skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I personally find ideas such as these are far better for world's ultra-poor then raising the price of energy thru carbon taxes, as pretty much the only way people can move into a significantly better living situation is thru the use of energy.

"Carbon tax hurts the poor" is oil industry propaganda. The poor use less carbon than average -- especially the "ultra poor" -- but everyone receives the same dividend. It's a net transfer to the poor.

On top of that, the underlying cost (after accounting for tax, subsidies and regulations) for oil in poorer countries is higher than in richer countries because they have worse infrastructure for delivering fuel. You can put solar panels and batteries on a shack in the middle of a field and have electricity for decades. To do that with a gas generator you need gas stations, vehicles to deliver it, roads to drive them on etc. They don't have those things, and won't get them overnight, but meanwhile you can give them electricity today and they immediately get running water and electric light and wireless telecommunications etc. So oil is garbage for them and they're better off never burning a drop of it while the people who do are paying a carbon tax that funds a dividend they can use to buy solar panels.
I'm not sure how much ifrastructure is really needed most places.

Could we just use existing roads, and try to replace every 30 cars on the road with a bus?
> But saying that is taboo

Still depends in which circles, but I have an impression it's getting better. Might be the bubble effect though, unsure, but before a couple of years I didn't hear it as much and there definitely weren't small local organizations dedicated to saying it and pushing it on the political agenda. On the other hand, it might be a problem which solves itself (higher lifestyle, less children) but I'm not to sure when or if that is really going to happen.
I think you mean the RockPro64. The Rock64 only has 4 cores and no PCIe.

That being said, I missed the PCIe on the specs last time I was comparing SOCs and I had forgotten about hackerboards, thanks for the reminder!
There are some rules concerning security cameras as well. I recently found out that private CCTV (at least in the UK) can't record public areas (e.g only your porch). Someone got sued over this recently.

There have been some stories in HN about opting out of face recognition as well. Maybe the laws for video are different as the other reply says, but there are privacy concerns in there as well.

edit: here's a list of GDPR fines (not comprehensive as I only see 2 in the UK). If you filter by CCTV you'll find a couple of examples from Austria:
http://enforcementtracker.com/
Well I can back it up here in Australia, too. My car had its wheels stolen while I was asleep. The cops did nothing other than give me a number for the insurance company (despite the wheels being worth $4000 total).

Funnily, I got them back a few months later. $1.5 million in car parts was found at a warehouse and the thieves were arrested — so I guess it’s not all bad news. My wheels were incidental to the police however.
That means you have a notification: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7073219?hl=en
A lot of people use portable devices such as laptops or phones: they do care when your website makes their battery last an hour less.
Sure, there are things beyond absolute performance that can attract viewers. I would rather go to my son’s T-Ball game than the World Series.
I think the responses to this can be broken down into a 2x2 matrix: level of concern vs. understanding of technology.

1) Don't understand ML; not concerned - "I have nothing to hide."

2) Don't understand ML; concerned - "I bought this device and now people are spying on me!"

3) Understand ML; not concerned - "Of course, Google needs to label its training data."

4) Understand ML; concerned - "How can we train models/collect data in an ethical way?"

To me, category 3 is the most dangerous. Tech workers have a responsibility not just understand the technologies that they work with, but also educate themselves on the societal implications of those technologies. And as others have pointed out, this extends beyond home speakers to any voice-enabled device in general.

In conversations about this with engineers the response I've gotten is essentially: "Just trust that we [Google/Amazon/etc.] handle the data correctly." This is worrying.
1) We are not talking about private conversations. We are talking about interactions between the device and its user.

2) Barring some horrible accident or deformity, the person probably has a face.
It is still slightly creepy because of which humans are doing it. Is there any reason that these systems can't ask the users themselves about the accuracy of the speech to text conversion? Not everyone would do it but a percentage would.
If we had an adequate bus system, I think you could still visit Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day.
To me, it looked more like Rust's move semantics: in Rust, when an object is moved it's "consumed" and cannot be used anymore. The borrow checker is for when the object is not "consumed", only temporarily borrowed by some other code.
> If you want JavaScript's behavior around failure, you make the final value a Result, it's not built-in.

Fun bit history: the first pass at Futures did return an error type explicitly: https://docs.rs/futures/0.1.28/futures/future/trait.Future.h.... IIUC the idea was that Futures were for performing I/O which is effectively always fallible. I assume that it's an easy design decision to make looking at all of the other languages with similar designs. I'm very glad Rust has nicely orthogonal "deferred"/"fallible" types now.
They will if car taxes increase.

