skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bell labs and Xerox PARC did great impactful work long after their parent companies were relevant and still do .

The fact Google did the initial work on transformers but only OpenAI was able to productize is an indictment of their stagnation more than an achievement.
Implying that everyone in the future will be incapable of sustaining a thought beyond 15 seconds; it’s not just the study apps, but yeah.
Australia has long been one of the most restrictive and ban-happy Western nations. This law isn't out of character at all given their culture and politics, and it passed with broad support across the political spectrum.
My guess would be network. It is very difficult to isolate against configuration mistakes at the network layer
It’s incredible that the search results suck so much and then this article. They should just let paid users rank their upvote and downvote the results they get and feed those into the algorithm.
The safety of the system comes from it's design. It doesn't rely on anyone, or any mechanical process cooling it.

> The pebble-bed reactor is designed so that this effect is relatively strong, inherent to the design, and does not depend on moving parts. This negative feedback creates passive control of the reaction process.

From the Wikipedia article on the PBR that was linked in a neighbouring comment.

It should, at least if built correctly, be impossible for it to get into a run-away state. Even if it lost all power, and everyone walked away, it should not melt down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor#Safety
Really? HTMX for me brings spaghetti code on the server side. Fine for small projects but not so for large ones. I would prefer the clear separation between frontend and backend beyond small scale projects.
The open web is dead. Google zero is here. The end is nigh.

https://www.theverge.com/24167865/google-zero-search-crash-h...

Except for The Verge of course.
YouTube, Google Maps, Google Photos, Android, Gemini, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Google Chrome, Go, Bazel, Google Fiber, Google Fi
My take on what the author was getting at, is how Google's manipulation of its algorithm has led to poor results and backfired on them. Not just for the users of its search engine, but small businesses counting on being discovered that way.

Arguably, the problem is black-box algorithms and how they are manipulated. The same problem can be faced by any curated community, where there is little to no transparency. Curated can still mean manipulated. People can jump from place to place, but that may not be advantageous, because where they want to be or the most likely places for discovery are not available.
I’m not convinced the size is actually a problem - is that the most constrained resource here? What do we gain from decreasing power density?
I'd also add: don't do horizontal scrolling on desktop unless it's something genuinely large and two-dimensional like a map or a spreadsheet. It's impossible to make horizontal scrolling work nicely for people who don't use an Apple mouse or trackpad. You always have to resort to non-pretty solutions like adding those stupid arrow buttons on the sides of the container, or even worse, hijacking vertical scrolling and turning it into horizontal. It's never worth it even though it might look beautiful in Figma.
You can read it that way if you ignore the rest of the article, I guess. They simply are saying many (most?) sites do not need to be SPAs and the baggage that entails with load times and latency. Follow a process to determine what is really needed based on objective requirements and then use objective measures to ensure it does not degrade the experience.

In most cases later frameworks are slow and bulky. I certainly hate using sites like X or Target on mobile. Random delayed loading of things, loss of scrolling position when going back, things just not loading the first time it delayed reactions. It sucks.
> i choose what employers want and will pay for.

with the US mandate away from unsafe languages, that may change faster than you think. Unless you are already quite close to retiring.
The people who don't think React (or Vue) is important are the same ones who have never worked on a large project with lots of screen updates and state changes that absolutely cannot be avoided. React is still #1 in popularity, and the most crucial tool for almost any web developer (aside from using TypeScript, instead of plain JS which is also critical for large projects)

React is reported to be used by 39.5% of developers worldwide, while Vue.js is at 15.4%. The number of "apps" using just HTML+CSS is precisely zero, because those aren't "apps" they're documents.
> Where's the best resource for X"

Reddit is a pretty credible alternative for that.
> And honestly you don't even need the graph, just go to their sites. Target is dog slow while Amazon loads instantly.

I was not able to notice any difference between them
Yep! Made me remember my bad target experiences as well. Love how that’s all ignored by some.
Agree with you. Problem is more about poor results and lack of good alternatives.
Google has very research division but productising those inventions is the problem.
> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the JS-free web isn't coming back.

It has never went anywhere? All it takes is a user brave enough to disable it or to use a web browser that doesn't use it or has issues with it. But for some reason many web devs actively ignore that.
Because they did well in the interview and seemed like a good fit.
Ha and jquery was pretty high too. How is that an argument?
In Germany the problem is coal (lignite): it remains a huge social and political 'asset'. Many jobs, low-priced electricity, no dependency towards fuel shipped by a foreign nation...

