skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Java with virtual threads now has far better support for async programming than Kotlin or Scala. It is now competitive with Golang in async ease-of-use.

Only if your problem set matches one of using threads. There are other async problems that don't fit cleanly into a "force it to be a blocking thread instead" model. In particular those in front ends where being on a specific thread at specific times is important.

Green threads work great for server-style async, which is where go is seeing success. Then again servers are probably the last major usage of OpenJDK, so copying Go's tradeoffs here probably makes sense for it. But it's not unambiguously "the best way to do async"
That's traces? I was wondering if I could use https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/tree/main...
Doesn't show the sub I mod though, and the search box isn't working for me.
Charging 30% doesn't enhance security.
Plus, lower frequencies generally have an easier time traveling long distances, especially over saltwater (and at night, hence the first part of your response).

And to answer the question about why we can't use lower frequencies on planes, part of the answer lies in antenna length, which is related to wavelength. Lower frequency = longer wavelength, which in turn means larger antenna (yes, I know this is a very broad generalization, and also not the complete/only reason). Look up the antenna required for 1Mhz.
There is definitely interests that have captured Wikipedia. It takes the form of editors that have slowly built up a lot of credibility and power that then use it years later in some manner that does not agree with the neutral nature of the site.

The events leading up to the US 2020 election are burned into my mind. Sure people tend to talk about the craziness of the US far-Right but the non-centrist Left also got attacked and censored.

In one case a popular Youtuber on the Left (Kyle Kulisnki) had posted some commentary on independent attack ads that were extremely negative to the Democratic party. That led to a multiple threads on Wikipedia calling for the deletion of his page.

After 3 attempts to remove his page by the same editor, it finally got removed on the 4th attempt.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Watching this whole experience play out in real time was utterly disgusting and showed me how the site has since become captured.

Its a shame because despite calls for secondary sourcing in my experience many people do in fact trust Wikipedia whole heartedly. It is really dangerous that leadership did not clamp down on this behavior when it was happening. Now they have exposed themselves to attacks from the far right and eventually people with a lot of exposure (People like Musk) might call them out(if he hasn't already). That will begin the slow slide into half the country not trusting the site at all and their minds being made up no matter what Wikipedia does.

Interestingly the page was recreated over a year later after the election was over but the lasting damage has been done. I presume that in the next election it will be targeted again.

We see this behavior on other platforms such as Reddit during election season and you can be sure that Musk is whipping up something big for 2024 (and his rivals are probably developing some sort of countermeasure) but I thought I could always count on Wikipedia being a place of refuge. I guess not.
That’s not what people are doing, they are trying to prove a lab leak theory, else all this effort would be in “how’d it get to that wet market” if you can’t answer that, then you do not have a logical chain to its true origin lab leak or not.
On the contrary: my guess is that it is a method for people to familiarize themselves with the whole topic of tradecraft, knowing that ALL countries have put great effort into exactly this in recent years.

There's just so many spooks and bad actors about. Having some familiarity makes for a more educated populace who are going to be more wary of being manipulated, so there is really no reason to try and reserve this information for an elite. Because the bad actors are very grateful when you do: they will prosper in a field of targets all of whom are super naive.
From the chart, it looks like it made daily sign-ups increase to around 2.5x the normal rate. That's certainly a good month, but the article also notes the policy caused cancelations.
More specifically there were a few lab escapes of coronaviruses (SARS) in China that Beijing copped to in the early 2000s [1]. It happens to everyone, way more than it should. Yes, including America. [2]

[edit] To be clear, I'm not saying this definitely did or did not happen, I don't know. I'm saying if it came out later that it did, I wouldn't be surprised.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
If other browsers were allowed Chrome would become an all-platform monopoly and there would no longer be real web standards.
I think one measurable outcome here is what kind of error message you get when you do violate a rule and whether rust users know what to do to fix their code. As a person who loves to explore the complexity behind seemingly simple interfaces, this stuff is really cool. On the other hand, I don't relish having people break their brains to understand why similar code is accepted vs not.

I'm not a rust user myself, but I'm guessing from all the references to raw pointers that a lot of the code referenced here is actually not idiomatic for all but small snippets of high perf code, so maybe the complexity is not going to affect too many people.
"--S."

That is one odd signature (from Scott Forstall).
We have done minimal performance testing for now. A lot of work is remaining in this area.
Or just set a company policy around email retention. Then delete anything older than that?

Apple chose to keep these emails around because the value of the emails was greater than the risk of keeping them.
Couldn’t they’ve said they didn’t have the key anymore? Or automatically delete emails after two years or so?

Seems reckless to keep confidential information like that, but I’m not familiar with the legal obligations large companies have, of course.
On your parenthetical, here's a hypothesis. It's kinda hard to be old in rural areas(no way to get around, limited care available, etc), which tend to be inland, whereas cities tend to be coastal or situated on a river.

