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I gave a talk on code-based CAD and covered quite a few options:

https://youtu.be/0wn7vUmWQgg?si=9Rc1tvbiQgQDgQzd&t=2766

I'm also developing one in Rust but I wouldn't say it's ready yet.
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I was more thinking that there's not a particularly natural overlap between sports and academic ability. You'd think that by tying the two together, you'd get both worse sporting and academic performance than if they were unrelated.
Makes sense. Their software product isn't very good. They should take the profits they have and diversify into other businesses.
I have slept 12+ hours less than a dozen times in my 40 years, and nearly every time was due to being sick. How did you manage to sleep so long?
Please add ability to click on the orbit path. Others have suggested clicking on label, but even after adding that ability, the labels can be hidden.
My time is not free. My attention is not something I've ceded control of to HBO to do whatever the hell they please just because I want to watch The Sopranos.
>replacing it

Over the years I've come to say "design for deletion" when it comes to internal code. This means meaning more emphasis on making things straightforward to rip and out and replace, as opposed to stuff that is "configurable" or "extensible" etc.

As a junior developer, I know I spent too long on some things thinking that I could make a piece of Forever Art by adding ways for future developers to tweak its behavior.
Yeah, but the parent wants a non brain-damaged too-general construct
I’m on a Ex-Facebook employee group on FB. The amount of upset former employees is beyond belief.
> SerenityOS's WindowServer is actually more usable than Wayland

I find that very difficult to believe, how exactly is it more usable? Serenity would benefit a lot sitting on top of a Linux kernel in my opinion.
One of my coworkers told me (mostly joking) I wasn't allowed to talk to any more of his team because every person I talked to left.

I was trying to recruit people to help me fix the chaos. It's not my fault they decided it would be easier to start over somewhere else once they agreed about all the things that pissed me off.
I maintained such a schedule for over a year when I was in the Air Force --- the schedule was 9 days on, 3 swings, followed by 3 mids, followed by 3 day shifts, then 3 days off --- extending one's sleep cycle to a longer "day" allowed one to make things fit together w/o too much disruption.

That said, avoiding having to do that again was a big motivation in getting out.
Temple Grandin designed more efficient killing machines to streamline and reduce the costs of industrial scale slaughter.
can't agree more !!!
Other than the obvious — keyboard shortcuts — this also heavily relies on being able to input ahead of time, before the next screen is even drawn. Older systems buffer inputs and apply them correctly to the interface elements as they become visible.

The modern web does none of this, which is why users have to wait for each screen before inputting the next command… if it has a keyboard shortcut. It probably doesn’t.
The "free" alternative is Google Docs and friends.

Lots of people who don't need "business" office just use that, and even some businesses do.
Reminds me of factoring 512-bit RSA signing keys used on Ti calculators in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_key_...
That's the young kids. Most of us are trying to bring in solutions we already tested elsewhere, so we don't have to regress just because we got a new job. Or get rid of new things that YOU PEOPLE invented when there's a perfectly workable industry standard that isn't festooned with corner cases and no documentation.

That is incidentally one of the advantages of contributing fixes back to OSS. At least you don't have to fix the same bugs in your tools again at every job. After a few years you start to forget how you did it.
I recently had a refreshing conversation with a bank VP (head of AI), he said yes, they do see 30-40% improvement in "some" processes, so overall maybe 0.5-1% improvement.

So I'm betting they got 30% gains in e.g. "OCRing" and quote that, ignoring that the OCR part is 1% of an entire process chain.
cool. you get to sue Amazon for millions for the loss of one eye
Salesforce is a sales driven org. It’s hard for engineers (and essentially impossible for H1B’s) to replace that.
I'd say it refutes the counter-example. The court doesn't care about DKIM, they care about witness testimony.

DKIM might have convinced the witness sometimes though.
I have a private Instagram account and there's a new trend of reels: someone asks a student what they're studying and if they say "computer science" or "software engineering" the person replies "oh I'm so sorry. Can you eat today? Here's a dollar."

You can see that comments on those videos are students who just entered CS and are afraid (questioning whether they should switch majors.)
There's also a lunar occultation of Mars (which is near opposition itself, making it relatively bright) happening in a few days, and then again in February, which should be visible from parts of the northern hemisphere: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20250114_16_100
Extraordinary? She invented a machine to hug cows before they get bolted in the head.

We’d be better off not making animal slaughter the core of the American diet.
> I had financial expenses that I did not intend to have. I spent a lot of time doing research, analyzing drawings and different information. I did put an effort to protect my intellectual property and integrity of my original design. Above all, I experienced a lot of negative emotions while I was working on this case.

Probably reflects my generally unfavorable view on IP law, but honestly I feel more sympathy for those on the other end having to scrap/redo the work.

