skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned by building really simple circuits. People assume when you want to learn electronics that you should immediately begin with microcontrollers, and I think this is a mistake. Sure, learning with Arduino is a good next step to take, but if you don't understand the fundamentals then you'll end up a one-person cargo cult of electronics.

Make a light blink. (without 555 timer)

Make two lights blink at different intervals.

Make a light that only comes on when it's dark out.

Make a light that comes on in the presence of an electrostatic field.

Make a crystal radio.

Make a transistor radio.

Make a radio transmitter that your transistor/crystal radio can receive.

Make your transmitter send and receive morse code between computers.

Make your transmitter send and receive data with FSK.

Make an Arduino control your transmitter.

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Congratulations! You're off to a great start!
Facebook admits Zuckerberg wiped his old messages–which you can’t do
Interesting read about an equally interesting product (plugin). I can definitely see how it can help so many people.

Quick suggestion: If at any point you are looking to offer varying price points based on features, one possibility is to have three versions - Business (for people who know and work mostly on Excel every day), Developer (C#, LINQ etc.) , Complete (All features).

Because having worked with many people who work with Excel for whole day, at least 90% of the users will not understand or use this:
"Additionally, imagine how much easier it would be to build prototypes and small applications if instead of VBA you could use C# (and LINQ) in Excel. You could write business logic in C#, load data from all sorts of APIs."

Not to say this will not be useful. This will be extremely useful for me (a developer). Just a thought.

Good luck with QueryStorm.
>Doesn't seem that complex to achieve either. So what would be the problem then?

Since you're familiar with it, I'm curious how the following situations are handled...

There was a famous rape case involving a Stanford student. His name is Brock Turner.

If you search directly on keywords "Brock Turner"[1], the first results will be his rape conviction. I think it's logical to assume the Right To Be Forgotten wants these search results directly associated with his name to be removed.

But what about a level of indirection? What about searching for "The Stanford Rapist"[2]. Those results are also about Brock Turner. Are those removed as well?

What about another level of indirection? If one searches images for keywords "mugshot criminology textbook"[3], Brock Turner's photos are the most prominent. Would those get removed too?

What if the victim writes a popular blogpost, "I was raped by Brock Turner and here's my story...etc...", would her article be removed from the google results? What takes precedence? The victim's free speech or the felon's censorship powers granted by Right To Be Forgotten?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=brock+turner

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=stanford+rapist

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=mugshot+criminology+textbook...

(made possible because several reddit threads made it widely known that his photo was now in college textbooks: https://www.reddit.com/search?q=brock+turner)
> Secondly an ISP charges you a subscription and that is their revenue model. They are not incentivised to build an elaborate profile on your in order to deliver advertisement.

That's exactly the opposite of how corporations work. Especially corporations in monopoly/duopoly markets.

In fact, US ISPs lobbied heavily for the right to do exactly that, without user permission, and got their way.

> Thirdly ISPs in most countries are required by law to support the police with surveillance information. That is done in transparent way (you can read the laws and ask your politicians).

But that's not what this is about.
Maybe one day a stint at Google (or Facebook or Uber) will be the red flag that impacts someone's career, "smart, but no regard for user's privacy, think we'll pass on this candidate". They are rapidly heading that way.
A Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism (2009)
Well, dealing with symptoms, no matter how good the system to deal with it is, is still just covering symptoms, not problems.

I'm personally more attracted to fixing the problem instead of trying to keep dealing with the fallout.
What is the software this site is made of? Wordpress? GitHub pages? or Custom? It looks so cool. I am interested to know the details
Likely a factor of financial means as well. There's a lot of spare-no-expense weekend warrior types in the Masters ranks, whereas the younger open racers tend to be scrappier.

