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> Passport checks for air travellers lifted as Bulgaria and Romania join EU's Schengen

As always top journalism at work. /s

Maybe they shall ask bulgarians and romanians.
Web3 and crypto? Is anybody still talking about that stuff? That's pretty 2023. I feel like discussion of those topics is pretty dead, at least in the places I lurk.
It could be, but even today without Bun, a common approach is to do type checking in a separate step from the build. This is because tsc doesn’t parallelize well, so type checking will slow down the build a lot. So you can put the type check step in a separate CI job, and have it fail like unit tests would. Then the main build can be a lot faster since it just has to strip the annotations.

Plus, for local dev, iteration and watch/rebuild is more important than failing with invalid types on every change. Sometimes it’s helpful to circle back to fix/update types after you’ve tried a couple approaches. (TS can still be finicky at times!) On top of that, your IDE should report type errors as you work anyways.
Yeah I meant language level support to make it viable, which rebuilding a gazillion times doesn't really sound like.
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Do any of the car manufactorers want to sell you their base model? Even if they did, how would Ford dealers feel about Ford selling rivian the rights to make better Ford cars?
Skit or ad?
I thought these were linden trees this whole time.
We have it in Germany for years too (in densely populated areas) and my subjective impression is that next to none was using it for a long time but that it's picking up slowly.

For one thing I think these things take years for broad acceptance and for another the current scanners with their bright and large displays are just what was needed to make it attractive for the young and elderly.
Awesome, many things this could be useful for. How often does it update?
It compiles python to we assembly which then runs on their modified V8 runtime. We assembly is generally a non solution to any problem, especially not this one. While it is convenient it is a clear lack of engineering ability that they can't implement a proper Python runtime.

The reasons to not use wasm are many - the tool chains for emscripten are not well documented, hacky, and we're not built to the quality you'd expect from a compiler. After all it's doing something nothing was designed for.

The performance will never be an improvement over a native engine, much of the context is lost in translation when compiling to wasm.
Nope, they were using camera technology and QR codes
Solera sold risk management and asset protection software. A company with $1bn+ in annual sales [1] is a money-laundering operation?

Hint - Most ultra-rich people make their money in boring industries you wouldn't even know about.

1- https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/delisted/SLH/solera-holdi...
Tesla's 'nightmare' year continues as a big drop in deliveries sends stock down
Because for a long time the ICE manufacturers were making half-hearted play attempts at EVs, and Tesla came in and made real EVs and had a huge stock play related to that.

So now the ICEs are scrambling to catch up, and are doing so, but lots of money is flowing around hoping to be the next Tesla.
The fancier rice cookers monitor what's going on inside and turn off when the last of the liquid is gone. At the lower end I do not like them because that ends up somewhat overcooking the rice next to the heating surface--I prefer putting it in the microwave using settings I have determined by experiment to work. Perfect every time.

I presume the more expensive ones are better at avoiding overcooking but it seems to me hard to conceive of a conduction-heat system that doesn't suffer this problem to some degree.
FWIW, this was the fourth attempt by Walmart to get Scan'n'Go working well (each one a complete reboot). It was majority designed and built by two talented developers who were acqui-hired and managed at at distance by another acqui-hire developer.
Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany
The Navy is hard at work on many clean-up projects, from Red Hill to joint operations for the Baltimore Bridge. Partnering with the Army Corps of Engineers and local and state resources
The Ribena lobby is strong
Jia Tan wasn't rude, but the original maintainer Laser Collin probably wouldn't have been as burned out and willing to give responsibility to them if the community wasn't as rude and demanding of someone doing free work for them.

I think we need to start paying more of these open source maintainers and have some staff/volunteers that can help them manage their git hub issue volume.
Also agreed. If shareholders don't want that, they're free to vote him out, or keep him if they're okay with the private flights.
My mother describes laying out the program flow on index cards (or recycled punch cards depending on what was available) on the living room floor and walking through the program/room with a notebook tracking the program state.

To her that was debugging

This was mid to late 60s
Destination: Ukraine Aid ?
Please explain how shelfware provides economic value. Imagine I make some wizbang software capable of increasing GDP by 50%, but it never gets used. What value did that bring to the economy?

I think you are misunderstanding the fallacy you linked. I've already said multiple times there are multiple dimensions to value. The economy is specifically about goods and services sold, so yes, we should measure production. It says nothing of other dimensions. You can have a job that is of immense social value (e.g., clergy or dog fostering or whatever) while only having marginal economic value. So what other non-productive economic dimensions do you suggest? I suspect anything you name would go into a different category than economics (e.g., quality of life). That's fundamentally misunderstanding my point.

