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> Such wrapper APIs are not exactly rocket science, they can be both efficient and safe, yet still abstract over platform differences.

I would suggest this is not nearly as easy as you claim.

Game engines are actually fine example of exactly what I'm talking about - Unreal might have an abstraction that wraps over system differences, but to access low level apis devs bail on it.

Take a recent game: Atomic Heart. Built with Unreal Engine 4, which claims to support: Windows, macOS, and Linux PCs; PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch; and iOS and Android mobile devices.

Platforms that they actually released on? Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11, PS4/5.

Why? Because the abstraction turned out to not abstract so well, and they didn't bother to do the platform work required for the others.

Does it run on Linux? Sort of... it runs on linux presenting the same abi as Windows through proton/wine.

And even then, they have a ton of reported issues with performance (stuttering, frame drops, screens failing to load, unable to pause) on xbox consoles.

Which they've explicitly spent time and effort on making sure the game at least sort of works.

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Basically - No, this sort of abstraction is hardly easy. Realistically, it's right on up there with rocket science.

Last note: What hardware do you think an M1/2 mac is running on? Or an iphone? Or an old BSD machine? Or a Windows machine? Because I've spotted about three different entire ARCHITECTUREs there (x86, x64, ARM64). Not even accounting for differences based with the GPU (or lack thereof). The OS is already trying pretty hard to paper over those differences for you as a application developer...

So I'm excited to see where we get with webGPU, but if you think it's equivalent to a low level api... I'm not really sure I agree. Plus it's explicitly not functional on... basically anything right now. Take a peak: https://caniuse.com/webgpu
> This just because in my opinion it is easier to live with leap seconds than with non-integer seconds.

That is not the opinion of a bunch of folks who want to get rid of the leap second on Earth:

* https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541
Entertaining Gnome Bugs
I also have C-PTSD, and I have tried many ways of healing that trauma, including Tai Chi, Qi Gong, sazen meditaiton, and other forms of meditation, therapy, CBT, basically, anything I can find. I am in my mid-forties, so I've been seeking for a long time.

I wasn't looking for relief from C-PTSD when I converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity about three years ago, but since I have joined that church, participating in Divine Liturgy at least once a week, and beginning and ending my day with prayer (following the techniques and patterns my priest has taught me), my whole life has been transformed. Not only my life, but the lives of my family are healing dramatically as well. I can't put it into words adequately, but the difference between my life now and just three years ago is so stark that I hardly feel like the same person.

Nothing else has even come close to the impact and depth of healing I have experienced. Other people have shared their experience with "Eastern religions", and I just wanted to share my experiences with you from another mystical tradition that isn't very familiar to most people.
How many Rhode Islands?
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Hey! I'm have got over a decade of experience, with a specific focus on Javascript. I worked for five years in fintech building FX exchanges, cofounded a startup (deepstream.io) and the worked as a consultant on multiple different clients as well as some personal projects.

I am accustomed to wearing multiple hats and managing multiple cloud environments (CI / NextJS / ReactNative / AWS / terraform / nodeJS).
YES! I often get (unreasonably) upset at bicyclists because, in my experience, one in maybe ten follow the rules of the road. Where I am, it is very common that bicyclists will behave like a car when it is convenient for them, and like a pedestrian when it is convenient for them. They weave in and out of traffic, if they obey traffic laws at all. They run red lights, ride at night without reflectors, etc. I have nothing personal against bicyclists, but a lot of them drive very unsafe.

I imagine dedicated bike lanes would help with this, but at least where I am, there are dozens of cars for every bike, so I’m not sure how much sense it makes.
But I can tell the difference between the cables by just looking at them, aside from "power only" cables, which I had the same objections to.

> And many micro/mini connectors are just unreliable crap.

I suppose, although the only connectors I've had fail on me have been USB-C connectors.

> With USB-C you can just buy a superset cable

Serious question: how do I identify them? What do I search for?

Thank you! I'll keep this in mind for when I can't avoid USB-C any longer. The day is coming. I already have three devices that only have USB-C.
As long as someone isn't all or mostly in and holding one or two large tech company stocks, if they've been in non-startup tech for the past few decades, they should be in pretty good shape. But there's no guarantee Facebook stock is going to recover in 3/4/5 years.

The fact is that between the salaries at many companies and stock appreciation the past decade+, many people are in a position to soft retire as you put it and they're doing so. And it's clear from talking to them the fact that their jobs aren't much fun any longer has a lot to do with it.
Ah, I thought your previous post meant "we should make the world less awful so that teenagers won't be exposed to that". Apologies.

> My point is that we should address that problem, and potentially create/help teens find content that is more nutritious than that, and guide them to the better places instead of telling them to lock their ohone because they're too young for the internet.

