skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get all that either, though I don't mind if nuclear is the future we'd just need to let go of the brakes on it. The other thing to look at is overall growth of each type - China is going ham on wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear yet they've still had to increase the total amount of power generated by coal, oil, and gas anyways. Graphs always predict something like https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2017.09.27/main.png but we really always end up with https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ch...

Whatever the cheapest (clean) option deployable is people should be wanting to throw it in as fast as we can until we actually hit a technology limit with its usability instead of worrying it won't be able to get us to 100% or not. Instead, the conversation tends to read like we've already succeeded in deploying clean energy fast enough and we should stop looking or that we are still looking for a technology which can cut our current emissions and waiting for an answer. Neither are true, we're still burning more fossil fuels during the day. The US at least managed to hit break even growth in electricity generation https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/US_Elect... even after stalling nuclear outputs but there's still a lot to go there all the same. I'm not as familiar with Europe.

About the only stances I've been able to make sense of (even though I don't personally agree with them) are the concern nuclear is a step back rather than a step forward and that's why we shouldn't deploy it and the people that just want the cheapest power regardless of source. Everyone else doesn't seem to have a reason to worry about "what" as much as "how to deploy more" for the moment. The dirtier power tends to be the one that's easier to spin up/down very rapidly anyways - "keep the capacity for now and just run it less when you can" is still a great thing.
Germany is unlocking billions to supercharge its military at a seismic moment
Yet they've had astounding success and is the most widely used operating system. Maybe usability and ease of access are far more important than beautiful design
I saw an Xcel Energy promotion for a Powerwall system with rebates taking the cost down from $13.5K to $3.5K, in Denver CO USA. I would have been very tempted by that except I don't have Xcel for electric in my area.

edit: Check to see if you have rebates in your area.
The document was updated in January.

A lot has happened in the last few years, such as the founding of seL4 foundation, the maturation of mixed criticality scheduling, the celebration of multiple seL4 summits, and the deployment in practical use by multiple companies and countries, in several scenarios.
I think this is the blind spot that a lot of tech workers have.

To them, AI is years (decades?) away from being able to produce an Excel clone.

To average people, excel is just a tool to add up columns of numbers. Something AI is readily capable of today.
Not required. Also not the point. Genetic data allows bulk identification of traits that may not be outwardly visible. Or even invention of new traits.

This information can be easily used to target large groups of individuals.

What happens when an ambitious young data analyst correlates a gene with criminal activity?

The point is you don’t want an admin that carries out malicious discrimination to have genetic data. We have already seen that movie. It doesn’t end well.
Gaming should be fun full stop

Wholeheartedly agree.

and this idea that like games need to feature attractive women to pander to men.

This works both ways. It shouldn't pander to anything other than the people writing the game. Let creatives be creatives. After that let the free market decide what is and isn't fun to it.
The mother of all comment chains.
You shouldn't intentionally rely on a segfault as a means of terminating the program -- do sth. like `exit(1)` instead.

What I'm saying is there isn't an ergonomic issue with NULL error return APIs. You might prefer algebraic error types (in other languages). I'm not even sure I do. NULL return APIs are clean and simple. If you do (accidentally) forget to check for NULL return code, you will for sure get a segfault on first access in practice (not on embedded platforms maybe). The compiler can't remove any following code unless it can prove only NULL will ever be returned. Don't fall trap to UB FUD.
Median income in constant dollars in the US was about 60k 40 years ago and now is about 80k. We can buy a lot better stuff with those dollars too.
I agree, but I think we have to accept that there isn't really a reliable way to convince people of something. People (and I include myself) struggle to discard beliefs borne of intuitive, irrational processes. And personally, when I realize my attempts at logic are failing, it's easy to give up and condescend, that or stop trying. People don't want treatises, no matter how dressed up they are. They want tasty morsels. Forthrightness and composure, "taking the high road", all the time is draining, if not mostly ineffective.
Ah, yes, we strengthen our position in the world order and convince countries to stand against China by...

Destroying all trade alliances, removing all reinforcers of soft power, making our weapons exports suspect, and threatening (nuclear) war against our allies.

Your plan is stunningly brilliant.
I personally am careful like others around here, but I know how normal people think. All anybody can list are vague nebulous future consequences while the benefits are immediate and concrete. You need to point to concrete bad things that happened to real people close to home, eg friends and family, for them to care. Not one anomalous case across the country, but something that has reality in their own real lives. I've tried telling people about privacy issues and it's harder than telling people to stop smoking or eating crap food, or to abstain from sex etc. It's seen as theoretical, abstract moral preaching. Privacy advocates can never point to real things that affect average people in big enough numbers. It's a bit of a catch 22. If the thing is too rare, it seems far fetched. If it's too common, it's seen as "if so many people are affected then I can just blend into the crowd". Meaning, since everyone is careless about privacy around them, at worst they are all going down together. But that in itself seem quite far fetched.
I've worked in and around srwlock for a long time. I don't think it's all that reasonable to think you should get "shared starve exclusive" by default, which is what you're asking for. We used to demand that kind of behavior in some windows filesystem code and it's always been a design mistake.
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
You've already got a solution, and often the cheapest solution is the one you already have.

