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Once you could open it in google maps from Apple maps, now they removed this ability.
I wish I could use google maps as a default and get rid of that useless Apple maps.
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The next halvening is in May 2020. When the miner reward shrinks energy consumption will also shrink unless the price increases. So far the price increases outweigh the reward decreases, but Bitcoin has a built-in mechanism to force miners to become more efficient over time.
Indeed. But what if every statement in those boatloads of open source software were race conditions, and varied with each machine, frequency, temperature, voltage, workload, etc?
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Not only human.

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> These days the web is more purpose oriented, people looking for something

It also does its best to make that difficult. Advertisers luring people away from what they were doing. Content marketers spamming the web to the point that a regular person is more likely to be trapped in some bullshit low-quality clickbait article than to get correct information. You need to be hyper-focused just to get what you're looking for.
It makes for a nice aspirational graduation speech, but as many PhDs will attest passion doesn’t matter much if society doesn’t value your passion and you need to put food on the table.
“...but it’s cool, don't worry about us. We will just make new requests for clean data from the providers, and continue serving you the citizenry."
"Many other orders go out to five decimal places, numbers like 34.08652*

Google "numbers stations'. It's the cold war all over again, updated for 2018.

See also; conspiracies are everywhere (TM)
I agree on the trade show front. I feel like the worst offender is LPKF: I've come close to losing a significant fraction of my client base twice because several clients insisted that $100-200k capex/support expenses were worth slightly faster (theoretically) prototyping speeds and the vastly higher NRE of learning how to design for the damn thing. We ended up sending 90% of the boards to a third party assembler anyway - delaying the completion of the project two months past my initial estimate with twice as many revisions as I had predicted. Literally the worst project of my career was caused by inability to say no to flashy new tech. Twice (Yeah, still bitter).

On the other hand, I designed a STM32F4 based design last year and it was glorious. SnapEda for all symbols/footprints, Altium design vault for a specialized FPGA design, and github for a STM32 reference design PCB file using the same layers/copper weights as my requirements with imported fab design rules for good measure. The PCBs cost like $1500 and assembly was only $1600. 10 years ago I used to pay that much per single board in quantities of 30, for roughly the same complexity. This time, the whole thing (minus firmware) took a weekend.

Good luck with your mfg! If you have a chance, please blog about your experiences. There arent enough people spreading the art of solder.
No -- beehives rely on near-continuous nectar flow throughout spring and summer, and almonds don't produce enough for long enough to feed a hive.
The force monopoly has little to do with it - few institutions would have the resources to win against the US govt.
This is another timely reminder for everybody to get a simple domain(e.g. Namecheap, now with free whois-privacy as well) & maybe use Zoho mail to manage it for free(IIRC upto 2 in the free-tier). Then forward it to your gmail or whatever. That way you never lose the email address even if something untowardly happens to the forwarded email. I've learnt this the hard way.
The tweezers bit is what triggered that. Handling a large BGA with tweezers is going to scratch the PCB if you're not ultra careful.

Anyway, if you do this stuff often enough then I see no reason why you wouldn't get the proper tools, a rework station and an actual reflow oven or something with a PID controlled heating element would make your life so much easier. Working with bad tools would drive me nuts.

The reason the larger BGA center themselves is as soon as the solder goes fluid there is a lot of accumulated surface tension trying to reduce the size of the bridge and that will center the part all by itself. For that to work properly though everything has to become fluid more or less at once and stay fluid until the part has shifted to the right position.
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Sets up a straw man of "privacy defeatism", then knocks it down with an analysis of some French website's logs--as though any of this were a technological problem in the first place.

This is not a case of "defense in depth" or "something is better than nothing." This is the case of a surveillance capitalism asset performing to spec.

Privacy in the browser is/was f-ed, plain and simple. Patch one hole, make two more. That's how it's been for at least 20 years now. I see no reason for that to change until the browser is obsolesced by something even better at fleecing the peasants.
That’s not the broken window fallacy though.
> telling me to take a right where there was no road and into the ocean.

Off topic, but this sounds exactly like the scene from The Office.
The profitability for Bitcoin production largely depends on power pricing. Here's one country-average based breakdown (from Feb 2018) - you can look at the $6000 down level to see where it's still profitable: https://cointelegraph.com/news/mining-margins-and-where-to-m...

You can also use a mining calculator to do a real time spot-check of whether Bitcoin is profitable to mine or not as well (even if you have pretty average electricity prices, very much so): http://whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sha256f=true

For those interested in the most accurate and in-depth analysis on the economics, power consumption, and other aspects of Bitcoin mining, I can highly recommend @mrb's writeups like http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/ and http://blog.zorinaq.com/morgan-stanley-bitcoin-research-repo...

