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> I stayed away from Flutter at first because it doesn't respect the DOM etc but at this point I'm willing to sell my soul to the devil for how easy it is to make a great UX that deploys anywhere.

Great UX, you say? Great UX!? Flutter’s unashamed pure-canvas approach makes it fundamentally and unfixably awful. Links don’t work because they’re fake (and it’s impossible to fake them), scrolling is atrocious for a significant fraction of users, text handling is obnoxious and wrong… seriously, speaking as a user, I’ve come across things made with Flutter three times in the last four years (plus looking at their demos), and Flutter makes for literally the worst user experience that I have come across in that time.

Now Flutter does actually have a DOM renderer, but it never seems to be used. I’m not entirely sure why. Actually, scratch that, I just went to find a link, and found https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/renderers only talking about canvaskit and skwasm, no mention of the html renderer any more… it seems like they deprecated it earlier this year <https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/145954>, and will presumably remove it some time soon, doubling down on pure-canvas. Well, at least that lets me more unconditionally condemn Flutter for the web.

Text is bad, especially if you use emoji. Links are bad because they’re fake. Scrolling is bad for a decent fraction of users. And none of these three are fixable if you insist on pure-canvas. (Links you could kinda make work tolerably if you were willing to compromise a little, but the other two just can’t be done.)

If you want more substance to my complaints about the pure-canvas approach, search HN comments for “chrismorgan canvas” or similar. I still haven’t finished reducing it to an article on my website.

If you intend to target the web and care about the web at all, please don’t use Flutter.
He did. But thankfully, we got Maximum Override before he quit directing and got clean. A film King himself admitted was directed by "Cocaine."
When you have 8 GPUs, you can use more than 1 at a time.
Reminds me of entropy.
I live in the US and can't recall ever having come across a pirate station. Sometimes people have little FM transmitters in their cars to get audio to their car stereos, but those have a range of meters.
I believe him that he's clean. If he was still coked up it would be reflected in the themes of his work. He doesn't really have a filter. That's sort of his special genius.
Yup, but I was also specifically pointing out that opus is quite tolerant of missing data (part of the article). With 90% data loss you can still pretty intelligibly understand what is being said.

So long as you can get pops of decodable signal, you'll be able to understand what's being said. Using a more robust modulation scheme would also go a long way in improving reach.

AM gets it's range benefits not from the modulation used, but from the frequencies it occupies.
What is Windows 11 LTSC missing? I use my Windows PC mainly for gaming & light web browsing/studying/coding.

I did have to manually install some Windows components I needed, e.g. the Windows store, but other than that I haven't had a single issue in the last few months I've been on it.

I'm not going to defend the normal version of Windows 11 (it sucks), but, again, the LTSC build is excellent.
I've associated them for a while with uber cheap hosting, while also being allegedlly* reasonable (Most of the time) and reliable

* Couldn't tell you, as they flagged my account and asked me for an ID Document I couldn't provide, Maybe I could have sorted it with Customer Service, but instead I just picked a different german hosting
> AM is dead, and FM is nearly there as well.

Overstated and incorrect. (The author reveals their own bubble in the preceding paragraph.)

Word selection matters; there is not point in using "dead" when we have more accurate words like "declining".

Talk is cheap. If the parent commenter wants to make a prediction about if/when AM and/or FM will die, I recommend going to a prediction market and practice making testable predictions. Most people are poorly calibrated. Many people would benefit from seeing how poorly calibrated they are firsthand. Losing is a powerful motivator for course correction.
I’m thankful I saw these pictures, if deeply unsettled.

We can’t (just) take an individualized approach to a solution, which is an artifact of the 80s and 90s when corporations and governments shifted responsibility to the individual to recycle a water bottle, for example.

It seems like the best solution is to impose a waste reduction fee that is built into price that pays for ewaste reduction. This could empower Ghanaians to build out this as a safer industry.

How much would that fee be? And who would spend the political capital to enact such a tariff? That’s the part that feels impossible.
I presume you mean a rolling stop and not a yield?
I agree. Also, many modern diesels, like Mercedes Blue-Tec, power down completely when they come to a complete stop, like in a traffic jam. (I don't like the idea, and I frankly find it a bit annoying, but Mercedes does make solid and reliable equipment.)
They became a serious VPS contender amongst DigitalOcean, Linode, and other similar providers. DigitalOcean raised prices while Hetzner gave more powerful server capacity (read double) at lower price points. Hetzner has been increasingly popular in self-hosting communities.

I started using their services since last year for some of the operations, including business, and it's been rock solid. I plan on increasing usage, but will hold on this new object storage offering.
The AM radio community is definitely small and kind of niche, but I always had more fun listening to Coast to Coast on a late night road trip than I ever did listening to FM.
Truthfully I'd say about 60% of drivers in the States have no business behind the wheel of anything, much less the mammoth pedestrian-devouring SUVs and trucks we're such fans of. It is shocking how BAD it is getting.

