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Parts are pretty much instant, pcb turn around times are 3 to 15 days depending on how complex they are.

Even in the bad old days of punch cards and priesthoods the turn around for software was faster.

I have a little pcb mill in the garage that I use for prototypes.

To this day I've not met another EE that knows what a voronoi mapping is, or why you'd want one. In a previous startup where I was the software engineer I got through more prototypes for the analogue signal paths in an afternoon than the two other EEs had in the previous week.
> By 2018, ASML succeeded in deploying the intellectual property from the EUV-LLC

That explicitly says that the IP is with EUV-LLC (edit: which is of U.S. origin).
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EU countries are asleep at the wheel on matters of national security and sovereignty. Spotify is not a matter of national security. TikTok, and social networking in general, has been one for some time now. Misinformation, conspiracy theories, actual conspiracies to overthrow govt, etc have all found renewed vigor thanks to social networks.

US on the other hand now has its social media controlled by oligarchs, not much better maybe.
DOE Releases Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand of Data Centers
Two can play at that game. If bundling Internet Explorer was found illegal, this should be too, and the US and EU can start fining MS billions until they stop these underhanded anti-competitive tactics.
Europe has its own nuclear forces

Also LOL @ the US being the destabilizing force with Russia.
I didn't suggest otherwise, nor was that even part of my point.
I enjoyed the site and found it useful to begin with however it became a playground for people who felt they were know it alls to get recognition. A little ego boost if you will and that ruined the point for me, which was to get a varied response on technical questions.
I know I would have loved an AI to be able to ask calculus questions to when I was that age.

A lot of the lectures in the class didn't make sense to me at the time, and spent crazy amounts of time trying to teach myself from books.
I don't know what the regulations are in the UK, but in many European countries, building a house isn't just about knowing how to build a house, it's also about knowing all the DIN requirements. These are necessary for insurance to pay out if something happens to your house. Let's take a simple example: You're wiring your house. Because of a mistake, the house burns down.

Insurance: “Okay sir, who did the electrical wiring?
you: “Me”.
Insurance: “Are you a professional?
you: “No"
Insurance: “Have you had your work certified by a third party?"
you: “Do my buddies count?”
insurance: "Have a good day sir"

There may never be a problem and you may have figured out everything that's required to get your butt covered (good for you in this case), but the fact is that a lot of people don't know about these things, do their own thing and get royally screwed if there's a problem and, God forbid, someone gets hurt.
They also get it stolen even faster.
Having looked at just the trailer on steam, it does look impressive, especially for a one man effort.
Different set of people (although they both traveled on the sea).
Seeing the faceless supercomputers of today, which are not built to be looked at, but to exist in dark datacenters, saddens me, but that's the nature of the new machines - no human can conceivably follow their machinations, and no display with blinking lights can be built to help humans with that.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it seems it is currently removed due to unclear bugs.
This is false. List of apps which refuse to run on my old OnePlus 6 which I revived with LineageOS:

- Danish national identity app (MitID). I had to get a hardware token that generates one-time passwords.

- My banking app (still works in the browser though).

- The de facto payment app used for peer-to-peer payments and as a credit card alternative all over Denmark (MobilePay).

- The app for controlling the heating system in my car.

- Revolut.

- The app for showing a digital version of my government issued health insurance card. It's literally just a barcode and a number, so I can get by using a photo of the card instead. This underlines the ridiculousness of requiring Play Integrity attestion.

- The app for showing a digital version of my driver's license. As a bonus this app also doesn't work if you have set your default browser to Firefox instead of Chrome, even on a non-rooted phone.

On top of this, one app for scanning goods in the supermarket stopped working, but without explicitly saying why. I suppose it just silently depends on some Google service, but I have not way of knowing that.

I also cannot get Chromecast to work, but that is perhaps to be expected when replacing the Google services with microg, and not strictly a result of DRM. It is a major inconvenience though.

