skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One common question is, why not fission? Fission works technically, but not practically. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could power ships, but licensing fission reactors on land is already brutally hard and expensive—doing it for vessels moving between international ports with enriched uranium is nearly impossible

What makes you think that licensing a fusion reactor will be easier? Safely handling tritium is fantastically more complicated that the fuel of a fission power plant.

Also, do you plan on breeding your fuel aboard the ship? If no, how do you plan to produce, store the tritium and refuel the ship? If yes, I'd like to know how you are planning to host the massive chemical plant to purify coolant, recycle unburt fuel, separate isotopes, detriatiate water and refuel that comes with your tokamak.
(neon employee)

there isn't something like Vitess for Postgres yet but there needs to be. Migrations are painful in general and they become very painful at scale. i haven't used gel yet, i know it manages migrations but i don't know to what extent. most of my experience is with prisma, drizzle, and atlas.

neon is working on some plans to solve migrations at scale. we think our custom storage layer will allow us to optimize certain paths, like setting a default value in a new column for a table with millions of rows. this alter command can take a lock on a table for hours. but ultimately we need better tooling.

ideally there is a client and a hosted service such that you can use the client to run migrations on your own from the CLI and integrate it into your dev workflow. the hosted service version allows you to push up your schema change from the client to an API. from there you can manage the migration rollout from an operational dashboard that helps you tune resourcing.

when i was at github we used vitess to roll out a migration that took 3 weeks to complete. a long time to wait but that's a better tradeoff compared to a migration that takes down production for 6 hours.
I love how the top comment on every single HN post is some contrarian "nuh uh!" take from someone who is lightyears away from being an expert in that thing.
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Ask HN: Are forum sites becoming extinct?
Hello, I used to hang out on forums all the time during my years as an electronics student in high school and university from 2005 to 2014 to research information and exchange ideas. Over time, discovery, content production and consumption on the internet have changed a lot. And I don't remember visiting a forum site for almost years. In the past, there were only specific forums on any subject, now there are social media groups and communities. However, these do not provide the same taste and quality as before. I used to want to join a forum and contribute, but now I am too lazy to comment anywhere. I am curious about your thoughts on this subject. Has our perspective on content consumption and production changed a lot as a society? Or have we been directed to a different tendency?

Note: I would be happy if you answered this question as if artificial intelligence tools did not exist. Because forums were still losing blood before artificial intelligence.
In the words of Han Solo “I don’t know I can imagine quite a bit.”
"Amazon's choice" is algorithmic. It's will often be two different products if you look at two different regional Amazon sites, even if both products are available on both sites at comparable pricing.
> I also came across some AI-based translation tools, but the results often fell short.

> Professional manga and comics translation powered by AI.

How are your AI based tool any different?
> It's almost like you are saying whatever you think will make you right in the moment.

Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. It just makes things worse. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Blog posts in the form of "Here are the technologies making it possible to bring modern native gaming to the web" have been around for a long time, and that's probably the sort of thing they're referring to.

One that comes to mind as particularly memorable is the asm.js Citadel demo (some info here: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-and-epic-preview...), although there was a similar one a year earlier about UE3 (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/mozilla-is-unlo...).

In 2015, Unity 5 was released with WebGL support. Engine support for having the Web as a target certainly led to a lot of excitement among gamers at the time too.
Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak
Using LLMs for controlling humanoid robots [video]
Hell Freezes Over: Cisco and Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking
Remember how all Prime video used to be free and without ads? There'll be the same bait-and-switch here.
Has anyone from HN told them that LLMs are just stochastic parrots and cant do anything without crippling hallucinations?
Not unless someone ports typescript to typescript types. That would be some next-level self-hosting haha
Sure, but if you think you are inferior on a personal basis, and inferior on a situational basis, that doesnt boost self esteem.
Ok great, I indeed just tried, I might just have been confused last time! Maybe you could mention in the doc that a module can be a "package"? (Even though I suppose a package is also a module, I always find the Python terminology a bit confusing there.)
> Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

I'm no expert, but this seems to imply that if your government bans accessing the internet (for you, for a subset of people, or for everyone), using Firefox through a VPN is unacceptable to Mozilla? Why would Mozilla proactively side with autocrats?

The "acceptable use" policy they are talking about ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/ ) lists heinous actions such as to "send unsolicited communication" and to "display ... content that includes graphic depictions of ... violence". Is Mozilla targeting journalists here?

I sometimes suspect that there is a strong correlation between the effortlessness with which an organisation receives funding and how out of touch it is with reality.
I never noticed it until I read Pynchon's Against the Day, I assume I just ignored quaternion posts before then. Great book, enjoyed the way he used quaternions and vectors towards literary ends.

