skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extension kit to a well designed and well adopted embedded system. The OPs complaints to me read as: nobody wants these features because the stock model works for OP, and that the price was jacked up to cater to an industrial market. I addressed the second point above - to stay in business, hardware costs money.

On the first point, the product definitely provides benefits over the stock Pi. If you need those improvements, you need them. The $35 model will die if you plug in a logic level that isn't 3V3. It certainly won't handle standard RS-232. It doesn't have a proper power jack - either USB Micro or two GPIO pins (no latching). It also doesn't come with a DIN rail mounting system, nor an RTC, nor a UPS, nor a good voltage regulator. Some people might want those features (I've worked jobs where they would have been useful.)

Also on the buzzer front - not all DIN boxes are in factories. They're used inside buildings for power distribution and fuses, in greenhouses to control irrigation systems. These aren't necessarily noisy environments.
Yes, first link is based on the MONIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
"all else being equal" isn't possible. Normally it's a convenient illusion but here it leads us astray. You need to carefully think about what you are controlling for and how and what that will mean.

As an example do you control for total number of x-size projects completed, or do you control for x-size projects completed per time in the career? It should be clear that you cannot keep them both equal, you have to choose one or the other (or neither I suppose).
Maybe for your group , but imessage certainly isn't the standard across the US. Does nobody you know own an android?
As someone who has tried to start some tech startups in Ohio I can say that this is the least relevant feature I'd like to see.
Its really hard to say without knowing you in person and there are so many factors that could effect this I can only really make guesses as to why you are being rejected.

Are you applying to junior roles? If not then maybe you are punching above your weight. Also, and this might not be easy to think about, but could it be a personality problem? Perhaps you came off as arrogant or somebody who would be hard to work with?

In the interviews you've had were there any questions you were asked that you couldn't answer or that you stumbled on? What were those questions?

Also I would try hard to ask the companies who rejected you, why they rejected you. Of course they will probably say something like "we didn't feel you were the right fit for our team" but try and push them to give you legitimate feedback. Tell them you are genuinely trying to figure out why you are not having success in interviews and hopefully they will be kind enough to give you some constructive feedback. That said I'm not 100% sure this will work but its worth a try.
I work in the fishing industry. Based on what I am seeing - fully autonomous fishing boats/cleaning/packing plants. You know how you have a single farmer handling hectares of farmland, its really looking like fisheries are going to go the same way easily in 10 years.
It's interesting that a lot of the media companies who criticized the tax incentives given to Amazon - The NY Times, the NY Post, Warner Media (CNN) - are themselves recipients of significant tax incentives from NY.
Buildings are still built using stones, wood, cement. That doesn't change much.

In my experience as a DevOps transformation expert, 'Architects' are mostly old devs that have been kicked upstairs. The whole world changes each year to an extreme. You have to get your feet wet.
Link to actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8L9tKR4CY
Among the online services I would like to see my state add, enhance, or simply fix, I do not prioritize accepting bitcoin for tax payments very high in the backlog.
Good point. To elaborate, SLC means Single-Level, Cell, NAND Flash that's both simpler and longer-lasting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell#Single-level_...

Example suppliers:

https://www.micron.com/products/nand-flash/slc-nand

https://www.cactus-tech.com/resources/blog/details/why-slc-s...

http://www.macronix.com/en-us/products/NAND-Flash/SLC-NAND-F...

https://business.toshiba-memory.com/en-us/product/memory/slc...
Ok, some teams at Amazon: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....

Also it's not very readable and cannot document many design aspects e.g. the reasons behind technical decisions.

Not very readable? How so? I'd rather read a concise mathematical definition rather than three pages of prose and diagrams. It is most definitely readable although it does require some training to understand the mathematics if you're not used to reading it. Just as reading a blueprint requires a bit of training.

You can write prose into your specifications and integrate the outputted PDF specifications with the rest of your documentation.
Robots Are Killing People. How Worried Should We Be?
When I was in Amsterdam a few years ago I faced pretty aggressive panhandling / scamming; it was that fine line between panhandling and robbery. On the way from central station to my airbnb, I had someone try to follow me and get my address. Another night I had someone waiting outside of my place.

