skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is there is entire areas of psychology studying when we get things wrong. If it works until it doesn't, is it really something you should be trusted? Let us not forget that confirmation bias would also apply to how we judge the accuracy of our anecdotes. Is it that we don't really have that many cases where relying on personal anecdotes betrays us, or is it that we just diminish those incidents and pay more attention to when it does go well for us?
Exactly. Also you have to remember that some people are older than others. If everyone properly planned for their own retirement, then 65-year-olds would own >80% of all assets in the country, even if everyone had the same earnings for their entire life. Then over the rest of their life they would sell off those assets to pay for their daily expenses and travel while retired. The buyers would all be young people saving up for retirement.

Wealth inequality is the least surprising thing ever. But most people don't ever do math, so it makes for good clickbait.
> How slow are you experiencing?

Having retested not I have local access to that filesystem again, the issue seems to be when used remote via RDC, even over a local wifi network. Running properly local the delay goes away in even the pathological case.

As SpaceSniffer has no similar bad slow-down on display updates, I assume that means how WizTree draws interacts badly with the remoting protocol: either it is drawing in small steps and RDC is trying to send each update out individually so many small updates are going over the wire, or the 3D-ish look is causing issues, or both.
> and ability to evade taxes

I would say this claim has been debunked, but in fairness the debunk is talking about reality while many of the most famous Leave campaigners have explicitly claimed they want to leave because of what they incorrectly believe about what EU law does.

https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-a...
Thanks for pointing out that it's not actually a Pi product. I thought this was a variant of Raspberry Pi Zero, and of course it isn't.
Thank you for your feedback! It is important to me.

The Agora is currently costly to set up, but cheap to use after that.

https://anagora.org/node/agora-editor for pointers on what the environment I use looks like. If you use a code editor and/or git you're almost there :) If you don't, I'm happy to provide tailored support.

https://anagora.org/go/agora-howto for a step by step :)
2021 Predictions and Person of the Year
I meant that 'writing a new engine is impossible in 2020' is dangerous. I fear it is true. But apparently flow is proving it wrong.
Spend 50 billion trying to get their fab up to TSMC level, probably contract out this fab like TSMC does, and license x86 so that google and amazon hopefully don't migrate the cloud to ARM.
Apple is less of a leader and more of a mafia godfather
You're using two different bits of language, "open up their fabs" and "spin out their fabs". "Open up" implies Intel maintaining ownership but contracting out fab capacity to other chip makers like TSMC. "Spin out" implies divesting their fabs like AMD did with Global Foundries. Might help to clarify which one you mean.
Using GitHub Issues for Blog Comments
Let's cross that bridge when we get there.

In the meantime, I more regularly see the people whose BMI is highly correlated with their body fat percentage; and, one of those requires a scale and a number that doesn't change after your early 20s. The other one requires a tape measure, calipers or an immersion pool.
You can spend time for free in most libraries in California.

You just can't check out materials without leaving a $10 deposit, or at least that is how it was in the 90's as I remember it ...
A long term contract pretty much guarantees that the company will lose the institutional knowledge to run things on premises.

Think about it, if the company has sysadmins that have been with the company for some years, have racked and are running most of their infrastructure, and all of a sudden they sign a long term contract with a cloud provider, why would they stay?
good luck, there is a reason you can't find it.

I am not sure I have seen evidence for what you say. That is a complicated assertion because it speaks to wafer's started, wafer's finished, yield, die size, and technology among other things.

Honestly, I suspect that Intel's struggles (as per typical) with new technologies are around ossification of technical paths, struggles with yield, and copy-stupid. That leaves them struggling to produce the quantity that customers need, and has opened avenues for customers to find other routes that provide them with more control. They are also seeing the benefits of custom silicon and the possibilities of full stack optimization, as opposed to optimization of just one or two parts which largely drove older approaches to software/hardware/battery efficiency.

My other comment is that SPENDING on R&D is not always the best metric...
Apple is one of the better ones in a sea of really bad. It's a low bar and certainly doesn't mean Apple is perfect. There might be some boutique phone makers who claim to be better like Librem or Fairphone, but because they have fewer resources than the big players it's much harder for them to really know.

And if you dig into the mining side of the rare earths, worker conditions drop quickly.
Capitalism is an emergent phenomenon. It is not “instituted” or enforced by any party or organization, though its practice may be supported or suppressed by them. It is the naturalᵃ consequence of private exchange.

So long as two, consenting parties—who are never symmetrically informed—engage in nonbroadcast (“private”) transactions, you have capitalism.

__________

ᵃ By “natural” I only mean determined.
"Pi" is the new "-ola" [1]. But I agree, very confusing since there is already a "Pi Zero".

