skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conservative media (Daily Mail, Telegraph etc - e.g. James Delingpole, climate change denier) are quite capable of formenting this kind of thing all on their own, simply for clicks. The average reader is old and afraid of change. Anything new is scary to them and can easily be magnified into a massive, largely fictitious, horror.

People might object to the view of wind farms, but they'll also object to any other new building. There are quite a lot of existing power stations in scenic areas! Torness, Longannet, Cockenzie come to mind in the Lothians/Fife area; any one could be seen from miles around, as they were built on the coast for water access. The latter two have been demolished. There is no way you could build them today without a similar huge level of objection. Similarly there is a spot in the plain of Yorkshire where you used to see three coal-fired power stations in relatively close proximity, dominating the countryside.

And if you look around London, you'll see the (long closed and repurposed) Battersea and Bankside powerstations. Yes, people built several massive coal fired power stations right in the middle of the city! No wonder there was a smog problem worse than 90s Beijing or LA. Again, completely inconcievable that you could build them today.

Once you build it and it exists for a few years, the complaints melt away. Leave it long enough and there will be a society for preserving historic wind farms.
* Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Technologies: Mostly Javascript. I've coded in pretty much all non functional languages though. Most of the databases sql/nosql. Comfortable with gCloud/aws/heroku etc. Mostly worked with node/rails/laravel/python/golang backends.

17+ years experience

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I'm a full stack web developer who can build apps from the ground up. I've worked mostly at startups so I am used to wearing many hats. I am a very product focused developer who prioritizes user feedback first and foremost. I'm generally very flexible when investigating new roles. Nothing too big or small.
Building an LLM-Powered Web App to Generate Gift Ideas
It's derivation all the way down.

That's what renewed my passion for reading; revisiting texts with contexts in mind, history, intent, etc.

I feel the education system really fails people with these little bits
Can we really be sure what the new 2025 version of the US would do in such a scenario? I highly doubt the new US is going to intervene in defence of any of its erstwhile allies.
> Offshore, wind farms may ‘spoil’ a view out to sea, though they are also harder to oppose.

In my experience off-shore wind, even off a popular tourist beech has very little impact. Often just about visible in the haze in the distance.

The impact of onshore wind is definitely more notable. I personally don't find it that offensive, I find them elegant in the day way as an aircraft might be. Also, the blot on the land could be almost completely eradicated in hours if something better was invented tomorrow. Compared to the decades long process of decommissioning even fossil fueled power plants that seems like a pretty big win.
> Who is dealing in fantasies now, friend?

I said they need to, not that I think they will. But they have in the past. There is a reason Snow Leopard is still lauded today.

> It's just very low quality relative to what people who've written software for a living know to be possible.

No, it’s low quality relative to what Apple users came to expect. There was a time when “it just works” was an aspirational goal which permeated their decisions and you could see the results.

> Apple is a prestigious jobs guarantee program for rich kids first, entity that delivers value to consumers second.

What a bizarre conspiracy theory. No company gets to that stratospheric level of success by making hiring incompetent rich kids their primary goal.
What are you talking about? You think I'm a westerner bragging about blocking something that isn't even blocked and I'm an intruder?

All I said was that China is terrified of naval blockade, which it is. You're the one being hilarious here.
Forth. Old but very versatile. wrote the runtime myself years ago in portabel c.
>I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.

I wish they implemented backspace like they do with fine scrubbing on seekbars. i.e. you could move your finger up & down while holding the backspace key to select the granularity of deletion between letters, words and paragraphs.
> You could try to give people a basic test, but these 'literacy' tests were historically used to supress all kinds of minorities.

That doesn't mean they would b e used to oppress minorities today. Except the minority that is deemed too ignorant to be granted a right to vote based on failing the test.

> That is the true problem of democracy, it sucks, but everything else is miles worse.

