skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting 0.003 terawatts? Another user elsewhere in the thread[0] claimed "Global total energy (not just electricity) consumption is currently 180,000TWh/year, or about 20TW."

Google is showing me other figures like 25,000 terawatt hours of electricity consumption annually.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43234856
Big Consulting Bosses Meet with Trump Officials to Save Contracts
I am highly suspicious of the Real Engineering channel. It seems like he does full on marketing videos for whoever is willing to pay or provide access. The video on Helios was suspect and so is this one.
You parrot all this like there hasn’t been a huge conservative groupthink push at exactly the same time. Don’t act like cancel culture is an “intolerant liberal” thing (although that does make up part of it).

I’ve lost count of the number of businesses and celebrities that have been canceled and protested by the “intolerant conservatives”. Not to mention, some of those causes have been wholly made up. Nobody has been forbidden from saying “merry Christmas”, no matter how many times your uncle shares some post about it in Faceboook.
Yeah, an extra layer of type indirection for expressing various implicit encodings is useful for e.g. dates

My point overall is that there is tonnes of prior art for compile time reflection libraries in c++ for this kind of thing. Boost has MPL, Fusion and Hana for starters. All of these have visitor patterns and algorithms out of the box.

You originally said you hadn't found anything quite like it for unmanaged languages...but people have been doing this for decades at this point.

In general I'm no longer a fan of the "encode the schema directly in C++" approach if the data i'm interfacing with actually has a schema.
Somehow the people making policies always exempt themselves.
As a gay man, why specify straight men? It just shows your subconscious thought of gay man = femmy = hr. Most gay men are just average dudes and you'd never be able to tell, no matter how many overly dramatic portrayals of gay dudes there are on TV.

But primarily, I've not seen a single diversity initiative for gay people in my life. Based on skin colour, sure, for women, always. But not once have I seen anything prompting or requiring hiring of gay employees ever.
Mexico sends 29 drug cartel figures to the US
TypeScript enums require codegen, which won't work in a type erasure world. This is explained in the article.
And subtle bugs existed pre-2022, how often my apps are updated for "minor bug fixes" would mean this is par for the course.
Perhaps the board should furnish shareholders with ketamine?
> Fewer moving pieces == less chance for bad times.

Is this not a case for explicitly specifying all flavors? Other flavor has essentially introduced infinite moving pieces.
Most IT companies fail to serve security.txt for RFC 9116 in 2025
Not really my problem, as there are laws in place where I'm from.

Just because things exist doesn't mean you should have a platform to promote them, this is a very basic concept.

Doesn't look like you understand that allowing the promotion of Nazism will do exactly that, promote Nazism.
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP
Ah, so your problem is the Pentagon, not the social sciences, right?
This looks fun. The author mentions machine learning workloads. What are typical machine learning use cases for a cluster of lower end GPUs?

While on that topic, why must large model inferencing be done on a single large GPU and/or bank of memory rather than a cluster of them? Is there promise of being able to eventually run large models on clusters of weaker GPUs?
yeah, and also one's personal responsibility to make sure they are indeed learning and practicing.

implying i need to be dependent on a school to help me retain learning is a concept that is foreign to me. if i had that kind of dependency in my learning life, i'd be unemployed.
The idea is correct, a lot of people (including myself sometimes) just let an "agent" run and do some stuff and then check later if it finished. This is obviously more dangerous than just the LLM hallucinating functions, since at least you can catch the latter, but the first one depends on the tests of the project or your reviewer skills.

The real problem with hallucination is that we started using LLMs as search engines, so when it invents a function, you have to go and actually search the API on a real search engine.
And according to the same text, $5.8B in annual operating costs.
That’s just FUD. Do you see Bezos leaving the country for Argentina? Yeah, me neither. What’s the alternative you’re proposing? Just accept our new billionaire overlords?
The submission links to a generic Guardian page. Actual link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/01/parents-c...
I think consumer math and statistics should be required alternatives to precalc and calc. Maybe even algebra 2.
I work in a lot of repos at once. I do a lot of global search-and-replacing and random debugging. With SourceTree, I can easily see all the changes I've made across all repos in one glance.

I can then drill down to each file with the visual diff and see whether the changes are something I want to check in, or just debugging. If it's debugging code, I can click "Discard Changes" to drop all changes I've made to that file. Or I can selectively discard a hunk or discard lines.

When I show these features to command line purists, they always concede that this can't easily be done with the command line. So I don't see what's to gain if I'm losing those features, which I rely on constantly.

I've been working in SourceTree for a decade, so I know all the quirks by now, which I pass on to any new devs who want to use it.
Oops, I missed the thousands. So 3 TW, which is larger, going by Google stats, and 20 TW by the other users. So that's not negligible.
The production of such tests presumably requires an element of human reasoning.

