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Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?
I finished my EE degree back in 2020, but I never really got the sense I was working harder than my friends in CS. If anything I felt we sparkies had it a bit easier, because although the computations could be tricky and precise, we didn't usually have classes that required proof-flavored thinking similar to those infamous data structures and algorithms classes the CS kids did (well, okay, most of us did, but that was by elective choice and a minor in math in my case).

Some chatter on Twitter is making it sound like most people believe the opposite to be true. So I pose it to you, hackers: Which one do you think requires more work, and under what circumstances/presuppositions?
Definitely. Just to be clear, my comment wasn't to diminish the Mistral folks, they are certainly a very impressive group, but rather to contest your implication about the audience here.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for promotion. That's against the site guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we ban accounts that do it. I've banned one other related account already, and if this continues, will have to ban the other(s), including this one, so please stop. HN users care about this and have been complaining.
Asking why does not have to be condescending. I agree that some responses can read that way, or seem in some other way hostile. In text, or with any reasonable spoken tone, I would not assume that a person asking me why is condescending.

But on second consideration, I suppose you would not, either, and I suppose you are specific'ly talking about responses which, each taken as a whole, are easily interpreted as some form of hostile.
Class 3 e-bikes go faster. Traditional bikes are usually more in the 10-15 mph range as well. I think the argument that bikes need their own infrastructure is a good one but that we need to figure out where an ebike is different enough to need it's own infrastructure on top. If we have 80+lb e-bikes going 28 mph (typical class 3 top speed) next to a 12 year old going 8 mph that's potentially very dangerous.
Which is why it was mentioned in the article.

It's also entirely possible you missed the whole story.
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The Osmotic Pump: Extracting fresh water from the ocean without spending energy
Another part of the problem is that companies aren't incentivised to provide parents with the controls they need. Why can't I block an entire channel in YouTube Kids if I know that they make inappropriate content? I have to block every single video? I would hope any legislative efforts focus on incentivising sensible features such as that, but I'm gonna assume I already know the answer to that wish.
> Like google has strip mined the internet and left a toxic pit behind

Sorry, what?
I think this is a great question. Consider https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers. His unit files do not mention monitoring.
Maybe Coinbase won't just waltz off with their depositor's money, but their business model appears to be illegal from top to bottom. The SEC alleges that basically everything they are doing is illegal. Even if the SEC is wrong, Coinbase's practice of operating as broker, exchange, and clearing agent is a massive conflict of interest.
The content providers will refuse to serve the video to you without DRM, attestation, HDCP, whatever new crap some MBA came up with to justify a paycheck to some other MBA…
From this logic, most serious scientific studies are typical of conspiratorial writing.
I'm not strictly talking about accessibility in web site design, although that is part of it. I just mean that government has to have ways for all/most of its citizens to interact with them.
"commit confirmed" from Juniper routers is much better
But won't replies from other servers show up on the BBC's page if they post something?
I have a side business ~1k€ MRR (~3k€ total if including other payment methods) on paddle and I have more weird issues with customers not being able to pay or having issues with payments. I had to create a yearly plan just so that people wouldn't have to face issues every month.

Fees are a bit higher than stripe (but not that much, especially if stripe charges you forex conversion fees).

Not dealing with european taxes is great and completely worth it (my side business would not be viable if I had to do vatmoss accounting, F U Europe).
Refunds are on them which is nice.

Api integration was significantly worse than stripe.

They didn't migrate customers from stripe because I didn't have enough customers.

They seem to be technically poor but it's a good business idea.

I hope this is not costing me customers, albeit I have other ways people can subscribe to.

So... a mixed bag. I'd try lemonsqueezy if I were you.

Revin looked great a few years ago but it's quite pricey these days for small businesses.
Very slick Netflix marketing.
It seems like while the turbine works great, the rpm output is too high, with too little torque, and you loose most of the gains when gearing it down, which is also difficult to do

That’s what I’ve read, haven’t built one
A lot of streaming services limit the resolution they provide via DRM restrictions on Linux unfortunately.
In the US i am not sure. Everyone has a cc. But in Germany paypal for sure. Really depends on the country.
I feel like it's fairly common for scammers to show off a fabulously wealthy lifestyle real or imagined.

For some people it makes them think "whose money did they spend to get all that?" and for others it makes them thing "if I give them my money to invest too soon I'll be on the plane"
The space between stars is truly immense. The sun is still 2,000 times closer to Voyager 2 than the next star
It's tricky.

Many moons ago when I was hands-on and stressed about migrations & config, my team lead at the time would say exactly the same thing - his wife is a doctor and her job is way more stressful - People die. And I bought into it as a relief for a while.