Denmark is one of the most digitized countries, and in many ways that is good. However, it also means that you are increasingly coerced into the whole Google/Apple ecosystem and that it is very hard to get out. Luckily there are alternatives to all of the above apps, but it is a major inconvenience to have to use them.
What's amazing is it seems nobody (big/public) is trying to really make a thing which is personal as you describe. It's all twitter rip-offs, microblogging narcissistic megaphone attempts.

I don't care a bit about bluesky, and while I check on my Mastodon feed a few times a week I don't interact there much either. This "look at me, whole world!" phenomenon is of very little interest to me. I despise what Meta has become, but I don't see an alternative yet to FB.
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> I could download a torrent of any movie I want, so the tech is obviously not preventing piracy.

But you couldn't manufacture your own monitor/projector/media player without permission from and tribute to the HDMI lobby. Well, you could, but it would fail commercially due to incompatibility. In other words, DRM is an anti-competitive cartel.
Not sure if this is true, he got "lucky" with technological advantage of warfare (Mongol bows) compared to other nations close to him as horse archers were literally "meta" to fight vs heavy/peasant infantry same case as Crassus fighting Parthians.
It seems you are confusing the details and conditions of a contract never disclosed publicly, of base research, where a EU based company spent 20 years and billions of EU funds to create a workable product.

In any case if the US adrenaline fueled diplomacy, starts violating hundreds of years old borders of it's allies, respect for ambiguous IP Laws, will be pretty low in the list of priorities. :-)
How is the end user the one doing the infringement though? If I chat with ChatGPT and tell it „give me the first chapter of book XYZ“ and it gives me the text of the first chapter, OpenAI is distributing a copyrighted work without permission.
Doom ported to Microsoft Word document
2020 report by nyt, paywalled of coursed

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/technology/china-tiktok-e...

the official export control list in Chinese

https://www.most.gov.cn/tztg/202312/W020231221620858841394.p...

it is on the 29th page, with export control number 086501X, item 18.
Not necessarily. China pursues many objectives when it comes to its national security, such as intimidation and coercion of dissidents or opponents of its regime living abroad. Assuming China's equivalent of the Patriot act lets it treat TikTok user data as an open book, there is a lot for them to learn from it.
> But absent that I think it's safe to say that this case doesn't raise the first amendment.

I still think it does, but it's Apple and Google's right to propagate the app, not TikTok's right to be on the app store. And since neither Apple nor Google are party to the lawsuit, nobody really has standing to take that particular line of argument.
Access Databricks UnityCatalog from DuckDB
Databricks is a great platform when it comes to data management and governance, mostly due to the unity catalog. But Spark as an engine for processing the data is just ok'ish, especially when data is not really big. New engines like polars, datafusion or duckdb are better suited for this and provide interesting options. This blog show how to use duckdb inside databricks on data stored in unity catalog.
The US isn't even willing to send troops to deal with the Houthis and now you're treating an invasion of the Netherlands as credible? Maybe you should cool it with the propaganda here.
> POSSE, a social web and IndieWeb abbreviation for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere", a strategy for content producers.

Had to google, might save someone time.
Sorry for the late reply, I pick up 99mg potassium + 200mg magnesium and had an unbelievable night's sleep and many symptoms improved dramatically. The second night was confounded by an evening workout, which can mess with electrolyte levels, but you have given me hope again. I just want to thank you again for continuing the tradition of changing someone's life with an innocuous HN comment :)

I see what you mean regarding the electrolyte measurements. After reading a bit about the disorders that you mentioned, it seems like they test for serum and excreted electrolyte levels to make a diagnosis. But based on your point above, these tests can be inconclusive. Were there certain diagnostic tests that were helpful to you in coming to your conclusion, or was it largely trial and error based on symptom management?
Could you elaborate further? I am a skilled immigrant in the UK. I pay my taxes and have not used any benefits. I even pay for my medication; the only free service I have used is a GP appointment or a hospital scan, which was likely covered by the IHS (Immigration Health Surcharge).

