skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(All that being said, I'm also fairly salty about having 8 GB of RAM and a mechanical hard drive rendering my computer incredibly painful to use as technology has marched on. Discord - which I use almost exclusively as an IRC chatroom with persistent while-you-were-gone chat history, embedded media, and fun custom emotes - is an entire Electron app that eats over 100 MB minimum; Firefox is eating 750 MB just keeping this single tab open while I type this. Even with no other applications but those open, Windows 10 and assorted background processes already push me to 5.7 GB allocated. Various Windows background processes will randomly decide they'd like to peg my disk usage to 100% for ten to fifteen minutes at a time, which I imagine is because spinning rust disks are considered deprecated.

I saw a discussion on HN a few months back about a survey of computer hardware, and one dev in the comments was shocked - shocked! - to find out that the typical user didn't have 16 GB and a 4k screen. That definitely rustled my jimmies a bit.)
You'd be surprised. I thought the same when I brought 2 arduinos in a makeshift carboard box in my bag and had wires sticking out all over from the breadboard.

Not a word, nor even a wayward look.
“451: We're sorry, but DEFCAD has been blocked in your location.”
I'm not sure I understand why this is a big deal all of the sudden. Don't retailers already account for these costs when they're choosing prices?
It's really the ultimate in gatekeeping and trolling.

Culture promotes an "authority" of a journal, while the journal gets to selectively choose what to publish, while collecting fees from scientists and their institutions & trying to gouge the public by renting out the work of scientists at high rates.
Oh they were both important programs in their time, I just don't think they were grand monuments to some past golden age of UI/experience. Desktop UI in general was too abstruse for many people to master. Today's mobile touch UI's are much more accessible. PSP and Winamp were pretty sweet if you were a young nerd.
You are correct. My bad, Sony owns Columbia Pictures not Universal.
Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal
The money from helicopters approach is better done on the fiscal side. Except the guy in the US who wanted to do it was cock-blocked by his opponents for 6 years and in the EU they are handcuffed by various laws. Still, by comparison of US vs. EU, even dumping the money into the banking system vs. austerity was the better way to go. The EU wasted 2-3 years.
If you are willing to allow dirt roads in your definition of "getting away", you can get a hell of a long way from civilization in the western US.

A few places come to mind:

The Deep Creek Range of western Utah (simply stunning)

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon SSE of Hurricane, Utah. Not the popular tourist areas but the extremely remote canyon rim around SB Point.

The Toiyabe and Monitor Ranges of Central Nevada. Pick any valley in the Range-and-Basin country, drive halfway down it, and then head east or west into the mountains.

The Owyhee Desert. Google for Crutcher's Crossing.

The Henry Mountains of south-central Utah.

The Magruder Corridor of Northern Idaho.
Last year I bought an iPhone SE from Walmart to replace my obsolete iPod touch. $140, tax included. Checking their site, it seems they still have it for a bit more, locked to their own prepaid brands.
I expect some of these roads haven't seen anyone (person or car) for years.

"Roads" don't really seem to die. Once they are mapped, they show up forevermore -- even if no-one is taking them and no-one is checking that they are still navigable.
your post is FUD. that issus was solved immediately and the actually bug listed had nothing special to do with graphics and is just a bug like a bug in javascripy or the browser in general. a bug that was fixed. If you're going to off WebGL based on that bug then you'd better turn off your entire browser
Sadly, very recently a friend of mine's therapist suggested he overcome his fear of flying and having less control.

Granted it is a small plane, but it crashed. Of my friends, 1 is paralysed and the other is dead. The pilot is dead too.

I've always wanted to take some aerial photos, but now I'm having second thoughts about being in a small plane. I have no reservations about getting on a jumbo jet though.
You should investigate adding an RSS feed!
Start taking lessons for pilot license, initially with sailplanes (i.e. you can't make an error). It's fun, especially when you get to practice tailspins and free falls after a tasty breakfast!
> No idea on the cost of this

Driveway systems require about 35W per square foot when operating. Imagine a 36' wide road, and you're looking at around 6MW per mile.

