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> Was also disappointed to find that browser picture in picture support was limited to a video element. Wish I could just use it on any element, like with fullscreen.

I have not yet experimented, but perhaps a video element can be styled or injected with HTML/CSS to present non-video content.
Yes. I am using Nvidia GPU even though I know it's so non-free, so unfriendly to the point Linus gave the middle finger and all. But I thought it's okay since I were to use it for proprietary video games anyway. But I have never thought they are this evil. With this move, Nvidia products are forever included in my boycott list.
Wait, are people are not part of the environment? Encouraging addiction for the sake of tax revenue is probably not sustainable.
>But it requires the belief, if not in soul, in some trancedental good

The soul is your conscience, you're comfortability with yourself. The judge is your peers, family and ultimately yourself.
I just find it strange to focus on the very subjective whether or not the "demands" of an employee are reasonable, rather than the far more objective "Is this an explicit resignation".

To the company, every demand is unreasonable...

And every negotiation/collective bargaining begins with overstated demands, that's hardly unusual.
That's not exactly the same because vehicles are essential for everyday life (commuting), whereas GPUs aren't.
Actually, all software packaging problems today stem from software development practices. Software developers don't make languages, build tools, or dynamic libraries, that support compatibility with different versions of dependencies in a way that is widely compatible.

Right now, as a dev, you have to make your code work with one version of a dependency, and hope that the way you did it is widely compatible. But why is this the only way to do it? Because nobody has improved on this model yet.

It's actually very simple to fix. Glibc actually already supports loading a specific version of a specific dependency from a specific shared library version for each and every function. So you can build a single app that works with conflicting library versions. Just write your function against one version, and if there's a breaking change, write another version of the function. Then load the right one at run time. Now you support multiple versions of dependencies.

Once that becomes a common convention, package managers no longer need to restrict systems to only one version of a dependency, and we no longer have to deal with "bundling". Is this more work for the developer? Yes. But it also solves all the problems that affect developers, packagers, and end users, by allowing for a maximum amount of compatibility.

The alternative of course is for devs to just stop writing breaking interfaces, and to handle versions in those interfaces so breaking changes can be handled gracefully.
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>No? Why would they need to be in different machines? You can stream from one GPU to another, whether they're in the same machine or not. One GPU may be a cheap little one built into your motherboard. You probably already have it anyway!

Thats not really called "streaming". So given that somewhere in this thread there was a youtube link on how to do that, which required testmode in Windows - it's still not practical.
You shouldn't be, as this is yet another example of a company exploiting cryptographic signing and information asymmetry in order to lock you out of functional capability that you paid good money for.

That abusive practice is the only thing enabling this kind of business pivot. The pivot also doesn't even achieve what Nvidia claims to be setting out for, because they are splitting already limited capacity to support two distinct product lines thereby halving the overall supply available. If anything, this is just making sure everyone pays inflated prices due to scarcity.
What you get for your US tax money is absolutely not worth having that passport if you have another good passport. I would give that one up (and likely will once I get my second).
The author even calls out the slogan as clickbait in the presentation.

For what it’s worth, it’s a great read that I would recommend to anyone in the industry.

They aren’t forcing technologies on you, but driving home the true cost of long term maintenance and investing in the “core stack” that you already have instead of adding N technologies to solve N business problems. This is good stuff.
Some carriers are doing deep packet inspection and using transparent proxies loaded up with certs from shady providers that let them see inside all HTTPS traffic. Even if they’re not looking inside the HTTPS traffic, they can see where you are going and shape your traffic down, if they don’t want you to get good video performance from NetFlix, since that would be a competitor to their zero-rated video service.

AT&T is certainly doing traffic shaping on a lot of sites. I get much better video performance from NetFlix, YouTube, and a variety of other websites, when I am on VPN.

AT&T is also known for doing a lot of DPI on non-HTTPS connections, and inserting their own intrusive ads. I’m not sure whether they’re doing the super shady transparent proxy of HTTPS traffic, but I would not be at all surprised. I mean, someone had to be paying Symantec all that money for those certs.

So, yeah — I don’t trust my carrier at all. I need to be on VPN all the time, and I’d prefer to do that with a reliable load balanced upstream configuration, but the questions over SD-WAN are going to have to be for a different thread.
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This is horse s h I t.
I use trello to plan the week and keep a backlog. Don’t obsess over it
Disclaimer1: I'm "pro" nuclear (as a baseline to supplement hydro), and i think nuclear is the 3rd best option (behind hydro and reducing consumption)
Disclaimer2: i have investissment in veolia

Panels do decline, a lot, and especially older panels, but also most newer industrial solar PV are using heavy metals that can burn land (I mean, go to indonesia and look at farmland or even forest near communities were ONG installed a lot of PV before the tsunami, you'll understand what i mean, you can literally see where those PV were buried).

