skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say they still do have ways of figuring these things out - even incredibly complicated things. It just takes a little longer. It also depends at what level of abstraction you want to look at things anyway. You probably didn't know the physics behind the stuff you built in the 70s; it was just an abstraction of it using capacitors, diodes and resistors. Or the biology of the wood you used for the tree house, at a cellular level. In my opinion it's the same premise.

I'm on the younger end of the HN spectrum, so I grew up playing Minecraft pretty regularly. I remember stumbling into low-level hardware design with a thing in the game called Redstone. You could combine it in numerous ways to make various Boolean logic gates. That progressed into making memory, ALU's, and the like in said game. Fast forward 8 years and I'm a hardware engineer IRL. Once you understand the basic 'building blocks' of how something works you'll develop an interest in the rest of the abstraction generally.

I suppose the best way to see it would be to think of it like a program. You can build a program from bunch of functions, not knowing how those individually "work", and have a finished product at the end. That's still an enjoyable process. You might enjoy it so much that you jump into the library and look at how the functions work. You might go further and look at how the code works at a lower-level language. Then down to machine code. Then at a part level (graphics card, processor, RAM etc). Then a component level. Then at an electro-dynamics level. You can keep going further and further into deeper levels of phsyics.

A kid is still going to have a grand old time plugging in all the parts of their computer and having it turn on, as much as they do building tree-houses and go-karts.
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Another important consideration is ease of routing signals during design. Using 45 degree corners in general produces pretty space-efficient routing that makes it easy to cluster signals together as well as move them if necessary during layout.

One point the article left out is the risk of traces lifting off of the board. Having less sharp corners seems to reduce the risk of this happening with components that have a mechanical risk of coming off (like USB connectors, or large capacitors).
What do you mean by ugly? That GDI text rendering is used on Windows instead of DirectWrite for some font families? This can be disabled in about:config by assigning `gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families` an empty value. Or do you mean that there's no subpixel positioning on non-Windows/macOS? That one has no fix, except when the text rendering part of WebRender goes into production.
>So are we going to head down that route in another decade or two when we become even less authoritarian?

Stupid as it is, anti-gay extremists do make that argument, that the cultural acceptance of homosexuality is a slippery slope towards the eventual normalization of pedophilia and even bestiality. That can be seen as an argument pro Christian authoritarianism of a specific political bent.
That's exactly who I was thinking, so you're not the only one feeling old here.

Third Voice was an idea ahead of its time. Blogs ended-up being the meta-web, I suppose. They're not as satisfying to me as inline annotations.
Which ad blocker would you recommend for your users?
That exactly what it means
I have two behaviours; TV-program-style videos I'll watch once, and music-style videos I'll watch repeatedly.

My theory is they have difficulty telling the difference, so they think the fact I've watched "80s-90s Hip Hop & R&B Playlist" repeatedly indicates I'd also like to watch "Plumbing bottle air vent teardown" repeatedly.
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I don't think that's true for the new generation. I think it's true for the generation before - when I was a kid all we did was watch TV until we got kicked out then we biked around and played outdoors. Not so much creation going on.

Kids these days OTOH want to become YouTubers... and they actually CAN and DO with free video editing apps, 4K cameras built into their phones, etc. They're making memes (just look at all the creativity coming out of something as inane as TikTok), and just look at Minecraft.
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Writing a book is quite a challenge. I myself write, so I know what I'm talking about. Sometimes it will not be superfluous to look at examples. Here https://uk.edubirdie.com/report-writing-services there are so many examples of writing articles and essays. Using report writing services will really simplify the task. Since you read other texts, you understand how best to write your own.
Which regions are poorer now than they were 50 years ago?
It's not that bad, it won an Arthur C Clarke award.

Though I similarly thought it a bit ridiculous, that was actually more from the human elements of the plot than the spiders or ants. Spiders who'd just launched their sputnik. Overall I thought it a pretty good attempt with an unusual take, and worth reading.
> a "reward point"

Are there reward points that you a) actually own, b) have a formal value, and/or c) are allowed to trade?

For instance:

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/terms-an...

"21.1. Avios points, and all rights of title to and property in such Avios points issued at any time, remain with AGL at all times and never pass to the Member.

22.1. [...] Avios points are not transferable [...]

22.2. Any purported purchase, sale, transfer, unauthorised use (including bartering), procurement or redemption of Avios points issued or awarded to another person [..] will constitute a fundamental breach by the Member of these Terms and Conditions and the Conditions of Use."
It’s weird to me how persistent this story is.

From the reported control traces, there was no prolonged period of dual input. There were 3 or so brief moments of dual control input (1 - 2 seconds), during which a warning was sounded. The pilots never spoke out loud about it, but we can infer that they heard the dual input warning and were aware when it happened because the sequence of events was the same each time; inputs from both joysticks received -> aural dual input warning -> input from one joystick stops.

