skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't help wondering what happens to the counterweight. 100kg travelling at 5000mph works out as about 500MJ. For comparison, 1 tonne of TNT is about 4.2GJ, so the energy of the counterweight is about the same as 120kg of TNT. Looks like stopping the counterweight will produce a pretty big explosion, but probably not their biggest problem.
Thanks for making reference to LiveView. It reads a lot like Microsoft Blazor with server side rendering and two way communication through SignalR.
So you are saying that a sensor on both sides of a doorway frame should be enough to capture all RFIDs passing through? If they dont already ask you for the ID to open doors on the way....
Less Wrong is a very opinionated site that should definitely be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism. Some of it is pretty out there.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
> Countries at very low levels of what we'd consider civilization.

Industrialized.
Huh, funny how even when fascism makes no sense, its just more proof that it's fascism, because it makes no sense in this definition ,or something like that i guess....
I don't disagree in general. Although, as a founder, I can tell that in practice providing first-class documentation is less trivial than it sounds. Not everybody has the Apple's or Google's money. Technical writers are not cheap. Also technical writers tend to have problems understanding how a system works, because they lack the knowledge of the system's internal logic. Therefore, developers should be involved in writing documentation too which makes it even more expensive and tedious process. Then software changes and documentation has to be partially rewritten again.

All in all, not every car is a Mercedes and not so many people can afford a Mercedes. Companies frequently don't provide best-in-class API documentation not because they are lazy (although it can happen too), but because it's always a trade-off: should the money be spent on improving documentation, or invested into new features. It's a matter of priorities and balancing between them. For some products API is the top priority, for some isn't.
Modern farming got extremely more sophisticated and more productive at a cost of making it hard to be competitive with small operations.

Good things: much higher yield per area, economies of scale, better soil maintenance, more hydraulic planning.

Bad things: inhumane feed lots and lack of biodiversity.

Note these are the same journalists who would've praised catastrophic land reforms by Marxist governments, like Zimbabwe. The same journalists complaining of food costs and shortages (+yield, +supply). The same journalists complaining about deforestation (+yield). The same journalists complaining about global warming (CO2 sequestration).

There is room for improvement on biodiversity and long term care of topsoil. But a hit piece on inequality gets more views and gets more subscriptions/ads.
Communism could work, if we weren't humans.
"The vendor" is a foundation that has education at the center of its charter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation

They are not doing this for profit, although they are self-financing at this point (from what I've read).
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This is tangential, but it mildly irks me how commonly "elite" is now used by most people to refer to a single person. "Elite" is a collective noun and refers to a group, not an individual.

An elite is a group of people who are distinguished from their peers in some way. In common parlance "some way" usually means influence, power, seniority, respect from peers, performance, or wealth.
If your tabs are swapped out to SSD, your computer feels incredibly _slow_. SSD are fast, yeah, but multiple orders of magnitude slower than the slowest RAM module.

You can run 4GB if you're fine with having most of your applications swapped out, but the experience will be excruciating.

Physical memory is still as relevant as it was 30 years ago. No offense but if you can't see the problem, you probably have never used a computer with enough RAM to fit everything in memory + have enough spare for file caching.
Hopefully it was all scanned and digitized?
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Is this relevant? It is "well known" that log2(world population) is about equal to 33, so theoretically if you numbered every human alive consecutively you would only need 33 bits to store the number. But this is a long shot from estimating the amount of data required to pick someone out of a crowd. For example, perhaps you are just given a bunch of low-resolution pictures of people's foreheads: do you only need "33 bits"? What does that mean?

Likewise, identifying a random location on earth from a photo is certainly doable, but I would say it has less to do with the logarithm of the surface area of the earth and much more to do with expertise in geography, geology, etc.
At least in part, art is a great way to transfer large amounts of money for goods or services.
Nobody who actually experienced queues prefers them. Reminds me of an old joke from before the fall of communism:

A person feeling tired leans on a wall to catch his breath. Somebody notices him and stands beside. A few hours later a queue has formed. New people arriving ask "what is this for?". The original person replies "I have no idea, but I can’t leave now - don't you see I am the first in line?!"
if only there were a bunch of other sbcs that had different performance and price levels available...

oh wait just buy a khadas vim3 or the new tinkerboard etc etc
Does that really matter when cooking? Whether the recipe calls for 360 or 350 Fahrenheit shouldn’t make a bug difference.
Even when making a roast, one Fahrenheit more or less, does it matter?

I suspect that the precision you gain is lost due to ovens and bbqs not being super exact and good at keeping temperatures.

