skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a RadioLab episode[0] that talked about using small planes to do similar things. Planes that were flying at high up so you won't hear or really notice them. They go through how they solved a crime in Mexico by tracing where the crime happened and stepping pictures back to find where the shooter originated from. The CIA and FBI have been doing this for a long time too. Its use is just getting more wide spread.

Then I want people to consider Planet [1](formally Planet Labs). Their goal is to get a picture of Earth every day. They currently have 14 satellites that get 0.72m resolution (sample)[2]. That's easily enough to see a car. The 3m[3] seems good enough to do what they describe in the RadioLab episode. Honestly it is only a matter of time before Planet or another company gets sub 100cm resolution AND has a constant view of the globe. While this product is transformative in many different ways and can do a lot of good for humanity (seriously, it can do a LOT of good) I have ZERO doubt that it will be used to track people. It really isn't a matter of inventing technology, it is a matter of how much to spend (inventing more will make it cheaper).

So I think we should think very carefully about this technology. I'm extremely concerned with privacy but at the same time I do not think we should prevent the march of innovation (even if you really could). But we've seen how it has been used. We see how it IS being used. But I want people to also think how it WILL be used as technology gets better. This isn't a conversation for tomorrow. We do have to think about it now and decide how we want to handle these things. I'm not entirely sure how it should be handled. But the idea that the US, Russia, China, or even NK could have access to constant monitoring of the entire planet is a scary idea and well past Orwellian. I think we're far from a constant monitoring being feasible, but we're at least close enough where the idea is realistic (where it isn't sci-fi anymore).

Side note: I wonder how much more difficult it would be to be a spy if this technology existed.

[0] https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wnycs-radiolab/e/eye-in-the...

[1] https://www.planet.com/products/planet-imagery/

[2] https://www.planet.com/assets/images/products/imagery/skysat...

[3] https://www.planet.com/assets/images/products/imagery/planet...
> In the past, we’ve indicated 2020 as a likely introduction date for Raspberry Pi 4. We budgeted time for four silicon revisions of BCM2711 (A0, B0, C0, and C1); in comparison, we ship BCM2835C2 (the fifth revision of that design) on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero.

> Fortunately, 2711B0 has turned out to be production-ready, which has taken roughly 9–12 months out of the schedule.
No normal sized HDMI sucks, I don't want to buy another adapter, aside from that this looks really cool, can't wait to get one
There are two specific concerns:

1) Copyright
2) Terms of service.

If doing hobby/education projects and not publishing what you create, copyright isn't really relevant.

As for violating terms of service (which is very likely), that's not "illegal", it just opens you up to being sued. Which is very unlikely, if no one is making money out of it, or hurting the service itself.
Damn I remember back when the TK1 was the new kid on the block. The nano looks awesome, I'm gonna have to get my hands on one of these!
It now supports Bluetooth 5.0

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/...

> 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
This seems to imply that Amazon is literally the only place that you can buy these glasses. Has it got that bad?
Looks that way. And it got two USB 3.0 ports. And up to 4GB of RAM (there are now multiple options). Hello new home file server, I think.
Does anybody know if the ethernet controller supports PXE boot?
As someone in your spot (solicited by ~10 or so people in the past couple years), this is an interesting response.

On first blush, it seems to set an adversarial tone rather than a collaborative one. On the other hand, it's good due diligence and probably filters out the serious from the not so serious.

I mostly agree with your response. I think the only place where it may not work is when the person wants a thought partner to help think through these things. There isn't always a strict dichotomy of duties in the framing of a venture - I think all partners should be involved in that. Different story when it comes to execution, though.
> Contrary to how you believe the site operates, they private messaged me.

