skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to explain that the only difference between the raspberry pi & generic pi is the support that comes from having the mindshare/marketshare. But honestly, I think in the scope of the real issue it's mostly bike-shedding.

If you want to deliver a million Pi to the subcontinent, the real problem isn't the dollar difference between the various SBC. If you compare a Pi to a phone, you also have to bring ..

- Power; not just the obvious, but also that the onboard battery on a phone brings a high tolerance for supply issues.

- Screen; preferably enough of a screen to make the outlay worth it. If you just put a phone screen on a pi, what did you really gain?

- Connectivity; particularly the last mile where the phone has near-infinite flexibility.

Of course none of these are remotely difficult (although connectivity can be difficult remotely), but they're all BOM cost that end up making the SBC one of the least interesting parts to solve. For most the Pi-based laptops & Tablets I've seen, the Pi itself is ballpark 10% of the overall cost.

I think if I was going to attempt this (and to be clear, I use that phrase entirely in the 'armchair quarterback' scope), I'd be trying to create a terminal that's essentially a phone dock - because this isn't going to be an either/or purchase, no-one's going to give up their phone to get this terminal instead. So instead of using all your BOM trying to recreate what they already have, concentrate on what they're missing.
> A Facebook software engineer’s average starting salary is about $150,000 a year. That may sound like a lot. But outside of San Francisco, it’s probably equivalent to around $50,000 a year.

It’s not. A 1 bedroom in say Austin is $1,500 these days. In SF it may be $3,500. That’s 24k a year. Other costs are comparable. Taxes are another 10%. Added together it may be 100k vs. 150k. These engineers aren’t living like they earn 50k a year in SF.
I think they used it for UI work. Crystal has super simple binding to C.
It's true, however that same article has previous tests too:

May-June 2020: 0.7%

Aug-Sep 2020: 7.1%

Jan 2021: 24.1%

July 2021: 67.6%

Which makes me think it's better, as it clearly ticks going upwards over time.
haha chuckled
Anecdotally this is me. I work from home 3 days a week, 2 days in office. Pre-pandemic I ate breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner in the road...2.5 hour commute. Food prices have increased 10-40% at each one of those stops. Now I eat one lunch per week out to socialize. The other 5 meals that I used to eat out are groceries I buy at the store and carry in.
Typically a lack of MMU is the blocker for microcontrollers. Although constraints on RAM and storage can also make it inpractical.
I'm still salty that it made my Dick Smith beer-powered radio kit harder to assemble (which used copper and iron for the electrodes).
I think I can spend $50-$75 for a Smartwatch, that means Pine64 has a $20-45 wiggle room to make it not look cheap, give it more features (e.g. wifi, gps ...), more memory (e.g. to run an offline map) ...
Look at their improvement (2x) in HTTP/RPS after moving to io_uring. It's not there yet though

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/10740
Bell was inspired by Bohm's theory. Having seen that a rational theory of existence was compatible with QM, Bell wanted to know if the nonlocality could be removed. Bell's work showed that it could not be removed. Bell was a proponent of Bohm's work. Bohmian mechanics is a perfectly sound theory, proven to be consistent and in agreement with quantum mechanics results whenever QM has results.

EPR (and more relevantly, Bohm's version of it involving spin entangled particles) showed that either one has hidden variables or nonlocality. Bell's work showed that local hidden variables is not possible. Hence, nonlocality is the conclusion and the argument to demonstrate the incompleteness of quantum mechanics falls apart.

The Many Worlds interpretations kind of gets away from this by exploiting another assumption in that work: that results from experiments actually happen in the sense that the other outcomes don't. Most people at the time would have just assumed that, but MW points out that experiments need not have definitive results, instead we have multiple results of experiments correlated with multiple versions of experimenters who think they have results. Thus, the correlations we see only need to be reconciled when the two groups of experimenters get together to compare notes, a perfectly local notion. Of course, some descriptions of MW, with branching of the universe, is rather nonlocal, but a proper formulation of MW is possible without any of that.

By the way, a key feature of Bohmian mechanics is the reliance on position as the "hidden variable". The spin of a particle is not an aspect of the particle itself, but rather of the wave function guiding the particle. In the spin experiments, the correlation with the environment once measurement has happened, separates the overlapping spin parts of the wave function and the particle is then being guided by that singular spin. Hence the appearance of the particle behaving as if it had that spin, but the particle is not actually spinning, whatever that would mean for a point particle.
"on their first attempt" is part of that sentence.
Covid would still be implicated in that case, because its the Covid lockdowns that would have disrupted that. This is a counterfactual analysis with and without Covid, that certainly does not rule out indirect ways that Covid could have increased mortality. If anyone reads this without taking that into consideration, that's either dumb or agenda motivated, very likely both.

