skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but since you already have one,

Since i already have one i might want to use it for other things. The reason computers are slow is this sort of "since you already have that resource, might as well use it" thinking - which makes sense if only one program does it, but if almost all programs do it then it breaks down quickly.
Define greedy and irresponsible.

Regulators weren't exactly breaking down their doors pre crash. I don't believe anything criminal was found at Northern Rock (not sure about Lehman). Yes they probably were greedy and irresponsible, but then so was everyone else.
> We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework.

Really? Do you mean that typical NASA engineers, astronauts, and other hard-working and gifted people involved in the Great Space Race, typically were not intensely trained, but just had all childhood time full of playing?
Good observation. This has happened with the word robot for many years. It is AI time now. :(
Ravelry users can found around the globe, also their users tend to be more female than the general population.
How is it going throw customs if you are sending US => China are you expecting China's customs to enforce US ban on Huawei ?
But has been the case since the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B IIRC.
On that note: I think Vector Graphics Complexes and Ludigraphix should join forces.

Those two core features in a single app would open the door to a lot of opportunities.
> And by asking a question, you have no answer for mine?

Your line of questions seemed to be missing the point, which is why I tried to make things easier by asking you how you would understand language in this context.

> You seem to think that claims aren't true or false if we don't know whether they are true or false.

Nope.

> What your doing is equivocating the likelihood of the method to produce true claims with whether a stated claim is likely to be true.

No, I am not equivocating those, those just are the same thing, and I am almost certain that you also use language in this way, even though it seems like maybe you aren't aware of it. Which is why I asked you that one simple question, to see whether you actually do.

> So you are not certain if religion is incompatible with science?

I won't answer any further questions about whether I am certain about something until you show that there is anything anyone could possibly be certain about. Demanding a burden of proof that you don't apply to anything else is simply destructive behaviour, not something that could possibly lead to any insight.

> How do you know this with certainty?

Just remove "certainly". The point is: I haven't seen any, I doubt you have seen any, I doubt anyone has seen any. If you have some, feel free to share it.

> As far as you know everything you perceive could be illusion/simulation/whatever WRT "ultimate reality", so making that claim in the sense that our senses are not in any way reliable for detecting "ultimate reality" (i.e., "the programmer that wrote the simulation") is unwarranted, and there certainly is no evidence supporting such a claim.

Correct. Which is why I am not making that claim.
A video walk through would be helpful. And why not for Firefox!?
> support and parse a billion more formats

> Rendering things properly

These should not affect startup performance though.
In a UK terrace, even given a large bay window, your view will likely be squandered by a large work van, as the terraces seldom have off-street parking.
Yes, but it's not a custom Arm server board
What? Ants don’t have general intelligence, and even ant colonies’ decision making (= simple swarm intelligence) is readily replicable in a programmed system, and has been, for a while.

I don’t think a gradual scale is very helpful because I don’t think that the progression from current-generation AI to AGI is going to be gradual (it will require at least one paradigm shift). That said, if you want to compare AI progress to actual animals then our current-gen AI way beyond ants. Note that, while we haven’t fully mapped the neurons/connectome of ants yet, this is unnecessary to emulate their decision-making power. And we have mapped (and can simulate) the full connectome of simpler animals (e.g. C. elegans, P. dumerilii) so we’re definitely a long way beyond single molecules.
look no further, Clean links for firefox:

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I have a (basically non-existent) side business selling LED strips and RPi lighting controllers for surfboards! If you've seem some viral videos with guys surfing around at night, they were probably using my gear :-)

Briefly put, I use the Glediator and Jinx! control software on an RPi, which communicates with an Arduino, which drives the LEDs. I put them in a permanently sealed box, water proof it as much as I possibly can, then cut some IP68 RGB LED strips to size and strap them to the rails of the board. I can remotely access the RPi via Wi-Fi to change lighting schemes, and there's a wireless charging coil inside the box which I can use to charge the batteries, so I never have to open it up after waterproofing. It's basically bomb-proof, and simple enough that I can teach a surf bum how to use it in about half and hour.

Start thinking of the RPi as more of a powerful microcontroller and suddenly a world of opportunities open up. I did my dissertation on it! Titled 'Home Automation and Monitoring using a Raspberry Pi', I basically used an RPi as a master node to control a bunch of Arduino slave nodes, using I2C protocol. With just two wires and an Pi, I run about 20 Arduino's all over my house, doing everything from feeding my fish, to monitoring air quality, to starting my coffee maker. I can access it remotely via Wi-Fi too, so I can do things like water my plants while I'm away. Aiming for a full Wallace and Grommet home in the near future.

