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A wave function describes - usually at least - the quantum state of an isolated quantum system. The phase has no physical meaning. The relative phase between wave functions could mean something... but not if the systems are isolated.
I heard Microsoft had plans about launching a Surface Studio monitor last year, but can't find if that actually happened. It is my ideal ratio and size monitor.
> This also makes it impossible to resize the window.

As a workaround, I'm pretty sure that KDE supports Alt (or meta) + right click for resizing.
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> Banks ban you for joke comments in bank transfers or anything that alludes to drugs, sex work or gambling

Surely it must be possible to exercise a wee bit of self control and not be an edgelord in every aspect of one's life?
There is X and now wayland. If you are doing something beyond basic you can quickly fall into needing two different implementations for GUI things.

There is jack, pulse, alsa and now pipewire for sound. On the system you can have multiple sound devices some available fully working only through pipewire, others fully working only through pulse.

If you want your app to integrate into your desktop nicely (basic thing like using tray icons) you can have completely different behaviors on different distros because there is so much variability.

Pipewire is now taking over a lot of things regarding audio/video. With fedora already fully on it. Great but the documentation is in a miserable state. Very few examples. Some distros while have pipewire running, using it for audio will just not work.
I meant a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Much more dependable than a complicated solar panel fold out. (Otherwise solar panels are great just sounds like the deployment mechanism is suspect)
FreeBSD Jails were so much better than everything else out there, for a long time. I'll just copy&paste part of a comment I wrote on another HN thread some time ago, since it's relevant here:

[...] In fact, many years ago, when FreeBSD was my main OS (including on notebook) I went as far as to isolate each app that used internet into its own custom-setup jail [0][1].
I had Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and a few others running in complete isolation from the base system, and from each other. I even had a separate Firefox jail that was only allowed to get out via a Tor socks proxy to avoid leaks (more of an experiment than a necessity, to be fair).
Communication between jails was done via commonly mounted nullfs. I have also setup QoS via PF for each of them.
They were all running on the host’s Xorg, which was probably also the weakness of this setup.
It was a pretty sweet setup, but required quite a bit of effort to maintain, even tho I automated most of the stuff.
[...]

The original comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27709256
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I like using Elm's JSON library as an example because it's very small. Since there are only a handful of functions you can understand the entire thing pretty easily. Plus, encoding JSON is a great jump-off into the decoding half of the library which is basically a simple parser combinator system.

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm/json/latest/
Yes, I've seen issues that affected the entire region. In my specific case, I happened to have an ElastiCache cluster in the affected AZ that became unreachable (my fault for single AZ). But even now, I'm unable to create any new ElastiCache clusters in different AZs (which I wanted to use for manual failover). And there were a lot of errors on the AWS console during the outage.

"almost unusable" is maybe exaggerating, but there were definitely issues affecting more than just the single AZ.
This is like how on certain internet forums, people talk about American conditions as if everybody is in America. Start a conversation about labor conditions and people throw around W-2 as if it's some standard thing. Or someone will give you a summary of your rights as if you are in America ("at-will states").

I remember in the early days of the internet, when you came across a postcode field, it had to be a US postcode. 90210 was the only one I knew at the time, so that got put in a lot.
They aren't doing anything that complicated. A popular profile is attractive and chooses a very small percentage of others. The profile that person chooses gets a much greater weighting of desirability by being chosen by the popular profile.

The popular profile that chooses a high percentage of others is not a real human being and/or is selling sex. A pretty irrelevant signal for desirability. It's quite simple. Just like in the real world in that regard, people want higher signals of why they were chosen and it is accurate to be skeptical of an undiscerning attractive person because it usually is a low signal since they don't actually want you, they want to sell something.

Game the system by being more discerning. This is counterintuitive for people wanting matches by statistical probability as it seems like matching faster and arbitrarily will help, but that behavior ensures being downranked to the doldrums with other actually unattractive people.
Why does the company have an obligation to satisfy a bunch of gossips on HN? I love a good tale of corporate intrigue and betrayal as much as anyone, but I can wait for the podcast.
Backup to rsync.net
I see. In Russia Putin also introduced some payments for kids this year (or even earlier)
As someone else here, I had the vague hope it also could be about Edward Teller.

Imagine something like:

"newly revealed documents show Edward Teller was a Soviet asset"
That’s uncommon. Usually the knives come out for anything even slightly alleged towards somebody
> REALLY, I take no side no matter what various posters started claiming.

You claimed "not small" amounts of deaths as a direct result of vaccine administration, then balked at being asked to provide any evidence to support this claim while seeming to pre-dismiss contrary evidence. That does not make it seem like you are keeping an open mind or acting in good faith.

> There is nuance and it's immediately screamed out of existence.

