skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We added 6.3 gigaFLOPS per second on 2022-23, based on an increase of 200 million gigaFLOPS observed on that period. This is in contrast to 20 gigaFLOPS per second in 2021-22. It’s nil in 2020-21, but that seems only partially attributable to the pandemic, as there appears to be a tick-tock pattern going back to 2013.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/supercomputer-power-flops
The sun is a good source of power.
Movies are not their scripts or their directors. Movies are products of a complex situation, a confluence of influences. Those influences bleed into the film. A movie about soldiers filmed in a rain-soaked jungle will itself drip with the suffering that went in its creation. A movie filmed about a new york architect, filmed in a New York nightclub, with a cast of Hollywood socialites ... that's how you get Batman Forever. I doubt this movie will ring true with the bulk of audiences.
> The city it basically new york, which the director believes is the center of the world.

To be fair, this seems like a commonly shared belief among many real-world New York City residents as well.
Correct, we never did release Tinyx, mostly because it was in a very unclean/researchy state = not ready for public consumption. In retrospect, we probably should have either (a) made it available in whatever state it was in or (b) put more cycles into it.
> The amount of work it would take just to account for all the copyrights, let alone negotiate and compensate the creators, would be infeasible.

Your argument is the same as Facebook saying “we can’t provide this service without invading your privacy” or another company saying “we can’t make this product without using cancerous materials”.

Tough luck, then. You don’t have the right to shit on and harm everyone else just because you’re a greedy asshole who wants all the money and is unwilling to come up with solutions to problems caused by your business model.
How is that surprising? Maybe you just get recommended the same stuff on multiple platforms because it reflects your interests? If I am interested in Retro computing and get the 8-Bit Guy in my recommendations on multiple platforms, would you conclude that the platforms colluded? Occams Razor tells me what’s the more likely conclusion
likeability and eg integrity of character are much better indicators of a good candidate than the amount of money they can spend to get their name promoted.

equal chance refers to the awareness and knowledge about each candidate among the voting population. that can be achieved by promoting all candidates equally.

for other qualities, we need to get a better understanding what makes good candidates, and educate voters to choose candidates based on that.
Once again:

1. There has been a lot more action than just "politicians saying things"

2. Politics was the only thing holding nuclear back. Thus the change in the politics is, obviously, significant.

3. Nuclear construction in China is ahead and accelerating.

4. India is not talking, they are building. The 2031 goal is stuff they are in the process of building.

5. Nuclear is cheap. France built its nuclear industry for € 228 billion and got 11000 TWh of electricity out of that. 2,07 Cents/kWh

6. Nuclear is not expensive, but it has been extremely risky, mostly because little to none has been built and also because the best plants are very large. We have now built some, so that's been a tremendous de-risking.

For example, both Ukraine and Poland bought Westinghouse AP-1000 reactors. That's the reactor that just went online at Vogtle-3 and Vogtle-4. So are Ukraine and Poland nuts, buying into a design + company with this track record?

Nope, because those plants have been built, so we know we can build them. And we also know what can go wrong, because pretty much everything did. And we know how to not do the things that went wrong.

For example, one of the biggest drivers of delay and cost was the fact that Westinghouse started building before the plans were actually completely done.

Problem is that that they had to submit those plans to the NRC before they started building. And then build to those plans. In theory, this process is a Good Thing™ because it allows a standardized design to be checked once and then built repeatedly, whereas previously the regulations were ad-hoc per construction, making each reactor a custom build, a one-off with no economies of scale.

Alas, it turns out that the plans they submitted, due to not being complete, were not actually buildable as submitted. Oops. So they had to get almost 200 changes approved, and other times had to tear up stuff they had already built, and start again.

We now have designs for the AP-1000 that are buildable. Because they have been built, Vogtle-3 and Vogtle-4 exist and are delivering power to the grid.

We also built or are building a bunch of EPRs. There, one of the major problems (apart from FoaK and no experience in the industry) is that the design simply is difficult to build. So unlike the AP-1000, no more EPR orders. As a matter of fact, EDF has discontinued the EPR, and instead have created a vastly simplified design the EPR2. Which loses some capabilities, but should be dramatically simpler to build.

So different things went wrong, and thus there are different corrective actions.

Engineering.
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
for those interested in deploying BIMI, I wrote this HOWTO.

> If the complexity of using BIMI exceeds your desire, you must at a minimum provide for one BIMI DNS TXT record that tells everyone that your BIMI is “disabled” … just to prevent others from impersonating you.