Raspberry Pi's are awesome.
Likewise. While a lightweight desktop on even the 3B+ can be excruciatingly slow, I ws using the 2 as streaming media center for 1080p video without issues. The main thing to look out for is compatible codecs.
blinks ouch, perhaps it's just my colour-blindness, but just fyi I can't read your site at all unless I highlight the text.

Awesome public service with the Pi bus times though, love it!
> Those incredibly expensive custom molded ones?

Cheapo shure se215 with triple flange or foam tips and you're golden. I have them on all day and I even manage to sleep with them (when I accidentally fall asleep while listening to a podcast)
Only for their Metal subscription, which is paid, not free. Irrelevant comparison.

https://www.revolut.com/introducing-revolut-metal
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This reminds me of MIDI files and how depending on one's sound device, would sound subtly different.

My Sansa MP3 player, Acer laptop, and gateway PC all had different ways of 'rendering' the Orchestra hit instrument in particular, which made for a rousing Termina Field listening experience on the bus or at Grandma's compared to the family computer.
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Another example of the politicisation of everything....

I remember a time when politics was not discussed in polite company.
Can you get emergency cash from the Post Office though? Cause I got mugged recently and was able to walk into HSBC and get money out while I waited for a replacement card. I fear if I closed that account and went all-in on Monzo I'd be locked out.
As a Russian, I would like to point out that both degrees he has got (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and New Economic School) are from top-tier institutions. Money can't buy them and in general they are not attractive for rich kids.

Also, Gazprom Promgaz != Gazprom. It's "a research institute for Gazprom" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom_Promgaz
Here are some interesting numbers on landslide votes in the US (only electoral college votes, but I think it represents general popularity as well):

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
[2] https://www.thoughtco.com/landslide-presidential-elections-b...
I have a standing order that just moves £200 into Monzo every Friday for regular spending money. Makes it a lot simpler.
There have been a bunch of prototype self driving cars driving in snow. I'm not sure it's fundamentally a much different problem to self driving in general. eg https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/08/waymo-snow-navigation/

Sure they may perform worse in snow but humans do too.
What would be the economic impact of deleting loans? Would it cause inflation or deflation?

Would it end up making everyone else having to in effect pay for it?
What language would you use to write a server "that actually tries to do anything meaningful"?
That sounds like a way to save a browser session that comprises of tabs. Perhaps a better UI. Many browsers have had the ability to group/tabs/bookmarks. But it's usually quite clunky.
"Personally I don't think I would affected if my call records were given to anyone or leaked."

You may be personally affected by your elected representatives or people in positions of power in industry being blackmailed into making certain decisions.

So you may not be directly "personally affected", but you can certainly be indirectly "personally affected".
No, I'm not going to blame you for hating the post-Trump Republican party. I won't even blame you for hating the social milieu that you grew up in - there are many parts of the U.S. that are still quite socially backward, particularly in the Deep South itself, and broad-based, grassroots social/economic development is a slow process. I do have a problem when some people (and, for the record, this isn't about you specifically, either - it's a huge problem!) outright refuse to look at the history and acknowledge the fact that "conservatives" have, in many ways, been on the side of progress, while "progressives" have occasionally been putting forth very misguided ideas and proposals.
> those rubber things that make weird sounds when I move.

The weird sound doesn't come from the earbud per say, it comes from the cables brushing against your clothes. Try flat cables it removes most of it. Or use earbuds that run the cables behind your ears / down your back.
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 as an airplay receiver for music streaming at home. The software is called shairport-sync and is open source. My other Raspberry Pi 3 is a Retropie retro gaming console.
I don't think that Intel is ahead of them. TSMC already started risk production of 5nm chips and plans to start high-volume manufacturing in 2020[0]. According to Intel roadmap they plan to launch 7nm product in 2021 (GPU)[1].

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14175/tsmcs-5nm-euv-process-t...

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14312/intel-process-technolog...
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I guess I was unclear. I am trying to understand why the threshold voltage can't be reduced below what came across as a hard limit of 0.75V. My guess was that even a finFET can't give you the channel control required to prevent the transistor from approaching a lower threshold voltage. Which means it's half-on when it's supposed to be off, which means you've got a lot more leakage. But surely you can tweak it a bit more: make the fin taller, wrap it around the channel a little bit? And then maybe get a slightly lower threshold voltage? Maybe it's just not worth the hassle and having gate all around is a better return.
There was also the fact that Ross Perot drew off a lot of voters in that election, so Clinton didn't need as many in order to win.
People from Nasca also built a wind-powered aqueduct system.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/myst...
This sort of thing is not helpful in the fight against plastic waste.