But... I work on a payroll system. My team does impact people. Mistakes can have important negative consequences to real live individuals - from stress invoked in trying to call help centre and fix their paycheques, to disconnected utilities if they don't get paid correctly/timely, to other downstream consequences.

Any number of other IT systems have significant consequences - e.g. airline ticket systems, airbnb bookings, etc. I feel the "nobody died" is a double-edged sword: it can help relieve people of the daily sense of artificial stress, urgency and grind that management may impose; but also builds a false dichotomy / unreasonably binary threshold on when our job matters / impacts ...
It's interesting because the whole ice cap as we know it is around 120k years ago which I don't consider the long ago on human development scale. This also appears to mean that in the past 120K there wasn't a polar ice cap. I read that as the worst case scenario we should be using for long term planning. This also may help determine how fast the ice was built and how fast it will melt.

I'm completely an armchair ponderer.
Similar thing happened to me with my Apple TV 4K. When I was watching it, Bluetooth devices in the vicinity (including its remote!) became choppy and unreliable. Turned out to be the fault of the HDMI cable! Replaced it and the problems all disappeared.
Inflation Adjusted, Men Making Less Money Than in 1979, Women Are Doing Better
ZFS memory stats are integrated into FreeBSD's top. Boot environments are trivial to configure; the OS upgrade tools integrate with BEs for you. It is considered a standard configuration (and has been so for years), so guides, docs, and software are written with explicit integrated support and expectations that you'll use it.
Hopefully we'll see browser integration eventually
I know there are people who sell Fire sticks on Facebook marketplace with Kodi pre-configured to use shady streaming sites on it. Or they would charge to "jailbreak" your Fire Stick and set it up for you. Many non-tech people would go this route. Not sure if these still work, but they were popular for a while.
Have you seen a video of this sign? It’s glowing and flickering a harsh white and is situated exactly opposite a tall apartment building.
I sympathize, but if wolfi is oss, please update docs and downloads to use a separate registry then your commercial one for distribution.

else, frankly you claimed wolfi is oss, get customers to use your registry, and then bait and switched your early adopters.

aka, major version upgrades at random, have fun!
They might try drowning them to prove their innocence instead. /s
Didn't know that either, they should use it for link shortening on the ..apex(? Root?) like bbc/deadbeef! Think they currently use bbc.news.

I suppose a lot of people (also parsers) wouldn't realise it was a URL.
A soak of a strong "Oxyclean" solution will 100% remove pit stains, even when you wear way too much deodorant like me
Booking.com and other OTAs often will book the reservation with a virtual card that they fax the details over with the reservation (or otherwise communicate the virtual card payment information in the OTA extranet).

What could have happened is someone compromised the hotel's side of the extranet and grabbed your (and other) bookings' virtual cards and attempted to start racking charges against them which would then go back on your card you gave for the reservation to Booking.

While there's supposed to be fraud controls on the cards, who knows what could have let the extra charges fly.
"That's a cat." "No it's not, those were around long before the word 'cat' existed".
It’s interesting to know how far back in time the ice will allow them to analyze once they get to the base.
Sure are a lot of extreme opinions on operating systems when they all seem pretty damned similar to me on the fundamentals.

Development work strikes me as maybe the least distinguishing kind of task to compare them on. Very few hard choices to make unless you're developing for Mac or iOS.
Twitter HQ's giant X sign dismantled
I just wanted to make the distance something that could be understood and processed. Sounds like it worked!
My guess is that Widevine is pretty universally supported across multiple streaming platforms (i.e. won the DRM format war, even for audio) and 720p is good enough for most users. L1 also requires hardware decryption keys which are unique per device AFAIK (assuming Android - {I know browsers use a shared L3 key but not sure how L1 is implemented on PC formats}) and easily blacklisted.

For Linux users wanting a home theatre experience, I feel they are probably more inclined to go the bluray/piracy route. Personally I use my Android TV to stream in 4K with surround sound but am satisfied that I can still play everything using Linux, albeit at a lower resolution.
This is an interesting problem area, I recently talked with Mast about it - they started as Droneseed, and soon realized the whole seed-seedling-planting-managing process (not to mention funding) was pretty busted.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/from-root-to-crown-mast-re...

It's also really data-intensive, or it is if you want it to be effective. There's a lot of forestry and climate science that goes into whether a planting effort will be successful, not to mention a hell of a lot of back-breaking labor. But hopefully this sector will get the attention it needs now that people are seeing how badly it's been neglected in recent decades.
That would have had them admitting to themselves that their money is gone, including the promised gains they likely already spent.
> orders of magnitude more fatal

Really? From what I understand the IFR for covid without vaccination was somewhere in the range of 0.5% to maybe 1%, versus the flu at 0.1%. 10x worse; that would be one order of magnitude. That's for the normal flu, the Spanish Flu was much worse than either, about 10% e.g. two orders of magnitude. At three orders of magnitude you're already talking about near certain death.
But watching netflix and tiktok are totally different experiences. I don't know everyone, but I know no one that watches tiktok on their tv.
Absolutely not. BUT, you can be poor and happy. I am probably the poorest I've ever been in my life, but I'm also perhaps at one of the happiest points, so there is that? I'm alive and seemingly healthy. Someone gave me a roof over my head, and an Internet connection, and food pantries are a godsend for someone who is not legally allowed to get any welfare support from the government.

