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> Democrat Dianne Feinstein expressed concern that the legislation would disproportionately impact Apple and Google

How did I know that she was the one opposing it? I'm not glad she's dead, but I am glad she isn't on the Senate any more.
Unless something has recently changed, the SFF Precisions and Optiplexes used weird smaller PSUs and generally have really poor airflow. Generally the lower end precision mid-tower also flow air terribly and get hot and whiny. There's no way I would recommend an SFF system if you can get the MT variant, as your options for fixing the MT systems when the Dell PSU inevitably fails are much better than getting a regular ATX PSU, cutting a hole to feed the cords in, and bolting it to the side of the case, which I've done repeatedly for SFF Dell systems with blown PSUs.

Additionally, one challenge I have with all of these is that none of them have anything like a BMC. If you have more than one system, moving peripherals around sucks, and KVM technology is kind of iffy these days. It seemed easier to just jam an old Supermicro motherboard that had IPMI enabled in a reasonable ATX case with a lower power Xeon variant, and call it a day.
Always great to see someone who’s found their passion. This guy proves that it can be truly anything.
https://mancer.tech/

You'll have to use an external UI like SillyTavern.
Not a gamer myself but linux anywhere is appreciated! Might try it sometime.
Would you rather have no choice?

I get the sentiment, but it's nice to finally have lawmakers and regulators standing for what's right - for once.
A hybrid pathway for self-sustained luminescence
> I'm not saying that the DVLA is good, just that it could be even worse

Some things they do reasonably well, yes. But edge cases like mine are the pits. To get a licence back after a medical suspension involves DVLA and the NHS posting physical letters to each other! It took 5 months for this purely admin process to complete, after I was medically fit. Grrrr. That is a long time to be denied the right to drive.
The street belongs to people, not cars. The rest follows.
I like working in an office, I've had a lot of fun in office jobs. But I also like having no commute, having a nicer house in a small walkable town. I like that I can work for a company that pays more than the ones in my local city.

The benefits of WFH steeply outweigh the fun of an office job.
More importantly, for a lot of the things that people build today, a mainframe is powerful enough to handle however large the load will get.

The ultra-scalable techniques that Google, Facebook, ect, use are great, but most applications do not need that kind of scalability. Throwing a little more money on a fancy mainframe is much, much cheaper than the programmer time needed to build a distributed system.
Ask HN: Authy Desktop users, what are you switching to?
As some of you may know, Authy Desktop is getting shut down by Twilio on March 19th. I am looking for a preferably free 2fa app that syncs codes between desktop and mobile. I would be willing to pay of course, but I can't find anything that does it as simply as Authy did.

I have an Intel Mac, so I can't install the mobile version of the app on my computer. I've seen Bitwarden suggested, but the setup isn't very straightforward.

Anything else?
Yep, we're backed by YC in the W24 batch - this is evident on our landing page [1].

We're both second time CTOs and we've been on both sides of this, as consumers of and creators of OSS. I was previously a co-founder and CTO of Porter [2], which had an open-core model. There are two risks that most companies think about in the open core model:

1. Big companies using your platform without contributing back in some way or buying a license. I think this is less of a risk, because these organizations are incentivized to buy a support license to help with maintenance, upgrades, and since we sit on a critical path, with uptime.

2. Hyperscalers folding your product in to their offering [3]. This is a bigger risk but is also a bit of a "champagne problem".

Note that smaller companies/individual developers are who we'd like to enable, not crowd out. If people would like to use our cloud offering because it reduces the headache for them, they should do so. If they just want to run our service and manage their own PostgreSQL, they should have the option to do that too.

Based on all of this, here's where we land on things:

1. Everything we've built so far has been 100% MIT licensed. We'd like to keep it that way and make money off of Hatchet Cloud. We'll likely roll out a separate enterprise support agreement for self hosting.

2. Our cloud version isn't going to run a different core engine or API server than our open source version. We'll write interfaces for all plugins to our servers and engines, so even if we have something super specific to how we've chosen to do things on the cloud version, we'll expose the options to write your own plugins on the engine and server.

3. We'd like to make self-hosting as easy to use as our cloud version. We don't want our self-hosted offering to be a second-class citizen.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

[1] https://hatchet.run

[2] https://github.com/porter-dev/porter

[3] https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws
> 2) They do. But then you read actual programs available on the web and they still default to using alists.

I was wondering how true this was, so I checked Planet Lisp. The first article is an admonition to use structures and classes _instead_ of alists, and it's followed by a bunch of other articles that use instances, structures, and hash tables. No a-lists to be found.

I've used Lisp (mainly Clojure, but others also) and I don't even remember the last time I used an a-list, outside of maybe Emacs Lisp. As you point out, they're a mostly dumb idea in an age where there are better data structures and memory hierarchies are multi-leveled and often packet switched.

