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Apart from the great suggestions (Vernor Vinge fan for sure) I think one would I would recommend would be the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" (a.k.a three body problem). It presented plausible hard sci-fi bits, while the human aspect was incredibly weird, especially from a western perspective. Definitely opened my eyes to a lot of how Chinese people probably feel about their place in the world and their legacy.

But the scope of the series is just breathtaking, I don't think I've read anything that spanned as much in space or time, and made it believable too, highly recommended.
>I'll never understand why business owners want to fail so badly. The principal advantage of small business is that you can happily ignore bureaucracy when it makes sense to.

But how are you meant to know "when it makes sense to"? I imagine that lots of small businesses are run by owners who don't necessarily have the confidence to strike a new path in every facet of the business. If you're investing a lot of time and effort innovating on your product/service, it can also make sense to import a tried-and-tested hiring model wholesale from somewhere else.

Of course, in a less generous sense that could be maligned as "cargo-culting", but if at the end of the day the planes show up (you make good-enough hires), you're not going waste time introspecting on the process.
No. The FTO gene from humans was inserted into the genome of these plants. That gene produced a protein that performs RNA demethylation, which isn't even epigenetics, because epigenetics is the set of extra stuff that happens on DNA, not RNA.
I forget where I read it but I heard that this has been a big problem in Microsoft: it's politically easier for a team to get approval to write a whole new feature (to replace an existing one) than it is for an existing team to get approval to spend a significant amount of effort making big changes/improvements. I suppose it makes sense in a lot of ways to work like this but it can lead to situations where a new component doesn't do half the things that the old component used to do. I'd be interested to learn if that really is what happened here.
Or maybe a big automated refactor going too far? I wonder whether they run all tests on those.
Sometimes the line can get a bit blurry. For example, suppose that as a convenience feature a service will automatically decompose sequences of unsupported gates into supported gates. And suppose the user happened to be providing sequences of gates equal to the identity (e.g. as part of doing randomized benchmarking to determine how noisy the processor is). Then the optimization pass would happily replace every single test, all of which are made up of equivalent-to-identity sequence, with the empty sequence. Fortunately it's kind of blatantly obvious when something like that happens, because the benchmarking results end up making no sense.

Optimizers may also change which operations are occurring at the same time, or insert spin echo, or add other unexpected error mitigations. All of these things can make the circuit work better, so on the one hand they're nice wins. But on the other hand they can violate user expectations, and make debugging and modelling nightmares.
Hope it succeeds, the HN-crowd is obviously very tacky and already know some well established alternatives (used thinkpads, librem laptops, pinebook, MNT reform) that may be even better for a niche audience (open hardware, no management engine, trackpoint option, etc.), hence the criticism.

But marketed directly to the people that buy all the "normal" laptops out there, it could be a great success.
That sounds like an absolute dream job. Good for you! Niches are good.

I think one of the most memorable points in my career was when as a junior was tasked to revive a highly critical production system dependent on a very sick DEC Alpha server in dire need of healing through many different partial backups. Only tangential to what you describe, but I can certainly relate to the joy you felt revivifying an aging piece of software on an old system and succeeding. Yes, I do still dabble in retro computing. :)
xlwings gets you part of the way there. You can automate Excel from a Jupyter notebook.
There is no other fully reusable rocket similar to starship (or even different, it doesn’t simply exist). Please stop inventing numbers and lying.
And for your information starship already fled and landed and there is an orbital launch attempt likely in the next 2-4 months.
a guess - you're young and have short industry experience, just enough to make very sure of yourself, so probably the age is between 25-30 with the experience between 5-10 years?
Interestingly, DNA methylation seems to be a good indicator of aging and possibly even play some active role in the aging process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_clock

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw211.html

Epigenetics seems to be a field with some low-hanging fruit still available. Perhaps even significant "fruit" such as tissue regeneration in adult humans.

But I do not want to speculate about validity of this particular result. Incidentally, both rice and potatoes spike my blood sugar a lot, so I only consume them infrequently. I wonder how many other people suffer from the same effect without knowing. And thus, what the overall effect of cheaper rice and potatoes on health of the population would be.

(I am neither diabetic nor prediabetic and my normal fasting glucose is between 4.0 and 4.7 mmol/L, far into the healthy territory. Most other foods rarely spike it beyond 7.5. Rice can easily reach 11.)
> Does this mean that the whiteboard coding interviews are flawed

They are optimizing for something. It's just not what you think it is.

A lot of it seems to be about the identities of the employees and the hazing ritual that initiates new members into the group.
I wouldn't want everyone to know my income. Have you thought about all repercussions of that transparency?
> a 100WH battery

a hand grenade typically releases 250kJ, or about 70Wh

you're asking for the equivalent of 1.5 grenades in your lap :)
Shame it's not shipping to the UK yet. Hopefully it does soon.
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Much more usefully, in C++ you can also parametrize over templates, which I think you still can't in rust.

