skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
stupid answer: copper goes green when it oxidises

actual answer: PCBs are covered in a protective film to prevent damage to the extremely thin layer of copper on them from bumps
it's a pointless metaphor if there's an army of armed drones keeping you out.
Proton pass is a terrible choice because of Proton's inactivity policy - I expect my passwords to still be there if I'm incapacitated for one reason or another for a year (jail, coma, whatever).
Trillion dollar industry with interesting problems. What’s the issue?
Reminds me of this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/13/uber-empl...
The market punished meta for Mark going rogue and ignoring wall st. advice during covid. The stock is up 7x since then. Clearly investors are happy to have mark even if we wastes 10 bil a year on reality labs.
It should be enough to look at the earnings reports of Kreamy Frozen Chicken to know that chicken is the most delicious ice cream flavor.
Thanks!

> I've been through the docs and could find if there's a way to deploy a git repo, or a tar file, that contains the docker compose file instead if copy pasting.

We are currently developing a GitHub Action utilizing our SDK to upload latest releases (and provide paths to the docker-compose file).

> What about env variables?

These are high up in our backlog and we are looking for initial partners to specify them with. We thought about using end-to-end encryption for env variables.

What would be an example for an endpoint?

> `docker compose up`
Yes currently this all what the agent does. We assume that most applications handle upgrades inside their applications and not on an infrastructure level. Do you have an exact upgrade case in mind?

Regarding the vendor and the customer portal, we want to enable both options. A deployment can either be managed by the vendor or by the customer. Some customers want to control when they want to perform upgrades and set certain variables or helm values themselves. In other cases it is fine if the ISV does all the management.

This is also what might be configurable in the future.

Thanks again, let us know if you know how can improve Distr. All feedback is welcome.
This is an pre-publishing excerpt from "Mornings Without Mii", coming out on the 25th.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374614782/morningswithout...
Are you really claiming that a new home has 10x more lighting than an old one? Or are you just saying that your own house it lit up like a lighthouse - search lights in every room, perhaps?
A PCB is a layer cake of fiberglass and copper, with the green stuff just being paint on top to make manufacturing easier. The copper is glued to the fiberglass and etched according to your design files. (This turns a plate of copper into a bunch of very thin wires, basically.) If it's a multi-layer design, a bunch of these etched boards are glued together. Holes are then drilled for vias (which are rivet like things that electrically connect arbitrary layers according to your design file) and through holes (for through-hole components, or for screws to attach a board to an enclosure, etc). Finally, a solder mask (the green stuff) is applied over the parts of the copper that don't need to be exposed (for connecting components), covering the copper on the outside layers.

The solder mask prevents solder from sticking to parts of the board that don't need solder on them.

To add components, solder paste (little balls of metal embedded in a flux) is applied to the areas without solder mask (using a metal plate that is laser cut to have holes where solder is needed), and then an optical/robotic system called a pick and place machine places each component at the right spot. (Or you can do this with tweezers.) Finally, the board is heated to the melting point of the solder, and because of the solder mask, pulls all the components into the exactly right place (by minimizing surface tension, something liquids like to do). Through hole boards are a little different, they get "wave soldered" where the board floats on molten solder and attaches to the metal areas. The solder mask is even more helpful here. If you didn't have solder mask, you'd just get a thick layer of solder on top of every trace, and potentially bridges between adjacent traces, which is bad. (But people do apply solder to exposed traces to increase their current carrying capacity.)

TLDR, the plastic on top is paint that makes manufacturing easier. If you make PCBs in your own shop with a laser or mini CNC, you won't have solder mask, and you can see how much more difficult soldering components is. It's not impossible. Just a little bit more work from your hand and brain is required, and that's expensive at scale. So, plasticy paint.
It is free to say things on interviews and in the media, while your own time and how you spend it is non renewable. If you can make ends meet and you're spending your days on work you enjoy, that's the most anyone can ask for.
As opposed to students who get the steps from other students/teachers/books/youtube/google.

Why is using AI something to be ‘declared’?
> TIL printer dots!

Are these dots why some printers refuse to print b&w when you have no yellow left?
OK then, what regulation do you think was missing that could have prevented this
Aha, yeah blender was a huge UI inspiration, it’s all handmade from scratch though!
You’re right, “thought leadership” is a loaded term. Maybe “proof of passion” would be a better one. If you write about topics you’re working on, no matter how niche and no matter which forum (it doesn’t have to be a blog, it could be anywhere with your contact details attached), then eventually people will find you. I don’t blog, but I’ve had people email me because of obscure GitHub repos they found that helped them debugging a problem.

