skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That ACLU flyer is wildly out of touch with reality.

"You have the right to remain silent during a traffic stop." Yeah. Sure. You try that and let me know how it works out for you...after your car has been disassembled, all its upholstery ripped, and put in impound. After you are released from jail exactly 47.9 hours later, or charged with "interfering with the duties of a police officer" or "obstruction of justice" or "causing a public disturbance (which may or may not be dropped by the DA. Or thrown out at your hearing the next afternoon, by the judge.)

"If your rights are violated while being arrested, take notes" - with what, exactly? The pen and paper the people who violated my rights gave me? These people live in a alternate reality.

The ACLU has no concept of what constitutes practical advice for dealing with abusive police or the issues the vast majority of Americans face when stopped by an officer...like ending up in jail and missing work the next day, your car destroyed, and being summarily fired for failing to show.

Congrats! You are now unemployed, with an arrest record, probably your name in the newspaper police blotter, and a bunch of legal expenses from the trumped-up charges.

But hey, you followed the advice of an organization that will do absolutely nothing to help you after you followed their instructions and it caused you to end up unemployed, in debt to an attorney, with no wheels...then homeless because you missed your rent.

I don't think a single person at the ACLU has ever had to worry about having enough money to buy groceries, lived one paycheck away from missing rent, or worked a job where if they didn't show up for a shift on time, they were fired.
Discussed at the time:

I quit the tech industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9691002 - June 2015 (548 comments)
This is a good place to mention "The Body Electric", by Robert Becker and Gary Selden.

https://bookshop.org/books/the-body-electric-electromagnetis...

Becker's lab was, for decades almost uniquely in the US, permitted to engage in research on effects of electromagnetic fields and currents on living systems.

I say "permitted" because it was career death to even mention it, most places. To this day, the official standards for exposure to E-M radiation admit possible effects only of heating, but Becker was able to profoundly alter growth and, crucially, regeneration patterns via sub-nanoamp electric currents.

I have no idea how or why the stricture was applied elsewhere, but Becker's free hand appears to have been a product of his employment by the US Veterans Administration, which would have liked for him to discover a way to regenerate veterans' and servicemen's severed limbs, so he did not depend on grants from the usual sources such as NSF and NIH, which must have kept a tight rein.

In 1987 I sneaked into a presentation at a conference in Szeged, Hungary, where an American biologist presented results of electromagnetically stimulating beetle larvae to grow 4x normal size. She remarked she had been unable to present such results at any US conference.
> you’ll forever be working on what everyone else was doing ten years ago.

This. I've spend over 20 years working in banks. DB, BAML, UBS, Barclays, BNPP to name a few.

They all suck for good tech.

In the 90s and 00s it was a cool place to go. Cash was flowing, algo trading was the new hotness, everyone was making good money and building cool shit.

Post 2008 crisis that all went to hell. No more cool shit, only regulatory knee jerk bolt-ons, turd polishing, and budget cuts.

It's never really got any better since then.
Curious what method you used? I recently bought a book, I'm only learning it to port a Haskell project to C++, if I can even do that.
The more I read about this guy the more he sounds like a villain in Season Six of The Wire.
You've compared one use of energy to another and found them about the same. Fair enough, but that's an utterly different issue to whether it "isn't all that much", which you have not justified.

Not an attack on your figures or your claims, just saying you've not addressed the point you set out to address.
it sounds all nice except you will end up with company splitted to two parts working Mo-Th and Tu-Fr, because customers/clients/partners want to reach you at least 5 days a week

so while I would not mind having 20% income cut considering I work most projects for company which embrace more likely 996 scheme this would either mean I would have on Monday twice as much work as usual or i would lose these projects

this can't work unless you are isolated company (hard to imagine the field) or there is nationwide law making this standard
> Ferruccio Lamborghini was primarily interested in building comfortable, quick and stylish GT cars

I agree with you about "quick and stylish GT cars", but "comfortable" is not a word that I'd associate with the only Lamborghini I know. The Countach was very uncomfortable, both to sit in and also to ingress and egress. The pedals are not in line with the seat, the sill is as wide as a moat, and there is no visibility behind the door, even the mirrors are near-useless.
> a lot of reinforcement has to happen at home

No app, parents and caregivers have to become the therapist. Depends on your child's age but these are the resources we used:

https://teachmetotalk.com/
https://www.hanen.org/

> The closest app is $200 just to show him flashcards and says an audio clip

Could you please provide the app(s)? We use this one every now and then:

https://speechblubs.com/
It took Bugatti 9 years to shift their 450 Veyron.

