skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to focus on something called ”growth hacking”, which seems to boil down to social media fraud akin to the cyberwarfare psyops various nation-states have been doing.

Fast capitalism, to me, seems to be an ideology entirely centered on an authoritarian we-versus-them mindset where profit is king, civilian collateral be damned.
Earthly is great (disclosure: work on it)

But also checkout out IckFiles, an Intercal frontend for moby buildkit:

https://github.com/adamgordonbell/compiling-containers/tree/...
Seems like they reduced relevant search results to me
Osmium would evaporate, slowly, and poison you while it did.

Strangely, osmium oxide is a gas.

Iridium might be the better choice.
Worth noting that learning Flutter means learning the language Dart, which is good for pretty much exactly one thing: writing flutter apps. If a friend was seeking to achieve proficiency in either frontend web tooling for the purposes of writing an electron app versus learning Dart, I know which _I'd_ recommend to said friend given the long term marketability of each.
I’d argue that’s exactly what a hacker is. You’re doing something that works and serves a purpose, even though it might not be pretty.
A true Electron-killer will be one that allows migrating from an Electron codebase with 0 code changes, and offer low usage of resources by e.g. using WebKit on Mac.

In the meantime, no one will bother explore other options, because it just works, even if it's a resource hog.
LZB uses cable loops.

ETCS can use cable loops, but for full functionality a radio data connection is required.
> Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry?

Yes. What other rendering engine are you going to use? If your answer is anything but a web browser rendering engine, then consider that any serious UI toolkit in 2022 is certainly going to need a WebView UI component: so if you want the WebView UI component to be consistent across platforms (you want this), then you will have to bundle a web rendering engine anyway. In that case, why not just use the web rendering engine as your main rendering engine?

There’s nothing wrong with Electron as a concept. The issue is with either: blink being under optimized for this use case, or bad Electron apps.
But this thread is discussing desktop software..?
It provides reasonable explanations for the question that was originally asked. Efficiency is being traded for portability. We may not like that but plenty of people are using app built an electron everyday and a lot of those people aren't even paying attention to how much RAM it uses.
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Perhaps that is another differentiator contributing to the ID team moving as quickly as they did. SGI NUMA systems were not cheap! How many teams had that kind of best in class hardware in house?

16 MIPS CPU processors housed in metal heat sinks that can look and feel like small bricks! Real steel amd aluminum all over the place!

IRIX delivered NUMA style multiprocessing running on a single OS image they scaled up to 2K CPUs! I believe NASA had a 2K CPU system for quite a while.

Running one of those beasties was an excellent overall computing experience. At that time, perhaps unexpectedly, one of the most impressive features was the documentation. The early version of that system was called, "Online Books" in the software manager, which itself was what we know as a package manager today, and featured a Windows Help type application designed to render the docs and many high quality illustrations in a compact and searchable, selectable form. Selecting text meant being able to work through advanced system examples copy paste into terminal style, among other things.

For people who enjoy command line, in the terminal style coding, the SGI terminal font and white on blue was, and in my view remains, one of the top easy on the eyes, fast and low fatigue text interfaces ever done.

I will often grab one of the modern, similar to the fast bitmap fonts SGI used, and use white on blue today. My first home computer was an 8 bit Atari, also setup to display white on blue, similar to the C64, which can be set that way quick and easy.

Anyhoo, I was using and setting up those systems for a time,from workstation up through 8 CPU Origin and Onyx class NUMA hardware, and absolutely loved it. Exemplary computing experiences.

A comment can be found in the SGI freeware Doom package, "SGI graphics run Doom real sweet." (Or something to that effect.)

Newbies would be surprised to find even their "slow" SGI Indy could run multiple copies of Doom at the same time, rendering into a window with full sound effects and no dropped frames. I would play one while a few others were running in attract, or "demo" mode, all smooth, display frame locked looking crisp and responsive.
I'm constantly worried that despite the increased understanding we have relative to past generations, the increasing scope of our technological interventions means that global catastrophes seem more likely to occur relative to the past. [0]

Look at the convulsions we need to go through to address climate change politically, and realize that it is only one of maybe a thousand potential grave threats, each of which pits collective well-being against technological/monetary interests. Some may even struggle to be recognized as a threat (antibiotic overuse, microplastics).

It's a good time to be doomer.

[0] https://sacawa.net/documents/test.pdf
> Working with simple voxel data let’s you do all kinds of normal image manipulation techniques, and it’s not clear how you would do some of those with a nerf.

Any image transformation you can do on voxels you can straightforwardly transfer to nerfs. Voxel data is just a lookup table from discrete positions to material properties like color and density. When you apply a transform, you change the inputs (e.g. multiplying them with a rotation matrix) or the outputs (e.g. changing the color). If you want to do the same thing with a nerf that maps continuous positions and directions to material properties like color and density, just transform the inputs or the outputs.