Veolia Rousset plant was the first to recycle most of the materials (the shareholder paper said almost 95%, i believe them) and not simply landfill them. But this have increased cost, and right now, most PV panels end up in landfills, poisoning earth for decades (and now that we understand saturnism)

I'm not saying PV is not a solution, it is, especially locally, but it have to be handled well. But you can't have solar+wind make up more than 50% of your electrical network, its not possible. And even 50% add a lot of costs.
I'm not sure I understand. Does this thing do a man in the middle. Do you have to configure your phone to use it?
Why is it creepy?
Batteries should be refurbish-able and definitely recyclable.
Lots of people want to hold bitcoin, because it might be a great investment.

Lots of people want to hold USD, because it has the backing of the world's largest economy.

Nobody wants to hold USDT.

The only use for it is as an in/off ramp for bitcoin (where it is used only briefly). Or as part of a probably-illegal scheme where Tether Inc uses bitcoin as collateral to issue a loan to buy more tethers...
Well there's a false equivalence for the ages.
How do they know that the dead heart will not die again? Do they repair it before transplant ?
Also shouldn't the heart be from an equally aged human?
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also, at ISCA'19, over half the papers were PC papers, meaning they were papers where one of the authors was on the committee that picked which papers get in. It's probably why the highers ups have been so reluctant to change the culture at the conference because it would so negatively effect all the higher-ups' publication counts
> To make an iphone app, You need a mac laptop and a paid developer account. Unlike java, swift is barely used for anything else than apple products, so devs for apple products are more expensive.

So many people overlook all of this. I don't have a Mac, I don't have an Apple developer account, and I don't know iOS/Swift. But guess what I do have: Linux and Windows computers, and the knowledge of Java.

A lot of people are in my boat, and for all of them, it's hard to say how making an iPhone app would be easier than making an Android app. I've made toy Android apps before. I didn't find it that hard. Certainly not as hard as learning a new language/IDE! (Android Studio is free and is built on top of IntelliJ, which I'm already familiar with.)
>global MLM scheme.

What I'll say is that the absurdity of this trite dismissal presents a large undertaking for anyone to begin to try and teach you what cryptocurrencies are.

Most of the silicon valley billionaires acknowledge it as a promising technology, if that doesn't warrant some serious (read: many hours of difficult reading) consideration than expecting strangers on a message board to help you do it seems a bit entitled.

I'll grant you that trite dismissal of cryptocurrencies in general is quite common on HN.
I have been writing it full time about 13 years. I love writing in this language, and TypeScript even more. I am just frustrated by what appears to be some combination of insecurity, false expertise, and a vehement lack of passion in the work force. If I want to be happy I should move on to a different technology stack, but I really enjoy making products in this language.
It seems like the largest feature of modern nuclear power is that it got a lot more expensive as we realized how much safety we truly needed to build into it. Whereas, without much prompting, solar got a LOT cheaper.

When nuclear develops that significantly, we will all pay attention. Until then, build cheaper sources.

Also consider when building nuclear, you are locking into technology from 10 years ago (when the plant is finally done), for the next 50 years (when the plant is finally decommissioned). Solar and other sources have much faster iteration cycles and much lower commitment.
I don't agree, when the resubmission is just hours apart.
The same as any other industry. The coins are all tied together in the same manner as something like the auto industry, biotech, aviation or real estate. Individual prices can rise and fall on their own merits, but there is a larger tide as investors choose to move their money in/out of the entire sector.
Australia's tax burden is 27.8% of GDP

USA's tax burden is 27.1% of GDP

Not an enormous difference.
So true. I feel empathy towards management that need to keep their engineering teams intact.
I think part of what’s weird about this discussion is that the usage of “boring” or “exciting” is somewhat misapplied. What’s apparently the distinguishing property is “common” or “familiar” vs “exotic” or “novel”.

But neither of those positions necessarily contradicts the other’s stated goals. Familiar technology can certainly be exciting to work with, and unfamiliar technology can be used for pure dull getting stuff done.
Well yeah, but it goes even deeper than that, IMO, since the domes could have just stayed on Earth. Why launch them into space and return them later? They're terrariums with all of the life support and lighting that they need.
Wait, how did you arrive at ‘screwing over gamers’ when this whole thing was done to keep 3060 cards available to gamers at reasonable prices?
Ethereum's Proof of Stake "beacon chain" is already live, with around $6 billion staked (since launch in december 2020). Next year is just formalizing and testing it taking over from the miners. So despite timeframe, there's little uncertainty about the outcome.

https://beaconcha.in/ is a nice explorer to see beacon chain running live.
Thanks for the reply, it helped me understand where you are coming from.