Though obviously these were different and I guess leaner times, the Chiron, much less of a loss leader (Veyrons supposedly cost VW $5 millions a piece, the retail price of the base model was $1 million) sold 200 units before the first one made it to a client, and the 500th (and last) unit was confirmed sold in January 2022, just under 6 years after the original announcement.
> The alternative: that its a practical possibility to translate all parts of my sensory experiences into data which can be transmitted and parsed in exactly the same way by other minds feels like the proposition needs some evidence or justification [beyond "Your brain is composed of atoms. Other atoms exist"]

In theory, if we had high-throughput brain-brain interfaces that could be connected between your thalamus and someone else's, then yes, they could experience the same sensations as you. Of course, besides the challenge of having high-throughput hardware embedded in your brain without killing you, there's also the challenge that brains don't have exact correspondences between every neuron for different people, so any such mapping would be quite complex.

But there is an actual example of a pair of conjoined twins who share the same thalamus and can experience the same sensations as one another: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_and_Tatiana_Hogan

> it was confirmed that they share a thalamus which connects their brainstems. Through this shared brain tissue structure and the interconnected neurons, one brain receives signals from the other brain and vice versa. This documentary also reported on experiments that were carried out that confirmed that visual cortex signals based on what one girl saw, were received by both girls' brains. So in effect, one twin could see what the other twin was seeing, making them unique even among craniopagus twins.

Also...

> I'm also certain my sensory experiences are not identical to attempts to quantify them or describe them in language or interpretive dance (philosophers struggling to define and articulate things even at high levels of abstraction is weak evidence in favour of qualia, since the defining aspect of qualia is its the portion of human brain state that can't be communicated).

Language is a very low-fidelity way to express information; we can use abstractions to make up for quite a bit, but it doesn't make sense to think that we're accurately transmitting what's going on in every molecule of our bodies when we say what something feels like to us. And even if we could send an accurate account of all those details, who would have the time to parse through and make sense of it all? And that would be a momentary expression of who we are; it'd be inaccurate in the next moment.
> Haskell-like languages where there are a few standard meta-abstractions like Monad/Applicative/Functor make it an order of magnitude easier to pick up a new framework, because they mean core abstractions work the same in every framework.

Exactly! The abstractions are less leaky, more sound, and give this gift and feeling of universality, unrivaled composition, and cohesion.
The problem with Path of Exile's campaign is that it is dated, frustrating and unfun.

It pushes away new players with difficult instead of convincing them to play.

Maybe the pshchologists hired by the company that makes the game made a psychological profile of whales - and this allows good conversion. However they also wfite thwt they dont use data for decisions (just vibes) so it is not clear.

They seem to be lucky with no real competition apart from maybe Diablo3.
Protecting the environment and sustainability is also 100x more important than that. Do we ever draw a line where our responsibilities end or as developers do we have to gather knowledge and make the best decisions until we reach singularity or the heat death of the universe?

Delegating is okay, or you burn yourself out.
> I vaguely resent

Why do you resent it? If you have the wisdom to analyze your desires and ignore the exogenous ones, or at least observe them at a distance, then perhaps this article doesn’t apply to you?

Also, I’m envious and have a mimetic desire to model you :)
> EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative.

EU.org predates the European Union.
Like learning a new programming language. Especially where are no immediate benefits and use.

Or learning a new (human) language. I do not live in that country or have immediate needs.

Or losing weight. My shape is far from bad, but it not ideal as well. In some shirts I appear okay, in others fat. Removes my motivation.

Or learning something new, say, a new technology thay would give me new insights and/or look good on my resume, but for which I do not have any immediate use.
The whole idea of putting the metadata in the file, let alone using different metadata format for every type is evil. Ideally there should have been one standard for all files - always pass 2 separate streams: one for pure data (e.g. the audio waveform in case of an MP3 file) and one for the metadata in form of a key/value dictionary.

MP3 tags specifically are a particularly weird thing. Music can rarely be attributed to one specific genre precisely, band and song names are routinely spelled different ways, same songs composed by one artist are often performed by another (or worse: same artist, same performer, but audibly different way another day) and everything is almost always messed up.
That’s exactly what I’m saying! Find some old timer who can speak about his gramma’s mushroom tea and it would be a breakthrough. There is zero evidence. Ok, one medical report from the 1850s in England from a family that accidentally ate them. But that just proves the silence because it wasn't a known phenomenon to the doctor (or the family).

The only explanation that makes sense to me is a massive multicultural taboo against magic mushrooms.
Exactly! And free theorems and polymorphism means even more things work as someone that understands the core abstractions would expect them to.
This is good advice and I have seriously considered this in the past. Will look into it more.
> where they can be bent slightly to fit

Oh god please don't. Lots of Italian plugs are 10A only, and you would not get grounding by shoving an E/F combo plug into an L socket. This comes without saying that it would probably wreck the shutters in the plug and the contacts inside.
Yeah actually I don't think that's true at all. They're extremely effective at shutting down polite opposition to them.
Would be interesting to know what has happened to the author after the blog post.
Per swipe fees get icky for small purchases. Something else could work better (or the fees could be reduced)

Of course, that something doesn't look like today's cybercurrency either.
Nvidia Cranks Up the Volume on Arm CPU and Omniverse Software
In the UK for people on low or no incomes or people under or over certain ages all prescription drugs are free and for everyone else they are a fixed charge per item (usually 9.35GBP). This is regardless of whether they are the latest and greatest or a generic.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions-and-pharmacies...