And if ridership increases enough, then bus commute times will be reduced a great deal.
wait for the global warming to unroll...
Proof of George Andrews’s and David Robbins’s Q-TSPP Conjecture
Of course you can. That's pretty much the whole point of the article. You live in a suburb and have to drive 30 minutes because America decided decades ago that sprawl was preferable to dense urban cores. American decided 3000sqft McMansions on 1/2 acre lots was preferable to 1000sqft flats in the city. And that spending billions on road infrastructure and subsidized parking was a fair trade-off for that personal space.
Actually higher insurance premiums stick around alot longer these days or indefinitely. Costs of everything has gone up.
Even then, the voice print of someone is obviously ID-able right?
I suggest using the 16 x 12,5 Gbps serdes links of the MPF300 Polarfire FPGA ($159 if you desolder one from a development board) at 5 Gbps speeds to interconnect 16 RPi4. You have 64 ARM cores and 300 softcores on the FPGA with 264 Gbps theoretical bandwidth and 64, 256 to 512 GB of DDR3.
Around $719 for the RPI+FPGA for 364 cores 64 GB, more for the extra DRAM. You can add GPU cards of course.
If you make a 4-6 layer PCB, you could attach the 16 x 1G and HDMI to the FPGA as well for even more interconnect bandwitdh. Email me for the details or collaborating on building it.
If I became a billionaire I would mine, crush and spread olivine rocks in the ocean:

http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli...

Weathering is exactly how the earth brought itself back into equilibrium over millions of years after the mass extinction events. We just have to advance that process dramatically, and specifically target beaches and critical places in the ocean where ocean acidification would devastate ecosystems.

Edit: Also this is an affordable plan. It costs about $12 per metric ton of carbon removed compared to other carbon sequestration technologies which usually cost $100+/ton.
What is blogger and how you can create a blogger blog?
(IANAL, but) Not accurate in the US.

Most states are either one party or two party consent states. One party = you can unilaterally record anything (not sure this includes things you're not actively involved with, e.g. spying). Two party = you must have consent of everyone in the recording.

By a plain reading of two party consent statutes, people are in violation if their home speaker records a guest without obtaining consent.

I'm sure Google and Amazon's lawyers would try to weasel out of compliance via claimed anonymization, but that's definitely not the spirit of the law.

Old, but thorough: http://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LAWS-ON-RE...

You're also going to bump up into specific wording on whether a given statute covers only telephone conversations or oral conversations, as most of these are phone wiretap laws that may or may not have been worked ambiguously.

Additionally, there are federal statutes that likely also bear.
> Repopulating the form on the server side
> after validation failure is trivial

You'd think so, but the number of sites out there that still require me to re-type the full form because one field failed validation is mind-boggling.
It's somewhat common for plane sellers, like Cirrus, to allow purchase of the plane then do their primary training in it and in the process getting all necessary endorsements.

One of my flight instructors had a friend/business associate that bought a Kodiak @ Oshkosh after only having flown 182s. The insurance requirements were insane of course. Also, know a guy with 70 hours who bought a Lancair with a 330hp engine. In flying it seems more readily to be a case of if you can afford it, you can do it.

I was in a Mooney @ 120 hours. I just did a lot of extra training--EMT, Tailwheel endorsement, Instrument & commercial rating in it when I had the hours.
Hey Google, listen to me say “niggers” again and again.
Here are some starting points -- not necessarily the latest/best refs but should do:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/LearningAboutTheFSAFEStackSua...

https://websharper.com/

https://github.com/kunjee17/awesome-fable
https://fsbolero.io/
https://medium.com/fuzzycloud/current-state-of-web-programmi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCRYBivH9BM

https://elmish.github.io/#docs
The plane crash is older than I've been alive, as I understand it he made a reasonable recovery?
I wonder how people felt about handing all their personal photos over to a stranger just so they can get developed and printed, back in the 1990s. By today's standards, that would be incredibly creepy. But everyone did it because... having photos is pretty awesome.

It would be nice if companies like Google made it very clear that specific forms of user-data can/will be human reviewed for development/operational purposes. Personally, I just assume that anything I say after activating a digital assistant will be anonymized but listened to by a human one day. And I still think that Digital Home Assistants are pretty awesome despite that.
AppleSoft (MS) BASIC came out very early in Apple II lifecycle, and prior to that there would have been no reason to call the original BASIC anything other than BASIC. Afterwards, of course, all the documentation and commands were updated.

