skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the tooling improves that much the team of 100 will also improve.

I'm not sure this follows - I find as team size grows, the amount of time spent on synchronization approaches asymptotically to 100%.
There are 2 kinds of vacations: Backpacking, Cruise ships or something where you can not connect, OR sightseeing like London, Paris, or even something local.

Although I have always been an employee, I have been able to mix and match work with sightseeing travels all the time. And this was not remote work, this was weekdays and weekends just checking emails and action items 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the night to 1) keep up, and 2) take care of things. Did I have to do that? No, but I like to.

And on one trip, I remember I was coding too. There was a problem I was trying to solve and I was way behind schedule, so I would fix one issue AM and one issue PM and test more and more. Once again, did I have to do that? Did my company force me to? Nope. Just something I wanted to take care of. And the day was available for family and sightseeing and I guess subconsciously plot my next bug fix.

I think opportunities for asynchronous communication can be created if A) you are motivated and B) your vacation schedule is not too extreme. This should be even easier with a product you own and understand and when your business is at stake.
If there's no voting data, it doesn't matter what scale is used.
Nanoscale spin rectifiers for harvesting ambient radiofrequency energy
> countered by the economic boon of the grocery stores and other places that are open where people actually live

While I think it's true that a lot of businesses have shifted to being more neighborhood-local and not relying on "business hours" to be sustainable, the reality for most suburban economies are that shopping centers and chain megastores basically absorb all the business. Places like Target, Whole Foods, Walmart are the ones that are primarily benefiting from this overnight migration outside of city centers. But that's been going on for a long time, COVID just accelerated it.
Why do you want to regulate software?

Arguably this whole thing wouldn't happen if these apps were distributed and updated via the OSX app store. If that's the future you want, it's largely already here.

You can check a setting in OSX to make it so.

Who decides what software to regulate. Do I need a permit to install Python ?
> do you think it'll do the state of the open web much good to litigate against Mozilla?

I’m not litigating. I am saying if Mozilla decides to litigate I’ll help my friends fight back and frankly ensure the court battle costs Mozilla more than anything they recover. The extent of my actions are to withdraw to the ability I can the prior support I gave them.

On the open web, I don’t see Mozilla as a good actor. And they’re not going anywhere over a few chargebacks. So not particularly concerned about their costs or frankly going concern.
Which doesn't make any sense, because people who walked or biked could just have done the same when working remotely - just turn around after 1/2 of distance to the office and go back home. Then repeat after work.

They didn't miss the "commute to work", they missed the exercise and the internal soothing feeling, that they are doing something good for the health in spite of that trip being required to get the paycheck, and that it's not a total waste of time when done this way.
Yeah this. Cooling towers work by maximizing evaporation rare, transferring energy into the atmosphere via water molecules.

Other heat sink strategies could involve refrigeration systems, but those are significantly more energy intensive and a lot more complex.
Because the people want to show appreciation for the good work the author has done?
lol it's made with Claude
Ken, maybe it's time to publish a book?
So let’s say we go back to the original departments of war, treasury, and state. And the offices of the attorney general and the postmaster general. That’s 5 logins right there.

Then we have the first patent board established in 1790.

Then all of the federal courts could use the SSO if they wanted. What about when you want to login to request a tour of the capitol, access the library of congress, or book an appointment with your representative.

We have over 300 million people so there will probably be separate offices within some of the departments to handle some of the more common requests. There’s probably going to be a passport office and separate office to handle immigration and visas. Treasury will probably have separate offices to handle accounts payable and tax collection.

Add in miscellaneous things like logins to handle freedom of information requests. Logins to register homestead claims and mining claims in US territories.

My point is that even in the most minimal government only possible in a libertarian’s wet dream, there’s gonna be enough delegate logins that SSO is a good idea.
> Tailwind is just a collection of predefined utility classes which you then over use, breaking a few clean code principles along the way

I mean, if you're talking Clean Code the book, I think Tailwind does that "break it down too far" part pretty well.
Yeah it's a sad state of affairs in general I agree with you there. Overall I'd say our clowns in Ohio are probably about average if you judge against the national landscape.
The meeting is a joke to distract from doge it has no bearing on anything else. Totally staged.
C/C++ are two very different languages.

Zig seems to follow the C tradition, and Rust C++.
They're nothing too major— some extensions don't work or only partially work, it locks up occasionally and needs to be force quit, the integration with iOS password managers seems wonky and sometimes targets the wrong field.

But overall it's very usable.
But under current law you cannot grant a _program_ a license to something, only a person or an organization of people.
Yeah I really don’t get why people keep hyping AI like this. It really doesn’t make things go that much faster. At best you’re able to generate prototypes more quickly + get better autocomplete. Nothing particularly revolutionary there.

Anyone claiming a generalized 100x, 10x, or even 2x productivity gain is either delusional or trying to sell you something. Possibly both.

