skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMHO it's just a self fulfilling prophecy.

Except C++ was once more popular than Java, as was Visual Basic. PHP was almost as popular and Ruby was on its way. Java is quite exceptional in how long it remained as popular as it has, so clearly popularity can't explain its own longevity.

> viewing any of those as a valid reason for choosing to use/learn/teach Java implies favoring convenience over value.

Well, the software market is under heavy selective economic pressure, so you'd expect things that actually provide value to spread rather quickly. Indeed, things like unit tests and GCs -- once they met a certain level of "production quality" --spread very quickly, and now it seems like various AI assistants could end up another such example. So if something doesn't spread quickly, it's fairly safe to assume that it doesn't really offer the value the market cares about.

It's like the story of VHS and Betamax, where, at least according to the popular story, Betamax fans thought it was of superior technical quality because of its better picture, but VHS's technical superiority was in recording time, and ultimately the market saw more value in the latter than in the former.

Java's evolution is being designed very carefully, and we at least try to select features that we think could offer real business value -- which also includes not just theoretical power, but the actual ability of most programmers to put a feature to good use -- and not to introduce features that we think are cool (or those that we feel like we're trying to rationalise their value). Of course, we don't always stick to that, but we try (popular languages are generally stingy with features because there's a pretty clear negative correlation between language "richness" and its success). You may think this is obvious, but designers of less popular languages often very much don't think like that at all.
The technology was, and still is, amazing. It's unmatched by anything in the modern days. Supposed modern replacements require you to write non-trivial code just to get started, while flash introduced programming very gently. You could get reasonably far with just `goToAndStop(frame)`.

The official implementation, on the other hand, was terrible. Thankfully Ruffle exists. It's written in Rust and at this point it flawlessly plays most of my flash game collection. Now if only we had open-source flash authoring software...
I wonder how many entities knew about this before today
Pure hearsay, but apparently ElasticSearch is considerably faster than OpenSearch. Would be good to compare the sources again, but I don't see any links to source on elastic.co yet.
> I previously gave Clojure a try, that was a pretty good fit, but the JVM / ecosystem put me off.

ClojureScript / Squint then
I am moving from New Jersey to Delaware - for me that is far from civilization, but can make it up by a once a month trek for the food scene in NJ.
With coreboot?
Why Wind Energy Is in a State of Crisis
The actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

It certainly sounds like the first plausible explanation for the signal, though if this is credible it's remarkable it took nearly 50 years.
Erlang? (If Swedish is good enough).
It's good to see Java with this much resources and momentum behind it. Not my first choice of a language but the community has always been solid and I don't have qualms about using it to develop business solutions if that's what everyone wants to use.
The US government opens up more federal lands for solar – to 31M acres
In some ways it makes sense to run your own LLM locally, one that's optimized for your tech stack and code base. For this reason I prefer the concept of Continue to Cursor.
All of Google's JavaScript and TypeScript is compiled with Closure compiler. It's not going anywhere.

You're only relating the two because they share a name from being kind of sort of part of the same project 20 years ago. Closure library hasn't been used internally for a new code for a very long time.
A quick review of the lecture notes shows its more just a recipe cookbook for some basic tasks...I don't really see how this is a university course.
Do people maximize the browser window on a 1440p monitor? I don't. Mine is usually around half the width of the screen because most sites don't stretch beyond that in a sensible way.
If you're interested in historical buildings, go ahead, visit Bletchley Park. But expect most of the exhibits to be buildings, living quarters, offices etc. and mundane descriptions of day-to-day life there, not exhibits about the technical/cryptological aspects (although they do have some of those too).

If you're interested in computer history and Bombe/Colossus, visit the much lesser known National Museum of Computing at the same site. https://www.tnmoc.org/

I spent way too much time at the the boring parts of Bletchley Park and as a result didn't have enough time for the Museum of Computing.

I'd recommend starting at the Museum of Computing, then if you have time left, the 1-2 buildings inside the official Bletchley Park museum that have the crypto exhibits.
Ah makes sense (that 12V is just implied for RVs). I'm used to dealing with 48V, since I'm doing this for a house, and it seems like they specify batteries both ways in that world. I wonder who uses 24V.

Anyway, thanks for explaining it.
Eastern US is a bit harder, but Western? It’s just a handful of cities and towns in a wilderness.

Go to Wyoming or Montana. You get a 2 or 3 hr drive outside major cities and you might be the only person around for 10+ miles.
It's also feasible that by withholding user data from the French intelligence services, Durov has saved lives.
There have been several incidents recently involving the involvement of French intelligence officials in murderous schemes.

for more - https://www.oxfordlawyers.com.au/
This sounds like an ambitious project with a number of interesting technical challenges. It may be some time before the tooling will exist to support your use case, but then again, you can always build custom tooling of your own! It's very interesting to see how with minimal intervention, many of these operations seem very close to being automated. Thanks for sharing!
Costs are falling and installs are rapidly increasing? It didn't make sense to build them so far due to limited renewables on grid, you need to regularly produce (a lot) more than load. Like in CA.

