skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Can do" vs "must do" is the key here.

On a PCB, you "can" or you "may" perform advanced transmission line analysis upon your PCB traces. I don't think that a project like this needs much more than a 2-layer board (so microstrips are definitely overkill), but that doesn't change the fact that PCB parasitics analysis is basically a solved problem today and available on a lot of software packages.

Anyway, my overall point is that large contiguous blocks of PCB are easier than thinking about connector issues (or for the matter: being forced to solder and manage all those connectors or headers).

Not only is it easier to go header-free (and use a larger PCB), its better engineering due to tighter specs and analysis available.

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Now a bit of connector doodads and having fun is probably fun and all. But a stackup of 9x PCBs is reaching the point of absurdity. I can't think of any good engineering reason to have so many connectors.

That's 9-separate PCBs on this design, meaning at a minimum, 9-separate ground planes on this design. Is that... good engineering? I don't think so. Its horribly complex but for seemingly no appreciable reason. Maybe sound / analog circuits go on a separate board, but I'm not seeing any sound here...

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That being said: I agree that at 500kHz maybe this level of analysis is not needed. But... on the other hand... these 74xxxx chips all have 30ns rise/fall times, so its not outside the realm of reality to be running this computer at 5MHz or 10MHz or so, 10x to 20x faster. At those higher speeds, you'll possibly need to think about these issues a bit more (or perhaps... more appropriately I should say... the author of this project "could have" aimed at a higher-speed target if they so chose)
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This is horrifying. What exactly in the manufacturing process could cause such egregious contamination?
This doesn't even delve into the hidden deceit!

In the first image, the sender says they went camping in the mountains, but then sends a photo of the seaside. Did they really go camping at all?

In the soapbox derby image, the sender claims they "just finished the latest renderings" for the sushi car design, yet the design is clearly AI generated! They've been lying to the team about how they're creating the designs.

Rich Dinh, who's dominating the chat with his ravioli dish? It's a stock photo by Helen Rushbrook! Is he making anything himself?

How many people in Dimension Apple are secretly struggling like these three? There must be huge pressure to conform.
Are wild racoons that friendly? There is one living in my attic and I've seen racoon claws, so I'm not tempted to try and spook it.
> EPOCHSECONDS relies on `zmodload zsh/datetime`

Is there any advantage to using that module instead of invoking

date +%s

I use zsh but I don’t have any addons installed or anything. So for me it is less work to call date +%s instead
For those who really care about nature and biodiversity, adopting a vegan lifestyle is a clear choice.

> Globally, seabird numbers have fallen by 70% since the 1950s, and in northern Britain most seabird populations have had significant declines in recent years.

> It doesn’t look great for any wildlife. Human-made factors are eating into our natural ecology, it’s just so sad

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

https://www.iucn.org/content/worrying-declines-worlds-seabir...

The review reveals that seabirds are now more threatened than any other group of birds. Of the 346 seabird species, 97 (28%) are globally threatened, and a further 10% are listed as Near Threatened. Almost half of all seabird species are known or suspected to be experiencing population declines. The albatross family is especially imperiled, with 17 of the 22 species currently threatened with extinction.

At sea, commercial fisheries have depleted fish stocks, an important food source for seabirds, and caused the death of innumerable seabirds through accidental bycatch. On land, the introduction of invasive species has destroyed many breeding colonies.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/05/d...

Between 1950 and 2010, globally monitored populations plummeted by 70%. In the UK alone, nesting seabirds have declined by 30% since 2001. Seabirds are now counted as one of the most threatened groups of birds in the world.

Their numbers have been cut down by invasive species, overfishing, entanglements in fishing gear (bycatch), plastic pollution, oil spills and decades of habitat destruction.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/seabird-...

Lost at Sea: Why the Birds You Don’t See Are Fading Away

The problem was the indiscriminate fishing method known as gillnetting. Hauling a huge net to the surface of the ocean sweeps up not only the target fish but also porpoises, otters, turtles, and diving seabirds. Today at least 400,000 seabirds are killed worldwide every year in gill nets—murres and puffins and diving ducks in northern waters, penguins and diving petrels off the coast of South America. The annual toll on murres alone may equal the 146,000 killed in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
The NAS box from synology does all this. Except the phone part. Email self hosted might as well be impossible.
Probably because development was already well under way several months ago.

But I agree, explicit support for OpenTF here would have been really nice to see, even if it delayed launch a little.
Ooh I’d never heard that! I will say there is something magical about caiziyou. It’s so nutty and roasted and beautifully dark.
I don't agree that the law is a huge mess. It is certainly far less of a mess than any code base I've ever seen, given the gigantic scope of what it applies to, and how many people if affects.

Note that the legal system is indeed a huge mess, but that happens because of many other reasons - not a problem with the wording or vagueness of the law, but with the explicit (malicious) intentions of law-makers, judges, police and others involved in the whole process.