It gives the impression that such a thing could make even the slightest dent, and it gives those who sell single use plastics a reason to say "see, it's under control!".

"There isn't really a problem is there? Aren't there boats that pick the plastic up out of the ocean?" - silly as that might sound to you and I, that's the core message that many would pick up on, and other would amplify.

A quixotic fools errand.
The way I understand it, not really. Financial services seem to operate crossborder just OK, while the licenses are not cross border (I mean cross EU border).
That math is very wrong. A model 3 sized car is ~2m x 5m and has room for side panels. At 20% efficiency that’s ~2kw in direct sunlight. Ignore panel cost and 40+% efficiency is possible for ~4kW in sunlight. Now at highway speeds that only adds up to edit: ~8 to 17% increased range which is hardly worth the expense.

Exactly, how much of a car you can cover in panels and how much time it sits in shade or garage makes this less appealing. But, getting ~50 miles of useful range per day at reasonable cost in ideal conditions is very possible.
> but cursive is faster

Have you tested? I recall - maybe a decade ago - seeing a study suggesting that in fact printing individual letters could be faster; I still write in cursive when I need to handwrite though (basically never).

Edit: http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-o... is a good summary; first 2 paras of last section are the TL;DR.
It is a kludge. PoE is 48V DC, so any converter is gonna look bulky and impractical next to the Pi.
>I just enjoy it.

That is as good a reason as any!
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1 x Rapsberry Pi 3 as RetroPie/Kodi/Printserver for an old Dymo Labelprinter
1 x Raspberry Pi Zero W as Dakboard (http://www.dakboard.com)

I think i want to make useful wireless NAS out of a Pi 4 once.
What are some good body fonts though? I would prefer stuff that is available on Windows. It's an eternal problem I struggle with, until I throw in the towel and say 'fuck it, let the user decide' and just put 'sans-serif' as the attribute. That, or use Arial.
> a general intelligence on-par with humans

Humans aren't general intelligences. We're good at things that make us survive, and that's about it. We're not good at 'general' problems, it takes us decades or hundreds of years of small steps and theories, and we may never find the answer. Most of us can't even grasp the fine nuances of math and physics, even after 12-16 years of education. Look at how hard it is for us to even imagine quantum and relativistic effects, or 5-dimensional geometry.

Consider how long it took us to create germ theory of disease and how many of us died without raising to the challenge of understanding the cause. Look at what we believed about nature just 500 years ago. Humans without the larger system of culture, society, industry, lots of time and resources, can't do much. AI will inherit our tech, culture and scientific advances right from the start.

There is a limit to how intelligent a system can become, and this limit is given by the complexity of the survival problem and the environment. You don't become smarter than the problems you have to deal with require. And environments don't evolve exponentially, so AI won't evolve exponentially fast either. Evolution is a series of sigmoids, not an exponential, and there can never be really exponential processes in nature, there's always an upper limit.

I'd say it would be enough to have AI that can survive by itself and sustain us along with it, instead of AGI.
> I've never seen one which costs "£500".

2006, gumstix with bluetooth was $180, but that was a very small system to dev for. embedded 386 in volumes of 1 were ~£380, CF flash(certified) £80-200. Software was extra, as was the debugging interface, which may or may not be a fancy serial port. Ethernet, RF, all extra. Wifi? naaa.

The arm board, I don't know how much they cost because they were custom made. So hundreds of thousands I suspect.

Then we have the tools that supported it, not exactly kid friendly.
Sounds like the most optimal setup would be a single vote (1 vote = $1 spent on a stock of your choice) at the start and then just wait 1 year for the results.
If you want an easy option (a middleman) there are places selling second hand/refurbs, that presumably must buy used machines too.

In case you're in the UK, http://www.myespresso.co.uk. (I bought mine there new, but noticed they sell parts, refurbs, etc.)
Does anyone remember the first year after the iPhone shipped on AT&T, and people (including myself) were getting detailed paper bills that included every single HTTP object we requested [1]? My guess is that the CDR data is much more granular than you think. This doesn't get exposed on customer bills anymore, but I'd bet it's available within the system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300-page_iPhone_bill
super cool! Sorry for my ignorance, but how does it close again? Do you issue fire alarm and it closes ?
> It may be that we can continue our computational climb for a while longer

I have a random question. Imagine this hypothetical scenario: semiconductor manufacturing comes to a halt completely, and new physics and technology is still decades ahead, can we further improve the practical performance of general computation by innovation alone?

I imagine, instead of riding on the train of Moore's Law, more resources would be invested to design optimization and R&D of new architectures, e.g. faster FPU, faster pipeline, etc.

