skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of counterexamples at the end is a little light.

The Montreal Protocol is probably the most famous example: https://www.unep.org/ozonaction/who-we-are/about-montreal-pr...

And the German feed-in-tariffs helped renewables quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariffs_in_Germany

Or the European emission standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards

They achieved their two goals of (1) minimizing the externality and (2) driving technology innovation.
Do they have proof that 33+ trillion dollars in debt will begin snowballing larger than any country can actually service?

Do we need specific evidence about how debt interest works?

Sorry for how snarky this sounds but your response sounds like you don’t believe that the interest on over 33 trillion dollars is a big deal (and it’s growing…)

Please educate me if that’s not how interest or debt works (again I am dead serious here) but it seems disingenuous to claim that some sort of proof is required to point at the debt and say “Ah that’s not a problem unless you PROVE it’s a problem”
this is really creative! would be fun to train on
That is not related to the comment from opp.
Their comment was that the company hosting this site does not say who they are, where incorporated etc.
Neuromancer is the new Duke Nukem Forever.
I don't think so.

I am unable to see why Apple should've or should make a car, what could they have done differently or better that wouldn't have just been an imitation with a slight improvement of what already exists.

Do they made their own engines or buy them, do they design and make their own car or have someone else do that for them. So what are they left with, a revolutionary interior? Full self driving? (I don't think so). Or is it just another Tesla, BYD or Xiaomi but has its own iterated benefits or technological improvements like the others.

Would they invest in their own battery technology? They don't with their iPhones, perhaps they invest in more efficient motors? motors aren't a current problem. So then it just sounds like an electric car with a more integrated CarPlay. Big deal.
“Your onboarding will be making collection calls.”

So, your AI debt collection startup onboards engineers by...having them work as human call-center debt collectors?

Is there really AI at all?

Oh, but after passing through the onboarding, your vibe-coding engineers will be be focussed on building product by vibe coding, right?

“(what you will be doing...) Onboard customers, talk to them and travel to visit them.”

So, a traveling sales rep. Your onboarding is pretending to be the product, and after that you are a traveling sales rep who vibe codes on the side?
I'm just pointing out different options that exist. Virtual Desktop is WiFi only but ALVR can do either.

If you're not capped by bandwidth because you can hardware encode into H265 or AV1, it shouldn't make a difference (besides the bugs and software quirks in both programs)
Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
Do you mean closed hi hat chokes open hi hat?
Using Gorilla glass for home building
I think the history shows the intent though, as like you say, the state legislature elected their federal senate representatives up until 1913. I do agree things are different now and expectations might have changed.

> Legislation originates also in the Senate, and of course the president authors much of it (wherever it's interoduced). Only a few things are required to officially start in the House.

The only thing that must start in the House is anything related to raising revenue. The fact the senate or house can start bills does support my perspective though - the house can start bills for the people, the senate for the state itself.
The bitter lesson is a good demonstration of how people have really short memories and distributed work loses information

Every AI "breakthrough" comes at a lag because the people who invent a new architecture or method aren't the ones who see its full potential. Because of the financial dynamics at play, the org or team that sees the crazy-looking result often didn't invent the pieces they used. Even if they did, it's been years and in a fast-moving field that stuff has already started to feel "standard" and "generic". The real change they saw was something like more compute or more data

Basically, even the smartest people in the world are pretty dumb, in the sense of generalizing observations poorly
I can't cite sources since it would involve trying to piecemeal together tons of almost 20 year old Twitter posts (the ones that are still even online in some capacity). But I'd strongly encourage anyone interested to research both the 2008 campaigns of Barack Obama and the late John McCain. Obama went hard into social media like FB and Twitter with almost daily updates, and also used those platforms to directly connect with voters. McCain's campaign, if I remember right, largely stayed off of them until right before the election. And even then, McCain/Palin only used it like an RSS feed and really didn't engage with anyone.

It's the same strategy that propelled Bernie Sanders to the national stage in 2015/2016. It's the same strategy that got Donald Trump elected, legitimately or otherwise, both in 2016 and 2024. No one wanted to touch it until it made both Trump become POTUS and made a Clinton lose an election.
This is my biggest complaint about nextjs. The middleware implementation is horrific.

No way to communicate information from middleware to requests means people encode JSON objects into text and add it as a header to be accessed from requests using headers(). They put session/auth info in there.

