skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda think you're missing the point of the Pi. It wasn't marketed as a low cost replacement for a computer, it was marketed as a low cost computer to learn and experiment with. In particular, having a raft of IO that you can hang cheap sensors, motors and all sorts of things off of and play with. Attempting that with a ThinkPad or any regular computer isn't quite as straight forward, and is a bit of a non-starter because out of the box they don't have these IO ports unless you go and find some external "box", which adds to your $200 cost, and is likely not inexpensive.
Browser extensions have exactly as much power as the browser itself; that's why browser vendors controlling the distribution of extensions is not a bad idea in itself. Maybe there's a greater discussion to be had about the power that browsers themselves have over what has now become the life of their users.
I bought a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) a while back. Has the tape drive and thermal printer.

I have to make a cable and find some thermal paper, but otherwise it as all there. Hopefully one day soon I fire it up.

My first computer was in the Windows 3.11 era, so I find this era quite interesting.
There is no magic. You have source code and when you compile you get byte code.

In the early versions of Lombok it was a bit dodgy as it used private APIs, but now the compiler has the public hooks and its all good honest compiler plugins.
> for the fed to sell bonds

The Fed does not sell bonds, the US government (through the Department of Treasury) does. They are independent of each other.

(Then-President) Trump got lots of flack for going after US Fed Chairman Powell due to the desire to keep this independence as clear-cut as possible:

* https://thehill.com/policy/finance/450283-powell-asserts-fed...
Definitely. I used it at my job and the registry (as it was called) was saved on a Windows network drive. As you can imagine, sometimes the network was not so reliable and the registry became corrupted. We had to copy the one of another developer and lost all our work in the process. Fun times!
Do you want to die when your self driving car crashes? Debug issues when your app des at 12am? Same concept.
If meeting these requirements is too difficult for your organization, then that's a sign your organization isn't mature enough to take on the responsibility of running this service in the first place.

An oil refinery is able to make it another year because they dump all of their waste into the river behind the factory. Proper disposal is expensive and difficult. Is this fine?

There's a very valid argument that rules like this would just entrench existing players and hurt startup competition. I'm fine with this.

Running globally distributed, massively critical services like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc do, is a similarly massive responsibility. Parler incited an insurrection. Telegram is used to incite violence. Jeeze, plenty of this happens on Facebook & Twitter too. We're far, far past the golden days of scrappy startups deserving to be able to connect the whole planet without consequences.

The only reason why the oil refinery metaphor sounds so obvious is because we understand the consequences of dumping toxic waste. We understand them, today. We did not understand them 100 years ago. We lived through the consequences, and built laws to dampen them. The internet is, what, thirty years old? Its a baby. We don't understand its impact on society; we want to believe its positive, but we can't say for sure, and there's a ton of evidence pointing to it being just as negative as positive.

GDPR is a step in this direction; it does enable existing players to reinforce their moat against scrappy startups. Its especially harsh when one considers that it happened in Europe, which has almost no homegrown mega-tech sector like the US and China do. But, its still necessary. You're saying we should enable tech companies to act with essential impunity because it would be difficult for them to run their services in a way which is ethical and just. I refuse to sacrifice ethics on the altar of capitalism; I don't care how hard it is, and I don't care how much it costs them.

As for the legality: Many things are legal, or illegal, until they aren't. The funny thing about laws are, we make them. They're not etched into a big stone on a mountain, forever static.
It warms my heart to know that astronauts are using LISP in space because they want to. On the other hand, I wonder how practical it is. I've more or less converted from LISPy langs to Python for real work because I was tired of re-inventing wheels and wanted to use libraries like Pandas that truly have no equals in the functional world.

Edit: Question: How many LISPers truly use homoiconicity? Can you share any uses of it in real world software?
Decided to finally get onboard with Github sponsors and was dismayed to see this message:

"You'll be @babel's 13th sponsor, helping them reach their goal of $12,000 per month."

If a project as widely-used as babel can only attract 13 sponsors, this model is definitely broken
200+ for just ~$84 (current rate is 1/1.34), that's 42 cents each. This is worth if only to get out the parts, not to mention once you repair 10 of them you're already turning a profit. Where can I get such a deal? eBay doesn't anymore, I looked.
I'm someone who went from high-level to low-level. Software guy that does firmware, HDL, disassembly RE, some board design and layout, and have done a he high level, react frontend connected to a modern distributed backend with all the kubernetea and what have you

I enjoy the low-level work more, but that's more of a personal preference.

