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C++, especially before C++11, was a total mess. Even today, it's super easy to shoot yourself in the foot and you literally can't learn the entirety of the language due to how massive it is. This still doesn't justify doing the absurdity of macro magic and garbage I've seen people pumping out in C over the years though.

IMHO if you deliberately use C it's because you want to keep things simple. Sometimes C++ will inevitably lead to overcomplicated designs nobody needs; there's a reason why 90's C++ feels massively outdated, while 90's C is still (mostly) accessible.
C is a great way to keep the urge people have to shovel in OOP even when it doesn't really make sense. When I see some bullshit C++ code at work, I often think, "if people had to write this in C, they wouldn't have overthought this this much"...

My 2 cents is that there was a Java craze back in the '90s that basically infected all code designed in that time period, and that's how we got some very weird nonsense that in hindsight was poorly thought out. Just look at stuff like GTK+ and GObject...
But the point of communication is mutual understanding. I generally agree that language is what we make it be, but in this case the wrong usage, meaning the usage that is mathematically incorrect, is causing issues.

I can't just go around saying that my cat is siamese even if he's not just because I got it wrong one time and now this is what siamese means to me. Because my goal is to transmit accurate messages.
Best options for satellite internet in Tanzania?
I'm volunteering at a hospital in Tanzania early next year and the internet is very spotty. Was hoping to set them up with a better connection.

Starlink would be ideal, but it isn't available in Tanzania as pending regulatory approval. 4G options are also pretty unreliable.
This is just a bad take on Blizzard.

- x years on the project titan, only to get cancelled

Overwatch came out of that and it was one of the biggest game in the last 15years. It sold over 50m copies, an insane number.
This. Also, I know that if I see a QR code in a restaurant, I take it as a strong signal that it's not a particularly good restaurant. I am quite certain that I'm not the only one who sees them this way.
> was just the technical fellow/consultant?

There is a direct lineage from the Nazi German V2 rockets to Saturn V. Wernher von Braun and his rocketry friends were involved at all levels of American rocketry and ballistic missile programs, and I am happy to say the latter wouldn't have gotten off the ground as early as they did without von Braun's guidance at all levels. At least until the end of WW2, British (and even German) aerospace was considerably further along than American equivalents. And even afterwards, the Europeans, Canadians, Brazilians and the Soviets have remained very productive in terms of civilian and military aerospace. This legacy continues today.

> the US still dominates space 10x or even 100x times. Engineering in the US is top notch

Good for the USA, but this has very little at all to do with unit systems and much more to do with just how much capital there is in the USA. And as everyone else has said, NASA uses SI. I bet these college students did, too.

Keep in mind that the metre is barely younger than the US itself, having been formalised in the 1790s.
Article takes too long to get to the grounds—judge ruled that the original party negotiations had been improper, with Musk having too much influence over the board.
I would say, that in the world of cloud native, it boils down to whom gives less surprise bills, and actually provides humans to talk to when support issues arise.

GCP isn't well seen in that regard.
Algorithms are to Gen-Z like GMO is to Millennials.
That’s an ideal but how would that work short of stringent government regulation? It’s never been easier to mine text and since YC is giving people large sums of money they have both a valid reason and broad deference to their assessment of applicants. VC isn’t like a car or home loan so I don’t think there’s anyway you could cut out bias less blatant than circulating a list of racial slurs or explicit threats of retaliation for funding people: since they’re basically making a large unsecured loan there’s simply too much justifiable discretion to exclude something like reviewing posting history.
The lost worlds emerging from glaciers
HIV isn't a biomarker, it's the cause of AIDS. People without detectable HIV don't develop AIDS.

People with HIV and on ARVs don't develop AIDS either, and any study that watched people contract HIV but didn't provide their participants with ARVs would be both unethical and pointless.
sure. well argumented response
> But for the vast majority of typical uses (Home Assistant, VPNs, etc.) a Pi is going to be way more than you need.

Ah, but if a Pi is more than you need,

you wouldn't be reading an article about boosting performance with SDRAM tuning

or indeed caring about the RPi 5 when the RPi 3 was more than good enough.
Serp doesn't pay for any of the search infrastructure. So it's an unfair comparison
Show HN: eBook Defender – No DRM Invisible Watermarking Tool
My first real "business" was running one of the largest ebook piracy sites in the world. One thing that pops up when talking to people who upload is they are far more hesitant to share books they have bought when they are worried that they will have hidden watermarks on them.

