skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of wanting this to be something that it's not - what's the reasoning behind not targeting Precursor towards running (embedded) Linux? With a little more RAM it seems like the specs would make it a great fit for Linux, which might allow for a broader ecosystem of use cases?

Is there something I'm missing that means developing a new OS (https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core/) works better for Precursor? Keen to understand the rationale, cause I think I'm probably missing something here!

edit: There's a good explanation on the CrowdSupply page - seems like it's in order to make it a more secure platform:

> Simplicity addresses the reality of only having 24 hours in a day. Even though the full source code for the Linux kernel and Firefox is published, nobody has the time to personally review every release for potential security problems; we simply trust that others have done a good job, because we have no other choice. Precursor rolls the clock back to the early 2000’s, when mobile computers were powerful enough to be useful for single tasks, while simple enough that individuals or small teams could build them from scratch. But don’t worry, despite its simplicity, Precursor’s computational capability exceeds that of the Palm Pilot series. It’s more on par with a Nintendo DS: sufficient for core security tasks such as authentication, instant messaging, crypto wallets, and even end-to-end encrypted voice calls.
Right. And I’m sure a lot of the money pouring into TSMC will be reinvested into increasing their 5nm capacity and yields. In a year or two I’m sure we’ll see AMD move to 5nm as well, and TSMC have capacity for everyone. And if they don’t, Samsung isn’t far behind.

This is the kind of situation market dynamics excel at. The next few years of CPUs in all our devices are going to be fantastic.
> Well how do they install "apps" on their computers right now without app stores?

They depend on others or they install malwares on their computers, do you want the same to be happening on their phones?
AMD spun out their foundries taking on this risk. And frankly it’s not much of a risk: they are selling as much as they can produce; going to a (currently) exclusive node wouldn’t help them at all.
This has been happening for decades, not just online.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
comparison to amethyst?
I would also love this, in the past I’ve used the H2 in-memory database for tests with Spring boot applications.

The Hibernate ORM handles configuring the H2 schema but they’re not fully compatible, so it means I have to be careful to not rely on Postgres-specific features. I generally am not testing database logic, just need a working persistence layer to get the tests running, but an in-memory Postgres implementation would be amazing.
I wonder how long until this gets hacked, and someone releases a cracked firmware with this idiocy removed. Clearly, the functionality is already there if it can be accessed "3 times".

This is the dark side of the "update culture" --- forcing you to take all the things you don't want along with the bug fixes. Aided by dire security warnings of not updating, it's a perfect way to achieve control over your userbase.
Dictionary View Objects in Python
My new clothes washer has an app.

It requires access to location, and phone settings or the app closes by design.

I don't think this stuff stops without legislation.
I still use Pidgin for Skype and Hangouts. For text only it's perfect:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-hangouts-git/
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-skypeweb-git/

Works even on old and crappy computers.
Apple will never be an existential threat unless they make a drastic change to their strategy. They're a premium manufacturer that produces desktops and laptops that only run MacOS. Apple has chosen high profits and a locked down platform. They have one or two options to meet customer needs.. That lack of choice will always mean a substantial number of people will choose something else. If you get a PC, you get literally thousands of choices.

It's a very similar situation with the iPhone. Apple makes a great phone in many respects, but they're one company and they can't meet the wide variety customers demand. That's reflected in their market share.

It's also too early to say that Apple Silicon is a threat to anyone. Apple Silicon in the iPhone and iPad is a low power & low performance chip compared to AMD/Intel. They have a huge challenge scaling that up to compete on desktop. Their first chips are going into their lower performance products. I'm sure it'll be decent in that role, but Apple likely NEEDS 5nm just so that it makes a respectable showing compared to AMD/Intel.
"Telemetry makes better products, it's a good thing. Burning a CPU core..."
When they pushed the firmware, iirc the telemetry was done without notice, opted in and enabled by default, and there was no way to actually opt out until _another firmware update after the uproar_
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Strict typing has been the one big feature missing from SQLite, that this presumably brings.
If you see the various implementations of measures in different countries as large scale experiments, I think you can derive some useful information and answer your own questions.

There is maybe some point of diminishing returns in wearing masks, but what the limit is isn't clear. Sweden seems to agree with you and against general use of masks, although my trust in their approach is limited by their pretty terrible results: death rate of nearly 600/M against HK's 12/M.

Regarding increased risk of falling ill because of the mask, there is not much evidence to support that. That's not saying it doesn't or can't happen but while you emphasise a lack of evidence to convince you that masks are worthwhile at scale, there is even less evidence that wearing a mask will cause any other type of hurt that would cancel-out the benefits.

