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Actually, though, toolkits that still have XRender backends will run relatively efficiently over the network. To be fair, this is becoming a thing of the past slowly, but it's not gone yet: Qt 6 re-added the XRender backend due to complaints of how much slower X11 networking was!

Granted though, it does nothing for apps using Electron. However, try e.g. the Dolphin file browser on a 4K display over the network, and you'll find it is clearly faster than should be possible.

Probably I should've made it clearer, but imo the bigger problem is that tweaking Waypipe to replace old uses of ssh -Y shouldn't be needed; it should be possible for it to determine what possible options can be used and switch things around to deal with CPU or network bottlenecks most effectively. Easier said than done. There's also still some bugs under Waypipe; it's an understandably challenging problem.
The wayback captures page (SFW, but links to recent captures rather not) https://web.archive.org/web/20230815000000*/https://www.appy...
Ask HN: I am getting submerged by low-effort Indian headhunters on LinkedIn?
I recently got back on the job market and started being active on LinkedIn. Until recently I received regular (1-2/week) high-quality recruiter messages on LinkedIn, which I think matches the experience of most tech workers.

For the last few days, I have been submerged (5-6 messages/day) by extremely low-effort messages which share the following characteristics:

- Fairly relevant to me but don't match my experience level at all (I'm junior/mid-level and they are all for senior level)
- All from Indian (or Indian-sounding, might be pakistani/bengali?) people/companies but for local (European) roles
- Very poorly written
- The two I tried having a phone call were very hard to understand and utterly wasted my time (told me after 20 minutes of conversation that the role required 10 years experience, uhm you could have read my CV and saved us both the waste of time?)

Any idea where this comes from? How do you react to this (I'm afraid to pass over good opportunities if I just ignore them)?
The only time I obtained usefulness from a cert, was when I, as a SW developer, was in charge of a bunch of systems guys. By taking a low level systems cert I was better able to communicate with the systems team. At that time thou, I probably had more systems skills than 80% of SW developers.
> "With the powerful 1200 W heating element (the thin coil wire), the kettle reaches optimal temperature very quickly — in under three minutes."

Europeans (and other countries with ~230V household sockets) would consider this quite poor performance for a kettle. 3000 W kettles are not uncommon here in the UK!
I don't this would have been the case even if he chose to not insert himself as the main character when it came to making product changes. Satisfaction with social media use has dropped like a stone in recent years. It's not 2016 anymore, people are inured to the deluge of ragebait and political content.
The apple one was only matching against known images, not trying to detect new ones.

The google one actually does try to detect new ones and there are reported instances of Google sending the police on normal parents for photos they took for the doctor.
Once I heard that it was best practice to write "SEE ID" on the back instead of signing. But nobody cheks that or demands ID. And yeah, the comments mention, nobody looks at the card anymore. In fact, nobody touches my card but me anymore! The POS terminals are all customer-facing now; that seems to be a hard requirement from the processors. It was allegedly a "touchless COVID-19 precaution" but obviously it's for other reasons too, such as security (if a poorly-paid worker gets a glimpse of your card they can absolutely memorize the contents of it and commit fraud later.)

I'm not sure why cards even have a space to sign anymore, except as a nod to legacy. Perhaps, I don't know, perhaps if you sign for a purchase in person rather than using your PIN, the merchant could challenge you to show your signature on the card. But I don't think that happens.

Oh, and I use blue Sharpie to sign my cards nowadays.
I share your hope.

Sadly, though, I don't think off-the shelf e-bikes will likely ever head that way unless there's a sea-change in consumer behaviour.

Even regular old human-only powered bikes have been getting increasingly proprietary, at least at the middle to high-end of the market. It's not dissimilar to the increase in tech for cars, making it more challenging for DIYers to get their elbows dirty without involving some business related to the manufacturer.

DIY e-bikes are pretty easy; although they often require a bit of assembly. The assembly is not particularly hard, certainly no harder than building a simple gaming PC.

