skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chrome/Firefox/Safari all cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year to maintain.

The reason? Infinite[1] complexity. To Google that is a feature: as long as they can outspend competitors, they can control the complexity in their favor.

The question should not be "how do we fund development of operating system in a trench coat?", but rather "how much do we actually need to fetch and render HTML?" and the answer is in the ballpark of single digit FTEs.

In theory, we should expect browser complexity to converge on available funding, with the upside that webpages created two hours ago would continue working. In reality, some foundation, funded by majority chromium supporters, will be set up and distribute compensation for Google employees working on open-source Chromium "totally on their free time, mr. prosecutor".

[1]: https://xkcd.com/285/
What is your use-case for it? Hibernation?
You'll be able to buy ICE vehicles. But you won't want to and the people that could sell you one will be dealing with the economic effects of most of their customer base evaporating. Mostly poorly probably. Think factory closures, reduced market shares, etc.

But ten years sounds about right for the following things to happen:

- new EVs will be cheaper to buy than ICE vehicles. Right now they are cheaper to own. But once prices drop low enough, few people will want to spend more on a lesser vehicle.

- EV production will ramp up to eclipse ICE vehicle production by the end of this decade. More EVs will be produced than ICE vehicles.

- Commercial fleets will be largely electrical for the simple reason it's already cheaper and only getting cheaper. Anger doesn't factor into this. Businesses that don't adapt will go out of business.

- Private owners will follow but a bit slower. Lots of private owners have older vehicles and don't actually drive that much. So, economic drivers are there but not that important for them.

- For the same reason, roads are actually dominated by commercial traffic. Most miles driven will be electric. Most of the intensively used vehicles will be electric. That will become really visible on the roads. It's already very visible in some places.

- That same effect will also impact revenue from petrol/diesel sales. That's already starting to happen as well. This will impact pricing and availability. Which feeds into decision making.
> This has already been discussed extensively in prior threads, but the biggest question is, how does a spun-off Chrome get funded?

How about... just don't fund them and let it "die"?

Everybody is using Chromium -- Microsoft, Google, Opera, Electron, etc..
Some of them will step up and fork chromium.
Fair, I remembered my stats wrong. But it's still 15M people in US that are actively on it. That's a lot of people.
Seriously, first Apple's App Store is declared not a monopoly while the Play Store is, despite Android allowing alternative stores while iOS doesn't. Now Google is forbidden from developing web browsers while Apple is free to continue monopolizing browser engines on iOS and holding back the web from competing with native apps?
SAP varchar6 name and siemens plc want a conversation about abbreviations as the guilds moat and memory saviour
App integration. For Web bases access, in the browser fine. But to e.g. fetch mail via IMAP, but oath a token, that's more complicated. That's what the python code I'm running does.
Google can keep engineers working on Chrome employed without having control over Chrome.
It’s $150k for 222 dispensers, not just one. At $671 it’s overpriced but depending on what custom spec they had, maybe not by a whole lot. I’m imagining the metal soap dispensers in airline bathrooms maybe with some additional military specs.
This is also the crux with all idention based languages .
Yes indeed, he doesn't need it for the money, but the power, that is a lot more helpful to him now.
We just had to let someone very senior go because he literally did nothing for three months straight. All he did was mention he went to Stanford basically every chance he got.
A binary tree of all Pythagorean triples
Yeah, I am sceptical, but we'll have to see how it pans out.

Vanishingly few people succeed in exercising discipline and self-control long term. But obesity is caused by food addiction and the idea is once you've kicked the addiction and got over the withdrawal etc then it's gone and you no longer have to fight it. I don't "exercise discipline" to stay thin. I just don't eat copious amounts of junk food because I'm not addicted to it.

So if the drugs are used to soften the withdrawal symptoms such that people can learn to like real food and kick the addictive crap then that's good. But if they're used as a magic pill with no other lifestyle changes then I'm sure people will just go back to what they were doing before once those pangs come back.

I'd still rather we went after the industry peddling the addictive shit. We went after the cigarette companies. But food companies seem untouchable.
How can I install a charger for my car in my apartment?

With ICE I can drive to the nearest gas station and be done in 5 minutes. With ICE I don't even think about it, I just drive to a station that's on the way to wherever I'm going
> You can't say "grift is occurring here"

Sure you can; "grift" can be used as an abstract noun, much like "crime", e.g., "Crime is occurring here" vs. "A crime is occurring here".
Not sure this article captured it for me.

Plato's Meno has Socrates showing that even a slave can reason mathematically.

