skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously fuck off, everyday I read the same bullshit like this and it never gets removed. Read your own comments! This is laughable.

Some things are obvious, and I'm allowed to say that to these self-proclaimed mathematicians.
The FAQs and such make it clear that it's basically an ordinary PC in a handheld form factor; if you don't want to log into a Steam account, then any ol' Linux distro or even Windows should run on it just fine (though whether the handheld controls play nicely is something I'd be curious about).
Nah, demand will continue to grow. Especially since many larger companies are starting to develop their own processors and workload specific ICs.

I think that hardware/IC design is going to go through a renaissance like the software side of things went through from ~2005+ where large companies start to pick and choose the parts they need for their custom silicon. You already see many of them start to adopt more practices that you see in the software/open source side of things.
AMA with Jason Fried: Founder and CEO at Basecamp (Also Hey.com)
This seems like the rumored AMD Van Gogh for low power configurations: Zen2 CPU + Navi2 GPU. Essentially it's AMD's stop-gap solution before the launch of Rembrandt (Zen3 + Navi2). https://www.tweaktown.com/news/78815/amd-van-gogh-apus-zen-2...

Also agreed that this looks very price competitive. Given storage is SSD-expandable, $399 gives you a fairly powerful mobile gaming platform and PC.
That's how competition of ideas looks like - with people being in conflict over these ideas, and those ideas (or ideologies as "idea packages") having to change and compromise to win over more people or be outcompeted as their supporters get outnumbered, defeated or even eliminated.
I've used both of these tools with great success in the past. Infinitely scriptable in your favorite scripting language, being just simple command-line tools, too. Great for automation of backups.

Re; the issue of external drives spinning down causing a remount at a different location, I've never had that exact experience before, but I have had drives spin down more frequently than I'd like, so my answer to that was to just disable the spindown entirely. (There's articles about various ways to do that easily findable on your favorite search engine if you're curious how to do it.) Once disabled, if I find that I still want some form of spin-down for the drive, I install one of the handy available daemons that allows a much more easily configurable form of this feature, and then set a longer delay than the drive's default. (This can also be done by configuring the drive itself to a longer delay, but it's more of a pain than just editing a simple text configuration file for a daemon.)
Jeff Bezos Picks 18-Year-Old Dutch Student for Blue Origin Rocket Launch
I misread. The data dump is required for inference.
A New Approach to Designing Work (2017)
Dare I ask how much the space shuttle cost to launch? Another order of magnitude higher? Ha ha.
What I am gathering here is that they are not happy their algorithm appears to be politically impartial. Math equations and Computer algorithms don’t care about whatever BS propaganda is most popular unless they utilize ML models that become somehow trained only on that data. One of the reasons I love computers is they are pure of all emotion and bias. Code is code. It is whatever you make it to be. People have been saying facial recognition is biased but that’s only because the data being fed into the training models is unbalanced, aside from underdeveloped color/geometry analysis and extraction libraries. The point is code does not care about politics. If it appears to it’s because the code authors do not truly understand either what they created or the type of data they are feeding into the system.
The world is not overpopulated, but instead, it's starved for some resources in big parts that matter to people and other life forms.

Earth can happily provide for even more people if done responsibly, but that's pretty hard and costly today. Hopefully we figure it out soon.
> The NSA routinely hoards 0-days, preferring to use them to attack foreigners rather than disclose them to protect US citizens (and others). This short-sighted policy has led to several disasters, [...] Unless they are immediately required for a specific operation, the NSA should disclose 0-days it discovers or purchases

The author too charitably positions NSA here. When one considers the hoarding of 0-days, weakening of encryption standards, wrecking trust in US businesses by forcing compliance, failing to intervene in years of breaches, and many other malicious activities, it soundly refutes any claim of concern for protecting the country. How many billions has this cost in business terms, on top of the billions they're paid for the privilege?

So if defense isn't their actual mission, maybe it's actually population control.

https://reason.com/2014/07/11/total-population-control-is-ns...
This is my biggest problem for crypto. For us power users we are fine but for the average joe and my parents I would never let them hold their own keys. You here every day people getting scammed and hacked now imagine if they could lose all their life savings because they where not 100% tech savvy.
I've heard some research into using triangle as macroblock for future codecs. That would really change things up.
Honestly, those specs are pretty decent[0]. I could see myself using that as a workstation, since it's already preinstalled with Arch.

[0] https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech
Ask HN: Does anyone know about ID.me? CA DMV is forcing sharing data with it
Does anyone know anything about ID.me? I had to do something with CA DMV and realized that now they mandate that my online DMV account shares my information with ID.me else it won't let me proceed beyond the login screen.

Also, for new accounts, including minors, it is mandating this data sharing with ID.me, including SSN, DoB and so on.

