skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 million RMB is only 800k USD. For comparison, a livestream star in China can sell $2 billion worth of goods in a day. China has over 1 billion people. The country is donating what is amount to 1 FANG employee's annual salary. This amount is like giving a penny just to appear neutral to both sides. They are donating to buy the argument that they care.

Update:
For those still unconvinced, a neighboring economy with equivalent to 5% of China's GDP donated 27 tons of medical supplies. Anyone with knowledge want to calculate the market value of each ton of medical supply?
There is no 'max limit' of devices your router can handle... especially if they are idle 99.9% of the time.
ElementaryOS is leaving a lot of money on the table.

The reason is that they have an established user base, and there is an app store, which is very curated.

People would be more than willing to pay for apps on that app store.

Not so many developers are willing, though. The thing is, to publish on the app store, the source code must be publicly available on for instance, github.

If they allowed app developers to sell truly commercial software, ElementaryOS could be a self growing machine, and they could give away the OS for "free" and keep the OS open source.

Maybe it's not as "pure" as what they are doing now, but on the other hand they could reach so many more people if they had more monetary resources.
The GPU claims for M1 Pro and M1 Max were wildly above their actual performance in real life (as opposed to CPU performance) so maybe don't put all that much faith in Apple marketing here either.
It’s open source right? Shut down the company (or stop working on it, that’s what the other founder is doing, value will quickly plummet to zero). Set up a new company with you as the only owner, then proceed where you left off.
Cloud access sounds like an anti-feature to me.
Shackleton’s Whisky (2010)
Yeah just clarifying. Good summary.
We already saw financial institutions cancelling peoples accounts for protests. That did set a new precedent in my opinion. Tech should react differently in my opinion. Also disappointing was how sport events excluded Russians. Formerly sports was seen as something that could do it better than states. Now they are just part of the conflict of an alleged public that does not really exist. Shameful self-degradation in my opinion.
My cooking-hob has a timer per place (so 4) ... and then the oven/microwave has it's own timer as well. No need for some timer that doesn't automatically turn off the device it's timing.
Maybe it is time that we review the fundamentals? Could Planck and Einstein have made a mistake?

I find this to be the simplest explanation of light:
E=htf where h is in joules per cycle, t is measurement time and f is cycles per second.

Every wavelength of light has the same energy, regardless of frequency. That energy is 6.26e-34 Joules.

Every “photon” is actually 1 seconds worth of light energy at some frequency f.

Once you see that the time variable was hard coded to one second in planck’s constant of action it starts to make sense. It’s not surprising that single photons cause diffraction patterns because photons aren’t real particles.

forgottenphysics.com

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e266e5e7-739c-437c-89c3-eed...
This is Chinese Red cross and not China but this is very similar to what one more friend of Russia, India is doing. They have also sent in humanitarian aid.

Humanitarian aid helps you support people and not help in the defense of Ukraine, so Russia won't mind.

Also, compared to China's GDP, this is nothing when you compare it to other countries.
I am pretty sure not being able to choose the pieces is just a limitation of the specific library WebTorrent, not the Torrent protocol.
There's no such thing as "plausible deniability" in those things and Russia knows full well China's views on the war.
Rebuilding Makefile Targets Only When Dependency Content Changes
As someone who has a fairly basic use case for something like Pipewire - I switched to it about a year ago and hope to never switch back. Everything just works properly - and some of the value added stuff we have now (Easyeffects inside a Flatpak sandbox comes to mind) are very cool and work extremely well. My thanks to the developers, who have done an AMAZING job of building a realistic alternative.

There is a lot of REALLY good software coming out for Desktop Linux recently. Wayland, Pipewire, Wireguard, etc!
At this point in time, basically any GPU.
I like Apprise, one single Python library / CLI tool, to send notifications via a lot of services: https://github.com/caronc/apprise
Looks great, thanks for offering a free tier as well as making that part open-source. I couldn't find license for the code on GitHub, would suggest to add one.

Also, perhaps add some prefix/suffix/icon like `$` for the pro-features on the app.
You're falling into the very common trap of assuming that "energy" is some kind of substance (like movies/series tend to depict it as for practical reasons), when really it is a mathematical property of a physical object. Like other similar properties (such as spin, momentum and angular momentum), energy is relevant because fundamental symmetries of the universe require it to be constant. Therefore "losing energy" in one part of a physical system (such as the electron) is only possible when another part of the system simultaneously gains the same amount of energy. When you say:

> this energy (of wave nature obviously) passes through the slits

The question then is what type of object would possess this energy as it passes through the slits and hits the screen behind it. Since the screen is specifically set up to detect electrons, the simplest explanation is that it is really the electrons performing the interference.