It’s ultimately a numbers game. The more you put yourself out there, the more likely something specific will resonate with someone at some point. The best opportunities often come from the smallest connections.
Also, thou shalt not make a machine with reproductive capabilities.
Okay? I walked to the supermarket. Nothing changed. I drove to the border and went hiking. Nothing changed. Now what?
Ah interesting! I've definitely seen some French code somewhere with the variable names being all French as well, so it really was strange to see them be mixed.
I meant to include his name near my mention of PVC flutes. Love watching him play (both in the sense of playing music and in the sense of seeing his creativity and passion on display). Nicolas Bras is always a fun watch!
Cool (probably), but it's not clear what it does or how useful it is when one doesn't know anything about Angular signals. Could you explain?

Also, care to compare to RxPY? (https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY)
Healthy food costs twice as much as junk food, study says
See also Swift’s built-in Date/DateComponents/Calendar types.
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In my case, I’ve built Python applications that poll multiple sensor data, perform calculations, and push results to the frontend. The frontend is also allowed to configure the measurements on the fly, so I needed some form of reactivity in my backend to handle dynamic changes smoothly.

Could you share an example of the problem you’re referring to?
Also the (provocatively titled) "Let's Remove Quaternions from every 3d Engine" [1]

Spoiler alert: rotors are mechanically identical to quaternions, while being easier to understand. If you understand rotors, you understand quaternions. You can fit the laws you need to understand rotors on a business card.

Plus, rotors abstract to higher and lower (well, there's only one plane and its two respective orientations in 2d, but still) dimensions.

Complex numbers as planes (bivectors in GA parlance) has been the most mind-opening mathematical concept I've been exposed to in the last decade. The associated geometric product has helped me better understand concepts (like "handedness") that troubled me during undergrad engineering.

1. https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
Thats not fully true. These flows do have regulation that can be solved.
I'm not sure why you call it "grift". Who profited?

To me it was just an interesting bit of speculation popularised by an academic and sci-fi author (Vernor Vinge) - which is the very thing such people should be doing imo.

And the history of it goes back to Ulam and Von Neumann, and maybe Turing. Hardly grifters.
Most of them pediatricians and the first contact doctors. The gender split depended on the specialty.

The gynecologic and doctors doing childbirths were frequently men. Likewise, surgeons. And there was stereotype of them being better then women.
It's quite easy to flash a custom firmware actually and I wish I never bought a “devkit” because it's useless (you really really need to mess things up badly to need to open the watch to flash it directly). You could even have simply programmed your app in Python using WASP-OS!

Really an amazing project no matter what! I learned a lot reading your article and I don't think that using a PineTime as a base would have been nearly as cool
English isn’t set by a standards body; it’s designed by all of our little choices. And I think English is enhanced by the noble diaeresis, and diminished without it, so I will continue to write reëlect, reëvaluate, and coöperate.

And maybe perhaps the pronunciation of diaeresis would be clearer written diaëresis?
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How would TPP have put you at risk for Chinese prison?
OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value AI startup at up to $340B
I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of.

[1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
Absolutely not true in my experience. MySQL has its share of issues (all DBs do) but it is rock-solid when using the correct engine (InnoDB for most cases, RocksDB for high-throughput writes, Memory for caching). MySQL is very hard to beat for very high-volume OLTP workloads, both reads and writes. Its replication systems were years ahead of other systems (SQL Server, Postgres, SQLite doesn't have replication). DuckDB AFAIK is OLAP and they don't compete in the same space. Every DB system has "the things its good at" and MySQL really shines at very high-volume OLTP spread across partitions.
Exactly, albeit it may need the reasoning later to form the proper foundational logic in the weights.
2FA on a password manager is a stupid, stupid idea and will surely lock out many people from non-tech-savy pool.

Even engineers have trouble noticing or understanding circular dependencies, does Bitwarden, a password manager that tries to cater to this specific target audience really expect them to figure out they're set up to be locked out once they lose their device?
Hello, untruths!

