skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you have to choose your feature size and manufacturer based on your specs because that will lock down your available cell library. Cell libraries are an abstraction over the masks/dopants and describe how to fab the transistors and higher level logic gates, made by each manufacturer for each feature size. STM, TSMC, Global Foundries, etc. have their own cell libraries and each process node gets a different one (there could also be different libraries for consumer, medical, automotive, etc.). If your design isn't pushing the physical limits of your chosen process, you can usually use a standard cell library supported by your synthesizer so that you can stay in HDLs instead of tweaking masks.

Once you've finished your design (I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader :)), you'll start a back and forth with the foundry which will run its own database of rules against your design and work with you to make tweaks that better fit their fab. After you agree on a final mask, you and the fab will run verification simulations and eventually, after several months, you'll get your chips with that new factory smell.

Yes, you can "just" order some chips made. I don't have the URLs off the top of my head but there are a few companies here in California that I've worked with. You can literally walk into their offices unannounced and if you have the money, they will start right then and there. If I remember correctly, in 2012 it cost about $100k to get started with STM's 45nm process (might have been 28nm by then, don't remember). Today, 28nm can cost as low as $4-12k if you're a Canadian researcher [1] - although that's almost certainly subsidized.

It all seems scary only because the process is so complex that no one person has a grasp on even a minor fraction of what's going on.

[1] https://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Products/CMC-00200-02843.a...
nvm i didn't want you to answer my question anyway
Does it make more sense to use an analogy where we have infinitely many people with a strongest 'thought' (a statement they hold as most true), they can all guess their own thought with only finitely many of them being wrong?

My apologies if that sounds ridiculous, I'm honestly not that attentuated to making much sense to myself.

> Thinking about such things for too long makes me feel grateful that I spend most of my time in the finite world

Hmm.
That's some Bilbo Baggins phrasing. It's telling if no hard numbers were divulged.
It's only possible to effectively "put yourself in another person's shoes" if you have previously experienced their situation.

If you are just imagining what their experience would be like rather than referring to actual past experience, you will be prone to error because it would come down to how good your imagination is at representing their reality.
> mortality plateau, which was 50:50 odds of living to your next birthday

Isn't the question whether or not we can affect the odds here? If we can increase it to 75:25 at this plateau, then we also are also increasing the age longest lived of these people are predicted to live for immensely, and the last person of this example group of 1 million starting at age 105 you give would expect that last person to die not 10 years later (at 115) on average as with a 50:50 mortality, but around 48 years later, at 153. Every slight change in that mortality rate affects that long tail quite a bit, relatively speaking.

I for one believe that might have an immense effect on how people view their health and longevity. If people believe that taking care of themselves might give them many decades of additional life instead of a few years, that could lead to a wider shift.
Good one but this is even more comprehensive:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427190
Like I said, half a gigawatt per square meter. The front of the ship would be glowing with about the same luminosity from the stuff it hits as the total power output of the space shuttle engines during launch.
Hi Scott,

Of the two main possible applications of QC, i.e. computational chemistry and cryptography, it's often just cryptography that is mentioned in the media. The Wikipedia entry on QC, in its "Potential" section, discusses mostly cryptography, while only two sentences are dedicated to chemistry. Cryptography is also used as the toy-problem for QC prototypes, i.e. factoring integers.

However, as I understand it, QC-for-cryptography will break existing techniques, and will not (from an application standpoint) bring anything new to the table.

Therefore, my question: does QC have a PR-problem?
It seems pretty similar to how aws access controls work. By default everything is disallowed. Then you can gain more permissions explicitly. But an explicity deny overrides all explicit allows
More importantly, what would quantum web browsing look like.
Cause germany was one of the only countries to not get affected by the recession

Also because both germany and switzerland are beautiful in all regards :)
That's exactly what the article I linked said, isn't it? It has low pause times, at the expense of everything else.

Beware trading a visible cost for an unbounded number of smaller costs. In Go's case, in return for minimal pausing you get memory fragmentation, terrible performance if the GC is ever seriously taxed, and a 100% (!) heap memory use overhead. If you're just writing commandline daemons or servers you restart every ten minutes though, who cares?

Go doesn't come off too badly in this because it's not Java, which allocates like crazy. That's a laudable tradeoff, but that does not mean they solved garbage collection very well.
Here's some clarification from Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffhubbs/status/1012450212105850880

As mentioned by wtallis, this is a Github only problem. Gentoo hosts their own infra, with the Github org being nothing more than a downstream mirror.
>You can see this phenomenon when the media goes wild for any child who makes a significant scientific breakthrough. Onion thinks the pressure on kids to hit on a groundbreaking discovery is not only unrealistic but also contrary to how most advances in science happen.

