skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
im going to assume you have just started on theory, so i might seem basic but you should crawl some books on electrical theory and some simple gadjet books,
like Forrest Mims.

https://www.forrestmims.com/

online resources for "free" exist..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557533

and you should know how to identify components by reading thier numbers and looking up the WhitePaper, the instruction manual for the component. here is a handy place

https://www.alldatasheet.com/

you should have a firm grasp on Ohms law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law

and Kirchoffs circuit laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws

It is essential to be able to use these laws along with knowledge/whitepapers of components, so you can predict or explain what is happening at any point in a simple circuit, or a big network of simple ciruits.
And thats another thing, no matter how ^intricate^ a PC board looks, its made up of simpler circuits interacting with each other, for example identify the power supply and conditioning section, from the rest of the device circuitry
lookup the parts for thier properties, make measurements, compare the measurements to what is expected from white papers and calculations.
>Which means even the most trivial change requires a variance.

That's a feature, not a bug.

By forcing even mundane projects to go through a process where approval depends on the whims of the decision makers they have set themselves up to extract concessions from basically every project on a whim, fast track things they like (often things run by people they like) and stonewall things that they don't (don't get on their bad side if you want their approval in an expedient fashion).
City gets built on a lake bed. Engineers are called in to fix the obvious problems that result. Engineers are then blamed for not solving the problems.
I'm curious, do you believe an average J-1 in a SB hostel has a lower IQ than, say, an average SBCC student?
That may well be a great way to solve the problem.

I'm not saying that blockchain is the answer, just that blockchain is one potential answer, and may have attributes that makes it subjectively better for this use case.

In my state, counties and some cities administer elections, and may semi-independently make product and process selections. There are definitely blockchain-based solutions intended to allow affiliated, independent entities to productively interact. That capability may be of interest to policy folks.
Amazon Told Police It Partnered with 200 Law Enforcement Organizations
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
The problem isn't just the smell. When lots of people install wood-burning stoves in a dense urban area, it causes a huge increase in air pollution with all the health issues inevitably that come with that.
> Tigers are twice as heavy as lions but still the same size.

Liger, a hybrid (Male Lion + Female Tiger) [0], is the biggest living cat which grows as long as 3.5m and weighs upto 350Kgs.

Ligon (Male Tiger + Female Lion), though, is no where that huge.

> With a single swipe of a claw, a tiger was able to slit a lion’s throat, killing it instantly.

Not just that, they could easily leap 15ft or more. Which means, a Safari on an elephant's back isn't safe when these beasts are around [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

[1] One such attack (nsfw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4t0aeTX954
I used to work in compliance and the number of regulations that are punitive punishments for bad things that actually happened is just astounding.

SOX compliance is arduous but it only exists (and is as strict as it is) because some banks decided to destroy the global economy just to make a bit of money and couldn't understand why this was a bad thing.
That happened to me too. Min payment was 120€ or so, and when I had amassed that amount (it took me like one year), bam, banned a few days before I could cash out. Obviously on purpose. That was ten years ago or so I think.
My personal favorite is Sequel. https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel

Beautiful codebase, rock solid, and way better option than ActiveRecord IMHO
The Invention of Money
>It was probably sufficient to explain to that one guy why that was bad.

Greed doesn't listen to reason.
The term you use, “a synthetic stone”, is odd considering it actually is a diamond.

I mean, if the gold in the ring was not mined from the earth, but instead extracted from seawater (it’s a thing), would you call that not “gold”, but “a synthetic metal”?

What about if the gold was from recycled computers?
Just to add nuance to the green cover info - "... 82 percent in India, comes from intensive cultivation of food crops ..." -- from the article you shared. Food crops don't really help the reasons we pursue aforestation.
Why not both? You're assuming there is happiness for everyone, and they're assuming that everyone gets to a point where happiness is unattainable.
As someone who does a lot of work for state-level regulatory compliance for a winery, let me assure you that the proportion of effort devoted to establishing that we sell a safe product is exactly 0%. It's all about making sure we pay excise taxes and our labels don't violate some modern-day censor's notions of good taste.
That's a misperception of Hacker News. The majority of this community identifies strongly against the clichéd view you're describing. It lost its currency in SV years ago too, so far as I can tell.

