skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I use Claude and Chatgpt EVERY DAY […] What other innovation in the last decade has been this disruptive?

I use some sort of IDE everyday. Previously at my early days, I was a “true-hacker” and using Vim in console to type out massive code bases, we had waterfall development practices, I would fumble through source codes of various poorly documented features of the language or libraries for hours to figure out about needed function/method/attribute and how anything really worked and the quirks of strange error messages needing to call up the vendor or buy a book on the topic and hope it had answers… and of course, I practiced typing every weekend to speed up my typing speed.

Now, I just type something and the IDE reads my mind and shows appropriate suggestions and also helpfully imports the packages for me while also constantly formatting my codebase on save and raising red/yellow squigglies to suggest my mistakes. I copy paste any quirky errors in a search engine and immediately find other human beings reporting the problem and solutions, I can happily continue developing on the same codebase and parallel features while other teams can continue with their features and we’ll know soon if we have stepped on each others’ toes shortly in CI pipeline. What took me weeks now takes like few hours and if someone told me to do the same in Vim, I’d be blankly looking at them because that is arcane. Of course my IDE misguesses sometimes and I can correct it, but I am insanely productive now compared to decades back. What other innovation has made this kind of gains?

Also I could take a horse and go to a duty travel in another continent for a several month or even year journey, but now I can take a flight and be there in hour and I am saving insane amount of time.

The examples can go on, we have new novelties which are ground breaking, but AI is too much hype, and it is not well deserved. All the hype comes because the VC money burning on it and needs the prep the market for massive return. Too much of hype can turn sour if that topic had been seen to rise and die a fee times, hence it is natural that a lot of HN audience do not feel great to look at this anymore.
Is

a == (10 || 20 || 30)

really better than

a in (10, 20, 30)

It seems the first is just ambiguous, and longer.
Because the job of a university isn't just to produce highly paid workers. It is to improve society through education. And sometimes people need to learn things that don't pay well, just for the sake of learning them.

People make fun of English and Art majors, but yet the majority of people consume art and writing as their primary activities outside of work (watching TV and movies).

The world would be a sad, boring place without those majors.
I like the 7 years bedrock story. Doesn't Dallas have the equivalent of New York City 311 complaints hotline? Literally, you call it for anything annoying / loud / dangerous, and the operator will help you raise the issue to the correct department.

To me, the trick about allowing more construction in established neighborhoods: Make the noise rules incredibly strict. Tokyo has non-stop construction everywhere. And the noise rules are very strict. It works. In Japan, I assume, for cultural reasons, most construction corps follow the rules. In other places ("The West"), you probably need expensive fines along with manual/automatic on-site inspections.
> But there are a ton of early startups that only have bandwidth to support chrome/chromium in their complex webapps and want a quick way to port their web app to desktop app.

Ugh!

People writing web apps without supporting anything else than Chrome should burn in hell. (And that's a pretty useless decision anyway since “supporting chrome” really means supporting two engines: Chromium and WebKit, because Chrome on iOS uses WebKit internally …)
> Never forget that corruption is always to blame for these failures, not the noble people who try and fix these things with flawed institutions.

This is dogmatism. You're implying that those working for the government are inherently more noble than the rest, and that only private enterprise is flawed. To the contrary, I am implying nothing, just pointing out that the DOJ is late to the game. This would have meant something a decade ago when Google absolutely dominated. But they're being nipped at by a thousand different companies right now.
Depend on normal users' feelings, I'm sure when I play Switch, they won't sell my data. But when people use Google's service, this is the default setting .
Statistical (Bayesian) thinking is an extremely underrated way of thinking of almost everything.
> If unauthorized copying is akin to preventing a potential sale then using a gym for an authorized/non paid amount of time to try the gym without paying is not stealing.

Well using a gym for free isn’t stealing either. Although the analogy is flawed because a gym has a limited capacity so you could take up the space of legitimate customers, which you don’t do when torrenting copyrighted stuff.

> Creator of the thing sets the terms. People have the ability to not buy it if they do not like the terms. But they do not have the right to alter the terms via stealing.

No, creators can’t just redefine words. It’s not stealing, because you’re not taking something away from someone.
Working in an investment bank that's build around 800 solar plants over the world in the previous decade with steep competition from a lot of other investors I'd argue that not everyone missed it. The next big boom is in battery storage, but the projects and investments took off a year or two ago with production factories nearing completion. Part of what shot it up was when various EU countries raised their green energy targets from 60-80%. In Germany alone that will require a 800% growth for battery storage financials before 2030.

