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You said you're a fairly new front end dev; is it safe to assume you're also fairly young, maybe early-to-mid 20s?

If so, have I ever got an answer for you! I was fortunate enough to grow up on computers in the late 80s and beyond.

How many 'web apps' did I use pre-broadband? Zero. How many desktop apps did I use? Well, I don't know, but it was a lot. A lot more than now.

So the future is here -- we're already past the point of web apps being more common place than desktop apps, sans browser. Since we're already past the point where your original question has meaning, take a look at the desktop apps that surround you today and tell us what cannot be replaced and why.

We can see cloud-based AA/AAA gaming is largely a failure for now, as a very easy example. And of course, all of that infrastructure and software that runs those websites is native to some degree.
You spent far longer refuting this misinformation than the guy who spread it. And therein lies the problem - it’s easy to shitpost, to drop a bomb and move on. I appreciate your effort.
Young people have always been loud and disruptive. I think it has something to do with their brain development.
And put 20 of them together in a enclosed venue and there's chaos.
And all those cloud compute instances are probably strangled for io if there is any real load.
Colocating your own equipment is going to give way better base performance. Compute is not just processor and memory, it's also dependent on network and disk i/o. Disk is often overlooked because modern disks are so fast, people don't even realize it's crippled in the cloud.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997834
I think the banned Redditors from the alt-right subs have started to work their way in here.

It kinda used to be like old reddit in here. Empirical analysis, people who read the article first. These people jump into these hot-topic threads just to piss all over it with every possible dumb thing to say. Climate denial, "Just let it get worse" kinds of comments. Knee-jerk making up stuff, and coping to make it OK.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's astroturfed bots. It's not like HN does much to filter out fake and real accounts.
So basically, the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black.. yet I always had the impression of it being black.
i'd argue that the state of public spaces reflects the national status ... whether thats a park or the streets or whatever. i'm just saying that people will start to care less about these places if they're surrendered to anti social behavior.
> Northern African countries now have to live with 45-50C temperatures every summer

20 dead bodies were brought into the morgue in Phoenix AZ every day last week. They have a backlog of over 300 unexplained deaths from July alone. You don't have to go as far as Africa to find unlivable conditions.
I worked at OverDrive. The stark contrast between the sugary-sweet facade of “helping the libraries and readers” and the ridiculous amounts of money the company makes from these same libraries is quite depressing.
Much of their profits come from charging 30%+ on top of publishers’ prices (which are already high for libraries). This plays into their hand very well - publishers get the blame for prices, yet OverDrive still benefits from it.
As for Libby’s bad UI - it was made by a single very opinionated person.
my local library is the same, it's very large but right in downtown. Filled to teh brim with crazy people. When my family wants to go to the library we drive 45min to a suburb and it's a completely different experience. Night/day doesn't even begin describe the difference. People like to complain/rant about suburbs but they do have their perks.
Come on. You can't demand that the other person cite a study in support of their argument and then just blithely throw around a lot of bald assertions and accusations.
Make the jump buddy.

I got a gaming laptop back in 2022 for $550. Literally endless free games, and for $20 a year, you can get 4 old GOTY games from steam during a sale.

Not to mention endless mods.

PC gaming is infinite entertainment.
Looks like there's at least three other people in front of Andrew on the "first floaty flake replication" list[0], and something like four more efforts where the flakes didn't float which arguably still counts as replications.

[1]: https://eirifu.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/lk-99-superconductor...
IP version 5 actually was a real thing[0] (though it's usually called "Internet Stream Protocol"). It still used 32-bit addresses though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
There is a date at the very bottom of the article. This one was posted August 3rd
As soon as societies become wealthy, couples have less children. Also, I hate to break it to you, biology prevents women from failing on their own to gat children.

But maybe the Incels can set up self help groups with the involutary childless, sounds like a match made in heaven...
My heart goes out to the author's plight but am I the only one here who abjectly hates ebooks?

I hate reading on an LCD. I'll settle on eInk but that's still settling.

Give me a paper bound book anyday of the week. The only benefit an ebook has is for academic texts so I can quickly Ctrl+f for reference only. If I have to sit there and digest large quantities of text, I need a dead tree product.

And it's a bloody shame that this method of print is dying.
But they do cost extra to add. Heating coils and controllers aren't free. Doing it this way has real benefits.