The companies saying they are reducing the size of their workforce because of gains they’re getting from AI are probably just telling investors what they want to hear while cutting costs for the same reason they always have.
Isn’t this the definition of a settler?
I absolutely adore Nim.

That said, the edges are still (very) rough when it comes to tooling (generics and macros absolutely murder Nimsuggest/lsp) and also "invisible" things impacting performance such as defect handling (--panics:on) and the way the different memory management schemes introduce different types of overhead even when working with purely stack allocated data.

But even with all that it's still an extremely pleasant and performant language to work with (when writing single threaded programs at least)
"Nanoscale spin rectifiers for harvesting ambient radiofrequency energy" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01212-1

From "NUS researchers develop new battery-free technology to power electronic devices using ambient radiofrequency signals" (2024) https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-researchers-develop-new-battery-... :

> To address these challenges, a team of NUS researchers, working in collaboration with scientists from Tohoku University (TU) in Japan and University of Messina (UNIME) in Italy, has developed a compact and sensitive rectifier technology that uses nanoscale spin-rectifier (SR) to convert ambient wireless radio frequency signals at power less than -20 dBm to a DC voltage.

> The team optimised SR devices and designed two configurations: 1) a single SR-based rectenna operational between -62 dBm and -20 dBm, and 2) an array of 10 SRs in series achieving 7.8% efficiency and zero-bias sensitivity of approximately 34,500 mV/mW. Integrating the SR-array into an energy harvesting module, they successfully powered a commercial temperature sensor at -27 dBm.
I've had multiple Nvidia cards across multiple installs of Linux, never had an issue once. Just install the Nvidia driver and it works. IMO the supposed problems of using Nvidia on Linux are wildly overblown.
The only thing I can imagine is if they are third-party icons? I don't understand it either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution

"When water used as a coolant is returned to the natural environment at a higher temperature, the sudden change in temperature decreases oxygen supply and affects ecosystem composition. Fish and other organisms adapted to particular temperature range can be killed by an abrupt change in water temperature (either a rapid increase or decrease) known as "thermal shock". Warm coolant water can also have long term effects on water temperature, increasing the overall temperature of water bodies, including deep water. Seasonality effects how these temperature increases are distributed throughout the water column. Elevated water temperatures decrease oxygen levels, which can kill fish and alter food chain composition, reduce species biodiversity, and foster invasion by new thermophilic species."
I was in high school when Flash was most popular. We played all kinds of Flash games during breaks and free hours. In the computer science branch, students were taught Java and Flash as the two main programming platforms :)
But I don’t want 1.75 gpm compressed into tiny high-pressure jets. I want (and have) a perfectly normal shower head except with the flow limiter ripped out and now the “mist” setting is a thick deluge of water while the high pressure jet settings are, if anything, uncomfortable.

My counter recommendation is to grab a pair of needle nose pliers, take apart your shower head, find the blue plastic flow limiter, and yank it out. Or if you rent, buy a new showerhead and take it apart instead.
The main problem with this is that presumably a 100-person team with AI will still outperform the individual with AI. The benefits will be adopted by organizations at every level.

However I actually think the argument works for things that aren’t actually businesses and don’t really have competition.

If for example you want to build an online encyclopedia about an obscure niche topic, or dialogue for an indie game, or do any number of other otherwise tedious and resource -heavy tasks, you can now do that with AI tools. This is what excites me the most about AI - not the prospect of outcompeting another business, but of making giant creative projects dramatically more feasible.
The thing about ChatGPT, I don't know if the answer is wrong or made up. I have a friend who helps me with Swedish and he isn't a language tutor - so sometimes he asks ChatGPT to explain something I've asked him. The crucial difference is that he's knowledgeable enough on the matter to vet the quality and then pass the information to me. If he or I were to just ask ChatGPT without any verification, then I would not be able to trust the answer.
I have to say I have no trouble seeing it absolutely everywhere.
It absolutely is not faster. It just isn't. I have no doubt you can find some bollocks benchmark which proves your point but in real world usage it's just not.

Memory is there to be used. Have at it.
I've been validating this sentiment almost every day.

I left my job last year, after over a decade leading design and UX for iOS at Google, to pursue building a bootstrapped solopreneur startup, and the speed at which I've been able to build things out has been wild.

There are entire domains that would have taken weeks or months for me to learn the ins-and-outs of the tech, that Claude has been able to knock out in a matter of minutes. It's like I have two full time junior engineers working with me at all times (with a similar amount of coaching + guidance required), and for $20/month. These are gains of easily 2x-10x productivity and I already consider myself to be fairly productive as a design engineer.
Yes, their economies health is not the greatest. There are many, to quote that, “concerns”. Concerns and economic growth doesn’t suggest near term collapse.

Can this be tied back to the original comment? I think we agree that a compromise, some level of alignment with Russia, will be required.