You seem to be saying "See that idle factory over there!? Look at everything it's contributing to the economy!" and I'm saying "It's not contributing anything because it's idle." And there may still be other dimensions to its value. Maybe the architecture has artistic value, or it's history has cultural value. But none of those domains move the needle at all for economic value. I have been very clear in constraining my argument to economic value for a good reason, and it's not about your linked fallacious argument.

Since this discussion concerns wages, my claim was that economic value addition is the most highly correlated with pay. You may say we should compensate people more for what they bring to society rather than just what they bring to the economy, and I would probably agree. But that's not the system we're working under and that is my point.
Haha fair play, this is exactly how things should be!
Siri was released under Steve Jobs. It has always been bad.
How can Robinhood afford 3% cash back on its new credit card?
project manager (pm) is the bare minimum that Product Manager (PM) has to do.

Unfortunately, a lot of PM's only check the project manager box.
My brain needed some time to process the "Last updated 94/09/30" at the end. Oh, he means 1994!
The company is currently valued at $530 billion.

Compare this to Toyota, who sold 11 million cars last year (~20x Tesla), is worth $385 billion.

It is still grossly over valued.
They sure are
Many open source projects often already do receive US government funding, mostly through an onerous grant-application process. Nationalizing American open source projects could make them operate more like European open source where their EU funding is open and clear. The detrimental trade-off, however, is that the American agencies most capable to support and contribute directly to infrastructure security have burned away all trust from the rest of the world. Direct contributions directly from those USG agencies would reduce global trust in those projects even worse.
Wouldn't that just result in exploits written for old versions? A successful exploit for something that everyone is running might be worse, than a backdoor on blending edge systems.

Everyone being on different versions results in something like a moving target
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> Imagine that next time you are drunk, you can hire a driver who will drive you back home remotely (along with some AI to stop the car in case connection goes away).

Is this satire? It doesn't seem like a fantastic idea to allow someone to remotely pilot a car over a transoceanic Internet link.
If you're not getting paid then it's just a hobby. And there's nothing wrong with hobbies. As a FOSS contributor myself I feel no obligation to promote FOSS adoption. Quality, security, and professionalism are not my problem; anyone who cares about those things is welcome to fork my code.
Stop and Shop now has self-checkout where you have to scan and move your items one at a time into your bag, because it's doing continuous weight-based reconciliation.

So if you have six of the same yoghurt, you have to scan them and then place them in your bag one at a time. And if you have a 24 pack of sodas, you need to haul it out of your cart onto the scales as you're checking out. And if anything goes wrong (item didn't weight what the system expected; you moved the item too fast onto the scales etc) then you get a "please wait while someone helps you", which involves an employee having to come and clear the error.
looks clean but unexciting. you may wish to spend some more time on the mobile view as the spacing looks bad.
Tuning the vowel to consonant ratio was an important part of optimizing scrabbles appeal to users actually, back in the day
The thing is, I'd say Rivian is considerably more fashionable at this point. The only problem with them is potentially going out of business.
The scandal where Target data scientists bragged to reporters about knowing when teenage girls are pregnant before their fathers broke in 2012, and they said they were doing it since 2002. It was based entirely on data mining purchase histories with rewards cards at the register. No fancy AI or facial recognition needed.
Farmed Python snake meat a sustainable and efficient source of protein
Right. Before all water at the bottom has evaporated, the temperature is 100C. After all water has evaporated, the temperature rises uncontrolled due to lack of latent heat. So basically it just shuts off when the temperature exceeds 100C, and the classic mechanism is to formulate a magnet that loses its magnetism at that temperature (all permanent magnets have an operating temperature, and it can be tweaked during manufacturing) and at that point it's just a leaf spring switch that the magnet conditionally attracts.
The QR alphanumeric input encoding does not include basic URL query string characters like '?' '&' '='
Ok, lets be realistic about our threat models.

This attack wouldn't have done much if you were running fast and loose with dependencies but had proper layered network infrastructure. There should never be a single point of failure where a single supply chain attack, 0-day, insider threat, etc should be able to kill you and it's not that hard to achieve this.

Put your shit inside a VPN, secure the systems inside the VPN as if they're connected directly to the internet, vlan or even airgap systems that are hyper critical, etc.

I build satellites where we actually do some of the supply chain caching and review, but it's for very specific things that are absolutely mission critical and the risk of >0days is lower than the risk of a memory leak locking up a system.

Think critically about what it would take to access and pivot within your network.
My CS professor would be proud
> I think that the scan-as-you-shop style systems are definitely the next realistic step for grocery stores.

