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Fast forward, and a few years from now, developers will have to sign their app with some EU bureau, otherwise it won't install anywhere. It's a choice about from whom come the restrictions. I don't like how much EU mandates and regulates hardware and software. It is about 20% helpful and 80% garbage regulations so far.

I don't understand why people don't use alternative mail clients to avoid that? Is the Gmail app the only one that is good enough? If so, and if it is essential to you, just go with the bundle (Gmail, Chrome, etc). (FWIW, I left gmail entirely, I pay for my email provider)

I've used Linux as a daily driver for 6 months and I am now back to my M1 Max for the past month.

I didn't find any reply mentioning the easy of use, benefits and handy things the mac does and Linux won't. Spotlight, Photos app with all the face recognition and general image index, contact sync, etc. Takes ages to setup those on Linux and with macs everything just works with an Apple account. So I wonder if Linux had to do all this background stuff, if it would be able to run smoothly as Macs run this days.

For context: I was running Linux for 6 months for the first time in 10 years (which I was daily driving macs). My M1 Max still beats my full tower gaming PC, which I was using linux at. I've used Windows and Linux before, and Windows for gaming too. My Linux setup was very snappy without any corporate stuff. But my office was getting warm because of the PC. My M1 barely turn on the fans, even with large DB migrations and other heavy operation during software development.

I've never had this issue. M1 Max. But I also disable some of the Spotlight indexes. Cmmd+Space has no files for me, when I know I am searching for a file I use Finder search instead.

Awareness is more important than government regulation. Assuming you are a parent, we as parents should be more concerned and help our kids grow with a healthy relationship with aggressive marketing and addictive features, by actively avoiding it, setting up time restrictions, etc.. No one else can help kids besides their parents. Everything else is too slow to be effective and with mild efficacy.

Government will do a terrible job at it. Society lost the capability of creating good and simple laws that can be disputed on courts based on law intention. Instead, laws nowadays are full of details hard to understand that attack the symptom and not the cause.

For instance, a simple law like "Companies should take measure, even if it lowers revenue and growth, to reduce addictive behavior. They should to it more emphatically on under age users and even more on under 13 years old.". But no. Instead, they will write 40 pages of what companies should implement in their software, and than have the 40 pages be quickly outdated, partially impossible to implement and hell for developers who try to do the right thing to comply. Total crap of standards and regulation bodies that help nothing and slow down all innovation.

Solution will only come from social pressure, movements to delete the apps, parents actually educating their children to avoid adicitive features. It will take time. But Government will solve nothing.

Dumping Gmail is a long process. I've had people sending to my old address for 5 years. Better start sooner than later.

I believe the whole point is that some people inside acknowledge the issue, made leadership aware of it, yet, youtube still pushed sorts aggressively. The documents are prof of awareness, so they can't pretend they were unaware of the issues.

Instagram has it as a tool, not as default. You need to actively go, find, and enable timeframes for it to alert within your rest period.

I hope they end up removing HDR from videos with HDR text. Recording video in sunlight etc is OK, it can be sort of "normalized brightness" or something. But HDR text on top is terrible always.

I believe you are speculating on digital mastering and not codec conversion.

From the creator's PoV their intention and quality is defined in post-production and mastering, color grading and other stuff I am not expert on. But I know a bit more from music mastering and you might be thinking of a workflow similar to Apple, which allows creators to master for their codec with "Mastered for iTuenes" flow, where the creators opt-in to an extra step to increase quality of the encoding and can hear in their studio the final quality after Apple encodes and DRMs the content on their servers.

In video I would assume that is much more complicated, since there are many quality the video is encoded to allow for slower connections and buffering without interruptions. So I assume the best strategy is the one you mentioned yourself, where AV1 obviously detects on a per scene or keyframe interval the grain level/type/characteristics and encode as to be accurate to the source material at this scene.

In other words: The artist/director preference for grain is already per scene and expressed in the high bitrate/low-compression format they provide to Netflix and competitors. I find it unlikely that any encoder flags would specifically benefit the encoding workflow in the way you suggested it might.

RIP electron apps and PWAs. Need to go native, as chromium based stuff is so memory hungry. PWAs on Safari use way less memory, but PWA support in Safari is not great.

What you just said can be applied for any sides of any infrastructure political discussion.

If we leave nuclear waste (which is already proven not problem over and over) the next generations will come up with solutions we don’t know yet. If we leave the climate worst, by not doing what we should, they will also figure it out.

The discussion right now is about getting to a reduced carbon footprint per country fast (nuclear, in 10 or 20 years) or keep betting renewables will take less than 50 years to make an impact in reducing carbon emissions.

Year over year we see the same discussion: one side say we can’t get to environmental goals without a lot more nuclear. The other side says renewables will be enough if we just [insert trending unproven excuse].

Anyone watching it closely can tell the pro nuclear argument is being proven right over and over and renewables are aways “a few years away”. Why continue insisting on the same error over and over again, with the proof in front of their eyes?

The major mistake was made 10 years ago by not building better and modern nuclear plants to replace Diablo and increase capacity. If this continues we’ll likely see the US entering an energy crises or going back to burning fossil fuels in a few years.

I used Safari for years and it is so easy to open Chrome just for Google Meet. It is way less annoying than one would imagine

My guess to why he banned it now is that before he was more moderate against woke or left in general. Now that he is more openly and harshly targeting woke and Fauci, it becomes a bit more hazardous to have it up.

But this looks bad. He should have stated publicly why before banning it.

As times passes I am less supportive of how companies use ideology to weaponize regulations in order to slow down competition. How fast the COVID vaccine was created is a bit of uncovering how fast it could go when people are willing to compromise for the greater good (also talent and hard work).