It's not really math alone but modeling more generally that activates people's reasoning. Math and logic are just those models that are continuous+topological and discrete+logic-operation variants, both based in dimension/orthogonality. But all modeling is over attribution - facts, opinions, etc., and there's a lot of modeling with a healthy dose of salience - heuristics, emotions, practice, etc. Math by design is salience-free (though it incorporates goals and weights), so it's the perspective and practice that liberates people from bias and assumptions. In that respect it can be beautiful, and makes other more conditioned reasoning seem tainted (but it has to work harder to be relevant).

However, experts can project mathematical models onto reality. Hogwash about quantum observer effects and effervescent quantum fields stem from projecting the assumptions required to do the math (or adopt the simplifying forms). Yes, the model is great at predictions. No, it doesn't say what else is possible, or even what we're seeing (throwing baseballs at the barn, horses run out, so barns are made of horses...). Something similar happens with AI math: it can generate neat output, so it must be intelligent. The impulse is so strong that adherents declare that non-symbolic thinking is not thinking at all, and discount anything unquantifiable (in discourse at least). Assuming what you're trying to prove is rarely helpful, but very easy to do accidentally when tracking structured thinking.
Also I assume they are still using regular soap refills for these things or are they?
See also: timezones
People have been doing that with Minecraft for over a decade. In the old days, once you got far away enough, the terrain generation would go haywire. Lots of videos from that time period of people exploring the "edge of the world".

Personally, these were the kind of glitches which made games feel magical and "real" to me as a kid. Being able to analyze a system by breaking it made it seem so much more tangible, like an actual place I had an NTSC-sized porthole into.
Interesting article. I would have loved to see the quality ratings weighted by how many people drive the roads, not by road-mile.

I bet it would look a lot worse. It seems like low traffic roads out in the middle of nowhere are pretty decent, while the multi lane juggernauts in downtown that everyone spend their time on are disasters.
NIF is first and foremost a thermonuclear weapons research facility. The "breakthrough" you're talking about doesn't bring us an inch closer to fusion power.
Really don't think that's the case. I don't care who makes things at first; I first want to see if they are interesting and then maybe dig deeper. Looks cool, upvoted and bookmarked to wait for the playable demo.
CourtListener
The second is Python :)
The US constitution would allow him to "run" ( usually it's coast ) as Vice President to the next POTUS .. and that would also allow him one day less than two years as POTUS should the VP be required to take over for the sitting President.

Realistically Trump most likely lacks any interest once his various and sundry pending felony and other charges have been quashed or voided by immunity grants, etc.
> Some people theorize that it's done because of internal rivalries between dependencies/political factions

Or maybe corruption ?
All utility builders have to fix the road -> more work -> more profit.
Is it defensible to claim that men don't commit more violent crime than women? Sure, men are convicted of violent crimes at a higher rates, but convictions for violent crimes is just a proxy for the true violent crime rate. If we want to make th claim that there's a disparity here we shouldn't use a proxy.

Of course, that logic doesn't work because convictions for crime is a pretty good proxy. If I want to discredit it, I'd have to actually explain why convictions for violent crime don't correspond to the true crime rates. If you have cause to think that malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary actions are not a good proxy for poorly administered medical care, I'm all ears.
Some prominent universities in the US have ballooned with administration in the past 20 years. MIT in particular has a $1.2 billion administration cost out of a $4.5 billion annual budget.
Because almost once a quarter there's a big release that raises the expectations for top AI companies. Which brings up discussions, new articles and eventually posts in the front page.

2020-2022 HN front page was full of crypto news, mostly in negative light, but still. And before that there was more hot bubble topics. It's very usual.
* functions as first class citizens

* procedures as first class citizens

* lexical scope

* strongly typed

* single character syntax and operators

* inheritance and poly instantiation as a feature of language configuration but remove from language instantiation

* event orientation via callbacks. many developers don’t like callbacks but they provide the most flexible and clearly identifiable flow control path

* single string format with interpolation
You also need to provide exact replacement parts for 50 years so you should probably make 666 of them just to be safe.
Whoever wrote the article has never had to replace a cup holder in their car.
Frame researcher being hit with malicious commits on GitHub
The first ive heard of it was a wave of sickleave traversing through the machine integrator community ,many of them travelling back from the coast. Oh and then adv china.
When SQL can't internally optimise a query into a more efficient constraint problem, unrolling joins is the key. This once MSSQL hacker got to the point of optimising queries with large amounts of joins or CTEs to just populating a single table's columns with one query per one to a few columns at a time (two minute locking queries down to about two seconds.) After that, I started using SQL to generate SQL and run that for really curly requirements. That gives you the ability to write queries that can search for a particular value in any column in any table, or find changes in the past 5 minutes in any column in any table within a fairly quick timeframe. And that's great for debugging applications that interface with the database or identifying rogue table changes. Without needing a transaction log. Programmer's paradise :)
Give me $3.8m and I’d be happy to.
The solution should just be to force browsers to support profile migration from one browser to another.

