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Already successful business will strengthen their presence with app but not through app.

App-based business models are recipe for disasters.
Many horror stories of app banned because scammy competitor complained. Apple or Google won't care.

High app rating for new app is a sure sign of cloned app or scam.

I won't download 95% of apps if i see "includes in-app purchases".
Special purpose apps like "All Trails" or specialized aggregators/organizers that require lots of work to deliver - typically justify the cost.

Cute calculators that require recurring payments to disable annoying ads is complete nonsense
Article reports the guy as saying you can't use Python to do a GUI Windows app. Actually there are lots of ways to do this -

* Panda3D's main language is Python

* Godot has Python bindings

* So does raylib

...
The Linux Programming Interface: https://man7.org/tlpi/

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321637739
Exactly, Excel does have the kind of curve the OP is talking about, easy at first, then requiring some effort, and then very powerful.
> A lot of people seem very irrationally angry at OpenBSD. Not sure why.

Could it be because NetApp builds products with it?
I have met several LGBT people who refer to heterosexual people by perjoratives like "the straights" and "cis scum" and openly mock things like traditional marriage ceremonies. Like, in real conversations. To people's faces.

Unsurprisingly, straight people do not like this. People do not step back and say, "Gee, this person has clearly had some bad experiences that made them this much of a snarky asshole. Overall heterosexual people are not persecuted and homosexual people often are, so I shouldn't feel like my way of life is under existential threat. These verbal jabs can't really hurt me."

Nobody thinks like this. They just get mad.

Now is this scenario really relevant to actual discussion of what "equality" and "oppression" mean? Not really. But on the Internet we very quickly reach the lowest common denominator of discussion.
Propensity for addiction varies significantly between individuals. We've discovered a large number of genetic correlates of addiction susceptibility.

Once you grant the existence of individuals that are outliers in susceptibility to addiction (which I think is reasonable because it's such a highly polygenic trait) I don't see how one could claim that obesity is sometimes not entirely a "choice", while smoking is always a "choice".
So many days, weeks, months, years spent on Imagi-Nation, The Alter Realm, Abbadon, among other shards.
I do that for a charging-station of old phones that I like to keep around for ... things.
Earth as Art
I really, REALLY hate the idea of fracturing the frontend ecosystem further with another scripting language option when there is already an absolutely insane overabundance of tools and frameworks for JS alone

It should at this point be enshrined as an official binding standard that browser UAs must support JS and must NOT support any other scripting languages
I wonder if someone could bring a libel suit against the company in your example.
Gay man here. I'm pretty able to understand what they were intending. Any harm done is self-inflicted.
Whatever EUROCARE said about existing installations applies.

Though what I had in mind was that when I was handling optical fibre as a layman (we have fibre to the living room here in Singapore), that fibre is a lot more delicate, so would require a bit more care to handle than copper. But I guess that's probably not a major cost factor, if eg you have to dig a trench for your cable.
> - It sounds like you’re micromanaging your team’s metrics at a rate that’s fractional to one contributor’s hourly cost even though you don’t understand what helps them to be productive. Don’t do that.

You are seeing micro-management where I am looking for visibility and automation. I physically cannot micro manage my team.

> - You’re asking for a Show HN to eliminate its price tag and give you everything the poster finds valuable for free, and offer an entirely different product. I’m pretty sure you’re not the audience for this product.

1. OP said feedback was welcome.
2. I already pay for those features on Github. I suggested a different path to a bigger price tag.
3. I realize I am not the target audience. Simply providing a different perspective.
As you increase the Nyquist frequency the insertion loss usually goes up stratospherically. With PCIe 3.0 we were really pushing the limits of a lot of PCB materials and link budgets were already at the edge. It required a lot of innovation to break through those limits and we also had little demand to do so.

So the past decade we've basically been moving from redrivers to retimers, we've been moving up to better PCB materials with lower channel losses, we've been preparing for a PAM-4 migration in a future PCIe revision, and tons of other little changes. They all add up.

Plus a lot of enterprise gear moving processing to GPUs and storage to NVMe which is putting insane amounts of data over PCIe compared to older system topologies. This means we have money willing to buy better I/O which then filters down to us mere mortals over time as volume goes up and prices come down.

