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Because desktop apps are harder to make money with.
They are easy to crack / pirate.
Also making a monthly subscription is harder for a desktop app (you would need still also a webapp to check for the monthly subscription).

It is on the other hand very hard to pirate software that only runs on some server. Also quite easy to force a monthly subscription if you simply hide app behind a login screen.
Additionally your webapp also has the data of the user hostage so the user can not switch to a competitor.

So basicly I think webapps are a dark pattern. The user of course prefers desktopapps but due to above reasons there is hardly incentive to build them.

Will this change?
I think so yes. Eventually this whole Saas bubble will burst, because
- Chrome filesystem API will make building a desktop app as easy as a webapp
- Open source and crowd funded software will pay the bill for those making desktop apps and users will be more then willing to switch.

When will this happen?
If we are lucky within 5 years, but more likely 20 or 30 years.
Ok, my wife uses my computer a lot, so I'm not sure how well Google 'understands' we are different people using the same computer or just thinks that she and I, and really all my family are all the same person and for some strange reason go through periods of reading about either tech news, Italian media, or when my daughter gets a hold of it, roblox.

However right now in the same browser that I am typing this, if I open mail.google.com, it is logged in as me. And when I go to youtube.com it is logged in as my wife. So there seems to be some sort of difference between the various accounts maintained by Google.
New speed camera ‘detect’ vehicles braking as they approach
How is this relevant to any of my comments?
What HN does is less obtrusive, less likely to stoke heated division amongst its users, and more relevant to the content of the site.
> Medical industry is corruption prone.

Corruption is incentivized in any for-profit industry.
Ah... I see, but I don't think it will help that much.

Actually making it work requires proxies and other complexities to cover any reasonable number of users. Those hosted tools take on a lot of the liabilities of user content even if the content isn't directly served.

The limitations will be hard to explain, content disappearing when your computer goes to sleep, or when your browser restarts for an update, or your firewall rules update, etc.

It's also open to abuse without the user's consent, and so Mozilla could become the conduit for hackers, phishing, etc.

Like crypto, I think this is just a dodge. Shifting responsibility to users who don't understand the responsibility they are given isn't an answer. This is hard work.
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You're describing the Mozilla platform's old XUL strategy, or the modern Gnome desktop. JS has permeated GTK for the last 10 years. It was a huge part of Gnome 3. For a brief moment, pushing people to start with JS for their next GTK app was an explicit strategy for the Gnome project. There was so much backlash, though, that they backed away from that position a month or two later. Had they had the courage to stand their ground, the rise of Electron might never have happened. A world with a better GTK as the go-to cross-platform UI toolkit would have been a lot better than where we ended up instead.
One thing to keep in mind is that common lisp is actually a super new and exciting language... All the implementations used to be proprietary for a long time (but there's been widespread acknowledgement of the merits of the language from the very beginning).

Now that we've got super awesome FOSS implementations the party has gotten started and immediately there are so many crazy cool things coming out. I think common lisp is basically a better rust for a lot of the things rust is being used for.. Although of course rust is way better for many things also. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison but the point is that common lisp is quite fast and good for application development (which rust is too but often with more complexity than necessary).

Another thing to remember is this rule of thumb where if you want to make a neutral prior for how long a technology will be around you should basically just look at how long it has already existed. Something exists for a week, probably it will be around for another week. Something exists for a decade, probably it will be around for another decade. Of course this is not a very detailed assessment but SICL and CIEL are respectively efforts at minimizing the bootstrap and modernizing the final product. There will be more of these efforts and eventually lisp will become a totally different language (as we approach the energy minimum for the vocabulary)... Essentially what I am trying to say is that right now; lisp code is the code that I have the most confidence in w.r.t. longevity.
is "snake" slang for police in hebrew?
Laptops are definitely more hit or miss given the proprietary nature of each manufacturer layout. Because PC building is so common on desktops you don't have to worry about idiosyncrasies to nearly the same degree. If this is your first build you should just expect some things escape your purview and thus you may have to troubleshoot a thing or two, but there's nothing fundamental about Linux and desktop hardware the precludes a turn-key experience.
Hardware should be designed to be resilient to broken software to whatever degree possible.

And then still, warranty should cover defects in the face of modified software.

The SDK is not some hack downloaded from some shady website. It’s not a third-party unauthorized tool. This isn’t like, “I transformed my Tesla into an ICE car and then asked them to fix it.” It’s like, “I paired my phone via Bluetooth to the entertainment system and now they won’t fix my defective AC.”

