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These explanations have no citations, and even the explanations frequently conflict with the category labels. It seems much more like an elaborate propaganda infographic than a useful source of information.
You might be right, but the site is explicit about the Fremont plant being exempted, and opens with the claim that there are facilities grandfathered in.
Very similar to how religion and their associated belief systems are used to control others. I suppose one could consider capitalism a form of religion and "sacred values" that faces an almost autoimmune response when the belief system is challenged, as it also challenges the human's identity (in some cases).
GPT:
There are some mentions online of a Y Combinator startup called Bad News, but nothing official or well-documented shows up in public YC lists or press — at least as of the latest searchable sources.
The only place it’s referenced is in a Hacker News thread where someone claimed there was a YC company whose product was a blacklist of employees so other startups wouldn’t hire them, and they said the name was Bad News. But people in that thread couldn’t find any evidence of it, and there aren’t real search results tying that name to an official YC company on YC’s site, their startup directory, or mainstream reports.
Does the UK force you to disclose years worth of private messaging and social media history at the immigration checkpoint? If not, no American should be opining about this.
There is no obligation for a critic to produce better work than what is being criticized and it is a cheap and dishonest rhetorical tactic to imply otherwise.
I 100% guarantee you have criticized things without trying to produce better work yourself. It is a deeply dishonest standard.
Those "Lucky Wins" are a big part of the LLM success or "looks like success" story.
One reason the teams I was on did not invent models that good in the 2010s was that we didn't want to give them credit for Lucky Wins.
Google does have a security review process on literally everything it launches.
Which is what makes this so notable. Did the security review not catch this, or did they choose to launch anyways because it was too hard to fix and speed was of the essence?
Sometimes they also scrape HN profiles, it is most irritating.
I read your comment and immediately wondered how much of my braincells are permanently occupied with remembering music. Probably quite a lot in an absolute sense but I wonder about the percentage of storage and whether or not that could have been used in other ways. And of course then I wonder if they are stored compressed, and whether that is lossy compression or not ;)
BrainOS 1.1> Optimize Memory (Y/N) __
I interviewed at Anthropic last year and their entire "ethics" charade was laughable.
Write essays about AI safety in the application.
An entire interview dedicated to pretending that you truly only care about AI safety and ethics and nothing else.
Every employee you talk to forced to pretend that the company is all about philanthropy, effective altruism and saving the world.
In reality it was a mid-level manager interviewing a mid-level engineer (me), both putting on a performance while knowing fully well that we'd do what the bosses told us to do.
And that is exactly what is happening now. The mission has been scrubbed, and the thousands of "ethical" engineers you hired are all silent now that real money is on the line.
Plenty, I can hardly keep up, but then get plenty of stuff to listen to during vacation traveling.
A few ones,
- .NET Rocks!
- Advent of Computing
- ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
- CppCast (just came back)
- CoRecursive: Coding Stories
- Developer Voices
- Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!
- Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
- Inside Java
- Game Dev Field Guide
- Oxide and Friends
- Signals and Threads
- Retro Asylum
- The Retro Hour
- The Fourth Curtain
- The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook
- The Haskell Interlude
The government can very easily change your status from "legal" to "illegal" by flipping a bit. And the newspapers, who are driving this, don't care about skills, they care about the raw numbers. The members of the public driving this don't even care about immigration status, but skin colour.
Plenty of people here actually bought into the do no evil, how great Apple is for the environment (with throw away soldered hardware), or whatever.
Always the same "Do no evil" tragedy, don't believe in corporations.
In general public benefit corporations and non-profits should have a very modest salary cap for everybody involved and specific public-benefit legally binding mission statements.
Anybody involved should also be prohibited from starting a private company using their IP and catering to the same domain for 5-10 years after they leave.
Non-profits where the CEO makes millions or billions are a joke.
And if e.g. your mission is to build an open browser, being paid by a for-profit to change its behavior (e.g. make theirs the default search engine) should be prohibited too.
On the other hand, Indians are rejoicing that this might actually be much easier for us. We will still be going through the Visa Application, but we will get the digital version of the e-visa (I read that a physical copy can also be printed).
In all fairness, based on my interactions with Visa Applications, the UK government website is the best so far. I love their Design Systems, consistency, and UX predictability.
https://www.gov.uk/eta/apply also follows the same design language. I’d happier facing this one than many others.
