skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't Mediapipe built on gstreamer? Nvidia gets this right. If you're slinging frame buffers around, use an API that there is already an ecosystem for.
I grew up in the midwest US (northern kentucky) as a "latchkey kid", and the thing that gave me freedom up through my highschool years was having a bike.

I didn't have a stay at home parent that was able to drive me to e.g. the fabric store when I wanted to make a kite one summer, so I biked there. The public swimming pool was about a mile and a half away in the center of town, mildly long walk, super quick bike ride. Same with a lot of other stuff.

To this day, 15 years later, I deeply wish it had been much safer and made more convenient for kids and people to bike around. It was so nice to be able to do whatever without having to be driven around, but some of it definitely was not at all safe due to the car culture in the area.

I still bike a lot as a result of this and I'm about to purchase a cargo ebike to let me pick up groceries and larger packages (we have some sizeable 300ft climbs here). I can tell a massive difference between my fitness (28 years old) and my similarly aged peers because I've stayed active biking. It's really sad to see.

It's insane how much people will complain about removing a single lane of traffic on an excessively large urban "road" to make life much, much safer and healthier for kids, people walking, etc.

The first protected bike lane in my city was put in about 8 years ago and it was an insane political battle. You can see where it stops as a result here: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1322698,-84.5316412,182m/dat...

Having a 5 lane road for the amount of traffic this road gets (very minimal) is absolutely insane, and it results in people going 50-60mph on a 35mph road on one of the most active cycle routes around. The section of road with the protected bike lane has no worse of traffic at all, and is much safer. However, due to the political bickering and car obsession about 70% of the bollards have been run over and destroyed by cars, and no one on city council will stick their neck out to get them repaired.

It's so frustrating and selfish for people to do this!!
agreeing with your comment, and a coffee epiphany resulted:

it also made me realize that the container IS such a beast, as it's a binary file format that is handled by a different linker-loader, that which takes such a binary file, extracts the runnable content and runs it in a mounted bundled filesystem.
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“Into the pre-election turmoil comes a useful new analysis from the economists Michael Geruso and Dean Spears of the University of Texas, who study and model presidential elections. ... Geruso and Spears are warning of a significant chance that the presidential election could be swung by a few thousand disqualified ballots.”

“Their conclusion is stark:”

”We find that it is much more likely under the Electoral College system than under a hypothetical National Popular Vote that the election outcome will be narrow enough to be reversible by judicial or administrative processes.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-31/what-a...
I can vouch for it, it is very very effective, I discussed with a friend whom believed that a cabal of jews control the world and other one whom believed that the earth is flat

It should be noted that it is not easy to do, you need to have foundational knowledge of these topics and quick historical references to people/historical characters whom also made the "mistake" of believing what your interlocutor did, that way you can both set a reference for your interlocutor so he/she doesn't feel alone and as an outcast, and thread a narrative needle through history itself showing how people used to think that but now don't because of x, y, z evidence, think it like James Burkes idea of linking different topics through history, if anybody is interested I'd very much recommend listening to the Dan Carlin James Burke podcast episode and then checking James Burke books on it

But as OP said, I very, very much have enjoyed the conversations with "them" as I see them basically as adversarial journalists of sorts, asking some very tricky epistemological questions to which the foundations of modern science, history and modernity itself are built

And lastly a key, "There are no Good Great Men", everyone whom got to power in history is basically by definition Not A Good Person, and that is because just to get power at all one must play dirty most often than not. There are are just a very few select people whom we might look as being "Good"
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Let's not lose nuance about the scales of "mistakes" about Transcendental Meditation or bell bottoms with taking and placing children in concentration camps (places where people are kept against their will, but not killed) when beliefs and choices reveal fundamental attributes about a person such as their ability to be manipulated, willingness to ignore criminal behavior, and acceptance of scapegoating as a panacea.

Does forgiveness forget, condone, or excuse reprehensible behavior? If not, then how do we punish brutal malice that suddenly becomes normalized?

As not Godwinnian, how do we forgive the next Nazi supporters?

Also, perhaps these times provide a unique opportunity to identify who are truly awful human beings?
> duff microSDs

Do you mean the microSD cards tend to wear out, or that they’re DOA?

If the former — I’m pretty sure there’s an option to load RaspberryOS into a RAM-resident mode (like a live CD) where regular OS usage won’t hit the disk at all, and only a “Local Documents” partition is mounted writable, with nothing configured to implicitly write to it by default.

If the latter — trust me, the same is true of eMMC, or any other Flash media ordered in bulk quantities. You just have to QA them on arrival. Set up an RMAed-parts box with a shipping label in advance; you’ll need it.

> broken connectors

The microSD connector? In an educational context, that shouldn’t be end-user exposed. It’s essentially a maintenance port. Stick some tape over it.

