skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is awesome! It's one of those thoughts that everyone has- so much of making a PCB is totally menial and/or institutional, like part selection and supporting circuitry. Death by a thousand cuts, but many small problems (like placement or autorouting) are actually quite hard. Taken together it's an intimidating task.

This is the next big leap in design for software, electrical, and mechanical things: semantic descriptions directly to solutions.

Prototyping is an excellent application. Whats your support roadmap look like? Add more chips so you can continue making small widgets cheaply? Any plans to get into higher-risk design work? If you can reliably deliver high frequency/radio designs near FCC limits, that frees up a lot of RF engineers. For anyone who doesn't know, the cost to navigate FCC regulations is huge, and testing is worse (10k tests with months of wait, worst case). Probably even more people would be interested in high power designs, given the surging popularity of lithium personal transport and vehicles. Mains voltage/mixed signal designs would also be huge, but that's a whole other kettle of bears. I'm sure you've got internal metrics tracking what you all spend the most time doing and where you're bottlenecking. Even past the huge tasks of advanced engineering there are opportunities to integrate with 3d printing, automated enclosure or laser-cut design. I suspect/hope at some point in the future you guys will be hiring a LOT of people!

I'd love more examples, even on the front page. As long as they're relatively dense, readable and well-laid they'll inspire a lot of trust in engineers. Also, I think test fixturing is a strong asset and you guys should feature it more heavily! I'm not sure how you guys do it, but I'd love to see real examples. It might be the best suited automation of the things you guys do. Designing a comprehensive test fixture can take almost as long as designing the actual part, but with the basic functionality defined you could generate test routines, circuits, firmware, and jigs automatically. And my favorite kind of test jig looks like this[1], so gerbers are all I need to be happy.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/RA2m4Pn.jpg

I prefer clips to sliding holders like that, but I couldn't find a picture for reference. I like to put a few pads around the corners, then solder a small tab to use as a clip so the PCP only has to be held down on one side. Ideally I'd have a detent on the other side but I've never had a long enough test routine to warrant figuring it out.
Is this a worldwide service or US-only?
When I was interning at eBay a few years ago, they were doing some amazing work. I worked with the machine translation team and they were doing cutting edge research all over the place with new patents being awarded regularly (even to interns!). Many of their algorithms like spelling correction were significantly better than the state of the art, in part due to their unique data set. They were also actively rebuilding and rewriting critical services to improve reliability and speed, from their computer vision to their speech recognition to their search engine to their seller tools. They split from Paypal and rebuilt and redesigned the app and the website. They started shipping boxes to sellers with the eBay branding to solve the problem of seller's not having shipping material. They started marketing and selling eBay giftcards in numerous stores. They started curated collections of themed finds on eBay (and ML-generated collections). They were reaching out to major brands to sell on eBay as a storefront. They unveiled a really well done AI chat bot to sell eBay items to users.

It's an impressively run shop from a technical perspective at least. I do not think it's fair to eBay or it's current and former employees to say that they've done nothing to make themselves better in the last 15 years.
Pensioners voted for free money at a cost to future generations, unsurprisingly future generations we're not interested in giving greedy old timers free money.
Works for me. .5 mg per flight and I no longer have panic attacks on planes. Don't ever take it for other things than it's intended for, though.
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Because they've always been in the business of policing non-illegal speech. They want an advertiser-friendly image, because its advertisers who pay the bills.
Indirectly yes, they will ask why their computer is slow. Then they'll buy a new one and accept the salespitch for fiber gbps link.

ps: you all must understand that the average user believe in tech, if the web is slow, it can't be google's fault; if the salesman spread that 'of course you need a machine that is web capable' all they'll care is that it's not too expensive and they'll buy the damn machine, and maybe throw the old one out. source: my recycling bin.
Is that with other publications, or any availability at all? It would seem that others think that one off copies are acceptable.
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What's your take on big companies contributing and/or running open source/free software? Doesn't that also dislocate small low-cost hobbyist software?
And as a result, there's a nonzero chance of an unhappy knock-off purchaser accidentally leaving a bad review on the original, bonafide product page.
Not necessarily. Zuckerberg is basically accountable to no one as CEO. He can’t be fired even by the board. So Facebook’s motivations are whatever his own personal motivations are.
They could shadowban the reviews - so the reviewer would think it was being displayed.

