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> And if someone built slow Electron app, I'm sure that he would build slow Qt app (not sure if Qt considered slim nowadays). It comes either from lack of experience or lack of focus on performance. And that does not depend on stack.

No. Literall every Electron chat app (Signal, Discord, Element, Slack, etc) is slow, laggy and unresponsive, while every Qt chat app (Telegram, Ripcord, Nheko) is blazing fast.
5 years to save up for the _15% down payment_ :-).

Saving 20% of the post-tax salary will take you 30-something years to buy the apartment cash only.
Miners are the target of anger not (necessarily) because it’s wasted energy,[a] but because them using GPUs creates a self serving cycle: Difficulty goes up, more GPUs are bought to counteract that, repeat. This isn’t helped my the monetary reward for doing so.[b]

Deep learning, gaming, etc. are different in that someone doing 2 way SLI doesn’t make others need to do the same. If my online opponents are playing on RTX 3090s, I’m not forced to upgrade to play with them.

[a]: The energy usage is a byproduct of the proof-of-work system

[b]: hence why things like Folding@home, SETI@home, etc. never gained massive popularity like coins did; they don’t reward you except in feel-good thoughts
Big difference between the business people that want to have site visit numbers for their pitch deck, and the engineering people making the OS. That said, I totally agree that using the most notorious tracking website out there on your landing page for a privacy product is a bad choice.
You're welcome to start your own altruistic chat service for the people, if you'd like.
I really think DDG should at least search for results of "my" country by default. Otherwise it's just too annoying for the regular user. Aside from that, I like DDG more than Google.
> Game streaming won't happen in a country unless most of the country has 100MBit down

Not just down, but up too with low latency and jitter.
> If you can’t sell software you have to monetize in other ways.

Somebody had to say it out loud...
Ah, that's good to know, thanks!
I guess I don't understand why having only rich people live in the most desirable areas "doesn't work." Nobody seems to think that it's an injustice that poor people don't get to have houses on the beach, so why is it a big deal that they have to live in the suburbs and rich people get downtown?
Good for them, I wish EU did it too. GDPR is such a failure.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? What exactly did GDPR accomplish except for making our web experience a mess, both for businesses and users.
Unbelievable, but is there a datasheet available and does the datasheet have read/write speed figures?

Edit: [1] The datasheet shows "up to" speeds, which means that it is the disk cache speed and not the NAND speed? Quite disappointing.

[1] https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
Easily embed private, programmable networking into your app
BTC GPU mining hasn't been profitable for years. ETH GPU mining (the main one) has gotten way less profitable recently and is scheduled to not be a thing in 6 months to a year. The GPU demand for mining has already lessened in the last months and you can see decreased 2nd hand prices..

Every comment that blames BTC for chip shortages is likely largely incorrect and looking in the wrong place.
I think the missing context is that the db reads go all the way to an HTTP client, get modified on the client, and are sent back hoping nobody else has edited the row in the meantime. Pessimistic = check row is not locked on READ; Optimistic = check lock_version matches on WRITE.

For a table where single row ops are all you can do, this is basically enough to let API users read and update rows concurrently. SQL transactions don’t survive longer than a single batch of statements sent in one request, so inadequate.

Edit: Turns out ActiveRecord’s pessimistic locks don’t use a column at all, they use builtin row locking from MySQL/Postgres (ie ‘inadequate’). So you can’t use it for multi HTTP request transactions at all.

Final edit, if you read about how databases implement ACID in the first place, optimistic locking is one of the building blocks. You can use it to reproduce the various isolation levels of SQL transactions in HTTP APIs, manually, in SQL. (Also look at MVCC.) This does not sound fun. Distributed locking is kinda like doing a group project at university, in that you’re going to have to do it all yourself, but in another sense if one writer goes MIA you all fail.
What evidence could I or anyone else offer that would convince you?

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm genuinely curious what you think could convince you. Perhaps you could get a job at Google and investigate the relevant code?
It would be nice to be able to open these accounts without providing PII, so that it would be harder to attack specific users, and breaches would not be so damaging to customers.

This US trend of requiring government-issued ID for even routine transactions (like phone service) that aren’t ID-related is insane and dangerous.
That's definitely a large component of the legal system but I disagree with your implication that it is a primary purpose and assertion that the criminals are most endangered when enforcement is scant.
Squatters are absolute scum of the earth. If you ever have the misfortune of dealing with them, they will absolutely impact your financial and mental well-being. My grandpa died and we had to deal with meth head squatters who moved into his place (in California) and it was easily one of the worst abuses of the legal system I've ever dealt with. You can basically just break into a property and put a toothbrush down and tell the cops you had a verbal agreement with the previous owner and there's not much the police/sheriffs can do without a court order which takes months and a lawyer ($$$$$). Meanwhile, the meth heads are destroying the property. I definitely would have hired some "hard men" if I could have to deal with the squatters if I had the option.
> No love for automotive infotainment systems

None at all, I hate those big display things.
I'm very happy to see that Sailfish keeps shipping because more alternatives are always good.

