skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the source permanently connected to power? If so do all transistor in a circuit connect to a shared power rail?

Looking at the TL084 schematic, the JFET source is fed from another transistor (a current source in a current mirror). Some of the transistors are connected to V++ and some are connected to V-- but many of them are not connected directly to any power rail.

> Must voltage always be present on both the source and gate in order for current to flow to the drain?

There has to be a voltage differential between the source and the drain for current to flow. JFETs are "normally on" and get pinched off as the voltage differential between the gate and source increases.

> Lastly when the transistor is switched "on" does voltage leaving the drain then become input for a gate of some neighboring transistor in the circuit?

Voltage doesn't really leave the drain, but the drain is connected to the base of another transistor, part of the second state of the op amp, where most of the amplification happens. In other words, the output of the differential pair is the input to the next amplifier stage.
Passive Income: How I make $40,000/year doing nothing [video]
The plain Codec2 decoder sounds like a TI-99/4A (and works on somewhat similar principles). If I hook a TI-99/4A to the WaveNet decoder, will it sound natural?
6. Realize that people are imperfect and don't mean harm.
Interesting article, I think it represents the trials and tribulations of underground adolescent hacking cultures quite well. For people who currently find themselves in similar situations I'm sure it's inspiring and very confronting.
didnt injection molding startup the industrial revolution?
The large holes were created post mortem, so that doesn't necessarily reject the ossuary hypothesis. But the body of evidence supporting the human sacrifice hypothesis is really pretty strong.
I believe the term you're looking for is a fetch (from the fetch API)? Though I don't know if that is also commonly used to refer to a standard page reload.
Sure there are degenerate aspects captured by GDP.

But at a macro level those seem unlikely to dominate the development.

If GDP is increased by disposing nuclear waste in international waters that's obviously bad. But generally speaking degenerate trends like that don't dominate economic development. I hope :)
this!
Interviewer: "I don't understand what the necessity of an electronic device called a computer, or anything else like that - a computer screen to use your word - is in making people smarter. I don't think another gadget is going to have any effect at all"

... I can't tell you how many times I've heard this gadget/toy statement since I first got a computer when I was around 10.

On the flip side - there are so many people with open minds willing to give things a shot (and often a not inexpensive one at that) ...thanks for giving me those computers mom - and then enjoying watching what happened :)

(edit : typos)
I'd love to see the stats on how many are simply told to go back rather than arrested
Was fun. Made it with only one party member dead (by cannibals) and plenty of food and money.
I think the advantage of wasm (at least eventually) will be for people who know c++ or rust or go and want to make web apps without having to learn a whole new ecosystem.
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Oh sorry
If you take voting off the table, Democrats won’t be seen as quite so humanitarian and Republicans won’t be seen as against unskilled immigration.
The bad thing was that it used lossy compression when copying. That was the problem.
Here's another link which compares musl, uClibc, dietlibc, and glibc sizes, features, and performance.

http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

It says musl's smallest static C program can be 1.8k as opposed to glibc's 662k, showing libc doesn't always have to be big and bloated.
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Thank you for clicking on this thread! Long time lurker here, but first time poster.
Post could be a little long (sorry) but I feel the need to be as transparent as possible as I am in need of genuine advise/help!
Got an update fr Google 2 days ago, I did not make the cut for the final round of F2F interviews (Product Manager role). Exact feedback fr recruiter:
“While our interviewer feedback is confidential, I can let you know that our interviewer thought you had strong analytical insights, but wanted to see more in terms of your product design and strategic thinking.”

The interviewer was a PM 8 years at Google, 4 yrs in YouTube – I got caught out in the mostly YT related questions despite preparing on all different areas of PM and reading /practicing answers for PM Q&A related books and blogs.

Gutted, nevertheless, handled it much better as this is the 2nd time failing – 7 months ago had interviewed for another role (BSA) and reached the final campus round at Mountain View only to be depressed for a few months in a row after the negative news. (with no feedback at all as compared to this time round).

Continued below...https://goo.gl/DRjbJV
Assuming my taxes are applied at an equal percentage. I pay thousands to the state of California and I just moved here. I have a right to my vote if the state has a right to my tax dollars.
The Internet of Gardens
http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
I really appreciate that too - the interview / discussion is very interesting; draws a lot of good stuff out of Ted Nelson.
Canonical shares analytics from Ubuntu Linux desktop user data collection
I am not a vegan/vegetarian, but I do think that future generations will view meat-eating as immoral and see their ancestors as barbaric for eating animals. We already see this in the West with respect to limited categories of animals (whales, dolphins, dogs, cats). Probably the shift will involve a philosophical change in assigning moral status based on ability to experience pain (rather than the higher bar of self-awareness/higher consciousness) coupled with advances in food technology (including cellular agriculture/cultured "meat").
Alternatively, this allows better defense, rather than everyone and their grandmother having to run their own setup.

