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The RME-Audio devices do indeed have low latency, at the limits of the USB 2.0 spec, 125 microseconds I believe. They crank up that USB poll rate. And are also using the Arasan chipset IIRC, the same to be found in some of the other prosumer and pro line-up of equipment, e.g. the Solid State Logic h/w. I am hazy on the details, it has been a few years since I was inside any of those devices, people from RME and SSL please feel free to correct me as to your chipsets. Some are using dedicated FPGAs to handle the data capture and processing before handing off to USB. RME's devices are definitely doing a bunch of on-board processing before giving it to the USB bus, and making sure the packets going out are as small as can be. Most non-integrated USB controllers are using VIA or Renesas. USB 2.0 has lower latency but less consistency (shared bus) vs USB 3.0 which has higher latency but is more consistent (point-to-point protocol). Obviously you don't want to go sharing your USB 2.0 port on your PC with an RME and a bunch of USB 3.0 devices, e.g. an external drive, because then you just end up with the worst of both specs, terrible latency and terrible consistency.
In all honesty I think at that time scale it may be more practical to create a lifeform that does not depend on oxygen or water, and only needs sunlight for energy. It may have to be silicon based, and I use the word "lifeform" in a very liberal sense.
Same with letting you disable their built-in extensions.

Seems pretty wild to me that a privacy browser is alright with having their own extensions run in browser without any way to disable them or even know they exist.

"But the extensions are open-source so that means you can audit them!"

Uh yeah... but maybe I just don't want them to run and put "Tip" links on everything. It doesn't matter whether they are secure or not, the user should get to choose what they run in their browser.

Brave is great (in my opinion), but the more you look the more you realize how strongly opinionated it is about how people should use the web which is pretty antithetical to what Brave says they are trying to do.
> Is what keeps them honest/careful.

A better way to phrase it would be, it's what ensures that the words of the policy become actions.
> I wonder what would happen if your friend started with, say, Haskell.

They might get confused as soon as they saw "do"-notation which, while technically only being syntactic sugar over monadic functions, still ends up looking an awful lot like a sequence of operations being performed one after another.
I wonder what the exchange rate going to be, and how much it will hurt Russia - even before the war they were reportedly selling to China at cost.
Illegal? How so?
Cities should have capped populations for efficiency. There has to be high income, medium income and low income housing ratio to have a balanced and economically diverse population.

We just have to build another city with great infrastructure and network it to other cities when we have an influx of population due to jobs or organic population growth.

It’s like how they say.. When there is a surfeit of sardines, we buy more cans to fill..we don’t not overstuff the same limited number of already overstuffed sardines to deal with the abundance. Our schools, our public transport, our roads, our hospitals, our basic facilities are all over stretched because we keep stuffing the same cities with more and more people.

In America, everyone deserves to live in sustainable housing. And high density isn’t sustainable. It is a cope when resources are limited and population surges. The demand for high density in the Bay Area is artificial and politically motivated. This will implode. Time will tell that I am right.
> Riff is a tool that we built to help developers write software without having to wrangle dependencies or complicated configuration. It’s built to enable you to clone a project and get to work in seconds. ...

The title specifically mentions Rust projects. The main competition there is Cargo, which does exactly what the quote above claims. It's not at all clear what Riff offers over Cargo.
I want induction, but no 240 to range because it's gas. It's insulated well (every vertical wire well sealed) so getting new electrical in means significant access holes to be made.

Similar with hot water heater, brand new, so I don't feel like it's reasonable to go buy a new hybrid.
Then the statement resolves to "If we still use math 100 years from now, we'll still use math.", which is a rather silly statement. SQL and Western notation are interesting to compare in that they are the dominant, but not exclusive, languages used to describe their respective mathematical domains.
Money spent vs results over time. Results excluding Boeing & subcontractor revenue. SLS was originally sold as cost effective reuse of existing SSMEs combined with relatively simple tankage to get a cheap large booster. Against those metrics it’s a debacle, unclear if it ever will fly, especially more than once.
This feels like an XY problem to me. I for sure wouldn't want anyone to reinvent a security API, and that goes doubly for doing so on top of a system that is inherently single-user. As the others have pointed out, Vaultwarden exists and is GPLv3. The bitwarden CLI should work with it and is also GPLv3
In fact, Keepass is actively supporting mono (they regularly have patches that improve mono support)
oh I definitely do not admire HIM.

