skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest anyone interested in de-googlifying their phone and willong to do it themselves to check out https://lineage.microg.org/.
It comes with less preinstalled apps (bloat sounded a bit harsh)

For maps I'm using OsmAnd+ (can be found on F-Droid). You'll have to download the map data though.
It's changing magnetic fields that wipe HDDs. Such as powerful electromagnets.

In a clean (enough) room, they could have opened the drive, and just poked the actuator arm.

Decades ago, I had a HDD that wouldn't spin up unless I nudged the platter with a pencil erasor. Very near the center, of course. There was a hole in the case, in just the right place, with Al tape over it.
The article mentions that they rarely had elements, not that they were rarely used. They might have been tested for membership in lots of hot paths. There's no way to know. And I bet a lazily-instantiated set might take up even more space than a regular set anyways. And if they are often used, even if not added to, it would have made the problem even worse.
Lidar becomes much less effective within rain/snow conditions, because it causes the infrared time-of-flight sensors to not be able to see past the weather conditions. An example video by Waymo[0] shows a silhouette of oncoming cars, but I don't believe lidar alone would be able to provide a quick enough detection mechanism. Comma.ai by George Hotz[1] was started to create a relatively inexpensive OTS solution that's vendor independent and crowdsource video to aid in development and training of self-driving algorithms.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNUHjb5fbqs
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3XHXL9rzQM
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Deals with big themes in an accessible science fiction world.
Scheme is properly tail-recursive and has been around since 1975. Most (all?) Common Lisp implementations have proper tail recursion. Clojure has tail call optimization for simple cases and only if you explicitly ask for it, but it gets you most of the way there most of the time.

So there are reasons to prefer more imperative languages and their systems, but stack-smashing isn't one of them.
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Generally, the way app stores work is that the developer uploads a copy of the app to the app store, and then the app store makes and distributes copies of that for people that request the app.

Note that since it is the app store making those copies for end users, the app store needs permission of the copyright owner to do so. There will be something in the agreement between the app developer and the app store that says that the developer grants such permission when the developer submits the app.

For app code whose copyright is actually owned by the developer, that's all that is necessary. The developer is able to grant all the necessary permissions to the app store.

If the app contains code that the developer does not own, then the app store also needs permission from the owner of that code in order to make and distribute copies of the app.

Consider a developer who includes someone else's GPL code in their app. To be able to make and distribute copies of it, the app store is going to have to obey GPL.

Most app stores require downloaders to agree to a license agreement with the app store, which typically includes things like prohibiting reverse engineering and prohibiting reselling or making and distributing copies.

GPL, however, prohibits such restrictions. If you impose such restrictions, GPL does not give you copyright permission to make and distribute copies. This makes the app store license and GPL incompatible, and so the software cannot be distributed on the store.
I think they were referring to this "experiment" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/swedish-s...
Possibly, I no longer do that work. But that was never the price I saw for the service. Cheapest I ever saw was still 10 times that, and requests frequently had to be resent due to spotty completion.
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I have a degree in philosophy, and I agree with you. I don't see what this article has to do with philosophy as it's understood academically, and I'm also pretty unsure what the (rather self-aggrandizing) title (the site uses the title Philosophy Is a Public Service) has to do with the contents, since there's very little there to defend that claim or even talking about philosophy's role in the public sphere at all.

A more apt title would be "How I Developed Several Public Art Projects".
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I cannot take this article seriously at all.

Me neither. It's basically junk news, designed to soak up attention cycles. And keep us tapping for more, more, more.

That is to say: part of the same (broader) problem it is ostensibly decrying.
I think that you may have missed my point.

First off, why are assumptions independent? Why are you allowed to factor p(a|e) * p(b|e) = p(a,b|e)? Assumptions aren't just independent binary variables -- it's not necessarily true that you can have some product measure over the set of assumptions (a, b, p, q, r, s, t) simultaneously.

More importantly, you dived write into some notation (Pr) without telling me what it _means_, which is what my OP was about.

> And I don't see how it's more problematic to use probability here than on any other classical event on which we have imperfect information, like a specific dice roll, or a baseball game, or the outcome of an election— One specific thing will happen, and no other outcome was possible, but we can still use probability to model our incomplete knowledge. How is physics different?

Here's a crucial difference. We can roll a die 100 times, 1000 times, 10K times, and the frequency of a six landing as we increase the number of trials will tend to 1/6. That's what we mean (if we're frequentists) when we say the probability of a six landing is 1/6. We can't "roll" universes with physics models.
I cannot not stress this enough. One of the things I do to mentor talent is to affirm two things:

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Second, the term "Human Resources" are perfectly named. A resource is something that is explored, extracted, exploited and expended. H.R. is not your friend. Their job is protect management's goals. You are a resource and fully replaceable.
Would you like to cite any studies on why the 99.99% of tech employees /workers don't need unions.

An most tech workers pay is not "monstrous" compared to our peers in other professions - even more so out side of SV

The CTO of a telco was in my branch before he retired a few years back.
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Bins in Zürich [0] are neat. They look about as decent as a rubbish bin can. Naturally, one unit costs 3100chf / $3200. Alas, it’s going to be gradually replaced by a different model.

Then there are the “recycling stations” [1] littered across the larger train stations. They too cost somewhere between $3100 and $3800. At least they seem to work quite well.

