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Emacs is an old piece of software that has historical baggage. I would imagine that the window and frame terminology is a product of their time: the use of window would have made sense prior to X. Another term had to be introduced when X support came along.

It is also a piece of software where changing the terminology is very difficult. While a non-scriptable program could simply change the documentation and be done with it, Emacs would either have to change the names of exposed functions (breaking compatibility) or have one set of terminology for scripting and another while discussing the user interface.

Perhaps better choices could have been made, but the issue is non-trivial.
Over two million acres are burning. If you live in the UK, that's all of Dorset and Devon combined, on fire.
> would not like something that just shows me more of the same things

Me neither. Good thing TikTok provides variety and helps users discover new things.

> But I can see how it might appear to people who just want to be stimulated with stuff.

Don't we all? Is that not why we're on Hacker News, to find stimulation targeted more specifically to us than other websites?
> Yes, it is different. Stop complaining, do it, and it just works. Here is the tutorial.

Right. And all tis is described in accessible form where exactly?

Also, here's the very helpful error that go spits at you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24432511
You do GPU-accelerated 3D rendering. [1]

You do GPU-accelerated video editing. [2]

You do GPU-accelerated machine learning. [3]

[1] https://home.otoy.com/octane-x-pr1/

[2] https://www.apple.com/de/final-cut-pro/

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10677/
You don’t have to do that unless you’re hosting a public site ... and even so if it’s a private session and you’d logged in this wouldn’t be required. Logging in is seen as a tacit acknowledgment that you consent to being tracked, cause how would I have. A personal session otherwise.

The cookies warning is all about notifying the casual reader who might otherwise believe they were passively browsing static content.
How We Need to Remake the Internet – Jaron Lanier (2018)
One of the more insightful comments a therapist once told me is that “many personality disorders like narcissism and borderline personality disorder are commonly misdiagnosed by the general public as ‘being an asshole’”.

That being said I’m dubious that even a diagnose of NPD or similar is a agreed upon defense against criminal charges.
Water Taxi in Minnesota's Northwest Angle
They could also be digging only into audio, doing speech recognition on it, then clustering the text. Augment that with the text users have put into the video directly using the in-app editor and you have some pretty solid data.
Thought this was interesting since the article about the northwest angle was on the front page yesterday and I heard this on the radio this morning.
> sorry, what transformation?

Whenever you want to transform a result that's in a future, e.g. you have a future for a number and want to add 2 to it.

> On a threadful design you would simply spawn a thread (or pick one from a thread pool) to handle the computation.

If you allow yourself to spawn threads everywhere you'll quickly run out of resources. So you have to manage which thread pool you're using where and ensure you're not bringing in priority inversions etc.. It's really not that easy.

> Basically you end up with something similar to the fork-join model.

The fork-join model isn't really a purely thread-based model - the work-stealing technique is pretty much trying to reimplement what async-style code would do naturally.
Code can be wrong.
Documentation/comment can explain what the code was supposed to do.
> Otherwise, it will always seem expensive, because you can multiply an arbitrary period of time to the price.

I would frame that the other way—it seems expensive because it is expensive, if you look at the long-term cost. And if you don’t look at the long-term cost, you’re fooling yourself.

You’re right that choosing one year as the time unit is arbitrary, but I actually think it’s an overly-generous choice, because as I mentioned, when I buy non-subscription software I almost always expect to use it for longer than a single year.

I’m increasingly viewing subscriptions as a cheap ploy to trick consumers into paying more. “Oh, that iPhone doesn’t cost hundreds of dollars, it’s just $20 a month for two years. You can pay $20, right?” What bothers me most about the scheme is it appears to be shockingly effective. This is literally grade-school arithmetic!
Is anyone else using Flutter, what's your experience and how does this relate to React Native?
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There was indeed a big mentality change. Significantly less casual pollution (Diemerzeedijk in Amsterdam North, the open chemical dump for Europe, comes to mind), and .. lots of the polluting industry outsourced to Asia, China mostly.

My personal impression is that there are way less insects than there used to be.

Edit: found an old HN comment about the relationship to Agent Orange production and Diemerzeedijk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431741

I was actually searching an article about exploding chemical barrels now and then landing on fishing boats sailing in the area.
Seems like a fun project, but the experience will be garbage compared to Oculus/Vive.
I suspect this is actually `C-x k` vs. `C-x o`.

My recommendation would be to bind `C-x C-k` to `kill-this-buffer` and unbind `C-x k`, or bind `C-x C-o` to a hydra that lets you repeat `C-o` i.e. hold down ctrl and repeat `o`, to cycle windows. Or both.

Alternate, try out `ace-window`.