Also, previously discarded and ignored ideas may be implemented again, and delivers some real advancement. While exponential growth is not possible, at least linear scaling should be the case. For example, computers without clocks. Based on this comment on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554248, one major obstacle of clockless chip is the entire VLSI toolchain is designed and optimized for synchronous logic, and this can be changed if the industry invest some serious resources. Another example comes to my mind is high-level programming based on hardware, e.g. Lisp machine.

Does my imagination make any sense?
Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
> The page isn’t redirecting properly
Microsoft launches another chat application
I use it mainly for music streaming via Spotify (raspotify) and airplay. It's paired with an 10-year old EMU 0202 USB DAC which haven't had working drivers for OS X since Snow leopard or something.
UK experience here....Customs can also check exports before they leave a country. Certainly that was my experience when we used to ship kit from the UK to South America (by way of FedEx).

We'd crate up the equipment then nail down the lid. Then a guy from customs would come out and pull the lid off and rummage around inside checking for contraband and to make sure we weren't shipping things that were on the tech exports naughty list.
Controller and logger (temperature, humidity, time lapse photos) for making tempeh (90F oven).

https://github.com/smeylan/tempeh/blob/master/tempehrature.p...
Yep, similar experience in Germany, and more than 50/50 if you travel further east in Europe (and that's not even counting those who look actively pissed off if you want to pay by card even if they have the facilities to take it[0]).

[0] this is a bigger thing than you'd expect and goes back to my point on culture - unless you want to feel like a tourist standing out, there's plenty of places in Europe still where cash is very definitely implied to be preferred. And don't even try if you're not in a major metro area.
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> I wasn't aware of a major homeless problem in Europe.

Homes in the UK can be expensive, so there's a large rental market.

On top of that many people are vulnerably housed - living in emergency temporary accommodation (which may be for many months) or on friend's sofas.

The introduction of the benefit "Universal Credit" has increased homelessness and people who are vulnerably housed. In the UK a landlord can apply for eviction if the tenant hasn't paid for two months. (This is for shorthold tenancy agreements where tenants have most rights - other tenancies have less protection.) There is a minimum wait of 5 weeks before Universal Credit claimants get paid, which pushes some people very close to this limit. The bizarre sanctions regime tips many people over that limit.

Detailed information can be found here:https://www.crisis.org.uk/media/238700/homelessness_monitor_...
I'm not sure which way you're going with that comment. Ravelry seems to be saying "we are polite company, keep your politics off our knitting site, thx". If anything, it's de-politicisation.
How does it perform in practice?
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I disagree. It's one of many steps we need to do right now and in the future:

- Stop dumping/polluting waters

- Clean up what is out there

Boyan and his project cater for the second one and they're trying to solve a real, existing problem. Others are trying to solve other problems.

What's wrong with that?
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>highly skeptical that an ipad + pencil [...] //

The people using paper probably also have the iPad, so it's probably whether the pencil used is more eco-friendly than the extra disposable plastic pens (which it might be)? Then you'd need to look at product lifetime, which is probably more limited by time-passed for Apple users and products than by actual hours of use??

I think these things are always more complex to analyse than it first appears.
> Creativity and purposeful manipulation of human emotions are orthogonal concerns, even if often bundled together under the term "creativity" in context of arts.

No, absolutely not, I disagree. If we know that a piece of music is generated by software algorithms, it instantly loses any real meaning.

> To disentangle them I propose a simple test: take these 'impressive algorithmic compositions that resemble the works of J.S. Bach' and play them to people, telling them they were composed by a gifted human. Then ask what they think of their creativity, and of emotions the author intended to communicate.

The problem here is you are lying to people in order to achieve an effect. Deception has been known to cause a significant backlash amongst music fans [1]

There are enough music fans out there that will honestly want to know whether the music was created by a human or a computer program. If it ever becomes common place that procedurally generated music is misrepresented as the works of a human or group of humans, then there is a large segment of the population that will turn their noses up, and only listen to live music, where it is apparent that the music is performed by humans.

The rest of the audience, meh, if they want to hear meaning in music composed by machines, that's their prerogative I suppose. Most people I know who actually play instruments or sing are appalled by the idea, or at best, slightly bemused.

I will assert, those who have never stepped away from their computer keyboard long enough to have taken a deep breath, stood in front of a microphone, plucked an electric guitar at high volume or smashed drum skins with sticks in front of a live audience of 100 to 1000 cheering people may just be incapable of understanding this. The feeling in the air can be electric.

Humans connecting with other humans through the creation and reception of music will never be correctly emulated or simulated through silicon, no matter how good the facsimile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli