skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't sound all that nutty given the world politics today. And pretty much any ruggedized Android device will do, so long as it has enough storage - best get something with an SD slot.

You might want a device like that to have offline maps as well, especially as those are more likely to be immediately useful. The easiest way to get there is the OsmAnd app - like Kiwix, it does a number of tricks to compress things, so it's quite feasible to have a complete offline road and topographic map of US in your pocket.

(Note that Google Play Store availability on the device is immaterial, since Kiwix and OsmAnd are also available as as downloadable .apk, and are also listed in F-Droid store.)
I heard they are getting new sensors that detect a collision via an interference with Musks giant ego.
The Within deal is above $400 million. Doesn't seem like shelfware money.

The end of the article seems pretty consistent with FTC's view: Meta can compete with better hardware and software on it's own.
Hah, does anyone use this?Seems like such an odd product for business…
There is the ever going war between dynamically vs statically typed. I can only conclude that this comes down to personal preference, but maybe also a bit experience (since I would prefer to work with Clojure over Java even for a big project any day).

I simply like to put in a lot of focus during certain times to make the compiler understand what I'm trying to do and then go to "autopilot" later and have the compiler tell me exactly all the places I have to change (and often how) when I implement something new or fix a bug.
> learning that Levandowski is not in jail anymore...

He never spent a day in jail. According to the article:

> Levandowski pleaded guilty to one and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in August 2020. Because of the pandemic, the sentence was delayed long enough that he never served a day before his pardon, which came on the last day of the Trump presidency.
Schools are optimizing for standardized tests. There's no standardized tests on civics.
Problems with Ruling That YouTube Ripping Tool May Violate Copyright Law
They are. It is stated in the subheading, as well as the article.
By the time Zig reaches 1.0, Jai may have too or have been publicly released. And Jai's constraints on getting access to their Beta, appears to have been loosening over time.
It will depend on how much resources you'd have to create the archive. A single person having a few hours will select different resources from a big team working over a few years.
Code is a liability, but it's very often the least-bad option. In particular it's severely underrated as a communication mechanism; all too often people go through weeks of planning and discussion to save hours of prototyping.
Business dudes need to stop talking like this
So too us and our actions are decisions.
Seems like both are huge problems. Tuition costs is the bigger problem, but I don't think the president can force them to lower their prices.
Wow, this is so cool!
95 GB and I can browse the entire Wikipedia offline!? Thanks so much!

https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=eng

I was looking at what other sites are available, and seems there are quite a few. Are there any specific ones apart from Wikipedia that HN readers would recommend?
Why doesn't Bash’s ‘set -e’ do what I expected? (2021)
Maybe when SLS printers get down to $200. And/or when the patience required to build one successfully is less than the patience required to steal one.

The advantage of traditional manufacturing techniques is not just durability, it’s that it works at all right out of the box, and criminals care that it’s “real” and intimidating.
So you've identified the chicken and the egg, I agree, which is why we finance these things. By the time its built that money won't need to be spent on cars anymore on an ongoing basis.
This is the kind of thing that you download once and then never write anything on that media until you decide to refresh the content. In fact, you might as well mount it read-only. A journaling FS wouldn't do anything useful here.
You get short-term subsidised infrastructure at the cost of cutting off all future local R&D and local manufacturing capacity. For a small country, this is probably worth it. For a global behemoth? Probably not. Like all things in life, there are trade-offs, and allowing the decimation of local capability on what should be of national concern (energy security) was short-sighted at best.
In favor of the original, which he's already legally bound to. Why would they want to let him modify the deal now?

> In a filing later on Thursday, Twitter responded by saying that Musk and his legal team are being disingenuous. Only days before a trial was to commence, Musk’s team suddenly declares “they intend to close after all,” the lawyers wrote.

> ″‘Trust us,’ they say, ‘we mean it this time,’ and so they ask to be relieved from a reckoning on the merits,” Twitter’s side said. “To justify that relief, they propose an order that allows them an indefinite time to close on the basis of a conditional withdrawal of their unlawful notices of termination coupled with an explicit reservation of all ‘claims and defenses in the event a closing does not occur.’“

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/musk-seeks-to-stop-oct-17-tr...
Is there an archetype for programmer who does their damn job instead of bloviating at how elite they are because they read a few Martin Fowler or management books, or is it hard to spin that into a narrative worth high six figures?
Most of my day to day work is on a Thinkpad running Fedora. I also have a work laptop running Windows, and a personal macbook pro. Two quick points:

1. The emphasis in this website of "you can change what you want" targets a pretty small population. Anecdata of the worst sort, but the vast majority of people in my orbit absolutely do not want to manage their computer. They want it to largely disappear so they can work and watch cat videos. Most of them think customizing their computer means changing their wallpaper. And that's fine! I never lead with "I can customize this machine to do what I want." I lead with "Eh, I got tired of forced reboots and disruptive updates and privacy issues so I switched to Fedora and it doesn't do any of that. If I want to fiddle with something I can [and I very, very much do tinker], but I don't have to."

