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I know nothing of Ruby, except it exists.

Python is as bad a choice as Javascript for application development.

It is possible to develop large ad complex applications in any language, and people do. But modern languages provide the support a programmer needs to write reliable application software.

Python is suitable for scripting. Application development is not scripting.

There are so many better choices, just so many. Why choose such a poor tool for application development as a language designed fro scripting?
They didn't give the box fan the highest marks, but they found that it outperformed some commercial products, including the $800 Dyson (which has a very bad price-performance ratio)
Keep the change, ya filthy bastard.
At the time the client wanted to stay inside of the Azure ecosystem so Atlas and the like weren't seriously considered.
I am increasingly of the opinion that we need to ditch HTML in order to protect and advance the open web. We've lost something valuable in this brave new HTML-as-a-compile-target future. The original intention of HTML was to serve as a a lightweight, semantic language that people could use to produce documents that were more-or-less structurally understandable (by both humans and computers). Now it's so muddy that we may as well be downloading binary files. (Sometimes we are.)

Gone are the days when you could disable custom CSS and still kinda-sorta navigate the web. These days, it is en vogue to tightly couple what we're seeing on an HTML page (a product listing, a social media post) with instructions about how to render it (250px wide, black background, blinking marquee text). This is great for the tech companies that are producing these HTML blobs, because they have a lot of control over what they're showing to their users. It's only good for the users if they're 100% happy with how the data is being presented. I don't know about you, but I'm rarely happy these days. To say nothing for users with more stringent accessibility requirements.

I wonder if there's a future where we all use a different kind of web browser -- one that doesn't accept any styling instructions from the websites it's visiting. It would probably need to be built on top of accepted data types for various things, like product listings or social media posts. That way, it wouldn't matter whether I was looking at a product on Amazon, Ebay or Etsy. I could tell my browser that I want all product listings to be rendered in dark mode, with a thumbnail preview image instead of a full-sized one, regardless of what site I'm currently on.

Google is already in the process of trying to become this kind of "browser". It has the advantage of being the "front door" of the internet in doing so. It aggregates, and homogenizes, similar documents from various companies and presents them in a uniform way on the results page (eg, hotels, flights, word definitions).

I don't want to rely on Google to do this for me. I want the documents of the web to be semantically meaningful to the point where my browser can make opinionated decisions about how to style the information I'm downloading.
The article says revenue, not profit. Though you’d think it wouldn’t cost $100M per quarter to run an HN clone with little to no first party moderation.
We're not talking about live-training of models here, we're talking about executing a pre-trained model. CPU / power needs are MUCH lower.
That's revenue. Are their 1400 tech salaries and benefits they have to pay, plus their infrastructure and overhead costs more than $33 million a month?
As far as working within the constraints of USB 2, it's a solid way to do things.

And I'll even leave aside the issue of running a whole OS just to decode video.

But this is dealing with 1080p output. That's not very intensive. A lightning port has two high speed data pairs. You don't even need USB 3 speeds to transmit HDMI over one of those data pairs, and then put in like a $2 redriver.

If you set up double-sided output I think you could even have a passive lightning to HDMI adapter. But that's a side issue, my main point is the bandwidth available that makes these tradeoffs unnecessary.
I see -- thank you for clarifying. So for a formally uniform distribution, is rejection sampling your only option ?
They don't need to do anything to most of the city just let people build skyscrapper the whole length of missionbay to the end of the dogpatch. Every empty warehouse could be a massive amount of high density.
Complaining about git is like complaining about any other unix tool, if you don't read the docs you're in for trouble. Sometimes a lot of it.
I used to have a PC case with a cooling fan filter -- by the time I retired that PC, the dust was nearly an inch thick. I had forgotten that it had a filter, and "out of sight, out of mind". It wasn't even a HEPA filter, just a fine mesh.
Imagine you have a 2-input NAND gate, but for some reason it is implemented with 1000 transistors (perhaps for redundancy in case one of the transistors gets hit by a cosmic ray, or perhaps for other reasons). That gate still behaves the same, so for all an (external) observer could measure, it is a NAND-gate, which is a simple device. Internal complexity does not always mean external (observable) complexity.
> I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that less tired/busy doctors would be able to perform their job more effectively.

You are suggesting something that's against the groupthink for that profession. You can't graduate from an MD program while holding these thoughts.

