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I think one of the major times to use Desktop applications is when performance is critical.

Video games are the key example: all video games are competing against other games for what comes down to more complicated physics calculations (often light-based physics: "more realistic" shadows from Raytracing, or "cooler" shaders like Dragonball FighterZ / Guilty Gear (very "unrealistic", but clearly requires modern GPU-shaders to calculate).

Though Google tried to get video games "into the cloud", it still required data-centers full of high-end GPUs... and even then had latency issues.

Other performance critical applications include Stockfish Chess, LeelaZero Go (and KataGo), Blender 3d modeling, etc. etc. Having the user "spend the money on more compute" is economically a more feasible move, than centralizing compute costs to a server somewhere (especially costly GPU-hosting).

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Good news! There's plenty of performance-critical applications waiting to be explored.

But if you just need to deploy a simple application with low compute costs, centralizing the compute into a single server (or even mild decentralization through the Javascript interpreter) is good enough.
You can use revoldiv.com. If you go to export and choose audiogram, it will convert the audio/video you uploaded to text and create an audiogram.
Low orbit and it's currently just a bent pipe / single hop design. Your message just bounces off of a single LEO satellite and lands at a ground station nearby to you, as though you had a fixed-wireless point to point link to that station.
I'm all for good incentives, but I fundamentally do not see the value in waging wars on things people like while there is so much other low hanging fruit.
I think you need to look within your circle of competence for know-how that few others possess, which can translate into solving problems that a particular customer set will pay for. You can start by offering services and develop products that embed your differentiated expertise over time. These problems must satisfy two other constraints: you have to want to work with and serve the customers who have them; you have to want to get better at solving them over time. This motivation is usually a mix of intrinsic interests that you have had for a while and a willingness to work for money to solve them. Happy to chat, or you are welcome to drop by a Bootstrappers Breakfast
see https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2022/06/29/roundup-of-eve... for a roundup of events this month.
see https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2022/06/29/roundup-of-eve... for a roundup of events this month.
So is Balwani.

From what the trial has uncovered, it does seem like he had a powerful hold on her, when she was young and impressionable. Does that absolve her of guilt? Absolutely not. But its hard to see how any of this would be possible without Balwani.
Starlink sats orbit at around 550 km altitude; other services are over 35,000 km high. That's 2 ms for a transmission to make it up (or down) versus 120 ms. Multiply by four to get the theoretical minimum ping, not including any computation/processing or routing on the ground, and the difference becomes enormous.
Perfectly maybe 3 years ago. Times are a changing.
Within a decade from when my Volt was manufactured to when I sold it, the carbon emissions per kWh dropped from 500g/kWh to 372g/kWh. Gasoline emissions have not dropped and might even be getting worse as we have to reach further to get nonconventional oil from tar sands, etc.
Right! But the quote you responded to was, "Americans just do not buy sedans". In the context of that quote, it appears that you were using your anecdotal observations to suggest that Americans do buy more sedans than trucks.
The $1b isn't a fee for backing out. There is no backing out, the deal is signed, it's a binding contract.

Musk not only waived due diligence, he also agreed he cannot dispute a "Specific Performance" argument from Twitter forcing him to complete the purchase against his will.

The $1b fee was in the case that a 3rd party, like the SEC, killed the deal and it was one of the parties fault it happened.
Snikket isn't just an Android app, so it's unfair to dismiss it as such. Sure, the Android app is based on Conversations. We sponsored some features, such as the easy onboarding flow which is a big part of Snikket, but also available upstream.

But there is also an iOS app and a self-hostable server. All these components build on open-source projects (working with and supporting upstream whenever relevant).

Our goal is to have a suite of software across platforms that is a consistent, integrated and family-friendly while being fully open-source and open standards: https://snikket.org/about/goals/
Sorta but not really. If you model the grid as a superconductor, sure, but the transmission lines we use do have resistance and therefore a maximum capacity and the father from generation you are, the more losses are incurred to get the power to you. So you end up actually getting power from the generating capacity close to you and occasionally get power from further away (or your local generation sends excess further than normal).

If you have 2 buckets connected at the bottom by a small hose, and you take from the left bucket at a high enough rate, the buckets will be at an unequal level and at some point either you stop taking and the water eventually seeks its own level again or your take rate becomes that of the connecting hose. (this extension of your bucket analogy, like all water/electricity analogies, breaks in a lot of ways but it gets the idea across at least).
I progressed from musicforprogramming.net to Groove Salad at SomaFM :)
Google's SSO can't really phone home. You're either using SAML or OAuth; in either scenario, the information flow is Google --> the app you're SSOing into; name, email, and user group information.

If you're SSOing into, say, AWS, Google doesn't get any access or private info out of AWS in the flow.
I think it's OK for the government to ban vehicles from their roads.
> Germany is burning more coal than last year and less NG, which drove up CO2. That says nothing about what they would be emitting with the nukes and without the wind farms. But we already know that answer.