So we've now got a fair amount of technical headroom, a good way forward, and people with money willing to pay for it. All of which are basically conducive to rapid generational improvements in performance.
I do enjoy using OpenBSD from time to time but it’s clearly an OS developed first and foremost for OBSD devs. This is a fine state of affairs but it’s hard thinking of a good application for it beyond tinkering.
There are multiple uses of Habringer as the spelling
Exactly, the same way "serverless" code is all run on servers.
While it's true for typical cases at a micro level, people do "choose" to get fat little by little with every dietary choice they make, there's a lot of ways that it ends up out of your control:

- your parents overfed you while you were a child and now you're fat before you really had agency

- you had a medical condition and your medication is associated with weight gain

- you have a stressful lifestyle and have fallen on eating as a stress relief mechanism, leading you to gain weight

- the food you have available in your neighborhood is all junk and you get fat as a result

- the cuisine in your country is generally junk and portion sizes are out of control (I'm looking at you, America)

- everyone in your community is fat and so you consider that normal

- you do just have slower metabolism than others and so staying lean is just more effort

Not to say that it's outside one's control to control their weight (I live in Japan, practically nobody here is fat), but it's not quite as simple as choosing to smoke or not. Lots of ways you can end up fat "by default" whereas smoking does involve the explicit choice to start (by default you don't smoke).
Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work
Rob Miles's Begin to Code with JavaScript
My friend, that was krazy glue.
Android and desktop Linux also use base-10. It's a Windowsism at this point. Though some Android vendors specifically use the wrong unit in their software.
Investors don’t make people wealthy. Investors want more back than they put in. Serving lots of customers makes people wealthy.
P2P is fine for n=2 (and most videoconferencing systems already try to flow media peer-to-peer in this case), but it often has a pretty severe impact on UX if you go much beyond that.

Even with say n=5, P2P pushes the required upstream bandwidth beyond what is practical with tight realtime constraints on a surprising proportion of home and office connections, especially when Wi-Fi is involved. SFU cuts the upstream bandwidth requirement to be constant rather than a factor of how many other participants are in the conference.

There's also the fact that a significant proportion of offices, and an increasing proportion of homes, simply cannot establish the needed P2P connectivity due to double NAT, firewall, etc. For them you'll be providing a TURN server, which brings back the bandwidth requirement.

The bandwidth costs, if you move off the clouds, are actually quite manageable compared to the compute costs if you try to do decode/encode on the servers.
Yes, this is a small operation, population wise and financially. The Brooks County most recent fiscal year budget has around $6M in revenue: https://www.co.brooks.tx.us/upload/page/5141/docs/2021092212...

Really the federal government should be publishing and distributing guidance to local governments about how to run IT.

I am wondering about how the ransom payout is going to show up in next year's budget. "Miscellaneous"?

Off topic, but there is a documentary about migration through Brooks County and the perils faced by people trying to migrate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_Brooks_County
I can't help but think that walled gardens are attractive places to spend time, not that people want to spend their time in them.
Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War
As long as someone re-requests reviews (clicks on the little refresh icon) it should show up again in your pull requests to review.
The only main browser that is not financed with marketing or advertising is Safari it seems.
I think he's referring to Python's ctypes, which is part of the standard distribution. Ruby and node can't dynamically load C libraries using just the core distro (though it's a little silly of a point to make, given that Ruby's FFI gem works fine, even if it's not part of the standard distribution).
That ship has long sailed. As soon as you have JS, you have the ability to transpile to JS from any language with the appropriate tooling, to say nothing of WASM.
Yes I think the state of UFS in OpenBSD is the biggest sore point for me. If I can’t rely on a basic building block of the OS what can I really use it for?

I will say FreeBSD is stellar with ZFS and XFS is very very stable these days - even btrfs functions as a decent ext4 replacement.
Pipx might be the easiest way to get your application running on any platform that can run Python without caring about distro/OS specific packaging. And if you don't want to push your package to pypi, you can install with pipx directly from a git repo.
this might be the highest complement ever received in the history of hacker news, thank you
Cosmopolitan Used DALL-E 2 AI to Generate a Magazine Cover
Apple replaced the old Mac only versions with a complete ground up rewrite that allows inter-operation and live collaboration via Macs, iOS devices, or a web version.

Just as with Google's chat client of the month, when you do a ground up rewrite, all the features of the older version may not appear immediately, or return at all.
It used to be more manageable to go public before becoming the size where lawsuits and legal fees mean nothing, is the point.
That's why they need a union.
For the sake of argument, let's say that we're not allowed to question the claim that "sleep loss causes Alzheimer's".

How is that an explanation? Something has to drive the sleep disorder. It's too vague to be blaming for anything. It's not a thing.
Original paper here: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/130136/The%20...
How do you link multiple user agents to the same server-side account? Let's say it's a service that doesn't require email.
https://www.shiphub.co/worlds-top-semiconductors-producers/
This!

I love logic apps. I move mountains with them.

But to effectively use logic apps, you already have to have some knowledge of programming concepts. Flow control, parsing JSON/XML, parsing strings for meaningful triggers, calling API's.