So I could definitely see it as plausible that the older people get, the more people move into cities, which coincidentally involves moving closer to water.
> Trying to champion one or the other feels like pointless virtue signalling really.

No, I mean something very specific - I can do things at work with LLMs that I couldn't do a year ago without them. I can't say the same about anything crypto related.

If you think that AI is just spitting our word we've seen or that it's guesswork, I don't know how you can even discuss it in good faith.
> ...by the time x.len() gets executed, arg0 already exists...

So, I realize that this is the way that Java does it--and, presumably, one still doesn't get fired for doing whatever Java does ;P--but, would it not actually make more sense for the arguments to be evaluated before the target reference, making the argument order more like Haskell/Erlang (but very sadly not Elixir, which makes it awkwardly incompatible with Erlang and breaks some of the basic stuff like fold/reduce)? Particularly so, given that, as far as I can tell from this example, what makes arg0 have the type that it does is the type of the function that hasn't even been called yet? (As in, the semantic gap I am seeing between what the user probably meant and what the compiler wants to do is that "x" shouldn't really be mutably-borrowed until the call happens, and the call here clearly shouldn't happen until after the arguments are evaluated.) (Note: I do not program in Rust currently; I just have spent a number of decades analyzing languages and at times teaching college language design courses. I might be missing something obvious elsewhere that forces Rust to do this, but that one example, in isolation, at least feels like an unforced error.)
ASML is in EU. Just "need" to upgrade the local foundries for "2nm" and beyond.

Global foundries is own by saudi funds, they don't need money. They need to get the competent ppl to upgrade the foundries with high-NA EUV tools from ASML (right next door).

Maybe some other critical tool are still missing (photomasks? ion implentations?)
There was a NIH moratorium, but it was lifted in 2017.

I don't agree about the point of virology being just about studying gain of function. There are tons of things you can study in virology without needing to create novel viruses.
It’s fail fast vs fail randomly because unknown property was expected by client to be handled in a certain way. Not every case deserves forward compatibility.
Heh, I remember when this was the norm: Samsung, TSMC, and GloFo waiting for Intel to work out the kinks and tooling before implementing it themselves.
That's nothing, years ago when I was out on date and feeling lucky my car would turn into a motel!
The problem I always have with OO (or imperative) languages picking up functional features is that the constraints of functional languages are, to me, among the biggest wins.

When I know that any library I invoke is literally incapable of changing the data I pass to it, that's tremendously freeing.
> They could have smashed any uprising - but they choose not to.

Doubtful, unless you're talking about the soldiers choosing not to. The coup attempt in 1991 proved that the army in general had no interest in propping up the failing communist regime.

Even if they wanted to they failed to defeat Chechnya a couple years later despite it being smaller several than east Europe by several magnitudes.

> But there was a time when they were open for change. In my opinion, the west blew it.

Well most of Eastern Europe ended up doing just fine despite most of the 90s being a disaster there just like in Russia. So it seems like Russia actually blew it themselves (and well to be fair Ukraine and Belarus too).

> First, russia is not a monolithic coherent group.

Well I'm sorry but you're the one who keeps saying "they" and that "Russia wanted X" which implies that they are a single monolithic coherent group (then again one might argue whether that's really the case in Russia currently).
The worst aspect of JXL is the chroma bleed:

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#catedr... (glasswork)

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#end-of... (teeth, fingernails)

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#steinw... (lights, pianos)

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#us-ope... (racket, fingernails, jewelry, watch)
Engine issue resolved, stranded Air India plane returns to India from Russia

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/engine-issue-resolve...
It feels like a huge vector of attack though.

An attacker gets to know in advance you won't be abale to react to anything online during 24h.
Betacoronaviruses with SARS-like attributes and natural reservoirs in bats is supposed to be a “broad application of the word ‘like’”? Bit of a stretch, no?
> I’m creating flashcards from my notes of Ward’s book on product development and it is chock full of wisdom.

It's somebody reading a book that most people haven't read, taking notes on it, and allowing the public to read those notes. Calm down.
cmndrtaco, he counts right?
Doing that you’ll get a couple billionaires per hour. Why not just ban driving in the city altogether? (This isn’t just a rhetorical question, really, why not just do that instead of this BS?)

Ironically I think everyone knows the answer which is that this isn’t about congestion. This is about lining pockets as much as possible.
I think it really depends on what the exams are.

As I understand it, this is about maturity exams in Algeria. Maturity exams are a kind of big deal, especially if they're using a single or small pool of variants across the entire country - a single leak can invalidate the exam for a particular subject for hundreds of thousands of people, creating a huge logistical cost and country-wide disruption - and emotional burden for the people having to retake the exam that is deciding their future.