Also, it's probably somewhat of a "who cares anyway?" attitude. They're not gonna go pro, they're not getting tested, etc. Any kind of competition involves someone bending the rules, like it or not.
I took a few stabs at eagle before trying KiCad which I found MUCH easier to learn. The “Getting to Blinky” series on youtube was what i used but there are probably other good tutorials too.
Precisely. There's no perfect. OK, so I use IVPN. I've known a principal for many years. I write stuff for them. And I trust them to protect my privacy. More than any other VPN service. I also trust a few others, almost as much. And way more than I trust my ISP.

But I never depend on any one of them. I use nested chains. That's my no means perfect, because routes are relatively static, unlike Tor with its frequently changing circuits. But the basic idea is the same. Compromise would depend on collusion, perhaps forced, of multiple parties. Or some serious traffic analysis.

Here, there's CloudFlare, its auditors, and perhaps Google. So maybe there is distributed trust in that. But still, I'm happier to put more independent parties between me and them. Tor, or at least a nested VPN chain.
I took a physics class using the Art of Electronics in my senior year of undergrad (my major was nuclear eng. and my lab partner was another nuclear eng. friend).

This class ranked right up there with my nuclear engineering labs in the following sense: 1) using an oscilloscope in a lab setting takes a lot of patience & hard work (similar to radiation detectors) 2) I wasn't prepared for how "fuzzy" (sorry, I know that is not the right word) electronic components behave when examined in a lab setting. I was used to resisters and capacitors, and in previous labs they behaved fairly well. This class showed me how complex it all is, and "Art" is not a bad word to describe it at all.

I learned a lot and strongly 2nd the Horowitz recommendation if you want to really get down into the nitty gritty. Maybe it isn't the first book you pick up depending on your background, I dont' know. AND, I hope oscilloscopes and their user manuals have gotten a lot more friendly in the intervening years since 1991 :-)
We all perceive the world through the echoes in our heads, I suppose.

None of those things were implied in my comment, or a subtext in it, or a conscious or subconscious component of it, or even statements I would typically agree with.

But, if you prefer to approach this from, "this guy disagreed with me and said something I don't like, so I bet that means he likes other things I don't like, so I'm going to accuse him of that", then ... well, okay. Go on dismissing the modern problems with widespread misinformation as exactly comparable to the National Enquirer, I suppose.

Other people are having a more serious discussion about the subject though and you'll be missing out.
Who has time for this?
There are very few problems that you could create that would effect JAWS users but not users of free screen readers like NVDA or VoiceOver (VoiceOver being free if you've bought an Apple device). Being free, those screen readers are quite popular.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/#used

And mobile use of screen readers has massively grown just as mobile web traffic has grown.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/#mobilescree...

There's a lot you can do without firing up a screen reader. Try to use your site without touching the mouse. Don't waste your time or someone else's if you can't complete tasks without the mouse even with your vision. Visual indication of focus is something you need anyway and not necessarily discovered by screen reader testing (though using a screen reader and screen zooming together is common).
regardless of the lane recognition it has to at least detect the obstacle in front of it, it's something that a basic collision avoidance system can do
I have a solution. If a user repeatedly does that without also providing a solution to the original question then ban them.
I'd be hesitant to name any names due to NDAs and what have you.

I'll just say that all consumer level cards pretty much don't really care about your data, even the good brands.
I've heard a similar thing but phrased as what frustrates you in you work most. It's a bit more cynical.

Basically: If you're frustrated by your work... probably junior. If you're frustrated by your colleagues... probably mid-level. If you're frustrated by too much management... probably senior. If you're frustrated by too little management... probably lead.
About 1.5B people give or take already use or are familiar with this standard (Chinese ideographs, not my lame Latin spin on it), so we still only have n standards. This is more about picking one and extending its usage to other locales.
impressive thanks for the wonderful read.
Embedding binary data in executables
I can't recommend the Every Circuit app enough (http://everycircuit.com). It's an interactive, real time circuit simulator. I've been using it for the past couple of years to teach myself electronics. I'd read about how, for example, opamps worked, but it wasn't until I could play around with them and try them in virtual circuits that I really understood how to use them. Honestly, for learning, it the best resource I've come across.
> There's no incentive to do so

Well, the incentives to do so aren't obvious.

