skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably would have been nice to have one build now or even better 10 years ago. It's a good base of stable green energy to have during the transition. But planning to build a new one now seems purely political. It doesn't make sense when it takes 10 years to build at best. Every recent plant build in the west has had huge cost and time overruns. But then to make those costs back the plant has to compete with solar/wind/batteries for a good 20 years, STARTING IN 2035-2040. That's never going to work out financially. Solar is already cheaper and you will have to make those investments in the grid either way before the nuclear plant comes online.
All you have to do is google Flutter vs React Native

The trend for Flutter is a straight line going up and React Native is going down in popularity.

The trend was obvious many years ago, and just recently Flutter is now surpassing RN in nearly every poll.
That may be a theory but there's a much more mundane theory that explains the crunch of the last few years:

Tesla sold about 100,000 Model 3/Ys to Hertz for rental in 2021.

Hertz rented a ton of EVs to people who were only used to the acceleration curve of ICE cars.

A ton of those people unexpectedly crashed those cars [1].

This clogged up Tesla's repair channels and blew out the timeline for everyone else.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/18/business/why-do-people-ke...
It wraps around? The surface of the earth is also finite but unbounded (as a 2D space).
Andreas (the author of ladybird) started a language[0] that would be memory-safe and in which he would eventually write SerenityOS (and I assume LadyBird too). He hasn't committed to it for 6 months now so not sure what the status is.

At the end of the day, LadyBird is still a hobby project, so one of the main objective is to have fun which does not always coincide with rationality (although the decision to move on from NIH[1] is a sign that this might be changing).

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
If they want adoption, maybe a good idea to build a hybrid ladybird/firefox browser, where, if some page does not render well in ladybird, the user can switch to firefox based rendering with a simple mouse click.
> As a small fish you may like SSO, want SSO, you may even think you need SSO, but you really can get by without just fine.

SSO is the only way to get 2FA working without the friction becoming prohibitive.

If SSO is a paid feature, only in some plans, you're selling an insecure product. You wouldn't make security patches exclusive to the enterprise plan, you shouldn't make 2FA/SSO exclusive either.
I don't know what you base this on. Nuclear is heavily subsidized and cannot survive on its own. The price of nuclear waste storage is usually not included and even when money is put aside it's not enough. Germany's plant operators paid 23 billion to wash their hands of the mess and the tax payers will cover the rest (estimates go over 100 billion). Sellafield in the UK will cost over 200 billion to clean up. The French government is perpetually bailing out EDF and doing so as we speak because the EDF can't fund maintenance and building of its own planta. Etc. Etc.
There was forced deportation, not genocide.
Personally if I were to attempt a project at this scale, I'd do so using a language I'm proficient in. There might be other reasons, but Rust & C++ really are different beasts.
Optimism wards off procrastination
The term "algorithmically driven feed" is not used in the statute. It uses the term "addictive feed". This term is defined in the statute.

Section 1500(1): "Addictive feed" shall mean a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, either concurrently or sequentially, are recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information associated with the user or the user's device, unless any of the following conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another: ..."

Is sorting by most commented, most upvoted or most viewed "based on information associated with the user or the user's device"? The answer should be self-evident.

Whether HN "counts as social media" is irrelevant if it is not an "addictive social media platform", another term defined in the statute. Under that definition, if a website does not offer an "addictive feed" then it is not an "addictive social media platform".
>> In practice and under customary law, a declaration of war is no longer necessary for a state of war to exist

Was it ever? Under customary law, a state of war exists between any two parties by default. What needs to be declared is peace, which is why so many ancient peace treaties survive.
Yeah, I do, unless it's small enough for me to maintain or already mainly maintained by people unaffiliated with those companies. The country they have their headquarters in is quite belligerent and they are habitually criminal, e.g. with regards to data protection rights.

If you want command line incantations you can easily invent your own program to do the edits, simple with sed or awk, more advanced with JAXB. The reason no one does is that XML editors are quite capable and in practice pom-editing isn't particularly annoying.

I agree that MICROS~1 is trying to woo developers, but in every other area I'm looking they're absolute dogshit. They seem to want to turn consumer Windows into a rent a thin client sort of deal, their strategy in acquisition seems entirely driven by the threat of anti-trust legislation when it's not clearly insane, stuff like that. If they reach a degree of developer lock-in they find sufficient I'm sure they're going to do Oracle style squeezes.
Stuxnet alone had several...
There’s a plethora of cia, nsa, “what have you” guys at OpenAI, Google, Meta, you name it — should every other country in the world ban US software?

Or are there “good” intelligence officers and “bad”?

