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I'm glad that the weird fad/craze of ARM SBCs used with full-size-class peripherals for Linux server/desktop workload tasks is finally winding down.

To me, the beauty of the Pi and other SBCs is GPIO/SPI/I2C - you have a Linux machine that's only a short hop from the Real World.

For running a homelab k8s cluster or a mini-desktop, a NUC / minipc has always been a better option.
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> we don't have a 21st century hippy equivalent

Today's counter-culture won't be identified somewhere on the left-right spectrum, or be found in the struggle for mass media attention. Which was basically the hippies.

The truly dominating force today is the weight of our technological environment. The actual physical things. The actual algorithms of the bureaucracies. The world doesn't "feel" the same. It actual "is" the same. To our senses.

The counter cultural movements are the ones that reject submission to technology. Cyclists stand up to the car (the actual thing). Homeschoolers threaten the processes of the school district (the actual bureaucracy). In the mainstream, the driver submits to the car, the redshirter submits to the bureaucracy.

All the rest; music you listen to, political opinions you hold, movies you see, books you read, sexual disposition. It is completely irrelevant because they do not challenge technological foundations. For the hippies, those were anchors since culture still attached much value to say e.g. artistic expression. But today, culture is not defined by those.

That is also why much of this discussion is actually about the premise, we can't even recognize counterculture. We're looking in the wrong places. A boomer certainly won't recognize it. Music is more diverse than ever, and the big networks don't define culture.

But to be sure: death metal is not counterculture. That just gets co-opted in a headphone ad or whatever. Instead, those cyclists who are now doing critical mass events, they are laying the foundations of a future in which the past will be unrecognizable. Death metal hobbyist lay the foundation for nothing but more niche consumption.

I'm somewhat joking with that last example, but even so. Look at dominant technology (physical or procedural), as concrete and specific as you can make it. What is in opposition of _that_, that is counter culture.
Is this a bit? 'No one drives in new york, theres too much traffic' sort of thing?
Nuclear capability explains the “single polar orbit with a large crossrange” requirement. How was the shuttle capable of such a large crossrange? Maneuverability in the atmosphere?
To rephrase this another way

What is the potential economical cost of a dissenter? For Disney it's not likely much. For a government it could be loss of control.
Looking at world history it is clear that humanity stumbles from catastrophe to catastrophe and always cleans up after the fact. Until now this has always been possible but one day it won't be. So... Great Filter?
If your hiring process includes the weird IQ-test thing, it kinda sucks
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I strongly doubt the UBI part as it goes against the "religion" of Wall Street and most politicians.
I am talking about U6-Pro, specs here [pdf]: https://dl.ubnt.com/ds/u6-pro_ds which is asking for a 48V, 0.5A PoE adapter, so should supports 24 W max. the consumption is listed to be 13W though. U6-LR is 17W.
Apple does genuinely overprice RAM and storage. For the rest you're right.
Asimov theorized such an AI as Multivac (a joke from Univac) and wrote a number of short stories exploring how it would change the world. He had one short story in particular where one citizen would be called in front of Multivac and, based on their answers to Multivac's questions, Multivac would (accurately) infer who the winner of the presidential election should be, obviating the need for expensive elections to be run. The whole concept wasn't unlike that Kevin Costner movie Swing Vote.

Most companies now sell user data to wherever. It wouldn't be particularly hard to tie user data to individual people given that phone numbers are required for most of the most useful applications (Discord, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc). Given that, you could feed in identifiable user input to an AI, let it develop a model of the US, and then ask it questions about the state of the country, even filtered by identifying characteristics. It would both take much less effort and be more accurate than manual polling or manual outreach. You could have leaders asking which direction they should take the country just by having a quick conversation with their baby-Multivac.
Isn't the solution to just share an email address?
Thank you, I'll be sure to swing by. I specifically worked on MM6-8 in detail, would be glad to chat about the good ol' days.
Companies save your image without your permission and then companies are simply baffled why people don’t want to be in video calls!
It is, it's libgen + commoncrawl + wikidump + a bunch of other datasets. OpenAI claim that commoncrawl is roughly 60% of its total training corpus and they also claim they use the other datasets listed. They probably also have some sort of proprietary Q&A/search query corpus via Microsoft.
> Smarter people require less exposure to the same concept to "get it".