I think COVID really kicked the enshittification of drivers here into a new realm. That spat where driving tests were suspended in so many places and driving school wasn't workable has let a couple years worth of drivers onto the road who had almost no practical instruction, and it fucking shows. And it's not like most people were good before that. For the vast majority, driving is a chore and you can tell that by the absolutely bare-minimum efforts put into it.
There are a finite number of poor countries. At the rate wealth is being generated it is conceivable that they all get wealthy enough that the waste gets handled well.

And this stuff all started out in heavy metals deposits, it is already present underground somewhere. The only real question is how serious the effects on humans are with any method of disposal. It isn't at all clear there is a problem as long as it is buried fairly deep and not leeching into the water table.
Exactly. At the end of the day Google has to pay for that bandwith too, and they manage to do it with only ads. Bandwith is not as expensive as some people think, many hosting companies just like to overcharge.
They are, but that doesn't mean people have to use them that way. They will get use all over and not just in rural areas
Eh, Bing’s index and infrastructure are perfectly adequate and they’ve still got a single digit market share. One might argue other people dont have them (others once did) because Google’s brand moat drowned the competition and makes nobody else bother.

OpenAI could build a moat in a lot of different ways including ones that haven’t been thought of yet.

They’ll find several I am sure.
I don't know about the last year, maybe they ramped up their marketing. But they've been pretty popular in my circle for the past 6-7 years, mostly because price/performance ratio is really favorable. I use it for the past ~3y.
Python 3.13.0 Is Released
This brings back a vague memory of smacking the side of a pinball machine just right and getting a free game. I bet it was the same concept.
I don't know, I recently saw electric drills for €29 at Aldi and to my surprise they used brushless motors! They will probably last an eternity for hobbyist (minus the batteries).
Stupendously large: How big can black holes get?
I have as well, in hurricane zones, but electricity was out for multiple weeks, but gasoline was still available (if quite expensive due to market forces, but of course that meant that there were still a few gallons available for everyone.)
Yeah, slow down to 3-5 mph and make sure there’s nobody coming, then keep going.
> to hear Armorica, the ancient Gaulish name meaning place by the sea

This line gave me synchronicity shivers. There's a recent SMBC comic that's been linked a few times on HN recently: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/arthur. The other day it sent me down a minor rabbit hole reading about Brittany, where I stumbled upon this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany#/media/File:Britonia6.... I (a Brit) thought that "Armorica" sounds exactly like "America" and looked up the meaning: "place by the sea". I realised I'd never looked up the origin of the name America but this must be it. So I googled around and was disappointed when I found the story about Vespucci. Cool to know that it's still somewhat in dispute.
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The fact that it isn’t making money now isn’t indicative it never will. I can think of a lot of very large tech companies who people once said the same about.
They are cheap. People have more of a focus on cost recently which pushes back against AWS. As far as vibes go, more people seem to be getting back into managing their own machines and self-hosting. I think Linode used to fill that void but for various reasons they relinquished that opportunity.
Yes. I would pay any reasonable amount, but Microsoft doesn't make it available to consumers, so I don't feel bad about it. I found it here: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

They include instructions for verifying the ISO integrity. Activation uses their tool but I believe the method is straightforward to do on your own.
...

"Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research."
From the release:

"In the late 1980s, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of Robert Horvitz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002."

So a single MIT lab produced 3 Nobel laureates; I'd say that's impressive. (Noting that the 2 current laureates had moved on to Harvard and Mass Gen when they did the relevant work.)
Yes, it's juicefs objbench.

Wonderful tool. Useful for figuring out where some of these cheaper S3 alternatives make their cuts.
It is insane to me that views of consciousness and cognition other than physicalism still exist in mainstream scientific and philosophical discourse. As far as I can tell, no matter how much discourse you dress it up in, any alternative boils down to "it's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit".
A distressing number of people who don't understand roundabouts will just blow straight through them.
"It's just one resistor (15 ohms) and one wire, soldered to DQ26. The wire acts like an antenna, picking up any nearby EM interference and dumping it straight onto the data bus."

really neat hack. using the lighter to create EM interference. better go light up next to my DDR bus and see what happens :)
Sweden objects!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day#In_the_Nord...
>> It's old, but the beginning especially is just a non-stop adventure. It always drags a bit for me after the first third, but picks up again and continues to be great throughout.

Yeah, as much as I love Count Monte Christo as a story, being it a movie (https://youtu.be/qesn8pV9yu8?si=ssccZfQGf9F1fCk3), series (https://youtu.be/bF1Z7irZLdY?si=oDF0OnB-1NWVfwZq) or anime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gankutsuou:_The_Count_of_Monte...), the book gets so slow after first third that I have never actually read it through till the end.