“We tend to see science as this mystical beast living in the sky that, somehow, children see more clearly because they haven’t been clouded,” Onion says.

Does anyone really see science or children that way? Kids make the news for science because science has a reputation for being hard and children have a reputation for not being very organized or driven compared to adults.
> We almost had a nuclear space program.

built on the success of a rocket-based program! no way would a country fund a vehicle that spews out a constant stream of nuclear bombs as their species' first foray into orbit!
There's generally a tradeoff between usability and performance, and resistance to fingerprinting. If your browser has WebGL enabled, the machine (not just the browser) can be fingerprinted. If it caches resources, adversaries can discover browsing history.
For those here who've never encountered polio or know survivors of it, it's one of the scariest diseases imaginable. My father's generation was one of the last to commonly grow up with it, and medicine was entirely unable to provide much support to sufferers of the virus. I know he grew up in a large family, and I also know that 2 or maybe 3 uncles and aunts of mine were killed in childhood from it.

One of my uncles also had it and survived, but was crippled for the rest of his life. He was able to get around okay with braces and a cane until his mid-50s. And then the trauma from the disease finally caught up to him and he spent the rest of his life as a paraplegic with breathing troubles that finally killed him in his early 70s.

My father may have caught it, but was able to fight it off. He also has Guillain-Barré syndrome and attributes it to that period.

Medicine was so unable to cope with the volume and severity of the patients during the 30s and 40s that "alternative" remedies came into full fashion. In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus. As a result households stricken with polio often found themselves stuffed to the gills with donations of fruits, vegetables and strangely goats as it was believed that goat milk had high doses of the vitamin.

Salk's discovery of the vaccine, the trials around it and the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct. But it could almost never happen today.
I meant once you get to italy, you have to deal with ticket bait scams with police if you dont punch your ticket train cards. Which is not immediately obvious to a tourist either.

Also police at the train station are armed with assault rifles too, but switzerland is not like this so yeah
Ask HN: Locked out of Google services with no recourse or explanation
It's probably the fifth time this week that I've gotten the message in gmail:

"Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down"

"To keep our systems healthy, Google has temporarily disabled your account. This primarily occurs when we detect unusually high levels of activity on your account. In most cases, it should take one hour to regain access. In rare cases, it can take up to 24 hours for access to be reinstated."

This is not just annoying, it's disruptive and catastrophic for someone like me, who, runs my business through email. Which, unsuspiciously, involves sending maybe a dozen or so emails a day through gmail. And nothing more. It's been a few hours now, and there's never any knowing when I'll get my account back.

How is this acceptable? I can't possibly move away from gmail, all my consulting gigs use google for work, i've disseminated my gmail address too far across the web.. But, this happens over and over, and I've begun to feel really helpless.

Are there any people at Google that can be contacted about something like this? Or this machine is really running itself and there's nothing that can be done?
> However, they didn’t know about the waves.

> Also involved ... aquatic expert James Houtz.

Not much of an expert if the didn't know about the waves.
That’s a lot of slang (shard author here)! Happy to see people using it so much.
Medicare spent $2B for one drug as the manufacturer paid doctors millions
“Quantum Computing is the exploitation of quantum state evolution to perform computation.”
right the problem is cucumber and gherkin lead to people trying to be very smart and then tests become some ridiculous NLP problem. The value is the readme file over a ticket, and language definition, not the gymnastics of tying human language to executable test file.
> a society that forces people into self medication of all forms

From personal experience, I believe it's not society forcing anything, but a character flaw that encourages self-gratification in the short term. That flaw can be bypassed, don't give up if you're not happy about it.
Programming for Personal Growth – The Polymath Project – Medium
> laziness and naive political cynicism

What are you referring to?
I walked to places from my apartment. It seemed to make more of an impression on my memory -- like I'd actually "been" there more because I'd arrived under my own power.

After a while I could string together those places that I'd been into an "empiracal," experience-based sense of the city.
Is there really evidence of an uptick in kids smoking traditional cigs due to vaping?