I would never recommend the framework to anyone on this basis alone.
But isn't that actually the point? That measuring query volume tells you nothing?
Okay, so what do you propose? Rent control? That is going to decrease supply. Tariffs to encourage manufacturing in America? That’s just going to make things less affordable.

But, rural America consistently votes for politicians and people who are trying to get rid of services they need the most. They are getting exactly what they are voting for and cheering right now.

They are actively opposed to programs that would make education more affordable and cheering cutting the department of education, the post office, internet for rural America etc.
>I do not understand why solar installations are so expensive in the US

the Biden administration has recently raised these tariffs, including doubling the tariff rate on solar cells from China to 50%

Tariffs are magic.. they make america so rich!

/s
Aaaaaand there it is. That guarantees I’ll never, ever approve any design plan that involves VMware in any way.

What shortsighted jackassery. Know where big customers come from? Little customers. There’s now zero incentive to ever consider using it unless you’re at a giant company, and if you’re a giant company, there are better options.

This is the death knell. It’s dead.
I completely agree I'm being too timid. With that said it was 100% free for many years and I always had in my mind that I would get it to a certain level before being more aggressive. Because I never really had as much time on this project as I would have liked I also never felt it was ready to try to ramp up monetization. Also I've really enjoyed providing a high value resource to music students and I'll always keep more of it free than is common. I've also always avoided any form of popup or banner advertisement mostly because I don't like them.
I dunno seems like a decent area to start with. A team that collects detailed data on customer service interactions as well as satisfaction of outcomes should be able to create a decent dataset. Then you grade outputs in a simulator to train the model. No need to train on the fly, at least not at first.
do people make new deployments with vmware these days? I haven't really dealt with that side of things in a good while but i stopped using vmware at home (migrated everything to virtualbox) about a decade ago and it's not something that's crossed my mind since then. my impression is that vmware is just used by big companies that have legacy entrenchments and there's no reason to pick it as something to build atop in 2025
People get scammed out of cash just as easily. See "The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger. I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam." https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...

Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382981
You should call it Middle-Out Array for maximum Internet points /jk
It's just throwing money away too. Small customers aren't using all the advanced features, probably barely touching the support tickets. It's a software license, selling it costs them nothing.
Are the organizations building on VMWare going to learn any lessons from this?

What did you expect?

There exist and have existed for decades robust full featured open source solutions.

Use them.
Let's also remember the historical context: In 1956 these ideas are being constructed as a way to de-fang the competing appeal of Communism, which means proponents had to care--or at least pretend to care--about how the system affected the average worker.
ISPs / other middlemen can monitor and modify unencrypted traffic. In Egypt, Syria and Turkey for example ISP’s injected malware into unencrypted sites that led people to install spyware when attempting to download legitimate programs (link). Other state actors have changed the content of news media, etc. Without HTTPS you lose the ability to trust the integrity of a given webpage.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/turkis...
Yes, basically those are cheaper because they use less ressource and thus have necessarily less environmental impact. It doesn't make sense any other way.
Capitalism has plenty of bad outcomes, but inefficient use of ressources not generally one of them.

All of this makes it very hard for people who are posturing trying to appear virtuous/moral in their choices (food, clothing, whatever). At the end of the day if you think you are a problem the best solution is to get rid of it...

All the studies about plant-based vs animal food are deeply flawed because they don't compare properly the nutritional profile and ressource intensity.
Most of what we feed to animals is waste/byproducts or just not fit for human consumption, but conveniently can be grown in less arable land.
Whose locality bears the brunt of this? Do you mind if we put some where you live?
I would say VMware is very comfortable infrastructure and despite the fact Hyper-V is adequate and effectively free for a Windows shop, I would prefer VMware.

That being said, when the alternative is free, VMware really doesn't have the power it thinks it has to dictate terms.
In high-assurance, formal methods were one of many used for the system. It was reduced complexity, precisely-specified behavior, likewise for security policy, proofs the design/code fulfilled it, exhaustive testing, leak analysis, pestering, and ability to recheck all this.

That's so hard it was mostly done for only kernels commercially. From there, your real-world use will involve user-level components, protocols with interactions, and so on. Add one thing to the proven TCB and maybe your proof disappears. So, every trusted component has to be rigorously designed. Then, all the interactions for a holistic argument.

Most don't do that. For example, seL4 hosting a web browser won't help you if it's a web application. IBOS and a WAF on seL4, all proven, might cover that. Harder argument. Most of these projects never go beyond the kernel or TLS stack or whatever.

