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> I would claim that 70% of software engineers would love taking an electronics course. It's like programing, with electrons.

I very much think all software engineers should take an electronics course. At least an introductory one. Knowing how things work will improve your code, and will give you an alternate way of thinking about programming problems.

But I'll admit my bias: I came to programming by way of a digital electronics course as a child. Since I was a child of a poor family, I couldn't afford to actually do electronics projects at home, though (this was well before everything got so inexpensive), and shifted to programming because you could do that for free if you had access to a computer.
It is revolting to be blocked and not get any help, everyone is anxious, specially when your main product is down (money), but seriously, I just think nobody reads their SLAs and just complains until someone resolves. I suppose it’s a rule of life no one reads terms (yet try to enforce them somehow), but usually their attitude give me the creeps.
> give me a fucking break

No we won't :)

https://pypi.org/project/pyodbc/
thank you, some sense.
yeah I can't get my mouse to focus on it. It's too small so the WM thinks I'm trying to resize the window.
> My understanding is it is basically the same for most other benefits (e.g. healthcare)

It does not.

Quick Google search will show pages and pages of results explaining that it is not illegal to give different health care benefits to different employees.
Because you cannot yet explain something, it must be God?

Usually when something appears to violate causality, that doesn't end up being the case. The unexpectedness of the result is caused by our own incomplete understanding of the physics at play. So far none of these have ended up pointing to some supernatural entity secretly judging us.
Even if it doesn’t turn out to be correct, we never used to hear about this stuff.

It feels like the fact that people are coming up with things that look enough like promising candidates that it gets discussed is a good sign.

I know it could just be the hype train. Someone got a ton of press for it last year so maybe someone else could too.

I want to believe we’re getting close, at least.
Yes, once you discover limitations of logic you start hedging your bets by believing in illogical things :)
Thank you!

As you have probably discovered, my array stuff is just part of a monorepo. But yes. :)

Edit: The code at the Yzena one is not up to date because I've had to keep commits local. But I have 1200+ commits since, and I plan to make them public in April.
Speech and Song (1889)
Part II:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...
I’m sure that was the same logic they had pre-Columbine
Ask HN: Any favorite artistic programming resources?
What resources does the HN community recommend for someone diving into creative coding, such as animated graphics, Shadertoy, audio, and live coding music? I believe I have an intermediate understanding of 3D graphics and want to get more hands on with projects with SDL in C++ or Rust coding in CLion on Mac. I am particularly fascinated by using trigonometry, vectors, and audio to create mesmerizing digital art. I'd love to hear about your favorite books, papers, blogs, courses and videos that not only inspire but also provide a deep understanding of these concepts. What are some of the projects or resources that have been most influential or helpful in your journey? Do you have any tips on achieving demoscene type graphics and music?
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I think it may be more cost effective to put ads in subsidized smart glasses and contact lenses. (A little dystopian, I know.)
>The characters shouldn't announce what they like to fuck.

Has that happened in a kids show you've seen?
> whatever happened to flying at mach 0.9

Airlines found out that people, in aggregate, care more about ticket prices than about speed. Flying a bit slower allows planes to be more fuel efficient, and thus allows them to offer lower ticket prices.
Quite a few vulnerabilities don't have CVEs. You can find some of them in the Github Security Advisories.
> this is the first key added that will be required as part of the standard keyboard layout since 1994.

Is it? I thought they are just remapping the right menu key and putting a new logo on it.
>As others have pointed out, the 18 minutes include things like stopping the plane.

This took under a minute.

>The placards should be telling you to follow the directions of the crew members, and only if they are not available to assist should you do anything.

The placards on almost every aircraft I have flown indicate that in a crash, you should look for smoke, fire, debris or water, and then open the door immediately thereafter. That is because it is good safety practice. You are correct that everywhere in the world you're also instructed to follow crewmember instructions (obviously) but I'm sorry, I'm not going to die because of crew incompetence. Had you followed crewmember instructions you would have likely died with the majority of the passengers in the Sewol disaster, for example, or the majority of the children in the Okawa disaster. I have never needed to disobey a steward's order, but if it is between my life and disobeying a steward I will choose my life every time.

>Can you tell if fuel is pooling up near overheated brakes? Probably not.

In virtually every crash of this severity the answer to "is there fuel leaking near overheated components" is "yes", which is exactly why it is important to evacuate the aircraft as quickly as possible.

>But you know who can? The fire fighters

Not if they're not there - yet another example of the gross incompetence displayed by this crash was the slow response by the airport fire services.

>It's also risky to evacuate. People hurt themselves going down the slides.

