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>For example one thing I noticed is that by simply updating my BIOS in Windows 11 causes havoc and everything gets signed out.

That's surprising. As in, the fact that that happens is to be expected from the firmware's point of view - updating the firmware changes the measurements made to the TPM so any secrets can no longer be unlocked. But I would've expected Windows to update the expected measurements before applying the update to prevent that from happening.
Do you load the Parquet files in duckdb or just query them directly?
In Python:

random.choices(population=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'],
weights=[3, 2, 5, 7])

https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.choices
Any developer that works on crypto are almost always paid in a useless token that is ready to be dumped on retail and are complicit in the scams.

And yes, all of crypto is a scam. There are no exceptions.

Even if you try and resticker poker chips as chocolate gold coins and sell them to the public as with what all of crypto does.

I can't wait for hard regulations to completely kill these bullshit jobs in this scam industry, the layoffs are just the start.
I grew up in a rural area of upstate NY with a very low population... but still has the same "overbuilt, overwide, overfast" road problems.

I've lived in a few US cities since then; of them, NYC was the only place that didn't feel built for cars more than humans. But NYC still feels like humans have been pushed "out of the way" in favor of car traffic in many places, especially outside of lower Manhattan.

I currently live in a small New England town that does an OK job at "human" infrastructure because it was originally built for walking and there just aren't enough cars to ruin things for pedestrians. But I would love to hear suggestions of other not-cities in the USA that are walkable, bikeable, and not car-dominated. I've been considering buying a home to combat out-of-control rising rent prices and walkability is a requirement for me, so I love adding new areas to my list.
I was really tired of putting up with those standard definition skeletons.
Many people outside the USA see the American flag as a hate symbol. Should they ban that as well?
You're making a lot of assumptions about what leads to entrepreneurial success. My gut feeling is working at a big business and attending an ivy league school isn't going to offer better preparation for bootstrapping a business than the hustler who learned to code on the side. In fact, it may actually harm your chances.

Entrepreneurship is something very special, if you can pull it off. It's not something that being spoon fed knowledge through typical education prepares you for. It's incredibly difficult and fraught with risk. But the rewards exists, so it's worth it to take a shot if you think you have what it takes and the opportunity seems worth it.

For what its worth, I'm a bootstrapped founder, and I do make a living off of it.
If I got it correctly this is a push of investors in general to pressure developer salaries down. In the same way that much of the inflation is driven by opportunity to increase profits and not by costs.

This is another example of what happens when too much power gets accumulated in too few hands. The market freedom is drastically reduced and is easier to manipulate it.

But I doubt that this is any coordinated effort but like hiking profits when there is inflation is just opportunistic.

> Salaries hit record levels as competition raged for the top talent, and the media was full of stories of lavish perks. So, it’s not a shock to find that the median time a recently laid-off employee has been in their role is roughly two years. .... One possible reason for this statistic could be that longer-serving employees tend to receive higher salaries, and cutting them could help businesses meet their financial targets. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/01/30/the-real...
This is great, relevant to me as I have been taking nand2tetris[1] which is about building a computer from the ground up. Would reco it to anyone who is curious and wants to learn more.

[1]https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Good luck! That's an incredibly tough problem to solve.
Very well written article. I have been looking for some inspiration to get into hardware hacking and I think this article did it for me.

I find it interesting that in most writeups voltage injection is a popular appraoch to turning on debug mode. The aricle makes mention to other class of fault injection attack such as clock glitching or electromagnetic fault injection, but are there other approaches that I could look into, just out of curiousity?
and, AIUI, XMPP is based entirely around that very idea so it's not even a niche concept (well, aside from XMPP being arguably a niche protocol)
>> ...despite living walking distance to 3 grocery stores, I still typically drive a mile away to a larger store because...

A mobile consumer base, people with cars that can travel to potentially hundreds of retail options, is a backbone of American competition. Like cars or not, they empower consumers to defeat local monopolies. The next stage, pickup trucks, then empowers retailers to sell large products (appliances) to an enormous consumer base from a central location without dealing with transport companies and/or teamsters for local delivery.
I was hoping for something that would allow me to load a page to be scraped, mark the things I'm interested in, and have it help with the selection expressions.
The issue is that cold should be supplied near the ceiling, while heat should be supplied near the floor. So this unit would need two separate terminals or suffer inadequate performance in one of the modes.
Where's this license to sell new devices that you speak of? And if it's hypothetical, what's the definition of a device that such a license would restrict?
Meeting with Jane scheduled from 10am to 4pm tomorrow ;)
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph wrote a script. Therefore, Jared is wrong about what he is capable of doing and what is he capable of learning. However, Jared is based on a real person - Gregg Lippman. Despite this, after a brief search I found no public information about the arrest of this brother. So either Gregg didn't say this or he said it and it wasn't true, because people in his position would have been told the difference during the course of their life or maybe I didn't search hard enough - but I don't think I should search harder, so if you really feel this is strong support please provide evidence it is so.