The moment some backdoor is discovered in Kaspersky, it is done as a product all over the world. That’s the best protection about any alleged government connections exploiting the software.

The notion of open market, competition, democracy is only exercised when it is your products that should undermine the locals.

The moment it is not, you start hearing stuff like “overcapacity” (what a nice term) of china manufacturing — what a hypocrisy.

As soon as US starts loosing the positions, it wriggles just as any “dictatorship” protecting its interest by quickly dismissing the free market as it needs.
The progress we're seeing in solar has made me the most optimistic about a de-carbonized future in years.
I have no doubt that the decision the Chinese government made to heavily subsidize solar manufacturing will make this world a better place.

Already we're seeing that solar energy is more cost effective than all other forms of energy production [1], that the growth of solar has been consistently underestimated by very large players [2], and that solar democratizes energy production more than any other form of energy.

Distibution needs to be improved, but this issue also holds for other non-fossil energy sources. I predict a lot of these problems will be solved through hydrogen generation and storage [3].

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-does-almost-everyone-unde...
[3] https://www.iea.org/energy-system/low-emission-fuels/hydroge...
Plenty of geometries are finite but unbounded, the simplest is a circle.
The language “legalese” was invented when it turned out that being proficient in English does not protect you against malicious contract partners.

(The success of legalese is still debated, but its existence is generally accepted)
Maybe if someone recently spotted their crawler somewhere.
Install a new version of firefox, have a look in settings under "data" (or whatever they call it in english). There you will see "studies" as activated, which is cryptic talk for ad tracking. And more recently, literal tracking for a advertisement company.

And as a bonus, those were added and activated as features via update, without telling. At least for me.

(and paid ads you have on the home screen)
Specifically on mobile?
ugh tell me about it. I have a Delta inverter.. the interface is rou out of the late 90's... its so bad it passes the password through the url in plain text.

am actively looking to replace it
My team publishes a cross-platform library/SDK with support for Flutter, React Native, Web and KMP.

Right now, we're seeing a lot of interest in Flutter for new cross-platform apps. I personally find it a really pleasant development experience.

We're also seeing a lot of interest in React Native. In our case possibly less than Flutter only because there is more competing libraries available for React Native.

We're also seeing interest in KMP, but much less than Flutter or React Native - I'd guess it's probably 5% or less of our users. It may have a good future, but it's not there yet in terms of current usage.
I mean, contrary to Chomsky, that certainly advanced statistical models are able to capture all grammar - at least, nit worse than ordinary humans.

It feels that Chomsky’s understanding of ML stopped at the level of Markov chains.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
WannaCry is famously based on EternalBlue leaked from the NSA. If you don’t follow the highest profile news in this space, you probably shouldn’t make very confident statements on this topic.
Murena is the creator of /e/OS a pro-privacy operating system for smartphones which consists of a fully "deGoogled" mobile operating system (i.e. AOSP minus the parts that connect to Google online services) and carefully selected applications, together forming a privacy-enabled internal environment for mobile phones.

Full disclosure: I'm a user of a Murena / Fairphone device, and an investor in the Company.
OK good to know, yeah, we even have a whole new concurrency model in Swift which makes offloading things a lot safer and easier than it used to be.
I disagree.

I think you are presenting a gradual incremental change as some sort of binary transition, and it isn't. This is at best disingenuous and misleading and at worst it's a flat out lie.

Text-only natural language interfaces were working in the 1960s and working well by the 1980s.

Live real-time speech recognition with training was working by the turn of the century, and following a hand injury, I was dictating my work into freeware for a while by 2000 or so. It was bundled with later versions of IBM OS/2 Warp.

Real-time speaker-independent speech recognition started working usefully well some 15 years ago, and even as a sceptic who dislikes such things, I was using it and demonstrating it a decade ago. It's been a standard feature of mainstream commercial desktop OSes as well as smartphones for about 8-9 years. Windows 10 (2015) included Cortana; macOS Sierra (2016) included Siri.

In fact, after I posted my previous comment, this morning Facebook reminded me that 8Y ago today I was installing Win10 on my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad.

I don't allow any of these devices in my home but they're a multi-billion dollar in domestic voice-controlled hardware.

This is mainstream used by a double-digit percentage of humanity.

