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Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
I last needed EDA type tools in 2012. Since then, wherever I was employed, I only wrote software and the actual PCB production was handled by a different team.

I'm getting back into doing it all myself, and the tools I used to use (gEDA) are no longer in the repositories of my distros (debian-based).

What is being used these days to do circuit diagrams, PCB layout, etc? First prize would be something already in many repositories (I see a `lepton` tool which I will try out), but I will accept a second prize of FLOSS or consolation prizes of `free to download, but closed-source`).

TIA, I will read and consider all replies seriously.
Use dmypy - the daemon version of mypy (installed when you install mypy) that runs 10x the speed for local edits/changes.

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mypy_daemon.html

(But I also await ruff type checking)
>In some ways it’s easier because I can have these virtual connections to more people, but in IRL I would only sit next to 1-3 people.

interesting, it's the opposite for me. I was in a small satellite office but I felt I got to know half of the 30 people in my area fairly quickly.

once the office shut down I never saw nor talked to most of those people. Just my immediate team of 3-5 people (2 of which came after the pandemic). The main upside was that I did talk more to people in the main office than I did before, but there was no chance of any get together when we're 500 miles apart.

I agree with missing lunch. That was definitely the best time to talk to people you'd never have a chance to otherwise.
But the suspicion is unfounded.
Profit!
What if the plane is in the middle, over the Atlantic?
Have you read the article ?
I thought it was obvious, but in a world where most people have solar battery setups, peak demand occurs after 2-3 days of cloudy weather, and stays consistently high 24 hours a day until the sun comes out. The rest of the year the grid is pretty much idle.

I don't believe I'm moving any goalposts. From the first paragraph of my original comment:

> Imagine a world where everyone in the state has an overbuilt solar battery system installed, but still relies on the grid those few times a year with extended cloud cover.
If you like to design good UX, you shouldn't look at any cookie consent forms.
Presumably they just use -fno-exceptions, and not everyone has to have portable code. I appreciate the concept but pragmatically there are plenty of C++ server side projects that only use Clang and GCC
I'm trying to figure out where this figure comes from. The immediate source is the Institute for Energy Research, which seems to be a lobbying organization for the oil and gas industry.

Not clear what "efficient" means in this context. All heat engines have a second law of thermodynamics efficiency limit. Cars run 20%-40% efficient, measured by dynamometer output at wheels / energy content of fuel.[1] (Motor Trend says 20%. [2]) Electric cars aren't limited in that way, and reach 63%-80%. Of course, if fuel was burned to create electricity, there was a thermodynamic efficiency loss upstream. Those values have objective engineering measurements.

There's something called "Miles Per Gallon Equivalent".[3] This is more of a marketing/regulatory term. It appears on car window stickers. It's just miles per kilowatt hour multiplied by kWh per gallon of gasoline, which is 33.7 kWh / gallon. Motor Trend says that the Tesla Model 3 is rated at 142 MPGe, which is a reasonable number.

This probably has to do with pollution credits, not energy efficiency. It's may be related to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules. Those have a big loophole on the gasoline-powered side - there are different limits for "cars" and "light trucks".[4] US vehicle production is currently over 50% "light trucks", which includes many SUVs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/news/evs-more-efficient-than-inte...

[3] https://www.motortrend.com/features/what-is-mpge-meaning

[3] https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/what-is-mpge/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
EDIT: I take this back. I think it's "forkability"; their description specifically points out that this shape is long enough to be easily picked up with a fork. Radiatori are pretty small and often easier to spoon. I like them a lot, though.
Also the vast majority don't get their 20. It's like >80% leaving before 20 yrs.