I also hate DRM. It’s a pain for legitimate users and trivial for someone like me to remove. So I've built Ebook Defender (name a work in progress) a tool to invisibly watermark ebooks without DRM. The watermarks are unnoticeable to readers and don’t affect formatting.

This is a working demo. You can upload an EPUB, add a watermark, and verify it. The full version supports more formats and can scan sites for watermarked copies (this largely uses existing technology, it will follow Usenet, Torrents, and also automatically track sites like mobilism etc).

The reason this isn't a fully featured SaaS or something is honestly, I don't know where to go from here. My background isn't in this space, my contacts within this space don't exactly return my emails, and I don't know what to do with it. Please feel free to break it!

I would love your feedback on any part of this whole thing.

Thanks!

Oh: If you want an epub to test with Gutenburg.org has a lot here's one https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.epub.noimages
It does seem expensive, but if it wasn't, then there'd be more temptation to simply white-label Kagi via it's own API while undercutting Kagi's own plans.
Bugatti is obviously Italian, not French...
I can only assume that a number of factors play into the ranking. Probably aspects you can't see (how many people followed through to the link at Kagi.com? How many people loaded up the comments for the submission?). Upvotes and comments are almost certainly not the only factors in ranking on HN.
30% means 0.3. A 30% increase is x * 1.3. Why should it be different for 200%
I pay for Kagi monthly and enjoy using it.

But this is ridiculously expensive:
> $25 for 1000 queries
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open a starbucks bean bag and smell it. I dont know one person who would say that smells good.

also french coffee is horrible mostly because it is controlled by only one group in a mafia like fashion where they rent you the coffee machine but you have to buy their beans. italians can make good coffee with old espresso machines and average beans which says more about their skills than anything else.
I think a few people are working on this right now. So hurry up.
Broadcom is the typical MBA run company. Nobody fucking cares about the long run. The idea is to extract as much as much profit as possible right now, the executives pocket the bonuses, and when the well dries, they can just move to the next target.

It is the locust economy.
The Google Doc is a broken link fyi.
Theoretically, stock compensation should do that. In practice, many/most investors have a pretty short time horizon in mind as well. I'm not sure how you provide an incentive for long-term company success absent very deferred compensation which I imagine most people reading this wouldn't favor either if it applied to them. Bird in hand worth two in the bush and all that.
This is nice!

If I understand this part correctly

> We plan to release this API to all Kagi members after the beta period.

eventually this will be usable (for the 2.5c per search) for any member, without the added 19$ per month (just your standard sub cost). I expect this will come in handy as a tool for AI assistant apps.

Anyway, happy Kagi user for around 2 years now, recommend it very much!
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I'd like to contribute as a product manager, or take on any other role where I can leverage my zero to one skill set and founder experience. I'd be a good partner for a non-technical person who is building a venture on their own and wants a solid ally by their side.
No that is more about money laundering
I'm sorry no one got the joke.
If you use your phone for just 1 app… sure.

I've never encountered anyone at all doing that though.
Not buying these materials from the low cost producer is plagued with economic problems.

It increases costs for all consumers (aka inflation), makes American manufacturers and their products less competitive and hurts the overall economy.

Bottom line: Tariffs ultimately hurt as much as they help --- if not more. Only a simpleton would think this sort of juvenile policy applied on a large scale is how you "Make America Great Again".
The world is pretty disappointing in that way.

All my life I have been thinking I should develop good skills in my career. But actually I should have been learning how to make connections and talk to people.

There's no chance of me selling a single banana for that much. But I could be making a multiple what I do now.
A Meta-Scientific Perspective on "Thinking: Fast and Slow
I think this is mistaken. Go already has a way to represent 'open' union types (interfaces), so all of these runtime problems have already been solved. What's missing is just the type system support to do exhaustive matching on the members of the union. With the addition of generics, 'all' that would be necessary is to make the following a legal variable definition:

var foo interface {
struct { A int } | struct { B string }
}

It currently fails with the following error:

"cannot use type interface{struct{A int} | struct{B string}} outside a type constraint: interface contains type constraints"
The rise of manufactured controversy: the hidden work of seeking gender conflict in smart homes
That's actually not so bad. That company reselling Kagi search is also replacing e.g. Kagi support, so there is less pressure on Kagi staff.

And honestly, anything that gets more people into the idea of using not-Google for searching is good for Kagi - even if it is to an ostensibly competitor.
> It turns out, however, that you can make it by starting from the outside. It’s not easy, but it can work. You have to go around and show your art as much as possible to as many people as possible.

