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Apparently, the current US administration has learned from the antiquated Bell Lab, its many large companies' research division, and inability for small biz to do independent research.

They're going back to DARPA model of smaller and much numerous grants approach which tends to be more responsive to real world needs.

Theorectical realm, like Livermore Lab or Idaho DoE, might take a backseat or they could just do many more smaller grants but with very specific real-world needs.

So, your first grant had better be (at least a micro-)success or it will be a long time before another grant comes along.
Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter
> You still need to write it to file to process it via pandoc/tesseract etc.

This sounds... I guess Pythonic? Sheesh.
ESPARGOS website [1].

Very interesting SDR project, currently the software is open source but not the hardware.

However, it seems that the hardware can be replaced by any SDR platforms that support Wi-Fi frequency.

[1] ESPARGOS: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array:

https://espargos.net/
Some time ago I did research for myself on the topic of GUI libraries/frameworks. Below are some things from this study. The modern tendency for all frameworks to use 2D rendering engines to draw all widgets from scratch instead of using platforms' widgets and APIs. Usually, they use Skia.

I can recommend reading blog posts by Raph Levien [1], who is one of the founders of Linebender [2] and Xilem [3]. Xilem is a Rust cross-platform GUI framework intended to use GPU for rendering in the first place. Earlier, they tried to develop their own GPU meta-API, then they switched to WGPU [4] and developed their own 2D rendering engine instead of using "standard" Skia, like many others.

JetBrains develops Compose Multiplatform [5]: using the same Android API - Jetpack Compose, but for many platforms and in Kotlin. They also use Skia but are considering switching to Impeller (a new 2D rendering engine in Flutter) because of performance issues in Skia with shaders compiling.

Slint [6], was founded by 3 guys who's been working for a long time in Qt Group. It is written in Rust but uses DSL to develop GUI. As I understand, they try to solve the main fundamental issues in Qt.

MAUI, as I understand it, was Xamarin.Forms and now Microsoft tries to develop it.

Another interesting thing. There is a part of each GUI framework, a system to automatically place widgets on the screen - layouting, something like a grid, table, and so on. Several years ago, Apple had a big boom in the implementation and use of the Cassowary algorithm [7] in their GUI frameworks. It was a promising, strong math-based academia-proof algorithm, but in real life, as I understood, it can not work reliably in many edge cases [8], so Apple quietly removed it and implemented Flexbox [9].

More approaches: to use game engines as GUI frameworks: Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.

Fun fact: Blender has its own GUI library, which is implemented on top of OpenGL.

PS If you find anything interesting, I would appreciate it if you share.

PPS As a way to find more, I can recommend using search in HN, Reddit, and GitHub. Try to find projects that people develop to solve something and look at what ideas they use.

[1] https://raphlinus.github.io/

[2] https://linebender.org/

[3] https://github.com/linebender/xilem

[4] WebGPU implementation in Rust, used in Firefox and many other projects, can be used as a separate library, cross-platform, meta-API over Vulkan, DirectX, Metal etc

[5] https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/

[6] https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13935264

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Flexible_Box_Layout
People didn't know what they voted for.
Attacking the Qualcomm Adreno GPU (2020)
What about media corporations? The vast majority of media are part of a small number of huge profit seeking corporations.
They're not complex in the Big O sense, they are complex systems in the sense that they have to incorporate and reconcile organizational knowledge from very different domains - e.g. Ron Jeffries' "Why Is Payroll Hard" http://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsPayrollHard - while working in a predictable fashion with implicit requirements on availability and consistency, which the average web app stack more often than not leaves as "someone else's problem"
No they are not. They gave themselves 4trilion fucking tax breaks. It's veiled shitfoolery not tightening the belt.
Surely this thread is going to be nuked off the front page, right?
I did have many worries back then :) I just hadn't been practically crippled by trauma yet like I am today.
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as NASA, is in fact, NASA/JPL, or as I've recently taken to calling it, NASA plus JPL. JPL is not a government agency unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning NASA agency made useful by the labs, production facilities.."
Doesn’t this fall under “commoditise your complement”? It’s good business for Tesla to do so.
What if the KPIs are wrong somehow? If people get rewarded for starting and completing projects, but not for security related things?

