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> Fairly cheap modern LCDs seem to have superior image quality with sharper pixels as well.

I personally don't like the "sharpness", I like the image to be more "fluid", with the colours more easily "blending in" into one another (don't know what's the exact technical term for that).

A few days ago I watched a movie at one of my friends' place, she has a fairly recent LCD screen. I couldn't shake off the feeling of "being in the same room" with the actors, there was almost no "cinematography" involved anymore. I didn't like that, made it quite difficult for me to raise that fourth wall. I know of the HDR on-off setting thingie, but I don't think it was only because of that.

I agree with the burning in, only that in my case is not that severe, for what it's worth. There's some of it in the upper-left corner, from when I used to leave the TV open almost non-stop to a shitty music channel, that music channel's logo has left its mark in there. It doesn't "show up" all the time, only when the screen up there is all "white"/light up, and only at times, not always. Either way, manageable.
> He doesn't know Europeans at all.

A few days ago I walked past very loud protests of people demanding peace and good relationships with Russia, in Vienna.
Automakers are mostly targeting Europe and China because they are bigger EV markets with stricter fleet emissions standards that must be met. Emissions fines are dead money automakers want to avoid.

The US will eventually catch up.
It's going up to 36 cents in Germany come October. I've proactively replaced some perfectly functional but energy guzzling equipment with modern efficient ones, and it has dropped my consumption by over 30%, which will more than negate the energy cost increase. The break-even cost on them ranges from 1-4 years.
Grand Theft Auto IV was set in Liberty City (New York City).

Grand Theft Auto V was set in San Andreas (Los Angeles).

Grand Theft Auto VI will be set in Vice City (Miami).
At home, when accessing my gw, I always use "ssh foo@10.1" to access 10.0.0.1.
I would say it is a safer bet but not by much. What info Apple is keeping is pure speculation though and nobody outside of Apple could verify it effectively.
Maven and NuGET, specially the ability to ship binary libraries (including C and C++ ones), and have internal company repos where only IT and Legal vetted libraries are made available.
most of people on hackernews experience very different internet than the rest of the world, due to adblocks, pi holes, netflix, paid youtube, etc...

most web pages are up to 60% ads, search results are almost all ads, tv is mostly ads

google with their "answering question" thing has thought people to just trust it and click on first results, most of which are ads

ads, cookie banners and privacy popups cover easily most of the page, especially on mobile.
I do something similar with vim, no gui. I use vim over ssh with tmux. Others I know use vs code with an ssh backend. These two make up the workflow of roughly 60000 Googlers. None of them need X forwarding.

Some people may benefit from X forwarding, but the vast majority of Linux users do not.
That is how it works.

That’s what we assume will work when we apply sanctions on Russia.

If it was less serious, if it wasn’t in our faces that innocent people were dying, if it was something “far away” and “complicated” and not so one-sided. It would work.

Some (perhaps most) people are extremely selfish, even when it’s detrimental to themselves; you see it all the time with people not leaving enough space to collect luggage at the baggage claim at the airport, meaning everyone can’t see their bags and they can’t retrieve them without a kerfuffle anyway, or in the same way that everyone rushes to get off of a plane even when they prevent someone else from leaving who then will also be unable to leave causing an awkward deadlock.

People are gloriously selfish, and if you hit them in a place that affects them directly: they will turn.

The only reason we’re not is because it’s too close and too devastating for us to turn our eyes away.
But we really don't care about that factor of 2. It literally doesn't matter, whether Bitcoin wastes half a Luxemburg or a full Luxembourg.

And, iirc, then they estimated total consumption from well-funded and very active mining pools. I.e. exactly the operators that you would expect to run the most efficient mining equipment. Meaning all you do is being overly optimistic, as in "we claim mining uses less energy than it actually does"
Elvis's manager selling "I hate Elvis" badges springs to mind
Well, it has at least facilitated the Silk Road and many others to do business.

Regardless, I suppose that I agree with your point here. But I think that cryptocurrency could possible be useful for everyday transactions: it must first overcome network effects.
I haven't earnestly studied English grammar to the same level I've studied Romanian grammar.

In Romanian you have "sentences" (noun - verb - etc) and "phrases" (multiple sentences together, basically they're separated only by periods). I think in English grammar "sentences" are called clauses?

Anyway, Romanian "sentences" are generally short, and if they're not, for sure that's bad style. Romanian "phrases" can be long, but depending on the structure of the "sentences" and the logical separation between them, they can be quite clear.

Maybe the same distinction makes sense here? "Sentences" (clauses?) should be relatively clear and short and somewhat independent, "phrases" can be long, but only if their individual components ("sentences") are of high quality on their own and if they're connected in clear ways.
> mozillas common voice.

How can it be used for transcription?