Note that the original article/title is pretty flawed to begin with since there are no tokens that depend on Bitcoin mining to begin with! (90% of tokens by market-cap are based on Ethereum, mining which is even more profitable than Bitcoin, and the economics of which will be changing drastically w/ Casper V2 soon).
Can you predict engineering performance from whiteboard exams? I wager Ravens Matrices would do better than your whiteboard exams.
It teaches nothing additional to the thought experiment, and harms people. So, how is that excellent? If you don't find it excellent yourself you can't even begin to answer for that other person.
The genius it took to design a $1 that was basically indistinguishable from a quarter...
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If you are rutinely making $500M SoCs, you can benefit yourself too of the automation/process improvement (as an established actor).
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> how much time I waste obsessively reading the news

This is oddly comforting. As Tim Ferris said in Tools of Titans, every successful person is dysfunctional in some way. I guess the trick is to work around your own personal deficiensies, and that's something everyone must figure out on their own.
Yup. And see the terrible situations is all and every vocational and artistic occupations. Competition is so fierce that almost everyone has to work basically for free and sustain themselves by doing menial job on the side. You could argue that most of them would be better finding a life occupation they're at least merely interested in instead, but providing decent living, and keeping their passion as a hobby.
(I've been a professional musician many years ago, merely scraping by from gig to gig with some piano teaching).
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That's why we differentiate between addiction and dependence.

Alcohol dependence prevents cold turkey for some people.
True. At least passion should be complemented with a good exit plan.
The burden of proof, in science, is on who makes the statement. And science is the best set of procedures we know to get to the truth.

So you should at least accept the critic if you can't be bothered to search something that supports your claims.
My long-time financial advisor has a fantastic saying: "I like to buy low, and sell high!" It's amazing how tempting it is to do the opposite. Wow, thing X has tripled, let's get into that. No!
I _reeeally_ want to hear those 911 calls. Please, somebody.
Please don't post regular political news to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I hear this a lot but I keep seeing more and more Ruby devs moving to it trivially and as someone who reads-not-writes Ruby code I find it just as trivial to grok it.

So I think the differences are there but they’re being overstated from a transfer of skills standpoint.
You clearly have never played it. Footballers are athletes of the first order, and football is so popular because everyone can play, not because it’s on TV. From the mountains of Nepal to the grassy parks of England to the rocky plains of Africa, you only need a couple of poles and a ball and you are in business. No fancy armours, no need for tools and equipment - just a ball and your skills. That is the essence of football, that’s the essence of real sports.

A lot of Olympic disciplines are just shows: convoluted exercises for the benefit of spectators, like synchronised swimming, gymnastics, skating and so on; football is all about the game itself, you can play it without audiences and it will still mean everything to players. That’s what sport is all about.
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Q1 electricity production in US:

Natural gas 409,806GWh

Wind 104,801GWh

Wind is significant.

https://renewablesnow.com/news/wind-solar-farms-produce-10-o...
Mind pointing out some examples of what you're referring to?
For those that are interested in this concept, Cal Newport wrote a fantastic book about this concept of developing a passion rather than "finding" it in his book "So Good They Can't Ignore You". Very highly recommend.
How can you be or do anything without thinking about it?
Yes. Happens all the time. Individuals, companies and societies put biggest priority on short-term benefits. All it takes for some knowledge to erode is to be temporarily not worth maintaining, compared with other things you have to deal with at the moment. Then some time later you realize that knowledge would be extremely useful, but it's too late now.

You mention physics. A constant in our universe is that things decay unless actively maintained. All life is fight against entropy. Trying to preserve things is only natural.
Addiction and dependence are different.
I vaguely remember an experimental voice recognition system, where you could dial in and direct the content of pages. I fear I don't remember much about the application itself, but voice recognition was just magic in those days.
I guess I go exactly the opposite. Theoretically, you can get more value out of carefully playing a narrow rewards program, but a simple cash incentive has its own benefits. Notably, you're not stuck within the confines of the available rewards, and it's hard to devalue a dollar balance as easily as announcing that a free flight is now twice as many miles.