For purposes of discussing bitcoin, it is a global good, and environmental concerns are a global concern. If there is a global market for bitcoin, then taxing bitcoin mining (or other such measures) in one country would just incentivize miners to move to another country. So any such action as you describe would need to be coordinated on a global level among several or all nations.

> There's an underground market on taking out hits on someone else, that doesn't mean that "society" has decided that murder is good.

Not sure if it is fair to compare bitcoin production to murder. I agree that we need some sort of action for climate change, but I am not sure regulating bitcoin is the answer. We'd have to apply the same subject "utility" measuring stick to _any_ activity that consumes electricity and regulate that. Like others have suggested, maybe taxing certain types of energy usage directly according to their climate change impact would be more effective and would apply evenly to all goods / services without deciding on behalf of individuals what is useful and what is not.
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If you're worried about attacks, you should be even more worried about nuclear.
Name one international treaty that has ever had teeth where the benefits of non-conformance out weight the teeth.

Country B could tarrif country A in return and some countries cannot afford the cost of what that may do to them.

So you end up with an international treaty without international conformance or a treaty with no real teeth because the signee's have contributed to it what would allow "them" to game the treaty.
That’s great! One could invest both in funds and in oneself, there’s no contradiction there really :)
Working into the evening is a thing and evening meetings (American time) generally go unattended.
A lot of school problems don’t do away in the real world. Cheating, bullying, boredom are regular parts of daily life for many workers. There are life skills that are learned in school that aren’t just textbook educational items
It's the kind of typo a spellcheker would overlook. Maybe the article could have used more proofreading but so what? Somtimes content is more important than presentation.
that's a nice catch
You can still create an account and use Parler.
Solar requires energy storage. It is not on demand. Wind and solar must be backed by an on demand source as we don't have sufficiently cost effective storage methods.

Options are then basically hydroelectric, natural gas, petroleum, coal, or nuclear. Nuclear is the cleanest if you can't put a dam somewhere.
The issue with radioactive waste is more of a political and emotional problem than a real one. The amount of waste is rather small and it's not like it will irradiate you from a kilometre away :-). It can be stored in safe containers and buried in stable geological sites or even stored temporarily for many years in storage houses and maybe later re-used in types of reactors that will be able to recycle the spent fuel rods. Whole US produces 2000 tones of radioactive waste a year. In fact, the U.S. nuclear industry has produced roughly 64,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of radioactive used fuel rods in total or, in the words of NEI, enough "to cover a football field about seven yards deep." Which really isn't much compared to any other pollution.
It has a separate SIM card.
"The very best developers are capable, and avoid complexity. The next best developers are capable, and love complexity. The worst developers are not capable."

It's not always in one's control to avoid complexity. The simplest solution to a problem in a lot of cases may be 2-3x the lift (simplicity tends to require more work, complexity is easy) and thus blocked by the business. A holistically simpler solution may be blocked politically because a certain team doesn't want to own some functionality etc ...

I would say the best developers can see complexity coming and have a healthy fear of it, the medium devs don't mind complexity and the worst devs can't get anything done without increasing complexity.
I wonder how this compares to FullContact, a company built on doing this very thing.
PR citizenship is a thing (ie, a document) that PR will give you after one year, or sooner if you are indeed a Puerto Rican or if you have Puerto Rican parents. But the document will not work in conjunction with the Spain 2-year path to citizenship.

To be clear, the PR document says it's possible (for a mainland American), but Spain does not recognize it unless you're Puerto Rican.

Source: I tried it and went through the process. I'm from mainland US, lived in PR and now live in Spain.
> don't make a special niche process for every "opportunity" that comes by.

At my current job we call those snowflakes. "no snowflakes" is the motto of one of our senior architects.
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Agreed, but don't conflate "solving business problems" with "best solution for the customer".
Was suppose to happen in Feb and now it's March =/
For me, attempting to time the market has never felt even slightly interesting. (YMMV.) I just buy index funds. I have considered buying some AAPL – not because I believe the timing is good or bad, I simply believe in their business.
This is invalid thinking.

Bad actors can make such tool themselves (if they can't, they are not really that good) and have incentive to do that, so non existence will only slow them down. I don't care about analyzing other people for any purpose so I don't. Having this tool readily available lets me analyze myself and people I care about to protect them from bad actors and educate them in the process.
Interesting take, but within software, isn't using brand new tech that you need to learn (plus has less documentation, ecosystem, community, etc) slower for iteration?
the infamous shadow profiles that Zuckerberg tried to "deny" during congressional hearing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813659
They have gotten somewhat better at chip security since then.