In the computer labs of the 90s, kids would break the CD-ROM drive trays, too. MDM software was developed that would, among other things, lock out the CD-tray eject mechanism unless/until a teacher enabled it (presumably for working through some whole-class “multimedia” product that never materialized, because who’d trust kids to insert the CDs?)
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2 hours / day of practice for 30 days will give you enough ability to clear Leetcode style questions. Trust me, it will be worth it. At Microsoft, you have plenty of autonomy over your life and work. Even if you don't work very hard, you get to do interesting things and deliver things of value.

At Infosys you might not work very much, but you will spend long hours in the office. You will have little autonomy and your boss will have great power over your life. Your work will be incredibly boring. In short, it is the worst of all worlds: not low-maintenance, not interesting work, and also doesn't pay as well.
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> The only reason that other coronaviruses like OC43 don't kill a lot of people is that almost everyone catches it first as a youth, and builds up a level of immunity. But it can be quite deadly to someone who first catches it later in life, or to immunocompromised patients.

As an aside, OC43 is strongly suspected to be the cause of the 1889-1890 pandemic which killed around 1 million.
WFH orders during COVID19 have been a kind of blessing, with regard to my DSPD. I can sleep in an extra hour or two and hit that 8AM meeting 5 minutes after I wake up. When we have to go back to the office in June, I'm going to have a problem though.

I work in tech, but I live in Michigan and work for the auto industry where the norm seems to be to wake up at 4 and start work with the farmers at 6 AM. I'm a "late" morning person since I prefer to start at 8 or 9.

This has been held against me my entire 25 year career. 15 more to go and then I can sleep how the hell I want.
> I often feel deep existential dread about deepfakes and the lag between when they are viable (now) and when everyone stops trusting video that doesn't have some kind of rock-solid signed/encrypted/testified provenance (years from now or never?).

Maybe we'll have to go back to sworn witness statements. Worked for thousands of years.
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As someone already mentioned - there's the nexdock which gives you the ability to have a laptop form factor for the Raspberry Pi.
There's also a kickstarter from Elecrow offering a nifty laptop form factor called the CrowPi2. The CrowPi2 emphasis is on learning so there's a PCB with lots of sensors and other devices built-in.
They also based the series (mostly) off of the book
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. It's worth a read.
40% is an extreme overestimate.
People are working on it (disclosure, that includes me - https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13028)

There is a special interest group at The Alan Turing Institute in the UK dedicated to working on problems of this sort.

There are a number of challenges that vary depending on both the system and the forcing.
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Is this one of those cases where the free tier has only public presentations but the paid tier lets you have private presentations?
Median household wealth in the US is less than $100k, so 5x would be half a million.

So I guess the question is, do you feel bad about the family farm that turns out to be worth 1 or 2 million?

("No" is a legitimate answer, but probably a rather controversial one)
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This is actually a good idea (IMO), but the huge problem is that most states have mandated ethanol content required for gasoline, and there's no "circuit breaker" in place when food prices rise dramatically. When corn prices quickly doubled during the Great Recession (2007-2008) we could've stabilized the price by cutting the amount being used for ethanol in gasoline.
Exactly. So, incendiary title.
Still no power button? Which is ok on the bare board but when you productize it like this it's an oversight.
Sounds like an excellent reason to migrate the git + tracker to Tor. But I imagine they will just shift to going after the lead contributors on a personal level. Such a lame use of resources on RIAA's behalf.
Biden isn't actually relevant, as the real candidate is K. Harris and her handlers. She is definitely a socialist/communist!

I doubt Biden would last as President until Inauguration Day.

Thankfully, all signs are pointing to a DJT victory tomorrow! ;-)
Are they charging for the ability to host private presentations? Because this seems like it would make sense. Though they should offer the option of mass-deleting all presentations instead.
One huge difference between Nashville’s Parthenon and the real one is that at the real one you have to hike for 30min on an ancient road, pass through many old ruins, before you get to it. It’s epic. The one in Nashville has a gigantic parking lot full of tour busses, complete with a hot dog stand.
Sure. On the other hand, my newsfeed's nuts complain about fact checkers flagging their "nanobot infused COVID-19 vaccines by Bill Gates that can be controlled by 5G towers on command by Soros" posts as censorship and shills of the NWO.

Of course, fact checkers come with their own sets of biases, and any (educated) reader can identify those.

But the fact that reporters from all around joined fact checking campaigns is a good thing.

Their interests align with those of the population, even if the population thinks otherwise: you can't compete with trash media with real news and coverage, so either you crush them with "fact checking" and try to eventually deplatform them, or you become another Daily Mail and roll up your sleeves for a mud fight.

It won't stop hardcore conspiracy theorists from believing anything, but it will save me time from explaining my mom that no, Bill Gates isn't gonna inject us with microchips to have us located 24/7.
Not a compelling problem imo. You could say the same thing about irony, sarcasm, etc. but nobody calls it a problem.
The number of people employed in corn farming is insignificantly small. The number of those benefiting from ethanol is even smaller.

It's basically a subsidy to a couple of large agribusiness companies. Nothing to do directly with people-first politics.
Expect from editing, which, as you say should be able to be solved somehow (encrypt every frame?), I think the biggest problem is the equivalent of the "analog hole".

How do you know if a signed recording is from the actual event, or from a camera being pointed at a screen in a pitch black room recording the playback of some malicious video trying to show said event?
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Should it also be a requirement for the government to posts what preferences you look for in a partner on dating websites, what gender you prefer when searching for doctors, what race you prefer when looking for cleaning or child care assistance?
This is exactly the setup my significant other and I have. We even live in an urban area that is pretty bike hostile, car obsessed, hilly. We have one car that we share and the other bikes/walks when needed.

There have only been two or three times over the course of about 7 years that having two cars would have been nice, but it obviously didn't make that big of a deal.

It's definitely helped keep us healthier as well, particularly compared to our similar aged friend group (~30 years old). We've both gotten comments from our physicians in the last few years because of this too!
> Almost none of what they're doing should work.

All China did was aggressively pursue WHO and basic epidemiology strategy of find, test, trace and isolate, and doing so early enough to contain the virus. There's absurd cognitive dissonance many people that somehow this shouldn't/wouldn't work.

The controversy shouldn't be that Chinese system could implement basic epidemiologic responses, but currently, many western systems are culturally and politically unable to, even during a (hopefully) once in a generation crisis. Systems needs to be flexible enough suspend liberties and adopt certain authoritarian principles periods of exception, see South Korea and Taiwan whose response was much closer to Chinese authoritarianism than not. This isn't to suggest the west is brittle, but there are qualities of a pandemic that asymmetrically exploits vulnerabilities in liberal societies.
I love the phrase "Prioritized Load Shedding" as corporate-speak for "dropping the less-important traffic."
A lot of the conspiracy theorists I encounter online are long-term married people in their late-50s/early-60s.

Or 20-somethings who, judging by their profiles, spend 2 ~ 4 nights a week in a bar.

It doesn't seem like social isolation quite explains it.
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I don't want to be rude, but your use of `whom' is wrong; `whom' is only used for the object.
I'm more surprised they didn't go in for the giant X where X is some animal or vegetable. That seems a bit more popular in some areas.

There is nothing like driving on a very foggy night and having a 45 ft chicken appear in front of you. Also, Rochester MN has a damn corn cob water tower. Being lost in that town with constantly seeing that thing was not good for the old temper.
There are a lot of valid and important ideas in Adam Curtis (and many, many others) documentaries people could benefit from exposing themselves to (Century of Self is another one that I believe is a must watch for citizens of a democracy).

A weird thing about this thread, and others like it, is that there seems to be this broadly shared implicit premise within the thread context that the feared ill effects of new technologies like this have not already been prevalent in our societies and information ecosystems for decades. In a thread about bias, fake news, propaganda, etc, people seem to have no problem realizing and acknowledging that we already have a very serious problem (often only visible in one's personal outgroup, but that's better than nothing) - but when the specific topic of conversation is a new technology, the majority of the comments seem to be written as if we don't really have any significant issues currently. It seems as if there's some sort of a phenomenon whereby the logical methodology for evaluation of the situation changes according to the topic, as opposed to there being a consistent methodology that at all times has an explicit awareness of the ever-present bigger picture.

Here's [1] an 8 minute video on Presidential debates. This fairly well demonstrates how this aspect of our political system is largely pure theatre...and yet, intelligent people often speak (again, depending on the specific(!) topic of discussion) as if this charade is highly legitimate process, within a larger political (and journalistic) process that is also highly legitimate.

The way I view the ecosystem is that the vast majority of things are to a very large extent ~fake (in whole or in part). Cranking up the absurdity to 11 in classic South Park style, making a complete mockery of both the politicians as well as those who can't consistently(!) conceptualize the true nature of our system, seems like an excellent response to a situation that has been sorely in need of some good old fashioned satirical mocking for decades. Western society & politics lost the right to be taken seriously ages ago - admitting to ourselves that there's a problem seems to me like a prerequisite first step in fixing it.

[1] Winning the Presidency: Debating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayz7zLn6uFU
In Sweden it's a left-wing trope (the right wants lockdown and masks while the left supports the lax approach so the model has mostly received criticism from the left) and I believed it but you're completely right, so I apologize:

https://twitter.com/imperialcollege/status/13077606155456061...

> Thanks for confirming: Neil Ferguson’s Imperial model did not point to 85,000 Covid deaths for Sweden; another researcher did. A mean time-varying reproduction number Rt estimate in March is not a prediction of deaths nor is it a model for predicting them.
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"the primary reason, at the core of it all, the wrong people are in the wrong positions".

South Africa in 2020 is a case study for that.
Inheriting the most industrialized economy in the whole of Africa in 1994, the ANC government's methodology of deploying cadres - instead of the most capable person for the job - led to exactly where the country is at make-or-break point due to an incapable state unable to deliver services it taxes the citizens still able to pay taxes, so dearly for.
I have a NUC but I could never mount it to the back of the monitor because the monitor stand/arm itself uses the VESA mount location.
I always thought Chornomyn Palace, a White House replica in the Ukraine, was the most interesting misplaced replica.