You seem to have been deceived by the LLM bot fakery of "intelligence" that it's achieved some quantum leap in smarts recently. This is illusory.
> why we're still writing applications

> Have we not learned our lesson yet

Why are you speaking like this project is asking you to write code in C++? You are free to exclusively write Rust. Other people writing C++ has 0 impact on what you're writing or what lessons you've learned.
I don't see it yet on us-west-2 (bedrock -> model access). Do you mean another region? Or does the account have to be in a special canary group?
Not to mention we're talking about programming games here and you generally preload your assets and don't mess with them dynamically or your performance tanks. It's not only systems programming.
Multi-Head RAG: Optimizing Complex Query Retrieval
Right, a lot of the problem with anti-intellectualism is actually the people who define their viewpoint as The Science and try to shut down those who disagree as being "against the science".
Hate is a human emotion and adjective in the English language. What are you talking about? Just trying to make the conversation ridiculous? Sorry for you
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The trend for Flutter is 10 to 50 apps, the trend for React Native is in the thousands
Yes and those forks exists and are a solution now.

But long term, I would much rather see a truly independent open source browser engine.
Considering it's lifespan and low external costs (like grid extension and energy storage for renewables) - it is cheap. What makes it expensive is politics.
> I just don't believe

Is it possible to compute without consciousness? (Yes.)

Is it possible to perform calculation over ideas without consciousness? Apparently so.

> understanding

You should prove that a "formal" form of understanding would be insufficient for reasoning.
I will give you this: The emergence of mature powerful web browsers made it possible to move a lot of functionality to the end-user's device and that gave raise to the frontend / backend developer split. But you are pointing to a specific frontend technology (react) and that is not the culprit here.
> solar energy is more cost effective than all other forms of energy production

Your source doesn’t include wind, which is as cheap (onshore) as (utility-scale) solar [1].

[1] https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... slide 2
I am going to quote your own article back to you verbatim because it says something entirely different to what you seem to be claiming.

“The letter sent to Grassley reveals that there have been at least 12 recorded cases of spies abusing their powers since 2003”.

So, no, the NSA is not out there abusing their powers to go after illegitimate targets. It’s also worth keeping the context that this was in a pre-Snowden era.

In 2024 you can’t access a single thing without their being a log of who you are and why you are looking at it and under what legal statute that is allowed precisely to prevent something like that ever happening again.

What you are implying simply isn’t true.
Unlike Flutter, React is web worthy
One could argue that Python forces you to write an enormous amount of regression tests, which will help build an understanding of the system. Whether that is more productive at the end of the day is a different question.
> One datapoint is that Google rewrote their Google Docs app in KMM (which doesn't include UI, that's Compose Multiplatform)

Can you point me to the source? I'm curious
Say, Wayland doesn't and will never support remote displays will it?
GUI libraries and a browser engines are vastly different things.
Think of Ladybird as Blink, Webkit or Gecko.
Does ChatGPT make us dumber?
ok, this may be a red herring.

Still, in a couple of years when Compose Multiplatform is mature, and Google is looking to boost profit margin, they may rationalise their investment in multiple Cross Platform toolkits. I think most agree that, from a technical viewpoint, KMP + Compose Multiplatform offers the most flexibility.
Ladybird is sponsored now and I seem to remember that Andreas is paid full time to work on it. I don't think Ladybird is still strictly a hobby project anymore.

But it was definitely started as a hobby project so your point still stands, mostly.

(to be clear, I'm not answering to the question of which programming language should be used to write Ladybird)
Wonderful idea. It strikes me that anyone in the selection / allocation / decision business becomes more credible by illustrating the anti-selection like this. Kudos to BVP.
this "it's always DNS" thing is getting a bit old
I don't see it as flamewar style, it was stating a fact, in response to the parent comment but ok maybe it would have been better if I have added broader explanation of the opinion along the fact. Or refrain from commenting on touchy subjects.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-kotlinconf-2024-...

For the name of the internal framework, I can't remember which podcast I heard it on, but they haven't mentioned it publicly much if at all. It's something they threw together in like 2012.
Go ahead, make SAML, Kerberos, LDAP, whatever custom solution paid. But OIDC should be free, ideally even with my own Keycloak. Go ahead and put all the customizations in the paid tier, again, fine. If I want user/role mapping, I can set it up in keycloak.

But it's silly paying more than a FTE's salary just for the SSO tax when you've got 5 people.
Because its fun, and because it might break the chromium monopoly we're currently living in, some day far in the future.
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I wouldn't know, but the experience I've had with Flutter as a dependency is that when a company has been struggling for a year, eighteen months, and topples and ends up on my table I usually need to tell prospective buyers that the mobile application is going to need maintenance before they can get the 'stores' to accept it and they can relaunch the system.