Maybe two years I had been interested in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsunetsuki
and last December got serious about it in terms of character acting and found Copilot was initially very helpful. So that’s an example of using an LLM for something really unusual and creative.
The really important developments happened as a result of interacting with people though and “foxwork” turned into “foxography”.
It’s gotten to be less fun to talk about it with Copilot as it fits everything into a schema and doesn’t seem to mirror my emotional highs and lows. It is still thrilling to talk to another LLM about it because most of them seem to think it is a good idea.
> they'd tell you it was the least bad option.
They'd tell you that, but they would be lying.
> corruption+nepotism are unstoppable forces of nature
History suggests it's the other way round. They're awfully prevalent - what is a hereditary monarchy but nepotism - but the value of meritocracy over nepotism enables such better governance that it tends to win handily in proxy or actual conflicts. Similarly, if your society is too corrupt when you go to war you discover that someone has sold the tyres off all your stored vehicles, or suchlike.
You also can't have a complex society without a complex government. This goes all the way back to Qin dynasty vs. "barbarians".
I was expecting the article to end with “he won tens of millions and never has to work again”, but gambling your life savings on a sketchy betting site for a potential 35% return is idiotic.
A different mapping: to Microsoft, the users's computers are cattle, but to each individual user, the computer is a pet. Which is why the users keep getting mad when their pet feature gets euthanized.
Public keys are a thing in computing, though?
Google Maps has one, even. And Stripe.
Who knew there were downsides to forcefeeding your product to an unwilling audience?
This whole Gemini roll-out has me reminded of the Google '+' days when they thought they were going to die if they didn't do social.
> Europe should invest into manufacturing RAM
It should. And it should enact the political reforms they would make large capital projects like fabs possible. The current confederacy is proving just as much a stepping stone for Europe as it was for America. I’m not saying a full united Europe should emerge. But a system of vetoes is barely a system at all.
Same as the failure of Itanium VLIW instructions: you don't actually want to force the decision of what is in the cache back to compile time, when the relevant information is better available at runtime.
Also, additional information on instructions costs instruction bandwidth and I-cache.
They are really not getting onboard with the transition to EVs... Strange hill for a car company to die on.
> you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report
Reducing friction would be nice here - I don't remember encountering the crash log screen, but if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect. A lot of information can be pre-collected at that stage - precise version, build, OS, architecture, processor type, etc. All that'd be left is the "What I was trying to do", my e-mail, and a checkbox if I agree with the privacy policies and if I want to receive e-mail updates about this bug report.
> you can do your own build with debug symbols
It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case - if it's crashing for you, install the debug version and your crash logs will be a lot easier to read.
I have an idea, maybe we could represent that AST as parenthesis.
> showing an ad before it starts translating, will they continue
Yes. What evidence do we have that mass consumers decamp because of ads?
> You're wrong here. You don't need the most cutting edge ASML EUV machines to make RAM. Most RAM fabs still use standard DUV.
Ah. Please check that. Which types of DRAM can be made in a DUV fab? Obviously the older ones, but are those obsolete for new computers. This really matters.
> In my opinion, operating transport as transportation programme, not a social programme, is how you get more adoption in the long term
Yesterday I came across a couple articles that encapsulate this thought.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zohran-mamdani-efficiency-nyc-bu...
And
https://coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/excellence-over-mediocrity...
If someone sets up an AI that reads site traffic metrics and keeps trying things to increase conversion rate, something like that will happen. If someone isn't doing that already, someone will be, this year.
My only adventure with off-brand TLDs has been "aether.ltd". This was for my steampunk telegraph office, "The Aetheric Message Machine Company", an elaborate setup we ran at steampunk conventions from 2011 through 2019.[1] Text in a message, and it's banged out on a restored Teletype machine from the 1930s in a brass and glass case, then delivered by a costumed messenger.[1] This got some press coverage back when steampunk was a thing.
Somehow, Zoominfo picked up the site, and rated The Aetheric Message Machine Company as having revenue of about $5 million a year and, at peak, 24 employees. We had a back story for roleplay purposes, in the operating manual for the cosplayers.[2] Someone apparently took it seriously.
That was a fun project.
[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
[2] https://aetherltd.com/public/othermanuals/operatormanual05.p...
> That has all changed today
Anecdote, but I knew a couple senior folks at Apple during the San Bernardino encryption dispute [1]. My understanding is Cupertino was surprised—going all the way to the top—how much backlash they got for what they felt was the natural reaction. (Not to unlock.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
Looking at what companies have bragged about their use of AI and the actual state of their products, it's more likely to be self-regressing software.