1. Lower total cost of manufacturing (which should be passed on to consumers as lower purchase price).

2. The cost of this hardware is only paid for those who value it.

3. You can add these features later (maybe your budget is tight when you bought the car but want to add it later).

I am definitely not a fan of the subscription model for hardware features, but I think that locking features to the customers paying for it is a logical way to make these features available for less cost. If the unlock is one-time and reliable (doesn't rely on some external service to validate your subscription) then I don't have a fundamental problem with it.

I don't think providing a cheaper model is "punish[ing] them for paying less". It is making the car accessible to a wider audience. If the cheapest model included heated seats, self driving and more then they base price would be higher and the car would be less accessible.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Firstly, there was an oversight, as stated in a follow-up post we don't offer sync across devices as of now. Secondly, I understand your thoughts on cross-platform availability, and it's totally normal to have a different view on the topic. Thirdly, although I don't like to compare my work with bigger projects, I can say, out of personal preference, that I've tried them all, and I always struggled with organizing my thoughts or having decently formatted notes. On top of that, most of them are closed-source and closed-source apps aren't my cup of tea.
Maybe they are paying lip service to such, but in practice, no, they haven't, and they aren't. At least internally.

Why?

Because their economy is slowing down and they have a massive population imbalance. They ended the one-child policy and want families to have 2 or 3 kids in hopes that they can help revive their economy. They can't continue to grow at the pace they have been since the turn of the century, but if The Party wants to maintain its power (which it does at all costs), it needs to continue to hit growth targets. Can't do that with a shrinking population.

Their Belt-And-Road doesn't really help either because it brings new money to developing countries which in turn brings new lifestyle demands from countries with now increased standards of living due to an influx of capital from increased trade with China.
Yes, I laughed when I saw that comment. I believe she would be denied entry to the US based on the questions that screen out communists, although because the particular question mentions a party and I don't believe she's a CPRF member it's possible it wouldn't apply. Regardless, not a good fit on either end of the relationship.
It’s not dictating.

It’s disclaiming. They are saying they do not believe their cloud-first tool is the appropriate place for that sort of content.

Simplenote is run responsibly by serious people. They are telling you what is absolutely common sense, in my mind: it’s not normal to store sensitive information on cloud notepad services you do not (and cannot!) pay for.

I suspect the reason is that their continuous-sync process (which is like SubEthaEdit etc.) does not work with notes encrypted at source.

Apple Notes makes more of this but it’s provided by a firm with several orders of magnitude more money and resources behind it.
They’re not banning books that are not aligned with the audience, like banning Chilton car manuals from high schools. They weren’t there in the first place because they’re not aligned to the audience and we’re curated away.

What they’re doing is more like banning all Ford Chilton car manuals from Autozones.
What's more interesting to me is that over that same century, at least in the US, we've really softened capitalism with aggressive regulation and redefined liberalism entirely.

We still have many of the basic building blocks of capitalism at least, but when I hear someone describe themselves as liberal it's never in the context of individual rights, freedom of speech, due process, etc. Liberalism today seems to be used as a synonym for progressive these days, and the progress argued for is generally away from the individual and towards the collective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge#Maintenance
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I wish there was something like Streamlit, but for non-data apps. Personal sites, blogs, etc... Something that skipped templating and allowed me to declare compenents in a high level way.

ST was easily the most pleasant experience I've ever had developing front end using a Python backend.
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> There is a very large embedded industry if you want that.

I'll second this. Embedded programming will probably only get bigger from IoT, and a large chunk of new coders entering the job market these days don't really understand how a computer works as a machine; which is why you tend to see older folks doing embedded software.

The pay isn't going to be FAANG but you might end up doing more interesting things than your standard CRUD webapp.
> As long as it isn't web applications everything is fine.

The irony!
That third point is so odd and shoehorned in. If you're talking about AGI and immortality, why not dream a little bigger? How about achieving actual democracy anywhere in the world? Not just in state elections, but economic democracy broadly speaking. Right now we are just going on pretending, and this western chauvinism of yours is a little embarrassing.
This points to another worrying trend I've seen among teenagers and 20-something people. I've often seen them commenting how they have had absolutely ridiculous amounts of relationships, like a 24 year old saying she has had 11 boyfriends.

It's like casual sex has become to prevalent that they think that's what a stable relationship is. I can't really fathom the logic.
Happiness is a feeling. If you feel happy, you are happy. Ignorance is irrelevant, it may even be beneficial ("ignorance is bliss").
Yes, you are correct. What I meant is I do not need to expend any more money than I already have to read them.
We have a neoden V3 with dual cameras, about 8K or so investment to setup a small production line. Pretty decent for down to 0402. Our PCBs typically have 10-30 components and we don't mind fiddling around with the unit to get good results.