Then no amount of practice would make any difference?
I see your point, but going from 0 rocket launches to 1 rocket launch probably takes a lot more work than going from 1 rocket launch to x number of rocket launches.
I think that was a problem with many if not most cars before modern energy-dissipating crumple zones were developed. The front was built rigid to prevent the engine block from entering the cockpit and crushing the driver/passenger (which was a big safety problem at some point) but turns out that too much rigidity wasn't a good idea either…
great program

used it many times for myself and friends

only caveat.

create a directory on your desktop and save the output to that and make sure your drive has enough space to extract the files.

I made the fatal error in the past of extracting the recovered files to the drive I was extracting files from. which led to the 32gb usb drive being full and the files irrecoverable. silly mistake.

I have even managed to recover files from a newly reformatted drive
$1.25bn is EBITDA not profit. Revenue is down by about 50% since 2021.
as opposed to now when davis betrans is pushing close $100 million in earnings? :) don’t be funny
thank @dagus.

My boss was for option #1, eventually for #2 (especially since we are wasting a huge amount of valuable time to tech customers how to set, change, correct DNS, which is not paid), but then it came out that part of the requirements for our customers (it's public administrations) is to correctly handle the apex domain, so we cannot skip it.

So we are left with 3.

As to how: we know haproxy a bit, and we see it could work but we have to automate it, as you said. We love Traefik, and the way it creates automatically a letsencrypt TLS certificates at the first https call (so, "on the fly") , but as far as we understood we need to manually add new domain to its configuration: once again we need to "automate" it.

We were wondering if some service out there is already providing it, since I think is really a general issue many should face.
What taxes are you referring to that US manufacturers have to pay in the US that EU manufacturers do not have to pay in the EU?

The only thing you have shown is that things are more expensive in the EU.
You spent hours equating US corporate taxes to VAT, not examples that had any connection to reality. When it was pointed out that you were confused, you did not actually engage with those rebuttals, but just copy-pasted the same nonsense again. So I think it's pretty obvious who here can't read.

In your new example, Caterpillar pays state/local taxes for their sales to the US, corpirate taxes to the US, and no VAT to the EU. Liebherr pays state/local taxes for their sales to the US, corporate taxes to the EU, and no VAT to the EU. Where is the imbalance?

There's no export subsidy here, hidden or otherwise. Everyone is on a level playing field.

You could do the same exercise on US exports to EU vs. domestic production in the EU, and it'd likewise show that there are no artifical barriers to imports to the EU

> This lowers Liebherr’s export price by 19%.

No, it really doesn't. The export price is exactly at the level it would be if there were no VAT at all.

> Liebherr sells the bulldozer tax-free in the US.

Tax-free other than all the taxes they paid.
It’s typical HN reaction to only paying attention to layoffs, but not hirings. Blue Origin grew substantially from 1000 in 2018 to 6000 in 2022, to 14,000 in 2024 [0]. Which isn’t much less than SpaceX, despite the latter handling 140 launches a year and handling thousands of Starlink satellites. Reducing the workforce only makes sense. Whether they’ve done it right is another story.

[0] - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-origin-to-lay-off-10-of-w...
I don't object to the product, I object to DetSys moving CppNix into more of an de-facto open core product[1]. This is just a symptom. DetSys contributes the majority of the code that actually gets prioritized and merged (because the maintainer is a DetSys employee), but asking them to build better caching mechanisms into CppNix (which, to be clear, I never asked, that's just Luc's strawman of me) instead of their proprietary product is suddenly "asking Eelco to work for free".

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-determinate-nix/547...
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Thank you, after clicking the third(!!) X button i had enough.
It is in fact extremely limiting, since you must have a Macintosh to create a iOS app, meanwhile you can create Android apps on Windows / Macintosh / Linux
I am curious if this could also be implemented as a command named (

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There’s also Copenhagen Suborbitals, which seems to be still going despite their cofounder being Peter Madsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals
This is a great article on decorators! Sad that it's not gotten more comments. Love the gradual shift between using decorators for functions, wraps, classes, decorators with parameters.
I see a reference to the comment, a guiardian article about the article but not the article itself.

Perhaps it’s softnuked in the eu or something?
>Life without relationships would be a hell of loneliness, but life without work would be a hell of boredom and meaninglessness.

There are plenty of people who don't work such as children, students, carers and retirees. They find meaning in all sorts of activities outside of work.
At the same time, GIMP is remarkably not-geared at serious designers/non-codey folk.

