skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it's amazing how quickly Google got to the point where their corporate culture is so ossified that they can't build or maintain anything successful anymore and are resorting to extracting the tiniest bits of revenue no matter the reputational cost. Especially considering that this decline has been going on for a while.

Most big successful companies blow up and then spend decades on a plateau before they start the long, inevitable decline - it seems like Google just skipped that part.
This is clever but seems to work through brute force and my guess is that results should be accompanied by some kind of confidence measure. You're forcing the model to choose a path it wasn't particularly interested in going down.

In the ideal case, such as when you ask for a json array, the first "[" token you enforce will have a relatively high probability and forcing it to go down that path will give you good results.

In the dangerous case the model doesn't have a good structure-compliant completion to your prompt and the regex you supply forces the model into a path of extremely low probability and you get trash results.
>Flutter works by throwing away the native UI toolkits provided by the platform and rendering everything from scratch using OpenGL et al.

Flutter leverages GTK3 heavily on Linux. Isn't that the case for other desktop OSes, like, it calls OpenGL/metal or something on Win and Mac? It seems to me that this statement is true only for web and mobile targets, maybe not even there though.
Can someone please explain why we need to regulate a software program that just spits out text? I mean a person can currently type out most anything they want. No one seems to freak out that I might write something offensive. What exactly is the concern with AI emitting text to STDOUT?

Where is the perceived “danger” coming from?
Wow, a mid-2019 youtube video as evidence of COVID woes and collapse of the Chinese economy in 202X ?

Blogs that literally have "opinion" in the title as sources for sensational claims?

Try harder.

Don't get me wrong, people like you are the reason I can buy Chinese stocks dirt cheap. I'm still waiting for the 50% property price cuts.

Try harder please.
Sock darning was a think until the mid-20th century.

It's a pretty interesting technique. You basically reweave the worn part of the dock with fresh thread/yarn.
> the rest aren't credible sources.

Besides your own personal beliefs as to who is biased and impartial, why?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/react...
Page says:
"a person who is opposed to political or social change or new ideas:
Reactionaries are preventing reforms.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization anti-classical anti-conventional anti-institutional anti-traditional conventionalized conventionally crowd custom demi-monde multicultural multiculturalism multiculturally non-classical non-conservative ultra-conservatism ultra-conservative ultra-traditional unconventional unconventionally"

> not to exclusively left wing change

The above speaks for itself.

> 3. More to the point: why are you responding on different threads?

My post included:
> I notice you're the same who mistakenly provided a simplified and thus incorrect definition of reactionary.

This isn't a good faith reading of my comment.

--

Final entry. Don't take either of our words for it. If interested in where reactionary comes from, any one can read about pivotal incidents like the Thermidorian Reaction via two good books going over the history of The Terror:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-french-revolutio...
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/terror-in-the-french-revolutio...
Yeah I suppose I'm missing out on phone calls from Publisher's Clearinghouse notifying me I won $10,000,000.

It's true that there are plenty of other sources of high blood pressure which are unrelated to phone calls but may be correlated to lack of wealth. :)
It's kinda weird. I remember switching to gmail because it had working spam blocking. It was basically all emails.

Nowadays my gmail inbox is virtually only advertisement. Advertisement from google, and various form of spam emails, mostly in the form of newsletters I've never signed up for.

Meanwhile my off-gmail inbox, an email address I have literally in my hacker news profile info as well as printed in plain text on my website, doesn't get a fraction of the spam.
Leibniz's Calculating Machine – 1710 First Edition [the Macclesfield copy]
I am not the author.
To be even more explicit, Facebook and Google collect info which the US government can and does request from them. See: Transparency Reports from both.
As suggested in the current top comment it could even be you who writes the blog post as well.
You made a mistake somewhere. 120/5*100 is only $2400

Also, there are plenty of drives with under $10/TB listed here some looking legit: https://diskprices.com/

So it is actually only $1200
The next step is for gmail to disable other clients to force you to use theirs so you can’t get away from the ads.
> No, you pay to continue having hegemony over multiple continents.

Sure, it's that too. It's both.

Regardless, it should stop.
Regarding the trees, I hope they research that claim!

Regarding the concept that it's a distraction, I think that's folk behavioral psychology with an unhealthy dash of moralism. It needs to be substantiated with evidence before I take it seriously. We are talking about a real carbon mitigation research avenue that could have real benefits.
I don't disagree at all. I also know it isn't this simple but in my mind it's roughly:

Hey entry level worker. 2 years ago we (company) would have paid you $12/hr. Now you have made it (by not applying for our open positions we need filled/quitting over time) that you refuse to work for less than $14/hr. That's a 16% increase in our payroll. That's fine! We'll just charge 16% more for our product and the entire thing will be "put off" by the customer who will front the bill. Our bottom line is unaffected and the entire thing is a passthrough for us.
"I went to the Promotions tab and saw ads" is a hell of a take.
Flutter is a pretty nice framework and has a lot of fans, but the web version indeed has issues. The web wants to be the high level framework and doesn't provide low level APIs, Flutter wants to be the high level framework and tries to do that on top of the wrong abstraction level, the result isn't ideal.