There's no technical reason a generator + battery (and solar?) setup couldn't be configured to run off battery till the battery reaches a preconfigured state of charge then call for the generator.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/whats-cau...
Cool site! You’d find this wiki a fun read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
Well, the Canada that results from this election will differ greatly depending on who wins. That might be relevant to tech people looking for alternatives to the US. Where to live/work strikes me as a pertinent topic.
Thanks, this made my day! No wonder your pitch was a success.
A lot of teams can do a lot with search with just LLMs in the loop on query and index side doing enrichment that used to be months-long projects. Even with smaller, self hosted models and fairly naive prompts you can turn a search string into a more structured query - and cache the hell out of it. Or classify documents into a taxonomy. All backed by boring old lexical or vector search engine. In fact I’d say if you’re NOT doing this you’re making a mistake.
Intel Management Engine is a separate microcontroller integrated into the chipsets. Recent ones are Intel Quark x86 CPU and Minix 3 OS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle
FSF Holds Live Auction of 'Historically Important' Free Software Memorabilia
How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates
The counter argument is a bitter lesson that Tesla is learning from Waymo and the lesson might be bitter enough to tank the company. Waymo's approach to self driving isn't end to end - they have classical control combined with tons of deep learning, creating a final product that actually works in the real world, meanwhile the purely data driving approach from Tesla has failed to deliver a working product.
Of course libertarian ideologues will argue FDR was the Big Bad. They are arguing from ideology, not science.

FDR committed the grave sin of making a lot of rich people slightly less rich, in the short term. Deregulation is the answer to everything, including the problems caused directly by lack of regulation and governance. Hilarious.
Completely agree. I look at all these predictions, good and bad, but then I look at the global temperature and it feels watching someone in complete denial after a terminal cancer diagnoses talking about their plans for the future, a switch in careers, investments etc.

In terms of AI particularly I can only focus on the here and now, and the real world effects that I'm seeing are split between enabling creepy men to produce deepfakes of women they're stalking and enabling bad faith actors with the ability to erode faith in our democratic systems. Om both counts I repeatedly see the "techbros" who develop the tech waving their hands or actively supporting it.

All of the benefits right now like being able to code marginally faster or bounce ideas off of aan LLM feel like playing with firecrackers while watching dangerous men develop guns after we got a hold of gunpowder.
https://archive.ph/1f2mL
If you wanted to show someone a walkaround of the Sistine chapel or David, would you be better off using triangles and PBR and raycast lighting? You don't really gain anything from all that; you're doing a tremendous amount of computation just to recapture the particular lighting at an exact time. If you want the same detail that a few good pictures capture -tens of millions of pixels- you need to have many billions of triangles onscreen.

With splats you can have incredibly high fidelity with identical lighting and detail built in already. If you want to make a game or a movie, don't use splats. If you want to recreate a static scene from pictures, splats work very well.
> But I don't think there is a drop-in replacement for ALL that Next does.

The entirety of vite + tanstack (in particular the upcoming tanstack-start) is getting quite close. For quite a few uses that folks currently use next fork, I would argue that much of what tanstack does is a better fit. Eg: non marketing sites, but SaaS style dashboards.
State of My Homelab
>The uutils project has the right goals

Their goals are to _replace GPL's code_. It's a subtle attack on Free Software by providing corporations a workaround so they don't have to abide by the terms of the license.

Nobody seriously doubts the efficiency or safety of the GNU Coreutils. They've been battle tested for over 30 years and whatever safety or optimization risks are left are negligible.
You an verify how Orban, prime minister of Hungary ushered Hungary to be an electoral autocracy or illiberal democracy. Here is how it happened.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-orbanisation-of-america-hung...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/13/hungary-media-curbs-harm...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur27/3623/2021/en/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/hungarys-democratic...

https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/point-view/2014-04-01/a...
> It feels very ungrounded from tangible benefits to society

Your definition of "society" implies that it means "everyone".

If you circumscribe the definition more narrowly to the owners of wealth/capital, the benefits to them (and the thin managerial class just below them) are pretty clear.
We’re all already betting one way or another.
Nice use of Latin. mihi placet.
Have you looked at colleges/universities that have co-op education (alternating study for one term, work at a company in relevant field for another term)?

For typical STEM-related work term jobs, the money (after expenses during the work term) is enough to cover most of the costs for the next study term.