You can do stuff with that. Look up Nizza Secure Systems Architecture for a paper with many examples. Yet, they usually don't cut it. They're not compatible with popular apps either. So, most people just harden Linux or BSD or Windows.
Be careful with VirtualBox outside tiny home labs. If you thought Broadcom was a pain in the neck, wait until you talk to Oracle.
I am sure it is a "Call for pricing" situation, but just curious what is the magnitude of the jump. Is a 16 core seat $10k, and a 72 core is $400k?

Not Broadcom, but we just had a vendor pull a similar stunt at the start of the year. With a month before our renewal, we were told that the new license was going to jump 2.5x owing to the new minimum purchase requirements. Which is a head scratcher to me, because I have never thought the product was that good or lacking in competition. There is now an internal initiative for everyone to fully migrate off by end of year.
The bitter lesson is about the balance of human ingenuity and compute being thrown at the problem. We've seen a few years of LLM compute being scaled up 10x every year, but this is hitting limits (fabs), and we will see more human effort, as it becomes compartively cheaper.

Also the current crop of models are inherently limited. Even for something as simple as following a JSON schema, models alone are not good enough [0]

Of course as the Moore law refuses to die, we'll continue seeing 1.5-2x or so every year, but that's far from 10x.

[0] https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-t... - see plot
unpopular opinion but there are so many mature well established open source alternatives to vmware in 2025 that not only outperform it but are easier to set up.

even the humble cockpit project supports vms using libvirtd and kvm, and provides a workable interface for virtualization that supports migration and snapshots. do give it a try.

Broadcom has been so abrasively hostile to the idea of the vmware business it acquired that its intentional rejection of profitable markets should be enough to start purging members of the board of directors.
The manpages of system daemons are definitely not being carefully curated in the way you are implying. They're written, often poorly and imprecisely, by engineers.
How does that second paragraph work? I run engineering at Common Crawl, and Common Crawl is ethical and has never fired a developer over ethics.

During the End of Term 2024 crawl[1], we discovered a lot of blocking on US government websites. Many of these sites were also blocking the Internet Archive and the US National Archives. The US National Archives is a government agency.

1: https://eotarchive.org/
They are saying that those particular fonts with that particular kind of font-rendering engine (windows), doesn’t work for them for that particular language.

It’s a conjunction of all 3 things.
KVM is better anyway.
I thought oracle licensing shenanigans only applies if you used their extension pack? If you only used the community/GPL version you should be fine.
My impression -- and this is entirely based on superficial observations and a massive amount of extrapolation, so I may be entirely off-base -- was always that VirtualBox's priority was always speed (security was nominally there, but felt retroactive), and VMware's was always security (speed was nominally there, but felt retroactive). Would be nice if someone could clarify whether this was/is accurate.
I find, as usual, that Maximum Progress is offering a hubristic take.

Yes, plastics now are superior to ivory for any purpose aside from signalling wealth. But guess what, that last purpose is enough that ivory poaching remains a perpetual problem and elephants would probably have been wiped out by now if not for the dedicated efforts of governments and non-profits to combat poaching and to lock down the ivory trade.

Yes, solar power is getting very cheap, but it's a little early to declare the carbon emissions externality solved. Fossil fuel companies are still investing in infrastructure (pipelines, refineries, etc) with multi-decade payback times, so I expect we'll still have a long time yet to wait. And carbon emissions are a problem with a deadline.

Aquaculture is a growing source of fish, but overfishing remains a major unsolved problem, and there are also concerns about aquaculture itself having negative impacts on wild fish populations.
The political will has to be globally coordinated and needs to mandate a basic standard of living for all.

Much like ending the human rights abuses perpetuated abroad by western companies requires political will to exist in multiple countries.

When there is money to be made, people will look the other way. And dehumanizing people on the other side of the world is too easy. We are all complicit in supporting companies that are responsible for child slavery and death, to make our consumer products. To pretend that "other people" are the truly heartless ones for running different kinds of exploitative rackets that happen to affect people we see ourselves as closer to, in ways we see as more likely to affect us, is myopic.

Until Westerners confront these inevitabilities, the odd person being scammed by people in poorer countries is just the price we will continue to pay for economic supremacy.
I guess you can cut the size of your sales team. You no longer have to go hunting for customers, because you can just look at market caps.
Has anyone empirically assessed the claims of the Bitter Lesson? The article may sound convincing, but ultimately it's just a few anecdotes. It seems to have a lot of 'cultural' impact in AI research, so it would be good to have some structured data-based analysis before we dismiss entire research directions.
I use xterm and xclock every day. Many others, such as xmag, xfontsel, xedit etc. are also on my regular rotation.

