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Ask HN: What ultrawide do you use for coding and photo/video editing?
I'd like to upgrade from my 27 inch and I tried the Samsung Odyssey g8 OLED, but the font rendering was just not acceptable. I guess that will probably bias me towards VA or IPS. My current Samsung is a VA, but it's been a while since I've purchased a new monitor so I'm not sure which brand/type is the frontrunner these days for general purpose.

I'd really like decent color for photo and video editing and great font support. Ideally it has DVI and HDMI ports
Not exactly.

Suppose you have renewable sources that on average generate 100GW. Well, some weeks they're going to average 90GW -- and that will be quite common -- in which case you'd need 10GW of something else. The long-term average (e.g. over 48 hours) is what matters because you'd always need to smooth out the short-term load with batteries.

Some weeks you'll need to make up 20GW, but that will be less often than a 10GW shortfall. Even less often, 30GW. Sometimes, but very rarely, the whole 100GW, or at least say 90GW.

This means that the first 10GW of peaker plants will be quite economical because they get used e.g. 15% of the time, but the last 10GW will only get used <1% of the time and not be competitive with nuclear running ~100% of the time.

So what you end up with is, say, 60GW of renewables, 40GW of nuclear and 50GW of peaker plants that run the ~5% of the time when you have low renewable generation. Instead of needing 100GW of renewables and 90GW of peaker plants, of which 40GW is almost never used.
Not quite that simple. I'm well acquainted with the Privacy Rule, for a whole multitude of reasons (you weren't implying I wasn't)...

> To comply with a court order or court-ordered warrant, a subpoena or summons issued by a judicial officer, or a grand jury subpoena.

Emphasis mine.

From the article:

> Instead, all the pharmacies hand over such information with nothing more than a subpoena, which can be issued by government agencies and does not require review or approval by a judge.

Emphasis also mine.

Police officers are not considered judicial officers, though they are officers of the court.

"Judicial officers are typically categorized as judges, magistrates, puisne judicial officers such as justices of the peace or officers of courts of limited jurisdiction; and notaries public and commissioners of oaths. The powers of judicial officers vary and are usually limited to a certain jurisdiction."

It seems to me that there's an extrapolation here that is not covered by HIPAA. HIPAA only refers to subpoenas issued by or reviewed by judicial officers, not a blanket allowance.
shameless plug, I made https://byebyefitness.com so you can send them the cancellation letter from home.
Company town no more, Detroit's startup scene gains momentum
Seems like Apple should give users the ability to download an app while rejecting an entitlement.
Apple is ethically obligated to give free services to people who don’t buy their products?
Consumer confidence blows past expectations, surges by most since early 2021
That someone has iMessage on android without the remote device work around would have blown up regardless.
Here you go: https://diia.gov.ua/news/perereyestraciya-avto-e-pidpriyemec.... 50% of all adults have the app, almost everybody else has a bank account and proper PKI is part of both and is pre-requisite to deal with tax authorities and e-services in general. Since it's also built into most European id cards for the last forever, it's not a certificate rollout problem is "why do I even need this" problem.

In Ukraine PKI finally found the problem it was solving, due to VAT return fraud and repudiation through courts.

In Lithuania and Estonia it's also widely used, but I'm not familiar with their landscape that much.
> "Google gets money from their app store!" So does every app maker. Next

Not the same thing. By owning the Play Store Google gets a cut of every app, not just the ones they make.

> In 2021, the Play Store generated $38.8 billion in revenue, and by 2025, experts predict Google Play Store will make $64 billion annually.

This is why Meta was so big into VR/AR, they wanted to own a (hardware) platform since they don't but rather make apps on others' (Google, Apple, MS).
Neurodivergence is definitionally not understanding societal rules. Also known as laws.

Neurodivergence is not a "free pass to commit crimes," but an excuse to be locked up by the authorities.
Sirius' cancel process is absolutely painful. People reading robotically from scripts that don't sound convincing even to them. "Did you know that we now have award winning X? Maybe you would like to listen to that on your [insert car here]".