You can't parametrize over namespaces (at least not directly) which is an annoying and arbitrary restriction.
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Every contractor I've ever hired to work on my home has a portfolio of projects they can show. Modernized folks have them online, old-school folks have binders they'll bring in to show you, but they have them, and will also provide references. As will doctors, BTW, especially surgeons. Asking to see examples of prior work is in no way unique to technology.
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any document like that. There are some papers comparing everything efficiency of different types of RAM, and there is of course indirect evidence of premium notebooks having significantly improved the battery life after moving to LPDDR.
The cheap SPO2 devices are calibrated on fair skin. If you have a darker complexion there is a known measurement error. If you are at 91% and feeling fine you are probably fine. Your body has a better SPO2 sensor than anything man-made.
> * Permission management on Postgres is much more painful.

but way more flexible and powerful

I only work in the Java world where all application servers have the connection pooling built in, so I never had the need for an external connection pooler.
hahaa...no, they don't pay me.
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The article only cites a few studies that show the nutrient content of crops is decreasing. For example, the study you mentioned [1] was "Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999" and showed "apparent, statistically reliable declines" in 6 nutrients.

The part of the article that you've quoted is simply Davis' opinion, not the subject of that study. The author has a different opinion. I don't know who is right, which is why I said it's "not an uncommon view".

I don't know if that debate has been settled. The article doesn't cite any studies examining the cause of this nutrient depletion, and I didn't find any studies of the cause with a few Google Scholar searches for soil depletion and related terms. If you know of any research that answers the question I'd love to read it.

1: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2004.10...
Interesting ideas
Thank you for that correction, it seems I have been led
astray by some interesting reporting then.
LOL - I'm not sure about many humans' ability to tell good code from bad, given how prolifically they produce "bad" code.
At a minimum, the roots are left in the soil.

Normally other parts of the crop are left in the field too, like leaves and stems and whatever else doesn't sell.
210 comments in last week's link, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858630 .
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Having FAANG, well the A selling stuff over the internet, on your CV was a stronger thing a couple of years ago than it is now. At least my experience, but than it could be industry specific.
Well you're free to think whatever you want about BLM, but some sort of protest or statement was happening all over the world both in on- and offline communities, so you're not really singling out Reddit here, this is just an instance of a general trend.

Plus, my statement was about "heated political arguments", not a one-time statement from moderators which remains, to my understanding, rather rare. One thread about BLM doesn't deter me from visiting these subreddits.
"Why would you make a good candidate for this position?"
"I actually wrote a popular open-source app that-"
"Shh... do you ride a bicycle? And do you raise children?"
Yeah, the parent commment is what I consider a reason for why many fear the imposter syndrome. They read about other developers saying "If you dont know how to do X, you suck and cant get a job".
Is there a possibility to install more exotic peripherals like 4g modem (or a smartcard slot)? I don't see them mentioned anywhere, but I'd expect a hackable laptop to have these.
Yes, I'm not sure if I really feel the need to use something like this anyway, but none of the names I searched for were listed.
> but unlike Netbeans (which is a complete disaster under Apache

I disagree with this
I actually think this is much more prevalent in the US and probably even concentrated at their west coast around silicon valley. Not exclusively though, but even in this case at Activision. How many employees are involved and how many do they have?

I think summoning a threat everywhere is keeping more women out of tech than cases were sexual misconduct actually did happen.
So what it means is that someone could potentially introduce another 0day while patching a 0day because the code reviewing of those escapes the scrutiny of a regular process.
I understand your point, but at the same time i don't know of an industry where increasing efficiency has lead them to think "now we can use less".
Are there other companies doing similiar projects? This is a good step in the right direction but there are some major drawbacks for me:

- 3:2 screen makes the laptop bigger and adds space thats pretty much useless except for video editing I guess

- No option without camera, mic and fingerprint reader

- Intel CPU

- Thin instead of robust

- American company
> On cockatoos: One of my neighbours have been keeping a white cockatoo as pets for 10+ years, the bird start to lose feather on tis chest...

It's not "losing" feathers, it's likely pulling them out due to living in a confined space without appropriate social ties and thus behaving like this.
You could make the opposite argument that short-circuiting is the surprising behavior [1] and you should make it explicit with an if.

[1] and in this very thread many people were actually surprised by it!
Nocodb is trying to solving the issues of implementing a spreadsheet-like frontend on top of a database backend
https://www.nocodb.com/
Thank you. I will look into alternative services on the thread then.
Quantum computers are like that until you get to 1%-0.1% error rates, at which point error correction becomes possible [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
You mean like ODF and DOCX still are zip files, basically a file system?

