skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A couple caveats for those going apoplectic over the headline: I mean self-driving isn’t going to be a thing A) in our lifetimes and B) with any kind of omnipresent scale

Sure, you cannot deny the fact that it already happening. There's a surprising number of driverless cars on the road already.

In terms of meeting the 'omnipresent scale'. This is much harder. There's a ton of people whose life choices mean their car budget is <$5000. Which means they can only afford 20 year old death trap beaters.

So how does society get to the point where $150,000 driverless cars can be afforded by those people? It's from the amortization table and depreciation. It might be decades before there can be any major proliferation. That isn't the goal of driverless. The obvious caveat is most manufacturers are working on subscription models.

The interesting thing about the current system. A tremendous cost to society is the poor investment into transportation. You drive around a city and you'll see millions of $ sitting in driveways not doing anything. Whereas public transit is certainly not the alternative to this poor investment.

This is where the driverless taxis come in. The people who genuinely use their vehicles to a significant extent can still do so, but most people really just need low cost transportation. Which is indeed why public transit must exist and also why large cities are repairing that huge wealth damage.

In the near future public transit like buses will go away and be replaced by driverless taxis. Not exactly nostradamus to see that coming. This will be what presents driverless cars at an omnipresent scale. This absolutely will be happening very soon.
Ive used a RPi4 4GB as my only computer for well over a year, without any issues. I use my VPS via SSH for any heavy coding tasks. Libre Office, Claws email suit my everyday needs. I’d also like to my get my hands on the 8GB Pi4 version. In theses times of expensive electricity bills, I can have the pi running all day.
You should watch the Japanese movie ikiru - that’s how I felt when I tried to navigate the kafkaesque GST system. I received a letter, and just to find out who I received from, I was shuffled around between 7 offices in just my cities with a total travel of 60 kilometers (my city is itself only 15km across lol).
I bought a used nuc computer on eBay for less than $100 recently. It’s much more powerful than a pi. Used computers are some of the best bargains now.
Read Matt LeVine’s stories; I think he has the best take.

In short: Musk made an offer for the lulz because how many people can joke about $44B, got trapped in it, loves Twitter, hates Twitter, figures there’s something there, wants out, wants to go big, ask again tomorrow.

He’s rich enough that he can afford to be erratic and cavalier, none of his past statements should be taken as predictive of future actions. He’s already gone from “all moderation is censorship” to “of course we don’t want the dystopian bell scape that complete laissez faith would produce”. Tomorrow he might run the firehouse through CCP’s censors. For the lulz.
Aren’t “inundated” and “full nuclear” exaggerations too?
I just use the text editor that comes with Ubuntu Mate, it's called Pluma. I only play Mahjong and Solitaire on the thing. So nothing advanced compared to modern day capabilities. I only ask things from my RPi that I know it can perform, so with my software needs I had to adapt to this piece of hardware as well. I'm just surprised it held so well for over a year now.
I'm not sure fresnel is the right term. What GP referred to is probably iridescence [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescence
It's definitely not just about muscle mass. But you should compare yourself to yourself only when it comes to self-improvement, since you can't borrow someone else's metabolism. Having more muscle mass is better than not having it for both health and appearance.

When we're talking about slowly gaining weight over time as the OP did, even if muscle only burns a little more energy than fat that could be enough to tip the balance.
In fact various Twitter accounts are already unavailable in EU today because they are censored for spreading Russian state propaganda.
Something was broken at Facebook for a long while. Before I stopped using it, my feed would show me content that had nothing to do with my social network. The algorithm was trying to keep my attention.

My FB feed would not show me posts from friends, whom I knew posted something (by checking their profile manually).
I think their internal kpi metrics meant staff sacrificed their user base by tuning for engagement in the short term.

Once users realized they weren't seeing posts from their own social network they left. As each person left, FB had no choice but to fill a diminishing feed with crap. To the point where they forgot to feature genuine posts their users made over curated 'attention' content.
> Statements like “no one” are silly because they are easy to disprove and then get into “well maybe you do, but I don’t; therefore…”

You know exactly what the intended meaning is, because it’s a common idiom. For example, “nobody goes there anymore.” This is pseudopedantry just like intentionally misinterpreting phrases of the form “this or that” as nonexclusive disjunctions is. It can be used humorously, but taken seriously it’s just tiresome.
The page you linked says "This formatting is similar to Markdown markup" so it has something to do with it. Given paragraphs, quotes, lists, and code are interchangeable it is certainly regrettably that links, bold, and italic are different but *bold* vs **bold** is still a meaningful resemblance in my book.
Yes I confirmed with him ahead of time that he doesn't see any money sent to the Pallets project.
Is this referring to censoring Russian news like Starlink has declined to do?
Why do you deserve patients? The same profit motive that made you billion selling the personal information of everyone's Grandma to slime for the purpose of manipulating elections has finally caught up.