If co-op education is not available, then you'd still have earnings from three summer jobs to help offset the cost of going back to school.
Rippling co founder being harassed by wife and extorted by Indian Police
Code Submitted Ahead of Linux 6.15 Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size
There is now an official RFC for this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9745
They don't, though, they consistently want the cheaper machine made products rather than the artisinal human made versions. Sure it might align with their "values" but when they see the value difference at the cash register their minds will quickly change. It's already happening with AI designed products.
Sorry I am new to Next, and I expect others are too. In Express, middleware runs on the server, and it's a common pattern to handle authentication checks in there before the request reaches any routers. Are you saying that the "middleware" described here is purely a client-side thing? If so, I agree, it's silly to put any kind of auth in there. But the language on the Next website made me think that this was server-side; the mention of the cookie validation (which should not happen on a client), and the mention of the deployment type. I was also under the impression that Next was a framework that spans the client and the server.

So to confirm: where does this middleware run?
Apparent signs of distress during LLM redteaming
But new types are wonderful! They can be used to prevent you from adding speed and and fuel left. Yes, both speed and fuel left are floats, but adding them will only produce nonsense.
Rotating black holes: The most fantastic source of energy in the universe
Incredible idealism. If you work in infrastructure, even development, there's no such thing as shutting down at the end of the day or weekends. 'You never know' if someone senior gets agitated off hours because something is broken, and is expecting a big group on a zoom call
Do we have the choice? It feels like the market makes such decisions and regulation is not only a taboo but impossible with competition between states.
Perhaps give it some time before judging too harshly?
The dose makes the poison; we're still a long way from fulling embracing microkernels and capabilities. Security is a holistic property and encompasses finer details too. I want a small TCB. I want capabilities pervasively. And in pursuit of modularity and abstraction, I want to be able to choose the components I want and take those burdens myself. It's a bit silly seeing the nth SIGOPS-SOSP paper on how Linux can be improved by integrating userspace scheduling.
> having a unique fingerprint is bad, as it allows tracking of you by fingerprinting, without the need for cookies.

Correct.

FWIW (disclaimer: I'm the developer of StopTheMadness Pro, mentioned in the article) I just ran two tests in Mac Safari, with StopTheMadness Pro enabled and disabled, and the results were exactly the same each time: "at least 18.06 bits of identifying information". Alas, that's a unique fingerprint, but apparently my extension doesn't make anything worse. If you look at the detailed results, the identifiers are things like User-Agent, screen size, time zone, and language.
Right, the data quality is usually crap. Beyond the issues you mentioned, patients often switch providers or health plans and their data doesn't get migrated. In the USA at least there is no centralized national repository for that data so the further back you try to go the more likely the data will just be missing (or incorrectly coded). In theory there are interoperability APIs and national networks to solve this problem but in practice a lot of systems still aren't properly connected.

For vaccinations specifically the CDC Immunization Gateway can be a good place to start. Most states also maintain their own immunization registries that can be queried through standard HL7 V2 Messaging and/or FHIR APIs if you have the appropriate permissions.

https://www.cdc.gov/iis/iz-gateway/index.html
The comments here are where the real meat of this post is. The article takes a rather one-sided view of it, to the point of exclusively quoting one side and providing much, much more time and weight on that perspective. If you make it to the end of the article, keep going. The conversation is a hell of a lot more nuanced than the article itself.
If you look a bit deeper, this project actually cares deeply about its license, and is going out of its way to choose the license it is using, ignore complaints, and avoid ending up GPL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qTyyMyU2hQ

In an interview with FOSS Weekly, Sylvestre Ledru (the main developer, who curiously has a background working on Debian and Firefox, before ending up getting seduced by the clang/LLVM ecosystem), firmly states "it is not about security".
> Fire one for ignoring policy, and their attitudes will change.

Yeah, the next day they'll start updating their resumes and sending out feelers to their network.
Does that put you in a situation where the builder/bundler is made by a different vendor than the router & cache management layer?

That was one of the nice benefits of Next when it first came out, vs Frankensteining these basic concerns together on top of React with a bunch of different libs that don't always track each other in terms of upgrade compatibility, often resulting in dependency hell.

Is that still the case today?
Unless it’s been edited, it acknowledges that.
It was factories that brought people together enough working as a single unit that allowed unions to flourish.
Personally I would hesitate to install any MCP server unless from an org I trust as it's a whole lot of extra code to trust/audit for possibly marginal gain. That said, depends what the niche is and if the use-case suits LLMs well.
Jochen Liedtke became a professor in 1999 in Karlsruhe, sadly he passed away only shortly after in 2001. I don't know if his successor Bellosa still does research on L4. There was the L4Ka project which appears to be completed. In the bachelor lecture on OS by him it's not part of the curriculum.