Even if there was, traditional cigarettes are on their way out, and what we are left with is something as dangerous as coffee and a bit more expensive.
That would seem to warrant a title change for clarity by itself, but the article being referenced by this submission also clearly says (the and submission URL slug even says) "Github Gentoo organization hacked".
Watch any professional skateboard video and you'll see plenty examples of this
Full field spectral cloaking of 3D objects
The Suburban is pretty solid.. Fords are also pretty good. I had a Uber driver who swore by Lincolns. He had one with 300k miles on it. He did have to replace parts due to wear though but I thought it was still in good condition cosmetically and was a nice ride.
They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment for Decades
> If your browser has WebGL enabled, the machine (not just the browser) can be fingerprinted.

Curious, how would that work exactly? (I've never used WebGL yet in any code).

> If it caches resources, adversaries can discover browsing history.

Same question. I was under the impression that cached resources can be accessed only by the domain that introduces them.
I had to look up the word dialectics. Rarely, is my answer to the definition I saw, and to my memory thus far only in the context that the tripartite definition of knowledge is horribly flawed because nobody can be 100% certain that what they call knowledge is really true, that instead all we have is the belief — an opinion, in one sense of the word — that the thing we are claiming to know is in fact true.
You'll be prone to error, but it's not impossible to gain perspective through analogy and empathy.
Madison, WI did the same thing a few months before sf. In Madison they were everywhere.
Google Is Secretly Developing a Video Game Platform Code-Named ‘Yeti’
I still have my ZX81. I fondly remember writing BASIC code in a notebook, on a bus, on the way to school.
because there are no open-source cores for even simple things like USB3.1 controllers or Thunderbolt

Those are hardly that simple. There exist entire companies whose function is designing such cores (and licensing them).
Skyhooks (rotating tethers). Energetically they're like an elevator with a counterweight. They're also another non-rocket answer for the outbound leg.
Show HN: Add Custom HTML and CSS to PDF's
Working Backwards (2006)
BGA is actually easier than leaded SMD parts. The tiny leads tend to bridge easily. With BGA you can be up to half the pitch off and it will center itself. I actually only go for leadless and BGA now because anything else is more of a hassle.

It is a bit rude to assume I don't know what a BGA part is.
>Letter of the law is the only thing that matters

The article says:

>In effect, the system makes opting in the default response, while opting out is a multi-step process that dissuades users.

The letter of the law says[1]:

>If the data subject’s consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.

It will soon be necessary for Facebook to argue that their privacy management implementation meets the criteria for being "concise". I struggle to contain my schadenfreude.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/
Tether's point is to be a fast way to get in and out of unstable cryptocurrencies. If you convert BTC to cold hard USD, you have to talk to a bank at some point and that's slow and imposes KYC requirements. Converting BTC to USDT, on the other hand, is effectively instant, and Tether's promise is that one USDT will always be worth one USD.

The catch, of course, is whether that promise is true and if it's even possible to convert your USDT to actual USD, and the answer to both seems to be "no"...
Your misunderstanding is blaming the tumblr users for this where they are victims of a deliberate misinformation campaign.

The whole “someone can’t read Wikipedia” excuse is exactly the same as what trolls themselves say.
Maybe add something to do with networking? Maybe also graphics?
There is startlingly little evidence that pure doses of nicotine are harmful without smoke.
Also a feature of Rust: Every example in your docs are tested with your unit tests (unless you explicitly turn it off for a specific example). It's also a useful way to check that you didn't change your API by mistake, or generally make sure your doc is up to date.
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for Interview Cake in general. Your approach of unravelling the solution gradually really helped me think about these problems.

While it wasn't my only resource, it helped me a lot interviewing for Facebook and Google recently, and I got offers from both.

(throwaway account for obvious reasons)
OS virtual memory is one of my favorites.
But FOSTA doesn't make it illegal for sites to promote child trafficking specifically, it makes it illegal for a site to promote any prostitution.
He stabbed you in the front. If nothing else, you now accurately understand the nature of your relationship.
Procedural Level Generation Improves Generality of Deep Reinforcement Learning
They should have given 1% of it to Clifford Wolf.
Yes, it will. Sure, it won't do wonders with 0.5mm pitch bga's, but 217 pin 0.8mm ones are doable even with a cheap Chinese hot air station. That's how I did these boards.

https://brainyv2.hak8or.com/
What if they're immune to radiation?
The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion
Exceptional how?
He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn’t Crushed by a Block
For some context. I live in both Sydney and Brisbane (and commute). There are some slight variances, but if you’re comparing like-for-like in apartments/living, the costs are also very similar.

