skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest problem with SCSI was always the fact that you had to understand termination or the bus you built wasn't going to work.

This is just a fundamental limitation of a high-speed parallel shared bus for 1990s' technology, not really specific to SCSI. Termination is needed because of physics, there was no way to workaround it. Moving termination to the drives and backplane is a solution (e.g. PCI uses it), but I guess it was too inflexible for SCSI when cables were often chained together. Ultimately the problem has been solved by Moore's Law - when chips are powerful enough, it makes sense to just stop using parallel buses entirely, and move to point-to-point serial lines. Termination is implemented at end-points, and the bus is never shared, eliminating this problem.

Just like how Ethernet began as a low-cost bus network (and yes, you need to add terminations on 10BASE-2) and ultimately evolved to point-to-point serial lines.
By contrast, I couldn't sit through any of the episodes I've tried. IMHO, the series feels targeted at people who are only slightly on the spectrum.
Right. But thinking electronically the vibrating capacitor is easier to turn into an audio signal.
You mean a SOAR system?
like Demisto, Swimlane etc?
1491 covers "Indian fire" quite a bit. Seems that much of North America was under some form of active management by native peoples before Europeans arrived, and one of the main ways, and probably the main way, by area, was very frequent fire-setting. The book even suggests that might be why there is a "Great Plains", in the nearly-treeless form European settlers found it, while in the East early European accounts tell of huge forest "wildernesses" so universally free of undergrowth one could easily ride a horse through them, which would become impassably full of low growth by a couple hundred years later as the burning stopped.
Just about everything humans do is an exogenous intervention on markets, one way or another. And markets respond to them, via the cited market forces. The notion of the "free market" is a toxic fiction. Any market that works for its participants is intricately curated.
Breach a user's trust and/or misuse their data and you'll know about it pretty quickly. I'd wager that the average user cares much more about protecting, say, their browsing history, than they care about petty B2B contract drama.
Property tax rates may be higher elsewhere, but the cost of the real estate is so much lower that it more than makes up for it. I'd be interested to know if there are any low-tax states where someone can spend $25k/yr in property tax on a 3bd/2ba, which is the going rate in Palo Alto.

Also, I don't think any state has sales tax rates that are much higher than SMC/SCC.
> From what I have seen, the least technically resourced journals often use hosted platforms or free software like OJS (basically wordpress for journals), which comes with features like HTML meta tags and OAI-PMH by default.

Yeah, and there are a lot of issues with OJS and the meta tagging and google being able to crawl a lot of these (not to mention site uptime where lots of sites go down for long stretches and google just assumes the site was taking offline permanently if kept down for a while). Esp when the meta tag locales don't map to the actual language used in the papers themselves (i.e. journal admins enter meta data tagged as EN but use indonesian for the text and the text of the paper) or like non iso locale codes in metadata fields, etc.

Right now, when journals/orgs/conferences want help getting indexed in google and have oai endpoints, we pass all their content through locale detect stuff and don't trust their meta data by default.
> Do you have any good sources on the bioavailability of meat vs. plant nutrients? I've tried giving up meat before and have found that I feel noticeably worse both physically and mentally when I don't eat it, even if I eat a lot of plant protein and take supplements.

> I don't know if this simply due to my own unique biochemistry or what, but it's not subtle. I have a fast metabolism, so that may have something to do with it?

For better or worse, it's very easy to end up eating a caloric deficit on a plant-based diet. I'm very glad I use a kitchen scale and small script I wrote to calculate how much kcal/protein/carbs/fat I'm actually getting in comparison to what I should be getting. To put it mildly, plant-based diets take some getting used to.

Protein is important, but beyond 1.4-1.6 grams of protein per kg body weight, your body increasingly relieves itself of any excess. Particularly if you stick to eating low-fat legumes, grains and greens per Esselstyn [1], getting enough protein isn't a concern. In fact, I have to consciously choose low protein foods like potatoes and rice just to ensure I don't get too much protein.

[1]: http://www.dresselstyn.com/
I'm enough ADD (when that was the thing) to have prescribed Ritalin and all that jazz, but not ADHD enough to _really_ get your experience.

An unsolicited suggestion - A specific form of meditation that is incredible active (because that "clear your mind" stuff really never worked) that I really, really enjoyed, and think helped me handle my lesser ADD symptoms.

Pick something moderately significant; your breastbone, a flame, a cup of water. Right? Not totally random, but not like an idol or anything.

Then you alternate focusing really, really into it - very much like tensing a muscle - with expanding your focus as wide as it'll go. Narrow & pointed, oscillate to wide & receptive. Straight up kinda squinting real hard / super-wide eyes helps get you started, but isn't really it.

And... that's it. Just do that for a bunch of reps.

Did two things for me:
1) Usual "workout" / "training" of focus/attention that all meditation does
2) Got to know the 'feel' / 'shape' / ?? of my sense-of-attention.

