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You might want to read a biography of Edison, not just a summary on the web. The one by Josephson is good, and goes into considerable detail.

Edison did not invent a glowing wire, nor did he invent electric arc lamps. However, both of those were useless as light bulbs. Existing lightbulbs at the time were low voltage, high current. The lightbulbs didn't last very long, and so were useless. They also consumed enormous amounts of power.

Edison's innovation was to go with high voltage, low current. This cut the power consumption way down. The next problem he had was the filament burning up. This problem he managed to solve with a vacuum pump. Voila! A long lasting, cheap, and cheap to operate, light bulb.

This is why he received the credit for inventing the light bulb, as it was the first practical light bulb. This is why all the other patent suits against him on the invention failed.

If you are interested, feel free to read the Josephson book which covers the patent suits. I don't think you can just dismiss them with Edison had the resources to defend his patents, nor can you dismiss them with the litigants being paupers. The litigants who didn't have money got money to pursue the patent cases from investors who knew that if they won the suit, they would get rich.

Everyone was aware that an entire industry was up for grabs, and so they poured money into fighting Edison. These when on for many years. They had every opportunity to make their case(s).

But Edison prevailed.

As for the bandsaw, I said the invention of the circular saw revolutionized the lumber industry, and that invention was I think from the Amish.

What Edison did was make things that were practical.

BTW, Edison invented electronic vacuum tubes, but he failed to recognize what they would be good for. Would you say he invented the entire electronics industry up until 1960? I wouldn't. It was others who turned the vacuum tube into a practical and incredibly useful device.

Edison invented the idea of a commercial invention lab, and produced so many practical inventions that revolutionized life that he is a contender for inventing the modern world. It's hard to understate his impact.

Interestingly, the Wright Brothers inadvertently invented the modern directed research and development laboratory. I'm probably the only person who ascribes that to them, but before the Wrights, people just tried random things (including Edison). What the Wrights did was:

1. research everything known about the topic

2. identify each problem that needed solving

3. develop prototypes to test and solve each problem

4. put the solutions together to solve the whole problem

and voila! it worked! and everybody else has followed that pattern since.
Yes, the Ohm, Kelvin and Ångström have their codepoints in Unicode.
Great, so now a mis-click and your browser will have a field day infecting your printer, coffee machine and all the other crap that was previously shielded by NAT and/or a firewall.
This discussion is just "do it because some browsers do it" without any reasoning why (or why not) you should do it. Firefox approach is i guess the best compromise between user annoyance and developer annoyance but it's still a compromise against proper TLS.
screwdriver head. perelman's "mathematics can be fun" has that and another couple of fun examples https://archive.org/details/MathematicsCanBeFun-Eng-YakovPer...

i got a copy of that book and gardner's "mathematical magic show" when i was 12 or so, and they both continue to entertain and delight me.
I don’t know if it’s “we hire at random” more so “we hire based on intelligent guesses/calculated risk”. It’s not completely random because there’s a resume and a rigorous process.
Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf]
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Did you check the domain lookup of the registry the domain is under? They might give you a way to contact the owner.
but then why do you think react is topping this list? is it because it's a tool created by facebook or is it the technology that's really good? This post was taken from the site https://chat-to.dev/post?id=121. If you like it, contribute a comment, a post or take part in the chat rooms so that you can help us.
Writing large web applications in Rust isn't going to happen fast. Large applications written in Rails won't run fast, might be ridden with bugs and might be hard to maintain and extend.

Choosing something like Java, C# or Go might not sound sexy or cool, but with get the job done as fast as Rails while running almost as fast as Rust. That choice will also generally mean less bugs and a having a project that is easy to maintain and extend.
> And there we see the problem laid bare. Excellent designs that are well-executed are not worthless facets of the real product. As we can see from Minecraft's success, that is the real product.

Which is why I said "as a game, rather than the code", specifically. My whole point is that the elements which were assembled into it are not the valuable part!

I mean, what is Minecraft? Mine blocks, craft items. Fight skeletons, spiders, zombies and exploding zombies. The end boss is a dragon. It's Generic The Game.

