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> NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Cloud Services for Building and Operating Industrial Metaverse Applications

Is this really a better title? OPs contains just as much information.
Ask HN: JavaScript-Less DOM as a GUI System?
Over the past several years, whenever I re-assess the best options for GUI frameworks, I find myself looking for something that doesn’t exist: an HTML and CSS renderer that can be directly manipulated using local app code. I’ve worked with Electron and I’ve seen Tauri; I mean something different. I mean something with an API for direct DOM manipulation, allowing for cross-platform GUI development without including a JS runtime or a web server. Ideally, a solution would leverage an existing renderer, e.g. Blink’s or WebKit’s, but I can’t seem to find a way to isolate just the rendering parts of these systems. Is this possible, or is web rendering just too entwined with JS and HTTP for this to be realistic?
That was my take away from "lock-free" talks, as well as needing a deep understanding of the machine's memory model and instruction set.
It has become a real word by now. Culture changes, language adapts.
Coupled with WebGPU it might become the cleanest cross-platform/language abstraction to GPU programming.
It's actually easy to tell the monsters apart from the desperate.

Once you can afford to stop causing harm, do you continue doing it?
It's your problem until there's a law saying otherwise.
>While I was working in another country, banks were afraid of opening an account for me and eventually gave me an account with no internet banking and no credit card.

This is something that gets to me about sanctions. It seems they prevent everyday citizens just wanting to work and live from doing so, while the government elites still get to enjoy themselves because they can easily find ways to circumvent it. What's then the point?
Is certainly can add complexity when you consider bandwidth and/or processing constraints.
It’s a bit of a self reinforcing loop, though. Top apps are all on Google Play because everyone using Android (on this side of the GFW) is all but forced to stay in Google’s ecosystem.

The diversity of *nix based OSes are a testament to what could happen in the absence of monopolistic powers.

If it weren’t for Google’s stranglehold, Android probably would already be #2 to a fork made by Samsung.
As a primarily Ruby dev I'd prefer the AI/ML ecosystem not be split-brained between two languages that are semantically 90% the same thing. Just learn Python and integrate the models into your Rails (or whatever) apps.
If the open solution doesn't take off in favor of the proprietary solution, then you're in essentially the same end state as if there was no open solution in the first place.
Depends. If (and that's a mighty big "if") the fuel situation could be sorted out in terms of being able to produce it in a sustainable way, the footprint would be quite minimal compared most other modes of transportation.

You also wouldn't need to add any additional infrastructure as opposed to ideas like vac-trains or MAGLEV in general.
Apparently the court system still uses 32 bits.

(~4B is the 32bit integer limit...)
> What are the chances that it will charge my MacBook Pro 16 inch that does support “standard” USB C?

Most likely yes, unless it's a non-compliant cable in the first place, and possibly at a reduced speed (60W max).

>Will that “standard” USB C cable that comes with my Beats Flex headphones charge my iPhone 12 Pro Max? My Anker battery?

Ignoring that iPhones don't have USB C, yes to both at the fastest charge rate available.

Only times where you have to worry about a cable with USB-C when charging is if charging power exceeds 60W or the cable is optical. Above 60W you need marked cables, some go up to 100W, and some (will, not seen in the wild yet) go up to 240W. There are plans to deprecate the 100W tier as well.
The real gem highlighted by backstage is the MkDocs Material theme: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/ It's seriously awesome and has a lot of nice customization options. Out of the box it makes very clean and professional technical docs from a pile of markdown files. Even if you don't need to go the whole backstage route, seriously consider using mkdocs and the material theme.
FWIW, the article claims the exact opposite

> While many studies have found a correlation between the use of social media and various symptoms related to mental health, so far, it has been challenging to ascertain whether social media was actually the cause of poor mental health. By applying a novel research method, researchers have now succeeded in establishing such a causality

But doesn't elaborate on the new method. We'll have to wait for the study to be published I guess.
This is exactly why Microsoft has been throwing money at lobbyists at the state level as well, pushing shitty "consumer privacy bills", both because they don't like strong legal privacy rights at the state level, but also in the hopes of forestalling and kneecapping a strong federal baseline privacy bill.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus...
The "nightmare GDPR letter" is trivial to deal with: https://jacquesmattheij.com/so-your-start-up-receive-the-nig...
"NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Cloud Services for Building and Operating Industrial Metaverse Applications"