I remember AMDs Phenom tri-core CPUs being unlockable to quad-core 12 years ago, but nothing really since.
Finite resources have value.
It would, but not as much as solar did. But people don't include recycling cost in PV, as well as electrical grid maintenance, impossibility to work as a baseline, no pilotability.

Solar is good if the population is mature enough to accept the cost of sending PV to a recycling plant. And as long as it doesnt go past 50% of the energy production (you NEED a baseline of 30 to 40% at the very least)
Requires solar fuel, which is free...

Many months is ok, because it can happen in parallel with the spacecraft being prepared on Earth.
The thing is, if you have any sort of front-end that is not entirely server-side rendered, you're going to have to work in JS at least some of the time. If your back-end is also in JS, you now get the benefit of isomorphic code for things that you may want to do on both front-end and back-end.

Then there is also the fact that JS is actually a pretty great language if you know how to avoid the footguns. Granted that's not always easy, but it's a language with lexical closures and easy and familiar syntax, it's also very expressive and has a vast ecosystem supporting it. And you can even add the typescript compiler on top if you want compile-time type-checking.

It's also async out of the box, and while that doesn't solve all problems, it scales surprisingly well with no performance tuning whatsoever, it even has decent asynchronous primitives that make it easier to write correct code.
Are there any nearer-term concerns? Imagine we have large scale asteroid mining within the next century. Is there a point where the extra-mass matters on any reasonable timescale (hundreds of years) similar to the impact of industrialization with Co2 and climate change? Other odd side effects from landing the material?
Again, I don't care. One look at my portfolio will show you dozens of "hobby" projects that knock a lot of commercial, paid, shipping products into a cocked hat. I'm a Craftsman. I always have been.

I worked for 27 years, for one of the most conservative Japanese corporations in the world, and had a position of ultimate trust. If you know anything at all about this kind of corporation, then you know what that means. I strongly suspect that it would be very, very difficult to find anyone as Honorable, Reliable and Dependable as I am.

The entire tech scene is built around hiring ADHD kids, paying them sick money, and keeping them for 18 months. There's a vast industry, based around providing cultural and technical infrastructure to support this. The fact that you need to test applicants with leetcode says it all. There's no Trust, no Integrity, no Honor, and no Loyalty.

That goes for both corporations and employees. Everyone is out for their own goals; damn the company, the employee, or the team; let alone the customer (who are treated as product, these days).

I am a person of tremendous personal Integrity. Word is Bond. That goes as much for free, open-source efforts, as it does for paid ones. I have an enormous, years-long portfolio of very, very high-quality code, dozens of articles on Medium and my own sites, going into great detail about my personal philosophies and processes, and a decade of checkin history.

If no corporation values that, then that's OK with me. I know some folks that can't afford to hire me, but value my Integrity.

And, as far as "carrots and sticks," they have these new-fangled things called "contracts." I hear they work fairly well.
> You need to provide solutions how things can move forward, that's your job.

I hace no expertise in the field of AI ethics, and I'm not sure what to think about the Timnit drama in general, but I don't think what you're saying here is really accurate. There can be a lot of value in pointing out problems even if you're not the one who can provide a solution. If no-one else has spotted the problem then pointing it out can draw the attention of those who might know how to fix it before things get worse.

If you can say "hey, there's a flaw in the design of this rocket that means it'll explode if we launch it, wasting millions of dollars" then that's valuable to your company, even if you don't know how to design a rocket that works.
Agreed. Surprised there are so many Bitcoin lovers on HN and in the startup scene, which is supposed to consist of smarter-than-average people. Bitcoin is basically shitty gold, because unlike gold, it has no intrinsic value and can go to zero, it's all based on fragile sentiment.
Fusion research? Sure. I hope you aren't expecting practical commercial reactors anytime soon. I believe the current fusion scientists just entering the workforce are hoping for major strides by the end of their CAREER when they finally retire.
We put far too much faith in centralized authorities to arbitrate standards of morality. How sure are you that such an authority will actually reflect the best interest of the people, and not itself?

> There's an underground market on taking out hits on someone else, that doesn't mean that "society" has decided that murder is good.

That's a great cherry-picked example, but there are far more examples of people freely purchasing what they deem to be useful, and even more examples of useless things disappearing because no one wanted them. Most failed startups we cover here are probably an example of the latter, and there's plenty of discussions of how to achieve the former on hn, too.

> Welfare enhancing for humanity.

Who gets to determine this, except the members of humanity themselves? Does some 'public body that is democratically constrained' know what's best for each individual person it's responsible for? Does it adhere to some ideology that dictates the universal moral good, whether everyone else likes it or not? How does a group of politicians living in their own little bubble know what's best for Joe Plumber in e.g. North Dakota?

What moral framework do you suggest that we inflict upon all of humanity?