And, didn't run into "mind does NOT sit still" problem of the "clear your mind" variety. I'm doing something the whole time.

Thoughts? Questions? Comments?
Vitalik is the creator of Ethereum. Ethereum is a platform for permission-less, programmable money and code that moves money and digital assets. Over $100 billion in assets are now operating on Ethereum. Here is a link to an explorer for USDC, a digital asset that is backed by dollars that has about $2 billion custodied by Coinbase and Circle https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0c...

I guarantee you that nearly every digital asset breaks numerous laws in every developed country. Bitcoin and Ethereum help violate money laundering laws every hour as many $10k+ transactions execute without proper forms filed with government agencies. Whereas it takes a shitload of money to obtain money transmitter licenses in the USA to operate in every state, it’s trivial to accept huge amounts of money across state and international borders once you create a cryptocurrency wallet.

I’m saying this because the technology has surpassed the laws. As Uber and Airbnb became so successful that governments bent, so too is cryptocurrency powered by blockchain technology forcing the government’s hands. A paradigm shift is occurring under everyone’s noses!

If you choose to ignore blockchain, don’t be surprised when it becomes a very crucial technology. It is upending centuries of financial customs, rules, laws, and institutions.
OP, here. It's not that long ago, I've used troff myself. Or maybe it was that long ago, but it just seems like yesterday.
Any you switch off the internet?
I've literally never seen somebody catch a SQLException and do nothing with it - you quickly learn that just doesn't work, and it would never pass a code review.

With respect to exposing implementation details:

If the caller is the one who passed in the connection, then it makes complete sense to throw a SQLException so the caller can deal with it.

If the connection was opened in your method, then yes you probably should wrap it, handle it properly and clean up the connnection, and then throw a different exception.

The only time it's ambiguous is if the connection came from an instance variable. That's often a poor design, but usually means it came indirectly from the caller and so it still makes sense to throw SQLException.

In general, SQLException works fairly well as a checked exception. If some code generates a SQLException, your transaction failed and you should generally abort it (or you can check the specific error code if you are prepared to handle anticipated failures such as a duplicate key error). If it generates any other exception, you can continue working with the database (such as saving the failure status to a table).
This hits on a lot of the same issues we have encountered when trying to name projects or name a business. In order to make name generation less time consuming and automatically handle some of these issues we ended up building a free tool called Mashword (https://mashword.com) to do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Mashword allows a user to enter one or two words and then it will generate combinations(mashups) of the words or alternate spellings, taking into account the pronunciation of the entered word(s). In addition, it will automatically check for domain name availability. If you are looking to name anything, try it out and hopefully it will speed up the naming process for you.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote these proofs to help those who are more logically inclined to believe in God. [http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/aquin...]

While the logical arguments in this article seem thorough, there are references to God throughout all of history. Many will say that the church was acting, over-extending it's authority and enforcing it's teachings was the reason why it lasted as long as it has. One could say that's why we still have the discussion of the existence God in our day-to-day lives.

The question you could pose is, say you are right. What if you did prove this all to be correct? What would happen then? You disproved God exists, now what? There would be nothing to gain other than feeling the need to point at others and tell them they are wrong (or be nice about it :) ).

I would instead not to approach God with logic, as there have been countless people, including myself, who have been touched with God's presence. While the pursuit of knowledge and logic is admirable, God will continue to exist.

What I feel is struggling to people who are not in the environment, is that belief in God arises from faith, and not reason. So many people become passionate (on both sides) that it often-times ends up in fights that the one needs to prove they are right. It's not about being right, it's about showing love, and that can mean listening to someone who you don't agree with so you can show them you care and will listen to your opinion, even if they don't agree.

Thank you for your article and your well-thought out statements, wishing you blessings in life.
> Raise taxes (the richer, the higher the fee) then fix the problem

Is there any indication that this is caused by shortage of funds? Policy is what is preventing proper forest management. Compared to building highways and state-funded healthcare, forest raking and related tasks are cheap.
Clever Hans: A horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic
Requiring social science theories to have a mathematical founding might be a little too much to ask the social scientists because unlike Physicists, their command of mathematics is far from adequate to do any serious exploration.

I majored in Mathematics but out of curiosity I took some Psychology modules when I was in university. What I found baffling was their lack attention to details. They just seem to have an intuitive model of their subject and they were just reinforcing that intuition while overlooking any details that could have challenged it. Coming from a field where every symbol, punctuation matters, I realised to Psychologists exact details of a curve don't seem to matter much as long as the general trend made sense.

Someone who really impressed me was Dan Ariely who is a behavirol economist. Even though I didn't see any mathematics in his lectures, I loved his approach to the field. I'd be quite happy if more of social science took a similar approach even if they didn't back it up with rigorous mathematics.
>I can't hire easy and then fire easy.

