skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry it got a bit long but here's something. Let me know if you need more or different suggestions.

I would say you need at least three things: (1) a physics textbook with some EE emphasis to get the fundamental physics (again?), (2) a circuit theory book to transform the physical knowledge to reading circuits and (3) some resource to transform the circuit theory to working PCB designs.

(1) and (2) are easy to come by (digital or in book form) and any moderately recent textbook you can pick up at a second hand store should suffice. I like physical books but YMMV. I learned using [1] and [2]. More recently, there are high-quality videos but I think it is better to get a book and then search for additional help on the topics you don't understand from the textbook explanation.

(3) is more difficult. This kind of experience can be obtained from lab exercises in a university or work experience. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to point to a single book or video resource because there are so many directions. Here are some things that may help, I tried to organize them from easy to difficult.
You may need to spend a little money (<$100) in hardware in total.

Then, there is the programming side. This is most often in some C-flavor for microcontrollers so dust off your knowledge on that (or follow one of a million blogposts on Google if you're stuck).

- Get a Raspberry Pi and attach some sensors to it. There are many manufacturers of Pi-compatible stuff. Try to use the low-level functionality of RPi because it will be useful for future microcontroller projects.

- Use your Raspberry Pi with some generic sensor PCB that is not specifically RPi compatible.

- Related to above: learn about datasheets of microcontrollers. Learn that a microcontroller needs quite some external components to function (try to understand why). Learn how to program the microcontroller (extra hardware may be necessary)

- Try to mimic one of the sensor boards you got with your own PCB+microcontroller design. Maybe you can extend its functionality if you design it? Design your own PCB: integrate microcontroller, sensor, crystal, power supply+regulator, etc.

- If you want to get more fancy, you will need to spend more money, unfortunately, but in general the components are very cheap. Maybe try to get a Bluetooth chip and two Raspberry Pi's or two custom microcontroller boards to communicate? Or get a WiFi chip to communicate with your computer? Bluetooth light switch (careful with mains power!)?

- Someone else mentioned the EEV YouTube channel. Great content in general (although I can't vouch for all videos). It's nice to watch some and try to Google more information based on what interests you.

[1] "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" (now that I searched the title, I realize there are many books with the same title, from my short glances they all seem pretty equal, but I am sorry I can't remember the authors of my book)

[2] "Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis", Irwin & Nelms, see https://www.wileyplus.com/engineering-and-materials-science/... (I have a much older version)
Jailing someone who is committing crimes instantly solves that problem. The perpetrator is off the street, unable to commit more crimes.

Treating criminals like victims, instead of showing empathy for the actual victims of these crimes is disgusting.

Honest people should not be made to suffer at the hands of some junkies who can't control their urges and are compelled to commit crimes to feed their addictions.
we should have designated, opt-in, "social spaces" where human<->human interaction isn't considered a breach of norms

Don't we already have such spaces, called "nightclubs"?
Mine are 90% in USA - which, I think, was your point?
That's why I wish this shell could replace both bash and PowerShell in the real life. That's a pity this is highly improbable.
...or sell it? Today if I bought those houses at fair market value, it would still be illegal for me to build a 6-7 story apartment in their place.
Years ago I met my wife online. Now, I wonder which companies have bought our messaging histories... and when a breach will release those and any other content I posted back then.
Your downvotes are funny because there really are plenty of people on all sides on HN
Amazon Joins Walmart in Saying Tesla Solar Panels Caught Fire
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There are no absolutes, only consequences

One example, for every person that will speak for a woman that clearly had her headphones on and didnt want to talk, there are just as many women that arent trying to telepathically signal to leave them alone and are open to the interruption

Everyone operating in absolutes are at a disadvantage

There will always be people better at reading this, there will always be people attractive enough to get a pass on actions that the internet says are always bad, there will always be people part of a hookup that “didnt count” which is never considered when people complain about how they get hit on

People are gatekeeping to reduce unwanted attention from unattractive people
Seems like one of those Google internal threads has spilled external onto HN
I wish people would stop linking to paywall sites. What's the point if most of use here are probably not subscribers?
> an image of a testical.

It's a 'hairy egg', if you see a testicle that's on you.
> but they also power some massive eCommerce businesses and growing number of enterprise shops.

This makes no sense. Why would any company that starts making serious money continue to give SquareSpace money for a template. There's nothing you can do in SquareSpace that you can't do better in a custom app running on one of the many free software CMS's out there. I don't get this.
I keep coming back to the idea that over fishing --> pulling micro nutrients from the ocean --> plankton collapse.
I agree objects are way better than text for manipulating structured data. Python is great at this, so I use Mario to do it in the shell. https://github.com/python-mario/mario

For example, to sort filenames by length

$ ls | mario apply 'sorted(x, key=len)' chain
doc
src
bench
extra
AUTHORS
LICENSE
Yeah. 50% of a small number vs 2% of a much MUCH bigger number. It's a classic mistake that the statically-blind make.
With the regularity things get flagged off the front page, it's been here for ages.
Since ours is GPL, that's our free tier. The supported/hosted/training version is paid, first, 15 day full refund then pro-rated. 15 works better than 30 for us.
Don't.