I'm not sure about "too easy to confuse for a newbie." These kind of mistakes only happen when you are switching buffers rapidly without checking prompts, and newbies won't be doing that. And the default mnemonics are (unlike much of Emacs) good for these tasks. So rebinding doesn't feel like a big ask.

(Agreed `C-x b` should be removed imo.)
Erlang's creator Joe Armstrong once said it like this (quoting from memory) "There's a moment when you go from not getting it to getting it, and you have about 24 hours when you remember both before and after, and that's when you have to write things down. After that you won't remember how it was not getting it"
> too much old news to keep me interested

Did you try working the exercises? That was what kept me engaged with it.
"I love the idea of moving entirely to just one graphics API and keeping the server simple"

I'm all for that, if and only if Wayland doesn't force me to give up what I consider to be important features of X.

Apart from the aforementioned remote access, a post titled "Why I'm not going to switch to Wayland yet"[1] goes in to some requirements that I also find important:

- Programmatic output configuration (xrandr, arandr, etc.)

- CLI clipboard access (xsel, xclip)

- Third party app launcher/window switcher (rofi, dmenu, albert, docky).

- Clipboard managers (parcellite, klipper, Gpaste, clipman, etc.)

- Third party screen shot/capture/share (shutter, OBS, ffmpeg, import, peek, scrot, VNC, etc.)

- Color picker (gpick, gcolor3, kcolorchooser)

- xdotool

That post is a couple of years old now, and I've been told in other HN threads on Wayland that some of this stuff is being worked on now, but until it's all there and it is actually mature and full-featured, I would not willingly switch to Wayland.

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_...
Trying to fix my Linux graphics issues
This article is describing a rise of 8C only in some specific areas. That's a very different thing; there are all sorts of localized rises of 8C, and most of them don't matter.

We should definitely take existential threats seriously, but part of that seriousness requires us to be rigorous about what we call existential. If we go around calling things existential threats when they're merely bad, the truly existential threats won't be taken as seriously as they deserve or get the attention they require. Temperature rises in particular are strange to present as an existential threat, because we have pretty solid ideas (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/06/22/seeding-t... for a general review) for how we could quickly force the temperature down if we absolutely had to.
hi mine is here, https://enemyspy.xyz/

the games up there are almost all scratched projects and I don't know if the links will work, but i still like the icons i drew for them so still haven't took them off yet. try click the flower!
I have no doubt Assange was mistreated.

However being silent is not the same as condoning and I am unsure about what powers the judge wields here.

I would also not even dare suggest a judge may be biased until I have read a verdict. Note how the International Bar Association's Press Release, being carefully worded, doesn't say so either. Though probably they would never except maybe once in a hundred years, them being lawyers.

The main thing I am unsure about, and where I don't share Murray's conviction, is the strength of the prosecutions legal argument.
It is not possible to have a very large pool of curators that could 'hand-select' the 'right' content that could hook up people.

Tictok and Toutiao in China often push irrelevant content or new content by new creator to users to give them potentially interesting things outside their usual sweet spot and also to give new creators chances to win followers. They are exceptionally good at this.
Wow, not only real, but even at the bottom of a gravity well. My bad on not thinking to trim the URI.

If that's solarpunk, was this amberpunk?
https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/0020982/2147483647...
Giggle; Laughable Security
Yah. But that wasn't the case in the cases I remember. They were sometimes very detailed.
I was not sending them. I was receiving them as several SSL providers send them zippped via email.
Elixir Ecosystem Survey – 2020
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I want one, but lenovo still has a screen lottery with their 400 nit low power screen.
I made no such arguments. I'm not sure you know what logic means, though, so I forgive your mistake.
I found spec very useful and use it more and more. I'm looking forward to newer revisions, with support for optionality, it's been a big problem area in my case.

Here's a quick list of gotchas (well, they got me, so perhaps other people will find this list useful):

* `s/valid?` does not actually tell you that the data is valid

The naming of `s/valid?` suggests that you can call it on your data and find out if the data is valid according to the spec. This isn't true. What it actually tells you is if the data, when conformed, will be valid according to the spec.
If you pass the data as-is to your functions (without passing it through `s/conform`), you might find that they will be surprised at what they get.

* Conformers are likely not what you think. They are not intended for coercion and have many pitfalls (for example, multi-specs dispatch on unconformed value).

* s/merge doesn't necessarily do what you wanted if you're using conformers, only the last spec passed to merge will be used for s/conform (but you're not using conformers, right?)

* specs are checked eagerly. If you think that (s/valid? ::my-spec x) will only check ::my-spec, that is not the case. It will check any key of x found in the spec registry.