A simple fix would be to ask professionals using the Adobe suite what they would like in an open source tool that could get them to switch. Viewed at from outside, Adobe may appear like a multi-billion dollar moat of focus on prosumer products.

Viewer from as a user, Adobe's software has bugs and inefficiencies that would get the average open source product shredded in the comments. It is ludicrous that Adobe still charges for such bad Ux.

Of the top of my head, I'd say GIMP could get a headstart on Adobe if its builders added:

- n00b user Ux option

- Single panel modes for color correction with all settings in the form of a list of sliders (like lightroom)

- Seamless vector/PDF editing so you don't need to bounce between 3 different softwares

- Good UI for an InDesign competitor (this is a moat that Canva could easily crush if it added a few more options - but it's still worth building). Automatic layout (would really only need to follow a few simple rules - don't overhang text, match formatting, worship whitespace so the user doesn't have to break everything to add it back in).
Next you’re going to claim the internet existed before Google too.
Trump's agenda has been widely known, disseminated and broadcast on all channels for almost a decade, and most of it is based on alt-right/Evangelical Christian/neocon beliefs that have been around for much longer. Trumpism has become a worldwide political movement, it's nigh inescapable.

Maybe there were some rubes, but most people who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were voting for, because it's what they voted for in 2020, and in 2016, and what they wished in their heart of hearts would happen ever since Obama did 9/11.
10x pi5s would be 480w vs 360w
Ive done this too. The exercise wasnt arrays (Im militant about only setting very realistic tasks). My task required modifying existing production-like code and tests.

My hope was always that the candidates would do TDD where it seemed simple and obvious to do so. It was actually pretty rare but the candidates that defaulted to doing that always ended up being better in my opinion. They were always made offers higher than my company could afford elsewhere (so i guess in others' opinions too).

In this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060636 I pondered why most people dont default to TDD for production code and the answer invariably seemed to be "we didnt think TDD was a thing you could do with integration/e2e tests".
Nope. I personally have two HDR devices and two non-HDR ones. I don't want to keep two separate copies as this takes up more storage, requires me to get two different versions whcih means the progress won't be synced ebtweent the two, the subtitles may not be exactly the same either, etc.

I want to have one and only file that will optimally on my main device (HDR) but which also work reasonably well on a secondary non-HDR device.
> Examples I've personally experienced is that many/most driers now available require multiple attempts to get clothes actually try.

You used so many heat pump dryers? They are fairly new. It sounds like you're generalising. A Indesit we had was crappy, our current Bosch 6 is fine but harder to clean the heat exchanger which had been improved in newer versions.
Japan sinks giant tidal turbine to generate power from ocean currents
tangential but this game has one of the best soundtracks imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5QGN-zhwM&list=PL538B8AD43...
As I said already, it's down to personal preference. I just don't imagine that most people care about having the best looking video they can get on one device but don't care on another to the point where they'd sacrifice quality on device A for better quality on device B.
Of course, but SpaceX was able to go to 1 orbital rocket launch with 1000 employees in less than 5 years. ULA also has a new rocket. New Glenn is bigger than Falcon 9 or Vulcan, but it certainly could have been developed and built with less people. Blue Origin is bloated because it isn't functioning like a normal company on market, that has to earn money to function, it exists because Bezos has been throwing money at it for 20 years.
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Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems?
The main way taxes are avoided is by a lot of their wealth being paper wealth. For Bezos that's Amazon stock, for Musk it's Tesla. So when the stock doubles in price, so does (nearly) their net worth. But they're not taxed on this until they convert it to cash. So they can see their wealth double or triple with 0 increase in paid taxes, unless they try to access that money.

Taxing unrealized capital gains is possible, but it's not clear how you'd do this without destroying the entire financial (as opposed to goods/services) economy, since taxing 'wins' without crediting 'losses' makes any margins-game like investing impossible, but billionaires receiving billions of dollars in refunds when the market crashes is probably not visually great. It also seems fairly certain you'd introduce investment hedge possibilities with this, which is also probably undesirable. Not an easy problem.

And of course on top of all of this there's the Norway Problem. [1] Norway decided to introduce a hugely unpopular increase to their wealth tax system. It was expected to increase government revenue by about $146 million per year. Instead it resulted in a loss of about $448 million per year. Make taxation sufficiently onerous and people will simply leave your country. We're not talking about a captive audience, especially in modern times.