Who is "they"? What comments/posts was it in reference to?
The Gallop data posted by jswizzy is correct. Pew Research is mostly saying the same thing: https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB

There is a sort of relativity here, and you are a moving frame of reference. When you see everybody but you going right, it's actually you going left. If you could travel back in time to discuss politics with your former self, both of you would probably get offended.
Sadly, not the first time this has happened - Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest for PDF cracking was the incident which motivated me into digital civil rights campaigning, and more recently Gary McKinnon's long fight against extradition for ""hacking the Pentagon"". Or the FBI raid on Megaupload in New Zealand.
I've also seen it used as dumb clients for POS-like things.

Imagine the screens technicians at the lube center you get your oil changed at use to lookup your information.
I will be happy with $3000 / month
That doesn't follow. Firstly, I don't think I've seen any other SBC vendor fail to publish full schematics. This is a peculiarity of rpi's offering.

Secondly, nobody is forcing them to add DRM chips to anything. That's not something that can be written off on "a contractual obligation made me do it." They did it of their own will.
From a product quality point of view, they have long peaked. From a customer service point of view, I've yet to see something better in the consumer space.
Thanks for this... I've done some double blind audiophile equipment testing and it's important to have a source to send folks to before and after.
Con for me is still SD storage :-(
At least now an SSD over USB3 should be reasonably fast
Of course they can. The US has happily wielded international unaccountable power like this for years. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case
Chicken is also an interpreter.
But one of the major copyright justifications is in fact based on the cost of copying. Specifically, that if copying is cheap and quick, then copiers will be able to get their copies into circulation before the creator can recoup their costs of creation. Creators have higher expenses than mere copiers, and competition among copiers should drive the cost of a copy down to near the marginal cost of copying.

Technological changes that lower the cost of copying and make it faster to copy make the case stronger, not weaker, for copyright under that justification.

> in any case I think about it "from the other direction" (so to say). I start from the fact that digital copying is so increadiby cheap/easy that we should take advantange of this technological ability instead of trying to diminish it because of "the market's business interests"

Copyright under the cost of copying type of justification is based on artificially giving things like music recording the same attributes as physical goods, so that the free market can determine what new works should be produced. This trade-off with this is that this does mean that the price of a recording to the consumer is higher than it should be (which is close to the marginal cost of making a copy).

There's no reason we have to try to make the free market handle deciding what gets produced. By giving that up, we can make the cost to consumers near zero like you want, but we then do have to come up with a different way to decide what gets produced and how that is paid for.
> In the past, we’ve indicated 2020 as a likely introduction date for Raspberry Pi 4. We budgeted time for four silicon revisions of BCM2711 (A0, B0, C0, and C1); in comparison, we ship BCM2835C2 (the fifth revision of that design) on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero.

> Fortunately, 2711B0 has turned out to be production-ready, which has taken roughly 9–12 months out of the schedule.

According to their article they finished after 2 revisions rather than the predicted 4-5.
By which point they'll run the money supply as well. Surely the introduction of Libra may make a proper Amazon-coin more palatable? They must have teams and teams watching this with eagle eyes..
My iterator is returning a reference to a reference
> If you hack and then publish embarrassing material to the whole world it's a public service.

By that definition, hacking a celebrity's iCloud account and leaking their nudes is a public service. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
1) They make a low cost computer where they've put significant work into making it more open software wise.

Their revenue stream is through the sale of their hardware, why do they need to allow people to make clones?

2) Maybe it's to do with the terms in which they get the camera module?

I don't know but I don't see them selling the camera as interoperable.

Your comment just seems to exemplify the phrase:

"No good deed goes unpunished"

They do something good but freeloaders just turn up and demand more.
My point, and I realise it wasn’t very explicit, was that even if you put up a very concrete requirement like being able to lift 200 lbs, a certain kind of person will still argue that this is discrimination because mostly men will be able to meet the requirement.

It sounds like OP was arguing along those lines in her last paragraph.

