skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get where you're coming from, but let me correct some of your numbers for other readers:

> you replace bricks every couple hundred years, but solar panels every 10–20, right?

Old panels perhaps, but modern solar panels come with performance warranties that guarantee they will be producing >85% of their initial output after 30 yrs.

> 2000W solar panel is like $300 or something and it's half the size of a door

2000W solar panels generally don't exist, so I assume that's a typo for 200W? Modern utility scale panels top out at ~700W with dimensions of 2.4 m x 1.3 m, however rooftop panels for commercial buildings are in the 500W range and ~ 2 x 1 m (so yeah about a door). International wholesale prices for these from Tier 1 manufacturers are now < $0.10 USD / W (although from what I understand more expensive in the USA).
Proof that the person's original "belief" was based on something other than reason.
Despite the imperfections in your work, you still contributed something amazing to the internet. Even the imperfections ended up helping people. Thank you.
No they wouldn't, because they're not absolute retards that conflates memes for reality. Context behind USSR meme is PRC warning US/TW against U2 overflights over mainland, all while trying to shoot them down... and eventually PRC shot down more U2s than USSR. Enough that U2 overflights stopped due to risk and had to rely on sats (CORONA). Of course USSR jokers didn't know this at the time. Or PRC "warning" preluded to border fighting with RU, India, against US+UN in Korea, threatened to invade HK if UK didn't handover, and covertly shot at French in IndoChina. All issues less important than TW. PRC the only actor who actively fought against every NPT nuclear state (i.e. hilariously/wrecklessly not deterred by nukes) , most while outguned and even not nuclear herself, which was prefaced by the actual "final" warning - the real one with specific verbiage (勿谓言之不预也 / "don't say I didn't warn you").

TLDR is PRC warns and does, it just couldn't do much before so generic warnings appeared toothless meme, but PRC was always doing / biting, especially after real "final" warning. Now it has much more teeth to do the biting, so TW even less likely to risk.
Using attention for the retrieval of relevant information seems super intuitive. Only feed the model what it deems relevant. Curious about the scenarios where this mechanism misses relevant information.
I wouldn't be great at finding bugs in it or logical flaws

This is what tests are for.
I'm moving into embedded programming, haven't found a job yet but I'm building a hackable smartwatch that runs Linux and has a dedicated microcontroller for video and wireless. I'm kind of burned-out as fullstack, now working with a physical product is very rewarding. I'll probably continue thru the path of wearables and home automation, creating my own devices.
> If we assume that that function is computable in the Turing sense

This is a big assumption. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I am saying it's not reasonable to just handwave and assume that it's right.
Nice. Now to kill the manned lunar program and send more robotic missions.
This article is about 40,000 years ago.

Fire was controled like 1,000,000 years ago by Homo erectus and stone tools like 3,000,000 years ago by Australopithecus afarensis.
It's entirely possible the survey is anonymous, but they can still see who hasn't responded. Depending on the survey software, these aren't exactly mutually-exclusive things?
Maybe this is an obtuse question but what brought you to HN as a non-dev?
I am no expert, but to my knowledge the space flight tech evolves very slowly, if at all. One reason for that is that modern tech is supposedly too sensitive to radiation. So you want to balance what's worthwhile to upgrade, and fancy videos are probably low on that list.
> There's a group called DEEP which is trying to combine deep geothermal with fracking technology, to get better heat transfer. This creates small earthquakes as a side effect. They're working on that.

That hasn't stopped the fracking industry, so why would it be a bother for DEEP?
I’m so tired of this corporate jargon infecting academia. Universities used to value clarity, now they sound like HR memos. It’s the same playbook: bloat admin, cut actual workers, rebrand inefficiency as strategy.
I noticed this too. Something about the perspective is unnerving, like an amusement park ride. You can see clearly that the moon is small, the craters are big, and the orbiting spacecraft is moving really really fast, all at the same time. None of that is apparent from video of low Earth orbit. And then the stark lighting makes it feel even more bizarre and alien.
Surprised I seem to be the only one willing to ask; _why in the world would you wall the implementation behind a Google Form?_

Edit: Implementation details are actually readily accessible in the DOM. Here's a gist that extracts the relevant details (for those who, understandably, don't want to give out their email in exchange):

https://gist.github.com/brysonreece/b15f33cda30af06b7b70788d...
Chris Hedges recently interviewed Catherine Liu, the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. They are a mostly invisible spectrum of plutocratic aristocracy who essentially replaced the middle class and gained immense wealth, power, and sense of entitlement.
Yeah i use a synology for that. my public nextcloud has like 250GB of storage, which is plenty for 4 people to use it for photo backups and whatever else. If i need access to some random file on my network, i use tailscale - there are other options. i could buy/build an ipv6 router and use prefix delegation to get a public ipv6 on my synology.

