skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an embedded engineer. I am a hobbyist. I was interested in a Raspberry Pi project. There were Allwinner boards that looked more capable and cheaper. But I looked at the ecosystem and Rpi just has better and more support and so I paid more and got less in terms of hardware. In exchange, the Rpi ecosystem has become better in terms of my project over the last three months.

I don't know about your use case, but at the SOC level for someone who doesn't do embedded all day, I'd look at Rpi. Googling "Xen on rpi" hits this: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/45930/is-it-... which both provides context and highlights the fact that there is a StackExchange site for Raspberry Pi (and that was one of my factors).

Good luck.
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Indeed. To American ears, it's really not significant, other than in the "open up vast swaths of Northern farmland to much greater diversity of crops" sense.

The skepticism most commonly found in the US, based on my anecdotal evidence, is not toward whether AGW is happening, but rather why anyone ought to care. Some even consider it a good thing.
I prefer the double slipknot (mentioned below as Ian's Secure Knot). I started doing it for basketball, but it not only looks better (more even) on normal, dress shoes, but it neves come off on its own (but is easy to pull apart voluntarily). Also, it's not more complicated than a normal knot, it's more or less doing it "twice, in reverse".
This is part of an ongoing discussion that the public is having about algorithms influencing our lives, from policymaking to customized user interactions. There is a growing number of people from academia proposing varying degrees of regulations. Facebook's influence in the recent presidential elections may serve as a catalyst for what is to come.

References

[1] http://hkspolicycast.libsyn.com/how-technology-governs-us
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJkLD_s9pYaY_WD6emzzq...
[3] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PFhJrPxoU
Exactly the same as Hillary.
> assured doom

This part of your statement is actually a little bit of the problem here, too. Can you define more clearly what you mean by this?

I'm very interested in exploring the issue better, but having to constantly sift through piles of hyperbole from both sides, it makes it very hard to remain interested.

My trivial understanding of everything goes: greenhouse gasses cause warming and we're the primary source of their increase in the past century so, therefore, we're causing the planet to warm. That's easy enough to understand. But after that, I find that I'm either an idiot because, duh, its all a hoax or that our species will be extinct tomorrow if I don't do something yesterday.

It's incredibly tedious to try and gain a better understanding of everything.
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True, when I say destroying the earth, I mean destroying it for us.

As you said, the earth will be fine.
I have issue with the claim that Taylor was just beating up on inferior competition historically. One way we can measure this is by the 'three-dart average' - the average score of each player's turn of three darts at the board. Taylor had the televised world record from 1991-2004 and from 2008-2012. He was leagues better than anyone on the planet. Van Gerwen is in my mind a better player now but this article really sells short how utterly dominant Taylor was. He wasn't just better than everyone else, his opponents weren't even playing the same game.
Ask HN: What are your greatest productivity hacks?
In the last few months I started using a clipboard manager (Ditto) and I'll never go back. My 'clipboard anxiety' (did I leave something in the clipboard? can I copy this? better open notepad and Ctrl+V just to be sure...) is gone, and I can copy stuff with reckless abandon.

This got me wondering, what are some of the other productivity hacks like this that I'm missing out on? I already use AutoHotKey and rave about it to anyone who will listen, but there must be other ways to improve my workflow.

What productivity hacks have changed your life?
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No longer true. When IBM borked the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control software upgrade (1993), they very publicly lost the contract and many heads rolled. Mitre (their very stable FFRDC) lost a third of their FAA support staff in the blood-letting that ensued.

IMHO, the only remaining golden boys of business are consultants like Bain and BCG, who tell the C-suiters what to think.

Of course, the great secret is that these opt-shops will be the first companies to be fully automated, but invisibly. Then for decades thereafter, human CEOs will blithely continue to follow the lead of their precious Bain-bots, not realizing they've become a bot too (which they always were, of course).
IMO the LLVM community could learn a few things from the Rust team. I know that the activity level is not the same but it's really encouraging to new folks that reviews get engagement and disposition: "this is good, but fix that" instead of wilting without any clear indication of whether it could be merged.

Also, the fact that the CI triggers and lets you know whether your change causes any collateral damage before you merge takes away a lot of the fear factor of contributing. This is also in stark contrast to LLVM's "merge it if it LGTM, revert it soon after when we find out what it broke."
I don't mean to be off-topic (sorry!), but what's the best CGI/FastCGI library for Rust? My impression is that it's not ideal for webapps at the moment, and I'm comfortable with that. Putting all of Python into a webserver chroot isn't exactly ideal either. I specifically ask about Rust because when I looked at it a while back, it just felt so right to me.
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The question of why it didn't take off is answered in the article, albeit in parentheses: "(Maglev is indisputably more expensive upfront than high-speed rail.)"
RAII is great until you stumble upon an API that is terrible and doesn't care. If you can't use exceptions or have any limitations that make RAII difficult to use, then suddenly everything becomes a lot messier.