The thing that the AI is training on is the thing without value - the look. Mojang gave that away in the billions of stream-hours, to their benefit.
I think this is a framing problem. You need to let go of the outcome and focus on what you can do. You can't control the result, but you can do the best that you're capsble of in your current situation, which includes not over-extending yourself.
Depends on the context and social circle, like lots of post-slang terms for a class. It can be endearing (or endearing and patronizing), a general insult, a common adjective…
It says I am on my passport!
Please don’t.

You pay 100x for each line of code and get nothing in return over ASP.NET Core or Vert.X. Pick any fast compiled language you like, don’t contribute to global warming.
Work satisfaction is a meme. Yes, there are people satisfied with their work, but realistically, this is not going to happen to you. Stop giving a fuck about your work, slack off as much as possible, and look for coworkers with whom you can build real human connection, instead of corporate NPCs.
> If you can find an exploit in zlib, there are much worse things you can do with that than attacking a torrent client. Decompressing input is assumed to be safe by default.

Any (e.g. http) server supporting stream compression comes to mind.
Yes, right. Thank you. (although in terms of semantic changes, I am not sure)
It’s pretty easy in macos, you turn off the features explicitly labeled as such in the nice icloud settings menu, or you never log into icloud in the first place
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You can make the same argument about principle software engineers. How many php front end developers does it take to write a kernel driver? Of course, the question actually being asked is what the relative pay of the different positions are, since that's how money works.
the elixir ecosystem doesn't have the "library for anything you could possibly need" benefit that you find with rails (and probably django too)
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> Building a backend in Typescript is like building it in C#, but without the advantages of a properly designed language.

I like typescript. In what way isn't it a "properly designed language", compared to C#?
In a closed source situation people using a pseudonym don't just randomly approach a company and say "hey can I help out with that?"

It was caught by sheer luck and chance, at the last minute - the project explicitly didn't have a bunch of eyeballs looking at it and providing a crowd-sourced verification of what it does.

I am all for open source - everything I produce through my company to make client work easier is open, and I've contributed to dozens of third party packages.

But let's not pretend that it's a magical wand which fixes all issues related to software development - open source means anyone could audit the code. Not that anyone necessarily does.
Except for sbcl/stklos (Common Lisp/Scheme), my setup it's like that. Make, ccache + cc/c++, vi, and some graphical diff tool as it's better than plain diff(1). entr(1) to watch file changes on a directory and run make at every file saving.
If it comes to C# vs Typescript, I'll happily chose C#, at least for backend.

For the FE I would prefer Typescript over Javascript.
Yeah, it's kind of weird that sometimes looking for a thing on wikipedia gives a better description of that thing than just being able to read a "Here's what we do..." on their home page. :/
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You're comparing a systems oriented barebone low level programming language to a very (maybe the most) high level framework on top of a very (maybe the most) high level language.

I'm not a fan of Go, but that's not the thing to blame here. Using Go for a "CRUD" application is a terrible decision from the get go.
As someone who builds speakers commercially, there aren't any devices that will actually monitor a speaker's temperature. I think what you mean is perhaps, wattage? The speaker's temperature arises from the coil, which is what moves to produce sound. In large speakers, I've seen manufacturers attach some sort of sensors pointing at the moving coil to produce an estimate, but for the speakers used in the Macbooks, they are so thin that this would be a near impossible feat. Maybe Apple uses an estimation from the DSP based on the watts supplied vs time. But, certainly, you cannot attach any sort of device to the coil without making it distort or non-functional.

I know that Apple like to supply the speakers with slightly more power (Watts) than they can deal with to get them loud, but I haven't seen nor heard of this temperature monitoring so far. I couldn't find anything related to it either. Please share citations, if you have.
Apple and Adobe have always had a sour relationship. Adobe's crappy font licensing led to truetype and they're crappy implementation of Flash led to Jobs dropping flash in the iPhone just to mention a few things from their history.
It was still useful to have a general idea of how stock markets were valued, particularly in light of the events on and about 29 October 1929, a/k/a Black Tuesday. Valuation of equities markets themselves has a profound impact on the monetary and financial systems as a whole.