Just repeating "No, I just want to cancel" and nothing else doesn't help, either.

On the flip side, they have offered me ridiculous deals. As of right now I have the Music Showcase subscription for 2 vehicles (meant to be $13.99/mo each) for "$7.99 for 6 months, for both vehicles" - as in $7.99 for the entire 6 months, not per month, and for both vehicles, not each.
> dozens of reports of injury or property damage.

Eh, this is not outside the realm of expectations for an autistic teenager. Anyone locked in a cage will lash out, especially if they have neurological issues.

There is a way to harness this energy regardless.
The "disable Javascript" way of bypassing the NY Times paywall has stopped working, so can't comment on the whole article.

We don't actually build houses the way we did 125 years ago. The materials and methods have changed to require ever less skilled labour (e.g. drywall instead of lath & plaster, prefab roof trusses, prefab windows and prehung doors) and ever cheaper materials (e.g. PEX instead of copper and engineered joists instead of solid wood and vinyl siding and 1" thick fake stonework). What hasn't changed is that they're built as inexpensively as possible.

Once factory built houses offer the cheapest way to put up what people want, that's how they will build them. It's not an ideology, it's market forces.
> As I interpret it, the subject is "One of the causes of rising college costs is very fancy dorms."

The subject – which is really a question – asks why is housing considered a college cost when one has to incur a housing cost no matter what (at least for all practical purposes)?

The closest thing we got as a response to that was a couple of people who felt it was a college cost because some institutions require freshmen to stay in campus-operated housing. There is certainly something to that on the surface, but we never managed to go deeper. Like, is the full rental cost a college cost, or only the cost difference between the student housing and an equivalent off-campus house? What about the colleges that have no such requirement? What about students who are not freshmen?

While the food tangent was introduced in jest, it would have also been interesting to explore that as if housing is a college cost, then it stands to reason that food is also a college cost. Along with entertainment, car ownership (for those who own a car while in college), contraception, etc.

We could have also discussed if that logic extends to other areas of life. Are housing costs a cost of running a business? That would be especially interesting as the tax man usually says no, except maybe allowing a small portion of the total cost to be reserved as an office cost. In that vein, perhaps only a small portion of one's student home – where they do their homework – should be considered a cost of college?

But there was no interest. Which is fine. The jokes most everyone else brought instead were entertaining too.
My takeaway from this article is I should change my color scheme to amber instead of white on black.
Oops, I meant 12 feet by 10 feet.
Optional step 2.5, "Say AI on the earnings call as many times as you can"
I was thinking it would be a good fit for crypto. New algorithms could be implemented with better-than-software performance, constant-time algorithms could be ensured etc.
And unfortunately, there is no way to truly turn off WiFi & Bluetooth on iOS devices.
Impressive project, thanks for sharing!
I agree he doesn't understand--that's why he's in a mental hospital. He can't understand how to behave in society.
Why should any city want to host a world expo?
It’s not going to happen. He’s going to be closely supervised in a hospital indefinitely.
Looks like a peak of 4517MW from wind today, just shy of the record.
TouchID and Microphone not supported on Macbook Air and Pro. How am I supposed to justify installing Linux on a Mac without these two?
Apple Can't Repair Older Out-of-Warranty Watches During Ban
Sears Is Fading, but Memories of Its Mail-Order Homes Endure (2018)
Maybe it's inexperience but I never want to deal with Maven/Gradle again.
And role-playing games have shown us the way to have a curated overarching story while still enabling player agency. Many of those principles will apply to Generative Cinema.

The current expectation that movie studios or the Hollywood machine will somehow be diminished by GenAI is misguided. If anything, it will normalize $100 movie rental "experiences" you can enjoy at home with no additional hardware besides your smartphone and a cast-enabled TV, with everything rendering real-time in the cloud.
> Which puts global production of all battery usages at 1.5TWh in 2022

Wrong, production capacity (distinct from actual production) is at 1,500 GWh. But less than half (closer to a third) of that production capacity is utilized: https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/growt...