Why not? Maybe you should address that problem. It would certainly make things a lot easier.
As I understand it, humans are overconsuming proteins
> Why isn't that the answer? Nobody wants to be out of the animal husbandry business more than the meat producers do. Even if they haven't realized it yet.

Because lab based meat isn't here yet:

- You can't buy it in supermarkets or for cheap, and I haven't heard a realistic timeline for when this is going to change.

- Is there going to be realistic lab based cuts of steak, duck, pork and chicken? Whole chickens? Lab based ground beef is one thing but lab based versions of everything the public wants is another.

- Beyond burgers and similar are already here which some people say are as good a beef burgers, yet there isn't a stampede to change over by either consumers or manufacturers. Why would lab based meat be different? I can see people demanding the "real thing" on principle.

We don't have time to wait when climate change is here now. Lab based meat is not a solution if it takes decades to make an impact. People that say they'll switch from real-meat when lab based meat is here are essentially saying they'll change when they don't have to change anything.
I wonder if/when the government will make it cryptocurrencies more accessible and easier to use alongside “real” currencies.
There is a lot of complexity for a US-based company around hiring people internationally:
1. Security. How would you prevent your monorepo being copied out to competitive companies in a foreign region or get snooped by some local government officials?
2. HR/Payroll. If you want to be compliant with local laws you will need to create local business entity. Would that make sense to do if you only have one employee in the country? How expensive that setup is going to be?
3. Somewhat obvious cultural/language/timezone difference.

There were a lot of conversations about moving jobs to India in early 2000. It didn't happen - I think primarily for reasons that I just outlined.
I don't see what's different this time.
I can relate. One thing that's helped me has been to remember that saying "yes" to thing A means saying "no" to many other things B-Z (not to mention sometimes then being _expected_ to say yes to A again in future). Good luck!
California revenues are about $425 billion.

Medi-Cal covers 1 in 3 residents. $100 Billion per year program (or about 23% of the revenues).
$25 Billion a year for government employees' pensions and retiree health (note that this is not current govt employees! BTW, that's gonna continue growing without bounds).
$78 Billion on education (K-12).

These together account for a huge chunk of the money. Very little on infrastructure spending and such (the roads are worse than third-world those in third-world countries here).

BTW, folks like Zuckerberg (the 1%) contribute roughly 50% of the revenues! If the market takes a hit, CA hurts real bad.
> there are mathematical proofs that at least one stable Nash equilibrium must exist in any game

That's actually not true. E.g. the game "you get the amount of money you ask for" has no equilibrium because you can always ask for a larger number. The proof on wikipedia doesn't apply to this game because the strategy space isn't compact. In real life, this doesn't come up much because usually your strategy is bounded somehow (e.g. you are limited by available cash+credit). I'm not as familiar with the other conditions listed and how they might relate to game strategies, but it would be interesting to hear an example game for each.
Can you substantiate the claim that MA has the best public schools in the country? I consistently hear about the Chicago suburbs (Naperville, Evanston), Westchester (Scarsdale, Rye, Chappaqua), Long Island (Jericho, Great Neck), and Main Line PA (Tredyffrin, Lower Merion). I never hear about MA schools.
40.7% goes to K-12 education. 11.9% to higher education. 21.0% to health. That is the top 3 expenditures.
Floating Gardens of Bangladesh
> this also excludes letting the user chose between either watching ads or paying for the content.

Good. They should clairify that content not available by paying also counts as "monetary or other compensation" for watching ads.

Advertising delenda est.
You’re definitely a developer! It’s good to be curious. Sometimes you have to rein it in but it’s better to be interested in stuff than not to be. I’m a average to below average developer but I make a good living at it, and put food on the table for my 2 kids and so on. It’s also worth remembering that the “ugh” tasks can have potential to be interesting as well - just have to look at them from a different perspective.
They are still using WebObjects-derived stacks.
That is actually the reason I was surprised to it being downvoted. The comment gives both right wing and left wing solutions. But it’s not being downvoted any more, so I guess HN-ers are now reading the full answer, instead of hitting that down arrow as soon as they see a praise for a tax.
The logistics required to do this will eventuate in much more CO2 being emitted than just burning the undergrowth.
The most interesting project I'll probably never finish using GA in a RPG[video]
Pork plant faces $13,494 fine after 4 plant workers died by the Covid-19
Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
SBC is also not the only BT codec; BT headphones often offer direct mp3 support so that there is no extra loss in quality
I'm sorry, but I don't see any value in note-taking apps. It's likely these investors are just turning away from other products that have likely been hurt by covid.