And the populations of the regions around those three cities makes up more than half the population of Australia.
It’s fairly easy to make a case that Japan is a good example of what the stage before post-scarcity looks like though. Yes there is poverty, but it’s unusual.
This is similar to Amazon's "working backwards" based product development. Before writing the manual, they do another important writing - press release. It's amazing to see they talked about this idea a decade ago and still use the same approach to drive the development today.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backwar...
Let it loose!
Ah yes, I remember doing this for my own systems class. Good times.

I never had to build another shell in my life, but the process I had to go through to learn the OS well enough to build one gave me invaluable insights for a future career in backend.
> Apple sponsoring and improving OSM would actually be the smartest and best way out of this debacle

I like to be thinking that, but being aware of me liking that thought, I'm asking myself: would I actually do so being some Apple executive? And I'm not sure I would. I do think that being community-supported is really, really great, and OSM has a pretty good community too. I'm a big opensource proponent, so it's easy for me to say, but I also think having their maps (software and data) free (as in GNU, yeah) wouldn't harm Apple, given the map is not their unique product they are selling. And being a native supporter of something that could be wikipedia for maps would be huge. So, yeah… yay OSM?

But, with all that said: IMO, OSM is a huge organizational mess. Giving them money & satellites, and then just expecting it will all "solve itself out" isn't really something I would do being responsible for Apple Maps. For starters, it's not like all OSM community members automatically become Apple employees, you're basically donating to somebody over whom you won't have any leverage. What's more important, it's not clear what it the goal of the donation, what OSM is expected to do with that? And how it will serve Apple? Their priorities seem to be quite off, OSM doesn't give a shit about any "product" whatsoever, they are just guys passionate about collecting all sorts of geo-data into databases nobody ever uses (at least, as far as OSM is concerned, they are the database: they don't make apps). And it's even questinable if such way of collecting data is the way to go in the age of imaging satellites, widely accepted spyware on every phone, ML and "big data".

And it's not like this is cheap, any way it would be done. And, no offense, but "partnering" with OSM wouldn't be exactly partnering. OSM doesn't have managers, engineers or cartographers any better than Apple can hire, all they have is community, which wouldn't even be OSM community anymore, if Apple rolls out a better (and more accessible) open geo-spatial DB than OSM has. Which, I believe, they are capable of.
No one really did back then. It wasn't until the mid 90's that the monster swells there became any sort of common knowledge.

I'm hoping to head out there next summer, apparently the undersea island and the wreck are incredible for spearing tuna and yellowtail.
Have you looked at chisel?
From the article:

> Kraken is among very few markets worldwide that let investors trade U.S. dollars for Tether and vice versa.
A lot of academic funds have military roots?
Jihad in Mali: SIX DEAD in Islamic bombing attack on anti-terror taskforce base
Imagine you keep flipping 10 coins, stopping each once it has come up heads. Eventually all will have come up heads. But if you do this a bunch of times and keep track of how many times you flipped the last coin, there will be a certain number of flips at which the end is most commonly reached.

The "mortality rate" increasing then flattening out is just this curve reaching its peak then declining. The math of this is easy enough to figure out so not sure why there is a mystery amongst biologists about it.
I have heard that you can’t find a stall to save your life at my kid’s high school because they are all constantly being used by Juul-ers. One has to wonder whether this is a good idea, hooking kids on nicotine, even if it’s free of smoke.
You don't skip validation just because you use open source.
1. I'm perfectly fine with "Asia" redirecting me to the continent, which is generally expected behavior. I don't understand why a word that clearly means something distinct needs to redirect there as well.

2. The lack of consistency is especially annoying. "Italian" redirects to Italian restaurants in my area, and the same goes for "Chinese", etc.
It's definitely getting better. With fast.ai, and Tensorflow coming with examples and docs to get started, I was able to make a proof of concept in a few hours to solve a real problem for real money.

It feels like we are on the cusp of non-experts being able to get real results and them being able to improve on classifiers for their domain. It almost feels like right before Rails took the world by storm.
It's one of the oldest careers in human history...
Or they just got tired of arguing with you.
I found it odd during Turn By Turn nav that google told me to "Take a right after the Taco Bell."

Navigating by landmark is natural for humans, and it's cool to see Google moving to this approach.

My wife and I traveled to roughly the same area, and solely based on that one instruction we were able to go by memory, because of this new approach to nav that Google Maps is taking.
Hopefully regulations that spell out the dangers of nicotine addiction (which are non zero) and which protect children to the maximum extent possible. Take a leaf from Canada’s new Cannabis Act, which is incredibly harsh on those who sell and distribute to minors.