Something about the idea of two pilots inadvertently fighting each other for control of the aircraft has definitely caught peoples’ imagination. But it didn’t happen.
Most things on the internet actually are anonymous for the most practical purposes. I wouldn't know your name for example.

The chicken example is nice and all, but why not just offer the same advantages as good old cash? Would be a far more appropriate comparison, don't you think?

Most internet transactions are not anonymous of course, but there are options and I like to keep them. I regularly use non-anonymous transactions myself, but that is not the issue.
Maybe, maybe not. The LC was very low performance, even compared to the pokey IIsi I first had the monitor connected to.
I'd love to have this extension! Let us know if you ever pick up that extension. I do have one question though. Links on e-mails usually have "?utm_campaign=id_campaign&utm_source=nytimes" for example. Is it possible to avoid duplicates? To this day this is one of the major headaches for mods on Reddit. There's also the mobile links for the same news article.
Except then upgrades are impossible so when software moves on the device is useless anyway. Why defend this practice?
I bruteforced a 4-digit 2FA in 2 days, of course with the help of a small script instead of trying it myself. It's always fun to see dumb solutions work.
Most ad-blockers don't block Google Search ads! If you want to block them you need to set it up. Most ad-blockers have a Acceptable Ads switch.
It's actually remarkable how closely the Rift S has followed in WMR's footsteps. I'd be curious to know how Lenovo has managed the risk of infringing Microsoft's IP (and likewise the risk of being implicated in any possible cases of Microsoft treading on Oculus' toes), given the similarities and their prior experience with WMR.
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1. Take a look at https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=map&solar=false&remote=... -- renewables are certainly not switching over fast enough.

2. Even if nuclear were not controversial, it cannot be deployed quick enough. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304100413.h...
I recall seeing a calculation that it would require us to turn on a new nuclear power plant every day for the next several decades. That's obviously not going to happen, when countries are currently decommissioning nuclear plants.

> the whole thing might get solved in the background without much more serious effort. Most people wouldn't even notice.

Frankly, this is a ridiculous and dangerous assumption. Globally, we have a limited carbon budget remaining in order to prevent catastrophic warming. That means we must be decreasing emissions on the order of at least 10% per year until we're at zero emissions, and then continue taking carbon out of the atmosphere. Such a scale requires massive transformation across all sectors of society.
Firefox is persuing other revenue sources as well, such as a paid premium browser. My last hope against the advertising economy is this model taking off.
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Looks like a hacker news with a different topology.
> Teenagers face far greater economic insecurity than before, and are more acutely aware of it. What will the workforce look like when they graduate highschool? Jobs that teenagers would have been invited to do are being replaced with automated checkouts and computer vision algorithms. Teenagers are required to go into more debt than ever, to escape this lack of opportunities via education.

Sometimes it blows my mind that even in "educated circles" of the west there's such a blatant lack of perspective on the rest of the world. We still live in a world where 3 million people a year die of diarrhea - and you think economic insecurity is the reason Western kids are depressed?

No, this is not why teenagers are depressed. If that were even remotely true every teenager on Earth not from a G8 or Scandanavian country would be jumping off a ledge by the time they're 14.
The problem isn't free speech, but rather the distribution of illegal pornography and other illegal things.
I will add that it is 1 to 25 in California, other states vary.

One of the reasons why better ratios help kids is exactly to give this type of individual attention.
You don’t need more taxes (on net) at all. You just do a carbon tax and distribute all the money equally. Rational people would reduce their spending on items that put a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Ideally nobody pays the tax at all. That’s the whole point of it.
2019: But this time when we use half-cooked classification to identify undesirables and treat them badly it'll be different. We'll only target people that are OK to shit on by contemporary social norms.
> and we're not planting enough trees (anywhere) to counter-act that.

Globally it looks like we're not doing that bad. There are areas doing worse (Africa, Latin America), but the trend seems ok even for them.

Based on http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/
Guy like Filippo, Keller, Koduri and such are pretty much like football players in the top leagues. Crazy signing bonuses, and clubs pay more for depriving an enemy team a key player, and assurance of him not playing against them, rather than for the genuine expectation of him performing for the team.
The good thing about normal combination locks is that you can try all combinations sequentially with minimum movement.

000 start
001 1 move
002 1 move
...
008 1 move
009 1 move
019 1 move
018 1 move
...
011 1 move
010 1 move
020 1 move
021 1 move
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and so on.
If it ever gets really bad, the Earth can easily be cooled surprisingly quickly by detonating massive bombs in the right places. We’re talking nuclear scale.
I don't know how either of you could consider Children of Time to be poorly written, I recall it being quite good.
this is so wholesome.
Great post and thanks for sharing your learnings.