Edit: just noticed we also have a thread on bifurcation, another big topic in Against the Day.
Appears to already be mostly abandoned with the last activity being four months old - but I was very surprised to see there's a decomp project of Super Mario Odyssey, with commits from just 21 minutes ago. Less than 10% complete though (and, legally, I wouldn't touch it with a 9 1/2 foot pole - Nintendo could argue that the only way the assembly code was even obtainable was through DMCA violations and TOS violations).

https://github.com/MonsterDruide1/OdysseyDecomp
I was at my doctor last week. I was due for a vaccine, I had to stop them from "selling" me on vaccines. I told them I'm ok with vaccines and to do it.

Kinda sad you see doctors have to gear up in sales mode for such simple and beneficial things.
In that link that says that was Everett's initial attempt to solve but it has been debated and extended. I only have a podcast understanding of it, and have heard the popular proponents of many worlds like Sean Carrol say that is the biggest problem that needs more development, he has his own self-locating thing but there are many other approaches.

But on the other point, how can there be an irrational number of branches to sample these statistics from? I just can't visualize the type of structure that would have that but I'm sure it is more subtle. I've heard the branches aren't branches under MWI but instead are something more continuous and I guess I don't understand it at that point.
Previous version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250219051713/https://www.mozil...

New version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

> Firefox also shares information with our marketing partners to measure and improve these campaigns; what information is specifically shared varies (depending on how you discovered Firefox and your operating system) but generally includes how you were referred to our download page and whether you actively use Firefox. Where Firefox is pre-installed on your device, technical and interaction data (your device type and whether Firefox is used) will be sent to our marketing partners, and shared with Mozilla. Learn more about what is collected and shared, and how to opt out.

This is new (There's no link or further reference for that "learn more" in context)
It's convenience. I have a device in my kitchen that's hands-free, can set timers, show recipes, etc, that's always there when I'm cooking.

I don't usually have my phone on me, but even if I did I need to at least unlock it to enable voice commands, which instantly kills any notion of it being truly hands-free.
DARPA Program Managers have a lot of leeway to write these sorts of requests.

PMs are typically experts in their field and often come from an academic, industry, military, or government research lab. DARPA gives them a budget for grants, autonomy, and 3-5 years to fund interesting work. Many fail, many have mixed success, and a small number revolutionize their field.

(Source: worked on a few DARPA-funded projects decades ago.)
I don't want the Democratic Party to pander to voters.

This is why Trump keeps getting elected. It is all fine and good to stick to your ideals and refuse to pander. But if you alienate the majority of voters, you will never get elected.
I just tried this and it completely an utterly failed on the first prompt. Useless.

> earbuds that have the wire in between so I can dangle them around my neck

First result: Sony WI-1000XM2 Wireless. These are neither earbuds nor do they have a wire.

Pointless garbage. It also doesn't let me copy and paste the result, for no reason. Bad software.
Fusion for crypto?
Here's a few dozen use cases based on my own use of smart home devices:

- Hands are full or dirty while cooking. Voice activation is more convenient. True for not just timers, but every other aspect - music playing, controlling home devices like lights, watching something on YouTube, etc.

- The above also applies to any case where my hands can't readily access my phone, such as wanting to listen/change music when showering.

- As the other commenter said, sometimes the timer needs to be "room-specific" rather than on my phone (which stays with me)

- The device has a decent speaker, so makes a convenient Spotify device. The voice activation is sufficient, though I can also control the device via Spotify on my phone if there's occasional blips.

- Combined with smart light switches, I have convenient control over various aspects of lighting in my home

- Combined with Chromecast / Google TV, it provides voice activated access to pause/play/change what I'm watching.

- Basic internet queries, such as how long it will take to drive somewhere or when a certain place will close, work well also.

None of these use cases _individually_ is so amazing I'd spend $100+, but the combined total value is great for me.
We already have 70 years experience of marine nuclear reactors. Most of them highly enriched uranium or plutonium.

Submarines for electrolysis of water into breathable oxygen and electrical power for propulsion and aircraft carriers for its massive power density.

On the other hand, we have 0 years of operational experience with fusion reactors. We have 0 energy positive land based designs, 0 marine adaptations. We have discovered exactly 0 benefits of fusion reactor designs over fission. and I'm certain that we'll have more than 100 years of experience in commercial fission operation before we even have a single decade of net positive fusion energy.