Having worked on a bunch of (a) web applications with no dynamic client behavior to speak of (b) SPAs that are essentially a dynamic client talking to a service layer speaking JSON and/or XML (c) things in between... I think I've noticed a pattern, and it's that web applications where people take the time to think about how things would work with no dynamic client behavior, going through a process that more or less represents domain logic as HTTP operations on resources that can be represented as HTML (among other representations), these applications end up being more legible over time than projects with client engineering/experience as most of the focus.

Not all applications fit this model, so there are limits to the approach. And accessibility is a somewhat different domain.

But the concerns overlap, so one tl;dr might be this:

Site accessibility is one canary in the web application mines. If it's dead, you might be accumulating technical debt.
Drinking and driving is however banned.

At what cost do we need the supposed improved performance of self-driving cars?
I'm a ham and built all my radio gear, it's perfectly normal to burn yourself when you learn soldering. It's really all a part of the learning curve. Though I still prefer an iron with a gun you're less likely to burn yourself.

I was maybe fifteen and had my dad help me as a third hand and I burned him. My late dad had the patience of Job. He didn't get angry or raise his voice.

He just told me that he'd never let me forget doing it. Sure enough for the rest of his life he'd tease me about the 'scar' I gave him.
There were stories about people that spent years in jail, but at some point new evidence was found clearing them. I believe these people deserve the things they were wrongly accused of, to be forgotten.
I do this at home as well, using Unbound DNS to set a min and max TTL. It's taboo on public DNS recursors, but totally makes sense. Some folks try to use DNS as real time load balancers and will set crazy low TTL's like 1 second or even 0 (which violates RFC's)
Apples fake privacy concerns.

They allow apps like gas buddy to wholesale sell your real time location to governments by using vague language in their privacy policies (which I cannot even find a link to on their homepage).
Here comes the damage control https://twitter.com/TMobileHelp/status/982334382806454272

Hoping this blows up. Time to short.
This is probably my favorite line in all of Tom Lehrer's work. It's so sharp, the rhyme is surprising but phonetically perfect. And it's delivered right at the most musically interesting part of the song. I probably laughed for minutes the first several times I heard the song.
As someone else mentioned on this thread, there's little distinction in search engine results between something that happened yesterday and something that happened 20 years ago. We now have the phenomenon of information no longer "aging". We've always had "news" to tell us what's, well, new. But over time that information would age. It would become harder to recall, and take more work to retrieve. A story on the evening news would later be in the paper, perhaps in a magazine a month later, then in a book a year after that. The book would move off the bestseller lists, the newspaper onto microfiche, and the magazine into the stacks of big libraries, or oblivion. The moving finger would write, and having written, move on.

But now it all lives forever, whether true or false, fresh and available and effortlessly findable by anybody, with no decay or attrition. It's a new and qualitatively different thing. The "right to be forgotten" feels like some attempt, probably quixotic, to align this new situation with the information decay expectations we've all had from the beginning of humanity right up until this very moment.
Are you doing all the development or do you have a team?

I wouldn't prematurely optimize for load until you are seeing some real growth and uptick in traffic.

If you really grow, you'll need a team, and then hopefully you can empower them to make the tech choices.
I don't really get the appeal of Venmo either. Anyone I'd consider using Venmo with I can simply hand cash.
> Jesus's anarchosyndicalism must be dangerous.

And he said unto them, "Whose is this image and superscription?"
They said unto him, "Caesar's." Then said he unto them, Render
unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the
things that are God's.