A couple of quick questions:

Was the 25TB raw data gathered from a single human genome?

What would be the size in bytes of a unique genomic fingerprint once raw data is all fully processed into high confidence base values? (including non-coding regions)

If we just look at coding regions and further compress by only looking at SNPs, how many bytes is that?

Considering that each base has ~2B of information... it would be super interesting to know how much space it takes to describe our uniqueness!
Nuclear power still requires water as coolant so it's environmental impact is still as bad for the local fish as a coal plant.
Apologies for ignorance, but what's this about? Not easy to google...
Throwing education and job opportunities at low IQ people won't produce useful results, unfortunately.
>If you did not provide subsidy to them through your bloated bill, the "investors" could not build wind farms.

Your claim is easily refuted because subsidy-free wind farms are being built.

https://english.rvo.nl/news/netherlands-looks-forward-second...
"admin", ""? Nope.

"admin", "admin"? Nope.

"admin", "passwd"? Yep!
Thanks!

Any feedback would be appreciated!
What happens when you hit the maximum number of ad groups that Google allows per campaign. Isn’t it something like 50 or 100?
Are you kidding me? 2.5 billion people still don't have access to proper sanitation, and they're not depressed - and you think it "brave" of young people in the West to deal with the horribleness of _Brexit_?!

The commentary in this thread just blows my mind. I'm astounded in an era of regular travel just how sheltered people in the West are.
> going through AA's at a horrible rate in our house

You can buy rechargeable AA batteries[0,1] though. I only have those at home (toothbrush, remotes, etc.).

[0] https://www.energizer.com/batteries/energizer-rechargeable-b...

[1] https://www.duracell.fr/product/duracell-rechargeable-ultra-...
Perhaps the bean pushers will be amazed and adopt China's practices. They are not without historical precedent. The Mayans executed enormous numbers of prisoners as human sacrifices. We in the US are not too far off with abortion for medical research. Nazis and Communists had no qualms about mass human experimentation of the most ruthless and brutal kind.

Yet, none of the societies that practiced such things in the past have survived. Instead, the more prohuman ideologies have lasted the longest.

In my opinion, China's approach is very similar to the modern MBA approach of taking over a company, sucking all its value, and then discarding. It is a desperate, short term approach that results in long term destruction of value. Instead of trying to develop their own innovation and knowledgebase, the Chinese government steal. Instead of trying to develop their own citizenry, they kill, jail and harvest. In general, the Chinese leadership waste their most valuable resource, the human beings that make up their country. They just seem to be small minded and suck ups to the West.
I suffer from a similarly idiotic keyboard. I think the name of the “Fn” key is quite appropriate. (As in this F ing key is where CTRL should be!)
Alternative headline: after experts fail, museum successfully crowdsources brute force attack on safe, over decades.

With all due respect to Mr. Mills, in this context he's a pawn in someone else's master plan.
A great podcast on color from radio lab if you haven’t already heard it:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/211119-colors

In short they specifically go into how we perceive color etc. great show!
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Individuals can do very little, aside from reducing one's ecological footprint.

The key thing is to work with your neighbors, friends, and community to build on the movements that are already working to make politicians and countries change. This must be a collective effort.
This was more of a kludge than a serious project, but glad I was not the only one to find this useful, will definitley continue working on it.

>Is it possible to avoid duplicates?

I thought about this as well in the past but never actually found a solution. Maybe someone here knows if there's research or an algorithm to uniquely identify the URL.

Edit: typos
What platform do you see this on? Other than subpixel positioning on Linux/Android, Firefox should render text the same as Chrome.
All these consumers now with lower incomes, why wouldn't you buy one of these robots yourself and capture this new untapped market? I hope firms will be stupid enough to do as you describe I'd love to be rich someday.

The only possible reason why you wouldn't is regulation. If the government makes it difficult or impossible for you to buy the same robot that Walmart buys then I can see a point but that is exactly why there needs to be less regulation and taxes around automation.
It's actually 20,000 ad groups per campaign. So yes, you probably don't want to add more than 20K keywords.
Great advice. It is wise to cross check both sides of important issues.
Those exist and are in active use by physicists (in fact one of the first CAS called Schoonschip was developed by nobel price winner to be Veltman to carry out Feynman diagram calculations). However there remains a huge tome of high energy physics to be implemented in one common CAS (one of the things I sometimes dream about starting). The culture of theoretical physics is such that only the end results of calculations are ever shared with intermediate steps left as exercises to the reader. Graduate students are expected to develop a stash of identities and routines to go back to, which is their “competitive advantage”, especially in fields like model building.
It would have to be specifically designed to have months or even years-long incubation period and maybe synchronized to start killing at once all over the world.

