skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming no prior knowledge KDE-plasma powered PC is easier to use for the average user (mostly browser-only) compared to windows these days

Windows just really became a mess UI-wise, not only in its settings menu but it is bleeding to their user-facing stuff. The task bar is a mess, the notifications overlay is a mess, the startup menu is a mess, the copilot integration is a clusterf* if the user doesn't know what copilot is, the sharepoint integration is a mess, the popups to create and sign in with windows are a mess, all the useless microsoft built-in apps get in the way. Not to mention all the crapware OEMs add to the mix. Many of these problems also plague MacOS (and Ubuntu!)

Windows is going to die because most people don't need all this crap, they need to double click an application (usually the browser) and just run it. Maybe they need to task switch being applications and do some file management sometimes.

The enterprise and home operating system business as a whole is going to die, likely taking mobile OSes with them if anti-competitive legislation catches up. There is no money to be made. Big companies are sponsoring open-source Linux improvements that trickle down to consumer space for free.

Who knows, it is quite possible proper desktop applications like games will just start being shipped as bundled microkernels and loaded in a virtualised environment in whatever platform, or web assembly really takes off and we start seeing wasm-first apps being distributed outside the browser. It seems we are heading towards this direction of platform agnostic applications.
The company I co-founded (Terrateam) develops a Terraform/OpenTofu GitOps CI/CD that focuses on GitHub. We use GitHub to run the operations, for a number of reasons, but we treat it just like ephemeral compute. We initiate the run, basically a near blank image, with our runner on it, and it "morphs" the image into what we need to do for that run. It works really well, except that GitHub Actions can be slow and I think they haven't quite figured out how to do reliable operations for it, yet.

The major thing about the API that I don't like is when you initiate a GHA run via the API, it does not give you an ID that you can use to track it. So if you initiate and it either never runs or fails for some reason prior to any code you put on the image, there is no good way to track that.
Is there any mention of what kind of radioactive decay this is powered from? Based on the name, one might assume beta? This would also track with the "research done in the 20th Century" bit considering beta radiation is just electrons.

My point being - what impact does this have on the safety of the device? Any more than certain light sources containing mercury, for example.
I agree with you.

The thing is, compared to some of the scientific codes out there, GPU are quite recent. Sometimes, slapping OpenMP pragma on the code is not sufficient to take advantage of accelerators, and thus you would need a significant rewrite.

But rewriting a scientific code is a daunting task. Often you have a code where there have been two decades of PhD and Postdocs fine tuning the scientific code, and the numerical schemes in the code do not correspond to the original article anymore. Nobody knows anymore exactly how the code works, and rewriting the code would require that the rewrite matches all the features of the original code (and reproduces the same results). It is basically an impossible task, especially when the labs don't have the resources to hire software engineers.

In practice, nobody wants to rewrite scientific codes for GPU (and sometimes, the problem is fundamentally incompatible with GPU architecture). So as a compensation, they slap some OpenMP pragmas on some parts of the code, hope for the best, and anyways Nvidia clusters are more common than AMD (at least in the scientific world), so OpenMP barely compiling for AMD is not a problem.

This means that legacy scientific codes are pretty much stuck with the CPUs. And in the scientific world, Fortran for HPC CPUs is still the language of choice.
Normal ads are fine for me, but it is about forced to watch video ads. I don't like to be interrupted in Internet, it's not a bloody TV.
The catch seems to be delivering only 100 microwatts. Very far from powering a phone.
In Praise of WordPress
> I skimmed the whole article, read your posting, and even though I know some of these words, I still have no idea if the decision was hurtful to the business, or if it did not move the needle at all, or if it even was a net positive, all things considered.

I mean, based on my interactions with marketing people, they often don't really know if much of what they've done has helped the business at all, and the majority of their work (apart from actually creating marketing copy and interacting with customers) seems to revolve around figuring out how to attribute booms in business to their previous campaigns while building plausible deniability for inevitable busts. Don't get me wrong, not ALL of it is completely incomprehensible: email and referrer links are pretty straightforwardly calculable in terms of their impact; but things like "brand awareness" campaigns are nigh impossible to actually gauge the impact of.
Vitalik Buterin recognises Waku as P2P comm layer of Gavin Wood's Web3 vision
Sorry for attributing motivation without evidence, I regret that and think you are right on this point.

Now I got your point concerning the dependence. That was not clear to me before you elaborated and I don't see how I could have inferred that.

It is highly unlikely though that this integration into a game engine made any significant revenue in its 3 years of existence if you ask me. The integration is also still available, just not distributed via Unity store.