I cashed out a cash-rewards card recently, and bought a work chair with the proceeds; I don't think most miles/points plans would have let me get that.
Wow, thanks for the information! With that in mind, it seems that it will be a looong time until the bitcoin craze is over.
I will never understand why the USA, while producing so much porn, is so strict with sex. Here prostitution is legal and you can buy sex toys at the drug store.
Many thanks for the comprehensive answer. I hadn't actually considered how I defined "speculative execution". I suppose what I meant is a cpu which will execute more than one path in a branch and discard those branches which are not taken. Either way, I was expecting the answer to be something like the AMD hammer or something around there. Clearly off by a bit :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17422805
There's many amazing things only possible in canvas because you can read the pixels directly (especially in displaying complex pixel art), so removing that capability out-right would be highly disappointing.

I suppose a better solution would be to mark the canvas as tainted if any text is drawn onto it, so that pixel reading capabilities are blocked. Another aggressive solution could be to redraw the entire canvas without gpu acceleration if pixel data is requested. Together these would severely limit canvas fingerprinting.
Price movement with jumps like this

See https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin

It is always too early to call it dead or alive
No. According to the CEO earlier this year:

> With 20 million active users as of February 2018, Codeville said he’s targeting between 120 to 150 million active KaiOS users by the end of the year.

-- https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/kaios-smarter-feature-p...
Is there research for that?

I would imagine that people report fewer dreams due to cannabinoids' memory effects, rather than an impact on REM sleep. Failing to remember dreams does not mean an absence of them.

An increase in nightmares could easily be due to increased stress/amygdala function depressed by cannabinoids.
Wapo URL is completely paywalled outside of the US.
I think that the pressure for initial programming founders to become head managers is a Peter Principle trap - your success at the tasks required as a senior engineer does not correlate very well with success as a manager. Even if it works for you (as it seems to have in this case!) it's important not to establish a culture in which you get promoted to managerial positions iff you are a good engineer.

I've seen a lot of fantastic coders get promoted to management and be bad-to-mediocre at it, and a lot of meh coders who can take over a room passed over for managerial jobs they'd probably be better at than their purely-technical ones.
I thought a site like github would render the gif as a video to the client, gif is very inefficient.
Re state actor: I guess secure-or-known-to-have-failed is attainable on a personal scope. Securing a company, no matter what size, is futile.
Reminds me of the ship of Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Because organs won't start shutting down without it.
This may just be my personal preference, but please don't delete comments like you did above just because someone made a "good point" that convinced you you were wrong. If you want to retract it, edit it so there's a line at the top saying that you retract it. Even wrong opinions (I'm assuming it was "wrong" for the sake of discussion) can contribute to a discussion.
I have no doubt that solving modern state-of-the-art protocol is an extremely complex endeavor.

All the more reason for sharing your solutions with the rest of the world, or at the very least parts of it.

The problem with the EDA industry is their firmly held belief that these kind of trade secrets is what they're competing with.

Think of Google, who had this exact same struggle internally.

For BigTable and MapReduce, they chose to sit on the "IP" to put it in H/W parlance. This gave the world Hadoop and its evil twin file-system whose name I forget. Yay (Hadoop is a a catastrophe).

For Tensor Flow, they chose the OpenSource route. TF is arguably the best framework for ML. There's a lesson somewhere in there.
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In Israel, where the climate is warm, almost all roofs are painted white. In fact, many buildings repaint the roof every summer, just to help lower the temperature for the top floors.
What's wrong with English, literal sentences and paragraphs, or a few bullet points? If you can write the readme or user-docs, you have written a significant amount of your requirements. If you can add the various edge cases, you've probably written about 99% of your requirements.
Actually I was thinking machines like the Creality3D ones (like the Ender 3S, I just bought one recently) which while far from perfect perform miracles at their (<$200) price point, in large part due to having a stiff frame with few resonances due to being built from commodity T-slot components.
Even the Prusa i3 mk3 now uses T-slots for the base, though in their case it seems to be more of a DFM improvement.
You're right though that sheet metal is very prevalent in the mid-range 3D printers and is an excellent choice for machines built in volume.
It starts saying all the right things, I was, like, expecting real tech stuff, after intro, and ... post ends.

Where is per browser stats, correlations, data points and features? Canvas vs IP vs User-agents?
You're saying the problem is harder. I'm more than willing to believe that.

Wouldn't you then want ten times the number of people eyeballing the code? And boatloads of free contributers submitting change requests to fix potential problems?