And generally, they should just pass laws that enforce interoperability in the software world, from OS to social networks, users should always be allowed to easily migrate.
I am writing and sharing only about Ruby and Ruby on Rails at https://bsky.app/profile/lucianghinda.com in case there are topics that might interest you
The robustness principle is really just another way of stating the Golden Rule.
BSD Unix comes to mind.
Yeah I have a feeling something like polars for streaming would be super popular and useful, but it just hasn't happened yet. It's much easier to just do say kafka and a long running python script and write out the transformations by hand, than it is to use anything on the market right now. None of the current streaming processors want to be embedded as far as I can tell, that's not where the money is. They all want to be paid to run it in the cloud for you and follow that vc playbook model. Which, fair! I do think there's a lot of space out that isn't being occupied though and I hope somebody tries to fill it soon.

(As an aside, feldera doesn't want to be embedded into your app, materialize either, and clickhouse might just pull a great streaming library out from nowhere, they seem to be good at just doing stuff like that).
This is what Horkheimer and Adorno called "instrumental reason" ("instrumentelle Vernunft").
It happens in Germany as well though, not even that infrequently. It’s particularly common with the recent push for FTTH connections.

At my parents place, they resurfaced to road a few years ago. Only for Deutsche Telekom to swoop in a year later and dig in their FTTC gear. Street was patched after, but reasonably well. At least we got faster internet back then
> As it runs, Autotab asks for clarifications and feedback. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab's world model, and allowing it to work reliably for hours on end.

Is "learning", used as a noun, a term of art in this field?

If not, my reactioning to that using is that it is a being bad English that causes producings of gratings on the ears.
I have a picture of the light streaming down through the Pantheon onto one of the sculptures. It's the best photo I have ever taken and every time I look at it I remember that feeling I had looking up at the dome. Really a special thing to experience.
Yeah. People who haven't done manufacturing may laugh, but depending on how many custom parts there are you could easily spend most or all of that $150K just on the molds/tooling.

Now, like you said... the root cause here is probably some absurd spec that prevents them from using some existing commercial soap dispenser whose costs have already been amortized.

Then again, maybe the spec isn't absurd. The C-17 may need to fly in contested airspace. Maybe damage control is a concern. Maybe they can't use commercial soap dispensers because they're plastic and they don't want the plane to fill up with toxic fumes from burning plastic. That is a random guess. I have no idea.

I couldn't find pictures of the soap dispenser, but here's apparently a urinal from some version of the Globemaster. I get the feeling these parts are kinda custom...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/morganone/122375474/in/photost...
Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2M in NYC
> if you can buy an electric vehicle with similar performance for the same money

It's because you can't.

Electric vehicles cost more. And I personally would never buy an electric vehicle with less than 600 miles range - and even then I would hesitate because I'd have to figure out how to charge at my destination.

Superchargers on the road or whatever don't meet my needs - I'm not willing to wait to charge. I eat in the car, and any rest stop that takes more than 10 minutes is no go for me.

Personally I'd be most interested in a plug in hybrid, with 100 miles (or even less) of battery range. Use battery for city trips and gas for long trips.

> since you can easily install a charger into your home

No you can't. People in apartments can't install them at all, people with only on-street parking can't install them (for example most of New York City is basically without chargers for that reason), and people in houses need some expensive work to run the necessary wires.

Where I live only about 1/4 of the houses on my street (mostly single family) can install chargers - parking is too unpredictable to be able to charge with on-street parking, although some of my neighbors try, and beg other neighbors to not "take their spot".

There's a reason EV sales are dropping.
Given your first project is in Node + React, you might find Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/) worth considering. It’s a set of components designed to build React dashboards. It's built on top of Material UI and is fully extensible. Also, it’s open source and free to use regardless of scale.
I've been warning people for a long time that the drug only fakes the signal of fullness from the gut, and only makes you starve yourself. It doesn't actually fix anything.
Oh, one of the worst forms of torture is definitely trying to get a random Python AI project from GitHub running locally. There's almost always a conflict between versions Python, Cuda, Pytorch, and a hodgepodge of pip and conda packages. Publishing a requirements.txt is the bare miminum everybody usually does, but that's usually not enough to reconstruct the environment. The ecosystem should just standardize to using declaratively prebuilt container environments or something.

Granted, my experience is mostly from the GPT-2 era, so I'm not sure if it's still this painful.
Should Apple be the only ones allowed to make money? You can't pirate Apple News, iCloud Storage, all sorts of services and conventional media they provide. You can't pirate App Store IAP. You don't have to make a single value judgement to see that the status quo - the only permissible action to take against piracy is to make unassailable DRM - is really just conceding that the fully vertically integrated platforms ought to own anything. Surely it's not good that only Apple is allowed to make money.
I like extreme at work, it gives me adrenaline
Forbes, TIME lose $7.5M/week as Google ends reputation arbitrage
Can you please share a details about the part related to Russians? I used to be big fan of Opera browser, but don't follow theirs recent news
If you can squeeze it in.... A magical assignment like :== which declares the left value is ALWAYS equal to the expression on the right after that point, so that if any part of the expression on the right changes, the left gets updates as a dependency.