There is nuance, but not on the population-level efficacy and safety of the vaccines relative to the risk of COVID infection.

> Seems even if somebody tries to argue in a less extremist way they are immediately labeled as loonies

You're arguing in a more extremist way (i.e., making counter-factual and unsubstantiated claims, reacting with offense when asked to support them; strongly doubting verifiable evidence but amplifying the value of anecdotes). I don't think you're a loonie, or a monster. But you are wrong.
I have taught many students who came to Canada from diverse countries. Many had long standing problems with English fluency. Bear in mind, these were all grad students, so they were, by and large, very intelligent.
The basic problem, as I saw it, was their domestic situation, with a wife, and occasional children and often one or more parents. This home situation meant they spoke their native language at home, often watched TV and videos from their home country - this all meant that they had only their college attendance actions as language practice - at home they got none.
In contrast, the students in residence or rooming houses were isolated from their native language unless they made the effort to self immerse in English - sink or swim. In general they achieved fluency far faster than those with their native social life. There was spectrum, some in rooming houses/residences sought out their countrymen and thus hindered their achieving fluency.

So as advice, I would say immerse, read papers, date, watch TV - all in English (or French/German etc - where ever you are studying) to get your fluency up to speed ASAP.
So many counter examples come to mind. Just look at recent Google projects.
Dinosaurs are reptiles of the Dinosauria clade. Just because birds have an ancestry that stems from dinosaurs doesn't mean they are dinosaurs.
> I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure.

Bare metal infrastructure requires a lot more management at any given scale. I mean, you can run stuff that lets you do part of the management the same as cloud resources, but you also have to then manage that software and manage the hardware.
Google says you can request a review if you believe something should not have been flagged as a ToS violation but no mention is given to any rights you have. To me this reads as "You can request whatever you want but it might not mean anything in reality.": https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2463328

Conversely, the information for how to report what you perceive as a ToS violation is far more complete: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2463296
Alternative title: "DuckDuckGo is joining the band wagon and releasing another white labeled variant of Chrome"
> crystal radio coherer

I'm not sure there was such a thing. Coherers predated crystal detectors and from what I recall worked quite differently.
Because then people would complain about AWS being less reliable than Azure / GCP.
Ask HN: What's the quickest way to go from zero knowledge to build a web app?
I have an undergrad in computer science and a PhD in an interdisciplinary discipline. I have a decade of programming experience. I would like to build a web app which I think has lots of use cases. I would like to build it myself as I think at this point I am the best person to execute my vision.

I don't really have much experience in web dev. So when I tried to research which technology to use I am completely out of my wits as to what to use. There are so many frameworks based on so many use cases of which I don't even have a clear idea. How can I learn to build my web app in the quickest amount of time possible?

Edit: Some of the requirements: users should have their own account and be able to login, the interface connects with an ML model that is with AWS and gets feedback (I have checked streamlit and gradio but they are too restricted on the UI design side).
FreeBSD is the appeal.

Back in the earlier days of containerisation Linux had no options (Linux was pretty late to that particular game) and Solaris wasn’t free. So FreeBSD made a lot of sense.

These days the tooling around Linux is better and there are open source forks of Solaris so FreeBSD might seem like an odd choice for some. However I still think FreeBSD is a rock solid operating system and one that doesn’t get taken as seriously these days as it should do.
The problem is the toolkit offered, more than anything else. Kodi needs lots of native code hooks into the OS, which Tizen, WebOSTV, etc don't support, or at least don't give access freely. Otherwise Kodi could be on every platform..
Most TV OS's that aren't Android TV or Roku require you to write web-based apps (unless you're Netflix or YouTube, but another story there) which abstract all the 'good stuff' out, so impossible to run Kodi on.
Roku is an even worse mess (forcing you to use Brightscript, a digital signage language they bought forever go and still maintain)
AWS Fault Injection Simulator does this.
The social programs could be made to work. They don't because all other areas of government are broken, but they make for good lightning rod for attention, both negative and positive.

There are some social programs that make no sense, like coal mining ones (we're at the point where I'd vote to have current coal miner wages frozen in exchange for closing the mines - i.e. everyone currently working underground would continue to get their last yearly wages till pension for not working at all)

And the budget is crushed by all sorts fraud and mismanagement, with vanity projects funneling money to people connected to Law&Justice party (examples: creating new passage between Vitula Lagoon and Baltic sea; new power generation block in Ostrołęka - currently demolished before it ever got finished; Centralny Port Komunikacyjny - a giant useless airport without reason to exist, and yet nearly no work is being done other than funnelling more and more money to friends; etc. etc.)
> Chromes dominance is not going to be changed outside of government action.

Is it the dominance of 'Chrome' or 'Chromium'. I see 'Chrome' as Google's official product, 'Chromium' though seems to have become a boilerplate in recent years for kickstarting your own browser, and I don't know how I feel about this.

