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> Cheap RISC-V CPUs seem to have a much brighter future than ARM for consumer appliances like washing machines than have slim profit margins and don't need compatibility with other devices.

Do you think ARM will fortify it's position in the smartphone/pc/server space and surrender it's traditional stronghold of embedded to RISC-V?
From my experience introversion is relative to your environment, so if you move or get some new friends maybe that might help.
Threads like these are the reason why I keep coming back to HN !
If you've not read Cadillac Desert, I highly recommend it. One key learning - water always flows downhill towards money and by extension political power. Phoenix won't run dry, nor will LA - smaller communities and farmers will get hit first.
Who cares how much talent you have if nothing works. Perhaps they have too much talent and not enough meat and potatoes.
> I personally consider it something that sucks and would love them quieter while considering their current mandated state a justifiable lesser evil.

I've been walking in suburban areas for 2-5 miles a day for the last 7 years or so.

I really dislike super loud cars but I wouldn't want silent cars either. I typically don't walk with headphones so my situational awareness is at maximum levels. It's nice hearing a normally loud car if they happen to be behind you just for the extra awareness (even if you're walking against traffic which I do whenever I can).

I've almost been hit 3 times from people going 40 mph straight through a 4-way stop sign in a 30 mph low traffic road, or just blatantly looking on their phone and peeling out from a stop sign while I'm in front of them. I had to jump out of the way once. I'll take all of the senses I can get!
Yikes, sucks to get permanently blinded. I wonder whether citizens will just flee the cities and let them collapse into crime. It would be a repeat of pretty recent history.
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I kind of expected to see a good, pragmatic explanation of why double-entry accounting is useful, the kinds of mistakes it catches, etc... kind of weird to see almost no emphasis on the double-entry nature at all.
If you removed all 100W of body heat you'd likely be dead after a while! A wearable cooling device doesn't have to remove all the heat your body generates, it just needs to remove enough to make you feel cooler, in addition to the heat your body already sheds naturally.
Google support forums are the same, the "product experts" who write most of the answers don't work for Google and are limited in their ability to escalate things.
One thing I really appreciate about YNAB is that they ditched the obscure words with murky Latin roots and rules to memorize about flipping signs and whatnot, and just used the words "inflow" and "outflow". They don't mean anything different in this context than "debit" and "credit." But still, somehow, when you use the traditional words, the topic seems to be as difficult to explain as monads, while with the YNAB terms it ends up being obvious and intuitive.
Huh ok. I know some other states like Colorado have limits on the total amount you can capture at any one time. Kind of surprised Arizona doesn't have similar laws, guess it doesn't have too many rivers with downstream requirements.
Even bullet 4 has assets and expenses multiplied by -1. Completely .... wrong.

Maybe this might work for a bank where assets and liabilities are sort of flipped from a non-bank business?
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Yes there is, a one-piece helmet-torso design that allows neck flexibility [1] - this is dated 2012, but I remember reading about it even before 2000. Think it will work much better for sled than American football since there should be much less sudden neck movements.

[1] https://cerebrovortex.com/2012/10/04/the-v2-prototype-footba...
Good point. By this logic, evolution is more about creating the best architecture, which I think is also a good analogy. But I also think that a lot of the brain's "weights" are pretty much set before any experience (maybe less so in humans, but several animals are born pretty much ready, even ones with complex brains, like whales), the genome information is, in a sense, very compressed, so even if isn't setting individual weights, it does determine the weights somehow, I think.

Does anyone know if anyone has investigated these questions more seriously elsewhere?
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This reminds me of BASES at Stanford. I think it is a cool way to learn about startups, but personally, while at Stanford, I found it to be filled with prestige-oriented careerists... with that being said, I think it would be phenomenal if these kids succeed -- sometimes I just lament the time of youth being wasted worrying about the future instead of enjoying the intellectual life of the academie -- history and the big questions of humanity and it's future.. not how to make the next quick buck. Sometimes I feel kind of sad Stanford often nourishes and encourages this market focus... because I felt it so deeply myself as a student there, esp coming from an under-privileged background.
"Nothing works" is certainly not an accurate description of the reality (It's more like 80-90% works just great). As for who cares, your colleagues certainly do (there are limits on how much "potato and meat" you can mix with talent before messing the recipe up). Also note that the companies we are talking about here are not in the technology business, they are in the empire business, so they certainly care about who gets to help control the empire and who defects to a competitor.
Best bang for the buck? The Pocophone F1 is at least close, maybe better.
Personally, I don't think computers make things more or less safe than any other tool or machine does. They fix some safety problems, while adding entirely different ones. Computers are tools like any other, they can be uses.safely or unsafely. It's the application of the tool, rather than the tool itself that is safe or unsafe.