Seems a bit long for the title, and "Company’s First SaaS Offering" is the first four words of the subtitle. Seems pretty reasonable?
A lot of the time they just buy it from data brokers.
what are your takeaways from stable diffusion vs. Open I?
Nah I just know the difference between reality and generalizations.
Who needed it? People who like to deny the obvious, even when the obvious is stated by Ph.Ds. in psychology like Jonathan Haidt.
That is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.
Facebook has proven to be the best way for me to keep in touch with people who I grew up with, or worked with. It has proven to have a positive impact on my mental health.
it does not display calls notification tough.
definitely makes sense. even if you intend to become a paid product, it's hard to figure out the right pricing in the early days.
There are design choices that can be made to guarantee namespace isolation - having different software packages installed within the same /usr/bin/ directory is a guarantee for namespace collisions.
we don't even have food and shelter as a human right
It’s not just channels. If you want just channels, you can use 5.1 PCM no problem.
To me the more interesting question is: did Neanderthals value art?

Could argue all day about what is and isn't art and if they created artifacts that fit the definition, but what I'd really like to know is "did they appreciate things purely for aesthetics and cultural relevance, and not utility?"
Yeah, they can be wonderful; but not everyone will want to bother with them (I find one of the easiest is to just get your tax return in physical bonds if you want to dabble).
Boom appears to be a scam of the Nikola/etc. genre.
yeah, i generally agree with this advice. Although testing pricing is its own challenge, so can be hard to validate demand + pricing in the same launch.
Ask HN: Why aren't more software engineers contractors? tax savings?
Software engineers (as a case study) meet the definition of a contractor: They choose their own hours, how they'll accomplish a task, and nowadays work wherever they want.*

Contracting seems like a win-win:
1) Contractors pay less tax than FTEs (when applying S corp tax status) and usually have a higher hourly wage.
2) Employers have far less expense for contractors: 1) no corporate benefits, 2) no corporate administration (e.g. internal benefits coordinators, HR business partners, etc.), 3) no employer share of tax obligation (e.g. FICA).

Questions:
1) For software engineers who have insurance already (e.g. through their FTE spouse), why not become a contractor?
2) For employers who need a lot of software engineers ("developers, developers, developers, developers!") who not lean into contractors?

* By contrast, janitors, who are typically contractors for large tech companies (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/03/31/apple-says-it-will-pay-contract-workers-in.html) don't actually have hours, location or means flexibility.
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It’s not walking on egg shells. It’s very clear directions to avoid anti competitive behavior. Maybe it’s harder without a moral compass telling them to not be evil.
They still have an issue with game compatibility, and I don't think the pricing model is competitive enough
Yes, I went through this just yesterday while trying to set up a company account. To get it unblocked I had to:

* Verify an email address through an OTP.

* Verify a phone number through an OTP.

* Upload a picture of me with my face in it, holding a piece of paper with my name, username and a six digit code they gave me written on it.

I'm very pissed.
>> it merely lets you keep up with inflation in practice

Merely?

What are some other ways to keep up with inflation with near zero risk?
I was hoping to hear a few classic trombone sounds. womp womp womp
Yep. We've fought them off here in Washington ... but they and Amazon just took it to other, more pliable states. Todd Feathers and Albert Ng had a very good article on this in The Markup a few months ago https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/05/26/tech-industry-group...
10, 6, 10 & 13.1

Thanks for giving me an excuse to look at the evidence behind persistence hunting speculation once again.

"… the main hunter, armed only with a digging stick, identified the fresh hoof prints of a duiker and followed its trail at a steady, relentless walk for approximately three hours.

The duiker was thereby pushed from one uncommon shade tree to the next in the hot sun. The bare ground beneath each shade tree was pock-marked with duiker tracks from many different animals, which slowed the hunter, who circled the perimeter of the shaded areas and was able to pick out the tracks of the targeted duiker as it left the location.

Toward the end of the hunt, when the tiring duiker was sighted for the first time approximately 250 m ahead, it was running at a right angle to the direction the hunter was walking along its recent trail. Rather than changing direction and walking or running directly toward the fleeing animal or making any effort to maintain visual contact with it, the hunter continued along the hoof-print trail.

At the end, the duiker was standing, incapacitated, beneath a small cluster of trees, with its head lowered and tongue hanging out. The hunter walked up to it, clubbed it with the digging stick, and then carried it back to camp.

In sum, successful persistence hunting by walking requires truly phenomenal tracking skills, with the added risk of dehydration and heat exhaustion even for the physically fit. On days following a walking hunt, Kua hunters typically spent a recuperative day of inactivity in camp."

https://www.originalwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-ma...
Bingo.

