skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The descriptions of the American components (resistors, diodes, etc...) reflect what I've seen in all of the consumer electronic components that I've busted-open here in the U.S. -- ones which are often made outside of the U.S.

The fact that these consumer electronics are built according to the American way as opposed to the Russian way - is that a reflection of selling to a U.S. market, U.S. companies selectively working with manufacturers that do things in a familiar way, general wide-adoption of the U.S. ways, or something else?

If I were to be in Russia or a former Soviet state, would I see consumer electronics looking more like this Soyuz clock?
More or less. The main culprit is web browsers. Chrome will happily use 4gb by itself these days...
AI Applications for Social Good
Another note on that -- this is with increasing population and as they say, more bank branches opening than ever, so the automation effect has been very strong.
If any part of the code is not visible to your users/customers, it's not as open as open source. Your solution sounds, in fact, less open than "Commons Clause" type products which fail open source definitions because they restrict commercial usage without a license, but all of the software is still visible.
It might have one in online advertising? Are there any players aside from Amazon that aren’t Google in the online, automated advertising world?
This is akin to asking if the U.S. should have adopted Marxist policies to beat the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Why shouldn't American innovation, free enterprise, and the spirit of competition be sufficient to defeat Chinese tech giants? Surely nimble American startups should be able to disrupt their state-sponsored dinosaurs.
IIRC the Microsoft antitrust issues came from the fact that IE was the default browser and people didn't know they could switch. Chrome needs to be actively installed first before it can be used, so that whole issue is gone.
Your reaction is a misinterpretation of what I said.

The fact that a statement has been used in propaganda has no bearing on whether or not it is correct. As the saying goes, "Ideas are not responsible for the people who hold them."

The statement was wrong because it is wrong, and I gave a citation written by professional historians demonstrating that fact.

That the statement is popular because of NRA propaganda is a separate issue. See https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/nra-guns-sec... for a reasonable explanation of the history behind why that claim is true. And for documentation of the fact that, until said propaganda, that claim was widely and rightly rejected.

I have no reason to doubt that he has made up his own mind based on information available to him. However I also have no doubt that if he lived in any era before the NRA propaganda took hold, he would not have come to that opinion. Because it is an opinion that basically nobody ever held.
This. Only have good things to say about CBT-i. Worked wonders for me.

Also I can second doing physical excercise.
Both of those positions are valid. Bigger batt for $50 more would be great, vs meeting a price point and fewest possible skus.

I would yoink one with the biggest battery possible too.

But I would aslo do the same for several other upgrades that I particularly value. I would take as much ram as they want to offer. I would take as much ssd space as they want to offer. I would take as much ssd speed, cpu, pixels, as they can deliver. I would pay whatever it takes to make it weigh less and be smaller while still doing all that. And don't forget to put at least 2 full speed usbc/thunderbolt/hdmi ports so I can have external portable monitor without drivers.... Then again I don't want touch, or any form of face or fingerprint, or any more than the minimum gpu to run a traditional non-compositor desktop and display video at 30fps.

But now I have completely obliterated the entire concept of meeting a target intersection of functionality and price. I've thrown price right out the window.

And, that's just my personal individual set of priorities. You don't care about half the stuff I would pay anything for, and you probably do care at least a little about stuff I actively don't want. (gaming gpu, touch, face id, hell webcam at all)

So, back to the beginning, they came up with a reasonable set of functionality to target, and a reasonable price to target, and really, even though I too would like a big battery, it makes no sense to talk about $250 version that has a bigger battery.
Where does the mind come into it? Calling what these things do mind reading feels a bit overblown to me.
It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.

I think that's the wrong way to look at it. There are a few factors at play here. One is selection bias (there was a lot of crap written then too).

More importantly though, "ingenuity" is somewhat a limited resource. If your systems are highly constraining, you burn a lot of it on working around the constraints. It can be clever as hell, but also means a lot of other stuff couldn't be done.

Also, there are vastly more people working in the area now, with the corresponding regression to the mean.
> Remote is acceptable, even encouraged.

11% of all SE jobs posted on Stackoverflow in the last 4 months or so were Remote:

https://skilldime.com/app.php?PieChart2=Remote

I like the way the blog post is so well written in a witty style that's both entertaining and interesting to read.
Astranis
> The alternative is only counting the popular vote, which only serves to disenfranchise the majority of states.

The majority of red states are also the majority of the population, so this doesn't check out. (Trump states ~180mm to Hillary's ~140mm.)
> 3. The New Meme: Enterprise Search

Exactly what we're doing: https://insideropinion.com/

Seems like most people aren't thinking of search the exact same way though. It's a huge problem (having worked in large fortune 100 companies).
For #3: If anyone is looking for an enterprise search they can boot up "cloud-prem" (in their VPC), that's exactly what we're building at https://landria.io/customers/why-landria.
That's not how I hear it - is the Scrum Master just someone who's really skilled at Scrum?
Okay, sure. If you want to say I'm a hypocrite, fine. It's not a point I care to defend myself from.

The fact still remains that the advertising industry is a blight on society.
I had a 37 year career at a company that used to be a well recognized brand. I was in the Research Laboratories in an Analytical Sciences division. During that time we had many layoffs as the company's financial position eroded. The key to success in that environment was to be a lifelong learner, a team player, and developing skills that permitted you to generate results that proved your worth.

During downsizings, as groups got smaller, managers were let go along with workers. Survivors needed learn to mourn the loss of your colleagues who were downsized, and then pick up the important work they left behind. To survive, one needed a positive attitude. Keeping one takes work under difficult circumstances. I always viewed the task as taking lemons and making lemonade.

None of us liked this. This strategy worked for me until they finally cut 70% of the Research Labs staff, including most of my clients and many of my fellow analysts. The best an employee can do is to work with your family to design a budget that lets you live below your means, build an emergency fund with at least six month's living expenses, and to save as much as you can each month in a retirement plan. None of these tasks are easy. Few people actually do this because it requires you to say "no" to many of your desires. Those who do find it easier to cope when the shoe finally drops on you...
that is armchair psychology.
Thanks for the comment; I've removed the offending sentence. (edit: cstross is right and doesn't deserve downvotes.)

Wikipedia says "Soyuz has served as the only means for crewed space flights in the world since the retirement of the US Space Shuttle in 2011", so I guess that's wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)
> "...realize that a car takes space, this all falls apart."

that's accounted for in the foot-second metric. by a (very) rough calculation, we'd only need to double road foot-seconds to alleviate most congestion. that's very expensive, since most of these roads would have to go underground or be elevated, but not impossible (elon is trying to do just that for teslas).

i'm not advocating we double our roads, however. i'm just refuting the pithy notion that it's impossible to meet the supposedly insatiable demand implied by "induced demand" arguments.

but yes, let's build way more public transit and smaller personal transport networks (along with taller, mixed-use buildings)! it's definitely more efficient and can be less expensive and stressful.
If it is 12 to 18 months away it will happen just after the election this winter. That will be fun.
This works exceptionally well in the lynx terminal-based browser.

https://lynx.invisible-island.net
I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.
I enrolled in a management training course through work and the first thing they had us do was take a personality test and then they sent us a grading on the "personality color wheel" and it ruined the whole course for me. I'm digging deep to pull out useful nuggets of truth but any time it goes back to Myers-Briggs stuff my brain shuts down.
Antitrust law in general needs to come out of it's slumber if the us wants to be a dynamic economy. I recommend the book: the myth of capitalism to anyone who wants to get more angry about this subject.
Reading through the GitHub repo, I see Rust, Cyclone, and Pony as idea sources, but I was surprised to not see Ada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)) or SPARK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)). Both Ada and SPARK are mature, production-ready languages that have strong safety guarantees and concurrency built-in.

SPARK in particular might be worth looking at for another idea source depending on Project Verona's goals and needs.
That's a screensaver.

You've heard of the simulation hypothesis, I suppose. As untestable as it is... wouldn't it be fun if this comment were literally true?
At least this one doesn’t have that annoying popup whenever you open it - had to switch back to google because of it.
Maybe not the politician, but the general group of “supporters of politician X” should be.
Star Trek vs. Star Wars and More
I think this really depends on the job and industry. AWS certs, for example, while not generally sought after, are generally positively viewed for companies that are trying to fill out devops and/or cloud security teams.
I won't say all, but good portion of buraku discrimination is driven actually by these buraku rights group. There are bit of concessions exist (via affirmative action for instance) and there are some incentive that some of those groups want keep this issue alive for the sake of that, rather than try to actually resolve the issue somehow.

Like you said, a lot of people don't care, especially in urban regions, because the concept of buraku itself is fairly foreign to people living there. Maybe this is but more prominent in rulal areas.
Most employers don't care about your degree (at least in the UK), I doubt many places will care about this.

I am also "Sitecore Certified". Sitecore Certified basically means your company paid for you to sit in a room and complete a training course for a week and do a multiple choice test which can be completed by using the Object Explorer in Visual Studio. Does that make me knowledgeable about Sitecore? Nope not at all.