I'm more interested in building explanations on reality than supporting my positions with comedic fiction. I'll share some small part of my explanation. I apologize for my lack of brevity.

In game playing we have the ability to calculate the time to calculate and store perfect play in various games. After around the complexity of chess we get to the point where it is physically impossible to store perfect play because the combinatorial explosion generates more states than we have atoms to work with in our universe. This forces approximation, which forces error, which means that for almost every task in this universe error is not only present but absolutely demanded. In multi-agent settings these issues only get worse, because not only is the state space very high due to the combinatorics, but in addition the optimal policy is a function of other policies. The connecting point here is that since our problems are a superset of things we know to be physically unrealizable it follows that error is inevitable and therefore the observance of stupidity relative to theoretical ideals is inevitable.

Founder culture is completely at odds with sophisticated cynicism.
- Paul Graham
We help you turn old android phones into robot brains if that's your thing. No bluetooth needed, we use the audio jack as a serial port. https://robots-everywhere.com/ (all designs are free on the wiki, or you can buy it)
CLion licenses are free for people with university email addresses, and perhaps you can figure out some basic subset of CMake to just compile a few files.
I of course cannot support dogma when it comes to software development. Pragmatism carries the day every time. But rare cases where a fix from head has to be edited to apply on a release branch does not invalidate the other advantages of trunk-based development, and there are ways to avoid the need to do such edits, including making sure that the pace of retirement of old releases is consistent with the pace of development on mainline.
> A unit test would have caught this, but didn't.

Unit tests for things with probability are hard. I've written one recently, and among other reasons, it convinced me to write the selection differently so it was both more 'fair' and more easily tested.
Trying to work out what's going wrong in the cases this article describes, such that the principle "you can't patent something that exists" apparently doesn't apply. Is it that an independent breeder develops a certain strain, say red salad, and then a big company makes a modification to that strain, and patents the modification, such that the independent breeder is prevented somehow from continuing to develop red salad? That still doesn't make perfect sense to me but it makes more legal sense than "company got patent on what you already made, you can't make it anymore", which is just not how patents work.
It’s a drop in alternative to SQLite that’s column-oriented/OLAP. I’ve been profiling entire projects in production switching between SQLite and duckdb (no clear conclusions yet)
Do they have a mac version?
Not even close to what’s being talked about here. Unions allow for collective bargaining they don’t ensure all people are working as one giant team towards the companies goals.
My startup integrates with numerous third-party data sources, and they'll send quotes in all shapes and colors, usually providing both a total and a complicated breakdown which we need to parse and reshape/classify into line items in our system. And since it's very easy to introduce a bug that skips over a fee accidentally, part of our code review checklist is to ensure that we always explicitly check that our code summing over our final line items sums to the actual ground-truth total; we have a runtime assertion that logs an error to Sentry and, depending on business requirements, shows a (friendly) error rather than incorrect pricing. It's saved us many a time from silly bugs where we're non-exhaustively handling parts of the breakdown data structure.

To generalize, it's vital to have something like Sentry from day one - a low-cost abstraction that lets you monitor broken assumptions asynchronously. Though of course, these kinds of tools didn't exist in 2002!
Without the California Gold Rush we wouldn't have Levi's® jeans, so maybe some good will come out of this crypto get-rich-quick activity.
Shhh, don't let that get mainstream yet. I'm still trying to stack ;).
Ask HN: Best machine learning lecturer you've had?
Did you had a teacher that made it "click" for you or explained ML elegantly or gave the best advice for your ML career?
No, if he didn't save seeds from crop plants on that land. That saving of seeds after spraying was the incriminating act.
Given that Valve published the CAD of the case, there might be the possibility of a different screen size that simply comes with a different top shell as well.
Light Field Lab Demos Its Latest Hologram Tech: A Floating, Talking Head
I do not see it listed here: https://www.chick-fil-a.com/nutrition-allergens

This page says that the nutritional information will be available in 3-10 days. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/02/10/where-to-buy-chick-fil...
>There's no underlying value. It's a 24/7 nothingburger outlet.

That's not really true. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, and speculation may be driving most of price, but these are real tech products. Ethereum, Cardano, Avalanche, Solana are decentralized computing platforms, with utility. Uniswap, Aave are exchange platforms, that allow people to swap currency real time.

They may not be VMWare, Rackspace, JPMorgan Western Union or Moneygram, but they are real companies, with real products, that offer real services.