It's much riskier to stay inside of a plane that will burn to the ground, which is indeed what happened here.
I think everyone complaining about DB should be forced to live in the UK for a short while first. My 15 yo daughter has just come back from her first trip to Koln to stay with friends. She was wide eyed with how well everything worked, and how nice the trains were. It was interesting to me to see that she saw it too and it’s not just jaded politics that makes me think the UK is going to the dogs.
You just have to find the right company and role. I have always been able to get out of meetings by "focusing on being an IC"
People will specifically not add android users to group texts. If I am making a casual group text, and there is one android user, it may just be easier to not add a person than turn everyone's text boxes green, reduce image size, etc.

Not social standing per se, but a 0.01% chance of being excluded isn't going to feel good.
The employability of an alcoholic increases dramatically after recovering from alcoholism.
That statement seems like it would legally be extortion. I guess by only saying never helps and not that it hurts, it isn't?
Depends on the latest OTA.
Very nice, I've been waiting the longest time for something like this. I feel that WebRTC needs books like this, it's such an underrated technology.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-3
E/Acc Rising
Is there a reason we should care about his belief regarding this? Putting aside that smart people in one realm are often quite irrational outside of their expertise, e.g. Isaac Newton being super dedicated to alchemy, Jack Parsons at JPL believing he could summon demons, there is also a quite obvious limitation to this line of evidence. I have very good reason to believe I'm going to survive the next five minutes. That doesn't mean I'm going to "survive" in the sense that we care about regarding why religions draw people in, that is, even conclusive proof we survive past bodily death doesn't make us immortal. An immaterial soul that lingers to experience more stuff for another 20 minutes hardly makes a difference, but even if we can conclusively prove near-death experiences are real, that's all we'd be proving.

Same thing with the ontological argument. Even if you can convince yourself the universe must have some kind of intelligent creator that made it on purpose, that does not imply this creator has any kind of human-intelligible personality and monitors or cares what we do, let alone that it must be the Christian creator or any other specific religion's idea of what a god is. Ironically, my wife put on just this morning an episode of Rick and Morty in which Morty gets trapped in the Roy game and Rick has to go in and convince everyone they're in a video game and are really part of a larger reality, which was meant to be a parody of religion. That is, their universe truly did have an intelligent creator, but they were NPCs in a video game and the larger reality is they were really a 14 year-old boy in the real universe. We have no particularly good reason to prefer a priori Christianity versus Hinduism versus we're all 14 year-old boys trapped in a video game just because we're convinced we have a creator and some part of us survives death in this particular simulation. Notably, the real Morty is still going to die in the real world.
> That statement seems like it would legally be extortion.

Like their entire App Store business?
> So it's weaponized sometimes but it isn't? This is either "what is the definition of is" or cleaning up with PR what Elon directed at the time.

One can be comfortable with weaponization by their own country of things that are specifically sold to the military for military use, and be uncomfortable with a foreign country weaponizing things that were sold for civilian use. What is wrong with wanting to leave that decision to their own countries' political and military leadership?

> It is not good when a congressional committee rep uses the words “serious national security liability issues" to describe your actions

This is way overblown, members of congress say things all the times for PR purposes that amount to nothing in the long run, for example the recent iMessage blocking by Apple, four members called it out, and yet Apple just ignored them.
With that title I think of the episode of Futurama where the brains were making everyone stupid.

Their "Morbo and Linda" there was a train crash today, the governor lady said send in more trains.
Pantagruel – A Most Learned Assistant for Rigorous Thinking
Math people seem to have this more than other engineering/science etc ; math, and this is actual bloody Godel, seems so perfect and beautiful that is has to have a creator. Everything else is incredibly sloppy (including most software).
>Yet, the trend could also be caused by inherent funnel shapes of sequences - many of those who start, stop at some point; few join late.

I know I'm just n=1, but December was the busiest month I've had at work in a long time, so I didn't feel like writing more code in the evenings after about a week.
That phrase comes from the more general adage though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
No they don't? Styled Components and Emotion let you use either object notation or the css`` template syntax.

I used to prefer object notation because of the typing, but I found a VSCode extension that gives you full CSS autocomplete in the template.
A Brief History of Uzbekistan's Plov
Depends on your audience. In my field all the cutting edge tooling is used in script or interactive command line. Writing for that sort of interface is so much faster and easier than making a gui even with modern libraries. You can still get plenty of users writing for a command line audience. There are like 40 million conda users for example.
What do we really know (most of us) besides that we exist? Nothing.
It's funny that a lot of people believe things they don't know about and most of them are judged perfectly sane :o)

The only real thing I personally believe is existence because it is impredicative. That's true logic.

The rest is hogwash until proven otherwise.

