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Hoo boy we have some classics in that category in the UK.

My personal fave is when morning TV host Lorraine Kelly successfully argued she wasn’t hosting as herself but acting a character called Lorraine Kelly, with very favourable tax consequences.
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I agree on all points, especially the idea of using Lua as a first language. It has so few features that you're really forced to focus on fundamental concepts like functions and (simple) data structures. And its flexibility to be used in an imperative or functional manner is great too. It's almost like a stripped back Javascript, and anyone who learns it will find jumping to JS easy.

I guess one might argue that 1-based indexing could cause beginners to get confused when they move to another language. But maybe it's good for them to get used to the idea that things like this can be different across languages.
Presumably there's no way of fingerprinting the footage itself as 'unlicenced' so the closest they get is asking the studio what camera serials they used to film.

What about if you're a YouTuber, surely they don't pay?
Locked In: The First Context-Aware AI Website Blocker
Solar power works very well in summer and can be used for cooling.
I assumed there is always some technical documentation/app architecture and some mandatory (server side) security you have to follow, but reading this I'm being too optimistic.
We still use many of those old ellipsis and datum’s today. When you’re doing human things, like surveying land, and defining property boundaries. It’s nice to work with a coordinate system which remains fixed relative to the area you’re surveying, and doesn’t drift due to annoying things like tectonic movement, or your entire country slowly tipping into the ocean.
What? No. The Napoleonic Code (Code Napoléon) is for civil law in contrast to criminal law. The penal code promulgated under Napoleon is called... the Penal Code, and is not the one that was adopted across Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code
I agree on what the main purpose is and that must be executed well, but it is 2025 and for a 5 000 usd camera we should be able to get both, great working camera with amazing and fast software.
Get out of here, who is building a home out of cardboard?
Apple CFO denies company enjoys 75% margin on its App Store
It is amazing to see the number of fairly significant changes they tested in this launch. I guess that is the advantage of private space flights and rocket launches where the speed of development is must faster than in a place like Nasa or any government run space program.

I am not surprised that stage 2 failed because they were testing with a lot of the thermal tiles removed.
That is great.

The problem now is the cost of college. I would be working on this same path right now but I can't justify the terrible relative investment that is college in 2025. It is just night and day different compared to the 80s/90s.

The time would be no issue at all for me. I am bored and would love something to do like going to class again.

It is criminal I can't get a psychology degree online for a fraction of a state school price at this point. To have the same degree cost much more than before the internet is just completely insane.

We can figure out as a society how to ban Tiktok but not how to have dirt cheap education like we could. I can't imagine the price we pay in GDP growth for this between the student loan debt and the sub-optimal work force configuration.
Is that it? Landing boosters is not saving money as of now. Because a rocket engine is not a rental bike.

Hmmm I wonder if there was a tech that recovered a spacecraft and tried to reuse it to cut costs... hmmm... no, nothing comes to mind

Also SpaceX is charging Nasa more than russians did when they had monopoly over space flights.
Cursor requires you to use their specific IDE though, doesn't it? With Copilot I don't have to switch contexts as it lives in my Jetbrains IDE.
Sounds super optimistic. Despite some efforts to mitigate climate change. Industrialists are hell-bent on removing regulations and consuming more power than ever. Cooling things is expensive and the laws of thermodynamics don't care about how advanced a society is.

"All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way
That the availability of the remaining energy decreases
In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves an isolated system
The entropy of that system increases
Energy continuously flows from being concentrated
To becoming dispersed, spread out, wasted and useless
New energy cannot be created and high grade energy is being destroyed
An economy based on endless growth is
Unsustainable"
Maybe? I think its highly dependent on the age of the home and the willingness to reuse the outer plan to rebuild the home.
A 3dB increase is a doubling of a power quantity, but you need 6dB to double a root-power quantity (formerly called a field quantity). Sound pressure is root-power quantity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_root-power,_and_field_q...

Consider a loudspeaker playing a constant-frequency sine wave. Sound pressure is proportional to the excursion of the cone. To increase sound pressure, the excursion has to increase, and because frequency is fixed the cone will have to move faster. If it's covering twice the distance in the same time interval it has to move twice as fast. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, so doubling the sound pressure requires four times the power, and doubling the power only gets you sqrt(2) times the sound pressure.

Human loudness perception generally requires greater than 6dB increase to sound twice as loud. This depends on both frequency and absolute level as you mentioned, with about 10dB increase needed to double perceived loudness at 1kHz and moderate level.
Canon advertises their cameras as webcams.
It works for Taiwan and Japan
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Meta's New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages
And skill, likely in low supply, and labor. I'm sure some in the Pacific Palisades could afford this no problem, but many in altadena inherited their homes and their homes were the majority of their net worth.