Otherwise some people would just isolate and survive, gain immunity, or find a cure.
You can't combine Soviet Russia and PCBs without linking to the fantastic http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...
An interesting question is how the compile times in Go compares to those of Java and C#. If the language is somewhat easier, but not very easy, and compiles faster but not really that much faster, it might not be a good way forward for Java and C# developers.

I've always assumed that the compile time comparisons were made against C++ since Google had a lot of large systems written in C++ that they said took a long, long time to compile.

Today I think C# using .NET Core is a good general language. It is easy to learn, fast and compilles pretty fast. It also handles concurrency with async/await or threads. It still has longer start up time than Go, like Java, and might use a bit more memory but should work for most systems.
It's literally just that the character "\" is visible in the bottom left corner off the page on https://nearbyshops.org, presumably by mistake.
After reading this and the raspberry pi post the other day, I am of the opinion that repairable and hackable are going to be the killer features.
Here the specificity is it tries to match against multiple regex, in rust there is RegexSet from the regex engine, it performs a single pass, but I'm not sure it optimize a lot graph for matching. It seems HyperScan can do a lot of optimization by extracting commonalities between regexes.

https://docs.rs/regex/1.1.7/regex/struct.RegexSet.html

http://intel.github.io/hyperscan/dev-reference/intro.html#co...
I avoid right angle turns on the theory that the sharp exterior corner increases the risk of the copper foil peeling away from the substrate.
Funny I thought of Clockwork Orange because of the dentist chair.
I have been a flight test and rocket test engineer. Checklists were life, especially in the rocket world. The fantastic thing about checklists is that they both keep you accountable and free your mental resources so that when something happens that one of your checklists don't cover, you know you've at least tried all the sane/expected things. I personally found that backstop freeing and allowed me to use my creativity when it was demanded by things going wrong.
That was certainly the most vague and easily re-interpreted statement she made. Hoping for fuller context of the conversation so we can get some better understanding of her intended use.
> How efficient was that increased time spent?

How efficient? The most popular sites on the internet are about _fun_, not _efficiency_ ;-)
I agree, looks interesting, but so do lots of things.

It would be valuable to have a short description from someone who's read this, please.
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There are a lot of good technical arguments raised here but the real reason we don't use right-angle bends on the 90% of PCBs which aren't carrying serious current or running at GHz is that right angles look ugly.
I read it to mean “allowing unrestricted comments on a web page is a bad idea”

Perhaps you read it as “allowing unrestricted comments on a web page _or anywhere else_ is a bad idea”

But that second one has never been the case. People have alway been able to post responses on their own sites with links to the original. Many places like reddit are primarily that.

I think others maybe confusing the right to free speech with a right to vandalize.
"Where did the idea come from?
In a dream. "

Yep. And a dream it shall remain. And what's up with the cringy video presentation?
Every discussion method eventually gets abused. Then the owner figures out what rules they want to enforce, and how.

Every website is one URL away. You can't rely on being relatively invisible.

"If I wrote blogs there, id like to see feedback and supportive comments" -- yes, but (a) if you write a blog, you can choose a platform that has comments and (b) eventually the Nazis or the pedophiles or the Nazi pedophiles will colonize your comments section when they discover you don't have any moderation rules. At which point, you will have three choices:

1. turn off comments

2. moderate comments

3. give up
Here's a paper that shows reflections (Fig. 3, "S11") and insertion loss (Fig. 4, "S12") on coplanar waveguides, when using a sharp 90° bend, a 90° bend with a champfer and the case where the bend is replaced by two successive 45° turns ("final design").

The frequency scale spans 10..90 GHz.

http://tentzeris.ece.gatech.edu/ECTC09_Rida.pdf
No it's not. I am in no way required to provide you a platform to talk through or to allow you to continue using a platform you've been using. All it means is that the government, key word, is not allowed to stop you from using a platform you are allowed by it's owners to use.
Nuclear has problems which humanity hasn't found an answer yet:

1) what to do with the waste that has to be kept safe for thousands of years, war-, theft- and natural-disaster-proof? Recycling or breeding can be done but nowhere near the volume that is required. For early attempts at long term storage we have problems getting the waste out of there.

2) how to operate nuclear power in a capitalist society safely? Operators will always have the incentive to cut corners and bypass regulations for profit, leading to security issues and accidents. Hell even communism has failed there, e.g. in Chernobyl or that lake (?) where they dumped their old submarines.

3) how to make a reactor disaster-proof? This includes geology (earthquakes like in Japan), water, fire, terrorism, operator negligence, ...
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