Yes it’s hard to prove that hardware wasn’t broken by broken, unauthorized software modifications. Is there even a small amount of evidence that the warranty burden caused by software modifications is significant? Many stores are happy to cover occasional consumer error even if they’re not actually liable to, and that is SURELY more common than firmware modifications.

Not to mention the directions this could go into. Oh, malware exploited our phones and then modified the system firmware? Sorry, your warranty is void because you ran unofficial firmware, goodbye.

(Obviously, and especially in the last case, if you do break your device on your own, or someone else does, then of course manufacturer warranties do not cover that. That’s a whole different wheelhouse. But your warranty should not be entirely void over software. This is the same as those technically-not-legally-binding “warranty void if removed” stickers everyone unfortunately tolerates.)
Because you don't see the spiritual part of it, only how it's being used as a way for people to grab power and wealth.
I guess my "poor man's" lasagna (pour some boiled pasta/penne/fusili in the bowl, slap some grated cheese on the top, repeat until run out of pasta or cheese) is a (7) Cake then.
That is true but you also see people putting there dog walks on there. Or their commute to work or to the shops.

These days it's all a bit moot as you get people on ebikes and scooters "cheating" by recording their rides as road rides (either deliberately or more often by accident).
Most artists don't have a career.

How many self sustained artists in the music industry are there, comparing against the self-claimed ones?
I'm not sure how that could work in USB C. You can definitely do it for USB A, and a lot of cheap charger cables do this to reduce BOM. But with USB C, the data lines are used for configuration negotiation (including PD) before being turned over to client data transmission.
You can check the study yourself (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2790491). They simply looked at alcohol-related mortality across the entire US in 2019, 2020, and provisional data from the first half of 2021. There is no basis on which to make a statement comparing localities that implemented strict lockdowns versus those implemented less strict lockdowns. The only event that definitely affected the entire country equally is "the pandemic" broadly. They can't draw conclusions the data don't support just to make it more palatable to you.

Saying this should definitely be studied doesn't mean every single paper that gets published needs to only study this. It's not even clear it's really possible to get the data. How do you measure the strictness of different responses? Do municipalities publish alcohol mortality individually or is only the aggregate data available?
>Here's something else you might have read on Slashdot in 97 that's still applicable today: "Linux is free only if your time isn't worth anything". My fear isn't losing data or being unable to get back to the working state, it's the time I lose having to go through the effort of doing that when the simple case of just installing a goddamned application shouldn't be such a pain in the first place.

I am a long time windows user who recently switched to PopOS.I'll say its getting better. This was one thing I was worried about switch back to linux. After I got fed up with what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11, I decided I had it and switched. So far it has not been as a pain in the ass as much as it used to be. There are a few things I still have to tweak to get my work flow back to the way it was on Windows.
Seems like he's coming back and outsourcing the editing - https://twitter.com/WilliamOsman/status/1486815129563918338
What is the production rate of helix? I have never seen one on a street. Compared to Bromptons, Dahons,.. produced in thousands a year. I guess, I have to wait to see a Helix in real, right? How many are there around nowadays?
Looking at the slides, pretty sure I'd need a semester or two, part refresher, part growth.
I'd find it harder to tell a young healthy person they had to lose years of life, their job, their house, than to tell a 70 year old or obese person we aren't doing that to spare them.

And you're right, rage is the correct word. Me and lots of others are enraged that years of life were taken. The old people in America already got enough at everybody else's expense. I want my 2 years back and I won't stop being angry until I get it. And a whole lot of people my age feel the same.
I've only gotten around to watching it today - excellent and surprisingly fun documentary, thank you for the link!
Thanks for the 500 error, I'll get to it!

Supporting empty file names is intended, mostly for the use-case of single file pastes, as I do require a post title.

I've completely revamped the code rendering to be server-side the past few days, so I think your problem is fixed. I put an example py here: https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/3da13a78-d9d0-47cb-a657-338...

Specifying filenames is something I've thought of, but I think I'd rather keep the UI free of more buttons and just hardcode .bash{rc} => bash on the server.
It's amazing to see something like this on film. Someone had to think long about doing this to ensure they had the equipment necessary, the money available to process/develop the film, edit the film, etc. Now, someone just whips out their phone and shoots someone without even thinking about it.
> Any highlight(s) regarding positive/negative experiences that you had with Svelte so far?

Sveltekit was a bit of a pain to get running, but using svelte itself has been insanely nice. I got an entire internal website up and running with a bunch of cool functionality in ~3 days. The state management with Redux alone would have taken that long if I was using React.

Being able to just use regular HTML is also nice.