Its a pity that we can have new cuts of movies (Zack Snyders Justice League vs original one) but we will never get George R. R. Martin version of Count of Monte Cristo.
is it even a roundabout or just a strange 3 way intersection?

like in a normal roundabout you always yield to the people in the roundabout basically assuring things won't get "stuck" if one road has much more traffic then another

but on the picture it looks (through the lines) as if the people in roundabout have to yield

in which case it wouldn't technically be a roundabout but just a 3 way intersection which separated and lanes to archive some traffic flow optimizations and calming as necessary (as such the sharp edges might angels might be very much intentional)

and I agree it looks confusing but it also looks like it will slow down traffic in all but one of the directions

EDIT: Photos on google maps have much more sane lane markings and it resolves the question if you have to yield when entering it (yes you have). It generally looks much less confusing there.
> Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Spectrum is a finite, shared resource. Especially these lower frequency bands.
Ask HN: Are ocean liners for passenger travel by sea dead?
I've sometimes thought I'd prefer to travel by sea, especially for short to medium length trips between countries where ferries are not an option.

Has air travel totally replaced such a travel option? Why?

Not everyone is in so much of a hurry that a week or so of travel by sea is not an option, and that could reduce emissions. Or is it that the economics do not work out?
great value and reliability
Diesel pumps in a truck stop (on the commercial side, where the big rigs fill up) are incredibly fast.

(Side note: I have noticed that the prices on the big rig side of a truck stop are usually slightly higher for the same diesel fuel!)
1911 is still a great design. yeah, single-action trigger, but there are draw techniques which rack the slide and the gun is designed to enable these-- and double-action requires a heavier first trigger pull, which can throw your aim off both for the first shot (heavy pull) and second shot (massively easier pull but you are expecting heavy).

Yeah, small magazine compared to 9mm, but that's because police tactics have changed; the 1911 was not designed for "fire and maneuver" tactics. 1911 is more "one shot stop", something which 9mm doesn't do reliably.
Tried to use the example on the documentation:

llama_init_from_gpt_params: error: failed to create context with model 'Meltemi-7B-Instruct-v1.5-Q8_0.gguf'
main: error: unable to load model

Is something missing?
The biggest problem with a 4-way stop in a busy city is that it can be easy to miss the stop sign which makes it easy to cause an accident, which could kill someone.

No matter how terribly designed, it's hard to entirely miss a roundabout. You basically need to be incoherent.
Counterpoint to most of the posts here - I don’t see this and think “wow we should stop using things”, I see this and think “wow, we need to sort out governance / fix poverty”.

A well run landfill looks nothing like this and these are in no way a foregone conclusion of someone throwing away an old iPhone 3 or whatever.

There is no more correlation here than with, say, Newton has the apple fall and then we cut to scenes of firebombing.
The point seemed to be that a lot of promised things did not appear. My point was that some did.
Apple needs to be able to recognize when they have a good product that resonates with their customers. I have a 2nd gen IPhone SE and love it. All I want to do is add more storage. Thinking it may be time to get a 3rd gen with more storage? That should do me for another five years! Maybe by then Apple will have figured out that there's a cadre of us who prefer small phones, adequate cameras, and overall simplicity.
Not quite correct. Their dedicated servers base configuration have 1gig. But when ordering you can add 10gig as an easy option (or add later).
The 1 gig is too cheap to meter with free traffic. If you choose 10gig you pay for the traffic. Those who need it might use it :-)
Well not every application can read any file and either way "sq" isn't going going to make any difference. Like I said they are real issues but don't arise in this case.
Newline and pipe mean the same thing and are interchangeable.
https://i.etsystatic.com/6116433/r/il/b8dd9a/2633014993/il_6...
Strict typing can enforce proper composition from models to the request responses.

Rust is a high AND low level lego due to type composition and ability to directly address memory with no hacky garbage collection required.

Garbage collection is a bad idea when your state machine is basically a stateless request response cycle that can fit in n stack frames and has a defined lifetime ending in the response.

Interpreted languages calculate runtime code paths on an ad-hoc basis and are subject to bugs that a binary executable will never encounter.

One can objectively state that Interpreted languages and their virtual machines are LESS DETERMINISTIC than binary executables whose runtime code already exists at compilation time.

Of course, shared libs and other things that violate the spirit of the above can wreak havoc with even binaries, however the executable is a finite artifact.
all true, unfortunately.
It seems to me that your questions are answered by that privacy policy.

Showing articles without ads is not the same thing as not showing ads at all.