I'd rather see a website, some scripts on github, talking through a problem rather than a piece of paper saying you completed a course.
It's classic "whataboutism". You know, the disinformation technique the Soviets use(d): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Wow, didn't realize linode is bootstrapped. How did they manage to build so many cloud centers with no investment? Do you know more of their story?
Given we're in a hypothetical about 'how would you scuttle your own fab', and that I'm verbalizing the implicit "without hurting any employees", I'd guess that one or several team leads in charge of either automation design or maintenance could think of a dozen nightmare scenarios or even personal anecdotes of proverbial wires getting crossed and causing mayhem. If the solvent got into this line, or the effluent into this one, or the wrong voltage here, or the part installed backward here (because in The Expanse they don't have keyed sockets to prevent an employee from installing high current equipment backward, apparently... but I digress).

We tend to be limited in our creativity, though. You mentioned a pretty violent way to distribute copper, isn't powdered copper a common ingredient in fireworks? You just need to get the copper airborne, unattended (copper poisoning I hear is pretty awful), not make a big boom. You would have absolutely no cause to have that material anywhere near let alone inside of a fab. But if a hostile takeover at gunpoint is actually a scenario you're concerned about instead of a bunch of randos bullshitting on the Internet? Wouldn't be hard to prepare some boxes and a laminated instruction sheet to put in a safe somewhere. In Case of Armed Invasion, Read Instructions.
It's gross how they're handling tips.

Give cash instead as long as this is the case.
I like how simple their API is. I have infrequent cloud needs, so it's nice being able to set up a simple docker-machine script once in a while to spin up a ton of compute nodes for some scientific task.
They pay some peanuts to Polish companies that dump the garbage onto some green field where it "accidentally catches fire". German green stats go up considerably, Polish people get cancer.

Are you sure MS is going to enforce their "carbon-negative" approach all the way down into their supply chain? If there is no word from them on this, I can only consider it a PR move without any substance, orchestrated by some M7 MBAs, nothing else.
I've had a "droplet" going at $7/mo for about half a year and probably used it less than ten hours so far, and not doing anything too heavy when I use it. Every time I think about turning it off I say "yeah but it's only $7 and I like to ssh into it sometimes."

I've had a "shared hosting" setup on Dreamhost for at least 15 years, also using pennies per month in capacity, at most.

I get that it can be a brutal, low-margin business, but I also wonder how many "small" customers are extremely high-margin like me, and whether that can aggregate into a better overall margin than you might guess?

Or will you always have a few outliers running at capacity and calling the help desk and blowing out your margins?
"Surely nimble American startups should be able to disrupt their state-sponsored dinosaurs."

I would recommend researching more about the Chinese technology industry. They aren't dinosaurs. Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and Xiaomi are all serious contenders due to Government support and their overall productivity.
Most people barely know how to use basic features of their tools and can't be bothered to spend 30 minutes exploring them, do you really expect them to spend time researching & testing custom commands to improve their voice assistants?
Interesting, could you tell us more about your experience with Joyent?
The line of credit is used to finance equipment and has a fixed payback period.

They have only raised around 100M in equity investment from VCs. The last being 83M in 2015. This is the money which requires multiples.
I think it’s safe to say consumers would benefit from lower prices because companies wouldn’t have to bid so high on ads. We’d also possibly benefit from fewer ads on the main page, diluted ad tracking, more competition in other areas Google competes in (video, maps etc.) Ads subsidises the rest.
pros/cons

The main issue is proof automation. Curry-Howard based provers (Coq, Agda, Lean etc) are nice for teaching but if you want to get work done (e.g. you want to verify an OS kernel), you need to automate as much as possible.
Isabelle/HOL currently has by far the most powerful automation. This is partly because, like Coq, it is an old system (unlike Lean and Agda) and lots of automation has been built in the past, but also because a lot of automation is much easier to adapt to provers based on classical logic (as opposed to the constructive logics that Curry-Howard needs (yes, I know that classical reasoning can be done within constructive logic)). Adapting proof automation that has been available for a while for Isabelle/HOL to Curry-Howard is at least in parts an open research problem. Lean has been created in parts because of the urgency of given Curry-Howard systems much better proof automation.

