skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were doing this, there'd be a number of questions to ask yourself before you dumped a lot of money into it:

1. Is there a version of Windows for the RasPi (I think this is true, but it's been a while)?

2. Will Swarm and any other software you'd need for the cluster also run on the RasPi version of Windows?

3. How well does a single instance run on the RasPi?

At that point, assuming #3 looks good - you could take it to the next level. Try two RasPi systems connected via a gigabit switch (cheap 5 port), and see how the performance scales vs a single instance. Then try four RasPi systems.

At that point you should have enough data to determine how well a large render farm would run, compared to your desktop or whatever else you could come up with (would it be cheaper to spin up virtual servers as needed on AWS or similar?).

Also realize that $3500 (approx) will only cover the RasPi systems; you'll need even more money for the power supply(s), cooling fans, switches, networking cables, power cabling, "enclosure" (even if just stacked using standoffs, you should still figure out how much all that will cost), etc. $4500 might be a more realistic figure.

Even so - if it worked, and worked well - that dollar amount might not be that big a deal. Worst case, you could get a HN article out of it (whether as triumph or post-mortem - it would still be an interesting read).
>If it made any difference whatsoever, the Drivers would complain and whine about it relentlessly

While that's a pretty accurate characterisation of pretty much every single pilot that has ever driven in F1, I wonder if they have clauses in the contract saying that they cannot publicly criticise the FIA/F1 organisers about stuff like that.
Why is this even downvoted? One solar flare hit and the Internet takes a massive dive.

I can always work construction, electrical and plumbing lol
No way they could match the situational awareness of a motorcycle rider who's there, moving on the same mechanical medium, following the same vehicle physics as the athletes, ideally even being a former pro cyclist who's experience would not transfer remotely as well to stone piloting as from one kind of bike to another.

And still, moto/cyclist crashes happen and replacing them with drone/cyclist would be worse.
Restated in your terms, then:

I am unable to identify any statement in the preprint where they indicated that they had ethically considered their impact on test subjects. Did I miss a paragraph somewhere, or did they truly have nothing to say about such considerations?
Buy real estate in the northern regions. Make bank in 50 years (assuming you can whether the riots and uprisings).
If they're going to do that much automation, they might as well have the robot put the product in the container.

Which they do. Amazon has both human and robot pickers.
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Well, first, we need to decide if the average person is expected to have to take personal initiative (i.e. over and above what is actually required of them by society / law) in order for this problem to be solved. If that's the situation, we can safely assume a solution won't be forthcoming because, on the whole, most people will not do more than they need to.

If we do need people to step it up, we have to ensure that we're not losing credibility. July has been a cool, wet month where I live, certainly not as warm as last year, so when we get articles saying "IT'S A CLIMATE EMERGENCY, HOTTEST MONTH EVER", and meanwhile I'm sending my kids off to school / daycare with sweatshirts in case the cloud cover sticks around... yeah. I can recognize the data, and I can believe that overall things are hotter, but it's not meshing up with personal experience, and so it makes it bloody difficult to, say, leverage my finances in order to buy an electric car (when my reasonably-efficient gas car is working fine and has decades of useful life left), and so forth.

"Climate emergency" rhetoric is simply going to burn everyone out and get laughed at, even if it's true.

I think we should focus more on changes that don't require individual action over and above the norm. Legislating a new normal is hard, but more productive than voluntary change.
Why must that -- and nothing else -- be the signal they're sending? People have a variety of motivations.

For example, I left my country 20 years ago because I wanted a better future and I had no desire nor conviction to stay and try to make that future happen there. Of those who stayed, most had no other choice. However, there's a non-negligible number of people who stayed despite having opportunities to leave, precisely because they are willing to fight to make things better.
Under the same reasoning, why aren't tax filings and returns automatically made public?
Incredibly touching piece, and an astounding display of expertise and skill by the doctors. I found the photo of Rital and Ritaj holding hands while still conjoined particularly moving. Thanks so much for sharing!
Protesting against x = claiming x is happening. It is a smear campaign.

Didn't Google just discover that they actually paid men less than women? Oopsie.
Okay then, what's the problem with tents ?

By your analogy, the Bigelow iss module is a tent... Yet it went and survived if f... space !
I don't believe anything is going to help.

The average person can make no meaningful difference and even if they could the majority wouldn't. As a whole we just like things too much to inconvenience ourselves and change.