I.e. some portion of “network success strategy” is actually downstream of talent success.
The N100 is the more-powerful-same-price option.
I'm pretty sure it is just ratio of points/time which matters. Number of comments has negative influence on rankings if number of comments >>> points. Sometimes truth is just boring.
I know that part. I was imprecise in the words I used. There is a different vinyl master of course, but its almost always based off the digital master that is than modified to not fuck up on vinyl medium. The vinyl master has more "attention" because the vinyl is more limited, it has nothing to do with being "better"
Isn’t that the starting price? Insurance and countries can buy in bulk and bring it down. Then overtime doesn’t the price come down due to competition from generics?
If everyone is there to set up your exhibition at a certain agreed upon time, then you should be engaged and answering any questions immediately if not sooner, regardless of how long it takes to set up the exhibition.
Isn't Serp using public Google search for free and effectively selling you "we will bypass the captchas that will inevitably come up"?

Kind of doesn't make sense to compare to them.
Enron has been resurrected in what appears to be an elaborate joke
Caveat emptor may be legal in capitalism, but it is not a great way to be a coworker which was the point.
> No cheap carriers by design
Why no love for the frugal ?
You Dont Know Jack remix for sure
It is not true in that case either, or at least “successful” is still poorly defined.

It’s defined implicitly in this blog as commercially successful within the timeframe I had to sell their art. Which is a perfectly defensible definition, but should be explicit so people know what argument they’re hearing.
Ethics has very little to do with business. One example, there are many others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...
Wow, that was a great essay. It describes the process I've been using for the past 10 years to design a happy life. I had no words to describe it in a good way, but now I have.
They almost always ask if you want to hear the specials.

They will however only tell you the price of the specials if you specifically ask, and if you don't ask they'll often not volunteer that information. I have on a few occasions 'screwed' myself by assuming that starter that was the special would be roughly the same price as all the other starters on the menu, only to get the bill and find out it was almost twice the price.
> The article talks about 10 times the price. If that’s true the equivalent percent would be 1100%.

I think you've just proven OPs point. 10x is a 900% increase, or 1,000% of the original price, not 1,100%.

Using percentage for anything other than a fraction of something (i.e. <= 100%) is usually done for effect, often done incorrectly, and even if done "correctly", leads to exactly this kind of confusion.
South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
Article is kind of light, but there is a surprising amount of work that comes with smart technology. Now, when I visit my parents, instead of getting asked to help fix something physical, I get asked to help diagnose smart light bulbs that for some reason have a single bulb that works but won't connect.
> > We plan to release this API to all Kagi members after the beta period.

Could someone with knowledge possibly give some hints of when the beta period is over?
The desktop is mostly a pretty uninteresting space in general. Virtual desktops never really took off (which VMware was into at one point) and desktop virtualization is generally a commodity for the relatively few people who use it.
Computation is quite important to understanding a problem. Often a more complex problem requires the ability to do simple computation and to build a intuition about numbers. Especially when we are talking things like simple fractions or rearranging basic equations. When a kid hasn't gotten a good grasp of fractions, they struggle to see why we can multiply both sides of an equation by x/x and then move things around to simplify the problem. To them, it looks like a magical step that follows no rules. Only with enough computation are our brains treat 7/7 as x/x as dx/dx as 1.

(I know nothing about the GP post, so I can't comment anything about them; I'm only relaying my own experiences from tutoring kids who struggle in math largely because they offloaded too much simple computation to a tool.)
The one lagging thing that isn't easy with rust's generics is expressions, and that looks to be getting kicked down the road indefinitely. You can't have Foo<N> * Foo<M> -> Foo<N+M> or similar. That is a useful thing for statically sized math libraries and for performance oriented metaprogramming. The latter can be clumsily handled with macros, but not the former. It is also blocking portable simd from stabilizing, apparently now indefinitely. I still wouldn't pick any other language a new production product, but I find the stalling out on const generic expressions frustrating, as simd and static math libraries are things I use daily.
In the mountain photos, IMG_1187 and IMAGE 2024-12-03 08:31:09 are the iphone photos. I think they're fine. But the alternate images (which are by a Canon PowerShot S50) convey better the lighting of how the scene actually looked IRL.
Workers are required to follow the orders they are given which are typically specified such that it is the people paying them that get to exercise aesthetic judgement. That is why Notre Dame was restored to a modernized design that is visibly different from its original state.
Super handy. At a meta level I like the way it's been quickly built as well with a few choice prompts and a vector db.
> how many people followed through to the link at Kagi.com

AFAIK HN does not track link clicks.
> But this is ridiculously expensive: > $25 for 1000 queries

Depends for what use case. For traditional everyday queries, it does sound expensive indeed, if you're not recovering any of the spend from whatever you use the API for.
I'm confused, you say it started before the merger, and go on to list a bunch of events that happened years after the merger.
If we can pull off synthetic bodies for our consciousness, then by that time going to Mars will be a walk in the park.