(Footnote, just to be safe: Energy conservation can be broken on very very short timescales, but this is not relevant for the double-slit experiment.)
I'm replacing my own and my close circle old iPhone's batteries with Nohon brand batteries from China. They work as well and as long as new original ones. Advertised capacity is even higher than original, but I haven't measured it to confirm.
I'm sure there are many other founders who were running out of money and didn't succeed! :)

But I still believe that running out of money is super motivating, although we shouldn't look for it. It's just we need to focus on making money with our side projects. When we're not running out of money, it's easy to focus on everything else, postpone stuff, etc.
Leaflet v1.8.0-Beta.0
Well done, functional and easy to use!
I am talking gross/contract to be clear and yes, senior.
The important thing here is: the live rate is not the live rate

It is the avg. of the "live rate for buy" and the "live rate for sell"

This is what google shows

But every provider has a spread. As tiny as it might be

(Not to mention volatility, difference between exchanges, etc)
I doubt they can also take the assets, of which there are (at least) codebase, name, graphics, and domain name. Forking is AOK though, but that's a bit like starting from scratch.
Did not mean to be dismissive of your point. It is just that the overhang of blockchain as a solution to everything is so prevalent that sometimes need intervention.

It is true that the cryptographic primitives that blockchain is built on are relevant to many other things that we can do and have done. Blockchain in fact utilizes those properties to build a distributed shared state on which the parties have consensus. That, however, is a very special use case of those primitives. If you need message authentication, digital signatures have done that for decades and you don't need an expensive associated database to accomplish that.
But ElementaryOS is in a unique position to monetize which they don't use.

They don't allow commercial applications on their app store. I'd publish there in a heartbeat, if they did.

They are also in the position they (barely) function at a very low cost. They don't need a lot of cash flow to make a huge difference.

If someone has a way in with them, please please mention this. I'd hate for ElementaryOS to die, I really like it and have followed it from the beginning.

It's the only Linux which strikes the balance between being "normal" and caring about simplicity, consistency and ease of use.
Sports tried to include Russians, and this happened: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/07/shocking-behav...

And he would do it again: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/08/gymnast-ivan-k...

So ban it is.
That's easier said then done, when you integrate over a high dimensional (possibly infinite) space.
> Is this not quite niche?

Having more than one device connected to a display? I think that's rather common and I'd expect multiple inputs on a display from any price range.
It sounds like an excellent feature to me. I’d pay for that.

I’d say they’re charging too little.
We're betting that we'll be profitable on the 3 GBP alone. No need for any games or hidden rebates, but appreciate the skepticism :)
Who voted to ban Russian media in the West?
Browsers really need to put direct GPU access behind a permission prompt, just like they have for webcam or mic access.
Remember when people were talking about "ARM rack servers"? The idea was to have dozens of daughterboards, jammed into a 2U chassis, providing massive parallelism. The low power draw would make this possible.

Wouldn't surprise me, if Apple is thinking about doing something like this, maybe with a new API/SDK, focused on this. They would probably sell it as an ML machine.
If I think about the software that I use on a regular basis that I've built from scratch at least once, quite a few of them are fairly straightforward and basically just the two lines I indicated. Just off the top of my head all of these were just those two lines (download build tool then run the install step):

1. Kubernetes

2. git-annex

3. The new generation of replacements for various core command tools (e.g. ripgrep, fd, etc.)

EDIT:

> several weeks of time

Out of curiosity, what projects were those that took several weeks? My presumption is probably very GUI heavy ones?
Going from 2 to 8 cores made a massive difference to me (although admittedly I also almost doubled single core perf in that switch). Probably for the somewhat obvious reason that I usually have far more than 2 programs open at once, so having each program be able to run on a separate core is a huge win. With my previous machine, if I was doing something intensive (like say compiling Xcode), then the performance of other tasks would be noticably slower. On my new machine I can't even tell it's doing it.
Oh yeah, I totally support having a fixed income while building a side project. Otherwise it's too much stress. When you're alone, fine, you can get your monthly expenses to minimum and say to yourself: "ok, i'll try this thing out, i think it's a great idea, i'll focus on it for a year, i live more simply so i wouldn't need that much money, let's see what happens"

But when you have a family, it's a different game. This is where, I think, calmfund.com etc can be very helpful (although they usually want to see some MRR I think).
They upped their pricing to 6.5 USD last month.

Aside from the friction-less remote access they also provide friction-less Google/Alexa integration.

It's documented how to set this up yourself if you don't wanna pay them to manage it for you too.
My hat is off if you can pull it off, but I have to say it sounds economically dangerous. To you, that is. (And still, as long as you do not show your bid/ask, it looks like you are hiding something in your price.)
My OG SE is in perfect shape. Some people are just more careful with things that others. I've had to replace the battery and the Lightning port in January, everything else is still original and works fine.
> GPU performance matters (Game performance, ML training perf)

No one plays games on a Mac.

