skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've still got too much of an "us vs them" mentality about the utilities, its not so much that they are refusing to shift to that model per se, these shifts are ongoing and happening today (which is why you're getting paid 10c per kwh for unreliable solar, IMO definitely more than it's worth), but I think a lot of people have unrealistic expectations with how far things can be shifted without addressing the implicit assumptions, such as the reliability of the power. Like, if we downsize the transformer between your subdivision and the grid by too much, that subdivision will have brownouts on cloudy days. In order to avoid that, we could deploy industrial scale battery packs, which also costs a ton of money and requires ongoing maintenance; at that point, it's probably cheaper to just use a bigger transformer to connect to the greater grid, where we have nuclear, hydro, wind, commercial solar, and hydrocarbon generation, which can all be used in different situations to match the grid demand with supply on a larger economy of scale.

In conclusion, the retail price of your electricity includes the engineering and infrastructure required to make your power delivery reliable most of the time, which is much more valuable than the raw kilowatts coming off of your solar panels.
It's like déjà vu all over again, Yogi.

Aug 2023: “UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'”

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/uk_air_traffic_woes_i...
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In addition, it samples a limited amount of lights at each frame (sorted by likely importance based on the position), and accumulates lighting over time: the only way you get a stable, nice image is when you leave your camera and world stable for a second. Move, and it blurs.
Look at musl, dlclose marks a library as invalid, so when reallocations happened next the pointers get reused. It's garbage collected, but things get unloaded.

Though, you do seem to be correct that POSIX allows things to remain in the address space:

> The use of dlclose() reflects a statement of intent on the part of the process, but does not create any requirement upon the implementation, such as removal of the code or symbols referenced by handle. Once an object has been closed using dlclose() an application should assume that its symbols are no longer available to dlsym(). All objects loaded automatically as a result of invoking dlopen() on the referenced object shall also be closed if this is the last reference to it.

> Although a dlclose() operation is not required to remove structures from an address space, neither is an implementation prohibited from doing so. The only restriction on such a removal is that no object shall be removed to which references have been relocated, until or unless all such references are removed. For instance, an object that had been loaded with a dlopen() operation specifying the RTLD_GLOBAL flag might provide a target for dynamic relocations performed in the processing of other objects-in such environments, an application may assume that no relocation, once made, shall be undone or remade unless the object requiring the relocation has itself been removed. [0]

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/functions/dl...
> Emacs is an extremely esoteric program [with respect to] documentation

I sort of get the other points, but I really don't get this at all. How is Emacs documentation esoteric? Emacs is without a doubt the best-documented application I've ever used. I can't think of a single thing with documentation as comprehensive, accessible, navigable, interactive, searchable, or genre-spanning as Emacs' documentation.

Emacs' documentation is so far from assuming that you already know how Emacs works that it'll literally teach you not only how to use the available configuration options for its built-ins (and any external packages you choose to install) or the language used to set them, or even how to write code in that language, but what computer programs even are.

Someone with zero programming knowledge whatsoever could sit down at a computer with no internet connection, open Emacs and its manuals, and learn everything they need to use, understand, and modify Emacs all the way to the point of contributing their own Elisp code to popular packages or Emacs itself. All that without reference to a single external document or a minute of personal instruction. Emacs documentation covers everything from how to change your colorscheme to what a loop is. How is that 'esoteric'?
Generally HPC compute has lower margins similar to consoles. It makes sense that AMD would fight for that contract more than NVIDIA similar to IBM stopped doing this. Its sort of comparing Apples to Raspberry Pis.
A consortium of various tech companies, plus non-profits? Instead of it being in one corporate hand. One can dream of the EFF and Mozilla plus a bunch of other stakeholders owning it.
I don’t really understand how this would work and the article doesn’t really give me enough detail to know. But for me, Google abandoning their plans to disable third party cookies tells me everything I need to know: their ad business calls the shots and an ad company having monopoly over the browser market is an unequivocally bad thing.

I just have no idea how we get from here to there. And let’s be real, with Trump re-elected the chance of the DOJ following through with this is very low.
Right but how much of that is cloud shit hosted on a different continent?
Google also turns every link tap in their iOS apps into an opportunity to upsell Chrome for iOS when it should just open the link with the user’s default browser.
This is super interesting! Thanks for sharing. Here we are talking of graphs in the milions nodes/edges, so efficiency is not that big of a deal, since anyway things are gonna be parsed by a LLM to craft an asnwer which will always be the bottleneck. Indeed PageRank is the first step, but we would be happy to test more accurate alternatives. Importantly, we are using personalized pagerank here, meaning we give specific intial weights to a set (potentially quite large) of nodes, would TC support that (as well as giving weight to edges, since we are also looking into that)?
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Chrome can't really be sold unless it'd mean Google is not allowed to maintain a fork of Chromium.