I live in Denver, Colorado and although we have a huge homeless population, I've never had a problem with them. It's mostly just people sitting around asking for money, but I've never been followed or aggressively approached like I have in European cities (Italy was awful).
Awesome. I imagine a Water Computer Construction Set that allows you to "plumb" a computer program.
So, basically "We hear this BitCoin thing is in fashion. Let's add some of that".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-q4bEULG64
What is the tool?
Taking the Edward Tufte seminar will probably get you further faster than poking around in 5 different applications for the next few months.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
That's nice! Agile to the max!
Have you looked at classic investment banks like Schwab or TDAmeritrade? You can use them solely as checking accounts and they have had pretty good customer service when I've traveled abroad and may be able to send cards internationally.
Eh, you could argue about the making available to access for a long time either way. But there is a much more straight to point argument: they want, and take, money from UK customers (advertisers). If they want to keep doing that, they need to follow UK laws.

It's like how your little website may do things that are not ok in country X and you don't care, but if you want people and businesses from country X to be able to spend money on your website then you need to care.
I can see lot of doubts if flash card system is working. For some of the people certainly it is:

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

The above is the first link from the HN discussion which I really recommend to everyone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17846356
Yes, same is happening in fish food (as in food for fish). Just have to go to the ones that report failures or have lost electricity. In that sense not fully automated, and it will take a while for fully automated boats. Its very much like what big farmers do.

Point to a job that doesnt require human interaction and someone in the field can tell you how to make him jobless.
Wikipedia has page on Architecture Description Languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_description_langu...

I've looked at Wright and Acme that are linked from that page. I came away with the conclusion that you need to use a formal language to describe relationships between the entities in your system. The language should be flexible enough to define new entities, and new kinds of relationships. All of that points to the need for an API/library to describe software architectures, probably using parameterized types in Scala/Java or relying on features in more dynamic languages like Ruby. The language need not be Turing complete, though.

An added benefit of using a formal language is that you can verify whether the invariants of the system are maintained when you make changes. For example: If you try to connect two components which support different protocols, the program won't validate.

These ideas may also have overlap with software specification languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_language . I didn't dig too much into that aspect.

Generating diagrams with suitable layouts from this description is a separate problem. Perhaps something from the field of graph drawing could help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing
This is projection by people who are untrained in what they do.

Competent people with good training in some discipline are able to apply that training to competently achieve goals. This allows them to apply knowledge that they didn't develop themselves by trial and error, and is much more efficient, with better outcomes than the alternatives.

Unfortunately, this often seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Although "seems" is the operative word: if it weren't for this effect, we'd see many more bridges and buildings collapsing, ships sinking, etc.

It's just that many areas of human endeavour tend to more commonly involve untrained people "winging it", and that's what the article focuses on.
I’ve encountered some sites that block some VPNs, an obvious link with the number sites blocking to popularity increase.

Odd sites you might not think of immediately, mouser.com for electronic components for example.
Yes, but you need more than one face. An average face doesn't much look like any particular person. You'd need maybe a few hundred faces.

Facial matching usually reduces search space by assuming something about the input. I.e. you don't match a face against the whole world, just the friends of a person uploading a photo. Otherwise you'd run into matching a similar face to some stranger on the other side of the world.
In usd equivalent, therefore usd still has enduring value, not Bitcoin
Sometimes the answer to the wrong question helps you further down the wrong path.
Looks interesting. Anyone used it before and can share the experience?

It seems to fill a gap nicely. When there are more than a few apps up in AWS it’s easy to lose track.
In what way is it a gimmick? Ohio seems to be taking the stance that folks may want to pay in bitcoin, so they're offering that as a payment option. Whether they take the bitcoin and convert it into something else doesn't seem to impact that.
yeah only a state like ohio would jump on the blockchain bandwagon in such a fashion... probably hired some consultants to validate this "innovative" move.
Or drop people: “Scammers are changing the contact info for banks on Google Maps to defraud”
How these images were collected? My worry is that Google and Bing could already have some of them indexed and marked depending on page safety score.
As a transgender person I mostly agree with this article. Since starting Hormone Replacement Therapy I did have major improvements in life. I started dating, I started making friends, I felt emotions, I cried, my skin was soft and my face was with cute pink cheeks, my body hair almost entirely stopped growing; I felt like I was heading in the right direction, felt a sense of some comfort, and it relieved a lot of symptoms for me. I was being called 'she', 'miss', 'ma'am' and it made me happy and greatly improved my quality of life. I'm not sure how this couldn't be considered treatment, or even compared to a therapist handing a suicidal patient a razor to just end it now. While it may not work for everyone, it does work for some. We give anti-depressants to people which have the side effect of possibly creating more suicidal thoughts and not working on most people, but that's perfectly fine? Hormones are not a death causing drug.

I'm now off of them due to not being able to afford my health insurance deductible and I feel like an absolute mess of a human being again. I feel the dysphoria. The only emotions I feel now are anger and crippling depression. I criticize everything about me and feel like I'm falling down a hole again. I feel like my life is over again.