The requirements have to come from somewhere, after all.
> Never check strong_count to see if you are "the last owner".

This made me think of the `im` library[0] which provides some immutable/copy on write collections. The docs make it seem like they do some optimizations when they determine there is only one owner:

> Most crucially, if you never clone the data structure, the data inside it is also never cloned, and in this case it acts just like a mutable data structure, with minimal performance differences (but still non-zero, as we still have to check for shared nodes).

I hope this isn't prone to a similar race condition!

[0] https://docs.rs/im/15.1.0/im/index.html
Storygraph is brilliant, but it really needs some UX love for things like viewing your book piles (read, to-read, dnf) etc.

It's also quite slow, but I suspect that's just part of it being a smaller site.
Sorry Dang <3 Thanks for your hard work!
Seems like one might hold off on underseas power cables until we figure out how to keep Russian and Chinese ships from having so many accidents.
you're right, you can initiate cross-site requests that _could be_ form submissions. It was even in the post but I thought I'd omit that bit for clarity. I should have decided otherwise.
Again, where is the actual statement of a position there? You are implying something, but you aren't actually saying anything.
so is grok3
30 years since I posted that first script back in high school! Thanks for all the love (and some hate) since then. :) Let me know if you have any questions, I'll try to answer.
TOTPs are amazing! I'm currently building a low-power, offline ESP32 device that generates time-based one-time QR codes and displays them on an e-ink screen. I plan to use it for proof of presence.
I had a bit of a failed transition while hoping for a fast one. I gave the app image for Macos a try. the available binaries are for Intel only, and 120Hz scrolling isn't working despite matching the final Firefox version to the point. I can't tell what else is missed out from Firefox. I didn't have much luck with the Homebrew version either. It doesn't run at all.

Anyone got better luck on Mac?
Personally I thought the video was interesting. Even if it’s promoting a company agenda, the technology itself is cool. I learned some stuff.
"2nm node" means "one technology iteration after 4nm". (Well, actually after 3nm, but let's not get even more into that nonsense)

These numbers stopped having anything to do with the sizes of things a long time ago.
Chances are it's poyurethane.

Low-density polyethylene would have been the better choice for longevity, but not so much for shock-absorbtion.
> They are also a powerful driver for exploitation both of employees and of the general public.

Yes, but you'll always have that. An average person working for the government, be that as an employee or as an official, will optimize their work load and try to do the minimum amount required. That's individually much less of a problem than that greedy CEO you envision, but it adds up in large numbers and becomes a problem if not corrected - and there's no strong incentive to correct it when you play with the infinite money hack enabled.

Human nature has to be taken into account either way. It's just a lot easier when you acknowledge that it exists. Massively oversimplified: that's why the Soviets had to build walls to make it hard for their people to leave and murder those who tried. You can ignore human nature, but human nature won't ignore you.
I watched half of the video. He keeps appealing to the idea that Goedel applies to AI because AI doesn't understand what it's doing. But I seriously doubt that we humans really know what we're doing, either.

IIRC, his Goedel argument against AI is that someone could construct a Goedel proposition for an intelligent machine which that machine could reason its way through to hit a contradiction. But, at least by default, humans don't base their epistemology on such reasoning, and I don't see why a conscious machine would either. It's not ideal, but frankly, when most humans hit a contradiction, they usually just ignore whichever side of the contradiction is most inconvenient for them.
Elon Musk Pushes for U.S. Withdrawal from the UN and NATO with Blunt Remark
I do this with Chrome for my resume. Write it in Markdown, convert to HTML using Pandoc and then print it to PDF using Chrome.

Google\ Chrome --no-sandbox --headless --print-to-pdf-no-header --no-pdf-header-footer --enable-logging=stderr --log-level=2 --in-process-gpu --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=resume.pdf "file://path/to/resume.html"
Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas Outbreak
Because they owe the bank $1 million for property that suddenly worked much less than that so they’re gonna default on their debt and then their bank is going to sell it and attempt to recover the loss
I like this backlash. Europeans should show that they have values and that their market matters.
I found that in ethics classes, a lot of it was holier than thou and virtue signaling instructors preaching but not necessarily practicing. I am not saying all of the instructors and people who teach ethics are bad, this is what I have observed.
I agree, it seems a lot of the complaints boil down to academic reasons.

Fine it's not the best and perhaps may run into some longer term issues but most importantly it works at this point in time.

A snobby/academic equivalent would be someone using an obscure language such as COBOL.

The world continues to turn.
Ask why the billionaire overlords are a problem first.

Is it because they subvert the will of the people, and subvert what is good? If so, I agree, they must be stopped.