Please forgive the invocation of a meme on Hacker News but ...u wot m8?
(B), with (unsuccessful attempts at (A))
AI and How It Relates to Cybersecurity
Perhaps it works better if you combine it with beetroot juice (which contains a lot of betaine).
Helping Stoplight.io Get the Word Out About Version 3.0
Show HN: A profile to automagically extend your network with the right people.
You've done a great job of describing the problem. It is manifestly possible to drive missed detection rates very close to zero without too many false alarms because humans are capable of driving safely.
I had a million of those when I was a kid, and they were fun, but I can't say I learned much from them. They're great for "follow these simple instructions and you can build a device that does X", but I couldn't tell you why he picked a PNP or NPN transistor if my life depended on it.
One of my credit cards has a thing where you can create a throwaway card number with a limit of your choosing. Which is a great idea I wish more cards gave you.
Build stuff. Modify things. Be stubborn when they don't work. Take things apart and figure out why they do work.

Here are some fun project ideas, drawn from stuff I actually did when I was growing up/learning electronics. For reference, I almost completely skipped college, and am a hardware engineer at a company you've heard of (I can't believe it either).

-Lego car with electric motor scavenged from a floppy drive + 9V battery (grade school first project)

-High voltage generator (10kV?) using CRT flyback transformer and 2n3055 transistor circuit.

-Pocket audio amplifier using an OPAMP circuit. (search: mint tin amplifier)

-Countdown timer that can set off fireworks (don't end up on a list please).

-Worm robot using ATMEGA328, hobby servos, cardboard and masking tape.

-Disassembled hard drives and built a laser-scanning XY galvo system from the parts, fed by an amplified audio stereo pair (easy, fun and psychedelic)
Any currency is only worth what the market values it at. (Yes, this is true for fiat currencies too, as evidenced by countries that have suffered hyperinflation.)

You can still use Ethereum Classic if you really want to, but it has a significantly smaller userbase and market cap than the Ethereum Foundation's fork.
I bought a SwissBit card off of Ebay for my Raspberry PI, because I wanted the longevity of SLC media.

The prices seem to be trending up for SwissBit.
There's actually a lot of great material available, here are a few of my favorites:

Articles:

- Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://thesystemsthinker.com/introduction-to-systems-thinki...)

- Tools of a Systems Thinker (https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-think...)

- The Mythical Leverage Point (https://blog.kumu.io/the-mythical-leverage-point-d582ce4b8b4...)

Videos:

- Peter Senge Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdzKBWDraM)

- I Used To Be A Systems Thinker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ymt_TbNNwE)

- The (Failed) Promised of Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=614&v=aelqgvFXGi...)

- Systems Practice Mindsets (https://vimeo.com/212281432)

Courses:

- +Acumen Systems Practice Course (https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/systems-practice)

Books:

- Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...)

- Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Fieldbook-Strategies...)

- Systems Thinking for Social Change (https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Social-Change-Conseq...)

Articles on Leading Systems Change:

- Dawn of Systems Leadership (https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadershi...)

- Acting and Thinking Systemically (https://thesystemsthinker.com/acting-and-thinking-systemical...)

- Transforming the Systems Movement (https://thesystemsthinker.com/transforming-the-systems-movem...)

Relevant Tools and Websites:

- Kumu (https://kumu.io) - Web-based tool for building interactive system maps.

- The Systems Thinker (https://thesystemsthinker.com/) - Complete library of all "The Systems Thinker" publications over the past 30 years

(Disclosure: I'm a cofounder of Kumu)
> Stalin and Pol Pot and Mao and Kim were undoubtedly Christians.

This is just plain wrong as can be verified by reading up on history.

And this is circular reasoning:

> These regimes could not have been atheistic as such horrendous genoicidal bloodshed is typically the result of Christisnity.
I believe they will just wrap their website into an Electron app.
*Think like a happy person.
I can't emphasize the following enough:

> A real soldering station
> Solder

Get a good, name brand soldering station. Yes it will cost a few hundred dollars, but it will make a huge difference in your work. The cheap-o $15 soldering irons all produce horrible results and will shatter your confidence...

