skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried 3 times to teach myself electronics to the point where I can reliably make simple stuff work, and finally got it to start to click about 9 months ago. I'm still very much a newbie, but I am just slightly ahead of where it sounds like you are.

I recommend these YouTube channels:

https://www.youtube.com/user/greatscottlab

https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog

Not all of the videos are useful, but if you browse through the "Most popular", you might find some interesting stuff. I did. There's also a long tail of other channels that post the odd interesting beginner-electronics video. Type in search terms for things you're confused by, and you'll find tens of people trying their best to explain it to you in a way you can understand. Don't understand one? Try the next person.

I bought an "Arduino starter kit" off eBay for about £35. It came with an Arduino Uno, a breadboard, some bits of jumper wire, resistors, a few capacitors, a relay, a servo, some LEDs, an LCD display, etc. Just a basic bunch of stuff to start playing with. (I think I paid more than the constituent parts were actually worth, but if they weren't all bundled together for me I wouldn't have known what to get at all, so I got plenty of value from it anyway.)

Then just start playing with it. In the process of trying to make stuff work you'll accidentally learn about pull-up and pull-down resistors, switch debouncing, filtering capacitors, using transistors to switch larger loads, SPI, I2C, and it'll all start fitting together in your mind. Every time you learn a new thing it opens up a bunch more avenues of stuff to research.

The resources available on YouTube are so much better than they were even 3 years ago. I think that's what has helped me "succeed" this time.

Good luck!
Disabled people are relatively rare

Rare? "Disabled" people are so common, politicians bend over backward to cater to them at the expense of others. An entire organization is devoted to service them: the AARP, where "RP" stands for "retired people". Because many over 50 are going to have a hard time reading your tiny-print, low-contrast, gray-on-light-gray website.

"Accessibility" != ("make exceptions for disabled people" WHERE "disabled people" == "protected class"). "Accessibility" means a lot of things. Maybe it's color-deficient sight ("color blind"). Maybe I lost hearing in one ear because of a tragic toilet lid accident. Maybe I'm just over 40 and wear reading glasses. Just because a user might not have a handicapped placard hanging from their rear view mirror doesn't mean they don't find your "innovative" design annoying.
That gave me an idea.. As you can't know the user's physical screen size from the browser, would anyone here be interested in an extension that tracks how many pixels you've scrolled on Facebook?
I'm a big fan of Adafruit, which is a great place to buy electronic components that all have projects, tutorials, active forums, etc.

Here's the "learn" page on the Adafruit web site: https://learn.adafruit.com/

And the Adafruit Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/adafruit

And it's definitely worth just dipping in and out of -- and eventually reading all the way through -- "The Art of Electronics." It's a terrific book, and manages to be both readable and super in-depth about every topic you could possibly want to know about when you're trying to figure out what's what.

There are also a number of inspiring blogs by electrical engineers who are also great writers. Which ones to follow sort of depend on what specialties you are most interested in, but Bunnie Huang's is a great one to start with: https://www.bunniestudios.com/
Really? That's weird. It's the same /j/ sound as in portuguese pai[1] (/paj/) and it's unequivocally a vowel there.

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/portuguese-engl...
>Pastors and theologians at more conservative and fundamentalist seminaries usually deny, ignore, or try to hide this from lay Christians in fear that they will leave the faith. This fear is actually probably a projection of their own fears, as I don't see this as some sort of evidence bomb that the Bible isn't "true", whatever that word means.

it undermines a fundamentalist or literalist reading of the bible. once you leave the realm of 'all of this happened exactly this way and god said exactly this', and enter the realm of 'well, this is figurative/you have to understand the historical context this draws from', things suddenly become much, much more nebulous and less authoritative. it's not that it entirely undermines any notion of 'truth' in the bible, but it's anathema to a particular worldview.
Just for my own understanding. .. if an article is interesting, but title is click bait, is it really considered better to make up my own title vs. use the author's title? I could see arguments both ways.
As I recall from "The man who spent 100,000$ to remove himself from google," the "right to be forgotten" specifically targets falsehoods and lies.

So no, Trump's bankruptcies won't be forgotten in this system, but a false accusation of child molestation can be.
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I find noun markers to be useful in Perl. But they convey more meaning, like number.