Cheating on those exams isn't something you can brush under the rug - it threatens the very core of the national public education system. It's pretty much the educational equivalent to ignoring clear voting fraud during presidential election.

With all that at stake, if they're really having a big problem with cheating (especially via mobile devices and mobile Internet), then cutting off the Internet for the duration of exams seems like... an acceptable solution.
If I understand correctly this was a feature already nearly completed as Twitter was being acquired and Elon just rolled it out and took credit.
SaaS always seemed like a way to scam investors, to me. At least with most products...
Ask HN: What's your favorite blog about software engineering?
Anyone can run an instance but the main one is run by people who actively support states like China. You just go on there and read it for like 10 minutes and you'll find it.
Over-hyped at times? Yes.

A bursting bubble? Not in my opinion. I'm already able to capture value in ways that were thought too difficult just 6 months ago. That's not vaporware.
I imagine that's a Steve Jobs quote, but imagine Apple announcing:

"We'd like to thank our loyal Mac/iPad/iPhone/Apple watch/Apple TV customers for supporting us in our Incredible Journey.

We look forward to working with all of you as we switch our focus entirely to Vision Pro and the exciting new world of Spatial Computing!"

Though with certain other companies (Google), I don't think anyone is surprised when something is canceled...

And come to think of it, there actually were a lot of Spatial Computing sessions at WWDC...
> Actually, the closest natural viruses to covid were sent to Wuhan for study

Please don't "actually" something with an uncited statement without backing it up with any sort of detail. A news article? Anything, honestly.

> that is what the Wuhan institute of coronaviruses was built to do right?

Really? It's "Wuhan institute of virology". Not "coronaviruses". Right?

I have no specific horse in this race but I feel like I'm losing my mind every time I read any discussion on this subject because there's always folks throwing around random statements as if they're established fact and I feel like at this point, on this specific subject, on this website, we should know better, geez.
The company to whom I'm currently contracted has a 2-month retention policy on inboxes and it drives me crazy.
Everybody's reporting "Reddit had 430 million monthly active users in 2020", so that's the half-billion that seems to be fact-based.

Then the current 1.5B number seems to be based on extrapolation (1.66B in [1] for one estimate) based on previous growth rates.

I shared your initial skepticism, but Reddit is the 20th most popular site in the world [2]. I know I have definitely been surprised and even shocked that certain extended family members and coworkers of mine have turned out to be heavy Reddit users. It's turned into this incredibly widespread site that almost nobody talks about "in real life".

Of course, monthly active users presumably includes people who click on a Reddit search result once in the month. It doesn't mean they're using it daily and upvoting.

[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/number-of-reddit-users/#sect...

[2] https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/
Fair enough, I know almost nothing about it.
> moderators are supposed to be the people who actually take actions to steward a community, not people who claim a title and never take action, not people who abuse the privileges to push an agenda, not people who do things that aren’t in the interest of the communities they serve. Not absentee founders.

I'm not the OP but that context makes it pretty obvious the OP is being figurative.
That seems like a huge oversight.

Why can't the app load it if browsers can get it through HTML?
I think this is largely overblown if one uses modern C++. One of the things I do is stateful multi-threaded business servers and frankly comparatively to the overall project this "data ownership maintenance" is small to the point of being practically absent.
It matters deeply when the people who run and develop the platform support something that simply shouldn't be supported, and at the end of the day even if they don't control the federation they do control a significant chunk of the direction and policies of the federation.

It would be like encouraging everyone to move to a place like voat. Don't give random extremists to the opportunity to control media or any form of narrative.
Same here ( france ), we talked about this a few weeks ago with a friend, and it's now common knowledge that the app is simply not good.
Where I am, when school busses make a stop to pickup/dropoff kids it does a lot of signaling. Big red lights at the top blink, a stop sign with lights flips out from the side. It is against the law to pass a school bus when it's lights are on in this configuration from either direction. I've heard of districts equipping cameras on busses where there are incidents of illegal passing like this.

Also, back in the day there was a little barrier that would flip out hinged on the passenger side that would attempt to prevent kids from walking out in front of the bus, at least so close that the bus driver couldn't reasonably see. I don't know if those are still common or not.
You don't have to, but bye joining and supporting the platform you're joining and supporting the developers.
I do agree this is an issue that needs to be addressed but you are also posting this on a website that is heavily moderated and runs as smoothly as it does because of the efforts of dang and the other moderators so I can't agree that reddit should just be the wild west.
SEC lawsuits against cryptocurrency companies questions industry’s future
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/z3kF9S0h_7A

Not even once, kids.
I think this makes sense, if only because physical property ownership has always been an illusion.