[1] - https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2024/09/11/the-failure-of-norw...
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I'm using nginx for many years (used mostly apache before that) and would say as web servers configurations go nginx is one of the easiest to work with. I've seen complex and hard to understand nginx configs but they abused rewrite and logic which they implement was complex itself.

add_header inheritance is counterintuitive bot once you know how it works it should not be a problem. Another problematic directive is "if" - AFAIK Igor (nginx creator) designed config to be declarative but had to add "if" (imperative directive) after numerous feature requests and "if" didn't fit existing architecture well.
Massive methane leaks detected in Antarctica
ah... I've asked perplexity, and they suggest https://apexwise.io/#pricing and what I've tried to explain is perfectly described here https://apexwise.io/#why

It could be a solution, but I see we have to add domains (with API), while our need is just to "fire and forget": we want to tell our customers:

* set your apex domain as RECORD A with these two IPs: ....

then if they do it well, if they don't we just do not want to care: if one day they remove those IPs, or add a new one on their own (something that happens way too often) it's their problem: we do not want to have to handle it (fix certificate renew, tell them they have to react and correct....)
The tech and infrastructure aren't anywhere near being where it needs to be yet, but it's interesting to note that Bezos is focused on O'Neill Cylinders while Musk is focused on Mars settlement. Both can benefit from there being space stations, but the dream of an O'Neill type space station seems more in line with space station development. Perhaps the two companies can have some overlap, especially when it comes to getting out of Earth's gravity well, but once in space, specialize in different frontiers.
I don't know... it seems to me that most of the complaints about Gimp come from people who actually use it, because people who never use it wouldn't have anything to complain about.

It also seems odd to assert that non-contributors have no right to complain on a forum where most people, most of the time, complain about things they have no direct knowledge of nor a hand in making.
I feel the same, but I'm not intellectually convinced. You make up like half the ante in expectation on a random hand (on average dealt two cards of the goal suit, for 20 points against the ante of 40.)

If you can find 4 trades with a 5 point spread profit you'll make the rest of the ante back. That's a full minute for each trade, i.e. not that stressful.

What I do find stressful is how fast the bots react to obvious mispricings. If a player accidentally sells a card worth 8 points for 1 point the bots buy it before I even have a chance to see the offer! I could set a low limit bid on valuable suits to catch that, but the limits reset every time a trade happens, and I do not have the patience to enter the limit again. At least not on my phone -- might be easier on a computer with a real keyboard.
See the recent study on Denmark which found that nuclear power needs to come down 85% in cost to be competitive with renewables when looking into total system costs for a fully decarbonized grid, due to both options requiring flexibility to meet the grid load.

Focusing on the case of Denmark, this article investigates a future fully sector-coupled energy system in a carbon-neutral society and compares the operation and costs of renewables and nuclear-based energy systems.

The study finds that investments in flexibility in the electricity supply are needed in both systems due to the constant production pattern of nuclear and the variability of renewable energy sources.

However, the scenario with high nuclear implementation is 1.2 billion EUR more expensive annually compared to a scenario only based on renewables, with all systems completely balancing supply and demand across all energy sectors in every hour.

For nuclear power to be cost competitive with renewables an investment cost of 1.55 MEUR/MW must be achieved, which is substantially below any cost projection for nuclear power.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

Or the same for Australia if you went a more sunny locale finding that renewables ends up with a grid costing less than half of "best case nth of a kind nuclear power".

https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost/GenCost2024-25Co...

But I suppose delivering reliable electricity for every customers needs every hour the whole year is "unreliable"?

Please do show a study which says that we need to ”strip mine the ocean floor”.

It does sound like typical fossil lobby misinformation.
Yes you built that but at what cost?
NO problem, we just cut down a few more rainforests or similar to make room for more farming.
That's just mental gymnastics. In the end the customer pays 100% of the costs a business has, that's completely obvious. Then we can say that businesses don't pay payroll tax either, because all salary costs are also baked into the price of the final products to customers.

You're correct with your calculations, but it's not honest to say that the customer pays the VAT and therefore it nets out for a business.
I mean it's the BBC so they obviously have a focus on British history but you can find remains like that under many cities in Western and Southern Europe.
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