The US has one of the highest per-capita spends on healthcare in the world[1] for demonstrably poorer health outcomes[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... and elsewhere

[2] eg the CIA factbook all-cause mortality table shows Bangladesh as having about half the mortality rate of the US. https://web.archive.org/web/20201010211308/https://www.cia.g...
The US didn't abolish slavery, they made it illegal "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted," meaning only the federal and state governments were allowed to practice slavery from that point forward.

That intentional backdoor has been used to oppress and re-enslave America's black population via unjust laws, incarceration and forced labor ever since that bloody civil war ended. There's a reason prisons in the South make their (predominantly black) inmates pick cotton, and it isn't because that's cost effective. Prison labor is a direct reinstatement of the former slave labor system, and many prisons in the South were formerly slave plantations.
Haskell is a great language for imperative programming, actually. You are not limited by the language in that regard.
The point is you're going to have parts of the program where you won't be doing imperative style at which Haskell will excel, including at combining and composing the imperative and non-imperative components.

There is also the saying that Haskell is the world's best imperative language, and that is not without reason, since you can re-use its usual power of abstraction while writing imperative code too.
WireGuard Performance
Are you hating just to hate,I just looked up a prescription that is for adhd/depression generic variant and its $399 at GeniusRx minimum and $15 shipped at Cost Plus.
They must be doing something right and a lot better than someone commenting on their buisness model whereas you dont even know other pharmacies inefficiencies/model.
> i mean can we run x86 programs on say raspberry pi?

No, the BCM2711 is only ARMv8-A, Rosetta needs ARMv8.2 or later
> Author is not a "dev" nor a self-proclaimed "engineer". He has no computer science, maths, EE or physics degrees listed on his CV. He does list several languages.

To piggy-back on this I'm a professional Haskell programmer with no degree and my math education stopped at shaky pre-calculus.
While we're doing analogies: I don't think it's like judging someone's intelligence from their accent. It's more like betting (or not) on the Jamaican bobsleigh team for an olympic medal. -- Certain programming languages invite buggy code more than others. Certain countries are a better environment than others for winter sports.
Not to mention that training a model is a "one time deal", where a successfully trained model can be reused by a lot of client (devices).

Considering the way AI can potentially bring benefits to humanity, i see it more like an investment.

For comparison, Bitcoin in 2021 used 110 TWh, solving a problem we've either solved millenea ago, or could be solved using much less power with premined coins.
The Big Breakfast Diet
I am amazed to see people are interested in running Bitcoin nodes. As far as I know, none of the people I have talked to about Bitcoin or shit coins have any interest in running a full node. This is the thing that convinced me that cryptocurrency is a fad or worse a place people see to make a quick buck.

When I looked into it, a Bitcoin node took over 300GB of space on your computer. I'd imagine that is over 600 GB now. Is anyone running full nodes on a raspberry pi?
What is the requirements for selfhosting it? Matomo is pretty lightweight on my system.
> It's ironic because the article you shared to back yourself up is just another "unhinged lunatic" (a more wonky better lunatic-nerd than I, I can admit, but also manipulative & with less base to go off) going the fuck off, going rabid hog wild, end over end. Making absurd accusations, based on tiny evidence.

Just leaving it here.
It looks like they are still not in full-time employment, and seem to be enjoying themselves.
World War 3 and the Unknowability of Elon Musk’s Drug Habits
> Dependently Typed languages like Agda and Idris are way more interesting from an advanced type system point of view.

Yeah, but with Haskell you have a usable healthy ecosystem for real world code now.
This is beating a dead horse, but pay-to-win "games" are disgustingly user hostile, and deserve nobodies money. Please, be principled and keep your money. Blizzard was a respectable company around the time StarCraft 1 came out, but it started downhill with WoW and only accelerated with the Activision merger. Support smaller studios that are daring enough to still focus on making things purely fun as opposed to continuously exploiting your psychology for money.
Not tried it, sorry
I want to like Briar and Cwtch but neither of them have iOS clients which really breaks the whole friendly to people who use other platforms covenant. If a client doesn't have apps for both of the big mobile platforms I'd say it's very unfriendly because you by omission are creating exclusionary silos.

There's Session, which is iOS and Android friendly and doesn't burn down your battery as messages are privately routed through zero-knowledge nodes: https://getsession.org
It's not embodiment that's important so much as situatedness. An agent can be situated without having a physical instantiation.