I personaly hate masks, they itch, are uncomfortable and they pollute. It's clear they are not a panacea. They are however part of the small set of limited practical measures that we can take to help slow the rate of infection (by limiting the exposure of others to the crap we exhale).

Hong Kong will be an interesting experiment to follow because I foresee that people will continue wearing masks long after everyone else. We'll see the long term effects this has on the 8M people living there. I'm sure it will be worthy of a few papers.
I have to say I'm both fascinated and horrified by your wiki page. It's like reading about a modern Black Beard.

How much of your alt-right support is shock value and how much is genuine?
> it is very likely that Russia was also behind the DNC hack.

Actually it's an established fact. They were being watched live on their computers and security cameras as they were doing the hacking.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
I had hard time learning Rust, because I knew C.

C programmers see references as pointers, and then tangle themselves into borrow checking hell, because they try to avoid copying, but actually avoid owning.
You don't need to be good at math to learn programming
The firmware says you can't access the local browser UI. Insight management is for the online management UI. Even if you don't pay for insight, you should be able to access your switch locally without needing Netgear's permission.
From the article:

> product registration is required to unlock full access to the local browser UI.

Emphasis mine.
Could you elaborate for non-Russians?
Discord screenshare :)
The US system is set up to arrest everyone and keep them locked up indefinitely as slave labor (literally true - the 13th amendment allows for slavery in prisons).

I'd say that you have to be pretty incompetent to still lose with that system in place.
My impression was that Sunny/Willow Cove was still an iteration on Skylake, just a larger one than all the other Lakes Intel had to come up with in the past years. Perhaps I'm just confused since all the architecture writeups compare it to Skylake, just with boosted internal specifications.
cu is, or was back in the day, a standard Unix utility (call up) — connect to another machine via modem.

It doesn’t appear to be in Ubuntu any more but still in openbsd, netbsd, and macos!

You can’t win win these namespace collisions: I have friends whose names are obscenities in other languages I speak.
What is LoRa?
Although it's something I'd love to write, supporting it over a long time as pure FOSS would probably be a sad experience. I wonder what model could be used here. Maybe something like patreon or "sponsor a feature" with an open-source project? FOSS core + proprietary Java / .NET bindings because corps can pay?
In this comment you articulated what I usually struggle to whenever people bring up predictions about programmers becoming obsolete.

Programming is fundamentally too technical to be able to elegantly replace with speaking/typing sentences in layman's terms.
How does that even work? The only way to encrypt the sender is to send every (encrypted) message to everyone and let the clients drop the ones they can't encrypt. On a Phone. I hope they give out free batteries.

The post mentions some kind of "short-lived" pseudo-sender, which is vulnerable to the same metadata analysis.
Check out his post here (https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-e...)

He goes into a lot of the differences.
I swapped to TalkTalk recently and have the same problem. All but the most obscure VPN sites are blocked. My guess is because using them is aginst TOS?
Until ~2002-5 we optimized for 8080 backward compatibility, at ruinous expense to performance. We still maintain it, albeit with less ruinous effect, except in GPUs and phones, which today do the majority of the computation, albeit to little effect.

Those last maintain backward compatibility with a different, 1980s, design, albeit with another break at 64 bits that sacrificed the worst aspects.

Essentially all mainstream processors emulate what amounts to a hypertrophied PDP-11, in order to produce good scores on benchmarks coded in C. A better language that does not attempt to model C might be able to use better processor designs that C cannot fully exploit, but we have no practical way to do the experiment.
When asking this question, I assume the many worlds theory and giving advice to my past self would simply break off into a new branch. I’d still exist the same but his life might be different.
1989: John Turner announcing that he will step down as Liberal leader [video]
That actually comes from ed and vi. The g command would search for a line that matches a given regular expression and run the following command on that line. The v command was the inverse (search for lines that don't match the given regular expression).

The default command was to just print the line. Hence the name grep

g/re/p
Man, I’ve wanted the “compatible SQL engine with only RAM storage” for testing for YEARS. Closest I got was some shenanigans with MSSQL’s LocalDB.
Who's David?
I think the idea of taking notes itself comes from the idea that the information is hard to acquire in any form. And occasionally a teacher does deviate from the text and say something important that will only appear in notes, but this usually isn't the case.

What I have started doing recently for my own journaling is to voice record instead of writing. This puts the emphasis on the thought organization instead of the spatio-tactile-visuals of forming symbols. I record a few lines and then pause to think.

The recall of it is slow, but it's mostly info I am studying in the moment, and its verbalization makes me focus on getting it correct the first time instead of write and edit, write and edit.
I do not support the alt-right at all. Those people are all losers. My sole interest is supporting liberty and opposing censorship.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily (if not exclusively) for political battle. That's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it, because it moves this place in exactly the opposite direction we want it to go. HN is supposed to be for curious conversation. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended, we'd appreciate it.