There are some gotchas, how it handles CSS is kinda weird, and docs beyond the basics are rough in places.
Especially videos, which often take 10min to get to the point.
I don't know but I'm utterly amazed at the sheer number of anecdata comments here all completely ignoring the title's premise which is worded in a way that makes you think "what did you do, simulate a bird brain from scratch?"

So, thanks for being the only sane comment.
I think you're misunderstanding the title. It's not that evidence based medicine has problems. It's that there are problems with how evidence based medicine is currently practiced which gives it the appearance of evidence based medicine while actually not being anything close, that is, an illusion.
Yep. I'm a verified artist on YouTube, TikTok, Bilibili, Spotify, etc. and all it took was a $15/year Distrokid subscription.

That being said, the real challenge for independent artists is getting "blessed by the algorithm," so to speak, where they actually start showing up in Song Radio and Discover Weekly algorithmic playlists. I'm not keen on the details of the Spotify algorithm, but I imagine labels do help with this, and being on the same label as a popular artist would increase your chances of showing up on that artists' song radio.
Patrick McKenzie wrote about it in 2009, and his points still hold: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-...

- The Shareware Funnel Is Lethal

- Web Applications Convert Better

- Your AdWords Strategy Is Very Sensitive To Conversion Rates

- Web Applications Are Easier To Support

- The Age Of The Pirates Is Coming An End, Jack

- Phone Home vs. Google Analytics

- Web Apps Can Be Customized Per User

- Long Cycles Mean Low Innovation. Short Cycles Mean Fast Innovation.
You're right that getting music onto DSPs has been commoditized.

Parent may have been referring to promotional deals (getting onto official Spotify playlists, Discover Weekly, etc) or special royalty rates. The major labels have tons of leverage, and they definitely cut deals that entry-level artists don't have access to.
Over pandemic I lernt:

- I love getting pissed at the pub

- I hate getting pissed at home doing nothing

- I love the taste of non-alcoholic beer
I had it as an interview question a few years ago. I explained it before the whiteboard was complete but many people aren't necessarily familiar with such things.
> People have 2 arms and 2 legs with 5 fingers/toes at the end of each. This is a fact, not changed by the fact that indeed there are some people with more than 5 fingers/toes, some with fewer or even none at all. Those people are the exception to the rule.

> Those people are the exception

If there are exceptions, then it's not a fact. At best, it's an approximation that works well in most situations, and is subject to exceptions where it is simply false.
Oh, I definitely agree with your point. But what I'm saying is if you remove the security theater from the equation, you are left with comparing the job creation of a "pointless" but legitimate institution, versus the costs of diverting that money to different programs as well as the cost to travelers.
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That's exactly what Docker does behind the scenes to run foreign arch images, see https://github.com/tonistiigi/binfmt
This typically still involves typing in your domain username and password, no?
Google Calendar Webhooks with Node.js
> Ravens, by comparison, are much larger in size

The problem is, they are rarely sitting next to each other so I can tell which one is larger.
I felt the same way. It slows me down. But I imagine it would be very useful for dyslexic people. I have a family member who struggles to read; it's as if they have to consciously process what each character means. From that perspective, it's not so much speed reading, but bringing up people with slow reading to normal levels.
That's odd as Strava routes has an option to control the terrain it uses for a route. You should be able to just choose smooth tarmac only.

I guess that could be limited by how good the mapping data is where you live but it works really well where I am.
Social simply means activity that occurs amongst a population of people.

A pull request with the requisite commentary/discussion is absolutely a social phenomenon. Even simply pressing the approve button or the star button is a social act as it is a transaction involving more than one person.

And if you’ve never encountered the toxicity commonly thought of as only belonging to “social networks” in a PR or issue, then lucky you.
Transforming “noise” and random variables through non-linearities
All of those have offline browsing, which would be a part of MDN plus.
By definition, literally, your secondary definition is meaningless.

The more diluted a term is, the noisier it becomes, until it no longer conveys information. From everything I can see, this dilution appears intentional for the purpose of establishing new dominance hierarchies.
> He most certainly did not. Of all the different takes out there, his is very weak.

I think Adam Neely did a good job explaining what infringement lawsuits mean in the context of popular music production. Whether or not you agree with the strength of his case on this particular lawsuit, well that's not quite the point I was trying to make here. Still, what do you consider to be a strong take on this case?
All of this can be done client side though. A PSU delivers current until it can't, and doesn't deliver current when there isn't a load. Ohms law, I=V/R

It's a naturally self balancing system. Additionally, computer power supplies aren't made to be "reliable". In fact, they are made much like hard drives; so cost effective that it makes more sense to achieve reliability with quantity and redundancy rather than quality.