While you can sell access to the existing installations (control over the update url), if Google continues to invest development into a fork (and just drops the information about it on Google frontpage) then that new fork will become defacto Chrome.

EDIT: To clarify, the value of Chrome is not only the userbase, but also its placement in Google products and importantly, the development effort on a scale few can afford.
> then you just end up with the videogame equivalent of the MCU

We've been there for a long time - just off the top of my head: Call of Duty, Halo, Assassin's Creed, World of Warcraft (doubly so now with Classic), Fortnite

Some people really just want to go back to the old and comfortable.
I don't know where people get this idea from. Losses in trench warfare-ish should be roughly proportional to number of incoming shells. Which have been lopsided the whole war, by a factor of multiple times.
Nope, nope, nope.

Think about the Matrix series. The first Matrix film was iconic, the second was decent but sort of mid, the third was absolute drek and it taints the entire franchise as a result. I can't watch The Matrix any more without knowing how they fucked up the third film and without that slightly ruining the experience. The fourth I watched but I must admit that it hasn't really left any kind of impression on me.

Resolving at any cost is way worse than leaving something hanging.

I think it's why Firefly is so well regarded: it didn't last long enough to fall to enshittification. And when they did resolve it they only had a feature film's length to do it, so they had to focus and we got Serenity, which is excellent and how they resolved the origin of the Reavers is still a great piece of storytelling.
That is true in a valid point but install Windows sometimes and see how much it pushes you toward the edge browser. Which is chromium at its core but the experience it provides is not as good as Chrome even with all of Chrome's downsides.

So while I don't have the specific answer I think there is a much bigger question here of is it free market choice that is gravitated everyone here or is it monopolistic pressure that is squeezed out the competition. Microsoft is no small player in this space they're just the suckier player as they lost their crown with Internet explorer when they effectively owned the market too.
Maybe the DOJ will come in and call it anti-trust shenanigans.

Not that I would want this...
In that same alternate reality: WPEngine is given control of Automattic/WordPress as a result of the lawsuits.
An extremely minor degree.

I had to discuss for months with a mate, who insisted proposing that "Bolsonaro [would be] responsible for the actions of Lula, and Lula [would be] responsible for the actions of Bolsonaro" (actually much worse). And this is just a formulation that should show a paradox; other complexities exist that in the proposed idea of "responsibility" are overridden.
They wouldn't, but about half of the developers commenting here would do the equivalent of switching from NEMA to something else on the grounds that the something else is better.
We are building connectors for that, so it will soon :) At the moment we are using python-igraph (which does everything locally) as we wanted to offer something as ready to use as possible.
I disagree personally. Even a shitty ending to the story is better than nothing at all.
PWAs being entirely unsupported by Firefox for instance.
So you do understand that the world can not work according to your simple tit-for-tat principle of "counterattack with equal force". It's a multi-dimensional game where each player has its own fairly opaque "reward function". "Equal force" from one point of view can become "disproportionate escalation" from another. This is where a proper understanding of your opponent becomes important.

Even worse, inside US and Russian governments there are groups with their own interests and agendas. The military-industrial complex can be interested in further escalation and fearmongering (i.e. "good war"), while civilian industry would prefer some kind of compromise as soon as possible (i.e. "poor peace").
Brave is not an independent browser, the majority of development comes for free through Chromium, funded by… Google. Firefox by Mozilla Corp survives on loads of cash from… Google.

Whoever’s going to pay for the acquisition and the shit ton of ongoing development costs will have to milk it a lot harder than Google (unless the buyer is something like Microsoft, but what’s the point then). A browser alone, especially the type people here champion, is a bad business.
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The full circle of course is MS will end up acquiring it.
Hey now I compare Apples to Raspberry Pi's regularly :)
All right, I'll bite

> Food has improved dramatically.

Not necessarily. While accessibility is far better, it comes at the cost of having monocultures, mass farming, and heavy importation during off-seasons. This has made, say, the average tomato cheaper and more accessible year-round but substantially worse than the seasonal tomatoes you would have 40 years ago.

> Houses are larger...

But more and more people live in cramped apartments in big cities so that point is moot.

> Healthcare...

And is it more important that a poor 25 year-old young person with their whole productive tax-paying life ahead of them can seek care appropriately Vs the hospitals keeping 80+ year-old fossils alive with their "better healthcare". The only exception is ozempic and the likes but that didn't use to be necessary before cars killed most public spaces.

> Car reliability/safety...

By turning them into huge monstrosities and widening roads, again destroying public spaces and walkability. The only major breakthrough here is lead-free fuel.