Alternatively you can take it the other route and discard RAII but then you're basically just writing C.

Some of the most heinous, insane bugs I have ever seen are because C++ is a complexity nightmare and very intelligent people struggle to get things right. Rust is orders of magnitude safer as it forces you to play with safe constructs only (avoiding surprises left by others, or past you) and wrapping anything explicitly unsafe.
You could use the empty-set character "∅" instead. At least it's less likely to occur.
That's like saying "How do computers compute?" "Well, because we built these giant fabs and factories to build them".

You're answering the wrong question.
15 mph under the speed limit during SF morning commute is ~30 mph faster than today, so that'll be awesome.
Also as mentioned elsewhere in the comments, modulo is expensive, even more for non-powers of 2
Today he has an open mind, tomorrow he might be a die hard convert, and next week he'll be back to believing it's a Chinese hoax. There's literally no point in taking anything he says at face value.
Ah, I see. I have a HackRF and several USRPs, so I'm kinda spoiled in terms of bandwidth and capabilities. You could try combining more than one RTLSDRs into one virtual stream using GNURadio. Check this out: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/combining-the-bandwidth-of-multiple-r...
The only catch is that it is not phase coherent, but if you're doing FSK or AM then that's perfectly fine.
I don't think Common Markdown was a stupid attempt; I thought it was a praiseworthy attempt to standardise places where differing Markdown implementations differ, needlessly harming interoperability.

I think that Gruber deserves a colossal amount of credit for inventing the single-most-common end-user-usable marked-up-text format around. That's independent of what he's done in the dozen years since December 2004, which is the last update he made to his Markdown project's page.
California to adopt first U.S. energy-saving rules for computers
His secretary of transportation is pro-gig economy and pro uber/lyft.
I think that you're overestimating Trump's ability to dismantle institutions, even if we stipulate that he's a machiavellian schemer who's successfully sowing chaos among his opponents by "destabilizing the narrative coherency."
They didn't replace spleen function with kidney tissue. They used the vacant place left behind by a removed spleen to place a kidney.

Not just the place, but the fact that a spleen has the hookup for filtering blood.

It's a medical/surgical hack; like relocating a component on a circuit board without re-routing anything, while ensuring it has power and all the right signals.
I did the same (between German and English) and at some point I went to US QWERTY only. If writing German I trigger the German special characters through OSX smooth Command-U shortcuts and since then I improved my total writing speed by ~20% if not more. The constant switch before killed me.

Give it a try.
> various readings over the past year

Yes, what were these?

I tend to agree with you about causality. The attempts to understand how the classical world arises from quantum laws seem particularly boneheaded to me. I guess people (scientists) don't want to let go of causality because who knows what chaos and mayhem will befall the world if we give up on this. And the philosophers have a term "causal closure" which seems to be axiomatic in alot of their discussions. But they just don't want to talk about any kind of mystical stuff that might seep in through the gaps.
Having lived through many such blizzards, there are two things that humans do:

The smart ones pull over and turn on the emergency flasher. Then they check to make sure they have lots of gas, blankets and water, just as they prepared.

The dumb ones slow down to 45 mph and stare into the white blankness looking for clues about curves.
> during the inevitable outage it was comically discovered two star trek fans configured two machines to the same trek quote as a password.

Was it "Live long and prosper" or "He's dead, Jim"? The latter seems more suitable given the circumstances :)
Because there is no reason to guess and make baseless claims, the article already addressed this topic. A permit is not required because a safety operator is on board at all times. Skirting regulations and paying fines has nothing to do with it.
This is often questioned. I'm not sure whether it's true. What is a fact is that the top row happens to contain all the letters in the word TYPEWRITER. Allegedly this was meant to help early salesman demonstrate the product.

If that's true, it's easy to see how it doesn't have much to do with our convenience, as the work we need keyboards for doesn't involve amazing people by typing TYPEWRITER over and over. If it's another myth, well that would be quite a coincidence
My read is that Trump doesn't have any particular plan beyond fame and feeling important. If that means holding completely opposing views one day to the next, so be it.

This is dangerous, don't get me wrong. And he's absolutely going to get used as a tool in smarter people's schemes. Let's just hope the good smarter people can get control of him instead of the bad smarter people...
This would be fantastic if work allowed me to install one. Sadly, some of us work in locked down environments so resort to such silliness to get through the work day.
> only in the most remote or hostile environments

Aka "the overwhelming majority of the world". Dude, you struggle to get decent 4G in the UK outside big cities...

