skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the problem. The military needs single-use drones in high volume, and the production capacity/scale for that can only exist if it's subsidized by the consumer industry.

> You cannot compete with China even if we annexed Mexico for cheap labor in order to manufacture high volume low profit drones.

DJI isn't making drones by hand, they have automated factories. But its only worth building an automated factory if you're selling at a massive scale. Banning DJI drones in the US lets you build a factory in the US that can eventually get costs down.

And it's also dumb to fund your opponent's war production lines.
If I already have passing tests for anything function A might do, I can safely assume it will behave the same when called from B, C and D.
An execution pipeline in a functional language is just half a relation in Prolog. Prolog allows you to also run it 'backwards', you can provide the output and have it figure out what the inputs would need to be.
I have the last consumer Skydio model, and I'm thinking of selling it to buy a DJI. Skydio has way more intelligence, but the camera quality just isn't there. Footage is ok for social media and that's about it.
If you can't get #1 on G2, create a new category. That's what I did
In a bathroom, a hot lamp is likely intentional. It's typically on its own circuit for use while taking a hot shower.
What if the LLM is biased against words that start with e or biased towards sentences having five words? Using your technique how would you discover such biases? If highly paid lawyers know about some such innate LLM quirks might they exploit them to get a biased decision?
Had an epiphany like this after an earlier startup project failed, which my cofounder and I had tried to do following the formulaic approaches advocated by various accelerators, investors, and experts (often people with zero experience running a startup, but had been involved as angels after BigCo stock options vested, and then got into mentoring local accelerators).

I hated the startup theater, pitching, networking, and accelerator applications including YC and TechStars and MassChallenge. My cofounder flaked. I wound down business #1, returned most of the investor capital, and then started out on #2, determined to do things completely differently.

For #2, I had 3 criteria:

1) Prototype on my own, without an engineer

2) Don't just talk lean, do lean

3) The product must generate revenue from day 1

While I am not an engineer, I had strong enough digital skills to set up websites and leverage other tools to prototype. Month 1 was building the prototype, month 2 was getting it out to the marketplace and actually getting some early sales ... and then plowing that money back into the business to improve the product. 10+ years later, the business brings in a respectable middle class income, has helped put my kids through college, and, as TFA articulated, lets me "pursue any and all ludicrous business models, with no oversight."

Like a lot of people who bootstrap, I had to consult as well (still do, mainly as a hedge against platform risk). I am eternally grateful to my spouse who not only has an income to help support the family, but also good health insurance (more on this below, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707068).
This seems pretty monopolistic to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_price-fixing_in_Canada
(Preliminary) Noyb Win: Meta Stops AI Plans in the EU
Typical workaround:

def loop():
for number in range(10):
def closure(number=number):
return number
yield closure

Many languages have surprising behaviour when closing over iteration variables.
> I'd be interested to see the actual chart she made. One possible explanation for how she was able to do this is if each of the presidents connects up to English aristocracy fairly recently, which would account for the records being intact and would be more interesting than just the fact of a shared ancestor in ~1200.

Obama's most recent aristocratic ancestor appears to be a "Sir Henry Bold" his 16x great-grandfather.

A quick look at some of the genealogies makes it appear that many rely on the same source, which lists 900 royal descendants that immigrated to the new world[1].

With 900 of them several generations back, it wouldn't be too surprising that many politicians would be related.

1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806320745/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
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I'm sorry for being stupid but I cannot tell for the life of me from either their foundation web page or the link what they actually do.

The only proton I know of is the 3D API translation layer. I think it's in steam.
>I am recognized as high performing and a good team builder

Is this not something that a good team builder would be able to fix, at least in theory? Team building is easy when everyone agrees and gets along; solving this issue would solidify your reputation (within and without).
Do you have competitors nipping at your heels?

Do you have the talent to rapidly scale a team with talented individuals (and offer them equity)? e.g. you've previously hired 30-50 engineers and know "what good looks like".

If the answer to BOTH of those is yes, then you should probably get investment money.

Otherwise you could be adding rocket fuel to a paper airplane.
I would recommend neither of those.

Haskell has very bad syntax (with extensive backing from Microsoft, iirc the guy who writes the compiler is a Microsoft's Research employee).

F# is a straight-up Microsoft's language.

It doesn't matter what other benefits it has. Just don't touch anything created by that company, and you will have one fewer regrets in your life.

But, if you still want a language from that category: SML or Erlang would be my pick.
I know it would complicate things a lot, but are we sure it's smartphones and not social media / "not educational" websites being the issue?