I settled on a subset of spec, because of the pitfalls.
Okay. But what if reality is bad kind of like the cinema Matrix. Someone see the truth get sad but society tells they are mentally sick. Those who are inside matrix are regarded as normal and that's how everyone should be. People are not supposed to see the truth and only that keeps them happy.

I'm not talking about the computer simulation here but the life itself.
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Although Diffchecker has been posted to Hacker News years ago, this is the first time we’ve posted it ourselves. If you have any comments or questions, I’d be happy to discuss them with you.
500 is a lie, since that panel has an extra layer for their stupid privacy guard.
Gibbon1's final admission of defeat.

I won.
This sounds like a dream come true for any government, online marketer, or malicious hacker.
They would have been putting tons of development money into the graphics for the PS5 and the XBOX, and I think a lot of what went in to that is going to show up in their new GPUS. The timing of this stuff coming out right alongside the next generation consoles is confirmation of that, I think.
Considering the success of Grammarly, it is most likely possible to do it with traditional rule-based/experts systems combined with a tiny bit of modern day ML. But there is nothing available out of the box for that.
For this generation, NV only makes the flagship datacenter/professional GPUs/A100 on TSMC, smaller GPUs are made on Samsung's 8nm process.
The population exists because we can, in fact, feed it, right now.
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I'm playing VI right now as Suleiman. Domination isn't so troubling as him: cities he captures do not lose population. So I've narratively convinced myself I'm wresting mismanaged cities from poor leaders and integrating their grateful and unharmed inhabitants into my glorious (albeit fascist) empire.

Come to think of it, that's probably what a lot of imperialist leaders tell themselves...
I like your positive sentiment. Responsible preparation isn't necessarily selfish. Charity starts with the freedom allowed by abundance. Surpluses allow for creation.
Based on back of the envelope math I did based on known ideal viewing distances, most TVs are too far away to be able to get all the benefit out of even 4K. Something between 4K and 1080P would be the “ideal” balance between bandwidth and resolution.

For monitors, the maximum resolution is a bit behind 4K (since monitors are closer than TVs), and I suspect that’s why Apple offers a 5K iMac.

I didn’t estimate this for mobile devices.
Does this make sense? Or is it a genius marketing ploy?
Docker – what we can do with Enterprise Option?
Even in the home, I like to consider performance-per-watt. More power draw means more heat and more heat means less comfort for much of the year.
On my Oculus Quest I have completed a playthrough of Alyx and a few other games of different genres, no issues and no delay whatsoever.

It feels magical, in a way that feels like it must be cheating and the spell is going to break anytime... yet it doesn't.

To pre-empt a few of the obvious asterisks:

- "No latency" is physically impossible. If you play twitchy music rythm games you will indeed manage to notice.

- You must have a good wifi ac router.

- Your gaming host must be wired to that router.

- To minimize network hoops, all of this should happen in the same room. Every milisecond counts.
Yes. But only as an api. Elixir is a highly scalable and very productive programming language.I personally think its a better choice than nodejs, django or even GO.
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Papers Please has a bit of the "crushed by bureaucracy" feel of The Trial.

And the Stanley Parable has some similar feelings of helplessness, buried under the humor.

But I can't think of any games that have nailed the feeling - though I'm sure there are some indie art games that get close.
What happens when Jared sells his home or has to move? Everyone has fiber wired into his basement for connectivity. Would the new homeowner be obligated to continue running this?

Personally if I were a neighbor I'd still sign up with this risk given the ISP options available, but would still be a concern. Your Internet service and home value depend on this guy keeping things running "forever".
A reason to stick so closely to the original model is that it has lasted 35 years. There are few other programs that have lasted as long without feeling an urgency to change with the times, and mostly by the base system being similarly stubborn about changing or by being incredibly simple.

The fact that it's, essentially, the same on every OS I use it on is another selling point. I bring my .emacs file and make minor tweaks for different OSes (due to where files/programs are if absolute paths or relative paths in the user home directory are different). It always works the same once I've made those small changes (and they are small, and once done my Windows .emacs is good on any Windows box). Again, there are few other programs like this. At a minimum, you often end up with subtly different keybindings (macOS using the command key, Windows using control, and Linux using control or alt) and subtly different layouts that break workflow and habit.
Per the article you're commenting on... RDNA2 is being announced October 28th. NVidia is SHIPPING RTX 3k on the 17th.

https://www.techradar.com/news/rtx-3080

So yes, October 28th is more than a month after September 17th. Maybe read the article next time before you downvote.
I think your definition of "Intelligence" is much too restricted. It is "Knowledge" which leads to "Wisdom" and makes you more "Intelligent" (for a certain definition.) "Knowledge" is the pre-requisite. It is what allows you to see the inter-play and interaction between concepts and ideas leading you towards better understanding thus making you more "Intelligent".
This. I've already decided my next GPU will be AMD regardless of if it's competitive at the top end in terms of performance. I am so sick of nVidia's Linux driver bullshit that I cannot wait to drop them. I don't game that much anymore anyway.
How TikTok's "algorithm" works is pretty obvious if you've spent any time on there.