I tried to use it a while ago (Sailfish 3) but was driven off it because of the huge gap between the marketing and the actual reality.

The claim that they are privacy and security focused was total bogus (and perhaps someone can comment if it still is).

To use the phone features, a Jolla account is needed, so it will "ping home to Jolla". Privacy policy is pretty standard, so they reserve the right to track you all they want and of course, this is tied to your license, payment method etc. So much for privacy focused...

What fully drove me off was that they launched full disk "encryption", but the LUKS encryption-key password they used was the user's numeric pin (4-8 digits long). So encryption keys could be bruteforced by a kid and they seemed to be fine with it (I don't know if nowadays it supports a passphrase).

Then I also learned that apps in the "app-store" were not signed in any way so impossible to certify that what you are installing is actually coming from the app repository etc. the phone was just lacking basic security all over the place.

I hope they are closer now to closing the "gap" between their marketing and the reality.
People who have property that is staying so empty and unused that they don't even notice that squatters move in and then resort to (heavily implied) violence threats should have their properties confiscated. This sort of behavior is abhorrent and anti-social, this is still Europe and not some sort of third-world country. If the legal system is too slow for these people, they should lobby for better laws!

Clearly, the free market has failed here - an obvious amount of massive empty properties should, according to theories of supply and demand, lead to low rents. I have zero sympathies for "landlords" who rather let their properties sit unused than accept market-acceptable rents.
But you broke encapsulation because locations and metadatas have an invariant that must be externally enforced. I don't think that meets the standard of well-encapsulated. If locations and metadatas must be updated together then you should only be able to do it via some method update() that takes location and metadata.
There's also pretty big restrictions on how high you can build in most places, I looked up the zoning document for Tower Hamlets and the parts of the borough allowing tall buildings is extremely tiny.
Discord B8s = Discord Baits?

You're trying to pull a YouTube Red here?
> And again, for specific app and co, most developer would complain and not like release such user-hostile software but they are forced by business to do it

For every dark pattern, invasive analytics package, adware, malware, spyware that gets added to a product, there is an actual software developer sitting in a chair, voluntarily adding it. Maybe someone here on HN, reading this very thread! Nobody is putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to do it. I've quit jobs in the past where I was asked to work on something I considered unethical. Developers have options. The job market is evidently still going gangbusters now, so who can really say they are "forced" to develop anything?

It's so strange: On one hand, people keep saying developers have tremendous leverage, and high market value, and are being sought after, and then one thread later, developers are powerless victims, having to do the will of their evil "project managers". Which one is it?
The reviewers get sent an account with everything enabled, and have a great time playing as Darth Vader Or Han Solo Or Whatever.

The general public buy the game, and find if you want to play as Darth Vader or Han Solo unlocking them costs $20 each.
Do you think speculators/retail investors really care about the decentralization properties?
My city (Portland) has incentives for developers to build affordable housing - adding affordable units to a project increases the allowed density of the development, allowing more total housing on the same lot, and presumably, more return for developers.

Portland does still have high rents, so it’s hard to point to this as a “success”, but I think it’s a good template for how you can encourage affordable units without putting the whole city under tight rent control.
You are right - it should be treated as fraud. It's a common business practice nowadays to bait and switch - first release good quality products, get good reviews for it and then use those good reviews to market your product. And after it has sold a certain quantity and established a brand value, start using cheaper and inferior quality components and extract more profit.
more like "no, this is making us all suffer except you" kind of way
Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed to the Covid-19 Vaccine
You can find an office to rent in Sweden within a week.

An rental appartmeny which has social regulated prices takes years of queing to get.

Getting an rental appartment in Sweden is a bit like getting a food item in a previoys socialist state. You have to queue due to price regulation.

Price controls in an economy usually does not work that well.
I would have said Upwork a few years back but now I think the market is very competetive there.
If you want to frame this in terms of the demand side, then downsizing all of the PR propagandists would be a great start, along with all the other zero sum jobs. Instead of efficiency gains causing people to work less and consume less resources for the same output, central banks insist on "full employment" stimulus that creates make-work jobs to compensate. And despite their utility being zero-sum, these workers are churning hard in the rat race - buying new cars, fancy clothes, big houses, and other wasteful spending as they're time strapped. If instead of churning these people were allowed to just retire, they would use much less resources.

