skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would've been better stated up-front --- as amusing as the text is, I would not have gone back through 5 years of the same 3 images to find that explanation.
The removal of FB and Google from my digital life are my goals for the next year/. Where I need FB (groups) it’ll be a fake account through a vpn/etc
True. But where I'm from you can vote by mail and in person, and if you do, your in-person vote cancels your mail-in vote. This means that even if someone coerces my mail vote, I can still override it on election day by showing up in person and vote in secret.

...and if whomever is coercing you to vote a certain way can also prohibit you from voting in person, you have bigger problems that border on kidnapping and illegal captivity.
The first thing that was said in my InfoSec 101 class was that the best security is at the hardware level. If you really want to secure something, keep in inside a room with a lock, or chain it. Software will never be guaranteed security, and not having a camera cover is asking for something to go wrong, whether it's during a meeting or someone hacking into it.
The filter heats air to 200 degrees. I assume the air would have to be cooled afterwards.

Is that going to use an insane amount of energy or is there some trick to heat and cool without that much energy (a la air conditioning).
Can you suggest a good furigana tool? I’m interested, I probably only know 30 kanji or so.
Because decrying the loss of ethnic purity is a negative signal. History and reason should make one weary of such statements.
>One of my main motivations for making this library was dealing with the frequent case where using Japanese text isn't an option for technical reasons, or it is an option but comes with downsides.

The annoying thing is that the Japanese are equally quilty of this. I live in Finland so Ä/Ö are used; I have never ever found a single Japanese online store that accepts Ä/Ö in input (not even Amazon.co.jp). Add a name and address and you're suddenly give a "Please enter only English characters" error.

You'd think the Japanese of all people would know how annoying it is when systems accept a very limited amount of character sets.
Interesting to learn about Dreyfus, I was aware of this line of thought from Francois Chollet's article. He is the creator of Keras and some pretty advanced research papers in the nature of intelligence.

He states that the environment and embodiment are crucial for the development of intelligence. Even for humans, 'our environment puts a hard limit on our individual intelligence'.

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...

The implausibility of intelligence explosion (2017)

..

In essence we need simulators on par with reality to train human-like intelligence. BTW, take a look at ThreeDWorld, just came out: 'A High-Fidelity, Multi-Modal Platform for Interactive Physical Simulation'. We're getting closer, and AI scientists are aware of the environment problem.

http://www.threedworld.org/
I think if you perceive a computer as a single cell of an organism, you can see more clearly what I mean.

And computers' childhood is happening right now.
They do teach mathematics in India well though. Indian expat population is a small percentage of what's back home. India has close to 1.4 billion population. Indian diaspora in other countries would be much less than 100 million. So that disproves your theory that Indian education is geared towards exporting labor. You might've been blindsided by India IT expats living in West. That came out because of focus on IT education.
The MIT Radio Society (W1MX) has gotten their online process up and running and is regularly scheduling sessions.

http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/
Wait, that's actually really common in OCaml though. I mean not the indentation of course, but every series of let-bindings is essentially a single nested expression. That's just the way let-bindings work.
It wouldn't really be much different if we had ISO8601.1 and ISO8601.2, would it? The standard can define two different types, and it makes it clear what it means to have a time without an offset specifier. It also defines formats for durations, intervals, and repeating intervals.

Is the distinction in representation too subtle?

We accept this subtlety elsewhere; we are used to 0 and "0" being different things, and expect them to behave differently under operators. Few would find the following surprising:

0 + 0 == 0
"0" + "0" == "00"

Then why would we expect these to behave the same?

20200710T010000Z + `3 hours`
20200710T010000 + `3 hours`

The first is a fixed timestamp in UTC, the result of the second depends on timezone.
I have met several. I can verify the creationism part in particular and what it meant for geology and astronomy. I haven't met any women who went through that type of schooling, so I can't vouch for the math part.
You have every legal right to cheat on your girlfriend. That doesn't make it the right thing to do.
Every usb 3.0 drive supports SuperSpeed. SuperSpeed is the name of 5Gbit/s bitrate transfer mode.

What you are looking for is UASP support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attached_SCSI
I think if someone's been using Windows 7 this long and not succumbed to malware, they probably know how to secure it, or just happen to have set it up in a secure fashion.

If you're behind a NAT and don't browse strange websites and don't open email attachments and don't plug in strange devices, how are you going to get malwared?
I've helped a lot of people to set up new phones and saving WhatsApp chat history is always low on their list of priorities. Keeping their contacts, their photos and all the saved logins for websites and apps are the top 3.

Wiping the WhatsApp chat history on the old phone before giving it to a new owner is also much more important. It often contains highly embarrassing or even incriminating details.
There is a better explenation: there's no practical point to GAI.