For your example of "child": how often does it actually cause a problem in practice? How many people have been improperly punsihed/set free because of a poor interpretation of the word "child" in a specific law? This is far more relevant than every law taking up valuable space to define what such a common word means.
All this thread has taught me is that Google/Apple religious zealotry is a very real thing.

What's interesting about this "debate" is my original links very, very, very clearly show the reality: Google being excited about launching the Pixel 6 (in 2021) with Tensor silicon - a first for them.

All anyone on this thread has done since is refuse to acknowledge how obvious and clear that is while deflecting and throwing things at the wall.
There’s a way, it’s just not commonly used. (See: PDF/A).
completely agree with this and your previous comment
> Out of curiosity, what do you do with the transcriptions after you record them?

I use them as a dictation tool. I speak out what I want to write and then I use a language model to polish it later.

> You mentioned that you usually talk out loud while working, but do you keep working as usual after you save the transcription for future use?

Yes, I continue working as "normal". But you see, there's this slight concern that if I keep talking all day, every day, someone might reserve a spot for me in a mental asylum.

> Do you ever stop your work to do something with the transcription right away?

Sometimes, yes. If I'm writing a specific message, I might pause my work to polish it immediately. But if I'm just voicing my random thoughts, I would like to access them later to write my messages or posts.
While this definitely played a factor (I doubt the US would have had over 50% of the global GNP at the end of the war if their factories were getting bombed), the US was a global manufacturing powerhouse in 1937 by any measure; in both raw number of factories, and per-capita productivity the US was far ahead.

The US had more manufacturing capacity than Germany and Japan combined before a single bomb was dropped on a German or Japanese factory.
Yes, in some interview he mentioned that Qud at the time was running as if it were a console app inside Unity. I don't know if that is still true after their UI overhaul, but if so it always seemed odd not to port it to MonoGame instead and save paying the fees.
More that most Adblock extensions on safari are paid such as AdGuard, whereas on Android I can get better AdBlockers working for free.
Printed text on _scrolls_?
Yes, it doesn't fork a separate process. I doubt I could really tell the difference in prompt responsiveness, but I liked learning about the printf -v COMMA_EPOCH method.
I agree with you about the absurd degree of service saturation. I've discovered many things I cannot do without an Internet connection because one trivial step in the process absolutely requires communication with some network endpoint. I found one app where, if you block it's ability to send analytics reports back to Mixpanel, it will run 3 or 5 times but after that refuse to run again until an Internet connection is available. I thought it was absurd since it proves the developers actually considered offline use cases, but decided that they couldn't allow that to go on indefinitely.

Anyway, sure, let's leave it there and see where things are in 5 years. It'll be interesting to find out!
The product info you shared is for the US only. The products are slightly different in the UK

https://www.kelloggs.co.uk/en_GB/products/rice-krispies.html

2.4g of sugar per serving is completely acceptable for me.

Glyphosate has been found in UK cereals too but I haven't seen enough evidence to be concerned about it.
Conversely I think you express the view of a non-ai-assisted programmer.

LLMs don't just dash out hundreds of lines of code. They can take a concept and break it down into concrete steps or even a fully planned architecture for you.

That's literally the hard work you describe. AI can do it beautifully, it just needs a human capable of critical thought to steer it (human understanding of the subject at hand is merely a bonus, not a requirement).
> Localtalk was great

Over the other side of the Atlantic, Acorn had an example of parallel evolution in the form of Econet, which used the same serial protocol, but over bigger connectors (the same 5 pin DIN that you see used in DMX networks and MIDI interfaces); as with AppleTalk the goal was simplicity.
Well, I’m convinced.
> The people that want to program will do so no matter what the end-user environment is. Most people just don't want to.

As an example, take Excel and Python scripting. Almost anyone who uses the former can pick up the latter yet that isn't what typically happens. There is effectively a chasm between the two. Why is that?
I don't usually text in English so my style is definitely different, but I wonder if I may be living in the Apple Dimension (despite my last Apple device being an iPod Touch from 10 years ago and a MacBook Air from the same time that I bought used to try to install Linux on it): I do end every one of my texts with grammatically correct punctuation, never use "lol" or other abbreviations, and typically write in a very clean, sometimes too verbose, style. I wonder if something up with "us". Maybe a new pathology name ought to be coined.
Oh interesting... would love to hear more about that. I guess what could happen is:

You would:

1. Resolve the FQDN

2. check the IP

3. Make the request

When the request is actually made, the FQDN is resolved again and a different IP is returned?
I know, right? I really want one for my wall.
How is it different from stock images? People could sell not their work on the stock sites, and it is pretty hard to detect.
Or impossible to detect, if you ask some AI model to repaint the image first, before putting it into the stock.
Seems to me that "vim/emacs user groups" are wildly different from "vim/emacs user group".
In the beginning I thought all I had to do was move my files to a cloud provider that is not Apple or Google. There are plenty of end-to-end encrypted apps to choose from. Or are there?