You're looking for storage. Not sync. the clue was "terabytes". Wanna know where i draw the line? you can't sync terabytes to a phone.

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. All of the things we mentioned are software based airquote "storage", dropbox, syncthing, etc. your original thing was "shared a folder with SO" which is why i asked what the folder was, mostly. Matrix will gag encrypting a TB of data. Misskey's drive defaults to like a gig per user.

Get a NAS, tailscale (or whatever, set up your own VPN with a fortigate or something), and now you rely on no-one but your ISP(s).

Proof that this works, just fine: https://imgur.com/a/q9hLDeH

note: I use both nextcloud (with a real domain name and certs and everything!) which is a VM on one of our machines in a DC. the synology is at my house. The synology backs up to a dedicated machine (it's in an air conditioned outbuilding with dedicated fiber pulls) with it's own redundant storage array, but that machine is "asleep" 99.9% of the time unless i'm pushing backups. My synology is not publicly accessible. It has ~30TB of storage, iirc.

note2: that youtube-rips is 90% <=480p, too!
At this point the W3C is basically under control of Google anyway.
I’ve recently got into old typewriters and have had the same problem with the rubbery belt that goes from the motor spindle to the larger wheel that spins the inner roller that drives the keys and returns the carriage. They turn into a very sticky goo, and those exact size belts are not available.
> you need a solid strategy for storing the energy. This is an unsolved problem in our time

Earnest question - why isn't this solved by the fact that batteries exist? Are you saying that there is some technical/physical problem at-scale with storing _that much_ energy, or that there is some logistical problem with distributing and managing the batteries (ensuring the right ones are discharging at the right times), or that they are simply too expensive or specialist for us to build quickly enough right now, or...?
You can't have solarpunk without urbanism. Any "environmentalists" that pretend otherwise are lying. Neither skyscrapers nor mass single family housing are sustainable.

There's a reason the past 2000 years of urban development have been in rowhouses and smaller multi-story buildings.
What are those numbers on the sides for?
Which is kind of the point. If a GUI editor does this stuff for you, that seems like a win over incrementally learning these little command line tricks that save you a bunch of time.
If "cd" and "git status" in a bash for loop is too advanced, you might need a GUI. Though I'd also argue that you've got too many separate git repos if you're finding yourself needing to do that often. It all depends on where you are on the journey to Monorepoland.
In some cases, plastic doesn't either. It will "dry" out and either crack or begin to flake off. I've had plastic gasoline containers where the plastic rings that you tighten down to prevent leakage, simply crack down the sides when trying to unscrew them to get to the fuel, especially in winter time.

This is not to say all plastic is this way, some plastics that are more flexible, like on the gas containers themselves, can last for years. But the cap rings are made of hard plastic.
Non sense. Read the reply: this is a feature that is coming to all major browsers
Every change really does break someone's workflow https://xkcd.com/1172/

Counter-argument against exempting the demo page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237672
Show HN: Rules-gen – CLI tool that generates Cursor and Windsurf rules
Hi HN,

Built rules-gen, CLI tool that generates Cursor & windsurf rules. It takes stuff that’s public and gives an ergonomic way of accessing it in the CLI. It also can find rules based on your existing codebase.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rules-gen
repo: https://github.com/blencorp/rules-gen

My motivation is mainly that both cursor and windsurf are a little bit of a blank canvass. I always wished that both IDEs were more opinionated about helping me produce the best code possible. I think this will close the gap.

Would love to get your feedback. Would this be helpful to you? What should change?

Any feedback welcome. Thanks for taking a look.
Lonesome George
I love solarpunk as an idea. I would love to live in a solarpunk utopia. My biggest problem is its lack of grounding in economics. It's obvious that the people producing solarpunk art and literature comes from a privileged Californian background where the temperature is always suitable for living outside without heating or AC and it's always sunny not too far from the equator and without too much natural disasters. The cost and efficiency of solar panels and wind turbines are never discussed nor compared; which any serious major engineering endeavor should do first to be taken seriously. I think a solarpunk type of society is possible only if the population live near the equator and has a high level of societal sophistication where most people have an engineering degree and contributes positively to advance and maintain a society with the efficiency needed where there is a lower economic availability of energy.
Exploring alter egos is a powerful psychological tool for shifting the mindset
Well it's either that or the tin foil hat people will say they just rented the OG soundstage.

Nvidia did a great presentation about the lighting for the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVP6zDZN7I
Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie
Sure it takes a few iterations, but there is nothing inherently complex about it.