>The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation.[1]

Ctrl+F for "carr" on the "filter bubble" wiki reveals two instances of "carrots". Similarly, Ctrl+F for "bubble" on Carr's Wiki returns 0 results. The book Carr is most famous for was based on an article that he wrote two years prior to Pariser coining the term, and was published the same year the term was coined. His following two books also don't seem to be riding on some kind of "filter bubble" coattail (I mean, unless you've found a way to connect his next book, a 2014 release about automation, to filter bubbles!). It was Pariser who published "The Filter Bubble" a year later.

Essentially, what you've done is written this piece off entirely based on a false assumption, and suggested that others do the same.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
> A stoned couch surfer was already a lazy couch surfer.

This is the only part of your comment that I think there's some nuance to disagree with. I don't think it's an untrue statement, but I do think it's partly a matter of whether weed or any of those maladies come into the picture before you learn to do anything remotely ambitious or self-directed. If you're already the type of person who's taking on projects, looking forward to an interesting future, challenge-seeking, etc.. then that's fine it's no problem, that's a state you're going to come back to, but it's also not something you really earned at the outset either, you're more likely to just be pre-disposed to those things early on for some reason or another.

I was and am this type of person, but I didn't really realize it in a tangible way until my early-mid twenties, and if I'd be chronically indulging in weed or drinking or gaming, it seems pretty plausible I'd never have been able to get out of the place and rut I was in, but if I wasn't in a rut, I don't think it would necessarily put me in one. I was in a terribly unambitious state in my late teens, floundering and depressed, it's not a productive personal thing to enable more methods of just dealing with it, much like being a lazy couch potato doesn't encourage a person to start a lifelong fitness journey, and having kids early should reduce your inclination to take unnecessary risks.

Anyway, I just think that while it's not to blame for a person becoming a loser, it's plausible that it doesn't help a person become not a loser if they find the crutch at the wrong time.
Women become doctors long before 70s and 80ties. There being word for a midwife in that language does not imply practicing midwifes during communism. They have word for knight too and knights were not a thing either.
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The fact that a large grading company would not check such a basic type of forgery makes it seem like they're in on the scam. This sounds similar to what happened with video game grading company Wata, who were alleged to have fraudulently inflated the value of games they were grading:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/grading-firm-wata-i...
Lovely lovely story. I'll look for the book, and as delusional says, an unexpected charmer to break up a day of tech think.
Another good way to transition is to use your editor's vim plugin.

Pretty much every IDE has a vim plugin that's at least adequate. I've had good experiences with vscode, jetbrains, and visual studio vim plugins.
> We may act different in some ways

> But we still grouped together like a fuckin' survey

Deltron 3030 -- Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EiAYQB0pY

Coincidentally the album Plastic Beach came out 1 month before the BP oil spill.
On a, u and o diaresis just replace one ambiguity (is it coord-inate or co-or-di-nate) with another (is coördinate supposed to be co-ordinate or co-ördinate with ö pronounced as ö instead of o). On e and i that ambiguity doesn't exist. So I find myself sometimes writing naïve or noël, but never coördinate.
> "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" are words you like to hear?

They're definitely not "the nine most terrifying words in the English language." Government is a necessity and performs important functions: we'd be worse off without it. A libertarian utopia would actually be a dystopia, at least for the vast majority.

Some day, historians will ask: Why did China eclipse the United States? And the tl;dr answer will likely be: libertarians. Myopic enthusiasm for free markets has really degraded the US's ability to make strategic decisions to maintain its advantages, and it seems on track to walk down the value chain while a few people get really rich leading it that way.
I have looked a bit into Anthropic CEOs writings but if you can point in the right direction would be helpful!
The ATC union has some unique history [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_...
This feels… kind of meaningless? For a start, you’d want to compensate for age profile; immigrants are more likely to be working age, and neither 8 year olds nor 80 year olds get convicted that much. But also… like how many Kuwaitis are there in Denmark? Can’t find figures on numbers, but looks like about 20 immigrate each year (and presumably not all stay forever). That Kuwaiti spike could literally be one person!

And what’s the denominator? Long-term residents? All residents? _Visitors_? Who can say?

(Also, they should really do something about those people immigrating via the portal to the alternate universe where the federal republic of Yugoslavia still exists.)
> I'm not good enough at math/geometry to know if this kind of 'next level up' bifurcation of dimensionality extends up past Quaternions or not (like something called Octernions, 16ions, 32ions, 64ions, etc), but it seems like is would?