I'll agree with you that it has been part of the Lisp culture, but that's the Lisp culture of the 70's and 80's. The language has moved on.
Nice offer! I would also be very interested in how many people have taken you up on your generous offer. I myself would edit your offer to include the caveat: "emails within a week" to prevent all future orders for the book being funneled through you :).
M1 MacBook Storage Upgrade to the Highest 2TB Capacity
If you buy non-mini machine with UDIMM, not SO-DIMM, some generic ECC DDR4 is very cheap, e.g. Kingston Server. Works well with Dell Precision Tower.
Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster,more efficient AI models
Does apple having designed, developed, and manufactured the phone as well as having built, maintained, and serviced the App store mean nothing?

The App store is a highly trusted place to download things on your phone, and that's a value that apple provides and that costs money to maintain. Pretending that it's as isolated as you pretend feels very disingenuous.
Sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646719
Investors buying up housing supply are not creating any new housing whatsoever. What they are doing is decreasing the availability of new housing for those who actually want to buy a home to live in, while at the same time cornering the rental market and increasing rents (and therefore speculative RE prices) across the board.
Man I sure hope so.

The first book expends a lot of pages on the wonders of this magical boy (and a little bit of time about the misgivings he had from it). The second one is nowhere near as coy about its thesis: singular heroes must necessarily cause, either directly or indirectly, a lot of suffering, and do a lot of evil, to be become singular heroes. Maybe magical boys aren't a thing we should celebrate so much.

The idea that singular people can so embody goodness that we need to build statues or found religions around them is really a thing that needs to die in global society.

Celebrate the act, not the person doing it.
Also, it was originally written in both Go and Rust, and the author decided to continue in Go. Both are fine languages, but it makes an interesting case study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284
The software has evolved significantly since 2022, I'd even say that the dev has been flexible and enabled functionality to bridge some more traditional CAD use cases in modern versions. For example when you sketch shapes on a workplane you are able to define the measurement aspects, diameters, offsets, lengths; you can even quickly define relative angles when drawing out segmented lines.

However there are no parametric controls for the elements of your shapes or drawings. Keeping these constraints out of mind certainly helps me get into a flow when modeling, much more akin to subd or poly modeling while maintaining the benefits of NURBS. But for adapting models quickly for more flexible designs isn't /really/ the tool for it. You can take it pretty far though!

I personally use Plasticity to model all kinds of things including 3d-printed items (vacuum wall mounting, iPhone lens mount, storage cases, clips...) All of these items needed to be measured accurately and Plastiticy was able to handle that without issue.

I've been using 3d software for 20+ years, Max, Maya, Blender, XSI, Houdini, Wings3d, Lightwave, Modo, ZBrush, Mudbox... "lots" of 3d software. Some get the job done and some are even a pleasure to use, Plasticity decidedly in my mind does both.
I'm not saying you CANNOT use a checkbox outside of a form. I'm saying they gradually became different UX widgets that serve different purposes.

You can use pretty much any widget to store a boolean state. A select? It works. Radio buttons? Works. Checkbox? Of course. Typing "1" or "0" in a text input limited to integers between 0 and 1 inclusive? Why not. But semantics matter, and so does the principle of least surprise. Nowadays users expect an immediate result when toggling a toggle button. Not as much when they toggle a checkbox.
My understanding is that the whole point of SaaS (software as a service) is that users pay you an ongoing fee for use of your software (i.e. a subscription). What you're doing is selling a product and will probably need a much more significant ongoing sales effort whereas with SaaS, past a certain point, you only need to sign up enough new subscribers to cover your churn. You mention 9 prior ideas with $0 MRR - this idea also has $0 MRR (monthly recurring revenue) as one time payments are not recurring. You need to decide what you want - to build a product you sell for a one-time fee, or to create a subscription based product.
Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828040 - Dec 2023 (108 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html - but if a topic has had a significant discussion more recently, that's when we count a submission as a dupe.)
What about policies that aid the labor force participation of people that already have kids? Subsidized abundant childcare, for example, both lowers the cost of being a parent and makes it easier for parents to go back to work. Like, I get that the _gap reduction_ is correlated with lower birth rates, but presumably we have finer-grained data than that?
Oh, come on.

These word games are for casual fun and enjoyment.

It's really not a big deal whether a particular word is included or not in the dictionary for a particular game. For Spelling Bee, the levels appear to be calculated based on the word list, so while it may be a little frustrating that a particular real (albeit off-colored, so to speak) word isn't accepted, rest assured that that doesn't doesn't affect the puzzle's difficulty. So no harm done. IMO, if some particular word removes more fun than it adds, good riddance.