#1 - It's illegal and they tend to be somewhat serious about that.

#2 - Any major/reputable provider is going to be blocked.

#3 - Any unknown provider can't be trusted.

#4 - A lot of the VPN's they allow to work are because they're tap'ing the traffic anyways.
> Since taxes are normally assessed on profits, that means they pay little or no tax in the countries where sales are made.

Curious why this wouldn't be easily addressed via a local sales tax. Why is a revenue tax necessary as well?
Their sales/marketing teams are way too aggressive, IME. They cold called me on my private number, despite being on the do-not-call list. At several conferences they've the one booth one had to be careful to stay away from, lest one get into pretty aggressive sales talks (as in, "not interested" and starting to walk leading to booth folks walking with me for a bit, and talking to me).
Your Premium subscription gives them the revenue they would have received from the ad you would've watched, but most creators have found that YouTube's monetization is too little and too unreliable to count on. You're paying YouTube far more than the creator, unless you're paying them directly.
A Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
Tech companies create software. Software does not require an office. All tech companies could be remote. VCs may have their reasons to make landorlds rich. Software will still be eating the world.
Click the “web” link underneath. FT lets you read if your referer is Google.
Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own
Sadly, a lot of people genuinely believe that everything is political. I recently expressed hope for the "no politics" guideline of HN be more strictly enforced and was told that "not talking about politics is politics". Frustrating to deal with this mindset...
This is what eaves are for. Since the sun is lower in the sky in the winter, properly sized eaves will shade the windows in summer and expose them to sunlight in the winter.
Do they actually convert the output of the existing commands? Or are they reimplementing then one by one? It looks like the latter.

In their examples it looks like 'ls' is built-in to their shell instead of from e.g. coreutils.
paywall breach: http://archive.is/a2Rnn
This is pretty much what I've idealized for a new shell. Where every program can just output a standard table of information for each action. No need to have the program itself be queried for it every time, or find all the right options. You just get all the data, and filter what you want programaticly.
Holy cow, dude. That's not even remotely like what I said. If you read the original paper, they show that GPT-2 does all sorts of cool things. In OP, they show that it's almost as good at one thing on a couple data sets.

It's like if I wrote a paper showing that widgets improve liver health in young men, young women, and adult men. Additionally, widgets make you happy and taller and turn blue. Then you come along and try to replicate my results, showing only that your version of a widget makes young men and women's livers almost as healthy as mine did.

But sure, pretend I said whatever you want to argue against.
Why would they sell a house they enjoy living in, near the school their kids attend, near the jobs they work at, in the city where their friend are? Or do you propose to force them out?
Steve, thanks for tackling this and popping up.

This past January, the Commonwealth featured a panel on Bay Area housing crisis, featuring Pastor Paul Bains, Fred Blackwell, Priscilla Chan, Janet Liang, Jennifer Martinez, and Erika Aguilar -- an impressive, intelligent, and motivated group of experts.

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2019-01-24/bays-futu...

What floored me, and several friends I shared this with, though, was the collective response that there was no single silver bullet, no way to throw money at the problem to solve it. Which betrays an immense ignorance or denail of San Francisco history.

Henry George's Land Value Tax is not only a concept that was developed in (and concerning) San Francisco, but literally raises money from the crux of the problem at the same time it solves it, by creating an effective incentive to increase density. Very simply put, San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area must grow their way out of this mess, and if they don't, other areas will, and are.

And it's not just about outsiders -- it's SF and Bay Area natives who are and have been priced out and forced out of the area, and present residents who will find themselves and their families -- elderly parents, young children -- facing similar fates.

And yes, I'm aware that Proposition 13 is political kryptonite, but it's also increasingly economic kryptonite, killing off what once made California an attractive and viable place to be. Though I've known of the initiative for decades, it's only in recent years I've realised just how toxic it truly is.

I've also become increasingly aware of the economic toxicity of the tendency toward and incentives for asset inflation, most especially of real productive and essential assets -- land, housing, education, healthcare, essential utilities. Some of the most interesting research on this was conducted in the 1930s and 40s by Bernhard J. Stern, for example "Resistances to the adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937). He traces the practice across numerous innovations, from printing and transport to energy and, yes, housing, naming some very familiar names and tactics. (The post-WWII suburban boom broke the logjam for a time. Oh, and you may have heard of his research assistant, a student named Isaac Asimov.)