A bit deceitful but maybe better for UX.
Myself after working through chapters upto 4(I think), did find it full of brilliant exposition of a few approaches to solve a bunch of interesting problems, but I did get a feeling that most of these methods aren't going to directly help with writing real world programs to solve the problems encountered in the wild. To put it in a vague analogy felt like reading a math book that has detailed explanations of brilliant proofs of select theorems, but doesn't fully explain how the proofs were arrived at from scratch, and doesn't describe general methods to discover proofs for as yet unknown problems.
"Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" Van Roy and Haridi, in premise sort of tries to cover that, aiming to describe a sort of 'science of programming', I haven't read too far into the book yet to comment if it delivers on that.
Brazil is a huge country, with 200M inhabitants, an area as big as the continental US and a diverse population composed of imigrants from all over the world. What we hear from outsiders is almost always based on local and limited experiences (like this one from the BBC, limited to Rio). There's no single "Brazilian culture".
I'm doubting the merits of a rumour I heard it would be August. 'Sometime this year' is what Waymo has been saying since March. In November last year they said 'In a few months'.
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Thanks for the reply. I don't use firebase. Is there any other service that lets me do remote config?
This entire line of argument distracts from the real issues and makes progress harder to achieve. Physician salaries are one of the worst possible places to start addressing this issue.

US doctors apparently earn about 2x the average for other comparable nations. That's not a small number, but doctor's salaries in toto are only about 8% of US healthcare spending. A 50% reduction would bring our salary spending in line with everyone else, but only save $100 billion out of a $3,300 billion cost.

Meanwhile, outright waste in medical supply spending costs $765 billion per year. That's drugs discarded at expiration dates which are known to be too restrictive, spending on combination drugs which are identical to the sum of cheaper components, and supplies thrown away by hospitals for non-sanitary reasons (e.g. vendor change, or drugs allotted for a patient but never issued or opened). Changing some parts of this would involve challenging the profits of drug companies, but in many cases not even that would be required. A handful of regulatory changes could save enough to offset the entire cost of paying doctors.

The situation with unnecessary or ineffective medical treatments is comparable. Some of the most common surgeries performed are known not to work, suspected not to work, or known to be more risky than inaction for standard patients, but they're still carried out at enormous expense. Adjustments to medical publication standards, physician statistical training, and and malpractice risk profiles could massively reduce the number of unnecessary and even net-harmful surgical procedures performed every year, cutting costs while directly improving care.

Framing medical expenses as a conflict between consumer expenses and doctor's salaries is false and harmful. It literally can't solve the problem, but it's excellent at derailing the work that could.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-myth-of-drug-expirati...

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-hospitals-waste

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/when-evid...
Where in the US do you get arrested for working as a door to door sale person ?
It's my understanding that renice doesn't limit CPU usage, but rather adjusts the process's priority in the scheduler relative to other processes. So I don't think it would stop a process from eating up all available idle cycles, draining the battery, and ramping up the fan.
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The bar, my friend, is far lower. At least this product is somewhat useful.
In the article it talks about how the app has been displaying trip prices for the test users (even though they don't pay). No dates given but that's a positive step.
I don't think that's normally true. Do you have an example of a journal with such a policy?

You might be mistakenly thinking of the requirement not to submit the same paper concurrently to other journals. For example, ACM's policy: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/author-representat...

And from ACM's "Author Rights" page: "Authors can post the accepted, peer-reviewed version prepared by the author [...] On Author's own Home Page" https://authors.acm.org/main.html
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You're not factoring in the fact that if a Prime member participated in this, Amazon could suspend their account without any reimbursement. For most people, chump change is not worth nuking your $99 Prime account.

Also, the idea that sellers would pay $10 each for a 5-star review is laughable.

It's easy to make something economically viable when you're numbers are complete drivel.
If NT was "pirated", then Torvalds must have been Blackbeard himself pirating UNIX
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Thank you so much for the work you've done with wlroots and sway. Custom window managers are one of my favorite parts of linux, and I'm glad wlroots exists to make custom wayland compositors more accessible.
We are almost done with our VR program for fear of flying: http://FearlessVR.com

It's based on exposure therapy / systematic desensitization. It has special sections for turbulence as well as other common underlying fear of flying issues.

I successfully overcame my fear of spiders using Fearless for spiders.
1. A website's value is the amount of information that it provides to the end user. I would argue that the entirety of the works of Shakespeare or the 1911 Brittanica Encyclopedia provides more information than a high-definition picture of Donald Trump grimacing at EU leaders or an autoplaying ad for Doritos Locos Tacos NEW AT TACO BELL. As far as supplemental uses, at the end of the day, people are using plaintext to communicate with other people. Images and videos are secondary. If that ever changes, then society is already doomed as literacy is fundamental to the maintenance of technology.

2. Raw text is the highest value data/information return that can be transmitted over the internet. There's a reason that Morse Code and APRS are still around: they're reliable, appropriate tech, and require little to no middlemen outside of the transceivers themselves.