What is the clear US alignment with Russia that you see, based on the US compromise? And, what is the compromise? Details of it aren’t
publicly or privately known, since it hasn’t gone that far, and there haven’t been any talks of security promises yet. Is alignment entirely that vote?
Saying something is “obvious” without specifying an audience is meaningless.

(because obviousness is subjective and depends on the knowledge, experience, and context of the audience)
I agree that downloading from git directly is dumb but for other reasons. Regular npm packages don't have to have any relationship to the source code repository. You can just upload whatever files you want and call it version x and then in git tag a commit with completely different files in it.

npm doesn't review the files uploaded to npm unless there is some sort of report.
"Wireless" seems to mean seemingly something like Verizon to you, as opposed to thousands and thousands of regional wireless providers using microwave radios and things like 3.65Ghz CBRS.
That's not how browsers work. The data you put into a text field gets sent to the website.

If anyone claims they need to "store and process" this data, it is explicitly and solely so they can spy on you.

There is absolutely zero requirement of any kind for anyone other than the website to even know you're entering text. There is no reason or excuse for Mozilla to claim otherwise. If Mozilla claims they require a license for text you type into a website, they're lying so they can sell the data you're entering on third party websites.

This is extremely cut and dry. What Mozilla is implying is not how browsers work. This is not how websites work. Mozilla is trying to spy on users and there is no other technically valid explanation.
That’s basically the goal of the last decade of changes to Google search culminating in AI summaries: give you the information they think you want on the results page to stop you from leaving for another url.
Passive Wi-Fi or "backscatter redirection Wi-Fi":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_Wi-Fi :

> The system used tens of microwatts of power, [2] 10^−4 less energy than conventional Wi-fi devices, and one thousandth the energy of Bluetooth LE and Zigbee communications standards. [1]
True for digital copies, I've never yet bought one of those.

I have no trouble paying for physical books though.
> Google wasn't the first search engine but they were the best marketing google = search

Google's overwhelming victory in search had ~ nothing to do with marketing.
What kind of a world do you have to be living in to think that salespeople are not needed because the Internet exists?!
Yeah that's a good start.
> deep structural support given to men

Genuine question, obviously in the past men had an enormous advantage, but what is that deep structural support today (in the West)?
Firefox has done a lot of work on these problems. I don't have it in front of me, but they described in detail what they do.
After multiple prompts and utterly garbage output: https://i.imgur.com/5aOARCV.png

I'm almost positive that some AI systems have a backend that analyzes the sentiment of your messages and if you threaten to cancel billing it will notice your defcon-1 sentiment and spin up some more powerful instances behind the scenes to tide you over.

This is actually much more stressful than working without any AI as I have to decompress from constantly verbally obliterating a robotic intern.

I'll try with the system prompt. Also love your username.
No, words mean things. If they didn't actually pull the trigger, it wasn't murder. That isn't to say it was ok to treat Turing the way they did, because it wasn't ok. But it's important to not pollute the meaning of words by misusing them for greater rhetorical impact.
Or maybe discourse has an inertia and it takes time to change the conversation.
It's like someone took the most extreme hype for a bunch of past shifts, all of which have already played out so we know they definitely did not work out that way, as if all the hype described what had actually happened, then also took the same hype for "AI" and assumed all that's going to be, or is, true, too.
You cannot grant a program a copyright license because a program doesn't need a license. It's running on your computer at your behest, so there's no third-party involved, just you the user, and eventually the site you send that POST to.
That precisely one of my problem with enum: almost all TS type is structural typing, why have this exception enums being nominal typing?
I believe it was sold to a Chinese company. But they now deal in payday loans. Also any company that advertises as much with online influencers as Opera does is always terrible.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/opera-defends-its-android-a...
If the org never sees that data why would they need a license for it?
Captured, reused, or cleaned and discharged back into the adjacent river.

(I didn’t work in a paper mill but have family who has and I’ve been to them plenty of times to ask questions of the engineers)
> Firefox is actually faster in practice than Chrome.

If you are going to make such a wild claim, you should back this up with data, your “feelings” are not enough.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/diamond-battery.ht...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/28/cold-fus...

https://brilliantlightpower.com/news-posts/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_tg6qXPjDkwMYZmXao9aKgatkSV...

https://youtu.be/A80SnbBsSl4

https://youtu.be/Bq_AUKQsD80
The Google founders were never out there to do any good. They started hijacking web content, with the excuse that it was a scientific project in Stanford, then right away converted that into a for profit corporation (similar to what OpenAI did). Next they planned to do the same with books, before they were stoped by a tsunami of lawsuits.
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'
Interesting point about semantics. I wish there was a way to get the best of both - discrete type (correct semantics) but one that is auto inferred from literals in contexts where the type system expects it (ergonomics of use). Perhaps there are good reasons that doesn't work though, I haven't thought through it much =P
Psst: your employer is a vendor benefiting from said lock-in.