Maybe German language should consider a syntax highlighter?
I am usually a advocate for privacy and right to be forgotten but in this case I am with Google. The criminals can easily erase their conviction and start 'scamming' victims again. Remember a time when I was looking for apartment and I Googled the name of the owner only to find news articles about how he had built 2 apartments inside one, even though they had no fire escape.
If you talk to a sales person from any third party ad service and ask questions about what you can do with data—you'll find there is an entire market of buying and selling data from every cell company, credit card company, banks, corporate rewards cards, voting records and donations, etc.
How about they all pose a serious threat to privacy?
There's a really good, single page webpage called "Concise electronics for geeks": http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

It's a good read if you're trying to learn the fundamentals.
Author here.. relevant links:

https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph-zero - all instructions are here

https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph - static site generator

If you have any questions or ideas just shoot!
Eye tracking is already there.

Tobii showed vives retrofitted with eye trackers, and snapdragon 845 vr devkits with integrated trackers.

I tried both and it works really well.

I'm not so sure that it will completely solve the social interaction problem though. I've tried the demo where you can see your avatar in the mirror and observe the eyes move, but there was still something off about it. Maybe it was just the art style, but I suspect that eyeball movements are not the only part of equation - there's a lot of very mobile musculature around the eyes that tends to change the shape of the eye as people make expressions with their faces - and that part was not there in the demo.
The investors might considering their long term outlook is pretty poor
It's a modern day version of the horseshoe story.

I figured as much from listening to it, thank you for finding the words to the song, it's a lot easier to read than to hear for my non Swiss-German attuned ears.
I think it's a little more nuanced than that. Google Search provides access to news articles which themselves aren't not subject to withholding/deleting this historical information. If Google Search were ordered by the government to delist one news site over another, that would almost certainly be seen as an attack on freedom of the press.
These new zuckerberg ims wont help Facebooks privacy problems (2010)
I disagree. For example, homebrew isn't the best package manager. But its vast reach is a feat of its own.

Same with redis. Is it the best DB ever? Probably not. But it is definitely used quite a bit in the industry and a lot of people get acquainted with nosql databases and k/v stores through redis.

Engineering accomplishments without proper marketing, education and adoption are quite useless, for better or for worse
There is an ADA for websites. It's called the ADA.
https://www.emedialaw.com/does-my-website-need-to-be-ada-com...
Why is forgetting the default instead of remembering? You assume that it's better for all of us if we default forget, but that's probably not how you treat your own information, or what you know about others. Isn't more transparency a good thing? Do the government, public figures, elected figures, law enforcement, your doctor and those who provide you medical care have the right to force you to forget everything about them?
> Seems pretty journalistic to me. This "right to be forgotten" seems incredibly dangerous to me. Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten? Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgotten? Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?

The right to be forgotten only extends to people that are not public personalities, and only to facts that either are invalid (with proof), or irrelevant, but potentially harmful (e.g. you might argue that a ban you received on a minecraft server when you were 14yo, but which shows up as first result for your name on Google, would negatively impress employers, without having factual relevance).

The right to be forgotten has specifically exemptions for all the cases you mentioned.
I have a related question, so I'll piggyback: does anyone know a book or some materials on electronics for people with mathematics background? Where not only methods of computations and formulas are given, but also explanations/derivations of these.
But these guys were convicted of these crimes, no? That makes this information that's trying to be removed in this case pretty clearly not a lie. Unless i'm missing something here.

I think i'm cautiously in favor of the standard you propose though, if that is indeed the standard.
Yes, because a minimum fine of $10 million for a 1 person business is totally reasonable, unless by the grace of the bureaucracy, they decide to give you a warning instead. /s

Also the GP post, there is more than 'avoiding collecting data'. If you have text field comments form and a 3rd party puts 'personal data' in that, then that is GDPR liable! You also need audit logs and and list of other requirements that needs multi engineer teams to implement properly.

As a result, most small businesses with email are probably not going to be properly compliant on some level and you can prosecute anyone. Just like the new-ish VAT laws, large stores are going to be compliant because they can afford it, while some petty bureaucrat will prosecute the small online shops instead.
The amazing thing to me is that now people can make games without a bunch of great engineers. Back in the day when we made Battlezone we had at least four really amazing engineers (one was a Masters in CS from MIT, one wrote early 3d workstation code, UCLA, Cal Tech CS degrees). In those days you needed people like that to just 3D to work in Windows. Direct X helped a lot. Unity and Unreal have made things we couldn't have dreamed of possible.
"Right to be forgotten" just sounds so ridiculous to me, how did this become a thing? Are people going to want to burn the history books at their local library next because it contains some information they don't like reminding people of?
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Beyond mere pedantry, I think it's relevant to your point. How powerful is the church (any church) in Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland remains in the UK because of the Protestants. Is the Anglican (or any other protestant church) powerful there?