Humans are automatons - so we see a 'single unit' of intelligence.

The Internet is a vastly connected system.

A 'basic robot' in a factory in China can have access to 'all the world's information'.

The power of 'masses of data, services, systems' all combined, means that 'the Internet' itself, in the broadest sense, will be much more intelligent than any GAI anyhow.

Example: Is Siri 'AI'? We don't think of 'Siri' as a thing, rather a service, a front end to a lot of things.

Well - 'Siri' is going to get really, really smart and be able to do a ginormous number of things in the future, including have 'human level' conversations with you, predict your needs and moods. She'll be talking to a billion people at once! Isn't that even 'beyond' GAI?

The factory will be able to take a design, command robots to prepare, place orders for parts, design work schedules for humans, prepare shipping, anticipate problems. The factory is waay smarter than a human, is it 'GAI'?

Siri, the Factory, your car, the grid of traffic, the financial system, distribution networks - it's all working together to do things utterly beyond any individual 'GAI'.

And as these things develop, there really never is a real economic driver for a true, atomic style 'GAI' like you see in the movies. There's no reason for a company to spend $500B building a 'Data' from Star Treck - because everything he could do, would otherwise be performed much more efficiently, cheaply and intelligently by a system or group of systems oriented towards those tasks.
> Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on.

Depends. Here's a random SaaS which I assume is making money:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/11984

A URL shortening service. Yeah, I'm thinking this could fit on a Pi. Database and everything on the SD card. Latency won't be great, but it should be possible, especially if you rewrote it in Rust.

It doesn't have to run a Bitcoin fullnode. It can run a SPV wallet which would take a few megabytes if that.

> take its bitcoin private key

Generate and store the key in a Hardware Security Module

The biggest killers are related to BTC. It would be difficult to pay for 5G with BTC (although there probably could be workarounds like how Purse.io has humans with credit cards buy your Amazon shopping carts in exchange for your BTC) and also difficult to get subscription revenue in BTC. Something like Libra could solve all these problems.
You have to use some operating system at the end of the day, and vulnerabilities can impact any of them. You might as well trust Apple as much as the next company, since all of them are liable for millions of lines of code, and it's likely they all presently have undiscovered vulnerabilities.
Rust is extremely poor for web apps and graphical interactive software in general. Having been using Beads (a competitor to typescript) for the last few months, i couldn't possibly build my food ordering app quickly in Rust. There are hundreds of art assets to manage, and every screen has to automatically re-flow depending on the resolution of the device. Without a concept of DPI and the ability to measure text, and have a layout system, all of which is built into the Beads language, it would require a very tedious programming effort. Most of the time coding a graphical interactive product is making it look nice on all the different sized screens; Rust does nothing for this very time consuming task.

Typescript may force you to use the awful CSS, but having some layout system is better than none. And we could also talk about event management, and sync between client and server, none of which Rust is particularly good at.
Lincoln abolished slavery years ago.
This article used the term "PWA" 24 times without defining it once. I assume the WA part means Web App but it's the "P" for "portable" , "Pocket" or something else?
I'm the original author of this project. It warms the heart to see that it helped so many fellow hackers to introduce themselves to Linux!

Recalling this, it makes me feel quite a old hack, when I started this back in December 2003, without Git, through mailing lists, and on sourceforge - oh boy. Would have definitely been easier maintaining this project with all the tech, the reach, and the amount of potential contributors that we have today.
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What if the LED burns out? Is there any redundancy?
India is a single country, with a relatively well established national identity (obviously not perfect!, but enough for people to work and live in the same area), and a relatively stable government. Most African countries are still in flux in a huge way, and are just barely starting to establish stable national identities after decades of civil war.
Who said anything about perfection? I'm saying tax dollars would be better spent providing services to all citizens, not just those whose lives conform to a particular religion's norms. And thus we should tax churches for a percentage of their tithe. And maybe not shovel money on them just because they asked with cash.
Can it run software packaged for macOS ?
What I'm really curious to know is at what effective screen resolution it will have sufficient power to update every pixel on the screen in a single frame (assuming you are using assembly language and true graphics, not a character mode), with enough CPU cycles left over to do some computation.
Indias steel production depends on Australian imported Coal, Indias Power production also depends on Imported coal from Australia and neighbourhood countries. India has virtually no Rare earth minerals. Indias has 1μm Semicondictor fab facilities which are good for producing Intel 80386, but nothing above that.
I'm actually Indian, have no interest in aggrandizing one group over another, don't know who Stephen Molyneux is, and don't care about white supremacy & colonialism or think it relevant to my point that intelligence and organized behavior is more apparent in China than it is in Africa.
Many people who, admittedly after a lot of pretense and equivocation, agree that they care about what is effectively intelligence in hiring engineers are too arrogant to see that working in a factory and making sure the water mains are working also require thoughtful competence.
> First, you have to trust Apple that the indicator _really_ can't be disabled. You also have to trust that there isn't a vulnerability Apple is not aware about that could allow rolling the camera without the light coming on.

