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How do the talk about drones in the Ukraine war, saying what's done there will not work for Taiwan, and omit the drone boats that have destroyed 20%+ of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and effectively denied them access to the sea?

Underwater is nice, but you have to steer these things which requires comms that are better suited on a modified motor boat, unless you are going to put them in full-auto mode?
I have exactly zero interest in using those things, but them existing in a car isn't a deal-breaker for me. I just won't use it.

But those often seem to come with cars that replace physical controls with touch-screen ones. That's a dealbreaker for me.
I really like the UI of Eagle! Great app!

Yes, cloud storage integration is on my to-do list.
> But quite a lot of people care if you want to introduce hand amputations for theft, as demanded by Sharia Law

Probably why Salafism is outright banned in Tajikistan.
I had a similar reaction, though just becoming more skeptical of his videos. It did introduce me into a number of others that presented the counter arguments and more complete demonstrations and explanations of the whole thing that fixed a few of my own mis-understandings about it. I posted a sibling comment to yours about AlphaPhoenix who ended up doing the coolest and most complete demo and measurement of what's going on that I've ever seen.
An employer can legally deny just about anything that they consider 'unreasonable', yes. If you injured your back and could no longer stand for hours at a time on a job that requires it and there is no alternative, absolutely you can be let go.

Picking out WFH as 'not protected' is largely meaningless. This is why it is called _reasonable_ accommodation, not _required_ accommodation.

As with any job, how you do your job, where you do your job, etc. can change based on the number of farts the CEO has passed today.

Yes, worker protections in the US are abysmal. You'll never find me arguing otherwise.
For those that don't know it yet, Unpoly is very similar to HTMX. Same spirit, but has been around for longer, it is a bit less known and also more "high level" providing very useful abstractions like layers, hooks for custom code, "spa-like" navigation between pages, etc.
With regard to alerts, I have written software that daytrades stocks, making a lot of trades over a lot of stocks. Let me assure you that not a single alert goes ignored, and if someone said it's okay to ignore said alerts, or to have persistent alerts that require no action, they would be losing money because in time, they will inevitably ignore a critical error. I stand by my claim that it's what sets apart good employees from those that don't care if the business lives or dies. I think a role of management is to ensure that employees understand the potential consequences to the business of the code being wrong.
besides the docs, there is also all the source code in /usr/lib/zig/std... very useful to learn zigisms and the API of the std library itself...
Yeah it's a bit surprisingly actually - as I was building this lib I was running this prompt a lot, and Sonnet 3.5 is the first one that answers it with this extra unrequested stuff.
God yes please give us an "innovation doctrine."

This is certainly an interesting article to read about but I'm not sure his suggestions or analysis are that substantive. Complex institutions develop rules to simplify decision making and streamline information flows. They choke otherwise. "Develop an innovation doctrine" isn't really effective advice.
Also, a Twitter account is required.
The characters aren't connected so the brush is lifted and a space left behind. Of course this also goes for the space between signs of a compound word, but this also holds for "compound word", which is itself a compound word. Also they had \n = EoL alright.

Negative spaces are so important in *-graphy
>for if our calculators and computers calculated logarithms inaccurately, as well as exponentials, trig functions, and square roots, to name but a few, a lot of scientific and engineering work would be broken and end in catastrophe.

I think I have some news for the writer of the article.
Is the only Level 3 vehicle on the roads in Germany and now California and Nevada. Until Tesla steps up and says you don’t have to pay attention, that the car can drive itself and if it fucks up it’s on Tesla, it’s Level 2. Not in the lead.

> it just follows the car in front

No, that’s active lane keeping. My Subaru does that.

> Cannot even change lanes

Yes it does [1].

> Works only under 40MPH

If you want to exceed this, you can switch to its Level 2 mode.

FSD is a very advanced Level 2 system. (Probably the most advanced.) But it’s still Level 2 because you are still supposed to closely supervise it.