DIY ebike kits usually operate with standard, off-the-shelf bikes and bike parts. Even more poignantly, the kits are typically best on used bikes that followed common standards for a long time. The bike industry has worked hard to make us think hub-drive motors are the lesser option. They have some serious advantages for most commuting and general cycling (MTB'ing is a place where mid-drive motors excel), including more available power, lower drivetrain wear and the ability to use regenerative braking.

I built an e-bike recently around a late 90s MTB. The only complicated bit was figuring out the cable routing and hiding some of the bird's nest of wires well (some 3D printing took care of that).

In our conspicuously consumerist milieu, where form is often valued over function, bikes like the VanMoof offer a (deceptive) look of simplicity and elegance.

To my mind, that's a perspective we have to shift. Things should be easy to reason about, easy to fix, easy to customize—it's really the right-to-own (right to repair?) by another name.
I was advised not to take supplements or antioxidants during chemo.

"The healthier you are, then so too is your cancer." was something that threw me off a bit.

Edit: just to be clear, at the point in which you already have cancer, the most important treatment is the science of chemotherapy. Antioxidants can in turn “strengthen” tumor cells (just as they do regular cells) and cause chemo resistance/refractory.
The customer of mine that pays for Slack uses huddles. I never thought about entering one that I was not explicitly invited to. I hope it's possible to make them private.

All the customers that are not paying for Slack are using Meet. One attempted to use Teams once but it's too complicated. Zoom for work calls? It surely happened but I can't remember when. Skype, I had a customer using it and actually screen sharing in Skype is good: it wastes as much of the screen in useless borders and toolbars as all its competitors but at least it's possible to zoom and get a pixel perfect view of what is shared.
Honestly, I really think the effect could be just some kind of galvanic effect.

Potting soil is moist, has a non-neutral Ph, and has trace metals hanging out. So if you stick a zinc-coated or copper wire in that, it'll probably start to react in some way. So the effect may still be "electric", in a sense, but not by harvesting "free energy" from the environment. Also, ions directly from this galvanic affect might be working like a kind of fertilizer by being more bio-available somehow (I am not a botanist).

> why not just use a fixed source/oscillator and find the optimal parameters

Exactly. Don't leave it to chance and figure out what's viable. Also: use something unlikely to chemically react with the soil.
Moreover, the paper specifically mentions administering Vitamin C, Vitamin E and N-acetyl-cysteine. The article casually throws in Vitamin A, Selenium and Zinc into the mix, none of which are mentioned in the paper.
My understanding is that there’s no RLHF model sitting on top of ChatGPT. There’s a separate reward model during training, but that reward model is just used to fine-tune the decoder model. This is sort of confusing in the literature, because they will switch from calling it a “language model” to a “policy”, once they’ve used PPO, but if you trace the citations back to [1], you can see that the policy is initialized with a pretrained language model (in that case, GPT-2).

What I don’t know is how they’re applying RLHF after user fine-tuning. Are they redoing the PPO with the original reward model after tuning on your input? Are they just letting it slide, and hoping that the fine-tuning doesn’t cause the model to forget the RLHF? It’s unclear from what I’ve read.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08593.pdf
hundreds of thousands of people have passed this information across generations, and you an individual can say "it means the same as complete fiction" .. It is hubris on your part in some real way.
They don't need to threaten. Their SLAs don't offer to run VMs indefinitely. AWS will send you an email about shutting down your VM if, eg. they need to rotate the disk used for storing VM image etc. It's somewhere there in the contract, and it's a usual process for someone who keeps long-running VMs in EC2.
I read this as kind of goalpost-movey. If we can, with self driving cars, clip some of those outliers, we will have outsize impact on the total safety picture. Average skill is what we deal with all the time (On average. ;) so better than that ought to be sufficient.

That long tail of outlier clipping works on an individual human basis, too. How many accidents happen because an individual careful driver is, momentaritly, inanttentive?
I don't understand your criteria. SMS is a cellular service. Do you want a mobile phone or not?