It also seems relatively difficult to find developers compared to React Native, which otherwise seems to share those maintenance requirements.
yes, most of the economy actually works by privatizing gains and externalizing losses.

in your example it would probably be you abusing the court system for something that it is not intended for yet obligated to handle
Yeah, I've always seen these cross-platform frameworks competing with the web more than they compete with native apps.
…but is Java such a language? Wrapping everything in a hundred layers and making interfaces for everything, as is tradition, that is also a great way to create errors that are not obvious and will never be tangible by formal analysis.
It could be done in Rust, but I suspect a life long C++ expert would like to use the language they know the best, when writing something at this scale, rather than first learning a new language.
I think it’s actually you who is missing context here. We are talking about a single example
Of the NSA hitting innocent people on mass and you gave me an example of North Korea in response and are trying to say that because they used an exploit that was originally developed by the NSA that it’s somehow the same thing. It’s not, it’s not even close.
"the program searched for terms as broad as 'TOP SECRET'"

It is a good line for the script in a second part of the movie with the same name. As a excuse to justify the banning of an Antivirus... weak as the Intelligence of some Chief Commander in the New World. Not a Big-EEndian. Swift...
These kind of things are also why four colours are actually _not_ always enough, in the real world. Countries can have exclaves :)
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It's speculation with no basis at all, OAI has a track record of releasing half step models and 4o is no different just like 3 to 3.5 and the numerous subsequent 3.5 releases.

If you've used 4 and 4o they are too similar for 4o to have been trained from scratch
“the original one which was not solvable this way” doesn’t seem to fit in that interpretation.
If you talk about North Stream, it doesn't prove US is at war with Russia. It proves US is at war against Germany and the EU.
Meanwhile in Germany, the price for Solar power has literally plummeted below zero. There is vast oversupply during peak times and no storage capacity.

On scale, free energy supply is pointless when it occurs during times when nobody can use it. It's all about storage capacities.
>Sites like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Forbes, and others are showing very few new pages being indexed in the past hour by Google Search.

Is this only affecting news sites then?
Here is a list of companies from the page:

Airbnb, Apple, Atlassian, Coinbase, eBay, Facebook, FedEx, Google, Intel, Intuit, Kayak, Okta, PayPal, Snapchat, Tesla, Zoom, Instacart

Interesting notes from the page:

1. Apple: Bessemer had the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO secondary stock in Apple at a $60M valuation. Neill Brownstein called it “outrageously expensive.”

2. Coinbase: Ethan’s pithy response would go on to earn Brian and Coinbase a spot in the Anti-Portfolio for life: “There’s really no questions you could answer that would cause me to invest!” Almost nine years later, Coinbase would go public in a direct listing valuing the leading crypto exchange at $85.8 billion – or just a mere 8,580x the price Brian had eagerly offered up!
I wrote a clean C++ version of `wc` for fun, and successfully beat the system version by 10-20% iirc. My goal was to make the code much more readable than the GNU/C version, which is a big spaghetti loop, while maintaining the same semantics (ie. return the same counts).

Blog posts:

https://bytepawn.com/tag/wc.html

Code:

https://github.com/mtrencseni/wcpp/
> Around 50% of your taxes go to social security and medicare

I Googled about this. It looks reasonably accurate:

> Mandatory spending and entitlements (a) Social Security ($845B or 24% of spending), (b) Healthcare such as Medicare and Medicaid ($831B or 24%)

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...

I wonder if this spending split is common in all other highly developed nations (think: OECD level). My guess: Yes.
Apparently now fixed:

"20 Jun 2024 22:06 PDT
We identified and fixed the issue with indexing. Sites may still experience some delayed indexing until the previously affected URLs have been reprocessed. There will be no more updates."

https://status.search.google.com/incidents/Gjz5TP3aaDRmKsSWg...
Yes. These output AC per-panel. Connect'em in parallel. Presumably the amperage is related to the incident light intensity.
You might want to colour the exclave the same colour as the rest of its country, even though no connection can exist between them on the plane.
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That is not the context at all. I said when an NSA exploit gets out in the wild. Not that NSA would actively target randoms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...

"Mechanisms and institutions that are corrupted, dysfunctional, or absent in low-trust societies include respect for private property rights, a trusted civil court system, democratic voting and acceptance of electoral outcomes, and voluntary tax payment."
I'm no windows expert but I recall windows had introduced some signature checking and other security measures in Windows.

Chances are that more than telemetry, some of that kind of checks are being made on the binary and the libraries it loads on startup.

I'm a 100% GNU/Linux guy but it would be dishonest not to acknowledge that Windows security has improved a lot if compared to where it was once upon a time.

It's a big sad thing that Microsoft is pushing so many dystopic stuff, Windows could have become a great OS.
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_immersion. There are schools and kindergartens that specialize on this, though the degree of immersion varies.
I feel dumb already, nowhere to fall
Drastic measures to avoid model degradation because of feedback loops ;)
What is happening currently in Syria? The USA hast still some forces there taking control of oil fields in a sovereign country. Can we count that as war?