But I think you underlined the issue of timelines. Yes we can technically go to Mars in only a few years, but people living there permanently is going to be beyond my lifetime. Unless some people are willing to drastically sacrifice their health.
I hate this app. Hopefully it gets nationalised.
Brave is even cheaper, at 0.3 cents/request with a monthly limit of 20M searches (for the base plan).
I have to say the accompanying video doesn't sell the product well at all, the same scene over and over with some jumping oddly. Perhaps there a need that I'm unaware of?
That’s the big problem I see for them: all of the VMware guys I know _hate_ this move and are talking about being betrayed. Even if they aren’t immediately migrating, I don’t think many people are going to be comfortable increasing their dependency on Broadcom, whereas before that was as close to a given as it gets in business.
Doesn't that mean Chess and Draughts are the just variations?
Here's a direct link to the database as well if you just want the juice -> https://www.zenml.io/llmops-database
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I was at an event recently, with a bunch of teenagers (one of which was mine) and I passed around a couple of those Fuji Instax cameras.

They loved them. They liked writing notes on the border. The photos aren't nearly as good as even the most basic smartphone camera, but there was something genuine about them.

For all the advances we've made in technology over the years, people are still thoroughly analog. And while digicams are not analog in any way, there is something about them that scratches that itch. Maybe it's as simple as hitting an actual button to make it go.

For all the amazing high-tech in today's smartphones, you still feel like a monkey at the monolith as you paw at it.
never used Brave or Kagi, but comparing their search results, Kagi seems way more on-point in the first 10 results
I introduced my kids (13 and 11) to the sofa problem last week as we installed this cabinet organizer from IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/utrusta-corner-base-cab-pull-ou...

After showing them a youtube video about the problem they saw clearly how the organizer is a sofa and even made a joke about it a few days later.

Relatable math is pretty great. Also really cool is showing how academia translates to enriching our lives in benign ways.
So, is Jaguar now a purely marketing/visual arts company?

Context:

> Launch dates, events, and creative collaborations

> *Jaguar Type 00 is a non-production vehicle
I'm not a mastering engineer and I always send my pre-masters off and get a digital and vinyl master back. So, whether they prefer to create the vinyl master from the digital I wouldn't know for sure, but that would be my assumption, yes.

I would also agree that the vinyl master wouldn't have more attention outside of dealing with the limitations of the format. Most mastering engineers are working on pretty tight schedules, for not much money, so it wouldn't make sense for them to take longer on the vinyl master (outside of the known limitations). There isn't any aspect of vinyl which is (technically) better. So, it's not like they can improve on the digital master.
Are they as high up that it could start orbiting?
'Self-assembling' nano-electronics: Faster, cheaper, more reliable
Agreed, we tried to learn how to play from the book, and then got an existing player to help
This is currently part of my $dayjob.
This is just blogspam of the LA Times "analysis" they link to.

Also, the LA Times piece is itself just slanted anti-renewables propaganda.

They make selling solar to neighbouring states sound downright nefarious.
Oh man. I knew guys working at Enron (I lived in Houston at the time) when it all unwound. Here's three things:

1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for themselves, but it was "about the right amount".

2. Another friend was in the accounting group — he had been out of school for just a month-or-so — and had been a tag-along to AA. He came to work one day and his boss looks at him and says "you, me, and X are moving to Switzerland. Today." I didn't see him for years. He had no idea what was going on.

3. I got a lot of swag. The last Enron BBQ had custom t-shirts made. On the front is the Enron logo. On the back are all their mottos? Things like "trust", "honesty", etc. It's one of my most treasured t-shirts of the dot-com era.
By that argument, 100% is also a factor, but you wouldn't interpret "100% cost increase" as an unchanged cost, so a 10x price shouldn't be described as a "1000% cost increase".
> integrates Emacs and Guile by providing a new Elisp implementation based on Guile's Lisp-oriented compiler tower and runtime environment

I am hoping Guile the language (scheme) also will be supported alongside elisp.
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
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Networking issues on our custom AWS EKS Workers, and how we worked around them
China bans the sale of materials for chip and battery production to the US