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> If software development is your 9-5, and not your passion. How do you keep improving?

You don't really. If you are not able to find 3h a week to make at least one tutorial a week, then do it once a month, but if you are not open to learn outside the job, no matter if it is software development or anything else, I don't see how you can improve.

And yes, the best advice is to build things, you don't have to build complicated things. Build things you enjoy. It will help you find time for it. Check https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x - or search on youtube for any tutorial of things you like.

Do things you enjoy, and try to finish what you start - but don't overthink if you don't. Just keep building. If it's hard to finish, try to build something smaller, or easier.
for drug dealers
I don't think that's accurate — the article doesn't dismiss religions at all, it examines theories for why religions have the taboo in the first place.
Putin did in two steps: claimed election fraud, then claimed protesters were undesirables. Once he closed down free speech, dissenters were rounded up by private gangs (Proud boys?) and roughed up or poisoned. The Oligarch now control Russia.
Additionally (to the other replies to your question), asking for the weather is just another data point in the huge amount of surveillance occurring. If I can get the weather for my location without accessing a remote server where someone else gets to see my query and probably location, all the better. This provides that possibility.
Things like humble bragging, writing styles, DMing patters, etc etc etc.

This exists because there is limited courage to call this out. There are not many polite ways to tell someone this, you would need people in their life to pull them aside and point it out. It's very similar to being the friend that pulls someone outside and explains they need to brush their teeth (someone has to do this, with love). Maybe more working professionals need to blog about this so the broader community can be educated on behavior when it comes to excess vanity and general manners.

For example, it's simply rude to broadcast your new job when some people are struggling with it (will they ever get one? will they get fired? are they good enough?). Just the very fact that there are "some" should be enough to kickstart one's manners, even if that "some" is not a lot of people.

It's simply rude to continuously market things (anything) when there are people literally ... stressing themselves over the pressure of competition. Again, as an example, a person constantly marketing their looks is putting stress and pressure on many others - this is a simple fact. The same goes for those with wealth and opportunity.
I would guess at least 80% of the people who look like this Tim are contributing zero if not negative. I think there are good odds the actual Tim in the story was too. I mean I'd certainly love to do just the fun part of my job and duck out of all the scut work, if I could find a team that let me.
Apple Intelligence: The Emperor's New Automation Clothes
> IBOS and a WAF on seL4, all proven

If you mean web application firewall, that seems too complex to be proven? With infinite possible inputs, inspecting it would seem to require too much code to prove - unless it merely verifies traffic matches a short whitelist.

Why talk about high assurance talked in the past tense? Is the field moribund? (I don't mean to point out a typo, if that's what it is.)
Most ring buffers that aren't powers of 2 in size can still get by with i == max ? 0 : i+1 and i ? i-1 : max. On most hardware these will be almost as fast as just i+1 and i-1, while division will be much slower, even on recent hardware.
The article doesn't even mention my favorite convention:

test()
FinalTest()
FinalTestCheck()
FinalTestCheck_dontuse()
FinalTestCheck_dontuse_WorkingFix()
Climate change doesn’t impact the physics of weather, but our understanding of the inputs to a weather system is still very incomplete. Climate change does impact the relative importance of different physical inputs into a weather system, and inherently pushes weather systems away from the most studied and well understood aspects of weather physics. That in turn degrades the accuracy of our models, as it takes time to research and understand whats changed in a weather system, and what previously unimportant inputs have become much more important.
My BSc degree taught lots of things that would be useful for an average software developer with some experience. MSc programs tend to be more research-oriented and thus less practical unless you work in some R&D niche that matches what you studied 1-to-1.

Practical BSc materials included other programming paradigms, mostly pretty advanced declarative and functional programming, equivalent to big chunks from CTM and a typical Haskell book. Also deep relational algebra and calculi, including query optimization, and low-level driver programming, concurrency models, and networking. Further to that, compiler construction, amounting to significant chunks of the Dragon Book, etc.

This is something you can self-study. But, obviously, an institution will provide good structure and credentials. Depending on the cost, it might make more or less sense. The OP might want to look at good EU universities where tuition is free for EU nationals and coursework is taught in English at BSc level.
280 million Americans didn’t vote for him though. He’s not even acting like he cares about the 60 million that did.
..yep, true, completely slipped my mind. So modulo is just trivially always the bad choice.