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The Physics of Magnetic Monopoles – With Felix Flicker
Wear a mask. Most of the “young” I see don’t seem to care, think it won’t affect them, or are fine getting the ‘Rona because they are confident they will weather it. Help other young people learn that it’s not all about them.
> SQL Parser: We use the PostgreSQL parser that was repackaged as a stand-alone library. The translation to our own parse tree is inspired by Peloton.

Right at the bottom of this page:

https://duckdb.org/docs/why_duckdb.html
Trump Approves TikTok Deal in Which Oracle, Walmart Would Run App in U.S.
Also know as: Chinese Room Thought Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Replace Chinese with language as an interface between humans and computation / AI even.
We've had to ask you more than once before to stop doing this sort of flamewar on HN. If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. I'm not going to ban you right now because you posted about octopuses and mopeds recently. But it's not acceptable to flame up the threads like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The flamewar that you started and perpetuated in this thread is not ok on HN, regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, on the underlying issues. You've done this many times on HN before and we've asked you repeatedly to stop. If you keep doing it, we're going to end up banning you. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531609.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24526092.
A serious and urgent question, when did "data" a collective noun warrant a plural verb ex. "the data are ambiguous"

"Data" was not treated this way in the past and now it is everywhere. Where did it come from and why did it change?
The Only Sensible Way to Use Religion
That's awesome news, thanks for that!
Chevy Bolt (a GM EV) has three cooling coops, with three water pumps. (Electronics/motor, cabin heat, battery) https://www.searchautoparts.com/sites/www.searchautoparts.co... Identical 150k coolant change interval.
This is exactly what I’m afraid of. I feel I’ll regret my younger self no matter which path I take, even if I take a balanced path.

There will always be choices that I would have made that my future self will deem wrong.

How do I deal with this? Is the key to happiness when older is to just lose all memories?
Thank you for sharing this. This is critical understanding that the zeitgeist lacks.

I appreciate it greatly.
Sorry, that was not my intent. I was pointing out that Nvidia has made significant contributions already to the c++ standard, so this is not the first thing they've done.
I use docker to spin up new postgresql DBs on the fly
I’ve read 3 books on the runes over the last couple of years. I find them interesting—I like symbolism.
That being said, what’s the significance of Alu? Why is it posted here? Generally Curious.
This is a pretty low-performance electric airplane. Fairly efficient, from light sport aircraft standards, but really inefficient compared to where you could go if you want to push aerodynamic efficiency to its limits (ala high performance sailplanes).

The chemistry isn't terribly high-performance and neither is the battery weight fraction that high.

Once clean-sheet, ambitious designs like the Eviation Alice get off the ground, we'll see these kinds of records rapidly ripped up.

Even so, I'm glad someone is doing this. Stunts are a good way to show the current state of the art and focus engineers on obvious places for improvement.
After a quick Web search:

https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/07/28/soviet-hangover...

> Bartender of Gambrinus bar, 1967

> Bars only began opening in the seventies. Even the word "bar" itself was a novelty, and sounded Western to people. These joints tended to be pretty simple inside, serving draft beer, bar snacks, and even American cigarettes if you were lucky. During the anti-alcohol campaign of 1985, bars were allowed to remain open as beer was considered a far less evil than vodka.

Similar situation with meat, often there were shortages of meat, but it's not like people ate meat only rarely in the USSR, as far as I understand.
Definitely. As are all record attempts.

Still useful, though.
No problem I was curious as well and hunting it down, this project does seem interesting, I'm a huge fan of database systems like SQLite and H2. There's something wonderful about being able to copy a simple file and share it with other developers. This one seems rather interesting as well.
I think that quote is considering the oxygen in the CO2 to be a consumable, not the scrubber material itself. That's relevant on a spacecraft. But here on earth we've got plenty. :)
Foreign keys enabled by default or by configuration setting would be another big feature missing from SQLite3, but I couldn't find any mention of foreign keys in DuckDB's documentation.
This article has an Ender's Game aura.
If you google around, you'll find many descriptions of knowledge domains where flashcards either don't work or aren't efficient.

My layman's take is that flashcards are based on the idea of forcing retrieval through a trigger. It seems to me that atomicity is an inherent assumption, as well as independence, and that each flashcard maps to a finite set of deterministic answers. Feelings or a sense of things aren't as easily encoded. Tabular/graph relationships aren't as easily encoded either, and likewise sequences of decision trees aren't easily encoded. One can presumably design a chained sequence of cards complete with decision trees, but at this point flashcards end up being an unwieldy paradigm.

Fortunately one doesn't need limit oneself to flashcards. There are other methods like the method of loci etc. that work great for say, sequenced knowledge, like speeches or lyrics to a song, areas in which flashcards aren't the most natural fit.