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

Markdown/text: https://pastebin.com/raw/fZajYSGa

You're absolutely correct that this isn't a technological problem. It is an organisational one, and a political one, and pits families and the working class against homeowners, banks, investors, and landlords. And it will destroy California, if it hasn't already.
Yup, this is correct. NYC is very far from anything resembling a "deregulated" market.
I'm assuming The shops are startups that failed after s while. They are enabling them to be started quickly.
> Infinite high density cities aren't all necessarily the best thing.

Then SF shouldn't have permitted the office space that brought all these people. City planing needs proportions. When a city adds offices, it needs home, schools, grocery stores, etc

We're not talking about Manhattan-esque high rises. 3/4 of the city is limited by law to single family homes. Allowing mid-rise buildings like Amsterdam and Paris would more than solve the problem
> By the way, any late career change suggestions for a software engineer who's got some money saved up and is sick of tech? Because, fuck.

My current ideas (for myself) so far:

1. Move to another office. Same job, but different environment, different people, different weather too.

2. Go part time. Three days out of five. I think I can do this in my current job.

3. Go to a college to teach CS classes. Scary, but possibly more exciting.
That would be less energy-efficient.

Both air conditioners and dehumidifiers are built on heat pumps. They both dehumidify in the same way: water condenses on a coil and drains away. But an AC unit pumps the extracted heat outside, and a dehumidifier pumps it back inside. When it's hot and humid, it wouldn't make sense to forgo the opportunity to pump heat outside.

A better solution is to get some variation of a two-stage air conditioner. Instead of a compressor that's either off or on, these have a compressor that can run at two speeds. Most of the time, it runs at the lower speed and behaves like an AC that is undersized, runs longer, and dehumidifies well. But when it gets really hot, it goes up to full speed so it can the temperature down. Compared to a single-stage AC, it costs more, but it's more energy-efficient and quieter and more comfortable because of smaller temperature swings.

These days they also variable-speed air conditioners that can adjust in tiny increments and run the compressor at almost any speed, so they are kind of the next generation beyond two-stage. They more or less run continuously, adjusting their power level instead of having an on/off duty cycle. It costs more than a two-stage, but it is even more efficient, quieter, and comfortable.
The reason for that is that is Santa Clara and Stanford Universities. IBM and and cold war era defense contractors.

The reason SF and not Oakland is simple racism.
It would be interesting to split the models down the sagittal plane and join the left and right sides of before and after.
Interesting, there's definitely a niche for this. But I'm not sure it could replace a normal shell in my opinion. I'm confused at what other commands would do in this context? Will it tabularize; echo "Hello World"?

There's an elegant simplicity of treating all piped output as a string rather than objects...
I mean... investment in productive activity is the opposite of rentier capitalism.
Something like this should have (at least) millimeter-precision. Way enough precision for clothing/footwear sizing.

> But still... fabric measuring tapes are cheap and easy to use

I disagree.

People tend to come in very unique shapes. Even a something "as simple" as a foot probably needs at least like 3-5 different measurements to something that really fits perfectly.
"...wikimedia foundation has so far managed to function on donations."

"Whilst I can donate to the Mozilla foundation [2] (and have) I can't imagine it's a path many will easily find."

Uh. So... Are donations viable or not? I'm sure if Firefox pop'd up a note on install and once a year saying "Help support Internet Freedom & Firefox" with a link to Moz's donation page... they'd get plenty.
Or even more similar to the project being discussed, https://xon.sh/
I don't want to see ads. Given the alternative between having ads everywhere and paying a fraction of a cent to see content, I would choose the latter. Ads are annoying enough to me that I would absolutely pay a fraction of a cent to not view the ad.

I know there are probably a lot of people who would rather be advertised to than pay any non-zero amount to view content. Those people should be able to pay with their attention.

Maybe we don't need to kill ads, but having the choice to pay with money would definitely be welcome to people like me.
For perspective:

In 2018 Ebay made $10.74 Billion in revenue

In 2018 Shopify made $1.07 Billion in revenue
The Kinect is okay as a 3D scanner.
Finally, a company that gets ruggedization. It's not about wrapping some hulking box around the thing. It's about careful energy absorption around the key parts.

Most of the cell phone makers other than Nokia do not get this.
The explanation for it might have consequences for a lot of other models though, no?
If you draw tables with foreign keys (as shown in the article) you are guaranteed to fail FAANG system design interviews. FAANG interviewers are all RDBMS hatred and NoSQL love because RDBMSs don't scale at FAANG scale.
> If you go to Houston and offer something close to SF salary, you will be over-run with great talent.