Before anyone brings up guns, I realize they're an example of an inherently unsafe tool, they can be used safely, but this example of a tool designed for murder is not what I'm referring to. I meant more general purpose tools, which computers are. Though, as mentioned in the article, computers can be used for murder, it's not their primary intended purpose the way guns are.
Are you reading on desktop or mobile? I’m asking because I’m setting up a blog myself, and the font I’m using looks a bit small. I’m curious what you think a good font size is in general.
Usually depends on who controls that remotely accessible shared computer. If it is under my control, or under the control of somebody I personally trust, then yes. If it is under the control of somebody else, then no.

Partly, that is because I've been coming to the conclusion that the privacy promises of a company are rather meaningless. In the case of bankruptcy, collected data is treated as an asset, rather than as a liability to be disposed of properly. In the case of acquisition, the database gets transferred to a parent company. For example, with Google buying Fitbit, they will have have access to all data collected by Fitbit. Though (as of yesterday), Google is stating that they don't intend to use this for advertising, I don't trust that not to be "accidentally" merged with google tracking ids in the future.
Last player to have a batting average >.400 is what he's famous for but in the last few decades (as "Moneyball"-style analytics took over the sport) "on-base percentage" is now generally considered a better measure. Ted Williams is the all-time career leader with .4817 and led the league in it a record twelve times (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_... )
Based on our more modern understandings of blindness, it would definitely not be worse than death.

They should make killing against the rules and only allow blindness-based weapons.
My instinct on this is that managing four people is coordinating a team, but having a single report is just having a servant. A manager performs a valuable service for a team of four, keeping them from having to confront/monitor each other when it would be uncomfortable/time-consuming to do so. A manager with a single report is at best a shield and champion against upper management, and at worst just a annoying/useless cop/scold.

Maybe the manager with a single report can act as a mentor, but it's a coin flip whether the manager is more capable than the report. It's not an apprenticeship.

edit: I was once the only report for a manager and it generally worked out really well, but it's because the manager had no professional ego and I was far more knowledgeable than he was, so he deferred to me whenever he had any ability to (i.e. the issue wasn't a mandate from higher up.) It still generated (well hidden) resentment because he was making twice as much as me. If I were less laid back about money, it still would have turned out ugly in the end.
Wow, what an inspiring story!
Not The Onion, but I think sufficiently satirical:

https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-che...

"“Social media should not fact check posts” says child molester Mark Zuckerberg"
"any month now" was very much meant as tongue-in-cheek, yes.
I think if there’s a positive to be taken from COVID-19 it’s that we have time now for reflection. I think many of us have neglected human connection in our lives and COVID is exposing just how lonely we are. I am sure it’s difficult being alone but it’s also a chance to think about what you value most. A serious question: should we rely on work for a social outlet? Should we instead try to become more a part of the communities where we live rather than where we work?
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I used ledger [1] to track all of my expenses for roughly four years. It's a command line based double entry accounting tool. It was super interesting in terms of figuring out where money went and general double entry accounting techniques.

That said, it was a ton of work to keep up to date given that I was trying to track money when I spent it vs when it cleared my bank account, and those two often varied by several days. Add on top of that three kids and various purchases my wife would make, and it just became too much of a hassle. But it also helped me understand where my money was going each month much better.

The whole double entry idea is basically that every time there is a flow of money, it is going from one place and to another.

So each transaction has two entries:

1. Where the money is going

2. Where the money came from.

That's really what it boils down to.

[1] https://www.ledger-cli.org/
Yeah I asked why I couldnt download old emails between when I started the Gmail Pro or whatever subscription and then subscription lapsed and the genius bootlickers on Support duty said "well its your fault for not continuing to pay, what do you expect?"

Of course the data is available to download if I pay, but my previous 2 years of payment didn't count. (mysterious)

Will literally never pay Google for anything ever again after that, its actually evil.

Compare that to the new service hey.com which claims you can download/export forever.

Fuck Google. Just bought a new MacBook Pro yesterday and I will never install or use any Google products on it ever.
Growing poppies has been consistently profitable for decades and is likely to remain profitable for the foreseeable future as the demand has yet to decrease.

It is true, however, that as the supply increases the likelihood that some consumers (namely addicts) won't be able to purchase any future batches increases as well (due to overdose, loss of income, etc). The market will likely reach an equilibrium eventually. Increases in supply have been met with increases in sales so the equilibrium hasn't been reached. This hasn't been a relevant consideration so far and there is no indication that it is now relevant. As such, it is hardly irrational or dumb to grow poppies at the moment.