That's a lot.
Equaling remoteness with being a designated wilderness is not the best way to find the most remote spots. Get on Tarantula Mesa or Upper Stevens Canyon in Utah. It is not a wilderness, but a National Monument (the one shrunk by the orange piece of shit in white house, btw), but these places are exceptionally remote. Certainly more remote than Thorofare in Yellowstone.
Part of the whole point behind mapping everywhere the vehicles go is so they can mark ahead of time the locations of signage and lights, lane markings etc. Now whether there's a bunch of Vehicle to infrastructure sensors all over the place, or carefully curated internal maps, there will inevitably still be unmarked changes in road conditions, so Robotaxis will still need to be able to recognize changing signage and lane markings, along with all the other dynamic elements on the road.
Uber is not really subsidized in established markets.
8 million miles in fully-autonomous mode. I'll repeat my favorite statistic - the safety rate for auto driving in the US is about 1.5 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. That is, Waymo is about 12.5X from having driven enough to see a single death on average, if they're driving as well as a human. Not enough data. Still, I imagine we'll fast-track this into place with no regulatory oversight, because $$$$$$$$$.
https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/issues
Right west of Henries is a very remote place. Yes, agreed.
The first publicly traded company to have a market cap of $1T.
The only way to salvage this as a positive is to pay it with a new credit card and reap a very large signing bonus
Honestly the worst one is the macbook, which is ostensibly the "macbook air with retina display" everyone was dreaming of, has ONE. We're never getting another macbook air, this is the path forward.

There's plenty of space for two, a prototype design with two ports even leaked a few years back

And yet one. It's not like the air even had a cornucopia of ports. It's not like i think it NEEDS them. But seriously, one port for everything?

I would already own one if it had two jacks, but that's just patently ridiculous. One port arguably is barely enough for a phone, much less a full on computer that's expected to be a device host for even just like, a flash drive.
Most of the work in programming is in describing (in very strict and pendantic terms) how different systems interact with each other and how the data flows from one end to another. The actual work of moving the data and doing all the calculations is handled by machines. In that sense, the work done in programming is designing and integrating systems, not the execution of it. In your analogy, installing a shelf would be more like installing Photoshop (which we can presumably agree is actually simpler than installing a shelf). Most people do not design their own shelf, select the most appropriate fasteners, source raw materials and send it to manufacturing to be mass-produced. A shelf is also a relatively simple piece of furniture. What about a desk-drawer or a closet? Sure, you can buy the raw materials and power tools at any hardware store, but is it trivial for anyone to actually design and build usable (and desirable) furniture from pieces of plywood?
I don't know what Merlin's firmware is, but it's completely stock with stock updates.
You wouldn't believe the amount of supplements sold on facebook that cost $2 to manufacture but can earn a facebook affiliate $40-$50 for a single conversion (assuming subscription model)
For what it's worth, I feel like we already have a version of that book by Peter Norvig:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...
Keybase
Can someone please tell me how keybase works
I get the two confused a lot of the time as well. It always seemed like shocking branding to me.

I guess at this point leapmotion is far enough in the past that it's meager ripples have basically vanished.
You missed the point. I don't support bank bailouts. But if you manage your bank effectively then you won't need a bailout.

You complained about high interest rates for loans. But the main reason that so many banks needed bailouts in the first place is that the interest rates they charged were too low and so they couldn't absorb all the defaults.
I'm another person who regularly uses PSP (version 4 in my case) for most of my day to day bitmap editing tasks - it's fast, stable and has most of the features I need so I've never felt the need to upgrade!
I usually direct people to the 2014 and 15 ones of these, as someone still rocking a 2012. The newer ones run so much cooler and the GPU performance bumps were nice. They aren't even that much more used generally.

I can't get myself to replace mine unless it totally dies, but damn does it run super hot a lot of the time. And it has since it was brand new. It really does feel like there was an apex in there that we've gone downhill from though, and the 2012 was definitely higher up there than we are now.
Isn't imposing moral standards exactly what China's social credit score is doing?
Are you seriously comparing the web hosting needs of Elsevier and Twitter?
> Indirectly yes, they will ask why their computer is slow. Then they'll buy a new one and accept the salespitch for fiber gbps link.

This evening there was that broadcast on our national radio about "white zones", I don't know if you listened to it.

The 3 guests were directors in major telecommunication organisations and administrations of the country. They discussed how high-speed Internet should be available to everyone everywhere, and they declared that there should be fibre-to-home everywhere in the country.

But in 30 or 40 minutes of broadcast I think that they did not ask themselves once: why should everyone have access to optical fibre? does everyone need it? what for? can we define what real problems and needs are? can we define a set of stuff that really matter? why do we even need a high-speed access to read and fill administrative paperwork (without paper)? what can be done to achieve the same functions with low- or medium-speed Internet for everyone, by not wasting ressources?

I mean, it is crazy to be about to pour billions in something because... just because. Without a deep analysis of what is wanted and how to solve it. They have decided on a solution, but they have not defined the problem. They pretend to solve the case of a few people who are supposedly in trouble because they cannot fill important forms, but the
real use will be that Jean-Pierre-Kevin and Rayanne will watch the same American blockbuster, each one on his own tablet or smartphone, but Rayanne will start watching it 10 minutes later, killing the global bandwidth because "eh! it's free".