Without a means for transfering from one password management resource to another, passkeys create an increasingly significant friction against migrating one's account and artifically reduces competitive pressure on the vendor.

The phrase we use for that anti-consumer phenomenom is "vendor lock-in"

(If your employer has an effective and practical import and export technique for passkeys, I would be delighted to hear so and apologize for the suggestion otherwise. But as far as I've seen, that's not a thing.)
I don't like the idea of telling people (even smugly at worst, if it's used the way LMGTFY was, and as the tagline[1] implies) to just ask ChatGPT instead of humans.

LMGTFY returned human results that weren't SEO rubbish at the time for the most part, which you could classify yourself (or by others) as trustworthy or not.
ChatGPT itself still sometimes hallucinates on pretty basic information and other users don't get exactly the same result as you.

[1] "Someone else asked ChatGPT for you. Appreciate it."
Const objects really are better than enums, in every way except declaration brevity.

They're erasable syntax, so they work in environments that just strip types. Their emit is just what you write without the types. They can be composed in a type-safe way with standard JS operations.

You can still write JS docs for values, deprecated the, mark them as internal, etc.

type ValueOf<T> = T[keyof T];

const Foo = {
/**
* A one digit
* @deprecated
*/
one: '1',
two: '2',
three: '3'
} as const;
type Foo = ValueOf<typeof Foo>;

const Bar = {
blue: 'blue',
} as const;
type Bar = ValueOf<typeof Bar>;

// You can union enum objects:
const FooOrBar = {...Foo, ...Bar};
// And get union of their values:
type FooOrBar = ValueOf<typeof FooOrBar>;

const doSomething = (foo: Foo) => {}

// You can reference values just like enums:
doSomething(Foo.two);

// You can also type-safely reference enum values by their
// key name:
doSomething(Foo['two']);

Given the TypeScript team's stance on new non-erasable syntax, I have to think this is how they would have gone if they had `as const` from the beginning. Ron Buckton of the TS team is championing an enum proposal for JS: https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-enum Hopefully that goes somewhere and improves the declaration side of thigns too.
That's why I like that I have 0 friends in tech and all of my friends reside outside this bubble. Like, recently someone asked me for help, because he didn't have enough money to pay the taxes. Like holy crap, this is unthinkable in tech, but totally normal outside.
The amusing part is people arguing with your math rather than your point, which is very valid.
https://wapo.st/41CRj4R

https://archive.ph/xNxe6
Somehow I use pens, emacs, and curl without sublicensing my IP to BIC, the GNU Project, or Daniel Stenberg.

Why does Mozilla need to be granted a license to my IP to submit form fields, but curl doesn't? These are just tools, used by me personally. I'm not hiring Mozilla. Mozilla is not a party to my use of their tool.
What a display of intellectual laziness and dereliction.
I really try hard not to be down on stuff like this, to let it pass uncommented, but the mere creation of this site is evidence that creator missed the point of the original that they derived it from.
I had a decent success with pandoc and typst - https://www.bobek.cz/til/pandoc-markdown-typst/
That says exactly the same thing I just said:

> Excess kurtosis, typically compared to a value of 0, characterizes the “tailedness” of a distribution. A univariate normal distribution has an excess kurtosis of 0. Negative excess kurtosis indicates a platykurtic distribution, which doesn’t necessarily have a flat top but produces fewer or less extreme outliers than the normal distribution. For instance, the uniform distribution (ie one that is uniformly finite over some bound and zero elsewhere) is platykurtic. On the other hand, positive excess kurtosis signifies a leptokurtic distribution. The Laplace distribution, for example, has tails that decay more slowly than a Gaussian, resulting in more outliers.

(Emphasis added.)

You can't have a bell curve with thin tails, because a bell curve has standard tails by definition.
XRP, Solana and Cardano are all failed scams. They had an opportunity to compete naturally with fiat, and they failed. None of them actually displaced the utility of fiat, their greatest attribute is that they can be manipulated without correction.

This is exclusively about asset-pumping something too unregulated for the SEC to control.
I find this part puzzling. I don't have to give a pencil manufacturer rights of any sort to art I make with their product. A notebook seller cares not for such rights either, nor does a musical instrument company. The fact that Firefox seems insistent upon securing content rights suggests they're interested in using the content for things other than local browsing, which I find rather unfortunate. I'd gladly buy a support license for the browser specifically but Mozilla's structure seems to prevent that.
A Concise Guide to Fuzzy Matching Algorithms and Some Practical Applications
> In theory I guess, but hasn’t all this gov spending essentially been hidden?

No, it was all publicly debated and passed by Congress, and openly available for anyone to see.

It just never served anyone's political agenda to nitpick and distort and publicize it until the current Administration.