2. I laughed at the notion of using linux to bring an ancient 5-year-old computer in the closet back to life. I mean, yes, that is one of the great things about linux, but the macbook pro I'm typing on right now is 5 years old and it runs like it's new. The hardest thing to convey about Apple equipment is that the TCO is lower because you can easily upgrade on a 5-7-year cycle, pretty much as long as Apple gives security updates. Expensive at the front end (though competitive with similar Windows machines), but not as expensive over the lifespan. (And, emphatically, I'm not saying you can't experience long ownership cycles with PCs, but, from experience, it's harder.)

On the other hand, when this MPB runs out of gas, I'm probably going to replace it with a thinkpad, or possibly with an ARM Mac running linux.
> Oh no please politicians stop doing things your constituents want you to do in hopes of success in future re-election campaigns!

Can you show me to the national grassroots movement/lobby to grant pardons for federal simple marijuana possession crimes? I have a cousin who was convicted of it in 1995, and he thinks it's the reason why the federal government won't accept his application for employment. I'm not looking for the legalization movement, because that's not what we were talking about here.

But I definitely want to know who the guys are that got Biden to agree to this pardon. They are clearly an effective group and I want to get involved somehow.

(If they exist)
one person's "thin skin" is another's "courage to stand up for themselves".
I think it's both. You get a 10x engineer and a good environment and they bring in other 10x engineers who want to work with them.
The real difficulty is getting 128 languages to compile.
What’s ironic is that IMHO it should be at least more of a state level decision, which should be supported by the right. Of course logical consistency isn’t a hallmark of politics. If Pres. Biden supports something then obviously it should be opposed (this works for the left as well).
I left binance and staked my crypto instead. Binance customer service does not exist and their website and app are broken.
Not even elite colleges! UCs...
War isn't like superhero/kaiju duels, though. Duels are generally about the opponent themselves — you can only win by disabling them. But a large part of war is about the logistics of moving soldiers and supplies around and through places; and so it can be critical (even war-winning) to deny your enemy the use of territory.

A "superhero that shoots fire" (i.e. a guy with a flamethrower) — or a rolling cloud of nerve gas — isn't there to actually harm anybody; it's there to be a thing your enemy sees and stays well clear of. It's an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_denial_weapon. The threat of it prevents your opponent from coming within range of it; and thereby locks them out of the area it threatens.

And, as it happens, a flamethrower is a much safer area-denial weapon than a cloud of nerve gas — as, whenever the enemy isn't around, you can immediately shut the flamethrower off, and use the area yourself.
I actually found out the hard way that a lot of these adapters are trash and completely ruin the audio signal, or don't work with all devices due to the lack of a DAC or just having a bad quality DAC.

Unfortunately, if you want to buy a good and reliable one, you should probably spend at least $15-$20 on one. I've had luck with the Anker-branded one, though the audio quality is noticeably worse than when I used a phone with a direct 3.5mm port. YMMV.
Also noteworthy, this post of mine with authoritative text from GNU docs. Read "(Un)Portable Shell Programming"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31678176
Going from public high school into a high pressure university can be quite a shock (it was to me). Before firing a prof, I'd have consulted the majority of his students who did not sign the petition.
The outrageous ones that come in the news happen at the end when there is little to no accountability or blowback to worry about
1. It's built into the task, not into the solution. How do you classify without binary outputs/probabilities? If you want to know if a picture contains someone's face or it doesn't, you need a binary result purely based on the task itself regardless of your approach for solving it. In multiclass classification, you extend your sigmoid to a softmax but it still boils down to a distribution of probabilities. Or in multilabel classification, you essentially perform binary classification for all classes at the same time. Like... what else could you do? In a hypothetical alternative, if you scan your face to unlock your phone, how does the underlying vision model give or deny access to the phone without producing a binary result at some point along the way?

2. To have nonlinearities between the layers, and to have layers with varying complexity and structure. In practice it works much better than all the alternatives that we've tried.

These things are explained very well even at a beginner level, and you aren't really questioning them deeply or proposing any alternatives, instead you seem to be getting into philosophy.
> What's silly is suggesting that "efficiency" is the only metric for quality of life.

That's a straw man you introduced. Cities with fewer cars are more efficient and have a higher quality of life.