Why do you need a third-party cloud provider?

What's wrong with hosting your own 'cloud provider'?

Back in 2011 while travelling overseas away from home, I lost a lot of files from both my home computer and from my laptop due to a misconfigured DropBox installation.

I realised then, and later, that anything stored in the cloud does not belong to you at all, it exists only because of the goodwill of a third party. And that goodwill can disappear at any time at all, without notice.

The only way to ensure that those files belong to you is to host them yourself.
Was acquired by future in 2018. They do it far worse on other publications they own. e.g. on PC Gamer, 90% of screen estate is taken by ads.
Added sugar isn't immediately unhealthy. And according to their labels it's not enough sugar for me to be concerned with at all.

Honey or jam on toast would contain more sugar than a bowl of rice krispies.

Carbohydrates are also not unhealthy so I'm going to completely disregard that last statement.
Nonograms Katana also has a Web version: https://nonograms-katana.com/play/

I use it almost daily on my laptop.

On my phone, I use Nonogram Galaxy. So much that my previous phone has some of the app layout burned-in on the OLED screen.
>you might go through 5 $300 Android devices in the time that you get out of a $1000 iPhone

Maybe take care of your Android as you would an iPhone and it will also last as much as an iPhone, but at 1/3 the cost.

Most people (worldwide) are not spending 1k on a phone, even 300 is a lot.
There is a stepladder in our garage. The documentation pasted to it has text in English and Spanish, right down to the date: May 20xx/Puede 20xx.
8 H100s would have enough VRAM to finetune a 70B model.
I can't really buy 4090s for rack mount servers though. Power/cooling can be a pain.
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English is my first language, which is why I understand the analogy I gave is accurate, both in colloquial and technical forms of English.

Fish are animals, and only the extremely uneducated would think otherwise. Now that this has been pointed out to you, perhaps you will start to speak correctly from this point on, and educate your friends and family to do the same.

Knowledge and education in the US is bad enough. The last thing we need are people advocating to use incorrect language and spreading misinformation.
Am actually working on a project like this. Not quite to the level of insanity you're thinking about, but certainly a couple of thousand years.
I think they were referring to the typo. StRingray. :-)
This article is perfect. Basically it sums up to, "whats more likely, that every job disappears? (never happened in human history) or we get yet another expansion of products and innovations (always happens)?"

"but this time is different" - I still have not seen a single example that shows otherwise.

don't overthink it
Well, if I find the time I'll try to find the sourcecode, but I'm not sure in which state it is :-)
I mean I'm in New Zealand and it's fine for me.
Check the android test app. Very cool stuff to see there.
If there's a list of known optimizations that preserve correctness then it becomes an optimization problem based on output length (as a proxy for cycle count). So is the idea that an LLM is more efficient than a search or direct optimization?
That particular question will always revolve around: “for what purpose?”

If it’s for the sake of just taking good photos as a memory? Yes. There’s been a huge reduction in people buying point and shoots , or even low end cameras for vacations or lower end special events.

If it’s for the sake of more important special events or control, then no. They’re aimed at very different market segments. When it comes to mirrorless (DSLR is almost dead) there’s very little capability difference between low and high end today. The market is just: “what can you afford and what niceties do you want”. But the people who will buy one will likely want immediate physical control that a phone cannot offer.

So imho it’s less about the low end of the camera products and more about the low end of the customer needs.
The Big Short was able to depict financial instruments in an appealing way.

Partly by interjecting a scene where Margot Robbie explains the mortgage bond market and short selling while wearing very little, but people seemed to like that movie.
I meant covid and Russian invasion, awaiting the crisis which seems even lazier than me.
A big problem is you lose all the case law that interprets the law. Like discarding two centuries of bug reports and patches.

At the same time, laws have been codified (i.e. the case law rewritten coherently, combining all the patches combined), such as the Uniform Commercial Code.
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It is more verbose than java by all objective counts.
I've been a data scientist for over a decade and have delivered on a wide range of high-impact projects and products. I don't recognize this as meaningful or helpful to my field. More of a me-too from an inexperienced perspective.

The bulleted list at the top seems to be a random collection of irrelevant, almost unintelligible thoughts, stuffed cargo cult-style into the template of the agile manifesto. What does "APIs over databases" mean? It sounds like "oranges over apples" to me.

The numbered list of principles is better, but still not always that helpful. There's a strange spirit of perfectionism and inflexibility, e.g. in #3 and #5. Maybe some data scientists have time to automate everything they do, but I don't think it's a good general principle. #4, 6, and 7 are better. But overall there is a disorganized, random, unmotivated feel to both lists.

