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I had some of the Philips EE2000 stuff in Germany, and then the Radio Shack 130-in-1 after we moved to Canada. It was all great, however, the manuals for the Radio Shack kits aren't very good at actually teaching electronics. It was a revelation to find, many years later at a thrift store, an Elenco brand kit, same spring clip-through-cardboard technology, but with an absolutely fantastic manual that is a basic electronics education in fun form. That makes all the difference.

More recently, found a 160-ish-in-1 set, the kind with one quad NAND gate, one dual op amp. Challenged myself to do something really hard with it, namely, display incrementing digits on the 7-segment display as the potentiometer is turned. I got as far as 1-2-3-4. It may just barely be possible, maybe, to get to 1-2-3-4-5. I never tried that but I did manage a circuit that displays binary counts from 000 to 111, yes, 7 increments, using three of the LEDs in the 7-segment display. This was intended as a challenge for others, one a teenager, the other an adult, who had shown transient interest in learning electronics, but neither took up the challenge.

I do have a writeup for the 1-2-3-4 circuit if anyone wants it privately (m a r k u s @ w a n d e l . c a), and I think I did make a wiring list for the 000-111 circuit. Both the sets have gone of course, given to the intended challengees.
Perhaps that is part of the problem with these laws: we are playing a game of whack-a-mole instead of tackling the issue of mental health. While I personally avoid social media due to privacy concerns, I have encountered other adults my age who have expressed that they avoid social media for reasons related to mental health. While walking through my neighbourhood, it is clear that there are many people with mental health issues that society has all but abandoned. Then there are the people who have issues that they do not talk about and cannot be seen.
>> I just don't think your use case of "I want to capture the Python from Xcode in my dev env so it's resilient to changes and upgrades" is something anyone wants (or should want) to do.

> Then you are wrong. Simple as that. I’m describing a very real scenario.

>> Do you really want to ship on that version?

> Holy moly, is it really that hard to understand the difference between wanting and having to? For the use case, and older version in a consistent place which is easy to install is the best solution.

Tone is hard on the internet, but I'm honestly trying to understand your use case. The way I understand it now is "I want to be able to develop Python programs locally using only Xcode's Python." I'm still not sure why you want to (generally when people ship Python programs they bundle a runtime) but let's set that to the side. For this use case, I don't understand why symlinks don't work for you. Xcode installs to versioned folders so you can have multiple Xcode installs side by side, that way new versions won't overwrite things. I'm obviously not an expert here though; am I missing something?
We’re fine, thanks.
To be able to reach the port. You could argue that such bridges shouldn’t be built in front of ports, but the public also doesn’t like having to drive long detours, and the likelihood of an incident like this one is very low.
It's like borrowing on your house and buy bitcoin with it.
Fortunately, it looks as if Adobe has gotten so big that they won't be allowed to buy much more --- witness the recent Figma deal which was shut down.
> It's not just PMs though: developers are forced into resume driven development by hiring practices

I was laid off from my last gig in January because the company was running out of money. Last week I saw a former coworker share how excited they were to turn a perfectly functional and internal website built with html and css into a react app with redux and nextjs. I couldn’t believe a company running out of money would have a developer do that when it doesn’t affect revenue generation whatsoever. And I can’t believe the dev didn’t stop to think that the previous website was already perfect. There were never any complaints. Their LinkedIn post had tons of likes. I’m happy that they were happy, but I was left a little concerned.
Firmware crashes => days long "open source it and I'll fix it. no? why does AMD hate its customers?"

I got an appointment and have exactly one minute till I have to leave, apologies for brevity: they can't open source the full driver because then they'd have to release HDMI spec stuff that the consortium says they can't. (I don't support any of that, my only intent is to communicate George isn't really locked in here when he starts casting aspersions or claiming AMD doesn't care)
This name reminds of an LogCat, Android Studio’s logging tool.
It's been talked to death but non-CUDA implementations have their challenges regardless of use case. That's what first-mover advantage and > 15 years of investment by Nvidia in their overall ecosystem will do for you.

But support for production serving of inference workloads outside of CUDA is universally dismal. This is where I spend most of my time and compared to CUDA anything else is non-existent or a non-starter unless you're all-in on packaged API driven Google/Amazon/etc tooling utilizing their TPUs (or whatever). The most significant vendor/cloud lock-in I think I've ever seen.

Efficient and high-scale serving of inference workloads is THE thing you need to do to serve customers and actually have a chance at ever making any money. It's shocking to me that Nvidia/CUDA has a complete stranglehold on this obvious use case.
I suppose one could argue is that if you were recording cable, your recording the decrypted image alas breaking DRM.