Also, you are not the OP. Does "Sign in with Facebook" require verifying TOTP codes? Never ever use SMS for TOTP. Register a real authenticator or Yubikey instead.
They already are just buy a "normal" ebike instead of things like this.
Just wanted to add my experience with Organic Maps.

I used it extensively this year, mainly because it has hiking and bicycle paths that are not marked at all on Google Maps.

It works off-line. This is so valuable to me, especially when hiking.

One time I was lost deep in a mountain/forest, and the app found a GPS signal to show my location and direction, saving me from unexpectedly spending the night (for which I was not prepared). I suppose any map app is capable of this, but I was so glad.

It's also capable of giving directions.

And, unlike Google Maps, I can trust that the app is not collecting and misusing my location data.

Of course, as an open-source project, there are some rough edges. I have GMaps installed just in case, and on a few occasions I had to resort to using it. But I was pleasantly surprised by Organic Maps, so far it's my favorite mobile app for maps.
See my comment above - it's greenfield projects too. Company I work for had a nice .NET Core / Gatsby React set up with reasonable Microservices on Azure. New leadership came in. Rewrote it "all" (3 years in so far) into a wait for it, MONOREPO! in Python (at least they used FastAPI), Next.js (just to have a useless API which calls other APIs, because apparently 'cookies are more secure than JWTs' (I guess they think not being able to fetch them in JS is somehow security), and AWS. So far it has half the functionality, 10x the libraries, 100x the confusion, but hey, at least we went from 5 devs to 100 just so everyone can be confused TOGETHER!
Note my one complaint was that it would have been nice to wrap the resource finder script into the gui / web interface
He's always thinking about the customer! /s
There's something to be said for optimistic routing, server or client side. It seems like they're using suspense to wait for the page to be rendered before swapping the route. It's a noticeable breach of the standard pattern of instant navigation, and then wait for content to appear.
So if your not going to actually cite enough sources for your claims to be credible, why would anyone take your opinion seriously either?
Insurance companies are very interested by your workout routine and how you drive your car, so they can adjust their offering specially for you…

We can’t get laws banning this soon enough.
> Just your luck. Under Univalence identity is equivalent to equivalence and it's computationally decidable. So you should be able to produce a decider which determines whether any alternative encoding/representation is equivalent to the halting problem; or not.

Moving to a constructive setting lets you say things like "all functions are computable" because it has a restricted notion of function. It does not give you any new information about classical objects.
Can you elaborate on this one? You can of course have multiple Wayland displays at once, and/or multiple VNC servers. But, presumably, you're talking about something entirely different here.
[parent comment was edited, it originally mentioned SimpleDB]

Speaking of SimpleDB, we still use it. It's amusing how it's basically swept under a rug at AWS. It's never mentioned, barely documented, but continues to work. It's a pretty good product for what it is - a very simple key/value store where you don't need/want to manage provisioned throughput, costs, keys, etc.

The way they handle SimpleDB makes me respect AWS and feel more comfortable on some other services we also rely on that seem close to abandoned (like ElasticBeanstalk).

However, as a counter-point, they are killing OpsWorks with what feels like a fairly short notice, so I'm also a bit cautious about how long they'll maintain services.
User testing Ikea assembly must be an interesting challenge, partly because experience in the test group would make you better at later tests.

I have worked on international teams where it was a running joke the individuals had ended up assembling the same Ikea furniture on three continents.
Pretty sure the French are saying "adieu" (goodbye) and not "au revoir" (goodbye until I see you again).
Ah yes, why bother testing? Safari must behave exactly the same on mobile and the desktop, right? Let's not even bother testing that assumption, it sounds correct.
> I'm not an expert, but I don't think you're going to raise 6 figures on the premise of 6 figures ARR in 3 years.