The bigger contributing factors to declining enlistment are: general lack of support for the military among younger people (the latest round of forever wars didn't exactly help), better options in the civilian world (especially increasing benefits on student loan suppprt), and decreasing physical fitness (the increase in obesity rates directly lowers the available recruitment population).
Another reminder to alway use SSO and to always use 2FA.
a fitbit is all i need in a watch
It's not a "minuscule number" because visionOS is controlled by looking at things and pinching your fingers. If people subconsciously stare at the edges of a square button, can you imagine how often they'll misclick? (mispinch?)
Have you tried to re-roll when you get a bad answer? If you use the user interface it has a button for that purpose.
"The energy contained in 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 33.7 kWh (kilowatt hours) of electricity. So for example, if an electric vehicle can travel 100 miles on 33.7 kWh of electricity, it would be rated with an MPG equivalency of 100 MPGe."

https://www.merchantsfleet.com/future-of-fleet/mpge-explaine...
"Remains of people who lived on the eastern coast of South America nearly 2,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known evidence for the family of microorganisms that cause syphilis1. The discovery, reported today in Nature, casts further doubt on the already shaky idea that Christopher Columbus’s crew exported syphilis to Europe."

Can someone explain this to me? Why would this cast doubt? Wouldn't this just be more evidence to the export theory?
All in the name of simplicity. Eventually Apple devices will just have one button that says "give us money".
Much as I love a good rant like this, I have to wonder if this is just the world moving on.

I used to hate it (still do a little) when I toggle a checkbox, then go to hit "Save" and realise that the checkbox had immediate effect.

Now I observe that this is almost the norm. I guess I need to get over it.

I also hate it when people changed the scrollbar behaviour in any way. Then today I realised that one of my micro-frustrations with eclipse is that some UX genius decided to make the scrollbars fade away if there is inactivity. (Inactivity of a few seconds in an IDE is pretty normal - it represents thinking!).

But then I reflect that eclipse is a hard core programming tool, used by exactly the kind of people I would have expected to hate on this kind of thing. Instead, it seems that this highly technical audience is OK with this.

This article is absolutely on the money, and using rounded checkboxes is deliberately sabotaging one of the few strong mental models that we are able to hold about a UI.

But maybe this battle is over, and the UX enshittifiers have won.
Over long journeys, those 3 nanograms really add up.
This is precisely the sort of thing that I'm aiming for with this article, a collection of all those little bits of lore in one spot. It's so incredibly diffused that you spend days just reading to get started. I want to reduce that friction to a minimum to get people up and running safely.
Has he never watched Mythbusters? This is basically just less scientific and more dramatic Mythbusters.
This site looks very interesting but I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at. What is that map for and how does it filter sources, since it seems like it doesn't include all airports.
The “small targeted blasts” thing exists.

https://youtu.be/XH-EFtTa6IU?feature=shared
As im my comment above, alcohol is the big one to compare to. There are statistics like "alcohol consumption accounts for approximately 6% of all cancers diagnosed in the US" [1], and absolutely no serious scientist or doctor doubts that it's a strong carcinogen. I really wonder why the lawyers that orchestrated the roudup cases never go after the breweries etc. I guess because most people like alcohol and ignore the health effects, there's just no chance to win a jury trial? And that's with alcohol's addiction and host of other health problems, too. Or is there some law that does not allow companies for causing health damage due to alcohol?

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/diet-physical-...
>but this affects the smaller population of the entire workforce and will be one of those things that will be improved on over time.

I'm not as optimistic. that class of 2020-2022 (high school and college) got socially stunted in a way that I feel will only break the physical divide further. Those kids in 20 years won't even see it as a problem that they never got a proper prom, a chance to walk the stage, a chance to properly onboard into their first step of their career and form connections that will help them grow. It'll just be a new normal, a colder normal facilitated by the false platitudes that is modern social media.

