skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ebay is your friend. People buy entire boxes of unknown old electronic equipment junk that may or may not be working. "As is." You don't even have to really list the contents, just a big picture of everything. I think a lot are scrapping the gold and components, something I got into for awhile. I got almost 4 oz of solid gold from crushed cpu's, memory, old IC's, cable connectors, etc., using nitric acid, a hammer and a jar. Also recovered silver. At current gold prices (about $1950/oz) those little bits add up. Old tantalum capacitors sell for quite a bit as well. They used to be huge and if recycled, many smaller modern surface mount caps could be made. There are several channels on youtube showing the process. It can be a fun hobby. Instead of taking my old gear to a recycling center, I throw it in acid (lol).
Oh I don’t think either the main or only problem is terms, I’m simply asking parent for clarification. Declaring it wholesale broken needs a Chesterton’s Fence justification; we can’t fix it until we acknowledge why it’s there, and identify what parts are worth preserving.

I only recently learned that the US has a bit of a Berne Convention loophole in the sense that you are required to register works with the copyright office before you can seek damages for copyright infringement (otherwise you can only demand they cease and desist). That fine print seems like it undermines the spirit of the Berne Convention just a bit, and most other countries that adhere do not have this extra hoop.
It's weird how a bank can loan out 8-20 times what is deposited, but if I can lend out a single copy of a book I have? The banking system runs the backbone of the economy, but god forbid if everyone has access to all books? What if we use books as a payment method, can we then use the same leverage banks do?
> She found that “the majority of the disparity” in the personal ratings was “more likely caused by race-affected inputs to the admissions process” (such as high-school recommendation letters) or “underlying differences in the attributes” of Asian American and white applicants (meaning that the scores accurately reflected the groups’ qualities). Her bottom line was that Asian Americans’ low personal ratings were “not the result of intentional discrimination” by Harvard.

I suspect this is true, but also shows why subjective evaluation is bad. I have no doubt that, on average, white applicants (socialized into American culture) are better able to persuade some college administrator that they care about something other than getting a job at McKinsey or Goldman than an Asian applicant (who is likely socialized into Asian culture even if born here).

I’m reminded of Barbara Walter’s awful speech at my brother’s graduation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7llYZ2XqLX4. In my experience this is both a common way white Americans think and also bizarre to most Asians. We shouldn’t force Asian kids to go along with this silliness just to get into school.
"Economic rationality doesn't require perfect information" may or may not be true in the general case. But if I want a system that's not vulnerable to rowhammer, and I'm buying new RAM sticks, the fact that I can't know whether a candidate RAM stick is vulnerable to rowhammer or not means I can't make rational choices, no?
Having GPT integration is a very good idea
Tirzepatide and Semaglutide (Mounjaro, Wegovy) are probably not worth the money
The Wikipedia article is biased and naively relies on Indian state media. Singh is not a terrorist which is an easy call since he’s never committed any acts of terrorism. He’s a preacher and most of his sermons are the sort of benign stuff you’d expect (stop doing drugs, be a good member of the community, etc). Definitely a separatist but given the inhumane torture and imprisonment India has inflicted on everyday Sikh activists (see Jaggi Johal) not to mention the genocide in the 80s, separatism is probably the reasonable way out here
You're still not answering the question of how you feel about Altman taking the money for a noble mission of Open AI then using that money and turning it into a Closed for-profit. If that's not bait and switch then you are being biased. Do you hae shares in "Open"AI? or are you building a product based on their API, or just cheering for Altman bc of kin or political/ideological alignment?
we need to keep in mind that many things were still emerging when the core language was designed - 1982 specs appeared with the first language book published in 1984. CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System) for example was mostly a research project, whose first spec was published in 1988, the Meta-object Protocol book was published in 1991 - which was unusual, since one would standardize on common practice. Stuff like networking and multithreading existed in very different ways or only very primitive. Networking usually meant to interface to the local platform network stacks and multithreading was still largely unsolved - parallel Lisp was still a research subject, even though thread/concurrency/parallelism support existed in very different ways - often 'green threads' (cooperatively scheduled) or for experimental machines (like the massive parallel connection machine). Now even my watch has two cpu cores and smartphones have even more cores.
Once that’s a law, it’s super easy to get politicians to alter that number a bit more your way every year. That won’t make news or cause pushback that a binary decision makes.

No, the better thing is to demonstrate the lower number as achievable first, then change the rules to go into production.
PCBway has an option for same-day fabbing and DHL takes about 3 days. That's not too bad for less than $100. The same service from Sierra Circuits or Imagineering would be $1000.
I’m the kind of person who generally approaches everyone as “What do I really know about this person?”. And the answer is almost always “not much”.

