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I am scratching my head as to why Cadence Virtuoso is de-facto standard in custom analog design. Barely anyone uses Synopsys Custom Compiler. Having worked at SNPS I prefer schematic entry features of CC. Probing is more efficient, adding stubs to instances as well, lot of QoL stuff like these dynamic alignment guides, and finally most tool options are not hidden under F3 (as in Virtuoso) and show on the toolbar instead. Now I work at a small company which uses Virtuoso and have to re-learn a lot of stuff even if keybinds are 95% the same. I don't know how ADE compares to PrimeWave (formerly SAE), as we at Synopsys did not dogfood it and used custom text-based DSLs for all simulations instead.
Show HN: GPTGrooves - AI Generated House Music
A cool website I have worked on for the last five months or so that uses the OpenAI API to generate house music using LangChain. The front end of the app was made using react-three-fiber. Here is the repo: https://github.com/Prospero23/GPTGrooves
The real question isn't whether withdrawing from the North Atlantic, Japan, and similar locations will save money. Instead, it's about whether remaining there is more cost-effective than having to reclaim these areas in 20 years from adversaries who will certainly try to exploit the power vacuum.
Is it going to be the Microsoft Surface all over again?
Nit: it’s per install per account per year. Not saying that is objectively good but it’s much better than per download.

E.g a user installs it on 3 devices, it’s counted once vs 3 times by your metric. If they install/update it the following year, it counts again.
It also allows the spread of enjoyable pastimes and a whole host of other non-political speech that some may find objectionable. There are a whole host of interesting pre-Code Hollywood films for instance, that aren't pornographic, but still had important or humorous messages.
Spent 7 years working at a startup founded by friends. It put a strain on our relationship, but it's been almost 7 years since and we still all keep in touch... and Im trying to get a friend to bootstrap and idea with me now. Best advice I can give is to be honest and transparent with each other.
I have no damned clue how they made it work, but I had several illlegal-as-children immigrant friends manage to get into the military and earn citizenship. Perhaps there was an Obama era program?
I have! Or I think it was sleepyhead? It helped me a little bit, but I think I had a hard time figuring it out because I wasn't really wearing it for very long before I'd take the mask off, so it didn't feel like there was enough data each night.

I did also post to one of the apnea boards with data from it and they helped figure out better pressure settings for me which did help some.
There was an American who didn't pay taxes on $150 M+ of income and wound up travelling from one country to another, keeping ahead of the authorities. He got kicked out of hotels in Sao Paulo because he'd order 10+ prostitutes. They were in the process of trying to get him extradited from somewhere in Europe and he got offered a deal where he could take Belgian citizenship and not get extradited to the US but he thought being confined to Belgium was like going to prison and decided he'd just rather go to prison.
You arent comparing like for like you are comparing a guerrilla soldier to a trained professional. I’d imagine if the US switched to that sort of doctrine we wouldn’t have the totally lopsided casualty counts we’ve had in recent conflicts.
We already have “false light” laws to address this, and they’re rooted in the common law right of privacy rather than the constitutional right.
Just because they’re better than you does not mean they’re above average.

Though standards have been going down, so maybe you are right.
Besides both sides being ipv6, the chat app has to intentionally support some p2p mode, and both sides have to be NAT-free and have firewalls allowing incoming connections.
that software is certified and tested to work with those trains...do you know what it takes to test and get certified?
“Arbitrary values” are a far, far concept from “faith”. One can absolutely live a life without superstitions.

As for the “god said so” argument, that just demonstrates lack of understanding of the basic tenets of whatever culture or religion one follows.
Ask HN: Any emergency funds for founders from Ukraine?
The war took away 2 years and continues to destroy my startup. Considering that I have been developing a startup for 11 years, this is a significant loss. Being in HN since 2012, it's strange not to see any startup in the field of emergency funds for startups that find themselves in an extremely difficult situation.

There are my startup/programming language:
https://www.acpul.org/
Peter Gutmann goes over this type of mitigation in the context of glitch attacks: https://www.youtube.com/live/IyeDSyvYvZs?si=wkapFNXp8-N28vEb...
It’s hard to know what’s pointless reinvention and what is evolution. We’ll only really know in hindsight.

Look at the wheel itself, it has been reinvented many times, depending on how that terms is defined. Maybe it started with a tree truck or a stone disk, then a solid wood wheel, then a hub and spoke design, then adding rubber, than an air inner tube, then something more akin to modern tires and wheels. Even now, new wheels and tires are being made to better work with electric vehicles, airless tires have been in development for years, and we’ll continue to make them better.

How much of tech is reinventing basic concepts vs improving on those basic concepts to make them easier to use and more reliable?
Deck division does that work, and also runs the majority of special ops (not specops like the seals, just non-regular stuff) at sea so you don’t want the dumbest guys to flood the division, though that’s quite common.
I could swear Discord inverted its mic button on vs off convention sometime last year.
Here's a U.S. music streaming calculator created by a company that claims to have data: https://www.manatt.com/music-streaming-royalty-calculator

> So Spotify takes ~30% cut?