I'm being 100% serious here.
This should be interesting as it will inevitably increase pressure on reddit's leadership to monetise their users better. But it has always been part of that site's DNA to avoid the kind of extreme data mining that Google and FB are performing. This, on the other hand, has led to a situation where reddit, despite its size, is consistently underperforming financially relative to what would be possible. How are they going to balance that?
Put a small battery on board and you can pretend it’s 100% efficient. For a time.
With the important difference being that the Finnish minority in Sweden moved for economic reasons and Finnish is forgotten within a generation or two, while the Swedish minority in Finland are the remnants of the Swedish colonial project and largely marry within that same groups. That said government websites in both countries are available in both languages.
Not just the format; if they go public, no more nsfw/politically ambivalent content. Which means pretty much most of reddit doing a tumblr
Google does recognize new IMAP logins.

Every time I buy a new device and port my account, I get spam from Google saying, "You're new iPad isn't set up yet without the Gmail app! Get the Gmail app now or you won't be super duper cool!"
TPMs enable hassle-free disk encryption, with no additional passphrase to enter at boot; I love that. It also prevents people from seeing me type the password (even better on Macbooks with a fingerprint reader, where I won't have to type my login password either.)
They have totally different formats though, with Big Red being slower and Discord being realtime.
Ask HN: Are you running OpenBSD on busy production machines?
If yes, what are your experiences? Mainly regarding performance of httpd compared to something like NGINX.
The study mentions that all of them were "less accurate than consensus of two or more radiologists".
AFAICT the covert channel created is write-only, so maybe the appropriate title is "AirGap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Transmitters"?
I lived in Sweden for 8 years this month; I’m ashamed to admit I don’t speak much if any Swedish. (Though Skånska makes it harder anyway!!) honestly it’s totally possible to live out the rest of my life here never learning it.

There’s a few times I feel completely powerless, telephone systems, random slips of paper through the door, written notices (in bad handwriting) in the elevator- but everyone speaks English and every company manages to accommodate me.

I still want to learn Swedish, but it always seems to take a back seat to my stressful worklife.

I managed to get a citizenship without any Swedish either.
Anti-vaxxers won't be effectively protected long term by those around them being vaccinated. The Delta variant is sufficiently contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect. All of us can expect to get exposed eventually.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
I clearly have no idea what is going on or how business works because the only question plaguing my mind is how on earth reddit manages to be valued at $10B. Does low-key shilling and banner ads really make that much money? I know it doesn't work this way but they'd have to collect $192 from their 52M daily users to earn that kind of cash. Honestly I got the impression reddit stopped being cool like 5 years ago and other than this year's entertaining stock market shenanigans it's largely a novelty. Even when I was using it I could hardly imagine my eyes were worth $192 to anybody. Not to mention last time I looked at reddit the incel and children under 18 vibes were intense. What do I know? FB somehow manages to be relevant. Am I missing something or are we just printing monopoly money based on increasingly loose pretexts nowadays? Do you even need a business model to make money anymore, or is it all based on speculative user counts and growth?
But at the same time, Discord is also built with Ventrilo-like features, which I think helped them gain foothold among many gamers. Lots of people are on voice chat in Discord while playing games together, just like people used to use Ventrilo. And Discord is more like IRC than like Reddit, except unlike IRC it has native rich text and media embeds. But what I mean by how it’s more like IRC is that it’s rooms with text conversations happening in a timeline, instead of mainly threads with comments. Reddit sorts comments by votes by default.

Additionally, Discord has private rooms suitable for small groups. Reddit as a platform is not so suitable for small groups of friends, even though it supports private subreddits.

And speaking of IRC, even some games like the original Quake used IRC for in game chat right? And Twitch the video streaming platform used to have its chat built on IRC but I don’t know if it still is. Either way, it’s evident that it is more suitable for real time conversation.

Reddit meanwhile made a half-assed attempt at real time chat, and it’s not good. I kind of wish they had just stuck with being what they were but I suppose at least trying is a good idea even so. But I don’t think their real time text chat is compelling nor competitive with Discord text chat.
They can destroy as many textile mills as they like, but the economic incentives of technology will win the day.
Are they though? I'm pretty sure your vision of the French is more representative of the French from the seventies.
Absolutely, though in terms of battery life I find it quite odd to compare a barebone watch like the Garmin to apple or samsung watches. I am not surprised that a casio watch has a better battery life either.
yooooo that's rad! great news for Godot!
That's because they've been busy adding features nobody asked for, all of which don't apply to many because they're only on New Reddit.
“ I think you could live the rest of your life in Sweden pretty easily speaking only English."

It’s all fun and games until the ESL people start correcting your English too because they actually learned the rules of it instead of just knowing it by being born in an anglophone environment.
We desperately need news aggregators and social media services like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, that are NOT run by for profit enterprises. There are a lot of terrific open source platforms out there and saddened that none of them have gained much traction.
I find it representative of the sorry state of tech 'journalism' that anyone would think that a cell phone in 2021 is capable of satellite internet.