Even for arbitrary indexing "tmp=head+index; buffer[(tmp >= capacity) ? tmp - capacity : tmp]" or so is gonna be better. (assuming the compiler compiles it to something branchless. Or, probably even if it doesn't - division might end up slower than the worst-case of 50% misprediction! And for sequential indexing it's even gonna be predictable.)
Democrats should just sit back and observe. Let the Republicans hang themselves.
I tested a $7 app that boosts FPS and resolution in any PC game. It's amazing
Was thinking the same thing as well. I've hunted in this region a long time ago (on a private hunting club in Ocala) with an old friend from uni who explicitly advised that wearing gloves while handling wild hog was an absolute safety must because of infection risk.
If it's just a swarm and not a complete sphere, it would be easy to chose orbits that don't block the earth's view of the sun.
A little sugar is fine. Alot of it kills you.
This is super cool! I've advocated for spreading the organ to a modern audience through websites before, so it's great to see someone doing this.

In fact, I've been working off and on on my own virtual pipe organ software[1], except based around modular synthesis. I've found most modular synthesis engines don't have great support for blended midi and audio nodes, and often don't have good resources management, so I started from scratch.

[1] https://github.com/wwtos/mjuo
What's odd about this argument is that such bugs would be at risk of reintroduction in any other piece of software. Indeed, each release is expected to introduce new bugs and vendors typically sell service contracts based on the perpetual brokenness of existing software engineering processes. Whereas formally verified software typically has single digit numbers of bugs ... ever.

Sure, you get to score rhetorical points about the proof being incorrect once. But this bridge is now fixed and won't fail that way again in the same way.

Cartels and governments regularly hack phones and spy on and even kill activists. The current processes you are defending get people killed and are undermining civil society. SeL4 is a big deal and definitely worth the investments needed to make such reliability the norm instead of accepting the continual bridge collapses that occur in Linux land.
Musical Notes is a simple open source option

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/jl.musicalnotes/

https://codeberg.org/jonas-l/musical-notes-android
I'm sorry but IBM has moved out of (Software) products and currently only does IT services. Its revenue (from Software) is completely tied to $/hour that it can earn from its contracts. Arvind Krishna is simply trying to talk his business up.

My take: the truth will lie somewhere in between, with the balance moving into the AI corner with time. Also, the real truth will emerge from IBM's financials. The growth (or decline) of their revenue from Software Contracts will speak for itself over the next few years.

Also, from what I'm seeing in the Industry, the number of Software hires have begun to decline with more engineers being let go.
Videos of all kinds play by default with a clear, clean, and beautiful look.

This strikes me as the kind of guy that thinks audio signals passed through gold-plated SPDIF cables sound better.
It is fascinating that a language that still has study devoted around it has died right in front of our eyes.
This reminds me a bit of how VCs bet on a bunch of startups in full knowledge that many will fail. The failures in some sense get a “free ride”. Why not the same with people?
Not if you run an Oracle DB in the cloud it isn't!
It is fast and simple. Not sure what suffering you are feeling. There are many other clients and you can make one in less than an hour with sonnet. Also you can use a browser snippet to change the css if that's enough.
I’m not sure why people are making a big deal of it. At my gym it took maybe 3 minutes. You tie a knot and show you know how to take up slack. And it only needs to be done once.

There is a second test for lead but most people take a class and get the lead card during the class.
You may pay more for it, but "culinary solvent" is what you want to buy if you are trying to get it as an individual. It's pure food grade ethanol.

It's still tricky most places in the US -- you will likely have to jump through hoops to pay taxes and/or get the license to purchase, depending on your state's rules. I agree that IPA is not enough of a concern to actually justify it in my mind.
Show HN: Make 10 / Make X – A Daily Math Puzzle Game
Hey HN!

I built Make 10 / Make X, a quick, brain-teasing puzzle game where you combine numbers and operators to create an expression that equals 10 or X (a varying number). It’s simple to learn but surprisingly challenging, requiring both logic and creativity.

How It Works: You’re given a set of numbers (e.g., 4, 6, 3, 4). Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parentheses to form an equation that equals 10 or X, depending on which mode you're playing. Use all given numbers exactly once. Submit your answer and keep your streak going! A new puzzle is available every day.

Inspiration: It’s inspired by a mental math game played on trains in Sydney, Australia. Passengers would challenge each other to make 10 using the numbers on their carriage number. I realised this simple concept could make a fun, daily brain teaser for everyone since it already has many real world users!

Would really appreciate any feedback!
What’s the problem with the UI? The small default font size? If so, you can use your browser’s zoom function to adjust as needed. And it works fine on phones.
Sure, as long as they don't have any responsibilities. I've been a great performer at some companies and a poor performer at others, including one that kept me around without letting me have any responsibilities. It was not good for me. But I have been through worse.

A better alternative I've seen is to help the poor performer hunt for a new job.
Gave you an upvote not because I necessarily agree, but to counter the downvotes.

