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Ask HN: RDP like app launcher?
The thin client server approach is old. mircosof lately shifted focus onto this cloud windows thing. I want something similar, but not just streaming screen and input. more optimized better looking app for starting remote apps, like locale ones e.g. It's already developed but what is it called, again?
Not all calories come from soda, substitute good are any other cheap calories not just soda.

Critically the biology around weight loss is complex but even with very intentional diet changes people rarely keep weight off long term.
Because the grid needs a very large consumer to stop RIGHT NOW and be under contract to do so when told. To get this contract, the grid promises money. There is no guarantee that adjusting the power cost for a customer will make them stop consuming power when it is needed. The contracts are in place to ensure the grid operator KNOWS that they can achieve stability when they need it.
> We are the collective voice of the game development industry—developers, game designers, artists, and business minds. Passionate about our craft, we've invested years in shaping an industry that touches the lives of millions worldwide.

Clearly the "our craft" is "business minds" and the problem with increased Unity fees is that their add business is at risk despite all these "business minds" invested years to shape their model.

What an excellent shit-show.
Similarly, Blizzard used Unity for their card game, Hearthstone.
There is, but not nearly as restrictive. Stores can be open from at least 6 to 20 any day of the week other than Sunday and in most states in Germany, Sunday trading has been at least partially permitted.

In Austria you cannot even operate a fully automated grocery store (either by vending machines or something like Amazon Go) without being afoul of the regulation.
> Would you call every other leader selection process where the US has given their support for a candidate a coup?

That's clearly a mischaracterization of what happened in Ukraine. Yes, Washington declared its support for the opposition in Ukraine. It also:

- bragged about spending $5 billion funding the opposition over preceding years.

- participated closely in the Yalta European Solution for decades, which was a forum for Washington power brokers + Ukrainian oligarchs.

- endorsed the overthrow of Yanukovych (i.e. by not demanding his democratic government was restored, which e.g. Washington did in Niger recently).

- and so on

It was a coup. It was primarily achieved through covert action, which by definition avoids yielding smoking guns that would cater to your personal, precise, technical definition of "coup", but given the totality of the circumstances we can only conclude that it was a coup.
For a job - neither.

For personal interest - try both and see which one you like more.
CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has to Be Made Like Microchips
So did you take the PowerBuilder job or the Fortran job?

(Nice story, BTW, thanks.)
Israel is indeed a confusing place.

The Haredi (aka ultra orthodox) parties are not the key drivers of the settlement enterprise. They are mostly ambivalent to the whole thing, their primary focus is preserving their lifestyle, which is less about the land and more about everything else in the religion. In fact, just last week one of the Haredi politicians published a populist rant about how Zionism is terrible, the Zionists are the root of all the problems etc etc.

The two most right-wing parties in the parliament (headed by Smotrich and Ben Gvir, respectively) are not Haredi, and their constituents do serve in the military, by and large (although less than their secular counterparts, as the women don't have to serve and there are programs that allow abbreviated service for men as far as I understand).

It's complicated..
I haven't used OpenAI's API, but I might soon, and I've read tangentially that you can specify the checkpoint version in API calls to gpt3.5. Is this not the case with gpt4? Did they backport shitty alignment to older model versions?
Friend of mine wrapped the expansion bus on his Electron in silver foil. I've no idea what possessed him, but I do know it never ran again.

Just looked it up, and it had 18V AC on pins 1 and 2. So yeah, a kit kat wrapper will do that.
> Explanation from the supermarket chains are shady at best

Do you suspect there is some other reason? Like, they can get away with it in Austria but not Germany? What’s a “non-shady” explanation in your eyes?
No mention of libgfshare, which comes with utilities `gfsplit` and `gfcombine`: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/gfsplit.1.h...

We use it in production to pregenerate a pool of certificate requests for SSL key pinning. Rotating a key requires m-of-n cooperation.
The whole situation is sketch. Find another job. No one should ask you to lie outright like this.
yep. And there's certainly examples of that:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/202...
Not if the scientists involved are p-hacking. Or, less harmfully, publishing null results.
I was about to suggest either, but then I read:

> Primary downside is that it’s purely functional, which means it can be less flexible and makes it less likely it can replace Python as my go-to language.

Learn Haskell so that you can dispel this notion.
A small victory for the underdog
I was really excited when they updated IE into Edge. They blogged about removing legacy code, and seemed a motivated team, keen to update their technology to a competitive browser engine.

So I was really disappointed when Microsoft announced the switch to Chrome.

I wish at least they'd moved to Firefox and not supported the monoculture.