The morality of the practice is another concern entirely. It is notable, however, that they do have legitimate medicinal applications.
I always felt that equation was confusing. Because then the sign has to be taught separately, or numbers have to have two columns (credit and debit) and you need to understand where each one is.

assets + liabilities + equity = 0

Seemed much more general. Double entry just became: everything (transactions, whole companies) sum to zero. Then just one other little thing (where money comes from in a transaction is positive, where you put it is negative) and you have the math.

IMH(and not accountancy)O
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Very cool. I like the SQL questions.

I have a question I'm going to throw out there for HN. How many of you bounce back and forth between SQL and Python, even though you could stick within SQL alone? For example, one question (Airbnb) was about year-over-year growth by looking at the count of hosts registered for each year. I might be inclined to go as far as getting the count through SQL, but then (maybe in a notebook) just write the rest in python.

I'm not asking how many people use SQL and Python together (my guess is almost everyone does), I mean how often do you use SQL just for the select, join, filtering and aggregation, but then go to python even though you know there's a way to do this without leaving SQL?
Can you deduct your house as an expense if you're a salaried employee? I thought only the self-employed could do that.
I think it's because being an intern is not as bad for a person's ego. Like if you have a manager and a report they are basically the same, except one is above and one is below. "Why me below?" Well in the intern case that question has a very obvious answer. Plus you know it's for a limited time.
Ask HN: How do I get a job as junior developer
I am working for long time. I have over 14 years of experience and I am very employable because of my skill sets in backend programming in java.

However, I am currently not interested in taking lot of responsibility that comes with being an Architect/team lead or senior dev. I want a junior developer job for a junior developer money.

Is it even possible to go backwards?
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Looks great, thank you for sharing.

Could be a nice alternative to bootstrap and Bulma
I'm reminded of a comment by someone that studied the old Eugenics movement. Mentioned finding that one of the major books on the subject the author had carefully edited photo's of 'degenerate people' to look even more crude an unintelligent.

Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you.
It's their absolute boom segment right now, dwarfing the revenue of all others. Somehow the Apple watch made a lot of people who'd rather wear a Garmin suddenly think that it's perfectly fine to wear an absurdly expensive GPS watch. Garmin has succeeded in establishing a price range where the Apple offering would barely make the upper third.
Real answer they don’t want to give.

“Look we got one guy keeping the system alive, we’re not paying for another one.”
Notably, a bad hit can result in multiple outs.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but too curious if you made any headway from your "Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?" post? Sounded like an interesting use-case.

tia
Why not work from home forever? If it works now it’ll work in a year.
But there is no need to use a particularly small NN before using a slightly larger one still in the "ascent" region. (Overfitting is relative)
That's because I have children of my own and I know that childcare and primary education is basically a game of roulette wrt whether you get lucky and get a teacher who's any good.

As opposed to the average parent who is great at parenting, right?

Sorry, but many (most?) parents absolutely suck at raising their kids. They didn’t have good parents themselves and they never dealt with the psychological issues that resulted. And in 99% of cases, they’re totally blind to this, and think (as you apparently do) that loving their kids makes them good caregivers.

I’m not arguing for or against childcare, but it’s a mistake to think the average parent is well-equipped.
It could also be in terms of showing open source community engagement to look attractive to employers, or to work on projects which are popular in corporate use, leading to being hired for that expertise.
Cool, I found some good ones
Rust will not succeed. Ppl can't debug spakr already and rust, even fewer ppl cna debug.

Build a spark killer in Julia. Everyone can read the code.
I agree: it catches entry errors, which is really handy in a system where you're hand-writing them twice.

But if you're writing a computer system that's simply duplicating one entry from a human in two places in data store, is that "double entry"? is it useful?

But the idea that you would want to reconcile one view with another independently reported one is super useful. (Almost every financial-oriented company builds a system like that, I would bet.)
SourceHut itself looks interesting for self-hosting on-prem repositories in a private company
> When you become an expert, you'll get exclusive program perks, like special badges in the Google Help Communities, direct access to Google employees to provide product feedback and a chance to test Google products before they're released.

So, the reward for helping with the forum are some badges and a chance to be Google's beta tester, and it appears to be working? Maybe they can launch some sort of mechanical turks service in the future where the workers are paid with this "rewards" instead of money.
John Searle came up with that argument to conclude that despite a hypothetical Chinese room being able to have a conversation with someone, it doesn't truly have understanding, so N seems to be at least 1.