France switched to nuclear because at the time it didn't have any fossil fuel ( https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/messmer-pl... ), while Germany (especially the then-RDA part of it, Soviet-controlled) had huge reserves.

Phasing-out coal is therefore difficult for Germany, however it does so and the acceleration after Fukushima (2011) and during its nuclear phase-out is impressive: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-coal?ta...

France & Germany (beware: check the scales...):
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation-fr...

After Fukushima most German citizens didn't want nuclear reactors anymore:
Which political parties switched most of the nuclear plants off since Fukushima?
CDU/CSU: 14
FDP: 11
SPD: 9
Greens: 3
(source: https://x.com/HannoKlausmeier/status/1784158942823690561 )
This doesn't sound like Dunning-Kreuger to me.

You sound well aware of the fact that being able to put out working python code doesn't necessarily mean you fully understand all of the best practices and idioms that the particular community uses, and that's okay. You are aware of your weakness.

If you were stuck in "tutorial hell" but thought you knew the language, then maybe that would be Dunning-Kreuger. Or if you were unaware of your not writing idiomatic code due to coming from a different language and being new.
React works because I can hire engineers that can be productive quickly. A lot of tech conversations leave the talent pool aside as if it's easy to find good engineers in all of the options you might have.

The ecosystem is another aspect. You have so many great options for off the shelf components and libraries with React that you might not have with other frameworks.

Before anyone mentions Custom Elements and Web Components, I must say I tried it. Gave it a lot of effort to be a solution but it is not!
I tried using some online systems to help formulate weighted sum decisions over unrankable choices and it's bloody hard work getting people on board. I think how the logic presents could improve.

This stuff while old, is not routine for decision makers. They don't seem to grok how to formulate the questions and the choices.
There is absolutely something stopping me from going to Bing and I wager it's the same reason with most other people:

Despite how awful Google has become in recent years...Bing is still consistently worse.
Absolutely. And explicitly calling out wealthy people for being wealthy just reeks of jealousy.
Seemed to be on the web frontend.

Got a lot of “access denied” on my bucket and thought it was my account being locked out because of something my backup software did,

Until I got the same thing on wasabi’s home page on desktop and cellular with a different IP.

Their status page was up.

Network issues affecting all regions
Incident status: Monitoring
We have isolated the issue and resolution is underway. We expect all regions except us-east-1 to be successful. There is still some level of error responses being seen in Ashburn and we continue to work on that.
We will continue to monitor all regions and update their status as well as that of us-east-1 as we continue to make progress.

We are currently investigating reported network errors across all regions. Access to both Console and S3 services may return errors. We will update this page as we have more information.
Posted 5 hours ago. Nov 30, 2024 - 00:20 UTC
Seriously ! after switching to Kagi along with recent annoying changes to Google search last 2 years , the switch back to google unimaginable.

Recently I realized that i only !g to google from kagi just a handful of times this year and every time to instant regret .

A marked contrast to couple of years back with DDG !g would instinctive and probably half the time and results felt better in google . Sticking with DDG felt idealistic and the quality second class, not so with Kagi, it feels the $10 pays off every month in much improved productivity.

It is to be noted that Kagi uses google search index as a source, so it is not like Google cannot improve the results or UX technically, just not possible institutionally.
More photos:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/nov/29/inside...
IEEE Interim Report on Arithmetic Formats for Machine Learning [pdf]
It's very bad that browsers even allow overriding hotkeys. Like, I'm sure extra code had to be written to make this work on the browser side. It would've cost nothing to Google or Apple or Mozilla to not write that code.
I wonder what percentage of YouTube videos contain useful information though. I feel like it could be as low as 1%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_s...
"React works because I can hire engineers that can be productive quickly. A lot of tech conversations leave the talent pool aside as if it's easy to find good engineers in all of the options you might have."

That's covered in this section: https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/#%22...

"The ecosystem is another aspect. You have so many great options for off the shelf components and libraries with React that you might not have with other frameworks."

That's covered here: https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/#%22...
> That one train with one driver has a capacity of 260 seated, 1000 in total. People get on and off all of the time so the actual usage can be far higher

You're just using the wrong units. You'd normally measure transportation in passenger-miles. (Or, as the case may be, passenger-km.)
We know how to solve this ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-... ), and the corresponding continental fleet of renewables is a work in progress.
Your panels are covered by your home insurance, just like your roof. So you'd already be talking to your insurance agent if you had any hailstorm damage to your home. I'm really sure I see the point.
What type of curation are you looking for? F-droid curates for open source and "anti-features" which are documented on each app page. And Aurora allows you to search Google Play while filtering out apps that utilize ads. What exactly do you want?
I still think you can build good tools using just html, css and pure js if you have the right knowledge. For example, this social network was built without any frameworks and has the performance it has https://chat-to.dev
> The car has an automatic system which can prevent the driver from operating it, but no one outside the car can trigger that system, which is clearly what the "kill switch" posts were claiming.