Highly dangerous? Absolutely, but the giant weapons attached to these nuclear marine reactors have killed far more people than those reactors. Hell, those aircraft carriers experience more radiation from coal power plants than their own reactor. And I'm not kidding.
If you don't mind, could you tell me about this recruiter?
I've thought of taking a similar path myself. Which school are you looking at?
Related ongoing thread:

Claude Plays Pokémon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173825
For amazon you can just use camelcamelcamel or keepa to track price history.
Related ongoing thread:

Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187231
Got a link handy?
Probably because on-land there are better way to get the same output and it doesn't require unproven technology.

Maritime makes sense from that point of view. However, this point of view ignores that fusion is hard for us right now.

I bet it's a case of someone not understading this field properly and thinking that just throwing money at it will solve everything.
I think my induction hob is roughly 3kW. Why don't we all just put a nuclear reactor in our basement at that point? You people are all dreaming.
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That's not it at all. The Trump administration is making a power grab. They're cutting down the Federal Bureaucracy as much as possible so it doesn't get in their way, and they're replacing everyone they can with loyalists at the top. This is all under the pretense of reducing wasteful spending.
You're right.. guess I always thought Magic Eye was converged.

Once I look at the ones at the bottom and just zoom in/out in the browser I can see them perfectly.

I have a 33" monitor and seeing them means sitting much closer than normal and then zooming out in the browser.
Your coins look like coins, i'm a bit jealous and will do the same :) So you're going for a longer play style, with many levels, and a character build where you have a very strong ship at the end ? I think trying to tell stories around such a simple mechanic with nicely designed levels and background is a great idea ! If you release out of steam at some point, I'd love to try it. I'm allergic to that platform and its constant updates, my gaming pc does not connect to the internet and will stay on windows 10 forever.
Claude I find is significantly better at coding that OpenAI tech, especially in agentic tool using workflows.
Git-Heat-Map¹ does something similar to this. It's not open source but I found it easy re-implement the core algorithm² as a learning exercise in React.

¹- https://github.com/jmforsythe/Git-Heat-Map

²- https://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/stm.pdf
Why don't you make one that works on land first? Would be an achievement in and of itself.
This has vibes of NLB Banka in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, also part of former Yugoslavia. http://wikimapia.org/1740990/bs/NLB-banka-NLB-bank#/photo/77...
Amazon needs to actually sell you things to make money. They have an entire supply chain built around it. Ads that never convert aren’t gonna pay for that.
Gemini is laughable. Please check the advice it gave you, I promise it got some major things wrong.
Kishi, the war criminal mentioned in the opening, didn't just go on to serve as Prime Minister of post war Japan, so too did his younger brother Sato and his grandson Shinzo Abe.
You can only make a choice if there is a choice.

The author argues for "a restoration of choice: a campaign to ensure analogue alternatives to digital tools."

If you had a viable choice besides a car (like a combination of mass transit, walking, and bike), would you choose it?

But of course most people in the US cannot make that choice because where they live was, over the last century, designed around cars, and often eliminated choices which were present.

Had those choices remained, there would be more pressure on car manufacturers to build better cars.

Consumers alone aren't going to transform cities into a walkable place.
Dept. of Transportation Announces Review of California High-Speed Rail Project
So there are zero people living in the bay area who work normal jobs and don't make tech salaries? Because the only reason people live somewhere is the money, so all those people must have moved away since their money would be worth more in a lower cost of living area?

Never thought 'love it or leave it' would be presented as a valid argument on HN.
Camille Roux really hits it out of the park, I have a hard time even starting to think how you could generate stuff like this [0].

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/art.camilleroux.com/post/3ldixh4oeu...
For me the value in a dedup app like this isn't as much the space savings, since I just don't generate huge amounts, but it's the lack of duplicated files, some of which or all in aggregate may be large. There are some weird scenarios where this occurs, usually due to having to reconcile a hard drive recovery with another location for the files, or a messy download directory with an organized destination.

For example, I discovered my time machine backup kicked out the oldest versions of files I didn't know it had a record of and thought I'd long since lost, but it destroyed the names of the directories and obfuscated the contents somewhat. Thousands of numerically named directories, some of which have files I may want to hang onto, but don't know whether I already have them or not, or where they are since it's completely unstructured. Likewise, many of them may just have one of the same build system text file I can obvs toss away.
There's no such thing as an isomorphic layout effect
It happens with the "picky eater" and "color pierce". With picky eater, you need to hit bricks that are the color of the ball, and color pierce makes a red ball go right through red bricks, and change color when it hits a different one. You could disable both by enabling color blind mode in the menu. This will be less of an issue once i make coins look like coins and all gold.
Apart from the apparent atheist Musk, the rest is being driven by the US Council for National Policy, operationalised by the New Apostolic Reformation and their 7 Mountains Mandate. Texas Observer on some of this: https://www.texasobserver.org/new-apostolic-reformation-texa...

