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> The Needle Point [...] The fine point is prone to breaking

The fragile point can be a benefit.

When I was taking my first drawing lectures I was constantly reminded that I use a too heavy hand and that I'm fixing the lines on my sketches too early. A pencil sharpened to a needle point kind of forces you to use a light hand because otherwise you're constantly breaking the graphite.

I always thought that's the main reason why people use it. I guess less sharpening is nice benefit as well, but I never thought about it until now.
I don’t think you can checkmate your employer and attempting to do that will show them the risk and they’ll start working to mitigate it. You might get a raise in the short term and then be let go in a year.

For the CV question, ask yourself why would a company hire you over another applicant? Make sure you highlight that in the CV and that you apply to jobs where that is your competitive advantage. If you’re trying to change careers somewhat, you might have to make a “lateral move” for the same pay so that you can build skills.
Thanks! Actually it's neither: we run full Chromium rather than CEF and Mediasoup for webrtc. We have looked into webrtcbin as well, but it wasn't the best fit for us.
The article seems to base the cost per sq/ft on the selling price of the homes rather than the actual building costs.

If a builder is able to shave a bunch of costs during construction but does not pass those savings on to the home buyer (instead just pads their profits), then the study would not reflect economies of scale in construction. Homes tend to be priced at what the market is willing to bear in relation to what other similar homes in the area are selling for; not what it actually cost to build them.
Self-fulfilling prophecies for sure.
You should leave the windows open at night to let the cooler air in and cool the insulation from the inside. Once you let the heat inside by opening windows in the heat, you have lost, that's true.
The USPTO uses a lot of automation, but frequently not where they should.

Note: I am a current USPTO patent examiner, and this is my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US govt.

The USPTO apparently has two contractors to classify patent documents. I've heard that some sort of AI system is used for classification, in combination with a lot of poorly paid contractors. In my experience, the classification is so frequently wrong that this is clearly not working. It might seem okay to upper management, who never has to actually deal with the classification being inaccurate. But examiners aren't happy with it.

Many people are calling for AI search. The new head of the USPTO mentioned it during a recent all-hands meeting. Unfortunately, the people who propose AI search don't seem to realize that 1. the USPTO has at least 5 AI search tools at their disposal (PLUS, More Like This, Dialog's similarity search, IP.com's similarity search, and Google Patents similar documents) and 2. none of these AI search tools work that well. In my experience, most of the time these tools don't return useful documents. (I still try them for every application as there's little downside.) The documents are usually close but it's rare that I'll actually use one of these documents in a prior art rejection. AI search sounds good to people who have never searched for patents and particularly have never used the existing AI search tools. AI search technology probably won't be good for a decade or more.

In contrast, tools to analyze patent claims for various problems (basically, linters) have been available for around 30 years and can be quite useful in my opinion. But the USPTO has no such tool available to examiners, and analysis under 112(b), etc., is almost always done manually. I wrote my own tool, which I run on my USPTO computer on a regular basis.

There are a huge number of opportunities to streamline USPTO operations with automation. Why are IDS forms not computer-readable? Why is so much information not auto-filled? Why do I have to fill out "bib data sheets" for every application? Why do I have to manually upload my search history when the system could easily automatically grab it for me? Etc.

And automation isn't enough. There should be more data validation in the process, as a lot of problems can be automatically caught at the time of filing or when I post an office action. That's when fixing these problems would be easiest.
Planned economies have been historically unable to even feed their citizens. Let's hope EU won't make that mistake.
The treasurer of my old volunteer fire department was a manager at Kodak and he always brought the Kodak calendar to put on the wall of the board of directors room. Kodak had moved back to a 12-month year, but as shown in the image in the article, the week started on Monday instead of Sunday. If you glanced up to look at what day of the week a particular date would be, you'd be off by a day. We hated it.
Show me the GCP setup that does TLS beyond ingress. Maybe you can find one in healthcare or finance.
Piling on other suggestions, why not Turkish? Admittedly I only ever made it to lower intermediate level (I could read newspapers slowly with occasional look-up) and now forgot most of it, but I don't think I've ever encountered anything difficult or illogical, except maybe the -ki suffix ("of"/"related to", that seems to require experience or memorization to know how to use correctly).

Simple rules, simple writing system, few exceptions and none in pronunciation (that I know of), and piling suffixes sometimes feels like programming, there's suffix for everything and you just add them logically or with simple combination rules: https://trstem.com/en/verb/conjunct/gel/, you can learn entire conjugation in time it would take you to learn 5 verbs in Spanish ;)

Also (like Finnish?) has a political advantage of not being in either of the superpower language families, so every one suffers the ~same amount :)
Someone finally said it!
Yeah there are some similar shots in Evangelion and the second rebuild movie (specifically the fight with Sahaquiel, the one falling from space they have to catch).