What I often hear with Fahrenheit, is body temperature and I agree, 37.5 vs 38 Celsius is meh, while the granularity of Fahrenheit might help.
They should subsidize by efficiency/yield, soil maintenance, and crop rotation.
Guess we'll have to build another planet-scale computer to find out...
> than to eat the meat of a horse, which is never bred just for its meat.

Maybe you meant to write

> the meat of a horse which was not bred just for its meat

Millions of horses are raised every year for their meat.
This was not /r/roastme/ or /r/roastmystartup/ it was a perfectly normal (for Reddit standards) hobby/niche subreddit and I didn't ask to be roasted, I was offering help as in "hey I built a thing to help you, what do you think? And then I was eviscerated.
It's not an opinion piece.
GPT-3 would probably be good at clairvoyance then?
Confirming that something was lost in a small sized archive, and not just misplaced was hard.

I cannot imagine how much harder it must be for such grand one.
Very much agreed. One of the smartest people I know, a Frenchman called Phillippe Lemoine, published 50k words in Quillette [1] on China's role in the COVID pandemic, comprehensively addressing the cover-up charges, accusations of data fudging, etc, countering the NYT/Wapo narrative, but to this day, people are still talking about "Chinese cover-up" as if it's an uncontroversial fact, not even bothering to answer any of his arguments. Many people are even still repeating the "China closed Wuhan but sent citizens everywhere" accusation that has already been debunked and retracted by its original promulgator [2,3], and even people who know it's debunked don't bother to correct it when others bring it up. When I originally came to the US, I was attracted by its high-minded ideals, but the behavior of the press and most politicians (and, I have to say, most of the tweeting public) changed my perception forever.

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[1] https://quillette.com/category/covid-19/china-syndrome-serie...

[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

[3] https://danielabell.com/?s=Ferguson&submit=Search
Facebook has been doing that to me for years. It’s tough with women because I sometimes click the bait when I think it might be someone I know who got married.
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Thanks for the detailed answer. That is indeed meh. I suppose when RPi started and the quantity they ordered it still made sense.

Hope that more open hardware will come out over time.
This appears to be an ORGANIZATION-WIDE score. Not on individual employees.

Look at the documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/admin/product...

It's true that the fact they have this data means they could one day offer it per-employee. But they're not doing that today, probably because they know that the data at that level wouldn't be useful (but would be abuseful). You'd want to measure different metrics to monitor individual productivity vs organizational.
It's not, though. There are literally "ham crams" where you study for and get the license in about 6 hours.
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There are a lot of interesting parts of economics and a lot of important measurements but indeed the story telling surrounding it is too loose. I think the relationship between astrology and astronomy is appropriate: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler were astrologers and their wonderful measurements of heavenly bodies were attempts to make better astrological predictions. Through their work and the work of others was astronomy born. We are still waiting for Economics' version of astronomy. Maybe this is econometrics?
I mean, greater than zero, so it's still a relevant problem
Go to the search bar of hacker news and search “learn programming”. Lots of answers one example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919465
Exactly, he believed subprime problems were contained, and there were no problems with fixed rate mortgages at that time. It was maybe not an accurate prediction about the future, but inability to predict the future is not lying.
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Quite possibly - I was a huge Apple fan who's now using a PC because I was fed up with the lack of viable options for me.
Do you mean precise in the sense that it steps in smaller increments than Celsius and therefore requires less decimal points, or something else?

If the former, why do you prefer it that way?

Just curious :)
Do these support Raspberry Pi hats (e.g. the TV hat) and OSes (e.g. Raspbian)? I've read the software/compatibility part of Raspberry Pi alternatives (incl. those from big brands) is very bad. Perhaps this is not the case with Khadas, I hardly know anything about this brand.
Exactly this: where is that exaggerated sense of entitlement coming from? Who else finds it insane? It is not only caste. It is a sense of superiority.
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One thing they could fund with all that money is an independent, regularly televised frank discussion between patients, doctors, and administrators about their issues with the healthcare system, and each other, from a moral and ethical perspective. It seems to me that if you want to represent some sort of "halo of authority" then you better earn it by hosting some frank and real dialectic!
I saw this site today and was wondering how it works technically? Do they hack WhatsApp to send bulk messages.
I attempted to send few messages via the software. Would it have hacked my WhatsApp account?
I feel this links quite closely to the 'Tau' debate around notation [0]. The idea behind using Tau is that it makes equations more easily relatable to Circles and highlights rotation where the concept exists. One of the cases for these emojis is to more easily highlight function of variables and to highlight the equation. Both of these are also along the same lines as coloured equations [1].

Something I strongly disagree with in both the Tau manifesto and this Emoji manifesto, is the notion that Tau and Emoji should be encorporated into the official literature. Pi is 'wrong' - always use Tau. Einstein's papers would be easier to understand if you used the fire emoji instead of E.