Edit: Why the downvotes? D:
That's shocking, I'd have assumed you'd be dead pretty quickly.

I'm curious about the temperature and it's effects inside the chamber and his suit during the test.
They are good query composers for simple queries (I'm thinking about Ruby on Rails and Django), useless for complex ones.

They're very useful to decode results in objects of the language and extremely useful to migrate the database.

I don't know about C# but probably the slow downs you're experiencing are in the decode phase.

I'm ok with stored procedures but I'd use them only where it makes sense.
How Twitch CEO Emmett Shear thinks about tech addiction
Unfortunately, high schools and university courses can rely on this sort of memorization quite heavily as a proxy for "understanding". My biochemistry courses, particularly early on, were at least 60% memorization, 40% conceptual/logical reasoning.
GraphViz. Store the graphviz code in repo to track changes.
Careful of Payoneer, they will lock your account and money for no reason. I have had money sitting for a month “in process” and every time I call support they tell me it will go through within 24 - 72 hours and to call back if it doesn’t. So I call back, again, and again, and finally just cancel the transaction. I recommend Transferwise.
I'd assume yes, just the same as if you sold bitcoin for USD yourself in order to pay the taxes.

Ohio isn't making a claim that they're changing their official currency to Bitcoin, any more than a site that adds Paypal support or Apple Pay support is claiming that their new currency is AppleBucks.
The dominant platform is getting all the attacks. OSM is a huge success on many levels, but unlike Google maps it hasn't become "the phone book" (and never tried to)
Found an online link to one of the articles Dewdney wrote for Scientific American about "analog computers" (this is the second article, there was one a year earlier):

http://www.softouch.on.ca/kb/data/Scan-130202-0003.pdf
I just felt like sharing it. I was foraging around Twitter for good links and found this. I honestly didn't know it was around for a while, but it stimulated my intellectual curiosity so I shared it.
In your zeal to jump on the bandwagon and hate on something that I assume you don't understand (based on your analogy), you failed to read the article:

> The state is working with the cryptocurrency payment startup BitPay to handle its payments, which will convert the bitcoin to dollars.

Also, unless you know of a way to exchange "monopoly money" for "the real deal," (and please share if you do, because I have a pile of that just sitting in a game box and scattered around my house thanks to my kids) your analogy is flawed and inaccurate.
The bias about intelligence modeling on human intelligence is certainly one of familiarity. Other intelligence models that we can observe like cephalopods are about as foreign as you can imagine on the animalia tree of life. Who can say if some cephalopod aren't capable of more diverse communication via color fluctuations/rhythms and postures than we are with our vocal cords and body language?

At some point a human form of self awareness could have formed, but I think the key is not triggered by physiology alone. Feral humans exist and it's important to understand that there is an observed malleability of the mind which tapers with age. Such individuals have been found and in some cases rehabilitated into what we consider functioning, self-aware, cognitively capable humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_cases_o...

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

Edit: It reminded me of this story I saw recently about a girl neglected until age 7. Today she is like a 2 year-old in a 20 year-old's body. Keep in mind there is nothing physically wrong with her other than neglect. Consciousness is emergent behavior. Having the physical elements alone is not enough.

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-...
I agree Python is good for teaching, but the maintainability and type safety aren't features of the boilerplate. This is clear when considering languages like OCaml, Haskell and other languages featuring type inference.
Ok, I'll get rid of the alert. Thanks :)
Maybe you're in a different platform and/o country? It doesn't and hasn't had more than one tab on iOS for me from the time it launched till now. I'm typing this comment from Firefox Focus and a long press on any link shows "Open" as an option, but nothing related to tabs.
More generally, there was a dedicated instrument to calculate areas of a map or drawing, the planimeter, widely used before the advent of (affordable) computing:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16032930
at the few meetups I went to

I feel you, but I think any interaction would be light and superficial the first one or three or ten times, wouldn't it?

But I think what you said does feel really true. If a group meets once a month, it would take ages to form some real bonds, and people are popping in and dropping out all of the time, so it's hard to know which of the people would even be people you'd want to "invest" in, in terms of putting in the effort to get to know them better.
> Comcast regularly and as part of it's policy performs man in the middle attacks on subscriber connections in order to insert malicious javascript into user requests from 3rd party websites.

Wait what? This is the first I'm hearing about this!
This explanation sounds nice until you start thinking about other countries which experienced famine in the last century and don’t look anything like china...
No. Most of them have had good things to say about their editors too. And again, they are not doing with a profit motive in mind, and self-publishing can conflict with other goals, e.g. prestige.

