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Which one would you prefer for deep learning course? 1) Andrew Ng's deeplearning.ai 2) Ian Goodfellow's deeplearningbook.org.
"Documents & links we have aplenty, but where are our trails?"

I could visualize the entire internet & recent technologies like enterprise software that has made collaboration easier, but I can't properly imagine what "trails" might mean here. The term "trails" is quite ambiguous to me.
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Actual numbers, haven't tried to calculate.

But the heat load due to atmospheric friction would be immense and immediate.

The US built an antiballistic missile system that included a missile called Sprint [1]. It accelerated at 100G and developed temperatures of over 3000°C less than 5 seconds after launch. A video here [2].

It's a formidible engineering challenge to make a vehicle and payload that will survive such a difficult flight regime with commercially attractive economics. At this point, I don't understand SpinLaunch's advantage over earlier projectile systems (Gerald Bull) or current launchers like SpaceX. This will be interesting to follow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA
In my experience the PRU code is fairly straightforward and fun to write, but wrangling Linux drivers/remoteproc/TI SDKs/devicetree etc is a bit of a hassle.

https://github.com/mkj/pru-mic/blob/master/pru/asmpr0.asm is the guts of some code to read from MEMS microphones, for example.
Are you going to get bass out of those monitors, though?
What an incredible riveting story! One of the best I've read in the NYT magazine.
Absolutely. Listening to him is akin to having a high fidelity source of illumination shining right at you.
I was just reading about a company trying to make self-sovereign identity including actual certs (like degrees and such) an accessible and widely applicable/acceptable technology using Ethereum blockchain. I thought it showed some real practicality and promise. I believe it begins with U- forgot the name.Perhaps UPort? Anyhow, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone here about why that might be a bad or good idea. I don't personally have the skill in that tech to know.
would you say that without crime humans would be complacent?
What's to laugh at.
In the first case you are financially vested in something's success.
In the latter case you are invested in something's failure.

There is a difference between insuring a house you want to live in and insuring a house you want to burn down.
If you assume that conventions don't work as people will just run whatever crap as root, I don't think you can solve the problem without taking away that right from the user (as is customary on mobile devices).

At that point, solving the problem comes at too high a cost. A few messed up npm installs seem to be the lesser evil here.
Psychopaths are like parasites that feed on what they perceive as weakness. If they lose a fight they're much more likely to move onto someone new, in the same way that the subject of the article continually hopped roommates. Jamison's final escalation was with his brother, presumably after he'd made it clear no more bailouts were coming his way. The end of Jamison's rope was when the parasite realized his past string of roommates were fighting back, and his ability to leech off of other family members was done. Kinda comparable to how a cheetah won't attack larger animals than itself like lions will, because if it gets hurt it can't run fast and eat.
This isn't competing with the pi at all.

It's competing with the pi compute module, and it's significantly nicer (onboard eMMC, WiFi).

Also, you're really, REALLY underestimating the additional effort involved in a complex BGA layout for any modern device. For low-volume, specialist stuff, it's generally FAR more economical to buy-in a compute module then design in house. If you expect to sell a few thousand expensive specialty $INSTRUMENT_THINGs, the hundreds of hours of engineer time needed to bring up linux on a new board layout can buy a lot of compute modules.

After all, if at a later point you do want to move to in-house, you can always just design a footprint-compatible module at a later date.

Shit, I'd personally have been really excited about this if it were a few years ago. I was doing board layout for a project with a compute-module. The selection now is so much better then it was in 2012.
> I do agree that we need international treaties prohibiting the development and use of AI weapons technology to avoid encouraging an arms race.

International treaties prohibiting the development and use of missile technology to prevent an arms race in the fifties and sixties would have prevented man from landing on the moon. We called that arms race the Space Race to sell it to the public. Maybe we do need an AI arms race.
That argument seems wrong to me; the subset of the community with karma > 500 is as fractious and divided as the community as a whole.
But...tons of the nontrivial JavaScript projects I use describes a plain <script> inclusion. So I don't quite understand the plaudit here.

Doing so is not a great idea, because build tools solve real and extant problems, but they're very common.
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I feel the same way - I am not a host but have rented via AirBnB a few times and I think this differentiation does not seem fair to well-rated hosts who did not make it to "Plus" whatever the reason.

I understand AirBnb is under pressure to put up a product to counter Stay Alfred, Sonder and Parallel Travel, but this adds confusion.
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AI clones humans preprogrammed to obey it. Humans are formal owners. AI controls humans. Sci-fi plot, indeed.
>What do people really still use public phones and email for?