I once saw this in a language called metamine and the demo was amazing, mixed imperative and declarative programming interweaved.
An interpretation given the benefit of the doubt is, using Z-library might get the said student in trouble and therefore is not helpful overall.
> Alternatively, a narrow reading of the proposed order is that this only applies to Google.

That doesn't seem like a narrow reading, but the only possible one. How could the order be applying to deals strictly between companies neither of which was the party of the lawsuit? That doesn't seem like anything that could possibly be within the court's powers.
Wile E. Coyote is my hero, he has so much fun building his Roadrunner traps, so it is not the result the most important thing but the process which is more or equally important never less
Nobody does REST, because nobody needs the whole hateoas shtick. When people say REST, they mean "HTTP API" and I'm not being pendantic here. The difference is very real because REST doesn't really have a reason to exist.
Even in a purely planar distribution, nodal precession still occurs slowly.

It doesn't even need to be factored in, though, if different planes are colliding with each other and energetically generating a spectrum of new orbital vectors (many less than circular) from impact. This effect colludes with altitude drop from orbital decay and the tendency to circularize orbits by perigee drag, to make it so that higher orbit debris percolate into lower orbits over time.
Annas Archive is even more popular these days, these shadow libraries often present a better user experience than many online bookstores as well.
I don't think it's right to assign blame here to any party other than the authoritarian regime that decides to block the whole CDN.
Discussion (206 points, 10 hours ago, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198115
> What about designing the plane to use a common soap dispenser that doesnt cost $150k?

Which one? Whichever you pick you need to stock that exact same one for the next 50 to 100 years. By the time you finish exactly defining it, you are back where you started.

(Also it's not 150k each - that's the price for the entire fleet.)
On November 21, 2024, 6:35 UTC: It looks like the pilot ship Styrbjoern is traveling in the direction of the Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier again.
100 lbs that’s significant. What are the implications of rapidly losing weight ? ( I’d expect even your body image changing to not be very easy )
I’m actually interested in the “can benefit from” claim in this title. I don’t particularly doubt that most people could become reasonably good at math, but I wonder how much of the juice is worth the squeeze, and how juicy it is on the scale from basic arithmetic up to the point where you’re reading papers by June Huh or Terry Tao.

As anti-intellectual as it sounds, you could imagine someone asking, is it worth devoting years of your life to study this subject which becomes increasingly esoteric and not obviously of specific benefit the further you go, at least prima facie? Many people wind up advocating for mathematics via aesthetics, saying: well it’s very beautiful out there in the weeds, you just have to spend dozens of years studying to see the view. That marketing pitch has never been the most persuasive for me.
Ask HN: Best Tech Stack for a Chat App with AI: Python vs. Nest.js for Back End?
I am working on a B2C startup and need to design the backend for a website and mobile apps supporting a chat application. The platform will incorporate AI/ML models to analyze chats and user inputs, alongside a notification system for users. My initial idea is to separate the backend and AI services. Should I use Python for both the backend and AI components, or would it be better to leverage Nest.js for the backend, while using Python for AI?
Parity with other application platforms demands more than just showing static HTML. Imagine the world with no XMLHTTPRequest because Microsoft wasn't allowed to innovate on the web.
You just described the process in a big central european country.
I was wondering why a company from 300 km away fixes the local road ( an almost insignificant road).
It's honestly common industry slang and may be British English.
I mean it doesn't cost $157K it costs $671. They ordered a couple hundred of them.

This one from CB2 is $40 and it doesn't conform to FAA rules and it's not MIL-SPEC. [1]

I suspect if I wanted a limited run of soap dispensers, I was only willing to buy 300 made-to-order, tested and conformant to niche military specifications and aviation specifications, I'd probably end up paying a decent chunk more than CB2.

How much does the entertainment system in your car cost vs an iPad? Is that a rip-off, or is it a niche, custom part that has to be made from automotive grade components?

How much does the soap dispenser cost in a 777 bathroom? That's the real point of comparison, not CB2.

[1] https://www.cb2.com/ramsey-calacatta-gold-marble-soap-pump/s...
In Feb 2022, just before the war started, the Rubble was worth $0.012. Now it's $0.0099. That's a 17% value drop in almost 3 years.
It's true, the inflation is high, but nowhere near out of control.

Also, the discussion was about the effect of the sanctions. But the inflation is going up not because of that, but because of the huge amount of Russian government money that's flowing to the military and to the weapon industry.
any brain waves are thoughts