An agent which does not have a place or time is not recognisable as being autonomous, or capable of recognising others as such.
Another alternative is rust. https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust

I intend to have a try of both rust and tinygo.

Micropython is only ok on an esp32 with psram.
This is a fantastic piece of technical writing. Detailed and clear. Much better than my usual source for this kind of information. Going to have to read more from here!
It's funny to see some rando taking this patronizing tone to give game design advice to DAN COOK, a man who could design a twee trifle like A Short Hike in his sleep if it wasn't too far beneath him to bother
That looks really interesting. Swift is - in my opinion - probably the best language out there. If wish it would get more traction on server side and on Linux too.
Making libcurl init more thread-safe
> I use my brain to write all those languages in an exhausting way. I barely do hard thinking with Haskell ever. Whether it be gamedev, web services, parsers .. I thank god every day I don't have to live like a normal programmer. My mind would be so tired.

I feel this. On slower days where I manage to eek out good productivity I joke that Haskell is the secret weapon of dumb and lazy people that managed to somehow not be lazy learning Haskell.
I thought of it - I can be happy that the adapter broke, maybe they are weak on purpose.
Scaling Governors Can Have Bugs
https://reddit.com/r/acab

The guns and support they have give them the power.

The law does not always support them, but often does.

Watch the videos in the link and the corresponding lack of justice to understand what our reality is.
It's not like it's some subtle mathematical conjecture that laymen can't possibly comprehend. It's a social comment by a well known researcher that has a good chance of being a fact of the scientific community today just as much as then.

If you believe things have changed, just say so, and move the conversation on. If you don't think it's a fruitful conversation, don't participate.

I specifically replied to someone claiming that new minds re-thinking the foundations of a field couldn't possibly be a good idea, and I did so with a relevant quote from one of the new minds that completely re-wrote the foundations of their field. I believe this was a constructive observation moving the conversation.
To you it is a good deal where you save some dollars but at expense of the poor people with addiction disorders who get ruined by this. This isn't a good deal for society as a whole which is why such practices ought to be illegal.

I think free to play is fine when they employ less predatory practices, like for example league of legends. Some spent a lot of money in that game, so it works as a business strategy, but it wasn't designed to trigger sick people into a spiral where they spend more and more money. You buy a thing, now you have the thing, you don't pay money to pass artificial barriers or hoping to get the thing you want in a lottery. Paying money to pass a barrier just to get to another barrier you need to pay money to pass is also predatory in my opinion, not just the random lootboxes.
Following your logic, a pencil weights 0.006kg, considering E=mc*2, this is 150,000MWh. This AI uses less energy than a pencil.
Police are routinely negligent and not much happens.
you really think twitter has a chance to help make people smarter?
like the parable of the scorpion of the frog
lol, said the scorpion
lmao
Why would you prefer it the US way? Doesnt the data show that the humane approach is actually reducing recidivism?
Hi HN, I am Anubhav from RamanLabs. We have been developing end to end Computer-vision modules to make it easy for developers, hobbyists to integrate such functionality into their applications with minimal amount of code.

All modules are developed to run real-time on consumer-grade CPUs[0]. For now we are releasing only Python-language SDK. Demos are provided to allow users to test performance on desired data-distribution.

Framework powering these modules in completely written in Nim language, which under the hood wraps some Operation's implementation provided by libraries like OpenBLAS/CuBlas.

We also maintain a blog[1] where we hope to share more underlying technical details.
Any feedback is welcome!

[0] Quad-core CPU with AVX2 instructions.

[1] https://ramanlabs.in/static/blog

[2] https://ramanlabs.in/static/tutorial
> It's not. It is needlessly complicated. "Basic," "Simple," or "Technical" English (which came along a few years after Esperanto) is far simpler and quicker to learn.

I'm sure it's easy to say that when you are already an English speaker. I personally doubt it very much. Is there some data maybe that supports this point of view?
The service and fines that they get are a huge cost. And as you said, once pricing goes up people won't ride them as much. It becomes serious overhead.
The author's relationship with the machine reminds me of Scotty in
Start Trek. In the age of "the cloud" that kind of engineering
intimacy feels like something lost in days of yore.
I think it is largely not, though it's not something that is a magical solution to all modelling problems. It probably depends on the domain you're solving problems in, but on the other hand, I've written CRUD applications in Haskell successfully and would characterize it as a nice experience.

> It possible to do some very specific things in it, but does it help you describe a system's data flows? Memory allocation patterns? GUI layout engine?

I feel you're underselling quite a bit when you say very specific things, but again, perhaps this depends on the problem domain, your thinking style, your programming style or some other undetermined factor. Out of the things you mention, I would say a definite yes to system's data flows, weaker yes for GUI layout and no to memory allocation patterns, because that is a known weak point.