They also explicitly say that they will profile you, are engaged with affiliate advertising networks, and will send you promotional emails and push notifications.
Stig of the Dump and Peter Pan.

As an adult I can now see as a child I was drawn by lonely characters, finding friends and going on adventures. I was well cared for in my family but not emotionally. I was the boy who turned up at your house on Christmas Day. I invested too much energy in transient friends and running the streets. I am very happy to say my kids have had an entirely different experience of life, though I attribute about 70% of this to my wife.
What about loco.rs?
Yeah we are big fans of Hetzner and this pricing model makes no sense. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it and the strange limits associated with it.
The lack of variability between reads at arbitrary addresses is a defining characteristic of RAM
I know, but I prefer fair pricing over free in situations like this. There are plenty of stories going around of CF forcing users to upgrade to an enterprise plan due to their usage. When there is a price tag, at least I know that won't happen to me (not that my usage would be on CFs radar anyway, it's the principle of it).
Pretty sure he meant the typo.
It's called "angel dusting," putting on ingredients in amounts too small to have any real effect but meant to make the product appear more effective or beneficial.
People should understand that proper clean electronic waste recycling does exist.

This story isn't so much about "we need to stop consuming new electronics" as it is "we need to ensure that electronic waste doesn't end up being dumped on random impoverished towns in Africa".

These guys are burning off the insulation from wires when there are simple cheap machines that automatically strip it all off. This is more a portrayal of extreme poverty than anything.
Sirius wants $40/m for their space radio and most people have unlimited data plans without coverage gaps.

I'd bite if it was around $5 per month. Alas, their lowest $10 plan is going to use my data plan on cell networks
Cobra effect, maybe?
Multilayer microhydraulic actuators with speed and force configurations (2021)
There is a difference between "declining" and "dying". The former is descriptive. The latter is a prediction.

There is little debate that radio is declining. To me, it more interesting how it is changing: the audience, the programming, the impact. Whether (and when) radio might completely "die" is a prediction that requires some kind of clarification about the details.
Like the concept of strategic bombing at all (which is pretty… questionable… in terms of effectiveness), or the idea of doing it in daylight specifically?

I thought the one redeeming feature of daylight runs was that they could at least hit some targets, rather than just… hitting cities and towns in general.
why do I need to login?

what if I don't want to provide any email (fake or otherwise) to browse kgrep?
Backblaze gives you 3x free egress of your stored data per month. Wasabi gives you only up to 1x. So it's like you have 1 TB of data and you can download 1 TB each month via Wasabi for free, but 3TB with backblaze. Since traffic is the most costly expense when it comes to object storage, this is priceless.
When I have an outage of any kind in my area the towers go offline after just a few minutes. If the power is off in the area, everyone pulls out their phone and starts using it for data. The towers can't handle that many active units and I lose service.
My favorite books transported you to a new world and showed you how characters adapted and learned to navigate.

Here's a few I don't see on lists frequently:

Here’s an updated list with your addition:

1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster- adventure that encourages curiosity while navigating a magical world.

2. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg- Mystery about independence where two kids hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain-
A time-travel pioneer + clash between modern thinking and medieval traditions.

4. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George- survival story of a boy living in the wilderness, promoting self-reliance + love for nature
I'm using Sailfish OS as my primary phone OS since 2013. Also I have non-technical family member using Sailfish OS just fine in similar capacity. :)
It literally was one building in france, that burned to the ground: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
let alone the satisfaction of plunking in 10 of them, one after another, muscling them up from my Weimar®-brand currency wheelbarrow.
I would say it's more than a theory, I know many, many depressed security professionals.
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing and creating something like this :) BTW do you use Iridium handsets? Do you have recommendations?
If this was politics, "impressive" wouldn't be the adjective used.
Amber or Lucky, already well established...
That is so good to hear! I could only hope more Solar then ever in AUS. Then they could start to become a manufacturing powerhouse!
This is very impressive. Is the playback frame accurate? What are you using to retrieve the sub titles?
That's how it always was. People were eating only the best parts of the animal and dumping the rest. More over, the best is converted mostly to sh*t and dumped too. Fish do the same.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LS4xWeuewBqwUNuN9?g_st=com.google.ma...

That waterway is flowing directly into the ocean, and upstream from a fishing village.
MOND only has a single constant parameter, so I'm not sure if you are referring to something else here?

Making dark matter fit observation involves halos and cusps and getting the distribution just right so that the Tully Fisher relation (which is about the luminous matter) still holds.

As a layman, I find MOND involves considerably less fitting!
Arguing that AM "has significantly longer range" is quite foolish. The range of AM on the long wave band is the entire Earth, in some cases many times over. We use to allow very high power AM stations in the US that covered all of North America but that was phased out.

We still do allow this on the shortwave bands under very limited circumstances like WBCQ.