The only possibly good long term (20+ year) ramifications will be that a lot of old crusty government processes will definitely be streamlined through the net. Having platforms livestream electorial forums to a populace who treat the internet as a natural extension of their bodies will completely change the dynamics of how candidates argue and pander.
Usually when this happens I eventually realise that I'm the problem. By which I mean I'm doing something stupid/obviously wrong. If nobody else has this same problem with a common bit of software then I'm likely making a typo on the command, not completely following the instructions etc
Nope, this group tells you nothing about the fact that these are mutually exclusive, you could just as well group checkboxes because they are all related to some "Icon"
I'm glad you actually brought a reason to this debate. Not sure I agree but there is at least a reason.
You seem to have a very negative opinion about America’s Test Kitchen based on one claim they made in one video (6:30). Yet you offer no insight into why you feel they are wrong. If a company in the business of testing recipes, with 30+ year track record (Cooks Illustrated), tells me that they did multiple experiments on pork belly, found oven results were leathery, frying was crispy, explains why, and then demonstrates it, well yes, I am going to trust them over a guy on the internet who implies he is some master of pork bellies but demonstrates nothing.
Linux for Playstation 2
Apple ditched square checkboxes long ago in Apple Notes: https://imgur.com/a/HLrnXn3

I believe it was this way since the introduction of iOS 7 in 2014[1] (article from 2016).

[1] https://osxdaily.com/2016/01/25/how-to-add-checklists-to-not...
Like what? Can you give some examples of the huge battery progress within the last 14 years?
Building Under Regulation
The problem is "easy" is relative. "quick" for a senior =/= "quick" for a junior who may not even know what terms to google.

> specialized domain knowledge you can't find anywhere else, etc.

so most of the proprietary workplace tools, likely with shoddy or outdated documentation? Yeah, that sounds like a big issue that is definitely not the junior's fault.
If I think of square checkboxes I think of sharp corners. Maybe I should write an article "In Loving Memory of sharp corners" because I definitely miss them but they seem to be extinct from the modern Web and GUI in general.
If I skim the article only old screenshots contain sharp corners. None of the new once.

I have a browser where I configured "border-radius: 0 !importent" as userContent.css for fun. Was sometimes surprised how much it is used. Especially how many circles are today actually boxes with a large border radius.
And not only that, but you can take that statically typed code and build JIT compilers on top of them
Show HN: Audio summarized from Reddit posts, using ElevenLabs and GPT-4 Turbo
You can create an automated audio summary like this one - on any topic, from any data source(s) with Graphlit (https://www.graphlit.com).

I ingested Reddit posts from r/Azure, with entity extraction, and filtered just on posts that were tagged with SharePoint.

Then, with a custom publishing prompt, I had GPT-4 Turbo write a script for ElevenLabs, and posted it to a Slack channel.

With just a few API calls, you can build AI apps on top of Graphlit to deliver any kind of researched summaries for your users: in audio, as well as text.
(e) Thousands of person-years wasted bickering over how real climate change is and what the magnitude will really be, when it ought to be obvious that renewable energy sources are preferable to non-renewable ones.
It's funny how "1984" style of Ministry of truth is alive and well and many of them pretend it's just fiction.
In my thinkery with Hesiod, Orpheus, and Ovid.
> a senior with fading skills

Recently had to help an aging parent use their phone to obtain medical care: an app was required to access their MyChart to get a message from their case manager. Having to explain what is "clickable" is infuriating. The race for UX/UI novelty is leaving seniors behind, which is tragic since hospitals are pushing them online.
Is it theft?
Project Drawdown [1] provides great answers to this question.

1: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
Full Tour of the Porsche Macan EV [video]
You can...but it will be unexpected for most users and for most use cases. Look at the pizza toppings example in the link above again, it’s a clear semantic difference.

I can implement a radio button that allows multiple choices also, doesn’t mean it is the right thing to do.

Now there are of course exceptions to the rule. One case where instant reaction on checkboxes are common is filters in online stores. I think that’s a leftover design from the days you had to actively click search on each change to the filters. Those will work equally good with toggles.
Overpopulation isn’t the source of the problem, IMHO. A wild human being in their natural environment pollutes thousands of times less than an industrialised consumer.