To me however, memory is but one tool out of many for understanding something. I personally tend not to focus on memory itself too much. For the kind of stuff I'm interested in, memory is an outcome actually doing stuff, getting thing wrong, and then internalizing. In language learning, the memory that comes from embarrassment from making faux pas is both more quickly assimilated and retained longer than via SRS. I still remember mistakes made years ago even though they only happened once or twice.
> Your beef is with the mechanism by which the welfare is funded.

I still dont understand why do you think it better to depend on scraps thrown by rich people just because they are better at manipulation laws for their benefit?

>. I rebutted that hypotheticals are impossible to falsify, and that the real world results speak for themselves.

Maybe I missed that part where did you do that?

> it's data published by Indeed's labor market research lab.

So its just indeed's data which may not reflect the actual state of the market?

> Evidence in the link I shared shows that simply changing that culture can bring the average life expectancy to parity with OECD peer nations

Hypothetically everything is possible but in reality its not.

> The poorest people in America could be richer than even the median earners of every other country

Since you dont like the data, lets look at some actual use cases.

How much would a poor mother in US spend on pregnancy in a hospital, atleast in Australian Govt hospitals its zero dollars, is that the same in US?
I think a flaw here is adjusting for overall inflation and not measuring something like "disposable income" from one generation to the next. Healthcare, housing, and education have all increased faster than inflation and are non-optional expenses[1].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
Data has always been plural! Datum is the singular. But actually treating it as plural is mostly a question of where the person speaking/writing is based. Americans treat it as singular, Brits plural. See also, corporations
They may just be being blocked at the DNS level by your ISP. This is relatively easy to bypass by using one of the many other DNS services available like 9.9.9.9 or 1.1.1.1 (I'm sure everyone on HN will have opinions about which one is better). You can google to figure out how to change the default DNS used by your computer depending on your OS.
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Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB
RAM FS + fsync off?
As an Asian I don’t like this change but I think this change means a lot for the black programmer community!

Btw, how about the blacklist and whitelist? Are we going to replace those terminologies too?
What brand? So I know what to avoid in the future.
Yup! It’s a digital embargo.

You always lose freedoms when fighting for freedoms. Some people even lose their lives.

The hope is that we only lose the freedom temporarily (e.g. the freedom to buy a Cuban cigar being reinstated).
I'm assuming it uses Bluetooth, if thats the case location access is required by Android to search for Bluetooth devices because Bluetooth devices don't move around very much and its possible to get your location if the app has access to a Bluetooth location database.
The earth doesn't care one bit, it's just a bunch of rocks, mainly. It will absolutely go on without us. We can make it really suck for ourselves to live on though.
This is a gross oversimplification but the purpose and goals of their expeditions were just completely different. Even the earliest Spanish expeditions were (in part) state-approved, armed and essentially get-rich-quick plundering schemes. The existence of advanced (but less well armed) urban civilizations just encouraged them since it meant potential for gold.

A lot of now-famous early British colonizers were basically groups of funky religious malcontents hoping to establish their own little theocracies. Their state approval was more along the lines of 'good riddance'.
^ This is why Artificial General Intelligence is a pipe dream.
I'm pretty sure rightful clay was a polandball reference.
OK, then it’s a thin ad for that book?
Yes, however in the past it was state propaganda as a response to criticisms of human rights violations

Now it's the response of normal people to someone also local criticising a local event, state of afairs, etc.
Do note that the stable PPA does not have releases for 20.04 (focal). You'll have to use the daily to try it out on 20.04 based distributions.
Trump Approves Deal Between Oracle and TikTok
Nvidia used TSMC 7nm for the first Ampere chip, the GA100 used in the HPC-focused A100. The density vs. the Samsung 8nm manufactured GA102 in the RTX 3090 & 3080 is drastic. 65.6M / mm² vs. 45.1M / mm².

Either Samsung gave Nvidia a hell of a deal or TSMC's 7nm was booked up.
Note that in the English language, there is a rule in regard to forming compound nouns, which is that only the head of the compound can carry the plural marker.

So for instance, whereas the compound noun phrase "law school entrance exams" is perfectly fine, "law schools entrance exam" is not. It has a plural on "schools", where it is not allowed to be, because that is not the head of the noun phrase.

According to this rule, we should not have words like "data processing", unless we treat "data" as plural. If we treat "data" as the plural of "datum", we must make it "datum processing".

Is that how it is in British English, or do they still make it "data processing"?

In any case, one cannot be a proper pedant about "data" and "datum", while continuing to use terms like "data storage".
that seems orthogonal to me:
spaced repetition of what?
of the notes I took in learning something