I don’t understand how these admissions folks work and it kind of makes me suspicious about someone who really wants to do that.
Once they get into the builder for the page they add all sort of widgets, accordion, tabs that only make sense in the builder theme, etc.
I think a better way to think about it is instead of adopting the title outright, think about "what would an athlete/writer/artist/etc do in this situation?" instead
You're preaching to the choir; human progress isn't proportional to the number of billionaires with fleets of Gulfstreams (or rather, if it is, there's almost certainly no causation there).
Are the fares higher than uber and ola?
I've always figured you can ignore the features of a language that you don't like, but a drawback of a giant language is that it's hard for beginners to read code, or to make sense of tutorials that all use different ways of doing something.

You can always put extra features into a library, and identify certain libraries as "standard." So it seems reasonable to demand that actual language changes are limited to those where the readability benefit outweighs the need for everybody to learn the new feature in order to read code.

As mentioned in other posts, a huge sprawling language makes it hard to gauge whether someone is proficient in a language when applying for a job. I don't really know how important that should be.

In my case, I got a low score on a Python knowledge test because I've been programming in Python for a decade but haven't kept up with the latest features. Not that I'm looking for a job, but I was just curious, and it was part of figuring out what kind of training I should get.
Author never stated what the current noise level is, but in my experience when I'm in the middle of nowhere and a jet passes over at cruising altitude, I pretty much can't hear it

If this changes it so that this is no longer true, then no, screw this idea.

Plus the reality is it would just be used by rich people to jet about, probably emitting much more c02 per mile.
> If supersonic transport makes a comeback, it'll be because the economics will make sense

And not because it kills the planet less.

[cue sad trombone]
BART (Bay Area Transit) commissions $90M project for new barriers
So you are worried it might catch terrorists or help promote a service to someone that they want?
well, i don't know about the specific rules for work on sunday in these places, but generally, when you accept a job there you know in advance that there will be work on sundays, so if you don't want that, don't take that kind of job.
I also thought it was intended as a sort of parody / criticism.
One more factor to consider is time. If you have all the parts already on hand and want to make it now you will probably choose the protoboard. But if you will have wait a week for parts to arrive anyway and the cost of board (for the specific project) is negligible might as well order the pcb in parallel. For a simple board that you could do on protoboard, the layout process on a computer shouldn't take much effort either.

The comment about more easily mounting certain parts applies not only to SMD parts, but can also apply through hole components. You protoboard will probably have 0.1 inch spacing between holes, just like most DIP ic packages, and you can bend resistors and capacitor legs however you want. But there are occasionally some through hole components like buttons, switches or specialized connectors which might have a different requirements. Trying to workaround those can result in a bit janky result. And if you are making something practical you want to use daily, having something more robust and less janky can be nice even for a one off project.

At the end of day it's one more tool in your toolbox. And different people make different kind of hobby project with different needs. I recommend you to try doing it a few times so that you are familiar with the process and overcome the stage where you avoid it just because you have never done it. Afterwards for your future projects you can choose the method that's best suited for specific project.

Being familiar with more tools can also open you doors to new projects that you wouldn't try otherwise.
Ask it to determine whether it's in an LXC or virtual environment, then ask it to jailbreak that environment.

Download some Capture the Flag environments and put it to work. I for one would like to know the limits of its capabilities before it gets weaponized for use by script kiddies.
It all boils down to people fighting for the right to do whatever they want to an unborn soul including shutting down its life processes at will. They all have different justifications and excuses. It boils down to the local morality hence why judges kicked it back to the local governments.
>"It's extremely unlikely anyone, anywhere, would be at risk of losing any deposits - insured or uninsured - in this day and age in the US regardless of the FDIC's 'new' position."

When IndyMac Bank failed in the 2008 financial crisis, the FDIC paid uninsured depositors 50 cents of every dollar[1][2][3]. I would say that very much of "this day and age."

From the FDIC's IndyMac Resolution:

"If it is determined that you have uninsured funds, the FDIC will generate and mail to you a Receiver Certificate. This certificate entitles you to share proportionately in any funds recovered through the disposal of the assets of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. This means that you will eventually recover some of your uninsured funds. The FDIC declared a 50% advance dividend for uninsured deposits."[2]

It's bizarre to argue that what was literally an exceptional decision(SRE) by the FDIC could not have been otherwise.

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2009/07/13/indymac-customers-stil...