And if the Catholic Church (and the Catholics) were actually powerful in Northern Ireland, would it remain part of the UK?
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Well - the way you describe it is it's like Satoshi used a bread knife to cut something other than bread, but it's more like he used it as an antenna. He is exploiting a feature of HashCash that Adam Back (who invented it) didn't even know existed. It has to do with multiple participants solving the same timelock puzzle in parallel and some very interesting stuff happens then - you should read the link I posted (I take it you have not read it), I think it does a fair job of explaining how incredibly clever it is.
I agree. Listing many skills not needed for the job can be distracting. I always had my sister (H.R. Director) fine tune my resumes. I recommend finding someone that can help you do the same. It also helps avoid making you look like a "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none". Determine exactly what kind of support a company is looking for, and write your resume for that job.
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> ‘right to be forgotten’

I really think that hiding facts is a mistake. Yes someone made a bad mistake why is it their right to have it removed from the internet? Now if there are factually wrong then absolutely they should have the ability to have it removed.

Things can legally be removed from a person's record like crimes committed by minors but if someone's life was impacted are we going to remove the victims' story for the sake of the offenders?

Imagine going to the library to read the old news papers and have excerpts redacted and cut out. To me that is what people are trying to do.

This is changing our history like the horrible biographies of the 19th and early 20th century where the hero of the biography was perfect and a superhero due to moral perfectionism, but now it is seeked after by individual's regardless to their poor choices and actions.
This is pretty much me as well. I'll likely start using RSS a bit more as that's mostly how I use twitter in any case.

I'd be ok with limited ads, but re-ordering the tweets and adding tweets from people I don't follow is just not worth dealing with.
> Disabled people are relatively rare, and so humans have a tendency to forget they exist.

This is how many people think about accessibility, especially starting out (myself included). An alternative framing is to realize that some people have permanent disabilities, some have temporary disabilities, and some have situational disabilities.

For example, about 15 percent of people have dyslexia. They have a more-or-less permanent challenge with reading. In the second category are people with temporary reading challenges. Someone with a concussion, stroke, or other traumatic brain injury often have similar reading challenges, that sometimes (but not always) can get better over time. And in the last category, we have people who have situational challenges, such as "I'm on in the subway and the car is moving in 3 axes and I'm trying to read on my smartphone". This is a situational challenge, but a challenge nonetheless.

If we focus only on the first category of people, the group who might be assisted by a reading-related accessibility feature seem relatively small. But when you realize that there are also temporary and situational challenges that can be ameliorated by the exact same feature, then it becomes clear that the number of people who can be helped is actually much greater than originally appeared.

Ditto for "wheelchair ramps" that are used by people with strollers or crutches for broken legs.
It is not wiped from the historical record. It is about not finding the article at the top if you search the name of the person.

The justice system has a perfectly fine systems for storing and expunging criminal records over time, and you can still find the article if you specifically google the event.

Child molester is probably the worst example, since they have specific lists, exclusions zones, and warning system attached to their presence, nobody should rely on google to find if their new teacher is a child molester.
"Folk music" possibly rides on the definition of "folk", which brings in a lot of diversity if interpreted broadly.

The word "folk" also denotes recognizeable format in the context of commercial broadcasting and streaming of canned music. It basically refers to a locus roughly centered around someone crooning while strumming chords on an acoustic guitar.
Seems like you're almost asking about others' right to know about a person's past crimes. So I'll ask it:

Should I be able to google my children's friends' parents before I let them spend the night over there? I use this case because it wouldn't provide the basis of legal background check and presumably google would be my only source of info. Or does the right to be forgotten not apply to child abuse crimes?
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I think the "right to be forgotten" law has larger scope than that actually, although I'm definitely not a lawyer.

> After a request is filled, their removals team reviews the request, weighing "the individual's right to privacy against the public's right to know", deciding if the website is "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
Now instead of every third post that in reality is an ad, half of them will be. But clearly marked as ads.
> the "glory days" of TV

Thanks for that, I really enjoyed it!
of which I'm sure facebook buys...
Interesting. I wonder how bad the other cards are in comparison to not warrant a test at all.
> find that in areas where there are fewer employers in an industry, workers in that industry earn lower wages.

> [...]

> Together with the evidence on minimum wage, this new evidence suggests that the competitive supply-and-demand model of labor markets is fundamentally broken.

How does that contradict supply and demand? Less employers = less supply of jobs = oversupply of workers = downward pressure on salaries.
The biggest issue I've found is finding projects to work on that are actually useful. Of course you have to start with the basics, but not many people have a use for a simple blinking LED in their life.

Finding projects that you can make that can actually do something that interests you makes a world of difference.