It feels like the machine was created to slow down progress and now it cannot be stopped. As other comments said already, factory farming is worst than what Neurallink is doing, and vegan activists are trying to save animals for ages. On the other hand, Musk is also known for pushing hard employees, and animals is just the extension of pushing hard for breakthrough.

If not done in the US, maybe it will go elsewhere, and to what purpose? This feels to me like a very worthy cause. A huge number of other animals are used for other types of health research. I guess just because people dislike rodents they give it a pass. But what Neurallink is doing is in far fewer number than rat use for drugs, etc, and far less than animal farming. It is just the engine of regulation, competition, lobbying and patents working as it is supposed to.

That is not the first time I want to understand a bit better the performance difference today between the approaches of Rust, without a garbage collector, ARC on Swift with the reference counting and other garbage collected languages, such as Javascript.

I know Javascript have an unfair advantage here, since the competition between V8 and the other javascript cores is huge over the years and garbage collection on JS is not often a problem. At least I see more people struggling with the JVM GC with its spikes in resource usage.

I've also heard that the erlang VM (be it written in elixir or erlang itself) implements GC on a different level, not to the global process, but on a more granular way.

Is there a good resource that compare the current state of performance between those languages or approaches?

If there is no provision on L1 for early termination, then the rules of this particular type of visa are entirely broken and needs fixing. I understand the reason L1 exists, I actually lived in the US under L1 myself, but there is no excuse for a country to accept a worker they deemed necessary and acceptable to migrate, and then impose such a harsh rule for edge cases. If the person needs to be let go because somehow their own fault, it is fine. But layoffs are an example where the company is at fault and the employee is the victim - in this case the minimum the government should do is to offer a fair amount of time for the person to find another job.

I would agree ethically, but unfortunately this would open a hornets nest of small fraud and abuse. On a way smaller scale, here in Brazil, every single rule that was made to protect "too much" the employee is largely exploited and breaks the system.

Don't get me wrong. The case of working only 2 days after the move is an absolute nightmare. But it is the exception that needs to be dealt with, not the reason for a rule that is hard to enforce and easy to fraud.

A lot of people older than me that accomplishes a lot more than I do have two things: They are single and never had children, and also they maintain a daily schedule of physical exercises.

To accomplish all of this with a family, I can only assume they must have an easier than most work schedule/assignments.

wild guess: spies compromise terminals before it is given to troops, take tactical advantage of live GPS and maybe MITM them later?

crypto has a lot of traits of a bank without the bank. Fast transactions (as opposed to carrying money to different locations), secure storage (as compared to having guards for your hoard of gold), it does not rot/burn (if you backup keys adequately) and many others.

All of those are more convenient than storing dollar bills or gold bars. So, yes, fiat has options, crypto is another kind of option and probably the most convenient for self custody, hence a very good one to avoid trusting institutions.

maybe a significant number of people created accounts for the SHIB trading when SHIB was not supported in slower to adopt exchanges?

Nope. Crypto does work. Day trading is a problem of the old system that requires the old system tech to work.

Assets should be valued for their properties and for their scarcity (amongst other things), and not by trend waves amplified by day trade and/or even bigger waves of chained margin calls. There are some advantages of day trading, yes, but it is mostly noise and IMO it is very good that "real crypto" can't operate "fast enough" for those who practice it.

It is unfortunate and no creditor should be exactly "happy" about the situation or completely satisfied with the outcome.

But everyone early on crypto knew there were some risks involved. And there is a chance you, or other creditors would have, for whatever reason, withdrawn and converted earlier to less USD (or even lost everything). Getting a fraction now can be a win for many. Call it "enforced diamond hands" if you like the meme...

I guess in the average case it is a fair outcome.

Is it just me, or anyone else is feeling all of the examples of grain simulation (I even followed links in the comments here on HN to papers and plugins) all feel a bit "off" in comparison to real film pictures? Probably film enthusiasts would agree, else they would not be shooting on film even today.

My best guess is that besides grain digital photos have a different dynamic range. The whole stack from silicon sensor, raw processing, etc, including screen manufacturing is trying to get to "real" images, in the sense that it is similar to what the human eye of the photographer saw in site. Film also tried to do the same, yet, I guess there are more characteristics than we can simulate with math.

I bet if someone gathers enough data an AI based plugin might get closer to the actual film look rather hand-coded math based plugins will be able to.

The reason to prefer grain would also be a good question. The recent return to analog photos we are observing recently might be caused by a shared preference for grain and other aspects of the film process. I was going to suggest this preference would likely be correlated to age, but most film enthusiast blogs/instagram I've seen are from people in their 20s.

So my current theory is that photo/cinema enthusiasts are overly exposed to this visual look, since they get inspired by masters of the past, and the sample of acclaimed photo/cinema artists have to be still larger on the film media. And, direction, post production and stakeholders in Hollywood would also have this bias and welcome like to continue producing material with this looks.

If the above is true, it is sad and OK at the same time. Sad because it is wasted work and wasted human potential (imagine same money applied to voluntary work, social contributions, etc). At the same time, it generate jobs, which is not bad considering the levels of unemployment. Either way, I would prefer more people employed competing for digital plugins that are indistinguishable from this process.

To me the key factor is not if Elons other companies would have succeeded without him. The key factor is that he started all other companies or joined just after the start. Twitter on the other hand has a lot of history and past leaderships.

On the other hand, I think Twitter has so much momentum, it will take a lot of time to implode if Musk makes (even a lot of) mistakes.