skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Raspberry Pi is based on an obsolete old graphics chip called Video Core IV with some ARM cores added as an afterthought. Of course it's cheap, it had a 10 year headstart and benefited from the economies of scale of the original product. And as you can figure out almost every SBC is based on old TV boxes (sometimes laptops like RK3399) because that way you can just slap the old SoC on a PCB and sell it without making a completely new SoC. The vast majority of phone SoC's simply do not have the interfaces (often just a single port for USB, network, and eMMC storage, display, perfectly designed for the phone in question) required by SBCs.

In short the production run is very small and that's why it's so expensive. ARM SBCs with custom SoCs cost around the same. Just take a look at linaro's ARM desktop [0] It's $1200 and doesn't even come with 8GB of RAM.

[0] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/
> I wonder if I should do a rather confrontational blog post telling people why Open hardware is never going to be the free lunch that open source software is..

Bunnie Huang spoke at one of the RISC-V summits on this topic.
You could say the same thing about having children, or deciding what to eat in the morning. Or deciding what to do with your life.

Could you explain to me how you would draw the line? People can't and shouldn't be protected from themselves.

A good example is that I got addicted to heroin. It was terrible, yet, I believe that drugs should be legal and that people need to make their own choices, regardless of the consequences.
Apatheism. Unlike theism it doesn’t tie you down to a particular set of untestable beliefs. Unlike atheism you don’t have to write a book calling people idiots. Unlike agnosticism it doesn’t require any fence-sitting.

You just shrug and ask if the question of god(s) is even a relevant one to a bunch of meat hurtling from birth to death. This obviously doesn’t work if you subscribe to a particular religion, because they tied to claim the imposition of existential penalties for this kind of thing, but assuming you’ve already concluded that religion is definitely a human invention separate from the “god” question, that presents no obstacle. After all, if there isn’t a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, it’s a waste of time to worry about it. If there is a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, then could we ever know for sure? Could we hope to understand it and are we really so full of ourselves that we think worship is important?

For me the answer is “no” let’s get on with life, and leave what (if anything) comes later. If other people feel differently, that’s fine. Plus I get to avoid a lot of boring debates and arguments between tribes of people who seriously think their ancestors figured out the secrets of the universe.
I think the defensiveness only looks absurd in hindsight.

They were wondering whether they’d go back, and how they’d be perceived/treated by their fellow Germans. Would they be perceived as traitors for failing to create the bomb?
CAC Card... Common Access Card Card.

Sorry DoD Acronyms never stopped getting on my nerves even 5 years later.

We had a game to find how many acronyms we could find with the same word multiple times.
Fairly well way off topic, apologies in advance, but this is interesting, to me anyway.

This is the only example I've seen in recent years of the use of the phrase begging the question that strictly adheres to a technical definition of the term.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
OK I guess the sketchiness and corruption varies substantially by region, then. In NYC at least, though unfortunately ED plays (famously) do happen - they're quite rare, and in any case don't (simply) happen at the developer's bidding.

My whole point is: people have been (almost) making it sound like a typical speculator (in NYC) can just grease a few palms and get some tasty piece of property condemned and handed over to them.

Maybe in Rhode Island, but in NYC... no.
Wisp v1.0 released
My experience with the Very Short Introduction series is mixed. I kind of wish there was more editorial oversight to ensure that the style, content and pacing are more consistent from book to book.

Some books I've read don't really follow the spirit of "Very Short Introduction" and are rather dense. The quality of writing also varies quite a bit.

Overall though, they are a good first stop if you want to get basic familiarity with a topic.
For me it was a wake up call for how stupid I was being entrusting my welfare to a badly designed bureaucracy. All I'd be doing by fighting for the right to stay would be setting myself up for another messy situation that impacted my livelihood down the road.

Until I dealt with the German government and professionals that deal with the German government (taxes, visa etc), I had no idea how lucky I have it as an Australian.
A Day-Trading Algorithm in Python and How to Run it on a GCP Free Instance
> The greater availability of capital has been good for founders, but as Tim points out, it’s been a mixed blessing for society.

The only way to suggest that even for a moment is to compare it with a hypothetical state of affairs where capital is available from purely altruistic sources. Compared to the actual alternative state of affairs without the availability of capital - the lot of humanity for most of history and geography - blessings that exist in the real universe don't get any more unmixed.
“Wisp allows people to see code how Lispers perceive it.”
Some people just like to complain.
> You can provide advice without repeating criticism for no reason when the person specifically said they did something wrong.

That statement is a joke, here it is reworded:

> A person should be invulnerable to criticism as long as they make a humbling remark.