I don't think you are wrong :)

I know the audience I asked the question to (and thank you for taking the time to reply, I know y'all are busy).

I am curious to hear if anyone has tried anything like this or to see if this piques anyone else's interest or matches their experiences.

Heard loud and clear on slow growth curves not being appealing and thanks for not immediately saying "lifestyle business".

I feel like there is a conversation about small software shops making small software being missing from most discourse... or I am missing where to have these conversations because of the HN echo chamber.
It seems like bad company policy to let a bunch of techies fight over a limited resource via web requests. It's like network inspector gladiators. Maybe that was the point? Lol
Prosocial mischief: gently fucking with social scripts via improv
Even on single monitor setups Wayland handles HiDPI and fractional scaling better in most circumstances, with the exception being apps that don’t support Wayland and are drawn at upscale 1x (mostly just Electron apps where the dev couldn’t be arsed to update their wrapper for some reason).

HiDPI isn’t that niche of a thing anymore, having become common on upper midrange and up laptops. If only for that reason moving to Wayland makes sense.

Aside from that, with X11 it wasn’t that uncommon to see cases where the layers briefly became distinguishable with things like white flashes other drawing anomalies which made for a less polished sort of hacky feel. That mostly went away when switching off compositing, but most users aren’t going to be doing that.
> People who could theoretically switch to Wayland and who might gain benefits from doing so, but who have found good reasons (often related to hardware support) that X works better for them

... like, can't click and drag a picture from Google Chrome into Files (Ubuntu 22.04). Switched back to X and it works.
If you have reasonable evidence, wiretapping a suspect to gain more evidence is fine. On the other hand wiretapping everyone in hope of finding some initial evidence, that is not okay at all.
Across the continent that might be true, but when gaming from my office in town to my house, there was noticeably less lag on Parsec than Stadia. I tried Stadia both at home and work. I used it at home for months before using Parsec instead.
I've got 60-acres in Ohio and we've got a land management plan to remove the invasive honeysuckle and tree of heaven – and take care of the sycamores, maples, buckeyes, walnuts, and oaks.

It's a fascinatingly deep area to dive into!
Sure, but then that's a very loose meaning of "requires" unicode support if all the people who "require" it probably aren't even going to try to use it even if you support it.

Ironically, isn't part of the issue that most "engineered" keyboards in the US don't have any innate way to type those, and thus require your "programmed" OS or application to have the support needed to even type those characters with some chord of keys?
Going into any of the directories there shows no contents unfortunately.
Great idea! Even though we have pretty great cleaning of the bike lanes here in Stockholm, it often happens that sometimes pretty large rocks and gravel find their way out into the bikelane, from some road construction, just the side of the road and what not.

If you're cautious you can just avoid those, but for elder bikers who can't do quick maneuvers or are cycling at night, especially if gravel and bigger rocks are found in curves, my feeling is that it can be potentially quite hazardous.

Seems I'm one of very few (if any) who are constantly stopping to kick away such stones and debris, but it would really be better with a systematic way to keep lanes clean.
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process
Thanks solardev, this is probably something we need to fix
I can't even tell if this product is meant for dog or human consumption.
What the hell is this? This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Hire-a-scam for abusive partners? Is this for real or something? Doxxx your partner to this fly-by-night service and "test loyalty"? 10 to 1 says it's a front business for some kind of organized crime or offshore criminal enterprise.

That being said, here's KaTe: https://youtu.be/6xckBwPdo1c?si=Dmiwq5a50MUiHkD4
The regulatory environment also played a big role in this. If you read the original telecommunications act (title I). It is wildly heavy handed on privacy. The TL:DR basically you can pipe this voice data around but you may not use it and if an gov official wants it, get a warrant (even if it is a rubber stamp one). Title II broke most of that to make the internet grow. Well it succeeded doing that wildly. But now the companies are doing what is basically 'natural' for them to do. Consume what they can see. This sort of thing has happened before with telegrams, mail, and plain old telephone. Companies have seized up Title II to make this happen. For example your cell phone is not a phone. It is an internet device and covered under tittle II not I.