> The TXT record for a properly disabled BIMI must look like this:

default._bimi.example.test. TXT "v=BIMI1; l=; a=;"

While, I have said it is expensive and not recommended, it is there for those trying to understand BIMI.

Also how to breakdown BIMI certificates too

* https://egbert.net/blog/articles/smtp-bimi-howto.html

* https://egbert.net/blog/articles/smtp-bimi-pki.html
> I am not saying that Dockerfiles are good. But I also think that knowing the tool you use differentiates you from being a rookie to an experienced professional.

I agree in general, though I'd also add that a tool requiring somebody to know and avoid a large number of footguns is what differentiates a tool from being a prototype and being production-ready. While Docker has a large number of features, the number of gotchas makes it feel like something that should only be used in hobby projects, never in production.

In the end, I ended up making several scripts to automate the generation and execution of dockerfiles for my common use cases. I trust myself to proceed cautiously around the beartraps once. I don't trust myself to sprint through a field of beartraps if there's a short deadline.
Agentic capability just means it outputs a function call which it has had for a long time.
They advertise car rental even in places 50km away from any rental stations.

I am using it quite a lot even so one need to navigate a lot of dark patterns to book something.
Chrome runs Android apps in a sandbox, so a lot of apps don't work in the way you'd think. Games might be OK as all data is stored in the app, but if you use say a note-taking app that exports a TXT file to local storage, that export won't work if the app is running on ChromeOS.
Survey: 71% of Startup Founders Sacrifice Private Lives for Work
I've been running a prototype unit for a few months, and it's a game changer. It makes the Raspberry Pi feel as fast as one of my development VMs on AWS.

What sets this Raspberry Pi-sourced hat apart from other units like those from WaveShare is its compatibility with drives. I didn't need to check which controller my drive had—it just worked.

Since the Pi 4, Raspberry Pi has claimed it can truly be your main computer. With the Pi 5 and the M.2 hat, this claim finally holds credibility—the quality of life and speed improvements are that good.
Starting at $16K.

Make sure to watch the video.

Given how much capital is being invested right now, and how quickly things are improving, it's hard not to imagine cheap robots taking on many jobs that until now have been done by human beings. Much like water always migrates to the lowest accessible point in a lake, jobs always migrate to the lowest-cost option in a market economy.

Like it or not, the robot future is almost here.
Isn't this how it has been with every arms race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE
Wasp-193B, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy
It sounds like a generic Eastern European who has learned some Italian. The girl in the clip did not sound native Italian either (or she has an accent that I have never heard in my life).
If it's clickbait - could just be a misreading on the part of the poster - it highlights an important fact - we all yearn to feel we have full control over a situation, even when in this case this sense of control is tenuous at best.
In the UK Tesco has them listed for £2.40 https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/313756767

I guess it helps to not have the FDA blocking everything?
It's funny one of the guys Simon's hired from IBM Watson to help him make the breakthrough, Peter Brown, was an avid fitness nut. Not sure the smoking and lack of exercise was the reason for his success! I think the main story behind Simons was that he wasn't afraid to hire people different from himself and trust what they had to offer.
Synchronicities and the Anomalous with Sharon Hewitt Rawlette [video]
I don't see the point of an Android phone dual-booting ChromeOS. It offers nothing beyond what Android can already do.

How hard is it for Google to create a proper desktop environment for Android? Samsung has had DEX for almost a decade, and it works great: UI scaling is good, keyboard shortcuts work, multiple apps can be running on a single screen.
i wanted to like Cursor. but it set itself as the default handler to *every* possible file type on my system. completely insane behavior.
Unikernels aren't too complicated conceptually. They're more or less a kernel stripped down to the bare minimum required by a single application. The complete bundle of the minimal kernel and application together is called a unikernel. The uni- prefix means one as in the kernel only supports one userspace application, instead of something like linux, which supports many. The benefits, as mentioned in the paper and in this thread are that you can run that as a vm, since it contains it's own operating system, unlike a container which is dependent on the host operating system. Also, they boot very quickly.
I don't know where you got that idea. OrbStack absolutely runs a Linux VM. That Linux VM then uses Linux containerization technologies (namely LXD) for each separate OrbStack 'machine' you set up, which is how you get such fast startup times for your OrbStack 'machines'.

For Docker, OrbStack does the same thing as Docker Desktop, Podman Desktop, Rancher Desktop, etc., which is set up a Linux VM running Docker and then present a native socket interface on macOS which relays everything it receives to the Docker socket inside the VM.

macOS doesn't have native capabilities for running containers, which is why the nearest thing you can get to containerd on it requires you to disable SIP so it can use a custom filesystem to emulate bind mounts/null mounts: https://darwin-containers.github.io/

If you read the PRs where the principal author of the Darwin Containers implementation is trying to upstream bits of his work, you'll see containerd comparing his approaches to others and complimenting them by calling them 'the most containerish' because real capabilities aren't there.