I have made this point several times throughout this thread, so I apologize for repeating myself:

Every laptop Apple has manufactured in the last ten years has an LED connected to the same circuit which powers up the camera. You cannot send power to the camera without also sending power to the LED, which will in turn cause the LED to light up. Unless the LED is broken, in which case you will know because it will never light up.

If you manage to find a vulnerability in this system, I don't think I even mind, because you've also broken physics and very possibly found a way to generate unlimited electricity forever.
second that! rclone is an amazing piece of software! With a few simple bash scripts and rclone, my google drive serves code snippets (albeit without code highlighting) and screenshots!
there are also armhf and aarch64 builds of rclone!
I haven't run into that use of -0000, that's insane.

I suspect a side-effect of libraries lacking support for the full range of ISO8601 (for example, refusing to parse a value without an offset, forcing people to use such hacks).
Wouldn't surprise me; iOS doesn't even have a consistent way to parse ISO8601 values with and without milliseconds.

[edit:

Apparently this is a RFC3339 thing, did not know that: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#section-4.3

Negative zero offset is invalid in ISO8601, but valid and carries the meaning you describe in RFC3339. I misread what that meaning actually is from your comment - it is different to a "floating" or unqualified local time, it always represents a UTC time but with an unknown local time offset.
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Please become more educated on this issue. Muslims are not a monolithic group, and being a Muslim does not protect you from persecution in Muslim majority countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Shi'ism

If the bill was meant to be secular, it could provide asylum for everyone suffering religious persecution, regardless of their religion. It clearly is designed to exclude muslims.
AFAIK for hydrogen we can, but for oxygen the nucleus is already too big to simulate all the phenomena from first principles.

Anyway, the fact we haven't been able to do it is not a proof that it's impossible. The article claims that impossibility.
> Also India is just about as democratic as Putins Russia.

Could you share how did you gauge that? Different leaders (from different parties) have led India since Putin took Russia's helm: Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi
Is there any reason for this submission at this time? This project hast been dormant/stagnant for years.

Note the "stay tuned" message for a working bootabable image from Jan 2018: https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/issues/35
I got a general license in the US since it seemed like an interesting hobby, but haven't used it much. Sometimes I feel bad about that, and I've thought a bit about it.

Radios are fascinating to learn about, but our HAM regulations seem mired in the past and overly restrictive. You simply aren't allowed to do much on the amateur bands besides chatting with people.

For example, I don't believe you can cipher communications unless they're being used to control an RC vehicle. That rules out a lot of DIY-style projects. The regulations and terminology around automated "beacons" are also a tad confusing, and the potential fines are quite heavy.

And if you do spend the time reading rules, going to a class or doing flash cards, taking your test, buying a starter radio, and finally talking with some people on a local repeater...then what? Try to contact a different country or continent? You can, but talking to someone across the world feels very pedestrian in this day and age.

And while it is technically possible to set up a beacon for something like data collection or remote monitoring on HAM frequencies, it's much easier these days to use an off-the-shelf radio module. You don't need a license to use a $5 LoRa module with an arduino or raspberry pi, and there's no red tape.

It's too bad, because I really admire the amateur operators who step in during disasters to keep information flowing. But I can also see why HAM radio is sort of a dying art in the US; like many relics of an optimistic past, it's been left to rot for decades.
Threats aren’t free speech, however veiled. If the speaker is intending to say “I hope this person gets fired”, that’s free speech. If the meaning is “If you continue to employ this person, I’ll take my business elsewhere”, that’s a threat. But both make you an awful person, so steer clear and you’ll be fine.
Not to mention the CIA had an exploit for Samsung TVs that recorded audio even when the TV seems to be turned off[1]. It is better to have peace of mind by blocking the camera physically.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-cia-mi5-hacked-your-smart-...
The impact on middleware of expanding APIs with Go's interface smuggling
Progressive Web App: https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t...
>Skills do not develop in a vacuum. You need to have requirements for a particular skill before you can spend resources to train workers in those skills.

Yes for that you need Education, Indias effort at education are abysmal at best, much of the unskilled labour is either not educated or educated in humanities.

> You might not like Modi. That's acceptable. But to go around claiming that democracy does not exist because your favorite lost the elections is frankly disingenuous.