By the way, the last time I ran the numbers only about 10% of HN users turned out to be in the Bay Area.
As soon as the article started mixing in the quantum mechanics quotes, my eyes glazed over and I stopped reading. Do people really get something out of these kinds of articles?
Is SCADA your enterprise data speed bump?
minitest. The testimonials speak volumes.

https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest

Apparently, some people think my toy channel implementation called Normandy is somehow good:

https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
I think the Librem5 will have a CC-by-SA 4.0 license, aka copyleft, so it'd have to be open source.
Narrator: No, they will not.
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews with Shooting Survivors
> Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

I always have a hard time making sense of very large numbers like this, especially in units that I'm not particularly familiar with. So I checked and noticed that this is about a state of Massachusetts. The area on fire is one Massachusetts.
Money will get in the way of solving this problem. The sick thing is that old people actually do provide value, just not in the way you think.

In 2016, people over 55 years old accounted for 56% of healthcare spending even though they make up 29% of the population [1]. If you allow for an assisted suicide option, you will give this population another option instead of healthcare. Right now, when they get sick, their only option is to engage with the healthcare industry. Instead of grandpa going for his third triple bypass, he will opt for suicide. The doctors and nurses will not get to perform that operation. The hospital will not get to loot grandpa's savings. The insurance companies will not get to bill the hospital.

Old people are the lifeblood of the health care industry. Not only that, but terminally ill patients as well! If you let them kill themselves, that entire industry dies too. They will not let this happen. They will argue for morality but behind the scenes what they're arguing for is their bottom line.

[1] - https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
It depends on how far you want to make it before your outgrow Zapier. We switched from Zapier to Tray.io and have found dozens of new ways to connect systems that were never possible with Zapier. In addition to using Tray.io to move data around my ecosystem, I use it as a configuration and reporting tool as well since it has so much functionality. It's an incredibly robust ETL tool an has become the most utilitarian and powerful tool in our entire SaaS arsenal.
Of course I care about DRM, but there's not a console that exists that doesn't have a locked-down platform. I take the good with the bad - I buy very little digital games (my games are 99% physical), and when I do, they are <$10 or DRM-free on PC from GOG.

Of course the Switch has DRM, but it's also the only device I own that can play portable games and is not my phone, which I have no interest on playing games on. $5 to relive childhood memories on my bus ride to work is well worth it, but not if it's a crippled version of a re-released game that won't work in a few years.
Some things that might help you make better software (2016)
This is actually a good idea. No /s needed.
Missing off the sentence before this kind of reverses the meaning, have you possibly misread what the journalist intended?
"Validation" == you reach reproduction age and you actually live long enough after that to see your offsprings reach reproduction age.

Evolution is not qualified is the traditional sense, because its goal is not to play god. It's qualified in the sense that this is a side effect of evolution.

Once you throw away the safety of this "validation" and it takes a long time to actually understand what the effects are you will see in some cases the disastrous results of what you're doing
As far as I've heard, it is more about lying than past use (unless that past is a month ago and was a real bender). Telling them the truth about something that happened 9 years ago isn't likely to get you booted.
To be fair, things were probably a bit different when she had kids at home.
Not the stochastic swine, but their mistake was saying GPS signals would be logged while inside a Faraday bag. GPS signals are RF, thus blocked by any proper Faraday cage.
I'm not sure what options they have, but ideally, for convenience some kind of local country bank transfer, which could be to a local crypto dealer. That might take days but you might "stock up" on crypto to compensate.

Or peer to peer cash/crypto swap might be required.

Or businesses themselves sell some of their services with crypto.
Is that such a bad thing? It's like a framework: if it's not necessary to download a thousand pages of Kant in order to arrive at the correct conclusion, is it really all that important to get the rigorous version instead?
Perhaps I'm jaded, but I notice that all the examples given here are developer tools or otherwise things with well scoped functional inputs and outputs (e.g. ffmpeg).

Anyone have an example of a consumer application that has a good codebase? Chromium, GitLab, OpenOffice, etc? I feel like such applications inherently have more spaghetti because the human problems they're aiming to solve are less concretly scoped. Even something as simple as "Take the data from this form and send it to the project manager" ends up being insanely complex and nitpicky. In what format should the data be sent? How do we know who the project manager is? Via what format should the data be sent? How should we notify the project manager? When should we send the report? Some of these decisions are inherently inelegant, so I feel like you get inelegant code.
Every job opening gets hundreds of applicants, minimum.

Most trained programmers never get a programming job.
Look to Japan for insights on the effects of an aging population on an advanced economy. While immigration acts as a buffer within the United States many trends we are currently experiencing can be seen in Japan as well.

