skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a sheet of Mylar that has had conductive traces deposited on it, forming wires. This means it can be bent to go around curves without the use of additional connectors.

The interesting thing to me about the TROS sheets is that they were initially manufactured to be the same [0] but were programmed by punching out (cutting) the traces in places to zig-zag the current path either through a transformer loop or around it. Presumably there was a machine that positioned a punch to the correct position, based on coordinates from an input punch-card deck, before descending and cutting through the traces.

[0] Note that there are two designs - one with the inputs on the left and one with the inputs on the right, to line up on the connector block to the diodes. Although it's possible it's the same design, just flipped before the punching step.
Damned interesting made an interactive where you can listen to it and see the encoded graphics: http://voyager.damninteresting.com/

Some of the music selection they added to the golden record is actually really ... good. I think it captures a good cross section of Earth.
Could this be used against Google? E.g. train an algorithm from their road traffic information (fetched legally via their API or web UI) to improve rough time estimates based on OpenStreetMap data.
IMHO, a much more reasonable approach would be to have a minimalistic bootloader running on a separate hardware with some kind of redundancy + a more or less regular system for the rest of the logic. If the cost of error is simply deploying a patch using a dedicated high-reliability channel, you don't need to suffer and restrict yourself to stone-age technology.
Your critique hinges on my being unable or unwilling to rewrite "prefer Rust to C/C++ for new code" as "prefer Rust to C for new code and prefer Rust to C++ for new code", then verifying that OP's argument applies to the rewrite.
There are other factors in engineering besides CPU. For many applications, CPU is the cheaper resource (e.g., compared to developer time / opportunity cost).
Not profitable, has never been profitable, its losses are actually growing over time in absolute terms, it's IPO'ing anyway...and yet, it looks (even to me) prudent and reasonable in the current climate.
Having left more recently (mid 2019) - TGIF had been increasingly sporadically scheduled from 2016 onwards, to the point that many of us had thought it was cancelled a few times between then and now. In my local office, snacks got rescheduled and shuffled around to be further away from where the live stream happened and sometimes start at the same time as the broadcast. The writing was on the wall for a long time.

A lot of people blamed this on leaks, but that already came to a head in the 2013-2015 era, where I saw announcements go from being made a week ahead of time at TGIF, to a day, to hours, to a few hours after the fact, to not at all. I'd attribute more to new executives who were more hostile to being asked hard questions.
It also doesn't account for the behavior of similarly privileged non-nerds. Swap out "technical education" in that comment with any other form of specialized training that leads to high salaries. How does the specialization of computer science educations compare to the specialization of neurosurgery educations?

The notion that engineers are shitty people because they weren't made to take enough liberal arts classes falls flat for me. Learning about ethics doesn't make people more ethical[0][1]. And I'd say the number one problem with this industry, and the root of its increasingly poor reputation among the general public, is a lack ethics.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529374

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/07/168650666/new-y...
Yep, but I'm not selling a thought system like Deepak Chopra :D
Conservation: A realistic knock-off may wreck the rhino-horn market
Jimmy is a brilliant man. He created one of the most valuable sites on the net. But I think he is suffering from being in a bit of a feedback bubble. Problems of success I guess.

I don't know anyone who says: I want a social media company to help combat the fake news I see.

Having more flexibility on who sees what, more privacy in group conversations, ways to 'downvote' things not just 'like/love' (lop sided incentives), etc... those are things I've wanted from FB/Twitter/Instagram and I've heard other people want.

It seems he is solving a problem no one wants a solution for. For all the media hype, I'm personally not convinced social media companies should be the arbitrators of what is fake news or not. I'll give Jimmy the benefit of doubt that his version of censorship will be the best, he has proven it with wikipedia. But I'm not sure censorship, even good ones, are what we need.

For those who aren't anti-censorship, then you get the disagreement on what type of censorship we should focus on. In the US, it seems one side favors censoring the far left (as has happened historically with things like communism) and others choose censoring the far right as the priority (a more modern approach). I dislike both sides (extremes tend to be unhealthy) but as a free speech advocate, I want them to have their platform, as twisted and unhealthy as it is. The strength of good ideas should be such that they don't fear bad ones.
I miss having low-level access to video memory.

I've kinda wanted to experiment with graphics in a way that would require me to calculate individual pixels, but AFAIK, unless you use pixel shaders, it is ungodly slow.

Used to be that you could color a pixel blue with a single MOV instruction. Now, you either use a graphics API that has a SetPixel function (Which is incredibly slow for drawing full-screen graphics), or create a byte-array of some sort that gets translated, which while faster, still isn't fast enough.
You missed the most important point:

3. Discussions

Try discussing anything on a random website.