I've done more than 99+% of Americans and recognize it's completely hopeless:

1. Never ever having kids

2. Live in a small apartment

3. Never driven a car

4. Do not take plane flights

5. Eat a plant-based diet

The good thing is that I'll be long dead before things get truly heinous.
> On the other hand there is a large group of "I don't believe humans are a major contributing factor."

I think that group is much smaller than the group of people who don't want to make significant lifestyle changes and are hoping that things won't get bad until after they're dead. Unfortunately there isn't a good way to break that cycle without confronting the problem — just as is the case for anything else where the feedback is substantially delayed. The thing which will probably move the needle on climate change will be insurance skyrocketing or disappearing and governments choosing not to rebuild in high-risk areas, because that will make the risk real enough not to downplay.
I use Apple Maps almost exclusively (Seattle and New York), except when I'm on a bike. Google Maps remains the best I've found for navigation on a bike.
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DDL?
I suspect for every one bot combing records for evidence of corruption (run by a local concerned citizen) there will be thousands of bots run by disinherited Nigerian princes looking for easy marks and for dirt to use for social engineering.

On the balance you will get one corrupt official fired for a whole bunch of people scammed, extorted or otherwise taken advantage of.

Think back to history of spam for example, I recall it reached huge percentages back in the day, before effective measures were introduced. Even now spam traffic is 45% of all email traffic.
With increased progress in robotics there will be even less reasons to send people not just to the moon but even to low Earth orbit. If you downvote, please explain why you disagree.
There's an argument that the "American Voters" who voted in the current administration do not represent the same people who care about the "brain drain" and effects of said drain on tech/STEM in the US. The average Trump voter isn't competing with foreigners for PhD positions.
> I'd imagine a large amount of their top-level hiring is driven by taking minds off of the market, more than optimising their output.

Yes. There are entire teams full of such people.
I tried to put it in but was over character limit.
I am saying that they could use some of their approximately $10^10 yearly profits to pay people better.

How would that cause them to lose money?
There are inspectors, they always start out of Van Ness Station and ride out to the lines they are checking for the day, then back out Van Ness. Statistically, you are most likely to get checked at that station as a result.
They at least let you choose which one to use for directions. Apple Maps is the default as far as I can tell, but if you go to the settings page on DDG [1] and scroll down to Directions Source, you can change to Bing, Google, HERE, and OpenStreetMap. However, this only affects what it directs you to when you click "Get Directions" and you can't change the actual map source that's embedded or used for location results, although I believe they used to let you change that. It's a bummer that it was changed and that their Help page still refers to that feature [2].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/settings

[2] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/m...
I'd like to hear HNs opinions on carbon offsetting. Do any of you regularly purchase offsets voluntarily? If not, what would it take to convince you that offsetting your flights, vacation, or monthly lifestyle is a worthwhile expense?

Recently there was an article that topped both HN and Reddit, saying something like "planting 1T trees could be a cheap solution to climate change". It seemed like people at found the idea attractive, for whatever reason.

Yet I've hardly ever seen any mention of offsetting... a big segment of the voluntary offset market is certified forest restoration and protection.

Would love to hear more opinions on this.

Disclosure-- I am working on launching a company that aims to drive the purchase of offsets.
> in the middle of the open space.

There's your problem. You work in a bullpen. Dogs are one of many triggers for problems in bullpens.
> Is the data a lot more precise?

Perhaps in Apple's own backyard. In the Netherlands it's laughably bad. Cycle tracks? Mostly missing (in a country that has a huge cycling infrastructure). The map doesn't even have building outlines.

Google Maps is slightly better, but mostly because of the more extensive mapping of points-of-interest; because business owners add their own information with an almost religious zeal.

Bing interestingly enough uses OpenStreetMap (and properly attributes its usage) to gain access to the municipally contributed building outlines OpenStreetMap can use due to its permissive licence. The roads are their own though, and they are quite inaccurate at the lower end of the road hierarchy.

OpenStreetMap is probably the most complete map here in the Netherlands (disclaimer: I contribute to OpenStreetMap).

DuckDuckGo using Apple Maps instead of OpenStreetMap is a really weird choice for many countries, but perhaps it works better in the US?
>When a country like India lacks drinking water a huge mass of people will be on the move.

Not just India,"Two million in Zimbabwe’s capital have no water as city turns off taps" https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/07/15/two-million-zim...
Does it really matter anymore? Not to sound too fatalistic, but are people going to change? Unless people's houses are catching fire and there are food shortages in industrialized countries, there is going to be little or no change.
Go to the ncap website and find out, then... That is if you're really interested by it
That looks more like it has to do with query detection than the lack of results. It clearly didn’t understand the Hong Kong part, which is the main issue.
Pretty much all physics papers/manuscripts are first available on the arXiv server, while the authors are waiting for the journal peer review process, which takes several months, to go through. That's how physicists have worked for over 20 years already.