It's less about using fakes to push your agenda, and more about being able to (plausibly or implausibly it doesn't matter) claim that whatever video is a deepfake.

The truth is meaningless, and as tools like deepfakes become more and more sophisticated, it's harder and harder to establish baseline realities.

And someone is benefiting from that shift away from reality, I just don't know who.
Impact and outcomes matter more than explicit behavior when you look at this, it isn't a binary "do x and get banned" kind of program.
Please use the search bar.
I can only send email 500 miles and my nationality seems to impact my cell service
After being off Facebook for a few years, I have started to clearly see how creepy people really are - it's like everyone has turned into low level stalkers, but somehow that is okay within the cult.
Will you guys get to click popups on every.single.site.? If so believe it’s annoying. There must be a better way.
You've reminded me of a very good Norm bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ktWtIDQQQ
If the aim is to prevent eWaste yes. Someone should be able to buy a “standard” USB access cable and know that it actually work across devices if it is government mandated. If not, what’s the point of the “standard”?
Considering 4k screens will only become more popular as the screens on pretty much everything progress foward this feels hilariously shortsighted. Also the optics of it are terrible, any customer that ever even considers resolution at any point of their app usage will feel burnt by this new gate put in front of them. Resolution was not a "premium" feature yesterday or 5 years before then, and the framing of premium implies that it's features should be "icing on the cake" of the base service, so to speak. This is just artificial and stupid. All this does is reopen old wounds about the lack of background playback. What a terrible move for a platform that already has subterranean PR and is merely "tolerated" by most of its end users.

Why not just put a a full width banner at the top of the website calling anyone with the gall not to pay for premium a second class citizen? They're gonna pitch a shit fit anyway, might as well hasten the process.
I am a US citizen living abroad. It's close-to-impossible to create the account to buy them.
> "The background here is that the FBI came to us - some folks on our team - and was like 'hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that'."

"There's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that" gives a pretty clear hint. The mob boss never says to his hitman "I think Fat Tony is a snitch, please kill him for me" but he still ordered the hit.
Kind of disagree with this. My merino wool tshirts are great in winter but they are not cooler in summer than cotton, and they are also less hard wearing than cotton. Great for all temps except warm temps and with the advantage of being nice and soft and smelling less.
It is also a lot more basic than that. My 13 kW array will shut itself down if the grid goes down. While I understand the reasons, this is largely silly.

Imagine a situation where every home is able to power itself with solar during the day (let's not include batteries to remove complexity from the scenario). The grid goes down, for whatever reason --maybe a tree fell and took out a main line, whatever. The entire neighborhood is now without power. Unnecessarily so.

Just talking about home solar installations, I think the inverters need to be design to keep running and isolate themselves from the grid if it goes down. The home remains powered and the thousands of solar arrays in the neighborhood can re-integrate into the grid when it comes back up.

My system uses SMA inverters. These have a feature that allows you to turn them back on in the case of the grid going down. However, they won't power the entire house. They have a separate output, 2000 W per inverter, that is energized when you enable this mode.

I have two special power outlets in the garage that are connected to the inverters. Should power go down during the day, I can enable that mode and then power whatever I want using extension cords, so long as I stay below 4000 W. A pain, but better than the ridiculous case of having sunlight and being without power.
Their intent to use GE J85s for the demonstrator is corroborated by the "Boom Fact Sheet" in their press kit: [PDF] https://boom-press-assets.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/BoomFac...

Three GE J85-15 engines for the XB-1 demonstrator.
Is this done globally by Reddit itself or is applied individually by subs to new accounts?
Electron pairing mechanism of copper-oxide high temperature superconductivity
We all have the ability to infer and then "imagine" the results.
Find Location on 17 Different Social Media
CantHide finds previous locations by looking at a given social media account.
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Every country I had been to, which is a lot, just uses your passport for identification. Unless you are a resident.
To give a recent estimate[0], here's what McKinsey (the big management consultancy) has to say:

> Global fossil-fuels demand is projected to peak between 2023–2025, accounting for a dwindling share of energy use, with oil production dropping by 55 percent and gas production by 70 percent in 2050

You're right that fossil fuels won't be depleted, and they will still be burnt long after their peak, but I don't imagine fossil fuels being extracted at scale next century.

[0] https://www.forestvalley.org/for-companies
This is never going to happen for safety, cost and noise reasons. It's just more Musk fraud.
What are you talking about? The lightning network is permissionless, you open channels with other nodes and then you can send funds across them, the other nodes can't take your funds.