No increase in earnings = death. Everyone knows that becomes gospel the instant you go public.
Is this basically kinesis data streams with custom source/destinations?
uhh well no i'd say the "American version" is much closer to actually free speech. it implies things like freedom to hate and freedom to lie that y'all don't have.

and yes it can, because the internet reaches pretty much everywhere. as long as there is no server or physical office what can brussels do but scream into the wind about it?

aren't we doing the same thing with iran, belarus, china, other places where we support "American's version" of free speech despite local laws?
Thanks for posting this. It finally made me realise that I could disable the stupid LED lights on my B550 mainboard (same AMD CPU as the guy in the linked article).

I'm running a similar setup with Linux (Manjaro) and a Streacom FC8 case with a Nano PSU (no coil whine).
I keep wanting to buy a new camera, but the old one rarely gets used any more. Pictures from my phone are good enough, which is annoying.

Plus I just dont have the time to even look at all the photos I've taken. I do miss the days when I used to take a few rolls of film on a vacation and throw out half those. Instead of tens (hundreds) of thousands on a nas.

But the technology and construction is so sweet... they're works of art.
Taking a different side on that, Adobe decided that the small number of professional users who really need Pantone colours shouldn't be subsidised by those who do not.
I don't know whether it means security ends up being rethought and we actually eliminate passwords entirely, offloading to the magic links in email or SMS codes but it feels like new generations might benefit from just doing that.

Still, the data, the communication. I don't want anyone to store it or run it through their servers. So if we found a way to totally offload that it would be interesting. Like maybe entirely new types of software while built for the cloud and uses cloud resources is actually self hosted using your own accounts.
IMO having the option to work remote is fine but I think a hybrid model works best. A career is not just about working and cranking out code, it’s about making connections, networking, and building relationships. Most 100% remote workers will soon realize they are limited in their career mobility because they won’t have the option to foster great work relationships and make friends. Humans collaborate best when in-person.

Remote work has also made it easier to feel like you’re always on the clock and can fix and do things from home at any time.

It’s important to have a work life balance and separation of the two. Sure, some people are excellent at time management and 100% remote work is perfect for them, but most are not.

I miss having an office and seeing my colleagues face to face, getting in the conference room and white boarding through a complex problem in real time.

Remote work is fine as an option, and everyone has things to deal with every now and then that makes it easier to have the option of working from home, but I do believe a hybrid model is the best solution. Both from a collaboration point of view and social networking.
The eternal quest for a rounder wheel is a great way to describe the tech industry.
That's only if they're also not feeling some economic headwinds
Such a juvenile comment from a government official.

Couldn't Thierry Breton come up with something more suitable to his position?
Xi has a place on his priority table for the real economy and ordinary folk and those in abject poverty and proper ecological stewardship. Gone are the late nights of celebratory indulgence to excess juicing the spreadsheet numbers in immitative unsustainable businesscult imprinted from the west
I think parent poster's point is that security is a continuous, not binary, value. Things aren't secure/not secure. They simply have a cost for breaking them. The goal of effective security is to make that cost larger than the reward for breaking it.

For example, you might say my public-private key is secure. I take great care with my private key, etc. But I guarantee that for a few million dollars you could get it, simply by hiring some nefarious people to get it out of me and/or steal my computer. The thing that makes my private key secure is only the system, it's also other peoples' motivations for breaking it (or lack thereof).
The national governments are either elected directly or by a directly elected parliament; there is not as much difference as you think when you consider the state-level mechanics of the electoral college (commissioners also have a lot less power, this one is just pointing out the obvious fact that Musk isn't the law, the law is the law).
I think that’s just a political question with no “right” answer. Some people will believe the government should intervene and control some of these foods, and some people will believe it shouldn’t, that people should be free to make their own choices.

There’s very good arguments to be made on either side, and neither side is the “right” side, it just depends on what your values are.

Personally, I like being strict with my own diet and fitness, but being free to take a break and pig out on whatever junk food I feel like. A world without Coke and McDonald’s would be sad to me, even if it is ultimately healthier for the population in general.
https://www.kaggle.com/

There’s a community so you can learn from others.

Small tutorials:

https://www.kaggle.com/learn

Hands on Machine Learning is a great book:

https://a.co/d/3jgyEds

Version 3 ships in the middle of November so wait a couple weeks.
Restriction vs non-restriction is a fairly clear axis. Not saying Europeans are wrong, but their laws are objectively more authoritarian when it comes to expression than American ones.
The re-branded Dell servers Google sent out as search indexers (I believe) were pretty common 10-15 years ago. I remember seeing two of them here in Sweden alone, during my career.