Is it just the principle of the thing, how dare they be so rich, when so many people aren’t? If so, that’s envy, and cannot be accepted.
I actually think git is a bad example of "just memorise these commands" - unless you are working with projects with a small number of users / branches - or you're fine to just delete and reclone if things get really hairy. I think a lot of my struggles with git came down to not grokking what it was actually DOING at first. Examples:

- not understanding branch pointers / staging / committing corrently. E.g. [add file] [modify file again] [commit] - what just happened? (IMO these things could have been named better). Also reset vs revert vs restore - easier to use these if you've internalised branch pointers etc

- git pull fails because it says it would overwrite a file you've never heard of - how is that file on your local? Is it ok to delete it?

- times when you (or your colleagues) need to rewrite history (rebase / squashing etc) - require a pretty good mental model of what is going on to both diagnose issues and to fix them
Your comment is the only in the entire discussion that mentions "schema". Having an "other" in a schema is a way to ensure you can run n and n+1 versions at the same time.

It is Data Model design, of which API design a subset.

You can only ever avoid having an other if 1) your schema is fixed and 2) if it is total over the universe of values.
Imposing the Common Core curriculum on American children did infinitely more damage to the country's STEM competitiveness than gutting the NIH's funding of unreplicable or outright harmful research.
> Hallucinated methods are such a tiny roadblock that when people complain about them I assume they’ve spent minimal time learning how to effectively use these systems—they dropped them at the first hurdle.

If you’re writing code in Python against well documented APIs, sure. But it’s an issue for less popular languages and frameworks, when you can’t immediately tell if the missing method is your fault due to a missing dependency, version issue, etc.
(for the record, I think the Penrose take on Gödel and consciousness is mostly silly and or confused)

I think your understanding of the incompleteness theorem is a little, well, incomplete. The proof of the theorem does involve, essentially, figuring out how to write down "this statement is not provable" and using liar-paradox-type-reasoning to show that it is neither provable nor disprovable.

But the incompleteness theorem itself is not the liar paradox. Rather, it shows that any (consistent) system rich enough to express arithmetic cannot prove or disprove all statements. There are things in the gaps. Gödel's proof gives one example ("this statement is not provable") but there are others of very different flavors. The standard one is consistency (e.g. Peano arithemtic alone cannot prove the consistency of Peano arithmetic, you need more, like much stronger induction; ZFC cannot prove the consistency of ZFC, you need more, like a large cardinal).

And this very much does come up for real systems, in the following way. If we could prove or disprove each statement in PA, then we could also solve the halting problem! For the same reason there's no general way to tell whether each statement of PA has a proof, there's no general way to tell whether each program will halt on a given input.
https://www.quaise.energy/ is working on the drilling cost problem.
There is no complete test suite, unless your code is purely functional and has a small-ish finite input domain.
Wikipedia disagrees a little on mumbo jumbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_jumbo_(phrase)

Apparently it comes from the Mandinka word "Maamajomboo". I don't think using African words is racist, if anything it's pro African.

re "but it was capitalism that ended up producing AI", capitalism has also produced sandwich toasters for example but to thus declare "capitalism can only be sandwich toasters" would be equally silly as "capitalism can only be artificial intelligence production."
The End of Children
Tesla has always been about to die according to HN. When it does, I think it's going to be because the Chinese got better at cars than any Western company. But it being Sunday morning and some guy on HN celebrating the demise of an Elon Musk company that nonetheless continues to prosper for another year is about par for the course.
You'll note that the US Navy, despite this extensive experience and relative immunity to political sabotage, has not replaced its diesel fleet [correction: fossil-fuel-powered turbine fleet] with a nuclear fleet. Neither have the French, British, Chinese, Indian, Russian, or PRC navies, all of which have nuclear submarines. The Russian navy, which has built more nuclear submarines than any other, is actually transitioning to fewer kinds of nuclear-powered ships. That's because nuclear power is more expensive than diesel power, which in turn is more expensive than solar and wind power.

Moreover, it turns out that years-long construction is also the norm for naval nuclear power; for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borei-class_submarine says:

> The launch of the first submarine of the class, Yury Dolgorukiy (Юрий Долгорукий), was scheduled for 2002 but was delayed because of budget constraints. The vessel was eventually rolled out of its construction hall on 15 April 2007 in a ceremony attended by many senior military and industrial personnel.[11] Yuriy Dolgorukiy was the first Russian strategic missile submarine to be launched in seventeen years since the end of the Cold War. The planned contingent of eight strategic submarines was expected to be commissioned within the next decade, with five Project 955 planned for purchase through 2015.[12]

> Yuriy Dolgorukiy was not put into the water until February 2008. On 21 November 2008 the reactor on Yuriy Dolgorukiy was activated[13] and on 19 June 2009, the submarine began its sea trials in the White Sea.[14] By July 2009, it had yet to be armed with Bulava missiles and was therefore not fully operational, although it had been ready for sea trials on 24 October 2008.[15]

> On 28 September 2010 Yuriy Dolgorukiy completed company sea trials.