I admire that he keeps resisting progress, still curl'ing websites and reading them locally in his EMACS just so that he doesn't have to touch a browser, and blissfully hacking away at a C language manual that the world has already hundreds of...

I like to think of him as the Amish of Computer Science. Which I don't mean in a disrespectful or derogatory way, just as someone who continuously resists any kind of progress...
We are talking about a campaign spending almost $20 billion a month, admittedly Facebook ads would only be a part of that, but why is it unrealistic that they ran out of ad spots to buy?
> Why isn't Visa being forced to stop providing payment processing services for liquor stores that sell alcohol to people who drive drunk and injure themselves and others? I swear, this isn't a strawman argument—Visa is as removed from culpability in this case as they are in this PornHub case, and deaths caused by drunk driving are reasonably far more damaging to human life.

Well that may be coming next.

https://pershingsquarefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022...
> Moreover, Visa alegedly had considerable sway over that business’s decision-making, a
conclusion amply supported by the allegation that MindGeek removed 80% of its content
when Visa suspended its business with MindGeek. Visa is not being asked to police “the
billions of individual transactions it processes each year.” (Mem. at 9.) It is simply
being asked to refrain from offering the tool with which a known alleged criminal entity
performs its crimes.
I prefer anything that can be converted to cash. I like that first price is $1000 in cash (which I technically, I mean legally have to pay taxes on). The resell-able Airpods are nice, too. LEGO and gift cards can work.

The hackathon started yesterday. Is the plan to change the prizes?
Yes, the age old falling out of love with PHP when I tried Ruby.
Dang changing a password manager seems like a nightmare. I use pen and paper which, given the trade offs, makes the most sense for me
I feel your pain, it's definitely a big problem in many places in Europe. Bad construction + overcrowded = Noisy.
That said I grew up in a concrete high-rise 'high density' building in Eastern Europe, and I can't recall that I ever heard any neighbor.
That's great! Who votes?
... and crashed all the time, which is how they lost me. I care, I tried.

They shot themselves in the foot every 6 months for 10 years.
I love the Fourier transform animation.
“Blah blah… fOrCeD …blah blah”

There was no compulsion involved in Russia invading their neighbors.
This is a Russian company with an office in Moscow. Blocked and done right.
Zuckerberg has so much money, it would be cheaper and less risky to just pay somebody to pay somebody to pay somebody to fund a PAC with offshore accounts with hidden ownership.
Actually during high school they did tell us salaries and perspectives. That was al part of a course called "choice study". This just reaffirmed my choice for CS. This was around 2000 and in the Netherlands.

I was fine with being called nerd by people going into commerce. Now it's us they need for their next SaaS.
What, in your view, is "the max penalty" for this situation?
Brave directly profits off of showing their users advertisements. I have no intention of supporting that monetization scheme, crypto or not. It's a direct downgrade from the privacy models of Ungoogled Chromium and Firefox.
> to justify the unethical system that allows millions to die unnecessarily

Which people are those millions?

