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This is why Shotwell mostly runs the show at SpaceX. Unlike Tesla, SpaceX runs like well oiled machine and is kicking butt.
Whatever happened to programmable web?
This might make you feel old, but the referendum was 30 years ago, and Black October was 55 years ago.

The whole Quebec movement is basically dead in the water now.

An entire generation of Canadians didn't exist or don't remember that.

I'd argue the GWOT, the Great Recession, and COVID have had a stronger impact on modern (2020s) Canadian politics and discourse than the Quebec Independence Movement.
Sure, nobody wants to write Winforms new applications today

My point is about running existing applications on Linux,
there are still issues with running .Net GUI stuff under wine and Mono was not a perfect implementation.

I read in other comments that the newer .Net cross platform stuff is not a replacement for Mono for running this old applications. (nobody will rewrite them to use the current GUI stuff from MS since are old apps)
That’s actually kind of cool. That’s exactly the sort of feedback that gets me to do things correctly. Detailed feedback has enabled me to consistently work out, wake up early and eat healthy. They’ve helped me keep those good habits going for 4 years now. I’m the kind of guy these apps are built for.
> why would you tip a barber? because they cut your hair good? what was the base payment for then?

Let me return the question: why would you tip a waiter? because they brought your food to your table? isn't that why they should be paid by the restaurant?

Let me also state that, residing in a European city, I do tip my (cheap) barber every time I go because I feel they do an outstanding job at 20% less the price than most competitors, and that work deserves praise in the form of a tip.

In general, it seems to me that a tip should reflect something outstanding. In addition to my cheap barber, I also usually tip at fancy restaurants where the service has proved very, very high above comparables.
Holy cow. I'd heard something about the EU recently warning Musk over Twitter, but did not know that it was because of the heinous mortal sin of interviewing the former and possible next US president.
You mean - on Coursera?

There was a Python course offered by three profs at Rice University that was A+.

Similar for Dan Ariely's Behavioral Economics class - of course, maybe it was all lies (now it turns out), but entertaining nevertheless.

Andrew Ng's course is quite math-heavy (I haven't done it), but it gets rave reviews.

So many Coursera tech/CS courses are offered by profs at elite universities - there's no way they could be the kind of crap that is standard on Udemy.

What Coursera lacks (compared to the university experience) is personal interaction with a real professor, group projects with smart and focused classmates, and personalized feedback.
batch size by Q4 will be solid double digits (cerebras employee)
Streaming Skia Commands
Not really. Best to think of .net “core” as just .net.

Anything that was in the old .net that isn’t in core today won’t ever be.

Then there’s stuff that was missing in the earlier versions of core that existed in old dotnet. Some of it they later realised was useful for newer apps or apps migrated to core. These pieces were ported over by Microsoft or replaced by 3rd party implementations (e.g. avalonia for xplat ui).

(.net core is actually officially just .net, they dropped the core from the name)
IHMO An old myth, I believe: Your immune system needs something to fight, otherwise, it starts finding problems that aren't.
You might like this too... :-)

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/soundscape-listening-...
Writing notes only on paper in a properly secured notebook is about to make a big comeback as more and more people realize that it's fast becoming the only way to prevent AI/ML from indexing and leaking their original IP to the corporate world. Sending an email or making a social media or discord post is fast becoming the best way to snitch out your ideas to random unknown parties and IP thieves.
Why would they be afraid? These are well-worn paths of research. I doubt anyone would be censored for referring to the vaccine-related injuries in 1976 and the proposed pathogenesis mechanisms, including molecular mimicry.
The problem is you're not able to quantify where the problem begins. I am, the problem starts at 0.

Apparently there's a point where siphoning money from labor becomes bad. When is that point, according to you? You have no idea. What's that number? I dunno. Apparently nobody on Earth knows.