And it has nothing to do with GPU performance but rather the fact that the audience simply isn't interested in gaming on it and so there is no economic incentive to target them.

So the GPU performance that matters to Mac users and is relevant to Apple is not games but rather content creation, production etc.
The Raspberry Pi company should definitely not go public. Any further emphasis on the profit motive will undermine the qualities that have made them such a success.
I think it's problematic to think of companies as anything other than organizations maximizing profits.

If you have two companies A and B, where A maximizes profits, and B perhaps cares about profits but also has other goals, which company will grow faster, making the other less and less relevant?

Therefore I think a company's purpose is to maximize profits, and society's purpose is to make "good behavior" the most profitable.

This is not to say that it's impossible for a company to follow some moral goals and therefore become stronger due to the marketing power of such conduct, or high employee morale. What I want to say, that it would benefit our society if we worked out mechanisms that make it predictable and gather precedents to convince investors to such behaviors.
Worked flawlessly and quickly on Firefox 97.0.2 on Windows.
... and hostilities cease.
Having interacted with Danielle a few times in the community I can say that she is very difficult to work with and obviously doesn't know what it takes to scale a project like elementaryOS up. It's actually amazing it's made it this far.
This is the kind of thing that you can really overthink. I would just say it is whatever people call it.

Most people would intuitively say "invent" rather than "discover" so that's what it is. Words are defined by their usage. If that results in a strange and unsatisfying definition then so be it.
>Both Trump and Biden speak in easily understood sentences.

They do, unless they don't. And that's the issue, because these text snippets could be a gaffe, or they could be GPT-3.

GPT-3 often gives you similar, somewhat meaningful sounding sentences that are a semantic mess.

https://youtu.be/4MyLwAokINc
https://youtu.be/sli2Vn6Iiy4

I'm not saying everything that Trump and Biden say is like this, but the existence of so many bumbling speech examples from both makes it really hard to discern what is real and what is fake.
Confucius and the Whistleblower
It's still useful to have at least one HDMI port. For things presenting at other people's offices, where you don't want to be carrying a cable or dongle around with you.
They're trying to solve the problem of too many applicants, hence throwing out random obstacles.

> Doctors, lawyers, contractors, plumbers, electricians, accountants, agents

Also, the level of complexity/difficulty that a dev might face (but usually doesn't) is higher than in of these professions.
You can also donate directly to Ukrainian National Bank which has an account for supporting armed forces of Ukraine:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/about/support-the-armed-forces
> The country is donating what is amount to 1 FANG employee's annual salary.

>70% of employees at FAANG make less than $800k per year.
So it turns out "the phone has a physically larger battery — a fact about the new iPhone SE that the company confirmed on background in a group briefing with reporters." When teardowns are published we can see exact mAh.

See https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/8/22967821/iphone-se-third-g...
I guess the argument is that the non-error-checking version fails at the "find out where your output went" stage. hello.c gives the impression that your output went to the file, even when it didn't.

Without a spec, I think it would be harsh to claim hello.c is wrong. But handling the error—in this case, returning it from main to the shell via an exit code—is definitely more correct.
You are correct, I skirted a bit around the idea of what a package manager is in response to Nix. Docker does not resolve dependencies, but it does provide a platform in which each application can have its own version of dependencies that won't clobber other things that I'm working on or my system as a whole. Furthermore, the Dockerfile serves as a record (even versioned in git) of the dependencies added for future deploys, like a Composer or NPM lock file would. And that Dockerfile serves additionally as a reference for future projects.
Finland did not "attack" Russia proper as such, but there were long-range ski patrols trying to cut the Murmansk railway. Also, Mannerheim kept Finnish troops out of the assault on Leningrad; the troops' remit was only to reclaim land taken in 1940. This was a wise move.
https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi/status/150145386705311334...

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How did you rule out startups?

I'm interviewing with some startups right now, found this site helpful for anyone in the same boat: https://topstartups.io/
It's always like that when I try to see why some startups succeed. People tell me there's a "survivorship bias."

Well, fine, I get that I look at startups who "succeeded" and yes there are many others who didn't succeed. But I still believe there's some truth in this – when your personal runway starts to end, you'll really need to focus on making money or admit that you failed.

And most of all I think it's the mindset: you stop tweaking the css and get real. You start selling, and if it doesn't sell, you try to understand why it doesn't sell, and then you change things, or start a new project.

But we don't need to run out of money to have this mindset. We can, instead, just to decide to have this mindset.

What do you think?
Harden Your REST APIs with this OpenAPI Fuzzer
With this year's crazy tech stock appreciation, I would hope they would be making somewhere close to this from RSU.

But okay, 2 FANG employees :)
Laughs in Argentinian..

Brazil most expensive Apple products.. , yes..