But it seems like we can't insist on financial reform to slow down the economy, because every crisis becomes an excuse for the central banks to pump the gas while scaring people with the deflation bogeyman. And so we're stuck focusing on direct intervention to prevent the ever growing throng of antiproductive labor from doing as much damage.
That's certainly not a good example. The price has grown much faster than inflation in the western world, while the issuance of new currency has trended down, not only as a percentage of total money supply, but in nominal terms:
https://www.wisdomtree.com/-/media/us-media-files/blog/blog-...

While in theory the community can elect to inflate the money supply, in practice the people who get to vote on the issue are holders of currency, who have strong incentives to restrict the supply and deflate the currency. If an inflationary EIP is proposed, these people will simply ignore it and stick to the deflationary chain.
Six Sigma is to the field of Statistical Process Control what PowerPoint templates are to the field of graphic design. The biggest problem with Six Sigma is many of the people who roll it out understand how to follow the instructions in a Six Sigma book, but don’t understand the underlying statistics well enough to recognize when the templates will fail or need to be changed.
Then you don't understand opportunity cost. If the ROI isn't there, they're not gonna invest in real estate at all.
I don’t see how ROMs for a 20 year old console would be a problem. The console and games are no longer sold. The producers have made all of the profit that they would make, on the original sale. They don’t see any profit on sales of used consoles and games.
I want never to see the names attr.ib and attr.s in code that I am working on. So I don't understand how your suggestion solves the problem: it might not be me writing the code.
Yes but honestly if it’s not in the url bar I’m not going to use it.
"The biggest economic fallacy in housing is that affordable housing requires government intervention." - Thomas Sowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnj2WRIG11U
> You cant wish building more units into existence

You really can, though. Just remove building restrictions and new units will "magically" start appearing anywhere that market rent exceeds building costs.
The time when “He who Remains” Realised MULTIVERSE has Created
Oh, FreeBSD. I remember using the 5.x branch as my sole OS. It was a bit rough, but in the end not that much different from linux these days. Maybe a bit slower, but I did not cared. It survived everything I've done to it for several years, including me nuking the whole ports tree in /var on accident. :)
So, how is it these days compared to Linux as a Desktop? With the current privacy-violating course of action at Apple and Microsoft I often feel like I have to prepare my retreat in advance.
Isn't this just run-of-the-mill watermarking? Is there anything novel about this?
GoogleTechTalks was this for a while.
Ethereum Classic will probably be 500 dollar at the end of this bull run. It will be worth it for miners.
The Gumball Machine: How to Quickly Identify Unit Test Cases
(Warning: Tangential rant.)

Yes, we should all be nice to everyone. Except to people who are not nice. Those are the outgroup. We, the nice people, are nice, because we are not those not-nice people. You should avoid those not-nice people. Do not associate with them. Shun them. Exclude them from your life. Block them. Refuse them service. Take all possible actions to make sure not-nice people are excluded and removed. Make sure all the nice people knows who the not-nice people are, so that all the nice people can avoid the not-nice people. Learn the signs of not-nice people. The subtle flags and secret signals, the words they use. Learn to never use those words, lest someone mistake you for a not-nice person. Call out loudly every time you see or hear someone use those words, for they must surely be a not-nice person! The not-nice people are always trying to sneak their way into your life, so you must be on constant lookout for all suspicious flags and signals. Call out loudly every time you discover a not-nice person, so that every nice person can be alerted, and take proper action.

Remember, we must all do our part in being nice!
Mostly societal accumulation of wealth and consistently low interest rates (which are low in part due to the high ratio of accumulated wealth to productive capacity).
> Well, isn't the most OBVIOUS thing to notice the fact that this study proves that the vaccines are not worth getting

Absolutely not. The point is that immunity from natural infection is as good or possibly better than immunity from vaccination, but the protection of both is very strong and the cost of getting that immunity is not remotely similar. Natural immunity, while potentially stronger, also has a much, much greater chance of causing hospitalization, death, or negative long term health outcomes than vaccination for those with no pre-existing immunity. There would be orders of magnitude more people getting severely ill and dying were we to just count on everyone getting sick naturally, rather than utilizing vaccination.

What this means is that there is a potentially good argument for not requiring those who have gotten sick naturally to get vaccinated. It also has implications for vaccine boosters and variant specific vaccines. If vaccine protection against hospitalization and death remains strong over time, then even if protection against infection wanes, like is already being seen, there isn't much of a point for giving boosters. Instead, initial vaccination can be seen as a way of priming the immune system for Covid, allowing individuals to eventually acquire natural immunity without the naked risk associated with infection up until this point.