It is a single point, but also allows defenders to focus their efforts.
Well, botg does come pretty close to admitting that:

#9 Post by botg » 2018-01-05 09:11
The connections are for fetching offers and, if the user
accepts the offer, the offered file. What the file is
for is written in the offer text. The network requests
to fetch offers are done only after the user has agreed
to it by accepting the privacy policy.

Right, the user has agreed to install some random thing.

#10 Post by TigheW » 2018-01-05 16:55
Sorry man, this isn't "bundled software that people
want" and no amount of repeating it will make it true.
This is a malware downloader bundled with your software
and hosted on your page and you're intentionally
misleading the users who are here directly asking you
if it's safe to run this bundle on their machines. ...

Damn.
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That is exactly it. The fixed costs are identical.
AI is going to invent that revolutionary software, but unfortunately you and I won't understand it or be able to manipulate it. Be careful what you wish for.
Reflection? Lisp dude
I install filezilla (amongst other things) from ninite.com. In general ninite.com installation is equivalent to normal installation without having to carefully uncheck obviously horrid and unwanted optional "extras".
Honorable providers, for example the Tor and MPTCP projects, run their own repositories, with GnuPG-authenticated packages. You get up-to-date builds, with no crap.
He wasn't wrong, either. Having lived the first half of my life without a computer at home and the second half with more and more of them, the only thing I can say is a real improvement is that I can transfer funds from my account to my wife's at any time. The rest isn't that great. Probably hard to understand if you never lived without them.
Knitting is really big still. One of the biggest lobbies for copyright and IP legislation is (no kidding) the industry that creates patterns for sewing and knitting. Put out feelers on social media, see how many of your associates knit which you didn't know about. It was surprising to me for some reason to find out how pervasive it is.
Could not see or scroll to top quarter of the screen on mobile yet somehow made it to the end with 5 people! Is this implementation as hard as the original? Which I never played but saw referenced many times
Prior to reading the article, I'm struck by the thought of a possible analogy:

An internet with no firewalls and free, unauthenticated root access would be $78T richer.
Also why no one really appreciated ISDN over here in central Europe. Yes, there are ways to do better _now_, and it would have been trivial to support channels with better codecs by negotiating something different than u-law 8kHz PCM, but back then that resulted in rather good quality. The issue was that few people got ISDN phones, which resulted in them using analog outputs on an adapter device, which got later incorporated into the internet router, which at one point switched from ISDN to VoIP. And people plug a phone via an analog jacket into the router, instead of using a VoIP capable phone or even anything digital. While many do use DECT cordless phones, those rarely use the DECT hardware inside the router, and instead use the one in the charging dock, which itself connects via an analog, POTS-bandpass-filtered, phone jacket to the VoIP router.

Oh well, we will probably never get that kind of quality, which is only possible with QoS on the whole path, if there is any congestion. That is the one thing something like rocket.chat and discord can't provide.

Edit: the way to do this is to force quality upon people, wherever you won't drive them away with the cost this incurs. That way people will associate your brand as a whole with the quality, i.e., in that case, people will associate AT&T with quality, not AT&T premium.
Normal people do not even know what kind of plan they are on, except for about one hour before and after they sign the contract.
“I don't care” was a common Fascist slogan ('me ne frego' in Italian)
So, your argument is that it's not the implementation, but that the technology itself is fundamentally broken.
It invites or raises the question rather than begs it, but your point is understood.

You mention Tim Wu -- his book 'The Master Switch' focuses on the history of technologies as a cycle of invention --> egalitarian use & access --> centralised control and ownership by the elite.

My feeling is that things like the trends away from net neutrality globally, and towards greater government surveillance / suppression of encryption, and corporate interest in encouraging consumption via technology rather than (as per your example) 'creative work', are fulfilling that prediction in both obvious and subtle ways.
Have you considered that this may be by design? Have you considered paying for the service?
Thank you for the detailed reply.

Would these last two points also apply to MOSFETs?