What have I done to make the country worse off?
Yes exactly!
This is what I'm trying to argue as well, it happens quite often for me that I submit a typo because it's already "on it's way out" when I catch it (but before, or about the same time it's finished and enter is pressed), so the ctrl+c is already on it's way :)
> of what most people call scrum has been the best I've seen in over 20 years

If you're phrasing it like that I've been doing agile since way before anyone invented the term.

But that's only 10% of cult agile, which is what is practiced generally.
It just mentions a loop, so id say for a loop without any content, it should be less than 50ms, but as the other commentor said, it depends on your hardware and a better measurement is to compare relatively
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After several iterations (some of which older than TS native enums if I remember well), this is the Enum code I ended up with. It creates type, "accessors" (`MyEnum.value`), type guard (`isMyENum(...)`) and set of values (`for(const value of MyEnum)`), and have 2 constructor to allow easier transition from TS native enum.

https://gist.github.com/forty/ac392b0413c711eb2d8c628b3e7698...
Ask HN: Who is a first generation immigrant here?
They are going to start deporting a lot of people for chasing a dream starting tomorrow, so I’m just curious who here is a first generation immigrant.

Just a hi, hello.
My view is that the US startup culture exists because of wealth inequality at the $1-$20m net worth level. Wealth inequality is socially incentivized at that level because of the lack of a decent social safety net. If you don't save money then at 50 you may end up homeless on the street due to bad luck. But if you don't get bad luck then you end up at 50 with a large amount of money that you don't have much to do with. So you start investing some in riskier things because who cares.

US founders not from wealthy backgrounds can often get $500k from friends and family. I doubt those in the UK can do so.

There's massive massive social costs due to this in the US so be careful what you wish for.
How would that even work? Aren’t the responses to the API equally fast as the Web interface? Can any human write a response with the speed of an LLM?
>the current AI investments

As someone whose done both hardware and AI, the current AI investments are at worst a repeat of the 2000 dot com boom.

They aren't wrong, but they may be premature with how terrible our compute substrate is.
Hey now you could also go and work for Airbus...but it does mean having to go to Stevenage, as well as getting terrible pay.
Bonjour :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion
How does anyone use that? Phones are already too thin to be comfortably held without inadvertently touching the edges of touchscreen.
People downvote me when I say the era of American exceptionalism is over - it’s so over though, the next couple years will prove me right
Not really true. Horse archers were a thing before him and after him. And many of the people he thought were either horse archers themselves, or allied with horse archers, or had fought horse archers for centuries.
yes, tiktok is publication of an application program.
Surely you won't be the last idiot to hold the bag.
Saudi Arabia has less of a history of invading European countries
That'd be interesting, but I don't know how to prove that I'm not just "pretending" to make typos and correcting them instantly ?
Maybe not a good time to dox yourself as an immigrant.
The rights enumerated by the constitution are human rights (“endowed by their creator”) and are not specific to americans.

Furthermore, the 1A is a restriction on the government and isn’t related to whether or not someone is a citizen.

There are lots of things congress is prohibited from doing under the constitution, including against foreign entities. Congress can’t ban a foreign religion operating in the US, for example.
"Don’t use it personally if you don’t like it"

You seem oblivious to the addictive nature of things ...

Doesn't matter if it's banned or not.

And let me know where snorting drugs is legal so I can plan my weekend. Thanks.
The fact that we're even referring to money as "meme" should be reason enough to give pause.

What in the actual fuck are we building, here?
We (Calumet) region rats have Paul Goddard to thank for keeping us on top of things. The local TV stations ignore us, for the most part, as Chicago is huge.

This one dude, working on it part time, seems to be the only decent news source in Northwest Indiana.
They're in the extreme minority. Most software dev roles in the UK top out between £40 and £50k, £60k if you're lucky.
This is exactly what I'm trying to say.
The actions are underway by muscles (or _just_ completed) and the brain catches something's off and so ctrl+c is queued.
"You don't need a JavaScript Framework.... check out our TypeScript framework."