I use it very manually, using the camera to make the PNP file for a single pcb and then have the machine calculate the panel.
Just to clarify a few things, I am happy with people spending money and time and energy on extending the human lifespan (and more importantly, the so-called "healthspan" where you can do useful work), and working on medical science to improve the human condition.

However, I think the desire to beat death itself, and otherwise treat death as a curable disease, is separate from this, and is ultimately a very destructive ideology. Instead of seeing yourself as a temporary steward of the universe responsible for preserving it for future humans, immortality seekers see it as their own to exploit in the foolhardy quest to defy all of the current science on death and dying. Nothing beyond what you can experience in your lifespan matters, so you might as well go to the literal ends of the earth to pursue its extension.

I'm not sure that's what you in particular think about this, but it is the natural consequence of a moral philosophy built around the idea of "0.01% is still better than 0%" and "I experience life from my own perspective. I would like a continuation of that." Any other belief about what you ought to do in the world is inconsistent with the division by 0 that you get from "0.01% is still better than 0%"

I think that this is the reason why many billionaires have stopped doing things like building libraries and universities, and focus instead on funding increaslingly-quackish research into ways of cheating death. This ideology brings you blood boys and transfers of organs from the young to the otherwise-relatively-healthy old (done for money), as well as things like cryogenic freezing.

> I think it probably boils down to simple maths: 0.01% is still better than 0%.

The cultish belief in itself is that you actually have a chance greater than 0 of beating death, which isn't supported by any form of science. That idea is as much a religion as the idea that your "soul" lives on after you die.

> I will have no descendants.

Even with no descendants, you can still improve the human condition, and yes, people will remember you for it. I would encourage you to spend your money on things like building libraries and hospitals in Africa instead of beating death.

Everything you have said here comes from a perspective of "self over all others," and I would encourage you to examine your own worldview, for your own sake. I'm not suggesting a religious conversion here, but think about what actually makes you happy. Many people who pursue money over all other things ultimately die unfulfilled and unhappy, wishing they could have done something else.
They have removed them…by banning them.
Attractiveness is a) subjective and b) nothing one can influence (unless you talk about hardcore surgery). My points are those people have a lot more agency over.
No Cylons though?
You made the right call. Polkit is most commonly deployed on modern GNU/Linux distributions so the “on Linux” is mostly redundant.

On a related note, Polkit, itself, has had its own privilege escalation problems:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4034

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022...
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2SR8DFQ
>low level stuff and assembly

Embedded is too close to Electrical Engineering, lots of people would want experience in that.

Honestly be less picky. Get your first job, then you will have your pickings.
Safety was one of the first learning experiences I persevered through when I spent a little bit of time on the streets (very little). Shared company with quite a few homicidal psycho killer-looking characters on the dirty dog (greyhound), so I fully support the idea that libraries can be havens for people trying to survive homelessness. But libraries are also major hub for upper middle class women like my wife, and they want access to systems that fit into their worlds. And their worlds revolve around mobile (I waffle between graphene OS and flip phones). Libraries will cater towards this class of user over people like myself or you. But I wouldn't label that "enshittification". That's a superficial and shallow minded view of the organic library network in the US.
Do you have any evidence or are you just speculating?

I don't doubt that the people working in these labs are very smart and talented, perfectly capable of their own replication attempt. But would they rush to try replicating it immediately after the paper's publication?
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Yeah this is the typical response from a denier. Let’s use a true statement to undercut a greater threat to humanity. Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas, yes. But humanity isn’t producing natural levels of it. We’re producing levels the planet has never seen at a speed that, at this point, is more than likely to kill off ocean life, destroying an environmental ecosystem that sustains human life.

So your argument is that the planet will be fine is great, except some of us would like humanity to survive indefinitely. For that, we should do everything we can to protect the planet and it’s current occupants.
this is why the world is ending...[1] because people like you have swallowed the propaganda line that it's about “mentality” and not the economic system itself.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220504-why-the-wrong-pe...

[1] No, not really. Powerful people are the ones to blame.
So I suppose these all run NetBSD? ><
If you just want sleep and activity tracking, I am pretty happy with garmin so far. I charge it about once a week or less. I don't use it for notifications or any other smart stuff. Just weather, sleep, and activity tracking.
Equivocating companies and people is a big reason why things are getting shittier for people and better for companies in the first place.