But that’s untenable, if we consider that discrimination then we can’t advertise for people with skills in anything related to IT since 9 out 10 people with the skill will be men, yet it’s quite reasonable to want your web developer to know Javascript.
opened box with broken/missing or fake first hand items? Never happened to me, now if you are talking about second hand items I never bought any so I can't talk about that.
C'mon, a mini-hdmi<->hdmi cable is 50kr ($5), surely you can just buy one and be done with it, no adapter needed.

https://www.netonnet.se/art/ljud-och-bild/kablar/hdmi-kablar...
it seems to be the soc limit. I've only seen more than 4gb on custom arm server boards.
7/10 garbage??? Are you not receiving the items you ordered? Or are you ordering the lowest-priced items and expecting premium product?

We have two couples living in our house and receive 5-15 Amazon packages a week and have never had a single "OMG this is counterfeit/fake/literal garbage" moment. And all of us LOVE to complain about any opportunity that has a sliver of a chance at a discount. Meanwhile, I have read numerous HN accounts of "OMG, Amazon is always sending me counterfeit/fake stuff"

At this point, I'm honestly thinking there are troll(s) on HN bashing Amazon. Also, the returns are EASY, so... What gives? I hate that Amazon is TBTF and Bezos controls more resources than some Nations, but the facts for me are: Amazon delivers what I want very quickly at reasonable prices. They often have items that I literally cannot buy locally. I wish I could always support my local people, but often as not, Amazon does a better job with less friction.

Seriously? 7\10?? You buy 10 widgets and (want to) return 7 of them? I'm just going to say this now: you are either pulling numbers out of your ass (on a technical-loving web site) or you are outright lying.
How to make the banana tree soon bear fruit
The full specs and benchmark link: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-4-specs-bench...
Yes, most eggs. I just checked and 44% are intensively farmed(not free range). Generally most use in processed food and catering will be of a lesser quality standard. Funnily enough the environmental impact is usually less for intensively farmed food.
> 4K!

I'm very excited about these upgrades too (especially GigE), but as far as I can tell nothing on this news page specifies whether the Pi will also support HDR output as part of the 4K upgrade. That's most of the practical benefit of 4K - that 4K releases tend to come with HDR10 or DolbyVision support.

Anyone know if we can expect HDR output to work? If I knew it supported that I'd be purchasing one right now to upgrade my media center from my current Pi 3 setup.

Even the tech specs page says nothing about 10bit decoding, which is required for most real world 4K HEVC video.

> H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/...
Desktop performance my behind. What's the point of all that CPU power when IO performance remains in mid 2000s territory? It takes forever to boot, any time disk access occurs everything crawls to a halt. M.2 has been around for 5+ years now and would have easily fit on this design in its short length form factor.

No datasheet for the SoC either. Again.

There are vastly better SBCs out there.
Thanks, didn't know about that. Will have to look into it.
OK, bottled water of any sort is a different issue. I don't use it much myself but could it just be a generational thing? Old people carried their own water bottle so they don't see the point. Young people may be accustomed to the convenience.
Btw isn’t tech-native just shorthand for “good with social media”? Then why not use that term?
"on the government".

Regardless, hacking a celebrity's icloud account and releasing the images is still more journalism than it espionage.
The greatest mistake fb made.. First ever user algorithm. Sign up now
> Can those people go get free degrees too?

The article says yes.
Iran Says 33M Cyber Attacks Thwarted in Past Year
Other SBC makers don't have an issue offering full schematics, yet, due to their smaller size, have relatively more to lose from being cloned. Moreover, I hope nobody believes that a lack of full schematics is going to stop people from making clones. Schematics can be reversed with not too much effort. Due to their large audience and brand recognition, rpi actually has less to fear from clones than smaller SBC vendors.

If anything, it seems like they've judged that their large size and brand recognition is something that they can coast on to avoid having to offer what other SBC vendors do.