Thanks, I appreciate a good bit of humor on cold dark winter days such as this.

In all seriousness, Next.js already focuses on SSR. So you shouldn't market yourselves as an alternative if your main claim is something it already does.
America spoke and said they wanted it, what more is there to be said? If there was marching in the streets, it would be torn to shreds by the online grift sphere.
Using it to explain stuff. Don't we already have books written by professionals with hopefully years of experience? And these are given out to the students... And anything in them is taken as truth for the tests...

In context of school, I would think just reading the book is lot simpler than figuring right thing to ask.

Ofc, there is situations like literature where asking the ai to tell about book is probably easy cheat... But you also would have wikipedia and whatever...
Right... so everyone is biased against Israel?

But you simply cannot be taken seriously when you claim that openly pro-Israel establishments like the NYT and BBC are biased against Israel - it's just utterly ludicrous, and demonstrably false.
The subtlety here is that an almost-memorized picture of a lady is the same picture with a few artifacts, and an almost-memorized NYT article is the same article with a few words changed, but an almost-memorized computation or proof is likely to be plain wrong. So even if OpenAI's benchmark was data contamination (as I suspect) it still says something about o1's abilities to execute a given problem-solving strategy without confabulating. It's just not what OpenAI wants you to think: much closer to Mathematica than an actual mathematician.
I want to click an icon, not type "like everyone else". All this customizability goes out of the window when it becomes emotionally inconvenient, eh? I also don't want to remap win-left to:

#!/bin/bash
taskbar_h=40
w=$(xdisplay_info | awk '/width/ {print $2}')
h=$(xdisplay_info | awk '/height/ {print $2}')
xdotool getactivewindow windowmove 0 0 windowsize $((w / 2)) $((h - taskbar_h))

And a similar abomination for win-right, which I would have to maintain somewhere. And in wayland, what are even the options?

Use a better font

I think you misunderstood this. While the physical display is "on", it all looks correct. When you turn it off and vnc into the main X display, it's all mangled, regardless of the font. The order of turn off / vnc into doesn't matter either.

Also, I don't want to globally disable notifications. Maybe I just have to globally disable graphics? That would indeed solve many issues with linux desktops.
In Europe the capital gain tax ranges from %37 in Norway, %34 in France, %26 in Germany and Italy, %10 in Bulgaria and %0 with conditions in many other places. Tax heavens are a European invention anyway.

And no, millionaire or billionaire doesn't matter much. Europe lacks Billionaires not Millionaires. Europe is full of small businesses and by small I mean millions in profits and revenues.

In Europe %99 of the companies are small or medium sized enterprises, which is not different than the USA. In USA however, large companies have slightly higher number of employees which is an indicative of concentration of power and that's how you get your "USA has 5 unicorns in top 10 but EU has only 1" lists.

Contrary to the narrative, Europe has much more small and medium sized enterprises per capita: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Micr...
What's your source on that? Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon all operate in China and I don't believe they had to give up 50% of their local subsidiary. Google withdrew from China because it didn't want to comply with local laws (e.g. censorship).
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This is a Sudoku game that I wrote in JavaScript, since I didn't really like most of the web-based Sudoku games I found. It can generate boards of varying difficulty, or you may input a board of your own. You may play the actual game on my site at https://parkscomputing.com/page/sudoku
Ask HN: Can Hacker News Stay Above Politics?
@dang does an admirable job moderating this platform. However, the growing overlap between the political stances of prominent technologists and the entanglement of tech with U.S. politics makes it increasingly difficult to separate the two.

I believe this impacts the first tenant of Hacker News, “[Submit] anything that good hackers would find interesting,” because the area-of-interest has expanded.

