skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason why you cannot install Termux any longer via the Play Store, those APIs aren't allowed as public APIs.
Interesting - the new higher end series doesn't have the second Cortex core. I used the older 15x series a few years back and the selling point was being able to run real-time stuff on the familiar ST Cortex M4 and run Linux on the A core. The new series doesn't have the M4 cores so why lump it in with the older MP1?
How is it not helpful to point out that people are not having the kind of conversation that they think they are having, or that their assertions do not have the weight they believe them to have?

Presumably most people here are familiar with at least 1 serious intellectual subject. They are welcome to treat another with the same seriousness, and I presume as well they would know how, if they'd just bother to do so.
Bicyclist here. The biggest danger to me are trucks and buses that swing around corners without visible signals. Electrics can slap more cameras and enforce blind spots.

But the biggest of all — which this article repeatedly notes — is enforced speed limits. We could have that on “human cars” of course with GPS speed limiters, but that is of course politically impossible despite there not even being a coherent argument for why cars that can move faster than 75mph are legal to sell.

Drivers can pick and choose which laws to abide (see that incident just last week where David Simon made the case that speeding in school zones is just find); ultimately, a computer can be forced to do what it’s told. https://hellgatenyc.com/david-simon-got-a-speeding-ticket-in...
A new blasphemy battle is coming: highly discriminate violence is on the rise
Generally, using one's brain.

This is especially important when metrics would not be expected to be available -- for example, if you're designing a nuclear reactor, you need to think hard about ways to prevent a meltdown in advance, rather than collecting meltdown statistics and then fixing the piping problems that correlated with the most nuclear meltdowns.

This is also necessary when the true metric that matters is very hard to evaluate counterfactually. For example, perhaps your real task is "maximize profit for the company", but you can't actually evaluate how your actions have influenced that metric, even though you can see the number going up and down.

And necessary as well when a goal is too abstract to directly capture by metrics, resulting in bad surrogate metrics: for example, "improve user experience" is hard to measure directly, so "increase time spent interacting with website" might be measured as a substitute, with predictable outcomes that bad UI design can force users to waste more time on a page trying to find what they came for.

All of these problems are faced by metric designers, who need to pick directly-measurable metric B (UX design metric) in order to maximize metric A (long-term profits) that the shareholders actually care about, but they cannot evaluate the quality of their own metrics by a metric, for the same reason that they were not using metric A directly to begin with.

(See also the McNamara fallacy, which parent comment is a splendid example of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy )
It won't work offline, for one. I use Office exclusively without internet as otherwise who knows what private stuff it's sending back to Microsoft, which then becomes eligible for warrantless surveillance by the federal police.

I know it's old fashioned to want local software to only change things on my local file system, but if I didn't want that paradigm, I'd just use Google Docs.
> This alone could eliminate the need for websites that just want this sort of data

I catch flak for this all the time! Our users just want to be able to use Excel to free-form analyze their data. IT, of which I'm a part of, insists on building web apps to do that for them. They're never happy because all they wanted was Excel.

I keep explaining all we have to do is build a data mart built using SQL Server, and use our ETL tools to keep it populated with the data they need to analyze. Don't let them anywhere near the source data. They keep looking at me like I have ten heads. Instead they want to launch multi-million dollar projects to bring Tableau to our users - and they don't want it! It's asinine!
The kings of England also claimed to be Kings of France until 1800.
Excel already has versioned file formats with significantly different affordances, and hasn't appeared to have all sorts of compatibility headaches as a result.
That may have been a reference to that fact that many computers of the early 80’s had a basic rom that would be booted into if no operating system was found.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

There is no way to own something without being all over it.

Especially if you outsource the management of it, you now have to watch your money managers like a hawk and also accept a lower rate of return.
Or $19 for the easy module, inc flash & emmc… [0]

Although since I recently discovered [1] that the R-Pi has an exposed memory interface bus (Secondary Memory Interface, SMI) on its GPIO, I’m far more inclined to use them instead. Getting low-latency/high bandwidth I/O into these “A” (rather than “M”) processors has always been the thing that made using an I.mxRT, STM MP1 or Zynq attractive to me. Turns out the lowly Pi has had that capability all along…

Coupling a Pi via SMI with a low-end (read: cheap) FPGA (Ice40K, or Efinix, hell go to town and get an Efinix T20 with 195 io for $8) makes a potent device, IMHO.

You can still get an rpi zero W for $15 [2], and even the quad-core zero 2W if you shop around is ~22€ [3], which blows the STM away in terms of CPU, video out, ease of development etc.

[0] https://www.myirtech.com/list.asp?id=726

[1] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/state-of-raspberry-pi...

[2] https://rpilocator.com/?country=US

[3] https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PIZERO2
Only if there weren't rush hours.
But which "one single system" would you choose?