Discussions, just like on HN, are usually better than the linked content.
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Russian Billionaires just got a lot more respect in my book.
This looks like just something right from a Jules Verne book.
> Could this be used against Google? E.g. train an algorithm from their road traffic information (fetched legally via their API or web UI) to improve rough time estimates based on OpenStreetMap data.

No, because then contractual ToS, not naked copyright law, will be at issue. Even if Google doesn't have the right terms to forestall this now, it's a trivial change for them to adopt.
That hasn't been my experience. People show their dissent of opinions with downvotes here on HN too on sufficiently polarizing threads. I think the main difference is the type of content posted on HN vs reddit and the type of people who readily consume that content.

For example, I have noticed shameless downvoting in operating system war threads, both on reddit and on HN. In highly technical threads about physics or mathematics I have noticed people tend to vote based on the quality of the content posted.
I think that's a bit too simplistic. There are many conversations going on at the same time, and this is a property of how they emerge. Seeing something to object to activates enough energy to make a post— like a swimmer needing something to push off against.

The interesting thing is how obvious it is once you know what to look for, yet also how poorly understood it is. If it were understood, we wouldn't see so many comments of the form "I can't believe the comments here". Someone who's aware of the mechanics of objection wouldn't express themselves that way, because they'd know that their objection-to-the-objections is the same thing. I don't think this is bad, by the way; it's just that it comes from the structure of the forum and not from any of the specific topics people think it has to do with. The medium truly is the message. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Zen 1s are plenty fast. They're just not as fast as Zen 2s. The first generation 32 core Threadripper was the fastest CPU in the world when it was released, and that wasn't that long ago.
The idea that gays are going around forcing religious people to marry them against their will is contrived and demonizing to gay people. Nobody forces someone to officiate their marriage. The question of gay marriage is entirely about the widespread legal ban on gay marriage and whether that is/was justified.
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> the ballast concept seems like a quite hacky solution to me.

"Quite a hacky solution" describes every single detail of every scrap of code connected in any way to GC. It is the whole point of the enterprise. If hacky solutions make you unhappy, your only route to happiness is to run very far away.

A lot gets done with very hacky solutions, and you will never need to throw a rock very far to hit somebody who swears by them. Those of us who don't haven't time to get that work done, so for most of the world's work, it's hacks or nothing.
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I forgot to mention this in my other response.

Most doctors will use the same equipment in the same area. For PRK they do a tomographic scan of your eye to determine a number of parameters, and then your doctor pre-programs the procedure.

In my case, the most direct action my doctor had during the procedure was cut back/replace the outer flap, and apply the drops.

I say this because 'cheap' (at least to me) implies someone with less skill or lower ability performing for a lower price. Since so much of the process is automated I'd say that only a small part of this applies.

Especially for those who are looking for a good price, ask revealing questions like where the equipment is, when it was recently obtained, how often this particular doctor has done it. And since costs aren't directly attributed to manual labor (and can easily crest 10k+ for a region), dont be afraid to negotiate and price compare.
I have to laugh at how large my receiver is when I can peek into the "cooling vents" and clearly see a fairly small solid state board and a ton of empty space.
> If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? My guess is that it wouldn't.

Google in the early days didn't have infinite money nor market dominance and it obviously worked out. Doing what they did is what got them from A to B.
> From a purely technical point of view,

The technical point of view needs to be combined with the legal one here, and —

> At the same time, Oracle’s characterization of their API as “original software” is not entirely off base, as anyone who has spent time and energy creating and API would know. The amount of design and work required to create an elegant and useful API is huge, and while it would irreparably harm software as a field to call it copyrightable, calling it anything other than an “original” work is a weak position.

just because something takes a lot of work, that doesn't automatically mean it is copyrightable.

An API doesn't implement anything, it describes a function. Even if it describes a lot of functions and they mesh together really well, there's a distinction between "what" a program does and "how" a program does something.

To compare with literature copyright, there are a ton of romance novels out there — pretty sure you can find a lot of common patterns on "what" story they tell. However, only the "how" is copyrighted, you can't prevent anyone from writing a story with the same outline as an existing one.