3. If wantonly (namely, for no enduringly good reason) increasing the amount of entropy in the universe isn't tautologically bad to you, then I really doubt that any argument would sway you to the contrary.

Concerning the relative value of HTML and CSS, yes, you could argue that UX matters in that department, but even the most bloated static HTML/CSS page is going to pale dramatically in comparison to the size of what's considered acceptable throughput today.
I agree with what you've said - one thing that is sometimes overlooked is that publishers pay academic societies for the right to use the journal. I am on an editorial board for a small-ish society: we make about $5000 per year in member dues (they are low) and about $120,000 per year in publisher royalties. We use this to fund grant programs, scholarships, conferences, etc, so it is not all bad, but yes the publisher is probably making much more.
Same with browser permissions.
Websites would ask you if you're okay with the authorization and only if you answer Yes, they would trigger the browser auth prompt.
Sounds like you work in the publishing business (and also that GP has tripped you up somehow). Care to elaborate what the rationale for publishers to bloat their web sites could possibly be? Because I know I've come to use news aggregators like HN as portal sites (plus RSS) rather than go to news sites directly for many years now, precisely because I want to know beforehand if a particular article is even worth visiting, rather than receive a crapton of script for nothing valuable in exchange.
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Ok, so is your solution to be unimpressed by both, or... ?
I think in 2018 eBay has a lot of competition in the US. The bulk of the stuff on eBay are commercial sellers that can also use Amazon. When an average Joe might be selling his stuff, it tends to go on Facebook Marketplace these days, or Craigslist. The only thing they really have going for them is the auction format, but how often does THAT get used, even on eBay?
Have any designs made with JITX been certified as UL compliant, or FCC compliant to standards like radiated emissions, AC conducted emissions, spurious emissions, etc.?

How well does this software do in creating board designs that meet common government compliance requirements?
Not even that really. They got series A funding in 2014. Releases this August. That’s less time than most Rockstar games.
"Nobel" is the name of a scientist and his namesake prize; the word you're looking for is "noble".
> Bravo for the success, but this HAS to be only for people who buy all of the "As Seen on TV" garbage.

You mean handicapped people, at whom many of those products are implicitly aimed?

https://www.bustle.com/p/as-seen-on-tv-products-arent-for-la...

Yeah, it's funny laughing at the idiot who knocks over a whole bowl of popcorn. It's not so funny when it's your grandfather with Parkinsons, who has serious mobility issues and would very much like something to help him keep his popcorn in one place.

And yeah, sure, people in this thread can suggest taking the trash with them every time they leave the car - except actually getting into and out of the car can be a non-trivial ordeal, sometimes involving assistive devices.

So maybe everyone in this thread can try to look beyond their mid-20s, childless, able-bodied lives involving short drives that involve transporting nothing more onerous than a shoulderbag with a Macbook in it and maybe a latte.
Any recommendation for a flight sim? Always been interested, I think we owned a copy of the MS flight sim back in the 90s, never played as an adult.
Looks pretty good. So many applications in fraud detection.
You know their real account? How? (Just interested :))
From all these comments, you can tell how naive those commentors are. If you all blame the failure of eBay due to Chinese government, why it would choose Alibaba, not other Chinese companies? Why Alibaba would success and be one of Top 2 in China?
In 2000s, Alibaba is nobody, and eBay is the giant with unlimited fund and great brand. But it still failed due to its vanity.
I may be mistaken, but I heard reviews are deleted when the dev pushes an update to their app.
Yup, this is how you AVOID a crash.
DOS commands and hierarchical file paths were based on DEC’s TOPS-10, via CP/M, both of which Cutler would have been familiar with.

DOS was at best a mongrel mash-up. It no more evolved from Unix than AmigaOS did.
It could and likely would be configurable. The problem is the people who plug the router in with the default password and forget about it.

This would solve that while leaving it configurable for technical users.
It doesn't have to be a top-down manner. Truckers (and those that rely on truckers) aren't stupid. If you were to go to them as a group and say "hey, we expect 50% of you to lose your jobs, or at least too many working hours, over the next 20 years. How do you want this to play out?" I suspect you'd get a lot of denials, but you'd also get some interest in having a say over the future. The drivers would know where the jobs are harder, they'd be in a good place to nurture the transition. If they were doing so IN FURTHERANCE of their (evolved) job rather than just destroying it, I bet you'd find some folks with ideas. Others would want to transition to a related-but-new job. Or retire early. Or pick up skills for an UNRELATED job. All of which is easier to bring about over the course of years with people who aren't worried about how to pay their rent/mortgage/food/medical bills.