And Pumped hydro is great wherever it's possible, don't see why it needs to be pitted against BESS.
I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
> There aren't really finite seats on a bus.

Huh - are you being serious? Of course the number of seats on a bus is finite. And the number of buses in a city are finite. The raw materials and energy used to produce and power the bus are finite. The pool of labor needed to drive and maintain the bus is finite. The tax revenue to fund all of this is finite.

Yes, it is possible to add more buses. But doing so requires drawing from a finite pool of resources. So it makes sense to incentivize people to use public resources more efficiently.

> And most buses are not going to be 100% full most of the time. So if you have an empty seat, the cost is zero.

I think this is a very good argument for time-of-use based fares. (Of course you don't want to gouge people who are commuting to work/school, but if there's a way to incentivize people to spread out the load while still keeping things affordable, I think that would be a good thing).

Just to be clear, since you have kind of made this about cars vs. mass transit, I'm not at all against mass transit. I'm in favor of applying the same principals to roads to incentivize people to use cars more efficiently as well. Tolls and parking meters (with time-of-use pricing), gasoline surcharges, etc.
Not really. Those projects now use JsLayout, Wiz, and a couple of other more modern libraries.

There may be some Closure widgets on very old, barely maintained, pages, but they'll be fine. Closure library is still in the Google monorepo, it's just not going to be copied to GitHub anymore.
It's very much true.

It's in the agreement. They only show you the agreement after you've filled out the form to some degree.
Why is that sad? These can be logging trails you’d need to squint to actually see in the brush.

And 115 miles? That’s a huge distance.
US only. Should be clarified in title or subtitle
No, it was settled a few months ago. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/lawyers-...

> The plaintiffs had asked for $5 billion in damages, but the settlement provided no monetary relief. Individuals will be allowed to file claims in state courts, and Boies Schiller lawyers have said they already filed more than 1,000 such cases in California state court, with plans to file many more.
Dell ProSupport is exceptional and worth extending. Rapid access to competent technical human in US mainland.
I'd guess the latter.

My SO wanted Google Assistant at home after gotten used to it in our Android Automotive-based car. So I've been dabbling with local LLMs, as a learning experience.

I got one prompt which classifies the question, ie asking for weather, math question or knowledge etc. There I ask it to only output the category, so I can easily do different things based on that.

For knowledge-based stuff I include our town and country, tell it to use metric units and be brief. I tell it to ask clarifying questions if needed. If I don't it'll use miles, or both miles and km, and be too long-winded and assumes too much.

For calculations, I've been asking it to output Octave code that computes the answer, giving the result in a specific variable name, and without explanation. If it can't then output a special sequence. Without it'll include explanations of what the code does and not be consistent with variable naming.

Been using Gemma 9B so far, which performs well on my aging 2080Ti, and haven't actually put all the pieces together yet (my SO asked last weekend). But seems very promising, and adding the extra instructions for each task radically changes the output and makes this approach viable.

Btw, I know there are probably tons of these assistants out there. I just enjoy figuring out how things work.
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted, but I loved how on QNX I could restart the network driver process when it crashed.

(this was while developing a router, so the under development network driver process crashing was a frequent situation)
it's kind of ironic they would push a pop-over promotion for something they could have just sent as an email
I did get a refund thankfully
Do they always work? Can't they pin certs?
If this is supposed to be some sort of "own", you're missing my point. I do not want my HIPAA-protected information going any further than it needs to, I do not want these practices to be encouraged. I understand HIPAA etc. are leaky, that people are inventing new ways to leak my information to people who want to buy it, and so on.

That is different from taking the pipeline of information directly from my insurance provider and firing it off into the public eye in a way that prevents it from being deleted or forgotten, even if it may be anonymized to some extent.

I understand the situation is not good. I want it to not be made worse. I'm not sure if you ignored the sibling thread where I felt I made myself clear.
I like the layout. I like the Try with Angolia button. I like the search recommendations.

But when I search for "FreebBSD" I get:

* FreeBSD is an amazing operating system

* FreeBSD Is an Operating System

* 9x FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

In the top 15 results, 10 are duplicates. And none of the articles are interesting.

If I sort by points instead of relevance, nothing has to do with FreeBSD.
> It is a program when I can do java tlatk.TLC someprogram.tla.

TLC is a program that takes TLA+ formulas as input and produces an output. I have a program that reads newspaper articles out loud. Doesn't make those articles programs or their authors programmers.