A quick search will show anyone the size of even the smallest Starlink receiver and common sense dictates that current generation phones cannot have any meaningful signal strength connecting to even an LEO satellite.
I would skip the misting. I haven't done the experiment, but a lot of modern filter materials get some of their filtering power from a built-in electrostatic charge, and that may not work if it's wet.
> On August 26, 2020, in coordination with law enforcement authorities in 17 countries and supported by Eurojust and Europol, dozens of servers controlled by the Sparks Group were taken offline around the world, including in North America, Europe, and Asia. The Sparks Group utilized these servers to store and disseminate copyrighted content illegally to members around the globe

It's impressive that 17 countries can can coordinate and take such action.
What would be possible with less monetization of users and a decent-sized support staff?

Or are we talking the bullshit SV-style possibilities where you monetize the living shit out of everyone and everything and give a big middle finger to your customers with a skeleton human support crew?
The fact that (insert anything here) let Discord grow to what it is today always amazes me.
On Ubuntu, LXD seems like one of the few ergonomic ways to manage both VMs and containers on top of ZFS.

I'd use it more, but having to rely on snap to install it turns me off. :(
So you think they meant no Google at all on or in the device?
Because to be clear, we are talking about a Google Phone running a GoogleOS.
I fail to see how you can interpret their ad in the way you did while having that context.
The "res" extension for FF and Chrome saved it for me.
Finnish is the issue since it's fucking hard to learn. Learning Swedish isn't that bad if you're a native English speaker. "In a shop" - "i en butik", there's quite a bit of similarity between the languages. But Finnish is a whole another ballgame - "kaupassa" ("kauppa" being "a shop").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_grammar#Noun_forms
Xftnoaa – turn ON/OFF Xft.antialias for the X resource
Ask HN: Why can't technical phone screens by async?
For at least the phone screen, having to wrangle two people's schedules as well as the fact that most interviewers will use up an entire hour when they know 20 minutes into the interview that the candidate has already failed seems wasteful.

If it were async, perhaps via screen recording, then you can solve both of those problems?
Surely some goals can bring happiness when they are achieved? I have made some things that I like, and I am happy when I recall that I made them myself. Or if your goal is to cure cancer, and you succeed, wouldn't that bring you happiness? Sure, you can set other goals for yourself, but that doesn't erase the satisfaction.

Either way, my point was that if your goal is to leave a permanent, meaningful mark on the universe, first, that's borderline delusional, second, the actualization of the goal is basically infinitely far in the future. Personally I'd rather pursue goals that can be achieved within my lifetime and aren't some crazy improper integral over the lifetime of the universe...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/975150/Resolutiion/ felt quite good to me. It's not an AAA title, it's not graphically complex, doesn't have thousands of actors on screen. But the engine does the task very well.
Back when cops used to walk a beat, it was usual for them to check the doors of the closed businesses as they passed to make sure they were still locked.

Whether they locked one if they found it unlocked, I do not know.
I am so tired of everyone always thinking they can take over the world.

News flash: you can't.

R.I.P. to what's left of reddit
I completely agree. The fact that major subreddits all have Discord servers definitely speaks to Discord addressing some community need that Reddit is not.
USB C charging happens well below the OS layer, using firmware that often isn't all that good. USBGuard or QubesOS won't help there (but will somewhat mitigate attacks trying to move up the stack)
And does Apple care? Unlikely… Preventing MITM cable hacks is not a common use case.
“There are even places, where English completely disappears. Why, in America, they haven't spoken it for years”
fb & google are a threat to liberalism themselves, they are not victims. I d rather have the authoritarians from either side fight each other, divide and conquer style
Thanks. I read the article now as I should have done in the beginning. It is overall very disappointing. No justice was done here.
This is the same for marketplace features across gear-related subreddits.

Groups have to go off platform to trade/sell gear between subreddit users.
I agree with this. This kind of thing makes me think of MyFitnessPal, which IMO, is a Terrible name and sounds like it came from an alt domain list. That said, it’s hugely successful, and got bought by underarmor.

Names can be important, but the product itself is much more important.
SummerTime: Text Summarization for Non-Experts
Funny anecdote. Back in 1999 or so, I noticed by happenstance that when I had the cover of my PC off during a HDD defrag (yeah, that was a Windows thing back then), that I could easily pick up the noise from the bus at exactly 100Mhz on a radio I had in the room. At first I suspected I was bugged, because the HDD made noise in the same rhythmic pattern as that data being transferred across the bus, which was creating the EM noise. Can you imagine tuning your radio and coming across the ambient sounds in your room? Kinda terrifying.
It’s odd that this article is titled to state that the iphone 13 doesn’t have satellite internet, but the content states that it nevertheless will have some sort of satellite connectivity. Clickbait much?
> And it’s basically impossible to import talent if your value proposition is: “come for the low salaries, stay for the high taxes”

Just give tax breaks to desirable professions.
I wonder what the theoretical minimum size would be for an antenna that can maintain a half-decent connection with the current generation of starlink/iridium/et.al. satellites.
Not if you are qualified and capable of contributing to society.
The "buttons" are touch-sensitive contacts, not mechanical switches.
> my daughter spent 9 months in Sweden as an au pair....