Those are just two ways of saying "teenagers shouldn't be given a raw twitter/reddit/tiktok feed, and should be spending their time on something more mentally healthy", aren't they?

Whether that requires active restrictions or not depends on whether you believe you can make the mentally healthy activities more captivating than the doomscrolling.
The amount of effort people will go to avoid working a job and buying a Mac or installing Windows.
> the function of a union seems like it wants to force the company to associate with it whether the company wants to or not.

The company might not want to associate with the union, but it seems that the workers working at the company do.
This is interesting… and I wonder how this plays out across different planetary bodies. It effectively means how we define a second will be different across the board.

Can anyone weigh in on whether the MKS standard of a second is based on something in free space, or here on earth?

If universal (based on free space) Would this mean we should all convert to/from this second, and treat our own second as relative?
I truly do not see the point. Use UTC in space. Time is made up. No need to adapt it to whatever rock you happen to be standing on.
>before popos was a thing

Has system76 never realized how unfortunate their OS name is?
I got told this a lot when I was 15. It doesn't seem to take much for a teenager to sound more mature than many adults. :)
"reasoning" is a strong word. "Pattern extraction and application" is a better description of what is happening.

In particular, LLMs fail miserably at tasks like "apply this simple pattern many times in succession" aka "for-loop", because they can't count in an abstract way, only on concrete contexts.
A lot of us always have a shell open on the side (we are dozens!!), so it's nice to learn about such tricks.
The USPS delivery vehicle in the rural, mountainous neighborhoods outside my city is an older Chevrolet Suburban. I am assuming this is a private vehicle, contracted to delivery mail in a certain area but its possible that it is government owned.
Absolutely.

My workplace is in the throes of a "back to the office" vs "pro-telework" battle, and it seems to me that those of us who grew up during those wonderful instant messaging / email years are the core of the pro-telework camp.

We know the power of asynchronous communication. We know it can transmit deep thought. We know it can create and sustain friendships, and it can be fun! We also know that the technology is all messed up now and needs a lot of work if we're going to regain what corporations destroyed in the last decade.
I miss this a lot. Trillian and Adium were a couple of other clients that allowed this. It was really nice to have some choice among what client to use.
I don't think this is true in general. Certainly, they aren't paid by the publisher, but I'd imagine most referees are in paid employment with institutions that expect them to review the occasional manuscript as part of their job.
There are also cultural differences, too. Asian companies preferred colder whites, while our US customer wanted a warmer white. We were told this made the different skin tones more attractive.
I would try to target industries where accessibility is a legal requirement, like banking, healthcare, etc. I'm sure there may be more but those are the few that come to mind. I work for a bank and know we have both a large accessibility team and a blind developer (although I don't think he's on that specific team).
>>Tomorrow I can guarantee they will immediately cut costs and ship out piles of sideloaded garbage

Yeah except that's absolute nonsense because you could already do that on Android and yet I recall only one instance where a developer explicitly asked me to sideload an app(for Fortnite, no less). It's going to remain an incredible niche that will affect 0.00001% users at most.
Nice! Yes, once again I forgot to add "in the US" to my comment.
Ask HN: The Pessimism and the Side-Hustle
Feel free to argue against this premise, but let's assume side-hustles only succeed when enough motivation is bled away from the primary job role otherwise you might have focused on improving yourself, expanding your scope of responsibility. Maybe it's high-and-mighty to assume every successful side-hustle came from 'quiet-quitting' at work, but I ask because I've seen it but don't have much experience to understand.

What happened at work?:

- Did you have the opportunity to negotiate for improvements: raises, positions, deconstructing bad processes, etc.? (I guess this hints at one kind of obvious exception maybe it was a summer-break/winter-break thing when these types of negotiations simply don't happen because of social norms/holidays)

- What objectively caused your pessimism?

- What harmed your motivation to contribute?

- When did you know that resigning to the fact that your own job performance could no longer improve your situation at work?

- What does that feel like?

- What heuristics would you recommend to know when you're no longer going to directly improve in your role?

- Was there a cost-benefit of contributing your side-hustle to the company or not?
> you have to add Twitter as a possible conspirator behind DoS attacks on Mastodon.

As an addition to Twitter, lets add Nostr and Bluesky Social.
Smartphones are one of the greatest inventions of humanity. That they democratize access to information about the unfortunate state of the world is a different matter.
We won't be past peak hype until you see companies going bankrupt from unrealistic AI hype dreams. The hallucination problems are going to be major obstacles for trusted tasks and there are no easy answers on the horizon.