You can for sure solve high-level problems easier, being below it on the abstraction hierarchy, but your work just comes with new problems. I have never beat my head harder against the wall the trying to figure out something that was a chip bug that eventually becomes new errata (if you're lucky enough for the chip vendor to answer your emails in the first placeti get the errata reported).

It doesn't really protect you from politics unless you're the only low-level person in your shop and no one understands what you do, in which case you just stagnate instead. If you're not careful you tend to get paid less too since high-level folk tend to be closer to the flow of money.

I like the work, and wouldn't trade it, but it's not a panacea to engineering org issues in your career.
Funny to see that. I used it 20 years ago. Now I definitely feel my age...
Time to add user privacy and data usage dialogs to web extensions to inform users about "monetized" extensions, especially those trying to sneak in such SDKs later.
The 100 was a nice little machine, and the batteries (at least on the model we used) lasted forever. I first used one for a summer job with our local city, taking down street-damage information for our roads department. We'd drive all over town, take random samples of stretches of streets, and measure cracks, holes, etc., entering all the data into the 100, which would then be uploaded to a 286 (12mhz turbo!) for number-crunching to determine which streets in town needed attention first. The 100 took a lot of punishment and just kept working, with no memorable hiccups. The keyboard was perfectly adequate to the task, and the screen, though small even for the day, was easy to adjust to (as long as the light in the room / outside was right).
If you like this type of stuff, I highly recommend the YouTube channel "TronicsFix"[0][1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/Tronicsfix/featured

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Tronicsfix/videos?view=0&sort=p&fl...
There were a few, e.g. StarTeam and CVS, that allowed concurrent development and merging.
I would suggest a thin, non-load-bearing, and easy to replace insulation / reflection layer above the pressurized hull. It could reflect much of solar energy back to space, and much of the hull's radiation back to the hull, keeping the difference of temperatures on the hull much lower.

I wonder if it's already implemented.
Im thinking the tesla valuation is more than the car company, the car company is just making the economy of scale battery production profitable/or just funded, while the greater goal is the decentralized power generation and storage network of the solar roof + power wall. If we think of them as a energy infrastructure company + subsidiary car company/freight company (tesla semi) then I can see the valuation making some sense.

Tesla doesnt need perfect automation to handle cheap, automated, short run freight lines, leveraging clean cheap electricity, and low maintenance trucks(no ICE, less drive train maintenance, no driver time at wheel restrictions)
You are taking a mathematical formalism and giving it a physical meaning, in a way that doesn't make any sense.

The wave function is a way to describe the physical properties of an entire system - position, velocity, spin etc, for every component that you chose to model (e.g. electrons and nuclei, or electrons and protons and neutrons, or electrons and quarks etc). To get an accurate prediction, you need to input all of the relevant parts of the system. For example, when solving the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom, people input the properties of the electron and proton. If you want to compute the properties of a benzene molecule, you input information about all of the 6 nuclei and 42 electrons. If you want to compute the wave function of a mole of benzene, you would have to input the properties of all ~10^23 atoms composing it. This has no physical meaning per se - this is just the nature of the formalism.

Depending on the exact system, you may or may not have separate components of the wave function which correspond to the different components of the system which you are modelling - such as a component indicating the position of the electron and a component for the position of the nucleus/proton for the Hydrogen atom.

Also, if you were to model an electron launched towards a benzene molecule, the wave function of the system would show different values for the 1 electron that was launched vs the 42 electrons which were part of the original system.

The 42 electrons are not distinguishable simply because we don't normally choose to input any way of differentiating them, because we don't think it's useful. You could in principle describe the system such that you get a particular prediction for each of the 42 different electrons - though we don't know any property that electrons have that we could use to actually measure and confirm.

> In that wave function it means there's no longer 42 actual electrons that even exist.

The 42 electrons absolutely exist as part of the wave function - otherwise, the charge of the system would be wrong. The wave function in fact predicts positions and velocities and spins for 42 electrons, and you could in principle do a measurement where you would identify the positions for all 42 of them, with probabilities that you can compare to the wave function predictions.
Tesla is 1-2 years off afaict.

Also an interesting perspective from Jim Keller, that autonomy is easier than you might believe:

https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA

I think it was in this link but not 100% sure... I watched a bunch of his interviews.

Generally speaking, I think GPT3 shows the power of raw computer in ML:
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05
So are police methods and brutality.

In the 60s they would just brutally beat and imprison everyone at the protests directly.

