skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
70% feels pretty awful to me when you don't even know what it is you're measuring.
Suppose I were looking for a ready-to-go reflow oven at some kind of reasonable price. Where would I start? Any recommendations?

Here's the rub... there are relatively inexpensive, COTS reflow ovens out there[1], and they do work - more or less. The problem is that many people find them to be more on the "less" side of that spectrum, without putting considerable work into upgrades and mods anyway. And once you take a cheap T962 off the shelf and start modding it, you might start to ask "why not just build my own from a toaster oven?"

The toaster oven conversion winds up being cheaper, or - at worst - a wash, from a price standpoint. And many people find that they get better results from the converted ovens than they do from a T962.

Unfortunately, the next "hop" up in quality in terms of commercial ovens winds up being a pretty big jump price wise.

I haven't tried this myself yet, but I have a friend who has both a T962 and a conversion oven (made from a Black and Decker convection oven, so a little pricier than the model cited in TFA), and he only actually uses his converted oven. I trust his opinion a lot, so if/when I decide to get a reflow oven, I'm leaning hard towards doing this.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Happybuy-Soldering-Machine-Infrared-A...
Not sure why you think that isn't game-able as well, they already use massive racks of real phones.

Ill sit out being spyed on even more intensively in the name of "telemetry" thanks.
Are you a candidate for corneal reshaping with topography guided PRK combined with CXL (corneal collagen crosslinking)?
Oh this is great. I first tried it with Google Lens, which supports normal QR codes, but unfortunately didn't do anything at all with these.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of US SSNs have already been compromised...

We’re way past that, there have been multiple individual incidents that have exposed a majority of US SSNs.
I doubt that they use Tor. First Iranian I have talked with after airport security simply shown as VPN app to use that works. I have used SSH tunnel without problems. Censorship is quite weak in Iran and Tor is not necessary.
> Just stay in js land as a single page application and communicate with server purely in REST.

This is a sensible conclusion. Unfortunately, "js land" tends to grow as application grows. And nobody actually unloads their Javascript when it is no longer necessary (can you even do that?)

Server-side rendering means, that you shouldn't leak memory — otherwise your app will literally stop working.
This album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egauj-7RnJc

(with 120 upvotes 384 downvotes at time of posting).

I'm not sure about critical acclaim, but it seems many youtube watchers at least don't like it.
Hrrmmm... I like SMT. It's cheap, easy, and performs well. I haven't tried the ceramic paper, but I've only tried single sided reflow, and it worked fine without. I'd also worry a bit about fumes during reflow so doing it under a vent or hood (they recommend no drafts?)

The challenge I saw was with silk screening the solder paste with the right alignment and thickness. Placement with tweezers and a binocular microscope (or young eyes) went fine once you do a couple. Post reflow rework substantially increased yield from ~80-90% to 99%.

Make sure you have a test for those parts before you put then all together wrong!
I feel like this approach would eventually become gamed since you could still have human participants act as engaged users.
> The human voice is the ultimate instrument

Thanks to biology, not everyone can sing.

Barring physical disability, musical instruments are accessible to a much wider audience. Not to mention that there are a wealth of instruments to choose from.
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Highly recommend checking out this hour long interview with Jeremy Blaustein, the author of the linked article, who worked on the Silent Hill franchise among other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DB5GFiTRig

He gives a lot of background on how the industry was at the time, not that much earlier than the MGS release. It boils down to basically being a wild west of sorts from what I remember.

Similarly, I can also recommend the rest of TheGrateDebate's YouTube channel. It's a group of Silent Hill fans talking about Silent Hill things with high production qualities. I don't even think you have to be much of a SH fan to enjoy their works.

On a side note, I was reading Jeremy's twitter feed a few weeks ago and I believe he was likely tapped to write this in response to an MGS story he shared: https://twitter.com/JeremyBlaustein/status/11431327794014699...
> Thanks to biology, not everyone can sing.

According to this, nearly everybody can, with training.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/everyone-...

I used to be a singer when I was younger, and I was good. But then I gave it up and without the continuous practice, my ability to carry a tune tunefully has severely diminished - my biology remains the same (well, add a few years), but my level of skill has dropped off, and hence so has my singing.
Maybe $16 with one of my lifetime supply of 20% off coupons!

This gives me an excuse to share the Three Secrets of Bed Bath & Beyond in-store coupons:

1. Even though the coupons have an expiration date printed on them, they do not expire. Keep your old ones and use them when you want.

2. You can use more than one coupon in a single visit. You can't stack them on one item, but if you have N coupons you can use them on N items.

3. If you forget to bring a coupon to the store, you can come back within 30 days with your receipt and a coupon and they will refund the discount amount.