If I had a phone with calendar and a to do list, when at school, I might have fared better.
AI Companies vs. the Open Web
As a user, I love Perplexity. As a web publisher, I would probably want to block it. The UX of AI overviews and summaries disincentives small web publishers from creating new content.
Born too late to ply the seas and too early to ply the stars, but just in time to ply the tomes.
> probably some parts of drug development where AI tools could be helpful.

in silico insight is already being used to reduce the amount of wet lab work that needs to be done at each step of the process

predict safety (phase 1) and efficacy (phase 2). phase 3 is just a confirmation vs competitive drugs
You need both discipline and the "stuff" that you're referring to.

The vast majority of the programming workforce doesn't have both.

If you can only pick one, you're better off with the discipline, because you will earn more money and be able to retire earlier, and/or with better living standards.
This! Now make them required at conferences (easily done because professional societies), someone sell the service. We have to pay $600 just to go to present our papers, make it cost less by $50 if you come with your own.

I for one welcome our new badger overlords.
> How is banning DJI drones in the US going to affect how they're being used in the war in Ukraine?

It will not.

> Or do you mean that banning them in the US will somehow stop them from being used against the US in the future?

No.

This is about planning for the future. In the event of a war the US wants a large existing base of domestic drone manufacturers. Today, that just does not exist at scale as most are made in China. This is similar to efforts to re-shore chip manufacturing.
There's a huge amount of doom & gloom, prophecies of failure against wasm's component-model, a latent expectation that trying to solve FFI is impossible & destined to failure. But what if?

It's be so neat for language creators to be able to use & leverage other works. Getting there wouldn't be easy, but there's be a standard path to getting the hard fought capability here.
I'm sorry, but what exactly happen after Huawei ban?
Right, that’s a nice way of thinking about it.
> Raising Cane’s incentivizes Pizano to maintain those sales, offering a monthly bonus of $5,000 to $7,500 for meeting certain financial targets.

10+ hour days every day, and it's possible that 40%-50% of her income comes from performance based bonuses, which means never stopping. Sounds like a drag to me. It's good for her if she enjoys the pace, though.
Washington probably thought of himself as English, for that matter.
"Within that bill is a small section that bans DJI from using the FCC frequencies"

So DJI drones as a whole aren't banned, just the parts that transmit?
> Banning DJI drones in the US lets you build a factory in the US that can eventually get costs down.

I anticipate exactly zero automated drone factories.
I’ve been there. If the goal is to ensure your career isn’t derailed vs like ensuring good corporate optimization bc you care about that (you shouldn’t, IMO, likely a losing battle impacted by levers you’ll never see), it will matter probably in the following areas:

- wherever your manager exerts soft responsibility, you can likely take over safely. Might need a lot of peer leadership and related capital with peers

- wherever your manager has those firm only-manager responsibilities, you are at their whim unfortunately. This can include layoff decisions, how much you manager will be involved in layoff decisions about their own teams, kill/green light projects, etc. basically all those invisible levers your manager might have access to but you don’t. Not much to do here but risk manage your personal career management accordingly.
There’s a legal mechanism to merge companies through aquisition. There is no legal mechanism to split a company up. Even bankruptcy is case by case and doesn’t always result in a split.
It has to do with spurring US manufacturers as the primary outcome. It’s not about affecting Ukraine in the short term or stopping them from being used against the US.
There is consensus documenting why you did something is good (which is what root comment is talking about). Documenting what you did is commonly thought to be a crutch for writing unreadable code.
I suspect like most folks the poster probably is frustrated by disingenuous civility rather than "nice" behavior...

Asserting ones personal priorities supersede the defined goals is also a classic mistake, as productivity means different things to different people.

One can have high output, but still be a liability for company projects that require cooperation with other disciplines including business operations.

Yes even geniuses get fired for poor team conduct, and it is usually always a surprise to their ego.

I am not saying you aren't necessarily on a boondoggle project, but rather your role is likely poorly defined in the team. A common issue for smaller firms, especially relevant when layoffs are in the pipeline. i.e. better to bail than be declared redundant or a problem.

Have a great day, and lets try to be less presumptuous about other peoples motives Professor X. =3
For sure debuggers are great not just for debugging but as a way to reverse engineer a large codebase.

I had noticed the disdain for debuggers and it used to make me feel a bit inferior for relying on them but then found that John Carmack loves them so I feel better now. Ha!
> If the problem is privacy, why don't we legislate privacy instead of banning apps and banning items?

Yes exactly. If some companies are doing things that you don't like, like misusing personal information and transferring it to other countries, it is much better to enact general laws that prevent that, as the EU is doing, rather than passing laws that ban individual Chinese companies.