A non-programmer would have a tough time. A programmer can build some pretty nice automation in almost no time at all.

I have yet to see a really good no-code solution that lets laymen be productive fast.
> The ability to share passkeys across vendors, including the ability to implement a "sync fabric" as some folks in the WebAuthn working group have called it, so it's interoperable beyond the major vendors.

This is a bit of a new challenge, because websites that consume authentication sometimes need to be able to reason about that authentication's strengths and risks. The models we use for this today, built around countering risks through multiple factors, are not set up to map to these new credentials which are abstracted by software and don't represent a single of the factors strongly.

It may be better to have third party sync fabrics that are cross platform, like a 1Password or Lastpass or Bitwarden, and indicate this so that the quality of the authentication can be reasoned about.
If you believe in the idea of wealth redistribution, there’s no better way than to come up with expensive products/services to sell to rich people who will gladly hand their money over voluntarily. There should be more of this.
I never played UO but read a fair bit about it. I was under the impression that all of the gear was perfectly mundane (player crafted often, no bonus stats, magical properties, etc) and skill/ability was entirely based on your character skill choices and their respective levels? Or was there slightly superior weapons/armor that was so rare you never used it since your gear was fair-game upon death?

Did you lose gear from both monster and player kills?
It makes sense to drop Turing-completeness. Many interesting languages are not Turing complete.

Perhaps the most practical example: just-in-time compilation of regular expressions to native code via LLVM. Regular expressions are not Turing complete.

Another example: take Agda as a source language. Agda is deliberately not Turing-complete, but can express almost any program you might be interested in. (Basically, Agda only allows you to express terminating programs. That's why it's not Turing complete.)
Except I think in the case where I’m an LP in both funds I potentially pay an incentive fee in Old fund even if the value defines dramatically in new fund, so still could be bad for me
Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning did something pretty revolutionary in that war. Has any russian done anything comparable?
My Singaporean friend told me about a policy there that you get a (not huge) cash award from the government every year if you can pass a fitness test. It's not a ton of cash and he's well off, but nonetheless it's helped him motivate to stay super fit all the time. Sounds pretty good to me!
“Here is a Homer poem about the Singularity:”

It is not possible to say

Whether the gods set the Singularity

Upon us, or the Singularity

Caused the gods to be.
Oh no... you know what, maybe we don't deserve to cross the great firewall as a species.
> Grape Nuts. They're next. Trust me, Post is going to be reading the interwebs and my supplies of Grape Nuts will dry up.

Please don't jinx us like this!
>Why then would evolution produce beings with internal conscious experience?

Well, I'm arguing it's the other way around. But to address what I think is the spirit of your question: if reality is only mind, if consciousness is truly fundamental, then why can't you read my thoughts? Why do we feel like individuals? Why do we have obviously separate private conscious inner lives?

When you are asleep and dreaming, your "alter" generally does not know they are dreaming. Your dream self has dissociated from your waking self, but it is only after you wake up that you realize you were dreaming (if you even remember). Another example of this phenomenon is Dissociative Identity Disorder, where one mind splits into many alters, each unaware the others exist. I'm glossing over a significant amount in order to get to my point, but here are a couple links that go into great detail:

- https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/JCdbmFCHYB0C?hl=en&gb... (chapter 5)

- https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/2/2/10/htm#sec4-philosophies-... (search for "Yet, we know empirically that living people have separate, private experiences (Fact 6)")

My point is, our private conscious inner lives are dissociations, alters, from a "mind-at-large" fundamental consciousness. And the boundaries of these dissociations, the "containers" of individual private conscious inner life, (again glossing over so much, like panpsychism's combination problem) are metabolizing organisms. Metabolizing organisms are what alters _look like_ from the outside. Kastrup:

"Since we only have intrinsic access to ourselves, we are the only structures known to have dissociated streams of inner experiences. We also have good empirical reasons to conclude that normal metabolism is essential for the maintenance of this dissociation, for when it slows down or stops the dissociation seems to reduce or end. These observations alone suggest strongly that metabolizing life is the structure corresponding to alters of [fundamental consciousness]

But there is more: insofar as it resembles our own, the extrinsic behavior of all metabolizing organisms is also suggestive of their having dissociated streams of inner experiences analogous to ours in some sense" (from the mdpi link)

>This would also mean that our internal conscious experience has no effect on what decisions we make, on whether we cry, smile, what memories we form, etc.