Admittedly not very knowledgeable about this stuff but I feel like a lot of these types of comments are greatly trivializing this problem
Is mathematics the empress of science? A physicist weighs in
Pays more for less effort and frequently less risk. Just make sure to get enough headcount to go over the span of control number.
Ask HN: Is discrete TPM worth it? with QubesOS/aem/heads/Intel-me disabled
I couldn't find info if disabling intel management engine with HAP bit or through bios settings will also disable the firmware TPM or intel TXT. If disabling intel ME doesn't disable the latter two features then a discrete TPM is not necessary.

To be clear, I'm not talking about overwriting large parts of intel ME with zeros. This is only the simple way of setting the HAP bit or disabling it in BIOS settings.

QubesOS doesn't require a TPM but qubesOS is often used with AEM or Heads. It's also popular to disable intel ME. Both Heads and AEM requires a TPM. AEM also requires intel TXT.

This means if disabling intel ME also disables firmware TPM and intel TXT then it's necessary to have a discrete TPM. So that is the main question here. I couldn't find an answer, does anyone know and can link to the source for verification?

Maybe it's also not possible or unecessary to disable intel ME if your CPU doesn't have AMT. You can see of your CPU has AMT or not on intel's website. So if it says there is not AMT feature, then it maybe means it's uneccesary to get a discrete TPM?
> how'd you think they got nuclear weapons?

I rather assumed they were able to re-invent them from scratch by the work of their own scientists. I mean, the US did it before the invention of the transistor and what I've heard about the USSR project is their espionage only helped them know the critical mass without needing so many test runs, so it doesn't seem like it would be implausible that Israel could do it themselves about 20 years later.
Yes, I think science communication is also a big part of the problem. It's a hard one to do right, but easy to do wrong and few journalists especially care or have the resources to do it right (and the end results tends to be less appealing, because there's a lot less certainty involved)
Because people rarely go to space, and it was much more dangerous when the last person died than it is today. The vast majority of flights are unmanned, just like this test was.

If you want to continue playing apples to oranges though, nobody has died on a spaceflight in the last twenty years. How many have died on airplanes in that timeframe?

[correction: there was one additional fatal flight in 2014 with the destruction of SpaceShipTwo. I would argue that one doesn't count, though, as it was more akin to a relatively mundane aircraft accident than anything else.]
Realistically, a better wifi chip would add almost nothing to production cost, but there are a lot of professionals doing product photography that would like fast wifi tethering.

Well, that would prevent them from selling overpriced grips with integrated better wifis which is 999 usd from Cannon...
> The other way the world is becoming uninsurable is much of what we take for granted--abundant, affordable resources, products, food and fuel, for example--is not guaranteed, and cannot be insured by political or technological means.

Fuel is not guaranteed, but renewables, batteries, heat pumps, EVs and possible nuclear does increasingly give us a technological option for ensuring power.

It's fair to ask if economics will drive us to adopt these technologies on a wide enough scale before we run out.
Thank god you're not building rockets.
I believe that we should all rant, loudly and often, against racists, misogynists, homophobes, etc.
SpaceX landing and catching boosters is amazing, but landing rockets is not new: all the Apollo LMs, indeed everything ever landed on the Moon was done with "vertical-landing" rockets.
Yes, I'm so completely fed up with recurring subscriptions for things with negligible or no recurring costs for the seller. This one is of course particularly obnoxious given the hardware itself is expensive and the recurring cost is 0. But for example I would've gotten an Oura ring by now if they would just charge twice the price for the ring itself and not require a subscription, even though the subscription fees over the lifetime of the hardware would probably add up to a significantly smaller amount. To me it's just incredibly off-putting -- it reeks of greed and feels like a blatant attempt to fool customers by obscuring the actual cost. I guess it must be working for them, but for me, the cost of anything with a recurring fee gets mentally rounded up to "approximately $infinity".
You’re mostly talking about wildfires. The top 5 most destructive events in US are all hurricanes. They are the size of multiple states and bring more water in a period of a day than rest of annual non-hurricane rainfall.

It’s desalinated water falling from a massive sprinkler in the sky.
This was also the reason for the (in)famous BRAT seats:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_BRAT
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake

Concrete that can withstand M7-8 is a lot more expensive, mostly limited to commercial buildings. There’s plenty of brick homes in the rest of the country.
I think honestly the meme that non-CS degree engineers are most capable is selection bias.

If they had taken a CS degree they would likely be just as, of not more capable.

To self-learn the topics you need to make good software takes an immense amount of effort and although the data and material is out there, takes a lot of work to figure out.

I'm only recently starting to pick up on "magic" patterns that are actually extremely simple to understand given the right base knowledge... I can gain tons of insights from talks givem in the early 2010s but if I watched them without the correct practical experience and foundational knowledge it is the same as the title to a HN post this week[1], gibberish.