[1] https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-mercede...
And that's why VCs and tech in general should be in favour of strong antitrust and competition law.
Their US born children would be US citizens - a parent would do anything for their kids right ?
Seems like another prong of the attack on younger people using tiktok, because they aren't agreeing the status qou policy on gaza
Yeah, that whole electricity series really put a massive dent in how I viewed all his videos, knocking down veritasium from a 1st rate science channel to a 2nd or 3rd one.

The entire series was predicated on a deeply technical "gotcha" that just caused a bunch of eye rolls from informed viewers.
Maybe because VW, for example, has actually skirted pollution laws, with intent. Or because PSA management publicly derides any effort for EV transition. Or maybe because Toyota has for 20 years falsely promised EV fuel cells/engines in the next five years, all the while happily selling ICE vehicles.

If you look closely at any big corporation management, they are all egomaniacs. Just not childish enough to publicize that fact.
Yes, although 32-bit Android apps are no longer allowed on Play Store.
That's essentially I'm suggesting. I totally agree that in a world where one's team is made up of highly skilled C# developers with lots of experience writing Windows apps, I'm sure productivity is fantastic.

In the world which 99% of software teams live in though, the former skillset is far, far rarer than the React/node/Vue etc. toolkit which is a dime a dozen these days. If a fresh team wants to from 0 to functioning product, I still stand by that they'll get it out the door _much_ faster using some agreed upon webstack than they would doing it the Windows Way. Hence the "orders of magnitude" phrasing which others are having trouble with.
I read this book at a friend’s recommendation in 2014 after nearly a decade of frequent episodes of debilitating back pain (also diagnosed as a her herniated disc).

Gave it an honest try because I figured I couldn’t lose- Either at home or I could make fun of my buddy for recommending nonsense.

Genuinely life changing for me.

Ever since, on the rare occasions when it does flare up again I reflect on the ideas from the book and apply them. Works amazingly well.
I had a similar experience when LangChain first came out. I spent a good amount of time trying to use it - including making some contributions to add functionality I needed - but ultimately dropped it. It made my head hurt.

Most LLM applications require nothing more than string handling, API calls, loops, and maybe a vector DB if you're doing RAG. You don't need several layers of abstraction and a bucketload of dependencies to manage basic string interpolation, HTTP requests, and for/while loops, especially in Python.

On the prompting side of things, aside from some basic tricks that are trivial to implement (CoT, in-context learning, whatever) prompting is very case-by-case and iterative, and being effective at it primarily relies on understanding how these models work, not cargo-culting the same prompts everyone else is using. LLM applications are not conceptually difficult applications to implement, but they are finicky and tough to corral, and something like LangChain only gets in the way IMO.
It's really sad to me that our politicians (and other people pushing for this kind of regulation) think that viewing naked people online, even having sex, is more damaging to "the children" than seeing people's guts splayed out all over the place on TV and video games, heads chopped off with blood spurting everywhere, getting limbs chopped off, using machine guns to kill people, seeing kids severely bullied at school, and so on.

Of course, I don't really think the politicians give much of a shit about porn. They just want the mechanisms in place to monitor everyone's activities online, and porn is the easiest place to start. Then it will expand to everything else.
> ESM can use CJS packages

True. Everything is a default import, but it does work.

> I have authored API SDK packages that can be used in FE and BE code.

FE code can't use CJS. You need to have an extra step to convert to ESM (or AMD, webpack chucks, etc).

And the general consensus is that frontend JS has too much complexity.

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CJS works pretty well for Node.js.

If it didn't, it wouldn't have been adopted.

The primary advantage is authors can write and distribute isomorphic code. (Again, without relying on heavy or kludgy module system conversations.)
I hadn't heard of McDonald either, but there's a recent book (https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Spa...) that covers his contribution well.