Scan-as-you-shop has been around for at least a decade at this point I think, at least in some parts of the world. ICA (supermarket in Sweden) been doing it for as long as I can remember, and I came across this image of the scanner being used at the store on Mediawiki: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self_checkout_scanne... (Image uploaded 2011)

Surely this exists elsewhere too, or been judged to only work in certain contexts (like a high-trust environment like Sweden) and won't be the next realistic step.
Monocytes are supposed to have a lifespan of 1 to 7 days. Can someone explain why (for some) spike is still present after 245 days?
I'm sorry to hear that! This post is very short; you might increase your chances for success by making it easier/safer for folks to bring you on. If you have any portfolio or project history that would be good, as would any specializations that might help (php and js are broad places - do you want to do server side stuff? React? Are you particularly good with laraval?).

Alternatively/additionally maybe you could pitch niche projects you think you would be great at because of past experience (update code to new versions/libs, add a contact form to existing homepages, move things to cheaper hosting, integrate an internal system with someone's existing crm, automate marketing emails based on customer activity, etc).

Outsourcing is risky - help derisk it for potential customers by making them feel like you can deliver, you're trustworthy, you're competent, and you understand their needs.

I believe in you and I hope you get so much contract work you never have to get another fulltime job.
Can't wait til I'm seeing half-porn ads logging into my OSS or work chats.

If only a bunch of folks had told us EXACTLY THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
>> The main problems I see in 99% of the cases of a founder looking for a technical co-founder are:

>> 1. The founder sees themselves as the ideas person but ...

Ideas are like assholes ... everybody has one and they're usually full of shit.
I had a hard time choosing which comment to select to reply, so I chose yours since it's higher up. Apologies if it's irrelevant.

I don't know why most people assume that hackers even bother with stolen credit cards in the first place. I mean, they sure do, but those are your average Joes in the business of refund reshipping and other types of scams.

Those who want the maximum anonymity don't even bother with buying anything. It's as simple as going to one of the popular websites who leak databases, setting up OpenBullet software or spending anywhere from 1 to 5 hours writing custom mail:pass validators to spam requests to either API or login form through (once again) leaked proxies, etc. using leaked credentials. Or simply going into one of those threads titled 'x100 Mullvad accounts" which have already validated accounts with anywhere from 1m pre-paid to multiple years. And there's even a bonus of not being shown as a user of this account if you do not use official App and simply load configuration manually through ovpn, etc.

And then there's proxy-chaining if you're doing something truly nefarious. It's super easy to chain multiple VPNs with few socks proxies.

People behind XZ backdoor to me look much more smarter than myself, so I would bet they took care of this angle and will be untraceable.
well, it's the bazaar vs the cathedral, isn't it? bazaar moves a lot faster. Everyone likes that part, except when it breaks things, and when they have to chase an upstream that's constantly churning, etc. but most people don't consider that a cathedral itself might have some engineering merit too. cathedrals are beautiful and polished and stable.

I highly encourage people to try freeBSD sometime. Give ports a try (although the modern sense is that poudrie is better even if you want custom-built packages). See how nicely everything works. All the system options you need go into rc.conf (almost uniformly). Everything is documented and you can basically operate the system out of the FreeBSD Handbook documentation (it's not at all comparable to the "how to use a window or a menu" level intro stuff the linux provides). You can't do that when everything is furiously churning every release. everything just works, everything is just documented, it's an experience when you're coming from linux.

and that forum post from 2007 on how to tweak a service script is probably still valid, because BSD hasn't had 3 different init systems over that timespan etc.

just like "engineering is knowing how to build a bridge that barely doesn't fall over", engineering here is knowing what not to churn, and fitting your own work and functionality extensions into the existing patterns etc. like it doesn't have to be even "don't make a bigger change than you have to", you just have to present a stable userland and stable kernel interface and stable init/services interface. the fact that linux doesn't present a stable kernel interface is actually fairly sketchy/poor engineering, it doesn't have to be that way, a large subset of kernel interfaces probably should be stable.
Worth about $131 million right? That escalated quickly, as they say.
Yeah, but gaining trust with benign patchset would be the first step.
Conformer-Based Speech Recognition on Extreme Edge-Computing Devices
This doesn't read as a technical failure to me. This was 99% social engineering. I understand that the build system was used a vector, but eliminating that vector doesn't mean all doors are closed. The attacker took advantage of someone having trouble.
Why not go with the Raspberry Pi 5?
More info on Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalkül
JVM runs java bytecode.

Java bytecode is compiled from Java (javac), Scala (scalac), etc
GPT Chats with T-Mobile Support to get discounts
Working on a chrome extension that connects GPT to a bunch of companies support, like xfinity and geico.
Sorry if I wasn't clear but I didn't doubt that it was slow, I doubted that it fundamentally had to be slow.
For anyone who hasn't yet seen the pseudo-Aristotle "On Trolling": https://philpapers.org/archive/BARAOT-9.pdf
They need to join us in the 80s and start using source control.
Exactly how will proof of work help this at all?
For what it’s worth, I’d be much more interested in working for your company using Rust and Svelte compared to python and react.