> Compute power. The average person has the knowledge of the ENTIRE world at their fingertips. But totally no progress has been made???

I'll give you that one but it's at the cost of turning a computer into an addiction machine. I still think it's a net positive but it isn't so clear cut.

> We have weather satellites

True but now we're have much more extreme weather thanks too climate change.

> We can talk to family whenever we want...

We can but when do we? I keep in touch with family often but it definitely feels less special than how it was even in the 00s.

> We have vastly more free time...

Assuming you have the same sized family and roles. Now's your need both parents in a family to work to make ends meet for the average young person so the freed time has mostly gone to the older generation.

Overall zoomers and gen alpha definitely have it worse than their parents. And this is coming from someone with a middle class background who now gets paid well to program -everyone I know my age feels this way. The main lifestyle change we got recently is cheap travel which is amazing but the basics are definitely harder (and this is why birthrates are down).
This is the quote:

> Tesco and Sainsbury’s published shrimp welfare commitments, citing collaboration with SWP (among others), and signed 9 further memoranda of understanding with producers, in total committing to stunning a further ~1.6B shrimps per annum.

It is a secondary source. It does not present firsthand information. It describes commitments made by Tesco, Sainsbury's, and others.

Setting this aside, the point I made is simple. This article argues for a radical change in morality; folks generally view a human life as worth much much more than 32 shrimp lives.

A well-written radical argument should understand how it differs from mainstream thought and focus on the premise(s) that underlies this difference. As I am unimpressed with the premises, I find the article unconvincing.
I mean, the third matrix movie was by far the best in my book. But taste is subjective and all that.
Here's your "Lady on Fire" generator, [1].

"Oh but you can't compare a paragraph to a whole movie script!"

Sure, just apply the same procedure recursively, stop at a depth where you're satisfied, see [2].

Bear in mind I've only spent like 10 minutes and a negligible amount of money. Now imagine you have a year and a budget of 10MUSD to come up with the best movie script you can create with the help of AI.

It really is only a matter of time ...

1: https://chatgpt.com/share/673bc781-0318-8003-a555-5ea4ea1463...

2: https://chatgpt.com/share/673bc976-0a24-8003-ab8e-11c7800527...
How the hell can you not realize that quoting someone making an unsubstantiated claim (within that quote) is not evidence? HN never ceases me to amaze me... Point me to evidence that establishes a causal relationship between human activity and climate change. Climate is changing alright, but is this phenomenon anthropogenic? I won't bother rephrasing it again in this thread; I think my demand is extremely easy to grasp as is, at least for most people.
That’s what the article for this thread is about…
Firefox gets along... with money from Google. And I think a good portion of the $$ that Google pays Mozilla, in their mind, isn't to be the default search engine... it's to keep competition alive in order to avoid this situation.
> Not the same as All universes (in any configuration) will allow life to exist.

Sorry I didn't realize that was the argument being made. I thought it was it's inevitable for there to be at least one universe that will evolve life. Not trying to troll you.
Plot Twist:

Google sells Chrome, then immediately forks Chromium and starts a new “completely unrelated” browser with all the same features called “Magnesium”
I don't understand why they are so cagey about releasing any of the work that was done even just as media content. At this point its been so long they cannot ruin the market and there is zero chance of it seeing production as is. They already print money with Steam, not like they would lose revenue.
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> Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea

> We are deeply concerned about the severed undersea cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea. The fact that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times. A thorough investigation is underway. Our European security is not only under threat from Russia‘s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors. Safeguarding our shared critical infrastructure is vital to our security and the resilience of our societies.

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/-/2685132
It’s horizontal tying.

If Chrome was not owned by an ad company, the owners of chrome would push for instead of against privacy protections (see: firefox, safari).

The browser monopoly, which Chrome sells at a loss, enables the ad company. This is the problem.

Chromium does not get features Chrome does not need from Google. So anything against ads does not get upstreamed to Chromium.

Chrome also is a major browser vendor, whereas kiwibrowser and opera are not, which means the standards boards listen to them more. If those seats were not owned by an ad company, standards would likely be different.
I'd like to partner to see if a connector to a graph db can be mutually beneficial and provide some value to users. How do I reach out ? NOTE: Im not from Neo4j
The one thing that gives me pause, is that I have seen stages of mastery where the base stage is repetition and adherence to rules to internalize them before understanding them and knowing when to break them.