Perhaps something better could be developed, but for now, I think data scientists looking for a manifesto would be best served by going back to the original agile manifesto (https://agilemanifesto.org/) and reflecting on how it applies to our field. Which it doesn't, at least not universally. But it didn't apply universally to software engineering either. Just replace "software" with "data analysis" or "predictive analytics" or what have you and it all carries over pretty well.
It is hard to find police that can convincingly do unhoused drug addict well enough.
> given that the major contributors seems to be from paris / bordeaux i am pretty sure they know about catalan.

Yes, but did they know that català is Catalan for Catalan? In French, as in English, it is catalan instead (well, English always capitalises it, French doesn't, but the spelling is identical).
To cover the common case where someone is slightly late to move their vehicle in a way that is less disruptive to both the vehicle owner and road users than a large tow vehicle loading the vehicle to haul away. And to provide an evidence trail to combat fraudulent tow companies.
Interestingly the Internet Archive copied the open source design (of their scanner) from the site https://diybookscanner.org/ ( as they are allowed to by its open source licence ) The internet Archive then effectively refused to release any details back to the community. After a lot of “pushing”, the Internet Archive did acknowledge the source their design was based on came from the site bookscanner.org. This would have been very disappointing, in my opinion for the designer of the scanner – who released the info open source. At one time Internet Archive sold this scanner to organizations for $10K I think the price has dropped now ( I think ) to a few thousand.
Homebrew Website Club is 10 years old now! (I have been going for ~2 years, and hosting for 1.5 years)

Most of our meetings are online now, but we have a longer, two-day in-person event coming up in Nürnberg at the end of October (https://events.indieweb.org/2023/10/indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2...).
> How do you know if the CV is accurate or not?

What does this have to do with AI? People have lied on their resumes long before ChatGPT existed.
> A good programming language would make those references very easy to untangle and present in their untangled form.

Not necessarily. Notation can only do so much to help with understanding. To understand 4+4=8 you still need to understand what's a number, what addition means, and what it means for two numbers to be equal. The same problem applies to the law, and it takes far more time to understand legal concepts than the actual wording.

Additionally, the law is not supposed to be some arcane discipline that you need to learn a new language for. The law is decided on by, and applies to, people who are not and have no reason to become legal experts. It is simply a statement of the rules by which we try to live.

If laws were written in code, they would actually become much, much harder to understand than they already are for the vast majority of their audience. Imagine a public debate about a law where the text of the law was, instead of plain(ish) English, Haskell code. Imagine news anchors explaining that Biden agreed to add the lambda sign, but was heavily criticized by McConnell for his use of a monad instead of a plain for loop.
Courts and lawyers are efficient at generating large pay checks for lawyers.

They are horrible at everything else.
> ..and how many times it’s used undefined

This is the real advantage of codifying law into a programming language. You can have validation and assertion that is automated. And a strict structure, free from ambiguity.

As an additional advantage, multilingualism becomes more accessible, with the codified program/definition acting as the lingua franca of law. Thus, someone who only knows English could make sense of Japanese laws by reading it.
> With two or more photos or a stereo image (new iPhone?) one could triangulate to infer a flattened page

Especially if you project a grid over the pages using e.g. a scanning laser.
I worked for a company that translated certain kinds of legal contract into what was effectively a DSL. They could then be represented in a simplified way. That was the whole business.

The CEO (a lawyer) claimed that the lawyers who wrote these things would deliberately and unnecesarily overcomplicate them so that they could maximize billable hours.

I think they could quite easily have been templated using a DSL but that DSL would need frequent maintenance. These types of contracts did evolve as new types of clauses and legal constructs popped up and gradually evolved from "new" to "standard" to "boilerplate".
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How iOS took programming away from the people.
They have the powers that be are simply failing to measure it, I lost my job last year was unable to find more work but I am counted as employed.
In a religious context, that doesn't surprise me, but that's about the only context I think it would hold true for.
Agreed. We want the wiki to listen to the community's needs and ensure continuity of it. This means a team is likely needed.
Just make sure that whoever writes the majority of the build file actually understands gradle, at least its fundamentals. It really is not hard, and afterwards it is a really great tool that can significantly improve compile/CI times.
Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors by William Shockley (PDF, 1950)
Having seen US and Chinese manufacturing side-by-side, I'm quite confident that there is a substantial competency gap.
How about AI being an additional security layer?

Say I would look at security from a different point of view, namely behavior pattern matching. If your traceability is high enough, a trained AI might be able to sniff out potential breaches immediately.

The same is true for cheating in AI. Once we've trained models and games log enough metrics, I'm quite sure that AI can sniff out cheaters with high precision by behavior alone. Even if they don't use aimbots, AI should be able to sniff out wallhackers or other minor cheaters by simply analyzing how players are observing their surroundings.