If you need someone with experience working with Rust and Svelte, I’m looking for work and value making quality decisions like you did. Now you can point to at least one dev who has the skills your team lead was concerned about finding.
> worrying that the generative technology could taint the final output with the creative imprint of another brand, while also expressing concerns about the potential use of their own intellectual property being used to train AI models.

Those reasons don’t seem that valid. Surely another brands creative imprint would be seen before publication and could equally be introduced from using 3rd party stock content or artists that have worked on other projects.

Not letting your ad agency use AI won’t stop your content being used to train other AI models either.
Every time I read about about how slow really old computers were, I say an internal "thank you" to Bell Labs for the transistor. I'll occasionally see a YouTube video about vacuum tube or relay based computers, and they'll show their operations on the order of 3-10 operations per second. And here I am writing this comment with something whose operations are on the order of billions per second.
It’s not going to be the end of the world but it could easily be economically devastating.
The difference is it's usually not "worth it" to break it out in the case of an employee (the advantage is the other way, where the company buys a car and lets the employee drive it, and ignores personal use).

With $2m on the line, it is worth it even just for the tax savings.
Incredible how quickly they walked through the playbook on this one.
First they tried the "it was a khamas roadside bomb".
This was already weak and half-assed given we already saw the pictures of the car.

Then they claiemd there was an armed man with them, but that doesn't explain why they also hunted the survivors to finish them off with THREE (3) seperate air strikes.

It is extremely blatant that this was an intentional effort to block more food from getting into gaza.

The IDF is a disqusting and evil organization.
Yes on paper this looks like a great and very practical vehicle for many people, but boy am I hesitant to buy a Chrysler product with this amount of drivetrain complexity. You've got everything that can fail in a fairly high tech ICE drivetrain, plus everything that can fail in an EV drivetrain, made by the lowest reliability major automaker.
As a German it is always a culture shock to see how popular self checkout is in the UK, even though I see it used more often recently in Germany too. I think Germany is about a decade behind...
In addition to what everyone else said, they are nitrogen fixing, so their leaf litter creates too much nitrogen for most native plants to grow.
Albert Heijn does this in the Netherlands, tied to your loyalty card. You can even import your shopping list and show it on the little hand scanners. At the end, you scan your loyalty card and it shows up on the self checkout.

I think it’s great, I get to go around the shop with a little laser gun.
The grocery industry generally has pretty low margins. Wal-Mart's profit margin is 2.39%.

If you go into a grocery shop to grab lunch, spending $8 on 4 items, and they make 5 cents of profit per item? They need to run an extremely lean operation.

Or target price-insensitive customers, I suppose.
Yes this has tons of potential. It's analogous but different to patented techniques used by Unreal engine. Performance is not the focus in most research at the moment. There isn't even alignment on unified format with compression yet. The potential for optimization is very clear and straightforward to adapt to many devices, it's similar to point cloud LOD, mesh culling, etc. Splat performance could be temporary competitive advantage for viewers, but similar to video decompression and other 3d standards that are made available via open source, it will likely become commonplace in a few years to have high quality high fps splat viewing on most devices as tablestakes. The next question is what are the applications thereof.
I’m struggling with motivation. You don’t need to attack a superpower’s diplomats to test a weapon. What were we doing in Havana that Moscow cared so much about?
I chuckled a bit too when I saw it.

By the way, what's the compute power difference between an A100 and a 4090?
The more expensive fuzzy logic-based rice cookers are more “accurate” in the sense that they have a better idea of when your rice is actually done cooking. This makes your rice cooking more deterministic.

As to whether this is worth the extra cost, it depends on your budget and how frequently you cook rice.
ChatGPT is also trained by the efforts of thousands of people in low income countries getting paid a pittance. We don't hear about it much because it's easier to credit a few suits at the top as harbingers of the future.
Performance aside, someone needs to figure out a generalizable way to make the scenes dynamic before it will really be usable for games. History is littered with alternatives to triangles meshes that looked promising until we realised there's no efficient way to animate them.
That's the level of petty I aspire to, but don't have the energy to deliver on.
Most of the large chain supermarkets in the UK have this, but my anecdata is that it's relatively less used that self checkoit by a ratio of 3:1
i've written about this multiple times on HN and always got downvoted

I work in the CV industry and this was a very badly kept secret. There is absolutely no financially feasible way to run something like this with current CV
Hey, big companies--there's a market for this! Why is there no commercial product that does something of the sort? Power drops below X watts for Y minutes, send notification.
Tesla quarterly deliveries decline in nearly four years