A quick review of terms:

Production Capacity is how much the industries hypothetically could produce if they had unlimited inputs and labor. This is around ~1,500 GWh

Production is how much they actually built. This is ~500 GWh per year.

Production Utilization is production divided by production capacity. Which hovers around 33% for lithium ion batteries right now.

Actual production figures is what matters, not what factories hypothetically could produce if they had unlimited input. Manufacturing costs are only a quarter of the cost of lithium batteries [1]. Battery production is already bottlenecked on the supply of input materials, so growing production capacity is not relevant until the input demands are fed.

1. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...
Detroit's startup scene is booming. As I have commented on here before Ann Arbor instead of seeing Detroit as a rival has partnered with it and that's making Southeast Michigan much stronger. While it's not quite a rival to Chicago yet its getting there and may have the stronger community.

In Southeast Michigan its entrepreneurs themselves who are driving things. Everywhere else in the state its economic development folks running things and the results simply don't compare.
I have really been enjoying listening to The Capital Order on Audible. Worth checking out.

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Order-Economists-Invented-Aus...

I seriously doubt it’s going to get on the reading list of the IMF however.
It's an OS for mobile devices, no mention of "phones" on the project site (https://source.android.com) and lots of Android devices don't have cell service.

Doesn't seem unreasonable to bring your own dialing and voice calling app(s) if you want a UI for punching in formatted E.164 identifiers and making PSTN calls.
The reality in the US is currently the opposite extreme, and advocating for reform does not mean another fictional absurdist extreme. The government can be bad at regulation too - especially when decided solely by a small committee of non-technical representatives and career bureaucrats informed by the news cycle of their time who make decades-lasting rules and ossified agency directives.
This is a smaller use case—folks living in apartments without direct electricity connection. While the case exists and can be improved separately it shouldn't dictate requirements/costs to the rest of us.

Think I'd try to solve that by having the customer register the car/payment once at the kiosk and then handle plug-and-charge-and-bill though your service. Then you don't need to wait for an external solution and can advertise convenience as your added value in the meantime.
Isn't that the same as every other marketplace though? The mall, Amazon, Steam, you name it.
Definitely the two columns for me. It's super annoying skimming a paper and having to scroll down and back up again in a zig-zag pattern.
Something I've been thinking about recently is making it specifically a crime for police to break laws in the absence of exigent circumstances, and then have exigency investigations for everything from police assaults (so-called "use of force incidents") to unlawfully parked patrol vehicles. Police should be held to the absolute highest standard of lawfulness, and there need to be harsh consequences for any abuse of power.
As someone who does exactly this (I run LineageOS with microG) I can attest to the fact that a lot of apps just don't work without proprietary, non-AOSP components being present on your device (GMS aka Play Services). microG helps, and does result in increased functionality of these apps (for now) however large parts of the applications remain unusable. AOSP is open source, "Android" the brand and platform controlled by Google is largely proprietary (if you want most of your applications to run properly).
https://archive.is/rBUWK
Having seen that play out in real life before, I don't think he'd be as much of an asset as a liability. The problem with white hats is they need to have an interest in following some set of rules. With this guy it sounds more like his rule set is defined by whatever he finds interesting with little concern for legality or what others might find acceptable.

It's similar to the problem with the asshole genius programmer. You can keep him around because he's a genius but being an asshole in a position of authority over others (by virtue of being a genius) will result in people not wanting to work for you and this can easily mean you're missing out in individuals or teams that would vastly outmatch the asshole genius.
It would be neat if they offered submitters the chance to upload their own HTML version alongside the PDF version, instead of always relying on an automatic conversion process.

- I can imagine authors feeling frustrated if someone reaches out about a problem in the HTML version of their paper, but they have no way to correct it except by hoping that a change to the PDF fixes a change to the generated HTML. Easier to just fix the formatting problem in the PDF outright.

