-test you maybe". Like running a "reverse a linked list" test on first meeting. There is by definition judgement to it, which, judging strangers, can come off as arrogant / condescending
In Apple ecosystem. The iPhone Pro keep more of its value then iPhone. ( depending on region ) So in reality you actually spend less then $200 if you sell it within 2-3 years, for 120Hz screen, better camera, usable zoom, and better battery life. Which isn't really a bad deal to be honest.

iPhone 16 would have been close to perfect if it had say 3X zoom and 120hz screen. The weight and thickness of Pro also make it slightly harder to hold.
If the phone manufacturers stop including the play store in the default install. Then would people still use the play store?
My guess is at the city they are in? Wouldn't that just make sense?
> Enriching uranium is within the capability of a nation-state the size of Ukraine.

Sure. But standing up a program makes you an international pariah. “We’re keeping this” would have had a bit less uproar.

> Physical access to a nuke does not let you disable the PAL. They are constructed so that they are embedded within the device, and cannot be disabled or altered without deconstructing significant parts of the warhead.

People say this sort of thing, but it comes out that the US arsenal was set to 00000000 in fear that they couldn’t be used. I have… severe doubts on the uncrackable nature of Soviet nuclear cryptography.
Until the algorith associates you with an ad for something negative to your audience. Scams for example are common for algorithms to allow while a human can validate some legitimentch
FPV drones can only work at short ranges (line of sight) or in permissive EW environments. So, not as relevant to a future conflict with China.
If every company self regulates their own App Store, then who is going to go to ensure apps are trustworthy and reliable?

Imagine if Spotify had a Spotify store that required device id tracking for their ad network.
That is why I like "Allow Listing" in my .gitignore file. Much harder to add stuff by accident.

# Ignore everything

*

# But not these files...

!/.gitignore

!*.go

!go.sum

!go.mod
and likewise, 90% of people still converge onto some dozen websites per region anyway. If people really want that "one true platform", they will congregate and make that platform a monopoly. Against their best interests in my experience, but humanity sometimes need to re-learn the same pitfalls every generation.
Show HN: You're online all day. Why not use the browser to remind you of things?
They’re not exclusive but that’s also not what you or the person I initially responded to were doing, now was it? If we’re actually looking at both of your responses and not a retroactive framing of them. Neither one of your comments did anything but levy shots at Apple, and neither even mentioned the Android manufacturers part in it.

In fact your own reply starts of with blaming solely Apple. Your only mention of Android is how they did bigger screens first.
Tao Teh Chingh

Easy and accessible

Will take me my whole life to read
> Look at Microsoft. They have been found guilty of anticompetitive conduct related to their open Windows platform in multiple jurisdictions, but not so with XBox.

It helps a lot that they are the only sellers of the XBox. With Windows they were strong-arming third party manufacturers. The situation is similar with Apple and iOS. Because it’s “their” phone they have more control. Google was telling other manufacturers of android phones what to do, which crossed a line.
wow, I had no idea this exists. thank you very much
Bias in a supposedly neutral court would certainly fall under BS legal systems, yes.
It's a matter of the enemy you face. I am more of an अस्त्रग्रह kind of guy, if you take my meaning. The measure of civilization is your will to withhold violence against those who you could subjugate. Satyagraha works effectively against opponents who are therefore civilized.

It's an adaptive tool. So if you were the Maori vs. British settlers, this approach works to survive. If you were the Moriori vs. the Maori, you die. Maybe you get eaten, though whether that happens or not seems irrelevant to you once you die (cf. Diogenes).
He has a potential motive to lie or to distort the truth. Or maybe he has not, but an outside observer cannot know it for sure. So if he will speak freely he will become a target of attacks based on his supposed hidden motivation, and it can happen without regard to his real impartiality.
Do boycotts work anymore? I'm asking for an AI-protesting friend.
Lately I think I've been seeing more science news sites linking to source articles, with DOIs usually abstracts-only are viewable) and Arxiv (often with PDFs) for example..
>I typically paid 150 to 250 Canadian. They last 2 to 3 years and meet my needs right up to the next purchase. I am due this year for a switch.

Seems penny wise pound foolish compared to getting something like an iPhone SE or a low end pixel (eg. 7a) which have 6-8 years of support, rather than the 1-2 years support you get from low end phones.
I use these books for exactly the same reason! I had a really hard time falling asleep until I discovered that putting a Discworld novel on in one earbud was enough to silence the voices in my head long enough for me to fall asleep.

It used to be that I'd take an hour or more to fall asleep, now I'll often be asleep within one 5-minute run of the sleep timer.

I finished Discworld and have moved on to Stephen Fry's Sherlock Holmes, which has much the same effect.
> if we solve climate change with geoengineering instead of by addressing thoughtless consumerism, corporate impunity, and lack of international accountability, many people would feel frustrated or let down

If some people feel frustrated or let down because we achieve a literal miracle (by today's technology standards) that saves millions of lives I'm willing to call them mentally unhinged.
sun shields? There's some testing of those going on right now. You wouldn't need a huge reduction in sunlight either. Not enough to impact plants.
My game of choice was Gunship on the Commodore 64, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter simulator from Microprose. Spent YEARS playing that.

Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game.
> Meanwhle I will almost always get an AmazonBasics if it exists as a first result.

99.9% of buyers prefer this over having to wade through innumerate random brands and try to discern quality.
I disagree. I listened to an hour long, glowing summary of it and read about it on Wikipedia. It is just not convincing to me. The only thing cartoonish is how hard people praise it, considering we already have property taxes much like George wanted, which are often quite high and don't add to the economy. Property taxes like that are very close to communism, especially if you take it to an extreme. The higher the taxes, the less you actually own anything.

I have also had the displeasure of arguing with someone who thinks Henry George had the right idea. The dude was literally defending the communist Chinese "property" model which is just a 70 year lease from the government.

Calling my view extreme is like saying that an atheist is religious. Just because I don't accept this idea and all the ensuing conclusions, does not make my views extreme or unreasonable, much less "cartoonish"...
that's the funny thing. I think they still will, but the people up in Google apparently don't even want to risk the chance of losing any marketshare. That's why they spend millions to Apple to keep Google as the default search, even though many consumer's first instinct is to go to Google as is.

It's a strange strategy to me, but I guess I may underestimate however many people will just stick to whatever pops up first.
We must protect them from the evils of the world.
I like how you can faintly see flightpaths if you zoom all the way out
This is cheaper than 8xH100 GPU compute time for AI.
Best fantasy series I read are the Elric universe ones