Woz originally called it "Game BASIC", some history at this page:
http://woz.org/letters/apple-basic/
Another option is to use the standard 64 bit ABI, but store object pointers compressed into 32 bits when on the heap. This lets you address perhaps 32 GB in a 32 bit value.
What makes submitting a plaintext password in an Auth header worse than submitting a plaintext password in a POST body?
how would you reproduce a bug otherwise
http://rockpi.org/ :)
Hah, nearly obliterated some teenager that decided to cross in the middle of the street and in front of a large truck. The light was green and my lane completely empty and it was a 55 mph road and I didn't have a need to slowdown. Until she darted out from in front of the truck and nearly died, there was no way to see her early because of the truck AND no way to expect someone would be so retarded on a 55 mph road NOT to use the crosswalks.
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Ok, thanks for bringing precision to my comment. It makes sense that any photons reaching an observer who is inside a BH event horizon must also already be trapped inside the EH.

I think what I find confusing is that I thought outside observers would never see the infalling observer reach or cross the EH due to time dilation.

I’ve read that an observer falling into a black hole would notice extreme time compression in the external universe (observing millions or billions of years pass in the external reference frame), and conversely external observers would notice extreme time dilation of people and redshifting of photons falling into the black hole. Infalling particles from their external perspective appear frozen and smeared into a blur outside the EH, fading away but never optically appearing to “enter” into the BH, even though physically these particles indeed have/will.

So I think I had it backwards, the external observers would see infalling objects redshift, and those falling in would see the universe blueshift (I guess getting fried by high energy photons before being torn up by tidal forces).
This is my feeling too. I feel that even the scientists doing these studies are not considering all of the positive feedback loops. If we could somehow account for everything we’d see that we are already past the point of no return and things are going to change for the worse much faster than anticipated.
> I remember that many years ago Opera could handle tens of tabs with 512 Mb of memory and not get swapped out.

Tabs back then weren't full page SPAs, though.
The devices have a mute switch and can be configured to beep when they begin recording. Really this is just a bunch of fear mongering going on.
From a strict legal perspective, isn’t this a derivative work of the book?
If a Pi is capable of this already, why not replace the Ethernet, charging, micro-HDMI, and USB ports with a boatload of type-C Thunderbolt ports (plus support for the HDMI 1.4 alt mode)? Would 8xUSB-C cost that much more than 1xUSB-C+1xEthernet+2xMicro-HDMI+2xUSB3+2xUSB2 (with no PCI Express), in exchange for a considerably more flexible device?
I don't disagree. Heck, all of the websites I maintain for work require JS (although to be fair I also control the requirements for users: the latest version of Firefox or Chrome). I do wish the cost of requiring JavaScript was higher, though.
Maybe if you get you training data by some very different source than your real data comes from, it won't be representative and won't work very well?
1. Spiders are not insects. In fact, from my experience, a lot of proper insecticides don't do squat to spiders. The toxicity pathways are simply different between insects and spiders, I guess.

2. I actually like ants, unless you're talking about the really nasty ones like army ants or red fire ants. I don't mind them in my house, stealing my food; I just don't want to accidentally kill them. Some people raise them in formicariums (like aquariums, but for ants). I used to have a formicarium when I was in Canada, but have been having trouble trying to start a Carebara affinis or Carebara diversa colony in Hong Kong. Ants, like a lot of other apocrita, are actually quite "hygiene-conscient", almost to the point of OCD. Ants are also pollinators and scavengers that clean up the ground by carrying whatever they can eat into their nests. I have never heard about ants being vectors of human-affecting diseases.

TL;DR: Try not to kill the ants.
To be fair, this started pretty much with the either first stone axe or the first field of wheat. "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari is a great read. Where we are now, just about to go over the edge, is perhaps inevitable; it is actually the direct result of technology, as it has always been employed for greater environmental exploitation and leads to population increase. Growth.
There was an article a while back (I can't find) where a US police department joked about the same to save the city money.

There was an article a while back (I can't find) where San Francisco's transit agency (SFMTA) joked about the same to save the city money.