I'm not complaining about rpi existing, I'm pointing out that what they offer is in certain aspects inferior to the offerings of smaller SBC vendors, which is actually surprising, given that their large size should make them much better resourced to match or exceed the offerings of those vendors. This causes me to question whether these values are actually a priority at all, even if they claim so.
The aftermarket car performance business
Tip Your Hotel Maid
Is there any way to go back to 'full' view after clicking on something? I clicked on a picture and can't for the life of me work out how to go back.
> There are vastly better SBCs out there.

Can you provide some examples please?

Always keen to try out any alternatives
So technically the website "let me Google that for you" could also be liable?
While delegation involved indirection, indirection does not necessarily mean delegation.

As other people have voiced, there are concerns about following the plot.

I think it’s a bit like writing. I can paint a clear picture in your head or I can torture you slowly while relating the same four basic facts. While I have achieved the task in both you may not wish to work with me long if I only ever achieve the latter.
> by enforcing the rules upon others?

Yes. If the police do not enforce rules upon others, the rules may as well not exist. If the police selectively selectively enforce the rules upon others, that gives them vastly more power, not less.

> We need to progress further, and to prove to our lawmakers that there's enough of people interested in making a difference, some of which are willing to sacrifice their own good for the good of the society

This is a tangential point. I agree with it, but it isn’t related to the fact that police officers can quite often (I assume even mostly) have an interest more like stopping robbers, thugs, vandals, etc. — you know, the stereotypes that people have of law enforcement.
full specs anywhere?

- VideoCore VI graphics, supporting OpenGL ES 3.x - including 3.2? GFLOPS?

Does it support Android, Play Store etc?
Depending on the purpose, for example if somebody just wants a compact home cloud, the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/

- Half the RAM but double the cores. I'm waiting for some benchmarks to see if the RPi4 is faster and by how much.

- Also Gigabit Ethernet and it works great. My downloads are always at 108-111MB/s for the whole transfer.

- Not USB 3.0 but has "oldschool" SATA through an internal USB-2-SATA adapter. It's at least more compact, otherwise the RPi4 with an external USB 3.0 drive will probably work even better.

- works with a normal 12V power supply, which could be lying around already, from older external drives.

Not to disrespect the RPi4, as I'll be getting one of them too very soon.
How about a RAMDisk?

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/08/give-your-raspberry-pi-sd-ca...
> There are vastly better SBCs out there.

Which ones would you recommend for this price?
I'm cannot determine if the HEVC hardware decoding is full 10bit or only 8bit. A lot of SDR content is encoded in 10 bit for the space savings (or so I've read).
I wish there were some improvements in the I/O aspect of the board. Having tried to use an RPi for a small automation project, I felt limited by the single ADC input and single PWM output. I was faced with using an Arduino daughter board to do the actual IO or going with a BeagleBoard.
Network booting is supported. I don't know if the architecture is similar enough to the x86 bios loading network card option roms that one could say the "ethernet controller supports" it. Booting on ARM is different.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
RPI would be awesome for NAS if you could connect SATA somehow
Did you know you can die from drinking too much water?

Take care pursuing things for their own sake and not for a reason (I suspect you do but impressionable people are reading along with us).
Depends on the country. Germany for example doesnt allow the extradition of German citizens outside the EU unless its to the international court of justice. Before the European arrest warrant it was completely unconstitutional to extradite any German citizen to anywhere. You instead get put on trial in Germany.
I have a 10tb external hooked to my routers usb 2 port and have always been looking for something better. This looks like it.
Isnt this just 'good coding practices'? How is 'Avoid Indirection in Code' justified?
> Think back to when the Chrome/ium team decided to hide
> 'www' and 'm' from URLs and had to roll back that decision
> pretty quickly. I cannot find the post where an engineer
> indicated that in their internal discussions this seemed
> like a good idea.

Wasn't it Apple who started with this? I seem to recall seeing their web browser only showing the main domain of the website.
Click on it again.
Counter hypothesis because I can’t be bothered to research it fully:

Pi: “Hello we wish to buy a $thing”

Vendor: “Certainly. We sell $thing for ten dollars per unit if it doesn’t have DRM, or five dollars per unit if it does.”
Agreed, although I think the example isn't too bad. I often see such "helper methods" - usually in a class called "utils" or "misc" - when (novice) programmers "try to plan ahead": how should I write this so it can be re-used?