I don't think that's true, it's just that there is little motivation to come up with better alternative and people who try just get shit on for even trying as though it were an insurmountable goal.
Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved for SiFive RISC-V over the Last 4 Years
Zonal pricing (UK) does not conflict with grid funding, it is the grid funding. It also exposes the economic incentives for allowing new grid infrastructure to be built.
The operator could demand an exclusivity contract from the landlord, provide faulty equipment, then charge high fees to repair it, eventually leading to many stalls non-functional until the contract is invalidated in court or the two parties settle, the chargers are ripped out, maybe with purposeful permanent damage to the wiring to make it unusable, and another mildly more honest provider comes in and does something slightly better but not by much.

Or, an enterprising landchad could realize they can charge 10% more kWh than people actually pull (blaming efficiency losses), along with a healthy margin for "maintenance".

Lots can go wrong.
> They try to find a better habitat.

We don't have another habitat ...
No.
Russia is run by a war mongering mafioso. That their economy is in shambles is expected.
I keep annual journals in Notes and I’ve noticed (on iOS) that the keyboard becomes increasingly laggy as the year drags on / as the note length increases. I can only assume they are synchronously flushing the file to disk on the main thread during the keyboard callback handler.

I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.
very human
I've been optimistic on ladybird after watching the speed of progress with tests in their monthly youtube updates, they are quite well presented.

Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradictory beliefs. Mozilla refuses to allow anyone to donate to firefox development because they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.
It's always a tyranny of the majority, just hopefully with enough checks and restrictions in place to stop the worst crowd/mob impulses from having an effect.
and Microsoft is even much worse
I had to deal with a horrendous skilled person who made every meeting hell for those concerned. It's hard to fire people where I am but in the end we managed it. I am delighted to handle all the problems this caused because they are far less than the daily massive row.

So I'm no stranger to the whole thing. There has to be something coming back from the team members and if they essentially don't give a stuff and treat the rest of the team like dirt then I don't care how great they are - I don't want them.
A TV and/or video projector would also be a great target for flat packing!
Just tested on M1 Pro, 15.0 (Settings version) on Sonoma.

After initial custom color selection by clicking on the "+" (which works fine) and then reopening the Window to click "Custom Color" and then selecting the color again... it doesn't just jump for 20ms - it goes into full on psychotic flash jump behavior and basically continues to do so hands-off for 5 entire seconds before it stops at a random color.

There is 2 options now:

1) nobody has ever tested this workflow at Apple, automated or not.

2) it was tested and discovered but then pushed into the backlog as non-priority. Here the question arises - for how long?

The bug probably generates zero lost dollars so nobody at Apple cares anymore. THIS is what used to be different.
As anecdotal example: My diy ebike will do about 80km unassisted (aka peddling for show) with .85kwh. Looking at what scooter should be able to do when not going too fast is a big order of magnitude (but not two) in kwh/100k. Though headwind is going to matter more on a bike/scooter than a car. I guess with a more efficient motor you could get up to two.
Those must not be used on public roads in some countries though.
Nobody asked for that, I love it, this is brilliant, and like art.
Consider a Hiplock D1000 (not affiliated)

I bought one for my expensive gravel and have been happy with it so far.
Why not buy them out? If you give everyone 100k it’s only 2.4 trillion.
Or even better, just buy out the militant element.
It doesn't matter about the average person if it only takes one successful objection to stop a project.
The whole developed world is facing a demographic crisis. The US brith rate is expected to fall below replacement levels in 2033.

https://apnews.com/article/population-projections-congressio...
I have work provided macbook pro.

Siri/intelligence is disabled through company managed profile.

When there is some noise in the room a popup appears saying "You do not have permissions to use siri".

There is nothing you can do, siri is disabled (can't enable or disable it myself, it's managed) but this stupid popup appears all the time so many times per day.

There is nothing in settings to make it go away.
I can’t wait either. Because then Europe will get its shit together and reduce its need on America. Then you guys are truly fucked.