It probably makes sense... a fatality pay out is $2M (using FAA standards). Long term medical care in the US? Easily over that...
Apparently desert sand is no good for making concrete, because it's been smoothed and rounded by the wind. I'm guessing moon sand wouldn't have such a problem. Although you'd have to solve the problem of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. How practical are space elevators?
There's one possibility that explains it: that the probability of a genetic code evolving naturally is really, really, really low. Like, less likely to happen than once per universe. Then, once this barrier is attained, other forms of evolution occur more readily. As we don't know the mechanisms for how it happens, it's a possibility. The anthropic principle allows for it, but it likely requires multiverse theory and/or infinite universes coming and going over time. There's just no consciousness in all the infinite universes where it never occurred, so there's no one there wondering why there's no life.
2.5 GHz, actually. Obviously there's limitations and you have to be careful, but it's not too crazy to think you could use a piece of USB3 cabling to do this. Requires some pretty precise soldering skills though.
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For some people risk isn't something to be avoided at all costs. It's a challenge to overcome. It's the same principal when you watch an amazing ski jump, musician, or gymnastics routine--taming the chaos.

This is a fundamental drive in many people that calls on something innate.
I think that even the idea of climate change turns many people off. It's likely not a binary choice, but altruism and egoism play a role in people's opinions about big issues. Whether it's imagination or experience, the altruists believe in something in addition to a sense of self that overrides repugnance or disgust to situations which lack an obvious means of individual control or guaranteed end results.
The main article was talking about login forms, posting comments, and other simple use cases.
No doubt you can find contemporary journalists saying "wasteful in this depression!" if you look. And probably others saying "wasteful!" in every decade... how can we tell whether this was the reason?

I know stunts with WWI surplus airplanes were a common attraction in the 20s, maybe trains just started to seem old-fashioned?

Movies also sounds likely, to me, they were coming of age. In fact IIRC booming, as cheap entertainment.
if i wanted to go somewhere i planned ahead (most of the time). LA wasn't half bad in that regard. it has busses going on all major streets east-west and north-south. for many places i wanted to go to, a single transfer was enough. for example: go east first to the street that you want to reach, then transfer and go south.

i don't remember ever to having had to take a taxi. i got a few rides, but then it was friends who went to the same place anyways (like a linux user group meetup)
I wouldn't install it for my family either, but I wouldn't do that with Linux either. It can be fine for chromebook-like usage, but not as the usual desktop.
That's a great news! Thank you.
How is it possible that we don't have mandatory driving tests once you reach certain ages, ie 80, 85, 95+? I just heard the other week that my friend's great-great grandma (98 years old) is still driving. If someone that old can still drive safely, good for them, but there should be a mandatory test to check that.
tyranny is other people
Facebook Plans to Launch a Security Token for Investors
Putting shirts directly onto the board creates heating issues
> only a small fraction are sufficiently intelligent

Eugenics for the win...
> How cities are built and what transport infrastructure they're built around.

Context is important.

The population of cities has grown. For example, the Chicago metro area has 70% more people now than in 1950. Population growth has impacted car ownership and use. We shouldn't use today's context against the past. Things were different and that's worth considering.

Urban areas are about 3% of the US physical space. The design of transportation for dense cities (and they are getting denser) is different from that of suburban or rural spaces. There is no one size fits all.
I find the term "citizen scientist" really annoying. Either you are a scientist or you aren't. If you do science you are a scientist. Point. No need to add any other adjetive. Science should not act like a club with first class and second class members.
This is the choice that lots of system designers have to make, "low apparent write latency" vs "maximum data at risk of power loss". If there's a database on the Pi you're going to be upset if you call fsync() and it doesn't actually do the writes.
I was aware of this in the abstract before I had kids. Now that I have them, it can be really terrifying. We go for walks even in places with big wide sidewalks and they are oblivious, they would jump out in the street at just about any moment if we weren’t holding hands and teaching them constantly to be afraid of cars.

It’s really sad. Kids nature is to want to run around and burn off energy, and right outside our door it’s safe for adults to do that, but it’s still not safe for young children because you still have to stay in the limited pedestrian zone and carefully cross streets.

I’ve wondered a lot about trying to build a car-free neighborhood with a commuter bus to downtown. I wish that existed, I’d move there.
Thanks. On my work computer it is under options instead of preferences, but otherwise the same.
Anaesthetic Devices 'Vulnerable to Hackers'
Figure out how to run your business unit ethically or shut down the business unit. They don’t have the right to turn their transfer learning problem into an abusive privacy policy.
I'm using the term "borrow checker" to encompass Rust's whole memory model, but yes: this only seems to provide information about when something's been "moved" (or "dropped") rather than "borrowed" in the temporary sense.
> they're always listening in exactly the same fashion. This is how always-on "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google" works

Afaik it is not, actually. The devices are taught to recognize the wakeup words (like "ok google") completely offline, and only the stuff recorded afterwards gets uploaded to the cloud of contractors.
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What makes it better than USB for this purpose?