These people are Christo-Fascists busy making govt so small it can be drowned in a puddle.
I almost wrote a short story about colonising Mars by firing radioisotope bullets with genetically engineered fungi coatings into the surface. These would metabolise the radiation and use the minerals in the crust to grow into large habitat volumes thick enough to retain atmosphere and insulate against radiation and thermal losses. Maybe it can be real one day!
The subtle Devin Townsend references in the video were a super nice touch, Dimitri is literally a Power Nerd.
The Democrats are beholden to their base just as the Republicans are beholden to their base. The problem is that the base demands a "purity" test of all their politicians. This litmus test is anathema to the majority of voters by demanding what is essentially reverse-discrimination, pro-crime, and pro-non-citizens policies. The Democrats will never get elected this way. And I am a Democrat that wants Democrats to get elected.
You can take a few minutes to make a routine and give it a custom name. "Ziggy, goodnight" turns off all the lights in my bedroom, closet and office (in case I left them on), sets DnD mode on the Echo, turns it's screen off and sets my ceiling fan to speed 1.

This took about 5 minutes to setup.
I'd hope the writer or editor used lunacy for this reason haha
WOW that's quite kind of you to say!

As luck would have it I happen to be the happiest at my current job than I've ever been ever (and by a lot) buttttttt if it's interesting to you one of the express goals of SquiggleConf is to get WebAssembly to be a "oh I know how to use it" tool in the everyday dev's mind. So I'll definitely ping you some time soon to see what you think (and I hope you can tell I'm not sponsor shopping! even if you have people building wasm tools web devs should know about and you can point them towards our CFP that would be huge! we really want great wasm coverage to widen the playing field for everyone).

Also -> actually Wasmer does have a small part in this whole story with Doom, too, which is sorta neat (will come up in the next few videos!).
I agree with you, but frame it slightly differently. Money is fine, even pretty useful. I'm a programmer, and my skill is programming. If I want to eat, I need to find a farmer that needs some programming done so I can trade my skills for his food. If the farmer needs some lumber to fix his fence, he needs to find a lumbermill that needs grain, so he can trade. Instead, with money, we have an intermediate thing we can trade our labor for, and then use it to obtain the other things we need.

Instead, I would suggest what you hate is Capitalism, which is different from money. A "market" is a concept that allows everyone to trade their products and services with each other. A Free Market is an academic ideal, that allows every actor in the market to participate with perfect information and without coercion.

Capitalism exploits the fact that there's no such thing as a free market, and perverts the market in favor those actors with lots of money and power to exploit and subjugate those who don't.

We could tax the wealthy enough that everyone could be given enough money to live on, and do whatever they wanted. Be an artist or a musician, or a programmer. They could work for themselves, or band together with others to produce things and sell them for a profit, and be better off than the minimum. But if they end up working for someone who tries to exploit, subjugate or harm them, then they can just leave without risk, since they'll always have enough money for housing, food and healthcare.

But of course, the billionaires would hate this, since it removes the source of their power. They're willing to spend billions of dollars corrupting politicians, generating propaganda, and convincing the rest of us that being exploited is what's best. We as a society could decide fix this, but we have to figure out how to organize with each other, and overcome the billions of dollars spent to prevent it.
Introductions to DSLs with ANTLR (2023)
Nobody wrote systems software in Java and been successful. But Rust did.
> I believe Solaris is the only other OS with IOCP.

AIX has them as well.
Visualizing Kurt Vonnegut's narrative patterns with LLM analysis
A detailed listing of whats collected and why:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#lawful-bases
Oil rigs seem a smarter move. You can piggy back on their enormous investment, and use water cooling.
Really cool. Awesome product from a solid team!
> That's not as much on the advertising industry as it is on regulations around technology

What I hear in that is "treating people badly is OK as long as it's legal". That may or may not be what you meant, but that's what it sounds like to me. I think that's an ethically unsupportable stance.
> Almost anyone who has ever maintained popular open-source software, even if dealing with them means putting up a notice that says "Don't ask support questions" and having to delete angrily posted issues.

I mean, that's very obviously a false statement. You don't have to post any notices or reply to or delete any issues.

> My understanding from listening to his explanation is he wants to be able to support users and have an income stream to incentivize that.

That's valid, but is basically the opposite of the reasoning provided in gp comment.