> Is there a difference? No

You're using implication in the wrong direction. Some mathematics can indeed appear in a programming language, but the question is not whether there's something in TLA+ that could be in Python or whether you can specify a Java program in TLA+ -- of course you can. The question is whether there's something in TLA+ that cannot be in a programming language, and, indeed, there is. All Prolog programs are programs; you can run them. Not only can you not many TLA+ specifications (or mathematical formulas in general) in a similar way to a program, many mathematical formulas cannot possibly describe any program that's implementable in the real world. You can write mathematical propositions about non-computable real numbers; you can specify a decision oracle for the halting problem (and because you can do it in mathematics, you can write it formally in TLA+).

Similarly, the fact you can specify orbital dynamics in maths doesn't make it physics, and it's easy to see it's not physics because you can just as easily specify motion that breaks physical laws.

> Maybe you don't consider this programming, but people have done more with less

You can certainly run computer programs that tell you interesting stuff about a TLA+ specification, and you can even say that the existence of such programs is the source of much of the value in TLA+. But you can run interesting and useful programs that do stuff with images, yet however you want to look at it philosophically, most photographers and programmers would agree that photography and programming are two pretty different disciplines even though photographers may use software in their work.
I was just trying to understand your perspective on laws that forbid allowing non-citizens to vote. I guess I realized I wasn't aware of American citizens who believe non-citizens should be legally allowed to vote in federal elections, and my question about xenophobia was, in retrospect, intended to explore that.
That’s funny, I usually think of the FBI as the people you report the abuse cases to.
I don't buy this number. Text-only common crawl is 20TB. Remove spam and dupes, you're around <10TB of current useful data. Which you can parse and index on a single server nowadays.

It's the full Google index history with full HTML that is probably 12PB, but the useful part of the search engine is much smaller.
The date of birth section only lets you select January through June lol.
I mean what would it have cost to just greenlight every applicant?
They can pin certs, but at least you know that you can't see that traffic and make a policy decision about allowing it anyways or trying to force the vendor to drop it.
I would expect they work on the same principles as a grid-tie inverter.

I can't help but wonder -- what if there are TWO of them in your house? could one generate enough power to make the other one think the grid is active, and vice versa?
> So, in some code it can make sense to "zap" subnormals, converting them to zero since they're almost zero anyway.

Flush to zero (FTZ) is the usual term for this.
You're quoting all the stuff TFA tries to debunk. Intel simply didn't have anything to offer at that point. XScale already lost edge and about to be sold, a matching x86 chip not on the horizon yet.
I fear things like needing to scan IDs everywhere (like public transit) and then having your ID revoked for whatever reason (political, financial, whatever). If you look at China, you can see how digitization has been abused to infiltrate and control daily things.
I miss the DVD commentaries and don't understand why they aren't an optional audio track on streaming services. People liked those, right?
For the past several years, SpaceX has attempted to recover their rockets in the ocean, with the well-understood risk that such a landing might fail, with the consequence of dumping the rocket into the ocean. SpaceX is currently the only orbital launch provider in the world with this capability. So on the rare occasion that this capability fails, SpaceX and SpaceX alone faces additional scrutiny over the otherwise completely acceptable consequence of the rocket getting dumped into the ocean.

It would be one thing if every launch provider faced scrutiny for not recovering their rockets, but they don't. As a matter of public policy, it's obviously acceptable to dump rockets into the ocean. Every other launch provider gets away with it. The US government gets away with it. SpaceX is the only launch provider that doesn't get away with it; they are, in effect, being penalized for having a capability that other launch providers don't have and plainly serves the public interest. This may indeed be an unintended consequence of FAA regulations being inflexible about "plans", but it is a consequence nonetheless.
no - in those cases you mention there are alternatives or work-around products available.. what work-around product is available to have real-time communication from remote spots in the Brazilian territory ?
Slab City is 100 miles from San Diego and only 160 miles from Los Angeles! That's not remote - remote should be classified using a decreasing population density over distance function.

Remote is somewhere like Nullarbor, which is 183 miles from Ceduna (population < 6000). It's over 1000km to Adelaide (population 1.3m) or 1600km to Perth (population 1.9m).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor,_South_Australia
Note also that the two museums have different schedules, so you'll want to make sure you go when both are open.
The problem is that in order for Google server to not record anything about incognito sessions it would have to treat them differently from non-incognito sessions.

