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Every company should be responsible for the lifecycle of their product, big or small. You can't just point fingers at others.

How much of it is even recyclable?


I got hired through one of these by getting to know the owner. I think connections might be the way to go here unless you have a stellar CV.

I agree, but it also feels like it would be so difficult. It requires a ton of training, the UIs are not flashy so people are going to feel repulsed (I unironically found looks to be a big blocker when adopting open source tech) and finally Microsoft is going to lobby incredibly hard against it. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to actively sabotage any adoption.

This excuse is as old as the hills and I've been hearing it since the late 90s, but historically there has been exactly zero training between versions of Office or Windows that changed a lot of the interface overnight. Office workers just kept using them like the rest of the planet.

Not to mention companies who moved on to Google Docs or the web version of Office. Or companies who moved to MacOS 15-10 years ago.

In my state back home the entire workforce moved to LibreOffice and, according to my sister (a government worker), everyone is doing fine. Recently I saw a German government worker using Office to produce a document and she mentioned that she "barely knows how to use it" and "just knows how to load templates, fill and print".

This hypothetical problem of "needs training" only seems to exist when you mention the words "open source".


> - It requires a ton of training, the UIs are not flashy so people are going to feel repulsed (I unironically found looks to be a big blocker when adopting open source tech), and finally Microsoft is going to lobby incredibly hard against it.

I think everyone agrees the costs are high, especially beyond monetary ones, but this stance on avoiding these costs is slowly pushing everyone into finding out how expensive is not having sovereignty.

Through its tech industry the US has over time acquired too much power over critical digital infrastructure that has already compromised governments. We know of Presidents/PMs/Legislators spied upon through their phones and computers, and also Microsoft itself involved in revoking email access to the ICC's chief prosecutor as retaliation/defense against investigations.

Sovereignty is too important for government, and since everyone needs to do it and get security right going for open-source with funded development and constant auditing is in my mind the only way.


>UIs are not flashy

Where did you see flashy UIs? Modern UIs are boring flat geometric monochrome shit and Microsoft is one of the worst there.


not being able to be coerced by the US regime is a huge strategic requirement that no amout of lobbying by microsoft will be able to overcome

The employees don't care about software sovereignty. They just want to do their jobs and get their paychecks. Fail to win them over and the transition will fail as well.

you might be right if it was american employees

germans have been quite riled up by US escapades


For me its how easy it is to extend. Kakoune makes it so easy to integrate with the rest of my system. I can often create any kind of integration I need with just 1-10 lines of code. In vscode I need to just hope that someone else built the integration I need as a plugin, because writing plugins is really painful.

There's a lot of astroturfing happening, including on HN, so it's not all that surprising.

There are a lot of lectures/speeches by the creator of elm and Richard Feldman that talk about how to think "functionally"

Here is one about how to structure a project (roughly)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XpDsk374LDE

I also think looking at the source code for elm and its website, as well as the elm real world example help a lot.


Ocaml community is chill and helpful, and dune works great with really good compilation speeds.

Its a really nice language


That's the beauty of email-based approaches. You can just clone, do your changes and `git send-email`. Done.

I think it would've been far easier to build a decent GUI around that flow, with some email integration + a patch preview tool, rather than adding activitypub, but oh well.


> I think it would've been far easier to build a decent GUI around that flow, with some email integration + a patch preview tool, rather than adding activitypub, but oh well.

Check out Sourcehut (https://sourcehut.org/). It uses a mailing list-based workflow so contributing code or bug reports is relatively effortless and doesn't require a Sourcehut account.


Email-based approaches have far more issues than just needing to create an account. I would much rather have to create another account than deal with git send-email ever again. It's awful.

doesn't need full fledged activitypub, just a common place to login

might just do it federated way of "here is my domain, here is DNS entry pointing to my identity server to talk with", that way it isn't even tied to single identity service, but a given user will need to use only single login for all of the servers.


> In an October letter to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommended that the US add 100 gigawatts in energy capacity every year.

> Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said.

And people think the climate concerns of AI are overblown. Currently US has ~1300 GW of energy capacity. That's a huge increase each year.


100GW per year is not going to happen.

The largest plant in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China at 22GW and it’s off the scales huge. We’re not building the equivalent of four of those every year.

Unless the plan is to power it off Sam Altman’s hot air. That could work. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations


China added ~90GW of utility solar per year in last 2 years. There's ~400-500GW solar+wind under construction there.

It is possible, just may be not in the U.S.

Note: given renewables can't provide base load, capacity factor is 10-30% (lower for solar, higher for wind), so actual energy generation will vary...


> It is possible

Sure, GP was clearly talking about the US, specifically.

> just may be not in the U.S.

Absolutely 100% not possible in the US. And even if we could do it, I'm not convinced it would be prudent.


If you really had to you'd probably run turbines off natural gas but it's not a good idea environmentally.

I am a huge proponent of renewables, but you cannot compare their capacity in GW with other energy sources because their output is variable and not always maximal. To realistically get 100GW in solar you would need at least 500GW of panels.

On the other hand, I think we will not actually need 100GW of new installations because capacity can be acquired by reducing current usage by making it more efficient. The term negawatt comes to mind. A lot of people are still in the stone age when it comes to this even though it was demonstrated quite effectively by reduced gas use in the US after the oil crisis in the 70s. Which basically recovered to the pre crisis levels only recently.

High gas prices caused people to use less and favor efficiency. The same thing will happen with electricity and we'll get more capacity. Let the market work.


> China added ~90GW of utility solar per year in last 2 years. There's ~400-500GW solar+wind under construction there.

Source?


I'm not sure about the utility/non-utility mix, but according to IRENA it was actually ~500GW of added capacity in 2023 and 2024.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...