[1] http://www.friendsofthephonograph.org/Factola/Factola%20Defi...
Oh, I see! Yes, the "continuation" I'm referring to is the "remaining reduction". I like to think of FP programs proceeding by reduction, so there's no need to introduce any auxiliary state just to describe the computation -- it's always present in the program itself.

In a traditional imperative program, the "continuation" is the call stack + heap, both of which need to be introduced and managed separately from the "remaining reduction". In formal semantics, you usually have to introduce a reduction on "environments", which is a tuple of the remaining reduction and the separately-managed forms of state. This, specifically, is why I think of state in imperative languages as "explicit" -- it's a separate entity in the operational semantics.

I think the confusion may be that I'm thinking very much in terms of semantics, and almost not at all in terms of syntax. If you're an interpreter in the middle of executing a program, what information do you need to do your job? (We execute code mentally to understand and grasp it, after all.) In the imperative case, the program text (reduced up to this point) is "not enough" to tell what work remains. In the functional case, you need nothing else. State is a real, additional, explicit thing in the one case, and an illusory, implicit thing in the other.
I use Github Pages for my blog and just found this little gem for implementing comments using issues: https://danyow.net/using-github-issues-for-blog-comments/
One of the biggest problems in science (in general) is that your reputation and therefore funding is highly tied to a particular subfield. Everyone in a subfield knows each other and gives positive grant reviews and external tenure letters to other practitioners. If you try to move on to new areas of research, your reputation and funding are gone. The outcome is that areas of research interest become quasi-permanent, even when they are no longer interesting. I talk to the people today that still work in my specialty of nuclear physics (relativistic heavy ion physics) and I'm shocked at how little intellectual progress has been made. At the risk of offending people it's time to give up and declare victory, but the consequences would be dire (hundreds of professors all over the world without grants).
UK Brexit deal requires use of weak cryptographic algorithms for s/MIME [pdf]
This is something the wife and I have had many conversations about as well.

It sounds like we have an inverted situation to yours, where I was lucky to have a similar capability for visualization and spatial sense as your wife. This frustrated my wife and I to no end as she'd be driving the car and I'd say "you know you're basically riding the shoulder" and she would legitimately not realize the car was not centered. (To be clear, not from lack of attention, but from over-judging the distance from the left lane.) We had similar snips to your point about "can't you just visualize it in your head" (As it turns out, no, but I had trouble wrapping my head around that at first.)

For almost a decade this just ended up in recurring irritation and arguments whenever we drove together, until, and kinda to the point of the GP, we realized I _cannot differentiate dark objects on black backgrounds_, despite otherwise excellent visual acuity and response times. This may sound orthogonal to the car story, but to your point, after many inverses where she'd tease me about "well maybe you can't find your shirt just like I can't find the center of the road" we started to ask "wait maybe we both actually just really suck at this one class of task."

It's not quite as stark as the "can't visualize 3d fields" to be clear, but it was still a moment of "wait, we've just been living in completely different perceptual universes for a long long time now." (E.g. we'd be in a dark room, I'd walk into a wall or be unable to find anything, she would think I was making a bad joke or being obtuse.)

I tend to believe that this runs so so so much deeper than we know, and have made it the subject of some sci fi shorts that I've been hacking on. (That our mental models, ways of reasoning about the world, perceptions of reality, are truly distinct, the whole "what if what you think is green is blue to me" conundrum; and what happens when rational decisions coincide in pathological ways given varying, but individually rational and internally, although not externally consistent, perceptions)
OP is talking about literally creating (and using) a new language -- not just writing code in a language others created.
Well he probably could and defend it since it's historical education but Youtube's enforcement is so sporadic and heavy handed and the appeals process is so broken it's not worth the risk.
And LicheePi Zero, LicheePi Nano...
Try

http://archive.is/ARy1c
Thanks!

Looks like they are way outside my price range. Maybe a few years from now they will be more affordable.
This looks almost identical (though maybe a bit more stripped down, haven't looked closely) to the Orange Pi Zero which has been on sale for a few years at a similar price.

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/
Well if we're gonna use that analogy, VR is spatial film or 3d film.
>Part of the reason the robots evoke little excitement is because after a short look, you can realize they're just large puppets.

I think it's more like the Feynman example of how a scientist may look at a flower.