In no way is this _easy_ - the number of issues to solve is huge and complex. But since we know the problem is going to happen I'd rather TRY to work on it, be that ruling from top or empowering the bottom or any other strategy other than "Wait until it's an emergency".
> A lot of my anxiety came from paying attention to the sound of engines. Was something odd happening? Keeping the sound of the engine drowned out helped keep my mind off the mechanics of the airplane.

I went of my first flight recently, that was the bit that really stood out to me - a little before landing the engines sounded like they powered down to nothing. I had an (internal) freak out, while I watched everyone else continue on like nothing happened. After we landed safely I learned that same lesson - don't listen to the engine. Someone else is driving, and listening won't help.
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>The last few times I've flown, I used a mental trick to help me get through it. I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million, so I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 1.2 million, and then tried to guess what that number was. That gave me some relief but didn't completely stop the bad thoughts.

This type of probabilistic thinking, combined with the acceptance of the lack of control I have over the plane's destiny, tends to be more than sufficient for me. Even if the plane hits turbulence, I know that trained professionals are in control of the situation, and that there is literally nothing I can do to help the situation at that point.

I've found that accepting your own lack of control over a situation is instrumental in confronting all sorts of anxieties. There is nothing I can do, therefore I sit back and relax while enjoying the novelty of the current event.
This can be quite effective. I know of a few people folks who took a lesson or two in order to overcome their fear of flying, and ended up not only overcoming their fear but loving the experience so much they're now private pilots.

Often times your local flight school will offer an inexpensive "discovery" flight lesson for <= $100.

Alternatively, if you're in the SF area I've heard these folks are fantastic: https://www.fofc.com/
And it's still higher than one year ago.
> 80% of the country makes under $65k[1]. They're pretty locked in. This talk of "upward mobility" is not really true. Only a few will move up the chain, but not the majority.

Do you have a citation to support these claims? A cursory search yielded a study that showed at least from 1995-2005 these claims were completely false, and the majority of people moved up from the lowest quintiles of the economy.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/inside-the-vault/spr...

> The cost of everything necessary is rising[2]

If you look at your reference this is also false. Some necessities are flat, some have gone up. And most of the necessities like food and housing that have gone up, at least according to your reference, have tracked inflation so in real terms have not gone up and hence we should not feel like flat wage growth has reduced the availability of these necessities to the people who are economically immobile. And of course, in real terms, clothing and other necessities have gotten cheaper. You also gloss over that non-essential items that improve quality of life like tech have dropped radically, increasing the overall purchasing power of people within those spheres over time.

The remaining items like medical care and college education cited are cause for concern, but if we're being honest both of those areas are effectively in a state of crisis right now due to out of control costs, broken systems, and predatory lending practices. On the education front at least there is cause for hope due to the increasing availability of alternatives.

You paint a particularly bleak picture that is not backed up by your own sources, I'm afraid. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement in income mobility in the US or reducing the costs and waste in systems like healthcare, but like I said there are plenty of reasons for optimism and a belief that the trajectory is a positive one.
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You forgot to not use anything from Intel post 2008 (or whenever ME was introduced), and any other processors like that.

Afterall there "could" be a wireless chip within the ME hardware.

(I know there isn't, I'm just playing overly paranoid)
If I leave gmail open too long, it starts eating 100% of CPU for some reason (Firefox on Linux).
It's just protectionism of different sorts. The difference is like that between a member of a Marxist Communist Party and a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. They think it's super different, but ultimately they're both communists.
Most websites are not optimized well because optimization costs money and software engineers are expensive. There probably is not a market failure here.
RS232 would probably be usable and convenient for said hypothetical setup as well. Don't run PPP or anything; manually initiate transfers on both sides.
I'm sure plenty of sites improve their bottom line by implementing dark UX patterns as well, it doesn't make it any less bullshit.
It's bullshit allright. Thousands of cpu hours, megabytes and dollars wasted on some user spying turdheap the marketing guys NEEDED to put in an app, 'to track user behaviour'. What a euphemism. Without spilling too many beans, we're using a solution that records an actual movie of the user using our app, each time a session is started.

In six months, the only thing we learned: half of the users that finish setting up don't continue to use the app. We could have learned that from server side logs without invading user privacy.

Another story: four employees of a large corporate running target marketing based on behaviour of customers logged in to their website.

Added revenue versus control: 60.000 yearly. Sub-0.1% conversation rates. The corp had been running these campaigns for at least five years.

My personal stories. Anecdata, I know.

There is SO MUCH BULLSHIT.

Edit: to clarify the first example, it's not a movie using the front facing camera, 'just' a screen grab
These folks operate in the SF area and I've heard they're fantastic: https://www.fofc.com/
> essentially god's programming language

That metaphor seems to confuse people more than it clarifies. Did you perhaps mean "nature's programming language"?