With current societal trends, I suspect that human interaction and emotional labor will become quantified and decoupled from the health care sector. A large fraction of the population - from children, to teens, working adults and the elderly - need more face to face interaction. Volunteer organizations, social clubs and other forms of physical 'social infrastructure' (parks, libraries) need additional funding to help fill the gap in so many of our lives.
The dominance of Kenyan athletes in these events is probably mostly due to altitude rather than genes. There's certainly no direct evidence of any significant genetic component, whereas we know that growing up at higher altitudes confers certain advantages.
The dumbest things about these polygraphs is that you're pretty much forced to lie if you want to pass. Some of the questions were vague and if you are a normal human being without a halo glowing on your head you would fail.
Questions like "Do you love your parents?", "Have you ever spread gossip?", "Have you ever done anything immoral" (My interviewer specified watching pornography as something immoral).

Thankfully my interviewer was much nice and seemed to give me multiple tries, telling me that they might do another one later if I really failed.

Overall the interview process was OK. I guess the only invasive part was when they interviewed my neighbors in person without telling me. (When the FBI comes knocking on your door, you freak out)

I also turned down the internship because the pay was abysmal for IT. $15 an hour.
If there is a gold cartel to enforce it, yes.

For a humorous example see the origin of "processed cheese".
The most interesting part of this is the k8s integration to find your peers and connect to them. I've wanted this for a variety of projects; I wonder if this is worth extracting into a separate library?
Worse still, the design of the most popular extension API is intrinsically poor at protecting users from malicious extension developers (or extension resale to malicious developers). Until Google and Mozilla fix the design people shouldn't be installing more than a handful of extensions, because they end up usually having complete access to all your data for convenience reasons.
I agree, but the fee should be a deposit placed by both parties willing to have a review, with the loosing side paying. Direct payments for reviews would create bad incentives to not improve their AI.

Or strait up go for external arbitrators. But "I'm willing to put money behind my words" seems like an easy signal against abusive mass claims.
woooow thats super tone deaf.
I hope he donates all the proceeds...
A light sentence for a famous hacker has made the world safer
> I'm not sure I quite buy that. In practice, what would happen is that a suitably large, optimized VLIW core would start fetching more than one wide instruction in a cycle and issuing the resulting ops in parallel with interlocks for dependencies, etc... Effectively, that is, VLIW would drop the explicit promise of the instruction set and turn into a speculative RISC core internally.

Well at this point this would be quite insane to stay VLIW except for backward compat; but I suspect that the backward compat in question would have way more cost than e.g. the x86 tax. For example x86 is dense which is actually an advantage, but quite hard to decode (which is the main drawback of x86, but even then that's a quite relative drawback, because modern processes let us have complex decoders). What would VLIW have left for itself if internally turned into a classical modern speculative core? Maybe even load-time software translation would perform better...
There’s so many things that cause “health damage” I just don’t care. People used to use wood stoves just fine. How bad could it be.
I gave a highly related talk in 2010 called "Even Software Should Have Screws" at TEDxAmericanRiviera, based on my background working in the iOS jailbreaking community, where I maintained a software ecosystem similar to browser extensions, but for apps and system software.

https://youtu.be/ReKCp9K_Jqw
I think the big problems are parking minimums and a lack of mixed-use zoning in many areas. Walkable areas encourage density, which helps reduce noise and air pollution.
I was asked if I have taken polygraph tests, and if I am willing to take one. They didn't follow up with it, but they seemed serious about it.

That was for a contractor position, not regular employment.

PS. Also drug testing.
Weston A. Price did a lot of studies on nutrition and its impact on health, bone development, and growth, in particular, he focused on the impact of nutrition on dental health [1]. He noted that people who consumed meat and more primitive diets had superior dental health with few cavities (<1% of teeth impacted) and almost perfect dental arches (as opposed to folks nowadays who often require braces and extensive dental work in childhood or well into adulthood).

It's interesting to see the skulls of pre-Columbus native Americans, for example [2]. I'm not sure if we're "evolving" as the article says. I think evolution tends to only evolve for traits that promote survival to the next generation. In this case, I think modern agricultural diets promote underdevelopment of the jaw and teeth, and we've compensated for that by adding additional consonants to our language. The truth is though, the diet that our jaws evolved for still live on in our genes and we're just suffering from malnutrition to an extent.

[1] https://healthwyze.org/archive/nutrition_and_physical_degene...
[2] http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#ch13
There is no such thing as “trusting” spiritual advice. By definition, there is no scientific way of confirming whether the advice is good.

But the legal system is so complex, how are you as a laymen suppose to verify it if you are basically the test case for trying something new?
Traits of a Good Technical Manager
It's an annualized rate of 5%+. That's a pretty fast growth rate for mammals.
Liberty Loses High Court Challenge Against Investigatory Powers Act in UK [pdf]
I'd say it's more of a potential application of functional programming - that is, you could* certainly use functional programming techniques/languages to implement flow-based programming, but functional languages are not automatically flow languages by merely existing.