Each American or European, whose food is grown thousands of km away, is plenty more only to make their salad. Can they be blamed for their Carbon Footprint^TM? I think we should blame the fossil fuel corporations which have turned us into fuel junkies
each of those have a pretty prominent 'contact sales' link on the landing pages and pricing pages, so I have to heavily disagree, they all employ a sales forces.

For certain apps it might seem like they sell themselves for small users or individuals, but as soon as the customer is 'enterprise' the route is virtually always 'contact sales' like on Stripe and Webflow's landing page, on shopify's pricing page the larger tiers are also 'contact sales'.
Identifying a microwave oven as a source of false extragalactic FRBs (2015)
You might cut your finger on the sharp corners
Nuclear waste is dangerous.

Coal ash, tailings, hydrocarbon extraction byproducts; those are also dangerous. Look at cancer rates near refinery areas in Louisiana or Houston -- you might imagine a nuclear bomb went off in those areas based on the cancer rates.

Nuclear waste has the unique property that it is very easily detected. This is actually a good thing! It means we can isolate it, test for isolation, and stay away. The other upside is that there is less of it. Contrast that with something like the Kingston fly ash spill. There is not enough U-235 on earth to spill that much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly.... That is a single event (with a death toll similar to Chernobyl!) The picture for semiconductor manufacturing or battery manufacturing is not perfect either.

Short sighted? Removing a zero carbon clean energy source from the table when decarbonization is urgently needed -- that is short sighted.
> hard core programming tool

lol. eclipse is a bucket of rusty panels held together with duct tape, but embedded companies that can't afford software devs and have never heard of UX/UI cling to it.
Probably, in some cases/jurisdictions.
This made me feel warm and fuzzy inside! TY
Does 50hz work? If so, just use an incandescent light bulb?
Energy is measured in joules and CO2 emmisions. EVs had free pass, because one day we may somehow move to solar. But in reality big part of energy is produced from coal and some fossil fuels. Some supercharging stations are even directly powered by diesel generators, solar can not provide megawatts of energy!

EVs had all sorts of excuses and magic multipliers. While in reality small ICE vehicles are very efficient and may produce less CO2 per mile!
> I rarely need to update them.

Not really a good project to measure ossification on then.
It would make me jump from pure joy, but what gives you the idea there was a pending collapse of cattle farming?
If we ran out of oil today billions would die.
What is commonly understood as sand, has not much to do with little glass balls, even though here we have glass balls. A very special type of sand you can say, but not common "sand". But I feel no need to go more into pedantery here ... if this is sand to you, then I am fine with it.
BMW says goodbye to electric cars. Shifts focus to hydrogen engines
Association for Gravestone Studies
Some weedy detail, for those interested. This is the notice of the proposed rule change (NOPR) for the 6.67 number.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/11/2023-06...

Also, I think this article from 2019 really adds some missing details, like how the carbon credit exchange works.

https://thehustle.co/09042019-carbon-emissions-credits/
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...

It's about a microgram.
Title is a bit misleading.

To geeks, "production hell" sounds like "they're in the process of mass producing, and they're running into all sorts of problèms, but we'll see something any time soon." Kinda like the 6 months of crunch before a AAA game is released after 3 years of production.

Except, the rest of the article makes it very clear that as far as production grade, mass marketable models of solid state batteries, we're more in the Hollywood version of "production hell", where no one has anything good to show, everybody is making press release, and we're rewriting the script until it barely looks like anything.

But, hey, we'll get more "breakthroughs" headlines any time now, so that's what matters ?
OS X is still basically NeXTSTEP in many regards.
The US currently has what was once the Earth's entire population. Much of the population can be explained by a steady flow of relatively poor immigrants.

The people in the high population growth rate regions aren't going to stay there, and their emissions will look similar to the nations they move to.
Not a bad post for HN, but this kind of submission should be made as a URL submission with the original site/page/post title, with commentary or summarizing done as a comment, which can be done simultaneously via the text box on the submit page. Not using the original title as you have done is considered against the guidelines.