That comparison re: density is meaningless, and that number doesn't matter at all. Nobody's going to put Hong Kong type subways in the middle of the Nevada desert where that average gets pulled down. Only New York and Chicago really have proper transit and that's only downtown. There's no reason for car ownership to be higher in SF or NY or DC or Chicago than in Hong Kong except inadequacy of transit.

You'll notice that all the most liveable cities in the world have excellent transit and none of them are in America [1]

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-most-and-least-l...
For those not in the know, you learn a piece of software developer lore today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
Because it works well enough. Our vision system is full of weird illusions and nonsense though. If you burn part of your retina, you won’t even know unless it’s severe enough. Your brain will “fill in the gap” as long as it can. Is that what you want driving your car?
I wrote a crap SDR basically just from wikipedia, maybe their radio broke.

Presumably you have seen a science fiction film before, use your imagination.
Sounds good, but... do we have models in our heads? Or are our minds simply huge and complicated neural networks?
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Progress in deep learning has been quite astounding the last few years, but the output is still very dreamy, fuzzy, inexact etc, as though eg for image generation, the pixels are representing individual neurons, and you're viewing the 'dream state' of the network.

I think actual programming requires something more concrete; the 'atoms' of a program are not text letters or pixels, but something more abstract, more exact. I think once deep learning incorporates a symbolic or logic system of some kind, that might be a solution, but then that will apply not only to programming. All IMHO.
Kiwix has Stack Overflow (and various StackExchange subsites), Project Gutenberg, TED talks, and plenty more. You can also request something.
I like the direction. Maybe at second level you could input your questions in Spanish (or whatever language you set). That way you add a step of writing in the same language once you've gotten reasonably good at reading the responses.

Allow for mixed-in English words until the language improves enough to go full-on monolingual. That's how multilingual groups talk organically around each other anyway, so it's a nice progress.
There’s a “slight” difference between tear gas and chemical weapons. Ones cause temporary (but very strong) inconvenience (of course there maybe some one off complications), others are designed to kill you, as efficiently as possible.
Don't forget the Arch and Gentoo wikis!
It’s sort of non-shitty which is a glaring indictment of the difficulty of solving problems with AI. Languages are a closed system, the cars have no chance
Winning a Nobel Prize Takes Luck as Much as Talent
Thing is... when something starts at a ultra high price (like these boosters), I think the community will intentionally drive the resale value down. A weird phenomenon I have observed in collectibles.
Stefan R. Underhill, United States District Judge is either corrupted, an idiot or both.
I've never applied for any other kind than a tourist visa (and also never travelled in any other way there), and never had I seen anything different/worse than passing any other border in europe (non EU/schengen ones).

US does seem one of the only/few countries where an illegal immigrant can lead a pretty normal life for years (job, send kids to school, get a doctor, etc.) without getting noticed and deported... in my country for example, there's literally no way to get someone illegal to (eg.) school.
The roads in those places are full of median and below median drivers.
We can compare them and see that the police force oversteps its civilian role. Your point about the requirements to kill enemy combatants strenghtens that arguement.
IIRC, Nreal Light is 2 m focus distance. Crisp 1080p. Weight/fit... I'd perhaps diy a hat or strap for long-duration use, depending on face shape. Reddit suggests newer Nreal Air is 4 m.
Wait, what? There is no such thing as somebody having weed in their pocket in Yosemite National Park in a non-violent way?

I love this reasoning. If there are no non-violent offenders, then every crime is violence. Considering people break laws on accident all the time, it is probably safest to simply imprison the entire population of California by default and have a tribunal of police that decide parole on a case-by-case basis.
Buy puts on the ETF.
With what? a rear facing camera that runs the same object detection software?
China Pairs Armed Robot Dogs with Drones That Can Drop Them Anywhere
Do you think that it would be a good goal to work towards a world where all civilians are subject to military law exclusively?

My impression is the first order of business is declaring an official emergency.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of the blackout? The point is to force people to use less electricity. All you're doing is cheating the system by stockpiling it before the cutoff.
Was it AvantGo?
At least two MSR startups plan to deal with that problem with replaceable reactor cores, which only have to last five years or so before being shipped off to a cleanup facility. We do have materials that can manage that.
Really?

A) our visual system is several orders of magnitude better than the best CV systems (both in terms of optical sensor + the wetware that does object recognition, focus, etc etc). That doesn’t mean that artificial systems we build can get away with just one

B) our visual system works on coarse approximations with high latency. Radio vision systems operate with far more accuracy / precision and lower latency

C) our visual system fails in inclement conditions (heavy rain, fog, night). Radio vision systems complement by filling that gap

D) sensor fusion done well should strictly outperform any single sensor

E) we evolved for the visual spectrum because of our history of reproductive selection as a species. This in no way says anything about the optimal artificial system design

F) our visual system fails ALL the friggin time. Remember “check your blind spot”? Our visual system has major blood vessels going in front of the lens which is unnecessary but there’s no evolutionary pressure on us to fix that because our brain compensated for that defect.