* But this is not strictly necessary. See also: Unix pipes, which fit the definition of flow-based programming while being possible - and in fact frequently done - with very-much-not-functional languages both implementing the individual steps and connecting them together.
This is exactly correct. Nintendo is the only company who I support with the current generation of consoles, and on the exceedingly rare occasion that I buy a digital game (indies, or a re-release like DOOM), I accept the DRM terms.

If you avoid DRM 100% of the time without exception, then video games become just about impossible to play, with the exception of GOG releases.
Nice. I like the way it also shows you the functions inside a file/folder, and that clickable index is nice.
> the CPU won't look ahead 200 instructions to find more parallel stuff to execute

CPUs do:

> Intel increased the reorder buffer by over 50% from 224 entries in Skylake to 352 entries in Sunny Cove. Likewise, the amount of inflight loads and stores has been increased by over 50% to 200 memory operations inflight.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2371/intel-sunny-cove-core-to...
Nice one with that article from 2010, I remember when that study came out and it's obviously flawed and one of the reasons why so many people ITT have agreed with this "heat-iq correlation".

As everyone knows, the world is big, only ~4.3% of people live in the US. Unfortunately for you, the US it's not the center of the world. By the way, I couldn't care less about a study correlating the whitest and darkest states in the US, a country that shines in racism, academics in there probably go out of their way to make brown people look bad, like that pseudo scientist James Watson.

Quoted from your article:

> the ancestors of Swedes and Norwegians who were clever and resourceful enough to survive in that harsh climate passed down those heightened mental abilities to their descendants.

That's really funny, since the smartest people in the world are Asians and Italians. What northern Europeans are superior though, in the US mostly, is assuming they are better. Going out of their way with mental models to consider themselves superior.
Why no LTE?
Some years ago I went to Tate modern in London and saw a massive queue in the engine room,where was a medium size black sort of a kiosk. Having no idea what's inside the booth,yet too curious to ignore it, I join the queue and after 10-15 min. I get to go inside.I walk in and there's 'For the Love of God',which essentially a skull covered in diamonds. The room was black and had some special lightning to make the skull shine.The whole thing looked so ridiculous and was on the same level as something made in China for $10,the ultimate bling bling.I didn't even stop to observe it and left the booth. Diamonds nowadays are like Gucci or louis vuitton products: even if what you are wearing is original,you still look ridiculous..
Sort of like how the food service industry can work. Good cash but easy to get trapped.

(EDIT: Fiverr is somewhat distinguishable because the skills gained are potentially transferable.)
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something a bit different here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I agree whole heartedly. When we were kids, we knew everyone on my block and people didn’t move much. We could tell neighbors we were going on vacation or when something happened neighbors were looking out and we could run around freely. My mom would talk with older neighbors when they were out doing yard work. Due to continued movement for careers, there isn’t long term stability in community like there used to be.

Another factor, as I stated in another comment, is families don’t live as close as they used to. Most of the families I grew up around have at least one kid in a city 4+ hours away. Before, one cousin could take Mom and Aunt Sue to an event and then other cousin could do it two weeks later due to everyone (or at least Mom and Aunt Sue) living close to each other. Siblings could jointly care for an ailing parent. Now, those burdens tend to do fall on an increasingly small percentage of the next generation of the family because everyone is a half day of travel or more away. (EDIT: And to note, I didn’t grow up in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh that is a 15 minute drive to downtown. I wonder if it is an even larger attrition rate for small towns.)

Finally, grandparents played a big role in raising me. I was with my Nana nearly daily through high school when my parents were working or busy. I saw my other grandparents weekly. Now most of my friends are grateful to be living within an hour or so of one parent. You know who else that kind of interaction is good for? The grandparents! My Nana wasn’t as lonely because she interacted with or was around my siblings and I daily. When you are hours away, a 5 minute skype call every few days isn’t the same.
Looking at national stats for medical errors, and given how bad most doctors I interacted with are at listening, and making diagnosis, I'd say the bar for AI is set pretty low.
This is such a welcome news and a great start to the week!

But with the recent news about a tigress beaten to death in India and after coming across some videos in the social media on the tiger encounters with humans, I hope the Indian govt. also works on bolstering education and awareness campaigns across the rural population on the man vs animal encounters and also works towards preserving the forests where these encounters are reported.
GNOME and Linux are under the GPL. So are phosh (Purism's shell), Chatty (their messaging app) and probably a lot of other components. So you can't make a closed fork.