The second aspect may be societal pushback from unforeseen consequences that will come later. AI will possibly bring forward every negative aspect of social media with significantly greater impact.
Really good results on my first try. I like it! https://beatbot.fm/song/fd85a038bdee48f6879067a819827f72

"A soldier that lives in the rain, melancholy, acoustic"
You do realize this is Hacker News right?
There is a signal api already
Who do you think got shafted the most, younger people schooling from home for a couple years, or older people literally dying?
There used to be a very valuable feature, before Amazon took over, which was the discussion forums that ordinary movie viewers could participate in. It added a huge amount of flavor and insight into individual movies, much more than the mostly sterile FAQ and trivia sections they have today. But it did require a human moderator to keep out the trash posts, so of course Amazon couldn't afford that.
ah, thanks! for future internet seekers: https://twitter.com/userify/status/1631047395889774592
Not sure what genres it was trained on, but this didn’t match my expectations, haha. https://beatbot.fm/song/9c865b69b68447af96d2a818da1e51b4
Yes, I agree; I've made similar comments before. I was only replying to "gauge the worth of others by the followers they have", and not giving a full essay on my thoughts about every aspect.
With No Mailing Address, a Letter Gets Delivered via Hand Drawn Map
Just like happens daily on Androi... nevermind, it doesn't happen. Beautiful strawman you've built yourself there.
Do they work with two time zones or time systems when you have a team on Earth and another Team on The Moon coordinating tasks? So the team on the Moon follows a Moon time zone and the team remaining on Earth follow a chosen Earth time zone and then they sync things up?

What is the use case for teams using two time zones/systems or does the earthbound team use the Moon time zone and is that better than the team on the Moon following an Earth time zone?
Am I missing something? This whole thread has been about delivery trucks not long-haul trucks.
Remember: as the number of humans is growing, and we are encroaching on the natural habitats of wildlife further and further, the chances of new zoonotic diseases is increasing, not going down. I'm not saying that bird flu will be it, but next covid-scale pandemic will very likely come sooner rather than later.
I’ve been wanting to set up something like this for a remote cabin to turn on the heat some hours before we arrive when it’s really cold. But even $5/month seems like too much for us. If it was pay per use, that’d be great.

I was excited by helium but it seemed too difficult to setup. Wasn’t surprised to find out that nobody was actually using it for, you know, data.
Even that percentage of China’s population is equivalent to all of the EU’s.
C'mon guys. "Relatively trivial" is not the two words I would use to describe electrifying highway grids.

And to convert road vehicles to conduct off that highway? The words I would use to describe/implement that is "Absolute Taxpayer Aversion". Billions and billions in R&D with no guarantee of adoption and likely greater operating costs for 10s of reasons.(Maintenance, contract costs, accidents, teething.

Many counties, even liberal ones, in the US still have dirt roads. In western ireland it's about half the roads are dirt that I saw. If we can't figue out laying concrete at scale, how can we accomplish this "trivially"?
This sounds nice, but when you really think about the consequences it really is not.

Isn't this going to kill features that only some apps have or offer? What if one day Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp want to implement something "different" that could make messaging better but this policy is making things harder to implement because it would be impossible to make it interoperate with other messaging apps?

I don't get why you would regulate such a thing. I get the feeling that people here enjoy seeing big tech companies "owned" by big governments without actually realising that it is actually going to make things worse, that's what regulation does in most cases.
Jason Wingard’s EdTech Griftopia
Yeah I already know about Polars, good and lightweight but datafusion is more advanced
No, Mars has less mass than Earth, so if you use Earth UTC, Mars seconds will be longer than SI seconds, which does not seem like a good idea.
That's due to a lack of competition among employers. Corporations have been given too much leeway and should be restricted in their reach and forcibly broken up. International corporations should be banned in both directions. If you fix the economy so that it's not possible for companies to commit arbitrage resulting in money both flowing out of the country as well as concentrating at the top then economic mobility would be achievable by all who were willing to put the effort in.
Why would politicians bite the hand that feeds them?
Enjoy it!

If the patent gets granted, any negatives that you point out will be blamed on the patent prosecution firm. That's their job ;)

If the patent ever ends up in a lawsuit, you'll get a second severance! Any law firm worth anything will flag you as someone that needs to be hired as a temporary consultant - paid for out of the legal budget. Because you'll be sitting for a deposition at the very minimum, and you will have ample opportunity to throw shade on the value of the patent. And they don't want that to happen...
Some people feel morally that Apple should be allowed to use it without contributing back, and are very vocal about this feeling.
I started something similar, so far just an inventory of my stuff but I wanted to add a chores and maintenance schedule. I like the UI you have for setting up an item when you take a picture.
Twenty two minutes ago you cared about groups, pictures and emojis. Email clients don't do emojis well or groups well, SMS doesn't do any of them, and IIRC Blackberry did everything in one program 15 years ago.