On which point, John K. Galbraith's The Great Crash: 1929 (1954) remains an excellent history of those events (and notes the DJIA's value frequently), as well as a general primer on equities and investments, and how they may go wrong.
except English or any natural language leaves too much wiggle room and LLMs have .... 0 mappings to machine code. Soon LLMs will do Feature Bloat, Surveillance and Privacy Breaches as a service - no prompt necessary, thank us very much - and then the kids won't even notice who slipped what into their metaphorical drink from that digital fountain. It won't be obvious anymore. Thanks to people saying things like "AI" and "prompts are programs".
Btw I never knew a restaurant in Britain use locally grown heirloom varieties of anything without making a big deal about it. Although I suppose in American terms all produce grown in Britain is fairly local. Potato growing tends to be quite regional.

'New potatoes', the thin skinned spring type, usually eaten boiled with the skin on, come first from Jersey (Jersey Royals). Then Cornwall, but more commonly Pembrokeshire (just over the Bristol Channel from Cornwall). The thick skinned general purpose types come later from places with deep stone free soils. I think more of Lincolnshire, although they are grown in pockets all over. I like the ones from the localised sandy soils in mid Shropshire, but I grew up on them so I'm probably biased. Those are the ones I would roast.
> half baked trash

> dealing with compatibility bugs

> broken drivers

Describes my experience trying to use CUDA perfectly.

We have a long way to go and we haven't even started yet.
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“Don’t contribute to global warming” is the silliest argument for perf bc you can use it to dismiss basically any human leisure activity. Why is it okay to use a computer to play video games but not make the perf tradeoff with Ruby?
128 and 512 cores are normal now, so not that far off.
> That's what NextJS and SvelteKit help with, and that's what Rails revolutionized back in 2006.

Are you seriously comparing "being able to execute code on the backend" with Rails? Or Django? Or Laravel?

There's no way in this world Next/Remix/etc are helping in any way to write code on the backend. Where's the support for database access? migrations? ORM? queues? scheduled jobs? validations? translations? authentication? authorization?

The only thing Next.js is helping with is pushing people towards Vercel's platform, that's it.
Sounds like "be glad they gave you some bones from the table" instead, you know, the company providing the actual proper means for users to reliably run whatever on the hardware they bought, not just the manufacturers blessed OS.

Sometimes I wonder if it really makes sense to spend so much time to do the work Apple should have done in the first place & with no guarantee it will even work after a firmware upgrade or on the next model.

Spending the same effort on more open platforms or open hardware efforts might be wiser in the long term.
Note that the DJIA also changes constantly over time (as discussed elsewhere in this thread), as do the weights assigned to the individual companies constituting it.

The way that the DJIA changes isn't the same as an index of, say, the n most highly capitalised equities might (Fortune 5, 10, 20, S&P 500, etc.).
Adding this dot used to be a way to bypass the paywall on nytimes.com. It's been fixed in the last 2 years or so.
Why not work with SpaceX and use bandwidth from their LEO Starlink constellation?
Given the geographical locations of some of your people, is it fair to say that you might accept applicants from a number of different time zones?
Weird Lexical Syntax
Humans age, so obviously not. Interesting analogy, though
and ian stewart!
Not for everyone. It turns out by following standard ergonomic guidelines I was doing more damage. I have to actually look way down at monitors, even on my desk. It has to be well below eye height, basically slammed.
Because there is no trade off. Rails does not offer anything over picking Kotlin/C#/F# or even Go offerings. The “productivity” is a little excuse used to hand wave away the criticism of absolutely unacceptable state of Ruby performance in the year of 2024 and all the other problems that it has.
200 mm/year gets you roughly 1000 engineers at 200k salary. Is that not enough to make rocm experience equal to cuda?
No he didn't. Java is quite possibly the only mainstream language that provides a GUI toolkit in its standard library.

It's an exception, not the rule. Even Python, well known for its batteries-included std, do not provide this magical get_cursor_pos() function that you insist is found in stdlibs.
I've been assuming that Intel will eventually catch up, because that's the world we grew up in, but that's not going to happen, is it?
> Be gentle with yourself and forgive yourself.

This is so hard for people like me who have high standards and are hard on themselves. I always wanted to buy a home - I graduated at the right time but I never got a job at big tech. When I did get my full time job it paid a good chunk below market, provided no equity and now post-pandemic whatever was at my fingertips is at least an arms length away.

I have not done poorly for myself but I continue to rent in my mid 30s whereas my buddies at FAANG are much farther ahead in life. I was/am not kind to my past self in the current phase - constant thoughts of should have done this, should have known that, etc.