Unless you mean signing up with strike or some centralized service in which case the old adage "not your keys not your coins" applies.
It might be counter intuitive, but many subscription services actually make more sense at larger scale. At scale, the financial implications of downtime and security are way more severe.
Well, they may make it more accessible to get in to gaming, and then having increased the number of gamers they may find more customers looking for a local experience. Maybe college students gaming on the fiber network at school coming home to a poor internet connection, or nerds who start gaming on a laptop but decide to build out a whole gaming rig with the best performance. I think this kind of thing has some complexity to it.
Wow, thanks for all the info!
Not after you’ve already encoded your audio to support it. From history we know that Google isn’t going to do the leg work it takes to make the standard ubiquitous.
Factor in marginal utility of income, and it's even more lame. $1,500 means a lot more to someone making minimum wage than $4,000,000,000 does to Google.
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This is why the EU is right we have to regulate these things. There just aren’t right answers here, each battery has pros and cons, so it’s a political matter full stop.
In 2019, Hillary Clinton, in a CBS News interview, called Trump “illegitimate”, claimed that Trump “stole” the election, and accused him of voter manipulation, including “hacking”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...
I think performance expectations for shells on Windows are pretty different. The first time I open PowerShell in a given session on my work computer, it takes ~9 seconds on average, without a particularly complex config.

That said, I think it can also makes sense to aim higher in terms of performance at the cost of a more bespoke Windows implementation. lol
Pgsqlite: a Python module to import SQLite databases into Postgres
>Right, but home users will.

Agreed. I've got about half a dozen Makita cordless tools taking the LXT battery. I'm pretty happy with the brand but I do kind of feel like I'm trapped using whatever Makita offers from now on.

The charger cost about £70 and the 3 batteries I have were a similar price, each. So, for me, changing brands for a particular tool would mean an outlay of 'Price of Tool' + 'Price of Charger' + Price of n Batteries' which just isn't worth it, unless the rival company's tool was 2 or 3 times as good as the Makita offering.

I've sometimes thought that maybe Metabo, DeWalt or Milwaukee's version of a certain tool I wanted was slightly better than Makita's one. But, as I say, not twice or three times as good, to justify that kind of outlay.

So, like quite a few people commenting here, I'm kind of stuck with supporting the blue team now --even when they occasionally get outplayed by their opponents.
I'm not 100% sure, but Reddit seems to shadowban accounts created from some IPs based on some reputation score. Perhaps malicious activity is occurring on your network due to malware?
Google Voice voicemail transcription used to do this, with varying levels of gray. It seems that feature is gone, now.
> All temps in this post in Fahrenheit. Not sorry, it's better for weather discussions

Fahrenheit is only officially used in the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, the Cayman Islands, and the former American colony of Liberia.

Everywhere else in the world disagrees with you.

>Centigrade is better for chemistry/cooking.

It's been called Celsius since 1948.
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Then you are either uninformed or willfully ignorant of 1) how operating systems and browsers work and 2) your employer's past actions relating to collecting and storing user data.
Tradesperson.

There's a reason Milwaukee, Makita, DeWalt, AEG, and Bosch, are wildly popular.

They're almost entirely indistinguishable. We also have some Hilti branded cordless tools, also fine.

My personal preference for home use is something like Ryobi One+ or Ozito PXC (less than half the price of the One+) because I'm actually at work all day using power and cordless tools supplied by work, I don't plan on taking my home tools to three or four hundred commercial construction sites or building 1000 houses with them.

Tool brand preference is, in my opinion, largely a sport-like
100% agree with florida here, would be huge for me
Wow you're right. That's a bug. Thank you!
Thanks! I'll look into these.
"Over the course of 20 years, only two of the ER hunts observed by Liebenberg were spontaneous. Eight others were prompted by Liebenberg so that they could be filmed for television documentaries."

p436 "The endurance running hypothesis and hunting and scavenging
in savanna-woodlands"

https://www.originalwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-ma...
That's great! Sadly, a lot of the HN front page is just a direct link to Twitter. Reddit shows up occasionally. It would be nice if there was a way to filter out sources from the front page.
It's not just related to spam, it's also a great opportunity to collect personal data under the excuse of "security", just like they insist you enable SMS 2FA (for some reason they never insist so much about TOTP or WebAuthn/U2F 2FA, since those can't be abused to get the user's phone number).
Full list:

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/73
Losing the Youtube algorithm to a most-liked system or most-recent system would ruin it for me and I think most users. Also guessing that the only way they'd be able to operate an algorithm with no 230 protections would be 1000x more censorship.
I find the gdpr is much easier to read than this.