None of this applies to online purchases, only in-store.
What was it like at the event that isn't captured? Was there a party afterwards?
Exactly, these are companies in business to make a profit not to provide a societal benefit. They all benefit from regulation of margins and common model/pricing, "everybody wins" except the customers.
Given the choice between a government that poses no threat to it but is illiberal and any possibility of a liberal government the US always opts to harm the illiberal government. Libya complied with all arms control treaties and is buddy buddy with Italy. Doesn’t matter, as soon as someone whispers democracy the US does their level best to fan the flames of war. There’s an authoritarian democratically elected government in Ukraine. Let’s support a violent rebellion.

This is part of a historical pattern that’s basically unbroken but is aptly represented by the US involvement in the world wars. What business did the premier power in North America, or the Western Hemisphere, have in a European war between empires? What possible benefit would accrue to them from it? Very similar argument for the European theatre in WWII but the Pacific theatre is, if anything, more ridiculous if you don’t start the history of US involvement with Pearl Harbour. The US embargoes the Empire of Japan, banning most importantly the export of oil. They know the Empire of Japan cannot continue its never ending clusterfuck of an attempt to conquer China without oil. This was a calculated attempt to bring the Japanese to heel they had to have known could lead to war. And this was not isolated. The only reason the US military started hostilities against the Empire of Japan after Pearl Harbour rather than before was logistical fuckups.

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

The US is, in every part of it, hostile to anything that isn’t a democratic republic. This is true even if wide heads within USG know that democracy is bad for US interests. If the Arab Spring had actually succeeded anywhere apart from Tunisia it would have been a car crash for the US. The Arab public is a lot less willing to deal with Israel than the dictatorships, monarchies and juntas that currently surround it, and democracies are very likely to lead to civil war and ethnic cleansing in any country with no tradition of liberal government. See Syria. The US tries to arm the non-existent liberal opposition and all the weapons end up with the people who were Al Qaeda in Syria until yesterday or with those shouting “The Christians to Lebanon. The Alawites to Hell!”
For anyone who's wondering, Firefox handles Safe Browsing a lot differently. There's an overview here: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-... It's possible that this is outdated though.

The tl;dr is that

1. Firefox downloads a list of partial hashes every 30 minutes from Google. It's only the first 32 bits of each hash. This can easily be turned off in about:preferences.

2. When you visit a website, Firefox checks the beginning of the URL against the partial hashes stored locally.

3. If the partial hash matches the beginning of the URL, Firefox downloads a list of all of the hashes beginning with the partial hash it matched.

4. Firefox checks the full hash of the URL against the new list of full hashes. If it matches, the site is blocked. If not, you continue on browsing.

When I first found out how it worked a while ago, I was pretty amazed. It goes to great lengths to not know what sites you're visiting.
Finding a good reflow oven is frustrating. The Puhui T962 series units, available since 2014, were around $150, but they had wildly nonuniform temperature inside. I've had boards scorched at the center and failure to solder properly at the edges. There's an open source mod to those which makes them reasonably usable. New firmware that runs the cooling fan a bit during heating to distribute the hot air, and a proper cold end reference for the thermocouples.[1] With those mods, those things are usable. These things have been cloned in China; you'll see "T962" units that don't have a Puhui logo on Amazon and eBay. None of the cloners seem to have made these well-known improvements and delivered a good out of the box experience.

The next step up costs much more. A nice little prototyping convection oven from Germany costs about $3500. There's not much in between the $200 units and the $2000 units.

The article is really an ad for Whizoo's Controleo3 board, which is $249 with all the parts you need. So this isn't that great a deal.

Most of the cheap solid-state relays on eBay and Amazon are fake. The current ratings on the unit are far beyond what the electronics inside can handle. Google "Counterfeit Fotek SSR" for details.[2] Since the failure modes are 1) fail in the ON state and 2) catch fire, this is not good for anything that draws significant current. The real ones are a lot more expensive than the fakes, and cost goes up with current rating.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2014/11/27/improving-the-t-962-reflow-o...
[2] https://www.ul.com/node/81246
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No one should be surprised by this. Microsoft is Google, just with a price tag attached. (Google services are usually free of charge because they mine your data and target you with ads; Microsoft has discovered the concept of double-dipping and has now joined the party, while still charging for Windows.)

Getting you to sign into your computer with a Microsoft account is all about tracking and monitoring everything you do all of the time and selling a record of it to the highest bidder.
The Australian government is diametrically opposed to taking such action.

Australians, or just over 50% of them anyway, care most about their own pocket, making sure they get money, making sure their house price remains high.

I'm pretty sure a very large percentage of Australians care about the environment at some level, just not more than they care about money.

The Australian government is very much opposed to renewable energy and strongly supports the usage of more coal.
> Why? As reported above, Google itself isn't even doing that.