I'm not sure which semi-professional to professional investors missed that here in Europe though. In fact we've seen so many companies shoot up around these things that the recent economic downturns is causing quite a lot of bankruptcies. Which are then bought up by larger investment funds.

From a tech perspective... There is going to be a lot of potential in building the technical layer between a plant and the "internet". None of the current systems, including market leaders that I'm not going to name drop, aren't very good. Part of the reason is because things like inverters and other solar plant tech has absolutely no standardization. They are ridiculously different, meaning you need actual programmers to onboard each plant unless someone builds some form of engineering standard. Currently it seems like each piece of tech basically has it's software designed by the individual engineer who made it. What is even more hilarious is that the systems made for solar, wind, batteries and so on don't work together.
Qualys Uncovers Five Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Needrestart
It isn’t a mcburger. It’s an investment with an excepted variable return realized over like 4-5 decades. There’s almost nothing else an 18-22 can do that has comparable odds of increasing value of oneself in dollar terms and in impossible-to-measure-society terms than getting accepted into a good school.

(E.g. you hear about college dropouts starting businesses all the time. You barely ever hear that about people who haven’t attended college at all.)
>Having an ad monopoly also own the most popular browser is an awful state of affairs and I long to see it change.

Why is it "an awful state of affairs"? What are you comparing this to? Just to remind you, before Chrome took over as the most popular browser, we had years and years of IE6 hell, where lots of sites didn't work correctly (or at all!) on anything besides IE6, which was a big problem for people who didn't use Windows, not to mention legions of web developers who absolutely hated the thing because the dev tools were so bad and it didn't keep up with newer web standards, plus of course the users who had to suffer with the shittiness and stagnation of the browser.

Having an ad monopoly's browser take over was a huge relief, because it performed far better, it kept up with standards (and pushed new ones), had good tools for the devs, and most importantly had an open-source core and worked on every platform (either directly as Chrome, or with one of the projects based on it).

Sure, it would have been nice if Firefox had become the dominant browser, stayed neutral and uncontrolled by any one company, but that's unfortunately not the reality we got for multiple reasons.

Do you really want to go back to the days of Microsoft controlling the browser? Or Apple? I don't. I'd rather put up with Chome and its shitty MV3 dominating the web, and Firefox continuing to exist and provide a viable alternative. I really do NOT see how forcing Google to sell Chrome is going to make things for better for users at all: who's even going to buy the thing? Are they going to try to turn it proprietary and force everyone to buy subscriptions? Is MS or Apple going to buy it and then use it to force everyone to use their OS? How do you even make a profit with a browser anyway?

>Maybe a consortium of interested parties (Netflix, Amazon…?) could come together to find some kind of independent body that would own and operate Chrome?

You mean like how they're doing that today with Firefox? Oh wait, they're not, are they? If this idea could work, they would have been doing it already. Mozilla Corp would be happy to get funding from other companies instead of just Google.

>here’s plenty of business incentive in ensuring web browsers are viable software.

Yes, but the expense of developing and maintaining one is enormous, so it's basically a prisoner's dilemma. What company would want to take on this burden just so other companies can continue to profit? Google was able to do it because of being an ad empire, but these other companies aren't. MS was able to do it before, because they controlled the dominant platform and it helped them keep everyone on it. What business incentive is there for another company?
Now imagine how artists feel – and they didn’t even get any Pocket Monsters in return.
Hiding shady or unexpected stuff in the TOS is illegal in the EU and other countries for example. So just because some companies behave amoral, that doesn’t mean we just have to accept hundreds of pages of legalese being able to dictate us.
Just like scraping the entire Web for AI training is totally fair use? Enjoy ten years of lawsuits to prove it. Web sites would never tolerate ads being inserted that don't pay them.
What do you think doesn't belong in Redis? I've always viewed Redis as basically "generic datastructures in a database" — as opposed to say, Memcached, which is a very simple in-memory-only key/value store (that has always been much faster than Redis). It's hard for me to point to specific features and say: that doesn't belong in Redis! Because Redis has generally felt (to me) like a grab bag of data structures + algorithms, that are meant to be fairly low-latency but not maximally so, where your dataset has to fit in RAM (but is regularly flushed to disk so you avoid cold start issues).
> Endanger the security and privacy of millions of Americans

Google isn’t endangering privacy already? So they aren’t collecting an absolutely insane amount of data on all of us?

> As just one example, DOJ’s proposal would literally require us to install not one but two separate choice screens before you could access Google Search on a Pixel phone you bought. And the design of those choice screens would have to be approved by the Technical Committee. And that’s just a small part of it. We wish we were making this up.