But you're telling me you understand exploitation? Yeah, fat chance. It's obvious you've gave a very minimal amount of mental effort into your views and outlook on economy and just ran with it. If you're not actually able to quantify what the problems are, reliably, you don't have an opinion. You have a delusion that makes you feel good. Which, granted, is easier and simpler to sell to voters. But it's also nothing - it's fluff.
In architecture, there is this phenomenon where people may have an irrational fear of collapse. Adding (the suggestion of) redundant structural support may take away that fear.
I think it could be fine tuned to give it an intuition, like how you or I have an intuition about what might be found on the internet.

That said I've never seen it give the response suggested in this prompt and I've tried loads of prompts just like this in my own workflows and they never do anything.
This is Hackernews.

What are those Desktop apps you speak of?

Clearly, everything is a command-line backend pipeline in container with a web UI.

And everything that isn't can be easily deprecated. /s
I mean, California and Alabama feel very different! In a lot of ways I'd agree, or even go further - they're more different than, say, BC and WA.

And there's factors like the urban/rural divide to bear in mind. The Canada along the border resembles the lower 48; north of that it starts to have more and more in common with Alaska.

But everywhere you're interacting with the government the differences are quite stark. Health care, education, firearms, regulations, the social safety net, taxation, drugs, criminal justice...all of these and more are handled in a rather different fashion than in the US.

Some of it depends on where you are in your life, and who you are. If you're a single middle-class white male in his 20s who rents in a major city, you're mostly interacting with the market economy, so the biggest differences day-to-day are the products available to you, your somewhat lower purchasing power, and the fact that you don't have anywhere near as much student loan debt as you would in the US.

But as you drift further from that particular model - as you age and need to lean on health care more, if you want to start a family or buy property, if you have extreme wealth, if you move out further away from major population centres, if you try to start a business, if you're a woman/minority...the differences become more apparent. Not always in the ways you'd expect, too: open racism - against indigenous peoples rather than Blacks - is widespread in Canada, even in major urban centres.
If that's a deal breaker, then what phone would you buy? Every Android phone supports FLAG_SECURE (which is such an Orwellian name), and iOS has its own equivalent API: https://github.com/JayantBadlani/ScreenShield
I'm pretty sure the FBI didn't came knocking discussing this comment of yours ?
Because developers who make toothbrush apps don't care. For these long tail apps, the standard tooling has to be idiot proof, and no you're not going to sell tooling to these developers — they don't care.
8b models won’t even need a server a year from now. Basically the only reason to go to the server a year or two from now will be to do what edge devices can’t do: general purpose chat, long context (multimodal especially), data augmented generation that relies on pre-existing data sources in the cloud, etc. And on the server it’s very expensive to run batch size 1. You want to maximize the batch size while also keeping an eye on time to first token and time per token. Basically 20-25 tok/sec generation throughput is a good number for most non-demo workloads. TTFT for median prompt size should ideally be well under 1 sec.

But I’m happy they got this far. It’s an ambitious vision, and it’s extra competition in a field where it’s severely lacking.
that would be so wildly popular we could see a Diaspora
Personally, I’ve used both and they work pretty well at displaying where your toothbush is in relation to the rest of your mouth and tracking your habits, etc.

Don’t dis it until you try it.
Hell even Telegram(esp in earlier days) looks like a Whatsapp re-skin to the untrained eye
Check out my company OpenPay (getopenpay.com)

I previously bootstrapped a business to 30M ARR and was sick of paying the "subscription tax"

We give you all the tools you need to build and run your subscription business without having to integrate a dozen different tools together and tear your hair out (and also break the bank). Feel free to reach out to us via the contact form–we're giving people on HN one year free
If Windows Update replaced components of Wine, that would (a) break people's Wine installs, and (b) give those users a way to legally get Microsoft's versions of those components for use outside of Windows.
Americans are consuming "unhealthy" amounts of American (and other) news.
That’s not really novel either imho, though google search is escaping me on the specific papers I saw at siggraph.

Imho it’s an interesting combination of technologies but not novel in an off itself.
That't s a good link, thank you.