Doesn't sound so great now does it.

Also, I'm not surprised you got 15 upvotes. This place has ceased to be a hacker forum for many years now. Too many eternal politically correct Septembers.
Streaming saved the music industry
Thank you Julia for dropping knowledge and sharing your infectious enthusiasm for systems engineering. I hope your work inspires others who have walked the path of the systems wizard to generously publicly share their experience and knowledge with others.
Isn't deriving more value from your users while limiting the ability of your competitors just vendor lock-in? Said another way, finding a rich gold vein and buying the mining rights to that vein prevents your competitors from capitalizing on it.
Note: How to teach yourself hard things is more recent than So you want to be a wizard. (Just mentioning this because it gives some context as to how they're related.)

So you want to be a wizard was turned into a "Zine": https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/01/new-zine--so-you-want-to-be-...
"Reward for doggy" with a picture of your cat would be a great missing pet flyer
I agree, yes. Maybe it's a sort of corporate motive that takes hold in each of our countries and in the US it's become infective within the libretarian section. I could just as easily see a twisting of a socialist angled view being twisted in the same way, "Our advertising supports our service in a necessary manner and it'd be unconscionable to deprive any resident the access to our service."

As an aside, isn't it amusing that getting an American education one of the skills that seems to be valued above others is the ability to twist words to whatever B.S. you need them to mean at the time, it's like everyone in the US is an expert marketer and political fixer/spin-man.
With respect, the external asymmetry of HDMI has only helped the situation somewhat, at least in my own personal experience.

IMO, the connectors need to be truly symmetrical both internally and externally. USB-C got this part right.

Then we have the problem of correctly implementing the various ways of using that connector, where USB-C fails horribly.
Taxpayers money like the 10s of billions apple stashed overseas until they (and others) managed to lobby for massive corportate tax breaks?

Before someone gives me the standard "don't hate the player hate the game" speech. I do hate the game. It's fundamentally broken and I think we need to do a 2.0 version.
Looking more in depth at their ranking though, virtually everyone from 1st base to home plate I'd consider "rich" to start (perhaps differing degrees of "employed rich", e.g. doctors/lawyers, to sheik rich).

I mean, it considers Donald Trump, whose father died with a net worth of about $300 million to start on 2nd base!!
Can't wait for the day ghosting a woman is considered psychological abuse and gets you some time in the slammer.
Actually, I've never had coffee, but I understand your point.
lol Well played.
What if you're given farmland and have a 5 year drought?

What other solutions are you talking about? Except giving away land?
Welcome to a comment section on the internet. I see you are new here. I can tell that by the way you are surprised at the unhelpful criticism. I do not have any advice for you. Please send help if you have any ideas on how to fix this.
LipPass Authenticates Users Based on the Way They Move Their Mouths
I'm looking forward to the moment somebody has to enter the ICBM launch codes a captcha appearing 'click on the traffic lights...'
Of course Linux benefitted from being published under GNU GPL. At that point of time the appearance of a GNU kernel for i386 architecture was inevitable
Yeah it was black mirror style. You had to listen to the goddamn ad. I used to take off the earphones when the ad played.

It was an annoying enough experience. Although I mostly upgraded to paid option for the high bit rate audio. Music sounds so much crispier.

Making users pay for no ads may not be enough to nudge them over. Offering a premium pro is definitely a viable model.
Don't forget your consent form.
what about the hundreds of thousands of doctors in their own practices that would like to keep current? I can tell you with the absolute certainty of experience that alumni do not retain such privileges at all schools. And when they do, it can be limited to in person access: not possible when you live hours or more away from your almer mater.
awesome to see she makes programming zines too
John Carreyrou (ok, I haven't read his recent book, only heard a lot about it) didn't write about phlebotomy or biochemistry; he writes about corporate scandals, something he has been involved with since he first shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Likewise, Woodward and Bernstein are the experts on Watergate. Roger Lowenstein also writes about corporate scandals in When Genius Failed---that may be all you need to know about hedge funds, but it is kind of one-sided.

How about another example: Bill Bryson. He's a brilliant writer and I really like all of his books. Except for A Short History of Nearly Everything. That's mostly a regurgitation of other popular science writers; it is a good read, but if you are fond of the genre, you'll spot his sources and it kind of ruins the effect.

Compare those with J.E. Gordon on structures and materials, John Clark's Ignition (which is a collection of amusing anecdotes and settling scores, I admit; the closest in my field is M.A. Padlipsky), Peter Ward (Gorgon), or Mark McMenamin (The Garden of Ediacara, some thumbs up).