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> A chip that size, imagine the yield

From discussion at a demo the yield is good, since they are using a large node. Their hardware rerouting also mitigates defects on most chips.
They did step in, by determining firing the tattletale was less than the cost of trying to fix the problem. Reminds me of a classic fight club quote

should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Police tracked a terror suspect until his phone went dark after Facebook warning
It sounds more useful to just ship less JavaScript code if your problem is taking too much time script parsing, etc. Especially given how bundle sizes have grown in the past few years.
Most books should be blog posts. Most blog posts should be tweets.
I read things like this and wonder what will move the tipping point to plant-derived sources of essential amino acids (thus protein) adequately to stop farming animals.
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This has literally always been the case for the history of software. Unless you're willing to tell me an operating system is a low-code solution, building software has always been about obfuscating the frustrating parts to focus on the stuff that actually matters. Infrastructure as a service is just the current iteration.
Would this have stopped the FBI getting the Silk Road laptop? I wonder if they're looking out for these things. I know when they take computers that are running, they keep them running and powered on with a portable power supply
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Morality is childish? What?
Foreign intelligence services are likely just as interested in hiring FAANG employees as they are soldiers. A compromised Googler could get them lots of access.
> Do you know people who Google Maps their way camping?

Yes. Google Maps has pretty good coverage of popular trails and topography and can be used if you have signal.

> it doesn't help you navigate to 9134 Grocer Place

It absolutely can if you have some familiarity with the area and no signal. If from previous experience, you generally know where Grocer Place is then finding 9134 just takes patience. You don't even need to have necessarily been to that specific street before if you have a mental map of the area.

> a topo map would be less than useless

For finding a street address, true. But knowing how to read a topo map helps someone learn how to read and navigate natural landmarks which can be helpful in a natural disaster scenario or in a city if they are lost and no signal. I invite you to spend some time orienteering, I think you'll start to understand where I am coming from.
Yes, there are modern hybrids suitable for colder climates. The rules have been relaxed a bit since.
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I reminds me a bit of Ingress players who created portals at secure facilities so that the other faction could not capture them.

I do wonder though if someone might weaponize this. Being able to "generate a crowd" at a particular location all with a plausible excuse for being there would make accessing some places surreptitiously much easier.
If this kid pursues a career in tech, he's going to crush his whiteboard interviews.
There are some instances where this is justified (e.g. Nazi Germany). If you look back in history, there are many instances of evil committed by most nations.

However, one has to be careful with conflating hyperbole with facts. A lot of very heinous crimes aren't committed outright; there is always some veneer of righteousness by demonizing the other. If you believe that "pure evil" exists, then you're more likely to believe such a narrative and maybe take part in the action it calls for.
The article has a link to a video of the author of the SNES port talking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso
the whole magnet and hard drives thing is a really old hoax.
with normal household magnets or even strong neodym magnets nothing will happen to your data but if you have a really strong industrial electro magnet at hand you can wipe a drive with it...

here is an old national geographics video on the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LWTe5CqQg
> The meme that "reality has a liberal bias" is one of the things the left should be laughed at for pushing. The left is just as anti-science and anti-intellectual when it comes to pushing their agenda as the right

This is a large part of why I pointed out what I did. That the right are just as bad when they're in power. It's just about agenda's.
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My own preferences: 6809, 68K, ARM, and if x86 would be on the list at all it would be dead last.

Developer sanity would be my main driver for the lineup, with the note that of course a 6809 is a bit of a limited environment and there never was as far as I know a 68x version in 64 bits.
That may be the case but I don't think it solves the power mystery. It may be a simple algorithm but it does an awful lot of np-hard/np-complete things on very little power. Among these are absurdly fast learning and fuzzy associative search.
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> There are 2 normal ways to do things: work until you achieve the functionality you want and release it when that happens or work until an arbitrary date and release whatever you have at that point.

Wise words. Herb Sutter wrote a long blog post on exactly this, with regard to how C++ language versions release on a schedule, whether or not your favourite feature is ready yet.

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It is interesting that they got their start that way - I've been wondering if the peripherals for SPI, USART, etc. work the same way in their RISC-V boards as they do on STM32/GD32 chips.

If so, one side effect of their mimicry might be that their RISC-V MCUs are much easier to get started with than their competitors'. I don't know how similar the two lines are, but it sure would be nice if you could just swap arm-none-eabi-gcc for the appropriate 32-bit RISC-V toolchain. I've been meaning to get some of the $5 Longan Nano boards carried by Seeed Studios, but the holidays are always distracting.
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Hey, cool little project! I’ve played with it a bit and its quite smooth. Do you have any plans to add some bgm/sounds effects?
Yes, this is why most backcountry navigation apps don't display GPS elevation to the user, instead they use the lat/long to look up the position on a topographical map and report that elevation instead. In very steep terrain, it's always a good idea to employ a conventional (barometric) altimeter.
These types of stats are almost meaningless to compare because most of the difference in outcomes is caused by cultural differences which are difficult and unlikely to change. There are two factors that have more effect on traffic safety in the US than anything else when compared to most of the rest of the world: 1) More total miles driven per capita, 2) Distracted driving.

To expand on #2 above, most of the world still predominantly drives manual transmission vehicles, and licensing and enforcing standards are much higher, as well as cultural factors which increase driving engagement. All of this culminates in the average driver being much much more attentive of their surroundings outside the US than inside the US. In the US its nearly the reverse, majority of vehicles are automatic transmissions, almost all newer cars now have BLISS and other automated safety systems which are a reaction to fatalities from distracted driving. Texting while driving is epidemic and is more dangerous now in most states than drunk driving is.

Replicating the factors that Oslo has which drives their stats in the US is likely to be impossible, and probably would create such far-reaching consequences that it's also undesirable.
Ya, depends on the system. For example, the NES is 320x224 (NTSC) and 320x240 (PAL).

I can't speak to why they differ exactly though.
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