At my place, the Internet speed was upgraded (I don't think anyone asked for it?), as a result people started using TV-over-xDSL, VOD and streaming like pigs, and now in the evenings the speed is worse than it used to be before the upgrade...

One must question the usage that is done with the infrastructure before spending billions building it, because the general consequence is a never ending abuse of the available infrastructure, whichever capacity it has.

(For Agu: <https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le-telephone-sonne/le-t...)
Hi. Thanks for your comment. However, I am unsure what you mean. Can you please explain?

As disclosure: I am in no way affiliated w/ Coinbase (nor do I hold any stakes in them). I do, however, own various cryptocurrencies.
Right, just to clarify, a "wilderness area" is similar to a national park in that it is land that is set aside by governmental decree, but most things are banned in a wilderness area, notably motor vehicles, whereas many national parks have all sorts of development.
True. But with VMs, there are also guest-to-host risks.
I don’t think it’s actually snarky at all, though.
"Can't be arsed" is just an expression, mate. I'm sure you can understand the point they were making.
If I could do it this way, I’d buy a super-specs 11-inch machine: I mostly use it closed anyway.
I'm looking at Redis Streams and it seems to lack the partitioning component of Kafka. One of the properties that we rely on is the ability to manually assign partitions such that a worker assigned partition 0 of one topic, will also be assigned partition 0 of other topics that it consumes from.

Simplicity is of course a goal, but this may mean we have to sacrifice some features when Redis Streams is used as a backend.

I'm glad you like Celery, this project in many ways realize what I wanted it to be.
In the US, "Wilderness" has a specific meaning at the Federal level. "Machines and motors" is part of the wilderness designation. Wilderness designation prohibits chainsaws, snowmobiles, outboard motors, aircraft, and bicycles. Horses are allowed and owners of valubale Wilderness Area inholdings will use wagon trains to haul construction materials for their getaways.
> there's no indication that retail stores would lower their prices

Competition will lead to that. It doesn't happen immediately, it happens in waves. These are called price wars. When that happens, they try to undercut competition at every possible turn, and having lower payment processing fees allows them to go lower. Who wins a price war? The consumer.

Yes: points are ridiculous. The fact that credit card fees are passed on to cash payers is ridiculous. Visa and Mastercard are absolutely minted. Where does that money come from? You and I.

(and: why does competition not work for Visa and Mastercard as well as it does for retailers? Because the feedback loop is much longer. Intractable, in practice. Choosing one retailer or the other is a clear signal we can send. But are we going to choose merchants based on payment processor support? As for merchants, they're stuck in an oligopoly. Competition is gone, leading to this unhealthy market.)
The NSF does require public access, however:

https://par.nsf.gov/
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp#q1
At least those "$5.00 or $20.00 minimum for credit cards" signs that you see often in coffee places and bars will go away.

They are probably illegal (or against contracts) in most states, but you see them very often.
All they need to do is keep the old form factor and update the internals. No redesigns. I've been waiting for a 11" Macbook Air with Retina screen, but I'll never get it. Many people would buy a cheese grater Mac Pro with updated internals, or a Mac Mini with updated cpu's.

My feeling is that they were so jealous of Steve Jobs legacy that they had to redesign everything to prove something, and screwed it all up in the process. Maybe it's like having a parent who is very famous and successful and having to live in their shadow.
Fluids is a pretty good metaphor, but I would say that today we have sufficiently good reproducible physical understanding of fluids that we can generally fly airplanes at a high level of certainty (e.g. turbulence on the wings is both predictable and controlled in the correct ways that the plane does not crash). In comparison we crash the economy and even sub portions of markets periodically (and the last general crash was worse than many previous recessions) - we don't even have a complete picture of which turbulent areas to be wary of economically.

Or to maybe to a more human point, we can carry humans around on airplanes just fine, but don't know how to carry a payload of a nation of humans on a stable and healthy economic vehicle.
What if Plato thought that (at least part of) the truth was that it was more beneficial for people to think and seek than to be told the pre-canned truth?

No, what happens through this process is the student gets an idea in their head and thinks it is correct. The only way to check it out is for the student to state it in a prepositional form to some other smart philosophers and see if they punch any holes in it. But I guess you don't want them to do that because you sense, I would say that correctly, that many Plato's ideas couldn't stand up to that sort of critical scrutiny.

By the way, I do think Plato's dialogues are well-worth reading, it's just that I think many of his ideas were mistaken.
They still escaped it. Competition was the driving force for companies to become big and monopolistic. The "intended" effect of the market resulted in the opposite.
I do not think they are bots. A bot would not ask you to submit an appendix as a separate file in the first submission and merge it after the first review, for example.