Personally, I was most offended when "ichor" was not accepted, though I'm happy to say their reporting mechanism seemed to work, because it seems to be accepted now at least in the pangram game.
If you’re looking for a Wordle game they can’t take from you, Wordyl on Game Boy is one I’ve been enjoying :)

https://bbbbbr.itch.io/gb-wordyl
Any plans for SDKs outside the current three? .NET Core & Java would be interesting to see..
> How long does an Indian passport take?

I'd applied for a passport in the summer of 2020, during the height of the COVID lockdown. I could get an appointment at the passport office within a week (socially distanced, reduced capacity), and had my passport in hand the next week. Prepandemic I'd say the average was about 10 days, for passport renewal. A fresh passport takes more time since it requires 'police verification', where a cop from your local police station goes physically to your address to verify you actually live there, and gets attestations from your neighbors on how long you've lived at this address.
We need these things to be 10x cheaper, abundant, as effective or better, and easy to acquire for this to replace what’s currently done.

I really hope this happens.
Lukecool is perfect for my wife. She gets acid reflux very easily and needs to drink ice cold water always. Needing to describe an offending glass of water as "not ice cold" is clumsy and inaccurate, but saying it's lukewarm is inaccurate. Lukecool works for that range where it's definitely cool, but you could put your finger in it and reliably tell that it's well above 0°.
Is Dewey Decimal Classification a librarian value?
Yes blame Airbnb (and copycats). There is not enough supply. So it's not good to reduce supply for housing by converting homes to short-term rentals. Also, it destroys community.
I agree, which is why I included the fact that “good guy with gun” is also a gigantic fucking problem on an aircraft.

Drunk guy with gun is a huge problem.

Sleep-deprived guy with gun is a huge problem.
It’s horrible to say, but that only really applies for women under 40.

The average age of soldiers in Ukraine is 43 [1] so there’s likely an untapped pool of women aged 40-55 that could be used in the military without affecting future birth rates.

[1]
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraines-average-soldier-...
Depending on the processing and cooking. Brown rice and whole grain bread have lower. You'll find plenty of people saying to avoid white rice and bread.

And the glycemic index is just one averaged measurement. Soda probably benefits from its high water content on that metric. Satiety and nutrition play a role. Soda provides no other nutrients and doesn't do much for hunger long term. A person will need to consume something more, which means more overall calories. While there may be better choices, at least rice and bread provide something with the glycemic response.
> And if you think about it, this is what the internet, reddit, Twitter etc were at the beginning

I would agree with you if you stopped at internet. By the time reddit and twitter came around, we'd already seen the trend of where things were going. they just took the knob and turned them to 11
One of the worst gaming user experiences on Windows is how every publisher wants their own store. And depending on where you get a game, it may or may not have certain features. And if you get into modding, sometimes one version of the game just won't work with some mods.

I understand everyone feels good about increased competition with Apple—and hopefully it turns out well for users—but iOS is hurtling toward the same situation that exists on Windows, and I think the iOS experience is worse for it. It's definitely worse with the browser nag. So I don't call this a total win. It's a theoretical win, but I foresee it being about as much of a win as cookie banners are, when it comes to the actual, practical, day-to-day experience people have using this technology.
If developer grievances about Apple have been simmering for years, perhaps they can simmer longer.

Apple will make the change that they're forced to make. Developers aren't forcing anything at the moment, but what exactly are they being forced to do by the EU? That's what's being learned.

As a long time Apple fan myself I'm certain, Apple fans have never been happy. :)
Oh, it is definitely by design whatever the factors are.

It's a circular problem too. People buy an expensive house somewhere and it becomes a substantial part of their net worth. Home values decreasing would impoverish them. Home values increasing would enrich them. Homeowners vote a lot more than renters, especially in local elections. So you quickly end up with local governments full of people (most of whom are also local homeowners) incentivized to keep property values high.

The problem must be taken out of the hands of local governments, but even at the national level, there's never going to be political will to slash home values.
How customizable can you customize the theme on your system with an immutable distro? I don't know how immutable distros work but seems like they would run afoul of people who like to really customize their experience.
Yeah, I don't know if screening was the best solution and don't think the post-9/11 rules make sense, but there was clearly a problem in the past that got solved by screening. Also, nowadays we gotta make sure well-intended passengers don't have a Samsung Note.
Defo invest in a mini pc. I got a powerful HP elitedesk that sips 7w on idle and runs 38 containers
Is Dune (as a series) really an endorsement of consequentialism?

Frank Herbert wrote a lot of books, and it was a long time ago that I read them. I don’t remember the consequences ever being particularly great for anyone.
Uber enforces standards on drivers and cars to use their platform -- and take around 30% or more per ride. This is obviously completely different from HN's "Who's Hiring?" threads.

https://therideshareguy.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
You seem to be a very technically smart person. But it's not uncommon for people of high technical knowledge to assume that historical, sociological problems are ultimately technical and thus by analogy easily understood from their skill set point of view. It is also not uncommon for such people to think Luddite is a dirty word nominating ignorant laborers who tried to arrest progress.