My guess is as best as yours. Lawyers enjoy flinging three letter acronyms around.
For a more stdlib-oriented implementation you could look at this proxy: https://github.com/jpillora/go-tcp-proxy/blob/master/proxy.g...
There's at least some incentive for China to not place snooping gear in products made in their country by other nations' companies.

Let's say the factories that make MacBooks get infiltrated by Chinese intelligence and they somehow managed to put some sort of technology in the product that allowed for them to compromise it. Sooner or later US intelligence is going to find out, at which point someone in the US government is going to have a very stern talk with Tim Cook about terminating any and all business with their Chinese suppliers now.

This causes ripple effects as other countries drop Chinese suppliers, causing economic problems for the country. The CCP, for all of its faults, knows that it can't continue to piss on the basic rights of Chinese citizens if the economy goes south there. It's a careful balancing act of bread, circuses, and brutally repressive totalitarian single-party politics.

If you start buying Huawei infrastructure en masse, you lose that leverage over the Chinese to keep their snooping gear out of the stuff you buy from them.

Again, when the mainland Chinese developed any real computer-based telecommunications in their country between 2000 and 2010, the first thing they decided to do with it was start tearing into other countries' networks and infrastructure. They did this before even creating recognizable Chinese brand names for consumer devices. They used their chance at a first impression to brand themselves as state-backed black hats, and they're going to suffer from that until there's major reforms in the Chinese government.
> Was a report sent to the king of Spain about the brutality of conquistadors?

Yes, most famously from Bartolomé de las Casas. If you'd like to see how Christopher Columbus was viewed by his contemporaries, I'd recommend the three-part podcast series from Behind the Bastards: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...

Similarly, there were many contemporaries to slavery and other periods of colonialism who were very openly critical of them and organised in opposition. The key difference is that these tended to be ad hoc social movements and rarely international, whereas today we have supernational bodies like the UN to coordinate these reports (and, in theory, to co-ordinate international action in response to them).
You're biased https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Cri...
Categorizing sources into "renewable" and "non-renewable" doesn't change the math.

Centuries ago, our primary power source was lumber. Later it was coal and then whales and then oil. In the future it will be solar panels and fission and then fusion. The energy output of 1kg of fuel for a fusion reactor is many orders of magnitude more than what can be captured from burning 1kg of lumber.

And it's not a matter of "discovering a deposit". Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the solar system and in the universe.
> The water there was deep enough to be able to deal with loaded container ships. So, tens of meters at least.

There are only a handful of ships in the world with a draft of more than 20 meters. The ship involved in the collision has a (maximum) draft of 15 meters.
Money is a side issue people are generally a lot more productive than we where 50 years ago and the US population is 50% larger. That means the government has a lot more resources to work with though how it spends them is another question.

I think people feel poorer because income inequality increased so much. New homes are huge because new home buyers are the upper end of the wealth curve. Same deal with cars etc. Stuff that targets everyone like normal sized TV's ends up being extremely cheap because revealed preferences show people buy cheap when it's an option.
You are literally posting to social media right now.
You don't need to build the bridge to an absurd strength, but it may have been insufficiently marked as a navigational hazard. Something like a few well-lit pillars 500 feet upstream in the water would have given the ship plenty of warning to change course, since a vessel travelling at 5 knots takes about a minute to go 500 feet. The total bridge length is on the order of 10,000 feet, so widening the safe area around the pillars to 500 feet would not be a significant impediment to navigation.
Talk about big government encroaching on personal liberties!
Speaking of which, mega props to Groq, they really are awesome, so many startups launch with bullshit and promises, but Groq came to the scene with something awesome already working, which is reason enough to love them. I really respect this company and I say that extremely never-often.
What investors? As far as I know they were never VC funded. Affinity wasn’t a dinky startup, the parent company (Serif) was founded almost four decades ago.
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It really seems that the whole software world has decided to move to monthly payments. It really irks me. I don't want this.
Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says
> Pope, who is an obvious contender, has a background in finance. Dave Gitlin, a Boeing director who is chief executive of Carrier, which manufactures heating and cooling systems, has a background in aerospace, previously holding roles at Collins Aerospace and United Technologies.

> A third possible contender is Patrick Shanahan, head of Boeing’s supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which supplied the door plug that blew out during the Alaska Airlines flight in January. He previously spent three decades at the plane maker. Greg Smith, American Airlines chair and a former Boeing finance director, is seen as another potential candidate.
Are there examples of that?
If you think about this for a minute, you'll realize that what you're asking for is pretty much impossible.