May have been one thing if the window was copied close to 1:1, but from what's shown here it mostly just seems to be small geometric patterns, likely present individually on countless other stained glass pieces.
As someone who has worked on farms i can verify that such things happen. I personally witnessed sheep behaving exactly as decided in The Silence of the Lambs. Our sheep were famously noisy and certainly were used to being moved around in lorries but when the abattoir lorry turned up you could almost smell their fear. I also witnessed a cow storm through four fences in order to be reunited with her calf.

The irony: The farm was run by vegetarians and as the only meat eater it became my responsibility to oversee any time an animal was taken to slaughter. This simultaneously put me off meat eating and vegetarians.
how many people search the registries when they buy stuff? I've only done it once and the product(made in China) looked janky and as cheap as can be.
>The second challenge sounds much easier, though I'd trade at least half of those engineers for marketing/biz-dev support.

No, they really want to be software engineers and will quit if you tell them to do different things.

In fact these kids( and at least a few in their 50s) are green. They might not even know how to use git.
This isn't a real word (yet) of course (at least no Google hits). Just made it up on the spot.
A Beginner's Guide to Memetics
This may be the most Hacker News thing I've heard since Soylent.
The summary of a spam message is "this is a spam message", not "you've gotten the inheritance of a Nigerian prince".

We're being told that AIs are basically as smart as humans, that AGI is arriving this year and all our jobs are on the line. The average human assistant would not get this assignment wrong.
For what it’s worth, the RN investigation I did was just last month, and impression was not good.

On the other hand, regarding iOS in particular, SwiftUI docs improved a lot recently. I remember them being baffling indeed from a few years back.
If you feel the need to be a cunt, please go back to reddit.
> On a >24 hour sleep schedule, you _will_ be tired when it's time to sleep. Guaranteed. Not only that, you can sleep longer and will always feel well-rested.

Definitely not guaranteed at all. Many people’s circadian rhythms are intensely driven by daylight cycles. Trying to sleep and wake out of sync with those cycles will be very difficult.

In the past I had to do some work overnight which resulted in some very long days. I would have to be very careful to avoid seeing the sunrise because doing so would make it very hard to sleep even if I’d been up for a long time.

> Really though, the main benefit is the first one in this comment. You can live your life to the maximum extent

If your life involves a lot of solitary, indoor activities then maybe.

For the rest of us who like to socialize and do outdoor daytime activities, having your sleep schedule cut through daylight hours would be a big step backward.

I think people greatly overestimate the benefits of alternative sleep cycles (unless you have a naturally extended circadian cycle that can’t be otherwise managed)
assertion without proof is paranoia. not saying you are wrong but go get some proof first
Out of interest, who's managing your mail, accounts, purchasing and computer setup now?
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There were definitely "expensive" cigarettes and "cheap" cigarettes. It wasn't uncommon for my parents/their friends to go back and forth between a few brands as their fortunes changed.
except they are not in your country so how can to go to jail and why do they care about you laws?
Yes: https://x.com/EdKaim/status/1877146069093466344
I find it amusing how the OP has the need to label meals within the day and gripes about how they don’t match when talking to others on a regular 24-hour schedule. They are just meals. You’re hungry, so you eat. It’s a meal.

Only one note: OP sounds like a younger person, probably in their 20s. My body was able to take some serious abuse when it came to sleep schedule back then. I had a job that kept alternating between 2-3 day shifts, then 2-3 night shifts, then 2-3 days off. Sometimes I’d not go to sleep for 24+ hours.

I’m twice the age now, and I’m still paying for it. My sleep is not great. I have to be very responsible with sticking to my schedule, and waking up anytime after 3 a.m. results in an inability to fall asleep and a day-long headache.
I believe this is nice, but how do regular people actually find the time to care about this stuff?

If you have kids, bills, a job, listen to crap from politicians all day, where do you find the time to be this empathetic.

My kids school gives them milk as part of lunch, my kid likes milk now. You have to live in a very special world to get around this.

I was a vegetarian for a while, I was mostly starving hungry and I had to spend hours a day cooking and eating to feel full. It's a shit situation but yeah, it's the way it is for many people.
5 years down the road that deal looks a lot less worth it.
The Aesop for Children
I had the same initial reaction, because in my mind 2^{ℵ₀} is a more fundamental concept than ℵ₁.