I've been a very, very selfish, very rich prick in my past, so this is probably a good experience for me!
Many things can be addictive as that largely has to do with how a person's habits affect their life. One can play card games without becoming addicted.
Costco play pretty hardball with them as well. Only supporting one payment processor for CC payments. No idea where their fees/margins are, but guessing they're lower than just about anyone else as a merchant.

Winco, as a contrast doesn't even play the game at all.
Who works harder:

a) The person flipping burgers for 8 hours a day on their feet

b) The guy sitting in t-shirts, shorts, and sandals all day at home in front of one or more monitors tapping away at a keyboard

Prior to a few years ago, being the guy under category b), I would have said a). And yes, a) puts in more physical labor, but b) puts in more thought, which itself requires (real caloric) energy.

Obviously both of those professions you brought forward require extensive knowledge. But to my point, comparing difficulty of professions, especially ones you haven't even entered, is pointless. Not all professions are alike, and not all jobs of the same profession are the same.

You might have a go-easy CS or EE job while your neighbor has to hustle in their CS or EE job.

Do what interests _you_. Don't listen to other's opinions. Both degrees can get you very far in the world. And after you have work experience, your degrees are simply paper to hang on the wall.
I don't care what people do. I'm not a "karen". I'm reflecting the OP's post. Addiction is addiction and we are talking about it. I'm sorry my opinion is not to continue to let people who have a problem have that problem. As someone who has been an addict I am intimately familiar with both the pipeline to addiction and the behavior of a functional addict.

You're the one who engaged in childish name calling. Maybe back off and get some context.
I could envision LLM's taking that even further given I am sure they will be used to manipulate people much in the same manor as social media algorithms, I could see skiddies being detected and then tricked into running code that will either not work or will brick their own devices assuming they clicked their way through a waiver of liability of damages at some point.
The US anti-trust suit against Microsoft was 1998. And considering the world was still dominated by locally running software here, making promises in the market Microsoft didn't have a stake in was a good lie.
> it relies on the scientific method

Which come from logic/reasoning which relies on intuition.
Perhaps "Cheesecake Factory Outlet" would be more to your liking?
I have a carefully designed alert service for every project, checking various aspects of the system. It periodically checks heartbeats from various systems to make sure everything is in order. It sends alerts to UI via websocket, and to slack channels and makes calls to twilio numbers if things do not self-recover in time. I only check if the alert system is running via cron.
> NATO Phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…).

NIT, A is written as Alfa in the NATO alphabet [0] as it is easier to understand its pronunciation. For the same reason J is written as Juliett (two t), because in some languages t can be silent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Also read extinct. Ha. Would be cool to know how to detect and exploit these speed reading induced recognition errors to write things that force people to slow down or go extinct :)
Why do we need to get back to the levels pre-industrial revolution?
Oh you can buy the old wasteful washers if you still want them. They just don't got any EnergyStar ratings (in fact, people have been shopping around for "lack of EnergyStar" to find those old wasteful washers).

But "they don't clean as well" is a bit of a myth. More water requires more soap, and as it turns out, shuffling clothes around with *proportionally more soap* and *less water* leads to better cleanliness for the vast majority of stains.

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Think about it: if my washer only uses 1 gallon of water, but yours uses 5 gallons of water, your soap is 5x less effective than my same soap.

Its not the "water" that cleans, its the soap after all. With one exception: caked on mud prefers water over all other solvents.

But with regards to blood, sweat, grapes, tomatoes, and "typical" stains, its not the "water" that does anything. Its the soap. See ConsumerReports.org testing (ketchup tests and whatnot), as well as efficiency numbers that they've tested.
I'm not totally sure how systems work for drilling this deep, but typically ice core setups attach the coring apparatus to the surface via a cable that is spooled by a winch. The cable itself ends up being the heaviest part of the system.
It was a huge story back in the day. Huge. He didn't get away with anything.
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People had fire in those times but it's extremely unlikely they produced enough CO2 to have an anthropogenic impact on the climate leading to large-scale temperature changes.