> NASA intends to keep Bechtel accountable to the cost and schedule agreed to in December 2023.

It's mind boggling how they heck is Bechtel qualified to handle this project? Bechtel is at the center of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War / https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bechtel-battles-against-.... Talk about an agency that supposedly cares to look progressive and caring for the environment. Then they pick Bechtel as their contractor for the SLS.

> We also found that Bechtel’s performance drove the significant cost increases and schedule delays to the design and development of the ML-2. The current contract value of $1.1 billion includes $594 million of Bechtel overruns

Shouldn't somebody there fire Bechtel. I guess that significantly reduces your chance of retiring at Bechtel after leaving your NASA job...
He's doing the same thing for the israeli conflict out of his own volition so I don't believe a word he's saying.
My personal use case is running old GUI apps, I am not planning on writing GUI apps with .Net , MS had the opportunity to open source .Net/Silverlight and make money from tools but they bet on Windows and today most apps are node and javascript, a much inferior platform but MS open things up too late.
> They were never cheap, but they did operate with incredible speed at that time.

Actually, they were good, fast, and pretty cheap. The Saturn V cost per kg was much something around $5000/kg (compared to Delta IV Heavy at around $12000 kg), and could send a ton more into orbit than anything until Starship. If we'd continued down that development line instead of the insanity of the Shuttle, we'd really be somewhere today.
A lot of splats systems do work on uncalibrated images so that’s not novel either. They all just do a camera solve, which arguable isn’t terrible for a stereo pair with low divergence.
I know you're joking, but the alphabet shapes actually started out as pictograms. The "A" is an upside down ram's head.
I became allergic to Yellow 6 randomly. I would get extreme abdominal pain, even went to the ER a couple times and got a CT scan once due to the severity of the pain. I broke out in hives, tongue would swell, etc. I eventually figured it out after having a reaction to Cheese Doritos but not Cool Ranch (the only ingredient difference was Yellow 6). I tested it on some other foods with Yellow 6 and confirmed it.

So I stayed away from it for a couple years, then decided to cautiously try some Doritos again, and no reaction. Today, I'm not allergic to yellow 6 at all.
Writing notes by hand helps rembering them.
It’s this but backwards.
Hipster PDA, yellow legal pad, and sticky notes.
You mean what Docker for Desktop can't do? It does have a few unique features (for example automatic HTTPS for containers) but that's not the point. The point is that it's much faster, the fan runs quieter, the battery drains less, memory gets hogged less, it crashes less, the UI is smoother, the updates actually work, and it keeps improving at a steady pace. The fundamentals just work a lot better.
It's not just software engineering, a mechanical engineer might develop a new kind of coffee machine.

In engineering we are accustomed to getting involved early in the creation process, and our usage of "develop" reflects this bias.

Outside of that bubble, "develop" is very explicit that the thing already exists. For example, developing a musical theme, a muscle, or a country.
> which will eat into future taxation?

Yes. But the amount of gold in the system is always conserved. Monetarily, the fact that it's borrowed is irrelevant.

Also, if the borrowing is used to increase economic activity, it need not eat into future taxes for anyone. The classic example is borrowing to buy upgraded farm equipment, or to irrigate previously-fallow land.

> Assuming they don't find more gold

Orthogonal and thus irrelevant to the question of whether borrowing fundamentally causes inflation.
Tuckster is an "anti-elite" heir to a fortune who grew up in a castle. The only job he ever had was outrage baiting naive people. People like him are against regulation, but will clap any time big tech is dragged in front of congress. It's all a scam. You're being had. Why are you treating any part of his interviews as valid information.
JPEG at 100% quality makes very little sense - the goal is to dial it down to the lowest value where artifacts are still low enough to not notice. AVIF also has much better behavior in the artifact department, letting you go much lower without introducing artifacts - you simply loose detail, which is no issue in a largely smooth product photo.