As of 2021, Allianz, Deutsche Telekom, Intel and Cisco are four stocks where investors that bought at the Dotcom Bubble peak never broke even. Maybe Ethereum, Cardano, Avalanche, Solana are far above their actual potential value, but it doesnt mean they are worth 0.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/smart-contract-platf...
https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/decentralized-financ...
> Failure to open up should result in your license to sell new devices suspended
Isn't that a bit like death by a thousand cuts?
I think it's going to come down to the AHJ, or your own judgement if there is no inspection. The way I've seen it explained on electrician forums is that you're not using the piece of PVC for its properties as conduit under the electric code (like say outer damage protection/containment for running single THHNs), so it isn't considered a conduit. But it would obviously be wrong to apply this argument to things like conduit fill or abrasion protection - regardless whether the pipe was manufactured intended for electrical conduit or not.

While they call mains voltage 120V, that's actually RMS voltage and not peak voltage. The peak is 170V, which I think is a better gauge for thinking about insulation and safety (by the time power is being resistively dissipated, you've already lost). Residential "240V" circuits use opposing legs of a split phase, so nothing is more than 170V from ground, which is what matters for insulation and most failure modes. You're not going to get any more of a shock from a "240V" residential circuit than a "120V" one unless you manage to touch both ungrounded conductors at the same time - it's the arc flash risk that gets worse.

Although now that I'm really thinking about it, maybe mixing insulation types is not foolproof at the extremes. If there is a wire with 170V inside sitting in free space, the worst case assumption is that it can have 170V on the outside of its insulation as well (due to the parasitic resistance and capacitance across the insulation, and ignoring the parasitics to ground. If this sounds strange to you, think about how those non-contact voltage testers can work). So if you put a grounded conductor with a low insulation rating right next to it, that insulation could have voltage across it higher than its own rating (depending on its parasitic R/C), which may cause it to break down over time. The possibility is likely moot with real world values, but still.
Or make your own low-code django library, to create even more code you have to maintain.
Thanks for posting, was recently wanting exactly this and was dreading wading through the app store/Reddit posts to find out what actually worked
C/++ actually make you write relatively slow code too, by default. Not to the extent of Java, but still there is HUGE room for improvement in libC and by extension the STL. I'm working on a slash-and-burn approach to the problem here:
https://github.com/cons-cat/libcat
Many places online ban or otherwise shun political demagoguery like that. That sort of behavior does nothing to open discussion or otherwise change minds.

It's at best bad graffiti purely meant to inflame.
> The problem with ending patents is the alternative is medieval guilds that jealously guard their knowledge, sometimes using lethal force. The great thing about patents is that they force people to publish the knowledge so it won't be lost to the sands of time when they close up shop.

The government & large corporations use force via the justice system & jealously guard top secrets, to the point of violence as well. Property can be seized. I'd rather have a distribution of power than consolidation, which seems to attract people who are motivated by controlling other people, thereby undermining the supposed benefits.

> The bar for getting a patent has become far too low

The process is also expensive & serves as a barrier to innovation via market monopolies. The problem with monopolies is that they don't serve the marketplace or consumers. Monopoly is pure rent for the entities that control the monopoly. It is common for a dominant company to buy the rights to a patent only to quash the technology, all to serve the dominant company's stranglehold over a market.
> It is alleged that the CIA cooperated heavily with the filmmakers.

I'm sure if they did, that was with the sole purpose of ensuring maximum factual accuracy, and no other purpose whatsoever.
Yes so not only are you capturing heat from the environment you are turning electricity into heat in the compressor, both are delivered as heat to the interior. This is an advantage compared to cooling where you must reject both the interior heat and the heat of compression.
Thank you very much! That led me to a JS clone[0].

Python has amazing math libraries. I use numjs[1] for everything, which is a port of numpy. I frequently wish I had use of Python's libraries.

0: https://github.com/parmentf/random-weighted-choice

1: https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs
Bugs-as-a-Service (BAAS)
wow, you actually went through the trouble of running all this detection tests?
that’s super cool :)
I think their is a fair amount of Javascript and before that PHP floating around indicates we should not be making it easier for idiots to write software.
The disruption of making several hundreds of thousands of dollars more than they would have outside of FAANG?

I’ll take some of that kind of disruption, please.
Hmm, when they told me they were assigning people to a list I kind of knew what the answer was going to be.

What is curious is that it took them a long time to find. I’d think that -as long as you believe there is a bug- this should be fairly straightforward to spot.
It doesn't seem disingenuous to me. Most open source developers aren't working on Linux, even if most are working in the Linux ecosystem.
They are public distributed computing networks you can pay to use. Not completely dissimilar to some chimerafacimile of AWS and Seti at Home.
Thankfully, PC is no longer a GPR in ARM64. Making PC a GPR seems elegant at first glance, but when you actually dive into it and see how it affects processor implementations and how it affects the code you write, it turns out to be extremely messy and inconvenient. Good riddance PC as GPR, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Unless they were charged with something I don't see what they would be paying at all. If you're not in court what legal fees would you be paying?