Its fairly straightforward. The number of deaths under a given circumstance have its natural uncertainty and fluctuation that's captured by its statistical variance. One compares the recorded deaths during Covid period against the typical number of deaths during a comparable situation, account for the natural fluctuation, what remains is the excess death that cannot be explained by natural fluctuation of these numbers.

With presence of Covid being the significant way in which the scenarios are different, it can be claimed with statistical accuracy which are the excess deaths that happened as a result of Covid, either directly or because of other factors influenced by Covid (Oxygen shortage being one such example).

That said, those close to the government and its agenda will leave no stone unturned to dispute and discredit this study. As long that's an informed, good faith and rational argument I dont mind at all. I do have serious doubts on whether majority of the disputing and discrediting will be based on good faith.

Ah! downvotes. Why am I not surprised.
Gotta fund the next space trip somehow.

/s
A good IDE can help tremendously in developing software. It can write a lot of the boiler-plate code that you consider bloat.

With a statically typed language the IDE and the compiler have a lot of information about your program. They can help finding and correcting errors. Good IDE's warn instantly when you are using an unknown function/method and they can even suggest how you could correct it. Also because the IDE knows all the types of variables it is able to show the source code for the corresponding classes and/or the official documentation for these classes.

With loosely typed languages, the IDE and the compiler do not have much information about your objects, so they cannot really help very much.

With loosely typed languages, many problems in the code will become apparent only when the code is running in production. I am probably old-fashioned, but there still some customers that really dislike problems in production systems.
Usually the mere announcement of such a plan is enough to find enough volunteers but there do exist a handful of such conscripted firefighter troops. Often this is necessary after a mass resignation of volunteers such as in Helsa, Hessia this year.
Well, non-whites were not generally eligible for citizenship until the Civil War (14th amendment).

We have a long and illustrious history of discriminating against different races, when it comes to immigration. Just to list a few examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

"The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks and later Asians, although free blacks were allowed citizenship at the state level in a number of states." (note that Dred Scott v Sanford later explicitly declared that black people couldn't receive citizenship.)

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

(followup to the Page Act of 1875, which banned Chinese women so Chinese male laborers who came over to build the railroads wouldn't reproduce.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

"The Immigration Act of 1924 ... prevented immigration from Asia, set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, and provided funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding ban on other immigrants."

Only in 1952 with the McCarran-Walter Act was this exclusion on Asian immigrants lifted, and the National Origins Formula (attempting to keep the racial composition status quo) was in place until 1965.
I used to work in Manchester and my commute to work on the tram was pretty bad. A lot of heritage buildings were derelict or they demolish them and build yuppie tenements and fancy lad shit that is tacky and generic like in Salford Quays.
You should listen to those "take control of your finance" coaches on the scam radio stations they advocate for the thing where you go to the bank and withdraw 1 days worth of money in cash and keep it in little envelopes.
India is much less of an agricultural economy than how it appears to people in the West.

People may be living in villages, but fully reliant on city jobs for income to feed themselves.

I doubt even a distant relative will lend a hand to a starving person in India.

The society is extremely stratified. People just a step away on the income ladder live completely separate lives.
Street value would be around 10€ per gram, so 1.500.000€
T - trinken (drink)
H - helfen (help)
W - weitertrinken (continue to drink)
I consider Vulkan to have redone the same design by committee mistakes from OpenGL, and the disregard by graphics programming newbies, like the proprietary APIs offer (including console ones).

Ironically WebGPU is what Vulkan should have been in first place, from my point of view.
Works fine for me - what behavior are you seeing?

You need to click it twice but that's because the page is doing a redirect it seems. That would be the expected behavior from my POV.
And many languages also provide convenient syntax for acquiring and releasing a resource for a dynamic extent (Java try-with-resources, C# `using`, Python `with`, etc.), which cover the majority of use cases.
It's just tinfoil hat nonsense, it's not worth responding to.
Right:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_arithmetic
The average person looking at this headline will assume it means COVID caused 4 million deaths. There’s even a colon used, implying that the thing before the colon implies the thing after it.

A less misleading headline would be something like:

> 4 million excess deaths in India: caused by COVID or the response to COVID?
Facebook hired more than a thousand engineers LAST YEAR. This article also goes to great lengths to exclude mentioning Asians of Indian ethnicity, which make up at least half of the total, and pretend "Asian" is a single race. Typical Quillette trash.
This is also why intellectual property is such a mess.
I read/listen to lots of nonfiction books(30 so far this year) and the only benefit of buying books instead of using a Library is being able to write notes in them.

With digital copies I'll screenshot a page.