It learns what you like by how much of a video you watch and how you interact with it, and it establishes some kind of weighted feature vector based on hashtags used in the description, words used in the comments, text drawn on the video, audio background, possibly some audio transcription of words said, if you commented on it, if you forwarded it to a friend, and so on. There may be some network based recommendations, based on who you follow but those seem to be weighted very weakly, and that makes sense if you're trying to keep the platform from getting botted.

It also seems to do some non-dominant sorting to keep from only showing you things from the same type of video.

Facebook's competing short video service is terrible in comparison. It only wants to show me Trevor Noah clips, and things tangentially related to things I may have "Liked" 12 years ago.
feel like dating apps do something similar...

but I wonder why I end up in YouTube holes with bottomless pits though until I hit the reset button.
>can't provide evidence to back it up

Have. Not your personal researcher.

>...don't conform to expected behavior...

And yet, my initial comment is doing just fine despite your suggestions people flag it. Hmm.
For Windows users, I can recommend ClickMonitorDDC[1]. While the UI is a bit cluttered, it has a neat feature:

You can display the current brightness in the notification area, hover over it with your mouse, and use the scroll-wheel to adjust it. I really like it.

[1]: https://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/
Many lesser offenses are handled via a summary trial at the local Magistrate in Pennsylvania. The officer is the one representing the state/prosecution in those instances. The DA will typically not get involved (currently going through this). Most of the time I believe it is incompetence or complacency/laziness that would be the cause for incorrect charges. But I have heard of cops screwing someone over by writing the wrong thing (I have friend who are cops and tell stories).

The township police posted info stating that the new 'purple paint' law makes trespassing (defiant) an M3 when a property is posted with purple paint. In reality it only adds purple paint as an alternative to using a sign and carries the same grading as signs (summary offense). If they issue a citation under the wrong grading and someone just pleads guilty to pay the fine, then that misdemeanor can ruin their life by preventing them from passing background checks required by most 'good' jobs and would require expensive legal representation to correct it (see my previous comment on my wife's situation).

The jaywalking example isn't really the same since there is no felony grading of jaywalking. If you look at the prior example of trespassing, that could be graded as S, M3, or M1 depending on the elements of the offense. If the officer is complacent, lazy, incompetent, or malicious, then they might write your citation for the M3 grading even if you didn't meet the definition - you would have to be told in-person to leave and refuse to leave for it to be an M3.
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It's a fallacy to think you can play gatekeeper regarding 'hacking' just because I (or more generally the HN audience) like and value one phone ecosystem over another. Surely you knew that already though, right?
> The current companies are only the "daughters and granddaughters" of massively government funded companies in Silicon Valley

Very good point. Many people forgets how much money the state invest, as it should, on technology and to create an industry. From ARPANET to the WWII computers (or NASA), technology needs a level of investment that only states can afford.
I meant by copy/pasting that quote that TikTok's excuse of "we're just 2yrs old" is not applicable because the Tech world is entering an era of regulation, which put TikTok on the front page of whom to target first, same as any other business that enters the marketplace. Using Juul as a reference to the regulation that they have to abide by (now) and how they innovated to become known/verb.

Though, you can very much argue that Juul is both Tech & Tobacco. But, imagine the same statement from Juul.
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Regarding the resignation of the entire editorial staff at Deadspin:

> During October and November 2019, the website's entire writing and editorial staff resigned due to conflicts with G/O Media management over a directive to "stick to sports" content only amid silencing of journalists. The website began publishing content again in March 2020. The site has suffered after the mass resignations, reportedly attracting only 10.22% of its previous viewership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadspin
If you're in a dim environment, a glossy screen has slightly better contrast and colours. If you have a light source or bright objects nearby where their light falls on the screen, a glossy screen has significantly better contrast and colours, as long as the screen and you are positioned such that you don't see the reflections. If you can't avoid reflections, e.g. because you're outside in bright sunlight, a glossy screen is pretty much useless. But if you mostly have a notebook so you can take it to different indoor workplaces with suitable lighting, and/or so you can move from your desk to a couch or bed (e.g. to watch a movie), the reduced glare can be very nice to have.

So the thing is, if you never had one yourself and only observed others using them while away from their preferred work spaces, chances are you've literally seen glossy screens in a bad light :)

Of course, if your use cases are all text based, the potentially better picture quality of a glossy screen is indeed rather pointless. Either option is a compromise; what's better depends entirely on where and for what you use the device.