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Don't be fooled by the fact they say it's "open" on that page: only their clients are open. The models themselves? Well, good luck with that...

https://osai-index.eu/news/lumo-proton-least-open/

Sorry, what?

Does this mean that SpaceX are the only company that really did build some datacenters to put all the million of GPU/TPU/whatever they all talk about everyday?

I mean, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft told investors they spent more than $1B per day last year in CapEx... why on Earth do they (well, Google and Anthropic at least) need to rent compute to SpaceX, of all companies?

Yann Le Cun litteraly said this morning on the radio in France that it is headquarted in Paris and will pay taxes in France. Go figure…

Hm, Singapour looks more like "one of their base"; they will have offices in Paris, Montréal, Singapour and New York (according to both this article and the interview Yann Le Cun did this morning on France Inter, the most listened radio in France).

Of course, each relevant newspaper on those areas highlight that it's coming to their place, but it really seems to be distributed.

Even acknowledging that blunder and the lost of trust that could have followed for such sloppy work would be a minimum.

I am quite shocked by such lack of care, and it does tarnish the reputation of Cloudflare in my eyes :/

Nah, it's just a basic case of a pivot from a company that previously offered a great open source (MIT licensed) product written in Go that offer WebRTC-based backbone to build audio and video sharing products upon: https://github.com/livekit/livekit

The AI stuff that the original LiveKit company put on top of it (to pivot to more investor-friendly endeavours) is not that relevant in this case, in my humble opinion.

I think the argument against this kind of top comments is that it makes easier to forget to update them if you change the code it refers to.

A single line comment is easy to parse, read and spot as having to be changed when you patch something.

I think you are missing the point: it's mainly to highlight that the models that most people use, i.e. free versions with default settings, output a large number of factual errors, even when they are asked to base their answer to specific sources of information (as it's explained in their methodology document).

Surprised not to see a whole chapter on the environment impact. It's quite a big talking point around here (Europe, France) to discredit AI usage, along with the usual ethics issues about art theft, job destruction, making it easier to generate disinformation and working conditions of AI trainers in low-income countries.

(Disclaimer: I am not an anti-AI guy — I am just listing the common talking points I see in my feeds.)

Bluesky. They use Expo on top of React Native, use React Native for Web (with a desktop and mobile), and for mobile native apps.

Let's note that because the clients are fully open-source and on GitHub, people from Expo and React Native are helping the little team behind the clients improve performance over time: it's not their final form!

"It is time for Postgres to care about customers!"

Wow. It's one thing to create value on top of one of the most respected open source projects in a field, it's quite another to bash it as the opening sentence of your blog post.

It really rubs me the wrong way.

Could you have some serious sources about Google dropping support for Flutter and Dart?

I mean, words have meanings. It's not because Google laid off part of the teams that worked on those technologies that it means that they dropped support of them.

If not I might just reinstall it a few thousand times.

Unique install per user per year.

There is no personal data collected as it's one of the key feature of that process, so in my humble opinion it's out of the scope of GDPR.

A rather disappointing read. I was expecting an analysis explaining why there is this trend towards very sparse interfaces, or practical ways of designing interfaces that are denser in the face of design trends that are pushing all product teams to do ever more spacing out.

Instead, what I found was a reminder of the ‘laws of design’, which are certainly interesting, but which are only tangentially linked to this drift (in my opinion); and to take the most extreme example of sparse interfaces (the Bloomberg Terminal), without really any concrete elements that could help bring a little density back to our user interfaces.

...not to mention what ends the article, a lunar explanation along the lines of ‘Google's very high stock market valuation compared to Yahoo can be explained by the lack of density of its home page interface’ - really? Come on.

Will we have to wait for a regulation body to come and force it open as soon as it becomes the de facto standard of home communication?

I won't make a bet on which one, because I don't want to nag, but we all know which one it will be.

Well, it's talked about lenghtly in the article.

Here in Paris (France), I always use my credit† card, for everything from a drink in a bar to groceries to burgers to whatever. Most of the time, I use the contactless feature of my plastic card (works for anything under 50€), and sometimes, using my phone using Google Play, which is linked to my card, but doesn't have the 50€ ceiling for regulatory reasons.