According to the calculator, for 10M streams, Spotify pays the label (really, the sound recording owner) $38,917 (0.38¢/stream), while Apple pays $66,840 (0.668¢/stream).

In the "1M Streams" charts on that page, Spotify keeps 50% of the total and pays creators/rights-holders the rest, while Apple keeps 29%.
His books have always been a bit more entertainment than accurate retelling of history. Don’t think there is anything particularly wrong with that
Yes, but OP wanted to use it as both heat storage and emergency drinking water supply. If you're using a heat exchanger you'd still need separate tanks for hot water storage and for emergency drinking water - and that's the very thing they were trying to avoid.
If only art killed money
But it does emulate the 16-bit x86 instructions from really old-school Windows code.
My keyboards last longer than my touch screens, with the exception of that crappy patch Apple masterminded a few years ago.
Lawyer here and even though I know just a little about programming, I also always think that laws, contracts etc are like code running on society. Only when people fight over it and go to court, you run it on a "computer" but we only can test it beforehand running on human imagination. I'm very excited about chatgpt and it's capabilities to finally have a test environment for clauses where we can ask of ambiguity of terms, cases we haven't considered in the law/agreement and contradictions within the document. If we could have an ide for lawyers, that would be great too.
I don't know that I care much about this.

How do we even know it's Taylor Swift and not a lookalike? Wait..
History says that the things in the middle, usually ones with the clearest computational model beneath them, get a fancy name and we stop calling it AI and we just call it algorithms.

I could see someone making a case for this being that 'middle' group but there's a sour note to this process that I don't know from one week to the next whether I find it sneaky or delightful.

Someone else can make that argument, because I'm so sick of silver bullets and gold rushes that I just. don't. care. Sturgeon's Law applies (90% of everything is crap) and I'll listen just enough to see if anyone is proposing which bits are the 10% to keep a finger on the scale if I think it'll matter. But let everyone else bleed over this, because in another ten years they'll be laughing about how silly they were to think this was going to solve all of our problems or end our profession.

Software is eating most things. If something eats software, your employability will be the least of your existential crises.
Ask HN: Can my open source app be "stolen"?
I just finished an app for both ios and Android that I plan to make open source. But I'm worried that if I don't publish it to the App Store and Play Store first that someone else can publish it before me an potentially even charge money for it. I don't want to pay the $100 Apple fee and connect my app to my name just yet, and I still want to polish it a bit before submitting to the App Store. I doubt two of the same app would be allowed on the App Store. If someone does "steal" the app, what are my options? Can I somehow reclaim it?
A friendship isn't and shouldn't be a pickled-in-amber thing. If the friendship you have now is one you're happy with, that's a success, whether it's the same as the one you had before or not.
The French Foreign Legion seems to do ok?
You sure invented a funny definition for faith, that you seem to conveniently fit anything to. Things are much simpler than you imagine - maybe in your mental framework, life is impossible without superstition. Doesn’t mean it is - it certainly isn’t for many.
How do you know people wouldn't buy more iPhones if there were more App stores on it?
If you used copilot in the beginning (and I think still with some plans), it was only GPT 3.5.

Likely you’d get much better results with GPT-4.
Nice analysis! You should protect your infra to avoid this kind of scanning:

- Disable password login for SSH, use keys instead.

- Limit access to known IPs (with a managed vpn)

- Use Cloudflare: Their WAF is really good

- Forward logs to an other service that can analysis logs (datadog is nice)

shameless plug: started a small honeypot service[1] if anyone would need it as a last resort[1] to catch hackers in your servers . Feedbacks appreciated!

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Various fortune files attribute the quote to Robert Lucky. I would guess that it was misattributed to Alan Kay since quotes often get attached to famous people.

"In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals.
You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.
-- Robert Lucky"

https://web.mit.edu/~mkgray/jik/sipbsrc/src/fortune/scene
My first job was at a bank that used Windows 3.11 on all the corporate desktops (late 90s). We had 10mbit ethernet IIRC.

Periodically someone somewhere would plug both ends of an ethernet cable into the wall sockets, causing a broadcast storm and every PC in the building would freeze - Not even the mouse pointer would move.
Well that definitely sucks, I mean I didn’t even know you can “miss” a credit card payment, usually you’re late and they increase your bill accordingly.

Sucks to know they’re a bit trigger happy with the account closures
Try also, "The Legal Singularity" by two law professors from the University of Toronto

https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Singularity-Artificial-Intellig...
I can't speak specifically for the Navy, but as an Army officer I've been part of the pipeline that turns recruits into air traffic controllers, which is a pretty in-demand role. [I've also been part of the pipeline that turns college students into officers and pilots, but they don't go through "boot camp" in the same sense that enlisted members do.]

