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All the more reason why it's important to have an accurate read on the market! I for one also know a few people who've made a pretty penny writing native integrations for React Native and now Flutter apps.

Third-party analysis (https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/development/all) has Flutter used in 16% of iOS apps and 24% of Android apps (free)

Archive link: https://archive.is/IIUaj

I really don't understand how/why people deny reality so hard when it comes to Flutter. Reminds me a bit of years ago when people were still scoffing at the idea of anyone actually adopting JavaScript to write web servers with while Node.js was very obviously eating up the market.

What part of this pretty weird article proposed hosting your own server?

It's an industry-owned initiative, i.e. all licensed banks, including the central/apex bank (pretty sure this is the Federal Reserve in American parlance?) are stakeholders. The funding comes almost entirely from these banks, and the transfers themselves are free (between personal/individual accounts, at least). I'm pretty sure the government partially reimburses the banks to soften the cost, so I suppose you could say it's also funded by government subsidy?

Some similar systems have transaction fees and run as for-profit organisations, but the fees are tiny compared to card transactions. For instance Nigeria's NIP has a maximum fee of ₦53.75 (roughly four cents), with most banks allowing you to transfer up to ₦5 million in a single transaction.

Maybe you just don't know what you're looking at? UPI is an inter-bank system, why on earth would you expect an article on it to contain a payment card messaging flow discussion?

...Are you proposing that coworkers pay each other to have technical conversations?

I cannot think of a single actual food critic that would consider it acceptable for a restaurant to serve a dish for review that they went to the restaurant next door to get. If the critic wanted to eat at/review that restaurant they would simply have gone there instead.

Do you unironically think that all tourism is resort tourism?

This is about as silly as feverishly claiming that e.g. deploying a web app to production is an "abnormal situation".

On top of that I'm sorry but you seem to have skimmed over both the article and what I said in favour of clutching pearls at some nebulous entity apparently claiming that "automation should be ripped out" when what is actually being explained to you is that without actual, manual, hands-on, current experience the "human in the loop" loses the ability to properly control or take over from an automated system - and worse, the ability to even understand when it is doing something nonsensical and/or dangerous.

As an aside, I assume that by "radar systems" you are referring to radio navigation aids. Like I've already mentioned (though in fairness not everyone knows what a non-precision approach means), pilots of airliners are still trained to fly without them, are expected to know how to fly without them, and shockingly enough DO fly without them in the real world where equipment fails or cannot even be installed at all. I know most of the software that people write here is insulated by several layers of abstraction from the hardware, but surely we haven't already lost the understanding that automated systems are not in fact magic - that they depend on real world hardware with real world physical constraints?

> A more recent example is the Boeing 737-Max where there was a focus on automating trim control. In that case, the automation made the system more complex, to the detriment of a pilot understanding and reacting to an abnormal operation

To be fair this is not entirely accurate: a focus was made on stall prevention in a very specific mode of flight given the variant's increased susceptibility to the pitch-power couple. It did not make the system any more complex per se than other airliners - see e.g. Airbus aircraft which do actually have autotrim in normal flight. The actual kicker was that the existence of MCAS was hidden to avoid the need for lengthy re-training of pilots if the 737 MAX was deemed sufficiently different from its predecessor variants (on top of MCAS being rather poorly implemented in its first iteration).

The fact that the autopilot will loudly disengage if there is a serious enough control surface failure to cause an upset is more than enough support IMO.

Not only is landing not an "abnormal situation", contrary to armchair internet wisdom pilots of airliners in fact do not use autoland all the time and don't even always fly a precision approach at all.

Not to mention that they get mandated regular reviews of their ability to fly manually. And even with that, there's still a reason why "children of the magenta line" (i.e. pilots who passively follow automated systems into danger and/or have seriously degraded stick-and-rudder skills) has become a term.

There is oddly enough a middle ground between "zero errors whatsoever" and "outage".

The last sentence in the comment is literally "RAID is the way".

How is it "laziness" to not want to pay $10 to submit a bug fix to your repository?

This is HN; it has probably never occurred to half the people here that the average person even in first world countries doesn't even have the financial capacity to make an impulse five-figure USD purchase, even if on credit.

> In my highest volume weeks, I ship low hundreds of thousands of lines of software not counting changes to deps

But what do they actually do?

I keep seeing people wax poetic about the mountains and mountains of code that LLMs are dumping out but I'm yet to anywhere near a proportionate amount of actually useful new apps or features. And if anything the useful ones I do find are just more shovels for more AI. When do we get to the part where we start seeing the 10x gains from the billions of lines of code that have probably been generated at this point?

I am a woman in case you did not pick up on that.

You seem to forget that there is about a third of the day when shockingly enough a person is not conscious to feel blood leaking out of them. I mentioned staining furniture for a reason - I promise you that menstruation does not wait for you to wake up to start.

I'm fairly certain that neither of those websites has a board of directors.

What part of the article gave you the impression that it was about your personal website?

I'm sorry but this is bordering on parody to me. The way she would notice it "sooner or later" is by her bleeding on her clothes and possibly even furniture. In what world is it important for you to just know about it and somehow not important for her to avoid that?

Plus by that example, computers have always been intelligent considering that they were created to, well, compute things several orders of magnitude faster than even the smartest human can do by hand.

Projects like Ceph and Minio have existed for years, though?

Beyond that, I just don't understand your point of view at all. Do people unironically think there is some super special dark magic being done in the bowels of Amazon, as opposed to just...code that runs on (virtual and physical) machines? The open source community yielded Linux but it's just sooo impossible for it to yield an object storage service? What a strangely shackled view of the world.

In general it helps if you read past the first six words of what someone says before responding.

Maybe "get up and travel to a different country" is not as simple as it sounds.

> It’s silly to argue generative AI doesn‘t make a difference in the proliferation of fake images

What I actually said couldn't be any clearer, and it's rather silly to twist my words into a strawman you can argue against.

Why does it HAVE to be my relative when the actual question is whether hello world web servers exist?

I don't know why people are so determined to miss the point that "people can do [image manipulation] faster with AI" does not magically mean that people weren't doing it before AI, at scale mind you. Did y'all really unironically believe EVERY single image you saw on the internet prior to the past few years was entirely real and entirely what it was presented as? My goodness

This argument has always seemed a bit silly to me. It's like responding to someone saying that it's easy to set up a hello world web server without AI with "but but but first you need to know what a web server is and how to use the command line and download a compiler/runtime and and and", as if there were some dire shortage of people who are already programmers. There are literally millions of us, the existence of one who would want to put up a website about pretty much anything you can think of is not some huge shock. We know this because we were literally there in that pre-AI world full of sites about all sorts of things! Just because you can now do the same thing with a prompt doesn't mean it was magically unlikely to find a site about, I don't know, the social lives of cane rats before.

There is in fact a difference between domesticated animals and wild animals that are kept as pets.

Do you also find it strange that e.g. various wolves are/have been considered endangered even though dogs exist?

Oh I'm well aware of the existence of operating systems that run in 32MB of RAM or less. So - why not? I think a well-optimised application server (especially one that uses SQLite as a datastore like the article proposes) can fit just fine in 128MB of RAM total, or 256MB if we're being generous. A whole gigabyte of memory seems rather extravagant, no? You could run half a dozen properly optimised apps on such a box.