If the answer is platform X, you put off the users of platform Y and Z.

For different reasons in each case! Really: try substituting Linux, Mac, Windows for any of X, Y or Z and then work it through.

If you can't make the document for each system, I think it's probably better to document it as this more messy reality.

I maintain documentation for a niche cross-platform product. I ended up going with the 3x solution.
It’s a public university, and government funded research. so fewer?
I've always assumed my experience after death will be a parallel of my experience before birth: nothing.
Agreed, but even if Hitler had fought a defensive war, murdering millions of innocents including children would still be an unjustifiable evil act.
A program to draw analytic geometry graphs on canvas
I agree. Really seasoned data people are not common enough. Small companies need to buy services to lighten the load.

We both seem have a sense of the size of companies at different percentiles. At what percentile would you put your company with petabytes of data?
It's still clear that any form of fossil fuel is the loser. Sure, maybe in terms of bystander deaths solar or wind are slightly better than nuclear but both are orders of magnitude better than anything that involves burning. The amount of pollution and radiation that burning fossil fuels emits is orders of magnitude more harmful to the general public than anything that solar, wind or nuclear does.
I just hope that the notion and traditional cultural practice of "this idea is mine, therefore it cannot be yours" dies soon

once it does we can have a new digital renaissance

but if people see the phrase "original copy" and don't see an oxymoron, i have no hope
The current framework of most consciousness research was erected by Hume, Descartes, and Spinoza.
User: Play stone paper scissors with me. Only output your move. I'll go first, rock.
GPT: paper.

User: You win, scissors.
GPT: rock.

User: You win, paper.
GPT: scissors.

User: You win, scissors.
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You could find some vestigial BASIC in the DOS batch language.
>We can rethink our cities and move parking to the periphery.

I seriously doubt that technology will fix what is ultimately a political problem.

Somebody will benefit, but I’m unsure it will be fair to say humanity will benefit
I’m curious and haven’t seen anything regarding the ip theft of ARM by (???). Didn’t the Chinese arm of the business get taken over in some way? It made the news a few years back and nothing ever came out of it.
*lowest KL-divergence
Off topic: text.npr.org

That's a great text only version of a major news site, really liking it.

EDIT:

It appears the link has been changed. The original posting of this was link to

https://text.npr.org/2023/08/22/1194950552/burger-king-worke...
It is so strange that pasting with formatting is the default! I have so far never wanted to paste with formatting a single time. I dont even understand what use case it is addressing.
We use KL-divergence to calculate how surprising a time-series anomaly is and rank them for aviation safety, e.g., give me a ranked list of the most surprising increases in a safety metric. It's quite handy!
The last thing in the universe I'm interested when editing Excel is making CoPilot related efforts any easier.
SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation
Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
Thank you. Yes, I could get ELT to accept a “RAD” Access app built and shipped during the time it takes to pitch to choose just the CRUD library or JS Framework alone.
> “I’m excited that this excellent, tight integration of Python and Excel is now seeing the light of day,” says Guido van Rossum, Python’s creator and now a Microsoft distinguished engineer.

It's depressing seeing someone who has done so much work for the free software community now working to enrich the spyware-laden proprietary product offerings of a megacorp.

Nothing about this is "good for Python" or hackers - it's just good for Microsoft to sell more Excel (and Microsoft accounts). That makes the world worse.

I thought the B stood for benevolent.
I find the use of the word steal to be really annoying. It’s infringement.
That would stop the GP from logging the errors as "warnings" and treating them without triggering his boss.

And yeah, I can totally see somebody doing it on practice. I have seen people do lots of similar things.
I've had my eyes on something like Akai MPK Mini, should fit in a backpack with a laptop (12.5" wide) but doesn't do its own synthesis so you're gonna need both devices (and I guess decent headphones as well), even if you just want to practice for a couple of minutes. Otherwise it looks great: 25 keys, 8 pads, pitch bend, USB-powered, all the standard assortment of features.
I feel like it was literally just riding in a car. Sure the car had no driver but what I took from this article is that there was nothing significant or interesting about the whole experience, which is exactly what we'd want if the goal is a future where these are common.
Integrating a whole separate language ecosystem is one or two orders of magnitude more complex though. It’s more like HTML5/WHATWG suddenly adding Python as a first-class scripting language besides JavaScript, and web browsers having to integrate that.
DataNitro! I knew very little about programming and was trying to create examination schedules for the faculty I was working at. I managed to convince the dean to buy a license and it pretty much changed my life (granted it was mostly Python that changed it but DataNitro made it even more accessible it to me back then).
That, here, is your first exercice as a first timer. You'll receive many such requests and your job is to decide whether they're relevant to your objectives or not.