G) the goal for self driving systems is to be not just at par with humans, but several orders of magnitude safer with 24/7 uptime and driving. We have no evidence to suggest that’s possible with just vision.
"The total number of deaths already attributable to Chernobyl or expected in the future over the lifetime of emergency workers and local residents in the most contaminated areas is estimated to be about 4000. This includes some 50 emergency workers who died of acute radiation syndrome and nine children who died of thyroid cancer, and an estimated total of 3940 deaths [...] lifetime of about 600,000 people under consideration." - WHO https://apps.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index1.html

The older Linear-No-Threshold model had predicted that small doses of radiation would have a small chance of causing harm. From watching Hiroshima, Chernobyl, and nuclear accidents, our new models have thresholds below which radiation has no observable effect over the lifetime.

Chernobyl was a disaster but its death toll is equivalent to a month of North America's opioid epidemic.
Improper abstraction does usually lead to significant technical debt, but if you are lucky you can bank your short-term successes and leave the tech debt to someone else.
That's article is absolute garbage, it doesn't convey any rebuttals of any kind. So you are just mudding the waters with he said / she said.
Once you publish your peer reviewed paper I look forward to retracting my comment as you are globally lauded.
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>In other places I have been to where there is a transport card system, anyone can buy a card, usually in a vending machine in a convenient location, and do everything with it. Locals may have nominative cards that work in the same way, but are also tied to an account.

Yep, this is how it is in Japan (but without the account bit). You buy a Suica or Passmo card at the airport when you arrive for 500 yen, "charge" it with a bunch of cash (which you helpfully get at the 7-bank ATM down the hall), then you can use that *everywhere in the whole country* for public transit, and many other things too if you want, like vending machines and many restaurants. (It's generally better to use a credit card for places that take it, but still, the option exists.) There's no advantage for locals either; everyone gets the same card, and it's not linked to any account.

Finally, when you're ready to leave the country, you can visit the customer service counter and surrender the card, and they will give you (in cash) the remaining balance on the card, plus the 500 yen deposit.

Also, unlike in Paris, you don't have to worry about any rude service people in Japan. Everyone is always polite here.
Damn, nuclear seems so obvious... though I know some people really hate it too. Seems very controversial, and fascinating in a way. Maybe we will react the same way to other advanced technologies, like cloning, AI, stem cell research e.g. instant shutdown.

Lots of people are even worried about CERN... monkey logic.

My province gets 90% of its electricity from hydro though, I'm glad I don't have to think about this issue too much
This was not symbolic. There are thousands of people for whom this action is the farthest thing from symbolic. Thousands of people who will be released from cages and able to see their families again. This pardon is absolutely making a difference in a lot of people's lives. If the justice department reschedules the drug, and other states pardon their prisoners as he's asked them to then the impact will be much much greater.
Recently a Russian company showed a weaponized dog-like robot. They bought a Chinese robotic dog on AliExpress and attached a grenade launcher on it's back.
It's a reflection of the linux ecosystem because it's imbued with the linux mentality.

Just throw things together (that were all designed and built separately) and convince yourself it will form a coherent whole.
A) This is absolutely a fringe belief, if it is believed at all. Cite a source if you think it could be true.

B) World War II started two years earlier than Pearl Harbor, when Hitler invaded Poland. The idea that FDR started WWII is the most ludicrous, revisionist idea I've ever heard about history.
I hate to be a "told you so" person, but since 2010 I've been saying bitcoin is just a typical libertarian pipe dream. Yes I missed out on a large financial bubble, but I also made $0 on beanie babies, and that is fine.

But my main point is that people see a problem with the government and jump to the conclusion that we should just get rid of the whole institution without understanding the history of that institution. So bitcoin decided to get rid of govt control of money, which is just like a small town getting rid of their property taxes. It sounds great and works great until a bridge unexpectedly collapses and you have no way to pay for a new one, or until someone finds a bug in your defi code and borrows all your crypto for 1000 years at a zero interest rate.
Here is an interesting article outlining some specific Clinton-era laws that were an enormous help to private equity: https://prospect.org/economy/cut-off-private-equitys-money-s...

There used to be strict leverage restrictions on funds that raised money from investors, as well as limits on who/what entities could invest in the funds. The article really goes into more detail but lawmakers and the Clinton administration eliminated these laws and birthed the modern private equity industry which is pretty much the definition of short term focus.
How do we actually know that “we” don’t? From the reporting of obviously cooperating media? Or what?
2023, the year of the Linux desktop!
Introducing Tesla Ankor.