If you want to know the story behind some event, journalists are admirably well suited to tell it. If you want to know about some field, they really aren't. In a world full of books, reading a journalist writing about phlebotomy or biochemistry is probably not all that useful.

I'm definitely in agreement about your Dijkstra amnesia effect.
Caring about the people you interact with doesn’t require being attached to them. If you understand this, you can have fulfillment while avoiding most kinds of emotional pain.
Intel loves RISC-V because it is biting ARM 's ankle but one day, it will grow to bite Intel, AMD, IBM, and even Nvidia.
I see. Well a redacted code base is certainly better than none at all, so I guess I agree
Ok, but I don't think it changes the point. Facts aren't neutral, because there are infinitely many of them and you have to select which ones to mention. Since different sides prefer different facts, they can just as easily amount to a partisan shot as non-facts can. More, actually.

Beyond that, there is huge variation in how one phrases facts and how they relate to context. None of that is neutral or factual, even if the selected facts themselves are.
Consent has nothing to do with actually caring about you. Never mistake the two. It's really simple he continously asked you those things because a single touch where you didn't it and he didn't ask you can ruin his life.
Yes, there is racism and ethnic stigmatization in Germany. It even goes both ways. It's a sad mess.
"Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts (presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams.

But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM), was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search."

-- Rene Descartes (Discourse on Method)
Because Twitter would be exposed as 95% throwaway/inactive/bot accounts.
I work for Amazon. Charts, graphs, and other supporting data are permitted in the appendix, which can be of any length. They are forbidden in the narrative itself, however.
I see. It's just so easy to get to a few million dollars of wealth over time if somebody's good enough to get to a big company and invest with a healthy diversification.

I really don't understand why people are risking that to be a billionaire with a small probability, when the difference in the lifestyle that that money allows is probably not that big.

I'm sure it's cool to be a billionaire for some time, but also it probably wears out quite fast when you get back to work.
This is exactly what I do. It took me quite some time during my undergrad years to realize that repeating information out loud can be an effective study strategy. It was especially perfect when studying for subjects like biochemistry, physiology, immunology, etc. In these kinds of subjects, there are so many little details/exceptions to know in addition to the large pathways/cycles/concepts that it can very quickly become overwhelming if you are unable to piece all the information together, in order, and think through it logically. Forcing myself to describe everything out loud is the best way for me to identify where my gaps in understanding of the material are and also helps me retain the material better.
This is not a new technique with the Rust regex engine. We had a considerably more comprehensive literal 'factoring' approach in Hyperscan about a decade earlier (which also satisfied a lifelong ambition of mine; specifically misusing the netflow algorithm in a graph for something).

The multiple literal implementation in that matcher is also a partial lift from Hyperscan's "Teddy" small group literal matcher (not salty about that as "burntsushi" has been very clear about inspiration). I do wish they'd pull in the rest of the algorithm at some point - the bits that allow merging of Teddy literals into buckets to reduce false positive rates...
Playing with that xeus-cling notebook, does anyone know how to curb the `error: redefinition of` errors when changing code and rerunning it?

This bug is prohibitive enough I suspect it will be a deal breaker for the majority who want to use this kind of tech.
Was the title of this changed to remove pronouns? Bizarre choice.
> "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said.

I don't know. Paying $25 or $50 for an article, just to see if it contains something useful is a lot ... And with the realization that the research was funded by tax dollars, that price becomes absurd.
Students all have debts.

When reality hits that these debts need to be paid, principles go out the window.

I don’t blame anyone for this. In the end you have to look after number one. It’s just sad this is the reality.
Tim Cook is so innovative to spot that 7 cents or whatever that Intel is getting per iPhone and spend millions to replace it with something they can make themselves for a few cents cheaper, because they supposedly only pad iPhone prices by several hundred dollars profit.
Why Is New York Paying Amazon More Than Virginia? (2018)
Good find. Forwarded your note to the article's author.
> Outside of rent seeking, which I regard as fairly rare

This is a big assumption to make. Successful rent seeking is very much a constant interest of profitable organizations--why would a business leave low risk, high margin money on the table? Competition for rentier status would be just as lively as market competition were it not for regulation, and even with it the focus only shifts to competition for regulatory capture.
I know other people from other countries in Germany. They use a similiar language as you do. Are the rules really that bad, or is it that they are unintuitive?
Seems like he didn't go from Go to PHP but from Go to a PHP framework that does a lot of things for him.
If you look at starbuck's prices you'll see some drink x being sold as a Venti - 5$, Grande - 4.25$, Tall - 4$, for a while this really annoyed my brain since a Venti is 2x a Tall (or so) so the low price difference makes it silly not to just get a Venti half as often. In actuality the price of what you're buying is contributed to very minorly by the ingredients and much more by the labour and that 4$ might be as close to the floor as starbucks is willing to go. That's a bit interesting and different...