In either case, the vaccines are crucial.
Can anyone explain this one? I can’t imagine a news site being worth 1 billion now days.
It sounds like this problem exists even if it's your only home and you live there full time. Go out for the day, come home, and the kind of person they interview could have broken in, changed the locks, and there's nothing the law will do about it for years.
I've also seen this happen with laptops. They'll have a decent Samsung NVMe SSD when reviewers get their hands on the devices, but then after release, they switch it out for a cheaper one that performs much worse, particularly in longer workloads.
Similar for me, I have 4 lines (2 I’m using) unlimited everything, no data caps for $100 a month. I looked at other options and there’s nothing close that compares.
So it's ok for other regions to buy food produced with California water but it's not ok for California to buy other regions' water?

We need a national water grid ASAP, before climate change threatens the food security of the US.
How about you take your gay homo shit elsewhere?
How could it be familiar to people as most of them hopped on the GraphQL hype train and treat HTTP as a dumb pipe.
> troops are welding shut the airport gates in response to the attacks.

>> it is also their personal decision on whether they want to depart.[1]

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
musl is definitely more developer-friendly than glibc, which may lead to a brighter future for it, but right now at this time there's significant downsides to choosing musl.

Performance in real world applications is worse on musl vs glibc, at a level that can result in higher latencies and needing to spend more on compute resources to serve a given level of load.
14 and 9 year old making $32,000 a month thanks to Ethereum
What is the law in Spain for squatting?

In the US for most states squatting doesn't really 'pay' as legally you have to occupy the location for a relatively long period of time, maintain it, sometimes even pay taxes regularly before you have any real rights at all.
One has to ask why don't the landlords rent these properties out for a cheaper price so they can find someone that is able to pay.
Well, for the most part, they aren't anymore. Blue, I mean.
A great deal is FOSS. Look on github. All my apps are gpl. The move away from libhybris is just a matter of time. And jolla has more experience in the space than anyone.
How about some hard men removing the Chief Pedophile from the White House.

He has now murdered dozens of Us civilians with multiple explosions at the airport.

FUCK BIDEN and FUCK YOU if you voted for him.
You are eyeing at Muji, or dare I say IKEA. In the software world, to me Apple was that, until they gave up to become the 21st century Sony.
If the last 20 years has taught us anything it is that it is not that simple. The price increase of new built houses and apartments has been record breaking, yet we don't build more houses than we did 20 years ago

And the houses that get built are lower quality.
Why do you say “pure luck”? There are many doctors and studies testifying that it works. How are you reaching that conclusion? I’m not picking a random drug out of the Merck catalog here. We have doctors and patients saying it works at scale - why wouldn’t we do more to test and validate?
Can you proviede some examples of this narrow way of seeing the world? TV shows tell stories. Occasionally those stories aren't going to be towards one's liking.

For example, Amazon Prime is constantly spamming me with ads for Jack Ryan. My take is that they do so because they paid a lot for the IP. Not because it's trying to shove the benefits of American militarism abroad down my throat.
Is there a list of ethical software somewhere? It does not need to be free in any sense, just not implement the described asshole practices.
Also, thank you for providing fast and cheap remittance payments to poorer countries.
Apple did switch to Bing at one point. The default search engine in Safari is likely just a matter of money to them.

Apple already competes with Google in some search verticals, for example if you ask Siri to find a pizza restaurant, you will get an iOS pop-up with results that link to Yelp for reviews and Apple Maps for directions.

I don’t see Apple competing directly against Google in general-purpose search. But I could definitely see them expanding what iOS does “natively” to include Siri handling more queries itself rather than punting out to Google results.
This is a great article, but is there a good modern source (say an introductory text book) on these ideas?

I've a vague memory of doing this as a first year undergraduate, but that was a long time ago. And stupidly, I didn't think I'd ever need them...
One thing that's always bugged me about the HN interface is that visited links are basically the same color as the metadata below them. Makes it hard to just glance at a screen and see the stories you've already clicked on.
AWS developer submitted PR to rename Elasticsearch to OpenSearch to ES-rs repo
Does deprecation of web APIs actually mean anything in terms of support though?

Last I checked, frame sets have been deprecated for something like a decade, but they still work fine.

It seems like deprecation on the web really just means "if you're new here, know that this is considered bad practice now and we're only listing it for completeness"
ASML is trying to increase the world's capacity by ramping up their production of EUV machines to 50 per year. [1] The ASML CEO stated it's probably not possible for the world to produce more than that. These machines are ~$150 million ea and building one is insanely complicated. [2]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15428/asml-ramps-up-euv-scann...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIO7aRXUCg
I use a gs290 from gigaset. Dirt cheap. Use a community port installed with ubports. Dead simple. Build apps with qt. Qt. Have fun.
Yep. But there wasn't a good model for home movies yet! Elsewhere I saw that the rewind machine had a counter and the store would be billed for each movie viewing. So they had the streaming payment structure in the tape era!
What caused the SLAP tear?
Heh. Spain being Spain.
Cortana is AWOL in the war against Covid-19 disinfo