On the one hand Google is already a monopoly in the browser space, because we have gone from "Browser Wars" to "Engine Wars" where 3 distinct browsers (Edge, Chrome and Brave) all running the same tech from Google.

On the other hand I see this as a major service Google has done to help everyone in web development. In a way this engine monopoly has made things much easier, I no longer care if you're running Chrome, Edge, Brave or some other V8 based browser, I know I will see a consistent experience across those browsers. And while part of me is fearful or this shift, another part of me is like "so what". So what if Chromium is a dominant browser "core", it's OSS and though Google has major influence, it's still OSS.
Are Jails really that safe & secure?
Ever been to Antigua and Barbuda?
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The reason behind the nonexistense of firefox-based electron is mainly rooted in the fact that FIrefox does not offer any embedded framework like webkit did with webkit2gtk and chromium with CEF.

They used to have one, but just largely forgotten and abandoned.
are you (or your friends) confusing the IMF (International Monetary Fund) with the WHO (World Health Organisation)?
It is Amazon's services themselves which are advertised multi-AZ that would do bulk of this thundering hurd kind of requests.
Analog and analogical have diverged and aren't the same anymore, despite the implicit claims of the video. "Analog" now simply means "not digital". You can build analog computers that are not analogical, especially if you're an engineer just trying to do a job and don't mind hybridizing in some digital as needed. Analog now just means "not digital".
I've been using a 43" 4k curved tv for a while, and I love it. The biggest problem is that it's driven at 30Hz, but as I use it only for coding I don't care much.
You’ve conceded that logic gates can be built with pneumatic (and other) systems.

Complex logic systems were built, car automatic transmissions come to mind. I don't know if there were Turing complete since there was no need - these were purposely built for a specific task.

Anyway, analog computers are computers in that any realization of a Turing complete machine is necessarily created by analog circuits - albeit very non linear analog circuit. Therefore, Turing complete machines can be emulated on an analog computer but the reverse isn’t obvious - CFD, DFT, ad-initio can never really get the answer of the general case right (try simulating turbulence, crack propagation, the transition state of oxygen adsorbed on Pt under an applied external electric field etc)
1 - For the last 10 years, servers have been beasts. You have a lot of cores, plenty of HD and RAM. Servers are less expensives than devs. Scaling vertically can go VERY far.

2 - Caching is life. We have 3 layers of caching: cloudflare, varnish, and redis. Most things don't need to be real time. A lot of things can be a month old and the user doesn't care. User need immediate feedback to be happy, but not necessary fresh data.

3 - if you compile nginx manually, you get to use a lot of plugins that can do stuff super fast, including serving videos. You can script stuff in lua that will just skip the backend completly.

4 - mind your encoding. We carefully chose how we encode videos. The ffmpeg parameters are pretty insane, but the space / quality ratio is amazing, espacially on mobile. It takes a lot of time to experiment with those, nobody share them :)

5 - we offload everything we can to cron tasks or task queues. Including, obviously, encoding, screenshooting, etc.

6 - don't hold data you can't lose. E.G: billing. This way you can have a relaxed attitute toward data. If we ever loose a day of business, users will be in a bad mood for a week, but that won't be the end of the world. We don't need a bullet proof system if bullets can't kill us.

7 - give money to ffmpeg and opencv, because damn those things are fast. And good.

8 - servers are hosted accross 2 providers. This way, if one goes down, or decide to stop doing business with us Google style, we have a second one. Happened recently with leaseweb: they shutdown a whole room without offering an alternative.

E.G: votes.

They don't hit the backend on write. We pile them from nginx to redis, then once a day, we aggregate and store on postgres, which the backends will consumme. We just store each vote on localstorage as well so that the user feels like it's real time when they vote, but in reality it's updated once a day. But votes don't affect the money side of our business, so if we lose them one day, it does not mean death.

P.S: yes, posgres/redis/elasticsearch only hold metadata. Videos are stored on disk. There is no docker images, no mircoservices, FS is ext4. Which means with a lot of RAM, the OS FS cache will have most popular videos already loaded and ready to be streamed. Everything is raid 0, so if we get one disk corrupted, you lose the server. But we upload each videos on severeal servers, so when a disk get corrupted, we just replace the whole server. In fact, anything goes wrong on a server, we replace it. It's not worth it to find the root cause, unless 2 servers die in the same way successively.
I googled Mixergy and found out about a pretty interesting smart hot water tank.

Edit: being downvoted for a silly joke, I get it, but it's true. That Mixergy is placed way better than the startuppers' little bubble interview website.
For $150 you will get a switch with multiple GbE ports and one or two 10G uplinks. It's not quite the same thing as having 2.5G on all of the common ports.
The thing you need to adjust to is this unfortunate truth:

At large companies, NO ONE makes decisions anymore.