It was there for a reason - you could embed documents/excelsheets/external apps that supported OLE into each other (think adding an editable excel graph to your document). And the FAT-like OLE file format allowed you to do partial updates to a file in place, which was pretty useful given the slow write speeds of hard disks or even floppy drives. Fully rewriting the whole ZIP/DOCX file on ever Save like we can do now wasn't an option then.

I'm not sure if, given the requirements driven by that embedding use case, the engineers could have come up with something better in the 90s.
In what context? Unless overloaded ! coerces its operand to bool and returns the negation.
gitmemory or these translated stackeroverflow clones are a pain - the original result doesn't even appear anywhere in the results - it's the same in german.

Overall google result quality declined a lot from my perspective (and colleagues also agree) in the past years.

the info-boxes and sidebars are often just plain wrong (wrong product, wrong answers) - have to add quotes to every other query but these also don't seem to work - websites that used to be indexed disappear and I get lot's of noise and outright spam websites with redirection spam (I've tested on Linux with different browsers, unlikely that it's hijacked).

Not sure what's going on - I guess they made a lot of progress in NLP with BERT and other models and nobody internally want to see the drawbacks?
"Genetically modifying food to increase yield is good for the environment" is a true statement, but you're going to need an awfully good PR firm to persuade the public it's true...
You can definitely play games on a V100 Titan, there is no A100 yet with a graphics output but if you have another card even onboard graphics on your CPU you can definitely “game” on the machine by using the A100 for rendering and another GPU for video output.
"Griffith was arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in November 2019 after he travelled to North Korea to give a talk on blockchain and crypto."

This is pretty wild to me. The guy gave a talk in North Korea and gave them non-classified information they could easily find on YouTube or any other public website. And now he's facing 20 years.
How do you connect the keyboard?

I see the cable from the keyboard in the upper lid not going directly to the main PCB, but first to the same board as the touchpad. Is there some IC scanning the keyboard right in the keyboard module, and turning it to something like usb or i2c?
Regardless of the questions stated, thank you for mentioning Starlabs Systems, @mateuszf. I’ll be looking for an Intel-ME-free laptop during my next purchase and I had no idea about that particular project.
I found the same thing happened for something totally innocent and unrelated. Someone commented they were watching SG1. I said that I'm also doing that, but that I have to torrent it because Netflix took it down again. Also, that the episodes had been actually improved by AI effectively increasing the resolution, really impressive stuff.

But was that last part what everyone talked about? Of course not, the part that causes the dumb and frustrating was about netlifx taking it down. Maybe had maybe a hundred replies all saying I'm being "entitled" for simply saying "netflix took it down again". People say HN doesn't have a hivemind like Reddit but it 100% does.

The really interesting part was ignored, in favour of shitting on someone over netflix???
You can also read the redbean source code, since it's the web server that reads/writes to its own executable zip file as a native process. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/f3e28aa192d433c379... Some ZIP APIs are designed in such a way that you can even use the POPCNT instruction to decode them.
likely support and keeping customers from migrating to postgres

and yes, Oracle is 110% focused on the bottom line. Preferably this quarter
You can build UI or frontend for admin panel, dashboards, custom tools using low-code platform like DronaHQ and easily integrate with Airtable or Googlesheets as database.

https://dronahq.com/admin-panel-spreadsheet-to-app/ or refer
https://www.dronahq.com/how-to-build-an-admin-panel-and-dash...
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Yeah it seems ridiculous doesn't it. Getting thrown in jail for giving a talk doesn't seem like something that should happen anywhere that considers itself as free. It's outrageous really.
This comment is nonsense. Nobody is writing binary searches in their day-to-day jobs, and if they do it's once in a blue moon, not every day. You're using pedals every time you drive.
Shouldn't that be :

developer = {mozilla: {org: 42}} ?
For bool there is no difference between bitwise and and logical and.

There is a difference between short-circuiting and non short-circuiting and, hence the distinct operators.
Do include the next part aswell:

"Griffith was denied permission to travel to North Korea by the State Department but decided to attend the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference anyway."
Now it makes sense, thanks!
> good way

But it is an accessible way. Your average Excel user can perform any number of useful transformations with simple formulas, and then throw that into a pivot table for useful aggregations (which is also a transformation).

> tables are an afterthought to spreadsheets

Excel power users have been solving this with VLOOKUPs for decades.

> therefore even trivial joins are always a pain in Excel

Trivial to a trained user. Excel has more advanced data modeling capabilities, which includes implicit joins when creating PivotTables from tables with relationships.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-data-mod...
I imagine you may have some difficulty getting the pins to make contact if they’re too small.
It's not okay that he should need permission for such a thing I don't think.
By "very little protective measures (pubs etc)" you mean the pubs were all closed? The UK has had some of the most restrictive lockdowns in the western world.