Get good, very thin solder. It will be expensive ($40) but will last forever and if paired with a legit soldering iron, will make a huge impact in your abilities.
Postmates, DoorDash discussed a merger to fend off Uber, GrubHub, Amazon
How a Drupal theme's logo caused escalated tension between China and India today
I'm not sure what you say is contradictory. You didn't go build a product. You especially didn't spend 4 years (and 1 relationship) building a product.

From what you say, you did some technical exploration (which again, I'm all for). Then you didn't make a full product, ujust a 30-second demo. Next you went and tested the "people want this" hypothesis. That sounds very much in line with Lean Startup advice.
Everyone, many thanks for the tips. I think Dispossessed and collected shorts will be on my Goodreads want-to-read shelf and I'll go from there.
I think this is much like the decision made by a journalist whether to publish.

Journalists sometimes talk about the public's "right to know". This directly contracts an individual's "right to privacy," so the journalist has to weigh balancing interests and make a decision. (If they screw up, the courts will review it, though the damage is done.)

Years later, it's not unreasonable for some other person to weigh these balancing interests again. Someone has to make the call balancing the public's "right to history" versus the individual's "right to be forgotten".

This can't be automated. You're not going to make a good decision without some person (journalist or historian) evaluating the particular case.

(By the way, I don't think talking about "rights" is at all that helpful when thinking about balancing conflicting interests.)
so we get an ounce of goodwill right after a major scandal and we're supposed to suck it up because, uhm, why exactly?

yes we're all nasty and cynical and guess wath, turns out we were right all along, so pardon me if I'm not gonna cut them any slack.
That is an interesting assertion, but I don't think it is a good way of convincing people to see things your way. The more I hear the message that anarchists and anti-fascists are the real fascists, the less receptive I am to the viewpoint. It's similar to the repetitive promotion of the idea that civil rights activists are the real racists. There is the message you are sending with the argument itself, and then there is the meta-message you are sending by making the argument. The former can be fairly logical, and yet be undermined by the latter.
My FIATChrysler Uconnect system will sometimes think I'm on the road above when driving under a bridge.

Sometimes it'll shout "The speed limit is 35 miles an hour!" when I go under a bridge carrying a 35MPH road, even though the road I'm on has a limit of 65.
>The new APIs are part of the StoreKit framework and include a new class called SKAdNetwork.

>With the new set of APIs, Apple will become the intermediary between the app and advertising network for conversion tracking, eliminating the need for apps to install third-party ad SDKs which potentially expose sensitive user data.

Am I missing something or is this not really any different than the 3rd party ad SDK problem the author portends? Whether the app uses a 3rd party sdk from Google/FB or built-in lib functionality via the class SKAdNetwork - it doesn't seem any different.
This way of learning resonates a lot with how I learnt to properly cook. I could cook some simple enough dishes fine, but then I got really into watching a few cooking channels on YouTube and (with a bit of practice) noticeably improved.

It’s actually mad the amount of stuff you pick up through watching someone who’s good at what they do doing it and explaining it well, prodding at your understanding while they do it.
> If my (one) local "high-speed" ISP demands that I install a new root cert so they can MITM all my traffic

I don't see what sense it makes to worry about that before it actually happens. Especially when there's no reason to believe it is going to happen.
Some call it mob rule. Others call it democracy..
Well doesn't that just mean they're allowed to record the conversations between me and their tech support? How is that worrisome? I assumed the person you were replying to was asserting that Comcast had proclaimed its right to record all communications I had over the internet.
VSS Unity First Powered Flight
I don't think you even need to spend a few hundred. ~100 will pretty much do the trick.
It's kind of like, trust-hijacking, isn't it. The news outlet uses your mom's auth token to get access to your brain's API endpoint!
But you only need to eat a few Brazil nuts to get enough selenium. More than four a day and you risk selenium toxicity. And they go great with spinach! And the fat increases absorption of fat soluble vitamins in the spinach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut