skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
13 years ago I bought a Tablet PC (Motion PC) with OneNote and I bought a portable shotgun mic by sony.

BEST THING EVER. I got to write with the pen (Non-touch screen) and the mic recorded the audio for my graduate classes. It would recognize my writing and the audio fairly decently and I was living the dream.

I could never get anyone else to use OneNote with a mic, and I was a Systems Librarian at a College and taught all incoming freshmen. They had laptops and OneNote and no one used it.
U.S. Spy Plane Impersonates Malaysian Aircraft, Apparently to Fool China
Google Colab adds support for ipywidgets
.. and the nuclear that we do have is in trouble: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/27/hunterston-s...

Not to mention the pile of nuclear warheads parked in fallout radius of our largest city. Which is the real origin of a lot of the opposition to nuclear.
I’ve built 300 open-source projects with automation tools
Yes, better ventilation is part of the solution. But the authors point out that in many urban areas a "dome" of increased CO2 hangs over the city. Ventilation won't solve that problem. Only reducing fossil fuel burning will.
my $0.02 - fuel interest and discovery rather than overloading with dry/monotonous material

- encourage the practice of looking at the technology prevalent around and deconstructing those solutions into basic building blocks. to quote Steve Jobs "...everything around you was made up by people no smarter than you..."

- along the same lines, imagine how problems around you can be solved, and use technology to bridge the gap between imagination and reality. doesn't matter how fragile or robust these thoughts are, over time they will refine and sharpen.

- others here might have better recommendations for tinkering but raspberry pi/arduino/etc types of hardware are inexpensive, easy to hack and theres mountains of info online to keep feeding the interest over time.
> ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the person giving the advice would not exist as they would have changed. In sci fi, this would be the classic causal loop/temporal paradox time travel dilemma.

Are you actually worried that speculating about your younger self might accidentally erase you from the sands of time? We don't actually have a way of delivering our advice to our past selves, so the activity seems mostly harmless.
The truth about Pompeo and China
If you don't want a Google device on your LAN and are willing to put in a little bit more work for that, I've found that remotely controlling an instance of mpv over the JSON IPC interface works well for me. I can send it URLs from the web or paths to local files. My client for this isn't currently public, but it's a rather easy interface that some of you may find it easy enough to integrate into your other systems.

(Note that it only listens on a Unix socket. With socat you can redirect that to a TCP socket though, preferably listening on a wireguard interface to keep the rest of your LAN from accessing it, since there's otherwise no security.)

Definitely not for everybody, but perhaps suitable for some.

https://mpv.io/manual/master/#json-ipc
I thought so too, but looks like there's difference even among kids. Kids with darker skin are more affected than their peers with lighter skin.
There's a bit of difference between what you're outlining and "coordinated" as the GP mentions. One seems far less nefarious and just in line with the realities of certain democracies and re-election.
I meant to put SMT not SIMT.
Scientists “scent train” honeybees to boost sunflowers' seed production
I went back to fountain pen + Rhodia journal while waiting for the perfect digital device to solve this.

I have an iPad Pro but the pen on the glass just doesn't work for me. Yes, I've tried with screen protectors but the feel is still not as good, the screen experience is seriously degraded, and they chew your expensive pen away.

The Remarkable seems very limited and expensive for what it is.
I mean, my boss - who is the central hub for a lot of communication - can not live his life this way unless he finds a new job. Obviously that is a choice he has made but either way, I count myself lucky.
Keep a spreadsheet or Trello board.
My point is that these criteria are largely meaningless. It all depends on what you're working on. In some jobs, you'll occasionally need to write a recursive function. In others, it's probably a benefit if you can't.
optional or optimal?
What does TMS stand for?
Thanks. For some reason I always associated that with ENIAC.
Ask HN: Facebook now requires an account to view business pages?
I don't recall ever seeing this before, but I went to check the Facebook page for a local business to see if they're now open (previously closed due to COVID) and I was blocked by a Facebook login page. I checked a few other pages I remember looking up in the past, such as a restaurant where I wanted to see their menu, and a barbershop where I wanted to view their price list on Facebook, and those pages are all blocked as well when not logged in.

Is everyone else experiencing the same issue? It seems like a large amount of essential content (store hours, menus, prices, contact details), is now unavailable without a Facebook account. It's concerning since more and more businesses have been moving exclusively to Facebook or leaving their websites outdated while they post daily updates to Facebook. It's similar to the Instagram change in recent months where users are required to log in when scrolling too far down the page, blocking access to image galleries for many businesses.

None of this is too surprising but it's still unsettling to see so much information suddenly walled off.
"it hasn't been true in the recent past, therefore it won't be true in the future" isn't a strong line of argument. Huge QE and extremely low interest rates can of course result in considerable inflation in the coming years.
The XC7S50 is a Spartan7, which is supported by Vivado's WebPack edition (free but with many non-FOSS parts) as well as the FOSS SymbiFlow toolchain (I can't figure out which Place-and-Route tool that targets Xilinx 7-series parts they're using from the docs, but they imply one is at least vaguely usable) too.

The iCE40UP5K will work with any IceStorm-based FOSS toolchain (including SymbiFlow) as well as Lattice's free first party Radiant tool (and I think also the older IceCube2 toolchain).

It's a little odd that they're different vendor parts / on different 1st party toolchains, but it does look like you could program everything through the FOSS tools, albeit probably missing a few features (Last I looked a couple of the special purpose blocks in both the Xilinx 7-series and the UltraPlus were not fully understood by the FOSS stuff; that may have changed).

I've been meaning to try Radiant, I teach some classes on top fo Vivado + Artix7 FPGA dev boards, and it's so much less awful than ISE (Xilinx's old toolchain) I'm still pleased with, but there are some nice, affordable iCE40-UltraPlus boards coming on the market, and if Radiant is less of a hassle (Vivado is a 25GB install and not _entirely_ beginner-friendly) I'd consider retooling.
You mean, like the mass murder of millions of innocents the US has perpetrated abroad?

If you believe in proportionality and not utilitarianism, I shudder to think what you find commensurate. Certainly much more than I would.

How many people did Vietnam murder since the end of the war? How many did Laos?
I was. Thank you.
This would seem to indicate that for Covid19 the answer is yes:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

Small sample size but the effect seems large.
I can see how it's confusing, but no.

If the type of person to take Vitamin D comes in for a test with less symptoms "just in case", then the probability that they are positive given that they are tested is lower.
jedimind wrote the response I'm quoting. No confusion.

> In response to that "hyperbolic statement" jedimind

Note the lack of a "by" before "jedimind".
Maker Tech on the Land
Well, we're linked to the English grid, and via connectors to Northern Ireland, continental Europe, etc. In practice the difference is made up by natural gas, and the large pumped hydro storage at Cruachan.

It has been some years since I had a power cut.
To self quote, "Firefox was the better extension platform...and didn't entice users away".

Firefox's share has been declining for years, and I wouldn't say it's become a significantly worse browser in that time. They aren't showing any signs of growing organically. They are trying to get away from Google, and for that, they need to grow their base and bring in much more revenue from users, or just accept being a small side player in the browser market.

You mention tech-savy...but is 'tech savy' what the public wants, or needs? Firefox has always been the more tech-savvy browser I would say, and yet they are losing ground to Chrome. The tech-savy browser is the one that's trying to push the boundaries; they are trying to do more technical stuff, which gives more opportunity for problems, such as workflow breaking.

I don't know if Firefox _can_ compete with Google, given how badly their market share is declining. I think a lot of that isn't even due to Firefox, it's in my view partly driven by Web Devs no longer caring about ensuring Firefox is supported, and also just that "Google" is the average users' doorway to the internet. I think it's also partly because the Chrome way just works for your average consumer...click the browser, search, job done. Again, the HN crowd seems to conflate 'what I want' and 'the reviews I see', and fail to really think about what _the market_ wants, or how the average consumer interacts in ways that may be wildly different than the way a current firefox user interacts. Chrome is stable because they don't really seem to do much from release to release, and that _works_ for the average user.
> I imagine supporting RTOS semantics to be an order of magnitude harder?

You can still do mixed scheduling on an RTOS, but it gives you the tools to avoid underruns or underprovisioning the static tasks (copying and transmitting video).

I guess maybe if you're pulling from the camera rather than pushing from it, then maybe it could be harder.
Man, it would be so bad if a western democracy had a similarly prudish censorship policy online, right? (Welcome to the UK in 2020, where by default I can't watch whatever I want and I don't think my ISP will let me download a VPN at all)
Alu (Runic)
No the argument is that long-term inflation moving averages are determined by what has occurred in the past (because they're moving averages), so a much higher inflation now would actually be good. Due to a collapse in AD, that's not going to happen.
I just spent $10k on 4 Siemens 32Gig industrial SD cards for S7-1500 PLC's, in safety service.

Gauranteed 500,000 writes, probably much more, but they have "mission life" quoted at ten years on the vendor cert, so will be ditched after ten years and replaced.

Apparently they are a whole different type of logic design, hence the cost. Even the no-name or branded equivelent I could find were close to $1k each, but given use in safety service we went legit all the way anyway.

Anything with the magic S word stamped on it seems to double in price...
Really, this is Thailand business how they determine the fees of their national parks. These parks aren't free to maintain and they don't have an obligation to set up a price considered affordable to all the tourists in the world.

A lot of Thai people are poor, much poorer than the tourists who visit their country. I'm glad if they can have access to their national park.

I agree it's not the most fair situation for expats living in Thailand with Thai wages, but it's the compromise they have found, and I don't think there is a big scandal here.

Thailand is a very welcoming country for foreigners, and really I think they tolerate a lot of crap from tourists.
> It is very difficult (IMO impossible) for an inefficient government to “go out of business”.

The Soviet Union will be glad to hear that.
I have an inflammatory condition, and one of the things my rheumatologist checks is my inactive vs. active vitamin d levels (apparently there are two chemical forms that your body converts between). My poor understanding is that folk with inflammatory issues often have disproportionately high levels of the active form, and too much of it causes damage to the body. Most blood labs only measure the inactive form, though, and so taking vitamin D supplements based on levels from the wrong blood test could be risky.
Be in service to someone or something without expecting anything in return.

For me it is my dog.
Can you recommend an affordable device? $100 for the Extech CO200 is just too expensive to suggest to people who have just a passing interest.
GoodNotes and LiquidText for lectures and papers respectively. There is a significant amount of path dependence in those choices.

Youtube reviews are probably the best way to get a feel for the current competitive landscape (e.g. GoodNotes vs Notability, MarginNote vs LiquidText).
Traders set to don virtual reality headsets in their home offices
2x 36-hour fasts per week. Its not hard or impressive but still has a big effect.
It is called a thought experiment[0]. It's useful because it doesn't have to create such a time paradox because the thing only happens in your head. It's pretty powerful to help people think outside the box.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
the gerrymandering is a really important issue. my city is split into n districts (where 10 < n < 15), each of which elects a representative to the city council. the city votes overwhelmingly blue, but there are clusters of people who mostly vote red in the more affluent neighborhoods. there are enough red voters (roughly 10% of total) that, if they were concentrated in one or two districts, they would actually have a chance of winning a couple council seats. but the democrats have been very careful to slice all red-leaning neighborhoods right down the middle to nullify their votes.

I'm not arguing the city would be better off with more republicans in office, but it's a good example to show how even affluent people can be totally disenfranchised in a political system. no matter how effectively these people mobilize, they will never win an election, even at the most local level, in the foreseeable future.
> just an argument that justifies literally any action.

I'm saying having a model for what you're talking about and also having empirical research about what has happened with similar interventions on the aggregate is good.

Looking at a single intervention in response to a massive calamity and saying "well that didn't work because things were bad after!" is what I'm trying to critique.
Or blink. You can achieve the same effect with css and Js though
Losing weight or gaining muscle mass gets harder and harder as you age so the older you get so its important to keep a diet and exercise routine that keeps you at a good condition cause letting go makes things go bad much quicker and takes way more effort to get back in shape.
It's called the Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent and was designed as a way to blend the American accent with British Received Pronunciation. It was deliberately cultivated by the upper class and actors in the early 20th century; there was a book called Speak With Distinction that taught people how to speak like this.

It started dying after WWII and was basically gone from the media by the late 60s. Maybe because post-WWII America was less dependent on ties with Britain for its national identity, or maybe because people decided it sounded silly and fake. No-one spoke with the accent naturally, so it really only took a fashion change for it to disappear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-acc...
> if it's the process that _creates_ those vitamins that's actually important/healthy.

By definition, vitamins are substances needed by an organism that it can't create itself, and must be obtained in its diet.
As in sailing off leaving x86 behind
I think it does, yes. Voting in a gerrymandered region is pretty much just maliciously cargo-culted democracy. It might look like people engaging in a democratic action on the surface, but it doesn't have any effect.

It reminds me of the 'literacy tests' given to black voters, back in the Jim Crow era. We're doing this to help them participate in our democracy, the racists would say. But the reality was in fact the complete opposite.

The structure of the political system itself matters too - for example, this concentration of so much power into a single person, that the US and other countries have with the presidential model, gives them some very autocratic attributes as well.
The Storyteller project’s frontend is implemented with https://threejs.org/. The backend is a Flask-based REST API.
Why is it always brown people whose blood and bones are ground up in the gristmill of the American war machine? Doesn't that seem just a bit genocidal? Even in places like Latin America where the reptiles could choose among a variety of races as collaborators in their monstrous schemes, they somehow always ally with white people to kill indigenous people. This is going on right now in Bolivia, and Venezuela has had this potential for a long time, but historically one must take care to find an uncolored spot on the map. [0]

No one in this thread cares to "be taken seriously" by those who don't acknowledge recent history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
> There's some weird correlation in everything.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
> jedimind wrote the response I'm quoting. No confusion.

I disagree, much confusion. I can't see any hyperbole in the statement you quoted.
I don't know anything about academic statistics. Is it a weakness in the study's conclusions that the sample size from predominantly Black & Latino communities is an order of magnitude smaller compared to non-Black & non-Latino communities?

edit: I'm not trying to imply malice or anything, but I have learned the last couple years how ethnic minorities & women are often underrepresented (or not represented at all) in medical studies, leading to poor health outcomes for those communities.
If you can't do the curriculum standard, how will you build the non-standard? CS is very much an on-the-shoulder-of-giants field.
> That's deaths per joule so far. How would nuclear compete if far more renewables were installed, producing far more joules?

I'd expect wind and solar deaths to increase more or less linearly with joules output. These deaths are mostly related to maintenance activities that will scale with deployment.

Whereas: nuclear deaths from reactors built after 1970 are what, zero? That isn't to say that there aren't a lot of very old reactors still online, but nuclear deaths are all outliers rather than modal. And we should expect fewer outlier events per joule with newer designs.

> How about clean-up costs?

All clean-up is relatively inexpensive compared to climate change. That said, wind and solar require expensive cleanup; it isn't clear that this is any less expensive than burying or processing waste.

Fukushima is an outlier, rather than the mode.

> This is not unusual for the nuke industry, both civil and military.

This is a very big jump from a single incident to a generate characterization of a global industry.

> Especially given increasing risks from extreme climate change events.

Climate change will only get worse as we continue to consume more and more electricity, and avoid building out nuclear power.

Wind and solar require a lot of labor and land per joule compared with other energy generation. They also have relatively short generation lifetimes and generate disposal waste at the end of their operating lifetime. Land isn't something we think of as especially finite in the US, but it is more precious in denser regions like Europe.

To the extent that wind and solar displace existing coal and gas generation; great, I support that. But the emphasis on wind and solar over the past decade has resulted in increased oil and gas energy generation, worsening climate change. Wind/solar and oil/gas are the classic "bootleggers and baptists" combination.
And you believe that people being asked to quietly do work for a company advancing politics they disagree with are going to be MORE productive? I know I'd be quietly fuming and doing minimal work for weeks after a mandate like that.
I’ve seen plenty of garbage properly disposed of find it’s way out of the litter bin. I’ve seen it when homeless go through the bins. I’ve seen it when the bins are being changed out and a careless worker spills a bit. I’ve seen the wind take it out if the bin is a little too full. I’ve seen raccoons make a mess. I’ve seen drivers bump bins and spill their contents. I’ve also seen that happen at fast food restaurants. And, having worked fast food, I’ve seen employees of such do some pretty spiteful and pointless things.

I’m fine with extremely hefty fines for those who happen to get caught. I’m not fine with fines based on such flimsy evidence as a printed wrapper.
Of course, just a bit more taxes will fix everything! /s
@wronglebowski In EKS there is a logging option for the control plane, turn this on and you get all the control plane logs in Cloudwatch logs.
The UK had Journey Into Space:

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/sci-fi/journey-into-sp...

That was an episodic space adventure, rather than unrelated short stories like X Minus One.
Right, in this view stocks are not overvalued. The US dollar is.

Not sure that is the dominant factor, but I'm buying Bitcoin for the first time in my life.
Well, with the google home app, you can send your whole screen to a chromecast, so whatever you are doing on your phone will be visible on your TV.
Sounds like an opportunity for a denial of service attack via business card.
Calling it 'censorship' seems a bit inflated...you can request UK ISPs to remove the content filter. Further, the UK government retracted the internet 'porn' bill, which was a big driver of the act anyway.

I think it's a bit unfair to conflate 'always on' and 'default on, but easy to remove'.

edit: also, I'm in the UK, and happily using a VPN on Windows, Linux, and Android with no issues.
Interview with authors of "The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs"
As the sentence says, I quote the response to to what you called the hyperbolic statement. Not the hyperbolic statement.
I must admit while this cool, what I really want is a standard dirtcheap 8 to 10 inch Android tablet with a hackable OS and a row of gpio pins on it like the raspberry pi. $50 will get you a lot of power and convience today as these things are two a penny due to economies of
Scale. Throw a usb-c video input and output onto it too, so it can use it as a touch screen monitor for my phone too. and I'm sold
Impact is everything, anymore. Whenever I think about what a good legacy is, or might be, I'm always stymied by the fact that nearly every figure in America's pantheon has been a victim of the cultural iconoclasm our society is undertaking. Whatever else they may have done, they're above all else, now racists.

In ten years, given the rate of social change, everything I do today will likely be considered outmoded, backwards and probably contemptible.

In our increasingly atheistic society, even if I have a negative impact on history, I will likely be unpunished.

If I wanted to make myself a legacy, and had suicidal tendencies, the shortest path into the history books is clearly a destructive one.
darn im not very kind to others