Much of the material around this is now lost -- this is the original Edge announcement blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ie/living-on-the-edge-our-nex... and it's not even preserved on the Wayback Machine.
It can be really hard to flat out refuse on ethical grounds to do something your boss tells you to do. I’ve only done it once, and I knew it meant my time at that job was coming to an end. I was gone a few months later and in a better position.
Yep! That map was the Jin dynasty
Then how do you explain MGM not negotiating and acting quickly?
> Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented?

I'm not sure you understand the issue or thought through the problem. Acting without direction or a plan or even a goal is as much of a waste of time as not doing anything.

Is your goal just to pay lip service to a "technically doing something" goal, or actually do something about a problem? Because if your goal is to actually do something about a problem, the very least you need to have in place is a plan.

> Yes! Well actually, it depends (...)

It really does not depend at all. To have a goals the very least you need to have is a basic understanding of the problem you want to tackle. This is not up for discussion.

If you have no idea what the problem actually is, you simply cannot do anything about it.

Unless your goal is to post vacuous content to social media claiming you do stuff in spite of not doing anything or achieving nothing, you need to know what you're doing. It boggles the mind how anyone can even try to argue about the need to know what you're doing.
That's not what I was referring to, but the single master password that decrypts everything. Though this would be bad as well.
ignoring the legal implications. if you have a choice do you really want to spend you life lying for other people so they can pretend to be successful? you could actually do something with yourself instead.
And one of the civil war war chief, Abdelfattah Younès, was contacted by the DGSE before the civil war started according to Hillary's emails. The DGSE might have given training and advice even before that.

Also French and British diplomats lied about strikes on civil population by Kaddafi to the US and the UN (unclear if the SIS/Mi6 was played by its French counterpart or participated on forging evidence).

At least the warchief that met Sarkozy was killed within the week Hillary received the information that he worked way too closely with the French, it might be happenstance, but I'd rather believe the Cia was involved somehow (if not, they're way, way less competent than everybody think)

Check for Blumenthal emails on wikileaks, you'll get even more details.
Yes and no. They can't make retroactive alterations to the contract without your consent, but retroactive is more narrowly defined than you would perhaps like (it would apply only to things you've sold, not new sales of games on old engines).

Everything else on top of that requires deeper understanding of the contract law rules of the specific jurisdiction that applies and the very specific wordings of all relevant terms of service, and this is definitely an area of law where if you forget to execute the right magic steps, you can permanently foreclose opportunities for recourse. What opportunities you actually do have, I'm not sure--this is definitely an area where the answer is "talk to a lawyer", not get legal advice from randos on the internet.
Brutal. To compare: I live in the Czech capital, in a 45 sq.m. apartment in a quiet, green neighborhood, the rent is $920, healthcare is free, my expensive car insurance (cheap car but every-checkbox-checked insurance) and parking is < $100 a month.

$50k can provide for a small family here, but cars and MacBooks are much more expensive for us.
not the original poster, but yeah, bernie sanders proposal are seen as common, almost bipartisan, in Europe
A Pride flag ban sparks accusations of betrayal in tiny MI city
I think anybody who's ever tried to model MMT feels the same way. I suspect the underlying theory doesn't have enough substance to actually model.
Well we may have to disagree.

But if this whole issue is because women are frightened of predatory men in that circumstance then this issue is with predatory men not with (other) people that happen to be LBGTIQ+. The intersection is likely vanishingly small.

Politically easier to grandstand and bash an out group (and conflate them with predatory bad actors for lolz) than deal with bad behaviour properly?
Depends on the case, however...

A few times i've seen a number of lines of code that was easily replaced with a single line of regexp matching and value extraction via named capture groups. The amount of code that comes out of "some loops and split statements" quickly turns into spaghetti code, especially when you need to extract values and/or reference what would be other capture groups.

In my experience, as long as you provide (at least) one sample of the expected input, a regexp is essentially self-documenting.
$1.50 or $2.50 for Uber-style door-to-door trips is absurdly uneconomical. I've always thought the premise of paid public transit was to offset the costs of the service, but at $2.50 per trip only the most minimal trips will break even.

And, unlike Uber/Lyft/etc, I don't think municipalities will be able to fleece the workers by paying only for the "gigs" accepted by drivers. If you're replacing bus routes, you're going to need a large pool of hourly wage drivers.

I'd much rather see this absurdly-scaling expense replaced by making existing bus routes free for all passengers.
5 Yubikeys? That's fine if you're really serious about this, but to me even one Yubikey is too expensive for personal user.