This seems like a huge risk for me. Unfortunately it seems CA DMV has gotten rid of paper forms. Local DMV said they don't have those anymore.

The only other option for me is to use the computer at the DMV, but that seems like its own risk as those are public terminals and I don't feel comfortable filling private info, such as SSN, DoB, address on a public terminal.

Worse, ID.me's privacy policy (https://www.id.me/privacy) states:
The Service and Website offer eligible Users who create an account with an electronic identification resource (or “ID.me Account”) that allows eligible Users to verify their status as a member of an affinity group create accounts with websites that use the ID.me Account and access certain exclusive benefits, including without limitation, deals, discounts, cash back rebates and employment and educational opportunities, offered by participating retailers, service providers, employers or benefits administrators (collectively, the “ID.me Service”)

They also run a shop at: https://shop.id.me/

Any thoughts/info would help..
Do you mean that given finite resources (like time and matter) we would be unable to express the number? Or are you talking about a sort of recursive thing where writing down a number which is a sum of all natural numbers up to and including itself is impossible since that number is bigger each time you look at it?
Mainly yes. WW2 is the only US war where I can identify some objectives that decent people can support. However, US war aims in WW2 were based on expanding US influence around the world. I think if you look in retrospect, the results of post-war planning are obvious. The US is the world hegemon after we turned on our Soviet ally, whom collapsed decades later leaving us a monopole.

US business interests were very friendly to the Nazis, providing manufacturing knowledge, financing, and equipment for chemicals, tanks, and advanced computing equipment. Without IBM computing equipment, the holocaust would have been logistically impossible. They have never been brought to justice and are name brands today including what is now Monsanto, IBM, Ford, General Motors, and Chemours.

After the war, the United States helped the former Nazis escape on the "rat line", seeding them inside US industries, around Europe (including NATO command), and South America. Nazis and their ideological descendents were used for US covert operations around the world to counter the communists and latin american governments that were a bit too independent.

We live in this world now.
We don’t have to “refurbish” airplanes after every flight. Are the stresses of rocket engines / getting to orbit simply so great there’s no way to engineer away “refurbishment”? And will that always be the case, or could advances in materials change that?
I do due to the nature of my work, but I do not feel as comfortable recommending anyone specific.

Instead, I would suggest starting by focusing on fiduciary financial advisors ( https://money.usnews.com/investing/investing-101/articles/wh... ), who have a legal duty to not recommend things that do not benefit their client. That alone may help with removing some of the unease of the referral.
Hi! This is very interesting - I had a question but more so on the business side. I don't know much about finance, but what made you decide on a fixed fee pricing model than a take rate model like a hedge fund.
I think the answer is small social networks for several hundred and thousand people at a time, running on hosting which can cost 10-20 bucks a month.

Of course, that would mean techies stepping up and doing this for their families and tribes...

Many of us seem to be preoccupied with chasing the advertising dollar which exploits those same people.
California still imports a large amount of power from other states (primarily Arizona and Utah, with some hydro from Oregon). So we essentially outsourced a lot of our power production to other states.
Speaking as a current government contractor, this is not how government contracts work.

On the individual level, someone would have to work very hard, or be seriously disliked, to be terminated. In particular, when an old prime contractor loses a contract, the new prime contractor attempts to hire all of the individual workers from the old contractor, and generally succeeds. (It kind of makes sense; the work will likely remain the same, and the workers are the only ones who know what that is.)

Second, the government is often paying the $600/hr not because it's cheaper or more flexible, but instead to insure that there is a national market for, say, aerospace engineers. (Without defense contracts, the number of aerospace engineering positions in the country would likely be in the three digits, not the five digits.) The government is paying for recruiting, training, sustainment, pensions, and inventory management anyway.
Fun fact: I know one company in Russia which built aerospace-grade product in Smalltalk as late as 2010s. I don't know, maybe they still use it right now, maybe it had been replaced, all my friends in this company changed job in last 10 years.
Good know. Very interesting.
Checkout RingCentral's offering (API's) for both SMS and MMS. They also have a web app that you can use without needing to write code to send SMS https://developers.ringcentral.com/api-products/sms
I'm assuming the pilot could convince the union to fund the litigation if Delta tries to drag their feet, that's kind of what unions are for.
I don't think it's reasonable to exclude outliers when you are de-facto angel investing. The expectation is that most companies, especially those pushing technological limits, fail. One or two wild successes is the "expected" outcome in a power-law, winner-take-most distribution, and SpaceX is one of them.
Great write up and well done!
Wealth and value are different things. Value can be created without billionaires capturing most of the wealth.
KDE is part of the stock software, apparently. Similar to existing versions of SteamOS in that regard, except with Arch + KDE instead of Debian + GNOME.
I don't quite see how people being interesting relates to the thread. I said that forced dinners with strangers is bad, in response to a comment that said it's good. You then responded saying people are interesting. My comment about utopianism isn't that I think it's utopian to believe people are interesting, it's that I think it's utopian to believe that forcing strangers to interact is necessarily constructive.