The major difference is that with voxel data you can easily do output-modifying transformations directly on the stored representation, while for nerfs it might be cheaper to do it on the fly instead of redoing the training procedure to bake the change into the model.
Reading this makes me want to revisit running i3wm in a docker container on macOS. After having tried Amethyst (current daily driver), yabai, and hammerspoon, nothing comes close to i3wm, in my experience.
Drool!

One day, I would live to take the time to explore that computing experience. Like SGI, everything about those machines looks super sweet!
Of course you can also play DOOM in docker:

https://earthly.dev/blog/dos-gaming-in-docker/
This saves on the download size of an app, but doesn't significantly reduce the resource usage or non-nativeness of the resulting app. Another pro is that as noted 'system things' are done in rust, but I'm not sure that's a big bonus since your frontend likely has significant bits of js _anyway_. You've effectively increased the language count in your app.
A random google finds this: https://www.brookings.edu/research/preventing-unplanned-preg...

> Unintended pregnancies are at an all-time low in the U.S. but still represent about 45 percent of all pregnancies.
Expect that this Hacker News thread will be overrun by Swedish patriots who will, with tooth and nail, argue for Swedish exceptionalism and downvote all criticism. War is Peace and all that.

I am ashamed how my country handled this pandemic and I'm ashamed that my fellow citizens are more interested in managing the public image of Sweden rather than learning from obvious mistakes.

I am therefore thankful that Nature published this. It has been debated since early 2020, but the narrative of Swedish exceptionalism is so strong, especially on the Internet, that I wouldn't be surprised if this will tried to be burried.

I have lost friends due to this, not because people have died of Covid but because foreign nationals, who moved to Sweden to work on some of the famous tech companies, have realized how poorly Sweden handled the pandemic. They have now moved to other countries instead.
Tauri is certainly not dead, and with a security audit in progress and a stable release in its fourth RC, it's surely very close to 'production ready'.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/releases/tag/tauri-v1.0....
I cannot recommend the mentioned x11docker cmd line tool enough for this. It takes care of all possible edge cases, supports different outlets (like nxagent or xephyr), focuses on security and exposes an easy interface. I'm using it for day to day work with VSCode, for example, to fix its atrocious security model, or more recently, to try out JPEXS (Java), IDA (wine) and AHK (wine). I specially like that this leaves no config or cache files left behind.

The article says you need a compatible image for that, but in my experience, everything launches just fine.
Because Flatpak imposes some design choices that are... less than optimal for porting existing applications, and if you ask them to change maintainers will insist this is the way to go.

They have told users that if they want, for instance, Jetbrains IDEs to work, they should simply get a Job at Jetbrains and convince them to rewrite their entire IDE to support the flatpak model.[1]

This is the reason I avoid distros with Flathub enabled by default. Half the software on there is broken in some pretty subtantial way, and nobody at Flatpak or Flathub cares. They really need to realize they're not Apple, they simply can't tell everyone to do things their way and hope to build a working and reliable ecosystem.

They have the equivalent to snap's classic confinement, but it needs to be explicitly enabled every time you launch an app.

[1]: https://github.com/flathub/com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Commu...
Yes, if discord.com works great in a desktop browser, then there should be no reason why it couldn’t be an installable PWA.
QML or QWidgets + QSS let you style things as much as you can on the web. The DX is great, their IDE is world class and resource consumption is low.

The only reason Electron is popular is that company who shoot at multiplying their revenue need to have web apps - which brought up the demand and salaries of web developers. Web developers being in such a high demand means that people will learn more of web stuff over native.

At the beginning of my career I was equally doing as many Qt projects as web projects. Nowadays, when I'm targeting only the better paying clients, I do pretty much only web.
The developer experience in Qt is significantly better than anything web related (even after QML got introduced).

Jobs in C++ / Qt pay significantly less than what I'm getting. Same for most Haskell / Rust jobs.

If the choice is dealing with the pile of crap that web development is and making less money, I'd go with the money.

Things are changing in regards to Haskell / Rust, thanks mainly to cryptocurrency. The amount of money generated by the speculation in the crypto world and the fact that a few projects use Rust / Haskell means we're finally getting decently paid jobs using nice languages.
Yeah, generally that’s true - it’s certainly not a long-range system. I’m not clear on what the actual problem is at Stratford, but I do know these systems can be quite sensitive and it can be tricky to ensure they operate reliably alongside each other.

In the case of Crossrail the core (new tunnels) use CBTC signalling, I think based on Siemens TrainGuard - I think the specification of the project predates ETCS being proven as a viable solution for this particular kind of service. The services leaving Stratford to the East use TPWS/AWS in common with most services on the UK mainline network.