And a marketplace of users that can freely choose deciciding which "IP (I still find the term so deeply offensive, I can't help but it I have to put it in quote)?
A similar sentiment: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-...
yep i mean not even just the trays but a good %age of small local businesses (ie basically everywhere where employees feel like they have the latitude) will chop the pennies off the price in the name of sanity. so literally everyone involved hates pennies so much that they will willingly give them away. better keep minting them at all cost (literally)?

ahh maybe it’s just a way to keep prices “fair” for cash users, since businesses have to pay interchange on card transactions but charge everyone the same price? (/s)
Thanks for the explanation, I think I had only come across the Coach brand after they expanded aggressively internationally which I presume came after the "cheapening" of the brand, which is no doubt a big part of their turn-around success.
CSIRO is funded at about $787 million AUD/year.

Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group, which does science and other research for the military, is funded at about $400 million AUD/year. It's Australia's 2nd largest research organization after CSIRO.
And while I really like OSM I must say Apple got it right. The "report an issue" interface on iOS Map is easy to use on the go and requests are actually assigned to people who fix the map. I’ve signaled a few mistake and they all have been corrected.
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Personally, I can sleep if it's not completely dark (although it's way better if it is). What I can't stand is if there is no fresh airflow, which closing these shutters also blocks. But I am in general extremely angry at the amount of light polution everywhere, too.
Why do you think cancer is undefeatable? The risk of cancer rises substantially with age, and much of the increase in risk is probably due to the immune system malfunctioning.
Besides, DARPA funds arguably led to Infocom and their great text adventures from the 1980s.
There is a selection bias - 'child prodigy discovers X' is a little more newsworthy than 'eccentric person discovers X after lifetime of mucking around'.

I expect that the average age is probably older than 30 [1]. But 35 year old scientists making discoveries about science doesn't make a very good story; neither does an entire field making slow steady progress. People like to have one genius to study.

Same as how history tends to remember heads of state, but all the actual work is often done by small, highly effective groups of people who nobody remembers (eg, parliaments - I can name a couple of European monarchs from the olden days, but nobody from the Dutch Republic or the East India Company leadership).

[1] http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/age-amp-science...
Yup. Thanks for proving my point. This comment of yours is precisely the culture I've experienced when talking / trying to work with EDA folks. Snide comments, mockery, "you sw guys just don't get it", and a general ivory-tower attitude towards everyone who's not in the inner circle.
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Apparently a military logistics expert system saved the US enough money during the Gulf War period that the savings essentially paid for all the Pentagon spending on AI research to that point. (And probably more than was spent on AI.)
I always write a README first for my projects, even when I am working alone on it. I also always create a Makefile, even if the project doesn't use make at all, I know I can enter any of my project and hit make help to know what it is, and if I am browsing on gitlab/github, I can read the README.

When creating the project, I put in the README a general description, project goals, a TODO list, contact info (email...), requirements (like node, ruby...). Often, I write the readme, and leave the project a few hours to a few days, when coming back, I read the readme and it should "enlight" me.
It's unfortunate that teletext is dying/dead.
You could really quickly access the info you needed.
Often overview pages on a certain topic were on the same number, so you could just blindly type a three digit number and have the (textual) info you needed. If you didn't know the numbers by heart, you could still navigate to the page through te menu structure. Simple UX.
OSM is great for walking and cycling because pedestrians and cyclist are flexible enough to make small detours to map missing paths. In cities it's usually good enough if your destination is in the right spot, you can navigate by walking generally in the right direction. Finding potential shortcuts and getting to map terra incognita is just an added bonus.
These two projects are exactly the road the EDA industry should be taking.

Unfortunately, they make very slow progress because they have to painstakingly reverse-engineer everything (with the possible exception of Lattice stuff).

For Xilinx chips, where exactly nothing is publicly documented at the lower levels of the stack, they have to spend mountains of time re-discovering everything.

Even if I deeply admire the effort and how far they've gotten, I can't help but think: what a terrible waste of human talent and time.

Edit: I once asked a Xilinx employee why they didn't OpenSource their entire software stack, because it struck me that they were in the chip manufacturing business, and not in the toolchain business (a blisteringly obvious fact when you look at the quality of such monstrosities as, e.g., Vivado), and that OpenSourcing the tools would potentially enlarge their potential target market by a large margin.

The culture is so broken in that space that I don't think he even actually understood the question.
Multiple sourcing probably played a big role. Lots of companies were making Sherman tanks, for instance. IBM was making rifles along with many other companies.

There is no second source for the F-35.
Here's one: https://www.edaboard.com/
Contrast your idea to the ideas used in the search for life on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is very near its chemical equilibrium, the Earths atmosphere is dynamic; Mars is (more or less) dead, Earth is (not as) alive (as it should be if we weren't messing it up). My point is that change is life; stasis is death. On the day we die our body begins a journey to chemical equilibrium, our brains reach electrical equilibrium rather quickly. Then they stop there.
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