That's why servers have multiple PSUs in parallel. So you don't have to rely on them.
If you make tens of thousands of dollars a month on YouTube with AdSense, you are effectively a business. And indeed, many of these YouTubers have setup businesses in their name that receive the AdSense funds, and pay themselves a salary out of that.

A company does not publicly humiliate a customer who makes a detrimental statement to its products - can you imagine the devastation from someone who is socially awkward and receives this kind of backlash for the horrific crime of speaking slightly out of line?

Does your employer have a "worst employee of the month" poster with enumerated examples of all of the fuckups they made in the last month? That would be a million times less harmful than a pop-culture hack doing the same thing to you because you said something out of line.

People should be free to abuse each other online, call each other all sorts of stuff and ESPECIALLY lie or stretch the truth, without facing offline scrutiny or embarrassment.
I think you're maybe putting too much emphasis on the platforms, particularly on them being a single opportunity that goes away at some point. Every platform, regardless of whether it's a specific function like Spotify or a content hub like YouTube, is a separate venue representing a series of opportunities, not a singular event. If you need evidence of that, you can find countless new YouTube channels finding success in the same markets which have been "saturated" for years -- some since the beginning of the platform.

And specifically to your emphasis on needing funding, that's just not the case anymore. Everything is cheap. You can live stream from your phone in 480p with a $20 ring light, and fans of the content will still throw money at you. It happens all day long on Twitch.

> Additionally - 15k monthly listeners on Spotify is a pretty great starting point. Most indie artists, regardless of quality, will struggle ever even reach that without a lot of outside help (or luck).

Again though, that was after almost a decade of gigs and touring and marketing. All it took was opening their eyes to those series of opportunities that platforms provide, and then applying all of their effort toward those instead of pursuing the traditionally prescribed music industry path.
It's also been well over 3 years of myself and many, many other people and teams competently building extensive web apps with React and hooks, so it's not super clear to me in what sense these people "still don't understand how to use them."

There are many reasonable criticisms of hooks, like 1) some people have a strong personal distaste for them, 2) some educators say they're difficult to teach to newcomers, and 3) many people who use them don't have a deep understanding of how they work and how to handle some of the "gotchas." But none of them lead me to conclude that people "still don't understand how to use them."
Browsers download the portions automatically just by visiting the page, so that's strangely murky.

Usually licenses for the purpose of preventing unlicensed publication would just issue the publication with a non-distribution clause.
See Wikipedia articles of places nearby you
There's no restrictions on investing in YC startups if you participate on HN.
Humans are far more likely to break bones than pets - so I agree that it's almost never worth it to get a pet xray.

For humans though, as someone who's worked in a hospital, xrays are extremely useful. We see lots of broken bones. Confirming the break is important so that you know to put the patient in a cast, but more importantly, the type of break can sometimes require surgery to set the bone.

I'm not sure how many xrays rule out a fracture, rather than confirm it, but it's not 99.9%. If I had to guesstimate, maybe 10-20% of possible fracture xrays confirm a fracture. That percentage probably increases greatly as patients age. Kids very often come in with sprains that their parents want xrays, whereas a lot of elderly people break bones more easily.
I hear you, and you're point seems logical to me. However, would this not put an end to the public web as we know it? Specifically self-hosting.

What do you think about implementing this with a minimum organization size? I just do not see this same problem happening with small firms, generally they are easy to get in touch with. I wouldn't want them regulated unless the nature of the problem changed.
I think the emphasis on “in production” is because it’s assumed that the only people really using APL are folks maintaining legacy codebases. I picture APL like COBOL: there’s no(?) reason someone would even toy around with it these days unless there was some intrinsic property of APL that makes it uniquely suited to some problem domain, and to such a degree that people can overlook its major shortcomings. _Is_ there something APL is actually useful for these days?
Pix-2203.07: Support for DirectStorage
In this case, I think it's safe for the viewers to share some of the blame with Google.
is the value rewarded by mining greater than the value of energy spent during mining?
We've lost Polygram, BMG and EMI in the last 30 years, that's three out of the six major labels that were current in the 90s. The remainder are slowly becoming dinosaurs.
Safety concerns are real and I believe William Osman manages them pretty well.

Here's a "reacts" video where a radiologist agrees he's being pretty safe and what he's doing isn't that risky (assuming he knows what he's doing with high voltage.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJs598n3gE
Big fan of this, if only because it supports the claim that a taco and a hotdog are sandwiches.

The cube rule also tells us that makizushi (probably the most popular kind of sushi here in Aus) is not sushi, which seems like a pretty big weakness.