(We work more remote now, we need to take notes, let's do it online, investor frenzy).
Self-cooling microchip provides a tiny solution to a giant problem
More like "literally everyone remotely working in wildfire management", but government refuses to actually enact it on the scale necessary.
To add more color about the VMWare decision:

- the compensation strategy seems in line with what other companies were doing. Compensation adjustments based on local markets are fairly standard for the large tech companies. They seem to be fairly limited though (< 20% of TC) inside the US
- Lots of tech companies allow their employees to work remotely until the end of 2021 keeping their current comp. I'm not surprised to see that changing and VMWare may be the first canary (or I'm just not aware about other companies already doing that)
I was confused as like you said Bluetooth voice quality is fairly universal.

There is a patch to enable faststream in pulseaudio, but it sounds like very few adapters support it
I know nothing about the space related career, but have you checked out AstroPy tutorials? They seem pretty nice to wet your appetite and maybe spring up some ideas.

http://learn.astropy.org/
Is there a similar study done on the physical sciences? I’m getting a bit of holier-than-thou feeling from this article.

Edit: from all this talk of reproducibility, I wonder what percentage of cutting edge ML research is reproducible (either from lack of public training sets / not enough compute)
I am a bit tired of his V’s news getting posted on reddit. His thoughts on economic related stuff are almost naive footnotes of more general theorems.
For number 2 - I worked for many companies outside my current residence and none of them needed to create a German business entity to hire me, I was simply hired on a freelance basis & given a higher wage to compensate having to pay my own insurance & taxes.
Forgive me for being rude, but is this exercise simply exploration? It appears to me the author is looking for something (within their discovery) - but I am at a loss to what that could be.
Funny that it doesn't mention the wide variety of very cheap prototyping kits from Crowd Supply -- including Fomu that fits entirely in your USB socket. FPGA kits on CS start at $15.

My disappointment with the FPGA world is how stuck it is in the "emulate an ASIC" rut. These things, physically, could change their whole logic and connectivity design on the fly according to instantaneous requirements, but everybody assumes you have to load them up once at reset and leave them that way. Each switch-point setting is just a flip-flop, no different from any of the ones in the LUTs.

Manufacturers enforce this treatment by providing only serial access to the switch-point settings in their tooling, but there is probably a lot of room for more flexibility, at least in some.
Post-consumer recycling also takes real effort, most of it from individuals. It just turns out to be largely wasted effort.
As oil it was trapped under shale or in sands where it had no effect on the water table and didn't get into the water or food supply.

As plastics it is "broken down" into microplastics, and gets into things and areas it was never intended to be. It is then consumed and builds up in the systems of animals, and even eventually by us.

Even your local landfill, is part of a management system, but will it really last 3,000 years?

We can't just keep adding and adding to it, we can't cover the planet in landfills of plastic, we aren't putting the "oils" back to where they came from.

In Canada, I remember being taught "give a hoot, don't pollute", and to us, as kids, that meant "don't create trash" as much as "clean up your trash".
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/361592/

I'm not familiar with pipewire but it sounds like it runs alongside pulse, so should work.
Honestly, as a network engineer with 4 kids, we’re kinda just screwed.

The popular responses here are going to be about Pi-Hole and NextDNS (which I use today), but overall it’s a losing battle and all of it is easily circumvented.

With DNS-over-HTTPS becoming more and more prevalent in all things end-user devices, I suspect by this time next year using any kind of traditional DNS controls will be worthless.

We could go super heavy handed and deploy some home version of enterprise packet inspection, but that’s a whole bag of worms.

As for kiddos, I’ve gotten to the point where I combine good communication over obscurantism, device level traffic logging/monitoring, all mixed with a hard off switch for communications at and after certain times to be the winning ticket.

As far as tracking and ads... we’re all going to lose that battle fairly soon. The same tech we all praise as good for privacy is also great for data collection and advertising.
That really depends on spending habits. If you travel out of state regularly then you receive the same benefit as savings.

On top of that State spending and the relative tax burden on each income range can also vary significantly.
People should simply install uBlock Origin instead.
You get what pay for with free garbage too.
WireGuard VPN: Secure and Fast, but Bad for Privacy?
When the whole Chinese banning recycling imports thing started, one of the few municipal recycling systems not affected was New York City, because they had taken the time to set up a full local supply chain for the recycling. About half of NYC's recycled paper gets turned into pizza boxes. https://citylimits.org/2019/09/17/other-cities-face-trash-cr...
Zuckerberg is way higher than 1%, a tiny silver of a fraction of 1%. "The 1%" are like senior engineers at FAANG or a successful dentist running their own clinic.
The Wild Ride of the Fangmantis Stocks vs. Rest of Market
I'm also in Sonoma County and the combination of urban building spread on known fire plains coupled with a lack of vegetation management is having devastating consequences. I've been listening to the Sonoma County budget deliberations of the cliquey board of supervisors here all week, there is greater emphasis on spending on itinerant and homeless populations than on forestry management which makes little sense.
Maven also does it.