(TBH I'm reading this book right now - probably 2/3 the way through or so - and it's kind of weird to see something like this randomly pop up on HN today.)
What ever happened to the Tesla snake? They made one video of it to never be mentioned again.
I apologize - when people mention "memory safe" nowadays 95% of the time they're talking about Rust, I made an assumption.

Interpreting JavaScript at all it at all is a problem. Ladybird's LibJS compiles it to bytecode and interprets that (which is usually better than intereprting the AST). The bytecode interpreter is written in C++, and it's still pretty damn slow - websites take a long time to load, and LibJS is the main bottleneck.

The reality is, modern websites throws so much junk at your JS implementation, that you basically need to JIT-compile it in order to have any sort of reasonable performance. And with JIT all memory safety guarantees are thrown out of the window - it doesn't matter if you write your compiler in Rust, C++ or a .NET language - if there's an exploit it's disproportionately more likely to be in the output assembly than it is to be in your compiler.

Browsers nowadays make a best effort, and they have a stack of other mitigations in case the JIT leaks: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/d...
It's a demonstration. It was never meant to be in your garage.

If/when the technology is mature enough for that, somebody will design a product around it. Only then it can evaluated from a consumer's perspective.
I have one of these and have had zero problems, it's easy to use and seemingly very accurate. Incredible battery life too.
Is the ticking a function of a mechanical relay in a cheaper device, or the coil not being sufficiently glued down and moving as the magnetic field is turned off and on?
Reverse Engineering LoRa PHY Based on GNU Radio
Is anybody surprised though?
Once you're running a fleet of autonomous vehicles, whatever century that finally becomes a reality, then it makes sense to optimize out of the operation a few people who make at or near minimum wage.
I got out of dev (20 YOE) and now teach CS full time at a state university. I make about half of what I could reasonably make in industry, but I only work 7.5 months a year. I'm an instructor, not a research professor.

And I LOVE the work. It's so challenging and so rewarding. Not only do I get to just have fun exploring CS all day and sharpening my own skills, but I have the meta-challenge of learning how to be a better teacher. I'm passionate about that, and I'm likely never going back to industry.

I'm not really proud of a lot of the programming I did in the marketing sector. But this is something laudable; I feel like I'm genuinely helping people and leveraging my skills in a way that makes the world a better place.
The Problem with Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin
Here is one reason I can see this being a good thing at least. It would let something like an office park setup charging spots such that there's nothing that the user touches to do the charging. Meaning that you're not going to have people drive off while still plugged in, or not plugging in properly, or having otherwise damaged plugs, etc. So it might make sense for a larger installation to be more maintenance friendly.
GNU Radio 4.0: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants [pdf]
The distinction between civil and criminal liability seems minor- either way this will have a massive chilling effect and force any website to carefully vet hosted content for fear of being sued. The threshold for criminal prosecution is very high. The threshold for a civil suit is comparably low.
VerifyVault: Open-source 2 Factor Authenticator for Desktop v0.2 Released
VerifyVault Beta v0.2 has been RELEASED!

Key Features Added:
- Revamped Home Screen
- Recycle Bin
- Automatic Backups
- Import button fixed
- QR Code image scanner - TEMPORARILY DISABLED
- Preferences option added to Settings
- New export account options: Encrypted, Unencrypted, and TXT

Repository: https://github.com/VerifyVault/VerifyVault
EXE: https://github.com/VerifyVault/VerifyVault/releases/tag/Beta...
I could not get it to work when I looked into it last, for Gimp I actually installed it globally, I think neither Chrome or Firefox uses the system Harfbuzz. Going by the dependants of Harfbuzz on Arch [0] it might be possible that it works in Chromium with a custom Harfbuzz, but it is not something I have tried. And since it is still experimental it is not built by default in any distribution I know of.