The system saves millions of lives that would have died in generations past. How do you factor that into your claim?
Why don't we just ask an expert? Mat D? /s
So your "hypothesis" is that "don't ever post about the weather if you don't want to get harassed and chilling effect'd over being trans" is fine and normal and cool, but "don't run a harassment website if you want to keep free DDOS protection for more than 13 years" is the end of free speech as we know it?
Every property owner is NIMBY. Renters don't have to care and can just fly away.
You should never DCA when it comes to investments. That’s absolutely the wrong dimension to reference.
Please don't do regional or nationalistic flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At the current stage, the project is more like an editor and playground for designers and coders. But I'm planning on adding a player and entity system, which would allow creators to build actual tiny games with this.
> sudo apt install dvipdf

There's no such package.
Unrelated: “dolt” vs “doIt” is one of my standard font competence tests
Good point. Also stuff often comes in waves (as opposed to a random distribution over time) due to network effects, etc.
I wasn't actually referring to LAPACK but other FEM code. :)
> high density isn’t sustainable

On almost every measure, high-density housing is less energy and resource intensive.

> cities should have capped populations for efficiency

This is rationing. China is trying it. Agglomeration effects are real, so this will always turn into a political exercise around allocating people to more and less desirable places, and thereby pruning their opportunity set.
PayPal performed a "freeze and seize" on our account ~12 months ago, netting just over 50k EUR. They then went on a war of attrition, enumerating across distinct companies, shareholders seizing funds across all accounts (including accounts of unrelated companies and personal accounts in Hong Kong and Australia)

No information was given. After the 180 days "freeze" period, they announced that the funds would not be returned, ie: they stole the money.

We lawyered up. Their legal team refused to acknowledge official communications from our lawyers, citing "Customer Privacy Protection".

When we turned up the heat, we were told that our French lawyers (for a French company, and a French account) had no jurisdiction - the account was managed by PayPal Luxembourg.

We retained Luxembourg-based lawyers. PayPal Luxembourg refused to communicate with the lawyers, regurgitating "Customer Privacy Protection".

We lodged a complaint with the CSSF, the Luxembourg monetary watchdog.
PayPal finally replied via the CSSF, citing that our account was selling illegal products, ergo the proceeds were illegal, ergo PayPal deserved to keep them.

None of the products they cited were ever featured on our site. They included screenshots of other sites. When this was transmitted to the CSSF, PayPal silently released all funds owed, but continued to defend their position.

We are now pursuing damages; PayPal Luxembourg is now claiming that the CSSF has no jurisdiction over them, because the accounts are French / HK / Australia.

PayPal has an active policy of abuse and racketeering. They know the legal system. They use multiple jurisdictions in their T&Cs to maximise and legalise their theft (IE, PayPal Luxembourg cites UK law in the T&Cs to allow punitive damages for perceived breaches of their illegal contracts).

They know the legal system, and use their multi-national entities to avoid oversight from watchdogs. They know customers don't have the resources to pursue them. We've spent well over 100k to recover 50k, but someone has to stand up to these thugs.

If you're in a similar situation: Don't be intimidated. Get lawyers, and pursue them via the monetary authorities in your country. They have made theft a business model; apply pressure on the entities that can apply pressure on them, and you'll have a good chance to get your money back.
SiFive X280 is an IP core, not an IC. The design itself isn't inherently radiation-hard, but there's nothing preventing it from being manufactured on a radiation-hard process.
Not the OP, but I've thought about doing something like this, because you can justify a much fancier computer if it's shared. I have no reason for 16-cores, but 16-cores across three people is reasonable, maybe not even enough, so better get something bigger.

Then at least 64 GB of ram, and a sweet disk array, etc.

I did run a dual head Windows environment for a while, but it did have issues from time to time.
She joined Signal 2020; I personally do not care what she has been up to — Brian and Moxie know her, have worked with her for years, and agreed she was a fit for Signal’s needs.
It would also decouple two different difficult problems {housing, drug abuse} from needing to be solved by the same solution.
False Advertising!

BSL Licensed is not Open Source. To Be fair Utrace restrictions are relatively light but it is still Source Available project not Open Source
How is this “hacker news”?

