sam_goody

Richard Feynman, while still a student at Princeton, found an error in some well known proof, and set himself a rule to double check every theorem he would use.

I don't remember the details of the story (I read surely your joking years ago), and remember being amazed by how much time that policy must have cost him.

But now I wonder that he didn't hit dozens or hundreds of errors over the years.

It seems to me that the tone of the article is critical of the fact that Trump might scuttle the loan, wile the content of the article says that no responsible admin would ever approve it.

Though somewhat aside the point, I don't get what Hunterbrook thinks is the correct step for the current pro-green govnmnt to do before giving up the keys.

Where does the article define what "medical grade" honey is, or where a layman would get it?

EDIT - it was right there: "Wounds were treated with L‐Mesitran ointment (provided by Triticum, Maastricht, the Netherlands)[, a] honey‐based wound care product [which] contains 48% medical grade honey."

So, plain honey may not be nearly as much help as one would think from the cover.

"Triticum is more potent than Manuka‐based Medihoney" - ie. Triticum cream is effective, but there are many active ingredients in that cream. Maybe the honey helps.

There are other burn / wound creams on the market once you are buying a specialized cream. How does this compare?

I don't know which "this" was referred to, but I think we need laws to prevent a foreign company or hacker from shutting down our power.

There was an article on HN about a month ago, that two companies each have the ability to overload or shut down the entire grid in many parts of the states, just by their remote control of the solar panels and batterires.

They should be regulated like any other utility.

Current title is "Livewire/Htmx alternative for vanilla php".

But, it seems to be a Livewire/Sprig alternative, using Htmx.

Am I missing something?

From my POV this is worth bookmarking - there are many datasets that are much clearer with one chart type or another - having 100 styles with the same data will later offer a visual index to help me decide what will best serve my needs.

Looks good.

I am glad that they support container-queries[1].

But all the real goodness is in contain[2] (which sounds the same but is not related).

Tailwind really needs to support contain. I am disappointed by their statement that there will be no major additions, because contain is really that important - both from a dev perspective, and from a performance perspective. It belongs in v4 from the start.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_contain... [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/contain

I don't get your issue with builtin utilities.

The design philosophy of PHP is to include whatever common methods would otherwise be in a popular library. (PHP actually began more as a library than as a language.) This differs from, eg, Python, but doesn't hurt.

The decision not not to make methods on the objects, but to include everything in the main namespace (so array_walk instead of Array.walk or Array()->walk etc) is another function of the same philosophy. It may not fit your idea of cosmetics, but there is nothing wrong with it.

On the other hand, I would love if PhP gained chainability ([].array_map.array_find()) and then the names would be a pain. If that ever happens there are solutions.

AMD keeps on projecting a message of: it's all about hardware.

Many "influencers" have been convinced that: it is all about software - especially in AI. (I happen to agree, but my opinion doesn't matter).

It doesn't matter how well a company is doing if they are targeting the wrong point - their future will be grim. And stock is all about the future.

Kudos that you looked at the license file and for bringing our attention to the fact that it is not, in fact, OSS.

That is independent the fact that his comment used non-parsed Markdown.

Negativity about his claim that the software is "a free and open-source web app framework" would have been acceptable, but IMO your factual comment "FYI: Not open-source:" did the job even better.

How about "Can you ~~at least~~ please reformat your markdown for HN before pasting it?"

The guy has obviously put in a lot of work into an open source project.

Markdown is easily parsed by the crowd on HN, and adds clarity even if the HN MD engine is unable to reflect the intention.

If for some reason that is hard for you to handle his markup, you can comment on it without negativity.

I have Ubuntu on Hetzner cloud and recently updated with no issues.

What error did it give you exactly?

My doc encouraged my 19-yr-old to take an ADHD drug, and claimed that it would allow him to learn new languages with the ease of a child.

I cannot remember now the name of the drug (I think it had a "Z" in the name), but I wondered how that could work. Must have been in the same class of drugs as this.

G == Framework?

Is that a typo, or is there a joke I'm missing?

As someone who doesn't think highly of CNN, I am quite happy about this.

Let them increase their revenue while decreasing their influence - good for them, good for the world.

I have spent most of my life (in years and percentage of the day) running a youth group, mostly targeting the underprivileged. Small [as in we officially mentor about 25 children a year], but powerful.

The number one thing you can do for a youth is convince them that they are capable. Believe in them, and give them challenges that you know they can achieve. Give them time, empathy and encouragement.

The worst thing you can do for them is pity them, discourage them, explain that because they are black / women / poor / etc they are destined to a life of being in second place.

Glad you made it.