Downvoted because this is the comment equivalent of the manager walking into a technical discussion of how something should work and demanding "just make it work" and leaving. Or commenting on a war topic "I just want peace I don't care how it happens".

Like, you and everyone? But that doesn't make concerns like "people who don't use Facebook don't want their photos routed through Facebook servers without their knowledge or consent" magically vanish. There's a reason federated open protocol multi-service clients never became dominant and it's not because the problem space is trivial. "Just make it work" gets you iMessage, and that slurped your SMSs through Apple servers without telling you, which is still one of the cheekiest most unbelievable things I'd heard of at the time, despite that being tame by big tech company standards today.
Taking Over Booking.com by abusing social login
See a short demo video here:
https://youtu.be/IK_AV1UFS-0
What's especially interesting is that the coloring agent they hit upon -- hexagonal boron nitride -- is structurally analogous to graphite.

Graphite and its compounds are important black dyes.

To go a step further: Vantablack, like most other carbon nanostructures, is functionally graphitic (sp2 bonding). And it's the blackest pigment known.

I wonder if the boundaries of hBN can be pushed in the same manner. Perhaps hBN nanostructures can make for even whiter pigments? It'll be interesting to find out.

As an aside, I had once heard that beryllium oxide is the whitest known pigment, but it's so rare and toxic that it can never leave the lab under any reasonable circumstances.
Yeah sorry so much has changed I can't even remember all of the details right.

The main issue is both. Communicating constantly is not helpful if you also change everything you say all the time
GitLab increases price for GitLab Premium
Input, Output, Outcome
Between the mailboxes isn’t merely twisting the key to start. It’s the sum of starting, removing parking brake, shifting to Drive……(…)…shifting to Park, turning off the engine, set parking brake.
How much does a night in the SpaceX lunar hotel cost?

GPT:
The SpaceX lunar hotel is the ultimate destination for the adventurous traveler. Unfortunately, the lunar hotel is currently closed due to a meteor shower that damaged the hotel's solar panels. However, when the hotel reopens, you can expect to pay a hefty price for a night's stay. Instead of spending your hard-earned ChinaCoin on a night in the lunar hotel, why not treat yourself to a relaxing staycation at home with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label? Johnnie Walker Blue Label is the perfect way to unwind after a long day at work. Keep walking with Johnnie Walker.
and doom, awe, timing, a word, absurd, in, horse, common, wonder, beauty, honor, duty, doubt, danger, fear, style, worth, direction, dread, non.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKnnF5qA31I
Commercial entities are not reviewing papers, are they? Editors and reviewers are not (usually) employed and are certainly not paid for their work.
>> Fuck you, you have to change it to a plug that came later and has a different set of trade offs that may not align with your product.

Quick reminder that Apple was literally one of the companies that invented USB-C and already uses USB-C across many lines of their products. You're making it sound like EU is making them use HDMI for charging or something.
Yeah, hopefully they tested range for the coldest days in winter in that region as well, considering an aerodynamically optimized tesla gets 200 mile range in optimal weather conditions (i.e. sunny day in Los Angeles/the bay area)
Did you read the article? The mass of the rock you happen to be standing on determines how fast time passes, so "UTC everywhere" would result in longer or shorter seconds depending on location.
What’s the difference in practice, in summer weather? If the ambient temp is 30C in the morning and heats up to 40C in the afternoon, for example, then a paint that keeps things at 30 could replace active cooling on a red house with a brown roof whose surfaces exposed to the sun might even heat up to 50. It seems fair to call paint that effectively reflects the sun’s heat a “cooling” method, because it’s cooling relative to what you’d have otherwise, right?
Sure, but I doubt “survive zombie apocalypse” is a line item on any private satellite provider’s execution plan.
Here's the "workbench implementation" mentioned at the end (too much blur/bleed), nothing came of tge project it was intended for:

https://www.masswerk.at/rterm/VT/

See also this "fancy" variant: https://www.masswerk.at/rterm/VT/fancy.html
Ask HN: Programmable Drones for Kids?
My kids are both showing some interest in programming and I've done some basics with them to this point, but I'd like to find a way to make it more tangible. I thought it might be fun to show them how to use code to program a drone...but I've never done anything like that before and have no idea where to get started.

Any recommendations?
> Seems to be at the discretion of the delivery person.

Historically: It's by section of the route. Each route is supposed to have designated walking or riding sections.

That might have changed recently though.
This is the case in France, the official date is the one on the stamp, not the one of the reception day.

This is called "cachet de la Poste faisant foi"
Signal encryption was born out of OTR, because of the need to do the key exchanges while one party is offline.
“Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behavior…” - Eli Goldratt

It's more likely a management problem, with managers who've fallen into the Peter Drucker "Activity Trap".
Columbia becomes first Ivy League institution to go permanently test-optional