I mean, maybe if it had some kind of slant (angle) to it like ”Bangalore will look like Santa Clara soon as a result of idiot workers refusing to return to the office, resulting high-wage unemployment sparks foreclosures in resort communities throughout the West” but it doesn’t contain any such tech leanings.
I thought "that's a funny coincidence with the Vorbis file format name!" ... but then I thought maybe it wasn't a coincidence at all. And it wasn't!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Name
It's great, but lacks yubikey support. Might arrive very soon, though, beta is already available in play store, see https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/issues/8
Show HN: A portal between Ruby and Go (using FFI)
As Austrian living in Dresden I've always used the previous Vienna-Berlin Nightjet until it was cancelled. It reopened again since, but the new generation will not be used on this classic route through Prague. It was always a roller-coaster ride. But even the day Railjets have been extremely unstable.
Consider the documentation for the similar compiler flag in the OpenCL specification:

> -cl-unsafe-math-optimizations

> Allow optimizations for floating-point arithmetic that (a) assume that arguments and results are valid, (b) may violate IEEE 754 standard and (c) may violate the OpenCL numerical compliance requirements as defined in section 7.4 for single-precision floating-point, section 9.3.9 for double-precision floating-point, and edge case behavior in section 7.5. This option includes the -cl-no-signed-zeros and -cl-mad-enable options.

While it stops short of saying "this will likely break your code" (maybe because it doesn't have the nonlocal effects of -ffast-math), it makes it much more clear that this flag is generally unsafe and fragile, except under rather specific circumstances. Also, it is reasonably exact about what those circumstances are. I'm not sure -ffast-math is documented with enough precision for a programmer to even know whether it will break their code. Best you can do is try and see if the program still works.
I think in an ideal world housing would continually fall in price (in real terms), just like other goods and services. Why shouldn't it? In most places, there's plenty of space, plenty of room to increase density, and in most western countries population isn't growing that fast (if at all). Any policy designed to prop up housing prices is just welfare for the rich.
A minimal viable program that demonstrates basic I/O and allows one to confirm their build tooling works isn't useful?
It's just cgit. It's a pretty good git browser that has few dependencies and runs fast. There's plenty of things to complain about with savannah, but I don't think cgit is one of them.
Let's Make Amazon into a Dumb Pipe
As usual a lot of discussions about AppleScript are about the english-like syntax, adopted for inexperienced users, less than the - in theory - amazing object based App scripting.

Fun fact: Apple in 1991 in fact planned to have alternative dialects of AppleScript, meaning divorcing the logic of the script from its textual representation and storing the script in a language-independent representation.

One application would have been internationalization, instead of writing english-like writing in french-like or japanese-like and early 90s Apple seem to have released those dialects for a little time, although they depended on localization of the AppleScript dictionaries of the scriptable apps.

Also planned was a Professional Dialect, but sadly not released. According to William Cook, creator of AppleScript (the language/dialect) that would have look something like this:

English-like dialect:

the first character of every word whose style is bold

French-like dialect:

le premier caractère de tous les mots dont style est gras

Professional dialect:

{ words | style == bold }.character[1]

I would have really liked something like that. One wonders what would have been. William Cook himself believes in hindsight that AppleScript should have adopted the professional dialect.

AppleScript from Mac OS X onwards had adopted the Open Script Architecture with bridges which can be awkward because of some mismatches between features and syntax of the bridging language. Even Javascript (JXA), the most prominent, needs a somewhat awkward `whose` function to replicate the builtin filtering of AppleScript.

[1] Cook’s paper about AppleScript: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf
> Could definitely see it taking off with professionals who are bottlenecked by typing speed.

Professionals who are bottlenecked by typing speed have been using stenographs rather than qwerty keyboards since before computers were invented.
To clarify: are you intentionally differentiating between what RONJA is and "free-space optics"? My impression was that that's what RONJA was - a particular open-source implementation of a FSO setup designed for ease of assembly and robustness.
Check with an tax advisor - there might be a way for your company to procure prizes without paying VAT and writing them off as advertising expenses, so you could get merchandise worth $2.5k for just $2k. Maybe you already did that. I think something more off the beaten path, eg. a Remarkable [1] or a Fairphone [2] would draw attention and maybe you can even get a discount for promoting their brands with your event?