Or not.

I'm been labeled gifted my whole life and typically require much more exposure to concepts, in order to catch up to most folks. The gifted part comes in with what I can do once I reach their level.

Think of a skill where 'a' is an entry-level understanding, 'c' is average and 'e' is exceptional.

Most people transition easily, hitting a then b then c. Past that is harder and most don't go there.

For me to get to b, I have to learn a.1-a.100. To get to c it's b.1-b.100 (hopefully faster).

By the time I get to c, I'm far, far behind everyone else. However, my much broader understanding of a, b & c might make the hop to d & e trivial for me.
I don't want to tax any property, if that is not already obvious. It is already paid and taxed once.
Sequence diagrams, in particular, yes.

I do these with PlantUML in Gitlab Issues (which has in-built support for PlantUML)
Thank You Cumulus
So co-opting something and making it truly mainstream is the same thing?

Then greenwhashing is real ecology?
Apple should be required to let iPhone users sideload apps, Biden admin says
I'd be interesting in learning the answer here as well. I've read that documentFragment are faster, but some microbenchmarking on chrome/mac makes me think either the improvements are negligible. Rerunning benchmarks on stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14203196/does-using-a-do...) (both individually and swapping the order of fragment vs non-fragment tests) nets me ~60ms when rendering 100000 ul in each case.

My naive take on this is that browsers have overall gotten a lot more consistent with the layout-paint-composite loop, and it's not worthwhile to swap out all your appendChild calls with fragments. On the other hand, making sure your all your layout reads (.clientWidth) are batched before the layout writes (appendChild) is much more important (fastdom)

edit: something like documentFragment/append(...children) would help guarantee the layout trashing addressed by fastdom
The implication of my point was that I expect this to be the first in an endless series of new prices, tiers, and SKUs, each one offering the most power to those who can pay the most.
That's awesome - I just logged in to comment that someone should write this functionality up as a product/app.
Also milk can go bad before the printed date even when stored properly. Or, it can last longer.

As you say, the taste/smell test is best.
Another service which I found really good: https://otter.ai/
Ask HN: Is the USA collapsing due to its debt, racial and political shitshow?
Looking from the outside, the country looks to be in a serious pain.

Debt rising. Racial and political situation is ludicrous.

How will it turn out 1 year, 5 and 10 years from now ?
Infrared? Not all of it. Glass(soda-lime-silica glass) can pass short wavelength IR quite well.

https://www.edmundoptics.com/contentassets/639fec6d719643a8a...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/74638/transmitta...
PTD is almost entirely PhDs.
Void Suck: Desktop installer for Void Linux based on the suckless philosophy
I think getting customers to sign up is the hardest part. Next they could start adding opt-in features (probably already in the works?) which cost an extra few dollars a month each?
Whether you like it or not pornography is always at the forefront of technology. I’m sure there will be much pearl clutching when sex robots are released.
Behavior Models for Autonomous Driving (Conference Talk)
There is something strange going on if an offer offends you. Perhaps a fundamental misunderstanding of what price represents?
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It's going to hit so unevenly. My partner works with children at a homeless shelter, I'm an algorithm designer. I'm certain my job will be obsolete before my partner's is.

It's going to automate away nearly all pure desk jobs. Starting with data entry, like you've seen, but it'll come for junior SDEs and data scientists too. Customer service, then social media/PR, then marketing, as it culls the white collar. Graphic design is already struggling. But janitors will still keep their jobs because robotics is stuck at Roomba stage.

It's going to be fascinating. I can't think of a time in the past where white-collar jobs have been made obsolete like this.
I imagine that in a couple of years it will be possible to buy a model and run your own on your own hardware. The space requirements are not out of the world and the cost seems bearable for companies.
...but I think AI will remain flawed enough that it stays at subhuman intelligence

Humans are real flawed, too.
yeah sure, that's the same argument as "Twitter is a private company so stop being outraged by censorship."