(I believe I've read rumors here on HN that Apple has those features internally, fwiw. But they've evidently never released them in a public copy of macOS.)

Another clue in all this is to just run uname in any of your Docker containers in OrbStack; you'll see they're Linux machines. Some operating systems have Linux syscall emulation layers (WSL1, FreeBSD's Linux emulation, Illumos' LX Zones) that could perhaps be used to run Linux containers without hardware emulation or paravirtualization in combination with some native containerization capabilities. Afaik Illumos' LX Zones is the only implementation where that's a supported, intended use case but maybe FreeBSD can do it. At any rate, macOS has never had that kind of syscall compatibility layer for Linux, either. So when you run `uname` in a 'macOS container' and see 'Linux', you can be certain that there's a VM in that stack.

PS: Aside from the fact that it's proprietary, I really do quite like OrbStack. It's the nicest-to-use implementation of something like this that I've tried, including WSL2 and Lima. The fact that it makes the VM machinery so invisible is very much to its credit from a UX perspective!
Under capitalism, if you work for a supermarket and want to own some of company and share some of the profit, you buy some of the stock (there are often generous deals to encourage this). Alternatively, if you want to start your own business selling goods, you can - at any scale, whether it's a market stall or a supermarket - usually you'd work your way up from small to big, provided you have the work ethic to do so.

You mentioned cooperatives. This is tangential to the discussion as cooperatives are neither socialist nor capitalist, per se. They can freely exist in capitalist societies, and also in some socialist societies (although they are often tightly controlled by the state, and may be seized by the state).
This refers to the company running booking.com, rather than some generic notion of booking as the title might imply.
Promise of getting more money is not a justification for selling exploits to the criminals. Even if Apple had no bug bounty program, reporting it responsibly is the moral thing to do.
Have you checked out the Voice Assistant functionalities integrated into HA? https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/

NabuCasa employed the Rhasspy main dev to work on these functionalities and they are progressing with every update.
@dang Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40351249
The soviet states and associated block had economic power distributed in a much more balanced way than we have today (please don't read more into this statement than what it says), noting that the inequalities in 2024 are pretty extreme when compared to the last century for most countries.

I think that the criticism that was pointed to isn't really addressed by saying that others have a little bit of oligarchs too.

The level of centralisation of economic power we see in the USA today seems pretty unique in history (EDIT: even when compared to the similar sized economy of the EU). And I think that is something worthwhile discussing and thinking about.
What if you application is not just one binary. What if it's a pipeline of complex tasks, calls some python scripts, uses a patched version of some obscure library, ...

It's not possible to package half a Linux distribution into a single binary. That's why we have containers.
They're demoing this at ICRA '24 in Yokohama this week.

Looks quite a bit smaller in person (size of a 8-10y old).
Yes, it's literally the first item in the iOS 17.5 security release notes: https://support.apple.com/HT214101
That line seems to emerge every time a new supercomputer is commissioned on the US… in fact, the naming of Los Alamos’ new Crossroads, along with its predecessor, Trinity, have obvious roots in IS nuclear testing history.

https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0830-crossroads/
> Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say. But did they ever pause to ask whether we actually want that?

> Americans, by and large, don’t want it.

Silicon Valley is the theory that geeks who've misread too much sci-fi know what they want, and we deserve to get it good and hard.
Have a look at the openWakeWord model which is especially built for detecting wakewords in a stream of speech.
I pin the responsibility on Apple. They created a bounty system which incentivized people to build their livelihoods around finding these issues. They subsequently decided they wouldn't pay out those incentives essentially at random. If putting food on the table means getting paid for vulnerabilities, it's only rational to sell your work to whoever else is going to pay for it. Apple _created this market_ (and, you might argue, put the vulnerability into production). The only bad look here is Apple, imo.
Thanks for the engagement (whether you had a choice or not ;)!

The main issue is that we approach the topic with a different set of axioms. E.g. your limitation of requiring a proof involving (a-c) is analogous to asking someone to build a steel bridge with three colors of legos.

Free will and consciousness are tautologically joined, so any attempt to create a framework to disprove/prove one or the other will have to be all encompassing.

It has the same issue though that you have to decide that you are conscious to begin using reason, even though no one can prove it scientifically.