It is a discipline even with yourself; just because you think adding something would be cool doesn't mean it's important and doesn't automatically put it on the roadmap.
Yes, Win+<number> is also a gem that almost seems to be deliberately hidden, (like Win+T, Win+B). One thing that helps is to see actual numbers in the taskbar, what, to my knowledge, is currently possible in Windows 10 (only) with third-party app: https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-numberer . For startup

start "" "C:\...\7+ Taskbar Numberer.exe" -v2 -hidewnd

will show same number for grouped windows so cycling will work.

Btw most tabbed interfaces have the same bindings for focusing first, second ... last tab (Ctrl+<number> in most browsers, Ctrl+9 for the last tab, usually).

I like to apply same "tab principles" to taskbar, so last thing missing here is to be able to "Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown" through windows in Taskbar order just like in sane browsers (with Win in place of Ctrl).

I attempted to do it with AHK but failed miserably, but luckily another third-party app, (7+ Taskbar Tweaker, from the same author as Numberer) can do that through advanced settings. Config in gist: https://gist.github.com/myfonj/62b4e0d393f4a97df5e9904df5e77...

(Sadly, none of those will probably ever work outside Windows 10 (?))
Built in solution is workspaces, stacks, modules, and making sure modules have reentrancy.
A fleet driver making $25/h already costs more than $80K per year, at lower utilization and less flexibility.
> 2. The velocity at which the universe is expanding is increasing, since there is non-zero acceleration.

Some physicists are contesting this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04597
> Past results are not an indicator of future performance.

Sure, but we can't predict the future, so it's the best model we have.

> Today, both sexes work long hours just to afford a tiny apartment, they have to switch jobs every couple years and even started doing the gig economy on the side to get by.

What you've missed is that productivity (as measured by GDP) has gone way up. Someone captured those profits. Which is why we see such massive wealth gaps.

> Sure, some humans will be more productive, but then we’ll need less of them.

This has never happened before. I could be wrong and maybe it will happen, but the most technologically advanced country in the world has companies competing for workers and salaries going up. This is in the face of massive automation.

> And with AI, it’s easier to just have the AI learn the new “irreplaceable” skills much faster than retraining millions of humans.

> No amount of unionizing by horses would change that.

If horses were the ones buying your products and creating your wealth, then they would actually have a pretty big say. What us workers fail to understand is just how essential we are to the economy. We need to organize and demand our fair share of the productivity gains.
It's not helpful because you offer no further solutions, only complaints. Nothing in your comment pointed toward anything that helped resolve the problem you are complaining about. Even worse, it just invokes hostility from people that you supposedly want to help educate.

When you make these kind of complaints without offering any solutions, it comes across as if you only care about appearing intellectually superior, not being helpful.
ncdu is focused on telling you who takes disk space. nnn is more like a file manager with lots more features.
Depends on how long you go for? I usually pick a city for a week as a base, then use a combination of trains, buses and sometimes bikes to check out the outskirts. It adds to the adventure, even though it’s definitely more difficult. Surprisingly I haven’t been stuck anywhere, but generally I make sure I have plenty of time and options available to get back.
Meta releases AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
>these issues are far more complex than the way they are talked about

There are complexities to consider, yes. And surprise! They have been considered. All of your concerns have been analyzed ad nauseum and converted into neat little chunks of peer-reviewed literature that's just waiting for your perusal.

Please stop bloviating about contrived nuances emanating from the right wing propaganda machine.

Google and read.
I haven't read the book, but the quotes do really read as timeless.

I was in my early teens during dot-com era, but without a PC yet and still an "internet virgin".

One question that really tickles my curiosity is how much the spoils of the dot-com era shaped the direction of the free software in the next decade?

When looking at (the aged) projects under Apache umbrella, it seems a lot of them kicked off around that time. Is that because of the dot-com money or because Java graduated to a different stage around that time?
This seems perfect to me.

It reminds me of deviantArt tech dev meetings when I worked there (~10 years ago)

Every Monday, each tech/product team did a small demo for the whole tech org (maybe 50 people, growing to nearly 100 by the time I left).

Teams without an interactive demo would just put together a web page with a few pictures and text describing what they accomplished and team lead would present it to the whole org.

Teams competed for dubious accolades like most lines of code deleted, most embarrassing feature, best meme. Prizes were arbitrarily awarded by the VP of technology in the form of credits to buy art from their prints shop.

Similarly to what you describe, this practice relied heavily on feature flags enabling us to release features for testing while they were still in early stages of development. This worked out really well for getting feedback and QA testing early on, while also keeping everyone up to date about everything that was happening outside of our immediate area of focus. It was fun and motivating as well. deviantArt did a lot of things really right though back in the early 2010s. IMO it was a really incredible engineering org and probably the best job I ever had.
This seems like the only solution. Do not copy all of Python’s warts, but offer a curated experience. Microsoft Experience (TM) with fixed APIs, no package management or dealing with ecosystem churn.
How to Embrace Performance Anxiety
VAEs have made me both love and hate KLD. Goddamn mode collapse.
As someone who had hitch-hiked across Europe with a guitar, the portability aspect is probably slightly overrated ;P
and so we watch, 1 more tech company, approach its demise through the unending undereducated pressures of the market
Unionization is orthogonal to labor oversupply. In fact it's who unions should be for.
Have you noticed who Russia shares it's borders with? Go read about which chips the devastatingly effective Lancet 3 drone contains (hint: made in 2022 & 2023).