With the correct time playing with the foundational patterns and learning some of the backing knowledge it unlocks amazing patterns in my mind and makes the magic seem simple. A great example, CSP[2]. I've known about and used the actor model before, which I first discovered when I found Erlang, but now with CSP I could ask the question "Why should actors be heavy?", you can put an actor into a light-weight task and spawn tons of them and build a tree of connections. Stuff like oneTBB flow graph[3]now makes sense and looks like a beautiful pattern with some really interesting ideas that can be implemented in more general computing than the high performance computing it was designed for. It seems niche but golang is built on those foundations, and the true power of concurrency in golang comes from embracing that. It fundamentally changes the way I want to structure and layout code and I feel like a good CS course can get you there quicker...

Unfortunately a good CS course probably wouldn't accelerate the average CS grads understanding of that but can get someone dedicated and hungry there much much quicker. Someone fresh out of a JS bootcamp is maybe a decade away from that if they ever even want to search for that knowledge.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42711751

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_pro...

3. https://oneapi-spec.uxlfoundation.org/specifications/oneapi/...
I think Steven Colbert hosted a show using himself as the host. I’m not sure about the tax implications though.
Evacuation. Hardly anyone died in these fires.
Bosch also sells those huge ass drills here that take a few minutes to make a 2-3 cm hole through concrete to pass those conduits between floors/rooms. They're not available in the Americas?
> code still needs to be reviewed and tested, at least as much as you'd scrutinize the code of a brand new engineer just out of boot camp

> ..._massive_ boost to productivity. ~20% of the commits to the OpenHands codebase are now authored or co-authored by OpenHands itself.

I'm having trouble reconciling these statements. Where does the productivity boost come from since that reviewing burden seems much greater than you'd have if you knew commits were coming from a competent human?
Interesting. I feel far happier when I am able to just "do the damn work" all day. Instead, I find I am constantly having to pander to the onslaught of stakeholders who require constant meticulous management to give me the space to do the damn work. I can hardly get into a flow state anymore because of the heavy layer of management and dependencies.
Broad advice I've seen for already-employed people looking for a change: Switch employers and roles at different times.

e.g., Learn enough to be useful, then talk to the security guys at your company. Prove you're useful and trustworthy; see if there's any tasks you can do for them without violating policy. If a spot opens up, see about changing roles within your company.

Or, join a smaller company, where your role and some security responsibilities overlap.
That's upsetting, but my point is the article itself is rage bait. It's not outrageous for Canon to charge for webcam software when there's HDMI video-out on the camera.
Why Cybersecurity? Every single “IT job” is saturated and the barrier to entry is low meaning you are competing with everyone else doing boot camps and getting a few certifications

You would be better off going into consulting or sales in a related industry.

People like to give you warm and fuzzies and tell you that “you are never too old”. Honestly, that’s not true.

As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you need higher pay.

But the best way to transition is to slowly do it internally at a company you already work at.

(I’m 50 by the way)
The history of rocketry goes much further back than the space shuttle. The shuttle was supposed to be a step towards reusability but didn’t succeed or progress the way they thought it would. Starship is continuing that dream of full reusability and their approach is working. You can’t plan everything on paper when it comes to hardware especially when attempting things that have never been done before, you just don’t have the data in that case. You have to build prototypes and test them to destruction. All manufacturers do this.
This resonates with my experience. The consulting/software company I work for practices price transparency (even though we're the most expensive in our market) and pushes hard for email communication with leads and clients. Our stuff is heavily documented. More substance, less BS.

We used to do lots of sales calls years ago, but 99% of our entreprise growth came from being active members of our community and talking (email!) to engineers. We still do sales calls, but they're essentially what the author calls "discovery calls". And we prequalify the shit out of leads before we take a call with them -- yes, that means taking a few minutes to learn about what they do.
Its historically cheap, unlike Europe. More importantly I thought think it buys you much compared to building up to modern standards. Remember most of these homes are old. I think this is one of those European/World memes that America just builds cardboard homes.
Neither can I. They look identical to me.
You can set a "max work time" before it pauses so it wont go for days endlessly spending your credits. By default its set to 10 credits.

So I'm not sure how the author got it to go for days.
Well, I think the most interesting point made is that it may not make sense for AI companies to release models _at all_ as they approach AGI. Exposing models allows their capabilities to be easily copied, whereas keeping them internal lets you capture the profit from their output while protecting your IP.

For example, say OpenAI trained a hyper-intelligent model specialising in designing new small molecule drugs. Why make that publicly available at all? Why not just partner with a pharmaceutical manufacturer and make money from selling the drugs?

