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Eve Online: Exploring the Unknown
Indeed, we should ban people from bad universities from competing for our jobs. We certainly wouldn’t want anybody who hasn’t graduated high school to be working with us. They might say the wrong things or have the wrong attitudes.
Just workout and eat less. Drink only water.
I would regulate all areas that store private information. It is just shocking that developers handling this data are still writing SQL injection vulnerabilities, storing it in unprotected databases in this day and age.
I can't read this article as anything other than "I want to be special, look at me".

The only thing worse than the idea is how poorly it's argued.

Boeing's issues are not software related. Those planes crashed because of MacDonald Douglas's involvement and the lack of accountability _for management_ that followed. Also the FAA. Licensed software engineers wouldn't have fixed a systemic issue elsewhere. Plainly a stupid, irresponsible and irreverent opinion.

Hopefully the author reneges on this nonsensical idea.
I think a lot of software developers like to think of themselves as skilled code surgeons who precisely cut away solutions to life or death problems. Truth be told though, most software that gets built isn't very important. No one is going to die if another WordPress site falls over or if a mobile app crashes when you put an emoji in the Name field. People should be licensed when their failures have a serious impact on other people's lives. Devs don't need to be licensed; most of our failures are annoying rather than dangerous. The majority of us are the crystal aura cleansers of the medical profession.
I have a flagship Xiaomi phone and the built in QR code scanner is garbage. I went to a restaurant with friends which only had a QR code for the menu (which turned out just to be a link to the root of their website - why not write the URL too?). In the end I had to take a picture of the QR code, then crop it, then open that in the scanner app.
In medical, you primarily need to be able to handle the bureaucratic processes imposed by the various standards. It may be these processes help with writing good software, but it's perfectly possible to have "compliant" software which is terrible. The problem is attempts to legislate for quality end up legislating for proxies for quality.
Also a trolley or a street car - and if pulled along via ropes, a cable car when flat or a funicular when ascending.
Will try this for sure
I switched from ~150g of protein a day and high intensity workouts to mostly vegetarian and ~40g a day with high volume workouts. Any lingering injuries have disappeared and I am definitely rock climbing harder than I have before. I lost 20lbs and pretty much all non-functional muscle over 4 months. I don’t think I would do this forever but a low protein diet is definitely a tool I will be using in the future. It is amazing how much less food I need to feel satiated not carrying a bunch of deadlift and bench press muscles around.
Software as a Medical Device
Chernobyl – Nuclear Power Plant
'Works on all operating systems'.

That is a magnificent achievement. I'm very out of the loop WRT modern windows (we're at 11, not?) but even if it became very unixy, I'd still imagine a lot of work was done to present the data consistently.
Serious, with a focus on quality, yes I guess that is there in finance. People's money is at stake so we need to have well designed standards, protocols etc.

But for who gets in the door for implementation work, it's still tech conversations and a bit of "who you know" that count over qualifications and hard tests, in my experience.
Enlightening. Thank you.
Basically every fast food combo is over 1500k.

Meaning it’s very easy to eat that depending on what it consists of.
What? This makes no sense. TSMC destroying their fabs isn't gonna set the world back decades, it's just going to inflate the cost of chips. And China wouldn't even going to do a full scale invasion anyways. An assassination + puppet gov installation is much more likely.
What do you mean by "struggle"? What does "better" mean in this context?

Software is intangible and has fewer requirements which obviously helps with speed but the normalized pace of output doesn't seem significantly different. Large and complex software products with equivalent real-world reliability also take a very long time.
The interesting question would be: out of all Mac users, how many of them play games on their Macs?

I have no idea what the answer is. Personally I have run a number of games on macOS, via Steam, and via Boot Camp and virtualization. Some popular MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft, and Eve Online have macOS clients, though Guild Wars 2 discontinued theirs.

Apple Arcade apparently has enough Mac users that Apple has a reason to support it on macOS as well as iOS.

And Apple apparently has some reason to support iOS/iPadOS games on Apple Silicon Macs as well (though it could just be a side effect of a future iOS-macOS merger or hybrid device.)
This will be cliché to say at this point. But Deep learning is not just going to be successful once it clearly and thoroughly outperforms a human. It is already successful in its current applications. The problem is that it's not clear cut what job it will perform in the future.

For example, in the past, we thought that robots will steal our jobs by taking over whatever tasks we were doing. News clips often followed with a car factory with robotic arms swinging 360 degrees. But the reality is email disrupted the work of dozens of people in that factory.