Plus, it's been widely reported that Russian military industrial output is way up with factories working 3 shifts, etc. We are not talking about illiterate Afghanis.
> I’m not sure why people are bringing up irrelevant arguments instead of engaging with the article itself.

As I pointed out, the article itself mentioned that similar studies showed that screen time was bad when they didn't control for the quality of screen time for older ages, which reversed when they did; and the article itself said that it was a problem with this study that it didn't.

> Even the AAP allows for screen time after age 2.

My anecdotes show that this recommendation is wrong. You can successfully use screen-based education before the age of 2.
Do you think murdering innocents, children included -- shooting mothers with their children in their arms -- could possibly be right, regardless of whether any utopia is ever reached?

(I know you don't, I'm not accusing you of anything. All I'm arguing is against this particular notion of ends justifying the means. We know there are people who think like this, but the mind of someone who would believe this is hopelessly broken, in my opinion.)
Architecture diagrams enable better conversations
I wrote “density”, i.e. the amount of dark energy remains constant per unit volume. Since the volume increases due to the expansion, the total amount of dark energy increases accordingly, but its density remains the same. This is as opposed to the matter and radiation density, which decreases.
> if your team is optimising for the status report

If you're providing a status report, you're optimizing for the status report. Period.
I'm a big urbanist (that also worked on AVs for a couple years), haven't owned a car for almost all of my adult life, and view it as a step in the right direction for a few reasons.

1 - I think the impact of parking is actually more insidious and detrimental than roads by themselves. AVs will have high utilization of a much smaller pool of vehicles and remove the need for the huge parking lots we currently have. The land-use issues from parking are perhaps the largest impediment (together with the requirements/zoning) to the density which would allow transit to outcompete private cars.

2 - The centralization of wealth is one thing, but the real economies of fewer, newer vehicles will be a boon for almost everyone. The cost of the automobile operation is about 1/4 of the average uber fare. That is a lot of room for price compression. Perhaps more will be going to a large corporation, but there will be a huge consumer surplus as well.

3 - The reduction in the size of the car fleet will likely reduce the lobbying power of the automobile industry, which may in turn lead to changes to the urban environment(bike lanes, transit expansions) which will likely shift mode share away from cars.
This looks cool, though I already use https://github.com/ranger/ranger for this.
Technical and smart. Otherwise you end up with fix tech debt, fix tech debt, fix tech debt ...death.
Governors General are more than a mere “representative” (though they re described that way in my passport), they are viceroys (vice kings) so exercise royal prerogatives.

Of course monarchy is nonsense but I have a thing for pedantry like this.

TBH the nonsensical nature of monarchy works out for Australia, as it costs essentially nothing and sort of acts as a ground strap to make the idea of “head of state” rather irrelevant. Just compare to countries like France or USA where the Head of State gets capital letters and is a person with actual power.

Next best would be a president like in Germany who is basically a nonentity with less power than a GG.
Right. I cross-posted without thinking about this, thanks for pointing it out. As you have figured out already the linked post is a short collection of notes on Ellen's book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/486625
AHK is great for setting up a quicker compose key and keeping a frictionless wheel mouse like the MX Master from zooming when you press <Ctrl>.

^WheelDown::
{
return
}
^WheelUp::
{
return
}

(this possibly needs A_MaxHotkeysPerInterval := 2000 )

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<Caps> + a = ä.

<Caps> + <Shift> + a = Ä.

... and so on with all the German letters and currency symbol.

As a bonus, <Caps> on its own is mapped to "find" (Ctrl + F)

and <Caps> + f runs Send "{Space}datemodified:this year -kind:=folder", for when you have a lot of historical documents and want to get quickly on with the most recent using Microsoft's bafflingly stupid search operators. (Caveat, you have to switch to "last year" in January.)
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>We could easily lie in our scripts if we wanted to, it wasn't like management was capable of checking, and it was going to encourage reclassifying/hiding certain bugs (hard issues) and pretending other things were bugs (small changes/minor feature requests) to juice the numbers.

But why would you do this???

Holy cow, some of these comments. As someone fixing bugs, why would you not be interested in the classification, status and tracking of bug-related data? Why would your first instinct be to lie about what's happening with the business? To what end?

Honestly, this thread has me wondering if the average worker does so little that they see KPIs as a way of being accountable, and don't want that in any manner.