[0]: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/harfbuzz/
Also, a whole bunch of research is done with public dollars from either universities, or grants to private companies. Those are then always commercialized by a for-profit company.
I thought it was well done

I think it’s useful to point out that in many areas we use a simplified model of the world, because they are much easier to use and the predictions are accurate enough for the intended purposes. But they are not how things actually work, and people forget that.
I am aware that this is a bold claim and that it may be hard to believe. I also wish this weren't true. That's why I put a reference to support it. Check out the section on Public sentiments and politics. In particular, that 60% of population support the statement "Russia is for Russians" and what that phrase implies. If you are curious to learn more, check out studies and polls by any organization that you support - Amnesty International, Russian NGO's, universities, etc.
Maybe, but most of these purchases are by someone 21 (US Age) or a bit older to buy for friends. Very unlikely they will get caught. When I was young, everyone knew this was happening and these people were called "rum runners". And nothing was done. I doubt much as changed.

Back to pornhub. There is no way to verify age, have security and anonymity at the same time on the internet. What would be stopping a "rum runner" from sharing his ID with a friend ?

I think this is the main reason pornhub is blocking these states. They know it is really impossible to comply with the laws. They also know their customers want both security and anonymity. Once that trust is breached, customers will leave. For a good example there was that "affair" site a few years ago that had a breach and I think ended up folding.
It's precisely for economic reasons, hiring a qualified team being the long tail here. I assure you guys that it's much, much easier finding a team of decent web devs than a team of decent Windows devs. Is that really so far-fetched?
see also https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html#footnote_s...
Maybe they should tag tags they create with AI as 'Tagged with AI'.
Content creators need to realize that this is an unsolvable problem. They were the ones who forced this tagging in place, and now the outcome is exactly as they were told it would be.
I live in a very rural area in NJ, 90% of residents are on well water. We live in an area where a lot of fractured bedrock, the fractures serve as natural filtration. Net result is our water tastes great with no chlorine or other filtration.

Caveats - you need to ensure your well is deep enough to avoid surface contaminants, ours is about 180 feet deep. Also you need testing for new wells, as an example a few miles from us there is heavy arsenic concentrations that need to be filtered out.
It seems like the main source is a documentary-type video about the study, rather than any of the published follow-ups with the kids. A summary of a summary.

You can find the follow-up papers here: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/
We’ve had great experiences with teaching the babies we’ve had sign language.
> most customers don't care enough about the service or the cause for this to translate into more dollars.

This is an important point as it reinforces the hierarchical structure. In an economy composed of these hierarchies, a customer is often themselves buying in service of another hierarchy and will not themselves be the end user. This reduces the demand for mission-focused work in the economy, instead reinforcing the predominance of profit-focused hierarchies.
Fastly launches free developer accounts
The guiding principle of science is to never assume that the results are correct.

Two observations: this is a highly political topic and there is highly political language in the linked article. Its conclusions also rely on the integrity of a multitude of referenced studies.

What this article and topic deserves is a colonoscopy level research critique / review.
200GB and 2 Million monthly requests; Unlimited L3/4 DDoS mitigation; WebSockets and Push Notifications; K/V store
I think the Cybertruck and QC issues that have become weekly issues in the media can't be helping either. It's a big, ugly, expensive piece of crap and that has to leave some people wondering about the stories of panel gaps and other issues in other Tesla models. Add Musk to that, and the existence of alternatives and I'm not shocked that the Tesla bubble is deflating.
Does that mean the owners of a site could be prosecuted if one of their users ever uploads criminal content, regardless of how quickly the site owner identifies and removes the content?
So typically these providers only offer ZDR to "managed" customers, after a lengthy application process. For example, on Azure, "managed" means companies with >$1m, possibly more now, in annual spend. They don't want to waste their time going through this long application process with smaller companies, so we take some of that weight off their shoulders. They get the same revenue at the end of the day, so in many ways it groups smaller companies' LLM spend and sends it straight to their bottom line, and they still get to claim their rolling out AI "responsibly".