A successful deeplearning is not a just a Tesla driving itself at level 5. It's also your mechanic going out of business because your car maintenance is now once every 5 years.
Take adderal.
that's what I'm thinking if you want to suck all the joy out of life just move to the woods and live off the land, have the least environment impact possible
Schmidhuber on Zuse v Turing:

(Turing oversold)[https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/turing-oversold.html]

(Turing: Keep his work in perspective)[https://www.nature.com/articles/483541b]
Oh, wow! This is extremely cool, thank you for that. I've responded to your PR message.
It's really not, though (at least in the US). In just about every engineering subdiscipline except Civil/Structural, you can rise arbitrarily high in your career with no formal licensure or certification beyond a university degree and work experience. Official licensure schemes do technically exist for other subdisciplines, such as Mechanical, but I'm really not sure why. I've never met anybody who bothered to get one.
Not standard at all. 10-20% of American engineers have a license.
The idea that science is always right, dogmatic and scientists are a uniform group that stands apart from the laymen is the reason there is so much distrust in scientists and "experts" and there's conspiracy everywhere. "What they don't want you to know." or using the time a theory was proven wrong as proof that "science" is untrustworthy.

While reality like you say it's much simpler. Science is not about absolute truth that requires blind faith, it is about proving a theory or disproving an established one, with a simple logic process established since the Middle Ages. What we know today is just a pile of theories ready to be disproven and replaced by something better like we did with blood letting, ether filling up outer space and geocentric astronomy.

It's incredibly sad the majority of the people hasn't learned this fact either in life or even in middle school.
You are asserting that software is built far better than bridges and airplanes?
Software is not an engineering discipline. Doesn't matter that they don't know what to call us, we aren't engineers. More closely related to poets or painters in my book.
Clearview AI fined $20M by Italy's privacy watchdog
MongoDB Atlas to be terminated for Russians and Belorussians
> the author doesn't even mention if Orion uses Google Safe Browsing or an alternative (which could be why Safari briefly lingers).

Aside: do you keep Safe Browsing on? I always turn it off, as I'm pretty wise to phishing / download buttons etc. I don't know how much of a performance increase there is, but I'm sure I've saved quite a few seconds from not having it on.
Companies with No Work to Do?
I'm looking for the work life balance company out there. Don't care about comp. What companies should I apply for? I'm looking to work an hour a week.
Just make it easier to eat less and exercise more. Make sure you have healthy food around so you choose it rather than the unhealthy choices, drink plenty of water (particularly when you feel a little hungry). An activity monitor/watch can help you understand how many calories you're using as you go about your day and how many if you walk or exercise a bit. Try doing exercise before a meal, start with any amount - using something like Strava/Runkeeper to track your progress (however slight) might help if your that kind of person.
I am balancing my weight with training but, also it will help you try intermitted fasting, from Monday to Friday I only eat from 12:00 to 17:00, and that's it. In first it will be difficult, but then you adjust.

It's simple mathematics, figure it out how much do you need calories per day, then drop the intake of that amount of calories, and body will get the rest from your fat.
Unless you have any underlying medical condition that prohibits you from fasting, just time restricting eating to 8 hr (or less) window helped me cut down a lot of weight. Nothing fancy, just remove sugar and flour from diet or at least keep it minimal and get good sleep. I occasionally go for a walk, no gym. thats it.

OTOH, I have friends who can afford to eat whatever the hell they want, but they work out like crazy in the gym to remain athletic. Everything has a price, you need to decide how you want to pay for it.
I assume they were using tomatoes to make the braised short ribs
Over the years the performance has decreased... exponentially. It is pure craziness that indexing a project takes almost a minute or even more. It's full of env bugs and configuration issues that the developer team seems to not care about. Features > Usability from the marketing point of view :P

Nowadays, given the state of LSP implementations and editors being as flexible as VSCode i.e it's hard to justify the need for an IDE... In general.

I usually use nvim or VSCode (if I collaborate with someone) for other languages. Every time I have to work on a Java project, and I have to open IntelliJ... I know it's going to be a nightmare.
And this previous year, Gazprom didn't fill the tanks.
> I also think that good developers are able to be self-deprecating.

This also holds for doctors.
> Science is infused with power

No, science was infused with power for that reason 100+ years ago, back when it really was a "marketplace of ideas" and truth was the only way for an idea to win. (That's why it "worked" back then.)

Now that "science" has been infused with power, it has become political and powerful ideas that are wrong (or only weakly right) beat out true ideas that aren't as powerful. It is what is.

Science 100+ years ago was like a large, pristine, clean lake, and it took a long time for the toxic waste that is power to pollute it. Today, though, power wins every single time.
This was tried in a number of stores in Sweden. It lasted a couple of months after which they reverted to one queue per cashier. Turns out it wasn’t popular, either with the vendor, the customers, or both.

On a personal note I found the practice irritating for not really clear reasons. One might be that it’s a chore to traverse the whole queue cordoning when it happens to be empty. In any case, over time being the one skipping the line when a new register opens averages out. Also, there’s the lucky draw feeling when you get to skip that otherwise gets lost.
IMO one of the best monads for explaining the concept is async promises, especially for JS programmers who haven't always had the luxury of async/await.