There is an additional dimension which is strength of the logic at hand. The logics Coq, Lean et al are based on are more expressive in various dimensions. Whether that's relevant to your use case depends on what kind of maths you are trying to formalise. If it is higher category theory, it matters a great deal, for program verification it tends not to be important b/c most program verification can be done in rather weak logics.
You can fix them yourself, by duplicating the car and fixing it yourself. You can't force someone else to fix the locks on their car
Learning about multiple wonderful things at once here. This is pretty much catnip for 6502 fans.
Bug guts tend to be rather sticky, and wiper fluid doesn't dissolve them nearly well enough to be removed with wipers. That's been my experience after countryside drives, where you need to manually scrape the windows every few hundred miles, as the wipers won't do.
They're working on this. I was just asked to do a survey about my "team's" PaaS usage and offered an invitation to a working group scheduled later this month.
> I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other

Companies buy competitors all the time.
I have read about discriminatino based on blood types as well. Do you have any feeling about how prevelant that may be?
But this wouldn't really be a return-maximizing strategy, would it? I wouldn't expect to hold the same stocks for the entire 30 years, rather I would be constantly looking for medium-term gains and then trying to lock them in once I think they've peaked. I.e., maybe I think fossil fuels are going to continue growing for at least a 5-year time frame, and then maybe around them, I would re-evaluate whether that's still true. In other words, the return-maximizing strategy would seem to be to treat them like any other investment.
I stopped clicking on techcrunch links a long time ago for same reason. I am pretty sure that wall is not GDPR compliant, because the way to opt-out is not simple and straightforward.
Is a relict forest from a much more humid Australia. Like a time machine to what the place could had been if left alone. Does not need fire.
Why does every disgruntled user/client/restaurant-goer feel the need to start a movement?

Is it something about this generation, that must constantly have its feelings validated by others?

If you already failed to heed others who never used the site, or quit it long ago, does that say something about your character, that you would want others to do now, what you hadn't done before?
Well then who are these people?
Have you tried start.duckduckgo.com?
Or fork the code. That's the great thing about FOSS.
emotionalism is strongly linked to irrationality. once someone is irrational I'm not following how that can be reduced to a "difference in priorities". I'm an open source maintainer of some very popular projects. more in the early days, I was certainly irrational on a few occasions where someone called out things that I did wrong and I refused to see it. It wasn't like I had de-prioritized "making sure the code is not completely broken". my own fear that I was going to have to rethink a whole huge set of assumptions (which of course I had to do anyway) prevented me from working with people.
> I’ve yet to see anyone properly tackle the more rudimentary, “boring” and lucrative approach: an on-prem search appliance, similar to GSE, that indexes internal intranet, wikis as well as email. On-prem software is annoying to build, something many founders shy away from."

It's hard because you need to access the documents and from a security perspective that's not ideal. We took a different approach which actually builds a search graph based on what's discussed (plugs into email, slack, etc.): https://insideropinion.com/

Works very well and doesn't need access to the source document (so more secure), although that'd improve the search.
It’s not just anti-fraud. If you force someone to take a vacation, you force the organization to be able to function without them. This prevents a situation where only a single person is able to make something critical work.
Could be a fun reverse-engineering project. I can't imagine there's that much complexity in controlling a LED.
HN comments are like ZeroHedge -- we've predicted 14 of the past 2 recessions.
The Perils of Constant Feedback
This led me to this declassified document according to which Soviets used a mix of color codes and directly stamping values on resistor housings:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00809...

The document is from 1950 though, so it greatly predates the standards used the 1983 Soyuz here.
I think it depends on the check. Some checks are better enforced strictly in an automated fashion. Style rules are a good example: they make no performance difference, lead to bikeshedding, and are pretty much arbitrary. Other checks should be made automatically but not strictly enforced. EG you might want to require all C casts to have a comment describing why it's safe. That can be a good linter warning, and linters tend to have codes that can be added in comments to suppress the warning. So the linter warning can make code review easier, but shouldn't necessarily fail the build.
Also, add &kd=-1 to the search URL to get direct links.

For example:

https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q="robert%20anton%20wilson"&kd=-...
> The OSS maintainer should clearly, upfront, preliminarily, outline how do they govern the project

Why do you think they owe you this? You didn't pay them, and they didn't accept a contract.
How would people react in the US if the Secretary of Energy took paternity leave?
Wipers make it worse! I had the misfortune of driving through some flying termites (not dense - think 20 splats/minute). Insects have fatty/non-soluble insides: when I turned on the wipers, I managed smears the goop more uniformly across the windshield, making visibility infinitely worse. Spraying water does not help, unless it has some detergent in it.
The Great Suspender is life.
I’m color blind. The markings would make everything so much easier. Having to check with someone else to make sure I get my colors right is such a pain.
I hope I can order some.

Edit: If anyone can find labeled resistors for a reasonable price, I would be grateful.