As VideoLan is a non-profit I tried to find info on their income to get a bigger picture, but failed to find that.
>If the code runs on my computer, I should be able to stop parts of it.

Feel free to, but expect that YouTube will try to make it inconvenient for you.
Should I start stealing Pringles at the supermarket because there was a lady offering free ones of the latest flavour?

They were nice by the way, Flame ones, quite spicey.
To add some context, even if Rostain doesn't actually believe the vapid nonsense about Eurocentrism etc., he is part of a field where it will be costly to not perform these ablutions.

Archaeology / Anthropology have a very fraught relationship with science and reason, sadly.
Pipes were created quite early in the unix development though. I assume they had an entry in the file description table. Same for ttys.
Agreed with this, but my main issue is the price. In Europe, the family plan is €23.99. In contrast, Netflix is €12.99 (2 devices, 1080p).

Now they obviously have very different economics and features, but in my regular use I don't really care about that, I just see double the cost for YouTube. This is doubly annoying since most of the YouTube channels I watch earn almost nothing from YouTube and instead subsist on money from sponsors. YouTube is obviously providing "free" hosting, management tools, and traffic to these channels. However, YouTube also spends nothing on content creation and assumes none of the risk.

Oh, and I'm also paying for YouTube Music, which I never use. So it just seems like an expensive, bad deal as a consumer. And my alternative is the "free" site which is has an appalling number of commercials and keeps getting worse. So bad deals all around.
The 747 was largely successful because of its then unprecedented range and cheaper fuel prices at the time, as well as its easy conversion to a high capacity freighter. That’s why today, with much more fuel-efficient and long range 787s and A350s, Boeing had to quit making the passenger version in 2017 and the freighter version last year. And even in the decades before cancelling, Boeing barely managed to sell a handful.

The A380 had long range, but not to the extent of the 787 or A350, and it didn’t have their fuel efficiency, and there are structural choices that make freighter conversion difficult (like a middle floor too weak for cargo without reinforcement) and less economical in the first place (more volume available than weight it can support).
Motivation? The "quoted a number we cannot reasonably achieve within our financial means" is all the motivation "someone" needs. So yeah "shakedown" or "protection racket".
Google isn't some startup and no of people on ad blockers is minute
In any reasonable person's mind, a democratic republic (as seen by internet libertarians and conservatives) is a subset of democracy. Same with the democratic monarchies of Northern Europe, and the (more) direct democracy of Switzerland. Splitting them up just confuses people, and makes your point harder to communicate and understand.
You should give it a spin. It’s an incredibly comprehensive Computer Algebra System with all the batteries included…. No, with a small nuclear reactor in the box.

I’m just sad that I don’t have access anymore after college, being too cheap to pay for a license.
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According to the Twitter thread where I originally saw this video, she's in Georgia, where what she did is legal.

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1745665652906422573
The issue ‘One persistent myth is the special role of "linking" in propagating "derived work" copyright status’ has nothing to do with GPL.

If you use any 3P library it’s a derived dependency by law. Is that what you are arguing? It’s settled law at this point.

MS lets you link against their DLLs but only on their platform. You might pay for a special library, but you have to pay them money for programs that link against it (actually does anybody do that any more?). GPL code is no different in any way except instead of paying the FSF cash or buying a Windows OS you agree to provide the user the freedom to change the code.
I haven't stopped using IRC!
He's actually very intelligent and has a record of producing a very successful and well loved product by many. He did things on his own terms and I can respect him for it, even if he would probably annoy the hell out of me in real life if we were just grabbing dinner.
There might be more than reflexive whining at play, considering the review will include European manufacturers. The Commission might be trying to gear up towards some sort of EU-wide subsidy program to match the Chinese one. It's the sort of thing that individual EU governments are explicitly banned from, by Common Market rules; but when the push comes from some of the biggest German and French businesses, a solution has to be found.
Why does it matter if people feel righteous? Just let them pirate, and if indeed not enough people follow what YouTube desires, let it shut down.
My understanding is that the descriptor is the pointer, the description is the pointee (i.e. the entry in the table). The distinction is sometimes quite relevant, for things like dup(2).

edit: there must actually be a double indirection from the fd to a table of pointers to file description, as the table is process private while the description is shared (and multiple fds can refer to the same description).
People tend to use this quote to disparage the US but try asking the Uyghurs and you'll see how treating every problem as an engineering problem is not always a great idea.

If you also look at TikTok through this lens it also explains a lot about how it operates.
Not sure about this particular device, but https://citylabs.net/technology-overview/ apparently makes use of tritium, which is betavoltaic based.

Just noticed for citylabs it says - "Base price starts at $5,250 per battery"

I'm curious what they'd be used for considering the very low power output and cost.
I am sure these ideas have been thrown around at YouTube, but maybe a better alternative would be limiting videos to only 720p resolution for non-premium users, for example.