What would these artificial islands be made of? Sand, gravel, concrete rubble? This is a river, the constant current of the water erodes anything that resists it by staying in place. Piling up enough material to resist erosion and create a meaningful obstacle to 70000 tonnes in motion, that would significantly narrow and make shallow the navigable waterway. The only way to do this is to build giant underwater concrete towers -- basically the structures pylons typically rest on, the piers. Look up the process required to build these, it's quite an undertaking. They are engineered to withstand the pressure of ice floes every spring, they're not flimsy by any measure.
Article got 7 points & 3 comments yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820964
A bunch of people die and this is your response?
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Apparently a mummy is an almond nut that was not harvested and remained on the tree. Some pests depend on these to survive the winter, so having them on trees is a risk.
> but advice doesn't go away just because it stops being true.

yeah it kinda does. context is everything and 20 years ago is a wayyyy different time. MeToo and brutal gender politics have changed the landscape, and most of the younger folks I work or interact with -- discord, man -- have implied that they're struggling with meeting people, struggling with fear (of being accused of something, or fear of men accosting them), often short on cash, and living with their parents -- which makes bringing somebody home difficult.

in-person is always an option, but I get why people may not feel that way.
I don't know why this is taking so long or why he's fighting it. He will easily win this case citing New York Times Company v. United States as the precedent.

A publisher is allowed to publish state secrets if they aren't the ones who originally obtained them.
Protobuf does not have built-in delimiters or sync markers between records, which makes it not possible to start reading from an arbitrary point in the middle of a Protobuf-encoded file and correctly interpret the data. That makes Protobuf not a splitable format.
What's in an Ecosystem?
>I don't know what's wrong with me

I would be much more concerned if you didn't feel devastated by this and you didn't want to cry.

What you're describing is a normal human reaction to a tragedy.
It's clearly visible in the video that the ship loses power twice before the collision.
Indeed. We've been round this when Facebook etc (most recently Glassdoor) instituted "real name" policies.

I'm rather confused about HN's response to this because normally when a media platform voluntarily tries to censor certain kinds of bad behavior there's a massive backlash here, and now there's seemingly overwhelming support for simply removing a whole category of people from being able to speak at all, along with whatever real ID policy gets put in place to make it work.
This is going to have a huge impact on traffic patterns in the mid Atlantic. The bridge carries 695 (the Baltimore beltway) across the river. Although I95 goes through Baltimore, 695 is one of two major bypass routes that’s a more direct shot from places south of the city to places north of the city (the other being the Baltimore harbor tunnel carrying 895). Unlike the Philadelphia bridge span collapse recently, I don’t foresee this bridge being rebuilt anytime soon.
Users enter text. That's how it always has been, because they use keyboard.

If format is set to General, Excel tries to make the best guess what is inputted and convert it to that value, so things like SUM work. That is very sensible behavior.

Your accountant doesn't want to set format and only then enter number. She has a job to do, so just do it for her.

Same thing for dates. This guessing algorithm has some edge behavior, but always happens. C# DateTime.TryParse("DEC12") will deduce date is 2012-12-01. Yay?

Do you want to keep it as text? Add ' as a first character (it's not considered a part of the string) or format cells to non-General format (e.g. Text) before entering a text.
Sorry, this is not true _at all_ for geospatial data.

A quick benchmark [0] shows that saving to GeoPackage, FlatGeobuf, and GeoParquet are roughly 10x faster than saving to CSV. Additionally, the CSV is much larger than any other format.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/kylebarron/f632bbf95dbb81c571e4e64cd...
I'm really surprised the software isn't simply a fully online webapp...

This is designed for small employers - they want something easy like a website, not specialist software they need to install with a database that must be backed up manually.

For those businesses with extreme corner cases ("we don't have internet", "we only pay employees on the full moon", etc), let them continue to use the old paper forms.
Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO
This would be a great time for Canva to reassure customers that they don’t intend to change Affinity‘s business model. Not to say such assurances are even a reliable indicator of future plans, but it would at least be a nice gesture.
As a broad methodology it isn't torture per say, sure. But the implementation in the vast majority of our justice systems 100% no question is aggregious torture.

Digestible source: last week tonight: https://youtu.be/_uSZwErdH3I?si=DfHkVDbGegVt06tJ

More detailed source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/30/hellhole
Organic gardening is the third "alternative", and it has been proven to work, work well, refined for hundreds of thousands of years, is well known and the risks are known extremely well.

It's not robotics or chemical, that's a false dichotomy.

And yes, I am aware of the "tradeoffs" of organic farming. But it still is a viable business plan, often the farmers' margins (at least in west EU) are much higher than "chemical farming". And no, not always is the yield lower. Nor are the crops it always more expensive. And no, the common conception that "we cannot feed the world with organic farming" is also disproven.
He has also been selective in his releases and timed them to affect political outcomes.