Programs like these may seem simple today but they're often very fast, efficient and to the point.
As someone who love the homeworld games as a kid, I can totally understand the type of kid who likes those games is absolutely the type that would make a presentation like this. The conclusion is fantastic, 12yo you had a great sense of humor!
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> Shaving a couple seconds off that will not provide any tangible benefit.

It could be more than that.

I switched from pip to uv today in a Dockerized project with 45 total dependencies (top level + sub-dependencies included).

pip takes 38 seconds and uv takes 3 seconds, both uncached. A 10x+ difference is massive and if uv happens to be better suited to run on multiple cores it could be even more because my machine is a quad core i5 3.20ghz from 10 years ago.

> I work in a place with 200 developers

In your case, if you have 200 developers spending an hour on builds that could in theory be reduced down to 5 minutes per build. That's 11,000 minutes or 183 hours of dev time saved per 1 build. I know you say it's automated but someone is almost always waiting for something right?
You might be surprised, but for many businesses that serve both enterprise and small customers, the smaller accounts often end up being a poor use of time. While it can vary, in many cases, small customers contribute only a small fraction of total revenue yet require a disproportionate amount of support and resources.
> The problem was that this intern was bad, so we had him write unit tests.

Please tell me you assigned this person a "increase code coverage" task and not "I wrote a new feature, write the unit tests for it" task
the intention in making friends comes from intentionally participating in activities where you can make friends. not in intentionally approaching any particular person to become their friend.

i traveled and moved around a lot, and just participating in tech meetups allowed me to make friends wherever i went without even trying.
And what exactly is wrong with living with their parents longer like most other countries do and is still prevalent among first and second generation Americans?

As I asked before, what do you propose? Rent control? Affordable higher education? I agree with that. But half of America as seen by the support of DOGE and the lack of support for student loan forgiveness of any kind don’t. America is getting exactly what they voted for - especially in the poorest, least educated states that vote Republican.
>(migrated everything to virtualbox)

Virtualbox is not a replacement...

When businesses say "vmware" they mean esxi/vsphere to manage large numbers of VMs, not desktop VMs, not vmware workstation... The replacement would be hyper-v, proxmox, xen or moving workloads to Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS or GCP.

Besides, vmware workstation is also vastly better and also given out for free now.
Meat consumption hasn't grown at all in the last 20 years, in fact it has fallen in many of the rich industrial countries (not having highly demanding physical job allows to drop the protein requirements, so there is that).

Even in the US it has been rather stable. There are just more people getting out of poverty on the planet and they won't deny themselves consumption of this beneficial product just to fit to the ideology "du jour".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...
Next.js and Coordinated Disclosure
Many bridges had to collapse until we learned how to build them.

As for seL4, the proofs (which are actually the state of the art in that field, yet definitely can be further perfected) are just one of the pillars supporting it e.g. the size of the TCB is another.

We do not give up on the goal because there was a mistake once. Nor is the goal not worthy; this is the absolute best the world has atm.
> this scalar field would manifest differently in the equations

It shows up in the Einstein Field Equation as part of the stress-energy tensor. That is not a problem at all.

> and basically be something that enters alongside a cosmological constant.

The "cosmological constant" can just as easily be moved to the RHS of the Einstein Field Equation and also considered part of the stress-energy tensor, yes. There is no issue with that at all.

> Making dark energy or Λ itself vary

Is something nobody has claimed to be doing, as the GP said, so you are attacking a straw man.

"Varying dark energy density" does not mean trying to make the cosmological constant vary. It just means adding some other component of stress-energy whose density does not have to be constant, but which still produces accelerated expansion. Anything with pressure less than minus 1/3 of its energy density will do that. A scalar field is the simplest such thing, but not the only possibility. None of this poses the slightest problem for the Einstein Field Equation.
> I thought oracle licensing shenanigans only applies if you used their extension pack?

I believe that's correct.

The thing one must be cautious regarding is installing the Extension Pack without careful consideration.
At the low end it's remarkable to see the influx of new Proxmox users since VMWare removed the free tier of ESXi licensing. Proxmox is great, FWIW.
This has nothing to do with virtualbox. VMware workstation is the desktop product and is given away for free since it's practically insignificant to the portfolio.

This is all about managing and deploying applications across multiple servers (vSphere) which is a fleet of computers running ESXi as their operating system.
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