You feed the partial products into a carry-save adder tree and choose a level which minimizes the delay and the extra flop area/power. I am not sure about the pentium technology but whatever the area, it might be comparable to the x3 multiplier

There is an implicit add in the x3 multiplier circuit that increases the delay which was deemed acceptable than the radix-4 delay.
Considering all this, I strongly believe latency was a hard constraint (may be for SW perf).
When I was a kid, I used to imagine if that society ever developed AI, there would be widespread pushback to the idea that computers could ever develop consciousness.

I imagined the Catholic Church, for example, would be publishing missives reminding everyone that only humans can have souls, and biologists would be fighting an quixotic battle to claim that consciousness can arise from physical structures and forces.

I'm still surprised at how credulous and accepting societies have been of AI developments over the last few years.
Quoting Wikipedia [1], which provides a bit more details (as of 2025-03-03):

Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the name "Linux", but initially dismissed it as too egotistical. [2]

In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the FTP server (ftp.funet.fi) of FUNET in September 1991. Ari Lemmke at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. Therefore, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds. [2] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".

To demonstrate how the word "Linux" should be pronounced ([ˈliːnɵks]), Torvalds included an audio guide with the kernel source code. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Naming

[2] Torvalds, Linus; Diamond, David (2001). Just For Fun - The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary. New York: HarperBusiness. p. 84. ISBN 0-06-662072-4.

[3] Torvalds, Linus (March 1994). "Index of /pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds" (https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/). Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20091008074754/http://www.kernel...) from the original on October 8, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
Maybe just my present frustration, but I spent the day revising the Aider AI editor's code because it barely even works without git. It relies on git just to list the files in a directory, and so turns off most of it's cool features if there's no repo in it.

I fixed it (PR coming) with some simple non-git directory traversal functions, which enables the cool features again.

But makes me wish the dev world knew git alternatives exist.
Capacitors aren't semiconductors, they are just regular components.

Semiconductors actually are pretty stable long term.

The capacitors that go bad tend to be the electrolytic ones, and there aren't a lot of those on things like hard drives.
I’m very pleased to see this, Flow was such a lovely film. I didn’t realise it was made with blender!
Decoding (and Debunking) Hard Fork's Kevin Roose
Eye roll.

AI generated code is not that accurate or reliable. Maybe in several years if future LLM releases are less disappointing than ChatGPT 4.5…

And it’s corrupt as hell if the US feds are going to be mandated to use an AI owned by the employee who is blindly chainsawing all of the institutional knowledge anywhere near the US government.
My criticism of solarpunk is its emphasis on hydro, wind and solar energy instead of more efficient sources like nuclear. But I appreciate the futurist optimism and self-reliance ethos of solarpunk. I am not interested in aspects of solarpunk which sacrifice individuation and individual liberties—I think it’s possible for innovative solutions to respect both individual liberties and the systems which sustain us all.
Whatever else these things do, one thing they don’t do is support easy diagnostic tracing when a legitimate use case isn’t quite configured properly.

I have stared many times at opaque errors that suggested (to me) one possible cause when the truth ended up being totally different.
If you’re going to post albums of high-res photographs on the internet… why not Flickr?
As a Canadian end user with a nexus card, it just works, and it works with less errors and issues than my revenue canada login which has poor UI and steers me towards sign in partners with by making that the natural login with dark patterns. Come to think of it, I'm surprised the nexus program hasn't been cancelled yet.
Horse Browser? https://gethorse.com
You seem to be missing the point.
coming to all major browsers

Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, and Chrome?
Sounded like Rodger was trying to make the "Chinese room argument"[0]. And here is a humorous counter point[1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/10kmre3/ma...
A food for thought. If one combines multiple individual baking/cooking receipts not designed to be 'combined' will that result in same kind of result of one recipt with multiple parts (aka designed as one part, with multiple groups of steps). Taste testing the results, might lead to ideas on how to correct the first 'concatination' of receipts to 'taste' more like the 'composite' recipt.

Why would an AI-assisted coding design for the big picture if only has knowledge of one part without concept 'fits into other parts' to make a whole design.

Generating algorithm descriptions and combining the algoithmic descriptions (to smooth/normalize the algorithm as a whole) before generating code from algorithm would make things bit less fragmented. (same concept of compiling to intermediate code, then on each individual type of hardware architechture, translating the intermediate code into something runable on particular hardware architechture.)

Incomplete specifications cause problems for humans. AI's learn from humans. Why would an AI learing from 'incomplete specifications' infer what the 'correct specifications' are (without being requested to do such an analysis)?
Right but the headline leaps over the interstitial 20-100 year gap in ability and reads like the prize is to the first person who can read a brain, beach and all.