As to your point itself, I would say I find most people painfully uninteresting. I once read that humans are generally interested in people or objects, and I'm much more interested in objects. This has naturally developed into life choices that minimize my interaction with people (besides loved ones) like working in software and having interests I can pursue by myself (rock climbing, studying languages, lifting weights). My mid-term life goal is to buy a remote-ish house in a low-population density state with multiple acres and work remotely so I can ideally go days without seeing another human. My dream would be to own and live in the middle of a forest or on a mountain so I could go weeks or months without seeing another human (again, besides my loved ones). If you're the opposite, then I agree we're just different and I hope you're able to achieve your version of an ideal lifestyle.
A lot of this crowd thinks toll everything is the right solution, since there is a heavy libertarian... presence.
China’s “dreamchild” is stealthily winning the battery race
A common view is that both sides in an economic transaction gain some sort of benefit. Nonetheless sentiments like "all labor is exploitation" are fairly common, so I can see why that view exists, given the power disparity.
A related thing that occurred to me the other day: there's some number in [0, 1] that encodes every state of every possible Turing machine (the number of Turing machines is countable, the duration of its run is countable, and the states at each step are countable, so you can diagonalize that and make a real number out of it). I'm pretty sure you can take that further and show that all possible mathematical proofs, including the Godel unsolvable ones (I think...they're just proofs that are infinitely long but countably so), can also be encoded in a single real number. That makes it feel like the reals are pretty big.
Most of the TF2 bots seem to be about trolling. They just kill players, spam chat and voice, and some have racist names (because Valve don’t check for Unicode characters in player names)
If anyone wants to use the term "UBI" they should be forced to first watch "Freedom to choose" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3N2sNnGwa4&list=PL474202319...

UBI only works when it's 1) Universal (even to rich people) and 2) When it's funded by dismantling some/all of the existing welfare state.
The article mentioned that San Jose has 6,000 homeless people and capacity for 1,000 homeless people (I assume this allows for food, beds etc but I'm not sure).

Perhaps I don't quite appreciate the complexity of this problem, but creating housing for 6,000 people seems pretty feasible and achievable. And really the city only needs to create space for 5,000 people since they already have 1,000 beds.

While a 1,000 to 6,000 capacity is a significant percentage growth, this just doesn't feel like an insurmountable problem. It seems like it should be pretty easy to resolve (building housing for these people) by a city government especially with a public private partnership and support from a major tech company.

Even if scaling 1,000 to 6,000 is hard, surely some incremental improvement (1,000 to 1,500 for example) should be possible
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one thing to remember is it will be a static fire of three engines not the full thirty'ish. Now a static fire of 30 Raptor engines will be a sight, and sound, to behold!
That's got me trying to visualise "mile-gallons", and failing because its dimensions would be "length^4".
Spreadsheet model for inputting this data is far far superior. I don't think this flow is conducive to a web UI.
Meanwhile games are dabbling with rendering interlaced (or checkerboard) + reconstruction pass
It is still a PC though. You can plug it into a monitor, attach a mouse and keyboard, and write a book with it.
Freakonomics have a great episode on this - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/
I don't really even mind if Facebook is targeting ads to me based on the stuff that I do on Facebook. It's when Facebook, and Google, Amazon, whoever, start reaching their tentacles into other spaces where I can't get away from them or don't give them consent that I have a problem.
At least you got an explanation. The last day I ever wrote a line of code for iOS was when I realized they removed my app without notification of any kind, no explanation. I didn't bother asking for an explanation. I was already displeased with Apple's treatment of developers, and it was only from constant requests from friends for some of my apps on iOS that I finally gave in and jumped through all of Apple's hoops like buying a Mac and iPod for development. At least now I can tell them the type of company their giving their money to.

Granted Google isn't a lot better. When I first got an Adroid phone one of the first apps I tried to download was a flashlight app. I found it quicker to just write my own than to wade through all of the existing apps that were out right spyware asking for permissions to everything on the phone. So that was my first app added to Google Play. Years later I get notified it's been removed because it didn't have a privacy policy. Yet all of those other "flashlight apps" requiring access to your full browser history, text messages, e-mails, etc. are fine because they have a privacy policy that essentially states their policy is no privacy.

By the time that happened, most phones had a built in flashlight app, but I wanted to see what it would take to satisfy Google. Just adding "this app doesn't collect any data" wasn't good enough, it had to be a legaleaze document to guarantee no one would read it. No privacy policy generator I found had a "I don't collect anything" option, so I ended up with one stating I may collect data when I don't.