I was never referring to elections, Democracy is more than elections. It is about public participation, India is run very much like a authoritarian regime with highly corrupt officials.
I have zero idea about Netflix, Amazon, or Disney, but I hear the high turnover in execs at the big network TV studios cause this. The story I often hear is the "new guys" are terratorial and kill off projects of their predecessors so their own projects can succeed.
Having spent a bit of time in Vienna... I imagine it was a lot more vibrant 100 years ago.
Air conditioning exhausts a lot of heat. Maybe it can reuse some of that. I might be missing some weird physics scaling though if you're air conditioning 200F temperature air maybe a normal A/C can't handle that.
That's the definition I meant by "or the alternative definition of 'creditable' that's a near-synonym [for 'credible']". I agree that might be what the author intended, but I don't see how that would imply the negative coverage would be unwarranted? If the reason is worthy of belief, then doesn't that mean it's probably a good reason, and the coverage is warranted?

Though I agree that judging a long piece of writing by a few quotes out of context is generally bad--indeed, I'm surprised no one suggested that I've done the same thing to the New Yorker reporter that Alexander was afraid the NYT would do to him (though with no foreseeable risk to the reporter's job).

I've tried not to--those sentences seemed particularly egregious to me, but broadly within the tone of the overall piece. Human attention behind limited, I'm afraid any discussion of a long piece of writing must either talk about subjective feelings and impressions (where it's hard to identify the reasons for those different feelings), or focus on a tiny subset at the cost you correctly note.
FT8 is amazing and would be an amazing way to suck people on HN in. It's fun without transmitting. I'm at the bottom of New Zealand and get transmissions from all over the world including our antipode, Europe. And that's with a crappy short wave receiver with a tiny built in antenna that you can get for <$100.

The fact that someone made the FT8 modulation scheme up out or the blue and people started adopting it and using it and having fun shows the spirit of ham radio.

I bet there are folk on here who would be able to come up with some interesting new modulation schemes to push the envelope even further.

It's a shame that the venn diagram intersection between the modern tech world and ham radio isn't larger.
I have misgivings with the ruling party at center. But to claim that India isn't Democratic is like saying US is autocratic because of Trump. It's true, India needs to go back to it's secular roots. But the elections aren't faked.
Yeah, I agree with this. Rather than ask if OP is optimizing their AWS billing, I'd also ask if are OP's devs even have any incentive to do better. Even with machine vision it's stupidly easy to increase your computation effort by 2 or more orders of magnitude for almost no benefit. Default parameters often will do that in fact.
There's an interesting thread [1] on github.com regarding this.

Here is a copy of the comment I added there:

I was not surprised when Microsoft took the approach with WSL2, as I've gone a similar path when writing coLinux. I've considered extending an existing project named LINE, which is more similar in architecture to WSL1. Not having the full resource of a development team, I took the easier cooperative VM approach. Re-implementing stuff is a pain. Integrating is more fun.

However I think both WSL1 and WSL2 have their added value being active projects. WSL1, is good for being more 'in the Windows domain of things' compared to WSL2, and not requiring a hardware-accelerated hypervisor behind the scenes. For WSL2, back when writing coLinux, I've imagined the things that could have been gained if I had had access to the Windows internals, especially regarding memory management. I believe that the Windows dev team has a much better chance to make Linux more compatible and smoothly integrated in a performant way with this approach.

Perhaps it's too late, but I wish that the two approaches would have had different names so to not suggest that one is entirely newer or better than the other.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022
Although I agree with several of your points, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by meta.

I do think that we need to have a more general (meta if you will) conversation about the outrage and pitchfork actions resulting from social networks (twitter in particular), so I agree with Pinker there.

I also strongly disagree that in a piece like this he needed to demonstrate that he has "a willingness to “dismiss and downplay racist violence”", especially if that accusation is based on a tweet citing a NYT article. If that's the only basis for the assessment (I have not seen the other tweets and was not familiar with Pinker before reading this article), then it's absolutely ludicrous.

I then agree with his following point, that if citing an article like that in an argument, or disagreeing with a subpoint of a large issue (in a tweet even) can get 500 academics to write a letter to get you dismissed from a fellowship, then we are in very dangerous territory.

Your points about the "I'm not comparing it a witch hunt, but it looks like a witch hunt" are well taken and annoyed me a lot as well.
That lack of a chain of reasoning just doesn’t feel any more significant to me than the fact that a human can also not endlessly regress upwards explaining every bit of knowledge they have or every reason they made a decision. Likewise the computer algebra software can only answer “how did you know that?” so many times in a sequence.
With an 8 MHz 6502? It's around 15 cycles per byte for memcpy, so 500KB/s of data. At 60 Hz frame rate, that's 8KB- so 64x128 for byte per pixel, or 256x256 for a bit per pixel.