Of course not. But in the other hand, the responses to these arguments attack that aspect of the claim rather than the intent behind them. "You can't use Tau because all textbooks use Pi. You would need to reprint all textbooks in the world". "You can't use emoji because the support is bad, you can't draw them and you can't pronounce them."

What we're missing, and where all of these belong, is in a formal explanation format. Most attempts to break down and make concepts more palatable tend to be blogs, YouTube or even broadcast media. We don't see anything in between 'formal paper or textbook' and 'colourful diagram aimed at beginners'. Where are the colourful diagrams for your latest paper on Flat Chains in Banach spaces?

[0] https://tauday.com

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...
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I'm curious how you relate this to the emergence of statehood. For modern states to exist there needs to be some state-level understanding of concepts like inflation, fiscal policy, central bank interest rates etc. and at the moment it seems like most of that knowledge is best understood by the economics profession.

If all economists disappeared, surely we would all be worse off in the long run?
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To a minority but highly influential group of Christians, it doesn't matter that Trump is all these things. He's still the Anointed who does Gods work, perhaps without knowing it himself. You just can't win with arguments. (They even draw parallels to David.)
Indeed. It's the difference between what a general might say to their troops before a battle ("We can win this") vs what they might say as an independent military analyst or as a military historian much later.
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> Unnecessarily detailed nitpick: Data uses contractions throughout the dialogue of TNG

If you noticed that on your own, you will very much enjoy http://www.nitcentral.com/shamplug/nextgen.htm
Wow signal has been pretty conclusively shown to be the reflected spectra of hydrogen out gassing from a comet core. The actual comet in question has been found and similar signals detected. OP didn’t get the memo I guess.
From my personal perspective, I would push for more WFH but let it be at the employees discretion. Some people enjoy WFH. I for one don't like it every day week in week out. I like the buzz of an office and the social aspect after work.

I think the employers will default back to having bums on seats in the office. It only takes some bad management to change it.
In Ireland we have agricultural contractors who specialise in owning/operating big equipment that are only contracted in when needed but they are then very busy at certain times of the year an 18 hour days for a few weeks wouldn't be unusual. Literally making hay while the sun shines I guess.
It is a good idea. I see it as a platform that will help people into jewellery making to get ideas for their designs. The second approach is what I prefer. If you write code you can use python since it is popular and well used in AI. You can build it as a saas product using AI with a framework like django
It is akin to psychology and social sciences but as they “use” mathematics, they get a free pass.
> Do you have the ability to show that PoS is NOT as secure as PoW?

yes. if you spend enough time offline - there is no possible way for you to be sure that you've synchronised to genuine chain without trusting a third party. that problem is not solvable under PoS and that problem is exactly what PoW was designed to solve.

> I never said anything remotely related to this.

you did, by implying that markets value bitcoin incorrectly.

you also didn't show that "PoW is not wasteful" is incorrect (note that i never said "PoW is never wasteful", it's wasteful when nobody needs the proof that is being produced, but as long as bitcoin price is not zero, that proof is useful and therefore not wasteful), the statement that "if somebody can do what PoW does for less energy then PoW is wasteful" requires you to prove that somebody can actually do that before you can claim that PoW is wasteful.
Pity about the redacted list. Would have liked to see the original
> I've come to believe that economics is essentially a fraudulent field of study, akin to social psychology

Nit: psychology as a broad field of study isn't fraudulent. Perhaps sub-fields of psychology, and earlier theories, are somewhat problematic, but you can't argue that something like operant conditioning doesn't have any utility.
Not necessarily. A number of stages in the evolution of life require a planet devoid of more complex life forms. Spontaneous generation of cells, for example, requires very high doses of molecules that more complex life forms eat.
Please can we distinguish between "lying about things which are definitely known and obvious", "saying things on the basis of incomplete evidence which is later falsified", "making forward-looking statements in good faith which turn out differently", and "making forward-looking statements in bad faith based on nothing".

There's a list of Bernanke quotes linked ( https://www.businessinsider.com/bernanke-quotes-2010-12?r=US... ) but I'm not clear which ones of those the author disagrees with, and some of them clearly fall into the good faith or bad faith bad prediction category. The ones about inflation seem broadly correct even in hindsight; the normal US inflation indicators have remained low.