(I do believe in some fringe stuff from personal experience but that probably has a perfectly normal explanation, I just miss the data to explain it for now)
Apple used 386BSD (4.3?), some userland from FreeBSD, and the Mach Microkernel from *CMU, all from the acquisition from NeXT, who developed XNU and NeXTStep 18 months-2 years before the Linux kernel was released. The innovative thing with the touch screen was smooth and accurate touch based gestures on a capacitive screen. GUI's were argubably invented by Ivan Sutherland and further developed by Doug Engelbart at SRI, which is where PARC poached the majority of their engineers.

If your going to troll, have the decency to get your facts straight.

* Edited for clarity
Yeah, the idea isn't that this type of code should never be tested but that it's a higher burden to test, and maybe less valuable to test, compared with other code. And that should be factored into the decision (and there should be a decision) on whether or not to test it
Discussing it here won't change whatever happens in a couple years.
>I wouldn't use either of them for RAG

What's RAG?
for REAL. when I started using Emacs, everyone told me Emacs was old and I should use Sublime Text II or Atom. Now they all tell me Emacs is old and I should use VS Code. I wonder what they'll tell me to use instead of Emacs in ten years :)
What damage can they actually suffer though? Boeing is a strategic asset of the US government, they would never allow any harm to come to it. Some heads would roll for sure, maybe even the government would step in and assume direct control of certain parts of the company, but it's not like it would go out of business, or like companies would cancel all of their orders and buy Airbuses instead - they could, but again, the US government would never allow that to happen, either through direct monetary action or promises and guarantees that whatever the worry is won't ever happen again.
I found a recording of it here (from IAA 2023):
https://youtu.be/NORPeCcIXRQ
No. The shows I screen never say or portray anything sexual.

They will find out that out on their own, without the help of kid shows.

I have no idea what the character's sexual preferences are and I don't want to know.

Curiously, how was it presented that they were lesbian, and who was lesbian? One of the ponies? lol.
This is exactly what im doing this year. Though im 30yrs in. I bought a farm next to my dad in idaho. Im done in march and moving cross country and growing alfalfa and potatoes
No it also hurts small developers that need funding. Publishers and investors work on a hit model, giving advances to lots of small projects in the hopes that they have a hit. If all hits at taxed at 30%, then the available funding for everyone goes down.

If the government added an additional 50% tax on books that sold over a million copies, it would affect funding for many more authors than the ones with books over the threshold.
If so, let's start with the former (god) and point us not only to the proof, but also to the theorem and the underlying definitions. There are many logicians with a scientific interest in god, religion, and related concepts. Why not be open minded, after all? But we should expect more rigor in this case.
It would have cost less sure, but it would have delayed the program years. And such a delay could easily shutter the program if political support faltered.
This is true, but I have watched with amusement as a Swiss station master paced, tutted and finally started swearing under his breath as a train from Milan got later and later. It amazed me at the time he cared so much - it seemed personal. But I guess that’s why Swiss rail is so great - that and the funding.
Not sure about that. I suspect that Boeing is considered a domestic strategic asset and is not allowed to die. No matter the incompetence.
In a sane world it would be nationalised

In this world, and that country, it won't happen, and if it did it would be a cure worse than the disease
OP here with a shameless plug: for anyone interested, I'm working on a site called Emergent Mind that surfaces trending AI/ML papers. This TinyLlama paper/repo is trending #1 right now and likely will be for a while due to how much attention it's getting across social media: https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/2401.02385. Emergent Mind also looks for and links to relevant discussions/resources on Reddit, X, HackerNews, GitHub, and YouTube for every new arXiv AI/ML paper. Feedback welcome!
Isn't Astra developing a reusable launch system now?
> I can't speak for everyone, but the thought of going to live in a more formal institution does not increase the attractiveness of doing drugs for me

You presumably aren't the target audience.

There are a lot of people who are working hard to stay clean and keep their addictions at bay because the costs of being addicted are too high: They lose their job, their housing, their ability to support themselves, and their future.

If you offered these people a way to do drugs for free, and a place to stay for free while they did those drugs, the incentives change dramatically.

Drug addicts are also very good at lying to themselves. You'd get people telling themselves they'd only go in "for a couple days" or "for a month or two" who would end up in there for years and years.
And an Apple key on a bunch of others.
Did Prague to Brussels in one day (~ 12 hours) in 2010 and everything just worked. One connection in Frankfurt airport (it has a train station) and it was cheaper than flying. Will need to check how I bought the ticket but do know it was bought as a single ticket.

Good thing I left early in the morning because the later trains to Germany all got stuck in heavy snow downfalls. \o/
I used YouTube API along with some python, pandas, and jupyter to find the most watched tech talks presented at dev conferences in 2023. The results include the following conferences: https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-conferences
It's code, you're just not allowed to know what language it's written in.
A new post-pretraining method for LLMs with an expansion of Transformer blocks.
This needs to be in *management* ethics. It was the *management* that ignored warnings. The "compromises" were demanded by *management*.