Your intuition is sort of correct, but sort of backwards. First, someone who qualifies for an in-demand role is less likely than most recruits to wash out because they are more qualified than the average recruit to begin with. Second, if someone fails along the way to becoming an air traffic controller or linguist or some other difficult job, there are a lot of other jobs that they can step down to and handle with ease. So we'd say, "Hey, you didn't make it, but this is a tough program so there's no shame in that, and here's another program that we can send you to do instead, if you want." On the other hand, if someone signs up to be a shower and laundry specialist (yes, that's a real job) and they fail in that program, we probably don't have much else that they'd qualify for, so they might be out of luck no matter how much they want to stay in uniform.

Edited to add: Of course, "boot camp" is "boot camp" for everyone, (mostly) regardless of the specialty that they signed up for. I'm mostly speaking above about the second stage of training.
Alternatively bringing in a flood of foreign fighters who can be abused and extorted into doing dirty deeds by politicians holding an extremely lucrative carrot (US access) and stick (deportation) sounds like a recipe for abuse of the soldiers, and likely anyone they’re deployed against.

Considering the history of the French Foreign Legion, I’m disinclined to believe in the best possible outcome here.

History has taught this lesson.
Can you step outside of your own point of view to realize this is all kinda silly?

When you walk down the street, people might look at you and imagine you in ways you don't like. They might whisper about you to their friends. They might write a story where you're the villain or the fool. They might draw an unflattering picture of you. You might experience anxiety or fear or other "psychological harms" worrying about any of these things happening.

I have compassion and sympathy for the fears, anxieties and discomforts people might experience from worrying about how other people imagine them, or use their likeness in works of fiction. But that sympathy doesn't mean I want the government to police people's thoughts, stories or art.
I do not. My comment was in response to the parent comment saying that financial crime “absolutely causes people to die” and “create far more misery than your average mugger”.
It is hearsay (i heard it from a French army officer a year ago), but it seems the only army corp in the western world who has improved in the last 15 years in an organizational point of view was the US army (and he said (translated, from a 1-year old memory) "The army in particular, not the airforce").

He was extremely critical of the French army culture, and high level officers especially (like you it seems) and said something like "but at least we aren't Spain or Italy", so i guess they're worse. He also said that one of the lesson from ukraine is that it showed how trash and susceptible to corruption "legacy officers" were, and hopefully officers families (some of which date back from Napoleon in the French army) will now be met with some suspicions.
Not entirely true.
Without some "counter" culture, we would not have culture today.
If you want to get a word out, start a web site with dos and don'ts, or write a book. So if anybody wants to share recommendations, comment below!
Scrite – open-source Multilingual Screenwriting App
Why do you have to specify a gender? In the US I would assume anyone could apply and capable candidates would be considered. Doesn’t mean you would get a job if they were really seeking a female or male. Not trying to go into a gender or political questions, only curious how another country works.
Faith has specific meaning, so does belief. You might go a bit longer if you try to understand the words you’re erroneously signifying
I'd pick 3 people of your team who think they feel like they could produce some PPC ads. Then let each spend 100 bucks on ads. Then call up an agency, say you had bad experience. You give them 300 bucks but if they perform worse than the ones produced by your team with no expertise, you won't pay. If they outperform & you're happy, say what you're looking to spend.

Either way: you're just a few clicks & bucks away to test your ability. Especially in this space.

I locked myself out of a girls flat. She was hungry & freaking out, though i knew i was almost getting in, if i just had strong metal to slide-open the bolt. But stores were closed and i couldn't steel a spokes of a bike. So we called a locksmith. I told him i know we're being ripped off, but i am happily paying if he explains to me what he is doing and what alternatives there are. He opened the door in a few seconds and i paid 100 bucks. Inside i immediately ordered a lockpicking set & started to practice. I am not good at picking locks. But now i at least know when it's feasible to try myself and in which cases i should get ready to be ripped off again.

The ad space is full of people waiting to BS your money out of your pocket. Find out when it's ok to take BS without it leading to BS results – and when the BS predicts a BS outcome.

Or: Trust your gut. It's always right. And if it's not, try again & pretend it's never been wrong!
The classic management-empire-driven-development where each management rung up to the lowest common ancestor wants credit for their own teams "moving the needle". They don't want to collaborate too much with other branches and in fact, want to dominate other branches.

Entirely a problem of deep nested trees in corporate hierarchies that is so easily alleviated with better incentive structures.
Of course, those would be far superior, but it'd require people to significantly change their habits.