I'd delete this and resubmit as it will likely be flagged.
Lots of people fail to graduate because of a single failing grade in a single class senior year. Or they get suspended/expelled in their last months. Those people certainly didn't miss out on years of education.

Then there are folks like me. I dropped out of kindergarten. I didn't do any structured schooling until I was 16 when I passed a GED and ACT test then went to college for Computer Science and Physics. My GPA in college was 3.89 and I've been a highly competent software engineer for ~20 years. Nothing that I missed from high school has held me back in any significant way.
One of the problem with blogs is that a lot of remaining bloggers are technical people and they have these weird hangups about styling their posts so they are actually readable. They seem to think that because design has an element of personal preference it has no importance. As much as a I dislike platforms like Twitter and Medium, the content is a least readable by default.
Someone in the comments explained what's really going on here (and it isn't cheating, though perhaps one might see it as a scandal):

"The 6.67 factor is based on 1.00/0.15. The intention was an incentive for 15% of the fleet to be alternative fuel vehicles in the 1990's such as compressed natural gas (CNG), ethanol, etc. In this way if Ford had 15% of their fleet on CNG, then they would be equally weighted to their gasoline fleet in the fuel economy calculation by the EPA. The 15% incentive was supposed to be phased out as the actual percentage increased over time."
Yeah, and then come into twitter complaining when the code fails spectacularly after a compiler upgrade.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that iOS has had round checkboxes since forever? https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/116712/apples-round-c...

Likewise I thought the article’s punchline was going to be the increasing use of on-off toggles instead of checkboxes. Like how the settings app on macOS now has more on-off toggles than ever before.

Personally though, my fav pet peeve remains the unclear toggle button. When the icon is white, is it on? Is it off? Does the line through the microphone mean it’s muted? Or that it mutes when tapped? No one knows, tap it a few more times to find out…
Stupid question: but why does video monetize so much better? Is it because of sponsorships that are harder to skip than just jumping a text paragraph? Or it's the normal ads?
The big problem is the way that people want US-style lifestyles with big houses and cars. This consumes way more energy than European or Asian style living in apartments with public transport.

Overpopulation will solve itself as countries develop. We’ve seen that over and over.
Just because it is Google, doesn't mean their style guides have any quality value.

Any company that worships that style guide is one I am happily never going to work on.
I was under the impression that death certificates only list the immediate cause of death, and maybe occasionally some immediate biological confounders (e.g. pneumonia caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

Here's one for you though: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-pollution-rec...

: Pollution has been recorded as a cause of death for the first time in the UK at the inquest of a nine-year-old girl.

: A coroner concluded air pollution made a "material contribution" to the death of Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah after a severe asthma attack in February 2013, in the landmark ruling.

: The schoolgirl, who lived in Lewisham, South London, was rushed to hospital at 2am before she died.

: Her family has long argued that pollution caused her death, and it has emerged that levels of nitrogen dioxide where she lived were unlawful.
The reality is that most people have unencrypted communication with their home appliances because the certificate isn't trusted.
What’s wrong with “going down the ML rabbit hole”?
MBA-style management will never count on innovation as a way forward. They're actively opposed to that.
> Neutrality is support for might makes right. Choosing to be neutral is to say that the strongest party should win.

I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Are you saying that the US has historically been taking a neutral position? I suppose they haven't been prosecuting any particular vision with their pointless wars, but that seems a bit weird.

But no question not having any power to back up their whims will defang the US and make them victims of external actors. Hopefully the threat of this happening is enough to reign in the warmongers in the US government and make them negotiate towards a pro-US policy instead of the anti-random-victims strategy to date.
This may be petty, but this is one of the reasons why I don't use Apple Notes. The design.
But technically do you think this adversely effects the electricity company? If not, it's just overspill.