But that is not the caseless DIY shelf-servers they've displayed in various PR videos.
> they're appointed by national governments.

...which are elected.

So if you want e. g. a right-wing EU commissioner just vote for your local right-wing party. It is that easy.
This is nice but I can't even buy one! I've been "casually" shopping for a Raspberry Pi for a while now and it seems almost impossible without assistance from a bot, or immense effort.
An exodus is a "sudden departure of a large number of people" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exodus .

In the original Exodus, Pharaoh told the Israelites to leave Egypt - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2012:31&...

] During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
The summary here is that the EU Commission has decided to head towards a sort of China-Lite style set of policies. It is now banning "disinformation" (what China calls "rumours") using only the self-censorship requirements, instead of implementing a firewall.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...

"> Platforms must mitigate against risks such as disinformation or election manipulation, cyber violence against women, or harms to minors online"

(guess 'cyber violence' against men is OK).

As is common now for EU law the definitions used are open to endless interpretation - the Digital Services Act only applies to "very large" platforms, requires them to implement "risk based" mitigations against "disinformation" and yet must be "carefully balanced" against restrictions on freedom of expression, although of course this is impossible, because the rule is all about restricting freedom of expression.

It's not only in the area of information control that the EU is following China.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/22/eu-sets-out-commitment-t...

"> It also encourages governments to counter “misinformation” in the media and online to ensure “clear, consistent and evidence-based messaging demonstrating the continued safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines”. It links worries about vaccine safety with “anti-Western and anti-EU narratives” and with websites which also go off-narrative on the Ukraine war."

It has recently laid out a re-commitment to pre-emptive lockdowns and mask mandates that attempt to stop tiny numbers of COVID infections growing, even though COVID is already endemic. The ideological nature of the rules can be seen in the fact that it strongly discourages travel bans, because eliminating internal borders is a political imperative for the EU, whilst also insisting on measures that proved to be useless.

Anyway, the EU is going to say this to Twitter very shortly - continue banning anyone who makes the EU Commission officials unhappy (regardless of factuality, and without knowing exactly what such views are) or else we'll levy massive fines on you. We can assume a few possible outcomes:

1. Musk plays hardball and withdraws any corporate presence (offices, datacenters etc) in the EU, proceeds to allow free speech that the EU doesn't like, refuses to pay any fines.

2. USA gets free speech, EU gets officially mandated censorship. Unclear how this works given the basic Twitter model.

3. Musk folds and implements EU censorship globally.
A quick google search shows raspberry pi 4 8gb ram selling at 140 eur in italy, 100 eur in hungary. If you live in the eu why do you limit your searches to one country? It feels like those people complaining they cant find ps5s or gpus yet i comfortably sourced mine from various countries, new, at a decent price, even during the pandemic. If you own a small ltd you can even buy them vat free.
How to communicate effectively as a developer
its a veiled threat because elon is a self-described free speech absolutist where the eu does not believe in significant chunks of free speech (so called disinformation or hate). tbh i hope he closes any physical EU presence and ignores all of brussels laws.
"Enter your email to get 10% Off in our online store."

And tab closed.
Unpkg (NPM CDN) is having issues
I agree about Obsidian. But Ulysses in my experience isn't WYSIWYG, it's mostly syntax highlighting.
Dropbox has (and as far as I'm aware, always has had) full Linux support?
The podcast "The Rest Is Politics" did an interesting interview with the Prime Minister of Albania recently, where he made the argument that the best way to deal with corruption is to get rid of the paperwork altogether, and basically make government services so easy to access that corruption and bribery wasn't necessary in the first place. So he'd been putting a lot of work into digitising as much as possible, making corruption effectively much more difficult, but also much less necessary in the first place.
Unsurprising headline from a magazine owned by Condé Nast.
I agree, this is still very useful in something like game development where you want to maintain state and you’re well beyond the point in development where you’re changing data types!
Why is everybody insisting that the lookup table isn't 1:1? Can't you do a reverse mapping of "closest Pantone color to this CMYK"? There are only thousands of Pantone colors and as many CMYKs as you have bit resolution. So if you know your file previously used Pantone colors, you can have it in a "preview" mode with CMYK and then a "production" mode where you convert it back.

I am not a lawyer, but I don't see how the process of reverse-engineering a map is copyrightable. Sure, I might not sell a tool to convert to/from Pantone colors in Illustrator files as Adobe (who might want continuous business and/or a bite at the revenue apple), but somebody else can certainly fill this space. The only problem is that the names of the colors themselves are probably trademarked, but that's not a copyright problem, and the utilization of another's trademark to identify a good seems within typical fair use.
Old tech is haunted
Linux 6.1 on NanoPi R4S – On fixing SD-card support, Heisenbugs and Rabbit Holes
Holy splitting hairs man. What is the difference between not getting high enough and not getting enough potency? Unbelievable.
Unenforceable threat.