It absolutely says what they would do: add the nuclear power that was eliminated and subtract the coal. Remember, they didn't need to build new nuclear plants they just needed to not shut down their existing ones.
A primer and a main charge. Very dense. Goes from nothing to walking
binary trees and macros in about a hundred nicely sequenced
steps. Wish I'd had this when we did SICP. Bookmarked to give to
students.
There are many benefits of sum types:

- Their values can be discriminated at runtime (it's depending on the implementation of union types whether that's possible. In C a union is just a structure large enough to hold all constituents)

- You can sum the same type (union(Int, Int) simply is Int)

- The tag breaks recursion. You can build recursive sum types because of it, e.g. 'a List = Empty | Cons('a, 'a List)
The one thing that I would like to see added to this would be the implementation of IO streams for audio and video. I'd love to find a piece of software that could be selected as the sole output for either a system's audio or a specific application, keep a buffer of the audio stream for processing, create an AV output, and then allow that to either be captured or streamed to something like OBS or VLC. Realistically, I can see latency being a bit of an issue of course. Audio fidelity may also take a hit if you exceed the buffer's capacity, but trying to implement a direct passthrough for the audio may desync the it from the visualizer.

Maybe it's just a pipe dream, but has anyone created/worked with a project like that before? I'd be interested in seeing what's out there.
I feel like you didn't even read what I read. I was arguing that, once I've purchased a copy of something, I have a moral right to that copy. I was not talking about downloading a copy of something I did not purchase, which is what you _appear_ to be indignant about.

> There's no need to "agree" on what purchase means. It just has a meaning. That meaning doesn't come from either of us.

Correct. And the online store told me I "purchased" the item. Then they decided that "purchase" doesn't mean what everyone (see your comment above "It just has a meaning") agrees it means, and they took it away from me.

> You seem to have lost track of the story, besides. The discussion wasn't actually about pirating what was already paid for. That's obviously fine

No, it wasn't. Specifically, the thread I was replying to looks like this...

> > > you will no longer be able to view your previously purchased Studiocanal content

> > This can't be real. It reads like a joke. Something users purchased can no longer be accessed? I think that's the definition of stealing.... Good thing we still have torrents

> it's really weird for you to try to hold the moral high ground while also announcing that you do something much worse than they did.

There was nothing in the response indicating they went out and downloaded the content _instead_ of buying it. My read was "They purchased it from company, company decided to take it away from them, good thing they can take it back (via torrent)".

If you're going to jump down someone's throat and rant about how they don't understand or are playing word games, at least take the time to see if there is a reading that is consistent with what they are saying.
What happened post invasion and whether that fit the notion of NATO members definition for legality is definitely up for debate but we’re there any serious considerations that invoking article 5 in light of the attacks was not legitimate?

I’d need to see some documentation on that as, as far as I am aware, every NATO member responded to the call and did not leave NATO
"who had previously worked at a bank for 10 years"

This should have been your first red flag. No really. I run a small bootstrapped SAAS company now but in my previous life, I worked at Investment Banks for over 10 years. Nothing gets done fast at banks. Nothing. It is the culture and event the smartest people get used to it and become part of it. I quit because I literally had nothing to do or when I did, it took forever due to red tapes. I of course wanted to do my own thing but the decision to quit was so easy because I didn't like the pace at which things got done there and I wanted to move fast.

I don't know this person but based on what you said, it seems like they are bringing the same culture and experience to your team which clearly doesn't work at a startup.

I doubt they can change the way they are because they have been "institutionalized" (stealing a quote from the movie Shawshank Redemption). If you don't believe they are producing work at a fast enough pace and with decent quality, it won't change much by you talking to them. I hope I am wrong but my experience says otherwise.

This is what I would say is "culture fit" when looking to hire at smaller teams/startups. You hire someone from a bank ? You won't get the same level of urgency. Period. Unless they quit the bank to address that specific problem.
I would be interested in some advice on how to support the sales team without doing their job for them. Our managers have lately started talking a lot about “focusing on the value we bring to the client” and so on, and while that is surely a crucial perspective to be aware of, there are perspectives that the sales team are not expected to be aware of that are the technical team’s responsibility and I would like to strike a balance there. Are there some things you are now aware of that you wish your engineer colleagues would have shared with the sales team, for example?
Concur. AR's gonna be the next smartphone, as soon as someone launches successful AR glasses. I'm convinced that several major tech companies are seeing enough progress in their R&D departments (or in others'...) that they believe it's not far off. Dunno why else they'd all keep spending so much on AR features & tech when it's obviously a dead-end outside niche applications, so long as you have to hold a device up to use it. All I can figure is they consider it so beneficial to be ready to go when the hardware finally is, and are so sure that day will come in the not-to-distant-future, that they're willing to burn a lot of cash on it now to make sure they're not left behind.