Also we as users are somewhat to blame as we wanted 'free stuff'. We traded away our freedoms for tweets and facebook posts.

There is no 'one entity' to blame here. We all share it quite equally.

I have been saying this for many years now. But most of these companies are heading right into a Title III being written just for exactly what they are doing. They better get their act together or no one is going to like the outcome.
Maybe (spot the computational/monadic joke).

In what objective system for evaluating proofs will you be presenting this “refutation”?

This whole “we have known” smells of a bandwagon fallacy already. Who do you represent?

I find it mildly ironic that I have to explain evaluation (and it’s dependency on a meta theory) on a forum full of computer scientists…
HMR is a feature of bundlers but your frontend code has to specifically interface with it if you want JS changes to live-apply to a running page without losing state instead of refreshing the page. With React, you have to use react-refresh in order to have HMR support. Frameworks like NextJS configure react-refresh and the bundler's HMR features together for you.
Funny how much better government might get if we just let their employees post on Craigslist
> Otherwise, it’s interesting to me how Bauhaus seems to have aged much worse

Could it be that the most acclaimed expressions of art nouveau were the product of a gilded age, while the bauhaus legacy was mostly enacted during the postwar period where speed of rebuilding was more important that quality of buildings?
This is a claim from one of the militant urbanist YouTube channels. The method used to establish that was using a microphone next to a road.

The issue is that people don't care about the noise on the street nearly as much as they do about the noise inside their dwelling. And car noise doesn't make it inside the houses while people noise does, and, with the dense housing, often originated in the same building. And a microphone outside an apartment complex will indeed fail to record e.g. a fitness enthusiast on top of your bedroom setting an emergency lifting reps record at 3:30 am.
> application which needs to render its own window chrome

I understand this is absolutely subjective but I just hate this phenomenon so much...
Can this also help getting data from a Samsung watch?

I don't like to be tracked. So when a device does not work without initializing it via an app, I install the app on a secondary phone and then delete it again.
But to get my data from my smartwatch, I need the Samsung Health app. And that one refuses to install if the phone does not have a SIM card inserted.

Is there a way around this, so I can get my data without being tracked by Samsung?
This. Unless a written guarantee could be offered by the cloud provider that migration will be absolutely trouble free, why wouldn't customers just stick to what they know works?

And if they're not willing to provide a written guarantee, then that says a lot.
So, aluminium sulphur batteries and ferroaluminum structures ?
It's hard to know without trying, but I would guess that it'd at least be good enough to do what you were doing before. I think Parsec is still free for the basics, so the only cost would be your time in setting it up and trying it.
At this point I'm surprised they haven't simply paid Pegasus to pull all that info remotely already. There's a certain gulf prince Musk is pals with that would have their number.
This is definitly my favourite map app. The offline features are amazing and it has a great UI and operability. Routing for bicycles could be better, I ended up in the middle of the forest without clear path the other day, but this is more of an issue with old OSM datasets than with the app itself.
I haven't spun up anything in the cloud in a while. I used to dabble in both AWS and Digital Ocean. Usually went with DO because it seemed simpler and my projects were super small (and they had a lot of relevant guides to spinning up X, Y, and Z service on their systems). What is the difference between EC2-classic and whatever is available today? Are you still able to just get a linux box with a public IP address?
Agreed. I have a degree in statistics, years of experience working with data analysis, closer 15 years working with python, know R etc. etc. But if I just want to quickly play around with some numbers to get a quick feel for a problem I almost always still fire up Excel first.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817179

https://goldsteinreport.com/ga-dumps-freenom-afnic-providing...

https://salt.agency/blog/biot-chagos-islands-risk-to-io-cctl...
I just had to look it up; Wayland has been around for 14 years already. How much software takes 14 years and still isn't stable? How big and / or complicated is this problem and the codebase anyway?