The challenge is in the transition between the two systems, as I understand it - anything out of the ordinary and the train will of course come to an immediate halt.
Are you commenting on the safety of GMO DNA structure, and long-term biology?

Or are you approving the chemicals that are sprayed on GMOs because they can survive them?
The rough transition aside, would it be so bad to return to lower population levels? The only thing I'm sad about is that I won't live to see the population decline rather than increase.
What if they are?
Exactly that https://subuser.org does
profiteering is earning. what are the devs of vanced earning?
These demographic problems seem to be there arleady. Even without any further drops in the reproduction rate. At least in my country from central europe. I cannot provide any scientific discussion as a source - indeed I'd be happy if someone could share some source, but it seems pretty obvious to me. Generation baby boomer chose career over family and soon they need to be taken care of whilst they didn't produce many children themselves that could do so.

And partially related: they chose personal weahlth over a healthy planet. At least I feel betrayed, and I guess I am not the only one. So these demographic problems might be accompanied by a change of the younger generation priorities, when confronted with both, a huge old generation that they couldn't care for, even if they wanted to and even if there wouldn't be any further crisis, and a climate crisis caused by the same old generation that is now dependent on them.
You could use a webview shared at the system level, so you don't have in memory 4 different browser engines.
"Nosovskyi has lost contact with the lab, he says, so “the fate of these sources is unknown to us.”

Missing is hyperbolic headline writing. What's happened is the site had gone off-line to international review. Has anything "gone missing" or not? We don't know.

Nobody thinks Russia is short of neutrons. These things are valuable to the oil industry and manufacturing. Sure, They can make dirty bombs but they can make money too.

Do people realise insecticide factories can make CBW? Do people reaize ammonia factories can make explosives? Sure! Or, they can sell ammonia fertiliser for desperately needed foreign currency.

As the very fine article (/s) does point out, almost any FSU economy has disastrously bad chain of custody over radiological materials.

Look, I'm scared too. Can we stop with hyperbole and stick to facts please. The international atomic regulatory body is concerned its not allowed to talk openly to people in Chernobyl and cannot formally account for a lot of radioactive materials in wartime. That's the story. Not "dirty bombs". Dirty bombs is a risk, sure.
I love release notes like this. Tons of work done, care was taken to make sure it works well, made all the right decisions, and it's entirely drop in replaceable with less (zero) dependencies and fuss.

Just picked up an SDL-based game recently, might need to try this out now.
Denmark have been breeding pigs to have a higher amount of piglets, but it makes the death rate higher, about 25.000 piglets die a day, and the pre-wean mortality rate is ~21%.

We're also exporting the technology and knowledge of breeding pigs.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/danish-b...
So WSL is a must? Because I tried already countless of times without that and it never worked.
Great video explaining the concept of an API to a layperson. Unfortunately, 90% of the comments are just kids writing "yep, still works!".
Did it make a good use of `AuthorizedKeysCommand` option of `sshd_config`?
Just because something is published does not make it fact. There is a definite bias at publishing houses to “be on the right side of history” and so some opinions will get squashed or not published.

Look at:
The mask paper that was talked about but was never published because the results were inconvenient.
Anytime statistics blow up a narrative.

The Swedes actually followed the science by listening to all the recommendations prior to the pandemic. The best example of this is the WHO or the CDC prior to the outbreak having published and peer reviewed papers that said lockdowns do not work.

Now the next comparison to do is that the approaches of all the other countries followed lockdown. Sweden did not. They then proceeded to have no significant death differences between countries. Seeing that, there will be significant mental differences and knock on effects from the different reactions.

Ultimately, the Swedes got it right by not panicking, followed the non politicized science, and keeping calm and carrying on.
I'm looking at them right now. So far, the most startling thing I've come across is a set of account records linked directly to certain oligarchs known to be connected to Putin's inner circ---(((((--^%%%--!--#--- *\---- ** NO CARRIER **
> There’s nothing wrong with Electron as a concept.

I'm mainly avoiding it because I want to make an app I can use (after all, I'm primarily making this for myself), and not just have a desktop app for... someone. My laptop only has 4GB of RAM, so Electron is off the cards for what I need.
OCSP natively? No.

Does the current OpenSSL have its own KRL?
Browsers themselves don’t do this for security snd sandboxing reasons. Each tab is another instance.
>There are a number of solutions that are either dead or are not ready for production yet, such as React NodeGUI[0], Proton Native[1] or react-native-desktop-qt[2].

Just looking at your 3 examples, I notice they all depend on Qt ... and hence the Qt UI components instead of the more familiar HTML/CSS of Electron.