It's like learning programming/OOP through the typical animal examples versus making an app that is something you would actually use or fills a need that you have.
So, I alluded in my reply to OP that I suspect wealth/income inequality is hugely at play in many of these scenarios. Do you think that a more equal wealth distribution would allow citizens to use the market to balance their desire for culture with the needs of current residents and newcomers?
I am reminded of this tweet from one of the Federal Bank guys [1]

> We were at maximum employment. We are now at maximumer employment.

> I thought the "tongue-in-cheekiness" of my tweet would be obvious. Allow me to translate: We keep saying we are at max employment and then all these people choose to work. It suggests we weren't really at max employment.

[1]: https://twitter.com/neelkashkari/status/972142317162369024

And more recent [2]

> 1. Yes it matters 2. Even more important is that we should now recognize our gauge of labor market slack is broken

>> What metric would you suggest instead?

> A combination of factors: prime age LFP and EPOP. Most importantly: when assessing supply and demand in a market, start by looking at the price. Wage growth has been surprisingly slow. Suggests more slack.

[2]: https://twitter.com/neelkashkari/status/978041558342791176
YouTube University. Seriously: watch 30, 50, or a 100 videos. You will develop an intuition for what is happening. THEN read books (some good ones already suggested in other comments) and you will learn the concrete theory.

I want to emphasize the importance of developing the intuition behind the theory. It's vital, and the lack of intuition is why so many people find a complex, theoretical topic difficult. If they had spent time developing their intuition, then they would not struggle so much to understand and remember the theory.

Last, you have to build stuff (this also helps with the intuition). Decide that you are going to spend $300, and start buying parts. Don't go to Radio Shack, because you will (in my experience) pay an order of magnitude more for the same part. Shop on Aliexpress (or sometimes Amazon or Ebay). Who cares if you have to wait 6 weeks for the part to come in... do it today and it will be here about the time that you are ready for it. Never buy just one of anything. You can usually buy 10 or 20 for the same price that you can buy 2 or 3.

Most importantly: DO SOMETHING! Anything. Watch videos. Buy parts. Put things together, and then try to figure out why it's not working! Whatever you do, just don't stop. You will learn if you keep at it. At this stage for you, though, the most important thing is that you actually start.
Your statement on trust cannot be restated enough.

My additional concern is that, I do not use Facebook. I deleted my account like 10 years. Yet they still retain data on me, not only without my consent. They have the opposite of my consent. I explicitly told them to delete everything they had on me and I am opting out of their service.

Yet articles like this pop up time and time again[1]. There is talks about them scanning every picture on facebook for faces and building profiles of everyone, including non-users.

How am I, a person who has no Facebook and does not want anything to do with them supposed to stop them from monitoring and tracking me.

Imagine if in high school you found out some guy in your class was keeping records of the structure of your face, or the websites you visit and you confront them to stop and all they say is other students have allowed me to do this so I keep everyone's records to make it easier for me to track the people who gave me permission.

I assume everyone would not be comfortable with this, especially if they then go to sell that data to the students running for class president so they can manipulate your friends to harass you to vote for their candidate.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-...
It's such a wide topic.

I keep coming back to it, though I only tinker. I've recently gotten into modular synths, and that's neat becasue there are plenty of kits to build wihtout having to know a lot about hot the stuff works.

In the last month I've built a pretty complicated VCO and an Oscilloscope.

The stuff is cheap.

I've had a pretty good informal education as a nerdy musician and computer guy over the last 2 decades.

IMO the good thing is to keep in mind that a) for low voltage stuff you can mess around a lot and not hurt yourself (the devices can be another matter) and b) a lot of this stuff is just within 10% tolerance... like you can do a lot with minimal knowledge.

I got a lot out of a series of youtube videos that were tied to a company selling kits of resistors, breadboards, etc:

http://www.pyroelectro.com/edu/

And then it's like learning to code (if you know how to do that): find a project that seems like you more or less understand the broad strokes and try to implement it.
Very good IMHO that someone is "fighting from the inside", ar least verbally.

I guess her previous post [2017] testing "mainstream" sites without Javascript is worth a mention:

https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/a-day-without-javascript
This position is for NYC only.
Last winter I got five colds, each lasting two to three weeks. The winter before that, I got four, and every winter I can remember before that I got three colds. Two winters ago I tried an experiment. I washed my hands religiously and didn't touch my face at all. I had hand sanitizer with me at all times. It didn't help at all. I asked my doctor what to do and he said wash your hands.

Last fall when the cold season started I got a cold. Around the time it went away I started taking 200mg vitamin C every night before bed. I have not had a cold since. This might be anecdotal but I am now a big believer in vitamin C.