> And then memory expanded so much that all kinds of “optimal” patterns for programming just become nearly irrelevant.
I don't think that ever happened. Using relatively sparse amount of memory turns into better cache management which in turn usually improves performance drastically.
And in embedded stuff being good with memory management can make the difference between 'works' and 'fail'.
Imagine a machine telling you how to think or speak. How dystopian.
This is simply the fact that 365 % 7 == 1, with leap year adjustments.
Yup this is just another case of the HN bubble. I polled a bunch of non technical friends recently who I know use AI on a daily basis. Out of 10+ maybe 2 had ever heard of Claude, and no one had any interest in trying it.
ChapGPT has become the AI verb, and in the consumer space it is not getting dethroned.
I still think it's hilarious that a product name as awful as "ChatGPT" has become so ubiquitous.
I wonder what percentage of its users know what the GPT stands for, or even thought about it for a second?
> I sincerely believed that we were in a post racial world.
I grew up in a post-racial world as a "brown" immigrant in a deep red Virginia county in the 1990s. My daughter, meanwhile, developed a strong "brown" identity from her teachers in our deep blue state. I don't blame Obama for it. But there was a definite shift in thinking during his administration where the distinct politics of black democrats--which is highly focused on racial identity for obvious reasons--became generalized to the hispanics and Asians that democrats sought to court. It was a couple of years into the Obama administration that someone called me a “person of color” for the first time, as if you can properly group people together based on skin color.
shell is already an answer to your questions. Basic shell constructs and well-known commands provide the abstractions you ask about. `cat`, `grep` and pipes and redirects may not be semantically pure, but they're pretty close to universal, are widely used both as tools and as "semantic primitives", and most importantly, LLMs already know how to use them as both.
Electric heavy duty trucks are already here, with existing battery technology.
> In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.
> The share of electrics in new truck sales, from 8% in 2024 to 28% by August 2025, has more than tripled as prices have fallen. Electric trucks outsold LNG-powered vehicles in China for five consecutive months this year, according to Commercial Vehicle World.
> While electric trucks are two to three times more expensive than diesel ones and cost roughly 18% more than LNG trucks, their higher energy efficiency and lower costs can save owners an estimated 10% to 26% over the vehicle’s lifetime, according to research by Chinese scientists.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/chinas-di...
https://electrek.co/2026/01/24/hybrid-and-electric-semi-truc...
https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/year-end-surge-electric...
This is Hacker News. I can't think of a better way of someone "hacking" something (i.e. using cracked glass in a novel way) to create something new, unexpected, and incredible.
I think this is probably the best idiomatic example of the type of story that I think belongs on HN that I've seen in quite some time.
Other comments mentioned Texas, but check out the Ercot dashboard: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Not only did solar and wind provide the vast majority of power during the day today, as I write this comment coal is neck-and-neck with storage as an energy resource - i.e. power that was saved during the day because it was so sunny.
Coal simply makes no economic sense as a power source for electricity generation anymore. Natural gas is still needed as base load for when renewables are insufficient, but in perhaps the "free market ideological capital" of Texas, the trend towards renewables + storage is simply the economic choice.
Well there aren’t semis driving down your neighborhood cul de sac (at least I hope not). Heavy trucks cause more damage to interstates and warehouse districts, yes, but that is what those roads are designed for. Most city roads meanwhile were never built to accommodate 9000 lb hummer tanks.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.34...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022326zor_77...
Related:
Student Loans May Get Discharged, Refunded for 200k as Key Deadline Passes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893152 - February 2026
Userscript + iOS Safari extension, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887
Plenty of states and countries are okay with having this stuff in their backyard. Most of them encourage it. Let them build it.
I feel like you have completely mischaracterized the main thesis of this article, and thus I couldn't disagree more.
A primary issue of buses competing with other forms of transportation is simply that they're too slow, and the main thrust of the article is that intelligently reducing the the number of stops only increases walking time a very small amount but can reduce travel time significantly.
This is certainly my main issue with taking buses sometimes - I often think taking a bus would be easier than driving (e.g. no parking, I could read or do something else while traveling, etc.), and I'd be willing to do that is the bus took, say, 1.5x driving time, but often times it's just much slower than driving.
Ah, the master of bad takes is at it again.
> Slavery had basically been a thing for all of human history up to that point,
Except that of course it wasn't.