Recently [1/2 year ago], one of Nginx's main two devs forked it into https://freenginx.org. Since then there seems to have been a flurry of activity in Nginx, especially among the official plugins.

Then, there is a also Tengine, a fork of Nginx by Taobao that is chugging along for the past ~13 years.

Long term, we have seen this happen with Mysql/Maria/Percona Server; having the fork keeps the main project open and active, but at some point I expect the fork to lose steam.

Would love to hear how someone who actually follows the DB space looks at these developments.

We can dream that shenanigans like this will push at least some users off of Windows

Windows itself gets closer and closer to being "useful spyware" in each release

("Useful spyware" is the category of things like like Chrome , Windows, and some AVs - that provide a real utility in their quest to spy on you.)

Covering 100% of Earth with solar panels is a no-no.

But Dyson had this great spherical concept, so maybe there is a way to get a lot of that energy while still, like, living on the planet.

A bunch of years ago someone took a prize for longest indoor human powered flight, with terms that seemed unlikely to ever be reached.

He commented something along the lines of "Everyone else have been optimizing for the wrong problem. They were optimizing for the problem 'how to control indoor flight'.

I optimized for 'how do I make tweaks and modifications to the craft and try again'. Then I kept modifying and trying till it worked.

SpaceX figured out the same thing, but on a grander scale.

Hezbollah Has launched thousands of missiles into civilian populations and has already caused the desertion of over 25% of the livable sections of the country. Lately, their weapons are getting better at avoiding the "Iron Dome"; just last week a missile hit an apartment building. A massive bombing plot was foiled this week. They have been getting more and more aggressive.

I would think that moves like these, primarily affect fighters, destroy the comms structure which is used to wage war (Hezbollah have their own communications system in addition to Lebanon's), and damage the "Hezbollah Elite" image which causes them to be such a power.

Would bombing Lebanon be a better than what they have done? I think much worse on all counts.

I am genuinely curious when I see blanket criticism. How would you respond if you were in Israel's shoes?

GPT-4 is genuinely useful for some stuff (summarizing documents, giving hints how to solve things in languages I do not speak, etc.)

Meta and others have released open weights with the claim that they compare to GPT-4; I imagine these are good enough for many of the similar tasks. There are bound to be at least a few more improvements in open weights before bust.

Apple is already building laptops with a mind towards local AI. As NVidia's and AMD's et al AI chips drop in price, they will be included in regular desktops and laptops.

While local-AI becomes more practical, the prices on remote-AI will go up, further driving local-AI improvements. Perhaps at some point will will have a subscription based weights service, where you get updated proprietary weights for your local model for $X/yr.

Local-AI will be fine for Microsoft. And for Google. So, I don't think AI is going to disappear; If anything, it will become more ubiquitous. Weights may start being released less frequently and the SaaS model may go, but that would likely be a net gain.

It can be played back on a regular cd player, (though it needs a special writer)

For a while we were being sold on CDs on a more permanent medium, such a M-disks.

Assuming you store your own players, and have a convertor from USB to whatever exists in fifty years, is that a real solution?

OT, (but in a thread where someone might know):

I was scheduled to fly tomorrow evening NY -> London on a Airbus A350-1000 (351).

The airline cancelled my flight last night because of "engine trouble".

Can someone with knowledge please explain how they can know 28 hours in advance that there will be engine trouble, and at the same time cannot use a different plane.

Growing up, I used to get 321-contact magazine. They had computer programs that could be copied over for Commodore, Atari and IBM.

I sat with a friend for hours on a Atari, but could not get the thing to run. (I guess it wasn't too traumatic, as I have since written programs with millions of users.)

The best looking programs were always for Commodore, but my parents wouldn't dream of it. Sure is nostalgic.

I would think Moissanite is a no-brainer.

It has a much better shine, is cheaper, and (anecdotally, in my circles), is just as cool.

Unless she wants a "real diamond", in which case lab-grown is no good either.

> Bombcar’s law

OT, but I saw the electrical plans for a hospital. In theory, every life saving device has at least two potential power sources, and each source has both a generator (for long outages) and battery backup (for blips).

In practice, we hope there are no earthquakes.

Well, yes. But at this point, any company they call out drops immediately, even before holders have time to do due diligence.

Hindenburg can pretty much print money.

My computer does not have a speaker (none built in, and none attached). I watched the clip a few times. Each time, as the button glowed in his video, the button also glowed below the video in the youtube UI.

So, at first I thought that Google is parsing the text of the video being played, but is not listening to your mic.

However, several comments both here and on YT imply that Google is ALSO listening to what you say on your mic. Which, frankly, is much more scary - though I cannot currently test.