If your starting point is that no one is actually conscious, it’s impossible to disprove, and it’s obviously wrong (and any attempt to prove it’s not obviously wrong would knee-cap itself since it’s impossible ‘to logic’ without a reasoning engine).
You keep going on about "destruction" without even explaining what specifically is happening here that is so bad that booking.com will be unable to continue operating?
Another good example is CKAN, the most widely used open data portal platform. Their docs are pretty good on how to write plugins -- gives you an idea of how the architecture works.

https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.9/extensions/index.html
From what I understand, backporting won't make a difference, unless vendors integrate it into their custom OS installs, and, from what I hear, they aren't really giving legacy support much love.
Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn’t the price, which is easy to discern, but an energy cost connected to the work required to run a program and the heat dissipated in the process.

Researchers at SFI and elsewhere have spent decades developing a thermodynamic theory of computation, but previous work on the energy cost has focused on basic symbolic computations — like the erasure of a single bit — that aren’t readily transferable to less predictable, real-world computing scenarios.
By this logic, you're not even pretending you're better than this. You're not angry at Apple because they love to exploit, you're angry at them because you're not powerful enough to exploit others too.

Do you agree with this statement? If not, I think there's a contradiction. You are morally obliged to do the right thing even if there are entities who don't.
That is a very clever idea!
I was hoping it might have been referring to Ticketek
F-19 was my first flightsim (well, some on the Commodore 64 I never got the hang with were the actual first).

I had a pirated copy. Back then, nobody own legit games in my country. It was hilarious that the copy protection gave you a top down view of an aircraft and made you look up the name in the manual.

Yeah... for me, an aircraft-obsessed teenager who knew all the shapes, this was the same as no copy protection at all :) If anything, it trained me in recognizing the shapes of all aircraft of that era!

PS: I was sad when I learned the F-19 was never a real thing. That said, sometime later MicroProse came up with the F-117, which we know was a real thing.
[Author of the paper here] You hit the nail on the head, this is precisely what we do (kernel API compatibility) with the LF Unikraft project (the evolution of the 2017 paper) at www.unikraft.org, and kraft.cloud, a cloud platform that leverages Unikraft.
>I doubt this movie will ring true with the bulk of audiences.

This should be the least important quality of a film, and ironic that you mention this quality along with Batman Forever, which did ring true with the bulk of audiences and was Warner Bros. most successful film for six years until Harry Potter was released.
I’m with Jaystraw: this takes multiple tries for me, more often than not. My elderly dad has no chance.

The home button was one of the best widely-deployed pieces of UI in computing history, and they got rid of it.
Text editing on iPhones is so not ideal! Why is it so hard to edit words, put punctuations and copy-paste text? Android is lightyears ahead in the game.
The lack of cached dependencies is an advantage in most non-compiled languages, though.
Simply point to a computer that has never had conscious human involvement in any part of its evolution and wait for it to type out something ;)
Oh snap. You made my oatmeal and coffee taste like a million bucks. Thanks. I’m going to be strutting around in my elite pants all day.
Another interesting thing is how Western clock technology was adapted to fit traditional Japanese notions of time, in the pre-Meiji era (after which, Japan adopted Western time.)

A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are always divided into six periods whose lengths consequently change with the season. Mechanical clocks were introduced into Japan by Jesuit missionaries (in the 16th century) or Dutch merchants (in the 17th century).

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

And on a related note, Lewis Mumford, a philosopher and writer, wrote quite a bit about how clocks were (in his view) the necessary invention for capitalism to flourish:

The first phase of technically civilized life (AD 1000 to 1800) begins with the clock, to Mumford the most important basis for the development of capitalism because time thereby becomes fungible (thus transferable). The clock is the most important prototype for all other machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_and_Civilization
BD is not going anywhere.

Robotics is the next frontier of war since our elites can't find enough idiots to kill/die for them. It's in a bit of equillibrium now since China has the upper hand in Hardware; US in Software. However, at this point, Robotics will rapidly become a natsec issue.

Pray for countries who can't afford R&D in this - they'll get genocided out like flies overnight, if they don't turn themselves over into slaves. We're looking at a the war-robot race by the end of this decade (legged robotics have made proven advances in the past 5y).
Of course some people have a hard time with the changed bottle caps. There are always people who have difficulties with any type of change.

I prefer the new caps, it's more convenient to manage one object than two.
RAG? Sure. I even implemented systems using it, and enabling it, myself.

And guess what: RAG doesn't prevent hallucination. It can reduce it, and there are most certainly areas where it is incredibly useful (I should know, because that's what earns my paycheck), but it's useful despite still hallucinations being a thing, not because we solved that problem.
And that's the reason hacking does not exist