I don’t know if both your example and mine are pulling inspiration from the Lupin film intentionally or if all 3 are referencing hurdling. There definitely seems to be a Superman style, heroic sense of “leaping tall buildings in a single bound.” The Lupin clip and your example seem to play it for laughs, contrasting these extreme feats the characters are performing with why they are actually trying to perform them (e.g. in the OPM case, moving at incredible speeds and jumping great distances just to try to get a good deal on groceries) while Eva plays it more straight (emphasizing the power and speed of the Eva’s and their effects on the built and natural landscape).
> We're not screwed.

Are you sure? Is Europe technically capable of importing enough gas to offset what is no longer coming from Russia? Our abilities to import natural gal from outside UE (LNG terminals and pipelines) have limited throughput - not to mention, someone needs to be willing and able to fill them with gas first.
We will never know! Stop asking questions, that's not how science is done!
In an ideal world countries like Spain and Greece invest in solar but they're completely incompetent.
So you get the absurd situation that the Netherlands is European leader in solar energy lol. Most densely populated country in Europe has solar parks for fuck sake.
Sounds interesting. Are u also in hk? If yes pls drop me a msg maxnghello at gmail.com
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek because "digital transformation" has become an overused marketing term. But I think the core of it is valid -- a company has an inefficient process due to lack of technical expertise or whatever and you help them fix it.

There's multiple parts to this field of work: networking to find leads, doing discovery to understand a potential client's problem, formulating a technical solution, creating/negotiating contracts, and implementing the solution. My experience in this area was at a company that was large enough so that these pieces were split into different roles within our organization, and I was mostly on the tech/solution implementation side.
And don't forget that's 36 SEK/MWh minus VAT, so in reality it's 45, and businesses don't pay the VAT of course.
Yup it all happened, I don't think we ever took them to court, we did call one of the 6 weekly followups (it was 6 weeks because the company had to hold a meeting 6 weeks after being notified that 100 shareholders wanted a meeting).

I may not have explained just how red the chair's face went when we moved that motion (there is no "1873 Aged and Infirm person's Act", it was made up for the purpose, we didn't really need a reason to move a motion of no confidence in the chair) - we had all gone in with flowcharts of how we were going to do it written down on paper.

It all happened in the aftermath of the 1981 rugby tour

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1981-springbok-tour

(having said this it was 40 years ago, I may have gotten some minor details wrong - it was however a grand social hack)
Street-level and medium-voltage distribution, sure, but nobody wants to bury 100+ kV lines unless they really have to, because it's hugely expensive and also has much higher losses.
Once again the one of the hardest problems in software engineering is naming things.
Galley oarsmen in the Roman empire were mostly paid professionals, not slaves. The images you might have seen in cheesy old movies aren't historically accurate.
Times in the future are always unreliable, even using the "normal" system there aren't any guarantees that specific time will even exist or if it does you still need to think about "is it an absolute event or a relative event and does it need to have the time updated as a result" just the other way around.
What? What?

WTF...where was I...
If the universe is infinitely old - well, what’s the probability that, untold (yet finite) aeons ago, a planet existed just like this one, in which history unfolded in exactly the same way, even the pettiest details of our lives being precisely the same? I think the probability is arbitrarily close to 1 - not just that our lives have happened exactly the same before once, but an arbitrary - even infinite - number of times - and we should expect will again in the future. Would it follow that Nietzsche was correct in his doctrine of eternal recurrence?

But if there exist an infinite number of copies of myself, all exactly the same - why should I consider myself to be any one of them individually, as opposed to all of them equally? If they are all the same, are they not identical? In which case - the past isn’t infinite after all - rather time is finite and circular.

Another way to put it - any finite spatial volume must contain finite information (see the Bekenstein bound) - hence can only exist in a finite number of distinguishable states. Given infinite time but only a finite number of possible states to visit in them, it has to visit the self-same states again and again - an infinite number of times
As someone who has also worked on an in-browser video editor before, I do tip my hat to the developers working on Clipchamp. I think it's one of the better implemented products in this space considering that the memory-intensive process of encoding videos has not traditionally scaled very well into the browser. That being said, I'll probably still be sticking to something like iMovie or Resolve for more basic video editing since native NLEs are still way more performant overall (and they're free to use).
>they had the more competent generals and their army fought better

That's a pretty strong claim. Can you share your source?