With the current economy I feel like another chance might not come for another 5 years at the minimum, so I’m trying to learn my lesson and go to therapy, and accept it gracefully. I can’t even type “life isn’t a race and I shouldn’t compare myself” without putting it in quotes.

Point is, don’t be like me. Yes it’s good to be driven and ambitious, but unmoderated it can be destructive.
I think this is the feeling when you realize what you’re doing does not matter. No big purpose, just a mere immortal. I think you need a bigger purpose bro, like really. Reach out.
You can't be seriously saying using "Go" (a low level systems language) will be as productive as using Rails (a very high level framework intended for CRUD applications). Despite how much you might hate Rails, that's like saying you'll build a blog faster with C++ than with WordPress.
Weird, I've gotten nothing like that but I never do shorts since they are just sugar and no filling.
Yes, and, I guess not, but what if Ben is in fact an AI bot and this doesn't cost them any time, and they're never going to pay,

just hoping that some people will forget to unpublish the links after non-payment, or they'll get some links for a while at least
Maybe it has changed since the project was launched, and moderation has been applied. I remember lots and lots of "what's the point?" and "it's a shame your efforts are wasted" sentiments, and "apple is just going to snap their fingers and shut this down one day".

They've already thought about these things and it's still what they chose to work on, so I can understand them blocking a contributing source of those comments.

That being said, I agree the more recent threads have more positivity than negativity so that's good.
Many bootstrap business owners did it somehow without a VC...
It's not a terrible choice. It's not necessarily wildly better than alternatives, but it's not wildly worse, either.

Among other reasons to consider it: if you want to run on a FaaS platorm or container setup, Rust has much faster cold start time and makes for smaller container sizes.

Among reasons to not consider it: if you want to iterate rapidly by editing text and near-instantly hot-reloading your code, Rust web frameworks aren't really there yet. They will be one day, but they're not yet.
I would love to see a similarly detailed article juxtaposed with the detailed environmental effects of each phase in history. What crucial choices were made to get us here, what would we have needed to have done differently?

What surprisingly good policies may have also emerged? Where was old times better than current environmental awareness?

It seems warped to talk if these only as success stories.
I think you are getting stuck in ideological purity instead of creator mode :). Use the tools available as they are awesome, sure some might not work out long term and that is life.
Long time ago Nvidia tried to make it's own x86 CPU but was threatened with lawsuits by Intel. Now Nvidia can buy Intel for a song.
Ask HN: Panicking about new AWS MFA reqs
I've run dozens of servers/services/DBs on AWS as the root user for years. I will never, ever set up MFA there or anywhere else. I want only email verification through my private email server. No hardware keys to lose, and no cell phone to go missing or have to reload my credentials on (my phones disappear a lot). Suddenly the AWS root login tells me MFA will be required within 6 days through either a hardware key or an authenticator app.

There seems to be no way to get in touch with Amazon about it, so I'm asking here. Anyone else in the same situation?

BTW, Don't tell me just accept it. If you do, you don't get what I'm talking about. I can't get a phone number of who the f** I'd have to talk to there to permanently exempt my account from this req. I've been moving stuff there for 10 years and I'm managing $100k /yr through them at least. Moving verification to an authenticator app or key is MUCH less secure for my living situation.
On one hand I agree with you, on the other hand I'm happy they are taking the effort to do this because it will reduce e-waste. When those MacBooks no longer receive updates, they can get a second life thanks to this work.
Ah ya, I don't know about German, maybe there is a free source in Germany?

>I'd definitely use this. Are you planning on adding a lot more >interactivity/"blogging" features on the reader side?

Yep working that way in 2025 :)
Nvidia buying Intel would be doing Intel a great service.
I want to try Rails but I can't downgrade away from static typing for my personal projects. I typically want to spin them out quickly and not worry about writing tests: static typing adds way too much value in that scenario.

I looked into Ruby's static typing attempts but the picture painted was grim.
Can you expand on what is the Intel culture and why it would hurt growth?
That experience has likely made you a more skilled developer, though.
Yeah I remember that, I posted a YouTube video complaining about it 6 years ago, before I could find any other references to the issue online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rox2IfViJLg

That would cause it to throttle even when idle! But even on battery or using the right-hand ports, under continuous load (edit-build-test cycles) it would quickly throttle.
Nvidia buying Intel would mean some damn fast CPUs. I'd like to see that.