Rittinghaus, alumni of Bellosa, is involved with Unikraft [0], which was featured a couple of times on hn, and is using unikernel technology.

[0] https://unikraft.org/
Oh, 100%, and I knew that going in. Still, I'm the type of worker (sucker? sap?) that will go down with the ship if it helps the rest of the folks get into lifeboats. I know I can take care of myself when stuff hits the fan, and I'm never one to half-ass my output because of my own cynicism.

I'm hoping that pays off for me someday. Thus far, it's just been a lot of burnout/layoff cycles.
“I had some really good, famous, climbers come in and fail the belay test,”

Climbers still complain about the belay test, especially older climbers who cut their teeth outdoors and same late to the gym scene. But most gym accidents involving top roping or lead climbing are going to come down to a failed safety check or a mistake on the part of the belayer. And a failed safety check is at least partially a belayer failure.

Experience level doesn't necessarily correlate with safe technique. Beginners can be highly conscious of the consequences of a fall, where more experienced climbers can get complacent and sloppy when the negative consequences fail to materialize.

For example: the coach of an internationally competitive athlete dropped his climber on a grigri because he was casually chatting with someone on the ground and failed to control the brake strand.

https://youtu.be/WBGkKqLhM8Y?si=p58XDsgOG5O2dbJP
With intel and amd getting much better in the low end power and performance-wise, Apple should look at going back to x86. The developer situation is still a mess with Docker x86 and arm mismatches, and it was so convenient just to throw Windows on to a mac to game.
This is what I do and it's worked quite well so far -- we haven't had an extended outage to contend with yet.

I have a relatively small battery as these things go (Bluetti AC200 Max w/ extended battery) but it's enough for our essentials. The game changing aspect of it, IMO, is that acts as a buffer for my generator, solar panels and whatever else I may want to use to power it in the future (maybe an EV?).
Design _is_ usability and ease of access.
> The compiler can't remove any following code unless it can prove only NULL will ever be returned.

It can reorder code, though. For example, it can change

int *x = malloc(sizeof(int));
*x = 42;
if (x)
launch_the_nukes();

to

int *x = malloc(sizeof(int));
launch_the_nukes();
*x = 42;
Sorry, I thought I was using your terminology. I ran pretty much all the updates (switched between majors and security updates and others with my team) as well as helped with the custom OSes for hardware released between. I was talking about 10.6.1, which included any fixes in a 1.1 respin. Apple's updates could be versioned (so, for example, you can have the 10.5.8 update v1.0, v1.1, etc.)...I am specifically talking about the first software update to the new OS.

I still believe you are right and wrong (which is why I put the "ish" on wrong).

"Every new major OS update introduces new bugs, that didn't exist in the previous OS, some of them horrible, and Snow Leopard was no exception" is not what folks are noticing when talking about Snow Leopard. People don't say Snow Leopard was great because it had no bugs, they say it was great because it had fewer bugs they experienced at release and converged quickly to something that was very stable, much more quickly than previous releases (and Leopard was a particularly long stabilization cycle right before it).

I do remember that bug you link, and I remember is was via migration assistant and required some convoluted steps to get in that state (IIRC it largely cropped up with people migrating their home from extremely old versions continuously, which was one of the QA tests we actually did but this issue was missed). There was much debate as to just how widespread it was (Apple didn't have telemetry at the time and had to rely on forums and apple care reports). The majority of people had no issues with SL, which was not the case with Leopard. Leopard's development internally was also more chaotic FWIW.

During that time period my team and I triaged every single Mac OS X bug coming into the company every morning. Trust me, SL was of higher quality than Leopard.

Nowadays, shipping is less of a major event due to CI, automated tests, betas, no CDs/DVDs, recovery partitions, etc. We're in a much better world!
I want the magical IOMMUs that are maturely secure like MMUs are now. For now, I think various efforts in verifying/restricting/generating drivers are far better, although they fall particularly flat for proprietary drivers.
https://www.wkyufm.org/2025-03-19/jamie-raskin-is-leading-th...
Close to 100 digitised art collections in Czechia now available online
So far I have never seen a system that works as it would need to for that to work. They all have weird fine print which means that despite having both only one is used when backup in needed.
Yup, I didn't play the metrics game, and I got burned because my metrics don't look as good against the co-worker who plays the game. The cost is having to remind everyone how much work you actually get done and how much you actually support the team when those "your metrics tell us you're not doing enough" talks come up.
Essential Math for AI: Next-Level Mathematics for Efficient and Successful AI Systems by Hala Nelson provides a broad and comprehensive overview. The author provides a "big picture" view (important for AI/ML study since it is easy to get lost in specific details) and relates concepts to each other at a high level thus enhancing knowledge comprehension and assimilation.