Don't your thoughts and feelings influence your behavior?
I’ve found that only hiring technical PMs can be really helpful in this regard. YMMV depending on the product, but when it fits it’s great.
That's a great feature request! We could certainly add configuration for an extra validation step (i.e. "Are you sure you want to run this command")
The private markets are very liquid for quality assets, you don’t need to go public for that, and the sec would not prevent these actions, their requirements would be comprehensive disclosure of the conflicts, not prohibition
That would be amazing. It's also asking a lot of a government employee.
I saw a pretty good article the other day about the some of the difficulties on the build side. Might be worth taking a look https://www.getoctane.io/blog/usage-based-billing-complexity
I’m picturing what would happen if I went to my local Best Buy and tried booting a live USB…
That sounds like a great idea. That or security cameras.
I think snowflake supports this.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/operators-query....
Reiser4 FS: Ways Extra Rigor Can Consume Years of Your Life [2005]
Original subtitle was too long: The Reiser4 Filesystem Ways In Which Extra Rigor In Scientific Methodology Can Consume Years Of Your Life, And How The Result Can Be So Very Worthwhile
Ask HN: How to report a spammer website on Google?
Website: codegrepper.com

Recently when I search programing keywords, that website often get very hight position on the search result page. But it has very low quality. The pages on the website were crawled from StackOverflow. Question&Answers are incomplete and sometimes not related. It is really annoying.
Browsers definitely need an alternative to JavaScript but this doesn't look like the native integration I was hoping for.
Snowflake doesn't support this kind of except, which is needed for the diff to work seamlessly:

select * except (column1, column2, ...)
There are some important differences in approach. Java was never designed to be downloaded over a network, and didn't have a module format or JARs back then. This is part of what made it so slow. In contrast, efforts to make the encoding of modules as compact as possible started the moment WASM began. [1] It was based on past research in compactly encoding IRs, and the modules are often processed in parallel.

The IR is also a lot less opinionated than other VMs. It started out being similar to a stripped-down JavaScript in capability, but broadened. At the same time it remained easy for browser engines to process into native code. Compared to optimizing applets, it has a simpler task to solve. This does have the disadvantage that modules need to come with their own runtimes. Compilers for languages like C have to deal with the fact that their host languages expect to be running on a fully-featured OS instead of a browser.

Even though it is a binary blob downloaded over the web, browsers come with disassemblers that allow you to see what is actually running. This is a step up over applets, but this is one part of WASM I find particularly underwhelming. The messy development of the VM affected the text format the most, so it's more confusing than it really needs to be. Some docs expect you to write it like a Lisp, even though there's no parse tree encoded in WASM.

WASM has quite a few problems, but they're at least different problems than the ones applets had.

1. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/a19e4ccf9c250cc73...
The parts of the model and how to go about training it are well known (i.e VIT VQGAN, auto-regressive transformers etc). They also use LAION-400 for training which is an open source dataset. Can be replicated, but will take time, patience and compute.

This is not true for some of the other recent headline papers: DALL-E2, PALM, Imagen etc. datasets are the primary deterrent, model details are well known.
> Ruby and node can't dynamically load C libraries using just the core distro

Ruby has had Fiddle[1] (a libffi binding) in stdlib for a while now. I don't know when exactly they added it, but it's been at least a couple of years.

Edit: I gave a talk on obfuscation in Ruby that used Fiddle back in 2017, so at least 5 years now.

Edit: But I also don't think that's what the speaker meant. "Binary extensions" are a semi-standard concept in Python, and generally refer to code (modules or packages) that gets compiled against the Python C APIs.

[1]: https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-3.1.2/libdoc/fiddle/rdoc/Fiddle....
> Do you have an actual rebuttal

I don't need to. Actual mainstream economics is that rebuttal. The Austrian school is a discredited joke.

Most of your points are emotional and idealogical - you call other cryptocurrencies "shitcoins", despite them being technically identical in many cases and superior in some.

> Another reason people might view Bitcoin negatively...

It's funny, you can't even conceive that someone could understand it and come to the conclusion that it's not a perfect miracle handed down directly from saint satoshi, and then you call identical cryptocurrencies "shitcoins", perhaps you don't understand them well enough?

BTC is the same as the others, it just has the big name. They're all shitcoins, I simply understand that about one more coin than you do.
Time travel debugging addresses this, but maybe would be too slow or memory intensive for games.
It doesn't need to be that extreme, giving up the right to healthcare would probably make things a hell of a lot worse (encourage people to not go to the doctor and then incur even more expenses).

It seems that the incurred costs per capita for overweight/obese people is somewhere from $250-$2000 according to this study. [1] So we can use some combination of the carrot (reward people who are healthy) and the stick (tax/penalize people who aren't) and end up more or less in the same place.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891924/
"Why is this?"

shocked pikachu hands
Any language can be the target of transpiling. JS just happens to be a popular target because we are forced to use it even if we have better options.
Wait didn’t he kill his wife?