But the notation, and probably the theory, suggest otherwise, in which case saying there are 2^{ℵ₀} reals might be a bit like saying that there are |ℝ| reals. But I feel like I’m being pedantic regardless.
They have to keep jacking up prices so their SAFe(TM) certified trainers, scrum masters, coaches, consultants and such can continue to provide additional value
I hope you never go through a life event that makes you regret this comment.
Nice article. I'd like to also know PyPy developers thoughts on the copy-and-patch approach chosen to implement the new JIT under development for CPython.
Would most folk notice any difference using Google Docs or iCloud docs for free? I don't get the rationale for paying for an word processor monthly. Is it the fuzzy, warm feeling that using Microsoft gives you?
Regarding what was actually cut, do the cuts include the firefighting equipment sent to Ukraine? Sounds like that was mostly hoses and extra PPE, not major force-multiplier systems needed for this type of fire: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vital-la-firefighting...

And why is there apparently no water in the fire hydrants? Something about the reservoir not being refilled appropriately?
SQLite Playground in the Browser
Police helicopters
Why are the cows taken away from the calves, especially dairy cows? Just curious.
I occasionally rip Blu-rays (1080p, not 4K I hear those are more difficult) just using makemkv inside of Docker running directly on my Synology NAS, it's a piece of cake.
And the mention that the New Orleans bomber played the "assassination" game Among Us harkens back to previous eras trying to pin blame for violence on video games. At least the media didn't seem to run with the idea for very long.
Because they want to sell an asset? That seems myopic.
Same could be said for the SPLC.
CES Proves It's Still Deeply Weird with These Bonkers Gadgets
The graph and chart indicate it's 0 to 100%, so 0.33 is indeed one third of one percent.
How do you figure out your cycle time?
An interesting problem I've played around with fair bit is the idea of a maximally expressable non-Turing complete language, trying to make a language that is at least somewhat comfortable to use for many tasks, while still being able to make static assertions about runtime behavior.

The best I've managed is a functional language that allows for map, filter, and reduce, but forbids recursion or any other looping or infinite expansion in usercode.

The pitch is that this kind of language could be useful in contexts where you're executing arbitrary code provided by a potentially malicious third party.
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> A world I dread is one where Consoles are our only legitimate home gaming option.

Then you should agree with me.

A computer you don't fully own and control is nothing but a glorified game console appliance.

Don't you see? That's what they are trying to turn our computers into with their rootkit nonsense. They want to own our computers. Turn them into consoles, appliances fully controlled by them.

It's 2025. The only difference between a console and a PC is the console refuses to run software not signed by the manufacturer. It only runs software they approve of. They literally have the keys to the machine, they're just letting us get some limited use out of it, on their terms of course.

That's what they would reduce our PCs to. Glorified appliances that refuse to do what we want. What if you want to cheat at video games? Computer says no. Because the corporation said so.

Averting that world is my objective. It's the reason why I wrote all these comments. The computer must say yes at all times.
Because you want to get the milk.
Launching an engineering-focused startup with a "we'll figure that out as we go" attitude to the rest of the business is a mistake I will never make again, thank you very much; once in a lifetime was enough.
I'm sorry for your loss. Are you lucky enough to be in a place where insurers in California are still operating? Hopefully you can at least get financial situation taken off your mind
Red light and speed cameras would do 50x the work that cops are supposed to be doing here and cost substantially less
>> And I think for you to say it's deleted, how are you going to prove there are no copies?

This is really an astonishing question ( claim?). If going by your definition then no one is capable of proving that any Internet contents have been deleted. "Deletion" becomes a meaningless word.
A lot of campuses have actual police. In some ways campuses are similar to a municipality and have many of the services that entails (fire, trash, water, power, snow removal, parks, and security/law enforcement).

You could similarly ask why a town of 50,000 people needs a police department.
UW's slogan is "Be Boundless". This is the polar opposite of that.

UW has missed a great opportunity to show its current and future students and faculty that innovation is valued there. Their management decision will shutdown the minds of so many brilliant hackers, as we have already witnessed with the OP's decision to back down. I really hope the school can re-evaluate their decision and more importantly, the faculty should support the students, as they are together pursuing the goal of learning by doing. That's what higher education should offer, not conditioning people into rule makers and rule followers.
I get the verification the email actually came from the domain (i.e., someone, who has the credentials of an insider) vs. an email that was totally spoofed, from the outside, without any creds of the purported sender org. (Right?)

Hands on keyboard? You're right, absolutely not. But I can learn something useful via DKIM nevertheless.
I actually worked at Epic for a while. By EMR software standards Epic is very good overall. The database it is built on called InterSystems Cache is one of the best in the industry. They employ thousands of QA testers. But as a very complex software system it can be implemented very badly. I wonder if there is a language barrier.
I’ve been fascinated with alternative sleep schedules since I was very young. My initial interest turned to a fascination when I realized the only positive long-term reports were usually from people trying to sell something: Their book, a sleep plan, or just using their sleep cycle as a social hook to impress others (influencers, basically). All of the forum reports started out optimistic and then ended in disappointment with basically nobody enjoying them after a long time.