In their website I only see an interface for either uploading audio or submitting transcriptions:

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/es

The Github repo they mention (https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice) seems to be just that sample collection software. I do not see where I can download the software to transcribe audio.

Edit: All right, the speech recognition part is actually called DeepSpeech: https://opensource.com/article/22/1/voice-text-mozilla-deeps... https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
They didn't have that word for it, but they would for instance talk about debasement for instance with putting base metals inside the coinage metals, the precious metals suitable for making coins. Although for sure some Romans used the word puffed up like a leather bag full of hot breath to hunt whales (one poet talking about whale hunting in the time of Marcus Aurelius). It's irrelevant. There's the same thing happening, the pauperization of the middle class, tipping the scales. They knew.
A display server crash is fatal under X. A window manager crash is not. A window manager is not particularly affected by GPU drivers.

What you see might be a GPU hang or reset that recovered.

Some Wayland compositors have a window manager model by using an external process for window positioning logic (e.g. river). This is mostly just for convenience of development though, making it easy to experiment with layout engines.
I live in midtown and can confirm it’s dead! I refer to downtown as the city center fwiw
I remember reading some article about why there are no adult prodigy, only child prodigy.

It went something like, the reason there are only child prodigy, and no adult prodigy, is because other kids eventually catch up. And that child prodigies are basically just children that are ahead compared to other kids of the same age.

It looked at the data, and showed that once adult, child prodigies just distribute themselves similarly accross all levels of accomplishments, success and failures as any other adult.

It also said that, once adult, the difference between the best, second best, third best, and all following is much less pronounced, and therefore no one looks so far superior to anyone else who had similar training, opportunity, luck, etc.

Whereas with children, the difference is stark, so people take notice, and that's where the "prodigy" is born.

I can't remember the source, so take it all with a grain of salt, but I always thought it was an interesting article, and a good question, where are all the adult prodigies?

Edit: Also, I vaguely remember it saying that the data shows a higher level of depression and general less happiness in now adult child prodigees, which the article hypothesized might be either from the loss of "being special", or from the weird childhood that "being special" created.
Yeah I wonder how's the turnover there if they keep reposting the same positions over and over

Asking for "gritty people", sorry, I'm not sandpaper
I just said 'fuck it' the other day, and started clicking on all ads that show up on my Facebook feed.
Dark Futures: Does Humanity Need a Backup Earth?
But they aren't making a new version of "Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid" - they are doing a live-action remake of "Disney's The Little Mermaid". Thats the difference, is people are expecting to see a live action movie of the one they grew up with.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. Only 46% of Germans want to stick to the plan of not using gas from Russia's new Northstream 2 pipeline when things will get more tough in the winter: https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/forsa-blitzumfrage-...

Most of the proponents of giving in to Putin's tempting offer are coming from the right populist AFD party or from former East Germany.
Tory government idea?

*for non-uk: the Tories are The Conservative Party, considered right wing, and certainly not 'socialist' by any stretch.

Reading any UK newspaper of late, I would consider a £20pcm saving tip almost front-pageworthy.
I also believe Viz might accept it in their Top-tips section, if you want to reach a wider audience.
NeWS was also proprietary to Sun Microsystems, unlike X11, which was free software.
> The CPI is not calculated honestly

None of your argument supports that it isn't calculated honestly, just that you don't like the particular choices. And it doesn't help that you misrepresent them.

> For example, Owner’s Equivalent Rent is used, not actual rent that many families are struggling to pay.

Actual rent is used for renters. Owner’s equivalent rent (imputed rent) is used instead of asset purchase costs to assess the consumption cost of housing separate from the cost of acquiring a durable asset for homeowners.

> In addition, the Fed’s core inflation number is ex food and energy prices, which is also misleading.

The headline number is the full CPI, not core CPI. Core CPI is also reported, and may be used for some purposes by certain consumers of CPI data, but it's not the headline figure/main measure, so disagreement with its appropriateness as the main measure is fine, but a beating a strawman.
This is a very critical point!

But surely the gold-owner would have to cash out some of their gold to pay the guard in cash? Does it make a difference if he pays the guard in gold and then lets the guard cash it out?
Philips 32PHS5507/12: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B09ZHVSVYP

For a larger TV (like 50-60 inches) a good on-paper power consumption amount would be between 50 and 70w. You can lower that drastically if the TV has an eco mode and is a dumb TV. In Europe they have to provide a "Product fiche" that lists a number of things including power draw, and an overall "grade". TVs basically never go below grade E because the rules are far too strict.

Oh, also the power LED on this TV is SUPER ANNOYING! I had to open the TV (just a bunch of philips screws), pull out the IR receiver circuit board, and cover the LED with electrical tape (the LED, not the IR receiver).
Is this why my iOS devices have been running smoother since I changed my isp to something much better ? I used to have issues with all my ios devices where they just felt sluggish in general doing non internet related tasks too. Now that I have upgraded my ISP everything is just snappier. Just launching apps is faster. This isn’t the first time this transition has happened for me. I’ve been moving a lot last few years and different places have different quality isps. Every time I have a good isp all my apple devices feel better.
Advertising in general is just businesses grifting each other with false promises.
Isn't this what catalogs used to be about?