(I would say a bigger problem in economics is the "freshwater/saltwater" distinction; economists can't even agree on Keynes, and he's dead)
Scale out, not up! You can run your entire stack on 1gb instances.
I think it started with US congress's opposition to Russian money in media. Now everyone is following that.
Do you know if that was fully custom hardware? Or what I'm specifically asking is: was the problem that the available hardware is not produced to withstand 40kG, or that they can't produce hardware able to withstand it? Because there latter sounds like a serious problem, but the former sounds like it could be solved with money spent on it.
Great, but please note that they probably will raise the prices by 25%-100% in a couple of months. Scaleway's business model is to attract devs and sysadmins by selling cheap, then raise.
> Remarkably, it is better preserved among the Belarusian minority in Poland which is concentrated in a few rural communes.

This happens somewhat often: people emigrate from a country/region, and the culture becomes 'frozen' with-in them at that time, while in the source location there is still change and evolution.

The large Italian diaspora in the New World often have dialects that died out from the Old Country because of mass communication:

> He speaks a language particular to a small town of about 3,000 people in the region of Calabria in southern Italy. This tongue is closer to Latin than typical Italian because of the region’s late Romanization. Back home, younger generations like his don’t speak Santonofrese — named after the town of Sant’Onofrio —because it is seen as “lowbrow.” He says that thanks to Toronto’s large Italian community, there may be several endangered languages and dialects like his preserved in the city as people continue to speak them with their family.

* https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/30/linguist-documen...

* https://archive.is/hRtGY

See also Endangered Languages Alliance (Toronto):

* https://elalliance.com
> If I cannot abolish democracy then I will repeal the 19th amendment and leave the rest to OpenAI.

Is this a bad joke?
Keeping aside the point whether I like the decision or not (I don't), there is still a major flaw in the law which will make sure it does not achieve its goal of reducing foreign influence in India. In today's world, entertainment channels influence people's views, including political views, much more than news channels. People are increasingly making their opinions based on whatsapp forwards and twitter/tiktok trends. There is no restrictions on FDI in those.
None who can meddle in elections through news pieces.
Not really sure of the value of this is? Unless I am missing something, this reads like it was written by an "edgy teenager". Perhaps I am just missing some context.
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People have been making these comments for years. Every new macOS release.

Except here we are and things are the same. I run whatever I want.

Here’s to having this same silly “argument” in 2021.
Yea I've noticed that as well. If it stops on 25% then I know something is broken over at Netflix. If it stops at any other number then it's just something being slow, but will start eventually.
Fraud. Crypto exchanges are not regulated which makes fraud not only possible but highly likely.

https://cryptobriefing.com/tether-bitfinex-must-stand-trial-...
I haven't read the paper on Cerebras, but I can tell you a bit how it's done on GPU. For optimization reasons, the mapping on GPU cores tend to resemble the problem space. Typically you'd choose one thread for each x/y column or for each x/y/z cell, depending on how the data dependencies look like for a particular algorithm. These threads are then arranged on a grid. That grid should be at least one order of magnitude larger than the number of cores on your GPU. With that over-allocation you give enough to do for the on-chip scheduler in order to hide memory latency. Thus, unlike CPUs, GPUs become faster when using 'hyper-threading' thanks to the additional information about the problem space the scheduler can work with.

Nowadays you can even have a unified grid for multi-GPU systems, though for larger clusters this is still a bit in its infancy (AFAIK, been out of the game for a couple of years) and engineers still tend to opt for MPI for internode communication setup. All in all, the way decomposition works onto such grids is actually one of the big strengths of GPU programming compared to CPU, because there it becomes complex very quickly with multi-threading as well as vectorization optimizations making a mess out of your code. GPU programming is harder than using a CPU naively, but at least for data parallel algorithms it's IMO much easier than using a CPU even close to optimally.
> EBS volumes are already replicated themselves for durability

That is only within the same AZ right? Only snapshots are cross-AZ replicated?

PS: why, oh why ppl use this hard-to-read gray font color? Is there allergy to the black font color on white background?
I don't know.

To say that someone is telling a lie (as in the article examples) implies he/she knows the truth and then mis-represents it (intentionally).

I have some doubts that most economists actually know the truth, very often they seem more like reporting their own take on some unproved (and often unprovable) theory, which can be stretched to mean everything and the contrary of it, and that causes the "vagueness" you highlight.

Once said that predictions are tough, expecially when they are about the future, I think that astrologists are not that much worse in accuracy than the economists you see on TV.
They recently killed 20 Indian soldiers.
The microchip can definitely survive. I'd be worried about the MEMS accelerometer and microphones, though. I would have assumed the glass itself was the biggest risk, but if the phone is "full" enough of stuff that there's nowhere for it to bend internally then it could be surprisingly durable.
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From the article

"a counterbalance spinning opposite the rocket gets released at the same time, preventing the tether from becoming unbalanced and vibrating into oblivion"
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Or use AWS, which is much better in my experience (and not Google).

But yeah, don’t use either. Just go for Hetzner if you know what you are doing.