If much of our industry is new, evangelizing these rules as harder and faster than they are makes a lot of sense to bring people to get people ready for the next stage. Then they learn the context and caveats over time.
I do think you're rewriting history a bit here. Of course a Google advertised to their product but people didn't move to Chrome simply because of the advertisements. Chrome took hold because literally every other choice sucked and sucked hard. When you only have sucky choices you have to deal with them and they made something massively better than anything else at the time. Companies with buckets of money like Microsoft didn't innovate in this space and even when they saw what Google was doing with Chrome their ability to compete with it was laughable. Even when they finally switch to their edge browser because the Internet explorer name was so tainted with bad experiences they still suck in this space. Even with Bing and the billions of dollars they can throw at it they still suck in this space.
To see if you repost it with a lower salary if you get the same amount or fewer applicants and if there is a difference in applicant quality. It provides some insight into labor market.
JavaScript will be killed off by WebAssembly.

Zombie JavaScript will be reduced to being glue code and then not even that.
uBlock Origin Lite works perfectly fine for me on Chrome.

Maybe there's some 0.01% of ads that would get blocked in the Firefox version that aren't in Chrome. But I don't see any regular users switching because they're noticing ads not getting blocked now.
My cynical take is, younger generation who is growing up with AI generated content will accept it as normal and move on. We only enjoy human-created stuff, as that seems "natural" to us. That "natural" feeling tends to change in every new generation.
BLS doesn’t use job postings for CES.
> My understanding is that they were always in Russian control, kind of like how the US keeps nuclear assets at overseas bases

No. The 43rd Rocket Army "became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on 6 December 1991 [1]. Unlike American warheads, which are on U.S. bases, those were Russian warheads on Ukrainian bases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Rocket_Army
I think on the contrary, that the number of brilliant people being paid for doing nothing at google is what slows US down compared to china.

Only monopoles like google can afford to burn so much cash. And that's a clear loss for the economy.
Do you know of any platforms currently using LLMs to do this?
Quoted: "Likewise, you can repeat yourself but classes only have a single (duplicated, but subtly different) responsibility."
It doesn’t matter if no one buys it, or if it doesn’t even continue to exist as a standalone business. That’s preferable.

The important part is ending the egregious conflict of interest where an advertising behemoth controls access to the internet.

Ideal result is that Chrome ceases to exist and Chromium continues as an independent open source project controlled by a nonprofit. Even if Google is one of the contributors, so long as they don’t control the product they will exert a lot less control over the web and how people access it.

TLDR just be like Mozilla
I'm saying you think it would make money to pay doctors instead of not having doctors.

Anyways, a huge number of hospitals are non profit and still have the residency issue. There is something systemically fucked going on if a hospital can't turn a profit on a MD with "only” 8 years of postsecondary education, and needs 4-6 years more
Chrome makes enormous sums of money through ads. Also, these companies pay fortunes for default settings like search engines and other backroom deals. Someone could buy Chrome and ask Microsoft for 30% of Bing's search revenue to be the default search engine and Microsoft would agree.
> That is true in a valid point but install Windows sometimes and see how much it pushes you toward the edge browser.

The difference here is that Microsoft's reputation is beyond ruined in this product category due to Internet Explorer.
So what would happen to Chromebooks?
To be fair, in an interview context they’re probably looking for what you would implement in the mvp just to avoid getting blocked, and a brief acknowledgement that it’s an academic problem and once you have data to understand it better you’ll select and implement an appropriate algorithm after design review with colleagues.
Whichever AI wrote this article used way too many star trek puns
Yeah Steam is terrible—I wish I still had to purchase my PC games from the other rent-seeking middleman at the Gamestop in the half-defunct mall in town, instead of clicking a few buttons and having a video game appear on my computer, ready to play.

Though now that you mention it, it's weird, I never remember there being any indie PC games in my local Gamestop... strange...
It's simple chemistry. It was predicted to occur by nerds way back in the 1800s, if we continued to add CO2 to the atmosphere, which we did. You would know this if you had read the content of the link I provided you with.

I do not believe that you are arguing in good faith, or maybe your are just not capable of doing so?
From the timeline, the decision to not pursue Episode 3 anymore was made well before Steam was a money printer, since this was back in 2008, and I don't think digital distribution became the dominant distribution medium until like 2010 or 2011 (note that Steam Greenlight only came into existence in 2012).
I see "best practices" as just case studies. Here's one possible way to do it. If it intrigues you, you can do the same.

Most of these "best practices" have valid opposing camps anyway. There's DRY, but there's also "a little copying is better than a little dependency". Both are valid in different contexts.
I did build my own: https://uxwizz.com

It has a simple PHP/MySQL backend, so it's easy to query the data directly or integrate it with other data visualization tools and workflows.

Recently I also added text-to-SQL and text-to-chart, using ChatGPT, which works surprisingly well.
> What is there to sell exactly?

The user base
This is the last big thing keeping me on Vivaldi (based on chromium). I do use those, and would most likely fully switch to Firefox when implemented.