A person may see a full-size puppet when they see a choreographed robot, but all I can think about is how complicated the mechanisms -- software and hardware -- must be in order to dynamically balance a robot while maintaining whatever timing is called out for the choreography work; and the person-hours that such work must have consumed.
Ask HN: Your preferred device to take hand written notes?
I like taking hand written notes while reading. In my experience, taking hand written notes helps to absorb and recall information faster as compared to typing it. Also, most editors do a bad job at writing formulae. One downside of taking handwritten notes is that I cannot easily connect my ideas across notes or disciplines ie difficult to create a zettlakasten. The solution I thought of was to buy a device which can convert my hand written notes to digital as well as make it easier for me to create a zettlkasten. So, HN what's your preferred note taking device?
I find that a very weird statement. Driving a FWD, especially when climbing, shows how limited the grip of FWD is. AWD distributes the power to twice as many wheels (often 3 times actually) and loses grip less often.

Sure both cars would descend the same, but you can always lower your speed to decrease the amount of traction you need. When climbing there's no such options for FWD.
Does HN have to use the same Apple-baiting headline as The Washington Post? Lens Technology sells to all mobile phone makers. They are a massive public company with many customers...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/business/international/ho...
They don't have to be precise to show a trend, but there needs to be some assurance that the measurements affects subgroups similarly and a measurement of how it affects those subgroups to infer a number of valid results.

How does BMI accuracy scale with age? How does it scale with different ethnic groups? How do these interact? How do you infer an accurate number without knowing these variables and accounting for them and the relative sized of those cohorts?

If the measurements to create the BMI were taken from a statistically valid cross section of the current makeup of Americans, then I would have no problem. But how was the BMI generated? When? With what type of participants?

This article itself notes that Asians experience relatively more problems at a lower BMI. Without knowing what the BMI is tuned to, how an we interpret how it applies to a cross section of Americans for a singular study?

As a measurement of similar studies seeing a change over time, I agree it's less problematic (but could still be affected by trends in physiology over time, possibly from immigration).
12,000 B.C. was a major cataclysm that erased the last few pieces of the previous civilization, so it's more or less okay to call 10,000 B.C. as an early period of [this] civilization since people had to start from scratch.
Yeah, nothing to be afraid of, for sure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3GM299orc
You don't have to buy returns if you're a wealthy individual. You kind of do have to if you're, say, a pension fund.
Estimated transmissibility and severity of novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant [pdf]
One thing I don't quite get is the extent that people who are against the idea that (violent) videos games cause violence seem seem to have a very significant about face in opinion when the topic switches away from strictly physical violence to those that would fall more under the topics you raised, yet the logic is pretty much the same either way.
"Victim blaming" implies that the parent poster is saying that Funke would be responsible for the hackers' actions, that they somehow stuck their necks out and invited an attack. That's not the case.

The parent poster is saying Funke and/or their software vendors are guilty of negligence. You, too, even go on to admit there might have been vulnerabilities in the software or processes of Funke group.

The parent poster is not the one being dishonest...
This is like arguing that confederate generals actions weren't treasonous because they weren't charged and look there are military bases named after them!

Harry S Truman wrote during his presidency: "We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail

He was a villain by any reasonable accounting whose exploits are at this point well known and his moral deviance, bigotry, hatefulness, contempt not so much merely for the letter of the law as for its spirit and purpose. A contempt for justice as it might be understood by anyone other than a straight, white, conservative, republican, man that ultimately overshadows his accomplishments.
Looking forward to their next video being recorded on a smartphone by a robot.
I wonder how true this "one right way" is? For instance, I've seen multiple ways to do the same thing in Pandas.

Does it come down more to an agreement among the team about how code should be written?
Senate GOP Blocks $2k stimulus checks
Sometimes I’m wondering why U of I doesn’t have a bigger presence in the online learning world, other than net math. The material is great.
Mandatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/331/
You could use shells.com to turn your mobile phone into a desktop.
The title wasn't written for you, but that doesn't make it clickbait. That's true even though it's not a great title.

The author is a physicist/computer scientist writing on his personal blog. He is writing about some of his own work, 20 years later, and his likely audience probably has context about that work, or will be linked from somewhere that provides that context. The fact that you and I stumbled upon it from a decontextualized aggregator is a bug.
The 80/20 "rule" is not indicative what should be the right distribution. Also, wealth concentration has worsened over time. So, there was a time when it wasn't this concentrated and without a somewhat more equitable distribution we will see societal problems. The 80/20 rule is just a heuristic and not meant to be a guide for how things should actually be.
Tencent backs Chinese healthcare portal DXY in $500M round
I don't need a study to know that's true.
Then again though, there are lots of things that RPi doesn't do, and I wish some China-based OEM would do. I'm not opposed to people coming up with variants, it's just that the current crop of variants don't fix real problems.