To your point though, the more interesting case is people who would disavow the Chinese Room argument, but then end up using reflecting its views while argue against the intelligence of this or that system.
Don't you think you need it? If not you, then who?
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> Abstract appeals to “free speech” and “liberal values” obscure the fact that what’s being debated is not anyone’s right to speech, but rather their right to air that speech in specific platforms like the New York Times without fear of social backlash.

Well, yeah, isn't that concerning? How can a paper of record seriously discuss & analyze controversial issues of the day if journalists are afraid to even air controversial speech? Is it not their journalistic duty to inform readers of other prominent views so they can make decisions in a democracy? Doesn't that duty lie at the heart of liberal values, isn't that why we value the abstract concept of free speech in the first place?

The entire point of the Opinion section is to bring in relevant outside views into the public eye, yet the NYT editorial page editor was pushed out for allowing a sitting Congressman to say what he thinks [1]. How can the NYT credibly claim to inform its readers on what's going on in the world when they won't even publish the views of an elected representative?

I don't care what you think of gender critical theory or Tom Cotton or neo-Nazi views, they are increasingly relevant in American discourse and journalists should not be hiding them from the public. If you're a journalist, use your Pulitzer-prize-winning words to contextualize it, to argue against it, to expose us to your perspective. It is cowardly to passive aggressively cut professional ties with colleagues you disagree with in order to effectively silence them.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/nyt-opinion-bennet-...
What about the victims of the surveillance? Are they lying then?
They specified no career benefit. I'm almost certain they view increased trust from their patients as a benefit, and the extra confidence you gain from keeping up with the latest clinical science is hard to measure in terms of personal value but almost certainly comes out to $0 in financial terms (or negative if you value your free time).
"OpenAI" isn't "Open" therefore it's worthless. Next.
It's interesting that the React Router team, which is building the competing Remix framework (similar to Next but based on React Router) is arguing that instead of supporting static page generation, they will just urge their users to use CDNs with aggressive caching rules.
> He was an amazing angler

Not the point of this post, but I may as well ask, what makes someone an "amazing angler"? I mostly associate Ted Williams with god-tier hand-eye coordination, which doesn't seem readily applicable to fishing?
For most train situations, isn’t it impossible to stop once you’re in visual range anyway?
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Yep, the iron ore trains are largely automated these days, I believe.
I agree. Except I think you're being generous :)

It would not work for a bank. The only reason they 'sort of flip' is that they give your account from their perspective. Your statement is a slice of their accounting.
More fun examples here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym?wprov=sfti1
Based on no scientifically-supported feasibility info whatsoever: To start the terraforming process so that future generations could emigrate to other planets?
Where is anyone accusing Google of being secretive wrt AGPL decisions? The leap to try to accuse people of some kinda weird hypocrisy is a reach.
What's your current understanding with the problems and/or pitfalls of psychiatry? Serious question.
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Imagine someone piloting a plane with at least several hundreds of milliseconds of lag.
Yep, we're sharing outside your domain, but that's a feature that they advertise and recommend. I've started to check GAM, but what should have been a chore in our sprint has quickly turned into a fullblown story. I'll have to find some time to waste figuring out how to do this thing that I can't believe Google doesn't have built in.
Really depends upon the scope of "us", no?

For small values of "us", some bad error handling or a dodgy sensor can be fatal.

For larger values of "us", small amounts of "us" debris are so much stochastic noise.

MORAL: strive to be the one who gets to manage the definition of "us".
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Nick Bostrom's 2014 book Superintelligence is the reason that many big name figures started to take the threat seriously.
>human language maps to internal concepts of the human mind, and that it doesn't map directly to the real world at all.

I disagree. Mental concepts have a high degree of correlation with the real world, otherwise we could not explain how we are so capable of navigating and manipulating the world to the degree that we do. So something that correlates with mental concepts necessarily correlates with things-in-the-world. Even things like emotions have real world function. Fear, for example, correlates with states in the world such that some alien species would be expected to have a corresponding concept.

>There is no way to tell the difference between a sword, a scalpel, a knife, a machete

There is some ambiguity here, but not as much as you claim. Machetes, for example, are mostly used in the context of "hacking", either vegetation or people, rather than precision cuts of a knife or a scalpel. These subtle differences in contextual usage would be picked up by a strong language model and a sufficient text corpus.
The legal liability issue. If you have a human driver, you can blame them add an individual for any incidents. If you have software in control, the company that runs the train or developed the software is liable.
Let's not pretend that Facebook isn't accused of a myriad of anti-competitive practices. Not even Facebook is claiming that the EU doesn't have grounds for a search. They are simply saying the search is overbroad.