So the code ends up looking like:

const { QLabel, QMainWindow } = require("@nodegui/nodegui");
const win = new QMainWindow();
const label = new QLabel(win);
label.setText("Hello world");
label.setInlineStyle("color: green; background-color: white;");
win.show();
global.win = win;

So the idea of programmers having to learn a bunch of unfamiliar QXxx() like QLabel() etc -- will be a tough sell to gain mindshare. Yes, it's Javascript instead of C++ but the QXxx() will still create a lot of friction for adoption. Also, a dependency on the Qt framework may be worse than Chromium for various strategy/technical/license reasons.

>Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry? It's resource-inefficient to high heaven,

The complaints about "resource-inefficient" attract a lot of agreement but also ignore the productivity of the developers that get to leverage their existing knowledge of Chromium-based components.

If whatever alternative to Electron has SuperiorResourceEfficientTechnology also comes with unacceptable extra friction (aka learning curve) for adoption, it will then also lose to Electron.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a Lithium asteroid that would be easier to extract using Starship level of technology.
In which case those people are not actually maintainers.
The problem with alternative implementations like SciterJS is the compatibility is not 100% and you loose access to the rest of the ecosystem. All of the js libraries will be hit or miss.
Of course there is: whatever event warranted the ejection. The seat/canopy mechanism is relatively localized within the aircraft, adding one more system to fail is perhaps frowned upon in this absolute last-chance survival system.
I wonder if there would be some way of having a system wide electrond that hosts the rendering engine, that electron apps could check for the existence of and use, instead of having an instance for every app. Like a multi tenant electron. I’m aware that this is basically a browser, but it would be specialised and offer the same level of integration as normal electron unlike the tab-in-a-window that Chrome apps were.
I saw a project on here a while ago that used Godot to make a desktop app. Godot is a “game” engine, but the app posted to HN was a business application. I thought it was interesting to use a game engine to make a business app, it actually looked quite good. I wish I still had the link.
Just chiming in to say that money isn't the only problem. You also need to restructure your healthcare system, for example, to account for more geriatrics and less pediatrics. We'd also need more carers, but presumably some proportion of teachers and babysitters could swap to that. But if you think about it, childcare is now a part-time job for many parents working other full-time jobs in engineering, law, accounting etc. Would they be caring for their elderly parents instead, to the same degree, or would we need a lot more professional carers for it?

Anyway, my point is that it's more complex than just comparing cash for this vs cash for that, we'll have to coordinate broad policies for a change like this. I think this is already happening in the West, but rather slowly.
Can you still query a gzipped sqlite file? What’s the sense in gzipping it if not?
I think the part "if you want the WebView UI component to be consistent across platforms (you want this)" is a reference as to why a built in webview won't be good enough.
Came here to suggest just this. Ever since coming across ko, it's been excellent in our CI pipelines.
I would love to see this being popular in VR. I enjoy google earth in VR way too much (it is just 360 photos) and there are some 3d real scenes you can walk in
Germans won’t, but Poland might want it back. Russia needs to bleed out first though.
I’m a farmer. I vehemently disagree.
I will! cleaning up now and going to publish it later on github. The main idea was a least privilege approach to running simple desktop applications independent from the host OS and being able to control filesystem/network access on a per app basis. (spotify on fedora without flatpak or rpm-fusion repo's, not even sudo needed to install)
Design, climate change, and the 'eco-engineering' tools to help our oceans adapt
This is the same Bernie Sanders video you posted two weeks ago, with a different title.
I'm doing this since quite a while and I am happy with this approach, especially with applications that tend to pollute my machine in every folder possible, like IntelliJ:

https://github.com/madduci/docker-intellij
I would say, use native webviews, eg. WKWebView on macOS.

But unfortunately it comes with occasional bugs that are impossible to fix for app developers, so if you want complete control you can't use it
There's an East Antarctica? Is that the same as North Antarctica?
Each tab is a partial instance. There are still many resources that are shared globally for performance and memory use reasons.
You are more-or-less able to do so, if you want:

https://www.shortwave.com/
I can degoogle except for gmail and maps.

Apple Maps in my country sucks. There are no good alternatives to Google Maps.

Gmail - I have too much stuff there to move away.
I like what you’re doing here. Take a country like the United States with a horrible outcome and use them for comparison. More people died after vaccines than before in the United States. How does that happen?

One thing is absolutely clear: 1 million Americans never needed to die from coronavirus.
I do this for a lot of stuff (probably a dozen different apps, on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android), but there are apps that wouldn't be able to rely on this. VSCode, for example, wouldn't have good enough system access to work.

However, the are some apps that could do this, but have hidden some of their features in the Election version. E.g. it's frustrating that Slack can't have multiple groups in a single browser tab.
You have react wrappers for all of those (hell, some already include React in the name, so they are the wrappers), so you really don’t have to learn unfamiliar syntax, just a bunch of new components.
Currently using this with Svelte to build a cross platform video editor and and my experience so far has been amazing..!
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