One of the common themes was that people would think their lives were better at first. A sort of placebo effect. They’d push through the adaptation phase, which was miserable, and when they adapted they felt slightly better. Often this improvement (relative to the miserable adaptation period) was mistake for an absolute improvement because it had been so long since they had a normal sleep schedule.

What was really interesting was that most people reported some variation of the same thing: They didn’t realize how much they disliked the alternative sleep schedule until after they stopped it. Some people stuck with it for a long time until life forced them to change (job, marriage, etc). It wasn’t until they went back to normal that they realized how much better it was to just not fight the sunlight and night time that drives us.

It would be interesting to see how this person feels at some point in the future if they go back to a normal sleep schedule.
Especially in this wind. Some of the strongest Santa Ana winds in a century
A free AI-Excel tool
I developed an Excel AI tool, Exceleasy, which uses AI to help users solve all problems related to Excel files, such as creating some Excel templates or implementing some functions. And it is free now.
Later, some functions such as word to Excel and PDF to Excel will be added. If you have other needs, you can also raise them and I will implement them as soon as possible.
You have your units mixed up - Iran record is two orders if magnitude lower than in LA (30% vs 0.3%)
Our longstanding privacy commitment with Siri
In my experience young people are just as good at face to face interaction as they have ever been, but they now integrate online communication into the same interactions.

It's different but I think it's wonderful.

I actively work to learn how to do the same, and it's like having an extra-sense. The ability to backchannel while also doing face-to-face adds elements to communication that people who don't do it fail to catch.

(I'm 49 if it matters)
I think they tried that, but not enough people care enough about it to pay the higher price, and Microsoft needs to justify the amount of cash they’ve poured into generative AI. Hence why they’re raising prices to make everybody pay for it even if most users don’t want the features and don’t use them…
Dropbox’s 2TB plan is $120. Office 365 is $129 with 1TB each for 6 users.
> not everything is about practicality

I hate to say it but if they're not thinking in practical terms, they're dead in the long run.
If only there were a link to the research paper in the article, like this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae871
Might be too late for that: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap
Are they just reinventing reddit?
You might not want to believe that other people don't see things the way you do, and you might prefer to believe that 'the site' is disagreeing with you instead. I'd just ask... what's the "conversation" that needs to happen? Why would this change the "safety" of using OpenAI?

How is intellectual curiosity satisfied by a page of people who don't know the truth of the matter, speculating about what-if's that we can't possibly resolve with the information we have? That's tabloid talk, and as far as OpenAI goes that company is a whole lot more than Sam Altman.
Interesting that at the same time the police department's budget increased by $126 million
Societies have the ethics they can afford to have. Lions aren't really in a position to do anything else. I'm not vegan but...I get it.
It is absolutely extortion. What a bunch of arseholes. I can't believe they even suggested that.
the device supports software updates

'Cause they need somewhere to load in those exploits!

A hypothetical device which is all read-only (except perhaps for a very carefully crafted, limited set of configurable parameters) might in some cases be more secure than the bulk of what's on the shelves today. After all, how many widespread hacks do you read about on old, single-purpose fixed analog or digital devices (which in a sense are similarly 'read-only').
I lived on 36 hour days for a good year or so as well. It made being social very difficult, and was not the greatest thing for me overall, although I did get a lot of code written.

A few months ago I finally got a CPAP machine after getting a sleep study due to abnormal blood pressure patterns (my blood pressure wasn't dropping overnight on a 24 hour monitor). I can now wake up feeling alert and ready to go after 6 hours of sleep (even though I could use a little bit more); I haven't felt rested this way in the morning since more than 15 years ago in my 20s. I'm not particularly overweight, nor do I snore, so it's worth checking into if your sleep patterns tend towards abnormal.
Nvidia's CEO Explains How Its New AI Models Could Work on Future Smart Glasses
I think I basically agree.

My policy is basically: people can contact me, computers can’t.

The only notifications I allow are for apps that are a proxy for human communication: messages, email (with a heavily curated inbox in which I dutifully unsubscribe from everything that’s not something I want), and very little else.

The only time I want a notification is if some human being thought to themself “I need to talk to ninkendo right now, and I want him to be notified”. No automated systems, no mass communications.

I’ve never found any system to be of any help with this other than just disabling notifications for every single thing other than these 2-3 apps. No “focus modes”, no auto-summaries, etc. None of them are as effective as just not having the notifications in the first place.
Everyone that's been censored on X should get together and file a class action lawsuit. X and Elon are in clear violation of the 'safe harbor' clause in Section 230 that legally indemnifies a site from content produced by 3rd parties. But Section 230 only allows for moderation of content in 'good faith' not editorialization of content which X and Elon are definitively engaging in. If X was found to be in violation of Section 230 it would be legally liable for all content on the site even if posted by a 3rd party.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230