But KISS is remains a good principle. Predicting the future is hard. If in doubt, don't put in the extra indirection/abstraction. If/when the next person needs that functionality, they can refactor it - and the simpler/more straightforward the code, the easier it is to refactor!

When the logic is already split over multiple methods, refactoring in a different direction becomes harder. Often, it's enough to verify there's only one caller, and then stuff it back into one method before refactoring. Still, more annoying than if they hadn't of overthought it.
Yes, it is very unsemantic. The front is made of tables of tables of tables with lots of deprecated tags and most of the styling is made in the html file instead of a stylesheet :-D. We copied the original HN/DataTau frontend with little changes. In the future, we would like to improve it, keeping the HN simple / old fashioned front
Yes, there are adaptors, but it won't fit with the same loopback HDMI board that's included with the screen. It'll need a wire, which effectively doubles the space it'll take up on a desk.

If there are any other high-res small (<= 4") screens, please let me know - the highest DPI that I know is an iPhone 4S 960x640 3.5" screen with a Creotech adaptor.
yes. rpi3 could do it, 2 with bootloader on sd card.
All? What about that nasty SD card?
While you still need tests with an expressive type system you can basically cut the code coverage to a fraction.

Where on earth do you get the idea that static typing lets you cut the code coverage to a fraction? I am going to need specific examples to believe this claim.
I'd say it is possibly if there are no consequences to the decision, and the condemned prisoner has trust in that situation. It's hard to construct such a scenario.

I am completely against the death penalty, in all circumstances.

I still believe that the allegations against China made here are orders of magnitude worse than "just" harvesting organs from executed donors. That would be mainly a violation of the victims post-mortem rights or dignity.

The alleged practice involves doctors and hospitals cooperating in the preparation and execution of the death penalty. That is a fundamental violation of medical ethics. In the US, doctors are forbidden to participate in executions.

And apparently at least the timing of the executions in China, if not even the decision whether to execute a prisoner or not, seems to be affected by the demand for organs.

It's always hard to make a judgement about what wrong is worse, but I'd say here we have a clear "winner".
This is just completely irrelevant. Quality and popularity are independent concerns.
It may be hard when you have Amazon's business model. Op's point is that the law should not change just to avoid Amazon problems.
We're building https://hercules-ci.com/ and not talking much about purity :)
Tangential, but will increasing temperatures make lands habitable for a um... billion climate refugees? Has there been any research on that? Maldives started saving up for a new homeland in 2008, exploring India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
certainly a good idea for stuff / locations that have regular writes, just be nice to use a more durable boot disk, hopefully booting via USB storage is well supported
"freeloaders just turn up and demand more."

If this were software, this would be a discussion about open source, would you accuse people of forking an open source project of being freeloaders?
If the MAX was designed correctly then MCAS would not be needed in the first place.

Fixing MCAS is fixing the wrong problem.
That city is so poorly planned, I am surprised it is still habitable. I am not exaggerating here. Just read about how the cyclones couple of years ago messed up the livelihood of so many people.
Neat, I really like the raspberry pis.

There are often better specs to buy but not with the same support and community - and that is worth a lot! However I'm not thrilled with the apparent price point of the new ones.

The prices I get are €46,83 – €66,96. Which I guess will settle a bit with time but it is a huge step up from any previous Pi.
The RPI4 w/ 4GB RAM is going to be a very welcomed upgrade in the emulation scene. N64, PS1, Dreamcast and PSP games will run so much smoother.
I hear you, just bought 4 rpi 3 b+ for a k8s cluster last week and this drops today. Urgh.
Anybody think there's an opportunity to bring a VB-like experience to web programming? Could widespread availability of WebAssembly help in that regard?