I find it paternalistic that only _certain_ things get moderated in this way while other stuff is "too hard to do anything about it" (dang's words in a DM).

There is tons of bad behavior on HN that is invisible and slightly negative headlines are not a significant part. I had many posts upvoted by HN already. Hundreds of comments were generated from my work (which is btw for free).

I'm a meaningful contributor to this site - quite the opposite to the people calling me names for making an argument they don't like.

People say I haven't picked up on the HN spirit. To them I say, the first rule of PG is to not name call!
Any sense about how long the waitlist is?
>and more like unhinged, hateful, contrarian paranoid schizophrenia.

You and I did not use the same 4chan in 2007...

I learned new slurs there, ways to insult people that I could have never imagined.

I read posts from a schizoid that claimed to have evidence that the government was influencing his life through the ratings of popular animes on My Anime List.

I saw child porn get posted regularly.

I saw extremely hateful posts about women, extremely hateful posts about people that aren't white, extremely hateful posts about literally anyone.

I believe you're looking back with rose tinted glasses.
The ZX Spectrum+, followup to the 1982 ZX Spectrum, was released in 1984.

Got you beat by a decade!
No, they co-design the laptops and ship them with completely different firmware. That's very different from what you're saying is happening. You even linked to a thread where an employee discussed how it works.

It'd be nice if they made the laptops themselves, but not even Apple does that.
>typical mobile phone plan is $25+

Jeepers! €5.99 - 70Gb data, unlimited calls and sms. You guys are being gouged to the max...especially with that '+' sign, at the end.
Universally affordable?

Here's two data points for you, minimum wage in Zambia is 13 USD per month, in India it's 65 USD per month.
I know, but I was noting that it isn't even any definition of half here.
idk I never said anything about Jews, but calling people a Nazi is a great way to shut down conversation.

I love Jewish people, I have many friends who are Jewish, I have no problem with their representation anywhere. In fact, I have seriously considered joining the Jewish faith.

I am just saying if you go down the path of comparing religious representation in government, you are literally not allowed to have an honest conversation without doing exactly what you just did. All you have to say is "I found the dog whistle, this conversation is over".

> It's what people live every day of their lives.
I see Pride stickers and representation in all forms of media every single day for the LGBT community. How is that not what we are all living every day of our lives?

At this point we're just trying to define what culture actually is.
Google and other search engines can (silencely) put OpenJDKs above javase in the result and we can advocate educators and textbook writers to recommend openjdk (at least point out the difference between the both JDKs) when teaching java to others
The climate has always changed. Predicting the climate getting warmer when coming out of a mini ice age is hardly ground breaking. We were promised Manhattan would be underwater by now, that glaciers would be gone.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-na...
FWIW, it's been shown that just the act of taking notes enhances the memory of the person doing it, whether they refer back to the notes at a later time or not.

As to the value of note taking in general, for devs, I equate it to telling someone to "put that in the ticket, don't verbally instruct what needs to be done". Documenting decisions made, who will do what, etc. can all be valuable and prevent needless discussions later about who's memory is correct about X (i.e. how something is supposed to function). Some people have great memories, but others do not, and even if you think yours is not in need of this kind of assistance, having something to reference back to can be a big help, especially when you can say something like "hmm, that's interesting, in my notes, I wrote down we decided to go with Y, but you are saying Z, when did that change?"

I should note that taking notes is a skill like any other, done poorly it can probably have the opposite effect of causing distraction and missing things that are being discussed.
You haven't really challenged the argument. Just made several unverifiable claims and then accused GP of having an axe to grind.
Kinda good too because that would be pretty close to an act of war and set a dangerous precedent for the weaponisation of space.

You prepare for the war you don't want to fight...
> including software

highly unlikely. You should be concerned if you are just plumbing between different software stacks, but even that is likely hard to fully automate.
I also don't get people who use these for desktops or especially homelab servers. It's never made sense to me. But, I really like them for "computer that's a computer rather than a microcontroller, but closer to the Real World than a Real Computer."

