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0x6c6f6c··on China mulls potential sale of TikTok US to Musk, Bloomberg News reports
Comparatively, Meta owns Facebooks, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
0x6c6f6c··on Ghostty 1.0
The performance talk is about ghostty, which you did not mention trying. You mention alacritty, which is GPU based and offers good performance, but you're quick to rebuttal on unrelated projects.
0x6c6f6c··on Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS
Tests are a type of runtime validation, they require literal execution of your code to perform the validation.

This supports static verification of queries, your code doesn't need to run to validate the type is correct.

I don't care to argue either way for tests vs static types (I write both frankly), just want the distinction to be clear.

0x6c6f6c··on Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS
Your repository return type may say what it returns, but how would you statically prove the structure of the raw SQL string? Most of the detection today is at runtime perhaps building a class or validating the data.
0x6c6f6c··on Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
This is a feature for projects already using Node and Vite (which is quite popular these days).

It's also not a requirement. The binary still exists, you can run it standalone.

0x6c6f6c··on Monorepo – Our Experience
> Dev's *like* to feel ownership of reasonably sized chunks of code.

I just have to say this has not been my experience at all. A lot of developers want nothing more than to come in and write whatever lines of code they're told to and get paid. Ownership is often the last thing they want.

0x6c6f6c··on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
When you're actually creating an entry via the share prompt there are no options at all unlike the browser extension (for Android at least)

So yeah, you can tag it.. if you exit your current app, find Omnivore in your launcher, open the app, find the entry you just made, then edit it, then add tags.. but that's a terrible UX.

0x6c6f6c··on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
Except on Android, where you couldn't even tag saved articles.

I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to do migrate back.

0x6c6f6c··on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
I really dislike larger phones. I had tried out iOS with the iPhone X and it'd been a few years. Then Apple killed the Mini the year I was going to give them a go
0x6c6f6c··on Is it time to version observability?
I wonder if anyone has utilized trace capabilities like head and tail based sampling _for logging_. You could potentially have the same logic used to determine that logs do not need to be generated because there are no transaction logs ahead of it or before.

Useful capabilities for tracing today that could translate well for logs too. So long as everthing is stitched together, which is what these tracing libraries are responsible for.

0x6c6f6c··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
Oh yeah, FEAT#927261? Would love to see that ticket go out
0x6c6f6c··on OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT
If they didn't use her voice at all, doesn't seem like there would be a case or even concern.

Also, they proceeded to ask her for rights just 2 days before they demoed the Sky voice. It would be pretty coincidental that they actually didn't use her voice for the training at all if they were still trying to get a sign off from her.

0x6c6f6c··on Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone
I know they (Ente) are working on local ML features for those types of use cases. Don't know the latest status.
0x6c6f6c··on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk
How does this even make sense? This bill would be perfectly happy selling TikTok to Meta even, it's not killing social media it's just telling China to GTFO.
0x6c6f6c··on PM2: Production Process Manager with a Built-In Load Balancer
All on a single host, or is this spread across multiple servers? Curious about how people run it with the latter approach if they do
0x6c6f6c··on Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
I almost wonder whether they even care about changing it, because why? This site has been completely functional aside from some load-bearing issues here and there. It's not like it's an ad plagued, high stakes, profitable venture.
0x6c6f6c··on We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
Cross-platform support is in development. You might miss the announcement that actually matters to you
0x6c6f6c··on Cloud Egress Costs
Assumedly, implementing the logic yourself for transcoding source content into various encodings on demand.

If you're storing 1080p h265 MP4s in R2 and the client can only support 480p h264 it'll request that but you need to "appropriately transcode" for them.

The alternative is a service that does this for you, like Cloudflare Stream. Upload source video, service handles transcoding and integrates easily with standard video players with HLS or Dash.

Just in case: I am not OP

0x6c6f6c··on Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices
This is Disney+ but nearly every time. Moved from the living room to bedroom and had to seek to get back to where we were just last night
0x6c6f6c··on Sapling – A VCS from Meta
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke.
0x6c6f6c··on Svelte Native
I've seen Dart filling this gap for many apps lately
0x6c6f6c··on Show HN: PHP API Bindings for Open Brewery DB
Hey OP I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet, but one important thing to consider is the collection of PSRs (PHP Standard Recommendations), several of which are around HTTP clients.

This is an important component to decoupling packages from specific underlying implementations like Guzzle.