My impression is that inter-company communications all go over email and public phone. Intra-company,of course, you use the company's walled garden, if the company is large enough to dream of forcing the world into their garden (as most of the companies I've worked for lately have been.) but even so, interviewing is conducted through public phone systems. In fact, even when I'm interviewing a candidate on behalf of my current employer, half the time the connection between the internal walled garden voice system and POTS is so bad I end up using my personal cellphone. Silicon valley companies are serious about 'dogfooding' to the point where actually doing your job sometimes feels like a secondary concern. Smaller players tend to use existing technologies, and so more often use federated systems.

I have worked at smaller places, earlier in my career; I've even setup VOIP for one of those places, but it was still terminated to a POTS T1; it just used SIP lines and asterisk rather than a wired PBX, and they mostly used public email (I mean, their own email server, but it was federated email) - those are still federated systems.

I'm currently considering going to college; today, I scheduled a bunch of academic stuff, using the phone and email. If I end up locking myself into an institution, of course, then we will probably switch to using their walled garden, because they will have the power to force me to do so, but until that happens? we're communicating via federated systems.

Whenever I'm scheduling a medical appointment outside of my primary hmo? I use the phone.

My impression is that the walled gardens are mostly used in places where the relationship has been established, and one party is big enough to have built a walled garden system, and important enough to force the other party to eat the dogfood in question. Within my primary HMO, I use the proprietary 'secure messaging' application to communicate with my doctor. Within the company, I use the company's messaging system and screen sharing system.

My own conclusion is that forcing you to login and use my communications system is a power move; everyone is still dreaming of replacing email with something more profitable.
Afghan militia has fared well both against US/NATO and Soviet militaries in the past 50 years.
Is this something the phone company implements? or that your phone implements?
You wold be amazed how the tiniest amount of UX friction can eliminate that as an option. My wife agrees that the speakers and amp in the living room sound way better but would choose a home pod (if we had one) even though she only has to press two buttons.

I think of the home pod much like air pods just serve a different function. Sure there are better sounding headphones for 160$ but I personally still use them all the time over my studio headphones because of the better usability, form factor, and aesthetics.
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It's a niche, but I can see real value in this for small runs (<10,000 units) of space-constrained designs. Using a SoM is a huge time-saver for development, but most available are either expensive and have painful and partially closed BSPs (most SoMs on the market) or are bulky and weaker (Raspberry Pi Compute Module, C.H.I.P. Pro).

In the event Neutis is at risk of folding or you want to go to larger scale production, you can put the time and effort into dropping the Allwinner SoC and SoM peripherals straight onto your design.

I have a couple of projects in mind that could use this, where I was otherwise considering the C.H.I.P. Pro or going through the effort of integrating a SoC.
Conflating democracy and capitalism certainly is terrible.

Capitalism is also terrible & responsible for recent wars, since the opium wars to my tally.

Maybe earlier? The french-indian war?
Aaagh, yes! I meant Rc everywhere :-(.
Even ignoring air resistance, if your hypothetical spacecraft centrifuge had a radius of one mile, then the spacecraft would still experience 114 g at 3000 miles per hour

We can build electronic components that are rated for 100000 g's. I think craft that can withstand 10's of g's are within our capability to build. Why not make the circle the size of the LHC? Why not larger?
Are they different now ? and to worst of our dreams they are now evolved to "imperialist" monster. They might look good in books only. I do not see any of them, see UN for example, the center for 21th century's humanity.
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Then on the sidelines I shall remain...unless perhaps Airfoil comes up with an ingenious solution to this predicament! But given the ratings and relative price of the Sonos—and their current compatibility with both audio and video, from what my friends tell me—maybe I'll spring for a pair of Ones.
If you are from the US you may be used to use cardinzl points. I was often given directions like "the south side of the building" or "go north east" when visiting the US.

This is not common at all in Europe. Sure, we have a general idea of the direction ("it's with of Paris") but we would not use that for anything else. Especially the building case was weird to me, I woukd have said "the side chose to the entrance" rather than "SE"
What's so wrong with building an artificial island?
HomePod works, requires no maintenance, and sounds great. No one has time to dick around with custom one off solutions that require rebooting, tweaking, and is less reliable except single guys who want to spend half the time fixing something vs. using it.

a wife has no time nor tolerance for half ass home baked tech.
Link for those who are interested:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm
The Screen Savers aren't the only one to have done a blind sound test where the HomePod lost to the Google Home Max. Yahoo's David Pogue[1] and the Washington Post[2] also did blind sound tests.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/head-head-apple-homepod-reall...