Kraken is not what I would call a small company either.
> literally millions of cryptocurrencies

I believe that's literally not true.

I think it's thousands.
getting to the top of hackernews
To be perfectly honest, although it's technically possible to go car-free here, it can be more trouble than it's worth. You'll be able to get to the essentials easily enough, but there are a long tail of places that you may want to get to which are only bus-accessible if you transfer- and that can add a ton of time to your trip.

It's more realistic to think of Seattle as a city where you can be "car-light": it's entirely possible to go without driving during the week, assuming you commute by bus and have a small supermarket nearby to pick up dinner/essentials. Then, on the weekend, a vehicle can be super useful to fill in the gaps, whether that's going to the larger supermarket for bulkier goods, getting out of the city into nature, or going over to a distant neighborhood to check it out.

Part of this is because of the city's geography- I might not mind (for instance) living in West Seattle and commuting by bus to downtown, but if I'm trying to go visit the Woodland Park Zoo up, I'd probably want to drive there because it would be a considerably longer trip involving a transfer in Downtown.
Yeah, people forget history when it comes to things like this for some reason.

Tesla's charging connector is another example. At the time, there was no universal standard (even today the standards body is a mess, do we use CHAdeMo, CCS1, CCS2...??). People like to throw shade for a "proprietary connector" but at the time it was the best option.
I don't think we should end patents, as I think that someone that develops an idea has the right to profit from that idea, if she chooses so (and the same holdsfor companies doing R&D). What I think should be done, is reflecting on patents/copyright duration, as in some cases it seems too long for me, to the point that in some cases we have that the profits end up in the hands of companies that have nothing to do with the original inventor/author.
https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20210826-sole-pe...
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/household-size-...
Regarding accelerating UI, I’ve been building my UI for my product (https://amazing.photos) using Webflow and Django.

I convert all Webflow code into Django templates and neat JavaScript.

This approach with Webflow and Django is around 5-8x faster for me.
- Its size

- its (suspected) payload

- a million is chump change in aeronautics.

Even if it were a weather balloon, the sensors on it would be insane and worth more than the missile. A spy satellite's sensors? Those lenses are filthy expensive.

Size matters, even just considering raw material costs. The fabric is not a cheap coarse cotton garment that would otherwise have become a pair of Levi's. Its full of Helium. On top of that the balloon's size makes it a difficult structural problem.
In no way was that depiction accurate. Indeed, if an innocent farmer were, by no fault of his own, found liable for contamination, he could properly sue the others for contaminating his land. For this reason, Monsanto always said it would never sue just for accidental contamination, and never did.
I like his videos, but I don't trust his numbers in this one. He shows a COP of ~1 when it's 10 degrees out. These are the easiest possible conditions for the HP, and where all the specs show the highest COP. His graph showing the HP is running equal to a baseboard heater seems very suspect.
If you google the New Yorker and Atlantic articles on shoplifting issues in the US, you get a slightly more nuanced take combining them all.

What I take away is that retail theft 1) is technically on the rise, mostly due to the ability to then sell those goods online, including on Amazon 2) It doesn't impact major retail chains by much, basically they do what they've always done and just adjust prices. It actually helps amazon on some other online sellers. BUT 3) it definitely contributes to how shitty it is to actually work retail 4) AND it will influence where places like Walgreens set up shop (I'm neutral on this, I would rather have a bunch of local corner stores than walgreens)
sure. i was part of the 2012-14 crowd so i've seen a lot. anyway, the point here is, these governments are taking big brother steps because that is what seems reasonable to them. Remember facebook libra? it wanted piece of crypto pie by needlessly being a part of it "just because".

These are yet another attempts. I am pretty sure it will be forced.

No one has been able to sell me this one idea.

Conventional banking already has all the surveilance, account freezing, spending limits, interest rates, collateral, instant use so why bring blockchain?
> I've been thinking of building a "poor man's cluster" using every old phone, Kindle, or laptop.

I think the Africans have beaten you to that idea already.

https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_uk/news/c/cleaning-u/cleaning-u...

On a more serious note though, repurposing old tech is perfectly valid, all we need is more programmers, so should programming become a mandatory lesson taught at schools in order to reduce e-waste, alongside Maths English & Science?

And would it lead to a world looking like this https://i.redd.it/z123hws4wtj31.jpg or like this https://i.redd.it/shvbec21k8y81.png
?
That’s distinct from just having school buses. Most school bus service does not exist to desegregate school districts.
You can mock the RNG. You don’t need to test/prove it’s random, you need to test your code which is not random.