Decades ago my wife spent a semester abroad in The Netherlands. She said she never learned any Dutch because everyone wanted to practice their English with her.
That's the port that Square uses for transmitting data. ;-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181476/bandwidth-from-h...
Serious question - why so much risk and instability in this "internet chat" sector?
GPS doesn’t count as “internet”
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Relevant SMBC comics: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
Reddit ended up adding a corny chat feature that is exclusively used for spam as their answer to it. Pretty awful.

But to be honest, before subreddits had Discords they had IRC channels. This has always been a thing.
Yes because getting a salary of 0.04% of a billionaire's net worth means that you're equally culpable. Never mind if, say, you're doing it so you can provide for your parents or extended family that lives near the poverty line...

Please don't equate working in a system with not also simulatenously wanting the system to drastically change.
reddit is essential to google, adding it as a keyword in searches increases google's value by billions
With all due respect, “How expensive could it possibly be to run $popular_site?” is a fairly common HN trope. Reddit has core product development, mobile apps, marketing, ad sales, anti-botting, high-level moderation, new product r&d, etc that all need paid staff. I suspect it’s much more expensive that you think to run all that - and yeah, you could kill most of that and keep just the core product intact, but investors don’t want “lean and humble” they want “go big or go home”. The promise of growth and fending off new entrants is what justifies the sky high valuation, but that can’t happen with a minimalist organization that only maintains an MVP.
"I think you could live the rest of your life in Sweden pretty easily speaking only English."

Like Latin in medieval times (at least for the educated), and Greek in the Roman Empire.
Eliminate Negative Thoughts
Walmart and McDonalds have most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, study shows
With what reddit has become, both from a leadership and a userbase standpoint, its fall can't happen soon enough. It is so toxic and manipulated nowadays that I won't mourn for it.
It doesn't state that. "Apple is working on it longterm" doesn't mean "iPhone 13 will have".
I would presume it's not that much smaller than the size they built Dishy
Not at all! You can simply compute additional product bits (you don’t need to go bit-by-bit) until the “can this possibly carry out” test (which is just a comparison) says “no”. The probability that you need more bits falls off exponentially, so this happens very quickly.

What you lose by doing this is each value no longer consumes a bounded number of bits from the source, which is how it’s able to be “truly” uniform.
I'd argue it's a bit harder to endanger a majority language without violent relocation and re-education camps that the Squamish people suffered; but point taken.
All smartphones already have GPS?
24% of unemployed workers have been jobless for over a year
Switching cost for users is near zero.
A sci-fi future where men were indistinguishable from women was brought up in The Three-Body Problem series.
Tesla has something like 1000x greater rate of hitting stationary emergency vehicles. The fact that all the other cars have the same issue with tacc actually points even more strongly to something being wrong with Tesla.
Meet The Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
Yet that kind of inference seems to generally work.
I assumed as much but after changing phones I was surprised I still get the banner even after newly accepting the initial conditions when installing the app. Fair play to them that it's actually a per-account thing that's not automatically accepted when you install the app.
No, sometimes it scales better, sometimes it scales worse. It's all about finding the efficiency sweet spot of the specific chip and workload.
They're not making money from the person who defaults (well, maybe if they default after a long series of payments). They're making money on average by lending to a lot of people, of which only a subset default. If you look like a bad risk, you pay more to subsidize all the people who also look like bad risks and will actually default.
> The most likely path forward, and the one that Globalstar proclaims themselves, is licensing this spectrum for use on a terrestrial basis.

So no, not clickbait. The conclusion of the article's author is that n53 band support is not for satellite connectivity but for terrestrial connections using that band.
One in four adults say they ended up worse off financially from the pandemic
The article uses the same "smart riot girrl" marketing that has been used here in Argentina to bring young woman that embraced feminism into programming.

It´s most probably a paid ad in disguise (and I can point this out because I know a big consulting firm CEO that paid local media for this kind of "articles")

Curious thing is these articles always portrait a single cool young woman in their early twenties, never a woman with kids or a woman in their 30s or older.

Sadly this is not about equality at all, it´s about the employers having a bigger workforce so that they can reduce salaries and discard the old.

Computing is an smoke and mirrors kind of market.
Does YC still own part of Reddit by the way? And if so, how much of it? Is that known/will it be known?