- It would be neat to allow people to experiment with alternative formatting for their papers. For example, imagine a paper about a programming language that embeds a sandbox you can use to play around with the language under discussion. Or a paper about multivariable calculus and you can interact with a three dimensional plot of some function.
Ten years from now..

"Intel should have dominated this space but Xilinix etc got lucky"
I was hoping this meant that html native submissions would be possible, so that people made interactive explanations.
> A year ago, Elon Musk was saying Tesla was going to have a million robotaxis on the road by now. It wasn't even just him. Investors also were predicting this.

He's been saying that for a long time. I think it was 2017. "By 2019, it will be financially irresponsible not to own a Tesla." and that the average owner would be making $30K a year with their Tesla out taxiing when they weren't using the vehicle.

Which should have been alarm bells for the bullshit meter for anyone with a room temperature IQ. "We've designed this money-printing machine. And rather than keeping all that money for ourselves, we're going to sell them all to you! (After we charge you $12,000 for it...)"

And you know that if Robotaxi Tesla ever does actually appear, it will be another charge atop the FSD for that software too.

All it does is give me vibes of "Here's how you can get rich quick, like me: step 1, give me money to hear me tell you how people can get rich quick."
They do this so often, buy a company, sell it a few years later. So weird.
Next we should launch an anti-trust probe into McDonald's burgers.
That is mostly what I meant, just dropping the assumption that there ought to be an imbalance.

I also very much think there would not tend to be an imbalance in a modern advanced economy; we’ll tend to be equal, and that most gender imbalances are just transient effects from history. This is just a prediction, though, I have no data to back it up.

I don’t think there can be data on this, we do not have a statistically robust number of globalized information economies, we have just the one.
This is a really great angle and perspective to add in - I agree a noted habit / trend / short-hand in “severity” sometimes with technical subjects. I read through and also have heard some similar routine prep stories. Unusual? Absolutely!

Then again, it’s also unusual for a Dodge dealership in North Texas to have 7 Hellcat vehicles stolen in one night, but here we are.

So, I pick up that maybe the tech stack isn’t the most priority point - it’s the determination. The desire to continue through any avenue. Add that in with, reportedly a physical violence time in life, the persistent threat maybe can heal out of it?
What's funny is the Stockholm syndrome aspect of this behavior.

"Oh no, our chat is acting weird because there is an Android user in here."

It's like hostages complaining that somebody left the door open and is letting in cold air.
Employees, no. Executives, absolutely.

Beeper put them between a rock and a hard place, where any action other than accepting Beeper would solicit regulatory action. This in fact ended up happening.

Furthermore, I bet Beeper was outright hoping for a lawsuit from Apple, which would put up a well-publicized fight over adversarial interoperability that could yield to a disastrous legal precedent not just for Apple but other companies.

Apple knows this and that's why they haven't sued them (or DMCA'd any repos).
that's just the "Launcher" app AOSP comes with. most folks using AOSP (commercially) use a different launcher for their own needs
> They have had lots of things they stopped doing

I have wondered if leadership didn't understand the Gartner Hype Cycle, because a lot of projects seem to get killed after the investments but before significant success was even possible (the Trough of Disillusionment).
Unfortunately privacy.com requires the use Plaid, which demands your banks auth details and grants Plaid the ability to scrape your bank accounts (they pinky promise they do not for the account verification product). I thought it undermines the whole "Privacy" aspect.
Show HN: Next-video. The next/image for video
define "electronic devices."

What about credit cards? aTMs? Self-service checkouts? PIN pads (the things Europeans have to use in stores to pay by card)? Ticket machines and turnstiles? cars? radios? TVS?

All of these sound pretty harmless and are necessary to have a life these days, but he did demonstrate that he can use a TV for hacking.
OK, so prosecute him for fraud. I would totally support that.

My criticism is that we aren't talking about fraud: we are talking about hacking. We are talking about legally-enforced secrets.