If we have a long-running process, we can block the thread and wait for it to return us a result, but that's far from ideal.

Instead we return a "promise", a structure that we can provide with a callback (using the `then` method on the promise) to manipulate the result of our asynchronous processing.

The types look something like this:

`doSomeAsync(T1): Promise<T2>`

`Promise<T2>.then(T2 -> T3): Promise<T3>`

Let's look at the type of monad `bind`, `>>=` in Haskell:

`M a -> (a -> M b) -> M b`

The types of `bind` and `then` are very similar! `Promise` is (approximately) a monad.

The fact that we can't just "get" the result of the Promise and instead need to provide a callback is a core part of my understanding of the use of monads in Haskell -- they are used in Haskell to represent the result of a non-deterministic effect.

You can't (or shouldn't) just get the value out of a monad, in the same way that you can't just get "the" value out of an array -- it doesn't make much sense to talk about.

The use of monads to represent non-deterministic effects is a software engineering choice. The "monad" itself is just the structure of computation where you have a wrapped thing `M a`, to which you apply a "callback" `a -> M b`, to receive a monadic result `M b`. There are also some laws which a well-behaved monad needs to follow.

The point of this is that even though that `b` might never eventuate, or might come about later, or might be multiple values, the `M b` can be treated as a plain-old function result and the type checker is able to make stronger guarantees. Pretty handy when your language is based around pure functions.

Side note: async/await is pretty much do-notation for Promises. You write imperative-looking code and it gets magically turned into asynchronous callbacks for you.
I kind of forgot that, it is a decade that I don't enter a McDonalds, this could be one of the hacks: don't go to any fast food place
Diet change is probably the most important for weight loss. But for getting into a routine of exercising my weird tip would be: Get yourself an Meta Quest 2 and install Thrill of the Fight, Pistol Whip, probably Beat Saber. If you're like me and you dislike the monotony of "normal" cardio exercise, this will make it easy to get your daily dose. Somehow the immersion and gamification allow me to push myself harder than I could ever do just by force of will.
Please go to a nutritionist. As someone who lost 40kgs by starving myself (and put them back on in 3 years), now I have high levels of uric acid and need to take pills all my life, otherwise I'll have (yet another) goute attack.
Sleep earlier, then you have less chance to eat at late night.
One advantage of monads is that they can communicate via the type that a function is not pure. I remember a serious bug in a trading system (distributed over multiple time zones), that was caused by Java's toString reading the system locale from the OS. In Haskell, such a function would have a type that makes it clear the function is not pure, e.g. toString : Date -> IO String.

Monads are not the only way of tracking effects in the type, but they are one way. For example, Java has "checked exceptions", which also represent an effect in the type system.

Monads also allow one to assemble a computational ready for execution later. One can therefore write an Async library, without needing baked-in language support.
can't stand those filthy keto casuals /s
Anecdotally, I've been doing it for years (10 IIRC) without any noticeable side-effects. Lost about 30 kg. I feel fine.
Maybe bullshit theory: there have been studies where they make sheep deficient in b-vitamins and then let them out on pasture. The results of these studies (which I read about second hand and haven't looked at myself. Might be bullshit science) is that the deficient sheep looks for b-vitamin I och foods like alfaalfa to much greater extent than a non-deficient control group.

I stopped eating fortified foods, changed my diet a bit and started getting cravings for leaf parsley and lentils.
> Iron toxicity isn't really a thing.

Haemochromatosis is very much a thing, depending upon your genetics, as there are hereditary traits that will cause some folks to take up iron too readily. As your body doesn't have any means besides blood loss of getting rid of iron, it can ruin your liver and other organs.
The -nik in Kopernik (the unlatinised name) is not related to the Koper-: it makes it a agent noun in Polish (and other Slavic languages), similar to beatnik, robotnik and Sputnik. It's basically like "-er".

The Koper- could relate to copper, or dill (says Wikipedia). Then it would be copper-er or dill-er. Maybe his family once coppered pans or ships or made pickles!
It's not that weird, but I stopped eating meat during lent a few years ago. I'm not religious, but here in Austria, many non-religious people abstain from something during lent (sweets, alcohol, cigarettes...), so I tried it for myself.

I actually didn't expect much to happen, but it completely changed my diet.
It was the first time I actually had to think about what to eat, and it turned out, that I ate a ton of meat, and not a lot of vegetables.

For the first few weeks it was pretty hard to find something to eat, but it got easier. Over time I discovered more vegetarian recipes I actually enjoy.