(For literature, the problem becomes really tricky since the crossing over from "what" to "how" is kinda fluid; e.g. you can't just swap out character names. Software is actually easier there.)
Issue exists with instruction sets as well. If Oracle wins everyone who has written a compiler for an instruction set they did not have explicit permission to write one for is in violation.
This will simply never takeoff. The Goldilocks conditions that allowed Facebook to spread like wildfire will never exist again. You would have to find a large group desiring to use the platform (college kids) who help grow the user base, with few/any functional alternatives (Facebook already exists, so it cannot supplant itself), along with a newly booming internet thanks to university/household broadband access, etc... At this point, all the initial users of Facebook have children and grandparents that use Facebook... and it is multi-national. The idea that a spunky-yet-well-funded startup is going to even contend with them is silly. Not that I do not wish it would happen, and we can all think of reasons why it should happen, but once the reality of contending with 2+ billion active users kicks in, you realize the petite crowd of HN users that would go for this “Facebook rival” are utterly irrelevant. MySpace was a known brand that spent millions on rebranding after cleaning up its landing pages in 2012 and they went... nowhere. Justin Timberlake could not even save them.
It's probably to get away with building a successful feature startup when it's just a hobby business.
Didn't it happen with Google? Did they not build a more productive engineering department because they said "Bring your whole self to work, and bring your dog too" and not "We want your butt in a cubicle for 40 hours and this is just a job"?

I suspect if a company says "Bring your whole self to work, and we're actually serious about it, only bother applying if you think you'll gel with the folks already here," they'll still be able to hire as many people as they need and they'll deliver better products because of it.
This is historically revisionist. Google was a money-making behemoth with its tentacles in many areas of innovation before it became the politicized entity we know it to be today.

Google only really became politicized a couple of years ago when certain media publications started making demands for diversity numbers within the organization and publicly shaming them for not meeting some imaginary bar in the area.

Github was the premier hosted SCM solution long before it literally pulled its meritocracy rug from under it [0] and has been living off first-mover advantage since, succeeding in spite of the activists it now employs, not because of.

I personally _would be_ very surprised to see an identity politics focused company beat either, not merely because of their [Google, Github] current status but because those in question haven't shown themselves to be capable of building much at all.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocr...
I call this phenomenon "Not Invented Yet Syndrome".
I had to bail someone out once. Both misdemeanors both set to statutory bail of $350. Since it was so low, I just went to jail with $700 to bail them out. The cashier said I had to pay $810 as there was a $110 fee to fund some police initiative. The $700 was paid back when the bailee showed up. The $110 was a fee lost even if the bailee was acquitted.

I never knew about this fee, when I complained to my city council member he said not to commit any crimes.

There are many rackets just finding inefficiencies in justice that I’m glad to see we’re slowly chipping away at them.
Being LGBT isn't the same as being political. It's not a subset of politics. Being accepting of gay people or prejudice against them might align with the two parties in the United States but someone's existence and visibility isn't inherently political. The point is that China (and many others in the world) are taking a stand against LGBT people, not just to preserve their hold on political power.
Yikes, when you’re the one commenting is when you know it’s bad. I’ll make sure I don’t follow suit.
I don't have a seller central account, and (it appears) I cannot open one either. Is there a way for me to report listing abuse _without_ being a seller?

I'd like to, at a bare minimum, report the abusive listings that have nailed me, personally.
SCOTUS ruled on the cert petition; what people may not understand is that while that is a ruling, it is (and there is explicit precedent on this point) not one which has precedential weight (even as persuasive authority) as regards the merits of the issues addressed in the lower court ruling.
Fascinating about the memory areas activated when folks knew a soda brand, while if they didn’t know the brand it was more the senses and taste, which clearly determined the preferences.

Is it ethical? “For Charity” was basically their answer.

Will it be used for purely profit-driven adventures and end up marketing bad things to people that do not need them? Absolutely.

Does it really work as effectively as they indicate? I dunno - they really only had numbers from a really old subliminal priming study.
Does this apply to electromagnetism?
https://priceonomics.com/the-most-prolific-editor-on-wikiped...
Why?
Published an oauth API and let peeps go nut!
I bet if some one like reddit did that I bet that there would be PHP modules and the like in days!
There would be ways to cover the costs either by landing page or charging the child site per block of calls.
Stripe is kind of analogous to a utility company here. They're an upstream provider. They don't care about what "infrastructure and resources" you've built. If you break the terms of service, they will cut you off, just like if you don't pay for your gas/electric you will quickly find yourself with a non-functional home, regardless of how fancy it is.
Depends on the box, but some years ago, I picked up an old slotted-Xeon server at a swap for a few bucks, and it had 32 DIMM slots on an enormous memory sub-board. Took registered or buffered ECC, as I recall. I scored a few modules on eBay and put 256MB into it, I think it would've gone to 4GB if I filled all the slots.