I live in Houston and I concur. The company I work for has a lot of trouble finding talent that we need. That's not to say the talent doesn't exist here. It absolutely does. It's just that we can't afford Silicon Valley level compensation.
In a world were people can't afford health care your problen is giving them internet... Ridiculous.
I'd guess like any environment if the species population (humans) exceeds the carrying capacity of the land (earth) then there will be a die back.
This looks nice.

I use the clipboard manager built in to [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com/)
See other discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779868
Look in California SB-50: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/10/18563360/senate-bill-50-char...
Mindfulness Training with Monks in Bhutan
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20782361
I budget some time, say 10 minutes before I have to end to summarize the next steps and also to summarize the state of hard problems I’m having.
Just because your mom thinks you’re handsome doesn’t mean you’re handsome.
I understand and maybe 2.5 Bn might be under question.

But lets just to narrow it down to one country - US. One of the worlds strongest economy. Only in the US more than 3 million families with school-aged children can't afford internet connection (Sprint claims it's 5 Mio families)
That's why these programs exist: http://1millionproject.org/, https://www.internetessentials.com/, https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...

Now imagine other countries and cities even developed ones. Not talking about developing countries.
Btw 160 million secoindary students which I mentioned exclude rural areas, only those who live in urban areas.

Regarding the devices, I agree that might be challenging but the prices for devices are decreasing dramatically. Plus some models of monthly installments can make it plus 5-10 USD to monthly internet fees, which is pretty acceptable. So we believe in the long run the device problem is also solvable.
"Choosing San Francisco in 2020 is like choosing Java in 2010... Proven, but makes it harder to do simple things and doesn’t give you an advantage over incumbents"- Balaji S. Srinivasan

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1149073637325979648
Yea I think the best way is to first heavily restrict their freedom until they normalize and then have an incentives-based system that rewards positive behavior and actions with more freedoms until they can return to a normal life. Unfortunately, drug addiction is always the product of something deeper that's causing self-medication. Personally, I think a lot of addiction is due to a lack of connection with others and a lack of purpose for being. I like the concept of community service in the form of actually interacting with other members of the community instead of picking up trash on the side of the freeway for example.
Well most of the time when I order something from a third-party vendor, it doesn't come in an Amazon box, so I suppose it is handled by the vendor, not Amazon.
I’d love to chat more if you ever have time. Would like to hear more about your transition.
This seems like the most likely plan, since that's the only lever Trump can operate.

He could declare a 10,000% tariff on iPhones if he wanted.
Interesting. So if SJ does not seem to have the NIMBY cohort putting on the brakes for development, and has plenty of high-rises and other housing, and the prices are still sky-high - does that indicate that maybe more housing in SF is not going to help things as much as people usually think at first?
That's true, but isn't the point of GPT-2 that it's a strong at many tasks? It did really well at a lot more than just the four perplexity measures reported in OP.
I think you misunderstand my position. Nobody is proposing proscribing single family homes, or forcing people out of their homes.

People will sell their homes in the market, as they do today. Today it is illegal for a buyer of such homes to build multi-story apartment buildings in their place. The argument is to simply allow such construction to happen.
Pretty sure Hacker News doesn't use cloud flare.
> how do they manage to both provide the coverage and sustain such low prices?

Have another business segment which makes lot of money and also use lot of debt.

Reliance Jio's parent company Reliance is a big player in oil refining.
> yet still chose to live in SF enduring hellish commutes. I never could quite understand why.

I grew up in the South Bay. I can answer that question.

The South Bay is eye bleedingly BORING by design. It's an absolutely terrible place for a teenager or young adult. Most of the fun stuff in the city is illegal in the south bay.
It's been a while since I've been online dating (almost a decade), but the best site I found was not even a dating site (well, not primarily a dating site, but most people there tended to be single):

https://www.meetup.com/

I'd sign up for hikes and other things I was interested in and met a lot of women, dated a few. One good thing is that you'd tend to see the same people over and over, so you can get past the quick 10 second "like or not" rut that you get into with online dating, and you start to see people more for their personality.

But it's a time investment, with online dating I could typically go out on one or two dates a week, while with meetup hikes, I'd maybe find someone to date every month or two of weekend hiking.

Ultimately though, I found my wife on a whim through a non-dating chat service - she was living thousands of miles from me and I picked her pretty much at random (no profile, no picture, just a username, age, and gender). Took nearly a year of chatting before we even met in person.
You did - I should add that I didn't consider their breakdown sufficient enough:

> In 2013, for example, the average poverty threshold for an individual living alone was $11,888; for a two-person family, $15,142; and for a family of four, $23,834.7

I wasn't alive in 1969, but for 2013, that threshold is quite low - it may make sense for poverty, but it is not a net wide enough to catch a significant portion of (relatively) poor people whose addictions have grown to far outweigh their paychecks.