Additionally, good on your baristas for being flexible, though the corporate office might object and come down on them if they found they were offering this, as they're either losing money or making less money serving you then they'd make if they served a different customer - so the time to make your drink would be particularly economically suboptimal.

Anyways, these are mostly fiddly points and my original comment was less about the fact that businesses always did things like this... and more about the fact that they do have the right to refuse. If you go in one day and a different barista is behind the machine, they may refuse your request and so it goes - alternatively maybe your usual barista got a talking to from management and can't do it any more. Either of these cases work, declining partial service is an option for a business... in fact, declining normal service is also usually an option, maybe you're going to a ramen place that's open until 7 and arrive well before, but the owner has a headache and is closing up at 5:30 when you walk in - you're not _owed_ service.

The only exception to this is cases where people have historically been terrible and the government has specifically stepped in, if you were black and starbucks refused to serve you after serving a white customer and before serving another white customer then the onus would be on them to rationalize why they refused service (and they'd probably end up paying a hefty fine or being targeted by a lawsuit).
Did he ever explain why he was banned from Something Awful? Surprised it never came up.

The Old Internet remembers.
Except the word for that is already plutarchy.
Yeah, I mean Mark Zuckerberg was the son of a doctor and a dentist in White Plains. We called people of those means "rich" when I was a kid.
I don't understand this thread.

The article only says: "[Apple] said it would compensate the Thompson family and make an additional gift toward 14-year-old Grant’s education."

For all we know, they got a check for $250.

How do you reconcile your statement with the fact that you, yourself, can confer life-changing benefits to all sorts of people?
I block ads simply because I don’t want to see them. If a software annoys me I don’t use it. If a website is annoying, I leave. If a website is ok but ads are annoying, I block them.
For what it's worth, after having this discussion, I logged back into the account. Going to "Apps and devices" shows nothing out of the ordinary.

My country has been reset again to Russia. I had fixed it when it happened the first time.

Yeah, I'm sorry, there's no way it's not Twitter doing this. I'm not sure why so many people here are dead set on the "it must be secret hackers" explanation.

I'm also pretty sure there's not 1-800 Twitter line to call to reset your password, and if Twitter support is giving random people from random emails account access, Twitter has a much bigger problem.
When will the media realize that Amazon didn't invent facial recognition software? It would be here regardless of Bezos.
In a country where everything and everyone is for sale, this is hardly surprising unfortunately.
Or, there are a whole bunch of people, children and adults alike, who love hearts and stars.

There are plenty of articles written as long paragraphs of black and white prose if you want them. I personally love some colour and brightness wherever I find it.

I should start a blog on advanced computational mathematics, with kittens and memes.
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q4 2018
I remember PC and laptops equipped with a single fireware port well into the late 2000s even though peripherals are pretty much extinct by that time. Even Apple themselves appeared to have given up by removing them from newer ipods.
I don't know. To be honest, I'm a tad curious. The prospect of memes comparing him to Johnny Sins and subsequent bezos / Amazon porn parodies seems humorous.
It looks like there are some interesting things in this project beyond regex, but the way that it skates over the fact that there are already automata-based multiple pattern matchers is pretty rank.

When we started developing automata-based pattern matching s/w in 2006 - 2006! - we were well aware that it wasn't really a new thing. 12 years of work on Hyperscan (https://github.com/intel/hyperscan), 1 acquisition and 1 open source release later - as well as multiple other projects doing similar things (re2, Rust regex, Parabix, icgrep, Rosie Pattern Language, ...) has only added to this crowded field. All this has taught me many things, but the thing that I keep returning to is that "a lot of people apparently don't know about prior art, or assiduously pretend not to". It will be interesting to see what they try to patent.
"Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion" seems a bit of a stretch, since I can't find him doing so anywhere on Medium or even in the linked article. He seems to be merely dealing with the fallout without commenting on the privacy issues.
I find it sad that a project with as much cultural influence as 4chan didn't make the owners sufficient money. It's sad, because the whole idea behind 4chan is that people can be unfiltered and say what they want to say. But sadly, this means that the site can't make much money, because advertisers aren't willing to risk advertising on the site.
Oh man - love the bullshit stories section! Great stuff.