My impression has always been that Southern leadership (including generals) spent most of the war LARPing, without any real understanding of how badly things could go for them personally, with their forces having no particular tactical advantages advantage over the North.
the population density and economic reliance on agriculture of the netherlands are significantly higher than in the UK
I don't think the line of reasoning is similar at all.

The quoted text just says "We don't know. Hypothetical beings higher than us don't know because they came after the initial origin. A hypothetical creator might or might not know."

I agree with the first sentence but it doesn't give any insight really. The reasoning regarding Gods coming after creation so they wouldn't know doesn't check out. Maybe they are great scientists and found a way to get the answer? By implying even Gods don't know you get defeatism - how could we mere mortals know? Let's not try.
The Calyx Institute
It sucks to set up Graphql but once you’ve got it going it’s pretty cool from the dev making the request perspective
Artificial Life (Simulation and Code) [video]
Wow, that’s a really good one! I’ve never thought about that.
Imho, RRO only works well if some additional rules are added, to hold from the outset and throughout the process. As a prototype offering:

1. There must be sufficient representative diversity on the committee.

2. No agent on the committee should be allowed to buy/bribe other agents to form a persistent (all powerful) majority bloc.

3. To combat issues with (2) all such blocs should be (re)considered as reduced to single agents with a single vote.

Imho, the situation (2) seeks to combat can happen in the real world, with clear evidence of agents no longer being independent in any meaningful sense; so additional strong requirements for transparency surrounding a process are needed, maybe enforced in the committee charter.
GraphQL is a great way for letting apps and people query data in _the way you intended it to be queried_.

SQL injection is about querying and change data in ways _that were not intended_.

This article is comparing apples to oranges. If you're using this articles logic, any kind of dynamic queries are SQL INJECTION.

The article also assumes that GraphQL = no security, which is not a general assumption you can make, and, which you could also apply to any other technology.
Maybe I was wrong and the civil war is over, it probably doesn't need invasion but would benefit from a strong European partner to help develop the country. Libya should be a rich country. Ideally it would develop to the benefit of its citizens and Europeans who are looking for gas suppliers.
These are not predictions, they are assumptions. The difference being they are in no way quantifiable. Econ has lots of equations, but it can't actually predict anything beyond some broad directions like you show, and even those are sometimes wrong.

There was even a story (no idea if true, so maybe of limited relevance...) of a reverse bank run happening in Japan, with people rushing to deposit money to save a failing bank.
No I don't want to read through that crap anymore, I had enough in grad school helping econ friends. What I'm talking about is that they always make a bunch of simplifying assumptions about the world and then fit their model and analyze. But what they almost never do is seriously justify the assumptions. One popular paper is to do "Assuming the world follows theory X, we propose this tweaked version of model Y from paper Z and show how it better predicts this dataset of 600 points from the world bank." I knew numerous people in grad school who played that game. There is no way the tiny little dataset they had could justify any of this, but that's what publishes in econ. And if you ask them about this, they will tell you that they only had this tiny little dataset because that's all that is publicly available and so on. That's fair, but also gives them a huge dodge to hide behind. That's what I saw of the field and I came away thinking that it stank.
Berlin, Back in Full Swing
You could say this about many aspects of many foreign languages. So what?

Reading explanations helps. Immersion helps too. They are both useful tools, and for many people, immersion or "the natural way" are not available unless they move to a different country, so reading explanations is a perfectly reasonable approach.
Transfer payment from the debtor to the government? If the government pays it printing money, then printing money will happen, if it's payed with tax payer's money, well then the tax payers will pay it. Given money is fungible it will be a mixture of both. Semantically you can name it whatever you want.
Britain is the best position country in Europe for wind and tidal power.

There was a project to pay down cable to import reliable, cheap 24/7 power from Iceland and hobernment said 'nah'. They also cancelled a 340 MW tidal project
I have been working daily with GraphQL for 6 years and have no idea what the author is talking about. And I cannot find a single thing sustaining his claim in the article.

There are difficulties with GraphQL such as limiting n+1 requests while also having complex db level permissions. But I really don’t see how sql injections would happen more often than with classic rest.
Zero-based months is awkward when printing as a number, but convenient when indexing an array:

const MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", ..., "Dec"];
console.log(MONTHS[d.getMonth()]);
One safety measure is to enable a whitelist of trusted addresses.
Is that really so big a deal, considering they've done that multiple times already anyway? How many versions of strcpy, printf, and other string handling functions are there already?
The “active funds don’t beat index funds” studies showed they actually do - before expenses. After expenses the net return was lower.
> But land isn't limited in the sense that there isn't enough of it for everyone, there is a fixed quantity of land on this planet but