That assumes that the feature is implemented securely, which is hardly guaranteed. Would you bet a large sum that it wasn't exploitable? I wouldn't.
I spent a lot of time working on react applications of one kind or another and I think most businesses don’t have “problems that React solves” for their frontends. Somewhere that’s actually an application might, but most line of business applications would be better as something like Rails views rather than React
> They serve in the IDF, have careers, and population growth is 3 children per woman.

The women that do the above most certainly have a TFR closer to 2 rather than 3.

See table 1 at top of page 7 and figure 2 on page 8.

https://www.taubcenter.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dem...
Percentage of "useful content" is likely the same (or better) than the open web, though.
Were you using a ~$2000 laptop on a broadband connection?
It was used in Google translate, and BERT was incorporated into search in 2019, though I don't think it was a clear win for search, I feel like I started having to add exact quotes to everything technical/programming around then.
How exactly does this interact with fork()?
> Platform edge doors could be done half-height style without massive rebuilds of platforms.

Make them chest height. There are no words for how much I despise guardrails that reach to below my center of gravity. I want guardrails that will stop me from tumbling over a cliff, not guardrails that will make sure that if I do go, I go headfirst.
> France also improved in the meantime, despite building no new plant in the 2007-2022 interval

Thanks to renewables:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
Is it even working for the developer though? Last I checked the server-side rendering performance for react based frameworks was somewhere like 200 pages per second? Is that something to be proud of as a developer?
It works for me on mobile Safari but the controls are frustrating. You can’t drag the sliders, that just scrolls the webpage, instead you have to tap. But don’t tap too quickly or you will toggle zoom.
To reduce anger, don't vent.
> It's the rewarding side of real engineering, trying out new materials under well-understood constraints to improve user outcomes.

Good thing we’re mostly keeping the attitude to hobby projects.

Can’t imagine hundreds of artisans™ bikeshedding over what the hell this even means.

And I can’t read with a straight face an article talking about complexity of React while suggesting Vue (sic!) as an alternative. Lol!
Mainly data collection (previous lead dev at solar forecasting startup). All the web UIs to view usage are also collecting useful information that can be used in forecasting models. One of the researches I worked with wrote some papers on using distributed home solar output measurements to assist with generating higher resolution irradiance forecasts and estimated actuals/observations. You have to do a lot of data cleaning to get this reliable though. Anyway, this data from memory was bought/sold for various research/commercial weather modeling.
React is absolutely performant. A developer who makes a slow React site would make a slow site with something else.
I stuck IOT stuff on a cheap linksys WRT router with ExpressVPN firmware. It forces all clients out over that so Nest, Amazon et al can’t snitch or sell my demographics or billing address to people. Not tying it to my home IP anyway.

but this require a DMZ or a second external IP address (I have both with centurylink) because if it’s double nat on your home network. Thee devices can access your home network.
most are moving to passwordless. also known as passkey, or 3rd-party-password-overlord, or not-your-password-anymore.

just kidding. it's only apple and Microsoft. meanwhile EU commission just removed OTP option from their SSO and forced you to move to SMS
Good call out; in my context yes I do want it listening for use by other machines in its subnets and deliberately set that option (including using the IPv6 form), but most people are probably better off binding to loopback. Thanks
"Undefined behavior could format your hard drive" is kind of a meme, but it's a meme with a point. A lot of programmers have the idea that UB is "what the hardware does", that when you go outside the bounds of the C program you just have to think at the machine code level to figure out what will happen. But that's not the reality with a modern compiler; what with all the levels of analysis, optimization, and transformation that happen between source code and machine code, the effects of undefined behavior are extremely unpredictable and often inconsistent and nondeterministic. The point of "undefined behavior could format your hard drive" is that if your code exhibits UB, the compiler is not required to translate it "correctly", and you can't make an attempt to reason about the behavior of the program.

See also: "What Every C Programmer Should Know about Undefined Behavior": https://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should...
As someone who's been doing React since the beginning, I would agree that it's hard starting out.