It would be as if rather than regulating car safety, we had a situation where lots of cars by both US and foreign automakers had massive safety problems, but rather than fixing that in general, we simply chose to ban specific Chinese car brands on supposed national security grounds while ignoring that cars made by US companies had the exact same problems.
It was a sequel to Quake II by Raven Software, using id Tech 4 (DOOM 3), notable for having a first-person cutscene in which you are "stroggified", transformed into one of the mechanical zombie soldiers you've been fighting against all game (but your NPC teammates save you at the last second before the brain implant that removes your free will is implanted). Apparently at the time, this was talked about lots in the marketing leading up to release, but when I played it as a kid, I never knew anything about that, so it was a real shock when I got to that part.

One cool thing the game did was they used the DOOM 3 "interactive panels" tech to make not only English-language human-manufactured "touchscreens", but also Strogg-language alien-manufactured "touchscreens", that you had to interact with to open doors and so forth. After becoming "stroggified", the glyphs on the Strogg touchscreens shift and you can now read them in English.

I went back and replayed it a few years ago and it's really pretty generic as far as shooters of that era go, but I thought Raven did a decent job given what they had to work with.
I hoarded gigabytes of RAW photos, until I saw sense and hit delete
The most egregious examples of this I’ve experienced are in large corporate environments, where managers are often less technical than their leads. Often only managers/directors are invited to calls with thought leaders, portfolio architects, who are also very technical.

This led to situations where a lead is asked in a quick IM or call “are we doing X in our system?” without any context or materials provided to the lead, which often contain crucially important info that the manager feels is just noise (especially if they consider themselves very technical from engineering roles in a previous era).

Just my two cents there; in my case I just learned to roll with it, after some time of striving to work “around” management to find info they never passed down, which resulted in poorer performance evaluations than simply following oft-misguided orders
I imagine it prevents any remote control from working if it prohibits "FCC frequencies".
I was curious about the legal grounds that schools have to confiscate student's phones for up to a week, and I found this document from the UK government:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62d1643e8fa8f...

Some things that concern me:

- Page 19: Staff may examine any data or files on an electronic device they have confiscated as a result of a search, as defined in paragraph 57, if there is good reason to do so.

- Page 20: In determining whether there is a ‘good reason’ to examine the data or files, the member of staff should reasonably suspect that the data or file on the device has been, or could be used, to cause harm, undermine the safe environment of the school and
disrupt teaching, or be used to commit an offence.

It also doesn't seem to lay out a limit on the duration for which a device can be confiscated - which makes confiscation for a week look a bit like a grey area to me. Would love to hear from anyone with more experience on this area.
im accustomed to seeing this when its overstocked, it always seems to be interpreted as normal practice, rather than regular price should drop a bit.
Python: 10 Cool Tricks with the * Operator
Neural Thermodynamic Integration: Free Energies from Diffusion Models
Ireland has one of the worst real estate markets in the world right now. That's certainly the reason for the high percentage.
This sounds like a nice way to get your feet wet.

Got a pointer or two to English-accessible descriptions or products ?
On that page is a "products" menu link up the top (or under the hamburger button on mobile). It shows you the various products that they have.
The N is completely different; Quake has a one-piece N, the font slices it into three separate parts.
I think that argument only holds when the customer is informed about those specific tradeoffs. The customer will choose the cheap bulbs because they can't be sure the expensive ones are better quality. They often aren't.

Buyers want cheap bulbs, they don't want crap bulbs. If that means $1.25/unit is impossible, so be it.
I don’t think this makes much of a difference. AFAIK retrogradation of the starches is the major culprit of staling. This process is advanced by the cold inside the fridge, not moisture or air contact.

Freezing stops the process; cooling quickens it.
https://archive.is/5WQDs
> What safeguards around mutability does Clojure have?

Very nearly the entire language and standard library operate on immutable values only. Immutable values are the default, and you will use them for the vast majority of logic. You must do so, unless you very specifically opt to use dedicated reference types, at which point you’ll still need to produce intermediate immutable values to interact with that vast majority of the standard library.

And…

> is there any kind of contract, notation ... anything which could suggest whether it mutates or not?

Functions which mutate state are almost always suffixed !. They will typically fail if you pass them immutable values; they only operate on reference types, which have to be dereferenced (typically with the prefix @) to access their state.
it comes up often enough for me to be annoying. The defaulted argument works, but it is an ugly hack. It is not obvious to me that the surprising semantics are clearly better, but python has a long history to preferring implementation simplicity to user ergonomics.
More companies need to learn to treat their employees like an asset instead of a liability. Executives are far less valuable than the boots on the ground actually running the businesses. Take care of those people and they will take care of you.
Like many things with the internet, it seems like if you got in at the ground floor you could do something like this. Now everything on the internet is cordoned off in centralized spaces, and there's a million businesses and random guys trying to figure out any and every possible angle to monetize overlooked markets. No way I can convince businesses to pay me for ads when they can be paying Facebook or YouTube who own practically every eyeball on the internet.
Yes, let's clarify: crates.io expects a Rust crate, which itself can contain whatever junk the uploader wants. But crates.io isn't taking your source, building it, and then distributing those executables; at the end of the day it's distributing the source code of a Rust crate as given by whoever published it.
I'm still stuck on how someone makes it through a history degree without enjoying reading.
If you try to sell something on the basis of "so they didn't add to their kilograms of plastic pass/lanyard waste", the question of whether it actually saves anything is clearly relevant.