Publishers also help your book stand out from the Pakt hordes. Not that all of Pakt is bad, but a lot of people are unwilling to even look at books from there.
This is somewhat tangential, but does anyone have a good way to accept money in different currencies with minimal fees? Specifically I'm making money from different international Amazon sites and they all either send a paper check or I need a bank account in the country of origin which is not often possible.

I've looked into Payoneer, but they are taking a cut too and only really support a couple currencies. Any good options? I haven't looked at Transferwise yet so they might work.
Agreed. 196 cm/6'5" here, and the only thing I found lacking was the width of the chairs on the Tokaido line (3+2 arrangement). I'm not sure what the pitch of the seats is, but I had plenty of leg room (much more than any train in the Netherlands anyway, let alone air planes).

If you ever find yourself in Japan with a rail pass, do use the free reservation option when traveling between Osaka and Kagoshima with the Sakura. That one has a 2+2 arrangement in the reserved seat cars, which makes for a more comfortable ride.

I do agree with things being quite small/low though, bumping my head at least a couple times a week.
And for anyone who wants to know why unmodified gradient descent may be considered a piece of shit in certain circumstances

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenbrock_function

Gradient descent with a good line search (Wolfe conditions) applies to the multidimensional case should converge to min, but it might take you thousands of iterations. Newton’s method or something might take <50.

But machine learning practitioners will know why gradient algorithms are often preferred despite this
In my experience, a multi country mobile operator bootstrapping when 3G was a new thing 15+ years ago.
What feature(s) would you like to see?
> They had numbers from back when people faced in-state toll charges on phone calls, and since they covered an entire large metropolitan area, they had at that time registered numbers in several local exchanges, to make customer calls to them a local call (just pick the number having a local or non-toll exchange).

Totally unrelated to people scamming others on Google, but I love little bits of telephone trivia like this. A large plumber and an unrelated large handyman company in my hometown metro both have the same style of phone number: "just dial your area code then [seven digits]."

One other thing we had growing up in that area were the concept of "metro numbers." Back in the day, the area was divided up into three different incumbents and it wasn't always the case that a person physically near you would have a number you could call for free. So metro numbers were ones in specific exchanges that anyone in the six-county area could call with no toll charges. Since all metro numbers were in a handful of exchanges and, because the three old incumbents crossed area codes as well, didn't always follow area code rules (e.g. you could be physically in area code 123 but get a metro number in area code 198), you'll see old businesses with old numbers in area codes where they "shouldn't be."

My mobile number is like this. It is a metro number and has an area code and prefix of one side of the metro area but if you look it up in any of the telco databases, those listings say it is "homed" to two counties away in a different area code.
What is this doing on hacker news?
Python has an external static type checker with type inference.
Dowsing is the word you're looking for, not crossing.
This is probably the most significant thing to happen in blockchain history and is philosophically in line with the stated original claims of the Bitcoin whitepaper from Satoshi.

That means Ohio is putting the USD in competition with cryptocurrency for the primary thing the USD is used for: Paying Taxes. Federally that's going to remain USD of course, so it's not an existential threat for the Fed, but if enough states move to crypto as an option for tax payments the Treasury/Fed is going to have to make some major moves to prevent it spreading.
> I would not like the idea of FB to fail (connect the world) but would like its current business model to fail (selling private information to highest bidder).

They don't. This is completely against their business model (which is - from the perspective of the target, aka you and me - the same business model google has). They don't sell your information, they want all your information to sell advertisers the ability to target and tailor their ads to you (and convince advertisers to give them more data so they can target more efficiently).

I don't understand why and how this trope keeps getting repeated, particularly among tech people.

Just the fact they are collecting the data is bad (and incentivizing other business to throw their data in their databases), there is no reason for spewing FUD about what their business model is, or even touching how good/bad they are (or were years ago) at preventing that data from leaving their servers.
Jigsaw's Private VPN Gives a Line Out to Journalists
It almost sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it's the reality in an increasingly dystopian society. That's really scary.
In ten years we will know one way or another if short term profits matter more to us than the long term prosperity of our civilization. And not just individuals, but how our overall system of collective government responds to individuals at a national and global level will be answered in the test.
> Unfortunately, this often seems to be the exception rather than the rule. ... many areas of human endeavour tend to more commonly involve untrained people

This seems to imply "if only everyone got adequate training". It's not like that, though. There's a lot of important, worthwhile endeavours that inherently involve having to figure things out as you go.
Why not accept gold too then? Some people may want to pay their taxes in gold. I'm curious how much money was spent to get this system in place, and what the plan is when the bitcoins are then in the Ohio treasury, especially if the price continues to drop on BTC.