VR's not gonna be mainstream until after AR is. When decent and non-hideous AR glasses can double as VR devices , that is when it might take off, as a secondary use for those. The current bulky power-sucking ones that look dorky, block your sight, and require a whole lot of open space if you want to use them for much—those are never gonna be mainstream.
I know you're trying to mirror some of my comments, but this is just gibberish.

Of course Russia would have been better off if they (and NATO) had been willing to negotiate.

Russia is not "goaded on" by Putin, it is directly controlled. They also don't care too much about the Ukrainians they are killing or hurting.

If Ukraine backs off, there's not much NATO can do about it - except perhaps start working on regime change in Ukraine.

> Of course, it will also empower Putin, which is what Putin and the Oligarchs actually want. Russia fell right into their trap, and thinks they are being helped empowered.

I don't unbeatable what these words are supposed to mean.
This definitely does not mean what you think it means. Owning a large car for work doesn’t mean it’s utilized as such. I know people who own trucks and large SUVs for work - but it’s “just in case” not because they need additional space on a daily or even weekly basis.
Headline here omits part of the headline in the linked story: Gas and Nuclear are both now considered green. Which to me just reinforces the absurdity of environmental advocacy. It's clear that CO2 is the most urgent environmental issue today, and I say this as someone who is skeptical of many of the doom and gloom extreme claims and policy prescriptions that amount to shaming for wanting luxury. So in that regard nuclear is not just a bridge solution, but a long term (nearly indefinitely if we reprocess fuel and use breeder reactors), especially if we get our act together and stop making it cost a fortune. While natural gas is continuing to contribute to CO2 in the atmosphere.
This argument is tiresome. Several strong interests wanted to end nuclear power in Germany for a long time before it finally happened. And it wasn't the greens that did it. That much is public knowledge, there are wikipedia pages and everything.

The reason nuclear power ended in Germany was economical. There's no way nuclear can compete with cheap Russian gas, and Germany had over invested in the latter for over two decades, for reasons that obviously had nothing to do with nuclear power.

Look no further than Gerhard Schröder to see how this started. Again, this is not secret and there were newspaper articles everywhere. Then follow to the path across time and party lines to Angela Merkel who saw it through. Simple economics ruled all the way.

This is not complicated, and there's no reason to see a conspiracy here.
Then let’s say cultural tourism has been for the wealthy (until the post WWII era of affordable tuition led college students to travel on the cheap). The “grand tour” was for the wealthy, and Venice was certainly on that itinerary.

Instead of money, cultural sites could use knowledge to gatekeep. Require prospective visitors to pass a nontrivial quiz on the history and cultural significance of Venice to be able to enter. Take a short college course on the City and receive a lifetime pass. Those who expend the preparatory effort to truly appreciate Venice are permitted to physically visit the City, and the rest get access to streaming videos and stock photos into which to edit themselves.

Some sort of access control is needed. If you think today’s Venice is bad, wait until the Chinese tourists, with their exceptionally high tolerance for crowded conditions, start arriving en masse by rail. Congestion effects are nonlinear…
There's no solution that will give PoS the same objectivity PoW enjoys, but PoS (with slashing and exit delays) is secure against long forks under a weakly subjective model.

Vitalik has a pretty good post about it: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-lov...

Essentially, the solution is to ignore forks whose lengths exceed the exit delay, since such forks can be created without a slashing risk.

The main issue is that new nodes need to start with a (somewhat recent) trusted checkpoint. This does open up some attack surface that doesn't exist in PoW, though in my view it's not much of an issue. If I want to be extra careful, I can always ask several sources for a checkpoint and make sure they match.
Honest Pricing/Licensing Plans

Personal | Business | Enterprise
$5/user/month | $8/user/month | $8/user/month
| | + $200/hour custom license business development rate
Features | Features++ | Features++
Right - for example: openssh supports GSSAPI, which you can make work (e.g.) with your Active Directory or other Kerberos implementation.
You can still be charged with insider trading. You just won't be stopped from making the trade.
Solar is a terrible reference for renewable as the US has 4x as much wind and hydro power as solar, which makes up barely 1% of generation. Nuclear makes up 9.6%.

These 3 are clear base load because they don't turn off.
Ask HN: Looking for PaaS professionals to be interviewed for summer project
I am currently enrolled in a summer session with San Diego State University. As part of the Information Systems Analysis class, I’ve been assigned a group project to evaluate a specific technology.

The group have decided to use the subject of Platform as a Service (PaaS). Our setup is that we are hypothetical web startup, and we need to decide on which provider to go with (or manage ourselves through IaaS).

We are looking for professionals who have had to make this decision (or in the process of making this decision). Additionally, we need individuals who have expertise in this area.