We are talking about a violent reaction to being prosecuted for hacking. What if was about the fraud instead? Would his reaction be the violent then? We can never know.

I'm supposed to be afraid to live in a society where this person participates. Afraid enough to sacrifice the rest of his life. I'm not convinced.
In a car, I find the radio to be far easier to use than fumbling around with my phone. I've never had SiriusXM so can't comment on that specifically, but I never use my phone for music in the car, I just turn on the radio.
This is very interesting, because for me it's just the opposite. In particular the two column layout is just more readable and approachable for me. The PDF version also allows for a presentation just as the authors intended.
I guess it's good that they offer both now.
The solution about 0% of people want to hear to reducing childcare costs is that you have to allow higher children-pet-daycare worker ratios, which likely means in turn more iPad babies.
You can buy hotspot access with Alipay (scan QR code -> connect), presumably thats why.
I'm holding out for Continuously Obstructed regenerative non-alloyed hybrid OLED (CORNHOLED).
A certified letter, can't even go drop it in the mailbox.
Would be nice if there was a way to configure the server to reject clients that don't support "strict KEX".

> OpenSSH 9.6 addresses this protocol weakness through a new "strict KEX" protocol extension that will be automatically enabled when both the client and server support it. This extension makes two changes to the SSH transport protocol to improve the integrity of the initial key exchange.
Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men
The comment I was replying to said "So does every app maker" rather than "platform owner".

[I also added "(hardware)" to my original comment.]
> ISO says 2023 has 52 weeks.

But the first of January 2023 was a Sunday; according to the ISO standard it was part of the 52nd week of 2022.

The problem is that we really like to display calendars as Sunday through Saturday, but the ISO standard considers Thursday to be the all-important day of the week.

This Mac calendar behavior would be a bug (probably) if it was claiming that the week number it was displaying was the ISO 8601 week number; I'm not even sure how you could possibly find a way to print a single week number per week in a Sunday-through-Saturday calendar according to ISO 8601. That's just not the use case.
Getting rear-ended is almost always the other driver's fault, but 7 years ago I was involved in a serious accident (minor injuries, both cars totaled) when the driver in the fast lane decided to pull over and pick up a hitchhiker. Crossed over two lanes, hard on the brakes, and I had no chance to even get off the gas.

The responsibility was 100% his because of "an unsafe lane change".
Free tool to find fonts of websites
This tool can fetch the font names along with font color and tags and look for that name on Google Fonts or another provider and bring you the direct link so you can either download or purchase.
This is a weird case of Musk being right, in a way. Before the hyperloop paper he was asked about "maglev in an evacuated tube" and he said the economics of that didn't make sense. The hyperloop paper proposed an air-bearing for levitation rather than magnetics, and presumably that doesn't work either; I'm not a mech-e, but I'd imagine the tolerances for an air-bearing are too tight for a tube that is attached to (moving) earth.
It'd be interesting if some of the funds from the sale will be used for AI software development to provide a better coordinated response to CUDA.
> but I first need to spend an hour fixing some random thing that annoys me in my vimrc.

That's a not universal problem, of course. I barely touch my vimrc anymore. I've paired with vscoders a bunch and never saw any light ;)
Better sandbox the webserver in WebAssembly
Please make room for me under there. Same feeling. :(
>Dealing with mentally ill people is anxiety-inducing because they act unexpectedly... so what? Lots of things are unexpected.

I think you're understating it.

Mentally ill people act far off the cuff. If I'm walking outside, people can behave unexpectedly (but within the parameters of behavior that doesn't make me anxious).

Imagine: stopping instantly to bend over and tie one's shoes or to look at a storefront. Taking up multiple spaces on the sidewalk. Dropping an item that causes a loud noise. All of these are unexpected movements that require a reaction.

However, if somebody screams about CIA conspiracies or has very erratic mannerisms, that would create more anxiety.

So, apparently their point is that AI behavior on the roads might be more jarring than normal jackass human behavior on the roads.