You have assigned an economic value system and denied doing it - that someone can have "enough" land and someone else does not have "enough". By who's pricing model and oops - guess we're back to plain old economics.
I’ll send this to her! Would love to know how her mental translation arrived there.
The constitution is not the founding document of the United States, that would be the articles of confederation. But the US constitution is one of the oldest operating constitutions In the world. Most either get rewritten after 50-100 years or get overturned in a revolution.
Allowing local efforts is not how you win federal elections.
I like everything about it but:

- the weird power cable (did they cheapen out on PD? for just 7.5W there's no need to do something like that)

- the lack of exposed GPIO header (no hacking, they could have just left in unpopulated)

- the bigger size (the Odroid Go Advance was just the right size)

- the lack of option for a 10000 mAh battery

Hopefully, the framework laptop starts a new trend of devices where you can keep the shell and screen (just replacing the inside) and new motherboards can be swapped-in, with the old one returned and resold or recycled.

A subscription-basis model for motherboard upgrade or damaged case replacement could help a big reduce the waste from people updating their phone every year.
This is one of the most laughable critiques I've read.

> "First of all, GraphQL is almost the equivalent of allowing the frontend client to send SQL to the database. For crying out loud, we’ve got a name for that, and it’s called SQL INJECTION ATTACKS."

GraphQL is a specification, it doesn't imply an implementation.

A GraphQL "resolver" is identical to the concept of an "endpoint", you have no idea what the business logic inside of an endpoint is. That's up to the implementer.

> "I know it is possible to apply security to your GraphQL endpoints, by amputating half of its features. However, security is one of those things you need by default. If some piece of tech doesn’t have “security by default”, you don’t expose it to anybody not having root access to your server infrastructure, period!"

No API specification I am aware of comes with "security by default", again, that's an implementation detail?

It's to you to add AuthZ/AuthN to your REST/RPC/GQL etc API, by themselves the handlers are just dumb networked functions.

> "Second of all, GraphQL forces you to write business logic on the client. This implies that everyone with a Postman account can circumvent your business logic, and potentially empty your bank account, and transfer your entire holdings to their own account, in Bermuda, while publicly sharing images on Instagram that they’re drinking umbrella drinks from their hammocks on the beach."

I really don't have anything to say on this.

I guess the implication is that you have somehow exposed your entire database with zero access controls via GraphQL and don't know how to write resolvers?

In that case, I'm more concerned for your employer than your angst against GQL, lol.
So many restaurants like that where I live. they serve low quality food (ingredients, recipes, cooking, presentation), then change names regularly. This is even worse than the more traditional fastfoods where at least you know that what you get will more or less stay the same over the months.
But if a company selects one of your resumes, and you sent many similar ones to each company, then the companies may wonder about remarkably similar resumes and then toss the batch out assuming it's BS.

Of course it would also just make things worse, in that companies already tend to get innundated with garbage (or at least really not well aligned) candidates. This would just add more poop to the swimming pool. Eventually nobody wants to go near it, and the owners of the pool just turn their backs and find alternatives.

This last point is another reason that networking and personal connections are almost always the best way to get job opportunities (often before they even reach the recruiters).
Classic: How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
> You also don't have to (and I'd say you shouldn't) map your SQL database to your GraphQL schema 1 to 1.

My main complaint about GraphQL is that junior engineers tend to use it as an excuse to do exactly that. They don't understand that the API and database schema are different things.
If drawing with a charcoal pencil, a long point is preferred. The idea isn't to have a sharp point as much as a wide side that enable wielding the pencil more like a paintbrush.
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I don't think this signals any implicit Republican alignment. While firms like these often end up working more on one side of the aisle than the other they're usually not all that obsessed with their own ideology. They end up working on the side they do, usually because they start out of a campaign operation and then their connections mostly stem from that work.

Facebook pprobably used them because the firm has operations in the soecific media markets Facebook wanted to target. They probably leaned towards a political ad company because they wanted something that combined ads and opposition research (dirt digging) which political advertisers are especially known for.
“Pegged the currency to the dollar” is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Hi HN! I'm the CTO of Hyperbeam, happy to answer all the technical questions :)
We have built reactors in literal deserts, but the cooling system needs to bw different ofcourse

https://min.news/en/tech/30bdf6748162428883857d361132e177.ht...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072
This isn’t true. In most places I’ve been, electrical lines have all been elevated on poles. Where I currently live, there is a pretty intensive line clearing program each spring to keep the lines clear. Even in places where house level lines were buried, the middle transmission lines were still elevated.

And I believe all high voltage transmission lines are above ground.

The difference is that California historically has fire prone conditions. It’s not like the rest of the country is doing something different and California has done something inherently wrong. It’s that California did what the rest of the country was doing, but without conditions to support it.