What will they do if Twitter doesn't comply, ban Twitter?

Twitter is the life-blood of journalists, watch how quickly the whole press will turn against EU anti-Twitter regulation.
Also at https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/21/ukraine-crisis-eu-food
I bought a couple of Odroid HC4. I boot from a microSD. I can plug my old SATA disks in there. The board with an old 750 HDD consumes 12 to 15 W. If I unmount the HDD file system and switch off the disk with udisksctl power-off it's only 4 W. Any operation on the device turns the disk on again. I'll check with a spare SSD.

Even if I had a different use case Pis are impossible to find at a price worth paying for. I'm starting to forget about them.
Those "Complicated" tasks are all built in artificially constrained systems with limited degrees of variability, which is perfect for an algorithm to learn.

Those "Simple" tasks have so much variation in them that it takes a billion+ years of evolution + the genetic pretraining to be able to perform.
> the outcome of that vote is very much driven by the popular vote

We’ll see about that when the far right has finished installing election officials wherever it can.
I don't know about everyone else but we sure as hell had an election for EU parliament here in Sweden. We could elect a party, or individual MPs.

During the last EU election here I even called individual MPs and talked to them, or their office staff, about various subjects. So they're quite accessible.
There could be a lot of factors: your body size, muscle to fat ratio and body comp, total exercise in a day, the actual caloric amount of the food you are eating (you can eat a lot of low calorie food compared to a single high calorie item for instance), mitochondrial function in your muscles and your ability to clear lactate from your bloodstream. Controlling for all of the variables is actually very difficult.

Most people that eat a lot and don't seem to gain weight are simply not eating that much calorically or exercising a lot. When a more sedentary lifestyle kicks in they generally begin to align more with the general population.
You can escape asterisks on HN with \.
If that leads to a removal of Twitter from app stores in the EU, yes, please!
> Idealism is still compatible with the material world, but it seems futile to search for “the experiencer” within the experience itself.

You're right, that's why the concept of "the experiencer" is ultimately an illusion. It's the same sort of illusion as "tables" and "a day job". None of these concepts fundamentally exist in physics, they are labels we apply to loosely defined categories of observations.

Ultimately, Descartes was wrong, "I think therefore I am" is false because it's circular; it assumes the existence of "I" to conclude that "I" exists. The fallacy-free version is "this is a thought therefore thoughts exist", and as you can see, no "I" can be inferred.

If you want to understand what sort of answer neuroscience is starting to provide to the hard problem, I recommend this paper:

A conceptual framework for consciousness, https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119
Indian scientists shocked as government scraps nearly 300 awards
By news, I didn't mean it had to be political. Much of news is political of course, but far from all. What I'm saying is that looking on the platform and seeing how Zoomers consume news, it has that fireside chat quality where news are filtered by an approved person much like in traditional settings.
Advocating for surrender in Ukraine will, because that will get a lot of civilians killed, but withdrawal of the aggressor won't. And yes, this is consistent, the US should never have fabricated its pretexts for the Iraq war.
America: Let's have a party. I'll bring the software!

China: I'll bring the hardware!

EU: I'll bring the regulation! - @paulg

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360
Unusually warm weather for parts of France and Spain
Random question, why is she branching? Why doesn't she just commit straight to master?
"EU representatives are unelected (true in the same sense that the president of the USA is unelected)"

To be fair, both are kind of a shit show.
Why not read the article before you get snarky?

> programming (Pluma as my text editor and LAMP stack for running a localhost), and some simple games like Mahjong and Solitaire

Tools from an era that matches the computer’s capabilities.
I would agree with this thought generally as it certainly happened when I started running, but in the days of just getting my steps in, my use of MyFitnessPal showed that I was eating the same diet with essentially no change to the average daily caloric intake. I did increase my water intake.
Probably because org-mode has a horrible name.
I switched to Fastmail when Google tried to force old Google Apps for Domains users into the expensive business plan. I’d been thinking about doing that for privacy reasons anyway but had been procrastinating on the theory that it’d be a hassle.

In actuality it took about 20 minutes and was painless. They have a robust import process, it works better for iOS / macOS integration. Zero problems since then, lots of little features which are better, and their spam filters are both better in absolute terms (fewer false positives and negatives) and explainable when you want to know why something got the score it did.
> true in the same sense that the president of the USA is unelected

Really? That's some knot-twisting you have right there.