In the case of a MOSFET there obviously wouldn't be a "next amplifier stage" but would the output voltage be input to the next transistor's source or the next transistor's gate maybe?
Here's what is happening large companies tired of dealing with this system have setup offices in Ireland, Canada etc.
When they want to hire people from outside US they move them to Ireland, Canada etc. and than will either keep them there or move them to US on H1B (if they win the lot.) or GC (takes 2 years+). So outside of loosing 2 years of tax revenue (or all future years of tax revenue based on them staying in satelite office I am honestly confused of what is exactly the benefit to US.
Really really great article!
Hopefully, this sheds some light on people who are in similar situations to ask themselves if it's worth it.
Nah, it's pretty simple. Javascript is bad, web pages are too big, and this is just a continuation of the insanity. The solution is to stop trying to shoehorn everyfuckingthing into the web browser.

But, who cares. The web is unfixable at this point.
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Rigged Roulette table gives up its secrets
Have you tried to do either? I’d love to hear what you’re basing this claim on.
Not only invented decades ago, but built decades ago. The "7949" on the chip means it was manufactured in the 49th week of 1979. Which is nearly 39 years ago.

He's lucky to find a part like that. Today nobody is going to build a device in a 14-pin ceramic package and sell it for 15 cents.
This is pretty far from what I normally see on HN, but since we are here, I highly recommend Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling
I am ok with selective immigration. But open borders is truly crazy idea at this point. If we open borders like suggested next thing we know will be - developed countries becoming like garbage dumps we see in other countries. There is a reason why some countires fall into downward spirals. If u get its people en mass without filters, you get that mentality too.

Why dont we experiment in smaller scale with liberal companies like facebook/google/microsoft opening its employment where anyone from anywhere can come and say i want to be employed here and goog/fb/msft have to take them in? Lets even throw in a restriction that person should be cs degree holder from anywhere in the world. Lets see how it goes.
The problem is that the computer doesn't help me figure out what to do next. It only provides a grid of icons, through which I cycle repeatedly until the real world grabs my attention.

What we need is an OS designed to help people get things done. The best such framework is probably
Getting Things Done [1]. Build the 5 steps (Capture, Clarify, Organize, Reflect, Engage) right into the system, and you'll have a winner.

I've been repeating this idea for the past decade. Perhaps I should implement it myself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
Where on the US Bureau of Economic Analysis' site do you find 5% GDP growth?

https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease...

I keep seeing these overly optimistic GDP growth numbers, but I can't find them.
Very cool! ;)

It's amazing what's possible with evaporative cooling in dry climates. If you have enough water, anyway.
The lord certainly was government in a feudal society.
This reminds me of the recent Johnny Depp Rolling Stone article a truly hilarious amount. Lolol
And herein you see evidence to why the industry is growing more interested in SaaS and doubling-down on DRM; they face an endless army of thrill-seeking adolescents without a care for the side-effects of their actions.

Software security is hard; placing any trust whatsoever in software you cannot completely control is a recipe for insecurity. Game development security is a nightmare.
Telstar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen

And this is considerably better than the “this app was downloaded from the internet do you want to open it” message that OSX provides which Windows provides by default also to all files downloaded from the internet.
Rain chains are pretty common if you might generate ice, too. Can help create an ice column instead of a mass that tears the gutter off.
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>In fact, there would be a growth in the lucrative industry of coyotes who offer transportation and relocation assistance, because their line of work would now be legitimate.

This is true if you define 'coyote' as anyone who transports an immigrant to their destination country. Most people would just call them 'airlines', just as immigrants used to arrive on 'ocean liners'.

>Increased demand for housing will cause costs to spike

This is only true in the presence of severe restrictions on supply. These exist in some, but not all, areas of the United States with high immigrant populations. http://www.nber.org/papers/w13071.pdf

>It's not too different from our world's current direction, except within a particular state, the absolute numbers of the wage class and the underclass would be much larger.

For a thought-provoking modest proposal to realize these potential gains and ensure they are captured by current working-class Americans, see the Posner-Weyl Sponsor an Immigrant plan. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/13/immigrati...
Code is imported as a minted import, it's properly formatted text
IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) Collection
Like the fresheners in urinals have?
my work freed an innocent man who was serving life in prison

If you are allowed to, can you share the story?
Is it coming soon? I'm not sure I can wait 5 more years.
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Imagine if Google charged $5 per month for a subscription to their search engine. We're kind of seeing this with Youtube Red.......
1/10 did not contract disentery.