[1] https://remarkable.com/

[2] https://www.fairphone.com/en/
I didn't realize until the end that this was written by AI. The progress of the story was just silly enough that I kept reading, assuming that all the nonsense would come together in the end. It did in a very computery way.

This may explain much of the poor content on the web
> Put another way, the guy stealing your catalytic converter isn't doing it because he's scared to burn your house down. He's doing it because he has every reasonable expectation of getting away with it and getting paid for it.

Catalytic converter thefts are up everywhere, though. Not just in liberal bastions, but in places like Arkansas and Mississippi, too.

Cops saying "if you just gave us more money and toys, we'd stop crime" is a claim that should come with significant evidence to accept.
It was pretty slow, but performance has increased a heap since Ruby 3. It is still not Crystal/Swift fast, but still very serviceable for an interpreted language.
Fully agree! See also "loud pipes save lives".
On HN, VCs are either ruthless short-term profit extracting machines or overly optimistic clowns investing in hopelessly unprofitable companies on the promise of future growth, depending entirely on the point currently being made.
That's a good point, but I'd expect that to influence output-heavy processes. I still don't see the connection to git.
What a coincidence, I am running NixOS as well lol (Honestly, with ZFS, wonderful setup)
Foosball is not going to play itself. Kombucha goes bad after a while. Think about how your co-workers feel when they don’t get a birthday card signed by everyone. I think you aren’t seeing the big picture of all the benefits you get working in an office.
I'm not keen on this. Writing in whatever language you want is not scalable to teams or reuse. This is why Pulumi is now supporting Yaml and blogging about CUE.
Also Firefox's market share is dying because of its built-in privacy tools blocking trackers by increasing opt-in and the conflict of interest that the largest analytics firm (Google) is also the largest advertising networks/firm (Google) and relies on some of the most ubiquitous trackers (Google) and owns the biggest competing browser (Chrome).

I believe that Firefox's market share is greatly under-reported and Firefox's dying at least somewhat over-exaggerated. But then all the headlines get to people and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in that way too that all the people that feel some pressure to abandon a "dying" ship only because everyone keeps telling them to.
I wonder how many more software unicorns will we produce that start out promising but end up (possibly) being net-negative on the society as a whole?
> This is just PR to distract in its own small way from the SLS debacle.

You're implying a degree of coordination which organizations the size of NASA just don't have. Artemis has had two scrubbed launches, they didn't put out this announcement to distract from it. I doubt someone went over to SiFive and said, "Hey, help us distract from the Artemis I launch problems and we'll give you a nice contract."
It is fairly clear that it's not in competition with cargo, since it is literally based on cargo. It installs dependencies that are not managed by cargo, apparently mainly C dependencies.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(No, that's not a defense of cryptocurrency - just of HN comment quality, which may not be great to begin with, but which accounts like this destroy.)
> Riff doesn't track which GPU you use at this time, so it can't track that which build of `pytorch` to use, sorry. It might be something we make it aware of if we have enough evidence it would be helpful.

Would it be possible to do something like make it depend on a cargo feature flag, or something similar?

It's probably better that this isn't automatic, since the correct choice of device isn't always obvious just based on what is available.
external means non-rust dependencies here.
> If there's enough local production to supply a caravanserai, caravans can take that route.

That's an interesting constraint; were there also extra-expensive caravanserai in places where that production wasn't quite local and some of those resources had to be trucked, er, caravanned in?
NATO doesn’t expand on its own. Sovereign nations seek to join for their own reasons. As a sovereign nation, Ukraine had the ability to seek membership.
If they can afford to buy personal information about its users, they can afford basic compliance.
More over, Inginuity uses COTS altimeter from Sparkfun, it's still working!