But the hard drives were SCSI SCA-2, which I believe maxed out at 40MB/s but in practice the drives were much slower. So yes, there was probably a point in time where a reasonably-beefy box would have had the specs you describe.
What we use the SpaceX starship - fully refueled in orbit - as a second stage? Put a 3rd stage in/on it to launch a probe. Fire the 3rd stage down in jupiters gravity well to get the most from it, or whatever trickery can be had. I suspect we could get to the heliopause a bit quicker even without such nice planetary alignment.
It would be a good distinction to make if only "intolerant of my viewpoint" wasn't usually an euphemism for "not letting me being a hateful person".
Take a look at Kubernetes, Helm, and the Cluster API.
What I really want is a 'Spotify for prominent newspapers', so I'm not confronted by paywalls for sites like NYT, Washington Post, Bloomberg, etc. That is something that I would pay for.

What I won't pay for is multiple subscriptions to several prominent newspapers I'm interested in, that are linked everywhere, especially here. If WT:Social can provide content from all the biggest mastheads with one convenient subscription, I'm in.
I definitely saw something like this buying (of all things) underwear. calvin klein makes cotton underwear and the more expensive 'stretch cotton' underwear. The listing had a picture of the stretch cotton underwear, but I, and about 1/3rd of those with pictures in the reviews were getting regular cotton underwear
During a recent Amazon all-hands meeting, the company leadership talked about how there are something like 5,000 employees working on various marketplace frauds, including using ML on some of this.

I have no idea why it's so hard, but I don't think Amazon is being as complacent as it seems from the outside.
"other entrepreneurs"
This may be dated, but apparently there is a list of specific sites [1]. HN is not on that list.

[1] https://redbus2us.com/us-visa-forms-ds-160-260-has-social-me...
Thank you for this. I've been skeptical about Matthew since his association with Hello, the failed sleep gadget startup. This really drives home what a salesman he is. Id like to think there will be consequences...but I doubt it.
Tangents are disallowed. But I'll grant you a hyperbolic trajectory.

Link graphs remind me of lightning descending leaders. If you can have a sense of charge potential between cloud and ground, there might be a circuit equivalent which drains largely self-referential link-farms.

Or is that rephrasing your description? My circuit physics / EE-fu is exceedingly weak.
> I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.

Hackertyper is absolutely using real code.

Specifically, it's using groups.c from the Linux kernel:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups....

Compare that to the code used by Hackertyper:

http://hackertyper.com/code.txt
Well, isn't that advice also mostly given to founders aiming to create a potential ≈unicorn and not a lifestyle business like this?

Don't get me wrong, what this guy has done is impressive. Growing a company while staying profitable all the way, and being able to support himself is great. I would switch places with him (ex post facto) in a heart beat.

But still, this company will probably never be bought by anyone (besides maybe Stripe), and could very well exist for many years to come with 1-2 employees including the founder.
There's probably a better case for compilers being fair use than this (not that this doesn't have a great case).

I'd be more concerned about emulators and actual chips. People have been assuming that copyright doesn't apply to APIs for so long that I'm sure there's any number of cases of accidental "copyright infringement as defined by Oracle". I'm just not sure that compilers are a prime example (at least as relating to instruction sets).
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If Google were calling for the nationalization of major industries and a radical leveling of wealth, then I might call them "far-left." But being vaguely LGBT-friendly or talking about diversity is pretty centrist, maybe a bit socially liberal.
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Sure and Synthea is doing something similar, as well as a few others. Those can produce data good enough for certain use cases. But it's not quite good enough for realistic product demos involving complex conditions, or testing anything related to record linkage.
Isn't this just Square, but with cheaper processing fees (since Stripe is eating the bill)?
The two biggest anti-features for me are the star system and the contribution activity green tile thing that appears on a user's page. To me personally, both of these systems subtly frame one's commit frequency and stars as a measure of how good they are as a programmer.

I believe these "features" turn the site into a pseudo-social media outlet and allow vanity to creep into process by which communities develop software. It is something that I noticed quite a lot during my (recent) years in undergrad: where many individuals directly equated stars with software quality (in there own projects or the projects of others). I know that those features in particular are only part of the problem (if the problem does truly exist), but they personally made me uncomfortable with the platform and are one of the primary reasons I left GitHub a few years ago.

That's just my opinion though, so take it with a grain of salt.
This is written by a neural net and this is why it's trending?

Subliminal messages of coke in the cinema was faked, can't be bothered to see if this blog spam Markov chain mentions this.

Check out Scent marketing if this sort of thing interests you.
Ah, so now it's about state governments somehow and for some reason. It seems like every time you bring something hyperbolic and
generally untrue that you can't back up, you shift to something else.
I figure there are just people of every political persuasion who default to being confrontational.

When they are on your side you see them as principled and necessary, if you disagree with them they are antagonistic SJWs.