But seriously, I played this on an apple 2 emulator a couple of years back, and it seems like the logic under the hood is a bit off. I wonder if the original source code is still available.
I'd say it's particularly rude not to respond promptly (or even notify them in advance), if the slower recruiter/company had initially correctly set the timeline expectations.

It's one thing if they say "you're the first candidate we spoke to, so we'll need a couple weeks before we get back to you with a decision" and another if they say "we'll let you know in a few days" (or set no expectation at all).. and then say nothing until 2 weeks later.

In the latter case, a reasonable candidate would assume a tacit rejection, as has been common in the industry, and could be forgiven for forgetting about that company entirely, even a week later.
Something like Urbit probably.

Those sorts of ideas sound improbable - it's hard to say whether it takes 10 years or even a different civilization. The Romans never managed to pass land reforms.

The Chinese tech sector has gotten around some of it with the assistance of the government - there's glimpses of a different possible future but without full stack revolution it's hard to imagine new types of institutions being created.

I'm really not sure Silicon Valley is able to pivot out of the tar pit it has itself created.

The closest sign of real progress would be if somebody did something that destroyed a ton of Silicon Valley jobs.

I know people think here: AI. I don't think so - as of yet I haven't seen any evidence for autonomous executive complex coordination. It's possible for a machine to do it - that I believe - but it doesn't follow that computers are going to be the machines that do that.
Giving up years of your life for school isn't trivial by any means.
So how's Bluffdale working, these days? As I recall, they were seeing some glitches at startup ;)
I don't know what audio formats use, maybe some of them do treat volume logarithmically, although I think this only makes sense after transforming to the frequency domain, otherwise your time signal goes through 0 all the time, which is not ideal when using logarithms.

For the raw sample data it's also kind of inevitable to use a linear scale when you want different sounds to add nicely, if you use a logarithmic scale then adding two sounds would distort them, which isn't ideal. When using a linear scale you can hide the quantization noise pretty easily with dither which just sounds like you're adding white noise.
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You've crossed into incivility in this thread. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else (or everyone else) may be. If you could please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do it again, we'd appreciate that.
The message you mention is not what was meant.
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There are no constraints on campaign spending. Trump spent like $60 million of his own money on his presidential campaign.

There are limits on how much money any individual may give to a campaign that is not their own, and a prohibition against organizations (corporations, unions, etc) giving money to a campaign.

Why? Because there is a difference between spending your own money to enable your own speech (independent expenditure, the subject of Citizens United), and giving your own money to someone else to spend however they want (direct contribution, whose limits Citizens United did not disturb).
But that's already the case for immigrants who don't naturalize.
I believe it inspired much more than the videogames: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
That's great, but 1.3mb as a baseline is just too big for most common DOM manipulation type of use cases. You want your UI drawn within a couple of seconds or the experience becomes bad. Even if they were able to cut it in half I'm not sure I'd be comfortable using it. I'd really want to profile and see how fast you can get to interactive using something like this.

Now for heavier applications like graphics or video editing, this would be fine to use.
I spent the last 10 years trying to tell people my vision. Nobody is getting it.

Now I understand why. I wish someone told me this 10 years ago.

Thank you.
Cuba is small? The length, just under 800 miles, is about the same as the distance from New York to Chicago.
And because of prop 13, new homeowners pay obscenely more in taxes than long-term residents.
It's not very mobile friendly but still enjoyable.
This article nowhere mentions how they actually work. The article has that "ancient mystery" vibe about it that I find so annoying about pop archaeology. Googling it reveals they use evaporative cooling, which has also been used at many places and times in history, probably independently discovered, which makes it more interesting to me than glossing over how it works.

In short, the WikiPedia article about yakhchals is much more satisfying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
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You can have open borders or a good social safety net. Pick one.
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I’m defending the four years of good behavior, not the bad behavior back then. People and companies make mistakes and bad decisions, and I don’t mind supporting them if they prove over time that they’ve changed. Four years of good behavior is long enough for me. If your response to a company doing something you don’t like is an eternal blacklist, even years after they respond to their customers and change their behavior, think about what you’re really encouraging. For one thing, never admitting anything, for another, coverups.
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Oh cool, thanks for pointing that out. It looks like it would be a major undertaking making a working piece of code from that.
You crossed into incivility repeatedly in this thread. That's not ok on HN, regardless of how little someone knows (or seems to know) about container types. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abide by the rules when commenting here.
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“640k ought to be enough for anybody.”

And the secure cloud should be just fine for protecting the archival copies of your family’s personal and private conversations stored in the NSA’s stash of “its” data.

/s