I'm not sure what your perspective on this situation is but I think the case for modern anthropogenic climate change with deleterious effects is based on a wide range of different evidence, and a careful accumulation of facts and analysis. Simply pointing out that humans had fire 2Mya doesn't change the general conclusion about today.
No true union, I guess
> "science rests on anything it rests on the belief that the world operates through repeatable principles"

Where does the principle come from?
Oh wow. That's bad.
Plex has things it lets you legally stream for free. Whats in your personal library is a whole other story.
They can be disabled in the init.el, I’ve done it for a year or so. Emacs-keybindings are less ergonomic, but also have less cognitive overhead imo.
Very cool a very polished! Bookmarked
>> Personally, I think all web applications should start out with the assumption they are a monolith.

By 'monolith' are you still talking about a Rails/Django/Remix/(Next.js?) app? (Or ASP.NET for my dotnet homies out there).
> why were so many people able to function prior to psychotherapy

Can you explain why society being able to function prior to psychotherapy contributes at all to considerations about its efficacy and validity to science, or is in any way relevant to discussions about modern science? Walk me through your thought process here, because I'm similarly confused as to why we need all these antibiotics, for humanity survived just fine before they were invented in 1940.

Especially considering:

1) There are many documented cases of mental disorder throughout history that were either poorly-understood mislabeled.

2) Most psychiatric disorders don't have a completely-debilitating effect on those afflicted.

3) The existence of people being able to function does not say anything about the number of people who died/removed themselves from society due to being unable to interact. History is an interesting lens presented only by the people who succeeded enough to produce it.
Netflix was dirt cheap for college students for ages.
The coolest part of this whole discussion is that we can finally compare weed and alcohol.

Before the current weed era, weed was always compared favorably, by smokers, to alcohol with the adage: Weed is illegal, yet I've never seen a bar fight after everyone gets high.

Now we can do a real comparison of the effects of weed smoking on the general public, the same way we've done with drinking.
The other way swish cheese is also referred to is 'breaking the chain'. Not uncommon for a bunch of individually minor things to become something major. The beauty of these reports is they help identify links that if removed, prevent the small things from becoming a serious event.
Oh, I was talking about NAT64/DNS64 which is what NTT Docomo is doing. Now I got to read about MAP... But how can the mapping be almost stateless? When packets are sent from IPv6 to IPv4, if there is significant exhaustion, multiple IPv6 address are going to map into a single IPv4 address, unless the ISP has enough for everybody, in which case I don't see the motivation to hasten moving to IPv6?

Edit: Ah, uses port numbers as extra bytes to encode the original senders address information. Smart!
Title already makes me love the article.

Whenever I got back to how fun it is to plot 2D functions, I soon started to try creating freaky images with parts of seeming chaos.

Like combining trigonometric, algebraic and discontinous functions such as the floor function.

Unfortunately,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function

requires branching and a complex discontonuous and uncomputable (?) function in the definition :)
Get a free revolut (and be careful of their traps to extort you money)

The payment side of revolut is great and what modern banking should look like.

Virtual cards, flexible limits, don't bother you much with retarded Anti Money Laundering checks
I can't tell if you're joking, but negative numbers are used to represent years BC.
There's also a lot to learn about the differences in solo work vs teamwork. The swiss cheese model plays out differently when it's GA vs airliners.

NTSB reports for general aviation tend to focus on individual mistakes since that's most often solo pilots with no ground crew, but for commercial flights it's generally a more complex series of mistakes made in a team.
To me, the optics of this are bad as an advertiser.

Google has access to my creative assets as well as click through rates and other data...

Is their model using learnings from me to help people bidding on the same keywords as me?
Why Do We Interface? (2020)
Ask HN: Anyone working on analysing cold cases with multimodal LLMs?
A lot of cold cases or open cases but old, get solved just because the police actually do their work 10-20-30 years later. Sometimes a new police chief or new district attorney etc. Anyone working on digging through old cases and finding clues that are actually in plain sight but lacking staffing?

Example; Gilgo beach murders for instance seems solvable from just reading the history. And they did.
Oh, well using linux to use the same services would be pointless of course. I thought the point was to play local media.
At what point does a streaming service build an installer that walks you through turning on ADB and push the app over network ADB and just distribute outside Amazon (and Google)?

(Sure, this is a lot of effort, but someone might go for the ol' sideload gag.)
In Russian, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky famously described the "tyranny of the Kalashnikov equation"
What isn't really true? The passage is about a hypothetical LLM so obviously the exact steps depicted here don't correspond to any particular LLM. But LLMs undoubtedly modify hidden states to reflect context gleaned from other words, right? I don't understand what point you're making.
That’s not a gimmick. False shuffles are a skill.
The point is that net zero is most likely not going to stop warming with 400+ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 concentration most likely has to drop but naturally it does so very slowly. Arguably at this point we already need cooling because 40+C every summer in half of Europe (for instance) is getting annoying...