Most people don't have a vacation home, or a safe deposit box. I didn't even think you could still get those at most banks. Plus, I suspect most security conscious people would not want to leave anything at their office.

You can leave them at friends houses, but that's not exactly always a secure location.

Phone numbers can at least theoretically be recovered, so my unpopular opinion is that SMS is pretty great for personal stuff.
Nice write-up! It shows that you didn't just use async for the sake of it, but that you thought about the kind of user experience that you want to have, and how async helps you to get there.
Incremental Sheet Forming – Smarter Every Day [video]
The OP isn't an engineer, but this really highlights the difference between real engineers and software developers who like to pretend they're engineering.

If the OP was an engineer, the answer would be lose their license and never work again in the field.
I also find it interesting, because I'd be surprised if many of those people who live in small, southern towns are not low-income. Trying to live beyond one's means is the best way to stay broke.
I would have assumed the same, but at 16:08 and 17:58 he's sketching parts by hand overlaid on a computer monitor with reference images

What a mad man
I want cities with large track infrastructure, like NYC, to figure out about having autonomous point to point mini trains share the infrastructure with the large scale scheduled service. The tech for operating on maintained dedicated surfaces without vehicles or people, even with weather, should be much much simpler. From utilization perspective, even at peak the vast majority of track surface sits unused. At the edges and off peak the scheduled service is unreliable. Autonomous point to point would be complementary.
While I wish there were good principled methods for determining these choices, isn't a meaningful limitation that often when you first start writing the data, you typically don't know all of the ways it will eventually be used? Sometimes, the team tasked with making data available for various forms of bulk processing has to guess at what teams and mandates might exist years from when they are setting up the data lake, or even what compliance requirements will arise.
E.g. as different areas introduce data protection laws, perhaps your datalake which could previously assume that records are written but not deleted has to support queries to find PII values associated with a person who has issued a delete request, and you're forced to rewrite lots of files. Or a downstream team starts using vector DBs and wants to assemble datasets by doing queries for records which match any of 100k IDs, which have associated vectors in regions of interest, and you need something that's not a single scan but also not a large number of point lookups. Etc, etc.
How do you have a principled method for optimizing for unknown future use cases? Does it make sense to talk about a probability distribution over future queries?
>> He has never been tempted to buy a television, but was persuaded to watch The Big Bang Theory last year, and said he wasn't impressed.

I like that guy.
It may be fair to do so but not necessarily effective. People tend to start tuning out what they see as hyperbole.

The companies may seem to get away with it, but not because they use a particular language tactic. They have the power to back up their "opinion" by firing people. People who want to keep their job may stop arguing, not because they buy the BS framing but because they have bills to pay.

The folks who hope to take a stand in the interest of worker's rights would be better served by trying hard to stick to the facts, promote nuanced discussions and not let the companies drag them into this kind of pissing contest.
How is Dropbox shared folder is a pain in updating copies across cities?
Uh, how did you come to the conclusion that I support that bloody thing? I very much do not. Equally, I can write that Islam worships Allah and has Muhammad as its prophet, while being a staunch atheist who despises organized religion.

I like good definitions, though, and the GP was pretty sloppy about his terms.

"is the oldest con in the book"

Con? In one sense, yes. It does not bring about the promised prosperity. Attempts at socialism generally fail, and I believe the incompatibility of such system with human nature is fundamental.

It is not a con in the sense that they actually mean it seriously and want to implement it, though. If a socialist politician talks about expropriations and nationalization, you'd better believe that this is his actual intent. History says that this intent was acted upon many, many times.
While I mostly agree, there is a bit of Stockholms syndrome.

A lot of people don't know what they even could be missing.

For example, there is no succinct way of writing an antijoin in SQL .

The MERGE command has only been implemented by some engines due to (IIRC) concurrency concerns/ambiguities.

ANSI SQL JSON operations have improved but are still clunky.

Boolean NULL and IN is a clusterf of footguns.

Etc.
Writing Basel as Bâle would be silly and non-standard too, yes. Maybe "wrong" is too strong of a classification. But for example, I wouldn't immediately recognize it as Basel in a headline. FWIW Leuven refers to itself in English as Leuven on their own website: https://www.leuven.be/en

Also somewhat interesting to me is that for some reason people think Belgium is mainly a French speaking country, but in fact there are actually more Dutch speakers than French speakers (56% vs 38% native speakers according to Eurostat in 2015) - I have the sense referring to Flemish cities by their French name reflects that
It looks pretty cool! A nice feature of nnn is that you can set it up to `cd on quit`, meaning when you navigate to a different folder and then quit the program, your original shell navigates to that folder. Is that possible in Yazi?
aka Roboforming, basically pinching a metal sheet with carbide tips on either side, very precisely.
I can think of several ways to "take a password encrypted file and split it up in such a way that you can re-assemble it without all of its parts" but being able to do so without a password is where it's piqued my interest.