I do agree that the "immediate background upload" model is superior to encryption; it's also definitely harder from a logistic perspective. One feature does not exclude the other though -- in fact, uploading an already encrypted stream would be highly preferable in order to thwart interception (which is a massive problem everywhere, including patriot-act US and snoopers-charter UK).
If Trump was too busy for briefings, it wouldn't be a big deal. But the "I don't want to hear the same thing every day" is likely very telling of how little he cares about details. Details are important and U.S. national security is at risk if the President doesn't want to know the nuances of current events.
Usually because there's a fine line between "poll watching" and "poll intimidation" and people generally aren't quite civilized, thoughtful, or well-mannered enough to stay on the good side.

That includes "shouting racial slurs" in your first link.
Coq 8.6 is out
> GEB is a textbook on AI that's just trying to come at it sideways.

That's because it's not a book on AI at all [0]. It talks about it a lot. And sets up a lot of fundamental ideas for it. But it's as much a book about AI as Moby Dick is a book about whaling.

It's great reading if you're interested in AI (edit: If you're on HN, you'll probably love the book /edit), but if you pick it up expecting an AI textbook, or a book about AI, you may be disappointed. Or at the very least, won't get the full message.

Another book I'd recommend is "The Minds I" by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. It's a collection of essays about AI and philosophy, relating to the idea of the "self", with several pages of reflection after each essay by Hofstadter and Dennett. I'm about halfway through so far, but it was worth it alone just for chapter 5, "The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation". Also the Ant Fugue from GEB is one of the featured essays.

[0] Though you can't really fault anyone for believing that. Hofstadter complains in the intro of the 20th anniversary edition (and several interviews) that everyone thinks the point of GEB is something different. And it's never what he intended the point of GEB to be.

Specifically, he says "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"
But this will conflict with job creation given that the first casualties of autonomous vehicles will be truckers (long distance drivers). So I am interested to see how this actually pans out.
You take "determinism" too hard. In fact brains are stochastic and local noise can and do influence it all the time. It's meaningless to think about deterministic brains. Even if the brain were physically deterministic, it still includes too much noise in it's internal processing (as a regularization process) to be easy to predict.

I think meaning comes from survival, treated as a game theory problem - agent, world, actions, rewards. Determinism or the lack of it is a false lead. What does it matter, when we are embedded in the universe, which is so interconnected (both by interaction and quantum entanglement). You'd have to simulate the whole universe to predict any piece of it. And where would the computer running the universe simulation sit?

Better to think in reinforcement learning concepts. Our values are survival and reproduction (another kind of survival). The first implies ability to move about and act in the world, socialization, learning, cooperation and even conflict with aggressors. Everything we do is in the service of self survival and survival of our genes. Our values come from them - thus, intentionality problem is solved.
Sunset it? It's literally now named visual studio for Mac. https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
In podcasting the fun for me has been in connecting my guests together and seeing partnerships and businesses kick up from those introductions. I just use Linkedin to cold email people doing interesting things in the tech world. Don't be afraid to ask!
I am in the same boat as you, I not only have zero front end skill I also have zero design skill.

Honesty it has forced me to partner with front end folks, and this has been a net positive. Having someone else there is not only motivating but the second pair of eyes has helped me to avoid a lot of silly mistakes.
I explicitly talked about that.

Basically, of course we use stochastic processes but that doesn't change the fundamental problem.

We are still fundamentally computers.
I wish they'd also added:

Verifiers SHOULD NOT prevent users from pasting secrets from the keyboard.
Yes, any choice. Yes, that's not the case if you change the implementation in other ways in tandem - but then you are describing a different implementation. To mask where he does, any choice of mask will exhibit this problem (or other problems), mathematically. I can produce a proof if you need it.

> He only ever calls mask() after an increment.

I think you misunderstand what he's talking about. He calls mask at insert and lookup and he does not store the masked value - which leaves the implementation vulnerable to overflow (which is not a problem iff the array is 2^n big).
> Secondly, sometimes some research seems to contradict with other. For instance, as I mentioned already in another reply (and got already downvoted to -4 by now), while research clearly shows that the Arctic ice is melting, the Antarctic ice is growing. I find those seemingly contradicting facts interesting, they show that we apparently do not understand everything about the subjec t yet.

No, it shows that you haven't been reading the minimum baseline material.

Antartic ice surface is spreading but the volume is decreasing dramatically. The surface spread is due to lower atmospheric temperatures given the transfer of energy from the atmosphere to the ice, leading to the melt in ice shelves that used to be stable.

There is no point of contention there and if you had actually done the research this should have come up easily.
Absolutely. Info-products, even the really cheesy looking ones with the spammy VSL's (Video Sales Letter) work insanely well.