However, I think any new paradigm is difficult starting out. Recently I've been learning OO for work and I've been finding it stupidly hard and entirely unintuitive.
> gas is a minor component of france's electricity mix

~9%

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?Metric=Share+of+...
It's curated. It clearly marks "anti-features" of the apps.
Does anyone have a set of queries that google returns poor results for?

I spent a few minutes looking at my search history (filtering chrome history by "google search"), and the vast of my queries are quite simple (e.g. people's names) that google does well on (in fact I find google search for people better than linkedin sometimes).

I also tried a few complex queries and compared them to Kagi:

"How much bitcoin does microstrategy own" -> Google returns the correct snippet from here[0] while Kagi only linked to articles about how much it acquired in the last few days.

"how to pronounce stratchery" -> Google returns the correct snippet from the Stratechery website[1] while Kagi's first result is a spam entry[2] with the wrong pronunciation (the second result is a tweet with the correct pronunciation).

I'd be curious to see more comparisons!

Edit: I just remembered Dan Luu's post (https://danluu.com/seo-spam/) but after looking through my search history, the queries he uses are not at all representative of my day to day searches.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/11/29/micro...

[1]https://stratechery.com/category/about/#:~:text=UPDATE%3A%20....

[2]https://www.howtopronounce.com/stratechery
A search engine having bad result is not a simple problem though.

Especially at the position of Google, it's neither a coincidence nor something taking them by surprise. They've been in an arms race with spammers and SEO gurus since the beginning, and had all resources on earth to deal with it. The results being bad as they reached a monopoly position is of their own making, or more precisely a situation they saw as the best tradeoff.

That's where I don't see Google turning the ship around: people who were there for decades to make searches relevant have probably already left a long time ago, or they accepted the new direction themselves. And new people with expertise and enough energy to rock the boat are also in a position to do more impactful work in other companies where they won't have to fight an establishment.

As a example of how hard it is to change direction, we haven't seen Microsoft suddenly build customer friendly OSes, nor Meta having good taste, nor Apple come up with open ecosystems.
(If you don’t want IOT talking to the internet at all, set up an internal dhcp server and give the devices a bunk router address .

If my gateway were 192.168.1.1 , I just set that clients gateway as 192.168.1.254)

Misread your question. Sorry. Most of my devices I do want talking to the internet. Just not on my home IP.
Was there ever video interviews? Admittedly I wasn’t really paying attention but back when I was getting into what it was only IRC, and these days it still seems to be IRC anywhere that does interviews (otherwise class-restricted forum invites).
Are they specifically flagging LLMs, or do they not like Cosmopolitan Libc / APE?
> No need for personal attacks.

i don't know about all that, but this is an incredibly tired diatribe.

> Perhaps that's what the author refers to.

they are clearly not.
A fun thing about reading Alex is that you can tell he's had the same arguments over and over again for a decade now and he's frustrated with having to keep on making the same points and getting the exact same responses.

Most of the people commenting on this piece won't have read this whole article (it's long, and internet attention spans are short). As a result, you'll find plenty of the comments here were exactly predicted by his writing.

I see him as something of a Cassandra at this point, doomed to see the truth about web performance based on many years of research... and then to have nobody believe him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
Tell that to all the former PHP developers. Where are these performant React sites? The largest and best tech companies out there certainly can’t do it.
One of the under appreciated reason why spa took off is it exploits the lower cdn cost.

Things that generate html on the server side need to pay for the higher bandwidth costs that are hard to cache well.

In the other hand with spa, a well configured cdn can have a short ttl on index.html and cache the unique per deployment js bundles forever.

The only server bandwidth cost is the actual api data
Turbo morphing. It’s part of Hotwire.

Re-Render the full page server side, app takes response, applies only the changes needed. Preserves scrolling state, etc.

Super simple pattern for building dynamic sites.

https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/page_refreshes#morphing
The Six Leadership Styles
And the Victoria line is already driverless in the sense that all the "driver" does during normal operation is operate the doors.

More or less the same as the DLR, except the Victoria line has a permanent driver's seat/cabin where as the DLR operator can move throughout the train.

(Personally I'd rather be a DLR "operator", at least you're on your feet much of the time and getting some exercise. But I bet the Victoria line "drivers" get paid more!)
People often say that successful businesses inevitably grow until they take over the world. The trouble is, as an organization gets larger, it becomes optimized for what it does, and the internal bureaucratic inertia becomes impossible to adapt to new business realities. And so it eventually collapses.
The same former PHP developers responsible for all those slow WordPress sites?