Like fix the stupid I2C clock stretching bug. Reverse engineer the Broadcom chip, clone it, and fix the bug, because the lazy asses at Broadcom won't do it.

Or make an RPi with a rich plug-and-play CSI camera ecosystem with hundreds of sensors and lens mounts to choose from, all connected via the camera connector.

Seriously, screw the RPi "high quality" camera and it's teeny useless sensor -- I want 35mm full frame, 20-50 megapixels, in CSI with a python library for exposure control, and I'm willing to pay maybe half the cost of a full frame DSLR to get that.

Nobody sells such a thing at the moment, and it would be an awesome thing to have.
I can technically filter comments pretty easily from the js script. When a comment is removed from mastodon it is also removed from the blog.
Rendering speed matters on weak CPUs powered by batteries. I.e. every (previous generation) smartphone.
"Subliminally jerky" - When you're certain it's dehydrated meat, but you don't know why.
The domain name doesn't give me a clue that it's about physics, instead of, say, sociology or something.
But you still have less years overall of high health care expenses, don't you?
> Parents refusing to provide the "monopoly on violence" just results in kids who are worse at fighting learning to do whatever the bully says, and probably still getting beaten for the fun of it.

there's refusing to engage when its friends squabbling over toys. Its another whole level when battery comes in... Pretty big difference.
> This is what I dislike most about Apple: they're trying to be a leader, but are not acting like one.

How is Apple trying to be a leader in anything besides profits?
> Using glue on small PCBs doesn't seem very sensible to me.

Then why are you basing your argument on an approach which you already believe isn't sensible?

I mean, you can glue everything you wish on a lego piece, including all the M3 spacers you need.

But hey, why settle with an easy solution when you can bicker endlessly about problems that you don't need to handle?
> Do you have a source for that? I’m genuinely interested what kind of AI can act 100% autonomously on the battlefield.

The various military groups around the world have been using semi-autonomy in warfare for decades; you don't need 100% generalizable autonomy.

Plenty of missiles in the past worked just fine with little more than silhouette matching and 1 bit cameras.
Better link directly to page: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2020/EN/COM-2...

From page 931/932[1]:

5.4.Protocols and Standards to be used for encryption mechanism: s/MIME and related packagesThe open standard s/MIME as extension to de facto e-mail standard SMTP will be deployed to encrypt messages containing DNA profile information. The protocol s/MIME (V3) allows signed receipts, security labels, and secure mailing lists and is layered on Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specification for cryptographic protected messages. It can be used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate or encrypt any form of digitaldata.The underlying certificate used by the s/MIME mechanism has to be in compliance with X.509 standard. In order to ensure common standards and procedures with other Prüm applications, the processing rules for s/MIME encryption operations or to be applied under various Commercial Product of the Shelves (COTS) environments, are as follows:

–the sequence of the operations is: first encryption and then signing,

–the encryption algorithm AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 256 bit key length and RSA with 1024 bit key length shall be applied for symmetric and asymmetric encryption respectively,

–the hash algorithm SHA-1 shall be applied.

s/MIME functionality is built into the vast majority of modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail aswell as Netscape Communicator 4.x and inter-operates among all major e-mail software packages.Because of s/MIME's easy integration into national IT infrastructure at all States' sites, it is selected as a viable mechanism to implement the communication security level. For achieving the goal 'Proof of Concept'in a more efficient way and reducing costs the open standard JavaMail API is however chosen for prototyping DNA data exchange. JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP. The intent is to provide a single, easy-to-use API for e-mail clients that want to send and receive encrypted e-mail in either of the two most popular e-mail encryption formats. Therefore any state-of-the-art implementations to JavaMail API will suffice for the requirements set by Title II [Exchanges of DNA, Fingerprints and vehicle registration data] of Part Three, such as the product of Bouncy Castle JCE (Java Cryptographic Extension), which will be used to implement s/MIME for prototyping DNA data exchange among all States.

Curiously, the phrase "JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP." appears to be taken directly from this[1] SourceForge page from 2004

[1]http://javamail-crypto.sourceforge.net/
"[A] series of electrical pulses and that causes your systems to do something stupid" is a hell of a euphemism for e.g. cyber-bullying resulting in homicide and/or suicide; infrastructure attacks; wire fraud and theft; blackmail; conspiracy; etc. Your definition could even cover a remotely detonated bomb.

It's like saying no, I didn't shoot that person, I just gave momentum to a bullet that caused their body to do something stupid and they died.
Impossible Foods Plans to Replace the Use of Animals in Food by 2035
"At the annual Web Summit conference, the founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, geneticist Pat Brown, said he is confident their mission to 'completely replace the use of animals as a food technology by 2035' will prevail."