> and based on my discussions on HN many smart people don't believe a lot of what Adam Smith said.
And many smart people do.
> There are still a lot of basic economic ideas that would make people much wealthier that struggle to get out into the wild.
Yes, such as the one that wealth is not very good as a context free metric for societal success.
> With that perspective the near-total abolition of slavery in a century seems pretty quick.
You missed that bit about the war. If not for that who knows where we'd be today.
> And we see what happened to the people who tried to maintain slavery over that century - they ended up poor then economically, socially and historically humiliated.
Yes, they relied on the misery of others to drive their former wealth, but they are not the important people in that story. The important people are the ones that were no longer slaves.
And never mind that many of those former slave owners did just fine economically afterwards, after all, they already were fantastically wealthy so they just switched 'business models' and still made money hand over fist.
> The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.
Because the efficiency increase in that part of the process meant we could grow so much more cotton to be processed. It wasn't very profitable before that, because slave labor wasn't very efficient at the process.
(This led, eventually, to more automation of the planting/harvesting process.)
The vast majority of the comments here seem to be completely missing the actual reason. I see people claiming this is about heavier SUV's, about people moving to the suburbs, governmental incompetence, that we "can't figure out how to pave roads", that this is corruption...
...just no. What this is, is that the federal ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) has required wheelchair access (curb ramps) along roads since 1990. To comply, "Measure HLA" is a citizen initiative passed in 2025, which forces the city to build curb ramps WHENEVER it resurfaces a road.
But here's the kicker -- as the "Measure HLA" site explains [1], it promises "No New Taxes or Fees", claiming "improvements would be made during routine street maintenance".
But because it DIDN'T raise additional funds, but is a much more expensive process, and the city doesn't have the money, the city is getting around it by doing "large asphalt repair" which is lower-quality but avoids having to spend the extra money and time (which they don't have) to implement the curb ramps and other requirements.
All of this seems like an entirely predictable outcome when a law is passed that requires more work but doesn't pay for it. And in this case you can't blame a short-sighted legislature or a corrupt process -- it was a citizens' initiative. That promised voters they could have something for free, which isn't free. See this key quote:
> Per Mozee, “there’s approximately 14 ramps in a mile.” So for “one crew to build out those 14 ramps will take approximately three months.” In contrast, he said, “a paving crew on a good day … could pave that same mile in a weekend or one week, at most.”
So what exactly did people expect?
I'm all for accessibility, but demanding it without paying for it is not the way.
"The comment mentions 'Cancel Culture' and uses terms like 'edgelords' and 'Nazi' in a context that dismisses and trivializes serious issues. This reflects a trend in discussions that equates legitimate critiques of harmful behaviors with extreme labels, undermining constructive dialogue and signaling acceptance of toxic rhetoric."
"Using phrases like 'Holy crap the edgelords' can come off as dismissive and disrespectful towards a group of people. It’s better to express concerns about behaviors or actions instead of labeling individuals harshly."
"Describing cancel culture as 'over the top' expresses a strong negative opinion without offering specific reasoning. It’s more effective to explain what aspects seem excessive to help others understand your perspective."
"Using phrases like 'the hypocrisy is unreal' can come across as dismissive and sarcastic, which may alienate others from the discussion. It’s beneficial to explain what seems hypocritical instead of making broad statements."
(I picked the "why it's hard to escape an echo chamber" context option, for full disclosure.)
The most effective air force in the world is almost certainly the American one. The second most effective air force in the world may well be the American Navy.
I'm curious who you're ranking at the top here.
> people on youtube will hold a microphone up in frame,
Now you need a really big microphone, something that looks like it was built in 1952.
>Why AI 3D Generation Fails eCommerce Standards
I wish I had his confidence (in eCommerce Standards)
Obligatory video comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug
Nice overview, it misses other kinds of dispatch though.
With concepts, templates and compile time execution, there is no need for CRTP, and in addition it can cover for better error messages regarding what methods to dispatch to.
And HN asked the author to take it down if I'm not mistaken.
As with every such experiment, the outcome will depend entirely on how the LLM was fine-tuned and prompted.
WOPR used reinforcement learning, and could learn from its simulated mistakes. LLMs can't do that without some sort of RL harness. :)
Interesting. My team just went through this to plan offsite. Took about 1/2 a day of one person's time. So I asked your tool to help me:
"I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April."
It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification.
I redid it specifying Massachusetts and it worked pretty well (although all the options it found were about double the price of what we actually booked).