It's the PROCESS that makes the decisions.

And the Process takes a lot more time than you are accustomed to.

This will not change.
Even worse, majority of politicians in two biggest party come from fracturing of previous right-wing party...
Though that doesn't match very well with "uninterruptible power supply units can be engaged for certain functions". It sounds worded to convey that the UPS is limited in some way. An interesting old summary of their 2012 us-east-1 incident with power/generators/ups/switching: https://aws.amazon.com/message/67457/
I would think Mandarin would be closer to perl, no? The grammar and syntax are quite reasonable (as a native English speaker), but the character set is difficult to memorize and write. Doubly so if you go somewhere that prefers traditional characters over the simplified characters.

Word order isn't too flexible or wild, and aside from measure words, there aren't really any modifiers or compounds like romance language gendered words or German's obscenely long nouns.
The problem with the Bible is that it's so unclear and contradictory, the reader is able to cobble vastly different theological perspectives together. Hence thousands of denominations who do not get along and historically were violent towards each other. The church up until recent history was a violent institution of power.
This is an interesting industry.

> “We always knew this thing had an expiration date,” he told the friend, complaining that some clients had asked to shift their contracts to lesser-known rivals, according to a person familiar with the conversation.

I guess if you have this perspective, you want to maximize revenues and IPO before your product gets misused and invites US sanctions.

I wonder what the reaction would be if this was a US company and not an Israeli one. Apple would still sue them, of course. But they couldn't be sanctioned by USG, right?
You have an Elo rating, like in chess (or something like that - it depends on the app and they sometimes tweak it, but the gist is that rating is defined recursively: your rating increases if you get liked by high rated people), and you get matched with people within a given range around your rating. When you lose interest they punctually entice you with out-of-range profiles.

Like in chess, they show you very high rated people at first, to ascertain your initial rating and above all to hook you with all the attractive profiles. As your rating becomes more and more accurate as people in your pool swipe you, your range of matchable profiles narrows down.

(Edit: As another user said, you may sometimes lose rating by matching low-rated or too many people, but the exact details may change a lot.)

The main target demographics are the really high rated people (who entice everyone else) and the really low rated people, who pay up for every premium feature in order to get noticed, i.e. artificially boost their rating. (But just because you have a GM's rating doesn't mean you have a GM's skill, so the gains are hollow and you have to keep paying to stay above your original rating range). The equivalent would be chess beginners paying up for an Open Tournament in order to help subsidize the GMs appearance fee and prizes.

And as in chess, an elite of very high rated people has all the fun while everyone else sorts of sucks and flounders. That's not because of evolutionary psychology or some fundamental truth of human nature, that's just how rating (and by extension any kind of skill following a power-law distribution) works.

I agree, it comically sucks that people are letting themselves being paired by a shitty implementation of League of Legends.
Which is odd because NSO made many assurances to the US govt they were in control of the tech and that US nationals were not to be included. Looks like they weren't in as much control as they stated they were.
Proton is a fork of Wine. Just more tailored towards steam games.
Um, no. The "airport radio" in question is weather radar, which does directional scans and is very sensitive to interference. Just choose the wrong regulatory domain, and you're messing up the spectrum in ways that are mostly invisible to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_frequency_selection

(some devices try to avoid this by scanning the spectrum for weather radars...user indignation at unavailable channels follows)
Why not delete and recreate your account?
This is semi off-topic, but I normally write books, which I work pretty hard to edit down into the shortest versions of themselves.

As a weird side-effect of that, I noticed myself starting to hold all of my writing to that same standard, which was stopping me from putting out anything more off-the-cuff.

So part of my motivation with this site (which is only about a week old) was to frame it in a way, at least for myself, where I felt comfortable sharing the stuff-in-progress without worrying too much that it wasn't a finished book.

Which I guess is a long way to say that the rambliness is an intentional decision, since otherwise it wouldn't be doing the job (for me) that it was designed for. I already spend 20+ hours a week doing fairly utilitarian writing for my books, so this little site needs to be something different if I hope to stick with it. And in an ideal world, maybe a few other people will happen to enjoy some bits and pieces along the way :)
All you need is an anonymous call to the police in the US to SWAT your house and get all money from your bank account taken away temporarily. There are multiple people who said that the only reason they didn't need to ask money from friends for lawyers is that they had some Bitcoin. It's all about preparing for worst case scenarios in your life, just like wearing a seatbelt.
From a sibling comment: https://archive.md/At4rC
QNAP for the 2.5G switches, generic/noname for the $15 8125 PCI-E cards. Branded such - mostly using the exact same reference schematic - cost a few dollars more.