You could take any physics paper/manuscript in its pre peer review state, and criticize it for not being peer reviewed.
I have. I compared contemporary Truecrypt and Bitcoin sources. They don't show any obvious sign of being written by the same person. If anything I'd say Paul Le Roux is a better programmer than Satoshi.
Why do you think so? Do you have a source of any of her supervisors saying that?
This is clearly false hyperbole.
We are using Google's related Cloud Run product to do this and have found that, like Cloud Functions, these serverless offerings are a fantastic way to evaluate models in production.

We prefer Cloud Run because it allows us to use docker containers rather than language-specific APIs. We are already using containers for developing and training these models, so it fits nicely in to our workflow.
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I'm working on developing a programming course for teenage students from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, some of whom will not have access to their own laptops. I was thinking the Pi could be a great option here (of course it requires separate display/keyboard, so I'm still weighing the value prop here). Does anyone have experience with something like this?
She didn't report those incidents. She merely organized a generic protest.
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That isn't what is meant by democratising management in the GP comment.

In my own experience, the amount of work done by said trustees/directors of a larger charity is negligable compared to the amount of work done by manager-doers who are volunteering for them.

By negligable, I'd like to quantify: Based on estimates relating to a charity I've been involved with, about 1:300 individual trustee hours to invidual working manager hours.

With those kinds of ratios, the trustees/directors are not really doing the management. They are more like a consultation committee, who sign off on big things or take responsibility for major official decisions from time to time.

What's meant by democratising management is getting rid of the working managers, and leaving all of that work to a democratic group - ie the trustees, or the volunteer labour force as a larger democracy.

Non-profits vary greatly, so I wouldn't like to presume how much work your wife does, but in charities operating with numbers like I've just described, handing over the work done by the working managers to either the trustees (who have 1/300th the time available), or the volunteer labour force (who mean well but are not doing it professionally, and probably not full time), would usually result in the charity disastrously failing to deliver on its mission.

(I have worked for a different non-profit, where time-consuming tensions between people who wanted things to be done more democratically (i.e. a lot more talking and reporting, and inappropriate privacy violations), and people actually putting in a lot of hours and barely keeping it running while providing enough deliverables to its sponsors, to retain critical things like a building to operate in, ultimately broke down, with neither the democracy-loving-but-doing-only-a-litte-work people happy, nor the sponsors, nor the people putting in hard volunteer work in the hope of its mission continuing, nor even the recipients of services (because it couldn't deliver the best under those circumstances). The service users were glad it existed, but they didn't know how much better it could have been. So, based on experience, I'm rather cautious about recommending democracy as an approach for new charitable social enterprises, if you need to deliver real, substantial services - it helps with some things, and causes tremendous, even surprising, problems with some others. I'd take more care structuring it, if doing it again.)
Yes, I googled Meredith Whittaker before commenting. She joined Google in 2006 after getting a bachelor's degree from Berkeley, apparently in literature and psychoanalytic theory. By 2012 she appears to have been a program manager in initiatives regarding internet measurements. So far I haven't found any references to products or reports from the Open Research Group, which she appears to have founded sometime prior to the 2016 White House conference where she met the other co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU.

Typically when you see someone engaged in "technology ethics" their professional career is based on limiting or stopping the technology, rather than building or advancing the technology. See, for example, stem cell ethics. Companies don't typically set up adversarial organizations within themselves. A more usual approach is to set up temporary "red teams" to address specific issues.
Totally agree. It’s a matter of personal preferences just as any other kind of office setup. Some people love open office, some don’t, some like dogs in the office, some don’t. It would be nice if was easier for people to work according to their preferences.
Why decadent? In my experience, a good chunk of people watch it for the views ;)
Have you looked into sqlalchemy? I think it would meet some of your requirements; I'm not sure about the rest.
If any necessary and non-substitutable material or equipment is based on petroleum chemistry, then we won't be able to do that. I'd love some nuclear engineering experts to chime in on it here; my uneducated guess is that it's extremely unlikely that there isn't a hard petroleum dependency somewhere in there.
The enforcement you refer to is not universal or uniform in nature.
in addition to what others mentioned, the chain attached to both wheels will make turning.. difficult
Would it follow that having kids is good for our well-being too? Sometimes I wonder if the decline of the family/people choosing not to have kids is linked with increasing rates of mental health problems
The climate crisis is cooking mussels in their shells
True. When I worked at the place with dogs we had offices. Open office or cubes just suck in principle. With or without dogs.
Not from my reading of the site I linked:

Remember, though, because your search is actually taking place on that other site, you are subject to that site’s policies, including its data collection practices.