An interesting idea!
BTW I didn't continue, but I assume you manage the whole booking process? How do deal with questions from the venue and other human in the loop issues?
Gathering the stats in-memory is neat - I'd expected this would be writing to a DB but that's not how it works: https://github.com/yeongbin05/django-xbench/blob/f63316126b5...
Some of the most reassuring and scariest things you can read are about the incidents that have already occurred where computers said "launch all the nukes" and the humans refused. On the one hand, good news! We have prior art that says humans don't just launch all the nukes just because the computers or procedures say to. Bad news, it's been skin-of-our-teeth multiple times already.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/refused-to-launch-... - This isn't even the incident I was searching for to reference! This one was news to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov#Incident - This is the one I was looking for.
I'm sorry but you cannot use VS Code and lightweight in the same sentence.
There's some statistical nuance here. LLMs output predicted probabilities of the next token, but no modern LLM predicts the next token by taking the highest probability (temperature = 0.0), but instead uses it as a sampling distribution (temperature = 1.0). Therefore, output will never be truly deterministic unless it somehow always predicts 1.0 for a given token in a sequence.
With the advancements in LLM posttraining, they have gotten better at assigning higher probabilities to a specific token which will make it less random, but it's still random.
You'd think that by now people running bots would just set a system prompt instruction to "Never use em-dashes." That still works even with modern models.
Indeed, take what you're paying US Big Tech and direct it to domestic EU enterprises, corporate or non profit.
> Tell me Simon, what happens with the economy when no one affords more than barely survival?
Everything is awful for almost everyone. I expect even the ultra wealthy will find their lives significantly less pleasant than they were before.
I hope that doesn't happen. That's why I don't write much about "AGI" - I'm unexcited about the concept, at least until someone can convincingly explain how the economy doesn't collapse for regular humans as a result.
I maintain my joy partly by not believing the AGI hype. I refer to that as the science fiction version of AI. I don't think that's what we have today.
We're three years into the ChatGPT revolution now and so far the main observable impact on the craft that I care about is that I can build more ambitious things.
What a strange article.
It only mentions in passing the success of express buses, which stop at e.g. one-tenth the stops. Like the SBS buses in New York City. On busy routes, these are already the main solution, because they stop at the main transit intersections where most people need to transfer.
Reducing the number of stops for local buses doesn't seem like it will make much difference, for the simple fact that buses don't even always stop at them. If nobody is getting off and nobody is waiting at the stop, which is frequently the case, they don't stop, at least nowhere I've ever lived.
Plus, the main problem isn't even the stop itself -- it's the red light you get stuck at afterwards. But the article doesn't even mention the solution to this -- TSP, or transit signal priority, which helps give more green lights to buses.
If you're going a long distance, hopefully there's an express bus. If you're going a short distance, bus stop spacing seems fine.
Also, what a weasel name, bus stop "balancing". It's not balancing, it's reduction. When the name itself is already dishonest, it's hard for me not to suspect that the real motive behind this is just cutting bus budgets.
The part about injecting randomness is the most intersting bit of the article.
So if you want your LLM responses to be more distributed (beyond what setting the temperature will allow), add some random english words to the start of the prompt.
I know TDD provides better results for coding agents from 6+ months of experience working this, plus confirmation from conversations with other practitioners. TDD is the key methodology used by the popular superpowers set of Claude skills by Jesse Vincent, for example.
I'm not going to be trying to irrefutably prove everything I write about in the Agentic Engineering Patterns book - that would require a credible research team and peer-reviewed papers, and that's not a level of effort I'm willing to put into this.
> I’ve said similar in another thread[1]
Me too, at [1].
We need fine-grained permissions at online services, especially ones that handle money. It's going to be tough. An agent which can buy stuff has to have some constraints on the buy side, because the agent itself can't be trusted. The human constraints don't work - they're not afraid of being fired and you can't prosecute them for theft.
In the B2B environment, it's a budgeting problem. People who can spend money have a budget, an approval limit, and a list of approved vendors. That can probably be made to work. In the consumer environment, few people have enough of a detailed budget, with spending categories, to make that work.
Next upcoming business area: marketing to LLMs to get them to buy stuff.
Given the "random" nature of language models even fully trusted input can produce untrusted output.
"Find emails that are okay to delete, and check with me before deleting them" can easily turn into "okay deleting all your emails", as so many examples posted online are showing.