This is one of those things that looks interesting to me as someone who enjoys security topics, algorithms and the like. I can see digging into the source code/reading about the techniques involved because I want to know how it was done. But I am struggling to figure out where something like this would be useful -- is there a threat model where this would be useful as a "layer in the onion" of things protecting sensitive data or a way in which this would be superior for a use case that isn't already solved better by something else?

Even the author kind of jokes about an old diary password vs remembering enough hiding places. I think the latter would be a much bigger problem from personal experience and would require having fewer parts and more hiding places, eroding the provided security in the process[0]. :)

Multi-sig comes to mind, but my only exposure to that is "having to participate in it" by "putting a USB key in and running a program along with two of my coworkers" in order to push the one update we ever pushed with that tooling. I remember we all had to provide our keys and "if I was out sick, no update was going out" but I'm not sure if that was a limitation of what we were using or if we just set them up that way because it was "alpha" at the time.

None-the-less, very interesting!

[0] I can imagine, though, that "under the mattress" would be the equivalent security to setting your password to "password".
Seems no different than if all N parties with the key were lost. Is there a backup strategy in case the key people are all wiped out simultaneously? How does ICANN handle it?

There was a recent story[0] about a crypto company where everyone "lost" the keys (I assume inside job).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268750
Exhibits 3, 4, and 5 – datacolada
Maybe the person I replied to is a woman. I have a female coworker and she tells me her boyfriend is the playing the homemaker role.
My wife almost never lets me cook or do the dishes.

I could help worded my post differently but decided I would rather attract some downvotes and maybe have some fun with comments like yours.

Edit: your profile is so much fun. Is that Serbian?
This exists in cryptoland and these are called custodians. Banks are here to stay, even in crypto imo
Yeah I just have my KeePass file in my own Nextcloud and I can access it on any device. I have never needed to mess with a sync plugin.
Global Database Comparison
The problem partially stems from an overabundance of those resources while lacking resources for determining the integrity of the information being shared.

Or, more succinctly: There's more noise than signal.

Considering all the YT channels that offer blatantly false advice, advice against best practice, shortcuts, "quick tricks", "life hacks"... a newcomer to the topic has no way to figure out if they should trust LTT or trust fartbrain69420 when it comes to technical advice, and youtube has degraded the quality of its search massively.
Show HN: Balance – challenge anxious thoughts using GPT-4
Not everyone thinks that. Come now. I and many other people can honestly say we never woke up in the morning filled with zeal to ban out regulate someone else's entertainment.
Vercel Is Ridiculously Expensive
We just finished our website migration from Vercel to GCP to save $50 monthly. If you can, migrate it out ASAP to other cloud platform, like AWS and GCP.

Vercel is expensive and has many hidden fees, like $10 per month for monitoring (this should be free), web analytics Plus (google analytics for free) and source images 5$ per 1000 (what is this?).

Have no idea why Vercel is desperate to charge user money.
For a licensing agreement to change the model and price going forward with 90 day notice, why would t it be?
Tracked infrastructure headways are long for safety and operational purposes. Throwing in extra services for private vehicle would remove a train with 200 people on.

Of course SV reinventing bus is a meme in itself.
"work, airplane, railroad, highway, food ... software problem to fix"

Narrow fields like these are usually non-controversial. Populists don't run around screaming about abolishing the traffic lights or veterinarian checks on meat. There are exceptions like "chlorinated chicken", but these are the exceptions that prove the rule.

The controversy usually involves the macro stuff where value of expert judgment becomes questionable. Like "how many soldiers and bases worldwide do we need"? "Should we confront China/Russia or appease it?" "Is mass immigration from the Islamic world desirable and how should it be managed?" etc. These are the real flashpoints of modern politics.
I think it has helped me to do five to ten hours of refresher on elementary data structures and algorithms in the week or so leading up to interviewing at places like Google and Stripe.

But I really hate hearing that people are sinking hours and hours into doing tons of these problems, and on an ongoing basis. What a horrible waste of human life.
Does anyone know why he had $870 million in a hot wallet?
I know, it was a joke hence the /jk :P
At that point, what's the purpose oF crypto then? Wasn't decentralized supposed to be the benefit of it?
So what’s your experience with living in Warsaw, Lisbon or Prague? The locals don’t seem to agree with you.
They don’t sell those by weight?