Oh my god - two screens for choice? When I have to click through many choices on a new phone already? All to allow fair competition instead of unfair monopolies? The horror.

This unhinged defensive blog post is a dishonest embarrassment, and shows how detached from reality you have to be to defend the big tech hegemony. It makes a good case to keep breaking these companies up.
A formatter with little to no configuration, similar to black.

A linter what the reasoning for all rules is well explained, similar to shellcheck or eslint.

Both ideally integrated in an LSP, which also has all the common features of a modern LSP.
Hi!

Which manufacturer/model sensors are you using? I have made some environmental monitoring with very cheap sensors for some hobby projects, but have very bad experience on repeatability of the sensor reading, or for CO2 sensors even noise tolerance (was also dicussed on HN, that discussion made me realize that noise is the cause of the problems, and have managed to verify that).

I have some project ideas beyond my at-home breadboard prototyping but to go beyond I'd rather build on reliable components as the software/infra side is maturing now.
Applications making directories in my home
> The fusion power breakthrough of 2022 by Lawrence Livermore National Lab would still dominate the news.

If our society were sane, rational, advanced, it would recognize that that "breakthrough" was a minor, arbitrary improvement in reaction efficiency, that realistically brings us no closer to commercially viable fusion power, and doesn't prove anything about the possibility of that.

That reaction still consumed something like 100 times the power that it produced, and the "power" that it produced was just heat energy, which would still entail losses when converted into usable form.

On top of that, the nature of the Livermore reaction is not one that's even intended or suitable for commercial power production.

At this point, we simply don't even know whether controlled, commercially viable fusion will ever be able to produce more power than it consumes. There's no guarantee that it will.

If you're not aware of what I'm referring to, this article is a starting point: "Why the nuclear fusion ‘net energy gain’ is more hype than breakthrough": https://whyy.org/segments/why-the-nuclear-fusion-net-energy-...

While this might all seem like an irrelevant aside to the point being made above, it's relevant because it shows how pervasive misinformation is, even when coming from supposedly scientific sources.
The humor isn’t recognized because the humor isn’t there. To be funny there has to be a setup, a punchline, some kinda joke structure. Humor isn’t just saying false things…

Imagine a comedian saying this on stage, how many laughs would that get?

> Do people really think MyFitnessPal is trying to build a model of the average pantry?

We’ve all seen dumber things that are real. Juicero is my personal favorite example.
"...and cross-platform desktop applications" the homepage says

But, Sadly, this is mac only[0] no windows or linux ?
Do I understand it correctly ?

[0] https://electrobun.dev/docs/guides/Compatability
I am sure what he actually got is much less than that number. If you got 200 up votes to a comment then that's 200 karma, but with submissions it is different, maybe dang can shed some light on that. Also what gets traction depends on a lot of things that you will find that most people will have the vast majority of their submissions have little to zero activity. So it is not that easy, some will manage to do it but the purpose is to limit that to something manageable. Then I think dang is managing both up voting ans down voting rings. With up voting being harder (everyone can do that)
On Mac you can use pbcopy to copy something your pasteboard aka clipboard.

So the first command becomes:

tar -cz dir | base64 | pbcopy
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> Ship updates to your users that are tiny

What about the users that are medium or large?
The most likely answer is that it will take the Linux model, with a foundation put together to fund Chrome's development. Then all of the parties interested in people having access to the Web, including Google, will have an incentive to fund this without requiring it to push their specific products.
How much is the “overcharging” in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries?
The issue is the outmoded and excessively specific system of procurement used by the US Military - one more or less mandated by congress.

We can chose to alter how we procure, but there are good reasons why the system is as it is, so a careful effort to understand why it is like it is before we reform must be undertaken.

Chesterton's Fence applies here for sure.
I think so, but nobody uses them other than people exploring remote in unplowed places.

On regular roads theyre too inconvenient and make you go too slow. Slap on quality winter tires in November and you’re good to go with no more effort.
Look at https://criu.org/Main_Page - it's meant for exactly that, though the problem space is genuinely hard.
Governments have been in recent decades completely hands off from anything tech related. For the longest time they followed the usual neoliberal economist trope that markets solve everything optimally. As a result they have created in the so-called "big tech" conglomerates a monster fit for the history books, the most broken and cornered market there ever was.

But a wholly government run search engine is not a solution. There are inherent biases in both constructing and presenting indices. You dont want to further stoke the anti-commons mistrust of polarized societies.