For reference, my own photos downscaled to 3840x2560 AVIF for sharing purposes range from 500KB to 2MB depending on how "busy" the image is. The off-camera 6000x4000 JPEG is ~7MB in comparison.

I stand by my opinion that a few hundred KB per image is plenty at the required resolution for model photos in an app.
For awhile (2018ish - now), many large companies (Google, for example) were pushing everyone from STARTTLS and trying to move away from implied TLS. It was dumb then and of course it's still a bad idea.

Binary (or text) protocols needs to be de-bundled from transport layer for _a lot_ of reasons (looking at you QUIC).

Once we conquer this, we can de-bundle port number from service location.
In the event you're not just trolling (the downvotes seem to make it clear most people think that) and you actually believe what you wrote, I suggest you consider the possibility that I'm arguing something else entirely.
Question for people that build hacks: given how robust this open-source anti-cheat is, does building the cheat give more reward than playing the game? It seems like it would take a ton of hours to be effective..
The one that everyone decided to ignore once it became clear the perpetrator was a far right accelerationist and not a leftist.

I personally just say it never happened, the reactions from people are funnier when you say the photos of it are AI generated.
And that's good! But it can't be assumed that everyone had the benefit of that experience.
+1. For inference especially compute is abundant and basically free in terms of energy. Almost all of the energy is spent on memory movement. The logical solution is to not move unaggregated data.
The person was clearly trying to say "it wasn't a big thing, and is huge now in comparison to just a few years ago". But hey, you won debate there with some counter examples that prove them wrong. But did we move the debate forward?

Me jumping in for everyone to understand the push-back and why the "data" you propose is not swaying our opinion. The reason something like a study isn't changing our minds about the topic is because we've seen how profit-making institutions, researchers, academia, and even the school system have all been "captured". The topic is taboo, and any sort of dissent is met with a huge amount of pushback, mockery, cancelling, "phobe" calling, and all manners of ugliness. The "literature" is then effectively rigged.

And even if the study is true, and valid, and there was no bias in the research conducted, because we've seen the above "capture" we can't reasonably convince ourselves to trust "the science". This is why it's so tragic that the left has gone scorched-earth with previously-trusted institutions. The trust and reasonable debate will take decades to be re-established, and until then we're stuck with this weird tribal "us vs them" hell hole.
Wow, you could build a really cool 3D visualizer with this data.
A bit off-topic, but this makes me wonder about the relationship between Microsoft and Wine. Do they consider it a threat? An ally? Both?

This is my first time seeing Microsoft acknowledge Wine's existence, and in this case, it was at least in a friendly manner? Or could there be bad faith behind this 'donation'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProgrammableWeb - "was an..."

Bummer.
It won't get new features, but will likely require maintenance to keep it running as new versions of operating systems are released.
Well of course if you sell it
Most people aren't actually interested in knowing what's going on. But one can find out. Even if one isn't conspiracy minded, it's quite obvious that oligarchs, their multinational companies and governments couldn't give a single fuck about normal people.

PFAS and microplastics everywhere, rises in autoimmune diseases as well as allergies and Alzheimer's. Addictive amounts of sugar in a lot of food. GMOs everywhere unless you can pay extra for organic.

None of these people actually care about us. If we don't get an understanding of what's healthy and how to get rid of all of this artificial poison we're probably going to end up in the Idiocracy timeline.
Very funny that the initial case got lots of press on HN and got people like patio11 in a tizzy but when it was tossed out by SCOTUS there was nary a peep.
It (note-taking tools) really is a big thing among this cohort. I think there’s this deep belief that if you just had the right organizational system, you could get more done and be more productive. Having gone down that line of thinking before, I get the appeal, though I think it’s overrated when it comes to actually being productive. But man it feels good to play with new toys.
To be honest, Rust having opaque handles is a pretty unimpressive demonstration of its power. If that's the main thing that code had to benefit from Rust, it would absolutely not be worth a massive new toolchain with increased memory requirements and longer compile times.