He’s just another biased media source with an agenda.
>The github you linked shows ~1200, not 1800 which is orders of magnitude difference.

1200 is the Elo of the small gpt model the github owner trained. 1800 is the Elo of gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct.

https://twitter.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431?...

>As an avid chess and GPT person, I've tried to get it to play decent chess but can't.

You are not using the model that can play chess. It can only be accessed by Open AI's playground under the Completions endpoint.

https://platform.openai.com/playground?mode=complete&model=g...
You have no understanding of prisons.
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> that would mean giving you access to the entire thing

There's clearly a skill issue at play here and your intuition is correct
The article is all speculation and not fact. Sorry OP but this is just garbage content.
It could be worse than canva, which is actually pretty great value when used with a free account. Also, Canva seems to take design kind of seriously. For example google Slides still can't do any font kerning after all these years.
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Show HN: Personno – Product Research Platform with AI Respondents
Hi everyone! I've been developing Personno for about a month, focusing on core functionalities like conducting surveys and interviews. It's nearing completion and should be live in a week. As I'm still in the discovery phase, feedback and opinions are invaluable to me. I want to ensure it's built in a way that truly benefits users. Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
I'd unironically support raising the voting age in the US to 25. I was an idiot when I was 18 and had no business picking a leader of any kind.

There's something to be said for waiting until people have actual life experience.
Sure, precautions might not work as well as intended.

But my comment was in regards to having to build a really expensive bridge to make it crash resistant. I pointed out that you can instead build a cheap flimsy bridge and put the protection in the water around the pylons.

My impression is that the Baltimore bridge had no such extra protection (?) In that case, it's not really "the best design", right?
The smoke was likely from the engines running at full reverse to avoid the collision. But the ship lost power (you can see its lights going out in the video) and thus the ability to steer.
That would be pointless as they will 100% be changing the business model. We’ve learned that over the past 20 years. RIP Affinity and one-time purchases.
Have you considered https://github.com/dolthub/dolt for your use case?
How much population did the Romans build for? How much weight were the Romans subjecting their structures to, and at what acceleration/deceleration?

Do you know the movements of the supply and demand curves of the materials required since Roman times?

These types of hypotheticals are a waste of time, and only serve to illustrate hubris, as if something as complicated as comparing Roman construction and resources to modern day construction and resources could be possible.
The main problem with fibers/goroutines and FFI is that one of the benefits of fibers is that each fiber starts with a very small stack (usually just a few kBs) unlike native threads usually starting with a much larger stack (usually expressed in MB). The problem is that the code must be prepared to grow the stack if necessary, which is not compatible with the C FFI. That's one of the reasons why Go's FFI to C, for example, is slower than Rust.
It's a state government restricting minors ...
I depend on Affinity products, and am not sure how to take this news. When Adobe tried to buy Figma, I knew both companies very well and knew equally well that Adobe would ruin Figma if they owned it. I'm glad that it didn't happen. But I don't know anything about Canva as a company. Product acquisitions usually have a certain trajectory, and my default assumption is that this will follow it: deeper, unasked-for integration with Canva's other products, a new pricing model, a brand new feature roadmap driven by the desire to make back their money, the departure of key figures from Affinity about a year from now. I hope I'm wrong though!
Just so you know, the URL you linked isn't loading for me.
I am on the fence about Assange.

At the very least, I see him now as a warning to others that powerful state actors are happy to use free-information advocates as pawns in their agenda to destabilize their opponents.
I just responded to that. It isn't the parser that's a buggy. The parser handles the quotes just fine. If it didn't, that would be a serious bug in the `csv` crate that oodles of users would run into all the time. There would be forks over it if it had persisted for that long.

The problem is that `xsv table` doesn't print the parsed contents. It just prints CSV data, but with tabs, and then those tabs are expanded to spaces for alignment. Arguably it ought to print the parsed contents, i.e., with quotes unescaped.

It almost looks like it's doing that because the quotes are removed in one case, but that's only because the CSV writer knows when it doesn't need to write quotes.
I hate these statements. They could have said something like:

"We got bought by Canva because they want more independence/alternatives from Adobe. We can invest more in development. Expect more integrations with Canva. Currently there are no plans for changes to our business model"

But they didn't. Their statement was meaningless with zero information. Which means either they will absolutely enshitificate everything or they didn't care to ask or they didn't clarify it during negotiations.

All reasons to stay far away from now on. I was planning to buy their suit for a whole team next month. Time to look elsewhere.
Affinity is amazing (I use Designer, and my dad loves Photo). Canva is actually pretty amazing too. It's going to stir things up, for sure.
If you believe “free world” should be in quotes you need to travel more or talk to more expats.

Maybe we really do need a little dance with authoritarianism here to remind people what that is.