I used to carry some cash for my nearest automatic laundery machines, but even that one now features a contactless payment dongle, so it's nearly useless for me.

† I say "credit card", but most plastic card WE carry on France are actually debit card, i.e. there is no specific credit card balance to top or anything, it's directly withdrawned from your account. (There is something hybrid called "differed debit card", that mimic some of the credit card experience, but it's basically buffering your withdrawals, without any "true" credit happening).

I think it's relevant for Hacker News, as Nintendo uses copyright laws to restrict drastically how their games can be played in tournament; for now, it seems to prevent any small tournament to generate any money — even selling food (!!) during the tournament — without becoming a fully fledge organisation and acquiring a license from them… with a lot of additional, specific restrictions (not allowing mods for example, which is not anecdotal for some version of Smash).

Nintendo wasn't helping the e-sport scene before, but with those move, I think they are now actively trying to kill it in its current form.

At first, I thought it was a good exercise (and it still is), but going through the result [0] made me more skeptical.

It is... slow? I mean, Internet Explorer slow. Maybe I'm spoiled by the level of responsiveness of application-style web interfaces, but opening an album or returning to the library feels slow. Is it because I'm browsing from Western Europe and the application is hosted in the USA?

I'm used to browsing multi-page apps that don't pretend to be apps, and having a 500ms load time after a click is expected and feels right. But waiting the same time for a click in a page that looks like an app makes me uncomfortable. It's weird - is this the Uncanny Valley again?

[0] https://enhance-music.com

Was the Google self-driving car thing vapourware? It never went anywhere.

Well, it goes somewhere: people are actually being driven around Pheonix, Arizona [0] using those cars. It's just that it is not named "Google self-driving cars" any more: it was spun into its own company, Waymo [1].

[0] https://waymo.com/waymo-one-phoenix/

[1] https://waymo.com/

And the EU is actively working on creating a new ePrivacy Regulation [0] that would explicitly tackle the explosion of cookie banners.

Simpler rules on cookies: the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. The new rule will be more user-friendly as browser settings will provide an easy way to accept or refuse tracking cookies and other identifiers. The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies that improve internet experience, such as cookies to remember shopping-cart history or to count the number of website visitors.

[0] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eprivacy-r...

See the previous discussion in 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465729

…in which Cloudflare's CEO directly address the first point (having a legacy clause in their Terms that used to prohibit benchmarking, clause they removed quickly after), and in which one of the main engineer behind Cloudflare Workers underline that there is "apple vs oranges" comparisons for a while from Fastly before that blogpost.

I really recommand reading those previous discussions, you'll learn a lot about the context of this blogpost and what Cloudflare think of it!

Not the same CCS port.

The biggest European provider, Deutsche Telekom OVHcloud, holds 1-2% of the market.

Wait what? It's OVHcloud, not "Deutsche Telekom OVHcloud". There is no mention of any relationship between the two companies beside a common project named "Gaia-X" which is still in a very very early stage of planning.

This doesn't inspire confidence in the journalist.

The Guardian is famously one of the few news site that do NOT have a paywall.

Does this mean that those iPhone components will be manufactured in the US, then shipped overseas to be incorporated into new iPhones, which will then be shipped back to the US?

I understand that this makes sense, but at the same time, I wonder how many tons of CO₂ will be emitted because of this kind of "onshoring".

Really impressed to see that bun is now faster than esbuild, that was in my mind one of the fastest bundler/minifier in town.

How did you achieve that? Are there some shortcuts you took, or some feature you deemed not in scope (yet)?

The Digital Markets Act [0] was voted, published, and parts of it will be applicable as of beginning of May 2023.

Some technical workshops [1] are being organized with interested stakeholders to receive their views on specific issues and questions that may arise in relation to the specific implementing measures by gatekeepers that are to ensure effective compliance with that legislation.

[0] https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

[1] https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/dma/dma-workshops_en

I don't see how this could not be qualified as a flagrant abuse of a dominant position, at least in the European Union.