This would mean one of two things:
- Everyone could detect incognito mode, and many sites would refuse to work with it, defeating the purpose of it for many cases.
- Only Google could detect incognito mode, which makes it still work with other sites, but is an obvious anti-trust risk.
Only for 2006. All months are available for earlier years.
Underscoring MY personal politics/cultural views, I just returned from a NC trip and was thinking it will take another decade of development for social change to take hold. Just insane amount of economic development is happening there, and hopefully the younger crowd will be more open for changes. I noticed that there was a lot of mobility into NC, not just the northern states that has been well documented, but also from TN, AL, GA, FL and even TX

Coming back to NJ, a neighbor mentioned that they are still fighting the civil war in the south, which the media seems to also resonate well.

Just a based view from a NJ resident
Incognito mode explicitly explains, in a very concise summary, what using the mode implies and doesn't imply every single time the user opens it.
> If you get turned down for a job, or your health insurance rates go up, or you have to pay more for something than you would have otherwise

It must suck to live in a capitalist dystopia. Dunno why Americans put up with it.
That IS the distinction at play here.
And that they launch new models so often that GPT could mean 3.5, 4, 4o mini, or 4, just to name the ones I know off the top of my head.
I loved this. It's really.. endearing and adorable? And it's what I wish the internet was used for more.

Thanks for the writeup!
Maybe just the truth in plain text, up front?
Little Fluffy Clouds was inspired by and famously used samples from minimalist composer Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint (among others).

I think this is about where they sampled it from https://youtu.be/plL2VDAoThU?t=745

then sped it up for BPM and equalized out the bass frequencies

Reich apparently was so happy with it when he heard it he told his record company not to sue the Orb.

Reich is one of my favorite composers and is a somewhat unexpected "uncle" to the electronic music revolution. Upon reflection it's not entirely surprising with long repetitive rhythmic passages that are somehow absolutely electrifying. Once you hear his work you realize that his influence is all over modern music.

https://youtu.be/edKE10Yz_zs

https://youtu.be/ZXJWO2FQ16c
edit: OK, that's enough takers.
As much as possible keep opinion seperate from observation.

Do you have any factual observations to add about censorship by Twitter 2.0?
The Bill of Rights begins with the words, "Congress shall make no law..." before enumerating some of the basic human rights that Congress is constitutionally prohibited from infringing. I think it is highly praiseworthy indeed that, unlike Parliament, Congress is constitutionally prevented from infringing on basic human rights. It is also highly praiseworthy that, unlike Parliament, Congress is constitutionally prevented from forming a kangaroo court to sentence the head of state to death or from subsequently installing a military dictatorship (which is the exact historical precedent whence parliamentary supremacy was established).
Show HN: Library for online updates of prompt, LLM-agnostic (OpenAI,Claude,Gem)
Features
CI/CD testing: Generates tests based on the ideal answer;
Dynamic Prompt Development: Avoid budget exceptions with dynamic data;
Multi-Model Support: Seamlessly integrate with various LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini;
Real-Time Insights: Monitor interactions, request/response metrics in production;
Prompt Testing and Evolution: Quickly test and iterate on prompts using historical data;
We care because it's just sad to see a country like Brazil that once had so much potential devolve back into a banana republic. Multiple political factions there are so focused on beating each other that they have lost sight what's best for the country as a whole. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Elon Musk or content moderation policies on X, losing access to Starlink can only be a negative for Brazil's economic development. In the real world, countries that lack superpower status can't afford to stand on principle in international disputes. They have to be pragmatic. It doesn't even really matter which side is morally or legally in the right in this particular pissing match. There's no good alternative to Starlink, Brazil is too poor to build an indigenous alternative, and everyone who needs broadband satellite service is going to suffer.

Brazilians deserve better.
It's worth pointing out the main reason why people are invested in robots, AI, or corporations is that you can own them as capital either for direct production purposes or secondhand economic benefits, often replacing human labor, which you cannot own.

This status difference is rooted in significant recognized differences and philosophical beliefs about the value of individuals, and in the idea that the law and society should exist to support that. It's pretty far from "purely legal" and the fact that we're going to let people own robots should be only one of the many clues that there's something different about them.
> I assume that doesn't apply to source code?

Why assume that?

".... with no carve-outs or limitations to protect sensitive trade secret information"

Seems like claiming source code to the device is private would be a carve out.
This caught me out when I was a teenager. Luckily, there was a chap in the Museum of Computing who was spending his Sunday working on the Colossus, and he was happy to let me in and show me around! I'll never forget that kindness, it was truly a fascinating trip.
There is (or should be, in any case) a difference between moderation and recommendation.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-opensearch-perform...
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-opense...

[I work for Elastic]
Tesla has been selling a "Full Self Driving" package for a decade, never delivered on their promises, and still faces zero consequences. This has mislead the gullible, some of whom are an active threat to public safety because of Tesla's marketing pap.
Eventually you get data residency asks to keep data in the right region and for that you need to have horizontal partitioning of some kind.