Do you have any friends who are companies?
The article says there are 50 painters. I'm sure there were more than 50 people working to build it.
I would be very curious to see the numbers comparing intentional OS installation. How many people go out of their way to buy and install Windows (thereby truly choosing Windows) versus how many people go out of their way to download and install Linux.

If Linux wins in that category as well, could we finally stop moving the goalposts?
So marriage is a civil right, except when people have a gut feeling that it's problematic and throw around "think of the X!" moral panic tantrums.

This attitude seems to define civil rights today, from drug prohibition to sexual liberty. Ironically, it very closely resembles how conservative moralism operates and has always operated.
What appeals to you here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_optimization#App...

and which of those application areas are spending &| hiring?

From the lede spiel you may have foot gun'd yourself:

It has important applications in several fields, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, auction theory, software engineering, VLSI, applied mathematics and theoretical computer science.

As AI & ML got first mention. Still, there are other applications.
I am using a 'dumb' Lorus watch ( 17 euros ). Those used to cost a fortune when I was a kid ...

edit: https://www.kish.nl/nl/428539/lorus-horloge-digital-r2365ax9...
Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure have courses online to prepare for certifications. See their corresponding websites.
Kind of but your example isn't great.

It's in some senses more of a concern with things like HPV + HSV, where there's not a lot of testing options and barrier contraception is of much more limited effectiveness. (that said, Gardasil vaccination helps).

For most other STIs - either get tested before every new partner or on a reasonably frequent basis, and demand the same from every new partner.

HIV prevalence + transmission likelihood is wildly skewed to gay/bi men who are active with men - and if you are one who's actively having new partners you probably ought to also talk with your doctor about PrEP.
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This doesn't address the main point about charging the library for access to clients' recommendations, but, at least in my library's version of Overdrive, it is perfectly easy to recommend a book acquisition to my local library.

On the page with the search results, there is a "Make a recommendation" link after the results which goes to a page which has all the expected fields - the book ISBN, my name, my home library, etc., etc.

Maybe this is a better version than the author has seen? This is not using an app, which I don't know why you would want to do anyway.
I don't know what possessed you to think that worrying about the future of the world every day is not-caring.
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It is manipulation. Different countries have different values systems and people in there don't need huge cars and huge houses to feel like they are better persons.
I dislike the word and I also feel like we're already at the point where everything people don't like is just lazily called "enshittification."

I'm not sure this qualifies, but IMO it comes close. There's a lot of nuance in the whole discussion about ebooks and public libraries and handwaving about "enshittification" avoids all of it and dumps the responsibility for maintaining the concept of libraries on publishers and private companies.

Consumers and communities are free to continue consuming books using the same models libraries operated under for decades. Ebooks came along and don't fit well with that model, at all. It's another public commons problem we're basically hoping that Somebody Else will solve and then complaining when the foxes guarding the hen house do what foxes do.

I think Cory is about half right about enshittification but there's also a huge dose of entitlement and apathy. If you expect corporations or government to just Do The Right Thing when it's not in the interest of those in power, without regulation or continual threat of loss of power or market share, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
> Questionable methods get mass debated in public.

By people who don't know what they're talking about.

You're seriously underestimating the level of expertise that it takes to professionally assess most research. It wouldn't be unusual for there to be a small handful of people with that ability in the world.
Let's cut it 50/50, let's say she has broken up in 11 occasions. Does it really make sense for you to consider that she has a good eye for compatibility? To trust her judgement that she will stay with you?
I don't understand why passports would be a good swan invention. Are we happy about having less freedom? I can't just cross USA to Mexico, I need to be identifiable. Governments could screw me up if they wanted to and the passport is only helping them.
If you are good at math and like complex symbols, then learn a low level language and move into HFT.

Mathematicians are well equipped to find the weird quirks needed to gain an alpha in the trading market. And low level high-performance languages won't seem as tricky, if you're used to the oddities of pure math.
I would caution against _just_ learning to code without also getting a reasonable grounding in an area of industry you want to work in. I am a math PhD too, I currently work in an industry research lab doing ML work. I transitioned via a decade in government R&D that was much less hands-on technical. Despite now working in close proximity to folks doing graphics research I know it would be very difficult to get a job in that without hands-on experience.

Just being good at math is too general in a competitive job market. But I would also argue that learning to code is too if you want to work in the application rather than as a SWE.

I personally find low-level software interesting too and have found stimulation in HPC. However, lots of that space these days is focused on AI and you said that doesn't interest you.