Not sure what is better, both seem to have their problems. Underlining requires flipping through every page. Screenshotting gives you more and less information than you need.

But library digital books are free and don't require transportation to obtain.

As a side note, read science, history and philosophy books. It's mind boggling how much better these books are than social media. If a book sucks, move onto the next one(or tell yourself you will read it later).
Every voter is one person and in all parliamentary systems I just vote for representatives/parties that push the opinion I want. This isn’t different from any other issue.
Israeli Vaccine Data
This is explicitly included in the GPL as a punishment that can be executed against those that continually refuse to correctly follow the rules.

If someone doesn't want to follow the rules the answer isn't to force them to play and then wait for them to break them again. At somepoint you just have to say no.
Iran? Last I checked they were trying to destabilize Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen.

Syria? Lebanon comes to mind again

Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan? All of them are involved in "foreign soil" in some way

Egypt and Turkey vis-a-vis Libya (and Cyprus)?

Serbia/Albania vis-a-vis Kosovo

Morocco (Mali, Western Sahara)?

All of them are better than the US?

Not to mention that the behavior of a country "on foreign soil" is often very different than its behavior with its own citizens. That's why this division of good/evil countries often does not make sense.
No, there is no semantic game here.

You can prove something works but you can not prove something does not work. You might get a different result at different dosage, timing, some other random factor. You can only prove that it works in a certain setting and with a certain dosage.

It's like proving a negative.

For a nice example: water is normally not toxic. But in large enough quantities it is toxic. That doesn't mean that water isn't normally safe to consume, it normally is. But in certain circumstances it can be lethal.

Similar for other molecules.
Yes, I pay taxes living abroad. Any US citizen overseas that earns over $107,600 in 2020 (changes slightly every year) may be liable to pay US taxes (depending on what other deduction they may have, etc)[1].

There is the direct financial cost of paying US taxes when living abroad, but it is also a significant cost in time and energy to file taxes for 2 countries. It can get pretty complex, so many need to hire a tax service to handle it properly.

Then there are the additional reporting requirements for any banks that you have accounts with, so some banks will not allow you to have an account with them because you are a US citizen.

The point is that there are some real downsides to maintaining US citizenship when living overseas.

There are many upsides of course, like being able to return to the US at any time and live and work there. If there were an emergency situation, I could probably count on the US embassy to help me evacuate if necessary.

Overall, it's a cost/benefit evaluation. If you have citizenship in another advantageous country (or country in a powerful union like the EU) and significant resources, I can see why it would be tempting for some to drop the US citizenship.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figu...
More security nihilism.
For Home Buyers, Length of Commute Drops in Importance
File-systems work very well for people who understand how a computer works. And I'm afraid your right about the "apps paradigm", it looks easy within the app but the extended usage is difficult.

Looking at Signal (the messenger app) on iOS we see the problems, they struggle creating save backup. The are not allowed to store the backup on the file-system only inside the app, which counteracts the idea of a backup. The other option is a cloud backup, most likely and third-party servers, which counteracts the idea of security and avability. Okay, but through some weird menus you could copy maybe something the a crippled third party app, let us say Files (not a file-browser!) from Apple.

PS: I still wonder how many people could have grasp how file-systems work, if Microsoft Windows didn't provided that weird desktop metapher. Which was placed within the the "own files", which incluced the "Desktop", all accompanied by the drive letters.
And UNIX? This is a tree!
ROP isn't the vulnerability, but instead the exploitation technique. "Memory safety errors" were around for decades before ROP was widely understood.

A Java program, by construction, cannot write to memory regions not allocated on the stack or pointed to by a field of an object constructed with "new". Runtime checks prevent ordinary sorts of problems and a careful memory model prevents fun with concurrency errors. There are interesting attacks against the Java Security Manager - but this is independent of memory safety.
I really wish you could just designate a group of resources as unimportant, set a billing limit, and let Amazon nuke everything / delete your files / whatever, if you go over the limit. Everytime I try to learn cloud infrastructure stuff I'm terrified of the literally infinite bill that might show up from a typo a month down the line.
Sad to see how many comments are trying to downplay the number of deaths. Did we forget that these were real people not a number? Or how many families lost their loved ones? Is it time to compare the "fatality rate" with other countries?
They kind of doing that. Publishing the code would allow them to get their license back I think.
Isn’t that what’s been attempted for years unsuccessfully? From my limited understanding ChessBase has been warned and informed they’re breaking the license for years.
Termux provides its own pkg manager and compiled packages though you can setup distros using proot I havent really explored it.