I agree that it’s clear we need more nuclear, but could you explain why solar and wind are dangerous compared to nuclear? Did you mean that all the attention on solar and wind, which can’t be scaled fast enough and must be paired with grid storage, has screwed us when it comes to addressing climate change?

Also, calling solar and wind inefficient isn’t precise enough. By what metric are you judging them to be inefficient?
Where I work, the CI pipelines measure changes in code coverage.

If I refactor repetitive code into something more concise and maintainable —- code coverage goes DOWN! (Now the proportion of untested code is larger!)

Yeah, measurement is hard…
Can you quantify what opportunities you're missing? Or is it just a feeling or that you don't know what you're missing?

You've already got 8 years experience under your belt. I can't imagine there are many opportunities in your field that you can't get just because of a degree. I don't think any employers are going to care that you don't have a degree.

From what you've said, it sounds like you just want the degree to help you with the automated job application systems that will just auto-reject you for not having a degree. In that case, you just need something that's cheap/free and gives you pretty much any degree without much life disruption/quickly.

This story of mine might help you: I used to work in an organization where there was a Master's degree requirement for manager roles. When people would retire the managers basically picked out their favorites for who they wanted to be promoted. So, the person basically knew they were going to be promoted and all they needed was the piece of paper.

People around the office discovered Western Governor's University (WGU dot edu). It's an accredited university where tuition is paid in 6 month terms and work is done on your own schedule. You can complete as much work as you want during that term. Also, exam schedules are completely up to you.

So, my coworkers were basically taking Master's degree programs in areas where they had already been working in the industry for many years. They were finishing degree programs within that first 6 months just so they could be eligible by organization rules for the promotion they were already being shoehorned into.

I am not endorsing the school or anything but this general idea seems to make sense for your situation. It sounded like it was the kind of thing where you could basically test out of a lot of the time committment of traditional university if you already had a lot of knowledge and/or have the ability to work quickly with independent study.

Alternatively, there are some free/open universities out there that are essentially MOOCs with an option to get real course credit and degrees. I think some European colleges offer that option, like University of Helsinki.
I don't think that's responsive to my comment. What I'm getting at is -- it is reasonable for police to use self-defense. So I'd expect higher police-on-civilian violence rates in places with higher civilian-on-police violence rates.
I use Upnote and combine it with command line tools. When I cd in to a directory, .cdmsg displays an x-callback to a GUI note about the project. I’ve developed a hybrid system that uses cli, gui apps, and x-callbacks to do some pretty neat integration, but sadly it’s very user specific.
I mean anybody who understands the maths knows that there is no real reasoning from these models. The only ones hyping this up are VC bros who want the return on their investment money.
You know you're getting the meat from a specific farm with higher standards, and cooked by someone who is very aware and good at cooking it long enough to kill pathogens but still be pink. Sous vide or slow cooking are very popular here, since you can be very confident the internal temperature of the meat was high enough to kill any pathogens, but not high enough to brown the meat
Vibe coding works for experienced developers who give very detailed instructions including edge cases and potential issues or solutions. It is almost code already as it has already included all important code business logic (leaving the simple parts for Ai to fill in ). It is a maintenance disaster for junior developers or non-coders.
Critique of Work
I tried the app and I honestly am pretty disappointed. I know the app is for note training but the rhythms are completely broken. In Ode to Joy and Minuet, there are notes that should be dotted but are not. And in Practice modes there is also no consistency; some measures have 4 beats, others 6. I'd consider removing the measure bars entirely and/or making all notes have the same duration if note pitch is the only goal.
About a third of earth's crust is silicon, so it's much easier to put the waste back in the crust than to extract it from used silicon photovoltaics. Perovskite photovoltaic cells, on the other hand, are made from more exotic and often more toxic chemicals, so being able to recycle them is far more useful
Maybe? I thought about it for a while, but my grasp of orbital dynamics is not good enough to be sure if that's possible or not. But I think it probably is not.
The same way that it can reject certain headers, like it could have done in this case. It's no different, still in-band.
Lenses and optics in general were also extremely rudimentary at that time, it looks to me like a combination of the cat moving during an 8 second exposure and a hand-ground lens.
Sounds like marketing for:

https://losslessscaling.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
I mean in some ways that is what modern predictive text is, right? I watch others rely on it incredibly heavily, no correcting mistakes at all just rely on the autocorrect to solve it, and it works well

Or swipe-typing, as another version of that idea. Move in the rough area of the key, and rely on prediction
Not OP, but I've worked on programming my own organ software before. I'd say physical modelling really cool tech, but the question is whether it makes a significant auditory difference.