Depending on your niche you can do some pretty big numbers.
I don't think you need new hardware for this. Just a place you can drop your public key on the camera.

[edit] But then I hadn't thought about legacy devices.

Minor nitpick:

signed and encrypted using that public key

You don't sign things with a public key, it's your private key you sign with.
This is all correct.
Elon Musk explicitly said it would be disaster if Trump wins and now he is Trump advisor. Hypocrisy and love for money obviously Tr(i)umphed again.
I don't think anyone has mentioned Tesla in any company meetings that I've been to.

To be perfectly clear: Tesla and Elon have done many amazing things, and I like their approach in many areas: Marketing EVs as luxury vehicles is genius, remote updates are amazing, etc.

Elon has a daring attitude that is very refreshing to see, launching or running many companies simultaneously, making big bets on things like the Gigafactory, etc.

But they also do some silly stuff too, like the falcon wing doors on the X, and some of their vehicle assembly systems, while cool looking may be a bit too cutting edge. There's some stuff that you just don't try to prove on the production line while it is making your bread and butter.

Anyway, while my original comment may not have been nuanced, I do have a nuanced view of Tesla.
All we can do is exactly the same as all you can do... do everything you can, at all levels, to get carbon out of the atmosphere and oceans, to reduce energy use where you live, and to encourage and support realistic way of getting carbon out of the air/ocean and back into the soils and rocks.
Housing segregation is extremely complex and multifaceted, I'm not sure anyone ever claimed otherwise.

Most of the causes are probably due to ripple effects of historic policies.
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yeah, the great and the good of film and photography giving you their backing means nothing these days.

at least that is probably what trump has been telling himself at night since everyone turned him down to perform at his inauguration speech.

for everyone else. kinda a big incentive.
This one actually seems very promising.
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>it wasn't as if there was a "race" to discover relativity

Yes, there was. They didn't call it relativity, which is a later name, but probably dozens to hundreds of scientists were working on exactly what Einstein is credited for.

Hilbert was close (published equivalent first?), Poincare was working on it (which is why the symmetries of special relativity are Poincare symmetries), Lorenz was working on it (which is why special relativity focuses on Lorenz transforms) , and many, many people were going to do it within a year or less if Einstein did not do it. There were so many people doing the same thing that there is an entire field devoted to sorting relativity priority out. Einstein is simply the one most people associate with it. See [1] for a huge list of people (and likely not all) that were on the same track at the same time.

And this is also exactly my point. Many things people think were isolated inventions, because history loses most of those who were going to do it at the same time (and often did do it sooner, but just lost credit).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
I don't have to practice wearing loafers.
Is this a hoax site or are they for real?

Not a hoax. Agreed that we need to update the security certificates. Not an excuse, but we are operating with very limited funding.

The Policy also includes this gem...

The founder of the site is a lawyer specializing in consumer protection. The privacy policy is required for our protection.

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I don't see the hypocrisy. Trump never said he wouldn't be advised by Elon Musk, nor did Musk say he would never advise Trump. Agreeing to advise someone who you didn't want to win the office (but who nevertheless did) is not hypocritical.
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I get that. There has been a lot of anti-Elon stuff published in the last 6 months.
Well, the spleen is not needed and the kidney could "easily" be attached in place there

But of course things are not too easy and I see two problems: mechanical support and ureter connections
Not to mention that the US has been (albeit largely in ignorance) one of the heaviest emitters of GHGs for something like 150 years. China? A couple of decades?...

Time matters...
Nah, Uber and Lyft CEOs both said they envision a future where we don't own cars and just call self driving taxi services via app when we need them. They both envision this happening in less than a decade. This seems to be coming true, millennials have the lowest rate of car ownership and it seems to be the best explanation for why both companies are willing to bleed money to expand market-share as quickly a possible in the mobile taxi app game.
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> QWERTY was designed specifically not to be optimal so old typewriters with character arms wouldn't get tangled up.

It's not that it was designed to not be optimal. It just was optimized for not jamming v.s. pure typing speed.

The emphasis was on having keys on opposite sides of the keyboard based on the frequency of their sequential occurrence in common text. The idea being that it'd predominantly be a left/right/left/right sequence of the typewriter arms hitting the page that would be less likely to jam then two arms right next to each other.

If you factor in the time to "un-jam" the typewriter, I bet it'd be faster than a modern layout (Dvorak, Colemak, Norman, etc) when typing on an old school typewriter.
[citation needed]

I have a friend working for a major supplier in self-driving vehicle sensor tech who went to Pittsburg to learn from Uber. I imagine they at least did their homework before flying him out there.