If you are asking about azure VM i have a ubuntu 20.04 image setup.
And from the same section, importantly:

> [...] reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license

which is what the Stockfish developers have now done. I.e. if Chessbase starts to comply now, it would be too late.
This is a really good example of technology being used by criminals to circumvent law enforcement while putting the public at risk. While I personally think drug laws need to be updated, the more interesting discussion here is about creating technologies that can cause serious harm to the public and making them cheap and easy enough to be used by anyone with a small amount of financial backing and a strong insentive.
So you're saying that even though scientists have completely debunked the idea that water witches' success rate is above random chance, you would still bet money on the unscientific idea that the dowsers do better than chance.

Does this give you any insight into a person who would bet their life on the unscientific idea that vaccines are dangerous?

I don't understand either position, so I'm looking to you for more details.
OK, we read the comment a bit differently then.

For me, I see OP's mention of Eastern Europe as a link to Hungary, which is the focus of the article, rather than as a general, out-of-context attempt to shift the blame from Germany to Eastern Europe.

I guess we've now both made our points, and it's come down to a question of what OP meant rather than the words on the screen. I don't think either of us have managed to convince the other, so without more input from OP, we're at an impasse.
Couldn't agree more. I have come to really really hate cars. One of my short term goals is to find a job I don't need to commute to by car. This is shockingly difficult in the midwestern US.
For anyone else unaware, Maras = gangs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(gang)

I liked the story!
They don't sit silently at all, but Modi's phenomenal approval ratings barelly took a hit for things which would've been a political suicide to any politician in the West.
No other cause of death is reported this way.
I think revoking the license is the only tool in the toolbox that can force ChessBase to release their code. My understanding is that it is the action taken once it is determined that they are violating the terms of the agreement. It's the basis of the legal battle.

If you can't revoke the license when the terms are violated, you haven't got much of a license, have you?
The problem is that this freedom and comfort and fun of driving is only part of the deal. The rest is being stuck in traffic or looking for parking - and I suspect that accounts for most of the time driving, for most people, especially when driving to work (i.e. during rush hours).
If this is an issue, use Lightsail or a tier 2 provider (like DigitalOcean)
What a weirdly phrased sentiment. As written it seems to imply that it's OK to spy on dissidents if you are technically competent enough?

In any case, I don't think any government that wants to be totalitarian will be stopped by technical limitations.
This looks great. I was a fan of the Pebble (for its low power and "hack-ability") so will likely end up with one of these at some point.

I agree that the article title really needs to remove "Linux" though. Hopefully it can be unflagged once the title is corrected.
I was literally flagged on HN last year from pointing out potential side effects of lockdowns.

It was weird being pro science and seeing this turn political. It really showed which of my friends could think scientifically for themselves, and which repeated what authority said.
Nice bike/attempt but not many of them in circulation (too expensive, too exposed). Fwiw, pedaling does not provide a large fraction of the needed energy and I don't think the mechanical complication was worth it. Twike is the past imo.

Maybe Microlino, a wonderful, stylish, energy efficient vehicle, will be the future (certainly smarter than the crap suv tanks one sees driving around here (in the inner city)).
Fatality numbers in India during the first wave was lower, the government was prepared and had taken preventive measures. For the second wave India's infrastructure was overwhelmed, because the ruling party was busy throwing 'mission accomplished' media parties, election campaigns and allowing religious congregation attended by millions without any efficacious protection against the virus, rather the dumb belief that the holy water will flush it all away and cure.

Add to it the spread of the narrative that cow urine and cow dung, whether you wallow in it or drink or eat it, its going to protect you from Covid, a narrative that's very dear to the ruling party, and pushed by their members in parliament and members in legislative assemblies.

The consequences were hardly surprising.
This is irresponsible. Especially as policy decisions are made from it.
This article was specifically a claim about the number of deaths.
Although the last paragraph (of episode 5) claims not to give up on oop, the whole article says otherwise.
I was a long time homebrew user, but I found as time went on it got increasingly frustrating to use. The one thing that kept biting me was it wanting to update itself and all installed packages each time you install a new package. Having to wait 20 minutes for LLVM to recompile itself just so you can install wget is not fun.

I use MacPorts now, since it gets out of your way. It's up to you when you choose to update its index or your packages, which is much more user friendly in my opinion.
I’ve found that software, among other engineering disciplines, is uniquely managed as a manufacturing line rather than a creative art. In the other disciplines, the difference between these phases of the project is much more explicit.
Apply the 5 by 5 Rule to Put What Is Happening with the Bitcoin Price
I see "The license itself may not discriminate, but they may issue (and subsequently revoke) the license to whom they will." meets the letter-of-DFSG but does it meet the spirit?

If I choose to grant a GPL license to only green-eyed people, would that meet DFSG's defintion of non-discrimination? By your argument, yes: the license itself is not discrimination.

Yet I do not think that meets the spirit of DFSG.