I sometimes browse random awesome-[thing] lists just to see what they have in store and if anything in there gives me any new idea or seems to scratch some itch I didn't even know I had.

No need for any invasive tracking or obnoxious pop-ups.
IMO, direct call (especially if those are common in your workplace) is much better than a vague "can we talk?" before a call. Doesn't give the mind a chance to wander and fill in the context.
Yes. In fact, musl 1.2.0's pthread_mutex_t was verified in 2021 without changes. The same work found a bug in seL4 (obviously in unverified part, but still).

The author remarks that this is in part because musl is conservative, and identifies barriers in musl that can be removed. But I think musl should get credits for being conservative here. Also in benchmarks, redundant barriers showed no performance impact.

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/papers/asplos2021-vsync.p...
Because as long as you don't burn them, they don't release any gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Could you explain any mechanism that make plastics in nature contribute to the climate catastrophe?
iPhone 14 Pro Programmed to Reject Repair – Teardown and Repair Assessment
To be fair, many other HN comment sections on this topic have discussed exactly these questions, including the history of the current energy mix.
I found that this is a very insightful overview of chip architectures today. Thank you for taking the time to spell this out!

I had no idea that there were 2x2 and 1x4 chips. Do you have a link that compares those in performance?
As mentioned elsewhere - American English.
That happened to all of us.

The Ukrainians, the Americans, the Chinese by all means, everybody everywhere had to suffer through the pandemic of really isolation. Serious isolation. Pretending screens were people, the only place you saw people's whole face was on Zoom.

New reality. We are all in it now.

Only two industries call customers users.

Only two kinds of lockdown.
Most lawyers only exist to protect you from other lawyers. The language is all part of that, consciously or not.
Yup, drowning is a leading cause of death for children in the US [1]:

> More children ages 1–4 die from drowning than any other cause of death except birth defects. For children ages 1–14, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death after motor vehicle crashes.

Definitely worth taking seriously - and not being able to swim is a risk factor. My kids have been taking lessons since they were in preschool, but even then I don't let them out of sight when we're in the water because they still aren't very strong swimmers.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/facts/index.html
Dark fiber is useful for a lot more than GPUs built solely for a specific type of processing.

But more importantly, it’s not even clear that buying a miner’s GPU is a good deal because these GPUs tend to be really worn out with short working lives.

Most people will probably be better off simply buying cheaper GPUs new, or buying slightly cheaper used GPUs on eBay that were not popular for mining.
I believe that the handwriting I and my generation at least were taught in school is quite close to US cursive - we had special notebooks teaching us how to "properly" draw the letters, and had several classes where we were graded on our penmanship. The details of some letters will definitely differ, but the script was definitely far from print letters [0].

Now, in later classes, especially in middle and high-school, developing your own handwriting style was common and not problematic - and many, including myself, adopted some print letters while still using many cursive ones as well.

[0] https://www.suntparinte.ro/uploads/resource/59/23/12//litere...
They didn’t buy figma for the tech. They didn’t clone figma because even if they succeeded that would leave figma still there. They bought figma so they could kill it and restore their monopoly.

Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the truth.
Yes. Nothing beats taking notes by hand and scribbling on the text book itself for the way I learn.
Something else to think about, from experience of a friend- if you are employed then the French vacation days, sick leave, notice period and other benefits will seem weird to problematic. If you are a contractor then you will "only" need to explain your vacation days.
I think the only question here is not if the EU can secure "enough gas", which I doubt it can even if the article is so sure, but at what price? And can the German industry stay competitive with those energy prices?

In case it can't, what will be the EU's future without Germany as the economic motor?
I've spent thousands on ads and have overall made 5-13x in ROI.

I can say that my bad ads get less sales than my good ads.

My good ads consistently work, my bad ads don't.

So, ad copy matters.

However, a good advertiser accepts that not everyone is a good ad target.

You may not be a good target for advertising.

I would say, I'm not a good target.

Some people are very moved by advertising.

Others are not.

The 80/20 rule applies here.

80% of the profit in advertising probably comes from 20% of the target population for a given product.

I've learned that it's better to think of good advertising as just a form of communication.

A great ad is factual information that answers questions customers have, and provides urgency.

An ad might contain some fluff, but to really sell it usually needs to state explicit, accurate facts, in easy to understand language.

There is a lot of bad marketing from people that think they can make an ad just because they're a hip or a cool person, or they have an eye for color.

Those ads can be egregiously bad.

Just as some marketing sites are all fluff no substance, but sold to unsuspecting business owners, the same happens with advertising.