What the public sector could do is fund all the background techonologies to make it easy to have much larger numbers of search engines. Some of those assembled services could be completely open source, others could be value adding with various added services and customizations.

In any case the status quo is a disaster that has no future. Its effectively a forced dumbification of society as it artificially suppresses the flow of high-quality public information. Incidentally it also doesnt solve the problem that much of the world's information is private. Desktop search should become a thing again, in line with local AI etc.
> couldn't you just send a bunch of fortified rockets that absorb the debris during a collision but don't emit anything.

"Just" how? Orbital collisions happen at an average of 10km/s, you're going to make what, some kind of sponge that can get hit by a chunk of satellite going ~8x faster than a bullet and absorb it and slow it to a halt without fragmenting at all? Good luck.

> Do that a few times and then all other rockets just reuse the path that was cut?

Things in orbit are constantly moving, you can't "clear a path" any more than you can, IDK, make a safe route through a forest by walking through it once and moving any bears you encounter a couple of feet.
GazeGaussian: High-Fidelity Gaze Redirection with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jax AI Stack
lol had no idea it's chinese nor cared which country produced it.
nationalism in any form is repulsive

was intrigued by the post but couldn't get anything to play
I wonder, too. In 1965,
3580 applied, 1532 were admitted, and only 929 enrolled. How many of that 39% had better options than MIT, knowing about the draft?
Chrome is not the problem. Chrome is not even a symptom.

The problem is that the world's largest search engine is also the world's largest ad distributor.

Chopping off tentacles like Android or Chrome does nothing to slay the two-headed beast.
Going from a treaty and cooperation with Iran to cutting them off was a pretty substantial change that has already had global implications.
That's really cool. In some sense, it's like a precursor to internet fora.
Click to play [...the video]
One minor nit, it will be all parties interested in influence over future web standards and their eventual implementation.
Yep. Even if there were a case, it would be litigated in the courts for years.
Wow great, yes good approach. Thanks!
both can be true. it can reduce depression in 60% of people and increase it in 10%
Simply forcing the utilities people to properly repair roads after they have been dug up would be sufficient.
Thing is.. Fireproof is brilliant and has a fun culture.
Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library
AI: They All Use It
If one didn't have access to Adobe in those days and had to instead make do with Paint.net or GIMP, a lot of people wouldn't have made it into media and publishing today (where they now, as you pointed out, bill their companies $1000s to use Adobe's products).

Hate to say it but the difference in output quality between GIMP and Photoshop really shows and can make the difference between your work looking amateur or professional - ie getting your first job.

I know I know, it's about the operator not the tool, but not everyone has the mindset to grind through GIMP's UI and stackexchange troubleshooting forums when there are tutorials for everything Adobe on YouTube. Some of these people can still be great designers.
What about designing the plane to use a common soap dispenser that doesnt cost $150k?

Why not just use existing solutions like a soap dispenser that is found on common commercial passenger planes that Boeing already has and makes?

There is no world where a simple soap dispenser is $150k.

They seemingly design them like this so they can bilk the US government aka tax payers with these absurd prices for simple objects.
Excuse the potential tin-foil hat but this be "cooking the books" to mask other purchases that are not suppose to be public eg. secret/top secret projects? 8000% seems obscene even for government billing...
Great projects - where are you selling them?
Agreed, and that is aligned with the point I'm making: bottleneck was the production, not consumption. Saying that increased consumption of freed slaves would somehow pull you out of pre-industrial age (the comment I was replying to) is just bonkers.

The increased production was indeed a result of centuries of incremental improvements. You're right to point out that some of them were not about energy, but I would argue that all of the big ones were.

Slaters mill put hydropower to work and even though watermills were medieval, the machines that poured that energy into cotton weren't. Same with the windmills during the Dutch Golden Age which I mentioned above. Increased trade happened through massive wind-powered ships, not slave galleys. (Though the Smith pin factory unlike the Slaters mill is not a real factory but a criticized thought experiment, I wouldn't consider it too influential)

But yes, indeed the steam appeared at the right time, only when there was enough technology to put it to use down the line.
I'm working in the "plant" to "internet" space you mentioned and seeing this first-hand. Would be very keen to have a chat if you have the time please. Email in bio.
Can you imagine even being a one-man shop making 222 bespoke soap dispensers to some absurd spec AND jumping through all the documentation hoops that are required for only $150k? I wouldn't take that job. Sounds awful.
Are you there then?
There's a bunch of other stuff in there about syndicating data (which admittedly I don't understand) that takes aim at the heart of search and ads.