I'm not a vegetarian, but nowadays I hardly eat any meat, and still do the meatless lent every year. I lost about 15kg in the year after the first lent, and held this weight every since.
I suggest people look for Bowden "Faster than Thought" and put Turing in the context of his peers, and publishing of work that was contemporary, and current at the time. he writes in this about his work, alongside Wilkes and others of his contemporaries in the field. Yes, its very UK specific.

https://archive.org/details/faster-than-thought-b.-v.-bowden
What does this mean? You're wondering on how to come up with new neural net architectures or something? A lot of that is just by trial and error.
On the same note of this prior conversation, what timing for this to be #1 on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30623617
A lot of it is due to investments made by Taiwan when semiconductors were in their infancy, with support from the USA, that created momentum.

The USA, in contrast, still imports much of the talent in this area. Our kids weren’t even very interested in computer science until recently, and software has sucked away talent from EE and other hardware disciplines.
That they're obviously not senior, or even mediocre?
A personal anecdote but I eat ~1600-1700 kcal each meal. I've been eating one meal a day for years. This is simply because I don't get hungry until around dinner time.
I would like to have a better "Find Text in Page", that darkens the page and not only highlights the found text.

I remember that once upon a time Opera did this... can we do this with Firefox or Chrome?
The storage of private information is already regulated, particularly in Europe, or in American Healthcare settings.
>I can't imagine any serious developer thinking a licensing program would improve outcomes.

The "serious" qualifier makes this a "no true Scotsman".

If a developer thinks that, then one can always say "he is not a serious developer".
Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?
I've seen some of that in banking, where retail banks will have things like 15 levels of sign off (ok I jest but it feels like it) before any new release, because the financial bodies that govern them require there to be a set of compelling reasons and a huge doc-trail before anything happens.

But some banks (Starling in the UK) seemed to be able to work around that and have a decent CI/CD story, and as you say - it doesn't usually make the software any better, just adds bureaucracy.
I'm implementing this right now.

Trying to figure out a way to render the support functions to assist with debugging my implementation. At the moment I just sample the function in various directions around a unit sphere and try build a mesh from that. Too patchy.
Please provide evidence for any of your claims
A bit off-topic, but regarding the reliability of trams: In Switzerland, we have them in basically every city with a population larger than about 50‘000 (just a guesstimate). Maybe it helps that they have much more experience here. I can only remember a single day in the past 10 years when the trams were delayed in my city because everyone was surprised by the early snow and there were no plows ready. But it was the same for cars, busses and cabs.
For folks who need an offline tool, macOS has it in the right-click menu for most file formats under > Quick Actions.
Writing software has proved to be one of the most successful professions of the last 30-40 years, yes, there have been (and there certainly will be) mishaps, but the world has changed considerably (for good or for worse) because of our profession. Software has indeed eaten the world.

Had this profession been a guild-like thing from the very beginning as the author of this article suggests then I think none of this would have happened.
A lot of this is wishful thinking, as are many green initiatives.

Hydrogen is very much not green right now. There's a ton of research into practical green hydrogen but at the moment it's not and it's at least a few years off because you know, research.
Why not just use numo, Ruby's own numpy?
Even if it was just basic trivia it would be helpful (Year of release, director, etc.).

I think the biggest problem is that it's very easy to simply just not have seen a movie and no amount of screenshots will help guess that. But you may have heard about it or remember that a certain actor was in it etc.
What do you know, the parts of the software profession where it really matters if someone does a good job do have qualifications and certification (network security, for instance).

When you build a shitty website, generally no one really gets hurt.
If your contract required three months notice, it also required the same notice on their part, no? Otherwise why would you sign it such a contract?
Certainly a belief among some that soda from a glass bottle tastes notably better.
Do you have any links to such arguments and rebuttals to them? I dare say it's not obvious to everyone why a licensing program would not improve outcomes.
I'm not making any claim beyond the claim that "science" has become infused with power, and as a result, powerful ideas (that are only weakly true) beat true ideas that aren't powerful. I believe "climate science" in particular has observably more power than truth.

No one was ever promoted for saying that CO2 emissions won't destroy the Earth, despite their homeopathic levels in the air. In fact, you can be the head of a climate research laboratory, respected for decades, and get fired if you do say that. The CO2 idea is so powerful it gets its enemies fired.

That's power in action, and "climate science" absolutely has it, whereas equally plausible alternatives do not.
Except we’re not on Reddit and even then it wasn’t obvious it was a joke
A McDonalds Deluxe Cheeseburger, Large Coke and Fries is 1400Kcal - switch to a milkshake or add a McFlurry and your meal is approaching 2000.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/nutrition-...
wait, what? why?
With the new magnet engineering (basically the electromagnets are using some kind of metamaterial for the wiring that's needed to wrap around the toroid that's way better than copper, thus confinement is much easier with the stronger B field in way smaller space [the first research paper that talks about this being theoretically possible was back in 1987, but the engineering capabilities were not there to do such]), you are not limited by volume compared to strength of the B field, so you could have portable decentralized fusion reactors (they talk about this in the video).
The war in Ukraine may cause a global financial crisis