Our team will develop some questions and conduct a short interview on this topic.

If this sounds like you, and your willing to help, please leave contact details or reach out via the email in my HN profile.

Thank you!
https://www.tiktok.com/@lukecapasso/video/711027937017391031...
I don't think this is relevant to my point. Not wrong, just not relevant.

Individuals who are anti nuclear have reasons, explicitly stated, that are misinformed.

Being anti nuclear because Chernobyl is in fact like being anti airplane because Hindenburg.

The criticism is actually (in this analogy) that they claim the hydrogen in a 747 will catch fire. "It's not hydrogen, it's just filled with oxygen and nitrogen" is met with "then what if that spontaneously combusts?!".

But in a way you make a good point. "I don't want to have a rational discussion or learn anything" is indeed the anti nuclear stance. "I don't want the truth, i just want to be right" is political.

The other things you mention are not really even known to anti nuclear people.

Wanting to be right despite facts or ignorance is almost the definition of politics.

People say they're anti nuclear because they want to spare us radiation and death, but when you tell them nuclear would reduce both then they just scream louder.

You can be factually wrong in politics. When your stated and internal reasons don't align with what your actions will accomplish, then that's wrong.
You are subject to a blackout when you have material nonpublic information.

IME the blackout remains until the opening of the trading window following the end of your employment.
$5K a month? The dream of affordable internet at sea will have to wait. Bummer. I expected a disruption from SpaceX.
I'm sure if the endeavor had been successful she would also say he was responsible since she had no real agency...
Ask HN: Why do you request an RCA?
I've worked on both sides of the vendor relationship, and thought I'm always curious about how outages happen, I've rarely had a quantifiable reason for it. If you're in the habit of requesting RCA's from vendors. Why? Have you gotten a tangible benefit from it?
And yet, we do no such thing when it comes to home and property security, financial security or medical records security. So, why when it comes to a phone which clearly has less overall value than these items, is it suddenly necessary to throw in the towel and allow an unnatural monopoly to form?

You're describing an unregulated market where the FTC and DOJ didn't seem particularly interested in policing. I would suggest that's a bigger reason for the state of the market then thinking it's a natural phenomenon endemic to this particular case.

And finally.. the giant disconnect here is that "you should worry about state level actors" but "you're too unsophisticated to do anything other than beg Apple for help." Mostly, I was trying to point out the absurdity of this position while at the same time taking a dig at Apple for their "cute friendly monopoly" tactics.
It's interesting to think of a world where their approach was scientifically possible and they faked it until they actually made it. We'd still be talking about how scrappy and brilliant she is, and all this other stuff would be treated as minor details.
If you’re going to factor in the refining process for the fuel, wouldn’t it make sense to factor in the refining and manufacturing process for the battery?
> If you're terrible at detecting malicious sites, the answer isn't to force English on everyone, it's to write better systems

Yeah good idea, I'll tell my grandmother it's her fault if "bank.tld" with "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A" instead of latin "a", and with a valid HTTPS cert, stole her banking credentials. What an idiot!
I called it HasId, there's a withId RxJS operator to go with it that selects from an IdRecord<T> based on an inner observable that emits an ID string.

Due to nominal typing in TS you don't need to explicitly implement HasId anywhere either, meaning you don't end up with it cluttering up every single type with an ID field (plus imports).
I think it's misguided to regulate like this, there's a natural incentive for efficiency in electric vehicles (more range, better battery life, consumers want this). People buying a mega car like this very likely COULD want it for a practical use case, trucks are tools as well as transportation and many people legitimately use their trucks for actual work in the US. I think the real problem here is the efficiency of the local grid.

If I buy an array of solar panels and use it to charge my car, it doesn't matter at all how efficient my car is, grams of CO2 emitted is basically 0.

We should really focus on regulating and improving the efficiency of grids across the US, investing in renewables and nuclear. This is the biggest benefit of electric vehicles anyway, the fact that it pushes the burden of efficiency from every consumer who owns a car to the much smaller set of infrastructure providers.
You can't have both? Have clear pricing with a variable enterprise discount. Big companies appreciate transparency too.
Given the Senate filibuster and the unrepresentative US Senate vote apportionment, a court ruling was both (A) the only way to create the policy, and (B) the only way for a strident, religious minority to annul the policy.

Let's face it, if the Republicans had managed to create an anti-abortion policy legislatively, they'd have been punished severely in the next two or three election cycles. The big donors can't have that - who would lower their taxes? So, court ruling it is.
I don’t use a password manager at work.

But for certain operations (e.g. privileged access stuff), we do have step-up to a second authentication factor in addition to SSO.
This is exactly the reason for the default 10% buffer between what we tell seastar it can have, and what we request for the cgroup with K8s.

In one case we saw that the kernel was unable to allocate a TCP buffer, so it decided to OOMKill Redpanda.