Boeing is not an engineering culture, it is an MBA culture. This is the result.

It is clear, by deadly example, that Boeing *management* is not capable of running a company that produces a safe plane. It is, after all, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

All the engineering ethics in the world does nothing against the greed of Boeing's management.
Just go on Upwork. Find someone with a good ratings history and hire on an hourly basis. You should meet with them every few days at the beginning. Keep a chat window open. Make sure the scope of what you are asking for is reasonable in your budget.

Focus on the most important parts of your spec that are technical challenges and or provide business value. Have them commit code and monitor updates to the repo. If you don't get working software for some fraction of the requirements within a few weeks, then close the contract and do another search.

Make sure to get new software releases every week or two.

Whether they are Chinese or American or what city they are in is a very stupid way to judge things.

Make sure you meet the individual developers dedicated to your project before opening the contract and on an ongoing basis. Get their individual work histories before you select any firm. Make sure you find out how many other projects they are working on at the same time and verify that as you go.

There are two main things that are going to determine your success: whether what you are asking for is reasonable within your budget and feasible, and the skill level and resources actually dedicated to the project. In all my years on Upwork, the first part of that is often where things get doomed -- they want someone to build a Facebook clone for a few thousand dollars or whatever it is. Then it gets worse because the only people that take those projects are inexperienced or poorly managed teams that just don't care.

Or firms pick up a bunch of under-resourced projects at the same time and juggle them to try to make ends meet. Which means the developers are being pulled in many directions at once, starving your project of attention and any hope of a serious effort. (Although that was kind of guaranteed by the budget from the beginning.)

What exactly are you trying to build?

Do not do a fixed fee project like that. You can tell them your max budget, but work on targeted milestones (updated at the end of each milestone) no more than a few weeks at a time and prompt payment for that section or billed hours. Absolutely never try to spec out a large project and just leave it with some company until it's supposedly done and paid at the end.
I can come up with several methods to solve this problem at the hardware level.

Slap a temperature sensor on/in/near the heater

Monitor current through the heater for temperature coefficient response

Capacitive sensing of ice on the heater

A timer that shuts off the heater after some time and a buzzer to alert the crew

You could even have a thermal fuse with a manual time-limited override

Honestly there's so many easy ways to prevent thermal runaway that creating a situation where THE ENGINE FALLS OFF is inexcusably negligent.

My space heater has no less than three independent, redundant safeties. As does my clothes iron, my coffee pot, my slow cooker. It really is not that complicated.
> small Europe

Europe the continent is 7% larger than the US. It's not that small. The population is just comparatively evenly spread out
How did you do it if I may ask?
It does look insane, but at this point I trust pilots more than I trust Boeing-designed automated system not to kill humans.
Starship has the size to carry about 400 passengers. Both stages together carry about 5,000t of propellant. But over 3/4 of that is liquid oxygen, and most of that is the first stage. The second stage alone with 1200t of propellant can't put humans into orbit, but it does have a range comparable to that of a 787. So 300t of liquid methane will get 400 passengers about as far as a 787 can get 250 passengers with 100t of kerosene.

A starship ticket could theoretically cost <3x the price of an airline ticket.

A rocket may be less efficient than a turbofan but it gains it back by coasting through space for all but 3 minutes rather than pushing through air for the entire flight.
If I read the article correctly, Gödel's rationale is pretty much "The world is orderly organized, therefore after life is supposed to exist"?

I must have read it wrong, because I couldn't see the causality at all.
With modern CPUs and OSes most of the cores are parked most of the time. For example right now only 2 of my 16 cores are active.
Whats the coolest thing you can imagine that will be possible by Room Temperature Superconductors?
Wait, why did you bring up characters on children's show announcing their sexual proclivities then?

Are you just getting angry about a hypothetical? Help me understand where you're coming from please
> The author is clearly not the target buyer, why would they be the reviewer?

Yeah, this would be like a reviewer of a MOBA game sub-headlining the review "It's not for FPS players."
yes, but let’s steel man this: I guess someone might not have been paying attention to twitter spats before and not understood the details and how gross the story was.
The X shitshow is so public and obvious as to be unavoidable. And for that I’m grateful.
Yup. I'm an idiot. There are plenty of people like me.

I wouldn't install an application downloaded from any old website on the internet. I did in this case because it didn't occur to me that, in the context of a job interview, I was in danger. I was.

I made a mistake because I was stressed and not thinking. Shit happens.

A little empathy goes a long way.
I’m on a 12.9” iPad :)
Retrieval augmented generative, basically giving it some text passage and asking questions about the text.