See the news about the 800 billion euro investment in Europe for Europe defense? Thanks America.
Also did you see the stock market? To think that tariffs would somehow benefit America. All you’re doing is isolating yourselves and forcing decoupli by. Let me know how your relationship with Russia goes. According to history, not very well :)
fake opening.

you are looking for over a year and I know for a fact you rejected multiple engineers with 10+ years of experience after only seeing the CV without a single interview
The Truth About The Bass Pro Shops Pyramid https://youtu.be/jtiDOU--zmw
For me it is only the visiting family use case, where rental doesn't make sense. We have car sharing in the city (Miles) which fixes almost all use cases. Driving to the airport only when without kids, as they both still need car seats, that I can't leave. Otherwise car sharing rental is perfect to get to the airport.
You probably generated a lot of back links. I would just add some more content to the page that establishes you as the original, how the game works etc

Fix up the page content for SEO and you should always appear first anyway.
Values like racism and sexism that they have demonstrated during the previous four years?

Democrats didn't lose the election due to anything Trump did. They alienated a large chunk of the voters all on their own.
The code there is written in a fairly auto-vectorizeable way. But the actual capabilities of Go's compiler are very far away from this despite public expectation (and autovectorization is brittle, writing inference or training in a way that relies on it is the last thing you want). To put it in perspective, until 2021 Go was always passing the data on the stack on function calls. It has improved since then but the overall design aims to ensure common scenarios are fast (e.g. comparisons against string literals are unrolled) but once you venture outside that or if it's an optimization that requires more compiler complexity - Go is far less likely to employ it.
I think you'll find some difficulty training children to complete tasks that adults routinely struggle with. Additionally there's the minor issue of defeating the literal billions in R&D that have gone into gamification and other dark patterns. Even your own comment ending with how children should communicate with their parents after being traumatized by internet content suggests you agree that traumatizing content is pervasive and likely unavoidable.
Without disclosing your training data, this should be considered piracy and removed from HN.
"The history tells us that the only condition for lasting peace with Russia is either strong and decisive resistance or military alliance membership"

20th century history unfortunately tells us the answer is containment, not direct engagement.

From handing over Poland and eastern europe to Stalin in 1945, or refusing to protect Hungary in 1956 or interfere explicitly in the soviet sphere of influence, in exchange for them not interfering explicitly in western sphere of influence.

It's not a nice lesson, but that was how we achieved some form of peace for decades.
psst ... "formula"
Drop me an email (see my website, link in bio) with some details. We can sponsor visas for engineering positions.
The makers of other browser had either worse incentives, or were bad at getting attention, or couldn't execute, or offered just a reskinned Chrome/Firefox, or included too many avant-garde features that nobody asked for, or existed back when Firefox was liked enough to make them irrelevant.
I think you may be the one in a bubble.

I don't think the average conservative grandma is really in favour of the chaos that Elon is unleashing.

The only reasons they voted for Trump is that they thought they were against total debauchery of the left and the trans activism and whatnot.

If that grandma could choose between an old school conservative and these clowns she will choose the old school conservatives.

Yes it's a winner take all system, yes that's how it works. But don't use that to justify that whatever the winner does is what all people actually wanted because it's just not true.
So by this argument all baseload generation prices are a lie too?

The coal or nuclear plant that commits to generating a set amount consistently but never even attempting to meet the actual demand is some kind of hoax?

In reality we're moving from baseload and peaker gas plants to follow demand to renewables and firming (the same gas plants just running at different times). It's a holistic system with parts working together.

The main difference is that renewables are cheaper and cleaner which gets them built faster and displaces more and more coal and gas from the market. With batteries eating the market from the other direction (starting with daily peaks and expanding out from there).

You can see this in carbon intensity of electricity production and the ever increasing share of renewables around the world.

Of course that plan falters a bit if you ban cheap onshore wind across an entire nation for a decade.
.. have I missed something, because TVs are already the flattest consumer durable that isn't, say, flooring?
Yes, these museums are geeky fun :-) same goes for Faber Castell in Stein close to Nuremberg, Germany; there you can also get a tour in contemporary production.

https://www.faber-castell.com/corporate/faber-castell-experi...
Speedcrunch
Defense stocks are up un Europe for a very obvious reason: Europe stands behind the Ukraine and the US has decided to abandon them.
Ask HN: What makes JPMC Bank so good?
I know there is no love lost from the typical HN member for mega corps. Yet, as a customer of JPMC, they are one of the few mega-corps I deal with in my daily life that has consistently provided top notch service down through the years.