Most of the work they do is, indeed, forwarding emails (not even reading reviews and authors responses). However, from time to time, they have to solve difficult issues (corrections, conflicts, plagiarism) and for that you need a person.
Yeah, humans shouldn't be driving at all, but to get there, well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
In Denmark we have a national payment system called Dankort. All issued Visa cards also work as Dankort. Transaction fees on Dankort is one tenth of visa, and all payment terminals default to Dankort. This saves Danish retail a lot of money while still ensuring they we can buy stuff online and when traveling using visa.
I would have thought that vms allow the system to reset back to a known clean state, so you can freely allow it to perform malicious actions such as installing unknown wares.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/5paqh5/putins_...
Vue meetup in San Francisco tomorrow
I suggest you look at my list and read the article again.

He is using ground loop isolators because of the length of his cable runs. In a car, that's not a problem as anything over 3 meters would be rare.

Single point grounding makes sense, because as I said, steel is a worse conductor than copper, so you'll end up with a voltage difference between your grounds (from each to the battery) if you use more than one.

So far as twisted pair, he strongly suggests using them to provide shielding against magnetic induced noise. They also provide good shielding against RFI - remember you've got 4-8 spark transmitters running at 900 to 5000 rpm interval in the engine.

And using the same size wire for both power and ground makes sense because different gauge wire has difference resistance.
What's the fee? Is it higher than the 2% cash back Citi gives you?
A but late but I feel like I should respond to this:

>Unless you know each and every witch personally, how can you know what rituals they engage in?

"I've heard that Witches use the peace sign in their rituals to fight Christians" seems to imply that such a ritual would be a common occurrence, which is what I was addressing.

>You seem to imply I am a "modern right-wing Evangelical"?

No, I just thought you picked something up from them. To be perfectly honest, I assumed it was something created to disparage the anti-war/hippie movement (linking the peace symbol, and by extension, the peace movement, to something unwholesome by implying the symbol has a secret anti-Christian meaning) and just got transferred to beliefs about Wiccans/witches somehow.

But apparently it is a Satanist ritual, so my (partial) mistake.

>Maybe you could spare me your aggressions against these and stop being condescending towards me and instead help me out with the subject matter at hand?

I didn't mean to be aggressive... but this was literally something you could solve with a Google search.
The economics of it isn't just handing you your own money with a couple arbitrary hoops in the way. There's a portion of cross-subsidy from cash, debit, and low-rewards credit card payers, along with capturing some of the merchant's efficiency gains of using cards over cash (harder for employees to steal, no need for armored cars for cash pickups, etc).
Every refresh they just make it worse now. Holding out isn't a good strategy.
Air Crash Investigation is great. It's like a true-crime show for engineering.

What you gather after watching dozens of episodes is that almost all accidents happened many years ago before modern planes and regulations and/or due to an exceedingly rare confluence of events.
A++++++ would inspect elements again.
IMHO that's overhyping things. There absolutely are foundries that will give you a compound semiconductor chip back. E.g. a lot of radio chips use compound semiconductors, you don't necessarily need your own foundry :)

Also flash LIDAR range is pretty bad and using super-sensitive photodetector arrays results in intolerable yield issues.
I wasn't complaining about loan interest but about how new money is allocated. It's allocated top down in a way that benefits a politically and economically connected aristocracy.
I had this job as a second year computer science student at an Elsevier journal. Was payed <$10USD an hour. Spent most of the time on Google or dblp looking for reviewers, emailing them, and trying to get them to turn in their reviews. Actually among the 5 of us, 3 were undergrads and 2 were master students. One undergrads wasn't even computer related field. Said journal charges >$50USD per article and >$2500 for a yearly subscription.
I wonder how low these self driving cars have to go price per mile to compete with fully mature public transportation systems.

For example, since I live in the Bay Area, the cost of going from Berkeley to Walnut Creek via Bart is around $4 for 16 miles. This would correspond to $0.25 per mile to the $0.35 estimate in the article.

Maybe I’m doing the wrong comparison: cars like these won’t be competing with rail lines but with last mile types like public buses. That would make more sense as I pay around $3 to go 2 miles in my city.

Another thought: the city official, mentioned in the article, seemed enthusiastic in using cars for public transportation. It kind of reminds me of advent of cars when cities focused on building roads and highways instead of investing in public transportation systems. Perhaps the self driving aspect can be transferred to be used on busses? I don’t know whether cost of busses result mainly from labor, like cars, or some other factor.