These people are wrong. History and sociology have a lot of irreducible complexity and analogies and systematization are usually misleading. There is a lot of literature linking Luddite movements with organized and progressive labor movement. As is " What's actually best for society?"

> Luddites to hold the industrial revolution at bay

They never tried to do such a thing. Rather, they made an effort to steer it in a way that would be more socially equitable, such as advocating for better coordination and communication between management and laborers, not unlike the system Germany - a very successful and technically advanced industrial power - has in place currently. Machine destruction was a last resort sort of action with a high correlation with suppression of other outlets for industrial action, such as strict enforcement of the legislation outright banning of any workers associations.

> If you disagree, well, other sites beckon.

This is plain false dichotomy. Equating disagreeing with you with being wrong is not very conducive of an open discussion and I think this kind of posturing has not place in a forum such as this one.
Non-google search engine? Kagi is popular around here, but something like Brave Search would work too.
> It seems like bigcorps are definitely still fighting against piracy

Microsoft with OpenAI is leading the race, but all of the AI orgs are basically just laundering copyrighted material they do not have the rights to.
One-time payments and SaaS?
I was trying to decide whether to get a Steam Deck or a Legion Go last fall. I fell down a rabbithole reading about "immutable" Linux. Tinkering with it seemed interesting/potentially useful, so I went with the Legion Go with an intention to make Linux work on it. (I had the standard prior limited Linux exposure as a web dev: an occasional server VM at work, or using the shell on Android/ChromeOS.)

Wasn't sure whether to use NixOS or Bazzite. Picked NixOS on a whim. Seeing all the steam that Bazzite has gained in the past few months is making me wonder if I should change over at some point.

Cheers on their new homepage! Looks like they did a great job making it approachable for newcomers.
And that's why they are arguing for bringing back "lukewarm" and "lukecool" :-P
CAD for artists is just installing a set dimensions plugin for Blender. It's super weird that there's still no native functionality to just scale a select in edit mode to a specific measurable length value.
Telegram bots cannot initiate conversations. The platform doesn't allow for that, and it aggressively limits or terminates non-bot accounts which are used for automated spam.
They believed in good faith that Apple's terms were illegal. There is nothing wrong with breaking an illegal contract. Yes, they lost in court but it wasn't a foregone conclusion. Apple's continuing retaliation is petty and likely to get them in trouble.
If you want to just stop at one, or the minimum, well, I guess that's fine. But some prefer to express themselves with more than the minimum. Do you want to just do the minimum?
Speaking of Linux gaming, a long long time ago I wanted to play Path of Exile, but I only had a Linux laptop running Mint. That machine was too underpowered to run PoE and Mint's Cinnamon at the same time. After significant twiddling, I managed to configure and run an X session directly for the PoE executable under WINE. No DE or WM, just the executable running under WINE. I played PoE (on lowest settings) for quite some time on my humble machine using that setup.
Nah, ~20% of all housing supply is already owned by investors. Over 50% of new builds are now being bought by investors (over 80% in some cities) [0][1].

[0] https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-cities-have-seen-up-to-9...

[1] https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-investors-co...
I use haproxy with go listen notify of one of the libs. It works as long as the connection is up. I.e.i have a timeout of 30 min configured in haproxy. Then you have to assume you lost sync and recheck. That is not that bad every 30min... at least for me. You can configure to never close...
> Drugs account for 10-15% of total healthcare spending

And still, drugs are too expensive in the USA, especially old drugs like insulin and albuterol (asthma inhalant) that seem to find new ways of being re-patented (e.g., through new delivery devices that are just novel enough to be granted a patent, but provide no significant improvement to the patient).

If drugs, pricey as they are in the USA, are only 10-15% of healthcare spending, that should frighten you as to how cost-inefficient our health care system is.
People tend to over rotate on the term "immutable", which is why Fedora and Universal Blue use terms like atomic and composable.

Themes work like they do in normal Fedora.
except we are harvesting all the krill, not leaving a lot for the whales.

and a lot of the krill goes to dog food.
I like selfhosted@lemmy.world but there are probably plenty of others
CISO of Anthropic: "No LLM has had an emergent calculator yet." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591527
Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone
>That said, be careful with the power consumption! You don’t want to end up with… mortgage of $1,100, a power bill of $1,200, the feeling when walking into your home lab… NOT priceless.

This is the biggest thing for me, I would love to have a big fancy lab setup at home, but when you start adding up the power consumption and put a monthly dollar amount to it, then it becomes less exciting. Especially if you live somewhere like California where home electricity bills are incredibly high nowadays, it is extra painful.

There are some low-power setups that are great, but it seems like once you start using rack-mounted equipment, the machines get more power-hungry.