We’ve become accustomed to AI-as-a-service being the default, via chat or API, but this might just be a blip. After all OpenAI have made it clear that they only see their mission as making the “benefits” of AGI available to all, which doesn’t necessarily correspond with making AGI itself available to everyone.
Are these tools able to automatically identify PII information or do you have to specify columns and data types manually? What happens if you have PII data in a string field? Do you just rely on something like spacy to identify the PII data?
I love Lua (LuaJIT is great for many reasons, I love its FFI and its high efficiency), and Go, they are simple and easy to be productive in them, for sure.
I tried to get used to the tab completion tools a few times but always found it distracting like you describe. often I’d have a complete thought, start writing the code, get a suggested completion, start reading it, realize it was wrong, but then I’d have lost my initial thought, or at least have to pause and bring myself back to it.

I have, however, fully adopted chat-to-patch style workflows like Aider, I find it much less intrusive and distracting than the tab completions, since I can give it my entire thought rather than some code to try to complete.

I do think there’s promise in more autonomous tools, but they still very much fall into the compounding-error traps that agents often do at the present.
Its speculation but well argued and frankly somewhat convincing taking into account the overlay with Anthropic.

Remember they are all raising money hand-over-fist at high velocity so being able to throw in a story about improving margins whilst they march towards AGI its not a bad play.
You’re still doing software development. That’s not a major transition.
If you’re already a skilled programmer, I actually think cybersecurity is a pretty straightforward field to get in to.

The tradeoff is that you have to not mind:

1) relocating to the greater Washington DC metro area, and

2) getting a US security clearance,

Though this website really makes it seem like cybersecurity is all about the world of web apps and commercial tech companies, I would actually posit that the US DOD / Intelligence community is the largest customer of cybersecurity research in the US. (It’s dispersed through a big web of contracting firms, but the end client of most of these firms is one of a handful of agencies or military intelligence divisions.)

I say this as someone who works in the field: if you can code, and you can get cleared, you can probably find someone in the cybersecurity field who wants to hire you. The field is hungry for experienced talent. The fact that you’ve previously forward developed web apps is not a drawback - if anything, it’s an asset. Knowing how developers think is a great asset that most pentesters and reverse engineering focused people in the field lack.

Your focus in UX, user research, and design is a huge asset. There are tons of dogshit web apps that government agencies use for important national security purposes. Trust me on this.

Edit: expanding on the note about the "big web of contracting firms" - there are a ton of little DARPA / pentest / cyber research companies in the DC metro area that would kill for an experienced programmer with an interest in cybersecurity research. They don't pay nearly as much as FAANG, but there's also substantially less competition for those jobs, and (in NoVA/southern MD, anyway) tons of opportunities to jump ship to different teams with different work and better cultural fit, if you're interested.
> More powerful console, DVD instead of CD, and that was it

Wrong. PS2 had pressure sensitive buttons, hard drives/linux, network multiplayer, camera, etc..
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I laughed when I read about this pro-palestine propaganda group. There's no organized state sponsorship of online astroturfing like Israel.

Norman Finkelstein puts it nicely: https://youtube.com/shorts/M0ZnnjQ3tAQ
I'm asking naively and honestly: is there a solution to brine? Believe it's pumped directly back into ocean at the moment.
This would shift the political dynamics in the rest of the US as people left for car-friendly cities where they could own their homes.
I just used the TortoiseSVN installer on a couple different machines and I recall it being perfectly smooth each time.
Definitely the same for computers. LOTS of software rely on saving data on "secret" locations for shareware-style trials.

macOS for one has been asking to allow access to specific folders. Other OSs are possibly starting to do the same, but it used to be a free-for-all.
In order of importance I'd put them exactly in reverse :)

And I'd add:

6. Stop thinking of yourself as a consumer. A consumer blindly ingurgitates whatever's fed to them. You're a customer. With tastes and personal opinions. They depend on you to make a living, not you on them. And an unhappy customer moves their business elsewhere, doesn't stay on forever like being a consumer implies.
You can reboot your full-disk-encryption server while you sleep. Obligatory plug: <https://www.recompile.se/mandos>

Disclosure: I am a co-author of Mandos.
> I love the EU but it certainly has its idiosyncrasies.

Tariffs around the world have weird stuff like that. Very little to do with the EU itself. Expect a lot more weird things like that to happen in the US now with the new US government implementing new tariffs.
> single-maintainer projects (or subsystems, or packages) will be seen as risky

I would actually see a single-maintainer project as less risky. Looking at the XZ backdoor issue in particular, nobody even knows who the person is that introduced it. With a single-maintainer project, you only have to trust one person, who is often a known quantity.
Related tweet by Sam Altman:

https://x.com/sama/status/1875603249472139576

If you can find it in this thread, an OpenAI employee hinted at the idea they have reached "data singularity": using a model to generate synthetic data to train the next version.