There are a few ways to tackle this:

1. Try to improve Flutter Web.

2. Try to improve browsers, so people can use non-HTML frameworks without compromise.

3. Escape the browser.

It doesn't seem likely that (1) or (2) are going to yield much fruit. Flutter already works well on mobile and has picked up a surprisingly large proportion of mobile apps in the app stores. The obvious path is therefore to do the same on the big screen and distribute as desktop apps. The UX can be better than you'd think, especially as internet connections get faster.

This approach solves a lot of the problems the article complains about. Desktop apps can export proper accessibility trees, do keyboard focus properly, they can start really fast and so on (and flutter apps do start fast).

I talked about this path and why it's getting easier on the It's All Widgets podcast [1]. We've added support for Flutter apps to Conveyor [2] so the packaging and deployment aspect is now much better for people who choose to use it. But there's still work to do, to make all that work really well:

• Flutter Desktop has some native code to start and load the VM, which you're expected to customize and compile. That's a pity because the actual code is all Dart bytecode, so this complicates compilation without much justification. It could be made to work the same way as Electron or the JVM where you have pre-made binaries.

• Signing. Conveyor can sign for any OS from any OS so the technical pain goes away, and you can also do self-signing. But "proper" signing is not ideal.

• Sandboxing.

You could have a browser-like thing that provides sandboxing, caching and so on whilst exposing low level APIs, whilst doing a much better job of being 'semantic' than the web ever did. Actually I wrote up a proposal for such a system [3] and sent it to Ian Hickson who runs Flutter, but as he observed, the problem is incentives. Developers generally don't pay for platforms outside of cloud services and game engines, so, nobody is incentivized to build out the infrastructure to solve those problems. For as long as that's the case, people will try to hack the browser into submission.

[1] https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/46/mike-hearn

[2] https://hydraulic.software/blog/10-flutter.html

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI...
Full disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of Phylum.

I can absolutely assure you, we have no affiliation with these packages. We end up reporting much more malicious packages than these every single day. We wouldn't risk harming our reputation to publish three dumb packages. Just thought these were interesting in a diabolical sort of way.
Yeah, it seems highly unlikely. Having to talk a lot on the phone gives me stress. It's odd they don't even mention the most probably reason for their finding, and invent some unproven theory about emf affecting blood pressure. The only study I can find is this:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

It's a 7 person study, and it looks like they didn't correct for multiple comparisons. i.e. nothing to see here.
OpenAI changed its plans and won’t train on customer data, Sam Altman says
Thanks for the great link, I included it in today's issue: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/friday-may-5-nothing...
Made me think of ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith- "bird" and pteron "wing")
Strange how I suspected I was reading something from ChatGPT before I got to your last sentence. I think maybe we're already starting to rely on ChatGPT as an authority way too soon.
Pulling a lever isn’t necessarily ritual but it can be part of a ritual, such as for operating a machine that requires you to pull a series of levers in a particular order. Control-alt-delete is a ritual because it has multiple parts to it that must be done properly or it doesn’t work.

Disengaging the parking brake (which is usually done by pushing a lever, sometimes accompanied by a button press) is part of the ritual of starting to drive your car. It’s not strictly necessary (you can drive the car with the parking brake engaged though it’ll damage the car) but it is part of a multi-step process that becomes ritualized in your subconscious. Pilots learn to formalize the pre-flight check ritual because they tend to die if something goes badly wrong in the air. Japanese train conductors [1] have even incorporated ritual pointing gestures into their routine checks.

All of this is to say that rituals play psychological and cultural roles in our behaviour. They’re an excellent memory aid! And that may be their original evolutionary raison d’être.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...
Love this idea. Do you have measurements on how it impacts performance of algorithms?
Yes, implementation wise underneath in most cases they're likely some structs/pointers/whatever, but the point was that interaction with them from the perspective of an application running on the JVM is not the same as what the JVM sees itself, nor are the same exact operations available-- you'd have to create abstractions or use implementation specific jdk.internal.misc.* calls, and at that point why are you using the JVM.
(I don't know Flutter well, so I'm a bit commenting from my armchair, sorry). In my experience, Android and iOS provide lower-level accessibility APIs that assume you're going to be making your own controls, while the web standards are considerably more targeted towards the use case of a site with content and forms (not a canvas where you click on stuff).
You made me look him up, LOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#COVID-19
Combustion turbines operate at a much higher temperature (as much as 1300 C) than a nuclear reactor, especially a LWR (about 325 C), so the exhaust temperature can be much higher. Also, a turbine is much cheaper: a simple cycle combustion turbine is maybe $500/kW(e), vs. perhaps 20x that for a NPP.