You don’t really “own” anything as long as someone with a badge and a gun can break down your door and take it from you. I don’t care if you live in a democracy or a dictatorship, it happens in both.

Encrypted information, on the other hand, can theoretically be “owned” if it’s implemented correctly. No police, no court or law, no government, nothing can take your encrypted digital property from you. It’s probably the most real manifestation of property humans have ever come up with.
> You're not refuting the point, though.

Why do people keep saying their opinions as if they are fact? Whether or not I refuted your point is independent from your assertions of such.

> Both technologies provide utility that is not all-encompassing.

No. Crypto provides no utility. At all. AI provides a lot of utility, some of the time. And you know what, you're wrong. AI is a panacea. It's called general purpose transformer ffs. And not by marketers, but by actual engineers who developed the Transformer architecture. (Obviously I'm being a little facetious but AI is infinitely more of a cure-all than crypto)

> What's the number of people who have been murdered by AI?

The second most common use case of crypto is for anonymous transactions for illegal drugs and weapons. So that's all I'm going to say on that point.
Grand Opening, Grand Closing.
It's the other way round from a cause & effect perspective: the worse the user interface, the more off-putting it is to the casual users that create and promote low-quality content.
Typically the bus has a stop sign with flashing lights that automatically swings out when the bus driver opens the doors. The law in most places in North America is that it is illegal to pass the school bus when students are embarking or disembarking, so in practice it is safer for the students to cross the street while the school bus is there.

Image of a typical North American school bus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_traffic_stop_laws...
>I do not care about the future of humanity and nature, I try to live as hedonistic as I can and do not desire being a father.

Perhaps I'm being presumptuous but it sounds like you are in a state of hopelessness.

I will pray for you.
In Rust, `reciever.some_method(whatever)` is supposed to be relatively thin sugar for `TypeOfReciever::some_method(receiver, whatever)`. So the evaluation order should be the same for those two forms.
The Netherlands can barely be described as a state of law, considering its absolutely worthless constitution, its apathetic senate and its corrupted judiciary.

This is just business as usual, the mainstream media doesn’t even mention this and nobody cares.
Overall, I agree - the progress of AI has been breakneck over the past 12 months. But the difference in quality of Talk-to-Transformer and GPT-4 hasn't been that much in my experience. Both produce seemingly-correct text that crumbles under scrutiny and becomes useless for anything with a sub-80% acceptable failure rate.

It's great stuff, and I'd be lying if I said I liked cryptocurrency and don't use AI. The parallels are starkly visible though, and the "overpromise/underdeliver" cycle is already much further along than cryptocurrency ever got. The bubble will eventually pop because people are dissatisfied with the pace of progress, and then everyone will look for a scapegoat. We're already halfway there, judging by the daily deluge of "Ask HN: Why Does It Feel Like OpenAI Nerfed ChatGPT?" posts.
I worked on Birthday Cards, one of the apps listed out. Warms my cold pm heart to know that something I worked on was vaguely known about by high level Apple execs.

At the time it was hugely advantageous to have a native app linked to fb, I remember the week where we made it and released v1, we were the #1 app in lifestyle instantly.
Aircraft have ELT that broadcast location. They are similar to the marine EPIRB or hiking PLB.

MH370 had 4 ELT, 2 on life raft, 1 in cabin, and 1 mounted to aircraft. The latter would have activated on crash but it was designed for ground crash not ocean. It would have sunk with plane. The life raft ones are water activated but probably sunk. ELT are more meant for finding survivors and not the crash site.

There are ejectable beacons but they are probably not required. It would make sense to add one for water crashes.
A particular city center?
> Compiler being obtuse and not being able to figure when it is safe to "break rules" is the problem.

Compiler afaik will never be able to correctly 100% identify you are or aren't breaking some properties due to Rice's Theorem.

That said, you're committing a Nirvana fallacy. Perfect doesn't prevent improvement.

E.g. seatbelts don't prevent being stabbed by a large metal pole, ergo it's useless.

Every week I see newbies coming and asking why won't compiler allow this - and then point a hugely unsafe action.

Hell, I ran into a similar issue. I wanted to expose something mutable as immutable. My argumentation was but it was immutable at time of calling. However as someone in Rust discord pointed, using that you could cause UB trivially.
Ah. The old “I did so much copyright violation it would be infeasible for everyone I took content from to enforce” defence. I see nothing that could go wrong.
In the mid 1960s, my mom worked in an infectious disease lab. One day, her and her colleagues were tasked with cleaning out a freezer full of samples. Shortly thereafter her and everyone else in the lab got a flu-like illness that did not clear up for many days.

It really makes me wonder how many lab leaks may have happened during this time period when we started collecting and storing samples but we didn't yet have the ability to track diseases like we do today.
They're going to save at least a few dollars on infra expenses by addressing free riders.