These little boards usually offer GPIO, SPI, I2C, and sometimes even CAN natively, which makes them awesome for plugging into real world devices without needing another microcontroller hop in the middle. I've used boards in this 5-10W class for automotive reverse engineering, higher-order drone control like computer vision / flight planning (paired with a microcontroller for the hard-realtime control loop), and robotics. I think they're awesome for that use case.
Chrome developed a "security feature" where it scans and phones home about every program on your computer by default.

Please stop using chrome. When other software does this, that software is labelled spyware.

However, it can be disabled in the settings, but only after you notice it when it's already scanned and uploaded for quite awhile...
> de-extincting a breeding community of them could be restorative justice

A non-voluntary breeding program of sapient beings has serious ethical issues, especially when it exists to assuage a weird sense of historical guilt.
> I'm not totally sure what the complaint, here,

that the company you bought your product from will offensively low ball you on a trade-in?
The market for Pi is dead. The article pretends that you can buy a pi for list price $5 or whatever LOL but I just checked Amazon and real humans are paying $170 to $205 for a pi.

That's a temporary situation though. The RPi foundation folks have said the expect supply to be back to normal sometime this year.
If you don't want to refurbish them, then just stop offering the option to your customers. Acting in a different way than what you're signaling is in itself disrespectful.
And a good few decades before space force!
You most certainly were not seeing hippies endorsed by the state department in the 60s. (Though, that we look back on the hippies of the 60s fondly does say something about the direction we've charted since then.)
> What would the business model look like for doing this?

sigh

We have exterminated a species. It's not going to be the last. We need this technology now to insure against further biosphere collapse. We are probably not going to be able to backup the entire biosphere, but we should start somewhere.

Governments should be doing this. What's the business model of the military?
This classic SNL skit from 1979 explains what a great nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter really is, and Rodney Dangerfield explains just how big Jimmy Carter really is.

https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-04-e-16-ri...

("The Pepsi Syndrome" skit starts at 8:15)

Dr. Edna Casey: Well Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?

[Rodney Dangerfield enters]

Rodney Dangerfield: How do you do, how are you?

Ross Denton: Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!

Rosalynn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!

Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!

Rosalynn Carter: Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!

Rodney Dangerfield: I don’t want to upset you lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!

Rosalynn Carter: No! No! No!

Ross Denton: Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.

Rodney Dangerfield: It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! you know what I mean?

[goes off, leaving Rosalynn Carter very upset]
When boys don't have a dad to show them the way, they get their direction from popular media, which didn't exist nearly to the extent it does today.
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Sounds to me like the process is working as intended. It's not by mistake.

You might disagree with the goals, but that's how things are around here. HN is about provoking curiosity, not offense, or controversy, or spice.

Sounds like your title is just not a good match for HN. That's not a reflection of the work you put into it, or whether your goals are worthwhile or anything like that. Just, not a good match.
Supporting your claim, from the paper: Participants (n = 10) were excluded due to experimental (e.g. using incorrect response keys, self-reported intolerance of the visual flicker)"
ChatGPT is general AI. It perform actions in a class requiring abstract thought which previously only humans were capable of. Sure the applications we see it is capable of are limited now, but that’s a consequence only of it’s operating environment. Using traditional AI techniques like tree search and recursive use of subproblems, which ChatGPT itself could design, it is not obvious to me that any problem is outside of it’s capability in solving.

As to why that is dangerous, there are many reasons.

1. It devalues human life for those in power. Technology has strictly increased wealth inequality over the last century and this takes it to the nth degree.
2. Even in its current form, it is having society destabilizing effects, go on reddit and see posts from high school students asking what they should even study when its clear ChatGPT will be able to do (research, programming, math) better than a degree will prepare them to.
3. Google the paperclip problem.
4. The amount of computing resources it takes to run ChatGPT is shockingly / absurdly low, we are far far from the hardware scaling limits of AI so it is obvious that it will continue to improve, even without further algorithmic breakthroughs.
They do have an official API here > https://openai.com/api/