Still laughing
If Russia lobs a nuclear warning shot into the North Sea (say), what is the move by US+NATO that avoids escalation and avoids abandoning Ukraine ?
I'm glad you're interested.

> So Apple has organised (against the 2nd law of thermodynamics) a collection of companies that moves chips and aluminum and glass into a box in a store near me. [...] That is a form of development / improvement of the 'land'

Exactly right. Which is why none of those improvements should be taxed. They are the product of human labor, to which the laborer has full rights. It is only the common natural resources which an organization monopolizes at the exclusion of others that should be taxed. A tax on such limited resources is in effect a fee that they pay for the private utilization of a public good. Ownership of high value locations is one example, intellectual patents are another. If you squint, a carbon tax is another example.

It doesn't have to get as complicated as Wardley maps. You don't need to account for every layer of improvement in the network of modern business, because no improvement should be taxed. You only need to answer "is this the product of human ingenuity and labor, or is this a natural common good that is owned to the exclusion of anyone else?"

This is the polar opposite of a VAT. You don't want to tax "value add", you want to tax "natural resource use"!
It's so apparent that all the comments here are from your friends (maybe even upvotes to push it to frontpage). This sort of behavior is starting to get more common on Show HNs recently but is really not welcomed. Please keep it clean!
Knowledge Compression
> So is pipewire a replacement/superset of gstreamer?

It is neither. Gstreamer deals with codecs and such. It's a set of libraries that an application uses to handle multimedia needs.

Pipewire is a service that handles streams and passes them off to hardware.

If you wrote e.g. a music player, you could tell gstreamer to play a .mp3 file, and it would decode it (by using its mp3 codec) and send the audio off to the pipewire socket, and pipewire would send it to the hardware to actually, you know, play. Pipewire would handle buffering and resampling and mixing and all that fun stuff.

Pipewire sits at the same level in the stack where pulseaudio sat before, and gstreamer also talked to that (and in fact you can speak to pipewire as if it was pulseaudio).

It's simply that it was written by a person also involved with gstreamer.
Yes, but that's for mold, which is multithreaded. The original context of this thread being the question of whether a linker would see speedups from multithreading. Most people are using traditional single-threaded linkers which are an order of magnitude slower than mold. The fact that mold is so much faster suggests that a linker does indeed see big speedups from multithreading.
You very regularly would like cross-platform desktop apps to work on the web as well, or at least to be able to share significant chunks of code. Given that, the fact that Sciter isn’t actually HTML/CSS/JS but rather a superset of a subset of each becomes very notable: you certainly won’t get total code sharing, and you’ll probably even struggle to get significant UI sharing.
Apeing into War
It was a war of aggression.
sport is one of the best things to sanction - very visible to the population whilst causing zero actual harm to it
Given that India, China and a bunch of other countries do not condemn the invasion nor participate in the sanctions against Russia, most of the world, in terms of population, is actually not on the "western side" of this conflict.

China in general is concerned with trade.
Coinbase banned Russian wallets even if it said it was immune to sanctions
US looks to keep Ukrainian 'biological research facilities' from Russian control
The company bought by IBM recently?

I mean, they got a nice chunk of change, but there's no guarantee that any of their original culture will still be in place 10 years from now.
Coinbase blocks 25,000 crypto wallets tied to Russians suspected of illicit activity

https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/coinbase-blocks-25000-crypto-...
They had terrible Donald and Joe impersonators.

I mostly didn’t pay attention to the political content as much as I could because it seemed like a few of them were supposed to be gotchas based on that. Obviously the text only ones forced my hand.

Wish they told me at the end how many I got. Probably missed 4 or 5.
I guess they should donate weapons instead, because missiles are always expensive than blankets for refuges.
You are mistaken: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/powerfull
I feel like this is misrepresenting the article's point which isn't literally "hello world is buggy if it returns success on failure" but more "you should do error-handling". In this very specific case, you can argue that it's irrelevant. But if your program writes to a log file, or writes to a data file that it later reads from, it had better include some error-handling.

The fact that there's redirection is a ... misdirection. The redirection is only used to proxy a real-life case that can happen even when no redirection is taking place.
My work computer was a sun ultra 60 then. Felt godly. Then it was replaced with a windows 2000 pentium 3 box which was notably a lot faster.
Ethnicity is not the only discriminator between these two groups. Ukrainians are also closer (at least to me in Poland), their culture is more similar, their history is more similar (and so there are some international bonds) and I just witness the Ukrainian tragedy more, because I have a better contact with them both on the streets (or at work) and on the Internet. Also Palestinians bombed Israeli citizens in the past.

Some of the arguments I mentioned above I consider "incorrect" in the sense that they shouldn't affect a moral person, but still I decided to list them.
I'm still hoping that someone will revive uMatrix and add new columns for GPU access and other webshittery.
Allies tend to be politically convinent, not BFFs forever.
Corruption is one of the items listed.