Once one provider is cracked, the others fall as well, as these AI companies are all competing viciously for customers. Et voila, ZDR across multiple providers for the small(er) companies out there :)
You’ve made a pretty significant change to my argument here.

Malware is a real thing that people need to worry about.

Being targeted by the NSA doesn’t happen by mistake.

As some others have pointed out, there was an incident a few years ago where NSA lost a whole bunch of their malware thanks to I believe again it was a leaker in that case (Joshua Schulte if I remember correctly).

That did in turn end up getting used in a North Korean operation shortly thereafter which by contrast didn’t seem to have good controls in place and absolutely spread like wild fire.

But as far as I know it happened once, was an anomaly and just isn’t a thing that is likely to ever impact you which is why I’m making the argument that what the OP was saying that Kaspersky is the best anti virus just isn’t a good argument and people shouldn’t feel like they are missing out on anything in this instance.
Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
Boisjoly was Macdonald's peer at Thiokol. Ebeling (I think) was either his direct manager or his division director.

Boisjoly quit Thiokol after the booster incident. Macdonald stayed, and was harassed terribly by management. He took Thiokol to court at least once (possibly twice) on wrongful discrimination / termination / whistleblower clauses, and won.
Retro Pocket 386 Win 95 laptop sub $200, comes with 386SX40 processor, 8 MB RAM
Chutes Away Rescue Target Game reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2128/

Holy dual-use technology, Batman!
Sure, the analogy I am making is imperfect. In reality, you can be a career electrical engineer and never once come across or need to know the true workings of electricity. The models we are all familiar with cover 99.9999% of use cases.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
There are various articles on developing a culture of innovation, e.g. https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-hard-truth-about-innovative-cult.... Probably some books too. Even ChatGPT probably has decent advice. Management is not technically complex, it just requires putting in the work. But of course it is not easy, e.g. the first advice in the HBR article is to fire incompetent people, whereas the example here was government where firing incompetent people is notoriously hard.
Picked that date 100% at random, literally the only one I even clicked.

What is your point exactly? I think you would have trouble saying more words without saying anything falsifiable. I am not just being a jerk, I have no idea what your point is other than to try to put up a wall of text. If I was going to sum it up, "HN was always bad so it's still just as good as it was". This kind of defense works for 4chan because it openly brags about being bad, but I don't think this is what HN aspired to.
It'll sadly always be at the expense of energy efficiency but I suspect that if it can be brought to 98-99% then it'd be good enough to be a wash from the environmental impact of maintaining and fixing cables from users damaging them when driving off while still plugged in (like they do at gas stations with ICE cars even today). Though I've not looked at any data/info on how often this happens so I can't say anything for certain.
Does targeting charging ebikes make any sense? If the average bike is 500Wh, and bikes mostly aren't completely depleted (a trip to the shops might only take 10% of the battery) then you're talking about maybe 100-200Wh normally. And you're probably charging from a normal wall socket, so there's no easy way to signal to the bike when to charge. Please don't say "add WiFi", bikes should not have WiFi and don't need it.

So, how would tariffs targeting ebike charging even work? Telling people "put WiFi on your bike so we can tax you" is a poor strategy that guarantees noncompliance, its load isn't particularly different from other wall-plug appliances so if the tariffgot too high then people would just pretend they're using the microwave, and the total electrical cost of charging might be under 10 cents, so a 10% tariff would be less than 1 cent - so who would even care?
This kind of bug is always an emotional rollercoaster of anticipation, discovery, disappointment, angst, self-criticality, and satisfaction.
It's a flaw for performant client-specific/standalone graphical use, yes. Literally one that the Linux community fought with with multiple hacks (DRI, AIGLX, etc) through the years.

It's not a flaw if you want to run a thin-client from a central machine or otherwise offer a networked interfacing system, no.

One of those use cases is far more common today than the other.
Wait until they learn about floating point.
Even the Windows 95 Minesweeper was only a 24 kilobyte program.