Octonions and up (more generally known as hypercomplex numbers) exist, but every time you pull the "double dimensions by adding more imaginary components" trick[0], you lose another useful property.

Real to complex loses total ordering. Complex to quaternion loses commutativity. Quaternion to octonion loses associativity (but they are at least alternative). The sedenions aren't even alternative, and they have zero divisors to boot.

You can also generalize hypercomplex numbers to the study of Clifford algebras.

[0] The Cayley-Dickson construction
Ha, I get to do an ackshually!

> The umlaut symbol originated in German but has been borrowed into other languages, including Swedish

Actually, no. In Swedish, Ä is not an A with an umlaut, Ä is a distinct letter of the Swedish alphabet. Swedish has nine vowels: AOUÅEIYÄÖ, unlike German, which has five vowels: AEIOU, and three umlauts: ÄÖÜ.

The evolution of it in Swedish comes from Æ -> Aͤ -> Ä, while in neighbouring Denmark and Norway, they kept both Æ and Ø. All three languages also have Å, which comes from AA.

Super-mega-pedantry edit:

Okay, the article says Swedish borrowed the umlaut symbol, and this is actually true. In the 1500's when printing presses were becoming common, Swedish printers imported them from Germany, the German ones didn't have Æ types, but they did have Ä types, and the Swedish printers essentially went "ah, fuck it, can't be arsed", and started using Ä and Ö.

...while the Danish printers also imported the presses from Germany, but said "fuck you, we're making our own types" and kept using Æ and Ø.
> This is how phones sounded half a century ago. "can you hear me .... are you there ..... can you talk louder ...."

No, landlines in 1975 sounded outstanding. I didn’t hear the phrase “can you hear me now” until I got my first oki (1992?)
That exact video is the one that always comes to my mind when thinking of YT videos on this! I've seen it years ago. Definitely worth a watch for anyone who hasn't see it!
If it's been "culminating for years" why is this the first time this has happened in 16 years? Or are all the white men just doing that great of a job compensating for their dumbass POC/non-male colleagues? It's not like this is a team effort where one competent employee can cover for others; if an ATC is genuinely unqualified, shit is going to go wrong immediately.

Your grievance politics are nonsensical on their face.
The gender split depended on specialist. Pediatricians would be women much more often then surgeons. Gynecologists were frequently men, the more in-hospital you are, the more men you would encounter.

The eastern europe idea of what is "intellectual" or "important" was different then western one, leading to women having different jobs. Good half of what Americans consider "intellectual" was seen as administrative and boring. Economics is an example of women supposedly doing something more progressive, but in eastern europe it was being seen as easy school for future administrative workers that dont require "real" specialization.
The issue at hand is despite federal rulings forcing all states to have some level of "shall issue" concealed permits, and laws on the books, California's process has left it to county sheriffs to follow the evaluation criteria. Some, like San Bernardino, practically rubber stamp them if you pass the background checks. Others, like Ventura, Riverside, LA, etc. try their hardest to find ways to reject them - even circumventing the law to do so.

They've also tried to implement strong arm policies like "We will notify your employer you have a license" knowing most large employers in California are fairly liberal and anti-gun and might look at that negatively to try to dissuade people from even exercising the right.
Sure, yeah. That's a much weaker and less interesting assertion than the one I thought you were trying to make. I can't argue with it.
Also reminds me of Amazon being sued for giving employees access to Ring data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/08/ring-ha...
An LLM is just a really good parser connected to a lossy compressed corpus of data.

They need to be open ended and self training to be truly useful.

Reasoning is way far away...
I know that MtG scene in my city plays basically 100% on nicely done proxies ;)

Nobody has an issue with it. The courtesy is that it'd be nice for you to work towards a real deck if you play with it much, but it's not a hard rule or anything.
Thanks! Yeah it was a steep learning curve at the start but I’m very confident now.

I started it in 2020 - here’s a blog post about the history https://www.audiocube.app/blog/audiocube-history

I’ve recently got it working on an iPad which was a frustrating grind but I think the concept is a lot of fun on touchscreen!
I definitely think it's the opposite of meditation. Imo meditative states come from deliberate effort and shouldn't be encumbered by much else but your mind as it is.
I’m being lazy (am an iStats user), has anyone here compared the two?