I'm also confused why you think receipt that can be rotated is somehow a difference maker, have you ever encountered on that can't be?
That's why I only care about the per liter price. It's always comparable and by law it has to be on the sign in Germany (and probably EU)
Cold War II Grand Strategy: How to Compete with China
Yeah - so, if you want to be right about your takedown of the title using narrow interpretations of "memories", you probably can be.

But if you want a nuanced discussion of the article, we should soften the gaze a little. That's all I'm saying.
what's the name of the Samsung line? I might be in the market for a new phone soon-ish
I was going to correct you on the duopoly, but apparently the Cyrix/Centaur/Via agreement expired some time ago.
If you're writing a CRUD app and mocking your database calls instead of just starting an actual Postgres instance before running the tests, you're probably using mocking wrong.

If you're writing a custom frontend for GitHub using the GitHub API and don't bother writing a decent set of mocks for how you expect the GitHub API to behave, your app will quickly require either full manual QA at best or become untestable at worst. Some APIs are very stable, and testing against the API itself can hit rate limiting, bans, and other anti-abuse mechanisms that introduce all kinds of instability to your test suite.

Use the right tools to solve your problems.
Yeah, but for that to be relevant you'd have to set up the experiment on the moon :D
My schooling experience (in London, less than 10 years ago) was a waste of time. If they want students to be engaged, make the material engaging.
right there with you, pal…

but honestly, it shouldn’t be a difficult concept for people to grasp. if a bird shit on your arm, would you wipe it off with a dry paper towel?
An un-free mind whether biological or not will never be creative.
I mainly 'leeched' the table, tr, td row design aspect, as I had no idea that existed.. fwiw, I didn't copy anything else (text, images, etc)... that 'scaffolding' was helpful until I discovered Wordpress. And I dislike ads just as much as you. I usually just put 1 or 2 on the page. no popup nonsense or 'blasting' ads, ha. Now, since I sell onions in the internet, I'm the one often advertising on these types of small niche sites, and they tend to perform better than larger properties... either way, my 2c. (author here)
>If the United States does this, it might as well join the European Union's decadence in killing tech startups by stifling the competitiveness of their market...

I can still buy a DJI drone here in Europe. What stifling are you referring to?
>There’s a strange hostility in your comment that doesn’t seem to make sense.

It doesn't. Sure, there's such things as being "phony nice". But unsociable people tend to over-analyze others and do a ton of projection. The idea that "nice guys" are sociopaths trying to game you is, well, way too cynical for me and my life experience. Some people are just nice.
As long as the phone is locked, surely mere teachers can't force a student to unlock it.
Perhaps a better word would have been
“excoriate”
...so they use "exotic" custom components.

Not that the controller board on a washing machine is particularly exotic; it's made from standard components. But each model of washing machine has it's own controller board, so the boards are low-volume, and ridiculously expensive. And the boards themselves are about as easy to repair as any modern PCB covered in SMDs.

I suspect the reason that white goods nowadays all have digital displays and digital control panels is that those "features" necessitate a proprietary controller board, which turns out (surprisingly! /s) to be the component most likely to fail.
Thought it was pretty obvious we were talking about the tenant, not the landlord. This is such weird nitpicking. When people in the US talk about apartments, they're almost always rented. The only place I've ever heard someone say "I bought my apartment" is New York, but even that is just vernacular, because the governing body is some sort of association or condo board.

I tell you this as an American who's spent enough decades on this earth hearing English, American apartments are rented 99.9% of the time.
A smartphone isn’t just a calendar and todo list. I don’t think even blocking just social media is enough in schools as the devices offer plenty of other distractions.
Regarding the anti-trust risk, SpaceX has been very clear that they'll launch competitor's satellites just as fairly as they do any other payload. They only serve to benefit from it, as the profit from every commercial launch helps offset their costs on building out Starlink and on Starship R&D (which is also why Amazon didn't buy F9 for building Kuiper until New Glenn is ready).

IIRC there's even an ongoing lawsuit from some shareholders against Amazon for not acting in shareholder interest by paying for other much more expensive and less proven launch services rather than flying F9.
Communism vs. Capitalism: Who Made Better Power Tools? [video]
>when do we get the next alias that has 24 episodes a season and 8 or 9 seasons

When? It'll be 3 years late when you discover a cult classic that was canceled for abysmal ratings after 6 episodes. Which is why they'll never make it.