On the other hand, plenty of people already drive to work and park there. Plugging in your EV while parking at work vs. plugging in your EV while parking at home is an absolutely minuscule change for most people, which means it is quite likely to actually be picked up.
Not the greatest example…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_putsch_of_1961#:~:te....
There is literally no good reason other than it being the standard I think. Analog design engineers are very averse to change. Everone learned the quirks of Virtuoso by now and nobody dares to try something else because they are not so much better at the end.
The Interview Circuit and Autism
I received some advice early in my career, from a staff engineer, along the lines of "Don't worry about remembering that which you've previously been tested on." It has stuck with me, and made me feel a lot better about the way I tackle my work as a software engineer; deliberately, with research, and consideration.

Having Autism, I get quite overwhelmed when I'm talking with someone I don't know, especially if they're judging or evaluating me. It's really affecting my progress in interviews, and while I'm getting to the first stages, I'm stumbling somewhere.

When I join the call, my wall is up and I'm masking hard; it's unavoidable, but I remain somewhat-authentic. I try my best to be charming, and for the most part, I think I'm quite successful, with most of my feedback being "great guy, asked good questions"

However, when it comes to being technical and self-promotion, I'm so bad that I may as well be a carpenter who had decided on a late-in-life career change, knowing nothing about tech. Even if I write down my achievements, I feel gross about fluffing it up, instead focusing on outcomes and facts. I have awards, accolades, and recommendations from my peers, but for some reason I can't land a job, or even get close.

Any advice?
While some people might say it's bad idea; truth is: lots of early stage employees in all companies are either good acquaintances or friends, or friends of friends. Simply because some trust is required on both sides. Otherwise it's hard to build skilled team to work for a company that dont offer any benefits except for equity while can go down at any moment.

IMO this is all about expectations. If you never lied to your friend about your actual experience and skillset and your friend offers reasonable compensation then it's win win situation. Working on a team of like-minded people is amazing.
The more expensive it gets, the closer we get to a point of system failure. Whether you believe this to be good or bad is a function of your belief in value in US force projection and the human cost it incurs.
I can get on board with this from a business brand protection angle.

Otherwise honestly I don't think the law should get involved and I'm not going to waste any more time from my short life caring about this lol.
Wrong context. There's nothing sad or "technologically behind" in supporting industrial tech that has lifetimes of several decades. Why would you want to discard a perfectly working highspeed train? Because that's what this is about - support for a 30 year old highspeed train.
> Running Doom on mundane items like key fobs and light bulbs isn't too far away from where we are in 2024.

About that... https://www.pcmag.com/news/you-can-run-doom-on-a-chip-from-a...
"Internet makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber".
(Mark Solonin, a Russian historian).

Taking into account that such blunt statements always hide a lot of nuances, this seems to capture the reality.
> It's no more anticompetitive than LHVM stores choosing not to sell canned soup or Mercedes choosing to not sell Ford.

Neither of those companies are monopolies and neither of them forbid brands they stock from selling different versions of those products at different stores.
For making it really exact to the actual measurements(which presumably was the goal) grid paper isn't going to work, not without large sheets and drafting tools. Illustrative drawing can be done freehand and allowed to slop and distort things a bit, but for a practical interior design you need to get down to centimeters of space.
Can you be more specific about what the difference is?
Maybe, but in practice malware that makes sudo always fail is also bad. At the same time, getting 28 precise distance from row hammer is basically impossible.
Switched to doas a couple of months ago on my FreeBSD box; it’s been a seamless switch.
> My ex once pulled out his AMEX Gold card at dinner and regaled me on every perk and detail of the program

Well there it is right there!

> After that he spent 30 minutes on the phone trying to verify his identity, since they shuttered his account for suspicious long-distance activity.

Well not every company is perfect, for credit cards I have I register foreign addresses and get flack. Using a VOIP number with a local area code does help.

> He did get it sorted out, but the Benihana's folks were running out of patience.

Funny considering Benihana is basically built on the concept of wasting time to cook a meal. I hope this happened in the early 2000s.
This certainly fits with my experience and biases. When using Copilot, I felt that it tried to be too clever, and often got things wrong. It would try to write a function based on the name, and would go one of three ways: either the function was a trivial one-liner and it saved me ~2 seconds of typing after I figured out if it was correct, or it was a complex function where it cost me ~2 seconds to figure out it was waaaaay off the mark, or it saved me 30 seconds up-front by producing something that appeared correct, but that I found out 10 minutes of debugging later was actually subtly incorrect in a way that I couldn't spot when reading quickly, but likely wouldn't have written myself.

What I really want is a smarter intellisense, whereas Copilot is a dumber pair programmer. I want smart, style-aware, context-aware tab completion on boilerplate, not on business logic.

Unfortunately I think many people are using it for business logic and that seems to be the direction the product is going.
There is still very much a need to patrol the north atlantic and defend Japan today.
Its super easy to get a no-bloat operating system. Not from microsoft, but there's a flavor of linux for everything.