I work at "Google itself". Typically there's a single process responsible for all the disk writes of significance on the machine, possibly bypassing the in-kernel filesystem entirely in favor of direct block device access. That process's caller waits until three machines (each with its own battery backup, and frequently on a separate PDU from the others) have acked the write before proceeding. Also, that process's caller is Spanner, and those three machines are necessary to say a single replica has accepted the write. Typically there are three replicas in different clusters (often in separate cities) and two of them have to accept the write (in Paxos terminology) before Spanner tells the application it's complete.

Please don't take Google's production environment working successfully most of the time from the customer viewpoint as proof of anything about the Linux virtual filesystem layer or ext4. You can paper over a lot of brokenness when you have six independent battery-backed copies of the data in two cities before you depend on it.

> We're not talking about a network timeout here. Hardware failures are hardware failures and not in the general case recoverable by software no matter how strongly held the opinions are about how that software should work.

Software can't fix the broken hardware, and (without significant redundancy and cross-verification as Google does) can't correct for hardware simply lying. But correctly written software can absolutely change the likely failure modes when hardware reports error. And intermittent hardware failures happen a lot more than you might think anyway. Bugs that turn intermittent failure into permanent corruption are nasty.
A little care could have made this statement seem less.. inconsiderate.
Is this Stripe's first public RCA? Looking through their tweets, there do not appear to be other RCAs for the same "elevated error rates". It seems hard to conclude much from one RCA.
US government officials have a long history of adopting stupid policies that do the exact opposite of what they claim. Sanctions. War on drugs. Iraq war. Hell, pretty much everything they do never has the intended consequences but others. It's not that hard to foresee the consequences, but they don't care. They are either stupid, callous or both. Most are vicious, disgusting human beings who likely get off on the suffering and loss of life they create. And the population keeps voting the same scumbags in time and time again. What does that say about the people here? You can decide.
There are trillions of dollars at stake in the auto industry that Tesla is trying to seriously disrupt.

There are trillions of dollars at stake in the launch industry that SpaceX is trying to seriously disrupt.

There are trillions of dollars at stake in the ride-share/taxi industry that Tesla/Elon is trying seriously to disrupt.

There are a lot of people who are working very hard to paint a very negative picture of Elon/Tesla/SpaceX right now.

It's amazing that stories like this make headlines while the news that the Tesla Model 3 is outselling every other electric vehicle combined doesn't make a blip.

Follow the money.
You don't want a world where being untrustworthy is easy to get away with and incentivized though, IMO. That contradicts your goal, since it means more people will decide to be untrustworthy.
I hope you're not right about that, but I fear you are.

I also underestimated how much the average joe doesn't care about privacy. They'd give it up completely for a tiny bit of convenience. Nobody cares enough to desire a private/decentralized web.
Cool! Does it include all the capabilities of https://github.com/plasma-umass/DataDebug or should/could both be installed?
Had to scroll farther than I expected to find a Florida Man reference.
Explicitly advertising your past might not help you to progress over your "typical" engineering career.

That said if you want to become a vigilante for "how to be successful with bad childhood and no education" - that might work really well.
Yeah, I've had 2 great ones in my lifetime. One growing up and one now as an adult.

You're not likely going to find a great one if you're going to a Costco or Wal-Mart to get your prescriptions. One needs to go to a proper clinic.

My current one did my ICL surgery (a corrective surgery similar to cataract surgery, but a permanent contact lens instead of a lens replacement) several years ago.
Scroll, click a story, click a link off the site and then hit back button twice. You will jump to top of homepage incorrectly.
The 3rd verse in this song articulates your perception of what a spammer is: http://ytcracker.com/music/spamtec%20-%20what%20is%20spam.mp...
Your assumption is correct.
Without agreeing with the author's, your point about being limited to "discrete notes" strikes me as a non-sequitur. As if music had more "substance" the more notes it contained?
Most of the difficulties the author is mentioning are caused by the US sanctions that have been put in place after Trump's decision to walk away from the deal the US signed with Iran (against international laws). What you call "democracy" is causing most of the difficulties the author encounter, not the censorship or surveillance from the "dictatorship". But I think it's not more the role of developers to change the politics than any regular citizen. In that case, you might want to reconsider the products you buy from China as well.
This response is so aggressive, it makes me wonder if there is more to your opinion of the author than what you've initially shared. I can't find specifics in the writing to warrant the "we get it, you need to feel important" attack.
These sound like night exercises from infantry school.
Could you just take a picture of it and reuse it later?
Worth noting though that the majority of powerful people in Russia have primary assets, investments, family and property in the West. This makes the legislation very effective. It is hard to tell how much that would apply to Iran's mullahs.
Actually you very specifically choose your posting environment as an individual, what an odd and misleading statement. It’s a shame that you write content but don’t believe it to be important to care about the largest fraction of readers. I’d hope for your sake that you reconsider.
No, this album by Kendrick Lamar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9fN-8NjrvI&list=PLu4sMtaJ7f...

Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork's No. 1 of 2015. Grammy nominated for Album of 2015, Grammy won for Rap Album of 2015.

It features jazz musicians such as Lalah Hathaway, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Terrace Martin.

Robert Glasper deserves a mention in his own right: he's released albums spanning jazz, R&B, and hip hop and often crossing between genres.
Tone isn't the only issue. Some people simply lack range.
I really like the Introduction to Machine Learning Course that Google has put up on their developer site [0]. It's simple enough that anyone can get into it, while still digging deep enough into the math behind things that it isn't just you learning how to copy and paste code.

Besides reading an actual textbook or learning from an online course like (https://eecs189.org/) which can understandably be somewhat daunting at first, I think this is definitely the next best thing.

[0] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/
It's extremely irreponsible of this author to not list a respirator as a requirement for handling ceramic fiber, given that the audience is likely to be unfamiliar with the materials.
Money in googles pocket.
Then you haven't heard of the scammer logic: I made money coz I'm capable/I made it by my ability, you have an issue with it/are jealous? Go make your own then.

It doesn't matter how, it matters whether you made it.
Yes. I tried several different brands till we found the ones that worked the best. Each trial I would get about two weeks worth so I could get a good feel for comfort and fit.

It is a little frustrating though that now I can’t just go somewhere and buy those lenses. The prescription verification isn’t terrible but it’s an annoyance.
A recent one: phones with non-replaceable batteries.

I never thought consumers could be so shortsighted and wasteful.
It is an anti-luddite stuff, which seems not be coming across, nevermind.
That definitely exists on mobile. I use FF Focus, which just clears the entire session as soon as you close the window.

Also, on iOS Safari and Firefox can be defaulted to private browsing.

On desktop, Firefox can be configured to clear all cookies and site data whenever it is closed.
I meant that I find a low fat ketogenic diet works well for me due to specific health issues of mine.

I see no reason why it might be good (or not!) for the population at large, so I laughed at people who thought it might be so based on fanciful evolutionary theories. Theories which appear to be confounded by the discoveries in the paper.

Apologies if I was too terse in my original comment.
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Issuing additional RSUs for retention is something which, with their positive cashflow, they absolutely would do (handled by share repurchase) if the stock price dropped to the point it made rational sense. Who wouldn't stick around at Apple if they're printing money and your RSUs have a basis of $1?
Just how many antivaxers are there on HN? My comment from a few days ago was also severely downvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487229
I like this resource for learning about the elements, esp. the drill-down, which makes it fast to go back-and-forth. Also the "Wide" view is cool - I don't remember how long it took me initially to realize that the lanthanide / actinide rows actually belong in the middle of the other ones. :)
No need to rush to judgement, this will be an interesting case to follow,

> “It’s taken a long time to get to this point, and I remain steadfast regardless of any monetary outcome. The only thing we are guaranteed to take to our graves is our name. I’ve spent a career of integrity, and won’t stand idly by when someone like Elon Musk runs roughshod over others because he happens to be a billionaire.”

edit Please give me the courtesy of explaining downvotes. Thanks.
Don't even bother, dude. Facebook is designed from the ground up to be a labyrinth.

It's not there to make things easier for you. It's there to watch you spill your guts, and lead you around by the nose until you do.

It doesn't give you helpful information. It only gives you the minimum to keep you there as long as possible.

Any time Facebook seems like it's missing an obvious feature, stop, think about that, and then consider never using Facebook again.

Count how many times you might have dropped Facebook for lacking obvious, really easy to use functionality that almost any other normal site has. Count how many times you have to dig deep to find some key piece of information, especially when you'd expect it to be right next to this some other heavy use item.

Then think about how Facebook is this billion dollar company, with thousands of smart employees. And yet Facebook still serves up this ridiculous UI with glaring omissions, which may or may not be buried at depths unexplored, hidden from any obvious placement.

When you've had a moment to think about that, just drop Facebook, cold turkey. It's not there to help you do anything.
Probably at about the same point Taco Bell is viewd as "Fine Dining"
Because it's a lazy and boring article. It takes what could have been an interesting topic and returns to the beaten to death theme of how "Gangster rap music is ruining this generation. Things were so much better back in my day". It's honestly condescending and the entire thing implies that most people nowadays are simply incapable of appreciating higher forms of art because they lack the education, which is an incredibly simplistic answer to a nuanced issue.
Im not really familiar with how qr codes actually work, ive wondered before if its possible to add multiple networks/passowrds from a single qr code, or does it not work that way?