You can even use the auto-discovery package to have whichever conforming HTTP client is installed (like Guzzle for example) be utilized, or allow via dependency injection an existing HTTP client to be passed in.

This would be a great enhancement since the PHP community has done a great job with these shared standards, it is a common expectation across packages to utilize them.

0x6c6f6c··on Are we at peak vector database?
Hmmm. Does pgvector count? That's supported by NeonDB, serverless compute on PostgreSQL.

https://neon.tech/docs/extensions/pgvector

0x6c6f6c··on NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
It's a joke about mass vs weight, since the imperial "pound" is unspecific as to being pound-_mass_ or pound-_force_, the latter being based on Earth's standard gravitional field.

The conversion of kilograms, mass, to pound-force, weight, relies explicitly on the given acceleration of Earth's gravity, ~9.8 m/s².

Since Mars has a gravity with acceleration ~3.7 m/s², for two things that weight the same on Earth and Mars the latter would need to be larger in mass to weigh the same in pound-force.

The biggest issue though, and something I will say even having been through multiple physics courses myself I don't recall having had literally explained, is that even though "pounds" can refer to force and not mass, they are not equivalent. 1 pound-mass ≠ 1 pound-force.

It is actually converted using the Earth's standard gravitional field's force, so 1 pound-mass ≈ 9.8 pound-force.

Thus, the amount on bench's is the pound-mass amount, say 66 kg or 145 pounds-mass, which is not 145 pounds-force but actually *1421*.

It's also true even that the gravitional force can change up to as much as 0.5% depending on where on Earth you are due to the shape of the Planet.

While the joke made _me_ laugh, but it seems as you dig further there isn't often reference to pounds as a force as much as I had thought, so I even learned something from it too!

Lots more information on Wikipedia[0] around these that is particularly useful if you for any reason want to know more:

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)

0x6c6f6c··on June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
Another suitable option, which has handled the situation of Red Hat source RPM releases[1] quite a bit better imo, is Alma Linux.

https://almalinux.org/

Similar goal, but is working more directly upstream with Red Hat[2] as opposed to the (as I last had read) undisclosed and non-open approach that Rocky Linux has taken.

1: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-s...

2: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

0x6c6f6c··on GPUI 2 is now in production – Zed
Read literally the first paragraph and you'd already see that's what this is a precursor to.

> We've also laid down a solid foundation for upcoming improvements such as multi-platform support

The old UI may have been terribly written to support anything other than macOS. A rewrite is the right play if you identify that.

0x6c6f6c··on GPUI 2 is now in production – Zed
P2P networking or self-hosting?
0x6c6f6c··on Google Stadia: Leaded Documents Explain Its Failure (Porting to Linux a Factor)
> You had to pay for the monthly service, as well as PURCHASE the games

This was never true. You could do _either_ to access the platform.

Just like you pay extra for Netflix, high bandwidth 4K and HDR content was part of the $10/mo subscription.

If you bought a game, you owned that game, no monthly fee required to play it at FHD anytime and anywhere (with Internet, of course).

There was the additional benefit of the $10/mo subscription also giving you new games monthly, without buying them at full price (as you were saying, spending $60 per game). You would have access to these games so long as you maintained a membership.

You could have only ever paid $10/mo and had access to a wide array of games over time.

Conversely you could never pay for the subscription and just enjoy PS4-level gaming through your phone, laptop, or Chromecast for the games you bought a la carte. Pay $60 for one game, one time, and put in as many hours as you'd like, no console purchase necessary.

The failure of their marketing is pretty obvious, since as an early adopter you're still saying things like NEEDING to do both.

0x6c6f6c··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
To be fair, you are describing a 1:1 comparison of how Fairphone does it here. The issue of economical viability for PC motherboards is easier than smartphone mainboards, but the premise is basically the same- the core component of the device dies and needs to be replaced. There are more modular standards for PC to make the hit here less hard (memory, being the big one) but it's all the same. Fairphone has not done as good of a job as Framework has in making it viable for customers to replace their mainboards, and I will say I think Framework is the odd one here in really stepping up in that market.
0x6c6f6c··on Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
I see this mentions 2018+ GPUs, but I'm curious why this wouldn't work on say a 1080Ti. My cursory look at the hardware specs shows this has support for CUDA8+ and this states 7.5

Would someone be able to tell me more about this?

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