The reason a combustion turbine can be so hot is that the heat is produced in the working fluid itself, by a chemical reaction. There is no need to conduct that heat from a solid material at higher temperature. All the solid parts that might be heated by the gas can be cooled by actively flowing a cooler fluid through them (air, steam).
If the big cars didn't pose such a danger, electric bicycles would already be our primary alternative for city driving. They're fast, quiet, cheap, and reliable, and every year they're getting better and better
How? It's Tor, the Onion cannot see your IP.
Semantic search is what the commenter suggested. That's the most commonn use case in my experience too.
Grammarly posted an article a couple years ago about using Common Lisp: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
> Really? Rahul Gandhi (Opposition) was jailed for free speech?

No he is being prosecuted for a law his party created. He looses the MLAship by a law created by his party. He has been tried in a court of law. He wasn't plucked from the clutches of his mother and thrown in jail.

> Governemnt banned BBC documentary and raid their offices in Delhi?

It was a propaganda piece. Modi was tried in court by opposition and you should read the remarks by supreme court on the nature of the allegations against him.

Not commenting on the others since I don't know about it.

> Didn't this government bought as many as MLAs as previous 5 government combined?

Yes along with residential plots on Venus.

> Did anything happened to Adani?
What should happen to him?

> Demonetization? 5G Spectrum? PM Cares? are not scams?
No?
We've seen a handful of individuals just go to PyPi or NPM and search for _something_ loosely related to what they need, and just blindly install it. I got a report yesterday of someone that did this with a Python package; similar setup: loosely related name, no README... guy still ran it.
Hopefully their search results also aren’t manipulated like in the US. At least they have a shot if they are allowed to even know the app exists :)
Collecting data and complying with a warrant is not the same thing.
I think you're arguing against your own point - a single US State is the size of 4 countries. Sure it's a smaller scale than the nearly-continent sized US as a whole, but it's still a substantially larger scale. On top of this, individual US states do not have the same freedom to act that independent nation states do, nor the same budget levels. For example, Texas doesn't have an income tax, and its tax revenue in 2022 was only 3.5 times that of Finland, despite having 5.5 times the population. Most projects need federal funding which does have to work at the immensely larger scale of the whole country.
If I were a TLA for any country of any magnitude (talking something larger than the Vatican) I’d have a number of agents working as CS reps for the various big companies. It’d be worth burning one to get info, and you’d likely not even need to burn if the target wasn’t on the short list of celebrities.
So many other alternatives.

Hiding from thieves, someone playing around and simply losing it. Or maybe someone was fixing something and lost it.
"Physics/Chem still use Fortran, and aren't about to do the port to C/C++ due to funding."

If funding's a problem across many fields then wouldn't it perhaps make better sense to just accept Fortran as the most appropriate language for certain well defined application types/fields and concentrate on improving the language, that is fixing its actual or perceived limitations in current environments?

It would seem more efficient to centralize effort to improving just the language and its tools than to convert or rewrite a whole world of disparate applications that have been developed over many decades. After all, take English for instance, at any point in history, say 1600, its grammar and vocabulary were appropriate for the time. Moving on 400+ years till now we didn't chuck English away and replace it with a seemingly better language such Esperanto but progressively updated it to modern requirements.

I have to admit to some bias here in that Fortran was my first language so it acted as the template for others. That said, I am not convinced that the enormous plethora of different languages that have flooded programming in recent decades has benefited computing and CS to the extent that perhaps it ought to have as there has been a great deal of unnecessary duplication and overlap that's led to wasted human effort—the need to learn many different languages, lack of uniformity etc.

The large number of languages, lack of agreed consensus/standards—the most appropriate language for a given class of applications, etc.—has also led to language ghettoization where programmers swear by one language they've become familiar with and continue to use for jobs where another would be more appropriate. And one can't blame them for not wanting to learn a new language seemingly every other year.

It seems to me that rationalizing and simplifying the language problem ought to be a high priority for CS. Given its long and mature history, its entrenched position in certain fields and its proven suitability for math-intensive work, that process could begin with Fortran as it would likely be the least disruptive.
> There was no determination of the nature of the calls. Personally, my blood pressure feels very different when I talk to family for 30 minutes than if I'm talking to Comcast for 30 minutes.

In my opinion that's the explanation. Even if not considering the extremes you mentioned, the more you're interrupted the less relaxed you are. The metric here is minutes talked but they're probably linear with the number of unexpected calls.
I realy want the nobe cars 100 gt[1] to be a real thing, but I don't think it will ever really be produced. Seems like a great upgrade from the golf cart style small ev that would be perfect for a commute like mine, 20 miles one way partially on the highway.