It's possible the strip some information in the transfer but not everything?
Throw-away account. Personal opinion, and I don't want any shit from it.

These people do not represent the majority of googlers' views or experiences IMO. I am sure there are genuine grievances, but they're representing a tiny-but-vocal minority group that is bringing the company into disrepute over what I think are relatively run of the mill problems that happen everywhere.

For want of a better term, they strike me as "trouble makers". Re-orgs happen all the time in Google - it is quite common for people to arrive at work and discover that their job has been re-orged out of existence and they've got to find a new role for themselves within 60-90 days, or basically get sacked. If you were a manager with spare headcount and literally 100s of qualified applicants (internal and external) for that headcount on your team, would you take on someone who is a known agitator and does a lot of "off piste" work, is divisive, and generally ruffles feathers instead of getting their work done? Or pick one of the other brilliant & experienced people without a history of stirring up shit for social media outrage points?
There are many stations that lack fare gates, it is not universal throughout the system.
Wouldn’t be California if it wasn’t NIMBY.
A woman? No, sorry, try again.

Here's an article[0] from October. Relevant quote:

> After publication of this article, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, and Ms. Naughton wrote in an email to employees that the company had fired 48 people for sexual harassment over the last two years and that none of them received an exit package.

Unless you believe that 48 people were fired for sexually abusing the exact same woman, the problem is a bit more... shall we say widespread?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...
Just wild speculation but could this have anything to do with Galileo being down? I know that it was in Feb, but maybe it took that long to find out how they were "attacked"?
Isn't density not mass the issue? Methane still floats above air using density from the internets, though I wonder about mixing

0.656 kg/m³ methane

1.98 kg/m3 carbon dioxide

1.225 kg/m3 air.
We shouldn't be encouraging people in developed nations to have people either. They have a much larger carbon footprint.

The article you cite explains that clearly.
Listening to feminists doesn't achieve that. It rather leads to the opposite, an atmosphere of distrust and fear.
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Apple Maps is pretty awful in the Bay Area. My favorite recently was it's insistence that I make a left turn off of Van Ness. Left turns have largely been banned from Van Ness starting with the huge construction project, but the left turn Apple Maps was also demanding was also across a double yellow line where a left turn would've been illegal regardless of construction.

Yesterday I was trying to remember if this deli was on Howard or Folsom (and I forgot the exact name). The search results for 'deli' were basically everywhere on North America except for where I was (including across town). Searching for businesses with Apple Maps is nearly impossible, and the insistence upon installing the Yelp app to get more info is just infuriating.

Edit: Oh yeah and it can't find Grainger in Millbrae to save its life. Shit happens and business info is one of the hardest parts about mapping. Unfortunately Apple makes it damn near impossible to report problems to a real human.

Edit edit: My all time favorite though was asking Siri for directions to some club that I usually take BART to. I kept getting directions to a not that nearby and not that similarly named bail bondsman.
I mean, the raspberry pi foundation sells cases, but doesn't sell heatsinks AFAIK. It's hard to say they're in the base kit.
Any finite sampling of any distribution (biased or not) can show bias. A feasible process that doesn't introduce or exagerate bias is the biggest problem when trying to get representative statistics.

And bias can certainly be of different magnitude. A weighted dice can have a bias that shows up after only 10 rolls and another one can only show it's bias after 1000.
Something you classify as an 'extravagance' could be classified by others as 'best friend', 'most uplifting part of the day', revered by the egyptians' 'my only reason for getting out of bed when faced with crippling depression', etc.

Amusement parks, restaurants, and the manufacture of your latest high-tech gadget also generate carbon footprints. One could argue that none of those things are strictly necessary for society and could be classified as 'extravagances'. But we continue to use and purchase them - because they bring joy and value to us.
Really looked forward to reading this. The gray on slightly lighter gray color scheme makes it difficult. iPad Safari doesn’t seem to have a read mode if there’s no rss feed. Ow.
Maybe, maybe not, but one should also consider the well-being of the kids in this world.
What purpose does selectively quoting an article serve? I don't see the point (if any) you're making here.
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It's not just wood. It's thin wood glued together .. but yes .. a wooden bike is possible .. but there is a reason why nobody does use it in everyday life.