They did not need to track protesters afterwards, they were already in jail or hospital.
He pressed that point pretty hard without qualifying it at all. He's both a professional journalist and a lawyer who should be an expert and speaking precisely. He either really means it, or he's deliberately being hyperbolic to obscure the reality. Neither of which reflect well on him.
> a good positive is most parts are durable / quality parts

Exactly. Surviving parts are often high quality, due to that process of "natural" selection, and are just in the middle of their bathub curve.

On the other side, you also do get a lot of parts with idiosyncratic or hard to diagnose deficiencies (like, RAM with a few bad bytes that you need to ignore, harddisks with bad sectors (same), CPUs and GPUs that randomly lock up, parts that work only in a certain temperature range, etc).
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-capitol-arrests...
To prove OP's point, Google has these great comic books [1][2] to help newbies understand the basics of AI/ML. It makes it fun and easy to understand the concepts compared to going through some video, article or book.

1: https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/ml-comic-1/
2: https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/ml-comic-2
As I said, “the activity at the Capitol clearly went beyond the bounds of what I’d call a protest.” I have less concern about what people outside of the Capitol were doing.
> how did he source them?

it says right in the first sentence:
> the 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B’s I purchased on ebay
You are correct, I typed that too fast.
For Android developers and ex-Ant users only.

I really don't see it anywhere else to make it standard, besides it depends on Maven Central.
Human brains tend to be stateful, they can be talked to. And they're only deployed at small scale. AIs don't update and can be deployed at scale.
I haven't used Facebook for >2 years. I find it super boring, don't have many active friends there. But I see relatives who use it regularly, for whom Facebook is quite near to being their complete access to the world, their world.

Your poo-poo'ing dismissal of access to the locked-on standard of sharing life events & baby photos seems so heartless to me. You don't seem to be willing to budge, to show an iota of sympathy for people's use, any willingness to acknowledge that this monopoly of broadcast human connection (& replies) is such an overwhelming monopoly because it works, because it has suceeded, because it is efficient & useful. It is that way because everyone is there. It's won because it came out on top, because metcalf's rule is true; the value of a network is (exponentially at first, sigmoiding eventually to 1, a fully connected universe) proportional to the amount of nodes and connections on it.

Being denied the ability to not only write but to read too to the world's one and only mass human network is unbearably cruel. You should show some sympathy. I agree that life can be pretty good without it, that we can cut loose a lot of the ambient connections we otherwise would never keep. But that ability to connect, to humanize at such a massively larger scale than was possible before is, to me, absolute magical & I love those who do use it well.

I just wish it wasn't a monopoly, mostly. This connectivity is too vital, too good to be Facebook's & Facebook's alone.
What "legitimate" need is there for residential IPs? These are internet connections that are generally less reliable than commercial connections. The biggest usage for them is for fooling web sites into the nature of the traffic they are serving.
If they have, it would seem they’ve been taken as a template rather than lesson in authority and bureaucracy gone wrong.

Or they just ignore the likeness and go about as if nothing.
Not sure about the Ubuntu recommendation... I have used the LTS releases on my laptop for 5 years without reinstall or any major issues (I'm a student, so the complexity of what I use increased gradually), but the latest update f*cked a lot of things up. Didn't have time to do a reinstall yet, but i sense it's highly needed. So Debian might be a better option at the time, especially as stuff is expected to be tinkered with more (switch to Wayland etc). Oh, and don't get me started on the Ubuntu Python installation :/
I did not say, I think it's a good thing or it's ethical. It's just the truth. But we all accept it somehow, so Google or wherever can make us good traffic warnings. Here in Switzerland the location data is also sold by the telco companys, you have to opt out by yourself (at least by Swisscom).
Don't know about USA, but in Europe there are very strict laws about pesticide use (things like wind speed, droplet size and buffer zones) to make general public safe. As a certified agronomist (person who give orders to start spraying) but to some extend also tractor driver you are personally liable to follow the rules. I am sure similar legislative is in use as well.
Often programming in both realms, I find that the low level gets stuck on the "how" part, and if we're talking about technically non-trivial systems, that can drain you before you even start to approach the non-trivial problem you wanted to solve in the first place.

The best way to code IMO is to find a way that allows doing low level coding but includes the possibility to jump into the high level whenever needed.
Facebook's content and ad moderation is known to be aleatory, as is anything related to appeals or contacting representatives. My personal suspicion is that the company is both technically incompetent and has confused internal handling and supervision.