I have found this myself with coding agents. I can put "don't auto commit any changes" in the readme, in model instructions files, at the start of every prompt, but as soon as the context window gets large enough the directive will be forgotten, and there's a high chance the agent will push the commit without my explicit permission.
I receive multiple offers a year to participate in spam rings with the 20 year old high-karma reddit account. I usually just ignore them or report them. I could be making so much money /s
So far it hasn't happed here, but we'll see!
To note, India also has three times domestic PV demand (~50GW/year) manufacturing capacity (~150GW/year) live.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-...
India's Solar Manufacturing Excesses Turn a Boom into a Glut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 - February 2025
Not 100 sq miles but 100 mile x 100 mile, which is 10,000 sq miles. And that assumes peak efficiency. Factoring in degredation you'd have to multiply this by 2.
Not "just" by any stretch of the imagination. This is larger than Rhode Island and Lake Erie combined. Aka a pipe dream. Might as well "just" build a dyson sphere while we are at it.
FWIW most experts now favor approval voting [1] over ranked choice. Approval voting has similar advantages as ranked choice in allowing 3rd-party candidates and favoring moderate candidates. It avoids the chaotic behavior that RCV can exhibit [2] where shifts in the order of voters' down-ballot preferences can very significantly alter the outcome of the election [3]. And it's also much easier to explain to voters ("It's like voting today, except you vote for everybody you'd find acceptable and the best candidate wins. Sorta like when you're picking a restaurant to go out to with friends - you go to the place that is acceptable to the greatest number of people, not the one that a minority really want to go to"), doesn't require that you reprint ballots (you can re-use normal FPTP ballots, but you just count all votes instead of disqualifying ballots with multiple candidates marked), and is easily adapted to proportional representation and multi-member elections (you just take the top-N best candidates instead of the top-1).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
[2] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1o1byqi/...
That's not overly cautious, that's smart. I do not think most OpenClaw users are taking the same sensible measures as you are.
Johns Hopkins has a business school, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, which was peculiarly not mentioned in the essay. You'd think their own business school would be capable of bringing fiscal sanity to the university?
> With a bit of social pressure we should be able to extinct the fossil fuel industry
Taking Europe versus China, California versus Texas, it seems like social pressure is less effective than markets. Let markets build the power source they want to build and lo and behold you get lots of solar and wind and batteries.
The data is available in a SQLite database on GitHub: https://github.com/vlofgren/hn-green-clankers
You can explore the underlying data using SQL queries in your browser here: https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https%253A%252F%252Fraw.githu... (that's Datasette Lite, my build of the Datasette Python web app that runs in Pyodide in WebAssembly)
Here's a SQL query that shows the users in that data that posted the most comments with at least one em dash - the top ones all look like legitimate accounts to me: https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubuserc...
I like the way each panel is its own separate package on PyPI and the system picks them up via setuptools entry points. It's a neat implementation of a plugin pattern.
Markdown support isn't a bad idea, actually, as long as they don't break the most important (IMO) property of Notepad: binary WYSIWYG. I.e. if I type in some plain text and then open the file with anything else (including after moving to another machine/platform, or even viewing raw data stream in transit or on drive), I can trust to see that text, as is, and nothing else. In particular, if I restrict myself to lower 127 bytes, I expect byte-to-byte correspondence.
(Modulo CR/LF, of course.)
Some of those people have been brought to China and sentenced to death.
The only stops needed are the ones outside my house and outside my office.
Sound and intonation are never going to translate between Japanese and English. It's not even on the table.
Such things can't even necessarily translate well between two languages as similar as French and English. Japanese and English is completely hopeless.
It's true in the other direction too, though this being an English site it might be more easily neglected. I've seen some English songs translated into Japanese, keeping the same syllable count scheme. The Japanese is radically simplified compared to the English, with entire adverbs, adjectives, even clauses removed. And that's even before we ask whether Japanese necessarily has the correct words to translate some of the richer English concepts with their own centuries of history and connotation behind them that these songs contained.
It is what it is. There isn't much that can be done about it. Even if someone made an exhaustive translation of something, it could never be repacked into something that matches the original concise packing.
I miss the Newseum, not least because it had this exhibit:
https://www.motorious.com/articles/highlights/don-bolles-car...
Interestingly, fighting it like this will only make the resolve stronger.
Android's investing significantly in reducing the memory usage of the next release simply because the BOM cost of RAM for their low-end partners is becoming prohibitive.