I agree that the idea that vaccines are leading to new variants seems extremely dubious though. Like everything else in epidemiology, when you go looking for the underlying rational basis for it, there's just nothing robust there.
Airlines tend to cap lithium-ion batteries at 100Wh, so it’s quite common for laptops and power banks to go to or just shy of that. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-i... speaks of a 100Wh battery. My latest laptop has about a 90Wh battery.

Hopefully your laptop and hand grenade have radically different power discharge profiles.
The hand grenade is arguably better at releasing that energy at an instant.
I don't follow, forests are great but if the farmland you are using gets ruined you need to do something... right now something is usually more petro-fertilizer and pesticides, and occasionally more traditional methods at smaller scales.

It's great if you can use less land for farming, but if concentration leads to the land being damaged beyond repair then what's the point? You'd just have to turn unused land into farmland, and if you're doing that you may as well use crop rotation intentionally.

If you need to deposit massive amounts of natural gas (used to make hydrogen used to make ammonia) on a small amount of land instead of using a larger amount of land and using slower methods to get nitrogen in the soil... there is surely a stable point where the soil is continually usable without needing a lot of fertilizer.
There's a subtle difference. One is designed to release that energy in a fraction of a second in a frangible metal casing, the other is designed to release it over a number of hours. Yes, batteries can go wrong, just like any tech, but comparing them to hand grenades is just ludicrous.
As the comment above states, LPDRR RAM is apparently not sold in DIMM form.
In which fantasy land would that be the case?

A 400Wp panel won't be able to provide 400W most of the time to begin with. Unless you're in the middle of a desert near the equator and have a sun-tracking installation, weather and varying daylight hours are a thing.

Under realistic conditions, a single 400W panel gets you between half and two thirds of the required power (e.g. up to ~1.5kWh/day, depending on location).

Just a quick reminder: 400Wp means the panel produces 400W of electricity when brand new (it'll degrade over time), at 23°C ambient temperature and an incident angle of 0° (i.e. sun directly over it). None of that is generally the case 8h a day on average, which is why your estimation won't work.

Depending on where you live, optimal sun hours vary between 3.5h/day and 6.5/day (continental US) or 2.9/h/day to 5.9h/day (most of Europe) [0].

You'd also need to plan for big batteries, since seasonal differences may be huge depending on latitude.

[0] https://solargis.info/imaps/
I think one of the main problem with databases is how do you populate them.

I wish there were simple-as-Excel frontends for databases where a normal user could input his data like in preformated Excel table without having to deal with the database mechanics.
No.

In fact, nearly 20 years ago PEP 308 ("Conditional Expressions") was made so people wouldn't need to resort to this sort of syntax - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/ .

Quoting from the Python FAQ from 2.6 at https://web.archive.org/web/20151030070641if_/https://docs.p... :

> In many cases you can mimic a ? b : c with a and b or c, but there’s a flaw: if b is zero (or empty, or None – anything that tests false) then c will be selected instead. In many cases you can prove by looking at the code that this can’t happen (e.g. because b is a constant or has a type that can never be false), but in general this can be a problem.

> Tim Peters (who wishes it was Steve Majewski) suggested the following solution: (a and [b] or [c])[0].
Sure, but up to 20 years in prison for that seems absolutely insane
> "isn't 100watts a lot of power?" <-- typed from gaming computer with a 1000watt power supply

A gaming computer with a 1000 watt power supply will reastically have a 50W idle load. It's only if the CPU and GPU are fully utilized (like in a gaming scenario) that it might draw several hundreds of Watts.
> Sure you could, even though MS-DOS wasn't UNIX, and using pipelines meant writing temporary data into the current directory.

Assuming you're commenting on the GP's point about UNIX pipelines, I think your comment here is a little disingenuous. Akin to that famous HN comment mocking the then start up Dropbox saying "you can just use FTP...." while completely missing the reason Dropbox would then go on to be successful for.

> In fact that was one of the reasons ARJ got more love than zip, given its flexibility and ability to split archives across floppies.

Did ARJ actually get more love than ZIP or is that just your anecdotal recall of the era. I seem to recall the opposite with ZIP being far more prevolent. Remember ZIP also supported splitting archives over multiple floppies.

Interestingly ARJ's website is still live and not been updated in 10 years[1]. It might be ugly by today's standards but man is it better designed for getting the core information out. We've definitely lost something when sites became more about presentation and less about information.

[1] http://www.arjsoftware.com/arj.htm
That address in Cyprus is in the EU so if it is acting as their data controller it probably has something to do with that.