"The Memory Decoding Challenge: $100k for decoding from a preserved brain"

well its more like:

"The Memory Decoding Challenge: $100k for science progressing a mythical future when we can reliably do decoding from a preserved brain, but god knows what a preserved brain is because right now, it's conjecture if liquid nitro is the go or not. I mean what if it turns out encasing in wax and formalin is better?" except that is too long. I see the problem. Like brain decoding, its harder than it looks.
An economist I follow observed:

> A strategic reserve makes sense if you can imagine a crisis where a crucial good - food, fuel, etc - would be in short supply: you want be able to release the reserve to meet demand.

> But I cannot imagine a crisis where releasing an emergency reserve of crypto would do any good.
It's leftover from when all mammals were nocturnal. Color vision is useless at night, there aren't enough photons to care about their frequency, so mammals lost it almost entirely and only primates have re-evolved the red-green distinction. Birds were big stomping dinosaurs, and out during the day, so their color vision is great.

Some mammals can see UV even though they can't differentiate it from other blues. One theory I recall reading is that detecting UV would interfere with our unusually high visual acuity, but I forget the argument why.
The irony in this comment is thick enough you could cut it with a knife.

Like many of the other responses in this thread, you're generalizing a small set of experiences to every company, and not even acknowledging that other companies may not work this way

I suspect this is due to not wanting "to do anything that jeopardizes [your] position in the [anti-]executive group-think."

I have worked for multiple companies that looked for feedback from employees, and claimed to use that information to better the company for those employees. Some actually did, and others did not.

Not all of them are the same, and many actually seek feedback in earnest. Meanwhile, you would have me believe that some of the companies I have worked for didn't exist.
We're too small to implement a monorepo, because no one has time to build the tools we'd need to do it right. I still don't see what I gain by cd-ing into all those directories and running git status and looking at a bunch of text results, when I can just glance at the SourceTree repo window and see all the repos I've touched.
It looks wrong when scrolling up. The direction of the feet makes it look like walking backwards in a very strange way.
No, I mean, it's nice but I don't think any of that works. You say "Therefore, there is a function capable ..." that is a non-sequitur. But, let's set that aside, I think the key point here is about Turing machines and computability. Do you really think your mind and thought-process is a Turing machine? How many watts of power did it take to write your comment? I think it is an absolute certainty that human intelligence is not like a Turing machine at all. Do you find it much more troublesome to think about continuous problems or is ironically more troublesome to discretize continuous problems in order to work with them?
I'm just here to whine, almost endlessly, that the word "hallucination" is a term of art chosen deliberately because it helps promote a sense AGI exists, by using language which implies reasoning and consciousness. I personally dislike this. I think we were mistaken allowing AI proponents to repurpose language in that way.

It's not hallucinating Jim, it's statistical coding errors. It's floating point rounding mistakes. It's the wrong cell in the excel table.
That’s because the reason for return to office is to get people to quit. Simple as that. Soft layoffs.
Thanks for your reply. Will try to contact OpenDNS.
> Code by one LLM can be reviewed by another

Reviewed against what? Who is writing the specs?
If we taught kids the basics of compound interest then maybe we’d have fewer people struggling under the load of some extremely heavy debt burdens. Good for usurious banks, I guess, but probably not society as a whole.
Not OP but waiting for the day I can fire my devs and replace with AI...
Oh wow. That brings back memories. I think every site I built back then at least used that FormMail script.

Then we started transitioning to Lisp, and somehow ended up with PHP.

In any case, I don't think I'd be here without your help, Matt. Big, big thanks!
Kaspersky is now banned for government use in multiple nations. Whilst there is some good work happening there, as above, for the most part, they should be considered a state actor for Russia.

That usually means that they're a threat, and these small good tokens are nothing more than PR efforts.

You can't avoid politics, when considering this company.
Voting with your wallet is your right. Luckily, you don't control the purse strings for the rest of us
At a certain point, one must take responsibility for clicking "a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll" and then being faced with exactly what it said.
> Any opensource libraries in that satellite's tech stack will now get to brag about "our code running on the moon" :)

A safe bet would be that SQLite is on there. It's already in airplanes / satellites.
Everyone is overthinking this. They just let pressure build up higher than normal for 6-8 hours and then the turbine generates more power than normal until the pressure falls back to normal levels again. This would not take 50% and make it 100% again, but it does give you something.
Nobody is selling vulnerabilities that would otherwise be reported by looking something up in a "security.txt".
> Kindly go away and chew on this while you do so: if everyone started their own billion-dollar business like you claim it’s possible (and plausible) to do, then that means the cumulative wealth available out there is literally infinite and currency has no relevant function.

I don't exactly agree with GP, but I would ask you to perform a similar thought experiment: if companies could work the way you claim they should, where are the examples of these companies? Why do even you portray the environment as being full of companies whose primary goal is to exploit their workers?

We live in a remarkable free time, so alternative models should have ample room to grow. And yet, I don't see a flourishing of companies that work under your "better model". Why?