Obviously, programming language design hasn't stood still in the intervening years since C was created, but C had a lot of momentum and we don't just do massive rewrites for small incremental gains. IMO the only real reason why Rust has been compelling and stands out from most other options is the borrow checker. That's the thing that is truly compelling and that people have been enduring great pains for. However, it's asymmetrical; not all code is going to have very much to gain from the borrow checker, at which point any modern systems programming language and some older ones are similarly compelling. (Note that I'm not suggesting there isn't still benefits to having the guarantees of the borrow checker, especially if you really need memory safety guarantees... but many people don't necessarily, and some that do need even stronger guarantees like formal proofs.)

As far as opaque handles go, you could easily accomplish that with a subset of C++, or even with C (with an asterisk, but one that would not hinder a project like coreutils from doing so.) When talking about stuff like this we're not even really talking about C, but more coding standards that were prevalent with old UNIX and UNIX-like code. And sure, improving that is net gain, but it has little to do with the unique merits of Rust.

Outside of handles, the integer type situation in C is worse than Rust or really any modern programming language, but at least most modern code will cling fairly strongly to <stdint.h> types instead.

P.S.: I speak with relatively similar experience on both fronts, but I can't say the same about being particularly more confident contributing to Rust projects. It's not that it's particularly low, but 1. I don't find too many opportunities and 2. I have never found contributing to C/C++ projects to be that terrible, and I still do so occasionally.
> The largest is `Sonos_M9_rose` at 7.8 MB

So only twice the size of your JPEG example. Looking at the area chart of the files, it looks like the majority of the assets are less than that 2-3MB.

https://xcancel.com/pic/orig/media%2FGWAYmxabsAApjwu.png

There's probably over 200 or so assets in that 233MB archive.
America without guns and racial violence, BLM, Trump. Although they did have the convoy protests, it didn't escalate into an attack on the Parliament like in the US.
I meant the intangible, personal gratification that comes with pwning noobs as a reward but fair enough :)
Agreed, that this is a limited scope for what AF does. Nevertheless, it seems interesting to confirm that its primary strengths are memorization, which is not surprising.
Suppose you have a windowless room in the interior of an office tower next to the mechanical room which constantly makes a lot of noise. You're not going to get as much for this as a penthouse apartment, but somebody is still going to pay you for it as a storage room.

Suppose you have some metal chairs. They're so poorly designed that if anyone were to actually sit in one it would immediately break in half and injure them. That doesn't mean they're worthless, it mean they're scrap metal, which is commercially valuable.

Suppose you have some industrial waste. Literally no one wants it and in fact you would have to pay someone to dispose of it for you. Therefore, it has a negative price. Negative prices are prices. The disposal company likes them very much. Their whole business is to buy this product from people for a negative amount of money.

There are no bad products, only bad prices.
That's not an apt comparison because it could be the non-UI portion of that. VS Code would be even faster if it was a native app.
I'm (genuinely--I don't know enough to pretend this is a knock-down argument) curious how this characterization of "crowd" illnesses fits with reports that Covid was extensively circulating in deer (not known for congregating in indoor spaces with poor ventilation). https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/08/29/...
aha, thanks for the data point! i guess i was wrong; it must be the clay algorithms
I think Microsoft has finally realized that its animus toward projects like Wine and pre-acquisition Mono was ultimately unproductive, and a net negative for Microsoft itself.

I still don't trust MS's motives in general, but I think they at least recognize that Wine/Proton helps make the Win32 and DirectX APIs a sort of de-facto cross-platform standard when it comes to things like desktop gaming, and that this is a good thing for them.

On the server side, MS knows that Linux is by far the most popular server OS, and official support for running .NET backend apps on Linux from MS themselves is a win for them as well.
So they keep tabs on the country that realy rules them? Sounds based to me.
Thanks for expanding on the site's origins.

Using reader mode enables me to read it.