There is a reason no other competitor has emerged. Not even Netflix offers 1080p on their basic _paid_ plan, which I recall being limited to 720p.
Not just you. I expect to see this on my LinkedIn news feed soon given their RTO-pushing agenda.
IMO this is nobody's business, especially given the "quiet" and "intimate" nature of this. The tech industry should strive for better standards to what constitutes as news.
I recommend to watch some of his regular livestreams on Twitch [1], where I have learned that he is also a quite humble, honest and kind person. Albeit one who likes to hear himself talk (and is aware of that), but I also really enjoy his ramblings on science somehow.

With all the things he has accomplished and his competence across different fields, I don’t mind him being arrogant sometimes. He is working in the area of fundamentals of science, so of course there will be bold claims made - anyone can judge for themself if they hold water.

Science in institutions is often stuck in its entrenched paths and few people dare (or cannot afford) to step outside and try new things, especially across different fields. I believe people like Wolfram, who have earned the knowledge and experience to be able to make a serious attempt on advancing science in new and different ways, are a very valuable resource for humanity, even if they may not succeed.

[1]: https://livestreams.stephenwolfram.com
She admits in the video that she hasn’t closed a single deal. I think her firing is more than reasonable. I would fire a newbie at my company if they couldn’t make a single sale in months
The US pays more as a percentage of GDP into social spending than Canada or Australia, and only a few percentage points behind the UK and the Netherlands - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

Hell, American unemployment is already quite a lot more (as a percentage of previous income) than I'd get in the UK.
to be clear, it's not nuclear as we understand it usually, by having a fission reaction, but using the energy of the decaying radioactive isotopes concerted to electricity. The technology is used in space probes. The issue is that it is still radioactive, and I'm very wary to see an associated pollution if it's used by the general public
Feel bad for the team to have to deal with this, but I have to say its a great example of how to communicate with your customers so hats off to you!
If you consume so many youtube videos that ads bother you then you should consider your relationship with the platform and eventually buy the subscription. Don't complain about the internet becoming television if you are glued to it as if it was television
My brother in Christ do you seriously believe Youtube doesn't have money ?
"placing 63 nuclear isotopes into a module smaller than a coin"

Whoever wrote this does not know what an isotope is. Also, the site's attempt to ban copy/paste is annoying.

Interesting product if real!
I went premium a couple of months back and oh my - what a change. Dont think I would be able to go back to non-premium version.
You're surprised an article about marketing is full of marketing stuff?
I thought that the license for B says you can't distribute it along side A.

Not that copyright propagates.

Obviously, a zip archive containing A and B is a derived work of B.
Hence, license of B can say you can't distribute such works.

Does distributing A without B make any sense?
Force users to login.
Yeah even interior walls here are mainly brick. Dry walls only exist in conversions where walls have been added that did not exist in the original construction. Even then, making thin walls like that is highly frowned upon and seen as a bit of a bodge job because the standard for the sturdiness of walls is high here.
I have forgotten the exact reason but it had something to do with not having a valid payment method. Some change on Google Cloud end triggered it - they were billing initially with the Singapore subsidiary and when they changed it to the India one, something had to be done from our end. Hardly got any notices and also we had around 100k USD in credits at the time. Got it resolved by reaching out to some high level executive contact we got via our investor. Their normal support is pretty useless.
Can I voluntarily register somewhere and profile myself for the purposes of ad targeting? I'd really hate to just get completely random ads everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_science
You seem to be confusing "new projects" with "maintained projects".

Perl like all the other languages that are heavily used aren't going to be going anywhere. They're used in legacy code. However, the original comment had a definition. Which says nobody would use it to start a new project. Talking about currently maintained projects doesn't really change the fact it doesn't seem anyone is using it for new projects.

> I think the meaningful definition of “dead language” is “nobody will begin a new code base in it any more, except as a hobby or research project”.
My understanding is most smaller channels earn peanuts from YouTube. Some channels I subscribe to occasionally break out their finances and direct YouTube payments are usually pretty small and irregular. This makes direct sponsorships almost a necessity for full-time creators.

In any event, I don't mind these since they are easy to skip and at least the creator is getting the vast majority of the money.
Why should cloudflare be expected to foot the bill instead of sourcehut?
Basically the only "stdlib" that Fortran gives you are some mathematical functions, super basic string and file operations and that's it. There are no APIs for networking, sockets, IPC, threads, etc. that pretty much al modern languages come with.