Background: I live within the US Federal Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a regional electric grid operator. The majority of energy is generated by nuclear + renewables, with coal and natural gas as peakers. Grid stability is maintained by among the largest batteries in the world, Racoon Mountain Pumped Storage Facility.

Three Gorges Dam is capable of generating more power than all of TVA's nuclear + hydro, combined. In the past decade, TVA's single pumped-storage battery has gone from largest GWh/capcity in the world to not even top ten — largest facilities are now in China.

µFission reactors have recently been approved for TVA commissioning, with locations unconfirmed (but about one-sixth the output of typical TVA nuclear site). Sub-station battery storage sites are beginning to go online, capable of running subdivisions for hours after circuit disconnects.

Tech-funded entities like Helios Energy are promising profitable ¡FusioN! within a few years ("for fifty years").

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All of the above just to say: +100GW over the next decade isn't that crazy a prediction (+20% current supply, similar in size to two additional Texas-es).

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...


Amazing that 4 of the top 5 are renewables in China.

> As of 2025, The Medog Dam, currently under construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Mêdog County, China, expected to be completed by 2033, is planned to have a capacity of 60 GW, three times that of the Three Gorges Dam.[3]

Meanwhile, “drill baby drill!”


Can run the UK and have capacity left over that, if considered alone, would be worlds highest in current year 2025.

Does that cout the dams that flood valleys and displace thousands of people, plants, and animals from their homes?

It's amazing what a dictatorship can do when it's not captured by oil interests and Israel.

Not really that surprising.

Authoritarianism has its draw backs obviously but one of its more efficient points is it can get things done if the will is at the top. Since China doesnt have a large domestic oil supply like the US it is a state security issue to get off oil as fast as possible.


It’s become clear that some form of top down total technocratic control like China has implemented is essential for pushing humanity forward.

Because its cheaper. That's it.

New datacenters are being planned next to natgas hubs for a reason. They’re being designed with on site gas turbines as primary electricity sources.

Natural gas production has peaked: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66564 (see second graph)

Planning gas turbines doesn't help much if gas prices are about to increase due to lack of new supply.

New Zealand put in peaker gas turbines, but is running out of gas to run them, so its electricity market is gonna be fucked in a dry year (reduced water from weather for hydro):

  • Domestic gas production is forecast to fall almost 50 per cent below projections made just three years ago. 
  • In a dry year, New Zealand no longer has enough domestic gas to [both] fully operate existing thermal generation and meet industrial gas demand.
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/31240-factsheet-challen...

Then again, apparently lots of new LNG supply coming:

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/LNG-Exports-Will-Dri...


Gigawatts? Pshaw. We have SamaWatts.

LOL, maybe Sam Altman can fund those power plants. Let me guess: He'd rather the public pay for it, and for him to benefit/profit from the increased capacity.

Big tech is going to have to fund the plants and probably transmission. Because the energy utilities have a decades long planning horizon for investments.

Good discussion about this in recent Odd Lots podcast.


I've read a bunch of the opposite: a lot of secret deals between tech companies and utilities, where when details come out, we find that regular ratepayers are going to be paying a decent chunk of the cost.

That was discussed in the Odd Lots episode as well. But that can only happen in unregulated markets.

Good discussion? This is a Bloomberg podcast with ads from Palantir explicitly telling us AI is not here to replace any of us. They do everything they can to avoid the topic of what the cost is to regular people.

Data centers are built in people's backyards without their permission, wreck the values of their home, and then utility companies jack up their price to compensate for the extra strain on the grid. So the residents have to pay for Big Tech but get no share of the profits. How this podcast does a whole episode on data centers and the electricity grid and doesn't talk about what's actually happening to people, well, that would be surprising if I didn't know where it came from.


Scam Altman wants the US to build a lot of energy plants so that the country will pay the costs and OpenAI will have the profits of using this cheap energy.

If we moron our way to large-scale nuclear and renewable energy rollout however..

I highly doubt this will happen. It will be natural gas all the way, maybe some coal as energy prices will finally make it profitable again.

If for no other reason than they're actively attacking renewable capacity even amid surging demand

This admin has already killed as much solar and wind and battery as it can.

The only large scale rollout will be payment platforms that will allow you to split your energy costs into "Five easy payments"


Guess who's going to pay nothing for power? Hint: it's not you, and it's not me.

There's a reason Trump is talking about invading Venezuela (hint: it's because they have the largest oil deposits).

Look at his work? I had a look at the studio portfolio and it's damn solid.

If one asks you "Why do you consider Pablo Picasso's work to be outstanding", then "Look at his work?" is not a helpful answer. I've been asking about parent's way to judge the outstandingness of HTML/CSS work. Just writing "damn solid" websites isn't distinguishing.

To be frank, someone who needs to be told why to appreciate art probably isn't going to appreciate Picasso. You can learn art theory, but you can't just "learn" someone's life, culture, and expression. All the latter is needed to appreciate Picasso.

But I digress.

Anyways, I can't speak for the content itself, but I can definitely tell on the javascript coirse from the trailer and description that they understand the industry and emphasize how this is focused towards those wanting a deep dive on the heart of web, not just another "tutorial on how to use newest framework". Very few tech courses really feel like "low level" fundamentals these days.


Thank you for returning back to the original question. Being a good educator is something that can actually make someone "top tier", I agree.

On the other topic, I do not agree, as you have just proven: you explain very well why you appreciate Picasso. You thought I (or anybody) needed to be told why I/they should appreciate Picasso/OP. I don't care about that. But I'm very much interested in other peoples reasoning behind their appreciation, especially when I consider something - like HTML and CSS – to be neither very complicated, nor complex. On the other hand: that's what we love about Lumpito: simplicity. Right?


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