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/02/09...
I've seen similar applications for ios, but they all seemed to want permissions I wasn't so happy to give to some rando. If apple provided the service, I'd probably be okay with it, but I'm not super comfortable feeding my entire contact list and all my call metadata to some random third party
That right is just as meaningless as any other right unless the people you don't want to hurt, torture, or kill you recognize it.
> China produces stuff I want

China produces almost nothing I want unless you count foreign-designed products that happen to be manufactured there under contract. Maybe steel and rare earth metals?

I've tried their flagship apps too (WeChat, Alipay, Alibaba, AliExpress) and they are just really awful compared to their Western equivalents. Not just in subjective look-and-feel ways either: the AliExpress signup flow was so broken in their iOS app that I had to switch to a web browser to sign up!

That they're useful and popular in China is something that has occurred in spite of their awful tech. More through great business development and exploiting a total lack of entrenched non-tech competition like credit cards, consumer banking, malls, Wal-Mart, etc.
I agree with you completely.

In the earlier years, CCP was responsible for some of the worst suffering that the 20th century has seen; worse, it was totally without purpose. It was not even helping some people survive at the expense of others, it was just destroying millions of lives to satisfy the egos and delusions of a few leaders who were especially good at brainwashing people. Those leaders deserve to burn in hell for eternity, in my opinion.

Today's CCP, despite the continuity in the government, is very far from doing that. Of course, it wants to stay in power, as almost every government does. But I do not know whether, in staying in power, it's also helping hold back the gates of death or suffering.

As you say, the evidence so far, limited as it is, is slightly positive. China moved from one of the poorest large countries, with a horrible past, to a place where many (although not all) people are happy to return after they travelled the world.

But in truth, we'll never know for sure, since we can't see the alternate timeline of history. In a few decades, we'll merely have a bit more evidence one way or the other.

However, I do see a lot of moderate to terrible disasters that befall other countries that try to change their system of government. So I personally have a very high degree of concern about the risk that comes with such changes.
It seems that whenever there's a conflict between a segment of the population in China and the government, the government always wins. The Tiananmen Square protests didn't lead to democracy, Hong Kong protests don't change anything, Tibet and Xinjiang are still suppressed, Taiwan is still bullied, Gui Minhai is still secretly imprisoned and probably tortured, and any foreign web site that reports on any of this is banned in China.
Sounds like an empirical question to me. I'd ante a moderate sum though that @chil's assessment is closer to the truth in terms of homogeneity of political leanings on HN and, if you could somehow measure it, that there is "...more groupthink than the people here would care to admit" on HN.
The mods don't place things on the front page, but they can remove them. It's democracy with some control.
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Facebook recently acquired exclusive rights to broadcast ESL Dota 2 and the reaction has been mostly negative [1]. Players and fans are accustomed to watching professional games on Twitch or using the game client, both of which provide a better experience. Twitch has a very good streaming interface, chat with Dota 2 related emotes, and easy clipping of highlights. The game client lets you view via broadcaster's perspective, any player's perspective (great for learning from the pros) or free cam.

It has turned into a PR nightmare for ESL. They shot themselves in the foot by throwing fits on Twitter and DMCA'ing (in bad faith) other prominent Twitch streamers who broadcast the matches directly from the game client, which is explicitly allowed by Valve.

The whole ordeal seems like a land grab by Facebook. Why would anyone want their friends / family to know they're watching people play video games for hours? Why put up with a terrible streaming interface when Twitch and Youtube are well-known and proven? No one wanted this except Facebook; buying up users to track and monetize them is just what they do best.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/search?q=esl&restrict_sr=on
Maybe not pure delusions! But I think you’re otherwise right. It’s slow to penetrate post-modern perspectives, so much that pointing it out seems to only confuse and slow us down. I think it’s sad. At this point, an American with the lab:factory perspective is met with a set of industries and personnel perfectly trained to that model, and scarce resources to undermine it if they choose to go against the grain (See Tesla’s uphill battles in manufacturing, not an isolated or perfect example but fits). We’re also likely to be surrounded with success stories of that model.

But, like you say, there is another way. It’s pretty tough to see the benefit of not looking for it, especially when comparing the pace of the outsourcing model. But, we ironically installed the artisan model in our nation’s individualist “doer” image of itself and spend a lot of effort talking around it. It’s proven time and time again in stories of history, art and innovation but it’s just a matter of a pendulum swing.
This is true to some extent --but people sympathetic to some of those causes will not like to hear that.