Can you write a parser in it? Sure, but it's going to be painful dealing with strings. Can you write a web server? Yes, but you'd have to link to a C library that exposes the kernel TCP/IP interface to Fortran. And so, on.

So, essentially it would be like using C without a libc: it's doable, but it doesn't really make sense.
Kudos to her for recording and sharing this video.
> ~100TB

That's a lot, compared to mine. How do you organize replication and do you make backups on any external services? I kinda do want to hoard more, but I find it complicated to deal with at large scale. It gets expensive to back-up everything, and HDDs aren't really a solid media long-term. Now, I can kinda use my judgment of what is important and what is essentially trash I store just in case, but losing 100TB of trash would be pretty devastating too, TBH.
> The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they disagree with.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think you're showing yourself a little too eager to go down the cybery slope of dystopia.
Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower
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Bait-and-switch. That's why people are pissed off. Besides that Google is getting plenty of money already.
Isn't Youtube owned by Google? Whenever something is posted about Youtube, I see comments like this, as if they're a startup company trying to make money and the whole world is trying to undermine them by blocking the ads.

IMHO, Youtube just happens to be another way that Google makes money.

So, yes, it is a bit infuriating. Originally, Youtube became big by showing copyright material and no ads. And now that they are big, owned by Google, and have changed their tactics, I think it's perfectly reasonable for all their viewers to change theirs.
Seems pointless to block all videos and then remove that block for no real reason.
The same stance on privacy that somehow makes it okay for you to scan all your users' code for AI training without consent?
They do. Some national HPC centers offer Fortran courses including elements of Fortran 2018 [1,2], including the latest features. (Disclaimer: I work at one.) The Intel Fortran compiler already includes some Fortran 2023 features [3].

[1] https://doku.lrz.de/programming-with-fortran-10746212.html
[2] https://doku.lrz.de/prace-course-advanced-fortran-topics-107...
[3] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/r...
I know a few people that started a startup, reach a growth limit and it's just a regular business. They work 15h/week max.
To me, CDDL/MPL 2.0-style licenses are much more sane than GPL based ones.

The definition of what is a derivative work is IMHO overreaching in GPL based licenses.
You're going to look silly when they add ads to premium too.
This is fun. I've been designing something similar involving encryption via a custom deck of 64 cards and long term durable secret storage in base-4 as differently sized washers on a bolt (with labels so you only have bother decoding it in extreme circumstances like a house fire).

I think more cryptography should be designed with simplicity as a goal. Being unsure if you can trust the computer should not exclude one from secure communication.
I just linked a short because I figured it fit into the attention span of a typical internet user.

If you want something more reasoned there's this: https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/
There is exactly one Ionity charger for the whole of Greater Manchester, with the other nearest ones being more than an hour drive in two directions.

Not a realistic suggestion for anyone not living in London.
Nothing to see here, delivers 100 µW while your phone needs more than 1000 times more.
Lots of things are radioactive. A banana for example.
I first laughed after reading that sentence... I guess they are speaking about some amount of ⁶³Ni, which actually decays to copper as they say.
If anyone started reading and also got confused like me. Chrome change will affect third party cookies, not all cookies.
currently 1000 times less: 100 µW
You don't like bananas in your pocket? :D
Mathematica is what I thought a computer would be like before I could really use one: A tool for arithmetics and math. Instead we get text processing, kitten photos and porn videos. Not that I have anything against either of these, but it was still a mild shock to find that the `ln` command does not, by a long shot, compute the natural logarithm in Unix. OK, even Mathematica makes me alias `Ln` to `Log`. So much for the principle of least surprise. Still, given that you need extra software to make your computer actually compute, Mathematica is my tool of choice.
While Prolog is niche it's still alive and kicking IMO. The go-to example for a 'modern' project is TerminusDB. I'm currently using Prolog for a greenfield expert system project at $work. There's been a bit of a Datalog resurgence as well, you can see it in the Biscuit authz system for example. As a fundamental pillar of logic programming, I don't think it will ever die (akin to Lisp and functional programming). Pure speculation here but I think we might see more interest towards symbolic AI in the coming years coupled with LLMs to ground answers against well-defined knowledge bases, as a sort of anti-hallucination measure.
Modern processors are out-of-order execution beasts. A barrier within a thread serves to enforce some ordering within that thread - that a store will occur after another store, and that a load will occur before another load. Threads know nothing of each other.
It's not a hit piece if the allegations are true.
That's not really what I meant. I mean the issues with basic communication:

Google: (...) would you like to know more?

cromka: YES

Google: <silence>

This happens notoriously and effectively it feels as if the devices had became more "dumb" in general, not loosing particular skills.
You don't get a dangerous dose of radiation from a banana if you open it. Not sure about their battery...