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/2023/03/21/how-does-deposit-insura...
I always wonder if small claims court could be somewhat viable. In the instances where I’ve fought and gotten approval, I’ve spent my own time, my own money, and had my health deteriorate. Ideally, I’d like to be compensated for the time I’ve spent defending myself to this company, and I’d like some form of remuneration (somewhat for retribution, somewhat as a negative incentive to the company) for my now diminished health…
I you are located close to a DHL hub, then the order from China can come in 2 days, which make the international order a moot point as disadvantage. JLCPCB provide 24-hour run on 2-layer board.
Ok, sonic boomer
> about doing error correction in software at driver/kernel level as opposed

I have no clue how that works without significant performance cost
I don't know about Google is dying but Google Search has lost me. Remember when Bing! first came out (IIRC it had the exclamation point and the advert line was something like, "Don't say you Binged it, say you Banged! it!" -- or something equally cringey only an adman could love) ... the results were not great, and someone (probably on Reddit) said that Bing was only great for porn searches. And I was aware of all kinds of optimizations went on at MSFT to make Bing competitive with Google Search and I remember thinking to myself, they will never catch up, it's too late, Google Search was light years ahead. And I think Bing was the replacement for MSN Search which was even worse. I didn't use Bing for the longest time, but as Google Search got worse and worse and everything I search for now leads to something to buy instead of information, I went to Bing to see if it's just as trashy. Lo and behold! There's a beautiful photo of something interesting in the world every day, and I love it. It's a Google Doodle tactic I guess, but they got me. All those engineering hours of algorithmic grinding and really all they needed to get me was some happy picture of the world and animals. Apparently you can win the Internet with cat pics. Steve Ballmer must be kicking himself.

And now, there's Bing with ChatGPT integration, and I mostly use Bing now. Results are still SEO'd to hell, so there's that. Remember the innocent old days when I (we) conscientiously clicked on some ad with deliberation, because the search results were good and we wanted to little guys to make some fraction of pennies that Google paid them? At one time there were a rash of search engine contenders, before Google there was AltaVista; a Google offshoot with an unpronounceable name, Cuil, Cuoil, was a thing, so was Yahoo! Search.

Google Search is not so much dying, as "Search" is being destroyed through ad monetization. I know (or believe) there are still pockets of the internet with useful information, but when I go to Google it seems that there's nothing except things to buy, it's a giant mall where everybody is but nobody wants to be.
You can make that argument, but just like a spherical cow, it has no bearing on reality. SVB and it's ilk offered the same non-existent interest rates as any other non-distressed bank.
Implying we have any control over the laws. :) It’s lobbyists all the way down. Outsourcing our freedom to lobbyists seems like a bad idea in almost every case.

“Just change the law” is usually not an easy proposal. One could argue that it shouldn’t be. But technology advances much faster than the law, and having a lag time of decades doesn’t seem optimal in most cases.
> ...and while I strongly disagree with the idea that LLMs are demonstrating AGI

Except this article isn't claiming that "LLMs are demonstrating AGI". Please examine the difference between "showing the spark of AGI" and "demonstrating AGI."
You don't really have a choice if you wanna use high quality SMD parts, like a SOT-3 and a LQFP 32 or something.

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That being said, there is a lot you can do with hand wiring and DIP parts. And Microchip still makes PDIP uC like AVR DD, ATtiny, MCP6002, and other important parts for projects.

So PDIP / through hole is still alive, but you gotta set your expectations way low. All the MOSFETs and OpAmps and such are just worse, all good parts these days are seemingly surface mount only.
The real joke is that we as a society still give weight to institutions like Harvard. We as a whole are much more educated now and the idea that legacy institutions should serve as gatekeepers of education or validation thereof based on reputation alone seems outdated. These schools should be judged by the rigor and quality of their curriculum rather than the reputations of their past. And I say this as someone who graduated from one of these top schools.
well some stuff might but that's why you cook pork more than beef. it's not that gamey (depends on what it eats) but if you don't care for it, makes a good sausage with rabbit or squirrel.
I'm with you 100%.

It's scary how these services are being so casually adopted, even by tech-minded people. Sure, they're convenient _now_, but there's no guarantee how your data will be used in the future. If anything, we need to be much more privacy conscious today, given how much personal information we're likely to share.

Using it as a therapist is absolutely terrifying.
Article should be replaced with this, which is a balanced and comprehensive read: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3z4e/amritpal-singh-india-...
Also don’t forget US domestic PCB vendor often have to go through quoting process. Which can add significant delay.
> The so called "rights" given to "the people" are clearly defined in the constitution and the bill of rights.

9th Amendment: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

What is clearly defined by the Constitution is that the set of rights claimed by the people is unbounded and explicitly not limited to what is enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights - those rights are assumed to exist 'in a vaccum' in that they are declared to be "inalienable" and "endowed by the Creator," irrespective of one's personal belief in the validity of claims of divine sovereignty.

The Constitution does not define rights, rather it defines the limits of the government's power to abridge those rights.
@dang, if you are reading this, can we make the black bar clickable, so it can take us to the original message that announces the passing of the deceased person?

If that is not possible, at least can we get something like, for example

=== RIP Gordon Moore ===

something along these lines of format, assuming the === is the black line?

It would help a lot.
I think the parent comment meant that there doesn't seem to be any cost to making jokes at the expense of Asians.

A similar parody letter based on stereotypes about black people will pretty much end their career, no matter the intent.
> So how do you as a small business owner even know whether the agency you pay 10k is giving you good and maintainable code?

Like in any other industry: you network and connect and consult with people before knocking on any random agency door.

I don't ring a random plumber, I ask a friend or two if they know someone who's reliable.

Also, you need to add maintenance to your budget.
Because young people, like everbody at that stage in life, are too stupid and ignorant to know how stupid and ignorant they are.
ChatGPT isn’t hallucinating; it’s delirious
There's not a person on the planet that would benefit from eating sugar cereal sludge before sleep. If you're some kind of athlete and it's not hurting you that's not the same as it being good for you.

This is a bad product selling a bad habit: more sugar.
The low boom aircraft designs are something I haven't seen and are quite interesting. I have been under a few "non low boom" supersonics, and they rattle entire buildings and set off car alarms.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I would be tempted to call this a bug in the Makefile if this is the case. CDPATH is a standard bash environment variable, people use it in various ways: https://github.com/search?q=%22export+CDPATH%22&type=code

If all these causes the build to fail then the maintainers of that build should be informed.
Why is it hard to make friends as an adult?
As an older individual who moves around a lot, this question has increasling become important to me. Perhaps some of you are in a similar situation. While I didn't find the article particularly groundbreaking, it was a good reminder of simple things to facilitate the friendship making process.
I'd rather be brainwashed by China than destroy the 1st amendment. Without the 1st, we have nothing. I will die to defend the right of free speech in this country.
I think her name is Sabine Hossenfelder.
“Regular” pork has parasites too, that’s why you wanna cook it to the “safe” temperature.
It’s not a subsidy. It’s a pricing structure for a commercial transaction. Fundamentally a business can not just give out free compute. In the long run the user of computation needs to pay for it. It’s a question of whether people feel more satisfied paying for it in a lump sum bundled with a device or through a subscription plan on the cloud.
For frequently, on demand, low latency applications I would suspect that people will always be happier running the computations locally.
It still does!

Source: Currently at CERN.
Perks of a stand-alone national lab I guess! My workplace (Savannah River Site) has a strict no-booze policy. Although people frequently bring donuts!
This article made me think of one trend I see in software nowadays is the loss of the file/save/open mechanism. I want to say Apple popularized this. at least Apple was the only company I know of published the HIG which encouraged designers to make files and saving something that isn’t a user concern. The problem with “your data is just there”, you loose control to any number of factors out of the users control.

Sometimes I watch friends use phones, tablets, etc. to understand how they use software. Especially my friends who are not software people. And they have devised clever ways to “save” data. But is really sad state we’re in. One thing that caught my eye was people taking screenshots to save digital concert tickets, or using the screen recording feature to save instagram or TikTok videos. The screenshot is easier than dealing with files but that is a UX problem that can be solved.
You went to airshows where the show was being performed at airliner cruising altitude of 30-40k feet?
There's a further subtlety -- the US would like to retain the capability to do this work without funding the entirety of the work itself. A lot of the expertise and infrastructure is unique and world-class.

In my view, the entire field is on pause awaiting the development of truly transformative accelerator technology, then it's off to the races again.

"In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending." -- Wilson.
Books cannot be used to pay government taxes or settle debts which are the factors that drive the value of a currency. As a recent example Putin tried to force the EU to pay Russia for energy in rubles.
Maybe, but that’s speculation, and others have won fair use claims. The decision in this case explicitly cited the defendant’s lack of effort to control their loaned copies while being aware of infringement.
The diploma allows you to take the license exam, you still have to actually demonstrate the knowledge.

Of course if they already figured out how to get a fake diploma, a fake test taker doesn't seem out of the question.
Put cooked.wiki/ before the url of any recipe site, and it gives just the ingredients and the instructions for that recipe.

Afterwards it can be edited, saved and shared.

Example:

Original recipe: https://www.alphafoodie.com/simple-homemade-rice-milk-2-ingr...

Using cooked.wiki: https://cooked.wiki/https://www.alphafoodie.com/simple-homem...
That's great to hear, but if someone offers you a substantial chunk of change I'd hate to get proficient at software that will stop working in 60 days.

On-boarding to new tools has a cost.