[1] https://nobecars.com/
Don't be sorry. I appreciate the conversation.

> Looks like there’s about 25 million millionaires in the States in 2021. Collectively, they can spend a hell of a lot of money.

I feel like people who scrape in and are "technically worth" $1m or $2m on paper (most likely due to single family home ownership appreciation over time) but still need to work a job/support a family probably shouldn't count but other than that... it sounds like you and I are in alignment that of the ~160m working "taxpayers", 15% of them are millionaires who are basically unaffected by any recessionary downturns at the moment and are still out there spending like crazy? (like $20k Formula 1 Miami or $12k Warriors courtside tickets)
There is quite broad registrar support, some of the original people behind it at GoDaddy left for other projects and so I think the team have got some things to tidy up. It's been around much longer than a year though.

> IONOS, one of the providers, only lists four companies supporting this standard as a whole, DNS or service provider

The way Domain Connect works is that the registrars have to "onboard" templates for each service provider that wants to use the protocol. So the registrars get to choose whose templates they want to use. So this could just be a list of the providers IONOS have onboarded.

A company doing interesting things with Domain Connect and in this space more broadly is worth a mention: Entri [1]

1. https://www.entri.com/
>Nowadays my gmail inbox is virtually only advertisement.

It's almost as if Google is an advertisements company. :)
Jeff does explicitly call this out in his video, but as sibling commenters say, it's really a matter of whether that's enough for you. Even 20 Mbit symmetrical would be more than enough for me to run a stream from a Plex server while serving other web or SSH traffic easy enough. What you do say though brings up a great point though - if you ran this on a Pi and you're not getting the performance you need for your use case, check CPU utilization on the Pi, and consider running your VPN on a device with more oomph.
How about being on hold, listening to repetitive music interspersed with a recorded "you are x in the queue, we'll be with you shortly" in a precisely-calculated interval to get your hopes up then immediately crush them, efficiently fanning the flames of rage as the minutes and hours pass.
This is such a childlike understanding of safety and jeopardy. It's like when the five year old turns back to you after doing something you told them not to saying "see it didn't break!"
Ambient – The Rust Multiplayer Game Engine Releases 0.2
Here is my experience using ChatGPT to find local Indian restaurants. The responses took about 90 seconds in total to generate and gave me very little information. Why would anybody use ChatGPT instead of a search engine for this kind of thing?

https://ibb.co/pdzdncZ
https://ibb.co/LRP6McY

Compare to Google/Bing which took about 5 seconds to type in the query and return these results.

https://ibb.co/1R48Bwc
https://ibb.co/P4XGXxW
> The only meaningfully reusable rocket right now is the Falcon 9, and while that significantly reduces the already cheap launch costs, it doesn't really change them by an order of magnitude, and with so many other costs, it doesn't make that much more possible that was previously impossible.

SpaceX's charges around $1,200/lb to low earth orbit. Soyuz costs around $8,000/lb. The space shuttle was $30,0000/lb. Because of SpaceX's lower launch costs, they now put more mass into LEO than the rest of the world combined.
> Ok, let me be clear. I have a temporary residence in Germany. Before, i had a worker visa. I'm not allowed to start my own business with temporary residence here. Only if i have a German co-founder.

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/visa-service/buergerservi...

Not seeing any point here that forces you to have a german cofounder. It honestly sounds like you're experiencing difficulties working as a freelancer on a temporary residence permit, which I think is the case all around the world. I'd be glad for US natives to chime in, but from what I've read it's similar there.

From the remainder of your comment I take that you're russian/belarussian? If you have a permanent residence you're free to give up your citizenship, but yeah, it's not in the best interest for western states to make living amenable for you, due to state security. I'm pretty sure that regardless of my oppinion, you'd face similar difficulties in the US and elsewhere.

If germany is so hostile, why not migrate?
It seems to me that if you’re spending millions of dollars on a satellite launch, the cost of shipping your satellite to New Zealand is tiny in comparison.
Personally I believe strongly in thick clients but this is a pretty neat demo anyways.

I see a lot of resemblance to http://catalyst.rocks with WebComponents that target other components. I think there's something unspoken here that's really powerful & interesting, which is the declarativization of the UI. We have stuff on the page, but making the actions & linkages of what does what to what has so far been trapped in code-land, away from the DOM. The exciting possibility is that we can nicely encode more of the behavior into the DOM, which creates a consistent learnable/visible/malleable pattern for wiring (and rewiring) stuff up. It pushes what hypermedia can capture into a much deeper zone of behaviors than just anchor-tag links (and listeners, which are jump points away from the medium into codespace).