And on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_094_submarine:

> A Type 094 was photographed by commercial satellites in late 2006 at the Xiaopingdao Submarine Base.[9] The first commissioned in 2007[1] and six were in commission in 2020.[5] They began nuclear deterrence patrols in December 2015.[10]

Admittedly, that's only 9 years rather than 17 years.

So, in fact, there are complicated technical challenges that create many-year-long delays. And they are not due to "political sabotaging". In cases like nuclear warfare where there is no alternative to nuclear power, it can clearly be made to work, but so far nobody has figured out how to make it economically competitive with other energy sources in situations where they are viable. That's a technical challenge nobody has been able to overcome yet.
Check the top discussion for some perspective on what that really means. This barely covers two years of operation, funds have a lot of use restrictions by donors, and you can only spend cash once.
apt get install librewolf

on sid currently fails when following the installation instructions from their website.
A shift is faster than an add.
Feb 27, https://apnews.com/article/mexico-drug-lord-rafael-caro-quin...

> Mexico has sent 29 drug cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States as the Trump administration turns up the pressure on drug trafficking organizations.. “This is historical, this has really never happened in the history of Mexico,” said Mike Vigil, former DEA chief of international operations.. The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes as top Mexican officials are in Washington trying to head off the Trump administration’s threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports starting Tuesday.
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I disagree, Unherd's publication relies on a virtue economy that has remained healthy for quite a while now.
Recently learned that US school students typically get ~20 minutes of outdoor time per day… is that true?

I can find some legislated minimums/guidelines around that… what’s the actual practice?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/n75w63/recess...

Got 60 minutes/day in Ontario Canada in elementary school, and I felt like it wasn’t enough but I guess I liked to run a lot. And that was in addition to 1-2x/week physical education “classes”.
Both are necessary, they complement each other.
Companies do it because lawsuits are "explosive", if the Chrome team fucks up, they can bring down not only Chrome, but potentially the entirety of Google itself.

Deviant Art's only product is Deviant art, so the upside in goodwill from a user-friendly agreement might be greater than the downside of some remote possiblity of a lawsuit. This isn't true about Google, which has many other products and revenue streams.
Yes, this position implies substantial nuclear proliferation. Even those much to the left of Trump are calling for this (granted, because of Trump's actions).

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/japan-south-korea-and-poland-n...

> As for the scientific research, are you talking about the mRNA vaccines developed in Germany, to which the US had a privileged access too?

The point of this position is that the US has access to these scientific results regardless of what the US spends on science. Scientific results are positive externalities. The position is one of free riding on the efforts of others, rather than the opposite.

> Like how much ignorance will you continue to display in this thread

What ignorance is that, specifically? Also, my describing a position is not advocating that position. Have I stated I agree with it?
If you work at a place that doesn't care about a curated history, which I always have, it becomes much simpler.
I still choose the third option, because it is the better of the three, compared to restricting what functionality the software people write is allowed to have, and extremely blameful postmortems (which are bad).
Shift add used to execute much faster than multiplication in 8088 days and people would use it when they had to multiply an int by a known scalar (shift took 4 clocks and add took 12).
It sounds like you're proposing hiring people for less than they used to make. That can absolutely work.

The problem tends to be that high unemployment tends to coincide with economic downturns. It's hard to get investment to start a business during such a downturn.
I like the looks of this, maybe I will be able to try it out.

Edit: Would be good if there was a 32-bit x86 binary for Windows.
This is interesting to me, none of the ethics classes I've ever taken even had room for a holier-than-thou instructor; they were taught as "here are various ways that people have tried to determine the right thing to do throughout time".

A professor saying "And I'm great at doing the right thing" would be as out of place as them bragging about their fitness or wealth.
“Future” values only become defined (“present” in your sense) at compile-time, but may occur before that at runtime. Note that this mostly presumes a language with separate compilation, or situations like coding against a remote-API spec, where the server may deploy a newer version but your client remains unchanged. Once you compile against the new spec, you’d get errors/warnings about the new, not explicitly handled values, but your existing binary would nevertheless handle those values under the “future” case.

The issue with traditional “default” cases is that they shadow warnings/errors about unhandled cases, but you’d still want to have some form of default case for forward compatibility.
I’m honestly blown away Europe hasn’t hit Teslas with a massive tariff, maybe even recurring super premium registration charge on the more-expensive models. (Or suspend camera-only self driving.) Particularly Germany and the UK, where Musk has been meddling.
With sufficient compute capacity, a complete physical simulation of a human should be possible. This means that, even though we are fallible, there is nothing that we do which can't be simulated on a Turing machine.