A rep on campus convinced me, as an international student then, to open the account about 15 years ago, and I have never regretted it, for the following reasons:

- I returned to my home country years ago, and never once have I felt the lack of any local branches; They have also not suddenly become suspicious of me, asking me to re-verify, nor have they ever blocked me simply because of being in Ghana, as other international companies are wont to do. (1)

- Their online and mobile banking is top-notch, and has never let me down. No weird glitches, no broken functionality, no security theater that does not make sense, no inexplicable card blocks, no dark patterns. Their app enables me to do literally anything involving international banking with a minimum of fuss. When compared to the shit-show that is most online banking and fin-tech, this is a big deal for me.

- I see they were not part of the banking scandal of some years back. I'm not naive that there is any really big business that does not behave un-ethically, but it appears they are far from the worst in that request.

Now, I understand they are the biggest bank in the world, which makes their consistently good service all the more surprising. To me they are a case study in how to run an international mega business. I wonder what contributes to their success? Any thoughts?

1. For example, beginning about 5 years ago, suddenly I was unable to use any credit cards to shop on most major retailer websites (e.g., Walmart, Best Buy, even Apple). I have no idea what could be wrong, other than that I reside in West Africa. As a result, my online shopping is confined to Amazon (thank you) and eBay. PayPal also suddenly has asked me to re-verify my account by sending them my ID, so unless I can get that sorted out, I might not be able to use eBay any longer soon. I also know of people who are unable to use their accounts with Goldman Sachs, BoA, etc. in Ghana whenever they visit.
I just thought a bit on this and this idea sounds very much another chapter in the 'left'-leaning 1%er rich socialite tradition of romanticizing poverty.

The actual grounded reality of solar power is that small scale solar powerplants are mostly popping up in the southern hemisphere, and their existence is justified by true need, note some first-world champagne socialist's desire for a green economy.

Countries in the southern hemisphere tend to be poorer, have lesser quality governments and infrastructure, meaning the continuous supply of electricity is not a given. At the same time, these places get a lot more sunlight, and need constantly running ACs, as in sweltering hot weather, having an air conditioner can be a life or death decision.

I'm pretty sure the availablity of reliable power and constant tolerable indoor temperatures has been a godsend to these places and will show up as a major economic booster in the years to come.

Thus the recently falling prices and rising availablity (of mainly Chinese) panels, inverters, and batteries has been a godsend for these places. If you look on youtube, there's an absolute ton of videos showcasing solar installs in places like the Middle East and Africa, which would satisfy the definiton of 'solarpunk', as in, communities only weakly tied to central infrastructure.

Meanwhile, places like the US or Europe, don't suffer from energy scarcity, comparatively get less sunlight and have expensive, and overly complex permitting processes.
I don't know about that, they voted for this. Good will can be burnt surprisingly quickly, especially when they're singing to the tune of Russian propaganda. It only took one round of tariffs on Canada for relations to considerably decay.
For the share issue we are already there, with Firefox+Linux so many websites started to just block, usually with chrome at least a captcha is still offered.

With the current board and directors and focus I don't see any ways Firefox will gain share in the future (or not any that I really care about), and I certainly have no interest to support the current goals ...

For the privacy part Mozilla has been sitting on features like containers for years with no improvements. At this point I believe Mozilla ending might be better since it would shake things up ...
woman posts article

> "nobody cares, we're going to call them 'him' instead"
They've probably got video of him being whipped by some hookers or something. Or worse...
It's a silly term "coined" by Adrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

"There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works."
See, that's what I actually mean :)

I expanded in a sub-comment: I am not challenging that it was done, I would like to hear about the motivation to do it.

There's no purpose for the result described on Github, and also no background why it was done.

I have no value to run Windows NT on a Gamecube, but I would surely enjoy the story on why it came to be :)
I write a fair bit of rust/c for my day job. Do you find zig easier than the ffi interface in Rust?
The Hyundai Ioniq 6 has a range of over 500 km, and typical 20-80% charging times are around 20 minutes. Where in Europe can you drive 350 km and not pass a single charger?
Brand New Puff Counter App reached $1K in just a months. Here is the tips