Should we do more to protect our culture here or embrace the shift in the platform?
I haven't looked into your links yet but I suggest reading about vcoding. There are endless stories about trans women being r-ed tens or hundreds of times during their stay in prison.

> The Executive Order ends the practice of housing men in women’s prisons and taxpayer funded “transition” for male prisoners.

This is also messed up. Basically forces trans people in prison to medically detransition.
Prusa is not even fully open source anymore, bunch of excuses.. and definitelythey have a pricing god complex...

Bambu still the best machines to date, especially if you consider price. If you do not upgrade NOTHING changes - and its only planned for the X-series as of now. People are being too hysterical.
Having some amount of utility doesn't contradict it possibly being used for nefarious purposes by it's owners though. If I intentionally wanted to design an information warfare weapon, I'd make sure to sugarcoat it with interesting/funny/useful content to make it palatable. Just like putting the soldiers inside a giant wooden horse.
France and the UK have nukes

https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj...
No. Unlike a newspaper, they host videos and photos of a third of (?) the US population, have detailed reader data on who reads what when, who is friends with whom, location history, etc.

This data treasure trove may be stored in US, but it isn't protected from Chinese govt access. It is the same for data by American companies, which US Patriot act lets the US govt access.
You scared?

No way to live. It’s an anonymous forum, I talk my heart here.
Earliest I've seen with 'Eh?' as an interpreter response is RAND's JOSS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSS#/media/File:JOSS_Session....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSS

They had about 5KB of memory but comparing to the Intellivision the machine weighed about 5,000lbs.
This is really a major simplification and glosses over a lot. US National laboratories were involved but certainly didn't "develop all the initial technology". This page on the ASML website gives a good overview: https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/making-euv-lab-to-...
When you're a small enough minority politically speaking, your ballot votes will also effectively be ignored. I voted for a third-party candidate in a heavy red state, so my vote was purely symbolic, it had zero chance of having any effect.
Very weird comment. Article talks about hardware talent in UK. Your comment tries to prove "engineering jobs" are not in the US by providing the job listing of a single supplier, when everybody knows that there are a huge amount of hardware talent in the US working at great companies that deliver amazing products. Your comment seems to equate "manufacturing jobs" to "hardware engineering jobs" which apparently isn't correct.
This goes both ways. Call your (relatively moderate) opponents nazis enough and they'll just end up not caring about your viewpoints at all.
It is possible on macOS with the Floating time zone: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/calendar/icl1035/mac#i...

This doesn’t look possible on the iOS/iPadOS Calendar apps.
> People love that bit.

Add another seven Easter eggs, and people could love that byte.
Re: __proto__, it's addressed in TFA

> Note that __proto__ also exists as a getter and a setter in Object.prototype. This feature is deprecated in favor of Object.getPrototypeOf() and Object.setPrototypeOf(). However, that is different from using this name in an object literal – which is not deprecated.
> Having kids while living in the center of a large city is great

If you can afford a flat that's big enough for you and the kids
Horse archers had been a thing before him, though they were quite powerful.

His great accomplishment was marrying that with the ability to besiege walled cities. Nobody expected barbarian horse archers to be able to do that.
I ran the number on one that my wife and I would go to in Pennsylvania, and just based on the people I'd see checking out each time I was there, they made decent money.

Their model was, you give us a book, we give you $0.50 off a single book purchase. All books are $1. So if you gave them 25 books, you would get $12.50 in credit, but can only use $0.50 per book you bought. So you still end up giving them a profitable transaction. And most people didn't use credits to buy their books, they went in, and bought 10 books after perusing for an hour or so.

It's such a good concept, I'd like to try it some day in an area where there is enough of a population within an hour that it makes sense.
Writing a Math Textbook with Claude with Professor Robert Ghrist
I interviewed Professor Robert Ghrist from the University of Pennsylvania about how he created a beautiful new linear algebra book for AI students with Claude LLM in just 55 days
That does not take away the fact that Trump was directly negotiating with Netanyahu before even won reelection.