Plus, we've been there and done that too --but then it's "whataboutism".

On the other hand, we need to get a handle on this and temper it --not that we or anyone can completely remove this kind of influence-- t's just a part of information warfare. But now we have Democrats on the one side oblivious to their contributing to the Russian effort (in sowing discord) and the right playing it down. It's a partisan mess.
Have it exactly the same way, and especially the vue components are nice to have. It seems like Stimulus would be a good fit for small applications, but as soon it becomes a medium size project it would be to complex to maintain.
There's an example in Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational that showed this exact phenomenon.
That's encouraging to hear. I will give it another go soon.

The area that IMO needs the most work is the packaging experience, including the DSL itself... and the "I just want to build this source without having to become a black belt functional packager first" experience.
I've been passed by bikes doing slalom at ~300 kph. It's not common, for sure, but it's memorable. So my rule about bikes is that they're unpredictable.
You can buy a pair of, say, Yamaha HS8 for AU$740, add a cheap secondhand sub for under $250, and they will do a mighty fine job in a living room, in my opinion.
(Anecdata) If you happen to be in Cambridge Massachusetts go to MicroCenter and ask: I have 5 that have all been bought at $5 ($10 for the Pi Zero W, which is still incredible to me).
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I know a lot of inexperienced devs who run things as root to try to fix problems. It’s the first thing some of them do (after restarting). I think it’s a lack of awareness due to missing knowledge. When you don’t know much about how your system works, you can’t effectively troubleshoot it.
I'm not sure how to build a lock-less doubly-linked list in C, honestly, and it may not be possible. I've authored several lock-less data structures in C, but I've not thought about this one... A singly-linked list is easy-peasy for addition at the head or tail (just atomic reads and atomic compare-and-swap), though deletion is tricky (because the obvious CAS thing to do is racy if you'd free the deleted element, and you do want to free it eventually...).

A good pattern for thread-safety is to use immutable data structures. jq's jv API [0] is a great example of how to make it easy to deal with immutable data structures. Of course, you don't get to have cycles this way and so you don't get to have doubly-linked lists. Also, for root state you kinda need something like a thread-safe variable (of which there are a number of flavors in Clojure, Haskell, and others) where when you read it you're guaranteed to have a stable reference to the value, but also guaranteed that garbage will be collected -- this is great when the values are immutable data structures.

You could have cycles in immutable data structures if you install the cycle before ever sharing with other threads and can make sure you don't fall into a loop when releasing the immutable value. But this is the sort of thing that requires "unsafe mode" unless the compiler/runtime can figure out that a) you haven't shared the thing yet, b) it won't be mutated once shared. I don't know how to figure that out statically, but that might be a good avenue for research.

[0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/C-API:-jv
And virtualenv can be overkill unless you've got multiple clients or legacy commitments.
I agree with most of what you said.

> That is pretty common practice for a lot of software and especially packages on npm.

This is mostly what I have a problem with. Almost everyone is other ecosystems do not do something like this and there is a very good reason for it. Why not just follow a known and standard process of releasing things. https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/966730802187792386

Even the NPM dev acknowledge the current process to be faulty and are considering switching to use pre-release tags.
If you’re happy to contribute already, why bother with all that admin?

“I would love to spare some change, but my hands are tied until the corresponding bill passes the senate.”
As a former hg user, I second that. The fact that git has so many users is a testament to our incredible adaptability as a species. If we can adapt to the git ui, surely we will have no problem colonizing alien planets.
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Oops, I think my cousin mentioned the >1k and I just took him at his word. The official Pokémon site says that 80x number as well (they gave 806).

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/
> and don’t have the time or the desire to learn the about what a DAG is.

That's the point people are complaining about with git. It's fine to consider that an issue, but that doesn't mean the interface or documentation are bad, it's that people want it to feel familiar.

I, for one, was very comfortable with git's command line from the start. I came in wanting something different, and found the distributed model was just what was needed, and frankly, more straightforeward than the popular centralized approach. It also helps that you can play with and break things locally, rather than having to worry about a server someone else relys on.
I've bought multiple Pi Zero Ws for $5 at my local microcenter. The first one is $5 but the second one is $15. I just would pick one up on lunch every couple days. I have four in my house. $20
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> Elon Musk ... giant subterranean launch tube

Hyperloop?
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No one needs to cry anything - the OP admitted he's into eugenics. He just thinks it's completely logical and natural thing - after all, don't we want to better the human race?
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