It's no problem as long as you don't rely with your business on them, i.e., as long as you don't rely on Facebook ads, messenger, your Facebook page, or any other paid or free service they offer for your business.
When I was in the spam blocking business we joked about the problem of the Russian urologist. Somewhere, there must be someone who really is trying to buy Viagra from a Russian e-commerce site. But the other 99.99999% of the time it's spam. Perhaps this person's Twitter suffers a similar fate: all the classification features align with robot traffic, but they aren't a robot.
My criticism towards game designers is that they often analyze games from an abstract perspective, leaving out important details that contribute to the success of the game:

High frame rate, stability, good quality animations, color palette/art style/fonts that are consistent with the game fiction, UI usability, soundtrack, community, abscence of cheaters... just to name a few.

You can have a great game, but if it's unstable, has annoying sound effects, or constant monetization related nagging, or a toxic community or some cringy voice actor or soundtrack or excessive unskippable cutscenes with irrelevant stupid dialogs... the magic in the experience goes away. Everything counts.

If you go to a 5 star hotel where everything is perfect but when you try to use the shower it doesn't work, your overall rating will be 1 star. For a experience to be gratifying, everything needs to work together.

I've read countless articles and postmortems of the style "why X is successful", and then seen games that follow those documents closely and produce a horrible game. Because they are unable to capture the whole experience.

Lately I played a game, Ex-Zodiac, which is a StarFox clone. Only the demo is available, but the author really captured every single aspect that made StarFox great. That attention to detail is what makes games fun.
Please stop telling people how they should connect with their lives ones. It's obnoxious and it lowers your reputation.
That's all fine and I agree with your comment, but in the legal case that's the subject of the article, the rooster owners were the new neighbors, and the area looks fairly urban.
I did this. But after the learning phase, it wasn't more satisfying. Turns out it's the learning process itself, that makes the work joyful for me.
I think this would be more compelling to me, if the focus was on premium support options, rather than additional content.
It amazes me that 6.5 years after Snowden, people aren't aware of this stuff. The police, the FBI, and everyone down to your local scout leader have a shit tonne of information about where you are, where you've been, who you've been with and talked to, what you've searched etc.
Low-level plumbing can become boring quite easily, though.
Do you think this law will succeed in making people who are moving to the countryside from the cities to befriend their neighbors?
without generic support, Go couldn't even provide things as simple as a Max(...) function for all kinds of numbers in their standard library.
Microsoft had RNI which was comparable to JNI and could be used to write native code. It also had J/Direct which could be used to bind existing native code to a Java method declared native with only a comment, the closest to that for standard Java that I know of is JNA and apparently that wasn't around until 2007?
Even Russia cannot detain everyone at a protest. Most typically the leadership is followed and under covers trail them at protests and they get bagged.
In the Partnership of Octopus and Fish, a Marvelous Sign of Resilience
U know u can do depth perception from time without stereo cameras?
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> Dean Baker goes after people who claim that Japan has suffered terribly from its debt burden, arguing that Japan has actually done pretty well. But he's wrong: Japan has done better than he says

> Dean looks at GDP per capita. But Japan's aging population means that you really want to look at GDP per working-age adult. And by that measure Japan's growth has been essentially the same as America's

[…]

> The truth is that these days Japan looks less like a cautionary tale than like a role model. Its performance only looks bad if you assume that the debt is a terrible problem, when all the evidence says that it isn't

* https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1215628645869420545

25 years of <1% rates, huge 'money printing', and yet no inflation or currency debasement, and respectable per-worker GDP growth.

Where's the problem?
> Browser extensions have exactly as much power as the browser itself

I would say this is false. Browsers can run arbitrary code on your machine. Extensions can't even access local files. If we are just talking about site information like cookies I would agree.
> GPS does not use triangulation.

LOL
I don't want to die when I crash my own car, and I already debug my own apps at 12am. If your argument is that things need to be perfect than my god you must never leave your home! I'd trust a machine to drive more accurately than most people I see on the highway.

Humans aren't special, in fact more often than not we're sloppy, subject to fatigue, and a whole bunch of other negative things.

That considered, I had a pretty strict qualifier in my above post which means the machine must perform better than the average human in the respective task and therefore I'd be more likely to die driving my own car than a machine meeting my prerequisites.
As a lefty and fountain pen fan who’s thrilled this thread hasn’t fallen back to a larger fountain pen discussion, I will say if smudges really bother you, looking for a fast-drying ink might help. WRT fountains, Noodlers [1] is pretty common and reliable.

[1] https://noodlersink.com/product-tag/fast-drying/
How do you train for anomalies, given that the data is widely different every time? Or in other words, how do you obtain a dataset that is representative?
> These words confer explosions, gunfire, and mass loss of life.

There were pipe bombs found. A guy had a car full of molotov cocktails. People were carrying guns and wearing body armor. Five people died. Its pretty surprising it didn't go much worse