But the key idea is that, for certain products, good ads sell "enough" to the target audience to be very lucrative.

A great book on this topic is "Ogilvy on Advertising." Specifically, the first chapter.
I would give scrapyards a try for a stop gap solution. You could find perfectly working parts until new stock is in place.
They did this for some tiny subset of GPUs, and they achieved this largely by making those GPUs worse for even non mining purposes than the ones they replaced.
Okay, but consider that bitcoin's comparative hashrate must be greater than that of an attacker in order for it to resist an attack.
Hiring for the same position over and over could mean high turnover or it could mean a growing company. To take this to an extreme: Google aren’t constantly hiring software engineers because they have one software engineer role and everyone quits mere seconds after starting.
I knew the HN comments would be disappointing on this topic.
I believe the early fans of A Song of Ice and Fire were excited about it because it went against the fantasy culture that Tolkien had started of a sanitized diaphanous world where the villains were unquestionably evil and the good guys could do no wrong. I think Martin tried to present his world in a more believable way as to how history shows us similar feudal periods went.

I think I also prefer Tolkien's flavour, but I can appreciate Martin's grittiness none the less.
With this, what they mean by "grit" is: Don't ask questions, but solve things in the way I was thinking of, with no detours.
Moreover, not only you’re not counted as “unemployed” while attaining a degree — after you get your degree, you’re left with a hefty debt: a pretty nice incentive to not stay unemployed!
This is exactly why I use Linux. There is nothing subversive going on behind the scenes. My system trusts that I know what I'm doing and that's why I like it.

Also on Windows, the first thing I do is disable the Windows Defender. And believe it or not, I haven't had any viruses for as long as I can remember using computers.

On the other hand, half a year ago I've investigated a compromised macOS system at work where the user clicked a wrong button on some innocently looking dialog and ended up with a rogue extension in Google Chrome which was not possible to uninstall. Why didn't SIP prevent that from happening?
You're right, and those are some of the things I was thinking when I said "you have to learn some things"

Yeah the capital F is probably the weirdest. The G/g difference is weird even in printed characters to be honest. (now, cursive lowercase r is just r connecting to the next letter)
Also if your tired of counting input and output tokens, https://text-generator.io has billing per request and a free tier which is a lot more manageable
How many toolbars do you have installed now?
Like everyone else - from the most destitute individual to the most sophisticated megacorporation - you can ask someone more literate.
I’m trying not to be overly negative here, but:

I had a really hard time figuring out how to use the home page.

I went to a website listed in the showcase. It took over 20 seconds to load to interactivity, and I’m on a high speed 250Mbps connection. Once I found my way into a list of recipes, I noticed it completely stole scroll focus – the page scrolled too fast, going out of sync with my finger.

I am not impressed by what I saw during my demo. It doesn’t feel like this project is helping deliver good user experiences.
This. It is impressive to realize how distant the lifestyle of people living in cities and rural towns has become. I was raised in a rural area (30+ years ago, not in the US) and was direct witness of kids my age or younger doing things that only "adults" should do to survive and maintain their families. They didn't know better and considered their situation a totally natural and common thing for the lack of a comparison point. If they were lucky, their environment was supportive and it was not rare to see people in charge stretching the law for them if needed. The unlucky ones were abused with responsibilities and labor that no child should be exposed to.

I cannot attest about this particular case, but I can believe that in a similar situation today with all the access to resources through technology we have, the things that capable kids under these conditions could do would be far more reaching than ever.
Wayland has definitely provided subpixel layouts to applications for years:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/blob/main/p...

Whether or not applications are making use of it might be a different story.
Armenians are both white and Christian. They just happen to stuck in a hard place (NATO needs Turkey and Turkey is intent on finishing their centuries-long genocide of Armenians through their proxy Azerbaijan).
To clarify my words, what makes me feel bad is fate reaching out of nowhere in an inevitable way to take someone away. A drunk driver driving in the wrong direction on the highway - literally nothing you can do but hope it doesn't happen to you, or that you're in a different lane (which I was - he passed by me on the inside lane, or I wouldn't be here typing this.) I dread something like this happening to someone I care about, and I hate hearing that it happened to anyone else, even a stranger.

By contrast I don't feel that bad hearing secondhand stories about easily preventable deaths. There were like 4 ways to prevent this - use a lifejacket, know how to swim, be with an adult, or at least don't fall out of your boat. I don't spend time worrying about how people I care about could die if they made a series of specific stupid decisions stacked on top of one another.

It's still sad for those involved, but from a distance I can no longer relate to it emotionally.
Until recently Russia was more or less neutral. Now that it showed its aggressive face and complete contempt of human lives, people are happy that it gets weaker and weaker. Yes, Ukrainians are dying, but they prefer to die rather than live under the Russian boot.