The thing is organs are a lot easier to sample compared to something like a violin. I'm oversimplifying, but it's mainly just note on, note off, vs lots of articulations where physical modelling is more beneficial. (Yes, there's wind sag, and wind delay, and regulators, but most organs specifically have things to avoid those artifacts so they'd only show up on more niche organs imo.) I've had great success simulating tremulants by just using FM demodulation to reconstruct the pitch and volume effects from tremmed samples[1]. Release samples are also difficult to match with the current phase, but I was also able to mitigate that with a single bin DFT + crossfaded.

Another issue with physical modelling is it's decently CPU intensive, which is tricky when you have 700 simultaneous notes on bigger organs. So, it's definitely cool, but the question is whether it's significantly better than current sample-based technology. It could potentially reproduce some of the more strange interactions, but those interactions aren't necessarily wanted in the first place.

EDIT: one thing that is nice about physical modelling is it's a lot easier to voice (modify) a pipe to the sound one wants. I think with some special filtering (comb filter for even harmonic attenuation, shelf for augmenting the harmonic series trajectory) voicing could also be satisfactory with traditional sampling (hauptwerk does some of this, but I think I could make it even more flexible).

[1] https://github.com/smj-edison/sample-analysis
Clicky: https://www.wiyomi.com/

It would be nice to try without signing in. You may save the results in cookies until the user creates an account, or just forget the solved quiz. (Perhaps make 10 quiz available to unregistered users?)
C++26 is getting a trait called "trivial relocatability", which allows you to communicate that a type can be memcpy'd around without fear.
Maybe it was flagged and unflagged between when I saw it? I never saw it flagged.
This article criticizes supposition and assumption. It's true that there's no evidence that Apple is doing anything nefarious with the daemon. But it then goes on to just make it's own supposition and assumption - that the daemon is only used for warning the user - with essentially as much evidence.
I was being too obtuse in my obfuscation, it is a proton.me email address
Change your favicon, at least make that a dot.
I saw the Domu Technology posting the other day and I was thinking, is this a joke? And then I saw that Michael was leaving, and I realized it's not a joke, it definitely checks out.
Great demo on #4 ; and content-wise, a good lesson I needed to be reminded of.

I was such a fan of CoquiTTS and so happy when they launched a commercially licensed offering. I didn't mind taking a small hit on quality if it enabled us to support them.

And then, the quality of the API outputs were lower than what the self-hosted open source Coqui model provided... I'm thinking this was one of the reasons usage was not at the level they hoped for, and they ended up folding.

The saddest part is they still didn't assign commercial rights to the open-source model, so I think Coqui is in a dead-end now.
From what I've seen, the small low-HP tractors without particulate filters have a minimum of electronics. It's the computerized emissions controls where they start creeping in. And I assume the big farmers put up with digital restrictions because they want to have their shiny new gear serviced by professionals anyway, whereas homesteads there is going to be a lot more DIY.

The real problem is that farming is fucking hard. I bought a vertical tiller somewhat as a hedge against societal collapse from the political movement to destroy America, but I'm under no illusions of that being a straightforward food supply. The main aim is to be able to do food plots for neighbors in trade.

Honestly I've got to wonder if we're going this far, why do you even need to live off the land? As in, why turn soil just to get free sun and water? Why not just indoor hydroponics? Or even still using soil, but inside in a much more controlled fashion.
I've been super curious to see what was at stake here! This sounds better than I'd dared to hope for.

I kind of thought this was just gonna be some kind of deferred texture loading thing, help with streaming assets.

If it actually allows inter-warp sequencing, it sounds like it might possibly solve the chief complains supreme GUI master Raph Levien recently had in I want a good parallel computer, which so that even though we can dynamically add shaders & construct a dynamic workgraph (largely thanks to VK_AMDX_shader_enqueue?), there isn't any sequencing/fencing/barrier-ing between the sections. https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-com...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440174

Not applicable to GPUs, but since I ran into it recently, it's interesting to see how io_uring handles sequenced submissions. Here's Lord of io_uring's write-up, https://unixism.net/loti/tutorial/link_liburing.html#link-li...

Edit: having read the article more fully, I'm not sure this is about waves depending on each other. Maybe more about them trying to access memory. Apologies. Hopefully someday!
Why does everybody have a hard-on for privatizing one of the few services the Constitution explicitly authorizes the Federal government to run?
Please don’t change HN. It’s fast, clean, simple.

“You can please some of the people, some of the time” - Steve Jobs
https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor... — per this blog post (which takes https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons... as the starting point), most classicists “can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well” [unlike medievalists and Renaissance scholars].
AI company's declaring proper attribution to sources an intractable problem will make this the default state of the internet. I'm glad atleast that there are more Captcha options out there now instead of the ones that just help Google make money by making me waste my time.